EAVE Workshop News May 2012
Interchange and B`EST announce the 2012 selections
Interchange: selection announced for 2012 edition
TorinoFilmLab, Dubai International Film Festival and EAVE proudly announce the selection for the third edition of the Interchange programme, realized with the aim of building cooperation between film professionals from Europe and the Arab world.
The following 10 teams of directors and producers will participate in the programme, developing fiction feature films:
- ANGELS OF EGYPT by Adrianos Georgantas, producer: Nataly Anastasia Douka
- BROTHER IN LAW by Elie Khalifé, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Francine Lusser
- DAMASCENES by Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf, producer: Palmyre Badinier
- HEATWAVE by Joyce Nashawati, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Alexandra Boussiou
- HOURYA by Mehdi Hmili, producer: Mohamed Ali Ben Hamra
- I AM HERE BUT YOU CAN’T SEE ME by Feyrouz Serhal, producer: Oualid Mouaness
- IN WHICH LAND YOU DIE by Ahmed Maher, producer: Amr Waked
- PETRA & JOSEPHINE by Caroline Chomienne, producer: Dominique Bouyala-Dumas
- THE SLAP by Burhan Qurbani and Martin Behnke, producer: PUENTES 2011 graduate Johanna Teichmann
- 99 by Hicham Lasri, producer: Lamia Chraibi
The 3 script editor trainees who will take part in Interchange 2012 are: Menna Ekram, Suha Najjar and Myriam Sassine.
Participants will develop their projects during 2 residential workshops and 2 on-line sessions. The first workshop takes place in Turin on May 26-31. The programme will be concluded during the Dubai International Film Festival on December 7-13, 2012: this final workshop will include a pitching event and one-to-one meetings with film industry professionals from EU and Arab countries.
http://eave.org/programmes/interchange-2012/
Baltic Bridge East by West Producers’ Workshop Announces Project Slate
The Baltic Bridge East by West (B’EST), a new initiative designed for feature film projects from the European Union and the CIS countries and Georgia, is announcing its first project slate in Cannes on May 22, 2012. The workshop is held by the organizers of Baltic Event (Estonia) and Eurasia Film Meetings in cooperation withEAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs), Rfilms, Tandem Production (Russia), and with the support from MEDIA Mundus. B’EST consists of two workshops, which take place on June 23-27 in Moscow, within the framework of Moscow International Film Festival, and November 25-28 in Tallinn, within the framework of Baltic Event.
The European Union half of the slate is represented by projects from Finland, Austria, Germany, Latvia, and France. French Aurora Films is looking for co-producers for Guillaume André directed project Saaremaa, the title of which refers to a link with Estonia. Amour Fou participates with the Soviet prison camp drama Francuski, directed by Goran Rebic, an award-winning director of Serbian origin, who grew up in Austria. Napafilms, Finland, presents youth drama Finka by Reetta Aalto, a young writer-director who holds a degree in Russian language and literature. Tasse Films’ orphan drama Mellow Mud by young Latvian filmmaker Renars Vimba represents the Baltic countries. On a lighter note, the selection includes the romantic comedy Good-bye, produced by Germany’s Jolle-Film and directed by Kazakhstan-born filmmaker Anna Hoffmann.
On the Eastern front, projects from Georgia, Russia, and Armenia have been selected to participate in the workshop. Russia is represented by three projects: Vita Activa’s psychological drama The General, directed by Georgian-born Bakur Bakuradze, whose first and second feature films were selected to Cannes Film Festival; apocalyptic action horror Hogweed submitted by Russia’s biggest independent studio CTB Film Company andSharnohoy – the Yellow Dog, Geser Film Studio’s contribution, which is directed by Bair Dishenov from the republic of Buryatia on the shores of Lake Baikal, who won Crystal Bear in Berlin for his debut short. Georgian company Cinetech brings the drama Alien House, directed by Rusudan Glurjidze, to B’EST slate. The line-up is completed by Armenian project Lucid Place, produced by Parallels Film Production and directed by its founder Hovhannes Galstyan.
Baltic Event has previously collaborated with the Moscow Business Square, when the Media International supported initiative Baltic Event for East was organized in 2010. From BE’E selection, Sergei Loznitsa’s In the Fog holds its world premiere at Cannes Film Festival, where he also presented his hugely successul debut feature My Joy in 2010.
We are excited to have a chance to work with a list of established producers at B’EST, and are honoured to have earned their trust to attend our brand new initiative. Among them, France’s Aurora Films has produced several award-winning feature films during its decade-long history, Austrian Amour Fou’s breakthrough came in 2003 with four of its films invited to Cannes Film Festival, Alise Gelze had already produced two successful feature films in Latvia before starting her own company Tasse Films, Vita Aktiva, helmed by experienced producer Julia Mishkinene, also produced Bakur Bakuradze’s previous highly prized films, and CTB Film Company has released more than sixty feature films since its foundation in 1992, and is rated as one of Russia’s seven major filmmakers with an annual budget of federal funding.
Additional information:
Riina Sildos
Baltic Event managing director
e-mail: balticevent@poff.ee
cell: +372 50 48 985
Anna Katchko
EAVE National Coordinator for Russia
Email: akatchko@gmail.com
Cell: +7 909 1658236
Baltic Event
Page published 29 May 2012.
