Vuelta Group Co-Founders Talk Landmark 15-Film Cannes As Sales Title ‘The Electric Kiss’ Opens Festival; Commitment To Theatrical & Future Plans

EXCLUSIVE: Jerome Levy and David Atlan-Jackson – co-founders of growing pan-European theatrical feature film-focused Vuelta Group – hit the Cannes Film Festival’s red carpet this evening with opening film The Electric Kiss.

The Cannes 2026 haul is the fruit of a plan which began to take shape on the fringes of the festival four years ago over a dinner at festivalier favourite Fred l’Ecailler.

“That Cannes we made our first offer to Scanbox and we had a dinner with some of the parties we were talking to at the time,” recalls Levy, citing Indiana, Playtime and Square One which then joined the Vuelta Group. “Pan was there too. They had the opening film by Michel Hazanavicius” (Final Cut).

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