EAVE 2011 project THE HERE AFTER receives Eurimages support
In Development / Pre-production October 2013
The Eurimages Fund has announced support of 20 films following its 15-17 October 2013 meeting held in Vilnius. The films, including features, animation and documentaries, will share a total of 6.1m EUR. Among the 20 films supported 9 are by EAVE graduates:
- ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE by Raul de la Fuente, co-producer EAVE 1995 graduate Ralph Schwingel
- UNTIL I LOSE MY BREATH, co-producer EAVE+ 2013 graduateTitus Kreyenberg
- KOSAC by Zvonimir Juric, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ankica Juric Tilic
- 1001 NIGHTS by Miguel Gomes, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jonas Dornbach
- THE GIRL KING by Mika Kaurismaki, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Martin Persson
- MIEKKAILIJA by Klaus Härö, co-producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Kaarle Aho
- EAVE 2011 project THE HERE AFTER by Magnus von Horn, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Mariusz Wlodarski, co-producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Sophie Erbs
- 1989 by Anders Ostergaard, co-producer: EAVE group leader Lise Lense-Møller
- THE LOBSTER by Yorgos Lanthimos, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney
- RICHARD THE STROK by Toby Genkel, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Kristine Knudsen is in pre-production. Richard - a sparrow - is adopted by and grows up with a couple of storks, convinced he is himself a stork; problems arise when the storks, as migratory birds, leave for Africa to spend the winter. He wants to go, too, and starts hitchhiking through Europe, by bus, train and boat. The German-Norwegian project a €9.1 million, 3D-animated feature from an original screenplay by Iranian-German writer and producer Reza Memari – will go into production next March with €0.4 million funding from the Norwegian Film Institute.
- TIES THAT BIND 2011 project THE WINNER by TTB 2011 graduate Rina Yanti Harahap is in pre-production. The release of the film in Indonesia is scheduled for 2014. Harahap is also in preparation with VOICES OF HEAVEN, a film about Java culture.
www.tiesthatbind.eu/portfolio/the-winner
- PUENTES 2009 project I DREAM IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE by Ernesto Contreras, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Raymond van der Kaaij was granted government support through Foprocine, the Mexican fund for Quality Film Production. The film tells the story of American linguist Robert Ambers who, while trying to save a mysterious Mexican indigenous language from oblivion, unearths the secret of its last two speakers, changing both life and death. The script was developed with support of the MEDIA Program of the European Union and the Rotterdam Media Fund. The film will be co-produced by Mexican based Agencia SHA and with this will be the first Dutch-Mexican co-production. Shooting is scheduled for late 2014 while financing and casting are currently in full swing.
- THE LOBSTER by Yorgos Lanthimos, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney is in development. Dogtooth and Alps director Lanthimos and his regular co-writer Efthimis Filippou wrote the love story, set in a dystopian future where single people are given strict conditions for finding mates. Element Pictures, Faliro House, Haut Et Court, Limp and Scarlet Films are the production companies. Shooting in Ireland will start in spring 2014.
Page published 31 October 2013.
