The Pontas Agency is delighted to announce that two more of our authors have recently sold the audiovisual rights of their literary works and will hopefully be seeing their books adapted to screen in a few years from now. Kopano Matlwa’s novel Coconut, which deals with the complexities of a black child growing up in
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Books being adapted into film and TV
At the Pontas Agency, we’re always very active in promoting the novels of the authors we represent within film and tv producers, and now even more, with the bloom of streaming services everywhere and with more and more films and series being adapted from literary works. Dolores Redondo‘s Baztan Trilogy is a great example, with The Invisible Guardian being
Continue reading »Pontas at the Book Adaptation Rights Market of the Venice Film Festival 2017
In the aim to keep being a bridge between literature and cinema, between books and screens, the Pontas Agency attended the second edition of the still brand new Books Adaptation Rights Market, which took place from August 31st until September 3rd 2017, within the context of the 74th Venice International Film Festival. Anna Soler-Pont and Ricard Domingo, on
Continue reading »Pontas at the Cannes Film Market & Festival 2017
Representing both the Pontas Agency and Pontas Films, Anna Soler-Pont and Ricard Domingo attended the Cannes Festival’s Marché du Film 2017, the biggest event in the international film industry and a unique opportunity to meet the most varied professionals: from producers to investors, from filmmakers to scriptwriters, from lawyers to sales agents, from distributors to directors…
Continue reading »Helping books to become films
More films than ever around the world are based on books. The answer to this trend is always the same: it is much more comfortable for a producer or director to be able to go back to the book whenever it is needed, and the dialogue and synergies between literature and cinema are endless. A
Continue reading »Pontas at the Cannes Film Market 2016
Representing both the Pontas Agency and Pontas Films, Anna Soler-Pont attended once again the Cannes Festival’s Marché du Film, the biggest event in the international film industry and a unique opportunity to meet the most varied professionals, from producers to investors, from filmmakers to scriptwriters, from lawyers to sales agents, from distributors to directors… Meetings took
Continue reading »Pontas at the Berlinale’s European Film Market 2016
Selling film & TV adaptation rights has always been a major business priority for the Pontas Agency. Behind each audiovisual project that is based on a book, there are usually many, many years of work: flash-meetings with producers at book fairs and film markets, emails and telephone and skype conversations, lunches or dinners, more meetings
Continue reading »Pontas at the Cannes Film Market & Festival 2015
For the seventh time, Pontas was present at the Cannes Festival’s Marché du Film, the biggest event in the international film industry and a unique opportunity to meet the most varied professionals, from producers to investors, from filmmakers to scriptwriters, from lawyers to sales agents, from distributors to directors… Meetings took place from early in
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