German projects

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German projects

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2015
CONTENT
German Projects
ALIAS FILM &
SPRACHTRANSFER GMBH
GHOSTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
AUGENSCHEIN
FILMPRODUKTION GMBH
MONSTER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7
DANIEL FILM
THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE . . . . . . . . . 8-9
GREENSTONEFILMS
ALCHIMISTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-11
MEDEA FILM FACTORY
FACTORY COWBOY . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-13
MOJO PICTURES
TRANSMORPHOSIS . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-15
OVAL MEDIA BERLIN GmbH MELANGE SARL - REAL LIFE FILM
INTERNATIONAL GmBH
WAIT FOR ME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-17
PARS MEDIA
THE BOOK JEANNE. . . . . . . . . . . . 18-19
FRENCH Projects
ATOPIC
DON JUAN COMES BACK
FROM THE WAR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-25
BATHYSPHERE PRODUCTIONS
10,000 NIGHTS IN THE JUNGLE. 26-27
BLUE MONDAY PRODUCTIONS
LOLA PATER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28-29
CONSTELLATION FACTORY
NITRO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30-31
ELIANEANTOINETTE
THE OBSERVER EFFECT. . . . . . . . . 32-33
IDEALE AUDIENCE
WHERE ARE YOU,
JOAO GILBERTO ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-35
LES FILMS DE L’AUTRE COUGAR
YASMINA’S FLING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36-37
LES FILMS DU TAMBOUR
SIBEL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38-39
LES PRODUITS FRAIS
WORLDS IN BETWEEN . . . . . . . . . 40-41
NEON PRODUCTIONS
A FAIRY IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42-43
ORIFLAMME FILMS
BROWN SUGAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44-45
PLUS DE PROD
TRAVEL WITH A DONKEY
IN THE CEVENNES . . . . . . . . . . . . 42-43
RHEA FILMS
THE HOUSE OF THE JAGUAR . . . . 44-45
TALWEG PRODUCTION
UNDER PARIS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44-45
Other Project
MISTRUS MEDIA
A BOY WITH A DOG . . . . . . . . . . . . 44-45
GERMAN
PROJECTS
ALIAS FILM
& SPRACHTRANSFER GmbH
English title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Original title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GEISTER
Dagmar Jacobsen Goethestr. 85•10623 Berlin, Germany
Three young Europeans, KÄTHE, PAUL and BELLA, and a profound and inseparable threeway relationship. Jules et Jim for the 21st century, in Berlin.
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Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90’
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama
State of development:. . . . . . . . Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Screenplay version n°5
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dagmar Jacobsen
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Judith Angerbauer
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Judith Angerbauer
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . Autumn/Summer
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . Berlin, Ladakh, India
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . around 1.5 M€
Secured financing: . . . . . . . . . . . none
Partners attached:. . . . . . . . . . . None
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Co-producers, Distributor, World Sales, Funding
[email protected]
+49 (0)30 8871 0774
+49 (0)30 8871 0775
+49 (0)172 30 30 236
www.alias-film.com
Producer’s Note
GHOSTS is a project I have been following for quite a while. Since our first meeting, the
screenplay has undergone some exciting changes and developments.
Jules et Jim for the 21st century — that came straight to my mind when confronted by the
dramatic twists and turns of this love triangle. This time, however, it's two women and one
man who are entangled in their loves and desires: three people who cannot free themselves from each other, and who must first reach high in the sky to finally, eventually, find
their footing on solid ground again.
GHOSTS is also a "Berlin story", one that is difficult to imagine happening elsewhere. Berlin
is an engendering magnet for volatile, complex, searching young "citizens of the world".
Berlin, a city that continually reinvents itself.
In GHOSTS, three young Europeans from completely different worlds collide: PAUL, the
musician from London; BELLA, the beautiful French woman who hasn't yet found her place
in life; and KÄTHE, the native Berliner, the anchoring nucleus and point of reference for the
other two — and as a result, she faces the danger of being crushed...
Paul's music, which will give the movie its unique sound and rhythm, will also underscore
the emotional turmoil of the protagonists. Music, however, will be a theme and leitmotif.
GHOSTS
Synopsis
Berlin — a loud, fast, and dirty city, and the place where three young people run into
each other: PAUL, a talented musician from England who seems to be on the verge of his
breakthrough; BELLA, a very beautiful young Frenchwoman who, though daring, outspoken
and direct, is still in search for her goal in life; and KÄTHE, a true-blue Berliner who works
as a social worker with street kids. These three fall in love with each other — completely,
deeply, and intensely — and begin a shared life together as a threesome.
A bittersweet love, the triangular relationship is in constant danger of falling apart: PAUL,
a man as gifted as he is erratic, can be extremely destructive at times. Aside from music,
he has one other obsession: he climbs and crosses the roofs high above the city. KÄTHE,
who has a fear of heights and is very down-to-earth, is easily caught in the vortex of PAUL's
"death wish" and verges on losing herself in her attempts to protect him. BELLA has to witness how the two of them, whom she loves equally, begin to falter. She wants to save them,
their love, and the three-way relationship — but is she able to?
When PAUL develops an emotional crisis that threatens to tear the three apart and destroy
the relationship, all three decide to undertake a joint journey to much higher rooftops: to
the "roof of the world", deep into the mountain landscape of the Himalayas. PAUL has gone
there often — whenever he's found himself in the need of regaining his footing. This is the
first time, however, that he allows KÄTHE and BELLA to accompany him. There on the roof
of the world, in total isolation, without the grounding stability of the familiar, their love is
put to the ultimate test.
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— GERMAN PROJECTs
GERMAN PROJECTs —
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augenschein
Filmproduktion GmBH
English title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Original title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MONSTER
Maximilian Leo
Neusser Straße, 5-7, 50670, Cologne, Germany
Monster tells about holding on to someone by letting go and about how our greatest fear
can always give us a clue about what we miss the most.
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Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90’
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Love story & family road movie / Dramedy
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jonas Katzenstein, Maximilian Leo
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kerstin Polte
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kerstin Polte
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . May - June 2016
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . Germany, Switzerland
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5 M€
Secured financing: . . . . . . . . . . . 770,000 €
Partners attached:. . . . . . . . . . . CognitoFilms (Switzerland)
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . French Co-Producer, Distributors, World Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .and other financing partners
[email protected]
+49 (0)221 16950500
+49 (0)221 16950509
+49 (0)163 2860097
www.augenschein-filmproduktion.de
Producer’s Note
When we read Kerstin Polte’s first synopsis of MONSTER we knew that this is the right story
for her great poetic style. With her final shorts she already had proven her skill in blending the awkwardness of strange daily life situations with the deep almost surreal depths
of human emotions. We knew that the director’s handwriting and the emotional and yet
accessible story were a very good package right from the start. Charlotte’s main conflict is
easy to understand, she does not have the time to wait anymore. She embarks on a journey
thus leading her whole family, her husband, her daughter and her granddaughter into a
route towards life and love. During this trip each family member faces his own “monster”
and by overcoming these fears, everyone finds the access to love. It is a wonderful story
though never has been an easy one to write. The script for MONSTER was developed within The Munich Screenplay Workshop and was elected by the European Training program
of EKRAN. MONSTER also enabled us to already raise the interest of the German broadcasters SR and WDR. Kerstin Polte is a Suisse-German filmmaker and according to the
border crossing script, the project was set up as an international co-production from the
start. The Rendez-Vous in Marseille would be the best place for finding a matching French
partner with whom we can fulfill the project’s high potential to attract an international
audience
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— GERMAN PROJECTs
MONSTER
Synopsis
Simply living towards the grave is not what Charlotte (58) wants. Her husband Paul (62)
is a recently retired risk assessor who is trying to keep himself busy. He doesn`t notice his
wife`s restlessness. The passion she is longing for is not to be expected from the quiet stoic
any time soon. To make things worse there is a growing suspicion that something is not
right with her. Lately, a lot of little details vanish from her memory. Their daughter Vera (36)
is a hot-tempered driving instructor who is deeply entangled in her own unhappiness. To
avoid getting hurt she is a keen practitioner of the pre-emptive strike in emotional matters.
It is hardly surprising that she is quite lonely. But she doesn’t believe in love anyway. Her
daughter Jo (12) has been declared highly talented and Vera tries everything to transform
her into a normal girl. Jo has more important things on her mind though. With analytical
skill and the unspoiled mind of an underage philosopher she tackles the big questions of
life and death not at last because her cat Bootsmann has just died after falling from the
balcony. The tightly scheduled eventlessness of Charlotte’s everyday life and the fact that
the truly important things are always left unsaid in this family becomes more suffocating.
