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BERLIN PRODUCT GUIDE 2009
ABSURDA: A DAVID
LYNCH COMPANY
Absurda: A David Lynch Company,
16782 Redhill Ave Suite B, Irvine, CA
92606. Tel: 1.949.250.8090 ext 100.
www.davidlynch.com
Producer, Sales Agent
At Berlin: Eric Bassett (Managing
Partner/Producer)
Office: Ritz Carlton – Room 406, Tel:
49.30.337777
MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE
YE DONE
Principal Photography to commence
March 2009
Thriller Pre-Sale
Language: English
Director: Werner Herzog
Writer: Herbert Golder, Werner Herzog
Executive Producer: David Lynch
Producer: Eric Bassett
Key Cast: Michael Shannon, Willem
Dafoe, (more TBA)
Delivery Status: Preproduction
Year of Production: 2009, Country of
Origin: USA
Puccini e la Fanciulla
Adriana Chiesa Entertprises
FEBRUARY 2009
ADRIANA CHIESA
ENTERPRISES
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, Via
Barnaba Oriani 24 / A - 00197 Rome,
Italy. Tel: 39.06.8086052. Fax:
39.06.80687855. [email protected], email:
[email protected]
International Sales
At Berlin: Adriana Chiesa Di Palma
(President), Rossella Gori (Head of
International Sales)
Office: 123 - Martin Gropius Bau, Tel:
49(0)30.246.497.400. Fax:
49(0)30.246.497.401, Mobile:
39.335.82.65 984
L’UOMO CHE AMA (THE MAN
WHO LOVES)
Drama (103’)
Language: Italian - English subs
Director: Maria Sole Tognazzi
Writer: Maria Sole Tognazzi, Ivan
Cotroneo
Production Company: Bianca Film,
Medusa Film
Key Cast: Monica Bellucci, Pier
Francesco Favino, Xenia Rappoport,
Marisa Paredes
Delivery Status: Completed
Origin: Italy
A film about love. Love that can cut you
down or totally fill your life.
PUCCINI E LA FANCIULLA
(PUCCINI AND THE GIRL)
Drama (84’)
Language: Italian – English subs
Director: Paola Baroni, Paolo Benvenuti
Writer: Paola Baroni, Paolo Benvenuti
Production Company: produced by
Arsenali Medicei in collaboration with
Tuscany Region, Fondazione Festival
Pucciniano, Mediateca Regionale
Toscana”.
Key Cast: Riccardo Moretti
Origin: Italy
The enchantment and mystery of musical creation of the great maestro
THE BUSINESS OF FILM BERLIN ISSUE & POCKET GUIDE
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Giacomo Puccini, a Tuscan idyll of
spellbinding beauty, an intimate and
poignant moment in an impassioned life.
VISIONS
Horror (112’)
Language: English
Director: Luigi Cecinelli
Writer: Andrea Dal Monte
Production Company: Baker Pictures ,
Cydonia
Key Cast: Henry Garrett, Jakob Von
Eichel, Caroline Kessler, Steven
Matthews, Niccolò Senni
Origin: Italy
A psychological thriller that keeps you
trapped right to the terrifying end. A
psychiatrist, working as a criminal profiler, tracks a relentless serial killer
when a young near-death coma patient
is possessed by visions of “the Spider”.
ORLANDO THE LITTLE OGRE
3D Animation
Language: English
Director: Fulvio Ottaviano
writer: Rita Aglietti in collaboration
with Doriana Leondeff and Fulvio ottaviano
Production Company: Dujass Film
Delivery Status: in production
Year of Production: 2008/2009, Country
of Origin: Italy
A little ogre, different from all the others, goes searching for truth. Orlando is
a human child who grows up dealing
with diversity and is taught the value of
respecting nature.
TAXIPHONE
Drama
Language: Swiss German, French and
Arab
Other version: Italian
Director: Mohammed Soudani
Writer: Lorenzo Buccella in collaboration with Quitterie Duhurt
Production Company: AMKA FILMS,
Switzerland
Co-production partners: MAGREB
FILM, Algeria
Key Cast: Mona Petri, Pasquale Aleardi,
FEBRUARY 2009
Jean-Luc Bideau, Bruno Ganz
Delivery Status: in post production
Origin: Swiss and Algerian
A Swiss woman bound for Timbuktu
with her boyfriend discovers dialogue
and the true “hidden faces” of women in
Algeria when she is marooned in a
desert oasis.
GIORNI E NUVOLE (DAYS AND
CLOUDS)
Drama (116’)
Director: Silvio Soldini
Writer: Doriana Leondeff, Francesco
Piccoli, Federico Pontremoli, Silvio
Soldini
Production Company: Lumiére & Co,
AMka Films and Rtsi-Televisione
Svizzera Co-Production
Key Cast: Margherita Buy, Antonio
Albanese
Origin: Italy
Other scenes from a marriage, other
scenes from their love. A film that
revolves around the strongest of all subjects: the power of love, the emotional
collapse of a couple combining drama
and lightness. Awards: 15 nominations
“David di Donatello Awards”
RIPRENDIMI
Good Morning Heartache
Drama (93 min)
Director: Anna Negri
Writer: Anna Negri, Giovanna Mori
Production Company: Bess Movie
Key Cast: Alba Rohrwacher
Origin: Italy
A great contemporary love story in a
time of precarious existence: alternatively emotional and funny weaving together naturalistic dialogue and close-up
vérite style.
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TUTTA LA VITA DAVANTI (A
WHOLE LIFE AHEAD)
Comedy (117’)
Director: Paolo Virzì
Writer: Francesco Bruni, Paolo Virzì
Production Company: Medusa Film,
Motorino Amaranto
Key Cast: Isabella Ragonese, Massimo
Ghini, Sabrina Ferilli
Origin: Italy
An outrageous comedy on the wild
world of a call center plunges philosophy graduate Marta into a shocking new
universe on her first job.
DI MADRE IN FIGLIA (FROM
MOTHER TO DAUGHTER)
Documentary (82’)
Language: Italian, English subs
Director: Andrea Zambelli
Writer: Andrea Zambelli
Production Company: Rossofuoco
Key Cast: Coro delle Mondine di Novi
Origin: Italy
A documentary that traces the inspiring
story of a highly popular and original
choir of twenty courageous women.
AKIN GUMP
STRAUSS HAUER &
FELD LLP
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP,
2029 Century Park East, Suite 2400, Los
Angeles, CA ,90067, USA. Tel:
1.310.229.1038. Fax: 1.310.229.1001.
www.akingump.com. email:
[email protected]
Law Firm
At Berlin: P. John Burke (Partner)
FEBRUARY 2009
ALTADENA
FILMS
Altadena Films, Sales Agent , Linton
House, 39/51 Highgate Road, London
NW5 1RS, England. Tel:
44.207.424.7280. Fax: 44.207.428.8936.
www.altadenafilms.com, [email protected]
At Berlin: Ildi Toth Davy (sales and
acquisitions)
Office: Martin Gropius Bau, Stand 19,
Tel: 49(0)30.246.497.440, Fax:
44.207.428.8936
A NECESSARY DEATH
Docudrama
Director: Daniel Stamm
Producer: Brian Udovich (All the Boys
Love Mandy Lane, The Wackness)
Cast: Gilbert John, Matt Tilley, Valerie
Hurt, Michael Traynor, Komina
Parkinson-Jones, Daniel Stamm
Country: USA
Follows documentary filmmaker Gilbert
Toma who is looking for a suicidal individual to document their preparations for
the final act.
CITY RATS
Drama
Director: Steven M. Kelly
Written by: Simon Fantauzzo
Producers: William Borthwick, Dean
Fisher
Cast: Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Susan
Lynch, Kenny Doughty
Country: UK
Eight haunted people meet and fall apart
- looking for redemption in each other.
CELIA THE QUEEN
Music Documentary
Director: Joe Cardona, Mario De Varona
Written by: Joe Cardona
Producers: Antonio Gijon, Gabriel
Mena, Joaquin Perles
Cast: David Byrne, Quincy Jones, Andy
Garcia
Country: USA
A touching documentary about the life
and legacy of Celia Cruz, who brought
the sound of salsa to the whole world.
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AMERICA VIDEO
FILMS
America Video Films, Virrey Loreto
2426 - Buenos Aires 1426 – Argentina.
Tel: 5411.47879098. Fax:
5411.47879094. www.americavideofilms.net. email: [email protected]
Distributor
At Berlin: Enrique Maya (President),
Utako Niimi (Japan Consultant)
Office: Marriott # 316, Tel:
4930.220001102
HAUNTED
Thriller (12 x 60 min)
Key Cast: Matthew Fox
Country of Origin: USA
After having a near-death experience,
ex-cop-turned-private-eye Frank Taylor
learns that he has the ability to see and
communicate with restless ghosts of
murdered people who ask for his help in
solving their deaths.
EARTH FROM ABOVE
Documentary
Director: Xavier Lefebvre, Pascal
Plisson.
Key Cast: Presented by Yann ArthusBertrand.
Origin: France
Famed photographer Yann ArthusBertrand shares his unique view of the
planet and guide us through this original
experience.
STORIES USA
Drama (6 x 90 min)
Director: Various
Key Cast: Steve Carell, James
Gandolfini, Josh Hartnett, Paris Hilton,
Paul Walker, Scott Caan.
In the land of plenty no excess is too
much.
FEBRUARY 2009
AMERICAN CINEMA
INTERNATIONAL
American Cinema International, 15363
Victory Blvd., Van Nuys CA 91406,
U.S.A. Tel: 1.818.907.8700. Fax:
1.818.907.8719. www.aci-americancinema.com
Distributor/Production
At Berlin: George Shamieh (CEO),
Chevonne O’Shaughnessy (President),
Laura Voros (Vice President Foreign
Sales)
Office: Mandalay Bay Hotel Booth 834,
Tel: Office: 1.818.907.8700, Office 2:
1.818.355.1083, Fax: 1.818.907.8719
JACK WILDER: THE SEARCH
FOR THE GOLDEN CALENDAR
AND THE QUEST FOR EL
DORADO
Action/adventure (94 min each)
Language: English
Director: Terry Cunningham
Writer: Kevin Moore & Michael
Palmieri
Producer: Ali Akdeniz-producer: Turkey,
Osama Bastaki-producer, Frank R.
Gardner-line producer, George ShamiehExecutive Producer, Chevonne
O’Shaughnessy-Executive Producer
Key Cast: Shane West, Natalie
Martinez, Luke Goss and Elden Henson
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Origin: Lima, Peru
After his friend dies in an explosion,
Jack Wilder embarks on an expedition
to find The Golden Calendar, which in
turn leads him on a action-packed journey filled with adventure to find The
City of Gold.
ONE MINUTE MILLIONAIRE
Action/adventure (94 min)
Language: English
Delivery Status: Development
Origin: USA
Want to become a millionaire in
90 days?
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BIGFOOT
Family Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Kevin Tenney
Writer: Sandy Schklair & Steven Jones
Producers: Osama Bastaki-Producer,
George Shamieh-Producer, Jess
Mancilla - Producer
Key Cast: Richard Tyson and Angie
Everhart
Origin: U.S.A
A teenage boy discovers and befriends a
forest creature Bigfoot, who is later captured by two high school bullies and
held to the highest bidder.
TRIBAL - VOLUME 1, 2, 3, & 4
Music Lifestyle (60 min each)
Language: English
Director: Bobby Ruiz & Jon Krashna
Producers: Bobby Ruiz - Executive
Producer, Jon Krashna - Producer, CoExecutive Producers, Frank Mayor &
Chevonne O’Shaughnessy
Origin: U.S.A
Two world popular rock bands, P.O.D.
and Korn feature their music to a hip
blend of urban lifestyles with skate
boarding, rock/hip-hop, street fashion,
expressive tattoos, low-riders, and break
dancing.
AMERICAN WORLD
PICTURES
American World Pictures, 16027
Ventura Blvd., Suite 320 Encino CA
91436 USA. Tel: 1.818.380.9100. Fax:
1.818.380.0050. www.americanworldpictures.com
Worldwide Distribution
At Berlin: Mark L. Lester (President),
Dana Dubovsky (President, Production),
Jeffrey Goldman (Vice President of
Worldwide Sales)
Office: The Marriott Offices, number
256, Tel: 49.(0).30.22000.1103
FEBRUARY 2009
PARASOMNIA
Supernatural Thriller (103min)
Language: English
Director: William Malone
Writer: William Malone
Producers: Ambre Elizabeth Earnhart,
Co-Production Partners: Jane Hamilton,
Jon Janotta
Key Cast: Dylan Purcell, Cherilyn
Wilson, Patrick Kilpatrick, Jeffrey
Combs, Timothy Bottoms
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2009, Country: USA
A young woman afflicted with a rare
sleeping disorder is terrorized by a
mesmerist and serial killer.
I WANT SOMEONE TO EAT
CHEESE WITH
Comedy (80min)
Language: English
Director: Jeff Garlin
Writer: Jeff Garlin
Producer: Jeff Garlin
Co-Production Partners: Craig Horwich,
Rob Kolson, David Miner
Key Cast: Jeff Garlin, Dan Castellanets,
Sarah Silverman, Paul Mazursky, Mina
Kolb
Year of Production: 2008, Country: US
Drowning his sorrows in the local ice
cream shop, James meets quirky, ever
optimistic Beth who just may be the one
someone to eat cheese with.
FREEBIRD
Comedy (89min)
Language: English
Director: Jon Ivay
Writer: Jon Ivay
Producer: Adam Bohling
Co-Production Partners: David Ried,
Richard Campling.
Key Cast: Alun ap Brinley, Geoff Bell,
Peter Bowles, Gary Stretch
Year of Production: 2008, Country: UK
Three crazy bikers go on a hunt for
cannabis on a wild weekend of hi jinks.
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Michelle Pfeiffer Stars
in Cheri
In Competition Berlinale 2009
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ARCLIGHT FILMS
Arclight Films, Building 103, Unit 1
(FSA #40), Fox Studios, Driver Avenue,
Moore Park, NSW 2021 Australia. Tel:
612.8353.2440. Fax: 612.8353.2437.
www.arclightfilms.com, email:
[email protected]
At Berlin: Gary Hamilton (Managing
Director), Pascal Borno (President of
Sales & Acquisitions), Ian Gibbins
(General Manager), Ying Ye (Managing
Director, Easternlight Films), Mike
Gabrawy (Head of Production)
Office: Marriot Hotel - Berlin
RED BARON
Action/Adventure/Romance
Language: English
Director: Nikolai Mullerschoen
Writer: Nikolai Mullerschoen
Producer: Dan Maag, Thomas Reisser,
Nikolai Mullerschoen
Key Cast: Til Scheiger, Matthias
Schweighofer, Joseph Fiennes, Lena
Headey
Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Germany
A new cut of Red Baron that recounts
the story of celebrated German air force
pilot, Baron Manfred von Richthofen.
He struggles to deal with conflicting
feelings of disgust for the war, responsibility to his peers, and love for a
woman.
THE COURIER
Action
Language: English
Writer: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas
Producer: Dan Grodnik, Gary Hamilton,
Mike Gabrawy, Tucker Tooley, Vincent
Newman
Key Cast: Adrien Brody
Status: Pre-Production
A daredevil courier, the one man who’s
never missed a drop, takes on a delivery
to the King of the Underworld, the one
man who’s never been found.
FEBRUARY 2009
MR. BONES 2 : BACK FROM THE
PAST
Action / Comedy / Family Film
Language English
Producer: Anant Singh, Helena Spring
Key Cast: Leon Schuster, Leeanda
Reddy, Tongayi Chirisa, Kaseran Pillay
Status: Completed
Country of Origin: South Africa
The story of Hekule, the King of
Kuvukiland who is given a gemstone by
the dying Kunji Balanadin. The stone is
cursed and causes Hekule to become
possessed by the spirit of the mischievous Kunji.
ARROW
ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
Arrow Entertainment Inc., 7 Givins St.,
Toronto, Ontario, M6J 2X5 Canada. Tel:
1.416.516.0815. Fax: 1.416.850.9973.
www.arrow-entertainment.com, e-mail:
[email protected]
At Berlin: Steve Arroyave (CEO)
Mobile: 49(0)1.761.736.8838, Lars
Bjorck (President) Mobile:
49(0)1.761.736.8502
Office: Canada Sales Desk, MGB Stand
#113, Tel: 49(0)30.246.497.412
CUT LOOSE
Comedy (100’)
Language Flemish Subtitles English
Director: Jan VERHEYEN
Scriptwriter: Bram RENDERS
Producer: Peter Bouckaert, Erwin
PROVOOST
Production companies: Eyeworks Film
& TV Drama NV
Key Cast: Pepijn CAUDRON, Koen DE
GRAEVE, Sana MOUZIANE
Status: Completed, Screening
Country of origin: Belgium
Based on the best selling novel by Tom
Naegels, CUT LOOSE, is a funny, heartfelt and emotional film about racial integration and other serious issues.
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EVIL ANGEL
Horror (120’)
Language English Subtitles
Director: Richard Dutcher
Scriptwriter: Richard Dutcher
Producer: Richard Dutcher
Production company: Main Street Film
Company
Key Cast: Ving Rhames, Ava Gaudet,
Kristopher Shepard
Country of origin: U.S.A.
The ancient myth of Lilith is brought
into the 21st. century with a murderously sexy and seductive villainess as the
world’s first serial killer.
LAST STOP FOR PAUL
Comedy (82’)
Director Neil Mandt
Scriptwriter: Neil Mandt
Producer Neil Mandt, Michael Mandt
Production company: Mandt Bros
Productions
Key Cast: Neil Mandt, Marc Carter,
Heather Petrone
Status: Completed
Country of origin: U.S.A.
Charlie and Cliff travel the world
spreading the ashes of their friend, Paul,
with their last stop being the annual Full
Moon Party in Thailand.
SAVING GOD
Drama (95’)
Director: Duane Crichton
Scriptwriter: Michael Jackson
Production company: Clear
Entertainment, Cloud Ten Pictures
Producer Domenic Serafino, Wayne
Thompson, André VanHeerden, Phillip
Mellows
Key Cast: Ving Rhames, Dean
McDermott, Ricardo Chavira
Country of origin: CANADA
Ex-con, Armstrong Cane, becomes the
pastor of the Church he grew up in and
battles a neighborhood of drugs and violence to save souls.
FEBRUARY 2009
ARTIST VIEW
ENTERTAINMENT
Artist View Entertainment, 4425 Irvine
Avenue, Studio City, CA 91602 USA.
Tel: 1.818.752.2480. Fax:
1.818.752.9339.
At Berlin: Scott J. Jones (President), Jay
E. Joyce (Vice President)
Office:
WINTER OF FROZEN DREAMS
Crime Thriller (90 minutes)
Cast: Thora Birch, Keith Carradine,
Dean Winters
Year of Production: 2008
In this true-life murder, mystery Barbara
finds herself accused of poisoning two
of her clients, men who had named her
beneficiary in their wills.
FLYING BY
Thriller (90 minutes)
Cast: Billy Ray Cyrus, Heather
Locklear, Olesya Rulin, Patricia Neal
This musically driven drama follows a
successful Real Estate developer (Billy
Ray Cyrus) who puts his marriage and
business on the line when given the
opportunity to follow his ultimate, lifelong dream – music.
Samurai Gangsters - Kadokawa Pictures
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BROTHERS WAR
Cast: Tino Struckmann, Hugh Daly,
Michael Berryman, Olivier Gruner,
Haley Carr
Set in the final days of World War II, in
the midst of fierce fighting on the
Eastern Front.
ATLAS
INTERNATIONAL
FILM GMBH
Atlas International Film GmbH,
Candidplatz 11, 81543 Munich,
Germany. Tel: 0049.89.210.975.0. Fax:
0049.89.210.975.81. www.atlasfilm.com,
email: [email protected]
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Stefan Menz (President),
Philipp Menz (President), Kai-Roger
Grueneke (President), Dieter Menz
(Senior Vice President), Susanne Groh
(Sales Manager), Alexander Barnett
(Sales Manager - German speaking
Territories)
Acquisition Executive: Philipp Menz
Office: Martin Gropius Bau, Booth 30,
Tel: 0049.30.246.497.405
HABERMANN’S MILL
(HABERMANNS MUEHLE)
Drama (about 90 minutes)
Language: German
Director: Georg Juraj Herz
Writer: Josef Urban, Wolfgang Limmer
Producer: Karel Dirka
Key Cast: Karel Roden, Hannah
Herzsprung, Ben Becker
Delivery Status: In pre-production
Origin: Germany/Czech Rep.
August Habermann is a respected and
rich man, married to Jana, a beautiful
Czech woman, who is half Jewish.
Although Habermann is not interested in
politics or ideology, he and his family
will soon be steamrolled by the insanity
of war.
FEBRUARY 2009
THE ESCORIAL CONSPIRACY (LA
CONJURA DE EL ESCORIAL)
www.laconjuradeelescorial.com
Drama (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Antonio del Real
Writer: Manuel Mir, Antonio del Real,
Juan Antonio Porto, Marta Rivera de la
Cruz
Producer: María José Munoz
Co-production partners: Máscara Films,
Settimana Luna
Key Cast: Jason Isaacs, Julia Ormond,
Jürgen Prochnow
Origin: Spain
In the late 16th century, in the Court of
Philipp II, The House of Alba is fighting
to regain the King’s favor and displace
the rival faction of the House of
Mendoza.
AURORA
ENTERTAINMENT /
UGRA-FILM
Aurora Entertainment / Ugra-Film, 9454
Wilshire Blvd., Suite M-11 Beverly Hills,
CA 90212 USA. Tel: 1.310.858.1005.
Fax: 1.310.858.1050.
http://www.returnofthelivingdead4and5.c
om, email: [email protected]
Producer
At Berlin: Anatoly Fradis (President,
Aurora), Oleg Urushev (President,
Ugra).Sergey Solovyov (Film Director),
Dmitry Solovyov (VP, Ugra)
Office: Hotel Marriott, Tel: 4930220000
ANNA KARENINA
Drama
Language: English, Russian
Director: Sergey Solovyov
Writer: Sergey Solovyov (based on Leo
Tolstoy)
Producer: Sergey Solovyov, Oleg
Urushev, Konstantin Ernst, Anatoly
Fradis
Key Cast: Tatyana Drubich, Oleg
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Yankovsky, Alexander Abdulov,
Yaroslav Boiko
Budget: $ 25-50
Origin: Russian Federation
One of the world’s greatest novels,
ANNA KARENINA is an immortal
drama of personal conflict, love and
social scandal and a vivid, rich panorama of 19-th Century Russia.
BABI YAR
Drama
Language: English
Writer: Greg Mellott, Robert Collins,
Anatoly Fradis
Producer: Anatoly Fradis
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: $ 25
Origin: USA
A vivid and disturbing story of the
childhood experiences of a young
Christian boy living in the Ukraine at
the time of Nazi invasion.
Key Cast: Tonia Carrero, Leonardo
Villar, Stepan Nercessian, Betty Faria,
Cassia Kiss, Paulo Vilhena, Maria Flor
Country of Origin: Brazil
In an old-time dance hall in Sao Paulo,
one evening is all it takes to meet different characters as they remember the
past, live the present, wonder about the
future, have fun, flirt, fight and, naturally dance.
ACCIDENTS HAPPEN
Black comedy (90 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Andrew Lancaster
Producer: Anthony Anderson
Key Cast: Geena Davis, Joel Tobeck,
Harrison Gilbertson
Origin: Australia
The surprising tale of how a good boy’s
bad behaviour might just manage to
save his very dysfunctional family.
Bankside Films, Douglas House, 3
Richmond Buildings, London W1D 3HE,
UK. Tel: 44.(0)20.7734.3566.
www.bankside-films.com, [email protected]
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Hilary Davis (Co-Managing
Director), Phil Hunt (Co-Managing
Director), Stephen Kelliher (Head of
Sales and Marketing), Antonio Salas
(Sales Executive), Laure Vaysse (Sales
and Acquisitions Coordinator)
Office: Marriott Hotel, Room 271, Tel:
4930.2200.0110.6
CHEGA DE SAUDADE (THE BALLROOM)
chegadesaudadeofilme.com.br
Musical Love Story (95 Minutes)
Language: Portuguese
Director: Lais Bodansky
Producer: Fabiano Gullane
Co-production partners: Luiz Bolognesi
Beta Cinema, Gruenwalder Weg 28 d,
82041 Oberhaching, Germany. Tel:
00498967346980. Fax:
004989673469888.
www.betacinema.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Dirk Schuerhoff (Managing
Director), Andreas Rothbauer ( Head of
Theatrical Sales and International
Acquisitions), Delphine Eon (Festival
Coordinator)
Acquisition Executive: Dirk Schuerhoff
(Managing Director), Andreas
Rothbauer ( Head of Theatrical Sales
and International Acquisitions)
Office: Beta Cinema office no. 26, Tel:
0049 30 246 497 408, Fax: 0049 30 246
497 409
BANKSIDE FILMS
FEBRUARY 2009
BETA CINEMA
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10 SECONDS (10 SEKUNDEN)
Drama (90’)
Language: German
Director: Nicolai Rohde
Writer: Sönke Lars Neuwöhner, Sven S.
Poser, Nicolai Rohde
Producer: moneypenny filmproduktion
GmbH
Co-production partners: ZDF Das kleine
Fernsehspiel / Redakteur: Lucas
Schmidt, ARTE / Redakteur: Andreas
Schreitmüller
Key Cast: Marie Bäumer, Sebastian
Blomberg, Filip Peeters, Hannah
Herzsprung
Origin: Germany
Inspired by the actual air crash of 2002
above Lake Constance.
A WOMAN IN BERLIN (ANONYMA
– EINE FRAU IN BERLIN)
http://www.anonyma.film.de/
Drama (131)
Language: German
Director: Max Faerberboeck
Writer: Max Faerberboeck
Producer: Günter Rohrbach
Co-production partners: Tempus SP.
Zo.o
Key Cast: Nina Hoss, Evgeny Sidikhin,
Irm Hermann
Origin: Germany, Poland
A true story, based on an international
bestseller published in more than 20
countries, directed by Golden Globe
nominee Max Faerberboeck (Aimée &
Jaguar)
Elspeth Tavares @ Berlin
336. 32. 50. 63. 33
Relaxa-Hotel Stuttgarter Hof
49 (0) 30 26483-0
FEBRUARY 2009
BLUE STAR
MOVIES
LTD
Blue Star Movies Ltd, 175 - 185 Gray’s
Inn Road, London, WC1X 8UE, United
Kingdom. Tel: 44(0)207.812.0700.
Fax:44(0)207.812.0650. www.bluestarmovies.com, email: [email protected]
Production, sales and distribution company
At Berlin: Mr. Pete Maggi (C.E.O. &
Head of International Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Ms. Barbara
Martins (Head of Acquisitions)
Office: Tel: 1.310.721.1007. Fax:
44(0)207.812.0650
SEIZING ME
Sexy Psychological Thriller (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Halfdan Hussey
Writer: Jeffrey Vargas & Halfdan
Hussey
Producer(s): Kathleen J. Powell &
Halfdan Hussey
Key Cast: Howard Antony (previous star
of Eastenders, hit British show); Kathy
Garver (previous star of Family Affair,
hit US show); Lisa Keller
Budget: 2 Million US$
Origin: USA
SEIZING ME is a sexy and provocative
psychological thriller about a troubled
yet gifted woman, Rose, who captures
three unique people, wanting to seize the
pieces necessary to complete herself.
EVILENKO
Thriller (115 min)
Language: English
Director: David Grieco
Writer: David Grieco
Producer: Mario Cotone – Pacific
Pictures
Key Cast: Malcom McDowell; Marton
Csokas
Budget: 9,7 Million US$
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Origin: Italy
Based on the true story of A. R.
Cikatilo, also known as the monster of
Rostov. A. R. Evilenko (Malcolm
McDowell) is a serial killer who killed
and ate more than 50 children in old
Soviet Republic.
BOLD FILMS
Bold Films, 6464 Sunset Boulevard,
Suite 800, Los Angeles, CA 90028 USA.
Tel: 323.769.8900. http://boldfilms.com
Sales Agent, Producer
At Berlin: Gary Michael Walters (CoPresident), Stephanie Denton (President,
Worldwide Distribution), Trellis Huahn
(EVP, Business Affairs), Jim Harvey
(SVP, International Sales), Joey
Monteiro (SVP, Worldwide Marketing)
Office: The Ritz Carlton Hotel, Suite:
550, Potsdamer Platz 3, 10785 Berlin,
Germany. Tel: 49.0.30.33.777.5603
JACK
Suspense Thriller
Language: English
Director: Joseph Ruben
Writer: David Venable
Producer: Michel Litvak, David
Lancaster, Alexandra Milchan, Marc
Sternberg
Delivery Status: Pre-production
A doctor rehabilitates and ultimately
falls for an amnesia-stricken victim
unaware that he is actually a serial
killer.
THE HOLE
Suspense Thriller
Language: English
Director: Joe Dante
Writer: Mark L. Smith
Producer: Michel Litvak, David
Lancaster
Key Cast: Chris Massoglia, Haley
Bennett, Nathan Gamble, Teri Polo and
Bruce Dern
Delivery Status: In Production
FEBRUARY 2009
Origin: USA
Two brothers stumble upon a mysterious
hole in their basement that contains their
worst nightmares and darkest fears.
CELSIUS
ENTERTAINMENT
LTD
Celsius Entertainment Ltd, 249 Gray’s
Inn Road, London WC1X 8QZ, U.K. Tel:
44.20.7193.1801. www.celsiusentertainment.com, email [email protected]
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Thierry Wase-Bailey
(Managing Director & Head of Sales),
Henriette Wollmann (Head of European
Co-productions, Legal & Business
Affairs)
Office: Stand 36 - Martin Gropius Bau
[British in Berlin], Tel:
49(0)30.246.497.410. Fax:
49(0)30.246.497.411
FROM WITHIN
www.fromwithinmovie.com
Supernatural thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Phedon Papamichael
Writer: Brad Keene
Producer: Adrian Butchart, Chris
Gibbin (Burgundy Films)
Key Cast: Thomas Dekker, Elizabeth
Rice, Adam Goldberg, Kelly Blatz,
Laura Allen, Rumer Willis, Jared Harris
Origin: USA
When the residents of a small town fall
prey to a rash of gruesome suicides, a
young woman discovers that a sinister
force may be causing the mayhem.
FREAKONOMICS
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Morgan Spurlock, Alex
Gibney, Eugene Jarecki, Heidi Ewing,
Rachel Grady
Producer: Chad Troutwine, Seth
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Gordon
Origin: USA
Based on the publishing phenomenon
Freakonomics, some of the world’s most
innovative documentary filmmakers will
explore the hidden side of everything.
CENTRE FILMS
MEDIA SALES LTD
Centre Films Media Sales Ltd, 2
Langley Lane, Vauxhall, London SW8
1TJ United Kingdom. Tel:
44.208.566.2388, Fax: 44.208.566.2388.
http://www.centremedia.com
At Berlin: Eddie Leahy (Marketing
Director)
Office: MEDIA Stand 23, Mobile: Tel:
44.7748.986.060
BAD DAY
http://www.baddaythemovie.com
Thriller (91 min)
English
Director: Ian David Diaz
Writer: Ian David Diaz
Producer: Gina Ashwell
Key Cast: Claire Goose, Donna Air,
Anthony Ofoegbu, George Calil
Robbie Gee, and introducing Sarah
Harding
Budget: US$2.0M
Origin: UK
A hard boiled crime thriller that takes
place over the course of 24 hours.
