THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN by 2010 graduate Anca Damian has started production!
In Production June 2013
- THE CANAL by writer/director Ivan Kavanagh, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate AnneMarie Naughton is shooting in Dublin. The horror film about a man who suspects his wife is cheating on him and believes that their house is possessed by an evil supernatural presence that ‘never ever’ wants them to leave, is an Irish/UK/Dutch co-production.
- THE TREATMENT by Hans Herbots, producer: EAVE 2009 graduate Peter Bouckaert is shooting in Antwerp. The script is based on the second novel by British author Mo Hayder of the same name, which portrays the detective and tormented soul Jack Caffery. The film follows the path of the detective, who is traumatized by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother. The film received funding from the VAF, VTM, Bruxellimage and the Nederlands Film Fond.
- LOVE ISLAND by Jasmila Žbanic, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jonas Dornbach has started principal photography in Croatia last week. Co-written by Žbanic and Bosnian novelist Aleksandar Hemon, LOVE ISLAND tells the story of a pregnant French woman who lives in Sarajevo with her Bosnian husband and their daughter. They go for a vacation at a Croatian island, where things get complicated when they all become attracted to a beautiful woman. The project received funding from the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, and later from Swiss and German funds, as well as Eurimages and the MEDIA programme.
- APRÈS LA BATAILLE by Simon Leclère, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Isabelle Truc is in production. The film tells the story of Pavel, an industry worker whose blissful future comes crashing down around him. Produced by Perspective Films, APRÈS LA BATAILLE benefits from co-production with the Belgian company Iota Production, an advance on receipts from the CNC and funding from the Centre and Pays de Loire regions, where the six weeks of filming will take place until July 20th.
- THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN, written, directed and produced by EAVE 2010 graduate Anca Damian has started production. The animated documentary tells the true story of Adam Jacek Winkler, a 20th century Polish Don Quixote. Winkler (1937-2002) was a photographer and a mountaineer who moved to Paris as a political refugee and fought as Adam Khan in Afghanistan on the side of the mujahideen in the 1980’s. He climbed Mont Blanc, leaving there the solidarity flag with the Afghan people and died while on another solitary climb. THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN is produced by Damian’s company Aparte Film in co-production with EAVE`s 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille’s Arizona Films. The budget is 741,714 EUR. The project received 95,000 EUR from the National Center for Cinema.The premiere is set for 2014.
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- AROUND MY FAMILY TABLE by Ase Svenheim Drivenes, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Edward Porembny is shooting. The Norwegian company Saint & Usant is co-producing. Support comes from the Polish Film Institute, TVP (Poland), Norwegian Film Institute, NRK (Norway) and the MEDIA Programme.
Page published 28 June 2013. Updated 1 July 2013.
