About us
SLOT MACHINE is a production company that was founded in 1993 by Marianne Slot who has always been passionately committed to producing works by international filmmakers. Working with major artists such as Lars von Trier, Lucrecia Martel, Bent Hamer, Malgoska Szumowska, Paz Encina, Lisandro Alonso, Emma Dante, Marian Crisan, Juliette Garcias, Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Sergei Loznitsa, Naomi Kawase and Benedikt Erlingsson, Marianne Slot has always sought to foster unique cultural perspectives through the diversity of the films she has produced.
Having chaired the CNC’s funding committee for world cinema from 2013 to 2015, she was appointed a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 in recognition of her contribution to France’s influential position in supporting world cinema.
Slot Machine’s work was greatly enriched by the arrival of Carine Leblanc in 2014. Over her 30-year career in cinema and TV production, Carine Leblanc has produced many films across a range of media and formats (feature films, original documentaries, recordings of shows and concerts, animated films, installations, etc.) which has given her a wealth of first-hand experience. She has worked with directors including Jean-Jacques Beineix, Cédric Klapisch, Bertrand Blier, Anne Jaffrennou, Nathalie Borgers, Anne Feinsilber among others. From 1998 to 2014 she managed Cargo Films, a production company created by Jean-Jacques Beineix to produce the film Betty Blue (37.2° le Matin).
Their partnership has generated enormous energy for developing and managing projects. Slot Machine produces hard-hitting movies of a consistently high standard that are admired around the world and have won awards at the world’s most prestigious festivals: Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Sundance, Toronto and San Sebastian, not to mention the Césars in France. In total, films produced by Slot Machine have won hundreds of prizes with more than forty in less than a year merely for Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson’s Woman At War.
Such distinctions have been accompanied by notable successes for Slot Machine’s films around the world with the help of leading sales companies. “Slot Machine depends on writers, directors and artists. We remain competitive because we have been committed to our filmmakers and have stayed connected internationally since 1993, working with institutions, producers, and distribution companies with whom we have established relationships based on trust and respect over many years and many films. It’s this amazing network that enables us to continue to produce art-house films in a coherent manner.”
