Autour de Minuit

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Autour de Minuit

Autour de Minuit

CountryFrance

Activities

Distributor (short film), Executive Producer, Co-production, Associate producer, Film exports/foreign sales

Secteurs

Audiovisuel, Cinema

Autour de Minuit

Company presentation

A production company founded in 2001 by Nicolas Schmerkin aimed at supporting projects that are artistically innovative, utilizing new technologies and developing original graphic worlds with solid content.
Hybridization-relating to techniques, media, and film genres-is at the heart of the artistic approach of the majority of works produced by the company.

Since 2004, Autour de Minuit has branched into the international distribution of animated films and digital experimental works, offering a catalogue of around 200 films.

Short film distribution:

Maximum runtime: No restrictions, preferably under 20' (interested also in Youth TV Specials of 26')

Genres: Animation, experimental animated films, hybrid (combination of techniques) - special animation for youth people

Version: Original version with French or English subtitles. Preference: without dialogue

Term of contract: 2 years exclusive

Distribution territories: Worldwide

Distribution platforms: TV, theatrical, non-linear, DVD, institutions

Commission: 30%

Presence at festivals & markets: Clermont-Ferrand, Annecy, Cannes

The company acquires distribution rights for an average of five films per year (50 % French films)

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Filmography(283)

Capybaras

(2024)

Dark Globe

(2024)

Kzo and the Stardust

(2024)

Playing God

(2024)

The Drifting Guitar

(2024)

Todos los futuros

(2024)

L'Enfant des profondeurs

(2023)

The Goose

(2023)

Freaked Out: Train Brain

(2022)

No-No Goes to Space

(2022)

PLSTC

(2022)

Salvation Has No Name

(2022)

The Boy and the Elephant

(2022)

The World’s After

(2022)

Absence

(2021)

Swallow the Universe

(2021)

The Night Watch

(2021)

The Summer Holidays

(2021)

Unicorn Wars

(2021)

A Stone in the Shoe

(2020)

Empty Places

(2020)

Homeless Home

(2020)

À la mode

(2020)

And Yet We Are Not Super Heroes

(2019)

Everything’s Different, Nothing Has Changed

(2019)

Metamorphosis

(2019)

No-No Shrinks!

(2019)

Pulsión (Drive)

(2019)

Purpleboy

(2019)

The County Fair

(2019)

Windshriek

(2019)

1 mètre/heure

(2018)

An Instant

(2018)

Athleticus - Exhibition bosses

(2018)

Athleticus - Hockey sur glace

(2018)

Athleticus - Kilomètre lancé

(2018)

Athleticus - La Rencontre

(2018)

Athleticus - Luge

(2018)

Athleticus - Patinage de vitesse

(2018)

Athleticus - Saut à ski

(2018)

Athleticus - Slalom géant

(2018)

Athleticus - Une patinoire pour deux

(2018)

Bavure

(2018)

Bendito Machine VI

(2018)

Birdbrain Starlings

(2018)

Brexicuted

(2018)

Discrete Water

(2018)

Hold the Line

(2018)

Model Portrait

(2018)

Mum’s the Word

(2018)

No-No

(2018)

Reruns

(2018)

The Cliver Bird

(2018)

The Closed Window

(2018)

The Key to the Fields

(2018)

The Lost Garden

(2018)

The Master Mariner Snail

(2018)

The Scatterbrained Child

(2018)

The Silence-Listener

(2018)

The Uncertain Bestiary

(2018)

Under the Rib Cage

(2018)

59 Seconds

(2017)

Animal Laughing

(2017)

Athleticus - Barre fixe

(2017)

Athleticus - Basket

(2017)

Athleticus - Course de demi-fond

(2017)

Athleticus - Entraînement de tennis

(2017)

Athleticus - Gardien de gymnase

(2017)

Athleticus - Tennis de table

(2017)

Athleticus - Trampoline synchronisé

(2017)

Brown on the Window Panes Like Those Who Keep Vigil on Sorrow

(2017)

Cat

(2017)

Engagement

(2017)

Even When We Sleep

(2017)

Fish

(2017)

Liberty

(2017)

Lively Air

(2017)

Matins

(2017)

Rising Waters In Underwood Springs!

