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C ANNES
3DD
ENTERTAINMENT
3DD Entertainment, 190 Camden High
Street, London, NW1 8QP, UK. Tel:
44.0207.428.1800. Fax: 44.0207.
428.1818. www.3ddgroup.com, e-mail:
[email protected]
Distributor
At Cannes: Dominic Saville (CEO)
Office: Tel: 44(0)207.428.1800
RFK MUST DIE – THE
ASSASSINATION OF BOBBY
KENNEDY
Documentary (1 x 60’ & 2 x 60’ plus
137’ feature)
Language: English
Director: Various
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
An investigative documentary into one of
America’s most enduring murder
mysteries which calls for a reopening of
the case in the lead up to the 40th
anniversary of his assassination in June
2008.
SUPERSTARS
Documentary (26 x 30’) mobile/web
package (130 x 2.5’)
Language: English
Producer: Marilyn Higgins
Cast: A range of celebrities including
Adam Sandler, Heath Ledger, Katie
Holmes, Eva Longoria and Colin Farrell.
Origin: Australia
The second series featuring Hollywood’s
most talked about film, music and
television stars, including Mel Gibson,
Tilda Swinton, Justin Timberlake,
Courtney Cox and Daniel Radcliffe;
Superstars is the must-see collection of
celebrity profiles.
BLING
Documentary (1 x 60’ & 1 x 90’)
Language: English
Origin: USA
In this riveting, unforgettable film, a few
of hip hop’s finest travel to war-torn
Sierra Leone and come face to face with
the real cost of bling.
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Cannes 2008
Tel: 04 93 06 41 49
Email your press
releases only
during Cannes to:
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A
2008
PRODUCT GUIDE
ADRIANA CHIESA
ENTERPRISES
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, Via
Barnaba Oriani, 24a, Rome, 00197 Italy.
Tel: 39.06.808.60.52. Fax:
39.06.807.92.71. website:
www.adrianachiesaenterprises.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Adriana Chiesa Di Palma
(President), Rossella Gori (Head of
International Sales)
Office: Hotel Carlton, Salon du Bridge,
1st Floor, Tel 33(0)4.93.06.41.00. Fax:
33(0)4.93.06.41.01, Mobile:
39.335.8265.984
TUTTA LA VITA DAVANTI (CALL
CENTER)
Comedy (117 min)
Language: ITALIAN Subtitles ENGLISH
Director: Paolo Virzi
Scriptwriter: Francesco Bruni, Paolo
Virzi
Production company: Medusa Film &
Motorino Amaranto
Key cast: Isabella Ragonese, Massimo
Ghini, Sabrina Ferilli
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Italy
One of the best Italian films of the
decade…a young woman’s hallucinating
experiences in a call center treated with
the lucidity of an investigative docufiction, it paints a fresco in grotesque
hues.
SCUSA MA TI CHIAMO AMORE
(SORRY IF I LOVE YOU)
Romantic Comedy (104 min)
Director: Federico Moccia
Scriptwriter: Federico Moccia
Production company: Medusa Film
Producer: Rita Rusic
Key cast: Raoul Bova, Michela
Quattrociocche
Status: Completed
Country of origin: ITALY
A record Italian box office hit, this is a
lighthearted moving love story for all
who dream and believe in true love…
GIORNI E NUVOLE (DAYS AND
CLOUDS)
Drama (116 min)
Director: Silvio Soldini
Scriptwriter: Doriana Leondeff,
Francesco Piccolo, Federica Pontremoli,
Silvio Soldini
Production company: Lumière & Co,
Amka Films And Rtsi-Televisione
Svizzera Co-Production
Producer: Lionello Cerri
Key cast: Margherita Buy, Antonio
Albanese
Status: Completed
Other scenes from a marriage, other
scenes from their love. A film that
revolves around the strongest of all
subjects: the power of love, the
emotional collapse of a couple
combining drama and lightness
CORAZONES DE MUJER
(WOMAN’S HEART)
Language: ITALIAN/ARABIC Subtitles
ENGLISH
Director: Davide Sordella, Pablo
Benedetti
Scriptwriter: Davide Sordella, Pablo
Benedetti
Production company: 011 Films
Production
Producer: Flavio Sordella
Key cast: Aziz Ahmeri, Ghiziane Waldi,
Mohammed Wajid
Status: Completed
A road movie, a Moroccan transvestite
dressmaker, a bride-to-be who must
recover her lost virginity..
RIPRENDIMI (GOOD MORNING
HEARTACHE)
Drama (93 min)
Director: Anna Negri
Scriptwriters: Anna Negri, Giovanna
Mori
Production company: Bess Movie
Producer: Francesca Neri, Claudio
Amendola
Key cast: Alba Rohrwacher
Status: Completed
A great contemporary love story in a
time of precarious existence:
alternatively emotional and funny
weaving together naturalistic dialogue
and close-up vérité style.
PIANO, SOLO (PIANO SOLO)
Drama (111 min)
Director: Riccardo Milani
Scriptwriter: Ivan Cotroneo, Claudio
Piersanti, Riccardo Milani
Production Company: Rai Cinema,
Palomar, Hugo Films
Producer: Carlo Degli Esposti
Key Cast: Kim Rossi Stuart, Jamine
Trinca, Michele Placido
Status: Completed
The fragile and tormented life of an artist
of genius. Based on a true story: from his
childhood in Africa to his European
success as a gifted jazz musician, unable
to love himself.
