Marin Karmitz
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Marin Karmitz | |
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Born | Bucharest, Romania | 7 October 1938
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | Institut des hautes études cinématographiques |
Occupation | Film producer, film distributor, film exhibitor, director |
Marin Karmitz (born 7 October 1938) is a Romanian-French businessman whose career has spanned the French film industry, including director, producer, film distributor, and operator of a chain of cinemas.[1]
Karmitz attended film school at IDHEC[2] (renamed La Fémis) and worked as a director of photography after graduating.
Karmitz founded MK2, a production company and movie theater chain, which has specialized in creating, distributing, and screening independent or "auteurist" cinema, including short films.
In 2005, he turned over leadership of the MK2 company and its theaters to his son, Nathanaël.[citation needed]
Exhibitions[]
• 2010:"Un parcours dans la collection de Marin Karmitz", exhibited at Rencontres d'Arles festival, France.
References[]
- ^ Brennan, Sandra. "Marin Karmitz". AllMovie.
- ^ Brody, Richard (23 June 2009). Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard. Macmillan. pp. 129–. ISBN 9780805080155. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
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- French businesspeople
- French film directors
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- Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur
- Romanian emigrants to France
- 1938 births
- Living people
- Cinema chains in France
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