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EAVE @ Toronto International Film Festival 2014

EAVE @ Toronto International Film Festival 2014


EAVE is proud to announce a strong line-up at this year’s TIFF with 34 projects selected in the official selection and 7 producers at the Producers’ Lab Toronto.

Contemporary World Cinema

  • AMOUR FOU by Jessica Hausner, producer: Film Finance Forum 2012 graduate André Fetzer, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
  • FRAILER by Mijke de Jong, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Ellen Havenith
  • THE GRUMP by Dome Karukoski, producer: EAVE+ 2014 participant Jukka Helle
  • Interchange 2011 project BREATHE, directed by Interchange 2011 graduate Jihane Chouaib
  • MEN WHO SAVE THE WORLD by Liew Seng Tat, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Denis Vaslin, EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers
  • MIRAGE by Szabolcs Hajdu, delegate producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Andrea Taschler
  • NOT MY TYPE (PAS SON GENRE) by Lucas Belvaux, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman
  • TOKYO FIANCEE by Stefan Liberski, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
  • THE REAPER by Zvonimir Juric, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ankica Juric Tilic
  • THE VALLEY by Ghassan Salhab, co-producer: EAVE + 2013 graduate Titus Kreyenberg
  • XENIA by Panos Koutras, producers: EAVE 2010 graduate Alexandra Boussiou, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye 
  • MODRIS by Juris Kursietis, co-producers: EAVE 2014 participant Vicky Miha and EAVE 2014 participant Ingmar Trost

Wavelengths

  • LE BEAU DANGER by René Frölke, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Ann Carolin Renninger
  • JAUJA by Lisandro Alonso, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Helle Ulsteen Violet
  • JOURNEY TO THE WEST by Tsaï Ming-liang, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Antonin Dedet

Midnight Madness

  • BIG GAME by Jalmari Helander, co-producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer
  • CUB by Jan Govaerts, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Peter de Maegd

Special Presentations

  • FAR FROM MEN by David Oelhoffen, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Olivier Charvet
  • TURIST by Ruben Östlund, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Marie Kjelsson
  • HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS by Peter Chelsom, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer
  • RETURN TO ITHACA by Laurent Cantet, producer: EAVE 2014 graduate Didar Domehri

Discovery

  • EAVE Ties That Bind 2011 project FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE by Diep Nguyen Hoang, producer: TIES THAT BIND 2011 graduate David Lindner
  • THE GREAT MAN by Sarah Leonor, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Michel Klein
  • I AM NOT LORENA by Isidora Marras, producer: Puentes 2011 graduate Josefina Undurraga
  • LOS HONGOS, by Oscar Ruiz Navia, co-producer: Puentes 2010 graduate Jaime Romandía, co-producer: EAVE+ 2013 graduate Titus Kreyenberg
  • CORBO by Mathieu Denis, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Félize Frappier

TIFF Docs

  • IRAQI ODYSSEY by Interchange 2011 graduate Samir, producer: EAVE 1989/90 graduate Werner Schweizer
  • THE LOOK OF SILENCE by Joshua Oppenheimer, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen

TIFF Kids

  • LABYRINTHUS by Douglas Boswell, producers: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert, EAVE 2011 graduate Floor Onrust
  • SECRETS OF WAR by Dennis Bots, producers: EAVE 2006 graduate Reinier Selen, EAVE 1999 graduate Donnato Rotunno

Vanguard

  • THEY HAVE ESCAPED by JP Valkeapää, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Aleksi Bardy, EAVE 2009 graduate Raymond van der Kaaij, EAVE 2008 graduate Annika Sucksdorff

Short Cuts International Programme 2

  • ICE CREAM by Serhat Karaaslan, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Serkan Cakarer
  • GROWING PAINS by Tor Fruergaard producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Nynne Selin Eidnes

Short Cuts International Programme 4

  • SKINNER by Gábor Fabricius, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Ferenc Pusztai

Producers Lab Toronto:

The following EAVE graduates were selected:

  • EAVE 2006 garduate Nuno Bernardo, beActive Entertainment (Portugal)
  • EAVE 2006 graduate Daniel Burlac, Elefant Films (Romania)
  • EAVE B`EST 2012 graduate Alise Gelze, Tasse Film (Latvia)
  • EAVE 2012 graduate Mark Lwoff, Bufo (Finland)
  • EAVE 2003 graduate Xavier Ruiz, RCE Ruiz Cardinaux Entertainment (Switzerland)
  • EAVE 2008 Film Finance Forum graduate Isabelle Stead, Human Films (United Kingdom)
  • EAVE 2011 Film Finance Forum graduate Borga Dorter, Gearshift Films (Canada)

 

EAVE in Toronto (7-9 September):

EAVE CEO Kristina Trapp will be part of the PITCH THIS jury on September 8 and will moderate the Crafting the Canada-EU Co-Pro panel on Tuesday, September 9.
 

Crafting the Canada-EU Co-Pro Panel 

Tuesday, September 9 at 11:30 AM

Vimeo Industry Convergence Centre

250 Front Street W, Toronto (Glenn Gould Studio Entrance)

Panelists:

  • Roberto Olla (Eurimages; EAVE Legal Expert)
  • Andrea Paris (Ascent Film)Julia Rosenberg (January Films)
  • Michel Pradier (Telefilm Canada)

Moderator: Kristina Trapp, CEO EAVE


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EAVE project UNITED STATES OF LOVE received development funding

Creative Europe-Media Funding:

Single projects – Creative Documentary

  • RIVER TALES, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Vesela Kazakova
  • LEANING INTO THE WIND, producer EAVE 2010 garduate Kevin McCann
  • THE LOST CHILDREN OF SPAIN, producer EAVE 2006 graduate Denis Vaslin
  • BUTTERLY CITY, co-producer: Film Finance Forum 2008 graduate Jeremiah Cullinane
  • HOTEL MACHINE, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nezan

Development Single Projects - Fiction

  • HISTORY`S FUTURE, producer: EAVE 2011 garduate Floor Onrust
  • PERFECT SANATOS/IN PERFECT HEALTH, producer EAVE 2010 graduate Anca Damian
  • A GOOD DAY`S WORK, producer EAVE 2010 graduate Ida Weiss
  • THE FIXER, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Monica Lazurean-Gorgan
  • THE VOICE, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Ferenc Pusztai
  • EAVE 2014 project UNITED STATES OF LOVE, producer: EAVE 2014 participant Piotr Kobus
  • FAMILY FRIEND, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Michal Kollar
  • ELECTRIC GIRL, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards
  • MARIONETTE, producer; EAVE 2007 graduate Claudia Brandt
  • NORDIC INSTINCT, producer EAVE 2010 graduate Aet Laigu
  • SPIRAL, co-producer EAVE 2014 participant Philipp Moravetz
  • SECRET SOCIETY OF SOUPTOWN, producer: EAVE 2014 participant Esko Rips
  • NO FUN, producers: PUENTES 2011 graduate Anthony Rey and EAVE Film Marketing Workshop 2011 graduate Julie Esparbes
  • OLD TIMES, producer: EAVE Jiri Konecny
  • AMERICAN MASSACRE, producer EAVE 1991 Emjay Rechsteiner
  • FLORA63, producer EAVE Ties That Bind Head of Studies Christophe Bruncher

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  • LOVE & FRIENDSHIP by Whit Stillman, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Katie Holly of Blinder Films and co-produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Raymond van der Kaaij of Revolver Amsterdam received funding of the Dutch Filmfund under the new Cash Rebate system.

www.revolver.nl

  • EAVE 2010 graduate Reinier Selen’s Rinkel Film received Slate Funding by the Creative Europe/MEDIA Programme. This way, his film IN GOD’S NAME, the tragicomedy about the Limburgian playboy priest Joep Haffmans, directed by Arne Toonen, will reach cinemas much sooner, Selen says. The start of production on A REAL VAN MEEGEREN by Rudolf van den Berg, producers: EAVE 2010 graduate Reinier Selen, EAVE 1999 graduate Donnato Rotunno, and EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisa Juricic by Rudolf van den Berg, which tells the story of Holland’s most famous master forger Han van Meegeren, will be brought forward as well. 

www.rinkelfilm.com

  • HEIDI by writer/director/producer Catalin Mitulescu, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Marcian Lazar is in pre-production. The film will question the situation of young women using men as vehicles for receiving nice things in life. "I will focus on girls who are living at men's expenses very close to prostitution, because I find very appealing this hunger for new experiences and things, from having an expensive car and expensive clothes to a weekend in Dubai, and to consume all these things very rapidly. It's like a hunger which is re-fueling from itself," says Mitulescu. Negotiations with French co-producers are underway. The project has a production grant of 467,860 EUR from the Romanian Film Center. The budget is approximately 1 M EUR. Shooting is planned for spring 2015.

www.stradafilm.ro

  • Strada Film is also planning two debut features, THE LESSON by Radu Dragomir and THE TRIP WE TOOK WITH DAD, a Romanian-German co-production by Anca Miruna Lazarescu, producers: EAVE 2010 graduate Marcian Lazar, EAVE 2012 graduate Andrea Taschler and Ties That Bind 2011 graduate David Lindner of Filmallee. 

www.stradafilm.ro

  • IN PERFECT HEALTH by EAVE 2010 graduate Anca Damian, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille is in development. The film tells the story of a young attorney who starts his own investigation into the strange death of his father. Damian wrote the script with Lia Bugnar, and she cast her son, Anghel Damian, as the leading actor of this coming-of-age story. “The movie is inspired by the way my father died. A lot of the emotions I felt then are in the script, but the characters are fictionalized,” says Anca Damian. The project received a production grant from the Romanian Film Center, and it is also supported by Creative Europe/MEDIA with a development grant. The budget is 765,000 EUR. Shooting is planned to take place for 40 days in Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca in June 2015. 

www.apartefilm.net

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EAVE project STAGE FRIGHT is shooting

  • DEMAIN, APRÈS LA GUERRE by Christophe Wagner, co- producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and EAVE Head of Studies Jani Thiltges and EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum is in production. The film tells about the physical and emotional scars the Second World War has left behind for people and society. Shooting in Luxemburg starts mid September and lasts until the end of the year. 

www.samsa.lu

  • STRANGE HEAVEN by Dariusz Gajewski, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Kuba Kosma is shooting in Poland and Sweden. 

www.takfilm.eu

  • MAMMAL by Rebecca Daly, producers: EAVE 2008 graduate Morgan Bushe and EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher, co-produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Reinier Selen. The film is an unusual love story between a woman who has lost her son in tragic circumstances and a young homeless. Funding is by the Irish Film Board, Luxembourg Film Fund, BAI, TV3, the Dutch Film Fund and the Dutch Production incentive. The film which will shoot in Dublin and Luxembourg in October was selected as part of the first Berlinale Residency.

www.fastnetfilms.com

  • EAVE 2011 project THE MAN WHO KNEW 75 LANGUAGES by Anne Magnussen and Pawel Debski, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Zivile Gallego has gone into production. The animated documentary is about the language genius Georg Julius Justus Sauerwein who sacrificed his academic career to live among the most oppressed groups in Europe, the linguistic minorities. He fought for people’s right to speak their mother tongue and the use of the mother tongue in primary education. Because of his great linguistic talent he was headhunted to be the tutor of the beautiful and talented Princess Elisabeth of Wied in Germany who became the first queen of Romania and a famous writer of books, articles and poems. The film received funding from the Lithuanian Film Centre. Filming started in the beginning of August in Lithuania and will move to Poland.

www.fralitafilms.com

  • FAMILY FILM by Olmo Omerzu, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jiri Konecny is shooting. The plot: A husband and wife set sail on the ocean, leaving their two children at home to explore the freedom offered them by the absence of parental supervision. But fear clouds the kids’ seemingly carefree life after they lose contact with their parents whose boat capsizes in a storm. The timing of the parents’ return corresponds with a tragedy at home. Their son lies in the hospital badly in need of a kidney transplant. Test results show that the father is in fact not related to the boy by blood. The film is supported by Eurimages, The State Cinematography Fund – Czech Republic, the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, the Slovenian Film Center, MDM Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (DE) and the MEDIA Programme. The Slovenian/Czech/ German/ Slovak/French co-production with a budget of 1.45 m EUR is being shot on locations in Prague and at the sea in Thailand. Shooting will last three months. 

