3 films by EAVE producers supported by the German FFA
In Development / Pre-Production August 2016
The Netherlands Film Fund is supporting three new fiction features and two new documentaries. The feature films include:
- GEK VAN ORANJE by Pim van Hoeve, producer: EAVE graduates Arnold Heslenfeld, Laurette Schillings, Frans Van Gestel
- JADE by Sacha Polak, producer: EAVE graduate Marleen Slot
- THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE by Clara van Gool, producer: EAVE+ graduate Hanneke Niens
The German Federal Film Board (FFA) ist funding 12 projects, among them are three films produced by EAVE graduates:
- 3 DAYS IN QUIBERON by Emily Atef, producer: EAVE graduate Karsten Stöter
- ELECTRIC GIRL by Ziska Riemann, producer: EAVE graduate Nicole Gerhards
- SUBMERGENCE by Wim Wenders, producer: EAVE graduate Gian-Piero Ringel
- THE BLACK HEART OF FORESTS by Serge Mirzabekiantz, producers: EAVE Marketing Workshop graduate Julie Esparbes and PUENTES graduate Anthony Rey gets supprot from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. The film tells the story of Nicholas who is 16 years old and lives in foster care. Camille, his girlfriend, is a few months pregnant. They decide to run away and hide in the forest while trying to find a solution to their predicament. In the heart of this mysterious forest, Nicholas discovers his past as an abandoned child. A succession of ordeals and encounters will turn him into a man and the dad he never had. But at what cost? Supported by Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Communauté française de Belgique and the Télédistributeurs Wallons.
- ZERO IMPUNITY, by Nicolas Blies, Stéphane Hueber-Blies and EAVE graduate Marion Guth is supported by FILMFUND (LU) and CNC (FR). The feature animated documentary produced by a_BAHN decrypts impunity and how rape is used as a weapon in current armed conflicts. Despite increasingly refined war technology, mass rape is used as a tool of war in modern combat. Some 25,000 to 40,000 women were victims of mass rape during the Balkan war 1992-1995. Twenty years after these crimes, only very few cases of war crimes of sexual violence have been investigated and prosecuted. For the women in the film the rapes remain a dark shadow in their lives enshrouded by taboo. For these women legal justice is the only hope to regain integrity and life. However, justice fails and betrays them all the way to the International Criminal Court of Justice in The Hague.
- THELMA by Joachim Trier, co-producers: Ties That Bind graduate Mikkel Jersin and EAVE+ graduate Matias Nohrborg is in pre-production. The supernatural thriller follows a young woman who falls in love and realises she has frightening and inexplicable powers. Scripted with Trier’s usual partner and director colleague Eskil Vogt, the film will shoot from September. Support comes from Eurimages, The Norwegian Film Institute, The Danish Film Institute, the Copenhagen Film Fund and Media.
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- APRÈS LA GUERRE by Annarita Zambrano, producer: EAVE graduate Tom Dercourt starts shooting. The plot: the murder of a judge reopens old political wounds between Italy and France and stirs up memories of the Years of Lead. Executive-produced by Stéphanie Douet for Sensito Films and Tom Dercourt for Cinéma Defacto, APRÈS LA GUERRE is being co-produced by Italian outfit Movimento Film. Having secured backing from such sources as the CNC’s advance on receipts, the Aquitaine region, the Gan Foundation, the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (MiBACT) and the Emilia-Romagna region. The six-week shoot will take place between 5 September and 25 October in the Landes department and in Bologna.
Page published 30 August 2016.
