EAVE project CHRISTIAN in pre-production
In Development / Pre-production December 2013
- Venice’s Biennale College – the development and production workshop for micro-budget films - has selected three films for production, including BLOOD CELLS by Joseph Bull and Luke Seomore, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate and group leader Samm Haillay. A decade after a catastrophe destroyed his family and their farm, an eruption from the past compels an exiled young man to embark on an odyssey through the broken and beautiful margins of contemporary Britain.
In its third funding round in 2013 the South Tyrolean Film Fund BLS supports ten projects with an overall volume of 2 M Euro. Among them are the following films by EAVE graduates:
- CAFFÈ by Christiano Bortone, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Christine Alderson
- PERSEVERANCE by Miha Knific, producers: EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisha Juricic and EAVE 2011 graduate Snezana Penev
- ANNE FRANK ANIMATION by Ari Folman, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum is in development. The Israeli director is set to script and direct a family driven animation film based on Anne Frank’s life and diary. The film will be produced by Purple Whale Films, a new Belgian outfit, co-owned by Folman’s Israeli production company, Bridgit Folman Film Gang, and Diana Elbaum’s Belgian production company Entre Chien et Loup. It marks the first time a director-producer team has been granted complete access to archives of the Anne Frank Fonds Basel founded by Otto Frank. Production is due to start in winter 2014.
- IN SEARCH OF A MIRACLE by Konstantin Bojanov co-producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Janja Kralj and EAVE 2007 graduate Serge Guez is in pre-production. Based on the non-fiction bestseller Nine Lives by William Dalrymple, this documentary follows four individuals in contemporary India who try to transcend the limits of their everyday existence through escape or devotion to a higher power. Produced by Crescendo Films, Film And Music Entertainment (F&ME), KinoElektron and Overdose Joint. Shooting is planned for January 2014 in India.
- EAVE 2007 graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon has several films in development: THE DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND ME by Mona Nicoara, who is co-producing through her company Sat Mic, TARZAN’S TESTICLES by Alexandru Solomon, co- produced by EAVE 2011 graduate Cedric Bonin, ONE STEP BEHIND THE SERAPHIM, the first feature film of Daniel Gabriel Sandu. Through her company Parada Film, Ada Solomon develops several international projects as minority co-producer. BANAT by Adriano Valerio, produced by EAVE 2011 graduateFabio Battistin. VIKING LINE STORY by Stefan Constantinescu, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Kristina Åberg. Maren Ade’s TONY ERDMANN, producer: EAVE2007 graduate Jonas Dornbach.
- MELODY by Bernard Bellefroid, co-producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and EAVE Head of Studies Jani Thiltges is in pre-production. The film is produced by Artémis Production in co-production with Samsa Films (Luxembourg) and Mille et Une Films (France), with the backing of the CCA, RTBF, the Film Fund Luxembourg and Wallimage/Bruxellimage. Filming will start on January 13 for 6 weeks in Brittany, Luxembourg, Odessa and Liverpool.
- The Bulgarian National Film Center has selected three Romanian projects for minority co-production support: among them EAVE 2011 project CHRISTIAN by EAVE 2008 graduate Tudor Giurgiu, produced by EAVE 2011 graduate Oana Giurgiu, and Radu Jude’s AFERIM, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon.
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Page published 17 December 2013. Updated 18 December 2013.
