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Flute Film Reverts To Flimmer As Company Name; Roland Emmerich & Marco Kreuzpaintner Join Advisory Board


Flute Film will operate as Flimmer, after Christopher Zwickler reacquired rights to the Flimmer brand. Roland Emmerich has joined its advisory board.

'The Magic Flute'Revolver Entertainment/Courtesy Everett Collection Zwickler, who is Managing Director and producer at Berlin-based Flimmer, bought the rights back from France’s Webedia for an undisclosed fee. Furthermore, Zwickler has hired as filmmaker Solmaz Sohrabi, who spent the past eight years collaborating with Gabriela Sperl, as a producer in the TV and film division. On the Flimmer slate is an upcoming Netflix film based on German NGO Jugend Rettet and its ship, the Iuventa, which rescued thousands of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea in 2016 before being impounded by Italian authorities.

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