www.endorfilm.cz

  •  EAVE 2012 project STAGE FRIGHT by Yorgos Zois, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Maria Drandaki is shooting. The film is a Greek-Croatian-French-Dutch coproduction with EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisa Juri?i? co-producing. The plot is centered on the most anticipated avant-garde theatre play of the year, when seven armed persons enter the stage randomly choosing people from the audience and asking them to co-create a new devised play with the cast. But with one condition: everything has to be real, from the performances to the bullets. The Croatian Audiovisual Center is supporting the film with a minority coproduction grant. The project won the TFL Production Award at TorinoFilmLab in 2012 and the CNC Award at CineLink at Sarajevo IFF in 2011. It was also selected in l'Atelier du Festival de Cannes in 2013. Shooting will wrap in September 2014 with most of the scenes shot at the Pallas Theater in Athens. 

www.pan.com.gr | www.nukleus-film.hr 

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TOUT LE CABARET ALSACIEN in post-production

  •  TOUT LE CABARET ALSACIEN by Gabriel Goubet, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Cedric Bonin is in post-production.

www.seppia.eu

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Crowdfunding for THE QUEEN OF IRELAND

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    • EAVE 2005 graduate Katie Holly and EAVE 2014 participant Ailish Bracken, producers from Bl!nder Films have teamed up with writer/director Conor Horgan, who directed their first feature film ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS for their latest feature documentary; THE QUEEN OF IRELAND. Over the last few years Rory has become a figurehead for LGBT rights in Ireland and since the recent scandal around Pantigate, his fight for equality and against homophobia has been recognised all around the world. The Queen of Ireland is not just about Panti Bliss the performer, or Rory O’Neill the accidental activist. It is about how one man in a dress has mobilized a nation and an international community to stand up and fight against injustice.

“We have set a goal of €50,000 to make this film. This will allow us to continue filming with Rory / Panti over the next few months, as well as allowing us to edit, research, get rights to use archive, music, and everything else we need to make the film.  We plan to raise matching funds, so YOUR contributions will help us make this the best film possible. You cannot underestimate the impact YOU can have on the future and the success of The Queen of Ireland. For your donations we are offering some truly unique perks which can be found here“: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-queen-of-ireland--2

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SUPERNOVA first title to receive a day-and-date release in the UK

  • SUPERNOVA by Tamar van den Dop, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Raymond van der Kaaij will be the first title to receive a day-and-date release in the UK under the partnership between sales company Wide and new ‘film discovery’ VOD platform FilmDoo. UK distributor will be Matchbox Films.

www.revolver.nl

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EAVE projects in festivals around the world

Motovun International Film Festival (July 26 -30)

  • BLIND by Eskil Vogt, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Sigve Endresen
  • FORCE MAJEURE (TURIST) by Ruben Östlund, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Marie Kjelsson
  • FRANK by Lenny Abrahamson, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney
  • PARIS OF THE NORTH by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille

www.motovunfilmfestival.com



Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia (July 31 - August 17)

  • AMOUR FOU by Jessica Hausner, producer: Film Finance Forum 2012 graduate André Fetzer, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
  • BLIND by Eskil Vogt, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Sigve Endresen
  • BLIND DATES by Levan Koguashvili, co-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Olena Yershova
  • CONCERNING VIOLENCE by Göran Olsson, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Annika Rogell, co-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Monica Hellström
  • CONCRETE NIGHT by Pirjo Honkasalo, producers: EAVE 2012 graduate Mark Lwoff, EAVE 2009 graduate Misha Jaari, co-produced by EAVE group leader Lise Lense-Møller & EAVE 2009 graduate Cecilia Valsted
  • FORCE MAJEURE (TURIST) by Ruben Östlund, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Marie Kjelsson
  • FREE RANGE by Veiko Õunpuu, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa
  • HAPPINESS by Thomas Balmès, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Kaarle Aho
  • JAUJA by Lisandro Alonso, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Helle Ulsteen
  • JIMMY’S HALL by Ken Loach, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney
  • MACONDO by Sudabeh Mortezai, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Oliver Neumann
  • REDEMPTION by Miguel Gomes, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jonas Dornbach
  • THE SALT OF THE EARTH by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Gian-Piero Ringel
  • HISTORIA DE LA MEVA MORT by Albert Serra, production manager: EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac
  • TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert
  • VELVET TERRORISTS by Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarcík, Peter Kerekes, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Siniša Juricic
  • WETLANDS by David Wnendt, producer: EAVE group leader Peter Rommel
  • WHITE GOD by Kornél Mundruczó, producers: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi and EAVE 2013 graduate Eszter Gyarfas, EAVE script consultant Martin Daniel

http://miff.com.au/

 

Locarno Film Festival (August 6 - 16)

Films of the Jury

  • COSTA DA MORTE (COAST OF DEATH) by Lois Patino, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Felipe Lage Coro 
  • Piazza Grande- LOVE ISLAND by jasmila Zbanic, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jonas Dornbach

Concorso Internazionale

  • A BLAST by Syllas Tzoumerkas, producer: EAVE + 2013 graduate Titus Kreyenberg
  • TWO SHOTS FIRED by Martin Rejtman, producer: Puentes 2010 graduate Christoph Friedel

Concorso Cineasti del presente

  • LOS HONGOS by Oscar Ruiz Navia, co-producer: Puentes 2010 graduate Jaime Romandía, EAVE + 2013 graduate Titus Kreyenberg
  • MEN WHO SAVE THE WORLD by Liew Seng Tat, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Denis Vaslin, EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers
  • SOUTH TO NORTH by Antoine Boutet, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nezan
  • THEY CHASED ME THROUGH ARIZONA by Matthias Huser, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Andres Pfaeffli 

Pardi di domani

  • PROSE DU TRANSSIBÉRIEN by David Epinay, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Eugenia Mumenthaler
  • VIŠAK VJETRA by Dane Komljen, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Natasa Damnjanovic 

Histoire(s) du cinéma

  • THE VOICE OF SOKUROV by Leena Kilpeläinen, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Karin Reinberg-Shestakov

Panorama Suisse

  • MY FATHER, THE REVOLUTION AND ME by Ufuk Emiroglu, producer: Interchange 2011 graduate Samir
  • TRAUMLAND by Petra Volpe, co-producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Ralph Schwingel

EAVE was delighted to continue its partnership with OPEN DOORS at the Locarno Film Festival 2014. In 2014, the OPEN DOORS section focused on Africa. Twelve projects were selected. The directors and producers of the chosen projects were present in Locarno and available for pre-scheduled one-to-one meetings.
Among the 12 OPEN DOORS projects, 5 are produced by EAVE producers:

  • TERRITORIAL PISSINGS by Sibs Shongwe-La Mer, producer: EAVE 2014 participant Elias Ribeiro
  • FIG TREE by Alamork Marsha, co-producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Saar Yogev
  • HOT COMB by Caroline Kamya, co-producer: Puentes 2013 graduate Danielle Guirguis
  • I AM NOT A WITCH by Rungano Nyoni, co-producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Juliette Grandmont
  • THE MERCY OF THE JUNGLE by Joel Karekezi, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Aurélien Bodinaux

Trainers for OPEN DOORS:

  • EAVE Pitching expert Sibylle Kurz
  • EAVE 2003 graduate and group leader Roshanak Behesht Nedjad

Carte Blanche

  • ASPIRANTES (HOPEFULS) by Ives Rosenfeld, producer: Puentes 2013 graduate Tatiana Leite 

Open Doors Screenings  

  • EZRA by Newton I. Aduaka, producer: EAVE+ 2013 graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
  • FIG TREE by Alamork Marsh, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Saar Yogey
  • TEZA by Haile Gerima, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril

OPEN DOORS – EAVE PRODUCERS

  • EAVE 2013 graduate Marie Dubas, Les Films d'Antoine, France
  • Interchange 2013 graduate Trent, NFI Motion Pictures, Netherlands
  • EAVE 2010 graduate Aet Laigu, Meteoriit, Estonia
  • EAVE 2014 participant Sébastien Haguenauer, 10:15 Productions, France
  • EAVE 2014 participant Elias Ribeiro, Urucu Media, South Africa
  • Interchange 2012 graduate Mohamed Ali Ben Hamra, Plovimovie International Pictures, Tunisia
  • EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac, Elefant Films, Romania
  • EAVE 2014, Film Finance Forum 2012 and Film Marketing Workshop 2011 graduate Matija Radeljak, Aning Film, Croatia  
  • EAVE 2013 graduate Ann Carolin Renninger, zero one/ joon film, Germany
  • EAVE 2007 graduate Hans Eddy Schreiber, Karibufilm, Germany
  • EAVE 2014 graduate Konstantina Stavraniou, Graal, Greece
  • Puentes 2012 graduate Ana Fernandez Saiz, Impronta Films, Spain
  • Ties That Bind 2014 graduate Karim Aitouna, hautlesmains productions, France 

www.pardolive.ch

 

Filmforum Zadar (August 23 - 29)

  • EAVE 2011 project MONUMENT TO MICHAEL JACKSON by Darko Lungulov, producers: EAVE 2011 graduate Snezana Penev and EAVE 2011 graduate Aneta Lesnikovska
  • DOM (THE HOUSE) by Zuzana Liová, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Michal Kollar
  • PARIS OF THE NORTH by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille
  • SNAILS IN THE RAIN, produced and directed by EAVE 2010 graduate Yariv Mozer
  • SUPERNOVA by Tamar van den Dop, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Raymond van der Kaaij
  • THE BRIDGES OF SARAJEVO by Aida Begic, Leonardo di Costanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergei Losnitza, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perisic, Chisti Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec, Teresa Villaverde, producer: EAVE+ graduate Titus Kreyenberg
  • VELVET TERRORISTS by Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarcík, Peter Kerekes, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Siniša Juricic
  • VOLCANO by Rúnar Rúnarsson, executive producer: EAVE 1993 graduate Thomas Gammeltoft

www.filmforumzadar.com



Haugesund - The Norwegian International Film Festival  (August 16 – 22)

  • HEART OF A LION by Dome Karukoski, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate & Finnish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy
  • NOT MY TYPE (PAS SON GENRE) by Lucas Belvaux, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman
  • PARIS OF THE NORTH by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille
  • THE WONDERS by Alice Rohrwacher, EAVE+ 2013 graduate Carlo Cresto-Dina
  • TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert
  • UNDERDOG by Ronnie Sandahl, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Annika Hellström
  • WHAT IF by Michael Dowse, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher

Nordic Co-Production Market

  • IMPALED REKTUM by Jukka Vidgren and Juuso Laatio, producers: EAVE 1999 graduate Kaarle Aho
  • THE INDIAN BRIDE by Hans Peter Moland, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Helen Ahlsson
  • WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY by Iram Haq, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Karsten Stöter
  • YES! By Moritz Laube, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Rudi Teichmann

Works in Progress

  • ARMI ALIVE by Jörn Donner, producers:  EAVE 2012 graduate Mark Lwoff, EAVE 2009 graduate Misha Jaari
  • CROSS YOUR HEART by Petri Kotwica, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Lesley McKimm
  • MY SKINNY SISTER by Frederikke Aspöck, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Annika Rogell
  • THE FENCER by Klaus Härö, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Kaarle Aho 

www.filmweb.no/filmfestivalen/

 

Sarajevo International Film Festival (August 16 - 24)

