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+ENTERTAINMENT
+Entertainment, 468 N. Camden Drive,
Suite 250, Beverly Hills, CA90210 USA.
Tel: 310.860.5604. Fax: 310.860.5194.
[email protected], www.plusent.com
Company Type: Sales agent/distributor
At AFM: Pejman Partiyeli (President)
Acquisition Executive: Pejman Partiyeli
Office: Suite 858
VERITAS, PRINCE OFTRUTH
Children/Fantasy/Family
Language: English
Director: Arturo Ruiz Esparza
Producer: Arturo Ruiz Esparza
Cast: Sean Patrick Flanery, Amy Jo
Johnson, Bert Loehr, Kate Walsh
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
The Comic Book hero “Veritas, Prince of
Truth” comes to life and chooses Kern,
as shy 14-year old, to help fight the evil
“Nemessi” and save planet Earth from
total destruction.
SHADOWBOX, UNRATED
DIRECTOR’S CUT
Psychological Horror (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Philip Adrian Booth
Producer: Christopher Saint Booth
Cast: Matthew Mc’Grory (deceased, Big
Fish), Supermodel Pippi, Dougald Park
(Bruce Almighty)
Origin: USA
You can’t hide from yourself! A young
man in a state of delirium inside an
insane asylum is tormented by the
macabre world of his demented soul.
SPOOKED - THE HAUNTING OF A
KENTUCKYSANATORIUM
Horror/Reality (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Christopher Saint Booth, Shane
Dax Taylor
Producer: Christopher Saint Booth,
Shane Dax Taylor
Origin: USA
The true story of two Hollywood
filmmakers who set out to document the
horrific past of a diseased and haunted
Kentucky Sanatorium but encountered a
more terrible reality, Fear Has No Cure.
GHOST WATCHER II
Horror (95 min)
Language: English
Director: David Cross
Producer: David Cross
Cast: Marcus Dreeke, Jillian Byrnes,
Vince Eustace
Origin: USA
The “GhostWatcher” legend continues as
a young girl begins hearing voices
foreseeing the great impending doom.
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2929
INTERNATIONAL
LLC
2929 International LLC, 9100 Wilshire
Boulevard Suite 500 West, Beverly Hills
CA90212 USA. Tel: 310.309.5706. Fax:
310.309.5708,
www.2929entertainment.com
At AFM: Ms. Shebnem Askin
(President), Mr. Marc Wuertemburh (V.P.
Worldwide Servicing)
Office: 303, Tel: 310.434.9313
BUBBLE
Mystery (73 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Co-Production Partners: HD Net
Producer: Greg Jacobs, Steven
Soderbergh
Key Cast: Debbie Doebereiner, Dustin
Ashley, Misty Wilkins
Origin: USA
Romantic Tragedy in which a bizarre
love triangle between three doll factory
workers in small town Ohio turns to
murder.
BLACK CHRISTMAS
Horror
Language: English
Director: Glen Morgan
Co-Production Partners: 2929 Productions
Producer: James Wong
Delivery Status: In Development
Country of Origin: USA
Asorority house is terrorized by a killer
who makes frightening telephone calls
before murdering the sorority sisters
during the Christmas break.
PREY(TURISTAS)
Thriller
Director: English
Language: John Stockwell
Producer: Marc Butan, Bo Zenga, John
Stockwell
Origin: USA
After a terrifying bus accident maroons a
group of young adventures in a remote
Brazilian beach town, they slowly
discover that the white sand beaches and
lush jungles are concealing a darker,
unsettling secret.
FA S TT R A C K
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Jesse Peretz
Co-Production Partners: 2929 Production
Producer: Marc Butan
Key Cast: Zach Braff, Amanda Peet
Delivery Status: Post Production
Origin: USA
An underachiever’s wife quits her high
paying job after getting pregnant, forcing
him to take a job he doesn’t want,
working for his father-in-law.
A
ACTION CONCEPT
Action Concept, an der hasenkaule 1,
50354 Huerth, Germany. Tel:
49.2233.508.100. Fax: 49.2233.508.180.
[email protected],
www.actionconcept.com
Company Type: producer
At AFM: Herman Joha (CEO) Wolfgang
Wilke (Acquisitions)
Office: at German Films 818
FINALCONTRACT
DEATH ON DELIVERY
HAMMER AND HEART
LASKO
THE CLOWN
THE CHALLENGE
GOOD GIRLS
ADRIANA CHIESA
ENTERPRISES S.R.L.
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises s.r.l., Via
Barnaba Oriani, 24/A, 00197 Rome,
Italy. Tel: 39.06.80.86.052. Fax:
39.06.80.68.78.55
At AFM: Adriana Chiesa Di Palma
(President), Rossella Gori (CEO)
Office: Loews Hotel #701
ALLTHE INVISIBLE CHILDREN
(123 min)
Language: English, Portuguese, Serbian,
Italian with English subtitles
Directors: Mehdi Charef, Emir Kusturica,
Spike Lee, Katia Lund, Jordan Scott,
Ridley Scott, Stefano Veneruso, John
Woo
Produced by: Maria Grazia CucinottaChiara Tilesi-Stefano Veneruso; in coproduction with: RAI CINEMAwith the
Support and Patronage of the: Italian
Development Cooperation Office of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs In
Collaboration with: UNICEF and The
World Food Programme
Status: First Market Screening
Completion year: 2005, Country of
origin: ITALY
GHOSTSON
Thriller (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Lamberto Bava
Production: an Italian-UK-Spanish
coproduction, Star Edizioni
Cinematografiche Srl, CRC Srl, Ghost
Son Films (UK) Limited in association
with Aquarius Films, Camarate Films SL
and C.NE South Africa Movieworld
(Pty) Ltd
Cast: Laura Harring, John Hannah, Pete
Postlethwaite
Origin: Italy
A breathless paranormal thriller on the
edge of suspense from beginning to end.
THE FINE ART OFLOVE (MINE
HAHA)
(107 Min)
Language: English
Director: John Irvin
Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Enrico Lo Verso,
Urbano Barberini
Production: Titania Produzioni (Italy)
Stefania Bifano And Ida Di Benedetto
Creative Partners International (UK) In
Collaboration With: Box Film, Balzer
International Film (Czech Rep.)
Completion Year: 2005, Country Of
Origin: Italy
The sentimental and sensual education of
young girls.
I GIORNI DELL’ABBANDONO
(THE DAYS OFABANDONMENT)
(96 min)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Roberto Faenza
Cast: Margherita Buy, Luca Zingaretti,
Goran Bregovic
Production: Elda Ferri for Jean Vigo
Italia and Medusa Film
Completion year: 2005
GERTRUDE STEIN – INTERNATIONAL FILM ARTIST WORKSHOP
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Country of origin: Italy
A journey through the labyrinth of love
and passion.
LA PASSIONE DI GIOSUE’
L’EBREO (THE PASSION OF
JOSHUATHE JEW)
(104 min)
Director: Pasquale Scimeca
Cast: Anna Bonaiuto, Leonardo Cesare
Abude, Marcello Mazzarella, Giordana
Moscati
Production: Arbash Film
origin: Italy
DELIVERY
(97 min)
Language: Greek with English subtitles
Production Company: Greek Film
Center, Marianna Films
Director: Nikos Panayotopoulos
Cast: Thanos Samaras, Alexia Kaltshiki,
Dimitris Imelos
Status: Market Screening
ANTONIO GUERRIERO DI DIO
(ANTONIO WARRIOR OFGOD)
Director: Antonello Bellico, Sandro
Cecca
Production: Angelo Bassi for AB Film
Cast: Jordi Molla’
Status: In Post-Production
AMATEMI (LOVE ME)
Director: Renato De Maria
Production: Roberto Levi & Matteo
Levi, Tangram Film, Rai Cinema,
Mikado
Cast: Isabella Ferrari
The sunny comedy of an abandoned
woman’s return to life and love.
LAFIAMMASULGHIACCIO (FIRE
ON ICE)
Director: Umberto Marino
Production: Allessandro Jacchia &
Maurizio Momi for Albatross amp S.p.A.
Cast: Raoul Bova, Donatella Finocchiaro
ROSSO COME ILCIELO (RED AS
THE SKY)
Director: Cristiano Bortone
Production: Daniele Mazzocca For Orisa
Produzioni
Country of origin: ITALY
A moving and impressive true story.
AFI FEST 2005
PRESENTED BYAUDI
AFI Fest 2005 presented by Audi, 2021
N. Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA,
90027, USA. Tel: 866.AFI.FEST. Fax:
323.462.4049. [email protected],
www.AFI.com
Company Type: International Film
Festival
At AFM: Christian Gaines (Festival
Director), Nancy Collet (Director of
Programming), Natalie McMenemy
(Director of Operations, Festival
Producer), Danièle Neuharth (Director of
Sponsorship & Marketing), Shaz Bennett
(Sr. Programmer), Sharifa Johka
(Industry Liaison)
Office: 5Atrium1, Tel: 310.434.9345,
Fax: 310.434.9346
ADIOS MOMO
AMERICAN HAUNTING
BUCKLE BROTHERS
FACTOR 8:
THE GIGOLOS
THE GOODTIMESKID
ON THE OTHER SIDE
THE REFUGEE ALLSTARS
ROSARIO TIJERAS
JOY
AMU
LA FABRI-K / THE CUBAN HIP
HOP FACTORY
LITTLE ATHENS
FOUR CORNERS OFSURBURBIA
FUCK
RIPLEYUNDERGROUND
THE ART OFFLIGHT
BACK TO BOSNIA
BAM BAM AND CELESTE
BURNING MAN: BEYOND THE
BLACK ROCK
DEVIL’S MINER
C.R.A.Z.Y.
LOSTCITY
IN MEMORY OFMY FATHER
KISSED BYWINTER
MOSTBEAUTIFULOFMYVERY
BESTYEARS
MUTUALAPPPRECIATION
PELE FOREVER
RYNA
SWIMMERS
06/05 THE SIXTH OFMAY
Now in its 19th year, AFI FEST2005
presented by Audi: the AFI Los Angeles
International Film Festival - is the
longest-running film festival in Los
Angeles and one of the most influential
film festivals in North America.
SPYMATE – KEYSTONE PICTURES
ALLIED
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP, INC.
Allied Entertainment Group, Inc., 8899
Beverly Blvd. Suite 911, West Hollywood,
CA90048, USA. Tel: 310.271.0703. Fax:
310.271.0706.
www.alliedentertainment.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: Mr. James Moder (Chairman),
Ms. Janet Liu (VPof Sales - Asia)
Office: 604C, Tel: 310.271.0703. Fax:
310.271.0706
THE BARON AGAINSTTHE
DEMONS (ELBARON CONTRA
LOS DEMONIOS)
Action/Sci-Fi (103 minutes)
Director: Ricardo Ribelles
Producers: Ana Snachez-Gijon &
Ricardo Ribelles
Cast: Juan Carlos Romeu / Helena Le
Cumberri / Xavier Bertran
Status: Completed/screening
Origin: Spain
In 2097 a superhero, The Baron,
commander of an evil fighting
organization, gets caught by the witch
Dona Pervertum to create a powerful
race of demons with The Baron’s sperm.
FALLEN ANGELS
Thriller (95 minutes)
Director: Ian David Diaz
Producers: Michael Derbas / Julian
Boote
Cast: Michael Ironside / Kai Wiesinger /
Jeff Fahey
Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Canada
5 years after a disastrous fire burnt in a
school, 4 survivors return with a news
crew to unlock the secrets left behind in
the scattered ashes.
WHOREHOUSE
Action / Psychological Thriller (94
minutes)
Director: Basil Schlegel
Producer: Sandra Fragel
Cast: George Tasudis / Ilia Volok / Olga
Vilner
Status: Completed
A young and seemingly angelic girl,
Sady, comes to L.A. following clues to
the mysterious disappearance of her
father and falls into a dark and twisted
world of sex, betrayal and violence.
GANGSTERZ?!
Comedy (93 minutes)
Director: David Portlock
Producers: Eugene “Geno” Taylor /
Mychal Wilson
Cast: Michael Dorn / Barry Corbin /
Valente Rodriguez
Status: Completed
Two struggling medical assistants, hired
to deliver some black-market human
body parts, get mixed up in a drug deal,
as the drop-off location for all parties is
at the same hip spot and all hell breaks
loose.
AMERICA VIDEO FILMS/
AMERICAN THEATRICAL
America Video Films, Virrey Loreto
2426, Capital Federal, 1426 Rep.
Argentina. Tel: 54.11.4787.9098 / 9101.
Fax: 5411.4787.9094.
[email protected],
www.americavideofilms.com
At AFM: Enrique Maya (President),
Howard Kohn (Sales Executive), Claudio
Braslavsky (Director of Marketing &
Acquisitions), Nicholas Bingham
(Adviser), Maria Fernanda Fernandez
Vila (Business Affairs), Jina Song (Sales
Executive), Utako Uniimi (Japanese
Representative), Selina Chong (Sales
Executive)
Office: Loews Hotel, Room 658/659,
Tel: 310.434.9424
CHILDSTAR
Comedy (approx. 85 min.)
Language: English
Director: Don McKellar
Principal Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Don McKellar
Production status: Completed / screening
Country of origin: Canada
When you are only famous for fifteen
minutes – every second counts.
STORIES OFLOSTSOULS
Suspense (approx. 90 min)
Language: English
Director: Various
Principal Cast: Josh Hartnett, Paul
Bettany, Hugh Jackman, Cate Blanchett,
James Gandolfini & Keira Knightley
Country of origin: USA/ UK
In six short stories frantic individuals
discover what extremes they will go to
resolve desperate circumstances.
I LOVE YOUR WORK
Suspense (approx. 90 min)
Language: English
Director: Adam Goldberg
Principal Cast: Giovani Ribisi, Franka
Potente, Vince Vaughn, Christina Ricci
Country of origin: USA
A paranoid movie star stalks a fan.
PALERMO HOLLYWOOD
Drama (approx. 120 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Eduardo Pinto
Principal Cast: Matías Desiderio, Brian
Maya & Manuela Pal.
Country of origin: Argentina
A high speed urban tragedy set in the
crime underworld of Buenos Aires.
3&3
Drama (approx. 90 min)
Language: English
Director: Various
Principal Cast: Eva Mendes , Imelda
Staunton , Stellan Skarsgard, Charlie
Sheen , July Delpy , Kathy Bates
Country of origin: USA/ UK
Six tales of innocent lives and guilty
hearts.
RIVERMAN
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Bill Eagles
Principal Cast: Cary Elwes, Bruce
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Greenwood.
Convicted Serial Killer Ted Bundy offers
his help to find the notorious Green
River Killer.
CALLME: THE RISE AND FALL
OFHEIDI FLEISS
Thriller/Erotic (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Charles McDougall
Principal Cast: Jamie-Lynn DiScala,
Emmanuelle Vaugier
Production status: Completed
A well-adjusted teenager from a
prosperous doctor’s family enters the
world of high-class escorts
12 DAYS OFTERROR
Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Jack Sholder
Principal Cast: Colin Egglesfield , John
Rhys-Davies
Production status: Completed
The true story that inspired the movie
“Jaws”.
IMMINENT ATTACK
Action (120 min)
Language: French
Director: Patrick Dewolf
Principal Cast: Anne Brochet
Country of origin: France
The city of Paris is the target of a
terrorist cell. that plans to strike
imminently.
AMERICAN CINEMA
INTERNATIONAL
American Cinema International, 14242
Ventura Blvd., #202, Sherman Oaks, CA
91423 USA. Tel: 818.907.8700. Fax:
818.907.8719. www.aciamericancinema.com, [email protected]
At AFM: George Shamieh (CEO),
Chevonne O’Shaughnessy (President)
Office: 521
FINALCONTRACT(DARK RIDE)
(90 min)
Language: English
Director: Axel Sand
Producer: Hermann Joha
Key Cast: Drew Fuller, Alison King
Origin: Germany
David Glover (Fuller) is a young courier
who gets tangled up with assassin Lara
(King) and is forced to play along in the
plot to kill off witnesses for a trial
against a Mafia lord.
GOOD GIRL, BAD GIRL
Action
Language: English
Director: Sebastian Vigg
Producer: Hermann Joha
Key Cast: Julia Stinshoff, Hendrik
Duryn, Graham McTavish
Delivery Status: In Production
Origin: Germany
Opposite worlds collide when two twin
sisters—one a nun and the other a
stripper—find themselves reunited in the
midst of a murderous plot.
THE NEGOTIATOR
Action (90 min)
Director: English
Language: Nicholas Kendall
Producer: Deboragh Gabler
Key Cast: Elisabeth Rohm, Chandra
West
Origin: USA
Two single mothers—one a top hostage
negotiator and the other a hostage
taker—collide in a desperate battle in
which both are determined to win.
SAVAGE PLANET
Sci-Fi
Language: English
Director: Paul Lynch
Producer: Chevonne O’Shaughnessy,
Izidore Musallam
Key Cast: Sean Patrick Flanery, Sarah
Madison
Origin: USA
In 2048, a team of scientists venture to a
new planet in search of a plant that will
save life on an overpopulated Earth, but
their mission leads instead to their
discovery of a horrible link to the human
past.
A
WOMAN’S
LOT
AMERICAN WORLD
PICTURES
Countryside – Food Line
American World Pictures, 16027 Ventura
Blvd., Suite 320, Encino, CA91436 USA.
Tel: 818.380.9100. Fax: 818.380.0050.
[email protected],
www.americanworldpictures.com
At AFM: Mark L. Lester (President),
Dana Dubovsky (President, Production),
Terese Linden Kohn (Exec. VPof
Distribution), Rafael Jordan (Vice
President of Development &
Acquisitions)
Office: Loews 817, Tel: 310.458.6700
DAY OFWRATH
Director: Adrian Rudomin
Producer: Kornel Sipos, Sam Sleiman,
Ashley Sidaway and Martin J. Barab
Cast: Christopher Lambert, Blanca
Marsillach, Brian Blessed, James
Faulkner
Status: Completed
Country of Origin: UK/Hungary
The story of Ruy de Mendoza, a 16th
century Spanish sheriff who stumbles
upon a series of brutal murders of high
ranking nobles.
MIRACLE AT SAGE CREEK
Western (90 minutes)
Director: James Intveld
Producer: Thadd Turner
Cast: David Carradine, Wes Studi,
Michael Parks, Tim Abell
Country of Origin: US
Two families overcome prejudice and
tragedy in 1888 Wyoming when a
special Christmas miracle saves the life
of a small boy.
RAIDERS OFTHE DAMNED
Horror (90 minutes)
Available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com
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Produced & Directed By Katie Fischer
Babuschkas in Church
Street Prostitutes
What happens to women in traditional cultures
once they’ve been influenced by Western
social ideals and capitalism.
Katie Fischer in Moscow
For distribution opportunities & information:
Contact: Katie Fischer • [email protected]
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Director: Milko Davis
Producer: Milko Davis, Sandra Davis
Cast: Richard Greico, Laura Zoe Quist,
Gary Sirchia
Status: Completed
A group of ex-military specialists are
hired to rescue a scientist and his
assistant, whose helicopter has been shot
down behind the zombie quarantine area.
GHOSTGAME
Horror (90 minutes)
Director: Joe Knee
Producer: Nick Soares, Joe Knee, Elsa
Ramo
Cast: Alexandra Barreto, Shelby Fenner,
Peter Cilella, Danielle Hartnett
Status: Completed
Three young couples on a weekend
retreat in the mountains discover much
more than they bargained for when they
stumble upon a mysterious game in the
cellar.
PEACHES
Drama (90 minutes)
Director: Craig Monahan
Producer: Craig Monahan, Don
Reynolds
Cast: Hugo Weaving, Jacqueline
McKenzie, Emma Lung
Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Australia
An intriguing and emotionally resonant
love story set in a sleepy countryside
town.
CHASING GHOSTS
Director: Kyle Dean Jackson
Producers: Alan Pao and Brian Hartman
Cast: Michael Madsen, Gary Busey,
Michael Rooker, Shannyn Sossamon,
Meat Loaf, Lochlyn Munro and Corey
Large
Status: Completed
A serial killer keeps taunting the police
with clues and photos left behind at the
scene of the crime.
THE CONDEMNED
Horror (90 minutes)
Director: Adam Druxman
Producers: Tim Harvey, Gabriel Napora,
Levi James
Cast: Luis Guzman, Liane Balaban
Status: Post Production
A group of filmmakers discover the
horrors that await them inside a
condemned insane asylum.
SCHOOLOFLIFE
Drama (90 minutes)
Director: William Dear
Producer: Rosanne Milliken
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, David Paymer,
John Astin
Status: Completed.
For uptight science teacher Matt Warner
(Academy Award Nominated Actor
David Paymer “Quiz Show”,
“Payback”), winning the prestigious
student-elected Teacher of the Year
Award is an all-consuming obsession.
AMSELL
ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
AMSell Entertainment Inc., 12001
Ventura Place, Suite #404, Studio City,
CA91602, USA. Tel: 818.766.8500.
Fax: 818.766.8737.
[email protected]
At AFM: Alan Solomon (President),
Joseph Beral (Director International
Sales and Marketing)
Office: Room # 603 Loews Santa
Monica Beach Hotel, Tel: 310.493.6996
H.E.R.O
Martial Arts / Fantasy / Sci-fi FX / 3D
Animation TVSeries (40 x 50 min)
Director: Chin-Liang Hsu (“The Sword
Of Great Silence” - Venice Film Festival
Nomination)
Cast: Sonny Chiba (Immortal Combat”,
“Aces: Iron Eagle III”)
Following the success of WIND &
CLOUD, H.E.R.O is a dramatic
portrayal which changed the history of
China. A sword that unleashed a storm in
the ancient world.
TIKI
Horror/ Sci-fi
Director: Ron Ford
Cast: Jolene Smith, Wesley Deitrick,
Tanya Morton, Holly Pugsly, Megan
Morgan
Special Creature Effects: Mitch Tiner
When Amy, a young College Co-ed from
Hawaii, tries too hard to fit in she
becomes the target of a cruel and
dangerous practical joke.
HELL TO PAY
Action/Western
Director: C.TMcIntyre
Producer: C.T. McIntyre
Cast: Robert Vaughn, James Drury, Bo
Svenson, Stella Stevens, Andrew Prine,
William Smith, Buck Taylor
Two Brothers, Two Guns, One Woman,
hell-bent on taking what they want by
deadly force; negotiating with the end of
a gun.
ONE ARM HERO
Martial Arts
Director: Carter Wong
Producer: Carter Wong
Cast: Carter Wong, Baxter Humby,
Maurice Travis
A US Martial Artist travels thousands of
miles to China to learn the art of KungFu and falls in love with a Chinese
woman named Zhao Xiu Mei.
NOWHERE MAN
Film Noir
Director: Tim McCann
Producer: Mark Tchelistcheff
Cast: Michael Rodrick, Debbie Rochon,
Frank Olivier
A potent brew of suspense and cutting
black humor, NOWHERE MAN is the
story of one man’s search for his missing
member, severed and stolen by his jilted
fiancé after her pornographic past comes
to light.
CREEPIES 2
Panic / Disaster
Director: Jeff Leroy
Mutant spiders are accidentally
unleashed in Las Vegas. They multiply
into enormous creatures that devastate
the Casino and invade the Las Vegas
Strip.
ALIEN 3000
Horror / Action
Cast: Lorenzo Lamas, Priscilla Barnes,
Corbin Timbrook
Alien meets predator. An alien force so
deadly that it takes a military force to
contain it, returns to create havoc.
ARCHETYPE FILMS
BRUCE BOXLEITNERIN KINGOFTHE LOST WORLD – T HE ASYLUM
Archetype Films, 102 Dean Street,
London W1D 3TQ, UK. Tel:
44(0)20.7439.8008. Fax:
44(0)20.7439.8228.
[email protected]
Company Type: Sales
At AFM: Charlie Bloye, James
MacKenzie
Office: Loews Hotel, Suite 748, Tel:
310.434.9480. Fax: 310.434.9481
THE VETERAN
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Sidney Furie
Producer: Curtis J. Peterson
Cast: Michael Ironside, Ally Sheedy,
Bobby Hosea
Delivery Status: Post production
Origin: Canada
Returning to modern day Saigon, a
Vietnam veteran turned preacher is
confronted by an old comrade who
forces him to re-live the bloody battles
of his past.
HEARTSTOPPER
Horror
Language: English
Director: Bob Keen
Producer: Lewin Webb, Kate Harrison
Cast: Robert Englund
Origin: Canada
Two hospitalized young people discover
that things can get worse when the
dilapidated institution is stranded by a
severe storm and a maniac stalks the
corridors butchering the patients and staff.
WARRIORS OFTERRA
Horror / Sci-Fi
Language: English
Director: Rob Wilson
Producer: Lewin Webb, Kate Harrison
Cast: Edward Furlong
Origin: Canada
A team of young animal liberationists
penetrate a secure biotech facility little
expecting to be confronted by heavily
armed guards. Soon the activists and the
guards are falling prey to a horrifying
entity within.
ARCLIGHT FILMS
Arclight Films, Building 22, Fox Studios
Australia, Driver Ave., Moore Park, NS
2021 Australia. Tel: 61(0)2.9955.8825.
Fax: 61(0)2.8353.2437.
www.arclightfilms.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: Gary Hamilton (Managing
Director), Jonathan Deckter (President
International Sales), Lina Marrone (VP
International Sales), Ian Gibbins
(General Manager)
Office: 711
ROMULUS, MY FATHER
www.arclightfilms.com
Language: English
Director: Richard Roxburgh
Producer: Robert Connolly, John Maynard
Key Cast: Eric Bana
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: Australia
Moving between comedy and tragedy,
both a richly detailed portrayal of the
Australian migrant experience, and a
story about the compassion and honesty
of a father who teaches his son the
meaning of a decent life.
MINI’S FIRSTTIME
Comedy/drama
Language: English
Director: Nick Guthe
Producer: Evan Astrowsky, Edward
Bass, Dana Brunetti, Kevin Spacey
Key Cast: Alec Baldwin, Nikki Reed,
Luke Wilson, Carrie-Ann
Moss, Jeff Goldblum
Origin: USA
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agency where her step-father is a client!
SLINGSHOT
Drama
Director: English
Language: Jay Alaimo
Producer: Jay Alaimo, Edward Bass,
Jack Birch
Key Cast: David Arquette, Thora Birch,
Balthazar Getty
Two cunning and manipulative drifters
venture into Fairfield County,
Connecticut looking to seduce wealthy
and lonely housewives.
REEFER MADNESS
Musical comedy (108 mins)
Language: English
Director: Alan Fickman
Producer: Rose Lam
Key Cast: Neve Campbell, Alan
Cumming, Ana Gasteyer
Origin: USA
Good heavens! The reefer is driving the
good citizens of one small town totally
out of their minds.
THIEFLORD
Family/Action (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Richard Claus
Producer: Richard Claus
Key Cast: Caroline Goodall, Vanessa
Redgrave, Alexei Sayle
Origin: Germany/UK
Two young brothers on the run fall under
the care and protection of a mysterious
“Thief Lord.”
ARMADA PICTURES
INTERNATIONAL
Armada Pictures International, 9720
Wilshire Boulevard, 5th Floor, Beverly
Hills, CA90212 USA. Tel:
310.205.9600. Fax: 310.205.9610.
At AFM: Yarek Danielak, Chris
Sievernich
Office: Loews Hotel Suite 630
SHOOT
Action/Thriller
Director: Ron Krauss
Producer: Tim O’Hair, Chris Sievernich
Status: Pre-Production
In a violent underground subculture,
where opponents shoot each other in
competition, an ace gunman seeks
revenge against an elusive and legendary
nemesis.
HEAVEN PROJECT
Thriller
Director: John Glenn
Producer: David Hoberman (Antarctica,
Raising Helen, Bringing Down the
House, Bandits, The Negotiator), Todd
Lieberman (Five Fingers, Beauty Shop)
A death row inmate risks everything to
be reunited with his family.
PLAGUE
Horror
Director: Hal Masonberg
Producer: Clive Barker, Jorge Saralegui,
Tim O’Hair; Executive Producer:
Michael Almog, Morton Davis, Chris
Sievernich, Joseph Daley, Anthony
DiBlasi
Cast: James Van Der Beek
Status: Post-production
Thirteen years ago, every child under the
age of 5 and every child born since has
fallen prey to a devastating plague
remaining in comatose since. Catching
the world off guard, they all awake
simultaneously.
DARK PLACES
Supernatural Thriller
Director: Donato Rotunno
Producer: Jan Vocke, Harrison
Kordestani
Cast: Leelee Sobieski (Joy Ride, Eyes
Wide Shut, Joan of Arc)
A young nanny who takes up residence
at the country estate of her wealthy
employer must fight to protect the two
young children in her care against a
haunting presence from beyond the
grave.
ARRI INC.
ARRI Inc., 617 Route 303, Blauvelt, NY
10913 USA. Tel: 845.353.1400, Fax:
845.425.1250, www.arri.com
At AFM: Franz Wieser (Vice President,
International Marketing)
Office: TBD
ARTEDIS S.A.
Artedis S.A., 12, rue Raynouard, Paris,
75016 France. Tel: 331.53.92.29.29.
Fax: 331.53.92.29.20. [email protected]
At AFM: Pierre-Richard Muller
(President), Chantal Lam (VicePresident)
Office: 832, Tel: 310.458.6700
ZAMAN: THE MAN FROM THE
REEDS
Drama (77 minutes)
Language: Arabic
Director: Amer Alwan
Producer: Sattar Alwan, Marc-Andre
Brunet, Didier Couedic
Key Cast: Sami Kaftan, Shada Salim,
Saadiya Al-Zaydi
Origin: France/Iraq
An Iraqi man must leave his home in the
swamp and travel to the city in search of
medicine for his wife who has taken ill
due to the war.
LULU
Drama (90 minutes)
Language: French
Director: Jean-Henri Roger
Producer: Pierre Assouline
Key Cast: Jean-Pierre Kalfan, Tony
Gatlife, Elli Medeiros
Origin: France
Nothing is at it seems for Lulu, the
proprietress of the most popular bar in
Saint-Maries-de-la-Mer, especially when
her past tries to catch up with her.
THE MOON IS RED
Drama (90 minutes)
Director: French
Origin: France
Ten days after his wife dies in a car
accident, an unfaithful husband receives
an e-mail message from her.
ARTIST VIEW
ENTERTAINMENT
Artist View Entertainment, 4425 Irvine
Avenue, Studio City, CA91602 USA. Tel:
818.752.2480. Fax: 818.752.9339.
At AFM: Scott J. Jones (President), Jay
E. Joyce (Vice President), Jennifer
Dillon (Director of Distribution Services)
Office: Suite 707, Santa Monica Loews
Hotel, Tel: 310.434.9434, 310.434.9435
AT LAST
Romantic Drama (95 Minutes)
Cast: Kelly Lynch, Martin Donovan,
M.C. Gainey, Jessica Hecht
Year of Production: 2005
A powerful love story about two people
who were soul mates in their teen years
were unknowingly forced apart and
through fate found each other twenty
years later, causing – A Second chance at
First love.
SMILE
Drama (95 Minutes)
Cast: Mika Boorem, Beau Bridges, Sean
Austin, Cheri Oteri, Linda Hamilton, Yi
Ding, Erik Von Detten, Luoyong Wang
Introduced to a volunteer opportunity
with Operation Smile, Katie signs up for
a trip to China, where she meets Lin, a
girl with whom she shares a birthday .
MOVIN’ TOO FAST
Thriller (95 Minutes)
Cast: Layla Alexander, Marquita Terry,
Matthew Glave
While traveling across the country two
young women are terrorized by a
psychotic Highway Patrolman. A bloody
trail relentlessly follows them across the
southwest as they fight for survival.
BACKLASH
Action Thriller (95 Minutes)
Cast: Danielle Burgio, Kevin Levrone,
Lauren Kim
Skye Gold, a CIAoperative is sent to a
remote island to capture a dangerous
arms dealer. Soon after arriving, Skye
finds herself running for her life from
hired assassins and enemies within the
CIA.
CONFESSION
Thriller (90 Minutes)
Cast: Chris Pine, Peter Greene, Tom
Bosley, Bruce Davison, Cameron Daddo
When a High School student confesses
to a priest, he is bound to silence, and
framed for a grisly murder.
EVERYTHING YOU WANT
Romantic Comedy (90 Minutes)
Cast: Shiri Appleby, Nick Zano, Orlando
Seale & Will Friedle
When Abby meets her roommate’s
cousin, she faces a choice between her
perfect but predictable boyfriend and a
flawed but genuine love.
RACING ACE (DOWN AND DERBY)
Family Adventure (90 Minutes)
Cast: Greg Germann, Lauren Holly, Pat
Morita
As group of suburban dads attempt to
take over their sons’pinewood derby
contest the whole neighborhood teeters
on the edge of insanity.
THE ASYLUM
The Asylum, 6671 Sunset Blvd., Build.
1593, Hollywood, Ca, 90028 USA. Tel:
323.463.6575. Fax: 323.463.6299.
www.theasylum.cc
At AFM: Sherri Strain (International
Sales and Distribution), David Rimawi
(Sales and Acquistions)
Acquisitions Executive: David Rimawi
Office: Stand 716, Tel: 213.505.4799 or
323.633.8454
KING OFTHE LOSTWORLD
Action adventure
Starring Bruce Boxleitner (Babylon 5)
and Steve Railsback (Devil’s Rejects)
Based on A. Conan Doyle’s adventure
tale, a group of plane crash survivors
must fend off outsized predators,
including the giant ape who rules over
all, to try to find a way back to
civilization.
SHAPESHIFTER
Horror
A Romanian hit man with the ability to
change into a powerful creature pursues
his victim into a high security prison in
order to exact vengeance.
DEAD MEN WALKING
Horror
A biotoxin which spreads a deadly virus
is released into a prison population,
causing the inmates to die and reanimate
as flesh eating zombies.
FRANKENSTEIN
Horror
In this modern retelling of the Mary
Shelley classic, a brilliant neurosurgeon
ruthlessly creates a monster, which
becomes his killing machine.
BEASTOFBRAY ROAD
Horror
Based on a true legend, the citizens of a
small Wisconsin town are terrorized by
an unknown beast, believed to be a
werewolf.
INVASION
Sci-fi
Starring C. Thomas Howell (Hidalgo),
Jake Busey (Starship Troopers) and Peter
Greene (Pulp Fiction)
HG Wells’novel is updated in this tale of
a scientist who tries to find his family
while surviving an alien all-out attack on
the Earth.
JOLLY ROGER
Horror
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and begins killing the descendents of the
mutinous crew which killed him and
stole his gold.
LEGION OFTHE DEAD
Horror
Bruce Boxleitner (Babylon 5), Zach
Galligan (Gremlins) and Andy Lauer
(Gun Shy). When a long dead Egyptian
princess is brought back to life, she calls
on the powers of the underworld to give
her unlimited powers.
DEATH VALLEY: THE REVENGE
OFBLOODYBILL
Horror
Bloody Bill Anderson, murderous
Confederate raider, and his band of
zombies attack a group of college
students unfortunate enough to wander
into their ghost town.
ATLAS
INTERNATIONAL
FILM GMBH
Atlas International Film GmbH, 81543
Munich, Candidplatz 11, Germany. Tel:
4989.21.09.750. Fax: 4989.22.43.32.
[email protected], www.atlasfilm.com
At AFM: Mr. Dieter Menz (CEO), Mr.
Stefan Menz (President), Mr. Philipp
Menz (VPSales)
Office: Lowes Hotel, Suite 828, Tel:
310.458.6700.828
Hotel: Hotel Doubletree Guest Suites,
1707, 4th St., Santa Monica
50 YEARS OFROCK&ROLL
Concert Live Event
Language: English
Director: Chuck Braverman, Zbig
Rybczynski and others
Cast: James Brown, Chuck Berry, Little
Richard, Fats Domino, Everly Brothers,
Bo Diddly, Jerry Lee Lewis and many
others.
Status: pre-production
Country: USA
The biggest reunion concert of the
founding fathers of Rock&Roll!
SIEGFRIED
Comedy (90 minutes)
Language: English subtitled
Director: Sven Unterwaldt
Cast: Tom Gerhardt, Mirco Nontschew,
Dorkas Kiefer, Markus Profitlich
Status: completed
Country: Germany
After centuries full of lies, it is time to
finally tell the true story about one of
literature’s biggest heroes!
SOS BUNNYGUARDS ON BOARD
(ERKAN&STEFAN - DER TOD
KOMMTKRASS)
Comedy (97 minutes)
Language: English subtitled
Director: Michael Karen
Cast: Erkan Maria Moosleitner, Stefan
Lust, Andrea Sawatzki, Ludger Pistor
Status: completed
Country: Germany
Weekend at Bernie’s meets Titanic when
to homies aboard a cruise ship try to
pretend that a popular game-show host is
still alive!
DARK REMAINS
Horror (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Brian Bradley
Cast: Cheri Christian, Greg Thompson
Status: completed
Country: USA
Following their daughter’s brutal murder,
a grieving young couple escapes the city
to find solace in the mountains, only to
discover their new home is haunted by
violent entities with tragic histories of
their own.
SPEEDKINGS (ABGEFAHREN)
Action (91 minutes)
Language: English dubbed
Director: Jakob Schäuffelen
Cast: Felicitas Woll, Sebastian Ströbel,
Nina Tenge, Rebecca Mosselmann
Status: completed
Country: Germany
Good kids go to heaven, bad ones go
racing!
AURORA
ENTERTAINMENT
CORPORATION
Aurora Entertainment Corporation, 9454
Wilshire Blvd., Suite M-11, Beverly Hills,
CA90212 USA. Tel: 310.858.1005. Fax:
310.858.1050
At AFM: Anatoly Fradis (President),
Mikhail Gugin (Vice President),
Lyudmilla Fradis (Vice President), Fradis
(Vice President), Dana Block (Executive
Assistant)
Office: Le Merigot – 204, Tel:
310.395.9700 ext. 204
RETURN OFTHE LIVING DEAD:
NECROPOLIS
http://www.returnofthelivingdead4and5.c
om/
Horror (88 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Ellory Elkayem
Producer: Anatoly Fradis, Steve
Scarduzio
Key Cast: Peter Coyote, John Keefe,
Aimee Lynn-Chawick, Cory Hardrict
Budget 7 Million
Origin: USA
A group of high school kids try to rescue
a friend from an evil research facility,
but end up releasing hundreds of braineating zombies instead.
RETURN OFTHE LIVING DEAD:
RAVE TO THE GRAVE
http://www.returnofthelivingdead4and5.c
om/
Horror (93 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Ellory Elkayem
Producer: Anatoly Fradis, Steve
Scarduzio
Key Cast: Peter Coyote, Jenny Mollen,
John Keefe
Budget 8 Million
Origin: USA
On Halloween night, a drug containing
Trioxyn 5 (which reanimates the dead),
is taken by unsuspecting college kids and
they eventually turn a rave into a zombie
nightmare.
AV PICTURES LTD
AV Pictures Ltd, Caparo House, 2nd
Floor, 103 Baker Street, London W1U
6LN UK. Tel: 44.20.7317.0140. Fax:
44.20.7224.5149.
[email protected]
CONEY ISLAND BABY – CINEMAVAULT
At AFM: Vic Bateman (Managing
Director), Gavin Braxton (C.E.O.), Ian
Kirk (Chief Operating Officer), Anna
Krupnova (Head of Development)
Offices: 454 & 456, Loews, Tel:
310.458.6700, Ext. 454, Fax:
310.458.6761
Hotel: Hotel Huntley Santa Monica
Beach, 1111 Second Street, Santa
Monica, CA90403. Tel: 310.394.5454.
Fax: 310.458.9776
WILDERNESS
Action/Horror (approx. 94 mins)
Director: Michael J Bassett
Producers: Robert Bernstein, Douglas
Rae, John McDonnell
Cast: Sean Pertwee, Alex Reid, Toby
Kebbell
Production Company: Ecosse Films
Production Status: Post-Production
Country of Origin U.K.
Six tough inmates from a Young
Offenders Institution are sent for a
character-building week on a deserted
island.
SAMBAR SALSA
Comedy
Director; Aditya Raj Kapoor
Producers: Renu Patel, Ashish Redij
Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Priyanka, Roberta
Caocci, Ateesh Randev
Production Company: Kaybee Ltd
Country of Origin U.K.
The course of true love between an
Indian boy and a Spanish girl is met with
many obstacles and much adversity.
THE ARYAN COUPLE
Drama (118 min)
Director: John Daly
Producers: John Daly and Peter Beale
Cast: Martin Landau, Judy Parfitt, Danny
Webb
Production Company: Celebration
International
Production Status: Completed
Country of Origin U.S.A. / Poland
A seemingly perfect Aryan couple
become embroiled in their Jewish
employer’s attempts to negotiate safe
passage from Hitler’s “Final Solution” as
it sweeps through Europe.
AWARD PICTURES
Award Pictures, LLC, 112 Carmen 2
Hill, New Milford, CT06776-4511 USA.
Tel: 860.355.1166. Fax: 860.355.1166.
www.awardpictures.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: Graham MacCrae (CEO),
Glenn S. MacCrae (President), Jeanne
MacCrae (President, Family films &
Animation)
Office: 202, Tel: 310.458.6700 x202
ROMANCE NOVEL
Action Romance (96 min)
Language: English
Director: (Proposed) Jason Alexander
Producer: Glenn MacCrae & Graham
MacCrae
Key Cast: (Proposed cast) Ted Raimi,
Jennifer Sky, Julian McMahon, Jason
Alexander, Maggie Wheeler, Billy
Crystal
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Budget: 12 M
Year of production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Since Jennifer loves the company
president, information officer Jack
doesn’t stand a chance against power,
wealth, good looks, and the company’s
Special Security- the “SS!”
PERSONALMURDERS
Crime Drama (156 min)
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HAPPY
25
th
ANNIVERSARY
ELSPETH TAVARES
&
THE BUSINESS OF FILM
BEST WISHES & THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT
C ENTRE FILM SALES
CENTRE MEDIA GROUP
AFM Office 746 Tel: 310 458 6700 Ext.746
Eddie Leahy cell + 44 7748 986 060
Kent Walwin cell + 44 780541563
AFM 2005 SCREENINGS
YOUNG ALEXANDER
Fairmont Screen 1 • Nov 3rd - 5pm • Nov 7th - 3pm
CASANOVA’S LAST STAND
Fairmont Screen 1 • Nov 2nd - 3pm • Nov 8th - 3pm
UPCOMING PRODUCTIONS
EICHMANN • YOUNG LEGENDS • TCB – THE GOLDEN SESSION
THE MERLIN PAPERS • SNAPSHOTS
Eddie Leahy Centre Film Sales Ltd 45 Cedar Grove, Ealing London W5 4AS, UK
Tel/Fax: +44 20 8566 2388 Cell: +44 7748 986 060 [email protected]
Kent Walwin Centre Film Sales Ltd 46 Crispin Street London E1 6HQ, UK
Tel: +44 20 7247 3444 Cell: +44 7810 541 563 [email protected]
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Congratulations
On
Christian
Halsey
Solomon
25
Years
Grosvenor Park
Pixit
14 Beverly Park
Beverly Hills CA 90210
tel: 310 205 6262
fax: 310 205 6264
Via Fratelli Ruspoli 8
00197 Roma
tel: +39 06 8424 1483
fax: +39 06 8408 3228
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Language: English
Director: To Be Announced
Producers: Glenn MacCrae & Graham
MacCrae
Key Cast: (Proposed) Tom Everett Scott,
Neve Campbell, John Delancie, Bruce
Campbell, Paul Reubens
Budget: 9 M
Origin: USA
The “Personals” ads lead of relationships
that are more deadly than ever desired!
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK TOO
Road Movie (107 min)
Language: English
Directors: Glenn MacCrae & Graham
MacCrae
MacCrae
Key Cast: (Proposed) Tom Welling,
Shawn Reeves, Bruce Campbell, George
Carlin, Pat Morita, Susan Sarandon,
Harvey & Bob Weinstein
Budget: 17M
Origin: USA
Film students encounter prejudice and
Nazi biker gang problems while
traveling to attend the anniversary
showing of a classic movie.
ROMANCE NOVEL2: WINNING
THE DREAM!
Action Romance (130 min)
Language: English
Director: (Proposed) Jason Alexander
MacCrae
Key Cast: (Proposed cast) Ted Raimi,
Jennifer Sky, Julian McMahon, Jason
Alexander, Maggie Wheeler
Budget: 14 M
Origin: USA
Jack and Jennifer’s problems explode
when the company SS is sent to
eliminate them, and the secret knowledge
in Jack’s head!
JUNGLE BUNGLES
TVAnimated Series (30 min eps.)
Language: English
Producer: Jeanne MacCrae & Graham
MacCrae
Key Cast: Voice Talent to be determined
Budget: 800k / per episode
Origin: USA
Beginning with a cross-eyed
hippopotamus and his seeing-eye
butterfly, they, and other animals face
dangers and solve problems living
together in the African wild.
SWIMMING IN THE SKY
Supernatural Drama (115 min Approx.)
Language: English
MacCrae
Key Cast: Tom Everett Scott, Meredith
Henderson
Budget: 8 M
Origin: USA
Winning the Women’s Olympic Gold
Swimming Medal, and death, is not
really the end of Alicia’s happiness.
BAD BUNNY
Horror (90 min Approx)
Language: English
MacCrae
Key Cast: To be Announced
Budget: 7M
Origin: USA
After little children are horribly torn to
pieces, their teenage brothers and sisters
eventually realize what the killer is, and
that they alone must defeat it.
TIMESTEP
Sci-Fi (105 min Approx.)
Language: English
MacCrae
Key Cast: To Be Announced
Budget: 6.5 M
Origin: USA
A beautiful young dancer is able to travel
through time after a lab accident,whenever she does a tapdancing timestep!
B
BAVARIA FILM
INTERNATIONAL
Bavaria Film International,
Bavariafilmplatz 8, Geiselgasteig 82031
Germany. Tel: 49.89.6499.2686. Fax:
49.89.6499.3720.
[email protected],
www.bavaria-film-international.de
At AFM: Thorsten Schaumann (Head of
Bavaria Film International,
Sales/Acquisition), Stefanie Zeitler
(Sales Manager)
Office: 866 Loews, Tel: 310.434.9063
Hotel: The Georgian Hotel, Tel:
310.395.9945. Fax 310.656.0904. Cell:
49.172.858.7043
BAB’AZIZ
Drama (98 min.)
Language: Arab, French, Subtitles
English
Production Company: Les films du
Requin, Behnegar, Pegasos Film,
Hannibal Film, Inforg Studio, Zephyr
Film
Producer: Cyriac Auriol, Alizera
Shojanoori
Director: Nacer Khemir
Key cast: Parviz Shahinkhou, Maryam
Hamid, Nessim Kahoul, Mohamed
Grayaa, Golshifteh Farahni, Hossein
Panahi
Status: Completed
Two figures, lost in an ocean of sand.
Ishtar, a lively little girl, and her
grandfather Bab’Aziz, a blind dervish.
Their goal is the great reunion of
dervishes that takes place every thirty
years.
DAM STREET(HONG YAN)
Drama (93 min.)
Language: Chinese, Subtitles English
Director: Li Yu
Production Company: Laurel Films
Producer: Fang Li
Key cast: Liu Yi, Wang Xingrao, Li
Kechun
Status: Completed
Country of origin: China/France
Xiao-Yun is a 16-year-old high school
student in a small riverside town in
China’s South-Western Sichuan province
in the repressive social climate of 1983.
INTO GREAT SILENCE (DIE
GROSSE STILLE)
Creative Documentary (164 min.)
Language: French/Latin, Subtitles
English
Director: Philip Groening
Production Company: Philip Groening
Filmprodukton
Producer: Philip Groening, Michael
Weber, Andres Pfaeffli, Elda Guidinetti
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Germany
INTO GREAT SILENCE is the first film
ever about life inside the Grande
Chartreuse, the mother house of the
legendary Carthusian Order, based in the
French Alps.
ALMOSTHEAVEN
Drama (95 min.)
