In development / pre-production June 2011
10 projects produced or co-produced by EAVE producers supported by EURIMAGES
In development / pre-production
EURIMAGES
At their latest funding session, EURIMAGES supported 19 European co-productions of which 10 produced or co-produced by EAVE producers:
- IM NEBEL (DE, LV, NL) by Sergei Loznitsa, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert (ma.ja.de), co-producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Léontine Petit and EAVE 2007 graduate Marleen Slot
- IL COMANDANTE E LA CICOGNA (IT, CH) by Silvio Soldini (IT/CH), co-produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Andres Pfaeffli
- THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN (BE, NL) by Felix van Groeningen, co-producer: IDTV Film B.V. (EAVE graduate Celine Baggen)
- POKLOSIE (PL, RU, SK) by Wladyslaw Pasikowski, producer: Apple Film Production SP.ZO.O (EAVE 2011 participant Izabela Wojcik)
- RAT KING (FI,EE) by Petri Kotwica (FI), producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Kaarle Aho
- DESPRE OAMENI SI MELCI (RO, FR), directed and produced by EAVE 2008 graduate Tudor Giurgiu in co-production with Agat Films (EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman)
- AGON (AL, GR, FR, RO) by Robert Budina, co-produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Guillaume de Seille- KID (BE, NL) by Fien Troch, produced by EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
- EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY (RO, NL) by Jude Radu, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon and co-produced by EAVE 1994 graduate Stienette Bosklopper
- THE OTHER (HR, SI, RS) by Ivona Juka, co-produced by EAVE Group Leader, Danijel Ho?evar.
www.coe.int/eurimages
- EAVE 2010 project and documentary THE INVISIBLE MEN has been granted funding by the Dutch Film Fund. Now officially the film is a co-production between Israel (EAVE 2010 graduate Yariv Mozer) and The Netherlands (EAVE 2010 graduate Sander Verdonk). The Dutch Film Fund support joins the support of The Israeli New Film Foundation, The Israeli Satellite Channel YES DOC, The Dutch TV IKON and Canadian TV5.
- THE GIRL AND DEATH produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert is in development. Supported by Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, the film tells a timeless tale of ultimate love between a man and a courtesan where materialism, wealth and death are their obstacles.
- THE BLOOD COUNTESS by Ulrike Ottinger, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert is in development. 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.
- UPGRADE by Franziska Buch, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Ralph Schwingel is in development. Production Companies: Wüste Film Ost, Wüste Film West, Iris Films and Vito Films. Cast: Jessica Schwarz, Gérard Jugnot and Sandrine Bonnaire. The film is funded by Filmstiftung NRW (Nordrhein-Westfalen), German Federal Film Board (FFA) and NDR.
- BETHLEHEM, co-produced by EAVE 1994 graduate Diana Elbaum, producer: Tanja Kleinhendler (Pie Films) is in development. Filmstiftung NRW supports the Belgian/German/Israeli co-production.
- TOUCH ME NOT, written and directed by Adina Pintilie of Manekino Film, co-producers: EAVE 2011 participant Monica Lazurean-Gorgan of 4 Proof Film and Atopic, is currently in development. Arte France Cinéma and the Romanian National Center of Cinematography support this film about a woman and two men in search of intimacy.
- LUDWIG II by Peter Sehr, executive producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and group leader Danny Krausz is in pre-production. Coinciding with the 125th anniversary of Ludwig II’s suspicious death, the film is supported by Austrian Film Institute, Vienna Film Fund and MEDIA Production Guarantee Fund.
EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer has currently three films in his development slate:
- WAR BELOW ZERO by August Gudmundsson, co-produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer and Til Schweiger. The film tells the story of two rival meteorologists, a Dane and a German, who are posted to Greenland to control the weather reports and gain the upper hand in the North Atlantic U-boat war. Production Companies: Egoli Tossell Film, Barefoot Films and M&M.
- SYMPHONY, a co-production with Mike Downey and EAVE 2006 graduate Andrey Deryabin that is based on the true story of the performance of Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony during the 900-day siege of Leningrad by the Nazi army.
- TRAVELLER by Oliver Hirschbiegel about an American war photographer who falls in love with a German girl in Vietnam and her sister in East Berlin and gets caught up in the events during the fall of the Wall and the war in Bosnia. Budget: €7m Euro, shooting is planned for 2012.
- MARINA by Stijn Coninx, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert is in development. The story follows the life of an Italian/Belgian musician, who escaped a tough life in a Belgian mining village because his song “Marina” became a worldwide hit. Production Companies: Eyeworks Film & TV Drama, Cologne Film and Orisa Produzioni.
- EAVE 2006 project LORE by Cate Shortland, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Paul Welsh, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Karsten Stöter, is in pre-production. Shooting is planned for summer. Production companies: Edge City Films (UK), Rohfilm (GER), Porchlight Films (AUS). The film’s budget is 3.5 m Euro.
www.rohfilm.de, www.digicult.co.uk
Page published 20 June 2011. Updated 21 June 2011.
