EAVE April News 2023

• Eurimages supports 18 projects by EAVE producers
  In Development April 2023
• GYM by Srdan Vuletic is shooting
  In Production and in Post-production April 2023
• MEN OF DEEDS wins big at the Gopo Awards
  Awards April 2023
• EAVE project THE BARBARIANS in Spanish cinemas
  In Cinemas April 2023
• EAVE project CINÉ-GUERILLAS: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIC REELS in festivals around the world
  Festivals April 2023
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Eurimages supports 18 projects by EAVE producers

Eurimages

In its first Project Evaluation Session of 2023 the Executive Committee of the Eurimages Fund has decided to support 32 feature films, including 6 documentaries and 2 animations. Of the 32 projects supported during the session, 11 of them (36.5% of the total funding) were directed or co-directed by women. 18 projects were produced by EAVE graduates:

• AICHA by Mehdi Barsaoui, producer: EAVE PCP Dubai graduate Habib Attia
• BESTIARIES, HERBARIA, LAPIDARIES by Martina Parenti, Massimo D'Anolfi, producer: EAVE graduate Louis Mataré
• GURIA by Levan Koguashvili, producer: EAVE graduate Donato Rotunno
• HUNGER STRIKE BREAKFAST by Karolis Kaupinis, producers: EAVE graduates Marija Razgute, Mikulas Novotny, Latvian National Coordinator Aija Berzina
• I ACCIDENTALLY WROTE A BOOK by Nora Lakos, producers: EAVE graduates Claudia Sümeghy, Joram Willink
• IT WOULD BE MY DREAM by Ondřej Provazník, producer: EAVE graduate Jiri Konecny
• LADY NAZCA by Damien Dorsaz, producer: EAVE graduate Oliver Damian
• LAURA by Fanny Ovesen, producers: EAVE graduates Marie Kjellson, Monica Hellström, Renée Mlodyszewski
• LEONORA IN THE MORNING LIGHT directed and produced by EAVE graduate Lena Vurma
• NOOR by Jérôme Lemaire, producer: EAVE graduate Isabelle Truc
• OF BLOOD AND MUD by Jean-Gabriel Leynaud, producer: EAVE graduate Martin Hampel
• ORENDA by Pirjo Honkasalo, producers: EAVE graduate Misha Jaari, TTB graduate Mark Lwoff, EAVE+ graduate Pille Rünk
• OUR WILDEST DAYS by Vasilis Kekatos, producers: EAVE graduates Guillaume Dreyfus and Delphine Schmit.
• SILENT OBSERVERS by Eliza Petkova, producer: EAVE graduate Veselka Kiryakova
• THE GREEN BORDER by Agnieszka Holland, producers: EAVE graduate Maria Blicharska, EAVE graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum
• THE SOULS by Tallulah H. Schwab, producer: EAVE graduate Ellen Havenith
• THE TREASURE OF BARRACUDA by Adrià Garcia, producer: EAVE+ graduate Valérie Delpierre
• WISHING ON A STAR by Peter Kerekes, producer: EAVE graduate Petra Oplatkova

https://www.coe.int/en/web/eurimages/-/32-co-productions-supported-at-the-first-eurimages-project-evaluation-session-of-2023

 

Netherlands Film Fund

In the first round of 2023, the Dutch Film Fund and the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF) have selected 6 co-productions for support. Among them:

• RAINBOWKIDS by Mieke Struyve, co-producer: EAVE graduate Simone Van Den Broek
• THE MANAGER by Maartje Bakers, producer: EAVE graduate Xavier Rombaut
• JOE SPEEDBOOT by Sam de Jong, producer: EAVE graduate Frank Hoeve
• HOKWERDA’S KIND by Boudewijn Koole, producer: EAVE graduate Ellen de Waele

The Netherlands Film Fund NFF and Hubert Bals Fund HBF Co-production are supporting:

• A WINNER IS SEEN by Zhannat Alshanova, producers: EAVE graduates Denis Vaslin and Fleur Knopperts
• QUATRO MENINAS by Karen Suzane, co-producer: EAVE graduate Ellen Havenith

www.filmfonds.nl

 

FFA

• MAD DOG OF EUROPE by Rubika Shah, producer: EAVE graduate Martina Brokemper receives production support by the German-French Funding Commission.
• ZWEI ZU EINS by Natja Brunckhorst, producer: EAVE graduate Karsten Stöter receives funding from the German Federal Film Board FFA

www.ffa.de

 

Film Fund Luxembourg

• E LËTZEBUERGER MANN by Myriam Muller, producers: EAVE+ Head of Studies Jani Thiltges, EAVE graduate and Luxembourgish National Coordinator Bernard Michaux
• GOULD LOVER by Andy Sommer, producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
• LA CACHE by Catherine Charrier, producer: EAVE graduate Vincent Quénault
• LES DEUX FRERES directed by Nicolas Blies and directed and produced by EAVE graduate Stéphane Hueber-Blies
• ORA ET LABORA by Dzhovani Gospodinov, producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
• SIDI KABA ET LA PORTE DU RETOUR by Rony Hotin, producers: EAVE graduates Paul Thiltges, Adrien Chef
• THE SECOND ATTACK by Christina Kallas, producer: EAVE graduate Alexandra Hoesdorff
• XAVIER KIEFFER directed by EAVE graduate Donato Rotunno

www.amourfoufilm.com

 

Austrian Film Institute

The Austrian Film Institute & Film Fund Vienna grants production support to:

• HAPPYLAND by Evi Romen, producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu.
• HIDDEN by Goran Rebic, producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu.
• WHO CARES by Ina Ivanceanu, producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu.

www.amourfoufilm.com

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GYM by Srdan Vuletic is shooting

In production

• THE BRUTALIST by Brady Corbet, co-producer: EAVE graduate Viktoria Petranyi is shooting. Adrien Brody will play “visionary” Hungarian architect Laszlo Toth, who, along with his wife, Erzsebet (Felicity Jones), is facing hardship and poverty as the couple attempt to establish themselves as immigrants in post-war America. But soon, Laszlo is sponsored by a “seemingly charming” industrialist to design a “grand modernist monument” that will be a pearl of the new urban skyline – a project that will push him and his marital bond to their limits. The film is an intricate co-production between several partners, headed by producers Trevor Matthews and Nick Gordon, of Brookstreet UK, and from the USA, Andrew Morrison of Yellow Bear, Andrew Lauren of Andrew Lauren Productions and DJ Gugenheim. Co-producing partners are the UK’s Intake Films and Hungary’s Proton Cinema. Further financing comes from Lip Sync Productions, Richmond Pictures, Meyohas Studio, Carte Blanche and the French production cashflow outfit Cofiloisirs.

https://protoncinema.hu

• CYCHOSIS by Kari Vidø, producer: EAVE graduate Aleksi Hyvärinen is in production. Cychosis is based on the first book in a trilogy, which has received great international recognition and was the first Danish novel to be nominated for the French book prize “Le Prix des Incorruptibles”. According to the producers, the feature is “a dark and intense story about Lulu and Mads, who have both experienced something strongly supernatural. […] The meeting between them leads to a wild and risky search for answers with consequences for both of them. Raw realism merges with a supernatural universe.” CYCHOSIS is being produced by SF Studios in co-production with Finland’s Don Films, and with support from the Danish Film Institute, the Finnish Film Foundation, the Nordisk Film & TV Fond and TV2 Denmark. The picture is being filmed in Copenhagen and Frederiksberg. Principal photography will wrap at the beginning of May.