Language: German, English, Subtitles
English
Director: Ed Herzog
Production Company: Egoli Tossell Film
AG, Medienfonds German Film
Produktions GmbH
Producer: Judy Tossell
Key cast: Heike Makatsch, Wotan Wilke
Möhring
Status: Completed
Helen has always dreamt of singing at
Nashville’s Bluebird Café. She may not
have the greatest voice in town, but that
isn’t even her biggest problem.
LOSTDOMAIN (LE DOMAINE
PERDU)
Drama (100 min.)
Language: French, Subtitles English
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Production Company: Elzévir Films,
Atlantis Film, Impossible Films,
Revolver, Gemini Films
Producer: Denis Carot, Marie
Masmonteil
Key cast: Francois Cluzet, Gregoire
Colin, Christian Colin, Julie Delarme
Status: Completed
Country of origin: France, Italy,
Romania, Spain
Constantly shifting from Chile in the
30’s and the 70’s to the second World
War in London, Raoul Ruiz takes us on a
very personal film where a novel
gradually takes hold of reality,
throughout the century.
25th Anniversary Celebration
Congratulations
Elspeth Tavares
You have defied the critics
and weathered the tough times
with the good years....
we are all very proud of you.
John Reid Classic 99 Pty Ltd. Australia, 2 Flannan Court
Kellyville, NSW 2155 Tel & Fax +(61-2) 9836 2205
Mobile 041 821 5379 E-mail [email protected]
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BECKER FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
Becker Films International, Level 1, 11
Waltham Street, Artarmon, NSW 2064,
Australia. Tel: 612.9438.3377. Fax:
612.9439.1827.
At AFM: Reiko Bradley (President), Ali
Yap (Operation Coordinator)
Office: Loews, #633
MARIGOLD
Romantic Comedy
Writer/Director: Willard Carroll
Producer: Charles Salmon, Tom Wilhite
Co-Producer: Christian Mills
Executive Producers: Reiko Bradley,
Susan Landau, Praveen Nischol
Cast: Ali Larter, Salman Kahn
Delivery Status: Screening
A struggling but charming Hollywood
actress is stranded in India when her
latest fly-by-night movie has lost its
German financing.
LIKE MINDS
Psychological Thriller
Writer/Director: Gregory J. Read
Producers: Piers Tempest, Jonathan
Shteinman
Executive Producer: Cyril Megret,
Damita Nikapota
Cast: Toni Collette, Richard Roxburgh,
Tom Sturridge, Eddie Redmayne
17 year old Alex Bennett is young,
privileged - and charged with the
shotgun death of his schoolmate Nigel
Colby.
FEED
Director: Brett Leonard
Cast: Alex O’Lachlan, Patrick
Thompson, Jack Thompson
Producer: Melissa Beauford
Executive Producer: Jack Thompson
Little known outside, feederism has
burgeoned in the underbelly of the
Internet. Feederism is a fetish where
“feeders” encourage and are sexually
charged when their partners, “gainers”
eat to excess and gain extreme amounts
of weight.
RAG TALE
Satire
Writer/Director: Mary McGuckian
Producers: Mary McGuckian, Tom
Reeve, Jeff Abberley
Executive Producers: Romain Schroeder,
Julia Blackman, Garrett McGuckian
Cast: Rupert Graves, Jennifer Jason
Leigh, Malcolm McDowell, Ian Hart,
Kerry Fox, Simon Callow, Lucy Davis
A contemporary urban satire set during a
week in the life of a tabloid newspaper.
THREE DOLLARS
Drama
Director: Robert Connolly
Producers: John Maynard
Cast: David Wenham, Frances
O’Connor, Sarah Wynter
Three Dollars is a story about change.
An epic tale of an ordinary man’s life
with many threads to the story, each one
treated differently and yet coming
together at the end.
VOICES OFIRAQ
Documentary (80 minutes)
Producer: Eric Manes
Co-Producers: Martin Kunert, Archie
Drury
150 digital video cameras were
distributed among the people of Iraq to
create the ground breaking, critically
acclaimed documentary Voices of Iraq.
Filmed and directed by the people of
Iraq.
BETA CINEMA
Beta Cinema, Gruenwalder Weg 28 d,
82041 Oberhaching, Germany. Tel:
49.89.673469.80. Fax:
49.89.673469.888.
[email protected],
www.betacinema.com
Company Type: Sales agent
At AFM: Dirk Schuerhoff (Managing
Director Sales & Acquisitions), Andreas
Rothbauer (Head of Theatrical Sales &
Intl. Theatrical Acquisitions)
Office: 829
THE WHITE MASAI
Drama (132 min)
Language: English and German with
English subtitles
Director: Hermine Huntgeburth
Producer: Guenter Rohrbach
Cast: Nina Hoss, Jacky Ido, Katja Flint
Delivery Status: completed
Origin: Germany
Based on the international best-seller. A
beautiful love story about a white
woman who gives up everything to share
her life with a black Masai warrior in the
Kenyian bush.
THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE WHYWOMEN NEVER GET
ENOUGH
Romantic Comedy (102 min)
Language: German with English subtitles
Director: Doris Dorrie
Producer: Bernd Eichinger, Norbert
Preuss
Cast: Alexandra Maria Lara, Christian
Ulmen, Simon Verhoeven
Origin: Germany
A charming love story about women who
ask for too much and win up getting
what they didn’t expect.
FOOTBALL-THE BIRTH OF A
PASSION
Documentary (75 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Jesús Sanchez Romeva
Producer: Javier Linares, José Maria
Morales, Miguel Morales
Co-production partners: Transglobe,
Wanda Films
Origin: Spain
Football - The birth of a passion tells the
story of football from the remotest
origins.
GHETTO
Drama (110 min)
Language: English
Director: Audrius Juzénas
Producer: Thees Klahn, Audrius Juzénas,
Almone Cepiene, Giedrius Guntorius
Cast: Erika Marozsán, Heino Ferch,
Sebastian Huelk
Origin: Germany + Lithuania
The true story of a Jewish ghetto in the
Nazi-occupied Lithuania, adapted from
the well-known theater play by the
Israeli author Joshua Sobol
BLEIBERG
ENTERTAINMENT
Bleiberg Entertainment, Inc., 9454
Wilshire Blvd, Suite 600, Beverly Hills,
CA90212 USA. Tel: 310.273.0003. Fax:
310.273.0007.
At AFM: Ehud Bleiberg (Chairman &
CEO), Roman Kopelevich (VPof
Worldwide Sales), Shannon Banal
Office: Loews Suite #522, Tel:
310.458.6700, Ext. 522
LONESOME JIM
Drama
Language: English - USA
Director: Steve Buscemi
Producers: Gary Winick, Jake Abraham
Principal Cast: Live Tyler, Casey Affleck
Status: Completed
A failed writer comes home from
Manhattan to a small town in the
Midwest and has to face the
disappointment of his parents and the life
he tried to leave behind.
ADAM RESURRECTED
Comedy/Drama
Director: Paul Schrader
Producers: Ehud Bleiberg, Werner
Wirsing
Status: Recently Announced / Pre
Production
A patient in an institution who survived
the Holocaust clowning around as a dog
under the strict orders of his Nazi captor,
Adam Stein his demons.
THE LASTDANCE
Drama
Language: Hebrew - Israel
Director: Eitan Anner
Producers: Ehud Bleiberg
Ten year old Chen learns how to
ballroom dance to get away from his
dysfunctional home life as well as to
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impress a girl. He soon realizes the
transformative powers of the cha cha cha.
CHAMPAGNE SPY
Documentary
Director: Nadav Schirman
Producers: Ehud Bleiberg
Status: In Production
The story of espionage in the Middle
East, master spy Wolfgang Lotz adopted
the cover of a wealthy German horsebreeder and infiltrated Egyptian society
spying for Israel.
BOKU FILMS PTE
LTD
Boku Films Pte Ltd, 216-5 Syed Alwi
Road, Singapore, 207754 Singapore. Tel:
65.9182.9595. Fax:(65) 6299 0190.
www.bokufilms.com
At AFM: Leon Tong (Managing
Director), Kelvin Tong (Creative
Director)
Office: Tel: 65.9182.9595, Fax:
65.6299.5519, 65.6299.0190
1942
www.bokufilms.com/1942
Suspense Thriller (83 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Kelvin Tong
Producer: Leon Tong
Key Cast: Toshihide Onisuka, Tetsuya
Chihiro, Fumikazu Hara, Seiichiro
Okawa, Hiroyuki Hasegawa
Budget $600,000
Origin: Singapore
5 soldiers; the jungles of Malaya; WWII;
were left behind; one camera; tells their
story.
C
CAMELOT
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP, INC.
Camelot Entertainment Group, Inc.,
2020 Main Street, Suite 990, Irvine,
California. Tel: 949.777.1090. Fax:
949.777.1091. www.camelotfilms.com
At AFM: Robert P. Atwell (President /
Chairman Camelot Entertainment Group,
Inc.), H.K. Dyal (President Camelot
films, Inc.), Craig Kitchens (President
Ferris Wheel Films, Inc.)
Office: 310, Tel: 310.458.6700. Fax:
949.777.1091
CANADA
PRODUCERS AND
SALES OFFICE
Canada Producers and Sales Office
including Telefilm Canada, 360, rue
Saint-Jacques, Suite 700, Montréal,
Québec, Canada H2Y 4A9. Tel:
514.283.6363 / 800.567.0890. Fax:
514.283.3317.
At AFM: Lise Corriveau (Director,
Festivals and Markets, Telefilm Canada),
Danielle Bélanger (Project Leader,
Festivals and Markets, Telefilm Canada),
Jennifer Price (Trade Commissioner,
Canadian Consulate General in Los
Angeles)
Office: Loews Santa Monica Hotel, Suite
765 (Main & reception) and 764, Tel:
310.458.6700, ext. 765
Company Description: The Canadian
Sales Office and the Canadian Producers
Office will represent some of Canada’s
finest and up-and-coming independent
film producers. The projects that they
bring to the market are in various stages
of development and offer a variety of
genres, styles, lengths and languages.
The producers are supported in their
efforts at AFM by federal departments
and funding agencies and by individual
provincial film funding agencies and
commissions.
CAPITOL FILMS
Capitol Films, 23 Queensdale Place,
London W11 4SQ UK. Tel:
44.20.7471.6000. Fax: 44.20.7471.6012.
[email protected],
www.capitolfilms.com
At AFM: Jane Barclay (Managing
Director), Sharon Harel (Managing
Director), Hannah Leader (Head of Legal
& Business Affairs), Simon Crowe
(Head of Sales), Eve Schoukroun (Senior
Sales Manager), Maya Amsellem (Legal
& Business Affairs), Noemi Rav (Head
of Marketing), Sofia Neves (Sales
Executive)
Office: Suite 643/645, Tel:
310.434.9414. Fax: 310.434.9415
ALEX RIDER: STORMBREAKER
Action Thriller
Language: English
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Producer: Samuelson Productions
Leading Cast: Mickey Rourke, Ewan
McGregor, Alicia Silverstone, Andy
Serkis, Bill Nighy, Sophie Okonedo,
Missi Pyle, Sarah Bolger, introducing
Alex Pettyfer
Status: In Post-Production (Promo Reel
premiere)
Production Country: UK
Alex Rider is just a normal teenager – or
so it seems until he discovers his uncle
was a spy and has been murdered by one
of the most dangerous assassins in the
world.
BORDERTOWN
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Gregory Nava
Producer: Mobius Entertainment
Leading Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Antonio
Banderas, Martin Sheen
Status: In Post-production (Promo Reel
premiere)
Production Country: US
An impassioned American reporter
(Jennifer Lopez) heads to Mexico to
investigate the brutal rape and murder of
local young women. She soon discovers
hundreds of victims and finds her own
life is in great danger.
A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
Drama
Language: English
Producer: Sandcastle 5 Productions
Director: Robert Altman
Leading Cast: Woody Harrelson, Tommy
Lee Jones, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan,
Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly, Meryl
Streep, Lily Tomlin
Status: In Post-production (Promo Reel
premiere)
Legendary multi-Oscar nominee Robert
Altman directs a glittering cast of stars.
With his original vision he takes us
behind the scenes of a fictional broadcast
of one of America’s most celebrated
radio shows.
ALPHADOG
Drama
Language: English
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Producer: Sidney Kimmel Entertainment
Leading Cast: Emile Hirsch, Justin
Timberlake, Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone,
Ben Foster
Status: In Post-Production (Promo Reel
Available)
A young drug dealer by the name of
Johnny Truelove kidnaps Zack
Mazursky, the fifteen-year-old brother of
a man in debt to him. Within three days
Zack is dead. Alpha Dog is their story.
CARNABY
INTERNATIONAL
Carnaby International, New London
House, 172 Drury Lane, London WC2B
5QR United Kingdom. Tel:
44.20.7074.1200. Fax: 44.20.7074.1203.
www.carnabyfilms.com
At AFM: Will Machin (Head of Sales),
Ian Hall (Head of Distribution)
Office: 746 (UK Film Council)
THE LASTDROP
War adventure (92 mins)
Language: English
Director: Colin Teague
Co-Production Partners: Media Pro,
Romania
Producer: Hamish Skeggs for Carnaby
Films
Key Cast: Billy Zane, Karel Roden, Sean
Pertwee, Michael Madsen, David Ginola,
Nick Moran, Tommy Flanagan, Steve
Spiers, Alexander Skarsgaard, Laurence
Fox, Neil Newbon, Rafe Spall,
Budget $7.5 million
Origin: United Kingdom
Kelly’s Heroes meets Oceans Eleven The Last Drop is a daring heist that takes
place during a war - it doesn’t get much
more dangerous than that!
TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG
Comedy Adventure (87 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Trevor Steven Smith
Producer: Stuart D Fenegan
ELSPETH TAVARES &
THANKS FOR 25 Y EARS OF
ASTUTELY ASSESSING
OUR EVER CHANGING
INDEPENDENT FILM BUSINESS!
CHRIS D. NEBE
[email protected]
310-478-6666
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Key Cast: Steve John Shepherd, Adam
Coasdell, Nick Brimble,
Hannah Bourne, Claire Vaughan
Budget $2.5 million
Origin: UK
A comedy adventure about two streetwise brothers who take on the London
City establishment.
ARE YOU READYFOR LOVE
(LOVE FM)
Romantic Comedy
Director: English
Language: Helen Grace
Producer: Trudy Sargent for Carnaby
Films
Key Cast: Lucy Punch, Andy Nyman, Ed
Byrne, Leigh
Zimmerman, Michael Brandon
Budget $2 million
Year of Production: 2005/ 2006, Country
of Origin: UK
Three singles, three days, and a million
romantic possibilities. ‘Are You Ready
for Love?’is a contemporary comedy
about dating in London.
CELESTIAL
PICTURES LIMITED
Celestial Pictures Limited, Shaw
Administration Building, Lot 220, Clear
Water Bay, Kowloon, H.K. Tel:
852.2927.1111. Fax: 852.2243.0099.
[email protected]
m, www.celestialpictures.com
Company Type: Sales Agent
At AFM: William Pfeiffer (CEO),
Gordon Cheung (Executive VP.
Acquisition & Distribution), Veronique
Tan (VP. Acquisition & Distribution,
Alan Ng (VP. Acquisition &
Distribution)
Office: Office #856, Tel: 310.434.9054.
Fax: 310.434.9055
PERHAPS LOVE
Romantic Drama (108 mins)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan
Producer: Andre Morgan
Cast: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhou Xun,
Jacky Cheung
Budget: US$10,000,000
Country of Origin: China
The story revolves around a love triangle
wrapped in a movie-within-a-movie, and
is punctuated throughout by the heartfelt
score and love songs
BURNING DREAMS
Documentary (75 mins)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Wayne Peng
Producer: Janet Yeo
Cast: Liang Yi, Yang Yang
Country of Origin: Taiwan
Director Wayne Peng presents the
exhilarating feature film “Burning
Dreams”. A time portal that takes the
audience through five decades of sensual
thrills with electrifying dance sequences
across the nostalgic and modern
cityscapes of Shanghai
CONTEMPORARY STYLES OF
KUNG FU
Language: Mandarin
Director: Lucky Lau
Producer: Gordon Cheung
Cast: Gordon Liu Chia-Hui
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
The star of the martial arts classic “The
36th Chamber Of Shaolin”, Gordon Liu
Chia-Hui hosts this compelling
documentary on the “Big Five Forces” of
kung fu
CELLULOID
DREAMS
Celluloid Dreams, 2 rue Turgot, Paris,
Fr 75009 France. Tel: 33.1.49.70.03.70.
Fax: 33.1.49.70.03.71. www.celluloiddreams.com, [email protected]
At AFM: Ms. Hengameh PANAHI
(President), Ms. Charlotte MICKIE
(Managing Director), Ms. Tanja
MEISSNER (International Sales), Mr.
Sébastien CHESNEAU (International
Sales), Ms. Karina KORENBLUM
(International Sales)
Office: Loews Booth #848, Tel:
310.434.9048, Fax: 310.434.9049
HEADING SOUTH (VERS LE SUD)
Drama (105’)
Language: French
Director: Laurent CANTET
Producer: HAUTETCOURT
Key Cast: Charlotte Rampling,Karen
Young, Louise Portal, Ménothy Cesar
BRUCE GREENWOODIN MEE-SHEE: T HE WATER GIANT – CONTENTFILM
Origin: FRANCE
THE PERFUME OFTHE LADYIN
BLACK (LE PARFUM DE LADAME
EN NOIR)
Comedy (115’)
Language: French
Director: Bruno PODALYDES
Producer: WHYNOTPRODUCTIONS
Key Cast: Denis Podalydes, Sabine
Azema, Pierre Arditi, Vincent
Elbaz, Michael Londsdale
Origin: FRANCE
ALLEGRO
Drama (87’)
Director: Danish
Language: Christoffer Boe
Producer: ALPHAVILLE PICTURES
Key Cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Helena
Christensen
Origin: DENMARK
CARMEN
Drama (100’)
Language: French
Director: Jean-Pierre LIMOSIN
Producer: CAPA DRAMA,
CELLULOID DREAMS.
PRODUCTION
Key Cast: Natacha Regnier, James
Thierree, Johan Leysen
Origin: FRANCE
DRAWING RESTRAINT 9
Documentary (145’)
Language: English-Japanese
Director: Matthew Barney
Producer: Barbara Gladstone
Key Cast: Matthew Barney, Bjork
Origin: USA
CESKAPRODUKCNI
2000
ceska produkcni 2000, Barrandov Studio,
Krizeneckeho namesti 322, Prague 5,
15200 Czech Republic. Tel:
420.242.424.578. Fax: 420.242.424.576.
www.cp2000.cz, [email protected]
At AFM: Mrs. Eliska Fuchsova
Office: Tel: 420.724.257.833
FROM SUBWAY WITH LOVE
(ROMAN PRO ZENY)
www.romanprozeny.cz
Romantic comedy (95 min.)
Language: Czech
Director: Filip Renc
Producer: Ceska produkcni 2000
Key Cast: Marek Va?ut, Zuzana Kanocz
, Simona Sta?ová
Origin: Czech
From Subway with Love is a slightly
grotesque story of two women: Laura
and her mother Jana principally involved
in the eternal ”search for the right man”
could it be the same guy?
WRONG SIDE UP(PRIBEHY
OBYCEJNEHO SILENSTVI)
http://www.silenstvi.cz/
Drama Comedy (108 min.)
Language: Czech
Director: Petr Zelenka
Producer: Negativ; Co-Production
Partners: Negativ, Česká
produkční 2000, Pegasos Film,
Sisaart
Key Cast: Ivan Trojan, Zuzana ?ulajová,
Nina Diví?ková
Origin: Czech
Life is a bitch and love is a quest and
then you ship yourself off to Cuba in a
box.
CHRIS DAVIS
INTERNATIONAL
Chris Davis International, 4612
Cartwright Ave., Toluca Lake, CA91602
USA. Tel: 818.753.8950. Fax:
818.753.8960. [email protected]
At AFM: Chris Davis, Victor Solnicki,
Hamish Gibson
Office: Loews Hotel #310
INFECTION: A TRUE STORY
Director: Albert Pyun
Producers: Paul Rosenblum, Robert
Ladesich, Norbert Weisser
Cast: Virginia Dare, Morgan Weisser,
Don Opper, Alan Abelow, Laurie
O’Brien, Cary Thompson, Joseph Freidl,
Scott Paulin
Delivery Status: Screening at the AFM
On May 19th 2004, an unprecedented
biological outbreak occurred in Lawton,
California. A classified N.S.A.A. report
detailed the carnage which ensued that
night. Based upon a true story.
HUNCHBACK
Director: Roger Christian
Producers: Max Ryan, Marek
Sledziewski, Jersey K. Frykowski,
Vojtek Frykowski, Pavel Barenski Nik
Goldman.
Budget: US$12m
Cast: To be announced at AFM
Based upon Victor Hugo’s classic novel.
COMMANDO KIDS
Family
Producer: Martin Guinness
Cast: To be announced at AFM
Budget: US$3.5m
A group of pre-teens kids break into a
local zoo to rescue three cheetah cubs.
Mayhem and pandemonium follow.
CINE EXCEL
ENTERTAINMENT
Cine Excel Entertainment, 1102 N.
Screenland Dr., Burbank, CA915052503 USA. Tel: 818.679.2994. Fax:
www.cineexcel.com
Company Type: Production and
Distribution
At AFM: David Huey (President &
CEO), Ed Tillman (V.P. of Production),
Dom Magwili (V.P. of Distribution &
Marketing), Yoko Suenaga (VP,
International Servicing), Noel Lawrence
(VP, Legal Affairs)
Office: 502, Tel: 310.458.6700 ext. 502
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THE ABOMINABLE
Sci-Fi (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Patrick Donahue
Producer: David Huey
Principal Cast: Heather DeVan, Nick
Orefice, Jason DeVan
Origin/co-production: U.S.A.
In the tradition of King Kong, an
unscrupulous hunter captures a giant
Abominable Snow Man with plans to
exploit the creature as a media event but
an animal rights activist helps the
creature escape.
REPTILICANT
Sci-Fi (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Desi Singh
Principal Cast: Gary Daniels, Tina
Desiree Berg, and Paul Darrigo
Abandoned on Alcatraz, a team of
fortune hunters will discover a
monstrosity.
ANUBIS
Horror (94 minutes)
Language: English
Director: D.W. Kann
Producer: David Huey and D.W. Kann
Principal Cast: Christopher Kann,
Victoria Campbell, Noel Francomano
Status: Completed
Five friends must fight for their lives
after resurrecting Anubis, the Egyptian
God of the Dead.
MAGMA: EARTH’S MOLTEN
CORE
Action-Adventure (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Dom Magwili
Principal Cast: Tina Desiree Berg, Jason
Scott Johnson, and Steve Spry
Nuclear weapons are used to seal the
deadliest volcano.
CINECLICK ASIA
Cineclick Asia, 3F. Incline Bldg., 891-37,
Daechi-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South
Korea 135-280. Tel: 822.538.0211. Fax:
822.538.0479. www.cineclickasia.com
Company Type: Sales agent, Acquisition,
Investment, Production
At AFM: Ms. Youngjoo, SUH
(Managing Director), Ms. Sang-eun, CHI
(Senior Manager), Mr. Younghong
CHUNG (Sales & Co-production
Manager), Ms. Ina PARK (Staff
Acquisition Executive), Ms. Youngjoo,
SUH (Managing Director), Mr.
Younghong CHUNG (Sales & Coproduction Manager)
Office: Loews Hotel # 455, Tel:
310.85.6700, Fax: 310.458.2813
THE RED SHOES
Horror (103 min)
Language: Korean/ English subtitled
Director: KIM Yong-gyun
Producer: PARK Hyun-tae & Peter KIM
(Exec. Producer), SHIN Chang-gil, Creta
D. KIM
Co-production partners: Generation Blue
Films in association with Cineclick Asia
and Cinewise Film
Cast: KIM Hye-soo, KIM Sung-su,
PARK Yeon-ah
Budget: $3 million
Origin: South Korea
A horror feature which is inspired by the
famous tale “The Red Shoes” by Hans
Christian Andersen.
THE BOW
Drama (90 min)
Director: KIM Ki-duk
Producer: Michio SUZUKI, Fumiaki
IKEDA(Exec. Producer) KIM Ki-duk
Co-production partners: KIM Ki-duk Film
Cast: JEON Sung-hwan, HAN Yeoreum, SEO Ji-seok
Budget: $1.2 million
Origin: South Korea
An old man and a girl have lived in a
boat for ten years, but their peaceful and
loving relationship begins to shake when
a boy comes onboard.
BLUE SWALLOW
Drama
Director: YOON Jong-chan
Producer: KIM Jae-young (Exec.
Producer) CHOI Sung-soo
Co-production partners: Korea Pictures
Cast: JANG Jin-young, KIM Joo-hyuck
Delivery Status: in post
production/promo screening
Budget: $9 million
Origin: South Korea
A Korean colonial woman braved the
hardships to make her dream come true,
and became Korea’s first-ever female
pilot during the vibrant Japanese
Occupation.
CINEMAARTS
ENTERTAINMENT
Cinema Arts Entertainment, 6310 San
Vicente Blvd., Suite 540, Los Angeles CA
90048 USA. Tel: 323.937.1085,832. Fax:
323.937.1186. www.cinemaartsent.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: Pierre-Richard Muller
(Chairman), Phil Leirness (Managing
Director)
Office: Tel: 310.458.6700
THE WHITE HORSE IS DEAD
Drama (95 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Pete Red Sky
Producer: Chris Moore
Key Cast: Resmine Atis, Andrew Welsh,
Irina Stemer
Origin: USA
A 17 year-old girl puts leeches on her
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body, allowing them to suck her blood in
hopes of easing the pain caused by life.
THE 7TH DAY
Drama (103 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: Carlos Saura
Producer: Andres Vicente Gomez
Key Cast: Victoria Abril, Juan Diego,
Jose Garcia
Origin: Spain
Two families have been fighting for
years over the boundaries of their land
when the teenage daughter of one family
attempts to discover the true origin of the
horrible conflict.
THE STORY OFO: UNTOLD
PLEASURES
Erotic (98 minutes)
Director: English
Language: Phil Leirness
Producer: Pierre-Richard Muller
Key Cast: Danielle Ciard, Neil Dickson,
Michelle Ruben, Max Parrish
Origin: USA
A modern-day, English Language:
remake of the erotic classic set in the
USA, based on the internationally
successful novel by Pauline Reage.
CINEMA
MANAGEMENT
GROUP
Cinema Management Group, 9056 Santa
Monica Boulevard, Suite 204, West
Hollywood, CA90069 USA. Tel:
310.300.9959. Fax: 310.300.9960.
[email protected],
www.CinemaManagementGroup.com
At AFM: Edward Noeltner (President),
Jill Sattinger (Sr. VPBusiness
Development), Keri Kleypas (Executive
Assistant)
Office: Loews 308, Tel: 310.458.6700
Tel: 310.458.6700 x 308
REEKER
Horror (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Dave Payne
Producer: Dave Payne, Tina Illman,
Amanda Klein
Co-production partners: The Institution
and Primal Pictures
Cast: Devon Gummersall, Arielle
Kebbel, Michael Ironside, Derek
Richardson, Eric Mabius
Delivery Status: Completed / Screening
Origin: USA
Young strangers trapped at an eerie
travel oasis in the desert must unravel
the mystery behind their visions of dying
people while a decaying creature preys
upon them.
CONAN - RED NAILS
Animation
Language: English
Director: Victor Dal Chele
Producer: Steve Gold and Jonathan
Bogner
Co-production partners: Yarkon
Entertainment Partners
Cast: Ron Pearlman, James Marsden,
Mark Hamill, Marg Helgenberger,
Clancy Brown, Cree Summer
Origin: USA
When Conan and the pirate queen,
Valeria, are betrayed in battle, they flee
across harsh desert and trackless jungle
only to confront the mystery and horror
of a fabulous lost city.
GONE BAD
Animation
Language: English
Director: Marco Bertoldo
Producer: John Evershed; Exec.
Produced: Wes Craven
Co-production partners: Mondo Media
Delivery Status: Preproduction
Origin: USA
When a drunkard priest invokes a sacred
spell to bring back his deceased mistress,
his rural town is soon overrun with
vicious, flesh eating Zombies.
CINEMAVAULT
RELEASING
INTERNATIONAL
INC.
Cinemavault Releasing International
Inc., 175 Bloor Street East, South Tower,
Suite 1011 Toronto ON M4W3R8
Canada. Tel: 416.363.6060. Fax:
416.363.2305. www.cinemavault.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: Natalie Kampelmacher
(International Sales Director), Steve
Arroyave (VPGeneral Manager), Paco
Alvarez (VPDistribution), Michael Paszt
(VPAcquisitions), Nick Stiliadis (CEO)
Office: 308 Tel: 310.434.9082
SPINNING INTO BUTTER
Drama
Language: English
Director: Mark Brokaw
Producer: Norman Twain, Lou Pitt,
Sarah Jessica Parker
Key Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Miranda
Richardson, Sir Michael Gambon
Origin: USA
Sarah Jessica Parker plays the Dean at a
New England college who is forced to
re-examine her own attitudes after a
racial hate crime is committed.
OFFSCREEN
Thriller
Language: Dutch
Director: Pieter Kuijpers
Producer: Reinier Selen, Edwin Van
Meurs
Key Cast: Jan Decleir, Jeroen Krabbe,
Astrid Joosten
Origin: Netherlands/ Belgium
Based on true events, a man takes the
wrong skyscraper hostage.
HOWTHE GARCIAGIRLS SPENT
THEIR SUMMER
Family Comedy
Director: English
Language: Georgina Garcia Riedel
Producer: Olga Arana, Jose C. Mangual,
Georgina Riedel
Key Cast: Elizabeth Pena, America
Ferrera, Lucy Gallardo
Origin: USA
The entertaining story of three
generations of women and their summer
of bonding.
CONEYISLAND BABY
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Amy Hobby
Producer: Bice Berry, Tanya Ryno,
Andrew Fierberg, Amy Hobby
Key Cast: Karl Geary, Laura Fraser,
Hugh O’Conor
Origin: USA
Leaving his bride at the altar, Billy
disappears for a year, then returns to try
it again.
SINNERS NEED COMPANY
Romantic Fable
Language: English
Director: Michael Kolko
Producer: Michael Kolko, Ilan Lewinger,
Horace Wilson, Sonia Wilson
Key Cast: Gail O’Grady, Jennifer
Morrison, Clint Howard
Origin: USA
Based on the best selling novel, “Sure Hand
of God,” Molly Browser and her 18 year
old daughter fight to keep their house in
order after the death of Molly’s husband.
PAULY SHORE IS DEAD
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Pauly Shore
Producer: Dean Gelber, Pauly Shore
Key Cast: Pauly Shore, Ben Stiller, Chris
Rock
Origin: USA
What’s a Hollywood star to do when his
popularity fades? Fake his own death of course!
THREE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Stewart Raffill
Producer: Heinz Thym, Michael
Dounaev, Albert Martinez-Martin,
Jimmy de Brabant
Key Cast: Kelly Brook, Billy Zane, Juan
Pablo Di Pace
Origin: UK/ Luxembourg
One gorgeous woman and two men are
shipwrecked on a tropical island, only
one will survive.
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True Story
Language: German
Director: Niko von Glasow
Producer: Niko von Glasow, Helga Poche
Key Cast: Jan Decleir, Jochen Nickel,
Iwan Stebunov, Bela B.
Felsenheimer
Origin: Germany
A true story of two brothers’struggle to
defeat Naziism in the dying days of the
Third Reich.
HOCKEYMOM
Family
Language: English
Director: Kari Skogland
Producer: Debbie Nightingale, Nancy
Laing
Key Cast: Jason Priestley, Margot Kidder
, Jessalyn Gilsig, Juliette Marquis
Origin: Canada
A struggling single mom rekindles her
Olympic dream by starting an all-girls
hockey team to challenge the men.
CINETEL FILMS,
INC.
Cinetel Films, Inc., 8255 Sunset Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA90046 USA. Tel:
323.654.4000. Fax: 323.650.6400.
At AFM: Paul Hertzberg (President),
Lisa M. Hansen (Executive Vice
President), Marcy Rubin (Sr. Vice
President, International Distribution)
Office: Loew’s Hotel, Suite 609
THE MAKI COLLECTION
Action
Cast: Various
Status: Completed
Produced by the world renown martial
arts instructor Hisao Maki, this collection
of forty Japanese language Yakuza films
are a collection of action-packed pictures
with international Asian stars. Many are
based on popular Manga.
CAVED IN
Action
Cast: Christopher Atkins, Colm Meaney
Status: Post-Production
Agroup of extreme adventurers lead an
expedition of wealthy tourists into an
abandoned salt mine but when the tourists
reveal themselves to be high-profile
thieves intent on finding lost treasure, the
adventure takes a deadly turn.
SOLAR STRIKE
Action/Disaster
Cast: Mark Dacascos, Louis Gossett, Jr.
When a giant Coronal Mass Emission
breaks off from the Sun and sends a giant
fireball hurtling toward the Earth, scientists
must blow up the polar ice caps to stop it.
KOMODO VS. KING COBRA
Action
Cast: Michael Paré
Atop secret government experiment on an
isolated tropical island goes wrong and a
group of reporters are caught unaware as
they find a massive Komodo Dragon and
King Cobra who are looking for prey.
CLASSIC MEDIA
Classic Media, 860 Broadway, 6th Floor,
New York, NY 10003 USA. Tel:
212.659.3011. Fax: 212.659.1958.
www.classicmedia.tv
At AFM: Doug Schwalbe (Head of
Worldwide Distribution), Sasha Junk
(Head of Public Relations)
Office: Loews Hotel Suite #204, Tel:
310.458.6700, ext 204
CASPER: SCARE SCHOOL
CG Animation (Adventure Comedy)
Director: Mark Gravas
Produced by: Evan Baily, Ralph
Guggenheim, Bob Mittenthal, Sandra
Walters
Status: In Development
When Casper learns that his friendliness
is a danger to ghosts and monsters
everywhere, his only hope is to go to
Scare School to develop his spooky side.
LONE RANGER: WAY OFTHE
MASK
Animation
Director: TBD
Produced by: Evan Baily, Michael Uslan
The Lone Ranger and Tonto face their
most unexpected challenge when six
samurai pursue a mad genius from Japan
all the way to the West Texas desert.
C o n grat u l at i o n s
COMMERCIAL
OFFICE OF SPAIN
Commercial Office Of Spain, 1900
Avenue of the Stars - Suite 2430, Los
Angeles, CA. 90067 USA. Tel:
310.277.5125. Fax: 310.277.5126.
[email protected],
www.spainbusiness.com
Company Type: Promotions and
investments
At AFM: Antonio Estévez Marín
(Economic & Commercial Consul), Greg
Simons (Strategic Investment Markets
Manager)
Office: 446, Tel: 310.458.6700
CONCORDE-NEW
HORIZONS
Concorde-New Horizons, 11600 San
Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles, CA90049
USA. Tel: 310.820.6733. Fax:
www.newhorizonspix.com
Company Type: Production/Distribution
Company
At AFM: Frank Moreno (President of
International Sales), Brian Cohen
(Coordinator of Worldwide Distribution)
Office: Loews, #805, Tel: 310.458.6700,
Fax: 310.207.6816
BLOODFIST2050
Action (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Leonard Hermes
Producer: Leonard Hermes
Co-production partners: Roger Corman
Cast: Matt Mullins, Beverly Lynne, Joe
Sabatino
Origin: Philippines
Cinema 7 Productions
Pinewood Studios
Iver Heath
Bucks SLO ONH
U.K.
(44) 1 753 656 825
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To avenge his brother ’s death, Alex
Danko (Mullins) must enter the erotic
and deadly criminal underground of the
near future, where he finds the fight of
his life!
CRY OFTHE WINGED SERPENT
Sci-Fi (9 min)
Language: English
Director: Jay Andrews
Producer: Kimberly A. Ray, Dan Golden
Co-production partners: Roger Corman
Cast: Maxwell Caufield, Robert Beltran,
Sonia Satra
Delivery Status: post-production
Origin: USA
A young man is given an ancient amulet
that can call upon the power of the
mythical Winged Serpent, which he uses
to exact revenge on those who have
oppressed his people.
CONQUISTADOR
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
Conquistador Entertainment, Inc., 606
N. Larchmont Blvd., Suite 112, Los
Angeles, CA90004 USA. Tel:
323.464.8464. Fax: 323.464.8084.
www.conquistador-ent.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: Pascal Borno (President), Chris
Perry (Co-President)
Office: Loew’s Santa Monica Beach
Hotel, Suite 810, Tel: 310.458.6700,
extension 810
CANDYSTRIPERS
Horror
Language: English
Director: Kate Robbins
Producers: Suzanne Lyons, Kate Robbins
Cast: Brian Llyod, Tori White, Deanna
Brooks, Nicole Rayburn
Status: Screening
When the Candy Stripers in a rural
California hospital are taken over by
voracious aliens, they become killing
machines hell-bent on breeding. Hell
never looked so good.
DOLLARS AND WHITE PIPES
Drama/Thriller
Language: English
Director: Donovan Marsh
Producers: Anant Singh, Helena Srping
Cast: Clint Brink, Joey Yusuf Rasdien,
Shaun Arnolds, Genevieve Howard,
Nikki Nelson
Status: Screening
Dollars And White Pipes is a stylish film
that follows a man’s journey from the drug
and gang culture to emotional and moral
independence as he overcomes issues of
race, education, addiction and racketeering.
RED TIDE
Sci-Fi/Horror
Language: English
Producers: Sheldon Wilson
Status: Trailer in Office
An epidemic of vanishing planes and
ships is occurring in the oceans of the
worldwide and the reason becomes clear:
Earth is not a planet; it’s a dormant space
ship that’s just come back to life.
RED MERCURY
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Roy Battersby
Producers: Meenu Bachan, Phil
Blackburn
Cast: Juliet Stevenson, Pete
Postlethwaite, Ron Silver, Stockard
Channing
Status: Screening
A taut contemporary thriller is a race
against time as three fundamental
extremists threaten the complete
destruction of London while under siege
in a restaurant.
EXITZ
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Laurens Postma
Producers: Meenu Bachan, Phil
Blackburn
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Perizaad
Zorabian, Stephen Billington
Deceit and manipulation rule the day as
computer games tycoon and creates a
strange new game where reality is the game
and real people become the players.
NATASHA
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Jag Mundhra
Producer: Meenu Bachan, Phil
Blackburn
Status: Completed
A stripper witnesses a murder. To save
herself from the Russian Mafia, she
assumes the identity of her dead cousin,
Natasha. Fleeing to England, a trail of
murder and revenge follows her.
CONTENTFILM
INTERNATIONAL
ContentFilm International, 19 Heddon
Street, London, W1B 4BG UK. Tel:
44.207.851.6500. Fax: 44.207.851.6506.
www.contentfilm.com
At AFM: Jamie Carmichael (Managing
Director), Harry White (Sales Manager),
Judith Baugin (Head of International
Marketing), Alexandra Keen (Head of
Legal and Business Affairs)
Office: 821
A THOUSAND DAYS
Drama
Language: English
Director: Keith Gordon
Producer: Nigel Thomas, Lauri Apelian
and Jim Burke
Status: Preproduction
Origin: UK
A THOUSAND DAYS is the time it
takes to heal a broken heart. An ageing
writer revisits emotional memories of a
relationship that both inspired his work
and almost ended his marriage to the
woman he loves.
BLACK BOOK
Thriller
Language: Dutch
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Producer: San Fu Malta, Jos van der
Linden, Joroen Beker
Cast: Carice Van Houten, Thom
Hoffman, Halina Reyn
Delivery Status: In production
Origin: Netherlands
Black Book tells the story of a young
Jewish girl in WWII who tries to find out
who betrayed her family.
THANK YOU FOR SMOKING
Comedy (92 mins)
Language: English
Director: Jason Reitman
Producer: David O. Sacks
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello,
Cameron Bright
Origin: USA
In this hilariously satirical and daring
expose of the tobacco corporations, we
explore the fantastical spin conjured up
by ‘Big Tobacco’s’spokesman, as he
charms his way to the impossible -
maintaining positive PR for the
company.
DRIVING LESSONS
Comedy Drama
Language: English
Director: Jeremy Brock
Producer: Julia Chasman
Cast: Julie Walters, Rupert Grint, Laura
Linney
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Origin: UK
DRIVING LESSONS is a heartfelt,
touching and hilarious look at the effect one
delightfully eccentric older woman can
have on a young man with a lot to learn.
PABLO, THE LITTLE RED FOX
Family Adventure Animation
Language: English
Writer: Isabeau Merle, Fethi Nedjari,
Keith Tutt
Producer: Roch Lener, Jonathan Peel
Cast: TBC
Delivery Status: Preproduction
Country of Origin: UK/ France
Created in a strikingly beautiful painting
style, PABLO, THE LITTLE RED FOX
is one of the most spectacular, original
and epic feature length animations of
recent years.
TRANSAMERICA
Comedy Drama (103 mins)
Language: English
Director Duncan Tucker
Producers: Sebastian Dungan, Linda
Moran
Cast: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers,
Fionnula Flanagan
Origin: USA
TRANSAMERICAis a wonderful,
crowd pleasing road movie which tells
the story of Bree (Felicity Huffman Desperate Housewives), a conservative
transsexual woman who takes an
unexpected journey across America.
THE BOOK OFREVELATION
Controversial Erotic Thriller
Language: English
Director: Ana Kokkinos
Producer: Al Clark
Cast: Tom Long, Greta Scacchi, Colin
Friels
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Origin: Australia
An erotic and hauntingly controversial
thriller about a ballet dancer at the peak
of his powers who is mysteriously
kidnapped by three hooded women for
twelve days.
THE KING
Drama/ Suspense Thriller (101 mins)
Language: English
Director: James Marsh
Producer: Milo Addica, James Wilson
Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, William Hurt,
Laura Harring
Origin: USA
A young marine cruelly abandoned as a
child by his Pastor father, returns to his
hometown hoping for reconciliation.
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THE CORE STUDIO
The Core Studio, 5Fl. Luxway Bldg. 99-7
Nonhyun-dong, Kangnam-gu, Seoul,
135-819 Korea. Tel: 822.545.6610. Fax:
www.thecorestudio.net
Company Type: Sales agent/ producer/
distributor
At AFM: Soma Chung (CEO/President),
EJ Cho (VP-Intl Business), Jay Kim
(Senior Manager-Intl Business)
Acquisition Executive: Soma Chung
(CEO/President)
Office: Le Merigot Hotel #246, Tel:
310.395.9700. Fax: 310.395.9200
DUELIST
Epic Action (109min)
Language: Korean
Director: Lee Myung-Se
Producer: Lee Myung-Se, Oh Eunsil, O
Sumi
Cast: Ha Jiwon, Gang Dongwon, Ahn
Sungki
Budget: $8mil
Origin: Korea (South)
They meet as enemy, but cruel destiny
forces them into the duel against love at
their hearts.
BYSTANDERS
Thriller
Language: Korean
Director: Im Kyungsu
Producer: Oh Bongsik
Cast: Yunjin Kim, Moon Junghyuck,
Shin Eunkyung
Budget: $4mil
A capsule note found in victim’s stomach
says the next pray. To stop the murder,
they have to reach the scene before the
killer.
NO MERCYFOR THE RUDE
Noir Action
Language: Korean
Director: Park Chulhee
Producer: Kim Younghun
Cast: Shin Hagyeun
Delivery Status: pre-production
Budget: $3.5mil
A killer dreaming of becoming a matador
has his own rule: only kill the people
with scary faces or with bad manners.
CURB
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL
CORP.
Curb Entertainment International Corp.,
3907 West Alameda Ave., Burbank, CA
91505 USA. Tel: 818.843.8580. Fax:
818.566.1719.
[email protected],
www.curbentertainment.com
At AFM: Carole Curb Nemoy
(President), Ildi Toth Davy (Executive
Director, Head of Sales
Office: Loews Santa Monica Beach
Hotel Suite 704 & 705,Tel: 310-4586700. Hotel Fax: 310.458.6761
HEADSPACE
Horror
Director: Andrew van den Houten
Producers: Andrew van den Houten and
William M. Miller
Cast: Olivia Hussey, W illiam Atherton,
Sean Young, Larry Fessenden, Dee
Wallace Stone, and Christopher Denham
In this terrifying story, 25 year old Alex
must stop the blood thirsty demons from
his nightmares from invading his world
and savagely killing everyone he knows.
LONG DISTANCE
Thriller
Director: Marcus Stern
Producers: Glenn Cooper and Tessa
Cooper
Cast: Monica Keena (FREDDYVS.
JASON), Ivan Martin, and Kevin
Chapman
When a young woman misdials a phone
number, she calls into a murder in
progress. The killer latches onto her,
taunting her by phone, as his string of
serial killings heads closer and closer to
her front door.
DIRTYWORK
Thriller
Directors: Bruce Terris
Producers: Christina Varotsis, Jennifer
Vincent
Cast: Lance Reddick, Nutsa
Kukhianidze, Michael McGlone and
Austin Pendleton
When the mistress of Chicago’s cruelest
crime boss is murdered, four lives
become enmeshed in a web of greed,
ambition, and corruption.
D
DARCLIGHT FILMS
Darclight Films, Building 22, Fox
Studios Australia, Driver Ave., Moore
Park NS 2021 Australia. Tel:
61(0)2.9955.8825. Fax:
61(0)2.8353.2437.
www.arclightfilms.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: Gary Hamilton (Managing
Director), Jonathan Deckter (President
International Sales), Lina Marrone (VP
International Sales), Ian Gibbins
(General Manager)
Office: 711
SPL
Martial Arts/Action
Language: Cantonese
Director: Wilson Yip
Producer: Carl Chang
Key Cast: Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung,
Simon Yam
Origin: Hong Kong
When an undercover agent is found
dead, a crime unit becomes involved in a
battle of deception and intrigue.
BEOWULF& GRENDEL
Action/Adventure
Language: English
Director: Sturla Gunnarsson
Producer: Paul Stephens, Eric Jordan,
Michael Lionello Cowan
Key Cast: Gerard Butler, Stellan
Skarsgard, Sarah Polley
Origin: UK/Iceland
The blood soaked tale of a Norse hero’s
battle with a great and murderous
monster.
DRAGON SQUAD
Martial Arts/Action
Director: Cantonese/English
Language: Daniel Lee
Producer: Catherine Hun
Key Cast: Sammo Hung, Michael Biehn,
Maggie Q
Origin: Hong Kong
A team of young Interpol agents travel to
Hong Kong to give testimony at the trial
of a local gangster.
DARO FILM
DISTRIBUTION
Daro Film Distribution, “Le Patio
Palace”, 41 Ave. Hector Otto, MC98000,
Monaco. Tel: 377.9797.1600. Fax:
377.9797.1590.
Company Type: Distributor
At AFM: Pierre-André Rochat
(President)
Acquisition Executive: Pierre-André
Rochat
Office:
JIM CAVIEZELIN UNKNOWN – GREENESTREET FILMS
DAVID HEAVENER
ENTERTAINMENT
David Heavener Entertainment, 11271
Ventura Blvd #326, Studio City, CA
91604 USA. Tel: 818.980.1080. Fax:
818.980.1089. www.davidheavener.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: David Heavener (CEO), Steven
Bakos (Director of Sales and Marketing)
Office: 502, Tel: 818.679.4642
EVILGRAVE - CURSE OFTHE
MAYA
www.davidheavener.com/curseofthemaya
/
Horror (86 min)
Language: English
Director: David Heavener
Producer: David Heavener
Key Cast: David Heavener, Todd
Bridges, Joe Estevez, Amanda Baumann
Budget $1,200,000
Origin: USA
The dead are walking… and they are
hungry. If you’re warm… and
breathing… you’re surely to fall prey to
the “Curse of the Maya”.Afamily that
preys together, stays together.