  • A BLAST by Syllas Tzoumerkas, producer: EAVE + 2013 graduate Titus Kreyenberg
  • AMOUR FOU by Jessica Hausner, producer: Film Finance Forum 2012 graduate André Fetzer, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
  • AZEMINA by Enes Zlatar, Ajdin Kamber, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate and EAVE Bosnian National Coordinator Amra Baksic-Camo  
  • BLIND DATES by Levan Koguashvili, co-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Olena Yershova
  • BRIDES (PATARDZLEBI), produced and directed by EAVE 2009 graduate Tinatin Kajrishvili
  • CONCERNING VIOLENCE by Göran Olsson, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Annika Rogell, co-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Monica Hellström
  • EAVE 2011 project MONUMENT TO MICHAEL JACKSON by Darko Lungulov, producers: EAVE 2011 graduate Snezana Penev and EAVE 2011 graduate Aneta Lesnikovska
  • EVERYDAY REBELLION by The Riahi Brothers, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Arash T. Riahi
  • GHETTO 59 by Ines Tanovic, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate and EAVE Bosnian National Coordinator Amra Baksic-Camo  
  • I AM NOT HIM by Tayfun Pirselimoglu, co-producer: EAVE graduate Guillaume de Seille
  • LAND OF STORMS by Ádám Császi, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Eszter Gyárfás, EAVE 2004 graduate Viktória Petrányi, EAVE+ 2013 graduate Titus Kreyenberg
  • LOVE & ENGINEERING by Tonislav Hristov, written by Tonislav Hristov and Kaarle Aho, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Kaarle Aho
  • MACONDO by Sudabeh Mortezai, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Oliver Neumann
  • SONG OF MY MOTHER by Erol Mintas, producer: EAVE 2014 participant Asli Erdem, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille
  • SOME DAY, directed and produced by EAVE 2011 graduate Monica Monica Lazurean-Gorgan
  • THE BRIDGES OF SARAJEVO by Aida Begic, Leonardo di Costanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergei Losnitza, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perisic, Chisti Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec, Teresa Villaverde, producer: EAVE+ graduate Titus Kreyenberg
  • THE CHICKEN by Uma Gunjak, co-producers: EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisa Juricic and B’EST 2013 graduate Jelena Goldbach
  • THREE WINDOWS AND A HANGING by Isa Qosja, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Shkumbin Istrefi, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards
  • UNCLE TONY, THREE FOOLS AND THE SECRET SERVICE by Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Vesela Kazakova
  • WHITE GOD by Kornél Mundruczó, producers: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi and EAVE 2013 graduate Eszter Gyarfas, EAVE script consultant Martin Daniel

Docu Rough Cut Boutique

  • SOME DAY, directed and produced by EAVE 2011 graduate Monica Monica Lazurean-Gorgan

CineLink Selection 2014

  • GIANT by Dimitris Papanastasiou; producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Alexandra Boussiou
  • IN BETWEEN by Bogdan Mustata; producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Marcian Lazar
  • PARI by Siamak Etemadi; producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Konstantinos Kontovrakis

Work in Progress

  • MOTHER by Vlado Skafar, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Frenk Celarc
  • OUR EVERYDAY LIFE by Ines Tanovic, co-producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Zdenka Gold
  • WHY ME by Tudor Giurgiu, producers: EAVE 2011 graduate Oana Giurgiu, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Emöke Vagasi 

www.siff.ba

 

Espoo Ciné International Film Festival  (August 22 - 31)

  • A STREET IN PALERMO by Emma Dante, producers: Interchange 2010 graduate Marta Donzelli, EAVE 1991 graduate Andres Pfaeffli
  • BLIND by Eskil Vogt, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Sigve Endresen
  • CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE by Wim Wenders, Michael Glawogger, Michael Madsen, Robert Redford, Margreth Olin, Karim Aïnouz, producers: EAVE 2010 graduate Gian-Piero Ringel and EAVE 2011 graduate Erwin M. Schmidt, co-produced by EAVE 2011 graduate Anne Köhncke, EAVE 2010 graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen
  • MACONDO by Sudabeh Mortezai, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Oliver Neumann
  • OKTOBER NOVEMBER by Götz Spielmann, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Antonin Svoboda
  • SANCTUARY by Fredrik Edfeldt, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate & Finnish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy
  • THE CONGRESS by Ari Folman, producers: EAVE 2011 graduate David Grumbach and EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum
  • THE WONDERS by Alice Rohrwacher, EAVE+ 2013 graduate Carlo Cresto-Dina
  • WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM, producer EAVE 2008 graduate Marcela Ursu
  • WHITE GOD by Kornél Mundruczó, producers: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi and EAVE 2013 graduate Eszter Gyarfas, EAVE script consultant Martin Daniel

www.espoocine.fi


Montreal World Film Festival  (August 21 – September 1)

  • FREE RANGE by Veiko Õunpuu, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa
  • HIGH PERFORMANCE by Johanna Moder, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Oliver Neumann
  • MELODY by Bernard Bellefroid, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and EAVE Head of Studies Jani Thiltges
  • PUENTES project THEY ARE ALL DEAD (TODOS ESTÁN MUERTOS) by Beatriz Sanchis, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Maria Zamora
  • THE TREATMENT by Hans Herbots, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert
  • TIR by Alberto Fasulo, co-producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Irena Markovic
  • TOMMY by Tarik Saleh, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Kristina Aberg
  • TOUS LES CHATS SONT GRIS by Savina Dellicour, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Donato Rotunno
  • SILENCE IN DREAMLAND by Tito Molina, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Jonas Weydemann

www.ffm-montreal.org/en_index.html

 

Film Francophone d’Angoulême  (August 22 – 26)

  • BOUBOULE by Bruno Deville, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
  • MELODY by Bernard Bellefroid, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and EAVE Head of Studies Jani Thiltges
  • TU VEUX OU TU VEUX PAS by Tonie Marshall, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum 

www.filmfrancophone.fr

 

Venice International Film Festival  (August 27 - September 6)

  • ART by Adrian Sitaru, producer: EAVE 2014 participant Anamaria Antoci- BYPASS by Duane Hopkins, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Samm Haillay
  • EAVE 2011 project FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE by Diep Nguyen Hoang, producer: TIES THAT BIND 2011 graduate David Lindner
  • SIVAS by Kaan Müjdeci, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Nesra Gürbüz
  • THE LOOK OF SILENCE by Joshua Oppenheimer, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen
  • THESE ARE THE RULES by Ognjen Svilicic, co-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Janja Kralj

www.labiennale.org/en/cinema

Venice Days (August 28 – September 7)

  • RETURN TO ITHACA by Laurent Cantet, producer: EAVE 2014 graduate Didar Domehri
  • THEY HAVE ESCAPED by Jukka-Pekka Valkeapaa , producer: EAVE 2002 graduate & Finnish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy of Helsinki Films, co-produced by EAVE 2009 and Puentes 2005 graduate Raymond van der Kaaij of Revolver Amsterdam with support of the Dutch Filmfund
  • TUSSEN 10 EN 12 - BETWEEN 10 AND 12 by Peter Hoogendoorn, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Tomas Leyers

EAVE Day in partnership with the Venice GAP financing market:

 Introduction about EAVE's activities: Jani Thiltges

Panel with 3 Italian EAVE graduates talking about their international experience, EAVE's role in their careers and co-production with Italy: Carlo Cresta-Dino, Marianna de Liso, Stefano Tealdi

Case Study of Cannes Grand Prix award winner THE WONDERS by Alice Rohrwacher with the producers Carlo Cresto-Dino and Tiziana Soudani

www.venice-days.com

European Gap Financing Co-Production Market 

 Among the 15 selected projects are:

  • BANG GANG by Eva Husson, producer: EAVE 2014 graduate Didar Domehri
  • DEAD AND BEAUTIFUL by David Verbeek, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Léontine Petit
  • EAVE 2012 project STAGE FRIGHT by Yorgos Zois, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Maria Dandraki
  • FREEDOM OR DIE by Vladimir Blazevski, prducer: EAVE 2011 graduate Darko Popov


Vukovar Film Festival, Croatia  (August 25 – 30)

  • A THOUSAND TIMES GOOD NIGHT by Erik Poppe, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Lesley McKimm
  • EUGENIC MINDS by Pavel Štingl, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jirí Konecný
  • FORGET ME NOT by David Sieveking, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Martin Heisler
  • IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE by Florin Serban, associate producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Marcian Lazar
  • THE WONDERS by Alice Rohrwacher, producer: EAVE+ 2013 graduate Carlo Cresto-Dina
  • TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert
  • WHITE GOD by Kornél Mundruczó, producers: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi and EAVE 2013 graduate Eszter Gyarfas, EAVE script consultant Martin Daniel

www.vukovarfilmfestival.com



IFP No Borders Co-production Market New York

  • MANTRA – THE SONG OF SCORPIONS by Anup Singh, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Saskia Vischer

www.saskiavischer.com

 

Experimental Cinema and Performance Art Festival (August 31-September 2)

  • SHADOW GENE by Mark Norfolk, producer for marketing and distribution: EAVE Film Marketing Workshop 2013 graduate Eirini Nikopoulou

www.lucacurci.com

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Eyeworks tops the Ensors nominations for Flemish cinema with 23 nominations

  • Eyeworks blows the Ensors nominations for Flemish cinema with 23 nominations, eight of which for MARINA by Stijn Coninx and THE TREATMENT by Hans Herbots, and seven for THE VERDICT by Jan Verheyen. Producer of all three films is EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert. The ceremony will take place on 20 September next, as part of the Ostend Film Festival.

www.eyeworks.be

  • RUN BOY, RUN produced and directed by EAVE 1994 graduate Pepe Danquart, co-producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Hanneke van der Tas is among the 15 films that are nominated for German entry for the 87th edition of the Oscars, in the category of Best Foreign Language Film.

www.german-films.de

  • THE JAPANESE DOG by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, producer: EAVE 2008 graudate Tudor Giurgiu will represent Romania at the Academy Awards.

www.librafilm.net

  • Hungary will be submitting WHITE GOD by Kornél Mundruczó, producers: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi and EAVE 2013 graduate Eszter Gyarfas, EAVE script consultant Martin Daniel.

www.protoncinema.hu

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Eleven awards for EAVE producers in Sarajevo

  • LOS HONGOS by Oscar Ruiz Navia, co-producers: Puentes 2010 graduate Jaime Romandía, EAVE + 2013 graduate Titus Kreyenberg won the Special Prize of the Jury at the Locarno International Film Festival.

www.pardo.ch

  • DIE FRAU DES POLIZISTEN by Philip Gröning, line-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Martin Blankemeyer received a Special Mention at the Motovun Film Festival. 
  • FORCE MAJEURE (TURIST) by Ruben Östlund, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Marie Kjelsson won the FIPRESCI Prize.

www.motovunfilmfestival.com

EAVE graduates have been extremely successful at the Sarajevo Film Festival, winning 11 awards:

COMPETITION PROGRAMME – FEATURE FILM

  • HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST FEATURE FILM went to SONG OF MY MOTHER by Erol Mintas, producer: EAVE 2014 participant Asli Erdem, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille
  • SPECIAL JURY AWARD for BRIDES (PATARDZLEBI), produced and directed by EAVE 2009 graduate Tinatin Kajrishvili 
  • HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTRESS to Mari Kitia in BRIDES (PATARDZLEBI), produced and directed by EAVE 2009 graduate Tinatin Kajrishvili 
  • HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTOR for Feyyaz Duman in SONG OF MY MOTHER by Erol Mintas, producer: EAVE 2014 participant Asli Erdem, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille
  • HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST SHORT FILM was awarded to THE CHICKEN by Uma Gunjak, co-producers: EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisa Juricic and B’EST 2013 graduate Jelena Goldbach 

CINELINK AWARDS 

  • EAVE SCOLARSHIP AWARD for the 2014 European Producers Workshop went to producer Ipek Kent with the project 16 PRODUCER
  • The CNC CINELINK AWARD went to PARI by Siamak Etemadi, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Konstantinos Kontovrakis

WORK IN PROGRESS AWARDS

  • The Restart Award goes to OUR EVERYDAY LIFE by Ines Tanovic, co-producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Zdenka Gold

SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVALA PARTNERS AWARDS

  • The CINEUROPA PRIZE was awarded to THREE WINDOWS AND A HANGING by Isa Qosja, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Shkumbin Istrefi, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards 
  • The CICAE AWARD went to MACONDO by Sudabeh Mortezai, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Oliver Neumann 

