BOOK OF PROjECTS AND PRODUCERS - Festival International du

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BOOK OF PROjECTS AND PRODUCERS - Festival International du
Book of projects and producers
EURO CONNECTION 2016
8th EUROPEAN SHORT FILM CO-PRODUCTION FORUM
Tuesday 9th February, 9H30 - 15H30, Hotel Holiday In
Wednesday 10th February, 10H00 - 16H00, Short Film Market
• presented by
• in association with
• with support from
• and in collaboration with
centro nazionale del
cortometraggio
CLERMONT-FERRAND 2016
38th SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
31th SHORT FILM MARKET
CONTENT
PITCHED PROJECTS
Session 1
Katie Jackson
Nima Yousefi
Jupe Louhelainen
Andrus Raudsalu
Session 2
Sébastien Hussenot
Vanya Rainova
Pavel Strnad
João Matos
Session 3
Marion Guth
Pierre-Yves Le Cunff
Pawel Kosun
Maria Møller Christoffersen
Session 4
Louise Bellicaud
Viktor Perdula
Bert Lesaffer
Bianca Oana
The Baby Shower - Joseph Pierce
Elsa & the Night - Jöns Mellgren
The Sounds from the Deep - Joonas Allonen & Antti Laakso
Winter in the Rainforest - Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
59 productions - United-Kingdom
Hob AB - Sweden
Twisted Films - Finland
Nukufilm Studio - Estonia
Carpelle - Tibor Banoczki & Sarolta Szabo
La Luna Productions - France
Wrong Number - Svetoslav StoyanovPortokal - Bulgaria
Vodnik - Jakub KourilNegativ - Czech Republic
Terratreme Filmes - Portugal
From Cradle to Grave - João Vladimiro
(N)Ostalgia: The Pleasure of Ruins - Vicki Thorntona_Bahn - Luxembourg
Mama Bobo - Robin Andelfinger & Ibrahima SeydiReplica - Belgium
Deer Boy - Kasia GondekCentrala - Poland
Alone in La Jonquera - Mathias BroeBeofilm - Denmark
Serial - Wim Vanacker
Completely Normal - Jasmina Eleta
Perfect Darkness - Maaike Neuville
To Not See Flowers Without Colors - Neritan Zinxhiria
In Vivo Films - France
JewelLabs Pictures - Austria
Animal Tank - Belgium
Monogram Film - Romania
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PRODUCERS FOCUS
Producers invited in collaboration with our European correspondents and partner film & media organizations:
Barbara Jukopila
Zsofi Lili Kovacs
Fay Katsari
Gábor Osváth
Leticia Agudo
Francesca Maria Scanu
Mariapia Autorino
Nancy Fornoville
Nuno Amorim
Marko Kumer Murc
Chelo Loureiro
Focus on Rhône-Alpes
U Svom Filmu D.O.O.Croatia
MA.JA.DE. Filmproduktions GMBHGermany
Stefi & Lynx SAGreece
FilmfabriqHungary
Whackala LTDIreland
Cocoon ProductionItaly
Prem1ere S.R.L.Italy
CinéTé FilmproduktieNetherlands
Animais AVPLPortugal
SmehomatSlovenia
Abano ProduciónsSpain
3 producers fromFrance
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EVENT SCHEDULE
ACCESS MAP
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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•2•
THE BABY SHOWER JOSEPH PIERCE
UNITED KINGDOM
May and Christian are expecting their first child. What they’re not expecting are the hordes of guests gathered
in their dark apartment ready to throw them a surprise baby shower. As the shock subsides and makes way for
baby centric conversations and invasive personal questions, it’s unclear if the happy couple are hiding more than their social
insecurities. As May starts to drink more than a woman in her condition should, matters come to a head as the much anticipated
‘baby cake’ is unveiled.
SYNOPSIS
Whether creating stage productions,
museum installations, live music shows, large
scale events, or films, 59 productions’
team generates creative and technical
ideas to help realise ambitious artistic
projects. 59’s creative team covers a
range of disciplines, including animation, filmmaking,
writing, set, sound and lighting design. These diverse skills
are combined with technical expertise and bespoke design
to create exciting and innovative work for audiences of all
kinds.
Joseph Pierce is an award
winning animator and filmmaker.
On graduating from the UK’s
National Film and Television
School in 2008, he was named
one of Screen International’s Stars
of Tomorrow. His shorts Stand Up
(6’, 2008), A Family Portrait (4’,
2009) and The Pub (7’, 2012) have screened worldwide,
winning prizes at Bristol Encounters, LA Film Festival,
Clermont-Ferrand, Melbourne Intl Film Festival and twice
long-listed for the Academy Awards. His work in animation
includes clients at the BBC, The Barbican Centre, Film4 and
Atlantic Records. He has collaborated on various high profile
live events including Dr Atomic at the Met Opera New York,
Danny Boyle’s Olympic Opening Ceremony and The Perfect
American, a new Philip Glass Opera.
DIRECTOR
PRODUCER
Katie Jackson is a first time
producer. After working for several
film festivals, Katie produced and led
workshops and live event screenings
commissioned by festivals such as
Sheffield Doc Fest and Branchage.
In 2012 she worked with
59 productions in a promotional
role on their short films, working closely again with film festival
contacts. In 2013 she began working full time as assistant
to producer Stephen Woolley within his production company
Number 9 Films. Feature film credits in this role include Hyena
(112’, 2014), Carol (118’, 2015), Youth (124’, 2015) and
Their Finest Hour and a Half (2016). On this latest project she
moved across to assist director Lone Scherfig.
COMPANY
Fiction – Sony F55 – 12/15 min
Shooting dates: Summer 2016
Estimated total budget: 40,000 euros
Secured financing: 1,000 euros (2.5%)*
59 Productions, Unit 101, 37 Cremer St, London E28HD, United Kingdom
Katie Jackson / [email protected] / +44 788 601 03 18
*granted by Nisi Masa (winner of the Best Pitch
Award by Film Fund Luxembourg)
•3•
ELSA & THE NIGHT JÖNS MELLGREN
Sigrid och Natten
SWEDEN
Elsa has not slept a wink for thirty years. Early one morning while she’s sitting at the kitchen table, she finds an
unwelcome guest underneath her sofa. The creature turns out to be none other than the Night itself. Elsa tells it of
her life and of the death of her best friend – an elephant named Olaf. The Night accompanies her on a moving journey that tells
the story of an extraordinary friendship. Finally the Night carries her - sleeping - through the town in its arms.
SYNOPSIS
Hob AB started in1989 as Omega
Film and is fully owned by Peter
Krupenin. More than 35 features
have been produced. Hob has its
seat on Fårö, with an office in Stockholm. The trademark
has been to give first time directors a home. Mentorship is
also given to young directors, scriptwriters and producers.
Continuity for everybody involved is very important.
Active as a director, illustrator
and writer, Jöns Mellgren has
an MA in animation from the
Royal College of Art in London,
where he graduated in 2009.
He has directed a number of
short films and commercials. His
latest short - a stop motion film
entitled Pappersvärld (A Paper World, 9’) - premiered at
the Göteborg International Film Festival in 2014. He has
written and illustrated five picture books for children and is
currently working on a sixth.
DIRECTOR
PRODUCER
Nima Yousefi grew up with his
parents working with film, television
and theatre in Iran and Sweden.
While working as a child actor on
a film, one of his earliest memories,
he fell in love with the craft and
art of movie productions. Nima
studied economy and philosophy
at Stockholm University School of Business and graduated
with a Bachelor’s degree. During recent years Nima has
gained broad experience working with both live action and
animation films with some of Sweden’s well known production
companies like Svensk Filmindustri, Sonet film, FLX etc. Since
2010 Nima has been working as a junior producer at the
production company Hob AB. Nima is currently producing
an animated TV-series for children and developing a slate of
films in different stages of development and pre-production.
Nima is attending Eave Puentes in 2015 and 2016.
COMPANY
Animation – Digital – 7 min
Shooting dates: May 2016
Estimated total budget: 168,000 euros
Secured financing: 119,000 euros (71%)*
Hob AB, Box 27083, Filmhuset gärdet, 10251 Stockholm, Sweden
Nima Yousefi / [email protected] / +46 704 811 653
*Included grants from the Swedish Film Institute,
Film I Väst and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee
•4•
THE SOUNDS FROM THE DEEP JOONAS ALLONEN & ANTTI LAAKSO
FINLAND
Inspired by the stories of H.P. Lovecraft, The Sounds from the Deep is a story about an excursion group searching
for oil in the Arctic Ocean. Instead of oil they find something different. The Sounds from the Deep is a voyage
into the unknown.
SYNOPSIS
COMPANY
Twisted Films is a production
company specialized in animation, film
and motion graphics. It was established
in Finland in 2006, driven by passionate
people with backgrounds in motion
pictures, advertising and music.
Antti Laakso (1982) is a Finnish
animation film director. He graduated
from Turku Arts Academy’s animation
department in 2008. He has written,
directed and animated several
award-winning short films and also
works in commercials and as a digital
FX artist. In addition to freelance
jobs, Laakso teaches stop motion in
Turku Arts Academy. Laakso is the
current leader of Turun Anikistit ry, an
animation collective specialized in
independent animation. He is also
part of COOP Paperhat, another
indie animation group. Laakso’s
main interest is to tell stories, whatever the technique. Mainly he
focuses on stop motion because it is grounded to the real world
and its limitations, but also allows a mix of fantastical elements
and effects. In many of his films, the real world collides with
strange and surprising events. Mystery, horror and weirdness are
his favourite themes.
