EAVE producers shooting in Argentina, Mozambique, the UK, Germany, Romania and Slovakia
In Production August 2015
- HUNTING SEASON by Natalia Garagolia, producer: Puentes graduate Benjamin Domenech, co-producer: EAVE graduate Philippe Avril is in production. Nahuel is finishing high-school in Buenos Aires and has recently lost his mother. No one from his closest environment can take charge of him so he is put under his father’s custody for three months until he turns 18. His father Ernesto is a tough and silent hunter in San Martin de los Andes, a small village near the mountains in southern Argentina. They barely remember each other after 10 years of distance. As the journey begins, the wilderness becomes Nahuel’s new environment. There is no “Mother Nature” to welcome him with open arms. Instead, he crashes into a cruel and hostile scenery where the survival of the fittest rules. Supported by INCAA and the Doha Film Institute.
- TOUCH ME NOT by Adina Pintilie, producers: EAVE graduates Monica Lazurean-Gorgan, EAVE graduate Karsten Stöter and EAVE graduate Philippe Avril is in shooting. The film follows the emotional journeys of three people in their search for intimacy. The film is supported by: Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), Romanian Film Fund, Torino Film Lab, Cinefoundation, Media Development, Binger Film Lab, Nipkow Program.
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- THE TRAIN OF SALT AND SUGAR Licínio Azevedo, co-producer EAVE graduate Philippe Avril is in production. In 1989, fifteen years after independence, Mozambique was a country ruined by civil war. Even sugar, once produced in large quantities, has become rare and precious. From Nampula to Cuamba, the train is the only hope for hundreds of civilians willing to risk everything, including their lives, to exchange a few bags of salt for Mozambican sugar Malawi. The trip goes five miles an hour on sabotaged line sections. Obstacles and constant disasters rendered vulnerable all travelers. The Convoy of Salt and Sugar is a story of faith, hope, and unexpected love. The film is supported by Eurimages.
- MOON DOGS by Philip John, producer: EAVE graduate Jacqueline Kerrin started principal photography on location in Scotland. The film follows two teenage stepbrothers, Michael and Thor on a road trip from Shetland to Glasgow, and an enigmatic girl, Caitlin who becomes a bone of contention. The Scottish Playwrights Studio, Creative Scotland and Ffilm Cymru Wales developed the film, with production funding from Creative Scotland, Ffilm Cymru Wales and the Irish Film Board.
- A QUIET PASSION by Terence Davies, co-producer: EAVE graduate Peter De Maegd is in production. The film follows the life of Emily Dickinson through her days as a schoolgirl to the later years in her life as a reclusive poet.
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- RICHARD THE STORK by Toby Genkel and Reza Memari, producer: EAVE graduate Kristine Knudsen is in production. Orphaned at birth and raised by storks, the sparrow Richard believes he is one of them. But when the time comes to migrate, his stork family must reveal his true identity and leave him behind in the forest, since he would not survive the journey to Africa.
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- THIS BEAUTIFUL FANTASTIC by Simon Aboud, producer: EAVE graduate Christine Alderson is in production. The film is a contemporary fairy tale revolving around the unlikely friendship between a reclusive young woman with dreams of being a children’s book author and a cantankerous widower, set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London.
- SHE IS A HARBOUR by Iveta Grófová, producer: EAVE participant Katarina Krnácová, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jiri Konecny is shooting. The film is about children who feel safer outside on the street than at home. Ten-year-old Jarka is such a child. Her mother doesn’t want to be a mother. Jarka spends most of her time alone. She lives in her apartment full of strange visitors where she doesn't even have a bed to call her own. Jarka desperately seeks the love of her indifferent and often depressed mother, but she finds it accidentally when she briefly becomes a “mother” to two babies. Development and production of the film have been supported by the Slovak Audiovisual fund, the State Cinematography Fund and Media – Creative Europe. The premiere is planned for the second half of 2016.
Page published 20 August 2015.
