Indie Sales taps Charlotte Boucon for deputy managing director role

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales house Indie Sales has appointed sales and distribution veteran Charlotte Boucon as deputy managing director. Boucon, who previously headed up sales and distribution for Orange Studio and SND, will officially step into her new role at this month’s Cannes Film Festival.

Boucon has been a well-known name on the global sales circuit for more than 20 years. She led the distribution department at Orange Studio until 2024, when the company was acquired by Studiocanal, where she supervised sales for titles including Carine Tardieu’s The Ties That Bind Us, Daniel Auteuil’s An Ordinary Case and Guillaume Maidatchevsky’s A Cat’s Life.

Before that, she served as director of sales and international distribution at SND from 2008 to 2021, where she spearheaded sales on titles including Eric Lartigau’s The Belier Family, later remade into the Oscar-winning feature Coda.

Indie Sales CEO Nicolas Eschbach, who co-founded the company with Eric Neve in 2013, described Boucon’s new role as “the next step forward so Indie Sales can continue to grow”.

He added: “Charlotte will be my right-hand woman. She will serve as sales director, and we will work together on international acquisitions, strategy and development. We are thrilled to welcome her to our team.”

Boucon said: “I’m thrilled to join Nicolas and his team at Indie Sales, and even more thrilled to be in Cannes to present our newest lineup, which is impressive.”

Indie Sales’ slate contains several prestige French titles including Tardieu’s All The Little Live Things starring Benoît Magimel, Léa Drucker and Melanie Thierry and Marc Fitoussi’s All About Corinne starring Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Kiberlain and Diane Kruger.

Its future strategy also includes more investment in projects as a co-producer in addition to handling sales, which it is doing for Jasmila Žbanić’s Quo Vadis, Aida? sequel The Missing Part. Indie Sales also plans to stay involved in animation with at least one new animated title a year, such as this year’s Brave Cat which will world premiere at Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June.

On the future strategy, Boucon said: “Our editorial strategy truly is expanding our diverse line-up and picking projects with international potential that we believe in and that we hope the market will believe in, too.”

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