www.donfilms.fi

• BLUE BANKS by Andreea Bortun, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jean-Laurent Csinidis is shooting. The screenplay, written by Borţun herself, follows Lavinia, a single mother who is trying to make a living for herself and her son, Dani, in a poor Romanian village. When she gets a job in Marseille, she has to leave Dani behind. While she’s away, he is left with endless possibilities, trying to figure out who he can become and orbiting around different male figures – his surrogate father, his biological one and his older best friend. Later, an unexpected event will force Lavinia to come back home. The director says that the exodus of people leaving Romania for better working conditions abroad has had a huge effect on her country’s society over the last two decades. While the material changes are obvious, she was more interested in the inner changes in the life of women in rural areas. “In 2018, I started to study the effects of this migration on the lives of women who had a history of working abroad. I realised it is not very often discussed how they perceive their home space when they come back on short visits, and how they need to deepen the roots they have here. I changed the perspective and examined how ‘home’ looks for the immigrant who comes back,” Bortun explains. The film will be shot over 47 days throughout the entire year, as the story covers all four seasons. The film is supported by the Romanian National Film Center. Blue Banks was developed at Less is More, First Films First and the Budapest Debut Film Forum. It was also presented in the CineLink Sarajevo, Venice Production Bridge and TIFF Industry Days programmes, winning the Transilvania Pitch Stop Award.

www.films-de-force-majeure.com

• GYM by Srdan Vuletic, producer: EAVE graduate, group leader and Croatian National Coordinator Ankica Juric Tilic is shooting. GYM points to that eternal problem we are all trying to avoid admitting to ourselves: in everybody’s inner circle, there is that one idiot that you maybe should not be supporting. In Riki’s life it is his co-worker and brother-in-law-to-be Ado. The catering company they are both working for is about to close, and Ado decides that the best way to approach the problem is to just beat up the top notch cakemaker Melisa who left the company and make her work with them again. As the catering event where they will all meet approaches, Riki must decide what his part in this catastrophe will be. The Bosnian/Croatian/Slovenian/Montenegrin coproduction is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Sport of Canton Sarajevo, BH Telecom, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, the Film Centre of Montenegro, the Slovenian Film Centre and the Lottery of Bosnia and Herzegovina supported the project so far. Principal photography started on 10 April 2023 and will last for 16 days. The film will be completely shot in Sarajevo, using the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina as its primary location.

www.kinorama.hr

• SILENT OBSERVERS by Eliza Petkova, producer: EAVE graduate Veselka Kiryakova is currently in production. The film explores life in the mountain village of Pirin through the eyes of a horse, a dog, a goat, a cat, and a mare. The secluded village of Pirin, where people and animals depend on each other to survive, is bound to disappear together with its centuries-old traditions. “My goal is to make a film where the viewer identifies with the animal characters and where the animal is presented as a subject revealing its individual soul to the camera. Our visual approach is an aesthetic that evokes the animals' perspective on their surroundings. What interests me is a story about a human community through the eyes of the animals in it”, director Eliza Petkova said. The Bulgarian/German co-production between Red Carpet and Wood Water Films was financed by the Bulgarian National Film Center and Eurimages, and it will have a version for cinema release and a TV version for AR/rbb, which are also supporting the production. The postproduction is scheduled for May 2023 - February 2024, with Eliza Petkova holding the editor's credit.

http://redcarfilms.com

• KURTAG by Dénes Nagy, producer: EAVE graduate Julianna Ugrin is in production.  Ninety-six years old in 2023, György Kurtag is one of today's best-known contemporary composers, the last major representative of the post-war avant-garde generation that included György Ligeti, Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The film follows the acclaimed Hungarian composer György Kurtág throughout Europe. Although the physical limitations of his age are increasingly limiting the external framework of his daily life, his inner spiritual life remains extremely rich. “Kurtag is a film about a composer at the end of his life but still active, who lives his days in a wheelchair but also composes, plays piano and teaches; he is constantly present, inspired, living in and by music. The film is about his life's work and his life's journey, his thoughts and his thinking, but more importantly about the mysterious and complex relationship between life and the works he creates”, Dénes Nagy said. Principal photography started in Budapest, Paris, Vienna, London, Lugoj/Baile Herculane (Romania) in 2022, and continued in Reykjavik, Vienna and Budapest in 2023. Filming is still planned in Cornwall, Basel and Budapest. Julianna Ugrin is producing through Hungary’s Éclipse Film. The project received support from the National Film Institute – Hungary.

www.eclipsefilm.hu

• HUNGER STRIKE BREAKFAST by Karolis Kaupinis, producer: EAVE graduate Marija Razgute is in production. The film tells a story of the employees of Lithuanian television during the Soviet takeover in 1991. Three TV journalists Daiva, Sigis and Mykolas, announce a hunger strike in front of the television building, aiming to recover the premises from the Soviet soldiers who occupy them. The hunger strike is getting huge public and media support, but inexperienced hunger strikers face other unforeseen challenges. HUNGER STRIKE BREAKFAST is produced by Marija Razgute through M-films in co-production with Czech Background Films and Latvia’s Tasse Film, with support from the Lithuanian Film Centre, the Czech Film Fund and Eurimages. MEDIA Creative Europe supported the development of the project. The film is shot mainly in Vilnius and Kaunas until May 2023 during 25 shooting days. 

www.m-films.lt

 

 

In post-production

• EXCURSION by Una Gunjak, producers: EAVE graduates Amra Baksic Camo (also National Coordinator Bosnia Herzegovina), Adis Dapo and Sinisa Juricic is in post-production. EXCURSION tells a story of a teenager Iman, who catches the eye of an older boy while her class is preparing for the excursion to celebrate the end of primary school. Rumour about her being pregnant puts the whole excursion in jeopardy, and Iman finds herself in the storm of expectations, limitations and rules that life of a teenager in Bosnia and Herzegovina brings with it. The film is a co-production between Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Norway and France and supported by the Ministry of Culture and Sport of Canton Sarajevo, Film Fund Sarajevo, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Sorfond, Film Center Serbia, Hubert Bals Fund and Eurimages.

