Jonas Katzenstein and Maximilian Leo also discuss how Europe is a great filmmaking training ground and why the German model for elevated genre fare is 'unbeatable.'
"We specialize in the kind of movies — $5 million to $30 million elevated genre films — that are almost impossible to get made in the U.S. right now," says Jonas Katzenstein .
Jonas Katzenstein and Maximilian Leo had been running their boutique German art house shingle Augenschein Filmproduktion for nearly a decade when they decided they wanted more. Katzenstein, a former sound engineer, and Leo, a onetime documentary film director, had built up Augenschein — the word roughly translates as "apparition" — as a leading producer in the sort of foreign-language films that tour the festival circuit.
, which Amazon snatched for the U.S. in May. Joining forces with L.A.-based XYZ Films and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions, they co-financed and produced the sci-fi drama, starring Anna Kendrick and Toni Collette, from director Joe Penna , which Sony is releasing in multiple international territories and XYZ and CAA Media Finance are selling at AFM. Home, the directorial debut of German actress Franka Potente starring Jake McLaughlin and Kathy Bates, is now in post.
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