Joonas Allonen is a Finnish screenwriter-director born in
1981. He graduated from Turku Arts Academy in 2006 and
has since been working as a writer and director in TV and theatre
as well as commercials and short films. Allonen is fascinated by
sosio-politics and motivations that drive individuals, as well as
mythologies and he often combines these interests in his stories.
As a filmmaker he often tells stories of underdogs trying to laugh
through their tears. Allonen is best known for his style combining
dark comedy, heightened realism and expressive visuals.
DIRECTORS
PRODUCER
Jupe Louhelainen (born in
1977) has 15 years’ experience
in the film industry. Jupe began his
career in crew work. Several TVCs
and motion picture productions
have led to producer roles. Jupe
is a founding member of Twisted
Films and has been working
as an in-house director/producer since 2006. Over the
years Jupe has produced a sizeable number of film and
animation-productions. With a strong technical background
and knowledge of the whole production workflow, Jupe has
become a very talented producer with good know-how. He is at
the leading edge in creative work with strong visualizations.
As a producer he is driven by strong story-lines with clear
points of view. Basic love stories are not for him.
Fiction – Digital – 20 min
Shooting dates: Spring 2016 - Estimated total budget: 130,000 euros
Secured financing: 3200 euros (2.5%)*
Twisted Films Oy, Itäinen Rantakatu 64b, 20810 Turku, Finland Jupe Louhelainen / [email protected]
/ +358 405 090 559
*Granted by the Finnish Film Foundation
•5•
WINTER IN THE RAINFOREST ANU-LAURA TUTTELBERG
Talv Vihmametsas
ESTONIA
In a hidden corner of the world, there is a place where all impossible dreams come true. In a rainforest amidst
lush nature, fragile porcelain animals can be found. Strange white stony creatures are born in wild river streams,
birds with feet like human fingers hunt for flying fish, vicious spiders catch miniature dancers in their traps... This is a surreal world
inhabited by creatures never seen before. Time here passes in a strange way moving in an unexpected paste. As the film is shot
in nature, the changes of light create a strange shift between the passing of time and the movement of the characters. Tropical
nature, ceramic creatures, Estonian music and sounds of northern nature form a surreal world with the bizarre sensation of seeing
something unknown but familiar at the same time.
SYNOPSIS
Nukufilm is the oldest and largest stop
motion studio in Northern Europe established
in 1957 and located in Tallinn, Estonia.
Nukufilm has world-class facilities for stop
motion animation matched with a high
energy team of more than 30 professionals.
Nukufilm offers creative and production
services to customers wanting to shoot stop motion in a studio
environment with a highly qualified award-winning crew or in
need of fresh creative ideas from award-winning filmmakers. Anu-Laura Tuttelberg graduated
with an MA degree in animation at
Estonian Academy of Arts in 2013.
She made her first animation Fly
Mill (7’, 2011), a puppet film as
her graduation film. Fly Mill has
screened in numerous festivals
around the world and won more than
20 prizes. Her first film after graduation, a short animated film
On the Other Side of the Woods (10’) premiered in June 2014
at Annecy International Animation Festival and has won several
international prizes including three First Prizes. She works as a
set designer for stop motion animations. Currently she is working
on puppet design for a feature stop motion Morten on the Ship
of Fools by Kaspar Jancis and on a set design for a short stop
motion film Empty Space by Ülo Pikkov in Nukufilm studio.
DIRECTOR
PRODUCER
Andrus Raudsalu has been on
the front-line of the media industry
in the Baltic States for more than a
decade, as co-founder and CEO of
the largest Internet media company
in the region - Delfi Group. In 2011
Andrus joined Nukufilm as CEO
and producer. He has produced
13 animated shorts (including Annecy 2015 Jury Award
winning Isand – 18’, directed by Riho Unt) and one animated
feature - Lisa Limone and Maroc Orange (72’, 2013, directed
by Mait Laas). Second feature - Morten on the Ship of Fools
(directed by Kaspar Jancis) is currently in production and will
be released in 2017. Andrus is chairman of the Estonian
National Film Producers Association and member of the
board of the Estonian Film Cluster and Estonian Chamber
of Culture. He teaches animation production in the Estonian
Academy of Arts.
COMPANY
Animation – Digital – 5 min
Shooting dates: July – November 2016
Estimated total budget: 50,000 euros
Secured financing: 4,000 euros (8%)*
Nukufilm Studio, Niine 11, 10414 Tallinn, Estonia
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg / [email protected] /
+372 516 46 35
* granted by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
Winner of the Best Project at the Baltic Pitching Forum (October 2015).
•6•
CARPELLE TIBOR BANOCZKI & SAROLTA SZABO
FRANCE
Carpelle is a surreal animated love story of an extraordinary woman and her peculiar life. Emma has a strange
belief, in which she sees her body and life not as a human but as a plant. Everyday life and wonders intertwine
so naturally that it makes it impossible to separate them. This helps her to survive the historical storms of the 20th century.
SYNOPSIS
Born in Hungary, Tibor Banoczki
and Sarolta Szabo live and
work in Budapest. Founders of the
Art group “Domestic Infelicity” they
have worked together on several
photography and animation
projects. Their last two shorts films
Les conquérants (12’, 2012) and
Leftover (14’, 2014) achieved great success in festivals
(Clermont-Ferrand - ACSE’s award, press award in 2013,
Annecy, Sundance ...) and a pre-selection for the Césars for
both films.
DIRECTORS
PRODUCER
Sébastien Hussenot has
produced more than 66 short
films, 13 documentaries, 2 feature
length films, selected for multiple
international film festivals (Cannes,
Clermont-Ferrand, Toronto, Abu
Dhabi, Odense, Cork, Tampere,
Vienne, Larissa, Koln, Sao Palo,
Flikerfest etc...), an Oscar nomination in 2009, and multiple
awards (Clermont-Ferrand, Abu Dhabi, Toronto, ...).
La Luna Productions is a film
production company founded in
1994 by Sébastien Hussenot.
Fiction, documentaries and more
recently animations are all part of the
range found in our catalogue. They
are driven by the desire to reveal and support filmmakers,
talent and build cinematography over time.
COMPANY
Animation – HD (2D/3D) – 15 min
Shooting dates: Summer 2016
Estimated total budget: 180,000 euros
Secured financing: 8,000 euros (5%)*
La Luna Productions, 12 rue d’Enghien, 75010 Paris, France
Sébastien Hussenot / [email protected] /+33 608 455 642
*Granted by the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée –
Fonds d’aide à l’innovation audiovisuelle et aide à la réécriture.
•7•
WRONG NUMBER SVETOSLAV STOYANOV
BULGARIA
Dima’s father has died alone in a Berlin hospital. This is the first time Dima has heard from him in more than 35
years. Trapped in a web of bureaucracy and destitute, Dima decides to drive the corpse home in the rooftop trunk
of his car. On the road back to Bulgaria, we witness an emotional journey of a father who has outlived regret and a son still in
need of revenge, driving down memory lane and through border control. The journey comes to a sudden end, when Dima faces
an unexpected dilemma, and his choice is both surprising and inevitable.
SYNOPSIS
Portokal is a creative lab that brings
together talented young professionals
working in the areas of filmmaking,
photography and video, supporting
them in the development, production and distribution of their
author-driven work since 2000. They hold a deep commitment
to social change through art, and have worked on a variety
of social justice projects in both film and photography with the
support of Soros Foundation, Open Society Institute, CARE
International, Workshop for Civic Initiatives Foundation, etc.
Svetoslav Stoyanov is a
director and DOP whose awardwinning feature film debut, The
Last Black Sea Pirates (72’, 2013)
has competed in some of the
world’s best documentary festivals,
including Visions du Reel, HotDocs
and DOK Leipzig. His live action/
animation short, Angel (2002), won The Golden Wheel
for best animated and TV programme at the Roma Festival
for TV and Radio Programs in Skopje and for Best Film
screened in the Week of Roma Cinema in Berlin. His short
documentaries, experimental films and audio-visual projects
have been exhibited across Europe and selected within the
official competitions of festivals in Madrid, Moscow, Dublin,
Ljubljana and the Venice Biennial.
DIRECTOR
PRODUCER
Vanya Rainova is an awardwinning writer and producer
who produced Pride (30’, 2013),
which opened in the Locarno Film
Festival and went on to win the
Grand Prix at the Clermont-Ferrand
International Short Film Festival and
a nomination for the European Film
Awards, among other recognitions. Vanya also co-authored
The Last Black Sea Pirates (72’, 2013), winner of the Golden
Apricot for Best Documentary, the FIPRECI Award from the
Krakow Film Festival and several other important awards
and nominations. Both films have a total of 7 Bulgarian
Film Academy nominations and 4 wins. Before walking
into the world of filmmaking, Vanya was managing editor
of Bulgaria’s only English-language newspaper, The Sofia
Echo, and Director of Marketing and Communications for
the Children’s Hospital & Research Center in Oakland,
California.
COMPANY
Fiction – HD – 24 min
Shooting dates: June 2016
Estimated total budget: 46,780 euros
Secured financing: 27,000 euros (58%)*
Portokal, 11 Yantra St., 1127 Sofia, Bulgaria
Vanya Rainova / [email protected] /
+359 887 916 692
*Including 25,565 euros granted by the Bulgarian National Film Center
•8•
VODNIK JAKUB KOURIL
CZECH REPUBLIC
Magdalene, a young woman, arrives with her eight year old son Krystof at her mother’s place, a ruined house in
a remote area near a dam. It is the meeting of two completely different worlds. Magdalene, a dentist, represents
a sterile urban life but her mother is like a mad fairy from the woods. When the mother discovers that her daughter has not come
for a visit but just to pack the rest of her things and that she is moving out of her parents’ house and not planning to come back
ever, the trouble begins. Although Magdalene finds the whole house and her mother unsympathetic, something strongly attracts
her to it. And not just her, especially her son. He is charmed by the old fishing rods, fish trophies and above all the weird fauna
that permeate the entire house. Why is it so difficult to leave? And why does the mother behave as if the father is still alive?
