PUENTES project USPANTAN now in pre-production
In Development / Pre-Production January 2017
RE-ACT development fund
- DON’T FORGET TO BREATHE by Martin Turk, producer: EAVE graduate Ida Weiss
- HALF SISTER by Damjan Kozole, producer: EAVE group leader Daniel Hocevar
- EAVE project MENOCCHIO by Alberto Fasulo, producer: EAVE graduate Nadia Trevisan
- RIDERS by Dominik Mencej, producer: EAVE graduate Miha Cernec
The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) and the Greek Film Center (GFC) have announced their support for new Greek and international co-productions in their third round of financing. Among the selected projects are the following films by EAVE graduates:
- AVRIL ET DJAM by Tony Gatlif, producer: EAVE+ graduate Fenia Cossovitsa
- AYELI PROVATON by Dimitris Kanellopoulos, producer: EAVE graduate Konstantina Stavrianou
- DELEGATIONS by Bujar Alimani, producer: EAVE graduate Konstantina Stavrianou
- I EPIFANEIA TON PRAGMATON by Nancy Biniadaki, producer: EAVE graduate Konstantinos
- O RAFTIS by Sonia Liza Kenterman, producer: EAVE+ graduate Fenia Cossovitsa
- PARI by Siamak Etemadi, producer: EAVE graduate Konstantinos Kontovrakis
- CANDY BOY by Marc Brummund, producer: EAVE graduate Dirk Decker is in development. The film tells the story of a German teenager from an ultra-conservative family who falls in love with the daughter of a Danish porn producer in the 1970s. For this project, Hamburg-based Tamtam Film and Toolbox Film in Copenhagen received development support by Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.
- PUENTES project USPANTAN by César Diaz, producer: PUENTES graduate Géraldine Sprimont is in development. Guatemala nowadays: Ernesto, son of a political missing person, works for a Foundation that searchs and exhumes the corpses of the missing people left by the dictatorship. Through the search for the remains of his father, he'll unearth family secrets to discover his true identity. Produced by Need Productions (BE), Perspective Films (FR), La Casa de Produccion (GUA). The film received production support by Cinema du Monde. Pyramide takes on international sales and French distribution. Shooting is planned for the end of 2017.
- POWER by Matyas Prikler, producers: EAVE graduates Katarina Krnacova, Viktoria Petranyi closed the development stage and will have the principal photography in the winter 2017/2018. The film is a Slovak/Czech/Hungarian co-production and stars the Hungarian director and actor Kornel Mundruczo. The story follows a well-established politician who gets involved in an accidental death while hunting. Suddenly the media starts to lead an uncomfortable investigation, suspecting him of the killing. Slovakia‘s MPhilms is producing in coproduction with Negativ from the Czech Republic, and Hungary's Proton Cinema. Slovak Audiovisual Fund supported the project. Producers are still seeking a Belgian or French co-producer to get involved.
- ALL ALONE by Bobo Jelcic, producer: EAVE graduate Zdenka Gold is in preparation. The film is an intimate character study and a social drama about a divorced father struggling with the legal labyrinth without breaking the parental bond. The story focuses on a divorced father who starts ex-parte proceedings to spend more time with his daughter, but enters the Kafkaesque world of a social services system in meltdown. His fierce love for his child is the source of his misery and of his greatest joy as well. The Croatian/Bosnian co-production received a production grant from the Croatian Audiovisual Centre and a coproduction grant from the Sarajevo Film Fund. The 30 shooting days are scheduled from 20 February to 1 April 2017.
Page published 27 January 2017.