www.pro.ba

• APOCALYPSE CLOWN by George Kane, producer: EAVE graduate Morgan Bushe is in post-production. Described by the creative team as “a chaotic road trip of self-discovery”, Apocalypse Clown begins with the sudden death of international clown master Jean DuCoque, an event that brings together the film's motley trio: Bobo, a hobo clown who has hit rock bottom; Pepe, a talentless mime; and Funzo, an inadvertently terrifying “street clown”. After a mass brawl at the funeral, involving some vengeful human statues, earns them a night in jail, the group emerges to find a country suddenly plunged into anarchy overnight by a major solar flare. No power. No internet. No one is safe. Lugging around DuCoque's stiffening corpse, this band of unlikely heroes escape with The Great Alphonso, a pompous ex-TV celebrity, and Jenny Malone, a clickbait reporter with a head full of ambition, conspiracy theories and “mammy issues”. They venture cross-country in Bobo's jalopy in search of answers. After taking refuge from the pursuing human statues with revellers from a now-abandoned boutique micro-festival, Alphonso spots his chance to resurrect his career and reclaim the fame he so desperately craves. Ditching the others, Alphonso dupes Jenny into helping him steal an analogue TV transmitter. By the time Bobo, Pepe and Funzo track them down, Alphonso has amassed an army of feral children and is broadcasting increasingly deranged clown shows from an abandoned big top. Desperate times call for desperate measures. In order to escape with their lives, Bobo, Pepe and Funzo are forced to put their differences aside and put on a clown show capable of earning the approval of the toughest audience of their careers... It's time for Bobo's nigh-impossible routine: “The Jugglenaut”. They've all died on stage before – but this time it could actually be fatal. Producer EAVE graduate Morgan Bushe added: “George, the writers and our amazing cast have really created something completely unique with this film. Like Beckett with added Stiller, there's certainly never been an Irish film like it, and I think audiences are going to really love journeying with our unhinged, dysfunctional troupe of clowns on their quest to save the world, and their careers in the process. Buckle up for a roller-coaster ride of comedy chaos.” APOCALYPSE CLOWN is being produced by Fastnet Films (Ireland), Namesake Films (UK) and uMedia (Belgium). The project's funders include Screen Ireland, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, RTÉ, Vertigo Releasing, the Irish Tax Credit, the Belgian Tax Shelter and BCP Asset Management.

www.fastnetfilms.com

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MEN OF DEEDS wins big at the Gopo Awards

 Canneseries

• EAVE project DRAW FOR CHANGE! by Vincent Coen and Guillaume Vandenberghe, producers: EAVE graduates Hanne Phlypo, Estelle Robin You, Marion Guth, François Le Gall, Heino Deckert won Best Documentary Series at the 6th edition of Canneseries, the Cannes International Series Festival.  

www.clindoeilfilms.be

 

 Austrian Diagonale

4 awards for EAVE graduates at the Austrian Diagonale:

• CORSAGE by Marie Kreutzer, producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach won Best Cinematography Feature Film (Judith Kaufmann), Best Production Design (Martin Reiter) 
• EISMAYER by David Wagner, producers: EAVE graduates Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber won Best Acting (Gerhard Liebmann)
• ROTZBUB by Marcus H. Rosenmüller und Santiago López Jover, producers: EAVE graduate Josef Aichholzer received the VAM Prize for Outstanding Production Services

www.diagonale.at/en

 

 Slovak Film and Television Academy’s Sun in a Net

• VICTIM by Michal Blasko, producers: Jakub Viktorin and Pavla Janouskova Kubeckova, co-producer: EAVE graduate Saar Yogev won Best Film at the Slovak Film and Television Academy’s Sun in a Net awards ceremony.

http://www.slnkovsieti.sk

 

 ZagrebDox

• MATTER OUT OF PLACE by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Michael Kitzberger won the Regional Competition of the ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival. 
• ALIS by Clare Weiskopf and Nicolas van Hemelryck, producer: EAVE and PUENTES graduate Nicolas van Hemelryck received a Special Mention in the International Competition.

http://zagrebdox.net/en

 

  One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

• APOLONIA, APOLONIA by Lea Glob, co-producer: EAVE graduate Malgorzata Staron won Best Film in the International Competition of the One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.
• THE KILLING OF A JOURNALIST by Matt Sarnecki, producer: EAVE graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen won the Audience Award.

www.oneworld.cz

 

 Malaga Film Festival

3 awards for EAVE graduates at the Malaga Film Festival:

• 20,000 SPECIES OF BEES by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, producer: EAVE+ graduate Valérie Delpierre won Best Film and Best Best Supporting Actress
• MATRIA by Álvaro Gago, producer: EAVE graduate Maria Zamora won Best Actress

https://festivaldemalaga.com

 

 Romanian Gopo Awards

• MEN OF DEEDS by Paul Negoescu, producer: EAVE graduate Anamaria Antoci was the grand winner at the 17th edition of The Gopo Awards.  It took home six awards: Best Film, Best Director and Best Lead Performance, Best Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
• MAN AND DOG by Stefan Constantinescu, producer: EAVE graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon, EAVE graduate Diana Paroiu, co-producer: EAVE graduate Nina Frese received Best Supporting Actress
• THE ISLAND directed and produced by EAVE graduate Anca Damian received Best Score
• IMMACULATE by Monica Stan, George Chiper-Lillemark, producer: EAVE graduate Marcin Lazar received Best First Feature Film
• OCCASIONAL SPIES by Oana Giurgiu, producer: EAVE graduate Tudor Giurgiu received Best Documentary.

https://premiilegopo.ro/

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EAVE project THE BARBARIANS in Spanish cinemas

 In French cinemas

• BRIGHTON 4TH by Levan Koguashvili, producer: EAVE graduate Olena Yershova. April 12.

http://tatofilm.com

• BURNING DAYS by Emin Alper, producer: EAVE graduate Stienette Bosklopper. April 26.

www.circe.nl

• CHIEN DE LA CASSE (JUNKYARD DOGS) by Jean-Baptiste Durand, producer: EAVE graduate Anaïs Bertrand. April 19.

https://insolenceproductions.com

 

  In Belgian cinemas

• TCHAIKOWSKI’S WIFE by Kirill Serebrennikov, co-producer: EAVE graduate Yohann Comte. April 5.

www.charades.eu

 

 

 In UK cinemas

• GODLAND by Hlynur Palmason, producers: EAVE graduate Katrin Pors, TTB graduate Mikkel Jersin, EAVE graduate Anton Mani Svansson, co-producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Didar Domehri. April 7.

http://www.snowglobefilm.com

• PACIFICTION by Albert Serra, co-producer: EAVE graduate Dirk Decker. April 8.

www.tamtamfilm.com

• EAVE project DALVA by Emmanuelle Nicot, co-producers: EAVE graduates Julie Esparbes, PUENTES graduate Delphine Schmit. April 28.

http://helicotronc.com

 

 

 In Dutch cinemas

• BOY FROM HEAVEN by Tarik Saleh, producers: EAVE graduates Kristina Aberg, Linda Mutawi. April 27.

www.atmo.se

• RETURN TO SEOUL by Davy Chou, producer: Interchange and B’EST graduate Charlotte Vincent, EAVE graduate Jean-Yves Roubin. April 13.

www.frakas.be

 

 

 In Swiss cinemas

• BOY FROM HEAVEN by Tarik Saleh, producers: EAVE graduates Kristina Aberg, Linda Mutawi. April 6.

www.atmo.se

• BURNING DAYS by Emin Alper, producer: EAVE graduate Stienette Bosklopper. April 12.

www.circe.nl

 

 

 In German cinemas

• BOY FROM HEAVEN by Tarik Saleh, producers: EAVE graduates Kristina Aberg, Linda Mutawi. April 5.

www.atmo.se

• VICTIM by Michal Blasko, producers: EAVE graduates Jakub Viktorin and Pavla Janouskova Kubeckova, co-producer: EAVE graduate Saar Yogev. April 6.