SYNOPSIS
Founded in 1995, Negativ focuses
on producing high-quality arthouse
films. Negativ has four partners –
Pavel Strnad, Petr Oukropec, Katerina
Cerna and Milan Kuchynka - producing
fiction, documentary and animation films with top Czech
directors (e.g. Bohdan Slama, Helena Trestikova, Michaela
Pavlatova). Negativ’s films have received 34 Czech
Academy Awards, including three for the Best Film and one
for the Best Documentary, and have taken home more than
50 international awards. The latest production, documentary
film Mallory (101’, 2015) by Helena Trestikova, was
awarded the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary IFF for the Best
Documentary.
COMPANY
Jakub Kouril is film director,
screenwriter and illustrator. He
graduated with a Master’s degree
from FAMY in Prague under the
leadership of dramaturgist Jiri
Kubicek at the Department of
Animation. His student films M. O.
(7‘, 2012) and The Little Cousteau
(9‘, 2014) achieved great success at home and abroad.
The film M.O. was a finalist in the 2013 Student Academy
Award. Among other prizes Jakub is the double holder of
the Magnesia Award for student film, which is granted within
the Czech Lions Award scheme. Jakub is currently working
on several projects, from music videos to the illustration of
books, and along with screenwriter Kristina Nedvedova, is
preparing his debut live action short film The Watersprite.
DIRECTOR
PRODUCER
Pavel Strnad graduated from
Prague’s FAMU where he studied
film production. He is a co-founder
of Negativ, one of the leading
production companies in the Czech
Republic. He has produced more
than 30 fiction, documentary and
animation films, among others Year
of the Devil (88’), awarded by the Crystal Globe at the
Karvoly Vary IFF in 2002, Something Like Happiness (102’)
which received the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian IFF
in 2005 and two winners of the European Film Academy
Award – René (83’) for the Best Documentary in 2008 and
Alois Nebel (84’) for the Best Animation Feature in 2012.
Fiction/Animation – Alexa – 15 min
Shooting dates: June 2016
Estimated total budget: 85,000 euros
Secured financing: 45,000 euros (53%)*
Negativ s.r.o., Ostrovni 30/126, 110 00 Praha 1,
Czech Republic
Pavel Strnad / [email protected] / +420 602 308 130
*Including 45,000 euros granted by the State Fund of Cinematography
•9•
FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE JOAO VLADIMIRO
PORTUGAL
A child is born in a village. It’s the only child around, all the village residents being over 60 years old (excluding
the parents, who are close to 40). He’s a bundle of joy and everyone goes to see the boy and dote on him. His
mother ends up dying after a while and the father soon follows suit. He is taken care of by the whole village, finding in each
man and woman a father and a mother or, to be more exact, a grandfather and a grandmother. As he grows up, he becomes
a vital element in the village’s day-to-day life, helping others with the things that they can’t do.
SYNOPSIS
Terratreme Filmes is a film production
unit composed of six directors and
producers searching for new production
models that allow them greater freedom
and autonomy in their creative processes. The goal is to
combine research, education and film creation within a logic
of production based on director autonomy. In its ten years’
experience, Terratreme has consolidated its expertise in
film production and distribution. Currently, it seeks to gain a
foothold internationally, by participating in numerous ongoing
co-productions and several international film festivals. The
films produced by Terratreme have been shown at many
festivals around the world, such as Cannes, Berlin, Locarno,
Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Vienna, IndieLisboa, Vila do
Conde, Marseille, Nyon, etc.
COMPANY
João Vladimiro holds a B.A.
in Communication Design from
the University of Porto’s Faculty of
Fine Arts. In 2006, he took the
documentary filmmaking course
held by the Ateliers Varan at the
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
During that time, he directed
Foot on the Ground (20’), for which he received the Best
Portuguese Short Film Director Award at the third IndieLisboa.
In 2007 he directed the documentary Garden (70’), which
premiered at Doclisboa in 2008 and was shown at
international film festivals, like FID Marseille and Mar de
Plata (in Argentina). In 2013, he finished his second feature
film, Lacrau (99’), which premiered at the 10th IndieLisboa
and won him the Best Portuguese Feature Film Award and
the Tree of Life Award. The film was screened at numerous
renowned festivals, like FID Marseille, Rio de Janeiro,
Vienalle, Sevilla, among others. In 2014, at the request of
Madalena Victorino, he directed a documentary about the
creation of her dance performance The Wool and the Snow
(90’), which premiered at Doclisboa that same year.
DIRECTOR
PRODUCER
João Matos has worked
as a producer since 2002,
collaborating with directors such as
Susana Nobre, João Vladimiro or
Leonor Noivo, and companies like
Artistas Unidos and Alfama Filmes.
He is currently based at Terratreme
Filmes where he produced Pedro
Pinho’s debut feature The End of the World (62’, 2013) and
João Vladimiro’s docufiction Lacrau (99’, 2013). João is
now in preproduction the feature film The Factory, scheduled
for premiere in 2015, and short films by João Rosas, Susana
Nobre or Leonor Noivo (in selection at Euro Connection
2014), as well as documentaries by Tiago Hespanha,
Cláudia Varejão or Miguel Seabra Lopes.
Fiction – 16mm – 25 min
Shooting dates: Summer 2016
Estimated total budget: 65,000 euros
Secured financing: 50,000 euros (77%)*
Terratreme Filmes, Avenida Almirante Reis n°56 3 Direito,
1150-019 Lisboa, Portugal
João Matos / [email protected] / +351 963 012 666
*Including 45,000 euros granted by ICA Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual
• 10 •
(N)OSTALGIA: THE PLEASURE OF RUINS VICKI THORNTON
LUXEMBOURG
(N)OSTALGIA: The Pleasure of Ruins is an experimental film set in Pyramiden, an abandoned Russian mining town
in the Norwegian Arctic. Part documentary, part fiction, the film takes Hubert Aquin’s cine-novel Neige Noire
(1974) as a starting point to explore the effect that cinematic memory has on personal and collective identity and how tourism
is a type of cinematic fiction in the Anthropocene era. Using the town as a ready-made film set and working with actors and
real characters, the film combines re-enactments of scenes from Soviet cinema with the reality of Pyramiden - past and present.
SYNOPSIS
a_BAHN is a documentary and fiction
film production company specialized in
new storytellings and virtual reality. The
company thrives at the intersection of
two industries: the creative one, where cinema and storytelling
are our domains of predilection, and the new technologies
one, always moving forward. Pioneering in Luxembourg and
France in new storytellings for more than 4 years now, they
create and produce experiences based on live, animation and
virtual images and sounds. Their projects are supported by
private and institutional funds, as per Filmfund Luxembourg,
ARTE, France Télévision, WallImage, le CNC, Pictavono and
have been selected in international festivals and awarded
(Gold FIPA 2015 in Biarritz, selection at Europa Prize in
Berlin...).They create and produce with dedicated teams,
locally and internationally, aiming to share and integrate. They
enjoy great collaborations with Jean-Michel Jarre, Mathieu
Kassovitz, Vincent Ravalec and talented creatives.
COMPANY
Vicki Thornton is a Londonbased artist filmmaker. Her short
film, The Remembered Film (24’,
2013), was recently nominated
for the Celeste Prize for Film and
Video, Milan (upcoming) and her
latest project, (N)Ostalgia: The
Pleasure of Ruins, was selected as
one of the UK’s most promising artists’ films at this year’s
Experimenta Production Pitch at the 59th BFI London Film
Festival. She was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Award for Visual Artists (2015 and 2008), participated in
the VISIO - European Workshop on Artists’ Cinema (2012)
and was awarded the Painter Stainers’ Company Prize for
Photography (2011). Her films have been shown in festivals
including VideoEx, Zurich; Aesthetica Short Film Festival,
York; Latitude Festival, Suffolk; Aurora, Norwich and Conflux
Festival, New York. She graduated from the Royal College
of Art, London in 2011.
DIRECTOR
PRODUCER
Marion Guth’s first professional
steps after finishing her Master’s
degree were business development
and project management before
she quickly found her real passion:
moving image, virtual and
interactive experiences. This led to
her co-founding her own production
company, a_BAHN four years ago, with the mission to
create unique experiences based on transmedia storytelling
and virtual reality, applied to documentary and fiction film.
She is currently co-producing and co-writing with a USFrench team The Uncondemned, a project based on wartime
sexual violence and how it is instrumentalised by a chain
of command to achieve political objectives. Marion’s main
passion? Visual and narrative challenges with an international
angle (Soundhunters, Génération Quoi?, Tourist, Farr).
Fiction/Creative Documentary
16mm/HD – 30/40 min
Shooting dates: September 2016
Estimated total budget: 67,050 euros
Secured financing: 10,000 euros (15%)*
a_BAHN, 115A rue Emile Mark, L-4620 Differdange,
Luxembourg
Marion Guth / [email protected] / +352 661 163 820
*Granted by the FilmFund Luxembourg
• 11 •
MAMA BOBO ROBIN ANDELFINGER & IBRAHIMA SEYDI
BELGIUM
One day an old lady, known to everybody as Mama Bobo, falls seriously ill when she discovers that her bus stop
is not there anymore. The locals pull together to find a solution.
