In Development / Pre-production April 2013
Projects by EAVE producers in development
The Turkey-Germany Co-Production Development Fund supports two projects by EAVE graduates:
- MEMORIES OF THE WIND by Özcan ALPER, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille
- SILENCE by Seren Yüce: co-producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Ralph Schwingel
Among the funded films in the first 2013 round of the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) are:
- ZURICH by Sacha Polak, producer: Marleen Slot, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
- LOS ANGELES – DIE ENGEL by Damian John, producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Weydemann
The German-French Funding Commission is spending about 1 M Euro for four co-productions. Among them is:
- THE TRIAL by Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Dirk Decker
The Croatian Audiovisual Centre granted €2.16m to 12 feature films, three of them are produced by Kinorama of EAVE 2007 graduate Ankica Juric Tilic: HIGH SUN by Dalibor Matanic, LOVE OR DEATH by Daniel Kušan and INFERNO by Vinko Möderndorfer
Among the 12 projects to be supported by BLS - the Alto Adige Film Fund & Commission, within the context of the first call for proposals of 2013 is:
- FUORI MIRA by Erik Bernasconi, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Andres Pfaeffli
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- JIMMY by Ella Vakkasova, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter is in development. The German-Russian co-production about a musical prodigy is supported by FFA, MDM, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Fond Kino. The film has a budget of 1.6 M €. Shooting is planned on locations in Russia and Central Asia.
- AFERIM! by Radu Jude, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon is in development. Aferim! is set in the 19th century, a time when Gypsy slavery was common. The story revolves around a regional policeman, Costandin, who is hired by a local boyar to find Carfin, a Gypsy slave who had run away from his estate after having an affair with the boyar’s wife. Accompanied by his adolescent son and his deputy Ghita, Costandin sets out to find the fugitive, starting a journey full of adventures. The film mixes elements of a picaresque novel with elements of a classic American Western.
- LOS HONGOS by Oscar Ruiz Navia, producers: PUENTES 2012 graduate Diana Bustamante and EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille is shooting later this year. The film is presently in pre-production, while principal photography will start in June. Ruiz Navia's second feature film, produced by Colombian company Contravia Films, and co-produced by Burning Blue (Colombia), Arizona Films (France) and Mantarraya Producciones (Mexico), participated in FrameWork 2011 and won a TFL Production Award of 50.000 Euro in the same year.
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- LE BAISER DE MARSEILLE by Valérie Mitteaux, producer: EAVE Film Finance Forum 2010 graduate Jean-Laurent Csinidis has successfully finished its crowdfunding campaign. Shooting is planned for summer. The teaser of the project can be watched here: http://fr.ulule.com/baiser-de-marseille
- EAVE 2012 project OUR SUN by Joost van Ginkel, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Ellen Havenith, co-producer EAVE 2012 graduate Kalin Kalinov is in development. Supported by The Netherlands Film Fund, the project was selected for CineMart (IFFR) and Sofia Meetings (SIFF).
- EAVE 2012 project STAGE FRIGHT by Yorgos Zois, producers: EAVE 2012 graduate Maria Dandraki and EAVE 2007 graduate Siniša Juricic, co-producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Ellen Havenith is in development. The thriller won the C.N.C development award and has been awarded 80,000€ at the TorinoFilmLab.
- FIXEUR by Adrian Sitaru, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Monica Lazurean-Gorgan is in development. The feature inspired by true events tells the story of Radu, a young Romanian journalist, who is given the chance to work as a „fixeur” for a French TV crew willing to do a report on two minor Romanian prostitutes expelled from Paris. Radu is producing all the information the French crew needs, but when he gets to meet one of the girls he begins questioning if he was doing the right thing. The script is written by Adrian and Claudia Silisteanu. The film is produced by 4Proof Film which is now looking for a French coproducer. The budget is approximately 700,000 EUR, partially covered by the 65,610 EUR production grant received from the National Centre for Cinema.
Page published 29 April 2013. Updated 6 February 2015.