Charlotte’s fear of disappearing before her life even started prompts her to rebel more
and more. When Charlotte eventually leaves her old life behind at a filling station to go on
a roadtrip with her granddaughter and the dead cat, Paul and Vera are left puzzled and
somewhat shocked. Charlottes and Jo’s first impulse just to run away develops more and
more into a self-determined new beginning. Far away from their old patterns they dive into
the here and now, encountering their fear, their monsters, and they welcome the surprises
that life and love has to offer. But Paul catches up to Charlotte. And on her way to struggle
back to her daughter Vera falls deeply in love with someone she would have never expected. Paul’s plan to bring Charlotte back to their old life quickly gives way to realize that life
will never again be what it was. He has to reevaluate his plan and come to a new decision:
to follow her into the chaos. He plunges into a strange world. He fights over his woman for
the first time in his life.
GERMAN PROJECTs —
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DANIEL FILM
Dan Ravasz, Rose-Marie Couture
Lipowskystr. 12a, 81373 Munich - Germany
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[email protected]
+49 (0)89 9544 0195
+49 (0)176 6592 2719
Producer’s Note
Dan Ravasz (Daniel Film) comes from a family with a long tradition in the film business, his
father being an Academy Award nominated producer of “THE REVOLT OF JOB / JÓB LÁZADÁSA” (Hungary). Dan started his career as a journalist und PR agent in Switzerland and
Germany. THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE is his first feature film as a producer. Dan holds a Master in
Media & Communication and Political Science from the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland,
and is a member of the American Film Institute (AFI). Executive Producer of THE INVISIBLE
BRIDGE is Branko Lustig (SCHINDLER’S LIST). Other current projects: VILLA AURORA and
BETRAYAL AT THE U.N.
THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE
English title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Original title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Invisible Bridge
Love and Darkness at the Edge of World War II. Based on the NYT Best seller by Julie
Orringer
Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 min
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Love Film – War Drama
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Screenplay version n° Version Nr. 2
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dan Ravasz, Rose-Marie Couture
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark Skeet and Matthew Faulk
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lajos Koltai
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . None
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . Budapest - Paris
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Estimated Budget of 12 M€
Secured financing: . . . . . . . . . . . None
Partners attached:. . . . . . . . . . . UTA – Los Angeles
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Co-Producer in France
Synopsis
Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, a Hungarian architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a
scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he promised to deliver. But when
he falls into a passionate relationship with the letter's recipient - Claire Morgenstern, a
Hungarian émigré with a shadowy past and a decade older than him. He becomes privy to
a secret that will alter the course of his and his family’s history.
Meanwhile, as his elder brother takes up medical studies in Italy and his younger brother
leaves school for the stage, Europe’s unfolding tragedy sends each of their lives into terrifying uncertainty as Europe erupts in a cataclysm of war. Two families bound by the same
destiny are tossed by the winds of war from 1937 until 1945, from 1956 and beyond, when
the surviving family members are able to flee Soviet-controlled Hungary for freedom and
a new life in America.
THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE by Julie Orringer is a grand love story full of secrets and a tale of
three brothers whose lives are torn apart by war. A marriage tested by deceit and disaster,
a family threatened with annihilation, bound by love and tradition. A haunting love story
and an epic World War II saga like THE ENGLISH PATIENT, SOPHIE’S CHOICE and SUNSHINE
10 — GERMAN PROJECTs
GERMAN PROJECTs — 11
GREENSTONEFILMS
ALCHIMISTS
English title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Original title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Les Alchimistes
Carsten Böhnke
Habsburgerstarsse 92, 79100 Freiburg, Germany
A muslim intellectual gets accused of being a terrorist and flees with his love to escape the
madness.
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Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 min.
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melodram
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carsten Böhnke
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carsten Böhnke, Eka Papiashvili
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eka Papiashvili
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2017
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . Paris, Marseille
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 M€ (estimated, depending on further
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .negotiations)
Secured financing: . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000 € incl. Referenzförderung FFA
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coproducer
[email protected]
+49 (0)761 5901888
+49 (0)151 25294722
www.greenstonefilms.com
Producer’s Note
The core of the story is classic, the narration is embedded in our contemporary world, it
can happen anytime. We want to tell the mechanism of betrayal, false accusations and
the hunger for real love which will be resulting in tragedy in a highly emphatic and atmospheric way. This film is intended to be a contribution to oppose the mainstream sentiment
of our crazy times and will also be a film about love when there is only fear. Alchimists is
both a romantical and politcal melodram with thriller elements and targeted at a broeader
audience.
This is the first feature film of award winning director Eka Papiashvili. The film will be directed by Eka Papiashvilii and written + codirected by Carsten Böhnke.
Synopsis
20 year old Muriel moves from Germany to Paris in order to apply for the acting class at the
Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique. In Paris she meets Hamid, an intellectual
and playwright in his early 30's and his editor Claire. Hamid who is not only poet but also leftist
activist, stays illegal in France and fears of being deported. Claire supports Hamid with payments for his stage plays and with a small apartment in the 10th arrondissement. Soon Muriel
gets behind Hamids secret: Hamid is forced into a relation with Claire which he actually doesn't
want. Claire adores Hamid in an almost fanatic way and threats to report him to the police, if he
ever leaves her.
Caught in this cage, Hamid is working on a new theater piece about terrorism which is important
for his career and may also help him to seek asylum. Hamid is fascinated by Muriels acting skills
and expression. Muriel starts working for Hamid, by acting the characters of his play. Soon Muriel and Hamid develop emotions for each other. Claire, who dislikes Muriels presence from the
first moment on, starts to become jealous. When she realizes that Hamids thoughts are always
with Muriel, she suffers a nervous breakdown and calls the police. The policemen arrive in the
early morning at Hamids place while Muriel is still rehearsing. When Muriel realizes that Hamid
is going to be arrested, her rehearsal role of a terrorist becomes reality: She takes the toy gun,
which she uses for rehearsing, frees Hamid and handcuffs the policemen. Hamid knows that he
has to flee now himself if he doesn't want to get arrested and deported.
Muriel keeps on playing her role: While Hamid waits for her in a bar, Muriel robs a jewelry shop
whose owner once tried to rape her. Equipped with this money they manage to flee to Claires
house in Marseille, while the police and media is on the manhunt for Hamid, since Muriel has
not been identified. After their first night together, Hamid plans to leave France without Muriel
in order to protect her. The police shoots him while he tries to get on board a ferry. Muriel gets
this news from Claire who directly came to Marseille after she started regretting her betrayal. It
is the same morning when Muriel gets to know that she has been accepted as a student by the
conservatoire. But knowing her love is dead she takes revenge on Claire…
MEDEA FILM FACTORY
FACTORY COWBOY
English title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Original title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FACTORY COWBOY
Irene Höfer, Andreas Schroth
Lützowplatz 9, 10785 Berlin, Germany
24 hours in Andy Warhols Factory – 5 international directors tell the story of his 15 minutefamers
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Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 min.
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feature
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MEDEA FILM/ Hollywood Action House
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ulli Lommel, Tanner Barklow & Colin J. McCracken
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ulli Lommel & al
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2016
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . Germany, USA
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.5 M€
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coproducers
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[email protected]
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+ 493025295331
+49 30 25295332
+49 1723917861
www.medeafilm.de
Producer’s Note
Ulli Lommel since I met him the first time has always been this special sort of personage for
me - evolved from a very special period in the 60s/ 70s post war Germany.
The 60s brought him to Fassbinder at the end of the 70s he arrived at the Factory –
consequently the years and decades after he developed his own style to be seen in the
over 50 films he directed.
I had the pleasure to produce SUNSET BOULEVARD in 2012 with him now I would like to
share his unique experience in FACTORY COWBOY together with five other directors yet to
be found.
Synopsis
24 hours in Andy Warhols Factory – 5 international directors tell the story of his 15 minutefamers.
NEW YORK the seventies – Fassbinder’s famous actor Ulli Lommel arrives at Warhols Factory, and gets immediately involved in his work and art manufacturing process, Warhol
calls him cowboy furtherone. Cowboy decides to invite 5 colleagues to shoot the 15 minute-famers.
MOJO PICTURES
TRANSMORPHOSIS
English title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Original title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TRANSMORPHOSIS
Jakob M. Erwa
Reinickendorfer Str. 70, 13347 Berlin, Germany
The tragicomical real story of the first transgender fashion model in the 1980ies, when
nobody yet knew that she was a boy.
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Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ 110 min.
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pop-Tragicomedy
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jakob M. Erwa, Sophie Stäglich
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jakob M. Erwa
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jakob M. Erwa
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . Summer 2017
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . Germany (NRW), France (Paris), Austria (Karinthia)
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ 5 M€
Secured financing: . . . . . . . . . . . Scriptfunding
Partners attached:. . . . . . . . . . . Topshot Films, Paris
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Partners in production, financing, distribution
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .and sales.