www.nutprodukce.cz

• THE FOX by Adrian Goiginger, producer: EAVE graduate Erich Lackner. April 13.

www.lotus-film.com

• IRGENDWANN WERDEN WIR UNS ALLES ERZÄHLEN by Emily Atef, producer: EAVE graduate Karsten Stöter. April 13.

www.rohfilm.de

• APPLES by Christos Nikou, producer: B’EST graduate Ales Pavlis, co-producer: EAVE graduate Mariusz Wlodarski, associate producer: EAVE graduate Antoine Simkine. April 13.

www.lavafilms.pl

 

 

 In Danish cinemas

• CLOSE by Lucas Dhont, producer: EAVE graduate Laurette Schillings, EAVE+ graduate Frans van Gestel. April 27.

www.topkapifilms.nl

 

 

 In Finnish cinemas

• CORSAGE by Marie Kreutzer, producers: EAVE graduate and Luxembourgish National Coordinator Bernard Michaux, EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach. April 21. 

www.samsa.lu

 

 

 In Lithuanian cinemas

• ERIK STONEHEART by Ilmar Raag, producer: EAVE graduate and Estonian National Coordinator Riina Sildos, co-producers: EAVE graduates Paul Thiltges, Aleksi Bardy, Paul Thiltges, Roberts Vinovskis. April 21. 

www.amrion.ee

 

 

 In Spanish cinemas

• EAVE project THE BARBARIANS by Andrew Sala, producers: EAVE graduates Federico Sande Novo, Claire Lajoumard. March 17.

http://www.acrobatesfilms.fr

• 20,000 SPECIES OF BEES by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, producer: EAVE+ graduate Valérie Delpierre. April 21. 

www.iniciafilms.com

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EAVE project CINÉ-GUERILLAS: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIC REELS in festivals around the world

  Kaboom Animation Festival (March 24 - April 2)

• BLIND WILLOW, SLEEPING WOMAN by Pierre Földes, producers: EAVE+ graduates Tom Dercourt, Joost de Vries
• MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE by Signe Baumane, producer: EAVE FFF graduate Roberts Vinovskis
• THE SONG OF FLYING LEAVES co-written, directed and produced by EAVE graduate Armine Anda

https://www.kaboomfestival.nl/

 

  Go Short (March 31 - April 10)

• THE SONG OF FLYING LEAVES co-written, directed and produced by EAVE graduate Armine Anda

https://www.kaboomfestival.nl/

 

 

  Cleveland International Film Festival (April 3 – 13)

• BUTTERFLY VISION by Maksim Nakonechnyi, co-producer: EAVE graduate Dagmar Sedlackova
• EAVE project ORDINARY FAILURES by Cristina Grosan, producers: EAVE graduates Marek Novak, Marica Stocchi
• LA MATERNAL by Pilar Palomero, producer: EAVE+ graduate Valérie Delpierre
• PAMFIR by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, producers: EAVE MW graduate Aleksandra Kostina, co-producer: PUENTES and EAVE+ graduate Giancarlo Nasi, EAVE graduate Artem Koliubaiev, EAVE MW and FFF graduate Adolf El Assal
• I HAVE ELECTRIC DREAMS by Valentina Maurel, producer: EAVE graduate Benoit Roland

www.clevelandfilm.org

 

  One World International Documentary Film Festival in Brussels (April 3 – 17)

• AFTER WORK by Erik Gandini, producer: EAVE graduate Carsten Aanonsen
• APOLONIA, APOLONIA by Lea Glob, co-producer: EAVE graduate Malgorzata Staron
• A SILENT STORY by Anders Skovbjerg Jepsen, producer: EAVE graduate Anne Köhncke
• BACKLASH: MISOGYNY IN THE DIGITAL AGE by Léa Clermont-Dion and Guylaine Maroist, producer: EAVE+ graduate Eric Ruel
• BREAKING SOCIAL by Fredrik Gertten, producer: EAVE graduate Margarete Jangård
• THE KILLING OF A JOURNALIST by Matt Sarnecki, producer: EAVE graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen
• THE NEW GREATNESS CASE by Anna Shishova, producer: EAVE graduate Sinisa Juricic

http://www.oneworld.cz/2023/

 

  Reims Polar (April 4 – 9)

• BRIGHTON 4TH by Levan Koguashvili, producer: EAVE graduate Olena Yershova
• INSIDE by Vasilis Katsoupis, producer: EAVE + graduate Giorgos Karnavas, executive producer: EAVE graduate Konstantinos Kontovrakis

https://reimspolar.com

 

  Bolzano Filmfestival, Bozen (April 5 – 10)

• MATTER OUT OF PLACE by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Michael Kitzberger
• STAMS by Bernhard Braunstein, producer: EAVE graduate David Bohun
• THE HAMLET SYNDROME by Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski, producer: EAVE graduate Magdalena Kaminska 

http://filmfestival.bz.it

 

 Istanbul Film Festival (April 7 - 18)

• 20,000 SPECIES OF BEES by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, producer: EAVE+ graduate Valérie Delpierre
• COPENHAGEN DOES NOT EXIST by Martin Skovbjerg, producer: EAVE graduate Katrin Pors and TTB graduate Mikkel Jersin
• DISCO BOY by Giacomo Abbruzzese, co-producer: EAVE graduate Maria Blicharska
• EISMAYER by David Wagner, producers: EAVE graduates Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber
• HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH by Helena Wittmann, producer: TTB and EAVE graduate Julia Cöllen
• INGEBORG BACHMANN by Margarethe von Trotta, producers: EAVE+ graduates Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Bettina Brokemper
• MEN OF DEEDS by Paul Negoescu, producer: EAVE graduate Anamaria Antoci
• PAMFIR by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, producers: EAVE MW graduate Aleksandra Kostina, co-producer: PUENTES and EAVE+ graduate Giancarlo Nasi, EAVE graduate Artem Koliubaiev, EAVE MW and FFF graduate Adolf El Assal
• PUENTES project BLANQUITA by Fernando Guzzoni, producer: PUENTES graduate Giancarlo Nasi
• RULE 34 by Julia Murat, producer: PUENTES graduate Tatiana Leite
• SAFE PLACE by Juraj Lerotic, producers: EAVE graduates Miljenka Cogelja, Vlado Bulajic
• SILENCE 6-9 by Christos Passalis, producer: EAVE graduate Maria Drandaki
• I HAVE ELECTRIC DREAMS by Valentina Maurel, producer: EAVE graduate Benoit Roland
• THE PLOUGH (LE GRAND CHARIOT) by Philippe Garrel, producer: EAVE graduate Laurine Pelassy
• THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD by Teona Strugar Mitevska, producers: EAVE graduate and Macedonian National Coordinator Labina Mitevska, EAVE+ graduate Danijel Hocevar, EAVE graduates Benoît Roland, National Coordinator Bosnia Herzegovina Amra Baksic Camo, EAVE graduates Maria Møller Christoffersen, Sébastien Delloye
• TOTEM by Lila Avilés, co-producer: EAVE graduate Per Damgaard Hansen
• THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER by Joanna Hogg, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney
• THE ETERNAL MEMORY directed and produced by PUENTES graduate Maite Alberdi
• TTB PROJECT AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Makbul Mubarak, producer: EAVE and TTB graduate Yulia Evina Bhara

