EAVE 2009 project CLASH receives support from Business Location Südtirol-Alto Adige
In Development / Pre-production June 2013
At its 131st meeting held in Marseille last week, the Eurimages Board of Management granted support to 21 co-production projects, for a total of € 6 710 000. Seven of the films are produced by EAVE graduates:
- BOUBOULE by Bruno Deville, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
- GRÜN GRÜN GRÜN by Michaela Kirst, producers: EAVE 2007 graduate Ebba Sinzinger and EAVE 2011 graduate Monica Lazurean-Gorgan
- LIFE ACCORDING TO NINO by Simone van Dusseldorp, producers: EAVE 2011 graduate Floor Onrust
- SANGAILE by Alanté Kavaité, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Zivile Gallego
- DE SURPRISE by Mike van Diem, co-producers: EAVE 1994 graduate Antonio Lombardo, EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kellerher
- THE WORD by Anna Kazejak, producer: EAVE 2012 Lukasz Dzieciol
- TUSSEN 10:00 – 12:00 by Peter Hoogendoorn, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Tomas Leyers
The first 2013 funding session of Screen Flanders supports 20 productions for a total amount of 4,995,000 €. Among them are five films by EAVE producers:
- LIFE ACCORDING TO NINO by Simone van Dusseldorp, producers: EAVE 2011 graduate Floor Onrust
- SCHONE HANDEN by Tjebbo Penning, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert
- THE TREATMENT by Hans Herbots, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert
- TUSSEN 10:00 – 12:00 by Peter Hoogendoorn, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Tomas Leyers
- OOPS NOAH IS GONE by Toby Genkel, co-producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Maite Woköck
The Swedish Film Institute supports five features and three documentaries with €7.2 million. Three films are made by EAVE graduates:
- TOMMY by Tarik Saleh, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Kristina Åberg
- BURN HEART BURN by Ronnie Sandahl, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Annika Hellström
- KICK IT by Katarina Launing, producer: EAVE 2001 graduate Karl Fredrik Ulfung
- EAVE 2009 project CLASH by Jakob D. Weydemann, producer EAVE 2012 graduate Jonas Weydemann received development funding from Business Location Südtirol-Alto Adige
- PRÉJUDICE by Antoine Cuypers, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum is in development. The film shows an eventful family dinner, punctuated by resentment and paranoia.
- LES CHEVALIERS BLANCS by Joachim Lafosse, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart is in development. Lafosse once again finds inspiration in a news item with a story that hit the headlines, the Arche de Zoé case, a French organization that attempted to take out of Chad about a hundred children presented as orphans from Darfour in 2007. The drama receives funding from Wallonie Bruxelles Images. Filming should begin in 2014.
- SANGAILE by Alanté Kavaité, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Zivile Gallego is in pre-production. The drama about a young girl with a fear of heights who dreams of becoming an aerial acrobatics pilot is a co-production with Les Films d‘Antoine. The crew is Lithuanian except the director of photography Dominique Colin. Filming will begin at the end of July in Lithuania. Post-production will be carried out in France.
- DE BENDE VAN NIJVEL by Stijn Coninx, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert is in development. The movie project is devoted to the "Killers of Le Brabant", who were responsible for a particularly bloody series of armed attacks and violent hold-ups, which took place in the 1980's in Belgium and northern France. The screenplay is based on the book Ne tirez pas, c’est mon papa, written by David Van de Steen, who survived one of the killings but witnessed his parents and sister die before his eyes. The team hopes to release the film in 2015.
- FORGOTTEN BRIDES by writer/director Yeliz Shukri, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Stavros Papageorghiou is in pre-production. The documentary is investigating the fate of thousands of Turkish-Cypriot girls sold into marriage between 1920 and 1940 through the story of one of them. Fetime Mentesh was exchanged for 20 British Pounds at the age of 14 in 1935 and sent to marry in Palestine, never to see her homeland again. FORGOTTEN BRIDES is co-financed by Cyprus Cinema Advisory Committee/Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus. The project is supported by the MEDIA Development Programme. The film will be shot ten days in Israel/Palestine in September and another ten days in Cyprus. It is set to be finished at the end of 2013, with the premiere expected in 2014.
Page published 28 June 2013. Updated 1 July 2013.