MARADONA THE HAND OF GOD
(MARADONA LA MANO DE DIOS)
Drama, Feature Film (113 min)
Language: Spanish Subtitles English
Production company: Elide Melli For
Comedy Film And Ombú Producciones,
In Collaboration With Rai Cinema
Producer: Elide Melli
RFK - 3DD ENTERTAINMENT
Director: Marco Risi
Scriptwriter: Manuel Valdivia, Cesar
Vidal, Manuel Rios
Key cast: Marco Leonardi, Juan Leyrado,
Julieta Diaz
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Spain, Italy
The feature film on the life of Diego
Maradona brings new understanding of
the Argentinian idol: the champion, the
genius, the excesses
FAMILY GAME
Drama (90 min)
Country of origin: ITALIAN
Director: Alfredo Arciero
Production company: Videodrome Visual
Productions s.r.l., Rai Cinema S.p.A.,
Iron Production s.r.l., I.D.F. Italian
Dream Factory s.r.l., Gianfranco Morani
Scriptwriter: Alfredo Arciero, with the
collaboration of Marina Polla De Luca
Key cast: Sandra Ceccarelli, Stefano
Dionisi, Fabio Troiano
Status: Completed
The façade of a seemingly happy family
cracks to reveal deep wounds and dark
secrets caused by their refusal to truly
communicate.
THE STORY OF LEO
Animation (81 min)
Budget: Delivery date Completed
Production company: Dujass Film
Producer: Veronica Salvi, Marco
Ambrosino
Director: Mario Cambi
Scriptwriter: Pierstefano Marangoni,
Mario Cambi
Status: Completed
An animated feature film: a romantic,
adventurous, tender and amusing story of
a young vegetarian lion and the beautiful
queen of a heard of elephants.
MOTHERS
Documentary (90 min)
Language: Hebrew / Arabic Subtitles
ENGLISH
Production company: Rai Cinema,
Digital Studio
Producer: Alex Ponti
Director: Barbara Cupisti
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Scriptwriter: Barbara Cupisti
Status: Completed
A moving documentary: in this rare and
dramatic collection of testimonies, Israeli
and Palestinian mothers join together to
express one universal sorrow: the loss of
a son killed in this seemingly endless
conflict.
ROULETTE
Drama (94 min)
Director: Mohammed Soudani
Scriptwriter: Elvira Dones, Gianluca
Bomprezzi
Production company: AMKA Films
Productions SA, RTSI – Televisione
Svizzera
Producer: Tiziana Soudani
Key cast: Pietro Sermonti, Genti Kame,
Jacqueline Lustig
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Switzerland
A rare bond is formed between the
tormented son of a wealthy Swiss family
and a young Albanian immigrant with an
inspiring and courageous vision of life
IO, L’ALTRO (I, THE OTHER)
Drama (80 min)
Director: Mohsen Melliti
Scriptwriter: Mohsen Melliti
Production companies: Passworld, Pulp
Video, Trees Pictures
Producer: Lorenzo Von Lorch, Maurizio
Santarelli, Raoul Bova
Key cast: Raoul Bova, Giovanni
Martorana, Mario Pupella
Status: Completed
A story of friendship between two simple
people who belong to two different
worlds and who suddenly find
themselves enemies
ROSSO MALPELO (LITTLE BOY
RED)
Drama (90 min)
Production company: Arbash Film
Producer: Pasquale Scimeca
Director: Pasquale Scimeca
Scriptwriter: Pasquale Scimeca, Nennella
Buonaiuto
Key Cast: Marcello Mazzarella
Status: Completed
This story is based on a classic novel by
Giovanni Verga. It takes place in Sicily
in a mine. What is described here could
have happened today, anywhere in the
world where there are children
abandoned, exploited, mistreated.
IL DOLCE E L’AMARO (THE
SWEET AND THE BITTER)
Drama (90 min)
Director: Andrea Porporati
Scriptwriter: Andrea Porporati, Annio
Giocchino Stasi
Production Company: Sciarló For
Medusa Film
Producer: Francesco Tornatore
Key Cast: Luigi Lo Cascio, Donatella
Finocchiaro
Status: Completed
The best mafia film to come along in
years…tightly packaged, well-played,
character-driven drama…with the bonus
of a good sense of humour…
GLORIOUS EXIT
Director: Kevin Merz
Scriptwriter: Kevin Merz
Production company: AMKA Films
Productions & RTSI – Televisione
Svizzera
Producer: Tiziana Soudani, Luisella
Realini
Key cast: Jarreth Merz
Status: Completed
Country of origin: SWITZERLAND
The death of a father he never really
knew, makes a man come face to face
with his African heritage. And so he
begins his journey from Los Angeles to
Nigeria to confront his roots
ALLIED
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
Allied Entertainment, Inc., 8899 Beverly
Blvd., Suite 911, West Hollywood, CA
90048 USA. Tel: 310.271.0703. Fax:
310.271.0706.
http://www.alliedentertainment.com,
email: [email protected]
At Cannes: James Moder (Chairman),
Janet Y. Liu (VP - Sales Consultant,
Asia)
Office: C17, Riviera, Tel: 310.271.0703.
