Alpha Violet

Overview

Alpha Violet is a Paris-based international sales agent founded in 2012. The company is oriented toward bold, audacious debut films and films directed by women. Its catalog spans documentary features, fiction films, and hybrid works that blend both modes, with a particular focus on films that challenge genre categories. Alpha Violet is a member of Unifrance and Adef.

Alpha Violet has 25 films in its sales filmography, according to Unifrance. The company typically represents new films that circulate on the international festival circuit at Berlin, Locarno, Viennale, IDFA, Sundance, and other major festivals. Films are screened for buyers via Festival Scope Pro and Cinando.

The company created a sister company, Alpha Violet Production, to support producers and filmmakers with new projects through French minority co-production. Jean Baptiste Bailly-Maitre is credited as co-producer on several Alpha Violet titles through this arm, including Sujo and The Maw Naing's films.

2025-2026 Catalog

Alpha Violet's recent and upcoming sales catalog includes:

2026:

• Sad Girlz - Fernanda Tovar's film, announced in Variety ahead of Berlin Film Festival 2026

2025:

• 18 Holes to Paradise
• Forastera
• Roqia - About an extended Afghan family starting over in Iran as refugees
• Where the Night
• Goodbye Sisters
• Adabana

2024:

• Sujo (Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez, Mexico/USA/France) - Sundance 2024 World Cinema Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic), World Premiere. Also screened at Goteborg, Sofia (Grand Prix), San Sebastian (Spanish Cooperation Award), Morelia (Best Film, Best Directors, Best Screenplay), Tokyo Filmex. Mexican candidate for the Academy Awards 2025.
• Mongrel (Chiang Wei Liang) - 2024
• Drowning Dry - 2024
• In the Land of Brothers - 2024
• MA - Cry of Silence - 2024
• The Maw Naing's film (Myanmar/South Korea/Singapore/France/Norway/Qatar) - Busan 2024 New Currents Award, World Premiere. Also Taipei Golden Horse, World Film Festival of Bangkok (Special Mention), Jogja-Netpac (Netpac Award and Geber Award), Marrakech International Competition, Goteborg International Competition.

2023:

• Totem (Lila Aviles, Mexico/Denmark/France) - Berlinale 2023 Competition, World Premiere, Ecumenical Jury Award. Also Hong Kong International Film Festival (Grand Prix Firebird Award), Melbourne (Special Jury Mention), Morelia (Best Fiction Feature, Best Director, Audience Award). Shortlisted for 96th Academy Awards 2024.

What Filmmakers Should Know

Alpha Violet is a realistic representation target for filmmakers working in formally adventurous documentary, hybrid cinema, and auteur fiction. The company's lower profile relative to Wild Bunch International or The Match Factory means it operates at a level more accessible to emerging directors, while still maintaining buyer relationships in major arthouse territories including France, the UK, Germany, the Benelux countries, North America, and Japan.

For filmmakers whose films sit outside conventional narrative documentary or arthouse fiction categories (essay films, experimental documentary, hybrid forms), Alpha Violet is one of the few sales companies with genuine expertise in those forms. Most larger sales companies are less comfortable with formally unconventional work.

Pre-sales through Alpha Violet are less common than at larger companies, but the company's relationships with key French and European documentary funders give it some capacity to support financing in the development stage for projects that fit its profile. The Alpha Violet Production arm can participate as a French minority co-producer, which can help projects access French funding mechanisms.

Alpha Violet adapts its sales strategies to the specificities of each film, rather than applying a one-size-fits-all approach. The company emphasizes transparency with filmmakers and producers, aiming to help them launch their careers worldwide rather than treating each film as a transactional sale.

Contact Information

• Address: 47 avenue de la Republique, 75011 Paris, France
• Phone: +33 1 47 97 39 84
• Email: info@alphaviolet.com
• Website: alphaviolet.com
• 2025 Catalogue: Available via Google Drive link on the company website
• Social: Instagram (@alpha_violet), Vimeo, Linktree

See Also

For how boutique international sales agents compare to larger companies in terms of territory coverage and commission structures, see Distribution Deals Explained. For documentary financing strategies that combine festival circuit positioning with sales agent representation, see Documentary Financing: Building Your Stack. To model the financial structure of an international sales deal, use the Revenue Forecast Calculator.