COSTA CHICA
Martial Arts / Action (cca. 90 min)
Language: English
Director: David Heavener
Producer: David Heavener
Budget $1,500,000
Origin: USA
Costa Rica: beautiful beaches, gorgeous
women, wanted and unwanted expats.
.and private investigator Michael San
Chica in between them.
DENTSU INC.
Dentsu Inc., 1-11-10, Tsukiji, Chuo-ku,
Tokyo 104-8411 Japan. Tel:
81.3.5551.9268. Fax: 81.3.5551.9475.
www.dentsu.com, [email protected]
At AFM: Mr. Takehiko Chino (Senior
Manager), Ms. Satoko Uehara (Sales
Manager)
Office: 438
THE WINDS OFGOD -KAMIKAZE
www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~elle-co/winds.html
Drama (125 min)
Language: English
Director: Masayuki Imai
Producer: Hajime Takeshita
Key Cast: Masayuki Imai, Takumi
Matsumoto, J.J Sonny Chiba, Hiroyuki
Watanabe, Nicholas Pettas
Origin: Japan
Present time New York, a couple of
comedians named Mike and Kinta meet
an accident just after losing their jobs.
They awake to find themselves as
kamikaze pilots during WWII.
THE SAMURAI I LOVED (SEMISHIGURE)
www.semishigure.jp
Samurai Drama (131 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Mitsuo Kurotsuchi
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Producer: Nobuyuki Tohya
Key Cast: Somegoro Ichikawa, Yoshino
Kimura, Ryo Fukawa, Koji Imada,
Mieko Harada, Akira Emoto, Takeshi
Kato, Ken Ogata
Origin: Japan
A tragic story of a young samurai and his
first love parting ways only to be put in a
tough situation 20 years later.
AEGIS (BOKOKU NO AEGIS)
www.aegis.goo.ne.jp
Action Adventure (127 min)
Director: Japanese
Language: Junji Sakamoto
Producer: Shohei Kotaki
Key Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada, Akira Terao,
Koichi Sato, Kiichi Nakai
Origin: Japan
A film by Junji Sakamoto. The bestseller action novel that went on to
become a box office hit. Exciting action
adventure film, featuring an all-star
Japanese cast and Hollywood
filmmakers.
UBUME (UBUME NO NATSU)
www.ubume.net/
Mystery/ Thriller (123 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Akio Jissoji
Key Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi, Masatoshi
Nagase, Hiroshi Abe, Hiroyuki
Miyasako, Rena Tanaka, Ayumi Ishida
Origin: Japan
A film by Akio Jissoji. The best-selling
novel series “Kyogokudo” becomes a hit
mystery film. Kyogokudo and his
extraordinary colleagues challenge and
complete the brand-new style of mystery
drama.
PRINCESS RACCOON (OPERETTA
TANUKI GOTEN)
www.tanuki-goten.com
Romatic Comedy (111 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Key Cast: Zhang Ziyi, Joe Odagiri,
Hiroko Yakushimaru, Saori Yuki,
Mikijiro Hira
Origin: Japan
A film by Seijun Suzuki, honored at the
Festival de Cannes, featuring the world
famous actress Zhang Ziyi and takes you
to the splendid world of love in this
historical play.
DORO
FILMPRODUKTIONS
GMBH
DoRo Filmproduktions GmbH,
Weinzingergasse 8 / 1, A-1190 Wien,
Austria. Tel: 43.1.8768888. Fax:
www.doro.net
Company Type: Film- and TVProduction
During AFM: Katharina Amport
E
EBS WORLD
ENTERTAINMENT
EBS World Entertainment, 3000 W.
Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica, CA90404
USA. Tel: 310.449.4065. Fax:
310.449.4061, www.ebsla.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: Richard Cooper (Co-Chairman
& CEO), Wayne Wong (Co-Chairman &
President), Rick Jordan
(Director/Producer-Iceman Productions),
Mocumba Dimsey (Acquisitions
Consultant)
Office: Lowes Suite 327, Tel:
310.449.4065, Fax: 310.449.4061
THE MOSTUNROMANTIC MAN
IN THE WORLD
Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Gratian Dimech & James
Heath
Producer: Burning Vision Entertainment
Key Cast: David Lumby, Yvonne
Tansley, John Evans
Origin: United Kingdom
In 2002, a worldwide search was
conducted to find the most unromantic
man on planet earth.
STAGE FRIGHT
Horror/Thriller (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Rick Jordan
Producer: Iceman Productions LLC
Key Cast: Rudi Frenner, Omayra
Borrero, Rick Jordan,Clive Kennedy,
Jessica Landon, Barry McLaughlin,G.W.
Stevens, JF Pryor, Chris Jordan Wolfe,
Craig Saslow
Origin: USA
A touring theatre company is trapped in
an old theatre with a history of bloody
murders.
LITTLE GIRLBLUE
Family/Teen (82 min)
Director: Swiss German (English
Subtitled)
Language: Anna Luif
Co-Production Partners: SF DRS,
Teleclub, SWR
Producer: Dschoint Ventschr
Filmproduktion
Key Cast: Muriel Neukom, Andreas
Eberle, Bernarda Reichmuth, Sabine
Berg, Mark Kuhn, Michael Voita
Origin: Switzerland
A coming of age film that follows a
young teenage girl whose family has
moved to a new neighborhood.
NO MONEYDOWN
Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Sam Sokolow & Rob Lobl
Producer: Sam Sokolow, Rob Lobl,
Patrick Sheedy
Key Cast: Josh Lucas, Terri Garr, Bob
Balaban, Al Franken, Ally Sheedy, Roy
Scheider, Alex English, Dan Patrick
Origin: USA
A tale of two undaunted guys search for
the ultimate bachelor lifestyle.
ECHO BRIDGE
ENTERTAINMENT
WHITE COATS – GLOBAL CINEMA GROUP
Echo Bridge Entertainment, 75 Second
Avenue, Suite 500, Needham, MA02494
USA. Tel: 781.444.6767. Fax:
781.444.6472, [email protected],
www.ebellc.com
Market Activities: Also Buying, All
Rights sought, All territories
At AFM: Lucie Salhany (Managing
Partner), Michael Alexander (Managing
Partner), Michael Rosenblatt (Managing
Partner), Dan March (Head of
International Sales)
Office: 517 & 519, Tel: 310.458.6700
ext 517
TOBE HOOPER’S MORTUARY
Horror
Language: English
Director: Tobe Hooper
Producer: Tony Didido
Cast: Denise Crosby, Dan Byrd
Status: Complete
Country of Origin: U.S.
Acclaimed horror master Tobe Hooper
brings the dead back to life.
WHEN ZACHARY BEAVER CAME
TO TOWN
Family/Drama
Language: English
Director: John Schultz
Producer: Jay Julien; Amy Robinson;
Michael Corrente; Marisa Polvino
Cast: Eric Stoltz, Jonathan Lipnicki,
Sasha Neulinger, Cody Linley
Status: Complete
Zachary Beaver, the fattest boy in the
world, comes to town and changes the
lives of everyone in Granger, Texasespecially that of 13-year-old Toby
Wilson.
PREMONITION
Action
Language: English
Director: Jonas Quastel
Producer: Lisa Hansen; Michael Derbas
Cast: Casper Van Dien, Catherine
Oxenberg
Status: Complete
After surviving a head injury caused by a
near fatal car crash, a San Francisco
police detective begins experiencing
intense visions and global disasters.
CRASH LANDING
Action
Language: English
Director: Jim Wynorski
Producer: Lisa Hansen
Cast: Antonio Sabato Jr., Brandon Barash
Status: Complete
With all odds against him, Major John
Masters (Sabato Jr.) will need to call on
every steel nerve he has to get the plane
down safely and avoid a crash landing.
EGG STORY
CREATIVE
PRODUCTION
Egg Story Creative Production, iHub, 9
Jurong Town Hall Road, #02-52 to 56
Singapore 609431 Singapore. Tel:
65.666.51951/52. Fax: +65 666 51950.
www.eggstorycp.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: Nickson Fong
(CEO/Filmmaker)
Office: Lowes Santa Monica Hotel, Tel:
626.274.1268
KUNGFU GECKO (KFG)
www.kungfugeckothemovie.com
3D Animation (8 mins)
Language: English
Director: Nickson Fong
Producer: Nickson Fong
Origin: Singapore
Enter a world of small creatures where
microscopic legends begin. Atiny tale
about an unlikely band of accidental heroes,
with little kungfu and plenty of luck,
overcomes all adversity and unexpectedly
free a kingdom from the clutches of evil.
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ELEMENT FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
Element Films International, 7966
Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
90048 USA. Tel: 323.330.8000. Fax:
323.330.8001. www.elementfilmsintl.com
At AFM: John Fremes (President), Brad
Maeder (Vice President)
Hotel, Suite 728
FIVE FINGERS
Thriller
Director: Laurence Malkin
Producers: Adam Rosenfelt, Laurence
Fishburne, Helen Sugland
Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Ryan
Phillippe, Colm Meaney, Gina Torres,
Touriya Haoud
Status: Completed
Against the exotic backdrop of Morocco,
lies and deception escalate when a
terrorist mastermind abducts an idealistic
Dutchman with a questionable past.
THE LASTTIME
Drama-Comedy
Director: Michael Caleo
Producers: Adam Rosenfelt, Peter
Samuelson
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Michael Keaton,
Amber Valletta, Neal McDonough,
Michael Lerner
Status: Post- Production
A top sales executive mentoring a naïve
recruit falls hard for the recruit’s fiancé,
jeopardizing both his career and
company.
EMPEROR MOTION
PICTURES
Emperor Motion Pictures, 28/F.,
Emperor Group Centre, 288 Hennessy
Road Wanchai Hong Kong. Tel:
852.2835.6688. Fax: 852.2893.4309.
www.emp.hk, [email protected]
At AFM: Albert Lee (CEO), Ricky Tse
(General Manager, Distribution),
Raymond Liu (Distribution Manager),
Winnie Ho (Assistant Distribution
Manager)
Office: 316, Loews
THE MYTH
Action (121 min)
Language: Chinese, English, Korean
Director: Stanley Tong
Producer: Willie Chan, Solon So, Barbie
Tung
Key Cast: Jackie Chan, Kim Hee Seon,
Tony Leung Ka Fai, Mallika Sherawat
Origin: Hong Knog
A CHINESE TALLSTORY
Language: Cantonese
Director: Jeff Lau
Producer: Albert Lee
Key Cast: Nicholas Tse, Charelene Choi,
Fan Bingbing
Origin: Hong Kong
BUG ME NOT!
Comedy (88 min)
Director: Cantonese
Language: Lo Chi-leung
Producer: Albert Lee, Cheung Chikwong
Key Cast: Isabella Leong, Chen Po-lin,
Kenny Kwan, Steven Cheung
Origin: Hong Kong
EUROPEAN FILM
PROMOTION
European Film Promotion, Friedensallee
14-16, 22765 Hamburg, Germany. Tel:
49.40. 3906252. Fax: 49.40.3906249.
www.efp-online.com
At AFM: Sabine Rolinski (Project
Coordinater), Liz Law (Assistant), Jo
Muehlberger (Project Manager)
Office: EFPumbrella 655, Tel:
310.434.9422. Fax: 310.434.9423
PARTICIPATING COMPANIES
WITH EFP:
AUSTRIAN FILM
COMMISSION
Austrian Film Commission, Stiftgasse 6,
A-1070 Vienna. Tel: 43.1.526.33.23-0.
Fax: 43.1.526.68.01. [email protected],
www.AustrianFilm.com
At AFM: Mr. Martin Schweighofer
CHRISTOPHER
JOHNSON
ASSOCIATES
Christopher Johnson Associates, 8
Stapleton Hall Rd. Stroud Green, UKLondon N4 3QD. Tel: 44.20.7263.6946.
Fax: 44.20.7272.3449.
At AFM: Mr. Christopher Johnson
COVENT GARDEN
FILMS
Covent Garden Films, 4th Fl., 58
Kirkdale, UK- London SE26 4BJ. Tel:
44.20.8488.6280. Fax: 44.20.8488.6888.
www.coventgardenfilms.com
At AFM: Ms. Margo Steeden, Mr. Simon
Foster
CP 2000, CESKA
PRODUKCNI 2000,
A.S.
CP2000, Ceska produkcni 2000, a.s.
World Sales, Kríeneckého nám. 322/5,
CZ-152 52 Praha 5 Barrandov. Tel:
420.2424.24.578. Mobile:
420.724.257.833. Fax: 420.2424.24.576.
[email protected]
At AFM: Ms. Eliska Fuchsová
EASTWEST
FILMDISTRIBUTION
GMBH
EastWest Filmdistribution GmbH, Top
Floor, 49 Goodge Street, UK- London
W1T1TE. Tel: 44.20.7580.6553. Fax:
44.20.7580.6554 www.eastwestdistribution.com
At AFM: Mr. Alan Rudoff
ELEGANT MOB
FILMS
Loods 26B-9000 Gent. Tel:
32.9.259.0101. Fax: 32.9.259.0039
At AFM: Mr. Walter Ertvelt
Elegant Mob Films, Barco 41, 2ºA, E28004 Madrid. Tel: 34.91.5216591.
At AFM: Mr. Javier Gómez Serrano
REACH UP HIGH
ENTERTAINMENT
LIMITED
GLAMOUR
FILMGYÁRTÓ KFT.
Glamour Filmgyártó Kft., Bakator u 9/B,
H - 1118 Budapest, Tel: 36.1.225.3562.
Fax: 36.1.225.3563.
[email protected],
www.glamourfilms.hu
At AFM: Ms. Dr. Andrea Kakuk
GREEK FILM
CENTRE
Greek Film Centre, 10, Panepistimiou
Str., GR-106 71 Athens. Tel:
30.210.364.8007. Fax: 30.210.361.4336.
www.gfc.gr
At AFM: Ms. Voula Georgakakou
HOLLAND FILM
Holland Film, Jan Luykenstraat 2, NL1071 CM Amsterdam. Tel: 31.20.570.7575.
Fax: 31.20.570.7570. [email protected],
www.hollandfilm.nl
At AFM: Ms. Claudia Landsberger
KARMA
PRODUCTION
Karma Production, 25 Rue Frans Binjé,
B-1030 Brussels, Tel: 32.2.218.8690.
Fax: 32.2.218.8691. www.karmaproduction.com
At AFM: Mr. Jean-Jacques Neira
KUDOS FILM AND
TV LTD.
Kudos Film and TVLtd., 12-14 Amwell
Street, UK- London EC1R 1UQ. Tel:
44.20.7812.3270. Fax: 44.20.7812.3271.
www.kudosfilmandtv.com
At AFM: Mr. Paul Webster
LA MIRADA
PRODUCCIONES, S.L.
La Mirada Producciones, S.L., Camino
Viejo, 77, Portal A, 1°dcha, E-38280
Tegueste (Tenerife). Tel: 34.922.15.05.56.
Fax: 34.922.15.06.27. www.la-mirada.com
At AFM: Ms. Ana Lima
MAGIC FILMS
Magic Films, Avda. de Burgos, 8A- Plta.
10, 28036 Madrid. Tel: 34.91.383.15.72.
Fax: 34.91.3830.845.
At AFM: Mr. Ángel Blasco
NOT A NUMBER
Not A Number, 11 Brayside Road, UKManchester, M19 1ST. Tel: 44.77.2152
9947. www.notanumber.co.uk
At AFM: Mr. Simeon Halligan
NOTRO FILMS
Notro Films, Via Augusta, 110, E- 08006
Barcelona. Tel: 34.93.567.0505. Fax:
34.93.567.05.04. www.notrofilms.com
At AFM: Mr. Eduardo Escudero
PPA - WALTER
ERTVELT BVBA
PPA - Walter Ertvelt bvba, Producers &
Publishers Agency, Voorhavenlaan 86,
Reach Up High Entertainment Limited,
86 Seymour Grove, UK- Manchester
M16 0LW. Tel: 44.845.330.5155. Fax:
44.845.330.5156
At AFM: Mr. Demetris Kyriacou
SMILE
ENTERTAINMENT
Smile Entertainment, Indiakaj 12, DK2100 Copenhagen. Tel: 45.35.44.11.05.
Fax: 45.35.43.40.08. www.smile-ent.dk
At AFM: Mr. T imo T. Lahtinen
SUBOTICA
ENTERTAINMENT
LTD
Subotica Entertainment Ltd, 55
Fitzwilliam Square, IRL- Dublin 2. Tel:
353.1.662.2226. Fax: 353.1.662.2227.
[email protected]
At AFM: Mr. T ristan Orpen Lynch,
Dominic Wright
WARP FILMS LTD
Warp Films Ltd, Spectrum House, 32-34
Gordon House Rd, UK- London NW5
1LP. Tel: 44.20.7284.8366. Fax:
44.870.2200652. www.warpfilms.com
At AFM: Mr. Luke Morris
ZAHORIMEDIA
Zahorimedia, Gran Via 59 (4D), E28013 Madrid. Tel: 34.91.5474.928.
Fax: 34.91.5421.990.
[email protected]
At AFM: Mr. Stephane Sorlat, Ms. Ana
Lima
F
FANTASTIC FILMS
INTERNATIONAL,
LLC
Fantastic Films International, LLC, 3854
Clayton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA90027,
USA. Tel: 323.661.7088. Fax:
www.fantasticfilmsinternational.com
At AFM: Roxane Barbat (President),
Fred deWysocki III (Partner)
Acquisition Executive: Fred deWysocki III
Office: Loews Hotel, dual suite # 621 &
623, Tel: 310.458.6700, extension 621
BLOODRAYNE
Horror / Action (94 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Uwe Boll
Producer: Uwe Boll, Dan Clarke,
Wolfgang Herold
Cast: Kristanna Loken, Michael Madsen,
Michelle Rodriguez, Billy Zane and Sir
Ben Kingsley
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening at
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Budget: $25M
Origin: Canada / Germany
In eighteenth century Romania, Rayne, a
dhampir (half human, half vampire)
fights to avenge her mother ’s rape by her
father, Kagan, King of Vampires.
IN THE NAME OFTHE KING (A
DUNGEON SIEGE TALE)
Action / Adventure / Fantasy
Language: English
Director: Uwe Boll
Producer: Uwe Boll, Dan Clarke,
Wolfgang Herold, Shawn Williamson
Cast: Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski,
Ray Liotta, John Rhys-Davies, Ron
Perlman
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Budget: $60M
Origin: Canada / Germany
A man named Farmer (Statham) sets out
to rescue his kidnapped wife and avenge
the death of his son - two acts committed
by the Krugs, a race of animal warriors
who are controlled by the evil Gallian.
THRU THE MOEBIUS STRIP
Animation (87 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Glenn Chaika
Producer: Raymond Neoh, Anthony
Neoh, David Kirschner, Frank Foster
Cast: Mark Hamill, Michael Dorn, Jean
Simmons
Delivery Status: Completed/screening
Budget: $25M
Origin: Hong Kong
In the not too distant future, a young boy
travels to an alien world to find his faster
and fulfill his destiny.
FIJI AUDIO VISUAL
COMMISSION
Fiji Audio Visual Commission, Ground
Floor Civic House, New Town Hall
Road, GPO Box 18080, Suva, Fiji. Tel:
679.330.6662. Fax: 679.331.4662.
[email protected],
www.fijiaudiovisual.com
Company Type: Film Commission
At AFM: Taniela (Dan) Bolea (Chief
Executive Officer), Florence Swamy
(Film Commissioner - LA)
Office: 5th Floor (opp. Buyers’Lounge),
Loews Hotel, Tel: 310.337.4760, Fax:
310.645.0851, Cell: 310.435.8209
FILMEXPORT
GROUPSRL
FilmExport Group Srl, Via Del Pianeta
Urano, 60 - 00144 Rome, Italy. Tel:
39.06.52207432. Fax:39.06.52278416.
[email protected],
www.filmexport.com
At AFM: Roberto Di Girolamo
(President & CEO), Elisa D’Amico
(Sales)
Office: 608, Mobile: 39.335.7025.654,
Tel: 310.458.6700 ext. 608
MONAMOUR
Erotic
Language: Italian/English
Director: Tinto Brass
Production: Carla Cipriani For
Monamour Srl
Cast: Anna Jimskaya, Riccardo Marino,
Max Parodi, Nela Lucic
Production Status: Completed/screening
Country Of Origin: Italy
It’s the love-story between Marta, a
Venetian married girl, and Leon, a
Frenchman.
PUNCHING LIFE (AGOLPES)
Drama - Action
Language: Spanish With English
Subtitles
Director: Juan Vicente Córdoba
Law Offices of
G reg S. Bern s t e i n
A Professional Corporation
Congratulates Elspeth
& The Business of Film
on 25 Years
Tel: (310) 247-2790 Fax: (310) 247-2791
www.thefilmlaw.com [email protected]
Production: Enrique Cerezo P.C.
Cast: Natalia Verbeke, Daniel Guzmán,
Juana Acosta, Zay Nuba
Country of Origin: Spain
Why does someone have so much and
someone so little? This is the question of
Maria, Juanita, Vicky, Mena and Nitzia,
5 young girls living in the outskirts of
Madrid.
YO-RHAD AND THE
ASTROMAVERICKS
Animation
Presented by Carlo Rambaldi, the creator
of E.T
Language: Italian / English
Director: Camillo Teti and Victor
Rambaldi
Producer: Effeci Srl
Country of Origin: Italy
The lost inhabitants of Klat-uh, a planet
that was destroyed, travel aboard the
asteroid Glend-arh, in search of a new
home in space.
TOO MUCH ROMANCE & IT’S
TIME FOR STUFFED PEPPERS
(PEPERONI RIPIENI E PESCI IN
FACCIA)
Romance
Language: English / Italian
Director: Lina Wertmuller
Producer: Adriano and Guglielmo Arié
for Solaris International Srl
Cast: Sofia Loren, Murray Abraham,
Angela Pagano, Elio Pandolfi
Maria (Sophia Loren) a Mediterranean
mother, lives in an old house on the
Amalfi Coast; she is not young anymore
and she has lived her life believing in
love.
FILMMATES
ENTERTAINMENT
FilmMates Entertainment, 11965 Venice
Blvd., Suite 305, Los Angeles, CA90066,
USA. Tel: 310.578.6599. Fax:
www.filmmates.net
Company Type: Producer, Distributor
At AFM: Jeanette Buerling (Executive
Vice President), J.A. Malla Maldonado
(Senior Vice President), Maggie
Monteith (Producer), Jeanie Miller (Dir.
Post Production Svcs.)
Acquisition Executive: Jeanette Bureling
Office: Le Merigot, Room 227, Tel:
310.989.2358. Fax: 310.578.6260
ASPHALT
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Fabien Pruvot
Production companies: Alliance Cinema
Entertainment, FilmMates Worldwide,
Tomas Pictures
Producer: Fabien Pruvot
Key cast: Thomas Kretschmann, Skeet
Ulrich, Jurgen Prochnow
Budget: 6.5M
Status: Pre-production
John and Nathan are as different as two
brothers can be. John’s unconditional
love for his brother is the only element
keeping Nathan alive on his run of being
assassinated as a murderer.
BART GOT A ROOM
Language: English
Director: Bryan Hecher
Production companies: Alliance Cinema
Entertainment, FilmMates Worldwide,
The Imaginarium
Producer: Danny DeVito, Izidor Cadron,
Galt Neiderhafer
Key cast: Danny DeVito, Josh
Zimmerman
Budget: 15M
A coming of age in the real world.
FINDERS KEEPERS
Language: English
Production companies: Love Spell
Productions, Alliance Cinema,
Entertainment, FilmMates Worldwide
Producer: Jennifer Love Hewett, Bettina
Viviano, Kim Kovac
Key cast: Jennifer Love Hewett
Status: In development
Budget: $22M
A cynical relationship/advice shock-jock
decides to cheer up her best friend and
fellow co-host by hiring the perfect man
to romance her. However, havoc ensues
when she falls for the guy herself.
FINTAGE FILM & TV
Fintage Film & TV, Stationsweg 32,
Leiden, 2312 AV, The Netherlands. Teréz
Körút 46 3rd floor, Budapest, H-1066,
Hungary. Tel: 31.71.565.9999 (The
Netherlands), 36.1.312.0909 (Hungary).
Fax: 31.71.565.9960 (The Netherlands),
36.1.312.0607 (Hungary).
[email protected],
www.fintagehouse.com
At AFM: Robbert Aarts (co-CEO)
31.6.5342.6500, Peter Kostense
(Executive Vice President Business
Development)
31.6.2509.1007/36.30.222.0800, Said
Boudarga (Managing Director Fintage
Magyar) 36.30.383.3784, Maarten
Melchior (Executive Vice President Film
& TV) 31.6.1094.3553, Akiko Kotake
(Representative) 81.90.9851.6454
Office: Le Merigot Hotel, 1740 Ocean
Avenue, Santa Monica, 90401, Tel:
310.395.9700. Fax: 310.395.9200
FOCAL POINT
RELEASING, INC.
Focal Point Releasing, Inc., 9916 So.
Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA,
90212 USA. Tel: 310.227.1231 Ext 222.
Fax: 310.227.1299.
At AFM: Andrew Stevens, Donald
Kushner, Barbara Mudge, Trevor Wright
Office: Loews Hotel 7th Floor Zuma
Room, Tel: 310.458.6700
STRANGER
Thriller
Language: English
Apsychiatrist and an FBI agent pursue
an elusive ex-agent who, due to a
personal tragedy, has created multiple
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personalities.
IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Martin Kunert
Three local teens risk their lives to
expose a serial killer.
S N U F FM O V I E
Horror
Language: English
Director: Bernard Rose
Cast: Jeroen Krabbe, Lisa Enos
Delivery Status: Complete - Screening
While filming a horror movie,
renowned director, Boris Arkadin,
mixes reality with fiction until the two
become blurred beyond recognition.
INCUBUS
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Anya Camilleri
Cast: Tara Reid
An abandoned laboratory hides a
secret until a group of youngsters seek
sanctuary from a storm within its
mysterious walls.
FOCUS FEATURES
Focus Features, 65 Bleecker Street,
3rd Floor, New York, NY 10012 USA.
Tel: (212) 539-4000. Fax:
212.539.4099
At AFM: David Linde (Co-President),
Allison Thompson (President,
International), Heta Paarte (SVP,
International Marketing and Publicity),
Jason Resnick (SVPof Acquisitions
Tim Spencer, SVP, International
Sales), Lee Magiday (Vice President,
Acquisitions and Productions,
Europe), Peter Kujawski (Director,
Office: 842, Tel: 310.434.9036. Fax:
310.434.9040
FEARLESS
Action
Director: Ronny Yu
Producers: Bill Kong, Jet Li, Ronny
Yu
Cast: Jet Li, Collin Chou, Nathan
Jones, with a special appearance by
Michelle Yeoh
Year pf Production: 2005
Action superstar Jet Li and legendary
producer Bill Kong reunite for the first
time since their international smash-hit
Hero.
TIGER AND THE SNOW
Director: Roberto Benigni
Producer: Nicoletta Braschi, Exec
Producer: Elda Ferri, Assoc. Producer:
Gianluigi Braschi
Cast: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta
Braschi, Jean Reno
The uplifting and exquisitely realized
new film from the ACADEMY
AWARD® - winner Roberto Benigni
(Life is Beautiful).
VOLVER
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Producers: Ester García, Exec
Producers: Agustin Almodóvar
Cast: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura
FOCUS FILMS
LIMITED
Focus Films Limited, 18/F, Futura Plaza,
111-113 How Ming Street, Kwun Tong,
Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel:
852.3120.3388. Fax: 852.2343.3243.
[email protected],
www.focusfilms.cc
Company Type: Production company,
distributor, sales agent
At AFM: Daniel Yu (Chief Operating
Officer), Lemon Lim (Film Distribution
Manager), Lorna Tee (Communications
Manager), Julian Chiu (Production
Coordinator)
Office: Room 215 of Le Merigot Hotel
A SIDE, B SIDE, SEASIDE
Teen Drama ( 89 min)
Language: Cantonese, with Chinese &
English subtitle
Director: Chan Wing Chiu (also known
as Ah Chiu)
Producer: Daniel Yu, Esther Koo, Chan
Wing Chiu
Cast: Ling Kong, Dolphin Chan, Bong
Yin Wong
Origin: Hong Kong
From the producer of independent classic
MADE IN HONG KONG, A SIDE, B
SIDE, SEASIDE is the story of two
girls’farewell to their seventeen years of
youth.
THE SHOE FAIRY
Romantic (90 min)
Language: Mandarin, with Chinese &
English subtitle
Director: Robin Lee Yun-Chan
Producer: Michelle Yeh, Aileen Li
Cast: Vivian Hsu, Duncan Lai
Origin: Taiwan
A lighthearted love story with a
charming dose of fairy tale, the
delightful Vivian Hsu plays a girl who is
completely enamored with shoes.
ALLABOUTLOVE
Romantic Drama (100 min)
Language: Cantonese, with Chinese &
English subtitle
Director: Daniel Yu
Producer: Daniel Yu, Yan Min Jun
Cast: Andy Lau, Charlie Young,
Charlene Choi
Origin: Hong Kong
An intriguing tale of love, lost and
memories that bind us. Andy Lau plays
two different characters both connected
by accidents and chance encounters. He
stars alongside two of Asia’s best known
female leads, Charlie Young and
Charlene Choi.
JONI’S PROMISE
Comedy (87 min)
Language: Indonesian, with English
subtitle
Director: Joko Anwar
Producer: Nia Dinata
Cast: Nicholas Saputra, Mariana Renata
Origin: Indonesia
One day, it seems that the whole town is
conspiring against Joni, just when he has
something big at stake: a promise to the
girl of his dream.
FORTISSIMO FILMS
Fortissimo Films, Veemarkt 77-79, 1019
DAAmsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel:
31.20.627.3215. Fax: 31.20.626.1155.
[email protected],
www.fortissimofilms.com
At AFM: Wouter Barendrecht (CoChairman), Michael J. Werner (CoChairman), Nicole Mackey (Senior Vice
President - International Sales), Winnie
Lau (Vice President - International
Sales). Nelleke Driessen (Co-Managing
Director)
Office: 551, 552 & 553
A LIFE IN SUITCASES
by Peter Greenaway. Official Selection:
Pusan
JEWBOY
by Tony Krawitz. Un Certain Regard,
Cannes.
LOOK BOTH WAYS
by Sarah Watt. Official Selection:
Toronto, San Sebastian, Pusan
MAD HOTBALLROOM
by Marilyn Agrelo (Winner, Slamdance)
THE MAID
by Kelvin Tong - NEW!!
MOB SISTER
by Wong Ching-Po (Official Selection:
Montreal New FF)
QUEENS
by Manuel Gomez Pereira (Official
Selection: Pusan)
SHANGHAI DREAMS
by Wang Xiaoshuai (Winner of Jury
Award, Cannes)
SUNFLOWER
by Zhang Yang (Official Selection:
Toronto, San Sebastian, Pusan)
TWELVE AND HOLDING
by Michael Cuesta (Official Selection,
Toronto; Director of award-winning L.I.E.)
U-CARMEN EKHAYELITSHA
by Mark Dornford-May (Winner Golden
Bear, Berlin; Official Selection: Cannes,
Toronto)
FORTUNE FEATURES
Fortune Features, 127 Broadway, Suite
221, (Between Ocean Ave. and 2nd St.),
Santa Monica, CA90401 USA. Tel:
310.601.8346. Fax: 310.656.2510.
[email protected],
http://www.fortunefeatures.com
Company Profile: Worldwide
Distribution, Production and Finance
At AFM: Kourosh Esmailzadeh
(President)
FORTUNE FEATURES AND
MAXWELLPRODUCTIONS
PRESENTMYLIFE WITH
MASOCH
Love Story / Drama
Director: Oleg Harencar (“Seizure”,
“Poison”, “Bloodlines”)
Producer: Oleg Harencar (“Bloodlines”,
“Discovering Russia”)
Exec. Producer: Kourosh Esmailzadeh (
“Machiavelli in Love”, “The Baker ’s
Dozen”, “Tour de Farce”)
Cast: TBA
Status: In Pre-Production
Based on a true story, MYLIFE WITH
MASOCH is the lovestory of Wanda, the
beautiful wife of famous Austrian writer,
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, who’s
known for being the namesake of
“masochism”.
(credits not contractual)
COMPLETED LIBRARY TITLES
(AVAILABLE IN SELECT
TERRITORIES)
BLOODLINES
Mystery / Drama
FREMANTLE HOME
ENTERTAINMENT
Fremantle Home Entertainment, 1
Stephen Street, London W1T1ALUK.
Tel: 44.207.691.6000. Fax:
+44.207.691.6079. Website:
www.fidtv.com,
email: [email protected]
At AFM: Pete Kalhan (Snr Vice
President, Home Entertainment &
Archive Sales), Sam Toles (Vice
President of Development–Americas),
Bryony Allan (International Sales
Executive)
Office: 647, Tel: 310.458.6700
PUNK:ATTITUDE
www.punkattitude.co.uk
Music (89 mins)
Language: English
Director: Don Letts
Co-Production Partners: Metropolis
Group, 3DD
Key Cast: Henry Rollins, Mick Jones,
Tommy Ramone, Paul Simonon, Jim
Jarmusch, Chrissie Hynde, Siouxsie
Sioux,David Johansen, Thurston Moore,
Howard Devoto
Origin: UK
The story of Punk from the US to the
UK. One of the most original Punk films
ever made.
METAL(THE DEVIL, THE RIFF
AND THE BIG BAD TUNES)
Music 120 mins
Language: English
Director: Dick Carruthers
Co-Production Partners: Metropolis Group
Producer: Jim Parsons
Key Cast: Ian Paice, Geezer Butler, Dave
Mustaine, Bernie Marsden, Jonathan
Davies, Dee Snider, Phil Taylor, Graham
Bonnet, Scott Ian, John Corabi
Origin: UK
From the first flickering flames
through to the carriers of the torch
today, this documentary is a
considered look at the continuing story
of Metal.
MICHAELHUTCHENCE. THE
LOVED ONE
Music (52 mins)
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Director: English
Language: Steve Graham
Co-Production Partners: Impact
Key Cast: Michael Hutchence, Kell
Hutchence, C.M.Murphyy
Origin: UK
The story of Michael Hutchence, the
front man of INXS.
BEATLES BIGGEST SECRETS
Language: English
Director: Fiona Procter
Key Cast: Bernard Hill
Origin: UK
Using a combination of new and
exclusive interviews, Beatles Biggest
Secrets delves into the inside story of
the world’s greatest ever pop group.
Production Status: Pre-production
Alawman from another Galaxy must
stop an invading force from building a
gateway between the two worlds.
COOKERS
Drama
Language: English
Director: Dan Mintz
Principle Cast: Brad Hunt, Cyia
Batten, Patrick McGaw
Production Status: Completed 2005
Country of Origin/Co-Production:
USA
Three meth heads hide out in the deep
woods to operate a crystal meth lab
and encounter unspeakable terror.
G
GAUMONT
FRIES FILM GROUP,
INC.
Fries Film Group, Inc., 22817 Ventura
Blvd. #909, Woodland Hills, CA 91364
USA. Tel: 818.888.3052. Fax:
818.888.3042.
At AFM: Charles M. Fries (President),
Adam Welles (VPof Worldwide Sales)
Office: Topanga Suite, 5th Floor,Tel:
310.592.2627
THE COVENANT (CANES)
Thriller
Language: English
Principal Cast: Eddie Furlong, Michael
Madsen
ANew York executive tries to break a
pact with the devil who has been
controlling him with a mystical, evil
cane.
ALIEN AGENT
Drama
Language: English
Principle Cast: Christopher Lambert
Gaumont, 30 Avenue Charles de Gaulle,
92200 Neuilly Sur Seine France.Tel:
33.1.46.43.20.00. Fax: 33.1.46.43.20.33.
www.gaumont.fr
At AFM: Franck CHOROT(Chief
Executive Officer), Loïc TROCMÉ
(Head of Sales), Philippe de
CHAISEMARTIN (Vice-President
International Sales, Feature Films),
Dorothée GROSJEAN (International
Sales & Publicity Manager)
Office: 658, Tel: 310.434.9418
THE TRAIL(LAPISTE)
Adventure
Original English Version
Director: Academy Award Nominated
Eric Valli
Production: GAUMONT/ LGM
Cast: Julian Sands, Camille Summers,
Eriq Ebouaney
Status: Completed / SCREENING
The initiatory trip of Grace, 11 year-old
New Yorker, in search of her father in
the desert of Namibia.
A TICKET TO OUTER SPACE (UN
TICKETPOUR L’ESPACE)
Comedy
Director: Eric Lartigau
Production: GAUMONT/ LGM
Cast: Kad Merad, Olivier Baroux,
Guillaume Canet, Marina Foïs
Confronted with popular discontent over
the vast sums invested in space research,
the French government launches a major
public relations campaign. Alottery is
organized in partnership with the French
space center.
PALAIS ROYAL !
Comedy
Director: Valérie Lemercier
Production: GAUMONT/ RECTANGLE
FILMS
Cast: Valérie Lemercier, Denis
Podalydès, Catherine Deneuve, Mathilde
Seigner, Lambert Wilson
Status: French release: November 23rd
The revenge of a too kind princess, who
became mean after being humiliated by
her royal family in law.
YOU’RE SO BEAUTIFUL(JE VOUS
TROUVE TRÈS BEAU)
Comedy
Director: Isabelle Mergault
Production: GAUMONT/ FILM PAR
FILM
Cast: Michel Blanc, Medeea Marinescu
Aymé, a farmer, has a hard time to
recover from his wife’s death.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE OUED
(AKAILÉTAITUNE FOIS DANS
L’OUED)
Comedy
Director: Djamel Bensalah
Production: GAUMONT/ MIROIR
MAGIQUE !
Cast: Julien Courbey, David Saracino,
Marylou Berry, Karina Testa
Yacine, fed up with spending holidays in
his family’s Algerian village, vows he
won’t go back there with his parents this
year. Johnny, who has never set foot in
Algeria, would love to go.
Tel Aviv - Israel
Elspeth,
Congratulations on your 25th Anniversary!
An Oscar winning performance every year!
Your editorials are enlightening
and always on the button.
Allan Greenblatt
GLAMOUR
FILMGYÁRTÓ KFT.
Glamour Filmgyártó Kft., Bakator utca
9, BUDAPEST 1118 Hungary. Tel:
36.1.385.3401. 36.1.225.3562. Fax:
36.1.225.3563. www.glamourfilms.hu
At AFM: Dr. Andrea Kakuk (Managing
Director)
Office: 655
GLOBAL CINEMA
GROUP
Global Cinema Group, 9229 Sunset
Blvd., Suite 215, West Hollywood, CA
90069, USA. Tel: 310.443.7788. Fax:
310.443.7739.
[email protected]
At AFM: Peter Elson (President), Liz
Federowicz (Director of Operations)
Acquisition Executive: Peter Elson
Office: 650 Loews, Tel: 310.458.6700
ext. 650
WHITE COATS
Comedy (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Dave Thomas
Producer: Dave Thomas, Andrew
Alexander, Maury Chaykin
Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Carly Pope, Dave
Foley, Dave Thomas, Maury Chaykin
Budget: under $10 M
Origin: Canada
They’re young. They’re smart. Just pray
to God they don’t operate on you.
THE MARSH
Suspense/Thriller
Language: English
Director: Jordan Barker
Producer: Peter Simpson and George
Flak
Delivery Status: (pre-production
Budget: under $10 M
Year of Production: 2005-6, Country of
Origin: Canada
A young stressed out writer of children’s
books on a holiday in the country finds
herself in the midst of a supernatural
mystery that turns fatal for a number of
seemingly innocent villagers - - and
she’s next!
GUESTS
Suspense/Thriller
Language: English
Director: David Denneen
Producer: Anna Fawcett, Mark Lazarus,
Todd Fellman, Dan Halsted
Cast: Travis Fimmel, Teresa Palmer,
Stephen Moyer
Budget: $5 M
Origin: Australia
A young couple on the run hole up in a
country estate with a hostage in tow
who’s got a dark past of his own.
BEYOND THE GATES
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Jim Hanon
Producer: Kevin McAfee, Mark Green
(EP), Bill Ewing (EP)
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Budget: under $10 M
Origin: USA
In the 1950’s, five white American
missionaries and their wives make
contact with the most violent society on
record, the Waodani native tribe of
Ecuador.
THIS DIVIDED STATE
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Steven Greenstreet
Producer: Steven Greenstreet
Cast: Michael Moore, Sean Hannity, Kay
Anderson
Budget: under $1 M
Origin: USA
When Michael Moore’s speaking
engagement at Utah Valley State College
is announced, protests, death threats, and
bribery ensue as an explosion of
controversy visits the heart of
conservative Mormon country.
HEIGHTS
Dramatic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Chris Terrio
Producer: Ismail Merchant and Richard
Hawley
Cast: Glenn Close, Elizabeth Banks,
James Marsden, Jesse Bradford, Eric
Bogosian, Isabella Rossellini, Rufus
Wainwright
Budget: under $10 M
Origin: UK
Adapted by playwright Amy Fox from
her one-act Off Broadway hit, “Heights”
is a comedy of manners set in
contemporary New York chronicling five
lives intertwining and unraveling one
summer night
WHITE COUNTESS
Romantic Drama
Language: English
Director: James Ivory
Producer: Ismail Merchant
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha
Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn
Redgrave
Budget: $16 M
Origin: UK
In 1930’s Shanghai, a blind, disillusioned
former U.S. diplomat forges a
relationship with a young refuge White
Russian countess.
HIGH ROLLER: THE STU UNGAR
STORY
Drama
Language: English
Director: A.W. Vidmer
Producer: A.W. Vidmer
Cast: Michael Imperioli, Pat Morita,
Michael Nouri
Budget: under $10 M
Origin: USA
The compelling true-life story of a card
prodigy and gambler who became the
youngest World Series of Poker(tm)
winner ever in 1980 and 1981. By 1989
he had lost it all: a victim of the Vegas
lifestyle and his own excesses.
GOLDCREST FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
Goldcrest Films International, 65-66
Dean Street, London W1D 4PL, United
Kingdom. Tel: 44(0)20.7437.8696. Fax:
44(0)20.7437.4448.
At AFM: Stephen Johnston (President,
Goldcrest Films Inc.), John Quested
(Chairman), Abigail Walsh (Sales
Manager)
Office: 618, [email protected]
LIBRARY TITLE LISTINGS
Goldcrest Films International’s library has
over 80 titles available to license worldwide for Television and DVD rights,
including many award winning features:
We are also buying All Rights Worldwide
ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN
with the voices of Burt Reynolds, Dom
De Louise
THE KILLING FIELDS
John Malkovich, Sam Waterston, Haing
Hgor, Julian Sands
THE MISSION
Robert DeNiro, Jeremy Irons, Liam
Neeson
A ROOM WITH A VIEW
Helena Bonham Carter, Daniel Day
Lewis, Judi Dench
GOLDEN NETWORK
ASIA LTD.
Golden Network Asia Ltd., Unit 2205,
Futura Plaza, 111-113 How Ming Street,
Kwun Tong, Hong Kong. Tel:
852.2751.1886. Fax: 852.2750.4862.
[email protected]
Company Type: Sales agent/ Producer
At AFM: Carrie Wong (Managing
Director), Clarence Tang (Head of Sales
& Acquisitions), Lammy Li (Sales
Manager), Venus Wong (Assistant Sales
and Marketing Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Clarence Tang
Office: Loews Office: #461, Tel:
852.9366.3206. Fax: 310.315.1556 c/o
The Ambrose Hotel
SCARED
Horror (TBC min)]
Language: Thai
Director: Pakphum Wongjinda
Producer: Prachya Pinkaew; Sukanya
Vongstapat; Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Co-production partners: n/a
Cast: Borwonpot Jaiganta; Napapa
Tantakul; Chitjun Fujipun
Origin: Thai
Humiliating tests of university freshman
students, which are scared to death.
HELL
Horror/ Adventure (95 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Teekayu Thamnitiyakul
Producer: Thanit Jitanukul, Somsak
Techaratanaprasert
Cast: Wutinun Maikun; Nathawan
Woravit; Punyapon Dhajsonk
Origin: Thai
Seven young film-makers embark on a
journey that takes them to the gate of
hell, and beyond.
YAM
Comedy (86 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Petchtai Wongkamlao
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Cast: Petchtai Wongkamlao
Origin: Thailand
Third highest grossing film in Thailand
this year. A madcap movie musical
spiced with Thai flavour humour,
welcome to the banquet of love.
MIDNIGHTMYLOVE
Drama (105 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Khongdej Jaturanarasami
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Cast: Petchtai Wongkamlao, Waranuch
Wongsawad
Origin: Thai
A lonely, idealistic Bangkok taxi driver
falls for a beautiful prostitute, with tragic
consequences.
SWORD
Epic/ Martial Arts
Language: Thai
Director: Prachya Pinkaew
Producer: Prachya Pinkaew, Somsak
Techaratanaprasert
Cast: Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao
Delivery Status: Pre production
Budget: US$ 12 million
Origin: Thailand
Swordplay that cuts a new level of
action. Tony Jaa’s third film, a
spectacular saga depicts the heroism of
Thai history’s legendary warriors as they
fight to protect their homeland.
GOOD NEWS GROUP
Good News Group, 30, Haroun Street,
6th Floor, Dokki, Cairo Egypt. Tel:
202.337.5900. Fax: 202.748.5304.
www.goodnews4films.com
Company Type: producer, distributor
At AFM: Emad Adeeb (CEO), Adel
Adeeb (Managing Director & Film
Maker), Mohamed El Talkhawi
(Marketing Director), Nour El Tonny
(Head of Distribution), Dina Ezzat (Head
of Advertising)
Acquisition Executive: Adel Adeeb,
Emad Adeeb
Office: Le Merigot Suite 249 A, Tel:
310.395.9700. Fax: 310.395.9200
THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING
Social political drama
Language: Arabic + English & French
Subtitles
Director: Marawan Hamed
Producer: Good News 4 Film & MusicSameh Gobran
Co-production partners: None
Cast: Adel Emam, Youssra, Nour El
Sherif, Isaad Youniss, Khaled Sawi,
Khaled Saleh, Ahmed Rateb, Ahmed
Bedeir, Hend Sabry and Mohamed Imam
Delivery Status: Complete
Budget: 2.5-3 Million Euros
Origin: Egypt
The real Yacoubian Building stands, in
all its faded European glory, in
downtown Cairo. Built by Jacob
Yacoubian, head of the Armenian
community it was, in 1934 when it was
erected, the very height of comfort and
elegance.
HALIM
Social drama
Language: Arabic + English & French
Subtitles
Director: Sherif Arafa
Producer: Good News Group
Co-production partners: Good News 4
Film & Music (No other co-producers)
Cast: Ahmad Zaki, Mona Zaki, Haissam
Ahmad Zaki, Gamal Soliman, Solaf
Fawakhergy
Budget: 2.5-3 Million Euros
Origin: Egypt
In the twilight of his life, Halim relates
his life experiences during an interview
with a prominent Arab broadcaster.
MOHAMED ALI BASHAAND BIN
LADEN
GOODTIMES
ENTERTAINMENT
LTD.
GoodTimes Entertainment Ltd., 16 East
40th Street, New York, NY 10016 USA.
Tel: 212.951.3743. Fax: 212.679.6857.
www.goodtimes.com
At AFM: Seth Willenson (Vice
President), Myriam Diaz (Director,
International Sales & Operation)
Office: 870, Cel: 917.822.5166
MARY ENGELBREIT’S THE
NIGHTBEFORE CHRISTMAS
Animation (42’)
Director: W.T. Schwartz
Starring: Featuring the voices of Kevin
Kline, Lee Tockar, Chiara Zanni, San
Vincent
Status: Completed
It was the night before Christmas, and all
through the house, not a creature was
stirring. except for Gregory, mouse.
FELIX SAVES CHRISTMAS
Animated Feature (72’)
Director: Don Oriolo
Starring: Featuring the voices of Dave
Collier “Full House”, Tom Bosley
“Happy Days” and Don Oriolo “Felix
the Cat, The Movie”
Status: Completed
It’s snowing harder than is ever snowed
before – it’s the storm of the century! It
this keeps up there is no way Santa will
be able to deliver presents to the children
of the world!
