EAVE projects HEARTSTONE and TONIC IMMOBILITY now in development
In Development / Pre-Production July 2015
- EAVE project HEARTSTONE by Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson, producer: EAVE graduate Anton Máni Svansson receives EURIMAGES support. The coming-of-age drama centers around a friendship between two boys, Christian and Thor, living in a small Icelandic fishing village. Their bond is tested when Christian discovers he has feelings for Thor.
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The World Cinema Fund (WCF) jury made their selection out of 131 submissions from a total of 48 countries and awarded production funds totalling 220,000 €. Two selected films are produced by EAVE graduates.
- HUNTING SEASON by Natalia Garagiola, producer: EAVE graduate Benjamin Domenech
- OSCURO ANIMAL by Felipe Guerrero, producer: EAVE graduate Gema Juárez Allen, co-producers: EAVE graduates Marleen Slot and Ingmar Trost.
28 film projects have received funding totaling €5.8M from the budget of the new Netherlands Film Production Incentive. Some of the successful applicants are international co-productions of feature films and documentaries, in which a Dutch producer has a majority or minority stake. The productions include the following projects by EAVE graduates:
- A PERFECT GAME by Robbert So Kiem Hwat, producer: EAVE graduate Denis Vaslin
- A REAL VERMEER by Rudolf van den Berg, producers: EAVE graduates: Reinier Selen, Donnato Rotunno, and Sinisa Juricic
- DREAMS ARE AN ILLUSION by Job Gosschalk, producer: EAVE graduate Peter Bouckaert
- EAVE project TONIC IMMOBILITY by EAVE graduate Xavier Rombaut
- HEART BEAT by Dennis Bots, producer: EAVE graduate Peter Bouckaert
- KEBAB ROYAL by EAVE graduates Jessica Woodworth & Peter Brosens, co-producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum
- MONK by Ties Schenk, co-producer: EAVE graduate Marleen Slot
- PUENTES project LA HOLANDESA by Marleen Jonkman, producer: PUENTES graduate Danielle Guirguis
- ZAMA by Lucrecia Martel, co-producers: EAVE graduate Leontine Petit and EAVE+ graduate Joost de Vries
MDM-Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung supports the following projects by EAVE graduates:
- BRIMSTONE my Martin Koolhoven, producer: EAVE graduate Antonio Lombardo
- DAVID UND DIE TEILACHER by Sam Garbarski, producer: EAVE graduate and EAVE Head of Studies Jani Thiltges, co-producers: EAVE graduate and group leader Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, EAVE graduate Sebastien Delloye
- LIGHT by Barbara Albert, producer: EAVE graduate Michael Kitzberger - MEMORY GAMES by Janet Tobias, producer: EAVE graduate Heino Deckert
The Hamburg-based Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (FFHSH) is supporting two films made by EAVE graduates:
- AMINA’S LETTERS by Jacob Bitsch, producer: EAVE graduate Dirk Decker
- DAVID UND DIE TEILACHER by Sam Garbarski, producer: EAVE graduate and EAVE Head of Studies Jani Thiltges, co-producers: EAVE graduate and group leader Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, EAVE graduate Sebastien Delloye
Six projects were taken up at the third session of 2015 of the second college of the advance on receipts of the CNC. Among them are:
- ORPHELINE by Arnaud des Pallières, producer: EAVE graduate Michel Klein. Shooting started on 20 July.
- UNE VIE by Stéphane Brizé, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart. The film tells the story of Jeanne du Perthuis des Vauds’ life between the ages of 18 and 45, in the early 19th century: it is the story of a hypersensitive woman, overly sheltered and in search of the absolute, who is unable to face up to the harsh reality of the world. The film is backed by Eurimages, the Centre for Film and Audiovisual Arts of the Belgian-French Community, Wallonia-Brussels, the Upper Normandy Region.
- GIRLS WITH BALLS by Olivier Afonso, co-producers: EAVE graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum and EAVE graduate Alexandra Hoesdorff receives funding by Wallimage. It’s about the misfortunes of a female volleyball team which is abandoned in the middle of the countryside and left to the frenzied ravings of a gang of debauched hunters. The girls try everything they can to save themselves. Although the movie sits within the classic survival genre, the project is billed as a trashy comedy.
- THE AMAZING MR JONES by Michael Caton-Jones, producer: EAVE graduate Jens Meurer is in development. Set in London, the film tells the story of a beautiful woman, married to a wealthy politician, who places an advert seeking a lover who can give her the orgasm she has yet to experience. When she meets a younger man, a passionate but complicated affair begins.
Page published 29 July 2015.
