Exclusive: Maurice Fadida’s Los Angeles-based Kodiak Pictures is partnering with Israeli investment firm Meitav Dash and Israeli producer-financier New Legend Entertainment to create a new venture for debt-financing film and television projects.
According to the partners, the goal is to expand the fund within a few years with the aim of investing around $300-$400M in projects.
The partners claim that with With Meitav Dash’s backing the new venture will write its own checks while also tapping into an established network of business relationships to partner in deals with banks, private lenders and other financial entities.
Fadida and James Lejsek of Kodiak Pictures will manage day to day operations. Last year Fadida was an executive producer on Vin Diesel’s Bloodshot, which Sony released, as well as Netflix’s awards contender The Trial Of The Chicago 7. Lejsek previously worked at UK media financier Hindsight Media (also known...
According to the partners, the goal is to expand the fund within a few years with the aim of investing around $300-$400M in projects.
The partners claim that with With Meitav Dash’s backing the new venture will write its own checks while also tapping into an established network of business relationships to partner in deals with banks, private lenders and other financial entities.
Fadida and James Lejsek of Kodiak Pictures will manage day to day operations. Last year Fadida was an executive producer on Vin Diesel’s Bloodshot, which Sony released, as well as Netflix’s awards contender The Trial Of The Chicago 7. Lejsek previously worked at UK media financier Hindsight Media (also known...
- 2/25/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Geffen won the Camera d’Or in Cannes in 2007 with debut feature ‘Jellyfish’.
Cannes regular Shira Geffen, whose debut feature Jellyfish won the festival’s Camera d’Or for first films in 2007, has launched financing on her third feature A Responsible Adult, a coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of Israel’s mythical Masada plateau.
Geffen, accompanied by producer Elad Gavish and Itzik Kricheli at Tel Aviv-based Marker Films, made her first public pitch for the project at Jff’s Pitch Point event on Friday, aimed at connecting Israeli filmmakers with international partners.
The filmmaker had flown in from Belgium...
Cannes regular Shira Geffen, whose debut feature Jellyfish won the festival’s Camera d’Or for first films in 2007, has launched financing on her third feature A Responsible Adult, a coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of Israel’s mythical Masada plateau.
Geffen, accompanied by producer Elad Gavish and Itzik Kricheli at Tel Aviv-based Marker Films, made her first public pitch for the project at Jff’s Pitch Point event on Friday, aimed at connecting Israeli filmmakers with international partners.
The filmmaker had flown in from Belgium...
- 7/30/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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