DOCU ROUGH CUT BOUTIQUE AWARDS

  • SOME DAY, directed and produced by EAVE 2011 graduate Monica Monica Lazurean-Gorgan received the HBO Adria Award and the Cat&Dogs Award

www.sff.ba

  • BLIND by Eskil Vogt, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Sigve Endresen received four Amandas at at the Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund – best actress, best director, best editing and best sound design.
  • A THOUSAND TIMES GOOD NIGHT by Erik Poppe, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Lesley McKimm was awarded Best Norwegian Feature.

www.filmweb.no/filmfestivalen/

  • WHITE SHADOW by Noaz Deshe, co-producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Alexander Wadouh won the Grand Prize and the Audience Award of the New Horizons International Film Festival Wroclaw.
  • PUENTES 2011 project HISTORY OF FEAR (HISTORIA DEL MIEDO) by Benjamin Naishtat, producer: PUENTES 2011 graduate Benjamin Domenech was awarded the FIPRESCI prize. 

www.nowehoryzonty.pl

  • SUPERNOVA by Tamar van den Dop, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Raymond van der Kaaij won the Grand Jury Award of International Cinema Competition at the 8th FIRST International Film Festival Xining. 

www.revolver.nl

  • EXTRA ORDINARY by Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman, producers: EAVE 2014 participant Ailish Bracken and EAVE 2005 graduate Katie Holly won the Frontieres Pitching Award at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival. 

www.fantasiafestival.com

  •  EAVE 2010 graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen is the latest recipient of the Roos Award, Denmark’s most prestigious honour in documentary filmmaking. 

www.final-cut.dk

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JIMMY’S HALL released in 3 countries

In cinema

In French Cinemas:

  • THE GREAT MAN by Sarah Leonor, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Michel Klein was released in France in August 13.

www.lesfilmshatari.com

In Belgian Cinemas:

  • JIMMY’S HALL by Ken Loach, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney was released in Belgium on August 27.

www.elementfilms.ie

In German Cinemas:

  • HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS by Peter Chelsom, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer started in Germany on August 14.

www.egolitossell.com

  • JIMMY’S HALL by Ken Loach, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney was released in Germany on August 14.

www.elementfilms.ie

In Swiss Cinemas:

  • HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS by Peter Chelsom, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer started in Switzerland on August 28.

www.egolitossell.com

  • JIMMY’S HALL by Ken Loach, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney was released in Switzerland on August 21.

www.elementfilms.ie

In British Cinemas:

  • WHAT IF by Michael Dowse, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher was released in the UK on August 20.

www.fastnetfilms.com

  • TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert started in British cinemas on August 22.

www.eyeworks.be

  • DIE FRAU DES POLIZISTEN by Philip Gröning, line-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Martin Blankemeyer started in UK cinemas on August 22.  

www.die-frau-des-polizisten.de

In Austrian Cinemas:

  • HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS by Peter Chelsom, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer started in Austria on August 28.

www.egolitossell.com

On TV

 

  • WAS DU NICHT SIEHST by Wolfgang Fischer, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Joachim Ortmanns was broadcasted by BR on August 20.

www.lichtblick-film.de

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LAST CHANCE FOR APPLICATIONS WITHOUT PROJECT: PUENTES – EUROPE / LATIN AMERICA PRODUCERS WORKSHOP

For the sixth edition of PUENTES – Europe / Latin America Producers Workshop, there are still some last seats left for European film professionals that want to attend the programme without a project. 

European professionals interested in working with Latin America (producers, sales agents, financiers, distributors, festival programmers, co-production market representatives) can apply until September 5, 2014!

In addition to the 10 selected producers with feature films in development, they will be an active part of the group, working together on the projects over one year under the guidance of top notch consultants, on aspect of script development, the financial, co-production, marketing and distribution strategies in order to increase their knowledge abut co-production between Europe and Latin America and to extended their professional network meeting key players of the industry in Europe and Latin America.

The 2 workshops will be held in Montevideo (November 27-December 1, 2014) in partnership with Mutante Cine and Locarno (August 2015) in partnership with the Locarno International Film Festival and its Industry Days. Thanks to a special partnership, all participants involved will be able to attend VENTANA SUR (December 1-5, 2014, in Buenos Aires).

Throughout the 5 years of its existence, PUENTES has become the most relevant and successful training programme for developing European-Latin American co-production with exceptionally good results in terms of sales and distribution and festival exposure: 69% of the finalised projects developed at PUENTES got an international sales agent on board and over 84,6% of the projects have a successful festival exposure. 

Recent examples of successful PUENTES projects in terms of festivals and international distribution are HISTORIA DEL MIEDO by Benjamin Naishtat (Berlinale Competition 2014), FERIADO by Diego Araujo (Berlinale Generation 14+ 2014),TANTA AGUA by Ana Guevara & Leticia Jorge (Berlinale Panorama 2013), TRES by Pablo Stoll (Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2012) and GLORIA by Sebatian Lelio (Berlinale Competition 2013) which was sold to 29 countries world-wide. 

The participation at PUENTES is free of charge. Each participant will be offered accommodation during the workshop stay and we will cover part of the meals. In addition, we will offer a limited number of partial scholarships to contribute to the travel costs in specific cases.

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS for professionals without project: September 5, 2014.

The selection will be made by a selection committee and will be published by September 25, 2014.

Selection interviews might be held via SKYPE.

If you wish to have further information, please contact: tanika@eave.org

The complete application form and further information can be found on: www.eave.org 

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EAVE 2015 European Producers Workshop

Call for applications: EAVE 2015 European Producers Workshop - deadline September 19, 2014

EAVE, European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs, is one of the leading training and development providers for producers in Europe, renowned for its European Producers Workshop.

Who is it for?

EAVE is aimed at producers, both fiction and documentary, who are already working in the film and television industries, who wish to begin to operate on a European wide basis by increasing their knowledge of producing and co-producing in Europe and by building up a pan European professional network. We also welcome applications from associated branches of the industry - e.g. commissioning, funding, legal and finance, festivals & markets, media administration. Each year fifty participants are selected from most of the EU countries and beyond and take part in three one-week long workshops.

How does it work?

Half the participants attend the course with projects and it is an excellent means of development through intense focus on the project with colleagues and experts throughout the year. Most participants attending with a project also bring their writer for the first two weeks which enables producer and writer to benefit together from one-to-one sessions with script experts. 

During the first two workshops, in March and June, participants work within groups led by experienced producers and with several experts on script analysis, development and production financing, legal aspects of co-production, marketing, pitching, packaging and more. In the third week in October/November, around 50-60 Decision Makers (commissioning editors, national and regional media funds, sales agents, etc.) join the participants to discuss the projects, companies and careers of the participants, a process which offers unusual access to Europe's Decision Makers. 

EAVE graduates join a unique network of active European producers which forms one of the backbones of the industry. Furthermore, EAVE participants and members benefit from our partnerships with the leading European film festivals and markets where EAVE facilitates graduate participation. 

Timeline

The interviews with a pre-selection of candidates will take place in autumn 2014 and the selection will be announced in December 2014. The 3 workshops take place during March 9 - 16 in Luxembourg (LU), June (dates TBC) in Belgium and October/November (dates TBC) in Strasbourg (FR) 2015.

Deadline for APPLICATIONS: September 19, 2014

Check out: http://eave.org/programmes/european-producers-workshop-20151/ for more information and the application form or contact us! 

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B’EST - PRODUCERS’ WORKSHOP BALTIC BRIDGE EAST BY WEST

B’EST - PRODUCERS’ WORKSHOP BALTIC BRIDGE EAST BY WEST 

The call for the 3rd edition of  Baltic Bridge East by West (B’EST), a producer's workshop organized in cooperation with EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs) and with the support from Creative Europe MEDIA Programme, is now open for 12 participants - 8 with feature film projects from the European Union (4 participants) and the CIS countries, Georgia and Ukraine (4 participants), and 4 participants without projects - 3 from the EU and 1 from the CIS countries, Georgia and Ukraine.

B’EST consists of two workshops, which will take place on November 24-28, 2014, in Tallinn, within the framework of Baltic Event, and in June 2015 in Moscow within the framework of Moscow Business Square. The workshop will offer the selected participants:

  • workshop-training, which includes plenaries on the script development process, financing in the Eastern and Western Europe, legal aspects of co-production, marketing strategies, as well as individual meetings with script, pitching and finance/marketing consultants 
  • meetings with experts, decision-makers and potential co-production partners during Baltic Event in Tallinn, Estonia 
  • online sessions with the producers and tutors concerning the development of the scripts and the projects during the 6-month gap between the workshops 
  • follow-up session regarding the development of the projects and the final preparation for pitching at Moscow Business Square
  • presentation of the projects at Moscow Business Square and meetings with potential financiers, co-producers, sales agents, and distributors 

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: September 1, 2014. 

The selection will be made by a selection committee and will be published by the end of October 2014. 
Please send all the requested materials to: 

For applications from the European Union: Riina Sildos, balticevent@poff.ee 

For applications from the CIS countries and Georgia: Natalia Drozd, drozd@ctb.ru
http://eave.org/

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS for EAVE Marketing Workshop - deadline October 1

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS for EAVE Marketing Workshop - deadline October 1


November 19-23, 2014 (Luxembourg)

Don't miss the deadline for EAVE's well known Marketing Workshop for audiovisual professionals - an intensive and comprehensive exploration of the marketing process from script to screen. Join experts and colleagues to work on the latest market trends and innovative methods of marketing and audience engagement. Discuss your project with top level marketing specialists.

NEW IMPROVED HANDS-ON FORMAT!! 

Participants can now also apply with a project (documentary / fiction feature / transmedia) in any stage of development – from early development to postproduction.  

In group work sessions led by the experts, the participants (with and without projects) will work together on these projects, analyzing the sales and marketing potential and developing unique and innovative strategies for marketing, sales  and audience engagement for their films. 

During the workshop, a trailer for one of the selected projects will be edited under the guidance of the EAVE experts.

The workshop consists of group work, plenary sessions in a small group (max 30 participants), as well as private tutorials with the experts. It is targeted at producers wishing to gain a greater understanding of the marketing process both in broad terms and for individual films which in turn results in creating a successful company, as well as for people working in sales, distribution and marketing departments.  We also appreciate applications from other professionals in the industry (e.g. regional and national funding institutions) and from relevant trainers and consultants. Applicants are welcome to apply with or without a project (any stage of development and genre).

The topics covered include introduction to marketing and acquisitions, hands-on tips and tools for business to business (b2b) and business to consumer (b2c) marketing as well as audience design, mini case studies on theproducer’s point of view to marketing, an overview on the international sales process as well as how to work with festivals and publicity, an introduction to the legal aspects of sales and distribution agreements, an insight into the marketing from the distributor’ point of view, tools and ideas for online marketing and VoD, as well as for working with trailers and showreels.

The Film Marketing Workshop is led by Head of Studies Pim Hermeling (Wild Bunch Benelux Distribution), accompanied by, among others, trailer editor Fraser Bensted (Picture Production Company), marketing consultant Sarah Calderon(The Film Agency), interactive and social media consultant Dan Light (Glass Eye), producer Frans van Gestel (Topkapi Films), entertainment lawyer Joris Van Wijk (JC Van Wijk) and sales agent Susan Wendt (TrustNordisk).

Application deadline: October 1, 2014.

Application requirements and the application form can be downloaded here

Discount of the workshop fee is offered to graduates of EAVE European Producers Workshop as well as to members of the EAVE partners Europa International and Europa Distribution.


For further information, please visit www.eave.org or contact satu@eave.org 

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Upcoming deadlines

Submit your project to Les Arcs European Film Festival's Coproduction Village!

Application deadline for projects: September 27th 

Application deadline for work-in-progress: October 5th Save the date!

The sixth edition of Les Arcs European Film Festival will take place from December 13 to 20 in Les Arcs, the prestigious ski resort in Bourg-Saint Maurice, France.From December 13 to 16, the Coproduction Village will present 25 carefully selected European projects in development to the attending producers, sales agents, distributors, funders and commissioning editors.

