EAVE graduates supported by Franco-German Funding Commission, World Cinema Fund and BLS Alto-Adige
In Development / Pre-production July 2013
- The Franco-German Funding Commission is supporting five projects with a total sum of 1 m €. Among them is: PEACHES GOES BANANAS by Marie Losier, German producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Hanneke van der Tas of Vandertastic Films, Berlin. French producer: Group Deux SARL, Paris.
- The World Cinema Fund (WCF) jury made their selection out of 130 submissions from a total of 48 countries and awarded production funds totalling 154,300 €.
- SIN TÌTULO by Lisandro Alonso, co-producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Helle Ullsteen
- BIG FATHER, SMALL FATHER AND OTHER STORIES by Di Phan Dang, producer: Ties That Bind 2011 graduate Hoang Diep Nguyen
- THE VALLEY by Ghassan Salhab, producer: Interchange 2012 graduate Myriam Sassine
- BLS Alto-Adige has announced the second round of funding decisions 2013:
- VERGINE GIURATA by Laura Bispuri, co-producers: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille and EAVE 2007 Dan Wechsler receives production funding
- EAVE 2009 project CLASH, co-produced by EAVE 2012 graduate Jonas Weydemann gets pre-production funding
- ALS WIR TRÄUMTEN by Andreas Dresen, producer: EAVE group leader Peter Rommel is in development. Backed by the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) with €600,000, the film tells the story of five friends in Leipzig after the Berlin Wall came down.The script is based on the novel of the same name by Clemens Meyer.
- PREJUDICE by Antoine Cuypers, producers: EAVE 2010 graduate Benoit Roland and EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum is in development. The film shows an eventful family dinner, punctuated by resentment and paranoia.
- THE WEDNESDAY CHILD by Lili Horvath, producer: Film Finance Forum and Film Marketing Workshop 2012 graduate Károly Fehér has received production grants from the Hungarian National Film Fund and from the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein. Shooting starts in the second half of August 2013.
- THEY HAVE ESCAPED by Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate & Finnish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy and EAVE 2005 graduate Raymond van der Kaaij received support from the Dutch Filmfund. Shooting is scheduled for September 2013. The project was presented at Cinemart 2013.
- DAY AFTER TOMORROW, the new project of EAVE 2012 graduate Sara Afreen has received the IDFA Bertha fund (production support). It is one of the 13 projects selected from 330 submissions of more than 40 countries in the May 2013 selection round.
www.idfa.nl/industry/latest-news/idfa-bertha-fund-may-2013-selection.aspx
- FLOCKING, by Beata Gårdeler, producers: EAVE 2008 graduate Annika Hellström and Agneta Fagerström Olssonand of Widespread Film is in financing stage with production planned for April 2014.
- CORBO by writer/director Mathieu Denis, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Félize Frappier is in pre-production in Montreal. The story is based in Montréal in the spring of 1966. While the province of Québec is undergoing significant social change, Jean Corbo, 16, an idealistic teen born of a Québécois mother and an Italian father, is torn between two cultures, two identities. After making friends with two left-wing activists, he joins an underground group seeking to spark a socialist revolution in the province.
Page published 31 July 2013.