Fax: 310.271.0706
SHUT UP AND SHOOT!
Action / Comedy (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Silvio Pollio
Producer: Bob Debrino
Key Cast: Joe Cortese, Daniel Baldwin,
James Russo,Gary Busey, Tom
Sizemore, John Savage, Roddy Piper,
Willie Gault, Silvio Pollio
Origin: USA
Spencer Spector has the number one hit
movie for the weekend. Spencer and two
young film-makers now terrorize
Tinseltown in a clandestine murderous
rampage.
THE BARON AGAINST THE
DEMONS
Action / Sci-Fi (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Ricardo Ribelles
Writer: Ricardo Ribelles
Producer: Ana Sánchez-Gijón
Key Cast: Juan Carlos Romeu, Helena
Le Cumberri, Xavier Bertran
Origin: Spain
In the final days of the 21st Century, the
Earth is engaged in a devastating war
with the forces of evil. An enigmatic
SUPER HERO known as the BARON
begins a bloody war of vengeance in an
attempt to save the Earth.
FALLEN ANGELS
Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Ian David Diaz
Producer: Michael Derbas & Julian
Boote
Key Cast: Michael Ironside, Kai
Wiesinger, Jeff Fahey
Origin: USA
Abandoned and filled with a mysterious
past, Holy Angel School for Girls is
about to reveal its secrets of betrayal,
jealousy and vengeance.
FATE
Psychological Thriller (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Ace Cruz
Producer: Ray Guthrie
Key Cast: Michael Pare, Philip Michael
Thomas, Lee Majors, Tom Savini
Origin: USA
This is the story of two detectives
hunting a killer who is using his victims
as characters in a demented story.
ALTADENA FILMS
Altadena Films, Linton House, 39/51
Highgate Road, London NW5 1RS UK.
Tel: 44.20.7424.7280. Fax:
44.20.7428.8936.
http://www.altadenafilms.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Ildi Toth Davy (Sales and
Acquisitions), Maja Zimmermann
(Acquisitions), Neda Tancic (Sales and
Marketing)
Office: Lerins R4, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.22
SEACHD: THE CRIMSON
SNOWDROP
http://www.seachd.com
Family (100 min)
Language: English, Gaelic
Director: Simon Miller
Writer: Simon Miller
Producer: Christopher Young
Key Cast: Padruig Moireasdan, Aonghas
Padraig Caimbeul, Colla Domhnallach,
Dolina MacLennan, Winnie Brook Young
Origin: UK
When a young man, Angus, visits his
dying Grandfather in hospital he cannot
hold back his boyhood quest for the truth
- the truth behind the death of his
parents.
BIGGA THAN BEN: A RUSSIAN’S
GUIDE TO RIPPING OFF LONDON
http://www.biggathanben.com
Comedy (85 min)
Language: English, Russian
Director: S A Halewood
Writer: S A Halewood
Producer: Liz Holford
Key Cast: Ben Barnes, Andrei Chadov
Origin: UK
A dark comedy, based on the best-selling
diaries of two young Russian immigrants
who come to London to fleece the
system. Music by Pete Doherty, Joe
Strummer and GEAR.
JACK KETCHUM’S THE GIRL
NEXT DOOR
http://www.the girlnextdoorfilm.com
Thriller (91 min)
Language: English
Director: Gregory M. Wilson
Writer: Daniel Farrands
Producer: Andrew van den Houten
Key Cast: Blythe Auffarth, Daniel
Manche, Blanche Baker
Origin: USA
Based on the novel by Jack Ketchum
inspired by real events, THE GIRL
NEXT DOOR provides an unflinching
look at the dark side of 1950s suburbia.
AMERICA VIDEO
FILMS
America Video Films, Virrey Loreto
2426, Buenos Aires, 1426, Argentina.
Tel: 5411.47879098. Fax:
5411.47879094.
www.americavideofilms.net, email:
[email protected]
Distributor
At Cannes: Enrique Maya (President),
Claudio Braslavsky (VP Acquisitions and
Marketing), Robery Sigman (Sales
Executive), Maria Fernanda Fernandez
Vila (Business Affairs), Utako Niimi
(Japanese Consultant)
Acquisition Executive: Claudio
Braslasvky
Office: Carlton Hotel, Suite 225/226, Tel:
33.4.93.06.04.06
STORIES USA
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Various
Country of origin: USA
Key cast: Steve Carell, James Gandolfini,
Josh Hartnettt
In the land of plenty no excess is too
much.
EARTH FROM ABOVE
Documentary (8 x 45’)
Language: English
Key Cast: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Country of origin: France
An extraordinary documentary series
dedicated to confront and explore the
major issues currently at stake for the
planet, hosted by famous photographer
Yann Arthus-Bertrand and inspired by his
best-seller book.
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SWEENEY TODD
Horror (90’)
Language: English
Director: Dave Moore
Key cast: Ray Winstone
Set in the harsh streets of 18th century
London, Sweeney Todd tells the dark &
enthralling tale of the notorious serialkilling baber.
AMERICAN CINEMA
INTERNATIONAL
American Cinema International, 15363
Victory Blvd., Van Nuys, CA 91406 USA.
