Rene Silvera on AllMovie

The founder of Panoceanic Films and co-producer of Jacques Tati's Playtime (1967), French film producer and representative Rene Silvera remained active in the industry for many years after his sole producer credit by serving as a European representative for ABC, NBC, and Cinerama in the late '60s and in the years following. On March 19, 2002, Silvera died in Paris following a short illness. He was 76.