Meetings on the Bridge:

Film Development Workshop

• AS IF TO REMEMBER by Barış Fert, producer: EAVE participant Ipek Erden
• NEVER AGAIN by Serhat Karaaslan, producer: EAVE graduate Nesra Gürbüz
• THE GOAT SAYS HI! by Mustafa Nuri, producer: EAVE graduate Sezgi Üstün San

German-Turkish Co-Production Development Fund

• PASTORAL PATHWAYS by Ahmet Necdet Cupur, producers: EAVE graduates Nicole Gerhards, Enis Köstepen

Trailer Workshop

• EAVE project SIREN'S CALL by Ramin Matin, producer: EAVE graduate Emine Yıldırım

http://film.iksv.org

 

  San Francisco International Film Festival (April 13 – 23)

• DAUGHTER OF RAGE by Laura Baumeister, co-producer EAVE graduate Dag Hoel
• EAVE project SNOW AND THE BEAR by Selcen Ergun, producer developing at EAVE: Zeki Peynirci
• EAVE project VICENTA B by Carlos Lechuga, producers: EAVE graduates Claudia Calvino,  Dag Hoel
• I HAVE ELECTRIC DREAMS by Valentina Maurel, producer: EAVE graduate Benoit Roland
• LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG by Antonio Lukich, producer: EAVE graduate Vladimir Yatsenko
• SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD by Anna Hints, producer: EAVE graduate Marianne Ostrat

https://sffilm.org

 

  Las Palmas International Film Festival (April 14 –23)

• COPENHAGEN DOES NOT EXIST by Martin Skovbjerg, producer: EAVE graduate Katrin Pors and TTB graduate Mikkel Jersin
• SILENT WITNESSES by Jeronimo Atehortua Arteaga, Luis Ospina, producer: PUENTES graduate Eva Chillon
• THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER by Joanna Hogg, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney
• TOMORROW IS A LONG TIME by Jow Zhi Wei, producer: TTB group leader Fran Borgia and TTB graduate Jeremy Chua

www.lpafilmfestival.com

 

  Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente BAFICI (April 19 – May 1)

• LE PARFUM VERT by Nicolas Pariser, co-producer: EAVE graduate Henri-Jacques Bronckart
• THE ETERNAL MEMORY directed and produced by PUENTES graduate Maite Alberdi
• THE NEW GREATNESS CASE by Anna Shishova, producer: EAVE graduate Sinisa Juricic
• UPON ENTRY by Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vásquez, producer: EAVE graduates Alba Sotorra, Carles Torras
• WHEN THE WAVES ARE GONE by Lav Diaz, producer: TTB graduate and group leader Bianca Balbuena, TTB graduates Bradley Liew, Mikkel Jersin, EAVE graduate Katrin Pors

https://www.escribiendocine.com/noticias/2023/04/19/15548-toda-la-programacion-del-bafici-2023

 

  Cyprus Film Days (April 21 – 29)

• MEDITERRANEAN FEVER by Maha Haj, producers: EAVE graduate Marios Piperides
• SILENCE 6-9 by Christos Passalis, producer: EAVE graduate Maria Drandaki 
• THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS by Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix Van Groeningen, producer: EAVE graduate Hans Everaert

www.cyprusfilmdays.com

 

  Visions du Réel, Nyon (April 21 – 30)

• ALLO LA FRANCE by Floriane Devigne, producer: EAVE + graduate Britta Rindelaub
• APOLONIA, APOLONIA by Lea Glob, co-producer: EAVE graduate Malgorzata Staron
• BEHIND THE LINES by Alaa Amer & Alisar Hasan, producers: EAVE graduates Hanne Phlypo, Estelle Robin You, Marion Guth, Heino Deckert
• EAVE project CINÉ-GUERILLAS: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIC REELS by Mila Turajlic, producer: EAVE graduate Carine Chichkowsky
• EAVE project DISTURBED EARTH directed by EAVE graduate Guillermo Carreras-Candi
• EAVE project DRAW FOR CHANGE! by Vincent Coen and Guillaume Vandenberghe, producers: EAVE graduates Hanne Phlypo, Estelle Robin You, Marion Guth, François Le Gall, Heino Deckert
• CORPO CELESTE by Alice Rohrwacher, producer: EAVE+ graduate Carlo Cresta-Dino
• HAWAR, OUR BANISHED CITY by Pascale Bourgaux, producer: EAVE graduate Isabelle Truc
• IN UKRAINE Piotr Pawlus & Tomasz Wolski, producer: EAVE graduate Arek Gielnik
• LA RICERCA by Giuseppe Petruzzellis, producer: EAVE graduate Alessandro Carroli
• LAZZARO FELICE by Alice Rohrwacher, producer: EAVE+ graduate Carlo Cresta-Dino
• LE MERAVIGLIE by Alice Rohrwacher, producer: EAVE+ graduate Carlo Cresta-Dino
• LE PUPILLE by Alice Rohrwacher, producer: EAVE+ graduate Carlo Cresta-Dino
• LOVE IS NOT AN ORANGE by Otilia Babara, producer: EAVE graduate Hanne Phlypo
• MATCHAT by Sonia Ben Slama, producer: EAVE graduate Cécile Lestrade
• PIANOFORTE by Jakub Piatek, producer: EAVE graduate Maciej Kubicki
• PLANET B Pieter Van Eecke, producer: EAVE graduate Hanne Phlypo
• PURE UNKNOWN by Valentina Cicogna, Mattia Colombo, co-producer: EAVE graduate Mario Adamson
• TERMINAL NORTE by Lucrecia Martel, producers: PUENTES and EAVE+ graduates Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli
• THE ECHO by Tatiana Huezo, producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolas Celis
• THE WONDER WAY by Emmanuelle Antille, producer: EAVE participant Katia Monla
• ZAMA by Lucrecia Martel, producers: PUENTES graduates Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, EAVE graduate Léontine Petit

Selected for the VdR-Industry section of the Visions du Réel festival:

• MEMORIES OF AN OBLIVION by Carmen Castillo, producer: EAVE graduate Isabelle Truc
• SIMON THE ABSURD by Felipe Monroy, producer: EAVE graduate Palmyre Badinier

www.visionsdureel.ch

 

 Kristiansand International Children´s Film Festival (April 25 - 30)

• OKTHANKSBYE by Nicole van Kilsdonk, producer: EAVE participant Rogier Kramer

https://barnefilmfestivalen.no/

 

  goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, Wiesbaden (April 26 – May 5)