Rebecca Ryan has been working as an
undercover agent for the organized
crime division(OCD)posing as a taxi
driver while investigating London’s
South-side mob. When she finds her
young daughter brutally murdered she
fears her cover has been blown. She
turns renegade and begins a campaign of
vengence…..
S.N.U.B!
http://www.snubmovie.com
Thriller (85 min)
FEBRUARY 2009
English
Director: Jonathan Glen Dening
Writer:Pete Adams,
Producer: John Adams, Ron Purdy
Key Cast: Gary Mavers, Jonathan
Moore, Harriet Thorpe, Claire Spence
Budget: US$1.5M
Origin: UK
Following a terrorist nuculear explosion
in London, a group of people shelter in
a government secret nuclear underground bunker a relic of the coldwar, but
they are not the only the survivors.
THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
http://www.caligarimovie.com
Horror (76 min)
English
Director: David Lee Fisher
Writer: David Lee Fisher, Hans
Janowitz, Carl Mayer
Producer: Leonard McLeod
Key Cast: Doug Jones, Daamen Krall,
Judson Pearce Morgan, Neil
Hopkins, Lauren Birkell
Budget: US$1.5M
Origin: USA
A reworking of the classic which uses
the backgrounds from the original
movie. Francis and Alan attend the carnival where Dr Caligari’s assistant predicts one will die before dawn.
INHERITANCE (SPADEK)
http://www.amplondon.com
Thriller (86 min)
English
Director: Edward Parembny
Writer: Andy Hislop, Delphine DeWulf
Co-Production Partners: Audley Film
Production, Blue Sky Motion Pics, AMP
Polska
Producer: Edward Porembny, Tim
Gummer
Key Cast: Tomas Norstrom, Krzysztof
Kolberger, Anna Powierza
Budget: US$2M
Year of Production: 2005,
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Country of Origin: Poland
Krister returns to Poland on inheriting
property the country has changed after
20 years and people are not what they
seem.
3 MINUTE MOMENTS
http://www.threeminutemoments.com
Modern sex comedy (76 min)
English
Director: Don Allen
Writer: Hari Patience
Producer: Don Allen
Key Cast: Katherine Heath, Naomi
Martin, Philip Hayden, Belinda Lang
CompletedCompleted
Budget: US$1.5M
Origin: UK
Speed dating! the last hope of the urban
single to find love or just a stamping
ground for the predatory sex mad?
INTERGALACTIC COMBAT
http://www.imaginaryfilms.com
SCI FI/Martial Arts (73 min)
English
Director: Ray Brady
Writer: Ray Brady
Producer: Ray Brady
Key Cast: Gordon Alexander, Elizabeth
Tan, Adrian Rayment, Neil
Rayment, Silvio Simac, Tom Wu
Budget: US$1.2M
Origin: UK
Under pressure from a future alien threat
Earth must select unarmed fighters for
the Intergalactic Games.
Director: Micheal Bafaro
Producer: Evan Tylor, Tim Harvey
Key Cast: Luiz Guzman, Liane Balaban
Origin: Canada
A group of filmmakers breaks into an
abandoned mental institution and they
discover that a sinister doctor has taken
up residence in the building’s vast
underground.
www.thebusinessoffilm.com
FEBRUARY 2009
CINEMAVAULT
Cinemavault, 175 Bloor St. E., South
Tower, Ste. 1011, Toronto, Canada M4W
3R8. Tel: 1.416.363.6060. Fax:
1.416.363.2305. www.cinemavault.com,
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Nick Stiliadis (CEO),
Caroline Stern (VP, International
Distribution), Ruby Rondina (VP,
Marketing & Publicity), Evangelia Ozek
(Senior Director, International Sales),
Racquel Mesina (Director, International
Sales), Sonja Slavkovic (Festivals &
Publicity Coordinator)
Acquisition Executive: Michael Paszt
(VP, Acquisitions)
Office: Martin Gropius Bau #121, Tel:
49.30.246.497.486
LYMELIFE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Derick Martini
Writer: Derick Martini, Steven Martini
Producer: Steven Martini, Barbara
DeFina, Jon Cornick, Alec Baldwin,
Michele Tayler, Angela Somerville
Key Cast: Alec Baldwin, Rory Culkin,
Kieran Culkin, Jill Hennessy, Timothy
Hutton, Cynthia Nixon, Emma Roberts
Delivery Status: Completed, Year of
Production: 2008
From Martin Scorsese, a critically
acclaimed coming of age film.
WHERE GOD LEFT HIS SHOES
www.cinemavault.com
Arthouse/Drama
Language: English
Director: Salvatore Stabile
Writer: Salvatore Stabile
Producer: Daniel Edelman, Salvatore
Stabile, Richard Hutton, Michael
Caldwell
Key Cast: John Leguizamo, Leonor
Varela, David Castro
Origin: USA
John Leguizamo stars in this raw story
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about a down and out boxer and his
young son who look for a home on
Christmas Eve.
TRUCKER
www.cinemavault.com
Arthouse/Drama
Language: English
Director: James Mottern
Writer: James Mottern
Producer: Celine Rattray, Galt
Niederhoffer, Daniela Taplin Lundberg,
Scott
Hanson
Key Cast: Michelle Monaghan, Nathan
Fillion, Benjamin Bratt
Origin: USA
A truck driver looks to turn her carefree
life around after she takes in her
estranged 11-year-old son.
RETURN TO HANSALA
www.cinemavault.com
Arthouse/Drama
Language: Spanish, Arabic (English
Subtitle)
Director: Chus Gutierrez
Writer: Chus Gutierrez, Juan Carlos
Rubio
Producer: Carlos Santurio, Antonio
Perez, Chus Gutierrez
Key Cast: Farah Hamed, Jose Luis
Garcia Perez, Adam Bounouacha,
Antonio De
La Torre
Origin: Spain
A woman loses her brother in an illegal
immigration attempt and must return his
body to their homeland.
I.O.U.S.A.
www.cinemavault.com
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Patrick Creadon
Producer: Christine O?Malley, Sarah
Gibson and Open Sky Entertainment
Key Cast: David M. Walker, Robert
Bixby, Diane Rehm, Alice Rivlin,
William
FEBRUARY 2009
Bonner, Harry Zeeve, Robert Rudin,
Ron Paul
Origin: USA
A well-studied, timely and thorough
investigation of America?s debt crisis.
A PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENT
www.cinemavault.com
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Joan Carr-Wiggin
Producer: David Gordian
Cast: Juliet Stevenson, Tcheky Karyo,
Daniel Stern, Valerie Mahaffey
Origin: Canada, Malta, UK
A woman brings her dysfunctional family on a trip to Italy with the intention of
meeting up with a lost love.
HARRISON MONTGOMERY
www.cinemavault.com
Drama
Language: English
Director: Daniel Davila
Producer: April Davila, Catherine
Davila, Daniel Davila, Karim Ahmad
Cast: Martin Landau, Octavio Gomez
Berrios, Melora Walters
Origin: USA
A criminal on the run devises a plan to
steal millions of dollars from his eccentric, elderly neighbor (Martin Landau)
and must make a choice whether to use
it to pay his debts or save his friends.
MIRAGEMAN
www.cinemavault.com
Action
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Ernesto Diaz Espinoza
Producer: Derek Rundell
Cast: Marko Zaror, Maria Elena Swett,
Ariel Mateluna, Mauricio Pesutic, Ivan
Jara
Origin: Chile
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Sahamongkolfilm International
The Latin Dragon, Marco Zaror, is back
as the masked superhero Mirageman
who must fight against a crime syndicate
bent on terrorizing the city.
ALARM
www.cinemavault.com
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Gerard Stembridge
Producer: Anna Devlin, Marina Hughes
Cast: Ruth Bradley, Aidan Turner, Owen
Roe, Tom Hickey, Anita Reeves
Origin: Ireland
When a woman moves out of the city a
mysterious home invader turns her life
upside down.
THE HAMMER
www.cinemavault.com
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
Producer: Eric Ganz, Heather
Juergensen, Eden Wurmfeld
Key Cast: Adam Carolla, Oswaldo
Castillo, Harold House Moore,
Christopher Darga
Origin: USA
FEBRUARY 2009
A 40-year-old underachieving construction worker gets a surprise shot at glory
in the US Olympic trials.
LEAVING BARSTOW
www.cinemavault.com
Drama
Language: English
Director: Peter Paige
Producer: Kevin Sheridan, Madelon
Smith
Key Cast: Kevin Sheridan, Michelle
Clunie, Steven Culp, Ryan Michelle
Bathe
Origin: USA
Andrew hopes for a bigger world but his
devotion to his mother and his awakening attraction to newcomer Jenny combine to keep him tied to home.
CINESAVVY INC.
Cinesavvy Inc., 325 king st west suite
202 toronto, ontario, Canada m5v 1j5.
Tel: 1.416.598.2525. Fax:
1.416.599.2223. www.cinesavvyinc.com
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Abhi Rastogi (Managing
Director), Brad Sanguin (Sales and
Marketing Manager)
Office: Marriott #328, Tel:
49.30.22000.1108
FRANKIE & ALICE
Dramatic Thriller
Language: English
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Producer: Access Motion Pictures
Key Cast: Halle Berry, Stellan
Skarsgaard, Chandra Wilson and
Phylicia Rashad.
Delivery Status: (Postproduction)
Origin: Canada
America 1970s. A young black woman,
struggling with multiple personality disorder, is torn between who she is and the
racist Caucasian alter-personality that
preys upon her mind.
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CELL 213
Supernatural Thriller
Language: English
Director: Stephen Kay
Writer: Maninder Chana
Key Cast: Eric Balfour, Michael Rooker,
Deborah Valente, and Bruce
Greenwood.
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Origin: Canada
God and the Devil have been fighting
for souls since mankind first laid foot on
earth. Their battle continues in Cell 213
over cocky young attorney Michael
Gray.
PHANTOM PUNCH
Drama
Language: English
Director: Robert Townsend
Writer: Ryan Combs
Key Cast: Ving Rhames, Nick Turturro,
Stacy Dash and Bridgette WilsonSampras.
Origin: Canada
From discovery in a jail cell to world
heavyweight boxing champ, Phantom
Punch traces Sonny Liston’s life and
loves, ties to the mob and the circumstances surrounding his mysterious
death.
BOLLYWOOD ZOMBIE
Horror-Comedy
Language: English
Writer: Maninder Chana
Origin: Canada
What seems to be a match made in
heaven turns into a nightmare in this
Indian wedding when the bride and her
guests are transformed into a horde of
zombies.
FEBRUARY 2009
CONTENTFILM
INTERNATIONAL
ContentFilm International, 19 Heddon
Street, London, W1B 4BG UK. Tel:
44.207.851.6500. Fax:
44.207.851.6506. www.contentfilm.com,
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Jamie Carmichael (President,
CFI), Harry White (Head of Sales),
Kristian Brodie (Sales Manager), Toby
Melling (Head of Television and DVD
Sales), Judith Baugin (Head of
International Marketing), Jonathan
Perchal Legal & Business Affairs
Manager, Rebecca Berry - Marketing
Manager
Acquisition Executive: Jamie
Carmichael
Office: Martin-Gropius-Bau # 126, Tel:
49.30.246.497.419
THE WINNING SEASON
www.contentfilm.com
High School Comedy (100 minutes)
Language: English
Director: James C. Strouse
Writer: James C. Strouse
Producer: Kara Baker, Gia Walsh, Galt
Niederhoffer, Celine Rattray, Daniela
Taplin Lundbrg
Key Cast: Sam Rockwell, Emma
Roberts, Rob Corddry, Jessica Hecht,
Margo Martindale, Kevin Breznahan,
Shareeka Epps, Emily Rios
Delivery Status: Completed - Screening
Origin: USA
A washed up basketball coach must
learn to overcome his love of booze, his
chauvinistic attitude towards women
and his overdeveloped macho nature, in
order to re-invent himself as a real man
and give a bunch of no-hopers a shot at
a WINNING SEASON!
DEPARTURES (OKURIBITO)
www.contentfilm.com
Heartwarming, tender rites-of-passage
(131 minutes)
Language: Japanese
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Director: Yojiro Takita
Writer: Kundo Koyama
Producer: Toshiaki Nakazawa,
Toshihisa Watai
Key Cast: Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu
Yamazaki, Ryoko Hirosue, Kimiko Yo
Delivery Status: Completed - Screening
Origin: Japan
Japan’s official submission for the Best
Foreign Language Film for the 2009
Oscars, the award winning DEPARTURES is an emotional, inspiring and
often amusing story that has all the
ingredients of the next ‘Life is
Beautiful’.
EXTRACT
www.contentfilm.com
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Mike Judge
Writer: Mike Judge
Producer: John Altschuler, Michael
Rotenberg
Key Cast: Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis,
Ben Affleck, Clifton Collins Jr., TJ
Miller, Kristen Wiig, Dustin Milligan,
JK Simmons, Dave Koechner
Origin: USA
Bride Flight - Beta Cinema
FEBRUARY 2009
From the director of ‘Office Space’, and
‘Beavis and Butthead do America’, and
starring the downright hilarious Jason
Bateman, comes a comedy about sexual
frustration, litigation, con-artistry and
castration…
COPRODUCTION
OFFICE
Coproduction Office, 24, rue Lamartine,
Paris, 75009, France. Tel:
331.56.02.60.00. Fax: 331.56.02.60.01.
www.coproductionoffice.eu, email:
[email protected]
International Sales Company
At Berlin: Philippe Bober (General
Manager) , Sarah Calderon (Head of
world sales),Olimpia Pont Chafer
(Marketing and World Sales), Vanja
Kaludjercic (Acquisitions), Céline Lin
(Coordination and World Sales),
Fionnuala Jamison (World Sales)
Office: Martin Gropuis Bau,
Niederkirchnerstraße 7 | at the corner of
Stresemannstr. 110, 10963 Berlin
DELTA
Drama (100 minutes)
Language: Hungarian
Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Writer: Kornél Mundruczó, Yvette Biró
Producer: Proton Cinema (Hungary)
Co-production partners: Essential
Filmproduktion (Germany)
Key Cast: Orsi Tóth, Felix Lajkó, Lili
Monori
Origin: Hungary, Germany
A young man returns to the wild,
labyrinthine landscape of the Delta after
having been away since early childhood.
There he meets a sister he never knew
he had.
INVOLUNTARY
Comedy (98 minutes)
Language: Swedish
Director: Ruben Östlund
Writer: Ruben Östlund,
Erik Hemmendorff
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Producer: Plattform Produktion
(Sweden)
Key Cast: Maria Lundqvist, Leif
Edlund, Olle Lijas
Origin: Sweden
It’s nearly summer in Sweden and a
coach driver refuses to bring his passengers to their destination unless one of
them steps up to confess that they broke
the curtain rod in the
toilet. A comedy from Sweden.
AFTERSCHOOL
Comedy (112 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Antonio Campos
Writer: Antonio Campos
Producer: Borderline Films (USA)
Key Cast: Ezra Miller, Jeremy White,
Emory Cohen
Origin: USA
Robert is a young American high school
student at an elite East Coast preparatory academy, who accidentally captures
on camera the tragic fatal drug overdose
of two classmates.
CRITICAL MASS
RELEASING
INC.
CRiTiCAL MASS Releasing Inc.,
360 Dufferin St., Suite 103, Toronto,
Ontario, M6K 1Z8, Canada.
Tel: 1.416.538.2535. Fax: 1.416.538.3367.
www.cmass.ca, email: [email protected]
Distributor, Producer
At Berlin: William Alexander
(President), Christian Viel (Director)
Office: Marriot Suite 318
RECON 2023: THE GAUDA PRIME
CONSPIRACY
www.recon2023.com
Sci-Fi/Action (94mins)
Language: English
Director: Christian Viel
FEBRUARY 2009
Writers: Christian Viel, John Fallon
Producer: Christian Viel
Key Cast: Anderson BRADSHAW,
Heidi HAWKINS, Deke RICHARDS,
Valerie WISEMAN, Edith LABELLE
Budget: $0.9 Million
Origin: Canada
After 23 years of a grueling intergalactic
war, humanity is about to launch the
biggest co-ordinated attack in order to
take a final stand against the Ma’hars
invaders.
CRAWLER
www.crawler-movie.com
Thriller/Action (90 mins)
Language: English
Director: Sv Bell
Writer:Sv Bell, Robbie Ribspreader
Producer: Sv Bell, William Alexander
Key Cast: Deke RICHARDS, Heidi
HAWKINS, Keir KUTLER
Budget: $ 0.5 Million
Origin: English
Construction workers are terrorized by
an ancient evil that has taken the form
of a 50 ton bulldozer.
GAG
www.gagthemovie.com
Horror/Thriller (90 mins)
Language: English
Director: Scott W. McKinlay
Key Cast: Brian KOLODZIEJ, Gerald
EMERICK, Vince MARINELLI
Budget: $1.0 Million
Origin: US
Two professional thieves break into a
mansion. The burglary turns into a
blood-drenched nightmare of greed,
deceit and gut-wrenching torture and
violence.
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
MAY 13 - 24
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CURB
ENTERTAINMENT
Curb Entertainment, 3907 West Alameda
Avenue, Burbank, Ca, 91505, USA. Tel:
1.818.843.8580. Fax: 1.818.566.1719.
www.curbentertainment.com, email:
[email protected]
Company Type: Sales Agent
Attending Executives/Titles: Carole
Curb (President), Conor Barrett
(Marketing and Assistant Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Christy Peterson
Office: Martin-Gropius-Bau Stand 109,
Tel: 1.310.666.1794
ALL ROADS LEAD HOME
www.allroadsleadhomethemovie.com
Family (108 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Dennis Fallon
Writer: Douglas Delaney
Producer: Charles W. Nelson
Key Cast: Peter Coyote, Jason London,
Peter Boyle, Vivien Cardone, Patton
Oswalt
Origin: United States
The father and grandfather of a twelve
year old girl struggle to raise her after he
mother dies in a car crash. When she
saves a young puppy, the family’s lives
are changed for the best.
THE INDIAN
Drama (100 minutes)
Language: English
Director: James R. Gorrie
Writer: James R. Gorrie
Producer: James R. Gorrie
Key Cast: Matt Dallas, Sal Landi, Alison
Haislip
A negligent father tries to reconnect with
his son to obtain a life-saving transplant
by hiring a mechanic to help restore and
old motorbike. Problems arise as he tries
to maintain the lie to both his son and
himself.
FEBRUARY 2009
WAR WOLVES
(108’)
Language: English
Director: Michael Worth
Writer: Michael Worth
Producer: Carole Curb
Key Cast: John Saxon, Michael Worth,
Tim Thomerson, Adrienne Barbeau
A band of she-wolves and a special
forces unit are pitted against each other
in the race to hunt for a fellow soldier
infected with the Werewolf virus in the
United States.
DARCLIGHT FILMS
Darclight Films, 9229 Sunset Blvd., Ste.
705, Los Angeles, CA 90069 USA. Tel:
310.777.8855. Fax: 310.777.8882.
http://www.darclightfilms.com
ALTITUDE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Kaare Andrews
Writer: Paul Birkett
Producer: Ian Birkett
Key Cast: Kristin Kreuk
Delivery Status: Pre production
Country of Origin: Canada
When a rookie pilot and her friends lose
control of their plane as a result of freak
mechanical failure, they discover themselves plummeting through the sky
besieged by a mysterious, malevolent
force.
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LAKE MUNGO
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Joel Anderson
Writer: Joel Anderson
Producer: Bill Coleman, Gilbert George,
Robert George, Georgie Nevile, David
Rapsey
Key Cast: Rosie Traynor, David Pledger,
Martin Sharpe, Talia Zucker, Steve
Jodrell
Country of Origin: Australia
A family of a drowned girl experience
visitations from her ghost, and upon
investigating discover the terrifying
truth of her secret life.
DISTRIBUTION
WORKSHOP
Distribution Workshop, Unit 215, 2/F
Inno Centre, 72 Tat Chee Avenue
,Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. Tel:
852.27688678. Fax: 852.27128200.
www.distributionworkshop.com. email:
dw @distributionworkshop.com
Sales Agent, Production
At Berlin: Nansun Shi (Chairman)
Jeffrey Chan (CEO) Virginia Leung
(Head of Sales) Ashley Lee
(Distribution Officer)
Acquisition Executive: Jeffrey Chan
(CEO)
Office: Marriott Hotel #248, Tel:
49.30.22000 - 1115
RAIN FALL
Action/Suspense (Running time :
111min)
Language: Japanese/ English
Director: Max Mannix
Writer: Max Mannix
Producer: Megumi Fukasawa/Satoru
Iseki/Tsutomu Sakurai
Key Cast: Kippei Shiina/Gary
Oldman/Kyoko Hasegawa
Delivery Status: Post-production
Budget: US$ 12 million
Origin: Japan
FEBRUARY 2009
Based on the best-selling novel “Rain
Fall” written by Barry Eisler, the movie
is hard-boiled action suspense with a
feel of “The Professional” and “Bourne
Ultimatum” combined.
OVERHEARD
Crime/Suspense
Language: Cantonese
Director: Alan Mak/Felix Chong
Writer: Alan Mak/Felix Chong
Producer: Derek Yee/Henry Fong
Key Cast: Louis Koo/Daniel Wu/Ching
Wan Lau/Jing Chu Zhang
Delivery Status: In-production
Origin: Hong Kong/China
The three cops must find the way to
save themselves from the cruel revenge
that caused by the endless greed.
SNOW FALLING IN TAIPEI
Romance/Drama
Language: Mandarin
Director: Hou Jianqi
Producer: Tomoko Fushimi
Key Cast: Bolin Chan/Tong Yao
Delivery Status: In-production
Budget: US$ 1.5 million
Origin: China/Japan
From the peaceful Taipei back streets to
the glamorous entertainment circle, this
is a romantic tale about lost and found.
DREAM
ENTERTAINMENT
Dream Entertainment, PO Box 10445
Beverly Hills, CA, 90213 USA. Tel:
1.310.855.3371. Fax: 1.310.657.4677.
www.dreamentertainment.net, email:
[email protected]
At Berlin: Yitzhak Ginsberg (President)
Office: Martin-Gropius-Bau #15
UNDERDOGS
Dramatic thriller (114min)
Language: Hebrew, English
Director: Yossi Ohayon
Writer: Yossi Ohayon
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Producer: Yossi Ohayon
Key Cast: Noam Edri, Tan Toren, Uri
Avrahami, Haim Znati
Origin: Israel
Incidental meeting between two
strangers, a man and a woman, pushes
the boundaries of sex and violence and
leads to triple-murder case investigation.
Original, shocking and thought provoking.
DUBINMEDIA
DubinMedia, 1158 26th Street, #539,
Santa Monica, CA 90403 USA. Tel:
1.310.440.8645. Fax: 1.310.440.9075.
At Berlin: Kristina Dubin (CEO, Buyer)
E1 INTERNATIONAL
E1 International, Toronto office: 175
Bloor Street East, Suite 1400, North
Tower Toronto, Ontario M4W 3R8
Canada. Tel: 1.416.646.2400. Fax:
1.416.646.2399. Montreal office: 400 de
Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A
1L4, Tel: 1.514.841.1910. Fax: 1.514841-8030
Sales Agent, distributor
At Berlin: Pierre Brousseau (Exec VP
Marketing, Axquisitions and
Distribution), Anick Poirier
(International Sales), Charlotte Mickie
(International Sales), Natalie
Kemplemacher (International Sales),
Naima Abed (International Sales)
Office: Canada Sales Desk #113, Tel:
49(0)30.246.497.412
A SHINE OF RAINBOWS
(106’)
Language: English
Director: Vic Sarin
Producer: Tina Pehme, John Bolton,
Sepia Film, Co-production partners:
Octagon Films
Key Cast: Connie Nielsen, Aisan Quinn,
John Bell
FEBRUARY 2009
Origin: Canada
An extraordinary woman helps an
orphan boy find self acceptance and
love through her unique gifts of colour
and magic.
THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE /
CE QU’IL FAUT POUR VIVRE
(102’)
Language: French-Inuktituk
Director: Benoit Pilon
Producer: ACPAV, Bernadette Payeur
Key Cast: Natar Ungalaaq, Paul-André
Brasseur, Evelyne Gelinas
Origin: Canada
Far from home, an ailing Inuit hunter
experiences a rebirth and finds hope
again when he forges an unlikely friendship with a young boy.
WEST OF PLUTO / A L’OUEST DE
PLUTON
(95’)
Language: French
Director: Henry Bernadet and Myriam
Verreault
Producer: Vostok Films, Henry Bernadet
and Myriam Verreault
Key Cast: David Bouchard, AnneSophie Tremblay-Lamontagne, Alexis
Drolet
Origin: Canada
The day-to-day lives of a dozen teens
living in the suburbs, told over a 24hour period.
SOPHIE
(104’)
Language: French
Director: Maxime Giroux
Producer: Nu Films, Paul Barbeau
Key Cast: Eugénie Beaudry, Serge
Houde, Guillaume Beauregard
Origin: Canada
A young woman who must care for her ailing father grasps at a one-sided love affair.
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EALING STUDIOS
INTERNATIONAL
Ealing Studios International, Ealing
Green, London W5 5EP UK. Tel:
44.208.567.6655. Fax: 44.208.578.8576.
http://www.ealingstudios.com
At Berlin: Will Machin, JoJo Dye (Head
of Marketing), Naomi Weiner (Sales Coordinator)
Office: Mariott 270, Tel: 49
30.22000.1116
THE OTHER MAN
Drama (91 min)
Language: English
Director: Richard Eyre
Writer: Richard Eyre
Producer: Tracey Scoffiend
Key Cast: Liam Neeson, Antonio
Banderas, Laura Linney
Budget: 15
Origin: UK
When a man discovers his wifes affair
he stalks and strikes
up a sinister relationship with her lover
DORIAN GRAY
Gothic Thriller
Language: English
Director: Oliver Parker
Writer: Toby Finlay - based on novel by
Cycles - Media Luna
FEBRUARY 2009
Oscar Wilde
Producer: Barnaby Thompson
Key Cast: Ben Barnes, Colin Firth
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: $20
Origin: UK
When beautiful Dorian arrives in hedonistic Victorian London, he rapidly
descends to debauchery and murder. His
beauty deems eternal but his portrait
tells another story.
FROM TIME TO TIME
Family Ghost Story
Language: English
Director: Julian Fellowes
Writer: Julian Fellowes
Producer: Liz Truebridge and Paul
Kingsley
Key Cast: Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall,
Carice va Houten, Axel Etel
Budget: £5
Origin: UK
A haunting ghost story about two distinct worlds in times of war, two centuries apart, lonked by a single family,
the mysterious house in which they live
and the dark secrets it holds.
EASTERNLIGHT
FILMS
Easternlight Films, 9229 Sunset Blvd.,
Ste. 705, Los Angeles, CA 90069 USA.
Tel: 310.777.8855. Fax: 310.777.8882.
www.easternlightfilms.com, email:
[email protected]
LEGENDARY ASSASSINS
Action / Thriller
Language: Cantonese
Director: Li Chung Chi, Jing Wu
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Writer: Fung Chi Keung
Co-Production Partners: Easternlight
Films
Producer: Paco Wong
Key Cast: Alex Fong, Jung Wu,Ronald
Cheng, Celina Jade, Sammy Leung,
Heaven Ho, Zhan-wen Keu
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
When a murder victim is discovered on
an island, a local cop teams up with a
mysterious traveler to take on gangsters
who come looking for the victim’s
killer.
THREE KINGDOMS: RESURRECTION OF THE DRAGON
Action
Language: Mandarin
Director: Daniel Lee (Black Mask)
Writer: Guanzhong Luo (Novel)
Co-Production Partners: Taewon
Entertainment, Visualizer Film
Productions Ltd.
Producer: Taewon Chung, Susanna
Tsang
Key Cast: Andy Lau, Maggie Q, Sammo
Hung
Country of Origin: China
A sweeping action adventure which
brings to life the greatest classical novel
of Chinese literature in all its staggering
scale and splendor.
COWEB
Action
Language: Mandarin
Director: Xiong Xin Xin
Producer: Joe Ma Wai Ho, Chan Shu
Chi
Key Cast: Jaing Lu Xia, Eddie Siu Fai,
Zhang Yee Shan, Sam Lee, Kane
Kosugi, Moller
Country of Origin: China
A gifted martial artist becomes
embroiled in an underground gambling
operation that pits fighters against each
other to the death.
FEBRUARY 2009
EASTWEST
FILMDISTRIBUTION
Eastwest Filmdistribution, 49 Goodge
Street. London, W1T 1TE, United
Kingdom. Tel: 44.20.75806553. Fax:
44.20.75806567. www.eastwest-distribution.com, email: [email protected]
Sales agent
At Berlin: Steve Walsh (Managing
Director), Sasha Wieser (Managing
Director, Buyer), Alan Rudoff
(Executive Director International Sales),
Helen Loveridge (Sales Consultant),
Katheryn Needham (Sales Executive)
Office: British in Berlin, stand No. 36,
Tel: 44.798.1926464, Fax:
49.30.246497.411
PRIMA PRIMAVERA
Drama (90 min)
Language: Hungarian & English
Director: Janos Edelenyi
Writer: Paul Salamon, Janos Edelenyi,
and Maria Stankova
Producer: Steve Bowden, Georgy
Cholakov, Pavlina Jelevna, Peter
Miszkolczi, and Arry Voorsmit
Key Cast: Andor Lucats, Vesela
Kazakova, Antonie Kamerling
Delivery Status: completed
Origin: Hungary, United Kingdom,
Bulgaria, Netherlands
As the only ones able to unmask the
vengeful mastermind of the botched
bank heist which brought them together,
Gabor and Jolie embark on a desperate
cross-border journey
into his past which reveals their future.
TRAPPED (ANTON)
Drama (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Graham Cantwell
Writer: Anthony Fox
Producer: Patrick Clarke & Anthony
Fox
Key Cast: Gerard McSorley, Anthony
Fox, Laura Way
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Origin: Ireland
Eager to settle down with his young
wife and child after years away at sea,
Anton is drawn into the escalating violence of Northern Ireland’s troubles only
to find there is no way out.
ECHO BRIDGE
ENTERTAINMENT
Echo Bridge Entertainment, 8383
Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 530, Los Angeles,
CA 90211 USA. Tel: 1.323.658.7913.
Fax: 1.323.658.7922. www.echobridgeentertainment.com, email:
[email protected]
Distributor
At Berlin: Dan March (Executive Vice
President), Patti Rose (International
Sales Department)
Office: Berlin Marriott, Suite 220, Tel:
49(0)30.22000-1117
VIRGIN ON BOURBON STREET
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Clare Kilner
Writer: J. Seaman
Executive Producer: KIRSTEN SMITH
Key Cast: Rob Schneider, Jennifer
Dewan
Origin: USA
At college on a sponsorship from a sexual abstinence before marriage group,
one “pure as snow” student stands to
lose it all after innocently consuming
alcohol and getting filmed performing
wild sexual antics!
INHALE (RUN FOR HER LIFE)
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Producer: Michelle Chydzik and
Nathalie Marciano
Key Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Diane
Kruger, Rosanna Arquette, Vincent
Perez and Jordi Molla
FEBRUARY 2009
Origin: USA
In a desperate attempt to save his daughter from a rare disease, a father jeopardizes his career, family and life when he
finds himself involved in the middle of a
criminal underworld medical ring.