In addition to the presented projects, 10 European films in postproduction will be selected and introduced by festival's artistic director Frédéric Boyer as part of the Work-in-progress screenings.

300 European professionals attending this 3-day event of one-on-one25 projects in development and 10 work-in-progress selected from entire EuropePre-scheduled meetings, seminars and workshopsNetworking cocktails and parties, the European Ski Cup, the Wine Oysters and Cheese session...

Information and submission here

www.lesarcs-filmfest.com

 

NISI MASA – European Network For Young Cinema 

Call for Projects for the 9th edition of EUROPEAN SHORT PITCH.

The deadline is 30th September

European Short Pitch is an initiative aimed at promoting the European coproduction of short films. It combines a scriptwriting workshop in residency and a coproduction forum bringing together scriptwriters and industry professionals from all over Europe.Selected on the basis of their short film projects, 20 European talents gather to discuss, rewrite, and learn to promote their stories on a European level with the support of 5 tutors. They eventually pitch their projects in front of a panel of 55 producers, financers, buyers, and distributors.

European Short Pitch is composed of a scriptwriting workshop in residency, a coproduction forum, and an on-line session in between:

- The scriptwriting workshop in residency will take place from the 5th till the 11th of January 2015 in Poznan, Poland.

- The on-line session (from 12th of January till 25th of February 2015) represents an opportunity for participants to rewrite their scripts following the scriptwriting workshop, and to get up to two feedback sessions from their tutors.

- The coproduction forum will take place from the 5th till the 9th of March 2015 (Place to be Confirmed)All the details and required information of the call you can find here.

The application form you can find here.

Deadline for entries: 30th of September 2014

All the communication about the event and the applications can be directed to the following address: europeanshortpitch@nisimasa.com

 

FRANCOPHONE CO-PRODUCTION MEETINGS IN PARIS 

The 11th Rencontres de Coproduction Francophone (Francophone Co-production Meetings) will take place in Paris (Forum des images), from November 24th to 26th, 2014 on the occasion of the 18th edition of « Cinema du Québec à Paris ». The RCF aim to stimulate co-productions between francophone producers (or producers who are looking for French language projects).

This year’s programme will include a case study on a recent French language co-production, a video pitching session presenting the selected projects, individual meetings with the selected projects and various networking events. 

The deadline for submitting a project is September 24, 2014.

The deadline for accreditations is October 24, 2014. 
In order to submit a project or to register, please download the registration forms here.

Only registered professionals can participate in the RCF. Please see the conditions of participation.

Further any further information, please visit: www.cinema-du-quebec.com or contact: Aube Rabourdin aube@vision-in-motion.com  / Noëmi Haire-Sievers noemi@vision-in-motion.com

 

Survey for PHD thesis: "European public policy: strategies, governance, reception. The example of European cinema funding" 

This survey is conducted in partnership with the Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes. It aims to collect anonymous informations about financing film productions and international co-productions.

The results of this survey will be used as part of the development of collaborative coproduction platform and secondly as part of a PHD thesis on the European cinema funding. Please take a few minutes to answer this survey.
http://sondage.univ-avignon.fr/index.php?sid=25861&newtest=Y&lang=en

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Survey for PHD thesis

Survey for PHD thesis: "European public policy: strategies, governance, reception. The example of European cinema funding" 

This survey is conducted in partnership with the Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes. It aims to collect anonymous informations about financing film productions and international co-productions.

The results of this survey will be used as part of the development of collaborative coproduction platform and secondly as part of a PHD thesis on the European cinema funding. Please take a few minutes to answer this survey.
http://sondage.univ-avignon.fr/index.php?sid=25861&newtest=Y&lang=en

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EAVE Newsflash – EAVE producers scoop 11 awards in Sarajevo!

We are proud to announce that EAVE graduates have been extremely successful at the this year`s Sarajevo Film Festival winning 11 of the main awards:

COMPETITION PROGRAMME – FEATURE FILM

  • HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST FEATURE FILM went to SONG OF MY MOTHER by Erol Mintas, producer: EAVE 2014 participant Asli Erdem, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille
  • SPECIAL JURY AWARD for BRIDES (PATARDZLEBI), produced and directed by EAVE 2009 graduate Tinatin Kajrishvili 
  • HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTRESS to Mari Kitia in BRIDES (PATARDZLEBI), produced and directed by EAVE 2009 graduate Tinatin Kajrishvili 
  • HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTOR for Feyyaz Duman in SONG OF MY MOTHER by Erol Mintas, producer: EAVE 2014 participant Asli Erdem, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille
  • HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST SHORT FILM was awarded to THE CHICKEN by Uma Gunjak, co-producers: EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisa Juricic and B’EST 2013 graduate Jelena Goldbach 

CINELINK AWARDS 

  • EAVE SCOLARSHIP AWARD for the 2014 European Producers Workshop went to producer Ipek Kent with the project 16 PRODUCER
  • The CNC CINELINK AWARD went to PARI by Siamak Etemadi, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Konstantinos Kontovrakis

WORK IN PROGRESS AWARDS

  • The Restart Award goes to OUR EVERYDAY LIFE by Ines Tanovic, co-producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Zdenka Gold

SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVALA PARTNERS AWARDS

  • The CINEUROPA PRIZE was awarded to THREE WINDOWS AND A HANGING by Isa Qosja, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Shkumbin Istrefi, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards 
  • The CICAE AWARD went to MACONDO by Sudabeh Mortezai, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Oliver Neumann 

DOCU ROUGH CUT BOUTIQUE AWARDS

  • SOME DAY, directed and produced by EAVE 2011 graduate Monica Monica Lazurean-Gorgan received the HBO Adria Award and the Cat&Dogs Award

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Special for EAVE Producers: Independent Film Week

Dear EAVE producers,

We are happy to announce our new partnership with the Independent Filmmaker Project in the framework of the Independent Film Week. 

Independent Film Week is the oldest and largest forum in the US for the discovery of new projects in development and new voices on the independent film scene, and will take place as usual following the Toronto Film Festival, in New York City. 

Independent Film Week is the culmination of all we do at IFP and is the destination for storytellers in all mediums to connect with industry and peers to further advance their projects in an environment that promotes community, growth, and career sustainability. Filmmakers, content creators, innovators, and audiences come out in force to experience first-hand the expanded opportunities IFP has been working to provide the international film and media community.

Film Week encompasses the Filmmaker Conference, and the concurrent Project Forum that both showcase how great projects and creatives can connect with collaborators and audiences to make work that stands out in a crowded marketplace across multiple platforms and mediums.

Each day of the conference guides filmmakers in the art, technology and business of independent filmmaking. Project Forum has had a prolific history in the independent community supporting both emerging and established independent filmmakers at critical stages in their development processes. The organization championed the early work of pioneering independent filmmakers Charles Burnett, Todd Haynes, Mira Nair, Michael Moore, Joel and Ethan Coen, Kevin Smith, Todd Solondz, and Wayne Wang. Recently, it has also played a vital role in launching the first films of many of today’s rising stars on the independent scene including Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild), Debra Granik, (Down to the Bone) Miranda July (Me, You and Everyone We Know), and Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden (Half Nelson).

The Independent Film Week will take place during September 14-18, 2014 in New York City.

Special for EAVE producers: EAVE and IFP offer the opportunity for 3 EAVE producers to be registered for free at the Independent Film Week.

Please let us know if you are interested, by e-mail: tina@eave.org, no later than August 18.

For more information please visit: http://www.ifp.org/programs/independent-film-week

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PUENTES project SUCH IS LIFE IN THE TROPICS secured financing from Ecuador and Germany

Eurimages is spending 8,3 M Euro for 23 European co-productions. Among them are the following projects by EAVE graduates:

  • CHRIS THE SWISS by Anja Kofmel, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisa Juricic 
  • LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT by Jaco Van Dormael, producers: EAVE 1991 and EAVE Plus 2013 graduate Paul Thiltges and EAVE 2011 and EAVE+ 2013 graduate David Grumbach 
  • LOUDER THAN BOMBS by Joachim Trier, executive producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Sigve Endresen
  • NEULICH DIE REISE MIT MEINEM VATER by Anca M. Dunga, producer: Ties That Bind 2011 graduate David Lindner
  • RODINNY FILM by Olmo Omerzu, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jiri Konecny

www.coe.int/EURIMAGES

The World Cinema Fund (WCF) jury made their selection out of 126 submissions from a total of 43 countries and awarded production funds totalling 145,000 €. Two selected films are produced by EAVE graduates.

  • BLACK SUNSHINE by Akosua Adoma Owusu, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Ingrid Lill Hogtun
  • MONOS by Alejandro Landes and Alexis Dos Santos, producer: EAVE+ 2014 graduate and Puentes Group Leader Fernando Epstein

www.berlinale.de

34 film projects have received funding totaling €8.5m from the budget of the new Netherlands Film Production Incentive. Some 21 of the 34 successful applicants are international co-productions of feature films and documentaries, in which a Dutch producer has a majority or minority stake. The productions include the following projects by EAVE graduates:

  • ANDRÉ HAZES, THE BIOPIC by Diederick Koopal, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Léontine Petit
  • COMING TO CROOSWIJK by Jelle de Jonge, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert
  • EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO by Peter Greenaway, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Daniel Lamberts
  • FAMILY WEEKEND by Pieter van Rijn, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert
  • LOVE & FRIENDSHIP by Whit Stillman, producers: EAVE 2005 graduate Katie Holly, EAVE 2005 graduate Raymond van der Kaaij
  • MAMMAL by Rebecca Daly, producers: EAVE 2008 graduate Morgan Bushe and EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher, co-produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Reinier Selen
  • PREJUDICE by Antoine Cuypers, co-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Bernard Michaux
  • SCHONE HANDEN by Tjebbo Penning, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert
  • THE LOBSTER by Yorgos Lanthimos, producers: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney, EAVE 1995 graduate Léontine Petit
  • THE NIGHT OF A THOUSAND HOURS by Virgil Widrich, producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
  • THE SURPRISE by Mike van Diem, co-producers: EAVE 2008 graduate Morgan Bushe and EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher
  • THREE MANY WEDDINGS by Anna van der Heide, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert
  • WALDSTILLE by Martijn Maria Smits, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate Stienette Bosklopper, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Tomas Leyers

 

www.filmfund.nl

  • BETRAYAL – THE STORY OF MR. ZHANG by Jiongjiong Qiu, producer: Ties That Bind 2013 graduate Lihong Kong has received the financial support for production and post-production from Sundance Doc Fund.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152331427833515.1073741870.7148723514&type=1

  • EAVE Puentes 2013 project SIN MUERTOS NO HAY CARNAVAL (SUCH IS LIFE IN THE TROPICS) by Sebastián Cordero, producer: Arturo Yépez secured 1 M USD in Ecuador and received support from the MDM-Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung.

www.mdm-online.de/index.php?id=9&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=748&cHash=da6950aa7f1aad2dcd991ec13c033139

  • REPORTER by Magdalena Szymkow, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Anna Wydra is co-producing a documentary based on found footage. The documentary will be a portrait of reporter and writer Ryszard Kapuscinski through found footage of his own, including home movies. It reflects his creative struggles, showing both his failures and his successes. The Polish-UK co-production received development funding from MEDIA and funding from the Polish Cultural Institute, and has 80 hours of footage. 

www.otterfilms.pl

  • Croatia announced grants for minority co-productions. USTRAJNOST by Miha Knific, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisa Juricic is among the funded films.

www.nukleus-film.hr

  • A REAL VAN MEEGEREN by Rudolf van den Berg, producers: EAVE 2010 graduate Reinier Selen, EAVE 1999 graduate Donnato Rotunno and EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisa Juricic is in development. This story is about Han van Meegeren, often called “one of the greatest art forgers of the Twentieth Century”. He was renowned for his fake Vermeers and for his forgeries of work by Seventeenth Century Dutch masters. The film with a budget of 3.6 M € is financed by the Netherlands Film Fund. Shooting is planned for Summer 2015.

www.rinkelfilm.com

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EAVE producers shooting in Austria, Belgium, Romania and Ireland

Austrian Golden Girls Filmproduction has three films in production this summer:

 

  • WE WERE HERE by Stephan Richter, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Arash T. Riahi. The film portrays a suburb cosmos and a young generation in search of identity and recognition. Supported by Österreichisches Filminstitut, ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen, Filmstandort Österreich, Filmfonds Wien, Land Niederösterreich.
  • VORLAUT by The Riahi Brothers, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Arash T. Riahi. The feature documentary accompanies socially disadvantaged children through their difficult and sometimes confusing life - shown from their own perspective. A movie about being a child, integration, the power of music and the possible future of our society.Supported by Österreichisches Filminstitut, Filmstandort Österreich, Erste Stiftung, Hilti Foundation.
  • KORIDA by Sinisa Vidovic, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Arash T. Riahi. The feature documentary follows three protagonists on their touching journey through the fascinating world of Bosnian bullfights, the Koridas. It is a world enwrought with myths and heroic tales which has hardly been captured on film up to now. Supported by Österreichisches Filminstitut, ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen, Filmstandort Österreich, Land Oberösterreich, Cine Art.

