Producer Elijah Stewart has launched an independent studio based in Europe that will operate on a global scale, working with international talent and focusing on English language films and TV series, diverse can exclusively reveal.
Hype Studios is the new project of Stewart, the former Moscow-based producer who in recent years has been a fixture at the Cannes Film Festival, with his collaborations with Russian author Kirill Serebrennikov, including “Petrov’s Flu” and “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” Shown for the first time in competition.
Among the co-productions with American and European partners currently on the Hype Studios roster is Zac Wijon’s “Sanctuary,” starring Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott, which premieres as a special presentation next month at the Toronto International Film Festival and is co-produced with Rumble Films and Mosaic Films. , along with charades. Also on display is Pietro Marcello’s French-language film “Scarlet,” produced in partnership with CG Cinéma’s Charles Gilbert, which opened this year’s Directors Week in Cannes and will receive its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival.
With Hype Studios, Stewart will build on his longstanding partnership with Serebrennikov to develop film and television projects for a global audience from a new creative hub in Berlin. As part of his continued development and expansion of international production since co-founding Hype Film in 2016, Stewart will continue to focus on talent relationships to nurture a roster of international directors, with plans to expand into talent management.
Current productions include two films by Serebrennikov. Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie, an English-language film co-produced with Wildside and Chapter 2 and co-produced by Pathé, is adapted from Emmanuel Carrier’s novel and stars Ben Whishaw as the radical Russian poet and dissident Eduard Limonov. Another project in partnership with CG Cinéma, “The Disappearance of Josef Mengele”, has been adapted by Serebrennikov from Olivier Guez’s bestselling and award-winning novel by Renaudot.
Other upcoming English-language projects include “The Gambler Wife” by Malgorzata Szumowska, adapted by two-time Berlinale Prize winner for the book Andrew D. Kaufman about the wife of Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky Anna Snitkina. Also, two English-language original projects are in development with director Philip Reeves (“The Whaler Boy”), and an original genre project with Egor Abramenko, whose sci-fi horror Sputnik has received a remake in English from Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho Productions. and Village Roadshow, with Stewart Productions and Abramenko serving as executive producer. Hype Studios will reveal a list of TV projects at a later time.
The first addition to the company’s team is producer Alexander Fomin. With a background in international sales and co-production at Bac Films, Pulsar Content and Logical Pictures, Fomin will take over operations from Paris.
Stewart has produced numerous independent films that have been released at Cannes and other leading international film festivals. His first collaboration with Serebrennikov, “The Student”, was shown in the Un Certain Regard sidebar in Cannes in 2016. This was followed by “Leto” (2018), “Petrov’s Flu” (2021) and “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” (2022), all of them Who bowed in the official competition of the festival.
Stewart served as executive producer on Mona Fastfold’s “The World to Come” starring Vanessa Kirby, Katherine Waterston and Casey Affleck, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2020. He also produced Ukrainian-Canadian director Vadim Perelman’s German-language Holocaust drama “Lessons”. Persian, starring Nahuel Perez Biskaart and Lars Edinger, which premiered in Berlin in 2020, and Abramenko’s “Sputnik” which bowed out at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2020.
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