[email protected]
+49 (0)30 45301849
+49 (0)179 5469757
www.moo-pictures.com
Producer’s Note
KEY FACTS:
• A REAL STORY
• A LIVING PROTAGONIST/WITNESS: VALESKA
• ATTRACTIVE SETTING: FASHION & GLAMOUR
• HYPER UP-TO-DATE TOPIC: CROSSDRESSING/TRANSGENDER
• HIGH CONCEPT PREMISE: NOBODY KNOWS HER/HIS SECRET
• COMEDY TONE IN A DRAMATIC SETTING
“Clothes make the man” meets “Don’t judge a book by its cover.”
We are interested in topics such as (sexual) identity, the longing for recognition and the
need to belong. In TRANSMORPHOSIS we see an opportunity to think outside the box, pull
out all the stops creatively and create a film we’ve never seen before. The screen adaptation focuses on the search for identity. It shows Valeska’s yearning and quest for recognition despite many disappointments and setbacks, and reveals how her longing for love and
recognition remains unanswered, even when she’s achieved her artistic and career goals.
Gender/gender roles is one of the key issues of our time.
The Amazon series TRANSPARENT recently received a Golden Globe Award. In the series
HIT & MISS Chloë Sevigny plays a transgender contract killer. THE DANISH GIRL opens in US
theaters in the fall of 2015. Conchita Wurst won the Eurovision contest and two transgender
models, Andreja Pejic and Carmen Carrera, are among the highest paid models working
today. I want to use this momentum to dive into the financing process of this amazing and
unique film. I believe that, when told in a daring and challenging manner, this story, thanks
to its extraordinary subject matter and lavish setting, will reach a great number of people
Synopsis
1977. Little Victor’s greatest desire is to be a girl, but he keeps this as a secret from his parents who who never really appreciated him. At the age of eighteen he cuts the cords with
his parents and moves to his aunt who helps him with his transformation: Victor becomes
Valeska. Shortly after the transformation Valeska is discovered by a photographer and
signs a contract to work as a model in Paris – and it seems like life could not get any better.
Finally Valeska receives admiration. However, even though everyone idolizes the successful
”superwoman“, there still is a small, subtle difference that makes life hard for Valeska…
Valeska’s story is the true story of the first transsexual model of the international fashion
world, when nobody yet knew that she was actually born as a man.
TRANSMORPHOSIS is based on a true story and is about Valeska’s path to success in the
fashion world and the ”small difference“ that makes it a lot more complicated but not less
funny, about the search for love and the realization that admiration, fame and popularity
don’t necessarily mean that you are accepted as what you really are. The peculiar melancholic cheerfulness makes us experience a unique story of success that proves that it is
possible to question conventions and to overcome boundaries.
The film is based on the autobiographic novel “Flowers for a chameleon” by Valeska Réon,
published in the Männerschwarm Verlag
OVAL MEDIA BERLIN GmbH MELANGE SARL - REAL LIFE
FILM INTERNATIONAL GmBH
Robert Cibis
Eupener Straße 165, 50933 Köln - Germany
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+49 (0)221 30079353
+49 (0)30 280 461 89
+49 (0)176 83032860
www.oval.media
Producer’s Note
WAIT FOR ME is a fiction story world made up of 4 platforms that complement each other,
like in a puzzle, as they tell the story from a different character POV. At the same time, each
platform is a stand-alone that can be experienced without the others:
1.
WAIT FOR ME
English title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Original title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WAIT FOR ME
« Wait for Me » is the story of a group of young men and women caught in their own quest
for pleasure as a path to freedom in Berlin today.
Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 min. for TV and internet, 5 min. in VR
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .and an application for iOS & Android
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poetic Thriller
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michel Reilhac, Robert Cibis, Lilian Franck
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michel Reilhac
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michel Reilhac
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . spring 2016
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . Berlin, Germany
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350,000 €
Partners attached:. . . . . . . . . . . CNC, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (LOI)
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Distributors, platforms, funds, broadcasters, etc
A 20 minutes 2D film for TV/ Web/Cinema gives the basic plot explained above.
2. The fully functioning app. TIM’s perspective on the story through the SPECTATOR’S use
of his own smart phone In Real Life.
The app WaitForMe is designed to be downloaded for free on the spectators’ smart phones
from the App Store and Google Play. The characters in the series also use the same app to
communicate between each other, a bit like “What’s app”. We, the spectator, see the app
from one of the characters point of view: TIM’s phone in the story world becomes replicated on our phone in real life. The viewer’s progression through the story world of “Wait for
Me” is fueled by the episodes in the series as well as by all the information provided through
his/her own interaction using his/her phone in real life, during or in between the episodes.
3. A 10 minutes Virtual Reality film for an immersive full 360° spherical video headgear
experience. This will complement the series by allowing the viewer to access the full subjective story as lived and perceived by the character KÖL. This storyline will help us understand that Köl may be holding the key to the mysteries of the series. It will be a very subjective and super natural experience, crossing points with moments in the series.
Synopsis
The night can be a magical mental space, which challenges us to truly experience a transgressive form of freedom and self-expression. But in the process of exploring the wilder
side of who we may be, we do not know what powers we may wake up in the process…
WAIT FOR ME is an interactive story world around a group of friends in Berlin choosing a life
of fun, freedom, and wildness in the night. But then one day they find themselves sucked
into some kind of a trance state that they cannot control. They are profoundly shaken by
the experience although they cannot remember any of it. The only trace they have of what
they went through all together is a mysterious video shot from one of their phones.
Is it a bad party drug? When it happens again in unexpected ways and without any drugs
taken, they want to understand what is really happening to them… Progressively, reality
is no longer the clear cut divide between day life and night magic that it used to be. More
strange things start happening… until a bad accident happens and makes the whole thing
not fun at all any longer…
4. A live event In Real Life, which will be a full-scale party, an event imbedded in the story
world to close it. This party will be hosted as being the one where the characters all try to
gather in the cellar to see if they can trigger the trance again.
WAIT FOR ME is a co-production by MELANGE (Michel Reilhac), France and OVALmedia
(Robert Cibis), Germany. It is planned to premiere at Re:Publica in Berlin May 2 to 4, 2016.
The budget is estimated at 350.000 €, about 100.000 € are already in place.
PARS MEDIA
Marieke Schroeder
Rambergstr. 5, 80799 München, Germany
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Producer’s Note
A man reads a book about a woman. Through literature he discovers reality. He falls in love.
This is the premise of the film, The Book Jeanne, a film about the esoteric channels between
fiction and reality. A film about what happens when a reader and a literary figure meet in
real life. Does the book become a demon that overshadows reality? And what happens
when she finds out with what intimate and predicated insight he gained her trust? Does he
love her, or is he in love with a character in a book?
Above all, The Book Jeanne is about the original theme of film since the invention of shot
reverse shot: desire. A man observes a woman. We see his gaze, and then we see her. His
feelings are charged into the images and are then transmitted to the viewer. We now see
through his eyes.
Antoine’s encounters with Jeanne are interspersed with the analogous experiences that
Pierre describes in his book. The film switches levels; it links them at points by means of
Pierre’s narrative voice; at other times they are allowed to switch without transition. Reality
and imagination are only minimally differentiated. Antoine continuously looses orientation.
Does he even love this woman, or does he just love Pierre’s longing for her?
THE BOOK JEANNE
English title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Original title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JEANNE LE LIVRE (F); DAS BUCH JULIA (D)
A man falls in love with a woman as he reads a book about her.
Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 min.
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marieke Schroeder
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joachim Bessing, Jan Schmidt-Garre
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan Schmidt-Garre
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fall 2016
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . Geneva, Munich
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7 M€
Partners attached:. . . . . . . . . . . FFA, private investor
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Co-producers, TV partners, distributors
Synopsis
Antoine (played by Sebastian Koch) owns a publishing house in Geneva. His friend Pierre’s
last book was a surprise success with the public and with critics. Antoine wants to announce his friend’s next book soon. But Pierre has fallen in love with a young lady, whose
enigmatic nature is driving him insane. He begins writing down his love story. Antoine is
appalled; personal experiences aren’t the stuff of literature to him. He begrudgingly reads
the first chapter. Reading, he begins to see Jeanne with new eyes, loving eyes.
Beginning playfully, Antoine searches out the places that Pierre describes. He reviews the
facts, registering the consistencies and discrepancies. He follows Jeanne in a car, suddenly finds himself while jogging at her doorstep and then enters her apartment. The game
becomes an obsession. He impatiently waits for each new chapter Pierre sends him. He
neglects his work and falls into a grey area between fiction and reality. One day – Pierre is
now separated from her – the lines get blurred. Antoine and Jeanne meet, seemingly by
coincidence. They see each other a second and third time. They fall in love with each other.
