Chartier, during his time as a Disneyland Paris janitor, sold his first screenplay which allowed him to buy a one-way ticket to Los Angeles.
[2] Previous films produced by Chartier also include Colossal written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo starring Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis and A Family Man directed by Mark Williams starring Gerard Butler which both premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
He was also executive producer on Taylor Sheridan’s directorial debut Wind River, starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen, which premiered to rave reviews at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival which took over $44 million in worldwide box office.
An Iraqi war drama with no notable stars attached, would unlikely receive any reasonable funding from skeptical foreign buyers.
[4] Before the Oscars, the Academy banned Chartier from the ceremony for sending out a mass email to voters to try to convince them to vote for the film rather than James Cameron's Avatar.
[6] Jeff Steele (CFO of Magnet Media Group) wrote about Chartier on the blogpost The Warp writing, "I would say that anybody who can cobble together the financing from pre-sales, gap, bridge, tax credits and equity funding to produce a theatrical feature worthy of consideration for Best Picture is already a winner in my book.