 

www.goldengirls.at

 

  • BEE LUCKY by Philippe de Pierpont, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Isabelle Truc is shooting. The leading role will be perfomed by Arthur Buyssens in the role of Bert and Martin Nissen in the role of Lucas. The shooting of the second feature film by Philippe de Pierpont started on July 28 in Belgium. 
  • HORS CADRE, the debut film by Guillaume Senez also produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Isabelle Truc, is shooting in the area of Braine L'Alleud. 

www.iotaproduction.com


  • PREJUDICE by Antoine Cuypers, co-producers: EAVE 2010 graduate Benoît Roland , EAVE 2010 graduate Bernard Michaux and EAVE 2010 graduate Sander Verdonk,  started shooting. Between denial and paranoia, revolt and false pretences, how far is a family willing to go to keep its equilibrium? When must it start to suppress the right to be different? 

www.lucil.lu


  • AFERIM! by Radu Jude, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon, EAVE 2007 graduate Jiri Konecny is in production. AFERIM! is set in the 19th century. The story revolves around a regional policeman, Costandin, who is hired by a local boyar to find Carfin, a Gypsy slave who had run away from his estate after having an affair with the boyar’s wife. The film mixes elements of a picaresque novel with elements of a classic American Western. The shooting of the €1.25 million project is expected to wrap at the end of the month.

www.hifilm.ro

 

  • THE SURPRISE by Mike van Diem, co-producer: 2008 graduate Morgan Bushe is in production. After two months of shooting in Ireland, Germany and Belgium, Academy Award-winning Dutch writer/director Mike van Diem is due to wrap his romantic thriller. The €4.6 million movie is produced as an European co-production,  the production received €500,000 from Eurimages as well as production support in Germany that included €200,000 from Nordmedia and €100,000 from the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.

www.fastnetfilms.com

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EAVE project DUST CLOTH now in post-production

  • EAVE 2013 project DUST CLOTH, producer EAVE 2013 graduate Nesra Gürbüz just finished shooting. The content: two cleaning women; relationship with people they work for; hierarchy within their friendship; survival; motherhood; womanhood and poverty. They travel between ghettos of Istanbul and city lights; try to understand life and survive; in their own ways. 

http://retfilm.com/en/

  • EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO by Peter Greenaway, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Daniel Lamberts is in post-production. In the center of the film is Sergei Eistenstein’s visit to Hollywood and Mexico in the early 1930s and his love affair with his Guanajuato guide and minder. The budget is €4M. Support comes from the Netherlands Film Fund. Locations: Guanajuato, Mexico.

www.potemkino.com

  • BRABANÇONNE by Vincent Bal, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert,  co-producers EAVE 1992 graduate and Head of Studies Jani Thiltges and EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum , is in post-production. The story of a “fight” between a Wallonian marching band and a Flemish one is supported by Screen Flanders. The film is co-produced with support from VAF, CCA and Screen Flanders. 

www.screenflanders.be

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EAVE projects LOVE ETERNAL and MONUMENT TO MICHAEL JACKSON in festivals around the world

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 4 - 12)

Competition

  • ADVENTURE by Nariman Turebayev, producers: EAVE 2008 graduate and Russian National Coordinator Anna Katchko, EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille
  • CORN ISLAND von George Ovashvili, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille
  • FREE FALL by György Pálfi, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Ferenc Pusztai
  • NOWHERE IN MORAVIA by Miroslav Krobot, producer: Film Finance Forum 2012 graduate Ondrej Zima
  • PARIS OF THE NORTH by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille

East of the West – Competition

  • AFTERLIFE by Virág Zomborácz, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Ferenc Pusztai
  • EAVE 2011 project MONUMENT TO MICHAEL JACKSON by Darko Lungulov, producers: EAVE 2011 graduate Snezana Penev and EAVE 2011 graduate Aneta Lesnikovska  

Horizons

  • AMOUR FOU by Jessica Hausner, producer: Film Finance Forum 2012 graduate André Fetzer, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
  • PUENTES 2011 project HISTORY OF FEAR (HISTORIA DEL MIEDO) by Benjamin Naishtat, producer: PUENTES 2011 participant Benjamin Domenech
  • THE WONDERS by Alice Rohrwacher, EAVE+ 2013 graduate Carlo Cresto-Dina  Another View
  • CANNIBAL by Manuel Martin Cuenca, co-producers: EAVE graduates Tudor and EAVE 2011 graduate Oana Giurgiu
  • FRANK by Lenny Abrahamson, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney
  • FREE RANGE by Veiko Õunpuu, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa
  • JAUJA by Lisandro Alonso, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Helle Ulsteen Violet
  • THE WORD by Anna Kazejak, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Lukasz Dzieciol
  • XENIA by Panos Koutras, producers: EAVE 2010 graduate Alexandra Boussiou, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye 

Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now!

  • BLIND by Eskil Vogt, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Sigve Endresen
  • BLIND DATES by Levan Koguashvili, co-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Olena Yershova
  • INSECURE by Marianne Tardieu, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Céline Maugis
  • MACONDO by Sudabeh Mortezai, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Oliver Neumann  
  • WHITE SHADOW by Noaz Deshe, co-producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Alexander Wadouh 

Documentary Films – Out of Competition

  • EUGENIC MINDS by Pavel Štingl, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jirí Konecný
  • LOVE & ENGINEERING y Tonislav Hristov, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Kaarle Aho 

www.kviff.com/en

 

Jerusalem Film Festival (July 10 - 20)

  • 40 DAYS OF SILENCE by Saodat Ismailova, producers: EAVE 2006 graduate Denis Vaslin, EAVE 2007 graduate Jean des Forêts, EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
  • CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE by Wim Wenders, Michael Glawogger, Michael Madsen, Robert Redford, Margreth Olin, Karim Aïnouz, producers: EAVE 2010 graduate Gian-Piero Ringel and EAVE 2011 graduate Erwin M. Schmidt, co-produced by EAVE 2011 graduate Anne Köhncke, EAVE 2010 graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen
  • FRANK by Lenny Abrahamson, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney
  • FREE RANGE by Veiko Õunpuu, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa
  • OKTOBER NOVEMBER by Götz Spielmann, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Antonin Svoboda
  • THE WONDERS by Alice Rohrwacher, EAVE+ 2013 graduate Carlo Cresto-Dina
  • TO KILL A MAN by Alejandro Fernández Almendras, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille 

www.jff.org.il

Revelations Perth Film Festival  (July 3 – 13)

  • CONCRETE NIGHT by Pirjo Honkasalo, producers: EAVE 2012 graduate Mark Lwoff & EAVE 2009 graduate Misha Jaari, EAVE group leader Lise Lense-Møller & EAVE 2009 graduate Cecilia Valsted
  • FEUCHTGEBIETE by David Wnendt, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and EAVE group leader Peter Rommel
  • THE CONGRESS by Ari Folman, producers: EAVE 2011 graduate David Grumbach and EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum
  • THE LAST HIJACK by Tommy Pallotta and Femke Wolting, producers: EAVE 2008 graduate Nicky Gogan, EAVE 2009 graduate Verona Meier.

www.revelationfilmfest.org

 

Galway Film Fleadh (July 8 – 13)

  • GET UP AND GO by Brendan Grant, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher
  • GLASSLAND by Gerard Barrett, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney
  • ONE MILLION DUBLINERS by AOIFE KELLEHER, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Rachel Lysaght
  • PATRICKS DAY by Terry McMaho, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Rachel Lysaght
  • PUENTES 2011 project HISTORY OF FEAR (HISTORIA DEL MIEDO) by Benjamin Naishtat, producer: PUENTES 2011 participant Benjamin Domenech
  • STANDING ASIDE, WATCHING by Yorgos Servetas, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Konstantinos Kontovrakis
  • THE CANAL, written and directed by Ivan Kavanagh, producer: EAVE Film Finance Forum 2011 graduate AnneMarie Naughton, co-produced by EAVE 2010 graduate Sander Verdonk, executive produced by EAVE 1993 graduate Robert Walpole
  • VIOLET by Bas Devos, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Tomas Leyers
  • FEUCHTGEBIETE by David Wnendt, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and EAVE group leader Peter Rommel
  • WHITE SHADOW by Noaz Deshe, co-producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Alexander Wadouh 

Following EAVE producers are selected to Galway via the EAVE partnership with the festival:

  • EAVE 2013 graduate Alexandra Hoesdorff (deal productions) - Luxembourg
  • Film Finance Forum 2012 graduate Lali Kiknavelidze (CPU Lira Production) – Georgia
  • EAVE 2014 participant Matthias Nerlich (LITTLE KONG FILMS)– Germany
  • EAVE 2012 graduate Marios Piperides (AMP Filmworks)– Cyprus
  • EAVE 2014 participant, Film Marketing Workshop 2011 and  Film Finance Forum 2012 graduate Matija Radeljak (Aning Film)– Croatia
  • EAVE 2012 graduates Annemiek van der Hell (Windmill Film)– The Netherlands

www.galwayfilmfleadh.com

 

Odessa International Film Festival (July 11 - 19)

  • BLIND DATES by Levan Koguashvili, co-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Olena Yershova
  • I AM NOT HIM by Tayfun Pirselimoglu, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille
  • LOVE ME by Maryna Er Gorbach, Mehmet Bahadir Er, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Olena Yershova
  • ROXANNE by Valentin Hotea, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon
  • TO KILL A MAN by Alejandro Fernández Almendras, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille 

www.oiff.com.ua

 

Freiburg Filmfest  (July 24 – August 3)

  • HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS by Peter Chelsom, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer
  • JIMMY’S HALL by Ken Loach, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney

www.filmfest-freiburg.de

 

European Film Festival Palic  (July 19 – 25)

  • BLIND DATES by Levan Koguashvili, co-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Olena Yershova
  • FREE FALL by György Pálfi, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Ferenc Pusztai
  • FREE RANGE by Veiko Õunpuu, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa
  • HISTORIA DE LA MEVA MORT (STORY OF MY DEATH) by Albert Serra, production manager: EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac
  • I AM NOT HIM by Tayfun Pirselimoglu, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille
  • IN BLOOM by Aana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille
  • THE BRIDGES OF SARAJEVO by Aida Begic, Leonardo di Costanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergei Losnitza, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perisic, Chisti Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec, Teresa Villaverde, producer: EAVE+ 2013 graduate Titus Kreyenberg¨
  • THE WONDERS by Alice Rohrwacher, EAVE+ 2013 graduate Carlo Cresto-Dina
  • TURIST by Ruben Östlund, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Marie Kjelsson
  • WHITE GOD by Kornél Mundruczó, producers: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi and EAVE 2013 graduate Eszter Gyarfas, EAVE script consultant Martin Daniel

www.palicfilmfestival.com

 

Pula International Film Festival (July 12 - 26)

