In development / pre-production May 2012
EAVE 2011 project THE JUDGMENT now in Pre-production
- EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE by Wim Wenders, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Gian Piero Ringel received 500.000 Euro from the German Film Funding Agency FFA.
The Bavarian Film Funding Agency (FFF) is giving 6.17 Million Euro for 25 projects. Among them are three films by EAVE graduates:
- EL MARIACHI FEMINIL by Doris Doerrie, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate and EAVE group leader Roshanak Behesht Nedjad EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers
- PAGANINI by Bernard Rose, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and EAVE Board Member Danny Krausz
- LAUF JUNGE, LAUF, produced and directed by EAVE 1994 graduate Pepe Danquart
The Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) is funding following films made by EAVE graduates:
- LAUF JUNGE, LAUF, produced and directed by EAVE 1994 graduate Pepe Danquart
- EAVE 2011 project THE JUDGMENT directed and produced by EAVE 2011 graduate Stephan Komandarev, co-producer: Film Finance Forum 2012 expert Alexander Ris
- CHASING THE WIND by Rune Langlo Denstad, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Sigve Endresen and EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert
- OTHERS by Oleg Novkovic, producers: EAVE 2010 graduate Marcel Lenz and EAVE 2008 graduate Guido Schwab, co-producer: EAVE 2012 participant China Åhlander
- PFARRER by Stefan Kolbe und Chris Wright, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert
- MONEY IN MINUTES by Monika Hielscher and Matthias Heeder, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg is supporting following films by EAVE graduates:
- EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE by Wim Wenders, producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Gian Piero Ringel
- WANDELSTERNE by Benjamin Heisenberg, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jonas Dornbach
- BACH IN BRAZIL Ansgar Ahlers, producer: EAVE 1993 graduate Alexander Thies
- EAVE 2011 project THE JUDGMENT directed and produced by EAVE 2011 graduate Stephan Komandarev, co-producer: Film Finance Forum 2012 expert Alexander Ris
- THE LUNCHBOX by Ritesh Batra, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
- EL MARIACHI FEMINIL by Doris Doerrie, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate and EAVE group leader Roshanak Behesht Nedjad EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers
- DANCE WITH A BULLET by Iraqi filmmaker Dhyaa Khaled Joda, producer: EAVE PCP 2008 graduate Talal Al-Muhanna (Linked Productions/Kuwait) was co-awarded a development grant by SANAD/Abu Dhabi Film Festival for the creative documentary project.
- AMERICA, HERE WE COME by Razvan Savescu, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Tudor Giurgiu is in development. The film tells the story of a group of provincial actors who was invited by the NY-based Romanian Cultural Centre to perform an old Romanian classic. The project with a budget of 700,000 Euro received a production grant of 170,000 Euro from the National Centre for Cinema in 2011. Tudor Giurgiu is looking for a Canadian co-producer as well as partners and local private investment. Pre-production is set for July-October 2012. Shooting will take five weeks in Bucharest and New York, and is set to start in December 2012.
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- THE JAPANESE DOG by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, producer: EAVE 2008 graudate Tudor Giurgiu is in pre-production. EAVE 2011 graduate Oana Giurgiu is co-producing with Hai-Hui Entertainment. Written by Ioan Antoci, the project won the Krzysztof Kieslowski Prize at ScripTeast workshop in 2009. The film is about an old man and his son who has been living in Japan. They see each other again for the first time in 20 years. The brief re-encounter brings hope that the present, which the old man receives before parting, will change both their lives for the better. The project with a budget of 575,000 Euros has a MEDIA Development Support grant and is also supported by HBO Romania. Shooting is due to start early June and to last for four months. The international premiere is set for the Berlinale 2013.
- DOUBLE by director/writer Catrinel Danaia?a, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ada Solomon is in development. The story follows a young architect after a one-night-stand at a seaside with a young woman, investigating how peoples' lives can be turned upside down because of drugs. Co-produced by Gabi Antal and Abis Studio, DOUBLE received a production grant of 120,134 Euro from the National Centre for Cinema in 2011. The film has a budget of 600,000 Euro. Shooting is planned for the second half of 2013.
- ROXANNE, the debut film by Valentin Hotea, producers: EAVE 2007 graduate Ada Solomon and Emöke Vagasi is in pre-production. Ileana Muntean and Hotea's script tells the story of a man who finds out after reading his file from the communist secret services that he might be the father of a high-school colleague's child. Shooting will begin 10 September, lasting for 28 days. The premiere is set for 2013. Television rights for Romanian public television TVR are already confirmed.
- PAGANINI by Bernard Rose, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and EAVE Board Member Danny Krausz is in pre-production. Production Companies: Dor Film, Bavaria Media Italia and Summerstorm Entertainment. The film focuses on the faustian pact Niccolo Paganini made with his manager as they created a myth around his persona that made him a superstar performer, taking Europe by storm. The film is financed by German Federal Film Board (FFA) and Bavarian Film Fund (FFF). Shooting on location in Vienna starts in July.
- EAVE Puentes 2011 project FERIADO by Diego Araujo, producer: PUENTES 2011 graduate Hanne-Lovise Skartveit won the Tribeca Film Institute's Heinken Voces Grant and we will be shooting this summer.
- THEY ARE ALL DEAD by Beatriz Sanchis, producer: EAVE 2012 participant Maria Zamora received MEDIA support for development.
- EAVE 2011 project FATA MORGANA by Juha Wuolijoki, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Aleksi Hyvärinen has been awarded with MEDIA development support.
Page published 29 May 2012. Updated 23 August 2012.
