PUENTES project FERIADO (HOLIDAY) now in post-production
In Post-production November 2013
- PUENTES 2011 project FERIADO (HOLIDAY) by Puentes 2011 graduate Hanne-Lovise Skartveit is in the very final editing and has started festival submissions. FERIADO is among the finalists for the post-production award Nuestra América Primera Copia at the Habana Film Festival. The film is also among the six titles selected by Georges Goldenstern of Cannes Cinéfondation for the Primer Corte section at Ventana Sur to compete for the post-production awards. FERIADO has been picked up by M-Appeal for world sales.
- GET UP AND GO by Brendan Grant, executive producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher is in post-production. Set in Dublin, the film follows a close knit group of twenty-something friends as they are forced to confront the reality of lives and friendships which have gone unchallenged and unchanged since their teenage years. The film is expected to come out in early 2014.
- ZERO by Gyula Nemes, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jiri Konecny is in post-production. The film traces the misadventures of a beekeeper engaged in a desperate battle against consumerist society. Production companies: 42film, Endorfilm , Katapult Film and Playtime. Funding comes from the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), MEDIA Programme, Czech Film Commission and Hungarian National Film Fund.
- JIMMY’S HALL by Ken Loach, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney is in post-production. Ken Loach directs this film about James Gralton, the Irish communist leader who set up a dance hall in Effrinagh, County Leitrim, which he used to disseminate his political views. After being opposed by the Catholic Church, Gralton was arrested and deported to the US in 1933. Partners of the Sixteen Films production include Why Not, Element Pictures, Film4, Irish Film Board and British Film Institute (BFI).
Page published 27 November 2013.