MY LIFE IN RUINS
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Donald Petrie
Writer: Mike Reiss
Producer: Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman,
Michelle Chydzik, Nathalie Marciano
Key Cast: Nia Vardalos, Richard
Dreyfuss, Rita Wilson
Origin: USA/Spain
A romantic comedy set amongst the
ruins of Ancient Greece, in which a
Greek-American tour guide finds unexpected adventure and romance.
ELEPHANT EYE
FILMS
Elephant Eye Films, 27 W. 20th Street,
Suite 607, New York, NY 10011 USA.
Tel: 1.212.488.8877. Fax:
1.212.488.8878.
www.elephanteyefilms.com
Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor
At Berlin: Kim Jose (Partner), David
Robinson (Partner)
Office: Marriott 252, Tel:
1.917.561.0022
PUSH
Drama
Director: Lee Daniels
Cast: Gabourey ‘Gabby’ Sidibe,
Mo?Nique, Paula Patton, Lenny Kravitz
Intl. Sales: Elephant Eye Films
Status: Complete. Premieres in the
Dramatic Competition at the 2009
In 1980’s Harlem, an overweight, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second
child is invited to enroll in an alternative
school in hopes that her life can head in
a new direction.
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Sundance Film Festival.
FIDEL’S LAST DANCE
Documentary
Director: Cynthia Newport
Cast: Alicia Alonso, Carlos Acosta,
Lorna Feijoo
Intl. Sales: Elephant Eye Films
Status: Complete.
This beautiful and moving documentary
takes a look at the past, present and
future of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba,
one of the most important dance company?s in the world.
ELEVEN ARTS, INC.
Eleven Arts, Inc., 2932 Wilshire Blvd.,
#204 Santa Monica, CA 90403 USA.
Tel: 1.310.264.0818. Fax:
1.310.264.0868. www.elevenarts.net,
Sales agent
At Berlin: Ko Mori (CEO), Kana Aida
(International Sales and Acquisition)
Office: 106, Tel: 49(0)03.246.497-444
NEAR EQUAL KUSAMA YAYOI -I
ADORE MYSELFDocumentary (102 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Takako Matsumoto
Producer: Seiji Itaki, Takashi Shimizu
Key Cast: Yayoi Kusama
Origin: Japan
The documentary series features the
avant-garde artist, recording the essence
of KUSAMA’s art as it wells up in the
conflict between life, death, and love.
VACATION
Drama (115 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Kadoi Hajime
Producer: Koike Kazuhiro
Key Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi, Nishijima
Hidetoshi, Nene Otsuka
Origin: Japan
A man who has idled his days away
FEBRUARY 2009
finds himself facing a huge obstacle that
he must overcome in order to reevaluate
his life.
WICKED LAKE
Horror (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Zach Passero
Producer: John Carchietta
Key Cast: Carless Baker, Angela Bettis,
J.D. Brown
Delivery Status: First market screening
of completed film
Origin: USA
Life’s A witch and then you die
ENLIGHTENMENT
FILMS
Enlightenment Films, Headquarters in
London, UK: 77 Cheyne Court, Royal
Hospital Rd, London SW3 5TT, United
Kingdom. Tel: 44.7802.61.50.50.
www.enlightenment-films.com, email:
[email protected]
At Berlin: Hanan Kattan (Head of
Sales), Mobile: 44.7802.61.50.50
Office: British in Berlin (Stand No. 36),
Martin Gropius Bau, Niederkirchner
Strasse 7, D-10963 Berlin. Tel:
49(0)30.246.497.410. Fax:
49(0)30.246.497.411
I CAN’T THINK STRAIGHT
Romantic Comedy (75 min)
Language: English
Director: Shamim Sarif
Writer: Shamim Sarif
Producer: Hanan Kattan
Production Company: Enlightenment
Productions
Leading Cast: Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth,
Nina Wadia
Status: Completed, Market Screening
Production Country: United Kingdom
An exuberant, touching romantic comedy about the clashing of two worlds and
cultures.
Product Guides
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THE WORLD UNSEEN
Drama (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Shamim Sarif
Writer: Shamim Sarif
Producer: Hanan Kattan
Production Company: Enlightenment
Productions
Leading Cast: Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth,
Parvin Dabas
Status: Completed, Premiere Market
Screening
Production Country: United Kingdom,
South Africa
In 1950’s apartheid South Africa freespirited café-owner Amina meets introverted wife Miriam and their unexpected
attraction pushes them to question the
rules that bind them.
EXCLUSIVE FILM
DISTRIBUTION
Exclusive Film Distribution, 52
Haymarket, London SW1Y 4RP
England. Tel: 44(0)20.3002.9510. Fax:
44(0)20.3002.9519. email: [email protected]
At Berlin: Guy East (Chairman), Peter
Naish (Head of Sales), Jessica Malik
(Sales Executive), Laura Austin-Little
(Marketing and Sales Coordinator)
Office: Marriott Hotel (Suite No. 339)
Inge-Beisheim-Platz 1, Berlin, 10785
Germany, Tel: 49.30.22000-1125
THE WAY BACK
Epic/Adventure
Language: English
Director: Peter Weir
Screenplay: Peter Weir
Production Company: Spitfire Pictures
Producers: Peter Weir, Duncan
Henderson, and Joni Levin
Executive Producers: John Ptak and
Keith Clarke
Status: Pre-production
Country of Origin: US
The escape of a small group of multinational prisoners from a Siberian gulag
in 1940 and their epic journey of 8000
FEBRUARY 2009
miles to India.
THE RESIDENT
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Antti Jokinen
Screenplay: Antti Jokinen, Robert Orr
and Erin Cressida Wilson
Production Company: Hammer Films
Key Cast: Hilary Swank
Status: Pre-production
A Beautiful young doctor (Juliet) moves
to Brooklyn, settling into a new life in a
stunning and spacious loft apartment…
but soon discovers that she is not alone.
THE WAKE WOOD
Horror
Language: English
Director: David Keating
Screenplay: David Keating and Brendan
McCarthy
Production companies: Fantastic Films,
Solid Entertainment, The Irish Film
Board and Hammer Films
Producer: Brendan McCarthy and John
McDonnell
Key Cast: Timothy Spall, Aidan Gillen
and Eva Birthistle
Status: Post-production
Country of Origin: Ireland
What if your loved one could be brought
back from the dead?
FABRICATION
FILMS
Fabrication Films, 8701 W. Olympic
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035 USA. Tel:
1.310.289.1232. Fax: 1.310.289.1292.
www.fabricationfilms.com
Company Type: Sales Agent
At Berlin: Miriam Elchanan (Director of
Legal and Business Affairs), Jodie
Skalla (VP of Acquisitions/Sales)
Tel: 1.214.454.0310
THE BRACELET OF BORDEAUX
Family (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Casey Kelly
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Writer: Frank Eakin
Producer: Frank Eakin
Key Cast: Ally Claire Carson, Kelsey
Edwards, Shane Kelly
Budget: $1 Million
Origin: USA
Two pre-teen girls overcome danger and
conspiracies as they set out to solve the
crime and administer justice with the
help of a magical bracelet
THE SEAMSTRESS (SEWN)
Horror (85 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jesse James Miller
Writer: Mark Garbett, Bob Hume, David
Andrew Lloyd
Producer: Andrew Bronstein
Key Cast: Lance Henriksen, Kailin See,
David Kopp
Budget: $1 Million
Origin: Canada
The Seamstress was brought into being
by the desperate curse of an innocent
woman being tortured to death by a vigilante mob.
FANTASTIC FILMS
INTERNATIONAL,
LLC
Fantastic Films International, LLC,
3854 Clayton Avenue, Los Angeles,
90027 CA, USA. Tel: 1.323.661.7088.
Fax: 1.323.661.7188. www.fantasticfilmsinternational.com
At Berlin: Roxane Barbat (President),
Fred deWysocki (Partner), Delia
Sescioreanu, Dan Barbat
Office: Ritz Carlton Hotel, suite #450,
Mobile: 1.310.560.9577
SPIRIT OF THE FOREST
Animated Comic Adventure (78 mins)
Language: English
Director: David Rubin
Production Company: Dygra Films
FEBRUARY 2009
Patrik 1.5 - Svensk Filmindustri
Producer: Manolo Gomez
Executive Producer: Fred deWysocki
Key Cast: (voice overs) Sean Astin,
Giovanni Ribisi, Ron Perlman, Anjelica
Huston
Country of origin: Spain
A powerful businessman intends to
build a highway and the ever-evil Mrs.
D’Abondo sees her chance to get rid of
the forest.
AGENT C.R.U.S.H.
Animation, Action
Language: English
Director: Sean Robinson
Production Company: Crush
Productions Ltd.
Producer: Tony Ludwig, Barrie
Robinson, Fred deWysocki, Roxane
Barbat
Key Cast: (voice overs) Ioan Gruffudd
(Fantastic 4), Neve Campbell, Roger
Moore, Brian Cox, Brian Blessed, (also
just added: Danny Glover)
Country of origin: United Kingdom
The setting for the movie is two hundred years into the future, much has
changed but one thing remains a constant, crime and it’s getting a little
bizarre.
A FOX’S TALE
Animated comic adventure
Key Cast: (voice-overs) Freddie
Highmore, Miranda Richardson, Bill
Nighy and Sienna Miller
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Country of Origin: Hungary / UK
“Little Jack” (Freddie Highmore) is an
adorable young fox who is busy enjoying a blissful life, chasing frogs, butterflies and playing in the forest with his
loving family. Until one night when his
perfect world is turned upside down.
MAX MAGICIAN AND THE LEGEND OF THE RINGS
Family, live action
Language: English
Director: Kevin Summerfield
Production Company: Scorpio Studios
Producer: Kimberly Gough
Key cast: Timothy Stultz, Ken
Mitzkowitz, Erika Ann, Steven Barry
Prince
Status: ready for delivery
Country of origin: United States
A young boy receives an ancient magical book that opens a mystical door into
an enchanted kingdom where an adventure filled with warriors, elves, queens
and sorcerers awaits.
THE DOGS OF CHINATOWN
Martial Arts Action
Cast: Eric Jacobus & Ray Carbonel (The
Stunt People), Huyen Thi (Fall Down
Dead), Bill Oberst Jr (Sherman’s March,
The Secret Life Of Bees), Patrick
Keenan (Dark Remains), Christy
Johnson (Tobe Hooper’s Mortuary)
Dogs Of Chinatown combines a hyperreality “Sin City” look with amazing
martial arts action by cult superstars The
Stunt People, all set in a world filled
with gangsters, strippers and assassins.
FILM BRIDGE
INTERNATIONAL
Film Bridge International, 1316 Third
Street Promenade, Suite 105, Santa
Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel:
1.310.656.8680. Fax: 1.310.656.8683.
filmbridgeinternational.com, Email:
[email protected]
At Berlin: Ellen Wander 1. 310.5263456, Lori Mathison, 1.310.403.6535,
Amanda Seward
Office: The Marriott Hotel, Room 244,
Tel: 49(0)30.22000-1126 or
1.310.526.3456
STEPHEN KING’S DOLAN’S
CADILLAC
Revenge thriller
Cast: Christian Slater& Emmanuelle
Vaugier
Based on a terrifying short story by
Stephen King.
BUTTERFLY EFFECT 3: REVELATION
Cult Classic.
Cast: Chris Carmack & Rachel Miner
From the Producer of “Butterfly Effect I
& II,” Benderspink (“Just Friends,”
“The Ring,” “A History of Violence”).
FREEZER BURN
Action/adventure comedy
Director: Grant Harvey
Cast: Tom Green, Crispin Glover.
Disguised as executives from a Dutch
Oil Company, Aliens from outer space
buy a local farming company. Their goal
is to heat up the temperature of the earth
and turn the entire planet into a ClubMed for aliens.
The unabridged version of this
Berlin 2009 Pocket Guide
is available online at
FEBRUARY 2009
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Giallo
Available from
Hannibal Pictures
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FILMAX
INTERNATIONAL
Filmax International, Miguel Hernández
81-87, 08908 L’Hospitalet (BCN),
Spain. Tel: 34.93.336.85.55.
Fax: 34.93.263.08.24.
http://www.filmaxinternational.com,
E-mail: [email protected]
At Berlin: Mr. Julio Fernández
(Chairman), Mr. Carlos Fernández
(CEO), Mr. Carles Rojano (Managing
Director), Ms. Antonia Nava
(International Production), Mr. Rafael
Cabrera (Marketing and
Communication), Mr. Vicente Canales
(Head of International Division),
Mr. Iván Diaz (Head of TV Sales)
Office: Grand Hyatt Berlin, Grand Suite
#342 - #343, Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 2,
Tel: 49.30.2553.4370
JUST WALKING (AKA SOLO
QUIERO CAMINAR)
Action
Language: Spanish
Director: Agustín Díaz Yanes
Writers: Agustín Díaz Yanes
Producer: José Manuel Lorenzo,
Eduardo Campoy, Pablo Cruz
Cast: Diego Luna; Victoria Abri;
Ariadna Gil; Pilar López de Ayala, Elena
Anaya; José María Yazpik
Four women plan a dangerous strike
against a band of Mexican drug traffickers. Motivated by revenge, this action
could change their luck forever.
EXORCISMUS
Horror
Language: English
Director: Luis De la Madrid (“The
Nun”)
Script: David Muñoz
FEBRUARY 2009
(“The Devil’s Backbone”)
Producer: Julio Fernández
Cast: TBC
Delivery Status: In pre-production
Fear is taking over the residents of the
High Cross housing estate. Recently
ominous things have been inexplicably
taking place… and there are rumours.
REC 2
Horror
Language: Spanish
Director & Script: Jaume Balagueró
(Darkness, Fragile) & Paco Plaza
(Second name, Romasanta)
Producer: Julio Fernández
Delivery Status: In production
Following the recent success of REC,
the forthcoming sequel REC 2.
FILMEXPORT
GROUP
Filmexport Group, Via Del Pianeta
Urano, 60 Rome, Italy. Tel:
39.06.52207432. Fax: 39.06.52278416.
www.filmexport.com, e-mail: [email protected]
Sales agent
At Berlin: Roberto Di Girolamo
(President), Laura Maurano (Sales
Manager)
Office: Italia Pavilion Nr. 101, Tel:
49.30.246497
DESTINY RIDE (SANS ETAT
D’AME - LA DONNA DI NESSUNO)
www.sansetatdame-lefilm.com
Thriller (96’)
Language: French, Italian, English
Director: Vincenzo Marano
Producer: Les Films de l’Astre,
Filmexport Group
Key Cast: Laurent Lucas, Hélène de
Fougerolles, Candice Hugo
Origin: France, Italy
A high-profile prostitute, a dreaded
judge, an idealistic journalist: the love
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that they feel for each other will at once
become deadly.
THE MOLE (LA TAUPE)
www.filmexport.com
Thriller (2 x 52 min or 1 x 100’ TV
movie)
Language: French, English
Director: Vincenzo Marano
Writer: Sergio Gobbi, Victor Arnold and
Laurent Scalese
Producer: Les Films de l’Astre / AT
Production / RTBF
Key Cast: Ingrid Chauvin, Linda Hardy,
Yannis Baraban
Origin: France
A heroin cache vanishes from a customs
depot. Commandant Sandra Longo is
dispatched from Paris. There is a mole
and she has to find it.
MILAN PALERMO, THE RETURN
(MILANO PALERMO, IL
RITORNO)
www.milanopalermoilritorno.it
Action (95’)
Language: Italian, English
Director: Claudio Fragasso
Producer: SANMARCO FILM GLOBE FILMS
Executive Producer: Pietro Innocenzi
Key Cast: Giancarlo Giannini, Raoul
Bova, Ricky Memphis, Gabriella
Pession, Enrico Lo Verso
Origin: Italy
Turi Arcangelo Leofonte, the mafia’s
bookkeeper, after accepting to cooperate
with the Law causing the arrest of
almost the whole Scalia clan, and after
serving his 11 years sentence, is being
released.
French Cell: 336. 32. 50. 63. 33
49 (0) 30 26483-0
FEBRUARY 2009
FILMS DISTRIBUTION
Lily the Witch - Telepool
Films Distribution, 34 rue du Louvre,
75001 Paris, France. Tel:
33.1.53.10.33.99. Fax:
33.1.53.10.33.98. www.filmsdistribution.com, email: [email protected]
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Sébastien Beffa (Partner),
Nicolas Brigaud Robert (Partner), Didar
Domehri (International Sales Director),
Valéry Guibal (Partner), François Yon
(Partner)
Acquisition Executive: Sébastien Beffa
Office: Martin Gropius Bau, stand 34,
Tel: 49(0)30.246.497-422
MODERN LIFE (LA VIE
MODERNE)
Documentary (88 min)
Language: French
Director: Raymond Depardon
Producer: Claudine Nougaret /
Palmeraie et désert
Origin: France
Through a series of portraits, Raymond
Depardon becomes a witness to farmer’s
lives, values, and family stories: all that
binds them to the land, and its legacy.
FAMILY VALUES (AFFAIRE DE
FAMILLE)
Thriller (80 min)
Language: French
Director: Claus Drexel
Producer: Franck Ribière / La Fabrique
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Origin: France
A storyless father, a devoted wife, a studious daughter. A seemingly quiet family whose world is torn apart when they
discover a sport bag full of bank notes.
FINECUT CO.,
LTD.
Finecut Co., Ltd., 4F, Incline B/D., 89137, Daechi-dong, Gangnam-gu , Seoul,
135-280, South Korea. Tel:
82.2.569.8777. Fax: 82.2.569.9466.
www.finecut.co.kr, email: [email protected]
Sales Agent, Production Company,
Theatrical Distribution
At Berlin: Youngjoo SUH (CEO),
Yunjeong KIM (Senior Manager – Sales
& Marketing), Jiyoon LIM (Senior
Manager – Festival & Marketing), Jenny
HAN (Assistant Manager – Sales &
Marketing)
MY DEAR ENEMY
www.finecut.co.kr
Drama (123min)
Language: Korean
Director: LEE Yoon-ki
Writer: LEE Yoon-ki, PARK Eun-young
Producer: CHO Eun-un (EP), SHIN Jinho(Co-EP), KIM Kwang-seop(Co-EP),
SHIN Kang-yeong(Co-EP), LEE Namki(Co-EP), RO Tae-soek(Co-EP), David
CHO(P), CHO Kwang-hee(P), OH Jungwan(P)
Key Cast: JEON Do-youn, HA Jungwoo
The unabridged
version of this
FEBRUARY 2009
Budget: US$ 1.9 mil
Origin: Korea
Jobless, single and miserable, Hee-soo
sets out to find her ex-boyfriend whom
she had lent $3,500 to a year ago. They
go on a one day journey to collect
money, and memory.
ANTIQUE
www.finecut.co.kr
Drama (109min)
Language: Korean
Director: MIN Kyu-dong
Writer: MIN Kyu-dong, LEE Kyung-eu,
KIM Da-young
Producer: RYU Jeong-hun(EP), LEE
Tae-hun(EP), MIN Jin-soo(P), LEE
Eugene(P)
Key Cast: JU Ji-hun, KIM Jae-wook,
Andy GILLET
Budget: US$ 3.4 mil
Origin: Korea
The four handsome young men work
together in a cake shop ANTIQUE.
Although seemingly happy, their unforgettable past slowly begin to unravel.
BREAK AWAY
www.finecut.co.kr
Drama (109min)
Language: Korean
Director: LEESONG Hee-il
Writer: LEESONG Hee-il
Producer: KIMJHO Gwang-soo(EP),
LEE Sun-mi(P), CHO Yoon-jin(P)
Key Cast: LEE Yeong-hoon, SO Yu-jin,
JIN Yi-han
Origin: Korea
Abandoning their military post, three
soldiers escape together. With no way
out, they struggle to escape the situation
with the help of Jae-hoon’s love interest,
So-young.
French Cell: 336. 32. 50. 63. 33
49 (0) 30 26483-0
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FORWARD MOTION
Forward Motion, 24 Doddington Dr.,
Toronto, Ontario, M8Y 1S4, Canada.
Tel: 1.416.503.4089. www.forwardmotionent.com, email: [email protected]
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Paco Alvarez (President)
Office: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Canada
Sales Desk, Stand # 113, Tel:
49.30.246.497.412
PONTYPOOL
www.pontypoolmovie.com
Horror/Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Bruce McDonald
Writer: Tony Burgess
Producer: Jeffrey Coghlan, Ambrose
Roche, J. Miles Dale
Key Cast: Stephen McHatti, Lisa Houle,
Georgina Reilly
Origin: Canada
An on air shock-jock is the last salvation
from a deadly virus that spreads through
speaking - “Shut up or Die”
FOR MY FATHER (ALLES FÜR
MEINEN VATER)
www.allesfuermeinenvater.de
Drama/ Romance (98 min)
Language: Heberew, Arabic
Director: Dror Zahavi
Writer: Ido Dror, Yonatan Dror
Producer: Heike Wiehle-Timm, Zvi
Spielmann, Shlomo Mograbi
Co-production partners: Relevant
Produktion, Israfilm, Spring Hill
Entertainment
Key Cast: Hili Yalon, Shredi Jabarin,
Shlomo Wishinski
Origin: Germany / Israel
Love distracts a young man from fulfilling an obligation to save his father’s
honor.
GAUMONT
Gaumont, 30, Avenue Charles de
Gaulle, 92200 Neuilly Sur Seine,
France. Tel: 33.1.46.43.21.80. Fax:
33.1.46.43.20.33. www.gaumont.net
At Berlin: Loïc TROCMÉ (Head of
Sales and Acquisitions), Yves CHEVALIER (Acquisitions Consultant), Cécile
GAGET (Sales & Acquisitions),
Dorothée GROSJEAN (Sales)
Office: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Booth #12,
Tel: 49(0)30.246.497-426, Fax:
49.(0)30.246.497-429
BEAUTIES AT WAR (AKA LA
GUERRE DES MISS)
Comedy
Director: Patrice Leconte
Production: GAUMONT
Status: Screening
Cast: Benoît Poelvoorde, Olivia Bonamy
A FRENCH GIGOLO (CLIENTE)
Dramedy
Director: Josiane Balasko
Production: GAUMONT / LGM Cinéma
Status: Screening
Cast: Nathalie Baye, Eric Caravaca,
Isabelle Carré
FINAL ARRANGEMENTS (BOUQUET FINAL)
Comedy
Director: Michel Delgado
Production: GAUMONT / LES FILMS
DU WORSO
Cast: Marc-André Grondin, Didier
Bourdon, Bérénice Béjo, Marthe Keller,
Gérard Depardieu
Status: Screening
SPLICE
Creature movie
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Production: GAUMONT / COPPERHEART Entertainment
Cast: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley
w w w. t h e b u s i n e s s o ff i l m . c o m
FEBRUARY 2009
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GK FILMS
GK Films, 1411 5th St. Suite 200, Santa
Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel:
1.310.315.1722. Fax: 1.310.315.1723.
At Berlin: Lisa Wilson (President of
International Distribution), Bahman
Naraghi (Chief Operating Officer)
Office: Ritz Carlton Berlin, Potsdamer
Platz 3, 10785 Berlin, Tel:
49.30.33.777.7. Fax: 49.30.33.777.5555,
Lisa Wilson’s mobile: 1.818.516.4746
THE YOUNG VICTORIA
Drama
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Writer: Julian Fellowes
Producers: Graham King, Martin
Scorsese, Tim Headington, Sarah
Ferguson
Principal Cast: Emily Blunt, Rupert
Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda
Richardson, Jim Broadbent
Production Status: Completed
Country of Origin: UK
“The Young Victoria” chronicles
Victoria’s rise to power, focusing on the
early turbulent years of her reign and her
legendary romance and marriage to
Prince Albert.
EDGE OF DARKNESS
Thriller
Director: Martin Campbell
Producers: Graham King, Michael
Wearing
Writers: William Monahan, Andrew
Bovell
Principal Cast: Mel Gibson, Ray
Winstone, Danny Huston, Bojana
Novakovic, Shawn Roberts
Production Status: Post-production
A veteran homicide detective investigates his daughter’s murder which leads
into a dangerous looking-glass world of
corporate cover-ups, government collusion and murder.
Product Listings
[email protected]
FEBRUARY 2009
G-MACHINE
G-Machine, 14320 Ventura Blvd.; #619,
Sherman Oaks, CA 01423 USA. Tel:
1.310.713.7486. Fax: 1.818.501.2780.
www.the <http://www.the/> gmachineinc.com, email:
[email protected]
At Berlin: Ron Gell (President/CEO)
Office: c/o New Films International The Ritz Carlton
WITCH HUNT
Language: English
Director: Don Hardy Jr. & Dana
Nachman
Writer: Dana Nachman
Producer: Sean Penn (Executive
Producer) Don Hardy, Jr. Dana
Nachman
Key Cast: Sean Penn (narrator), Jackie
Cummings, Jack Cummings, Brenda
Kniffen, Scott Kniffen
Origin: USA
Executive Producer Sean Penn presents
“Witch Hunt,” a gripping indictment of
the American justice system told through
the lens of one small town.
PALO ALTO
Teen Comedy (90 min )
Language: English
Director: Brad Leong
Writer: Tony Vallone
Producer: Daniel Engelhardt, Rachel
Morrison
Co-production partners: ANCHANGE
PRODUCTIONS, INC.
Key Cast: Tom Arnold, Aaron Ashmore,
Johnny Lewis, Justin Mentell, Autumn
Reeser Ben Savage
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
Origin: USA
On their last night of Thanksgiving
break, four old friends, now all college
freshmen, realize their small town has
more meaning than they ever imagined.
PVC-1
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Teen Comedy (85 min)
Language: Spanish/English subtitles
Director: Spiros Stathoulopoulos
Writer: Dwight Istanbulian & Spiros
Stathoulopoulos
Producer: Jace Hall, Spiros
Stathoulopoulos
Co-production partners: KOSMOKRATOR SINEMA & HD FILMS
Key Cast: Merida Urquia, Daniel Paez,
Alberto Sornoza
Origin: Columbia
Shot in real time and one continuous
take, PVC-1 is based on the true story
of a woman who is turned into a human
time bomb in an act of terrorism
GOALPOST FILM
Goalpost Film, 3rd Floor, 258-260
Lavender Hill, London SW11 1LJ UK.
Tel: 44.207.585.3222. Fax:
44.207.585.3230. www.goalpostfilm.com
Sales agent
At Berlin: Acquisition Executive: Tristan
Whalley and Nicki Parfitt
THE ESCAPIST
www.escapistthemovie.com
Thriller (103 min)
Language: English
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Writer: Rupert Wyatt and Daniel Hardy
Producer: Adrian Sturges and Alan
Moloney
Co-production partners: Parallel Film
Productions Limited and Picture Farm
(The Escapist) Limited
Key Cast: Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes,
Liam Cunningham, Seu Jorge, Dominic
Cooper, Steven Mackintosh and Damian
Lewis
Origin: UK and Ireland
Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence.
When his daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her before it
is too late.
FEBRUARY 2009
Tandoori Love - Media Luna
ELISE (CLOSED FOR WINTER)
Drama
Language: English
Director: James Bogle
Writer: James Bogle
Producer: Ben Grant
Co-production partners: Goalpost
Pictures
Key Cast: Natalie Imbruglia
Origin: Australia
At the beach one summer day a little girl
goes missing. Twenty years on her sister
finds the courage to rearrange the pieces
of her broken life – and invent a new
beginning.
BRAZUCA (JEAN CHARLES)
Drama
Language: Portugese and English
Director: Henrique Goldman
Writer: Marcelo Starobinas and
Henrique Goldman
Producer: Luke Schiller, Carlos Nader
and Henrique Goldman
Co-production partners: Mango Films
Ltd, Ja Filmes S/S Ltda
Key Cast: Selton Mello
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Origin: UK and Brazil
The tragic true story of Jean Charles de
Menezes, the innocent Brazilian shot
dead by British police in 2005 at the
height of the London terrorist alerts.
GOLDCREST
INDEPENDENT
Goldcrest Independent, 65/66 Dean
Street, London W1D4PL, UK. Tel:
44(0)20.7437.8696. Fax:
44(0)20.7437.4448. , www.goldcrestfilms.com, email:
[email protected]
At Berlin: Pierre Weisbein (Executive
Vice President of Sales)
Office: Hotel de Rome, Fax:
44(0)20.7437.4448
AMALIA
http://www.amaliathemovie.com/
Drama (127min)
Director: Carlos Coelho Da Silva
Writer: Joao Tordo, Pedro Marta Santos
Producer: Manuel S.Fonseca
Key Cast: Carla Chambel, Ricardo
Pereira, Sandra Barata Belo
Origin: Portugal
Amalia - the movie is the biography of
the Portuguese Fado singing legend
Amalia Rodrigues.
CASS
Action - Adventure (108min)
Language: English
Director: Jon Baird
Writer: Jon Baird
Producer: Stefan Haller
Key Cast: Nonso Anozie, Nathalie Press,
Linda Basset, Leo Gregory, Gavin
Brocker
Submit Product Listings
[email protected]
FEBRUARY 2009
Origin: United Kingdom
CASS is the incredible true story of one
man’s identity struggle and ultimate
redemption.
PEACEFIRE
http://www.peacefiremovie.com/
Drama (87min)
Language: English
Director: Macdara Vallely
Writer: Macdara Vallely
Producer: Chris Martin, Sarah Perry
Key Cast: John Travers
Origin: Ireland
Set in 1990’s Northern Ireland, Peacefire
is a hard-hitting, post-ceasefire drama
about one boy confronted with an
impossible choice.
GOLDEN NETWORK
ASIA LIMITED
Golden Network Asia Limited, Unit
1508, Nanyang Plaza, 57 Hung To
Road, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong. Tel:
852.2751.1886. Fax: 852.2750.4862.
Sales agent
At Berlin: Carrie WONG (Managing
Director); Clarence TANG (Head of
Sales and Acquisitions); Lammy LI
(Sales and Marketing Manager); Elise
WONG (Sales and Marketing
Executive)
Acquisition Executive: Clarence TANG
(Head of Sales and Acquisitions)
Office: Booth No.111, Martin-GropiusBau, Tel: 852.9424.5010
THE ACCIDENTAL GANGSTER
AND THE MISTAKEN
COURTESAN
Action Comedy / Period (103min)
Language: Korean
Director: Yeo Gyun-dong
Writer: Yeo Gyun-dong, Lee Hwa-sung
Producer: Kim Sung-ryong
Key Cast: Lee Jung-jae, Kim Ok-vin,
Kim Suk-hoon
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Budget: US$5 Million
Origin: Korea
In 18th century Korea, Chun-doong falls
in love with courtesan Seol-ji; when he
accidentally becomes an underworld
boss, his love for her leads to all out
war.
FIREBALL
Muay Thai / Action
Language: Thai
Director: Thanakorn Pongsuwan
Writer: Thanakorn Pongsuwan
Producer: Uncle Adirek Watleela,
Sangar Chatchairungruang
Key Cast: Preeti Barameeanant, 9
Million Sam, Khanutra Chuchuaysuwan
Origin: Thailand
In modern Bangkok, a brother seeks
bloody revenge in the murderous sport
of full-contact basketball where you
only score points for surviving.
WILD HORSE FROM SHANGRI-LA
Drama (83 min)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Gigo Lee
Writer: Gan Ye, Gigo Lee, Dennis Chan
Producer: Dennis Chan, Ning Lee
Key Cast: Gendun Hodsad
Origin: China
The inspirational story of a boy from
Tibet, the fastest runner of his generation, who travels to Beijing to compete
in a race to save his sister’s life.
