EAVE producers shooting in Canada, Germany, Romania, France and Belgium
In production August 2013
- EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE by Wim Wenders, producer: EAVE graduate Gian-Piero Ringel is shooting. The film about a writer who accidentally kills a boy in a traffic accident and gets closer to the boy's mother and brother, is co-procduced by Göta Film, Mer Film and ZDF/Arte. Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Eurimages, German Federal Film Board (FFA), German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) and Dutch Film Fund are funding the project. Shooting on locations in Canada lasts until January 2014.
- SCHÖNEFELD BOULEVARD by Sylke Enders, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Susann Schimk is in production. Cindy lives next to the unfinished Berlin Schönefeld Airport, eking out her teenage years between her nasty friends, her little dog Werner and her fatalistic neighbor. She lives in the Berlin suburb Schönefeld, where in addition to the construction of the planned airport BER Cindy’s hopes also stand still. But when she gets to know the international engineers of the future runway, a jolt goes through her dull existence. Cindy smells the taste of the wide world and breaks out from the dreary suburban existence. Supported by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and DFF. Shooting in Berlin and Brandenburg is planned until September 20.
- TOUS LES CHATS SONT GRIS by Savina Dellicour, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Donato Rotunno is shooting in Brussels. The movie tells the story of Paul, a private investigator, and Dorothy. He lived on the margins of the self-righteous society of Brussels, she grew up in the midst of it. The only thing that links them is that Paul knows he is Dorothy’s biological father. As the years went by, he lived with this secret and fondly watched her grow up from afar. They probably would never have talked if Dorothy hadn’t one day decided to knock on his door. She heard about his detective work and would like him to help her find her biological father. The Tarantula production has a budget of 1.4 million EUR, with backing from the CCA and Wallimage.
- MON AMIE VICTORIA by Jean-Paul Civeyrac, co-producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart is shooting. The film tells the story of a young girl who discovers the life of a bourgeois family and marvels at it. Years later she has a brief affair with their son and they have a daughter together, however, she keeps her presence secret from him, raising their daughter as a single parent until she desires a better life for them both. Based on the novel Victoria et les Staveney by British author Doris Lessing, the film is supported by Canal +, CNC, Ciné+ and Soficinéma. Shooting in France started in August.
- JIMMY’S HALL by Ken Loach, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney is in production. Ken Loach directs this film about James Gralton, the Irish communist leader who set up a dance hall in Effrinagh, County Leitrim, which he used to disseminate his political views. After being opposed by the Catholic Church, Gralton was arrested and deported to the US in 1933. Partners of the Sixteen Films production include Why Not and Element Pictures, Film4, Irish Film Board and British Film Institute (BFI).
- AMERICA, HERE WE COME by Razvan Savescu, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Tudor Giurgiu is shooting. Written by Savescu and Oana Ioachim, the comedy tracks a group of provincial actors crossing the sea from Romania to the USA for the first time. Budgeted at 550,000 EUR, the project won a production grant of 168,000 EUR from the National Centre for Cinema in 2011.
- THE WORLD IS MINE by Nicolae Constantin Tanase, producers: EAVE 2008 graduate Tudor Giurgiu and EAVE Film Marketing Workshop 2012 garduate Radu Stancu is in production. The script written by Raluca Manescu follows 16-year-old Larisa, who is in love with the most beautiful boy in high school and hopes to succeed in the unfriendly environment of a small town where money and corruption make the rules. The actors are mainly young people selected on Facebook during the first half of 2013. Shooting started in mid-July and will wrap in two weeks, employing locations in Constanta and Bucharest. The budget is 400,000 EUR, sourced exclusively from private parties.
Page published 28 August 2013.
