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PARIS -- As it announced its debut slate Tuesday, Bac Films International -- the newly formed international sales arm of French distributor Bac Films -- also named Silvere Moreau as head of the company. Moreau, until recently head of sales at Bac Films, said in a statement that the new division will distribute about six international films a year at the start. Bahman Ghobadi's Turtles Can Fly, which bagged the top honor at the San Sebastian Film Festival last month, will be the first film to be distributed. Turtles already has been sold in more than 10 territories, including Britain, Canada, Benelux, Australia, Spain and Latin America, Moreau said. Other films on Bac International's debut slate include Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau's Coquillages et Crustaces (Shellfish and Crustaceans), Pierre Jolivet's La Caisse (The Crate) and La Planete Blanche (White Planet), a documentary directed by Stephane Milliere and Thierry Piantanida and produced by Gedeon Programmes -- which, like Bac Films, is part of French animation and production group Millimages.