Virginie Devesa

Virginie made her first foray into Cinema in Ukraine, where she was part of the team organizing the Kyiv Film Festival. Back in Paris, she worked for 3 years at Celluloid Dreams. She was then hired by the French Embassy in Moscow to organize with UniFrance the French Film Festival in Moscow. Upon her return, she studied Film production at the CEFPF in Paris and started to work for Urban Distribution as head of acquisitions and sales. Her experiences have led her to the creation of her own sales label with Keiko Funato in 2012, Alpha Violet, with the desire to keep promoting the films she loves in a close relationship with the producers. ALPHA VIOLET’s credits include in 2018: DOVLATOV by Alexey German Jr. (Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Achievement) in Berlinale, FUGUE by Agnieszka Smoczynska (Cannes - Critics’ Week), THE CHAMBERMAID (La Camarista) by Lila Avilés (San Sebastian – New Directors) in 2017: HUNTING SEASON by Natalia Garagiola (Audience Award in Venice Critics’ Week 2017), in 2016: LOS NADIE by Juan Sebastian Mesa (Audience Award in Venice Critics ’Week), WOLF AND SHEEP by Shahrbanoo Sadat (CICAE Award at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight), in 2014: THE TRIBE by Myroslav Slabohspytskiy (Grand Prix & Visionary Award in Cannes Critics’Week), in 2012: HERE AND THERE by Antonio Mendez (Grand Prix in Cannes Critics’Week). She opened up in 2015 she co-founded the production Company ALPHA VIOLET Production together with Jean-Baptiste Bailly-Maitre to produce and coproduce promising Filmmakers.