They enjoy some happy moments, yet the demons of the past catch up with them. What
Antoine has read about the Jeanne of the novel overpowers his meetings with the real her.
Once he finally thinks he’s freed himself from the book, Jeanne finds the manuscript on his
desk. Antoine cheated on her, with herself – as a character in a book. She leaves.
A year later. Jeanne sits on the podium of the House of Literature and reads from her novel
„The Book Jeanne“. A journalist asks whether the woman in the novel has something to do
with the real Jeanne. Smiling, she answers, “truth can only ever be invented.“
FRENCH
PROJECTS
ATOPIC
Christophe GOUGEON
16 rue Bleue, 75009 Paris, France
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+33 (0)6 64 86 04 51
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Producer’s Note
Don Juan comes back from war is originally a theatre piece of German playwright von
Horvath Oton which was directed by Jacques Osinski as part of a coproduction between
the Maison de la Culture of Grenoble (MC2) and the National Dramatic Center of the Alps
(CNDA). As if it were the outcome of what the playwright wanted to perform himself,
Jacques Osinski and Yann Chapotel, that have already worked together on staging opera,
have decided to take this initiative on their own, mainly in studio. They will indeed reposition the decor (at present stored in a warehouse) and replay this contemporary drama by
the same actors.
24 — FRENCH PROJECTs
DON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR
English title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Original title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DON JUAN REVIENT DE GUERRE
Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 min.
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fiction
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christophe GOUGEON
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jacques OSINSKI, Yann CHAPOTEL
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yann CHAPOTEL, Jacques OSINSKI
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . February / March 2016
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . France (Studio), Germany
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609,105 €
Partners attached:. . . . . . . . . . . L’AURORE BOREALE
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . German coproducer
Synopsis
Don Juan is tired ... Coming out of the horror of war 14-18, man has lost its luster. He goes
his way in a Germany struggling with the crisis, in search of the bride he once abandoned.
She is dead. He ignores. And every woman he meets is like a face of this lost ideal. A film by
Jacques Osinski and Yann Chapotel according to the theater staged the first play written in
1937 by Ödön von Horváth.
FRENCH PROJECTs — 25
BATHYSPHERE PRODUCTIONS
Nicolas Anthomé
11, rue Manin, 75019 Paris, France
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+33 (0)1 40 18 02 71
+33 (0)6 61 89 86 39
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Producer’s Note
I’ve been working with Arthur Harari for several years. I produced his last mid-length film IN
VAIN, awarded in many festivals. I believe that we share a common taste for adventures and
experimentations.
10,000 nights… is based on a true story. It is both an inner adventure and a survival tale. Its
potential of signification and fascination is in my opinion prodigious.
For his script, Arthur has worked with Vincent Poymiro, an inventive and rigorous screenwriter. Furthermore, Jean-Claude Carrière is following the writing process. Finally, Bernard Cendron, author of «Onoda, 30 years alone at war», is also helping.
Arthur now reached a version which takes into account the pitfalls of the historical facts, and
draws them towards their full dramatic potential.
The conditions are now gathered for the fulfillment of our project. But many french funds
won’t help non-french speaking film. It is absolutely necessary for me to find coproducers in
Europe – Germany in particular – and Asia. But I think it is also the nature of the film itself, its
universal relevance, that demands to cross the frontiers and to look widely abroad.
10,000 NIGHTS IN THE JUNGLE
English title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Original title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle
Japan, 1944. Hiroo Onoda, 22, is sent to a small Philippine island. His duty is to wage a
guerrilla war until the return of the Japanese troops.
The Empire will surrender a year later; Onoda, 10,000 days after.
Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 min.
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . History / war / drama / adventure
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nicolas Anthomé – Bathysphere Productions
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arthur Harari – Vincent Poymiro
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arthur Harari
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2017
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . South East Asia
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 M €
Partners attached:. . . . . . . . . . . Les Films Pelleas | Région Aquitaine |
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Région Basse-Normandie
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . German coproduction | International sales |
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .International (Asia) coproductions
Synopsis
Japan, 1944. Hiroo Onoda is sent to the strategic island of Lubang, in the Philippines to wage
a guerrilla war. He has in mind his superior's last words: "Whatever the circumstances, never
give up either your mission or your life. It might take three years, or even five but whatever
happens we will come back for you."
On the island, the Japanese have already capitulated. Onoda soon finds himself with only
three men: Akatsu, Shimada and Kozuka. They penetrate deep into the jungle to start work on
the second part of the mission: harassing the enemy until the Japanese troops come back.
The months turn into years. The territory becomes their kingdom. But one day, in a fight with
Philippine soldiers, Shimada is shot dead. It leads Akatsu to surrender. Onoda and Kozuka
then retreat even deeper into the jungle and isolation.
When news of the world reaches them, they always reinterpret it to tell the story of a parallel
reality in which the war is not ended.
Years pass. The island becomes their world - for them, the whole world.
But in 1972, 28 years after arriving on the island, Kozuka is shot. From now on, Onoda is alone,
a phantom in the jungle.
In February 1974, Norio Suzuki, an adventurous young student, lands on Lubang. Onoda
quickly spots him. But Suzuki gains his trust. He tells him that the war has been over for 29
years, and that Japan has surrendered. Onoda still resists: he says he can only lay down his
weapons on the direct order of his superior. Suzuki promises to find him.
One month later his superior is there, a frail old man. He reads out the emperor's order to
surrender, dating from 1945. Onoda then empties his magazine and lays down his rifle.
After one last trip to Kozuka's grave, Onoda flies off in a helicopter. He watches the rice fields,
mountains and jungle fade into the distance, and leaves his island behind forever.
BLUE MONDAY PRODUCTIONS
LOLA PATER
English title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Original title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LOLA PATER
Bertrand GORE
224 rue Saint Denis, 75002 Paris, France
How to rebuild a relationship with a father your haven’t seen since you were 3 years old,
and who has changed gender since?
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Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90/100 min.
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bertrand GORE, Nathalie MESURET
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nadir MOKNECHE
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nadir MOKNECHE
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2016
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . Paris, Région PACA
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7 M€
Secured financing: . . . . . . . . . . . 1.8 M€
Partners attached:. . . . . . . . . . . ARP Sélection | Versus | Régions Ile de France | PACA |
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CNC/ACSE
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coproduction, financing
[email protected]
+33 (0)1 42 77 56 31
+33 (0)6 30 65 92 81
www.bluemonday.fr
Producer’s Note
“Lola Pater” will be Nadir Mokneche’s fifth feature film, the first to be shot in France where he
now lives. It deals with the question of how a father/son bound can be preserved in the situation of a gender transition (of the father, in our case). As references, we can quote “Transmerica” or the TV Series “Transparent”. These themes are more and more often delt with in
the US public debate, and as a consequence in the US film industry (see the very mainstream
“Danish girl”).
Though it’s not a comedy, “Lola pater” is not a heavy drama. Our intention is to be simple, true
to life, far from clichés about transgender community, so that the audience can identify to the
characters. Lola, the transgender father, will be played by iconic french actress Fanny Ardant,
and Zino by the promissing Tewfik Jallab. 65 % of the financing is already in place.
Synopsis
Zino, a 26-year-old Algerian immigrant’s son, buries his mother in Paris. An only child, he
grew up with her after the sudden departure of his father, Farid, more than 20 years ago. Zino
believes his father has abandonned him.
He finds out that Farid didn’t go back to Algeria, but currently resides in the south of France,
and that his parents never divorced. Why did his mother lie to him?
CONSTELLATION FACTORY
François-Xavier FRANTZ
21 rue du Grand Prieuré, 75011 Paris – France
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whttp://constellationfactory.wix.com/
constellationfactory (new website in process)
www.constellation-factory.org
Producer’s Note
Nitro is based on stories we mostly perfectly know ; stories of our sons, neighbours and
friends. Nitro takes care to stay at a very first level of our reality: simple love(s)… how love
or/and sexual pulsion are actually able to deeply ravage our approach of life/habits. The
Nitro(glycerin) actually is the ancestor of dynamite… love is probably the ancestor of nuclear
power. We already have in board some actors as Laurent Lucas (Floride / Philippe Le Guay),
Louis Do de Lencquesaing (Francofonia / SOKUROV (Venice F.F. official competition 2015 &
Alice Barnole (L'Apollonide / BONELLO – Cannes F.F. official Competition 2012, Sara D’Amario
(« The Girl from the lake » / MOLAIOLI with Toni Servillo and « Caos Calmo » / GRIMALDI with
Nani Moretti. We have the official interest from The Regional Fund of Piemont (Italy) and have
applied to the CNC (Avances sur Recettes) in sept. 2015. For the original music we have got
the enthusiastic agreement of Teho Teardo (Il Divo / SORRENTINO (Toni Servillo) - Cannes
F.F. Official competition). Our cast is still open in order to make a good and fair coproduction.