DVD LIBRARY
(46 titles at 45 minutes each)
Find out the details of the GTClassics
Library new availability on DVD that
has set records World Wide. Over 45
individual titles mastered with
worthwhile marketing material available.
BEN HUR
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Animated Feature (80’)
Director: William R. Kowalchuk
Starring: Featuring the voice of Charlton
Heston
Status: Completed
An animated adaptation of the 1959
historical epic that won 11 Academy
Awards, including Best Picture.
MEGIDDO: OMEGACODE II
Thriller (1:15)
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Starring: Michael York (Omega Code I),
Michael Biehn (Navy SEALS), Diane
Venora, Gill Colon, David Hedison and
Franco Nero.
Status: Completed
“MEGIDDO. It’s the ancient word for
Armageddon and now the battle is on”.
THE CHAMPION
Boxing Drama (90”)
Starring: Michael Nouri, Patricia
Manterola, and Carman
Status: Completed
With the excitement of Rocky and the
searing brother-against-brother intensity
of On The Watefront, this national
theatrical release takes you into both the
ring and the dramatic personal life of its
risk-taking hero.
GORILLAPICTURES
Gorilla Pictures, 2000 West Olive Ave.,
Burbank, CA91506 USA. Tel:
818.848.2198. Fax: 818.848.2232.
www.gorillapictures.net,
[email protected]
At AFM: Bill Gottlieb (CEO), Don
Wilson (Executive Vice President)
Office: 661, Tel: 818.419.9184. Fax:
818.848.2232
SOFT TARGET
Action/Adventure (93 Min)
Language: English
Director: Art Camacho
Producer: Bill Gottlieb
Key Cast: Gary Busey, Don “The
Dragon” Wilson,
Olivier Gruner, Fred Williamson
Origin: USA
A gorgeous call girl is the sole witness to
a brutal mob killing, two cops at odds
must unite and take the girl undercover if
she is to survive.
THE LEGEND OFSASQUATCH
Animation (77 min)
Language: English
Director: Thomas Callicoat
Key Cast: William Hurt, John RhysDavis,
Origin: USA
John Davis (William Hurt) and his
family move to a mountain home and
discover a community of Sasquatch
behind a glistening water fall in their
back yard. Narrated by John RhysDavis.
SCI-FIGHTER (X TREME
FIGHTER)
Action/adventure (90 min)
Director: English
Language: Art Camacho
Key Cast: Don “The Dragon” Wilson,
Lorenzo Lamas, Cynthis Rothrock
Origin: USA
Jack Tanaka (Don “The Dragon” Wilson)
enters a virtual reality game to battle
through a maze of fighters to save his
son, whose mind is trapped inside.
GRB WORLDWIDE
GRB Worldwide, 13400 Riverside Dr.
Ste. 300, Sherman Oaks CA91423 USA.
Tel: 818.728.7600. Fax: 818.728.7676.
www.grbworldwide.com
At AFM: Gary Benz (CEO, GRB
Entertainment), Gavin Reardon
(President, GRB Worldwide), Marielle
Zuccarelli (Vice-President, GRB
Worldwide), Michael Branton (Exec VP
Creative Affairs, GRB Entertainment)
Office: Le Merigot, Suite 203A, Tel:
310.395.9700 ext. 203
LETHALEVICTION
Feature (1 x 90 min)
Starring: Jennifer Carpenter (The
Exorcism of Emily Rose) Judd Nelson
(The Breakfast Club), Stacey Dash
(Clueless), Michael Bowen, Michael
Learned, and James Avery
When Amanda Winters purchases the
Grayson Arms, she’s determined to rid
the dilapidated apartment building of its
rent-controlled residents. But will she go
so far as to “lethally” evict them?
THE AGENCY
Reality (10 x 30 min)
THE AGENCYpresents a first time ever
look at how the modeling industry
actually works and the real relationships
that exist between the agents and talent both good and bad.
FULLFORCE NATURE
Science - Nature (10 x 30 min)
Delivers visually stunning dramatic short
stories showing all types of natural
disasters, from a storm chaser caught in
the eye of a hurricane to a snowboarder
trapped in an avalanche.
MOUNTST. HELENS-FORECAST
FOR DISASTER
Reveals the inner workings of a modern
day time bomb.
PRINCES OFMALIBU
Follows the exploits of day-to-day living
with 14 time Grammy-winning record
producer David Foster, as he struggles to
kick out his two adult stepsons, Brandon
(23) and Brody (21) from his 22-acre
mega mansion in the heart of Malibu.
THE TORNADO HUNTERS
Adventure (1 x 60 min)
A harrowing journey through Tornado
Alley where the weather conditions
annually spin up over 1,000 of the
world’s strongest and most dangerous
tornadoes.
GREEN
COMMUNICATIONS
AS TRANGER WITHIN – INFERNO FILM PRODUCTIONS
Green Communications, 255 Parkside
Drive, San Fernando, CA91340 USA.
Tel: 818.557.0050. Fax: 818.557.0056.
Greenfilms.com
Company Type: Sales Company
At AFM: Talaat Captan (President),
Marion Captan (Exec VP), Michael
Jones (Intl. Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Marion Captan
818.557.0050
JUNIOR PILOT
Action Adventure (92 mins)
Language: English
Director: James Becket
Producer: Talaat Captan
Cast: Mark Dacascos, Larry Miller and
Eric Roberts.
Origin: USA
Junior Pilot is a heartwarming story of
an unlikely boy hero who learns to trust
in himself in order to succeed. It is a tale
of a 10 year old boy who believes the
plane he’s on is about to be hijacked.
TIME OFHER TIME
Mature Audiences (90 mins)
Language: English
Director: Francis Delia
Cast: Linden Ashby, Leslie Bega, Larry
Drake, Nicole Rodriguez, Wendi
Westbrook, Allison Dunbar
Origin: USA
WALK WITH FAITH: HE IS RISEN
Family (60 mins.)
Language: English
Origin: USA
GREENESTREET
FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
Greenestreet Films International, 9
Desbrosses Street, New York, NY 10013
USA. Tel: 212.609.9000. Fax:
212.609.9099
Company Description: sales, distribution
and acquisitions arm of the New-York
based production and finance company
GreeneStreet Films.
At AFM: Ariel Veneziano (President),
Crystal Bourbeau (Coordinator)
Hotel, Suite 637, Tel: 310.434.9410
SLOWBURN
Language: English
Director: Wayne Beach
Cast: Ray Liotta, LLCool J, Mekhi
Phifer, Taye Diggs, Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Jolene Blalock
Producers: John Penotti, Sidney Kimmel,
Bonnie Timmerman, Tim Williams
Status: Screening
Country of Origin: U.S.A
Assistant DA, Nora Timmer, claims self
defense after a man is found dead in her
bed. A stranger appears at police
headquarters to tell a completely
different story of how the man was
murdered.
THE WILLOWTREE
Drama
Language: Iranian (English Subtitles)
Director: Majid Majidi
Cast: Parvis Parastui
Producers: Majid Majidi,
Status: Screening
Country of Origin: Iran
A blind man recovers his sense of sight
thanks to a revolutionary cure, leading
him to realize that his house, his wife,
his life do not look quite the way he had
imagined them.
UNKNOWN
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Simon Brand
Cast: Jim Caviezel, Greg Kinnear, Joe
Pantoliano, Barry Pepper, Jeremy Sisto,
Bridget Moynahan
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Producers: Rick Lashbrook, Darby
Parker, John Schwartz
Country of Origin: U.S.A
Five men wake up in a locked-down
warehouse, none of them able to
remember how they got there or even
who they are.
ONCE IN A LIFETIME (WORKING
TITLE)
Language: English
Documentary
Director: John Dower
Producers: John Battsek
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
During New York’s wild 70s, a group of
visionary, “larger than life” executives
brought together the world’s biggest
soccer stars.
H
HANNIBAL
PICTURES
Hannibal Pictures, 8265 Sunset
Boulevard, Suite 107, West Hollywood,
CA90046 USA. Tel: 323.848.2945. Fax:
323.848.2946.
[email protected],
www.hannibalpictures.com
Company Type: Producer, Distributor
and Sales agent
At AFM: Richard Rionda Del Castro
(Chairman & CEO), Patricia Rionda Del
Castro (President), Mathilde Aupetit
(Director of Intl’Sales & Marketing),
Jonathan Collins (Project Manager)
310.458.6700 ext. 611, Fax:
310.458.6761, Cell: 310.849.8823
CHASING THE DRAGON
(WORKING TITLE)
Action
Language: English
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro, W.
Peter Iliff, Wallis Nicita
Co-production partners: Double Edge
Entertainment
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Ken Watanabe, Shu
Qi
Budget: $25 million
Origin: Canada, Taiwan
“Chasing the Dragon” is full blast
action-adventure about a heroic FBI
agent and his relentless pursuit of a
ruthless Asian drug lord.
THE LAST FACE
Adventure
Language: English
Director: Erin Dignam
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro,
Jonathan Dorfman, Andres Gomez
Cast: Javier Bardem, Robin Wright Penn,
Ryan Gosling
Budget: $10 million
Origin: USA
Miguel, a talented and charismatic
doctor, is forced to choose between his
love for an American relief worker, or
his dedication to saving lives in war-torn
African nations.
KUMITE
Action
Language: English
Director: TBA
Daniel Frisch
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme
Budget: $16 million
Origin: Canada
Vic Latour returns to the Kumite, a
renowned underground fighting
tournament, after years of battling
alcoholism and despair.
SIMON
Horror
Language: English
Director: Dan Petrie, Jr.
Gavin Wilding
Budget: $16 million
Origin: Canada
After a series of strange events
surrounding an adopted little girl’s odd
behavior, the parents investigate her past
and uncover a horrifying secret and
unleash a force of evil that threatens
their very lives.
ESCOBAR
Action
Language: English
Director: Andzrej Bartkowiak
Jose Ludlow, Luis Deval
Co-production partners: Jesus Ciordia
Garcia, Paul Pompian
Budget: $30 million
Origin: Spain - Mexico
Pablo Escobar’s political aspirations lead
him into a full-fledged war against his
own country and the United States.
REASON OFSTATE
Action
Language: English
Director: Georgy Fodor
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro
Cast: Stephen Dorff, DMX
Budget: $9 million
Origin: USA
A veteran of the War on Terror finds
himself the target of the FBI, the CIA,
and ruthless assassins when he threatens
to expose the truth about the use of
chemical weapons in Iraq.
THE LAST WARRIOR
Action/Sci-Fi
Language: English
Director: John Eyres
Gary Howsam, Lloyd Simandl
Cast: Vincent Perez, Ryan Reynolds,
Vincent Cassel, Estella Warren
Budget: $20 million
Origin: Hungary
In a war-ravaged and disease-ridden
future, a soldier genetically altered to be
a killing machine escapes impending
destruction and goes on the run, leaving
a trail of destruction in his wake.
HANWAY FILMS
Hanway Films, 24 Hanway Street,
London, W1T1UH, UK. Tel:
44.207.290.0750. Fax: 44.207.290.0751.
[email protected],
www.hanwayfilms.com
At AFM: Tim Haslam (CEO), Alex
Walton (Director of Sales), Thorsten
Schumacher (Manager, International
Sales), Jonathan Lynch-Staunton
(Director of Marketing & Distribution),
Rouzie Hassanova (Sales Coordinator),
Maura Ford (Business Affairs Manager)
Office: Suite 734 Tel: 310.434.9458
Fax: 310.434.9459
ADDICTION INC
Director: Brett Morgen
Producer: Charles Evans
Cast: Victor DeNoble
Delivery Status: Pre Production
Addiction Inc is the ultimate explosive
docu-drama of real life hero Victor
DeNoble - the man who invented the
“safe” cigarette
GOYA’S GHOSTS
Director: Milos Forman
Producer: Saul Zaentz
Cast: Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman.
Stellan Skarsgard
An Epic.
GLASTONBURY
Director: Julian Temple
Producer: Robert Richards
Cast: Oasis, Blur, Coldplay, Chemical
Brothers, Primal Scream, Van Morrison,
The Cure, Scissor Sisters, Paul
McCartney and a cast of thousands.
Origin: UK
A staggering range of music captures the
spirit of extraordinary world changes
over the last 30 years
WOODYALLEN SUMMER
PROJECT2005
Director: Woody Allen
Producer: Letty Aronson, Gareth Wiley
Cast: Scarlett Johansson. Hugh Jackman,
Ian McShane
Country of Origin: UK
The next Woody Allen film to be shot in
London this summer.
SEVERANCE
Director: Christopher Smith
Producer: Jason Newmark
Cast: Laura Harris, Danny Dyer, Toby
Stephens
Origin: UK/ Hungary
‘The Office’meets ‘Deliverance’
HARMONY GOLD
Harmony Gold, 7655 Sunset Blvd., Los
Angeles, CA90046 USA. Tel:
323.851.4900. Fax: 323.851.5599.
[email protected]
At AFM: Frank Agrama (Chairman &
CEO), Colleen Morris (President), Alan
Letz (Executive Vice President, Business
Development), Melissa Wohl (Vice
President, Sales)
Office: Loew’s Hotel Suite 501, Tel:
310.458.6700
DEATH TO THE SUPERMODELS
Comedy (82 min)
Starring: Brooke Burns and Jaime
Pressly
This smart, sexy comedy/thriller sees the
world’s five greatest supermodels
brought together for the ultimate
swimsuit photo shoot on an idyllic
tropical island where the stage is set for
titillation, comedy and suspense.
SIBLINGS
Dark-comedy (85 min)
Starring: Alex Campbell, Sarah Gadon
and Sarah Polley
David Weaver brings new meaning to the
old adage “you can’t choose your family”
as this mixed up mess of half-sisters and
stepbrothers scramble to resolve the demise
of their evil stepparents.
THE ARRANGEMENT
Starring: Kal Penn, Lisa Ray, Asrani,
Sunil Malhotra, Purva Bedi, Ismail
Bashey, Johnny Kastl
Can’t arrange the love? Arrange the
wedding! Somewhere in the middle of
Texas, Ameet and Saima have a problem:
they were perfectly happy avoiding each
other until their parents set them up to
get married.
TANGOO AND ULLASHONG
Animated Series (26 x 30 min)
A hilarious and comical animated
adventure that takes place on a small
planet called Locomoshong.
THE LEGEND OFBLUE
Animated Series (26 x 30 min)
An undersea “Raiders of the Lost Ark,”
THE LEGEND OF BLUE is an exciting
animated action-adventure series set on
the high seas in the not-too-distant
future.
ROBOTECH: THE SERIES
Animated Series (85 Half-Hours)
This groundbreaking Japanese anime TV
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series launched a highly successful
franchise that includes two feature films,
novels, comic books, toys and video
games.
TIBET: CRY OFTHE SNOWLION
Feature Length Documentary (104 min)
(Also available as 2 x 52 minutes /
Documentary)
Narrated by Martin Sheen; Tibetan
Voice-Overs: Susan Sarandon, Tim
Robbins, Ed Harris
Brings audiences to the long-forbidden
“rooftop of the world” with an
unprecedented richness of imagery in a
definitive exploration of a legendary
subject.
FASTER
Action Reality (103 min)
(Also available as 2 x 52 minutes)
Narrated by Ewan McGregor
Featuring: Valentino Rossi, Max Biaggi,
Garry McCoy, John Hopkins
Filmed at MotoGPraces around the
world and narrated by Ewan McGregor,
a definitive story of motorcycle racing at
the highest level.
HBO ENTERPRISES
HBO Enterprises, 1100 Avenue of the
Americas, New York, NY 10036 USA.
Tel: 212.512.1000. Fax: 212.512.5698.
Company Type: Theatrical Distributor
At AFM: Charles Schreger (President,
International Distribution), Heather
McVicar (Vice President, Marketing)
Office: No office, Tel: 212.512.5673
THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE
Drama (91 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Mary Harron
Producers: Christine Vachon, Pamela
Koffler, Lori Keith Douglas
Cast: Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor, David
Strathairn, Chris Bauer,
Jonathan M. Woodward
Delivery Status: Completed (Screening)
origin: US
The most successful pin-up of the 1950s,
Bettie Page’s legendary bondage
photographs made her the target of a
Senate investigation into pornography,
and turned her into one of the first sex
icons.
AS YOU LIKE IT
Drama
Language: English
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Producers: Kenneth Branagh, Judy
Hofflund, Simon Moseley
Cast: Kevin Kline, Bryce Dallas
Howard, Alfred Molina
origin: UK
Adapted for the screen by director
Kenneth Branagh with a backdrop
inspired by 19th century Japan, William
Shakespeare’s AS YOU LIKE IT
examines the cruelties and corruption of
court life.
PU-239
Drama
Language: English
Director: Scott Burns
Producers: Guy Louthan, Miranda de
Pencier
Executive Producers: Steven Soderbergh,
George Clooney, Ben Cosgrove, Armyan
Bernstein, Charlie Lyons, Zanne Devine,
and Peter Berg.
Cast: Paddy Considine, Radha Mitchell
origin: UK
A nuclear plant worker convinces a
Russian mobster to help him sell
weapons-grade plutonium after he is
exposed to a lethal dose of radiation.
HIGH POINT FILMS
High Point Films, 25 Elizabeth Mews,
London NW3 4UH, UK. Tel:
44.20.7586.3686. Fax: 44.20.7586.3117.
[email protected],
www.highpointfilms.co.uk
At AFM: Elisar Cabrera (Executive
Director), Tara Gaule (Sales Executive)
Office: Loews #746, Tel:
44.7904.540.994.
06/05, THE SIXTH OFMAY
Political Thriller (118 mins)
Language: Dutch (English Subtitles)
Director: Theo van Gogh
Producer: Gijs van de Westelakan
FREE WHEELING – AB I NTERNATIONAL
Co-production partners: Column
Productions, Tiscali
Cast: Tara Elders, Thijs Romer
Origin: Netherlands
A journalist uncovers a conspiracy when
he accidentally witnesses the public
assassination of a prominent politician.
Based on real events.
MACBETH
Drama (86 mins)
Language: English
Director: Mark Brozel
Producer: Pier Wilkie
Co-production partners: BBC,
Horsebridge Productions
Cast: James McAvoy, Keeley Hawes,
Vincent Regan
Origin: UK
Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is
transported to the backstabbing world of
the kitchens of a Michelin 3-star
restaurant as MacBeth plots to take over
the restaurant from his boss, the celebrity
chef Duncan.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Comedy (86 mins)
Language: English
Director: Ed Fraiman
Producer: Pier Wilkie
Cast: Imelda Staunton, Bill Patterson
Origin: UK
Shakespeare’s classic fantasy is reimagined in a contemporary holiday park
as Theo encounters the king and queen
of the fairies whilst planning his
daughter’s wedding.
THE TAMING OFTHE SHREW
Romantic Comedy (86 mins)
Language: English
Director: David Richards
Producer: Diederick Santer
Cast: Shirley Henderson, Rufus Sewell,
Twiggy
Origin: UK
Shakespeare’s romantic comedy is
transported into the corridors of
England’s Houses of Parliament.
MUCH ADO ABOUTNOTHING
Romantic Comedy (86 mins)
Language: English
Director: Brian Percival
Producer: Diederick Santer
Cast: Sarah Parish, Damian Lewis, Bille
Piper
Origin: UK
Beatrice and Benedick are ex-lovers
forced to work together on a daytime
chat show in a re-imagined
contemporary version of Shakespeare’s
classic romantic comedy.
HOLLAND FILM
Holland Film, Jan Luykenstraat 2, 1071
CM Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Tel:
31.20.570.7575. Fax: 31.20.570.7570.
www.hollandfilm.nl, [email protected]
At AFM: Claudia Landsberger
(managing director Holland Film, cell:
31.6.5437.4077)
Hotel, 6 th floor, 655 (EFPumbrella
office), Tel: 310.434.9422. Fax:
310.434.9423
IN ORANGE
Family (90 min)
Language/subtitles: Dutch / English
Director: Joram Lürsen
Producers: Motel Films, Fu Works
Cast: Yannick van de Velde, Thomas
Acda, Wendy van Dijk
Country of Origin/co-production: the
Netherlands
Remco wants to play soccer for the
national youth team. His father and
coach, is equally fanatical. When he dies,
Remco’s world falls apart. Can his dream
still come true?
HOLLYWOOD
CLASSICS
Hollywood Classics, Company: Linton
House, Company# 39-51 Highgate Road,
City: London NW5 1RS UK. Tel:
44.20.7424.7280. Fax: 44.20.7428.8936.
www.hollywoodclassics.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: Joe Dreier
Office: 746
LIBRARY
Library of classic films for DVD sale
outside the USA
HOLLYWOOD
WIZARD
Hollywood Wizard, 4629 Van Nuys Blvd.,
Suite A, Sherman Oaks, CA91403 USA.
Tel: 818.461.9349. Fax: (818) 461-9143.
www.hollywoodwizard.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: Tony Kandah (President), Lisa
Tovar (Executive Assistant)
Office: 751, Tel: 310.458.6700 X 751,
Fax: 818.461.9143
HORRORS OF WAR
Horror/Sci Fi (91 min)
Language: English
Director: Peter John Ross, & John
Whitney
Producer: Phil Garrett, Sean Reid, &
Tony Kandah.
Key Cast: John Osbeck, Jason Morris.
Origin: USA
The OSS organizes special missions to
deal with Hitler ’s secret weapons during
World War II.
BOARDWALK POETS
Action-Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: John Bevilacqua
Producer: John Bevilacqua, & Hillary
Six
Key Cast: Daniel Baldwin, James Oliver,
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Bree Michael Warner, Kenneth Swartz,
Jack Millard, & Adam Bitterman.
Origin: USA
Hiding out from the mob in the last
outpost of the western world- the slums
of Venice Beach, California – a banished
goodfella from the Big Apple pins his
last hopes on a young protégé.
CIRCUS ISLAND
Family/Adventure (101 min)
Director: English
Language: Audrey Landers, & Ruth
Landers
Producer: Ruth Landers
Key Cast: Audrey Landers, Judy
Landers, & Ed Marinaro.
Origin: USA
Two estranged sisters are reunited, and
due to life’s circumstances, are forced to
blend their very different backgrounds
and families to live together under the
Big Top.
RETURN IN RED
www.hollywoodwizard.com
Horror (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Tyler Tharpe
Producer: Tyler Tharpe
Key Cast: J.J. Huckin, Amy Paliganoff,
Keelan Rushing, Linda SmithMcCormick, Becky Niccum, & Michael
Ray Reed.
Origin: USA
Someone decides to use the people from
this little town as guinea pigs in this
sinister experiment that causes mental
disruption in human beings.
THE PASSION OFTHE REEFER
www.hollywoodwizard.com
Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: John Frady
Producer: Geoff Coldwater
Key Cast: Brett Moses, Jeff Benet,
Claudio, Serena Irwin, Shaun Jaric,
Wally Wharton, Toby Dammit, &
Bridget Powerz.
Origin: USA
Two lifelong friends and pot
entrepreneurs devise a fool proof plan to
acquire the bud they dream of, but that
proves to be much more than they ever
imagined.
I
I.S. FILM
DISTRIBUTION
I.S. Film Distribution, 1630 Stewart
Street, Suite 120, Santa Monica, CA
90404 USA. Tel: 310 309 8400. Fax: 310
828 4268.
At AFM: Brad Kembel (Senior Vice
President, Distribution), Trellis Huahn
(Senior Vice President, Contracts and
Business Affairs), Deborah Tellis (Vice
President, International Distribution),
Trish Vasquez (Vice President,
Marketing and Publicity)
Office: Suite 644, Tel: 310.458.6700,
Fax: Suite 644
GRANDMA’S BOY
Comedy
Director: Nick Goossen
Producer: Allen Covert
Cast: Allen Covert, Doris Roberts,
Shirley Knight
An over-aged videogame tester is forced
to move in to his sweet grandmother ’s
house much to his dismay.
HARSH TIMES
Drama
Director: David Ayer
Producers: Andrea Sperling, David Ayer
Cast: Christian Bale, Freddy Rodriguez,
Eva Longoria
A taut drama - about two friends who, in
spite of their best efforts to turn their
lives around, only succeed in dragging
each other down.
KEEPING MUM
Comedy
Director: Niall Johnson
Producers: Julia Palau, Matthew Payne
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Maggie Smith,
Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Swayze
An irreverent, unpredictable comedy
about family, small town life and finding
happiness.
CREDITS NOTCONTRACTUAL
ICON
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL
Icon Entertainment International,180
Wardour Street, London WIF 8FX UK.
Tel: 44.20.7494.8150. Fax:
CELEBRATING 25
YEARS OF COVERAGE
OF THE INDEPENDENTS
44.20.7494.8151. www.iconmovies.net
At AFM: Bruce Davey (President),
Martin Bigham (Chief Executive
Officer), Peter Naish (Head of
International Distribution), Caroline
Johnson (Head of International
Marketing), James Norrie (International
Sales Manager), Anthony Buckner
(International Sales Manager)
Office: Room: 754, 7th Floor
APOCALYPTO
Director: Mel Gibson
Producers: Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey
Delivery Status: In Pre-Production
Mel Gibson’s directorial follow up to the
box office hit THE PASSION OF THE
CHRISTwill be the epic
APOCALYPTO, due to start shooting
November 2005
SERAPHIM FALLS
Psychological Action Thriller
Director: David Von Ancken
Producers: Bruce Davey, David Flynn
Cast: Liam Neeson, Pierce Brosnan
Somewhere in the American West, after
the Civil War, a man named Gideon
learns that he can’t escape his past.
Colonel Morsman Carver is on one final
mission: to kill Gideon, no matter what it
takes.
IT’S A BOY/GIRLTHING
Comedy
Director: Nick Hurran
Producers: Steve Hamilton-Shaw, David
Furnish
Exec Producers: Elton John, Marty Katz
Cast: Kevin Zegers, Samaire Armstrong,
Sharon Osbourne
From the director of LITTLE BLACK
BOOK comes a fresh spin on the high
school comedy in the vein of
AMERICAN PIE and FREAKY
FRIDAY.
DARWIN AWARDS
Comedy
Director: Finn Taylor
Producers: Jane Sindell, Johnny Wow,
Jason Blum
Cast: Winona Ryder, Joseph Fiennes,
David Arquette, Juliette Lewis, Robin
Tunney, Julianna Margulies, Alessandro
Nivola, Chris Penn, Lukas Haas.
Delivery Status: In Post- Production
Over the last few years the Darwin
Awards have built up a dedicated
worldwide following. Named after
evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin the
awards are bestowed annually upon
those individuals who instigate the most
idiotic accidents of the year.
ROMANCE & CIGARETTES
Musical/Black Comedy
Director: John Turturro
Producers: John Penotti, John Turturro
Exec Producers: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen,
Jana Edelbaum, Matthew Rowland, Nick
Hill
Cast: James Gandolfini Susan Sarandon
Kate Winslet , Steve Buscemi, Bobby
Cannavale, Mandy Moore, Marie-Louise
Parker, Aida Turturro, Christopher
Walken
Status: Completed
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,
as Nick Murder has just discovered. His
wife has uncovered his steamy affair
with the sultry seductress Tula, and the
ferocity of her anger is an eye popping
surprise.
ON A CLEAR DAY
Comedy Drama
Director: Gaby Dellal
Producers: Sarah Curtis, Dorothy Berwin
Cast: Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn,
Billy Boyd, Jamie Sives, Jodhi May,
Benedict Wong
Status: Completed
Frank (Peter Mullan) determines to
salvage his self-esteem and to tackle his
demons by attempting the ultimate test
of endurance - to swim the English
Channel.
IDT
ENTERTAINMENT
SALES
IDTEntertainment Sales, 12020
Chandler Blvd., Suite 300, North
Hollywood, CA91607 USA. Tel:
818.738.1300. Fax: 818.760.0881.
[email protected], www.idtes.com
At AFM: Andrew Berman (Executive
VP, Sales), Patti Rose (Director,
310.458.6700 ext. 606
YANKEE IRVING
CGI animation (90 minutes)
Director: The late Christopher Reeve,
Ron Tippe
Producer: IDTEntertainment Animation
Key Cast: Rob Reiner, W illiam H. Macy,
Whoopi Goldberg, Brian Dennehy,
Mandy
Patinkin, Robert Wagner, Richard Kind,
Raven-Symone, Dana Reeve, Joe Torre
Status: Production (completion Summer
2006)
Yankee Irving is about a boy who travels
across the country on a mission to return
Babe Ruth’s bat before the deciding
game of the 1932 World Series. On the
way, he meets an eclectic group of
characters that encourage him on his
pilgrimage to the big game in Chicago.
LEFTIN DARKNESS
Horror/Thriller/Suspense (90 minutes)
Producer: Stephen J. Cannell, Mike
Dubelko (Centaurus Films)
Status: Post-Production, temp trailer
available
Death is only the beginning for Cecelia.
Stuck between the afterlife and this
world, she is now faced with the
possibility of eternal torment.
TOOTH FAIRY
Producer: Stephen J. Cannell, Mike
available
The Tooth Fairy takes more than the
teeth of children; she takes their lives!
ROOM 6
Director: Mike Hurst (“House of the
Dead: Dead Aim”)
Producer: Mindfire Entertainment &
CFQ Films (Mark Altman & Mark
Gottwald – the producing team of
“House of the Dead”, “House of the
Dead: Dead Aim”)
available
Key Cast: Christine Taylor (“Dodge
Ball”, “Brady Bunch”), Jerry O’Connell
(“Jerry Maguire”, “Kangaroo Jack”)
Shayne Brolley (“Underworld”)
After a car accident, Amy’s fiancé has
disappeared after being taken away in an
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ambulance, along with the passenger of
the other vehicle.
THE GARDEN
Director: Don Michael Paul
Producers: Stephen J. Cannell, Mike
Key Cast: Lance Hendrickson (“Aliens”,
“Millennium”), Sean Young (“Blade
Runner”, “Now Way Out”)
available
When Samuel and his father David
become stranded in the small town of
Havilah, they manage to find a help from
a mysterious old man (Hendrickson) who
all too eagerly provides work and shelter
for the strangers.
VOODOO MOON
Supernatural Horror (90 minutes)
Producers: Karen Bailey, Kevin
VanHook (“Fallen Ones”)
Director: Kevin VanHook
Key Cast: Charisma Carpenter (“Buffy
the Vampire Slayer”, “Angel”), Eric
Mabius (“Resident Evil”, “The L
Word”), John Amos (“West Wing”,
“Good Times”), Jeffery Combs (“ReAnimator”), Dee Wallace Stone (“ET, the
Extra-Terrestrial”), Rik Young
(“Children of Dune”)
Twenty years ago, the sleeping little
town of Martin, Tennessee became home
to the Martin Massacre.
ARTHUR’S MISSING PAL
Animation, CGI/3D (age group: 6-12) (1
x 70)
Producer: Mainframe Entertainment
(“Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for
Pappy”,
“Inspector Gadget’s Biggest Caper
Ever”)
Status: Production (Delivery Summer
2006), trailer screening during Mip Jr.
Sometimes you just don’t know what
you have until it’s gone! Arthur finds this
out the hard way in his first ever CGI
feature film.
GHOSTIN THE SHELL: STAND
ALONE COMPLEX, 2ND GIG
Anime/2D (age group: 12-29) (25
minutes x 26 episodes)
Director: Kenji Kamiyama
Producer: Production I.G, Shirow
Masamune, Bandai Visual, Bandai
Entertainment, Dentsu, Nihon Television,
Tokuma Shoten, Victor
Entertainment, Manga Entertainment.
Status: Completed, ready for delivery,
screening DVDs available
For this second season, “Innocence”
famed director Mamoru Oshii
contributed with his ideas to the concept
of the entire series right from the initial
planning stages.
IMAGEWORKS
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL,
INC.
Imageworks Entertainment International,
Inc., Warner Center, 6140 Variel Avenue,
Woodland Hills, CA91367 USA. Tel:
818.716.1670. Fax: 818.716.8004.
[email protected],
www.imageworksentertainment.com
Company Type: International
Distribution, International Production
At AFM: David Shoshan (President),
Ben Brower (Sales), Ronit Shamay
(Sales)
Acquisition Executive: David Shoshan
Office: 505, Tel: 310.458.6700 x505,
Fax: 818.716.8004
FINALMOVE
Thriller (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Joey Travolta
Producer: David Shoshan
Cast: Matt Schulze, Daniel Baldwin and
David Carradine
Origin: USA
FBI and LAPD rely on Detective
Marlowe’s psychic visions to solve the
“Chess Piece Murders”, a deadly chess
match between the LAPD and a thought
to be executed serial killer.
THE DERBYSTALLION
Family (99 min)
Language: English
Director: Craig Clyde
Producer: Tonja Walker Davidson
Cast: Bill Cobbs, Zac Efron, Billy
Moses, Crystal Hunt and Tonja Walker
DEMI MOOREIN HALF LIGHT – LAKESHORE INTERNATIONAL
Origin: USA
A teenage boy discovers his passion for
horses, his champion spirit, and the first
love of his life.
PLANE DEAD
Sci-Fi
Language: English
Director: Scott Thomas
Producer: David Shoshan
Only a handful of the survivors remain
on the airplane. Now, the clock is
ticking, the pilots are dead and the dead
are coming.
THE PAINTING
Drama (98 min)
Language: English
Director: Peter Manoogian, Joshua Rose
Producer: Michael Armand Hammer,
David Shoshan
Cast: Debbie Allen, Stacey Dash, Clifton
Davis
Origin: USA
Randy Barrington IV, sacrifices
everything to be with the African
American woman he loves set in the
radical and changing times of America in
the 1960s.
IMAGINATION
WORLDWIDE, LLC
Imagination Worldwide, LLC, 9107
Wilshire Blvd., Suite 625, Beverly Hills,
CA90210 USA. Tel: 310.888.3494. Fax:
310.859.7173. www.imagination-llc.com
At AFM: Pierre David (Chairman &
CEO), Tom Berry (Co-Chairman),
Lawrence Goebel (President), Romana
Samaritani (Vice President), Kendall
Nowlin (Marketing Coordinator), Travis
Stevens (Contract Administrator)
Acquisition Executive: Romana
Samaritani
Office: 811, Tel: 310.434.9000. Fax:
310.434.9002
THE RIVAL
Thriller
Language: English
Producer: Pierre David, Tom Berry,
Stefan Wodoslawsky
Origin: Canada
When a disturbed woman becomes
jealous of the surrogate carrying her
child, and suspects her husband is having
an affair with her – no one is safe.
LASTEXIT
Thriller
Language: English
Director: John Fawcett
Producer: Richard Lalonde, Daniel Iron,
Pierre David
Cast: Kathleen Robertson, Andrea Roth,
Linden Ashby
Origin: Canada
On a hot summer day, two ordinary
women driving to work are unaware that
one wrong turn will unleash a dramatic
series of events ending in the death of
one of them.
DEMONS FROM HER PAST
Thriller
Language: English
Producer: Pierre David, Tom Berry,
Stefan Wodoslawsky
Origin: Canada
When a woman goes back to her
hometown to confront the demons from
her past, she puts her life in danger while
uncovering the truth.
INDUSTRYWORKS
IndustryWorks Distribution Inc., 325
West Seventh Avenue Vancouver, B.C.
V5Y 1M2 Canada. Tel: 604.876.0547.
Fax: 604.876.0541
At AFM: Evan Tylor (President),
Melanie Kilgour (VPSales), Paul
Hampton (Chairman)
Office: Loews Suite 602, Tel:
310.458.6700, ext. 602
VELVETREVOLUTION
Action
Director: Oleg Stepchenko
Executive Producers: Oleg Lyjbaev,
Gennady Remizov
Producers: Oleg Stepchenko
Cast: Alexey Kravchenko, Alexey A.
Petrukin, Anna Churina, Oleg Taktarov
Status: Completed, premiere screening at
AFM
Budget: $7 million
A Russian special agent is flung into the
ruthless world of international drug
trafficking when he inadvertently
confiscates a cell phone from the
assistant of a nefarious drug lord.
GOBSHITE
Action Comedy
Director: Mike Scullion
Producers: Mike Frislev, Kevin Scullion
Cast: Andy Curtis, Brendan Dempsey
Status: Completed, premiere screening at
AFM
Ronnie Banks, a slightly demented
English gangster, decides that he wants a
bigger piece of the underworld pie and
devises a scheme involving the takeover
of a family tavern in a sleepy Irish
community.
EL TORITO
Animated Adventure
Director: Frank Shields
Producer: Frank Shields, Evan Tylor
Cast (voices): TBA
Status: In development, new
announcement
Budget: $15 million
A soon-to-be classic tale of beast against
man, El Torito (the “Little Bull”)
witnesses his father ’s death in the
bullring and must then decide for himself
what’s right: to fight or to flee.
CONFESSIONS OF A
SOCIOPATHIC SOCIALCLIMBER
Romantic Comedy
Director: Dana Lustig
Producer: Evan Tylor
Executive Producers: Chad Oakes, Stan
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Brooks
Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sonja
Bennett, Colin Ferguson
Status: Completed
Katya Livingston (Hewitt) is an
obnoxious 28-year-old ad sales exec who
won’t let anything stand in her way of
getting to the top of the San Francisco
social ladder.
BLOODYMARY: THE LEGEND OF
MARY WORTH
Director: Danny Nowak
Producer: Evan Tylor
Executive Producers: Paul Hampton,
Melanie Kilgour
Cast: TBA
During a college initiation prank,
students inadvertently smash an antique
mirror and unleash the vengeful ghost of
a woman whose face was grossly
mutilated in the 18th century.
INFERNO
DISTRIBUTION
Inferno Distribution, 8000 Sunset Blvd,
East Penthouse, Los Angeles, CA90046
USA. Tel: 323.848.8973. Fax:
323.848.8963.
www.infernodistribution.com
Company Type: Production and
International Sales
At AFM: Bill Johnson (Partner) Jim
Seibel (Partner), James MacLean
(International Sales)
Office: 427, Tel: 310.458.6700 Suite
427, Fax: 310.458.6761
JUSTFRIENDS
Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Roger Kumble
Producer: Chris Bender, J.C. Spink,
William Vince, Bill Johnson, Michael
Ohoven
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna
Faris, Chris Klein
Origin: USA
Budget: 18.5M
A man comes face-to-face with old high
school crush — a woman whose
rejection of him turned him into a
ferocious womanizer.
PEACEFUL WARRIOR
Drama
Language: English
Director: Victor Salva
Producer: Inferno Distribution, Sobini
Films, Academy Film, DEJ Distribution
Cast: Nick Nolte, Scott Mechlowicz,
Amy Smart
Delivery Status: post production
Origin: USA
Budget: 13M
Based on the best selling book “Way of
the Peaceful Warrior” a collegiate
gymnast discovers a new outlook on life
with the help of an older Zen-inspired
mentor.
THE 13TH APOSTLE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: John Carpenter
Producer: Inferno Distribution, Stallion
Film, Storm King
Delivery Status: pre production
Origin: USA
Budget: 20M
The investigation of a series of gruesome
murders forces a Pittsburgh detective to
exorcise his own demons while
uncovering the greater plot of an
internet-based serial killers’club.
THE GOOD NIGHT
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Jake Paltrow
Producer: Inferno Distribution, Donna
Gigliotti
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Martin Freeman,
Sienna Miller, Simon Pegg
Origin: USA
Budget: 15M
A man finds he has more happiness and
love with the woman in his dreams than
in his lonely day to day reality.
INFERNO FILM
PRODUCTIONS, LLC
Inferno Film Productions, LLC, P.O. Box
696, Littleton, CO 80160, Tel:
303.587.9792. Fax: 303.470.1011.
[email protected],
www.infernofilm.com
At AFM: Darlene Cypser (President),
Trygve Lode (Executive Vice President),
Mark Steven Grove (Action Director)
Office: Loews 525
A STRANGER WITHIN
Thriller (87 min)
Language: English
Producer: Lawrence Ferrara
Director: Lawrence Ferrara
Principal Cast: Mark Bedell, Dee Cook,
Danny Hanbury
Danny discovers his brother Bill’s
twisted secrets and how he paid for the
crime Bill committed. Can he stop Bill
from killing again?
THE INN
Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Producer: Pepi Singh Khara
Director: Pepi Singh Khara
Principal Cast: Kelly Sue Roth, Joshua
Davis, Jennifer Robers
When a television reporter sets out to
uncover a Maryland town’s hidden
secrets, she unwittingly becomes
embroiled in a story that began with the
curse of a Louisiana dollmaker.
KISSES & CAROMS
Comedy (81 min)
Language: English
Producer: Vincent Rocca
Director: Vincent Rocca
Principal Cast: Nicole Rayburn, Drew
Wicks, Ginger Lynn Allen
After a threesome a billiard storeowner
must deal with a love-struck exgirlfriend, a horny housewife, a naked
white guy and a shotgun-wielding
psychotherapist.
ORANGES: REVENGE OFTHE
EGGPLANT
Animation (95 min)
Language: English
Producer: Mike Stoklasa
Director: Mike Stoklasa
Principal Cast: Rich Evans, Mike
Stoklasa, Riley O’Miley
After many years as an espionage
scientist, Dr. Charles Sunkyst is ready to
retire to teach. Little does Sunkyst know
that his archenemy Evil Eggplant has
arrived on campus with revenge in mind.
INFRAME
InFrame, Linton House, 39-51 Highgate
Road, London, NW5 1RS UK. Tel:
44.20.7424.7280. Fax: 44.20.7428.8936.
At AFM: John Flynn (Director), Steven
Mackler (Head of Acquisitions), Melanie
Tebb (Director: of Sales - Theatrical),
David Llewellyn-Jones (Director Sales TV)
Office: 328, Tel: 616.826.9424
DORIAN BLUES
Comedy (88 min)
Language: English
Director: Tennyson Bardwell
Producer: Mary Beth Taylor Bardwell
Key Cast: Michael McMillan, Lea Coco,
Steven Fletcher
Origin: USA
Dorian, the elder of two brothers,
struggles to figure out what’s wrong with
him and reluctantly realises he is gay.
The more people he consults the more
confused he gets. A comedy about
coming out.
GHOSTIN THE SHELL:
INNOCENCE
Animation (99 min)
Language: japanese
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Producer: Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, Toshia
Suzuki
Key Cast: Akio Otsuka, Tsuko Tanaka,
Kochi Yamadera
Origin: Japan
Japanese anime in which a robot created
for sex malfunctions. Innocence is the
first anime film to be selected for official
competition at the Cannes Film Festival
ON THE CORNER
Drama (95 min)
Director: English
Language: Nathaniel Geary
Producer: Marc Stevenson, Wendy
Hyman
Key Cast: Alex Rice, Simon Baker,
Katherine Isabelle
Origin: Canada
A brother and his heroin addict sister
have to rely on each other to survive on
the mean back streets of Vancouver
WHAT ALICE FOUND
Drama (96 min)
Language: English
Director: ADean Bell
Producer: Richard Connors
Key Cast: Judith Ivey, Bill Raymond,
Emily Grace
Origin: USA
Alice leaves her small town for the
excitement of Florida but along the
way meets Sandra who is not all she
seems and Alice is caught up in a web
of lies and deceit.
MILLENIUM A C T R E S S
Animation (87 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Satoshi Kon
Producer: Taro Maki
Key Cast: Miyoko Shoji, Mami
Koyama, Fumiko Oricasa
Origin: Japan
Amovie star who disappeared 30
years ago is tracked down by a
documentary filmmaker. She recalls
her life, images from her past and
future life combined.
INITIAL
E N T E RTA I N M E N T
GROUP
Initial Entertainment Group, 3000 W.
Olympic Blvd., Ste 1550, Santa
Monica, CA 90404 USA. Te l :
310.315.1722. Fax: 310.315.1723
At AFM: Graham King (President),
Eric Christenson (President, Sales &
Distribution), Schuyler Ha (Senior
Vice President, Marketing &
Publicity)
O ffice: Le Merigot Hotel, Suite 214,
Tel: 310.395.9700. Fax: 310.395.9200
AN UNFINISHED LIFE
Directed By: Lasse Hallstrom
Produced By: Alan Ladd Jr., Kelliann
Ladd, Leslie Holleran
Executive Produced By: Joe Roth,
Graham King, Mark Rydell, Matthew
Rhodes, Bob Weinstein, Harvey
Weinstein, Meryl Poster, Michelle
Raimo, Harvey Weinstein, Graham
King
Cast: Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez,
M o rgan Freeman, Josh Lucas,
Camryn Manheim
Status: Completed
Awoman, desperate to care for her
d a u g h t e r, reconnects with her
estranged and emotionally wounded
f a t h e r- i n - l a w, and together, all three
f o rge a renewed lease on life.
THE BALLAD OF JACK A N D
ROSE
Written and Directed By: Rebecca
Miller
Produced By: Lemore Syvan
Executive Produced By: Caroline
Kaplan, Graham King, Jonathan
Sehring
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Catherine
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Paul Franklin Dano
Status: Completed
Afather and his teenage daughter,
Rose, live in an abandoned commune
on an island off the coast of Canada.
THE AV I ATOR
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Produced By: Michael Mann, Sandy
Climan, Graham King, Charlie Evans
J r.
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate
Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Alec
Baldwin, John
C. Reilly, Jude Law, Gwen Stefani
Status: Completed
Buoyed by vision, driven by
imagination, one man became an icon of
the 20th century: Howard Hughes.
Visionary. Daredevil. Mogul. Madman.
INTANDEM FILMS
Intandem Films, 22 Soho Square,
London, United Kingdom. Tel:
44207.851.3800. Fax: 44207.851.3830.
www.intandemfilms.com
Company Type: Sales Company and
Executive Producers.
At AFM: Gary Smith (CEO), Andrew
Brown (Director), Billy Hurman
(Director), Denise Bridgeman
(Production and Marketing Manager),
Sasha Dein (Production and Marketing
Manager)
Office: 850 & 851 The Loews Hotel, Tel:
310.458.6700. Fax: 310.458.6761
STONED
True life story (102 min)
Language: English
Director: Stephen Woolley
Producers: Finola Dwyer, Stephen
Woolley
Cast: Leo Gregory, Paddy Considine,
David Morrissey, Tuva Novotny, Monet
Mazur
Origin: UK
Budget: $10 million
The true life story of Brian Jones who
founded The Rolling Stones.one of the
world’s most famous iconic rock
legends, whose untimely death remains
swathed in mystery. Until now!
IRRESISTIBLE
Psychological thriller (98 min)
Language: English
Director: Ann Turner
Producers: Tatiana Kennedy, David
Parker
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, Emily
BAB’AZIZ – BAVARIAN FILMS
Blunt
Origin: Australia
Budget: $ 7 million
Sophie is convinced that her husband’s
beautiful co-worker wants her family and
her life. Forced to prove her sanity, she
turns stalker and makes a discovery more
frightening than her worst fear.
INTERMEDIA
Intermedia, 9350 Civic Center Drive,
Suite 100, Beverly Hills, CA90210 USA.
Tel: 310 777 0007. Fax: 310 777 0008.
Company Description: A diversified
entertainment company with offices in
Los Angeles and London is one of the
largest independent film production
companies in the world.
At AFM: Martin Schuermann (Chairman
& CEO), Jon Gumpert (Vice Chairman),
Scott Kroopf (President, Motion Picture
Group), Mary Beth Bambridge (Senior
Vice President, Finance & Distribution)
310.458.6700, Fax: Suite 644
ONE MISSED CALL
Horror
Production Companies: Kadokawa
Pictures USA, Intermedia
Producers: Scott Kroopf, Shinya Egawa,
Jennie Lew Tugend, Lauren C.
Weissman
Production status: Pre-production
When her friends start receiving cellphone messages from the future detailing
the moment before each of their deaths, a
graduate student joins forces with a
young detective to unravel the mystery
behind this deadly pattern.
KILLERS GAME
Action
Production Companies: Intermedia, Mad
Chance
Producers: Scott Kroopf, Andrew Lazar
Country of origin: United Kingdom
When a hit man decides to get out of the
game, he is ruthlessly hunted down by
the best in the business.