• CINEMA ALMANAC. SIX SHORT FILMS BY RADU JUDE by Radu Jude, producer: EAVE graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon
• EAVE project ORDINARY FAILURES by Cristina Grosan, producers: EAVE graduates Marek Novak, Marica Stocchi
• GOLIATH by Adilkhan Yerzhanov, producer: EAVE graduate Natalia Drozd
• JANUARY by Viesturs Kairiss, producers: EAVE graduates Inese Boka-Grube, Gints Grube, co-producer: EAVE graduate Malgorzata Staron
• MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE by Signe Baumane, producer: EAVE FFF graduate Roberts Vinovskis
• REMEMBER TO BLINK by Austeja Urbaite, producer: EAVE graduate Zivile Gallego
• THE HAMLET SYNDROME by Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski, producer: EAVE graduate Magdalena Kaminska 
• THE UNCLE by David Kapac, Andrija Mardesic, producer: EAVE graduate and Serbian National Coordinator Milan Stojanovic
• THIS IS WHAT I REMEMBER by Aktan Arym Kubat, producers: EAVE graduates Denis Vaslin, Fleur Knopperts
• WAKE ME by Marko Santic, producer: EAVE + graduate Danijel Hocevar
• WHOSE DOG AM I? by Róbert Lakatos, producer: EAVE graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon

www.filmfestival-goeast.de

 

  Crossing Europe, Linz (April 26 – May 1)

• 5 DREAMERS AND A HORSE by Vahagn Khachatryan, Aren Malakyan, producer: EAVE graduate Eva Blondiau
• 20,000 SPECIES OF BEES by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, producer: EAVE+ graduate Valérie Delpierre
• A BLAST by Syllas Tzoumerkas, producer: EAVE graduate Maria Drandaki, EAVE+ graduate Titus Kreyenberg
• APOLONIA, APOLONIA by Lea Glob, co-producer: EAVE graduate Malgorzata Staron
• A ROOM OF MY OWN by Ioseb Bliadze, producer: EAVE graduate Eva Blondiau
• BUTTERFLY VISION by Maksim Nakonechnyi, co-producer: EAVE graduate Dagmar Sedlackova
• EAVE project CINÉ-GUERILLAS: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIC REELS by Mila Turajlic, producer: EAVE graduate Carine Chichkowsky
• DANIEL RICHTER by EAVE graduate Pepe Danquart
• DISCO BOY by Giacomo Abbruzzese, co-producer: EAVE graduate Maria Blicharska
• EAVE project ORDINARY FAILURES by Cristina Grosan, producers: EAVE graduates Marek Novak, Marica Stocchi
• FRANKY FIVE STAR by Birgit Möller, producers: EAVE graduates Jamila Wenske, Jussi Rantamäki
• HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH by Helena Wittmann, producer: TTB and EAVE graduate Julia Cöllen
• LAURA by Lovisa Sirén, producers: EAVE graduates Julia Gebauer, Elli Toivoniemi
• MY EMPTINESS AND I by Adrián Silvestre, producer: EAVE graduate Alba Sotorra
• MURINA by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic, co-producers: EAVE graduates Zdenka Gold, Miha Cernec, EAVE graduate and National Coordinator Slovenia Jozko Rutar
• RIDERS by Dominik Mencej, producer: EAVE graduate Miha Cernec
• SILENCE 6-9 by Christos Passalis, producer: EAVE graduate Maria Drandaki
• THE 9TH STEP by Irma Puzauskaite, producer: B’EST graduate Lukas Trimonis
• WHITE PLASTIC SKY by Tibor Banoczki and Sarolta Szabó, producer: EAVE graduate Juraj Krasnohorsky, co-producer: EAVE graduate and Hungarian National Coordinator Viktoria Petranyi

www.crossingeurope.at

 

  Hot Docs Festival (April 27 – May 7)

• 5 SEASONS OF REVOLUTION by Lina, producer: EAVE graduate Ilja Roomans
• ANHELL69 by Theo Montoya, producer: EAVE graduate Maximilian Haslberger
• A WOLFPACK CALLED ERNESTO by Everardo González, executive producer: EAVE graduate Dan Wechsler
• BLIX NOT BOMBS by Greta Stocklassa, producer: EAVE participant Mario Adamson
• CALLS FROM MOSCOW by Luis Alejandro Yero, co-producer: EAVE graduate Elisa Pirir
• GOODBYE WORDS by Laura Rantanen, producer: EAVE graduate Jenni Jauri
• INNOCENCE by Guy Davidi, producer: EAVE graduate Kaarle Aho
• JACKIE THE WOLF by Tuki Jencquel, producer: EAVE graduate Estelle Robin You
• THE CASTLE by Martín Benchimol , producer: EAVE graduate Gema Juarez Allen
• THE ECHO by Tatiana Huezo, producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolas Celis
• THE ETERNAL MEMORY written and directed by EAVE graduate Maite Alberdi
• THE LEGACY by Rodrigo Demirjian, producer: EAVE MW graduate Carolina Alvarez
• EAVE project NON ALIGNED: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIC REELS by Mila Turajlic, producer: EAVE graduate Carine Chichkowsky
• POISON(S) by Jennifer Deschamps, producer: EAVE graduate Valérie Montmartin
• POLARIS by Ainara Vera, producers: EAVE graduates Clara Vuillermoz, Emile Hertling Péronard
• PRAYING FOR ARMAGEDDON by Tonje Hessen Schei, co-producers: EAVE graduate Kaarle Aho, EAVE participant Lisa Nyed
• PURE UNKNOWN by Valentina Cicogna, Mattia Colombo, co-producer: EAVE graduate Mario Adamson
• REJEITO by Pedro de Filippis, producer: PUENTES graduate Leonardo Mecchi
• SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN by Steffi Niederzoll, producer: EAVE graduate Melanie Andernach
• SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD by Anna Hints, producer: EAVE graduate Marianne Ostrat
• THEATRE OF VIOLENCE by Lukasz Konopa, Emil Langballe, producer: EAVE graduate Heidi Kim Andersen
• TWICE COLONIZED by Lin Alluna, producer: EAVE graduate Emile Hertling Péronard
• THE YELLOW CEILING by Isabel Coixet, producer: EAVE graduate Carla Sospedra

www.hotdocs.ca

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MEET EAVE IN MAY!

@ Cannes Film Festival, May 19 - 23, Cannes (FR)

EAVE CEO Kristina Trapp, EAVE Deputy CEO Satu Elo

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EAVE WILL DELIVER MASTERCLASSES TO SUPPORT UKRAINIAN FILM AND TV CREATORS, AS PART OF THE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UKRAINIAN FILM ACADEMY, HOUSE OF EUROPE AND NETFLIX

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LA FABRIQUE CINÉMA 2023 invites EAVE Producers to meet the projects

Dear EAVE graduates,

EAVE is delighted to continue the successful partnership with La Fabrique Cinéma de l’Institut Français in Cannes.

La Fabrique Cinéma de l’Institut français is a program designed to identify and promote filmmakers and producers from developing countries. The program offers a tailor-made support to accompany debut or second film projects, along with a number of professional partners.

The Tunisian producer Dora Bouchoucha is the patron of the 2023 edition.

EAVE organizes a special networking event at La Fabrique during Cannes Film Festival, which consists of one-on-one meetings with the projects selected for La Fabrique. 

EAVE producers will be invited to meet the international delegation of project representatives from emerging countries outside Europe.