Tel: 1.818.907.8700. Fax:
1.818.907.8719. http://www.aciamericancinema.com, email: [email protected]
At Cannes: George Shamieh (CEO),
Chevonne O’Shaughnessy (President),
Laura Voros (VP, Foreign Sales)
Office: B5, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.16
JACK HUNTER: THE LOST
TREASURE OF UGARIT
Action/Adventure (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Terry Cunningham
Writer: Michael Palmieri, Kevin Moore
Producer: George Shamieh, Chevonne
O’Shaughnessy, Osama Bastaki
Key Cast: Ivan Sergei, Joanne M. Kelly,
Thure Riefenstein
Budget: $15 million
Origin: Turkey
Jack Hunter, an adventurous treasure
seeker, goes to Ugarit, a town in Syria that
existed during the Pharoah’s reign, seeking
clues to a rumored buried treasure.
JACK HUNTER: THE QUEST FOR
AKHENATON’S TOMB
Language: English
Director: Terry Cunningham
Producer: George Shamieh, Chevonne
O’Shaughnessy, Osama Bastaki
Key Cast: Ivan Sergei, Joanne M. Kelly,
Thure Riefenstein
Budget: $15 million
Origin: Turkey
Jack Hunter continues his quest to find
the Ugarit treasure as an ancient obelisk
with Ugarit symbols has been found
revealing a link between the pharaoh
Akhenaten to the treasure.
THE BOXER
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Thomas Jahn
Writer: Thomas Jahn, Sabine Leipert
Producer: Rolant Hergert, Michael
Souvignier, Ica Souvignier
Key Cast: Stacy Keach, Joshua Dallas,
Kelly Adams
Budget: $3-$5 million
Origin: Germany
Upon his release from prison, Ben
redeems himself with the help of his
mentor Joe.
AMERICAN WORLD
PICTURES
American World Pictures,
16027 Ventura Blvd Encino CA, 91436
USA.
Tel: 1.818.380.9100.
Fax: 1.818.380.0050.
www.americanworldpictures.com
Worldwide Distribution
At Cannes: Mark L Lester (President),
Dana Dubovsky (President, Production),
Judy Gold (Exec. VP Worldwide Sales),
Jeffrey Goldman (VP Worldwide Sales)
Office: Riviera N° C6
SHOOT ON SIGHT
Political Thriller (112 min)
Director: Jag Mundhra
Writer: Carl Austin
Producer: Aron Govil
Cast: Brian Cox , Greta Scacchi, Om
Puri , Naseeruddin Shah, Sadie Frost
Tariq Ali (Shah), a Muslim police officer
of Scotland Yard, is asked to hunt-down
suspected suicide-bombers against the
backdrop of July 7 bombings in London.
THE LITTLE TRAITOR
Drama (88 min)
Writer: Amos Oz, Lynn Roth,
Director: Lynn Roth
Producers: Eithan Evan and Marilyn Hall
Cast: Alfred Molina, Ido Port, Theodore
Bikel
Proffy Liebowitz, a militant yet sensitive
eleven year old wants nothing more than
for the occupying British to get the hell
out of his land.
THE LENA BAKER STORY
Biography (108 min)
Director: Ralph Wilcox
Writer: Ralph Wilcox
Producers: Dennis Johnson, Barton Rice
Cast: Tichina Arnold, Michael Rooker,
Peter Coyote, Jasmine Farmer.
A chronicle of the life of Lena Baker, the
first woman to be sent to the electric
chair in
Georgia for the murder of her employer,
who forced her into sexual slavery.
ARRAMIS FILMS,
INC.
Arramis Films, Inc., 8619 - 17th NE,
Seattle, WA 98115-3203 USA.
Tel: 323.654.4965. Fax: 206.782.8351.
http://www.arramisfilms.com,
At Cannes: Rafael Primorac
(President)
Office:
GIALLO (YELLOW)
Horror (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Dario Argento
Writer: James Agnew and Sean Keller
Co-Production Partners: Hannibal
Pictures
Producer: Rafael Primorac and Richard
Rionda del Castro
Key Cast: Adrien Brody; Emmanuelle
Seigner; Elsa Pataky
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: $8 million
Origin: U.S./Italy
In Italy, an American woman fears her
sister has been kidnapped. Inspector
Enzo Lavia fears it’s worse. They team
up to rescue her from a killer known only
as Yellow.
THE TOKAREV
Gangster/Drama (95 min)
Language: English
Writer: James Agnew and Sean Keller
Producer: Rafael Primorac; John Hicks
Status: In Development
A reformed gangster’s past comes back
to haunt him.
ARRI MEDIA
WORLDSALES
ARRI Media Worldsales
(Worldsales Company), Türkenstr. 89,
80799 Munich, Germany. Tel:
0049(0)89.38.09.1288. Fax:
0049(0)89.38.09.1619. www.arrimediaworldsales.de
At Cannes: Antonio Exacoustos (Head of
Worldsales)
Office: Int’l Village, German Pavilion,
German Films,
Tel: 0033.4.925.90.252.
Fax: 0033.4.925.90.253
DER ROTE ELVIS (THE RED
ELVIS)
Documentary (90 minutes)
Language: German/English/Spanish
Director: Leopold Grün
Producer: Thomas Janze
With: Isabelle Allende Bussi, Celino
Bleiweiss, Peter Boyles, Egon Krenz,
Maren Zeidler, Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Wiebke Reed, Guenter Reisch
Year of Production: 2007
Rockstar, Cowboy, Socialist: During
Cold War times US American singer and
actor Dean Reed is the superstar of the
Soviet Union and worshipped throughout
the Eastern Bloc and South America.
