Wallonie Bruxelles Images supporting 10 projects by EAVE graduates

In Development / Pre-Production September 2014

The Film Selection Committee of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation has selected a total of 19 fiction feature-film projects, ten short films, 14 documentaries and four television fictions to receive support for their writing, development or production, for a total sum of €3,267,000. Among them are the following projects by EAVE producers:

• IRREMPLAÇABLE by Giordano Gederlini and Olivier Masset-Depasse, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
• LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT by Jaco Van Dormael, producers: EAVE 1991 and EAVE+ Second Edition graduate Paul Thiltges and EAVE 2011 and EAVE+ First Edition graduate graduate David Grumbach
• DIEU PROTÈGE MA FILLE by Leyla Bouzid, producer: PUENTES 2011 graduate Anthony Rey
• LE FRONT DE WAKHAN by Clément Cogitore, co-producers: EAVE 1999 graduate Donato Rotunno
• WHEN THE DAY HAD NO NAME by Teona Strugar Mitevska, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum
• KEBAB ROYAL by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, co-producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and EAVE Head of Studies Jani Thiltges
• JAY PARMI LES HOMMES by Zeno Graton, producer: PUENTES 2011 graduate Anthony Rey
• MÉMOIRES SÉLECTIVES by Pauline Etienne et Rafaella Houlstan-Hasaerts, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
• LA PIVOINE by Joaquin Breton, producer: PUENTES 2011 graduate Anthony Rey
• MÉMOIRES D’UN MISSIONAIRE by Delphine Wilputte, prod: EAVE 2002 graduate Aurélien Bodinaux

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• ANA, MON AMOUR by Calin Peter Netzer, producer: EAVE Film Finance Forum 2008 graduate Oana Kelemen is in development. The film will explore a dysfunctional relationship between two lovers. The project will start production in the second half of 2015, with a domestic release tentatively set for 2016. Shooting is expected to last ten weeks. EAVE 2007 graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon is Head of distribution with Parada Film.

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• Wa Entertainment, the company of Ties That Bind 2010 graduate Kiki Sugino, and Ties That Bind 2009 graduate Kosuke Ono has two films in pre-production: SOME OTHER TIME by Adolfo Alix jr., and 345 by Takuya Misawa. Projects in development are PATAGONIA PROJECT by Alejandro Fernandez Almendras, BOKU WA OTOTO by Hiroshi Ando, and OBLIVION by Kiki Sugino. 

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• ROOM by Lenny Abrahamson, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney is in pre-production. Based on Emma Donoghue’s Booker shortlisted novel the film tells the story of a five year old boy held captive in a room along with his mother. - EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney has acquired film and television rights to Laird Hunt’s acclaimed novel NEVERHOME, with Lenny Abrahamson to direct and Guiney producing. NEVERHOME is the story of Ash Thompson who leaves her husband to fight as a Union soldier in the American Civil War.

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Page published 30 September 2014.