‘Nickel Boys’ Production Company Louverture Films Adds Key Execs And Collaborators As Co-Founder Danny Glover Steps Down As CEO
28.06.2024 - 17:11
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: As it preps for the release of notable titles like Nickel Boys, production company Louverture Films has added a handful of key execs and collaborators, including two principal partners and a chief financial officer.
As those new arrivals come aboard, co-founder Danny Glover has announced he is stepping down as CEO but will remain a partner. Melony Lewis and Adam Lewis have joined as principal partners and Longtime German film finance expert Frank Lehmann is now CFO. Colombian producer Diana Bustamante, a significant figure in South American cinema and former head of the Cartagena Film Festival, is collaborating with Louverture on a number of projects.
Along with the Lewises, the company’s partners include Glover, co-founder Joslyn Barnes, Susan Rockefeller, Sawsan Asfari, Tony Tabatznik and Jeffrey L. Clark.
Louverture is known for a number of acclaimed international co-productions, among them narrative titles Memoria, Zama, Capernaum and documentaries Gunda, Hale County This Morning This Evening and The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975. Amazon MGM Studios will release Nickel Boys, based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, in theaters October 25.
As to Glover’s decision to step away from his CEO role, Barnes said it was an organic one. The actor, producer and activist, who will turn 78 next month, “is at a different stage and is interested in keeping up his involvement with the company without the day-to-day management aspects. We will really enjoy continuing to work closely together.”
In a statement provided to Deadline, Glover said, “Louverture Films has been one of the most significant ventures and adventures of my life and career, and I am tremendously moved and proud of the way the