HYPER REAL
Action/Thriller
Director: Skip Woods
Production Companies: Kadokawa
Pictures USA, Intermedia
Producers: Scott Kroopf, Mark McNair,
Shinya Egawa, Jennie Lew Tugend,
Lauren C. Weissman
A retired criminal’s search for a female
scientist’s kidnapped daughter takes him
into a surreal neo-underworld where
nothing is what it seems.
STOPPING POWER
Action
Production Companies: Action Concept,
Intermedia
Producers: Scott Kroopf, Dirk Eggers,
Hermann Joha
During a tension-filled European
vacation with his daughter and young
girlfriend, an American crosses paths
with a bank robber whose car has been
spotted by the police.
INTRAMOVIES
Intramovies, Via E. Manfredi 15, 00197
Rome, Italy. Tel: 39.06.8076157. Fax:
www.intramovies.com,
www.intramovies.org
At AFM: Jef Nuyts (Dir. of International
Sales, 39.348.540.13.97)
Office: Loews Hotel, 5th Floor, Room #
531/533
MATER NATURA
Director: Massimo Andrei
Producer: Umberto Massa for KUBLA
KHAN
Cast: Maria Pia Calzone, Vladimir
Luxuria, Enzo Moscato, Franco
Javarone, Luca Ward,
Valerio Foglia Manzillo
The misadventures of Desiderio, a very
pretty Neapolitan transsexual unlucky in
love.
EN LACAMA(IN THE BED)
Comedy (85 min)
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Matìas Bize
Producer: Adrián Solar for Ceneca
Producciones
Cast: Blanca Lewin, Gonzalo Valenzuela
In a cheap motel room, Daniela and
Bruno spend the night together. They
hardly know the other one, they only met
a few hours before in a café.
GAS
Drama (100 min)
Director: Luciano Melchionna
Producer: Massimo Ferrero for Blu
Cinematografica
Cast: Lorenzo Balducci, Francesco
Venditti, Moran Atias, Loretta Goggi,
Paolo Villaggio
Francesco, Emiliano, Sandro, Monica
and Laura, everybody from 20 to 30
years old, enjoying to scare a man
kidnapped in the night.
J
JKD (JON KRAMER
DISTRIBUTION)
JKD (Jon Kramer Distribution), JKD,
15442 Ventura Blvd. Sherman Oaks, CA
91403, USA. Tel: 818.728.7308. Fax:
818.784.9916.
Company Type: producer, distributor
At AFM: Jon Kramer (President),
Suzanne Barron (V.P. Sales), Martha
Kramer (Sales Assistant), Jason Sutter
(Director of Operation), Ruth Silny
(Sales Assistant)
Office: #702/702, Tel: 310.434.9432.
Fax: 310.434.9433
METAMORPHOSIS
Supernatural
Language: English
Director: Jeno Hodi
Producer: Jeno Hodi
Co-production partners: Michael
Schindler, Adrian Politowski
Cast: Christopher Lambert
Delivery Status: Pre-Production, set to
premiere in 2006
Origin: USA
Metamorphosis is an edge-of your-seat
ride into the astounding world of the
paranormal. This tension-packed film
explores life beyond death through a
passionate and dangerous love story
between a young American writer and a
gorgeous exotic vampire.
DEAD RAIL
Action (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Turi Meyer
Producer: Scott Vandiver, Steve Beswick
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Amy
Locane, Steven Brand, Barry Corbin
Origin: USA
Get ready to ride a train that takes you
on a trip that no one ever expected.
Non-stop action and great special
effects. You don’t want to miss this
movie!
THE HELIX.LOADED
Comedy (97 minutes)
Language: English
Director: A. Raven Cruz
Producer: A. Raven Cruz, Nova
Golonka, Joel Jaffe, Anthony Aniano,
Samuel A. Levine Ryan J. Francis
Cast: Vanilla Ice
Origin: USA
This spoof of the century parodies the
stories and themes of the most popular
science fiction and action films of the
past ten years (THE MATRIX
TRILOGY, FIGHT CLUB,
M I N O R I T YR E P O RT, THE HULK).
K
KATAPULT FILM
SALES
Katapult Film Sales, 228 Main Street,
Suite C, Venice, CA90291 United States.
Tel: 310.399.2080. Fax: 310.399.2199.
www.katapultfilms.com
At AFM: Thomas Mai (Sales Agent),
David Jourdan (Sales Agent), Joni
Sighvatsson (Sales Agent)
Office: Merigot 221, Tel: 323.855.5874,
Fax: 310.399.2199
A LITTLE TRIP TO HEAVEN
www.katapultfilms.com/ltth.html
Mystery-Drama (93 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Co-Production Partners: Palomar
Pictures, Blueeyes Pictures
Producer: Joni Sighvatsson, Baltasar
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Key Cast: Forest Whitaker, Julia Stiles,
Jeremy Renner, Peter Coyote
Budget $10 Million
Origin: Iceland
Insurance investigator is sent to a small
town to check the mystery surrounding a
car crash with a dead body insured for
$1million.
THE LASTWINTER
www.katapultfilms.com/lw.html
Supernatural Thriller (120 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Larry Fessenden
Producer: Jeff Levy-Hinte
Key Cast: Ron Perlman
Budget $7million
Origin: USA
Group of oilmen sent to Alaska to
explore drilling potential is confronted
by a mysterious force which takes them
out one by one.
SCREAMING MASTERPIECE
www.katapultfilms.com/sm.html
Music Documentary (88 minutes)
Director: English, Icelandic w/ english
subtitles
Language: Ari Alexander
Producer: Joni Sighvatsson
Key Cast: Bjork, Sigur Ros, Mum,
Mugison.
Origin: Iceland
Chronicle of the exploding icelandic
music scene.
KATHY MORGAN
INTERNATIONAL
Kathy Morgan International, 12250 Sky
Lane, Los Angeles CA90049 USA. Tel:
310.472.6300. Fax: 310.472.6304.
At AFM: Kathy Morgan (President),
Kimberly Fox (VP, International Sales),
Christopher Corabi (Business Affairs)
Office: The Loews Hotel Suite 518, Tel:
310. 434.9351 and 310.434.9352. Fax:
310.472.6304; Kimberly Fox mobile:
310.447.4424
THE CLEANER
Language: English
Director: Les Mayfield
Producers: Brett Ratner and Jay Stern
Executive Producers: A.J. Dix and
Anthony Rhulen
Cast: Lucy Liu, Nicollette Sheridan,
Cedric the Entertainer
(Promo Reel in office)
Jake Williams wakes up in a beautiful
hotel suite with a bump on his head, a
dead FBI agent next to him, and a
briefcase with $250,000.
IN THE LAND OFWOMEN
Language: English
Director: Jonathan Kasdan
Producers: Steve Golin and David
Kanter
Executive Producer: Lawrence Kasdan
Cast: Meg Ryan, Adam Brody, Olympia
Dukakis, Kristen Stewart
Production Status: Post Production
(Promo Reel in office)
A recently single twenty-something guy
travels from Los Angeles to suburban
Detroit to care for his cantankerous,
eccentric grandmother and to pull his life
back together.
BROOKLY RULES
Language: English
Director: Michael Corrente
Producers: Michael Corrente, Marisa
Polvino, Richard Lewis, Rich Perello
Executive Producers: William
Heinzerling, Steven Bowman, Terence
Winter, Rachel Rothman, Akiva
Goldsman
Cast: Freddie Prinze Jr, Mena Suvari,
Scott Caan, Jerry Ferrera Alec Baldwin
Production Status: Screening at the AFM
In 1985 Brooklyn, three boyhood friends
come of age on the streets where the
violent have power.
BLIND GUY
Language: English
Director: James Keach
Producers: Costa Theo, Joy Mellins,
Dave Shanks, James Keach
Cast: Chris Pine, Eddie Kaye Thomas,
Jane Seymour, Anjali Jay
Production Status: Screening at the AFM
An outrageous romantic comedy about a
visually impaired, but highly confident
young man, seeking love and a chance to
see.
KEYSTONE
PICTURES INC.
Keystone Pictures Inc., 23410 Civic
Center Way, Suite E-9, Malibu, CA
90265 USA. Tel: 604.873.9739. Fax:
604.873.5919. www.keypics.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: Mr. Tim Brown (VP
Worldwide Sales & Distribution)
Office: 628, Tel: 604.351.1537
SPYMATE
Family (87 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Robert Vince
Producer: Robert Vince, Anna
McRoberts
Cast: Chris Potter, Emma Roberts,
Richard Kind, Pat Morita
Delivery status: Post-Production
Country of Origin: Canada, Year of
Production: 2003
Minkey, the highly trained super spy
chimp, must team up with his ex-partner
Mike in this high action comedy to
rescue Mike’s daughter from the clutches
of the evil Dr. Farley.
CHESTNUT
Family (87 minutes)
Language: English
Producer: Robert Vince, Anna
McRoberts
Cast: Christine Tucci, Justin Louis, Barry
Bostwick
Production 2003
Chestnut is arguably the most lovable
Great Dane in New York City.but trying
to hide him in a small high-rise
apartment proves to be a very BIG
problem for sisters Sal and Ray.
MXP: MOSTEXTREME PRIMATE
Family (90 minutes)
Language: English
Producers: Robert Vince & Anna
McRoberts
Cast: Devin Drewitz, Gwynth Walsh,
Rob Tinkler, Ian Bagg
Production: 2002
He was the Most Valuable Primate on
the ice in MVP1. He brought
skateboarding to new heights as the Most
Vertical Primate in MVP2 and now
Jack’s off to the slopes in Utah for his
most extreme adventure yet!
AIR BUD: SPIKES BACK!
Family (90 minutes)
Language: English
Producers: Robert Vince & Anna
McRoberts
Cast: Katija Pevec, Jake Smith, Tyler
Boissonnault, Cynthia Stevenson, Edie
McClurg
Delivery status: Completed
Production: 2002
Buddy and Andrea hit the beach for
some volleyball! But what’s this? Jewel
thieves on the loose kidnap Buddy and
try to force him to help them steal a
priceless gem from the Fernfield
Museum.
KIMMEL
INTERNATIONAL
Kimmel International, 250 Hudson
Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10013
USA. Tel: 212.431.5550. Fax:
212.431.5822.
At AFM: Mark Lindsay (President,
Kimmel International), Jill Silfen (Sr.
Vice President, Business Affairs,
Kimmel International), Joan Andres
(Manager, Sales and Administration,
Kimmel International)
Office: Suite 466, Tel: 310.434.9343.
Fax: 310.434.9344
GRIFFIN AND PHOENIX
Language: English
Director: Ed Stone
Producers: Amy Israel, Jason Blum, Paul
Brooks, Sidney Kimmel, Ed Stone
Executive Producers: Norm Waitt, Scott
Niemeyer, Cary McNair
Cast: Amanda Peet, Dermont Mulroney,
Sarah Paulson, Alison Eliot, Lois Smith,
Blair Brown, Adrienne Lennox, Jonah
Meyerson, Max Morris
Status: Production
A poignantly funny love story about two
people who face a seemingly
insurmountable obstacle that may stand
between them and a last chance at love.
KUDOS PICTURES
Kudos Pictures, 12-14 Amwell Street,
London, EC1R 1UQ, United Kingdom.
Tel: 0044.207.812.3270. Fax:
0044.207.812.3271.
[email protected]
Company Type: Producer
At AFM: Paul Webster
Office: 655, Tel: 310.4349422
WAKE UPDEAD
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Producer: Paul Webster, Stephen Garrett
Cast: Matthew Macfadyen
Delivery Status: Development
A man wakes at the bottom of a cliff,
suffering from amnesia. He is convinced
that someone has tried to him; he is wrong.
MISS PETTIGREWLIVES FOR A
DAY
Romantic comedy
Language: English
A heart warming romantic comedy about
how a middle aged spinster, through
meeting a glamorous actress, discovers
love, friendship and a deliciously exciting
new world, and gets a second chance at life.
DREAMSCAPE
Documentary
Language: English
The story of a mysterious bird’s coming of age
in a remote and hostile corner of the world.
KWA (KEVIN
WILLIAMS
ASSOCIATES)
KWA (Kevin Williams Associates), Galeon
32, bajo A Madrid 28042 SPAIN. Tel:
34.91.747.31.00. Fax: 34.91.747.70.00.
www.kevinwa.com, [email protected]
At AFM: Kevin Williams (President)
Office: 458, Tel: 34.667.54.05.47
TATUADO (TATTOOED)
Drama (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Eduardo Raspo
Producer: Marcelo Schapces
Key Cast: Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Luis
Ziembrowsky, Jimena Anganuzzi
Origin: Argentina
Coming of age story of teenage boy finding
out why his mother left home and why she
had the cobra killing mongoose tattooed on
his arm at childhood!
H6, DIARIO DE UN ASESINO (ROOM
6, DIARY OF A SERIALKILLER)
Psycho-Thriller (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Martin Garrido Baron
Producer: Denise O’Dell, Mark Albela
Key Cast: Fernando Acaso, Maria Jose
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Origin: Spain
Journey into a psychopath’s mind who
ruthlessly murders in search of showmanship,
keeping scrupulous track in his diary of every
single assassination he commits. Not
even his closest relatives suspect!
L
LAKESHORE
INTERNATIONAL
Lakeshore International, 9268 West
Third Street. Beverly Hills, CA90210
USA. Tel: 310.867.8000. Fax:
310.300.3015.
www.lakeshoreentertainment.com
At AFM: Peter Rogers (President,
Lakeshore International), Julie
McLaughlin (Vice President,
International Sales), Elisabeth Costa de
Beauregard (Director: , International
Sales), Virginia Longmuir (Senior Vice
President, International Business &
Legal Affairs & Operations), Robert
Burke (Vice President, Worldwide
Marketing), Acacia Ward (Manager,
Worldwide Marketing), Rebecca
Shlapack (Assistant, International Sales),
Vicki Roker (Assistant, International
Business & Legal Affairs)
Office: 731, Tel: 310.434.9450. Fax:
310.434.9455
THE LASTKISS
Director: Tony Goldwyn
Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Gary
Lucchesi, Andre Lamal
Cast: Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Casey
Affleck with Tom Wilkinson and Blythe
Danner
The romantic misadventures of five best
friends weave one poignant story of how
love and commitment can turn grown
men into boys.
BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE
Fantasy/Romance
Director: Katja Van Garnier
Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Gary
Lucchesi, Richard Wright
Cast: Agnus Brucker, Hugh Darcy,
Olivier Martinez, Katja Riemann
Nineteen year old Vivian Gandillon has
spent her life on the run from the truth.
that she is a werewolf.
HALFLIGHT
Suspense/Thriller
Director: Craig Rosenberg
Producer: Joel Michaels, Steve Samuels,
Clive Parsons, Andreas Grosch, Garth H.
Drabinsky
Cast: Demi Moore, Hans Matheson,
James Cosmo, Therese Bradley
Status: Screening
After the death of her five-year old son,
a best selling novelist moves to a remote
seaside cottage and falls in love with a
man whom the locals claim died years
earlier.
SHE’S THE MAN
Comedy
Director: Andy Fickman
Producer: Lauren Shuler Donner
Cast: Amanda Bynes
She’s a high school girl pretending to be
her twin brother to make the boys
football team. With women chasing her
and men off limits, will falling in love
put an end to her game?
UNDISCOVERED
Romantic Comedy
Director: Meiert Avis
Producer: Marco Mehlitz, Michael
Ohoven, Bic Tran
Cast: Pell James, Steven Strait, Kip
Pardue, Ashlee Simpson, Carrie Fisher,
Fisher Stevens, Peter Weller
Status: Screening
Nine years after their brief, romantic
“moment” on a New York subway, a
successful model and a struggling
musician reunite in L.A. When her secret
plan to “hype” his career succeeds in a
big way, it leads to crazy
misunderstandings and eventually, true
love.
BEYOND THE SEA
Drama
Director: Kevin Spacey
Producer: Jan Fantl, Arthur E. Friedman,
Andy Paterson, Kevin Spacey
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth,
John Goodman
Status: Complete
Academy award winning actor, Kevin
Spacey, stars in the true life story of
famous crooner, Bobby Darin.
LAW OFFICES OF
RAY LIOTTA IN COMEBACK SEASON – M YRIAD PICTURES
GREG S. BERNSTEIN
Law Offices of Greg S. Bernstein, 9601
Wilshire Blvd., Suite 240, Beverly Hills,
California, USA. Tel: 310.247.2790.
Fax: 310.247.2791. Mobile:
310.266.5365. www.thefilmlaw.com
Company Type: Entertainment and
Finance Law, Producer Representative
Attending Executives/Titles: Greg S.
Bernstein (Entertainment Attorney,
Producer Representative)
LIGHTNING
ENTERTAINMENT
Lightning Entertainment, 301 Arizona
Avenue, Suite 400, Santa Monica, CA
90401, USA. Tel: 310 255 7999. Fax:
310 255 7998. [email protected],
www.lightning-ent.com
At AFM: Tannaz Anisi (Senior VPof
Int’l Sales), Kristen Figeroid (Director of
Int’l Sales), Marc Greenberg (President)
Office: R35.07, Tel: 33.4.92.99.8893
DEEPWATER
www.deepwaterthemovie.com
Thriller
Language: English
Director: David Marfield
Producer: Chris Coen
Executive Producer: Peter Wetherell
Cast: Lucas Black, Peter Coyote, Mia
Maestro and Lesley Ann Warren, Xander
Berkeley, Michael Ironside
Origin: USA
A psychological thriller about a young
drifter who stumbles into the town of
Deepwater, where he stumbles upon a
twisted game of deceit and murder. Soon
he realizes that nothing is what it seems
in this secluded world.
PARTNERS
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Dave Diamond
Producer: Billy Parks and John Saviano
Cast: Jay Harrington, Julie Bowen,
Brooke Langton, Michael Ian Black and
Saul Rubinek
Origin: USA
When it looks like he’s about to lose his
battle for partnership to his wily exgirlfriend Katherine, Dave embraces a
false rumor that he is gay in order to
elevate his status at their politically
correct law firm.
THE EXTRA
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Kevin Carlin
Producer: Stephen Luby, Mark Ruse,
Bruno Charlesworth
Executive Producer: Jennie Hughes,
Posie Graeme-Evans
Cast: Jimeoin McKeown, Rhys
Muldoon, Bob Franklin, Helen
Dallimore and Kristy Hinze
Origin: USA
An average Joe (The Extra) travels to the
big city to find fame and fortune as a movie
star, but when he can only get is work as an
extra in a big budget movie; he unwittingly
allows himself to be pulled into the
precarious con world with his friend Curtis.
LIONS GATE FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
Lions Gate Films International, 2700
Colorado Blvd, 2nd Floor, Santa
Monica, CA 90404 USA. Tel:
310.255.3700. Fax: 310.255.3770.
www.lionsgatefilms.com
At AFM: Nicolas Meyer (President,
International), Stephanie Denton
(President, International Sales), Tom
Ortenberg (President, Theatrical
Releasing), Peter Block President
(Acquisitions and Co-Productions),
Jason Constantine (Senior Vice
President, Acquisitions), Adam Bialow
(Senior Vice President, International
Business and Legal Affairs)
Office: Suite 544, Tel: 310.434.9372.
Fax: 310.434.9369
CRANK
Action Thriller
Language: English
Written & Directed by: Mark
Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary
Lucchesi, Michael Davis
Cast: Jason Statham
Ahit man discovers that he has been
poisoned and sets off on a desperate,
destruction-filled odyssey for revenge
while trying to save himself and
protect his girlfriend.
SKINWALKERS
Horror
Language: English
Directed by: James Issac
Producers: Dennis Berardi, Don
Carmody
Executive Producers: Robert Kulzer,
Stan W inston
Cast: Jason Behr, Elias Koteas, Rhona
Mitra
Delivery Status: Production
A12 year old boy and his mother
become the center of an ancient war
between two warring werewolf tribes.
Both sides will face off in a final battle
between good and evil to decide who
will rule the earth.
BORDERLAND*
True Crime Thriller
Language: English/Spanish
Directed by: Zev Berman
Executive Producers: Steve Whitney,
Keith Previte, M. Dal Walton III,
Rafael Gutierrez Rodriguez, Susan
Jackson, Deborah Davis and Jeff Rice
Producers: Lauren Moews, Randall
Emmett, George Furla, Elisa Salinas
Cast: Sean Astin, Brian Presley, Rider
Strong, Jake Muxworthy, Martha
Higareda, Beto Cuevas, Damian
Alcazar
Country of Origin: US/Mexico
Based on true events, a group of
friends travel to Mexico in search of a
good time, but when one is abducted
by drug runners who believe in human
sacrifice, their trip takes an evil and
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horrific turn.
*These credits are not contractual
CATACOMBS
Horror
Language: English
Written & Directed by: David Elliott &
Tomm Coker
Executive Producer: Peter Schlessel
Producers: Gregg Hoffman, Oren
Koules, Mark Burg
Cast: Shannyn Sossamon, Alecia
Moore (aka Pink)
One night, Victoria is swept into the
Parisian underground rave scene,
literally under ground into the city’s
Catacombs.
THE LITTLE FILM
COMPANY
The Little Film Company, 12930
Ventura Boulevard, #822 Studio City,
CA 91604, USA.
Company Type: World Sales Company
At AFM: Robbie Little, Ellen Little
Office: 859 Loews Hotel, Tel:
310.458.6700, Robbie Little Mobile
310.567.8356
TSOTSI
www.tsotsi.com
Written and Directed by Gavin Hood
Produced by Peter Fudakowski
Based on the book by acclaimed author
and playwright Athol Fugard, this
deeply affecting film traces six days in
the life of a ruthless young gang
leader.
AN AMERICAN HAUNTING
www.anamericanhauntingonline.com
Written and Directed by Courtney
Solomon
Produced by Christopher Milburn,
Andre Rouleau, Courtney Solomon
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek,
James D’Arcy, Rachel Hurd-Wood
Based on true events. In 1818
Tennessee the Bell family desperately
battles an unknown demon which is
terrorizing their young daughter.
FIELDS OF FUEL
www.fieldsoffuel.com/robbie
Written and Directed by Josh Tickell
Produced by Greg Reitman and Chip
Rosenbloom
Almost 100 years ago a body was
pulled from the English Channel. Dr.
Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the diesel
engine, was dead.
AIR AND FIRE
Directed by Alejandro Springall
Written By Peter Ettedgui & John
Sayles
Produced by Jay Cohen and Stephane
Sperry
Theo Valence, a young French
engineer-representing the famous
architect Gustav Eiffel-arrives in Baja
California with his beautiful new wife
Suzanne.
AMINÎ
Safety
Directed by Tom Shankland
Co Producer Bahman Ghobadi
Executive Producer Ellen Little
Producer Gill Parry
Orphaned by the war in Iraq, a 12year-old Kurdish boy, Shwan, rescues a
stray dog-about to be shot-and together
they set out on a perilous journey to
find a place where they’ll be safe.
ETERNALLY YOURS
Directed by Malcolm Needs
Produced by Nikki Parker
Written by: Cherri Casey Douglas and
Malcolm Needs
Hope Parker is attractive, unmarried
and delightfully off-center. She
chauffeurs celebrities for a living and
is disillusioned with life and especially
men.
NEWS OF THE WORLD
Written and Directed by Nate
Goodman
Produced by John Miranda
Recently divorced, Frank quits his
prestigious job at The Washington Post
to pursue his new life for a British
tabloid.
SEARCHING FOR EVERARDO
Directed by Edoardo Ponti
Written by Jeff Maguire
Based on the true story of Jennifer
Harbury. In the fall of 1994, high in
the Guatemalan rainforest, Jennifer
Harbury met Comandante Everardo.
M
M6 DA
M6 DA, 89, avenue Charles de Gaulle,
Neuilly sur Seine CEDEX 92575 France.
Tel: 33.1.41.92.68.66. Fax:
33.1.41.92.68.69. www.m6da.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: Thierry DESMICHELLE
(CEO), Laëtitia DE LAGRAVIERE
(Deputy manager), Caroline MOUGEY
(Head of sales)
Office: 741
HELL
Drama (90 minutes)
Language: French
Director: Bruno CHICHE
Producer: WYProductions
Key Cast: Sara FORESTIER, Nicolas
DUVAUCHELLE
Origin: France
Hell’s main centres of interest are
spending her nights in clubs, going
shopping, abusing alcohol and drugs,
until one day she meets Andrea.
ANIMALS IN LOVE (LES
ANIMAUX AMOUREUX)
Documentaire (80 minutes)
Language: French
Director: Laurent CHARBONNIER
Producer: MC4 - Jean Pierre BAILLY
Origin: France
In many aspects, animal behavior is
reminiscent of our own, and this journey
through the fascinating world of animals
in love cannot fail to strike a very
familiar chord.
ASTERIX & THE VIKINGS
(ASTÉRIX & LES VIKINGS)
Animation (75 minutes)
Director: French
Language: Stefan FJELDMARK
Co-Production Partners: A-Film Denmark
Producer: M6 Studio
Budget 22M euros
Origin: France
Asterix and Obelix set sail for the icy
waters of the Arctic and reach Viking
territory where they encounter countless
obstacles before they bring Goudurix
back to the village.
THE UGLY DUCKLING & ME
Animation
Language: English
Director: Kirsten KIILERICH, Michael
HEGNER
Producer: A-Film Denmark
Budget 8.5M euros
Origin: Denmark
This is the story of the Ugly Duckling
and his father, Ratso the rat, who found
himself forced to take responsibility for
the little misplaced creature.
HIGH SOCIETY (BEAU MONDE)
Comedy
Language: French
Director: Benoît JACQUOT
Producer: Les films Manuel Munz
Key Cast: Fanny ARDANT, Didier
BOURDON
Budget 6M euros
Origin: France
Stella is having friends visiting her this
summer in Don Quichotte, her villa
located on the Majorca heights: conflicts,
jealousy and seduction games will shake
the villa up.
TELL ME I’M PRETTY (J’ME SENS
PAS BELLE)
Comedy (85 minutes)
Language: French
Director: Bernard JEANJEAN
Co-Production Partners: Kare Production
Producer: Delante Films
Key Cast: Marina FOIS, Julien
BOISSELIER
Origin: France
Fanny, a 30-year old single woman,
wants her life to be simple these days: no
love affair, she just wants one night stand
and absolutely no commitment.
MAINLINE
RELEASING
Mainline Releasing, 301 Arizona Avenue,
Suite 400, Santa Monica, CA90401,
USA. Tel: 310.255.1200. Fax:
310.255.1201.
[email protected],
www.mainlinereleasing.com
At AFM: Tannaz Anisi (Senior VPof
Int’l Sales), Kristen Figeroid (Director of
Int’l Sales), Marc Greenberg (President)
Office: R35.07, Tel:33.4.92.99.8893
THE GRAVEYARD
Horror
Language: English
Director: Michael Feifer
Producer: Michael Feifer and Marc
Laurence
Executive Producer: Marc Greenberg
Cast: Erin Lokitz, Lindsay Ballew,
Lindsay Ballew, Eva Derrek, Brett
Donowho, Patrick Scott Lewis, Leif
Lillehaugen and Markus Potter
Origin: USA
Agroup of young friends in their 20’s,
return to a secluded cabin to put to rest
the memory of a horrific accident that
occurred years ago when they were teens.
ALIEN APOCALYPSE
Sci-fi
Language: English
Director: Josh Becker
Producer: Jeff Franklin & Bob Perkis
Executive Producer: Philip Von
Alvensleben, Jan Körbelin, Jörg
Westerkamp, Thomas Becker Scott
Zakarin Rich Tackenberg, Peter Jaysen
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Renee O’Connor,
Remington Franklin, Michael Cory
Davis, Peter Jason
Origin: USA
An astronaut doctor Ivan Hood (Bruce
Campbell) and his fellow astronaut
Kelly, return from their long mission in
space, to find the world has been taken
over by Aliens.
MAN WITH THE SCREAMING
BRAIN
Sci-fi
Language: English
Director: Bruce Campbell
Producer: Jan Körbelin, Jeff Franklin &
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Bob Perkis
Executive Producer: Jörg Westerkamp,
Thomas Becker, Philip Von Alvensleben,
Scott Zakarin, Rich Tackenberg & Peter
Jaysen
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Tamara Gorski,
Ted Raimi, Antoinette Byron & Stacy
Keach
Origin: USA
When a wealthy industrialist is viciously
murdered by a mysterious woman, he
winds up being brought back to life with
part of his brain replaced with the brain
from a Latino street hustler, by a mad
scientist.
MAJESTIC
ENTERTAINMENT
Majestic Entertainment, 2747 Paradise
Road # 501, Las Vegas, NVUSA89109.
Tel: 702.369.6978. Fax: 702.369.6367
Cell: 310.384.7833.
www.majesticfilmworks.com
At AFM: Lorenzo Doumani (CEO),
Elisena Tatalo (Head of Sales), Laura
Hughes (Executive Assistant)
Office: 524
TRICK OR TREAT
Adventure/Fantasy (93 Min)
Cast: Taylor Dooley (The adventures of
Sharkboy and Lavagirl), Jake Thomas
(AI, Lizzie McGuire Movie)
Status: In post-production
On Halloween, four teenagers embark on
a spooktacular adventure when they
discover their house is haunted complete
with secret passages, dancing zombies,
Vampires and other worldly creatures.
MOTORMOUTH
Action Adventure/Fantasy
For his 16th birthday, painfully shy
Davey Dodge is given an impossible
gift: a Super High Tech Ultra Exotic car,
complete with a hyperkinetic 3D
hologram that just won’t shut up!
STORYBOOK
Adventure/Fantasy (85 Min)
Cast: Swoosie Kurtz (Bubble Boy, Liar,
Liar), William McNamara (The Calling,
Ringmaster)
Status: Completed
When an 8 year old finds a magical
storybook in his enchanted attic, he
wounds up with his dog in Storyland,
when he must battle an evil Queen to get
back home.
MAMMOTH
DISTRIBUTION
Mammoth Distribution, PO Box 16733,
Encino, California 91416, USA. Tel:
818.571.5730. Fax: 818.708.8278.
[email protected]
At AFM: Ken DuBow and Allyson Hall
Office: 535
PLAYBOYHOME
ENTERTAINMENT
MANDARIN FILMS
DISTRIBUTION CO.
LTD.
Mandarin Films Distribution Co. Ltd.,
27/F., Chinachem Century Tower, 178
Gloucester Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.
Tel: 852.2579.1718. Fax: 852.2579.1712.
www.mandarinfilms.com
Company Type: Producer/ Distributor
At AFM: Raymond Wong (Chairman),
Virginia Leung (Head of Distribution),
Christy Choi (Distribution Executive)
Office: Loews Santa- Room 329
DRAGON TIGER GATE
Kungfu Action, tbc(running time)
Language: Cantonese
Director: Wilson Yip Wai-shun
Producer: Raymond Wong/ Nansun Shi
Co-production partners: Mandarin Films
Limited
Cast: Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, Shawn
Yue
Budget: US$10M
Origin: China/ Hong Kong
Adapted from popular Hong Kong
manga, the movie features three young
heroes in their guest of righteousness.
SEVEN SWORDS
Martial Arts Epic (153 min)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Tsui Hark
Producer: Lee Joo Ick/ Ma Zhong Jun/
Pan Zhizhong
Co-production partners: Film Workshop
Co. Ltd.
Cast: Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Charlie
Young
Budget: US$18M
A NGIE HARMONIN END GAME – NU IMAGE
Origin: China/ Hong Kong
Seven warriors come together to protect
a village from a diabolical General.
THE BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR
Period Action (89 min)
Language: Cantonese
Director: Ronny Yu
Producer: Raymond Wong
Co-production partners: Mandarin Films
Limited
Cast: Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin
Origin: Hong Kong
Aperiod action movie evolving around
the impossible romance between a
rebellious young warrior and a deadly
seductive witch girl from the rival
cult. (Library title)
MANDATE PICTURES
Mandate Pictures, 8666 Wilshire
Boulevard , Beverly Hills, CA90211
USA. Tel: 310.360.1441. Fax:
310.360.1447.
[email protected]
At AFM: Joe Drake (President), Brian
Goldsmith (CFO and EVPof
Operations), Mali Kinberg (SVP, Head
of Int’l Sales & Distribution), Brent Jack
(VP, International Marketing), John
Biondo (VP, Business & Legal Affairs)
Office: Suite 464, Tel: 310.434.2940,
Fax: 310.434.2947
MR. MAGORIUM’S WONDER
EMPORIUM
Family/Comedy
Language: English
Director: Zach Helm
Producer: Richard Gladstein, Jim
Garavente
Key Cast: Natalie Portman, Dustin
Hoffman
Year of Production: Pre-production,
Set in a strange and magical toy
store, a story about growing up,
living one’s life and believing in the
unbelievable.
NEVERWAS
Drama
Language: English
Director: Joshua Michael Stern
Producer: Greg Shapiro, Sidney Kimmel
Key Cast: A father’s legacy of children’s
books sends his grown son on a mission
to unlock the secrets from his past.
A father’s legacy of children’s books
sends his grown son on a mission to
unlock the secrets from his past.
BECAUSE I SAID SO
Comedy
Director: English
Producer: Paul Brooks, Jessie Nelson
Key Cast: Diane Keaton
Aloving but meddling mother decides
to set her daughter up with the perfect
man, but neglects to mention that she
found the dates through a personal ad.
THE GRUDGE 2
Horror
Language: English
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Producer: Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Taka
Ichise
Horror sequel to the box office
phenomenon, The Grudge.
THE MESSENGERS (THE
UNTITLED PANG BROTHERS
HORROR PROJECT)
Horror
Language: English
Director: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
Producer: Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Jason
Shuman, William Sherak
Key Cast: Kristen Stewart, Dylan
McDermott, John Corbett, Penelope Ann
Miller
Origin: USA
An ominous darkness invades a
seemingly serene sunflower farm in
North Dakota and the Solomon family is
torn apart by suspicion, mayhem and
murder.
MARVISTA
ENTERTAINMENT
MarVista Entertainment, 12519 Venice
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA90066 USA. Tel:
310.737.0950. Fax: 310.737.9115.
www.marvista.net, [email protected]
Company Type: Producer and Distributor
At AFM: Joseph Szew (President/CEO),
Fernando Szew (COO/Managing
Director), Michael Jacobs (President,
Production and Distribution), George
Port (Executive Vice President)
Office: Suite 301, Tel: 310.458.6700,
Fax: 310.458.6761
MAKAHASURF
Teen Drama (10 x 1hour)
Language: English
Director: Sean McNamara, David
Brookwell
Producers: Sean McNamara, David
Brookwell, Michael Jacobs, Fernando
Szew, Matt Dearborn; Co-Production
Partners: The N, Brookwell McNamara
Entertainment, MarVista Entertainment
Principal Cast: David Chokachi, Natalie
Ramsey, Suzie Pollard, Ross Thomas,
Jason Tam, Tiffany Hines, Sonya
Balmores
Delivery Status: Spring 06
Year of Production: 2005/2006, Country
of Origin: USA
Produced for Viacom’s The N, this
intense, dramatic primetime series drops
in on the world of four passionate girls
and one dream, to shred on the waves as
world-class professional surfers.
LOVE THYNEIGHBOR
Family
Language: English
Director: Paul Schneider
Producer: Julian Grant
Principal Cast: Alexandra Paul, Gary
Hudson, Shannon Lawson
Origin: Canada
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A family fears for their lives when a
series of threatening and near-death
events occur soon after their daughter is
accepted on her new school’s soccer
team.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
(90 min)
Language: English
Director: Robert Lee
Producer: Harvey Kahn
Principal Cast: Jeff Fahey, Erika Eleniak
Origin: Canada
Millions of years ago, a thriving planet
earth was attacked by a freeze so
extreme it wiped out all forms of life-this
period was known as the Ice Age and it’ s
coming back to Miami.
WAKING UP WALLY: THE
WALTER GRETZKYSTORY
Family drama (90 mins)
Language: English
Director: Dean Bennett
Producers: Carolynne Bell, Jordy
Randall
Principal Cast: Tom McCamus, Victoria
Snow, Kris Holden-Ried
Origin: Canada
Based on the best-selling novel written
by the world’s greatest hockey dad and
featuring highlights of his son, Wayne
Gretzky’s career, this is a heartwarming
story of recovery and triumph.
THE THIRD WISH
Comedy (90 mins)
Language: English
Director: Shelly Jensen
Producers: Jenna Mattison, Philippe
Diaz, Darla Rothman, Daniela C. Cretu
Principal Cast: Jenna Mattison, Betty
White, Armand Assante, Sean Maguire,
James Avery
Origin: USA
A rags to riches romantic comedy about
an aspiring writer who finds a seemingly
magical First Edition copy of Great
Expectations which grants her three
wishes.
FRIENDS FOREVER
Drama (90 mins)
Language: English
Director: Andres Heinz
Producer: David Nickoll
Co-Production Partners
Principal Cast: Amanda Peet, Michael
Kelly, Jean Louisa Kelly, Sybil Temchen,
Elon Gold, Jonathan LaPaglia
Origin: USA
In the vein of The Big Chill, this moving
comedy explores the darker side of
growing up for six twenty-somethings
who get together for their annual reunion
where secrets are unexpectedly revealed.
MAVERICK GLOBAL
Maverick Global, 1191 East Newport
Center Drive, Suite 210, Deerfield
Beach, FL33442 USA. Tel:
954.422.8811. 954.422.8811, ext 203.
Fax: 954.429.0565. 702.415.1216.
www.maverickentertainment.cc,
[email protected]
At AFM: Doug Schwab (President), Jack
Campbell (Director of International
Sales), Alberto Perez de la Mesa
(Director Latin Acquisitions)
Suite 702
CARLITA’S SECRET
Thriller (91 mins)
Language: English
Director: George Catayo
Co-Production Partners: Breakaway
Films
Key Cast: Eva Longoria, Maria Bravo,
Alejandra Gutierrez
Origin: USA
“Carlita’s Secret” is a hot and sexy
thriller about a young innocent girl
named Carlita who dreams of becoming
a Broadway dancer in New York, but
finds her dreams shattered due to a
deadly past.
THE EVILONE
Horror/Thriller (112 mins)
Language: English
Director: Parris Reaves
Films
Key Cast: Candace Carrey, Shawna, Big
Gipp, Eric Lane
Origin: USA
The Evil One, set in Chicago’s most
dangerous neighborhood, Englewood, is
experiencing a number of recent murders
that are the work of a serial killer.
A NIGHTIN COMPTON
Comedy (75 mins)
Director: English
Language: Daven Baptiste
Films
Key Cast: Tiny “Zeus” Lister, Roscoe,
Marcelle Larice,
James A. Smith, Desiree Wynn
LA VISA L OCA – U NITEL PICTURES INTERNATIONAL
Origin: USA
Six friends, one house, and one hell of a
crazy night. A NIGHTIN COMPTON,
explores relationships among a set of life
long friends, in the spirit of Friday and
The Breakfast Club.
MAX FILMS INC.
Max Films Inc., 1751, rue Richardson,
Suite 2.102, Montréal, Québec H3K
1G6Canada. Tel: 514.282.8444. Fax:
514.282.9222. www.maxfilms.ca,
[email protected]
At AFM: Roger Frappier (President &
Producer), Alexandra Wermester
(Director, Int’l Sales and Marketing)
Office: Loews Santa Monica Hotel,
Canada Sales Office, Suite 765
SAINTS-MARTYRS-DES-DAMNÉS
(SAINTMARTYRS OFTHE
DAMNED)
Suspense
Director: Robin Aubert
Producers: Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal
Cast: François Chénier, Isabelle Blais,
Monique Mercure, Monique Miller,
Patrice Robitaille, Alexis Martin, Hubert
Loiselle, Pierre Collin
Status: Completed/Screening
Origin: Canada
When a journalist and his photographer
embark on a mission to investigate a
series of human disappearances taking
place in a small town, they encounter the
unimaginable.
LAVIE AVEC MON PÈRE (LIFE
WITH MY FATHER)
Dramatic Comedy (110 min)
Director: Sébastien Rose
Producers: Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal
Cast: Raymond Bouchard, Paul
Ahmarani, David La Haye, Hélène
Florent
Origin: Canada
Two brothers who have nothing in common
reunite to save their father from falling
apart both physically and financially.
MAXIM MEDIA
INTERNATIONAL
Maxim Media International, 5025 South
Ash Ave. Building B2, Tempe, AZ
85282USA. Tel: 480.966.4070. Fax:
480.966.4570. www.emaximmedia.com
At AFM: Darrin Ramage (President),
Angie Cummings (Executive Sales
Coordinator), Stacey Grubb (Assistant
Sales Coordinator)
Office: 863, Tel: 310.458.6700 ext 863
BLOOD LEGEND
http://www.emaximmedia.com/inat/bigpi
cture.php?id=7059
Horror (85 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Rusty Nelson
Producer: David Sterling, Darrin
Ramage, Gina Valona
Key Cast: Syn Devil, Heather Jacobsen,
Jeff Dylan Graham
Budget Under 1 Million
Origin: USA
The legend of Moira, a witch burned at
the stake centuries ago, is brought back
to life feeding on the blood of the
innocnet.
THE WITCH’S SABBATH
cture.php?id=7003
Horror (90 Minutes)
Language: English
Producer: David Sterling, Brandy W.
Johnston, Darrin Ramage
Key Cast: Syn Devil, Gina Valona, Ron
Jeremy
Origin: USA
A coven of witch’s mask their true
identity by operating the “Sin & Skin”
strip club, killing as many victims as
possible by All Hallow’s Eye.
NIGHT
cture.php?id=7050
Horror (80 Minutes)
Director: English
Language: Byron C. Miller
Producer: Byron C. Miller
Key Cast: John Hardy, Melanie Ginnett,
Shawn LeTang
Origin: USA
Jimi will do anything to save his partner
Mike from his new friends of the night,
but it will take more than courage for
Jimi to survive the night.
BRANDED
cture.php?id=7001
Horror (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Darla Enlow
Producer: Robb Vanskike, Darla Enlow
Key Cast: Trey Fillmore, Jamie Sworski,
Dana Pike
Origin: USA
Mitch Steiger is about to discover that
you can’t run from evil when it owns
you.He will learn that someone has
manipulated his every move, pulling him
deeper into their twisted world.
MEDIA 8
ENTERTAINMENT
Media 8 Entertainment, 1875 Centur y
Park East, Suite 2000, Los Angeles CA
90067 USA. Tel:310.226.8300. Fax:
310.226.8350
Company Description: Media 8
Entertainment is a leading independent
film entertainment company engaged in
producing, financing and licensing
feature films worldwide.
At AFM: Brian O’Shea (Sr. Vice
President Worldwide Distribution), Jenna
Sanz-Agero (President), Stewart Hall
(Producer, Board Member), Tatyana
Joffe (Vice President, International
Distribution), David Gaynes (Sr. Vice
President Marketing & Distribution)
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843, Tel: 310.434.9046 and
310.434.9047
MAN ABOUT TOWN
Comedy/ drama
Director: Mike Binder
Producers: Jack Binder, Michael
Rotenberg, Sammy Lee
Cast: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Romijn
Status: Completed
Top Hollywood talent agent Jack
Giamoro (Ben Affleck) finds his perfect
life threatened when he discovers that his
wife (Rebecca Romijn) is cheating on
him.
REAPER
Supernatural thriller
Director: Tony Kaye
Producers: David Alpert, Lawrence
Mattis, Sammy Lee
Cast: TBD
REAPER tells the story of Virgil, a
private investigator who finds himself
recruited by the darkly beautiful and
mysterious Delia.
WEDDING DAZE
Comedy
Cast: TBD
Status: Development
Kristine closes her eyes to kiss her
groom, only to re-open them and find
herself back in the dressing room of the
bridal shop where the wedding weekend
started!
RUNNING SCARED
Action/ drama
Director: Wayne Kramer
Producer: Michael Pierce, Brett Ratner,
Sammy Lee
Cast: Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Vera
Farmiga, Chazz Palmintieri
Status: Completed
A gritty, tough, and action-packed film
following one night in the life of a father
and son.
MEDIALUNA
ENTERTAINMENT
Media Luna Entertainment,
Hochstadenstraße 1-3, Cologne, 50674
Germany. Tel: 49.221.801.498.0. Fax:
+49 221 801 498 21, www.medialunaentertainment.de, [email protected]
At AFM: Ida Martins (Managing
Director), Abike Ullrich (Sales
Manager), Tim Kraft (Legal & Business
Affairs)
Office: Loews Hotel 738
3° COLDER (3° KÄLTER)
MY TINY UNIVERSE –
SHORELINE ENTERTAIMENT
Drama (90 min)
Language: German
Director: Florian Hoffmeister
Producer: Corinna Mehner, Martin
Husmann, Martin Cichy
Key Cast: Bibiana Beglau, Sebastian
Blomberg, Meret Becker
Origin: Germany
A day which is different from any other.
BROTHER TO BROTHER
Drama (90 min)
Language: english
Director: Rodney Evans
Producer: Rodney Evans, Jim Mckay,
Aimee Schoof
Key Cast: Anthony Mackie, Roger
Robinson, Larry Gilliard Jr
Origin: USA
Follows the emotional and psychological
journey of a young Black gay artist as he
discovers the hidden legacies of the gay
and lesbian community within the
Harlem Renaissance.
DEAD LONG ENOUGH
Drama (83 min)
Director: English
Language: Tom Collins
Producer: Paul Donovan
Key Cast: Jason Hughes, Michael Sheen,
Angeline Ball
Origin: Ireland
Ben Jones, a worn out and depressed
Lawyer, lives in the shadow of his
promiscuous TVcelebrity brother Harry.
EVERY COLOR OFTHE SEA
Drama (90 min; 3x 45’)
Language: Icelandic
Director: Anna Th. Rögnavaldsson
Producer: Ó. Rögnavaldsson, Fredrik
Thor Fridriksson
Key Cast: Hilmir Snaer Gudnason,
Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir
Origin: Iceland
A newly divorced lawyer is appointed
defense counsel in a brutal murder case.
He’s intrigued when the suspect’s wellto-do sister arrives from abroad, ready to
lend her support.
GISELA
Drama (90 min)
Language: German
Director: Isabelle Stever
Producer: TAG/TRAUM Film
Production
Key Cast: Anne Weinknecht. Carlo
Ljubek, Stefan Rudolf
Origin: Germany
A summer by the river. A triangle story.
Three young adults reaching out for each
other.
IN ORANGE (IN ORANJE)
Teen/kids (90 min)
Language: dutch
Director: Joram Lürsen
Producer: Frans van Gestel, Jeroen Beker
and San Fu Maltha
Key Cast: Yannick van de Velde, Thomas
Acda, Wendy van Dijk
Origin: The Netherlands
Remco (12) is a fanatic little soccer player
with only one dream: to play in the Dutch
national team. Erik, his father, is possibly
even more fanatic in coaching Remco and
convinced that Remco can make it.
MELENNY
PRODUCTIONS INC.
Melenny Productions Inc., 154, avenue
Laurier Ouest, Suite 300, Montreal
(Quebec) H2T2N7 Canada. Tel:
514.270.6170. Fax: 514.270.6988.
[email protected]
Company Type: Producing Feature Films
At AFM: Mr. Richard Goudreau
(President), Mr. Magella Methot (VP
Finances)
Office:
BOYS I
BOYS II
BOYS III
BOYS IV
NOUVELLE FRANCE
LES DANGEREUX
FISH OUR OF WATER
BELIEVE
AFTERMATH
THE KID
AIRSPEED
KID OFTHE ROUND TABLE
FRANKENSTEIN AND ME
Language: French and English
Producer: Richard Goudreau
Co-production partners: For Nouvelle
France : Davis Film in France and
Bespoke films in UK
MONTECRISTO
ENTERTAINMENT
LLC
MonteCristo Entertainment LLC, 2444
Broadway, #135, NYC, NY 10024 USA.
