VERANO 1993 is shooting

In Production June 2016

• VERANO 1993 by Carla Simón, co-producer: EAVE graduate Maria Zamora is shooting. Following the death of her mother, six-year-old Frida has to face her first summer with her adoptive family. During those first few months together in the countryside, they will gradually start to find out more about each other: the parents must learn to love her like a daughter, and she seemingly accepts the situation, as she starts to call them Mum and Dad. However, the little girl finds it harder to accept her new sister, despite the fact that she loves her right from the get-go. Frida’s conflicting emotions mean that all four of them will have to mould their relationship and create a true household. VERANO 1993 is a production by Barcelona-based independent company Inicia Films, in conjunction with Avalon PC and with a co-production by French outfit Les Contes Modernes. It has backing from the ICAA and ICEC, and is benefiting from the involvement of TVE. The screenplay was selected for the SGAE Awards, took part in the CIMA workshop and received advice from MEDIA’s Sources programme. It took part in Berlinale Talents and the Co-Production Market in 2016, the Workshops meeting at Premiers Plans in Angers, the Ekran programme in Poland, won the Award for Best Project at the Holland Film Meeting. Shooting begins on July 4, and continues for six weeks in La Garrotxa (Girona). 

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• MR. STEIN GOES ONLINE by Stéphane Robelin, producer: EAVE graduate Christophe Bruncher, co-producer: EAVE graduate Henning Kamm is in production. Written by the director, the story revolves around 75-year-old widower Pierre, who manages to recover from a bout of depression thanks to a romantic encounter arranged online. Using the identity of Alex, a young computer boffin who teaches him the basics, he meets Flora63, a 28-year-old physiotherapist who soon agrees to meet him in person and asks him out on a date. Pierre, who has now fallen under her spell, accepts and has no other choice but to convince Alex to go in his place. Produced by Ici et Là Productions, Mr Stein Goes Online is being co-produced by Orange Studio, German outfit Detailfilm and MMC Movies, Belgium’s La Compagnie Cinématographique, Panache Productions and RTBF, and Lebanese company Abbout Productions. The seven-week shoot will be split between Paris, Brussels, Oostende and Cologne.

www.detailfilm.de

• SUPERFLUOUS MAN by Kornel Mundruczo, producer: EAVE graduate Viktoria Petranyi is shooting. Written by the director together with Kata Wéber, the story is set in the Europe of tomorrow and is about 17-year-old Ariel, a young boy who attempts to illegally cross the border into Hungary. Unfortunately, his endeavours to escape are unsuccessful, and he is hit by the bullet of an aggressive police officer. As a result of the wound, the boy is endowed with a unique ability: he is able to levitate, just like an angel. The following day at the refugee camp, a disillusioned, cynical doctor, Stern, examines the boy. Upon realising his capability, Stern decides to smuggle the refugee out of the secured camp in order to exploit this gift in his own interests. In the meantime, however, the camp’s director is soon on their trail. The feature is being backed by the Hungarian National Film Fund, Eurimages, and the NRW, Medienboard and MDM German regional funds. The shoot is taking place in Budapest. 

www.protoncinema.hu

• HALAL DADDY by Conor McDermottroe, co-producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Peter Rommel has commenced a five-week shoot in and around Sligo, Ireland. The culture clash comedy follows Raghdan Aziz whose new home in the West of Ireland seems to be the perfect getaway from his controlling Bradford based Muslim father, Amir. He’s adored by his Sligo based uncle and aunt, his surf buddies Derek and Neville think he’s really cool and his girlfriend is much desired Sligonian Maeve Logan, so all is going well for Raghdan. However when Amir lands on his doorstep with a birthday present of a halal meat factory, things go awry for happy-go-lucky Raghdan. Hermann Florin of Germany’s Florin Film produces the film with his Irish outlet Benrae Florin Film, Ailish McElmeel of Ireland’s Deadpan Pictures, and German co-producer Peter Rommel. Support comes from the Irish Film Board and Eurimages. 

http://florinfilm.com/project/halaldaddy

• THE VOICE by György Palfi, producer: EAVE graduate Ferenc Puztai is going in production. Co-written by Zsofia Ruttkay, Gergely V Nagy and the director, the script is an adaptation of the 1968 novel His Master’s Voice, written by Polish author Stanislaw Lem. The plot follows a thirty-something Hungarian journalist who has never met his father, who defected to the US in the 1970s and disappeared. However, as he is about to start his own family, the journalist decides to travel to the States to find him. As a scientist, the father worked in a research group that examined "voices" from space in search of evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligent life. Puztai’s KMH Film produces with Canada’s Quiet Revolution Pictures as co-producer. The project won the Arte International Prize at the Les Arcs European Film Festival’s Coproduction Village in 2014 and has also received support from the Torino Film Lab. 

www.kmhfilm.hu

Page published 29 June 2016.