PUENTES project SUCH IS LIFE IN THE TROPICS secured financing from Ecuador and Germany
In Development / Pre-production July 2014
Eurimages is spending 8,3 M Euro for 23 European co-productions. Among them are the following projects by EAVE graduates:
- CHRIS THE SWISS by Anja Kofmel, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisa Juricic
- LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT by Jaco Van Dormael, producers: EAVE 1991 and EAVE Plus 2013 graduate Paul Thiltges and EAVE 2011 and EAVE+ 2013 graduate David Grumbach
- LOUDER THAN BOMBS by Joachim Trier, executive producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Sigve Endresen
- NEULICH DIE REISE MIT MEINEM VATER by Anca M. Dunga, producer: Ties That Bind 2011 graduate David Lindner
- RODINNY FILM by Olmo Omerzu, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jiri Konecny
The World Cinema Fund (WCF) jury made their selection out of 126 submissions from a total of 43 countries and awarded production funds totalling 145,000 €. Two selected films are produced by EAVE graduates.
- BLACK SUNSHINE by Akosua Adoma Owusu, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Ingrid Lill Hogtun
- MONOS by Alejandro Landes and Alexis Dos Santos, producer: EAVE+ 2014 graduate and Puentes Group Leader Fernando Epstein
34 film projects have received funding totaling €8.5m from the budget of the new Netherlands Film Production Incentive. Some 21 of the 34 successful applicants are international co-productions of feature films and documentaries, in which a Dutch producer has a majority or minority stake. The productions include the following projects by EAVE graduates:
- ANDRÉ HAZES, THE BIOPIC by Diederick Koopal, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Léontine Petit
- COMING TO CROOSWIJK by Jelle de Jonge, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert
- EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO by Peter Greenaway, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Daniel Lamberts
- FAMILY WEEKEND by Pieter van Rijn, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert
- LOVE & FRIENDSHIP by Whit Stillman, producers: EAVE 2005 graduate Katie Holly, EAVE 2005 graduate Raymond van der Kaaij
- MAMMAL by Rebecca Daly, producers: EAVE 2008 graduate Morgan Bushe and EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher, co-produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Reinier Selen
- PREJUDICE by Antoine Cuypers, co-producer: EAVE 2010 graduate Bernard Michaux
- SCHONE HANDEN by Tjebbo Penning, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert
- THE LOBSTER by Yorgos Lanthimos, producers: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney, EAVE 1995 graduate Léontine Petit
- THE NIGHT OF A THOUSAND HOURS by Virgil Widrich, producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
- THE SURPRISE by Mike van Diem, co-producers: EAVE 2008 graduate Morgan Bushe and EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher
- THREE MANY WEDDINGS by Anna van der Heide, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert
- WALDSTILLE by Martijn Maria Smits, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate Stienette Bosklopper, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Tomas Leyers
- BETRAYAL – THE STORY OF MR. ZHANG by Jiongjiong Qiu, producer: Ties That Bind 2013 graduate Lihong Kong has received the financial support for production and post-production from Sundance Doc Fund.
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- EAVE Puentes 2013 project SIN MUERTOS NO HAY CARNAVAL (SUCH IS LIFE IN THE TROPICS) by Sebastián Cordero, producer: Arturo Yépez secured 1 M USD in Ecuador and received support from the MDM-Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung.
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- REPORTER by Magdalena Szymkow, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Anna Wydra is co-producing a documentary based on found footage. The documentary will be a portrait of reporter and writer Ryszard Kapuscinski through found footage of his own, including home movies. It reflects his creative struggles, showing both his failures and his successes. The Polish-UK co-production received development funding from MEDIA and funding from the Polish Cultural Institute, and has 80 hours of footage.
- Croatia announced grants for minority co-productions. USTRAJNOST by Miha Knific, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisa Juricic is among the funded films.
- A REAL VAN MEEGEREN by Rudolf van den Berg, producers: EAVE 2010 graduate Reinier Selen, EAVE 1999 graduate Donnato Rotunno and EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisa Juricic is in development. This story is about Han van Meegeren, often called “one of the greatest art forgers of the Twentieth Century”. He was renowned for his fake Vermeers and for his forgeries of work by Seventeenth Century Dutch masters. The film with a budget of 3.6 M € is financed by the Netherlands Film Fund. Shooting is planned for Summer 2015.
Page published 1 August 2014. Updated 29 August 2014.
