Vincent Maraval

Vincent Maraval born in July 1968 is a French producer He is one of the founders of the international distribution and sales company Wild Bunch He also holds the position of international sales director there Vincent Maraval began his career in the video department of UGC before working at TF1 and then Studio Canal Within this entity he created the Wild Bunch label to promote independent cinema He left Canal in 2002 at the time of the arrival of JeanMarie Messier He was the one who brought Harvey Weinstein into the promotion of Michel Hazanaviciuss film The Artist he was the one who invited him in March 2011 to see a film without specifying what it was about In December 2012 he sparked controversy by publishing an article in the daily newspaper Le Monde in which he argued that French actors were overpaid In his analysis he asserted that bigbudget French films were not financed by box office receipts but by money from television networks and that it was solely thanks to this money that French actors could obtain such high salaries His analysis provoked numerous reactions within the film industry such as that of JeanMichel Frodon who partially refuted the claim while acknowledging certain perverse effects in the French film financing system and that of Serge Toubiana who deplored the lack of nuance in Maravals argument and feared that his text would lead to questioning the French film financing system For his part JeanPhilippe Tessé notes that the stone thrown into the pond by Vincent Maraval has not finished splashing but that Maravals angle of attack suggesting that the State pours millions to enrich a few wealthy people has led the debate down a false path In Elia Suleiman s film It Must Be Heaven 2019 Vincent Maraval appears in the role of a film producer who refuses to finance the film Description above from the Wikipedia article Vincent Maraval licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia