EAVE projects THE HERE AFTER and 36 VIEWS MOUNT FUJI REVISITED in pre-production
In Development / Pre-production November 2013
- CHOCOLATE MOZART by Linas Ryskus, EAVE 2007 graduate Ieva Norviliene The low budget documentary received 17,000 EUR from the Lithuanian Film Center and will be released in the fall of 2014.
- EAVE 2012 project 36 VIEWS MOUNT FUJI REVISITED by EAVE graduate Annemiek van der Hell is in development. 36 VIEWS MOUNT FUJI REVISITED is a telescopic observation of Japanese society, inspired by the renowned woodblock prints 36 Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai. The film portrays the ambivalent tension that exists between man and nature. The project received support from from the Dutch Filmfund, Mediafund and the AVRO.
- EAVE 2003 graduate Arry Voorsmit’s Riba Film International will shoot 6 documentaries of 60 minutes television each in the first half of next year. The subject is looted/stolen art and Holocaust art. The title of the project is ART DETECTIVES. Three Dutch men will investigate looted art, find it and when possible bring back to the heirs of the original owners. The recently found 1500 paintings in Munich will also be featured in these episodes. Riba film is producing the series for Indigo Film, UK.
- EAVE 2011 project THE HERE AFTER by Magnus von Horn, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Mariusz Wlodarski, co-produced by EAVE 2011 graduate Sophie Erbs is starting to shoot in March. The film is about 17-year-old John who has just been released from jail after having served a juvenile sentence for murdering his girlfriend. He returns home to his father who has done everything he can to set up a new beginning, but with no room for the past. When John accidentally encounters the mother of the girl he killed it becomes impossible for him to ignore the fact that his crime is still fresh and raw in the local community. Production companies are Lava Film, Zentropa Sweden and Cinema Defacto.
- ZOO by Colin McIvor, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Jacqueline Kerrin is in pre-production. The children’s film adaptation of a true story of a Northern Irish woman who rescued a baby elephant from being put down during World War II will be shot in the Republic of Ireland & Northern Ireland in July 2014. The film is a co-production between Dublin’s Ripple World Pictures and Northern Ireland-based Wee Buns Films, the elephant scenes being filmed next August in Canada.
- ON THE BORDER by Jurate and Vilma Samulionyte, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ieva Norviliene is in development. The creative documentary is directed and enacted by the sisters Samulionyte who tell the story of their grandmother and her fateful decision to delay emigrating with her family to the West, only to find the borders closed, shut off from her family and fiancé. The 120,000 EUR film received development funding from the Ministry of Culture and has signed a letter of intent with Dagstar Film from Germany. Ieva Norviliene`s company Tremora is also developing a new fantasy film from Krystina Buozyte, which continues in the style of her critical and commercial success VANISHING WAVES. Finally, Tremora’s development slate includes two films directed by Saulius Drunga: LAURA AND THE MOVIES, co-produced by Dagstar Film, and the low budget feature ZUCKERZEIT; as well as the low budget feature KING’S SHIFT directed by Ignas Miskinis.
Page published 27 November 2013.
