EXCLUSIVE: European gross sales, manufacturing and financing firm mk2 Movies and worldwide fund supervisor IPR.VC have confirmed their first funding collaboration on Marie Kreutzer’s upcoming characteristic Light Monster, her follow-up to critically acclaimed historic drama Corsage.
It marks the primary joint operation below the companions’ multi-year slate financing deal, which was introduced final September.
“Our joint slate was impressed to assist daring, authored cinema with world resonance. Marie Kreutzer’s Light Monster is the proper embodiment of that inspiration,” mentioned mk2 movies Managing Director Fionnuala Jamison.
Paris-based mk2 Movies will even handle worldwide gross sales on Light Monster, in a transfer that continues the corporate’s collaboration with Austrian director Kreutzer following its profitable gross sales, competition and awards marketing campaign for Corsage in 2022.
“We’re extremely excited to assist Light Monster as the primary venture in our collaboration with mk2 movies,” mentioned Andrea Scarso, Associate at Helsinki and London-based IPR.VC.
“This partnership is constructed round a shared perception in championing distinctive storytelling, primarily from European voices, that may resonate with audiences world wide. It displays our ambition to work with artistic abilities who convey recent views and powerful creative identities.”
Kreutzer’s Light Monster, which is produced by Alexander Gehr and Johanna Scherz, will take the spectator on the unsettling journey of an internationally famend pianist who strikes her household from Munich to the countryside and uncovers life-shattering truths about her associate. Casting for the A-list feminine lead is at the moment underway.
Following on from this primary collaboration, mk2 Movies and IPR.VC say they’re “actively trying to assist extra audacious, globally distinctive voices, whether or not from European auteurs or worldwide and US-driven tasks.”
Cannes common mk2 Movies can be out in pressure on the competition this yr. It can current six movies in Official Competitors: Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Worth, the follow-up to The Worst Particular person within the World; Kleber Mendonça Filho’s political thriller The Secret Agent; Mascha Schilinski’s haunting debut Sound of Falling; Hafsia Herzi’s The Little Sister; and Carla Simón’s Romería.
Based in 2014, IPR.VC has helped finance greater than 50 productions up to now throughout North America, the UK, and Europe.
Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, with an workplace in London, it has raised greater than $200 million throughout three content material funds launched in 2015, 2019, and 2023, with backing from institutional traders, pension funds, household workplaces, and non-profit organisations.
In early 2025, The European Funding Fund dedicated €25M ($28.4M) to the newest of those, consolidating IPR.VC’s place as the biggest unbiased Movie and TV funding fund supervisor working in Europe.
Following preliminary success with Nordic scripted tasks, together with Netflix sequence Bordertown, IPR.VC has broadened its scope in recent times, forming long-term strategic alliances with U.S. and European manufacturing firms, reminiscent of A24 (Civil Warfare, The Legend of Ochi, Materialists, Eddington, Mom Mary, Marty Supreme), XYZ Movies (Blackberry, Skywalkers: A Love Story, The Wasp), and European studios mk2 Movies and Gigglebug Leisure.
