EAVE projects Cristian, OUR SUN and ZUD supported by Eurimages
In Development / Pre-production March 2014
Eurimages has distributed 5.36 million Euros to 17 European co-productions. Among them are nine projects by EAVE graduates:
- AFERIM! by Radu Jude, producer EAVE 2007 graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon
- DIE NACHT DER TAUSEND STUNDEN by Virgil Widrich, producer: EAVE+ 2013 graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
- EAVE 2011 project CRISTIAN directed by EAVE 2008 graduate Tudor Giurgiu, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Oana Giurgiu, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Emöke Vagasi
- EAVE 2013 project OUR SUN by Joost van Ginkel, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Ellen Havenith
- EAVE 2013 project ZUD by Marta Minorowicz, producer EAVE 2013 graduate Ann Carolin Renninger, co-producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Anna Wydra
- MAMA by Vlado Skafar, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate and National Coordinator Bosnia & Herzegovina Amra Baksic-Camo, EAVE 2007 graduate Frenk Celarc
- NASAS VAKODNEVNA PRICA by Ines Tanovic, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Zdenka Gold
- THE LAST KING (BIRKEBEINERNE) by Nils Gaup, producers: EAVE Film Marketing Workshop 2010 graduate Thea Røhr Østvold, EAVE 1998 graduate Lesley McKimm, EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi
- WAIT FOR ME by Mitko Panov, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Francine Lusser
- NEVER LET IT GO by Paul Negoescu, producer: EAVE Film Marketing Workshop 2012 graduate Radu Stancu is in development. The film follows the story of 38-year-old Petru, a sex addict who finds out that he is going to have a baby with his on-off girlfriend Irina. Petru decides to sort his life out, get married and try to have a conventional relationship, but this proves more difficult than expected. Negoescu is finishing the screenplay while searching for the lead actor and co-production companies for his €400,000 project. Shooting is planned to start in autumn.
The Swedish Film Institute has supported six full-length documentaries, among them are:
- CONQUERING CHINA by Johan Jonason, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Anna Byvald
- I AM DUBLIN by David Aronowitsch, Anna Persson and Ahmet Abdullahi, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Annika Rogell
- THE SECRET FLIGHT by Andreas Koefoed, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Erik Magnusson
Among the seven features backed by the Swedish Film Institute are:
- EAVE 2011 Project THE HERE AFTER by Magnus von Horn, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Mariusz Wlodarski, co-produced by EAVE 2011 graduate Sophie Erbs
- YOUNG SOPHIE BELL by Amanda Adolfsson, producer: EAVE 2001 graduate Gila Bergqvist Ulfung.
The Macedonian Film Fund supports two films by Sisters and Brother Mitevski:
- WHEN THE DAY HAD NO NAME by Teona S. Mitevska, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Labina Mitevska
- SIERRA NEVADA by Cristi Puiu, co-producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Labina Mitevska
www.sistersandbrothermitevski.com
- DOGS by Bogdan Mirica, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Marcela Ursu, co-produced by EAVE+ 2013 graduate Titus Kreyenberg is in pre-production. The main character Roman, a young man from the city who goes to a remote village by the Ukrainian border in order to sell the land he inherited from his late grandfather only to find that his grandfather was a local crime lord. The budget is 1m EUR. Shooting is expected for late summer.
ww.42kmfilm.ro | www.unafilm.de
- THE INDIAN BRIDE by Hans Peter Moland, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Helen Ahlsson is in pre-production. The film is a screen adaptation of Karin Fossum's bestseller "Elskede Poona" about a long-time bachelor who meets and marries an Indian beauty, who is soon brutally murdered. The project by Motlys AS and Tre Vänner Production has a budget of €4-5 M. Shooting on locations in India and Norway is planned for June 2015.
- ETERNITY by Tran Anh Hung, co-producer: EAVE Head of Studies Jani Thiltges is in pre-production. The film is starring Bérénic Béjo, Mélanie Laurent and Audry Tautou and adapts for the big screen a novella by French writer Alice Ferney, “L’Elegance des veuves,” a story from the late 19th century to the end of the 20th century of three generations of women and their children, all born into a Catholic bourgeois family, as the women evolve from girls to mothers then widows, their husbands often killed by wars. Produced by Canal+, Nord-Ouest Productions and Samsa Film, the project has a budget of € 10 M. Shooting in France starts in July.
Page published 27 March 2014.