KISS ME, KILL ME
Action / Romantic Comedy (103min)
Language: Korean
Director: Yang Jong-hyun
Writer: Yang Jong-hyun
Producer: Min Jin-ki
Key Cast: Shin Hyun-jun, Kang Hyejung
Budget: US$4 million
FEBRUARY 2009
Origin: Korea
Hitman Hyun-jun gets his toughest
assignment yet in Jin-young, a woman
dumped by her lover who wants him to
put a bullet in her head.
GREEK FILM
CENTRE
Greek Film Centre, 10 Panepistimiou
Av., Athens, 10674 Greece. Tel:
0030.210.36.48.007. Fax:
00.30.210.36.14.336. http://www.gfc.gr,
At Berlin: George Papalios (President),
Demetrios Sofianopoulos (Vice
President), Evi Lazari (Head of Sales
and Promotion), Iliana Zakopoulou
(Head of Festivals and International
Cultural Events), Stavroula Geronimaki
(Sales and Promotion Coordinator)
Office: Greek Film Centre No 17, Tel:
49(0)30.246.497.437
ATHANASIA - WELL KEPT
SECRETS
Drama (95 min)
Language: Greek, English
Director: Panos Karkanevatos
Writer: Panos Karkanevatos
Producer: Panos Karkanevatos
Key Cast: Stavroula Logothetis, Marina
Kalogirou, Yorgos Karamichos, Marina
Koem.
Gods Ear - Multivisionaire
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Origin: Greece
Athanasia goes to live with her older sister when she gets married. There, under
the same roof, a forbidden love unfolds
which, however, does not remain a
secret for very long.
CAROUSEL
Drama (84 min)
Language: Greek
Director: Stamatis Tsarouhas
Writer: Stamatis Tsarouhas
Producer: Stamatis Tsarouhas
Key Cast: Sofia Sotiriou, Augoustinos
Remoundos, Takis Moschos, Zacharias
Rochas, Kostas Terzakis
Origin: Greece
An allegorical CAROUSEL represents
the cycles of Elli’s life who having been
“cured” of psychological traumas after
being raped as a teenager, now deals
with the difficulties of daily life.
HANNIBAL
PICTURES
Hannibal Pictures, 8265 Sunset
Boulevard, Suite 107, West Hollywood,
CA 90046 USA. Tel: 1.323.848.2945.
Fax: 1.323.848.2946. www.hannibalpictures.com, e-mail: [email protected]
Producer, Distributor and Sales agent
At Berlin: Richard Rionda Del Castro
(Chairman & CEO), Patricia Rionda Del
Castro (President), Cam Cannon
(Director of Development), Josh Siegel
(Head of Production), Jonathan Collins
(Director of Production and Sales),
Hayley Magouirk (Project Manager)
Office:
GIVE ‘EM HELL MALONE
Action
Language: English
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro,
Richard Salvatore, Johnny Martin
Cast: Thomas Jane, Ving Rhames, Elsa
Pataky
Delivery Status: In Post-Production
FEBRUARY 2009
Budget: $10 Million
A tough private eye takes a job retrieving a case containing a mysterious
secret. Bullets, fists, and blood fly as he
fights through an army of thugs to protect the secret.
GIALLO
Thriller/Action
Language: English
Director: Dario Argento
Rafael Primorac
Cast: Adrien Brody, Emmanuelle
Seigner, Elsa Pataky
Delivery Status: In Post-Production
Budget: $14 million
Country of Origin: Italy
A woman on holiday in Italy fears her
sister may have been kidnapped.
Inspector Enzo Avolfi fears it’s worse.
They team up to rescue her from a sadistic killer known only as Yellow.
CHASING THE DRAGON
Action
Language: English
Director: Chris Nahon
Wallis Nicita, W. Peter Iliff
Cast: Wesley Snipes
Delivery Status: In Pre-Production
Budget: $17 million
Country of Origin: US, Thailand
A ruthless Asian drug lord kills several
FBI Agents and flees back home to Asia.
But the Agent he left alive comes after
him, hungry for revenge and justice.
Elspeth Tavares @
Berlin 2009
French Cell: 336. 32. 50. 63. 33
49 (0) 30 26483-0
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HOLLAND FILM
Holland Film, Jan Luykenstraat 2, 1071
CM Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel:
31.20.5707575. Fax: 31.20.5707570.
www.hollandfilm.nl, email: [email protected]
Marketing and Promotion agency
At Berlin: Claudia Landsberger
(Managing Director), Baukje Stamm
(Project Coordinator)
Office: Holland Film stand nr 4, Tel:
49.30.246497439
CAN GO THROUGH SKIN
Psychological drama (97 min)
Language: Dutch
Director: Esther Rots
Writer: Esther Rots
Producer: NFI Productions, Rots
Filmwerk
Key Cast: Rifka Lodeizen, Wim
Opbrouck
Origin: The Netherlands
The silent aftermath that follows a
young woman’s tragedy is broken by her
discovery of nature’s ancient rhythms.
CALIMUCHO
Docu-drama (90 min)
Language: Dutch, German, French,
Rumanian
Director: Eugenie Jansen
Writer: Natasha Gerson in cooperation
with Rogier de Blok
Producer: Circe Films
Key Cast: Dicky Kilian, Willy Soeurt,
Tarek Hannoudi, Peter Verberk
A docu-drama chronicling a complex
relationship within a small circus on the
verge of breakdown.
WINTER SILENCE
Experimental drama (70 min)
Language: German
Director: Sonja Wyss
Writer: Sonja Wyss
Producer: SNG Film
Key Cast: Gerda Zangger, Sandra
FEBRUARY 2009
Utzinger, Brigitta Weber, Katalin Liptak,
Sarah Bühlmann
A widow and her four daughters, tormented by years of mourning, encounter
the mysterious deer-men who change
their lives irrevocably.
HORIZON MOTION
PICTURES
Horizon Motion Pictures, Suite 407,
1250 Homer Street, Vancouver, B.C.
Canada, V6B 1C6. Tel: 1.604.632.1707.
Fax: 1.604.632.1711. http://www.horizonmotionpictures.com, email:
[email protected]
At Berlin: Rob Straight (President)
Office: 2F at Maritim Hotel Berlin, Tel:
1.604.417.6531
EMBODIMENT OF EVIL (ENCARNACAO DO DEMONIO)
http://www.encarnacaododemonio.com.b
r/
Horror (90 min)
Director: Jose Mojica Marins
Writer: Jose Mojica Marins, Dennison
Ramalho
Producer: Caio Gullane, Fabiano
Gullane, Debora Ivanov, Paulo
Sacramento
Key Cast: Jose Mojica Marins, Luis
Melo, Jece Valadao, Helena Ignez, Nara
Sakare, Thais Simi
Origin: Brazil
The story of the undertaker, Coffin Joe,
who terrorizes a city in his search for a
woman who will give him the perfect
offspring.
ONLY
http://www.onlythemovie.com/
Drama (74 min)
Language: English
Director: Ingrid Veninger,
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Simon Reynolds
Writer: Ingrid Veninger, Simon
Reynolds
Producer: Ingrid Veninger, Simon
Reynolds
Key Cast: Jacob Switzer, Elena
Hudginslyle
Origin: Canada
Daniel lives in a motel, managed by his
parents, in northern Ontario. People
come, people go, Daniel hardly notices.
Until one day a girl arrives and changes
his world.
MY AMERICA
http://www.horizonmotionpictures.com/
myamerica.asp
Documentary (90min approx.)
Language: English
Director: Peter Hegedus
Writer: Peter Hegedus
Producer: Peter Hegedus, Jane Jeffes
Key Cast: Peter Hegedus
of Origin: Australia
Peter Hegedus used to love everything
about America. Now he’s not so sure.
But instead of sitting around and complaining - he’s going to the US to tell the
President what he thinks.
Liberty Kid - Media Luna
FEBRUARY 2009
HUAYI BROTHER
MEDIA
CORPORATION
Huayi Brother Media Corporation, Lou
Tai Duan Wenyu River Tian Zhu Shunyi
Beijing 10132 P.R.C. Tel:
86.10.6457.9338. Fax:
86.10.6457.0230. www.hbpictures.com
Producer, Distributor, Sales,
Co-production
At Berlin: Felice Bee (Director, Int’l
Sales & Co-production)
Acquisition Executive: Felice Bee
(Director, Int’l Sales & Co-production)
Office: Marriott Office # 230
IF YOU ARE THE ONE
www.hbpictures.com
Romantic Comedy (130mins)
Language: Chinese
Director: Feng Xiaogang
Writer: Feng Xiaogang
Producer: Wang Zhonglei
Co-production partners: Media Asia
Films Ltd
Key Cast: Ge You, Shu Qi
Budget: $8M
Origin: China
A story about love in comical situations,
If You Are the One depicts how difficult
it often is to find the right person, but
also how often we don’t realize it when
love hits us at the most unexpected
times.
THE EQUATION OF LOVE AND
DEATH
www.hbpictures.com
Crime/Drama/Romance (92mins)
Language: Chinese
Director: Cao Baoping
Writer: Cao Baoping
Producer: Wang Zhonglei
Co-production partners: SUNDREAM
MOTION PICTURES LIMITED
Key Cast: Zhou Xun, Deng Chao,
Zhang Hanyu, Wang Baoqiang
Budget: $1.2M
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Origin: China
Weaves together three different love stories, examining the different emotional
struggles people go through in dealing
with pain and lost, and how letting go
might just be the hardest thing to do.
HYDE PARK
INTERNATIONAL
Hyde Park International, 14958 Ventura
Blvd #100, Sherman Oaks, Ca 91403
USA. Tel: 1.818.783.6060. Fax:
1.818.783.6319. http://www.hydeparkentertainment.com
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Mimi Steinbauer (President)
Office:
THE CITY OF YOUR FINAL DESTINATION
Drama (120min)
Language: English
Director: James Ivory
Writer: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Producer: Richard Hawley
Key Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Laura
Linney, Hiro Sanada, Charlotte
Gainsbourg, Omar Metwally, Alexandra
Maria Lara, Norma Aleandro, Kate
Burton.
Omar Razaghi has won a grant to write
a biography of Latin American writer,
Jules Gund. But Omar must get through
to three people who were close to Gund
before he can actually write the biography.
DEAD OF NIGHT
Supernatural Action
Language: English
Director: Kevin Munroe
Writer: Thomas Dean Donnelly and
Joshua Oppenheimer
Producer: Scott Rosenberg, Ashok
Amritraj (exec prod’s)
Key Cast: Brandon Routh
FEBRUARY 2009
Origin: USA
Supernatural private eye, Dylan
Dogretti, must save the undead among
us from the evil descendants of Van
Helsing.
STREET FIGHTER
Fox.com
Action (95min)
Language: English
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Writer: Justin Marks
Producer: Ashok Amritraj
Key Cast: Kristin Kreuk, Neil
McDonough, Michael Clarke Duncan,
Moon Bloodgood, Chris Klein, Robin
Shou
Origin: USA
Hyde Park Entertainment and Capcom
bring you a major, live action motion
picture based on Capcom’s most popular
videogame franchise, “Street Fighter®.”
ICON
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL
Icon Entertainment International, Solar
House, First Floor, 915 High Road
London N12 8QJ UK. Tel:
44.208.492.6300. Fax:
44.208.492.6301. www.iconmovies.net,
email [email protected]
Film sales, finance & production company
At Berlin: Mark Gooder (Chief
Executive Officer, Icon Group), Anthony
Buckner (Senior International Sales
Manager), Abby Kadell (International
Sales Manager), Steven Bestwick (Sales
Administration Manager)
Acquisition Executives: Hugo Grumbar
(President, Icon Film Distribution Ltd
(UK)), Toby Hill (Head of Acquisitions,
Icon Film Distribution Ltd (UK), Ian
Dawson (Head of UK Home
Entertainment).
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Office: The Ritz-Carlton, Suite 650,
Postdamer Platz 3, 10785 Berlin, Tel:
49.30.33.777.5601. www.iconmovies.net
MARY AND MAX
www.iconmovies.net
Animated feature (92min)
Language: English
Director: Adam Elliot
Writer: Adam Elliot
Producer: Melanie Coombs
Cast: Toni Collette, Barry Humphries
and Eric Bana
Delivery Status: Completed/screening
Origin: Australia
Mary And Max is a claymated feature
film from the creators of the Academy
Aaward® winning short animation
HARVIE KRUMPET.
THE TEMPEST
www.iconmovies.net
Drama
Language: English
Director: Julie Taymor
Producers: Julia Taylor-Stanley, Bob
Chartoff, Lynn Hendee
Writer: Julie Taymor based on the play
by William Shakespeare
Cast: Helen Mirren, Tom Conti, David
Strathairn, Ben Whishaw, Russell Brand,
Alfred Molina, Djimon Hounsou,
Felicity Jones, Reeve Carney, Alan
Cumming
In Shakespeare’s fantastical thriller the
magician Prospero orchestrates spirits,
monsters, a grief-stricken king, a wise
old councillor, two treacherous brothers
and a storm at sea into a fantastical conspiracy.
INFESTATION
www.iconmovies.net
Horror (93 minutes)
Director: Kyle Rankin
Writer: Kyle Rankin
Producers: Bruce Davey, Rhoades
Rader, Jeff Balis, TJ Sakasegawa
Cast: Christopher Marquette
Origin: USA
FEBRUARY 2009
Our hero, Cooper, awakes to find himself nauseous, weak and covered in webbing, hanging from the ceiling of an
office where, just minutes ago, he started his new job.
IFDC INC.
IFDC Inc., 1901 Avenue of the Stars,
Suite 930, Los Angeles, CA 90067, USA.
Tel: 1.310.788.2803. Fax:
1.310.788.2823. www.ifdcinc.com,
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Jerome Bliah (President)
Acquisition Executive: Jerome Bliah
Office: Private Residence, Tel: German
Mobile 49(0)173.193.4796, Fax:
1.310.788.2823
YES VIRGINIA, THERE IS SANTA
CLAUS
Family (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Charles Jarrot
Writer: Val De Crowl, Andrew J. Fenday
Producer: Duke Fenday
Co-production partners: Quinta
Key Cast: Charles Bronson, Richard
Thomas, Edward Asner
Budget: $10M
Origin: USA
While newspaper writer Bronson struggles with the death of his wife, he
receives a “special” assignment. He
must answer a little girl’s question about
whether Santa Claus really exists. Based
on a true story.
VOYAGE
Action (90 min)
Language: English
Director: John Mackenzie
Writer: Mark Montgomery, Khris Baxter
Producer: John David
Co-production partners: Quinta
Key Cast: Rutger Hauer, Eric Roberts,
Karen Allen
Budget: $15M
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Origin: USA
A couple embarks on a high-seas adventure across the Mediterranean to save
their troubled marriage.
IMAGEWORKS
ENTERTAINMENT
INT’L INC.
Imageworks Entertainment Int’l Inc.,
21910 Plummer Street, Chatsworth Ca.,
91311 USA. Tel: 1.818.349.5777. Fax:
1.818.349.6777.
At Berlin: David Shoshan
(President/CEO) (Buyer), Ingrid Raines
(Acquisition) (Buyer)
Office: Meritim Hotel Suite #9002
LOVE AND DEBATE
Romantic comedy (85mins)
Language English
Director: Jessica Kavanna-Dornbusch
Scriptwriter: Jessica KavannaDornbusch
Producer: Amy Greenspun, Gina Philips
Key cast: Gina Philips, Adam
Rodriguez, Sean Astin
Status: Completed
Budget 2.5 Mil.
Year: 2006, Country of origin: USA
A talented and beautiful Miami woman
gets torn between her passion for debating and an unexpected romance.
SHADOW WITHIN, THE
Thriller
(90mins)
Language: English
Director: Silvana Zancolo
Scriptwriter: Daniel Aarons, Giovanni
Eccher, Silvana Zancolo
Production company: The Shadow
Within
Producer: Anna Maria Murro, Paolo
Lato, Pier Luigi Corvi Mora
Key cast: Beth Winslet, Bonny
Ambrose, Hayley J Williams
Status: Completed
Budget 2 Mil.
Year: 2007, Country of origin: Italy
A mother of twins, one of whom died at
FEBRUARY 2009
birth discovers a shocking plan that her
dead son has for her.
POKER CLUB, THE
Drama (86mins)
Language: English
Director: Tim McCann
Scriptwriter: Richard Chizmar, Jonathon
Schaech, Ed Gorman (Novel)
Production company: Chesapeake Films
Producer: Richard Chizmar, Bruce
Devan, Jordan Gertner
Key cast: Jana KRAMER, Johnathon
SCHAECH, Johnny MESSNER,
Status: Completed
Budget 1.3 Mil.
Four friends discover and accidentally
kill a burglar — who may not be alone
— in the kitchen during their weekly
poker night.
RAY OF SUNSHINE
Drama (86mins)
Language: English
Director: Nerbert Meisel
Scriptwriter: Nerbert Meisel,Rae
Rodgers
Production company: Sunshine Pictures
Producer: Nancy Kwan, Nerbert Meisel
Key Cast: Ivan DAVILA, Mark CHARRAN, Matthew CARROLL
Status: Completed
Budget: 2 Mil.
Rachael, an aspiring pianist with a troubled past, disguises herself as a boy and
searches for her father, a free-wheeling
musician who abandoned her when she
was a child.
THE THIRD NAIL
Action/adventure
Language: English
Director: Kevin Lewis
Scriptwriter Huntley Ritter, Kevin Lewis
Production company: Luly Productions,
Stafford Films, Velvet Steamroller
Entertainment.
Producer: Jonathan Bross, Ann Luly,
Huntley Ritter
Key cast: Huntley Ritter, Krista Allen,
Charles S. Dutton
Status: Completed
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Budget 3 Mil.
A man wrongfully accused of murder is
released from prison and must hunt
down the kidnappers of his child.
IMAGINATION
WORLDWIDE, LLC
Imagination Worldwide, LLC, 9107
Wilshire Blvd., Suite 625 Beverly Hills,
CA 90210 USA. Tel: 1.310.888.3494.
Fax: 1.310.859.7173. www.imaginationllc.com, email: [email protected]
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Pierre David (Chairman &
CEO), Tom Berry (Co-chairman),
Lawrence Goebel (President), Travis
Stevens (Director of Marketing &
Acquisitions), Trina Searcy (Manager,
Contract Administration)
Acquisition Executive: Travis Stevens
Tel: 49.030.246.497.442
GODSPEED
www.imagination-llc.com
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Robert Saitzyk
Writer: Joseph McKelheer, Cory Knauf
Producer: Houston King
Key Cast: Joseph McKelheer, Cory
Knauf, Ed Lauter, Courtney Halverson,
and Jessie Ward
Death took their loved ones – Revenge
brought them face to face.
SUMMER’S BLOOD
www.imagination-llc.com
Psycho/Thriller
Language: English
Director: Lee Demarbre
Writer: Sean Hogan, Christine Conradt
Producer: Curtis Crawford, Donald
Osborne, Robert Menzies, Neil
Bregman, Pierre David
Co-production partners: Lance
Entertainment
FEBRUARY 2009
Key Cast: Ashley Greene, Stephen
McHattie, Peter Mooney, Barbara Niven
Captured by a family of psychopaths, a
young woman must decide to join them
or die.
INDEPENDENT
Independent, 32 Tavistock Street,
London WC2E 7PB, United Kingdom.
Tel: 44.207.257.8734. Fax:
44.207.240.9029. www.independentfilmcompany.com, email [email protected]
At Berlin: Abigail Walsh (Head of
Sales), Sarah Townsend (Head of
Marketing), Andrew Orr (Managing
Director), Sarah Lebutsch (Sales and
Marketing Executive)
Office: c/o British in Berlin, Martin
Gropius Bau, Niederkirchner Strasse 7,
D-10963 Berlin, Germany. Tel:
49.30.246.497.410. Fax:
49.30.246.497.411
MOON
http://www.independentfilmcompany.co
m/sales/index.cfm?go=film,29
Science fiction (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Duncan Jones
Writer: Nathan Parker
Producer: Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler
Co-production partners: Liberty Films,
The One I Love - Latido Pictures
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Xingu Films
Key Cast: Sam Rockwell, Kevin
Spacey, Dominique McElligot, Kaya
Scodelario, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry,
Malcolm Stewart
Origin: UK
Astronaut Sam Bell, who works in solitude on a moon base, discovers that his
employers have plans for replacing
him… and the new recruit is eerily
familiar.
MR. NICE
Comedy Drama
Language: English
Director: Bernard Rose
Writer: Bernard Rose, based on the
autobiography by Howard Marks
Producer: Luc Roeg
Executive Producers: Michael
Robinson, Andrew Orr, Daniel
Shepherd, James Perkins
Key Cast: Rhys Ifans, Chloë Sevigny,
David Thewlis, Omid Djalili
Origin: UK
Following the sophisticated drug
baron’s rise and fall, this is the frequently hilarious, occasionally sad, and often
surreal story of Howard Mark’s life so
far.
NEW TOWN KILLERS
Chase thriller (96 min)
Language: English
Director: Richard Jobson
Writer: Richard Jobson
Producer: Luc Roeg, Richard Jobson
Co-production partners: Independent,
Str8jacket Creations, Scottish Screen &
The Screen East Content Investment
Fund in Association with LipSync &
The Glasgow Film Office
Key Cast: Dougray Scott, Alastair
Mackenzie, James Pearson, Charles
Mnene, Liz White
FEBRUARY 2009
Origin: UK
Two disenchanted private bankers get
their kicks from playing a 12 hour game
of man hunt with people from the margins of society.
INDUSTRYWORKS
ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
IndustryWorks Entertainment Inc., 325
West 7th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C., V5Y
1M2 Canada. Tel: 1.604.876.0547. Fax:
1.604.876.0541. www.industryworks.com, email: [email protected]
Sales Agent, Producer & Distributor
At Berlin: Craig Adlard (VP of Sales)
Office:
45 R.P.M.
http://industry-works.com/films/family/45-rpm/
Family
Language: English
Director: David Schultz
Writer: David Schultz
Producer: Chad Oakes, Mike Frislev
Key Cast: Michael Madsen, Amanda
Plummer, August Schellenberg, Kim
Coates
Origin: Canada
In the spring of 1958, a reclusive
teenager discovers love, loss and rock
‘n’ roll.
THE CYCLE
http://industryworks.com/films/thriller/the-cycle/
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Michael Bafaro
Writer: Michael Bafaro
Producer: Evan Tylor, John Curtis, Liza
Deyrmenjian, Lloyd Simandl
Co-production partners: Canada/Czech
Republic
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Key Cast: Daryl Hannah, Leah Gibson,
Jeb Beach, Twan Holliday
Origin: Canada/Czech Republic
While driving down a country road,
Carrie (Daryl Hannah) rescues Amy, the
lone survivor of a terrible massacre in
the woods. Carrie soon discovers that
Amy carries a deadly secret.
WALK ALL OVER ME
http://industryworks.com/films/thriller/walk-all-overme/
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Robert Cuffley
Writer: Robert Cuffley & Jason Long
Producer: Carolyn McMaster, Colin
Neale, Kyle Irving
Key Cast: Leelee Sobieski, Tricia
Helfer, Lothaire Bluteau
Origin: Canada
A girl on the run joins forces with a
Dominatrix and they become the target
of a mob’s search for a missing million
dollars.
INFERNO
Inferno, 1888 Century Park East #1180
Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA. Tel:
1.310.598.2550. Fax: 1.310.598.2551.
www.inferno-entertainment.com, email:
[email protected]
At Berlin: Bill Johnson (Partner), Jim
Seibel (Partner) Pamela Pickering (Head
of International Distribution and Sales),
James MacLean (Head of Internation
Sales), Jana Toepfer (International Sales
and Co-productions)
Office: Ritz Carlton Berlin, Tel:
49.30.33.7777 ext. 934, Fax:
49.30.33.7777.5555
SPY VS. STU
Comedy
Writer: Allie Dvorin and Keith Mitchell
Key Cast: Pierce Brosnan
FEBRUARY 2009
Delivery Status: In development
A man’s vacation on an island resort
with his girlfriend is rudely interrupted
when a suave spy recruits the girlfriend
to pose as his companion while on a
mission.
HOW TO MAKE LOVE LIKE AN
ENGLISHMAN
Romantic Comedy
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Matthew Newman
Delivery Status: In development
A British literature professor and onetime playboy relocates to Los Angeles to
be with his new wife and child.
INTANDEM FILMS
Intandem Films, 22 Soho Square,
London, W1D 4NS, UK. Tel:
44.207.851.3800. Fax:
44.207.851.3830.
www.intandemfilms.com, email:
[email protected]
International Sales Company, Executive
Producers
At Berlin: Andrew Brown (Company
Director), Billy Hurman (Company
Director)
Acquisition Executive: Andy Gray
Office: Tel: Andrew Brown
44.7802.965.551, Billy Hurman
44.7956.578.093
BLOWN
www.blownmovie.com
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Martha Fiennes
Writer: George Tiffin
Producers: Shani Hinton, Gareth Wiley,
Martha Fiennes, George Tiffin
Key Cast: Samuel L Jackson
Budget: $17M
Origin: UK
Tasked with the most crucial mission of
his career, a British secret service agent
must decide if his duty is to his country
or the truth.
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ISLANDS IN THE STREAM
Drama, Action/Adventure
Language: English
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Writer: Tommy Lee Jones, Bill Wittliff
Producers: Tommy Lee Jones, Eric
Williams, Wesley Oliver
Key Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan
Freeman,
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget: $30M
A thrilling, heart-rending story from
Ernest Hemingway’s last novel.
INTRAMOVIES S.R.L.
Intramovies S.r.l., Via E. Manfredi 15,
00197 Roma, Italy. Tel: 0039
06.8076157. Fax: 0039.06.8076156.
www.intramovies.com,
[email protected]
Foreign Sales
At Berlin: Paola Corvino (C.E.O.),
Micaela Fusco (VP International Sales),
Jef Nuyts (Director of International
Sales), Federica Mei (Sales Manager)
Office: Italia Pavilion N 101
FRANKIE, THE WOMANIZER
Comedy (83 min)
Language: Czech with English subtitles
Director: Jan Pru?inovsk?
Writer: Jan Pru?inovsk?
Producer: Ondrej Zima - Evolution
Films
Key Cast: Josef Polá?ek, Ela Lehotská,
Martin Pechlát, Zdena Hadrbolcová,
Petra Nesvacilova , Leo? Noha,
Marika Procházková, Petr Ctvrtnicek ,
Barbara Trojanová
As a psychiatrist, Frankie would like to
have his private life under perfect control, except that he’s too fond of
women.
MAR NERO BLACKSEA
Drama (95 min)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Federico Bondi
Writer: Ugo Chiti e Federico Bondi
Producer: Francesco Pamphili per Film
FEBRUARY 2009
Kairos, Rai Cinema
Key Cast: Ilaria Occhini, Dorotheea
Petre, Corso Salani, Vlad Ivanov, Maia
Morgestern, Theodor Danetti, Vincenzo
Versari, Giuliana Colzi, Marius Silagiy
Angela and Gemma, initially so different, discover that they instead have
much in common and they unite in an
apparently idyllic relationship, until, a
violent and tragic unforeseen event shatters their serenity…
TOBRUK
Drama (102 min)
Language: Czeck with English subtitles
Director: Václav Marhoul
Producer: Silver Screen, Ceska televise, Free-Cool-In
Writer Václav Marhoul
Key Cast: Jan Meduna, Petr Vanek,
Robert Nebrensky Matej Hádek, Andrej
Polák, Kry?tof Rímsk?, Martin Nahálka,
Michal Novotn?, Radim Fiala, Petr
Stach, Petr Lnenicka, Matú? Krátky,Petr
Halberstadt
North Africa, II. WW, Fall 1941. Jiri
Pospichal, twenty years old, signs up as
a volunteer in the Czechoslovak army.
ITN DISTRIBUTION
ITN Distribution, 505 E. Windmill Lane,
Suite 1B-102, Las Vegas, NV 89123
USA. Tel: 1.917.690.1539. Fax:
1.702.361.6309. http://www.itndistribution.com, email:
[email protected]
At Berlin: Stuart Alson (President),
Nicole Holland (VP), Annalisa San Juan
(VP International Sales), Todd Konrad
(VP Acquisitions)
Office: IFTA area, Tel: 1.917.690.1539,
Fax: 1.702.361.6309
LIGHT OF OLYMPIA
http://www.itndistribution.com
3D Animation (90 min)
Language: English
Director: San Wei Chan
Writer: Sarah Kinney
Producer: Santoon Productions, Xiaoting
Zhu
Key Cast: Phyllis Diller, Debbie
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Reynolds, music by Pinar Toprak
Budget: $10 million
Origin: USA, China
What do a bronze donkey, a witch doctor, demi-gods, a princess and a torch all
have in common? They’re all going to
the Olympic games! But, they’re not
just going for the gold.
THE BUTTERFLY TATTOO
Drama (102 min)
Language: English
Director: Phil Hawkins
Origin: Netherlands
First love collides with violent death
when a gunman seeks his revenge.
Based on the novel by Philip Pullman,
author of The Golden Compass.
CHASING HAPPINESS
Comedy (86 min)
Language: English
Director: Beni Atoori
Writer: Beni Atoori
Producer: Beni Atoori
Key Cast: Elisa Donovan, Cerina
Vincent
Origin: USA
Jen, Karina, Andrea and Raphael live
together in an upscale neighborhood in
Los Angeles. They seem to be working
in Health and Therapy related fields, but
in actuality they are pandering to the
base needs of a depraved clientele.
K5 INTERNATIONAL
K5 International, Konradinstr. 5 , 81543
München, Germany. Tel: 0049.89.37 50
5590. Fax: 0049.89.37 50 55 905.
www.k5international.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Daniel Baur (PartnerFEBRUARY 2009
Business Affairs), Oliver Simon (Partner
- Production), Karin Binnberg (Sales &
Marketing)
Acquisition Executive: Oliver Simon
Office: Hotel Marriott, Room #218, Tel:
0049.1577.2657840
WASTING AWAY
www.wastingawaythemovie.com
Horror Comedy 96min
Language: english
Director: Matthew Kohnen
Writer: Sean & Matthew Kohnen
Producer: Sean Kohnen
Key Cast: Matthew Davis, Colby French
Julianna Robinson, Betsy Beutler
Origin: USA
Turning the zombie film on its head,
“Wasting Away” is an oddball comedy
from the perspective of the brain
munching monsters themselves.
WONDERFUL WORLD
www.k5iinternational.com
Drama (89min)
Language: english
Director: Joshua Goldin
Writer: Joshua Goldin
Producer: Miranda Bailey, Matthew
Leutwyler, Glenn Williamson
Key Cast: Matthew Broderick, Sanaa
Lathan, Ally Walker
Origin: USA
A comic fable about the most negative
man in the world.
A MATTER OF SIZE
www.k5international.com
Comedy (96min)
Language: hebrew
Director: Sharon Maymon, Erez Tadmor
Writer: Sharon Maymon, Danny CohenSolal
Producer: Chilik Michaeli, Tami Leon,
Avraham Pirchi, Daniel Baur, Oliver
Simon
Key Cast: Togo Igawa, Itzik Cohen,
Alon Dahan
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Origin: Israel
A group of fat people from the Israeli
city of Ramla is fed up with the sanctity
of diets and the ‘Dictatorship of the
Thinness’ of the diet workshop they participate in.