Tel: 917.647.7587. Fax:
420.224.934.712
[email protected],
www.MonteCristoEntertainment.com
At AFM: Michael Taverna (CEO),
Brandon Baker (Sales & Acquisitions),
Julie Kroll (Acquisitions), Cindy
Nelson-Mullen (Business
Development)
Acquisition Executive: Michael
Taverna
Office: Le Merigot 202, Tel:
917.647.7587 or 310.395.9700, Fax:
310.395.9200
P
Horror (110 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Paul Spurrier
Producer: Narongsak Vorraraichakun,
Panupong Dangdej
Cast: Suangporn Jaturaphut, Opal
Origin: Thailand
Ayoung orphan girl in rural Thailand
finds herself working in a Bangkok go-
go bar.
CLEAN - HOLLYWOOD, USA
Drama (105 min)
Language: English
Director: Nyle Cavazos Garcia
Producer: Paolo Cascardo
Cast: Paolo Cascardo, Tamara Mello
Origin: USA
Maynard Yates is a limo driver for the
Hollywood elite, exposed to the darker
side of celebrity he is unwillingly led
into his own downward spiral.
CLOSE TO HEAVEN
Drama (96 min)
Language: English
Director: Dan Svatek
Producer: Holiday Films
Cast: Tuva Novotny, J.M. Francis Gogo
Delivery Status: (completed)
Origin: USA
It’s the last bohemian hotel in Prague
— Alook into the lives of the quirky
long-term residents over the course of
one day’s unique series of events –
from each character’s point of view!
BOY CALLED TWIST
Drama (115 min)
Language: English
Director: Tim Greene
Producer: Monkey Films & Twisted
Pictures
Cast: Peter Butler, Bill Curry, Kim
Engelbrecht
Year of Production: (2004), Country of
Origin: South Africa
The story of a Cape Town street kid —
based on Dickens’classic novel, Oliver
Twist.
AMERICAN DAYLIGHT
Thriller (98 min)
Language: English
Director: Roger Christian
Producer: Kaleidoscope
Entertainment/Bobby Bedi
Cast: Nick Moran, Koel Purie, Vijay
Raaz
Origin: India
From the call centers of Delhi to the
banks of NYC of which they service —
India may service America, but
information is power.
MAQBOOL
Drama (132 min)
Language: Hindi
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj
Producer: Kaleidoscope
Entertainment/Bobby Bedi
Cast: Irrfan Khan, Om Puri, Tabu
Origin: India
Ambition, love, violence and death —
present day adaptation of Macbeth set
in India.
THE V E LV E TM U R D E R E R S
Action/adventure (133 min)
Language: Czech
Director: Jiri Svoboda
Producer: Czech Televize
Cast: Michal Dhouhy, Jan Dolansky,
Richard Krajco
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Origin: Czech Republic
Three business partners who are after
big money, perpetrate four
premeditated murders with exceptional
cruelty and the absence of any moral
values — based on a true story.
Brian Robinson (Senior VPof
Worldwide Marketing), David Robinson
(Vice President), Howard Kaplan (CFO)
Acquisition Executive: Howard Kaplan
Office: Room # 554 at the Loews Hotel
MOONSTONE
ENTERTAINMENT
Motion Picture Corporation of America,
1333 Second Street, Suite 210, Santa
Monica
CA90401 USA. Tel: 310.319.9500. Fax:
310.319.9501. www.mpcafilm.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: Brad Krevoy (Chairman &
CEO), Sigrid Ann Davison (President
International), Francisco J. Gonzalez
(Director, International Sales &
Marketing)
Office: Loews Hotel 718/720
SLIPSTREAM
Sci-Fi
Language: English
Director: David Van Eyssen
Producer: Brad Krevoy, David Bixler
Key Cast: Sean Astin, Vinnie Jones,
Ivana Milicevic
Country of Origin: U.K., Germany
FBI Agent and rogue scientist must work
together to retrieve a time-travel device
from a bank robber.
STEPHEN KING’S RIDING THE
BULLET
Horror
Language: English
Director: Mick Garris
Producer: Brad Krevoy, Fran Huebner,
Mick Garris
Key Cast: David Arquette, Jonathan
Jackson, Erika Christensen
Country of Origin: Germany
A college student confronts his demos as
he hitchhikes across the state to visit his
dying mother.
Moonstone Entertainment, P.O. Box
7400, Studio City, CA91614 USA. Tel:
818.985.3003. Fax: 818.985.3009
At AFM: Mr. Ernst “Etchie” Stroh
(CEO), Mrs. Yael Stroh (President), Mr.
Shahar Stroh (Director Acquisitions), Mr.
Michael Grant (Director Production &
Marketing), Mrs. Christine Meissner
(Manager)
Hotel, Suite 546, Tel: 310.458.6700 ext.
546
A WOMAN OFNO IMPORTANCE
Director: Janusz Kaminski
Producers: Donald Zuckerman, Howard
Himelstein, Etchie Stroh, Sarah
Radclyffe
Principal Cast: TBA
Cntry of Origin: UK
Based upon the Oscar Wilde play - a
young man discovers his future employer
is actually his father and a despicable
character.
THE PROMISE
Director: Chen Kaige
Producers: Chen Hong, Chen Kaige, Han
San Ping, Etchie Stroh
Principal Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada, Jang
Dong-Gun, Cecilia Cheung, Nicholas Tse
Status: Completed
Cntry of Origin: China
What is Destiny? Is it war, love or a
dream? A General, a Princess and a
Slave entangled in a story about War,
Love, and a Dream.
MORGAN CREEK
PRODUCTIONS
Morgan Creek Productions, 10351 Santa
Monica Blvd. Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA
90025 USA. Tel: 310.432.4848. Fax:
310.432.4844. www.morgancreek.com
Company Type: Production Company
At AFM: James G. Robinson (Chairman
& CEO), Guy McElwaine (President),
LONELY HEARTS – NU IMAGE
MOTION PICTURE
CORPORATION OF
AMERICA
MOVIEHOUSE
ENTERTAINMENT
Moviehouse Entertainment, 9 Grafton
Mews, London, W1T5HZ, UK. Tel:
44.20.7380.3999. Fax: 44.20.7380.3998.
[email protected],
www.moviehouseent.com
At AFM: Gary Phillips (Managing
Director, Head of Sales), Mark Vennis
(Managing Director, Head of
Acquisitions)
Office: Room 503, Loews Hotel, Tel:
310.458 6500 x503
NEWYORK DOLL
www.newyorkdollmovie.com
Language: English
Director: Greg Whiteley
Producer: Ed Cunningham, Seth Gordan
Cast: Arthur ‘Killer’ Kane, Bob Geldof,
Morrissey
Origin: USA
This amazing documentary follows
Arthur ‘Killer’ Kane,statuesque bass
guitarist of legendary hell-raising rock
band The New York Dolls, as they
reunite for a concert in London after
three decades.
BE HERE TO LOVE ME: A FILM
ABOUT TOWNES VAN ZANDT
www.townesthemovie.com
Language: English
Director: Margaret Brown
Producer: Sam Brumbaugh, Margaret
Brown
Cast: Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle,
Willie Nelson
Origin: USA
An intimate portrait of the legendary
‘Songwriter’s Songwriter’ and his
haunting music and life.
SHUTUPAND SHOOTME
www.shutupandshootme.com
Comedy (85 mins)
Language: English
Director: Steen Agro
Producer: Paul Sherwood
Cast: Karel Roden, Andy Nyman, Anna
Geislerova
Origin: UK
When Colin’s wife is accidentally
crushed to death whilst on honeymoon in
Prague, he decides he can’t live without
her and hires Pavel, a local odd-job man
and guide, to kill him. However, death
just doesn’t come that easy.
MYRIAD PICTURES
Myriad Pictures, 1520D Cloverfield
Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA90404
USA. Tel: 310.279.4000. Fax:
310.279.4001
At AFM: Kirk D’Amico (President and
Chief Executive Officer), Jim Harvey
(Executive Director, Sales and
Distribution), Mary Herne (Senior Vice
President, Worldwide Television), Ann
Dubinet (Sales Consultant), Maxine
Leonard (Executive Vice President,
Marketing & Publicity)
Office: Suite 631, Tel: 310.434.9400.
Fax: 310.434.9401
LITTLE FISH
Crime Drama
Director: Rowan Woods
Producers: Vincent Sheehan, Liz Watts,
Richard Keddie
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill, Hugo
Weaving, Martin Henderson, Noni
Hazlehurst, Dustin Nguyen
Status: Screening
Trying to escape her drug addicted past,
Tracy Heart is seduced into one last
criminal venture by her brother and ex
boyfriend as she struggles towards a
better life.
DEATH DEFYING ACTS
Drama
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Producers: Chris Curling, Marian
Macgowan
Cast: Guy Pearce
Status: Pre production
A stunningly beautiful psychic imposter
and her equally devious daughter attempt
to con the famous Harry Houdini during
a high profile séance to contact his
mother whose death has haunted him for
13 years.
COPYING BEETHOVEN
Drama
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Producers: Sidney Kimmel, Michael
Taylor, Stephen J Rivele, Christopher
Wilkinson
Cast: Ed Harris, Diane Kruger
Status: Post production
The obsessed and tormented
relationship between Ludwig von
Beethoven and his beautiful young
copywriter as he struggles to complete
his last symphony - the masterful
Symphony No.9.
N
NATIONAL FILM
DEVELOPMENT
CORPORATION LTD,
INDIA
National Film Development Corporation
Ltd, India, Discovery of India, 6th Floor,
Nehru Centre, Dr. A.B. Road, Worli,
Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400 018 India.
Tel: 91.22.2496.8252. 2497.3364. Fax:
91.22.2496.8252 / 2497.3364.
www.nfdcindia.com
At AFM: Mr. Manmohan Shetty
(Chairman), Mr. Mukesh Sehgal (Deputy
General Manager)
Office: 218/220 LE MERIGOT
RAGHU ROMEO
Comedy (99 Mins.)
Language: Hindi
Director: Rajat Kapoor
Co-Production Partners: Cinematograph
Producer: NFDC Ltd.
Key Cast: Vijay Raaz, Sadiya Siddiqui
Origin: India
Raghu a night club waiter comes in
contact with various people including
a TV star and this transform his life.
DANCE LIKE A MAN
Drama (100 Mins.)
Language: English
Director: Pamela Rooks
Co-Production Partners: Rooks A.V.
Producer: NFDC Ltd.
Key Cast: Shobana, Anoushka Shankar,
Arif Sakaria
Origin: India
Ayoung dancer takes her parents
profession though they had to undergo
to pursue their passion.
DEVI AHILYA BAI
Drama (145 Mins.)
Language: Hindi
Director: Nachiket & Jayoo
Producer: NFDC Ltd.
Key Cast: Shabana Azmi, Sadashiv
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Country of Origin: India
In the early 18th century, Devi Ahilya
Bai becomes a widow in her early
childhood. Here father-in-law does not
want her to disappear from life.
PARINAMAM (THE CHANGE)
Drama (130 Mins.)
Language: Malayalam
Director: Venu
Producer: NFDC Ltd.
Key Cast: Nedumudi Venu, Madampu
Kunjukuttan
Origin: India
Balakrishna Marar retires from service,
faces problem of adjustment with the rest
of the family.
1:1.6 AN ODE TO LOSTLOVE
Drama (110 Mins.)
Language: English
Director: Madhu Ambat
Producer: NFDC Ltd.
Key Cast: Atul Kulkarni, Gulshan
Grover, Mausami, Sonali Kulkarni
Origin: India
Sete against a back drop of film
shooting, the film tries to analyse the
eternal question - is creation more
important than life.
SAPHALAM (AFRUITFUL
JOURNEY)
Drama (118 Mins)
Language: Malayalam
Director: Ashok R. Nath
Producer: Anil Thomas
Key Cast: Balachandra Menon,
Sumithra, Manoj K. Jayan
Origin: India
‘Saphalam’provides an insight into
familial relations individuals still have
their lives to live.
NEPTUNE 13
PICTURES
Neptune 13 pictures, 1313 9th St. #21,
Santa Monica, CA90401 USA. Tel:
310.319.2446,214. Fax: 310.319.2446.
apartment6movie.com
At AFM: John Petros (Producer /
Director), Masayo Matsudaira
(Consultant)
310.434.9311
APARTMENT 6
apartment6movie.com
Horror (108 min )
Language: English
Director: John Petros
Producer: John Petros
Key Cast: Sarah Sunday, Joseph
Orlando, Gio, Charmaine Lak
Budget 400 k
Origin: USA
A young woman’s apartment is invaded
by a foreign evil spirit.
NEW FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
New Films International, 8484 Wilshire
Blvd., #510, Los Angeles, CA. 90211
USA. Tel: 323.655.1050. Fax:
323.655.1070.
[email protected],
www.newfilmsint.com
Company Type:
Distribution/Production/Sales
At AFM: Nesim Hason (President), Ron
Gell (Executive Vice President), Radu
Nicolau (President of Eastern European
Markets), Serap Acuner (Presidnet of
New Fims Turkey), Stefania Vitali (Vice
Presidnet of Western Europe), Izak Saul
(Vice President of Latin American
Markets), Vanessa Garabedyan
(Worldwide Administrative Manager),
Alexandra Cocean (Sales Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Ron Gell
Office: 634/636
2B PERFECTLY HONEST
Comedy/Drama (88 min)
Language: English
Director: Randel Cole
Producer: Jeff Mazzola, John Scaccia
Cast: Adam Trese, Andrew McCarthy,
John Turturro, Michael Badalucco
Delivery Status: Digi-Beta
Origin: USA
When a hapless New Yorker’s ad agency
goes bankrupt he loses everything
forcing him down a series of hysterically
desperate and dangerous attempts to get
back on top that may even threaten his
own life.
AMERICANO
Language: English
Director: Kevin Noland
Producer: Clark McCutchen, Kelly J.
JOHN TRAVOLTA AND JAMES GANDOLFINIIN LONELY HEARTS – NU IMAGE
Noland, Maricel Pagulayan, Mark
Edward Roberts Kevin Noland,
Ruthanna Hopper, Nick Satriano
Cast: Joshua Jackson, Leonor Varela,
Timm Sharp, Ruthanna Hopper
Delivery Status: 35mm
Origin: USA/Spain
A recent college graduate’s backpacking
trip through Europe culminates in
Pamplona Spain where he meets a
Spanish beauty and an intriguing club
owner who both force him to re-think his
life.
THE DYING GAUL
Romance (101 min)
Language: English
Director: Craig Lucas
Producer: David Newman
Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard,
Campbell Scott
Origin: USA
A grief-stricken screenwriter
unknowingly enters a three-way
relationship with a woman and her film
executive husband - to chilling results.
FATWA
Drama/Thriller
Language: English
Director: John Carter
Producer: John Carter, Carol Flaisher
Cast: Lauren Holly, Lacey Chabert,
Angus Macfadyen, John Doman
Origin: USA
In the midst of a personal crisis, a junior
Senator discovers that she is the subject
of a terrorist plot.
GAME 6
Drama/Comedy
Language: English
Director: Michael Hoffman
Producer: Amy Robinson, Griffin Dunne,
Leslie Urdang, Christina Weiss Lurie
Cast: Michael Keaton, Robert Downey
Jr., Catherine O’Hara, Griffin Dunne
Origin: USA
Combining real and fictional events,
Game 6 centers around the historic 1986
World Series and a day in the life of a
playwright who skips opening night to
watch the momentous game.
GRAND CHAMPION
Family/Comedy (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Barry Tubb
Producer: Amanda Micallef
Cast: Jacob Fisher, Joey Lauren Adams,
Andrea Harper, George Strait
Origin: USA
Grand Champion is a family comedy of
a young boy and his prize-winning calf,
as they climb from the underdog position
to ultimately win the coveted title of
Grand Champion.
MYSTERIOUS HEARTS
Mystery/Romance (111 min)
Language: Turksish
Director: Ali Ozgenturk
Cast: Hulya Avsar, Halil Ergun, Oktay
Kaynarca
Origin: Turkey
A police mystery in the vein of Agatha
Christie with a parallel romance that
spans three decades.
THE LASTRUN
Comedy (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Jonathan Segal
Producer: Jonathan Segal, Todd Camhe
Cast: Fred Savage, Amy Adams, Steven
Pasquale, Andre Bogart
Delivery Status: Digi-Beta (NTSC) 4:3
Origin: USA
When a young accountant is devastated
after finding out that his girlfriend is
cheating on him, his best friend, who’s
engaged to a girl he doesn’t love,
convinces him to go on a “run” and sleep
with as many women as he can to get
over his heartbreak.
MARIE & BRUCE
Comedy/Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Tom Cairns
Producer: George Van Buskirk
Cast: Julianne Moore, Matthew
Broderick, David Aaron Baker, Griffin
Dunne
Origin: USA
Marie & Bruce is a comedy/drama based
on a Wallace Shawn play about the
breakdown of a marriage.
MISSING IN AMERICA
Drama (102 min)
Language: English/Vietnamese
Director: Gabrielle Savage Dockterman
Producer: Isen Robbins, Gabrielle
Savage Dockterman, Aimee Schoof
Cast: Danny Glover, Ron Perlman, Linda
Hamilton, Zoe Weizenbaum.
Origin: USA/Canada
A haunted Vietnam vet living in exile in
the Pacific Northwest is faced with a
life-changing decision after he is visited
by a former platoon member and his
young Amerasian daughter.
THE PRODIGY
Action (120 min)
Language: English
Director: William Kaufman
Producer: David Rucker
Cast: Holt Boggs, Mirelly Taylor, Glen
Vorhis, Matt Beckham
Delivery Status: Digi-Beta (NTSC) 4:3
Origin: USA
The Prodigy is an action/adventure about
a small-time enforcer, Truman’s vicious
conflict with a sadist assassin who has
chosen the unwilling Truman to be his
successor.
TURNING GREEN
Drama/Comedy (85 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael Aimette, John G.
Hofmann
Producer: Andrew Charas, Robert
Malkani
Cast: Timothy Hutton, Colm Meany,
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Origin: USA
Set in late 1970s Ireland, Turning Green
tells the story of a 16-year-old American
boy who finds himself lost after his
mother dies and he is forced to live with
his three Irish aunts.
NEW LINE CINEMA
New Line Cinema, 116 N. Robertson
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA90048 USA. Tel:
310.854.5811. Fax: 310.659.4712.
Company description: independent film
company
At AFM: Rolf Mittweg (President and
Chief Operating Officer of Worldwide
Distribution and Marketing), Camela
Galano (President, New Line
International), Nestor Nieves (Executive
Vice President - New Line International),
Robert Remley (Senior Vice President,
International Marketing), Elena Cahalan
(Vice President, International Contracts),
Tracy Lorie (Senior Vice President,
International Publicity), Carolyn
Blackwood (Senior Vice President,
Business & Legal Affairs)
Office: 853, Tel: 310.434.9050
THE NEWWORLD
Drama
Director: Terrance Malick
Producers: Sarah Green
Cast: Colin Farrell, Christopher
Plummer, Christian Bale, August
Schellenberg, Wes Studi, David Thewlis,
Yorick van Wageningen and introducing
Q’orianka Kilcher as Pocahontas
The New World is an epic adventure set
amid the encounter of European and
Native American cultures during the
founding of the Jamestown Settlement in
1607.
FINALDESTINATION 3
Action Effects Thriller (81 min.)
Director: James Wong
Cast: Ryan Merriman and Mary
Elizabeth Winstead
The high-octane thrill ride that fans of
the hugely successful FINAL
DESTINATION franchise have come to
love is back in FINALDESTINATION
3, which pushes the action thriller genre
to exhilarating new heights.
MR. WOODCOCK
Comedy
Director: Craig Gillespie
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Susan
Sarandon, Seann William Scott
John Farley (Seann William Scott) has
not always been the confident, bestselling author of self-help books he is
today.
TAKE THE LEAD
Dance Drama
Director: Liz Friedlander
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Alfre Woodard,
Rob Brown and Dante Basco
The pulsing rhythm of hip hop meets the
elegant sophistication of ballroom dance
in TAKE THE LEAD, an edgy, urban
drama that follows the true story of a
competitive ballroom dance teacher.
FUR
Drama
Director: Steve Shainberg
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey,
Jr., Jane Alexander
Academy Award® winner Nicole
Kidman (The Interpreter, Bewitched, The
Hours) is the internationally renowned
photographer Diane Arbus in FUR, one
of the most unusual and unorthodox
portraits of a modern artist ever filmed.
SNAKES ON A PLANE
Action Effects Thriller
Director: David Ellis
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson , David
Koechner, Rachel Blanchard , Julianna
Margulies and Nathan Philips
Terror strikes at 30,000 feet when
hundreds of venomous snakes invade an
ill-fated trans-Pacific flight in SNAKES
ON A PLANE, an adrenaline-rush action
horror extravaganza.
TENACIOUS D: THE PICK OF
DESTINY
Musical Comedy
Director: Liam Lynch
Producers: Ben Stiller
Cast: Jack Black, Kyle Gass
The hugely popular underground cult
rock duo, Tenacious D, make their
startling big-screen debut in
TENACIOUS D: THE PICK OF
DESTINY, and, what a debut it is!
MARTIAN CHILD
Sci-Fi Drama
Director: Menno Mayjes
Cast: John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Sophie
Okenedo, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, and
Bobby Coleman
As a kid, David Gordon (John Cusack)
never fit in. He grew up dreaming of the
day that aliens would swoop down from
outer space and take him home.
SHADOWLESS SWORD
Action
Director: Kim Young Jun
Cast: Yoon Soy, Lee Seo Jin and Shin
Hyun Joon
Production Status: Production
Country of Origin: Korea
An epic tale of love and war set against
the vivid and alluring backdrop of
ancient Asia.
NONSTOP SALES AB
Nonstop Sales AB, Döbelnsgatan 24, SE113 52 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel:
46(0)8.673.99.80. Fax: 46(0)8.673.99.88.
[email protected],
www.nonstopsales.net
Company Type: International Sales Agent
At AFM: Karin Thun (Sales Executive,
Mobile 46.704.16.99.89)
Office: 458
THE FLYER (THE FLYER)
Drama (92 min)
Language: English and Afrikaans
Director: Revel Fox
Producer: Jeremy Nathan/Joel Phiri
Prod. Comp: IMG
Cast: Marcel van Heerden, Ian van der
Heyden, Craig Palm
Country: South Africa, Year: 2005
The Flyer is the uplifting story of a
young coloured kid saved from the mean
streets of Cape Town by an old trapeze
great, and indoctrinated into a gravity
defying world - trapeze flying!
KISSED BY WINTER
(VINTERKYSS)
Drama (84)
Language: Norwegian and Swedish
Director: Sara Johnsen
Producer: Christian Fredrik Martin, Asle
Vatn
Prod. Comp: Friland AS
Cast: Annika Hallin, Kristoffer Joner,
Göran Ragnerstam
Country: Norway, Year: 2005
Victoria’s own past swirls to the surface,
when a young man is found dead in a
snowdrift.
This is the story about two accidents.
One is suspect, the other impossible to
accept.
RANCID (RANCID)
Suspense Thriller (108 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jack Ersgard
Producer: Peter Possne
Prod. Comp Sonet Film
Cast: Matthew Settle, Fay Masterson,
Currie Graham, Patrik Ersgård
Status: Completed
Country: Sweden, Year: 2004
Writer John Hayson attends a high school
reunion and meets shadows from the
past. Soon he finds himself in a
nightmarish brew of deceit, passion and
murder. Athriller that takes place during
one night in New York.
DEADLY C E L L( N D A - NON
DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT)
Thriller (90 min/3x58 min)
Language: Finnish and English
Director: Anders Engstrom
Producer: Jan-Olof Svarvar
Prod. Comp: Sveng.com
Cast: Saija Lentonen, Ilkka Heiskanen,
Svante Martin
Status: Completed
Country: Finland, Year: 2005
Are mobile phones safe? Adeadly thriller
about forces of the free market and
freedom of the press.
THE PREACHER (DE DOMINEE)
Thriller Drama (100 min)
Language: Dutch
Director: Gerrard Verhage
Producers: René Huybrechtse & Frank
Bak
Prod. Comp: Theorema
Cast: Peter Paul Muller, Chantal Janzen,
Frank Lammers
Status: Completed
Country: The Netherlands, Year: 2004
Inspired by the real life of Klaas
Bruinsma and his journey from hippie
1970’s Amsterdam to becoming
Holland’s most influential drug-importer.
Atale of crimes, loyalty and treachery.
NORDISK FILM
INTERNATIONAL
SALES
Nordisk Film International Sales,
Mosedalvej 14, Valby 2500 Denmark.
Tel: 4536188200. Fax: 4536189550.
www.sales.nordiskfilm.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: Sanne Arloe (Sales Executive),
Klaus Rasmussen (Sales Executive)
Office: 809
MURK (MÖRKE)
Thriller (124 min)
Language: Danish
Director: Jannik Johansen
Co-Production Partners: Fine & Mellow,
Nordisk Film
Producer: Thomas Gammeltoft & Hanne
Palmqvist
Key Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Nicolas Bro
Origin: Denmark
For Jacob his sister ’s death is a mystery
that warrants a closer investigation. He
investigates in Murk - and that’s fraught
with danger.
I’M THE ANGELOFDEATH (Pusher
3)
Action (102 min)
Language: Danish
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Co-Production Partners: NWR, Nordisk
Film
Producer: Henrik Danstrup
Key Cast: Zlatko Buric, Marinela Dekic
Origin: Denmark
After many years of heroin abuse, Milo
discovers that his position as gangster
no. 1 in Copenhagen is threatened by the
younger, ambitious generation of Arabs
MOTHER OFMINE
www.motherofmine.com
Drama (111 min)
Director: Finnish/Swedish
Language: Klaus Härö
Co-Production Partners: MRP,
OmegaFilm AB
Producer: Ilkka Matila
Key Cast: Topi Majaniemi, Maria
Lundqvist, Michael Nyqvist
Origin: Finland
During the Second World War over
70,000 war children were send from
Finland to Sweden, Norway and
Denmark in the biggest evacuation of
children ever experienced in the world.
NEXTDOOR (NABOER)
Thriller (75 min)
Language: Norwegian
Director: Pal Sletaune
Co-Production Partners: 4?, Memfis
Film, Zentropa, Nordisk Film
Producer: Turid Översveen
Key Cast: Kristoffer Joner, Cecilie
Mosli, Julia Schacht
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Origin: Norway
Next Door is a psychological thriller
with strong sexual undercurrents.
NORTH BY
NORTHWEST
ENTERTAINMENT
North By Northwest Entertainment, 903
W. Broadway Ave., Spokane,WA 99201
USA. Tel: 509.324.2949. Fax:
509.324.2959. Los angeles office: Tel:
818.506.7015. Fax: 818.506.7265.
www.nxnw.net
At AFM: Rich Cowan (CEO), Tay Voye
(General Manager), Bibi Channer
(Managing Director, Distribution), Kim
Beatty (Vice President, Development and
Acquisitions), Marc Dahlstrom (ice
President, Development), Claudia
Roesler (Coordinator, Distribution)
Office: Loews Hotel Suite 712, Tel:
310.458.6700, Fax: 310.458.6761
MAX RULES - ADVENTURES OF A
SUPER SPY
www.maxrulesmovie.com
Family/Adventure
Directed by: Robert Burke
Produced by: Robert Burke, Jerry Mahan
Status: completed/premiere screening
In the vein of “Spy Kids”, Max, together
with his friends Jessica and Scott, form a
sophisticated spy team organizing pranks
using their skills and access to cutting
edge technology.
THE VISITATION
Directed by: Robby Henson (“The
Badge”)
Produced by: Ralph Winter (“X-Men”,
“Planet of the Apes”, “Star Trek”), Joe
Goodman, Bobby Neutz
Status: completed/screening
When a self proclaimed prophet arrives
in a small town, attracting the national
media spotlight and turning the town
upside down, a burned-out former pastor
must risk everything to expose the truth.
TOUCHED
Drama
Directed by: Timothy Scott Bogart
Produced by: Marvin Acuna and Grazka
Taylor
Cast: Jenna Elfman, Bruce Davison
(“Runaway Jury”, “X-Men”),Golden
Globe Nominee Diane Venora (“The
Insider”, “The Jackal”) as the parents,
Randall Batinkoff (“The Peacemaker”,
“Let the Devil wear Black”), Samantha
Mathis (“Broken Arrow”,” The American
President”) and Kimberly Scott.
Status: completed/screening
Jenna Elfman ( TV’s” Dharma and
Greg”, “Town and Country”, “ Keeping
the Faith”) stars as a nurse in this drama,
helping a patient overcome his
supernatural visions of his dead son.
NOT A NUMBER
Not a Number, 11 Brayside Road,
Manchester M19 1ST, UK. Tel:
44.7721529947, [email protected],
www.notanumber.co.uk,
www.splinteredthemovie.com
Company Type: Producer
At AFM: Simeon Halligan (Director),
Matt Fitzwalter (Producer)
Office: Floor 6, room 655, Tel:
310.434.9422, Fax: 310.434.9423
SPLINTERED
Psychological thriller (95 mins)
Language: English
Director: Simeon Halligan
Producer: Matt Fitzwalter
Cast: Lee Boardman
Delivery Status: In development
Budget: $1Mill
Origin:UK
A dark character based psychological
thriller. It’s the story of a girl who,
fleeing a guilty conscience must come to
terms with her entrapment and fate at the
hands of two deeply disturbed brothers.
ROOFTOPS
Comedy Thriller (95 mins)
Language: English
Director: Simeon Halligan
Producer: Matt Fitzwalter
Origin: UK
Low on cash and desperate for work,
TOM is reluctantly enticed into the
world of crime by his brother JASON. A
bungled heist leads to a vertigo-inducing
scramble across the city’s high rooftops.
DARKWARE
Sci-Fi/Horror (95 mins)
Language: English
Writers: Steve Trimingham and Adrian
Cox
Origin: UK
Deep in the bowels of a disused bunker,
Gogol is waiting! In the early eighties,
THE PROMISE – MOONSTONE ENTERTAINMENT
the soviet Union experimented with
surgically enhanced psychic spies.
VALENTINAGOGALwas the
experiment that went out of control.
NOVA SCOTIA FILM
DEVELOPMENT
CORPORATION
Nova Scotia Film Development
Corporation, 1724 Granville Street,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 1X5 Canada.
Tel: 902.424.7177. Fax: 902.424.0617.
[email protected],
www.film.ns.ca
Company Type: Film Commission
At AFM: Ann MacKenzie (Chief
Executive Officer), Jennifer MacIntyre
(Locations Officer)
Office: Loews, 5/Atrium, Tel:
902.489.1717
Nova Scotia’s film tax credit is 35% of
eligible Nova Scotia labour costs for
filming in Halifax. There is a 5%
regional bonus and a 5% frequent film
bonus also available.
NU IMAGE, INC.
Nu Image, Inc., 6423 Wilshire
Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA90048 USA.
Tel: 310.388.6900. Fax: 310.388.6901.
At AFM: Avi Lerner (Co-Chairman),
Danny Dimbort (Co-Chairman), David
Lamping (President, Distribution), David
S. Sobieraj (President, Domestic Video
and Television), Carole DeLosSantos
(Executive VP, International Sales &
Distribution), Adele Yoshioka (Vice
President, International Distribution)
Office: 537, Tel: 310.434.9364, Fax:
310.434.9363
RAMBO 4
Director: TBA
Starring: Sylvester Stallone
Status: Pre Production
John Rambo is back in the latest action
packed installment of the popular film
series.
JOURNEY TO THE END OFTHE
NIGHT
Director: Eric Eason
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Mos Def,
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Alice Braga,
and Scott Glenn
A thriller of betrayal and redemption
which pits a tortured son against his
father as they separately develop plans to
escape the lurid South American
underworld of drugs, sex and money.
THE DEATH & LIFE OFBOBBY Z
Director: John Herzfeld
Starring: Paul Walker, Laurence
Fishburne
A hapless ex-con finds his life in danger
after being called upon to impersonate a
highly successful drug dealer.
88 MINUTES
Director: Jon Avnet
Starring: Al Pacino
The State’s star witness puts a man on
death row, only to find himself with 88
Minutes to live.
16 BLOCKS
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Bruce Willis, Mos Def and
David Morse
A New York cop must escort a witness
sixteen blocks from the precinct to the
courthouse but no one wants him to get
there.
WICKER MAN
Director: Neil LaBute
Starring: Nicolas Cage
A detective travels to a mysterious island
ruled by women in order to find his
missing daughter and save her from a
ritualistic murder during the town’s
harvest festival.
LONELY HEARTS
Director: Todd Robinson
Starring: John Travolta, James
Gandolfini, Jared Leto, Salma Hayek and
Laura Dern
A cop is obsessed with catching a
murderous couple in the seedy world of
1940’s Florida.
THE CONTRACT
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: John Cusack and Academy
Award® winner Morgan Freeman
A small town man puts everyone around
him at risk by bringing a notorious
assassin to justice.
RELATIVE STRANGERS
FROM THE CREATOR OFMEET
THE PARENTS
Director: Greg Glienna
Starring: Danny Devito, Kathy Bates,
Ron Livingston and Neve Campbell
A successful psychiatrist’s world comes
crumbling down when he reunites with
his biological parents.
ZOMBIES
Starring: TBA
Director: Joe Cardone
A battered wife moves her two children
to a remote family estate and finds
herself in a desperate struggle to save her
family from an ambush of monstrous
zombies.
O
ODYSSEY
ENTERTAINMENT
LIMITED
Odyssey Entertainment Limited, 10A
James Street, London, WC2E 8BT UK.
Tel: 44.207.520.5600. Fax:
44.207.520.5611
[email protected]
At AFM: Ralph Kamp (Chairman &
CEO), Pascal Degove (Head of Sales);
Louise Goodsill (President & COO),
James Scott (Sales & Contracts
Executive), Matthew Hampton
(Marketing Consultant), Tamzin Denny
(Marketing Assistant)
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Acquisition Executive: Christopher Bird
(VPAcquisitions)
Office: Room 860, Tel: 310.434.9057
ILLUMINATION
Sci-Fi/ Thriller
Language: English
Director: Tony Giglio
Producer: Pierce Williams
Set in 2018. Using new technology
called illumination, Jack Harmon rents
out his body. Life turns bad when he
wakes up and discovers he is wanted for
murder.
RENAISSANCE
(100 mins)
Language: English
Director: Christian Volckman
Producer: Aton Soumache, Roch Lener
Cast: Daniel Craig, Ian Holm, Jonathan
Pryce
Delivery Status: Post-production
Origin: France
A vivid thriller set in a troubled future
where a beautiful young scientist is
kidnapped. Her only chance is a sombre
cop ensnared in a visionary Paris of the
future.
LASSIE
Family (98 mins)
Language: English
Director: Charles Sturridge
Producer: Ed Guiney, Francesca Barra,
Charles Sturridge
Cast: Peter O’Toole, Samantha Morton,
Peter Dinklage
Origin: UK/ Ireland
This new chapter in the evolution of the
Lassie franchise promises all the love,
trust and heroism a family audience
could ask for.
THE LIBERTINE
Drama (122 mins)
Language: English
Director: Laurence Dunmore
Producer: Lianne Halfon, John
Malkovich, Russell Smith
Cast: Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton,
John Malkovich
Origin: UK
the true story of the celebrated Earl of
Rochester, friend and confidant to King
Charles II.
HAPPILY N’EVER AFTER
Animation
Language: English
Director: Paul J. Bolger
Producer: John H. Williams
Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie
Prinze Jr, Sigourney Weaver
Country of Origin: Germany
inspired by the stories from the Grimm
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS
1980 - 2005
brothers, this animated comedy sees
Cinderella and kitchen boy Rick, come
to the rescue of everyone’s favourite
fairytale characters.
OMNI
INTERNATIONAL
Omni International, Marli, St.
Patrick, Grenada, West Indies. Te l :
473.442.925. Fax: 473.442.925.
w w w. o m n i i n t e r n a t i o n a l . n e t
At AFM: Hugh F. Curry (President),
Kathleen Curry (Sr. V. P )
O ffice: Hotel Shangri-La, Te l :
519.941.0914. Fax 519.940.4292
ABDUCTED
Action/ adventure (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Boon Collins
Production company: Billibart Films
Producer: Harold J. Cole
Key Cast: Dan Haggerty, Lawrence
King Phillips, Roberta We i s s
Status: completed
Budget: $2 million
Based on a true story is about a
young girl abducted by a violent man
who lives with his father in the
mountains of the Pacific Northwest.
ABDUCTED 2: THE REUNION
Thriller (95 min )
Language: English
Director Boon Collins
Production: Reunion Films 2000
Producer: Ben Gruberg
Key Cast: Dan Haggerty, Jan Michael
Vincent, Lawrence King Phillips
Status: Completed
Budget: $2 Million
It was screaming for a sequel, and as
three attractive girlfriends journey
deep into the woods for their annual
reunion, psycho mountain man Ve r n
jumps for joy and sets his traps.
BETTIE PAGE - DARK A N G E L
Erotic (72 min)
Language: English
Director: Nico B.
Production company: Cult Epics
Producer Nico De Bruinsima
Key Cast: Paige Richards, Jaimie
Henkin, David Maynard
Status: completed
The premiere DVD label for
Bettie/Betty Page loops, Cult Epics
branched out to continue Bettie’s
legacy with their own first feature
film, Bettie Page: Dark A n g e l .
J E F F R E Y DAHMER: T H E
SE C R E T LIFE
Horror (92 min)
Language: English
Director: David R. Bowen
Production Company: Monolith
Films
Producer: Rick Bowen
Key Cast: Carl Crew
Status: Completed
Budget: $1.5 Million
Bowen and Crew have succeeded in
evoking the internalised homophobia
that motivated Dahmer to kill and
eat young men - Kevin Thomas LOS
ANGELES T I M E S .
H E N RY2: MASK OF S A N I T Y
Thriller (85 min )
Language: English
Director: Chuck Parello
Production Company: Maljack
Productions
Producer: Thomas J. Busch, Chuck
Parello
Key Cast: Neil Guiotolini, Rich
Komenich, Kate Wa l s h
Status: Completed
Budget: $3 Million
‘’Henry 2’’is a psychological
slasher movie for fans of the genre.
M r. Giutoli makes Henry’s
coexisting woundedness and
amorality fascinating to watch. N . Y. T I M E S
P
PARK
ENTERTAINMENT
Park Entertainment Ltd, 4th Floor, 50-51
Conduit Street, London W1S 2YT, United
Kingdom. Tel. 44(0)20.7434.4176. Fax.
44(0)20.7434.4179.
[email protected],
www.parkentertainment.com
At AFM: Jim Howell (Chief Executive)
(Cell 310.869.1225), Simon Barnes
(Head Of Film Sales) (Cell
310.804.2233), Denise Vickers (Sales
Executive)
Office: 541, Tel: 310.458.6700 #541
BOB THE BUTLER
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Gary Sinyor
Producer: Gavin Wilding, Esther Randall
Cast: Tom Green, Brooke Shields Simon
Callow
Country of Origin: UK/Canada
Budget: $6 million
Having failed at an endless stream of
entry-level jobs, accident prone man
finds a job as a butler. Despite wreaking
utter havoc, he manages to do a few
things right and wins the family he has
always longed for.
NIAGARAMOTEL
Drama (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Gary Yates
Producer: Phyllis Laing, Bernard
Zuckerman, Michael Prupas
Cast: Craig Ferguson, Anna Friel, Kevin
Pollak
Origin: Canada/UK
Budget: $6 million
A rundown motel on the edge of Niagara
Falls is the scene of this black comedy of
errors.
GOOSE
Family Comedy (85 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Nicholas Kendall
Producer: Wendy Hill-Tout, Alex Brown
Cast: Chevy Chase, Joan Plowright,
James Purefoy, Kari Matchett, Dave
Foley
Origin: Canada/UK
Budget: $10 million
A talking Goose brings the sparkle back
to a little boy’s life but it’s a race against
time to save the bird from the Christmas
cooking pot.
RUN
Action
Language: English
Director: Andy Morahan
Producer: Craig Blake-Jones, Simone
Kilshaw
Cast: Simon Webbe
Delivery Status: In production/Promo
reel
Budget: $30m
A non-stop, adrenalin fueled, Nitros
injected action movie on the streets of
London and Birmingham.
SAMURAI GIRL
Action/Comedy
Language: English
Producers: Paula Hart
Cast: Melissa Joan Hart
Delivery Status: Pre -production
Country of Origin: UK/US
Budget: $20m
Based on the Manga comic book character.
Asamurai warrior is reincarnated as a
waitress in a sushi bar and must learn to
battle the Wolverines who hatch every 5000
years to destroy mankind.
PATHE
DISTRIBUTION
Pathe Distribution, 10, rue Lincoln
75008 Paris France. Tel:
33.1.40.76.9169. Fax: 33.1.40.76.9194.
[email protected],
www.patheinternational.com
At AFM: Christine Hayet (Deputy
Managing Director International and
Catalogue), Antoine Cochet (Sales
Executive, Asia, Middle East, Israel,
Italy, T urkey), Mayalen de Croisoeuil
(Sales Executive, South America, Spain,
Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Russia,
Greece)
Acquisition Executive: Vivien Aslanian
(Deputy Managing Director Video Distribution)
Office: Loews Office 740 and 742
LES CHEVALIERS DU CIEL(SKY
FIGHTERS)
Action (110 min)
Language: French
Director: Gérard Pirès
Producer: Eric & Nicolas Altmayer Laurent Brochand
Starring: Benoît Magimel , Clovis
Cornillac, Géraldine Pailhas, Philippe
Torreton, Alice Taglioni
Status: Completed
Budget: 25 M$
origin: France
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A Mirage 2000 is hijacked during an air
show in Great Britain.
ENTRE SES MAINS (IN HIS
HANDS)
Drama - Thriller (90 min)
Language: French
Director: Anne Fontaine
Producer: Soudaine Compagnie - Ciné B
- K2/K-Star
Starring: Isabelle Carré, Benoît
Poelvoorde
Status: Completed
Budget: 6.5 M$
origin: France
A 30 year old woman leads a peaceful
and uneventful life with her husband and
their young daughter. Then, one day at
work, she meets a veterinarian.
LAMOUSTACHE
Drama (86 min)
Language: French
Director: Emmanuel Carrere
Producer: Anne-Dominique Toussaint
Cast : Vincent Lindon, Emmanuelle
Devos
Status: Completed
Budget: 6 M$
Country of Origin: France
When Marc shaves the moustache he
always had, his long-time companion
doesn’t seem to notice, even his old time
friends do not seem to notice.
L’AVION
Drama (100 min)
Language: French
Director: Cedric Kahn
Producers: Olivier Delbosc - Marc
Missonier
Principal Cast: Isabelle Carre, Vincent
Lindon
Budget: 11 M$
Status: Completed
Charly, 8, is terribly disappointed by his
Christmas present: instead of the bicycle
he was so eagerly expecting, his father,
Patrick, gives him the prototype of a
plane he designed himself.
CAMPING
Comedy
Language: French
Director: Fabien Onteniente
Producer: Patrick Godeau
Starring: Mathilde Seigner, Gerard
Lanvin, Franck Dubosc
In summer life in France as in most
European countries goes on hold. But for
the campers at Blue Waves, it seems like
it’s the rest of the year that they put their
lives on hold.
INCONTROLABLE
Comedy
Language: French
Director: Raffy Shart
Producer: Abel Nahmias
Cast: Michael Youn, Thierry Lhermitte,
Patrick Timsit
Status: post-production
Georges is a screenwriter whose career
and love life are falling apart. One night,
lightning crackles down on him and he
wakes hearing an inner voice talking to
him. Gradually, it takes control of
Georges’body.
PATHÉ PICTURES
INTERNATIONAL
Pathé Pictures International, 14-17 Kent
House, Market Place, London W1W 8AR
UK. Tel: 44.207.462.4427. Fax:
44.207.436.7891.
[email protected]
At AFM: Mike Runagall (Head of Pathé
Pictures International, Cell:
44.7949.074.552), Riaya Aboul Ela
(Marketing and Publicity Manager, Cell:
44.7977.197.411), Simon Osborn (Legal
& Business Affairs Manager)
Office: Suite 744
AMERICAN GUN
Drama
Language: English
Director: Aric Avelino
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Marcia Gay
Harden, Forest Whitaker
Delivery Status: In Post-Production
Origin: U.S.
In a world where guns lurk in places
you’d never imagine, the precious
balance between the tragedy and triumph
of everyday life rings true in
AMERICAN GUN.
BREAKFASTON PLUTO
Drama
Language: English
Director: Neil Jordan
Producers: Alan Moloney, Neil Jordan,
Stephen Woolley
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson,
Stephen Rea
Origin: Ireland/UK
A funny, moving and poignant rites of
passage account of a young man
enduring the trials and tribulations he
faces with a smile and unwavering faith
in the inherent goodness in us all.
FESTIVAL
Comedy
Director: Annie Griffin
Producer: Christopher Young
Language: English
Cast: Daniela Nardini, Stephen Mangan,
Chris O’Dowd
Origin: UK
Is there anything an actor wouldn’t do?
Lifting the lid on the world’s biggest
fringe event, FESTIVALis a hilarious
behind the scenes tale of promiscuity,
insecure egos, flat trashing and love in
unexpected places.
MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS
Comedy Drama
Language: English
Director: Stephen Frears
Producer: Norma Heyman
Cast: Judi Dench
Bob Hoskins
Kelly Reilly
Origin: UK
Set in pre-World War II London, MRS.
HENDERSON PRESENTS tells the
remarkable true-life story of one of
England’s most prominent and eccentric
society figures, Laura Henderson
(Dench), who founded the historic
Windmill Theatre.
THE QUEEN
Drama
Language: English
Director: Stephen Frears
Producers: Tracey Seaward, Andy
Harries, Christine Langdon
Cast: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen,
James Cromwell
Origin: UK
Upon the tragic death of Princess Diana,
“the People’s Princess,” the popular,
newly-elected Prime Minister Tony Blair
faces his first major challenge.
PEACE ARCH FILMS
T HE YACOUBIAN BUILDING – GOOD NEWS GROUP
Peace Arch Films, 102 Dean Street,
London W1D 3TQ, UK. Tel:
44(0)20.7439.8008. Fax:
44(0)20.7439.8228.
[email protected],
www.peacearch.com
Company Type: Sales
At AFM: Penny Wolf (Executive VP),
Lissa Lebel (International Sales
Director), James MacKenzie (Sales
Manager), Paul “Bateman” Davis-Miller
(VPDomestic Sales & Co-Productions)
310.434.9480. Fax: 310.434.9481
CHAPTER 27
Drama
Language: English
Director: Jarrett Schaefer
Producer: Robert Salerno, Alexandra
Milchan, Naomi Despres
Cast: Jared Leto, Lindsay Lohan
A terrifying glimpse into the deranged
mind of Mark David Chapman during
the days leading up to his murder of
John Lennon.
DELIRIOUS
Romance
Language: English
Director: Tom DiCillo
Producer: Robert Salerno
Cast: Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt,
Alison Lohman
A down-at-heel paparazzo befriends a
young homeless man little dreaming he
will become the lover of a famous pop
siren.
ARRHYTHMIA(WORKING TITLE)
Drama
Language: English
Director: Vicente Peñarrocha
Producer: Michiyo Yoshizaki
Cast: Rupert Evans, Sir Derek Jacobi,
Natalia Verbeke
A chilling yet sensitive insight into the
mind of an ambivalent captor at an
internment camp as he struggles to
separate fantasy from reality.
OUR FATHERS
Drama (129 min)
Language: English
Director: Dan Curtis
Producer: John McMahon, Barbara
Steele, David Kennedy
Cast: Christopher Plummer, Brain
Dennehy, Ted Danson
A small time lawyer discovers the
systemic, long term cover-up of child
abuse by priests in the Boston
Archdiocese, which leads to the Vatican
and the uncovering of 100,000 buried
cases.
SHADOWS IN THE SUN
Drama (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Brad Mirman
Producer: Jamie Brown, Massimo
Pacilio, David Atlan-Jackson
Cast: Harvey Keitel, Joshua Jackson,
Claire Forlani
Origin: UK/France/Italy
An aspiring young writer tracks a literary
titan suffering from writers block to his
idyllic refuge in rural Italy and falls for
his idol’s daughter.
