Aimée Peyronnet

After studying at Ecole du Louvre in the late 80s, Aimee Peyronnet landed herself in the art world as assistant to art dealer Yves Arman who discovered and represented Keith Haring. When both died in the devastating New York AIDS epidemic, Aimee found herself re-strategizing her future with the objective of reinventing herself. A chance encounter with Bill Murray put her on another new path in the film world when Murray found her a PA job in LA. A year later in 1990, Aimee worked as a PA on a Hugo Pratt adaptation, Jesuit Joe. That same year she was offered a position as a 2nd AD by Luc Besson, a fan of Pratt's. This was the start of a ten year collaboration with Besson, starting with her position as a 2nd ad on The 5th Element. She then ran his LA-based production company at Warner Brothers, followed by Sony and lastly Fox until 2001. Films under her tenure include Besson's celebrated Leon: The Professional (1994), The 5th Element (1995), Joan of Arc (aka The Messenger) (1999), Nil by Mouth (1997) directed by Gary Oldman, Taxi (1998) directed by Gerard Pires. She discovered the NY best seller The Surgeon of Crawthorne aka The Professor and the Madman (2019) which took seventeen years to get made. When Besson created Europa in France in 2001, Aimee decided to stay in the US to pursue her specialty in book adaptations. She founded Wild Child films, an independent film production company and worked in LA, New York and London with Dreamworks, Film 4 and the BBC. The Lovely Bones was the first Wild Child project. Booker Prize Vernon God Little followed. Partnering with Alison Owen, the pair won the British fund slate, and developed a few projects under Ruby's banner. In 2006 Aimee was named on Variety's list of 10 Producers to Watch. That same year she produced director Vadim Perelman's The Life Before Her Eyes adapted from Laura Kasischke's novel "In Bloom." In 2009 she produced The Lovely Bones directed by Peter Jackson, adapted from Alice Sebold's best seller novel. She spent the next years consulting for prestigious advertising agencies and production companies specializing in luxury brands and continuing to develop feature films from books. She began to explore the Brazilian film industry in 2016 with the intention to link it with the UK and US, and provided her services as a creative consultant on the film Elis directed by Hugo Prata (2016) and Black Snow (2017) directed by Martin Hodara (2017) In 2018 she partnered as a producer with Sao Paulo-based Production Company Reagent Media. They are now in pre production on Black Box, an adaptation of Amos Oz to be directed by Brazilian director Monique Gardenberg. The Bystander Effect will follow in 2021 with director Vicente Amorim. Aimee resides in Los Angeles where she is developing feature films and TV projects under her new banner APH films. She still splits her time between the US, London, Paris and Sao Paulo, always looking for new voices and visionary filmmakers. From her time as a producer she learned: Don't ever expect gratitude but be grateful when you get it.