EAVE project EMILIA. BREAKING FREE in final editing
In post-production January 2017
- THE STOLEN by Niall Johnson, co-producer: EAVE graduate Michael Geidel is in post-production. Set in New Zealand during the country’s gold rush of the 1860s, Eve will play an upper class British woman searching for her kidnapped child in a perilous wilderness inhabited by ex-cons, with Davenport playing her romantic charge. New Zealand native Emily Corcoran, wrote the screenplay and also produced.
- WAITING FOR INVASION by Neringa Medutyte, co-producer: B’EST graduate Lukas Trimonis is in post-production. The film is a coming-of-age story about two young Lithuanians conscripted in case of a Russian aggression. “I wanted to tell the story of my small country, Lithuania, which has to live under constant Russian aggression. My film focuses on two young conscripts, who are still carrying the tragic burden of 50 years of Soviet Occupation, which touched every Lithuanian family including my own, and who are learning to prevent it from happening again,” says Neringa Medutyte.
- THE WAY OF THE EAST by Katarina Mutic, producer: EAVE graduate Milan Stojanovic is completed. The documentary follows a fortune-teller. Milan Stojanovi? is producing through Serbia’s Sense Production in coproduction with the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. The film benefitted from postproduction support from Film Center Serbia. “The Way of the East started off as an exam task for Katarina, but the story and Katarina’s work with the characters surpassed that framework by far, bringing extraordinary insight into the everyday life of an (extra)-ordinary family in a remote Serbian village,” Stojanovic said. Shooting took place from June 2014 to August 2015. All 14 shooting days were spent on location in East Serbia. No distributor or sales agent is attached to the project yet. TV rights haven’t been bought yet and the premiere date has yet to be determined.
- EAVE project EMILIA. BREAKING FREE by Donatas Ulvyda, producer: EAVE graduate Zivile Gallego is completed. Set in the early 1970s in Soviet-occupied Lithuania, EMILIA is the story of an aspiring young actress by the same name who pursues her career in a theater torn between loyalty to the system and dreams of freedom. Drawing strength from a mystery buried deep in the memories of her childhood, Emilia walks a fine line between passion, intrigue and betrayal, only to become a symbol of national defiance. Supported by: the Lithuanian Film Center, MEDIA programme, Lithuania’s Ministry of Culture, Lithuanian National Television.
- MARITA by Cristi Iftime, producer: EAVE graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon and Marketing Workshop graduate Radu Stancu is completed. The story centres on Costi, a 30-year-old man who suddenly comes up with the idea of visiting his father, Sandu, planning a surprise reunion with the rest of the family, whom Sandu has always neglected. The relationships within the family will be responsible for a series of surprises throughout the 100-minute film. MARITA was developed with ScripTeast support. The project received support from the Romanian National Film Center and from the MEDIA programme.
Page published 27 January 2017.
