EAVE project OUR SUN shooting now
In Production October 2014
- THE TREASURE by Corneliu Porumboiu, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Marcela Ursu is shooting. Porumboiu wrote the screenplay, which follows two men as they face a series of misadventures in their quest to find a treasure. Shooting will last for one month and will take place in Bucharest and the county of Teleorman. The project received a grant of about €350,000 from the Romanian National Film Center. THE TREASURE is backed by ARTE France Cinéma and HBO.
- Interchange 2012 project THALA MY LOVE by Mehdi Hmili, producer: Interchange 2012 graduate Mohamed Ali Ben Hamra is in production. The film tells a drama taking place in the village of Thala during the Tunisian Revolution. The project is granted by the Tunisian Ministry of Culture, developed at INTERCHANGE 2012, winner of Cinemed Montpellier Development grant funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and winner of the SANAD development grant.
- IT’S TIME by Adrian Sitaru, producer: EAVE 2014 participant Anamaria Antoci is shooting. The film follows a modern Romanian family that starts to disintegrate when the gynaecologist father is accused by his grown up children of performing abortions during the Communist regime. Adrian Sitaru wrote the script based on an idea by actress Alina Grigore (Best Intentions), and he is producing through 4Proof Film in co-production with Grigore’s company InLight Center.
- EAVE 2013 project OUR SUN by Joost van Ginkel, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Ellen Havenith is shooting. OUR SUN is a mosaic drama consisting of five storylines that get interweaved. In the film we follow six characters that voluntarily or involuntarily have moved to Amsterdam and who seem to have nothing more in common than their far away country of birth. Still, they influence each other’s lives irreversibly. OUR SUN is a production of PRPL and Bastide Films in co-production with Go?taFilm, Film i Va?st (Sweden) and KaBoAl Pictures (Bulgaria), and is supported by The Netherlands Film Fund and Film Production Incentive, the Swedish Film Institute, the Bulgarian National Film Center and Eurimages. Principal photography is taking place in and around Amsterdam and in Sofia, Bulgaria.
- LA VOLANTE by Christophe Ali and Nicolas Bonilauri, producers: EAVE+ graduate Tom Dercourt and EAVE 1999 graduate Donnato Rotunno is in production. The story sees 27-year-old Thomas urgently rush his wife Audrey to the maternity ward of a hospital one night in his car. On the way, he knocks down a young man and fatally injures him. At the hospital, his son Léo comes into the world while a few metres away, Marie-France, the mother of the young man, finds out that he is dead. Seven years later, she is hired as a secretary in Thomas’ office, while he remains completely unaware of their shared past. LA VOLANTE is co-produced by Belgian firm Artemis Productions. Having been pre-purchased by OCS (Orange Cinéma Séries), the film is also being backed by the Lorraine region, Film Fund Luxembourg, Tax Shelter Films Funding and the MEDIA Programme. The shoot, which will take place in Metz, Luxembourg and Belgium, and will wrap on December 2.
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- TAJ MAHAL by Nicolas Saada, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman is filming. Based on the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai that shook the city to its very core, the story revolves around Louise, an 18-year-old girl who is leaving with her family to go to India, where her father has just got a job. The family is initially put up in a suite in the luxurious Taj Mahal hotel. One evening, while her parents are out having dinner in the city, she is alone in her bedroom and starts to hear strange noises coming from the hotel corridors. Within minutes she realises that a terrorist attack is under way. Her only link to the outside world is her phone, which allows her to stay in contact with her father, who desperately tries to reach her in a city plunged into chaos. Co-produced by France 3 Cinéma and pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+, the feature is also supported by the advance on receipts of the CNC and by Backup Films. The filming schedule includes a three-week shoot in India and five weeks of shooting in a studio in the Paris region.
- L’EFFET AQUATIQUE by Solveig Anspach, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman started shooting. Written by the director together with Jean-Luc Gaget, the story sees Samir, who works as a crane operator in Montreuil, fall head over heels in love with Agathe, who he bumps into in a café one day. When he finds out that she is a lifeguard at the municipal swimming pool, he cannot think of any other way of getting close to her than to sign up for swimming classes with her – even though he can swim perfectly well already… The film is co-produced by Icelandic company Zik Zak, pre-purchased by OCS (Orange Cinéma Séries), backing from the Indéfilms Sofica and aid from the Icelandic Film Center, among other support. The shoot will take place for ten days in Montreuil, before continuing in Reykjavik for 20 days next May.
Page published 30 October 2014. Updated 31 October 2014.
