On the Ground,
Every Market
Thirty years of face-to-face relationships built in market halls from Berlin to Cannes to Venice - the foundation Bluebox draws on for every client.
Founder & Director, Bluebox Films
Gilles Duffaut, an international sales agent, producer, and distributor with over 30 years of experience across Latin American, Middle Eastern, Asian, and African cinema. Based in Paris. This is the track record Bluebox draws on for every client, built one film, one market, and one relationship at a time.
Thirty years of face-to-face relationships built in market halls from Berlin to Cannes to Venice - the foundation Bluebox draws on for every client.
Gilles started out in Barcelona, founding Tecnicamente Dolce from 1996 to 1999, a sales company for short films, documentaries, and series - around a hundred titles sold in two years. Alongside this, from 1996 to 2011, he handled acquisition and distribution of feature-length films for the Spanish market at Silenzio Films S.L., while directing the Barcelona European Film Market from 1997 to 1999, backed by the European Union's MEDIA programme. Returning to France in 2011, he founded Axxon Films for theatrical distribution, which ran until 2023, and in 2016 launched Axxon Media in Belgium for international sales and production. In 2025, he founded Media Art, his current international sales and distribution company, a French structure benefiting from the support of Unifrance - Bluebox Films is his dedicated consulting practice for producers seeking sales strategy and market representation.
From 2008 to 2018, he worked for the European Commission's DEVCO/EuropeAid as a producer, director, and journalist on institutional films, shooting in São Tomé and Príncipe, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica.
Gilles travels constantly for the film business - across Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa - and has produced, distributed, or sold the rights to more than 150 auteur films from over 15 countries, including Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Mali, Mauritania, Kazakhstan, Japan, Colombia, Argentina, and Mexico.
Over the course of his career, he has handled sales and distribution for auteur films including works by Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Haneke, Jafar Panahi, and Abderrahmane Sissako, alongside this broader catalog spanning Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.
Thirty years of consistent presence at the world's major film markets - the anchor points of Bluebox's network of buyers, festival programmers, and financiers.
Gilles is a regular speaker at industry events - conferences, masterclasses, and panels on international film sales, delivered in English, Spanish, or French.
In 2012 and 2014, he co-directed and moderated Le Café du Film de Rabat, a four-day event gathering around 50 European industry experts alongside Moroccan filmmakers, producers, and audiovisual school students.