PRODUCER
Pierre-Yves Le Cunff has
worked in film for over twenty
years as a location manager, a
production manager and since
2010 as a producer. After leaving
Need Production where he was
associate producer, he went on to
create his own company in 2014 Manomètre films. He is a member of the Replica collective.
Replica was created in 2012 by four
young and aspiring directors who were
at film school together (CIAD). In 2013
and 2014 Replica obtained public
funding (Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelle)
for its three first short films: Vertiges
(30’, 2014), written and directed by Arnaud Dufeys, Rapaces
(16’, 2015), written and directed by Aude Verbiguié and
finally Mama Bobo, written by Robin Andelfinger and
Ibrahima Seydi. Replica has also obtained funding from the
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, of Wallonie-Image-Production
and of the French CNC (fond d’aide à l’innovation) for the
project Traces d’un village, un documentaire, written and
directed by Nicolas Graux.
COMPANY
Robin Andelfinger lives in
Brussels. After studying at IAD
(Instituts des Arts de Diffusions) in
Louvain-La-Neuve he went on to
study at l’Atelier Ludwisgsburg-Paris
(La Fémis) where he produced his
first short film for ARTE and the
SWR. Once back in Brussels he
directed his first short film outside
of film school, Laura (15’, 2015),
which was selected at Le Court
En Dit Long in Paris and obtained
a prize at the Brussels Short Film
Festival.
Ibrahima Seydi was born in
1981 in Senegal where he lived in a small village in the
National Park of Niokolo-Koba before his parents moved
to France. He directed his first film Juste Fait le Pas when he
was a teenager. The film won a prize at the Festival des
Collèges de Saint Ouen. He then went on to study at film
school (Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français).
DIRECTORS
SYNOPSIS
Fiction – HD – 20 min
Shooting dates: Summer 2016
Estimated total budget: 101,790 euros
Secured financing: 36,500 euros (36%)*
Replica Films, 2 rue Van Aa, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
Pierre-Yves Le Cunff / [email protected] / +32 476 926 484
*Including a grant from Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
• 12 •
DEER BOY KASIA GONDEK
POLAND
A little boy with deer antlers is born to a hunter’s family. How would you teach such a creature to be a real man
like his father?
PRODUCER
Pawel Kosun is a journalist,
film producer and member of the
film production company Centrala.
As a student he worked for TVP
3 Wroclaw and RBB TV in Berlin
and wrote for Machina Magazine
and the German newspaper
Schwaebisches Tagblatt. He is coauthor of a book on the work of Louis Bunuel. After graduating
from Spanish Philology at the University of Wroclaw, he began
working as a film producer and has worked on productions
of both documentaries and feature films (for example Czech
Oscar Entry In the Shadow (106’, 2012) by David Ondricek).
He graduated from Andrzej Wajda’s Master’s School with a
major in creative production, and is a winner of the MFG Film
Foerderung Baden Wuertemberg scholarship. He attended
Ludwigsburg-Paris Atelier and graduated from La Femis in France
and NFTS in London with a specialisation in film production. He
attended the Emerging Producer’s Program 2015 at Jihlava Film
Festival. Founder of the Wroclaw Film Foundation.
Centrala Distribution has operated
in the film industry since 2004. The team
consists of people from diverse working
backgrounds: Jacek Nagłowski,
Agnieszka Janowska, Paweł Kosu´n.
They treat every project individually,
aiming to carry out production with focus on the best possible
artistic effect. They actively participate in international
workshops, training and pitchings, endeavouring to acquire
international funding and wide distribution opportunities for
the films they make. They produce documentaries, feature
films and animations. They also render services in the field of
film production organisation.
Kasia Gondek graduated in
film and documentary studies from
Wajda School and is the author
of films and literary forms. She has
written and published two novels
(Horror Vacui and Otolith), one
poetry book (Plexus) and a couple
of short stories. Her latest film works
are The Figure (9’, 2015), a poetic comedy about a gigantic
plastic pope and Hosanna (9’, 2013), a narrative that lightly
deconstructs some religious myths. She is currently working
on a short narrative, a Polish/Belgium coproduction called
Deer Boy and a documentary about pale memories. Her
films have been shown and sometimes awarded at festivals
all over the world. She is a winner of the Warto Award in
the film category (Gazeta Wyborcza 2014) and has been
nominated for the Barańczak literary scholarship award.
DIRECTOR
SYNOPSIS
COMPANY
Fiction – HD – 15 min
Shooting dates: Spring 2016
Estimated total budget: 91,400 euros
Secured financing: 39,770 euros (43%)*
Centrala Film, ul. Sienkieiwcza 52/37, 90-058 Lodz, Poland
Pawel Kosun / [email protected] /+48 664 084 949
*Including 18,830 euros granted by the Regional Film Fund Poznan
• 13 •
ALONE IN LA JONQUERA MATHIAS BROE
Alone in La Jonquera
DENMARK
Young Mads and his father Michael stop for the night in the Spanish border town La Jonquera. In the evening
Mads is denied access to a disco pub, but Michael still chooses to go inside and leaves Mads alone. On his
way back to the hotel Mads seeks out a Spanish prostitute. When Mads returns to the hotel he is confronted with a big bill and
Michael lying drunk on a deckchair by the pool. The next morning Michael is stressed about time but Mads does not want to
be controlled any longer.
SYNOPSIS
Beofilm is a combined production
and postproduction facility house. The
focus is on feature films, international
co-productions and talent development.
Beofilm strives to work with the best
people, who share the same passion for making creative,
entertaining and innovative films. The core values are
reliability, honesty, openness, professionalism and a great
willingness to take risks. The company’s first feature film,
Teddy Bear (92’, 2012) was awarded at Sundance in
2012.
COMPANY
Mathias Broe was born in
Funen and lives in Copenhagen.
Mathias has a Bachelor’s degree
in Film- and Media studies at the
University of Copenhagen and is
a director at Super16 - Denmark’s
most renowned network program
for young filmmakers. In 2010
Mathias was elected as Funens Greatest Filmtalent. He
produced the personal documentary To Dad in 2011, which
won the Young Docs and Dr-Mama Prize at the Oregon Film
festival. Later he directed the short Being Anna in 2012 that
won the Industry Prize. In 2014 he wrote and directed A
Young Man’s Dance, which tells the story of a young man
seeking attention from his male dancing teacher. The film
recently screened at MIX Copenhagen and DGLFF in Durban,
South Africa, where the film won the prize Best Short.
DIRECTOR
PRODUCER
Maria Møller Christoffersen
is a producer at the renowned
independent film collective Super16
as well as within the company
Beofilm where she is currently
involved in the development of
several projects. She holds a
Master’s degree from Copenhagen
University in Film and Media Studies and is specialized
in film economy. She has significant experience as a line
producer of low budget productions both on international
feature co productions and a Danish TV sketch show. She
has produced an international short film for Tisch School of
NYU and a Danish children’s miniseries Lau & Laudrup. Both
are currently in postproduction.
Fiction – Digital, Red Epic – 22 min
Shooting dates: June 2016
Estimated total budget: 30,000 euros
Secured financing: 10,680 euros (36%)*
Beofilm, Wildersgade 32, 1408 København K, Denmark
Maria Møller Christoffersen / [email protected] / +45 289 015 06
*Including 2,680 euros granted by the Danish Film Institute Filmvoerkstedet
• 14 •
SERIAL WIM VANACKER
FRANCE
Welcome to this week’s episode of The Dating Game, the show that alters lives. Meet Henry, flâneur by day,
serial killer by night. He’s here to educate us in the art of amour and to confront us with society’s rotten and
superficial ways. Welcome if you will. Sensational Henry who’ll take us through his own perverted fantasies and ritualistic acts.
Feel free to join his personal quest to find structure and salvation in this consumerist maze of seduction and destruction with me,
the Host, as his guide and schizophrenic counterpart.
SYNOPSIS
Based in Paris and set up in 2015 by
Louise Bellicaud, In Vivo Films aims
to support directors and writers from
various backgrounds and countries, for
short and feature films. In Vivo Films
develops projects with a strong cultural
identity based on local topics with the potential to reach an
international audience. In Vivo Films is currently developing a
feature film Pagan Magic by Fyzal Boulifa (Locarno Open Doors
Grant 2015, Cinemed - Bourse d’aide au développement)
and several short films: Serial by Wim Vanacker, Chiennes by
Meyrem Benmbarek (France-Morocco), I woke up one morning
in October by Jow Zhi Wei (France-Mongolia-Singapore).
Wim Vanacker was born in
Belgium. After studying psychology
and film studies in Gent, he moved
to Dublin to work as a psychologist.
During this period he was employed
as a film critic and programmer for
several film festivals, after which he
began studying again at EICAR,
the International Film School of Paris where he made two
shorts - Endgame (12’, 2011), which was selected for 24
festivals and won 5 awards and The Naked leading the Blind
(16’ 2012), which has been so far selected for 60 festivals
while winning 20 awards. After graduating, he discovered
Nisi Masa - European Network of Young Cinema and
started working as the project coordinator of European Short
Pitch to finally become the Head of the Script Department.
He also works as a script consultant, tutor and guest speaker
for festivals such as Cannes, Clermont-Ferrand, Encounters
and Interfilm.