(2017)

Robhot

(2017)

The Curve of Your Eyes Encircles My Heart

(2017)

The Death, Dad & Son

(2017)

Training Room

(2017)

Usefulness

(2017)

Woman in Love

(2017)

You Rise and Water Unfolds

(2017)

A Town Called Panic: Back to School

(2016)

Charlie's Buck Teeth

(2016)

Decorado

(2016)

Estate

(2016)

Household Pets

(2016)

I Want Pluto To Be A Planet Again

(2016)

Johnno’s Dead

(2016)

Journal animé

(2016)

La Grande histoire d'un petit trait

(2016)

La Parfumerie de M. Pompone

(2016)

Les Courgettes de la résistance

(2016)

Love

(2016)

Malgrin débotté

(2016)

Talk to Me

(2016)

Time Rodent

(2016)

KOP

(2015)

A Frog With Pierced Shoes

(2015)

Ataraxya

(2015)

Automne

(2015)

Birdy Wouaf Wouaf

(2015)

Blotting Paper

(2015)

City and Heart

(2015)

Crabe-Phare

(2015)

Decibels

(2015)

Distress Rocket

(2015)

Ghost Cell

(2015)

Good Evening Everyone

(2015)

Half-Dream

(2015)

How's Your Prostate?

(2015)

I Have Dreamed of You So Much

(2015)

In a Small Boat

(2015)

Je me souviens de mon enfance

(2015)

Jean-Michel, le caribou des bois

(2015)

Jukai

(2015)

Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d’Orphée (extraits)

(2015)

Le Bruit du gris

(2015)

Le Coin

(2015)

Le Pont Mirabeau

(2015)

Le Repas

(2015)

Les Shadoks et la maladie mystérieuse

(2015)

Mutation

(2015)

Once Upon 3 Times

(2015)

Once Upon a Leaf

(2015)

Paris

(2015)

Peripheria

(2015)

Postcard

(2015)

Reclining

(2015)

Saltimbanques

(2015)

The Bengal Salsify

(2015)

The Dick

(2015)

The Four Neck-less

(2015)

The Race

(2015)

The Sun of Bagnolet Street

(2015)

The Zebra

(2015)

Un oiseau chante

(2015)

À toutes les dingotes et à tous les dingots

(2015)

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children

(2015)

VRP

(2014)

Air-Mail

(2014)

Almost

(2014)

Applied Metacinema

(2014)

Centopeia

(2014)

Exode

(2014)

Fine Families

(2014)

Fresh Out of School

(2014)

Giant Robots from Outer Space

(2014)

Habana

(2014)

I Am As I Am

(2014)

Indah Citra

(2014)

Le Dromadaire mécontent

(2014)

Léonardo

(2014)

Mauvaise Semence

(2014)

Page d'écriture

(2014)

Portrait

(2014)

So Many Forests

(2014)

Splintertime

(2014)

The Birds of Sorrow

(2014)

The Lighthouse Keeper Love Birds Too Much

(2014)

The School of Fine Arts

(2014)

Time Off

(2014)

Âne dormant

(2014)

1900-2000

(2013)

A Town Called Panic: The Christmas Log

(2013)

Animal

(2013)

Ascension

(2013)

Beast

(2013)

East End

(2013)

Escarface

(2013)

Greenfields

(2013)

Home Sweet Home

(2013)

I Can't Wait

(2013)

Leucotopia

(2013)

My Little Croco

(2013)

Sonata

(2013)

Sun of a Beach

(2013)

Supervenus

(2013)

The Book of the Dead

(2013)

The Master’s Voice: Caveirão

(2013)

The Ringer

(2013)

The Screenwritter

(2013)

Treo Fiskur

(2013)

Tsume

(2013)

Ulysse

(2013)

5 mètres 80

(2012)

Azul

(2012)

Bet She'an

(2012)

Contre temps

(2012)

Cornée

(2012)

Deux îles

(2012)

Duku Spacemarines

(2012)

Free Wheel

(2012)

Like Rabbits (Sticky Ends, chap. 2)

(2012)

Lonely Bones

(2012)

Oh Willy...