Our aim is to find a german coproducer to accomplish our wish to shoot in a european border
town as Metz or some other in Germany or Italy. Until this moment, people whom has read
the script have all said ok. Our ambition is to make a film like Magnolia or Crash but in an
European atmosphere.
NITRO
English title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Original title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NITRO
During 2 nights and days 12 men and women get a possibility to change their way of life…
Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 min.
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tragicomedy
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . François-Xavier FRANTZ
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sara D’AMARIO
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matthieu JORROT
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fall 2016
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . Metz
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 M€
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coproducers / financing / int sales agent / distribution
Synopsis
After midnight, a spectacular crash happens: a car, driven by an indistinct character, gets
stuck under a truck.
… 2 nights and 2 days earlier : fever has invaded the city : everyone acts as to seek a love that
is not his own.
A 15 years old girl is in bed with a 44 year old man. Convinced that he owns her mind and soul
in addition to her body, the man doesn’t know that she is going to dump him... Two policemen on patrol: the clever one doesn’t know his girlfriend, a brilliant architect, has a lover for
many years. The traditional one is currently organizing his wedding and does not know that
his bride, gentle and loyal, returned - almost by chance - in a strange game of seduction led
by a dandy doctor. A woman is obsessed with the loss of a precious necklace, and is about to
loose her mind. Used to the reassuring repetition of the life she has built, she doesn’t see that
her husband had a crush on another woman. And, like her husband, she does not realize that
their fifteen years old daughter, actually has a chaotic sexual life and is becoming pregnant
without being able to know of who. Two ruthless men prepare violently three girls for prostitution: they risk to be discovered because of the wife of one of them... At the end of these
47 hours, almost everyone is driving a car, in a sort of nocturnal carousel. Will one of these
characters be the « indistinct face » and crash its car under the truck?
Who is it?
As the accident repeats itself, we discover who it is.
As an epilogue, the « 48th hour » begins and everyone, including the victim, have to confront
a radical question : to change or not to change…
ELIANEANTOINETTE
Candice Zaccagnino
20 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, 75010 Paris,
France
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+33 (0)6 80 57 33 38
Producer’s Note
Frederic is one of the most talented directors in commercials worldwide. “The observer effect” is his 1st feature. In the last years, his work has switched to pure storytelling even in
short formats, as the recent AT&T campaign evidences. Le Bureau, ElianeAntoinette and Barry
films are joining forces on this attractive English language project. Casting is currently being
finalised (Emile Hirsh, Andrew Scott and Michael Nyqvist are already attached). Frederic has
been location scouting in Frankfurt where the film be shot. This project has been granted the
French/German mini treaty & the Essen Regional Fund.
THE OBSERVER EFFECT
English title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Original title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE OBSERVER EFFECT
The last four days in the life of quantum mathematician Paul Benson during which he has
become the target of a complex mesh of criminal, business and government organisations
Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 min.
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thriller
State of development:. . . . . . . . Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter | Screenplay |
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .version : final | Partly financed | Casting partly secured
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . France : ElianeAntoinette & Le Bureau
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Germany : Barry Films
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frédéric Planchon, Ewan Kilgour, Fiona Seres
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frédéric Planchon
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . Summer 2016
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . Frankfurt
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5 M€
Secured financing: . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 M€
Partners attached:. . . . . . . . . . . Barry Films
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . International sales, French and German theatrical
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .distribution, TV presales.
Synopsis
"The Observer Effect" is an elevated thriller.
The story begins with Paul Benson, a young quantum mathematician, in his apartment when
it mysteriously explodes.
Four days before Paul discovered a new way to encrypt communications. Non-linear and
unexpected, the film reveals what happened to Paul in those four days. During which he
becomes the target of a complex web of criminal, business and government organisations.
Paul’s story is told from the perspective of four different characters, each going back in time
incrementally by one day. The first point of view is Branca’s, a Latvian student with a secret
past whom Paul’s in love with. Second is his brother Sean’s perspective, with whom he severed all relations seven years ago. Third is Evelyn’s, a thirty-five year old woman from New York
who was his first love. And last is Jonathan’s, his mentor at the University and supposedly
closest friend. Each perspective tells a different version of the same story and as the film
progresses we discover how Paul’s discovery has become the ultimate goal of everybody’s
secret agenda.
Paul unwittingly descends into hell as the threat grows from those people he loves the most,
through betrayals, disillusionment and the demons of his past. His relationship to love, brotherhood, friendship and work will be shattered. He can only rely upon himself to solve the
most important equation his life depends on…
The audience and the characters form different views of the unfolding story. At the end, none
of the characters know the truth. Only the viewer can know what really happened.
IDEALE AUDIENCE
Pierre-Olivier Bardet
6 rue de l’Agent Bailly , 75009 PARIS. FRANCE
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+33 (0)6 80 07 6777
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Producer’s Note
Where are you, João Gilberto? is an investigative documentary on the great Brazilian musician
João Gilberto, who has lived like a recluse in Rio de Janeiro for several years now.
Based on the research carried out by German writer Marc Fischer in a book for which we
acquired the rights, our film follows in the writer’s footsteps, but goes beyond his “failed”
attempts to meet Gilberto.
The intensity of the film project, is heightened by the dramatic circumstances of Marc’s death
– he committed suicide one week before his book was published – and by the power of the
elements of his investigation, which he left for his parents to give to us: photos, sound recordings, notes, etc.
João Gilberto’s character emerges little by little through Marc Fischer's off-beat, intense personality. Behind the musician, a whole other world comes to the fore, Brazil in the 1960s, an
era in which everything seemed possible: the national football team won its second World
Cup; Niemeyer, the revolutionary architect, built the country’s new capital in the desert; and
the Bossa Nova climbed to the top of the world’s hit parades.
The conjunction of a personality as powerful as that of João Gilberto, the ingredients of an
established narrative form in film – a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation, and all the humour
that goes with that – seems promising. Filmcoopi and Doc & Films shared our conviction.
After his three “Brazilian films”, Georges Gachot had earned himself a place of choice – and
the trust – of Brazilian artists and their entourage: Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethânia, Chico
Buarque etc. It is thanks to them that we feel we can succeed. What form will it take? We don't
know and that's where the suspense of the film lies.
WHERE ARE YOU, JOAO GILBERTO ?
English title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Original title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wo bist du, João Gilberto ?
A Quest on the footprints of the inventor of Bossa Nova.
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90 min.
Documentary with reenactment
Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter
Pierre-Olivier Bardet, Georges Gachot
Georges Gachot and Paolo Polini
Georges Gachot
2nd quarter 2016
Rio de Janeiro – Diamantina ( Brazil)
900,000 €
400,000 €
Gachot films – Filmcoopi- Doc&Films
German co-producer (250 k€)
Synopsis
Where are you, João Gilberto? is adapted from Hobalala, a book written by German writer,
Marc Fischer. Fischer describes his obsessive search for the last musical legend of our time,
the founding father of the Bossa Nova, the Brazilian musician João Gilberto, who hasn’t been
seen in public for decades.
The book is well researched, interesting, witty, and full of amusing anecdotes. Unexpectedly,
Marc Fischer committed suicide one week before it was published.
Our film sets out in Fischer’s footsteps, in search of João Gilberto, with the same passion.
Marc Fischer left hundreds of photos, “selfies”, video clips, emails, blogs, Facebook pages,
sound recordings and diary notes, which his parents entrusted to us.
By taking up Marc Fischer’s quest, following his steps one by one, thanks to all the clues he
left us, taking it even further than he could thanks to film and a knowledge of the terrain that
the German journalist didn’t always have, we pursue João Gilberto to understand the history,
the very soul and essence of Bossa Nova.
The research and its ups and downs forms the narrative arch, the history of the Bossa Nova is
the content and meeting João Gilberto like Hitchcock’s MacGuffin. But who can tell whether
we will meet him or not?
LES FILMS DE L’AUTRE
COUGAR
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Original title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . YASMINA FAIT DES BAILS
Annabelle BOUZOM
40 rue des Maronites, 75020 Paris, france
Will Yasmina, 18, bounce back from her boyfriend blackmailing her with compromising
photos ?
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Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 min.
