Kometa FilmsKometa Films
Kometa Films is a French independent production company based in Paris and in Orléans (Region Centre Val de Loire).
Kometa Films accompanies authors – directors from all walks of life, with a disruptive point of view on modern society. The company proposes innovative forms freed from conventional representations, for a pluralist public.
Edyta Janczak-Hiriart is a Polish born French independent Producer and the founder of Kometa Films. She is a graduate of the Polish National Film School, in Lodz (Poland). She has been an EAVE member since 2019 and graduated from ACE Series Special in 2021. In 2023, she was selected at Producers to Watch at MIP TV x CanneSeries 2023. Her last productions include selections in festival such as Berlinale official competition and Venise Mostra Giornate degli Autori.
In addition to her activities at Kometa Films, Edyta Janczak-Hiriart produces feature films between France and Poland, leveraging her broad experience of the movie industry and of both countries’ cultures. In 2017, she co-produces Grand Froid, Gérard Pautonnier’s first feature film, with Elzévir Films. She currently produces several projects with SHIPsBOY (Poland) such as Red Path, Lotfi Achour’s second feature film which premiere in Locarno Festival 2024 and won both the Golden Yusr for Best Feature Film and Best Director at the Red Sea Film Festival 2024.
She is also a Script Consultant and member of various films commissions. She teaches film production at Paris’ film schools EICAR and ESRA, film and series scriptwriting and development at la Sorbonne university, and she is a Speaker for ESCP business school. She is also an expert and mentor in Full Circle Lab organised by Tatino Films.
Before producing within Kometa Films, she worked at Les Films du Worso alongside Sylvie Pialat. She worked on Nuage by Sébastien Bedbeter, Meurtrières by Patrick Granperret. La faute à Fidel by Julie Gavras, Pialat, l’amour existe by Jean-Pierre Devilliers, etc.
After graduating in Film Studies, Yemi Chabi spent two years in the industry as a marketing and acquisitions coordinator at Coproduction Office, curating the pressbook for Michelangelo Frammartino’s ‘Il Buco’ (Venice – Special Jury Prize, 2021) and developing its classics acquisitions project. During this time, she also freelanced as a story editor and copywriter, working on award-winning films like ‘Striding into the Wind’ by Wei Shujun (Cannes, 2020) and ‘Club Zero’ by Jessica Hausner (Cannes, 2023). In 2021, she decided to pause her career to pursue her passion for storytelling, completing studies in narrative techniques at Scuola Holden.
In June 2023, Yemi reprised her career as a copywriter and researcher, notably working on Lou Ye’s ‘An Unfinished Film’ (Cannes, 2024). She is now a Head of Development at Kometa Films and Program Manager for various labs at Tatino Films. In 2024, she was selected as a Story Editor Trainee in the TFL NEXT Screens of Tomorrow programme.
SERIES
We are experts in international co-development and co-production strategies for international co-production markets, film and audiovisual institutions, groups and professionals.
Our activities: evaluation, consultation, mentoring, monitoring, design of presentations and targeted programs, lecture, masterclass, curation.