Emilie Georges

Emilie Georges is a producer and CEO of Paradise City, an entertainment venture she co-founded with Naima Abed and for which she runs the Paris office.

Emilie founded Memento Distribution and Production in 2003 which expanded into Memento International & La Cinefacture (production) in 2004. Georges has been devoted to supporting and producing high-profile director-driven independent films such as Laurent Cantet’s THE CLASS (Golden Palm, Cannes 2008); Asghar Farhadi’s A SEPARATION (2012 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film); THE SALESMAN (2015 Academy Award for Best Film in a Foreign Language), Wash Westmoreland & Richard Glatzer’s STILL ALICE (2016).

Georges has been co-president and vice-president of ADEF, French association of Sales Agents and has been an elected member of the Directors’ Board of Unifrance (2008-2013).

Georges currently runs Memento International alongside Paradise City (ex-La Cinefacture). Her credits include US indie genre films such as Jeremy Saulnier’s BLUE RUIN and Jim Mickle’s COLD IN JULY & WE ARE WHAT WE ARE as well as Luca Guadagnino’s Oscar winner feature film CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, for which Emilie received an Oscar nomination.

Under the Paradise City banner, she has produced Anthony Chen's English-debut DRIFT, which premiered in Sundance Film Festival 2023. She's currently working with talents such as Edward Berger, Lili Horvát, Philippe Lacôte and Babak Jalali.