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annabelle BOUZOM
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Antoine DESROSIERES and Anne-Sophie NANKI
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Antoine DESROSIERES
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2016 June
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . France
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946,850 €
Secured financing: . . . . . . . . . . . 201,850 € (Les films de l’autre cougar)
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745,000 €
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Producer’s Note
When I met Antoine Desrosières, I was seduced by his rebellious, funny and sharp mind. We
did his film “Haramist” together, bought by Arte and released in cinemas last July. Widely
acclaimed by critics, it revealed the amazing actresses Souad Arsane and Inas Chanti. “Yasmina’s fling” talks about the emancipation of a young woman struggling with her desires and
what she is supposed to do in order to be “a good girl” socially, religiously and culturally. By
staying close to the anxieties and Yasmina’s unanswered questions, Antoine wants to create
empathy and take the viewers beyond the divisions between socio-cultural and religious
milieu. Each young woman discovers her sexuality and wonders what she can do to remain
respectable. Struggling through the violence of words and gesture, Yasmina looks for correctness and justice. In nowadays social and sensitive context that prevails in France, we are
passionate about questioning each other’s feelings and opinions. This film does not aim to
make all communities agree: it plays with stereotypes in order to break them. This freedom of
tone is a real breath of fresh air in the cinematic landscape.
YASMINA’S FLING
Synopsis
Yasmina and Rim, two Muslim sisters of 17 and 18, live in a suburb family. Rim and her
boyfriend Majid orchestrate a meeting between Yasmina and Salim (Majid’s best friend).
Soon, both of couple isolate themselves… Yasmina discovers sensuality and the possibility of
extramarital sexuality. Rim has to travel in snow class. As she collapses to be separated from
Majid, in solidarity Yasmina promises not to see Salim either. But Salim invites her to a party.
She finally goes and joins Salim and Majid there. Salim asks Yasmina to « relieve » Majid from
his sexual needs, pretending that Rim did the same with Salim in the past. Taking remorse the
next day, Yasmina admits to Salim she will tell everything to Rim. Salim confesses that he lied
with Majid’s complicity: Rim never had any fling with the two boys. Yasmina is revolted. She
dumps Salim, determined to convince her sister to break as well. Then begins the blackmail
that Yasmina will have to fight against. Salim threats to show the compromising photos he
made of her in action, asks her to keep silence and to continue to satisfy him sexually. Yasmina has to accept. Gradually she’s divided between the feeling of revolt and the pleasure she
discovers with Salim. When Rim learns of Yasmina’s secret, the two sisters fall out with one
another. Yasmina runs away from home and meets the young dealer, Baba. When Yasmina
finally comes back after two days, Rim is so relieved that the two sisters reconciliate. When
Rim realizes that the boys trapped Yasmina, Rim decides to flip the situation and blackmail
the boys. After having discovered men through abuse and violence, Yasmina discovers love.
She fully assumes her gesture, running to Baba under Rim’s cover.
LES FILMS DU TAMBOUR
Marie Legrand, Rani Massalha
102 quai Louis Blériot, 75016 Paris, France
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Producer’s Note
SIBEL is the third feature-film from Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti. The duo’s first
feature, NOOR, shot in Pakistan, premiered in Cannes in 2012 in the ACID section, travelled to
more than 80 festivals and won 15 prizes. NINGEN, their second feature, shot in Japan, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and travelled to many festivals worldwide.
With SIBEL, Cagla and Guillaume go back to their original land, Turkey, to tell a story about
the fury to live, to exist, to choose. Despite her handicap, Sibel has made the irrevocable yet
paradoxical decision to choose who she is going to marry. The film shows the struggle of
a young Turkish woman against her nature and against society. Sibel knows her limits, her
strength, and knows what to do to get what she wants. She comes from a rural and traditional
surrounding, she wears a scarf on her head, she barely went to school, yet she’s truly a modern woman, this modernity being present within her instinct rather than in her mind. Just
like Rosetta in the Dardennes’ film, she fights, she refuses, she gets knocked down, yet, she
manages to get back up again and mostly, she gets to choose. She chooses Ali, the political
poet from Istanbul, from the city, who stumbled in her territory, in her web, in her trap. SIBEL
is an original love story driven by a determined female character. It is also an ode to life. We
truly believe in the potential of this film to reach both A-category festivals and the international market. The project is actually in development. We are looking for a German co-producer
in order to build a France-Turkey-Germany co-production structure.
SIBEL
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Original title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SIBEL
Despite her handicap, Sibel (25), a young Turkish woman who lost the ability to speak and
can only communicate by whistling, decides to seduce Ali, a deserter from the Army hiding
in a nearby forest.
Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 min.
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marie Legrand, Rani Massalha
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cagla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cagla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . Autumn 2016
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . Village of Kuskoÿ, Black Sea (Turkey)
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.5 M€
Partners attached:. . . . . . . . . . . Moulin d’Andé-CECI,
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bourse de développement Cinémed (Montpellier)
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7German coproducer, sales agent, distributors, TV, funds
Synopsis
Kusköy, a Turkish village in the Black Sea mountains. In this village, at the intersection of a series of steep valleys, one finds a unique method of communication which has been developed
over numerous generations: a rich and detailed language of whistles, which allows the villagers to express themselves across distances of several kilometers. Among the villagers, we
find Sibel, a young woman of twenty-five. She is unmarried and still lives with her father, Avni,
the conservative mayor of the village. Sibel lost the ability to speak when she was a child. Her
only way to communicate with her relatives is the whistle language. Sibel has always been
quite solitary. She works with ardor in the fields, harvesting tea, hazelnuts and corn. Treating
her like an idiot because of her handicap, her father has always tried to marry her with simple
minded men from around. But Sibel is strong : a savage beauty, instinctively modern and
independent, determined to choose by herself who will be her husband. One day, she meets
Ali (35), a deserter from the Turkish army, hiding in a nearby forest. This day, she knows it : Ali
shall be the one, whatever it takes…
LES PRODUITS FRAIS
WORLDS IN BETWEEN
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Original title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Les Mondes intermédiaires
Damien Lagogué
1 impasse de la baleine, 75011 Paris, FRANCE
« In all my experience, Miriam Goldschmidt is unlike anyone else. A totally original talent.
She sees life and expresses it brilliantly both as tragedy and as comedy. » Peter Brook
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Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 min.
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Documentary
State of development:. . . . . . . . In shooting
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Damien Lagogué (Les Produits Frais, Fance)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pascal Träschlin (Cineworx, Switzerland)
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . None
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Janos Tedeschi & Christof Schaëfer
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . Partly shot
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . Paris (France), Berlin (Germany), Basel (Switzerland)
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375 219 €
Secured financing: . . . . . . . . . . . 125 319 €
Partners attached:. . . . . . . . . . . Région Lorraine (France), CNC (France), Le Fresnoy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Studio national des arts contemporains (France), Basel
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Film Fund (Switzerland) Art&Camera Price at History of
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Art Festival (France) Selected at Lisbon Docs 2014
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . German coproducer, international sales, etc.
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Producer’s Note
Janos Tedeschi and Christof Schaefer had warned me. “Mystical aura. Extraordinary”. There
she was, Miriam. Holding my hands. Looking at me. Looking through me. Soon, I was adopted.
And then I met Peter Brook. He made us a wonderful gift by letting us three watch and shoot
their rehearsals. Something he had never done before, except for his son. With Les Produits
Frais, I have already produced several narrative shorts and two mid-length documentary. I
am now developing a feature length fiction called Sun and taking place in the indian community of Paris. Worlds in between is my project for a creative documentary film. We are at
a key moment of the production and in search for partners. To film some more. To edit. To
translate. To bring a strong team around this ambitious project about two very ambitious and
talented artists, Miriam Goldschmidt and Peter Brook. What we have here in store is a wonderful testimony on contemporary European theater.
Synopsis
Miriam Goldschmidt: actress, musician, director, magician of words and expression. After
studying with Jacques Lecoq in Paris, she joined Peter Brook’s Theatre-Safari through Africa
and became a member of his legendary Centre International de Recherche Théâtrale with
which Brook revolutionized the world of theatre in the 1970s. Despite working with many
icons of theatre including Peter Stein, Jean Genet, Luc Bondy, Peter Zadek and George Tabori
and directing plays of her own to great success, Goldschmidt always returned to Brook, with
whom she shares an almost 50-year-old liaison d'amour as well as an inspiring professional
relationship. Worlds in between is an intimate cinematic portrait of Miriam Goldschmidt. The
film follows Miriam and Peter from the first rehearsal to the opening night of their latest play,
an adaptation of Samuel Beckett. The film juxtaposes past scenes of Miriam`s career with her
everyday life: a life lived to the extreme, in which great artistic success collides with devastating strokes of fate, excess and phases of deep despair. Miriam’s first years in an Christian
orphanage near Frankfurt where she was abused by cruel sisters, the early death of her first
love, her own disrupted family and the recent suicide of her daughter Amba all left deep scars
– and painful memories with which Miriam Goldschmidt battles to this very day. Besides
following her work with Peter, Worlds in between accompanies Miriam to Berlin, Basel, Frankfurt, Paris and to Africa, where Miriam once more meets many of the defining figures in her
life - and finds herself confronted with the recurring themes of death, love, art, pain, identity
and addiction. Diary entries, conversations and places intermingle with archive material from
Miriam`s illustrious career: The Conference of the Birds, Les Iks, Mahabharata, Der Dibbuk,
Glückliche Tage and Warum Warum. A mirror not only of crowning moments of the history of
20th century theatre, but also of the highs and lows of this charismatic and unique artist`s
time.