KADOKAWA
PICTURES, INC.
Kadokawa Pictures, Inc., 9F, 3-6 KioiCho, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo 102-8302,
Japan. Tel: 813.5213.0693. Fax:
81.3.3556.4322. http://www.kadokawapictures.co.jp, email: [email protected]
Producer
At Berlin: Tetsuya Sekine (Manager)
Office: Tel: 81.8.3253.7286
PENGUINS IN THE SKY
–ASAHIYAMA ZOO- (ASAHIYAMA
DOBUTSUEN MONOGATARI)
http://www.asahiyama-movie.jp/
Drama (118min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Masahiko Makino
Writer: Yasuhiro Koshimizu
Producer: Kadokawa Pictures, Inc.
Key Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida, Yasuhi
Nakamura, Ai Maeda
Origin: Japan
A miracle in the snowy northernmost
zoo in Japan. Based on a true event, the
movie tells a dramatic story about a zoo
which achieved record-breaking attendance.
SAMURAI GANGSTERS (JIROCHO
SANGOKUSHI)
http://www.jirocho-movie.jp/index.html
Period Drama (126min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Masahiko Makino
Writer: Sumio Omori
Producer: Kouwa International Co., Ltd.
Key Cast: Kiichi Nakai, Kyoka Suzuki,
Riki Takeuchi
FEBRUARY 2009
Origin: Japan
People respect him. Enemies hear him.
Women adore him. Witness Jirocho and
his loyal man battle to become Japan’s
swordfighting legends!
KATHY MORGAN
INTERNATIONAL
Kathy Morgan International, 12250 Sky
Lane, Los Angeles, CA 90049 USA.
Tel:1.310.472.6300. Fax:
1.310.472.6304. www.kmifilms.com,
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Kathy Morgan (President),
Veronica Hool (Head of Sales), Zach
Luna (Head of Acquisitions)
Acquisition Executive: Zach Luna
Office: Ritz Carlton Berlin - Suite 949,
Tel: 030.33.777.7, Fax: 030.33.777.5555
THE DANISH GIRL
Romance
Language: English
Writer: Lucinda Coxon
Producer: Gail Mutrex
Co-production partners: Linda Reisman,
Anne Harrison, Nicole Kidman
Key Cast: Nicole Kidman, Charlize
Theron
An unforgettable story of renewal and
discovery, whose complications, joys
and tragedies provide a testament to the
power and endurance of love.
Lippels Dream - Telepool
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THE WARRIOR’S WAY
(LAUNDRY WARRIOR)
Action/Adventure
Language: English
Director: Sngmoo Lee
Writer: Sngmoo Lee
Producer: Barrie Osborne
Co-production partners: Michael Peyser,
Jooick Lee
Key Cast: Jang Dong-Kun, Kate
Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush, Danny
Huston
Origin: New Zealand
Brief synopsis: A visually stunning, nonstop action adventure, where East meets
West in a genre bending hero’s tale of
love and redemption.
KEVIN WILLIAMS
ASSOCIATES
Kevin Williams Associates, c/Galeón nº
32, Bajo A, 28042, Madrid, Spain. Tel:
34.91.747.31.00. Fax: 34.91.747.70.00.
www.kevinwa.com, email: [email protected]
Sales agent
At Berlin: Kevin Williams (President),
Bea Adan (Sales agent)
Office: Cinema from Spain Pavilion
PÁJAROS MUERTOS (DEAD
BIRDS)
Comedy (85min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Guillermo Sempere y Jorge
Sempere
Writer: Gloria Denise Benenzón, Gorka
Esteban Baranda
Key Cast: Silvia Marsó, Andrea Blasco,
Claudia Fontán, Inés Aldea
Origin: Spain
The sudden appearance of a dead bird in
the street will trigger their most intimate
secrets and fears.
RAMIREZ
Thriller (95min)
FEBRUARY 2009
Language: Spanish
Director:Albert Arizza
Writer: Albert Arizza
Producer: Mónica Goyanes
Key Cast: Cristian Magaloni, Geraldine
Chaplin, Zoe Berriatúa, Luis Mesonero.
Origin: Spain
Ramirez is a contemporary portrait of an
attractive, lonely young man who wanders aimlessly trough life.
KIMMEL
INTERNATIONAL
Kimmel International, 250 Hudson
Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10013
USA. Tel: 1.212.431.5550. Fax:
1.212.431.5822.
At Berlin: Mark Lindsay (President,
Kimmel International), Marcello
Paolillo( Vice President, Sales and
Acquisitions, Kimmel International),
Joann Andres Manager (Sales and
Administration, Kimmel International)
Office: MGB – Stand 118, Tel:
49(0)30.246.497.445
PAPER MAN
Comedy Drama
Written and Directed by: Michele
Mulroney & Kieran Mulroney
Produced by: Richard N. Gladstein,
Guymon Casady, Art Spigel, Ara Katz
Executive Producers: Dan Fireman,
Darin Friedman, Lila Yacoub
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Ryan Reynolds,
Emma Stone, Kieran Culkin and Lisa
Kudrow
Status: Post-Production
A coming-of-middle-age comedy that
chronicles the unlikely friendship
between a failed author, Richard Dunne
(Daniels) and a mature teenager (Stone)
who teaches him a thing or two about
growing up.
AN INVISIBLE SIGN
Comedy Drama Romance
Directed by: Marilyn Agrelo
Screenplay by: Pam Falk and Mike Ellis
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Based on the novel by Aimee Bender
Produced by: Jana Edelbaum, Lynette
Howell, Pam Falk, Mike Ellis
Executive Producers: Rachel Cohen,
Jason Felts, Justin Berfield
Cast: Jessica Alba, J.K. Simmons, Chris
Messina, Sonia Braga
A contemporary fable with a touch of
magic realism reminiscent of Amelie.
UNTHINKABLE
Suspense Thriller
Directed by: Gregor Jordan
Written by: Peter Woodward
Produced by: Marco Weber, Caldecot
Chubb
Executive Producers: Vanessa Coifman,
Vince Cirrincione
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Carrie-Anne
Moss, Michael Sheen, Brandon Routh,
Martin Donovan
Somewhere in the United States, three
nuclear weapons are about to detonate.
LAKESHORE
ENTERTAINMENT
Lakeshore Entertainment, 9268 West
Third Street, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
USA. Tel: 1.310.867.8000. Fax:
1.310.300.3015. http://www.lakeshoreentertainment.com, email:
[email protected]
Producer
At Berlin: Elisabeth Costa de
Beauregard Rose (Sr. Vice President,
International Sales), Jonathan Deckter
(Sr. Vice President, International Sales)
Office: Martin-Gropius Bau , Booth 117
FAME
Drama
Language: English
Director: Kevin Tancharoen
Writer: Allison Burnett, Aline Brosh
McKenna
Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Gary
Lucchesi
Delivery Status: Production
FEBRUARY 2009
A dynamic reinvention of the Oscar®winning film, FAME captures the visceral excitement and explosive energy of
young artists and performers struggling
to prove their talent and find their own
voice.
LATIDO FILMS
Latido Films, C/ Veneras 9, 6th Floor –
28013 Madrid, Spain. Tel:
34.915.488.877. Fax: 34.915.488.878.
www.latidofilms.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Massimo SAIDEL
(International Sales Partner), Malte
OLLROGE (International Sales), Silvia
ITURBE (Managing Director), Giannina
ANTOLA (TV Consultant)
Office: Stand 22 (Cinema from Spain) –
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Tel: 49.30.246.497.
Fax: 34.915.488.878
SEX PARTY AND LIES (MENTIRAS
Y GORDAS)
www.LatidoFilms.com
Erotic (107 min)
Language: Spanish
Directors: Alfonso ALBACETE &
David MENKES
Writers: Alfonso ALBACETE & David
MENKES
Producer: TORNASOL FILMS (Gerardo
HERRERO)
Key Cast: Hugo SILVA, Ana de
ARMAS, Maxi IGLESIAS, Alejo
SAURA, Mario CASAS
Origin: Spain
Very good looking boys and girls, pushing the limits, in that twilight zone
between youth adulthood….
MUÑECA
www.muneca.cl
Comedy (84 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Sebastián ARRAU
Writer: Sebastián ARRAU
Producer: LAPSUS PRODUCCIONES
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Previous Engagement - Cinema Vault
(Mauricio ARRAU)
Co-production partners: ALCE PRODUCCIONES (Alex BOWEN)
Key Cast: Benjamin VICUÑA, Marcial
TAGLE, Ana FERNANDEZ, Maria de
los ANGELES
Origin: CHILE
This years Gay Comedy from Chile by
new talent director : Sebastián Arrau.
LE PACTE
Le Pacte, 5, rue Darcet - 75017 Paris,
France. Tel: 33.1.44.69.59.55. Fax:
33.1.44.69.59.42. email: [email protected]
Sales agent, distributor
At Berlin: Elisabeth Perlié (Head of
International Sales), Nathalie Jeung
(Sales Agent)
Acquisition Executive: Thomas Pibarot
Office: Martin Gropius Bau - Unifrance
booth, Tel: 33.6.60.58.85.33
RICKY
Drama (90 minutes)
Language: French
Director: François Ozon
Writer: François Ozon
Producer: Eurowide Film Production
Key Cast: Alexandra Lamy, Sergi Lopez
Delivery Status: completed - SCREENING
Origin: France
When Katie, an ordinary woman, meets
FEBRUARY 2009
Paco, an ordinary man, something magical and miraculous happens: they fall in
love. Out of their love comes an extraordinary baby: Ricky.
LA BELLE PERSONNE (THE
BEAUTIFUL PERSON)
www.labellepersonne-lefilm.com
Drama, romance (97 minutes)
Language: French
Director: Christophe Honoré
Writer: Christophe Honoré, Gilles
Taurand
Producer: Scarlett Production
Key Cast: Louis Garrel, Léa Seydoux,
Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
Origin: France
Sixteen-year old Junie and her Italian
teacher Nemours fall passionately in
love with each other. But she refuses to
live this passion that she sees as delusory.
YOUNG@HEART
Documentary (108 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Stephen Walker
Producer: Walker George Films
A documentary about the extraordinary
Young@Heart Chorus, a rowdy bunch
of seniors who sing rock songs to ecstatic audiences around the world.
LIGHTNING
ENTERTAINMENT
Lightning Entertainment, 301 Arizona
Ave, Suite #400, Santa Monica, CA
90401 USA. Tel: 1.310.255.1200. Fax:
1.310.255.7998. http://www.lightningent.com, email: [email protected]
At Berlin: Marc Greenberg (CoPresident, Mainline Releasing), Richard
S. Guardian (Co-President, Lightning
Entertainment), Rich Goldberg (CoPresident, Lightning Entertainment),
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Paul Gardner (Co-President, Lightning
Media), Sonia Mehandjiyska (Director,
Office: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Tel:
1.310.770.7472 (Richard S. Guardian
cell)
LA LINEA
Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Director: James Cotten
Writer: R. Ellis Frazier
Co-Production Partners: Project One
Films
Producer: Geoffrey G. Ross, R. Ellis
Frazier
Key Cast: Andy Garcia, Ray Liotta, Esai
Morales
Origin: USA
In a city where violence is the only law,
three men’s lives inevitably collide in
this non-stop ride of twists and turns,
loyalties, and betrayals.
NO-DO (THE BECKONING)
Horror (120 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Elio Quiroga
Writer: Elio Quiroga
Co-Production Partners: Lightning
Entertainment Group & Eqlipse PC SL
Producer: Elio Quiroga
Key Cast: Ana Torrent, Francisco Boira,
Hector Colome
Origin: Spain
When something horrible happens in a
house, something evil, the souls of the
victims remain behind, unable to move
on, reaching out to seek justice.
The unabridged
version of this
FEBRUARY 2009
THE LITTLE FILM
COMPANY
The Little Film Company (sales agent),
12930 Ventura Blvd. #822 Studio City,
CA 91604 USA. Tel: 1.818.762.6999.
www.thelittlefilmcompany.com, Email:
[email protected]/
At Berlin: Robbie Little (Co-President),
Clay Epstein (VP Sales and
Acquisitions)
Office: Ritz Carlton Hotel/Potsdamer
Platz 3
CHERRYBOMB
Director: Lisa Barros D’Sa , Glenn
Leyburn
Cast: Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan,
Kimberley Nixon
Status: Completed/screening
Best friends Luke, and Malachy are
finally ready to enjoy their summer. Yet,
when the stunning Michelle moves to
town unexpectedly, these two best
friends soon become worst enemies.
HELEN
Director: Sandra Nettelbeck
Cast: Ashley Judd, Goran Visnjic,
Lauren Lee Smith
Helen has it all – a beautiful daughter, a
loving husband, a fulfilling career and a
close circle of adoring friends. But when
her world is corroded by depression, the
very center of her being no longer seems
to hold.
I KNOW YOU KNOW
Director: Justin Kerrigan
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Aaron Fuller,
David Bradley
Status: completed/screeing
Jamie’s suspicion that his father Charlie
works for the secret service seems to be
true.
IT MIGHT GET LOUD
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Cast: Jimmy Page, The Edge, Jack
White
Rarely can a film penetrate the glamorous surface of rock legends.
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THE LAST STATION
Director: Michael Hoffman
Cast: Helen Mirren, James McAvoy,
Paul Giamatti, Christopher Plummer
Status: PROD/POST
Valentin, (James McAvoy) is hired by
Russian author Leo Tolstoy to help him
with his struggle to balance fame and
wealth with his commitment to a life
devoid of material things.
SKIN
Director: Anthony Fabian
Cast: Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice
Krige
Sandra Laing entered the world a beautiful baby but no one, not the hospital
staff, her mother, father or neighbours
would admit the obvious.
MADHU
ENTERTAINMENT &
MEDIA PVT. LTD.
Madhu Entertainment & Media Pvt.
Ltd., A/704, Remi Bizcourt, Off Veera
Desai Road, Andheri (W), Mumbai
400053, Maharashtra, India. Tel:
91.22.66957138. Fax: 91.22.66957141.
www.madhuent.com, email: [email protected]
Producer, Distributor
At Berlin: Hirachand Dand (C.O.O.),
Mrudula Dand (President)
1920
For years everyone who has bought the
house and tried to pull it down has died
under strange circumstances. It is like
the house has a will and a life of its own.
Publishing Daily @
Cannes Film Festival
For Marketing Packages go to
http://www.thebusinessoffilm.com/
html/packages_cannes.html
FEBRUARY 2009
STARCAST
Rajnish Duggal, Adah Sharma & Others
Directed By Vikram Bhatt
Produced By Surendra Sharma, Amita
Bishnoi, Bhagwanti Gabrani
Year Of Production: 2008
DASVIDANIYA
Amar is symbolic of all those people
who have always wanted to do things
but kept them on hold.
KHUSHBOO – THE FRAGRAANCE
OF LOVE
A young, ambitious and successful
professional like Raghu needs to go to
Chandigarh before his posting to New
York as his last assignment. For Raghu
career takes top priority in his life.
MAGNET MEDIA
GROUP LLC
Magnet Media Group LLC, 468 N.
Camden Dr. #200 Beverly Hills, CA
90210 USA. Tel: 1.310.860.5157. Fax:
1.818.716.7650. www.magnet-mediagroup.com
Financier
At Berlin: Jeanette Buerling (President),
Maggie Monteith (President)
Acquisition Executive: Jeanette Buerling
(President), Matthew Spain
(Development Executive)
Office: Tel: 1.818.451.8791
13
Language: English
Director: Gela Babluani
Writer: Gela Babluani
Producer: Rick Schwartz, Aaron
Kaufmann, Valerio Morabito
Executive Producer: Jeanette Buerling,
Maggie Monteith, Brian Edwards,
Key Cast: Jason Statham, Mickey
Rourke, Sam Riley, 50 Cent, Ray
Winstone,
Origin: USA
Remake of 13 Tzameti.
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MAGNOLIA
PICTURES
Magnolia Pictures, 49 West 27th Street.
7th Floor New York, New York 10001
USA. Tel: 1.212.924.6701. Fax:
1.212.481.3964. www.magpictures.com,
Distributor
At Berlin: Laird Adamson (Head of
Acquisition Executive: Tom Quinn
(Senior VP of Acquisitions)
Office: Tel: 1.917.601.4771
AMERICAN SWING
Language: English
Director: Jon Hart, Mathew Kaufman
Writer: Jon Hart
Producer: HDNET Films
Origin: USA
Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s
New York City swingers’ nightclub,
Plato’s Retreat.
NOT QUITE HOLYWOOD
www.notquitehollywood.com.au
Language: English
Director: Mark Hartley
Writer: Mark Hartley
Producer: Craig GRIFFIN, Michael
LYNCH
Key Cast: Featuring Quentin Tarantino,
Jamie Lee Curtis and Denis Hopper.
Origin: USA/Australia
A celebration of Australian genre films
of the 70’s and early 80’s, as well as the
undervalued auteurs and actors who
brought them to life in such an explosive
way.
French cell: 336. 32. 50. 63. 33
49 (0) 30 26483-0
FEBRUARY 2009
MANDATE
INTERNATIONAL
Mandate International, 2700 Colorado
Blvd, 2nd Floor, Santa Monica, CA
90404 USA. Tel: 1.310.255.3700. Fax:
1.310.255.3770. www.lionsgatefilms.com
At Berlin: Helen Lee Kim (President,
International), Anne-Marie Ross (Senior
Vice President, International Sales),
Crystal Bourbeau (Director,
International Sales), Wendy Reeds
(International Sales), Michael Meyer
(Vice President, International Business
& Legal Affairs), Brent Jack (Senior
Vice President, International Marketing)
Office: Grand Hyatt Hotel, Maybach
Suite, Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 2, D10785 Berlin. Phone:
49(0)30.2553.4770, Fax:
49(0)30.2553.3720
WARRIOR
Action/Drama
Director: Gavin O’Connor
Writers: Gavin O’Connor and A.M.
Tambakis & Cliff Dorfman
Producers: Gavin O’Connor and Cliff
Dorfman
Status: Pre-Production
U.S. Release: Lionsgate
A story of two estranged brothers whose
pasts collide as they compete in a
mixed-martial arts tournament competing for the love of their father, the
respect of their peers, the survival of
their families and the redemption of
their past.
MORE THAN A GAME
Documentary
Director: Kristopher Belman
Writers: Kristopher Belman and Brad
Hogan
Producers: Harvey Mason Jr. and
Kristopher Belman, Matthew Perniciaro
and Kevin Mann
Cast: LeBron James, Dru Joyce III,
Romeo Travis, Sian Cotton, Willie
McGee, Dru Joyce II
Status: Screening
U.S. Release: Lionsgate
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Five talented young basketball players
from Akron, Ohio star in this remarkable true-life coming of age story about
friendship and loyalty in the face of
great adversity.
MARVISTA
ENTERTAINMENT
MarVista Entertainment, 12519 Venice
Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90066 USA. Tel:
1.310.737.0950. Fax: 1.310.737.9115.
www.marvista.net, email: [email protected]
Television Distribution: World, TV,
DVD-Video
At Berlin: Fernando Szew (CEO),
Michael Jacobs (President), Joseph
Szew (CFO), George Port (EVP),
Vanessa Goglio (SVP International
Sales), Marc Lorber (SVP Production),
Paul Hazen (VP Acquisitions and operations)
Acquisition Executive: Paul Hazen
Office: Office #106, Marriott Berlin
REFLECTIONS
Action/Thriller (1x90 min)
Language: English
Director: Bryan Goeres
Writer: Jay Beattie, Darby Parker
Key Cast: Timothy Hutton, Miguel
Ángel Silvestre
Origin: Spain
Europol Agent Tom Brindle (Academy
Award Winner Timothy Hutton:
Ordinary People) is called to Barcelona,
Spain, to track down the notorious serial
killer known as Pygmalion.
SPECIAL DELIVERY
Thriller (1 x 90 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael Scott
Writer: Matt Dearborn
Key Cast: Lisa Edelstein, Brenda Song,
Robert Gant
Origin: USA
FEBRUARY 2009
A bonded courier transports a bratty
teenager on an international flight, but
realizes a trap has been set up for them
when they reach the U.S.
MEDIA ASIA
DISTRIBUTION
Media Asia Distribution, 24/F
Causeway Bay Plaza II, 463-483
Lockhart Road, Causeway Bay, Hong
Kong. Tel: 852.2314.4248. Fax:
852.2314.4248. www.mediaasia.com,
Email: [email protected]
At Berlin: Frederick Tsui (Senior
Manager - Distribution & Production)
Mobile: 852.9311.8444
Office: Mövenpick Hotel Berlin, Beim
Potsdamer Platz, Schöneberger Strasse
3, D-10963 Berlin. Tel : 49.30.230060.
Fax : 49.30.23006.199
THE SNIPER
Country of origin: Hong Kong
Action (86.5’)
Director: Dante LAM
Producer: Dante LAM, Candy LEUNG
Scriptwriter: Jack NG
Main cast: Richie JEN, HUANG
Xiaoming and Edison CHEN
Status Market screening
Expelled from the force in the wake of a
mission gone tragically wrong, a police
sniper determines to take revenge by
changing over to the other side of the
law.
ACCIDENT
Action Thriller
Director: Soi CHEANG
Producer: Johnnie TO
Scriptwriter: SZETO Kam Yuen
Main cast: Louis KOO and Richie JEN
Status In production
Country of origin: Hong Kong
When a hitman suspects he is being targeted for termination, he must find and
kill his predator against all odds.
CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH (PREVIOUSLY NANKING! NANKING!)
Drama
Director: LU Chuan
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Producer: HAN Sanping, QIN Hong, LU
Chuan
Scriptwriter: LU Chuan
Main cast: LIU Ye, GAO Yuanyuan
Country of origin: China
A tragic human drama unfolds during
the darkest period of Chinese history:
the Nanking Massacre in 1937.
MEDIA LUNA
ENTERTAINMENT
GMBH & CO. KG
Media Luna Entertainment GmbH &
Co. KG, Aachener Strasse 26, 50674
Cologne, Germany. Tel:
49.221.801.4980. Fax: 49.211.
801.49821. http://www.medialuna-entertainment.de/ - email: [email protected]
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Ida Martins (Managing
Director), Stephan Haase (Legal &
Business Affairs), Patra Spanou
(Festival Manager)
Office: MARTIN-GROPIUS-BAU
Stand 28, Tel: 49.172.261 7461
9TO5 - DAYS IN PORN
http://www.medialunaentertainment.de/ICONS/FILMLISTS/9t
o5/002.html
Language: English, German
Director: Jens Hoffmann
Writer: Jens Hoffmann
Producer: Cleonice Comino
Origin: Germany
Filmed over a period of more than a
year, ten different stories unfold, delivering insight into the personal lives of
people in the adult movie business, their
hopes and their dreams.
FINNISH TANGO (FINNISCHER
TANGO)
Black comedy, Drama (90 min)
Language: German
FEBRUARY 2009
Director: Buket Alakus
Writer: Jan Berger, Marcus Hertneck
Producer: Eike Besuden
Key Cast: Christoph Bach, Mira
Bartuschek, Fabian Busch
Origin: Germany
Finnish Tango tells the story of a man,
who - on his quest of finding the easy
way out - discovers his own humanity
MINERVA PICTURES
GROUP
Minerva Pictures Group, via Emilio
Bianchi 54, 00142 Rome, Italy. Tel:
39.06.85358648. Fax: 39.06.8558105.
www.minervapictures.com
At Berlin: Gianluca Curti (President &
CEO), Valentina Mandozzi (Sales
Manager), Francesca Manno (Business
& Legal Affairs)
Office: Martin Gropius Bau, booth 101,
Tel: 39.335.8185371, Fax:
49.30.246.497
RED SUNRISE (IL SOL DELL’AVVENIRE)
Director: Gianfranco Pannone
Writer: Giovanni Fasanella, Gianfranco
Pannone
Origin: Italy
My Life in Ruins - Echo Bridge
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LIFE SENTENCE (FINE PENA
MAI)
Crime Story, Biopic (90 min)
Director: Davide Barletti, Lorenzo
Conte
Writer: Antonio Perrone
Key Cast: Claudio Santamaria,
Valentina Cervi
Origin: Italy/France
A gloomy journey, never told before, of
a different kind of Mafia: the Sacra
Corona Unita (United Sacred Crown).
M!NT
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
M!nt Entertainment, Inc., 9663 Santa
Monica Boulevard - Suite 292 – Beverly
Hills, California, 90210, USA. Tel:
1.310.597.2454.
www.mintworldwide.com, email
[email protected]
At Berlin: Wil Master (President)
Office: Ritz Carleton (SuiteTBD), Tel:
1.310.597.2454
THE LAST RESORT
Horror/ Thriller (75 min)
Language: English
Director: Brandon Nutt
Writer: Nathaniel Bozen, Nathan Oliver,
Martina Papinchak
Producer: Nick Vetere, Brandon Nutt,
Chase Hudson, Forest Robin, Nathan
Oliver, Ryan Reels
Key Cast: America Olivo, Paulie Rojas,
Marissa Tait, Sita Young, Arianne Zuker,
Nick Ballard, Jeremy Glazer, Jamil
Mena, Sandro Del Casale, Ian Patrick
Williams, Dereck Rizk
Origin: USA
A sexy Bachelorette weekend goes awry
FEBRUARY 2009
when the girls are robbed, stranded and
forced to take shelter in a deserted
Mexican resort that is haunted by the
unspeakable atrocities of the past.
Featuring a cast of hot up-and-coming
stars.
MY FARAWAYBRIDE
(MY BOLLYWOODBRIDE)
Language: English
Director: Rajeev Virani
Writer: Brad Listermann, Richard
Martini, Kashmira Shah
Producer:, Duncan Clark, Douglas
Falconer, Brad Listermann, Ashok Rao
Key Cast: Jason Lewis, Kashmira Shah,
Gulshan Grover, Sanjay Suri
A fish out of water, Romantic Comedy
about an American who chases his new
love to India, only to discover that she is
a high-profile celebrity who is in an
arranged engagement to be married!
MIROVISION INC.
Mirovision Inc., 4Fl.Shinyoung
Shinyoung Bldg.,1-128 Simmunno, 2-ga,
Jongro-gu,Seoul,110-062 Korea. Tel:
82.2.3443.2553. Fax: 82.2.3443.4842.
www.mirovision.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales, Producer, Distributor
At Berlin: Jason CHAE(President),
Nicolas Piccato(Director), Junhee
OH(Assistant Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Jason CHAE
(President), Nicolas Piccato(Director),
Jay LEE (Manager)
DEATH BELL
www.mirovision.com
Horror (86 min)
Language: Korean
Director: CHANG
Writer: KIM Eun-kyung, CHANG
Producer: IM Sung-bin
Key Cast: LEE Beom-soo, YOON
Jeong-hee, NAM Gyu-ri, Kim Beom
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Budget: 2.4M $
Origin: Korea
In the middle of class, “for Elise” rings
from the speaker and the TV in classroom shows the top student trapped in
the water rising tank, screaming and
struggling to breathe.
ROMANTIC ISLAND
www.mirovision.com
Romantic Comedy (105min.)
Language: Korean
Director: KANG Chul-woo
Writer: LEE Jung-sub
Producer: LEE Jung-sub, SHIN Hyungchul
Key Cast: LEE Sun-kyun, LEE Sookyung, LEE Min-ki, Eugene
Origin: Korea
Fantastic experiences are everywhere in
the beautiful recreation resort.
MK2
MK2, 55 rue Traversière, 75012 Paris,
France. Tel: 00 33 1.44.67.30.30. Fax:
00 33 1.43.07.29.63. http://mk2catalogue.mk2.com/ - email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent, Producer, and Distributor
At Berlin: Nathanaël Karmitz
(Managing Director), Mathilde Henrot
(Director of Sales), Matthieu Giblin
(International and Sales Executive),
Juliette Schrameck (International and
Sales Executive), Dorothée Pfistner (
Sales and Marketing Executive), JeanFrançois Deveau (Head of Acquisitions)
Office: MARTIN-GROPIUS-BAU
Stand 130
ZION AND HIS BROTHER
www.zion-and-his-brothermovie.mk2.com/
Drama (85 min)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Eran Merav
Writer: Eran Merav
Producer: Marin Karmitz, Nathanaël
Karmitz and Charles Gillibert/ Assaf
FEBRUARY 2009
Amir
Key Cast: Ronit Elkabetz, Reuven
Badalov, Ofer Hayun
Budget: 3M$
Origin: France / Israël
A terrible accident. Zion and his older
brother keep the secret to themselves
until he decides to take responsibility for
his own life.
DIAMOND 13
Thriller
Language: French
Director: Gilles Béat
Writer: Gilles Béat and Olivier Marchal
Producer: Patrick Quinet, Marin
Karmitz, Nathanaël Karmitz and Charles
Gillibert, Claude Waringo
Key Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Asia
Argento, Olivier Marchal
Budget: 9,5M$
Origin: France
Mat’s a night cop in the criminal division. His lifelong friend Franck works in
the drug squad. When Franck takes
things a bit too far, Mat must take matters into his own hands.
Winter Silence - Holland Films
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MONTECRISTO
INTERNATIONAL
ENTERTAINMENT
MonteCristo International
Entertainment, 459 Columbus Avenue
#334 NYC, NY 10024 USA. Tel:
1.917.647.7587. Fax: 1.917.677.8300.
www.MonteCristoEntertainment.com,
email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor,
At Berlin: Michael Taverna
(CEO/President), Cindy Nelson-Mullen
(Sales & Acquisitions Executive), Jiri
Holubec (Distribution)
Acquisition Executive: Cindy NelsonMullen
Office: MGB #15, Tel: 1.917.647.7587,
Fax: 1/917.677.8300.
ZIFT
Crime Noir (92 min)
Language: Bulgarian
Director: Javor Gardev
Writer: Vladislav Todorov
Producer: MIRAMAR FILMS
Co-production partners: Bulgarian
National Film Centre and Bulgarian
National Television
Key Cast: Zachary Baharov, Tanya
Ilieva, Vladimir Penev
Budget: $1.750M
Origin: Bulgaria
Moth is freed on parole after spending
time in prison on a wrongful conviction.
All hell breaks loose as soon as he walks
out of jail. His frantic chase after the
truth draws the map of a diabolical totalitarian city.
THE COFFIN
www.TheCoffin-Movie.com
Supernatural Horror (81 min)
Language: English
Director: Ekachai Uekrongtham
Writer: Ekachai Uekrongtham
Producer: Pantham Thongsang
Co-production partners: Live, Inc.,
NGR, Global Entertainment, Scorpio
FEBRUARY 2009
FEBRUARY 2009
East
Key Cast: Karen Mok, Ananda
Everingham, Napakpapha Nakprasitte
Origin: Thailand
A man and woman are confronted by a
series of paranormal and terrifying incidents after going through the bizarre
death-before-dying ritual.
QUICK GUN MURUGAN
Action/Comedy (97 min)
Language: English & Tamil
Director: Shashanka Ghosh
Writer: Shashanka Ghosh
Producer: Phat Phish Motion Pictures
Key Cast: Rajendra Prasad, Nasser,
Rambha
Budget: $4.5M
Origin: India
Quick Gun Murugan is a south Indian
karmic cowboy whose duty is to protect
vegetarianism and cows from the arch
villain restaurateur who wants to create
the ultimate McDosa chain using beef.
