In Post-production May 2012
EAVE projects DAWN and SANCTUARY now in post-production
- THE CONGRESS by Ari Folman, producers: EAVE 2011 graduate David Grumbach, EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum is in post-production. Based on a novel by Polish writer Stanislaw Lem, THE CONGRESS is a story about human life and emotions controlled by pharmaceutical cartels and big Hollywood studios. About future when technology and cynical implementation of science endangers love and existence.
- WADJDA by Haifaa Al Mansour, co-producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Verona Meier is in post-production. The film about an eleven-year-old girl growing up in the suburbs of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is financed by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), BR (Bayrischer Rundfunk), German Federal Film Board (FFA), Hubert Bals Fund, NDR, ILB-Brandenburg Gap Financing, Abu Dhabi Film Commission, Sundance Institute and Rotana.
- RUSH by Ron Howard, co-producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer is currently in post-production. The film, starring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl, tells the story of the rivalry between the two legendary Formula One world champions Niki Lauda and James Hunt in the seventies. Egoli Tossell produces on the German side, alongside Brian Oliver’s Cross Creek Pictures, Exclusive Films, Brian Grazer’s and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment, Peter Morgan and Eric Fellner of Working Title.
- FRIENDS FROM FRANCE, written and directed by Anne Weil and Philippe Kotlarski, co-producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Hanneke van der Tas. The story: In the Summer of 1977 two cousins travel to Leningrad to support dissident Jews. Support comes from Canal +, CNC, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) and Franco-German Co-production Support Committee.
- EAVE 2007 project DAWN by Romed Wyder, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Tunje Berns is in post-production. The story is set in British-mandated Palestine, 1947: A young member of the Jewish resistance has been sentenced to death by the British authorities. In turn, a British officer has been kidnapped. If one dies at dawn, so will the other.
- MARUSSIA by Eva Pervolovici, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Janja Kralj is in post-production. The film is a production of KinoElektron in association with CTB of EAVE 2011 graduate Natalia Drozd.
- WE WENT TO WAR by Michael Grigsby, produced and co-authored by EAVE 2011 graduate Rebekah Tolley is in post-production. The film is an official selection for Sheffield Doc/Fest 2012 and has also been nominated for the festival's Innovation Award, as well as forming part of the BEST OF BRITISH strand at the five day event, which runs from 13th-17th June.
- EAVE 2011 project SANCTUARY by Norah McGettigan, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Andrew Freedman is in post-production. Together with Venom Film, The Wajda Studio and with the support of the IFB and PISF, Norah Mc Gettigan has completed the four week shoot in Ireland and two week shoot in Poland.
Page published 29 May 2012.