NEON PRODUCTIONS
Antonin DEDET
33 Boulevard Longchamp, 13001, Marseille, France
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Producer’s Note
Olivier Joyard of Cahiers du Cinéma wrote of Jean-François Stévenin, “Stévenin is all but
a loveable magician. He is an exceptional observer, gifted with an eye and ear of extreme
vivacity, able to tackle all styles, all forms of cinema with equal acuteness”. Édouard Waintrop (President of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight), whilst a journalist at Libération, wrote of
J.F. Stévenin’s last film Mischka, “There are miracles in this collection of lost souls all ages
… French cinema has barely accustomed us to such pleasures of contemplation”.
With three films to his name, A Fairy in the Rear-view Mirror signals the “grand return” of
an exceptional filmmaker. After Passe-Montagne, winner of the FIPRESCI prize at Venice in
1979, Double Messieurs in 1986, and Mischka, winner of the France Culture Prize at Cannes
2002, Stévenin has established himself as a cult director in France, with many naming him
“The French Cassavetes”. His work is singular and exudes a strong personality.
A Fairy in the Rear-view Mirror, the filmmaker’s new project, is an artistically ambitious film,
partly autobiographical, and positions itself in the European market for auteur cinema. The
presence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, the emblematic 20th Century author whose works
sold in millions around the world, penetrates the film, a zany plunge into History and Literature. Possessing a strong Franco-German and European potential, the film traverses the
Second World War and the exile of Louis-Ferdinand Céline in Germany.
A FAIRY IN THE REAR-VIEW MIRROR
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Original title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . UNE FÉE DANS LE RÉTRO
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, his widow Lucette, and Jeff, an enthusiast of the novel “North”…
The desire to make a film of it... A whimsical plunge into History and literature.
Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 min.
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Antonin DEDET
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jean-François STÉVENIN
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jean-François STÉVENIN
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . Winter 2016-2017
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . FRANCE & GERMANY
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 M€
Partners attached:. . . . . . . . . . . LE PACTE (French distributor)
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . German coproducer
Synopsis
Jeff, a film sound designer, lives in a barge moored on the banks of the Seine. Fascinated
by the literature of Louis-Ferdinand Céline and in particular by the book North, he meets
one day Lucette, the widow of his favourite writer. From this day on, he will never leave her.
This old lady fills him with wonder. Over the course of their many adventures, she tells him
of her life with Céline, throughout eight decades and two world wars. Jeff is over the moon.
While in Germany visiting Frau Moser, his second mother, and still engrossed in North and
Lucette’s stories, Jeff cannot resist the desire to visit the landmarks of Céline and Lucette’s
escape to Germany. In Jeff’s head, the beacon - North - lights up, the voice of Lucette is
superimposed and we follow his slide into 1945 and into Germany in flames… The idea to
make a film of it enters his mind…
More than a third of the film will take place in Germany. We estimate the German financing of the project to be between 30-40% of the budget of the film. The project seeks a
bipartite contribution from a technical and artistic point of view as much as financial. The
casting aims to be ambitious, enticing and Franco-German. We envisage Belgium as a third
country of coproduction to complete the financing of the film.
The French distributor of the film is Le Pacte.
Neon Productions has produced or coproduced 17 feature-length films. All of our films
have been selected for the biggest international festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Venice etc.)
ORIFLAMME FILMS
Christophe Delsaux
147 rue du Chemin Vert, 75011 Paris France
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Producer’s Note
« Brown Sugar » is the first feature by talented young director Julien d’Astier. Based on a
personal experience, Julien d’Astier recounts the struggle against drugs that his protagonist
engages in order to save his lover. The film will be a coproduction France/Romania/Germany
We are now looking for a German coproducer. Part of the shooting will take place in Germany
(The entire ending of the story takes place on the shores of the Konstanz lake) and there is
room for hiring a German actress as the leading female part. The film will mainly be shot in
English.
BROWN SUGAR
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Original title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEIGE FONDUE
To keep his love, Leo engages in a terrible fight against drug addiction and its demons…
Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 min.
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drama
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christophe Delsaux
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Julien d’Astier
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Julien d’Astier
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . March 2017
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . Strasbourg, Bucarest, lake Konstanz
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900,000 €
Secured financing: . . . . . . . . . . . None
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . German coproducer, distributor
Synopsis
Léo, 21, lives with his parents in the neighbourhood of Strasbourg. One evening, as he
leaves school, he meets Zara, a young Romanian tourist who came to visit her father, a
diplomat at the Romanian Consulate. Immediately, Leo falls in love with her. But what he
ignores is that Zara is an heroin addict. After she flies back to Romania, he decides to try
to contact her. At the Bucarest airport, she does not show up. Leo panics and sets out on
his own to find her. He finally understands that she’s on heroin, but feels totally lost. Soon,
he meets Dragos, former drug dealer of Zara. To keep Zara’s love, Leo engages in a terrible
fight against drug addiction and its demons…
PLUS DE PROD
Jérémie Chevret
14, rue Perrod, 69004 Lyon, France
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"Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes", travel diary written by Robert Louis Stevenson in
1878, shine by its modernity. Despite the fact it was written there over a century, this story still
resonates eerily with clean themes in our current society. Indeed, Stevenson is found on the
roads long before the hour to write and find his way through a spiritual quest. His adventurous
journey, due among others to his illness and dangerousness of the time roads will cause the
path of the same name which is now the most popular every year after that of Compostela.
This trip will allow him both to overcome life all mapped out as destined by his family, finding
his own way, writing, but also to find the woman he loves. His trip is twofold. Both outward
and toward oneself, both discovery and introspection. The scenario was first assisted in the
writing of the Rhône-Alpes region and development aid from the CNC and the project also
arrived in plenary at 1 college advance on earnings in December 2014. He also convinced
Goudineau Daniel, director of the fiction of France 3 Cinéma, who gave us his agreement for
the co-production and dissemination of the project. Rhône-Alpes Cinéma will also co-producer of the project. We expect today the appointment of a distributor for us to go back and pay
TV, Canal + and OCS. Film positioning on the market is one of our concerns and this is also
what how the choice of the distributor will be decisive. We are now searching for a distributor
and an international seller and a coproducer. Regarding the shooting locations, two areas are
involved: the Languedoc-Roussillon region and the Rhône-Alpes region. Today, the work has
already started scouting as well as part of the preparation which allows us to better anticipate
the shoot we plan in spring 2016.
TRAVEL WITH A DONKEY
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English title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Original title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Voyage avec un âne dans les Cévennes
France, end of the 19th Century. R-L Stevenson, broken by illness and an impossible love
affair, goes all out to write a travel book, haunted by the massacres of protestants 200
years earlier. He is helped by a donkey in his journey, but there’s a murderer at large, following a similar route to his, who is killing again and again.
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90 min.
Historical drama
Latest screenplay version
Jérémie CHEVRET
Benoit RAZY, Hugh STODDART, Xavier MAUMEJEAN
Benoit RAZY
Spring 2016
Languedoc-Roussillon ; Rhône-Alpes
1,769,319 €
762,000 €
France 3 Cinéma ; Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
Distributors, international sellers, co-producers
Synopsis
France, end of the 19th century. The young Robert Louis Stevenson is an apprentice author
who hasn’t yet created "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". Broken by illness and an impossible love
affair, he decides to start a journey into the Cevennes on the Camisards trails, these French
Protestants who have been persecuted 200 years earlier in this part of France. A subject
that fascinates his compatriots and which he wants to make a testimony book. His friends
advise him to buy a donkey to carry his things during his journey. But Louis discovers that
a vagabond murderer, following a parallel route, seems to pursue the work of death that
made him come in the region. Fascinated by this criminal and his crazy mind, Louis goes to
meet him, risking his life to feed his future work. Against all odds, the animal will become
his most valuable ally.
RHEA FILMS
Yves LOMBARD
65 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis, 75010, Paris, France
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Producer’s Note
The House of the Jaguar will be shot in English, French, Spanish and Maya language. The
main actors will be English or American (Andy), French (Helene), German (Philip Steiner),
Mexican (Miguel Diaz). Produced for the domestic and international market, his feature
film is in fact a spiritual trip which takes the form of a violent initiation, with multiple meanings. It takes us from Western Europe into the Mexican jungle, where the Mayan Indians
live, being the last "cultural survivors" of the Spanish Conquest. One will discover that the
main protagonists, Andy, Helene, Philip Steiner and his wife Ava, the Cyclop are caught in an
adventure with the "Pre-Columbian Art" existing in the "Old Europe" inside the drawing rooms.
