Wichita Films is a French production company specializing in documentaries. It has been founded in 2005 by Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg who act as both director and producer. Wichita Films mainly works to commission from the French market, but are distributed worldwide.
Among our documentaries; This is Orson Welles and Women who run Hollywood have been selected twice at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 and 2016 and at the Deauville American Film Festival 2015 and 2016, among prestigious other festivals. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences organized a special screening of The Women who run Hollywood at the Linwood Theater in June 2018 with Q&A, and they also won the Best Director Award at the Beverly Hills Film Festival the same year, for the same film The Women who run Hollywood.
Since 2019, the prestigious Editions Montparnasse have released 3 special DVD boxes with their films called “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood”, “Screwball Comedy” and the last one “Douglas Fairbanks le roi d’Hollywood”.
Their last movie; Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony has just won the Best International Feature Documentary at The American Documentary and Animation Film Festival and Film Fund (AmDocs) in Palm Springs.
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Passionate about American film history and American culture, Clara and Julia Kuperberg created their own film company, Wichita Films, in 2006 to produce and direct documentaries. The two sisters had come from different spheres.
For three years, Julia was on the editorial board of the famous French TV show, Tracks, broadcast on the French/German channel ARTE. She also coordinated the teams before being solicited by the international company, Fremantle. She worked for Fremantle for two years. After several years working on shorts programs, Julia craved working on more long-form projects. She made the decision to join forces with her sister, Clara, already a documentary film director.
Clara has always been attracted by the documentary form. For three years she worked for CNDP, the French National Educational Institute, on a TV art documentary series. The series was broadcast on the French national channel France 5. After, she directed her first documentary in 2001, (she also directed approximately ten films for various producers: Lobster, Program 33, LGM), she made the decision to join forces with Julia and create their own company.
The Kuperberg sisters work as equal measure as producers, directors, writers and editors on their films. Their films, all in english, are distributed all over the world.
Their last ones, This is Orson Welles and The Women who Run Hollywood were selected and screened at the Cannes Film Festival 2015 and 2016, and at Deauville American Cinema Festival 2015 and 2016 too, among other prestigious film festivals. In April 2018, the Kuperberg sisters won the Best Director Award at the Beverly Hills Film Festival for The Women who Run Hollywood. And in June, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences screened their film for a special screening at the Linwood Theater in Los Angeles.
They have also edited 3 DVD boxes set collection with the prestigious Editions Montparnasse with 15 of their documentaries inside.
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Wichita France :
Wichita Films
11, rue Jacob
75006 Paris
France
- (+33) (0)6 60 21 78 09
- contact@wichitafilms.com
- c.kuperberg@wichitafilms.com
- j.kuperberg@wichitafilms.com
Aurélia Loncan
Press Relations
- (+33) (0)6 12 22 88 00
- aurelia@marchal-loncan.fr