Patrick Quinet founded Artémis Média in 1992 which later became Artémis Productions in 1994. Second largest producer within the company between 2000 and 2004, Oliver Rausin produced and co-produced a number of films. Since 2001, Patrick Quinet is President of the Union of French Film Producers (UPFF). In that capacity, in close collaboration with the Belgian Minister of Finance (Didier Reynders), he worked to create a "tax shelter" with the Belgian legislation is applicable from April 2003.

In March 2003 Patrick Quinet created the French production rights company LIAISON CINEMATOGRAPHIQUE sarl, with majority of shares owned by ARTEMIS PRODUCTIONS together with SAMSA FILM (Luxembourg) and NORD-OUEST PRODUCTIONS (France), ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP (Belgium).

Artemis Productions has received a Mention spéciale du Jury au Grand Prix Entreprendre 2005 organized by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Brussels and the Union of Enterprises in Brussels.

Traditionally BANANA FILMS was exclusively engaged in French and European films. Our horizons, however, expanded with the production and release of our first international film in English, Goodbye Bafana, directed by Academy Award and double Palme d’Or winning director Bille August, and we are now presently involved in financing and developing several international co-productions.

Our mission is to focus on the creative relationship between writer and director, affording them the space to explore and develop the full potential of a project, maximizing the chemistry of their collaboration to produce a final product that exudes originality, uniqueness and commercial viability.

We presently have a slate of eight projects, all at various stage of development, three of which are due for production in 2010. Through the Belgian tax-shelter system we are also involved in two to three international co-productions per year.