AUFTAUCHEN (AMOUR FOU /
BREAKING THE SURFACE)
Erotic Drama
Language: German
Director: Felicitas Korn
Producer: Judith Erber, Bernhard Koch
Cast: Henriette Heinze, Golo Euler,
Sabine Bach, Wolfgang Packhaeuser, Till
Trenkel, Patrick Gueldenberg, Juergen
Lehmann, Claire Oelkers
Nadja utterly storms through life, without
compromise. When she meets Darius,
she is only interested in a one-night
stand.
CLARA
Feature (110 minutes)
Language: German
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms
Producer: Alfred Hürmer, Helma
Sanders-Brahms
Cast: Martina Gedeck, Pascal Gregory,
Malik Zidi
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Music, love, jealousy, drama:
The story of Clara Schumann offers all
the components of great cinema.
LISSI AND THE WILD EMPEROR
BAVARIA FILM INTERNATIONAL
ARROW
ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
Arrow Entertainment Inc., 7 Givins St.,
Toronto, On M6J 2X5 Canada. Tel:
1.416.516.0815. Fax: 1.416.880.9973.
http://www.arrow-entertainment.com,
At Cannes: Steve Arroyave (CEO), Nick
Rotundo (Sales Executive)
Office: Riviera B19, Tel: 04 92 99 33 21
MYSTERIOUS
http://www.mysteriousthemovie.com
Supernatural Thriller
Language: English
Director: Stewart Raffil
Writer: Stewart Raffil
Producer: Diane Kirman
Key Cast: James Brolin, Antonio Sabato
Jr., Annalynne McCord
Origin: USA/Bahamas
A mysterious and beautiful woman
appears on the island of Eleuthera in the
Caribbean, to avenge a murderous act, by
deadly seduction.
HARVEST
http://www.psychokey.com/harvest
Musical Docu-drama
Patois
Director: Nicolas Jolliet
Writer: Nicolas Jolliet
Producer: Nicolas Jolliet
Key Cast: Azaniah, Joseph Sonson, Baril
Pelage, Kyra Levy
Origin: Canada/St. Lucia
The musical journey of a Ganja planter.
SAVING GOD
Drama
Language: English
Director: Duane Crichton
Writer: Michael Jackson
Co-Production Partners: Clear
Entertainment, Cloud Ten Pictures
Producer: Dominic Serafino, Wayne
Thompson, Philip Mellows, Andre van
Heerden
Key Cast: Ving Rhames, Dean
McDermott, Ricardo Chavira
Delivery Status: Post Production
Origin: Canada
Ex-con, Armstrong Cane (Ving Rhames),
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becomes the pastor of the Church he
grew up in and battles a neighborhood of
drugs and violence to save souls, one
ARSENAL PICTURES
Arsenal Pictures, 6363 Wilshire Blvd.,
Suite 550, Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA.
Tel: 1.323.852.0011.
Fax: 1.323.852.0013. www.arsenalpictures.com, email: [email protected]
Distributor
At Cannes: Yarek Danielak (Managing
Director), Arianne Fraser (Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Thomas Speller
Office: Riviera G1/H4,
Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.42
THE SAINT
Action
Director: Barry Levinson (Rain Man,
Sleepers)
Producer: William J. MacDonald (HBO’s
Rome)
Cast: James Purefoy (Rome)
Status: In Production
An updated adventure following the
exploits of sophisticated international
thief Simon Templar, whose job it is to
right the wrongs of the modern world.
HAROLD
Family
Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire),
Spencer Breslin (The Saunta Clause
2&3), Fred Willard (Best in Show)
Status: Ready for delivery
A teenager with an early onset of malepattern baldness befriends his high
school’s janitor.
SARAH LANDON AND THE
PARANORMAL HOUR
Family/Mystery
Cast: Rissa Walters, Brian Comrie
Status: Ready for delivery
A 17-year-old girl has mysterious
encounters with paranormal activity in
the small town of Pine Valley.
STAG NIGHT
Action/Thriller
Director: Peter A. Dowling (Flightplan)
Producers: Arnold Rifkin (Die Hard 4.0,
Tears of the Sun), Christopher Eberts
(Lord of War, Lucky Number Slevin)
Cast: Kip Pardue, Vinessa Shaw, Breckin
Meyer
STATUS: Post-production
Boarding a train after celebrating a
bachelor party at a strip club, four guys
find themselves stranded in an
abandoned subway in New York City.
NIGHT TRAIN
Action/Thriller
Cast: Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon,
Saw), Leelee Sobieski (Eyes Wide Shut,
Deep Impact), Steve Zahn (Sahara,
Rescue Dawn), Matthias Schweighöfer
(The Red Baron)
Producers: Arnold Rifkin (Die Hard 4.0,
Tears of the Sun), Christopher Eberts
(Lord of War, Lucky Number Slevin)
Status: Post-production
As a nearly empty passenger train
plunges into the heart of a blizzard on
Christmas Eve the lives of three
characters are changed forever when an
eccentric passenger dies- leaving behind
a mysterious wooden box.
