Our Independent Production House

Founded in 2018, thanks to the experience of two established producers, Lucie Rego and Pauline Tran Van Lieu, Hutong Productions produces original works open to the world and creating a dialogue between formal singularities and contemporary issues.

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Our Productions

Our editorial freedom is very important to us. We’ve produced over twenty fiction, documentary, and art films, including many debut films. We develop new projects with the help of experts, respecting the voice and intentions of the authors we work with. Open to unexplored stories and diverse artistic territories, we co-produce many international projects, for instance with Ukraine (Moon Man, Babylon'13), South Korea (Seesaw Pictures), China (China Real Image Media), the Dominican Republic (Casa Latina), Spain (Al Borde Films), the DRC (Gikas Films), Canada (Les Films Cosmos), Belgium (Dérives, Twenty Nine Studio & Production, Walking the dog), and Cuba (Crisalida Producciones).

Our Support

Our financial partners, including ARTE, France Télévisions, IDFA Bertha Fund, CNC and Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, SCAM, regional authorities (particularly Nouvelle-Aquitaine, where we are based), Arte Cofinova, and Europe MEDIA Creative, keep supporting us with confidence. We are members of the SPI, Eurodoc, Atelier Network, European Women's Audiovisual Network (EWA), and Women Make Movies networks.

Our Catalogue

Our catalog has been recognized at international festivals such as the Berlinale, Hot Docs, IDFA, CPH:DOX, Visions du Réel, Tallinn Black Nights, and FEMA La Rochelle, as well as by industry professionals: The Documentary Journey of Madame Anita Conti is in the official selection for the 2026 César Award for Best Documentary Short Film, and Intercepted was screened at the UN and the Council of Europe. Our films are also screened in the field of contemporary art (Centre Pompidou, Jeu de Paume, MoMI NYC, Milan Triennale) and on platforms such as Universciné, Tënk, Libération, and Mediapart.

The Hutong

These traditional dwellings in the centre of Beijing are home to art and creative spaces that, at least when we were there in 2015, offered a refuge from censorship. Whilst promoting French cinema and visual arts in China, we were inspired by the energy and freedom of these neighbourhoods to set up our own independent production company on our return to France.

Pauline Tran Van Lieu
Pauline Tran Van Lieu
Lucie Rego
Lucie Rego

En 2014, Lucie est curatrice de la première exposition à Paris du photographe chinois Ren Hang, dont le travail est aujourd’hui reconnu sur la scène artistique internationale. En parallèle, elle assiste le suivi de l’Aide aux Cinémas du Monde du CNC et rejoint par la suite l’ambassade de France à Pékin où elle travaille à la mise en place des expositions d’arts visuels en Chine.

Après plusieurs expériences en production chez Alcatraz Films et Aurora Films, Lucie crée sa société en 2018 avec Pauline Tran Van Lieu. Avec les projets qu’elle développe chez Hutong Productions, elle participe à Open Doors de Locarno, Pitching du Réel, aux Ateliers de l’Atlas de Marrakech, DOK Copro Market et Agora Docs in Progress de Thessalonique.

Lucie est lectrice pour les commissions Fonds d’aide à l’innovation documentaire et l’Aide aux Cinémas du Monde du CNC.

Pauline Tran Van Lieu is a French producer whose work has screened at Berlinale, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, BAFICI, IFFR Rotterdam & New Directors/New Films, among others. A graduate of La Fémis’ Ludwigsburg-Paris producing program, she has programmed for Angers' Premiers Plans IFF and the Césars, France’s Academy Awards. She also coordinated the Émergence residency, supporting directors as they developed their first feature films in France. Starting in 2013, she spent two years working at the French Embassy in Beijing, screening French cinema for Chinese audiences. In that capacity, she programmed a Claire Denis retrospective, supervised China’s first official co-productions, and surveyed transformations in the Chinese film industry. She has also worked in distribution and world sales at The Match Factory in Berlin. Since 2018, she has produced films through Hutong and was selected to Marseille’s FIDLab, the Marrakech’s Ateliers de l’Atlas, DOK Copro Market & Berlinale Talents. Founded with Lucie Rego, the company based in Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, is part of Eurodoc, Atelier Network, European Women’s Audiovisual Network (EWA) and Women Make movies. Their co-productions got support from CNC’s World Cinema Fund, IDFA Bertha Fund, Arte France or France Televisions.