EAVE project AMERICAN INTERIOR to be released across four different formats
In Post-production January 2014
- THE WORLD IS MINE by Nicolae Constantin Tanase, producers: EAVE 2008 graduate Tudor Giurgiu and EAVE 2012 Film Marketing Workshop graduate Radu Stancu is ready to finish production. Shot during the summer, the project is in post-production, with one day of shooting left. The film with a budget of only €60,000 tells the story of Larisa, a teenager who lives in a small town near the Black Sea. She is expelled from school after getting into a fight with the ex-girlfriend of the boy she’s madly in love with, Florin, the town’s Don Juan. Running away from home, Larisa will soon be forced to make a decision regarding her future.
- EAVE Ties That Bind 2011 project FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE by Diep Nguyen Hoang, producer: TIES THAT BIND 2011 graduate David Lindner is in post-production in Paris.
- EAVE 2011 project MONUMENT TO MICHAEL JACKSON by Darko Lungulov, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Snezana Penev is in the very last stage of post-production.
- CORBO by writer/director Mathieu Denis, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Félize Frappier is in post-production. The story is based in Montréal in the spring of 1966. While the province of Québec is undergoing significant social change, Jean Corbo, 16, an idealistic teen born of a Québécois mother and an Italian father, is torn between two cultures, two identities. After making friends with two left-wing activists, he joins an underground group seeking to spark a socialist revolution in the province.
- BIG GAME by Jalmari Helander, co-producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer is in post-production. The action adventure with Samuel L. Jackson is about a shy 13-year-old Finnish boy who has to spend the night in a local forest to prove his manhood; but when Air Force One is shot down by terrorists and the boy meets the US president, they fight to save themselves. Production companies are Altitude Film Entertainment, Egoli Tossell Film and Subzero Film Entertainment. The film is financed by: FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (fff-bayern), Finnish Film Foundation, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), Nordic Film & Television Fund, YLE, Visionplus Fund, Bavarian Film Partners, Comerica Bank Entertainment Group and KfW Bankengruppe.
- EAVE 2012 project AMERICAN INTERIOR by Gruff Rhys, producer EAVE 2012 graduate Catryn Ramasut is a bold and ambitious multiplatform tale of adventure set for release in May 2014. AMERICAN INTERIOR is released across four different formats, each of which explores the story from a distinct angle: the album released on Turnstile, Gruff’s fourth (and best yet) solo LP features thirteen new songs inspired by Evans’ original journey; the book, a psychedelic historical travelogue in which Gruff traces Evans' incredible journey from North Wales to New Spain, alongside the tale of his own strange American road trip following in Evans' footsteps; the film, Funny, honest and inspiring, this visual document of Gruff’s 2012 tour sees fiction, fact, fantasy, myth and music documentary collide; the app, consists of one hundred separate entries (including pieces of artwork, animations, prose, film clips and original music) and creates a unique, immersive version of the John Evans story.
Page published 31 January 2014.