ARTEDIS - CINEMA
ARTS
Artedis - Cinema Arts, 12 rue
Raynouard, Paris 75016 France. Tel:
33.1.53.92.29.29. Fax: 33.1.53.92.29.20.
http://www.artedisfilms.com,
http://www.cinemaartsent.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Pierre-Richard Muller
(Chairman), Chantal Lam (VicePresident)
Office: Grand Hotel, Building Cormoran
II, Tel: 0493995667, Fax: 0493995667
DRILLER
http://www.drillermovie.com
Science-Fiction, Horror (85 min)
Language: English
Director: Jason Kartalian
Writer: Jason Kartalian
Co-Production Partners: Viewfinder
Entertainment
Producer: Jason Kartalian
Key Cast: Tanya Dempsey, Ivy
Gullickson
Origin: USA
An ordinary man is abducted by
malevolent aliens and turned into a
drilling and killing machine.
SHOOTING SILVIO
http://www.shootingsilvio.com
Drama (96 min)
Language: Italian
Director: Berardo Carboni
Writer: Berardo Carboni, Carlo Durante,
Daniele Malvolta
Co-Production Partners: Mork & Berry,
Kubla Khan
Producer: Umberto Massa
Key Cast: Federico Rosati, Sofia Vigliar
Origin: Italy
A satirical drama about a young, rich,
outlandish orphan who plots to kill Prime
Minister Silvio Berlusconi in an attempt
to make himself seem more interesting.
CHARITON’S CHOIR
Comedy (100 min)
Language: Greek
Director: Grigoris Karantinakis
Writer: Grigoris Karantinakis, Yorgos
Makris, Dimitris Vakis
Co-Production Partners: CL Productions,
Graal, Nova
Producer: Elena Hatzialexandrou
Key Cast: Georges Corraface, Maria
Nafpliotou, Akilas Karazisis
Origin: Greece
Chariton is schoolmaster in a tiny town on
Corfu during a time of military
occupation. His greatest passion is the
school choir. His greatest love affair is life!
SPIN CYCLE
Action, comedy (88 min)
Language: English
Director: Scott Marshall
Writer: Paul Grace, Adam Lybbert
Co-Production Partners: Galilay
Entertainment, Evolving Pictures
Producer: Jack Gilardi, jr.
Key Cast: Sarah Chalke, Lochlyn Munro,
Maxin Bahns, Constance Zimmer, Esai
Morales, Howie Mandel, Jeff Fahey
Origin: USA
Six young people are held hostage in a
laundromat when a money exchange by
low-level gangsters goes wrong. Sure to
be a cult classic!
ARTIST VIEW
ENTERTAINMENT
Artist View Entertainment, 4425 Irvine
Avenue, Studio City, CA 91602 USA. Tel:
1.818.752.2480. Fax: 1.818.752.9339.
www.artistviewent.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Scott Jones (President), Jay
Joyce (Vice President)
Office in Cannes: Riviera D10, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.41
MR. ART CRITIC
Comedy (90 minutes)
Cast: Bronson Pinchot, Toni Trucks, John
Lepard
Status: Complete
Year: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
After a scolding from his boss, a high
profile art critic known for his heartless
commentaries, retreats to his cottage on
the lake to clear his head.
BILLY OWENS: THE SECRET OF
THE RUNES
Family (90 minutes)
Cast: Dalton Mugridge, Ciara
O’Hanlon,Christopher Fazio,Mikayla
Ottonello
Status: Post Production
Year: 2008, Country of Origin: Canada
Billy, along with his two fellow students
in magic, must find a way to free their
teachers’ soul from an enchanted amulet
before he is trapped forever.
THE ELEVENTH HOUR
Action (90 minutes)
Cast: Matthew Reese, Kannika Coley,
James Jamison, David Nibley
Status: Completed
After years as a prisoner of war, a former
navy SEAL, is trying to live a normal
life.
HOUSE OF FEARS
Thriller (90 minutes)
Cast: Corrie English, Sandra McCoy
Corey Sevier, Alice Greczyn, Eliot
Benjamin Michael J. Pagan
Status: Completed
Six friends sneak into a haunted house
the night before it opens for Halloween,
only to find their evening of fun has
turned into their worst nightmare.
During Cannes Contact
Carlton Hotel Office 149
Tel 04 93 06 41 49
ASP ALAIN SIRITZKY
PRODUCTION
ASP Alain Siritzky Production, 6399
Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1007, Los Angeles,
CA 90048 USA. Tel: 1.323.655.6845.
Fax: 1.323.655.6849.
www.asproductions.net, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor
At Cannes: Alain Siritzky (President),
Michele Siritzky (Marketing), George
Pilzer (Sales Agent), Gabriel Orgal
(Sales)
Office: C13, Tel: 04.93.43.97.48. Tel:
06.08.58.16.01
EMMANUELLE PRIVATE
COLLECTION
EMMANUELLE IN SPACE
EMMANUELLE IN RIO
EMMANULLE 5
EMMANUELLE 2000
EMMANUELLE 6
EMMANUELLE 7
EMMANUELLE THE TELEVISON
SERIES
THE ASYLUM
The Asylum, 1012 N. Sycamore Avenue,
Los Angeles, CA 90038 USA. Tel:
323.850.1214. Fax: 323.850.1218.
http://www.theasylum.cc, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: David Rimawi (CEO), Paul
Bales (Chief Operating Officer), Keith
Leopard (Consultant)
Office: Riviera A16, Tel: 323.497.1245
100 MILLION BC (PREHISTORIC)
http://www.theasylum.cc/product.php?id
=138
Science Fiction (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Louis Myman
Writer: Paul Bales
Producer: David Michael Latt, David
Rimawi, Paul Bales
Key Cast: Michael Gross, Greg Evigan,
Christopher Atkins
Origin: USA
Scientists discover time travel with
horrible consequences when they
inadvertently bring a giant carnivorous
dinosaur back to modern Los Angeles.
