10 films by EAVE producers supported by Eurimages
In development June 2016
Eurimages supports 29 co-productions: At its 143rd meeting held in Amsterdam, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund agreed to support 27 fiction, and 2 documentary feature film projects for a total amount of about 7.24 m Euros. Nine of them are produced by EAVE graduates.
- Ties That Bind project BITTER FLOWERS by Olivier Meys, producer: EAVE graduate Valerie Bournonville
- COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD by Mads Brügger, producer: EAVE graduate Bjarte Mørner Tveit
- EAVE project ANOTHER DAY IN BAGHDAD by Maysoon Pachachi, producer: EAVE graduate Talal Al-Muhanna, co-producer EAVE graduate Patrice Nezan
- MOON HOTEL KABUL, producer: EAVE graduate Anca Damian
- NEVER LET IT GO by Paul Negoescu, producer: EAVE Marketing Workshop graduate Radu Stancu
- PITY by Babis Makridis, prodducer: EAVE graduate Amanda Livanou
- SOLDIERS by Ivana Mladenovic, producer: EAVE graduate and Romanian National coordinator Ada Solomon
- UNDER THE TREE by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson, co-producer: EAVE graduate Ditte Milsted
- WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY by Iram Haq, co-producers: EAVE graduates Kasten Stöter, Tom Dercourt, Sophie Erbs, Katrin Pors and Ties That Bind participant Mikkel Jersin
- BEYOND WORDS by Urszula Antoniak, delegate producer: Lukasz Dzieciol, co-producer: Floor Onrust
The Netherlands Film Fund International Talent Programme supports the development on two new feature-film projects by EAVE graduates:
- CARGO: ORANGE by Joost van Ginkel, producer: EAVE graduate Laurette Schillings
- INVITE ME TO WAR by Shariff Korver, producer: EAVE graduate Léontine Petit
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The first 2016 funding session of Screen Flanders supports eight projects. Among them are three films by EAVE producers:
- A QUIET PASSION by Terence Davies, co-producer: EAVE graduate Peter de Maegd
- DODE HOEK (BLIND SPOT) by Nabil Ben Nadir, producer: EAVE graduate Benoît Roland and EAVE graduate Peter Bouckaert
- ROBBI, TOBBI UND DAS FLIEWATÜÜT by Jan Berger, producer: EAVE graduate Ralph Schwingel
- In its spring 2016 round, the Netherlands Film Fund and the Hubert Bals Fund Co-Production Scheme has selected THE OMISSION by Sebastian Schjaer, co-producers: EAVE graduate Denis Vaslin and EAVE+ graduate Titus Kreyenberg. The film follows the life of a young girl moving with her boyfriend and daughter to a desolate town in the south of Argentina, with the sole purpose of saving money to make their dreams come true. Production companies are Volya Films (The Netherlands), Trapecio Cine (Argentina), Unafilm (Germany) and Mandra Films (France).
The Norwegian Film Institute has given €3.6 million production funding for six upcoming Norwegian features, six documentaries and seven short films. Among them are:
- ISLAMISTEN by Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen and Adil Khan Farooq, producer: EAVE graduate Lars Løge
- MIRACLE IN MOLDOVA by Stian Indrevoll, producer: EAVE graduate Lars Løge
- THELMA by Joachim Trier, co-producers: Ties That Bind graduate Mikkel Jersin
- WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY by Iram Haq, co-producers: EAVE graduates Kasten Stöter, Tom Dercourt, Sophie Erbs, Katrin Pors and Ties That Bind participant Mikkel Jersin
The Romanian National Film Center has announced the winners of the first session of its annual production support competition, with as much as €6.8 million going to new projects.
