EAVE project TONIC IMMOBILITY now in production
In Production February 2016
- EAVE project TONIC IMMOBILITY by Nathalie Teirlinck, producer: EAVE graduate Xavier Rombaut, co-producers: EAVE graduates Peter Bouckaert and Sander Verdonck is in production. Alice leads her routine life as an escort and dodges deeper social contact. When she's forced to take care of her son after the death of her ex, her apparent indifference seems to fade away and she gets confronted with emotional emptiness in her life. Supported by the Media Programme of the EU, Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Netherlands Film Fund, Netherlands tax incentive, Danish Film Institute, Centre du Cinéma et de l'audiovisuel and the Belgian tax shelter system for film financing. The project was awarded the Eurimages Co-production Development Award at Cinemart 2015.
- THE LEGACY OF THE CYPRIOT GODESS, produced and directed by EAVE graduate Stavros Papageorgiou is in production. The 60-minute documentary follows the connection of Goddess Aphrodite with tradition and Christian religion in Cyprus, and examines how this female divinity has affected the arts throughout the centuries.
- NINA by Juraj Lehotsky, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jiri Konecny is in production. The film is an intimate portrait of a girl going through the divorce of her parents. She observes the hate between the grown-ups as she becomes the tool of their mutual harm. Forced to decide which whom she would rather live with, she decides differently than expected. The film is produced by Slovakia‘s Punkchart Films in co-production with Slovakia‘s Lehotsky Film and Endorfilm from the Czech Republic. The Slovak Audiovisual Fund and the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme support the project.
- DEDE by Mariam Khatchvani, producer: EAVE graduate Vladimer Katchavara is in production. The script follows a young woman, Dina, who lives in the harsh mountain region of Svaneti. Her happiness is brief because her lover dies and she must obey tradition by marrying the first man who offers her his hand. The film was developed at the Sundance Lab and supported by the Doha Film Institute and the Georgian National Film Centre.
Page published 26 February 2016.
