LA FEMME LA PLUS RICHE DU MONDE by Thierry Kilfa is shooting

In Production and Post-Production July 2024

In production

• ON THEIR OWN by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, producers: EAVE graduates Tudor Giurgiu and Bogdan Craciun is in production. The plot: Driven by poverty, Flavia’s parents left home to work abroad so she has been living alone since she was 14. But now her parents are also getting a divorce and she loses her coolness. In an emotional crisis, she decides to take care of two runaways and tries to build a surrogate family. “It is a touching coming-of-age story about a generation who had to deal with the absence of their parents. Tudor Cristian Jurgiu has a peculiar sensibility and tenderness when dealing with youngsters who are facing adulthood problems. We loved the story, it’s universal and I’m sure Tudor can prove he is a talent to watch”, producer Tudor Giurgiu said. The project was supported in Romania by the Romanian Film Centre (CNC), in Italy by the Italian Ministry of Culture as well as the Italian tax credit scheme, and also by Eurimages and Creative Europe MEDIA (for development). The Romanian/Italian co-production produced by Tudor Giurgiu and Bogdan Craciun of Libra Films in co-production with Simone Catania and Francesca Portalupi of Indyca will be shot in Romania from end of July to August 2024, and in Italy in September 2024.

www.librafilm.net

• LA FEMME LA PLUS RICHE DU MONDE by Thierry Kilfa, producer: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart is shooting. Very loosely based on the Bettencourt affair, and written by the director in league with Cédric Anger and Jacques Fieschi, the story follows the richest woman in the world (Isabelle Huppert) and a writer-photographer known throughout Paris (Laurent Lafitte) as they meet during a photo shoot and go on to become inseparable. Their loving friendship amuses and intrigues the billionaire’s personal and professional entourage, setting their tongues wagging and ultimately disconcerting them… LA FEMME LA PLUS RICHE DU MONDE is produced by Mathias Rubin on behalf of Récifilms, in co-production with Belgium’s Versus Productions. Pre-purchased by Netflix, the movie enjoys backing from the SOFICA companies Sofitvciné, Cinémage, Cinéaxe and Cofimage, as well as support from Wallimage and Screen.Brussels. Having kicked off on 17 June, the 22-day film shoot has been split equally between France and Belgium.

https://www.versusproduction.be/en

In post-production

• MISS CARBON by Augustina Marci, producer: EAVE graduate Merry Colomer is in post-production. The film tells the true story of the first female miner in a region where women had no access to this kind of work. MISS CARBON is a story about overcoming, passion and dreams that do not understand gender, as Carlita managed to become the first female miner in a town where women were forbidden to access the main source of income in the region: the coal mine. For there was a superstition that women could cause a collapse and mining work was reserved exclusively for men. But, as a trans woman, she managed to enter the mine, breaking the system from within and igniting a spark of social revolution. According to director Agustina Macri, "the courage shown by Carlita to fulfil her dream of being a miner and also a woman is something that pierced my soul from the day I read the script for the first time. With her strength and spirit, she is a prime example of what dreaming can achieve and that there is still a lot of ground to overcome as women and transwomen. But she, in that sense, brings hope.” And for producer Merry Colomer from Morena Films, “having a coffee with Erika was enough to know that this was a story I wanted to help tell: full of truth, light, and brave women. From a corner of Patagonia, Miss Carbón comes to confront the world with the present and the near future. And it’s wonderful to help contribute to this challenge.” MISS CARBON is a feature film by the Spanish company Morena Films in co-production with the Argentinean companies Pensa and Rocca Cine and The Warning of Rivard AIE, with the participation of the platforms Movistar Plus+ and Filmin. Filming took place over six weeks on location in the Basque Country and Patagonia. 

www.morenafilms.com

• WHAT WE DID AT CHRISTMAS by Adonis Florides, producer: EAVE graduate Marios Piperides is in post-production. The film’s story takes place in Cyprus 1963. Young Marina’s adolescent dreams are abruptly disrupted when the intercommunal conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriots breaks out, causing her family to be trapped in their house on Christmas Eve. “The film was inspired by the many stories circulating the director’s family about the time of the intercommunal conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in 1963-64. The film does not want to portray the horrors of war or other forms of violence in a graphic way. Instead, its main goal is to show how people's relationships are formed in such circumstances and how such an experience can shape the life of a young person. The film’s atmosphere is tragically absurd and claustrophobic (with elements of black humour) as the story takes place mainly within the walls of the family's bourgeois home,” producer Marios Piperides said. Marios Piperides and Janine Teerling of AMP Filmworks Ltd are producing with the support of the Deputy Ministry of Culture of Cyprus and in partnership with A.B. Seahorse Film Productions Ltd (Cyroys). The 23 shooting days in May and June were spent on one location, a 1950s house in the Kaimakli area in Nicosia, Cyprus.

www.filmworks.com.cy

Page published 31 July 2024.