Reuniting their previous business relationship, leading international sales company Celluloid Dreams’ Founder and President, Hengameh Panahi, has secured Charlotte Mickie, one of the industry’s long-established and respected sales and acquisition executives, in the role of Celluloid’s Vice-President.

Hengameh commented: "I’m thrilled to welcome back Charlotte Mickie at a key strategic moment in the development of my company. I very much valued our years together and I appreciate her shrewd business sense, and her flair for identifying the sales potential in works by new filmmakers such as Jennifer Kent (Babadook), Benh Zeiltin (Beasts Of The Southern Wild), Julia Leigh (Sleeping Beauty), and David Michôd (Animal Kingdom). Above all, we have so much fun working together, caring for our movies and our talented artists.” 

Commenting on the move, Mickie says: “Celluloid Dreams is embarking on a very ambitious course and I’m very proud to be on that journey with the team and Hengameh. She is an extraordinary visionary and a consummate taste-maker. I am simply delighted to be professionally reunited with my very dear personal friend.”

Mickie’s first acquisition for sales on behalf of Celluloid was the Australian feature 1% which premiered in the Discovery section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. Celluloid Dreams is handling international rights, with UTA co-representing US rights.

Directed by Stephen McCallum and produced and See-Pictures, 1% relates a compelling story of brotherhood, loyalty and betrayal set within the primal underworld of outlaw motorcycle gangs. “1%” is directed by Stephen McCallum, written by Matt Nable, and produced by Jamie Hilton and Michael Pontin of See Pictures. The film stars Ryan Corr, Abbey Lee, Simone Kessell, Josh McConville, Matt Nable, and Aaron Pederson.

1% was financed by Ticket to Ride, Screenwest, Lottery West, and Screen Australia in association with Spectrum Films, Head Gear Films and Red Apple Camera Rentals. The film was the recipient of West Coast Visions funding.

Charlotte Mickie was most recently the President of International Sales at Mongrel Media, a division she launched in 2014. Mickie was also the Executive Vice-President of eOne Films International, which she joined in 2008 after it acquired Maximum Films where she was both a Managing Director and a partner.

About Celluloid Dreams
Celluloid Dreams has been at the forefront of international sales, production, and financing of quality independent films for more than 30 years. Its ‘Directors Label’ stands for the discovery and subsequent promotion of the most important, awarded and respected film directors of our times, the ‘future classics’. Celluloid Dreams’ Fall Slate includes Andrew Haigh’s Lean On Pete Xavier Legrand's and Susanna Nico 1988, Emma by Silvio Soldini, Jens Assur's RAVENS, Jonas M. Gulbrandsen's Valley Of Shadows and Stephen McCallum's 1%. The company’s post-production titles include School's Out by Sébastien Marnier starring Laurent Lafitte and Emmanuelle Bercot and Les Armateurs' The Swallows Of Kabul by Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobbe-Mévellec.

About See Pictures
Based in Australia and established in 2010 production company See Pictures is headed by Jamie Hilton. The company develops, finances and produces large cast driven and small concept driven films. Productions include Breath with Simon Baker directing, Ben Lucas' sci-fi Otherlife and Chris Debney's Atomica. See Pictures works with international producers to navigate Australian co-production, location incentives and finance. See Pictures 2015 releases include supernatural thriller Backtrack (Adrien Brody, Sam Neill), The Little Death (Josh Lawson, Bojana Novakovic) and animated short Martha The Monster (Rose Byrne, Bobby Carnavale).