LAJKO: A GIPSY THAT WENT TO SPACE now in production
In Production October 2016
- LAJKO: A GIPSY THAT WENT TO SPACE by Balazs Lengyel, producer: EAVE graduate Ferenc Pusztai is in production. Co-written by the director and Balazs Lovas the screenplay is based around the idea that the first human being to return from Space alive was not Yuri Gagarin, but Lajkó Serbán, a quiet, reserved Gypsy vaporiser pilot from Hungary. He always wanted to become a cosmonaut, but he never knew he would become the best-kept secret of the Cold War space race. Lajkó is a satire that follows the darkly comical adventures of a man who is only useful to his society as a lab rat. LAJKOreceived funding from the Hungarian National Film Fund (HNFF).
- NUMÉRO UNE by Tonie Marshall, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart is shooting. The screenplay follows the life of Emmanuelle Blanchey, a brilliant and determined engineer, who, thanks to the quality of her work, has found her way onto the executive board of French energy giant, Trident. One day, a network of influential women offers to assist her in toppling the head of a CAC40 company. But, for a shot at the top, she must put everything on the line! In a world still dominated by men, Emmanuelle must confront even more roadblocks on her path to the top, both in her professional and personal life.Produced by Tonie Marshall and Véronique Zerdoun for Tabo Tabo Films, Numéro Une has a budget of €6.3 million, including co-production agreements with France 3 Cinéma, Orange Studio and Belgian outfit Versus Production. The film, the rights to which have been bought in advance by Canal+ and Ciné+, is also supported by the Cofimage Sofica. Principal photography is set to run for eight weeks and two days, until 6 December, across the Ile-de-France region, Deauville and Ostend.
- 9 FINGERS by F.J. Ossang, producer: EAVE graduate Sébastien Haguenauer is in production. Written by FJ Ossang in the spirit of film noir, the story starts at night in a town surprised by a flurry of snow and ice, in a station where all the trains are at a standstill. Magloire steps outside for a cigarette. Everything happens during a police check. He takes flight as he is, without bags or a future, and comes across a dying man. He finds a wad of cash whilst the former succumbs to death, but then the problems start: there’s a gang hot on his heels, which takes him hostage before working with him, as Magloire deals with things like someone who expects nothing from life. Produced by Sébastien Haguenauer for 10:15 Productions and by OSS/100 Films & Documents, co-produced by CDP (Catherine Dussart Production) and the Portuguese company O Som e a Fúria. The film won the Eurimages Co-production Development Award at the New Cinema Network in Rome in 2014 and is supported by an advance on receipts from the CNC, and the l'Instituto do Cinema et do Audiovisual (ICA), a fund providing support to Franco-Portuguese co-productions, Sofica Cinémage and the Aquitaine Limousin Poitou-Charentes region.
- TAHITI AUX MULTIPLES EAUX SOMBRES by Annick Ghijzelings is in production. The documentary started shooting in mid-October.
Page published 27 October 2016.