JOURNEY TO THE
CENTER OF THE EARTH
http://www.theasylum.cc/product.php?id=145
lgEnglish
Director: Scott Wheeler and
Davey Jones
Writer: Steve Bevilacqua and Scott
Wheeler
Producer: David Michael Latt,
David Rimawi, Paul Bales
Key Cast: Greg Evigan,
Dedee Pfeiffer
Origin: USA
A hi-tech drilling rig must rescue a
research team trapped deep below the
Earth’s surface. There they discover an
exotic world — rich with spectacular
flora and fantastical creatures.
CANNES 2008
WAR OF THE WORLDS 2: THE
NEXT WAVE
http://www.theasylum.cc/product.php?id
=141
Language: English
Director: C. Thomas Howell
Writer: Steve Bevilacqua and Karen
Forsberg
Producer: David Michael Latt, David
Rimawi, Paul Bales
Key Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Christoper
“Kid” Reid
Origin: USA
Two years after the Martian invasion,
George Herbert’s worst fears are
realized: They have returned.
ATLAS
INTERNATIONAL
Atlas International Film GmbH,
Candidplatz 11, D - 81543 Munich,
Germany. Tel: 49.89.210.975.0. Fax:
49.89.210.975.81.
http://www.atlasfilm.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Stefan Menz (President),
Kai-Roger Grueneke (President), Philipp
Menz (President/Sales & Acquisitions),
Dieter Menz (Senior Vice President),
Michel Vandewalle (Head of Business
Development), Susanne Groh (National
& International Sales)
Office: G9/H12 Riviera and Office 18,
quai St. Pierre, 1st floor, Vieux Port de
Cannes, Tel: 49.172.8276.385 and
49.174.312.88.92
HABERMANN’S MILL
Drama
Language: German / Czech
Director: Georg Juraj Herz
Producer: Karel Dirka, ART OKO
Filmproduktions KG and Pavel Novy,
KN Filmcompany s.r.o.
Key Cast: Mark Waschke, Hannah
Herzsprung, Ben Becker, Lukas Vaculik,
Karel Roden, David Kross, Zuzana
Kronerova
Delivery Status: in pre-production
Country of Origin: Germany/Czech
Republic
Based on the novel by Josef Urban.
Award winning director Georg Juraj Herz
will direct this powerful drama set
against the backdrop of a Czech village
during the Second World War.
DRAGON DALE
Family Fantasy
Language: English
Producer: Mediacontentfactory, Eva
Finance GmbH
Delivery Status: in development
Country of Origin: Germany
A compelling story of Finn and Caitlin,
whose parents decide to go on vacation
to repair their broken family life But they
wake up on the holiday island, nothing is
the same. They are in the 10th century.
MR KUKA’S ADVICE
Comedy (approx. 94 min)
Language: Polish/German/English
Director: Dariusz Gajewski
Producer: Mathias Forberg, Heinz
Stussak / PRISMA FILM Vienna and
Piotr
Dzieciol, Ewa Puszynska / OPUS FILM
Lódz
Cast: Lukasz Garlicki, August Diehl,
Nadia Cameron-Blakey
Delivery Status: completed
Origin: Austria/Poland
Based on the best-seller by Radek
Knapp. - To prepare for this first travel
abroad, Polish youngster Waldemar has
soaked up endless wisdom by his
neighbour, Mr. Kuka, whose
recommendations are – well, weird.
ATRIX FILMS / SOLA
MEDIA
Atrix Films / Sola Media,
Aggensteinstrasse 13 a, 81545 München,
Germany. Tel: 49.89.64282611. Fax:
49.89.64957349. www.atrix-films.com, email: [email protected]
Sales Agent, Film Financing, Distributor
At Cannes: Beatrix Wesle (CEO),
Solveig Langeland (CEO), Thomas
Woodward (Sales)
Office: Riviera C 18, Palais de Festival),
Tel: 33.607.377.318 and 33.607.331377
BUY BORROW STEAL (MISS
CONCEPTION)
Love Comedy (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Eric Style
Producer: Doris Kirch
Cast: Heather Graham, Mia Kirshner
Delivery Status: completed / Market
Screenings
Budget: US $ 9,5 Mio.
Origin:, UK, UK
An ambitious young London professional
learns she has only one month left in
which to conceive a child.
THE TWO HORSES OF DSCHINGIS
KHAN
Theatrical Documentary
Director: Byambasuren Davaa
Producer: Byambasuren Davaa
Cast: Urna
Delivery Status: in pre-production
Year of Production: 2008/2009, Country
of Origin:, Germany
Fascinating new music documentary by
international acclaimed filmmaker
Byambasuren Davaa starring famous
singer URNA.