DIRECTOR
PRODUCER
Louise Bellicaud graduated
from the Institute of Political Science
and from the Media Business
School with Post Graduate
Training “European Audiovisual
Management”. She started her
career in French film distribution in
Mexico with “Nueva Era Films”,
a company in charge of the film festival El Tour de Cine
Frances. She became involved in production and went to
London working in development and feature film financing
at Future Films. Back in France, she worked for four years at
Sacrebleu Productions and has been involved in the following
productions: Faces from place, Long way North (81’, 2015),
Tram (8’, 2012), The Great Rabbit (7’, 2012), Le repas
dominical (14’, 2015)... She set up her own production
company In Vivo Films at the beginning of 2015.
COMPANY
Fiction – S16mm – 20 min
Shooting dates: June 2016
Estimated total budget: 100,000 euros
Secured financing: 1,000 euros (1%)*
In Vivo Films, 23 rue Basse de Saint-Eloi,
17000 La Rochelle, France
Louise Bellicaud / [email protected] / +33 663 033 734
*Granted by the Downtown Tyler Film Festival
• 15 •
COMPLETELY NORMAL JASMINA ELETA
Gauz Normal
AUSTRIA
Leon (15) is a passionate goalkeeper. Football is the only thing he is interested in. As things become difficult with
his mother, who wants him to concentrate on achieving better school grades, Leon bunks off to live with his father
for a while. A new chapter opens in Leon’s difficult relationship with Linda (39), his transgender father. They seem to get closer
until Leon discovers the mutual attraction between Linda and his admired trainer Heinrich...
SYNOPSIS
The Austrian film production company
JewelLabs Pictures was founded
in 2002 and is based in Lower
Austria, very near to Vienna. They
are specialized in commercial and
industrial films, as well as in service production for various
national and international companies and broadcasters.
JewelLabs Pictures also produces narrative films and has
a long-term and well-established collaboration with various
directors and creatives within the industry.
Born in 1975 in Zurich, Jasmina
Eleta worked as a textile designer
before moving to Vienna in 2004
where she started studying at the
University of Music and Performing
Arts in Michael Haneke’s
directing class. Jasmina works as
a broadcasting director for the
Vienna State Opera. She wrote and directed various short
films and participated in screenwriting workshops such as
Babylon Europe, Diverse Geschichten (Witchcraft Scenario),
ScriptLAB Wien, etc. Her screenplay Far & Near won the
Thomas Pluch Förderpreis, founded by the federal ministry of
arts and culture in 2010.
DIRECTOR
PRODUCER
Born in 1978, Viktor Perdula
is an accomplished and passionate
professional with extensive
experience in organizing and
managing projects while keeping
a tight hold on budgets, offering
considerable and progressively
senior experience within production
spanning film, television and internet media across Europe,
Germany and Austria and a unique blend of creative,
commercial and technical skills. In 2002 Viktor Perdula
established his company JewelLabs Pictures and works
in different fields of the media landscape. He produces
commercials, image and short films and also participates
in various challenging projects as producer, production
manager and unit & location manager.
COMPANY
Fiction – Digital 2K – 30 min
Shooting dates: June 2016
Estimated total budget: 50,000 euros
Secured financing: 4,600 euros (9%)*
JewelLabs Pictures, Halsriegelstrasse 77, 2500 Baden, Austria
Viktor Perdula / [email protected] / +43 699 130 050 10
*Including a prize from Filmakademie Wien
• 16 •
PERFECT DARKNESS MAAIKE NEUVILLE
BELGIUM
Gus and his pregnant girlfriend Anna go for an evening stroll. On their way to the spot near the water, where
they want to celebrate their last moments just the two of them, Anna confesses that she’s unsure if the baby is
Gus’s. The world stops spinning. Gus leaves Anna behind in thé darkness. Later, she finds him again. They approach each other
in silence and make love. The camera directs us to the beach, the perfect romantic spot they have never reached. A full moon
lights up the water.
SYNOPSIS
Animal Tank was set up in 2014
with the aim of producing quality
audiovisual work with an edge, not
limiting ourselves by genre or length.
They work closely with young and emerging filmmakers, who
are bursting with talent and energy to make films. Animal
Tank has two producers: Brecht Van Elslande manages the
financial and Bert Lesaffer the creative development. But
together, they stand by their filmmakers every step of the way:
developing, producing and distributing their work to ensure
their best possible film.
Maaike Neuville is a Belgian
actress/director. In 2005, she
graduated as a Master in Dramatic
Arts at Studio Herman Teirlinck.
Some of the recent films she played
in are Peter Greenaway’s Goltzius
and the Pelican Company (128’,
2012), Eric De Kuyper’s My Life as
an Actor (2015). In 2010 she wrote, directed and produced
her first short film Way Back (20’, 2010). In 2012, she
did a Master’s in Film at Luca School of Arts, where she
graduated with Sonnet 81 (23’, 2013). This second short
film won the prize for best debut film at the International Short
Film Festival Leuven and has been shown in national and
international festivals. In 2013, she also won the Wildcard
by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund for this film, with which she
is now preparing her third short Perfect Darkness.
DIRECTOR
PRODUCER
Brecht Van Elslande and Bert
Lesaffer, both based in
Ghent (Belgium), met while
working at Flanders Film
House. From 2006 to 2010,
Brecht was project manager
of FilmLab and Short Film
at Flanders Audiovisual
Fund. Bert worked for MEDIA Desk from 2008 until 2013,
where he became familiar with the European audiovisual
sector in all its sections. During this collaboration, they
realized they wanted to move forward and be on the other
side of filmmaking. With the knowledge and networking
they achieved, they set up Animal Tank at the beginning of
2014. At the same time, Brecht and Bert work together at
KASK/School of Arts Ghent. Brecht is the coordinator of
the film department, while Bert does the programming of
KASKcinema and is a teacher.
COMPANY
Fiction – HD – 15 min
Shooting dates: May 2016
Estimated total budget: 90,000 euros
Secured financing: 60,000 euros (66%)*
Animal Tank, Hundelgemsesteenweg 136,9050 Ghent, Belgium
Bert Lesaffer / [email protected] / +324 73 60 14 33
*granted by Flanders Audiovisual Fund
• 17 •
TO NOT SEE FLOWERS WITHOUT COLORS NERITAN ZINXHIRIA
ROMANIA
Ten drawings of human crisis. This is a short film that depicts the journey of a dead body through a river in a
European capital.
PRODUCER
Bianca Oana is a young
Romanian screenwriter and
producer. Since 2009 she has been
working in developing, producing
and promoting multi-awarded arthouse films, including Toto and
His Sisters (94’, 2014), Turn Off
the Lights (77’, 2012), If I Want to
Whistle I Whistle (94’, 2010). Her work has been selected in
international film festivals such as Berlinale, Cannes, Angers,
Sarajevo, Zurich, Busan, Tribeca, San Sebastian, etc. She is
dedicated to discovering filmmakers with a particular artistic
view, regardless of the medium they choose to explore. Since
2015, she has run Monogram Film.
COMPANY
Monogram Film was founded by
producer and screenwriter Bianca
Oana to produce independent art
house cinema.
Neritan Zinxhiria was born
in April 1989 in Tirana, Albania.
In the winter of 1990, his
family immigrated to Greece. In
2008, he was awarded as the
Best Newcomer Director in the
International Short Film Festival in
Drama for his first short film The
Best Bride (15’). His second film Chamomile (15’) won
the Golden Horseman at the 2013 Dresden International
Short Film Festival, followed by other prestigious worldwide
selections and 19 awards. In Greece, the film has won six
awards including the Best Short Film Award in International
Short Film Festival in Drama, the Best Short Film Award in
Athens International Film Festival and the Best Short Film of
the Year Award given by the Greek Film Academy. He is
currently preparing his first feature film in Greece.
DIRECTOR
SYNOPSIS
Fiction – 1:1.85, HD – 10 min
Shooting dates: June 2016
Estimated total budget: 50,000 euros
Secured financing: 10,000 euros (20%)*
Monogram Film, 5 Luigi Cazzavillan St., 010783 Bucharest, Romania
Bianca Oana / [email protected] / +40 733 947 910
*granted by ERT
• 18 •
U SVOM FILMU D.O.O BARBARA JUKOPILA
CROATIA
U Svom filmu d.o.o.
Jurisiceva 1 A
10000 Zagreb
Croatia
Creation date: 2011
Number of staff: 2
[email protected] / +385 91 560 0363
U SVOM FILMU d.o.o. was founded by producer Barbara Jukopila and it is based in Zagreb, Croatia. The
company focuses on short films, documentaries and feature films. The company’s first short film Safe Flight is at the
moment in stage of preproduction. There is also one feature film in development – Beautiful Creatures, directed by Dorotea Vucic,
as well as two feature documentaries in development – Things We Don’t Talk About, directed by Renata Poljak, and Return to
Tomorrow, directed by Dorotea Vucic. Those projects are supported for script development from Croatian Audiovisual Centre.
COMPANY
PRODUCER
Barbara Jukopila was born
in 1987 in Pula, Croatia. She
graduated in Film, TV and Theatre
Production (BA) from the Academy
of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. She has
continued her studies (MA) at the
Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb
in major: Production of Audiovisual
and Multimedia Projects. She has produced a feature film Fleke
(Spots, 94’, 2011), directed by Aldo Tardozzi, which premiered
at Sarajevo film festival 2011. She has also produced several
shorts, such as Torta S Cokoladom (The Chocolate Cake, 16’,
2009), directed by Dorotea Vucic and Crveno (Red, 24’,
2009), directed by Sonja Tarokic. She is executive producer
on feature documentary U Potrazi Za Izgubljenom Drzavom (In
Search of a Lost Country), directed by Marija Ratkovic Vidakovic.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
• Fleke (Spots, 94’, 2011) by Aldo Tardozzi
• Crveno (Red, 24’, 2009) by Sonja Tarokić
•T
orta S Cokoladom (The Chocolate Cake, 16’,
by Dorotea Vučić
2009)
CURRENT PROJECTS:
• Safe Flight (short fiction) by
•B
eautiful Creatures (feature
Aldo Tardozzi - pre-production
film) by Dorotea Vucic -
development
to Tomorrow (feature documentary) by Dorotea
Vucic - development
•R
eturn
• 19 •
MA.JA.DE. FILMPRODUKTIONS GMBH ZSOFI LILI KOVACS
GERMANY
Ma.Ja.De. Filmproduktions GMBH
Bayreuther Str. 9
10789 Berlin
Germany
Creation date: 1991
Number of staff: 6
[email protected] / +49 308 430 61 66
Ma.ja.de. is one of the few German film-production companies delivering documentaries and feature films that
have consistently won international festival awards and have secured worldwide sales and theatrical distribution.