END CALL
New Wave Horror (94 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Kiyoshi Yamamoto
Writer: Kiyoshi Yamamoto
Producer: T.O Entertainment
Co-production partners: The
MonteCristo Fund
Key Cast: Yuria Haga, Shun Kobayashi,
Taro Suwa
Budget: $1.0M
Origin: Japan
A group of high school girls call the
devil to have a wish granted and cannot
end the call until they are dead.
French cell: 336. 32. 50. 63. 33
49 (0) 30 26483-0
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MOONSTONE
ENTERTAINMENT
Moonstone Entertainment, P.O. Box
7400, Studio City, CA 91614 USA. Tel:
1.818.985.3003. Fax: 1.818.985.3009
At Berlin: Mr. Ernst “Etchie” Stroh
(CEO) Int. Mobile: 1.818.239.2934
Office: Staying at the Intercontinental
RAPE: A LOVE STORY (THE
FALLS)
Drama
Director: Harold Becker
Writer: John Mankiewicz
Based on the Novel by: Joyce Carol
Oates
Producer: Michael Mendelsohn, Harold
Becker, Etchie Stroh
Principal Cast: Samuel L. Jackson,
Maria Bello
Status: PRE-PRODUCTION
Cntry of Origin: USA
Teena Maguire should not have tried to
shortcut her way home with her daughter that Fourth of July evening … Not
after midnight … Not through Rocky
Point Park.
FROM A BUICK 8
Sci-Fi / Horror
Director: Tobe Hooper
Writers: Richard Chizmar, Johnathon
Schaech
Producers: Robert Katz, Etchie Stroh,
Mick Garris
Principal Cast: TBA
Status: PRE-PRODUCTION
Cntry of Origin: USA
When a state trooper is killed on the side
of the road, the boy discovers his
father’s dark secret in the barracks’ back
shed. Based on the Stephen King novel.
HOUSE OF BOYS
Drama
Director: Jean-Claude Schlim
Writers: Jean-Claude Schlim, Christian
Thiry
Producers: Bob Bellion, Jimmy de
Brabant
Executive Prod.: Etchie Stroh
Principal Cast: Layke Anderson,
FEBRUARY 2009
Stephen Fry, Udo Kier, Deborah Harry
Music: Performance by “Frankie Goes
to Hollywood”
Status: PRODUCTION
Cntry of Origin: Luxembourg
Set against the exciting world of sex,
dance and music in 1984, “House of
Boys” is the colorful coming-of-age
story of a teenage boy at the beginning
of the AIDS epidemic.
MOVIE AVENUE
INTERNATIONAL
Movie Avenue International, 1675
Broadway 17N-34, New York, NY,
10019, USA. Tel: 1.646.557.4320. Fax:
1.212.265.9371. www.movieavenue.com, email: [email protected]
At Berlin: Lydia Y. Segundo, OfficerSales Agent
Acquisition Executive: Lydia Y.
Segundo
Office: Charlottenstrasse 75, Tel:
1.917.669.1870, Skype: movieavenue1
ONE EYE RED
Comedy Drama (1 x 90 min)
Language: Swedish, Arabic
Director: Daniel Wallentin
Producer: Fredick Wikstrom
Co-production partners: Sonet Films
Key Cast: Youssef Skhairy, Abbe Hasan,
Hassan Brijany
Origin: Sweden
This is a heart warming, clever, challenging, humoristic father and son tale,
dealing with the lifestyle differences
between West and East, with a delightful
music soundtrack.
BAKGAT
Romantic Comedy (1 x 85 min)
Language: Ducth, English
Director: Henk Pretorious
Producer: Danic Bester
Co-production partners: C.A. Van
Asweegen, Lucia Meyer
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Key Cast: Ivan Botha, Cherie Van Der
Merue, Althus Theart
Origin: South Africa
Nerd guy with big ego and conservative
views dumps girl for the rugby league,
but she won’t give up. Hip music soundtrack and videos.
MOVIEHOUSE
ENTERTAINMENT
Moviehouse Entertainment, 11 Denmark
Street, 4th Floor, London WC2H 8LS
UK. Tel: 44.20.7836.5536. Fax:
44.560.2052.002.
www.moviehouseent.com,
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Gary Phillips (Managing
Director/ Head of Sales), Mark Vennis
(Managing Director/ Head of
Acquisitions)
Office: British in Berlin, Stand number
36, Martin Gropius Bau, Niederkirchner
Strasse 7
D-10963, Berlin. Tel:
49(0)30.246.497.410. Fax:
49(0)30.246.497.411
1 2 3 4 - TRAILER AT
HTTP://WWW.1234THEMOVIE.CO.
UK/
THIS IS ROCK N ROLL
Director: Giles Borg
Producer: Simon Kearney
Cast: Ian Bonar, Lyndsey Marshal,
Kieran Bew, Mathew Baynton
Music Drama
Origin: uk
Status: Completed, Screening: Trailer @
EFM Office
Ardent musician Stevie (guitar, vocals)
endures a day-job he despises and can’t
get a girlfriend but… at least he has his
nusic!
SAVE ANGEL HOPE – Trailer at
http://www.saveangelhope.com/
THE FRAUDSTER, THE CON AND
THE HOLY HEIST
FEBRUARY 2009
Director: Lukas Erni
Producer: Terje Gaustad, Chris Kenny
Cast: Billy Boyd, Eva Birthistle, Luke
Mably, Bernard Hill, Alice Evans, Tim
Mcinnery, Erich Vock
Comedy
Origin: UK
Status: Completed, Screening: Trailer @
EFM Office + Feature DVD Screeners
Available Now On Request
Led by an expert con-artist, three crooks
launch a bogus appeal to raise money
for ‘victims’ of a local disaster in the
South Pacific utilising the façade of a
fictitious nun, ‘Angel Hope’, in their
scheme.
MOVING PICTURES
FILM AND
TELEVISION
Moving Pictures Film and Television,
7220 North 16th Street, Suite A100,
Phoenix, AZ 85020 USA. Tel:
1.602.944.0046. Fax: 1.602.944.9946.
www.movingpicturesfilmandtv.com
Sales agent, distributor
At Berlin: Ted Chalmers (VP, Film
Distribution) and Monique Nayard
(Acquistions Consultant)
Office: Suite 272 – 2nd Floor of
Marriott Hotel, Tel: 49(0)30.220001151
SCI-FI HIGH: THE MOVIE MUSICAL
http://www.farheight.com/Home.html
Sci-Fi/Musical (90 minutes)
Director: Dan Bellusci and Steve
Dispensa
Writer: Dan Bellusci and Alec Miniero
Producer: Dan Bellusci and Steve
Dispensa
Co-production partners: Fleanation
Productions and 57 Films
Key Cast: Danny Dillon, Alicen Holden
and Steve Dispensa
Delivery Status: (pre, post, in production
or completed) completed
Budget: $1.2 million
Origin: USA
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It’s your typical 1950s high school
where hip swinging music spontaneously comes to life and terror lurks around
the corner.
THE BLACK KNIGHT RETURNS
Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi
Writer: Carlos Perez
Producer: Ted Chalmers, David Sterling,
Novin Shakiba, Alicia Royce
Co-production partners: Sterling Home
Entertainment
Key Cast: Win De Lugo, Cheryl Texiera,
William A. Majors Jr., Rick Corbett
Delivery Status: Production
Origin: USA
As an evil force rises to threaten the cit,
a young man returns home to take over
the legacy of The Black Knight, a high
tech crime fighter.
MPI MEDIA GROUP
MPI Media Group, 16101 S 108th Ave,
Orland Park, IL 60467 USA. Tel:
1.708.460.0555. Fax: 1.708.873.3177.
www.mpimedia.com, email: [email protected]
Producer
At Berlin: Greg Newman (SVP,
Marketing & Acquisitions), Nicola
Goelzhaeuser (VP, Film Library &
Program Sales), Nicole Mikuzis
(Marketing)
Acquisition Executive: Greg Newman
Office: Marriott #348, Tel:
49.0.30.22000.1136, Fax:
1.708.873.3177
THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL
Horror (93 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Ti West
Writer: Ti West
Producer: Derek Curl, Larry Fessenden,
Josh Braun, Roger Kass, Peter Phok
Co-production partners: Glass Eye Pix
Key Cast: Jocelin Donahue, Greta
Gerwig, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov,
Dee Wallace, AJ Bowen
FEBRUARY 2009
Origin: USA
College student Samantha Hughes takes
on a babysitting job in a remote mansion. As a lunar eclipse darkens the sky,
her employers prepare a horrific ritual
with Samantha at the center. From the
director of Cabin Fever 2.
MULTIVISIONNAIRE
PICTURES
MultiVisionnaire Pictures, 3080 W
Valley Blvd Suite B, Alhambra, CA
91803 USA. Tel: 1.626.737.8357. Fax:
1.626.737.8642.
http://www.MultiVisionnaire.com, email:
[email protected]
At Berlin: Sean Haley (Managing
Partner), Erika Kao-Haley (Managing
Partner)
Office: Marriott Hotel – EFM Stand #,
Tel: 49.176.10238171, Fax:
1.626.737.8642
THE DARK LURKING
http://www.thedarklurkingmovie.com
Sci-Fi Action (96 min)
Language: English
Director: Greg Connors
Writer: Greg Connors
Producer: Stuart Wall
Key Cast: Tonia Renee, Bret Kennedy,
Ozzie Devrish
Origin: Australia
Researchers at an outpost make a critical
error and release an extremely dangerous horde of creatures on the loose after
a doorway of an unspeakable evil has
been open.
GOD’S EARS
http://www.multivisionnaire.com
Romance Drama (110 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael Worth
Writer: Michael Worth
Co-Production Partners: Grizzly Peak
Films, Sixgold Inc.
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Producer: Kassi Crews
Key Cast: Michael Worth, John Saxon,
Margot Farley, Tim Thomerson, Mitzi
Kapture-Donahue
Origin: USA
Noah is a boxer with a tireless opponent: Autism. When he meets Alexia, he
discovers another battle: Love.
MYRIAD PICTURES
Myriad Pictures, 3015 Main St. Suite
400, Santa Monica CA 90405 USA. Tel:
1.310.279.4000. Fax: 1.310.279.4001.
http://www.myriadpictures.com, email:
[email protected]
At Berlin: Kirk D’Amico (President and
CEO), Ariel Veneziano (Senior Sales
Consultant), Elias Axume (VP,
Distribution & Operations), Lisa
Gutberlet (Executive Director of
Distribution)
Office: MGB Stand #31, Tel:
49(0)30.246.497.450
THE CRY OF THE OWL
Thriller (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Jamie Thraves
Writer: Jamie Thraves (based on novel
by Patricia Highsmith)
Producer: Antoine De ClermontTonnerre, Malte Grunert, Julia Sereny,
Jennifer Kawaja
Co-production partners: BBC Films,
Studio Hamburg, MACT Productions,
Sienna Film
Key Cast: Paddy Considine, Julia Stiles
French cell: 336. 32. 50. 63. 33
49 (0) 30 26483-0
FEBRUARY 2009
Origin: USA
A young woman begins a relationship
with her stalker, who may or may not
have committed murder.
NOT FORGOTTEN
http://www.notforgottenmovie.com/
Thriller (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Dror Soref
Writer: Tomás Romero, Dror Soref
Producer: Donald Zuckerman
Co-production partners: Skyline Pictures
and Zuckerman Entertainment
Key Cast: Simon Baker, Paz Vega
Origin: USA
When his daughter is kidnapped, Jack
Bishop revisits his past and seeks the
help of the cult La Santa Muerte to get
her back.
NATIONAL FILM
DEVELOPMENT
CORPORATION
MALAYSIA
(FINAS MALAYSIA)
Kompleks Studio Merdeka, Jalan Hulu
Kelang, 68000 Ampang, Selangor,
Malaysia. Tel:
6.03.41.04.13.00Fax:6.03.41.06.85.09.
www.finas.gov.my, email:
[email protected]
Government agency
At Berlin: Mr. Mohd Mahyidin
Mustakim (Director General), Ms.
Nurhayati Othman (Senior Assistant
Director), Mr. Norman Abdul Halim
(Managing Director), Mr. Abdul Latiff
Mohaideen (Executive Director)
Office: Booth No 104
CHRONICLES OF MERONG
MAHAWANGSA
www.krustudios.com
Historical, Action/Adventure, Martial
Arts (96 mins)
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Language: English
Director: Yusry Abdul Halim
Writer: Amir Hafizi
Producer: Norman Abdul Halim
Key Cast:Stephen Hughes
Budget: $1M – 3M
of Origin: Malaysia
An action-packed epic feature film, with
mythical characters, magical moments
and dazzling visual-effects sequences.
CICAK-MAN
www.cicakman.com
Superhero Action Comedy (107 mins)
Language: Malay with English sub-titles
Director: Yusry Abdul Halim
Writer: Yusry Abdul Halim / Meor
Shariman
Producer: Norman Abdul Halim
Key Cast:Yusry Abdul Halim, Aznil Hj
Nawawi, Saiful Apek
Budget: $650,000
Origin: Malaysia
Revolves around a KLON Technologies
lab assistant Hairi who accidentally gets
his ‘superpowers’, slowly turning into
the reptile-like ‘cicak’ (lizard) and
strives to save the people of Metrofulus
from the evil Professor KLON.
NEW FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
New Films International, 14320 Ventura
Blvd.# 619 Sherman Oaks, CA, 91423
USA. Tel: 1.818.501.2720. Fax:
1.818.501.2780. www.newfilmsint.com,
At Berlin: NESIM HASON (President),
RON GELL (Chief Content Officer),
RITA BAGHDADI (Manager of
Operations and Development), RADU
NICOLAU (President of Eastern Europe
Territories), ANNA GOGACZ (Sales
Rep)
Acquisition Executive: RON GELL
FEBRUARY 2009
(Chief Content Officer)
Office: The Ritz Carlton
DARK MOON RISING
Crime, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Language: English
Director: Dana Mennie
Writer: Dana Mennie
Producer: Dana Mennie, Richard Cueto,
Julie Snider Mennie
Co-production partners: Max Ryan,
Billy Drago, Sid Haig, Chris Mulkey
Key Cast: Max Ryan, Maria Conchita
Alonso, Chris Mulkey, Sid Haig, Ginny
Weirick, Chris Divecchio
Delivery Status: In Postproduction
Origin: USA
Real love and fate collide in a small
town girl’s life.
DON`T FADE AWAY
Drama
Language: English
Director: Luke Kasdan
Writer: Luke Kasdan
Producer: Kirk M. Hallam, Arik Ruchim
Co-production partners: Joe Miale,
Brian Joe, Matt Janes
Key Cast: Mischa Barton, Ryan
Kwanten, Beau Bridges, Ja Rule
Delivery Status: In Postproduction
Origin: USA
When Jackson White came to New York
City to pursue a career in the music
industry, he was so seduced by money
and status that he lost track of who he
was.
RAG TALE
Comedy, Romance (123 min)
Language: English
Director: Mary McGuckian
Writer: Mary McGuckian
Producer: Mary McGuckian, Jeff
Abberley, Tom Reeve
Key Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Rupert
Graves, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bill
Paterson, Lucy Davis, Ian Hart, Sara
Stockbridge
Origin: UK
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At the official weekly editorial meeting
for The Rag, always the same repost:
“Who are we going to get this week?”
And always the same jokes in response
to the predictable roll call of proposals
in the worst possible taste.
FRAME OF MIND
Drama (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Carl T. Evans
Writer: Charles Kipps, Carl T. Evans
Producer: Charles Kipps, Carl T. Evans
Key Cast: Carl T. Evans, Arija Bareikis,
Chris Noth, Tony Lo Bianco,
Barbara Barrie, Don Harvey, Frank Gio,
Noelle Beck, Sharon Angela
Origin: USA
A New Jersey police detective comes
across new evidence in the Kennedy
assassination.
THE MAKING OF PLUS ONE
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Mary McGuckian
Writer: Mary McGuckian
Producer: Jeff Abberley, Martin Katz,
Mary McGuckian
Key Cast: Lothaire Bluteau, Katie
Boland, Geraldine Chaplin, Donna
D’Errico,
Michael Eklund, Pierre Henry, SuzanLori Parks, Amanda Plummer
Origin: Canada, UK
The story of a Hollywood Nobody, set
during the Cannes Film Festival, “The
Making of Plus One” packs a punch and
pokes more than a little fun at the
celebrity obsession fuelling the modern
day film industry.
The unabridged
version of this
FEBRUARY 2009
NORTH BY
NORTHWEST
ENTERTAINMENT
North by Northwest Entertainment, 903
W. Broadway, Spokane, WA 99201 USA.
Tel: 1.509.324.2949. Fax:
1.509.324.2959.
www.nxnwmoviesales.net, email:
[email protected]
At Berlin: Rich Cowan (CEO), Claudia
Roesler (Sales and Administration
Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Claudia Roesler
Office: Marriott Hotel - Booth #111, Tel:
49.179.6377.949
FINDING BLISS
Language: English
Director: Julie Davis
Writer: Julie Davis
Producer: Jeff Rice, Daniel Toll, Richard
Cowan, David Ornston
Co-production partners: Cinamour
Entertainment
Key Cast: Leelee Sobieski, Matt Davis,
Kristen Johnston, Jamie Kennedy
Budget: $3 million
A sexy and lighthearted romantic comedy set in the adult film industry. Finding
Bliss is a hilarious tale about following
your dreams and your heart.
OY VEY! MY SON IS GAY!!
Comedy (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Evgeny Afineevsky
Writer: Evgeny Afineevsky, Martin
Guigui, Joseph Goldman
Producer: Evgeny Afineevsky, Svetlana
Anufrieva, Rich Cowan
Key Cast: Lainie Kazan, Saul Rubinek,
Vincent Pastore
Budget: $3 million
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A romantic comedy about a gay man
coming out to his traditional Jewish parents.
THE LIST
Thriller (108 min)
Language: English
Director: Gary Wheeler
Writer: Michelle Hoppe-Long, Johnston
H. Moore, Robert Whitlow
Producer: Kevin Downes, Gary Wheeler
Key Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Chuck
Carrington, Hilarie Burton, Will Patton
Power comes with a price for a young
attorney who is inducted into an unusual
group called ‘The Covenant List of
South Carolina Ltd.’ after his father’s
death.
NOTRO FILMS S.L
Notro Films S.L, C/ Balmes, 243, atic.
08006 Barcelona. Spain. Tel:
0034.93.2384030. Fax:
0034.93.2384031. www.notrofilms.com
Producer, Distributor in Spain, Sales
Agent
At Berlin: Manuel Monzón (Head of
International Co-productions), David
Mitjans (Head of Acquisitions Notro
Films), Alex Lafuente (Head of
Acquisitions & TV Sales Manga Films),
Angela del Valle (International Sales)
Office:
INSIGNIFICANT THINGS (COSAS
INSIGNIFICANTES)
http://www.cosasinsignificanteslapelicula.com
Drama (98min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Andrea Martínez Crowther
Writer: Andrea Martínez Crowther
Producer: Bertha Navarro, Guillermo del
Toro, Luis de Val
Co-production partners: Adolfo Blanco,
José María Irisarri
Key Cast: Paulina Gaitán, Bárbara Mori,
FEBRUARY 2009
Moon - Independent Film Company
Fernando Luján, Carmelo Gómez, Lucía
Jiménez.
Budget: 2,8 m $
Origin: Mexico, Spain
Esmeralda is a teenager with an unusual
obsession: she collects lost objects. This
film mirrors the most significant human
side through a web of stories linked by
Insignificant Things.
MISSION IN MOCLAND, A SUPERSPACE ADVENTURE (MISIÓN EN
MOCLAND, UNA AVENTURA
SUPERESPACIAL)
www.mocland.com
Animation / Family (98min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Juan Manuel Suárez
Writer: Laura Gamero based on an original idea by Enrique F.Guzmán & Juan
Manuel Suárez
Producer: Enrique F.Guzmán
Budget 2,9 m $
Origin: Spain.
Planet Moc and its inhabitants are in
danger. Their vital energy, Limbar, is
disappearing. Moc Land isn’t just a
funny galactic tale but it’s also an educational and ecological mission.
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NU IMAGE
Nu Image, 6423 Wilshire Blvd. LA, CA,
90048 USA. Tel: 1.310.388.6900. Fax:
1.310.388.6901. www.nuimage.net
Distributor
At Berlin: Danny Dimbort (Partner), Avi
Lerner (Partner), Christian Mercuri
(President International Sales and
Distribution), Jeffrey Giles
(International Sales)
Office: Maritim Hotel Suite 9001
THE EXPENDABLES
Action
Language: English
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Writer: Sylvester Stallone
Key Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Jason
Statham, Jet Li
Delivery Status: Pre Production
Origin: USA
Three international elite mercenaries
unite to strike a massive blow against a
powerful dictatorship in South America.
RIOT
Action
Language: English
Director: John Carpenter
Key Cast: Nicolas Cage
Origin: USA
A death row inmate helps reform a
group of juvenile delinquents in a
Scared Straight program when a largescale riot breaks out.
PRINCE AND ME 4
Family
Language: English
Director: Catherine Cyran
Writer: Blayne Weaver
Key Cast: Kim Heskin, Chris Geere
Origin: USA
When the Kind and Queen of Denmark
are invited to a royal wedding in the far
East, their friendly visit turns into a dangerous search to reclaim a sacred elephant.
FEBRUARY 2009
WOLVESBAYNE
Action
Language: English
Director: Griff Furst
Writer: Leigh Slawner
Key Cast: Jeremy London, Christy
Carlson Romano, Yancy Butler, Mark
Dacascos
Origin: USA
A team of vampire hunters and a newly
transformed werewolf battle a vampire
goddess who intends to plunge the
world into darkness.
QUANTUM APOCALYPSE
Action
Language: English
Director: Justin Jones
Writer: Justin Jones
Key Cast: Rhett Giles, Stuart Lafferty,
Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen, Gigi
Edgley
Origin: USA
A team of scientists and an autistic
savant are on a race against the clock to
save mankind from a deadly space
anomaly.
NZ FILM
NZ Film, Level 3, 119 Ghuznee Street,
Wellington, New Zealand. Tel:
64.4.382.7682. Fax: 64.4.384.9719.
www.nzfilm.co.nz, email:
[email protected]
Sales agent
At Berlin: Kathleen Drumm (Head of
Sales and Marketing)
Office: Marriot Hotel, Office # 330, Tel:
30.22000.1137
THE STRENGTH OF WATER
Language: English
Director: Armagan Ballantyne
Writer: Briar Grace-Smith
Producer: Fiona Copland
Co-production partners: New ZealandGerman co-pro
Key Cast: Jim Moriarty, Nancy
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Brunning And Hato Paparoa
Delivery Status: Completed - screening
in Berlin
Origin: New Zealand
When a mysterious stranger arrives in
their isolated coastal town, 10-year-old
twins, Kimi and Melody are forced
apart. Kimi must find the strength to let
go of what he loves the most.
DEAN SPANLEY
www.deanspanleymovie.com
(99mins 55 secs)
Language: English
Director: Toa Fraser
Writer: Alan Sharp
Producer: Mathew Metcalfe, Alan Harris
Co-production partners: English -New
Zealand co-pro
Key Cast: Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill,
Bryan Brown, Peter O’Toole
Delivery Status: Completed - screening
in market
Origin: New Zealand
The poignant and whimsical tale of a
father and son, and their encounters with
the eccentric Dean Spanley.
ODYSSEY
ENTERTAINMENT
Odyssey Entertainment, 10a James
Street, London WC2E 8BT UK. Tel:
020.7520.5610. Fax: 020.7520.5611.
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Ralph Kamp (Chairman and
CEO), James Scott (VP International
Sales), Libby Darcy (Head Of Legal and
Business Affairs)
Office: The Mandala Hotel GmbH,
Potsdamer Strasse 3, 10785 Berlin, Rm.
501 & 503
Tel: Room 501: +49.30.59.005.1501,
Room 503: +49.30.59.005.1503
WILD TARGET
Comedy
Language: English
FEBRUARY 2009
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Writer: Lucinda Coxon
Producer: Martin Pope, Michael Rose
Key Cast: Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt,
Rupert Grint, Rupert Everett, Martin
Freeman, Gregor Fisher, Eileen Atkins
Delivery Status: In Post Production
Victor is a professional hitman whose
emotions are kept strictly under control.
Until he meets Rose - a beautiful, freewheeling con-artist. And Victor’s latest
target.
IS THERE ANYBODY THERE?
Drama
Language: English
Director: John Crowley
Writer: Peter Harness
Producer: David Heyman Peter Saraf
Marc Turtlebaub
Key Cast: Michael Caine David
Morrissey Bill Milner
Delivery Status: In Post Production
Young Edward meets retired magician
Clarence with a liberating streewak of
anarchy Is There Anybody There ?
The touching story of learning to accept
your destiny.
OVERLOOK
ENTERTAINMENT
Overlook Entertainment, 79 Avenue
Ledru Rollin 72012 Paris, France. Tel:
33.1.40.19.98.20. Fax: 33.1.40.19.98.01.
http://www.overlookentertainment.com,
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Mathieu Robinet (Head of
Sales)
Office: The Ritz-Carlton, Tel:
33.6.50.72.78.03
HUMANS (HUMAINS)
Fantasy Adventure (85min)
Language: French
Director: Jacques Olivier Molon, PierreOlivier Thévenin
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Writer: Dominique Neraud, JeanArmand Bougrelle, Silvan Boris Schmid
Producer: Franck Ribière (La Fabrique
de Films), Vérane Frédiani (La Fabrique
de Films)
Co-production partners: Nicolas Steil Iris Production (Luxembourg), Ruth
Waldburger - Vega Film (Switzerland)
Key Cast: Dominique Pinon, Lorant
Deutsch, Philippe Nahon, Sara Forestier
Budget: 8.0 M US$
Origin: France/Switzerland/Luxembourg
Are we the only humans on Earth?
JENNIFER CAN
Mystery (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Luis Alejandro Berdejo
Writer: Luis Alejandro Berdejo
Producer: Manuel Monzon & Adolfo
Blanco (Notro Films), Iker Monfort
(Monfort Producciones), Adrian Guerra
(Versus Entertainment)
Co-production partners: Franck Ribière
& Vérane Frédiani (La Fabrique de
Films)
Key Cast: Jose Luis Garcia Perez, Paz
Gomez
Budget: 3.5 M US$
Origin: Spain/France
In the vein of DONNIE DARKO and
BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, JENNIFER CAN mixes mystery and beauty
to create a perfect love puzzle…
PEACE ARCH
ENTERTAINMENT
Peace Arch Entertainment, 4640
Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey,
California 90292 USA. Tel:
1.310.776.7200 . Fax: 1.310.823.7147.
www.peacearch.com, email:
[email protected]
At Berlin: Julie Sultan (President,
International Motion Picture Sales)
FEBRUARY 2009
Office: Tel: 310.717.5906 (mobile)
NOBEL SON
www.nobelson.com
Black Comedy (102 min)
Language: English
Director: Randall Miller
Writer: Jody Savin, Randall Miller
Producer: Randall Miller, Jody Savin
Co-production partners: Unclaimed
Freight Productions
Key Cast: Alan Rickman, Bryan
Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy, Mary
Steenburgen, Bill Pullman, Eliza
Dushku, Danny DeVito
Origin: USA
On the eve of accepting the Nobel Prize
for Chemistry, Eli Michaelson refuses to
pay the ransom after his son is kidnapped. A venomous tale of familial
dysfunction, lust, betrayal and ultimately revenge.
WINGED CREATURES
Drama (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Rowan Woods
Writer: Roy Freirich
Producer: Robert Salerno
Co-production partners: Artina Films
Key Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Dakota
Fanning, Guy Pearce, Forest Whitaker,
Jennifer Hudson, Jackie Earle Haley,
Jeanne Tripplehorn, Embeth Davidtz
Origin: USA
Linked together by a life-changing
tragedy, the survivors of a multiple
murder are each left to comprehend their
mortality and redefine their place in
society.
French cell: 336. 32. 50. 63. 33
49 (0) 30 26483-0
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PHOTO-KICKS
CINEMA GROUP
Photo-Kicks Cinema Group, 410 Grand
Cypress Avenue, Suite 203, Palmdale,
CA 93551 USA. Tel: 1.661.609.1598.
Fax: 1.661.947.3505. www.photokicks.com, email: [email protected]
At Berlin: Ken Chamitoff (President),
Marty Poole (Sales Rep)
Office: Marriott Office #264, Tel:
001.661.609.1598 (Ken Chamitoff’s
cell)/+49(0)30.22000.1140 (Marriott
Office number)
THE RED CANVAS
www.redcanvasthemovie.com
Action/Drama (102 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Ken Chamitoff and Adam
Boster
Writer: Ken Chamitoff
Producer: Les Connard
Key Cast: Ernie Reyes, Jr., John Savage,
Maria Conchita Alonso, George Takei,
Ernie Reyes, Sr.
Origin: USA
This is a modern day Rocky but instead
of it involving boxing, it circles around
family drama and the mixed martial arts
world. A very touching and beautifully
shot piece of cinema.
PORCHLIGHT
ENTERTAINMENT
Porchlight Entertainment, 11050 Santa
Monica Blvd., 3rd Floor, Los Angeles,
CA 90025 USA. Tel: 1.310.477.8400.
Fax: 1.310.477.5555.
www.porchlight.com, email:
[email protected]
Distributor
At Berlin: Ken DuBow (President
Worldwide Distribution), JD Beaufils
(VP, Worldwide Sales), Katherine
Kaufman (VP, Worldwide Sales), Jeffrey
Engelen (VP, Worldwide Sales)
FEBRUARY 2009
Acquisition Executive: Ken DuBow
Offices: Martin Gropius Building, Stand
120
FOR SALE BY OWNER
Language: English
Director: Robert Wilson
Writer: Scott Cooper
Producer: Robert Wilson, Scott Cooper
Key Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Skeet
Ulrich, Rachel Nichols, Tom Skerritt
Origin: US
A haunting psychological portrait of a
young man’s quest to reclaim his own
flickering sanity.
KISSING COUSINS
www.kissingcousinsmovie.com
Comedy (98 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Amyn Kaderali
Writer: Amyn Kaderali
Producer: Amyn Kaderali, Manish
Goyal
Key Cast: Nikki McCauley, PJ Byrne,
Rachel Smith, Rebecca Hazlewood,
Samrat Chakrabarti
Origin: USA
Hijinks and hilarity ensue in this charming and “relatively romantic” comedy
about two cousins.
PUSH WORLDWIDE
Push Worldwide, 17941 Ventura Blvd,
Suite 208, Encino, CA 91316 USA. Tel:
1.818.343.8980. Fax: 1.818.343.8962.
www.pushworldwide.com, email:
[email protected]
Distributor
At Berlin: Rob Kerchner
CALLBACK
Dark comedy (97 minutes)
Director: Eric M. Wolfson
Producer: Jason Mandl, Eric M. Wolfson
Cast: Jeff Parise, Michael DeGood,
Johnny Moreno, Kate Orsini and
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Jennifer Hall
Delivery Status: Completed feature
Origin: USA
What do a schizophrenic; a
Shakespearean actor, a reluctant thug
and a director hell bent on revenge have
in common? They’re all working together on the same film.
HIT PARADE
Action/thriller (105 minutes)
Director: Joe Casey
Producer: Joe Casey, Nicholas Lanier
Cast: Jonathan Browning, Scott Brick,
Mariah Robinson
Delivery Status: Completed feature
Origin: USA
Jerome Archer is a retired hit man living
the straight life as a retail bookstore
manager, when he is coerced by a pair
of industrious United States Census
Bureau agents to hunt down a dangerous, young contract killer.
