EAVE project MONUMENT TO MICHAEL JACKSON receives production support from Croatia
In Development / Pre-production August 2013
The Croatian Audiovisual Center has announced the production and development grants for 2013:
- RAZRED by Vesna Cudic, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Siniša Juricic and
- ŽIVOT OD MILIJUN DOLARA by Robert Tomic Zuber, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Siniša Juricic, receive production grants for feature documentaries
- EAVE 2011 project MONUMENT TO MICHAEL JACKSON by Darko Lungulov, producers: EAVE 2011 graduate Snezana Penev and EAVE 2011 graduate Aneta Lesnikovska is funded with a production grant for feature minority co-productions
The German Federal Film Board supports 11 film projects with a total budget of € 3.3 m. Among the eleven feature film projects is:
- ALS WIR TRÄUMTEN by Andreas Dresen, producer: EAVE group leader Peter Rommel
- LOUDER THAN BOMBS by Joachim Trier, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Sigve Endresen, co-producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert received €2 million backing from the Norwegian Film Institute. Scripted by Eskil Vogt, the €6.8 million production stars Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne and US actor Jesse Eisenberg in the story of a famous woman war photographer, Laura, who is killed in a car accident. The Motlys production is co-produced by Denmark’s Nimbus Film, France’s Memento Films, Germany’s Majade Films and Boda Fide Productions (US). Shooting is due to start in September.
- THE REAPER by Zvonimir Juric, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ankica Juric Tilic , co-producer EAVE Film Finance Forum 2010 graduate is set to begin production in September. The film recounts three stories that take place during one night, all dealing with Ivo, a farm laborer and convicted rapist who has done his time in prison. The stories gradually construct a gloomy picture of his life and a region trapped and imprisoned by war, just as Ivo is by his crime. The film will be shot on locations around Zagreb for seven weeks on a budget of 1.1 m EUR. The Croatian Audiovisual Center is funding and the project also won a development grant within the Media Slate development support program.
- EAVE 2008 graduate Tudor Giurgiu is developing a feature based on the international art theft sensation last year that reached a tragic resolution in Romania. The theft and likely destruction of seven paintings by Picasso, Monet, Gauguin, Matisse and Lucian Freud, perpetrated by six Romanians in Rotterdam's Kunsthal Museum during the night of 15-16 October, has inspired the project. The project is still in the documentation and early screenwriting stage, but Tudor Giurgiu is already in contact with producers from Great Britain, Holland and USA for setting upa possible co-production.
Page published 28 August 2013.