Founded in 1991 by Heino Deckert, Ma.ja.de. has completed a series of high-profile collaborations with renowned national
and international directors that include Sergei Loznitsa, Pirjo Honkassalo, Vitalij Manskij, Hartmut Bitomsky, Viktor Kossakovsky
or Ulrike Ottinger and Thomas Heise among others.
COMPANY
PRODUCER
After studying at the Hungarian film
school and at the University of Film
and Television (HFF) Konrad Wolf,
Germany, Zsofi Lili Kovacs
joined Ma.ja.de Filmproduktions
in 2013 as a producer. For her
studies in Germany she received
a DAAD scholarship. She has produced various genres, including animation, documentaries
and short fiction.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
•
•
•
•
•
Pinochet’s Children (80’, 2002) by Paula Rodriguez
My Joy (80’, 2010) by Sergei Loznitsa
Vivan Las Antipodas (105’, 2011) by Victor Kossakovsky
Song From the Forest (97’, 2013) by Michael Obert
The Queen of Silence (80’, 2014) by Agnieszka Zwiefka
CURRENT PROJECTS:
•D
ead
Donkeys Fear No Hyenas (documentary)
by Joakim Demmer, with support from Creative Europe’s
MEDIA sub-programme– in production
• Chris
the Swiss (animation) by Anja Kofmel – in production
• John Berger (documentary) by Cordelia Drovák –
in production
•O
ccupied Summer (short film) by Berit Toepfer –
in development
•A
quarela (documentary) by Victor Kossakovsky –
in development
• 20 •
STEFI & LYNX FAY KATSARI
GREECE
Stefi & Lynx
24th Amyklon
15231 Halandri
Greece
Creation date: 1971
Number of staff: 30
[email protected] / +30 694 72 66
Stefi & Lynx was founded by Vittorio Pietra and Vassilis Katsoufis in 1971. Since then it has evolved into
one of the largest production companies in Greece with active presence in the local and international market,
with productions in key fields such as television commercials, TV programs, video clips, movies, short films and documentaries.
Keeping abreast of developments, Stefi has entered the market of corporate and entertainment events - establishing the Stefi
Events brand. Stefi & Lynx, as a leading production company with over 40 years of active work and experience, has successfully
cooperated with all large advertising agencies and the best Greek and foreign directors for producing many award-winning
commercials. As a result, in recent years, Stefi & Lynx has achieved a remarkable reputation in the market. Undoubtedly this does
not reduce their interest for more successful and productive work. It is also worth mentioning that for 2010 & 2012 the company
gained the title of Production Company of the Year in the Greek Advertising Festival.
COMPANY
PRODUCER
Fay Katsari is a film, documentary,
event, commercial and international
services producer. She has been
working in the audio visual sector
for the last 30 years. Since 1995
she has been producing films
and documentaries and has won
distinctions and prizes and since
2000 she has been producing advertising spots for Greece
and international countries. In 2012 she achieved Producer
of the Year award in the Greek annual advertising festival
by gaining 2 awards (gold and silver) and the Grand Ermis
for the Amstel 90 TVC. During recent years, the films she has
produced have won several prizes.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
•W
asted
Youth (fiction, 122’, 2011)
By A. Papadimitropoulos and Jans Vogel
• Attenberg (fiction, 97’, 2010) by A. Tsagari
• Kinetta (fiction, 35’, 2006) by G. Lanthimos
CURRENT PROJECTS:
•T
he Eternal
Return of Adonis Paraskevas by Elina Psykou,
a Stefi & Guanaco co production - currently shooting
• 21 •
FILMFABRIQ GABOR OSVATH
HUNGARY
Filmfabriq
Fadrusz u. 26/b
1114 Budapest
Hungary
Creation date: 2012
Number of staff: 4
[email protected] / +36 306 677 613
Filmfabriq Ltd. was founded by producing partners Gábor Osváth and Dorottya Ócsai. Ócsai leads the TV
and local commercial division of Filmfabriq and Osváth is in charge of short films, co-productions, film production
services, and a slate of exciting feature film debuts. Filmfabriq is currently developing the first feature movies of Bálint Szimler,
Attila Hartung and the duo of Bálint Nagy and Nándor Lorincz. The company is currently working on a creative documentary
about Hungary’s first new circus company, entitled What a Circus! and filming will soon be underway for Attila Hartung’s short
Paparazzi. The Polish feature Life Must Go On! line produced by the company was the n°1 film in Poland for two consecutive
weeks in August 2015. Further co-productions include mostly projects with France and Poland.
COMPANY
PRODUCER
Born in 1985, Gábor Osváth
graduated from the University of
Theatre and Film Arts of Budapest.
The first film he produced was a
school project (Here I Am) but it
ended up at Cannes Cinefondation
and later as a Europe Film Award
short film nominee. He formed his
company Filmfabriq in 2012, which in the past three years
has become a strong force in the Hungarian film industry,
with a big slate of short films, documentaries and service
productions. Osváth also recently produced the feature music
documentary Balaton Method (85’, 2015) and is also behind
the French-Hungarian animation LOVE by Réka Bucsi. He
was chosen as one of the Emerging Producers by the Jihlava
IDFF, class of 2016.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
•
•
•
•
H
ere I Am (fiction, 35’, 2011) by Bálint Szimler
Ischler (fiction, 17’, 2014) by Attila Hartung
T he Sound of Concrete (fiction, 30’, 2015)
B
alaton Method (documentary, 85’, 2015)
by Bálint Szimler
CURRENT PROJECTS:
• L OVE
(short animation) by Réka Bucsi, co-production
France/Hungary - completed
•S
tudent Union (short fiction) by György Mór Kárpáti completed
•S
ongs of the Land (documentary tv-series)
by Bálint Szimler & Péter Akar - in development
•T
he Virgin of Lost Causes (short fiction) by Sandor Funtek,
co-production France/Hungary - pre-production
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WHACKALA LTD LETICIA AGUDO
IRELAND
Whackala Ltd
48 Rathborne Place
Ashtown
D15 NT28 Dublin
Ireland
Creation date: 2006
Number of staff: 3
[email protected] / +353 87 288 5410
Leticia Agudo and Paul McGrath set up Whackala to combine their separate talents in fiction, documentary &
animation to create innovative and striking work. They have since made 4 documentaries and various animated
apps for children through their games’ arm Wakalaps. They are developing new factual work with Spanish and Irish partners
and going back to fiction projects. Their last two documentaries are distributed by Canada’s ID Communications. Whackala is
a member of Screen Producers Ireland.
COMPANY
PRODUCER
Leticia’s life and career has taken
her from Spain to Ireland and
theatre to film. At 17 she went to
study drama in the UK and then
moved to Dublin to form a theatre
company. After 3 years directing
and producing for the stage, she
went back to study Film Production
to fulfil a life-long inclination to visual storytelling. In 2006,
she founded Whackala with animator and producer Paul
McGrath. Their innovative approach is reflected in awardwinning documentaries that include animation and scripted
elements, which Leticia has directed/co-directed, co-produced
and edited. She’s a member of the European Documentary
Network, the Screen Directors Guild of Ireland, Women in
Film and Television Ireland and Screen Producers Ireland with
Whackala.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
•
•
•
•
A
fter the Revolution (TV doc, 52’, 2008)
F orty Foot (short documentary, 9’, 2009)
C
ity Wild (feature doc, 82’, 2012)
L and of Amber (TV doc, 52’, 2014)
CURRENT PROJECTS:
•S
low
(feature doc, granted funds by Creative Europe MEDIA, written, co-produced & to be directed by Leticia)
- in development
•M
y Friend Jess (fiction short, written and to be directed by
Leticia) - in development
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COCOON PRODUCTION FRANCESCA MARIA SCANU
ITALY
Cocoon Production
Via del Quintili 83
00175 Rome
Italy
Creation date: 2013
Number of staff: 2
[email protected] / +39 389 689 08 10
Cocoon is a production company founded in early 2013 by two young video makers, Francesca Scanu and
Andrea Zuliani who write and produce commercials, web series, short films and feature films. Cocoon is born
with the objective to develop and realize the most diversified audio-visual products (video clips, documentaries, feature films, TV
serials, web apps) with a vocation for researching and testing new languages.
COMPANY
PRODUCER
Francesca Scanu was born
in Cagliari in 1986. She studied
screen-writing at RAI-Script training.