(2012)

Oru Burus

(2012)

Sept contre Thèbes

(2012)

Talk to Me About Love

(2012)

The Gathering Dusk

(2012)

The People Who Never Stop

(2012)

The Spring

(2012)

À la française

(2012)

Aalterate

(2011)

Brandt Rhapsody

(2011)

Chase

(2011)

Dream of the 1st April 1999

(2011)

Egaro

(2011)

La Détente

(2011)

Organopolis

(2011)

Rabbid

(2011)

The Chase

(2011)

The Monster of Nix

(2011)

Una furtiva lagrima

(2011)

Cosmic Jungle

(2010)

T où ?

(2010)

After Me

(2010)

Babioles

(2010)

Baroques Statues Shall Not Chew Bubble Yum

(2010)

Breakout

(2010)

Civilisation

(2010)

F.P.R. Style

(2010)

Finger Fighter

(2010)

L'Inventeur

(2010)

Lazarov

(2010)

Modern Spleen

(2010)

Moskito Bravo

(2010)

Mrdrchain

(2010)

Muzorama

(2010)

Pixels

(2010)

Puppet Mansion

(2010)

Spin

(2010)

Splitting the Atom

(2010)

Strata #3

(2010)

Tattoo XXL

(2010)

The Best Way to Scarper

(2010)

4

(2009)

Asomnia

(2009)

Capucine

(2009)

Lila

(2009)

Logorama

(2009)

Rubika

(2009)

Strata #2

(2009)

The Gloaming

(2009)

King Crab Attack

(2008)

Le Jour où Ségolène a gagné

(2008)

Morana

(2008)

Naïade

(2008)

Oedipus

(2008)

S.I.T.E

(2008)

Silken

(2008)

Ten

(2008)

Moving Still

(2007)

Berni's Doll

(2007)

Big Koi - The Ancient Way

(2007)

Cla : Sexto Andar

(2007)

Face

(2007)

It Makes No Sense

(2007)

Luke - La Terre ferme

(2007)

Meischeid

(2007)

Orishas - Hay un son

(2007)

Prof. Nieto Show - Épisodes 1-5

(2007)

The Replicants - User

(2007)

Apnée

(2006)

Dog Days

(2006)

Far West

(2006)

Jehro - I Want Love

(2006)

Raymond

(2006)

Silence is Golden

(2006)

Carlitopolis Redux

(2005)

Chrysalide (Iki)

(2005)

Empire

(2005)

Flesh

(2005)

Kontrol-Eskape

(2005)

The Way We Have Chosen

(2005)

Le Régulateur

(2004)

Obras

(2004)

The Def Song

(2004)

Electronic Performers

(2003)

Staff

Staff

Nicolas Schmerkin
Manager
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Guillaume Ange
International Sales
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Nina Rebel-Faure
Festivals Manager
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Documents

Report(1)

adm-cv-filmo-fr-2020-10.pdf

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News & awards

News (52)

French animation in international events

French animation in international events

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Festivals & events

MyFrenchShorts #25: "A Town Called Panic: The Christmas Log" by Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar

MyFrenchShorts #25: "A Town Called Panic: The Christmas Log" by Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar

12 DECEMBER 2024

Awards (2)

Prix Unifrance du court-métrage
France, 2023
Prix du distributeur : Nicolas Schmerkin
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
France, 2006
Prix Procirep du producteur de courts-métrages : Flesh Nicolas Schmerkin

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