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Margarethe Baillou

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Margarethe Baillou is the founder and owner of independent motion picture company, M.Y.R.A. Entertainment, in New York, London and Singapore. The company produces global, nonviolent and inclusive content. Credits include Call Me by Your Name (2017), The World to Come (2020), Benediction (2021), Freud's Last Session (2023) and Virginia Woolf's Night & Day (2026). She also established M.Y.R.A. Photography as well as the M.Y.R.A. Initiative, the philanthropic arm of M.Y.R.A. Entertainment, maintaining an Emergency Relief Fund and advocating nonviolent cinema.
- IMDb mini biography by: M.Y.R.A. Entertainment

Holds a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University, New York City.
Holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the American University of Paris, France.
Last name is pronounced "by you" with an emphasis on "you".
Founder and head of independent film production companies M.Y.R.A. Entertainment in New York, M.Y.R.A. Entertainment Europe in London and M.Y.R.A. Entertainment Asia in Singapore.
A fierce opponent of capital punishment, her video art piece, 'One After', premiered in New York on October 10, 2009, the annual World Day Against the Death Penalty.

[on Canada] There are so many great people and stories; it is a treasure trove, this country. [It is] telling to be the modest sibling of a southern neighbor always in the spotlight.
Passion, generosity and modesty are good ingredients for anyone's life.
Filmmaking is comparable to exploring new territories, be it by way of geographic travel or academic study. All of my productions have a strong anthropological aspect [which] is my personal motor.
We've grown so accustomed to onscreen gruesomeness that we've become immune to it [...] The indifference to violence as entertainment is dangerously toxic. [...] There are so many visual metaphors that can suggest violence without showing it [...] (O, the Oprah Magazine - August 2018)
[The screenplay of "The World To Come" by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard was] nonviolent, destination-driven, inclusive and rich in language, which pretty much sums up the mission of M.Y.R.A. - a solid match. (Variety - November 2020)

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