QED
INTERNATIONAL
QED International, 1800 N. Highland
Ave. Suite 500, Los Angeles, CA 90028
USA. Tel: 1.323.785.7900. Fax:
1.323.785.7901
At Berlin: Bill Block (CEO), Kimberly
Fox (EVP of Int Distribution),
Tatyana Joffe (VP of Int Distribution)
Office: Ritz Carlton
W (AKA BUSH)
Language: English
Director: Oliver Stone
Writer: Stanley Weiser
Producers: Moritz Borman, John Kilik,
Bill Block
Cast: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks,
Richard Dreyfuss
Production Status: Completed
Love him or hate him, George W. Bush
is one of the most controversial men in
recent memory. In an unprecedented
undertaking, acclaimed director Oliver
Stone is bringing the life of America’s
43rd President to the big screen as only
he can.
FEBRUARY 2009
DISTRICT 9
Language: English
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Writer: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
Producer: Peter Jackson
Production Status: Post Production
QUANTUM
RELEASING
Quantum Releasing, 209 East Alameda
#203, Burbank, CA 91502 USA. Tel:
1.818.255.9900. Fax: 1.818.255.9903.
www.quantumreleasing.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent/ Distributor
At Berlin: Jamie Thompson (President,
Distribution), Michael Lurie (Executive
Director, International Sales), David
Suarez (Director, International Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Jamie Thompson
(President, Distribution)
Office: Marriott 114, Tel:
1.310.929.7494
ONE EYED MONSTER
Comedy/Horror (84min)
Language: English
Director: Adam Fields
Writer: Adam Fields, Jordan Fields,
Scott Fields
Producer: Adam Fields
Key Cast: Amber Benson, Jason
Graham, Charles Napier, Jeff Denton,
Caleb Mayo, Ron Jeremy
Year of Production: 2008,Country of
A hostile alien wreaks havoc on the cast
and crew of an adult movie.
3 DAYS GONE
http://eagletidefilms.com
Thriller (90min)
Language: English
Director: Scott McCullough
Writer: Charles Wesley, Oliver Coltress
Producer: Charles Wesley, Oliver
Coltress
Key Cast: Christopher Backus, Michelle
Stafford, Patrick j Adams, Sera
Bernstein, Charles Wesley
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Origin: USA
Buried for 3 days alive, Lucas Snow
must now figure out who did this to him
and why.
QUÉBEC FILM
AND TELEVISION
COUNCIL
Québec Film and Television Council,
204 St-Sacrement Street, Suite 500,
Montreal (Québec) Canada, H2Y 1W8.
Tel: 1.514.499.7070 or toll free
1.866.320.3456. Fax: 1.514.499.7018.
www.qftc.ca - email: [email protected]
Film Commission
At Berlin: Hans Fraikin (Québec
Commissioner), Tel: 1.514.772.2601
RAI TRADE
RAI TRADE (Sales), Via Umberto
Novaro 18, 00195 Rome, Italy. Tel:
39.06.374.981. Fax: 39.06.370.1343.
www.raitrade.it - email: [email protected]
At Berlin: Renato Parascandolo
(President), Alba Calia (Vice President),
Carlo Nardello (CEO), Luigi De Siervo
(TV, Home Video and Channel Tv Sales
Director). Sesto Cifola (Head of Cinema
and TV Sales), Catia Rossi
(International Sales Executive)
Office: Marriot Hotel Room N. 273
EX
Comedy
Version: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Fausto Brizzi
Production: IIF-Italian International
Film, Rai Cinema
EX is a romantic comedy set in Rome,
Paris and New Zealand with an ensemble cast playing out multiple, intertwining stories which all revolve around the
theme of finished love affaire.
THE LAST PULCINELLA
Drama (92’)
Version: Italian with English subtitles
FEBRUARY 2009
Director: Maurizio Scaparro
Production: Compagnia Italiana, Faro
Film, Rai Cinema
Michelangelo is forced to leave Neaples
for Paris, when he discovers that his son
has escaped to the outskirts of the
French city after witnessing a mafia
killing.
RIVE GAUCHE
FILMS
Rive Gauche Films, 15442 Ventura
Boulevard, Suite 101, Sherman Oaks,
CA, 91403, USA. Tel: 1.818. 386.1035.
Fax: 1.818.784.9916.
www.rgitv.com/films, email: [email protected]
Distributor
At Berlin: Jon Kramer (Chairman &
CEO)
Acquisition Executive: Jon Kramer
(Chairman & CEO)
Office: 703
AFTER ALICE
Action/Thriller (90 minutes)
Language: English
“I’M BACK”- Two chilling words are
carved on a note left on the latest victim
of a brutal serial killer, “Jabberwocky.”
CLUBHOUSE DETECTIVES
Kids Film (90 minutes)
Language: English
A mischievous boy witnesses his neighbor committing a murder, but nobody
will believe him.
Where God Left His Shoes - Cinemavault
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SAHMONGKOLFILM
INTERNATIONAL
CO.,LTD.
Sahamongkolfilm International Co.,Ltd.,
388 S.P. Building 9th Floor Zone B
Phaholyothin Road Samsen nai
Phayathai Bangkok 10400 Thailand.
Tel: 662.273.0930. Fax: 662.273.0028.
www.sahamongkolfilm.com
At Berlin: Mr. Gilbert Lim (Executive
Vice President), Mr. Pitaya Sithi –
Amnuai (Director of International
Sales), Mr. Panu Aree (Director of
Acquisitions), Mr. Gerald Lim (Director
of Acquisitions), Ms. Rapeepat
Jumnongjit (Sales Executive)
Office: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Stand #:
G7, Tel: 49.30.246.497 452
ONG BAK 2
http://www.ongbak2themovie.com/
Action (110 Minutes)
Language: Thai
Director: Tony Jaa
Writer: Pisut Praesangaem
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Key Cast: Tony Jaa , Sorapong Chatree,
Dan Chupong
Budget: 15 M
Origin: Thailand
The long awaited next project of actionsuper star, Tony Jaa. Ong Bak2 promises
to push the boundaries of martial arts
with fast paced action and superb fight
sequences.
THE HAPPINESS OF KATI
http://www.katimovie.com/
Drama/Children (101 Minutes)
Language: Thai
Director: Genwaii Thongdeenok
Writer: Ngarmpun Jane Vejjajiva
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Key Cast: Khemupsorn Sirisukha,
Krissada Sukosol Clapp, Patsorn
Kongmeesuk
Budget: 5 M
FEBRUARY 2009
Origin: Thailand
The film tells a story of Kati, a nineyear-old girl whose mother is suffering
from an incurable illness.
SCREEN MEDIA
VENTURES
Screen Media Ventures, 757 3rd Avenue
New York, NY, 10017, USA. Tel:
1.212.308.1790. Fax: 1.212.308.1791.
http://www.screenmedia.net
Distributor
At Berlin: Almira Malyshev (Senior
Vice President, International Sales),
Michael Dwyer (Vice President,
International Sales and Acquisitions),
Suzanne Blech (Senior Vice President,
Sales and Acquisitions; Screen Media
Films)
Acquisition Executives: Michael Dwyer
(Vice President, International Sales and
Acquisitions), Suzanne Blech (Senior
Vice President, Sales and Acquisitions;
Screen Media Films)
Office: Marriot Suite 340, Tel:
49(0)30.22000-1147
AMERICAN AFFAIR, AN
Drama (93min.)
Language: English
Director: William Olsson
Writer: Alex Metcalf
Producer: Kevin Leydon
Key Cast: Gretchen Mol, Noah Wyle,
James Rebhon, Cameron Bright, Perry
Reeves, Mark Pellegrino
Origin: USA
Set against the backdrop of the JFK
presidency, when a young boy becomes
infatuated with the beautiful neighbor
that’s having an affair with the
President, he becomes a pawn in a deadly game of deceit and betrayal.
LAKE CITY
Drama (92 min.)
Language: English
Director: Perry Moore and Hunter Hill
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Writer: Hunter Hill and Perry Moore
Producer: Donna L. Bascom, Sally
Pope, Mike S. Ryan and Allison Sarofim
Key Cast: Sissy Spacek, Rebecca
Romijn, David Matthews and Troy
Garity
Origin: USA
In this searing Southern drama, a mother
and son reunite under desperate circumstances years after a family tragedy
drove them far apart.
SEVEN ARTS
PICTURES
Seven Arts Pictures, 38 Hertford Street,
London, W1J 7SG, UK. Tel:
44.203.006.8222. Fax:
44.203.006.8220.
www.7artspictures.com, email:
[email protected]
At Berlin: Kate Hoffman (COO), Eric
Min (VP Distribution)
Acquisition Executive: Kate Hoffman
Office: The Ritz Hotel Executive
Lounge, Tel: 44.7917.186.853
THE POOL BOYS
(AMERICAN SUMMER)
Comedy (20 x 30 min)
Language: English
Director: J.B. Rogers
Writer: O.S. by Julie O’Hara, Rev. by
Justin Ware
Producer: Warren Zide
Key Cast: Mathew Lillard, Efren
Ramirez, Tom Arnold, Rachelle Lefevre,
Brett Davern
Budget: $15M
A surprisingly smart comedy that tells
the story of Alex Sperling, Harvardbound valedictorian, who loses his summer internship and heads to LA to work
for his charming and seemingly successful cousin Roger.
AUTOPSY
www.horrorfestonline.com
Horror (86 min)
FEBRUARY 2009
Language: English
Director: Adam Gierasch
Writer: Adam Gierasch, Jace Anderson
Producer: Warren Zide, Jessica
Horowitz, Evan Katz
Co-production partners: After Dark
Key Cast: Robert Patrick, Jessica
Lowndes, Ross McCall, Ross Kohn,
Ashley Schneider
Budget: $10M
Origin: USA
A car accident after Mardis Gras, leaves
5 friends stranded on a lonely Louisiana
highway. An ambulance arrives to take
them to Mercy Hospital, but no mercy
will be found there…
NINE MILES DOWN
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Anthony Waller
Writer: Anthony Waller
Producer: Thomas Hedman. Anthony
Waller
Key Cast: Adrian Paul, Kate Nauta
Budget: $17M
Origin: USA
Jack, a security patrolman investigates a
drilling station in the Sahara Desert after
all contact is lost with the international
scientific research team assigned to the
station.
CATWALK
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Anthony Hickox
Writer: Peter Atkins, Anthony Hickox
Producer: Julia Verdin
Key Cast: Julie Ordon, Danny Dyer,
Kevin McKidd
Budget: $12M
Origin: USA
As a fourth supermodel falls victim to a
crazed, brutal killer, the city is gripped
by horror, speculation and fear.
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SHOCHIKU CO., LTD
Shochiku Co., Ltd, 4-1-1 Tsukiji, Togeki
Bldg, 13th Floor, Chou-ku, Tokyo 1048422 Japan. Tel: 81.3.5550.1623. Fax:
81.3.5550.1654.
www.shochikufilms.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent, Distributor
At Berlin: Satoko ISHIDA(Sales
Executive), Chiyo MORI (Sales
Executive)
Acquisition Executive: Kazunori
MORIGUCHI, Meri KOYAMA
Office: Martin-Gropius-Bau Stand# 127,
Tel: 49.30.246.497.454. Fax:
49.30.246.497.455
KAMOGAWA HORUMO-BATTLE
LEAGUE IN KYOTO
http://www.shochikufilms.com/film/deta
il.php?product_code=707
Fantasy/Action/Game (113min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Katsuhide Motoki
Writer: Maruo Kyozuka
Key Cast: Takayuki Yamada, Chiaki
Kuriyama, Sei Ashina
Origin: Japan
A big hit fantasy novel by Manabu
Makime has finally been adapted into a
combat action comedy film with top
VFX technology by GONZO.
SENGOKU BASARA – SAMURAI
KINGS
Samurai Action (22 min ? 13)
Language: Japanese
Director: Itsuro Kawasaki
Origin: Japan
The extremely popular Sengoku Action
Video Game Series produced by CAPCOM.
KAMUI (WORKING TITLE)
Action / Ninja
FEBRUARY 2009
Language: Japanese
Director: Yoichi Sai
Writer: Kankuro Kudo
Key Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama, Koyuki,
Suzuka Ohgo
Budget: $15M
Origin: Japan
A high concepted US$15M ninja action
film, like you have never experienced.
SHORELINE
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
Shoreline Entertainment, Inc., 1875
Century Park East, Ste. 600, Los
Angeles, 90067 CA USA. Tel:
1.310.551.2060. Fax 1.702.974.0707.
www.slefilms.com, e-mail: [email protected]
At Berlin: Morris Ruskin (CEO /
Producer), Sam Eigen (Director of
Distribution), Brian Sweet (Director of
Sales)
Office: Ritz Carlton, Suite 437, Market
Mobile: 1.702.524.3114. Fax:
1.702.974.0707
HIGH LIFE
Heist
Language: English
Director: Gary Yates
Writer: Gary Yates
Producer: Robin Cass
Co-Producer: Morris Ruskin
Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Stephen
McIntyre, Rossif Sutherland, and Joe
Anderson
Status: Completed
Origin: Canada
Dick and his pals have been botching
jobs and racking up prison time for
years, but enough is enough and Dick’s
got the perfect plan for one last heist.
SPRING 1941
Drama (97 min)
Language: English
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Director(s): Uri Barbash
Writer: Motti Lerner
Producer(s): Eveyatar Dotan and Ewa
Puszczynska
Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Clare Higgins,
and Neve McIntosh
Status: Completed
Origin: Israel/Poland
During the Nazi storming of Poland,
successful doctor Artur Planck, his wife
Clara and two daughters seek shelter at
a safe house out on the farm of their
grocer Emilia.
EDISON & LEO
Claymation (79min)
Language: English
Director: Neil Burns
Writer: George Toles and Daegan
Fryklind
Producer: David Valleau, Dean English,
and Karen Powell
Cast: Powers Boothe, Carly Pope, Ben
Cotton, Jay Brazeau, and Gregory Smith
Status: Completed
Origin: Canada
SHOWBOX /
MEDIAPLEX,
INC.
Showbox / Mediaplex, Inc., 16F Hansol
Bldg, 736-1 Yeoksam-dong, Gangnamgu, Seoul, Korea 135-983. Tel:
82.2.3218.5649. Fax: 82.2.3444.6688.
www.showbox.co.kr, e-mail
[email protected]
Sales Agent, Distributor, Investor
At Berlin: Judy AHN (Head of Int’l
Business – Sales & Acquisition), Soojin
JUNG (Senior Manager – Sales), Sonya
KIM (Manager – Festival), June LEE
(Acquisition)
Office: Berlin Marriott Hotel, #246, Tel:
49 30 22000 - 1148 (Marriott)
BREATHLESS
Drama (130min)
Language: Korean (English Subtitled)
Director: YANG Ik-june
Writer: YANG Ik-june
Producer: JANG Sun-jin
Key Cast: YANG Ik-june, KIM Kkobbi
Origin: Korea
After witnessing the deaths of his mother and sister as a child, Sang-hoon grew
up with rage and hatred towards his
father who was responsible for their
deaths.
THE POT
Horror, Drama (115min)
Language: Korean (English Subtitled)
Director: KIM Tae-gon
Writer: KIM Tae-gon
Producer: PARK Moo-seung, JEON
Phil-do
Co-production partners: KM Culture,
Graduate School of Advanced Imaging
Science, Chung-Ang University
Key Cast: LIM Hyung-guk, YANG Eunyong
Origin: Korea
Married couple Hyung-guk and Youngae move into a downtown apartment
they inherited from Hyung-guk’s mother’s after her death. Even though they
seem happy, they get involved in a
series of strange situations.
Percussions - Goldcrest Films
FEBRUARY 2009
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SHOWCASE
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
Showcase Entertainment, Inc., 21800
Oxnard Street – Suite 150, Woodland
Hills, CA 91367 USA. Tel:
1.818.715.7005. Fax: 1.818.715.7009.
www.showcaseentertainment.com
Distributor
At Berlin: David Jackson (President),
Bruce Livingston (CFO), Scott Bedno
(Director of International Sales)
Office: Martin-Gropius – Stand #16
CREATURE OF DARKNESS
Horror
Language: English
Director: Mark Stouffer
Writer: Mark Stouffer
Producer: Mark Stouffer
Key Cast: Devon Sawa Sanoe Lake
Matthew Lawrence
Origin: U.S.A.
“Creature of Darkness” follows a group
of friends on a weekend adventure who
come across “The Catcher,” a skilled
and brutal collector of human specimens
for alien science. What will you do
when The Catcher catches you?
LITTLE HERCULES IN 3D
Family Adventure
Language: English
Director: Mohamed Khashoggi
Producer: Marco Garcia and Chad
Presnell
Key Cast: Elliott Gould Robin Givens
John Heard Judd Nelson Richard
Sandrack Terry “Hulk” Hogan
Origin: U.S.A.
The adventures of Hercules as a young
boy on Earth in spectacular 3-D!
Product Listings
[email protected]
FEBRUARY 2009
SIMPLY CINEMA
Simply Cinema, International Film
Sales, Barrandov Film Studios,
Krizeneckého nám. 322, 152 00 Prague
5, Czech Republic. Tel:
420.267.073.518. Fax: 420.267.073.516.
www.simplycinema.cz, [email protected]
At Berlin: Zuzana Bielikova (Int´l Sales
Executive)
Office: Media Desk Umbrella stand #
23, Mobile: 420.737.722.274
ENGLISH STRAWBERRIES
Romantic drama
Language: Czech & Russian
Director: Vladimir Drha
Writer: Martin Safranek
Producers: David Prudky, Pavel
Melounek
Production Company: First Film
Leading Cast: Viktor Preiss, Pavla
Tomicova, Nina Diviskova, Ivan
Luptak, Alexej Bardukov, Marie
Stipkova, Richard Zevel
Status: Completed
Production Country: Czech Republic
An absurd romantic tale about a young
virgin, his pregnant girlfriend and how
the 1968 Soviet occupation of
Czechoslovakia destroyed the country’s
chance for democracy.
VACLAV
Drama Comedy
Language: Czech, Subtitles: English
Director: Jiri Vejdelek
Writer: Marek Epstein
Producer: Jaroslav Boucek
Production Company: BUC-FILM
Leading Cast: Ivan Trojan, Emilia
Vasaryova, Jan Budar
Status: Completed
An involving drama of a mother’s love,
a brother’s hate and the secrets of a
father. Semi-autistic Vaclav’s tragic
journey from village fool to jailed criminal. Based on a true story of one of
President Havel’s vast amnesties.
T.M.A.
Psychological Horror
Language: Czech
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Director: Juraj Herz
Writer: Martin Nemec
Producer: Roman Synek, Dana Synkova
Production Company: Gatteo, a.s.
Leading Cast: Ivan Franek, Lenka
Krobotova, Malgorzata Kuchowska,
Michal Dlouhy, Andy Hryc, Zuzana
Kronerova, Borik Prochazka, Jakub
Smid
Status: in Production
Psychological horror story set in an old
abandoned house.
SOBINI FILMS
Sobini Films, 4553 Glencoe Ave, Suite
230, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 USA.
Tel: 1.310.581.7305. www.sobini.com,
Producer, Sales Agent
At Berlin: Todd Olsson (Vice President
International)
Office: Ritz Carlton – Suite 409, Cell:
(Todd Olsson) 1.310.689.6826
GARDENS OF THE NIGHT
Director: Damian Harris (Mercy, Bad
Company, Deceived)
Principal Cast: Gillian Jacobs, Evan
Ross, Tom Arnold, John Malkovich,
Jeremy Sisto, Kevin Zegers
Status: Completed
A 17 year old girl, abducted and brainwashed as a child, struggles to hold on
to her innocence and humanity.
BURNING BRIGHT
Director: Carlos Brooks (Quid Pro Quo
- Sundance 2008)
Principal Cast: Briana Evigan (STEP UP
2, SAMANTHA DARKO), Charlie
Tahan (I AM LEGEND, NIGHTS IN
RODANTHE)
Status: Post Production, Promo in booth
Trapped in a house with a ravenous tiger
during a hurricane, a young woman
must decide whether to sacrifice her
autistic younger brother to save her own
life.
FEBRUARY 2009
SPOTLIGHT
PICTURES
Spotlight Pictures, 6671 W. Sunset Blvd.
#1591 Hollywood, CA 90028 USA. Tel:
1.323.871.2551. Fax: 1.323.871.2554.
www.spotlight-pictures.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Jack Campbell (President of
international), Ryan McCombs (VP of
Acquisitions)
Office: 206 Marriott, Tel:
49.30.259.20.206
AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
www.spotlight-pictures.com
Language: English
Director: Dan Stone
Producer: Craig Stone
Origin: USA
Chronicles the controversial Sea
Shepherd Antarctic campaign against a
Japanese whaling fleet.
AUTUMN
Horror (109 min)
Language: English
Director: Steven Rumbelow
Writer: David Moody, Steve Rumbelow
Producer: Anton Brejak
Key Cast: Dexter Fletcher, David
Carradine
Origin: Canada
Based on the cult novel by David
Moody.
BLACK CRESCENT MOON
Thriller (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Adam Pertofsky
Writer: Adam Pertofsky, Dexton
Deboree
Producer: Peter Baxter
Key Cast: William Atherton, Gil
Bellows
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Origin: USA
A small town sheriff who’s investigating
a murder at the local diner ends up finding more than he bargained for in the
town and himself.
SVENSK
FILMINDUSTRI, AB
Svensk Filmindustri, AB, Greta
Garbosväg 11-13, 16986 Stockholm,
Sweden. Tel: 4686803500. Fax:
4686803783. www.sfinternational.se,
At Berlin: Ann-Kristin Westerberg (Sr.
Vice President Head of Int’l Div), Karin
Thun (International Sales Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Robert Enmark
(Sr. Vice President Head of Acquisition)
Office: Scandinavian Films 24, MartinGropius-Bau, Tel: 46705384848
MAMMA MOO & CROW (MAMMA
MU & KRÅKAN)
www.sfinternational.se/mammamoothemovie
Children Animation (78 min)
Language: Swedish
Director: Igor Veyshtagin
Writer: Jujja Wieslander
Producer: Johanna Bergenstråhle &
Mattias Johansson
Co-production partners: Telepool,
Studio Baestarts, Film i Väst and SVT
Key Cast: Swedish voices: Mamma
Moo - Rachel Mohlin and Crow - Johan
Ulveson
Origin: Sweden
Mamma Moo wants to learn everything.
How to climb a tree, ride a bicycle,
swing, or build a tree house. Although
Crow has never met such a stubborn
cow, he has to admit that it’s always fun
to hang around Mamma Moo.
THE PRESENT (THE GIFT,
GAVEN)
www.sfinternational.se
Drama (90 min)
Language: Danish
Director: Niels Gråbøl
Writer: Niels Gråbøl, Rasmus Botoft
Producer: Tju-Bang Film A/S Sigrid
Helene Dyekjær
Key Cast: Henning Jensen, Jakob
Cedergren, Paw Henriksen, Ulf
Pilgaard, Karen-Lise Mynster
Origin: Denmark
Perhaps because Jens has inherited a lit-
Horumostill - Shochiku Films
FEBRUARY 2009
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tle of his father’s runaway imagination,
and is incidentally suffering from a
hangover, he takes pity on his father and
together they go to fetch the red sports
car Mogens claims to have bought as a
present.
TARGET
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP
Target Entertainment Group, 2nd Floor,
Garfield House, 86-88 Edgware Road,
London W2 2EA United Kingdom.
Tel/Fax: 44.870.164.7474. www.targetentertainmentgroup.com, E-mail:
[email protected]
At Berlin: Penny Wolf (Theatrical
Sales), February 5th-10th, M:
+44.77.7592.3750, Jana Kralikova
(Theatrical Marketing), February 5th10th, M: +44.77.8618.2168
Office: Marriott Hotel, #272 (2nd floor),
Tel: 49(0)30.22000.1151
ENDGAME
Premiere Market Screening
Political Thriller (109 min)
Language: English
Director: Pete Travis
Producer: Hal Vogel, David Aukin
Writer: Paula Milne (based on Robert
Harvey’s novel ‘End of Apartheid’)
Status: Completed
Production Country: United Kingdom
Leading Cast: William Hurt, Chiwetel
Ejiofor, Jonny Lee Miller, Mark Strong
A gripping and sophisticated political
The unabridged
version of this
FEBRUARY 2009
thriller in which a British businessman
initiates secret talks between the outlawed, terrorist-labelled ANC and white
intellectuals to try and find a peaceful
solution to the brutal conflict in South
Africa. A deadly behind-the-scenes
game of cat and mouse ensues.
TASKOVSKI FILMS
LTD.
Taskovski Films Ltd., 4B Wentworth
Street, London E1 7TF, UK. Tel:
420.731.164.079. Fax: 420.272.762.907.
www.taskovskifilms.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent, Producer, Financier
At Berlin: Irena Taskovski (Managing
Director), Jarmila Outratova (Sales
Executive)
Office: Czech Stand, Irena Taskovski,
Managing director: +420.731.164.079,
Jarmila Outratova, Sales:
+420.776.066.165
RENE
www.taskovskifilms.com/films.htm
Documentary (83+55 min)
Language: Czech
Director: Helena Trestikova
Producer: Negativ s.r.o.
Origin: Czech Republic
The luckless fate of René over a period
of twenty years as he yo-yos between
prison and freedom. His life unfolds
against important political events in the
Czech Republic and beyond its borders.
BAHRTALO! (GOOD LUCK!)
http://www.inforgstudio.hu/
Docudrama (80+60 min)
Language: Hungarian
Director: Robert Lakatos
Producer: Inforg Studio
Origin: Hungary, Austria, Germany
An original fiction documentary of a
pair of Hungarians on their getting rich
quest across Europe.
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TELEPOOL GMBH
Telepool GmbH, Sonnenstr. 21, Munich,
Bavaria, 80331, Germany. Tel:
0049.89.55876.0. Fax: 0049.
89.55876.229. www.telepool.de, email:
[email protected]
Distributor
At Berlin: Dr. Thomas Weymar (CEO),
Irina Ignatiew (EVP International),
André Druskeit (Deputy Managing
Director, Head of Business).
Acquisition Executive: Yoko HiguchiZitzmann, Thomas Sierk, Silke
Wilfinger, Julia Müntefering
Office: Hyatt Hotel / Suite 220, Tel.:
49(0)30.25534270. Fax:
49(0)30.2553.3220
LILLY THE WITCH – THE DRAGON AND THE MAGIC BOOK
Family Entertainment (88 min.)
Language: German
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Writer: Armin Toerkell, Ralph Martin,
Stefan Ruzowitzky
Producer: blue eyes Fiction (Corinna
Mehner, Martin Husmann), Trixter
Productions (Michael Coldewey),
Babelsberg Film GmbH, Germany, Dr.
Carl L. Woebcken, Henning Molfenter,
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures,
Germany - Thomas Menne, Classic
SRL, Italy - Amedeo Pagani, Dor Film
Produktionsgesellschaft GmbH, Austria
- Danny Krausz
Steinweg Emotion Pictures S.L. Spain Julia Steinweg, Walt Disney Motion
Pictures, Spain
Key Cast: Alina Freund, Anja Kling,
Ingo Naujoks, Pilar Bardem, Sami
Herzog, Yvonne Catterfeld, Michael
Mittermeier (Hectors Voice)
Budget: 12 Mio $
Origin: Germany
Little LILLY is apprenticed to become
the successor of Surulunda the Witch.
During her training she encounters
many adventures with Hector, the clumsy dragon.
DR. ALEMÁN
FEBRUARY 2009
http://www.dr-aleman.com/
Drama / Adventure (106 min.)
Language: Spanish
Director: Tom Schreiber
Writer: Oliver Keidel, Tom Schreiber
Producer: Harry Flöter, Jörg Siepmann,
Arne Ludwig
Key Cast: August Diehl, Marleyda Soto,
Hernán Méndez, Victor Villegas
Budget: 2.7 Mio $
of Origin: Germany
What was supposed to be an internship
at the Cali Hospital for German medical
student Marc, suddenly becomes a lifethreatening adventure.
TF1
INTERNATIONAL
TF1 International, Immeuble Central
Park – 9 rue Maurice Mallet 92130 Issy
les Moulineaux, France. Tel:
33.1.41.41.21.68. Fax: 33.1.41.41.21.33.
www.tf1international.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Nicolas ESCHBACH (EVP
International Distribution), Henri
ERNST (Head of Marketing), Dimitri
STEPHANIDES (VP International
Sales), Gregory CHAMBET
(International Sales Manager), Cristina
BATLLE (International Sales), Coralie
CHAVE (SVP International Sales)
Acquisition Executives: Sara May (EVP
Acquisitions), Thierry Decourcelle (SVP
Acquisitions)
Office: Stand 119, Tel:
49.0.30.246.497.461, Fax:
49.0.30.246.497.462
BELLAMY
www.tf1international.com
Thriller (110 min)
Language: French
Director: Claude Chabrol
Writer: Claude Chabrol & Odile Barski
Producer: Patrick Godeau (Aliceleo)
Key Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Jacques
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Gamblin, Marie Bunel
Delivery Status: Completed – Spring
2009 - Budget: $
Origin: France
For the first time, Claude Chabrol joins
forces with Gerard Depardieu in a suspenseful and original psychological
thriller.
IN THE ELECTRIC MIST
www.tf1international.com
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Producer: Michael Fitzgerald- Ithaca
Pictures Inc, Frédéric Bourboulon- Little
Bear Productions
Co-production partners: TF1
International
Key Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, John
Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard
Origin: Usa, France
The new gripping thriller in English by
Bertrand Tavernier based on James Lee
Burke’s best seller « In the electric mist
with confederate dead ».
TOEI COMPANY,
LTD.
Toei Company, Ltd., 2-17, 3-chome,
Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-8108
Japan. Tel: 81.3.3535.7621. Fax:
81.3.3535.7622. http://www.toei.co.jp/
- email: [email protected]
At Berlin: Tadayuki OKUBO (Manager,
International Sales), Shiori TAKATA
(Asst. Manager, International Sales)
Office: Japan Booth
THE SHONEN MERIKENSACK
http://www.meriken-movie.jp/
Comedy/Drama (125 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Kankuro KUDO
Key Cast: Aoi MIYAZAKI, Koichi
SATO
FEBRUARY 2009
Country of Origin: Japan
The theme is Punk Rock!! It’s a nonstop entertainment about an office lady
vs. dirty-old-men rock band.
MT. TSURUGIDAKE
http://www.tsurugidake.jp/
Drama (140 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Daisaku KIMURA
Key Cast: Tadanobu ASANO, Teruyuki
KAGAWA, Ryuhei MATSUDA, Aoi
MIYAZAKI, Toru NAKAMURA
Origin: Japan
A true story of men who risked their
lives to reach the peak of Mt.
Tsurugidake to compile a map of Japan.
TRUSTNORDISK
TrustNordisk, Filmbyen 12,Hvidovre,
2650, Denmark. Tel: 0045.36868788.
