In Development / Pre-production December 2012
PUENTES 2011 project HISTORY OF FEAR now in active development
The German-French Funding Commission is supporting five co-productions, among them is:
- AGA by Hiner Saleem, producers: EAVE 2006 graduate Karsten Stöter and EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman.
- LUCIA DE B. by Paula van der Oest, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Reinier Selen is in pre-production. The psychological thriller / drama is based on a true story: Lucia de Berk was acquitted in 2010 from an accusation of multiple murders and attempted murder. The nurse from The Hague innocently spent over six years in prison. Nobody was blamed for the mistakes that were made. Therefore, the trial has the ambivalent honor to be the biggest miscarriage of justice in the Netherlands ever. Produced by Rinkel Film B.V. in co-production with Living Stone Belgium and Filmkreatarorerna Sweden. Principal photography will commence in May, 2013. The film with a budget of 2.3 M Euros is supported by The Netherlands Film Fund, Swedish Film Institute, Dutch broadcaster NCRV, the Benelux distributor Independent Films, the Belgian Tax Shelter and CoBO Fund.
- SECRETS OF WAR by Dennis Bots, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Reinier Selen and EAVE 1999 graduate Donato Rotunno is in pre-production. This youth drama is based on the novel of Jacques Vriens. SECRETS OF WAR tells the story of the friendship between Tuur and Lambert. When the mysterious girl Maartje joins their class, a great strain is put on that friendship. For Lambert’s father is a loyal member of the Dutch fascist party, and once Tuur discovers his own father is a member of the resistance and Maartje is in fact Jewish, he slowly distances himself from his best friend. Produced by Rinkel Film B.V. in co-production with Tarantula Luxembourg and Living Stone Belgium. The film with a budget of 2.9 M Euros is supported by The Netherlands Film Fund, Unieboek, Dutch Film Works, broadcaster KRO, Belgian Tax shelter, Luxembourgish Film Fund AFS+ and CoBO Fund.
- GOAT (KOZA) by Ivan Ostrochovský, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jiri Konecny is in preparation. Based on the real story of Peter Baláž, nicknamed Koza (Goat), a boxer who participated the Olympics in Atlanta 1995 and now, as a retired sportsman, has to do a final tour for money. The film is planned to start shooting in January-February 2013. The budget is 800,000 EUR. Endorfilm is also developing GASTON, a feature based on the real story of a seal that managed to swim 300 km on Vltava and Elba during the flood in Prague in 2002, and died close to Dresden. Martin Dušek wrote the script and he will also direct the film. For this project Endorfilm launched the first-ever Czech crowd funding to raise the 800,000 CZK needed for developing this „tricky production”. Shooting will be at the end of 2014-beginning of 2015.
- LA MARCHE by Nabil Ben Yadir, co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum is in pre-production. Written by the director with Nadia Lakhdar and Ahmed Ahmidi, the screenplay is inspired by real events and is set back in 1983. Youth from the outskirts of Lyon decide to stop hanging out and to do everything so as not to be considered as second class citizens. In the way of Gandhi, they have the idea of a great non-violent march for equality and against discrimination from Marseille to Paris. Produced by les Productions du Trésor, LA MARCHE is to be made on a €10.6 M budget. Shooting is set to last from February to April, 2013.
- THE TREATMENT, directed by Hans Herbots, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert in co-production with Phanta Vision is going into final financing stage. Principal photography is scheduled for April to June 2013. THE TREATMENT is the adaptation of UK writer Mo Hayder’s internationally acclaimed thriller novel. It tells the story of a police inspector who is confronted with a case, which stirs up the old trauma of the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother when they were boys.
- THE TRIAL by Jan Verheyen, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert in co-production with Phanta Vision is in pre-production. Principal photography starts in February. THE TRIAL tells the story of a man seeking justice after the murderer of his wife has been released because of a procedural error while he was arrested. A courtroom drama inspired by true events, about the difference between law and justice.
- PUENTES 2011 project HISTORY OF FEAR by Benjamin Naishtat, producer: PUENTES 2011 graduate Benjamin Domenech will be shooting from February/March 2013. The film has received the support of Berlin's World Cinema Fund and Ibermedia.
- THE SUMMER CHILD by Esther Richardson, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Nicola Clayton is in development. The coming of age comedy drama by Regina Moriarty is based on a Tove Jansson short story and set on the Northumbrian Farne Islands. The project is being developed with the assistance of Creative England, BFI and BBC Films through the iFeatures2 Initiative.
www.ifeatures2.co.uk/the-summer-child1.html
- HAZED by Julia Ducournau, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate and EAVE Puentes Head of Studies Jean des Forêts & EAVE 2013 participant Marie Dubas, has been supported by CICLIC Regional support for development. The film tells the story of Justine who, as she enters vet school as a rookie and discovers the charms of hazing, starts developing an unorthodox taste for human flesh. It is developed in association with Arte/Cofinova 7 and is supported by MEDIA development & CNC development selective scheme. Production companies: Petit Film (FR), Amarante International (FR).
- ESCAFANDRA, written and directed by Pablo Reyero, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards is in pre-production. Oceano films and Tu Vas Voir co-produce this film about a man who returns to his childhood town to come to terms with the violent suicide of his father. Shooting on locations in Argentina is planned for March/September 2013.
Page published 14 December 2012.