The one-to-one meetings will be organized on the following slots at Cinémas du Monde pavilion (n°107)

• Monday May 22^nd : 10am-1pm / 2pm-3:30pm
• Tuesday May 23^rd: 10am-1pm / 2pm-5:30pm
• Wednesday May 24^th: 10am-1pm

The ten projects selected are:

NIGERIA – Galatians by Michael Omonua, produced by Abba T. Makama (Polka Dot Films) / 2nd feature film

SENEGAL – Fagadaga by Yoro Mbaye, produced by Creative Producer Indaba graduate Souleymane Kebe (Astou Productions) / 1st feature film

TUNISIA – Leïla’s Trial by Charlie Kouka, produced by Cyrine Sellami (Nomadis Images), co-producer: EAVE graduate Caroline Nataf  / 1st feature film

LEBANON – EAVE project Pigeon Wars by Dania Bdeir, produced by Interchange graduate Pierre Sarraf (Né à Beyrouth Films), EAVE graduate Sahar Yousefi / 1st feature film

EGYPT – Moonblind by Nada Riyadh, produced by EAVE graduate Ayman El Amir (Felucca Films) / 2nd feature film

ARGENTINA – The Days Off by Lucila Mariani, produced by Paula Zyngierman (MaravillaCine) / 1st feature film

CHILE – Erratics by Thomas Woodroffe, produced by Rodrigo Díaz (Fiebre) / 1st feature film

COSTA RICA – Awaiting Birds by Sofía Quirós Ubeda, produced by PUENTES graduate Mariana Murillo Quesada (Sputnik Films) / 2nd feature film

INDIA – The Sacrifice by Ridham Janve, produced by Kartikeya Naravan Singh (The Film Cafe) / 2nd feature film

PHILIPPINES – Ria by Arvin Belarmino, produced by Kristine De Leon (MUD Studios), co-producers: EAVE and TTB graduate Alemberg Ang, TTB graduate Isabelle Glachant / 1st feature film

The project descriptions are available here: https://www.lescinemasdumonde.com/en/la-fabrique/2023/projet

You can contact Thibaut Bracq at La Fabrique Cinéma to have more information about the projects and to organize the one-to-one meetings. If you know which projects you would like to meet, you can contact him directly with your list of wishes and with your available slots:  thibautbracq@hotmail.com

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MEET THE FILM COMMISSIONS: YOUR BEST CONNECTION IN LOCAL TERRITORIES

Meet the Film Commissions from all of Europe, in a selected session tailoring for your needs in producing and co-producing in Europe.

In a session created by the European Film Commissioners Network (EUFCN), the members of EAVE Network will have the chance to present their projects and needs to European film commissioners in order to facilitate and guide them to local regions and co-producing opportunities throughout Europe.

In a curated session, the producers will get access to EUFCN’s members covering all regions of Europe.

Each producer will have the chance to participate in sessions of round tables (20’ each) with representatives from relevant film commissions in the territories they’re interested in.

EUFCN gathers 91 European film commissions/film offices that provide a range of information and services to film professionals: financing advise, incentives, co- producers, access to local network, local policy and crew connections.

We will be happy to arrange the meetings according to the needs of the producers involved in the event, in order to grant the most effective connections. To this effect, we kindly request you to fill in the following google form: https://forms.gle/PeJdCM4D8jWHQ6nj9 by May 5.

Event Details

• Name of the event: EUFCN MEET WITH THE PRODUCERS
• Date: Tuesday, 23rd May
• Starting time: 10.00AM to 11.30AM, we kindly ask you to meet at 9.45 at the venue Venue: TBC, Cannes in the Marchè du Film
• Contact person: Angelica Cantisani +39 345 8078046

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EUROPE-ASIA CO-PRODUCTIONS TAKE CENTER STAGE: THE MARCHÉ DU FILM LAUNCHES ALL-NEW “SPOTLIGHT ASIA” PROGRAM

The Marché du Film, in partnership with Ties That Bind (organised by Fondo Audiovisivo FVG, EAVE, Far East Film Festival, TAICCA) and Focus Asia, is launching a new international initiative in Cannes titled Spotlight Asia. The program aims to foster more film collaborations between Asia and Europe and will welcome professionals from both continents looking to build and boost their industry networks and creative connections.

The first-ever dynamic program will feature several roundtable discussions, short presentations and networking events throughout the 2023 Marché du Film, taking place in Cannes from 16-24 May.

The collaborative events will zoom in on everything potential co-producers from Europe and Asia need to know to navigate the different levels of working together across all formats, from fiction to animation.

This is especially important given that since the pandemic, film professionals from Asian countries are returning – and in big numbers – to the Marché du Film. The number of participants from Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia has already doubled and there are five times more registered participants from Taiwan.

Celebrating this triumphant return in Cannes, the Marché du Film hopes that this new Spotlight Asia program will provide the needed solutions to make the co-production process between Asia and Europe as seamless as possible, from introducing existing funding opportunities to helping navigate each country’s specific laws and production functionalities. It will also be the first time that the Marché du Film welcomes international film fund representatives to gather in the same room and guide producers through their different funding systems.

“We strongly believe the launch of this program is both timely and crucial to foster future co-productions between Asia and Europe and we are so happy to launch it in collaboration with our partners from Ties That Bind. We are delighted to receive such support and enthusiasm for this initiative from these international film funds who are so instrumental in the co-production process between these two thriving continents.” – Guillaume Esmiol, Executive Director of the Marché du Film

“We are thrilled to launch in partnership with Marché du Film the first edition of Spotlight Asia. Spotlight Asia highlights the creative and business possibilities between Asia & Europe and reflects the newly extended scope of Ties That Bind as a unique 360° Europe-Asia hub for professionals across the value chain.” – Kristina Trapp, CEO of EAVE

Spotlight Asia is supported by the British Film Institute (BFI), the Canada Media Fund, the Center Val de Loire Ciclic, the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP), Finas, the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA) / Spain AVS Bureau (ICEX), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, the Netherlands Film Fund, the Norwegian Film Institute (NFI), the Polish Film Institute, Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) and VIPO | Visual Industry Promotion Organization.

The 2023 Spotlight Asia program will include the following events and will be open to those with a Marché du Film badge or per pre-registration:

 

SATURDAY 20 MAY

Post-Pandemic Shifts & Changes in Audiences and Industry Dynamics in Key Asian Markets

Panel | 11:30-12:30, Palais Stage

A practical overview of current trends and new patterns observed in key Asian theatrical and secondary markets in discussion with European sales agents working and curating VOD platforms.

Roadmap to Asia-Europe Funding Landscape

Networking Event for Producers & Funds | 14:00-16:00, Producers Club

A brief introduction to international, national and regional funds that support Asian-European co-productions, followed by a series of roundtable discussions with 130 attending producers and fund representatives from both continents.

Spotlight Asia Happy Hour

Networking Cocktail | 17:00-19:00, Producers Club

Sponsored by Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA).

 

SUNDAY 21 MAY

Colorful Collaborations: Sketching New Exciting Possibilities for European-Asian Animation

Panel | 15:00-16:00, Main Stage

This panel discussion will zoom in on the untapped potential of Asian countries offering co-financing opportunities for European animated films and how to act on it to bring the best of both worlds together for amazing Asian-European animation projects moving forward.

 

About Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes

The Marché du Film, the business wing of the Festival de Cannes, is the largest international gathering of professionals in the film industry. As the key stepping stone in the creation, production and distribution of films around the world, the Marché is proud to bring together over 12,500 industry professionals (including producers, distributors, festival representatives, film institutions, buyers and financiers) from over 120 countries to meet, share ideas & projects, and make deals in one unique setting.

