19/05/2012 - UK distributors Pam Engel and Robert Beeson are chasing in Cannes sections the new auteur crowd-pleaser such as last year’s Cannes Grand Prix winner currently playing successfully in the UK.

Gently strolling across the corridors of the market, veteran UK distributors Pam Engel and Robert Beeson are delighted with the screen performance of last year’s the Cannes Grand Prix winner Once Upon a Time in Anatolia [+see also:
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Beeson and Engel are in Cannes to acquire at least two new titles for New Wave Films, although the distributors still have several festival award-winning films in the pipeline, such as Elena by Russia’s Andrei Zvyagintsev, winner of Special Jury Prize at Cannes-Un Certain Regard 2011, and this year’s Golden Bear winner Caesar Must Die [+see also:
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