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
Action (103 min)
Language: English
Director: Sidney Furie
Producer: Curtis J. Peterson, Sidney
Furie, Gary Howsam
Cast: Curtis Morgan, Zan Calabretta,
Jordan Brown
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Origin: Canada
Iraq, Present Day: during a routine sortie
a US patrol is ambushed and the young
soldiers are forced to put their training
and skills into action fast.
HOLLYWOOD FLIES
Action-Adventure (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Fabio Segatori
Producer: Massimo Pacilio, Gary
Howsam, Leo Pescarolo
Cast: Brad Renfro, Vinnie Jones, Caprice
Origin: Canada/UK/Italy
A road trip from Las Vegas to Los
Angeles for a young Italian brother and
sister turns into a terrifying yet
exhilarating plunge into an underworld
of psychopaths, starlets, crazies and hitmen.
THE GOOD SHEPHERD
Thriller (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Lewin Webb
Producer: Gary Howsam
Cast: Christian Slater, Molly Parker,
Stephen Rea
Origin: Canada
A worldly and urbane priest is forced to
challenge his comfortable existence as an
ecclesiastical spin-doctor when he comes
to believe in the innocence of a young
priest accused of murder.
THE KEEPER
Thriller (94 min)
Language: English
Producer: Gary Howsam, Jamie Brown,
Juliet Jones
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Asia Argento,
Lochlyn Munro
Origin: Canada/UK
When an apparently exemplary cop
abducts and secretly imprisons a
beautiful dancer, a deadly battle of wills
between captor and captive ensues.
PFG
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
PFG Entertainment, Inc., 429 Santa
Monica Boulevard, Suite 600, Santa
Monica, California 90401 USA. Tel:
310.393.5788. Fax: 310.393.0882.
[email protected],
www.pfgentertainment.com
At AFM: Ted Rosenblatt (President),
Andrea Ferrell (Assistant); Acquisition
Executive: Ted Rosenblatt (President)
Office: Loews Hotel in room 430, Tel:
310.434.9325. Fax: 310.393.0882
THE GIRLWHO LOVED TOM
GORDON
Thriller
Director: George Romero
Producer: Don Archbold and David
Lancaster
Status: in Pre-Production
Adapted from Stephen King’s bestselling
novel and to be directed by George
Romero (Dawn of The Dead), about a
young girl’s confrontation with panic and
terror while lost in a forest filled with
her worst fears.
ATLANTIC MEDIAHOLDINGS
This comprehensive library includes over
200 features, as well as Television
Series, Special Programs and
Documentaries.
PORCHLIGHT
ENTERTAINMENT
PorchLight Entertainment, 11777
Mississippi Ave, Los Angeles CA 90025
USA. Tel: 310.477.8400. Fax:
www.porchlight.com
Company Type: Distribution, Production
and Sales
At AFM: Bruce Johnson (CEO), William
Baumann (CFO and CEO), Fred
Schaefer (Sr. VPAnimation), Stephanie
Slack (Sr. VPof Int. Sales), Adam
Wright (Sr. VPof Int. Sales), Laura
Hoffman (Sr. Manager, Int. Sales)
Office: 614, Tel: 310.458.6700 Ext:614
BESTFRIENDS
Thriller (98 min)
Cast: Megan Gallagher, Ken Tremblett
A chilling tale of one woman using all
she knows of her best friends life, to
steal that life away from her.
MELTDOWN
Action/Thriller
Cast: Casper Van Dien
An unprecedented solar event results in a
chain reaction that causes world
temperatures to soar with deadly
consequences.
HUSH
Thriller (98 min)
Cast: Tori Spelling, Tamoh Penikett,
Victoria Pratt
A woman’s dark obsession with the past
collides head on with another woman’s
fierce dedication to defend her life,
marriage, and her family.
CRAZYLOVE
Dramedy (98 min)
Cast: Bruno Campos, Reiko Aylesworth,
Meat Loaf Aday
When Letty Mayer is temporarily
institutionalized, she falls in love with
another patient, Michael. Letty
discovers how to be ‘true’to herself and
cope with life’s obstacles.
12 DOGS OFCHRISTMAS
Dramedy (98 min)
Cast: Jordan-Claire Green, Mindy
Sterling, John Billingsly
Motherless, Emma O’Conner stages a
holiday pageant to save the dogs in the
“No Dogs Allowed!” city of Doverville,
and in the process, saves herself.
DESOLATION SOUND
Thriller (98 min)
Cast: Jennifer Beals, Helene Joy, Ed
Begley Jr.
R
Follow the disintegration and
resurrection of a woman struggling to
accept her involvement in the shocking
death of her friend.
RAI TRADE (SALES)
Rai Trade (Sales), Via Umberto Novaro
18, 00195 Rome, Italy. Tel:
39.06.374.98469. Fax: 39.06.37516222.
[email protected] www.raitrade.it
At AFM: Sesto Cifola (Head of Cinema
and Fiction International Sales)
Office: Suite 351/ 353
LASECONDANOTTE DI NOZZE
(THE SECOND WEDDING NIGHT)
by Pupi Avati
Romantic Comedy (103’)
Italian version with English subtitles
Director: Pupi Avati
Language Italian with English subtitles
Production: Rai Cinema, Duea Film
Cast: Antonio Albanese, Neri Marcorè,
Katia Ricciarelli,
“La Seconda Notte di Nozze” is set in
Southern Italy, immediately after the
Second World War. All revolves around
the strange character of Giordano.
FUOCO SU DI ME (FIRE AT MY
HEART)
by Lamberto Lambertini
Historical Drama (100’)
Director: Lamberto Lambertini,
Production Indrapur Cinematografica,
Stella Film
Cast: Omar Sharif, Massimiliano
Varrese, Sonali Kulkarni
Eugenio, wounded in battle while in
France, returns to Naples to stay with his
aristocratic grandfather Don Nicola.
L’ERETICO (THE HERETIC)
Historical Drama (105’)
Director: Piero Maria Benfatti
Production : International Forum
Cast: Tobias Moretti, Roberto Stadlober,
Remo Girone, Toni Bertorelli, Melanie
Berton
In 1327, Cecco d’Ascoli, a well-known
astrologer and a physician at the court of
the Duke of Florence, is denounced by
his rival Dino del Garbo to the
Inquisition.
PASSO A DUE
by Andrea Barzini
Musical drama (98’)
Italian version with English subtitles
Director: Andrea Barzini
Production: Rai Cinema, Magic Monents
E ND GAME – N U IMAGE
Cast: Kledi Kadiu, Laura Chiatti
Beni’s dream is to become a great dancer
in Europe, but when he arrives in Italy
he is caught in a trap.
REGENT
ENTERTAINMENT
Regent Entertainment, 10990 Wilshire
Blvd., Penthouse Los Angeles, California
90024 USA. Tel: 310.806.4288. Fax:
310.806.4268.
www.regententertainment.com
Company type: Producer and Distributor
At AFM: Gene George (President),
Meggan Kimberley (SVPSales), Raegan
Matthews (Sales Associate)
Office: 834-836, Tel: 310.458.6700 Ext.
834, Gene George Mobile:
310.804.9360. Meggan Kimberley
Mobile: 818.451.8298. Raegan Matthews
Mobile: 310.266.1055
AIR FORCE 2 (WORKING TITLE)
Action
Language: English
Producers: Grant Bradley, Paul
Colichman, Stephen P. Jarchow
Cast: Mariel Hemingway, David Keith,
Jill Bennett, David Millbern
When the Vice President’s plane goes
down near a remote South American
island, he is kidnapped by rebel forces
and held for ransom.
PLAYING HOUSE
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Kelly Makin
Cast: Colin Ferguson, Joanne Kelly,
Lucas Bryant
When a charming man enters Frannie’s
life offering glamour and romance, she
decides that true love and family is
something only the father of her child
can offer.
TRUTH
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Timothy Bond
Producers: Stanton W. Kamens, Kirk
Shaw, James Shavick
Cast: Dean Cain, Stephanie Zimbalist,
Thea Gill
When a female reporter is killed while
investigating a story, her best friend from
college and her former journalism
professor make the resolution to retrace
her steps and solve her murder.
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Family/ Holiday
Language: English
Director: Richard Compton
Shaw, James Shavick
Cast: Sean Young, Perry King
When the power company forecloses on
a family’s home, an ordinary woman is
called upon to take care of her niece and
nephews and act to find a new home for
this displaced family in time for the
holidays.
SECRETLIVES
Thriller
Language: English
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Director: George Mendeluk
Shaw, James Shavick
Cast: Daphne Zuniga, Duncan Regehr,
Lisa Ryder
When a woman discovers her husband’s
death did not happen years ago but only
last week, she journeys to the town
where he lived to uncover the truth.
CRAZYFOR CHRISTMAS
Family/ Holiday
Language: English
Director: Eleanore Lindo
Producers: Joseph Plager, Noreen
Halpern, John Morayniss
Cast: Andrea Roth, Howard Hesseman
A single mother is forced to chauffeur a
wealthy man around town on Christmas
Eve while he gives away cash to
complete strangers.
ZYZZYX ROAD
Thriller
Language: English
Director: John Penney
Producers: Leo Grillo, John Penney
Cast: Katherine Heigl, Leo Grillo and
Tom Sizemore
In the remote desert outside of Las
Vegas, a beautiful young woman and a
hapless accountant attempt to bury the
body of her ruthless ex-boyfriend.
DECK THE HALLS
Family/ Holiday
Language: English
Director: George Mendeluk
Shaw, James Shavick
Cast: Gabrielle Carteris, Stephen Culp
After the sudden loss of her husband, a
woman and her son move back home
from the big city to work in her father’s
toy company.
PHANTOM BELOW
Action
Language: English
Producers: Paul Colichman, Stephen P.
Jarchow, Brian Trenchard-Smith
Cast: Adrian Paul, Catherine Dent,
Mathew St. Patrick
After a Navy Commander ’s best friend is
killed when their submarine is attacked
in North Korean waters by an
undetectable “ghost sub”, the Navy sends
the commander out on a top secret
mission.
FORCE OFIMPACT
Action/ Disaster
Language: English
Director: Sam Irvin
Producers: Kirk Shaw, Stephen P.
Jarchow, James Shavick
Cast: Antonio Sabato Jr., Rae Dawn
Chong, Michael Moriarty
An asteroid that will pass near the earth
has a “rogue asteroid” hidden in its trail,
and it’s set to collide with Earth in 24
hours. A Scientist and former Air Force
Major unite forces to prevent
Armageddon.
FATALREUNION
Thriller
Language: English
Director: George Erschbamer
Shaw, James Shavick
Cast: Erika Eleniak, David Millbern,
Michael Bergin, Juliet Landau
A woman, doubting her husband’s
fidelity, sets a date with an old high
school crush.
RIGEL
ENTERTAINMENT
Rigel Entertainment, 4201 Wilshire
Boulevard #555, Los Angeles, CA90010
USA. Tel: 323.954.8555. Fax:
323.954.8592, [email protected],
www.rigel.tv
At AFM: John Laing (President), Kristie
Smith (International Sales), Bryan
Hambleton (International Sales)
310.458.6700 ext. 641
MAX HAVOC: CURSE OFTHE
DRAGON
Action (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Albert Pyun
Produced by: Guam Motion Pictures
Company
Status: In Post-production
Country of Origin: Guam
Max Havoc, world famous kickboxer
turned sports photographer returns to
Guam, and faces the bloodthirsty
Japanese Yakuza in an attempt to save
the lovely Jane Goody.
HOWARD HUGHES: THE REAL
AVIATOR
CRIME SQUAD – AB I NTERNATIONAL
Language: English
Director: William Schwartz
Produced by: Schwartz and Company
Status: Completed
A look at the secret life of eccentric
billionaire Howard Hughes, as told
through Howard’s own writing and
interviews from personal friend Jack
Real, business assistant Robert Mahue,
wife Terry Moore and personal assistant
George Francom.
CINDERELLAMAN: THE REAL
JIM BRADDOCK STORY
Language: English
Director: Nick Krantz
Produced by: Grand Productions
Status: Completed
Fighting during Depression Era America,
Jim Braddock became not only a boxing
icon, but a symbol of hope and
perseverance.
MARY HIGGINS CLARK 13TV
MOVIES
All Around The Town, Haven’t We Met
Before, Loves Music, Loves to Dance,
Lucky Day, Pretend You Don’t See Her,
You Belong To Me
Suspense / Drama (13 x 90’)
Language: English
Cast: Nastassja Kinski; Nicolette
Sheridan; Patsy Kensit; Amanda
Donohoe; Emma Sams; Lesley Anne
Down
Country of Origin: United
Kingdom/Canada
6 movies based on the best-selling
novels of Mary Higgins Clark known as
the Queen of Suspense and is one of the
world’s best-read authors.
12 BUCKS
Language: English
Drama (90 minutes)
Director: Wayne Isham
Produced by: Sean Graham, Scott
Waugh, Richard Everbeck, David Meller
Status: Completed
Two brothers, after being estranged for
fifteen years reunite from their very
different lives to begin a cross country
journey that will lead them to a discovery
of the past, and a hope for the future.
One day (as in the fairy tails) an
accidental meeting with a disabled
former basketball player, changes Miki’s
life and makes her dream come true.
2 MINUTES FROM FARADIS
Comedy (50 min)
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles
Director: Danny Sirkin
Producer: Riki Shelach
Cast: Hishman Sliman, Efrat Boinwald,
Shmuel Viloz’ni, Nuly Omer
Origin: Israel
Budget:$200,000
A very funny love story between a
seventeen years old girl from ZichronYaakov and an Arab young boy from the
Arab village Faradis (2 minutes from
Zichron-Yaakov).
A BODYIN THE SAND
T.V. Drama (45 min)
Director: Riki Shelach
Cast: Ezra Dagan, Sassi Saad, Israel
Poliakov,
Origin: Israel
Budget: $140,000
Political thriller depicting a true story
which took place in Israel six years
before the state was inaugurated.
A TRUMPETIN THE WADI
Drama (97 min)
Language: Hebrew/ Arabic with English
Subtitles
Director: Lina & Slava Chaplin
Cast: Khawlah Hag -Debsy, Alexander
Sanerovich
origin: Israel
Budget: $510,000
An impossible love story between two
outsiders in Israeli society.
RIKI SHELACH
PRODUCTIONS LTD
Seven Arts International, 6310 San
Vicente Blvd. Suite 510 Los Angeles, CA
90048 USA. Tel: 323.634.0990. Fax:
323.634.1061. www.7artspictures.com
Company Type: Sales agent, producer
At AFM: Peter Hoffman (President),
Daniel Diamond (Consultant), Kate
Hoffman (Executive Vice President)
Office # 153 / # 156, Tel: 310.434.9300.
Fax: 310.434.9301
CAPTIVITY
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Roland Joffe
Producer: Mark Damon, Leonid
Minkovski, Serge Konov & Gary
Mehlman
Cast: Elisha Cuthbert & Daniel Gillies
Delivery Status: post
Riki Shelach Productions Ltd, 18
Hanatziv St. Tel Aviv 67018 Israel. Tel:
972.3.6243050. Fax: 972.3.6243151.
Company Type: Production Company
At AFM: Riki Shelach
Office:
WINNING WITH MIKI
Movie made for T.V. (72 min)
Director: Ori Inbar
Cast: Noy Gur, Rami Heuberger, Orna
Banay, Ran Bechor, Oz Zehavi, Yuval
Semo & Miki Berkowitch
Origin: Israel
S
SEVEN ARTS
INTERNATIONAL
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“Captivity” is a chilling game of
seduction about two strangers - a
beautiful, young, high-fashion model and
a chauffeur - who are kidnapped and
held in a small room by an unseen killer.
THE WINTER QUEEN
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Producer: Thomas Hedman & Alan
Marshall
Delivery Status: pre
Origin: UK
Based on the best selling novel by Boris
Akunin.
DOG SOLDIERS II
Horror
Language: English
Director: Rob Green
Producer: David E. Allen
Cast: Robert Patrick & Kelly Hu
Origin: USA
Picking up where its hugely successful
predecessor left off, “DS II: Fresh Meat”
takes audiences back to the wooded
Scottish highlands with more action,
more guns, more blood, and, most
importantly, more werewolves.
BACKSPIN
Drama (101.40)
Language: English
Director: Keoni Waxman
Producer: Peter Hoffman
Cast: Freddie Prinze Jr., Ving Rhames,
Roselyn Sanchez & Angus MacFadyen
Origin: USA
Jericho Hudson is a street kid with a gift
for shooting pool. He finds himself in the
middle of a dangerous hustle when he’ s
played as a pawn in a desperate contest
of wits (and nine-ball) between two old
nemeses.
SHOCHIKU
Shochiku, 4-1-1, Tsukiji, Togeki Bldg
12F, Chuo-Ku, Tokyo, 104-8422 Japan.
Tel: 81.3.5550.1623. Fax:
81.3.5550.1654. www.shochikufilms.com
At AFM: Teruki Matsumoto (Managing
Director Theatrical Distribution), Masaki
Koga (Head of International Business
Division), Kiwamu Sato (Assistant
Manager Sales), Satoko Ishida (Assistant
Manager Sales), Junko Kawaguchi
(Assistant Manager Sales), Shion
Komatsu (Assistant Manager Sales)
Office: Loews Hotel, Room#717
SHINOBI
Action / Samurai (to be completed,
September 2005)
Director: Ten Shimoyama (Otogiriso)
Starring: Joe Odagiri, Yukie Nakama
Delivery Status: Completed / New
Destined for love, ordered to kill. The
ultimate action movie created with
cutting-edge visual effect technology. A
fast pacing Ninja Action meets Romeo &
Juliet.
SYNESTHESIA(GIMME HEAVEN)
Suspense Thriller (to be completed
Summer 2005)
Director: Toru Matsuura
Starring: Yosuke Eguchi, Aoi Miyazaki,
Masanobu Ando
“Synesthesia” is a sensibility which
cannot be understood by other people.
An incident brings two lonely souls who
possess this unsolved puzzle of mind to
meet, leading to strange events and a
serial murder case.
NEZUMI KOZO, NODAVERSION
(NODA-BAN NEZUMI KOZO)
CINEMAKABKI
Director: Hideki Noda
Starring: Kanzaburo Nakamura
A documentary record of a performance
of Kabuki directed by Hideki Noda.
ASHURA(ASHURAJO NO
HITOMI)
Action / Samurai / Sci-Fi (119 min)
Director: Yojiro Takita
Starring: Somegoro Ichikawa, Rie
Miyazawa
Art Direction by Yuji Hayashida, Ending
Theme “My Funny Valentine” by Sting
17th century Japan - it is late Edo period.
The city of Edo appears calm, but down
below, a string of ghastly incidents is
shaking the town.
HINOKIO (HINOKIOI)
Sci-Fi / Drama (111min)
Director: Takahiko Akiyama (special
effects director, FINAL FANTASY)
Starring: Masatoshi Nakamura, Kanata
Hongo, Mikako Tabe,
Twelve-year-old Satoru has gone into
withdrawal following the death of his
mother in a car accident.
GHOSTTRAIN
Horror
Director/Writer: Takeshi Furusawa
“Do not board the haunted train.” Series
of frights attack a high school girl.
HELEN THE BABYFOX
Family
A boy finds a deaf, blind and numb baby
fox, lost from its parents in the
wilderness of the Northernmost Island of
Japan.
C’ESTLAVIE, MON CHERI
Romantic Drama
A young high school girl Kaoru who is
diagnosed with XP(Xeroderma
Pigmentosum) cannot walk outside under
the sun or go to school. Her only fun is
to perform her songs at night on the
streets until she falls in love with Koji.
SEAWITHOUTEXIT(DEGUCHI
NO NAI UMI)
Drama
Director: Kiyoshi Sasab
Based on the story by Hideo Yokoyama
Production to start late 2005
Koji Namiki, a talented young pitcher,
enters university, but soon afterwards
injures his elbow, but hopes to get on the
field with his teammates.
SHORELINE
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
Shoreline Entertainment, Inc., 1875
Century Park East, Los Angeles, CA
90067 USA. Tel: 310.551.2060. Fax:
310.201.0729.
[email protected],
www.shorelineentertainment.com
Company Type: (Sales agent, production
company)
At AFM: Morris Ruskin (CEO), Sam
Eigen (Director of World-Wide
Distribution), Brian Sweet (Sales
Manager), Steve Macy (Operations
Manager), Chad Leslie (Director of
Acquisitions)
Acquisition Executive: Chad Leslie
Office: 622, Tel: 310.458.6700. Fax:
702.974.0707
VOODOO LAGOON
Horror
Language: English
Director: Nicholas Cohen
Producer: Martin Brown, David Cohen,
Nigel Thomas
Co-production partners: Matador
Pictures
Cast: Ashley Hamilton, John Noble, Lara
Cox
Delivery Status: Post
Origin: Australia
A group of college students book a
bargain dream holiday to a remote
tropical island, little knowing that they
have been lured there by the island’s evil
owner to fulfill an ancient voodoo
prophecy.
SHADOW WALKERS
Horror
Language: English
Director: Mark Grove
Producer: Morris Ruskin, Dave
Marchiori
Production Company: Mostly Films,
LLC.
Cast: Jason Coviello, Jennifer Summers,
Courtni Mullin, Clay Adams
Delivery Status: Post
Origin: USA
A group of young researchers uncover a
twisted genetic study that has produced
dangerous mutant creatures.
RAZOR EATERS
Crime Thriller (96 mins)
Language: English
Director: Shannon Young
Producer: Nick Levy, Paul Moder
Production Company: Hybrid Films
Cast: Paul Moder, Richard Cawthorne,
Fletcher Humphrys
Origin: Australia
First turned on during a home invasion,
the gang’s camera never lets up as they
take on the city and become our antiheroes by targeting all those we’d love to
see get punished.
CUPOFMYBLOOD
Horror Thriller (107 mins)
Language: English
Director: Lance Cantia
Producer: Kenneth Nilsson, Noel Olken
Production Company: X Ray
Productions Inc.
Cast: Daniel Patrick Sullivan, Janina
Gavankar, Roger Anderson
Origin: USA
A seemingly random accident leaves
photographer Jack Fender in possession
of Christianity’s most Holy Relics.
SHOWCASE
ENTERTAINMENT
Showcase Entertainment, Warner Center,
21800 Oxnard Street, Suite 150,
Woodland Hills, California 91367 USA.
Tel: 818.715.7005. Fax: 818.715.7009.
www.showcaseentertainment.com
At AFM: David A. Jackson (President),
Shauna Shapiro Jackson (Executive Vice
President), Scott Bedno (irector of
International Sales), Bruce Livingston
(Chief Financial Officer), Leslee JonesAllmon (VP-Worldwide Distribution
Services), Linda Paolucci (Executive
Assistant), Cara Shapiro (Vice PresidentAcquisitions)
Office: Loews Hotel - Suites 806 & 807
FLIGHT29 DOWN
TVSeries
Producers: Stan Rogow, and DJ MacHale
Follow these young castaways who are
stranded on a South Pacific island
DALLAS 362
Thriller
Directed by Scott Caan
Stars Jeff Goldblum, Kelly Lynch,
Selma Blair, Scott Caan, and Shawn
Hatasoy
Two friends choosing between a life of
crime and going straight decide on one
more caper, leading to deadly results.
NATIONALLAMPOON’S CATTLE
CALL.
Comedy
Directed by Martin Guigui
Produced by Josi W. Konski The owner
of a successful internet dating service
and his musician friend resort to starting
a fake casting agency to find true love.
Stars Nicole Eggert, Diedrich Bader,
Jonathan Winters
SILVERLINE
ENTERTAINMENT
Silverline Entertainment, 22837 Ventura
Blvd., Ste. 205, Woodland Hills, CA
90064 USA. Tel: 818.225.9032. Fax:
818.225.9053.
www.silverlineentertainment.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: Leman Cetiner (CEO), Robert
Yap (VPof Development & Distribution)
Office: 453
THE SALENAINCIDENT
Horror/Sci-Fi (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Dustin Rikert
Producer: Dustin Rikert, Soon Hee
Newbold, Philip Tiboni
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Key Cast: Avery Clyde, James Luca,
Daniel Southworth
Origin: USA
Alien creatures, who have crash landed
from outer space, invade the town of
Salena.
SILENTBLOODNIGHT
Horror/Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Elmar Weihsmann, Stefan
Peczelt
Producer: Elmar Weihsmann
Key Cast: Vanessa Schwarzbauer,
Michael Weger, Alexander E. Fennon
Origin: Germany
A television reporter, who witnessed the
gruesome killing of a teenager, is stalked
by the deranged serial killer that has
brutally murdered three teens.
ESCORT SERVICE
Thriller (95 min)
Director: German
Language: Franz Novotny
Producer: Brigitte Hirsch
Key Cast: Eva Lorenzo, Mickey Hardt,
Maria Schuster
Origin: Germany
A young girl is drawn into the cruel and
dangerous world of prostitution.
DREAM WARRIOR
Action/Sci-Fi (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Zachary Weintraub
Producer: Fred Weintraub, Tom Kuhn,
Rainer Mockert
Key Cast: Lance Henriksen, Sherilyn
Fenn, Daniel Goddard
Year Of Production: 2003, Country Of
Origin: USA
In a post-apocalyptic future, a man with
super-human powers battles an evil
overlord to free humanity from his
tyrannical rule.
Origin: Australia
SILVERSCREEN
FILMS
SMILE
ENTERTAINMENT
Silverscreen Films, PO Box 6284, Te
Aro, Wellington NZ. Tel: 64.4.384.9805.
Fax: 64.4.385.1804.
www.silverscreenfilms.com
Company Type: Production
At AFM:
Office:
RIVER QUEEN
Drama (114 mins)
Language: English/with some Subtitles
for Maori
Director: Mr, Vincent Ward
Producer: Mr, Don Reynolds
Co-production partners: The Film
Consortium - Mr Chris Auty
Cast: Samanatha Morton, Kiefer
Sutherland, Cliff Curtis, Temuera
Morrison, Stephen Rea, Anton Lesser,
Rawiri Pene
Origin: New Zealand
SPOOKED
Drama (93 mins)
Language: English
Director: Mr Geoff Murphy
Producer: Mr Don Reynolds, Mrs Merata
Mita, Mr Geoff Dixon , Mr Geof f
Murphy
Cast: Cliff Curtis, Christopher Hobbs,
John Leigh, Miriama Smith
Origin: New Zealand
PEACHES
Drama (106 mins)
Language: English
Director Mr Craig Monahan
Producer:Mr Don Reynolds
Cast: Hugo Weaving, Jacqueline
McKenzie, Emma Lung
Smile Entertainment, Indiakaj 12,
Copenhagen, DK-2100 Denmark. Tel:
45.35441105. Fax: 45.35434008.
www.smile-ent.com, [email protected]
At AFM: Timo T. Lahtinen (President &
CEO)
Office: Loews, # 655, Tel: 310.434.9422.
Fax: 310.434.9423
HALIM – GOOD NEWS GROUP
SPICE FACTORY (UK)
LTD
Spice Factory (UK) Ltd, 14 Regent Hill,
Brighton BN1 3ED UK. Tel:
44.1273.723.419. Fax: 44.1273.749.122.
www.spicefactory.co.uk,
[email protected]
At AFM: Michael LCowan (Joint
Managing Director), Jason Piette (Joint
Managing Director)
Office:
PERFECTCREATURE
Sci-Fi
Language: English
Director: Glenn Standring
Co-Production Partners: Spice Factory,
Roc Media, Crimbil Equities Ltd,
Movision Entertainment Ltd.
Producer: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette,
Haneet Vaswani, Tim Sanders, Russel
Fischer
Key Cast: Dougray Scott, Saffron
Burrows, Stuart Wilson
Origin: UK / New Zealand
In a world where humans and vampires
co-exist “separately but equally” a
human cop and vampire cop team up to
stop a rogue vampire intent on starting a
war between the two races.
GUY X
War / Comedy (94 mins)
Language: English
Director: Saul Metzstein
Film and Music Entertainment Ltd, Wizz
Films, Ex Ehf, Movision Entertainment
Ltd
Sam Taylor, Mike Downey,
Key Cast: Jason Biggs, Natascha
McElhone, Jeremy Northam
Origin: UK / Canada / Iceland
1979: an American soldier is transferred
by mistake to an Arctic base, and is
unable to escape because he no longer
officially exists.
THE RIVER KING
Supernatural Thriller (99 mins)
Director: English
Language: Nick Willing
IMX Communications Inc, Myriad
Pictures, Movision Entertainment Ltd
Christopher Zimmer, Marion Pilowsly,
Michele Camarda
Key Cast: Edward Burns, Jennifer Ehle,
John Kapelos
Origin: UK / Canada
A small town cop is called in when a
student drowns at an elite prep school.
THE STEEL
COMPANY
The Steel Company, 9220 Sunset, Suite
212, Los Angeles, CA90069, USA. Tel:
310.274.7221. Fax: 310.274.7507.
[email protected]
At AFM: Gordon Steel (President), John
Baca (Vice President)
310.434.9080
STORM
ENTERTAINMENT
Storm Entertainment, 127 Broadway,
Suite 222, Santa Monica, CA90401
USA. Tel: 310.656.2500. Fax:
www.stormentertainment.com
Company Description: independent film
finance, production and Worldwide
distribution company
At AFM: H. Michael Heuser (President
& CEO), Kourosh Esmailzadeh
(Director, Int’l Distribution)
Office: See above corporate address,
Mobile: H. Michael Heuser
310.251.7200
GO GO TALE
By Abel Ferrara
Comedy
Cast: TBA
Co-Producer: Frank De Curtis
Exec. Producer: H. Michael Heuser
The charismatic Ray Ruby and his club
is RAY RUBY’S PARADISE. (credits
not contractual)
BEING CONSIDERED
Comedy
CHILD 2 MAN
Action
FASTSOFA
Action
CRIMINAL, THE
Action
HELL’S KITCHEN
Action/ Thriller
Starring Angelina Jolie
LAVA
Action
PARADISE LOST
Mystery/Action/Thriller
SHINER
Action
Starring Michael Caine, Martin Landau
SUBTERFUGE (RE-ISSUE)
Action
SUMMIT
ENTERTAINMENT
Summit Entertainment, 1630 Stewart
Street, Suite 120, Santa Monica, CA
90404 USA. Tel: 310.309.8400. Fax:
310.828.4132. London: 77 Dean Street,
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London W1D 3SH UK.
Tel: 44(0)207.494.1724.
Fax: 44(0)207.494.1725.
At AFM: Patrick Wachsberger (President
& CEO), Bob Hayward (COO), David
Garrett (Executive Vice President),
Harold Van Lier (Vice President, Sales),
Brad Kembel (Senior Vice President,
Distribution), Trellis Huahn (Senior Vice
President, Contracts and Business
Affairs)
Office: Suite 644, Tel: 310.458.6700.
Fax: Suite 644
GRANDMA’S BOY
Comedy
Director: Nick Goossen
Producer: Allen Covert
Cast: Allen Covert, Doris Roberts,
Shirley Knight
An over-aged videogame tester is forced
to move in to his sweet grandmother ’s
house much to his dismay.
HARSH TIMES
Drama
Director: David Ayer
Producers: Andrea Sperling, David Ayer
Cast: Christian Bale, Freddy Rodriguez,
Eva Longoria
A taut drama - about two friends who, in
spite of their best efforts to turn their
lives around, only succeed in dragging
each other down.
KEEPING MUM
Comedy
Director: Niall Johnson
Producers: Julia Palau, Matthew Payne
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Maggie Smith,
Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Swayze
An irreverent, unpredictable comedy
about family, small town life and finding
happiness.
SURF FILM SRL
Surf Film SRL, Via Padre G.A. Filippini,
130 Rome 00144 Italy. Tel:
39.06.5262101. Fax: 39.06.5293816.
[email protected], www.surffilm.com
Company Type: Sales agent, distributor
and producer
At AFM: Mrs. Stefania Carnevale (Head
of Int’l sales) Mrs. Elisabetta Volpe (Int’l
sales executive)
Office: Stand 321 Code A 3rd Floor, Tel:
310.458.6700
THE TORTURER
Thriller/Horror (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Lamberto Bava
Producer: DUE P.T.
Co-production partners: SURF FILM
and DANIAFILM in collaboration with
GENERALVIDEO
Cast: Simone Corrente Elena Bouryka
Emilio De Marchi Carla Cassola
Year of Production: October 2005,
Who snares young wanna-be actresses
with fake auditions? How far can a
twisted mind push its lust for pain and
torture? The Bible of sadism.
Exec. Prod: Mark Gordon
Status: In-Production
SYNDICATE FILMS
Written by Academy Award nominee,
Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia), and based
on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham,
THE PAINTED VEIL.
Syndicate Films, 10850 Wilshire Blvd,
6th Floor, Los Angeles, CA90024 USA.
Tel: 310.234.0909. Fax: 310.234.0902.
At AFM: David Glasser; Bob Yari;
Ruzanna Kegeyan
Office: Loews Hotel (Escondido /8)
THE HOAX
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Producer: Betsy Beers, Leslie Holleran,
Mark Gordon, Bob Yari
Starring: Richard Gere
Status: In-Production
In the vein of CATCH ME IF YOU
CAN, this an escapade of a desperate
man who tries to outwit the publishing
world, the feds and ultimately even the
reclusive Howard Hughes.
THE ILLUSIONIST
Director: Neil Berg
Producer: Michael London, Cathy
Schulman, Bob Yari, Jane Garnett, David
Levien, Brian Koppelman.
Executive Producer: Andreas Schmid
Starring: Ed Norton, Jessica Biel, Paul
Giamatti
Status: Footage available for viewing in
the office
A magician who incurs the wrath of the
corrupt and murderous Crown Prince
uses his powers of trickery to expose the
Prince and reunite with the love of his
life.
EVEN MONEY
Director: Mark Rydell
Producer: David Greathouse, Bob Yari
Cast: Danny De Vito, Kim Basinger,
Nick Cannon, Forest Whitaker, Ray
Liotta, Jay Mohr, Carla Gugino, Kelsey
Grammer, T im Roth
Status: Post-production. Trailer available
in the office
The tangential lives of three people
converge during a championship college
basketball game.
FIRSTSNOW
Director: Mark Fergus
Producer: Sean and Bryan Furst, Tom
Lassally, Bob Yari, Robyn Meisinger
Cast: Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo
Status: Post-production Trailer available
in the office
When his car breaks down in the middle
of nowhere, a traveling salesman uses
the time to visit a psychic, thereby
changing (or sealing) his fate.
FIND ME GUILTY
Director: Sidney Lumet
Producer: T.J. Mancini, Robert Greenhut,
Bob Yari
Cast: Vin Diesel, Ron Silver, Annabella
Sciorra, Peter Dinklage
Status: In Post Production. Trailer
available in office
Inspired by the true-life trial of mobster
Jackie “Fat Jack” DeNorscio, who
represented himself in a two-year long
RICO trial of several Lucchese family
associates.
THE PAINTED VEIL
Director: John Curan
Producers: Edward Norton, Bob Yari,
Sara Colleton, Jean -Francois Fonlupt
Cast: Edward Norton, Naomi Watts
T
TAURUS
ENTERTAINMENT
Taurus Entertainment, 1149 North
Gower Street, Suite 250, Hollywood, CA
90038 USA. Tel: 323.785.2500. Fax:
Taurusec.com
Company Type: Producer, Distributor)
At AFM: Stanley Dudelson (Chairman of
the Board) James Dudelson (President
CEO) Robert Dudelson (President COO)
Ana Clavell (VPProduction) Scott
Dudelson (Director of New Media) Steve
Krippner (Director of On Line Service)
Office: Loews 722, Tel: 323.578.6924,
Fax: 323 785 2501
CREEPSHOW 3
Horror (110 min)
Language: English
Director: James Dudelson/Ana Clavell
Producer: James Dudelson/ Robert
Dudelson
Cast: A.J Bowen. Kris Allen
Delivery Status: (Post production)
Origin: USA
Based off the Movie by Stephen King
DAY OFTHE DEAD 2:
CONTAGIUM
Horror 100 min
Language: English
Director: James Dudelson/Ana Clavell
Dudelson
Cast: Justin Ipock ,Stephan Wolfert,
Stanley J. Klimeczko
Delivery Status: NOW
Origin: USA
Sequel/Prequel to the Classic horror film
“Day of the Dead”
CHILDREN OFTHE LAKE
(100 min)
Language: English
Director: Ana Clavell
Dudelson/Ana Clavell
Delivery Status:September 2006
Budget: $ 2,500.000.00
Origin: USA
After a small quake in a small lake town,
is overtaken by a group of strange childlike beings.
TELEPOOL GMBH
Telepool GmbH, Sonnenstrasse 21,
Munich, 80331 Germany. Tel:
49.89.558.760. Fax: 49.89.558.76.188,
www.telepool.de, [email protected]
At AFM: Dr. Thomas Weymar (CEO),
Marc Gabizon (Deputy Managing
Director), Phillippe van Doornick
(Deputy Managing Director), Kristina
Dubin (Head of Telepool US Office),
Wolfram Skowronnek (Sales Manager)
Office: Le Merigot Office 238, Tel:
310.395.9700, Fax: 310.395.9200
A CHRISTMOOSE CAROL(ES IST
EIN ELCH ENTSPRUNGEN)
www.es-ist-ein-elch-entsprungen.de
Family (90 minutes)
Director: Ben Verbong
Producer: Ewa Karlström, Andreas
Ulmke-Smeaton
Key Cast: Mario Adorf, Anja Kling,
Raban Bieling
Origin: Germany
What would you do if a talking moose
were to come crashing through your roof
right on Christmas Eve?
BAREFOOT (BARFUSS)
www.barfuss-derfilm.com
Romantic Comedy (115 minutes)
Language: German
Director: Til Schweiger
Co-Production Partners: Buena Vista
International (Germany) Film
Productions, Mr. Brown Entertainment
Producer: Til Schweiger, Tom Zickler
Key Cast: Til Schweiger, Johanna
Wokalek, Nadja Tiller, Michael Mendl,
Steffen Wink, Eric Judor
Origin: Germany
How far do you go when you’re in love?
THE CAVE OFTHE YELLOWDOG
(DIE HÖHLE DES GELBEN
HUNDES)
www.gelberhund-derfilm.de
Director: Mongolian with English
subtitles
Language: Byambasuren Davaa
Co-Production Partners: Hochschule für
Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
Producer: Stephan Schesch
Key Cast: Batchuluun Urjindorj,
Buyandulam Daramdadi Batchuluun,
Nansal Batchuluun
Origin: Germany and Mongolia
The story of the age-old bond between
man and dog, a bond which experiences
a new twist through the eternal cycle of
reincarnation in Mongolia.
OKTOBERFEST
Drama (113 Minutes)
Director: Johannes Brunner
Co-Production Partners: BR, Munich and
ARTE
Producer: Kirsten Hager, Eric Moss
Key Cast: Barbara Rudnik, August
Schmölzer, Peter Lohmeyer
Origin: Germany
Spinning around the axis of the last day
of the renowned Oktoberfest in Munich
like gondolas on a Ferris Wheel, the
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small and big stories track individual
destinies of several people drawn
together.
builds a restaurant on the site of an
ancient Indian burial ground, zombie
chickens attack!
TROMA
TRUST FILM SALES
Troma, The Troma Building - 733 Ninth
Avenue, New York, NY, 10019, USA. Tel:
212.757.4555. Fax: 212.399.9885.
[email protected],
http://international.tromamovies.com
Company Type: distributor, producer
At AFM: Lloyd Kaufman (President)
Lisa Borhoum (International Sales)
Office: 708, Tel: 310.458.6700 x708,
Fax: 310.458.6761
LOLLILOVE
Comedy (60 min.)
Language: English
Director: Jenna Fischer
Producer: Stephen Blackehart
Cast: Jenna Fischer, James Gunn, Peter
Alton
Origin: USA
Mockumentary about a wealthy couple
who set out to help the homeless.one
lollipop at a time.
PARTYOFTHE FAMILY
Horror (82 min.)
Language: English
Director: Gabriel Lloyd
Producer: Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz
Cast: Norman Baert, Cecilia Bergqvist,
Bob Dougherty
Origin: Belgium, USA
A failed bank robber has no idea that the
innocent hostage he is dragging back
inside a decrepit house has an
unquenchable thirst for blood!
POULTRYGEIST
Horror
Language: English
Director: Lloyd Kaufman
Producer: Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz
Cast: Jason Yachanin, Kate Graham,
Allyson Sereboff
Origin: USA
When the American Chicken Bunker, a
military-themed fried-chicken chain,
Trust Film Sales, Filmbyen 12, 2650
Hvidovre, DK. Tel: 45.36868788. Fax:
45.36774448. www.trust-film.dk
Company Type: Sales
At AFM: Annakarin Wolfsberg (CEO),
Tine Klint (Sales Executive), Natja
Noviani Rosner (Sales)
Office: 710, Tel: 45.40915038
STORM
Action/Thriller (107 min)
Language: Swedish
Director: Mårlind / Stein
Producer: Karl Fredrik Ulfung
Cast: Eric Ericsson, Eva Röse, Jonas
Karlsson, Lina Englund
Origin: Swedish
DD is young. Cool. Knows where it’s at.
Or. thought he did.
ONE STEPBIHIND
Drama/Thriller
Language: Swedish
Director: Birger Larsen
Origin: Swedish
ONE STEPBEHIND is based on the
seventh book in Henning Mankell’s serie
about detective Wallander.
U
UGC
INTERNATIONAL
UGC International, 24, avenue Charles
de Gaulle, 92200 Neuilly sur Seine,
France. Tel: 331.46.40.44.00. Fax:
33.1.46.37.73.21
At AFM: Said Ben Said (President), Eva
Diederix (mobile: 33.6.10.45.29.37) (VP
Sales), Christophe Pecot (mobile:
33.6.16.48.35.41) (Sales Executive),
Romain Rojtman (Sales Executive),
Pierre Monfort (Buisness Affairs
PENELOPE ANN MILLERIN PERSONAL EFFECTS – PORCHLIGHT E NTERTAINMENT
Manager)
Office: Loews Hotel, Rooms 766/767,
Tel: 310.434.9488. Fax: 310.434.9489
A SECRET(UN SECRET)
Drama
Director & Screenplay: Claude Miller
Budget: 10M
A child’s life is plagued by the guilt of
his parents who, because of their “guilty”
passion, have never drawn a line under
their past.
THE WITNESSES (LES TÉMOINS)
Drama
Director & Screenplay: André Téchiné
Cast: Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Blanc,
Julie Depardieu, Sami Bouajila
FAMILY HERO (LE HEROS DE LA
FAMILLE)
Melodrama
Language: French
Director: Thierry Klifa
Cast: Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Lanvin,
Catherine Deneuve, Miou-Miou,
Géraldine Pailhas, Michaël Cohen,
Valérie Lemercier, Pascal Elbé
Budget: 12M
In Nice, on the French Riviera, an
inheritance, the jewel of which is The
Blue Parrot, a scintillating cabaret club,
brings together a fragmented family who
would frankly prefer to stay apart.
THE STONE COUNCIL(LE
CONCILE DE PIERRE)
Thriller
Language: French
Director: Guillaume Nicloux
Cast: Monica Bellucci, Catherine
Deneuve, Moritz Bleibtreu, Elsa
Zylberstein
Delivery Status: Shooting Now
Budget: 20M EUR
Haunted by nightmares and
hallucinations since the disappearance
of her adopted son Liu-San, Diane
throws herself with body and soul into
the hunt for her child. But who is LiuSan really? A suspenseful, psychological
thriller that takes us into the remote
Mongolian steppe.
THE CACTUS (LE CACTUS)
Adventure
Language: French
Directors: Gérard Bitton & Michel Munz
Cast: Clovis Cornillac, Pascal Elbé,
Pierre Richard, Alice Taglioni
Budget: 10M EUR
When Sami becomes convinced he has
only three months to live, his best
friend Patrick can expect the worst! A
hilarious adventure about two friends
going on a disastrous “final” journey
from Paris to India.
LOCKED-OUT(ENFERMÉS
DEHORS)
Language: French
Lovestory with a twist
Director: Albert Dupontel
Cast: Albert Dupontel, Claude Perron,
Yolande Moreau
Budget: 7,5M EUR
A Chaplinesque tale of modern times
highlighted by a captivating love story.
ULTRA
DISTRIBUTORS
PVT.LTD
Ultra Distributors Pvt.Ltd, 2-C, Thacker
Industrial Estate, Nr.Sitaram Mills,
N.M.Joshi Marg, Lower Parel (E),
Mumbai-400 011. India. Tel:
91.22.23061554. Fax: +91.22.23061557,
[email protected], www.ultraindia.com
Company Type: Production, Distribution
& CopyRights acquisition
At AFM: Shri Sushilkumar Agrawal
(CEO & Managing Director)
Acquisition Executive: Shri Sushilkumar
Agrawal
Office: Ultra Distributors Pvt.Ltd, 2-C,
Thacker Industrial Estate, Nr.Sitaram
Mills, N.M.Joshi Marg, Lower Parel
(E), Mumbai-400 011 India, Tel:
91.22.23061554. Fax: 91.22.23061557
UNITEL PICTURES
INTERNATIONAL
Unitel Pictures International, 620 Santa
Monica Boulevard, #412, Santa Monica,
CA90401 USA. Tel:310.451.7476. Fax:
310.496.0252. [email protected]
At AFM: Cindy Sison Head
(International Sales), Tito Velasco
(COO), Vincent Nebrida (VP Acquisitions, Production & Marketing)
Office: Le Merigot Suite 150, Tel:
310.395.9700 x 150
PINOYBLONDE
www.pinoyblonde.com
Comedy
Language: Filipino with English
subtitles
Directed by: Peque Gallaga
Produced by: Tony Gloria
Status: Completed / Screening
Andrew and Conrad are cousins, film
school dropouts who have been tasked
by their shady uncle to deliver a package
to a certain hotel.
AWAKEN
Drama
subtitles
Produced/Written/Directed by: Ato M.
Bautista
Cast: Carlo Aquino, Ketchuo Eusebio,
Cholo Barreto
A realistic glimpse of the Filipino youth
in the gut of Manila’s urban gullies.
LAVISALOCA
www.lavisaloca.com
subtitles
Satirical Comedy
Directed by: Mark Meily (Crying
Ladies)
Cast: Robin Padilla, Rufa Mae Quinto,
Johnny Delgado
A 30-year-old driver wants nothing more
in life than to get a US visa. He’ll do
anything to get one. His story takes place
during Holy Week, a time of penitence in
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MAGDALENAAKASANTA
SANTITA
www.santasantita.com
Drama
Subtitles
Directed by: Laurice Guillen (Director,
American Adobo)
Cast: Angelica Panganiban, Jericho
Rosales
A young woman (Malen) continues the
work of her deceased mother as a prayer
woman.
V
VIETNAM MEDIA
CORP.
Vietnam Media Corp., 18th Floor, Prime
Center, 53 Quang Trung, Hanoi,
Vietnam. Tel: 844.943.4133. Fax:
844.943.4135.
www.vietnammediacorp.com
Company Type: Sales agent, producer,
distributor
Attending Executives/Titles (6
maximum): Ngo Bich Hanh (VP),
Nguyen Phan Quang Binh (VP), Nguyen
Bao Mai (Exe), Nguyen Bich Phuong
(Dir)
Acquisition Executive: Ngo Bich Hanh
Office: Rm # 245 A at Le Merigot Hotel,
Tel: 310.395.9700 Ext. 245, Fax:
310.395.9200.
THE WHITE SILK DRESS
Drama (140 min)
Language: Vietnamese with English
subtitles
Director: Luu Huynh
Producer: Phuoc Sang Entertainment
Co-production partners: AVA Production
and Vietnam Studios
Cast: Truong Ngoc Anh, Quoc Khanh
Year of Production:2005, Country of
Origin: Vietnam
Set against a background of the deeprooted traditional culture in which the
characters survive a passionate tangle of
love affairs and emotional dramas.
