In development / pre-production April 2012
Films by EAVE producers in development
- DEUX TEMPS, TROIS MOVEMENTS by Christophe Cousin, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Céline Maugis is in pre-production. The film, financed by the Centre National du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC) tells the story of Victor. He lives with his mother after the death of his father and witnesses a teenage suicide. Production Companies: La Vie Est Belle Films, Amérique Films and Parallaxes. Shooting starts on May 22.
- NOT HIS TYPE (PAS SON GENRE), written and directed by Lucas Belvaux, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman is in development. Based on a novel by Philippe Vilain, the film tells the story of a Parisian teacher who is transferred to a provincial town in northern France and embarks on an unlikely relationship with a hairdresser.
- VIA CASTELLANA BANDIERA by Emma Dante, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Andres Pfaeffli is in pre-production. Production Companies: Offside Film, Vivo Film and Ventura Film. The film about two women who meet at the wheel of their respective cars in an extremely narrow street and one will have to roll back is financed by Eurimages and MiBAC (Italian Culture Ministry).
- AMOUR FOU, written and directed by Jessica Hausner, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Antonin Svoboda is in pre-production. The film is based on the historical double suicide of Heinrich von Kleist and Henriette Vogel. Financing: Filmfonds Wien; shooting on locations in Vienna and Berlin.
- CHASING THE WIND by Rune Langlo Denstad, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Sigve Endresen is in pre-production. The film tells the story of Anna who has not seen her family in 10 years, but when her grandmother dies, she goes back for an unexpected homecoming. Budget: $4M, financing: Norwegian Film Institute. Shooting on Norwegian locations starts in May.
- BLIND by Eskil Vogt, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Sigve Endresen is in pre-production. Financed by the Norwegian Film Institute the film brings together a 30-year-old woman who is recently blind, a 30-year-old single mother, and a lone 40-year-old man.
- LION HEART, the youth film of director Dome Karukoski, written and produced by EAVE 2002 graduate & Finnish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy, is supported by the Finnish Film Foundation. The film with a budget of 1.5 M € received a grant of 50 % by the Finnish Film Foundation.
- SUPERNOVA by Tamar van den Dop, producer: Raymond van der Kaaij, has received funding from Filmfund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and from the Flemish Audiovisual Fund. Backers of the project are the Dutch Filmfund, Rotterdam Media Fund and Nordmedia. Shooting of the Revolver Media production in co-production with COIN Film, Epidemic Film and IJswater Films Financing is planned for August.
- WHOSE COUNTRY?, the documentary with animation by Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Siam, producer: EAVE Interchange 2010 graduate Talal Al-Muhanna received production funding from the Jan Vrijman Fund and Hot Docs Blue Ice Film Documentary Fund.
- Meetings On The Bridge: among the 7 projects to be supported by the Turkish-German Co-Production Fund is Ilker Catak and Johannes Drucker’s SPÄTKAUF. Producers: Rix Film and EAVE 2011 graduate Enis Köstepen of Bulut film.
- EAVE 2005 graduate: Patrice Nezan’s lesfilmsduprésent has been granted a slate development fund by the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region for the 3 following projects:- AURORE by Stéphane Vuillet and Chloé Martinon. The film was developed with support from the MEDIA Programme and the French Authors Society - Feature documentary BOYZONE by Clarisse Hahn. The film was developed with support from the MEDIA Programme, French Producer’s Society Procirep/Angoa, French National Center for Visual Arts CNAP and the Canton of Bern- Transmedia documentary THE FABRIC OF THE FUTUR by Danièle Rivière.
- The Feature fiction project TRIBULATION D’UN INDIEN AU PAYS DES DROITS DE L’HOMME by François Azria, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nezan is granted a development fund by Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region- The feature documentary project SOUTH NORTH WATER TRANSFER by Antoine Boutet, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nezan has been granted development funding from the Aquitaine Region. The film was developed with the support of the French Film Fund CNC, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region, and the MEDIA Programme.- The Creative documentary project HOTEL MACHINE by Emanuel Licha, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate: Patrice Nezan is supported by the CNC documentary innovation development fund.
Page published 27 April 2012. Updated 30 April 2012.