Website: www.marchedufilm.com

About Ties That Bind & Focus Asia

Ties That Bind is the Europe-Asia Hub for all film professionals who wish to develop long-lasting industry connections between Europe and Asia. Run by the FVG Audiovisual Fund, EAVE, Far East Film Festival and TAICCA, TTB includes a Co-Production Workshop as well as the new Distribution, Sales & Animation Labs. Focus Asia is a unique market bringing together 200 professionals & key players from Asia and Europe.

Website: www.tiesthatbind.eu

 

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TIES THAT BIND celebrates the success of TIGER STRIPES and its second workshop in Udine!

We are delighted to announce the world premiere of TTB film TIGER STRIPES by Amanda Nell Eu in Cannes Critics’ Week!

The film was developed at TTB in 2019 and is produced by TTB graduate Foo Fei Ling (Ghost Grrrl Pictures, MY) in co-production with the TTB graduates Jonas Weydemann (Weydemann Bros., DE), Fran Borgia (Akanga Film Asia, SG), Yulia Evina Bhara (Kawankawan Media, ID), TTB expert Patrick Mao Huang (Flash Forward Entertainment, TW), EAVE graduate Ellen Havenith (PRPL, NL) and Still Moving (FR).

"Tiger Stripes is the 1st Malaysian film to make it into Cannes Critics’ Week — this is a momentous occasion and a dream come true for our team. Because of co-production, we made it this far and TTB has played an essential role in the development where I have found my lifelong mentors, collaborators and friends."

Foo Fei Ling

The second workshop of the 14^th edition of TIES THAT BIND will take place between April 24 – 28, 2023, in Udine, in parallel to FOCUS ASIA, the Industry section of the Udine Far East Film Festival.

The rich programme of the plenary sessions for the TTB workshop is prepared in collaboration with FOCUS ASIA. It will feature three co-production case studies, moderated by TTB Head of Studies Christophe Bruncher:

• TTB graduates Bianca Balbuena and Bradley Liew (Epicmedia Productions, PH), Junxiang Huang (Zhao Wei Films, SG) and Stefano Centini (Volos Films, TW) produced IN MY MOTHER'S SKIN by Kenneth Dagatan, which premiered in Midnight Section at Sundance 2023 as the only non-English-language film and was sold to Amazon.  
• TTB graduates Jeremy Chua (Potocol, SG) and Bostjan Virc (Studio Virc, SI) will elaborate on producing debut feature LAST SHADOW AT FIRST LIGHT by Nicole Midori Woodford.
• Emilie Georges (Paradise City Films, FR & Memento International, FR) will share her experiences on 4-country-co-production (FR-UK-GR-SG) DRIFT by Anthony Chen, shown in the Premieres Section at Sundance 2023. Sales are handled by Memento International.

Furthermore, the TTB participants will have the opportunity to receive feedback on the distribution potential of their projects from top-notch European and Asian distributors such as Kana Koido (The Klockworks, JP), Vincent Quek (Anticipate Pictures, SG), Chris Yu (Green Narae Media, KR) and TTB graduates Stephan Holl (Rapid Eye Movies, DE) and Samantha Faccio (Tucker Film, IT), and Alexis Dantec (Les Films du Losange, FR).

Sales agent Nicolas Brigaud-Robert (Playtime, FR) will elaborate on the current trends of the international market. Additional sessions will provide insight into working with private equity investors by Emilie Georges (Paradise City Films, FR & Memento International, FR) and Winnie Lau (SK Global Entertainment, US).

Individual meetings with TTB experts will be organised on topics such as Asian films and festivals with Roger Garcia (HK) and sales strategies with Yasmine Talli (mk2 films, FR). TTB’s script consultant Clare Downs (UK) will focus on developing their scripts and TTB’s pitching consultant Sibylle Kurz (DE) will work on their presentation and communication skills.

The participants will also have individual meetings with key industry professionals at Focus Asia to foster new collaborations between European and Asian professionals.

In the 14 years of its existence, TTB has become the leading training programme for European-Asian co-production, in partnership with EAVE, Europe's leading training provider for producers.

To name just some of the success stories from the last few years, TIGER STRIPES by Amanda Nell Eu (Cannes Critics’ Week 2023), MAMMALIA by Sebastian Mihăilescu (Berlinale Forum 2023), LEONOR WILL NEVER DIE by Martika Escobar (World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Innovative Spirit at Sundance 2022), AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Makbul Mubarak (FIPRESCI Award for Best Film at Venice Horizons 2022), TO THE NORTH by Mihai Mincan (Venice Horizons 2022), ARNOLD IS A MODEL STUDENT by Sorayos Prapapan (Filmmakers of the Present Locarno 2022), MONEYBOYS by C.B. Yi (Un Certain Regard in Cannes 2021), HOLY EMY by Araceli Lemos (Special Mention Award in Locarno 2021), WHETHER THE WEATHER IS FINE by Carlo Francisco Manatad (Youth Jury Award in Locarno 2021), THE SEEN AND UNSEEN by Kamila Andini (Grand Prize of the Generation 14plus International Jury at Berlinale 2018), A YELLOW BIRD by K. Rajagopal (Cannes Critics’ Week 2016).

TIES THAT BIND is organised by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund, EAVE, Udine Far East Film Festival and the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) and supported by the Creative Europe - MEDIA sub-programme of the European Union.

The selected participants are:

  Kristina Aschenbrennerova, International Film Festival Rotterdam & Slovak Queer Film Festival, Slovakia

  Ivry Braun, Yilisoo Films, France/China

Project: SPIN by Baer Xiao

  Ieva Cern, Film Jam, Lithuania

Project: CHINA SEA by Jurgis Matulevicius

  António Ferreira, Persona Non Grata Pictures, Portugal

Project: LAND OF HURRICANES by António Ferreira

  Josune Hahnheiser, Black Forest Films, Germany/Singapore

  Pedro Hernández Santos, Aquí Y Allí Films, Spain

Project: THE HIDDEN SOUND OF THINGS by Pedro Collantes

  Chris Huang, Roji Film, Japan

Project: OMIONNA by Koji Shiraishi

  Celine Kao, Ksana Films, Taiwan

  Charlotte Lelong, Trance Films, France

Project: SHE MAKES AND UNMAKES by Jonas Bak

  Wilfredo Manalang, Fusee, Philippines

Project: VIOLET FLOWER by Jerome Zamora

  Tommaso Muffato, BBC Studios, Italy/UK

  Giancarlo Nasi, Quijote Films, Italy/Chile

Project: CELESTIAL TWINS by Niles Athala

  Xuan Trang Nguyen Thi, Lagi Production, Vietnam

Project: CHA CHA CHA by Do Quoc Trung

  Ivy Shen, Betula Films, Taiwan

Project: THE LAST CHILDREN OF TOKYO by Edmund Yeo

  Jeske Van der Slikke, Hubert Bals Fund | International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands

  Aleksandra Zakharchenko, Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes, Ukraine/France

 

For more information please contact:

EAVE Project Manager - Tanika Sajatovic: tanika@eave.org

www.eave.org, www.tiesthatbind.eu

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