JACK-FRUITTHORN KISS
Drama (120 min)
Language: Vietnamese
Director: Nguyen Nghiem Dang Tuan
Producer: Ky Dong Production
Co-production partners:
Cast: Duong Yen Ngoc, Ho Khanh Trinh
Origin: Vietnam
From the moment they meet, the two
dueling personalities clash in a clever
and dramatic dance of wit and will.
IN CASE MEN GOTPREGNANT
Comedy (120 min)
Director: Pham Hoang Nam
Producer: Phuoc Sang Entertainment
Cast: Bao Quoc, Cat Phuong, Phuong
Thanh
Origin: Vietnam
A hilarious comedy about a universal
and unsolved issue: equal rights for men
and women. What if men can switch
roles to become pregnant and raise
babies for their wives?
PERMUTATION (WORKING
TITLE)
Comedy (120 min)
Director: Nguyen Quang Dung
Producer: HK Film
Co-production partners: Vietnam
Studios, Phuoc Sang Entertainment
Cast: Luu Phuoc Sang, Nguyen Chanh
Minh Tu, Nguyen Anh Thu
Origin: Vietnam
Adapted from the famous folk story, set
in present day, the film brings about
many dramatic irony situations.
BOUNDLESS FIELD (WORKING
TITLE)
Drama (120 min)
Director: Nguyen Phan Quang Binh
Producer: Vietnam Studios
Origin: Vietnam
The film is a moving story of skill &
spirit people living in beautiful and
romantic villages, along the Dragon
Delta where they live half the year on
water.
W
WATERFRONT
PICTURES INC.
Waterfront Pictures Inc. , 5515 Churchill
Street, Vancouver, Canada V6M 3G8 Tel:
604.738.5188. Fax: 604.738.5189.
www.waterfrontpictures.net
At AFM: David Doerksen (President &
CEO), Sharla Bullard (EVPDistribution)
Office: Loews Hotel Room #764/765,
Tel: 310.458.6700 (Room #764)
BURDEN OFTRUTH
Thriller
Language: English
Production Status: In Development
Producer: David Doerksen
A young woman, grieving over the loss
of her fiancé, is suddenly haunted by
visions of a terrible crime.
SHE DIDN’TCOME HOME
Drama
Language: English
Producer: David Doerksen
Production Status: In Development
A mother is forced to journey the
dangerous inner-city streets in a life and
death struggle to bring home her teenage
daughter who has joined a gang.
CAUGHTIN THE HEADLIGHTS
Action/Thriller
Language: English
Director: Gavin Wilding
Producers: Philip Doerksen; David
Doerksen
Principal Cast: Erika Eleniak (“Dracula
3000”, “Brilliant”, “The Beverly
Hillbillies”, “Baywatch”[TV]; Kim
Coates (“The Island”, “Hostage”,
“Assault on Precinct
13”,”Unstoppable”); Stacy Keach
(“Come Early Morning”, “The Hallow”,
“El Padrino”, “American History X”);
Erin Gray (“Siren”, “Manfast”, “Touched
by a Killer”, “The Last Producer”);
Brigitta Dau (“Bad Boy”, “Horror 101”)
A Federal agent sent out on a simple
mission to retrieve and return a murder
witness gets much more than she
bargained for.
THE WEINSTEIN
COMPANY
The Weinstein Company, 375 Greenwich
Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10013
USA. Tel: 212.941.3800. Fax:
212.941.3949
At AFM: Glen Basner (President of
International), Michael Rothstein (Vice
President, International Sales &
Distribution), Michal Podell (Vice
President, International Business &
Legal Affairs), Jonathan Kier (Director
of International Distribution)
Office: Suite 831, Tel: 310.434.9022.
Fax: 310.434.9020
AWAKE
Thriller
Director: Joby Harold
Producers: Joana Vicente, Jason Kliot,
John Penotti, Fisher Stevens
Cast: Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba,
Terrence Howard
For the young man who has everything money, a new beautiful wife and a
terrific career - what young banking heir
Clay Beresford needs most of all is a
life-saving heart transplant.
GRIND HOUSE
Thriller
Director: Robert Rodriguez and Quentin
Tarantino
Groundbreaking directors Quentin
Tarantino (Kill Bill Volumes I and II)
and Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) join
forces again for the ultimate film
experience: a two-part thriller that will
recall both filmmakers’favorite
exploitation films.
KILLSHOT
Action
Ex-Producers: Quentin Tarantino, P:
Richard N. Gladstein and Lawrence
Bender
Director: John Madden
Cast: Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke,
Thomas Jane, Joseph Gordon Levitt,
Johnny Knoxville, Rosario Dawson
Ultimately, it all comes down to one
wife, one husband, two killers – and one
lethal killshot.
ROGUE
Thriller
Director: Greg McLean
Producers: Greg McLean and David
Lightfoot
Greg McLean’s first acclaimed tour de
force, Wolf Creek, took audiences on a
fact based road trip through the darkest
parts of the Australian Outback-and the
depraved human mind.
SICKO
Documentary
Director: Michael Moore
Producer: Michael Moore
Following the worldwide box office
sensation of Fahrenheit 911 and his Oscar
winning film Bowling for Columbine,
acclaimed filmmaker Michael Moore’s
new documentary sets out to explore the
American healthcare system.
SCHOOLFOR SCOUNDRELS
Comedy
Director: Todd Phillips
Producer: Dan Goldberg and Todd
Phillips
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Heder ,
Jacinda Barrett, Sarah Silverman
The story of a dejected traffic cop who
enrolls in a “confidence building” class
so that he can stop people from walking
all over him and ultimately win the
affection the girl he is in love with.
WONDERPHIL
PRODUCTIONS
Wonderphil Productions, 13920 Old
Harbor Ln. Suite 204, Marina del Rey,
CA90292 USA. Tel: 310.577.3763. Fax:
310.577.3763, WonderphilProds.com
At AFM: Phil Gorn (President), Renee
Rios (Sales & Acquisitions)
Office: Suite 320, Tel: 310.482.1324
THE AMAZING FLOYDINI
Comedy (102 minutes)
Language: english
Director: Brent Sterling Nemetz
Producer: Jim Morgison
Key Cast: Gabriel Barre, Barbara
Christabella, Gilbert
Gottfried, Andrea Barnes, Viola Harris,
Steve Hurwitz
Origin: US
A struggling, middle-aged magicianturned-pickpocket discovers that life is
the greatest trick of all.
TWEEK CITY
Drama (86 minutes)
Language: english
Director: Eric G. Johnson
Producer: Caitlin Maynard, Yule Caise,
Eric Johnson
Key Cast: Giuseppe Andrews, Elizabeth
Wasley, Keith
Brunsmann
Origin: US
A young speed-dealer plunges into a
weeklong downward spiral where, sleepdeprived & hallucinogenic, he must do
battle with his past before he can find
peace in the present.
JOYFUL PARTAKING
Drama (120 minutes)
Director: english
Language: William Moreing
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Moreing
Key Cast: John Procaccino, Elizabeth
Huddle, Jane Jones
Origin: US
Acclaimed at over 25 festivals, Joyful
Partaking is a darkly comic,
Altmanesque look at a day in the life
of a suburban American neighborhood.
SF
Action (80 minutes)
Language: english
Director: Phil Gorn
Producer: Samuel Sheng & Phil Gorn
Key Cast: Terry Wayne, Ava Mendoza,
West Liang,
Feodor Chin, Linda Chuan
Origin: US
Set in San Francisco, SF tells the story
of love and loss as two cultures collide
in a changing section of The City.
ULTIMATE REALITY
Romantic comedy (81 minutes)
Language: english
Director: Phil Gorn
Producer: Phil Gorn & Jacquie
Schmall
Key Cast: Jason Cole, Marceia Fogg,
Steven Bailey
Origin: US
AL has wild fantasies about being a
hero and saving scantily dressed
women in distress. In reality, Al is a
dork who spends way too much time
at his computer.
COMING OF AGE
Drama (83 minutes)
Language: english
Director: Phil Gorn
Producer: Phil Gorn, Michael
Pryfogle, Randi Acton
Key Cast: Ron Guinto, Marceia Fogg,
Kevin Lasit
Origin: US
Stevie is apprehended in a gay-bashing
& sentenced to serve community time
in an AIDS hospice.
SHE SAID
Language: english
Director: Trish Kinney, Andrew
Vander Stoep
Producer: T. Kinney, Andrew & Peter
Vander Stoep
Origin: US
This feature documentary reveals what
women really think & feel about
themselves, their partners, sex, drugs,
diets, & the pressures from society —
what goes on behind their smile.
THE WORKS
INTERNATIONAL
The Works, Portland House, 4 Great
Portland Street, London W1W 8QJ UK.
Tel: 44(0)20.7612.1080. Fax:
44(0)20.7612.1081.
At AFM: Joy Wong (Head of The Works
International), Clare Crean (Sales
Manager), Hannah Rothman (Head of
Marketing)
Office: Loews #721/723J, Tel:
310.458.6700. Fax: 310.458.6761
A COCK AND BULLSTORY
Comedy
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Producers: Andrew Eaton
Cast: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon,
Shirley Henderson, Keeley Hawkes,
Kelly MacDonald, Gillian Anderson,
Stephen Fry, Dylan Moran.
Delivery Status: premiere market screening
Inspired by Laurence Sterne’s classic
novel, “The Life and Opinions of
Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen” the film
takes on a wickedly funny journey into
the impassioned world of filmmaking.
MARIO’S WAR
Drama
Director / Writer: Antonio Capuano
Producer: Domenico Procacci
Cast: Valeria Golina, Marco Grieco,
Andrea Renzi, Anita Caprioli
Delivery Status: premiere market
screening
Two distant realities collide when nine
year old Mario takes up residence with
his new foster parents.
WAH-WAH
Drama
Director / Writer: Richard E. Grant
Producers: Marie- Cast: Ille MentionSchaar, Jeff Abberley, Pierre Kubel.
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, Julie
Walters, Miranda Richardson, Nicholas
Hoult.
A semi- autobiographical “coming of age
at the end of an age” story. Set during
the last gasp of the British Empire in
Swaziland, South East Africa.
THE BESTMAN
Romantic comedy
Directors: Stefan Schwartz
Producers: Neil Peplow
Cast: Stuart Townsend, Any Smart, Seth
Green.
Delivery Status: market screening
Olly meets the girl of his dreams, only
she is his best mate’s bride- to- be. Olly
is torn between moral duty and his love
for Sarah when making his decision.
GUY X
Comedy
Director: Saul Metzstein
Producer: Sam Taylor
Cast: Jason Biggs, Natascha Mcelhone,
Jeremy Northam, Michael Ironside.
A biting comedy in the tradition of
“Catch 22” and “M*A*S*H.” Adapted
from John Greisemer’s novel, “No-one
thinks of Greenland.”
ALLALUCE DELSOL
Drama
Director: Roberto Faenza
Producer: Elda Ferri
Cast: Luca Zingaretti, Alessia Goria,
Corrado Fortuna
“Come into the Light” is the tru story of
Fr. Pino Puglisic’s battle against
corruption and plight to help
underprivileged children in Sicily.
WORLDWIDE FILM
ENTERTAINMENT
Worldwide Film Entertainment, 280 So.
Beverly Drive, Suite 306, Beverly Hills,
CA90212 USA. Tel: 310.641.5360. Fax:
310.641.5693.
[email protected],
http://home.comcast.net/~worldwidentert
ainment/home.html
At AFM: Barbara Mudge, Trevor Wright
Office: 7th Floor Zuma Room, Tel:
310.849.1001
FISTOFJUSTICE
Martial Arts Thriller
Language: English
Director: Matt Routledge
Cast: Matt Routledge, Kevin McMahon,
Chris Carney
A journeyman cop from Mercey, with an
‘American’bent, is drawn into a plot for
vengeance by a crime kingpin.
LIGHTNING BUG
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Robert Hall
Cast: Brett Harrison, Laura Prepon,
Ashley Lawrence
Amongst run-down shanties illuminated
by lightning bugs, two star-crossed
lovers struggle to escape the prejudice
and murderous intensions of a Deep
South town.
MALIBU SPRING BREAK
Teen Comedy
Language: English
Director: Kevin Lewis
Cast: Charity Rahmer, Kristin Novak,
Pilar Lastra
Its fun in the sun in Malibu during the
one week of the year most dedicated
to.partying!
INFESTATION
Action Science Fiction
Language: English
Director: Edward Evers Swindell
Cast: Ross Evison, Susan Riley, Paul
Sutherland, Malcolm Raeburn
In the year 2034, Earth’s inhabitants
have relocated underground due to a
global virus outbreak. A rescue team is
sent to the surface to investigate the
disappearance of a research group where
they find the living dead.
Y
YORK
INTERNATIONAL
INC.
York International Inc., 4565 Sherman
Oaks, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA.
Tel: 818.788.4050. Fax: 818.788.4011.
www.yorkinternationalinc.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: Tanya York (CEO)
Office: RM. 613
MEMORIES OF TOMORROW
Thriller
Director: Amit Tripuraneni
Principal Cast: Richard Thompson,
Rachel Gilchrist, Ray Trickitt
Avictim of amnesia lives as a writer
with his beautiful, but elusive wife.
When a hitman comes to town, he is
forced to face the truth about his past.
BABIES FOR SALE
Drama
Director: Robert Carroll
Principal Cast: Mariam Parris,
Christian Leffler, Danny Cistone,
Christopher Darga
Awoman decides to pay her rent by
selling her babies, much to the dismay
of her roommate.
S H A D O WD R A G O N
Director: Brett Mauser
Principal Cast: Demarcus Young,
Sabrina Foley
The surviving member of a group of
female assassins must learn how to
survive-by apprenticing herself to the
man who killed her friends.
KING OF HEARTS
Romantic Comedy
Director: Melvin James
Principal Cast: Kal Cauthen,
Veronica Welch, Emmett Dennis,
Barbara Frears
Two friends of an engaged couple
learn to take another chance at love,
despite their past heartbreaks.
THE RIDGE
Horror
5 college students vacation in a
secluded cabin, when a mysterious
figure starts hunting them down.
METAL FACE
Horror-Comedy
Director: Eric Stacey
Principal Cast: Kathleen Taylor, Holly
King, Evan McNamara
Agroup of Hollywood hopefuls take
part in a movie that turns out to be a
film of their own murder.
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LATE LISTINGS
BLUE STAR MOVIES
LIMITED
Blue Star Movies Limited, 58 Baldr y
Gardens, London SW16 3DJ UK. Tel:
44(0)20.8765.0333. Fax:
44(0)20.8765.0555
At AFM: Pete Maggi, Pietro Dioni,
Daniel Wuethrich, Fabio Furiani, Irene
Masiello
Office: Le Merigot Hotel, Suite 152, Tel:
310.395.9700. Fax: 310.395.9200
EVILENKO
Thriller (115 min)
Director: David Grieco
Producers: Mario Cotone, Pacific
Pictures
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Marton Csokas
Budget: 9,7 Million US$
Year of Production: 2004, Country: Italy
Language: English, Dubbing: Italian
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.
BRISTOL MEDIA
INTERNATIONAL,
INC.
Bristol Media International, Inc., 200 W.
57th Street, Suite 506, New York, NY
10019 United States. Tel: 212.245.5462.
Fax: 212.245.5464.
www.bristolmedia.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: Tony Manne (President), Larry
Meyers (Consultant)
Office: Loews 627, Tel: 310.434.9398.
Fax: 310.434.9399
OPA!
Romantic Comedy (97’)
Language: English
Director: Udayan Prasad
Producer: Elliott Kastner/George Pappas
Key Cast: Matthew Modine, Richard
Griffiths, Agni Scott, Alki David
Budget: >$14,000,000
Origin: US/UK/Greece
An American archeologist travels to the
Greek island of Patmos in search of
ancient artifacts, but unexpectedly finds
something much more precious.
ROSARIO TIJERAS
Drama/Thriller (110’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Emilio Maillé
Co-Production Partners:
Mexico/Spain/France
Producer: Matthias Ehrenberg/Gustavo
Angel
Key Cast: Flora Martinez, Unax Ugalde,
Manolo Cardona,
Budget: >$6,000,000
Origin: Colombia
Everybody loved her, some had her, but
she gave her heart to only one.
ENTERTAINMENT 7
Entertainment 7, 15030 Ventura Blvd.,
Suite 762, Sherman Oaks, CA91403
USA. Tel: 818.709.9595. Fax:
818.709.9597. ent-sales@ent7
At AFM: Bill Wilder (Sales), Emilio
Ferrari (Consultant)
Office: Suite 524
SHADOWS AND DUST
A psychological thriller based on a book
which deals with a mind of a serial killer
who terrorizes a small mountain resort
and is able to get away after committing
a series of terrible murders.
ESTABLISHED IN 1988
HORIZON
ENTERTAINMENT
Horizon Entertainment, Suite 207, 1040
Hamilton Street, Vancouver BC Canada
V6B 2R9. Tel: 604.632.1707. Fax:
604.632.1711. www.filmhorizon.com
At AFM: Rob Straight (President),
Caroline Stern (Director of Distribution
and Marketing), Shay Wilson
(Distribution Coordinator)
[email protected]
Office: Loews 654
THE GREAT YOKAI WAR
Adventure/Fantasy (124 min)
Language: Japanese
Directed by Takashi Miike
Produced by Fumio Inoue, Shun Simizu
Starring Ryunosuke Kamiki, Hiroyuki
Miyasako, Chiaki Kuriyama and Etsushi
Toyokawa
2005/Screening
Budget $US 10 million
A young boy becomes an unlikely hero
when he is chosen as the “Kirin Rider’
and must lead Japan’s ancient Yokai
spirits in their war against the evil
monsters. Remake of the 1968 film
“Yokai Daisenso.
SAMURAI COMMANDO: MISSION
1549
Action (119 original /93 min
international version)
Language: Japanese
Directed by Masaaki Tezuka
Produced by Naoki Sato, Chiharu Akiba
Starring Yosuke Eguchi, Kyoka Suzuki,
Takeshi Kaga,
Completed 2005/Screening
Budget $US 13 million
Aunit of modern day soldiers are sent
back in time to put history back on
course and prevent present-day Tokyo
from disappearing. But first, they must
defeat the greatest warlord in Japanese
history.
Many Congratulations
for 25 years in
the independent film business.
Over 17 years ago,
you assisted the creation of
“FAIRSET ORGANISATION”
&
your advice has been
cherished ever since.
Thank you
Elspeth
for being the person you are.
May this anniversary be first
of many more to come.
Peter Flower
MK2
MK2, 55 rue traversiere, Paris, 75012
France. Tel: 331.44.67.30.55. Fax:
331.43.07.29.63. www.mk2catalogue.com, [email protected]
At AFM: Nathanaël Karmitz, Laure
Charcossey, Jean-François Deveau,
Mathilde Henrot, Florence Stern
Office: Unifrance Booth - Suite 755, Tel:
310.434.9486. Fax: 310.434.9487
FSO ZI de L’Argile Lot No. 23 460 ave de la Quiera
06370 Mouans Sartoux FRANCE
Tel: (33) 4 92 92 39 39 Fax: (33) 4 92 92 39 30
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Thriller (86 min)
Language: French
Director: Gela Babluani
Co-Production Partners: Quasar pictures,
Solimane productions, MK2
Producer: Les films de la strada
Key Cast: Georges Babluani; Augustin
Legrand, Aurélien Recoing
Budget 1.5M euros
Origin: France
Sébastien has decided to follow the
instructions intended for someone else,
without knowing where they will take
him.
PUSH WORLDWIDE
Push Worldwide, 17941 Ventura Blvd,
Suite 208, Encino, CA91316 USA. Tel:
818.343.8980. Fax: 818.343.8962.
www.pushworldwide.com,
[email protected]
At AFM: Jelena Tadic (Sales and
Acquisitions), Rob Kerchner (Partner),
Pam Eisen (Support and Acquisitions),
Wesley Burrell (Support), Mike Elliott
(Partner)
Office: 219, Tel: 310.458.6700, ext.219
ZZYZX
www.zzyzxmovie.com
Thriller (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Richard Halpern
Producer: Richard Halpern
Key Cast: Kenny Johnson (The Shield),
Robyn Cohen (The Life Aquatic), Ryan
Fox
Origin: USA
Zzyzx may lead to nowhere, but three
travelers find themselves lost in a desert
of greed, deception and murder, as the
legendary road becomes the place where
their destinies collide in a way that is
surreal and everlasting.
SCREEN MEDIA
VENTURES, LLC
Screen Media Ventures, LLC, 757 Third
Avenue, New York, NY 10017 USA. Tel:
212.308.1790. Fax: 212.308.1791.
www.screenmedia.net
At AFM: Joseph Kovacs (President),
David Fannon (VPBusiness & Legal
Affairs), Almira Malyshev (VP,
International Sales), Michael Dwyer
(Director of International Sales), Robert
Baruc (President - Screen Media Films),
Suzanne Blech (VPSales & Marketing Screen Media Films), Christine Beyer,
Director of Acquisitions (Screen Media
Films)
310.434.9072/9073
AUSTIN POWERS:
INTERNATIONAL
MAN OFMYSTERY
Comedy (90 min)
Directed by Jay Roach
Starring: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley
Austin Powers is a hip, secret agent who
is revived from a cryogenic deep freeze
to oppose his archenemy Dr. Evil.
TF1
INTERNATIONAL
TF1 International, Immeuble Central
Park - 9, rue Maurice Mallet , 92130
Issy-les-Moulineaux – France. Tel:
33(0)1.41.41.21.68. Fax:
33(0)1.41.41.21.33.
www.tf1international.fr, [email protected]
At AFM: Mr Patrick Binet, Mrs Sara
May, Mr Nicolas Eschbach, Mrs Anna
Marsh, Miss Adeline Fontant Tessaur,
Mr Dimitri Stéphanides, Mrs Marie
Carmen Rami Sanchez
Office: Loews 826 & 827, Tel:
310.434.9010. Fax: 310.434.9011
CAPTAIN ALATRISTE
Version Spanish
Producers: Estudios Picasso/Origen
PC/La Chauve-Souris
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Eduardo Noriega,
Javier Cámara, Elena Anaya, Enrico Lo
Verso, Ariadna Gil, Victoria Abril
Delivery: 2006
The story takes place in the 17th century
imperial Spain under the reign of Philip
IVa weak and easily manipulated
monarch dominated by a corrupt court.
TRICON FILMS &
TELEVISION
Tricon Films & Television, 372
Richmond Street West, #200, Toronto,
OntarioM5V1X6 Canada.
www.triconfilms.com
At AFM: Steven Murphy (Director,
Sales and Acquisitions)
Office: Loews 764, Tel: 310.458.6700
ext. 764, Cell: 416.727.6030
CHAINSAW KITTY
Horror/Thriller
Language/version: English
When Kitty’s friends start showing up
dead, she must fight back before she
ends up like her friends.
UNIFIED FILM
ORGANIZATION
Unified Film Organization, 3400 W.
Alameda Avenue, Suite 200, Burbank,
CA91505 USA. Tel: 818.846.0465. Fax:
818.846.0256.
At AFM: Jeffery Beach (President), T.J.
Sakasegawa (V.P. Production/
Distribution), Cherise Honey
(Production & Distribution Coordinator)
Office: Loews Hotel, Suite 624,
Tel: 310.458.6700. Fax: 310.458.6761
MAGMA: VOLCANIC DISASTER
Action Adventure
From the frozen tundra of Iceland to the
sweltering jungles of remotest South
America, a series of long-dormant
volcanoes begin to erupt without warning.
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A Quick Reference Guide To The
Foundation Of The Business of Film
Encapsulated Bites of the many subjects from the 80’s through the 90’s on which The Business of Film has built its foundations. Many of the
subjects were firsts for any film trade magazine. We innovated coverage of Violence & The Media: Should We Have A Responsibility?; Violence
and the Media: Has the Responsibility Been Met?; and, in 2000, Violence & The Media: Media Has The Responsibility as, at the last time we
checked when contemplating another look at the subject, not other publication worldwide had ever tackled the subject. To our knowledge no other
publication has yet featured the subject. When bigger trade publications started to throw money and not enough industry expertise to cover a
plethora of subjects, The Business of Film pulled back on its Special Features, and concentrated on in-depth profiles of individuals and companies.
FINANCE & BANKING
The methods and processes of financing independent productions and the
involvement of international banks and financial institutions in the
entertainment sector has changed considerably over the last ten years with
the withdrawal of Credit Lyonnais and other banks from the sector in 1991
a turning point for the independents; although it is with caution, new banks
are entering the business in 1993. The Business’extensive coverage of the
financing opportunities and ranges has ranged from the most established
banks to the most innovative and entrepreneurial funding techniques.
FEDERALFUNDING & TAX INCENTIVES
Twinned with the complex field of financing is that of federal funding and
tax incentives which can often make up a significant part of a film’s
budget; in addition to the roster of national subsidies, the creation of the
European Community MEDIAprogramme in the late 1980s to stimulate
the continent’s audiovisual activities presented new opportunities to
European production and distribution entities.
INTERNATIONALFILM PRODUCTION
Independent cinema, generally considered a more creative and
experimental environment than Hollywood major production, has been
the training ground for many of the world’s most renowned filmmakers
from Roger Corman to Robert Altman. A supporter of the independents
since its inception, The Business has kept readers abreast of specific
productions and filmmakers, national and international production trends.
SPECIALISSUE SEPTEMBER 1992
THE DOCUMENTARY
While many documentary films have received wide acclaims and
theatrical distribution, openings and distributor response have been
slight. A renaissance in the late 1980s points to significant audience
support and demand, and the emergence of the cable networks in the US
and internationally saw the demand in documentary programming surge.
With the first International Documentary Congress in Los Angeles in
October 1992, The Business’special feature on documentaries highlights
the moves towards a new unity within the documentary community and
explores the financial options available to producers worldwide.
THE MAJOR STUDIOS
Takeovers, coups, acquisitions and buyouts have characterised the last
decade in the major studio system, with the various attempts to gain
control of MGM/UA, the acquisition of Universal by Matsushita and
Columbia Pictures by Sony, the arrival of Rupert Murdoch and the
departure of David Puttnam at the centre. The influence of the
independent sector on the studios continues to increase, indicated by the
recent $80 million buyout of Miramax to The Walt Disney Company.
Warner Communications Inc is being drained of large amounts of money
by its loss-making consumer electronics division Atari. What happens to
a studio when its rich conglomerate parent gets into trouble? (Arthur E
Rockwell, financial analyst, Crowell Weedon & Co.)
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DISTRIBUTION
Independent distributors throughout the world have faced increasing
challenges throughout the last decade with fewer high quality films
available on the marketplace, the contraction of the once-prosperous
ancillary video market and the escalation of P & A costs. However, the
annual rise in attendance in most territories aided by the proliferation of
multiplex theatres and sophisticated sound and screen techniques has
expanded distribution opportunities.
FESTIVALS & MARKETS
Depending on the type of film, film festivals can have a significant impact
on a film, drawing the attention of distributors and assisting with
marketing campaigns; although Cannes, Berlin and Venice remain the
world’s premiere festivals, many other specialised events have proved
invaluable for independent producers. The Business has covered a
plethora of festivals on its monthly Diary page in addition to sustaining
indepth coverage and comment of the film markets AFM, Cannes and
MIFED, for which we write analytical market reviews after each event,
and the Cannes-based MIP-TVand MIP-COM.
MARKETING
From carefully targeted, niche-market campaigns for specialised films to
blanket advertising as currently witnessed on the campaigns for
Cliffhanger, Jurassic Park and Last Action Hero, marketing has become
not only one of a film’s most sophisticated attributes, but a central part of
the distribution process, often addressed months before a film starts
production. As marketing costs increase, distributor, especially the
independents, are increasingly looking for efficient and cost-effective
marketing mechanisms, many of which The Business of Film has detailed
and covered.
EXHIBITION
The complexion of exhibition has changed dramatically worldwide in the
last decade with the growing necessity for renovation of theatres,
comfortable seating facilities and impeccable audio and visual facilities to
compete with the allure of home entertainment. The globalization of the
multiplex has revolutionized the exhibition industry, setting new
standards for theatre-owners.
SPECIALISSUE SEPTEMBER 1989
FOCUS ON EXHIBITION
US exhibitors led the multiplex revolution which reinstated the
ascendancy of the theatrical experience over the ascendancy of the
ancillaries. When the US marketplace reached a point where the growth
potential was finite, operators exported their concept and their expertise.
National Amusements, Cineplex Odeon and Warner Brothers have
followed pioneering AMC (now UCI) into the UK where the low average
admissions figures (1.5 visits per person year) suggested a significant
untapped market. With approximately 30 multiplexes expected to be
operating by the end of 1989 and the same number again in the pipeline,
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UK exhibitors are beginning to assess the long term implications of the
revolution. While the majority of theatre operators believe the multiplex
to be the key to the industry’s future, investment has been slow in New
Zealand, South Africa, Italy and Ireland. In Germany exhibitors and
respected industry figures believe that the demographics of the German
market render the multiplex concept redundant.
INTERNATIONALFILM PACKAGING, MARKETING & SALES
Over the last three years, the independent film marketplace has been
prone to the same economic trends as any other multinational industry,
with every trade centre affected. Perhaps singular to the film industry, the
start of the current recession coincided with the end of the video boom
that inflated the marketplace, and somewhat distorted its base in the late
1980s, leaving players without the video outlet on which a large
percentage of their business depended. Companies which had
overdiversified in this period of temporary boom were compelled to
restructure in efforts to survive. The saturation of video promoted a more
sophisticated audience in every territory; badly produced product was
rejected by audiences and independent distributors worldwide became
very selective in their acquisition patterns. The Business has consistently
monitored these changes, shifts and trends in the international field,
covering each of the three annual film markets and keeping a close
dialogue with the companies themselves throughout the year.
SPECIALISSUE AUGUST1989 80 I.S.A.
INTERNATIONALSALES AGENTS COMPENDIUM
As Vestron joined New World, Atlantic, Spectra Diamond and King’s Road
in the ranks of independents unable to sustain their theatrical production
and distribution operations in the increasingly constricted US
Marketplace, The Business of Film canvassed 80 of the world’s sales and
licensing organisations in headings of Background; Product; Finance;
Modus Operandi and Attractions. Also included are details and headshots
of company principals, date of inception and contact details. Included
amongst the listings is The Independent Sales Roster, a chart compiled by
The Business of Film tracking the sales companies by attendance at The
American Film Market.
SPECIALISSUE NOVEMBER 1992 I.F.P.’S COMPENDIUM
INTERNATIONAL FACILITATORS AND PACKAGERS
WORLDWIDE
The compendium update of ISAs 1992 offers a new picture: the chart of
AFM attendance shows the vast number (419) of companies that have
attempted to sell in the marketplace, most of which exited due to the
conflict between their perceptions of the marketplace as opposed to the
realities. The experienced players continue to adapt to the changes and
prosper: we selected ten very different companies to highlight amongst
the listings and in frank, open interviews, the company principals discuss
how they see the marketplace, how they have survived the hazards and
impediments, their financial strategies, relationships with buyers and
source of product supply. They are all at different levels in the
“facilitating”, distribution and selling of product, but each has found a
niche in the marketplace which he/she has exploited.
VIDEO
The video boom of the 1980s had a dramatic impact on the international
film industry, creating a new source of ancillary revenues for both rental
and sellthrough, spawning numerous companies which then diversified,
requiring a seemingly inexhaustible product supply and competing
directly with the theatrical experience. The falloff of video in the late
1980s left numerous companies struggling or bankrupt, and in 1993,
video’s domain is being challenged not only by a renewed interest in
going to theatres but by the emergence of a number of new outlets
including pay television, interactive media and laser disc.
NATIONALBROADCASTERS & BROADCASTING
The complexion and dynamics of national television broadcasting
companies and networks often play a leading role in a country’s
audiovisual profile and the deregulation in European broadcasting over
the last ten years has seen a wealth of new players enter the arena with
media conglomerates including Italy’s Fininvest, France’s Canal +,
Germany’s KirchGruppe and the UK’s Carlton penetrating deep into their
domestic TVmarket as well as foreign markets. The Business has tracked
and analysed the changes over the years from the network takeover flurry
of the mid-1980s in the US to the demise of La Cinq in France and the
new franchise-holdings in the UK, from the emergence of BOP-TV in
South Africa to the RTLPlus/SAT-1 competition in Germany.
ANIMATION
The increase in sophistication of animation techniques over the last ten years
has seen the creation of computer generated images and a roster of costreducing devices; while this has given The Walt Disney Company,
traditionally the leading purveyor of animated features, its highest grossing
pictures in the shape of The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Best and
Aladdin, it has also enabled other major studios and independents to become
further involved in animation production, with quality features including All
Dogs Go to Heaven, Rock-a-Doodle, Tom and Jerry – the Movie and Little
Nemo available to independents on the international marketplace.
THE BUSINESS OFFILM SPECIALFEATURES
Since its inception, The Business of Film has prided itself on its indepth
features exploring and analysing a national film industry, an industry sector
or a particularly current issue and its collation of a wealth of information
into a cohesive feature. While special issues entirely devoted to one topic
are highlighted separately throughout this index, the Special Features
section looks at the many shorter focuses the magazine has produced.
SPECIALISSUE SEPTEMBER 1986 CANADA – A QUESTION
OFIDENTITY
Within the Canadian film industry, internationalism is still only at the
beginning of the learning curve. Several of the distributors and sales
agents The Business spoke with emphasized the progress the industry has
made in terms of the quality of the product, a quality reflected in
prizewinning festival entries such as Le Declin de l’Empire Americain.
That progress now has to be matched by distribution links and marketing
skills in order to put Canadian cinema into the public eye abroad.
The Business presents the opinions of some of the key players in all
aspects of the industr y, from finance and law to directing.
LAW
With the emergence of complex international coproductions, expanding
interaction between studios and independents, the morasse of legal
changes brought about by the European Commission and the maturing of
the Eastern European markets, the entertainment lawyer has assumed
increasing importance in the structuring of film and TVdeals with his/her
role an essential pivot between producers, sales agents, financiers and
banks. As part of our coverage of the overall complexion of the industry,
The Business of Film regularly features interviews with entertainment
lawyers from around the world together with articles written specially for
us by lawyers on more complex issues.
SPECIALISSUE JUNE/JULY 1987
FOCUS ON WOMEN FIRSTTRADE COMPILATION
Today a focus on women might as well read as a focus on the industry,
and indeed the perspectives on the business and its progress, change,
tumult and technology offered in this survey read like a well-researched
report analysing the anachronisms of, and suggesting strategies for, a
business that constantly finds its received wisdom deposed by other’s
invention and innovation. This is clearly not an exhaustive list. Many
famous key players are missing because their production commitments
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had already sent them flying to distant corners before we could ensnare a
contribution, but, nonetheless it represents a thorough coverage of the
available, adapted and seized roles for women in the industry.
An alphabetical compendium with headshots, biographies and selected
comments, The 1987 Focus on Women was compiled to coincide with
The Business of Film’s fifth anniversary.
SPECIALISSUES JUNE/JULY/AUGUST1992
THE INDUSTRY’S TOP250 PARTS 1 & 2
To celebrate the magazine’s tenth anniversary, The Business of Film
compiled an extensive update of the 1987 focus on women, which started
in June 1992, concluding in the official anniversary edition.. In line with
the magazine’s many innovations over the last decade, the feature aims not
to promote separatism or point out sexism but to highlight a sector of the
industry and its achievements, proving that not only are there prominent
women in every area of the business in every territory of the world but that
their outstanding achievements and wealth of experience shouldn’t go
unnoticed in an industry where all too often men tend to be moved into
prime positions as a matter of course. With their informed comments on
every page, the feature serves as a commentary of the international
audiovisual businesses in 1992 in all their many dimensions.
TECHNOLOGY
The impact and advances of technology on the audiovisual sector has
been enormous and continues to reshape the industry: the development of
High Definition television, already in operation in Japan, and the
inevitable penetration of the multimedia and interactive media formats;
the refinement of screen manufacture, the upgrading of cinemas and the
implementation of sophisticated sound systems; the synergies between
theme park technology and film and the appearance of stunning visual
effects in films such as Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Jurassic Park, are
just some of the technological issues clarified and discussed.
SPECIALISSUE JUNE/JULY 1989
A CLEAR DEFINITION OFHIGH DEFINITION
High Definition TV is the digitalization (computerisation) of the
production and transmission process enabling the exact HD image
recorded by a studio microphone to be transmitted, without distortion, to
the home. For the humble consumer this means excellent sound and
picture quality and perhaps at some future date a five-foot display TV
screen hanging on the living room wall.. The Business of Film examines
many aspects of this difficult subject from defining what actually
constitutes High Definition Television to analysing the economic
implications, weighing up the production potential of the new medium
and setting out the terms and the argument of the current standards debate.
CABLE & SATELLITE
One of the most dramatic changes in the audiovisual field in the last
decade has been the worldwide spread of cable and satellite channels
from the further penetration of US pioneers including HBO and
Showtime to the proliferation of European companies Sky Television and
British Satellite Broadcasting, later merged into British Sky Broadcasting,
France’s dynamic Canal + and its Spanish offshoot Canal + Spain, Italy’s
Telepiu, German stations RTLPlus and SAT-1, Benelux and Scandinaviawide Filmnet and pan-European SuperChannel. As cable and
telecommunications companies become further involved in the future
entertainment possibilities of their communications networks, their role in
the industry is one of rising prominence.
SPECIALISSUE FEBRUARY 1988
VIOLENCE & THE MEDIA: SHOULD WE ACCEPT A
RESPONSIBILITY?
The recent spate of seemingly motiveless mass murders in the US, UK and
Australia has been linked by the news media to violent movies. However
unscientific their arguments, they have hotted up the debate on screen
violence and provoked calls for stricter controls. The topicality of the
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issue prompted The Business of Film to put a series of questions on
violence in the movies to more than 60 representatives of the industry and
to canvas the views of psychologists and students.
SPECIALISSUE DECEMBER 1992/JANUARY 1993
VIOLENCE & THE MEDIA IS THE RESPONSIBILITY BEING MET?
Five years on, the question is as prevalent as it was in 1987, prompting a
reiteration of the question. The complexion colouring the issues of
violence has changed considerably since 1988: the video boom and
proliferation of low budget features have lessened their market share and
the general demand for better quality films has resulted in reduced outlets
for exploitative and titillating titles. New areas of concern have arisen,
however, with the evolution of a wave of avant-garde violence and realism
on screen spearheaded by critically acclaimed Henry: Portrait of a Serial
Killer, Reservoir Dogs and Basic Instinct.
FACILITIES AND SERVICE COMPANIES
From freight companies to laboratories to studios to film archives to
subtitlers, The Business of Film’s comprehensive industry coverage has
incorporated service companies not usually highlighted in the trade press.
A recently instituted regular page The Business Series meets the need for
feature information on these companies which fulfill important
requirements in production and distribution.
UNIONS & INDUSTRY BODIES
In addition to the numerous entities which exist to promote and protect
the rights of film, directors, actors, writers and technicians, a roster of
industry or federal organizations work to stimulate new production,
discover new talent, celebrate filmmaking or preserve bodies of work.
SPECIALISSUE MARCH 1986 THE BUSINESS IN AUSTRALIA
In a trip to Australia in November 1985, The Business of Film sought out
the producers and directors, the oldtimers and the newcomers, and asked
them to comment on an industry which has received much high level
attention but little grass roots investigation.
CERTIFICATION & REGULATIONS
National, international and industry regulations are regularly tracked by
The Business of Film in its monthly information pages with indepth
listings and analyses on among others certification worldwide and
“windows” – the period that has to pass after a theatrical release before
the film may be released on the ancillaries.
THE BUSINESS SERIES
In addition to profiling individual stars, filmmakers and executives within
the industry, The Business regularly features low-profile individuals and
companies, all under the heading The Business Series. France March
1988 Renaissance Man Maurice Jarre remains one of the most sought
after screen composers in the world.. In December Jarre receives The
European Film Awards. Lifetime Achievement Award.
THE NEWGENRE BLACK FILMMAKERS IN THE 90S
JUNE/JULY 1991 (UPDATE COMING IN 2006)
The New Genre is the first industry attempt to catalogue the spectrum of
filmmaking talent represented by African Americans in front of and
behind the camera. In talking to over 70 individuals, both long established
and young entrepreneurs, young and established filmmakers, producers
and directors, it became apparent that because of America’s deep-rooted
cultural structure, it is exceedingly difficult to become part of the
mainstream. The overall conclusion from all the information gathered is
that this “new genre” has untapped potential in cultural, economic and
artistic terms, and the first major studio that appropriately funds a black
division, run autonomously within the system and therefore has access to
powerful distribution outlets will not only do itself a great favour in terms
of revenues but a service to the Hollywood community and the peoples of
the world in embracing the ‘richness of a culture”.
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QUOTES
Plus La Change de La Change: Quotes from Articles Circa 1991-1999
All the quotes featured are from different independents’contexts and coverage themes. They demonstrate how
fundamentally little the business has changed and how truly those thoughts still all resonate today. In one or two instances,
perhaps, individuals looking back from where they ‘are’now might be a little chagrinned to see their thoughts in print. We
hasten to assure that no reference is in any way meant to embarrass any individuals, but solely to exemplify the many
different levels of the independent world. The world of the majors is singularly ‘one’and many dream about the ‘Utopia of
One.’ Truly independent passionate filmmakers will never conceive of ‘one’because in that world lies stagnation, and in
the diverse world of the independent there is no room for complacency.
EDITORIAL, MARCH 1994
Although negotiation is key in the buying and selling
process, the overpricing of product is a central point of
contention amongst the buyers, frustrated that the sellers
show ignorance, whether feigned or genuine, of the
realities of their product in relation to the buyers’
markets.
DIRK de LILLE
Another aspect handled unprofessionally by a number of
sales agents are press junkets and cooperation from large
PR or media organizations. There will never be a drive
from the sales company to try to put this kind of thing
together; most of the time, they just give you a fax number
and you do what you like. Very few companies cooperate
on this level: The Summit Group, for example, are
extraordinarily well structured and took care of a
screening in Amsterdam of The House of the Spirits.
LUIS BORDALLO SILVA, MARCH 1994
The trouble with the independent market is that the sales
agents, apart from certain companies, are only interested
in making a sale, whereas the majors know how to handle
the product and follow up with an image. Some
companies in the independent market know how to follow
up after the sale, but the majority of the companies do not
know how to operate. They call themselves independents
but they are not. Several times I have bought pictures,
and when I wanted posters, none existed.
ANTONIO BLANCO, MARCH 1994
Blanco cites one instance when he was asked to pay
$1,600 per print by a sales company. “There is no way we
are going to pay that because obviously they are
overcharging us by about $500 on each print. You have to
settle and buy the prints, say for $1,400 dollars. The
sellers act like they are doing you a favour, but they are
hurting themselves because they are playing on
distribution and percentage. Instead of buying four prints,
you buy two prints, and then the film and everybody
suffers.”
AVI LERNER; NU IMAGE, MARCH 1999
In the studio system with an unlimited supply of money,
nobody counts the cost on a day by day as an independent
must.
ANTONIO ZECCOLA, JANUARY 1994
Now there’s a glut of excellent product and distributors,
if they’ve got the right film and the right marketing
vehicle, can go out with a movie anytime.
TED TURNER, EXTRACTFROM 1993
COMPANYREPOR T, JANUARY 1995
Turner plans to have eight entertainment networks
worldwide of which movies will comprise an average of
60 per cent of programming on six of them… We
determine our destiny by controlling the source and
quality of this programming.
ASHOK AMRITRAJ - SPECIALEFFECTS, ETC.
MARCH 1997
Special effects films like Crash Dive, Steel Sharks, and
Executive Command, will always be our bread and butter.
RICHARD BRAND; CAN GALLO, JANUARY 1994
Although our new sites on the Eastern side of
Johannesburg, on the waterfront in Cape Town and
the new site in Durban all do well with the arts type of
movie that we put through there, we have learned that
you shouldn’t be mixing the normal picture with the
“art” type.
GENE GEORGE LONELY IN AMERICA
LAUNCHED THE ARISTA’S CLASSIC DIVISION,
NOVEMBER 1992
It’s very rare in this business to have producers come
back to the same distribution company to handle their
next film,so from that point of view we have always been
guaranteed a steady flow of product, but because the
industry has changed, it has become more difficult to put
those films together and the flow of that product has
declined a little. We have therefore maneouvred ourselves
into production and in 1991 founded a classics division.
CHIEFLEONARD GEORGE, OCTOBER 1993
Hollywood images are one of the biggest oppressors of
Native peoples in North America, and the negative
imagery stood in our way of success. The only way to
overcome that is to get involved in the industry itself and
learn how to write scripts, edit and shoot.
MICHAELLEWIS; INVESTMENTBANK
INTERMEDIA, MAY 1993
Platforms to Media Metamorphosis
The complexities of interactive systems are rooted in the
speed at which technology is outstripping our ability to
assimilate ongoing utilisation of the systems.
IS THE RESPONSIBILITYBEING MET? 13-15’S
GIVE THEIR VERDICT, DECEMBER 1992
The teenagers generally had little experience of violence
in their day-to-day lives, their answers showing the
different contexts in which they viewed violence, with 90
percent describing their environment as non-violent. One
14 year-old female said her immediate environment was
“not too violent.” Another girl said simply “My friends
are harmless.” A 14 year-old male had a slightly different
outlook: His social group was “not too violent, nothing
more than a broken toe.” One 15 year-old female
described her environment as “not very violent, only the
films I watch.”
XAVIER ROY, OCTOBER 1999
There is no question that ‘the composition’ and
‘component’of market, will change, I think ‘specificity’is
the key if you can understand and anticipate the needs
you can create the product be it a market, or
programming.
CRAIG EMANUEL, MAY 1996
Emanuel: The independent producer continues to have a
key role. At the end of the day, the studios have
demonstrated repeatedly over the last couple of years
that they would rather be in the acquisition business if
possible than in the production business because, who
wants to be responsible for making 100 million dollar
film that doesn’t work.
BARRIE EVERARD; PACER KERRIDGE,
JANUARY 1994
Six or seven years ago distributors couldn’t make
economic sense out of an arthouse film. Now that cinema
facilities have improved so dramatically, exhibitors can
really attract large audiences with arthouse films.
STEVEN HEWITT; SHOWTIME ON
DISTRIBUTION, APRIL1995
Our experience is in production, and I don’t believe we
should start generating business we are not fluent in.
DANNYDIMBORT, MARCH 1993
It is important that everything announced last year, Nu
Image has made. That doesn’t happen very often.
SAM NEILL, SEPTEMBER 1992
Argentine filmmaker Jorge Estrada Mora’s company
JEMPSA(Jorge Estrada Mora’s international production
company) has already completed several international
coventures in Europe and Eastern Europe from its
Buenos Aires base. “Our main purpose”, says Estrada
Mora, “is making films by blending European art with
the narrative savvy of American filmmaking.” La Amiga
was JEMPSA’s first Argentine/German cross-border
venture shot after the demise of the military dictatorship
that rules Argentina for a decade. Filmed in Argentina
and Germany in 1989, the film’s stars Liv Ullman and the
Argentine actress Cipe Lincovsky won Best Actress
awards at San Sebastian. Latest oon JEMPSA’s slate is
Hostage, which premiered on UK television on 15
August. Co-produced with UK-based Portman
Entertainment, the film is a thriller starring Sam Neill
(who recently secured the lead role in Steven Spielberg’s
Jurassic Park.
SAMUELHADIDA, MARCH 1994
Some sellers like Carolco, Summit, August or New Line
know all about the French market, the right time to
release a movie and the problems of booking a picture
with the different exhibitors…Other or new sales
companies that have no theatrical movies, just video,
often don’t know what they’re doing.
ADRIANACHIESA, MARCH 1992
If a producer wants to film for the cinema, it must be
made for the cinema, and the two products must not be
confused. I’m contented if television finances films,
because films are being made and new talent being
showcased.
TO THE NEXT 25 YEARS!
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