  • AMOUR FOU by Jessica Hausner, producer: Film Finance Forum 2012 graduate André Fetzer, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
  • CONCRETE NIGHT by Pirjo Honkasalo, producers: EAVE 2012 graduate Mark Lwoff & EAVE 2009 graduate Misha Jaari, EAVE group leader Lise Lense-Møller & EAVE 2009 graduate Cecilia Valsted
  • EAVE 2011 project MONUMENT TO MICHAEL JACKSON by Darko Lungulov, producers: EAVE 2011 graduate Snezana Penev and EAVE 2011 graduate Aneta Lesnikovska
  • FREE FALL by György Pálfi, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Ferenc Pusztai Japanese Dog
  • JIMMY’S HALL by Ken Loach, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney
  • EAVE 2008 project LOVE ETERNAL, written and directed by Brendan Muldowney, producers EAVE 2010 graduate Conor Barry, EAVE 2004 graduate Morgan Bushe and EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher
  • SEPARATION by Nina Violic, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Zdenka Gold
  • THE BRIDGES OF SARAJEVO by Aida Begic, Leonardo di Costanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergei Losnitza, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perisic, Chisti Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec, Teresa Villaverde, producer: EAVE+ 2013 graduate Titus Kreyenberg
  • THE CHICKEN by Una Gunjak, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Siniša Juricic
  • THE REAPER by Zvonimir Juric, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ankica Juric Tilic 
  • TOGETHER by Daniel Kušan, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ankica Juric Tilic 
  • VELVET TERRORISTS by Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarcík, Peter Kerekes, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Siniša Juricic

www.pulafilmfestival.hr

 

New Horizons Festival Wroclaw (July 24 – August 3)

  • AMOUR FOU by Jessica Hausner, producer: Film Finance Forum 2012 graduate André Fetzer, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
  • BOY EATING THE BIRD’S FOOD by Ektoras Lygizos, executive producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Konstantinos Kontovrakis
  • CHILD’S POSE by Calin Peter Netzer, producers: EAVE 2007 graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon and EAVE 2011 graduate Oana Giurgiu
  • DIE FRAU DES POLIZISTEN by Philip Gröning, line-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Martin Blankemeyer
  • FREE FALL by György Pálfi, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Ferenc Pusztai
  • HISTORIA DE LA MEVA MORT (STORY OF MY DEATH) by Albert Serra, production manager: EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac
  • I AM NOT HIM by Tayfun Pirselimoglu, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille
  • JAUJA by Lisandro Alonso, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Helle Ulsteen
  • L'INCONNU DU LAC by Alain Guiraudie, co-producer: EAVE Film Finance Forum 2010 graduate Jean-Laurent Csinidis
  • PUENTES 2011 project HISTORY OF FEAR (HISTORIA DEL MIEDO) by Benjamin Naishtat, producer: PUENTES 2011 participant Benjamin Domenech
  • THE LAST OF THE UNJUST by Claude Lanzmann, production: EAVE 1992 graduate and group leader Danny Krausz
  • TO KILL A MAN by Alejandro Fernández Almendras, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille
  • REFUGIADO by Diego Lerman, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Oliver Damian
  • SHIRLEY -VISIONS OF REALITY by Gustav Deutsch, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder
  • EAVE 2010 project THE ACT OF KILLING by Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen and EAVE 2011 graduate Anne Köhncke
  • THE WONDERS by Alice Rohrwacher, EAVE+ 2013 graduate Carlo Cresto-Dina
  • TURIST by Ruben Östlund, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Marie Kjelsson
  • UNFAIR WORLD by Filippos Tsitos, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Alexandra Boussiou
  • VIOLET by Bas Devos, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Tomas Leyers
  • WHITE GOD by Kornél Mundruczó, producers: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi and EAVE 2013 graduate Eszter Gyarfas, EAVE script consultant Martin Daniel
  • WHITE SHADOW by Noaz Deshe, co-producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Alexander Wadouh
  • XENIA by Panos Koutras, producers: EAVE 2010 graduate Alexandra Boussiou, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye
  • EAVE 2011 Project THE HERE AFTER by Magnus von Horn, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Mariusz Wlodarski, co-produced by EAVE 2011 graduate Sophie Erbs was presented in the Works in Progress section during the Polish Days @ the 14th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival.

www.nowehoryzonty.pl

 

Durban International Film Festival (July 18 – 28)

  • AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF AN IRON PICKER by Danis Tanovic, producers: EAVE National Coordinator Bosnia and Herzegovina Amra Baksic-Camo and EAVE group leader Danijel Hocevar
  • BLIND by Eskil Vogt, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Sigve Endresen
  • THE CONGRESS by Ari Folman, producers: EAVE 2011 graduate David Grumbach and EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum
  • FRANK by Lenny Abrahamson, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney
  • THE LUNCHBOX by Ritesh Batra, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Karsten Stöter  
  • WHITE SHADOW by Noaz Deshe, co-producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Alexander Wadouh
  • JEANNE D'ARC MASRIYA by Iman Kamel, producer EAVE 2013 graduate Talal Al-Muhanna is selected for 2014 edition of Durban FilmMart

www.cca.ukzn.ac.za




FID International Film Festival of Marseille (July 2 - 8)

  • MITCH – THE DIARY OF THE SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENT by Damir Cucic and Misel Skoric, producer: Nukleus film Croatia

www.fidmarseille.org

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Five filmy by EAVE graduates nominated for the LUX Prize

The European Parliament announced the finalists of this year’s LUX Prize official selection at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Five EAVE graduates were nominated:

 

  • MACONDO by Sudabeh Mortezai, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Oliver Neumann
  • THE WONDERS by Alice Rohrwacher, EAVE+ 2013 graduate Carlo Cresto-Dina
  • TURIST by Ruben Östlund, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Marie Kjelsson
  • WHITE GOD by Kornél Mundruczó, producers: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi and EAVE 2013 graduate Eszter Gyarfas, EAVE script consultant Martin Daniel
  • XENIA by Panos Koutras, producers: EAVE 2010 graduate Alexandra Boussiou, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye 

 

Three films out of the ten in the Official Selection will run for the Official Competition, which will be announced at the Venice Days press conference in Rome. The LUX Prize 2014 winner, voted by Members of the European Parliament, will be awarded on 17 December in Strasbourg.

www.luxprize.eu/v1

  • JEANNE D’ARC MASRIYA by EAVE PCP 2007 graduate Iman Kamel was selected for the 2014 edition of Durban FilmMart, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Talal Al-Muhanna.

www.linkedproductions.com

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CORN ISLAND and FREE FALL win main awards at Karlovy Vary

  • CORN ISLAND von George Ovashvili, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille won the Crystal Globe as the best film in the Main Competition of the 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The film was also awarded the Ecumenical Jury Award.
  • FREE FALL by György Pálfi, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Ferenc Pusztai won the Special Jury Prize, the Best Director Award and the Europa Cinemas Label Award.
  • Slovak director Ivan Ostrochovsky’s feature film debut project GOAT, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Jiri Konecny was the popular winner of the Works in Progress Award.

www.kviff.com

  • FIG TREE by Alamork Marsh, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Saar Yogev won the top prize at the pitching event of Sam Spiegel School’s Jerusalem International Film Lab. Saar Yogev and Naomi Levari of Black Sheep Productions are producing the film which they plan to shoot in Ethiopia.

www.bsheepfilms.com

  • FREE RANGE by Veiko Õunpuu, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa won the Best Film Award in the Parallels and Encounters programme of the European Film Festival Palic.
  • TURIST by Ruben Östlund, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Marie Kjelsson received a Special Mention.

www.palicfilmfestival.com

 

  • GLASSLAND by Gerard Barrett, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney and PATRICKS DAY by Terry McMaho, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Rachel Lysaght shared the prize for Best Irish Feature at the 26th Galway Film Fleadh
  • ONE MILLION DUBLINERS by Aoife Kelleher, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Rachel Lysaght was awarded Best Irish Feature Documentary
  • THE CANAL, written and directed by Ivan Kavanagh, producer: EAVE Film Finance Forum 2011 graduate AnneMarie Naughton, co-produced by EAVE 2010 graduate Sander Verdonk, executive produced by EAVE 1993 graduate Robert Walpole won the Bingham Ray New Talent Award at the Irish festival.

 

www.galwayfilmfleadh.com

  • CONCRETE NIGHT by Pirjo Honkasalo, producers: EAVE 2012 graduate Mark Lwoff & EAVE 2009 graduate Misha Jaari, EAVE group leader Lise Lense-Møller & EAVE 2009 graduate Cecilia Valsted won the Golden Arena for Best Feature Film at the Pula Film Festival. 
  • THE REAPER by Zvonimir Juric, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ankica Juric Tilic scooped the Golden Arenas for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Cinematography, and the Oktavijan Award by the Croation Film Critics
  • AMOUR FOU by Jessica Hausner, producer: Film Finance Forum 2012 graduate André Fetzer, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu received a Special Mention

www.pulafilmfestival.hr

  • BLIND DATES by Levan Koguashvili, co-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Olena Yershova won Best film award at the Odessa International Film Festival.

www.oiff.com.ua

  • THE BRIDGES OF SARAJEVO by Aida Begic, Leonardo di Costanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergei Losnitza, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perisic, Chisti Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec, ,Teresa Villaverde, producer: EAVE+ graduate Titus Kreyenberg wins the Audience Award at the Pesarofilmfest.

www.pesarofilmfest.it

  • DANCE WITH A BULLET by Dhyaa Kaled Joda, Executive & Co-producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Talal Al-Muhanna  has been awarded the SEEN Films editing prize at the Ismailiya International Documentary Film Festival Coproduction Market 

www.storyhousefilm.com

  • THE WONDERS by Alice Rohrwacher, producer: EAVE+ 2013 graduate Carlo Cresto-Dina won the CineVision Award, one of the main prizes of the Filmfest München 
  • WHITE SHADOW by Noaz Deshe, co-producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Alexander Wadouh received an Honorable Mention.

www.filmfest-muenchen.de

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EAVE PUENTES project TANTA AGUA (SO MUCH WATER) in French cinemas

In Cinema

 

In Belgian Cinemas:

  • A THOUSAND TIMES GOOD NIGHT by Erik Poppe, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Lesley McKimm: Dutch release July 24, Swedish release July 25 and Belgian release July 30.

www.newgrangepictures.com

  • MY SWEET PEPPER LAND by Hiner Saleem, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Karsten Stöter started in Belgian Theatres on July 30.

www.rohfilm.de

  • DIE FRAU DES POLIZISTEN by Philip Gröning, line-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Martin Blankemeyer can be seen in Belgium since July 16.

www.die-frau-des-polizisten.de

 

In French Cinemas:

  • JIMMY’S HALL by Ken Loach, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney started in French cinemas on July 2.

www.elementpictures.ie

  • ARAF – SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN by Yesim Ustaoglu, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Serkan Çakarer: French release on July 2.

www.ustaoglufilm.com

  • CIRCLES by Srdan Golubovic, co-producer: EAVE group leader Danijel Hocevar had its French release on July 9.

www.emotionfilm.si

  • PUENTES 2011 project TANTA AGUA (SO MUCH WATER) by Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge, producer: PUENTES 2011 graduate Agustina Chiarino, co-producer: PUENTES-AUSTRALAB 2012 graduate Tania Zarak started in France on July 16.

www.controlzfilms.com

  • THE BRIDGES OF SARAJEVO by Aida Begic, Leonardo di Costanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergei Losnitza, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perisic, Chisti Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec, Teresa Villaverde, producer: EAVE+ 2013 graduate Titus Kreyenberg was reelased in France on July 16.

www.unafilm.de

 

In UK Cinemas:

  • A STREET IN PALERMO by Emma Dante, producers: Interchange 2010 graduate Marta Donzelli, EAVE 1991 graduate Andres Pfaeffli started in UK cinemas on July 9.

www.venturafilm.ch

  • COSTA DA MORTE (COAST OF DEATH) by Lois Patino, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Felipe Lage Coro had its British release on July 25.

www.zeitunfilms.com

  • GRAND CENTRAL by Rebecca Zlotowski, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder started in the UK on July 18.

www.kgp.co.at

 

In Dutch Cinemas:

  • HELI by Amat Escalante, co-produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Léontine Petit started in Dutch cinemas on July 24.

www.lemmingfilm.com

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EAVE 2015 European Producers Workshop

Call for applications: EAVE 2015 European Producers Workshop - deadline September 19, 2014

EAVE, European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs, is one of the leading training and development providers for producers in Europe, renowned for its European Producers Workshop.