In 2013 she founded Cocoon with
the director Andrea Zuliani and they
wrote and produced several short
films, such as Miriam (15’, 2012,
selected at the Rome International
Film Festival 2013) and To Anna (partially financed by
Sardinia Region, now in post-production). As author she
won international prize Mattador with Entela script and a
special mention at 2011 Rome Film Festival in the section
Factory projects with Deep North written with Marco Luca
Cattaneo. She is developing some Chinese-Italian projects
of co-production with Karma Media Company. Cocoon also
founded the first cinema Business network in Italy, Indie Hub.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
•M
iriam (short film, 15’, 2013) directed by Andrea Zuliani
•P
er Anna (short film, 20’, 2015) directed by Andrea
Zuliani
CURRENT PROJECTS:
•T
he
Most Beautiful Dream ever Dreamed, (feature,
associate producers) film by Michele Vannucci in postproduction.
•A
Driving License (short film) by Antonio Palumbo in development
• 7 Days (feature) and Per Anna (feature) by Andrea Zuliani
– in development
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PREM1ERE S.R.L. MARIAPIA AUTORINO
ITALY
Prem1ere s.r.l.
Via Nazionale 3° Trav.sa n 3
70128 Bari
Italy
Creation date: 2013
Number of staff: 3
[email protected] / +39 366 324 941
Prem1ere Ltd was founded in April 2013 by three partners: Mariapia Autorino, Roberto De Feo and Stefano
Murclano. All members have several collaborations in film production and distribution with other companies such
as: Colorado Film, Mediterranean Film, Dynamo Movies, Dionysia Movies, Overlook Production, etc. In April 2015, Prem1ere
Ltd distributed in the most important international festival Child K (19’, 2014) directed by Roberto De Feo and Vito Palumbo,
produced by Colorado Film, Dinamo Film and with the support of MIBAC Film Board, the Apulla Film Commission, the patronage
of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the German State Archive. The short film won the special
prize Nostri D’Argento, an award given by the Union of Italian Film Journalist. In July 2015, Prem1ere Ltd won his first State
Production Fund with the project Port Hour (in development), directed by Dario Di Viesto. On September 5, 2015 the company
was invited to confer on its activities at the round table organized by the film magazine Fabrique du Cinema during the 72nd
International Film Festival of Venice.
COMPANY
PRODUCER
Mariapia Autorino, born in
Bari, is an actress, writer and acting
coach. She has been involved
in many collaborations with film
production companies. She won,
with her script Poppitu, the Progretto
Memoria promoted by the Apulia Film
Commission, Promoter and consultant
of the Project Administration – Accademia del Cinema di Enziteto
– Baro for 15 years. Lately she collaborated with Colorado Film
for the production of the short film Child K, winner of the Nastri
D’Argento Critics Special Prize in 2015.
CURRENT PROJECTS:
•P
ort hour (short
•U
n giorno fuori
film) by Dario di Viesto - in pre-production
by Giovanni Carbonara - in post-production
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CINETE FILMPRODUKTIE NANCY FORNOVILLE
NETHERLANDS
CinéTé Filmproduktie BV
Ruysdaelbaan 106, 5613DL Eindhoven,
Netherlands
Creation date: 1984
Number of staff: 2
[email protected] / +31 648 964 076
CinéTé is a Dutch film production company that specializes in short animation. Their best-known film is Father
and Daughter by Michael Dudok de Wit (8’, 2000), which won 30 international awards including, in 2001, the
Oscar for Best Short Animation. Moreover CinéTé was also involved in shorts made by Paul Driessen, Evert de Beijer and Börge
Ring amongst others. The driving force and founder of CinéTé is Willem Thijssen. Nancy Fornoville has assisted him since 2014.
COMPANY
PRODUCER
Nancy Fornoville (1972)
studied Film and Visual Studies at the
University of Antwerp. She is new
to film production but has extensive
experience in project management
for online media and mobile apps
and a profound knowledge of
animation. She started working at
CinéTé in 2014 and is the production leader for Mind My
Mind. In 2015 she organized the successful crowd funding
campaign for Ticking Away. She is also responsible for the
distribution of the CinéTé films.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
•T
icking
Away (8’, 2015) by Michael Sewnarain coproduction with VAF & Film Fund
• Junkyard (17’, 2012) by Hisko Hulsing - coproduction
with VAF & Film Fund
•G
et Real (12’, 2009) by Evert de Beijer - production with
Film Fund
•F
ather and Daughter (8’, 2000) by Michael Dudok
de Wit - Dutch-English coproduction with Film Fund,
Stimuleringsfonds en VPRO
•R
un of the Mill (8’, 1999) by Börge Ring- Dutch - Danish
coproduction with Film Fund, CoBO Fonds, EO and
Danish Filminstitute
•3
Misses (11’, 1998) by Paul Driessen - Dutch production
with Film Fund, Channel 4 & La Sept/ARTE
•A
Greek Tragedy (6’, 1985) - Director: Nicole Van
Goethem - Belgian production with Flemish Community
CURRENT PROJECTS:
•M
ind
my Mind by Floor Adams – in development
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ANIMAIS AVPL NUNO AMORIM
PORTUGAL
Animais AVPL
Rua Pereira Henriques, No 1 Sala 11D
1950-242 Lisboa
Portugal
Creation date: 1991
Number of staff: 8
[email protected] / +351 937 590 977
Completing 25 years in 2016, with over 20 author animation shorts produced and screened worldwide, with
experience in animation series, documentary, institutional and advertising films, Animais is an important player
in the animation and motion graphics Portuguese panorama.
COMPANY
PRODUCER
Nuno Amorim started as art
director in FCB and Publicis Ad
Agencies, moving then to RTPPortuguese Public TV, as graphic
designer, director and head of
the graphic department, writing/
directing short animation films,
documentaries and cultural series.
He was responsible for most of
the motion graphics produced by
RTP from 1977 to 98. In 1991 he
co-founded with Zepe, the animation, motion graphics and
documentary production company Animais AVPL, where he
directed and produced most of Animais animation shorts.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
•C
of
Cof (animation, 8’, 1999) by José Pedro Cavalheiro
(Zepe)
• Fragmentos de Sal (Salt Fragments, animation, 7’, 2000)
by Cristina Teixeira,
• Selo ou não sê-lo (To Be or Not To Bee, animation, 9’,
2006) by Isabel Aboim Inglez,
• Stuart (animation, 11’, 2006) José Pedro Cavalheiro (Zepe)
• A noiva do Gigante (The Giant’s Bride, animation, 9’,
2006) by Nuno Amorim
• Jantar em Lisboa (Dinner in Lisbon, animation, 10’, 2006)
by André Carrilho
• A única vez (Once Only, animation, 5’, 2010) by Nuno
Amorim
• Do Céu e da terra (The Sky Above My Land, animation,
14’, 2012) by Isabel Aboim Inglez
• Sanguetinta (Bloodink, animation, 12’, 2012) by Filipe
Abranches
• O canto dos 4 caminhos (Birdwatching, animation 12’,
2014) by Nuno Amorim
• O campo à beira mar (The Countryside By The Sea,
animation, 8’, 2015) by André Ruivo
CURRENT PROJECTS:
• It
Would Piss Me Off To Die So Yoooooung... (animation)
by Filipe Abranches
• In Between the Shadows (pixilation) by Alice Guimarães &
Mónica Santos
•A
float (animation) by Filipe Abranches
•C
ircus (animation) by André Ruivo
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SMEHOMAT MARKO KUMER MURC
SLOVENIA
Smehomat Trg Prekomorskih brigad 1
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Creation date: Number of staff: 4
[email protected] / +386 40 477 090
In the last couple of years Smehomat’s main activity has been devoted to producing documentary and short
film. Until now they have had different directors, screenwriters and producers working and cooperating with them.
In the past year, the company gained the support of both RTV Slovenia (the national broadcaster) and Slovenian Film Centre to
create their two main projects of the year, the short fiction film Jašek (Manhole, 20’, 2015) and a feature documentary film Mesto
svetlobe (City of Lights). It is a vibrant production dealing both with commercial TV and web projects, but its ambitions mainly lie
in fiction and documentary filmmaking. COMPANY
PRODUCER
Marko Kumer Mur č is a
Slovene producer and filmmaker
who was born in 1980 and lives in
Ljubljana (Slovenia). Founder of the
Smehomat Production, he mainly
works as a producer, director and
screenwriter. He has worked in
different culture related projects
as an author or producer. His work in the past combines
many different fields from art in public spaces to videoart
and poetry, but in last few years his main focus has been in
the field of film. He acted as a producer of several short films
as well as some documentary films, namely widely shown
and debated Utopia in Green, 50’, Oder na robu, Kurent…
He is currently directing and producing a documentary City
of Light, which has been successful in both the National TV
and National Film Centre calls for coproduction. He was
producer of the last short film directed by Urban Zorko
- Jašek (Manhole, 20’, 2015, co-produced by the national
TV). He is currently in the preproduction phases of a feature
documentary film Corpus Meum (dir. by Urban Zorko), and a
short fiction film The Call. In 2015 he was selected to attend
a screenwriting workshop IN_Script workshop Too short to
die in Lithuania with his script Janko.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
• Jašek (Manhole,
20’, 2015) by Urban Zorko,
co-produced by the national TV
CURRENT PROJECTS:
•M
esto
svetlobe (City of Lights, documentary) –
in production
• Corpus Meum (documentary) by Urban Zorko –
in preproduction
• The Call (short film) by Urban Zorko – in developpement
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ABANO PRODUCIONS ABANO PRODUCIONS
SPAIN
Abano Producións
Avda Xoán Carlos I
N°18 6°B
15670 Culleredo A Coruña
Spain
Creation date: 2007
Number of staff: 3
[email protected] / +34 698 129 557
Abano is a company that has been dedicated to audiovisual production since 2007. Its activity comprises all
areas of production, working in all type of projects, short films and feature films, fiction and documentary. They
love music, literature and plastic arts. They like us to dream and therefore produce animation films. They like all genres: comedy,
drama, adventure and all techniques: 2D, 3D, Stop Motion... aiming at all publics: children and adults. They are inflexible in
only one aspect: quality.