- AND MAYBE THEY ARE STILL LIVING by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, producer: EAVE graduate Tudor Giurgiu
- BELOW SEA LEVEL by Stefan Constantinescu, producer: EAVE graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon
- GOMERA by Corneliu Porumboiu, producer: EAVE graduate Marcela Ursu
- MOROMETII 2 by Stere Gulea, producer: EAVE graduate Tudor Giurgiu
- THE BIRD WOMAN by Gheorghe Preda, producer: EAVE graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon
- THE ISLAND by EAVE graduate Anca Damian
- YOU WERE BORN FOR THIS by Radu Jude, producer: EAVE graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon
- EAVE project MENOCCHIO by Alberto Fasulo, producer: EAVE graduate Nadja Trevisan, co-producer: EAVE graduate Bogdan Craciun has received production funding by the Romanian National Film Center (CNC). The film focuses on Domenico Scandella, known as Menocchio, a miller and a free spirit of the 16th century, who was burned for being a heretic after being tried by the Inquisition. Alberto Fasulo and Enrico Vecchi wrote the script. RAI Cinema, the Italian Ministry of Culture (MIBACT), the Friuli Venezia Giulia Regional Fund and the Romanian CNC support the project. Shooting of the Italian/Romanian co-production is planned for summer/autumn 2017.
- EAVE project SIREN’S CALL by Ramin Matin, producer: EAVE graduate Emine Giyotin, co-producer: EAVE graduate and Bulgarian National Coordinator Magdelena Ilieva is about to start shooting. The black comedy is set in the New Istanbul, a city that has become a ticking time bomb conquered by chaos, engulfed by its own concrete jungle and a mob of 15 million people. Weary 9-to-5er Tahsin has had it, he’s getting out of this joint and he’s decided to take off to the picturesque Mediterranean coast. He packs his essentials, hits the road. But what begins as a hopeful journey transforms into an absurd and comical urban nightmare in this mega-city. Because even though Tahsin wants to let go of Istanbul, Istanbul is not quite ready to let go of Tahsin and doesn’t allow him to leave! The film has received production funds from both the Turkish Ministry of Culture and the National Bulgarian Film Center.
- TOTEM by Sander Burger, producers: EAVE graduate Denis Vaslin is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund and Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM). The project is aimed at children aged between nine and 12 years old. TOTEM follows 11-year-old Ama, the daughter of unsuccessful asylum seekers from Africa. She is looking for her father in wintry Rotterdam, on the night her mother and the little brother have been detained. The Dutch-German co-development fund was launched in 2015 in order to develop and co-produce quality films for children from both countries and beyond.
- THE DESERTER Petr Jarchovsky and Jan Hrebejk, producer: EAVE graduate Michal Kollar received support from the Czech State Cinematography Fund. The film ist the first part of the THE GARDEN STORE trilogy that is slated as a dramedy chronicling the life of a Czech family over three decades after World War II (the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s).
- EAVE project SOLE by Carlo Sironi, producer: EAVE graduate Giovanni Pompili, co-producer Ties That Bind graduate Karim Aitouna got support from the CNC-Mibact Italian/French Development Fund. Set in Italy, SOLE is about a young mechanic who accepts to take responsibility of a baby hoping to free himself from his past. SOLE took part in the Script Station of the Berlinale Talents 2014.
- MY LAST YEAR AS A LOSER by Ursa Menart, producer: EAVE group leader Danijel Hocevar has started shooting. The drama points out that in the last couple of years the majority of smart, educated and ambitious young people have left Slovenia or are planning to leave. A young woman, 29-year-old Špela, finds herself lonely, unemployed and stuck sleeping on her disappointed parents' couch in the midst of Slovenia's seemingly never-ending economic crisis. She decides to give herself until her 30th birthday to turn her life around, but a newfound friendship with a group of similarly fated losers threatens to even further prolong her extended adolescence. The film is produced by Danijel Hocevar through Vertigo in co-production with NuFrame and 100. The project was supported by the Slovenian Film Center. Technical support has been provided by Studio Viba Film. Casting for the main roles is scheduled for autumn 2016; the shooting will take place in June 2017 in Ljubljana and its surroundings.
Page published 29 June 2016. Updated 30 June 2016.
