In Development / Pre-production January 2011
7 co-productions by EAVE graduates supported by Eurimages…
Eurimages
- EURIMAGES has granted 5,05 Mio. Euro for 14 European co-productions, half of them made by EAVE graduates:
- THE CONGRESS by Ari Folman, co-producers: EAVE 1991 graduate Paul Thiltges and EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum, receives 550.000 Euro
- QISSA by Anup Singh, producer: Heimatfilm (EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause) gets 250.000 Euro
- MAN ON ASPHALT OR THE WOMAN WHO BRUSHED OFF HER TEARS by Teona Strugar Mitevska, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate and Macedonian National Coordinator Labina Mitevska, co-producers: EAVE 2008 graduate Guido Schwab and EAVE 2010 participant Marcel Lenz of ostlicht filmproduktion gets 250.000 Euro
- UNE NUITE by Lucas Belvaux, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman
- THE SUICIDE SHOP by Patrice Leconte, co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum receives 600.000 Euro
- BEKAS by Karzan Kader, executive producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Sandra Harms of Sonet Film, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate and Finish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy, EAVE 2008 graduate Annika Sucksdorff of Helsinki Filmi receives 140.000 Euro.
- THE POLISH PLUMBER by EAVE 2010 graduate Boris Despodov, producers: Agitprop and Loopline Film
www.coe.int/eurimages
- BEKAS (EAVE 2008 graduate Sandra Harms of Sonet Film, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate and Finish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy, EAVE 2008 graduate Annika Sucksdorff) also won the first prize in Nordic Film and TV funds pitch contest NORDIC TALENT and received production support from Swedish Film Institute, The Finnish Film Foundation. The Film is set in Iraqian Kurdistan in the beginning of the 1990s. It is a story about two homeless brothers; Zana and Dana, who sneaks into the town's first cinema, catches a glimpse of the film Superman and then decides to go to America to live with him. Shooting will take place in Kurdistan February - April 2011.
www.sonetfilm.se/
- AUGUSTINE by Alice Winocour, co-produced by EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart’s Versus Production received an advance on receipts by the French National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC). The French/Belgian co-production is starring Benoît Poelvoorde. Shooting will start next summer.
http://www.versusproduction.be/
- EAVE 2010 graduate Olena Yershova is currently developing three films and has another project in the pipeline: Sergei Loznitsa’s third project KIEV. A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR is in pre-production. Already begun has pre-production for EAVE PUENTES 2009 project FUGA MORTIS, directed by Kirill Mikhanovsky. The feature film with a budget of 1,6m Euro has received a Screen Daily International Award for Best Pitch in Tallin IFF. Yershova is developing BOLD GUYS, the second feature film by Levan Koguashvili. And she has a Ukrainian-Turkish project in development with the directors Mehmet-Bahadir Er and Maryna Gorbach.
http://www.sotacinema.com/
- Eva Pervolovici is developing her first feature, ILEANA, produced by EAVE 2010 graduate Marcian Lazar. The Film tells the story of a young and innocent girl who decides to infiltrate the ghetto in order to save her boyfriend by leading the police to another drug smuggler. The script received a development grant of 4,000 Euro from the National Centre for Cinema, won the Manaki Brothers development award at the Manaki Film Festival 2010 and was also selected for the Balkan Fund script development at Thessaloniki 2010. Shooting is planned for spring 2012.
http://www.stradafilm.ro/
- EAVE 2010 project BILLIARD IN DOBRAY, produced by EAVE 2010 graduate Ida Weiss received 30.000 Euro development support by the Slovenian Film Fund.
http://www.belafilm.si/
Page published 14 January 2011.
