In development / pre-production September 2012
Projects by EAVE producers now in production
The results for MEDIA development (single project and slate funding) have been published. Following projects by EAVE producers are being funded:
Single project funding
- DIE GEBURT DES WELTHANDELS, producer: EAVE 2004 Olaf Jacobs
- FAMILY FILM, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jirí Konecny
- THIS BEAUTIFUL FANTASTIC, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Christine Alderson
- DER WOHNORT GOTTES, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards
- THAT TRIP WE TOOK WITH DAD, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Verona Meier
- THE VALENTINE GANG, producer: EAVE 2012 participant Jacqueline Kerrin
- PILGRIMAGE by Brendan Muldowney, producer: EAVE 2010 Connor Barry
Slate Funding 1st and 2nd stage
- EAVE 2007 graduate Michel Klein, Les Films Hatari
- EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert, Eyeworks Film & Drama
- EAVE group leader Danijel Hocevar, Vertigo/Emotionfilm
- EAVE 2002 graduate Ursula Wolschlager, Witcraft Szenario
- EAVE 1997 graduate Caroline Helburg, La Huit Productions
- EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert, MA.JA.DE Produktion
- EAVE 2003 graduate Helen Ahlsson, Tre Vänner Produktion
http://ec.europa.eu/culture/media/programme/producer/develop/index_en.htm
- COLLIDER by Jason Butler, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Triona Campbell is in pre-production. The science fiction film, written and produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Nuno Bernardo is financed by BeActive and section 481. Line producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Mairtin de Barra. Shooting on locations in Dublin starts in October.
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- BREGA NIGHT by Renata Pinheiro and Sergio Oliveira, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Antonin Dedet is in pre-production. Shooting will start in October in Récife.
- FRANCUSKI by Goran Rebic, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Oliver Damian is in pre-production. The film about a prisoner who escapes from a Soviet working camp to teach French at a nearby school without any actual knowledge of the language is produced by 27 Films, Amour Fou Filmproduktion and Yeti Films. Funders: Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Austrian Film Institute, German Federal Film Board (FFA) and MEDIA Programme.
- ON THE HORIZON by Christian Moris Mueller, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum is in pre-production. The film tells the story about an East German family who tries to flee to the West via Hungary in the summer of 1989.
- THE BLOOD COUNTESS by Ulrike Ottinger, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert is in pre-production. Written by Ulrike Ottinger and Elfride Jelinek, the film tells the story of the infamous Hungarian countess who bathed in virgins' blood. Isabelle Huppert and Tilda Swinton play the leading roles. Locations: Austria, Czech Republic, Germany.
- Interchange 2011 project 3000 NIGHTS by Mai Masri, producer: producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Tunje Berns is currently in pre-production. Shooting in Israel is planned for Spring 2013. Co-produced by Les Film d'Ici (France) and Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion (Switzerland), the film won a grant for Best Script at Carthage Film Festival in Tunisia in November 2010. It tells the story of Iman, a young newly-wed Palestinian schoolteacher, who is arrested and incarcerated in a top-security Israeli prison where she gives birth to a baby boy. As she struggles to survive and raise her child behind bars, she finds help by the other prisoners - both Palestinian and Israeli.
- ATOMIUM by Norbert ter Hall, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert is in pre-production. Based on the best-seller Fremdkörper by Oscar von den Boogaard, the Unafilm, Phantavision and Eyeworks co-production is funded by Filmstiftung NRW, CoBo, NPS.
- ANITA & BOSSE (working title) by Catherine Hardwicke, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Helena Danielsson is in pre-production. The 1960s whirlwind romance of Swedish legendary singer Anita Lindblom and boxer Bosse Högberg, with Noomi Rapace in the lead, will start filming in the Göteborg region in October.
- EAVE 2011 project THE JUDGMENT produced by EAVE 2011 graduate Stephan Komandarev is in pre-production. Shooting in Germany and Bulgaria is scheduled for October to December 2012. The film is produced by Argo Film (Bulgaria), Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion (Germany) and Sektor film (Macedonia). Miki Manojlovic will play one of the leading roles. Support comes from Bulgarian National Film Centre, MDM and MBB – Germany, Bulgarian National Television, Macedonian Film Fund, and EURIMAGES.
- HENRI by Yolande Moreau, producers: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart’s Versus Production and Christmas in July is in pre-production. The story: A fifty-something man who runs a brasserie strikes up a friendship with a young disabled girl after his wife suddenly dies. Fundind comes from CNC. Shooting is planned for autumn.
Page published 25 September 2012. Updated 26 September 2012.
