EAVE projects THAT TRIP WE TOOK WITH DAD and THE RED CAPTAIN shooting now
In Production September 2014
- 11 MINUTES by Jerzy Skolimowski, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney started shooting in Dublin. The film follows the same 11 minutes in the lives of several different characters - young and old, prosperous and destitute. Element Pictures Distribution will release the film in Ireland.
- EAVE 2009 project THAT TRIP WE TOOK WITH DAD, written and directed by: Anca M. Lazarescu, producers: Ties That Bind 2011 graduate David Lindner and EAVE 2009 graduate Verona Meier is shooting. The film is about a Romanian-German family caught in the turmoil of the crackdown of the Prague Spring 1968 which finds itself suddenly in West Germany. The film is funded by CNC Romania, Eurimages, FFF Bayern, Hungarian National Film Fund, BKM, DFFF, FFA, Film i Väst, MEDIA. Shooting in September and October takes place on locations in Timisoara and Arad (RO), Szeged (HU), and Munich (GER).
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- MY NAME IS EMILY by Simon Fitzmaurice, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Lesley McKimm has commenced principal photography. It is Fitzmaurice’s debut feature. He was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease in 2008 just after his short film The Sound Of People screened at the Sundance Film festival. Though completely paralysed, he typed the script for the film, as well as his bestselling book It’s Not Yet Dark by using his eyes and iris recognition software. The film follows a 16-year-old girl who escapes from her foster home and, with the help of the boy who loves her, sets out to find her father, a writer who is confined to a psychiatric institution. Irish companies Newgrange Pictures and Kennedy Films are producing with financing from the Irish Film Board, Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, TV3 and the Irish tax incentive, with co-production finance expected from Sweden and Norway. The Irish producers also ran a crowd-funding campaign that netted more than €100,000.
- EAVE 2012 project THE RED CAPTAIN by EAVE 2012 graduate Michal Kollar, producer: Viktor Tauš is in production. This thriller, set in 1992, three years after the fall of the Berlin wall; six months before the split of Czecho-Slovakia is based on the novel by Dominik Dan: Young detective Richard Krauz starts working on the case of a murdered sexton in the summer of 1992, after the poor man has been found with a nail driven through his skull. Soon, Krauz discovers that communist secret police were behind the torturing of the sexton as well as a missing document detailing crimes committed by priests, with which the secret police blackmailed the church. The trail leads to an expert on interrogations from within the communist secret police, the so-called “Red Captain”. Along with Czech outfit Fog'n'Desire Films, Slovak company Sokol Kollár is co-producing THE RED CAPTAIN together with Poland's Mental Disorder 4. The project has received support from the Czech Republic's State Cinematography Fund and the Slovak Audiovisual Fund. Shooting takes place in Bratislava, Prague, Krakow, Budapest and Olomouc, while various other scenes will be shot in May 2015.
- JE SUIS UN SOLDAT by Laurent Larivière, co-producer: EAVE 1988/89 graduate Hubert Toint is shooting. The story revolves around a thirty-year-old woman who is forced to go back and live at her mother’s house. For lack of a job, she agrees to work for one of her uncles at a kennel that turns out to be the nerve centre for a dog-trafficking operation that deals in animals from Eastern Europe. Having been pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+, the feature is also backed by the CNC’s advance on receipts and the Eurimages fund.
- LOUDER THAN BOMBS by Joachim Trier, executive producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Sigve Endresen started principal photography in New York. Trier’s first English-language film was postponed for almost a year after the €6.4 million funding fell through. Written by Trier together with Eskil Vogt, LOUDER THAN BOMBS tells the story of a famous war photographer who is killed in a car accident, leaving behind her husband and two sons, one a teenager. Three years after her death, the eldest son comes home for an exhibition of her photography – and that is when they discover an unsettling secret from her past. The Norwegian-French-Danish co-production of Motlys, Memento Films, Nimbus Film, was joined by the US companies Animal Kingdom, Beachside Film and Bona Fide.
- L’INSOUMISE by Jawad Rhalib, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Isabelle Truc is shooting in Morocco. The Morroccan Rappers Hoba Hoba Spirit contribute the music. The film is supported by Centre du Cinéma de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and Centre du cinéma marocain.
Page published 30 September 2014.