COMPANY
PRODUCER
Chelo Loureiro is a member of
the CIMA manager team (Spanish
Woman Film Association),
AGAPI (Independent Producers’
Galician Association), member
of the Academy of the Arts and
the Cinematographic Sciences of
Spain, and Audiovisual Academia
of Galicia. She is present on international specific markets
like Cartoon Movie, Cartoon Forum, Cinanima, Berlinale,
AFM, and more important festivals, taking part as referee
in forums and seminars of the sector (University of A
Coruña, University of Sevilla, Valencia, Mo Cultura Brazil,
Colombia, etc). She has substantial experience producing
award-winning animation and live action features and short
films. Her editorial line is primarily films that include some
animation and fantastical elements and which are aimed at
a wide range of audiences from children to adults.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
•T
ower of Breoghán (72’, 2015) by Jorge Coira
•T
he Happets in the Rainbow Forest (74’, 2014)
by Alex Coll
• The Giant (2012) by Luís da Matta and Julio Vanzeler
• Animal Crises (80’, 2008) by Pedro Rivero
• The Brave Tin Soldier (10’, 2008) by Tomás Conde &
Virginia Curiá
Biggest Flower in the World (10’, 2007)
by Juan Pablo Etcheverry
• Dreams from the Depth (58’, 2006) by Sandra Sánchez
• De Profundis (75’, 2006) by Miguelanxo Prado
• The
CURRENT PROJECTS:
•T
routs
Sing in the Summer (feature fiction)
by Alexia Muíños – indevelopment, with support of MEDIA
Creative Europe and AGADIC
•T
he Neverending Wall (animation short)
by Silvia Carpizo – in development, with support of ICAA
and IVAC
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FOCUS ON RHONE-ALPES 3 PRODUCERS FROM RHONE-ALPES
FARGO
Fabrice Luang-Vija
www.fargo.fr
[email protected]
+33 660 54 16 87
FAUNS
Raphaël Penasa
www.fauns.tv
[email protected]
+33 676 82 30 44 PRODUCER
Fargo is a production company,
created in 1998. Situated since
2010 at La Cartoucherie in
Bourg-Lès-Valence, it combines two
parallel activities: the production
of animation short films (Celui
qui a deux âmes, Mille-Pattes et
Crapaud, US) and the creation of
audiovisual material for company communication.
PRODUCER
www.plusdeprod.fr
[email protected]
+33 660 982 285
Created in 2008 by Jérémie
Chevret after 13 years spent as
location manager then production
manager on cinema film sets.
For five years Plus de Prod has
developed fiction films and has
naturally turned towards featurelength films after the production of
several shorts. From short to long, the ambition remains the
same, to develop stories that appeal to as many people as
possible, beyond frontiers and trends, genres and codes and
with a desire to build long-term relations with producers with
whom he works.
Created in 2009, Fauns is
an animation studio based in
Lyon. With wide experience in
video games, animation and
filmmaking, Fauns has developed
its own universe through projects
in series, feature and short films,
within a coherent transmedia
environment. They love beautiful images, without abandoning
our speciality: storytelling. PRODUCER
PLUS DE PROD
Jérémie Chevret
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timetable
Tuesday 9th February, 9H30 - 15H30,
Hotel Holiday Inn, 59 bd F.-Mitterrand, Groundfloor
9H30
Inauguration of Euro Connection 2016
9H45 - 10H40
Pitching Session 1
THE BABY SHOWER, dir. Joseph Pierce - 59 Productions (GB)*
ELSA & THE NIGHT, dir. Jöns Mellgren - Hob AB (SE)
THE SOUNDS FROM THE DEEP, dir. Joonas Allonen & Antti Laakso - Twisted Films (FI)
WINTER IN THE RAINFOREST, dir. Anu-Laura Tuttelberg - Nukufilm Studio (EE)
Producers Focus - profiles of invited producers
10H40
Coffee break
11H00 - 11H50
Pitching Session 2
CARPELLE, dir. Tibor Banoczki & Sarolta Szabo - La Luna Productions (FR)
WRONG NUMBER, dir. Svetoslav Stoyanov - Portokal (BG)
VODNIK, dir. Jakub Kouril - Negativ (CZ)
FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE, dir. João Vladimiro - Terratreme Filmes (PT)
Producers Focus - profiles of invited producers
12H
Lunch break
13H45 - 14H35
Pitching Session 3
(n)ostalgia: the pleasure of ruins, dir. Vicki Thornton - a_Bahn (LU)
MAMA BOBO, dir. Robin Andelfinger & Ibrahima Seydi - Replica (BE)
DEER BOY, dir. Kasia Gondek - Centrala (PL)
ALONE IN LA JONQUERA, dir. Mathias Broe - Beofilm (DK)
Producers Focus - profiles of invited producers
14H40 - 15H30
Pitching Session 4
SERIAL, dir. Wim Vanacker - In Vivo Films (FR)
COMPLETELY NORMAL, dir. Jasmina Eleta - JewelLabs Pictures (AT)
PERFECT DARKNESS, dir. Maaike Neuville - Animal Tank (BE)
TO NOT SEE FLOWERS WITHOUT COLORS, dir. Neritan Zinxhiria - Monogram Film (RO)
Producers Focus - profiles of invited producers
18H00
Closing cocktail offered by the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC)
Wednesday 10th February, 10H00 - 16H00,
Short Film Market, rue Abbé de l’Epée
10H00 - 16H00
Business Meetings at the MEDIA Rendez-Vous area, Short Film Market
*country codes: standard ISO 3166-1
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Access Map
The Maison de la Culture
Euro Connection
Hotel Holiday Inn
59 bd F.-Mitterrand
Groundfloor
IADT
51 bd F.-Mitterrand
T
Maison de
la Culture
Short Film
Market
Short Film Market
rue Abbé-de-l’Epée
Hints:
The Maison de la Culture hosts the Clermont-Ferrand festival’s main venue, headquarters and delegate centre.
The Hotel Holiday Inn is easy to find; it is located on the same boulevard (F. Mitterrand) as the front entrance to the Maison
de la Culture, just one block down the street, on the same sidewalk.
The Short Film Market is located right behind the Maison de la Culture, in the Gymnase Jean et Honoré Fleury, which is
accessible from the rue Abbé de l’épée.
All locations are within a 5-minute walking distance.
Contact
Laurent Crouzeix (+33.677 10 51 68 / [email protected])
Julie Rousson (+33.673 52 89 66 / [email protected])
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We wish to thank the Relais Culture Europe – Lilyane Crosnier, Gilda Fougeront, Christine Mazereau, Pascal Brunet – and the Centre national du
cinéma et de l’image animée – Frédérique Bredin, Julien Neutre, Valentine Roulet, Morad Kertobi – for their collaboration on Euro Connection 2016.
We would like to express our gratitude to the following for their precious assistance as correspondent organisations in Europe:
Andrei Agudaru, Romanian Film Promotion
Juhani Alanen, Jukka-Pekka Laakso Tampere Short Film Festival
Kamen Balkanski, Creative Europe Desk Bulgaria
Eugénie Bottereau, Jacopo Chessa, CNC - Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio
Zsuzsanna Brasher, Daazo
Nuno Rodrigues, Festival Curtas Vila do Conde
Una Feely, IndieCork Film Festival
Andreas Fock, Swedish Film Institute
Stavroula Geronimaki, Greek Film Centre
Geneviève Kinet, Wallonie Bruxelles Images
Nobert Laporte, Film Fund Luxembourg
Marteen Alexander, Leuven International Short Film Festival
Will Masa, British Council Film
Ismael Martin, Madrid En Corto
Marija Milovanovic, Vienna Independent Shorts
Kimonas Mylonas, Alexia Roider, International Short Film Festival of Cyprus
Barbara Orlicz-Szczypula, Krakow Film Foundation
Martina Petrovic, Creative Europe Desk Croatia
Igor Prassel, Animateka International Animated Film Festival
Ene Katrine Rasmussen, Creative Europe Desk Denmark
Maria Völzer, AG Kurzfilm e.V. – German Short Film Association
Anne van der Veer, Kirsten Ruber, Go Short
Marketa Santrochova, Czech Film Center
Miguel Valverde, IndieLisboa
Euro Connection 2016 also benefited from the kind cooperation of the following film & media partner organisations:
Benoît Blanchard, Christine Gendre, Unifrance
Baltic Pitching Forum 2015 (Riga IFF 2ANNAS, Lithuanian Short Film Agency, ISFF Vilnius Shorts, ISFF Sleepwalkers, ShortEst)
Thierry Leclercq, Creative Europe Desk Belgique
Sauve qui peut le court métrage would like to thank Sari Vartiainen, Lucia Recalde Langarica, Soon-Mi Peten, Elena Boggio, Géraldine Hayez,
at the Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency, Idzard Van der Puyl, Catherine Fadier, Séverine Thuet and the Commision Cinéma
at the PROCIREP for their support to the 2016 edition of Euro Connection and the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market.
Euro Connection 2016 was organized by:
Laurent Crouzeix, Sauve qui peut le court métrage
Julie Rousson, Sauve qui peut le court métrage
Projects for Euro Connection 2016 were selected by:
Lee Cronin, Cristina Grosan, Zsuzsanna Kiràly
The pitch-training workshop was conducted by Gabriele Brunnenmyer and Selina Ukwuoma
© Sauve qui peut le court métrage
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