Who is it for?

EAVE is aimed at producers, both fiction and documentary, who are already working in the film and television industries, who wish to begin to operate on a European wide basis by increasing their knowledge of producing and co-producing in Europe and by building up a pan European professional network. We also welcome applications from associated branches of the industry - e.g. commissioning, funding, legal and finance, festivals & markets, media administration. Each year fifty participants are selected from most of the EU countries and beyond and take part in three one-week long workshops.

How does it work?

Half the participants attend the course with projects and it is an excellent means of development through intense focus on the project with colleagues and experts throughout the year. Most participants attending with a project also bring their writer for the first two weeks which enables producer and writer to benefit together from one-to-one sessions with script experts. 

During the first two workshops, in March and June, participants work within groups led by experienced producers and with several experts on script analysis, development and production financing, legal aspects of co-production, marketing, pitching, packaging and more. In the third week in October/November, around 50-60 Decision Makers (commissioning editors, national and regional media funds, sales agents, etc.) join the participants to discuss the projects, companies and careers of the participants, a process which offers unusual access to Europe's Decision Makers. 

EAVE graduates join a unique network of active European producers which forms one of the backbones of the industry. Furthermore, EAVE participants and members benefit from our partnerships with the leading European film festivals and markets where EAVE facilitates graduate participation. 

Timeline

The interviews with a pre-selection of candidates will take place in autumn 2014 and the selection will be announced in December 2014. The 3 workshops take place during March 9 - 16 in Luxembourg (LU), June (dates TBC) in Belgium and October/November (dates TBC) in Strasbourg (FR) 2015.

Deadline for APPLICATIONS: September 19, 2014

Check out: http://eave.org/programmes/european-producers-workshop-20151/ for more information and the application form or contact us! 

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PUENTES – EUROPE / LATIN AMERICA PRODUCERS WORKSHOP 2014:  CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

PUENTES – EUROPE / LATIN AMERICA PRODUCERS WORKSHOP 2014:  CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS


The call for applications for the sixth edition of PUENTES – Europe / Latin America Producers Workshop is now open until August 15, 2014. Throughout the 5 years of its existence, PUENTES has become the most relevant and successful training programme for developing European-Latin American co-production with exceptionally good results in terms of sales and distribution and festival exposure: 69% of the finalised projects developed at PUENTES got an international sales agent on board and over 84,6% of the projects have a successful festival exposure. 

Recent examples of successful PUENTES projects in terms of festivals and international distribution are HISTORIA DEL MIEDO by Benjamin Naishtat (Berlinale Competition 2014), FERIADO by Diego Araujo (Berlinale Generation 14+ 2014), TANTA AGUA by Ana Guevara & Leticia Jorge (Berlinale Panorama 2013), TRES by Pablo Stoll (Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2012) and GLORIA by Sebatian Lelio (Berlinale Competition 2013) which was sold to 29 countries world-wide. 

All the above mentioned projects had been selected for the PUENTES / Europe Latin America Producers Workshop, where the projects were developed over one year by the attending producers under the guidance of top notch consultants, working on the script development, the financial, co-production, marketing and distribution strategies and where the producers extended their professional network meeting key players of the industry in Europe and Latin America.

New features in 2014/2015:

PUENTES is targeted at Latin American & European producers with projects, 10 of which will be selected for the workshop. We are now opening the call in addition also to other European professionals interested in working with Latin America (sales agents, financiers, distributors, festival programmers, co-production market representatives) or producers without project. 4 of them will be selected to be an active part of the group.

The 2 workshops will be held in Montevideo (November 27-December 1, 2014) in partnership with Mutante Cine and Locarno (August 2015) in partnership with the Locarno International Film Festival and its Industry Days. Thanks to a special partnership, all participants involved will be able to attend VENTANA SUR (December 1-5, 2014, in Buenos Aires).

Target group:

  • Experienced feature film producers in their own countries wishing to work on an international scale and to create long term creative and business relationships between Europe and Latin America. Interested producers should apply with a feature film project in development stage. European producers applying must be able to demonstrate a clear involvement with Latin America and vice versa. 
  • Related European film professionals (such as sales agents, distributors, festival and market representatives, financiers) or producers coming without project and wishing to work on an international scale and to create long term creative and business relationships with Latin America

Project criteria:

  • feature-length fiction film (for theatrical release)
  • projects suitable for an international co-production and looking for co-producers
  • projects suggested by European applicants should have a link to Latin America (thematic, cultural, technical) and the producer should be motivated to work with / in Latin America and vice versa
  • projects suggested should have a potential for co-production
  • applicants with a project must be the lead producer of the submitted project
  • producers must have completed at least one film released theatrically in the last 3 years
  • 1st draft of the script should be available in English for the first workshop and at the latest by October 15, 2014.

Application documents:

  • Completed Application Form (available for download on www.eave.org)
  • 1 page Letter of Motivation concerning your participation at the workshop- 1-2 page CV of the Producer and the Director
  • Brief description of the production company
  • A list of the company's productions: in development, pre-production, production and of those released
  • 1 page Note of Intention of the Producer and 1 page Note of Intention of the Director concerning the development of your project
  • 1 page Synopsis- 8-10 pages Treatment

Scripts are to be sent only on request, but should be ready for the first workshop by October 15.All documents have to be sent in English – the working language of the workshop will be English.

Participation fees & conditions:

The participation at PUENTES is free of charge. Each participant will be offered accommodation during the workshop stay and we will cover part of the meals. In addition, we will offer a limited number of partial scholarships to contribute to the travel costs in specific cases.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: August 15, 2014
The selection will be made by a selection committee and will be published by September 25, 2014.

Selection interviews might be held via SKYPE.

If you wish to have further information, please contact: tanika@eave.org 

www.eave.org 

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B’EST - PRODUCERS’ WORKSHOP BALTIC BRIDGE EAST BY WEST

B’EST - PRODUCERS’ WORKSHOP BALTIC BRIDGE EAST BY WEST 

The call for the 3rd edition of  Baltic Bridge East by West (B’EST), a producer's workshop organized in cooperation with EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs) and with the support from Creative Europe MEDIA Programme, is now open for 12 participants - 8 with feature film projects from the European Union (4 participants) and the CIS countries, Georgia and Ukraine (4 participants), and 4 participants without projects - 3 from the EU and 1 from the CIS countries, Georgia and Ukraine.

B’EST consists of two workshops, which will take place on November 24-28, 2014, in Tallinn, within the framework of Baltic Event, and in June 2015 in Moscow within the framework of Moscow Business Square. The workshop will offer the selected participants:

  • workshop-training, which includes plenaries on the script development process, financing in the Eastern and Western Europe, legal aspects of co-production, marketing strategies, as well as individual meetings with script, pitching and finance/marketing consultants 
  • meetings with experts, decision-makers and potential co-production partners during Baltic Event in Tallinn, Estonia 
  • online sessions with the producers and tutors concerning the development of the scripts and the projects during the 6-month gap between the workshops 
  • follow-up session regarding the development of the projects and the final preparation for pitching at Moscow Business Square
  • presentation of the projects at Moscow Business Square and meetings with potential financiers, co-producers, sales agents, and distributors 

Target group: 

  • experienced feature film producers and representatives of audiovisual industry wishing to work on an international scale and create long-term creative and business relationships between Western and Eastern Europe 
  • interested producers should apply with a feature film project in development stage 
  • individuals who wish to participate without projects must present their track record and letter of motivation

Project criteria (only for applicants with projects):

  • full-length feature film with potential for theatrical distribution
  • suitable for an international co-production and looking for co-producers
  • preferably national support in place
  • projects from the European Union and Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are accepted
  • projects should have a link to the other region (thematic, cultural, technical) and the producer should be motivated to work with / in the other region 

Special conditions:

  • participation includes an accreditation fee of 200 Euros for participants with projects and 100 Euros for participants without projects
  • once the selection is confirmed, the participant should be present at both workshops
  • the programme covers accommodation and part of the travel expenses
  • finalized films must mention their participation at B’EST in the credits
  • all documents have to be sent in English – the working language of the workshop is English
  • submission of the application is considered as acceptance of special conditions 

Requested materials for submission:

With projects:

  • completed application form (please downlaod here)
  • synopsis (1 page) in English
  • treatment in English
  • screenplay in English (first draft)
  • director’s note on aesthetics and structure (1-2 pages)
  • biography/filmography of the director
  • biography/filmography of the producer
  • production company profile (max. 300 words)
  • budget outline in English
  • financing plan
  • motivation letter from the producer

Without projects:

  • completed application form (please downlaod here)  
  • biography/filmography of the applicant
  • company profile (max. 300 words)
  • motivation letter

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: September 1, 2014. 

The selection will be made by a selection committee and will be published by the end of October 2014. 
Please send all the requested materials to: 

For applications from the European Union: Riina Sildos, balticevent@poff.ee 

For applications from the CIS countries and Georgia: Natalia Drozd, drozd@ctb.ru
http://eave.org/

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Upcoming deadlines

Baltic Event Co-Production Market

Entry deadline: September 1, 2014

The 2014 edition of Baltic Event, the largest international film market in North-Eastern Europe, is proud to present 20 projects - 12 feature film projects in development from the Central and Eastern European and Nordic countries at the Co-Production Market and 8 feature film projects in the training programme Baltic Bridge East by West. An additional 8 projects in early development from the Baltic and Nordic countries will be selected to the script and pitch initiative POWR Baltic Stories Exchange. 

The eligibility criteria for the submitted projects are the following:

  • full-length feature film intended for theatrical release
  • suitable for an international co-production 
  • national support in place
  • completed screenplay 
  • projects from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, and non-EU countries Russia and Ukraine are accepted

Additional information, requested materials, and rules and regulations can be found on our website.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at balticevent@poff.ee, in case you have any questions.

The submission deadline is September 1, 2014. The selection will be announced by November 1, 2014.

Baltic Event will take place on November 25-28 during Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. 



Cannes Cinéfondation: Residence du Festival

Deadline for submissions: September 8, 2014 (arrival date)

The next session of the Residence du Festival will take place from March 2 to July 15, 2015.The selection is open to young filmmakers from all over the world who are working on their first or second feature film (fiction project only). A jury selects 6 candidates for each of the two four-and-a-half-month sessions per year.

The candidates are selected on the strength of the short films or the 1st feature that they have already directed as well as on their planned feature and the reasons why they wish to participate in the Residence’s programme.

Regulations and entry form are available online: http://www.cinefondation.com/en/rrules

 

Les Arcs European Film Festival Co-production Village

Call for projects is now launched !

Submit your project to Les Arcs European Film Festival's Coproduction Village!

Save the date! The sixth edition of Les Arcs European Film Festival will take place from December 13 to 20 in Les Arcs, the prestigious ski resort in Bourg-Saint Maurice, France.

From December 13 to 16, the Coproduction Village will present 25 carefully selected European projects in development to the attending producers, sales agents, distributors, funders and commissioning editors.

In addition to the presented projects, 10 European films in postproduction will be selected and introduced by festival's artistic director Frédéric Boyer as part of the Work-in-progress screenings.

  • 300 European professionals attending this 3-day event of one-on-one
  • 25 projects in development and 10 work-in-progress selected from entire Europe.
  • Pre-scheduled meetings, seminars and workshops
  • Networking cocktails and parties, the European Ski Cup, the Wine Oysters and Cheese session...

Application deadline for projects: September 27th / Information and submission

Application deadline for work-in-progress: October 5th / Information and submission

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A scholarship has been set up to honour the memory of Alan Fountain, former Head of Studies and President of EAVE, who passed away in 2016. Its goal is to enable one producer from outside the EU to participate in all three sessions of the EAVE Producers Workshop each year.

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