In Development / Pre-production May 2013
REY and FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE now in pre-production
- PUENTES 2011 project REY by Niles Atallah, producer: PUENTES 2011 graduate Lucie Kalmar is supported by Hubert Bals Fund Plus. REY received a Production Award in the Framework program of the Torino Film Lab in November 2012. The project also participated in the CPH:FORUM in Copenhagen and the rivieraLAB at the Riviera Maya Film Festival in Mexico. REY is supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, Amiens Screenplay Development Support, the Torino Film Lab, the Binger FilmLab, the Australab Award, and the Chilean Corfo development grant.
- TIES THAT BIND 2011 project FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE by Diep Nguyen Hoang, producer: TIES THAT BIND 2011 graduate David Lindner has been funded with the highest sum ever granted by the Norwegian SØRFOND. Together with the funding by CNC Aide aux cinemas du monde. FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE has now a solid financial basis for the shooting. The first images of the shooting can be expected in about two months.
The Lithuanian Film Centre approved 2,010,000 Litas in financial support for five feature films and two documentaries. Among them are two films produced by EAVE graduates:
- SANGAILE by Alante Kavaite, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Zivile Gallego and
- DO YOU LOVE ME? by Lina Lužyte, producer: EAVE 2012 graduate Dagne Vildziunaite
www.fralitafilms.com | www.justamoment.lt
- THE FOX by Matthias Luthardt, producers: EAVE 1998 graduate Oliver Damian of 27 Films Production and Kasia Skibinska of Braidmade Films Krakow. The film is based on David H. Lawrence’s novel of the same name. Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung and the Polish Film Institute are supporting the project.
www.27films.biz | www.braidmadefilms.co.uk
- THE CUT by Fatih Akin, is co-produced by EAVE 2012 graduate Lukasz Dzieciol’s Opus Film. THE CUT is about evil personified in the figure of the devil with Tahar Rahim in the leading role. Poland will provide crew members, and the first sets are currently being drafted by Oscar winning Polish set designer Allan Starski. The film is produced by Corazon International and Pandora Film, which has secured 1 M EUR of financing from the Film Förderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and 250,000 EUR from the German Ministry of Culture.
The Hungarian Film Fund gave development grants to the following films by EAVE graduates:
- EAVE 2009 project THE MAN WHO DIDN’T GET SHOT, written and directed by Attila Gigor, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Ferenc Pusztai (KMH Film), co-producers: EAVE 2002 graduate Martin Persson (Anagram Produktion AB), and EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher (Fastnet Films)
- FEHÉR ISTEN by Kornél Mundruczó, producers: EAVE 2013 participant Eszter Gyarfas and EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi (Protoncinema)
protoncinema.hu | www.kmhfilm.com
- CATHEDRALS, executive producer: Wim Wenders is in development. The international series in both 3D and 2D about the souls of buildings is produced by EAVE 2010 graduate Gian-Piero Ringel and EAVE 2011 graduate Erwin M. Schmidt. EAVE 2011 graduate Anne Köhncke, EAVE 2010 graduate Signe Byrge Sørensen, Interchange 2011 graduate Charlotte Uzu are co-producers. The six episodes are shot by internationally acclaimed filmmakers, including Robert Redford, Michael Madsen, Michael Glawogger, Karim Ainouz, Wim Wenders, and James Marsh. Each one of them will portray an outstanding building and explore its greater social context. The series has received financial backing from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, the Media TV Broadcasting Support, and rbb/Arte. The project will premiere in spring 2014 and is produced by Neue Road Movies, co-produced by rbb (Rundfunk Berlin- Brandenburg) in collaboration with Arte, co-produced by WOWOW (Tokyo), Final Cut for Real (Copenhagen), Les Films d’Ici 2 (Paris) and Lotus Film (Vienna), in association with Sundance Productions (New York) and @radical.media (New York).
- BIG GAME by Jalmari Helander, co-producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer is in pre-production. The action adventure is about a shy 13-year-old Finnish boy who has to spend the night in a local forest to prove his manhood; but when Air Force One is shot down by terrorists and the boy meets the US president, they fight to save themselves. Production companies are Altitude Film Entertainment, Egoli Tossell Film and Subzero Film Entertainment. Shooting on locations in Finland and Germany is planned for late summer.
- THE AMAZING MR JONES by Michael Caton-Jones, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer is in development. Set in London, it tells the story of a beautiful woman, married to a wealthy politician, who places an advert seeking a lover who can give her the orgasm she has yet to experience. When she meets a younger man, a passionate but complicated affair begins. uMedia will handle international rights and will produce alongside Lauri Apelian’s Ocean Sky Entertainment and Jens Meurer of Egoli Tossell.
- THE LOBSTER by Yorgos Lanthimos, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney is in development. Director Lanthimos wrote the love story, set in a dystopian future where single people are given strict conditions for finding mates, with regular co-writer Efthimis Filippou. Element Pictures, Faliro House, Haut Et Court, Limp and Scarlet Films are the production companies. Shooting in Ireland will start in autumn.
- LOUDER THAN BOMBS by Joachim Trier, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Sigve Endresen, co-producer EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert starts filming this autumn in the USA. The drama with Isabelle Huppert and Gabriel Byrne in the leading roles is co-produced by Bonafide Films, Ma.Ja.De Filmproduktion, Memento Films, Motlys AS and Nimbus Film. The family drama revolves around the character of a famous, late war photographer. On the eve of a retrospective of work, some three years after her untimely death, her husband and two sons discover an unsettling secret from her past. Support comes from Danish Film Institute, Nordic Film & Television Fund and Norwegian Film Institute.
- EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE by Wim Wenders, co-producers: EAVE 2010 graduate Gian-Piero Ringel and EAVE 2011 graduate Erwin M. Schmidt is in pre-production. James Franco and Sarah Polley are playing the main roles in a film about a writer who accidentally kills a boy in a traffic accident and gets closer to the boy's mother and brother. Eurimages and German Federal Film Board (FFA) are supporting the film.
- JIMMY’S HALL by Ken Loach, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney is in development. In 1921 Jimmy Gralton’s sin was to build a dancehall on a rural crossroads in Ireland where young people could come to learn, to argue, to dream… but above all to dance and have fun. The film is produced by Rebecca O’Brien and written by Paul Laverty. Partners of the Sixteen Films production include Why Not, Wild Bunch, Element Pictures and the Irish Film Board. The film is set to shoot in Ireland this summer.
Page published 30 May 2013. Updated 28 June 2013.