These gems are owned by art lovers, kept in good conscience - or perhaps in the absence of
conscience - of the "Western World". One will then follow these objects to Mexico City, meet
other strange characters; Miguel Diaz, Pedro Ochoa, Juana, the Thompsons and the Indians
in Modern Mexico. Here is where man, with his Native Indian spirit kept intact from before
the Spanish Conquest, desperately tries not to die in the drama of the big cities' poverty and
acculturation. One end up in the Mayan province of Yucatan, where Indians live only from the
earth, water and natural resources from where they extract these coveted art objects. In this
land one is often faced with diseases, fireguns of great landlords and political or drug related
guerillas. All this in a sort of lost paradise where the Indians may keep on living or re-living.
THE HOUSE OF THE JAGUAR
English title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Original title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE HOUSE OF THE JAGUAR
From Paris to Palenque, Seven meets Indiana Jones
Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 min.
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thriller
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Screenplay version n° 4
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yves Lombard, Eric Debègue
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yves Lombard
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . To be determined
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . Paris (France), studio, Mexico or Guatemala
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 M€
Secured financing: . . . . . . . . . . . 1 M€
Partners attached:. . . . . . . . . . . Saga Film (Belgique)
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Co-producers and distributor in Germany,
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .international sales agent
Synopsis
In Paris, under very strange circumstances, Andy, a brilliant young american businessman,
meets a charming young french woman, Helene, who works with Philip Steiner, a world
famous "Primitive Art" dealer.
Following Helene's tracks, Andy discovers the mysterious world of "Pre-Columbian Art"
and its collectors. When Helene suddenly disappears, Andy becomes involved in a murder
which resembles a ritual sacrifice.
From this moment on, terrifying murders will pave Andy's way to finding Hélène. Who is
busy searching all through Mexico for a mysterious statue.
This statue seems to be violently desired by several different individuals. Among them is
the strange character Philip Steiner.
Each of these characters will take a trip deep into their own hearts at the same time as they
enter the wild jungle, going into the heart of the mysterious Mayan Land. All just to find that
very special statue and above all to be the first to get it…
TALWEG PRODUCTION
UNDER PARIS
English title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Original title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sous Terre
Damien MC DONALD
6 impasse Mont Louis, 75011 PARIS, France
Thirty meters under the streets of Paris a quarry inspection team is victim of a collapse. It
gets lost and finds itself having to fight for survival.
Email
Phone
Mobile
Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 min.
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Survival
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Damien McDonald and Vincent Gazaigne
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Corinne Garfin and Thomas Rio
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Corinne Garfin
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . . Late 2016-early 2017
Shooting Locations: . . . . . . . . . . Paris
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,450,000€
Partners attached:. . . . . . . . . . . In progress
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Co production with Germany, interested investors
[email protected]
+33 (0)1 43 67 87 32
+33 (0)6 13 59 57 55
www.talwegproduction.com
Producer’s Note
UNDER PARIS is a realistic movie. It takes place under Paris in places forbidden to the public
and therefor unknown and fantasized. UNDER PARIS is an unusual survival movie, with a universal theme causing pure sensations and providing a physical experience to the spectator
through the heroine. In the end Under Paris is altogether a drama and a survival movie: an
overall unexplored genre in France. The stripped down concept will go hand in hand with a
specific shooting method: natural sets only and a reduced team. All that is described in the
story really exists; it’s the result of the film director’s many location recces. Corinne Garfin is
a mature director who already directed six short films awarded in many international festivals.
We know her well since we produced her last movie, and have faith in her talents.
Synopsis
Alice is 27 and she’s starting a new job: quarry-working at IGC, the public service in charge
of the surveillance of hundreds of kilometers of Paris’ old tunnels – situated thirty meters
underground, without any electricity or means of communications. That morning her team
discovers an old dump of toxic liquids hidden in a dead-end. Just as they’re about to leave,
the ground, weakened by these chemical products, collapses under them. ALICE is unharmed but finds herself prisoner of a heap of rocks, in a genuine stone coffin! Fortunately her
colleague GABY, alive as well, gets her out of there. They understand that they’ve fallen
into a very old quarry that dates back to the Middle-Ages – immense, unknown, unmapped and with only horizon a mineral, instable and obscure universe. They decide to wait
for help but soon realize that they’re the sole survivors… They need to leave in search for a
hypothetical exit through a maze of onerous and wild galleries filled of cul-de-sac, with the
rare traces left by old quarry-workers for only guidance. It doesn’t take long for GABY to
discover ALICE’s heavy secret: she’s grieving her boyfriend, who died in an accident. Since
then she’s lost the will to live fully and choses to spend her days in the darkness and loneliness of tunnels… Their progression is difficult, the hoped exit leaved them languishing.
ALICE, fatalist, loses heart fast. Fortunately GABY is there to maintain hope and make her
aware that life is still possible, just like these roots that break through the rocks around
them, originating from the trees planted ten meters above them, like the water that climbs
up groundwater tables, or like the stalactites they bump into. Unfortunately just as they
believe to have found an exit GABY suffers terribly from a fall into a well. Dying, GABY makes
ALICE promise that she will manage to get out alone. Soon she finds herself in a great
struggle to survive, confronted more and more to dangerous situations and increasingly
obsessed by her painful past. To make her way out, she will need to overcome her grief and
regain the desire to live.
OTHER
PROJECT
MISTRUS MEDIA
A BOY WITH A DOG
English title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Original title:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Puika ar suni
Gints Grube
Blaumana Str. 11/13 -13, Riga LV 1011, Latvia
A coming of age story about a boy who kept a secret and saved fifty Jews from certain
death in Riga in 1942
Email
Phone
Fax
Mobile
Length: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Genre: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Producer: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Scriptwriter: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Shooting Period: . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Budget: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Looking for: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[email protected]
+371 29455252
+371 67313314
+ 371 29455252
www.mistrusmedia.lv
www.facebook.com/MistrusMedia
Producer’s Note
The film is currently in development phase. The first scrip version has been developed. National Film center has supported films development.
Film is of high importance in Eastern European region, especially Baltics because there are
no productions about the Holocaust in Baltic sates. Film is based on historic events that took
place during the Second World war in Riga. Director Davis Simanis has won many international prizes for his documentary projects. His last docu-fiction about two geniuses Isaiah Berlind ans Sergei Eisenstein of the 20th century “Escaping Riga” (2014) was screened in official
programme of IDFA and DOX CPH. His new historical
I World War drama will be released
in January 2016
We have planned to launch shooting of “A boy with a dog” in 2017. Currently Mistrus Media is
looking for potential co-producers and distributors.
54 — OTHER PROJECT
90 min.
Drama
Confirmed engagement with Scriptwriter
Mistrus Media, Gints Grube
Davis Simanis, Matiss Gricmanis
Davis Simanis
2017
Riga
980,000 €
600,000 €
National Film Center Latvia
Co-producers, Distributors
Synopsis
Ten-year-old Zigis lives with his family in a house on the bank of a river in Riga, Latvia. The
Second World War has begun, but Zigis's childhood is as carefree as before; he goes to
school and plays with his friends and his trusted companion, his dog Džeris.
In 1941, Latvia is occupied by the German army. Repressions begin against the Jews. Zanis,
Zigis's father, works at the Luftwaffe factory in Riga to which Jews are taken every day from
the ghetto. An enthusiastic and fearless adventurer, he thinks of a way to save the Jews
working at the factory but condemned to a certain death. In the yard of his house, he digs
a bunker to hide them. Zigis becomes a witness to these events. Zanis's decision changes
both his and his mother Johanna's life from completely. Their precarious wartime existence
is further endangered: hiding Jews is punishable by death and even young Zigis would not
be spared.
By helping the Jews, Zanis has robbed the simple familial happiness that Zigis so wishes
for. In time, Zigis understands his father's humanity and this experience changes him from
a careless and dreamy boy to a mature adolescent who is fully aware of the cruelty of war.
The film is a story of growing up against the background of the tragic events of the 20th
century.
OTHER PROJECT — 55
notes
The Coproduction Market 2015 has been edited with information
received up until October 30th, 2015. The publisher cannot be held
for responsible for any changes made after this date or for any
errors in the printing of this Guide.
The information contained herein is subjected to the French law of
the 06/01/78. The creation by any third party of any list of information from that contained herein, for promotional or commercial
purposes, is subject to the prior authorization of UniFrance films
and German Films.
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