Other Angle brings more than just laughs with the third edition of the French Comedy Club in LA

With the cancellation of the American French Film Festival due to the Hollywood strikes, French moviegoers in LA were deprived of the annual fall fun of Gallic film culture this year.

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“There is an audience for these films in the United States. They just never get into theatrical distribution because American distributors are more interested in art or genre films,” says Albou.

The Comedy Club shows are in line with Albou and Schonberg’s larger American ambitions to break into the US, with a focus on remake activity and transferring their knowledge of European film sales to the US indie market.

“We want to position ourselves as producers or executive producers, which makes it much more interesting than just selling the films,” says Albou.

“We believe we are in a good position to acquire French equipment that we then build in the United States. Now that the strike is over and projects can finally move forward, there is a huge need for content.”

Albou says they learned valuable lessons about financing English-language projects during their time in LA

“This is different from France, which relies more on advance sales on television. That doesn’t exist for independent films in the US, which instead rely on foreign presales, equity investors, tax credits and deficit financing,” he says.

Albou and Schonberg want to combine their knowledge of international sales with American financing methods.

“We believe this will help expand our business to more international projects that we need to expand beyond our French boutiques.”

The French Comedy Club is open on December 2nd and 3rd.