EAVE project SILENCE OF THE SEASHELL receives WCF Europe support
In Development/Pre-Production July 2016
The World Cinema Fund (WCF) jury made their selection out of 131 submissions from a total of 46 countries and awarded production funds totalling 355,000 €. Six of the selected films are produced by EAVE graduates.
WCF Production Funding
- LA CAMA by Monica Lairana, producer: EAVE graduate Gema Juarez Allen
- EAVE project ROJO by Benjamin Naishtat, producers: EAVE graduates Barbara Sarasola Day, Marleen Slot, Ingmar Trost
- PUENTES project THE HEIRESSES by Marcelo Martinessi, producer: PUENTES graduate Karen Fraenke
WCF Europe
- CANDELARIA by Jhonny Hendrix, co-producers: EAVE graduates Verona Meier and Dag Hoel
- PUENTES project LOS PERROS by Marcal Said, producers: EAVE graduates Tom Dercourt and Sophie Erbs
- EAVE project SILENCE OF THE SEASHELL by Kamar Ahmad Simon, producer: EAVE graduate Sara Afreen, co-producer: EAVE graduate and German National Coordinator Jonas Weydemann
The Hamburg-based film fund Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (FFHSH) is supporting two films made by EAVE graduates:
- 3 DAYS IN QUIBERON by Emily Atef, producer: EAVE graduate Karsten Stöter
- TEUFEL by Marvin Kren, producer: EAVE graduate Ralph Schwingel
- EN ATTENDANT LES HIRONDELLES by Karim Moussaoui, producer: EAVE graduate Nicole Gerhards is supported by the German-French Funding Commission.
- REFUGE by Eran Riklis, producer: EAVE+ graduate Bettina Brokemper
HBF+Europe Minority Coproduction Support sheme, HBF selects four projects, represented by co-producers from Greece, France and the Netherlands. The selection includes three feature films by EAVE graduates:
- I AM NOT A WITCH by Rungano Nyoni, producer: EAVE graduate Juliette Grandmont
- EAVE project ROJO by Benjamin Naishtat, producers: EAVE graduates Barbara Sarasola-Day, Marleen Slot, Ingmar Trost
- THE DAY I LOST MY SHADOW by Soudade Kaadan, co-producer EAVE graduate Claire Lajoumard
https://iffr.com/en/professionals/blog/hbfeurope-minority-coproduction-support-selection
- MOON HOTEL KABUL, produced and directed by EAVE graduate Anca Damian, co-producers: EAVE graduates Tom Dercourt and Sophie Erbs is in pre-production. The plot: A seemingly meaningless rendezvous of Ivan with Ioana in a hotel room in Kabul produces a vital revolution in Ivan's unshakeable process of living. They spend a night of conversation and sex, and after Ivan's arrival back in Bucharest, Ioana is found dead, with her wrists cut. The project has received support from the Romanian National Cinema Center, the MEDIA Programme and Eurimages. The Romanian/French coproduction set to be shot in Romania and Morocco in August-September 2016.
- THE LAST ONES by Veiko Ounpuu, producer: EAVE graduate Katrin Kissa is supported by the Estonian Film Institute. According to the director, the project is a Western-like Northern film about love, crime and revenge, that portrays the moral erosion, that follows when industrial revolution takes over places and people, whose lives were previously attuned to nature. The Estonian/Finnish/Swedish co-production is set in Lapland. It will be shot in Finnish. The film will begin shooting at the end of 2016, with the main shooting taking place in August and September 2017, and concluding in March 2018.
- COMPATIBILITY, written, directed and produced by EAVE graduate Stephan Komandarev is in pre-production. The script is based on real events and follows the routes of several cab drivers and their clientele during 24 hours in Sofia. The story also focuses on an urgent heart transplant need suggesting that “the whole society needs a transplant itself as it has no chance for life other than with a new heart.” Bulgaria’s Argo Film is producing in cooperation with Germany’s Aktis Film Production and Macedonia’s Sector Film. The film is supported by the Macedonian Film Agency, German Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) and the Bulgarian National Film Center. Shooting is planned to start in October 2016.
- DOG by Florin Serban, producer: EAVE graduate Oana Iancu is in pre-production. Serban wrote the script, but will not reveal the synopsis until the post-production phase. The budget is approximately 750,000 EUR is in place. An international co-producer is yet to be confirmed. The Romanian National Centre for Cinema (CNC) is supporting the project. Shooting will take place on location and will wrap in September.
Five new titles co-produced by The Netherlands and Belgium have been selected for support as part of the co-production agreement linking the Netherlands Film Fund and the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF). Among them are:
- HET TWEED GELAAT by Jan Verheyen, producer: EAVE graduate Peter Bouckaert
- MENEER PAPIER by Ben Tesseur, producer: EAVE graduate Marleen Slot
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Page published 20 July 2016.