Fax: 0045.36774448. www.trustnordisk.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Rikke Ennis(CEO), Susan
Wendt (Head of Sales) Nicolai
Korsgaard (Sales manager) MarieLouise Rasmussen (Sales executive)
Tine Klint (Head of Projects & Business
Development)
Office: Tel: 45.29456758
MAMMOTH
Drama (120 min)
Language: English, Thai and Tagalog
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Writer: Lukas Moodysson
Producer: Lars Jönsson
Key Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Michelle
Williams, Marife Necesito, Sophie
Nyweide, Run Srinikornchot, Tom
McCarthy, Jan Nicado, Martin Delos
Santos
Budget: 12 mill. USD
Origin: Sweden
Tom and Ellen live with their 8-year old
daughter and their Filipino nanny in
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New York. On a business trip to
Thailand, Tom realizes that he wants to
change his life. His decision sets in
motion a dramatic chain of events.
STORM (WORKING TITLE)
www.trustnordisk.com
Drama (100 min)
Language: English, German, Bosnian,
Serbian
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid
Writer: Bernd Lange, Hans-Christian
Schmid
Producer: Britta Knöller, Hans-Christian
Schmid
Co-production partners: Maria Köpf,
Marie Gade, Bettina Brokemper,
Frans van Gestel, Jeroen Beker
Key Cast: Kerry Fox, Anamaria
Marinca, Stephen Dillane, Rolf
Lassgård, Alexander Fehling, Kre∂imir
Mikiã, Tarik Filipoviã, Bent Mejding,
Jesper Christensen
Budget: 10,1 m $
Origin: Germany, Denmark, Netherlands
Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor at The
Tribunal in The Hague manages to convince a young Bosnian woman to testify
against an war criminal. Opponents not
only sit on the dock across from her, but
are also found in her own ranks.
UBU PRODUCTIONS
UBU Productions, P.O. Box 40 19 65,
Munich, D-80719 Germany. Tel:
49.160.928.150.21. Fax: 49.89.478.231.
At Berlin: Mr. Jean Uliczay (President,
Producer, Exec. Prod.), Ms Alice
Kanterian (Acquisitions), Ms Rita
Collin-Gorenstein (Film Marketing)
Office: MEDIA The Marketplace Stand
Nr. 23, Tel: 30.854.700.470. Fax:
30.854.700.472
DRACULA`S HELLS ANGELS
Horror Comedy (90 min)
Language: English, German, French
Director: Jean Kail
Co-Production Partners: Transsylvania
FEBRUARY 2009
Film Productions / UBU Productions
Producer: Jean Uliczay
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: 3,000,000.- US$
Year of Production: end 2008, Country
of Origin: Romania, GB
The angels of hell supports Dracula in
his daily work and business...
UGC
INTERNATIONAL
UGC International, 24 avenue Charles
de Gaulle / Neuilly sur Seine 92200 /
France. Tel: 33.1.46.40.46.42. Fax:
33.1.46.37.73.21. email: [email protected]
Sales agent
At Berlin: Said Ben Said (President),
Romain Setrouk (Head of Sales),
Adeline Falampin (Sales Executive),
Clhoé Cremont (Technical Manager)
Office:
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN (LA
FILLE DU RER)
Drama (105 min)
Language: french
Director: André Téchiné
Writer: André Téchiné, Odile Barski,
Jean-Marie Besset
Producer: Said Ben Said, SBS FILMS
Key Cast: Michel Blanc, Catherine
Deneuve, Emilie Dequenne, Mathieu
Demy, Ronit Elkabetz, Nocilas
Duvauchelle
Origin: France
One day when reading an ad on the
internet, Louise believes that destiny has
finally knocked at her door.
SECRETS OF STATE (SECRET
DEFENSE)
Spy movie (100 min)
Language: FRENCH
Director: philippe haim
Producer: Yves Marmion, UGC YM
Key Cast: GERARD LANVIN, VAHINA GIOCANTE, NICOLAS
DUVAUCHELLE, Rachida Brakni,
Simon Abkarian
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Year of Production 2008,
Country of Origin: France
UNIFIED PICTURES
Unified Pictures, Unified Pictures:
19773 Bahama St., Northridge, CA
91324 USA. Tel: 1.818.576.1006. Fax:
1.818.534.3347.
www.unifiedpictures.com, email:
[email protected]
At Berlin: Keith Kjarval (President),
Ann Dubinet (Head of Acquisitions and
Distribution), Kurt Rauer (President of
Operations), Mia Niebruegge (Executive
Director of Production and
Distribution), Ben Ruffman (Head of
Production)
Office: Ritz Carlton – Room 406, Tel:
49.30.337777
MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE
YE DONE
Genre, Running Time: Thriller Pre-Sale
Language: English
Director: Werner Herzog
Writer: Herbert Golder, Werner Herzog
Executive Producer: David Lynch
Producer: Eric Bassett
Key Cast: Michael Shannon, Willem
Dafoe, (more TBA)
Delivery Status: Preproduction,
Principal Photography to commence
March 2009
Origin: USA
BOB FUNK
www.BobFunkthemovie.com
Comedy Running Time (108 min)
Directed and Written by Craig Carlisle
Cast: Michael Leydon Campbell,
Rachael Leigh Cook, Amy Ryan, Grace
Zabriskie, Eddie Jemison, Stephen Root
Producer: Ben Ruffman, Keith Kjarval
Revolves around the quick-witted and
sardonic title character who is fired
from his job by his mother.
FEBRUARY 2009
VISION FILMS
A Good Man - Latido Films
Vision Films, 14945 Ventura Blvd., Ste.
306, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA.
Tel: 1.818.784.1702. Fax:
1.818.788.3715. www.visionfilms.net,
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Lise Romanoff (Managing
Director), Andre Relis (VP International
Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Vincent Tola
Office: Marriott Hotel Room 254
THE DUKES
www.TheDukes-Movie.com
Family, Drama, Comedy (96 min)
Language: English
Director: Robert Davi
Writer: Robert Davi
Producer: Robert Davi
Co-production partners: Christopher
Corabi, Don Dunn
Key Cast: Chazz Palminteri, Robert
Davi, Peter Bogdanovich, Melora
Hardin
Budget: $6 Million
Origin: USA
The story of The Dukes, a once famous
Doo Wop group now desperate for
work, finds out that what’s most important in life is not fame or money, but
love, trust, family and dignity.
THE VELVETEEN RABBIT
http://visionfilms.net/catalog/featured_fi
lms/family/velveteen.php
Family (87 min)
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Language: English
Director: Michael Landon, Jr.
Writer: Cindy Kelley, Based on the book
by Margery Williams
Producer: Serge Denis, Co-production
partners: Family 1 Pictures
Key Cast: Voices of Ellen Burstyn,
Jayne Seymour, Tom Skerritt; Live
action cast: Matthew Harbour, Kevin
Jubinville, Una Kay
Budget: $5 million
Origin: USA
Inspired by the children’s novel, a lonely boy wins over his father and grandmother with the help of a velveteen rabbit and the belief of love.
BRA BOYS
www.braboysfilm.com
Documentary, Feature Flim (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Sunny Abberton, Macario De
Souza
Writer: Sunny Abberton
Producer: Sunny Abberton
Co-production partners: Berkela Films
Key Cast: Russell Crowe (Narrator),
Kelly Slater, Koby and Sonny Abberton
Origin: Australia
The first officially sanctioned documentary about a notorious Australian surfgang, the Bra Boys. It’s a story about
brotherhood, survival in the hood and
justice. Russell Crowe set to
direct the feature version of this doc in
2009.
SAPPHO
http://visionfilms.net/catalog/featured_fi
lms/drama/sappho.php
Drama (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Robert Crombie
Writer: Robert Crombie
Producer: Artur Novikov
Co-production partners: Yalta Films
Key Cast: Avalon Barrie, Todd Soley,
Lyudmila Shiryaeva, Bogdan Stupka
FEBRUARY 2009
Origin: Ukraine
A married couple on their honeymoon
on the Greek island of Lesbos find
themselves caught in a love triangle
when Sappho, the wife, falls in love
with another woman.
VISION MUSIC
Vision Music, 14945 Ventura Blvd., Ste.
306, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA.
Tel: 818.784.1702. Fax: 818.788.3715.
www.visionmusicinc.net, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Lise Romanoff (Managing
Director), Andre Relis (VP International
Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Vincent Tola
Office: Marriott Hotel Room 254
THE HARDER THEY COME
http://visionmusicinc.net/genre/reggae/h
arder_they_come.php
Biopic Theatrical Feature Flim (105
min)
Language: English
Director: Perry Henzell
Writer: Perry Henzell, Trevor D Rhone
Producer: Perry Henzell
Co-production partners: International
Films Management
Key Cast: Jimmy Cliff, Janet Bartley,
Carl Bradshaw
Year of Production: 1972, Digitally
remastered in HD 2008, Country of
Origin: Jamaica
A Reggae performer comes to the city
for fame, but is taken advantage of,
falling victim to drugs and crime. The
cult classic that made Reggae a worldwide phenomenon.
WHAT WE DO IS SECRET
www.whatwedoissecretthemovie.com/
Biopic Theatrical Feature Film (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Rodger Grossman
Writer: Michelle Baer Ghaffari
Producer: Stephen Nemeth, Rodger
Grossman
Co-production partners: Matt Perniciaro,
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Kevin Mann
Key Cast: Shane West (ER), Bijou
Phillips (Almost Famous), Rick
Gonzales (War Of The Worlds)
Budget: $3 million
Year of Production: completed 2008,
Country of Origin: United States
The captivating story that captures the
explosive & tumultuous life of Darby
Crash, the seminal singer & songwriter
of The Germs.
MAMA, I WANT TO SING
Theatrical Feature Film (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Charles Randolph-Wright
Writer: based on a play written by Vy
Higgenson
Producer: Jeff Clanagan, CodeBlack
Entertainment
Key Cast: Ciara (GRAMMY Award
Winner), Billy Zane (Titanic), Patti
LaBelle (GRAMMY Award Winner),
Lynn Whitfield (The Josephine Baker
Story, A Thin Red Line Between Love
and Hate)
Budget: $6 million
Year of Production: to be completed
Spring 2009, Country of Origin: United
States
Inspired by the off-Broadway play, a
preacher’s daughter, Arama (Ciara) on
the verge of pop stardom, is launched
into the limelight.
I TRIED
Theatrical Feature Film (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Rich Newey
Writer: Kevin Caruso
Producer: Jeff Clanagan, CodeBlack
Entertainment
Key Cast: Krayzie Bone, Wish Bone,
Layzie Bone, Chris Mulky, Hassan
Johnson, Anna Maria Horsford, Willie
McGinest
Bone Thugs N Harmony took big risks
to make it in the music game, but what
FEBRUARY 2009
if their lives spiraled in different directions? This is the action-packed,
thrilling tale of what “could
have” happened if Bone Thugs never
came to be.
THE GAME: ONE BLOOD
www.visionmusicinc.net
Language: English
Director: Engel Thedford
Writer: Glynn Norman
Producer: Bishop Moore
Co-production partners: Greenlight, Inc.
Key Cast: The Game
Origin: USA
Follow The Game from his roots in
Compton to the five boroughs of New
York as he exposes the members of “GUnot” for whom they really are.
BRITNEY SPEARS: UNBREAKABLE
http://visionmusicinc.net/genre/rock/brit
ney_unbreakable.php
Language: English
Director: Sonia Anderson
Writer: Sonia Anderson
Producer: Brian Aabech, Marcello
Tammaro, Sonia Anderson
Co-production partners: Entertain ME
Key Cast: Britney Spears
An unofficial critique and review of the
controversial life of this seminal artist,
with exclusive images and rare recordings.
SEX PISTOLS: AGENTS OF ANARCHY
http://visionmusicinc.net/genre/punk_ro
ck/sex_pistols_agents.php
Language: English
Director: Sonia Anderson
Writer: Sonia Anderson
Producer: Brian Aabech, Marcello
Tammaro, Sonia Anderson
Co-production partners: Entertain ME
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Key Cast: Paul Cook, Glen Matlock,
John Lydon, Malcolm MacLaren
A documentary on the Sex Pistols, Punk
Rock’s most infamous group, featuring
live performances and interviews with
band members.\
VOLTAGE PICTURES
Voltage Pictures, 6360 Deep Dell Pl,
Los Angeles, CA 90068 USA. Tel:
1.323.464.8351. Fax: 1.323.464.8362.
www.voltagepictures.com, email:
[email protected]
At Berlin: Nicolas Chartier (President),
Nadine de Barros (VP of Acquisitions
and Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Nicolas Chartier
and Nadine de Barros
Office: Marriott Hotel, Tel: Nicolas
Chartier cell - 310.890.4199, Nadine de
Barros cell - 323.533.3630
DANGEROUS MAN
Action
Language: English
Director: Keoni Waxman
Producer: Phil Goldfine
Key Cast: Steven Seagal
Delivery Status: Pre production
Origin: USA
After serving 15 years for a crime he
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FEBRUARY 2009
didn’t commit, Shane Daniels is
released from jail with an apology from
the State of Arizona. Within hours of his
freedom, he unluckily bears witness to
an illegal diamond deal gone wrong.
THE DEVIL’S TOMB
Action, sci-fi
Language: English
Director: Jason Connery
Key Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr, Ron
Perlman, Ray Winstone, Taryn Manning
Origin: USA
An elite group of soldiers on a covert
mission to retrieve a scientist from an
underground lab encounter an ancient
evil in the basement of the facility.
THE WEINSTEIN
COMPANY
The Weinstein Company, 345 Hudson
Street, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10014
USA. Tel: 1.646.862.3400. Fax:
1.212.352.0022. www.weinsteinco.com,
At Berlin: David Glasser (President,
International Distribution), Michael
Rothstein (EVP, International Sales and
Distribution), Jonathan Kier (SVP,
International Sales and Distribution)
Tel: 49(0)30.246.497.465, Fax:
49(0)30.246.497.467
NINE
Director: Rob Marshall
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion
Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench,
Stacy Ferguson, Kate Hudson, Nicole
Kidman, Sophia Loren
Producer: Marc E. Platt
Writer: Michael Tolkin, based on the
Broadway musical Nine, book by Arthur
Kopit, music and lyrics by Maury
Yeston
SHANGHAI
Director: Mikael Håfström
Cast: John Cusack. Gong Li, Ken
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Morgan
Producers: Mike Medavoy, Barry
Mendel, Jake Myers, Bob Weinstein,
Harvey Weinstein
Executive Producers: Arnold Messer,
Steve Squillante, Donna Gigliotti
Writer: Hossein Amini
HOODWINKED II
Director: Mike Disa
Cast: Hayden Pannetiere, Glenn Close,
Joan Cusack, Bill Hader, Amy Poehler,
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Garrett, Martin Short, Patrick Warburton
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Writers: Cory Edwards, Tony Leech
WESTEND FILMS
Westend Films, 15 Greek St, London,
W1D 4DP UK. Tel: 44.0207.494.8300.
Fax: 44.0207.494.8301. www.westendfilms.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Eve Schoukroun (MD), Maya
Amsellem (Solicitor/MD)
Office: 240, The Marriott, Tel:
49.0.30.22000.1156
MOTHER AND CHILD
Drama
Language: English
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Writer: Rodrigo Garcia
Producer: Julie Lynn – Mockingbird
Pictures; Alejandro González Iñárritu
(Exec Producer)
Key Cast: Naomi Watts, Annette
Bening, Samuel L Jackson, Kerry
Washington
Budget: $5m
Origin: USA
Three women’s destines meet as each
searches for the most powerful bond:
the love between mother and daughter.
CHATROOM
Psychological Thriller
FEBRUARY 2009
Language: English
Director: Hideo Nakata
Writer: Enda Walsh
Producer: Alison Owen, Laura HastingsSmith - Ruby Films; Scott Rudin (Exec
producer), Tessa Ross (Exec Producer)
Co-production partners: Film4, WestEnd
Films
Budget: £4m
Origin: UK
Five jaded teenagers meet online and
encourage each other’s destructive
behaviour. But things get out of hand –
and dangerous - when charismatic,
manipulative William targets weak,
unstable Jim.
WIDE
MANAGEMENT
Wide Management, 40 rue Sainte Anne
75002 Paris, France. Tel:
33.1.53.95.04.64. Fax: 33.1.53.95.04.65.
www.widemanagement.com, email:
www.widemanagement.com
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Loïc Magneron (Manager),
Anaïs Clanet (Head of Sales), Camille
Rousselet (Festivals Manager), Matteo
Lovadina (Sales Consultant)
Office: stand Unifrance number 32, Tel:
49(0)30.246.497.485, Fax:
49(0)30.246.497.485
AH! THE LIBIDO
Comedy (80 min)
Language: French
Director: Michèle ROSIER
Writer: Michèle ROSIER
Producer: GO-FILMS
Key Cast: Claude Degliame, Audrey
Dana, Sarah Grappin, Anna Mihalcea
Origin: France
Libido is not so much about sex, but a
portrait of four high-spirited and distinctly different Parisian working
women.
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ROBBER GIRLS (RÄUBERINNEN)
Erotic comedy (80 min )
Language: German, Swiss-German,
Luxemburgisch
Director: Carla LIA MONTI
Writer: Carla LIA MONTI
Producer: DSCHOINT VENTSCHR
FILMPRODUKTION
Co-production partners: PAUL THILTGES DISTRIBUTIONS
Key Cast: Nina Bühlmann, Alexandra
Prusa, Myriam Muller, Mathis Künzler,
Nils Althaus, Hanspeter Ull
Delivery Status: post production
Origin: Switzerland/ Luxemburg
Set some time in the undeterminable
past: Emily is sent to work and live in
his excellency’s castle.
GIVE ME YOUR HAND (DONNEMOI LA MAIN)
Drama (80 min)
Language: French
Director: Pascal-Alex VINCENT
Writer: Pascal-Alex VINCENT
Producer: Local Films (France)
Co-production partners: Busse &
Halberschmidt Filmproduktion
(Germany)
Origin:France / Germany
Twin brothers Antoine and Quentin,
eighteen years old, leave their house in
the North of France and hit the road to
go to Spain for the funeral of their
mother, whom they barely knew.
THE WORKS
INTERNATIONAL
The Works International, 4th floor,
Portland House, 4 Great Portland
Street, London, W1W 8QJ UK. Tel:
44(0)20.7612.1080. Fax:
44(0)20.7612.1081. www.theworksmediagroup.com
Sales Agent
At Berlin: Carl Clifton (MD of The
Works International), Joy Wong (Head
FEBRUARY 2009
of International Sales), Clare Crean
(Sales Manager), Juliette Gill (Head of
Marketing), Beatrice Neumann
(Acquisitions Manager)
Office: Stand 05, Martin Gropius Bau,
Tel: 49.30.246.497.468
LOFT
www.loftthemovie.com
Thriller (118 min)
Director: Erik Van Looy
Producer: Hilde De Laere
Cast: Koen De Bouw, Filip Peeters,
Matthias Schoenaerts, Veerle Baetens,
Laura Verlinden, An Miller
Delivery Status: Market screening
LOFT is a tense,compelling thriller in
the vein of THE USUAL SUSPECTS
from the director of THE ALZHEIMER
CASE (aka MEMORY OF A KILLER).
1939 (WORKING TITLE)
Thriller
Director / Writer: Stephen Poliakoff
Producers: Barney Reisz & Martin Pope
Cast: Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Julie
Christie, Christopher Lee, Eddie
Redmayne, Juno Temple, Jenny Agutter,
Charlie Cox, David Tennant, Jeremy
Northam,
Hugh Bonneville
Delivery Status: In post-production
Against a growing sense of menace,
Anne uncovers a tangled web of dark
secrets, and gradually discovers the
extent to which she has been betrayed.
BEAUTIFUL KATE
Drama
Director/Writer: Rachel Ward
Producers: Bryan Brown & Leah
Churchill-Brown
Cast: Bryan Brown, Rachel Griffiths,
Ben Mendelsohn, Maeve Dermody,
Sophie Lowe
Delivery Status: In post-production
The story of a family whose all too
human mistakes lead to tragedy, recrimination, guilt and finally salvation.
.
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Law Offices
of
Greg S. Bernstein
A
Professional
Corporation
During Cannes Film Festival 2009
Novotel Cannes Montfleury
Bus: 011 334 93 688-686
Fax: 011 334 93 688-787
9601 Wilshire Boulevard,
Suite 240
Beverly Hills,
California 90210
Phone: (310) 247-2790
Fax: (310) 247-2791
www.thefilmlaw.com
Aki on the Road
Available from
Arri Film & TV Services
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GETTING TO KNOW THE CITY OF BERLIN
THE BUSINESS OF FILM GUIDE
or the many international film
executives attending the Berlin
Film Festival for the first time
in many years The Business of Film
has complied a synopsis of the history and background of Berlin together
with selected places of interest, recommended
restaurants,
and
Alternative Lifestyle clubs. Getting
around Berlin is made easier by
understanding the geography of
Berlin’s distinct areas. Berlin is a city
that never sleeps, (the Agenda for
your appointments at the back of the
Pocket Guide is on a 24hr clock) with
a population nearing 3.5 million and
an area eight times greater than Paris,
it’s Germany’s largest city. Virtually
destroyed during WWII; post-war it
was divided by the Allied Powers.
America, Britain, and France occupied West Berlin, and Russia controlled the East. The Berlin Wall
(1961-89), was grim witness to the
city’s division. In 1990 followings the
dismantling of the Wall Germany was
reunited. Its history has left Berlin
with Two city centers: On the east,
the Alexanderplatz television tower at
the city’s historical center, BerlinMitte, symbolizes ‘the capital of the
German Democratic Republic’. On
the west, the Mercedes Star atop the
Europa Center marks the busy
Kurfstendamm center. The Arkaden
shopping, entertainment, residential,
and office complex, has made chic
Potsdamer Platz the center of Berlin.
Alongside German retailers and
restaurants, international companies
include Eddie Bauer, Starbucks,
McDonalds, Benetton, Swatch, Tony
Roma’s, and Haagen Daz. Reflecting
it’s strong musical and deep cultural
FEBRUARY 2009
roots Berlin boasts three professional
opera houses, four semi-professional
opera companies, eight symphony
orchestras, ten chamber orchestras,
hundreds of choruses, and copious
amateur bands playing punk to jazz in
the city’s 150 theaters. The annual
February Filmfestspielen is testament
to Berliners love of the cinema, the
city is home to 265 movie theaters,
the most in Germany. Berlin also offers
accessible with one admission price
access to 174 museums, including 17
state museums .Zoologischer Garten
(Zoological Gardens) is one of the
world’s largest zoos, nearly destroyed
during WWII. It now houses 14,000 animals representing 1500 species,
Olympiastadion stadium constructed for
the 1936 Olympic games, was intended to
showcase Hitler’s ‘master race’ athletes.
African-American Jesse Owens made history by winning four gold medals and
today, Berlin has a street named after him
Olympiastadion is one of the few Nazibuilt structures still intact and in use. The
memorial to victims of the Nazi regime
Gedenkstatte Plötzensee occupies the
old execution chamber in Plötzensee
prison where between 1933-45 over
2500 political prisoners were killed.
PRENZLAUER BERG
On Bernauer Strasse, separating Mitte
(East) and Wedding (West) Berlin,
one can view Berlin Wall remnants,
complete with border defenses and
‘death strip’. In the former West, the
Berlin Wall Documentation Center
has extensive displays and information about the Wall’s history. At the
Berlin Wall Memorial in the former
East, a stretch of Wall forms part of a
Kohlhoff and Kohlhoff artwork.
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GETTING TO KNOW THE CITY OF BERLIN
KANTSTRASSE SQUARE
Kantstrasse square has remained the
hub of West Berlin culture even after the
Wall came Down. The square dates
from 1862 when city planner James
Hobrecht placed plazas at regular intervals throughout the city to ensure
healthy airflow. In 1926-27, gardening
director Erwin Barth added greenery,
benches, and a playground. The square
and its beautiful perennial borders were
fully restored in 1987.
A second similar center developed
around the Hackescher Market, The
best example is the famed architecture
gallery AEDES, still standing in its
original S-Bahn archway.
SAVIGNYPASSAGE
Savignypassage Berlin’s longest shopping row is in the inner city area. The
tramway running east-west through the
city, numerous viaduct arches (there are
757 on the 12 km route) have been converted from warehouses and craft ateliers to shops, restaurants, and cafes,
making Many restaurateurs and antique
dealers
previously
located
at
Nollendorfplatz station’s flea market
have moved to ritzy Bahnhof
Friedrichstrasse.
KREUZBERG
ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLES
PLACES OF INTEREST
Germany is one of the few countries in
Europe which has a very liberal open
approach to alternative lifestyles,
Kreuzberg is where free thinkers settled
before the Wall fell. An island of unconventional attitudes ironically isolated in
East Germany, pacifists came to avoid
mandatory military service; punks
squatted in abandoned houses; gays and
FEBRUARY 2009
The Berlin Library
lesbians appreciated the repression-free
environment which is worth a visit.
Mehringdam 61 houses three gay and
lesbian venues. Melitta Sundström café
offers a cornucopia of refreshments as
well used gay books for sale (including
a large English section). The Gay
Museum and Schwuz nightclub are
located behind Sundström.
The Gay Museum has varying
Exhibitions weekly. The Englishspeaking staff is helpful, and the museum and archive are good resources for
gay cultural history and current happenings.With an archive and library
upstairs, the large English fiction collection is free to read, but can’t be
checked out. For those seeking night
time entertainment Schwuz, Berlin’s
oldest gay club, plays mainstream
music more than techno. Nightly
themes change from House to Oldies
to Latin. Early evenings the crowd is
mixed; by 2 AM, the clientele is predominantly male. On nearby
Oranienstrasse, the landmark nightclub SO36 is very lively. Nightly
themes range from Techno to
Oriental, plus the Wednesday gay and
lesbian Hungry Hearts singles party.
Bingo night’s drag queen show is
reported to be a blast.
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BERLIN RESTAURANTS
THE BUSINESS OF FILM GUIDE 2009
The Berlin Restaurant Guide
is organized by the various
sections that characterize the City.
Restaurants are classified in
four price ranges based on a
meal for two persons.
(1): main course and drinks
up to 30.
(2): main course and drinks
up to 50.
(3): set menu or several à la
carte courses and drinks up
to 130.
(4): set menu or several à la
carte courses and drinks
more than130
Top Restaurants:
Creative cuisine
from Chef Tim Raue.
Seasons:
(in Hotel Four Seasons),
Charlottenstrasse 49, Mitte
Tel. 20 33 63 63
Call for hours.
Stylish dinner overlooking the
Gendarmenmarkt.
Gedachtniskirche
Kurfurstendamm
Café Krenzler (1-2):
Kurfürstendamm 18,
Tel. 88 28 20
Daily 8am-midnight. Traditional
café-restaurant with terrace.
All price range (4)
Alt Luxemburg:
Windscheidstrasse 31,
Charlottenburg,
Tel. 3 23 87 30
Tues-Sat 7pm-1am.
Closed Sun/Mon. Excellent
Café Leysieffer (2):
Kurfürstendamm 218,
Tel. 88 57 48-0
Daily 9am-8pm,
Sun 10am-8pm. Confectionery,
café-bistro.
Ana e Bruno:
Sophie-Charlotten strasse 101,
Charlottenburg,
Tel. 3 25 71 10
Tues-Sat 6.30pm-midnight.
Refined Italian cuisine.
Café Im
Literaturhaus-Wintergarten
(2):
Fasanenstrasse 23,
Tel. 8 82 54 14
Daily 9.30am-1.30am.
Attractive garden.
E.t.a. Hoffman:
(in hotel Riehmers Hofgarten),
Yorkstrasse 83, Kreuzberg,
Tel. 78 09 88 09
Tue-Sat from 6pm.
FEBRUARY 2009
Dressler (2-3):
Kurfürstendamm 207-208,
Tel. 8 83 35 30
Daily 8am-1am. New, up scale
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BERLIN RESTAURANTS
restaurant in nostalgic style.
Branch location: Unter den
Linden 39,
Tel. 2 04 44 22.
Wellenstein (1):
Kurfürstendamm 190,
Tel. 8 81 78 Call for hours.
Coffee house atmosphere.
Hardtke (2): Meinekestrasse
27, Tel. 8 81 98 27
Daily 10am-midnight.
Berlin cuisine (pig’s trotters).
Butcher on premises.
Berlin Bitte
City Center
Marché (1): Kurfürstendamm
14
Daily 8am-midnight. Self-service restaurant with extensive
choice of freshly prepared
dishes.
(salad bar, hot buffet)
Paris Bar (2-3):
Kantstrasse 152, Tel. 3 13 80
52
Daily 12am-2am. Bistro. A
place for seeing/being seen.
French cuisine.
Spree Athen (2):
Leibnizstrasse 60,
Tel. 3 24 17 33
Daily 6pm-midnight, closed
Sundays and holidays. OldBerlin style eatery with extensive menu card. Gourmet food
and taped Berlin songs.
Via Condotti Ristorante
Italiano (2):
Fasanenstrasse 73,
Tel. 88 67 78 97
Call for hours.
Italian cuisine.
FEBRUARY 2009
Oren (1-2):
Oranienburgerstrasse 28, Tel.
2 82 82 28
Mon-Fri from 12am,
Sat/Sun from 10am.
Jewish café-restaurant, kosher
cuisine plus
vegetarian dishes,
Israeli wines.
Reinhard’s (2-3):
Nikolaiviertel, Mitte (Centre),
Tel. 2 38 52 95
Daily 9am-1am. Upgrade
bistro, attractive art-filled
rooms.
Theodor Tucher (2-3): Pariser
Platz 6a,
Tel. 22 48 94 64
Call for hours.
Refined cuisine with book
gallery and reading lounge.
Excellent food and prime location near Brandenburger Tor.
Regular lectures.
Prenzlauer Berg:
Offenbach Stuben (2):
Stubbenkammerstrasse 8,
Tel. 4 45 85 02
Daily 6pm-2am. Cozy atmosphere and international cuisine.
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BERLIN RESTAURANTS
Café am Wasserturm (1):
Knaackstrasse 22, Prenzlauer
Berg, Tel. 4 42 88 07
Jewish cuisine. Breakfast till
4pm.
Restauration 1900 (1-2):
Husemannstrasse 1,
Tel. 4 42 24 94
Daily from 9am. Limited menu
card, inexpensive prices.
Popular.
Mao Thai (3):
Wörther Strasse 30, Tel. 4 41
92 61
Daily 12am-3pm and from
6pm. Open Sundays & holidays.
Thai cuisine.
Schöneberg
Café Einstein (2):
Kurfürstenstrasse 58,
Tel. 2 61 50 96
Daily 10am-2am.
Grand Viennese coffee house
& cuisine. Attractive garden.
Wilmersdorf
Besenwirtschaft (1):
Uhlandstrasse 159,
Tel. 8 81 16 23
Daily 6pm-2am. Würtemberger
wines and freshly made onion
pies and other snacks at all
times. Friendly atmosphere.
Tafelrunde Mittelalterliches
Gasthaus (3): Nachodstrasse
21, Tel. 2 11 21 41
Daily from 6pm, Sunday also
between 12am and 3pm.
Zwiwwel (2): Bruchsaler
Strasse 6, Tel. 8 53 25 78
Tue-Sun 6pm-2am. Wine bar
with living room atmosphere.
New Location 2009 for
The Gropius Mirror Restaurant
Highly recommended!
The Gropius Mirror Restaurant
in the mirrored tent – is NOW
located directly across from the
main entrance to Martin-GropiusBau. During the day the Gropius
Mirror Restaurant is open for
Market visitors and those with
Berlinale festival accreditation.
The restaurant can also be rented
out for film-related events during
the EFM.
FEBRUARY 2009
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