SUNSHINE BARRY AND THE
DISCO WORMS
Animation / Family (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Thomas Borch Nielsen
Producer: Nina Crone, Solveig
Langeland
Cast: Animation
Delivery Status: in production
Budget: $ 4,7 Mio.
Origin: Denmark, Germany
The young earthworm Barry is fed up
with being at the bottom of the food
chain. All the other insects in the
backyard consider earthworms to be
major losers: no arms – no backbone –
no brain!
THE TURTLE’S SONG
Language: English
Director: Nick Stringer
Writer: Nick Stringer
Producer: Mike Downey, Sam Taylor,
Nick Stringer, Helmut Grasser
Cast: Animal Documentary
Delivery Status: in Post-Production
Budget: US $ 5
Origin: UK, Austria, Germany
Tells the story of a little loggerhead
turtle, who follows in the path of her
ancestors on one of the most
extraordinary journeys in the natural
world.
B
BANANA FILMS
Banana Films, 83-85 Rue Philomene,
Brussels 1030 Belgium.
Tel: 322 219 9190. Fax: 322 219 9410.
http://www.bananafilms.be, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Jean-Luc VAN DAMME
(CEO - Producer)
Office: Tel: 0673830192
ANGELS’ CHOICE
http://www.bananafilms.be/index.php?opt
ion=com_content&task=view&id=45&It
emid=19
Drama (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Maria RIPOLL
Writer: Greg LATTER, Marie-Laure
BERTHELIN, Louise LONGO
Co-Production Partners: Kwesi Dickson,
Carlos Taillefer, Jan Fantl
Producer: Jean-Luc VAN DAMME
Key Cast: In negotiation
Budget: 11 M US$
Origin: Belgium
Both Kate’s daughter and her husband
died at sea and, as the lone survivor, she
becomes a suspect in a possible murder
investigation.
SCHMUCK !
emid=19
Dark comedy (100 min)
Language: English
Director: In negotiation
Writer: Greg LATTER
Co-Production Partners: Jan Fantl
Producer: Jean-Luc VAN DAMME
Budget: 10 MUS$
Origin: Belgium
An elderly Jewish man goes to Berlin to
make peace with his estranged daughter
and is unwittingly lured into a terrorist
bombing for which he is blamed.
AWAITING CAPA
emid=19
Romantic biopic (100 min)
Language: English
BOB_MARLEY
- VISION MUSIC
Director: In negotiation
Writer: Yaron Seelig
Co-Production Partners: Chaim Sharir,
Jan Fantl
Producer: Jean-Luc Van Damme
Budget: 11 MUS$
Origin: Israel
The story of a war photographer, the
most famous one of the 20th century,
who at the age of 35 finds himself at a
midlife crossroads.
BANKSIDE FILMS
Bankside Films, Douglas House, 3
Richmond Buildings, London W1 3HE
UK. Tel: 0044 20 7734 3566.
http://www.bankside-films.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Hilary Davis
(Co-Managing Director), Phil Hunt (CoManaging Director), Stephen Kelliher
(Director of Sales & Marketing), Maria
Carrion (Head of Acquisitions), Antonio
Salas (Sales Executive)
Office: Apartment Louis II, 2nd Floor, 55
La Croisette, Tel: 33(0)4.93.39.40.69
IN SEARCH OF A MIDNIGHT KISS
http://www.insearchofamidnightkiss.com
Language: English
Director: Alex Holdridge
Writer: Alex Holdridge
Producer: Seth Caplan, Scoot McNairy
Key Cast: Scoot McNairy, Sara
Simmonds, Brian Matthew McGuire,
Katy Luong
Year of Production: 2007,
Country of Origin: USA
A rollicking comic ride and tender
journey through love, sex and modern
romance in Los Angeles on New Year’s
Eve.
ACCIDENTS HAPPEN
Black Comedy
Language: English
Director: Andrew Lancaster
Writer: Brian Carbee
Producer: Anthony Anderson
Key Cast: Geena Davis, Joel Tobeck,
Harrison Gilbertson
Country of Origin: Australia
Accidents Happen is
the surprising tale of how
a good boy’s bad behaviour might just
manage to save his very dysfunctional family.
CANNES 2008
49
BRAN NUE DAE
Musical Romance
Language: English
Director: Rachel Perkins
Producer: Robyn Kershaw
Origin: Australia
When Willie, a teenage Aboriginal boy,
runs away from his oppressively
religious boarding school, he finds
himself scared and alone facing an epic
journey across Australia in order to find
his way home.
BAVARIA FILM
INTERNATIONAL
Bavaria Film International,
Bavariafilmplatz 7 / Bldg 71,
Geiselgasteig, 82031 Germany. Tel:
49.89.6499.2686. Fax: 49.89.6499.3720.
www.bavaria-film-international.com, email: [email protected]
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Thorsten Ritter (Head of
Bavaria Film International), Stefanie
Zeitler (Head of Sales), Sebastian
Kiesmüller (Head of Marketing), Klaus
Rasmussen (Sales Manager), Anegret
Eckl (Sales Manager), Olaf Aichinger
(Acquisitions Manager), Evelyn
Holzendorf (Marketing Manager)
Office: Riviera booth number H 9, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.34, Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.32.35
THE STRANGER IN ME
Drama (99 min)
Language: German
Director: Emily Atef
Writer: Emily Atef, Esther Bernstorff
Producer: Nicole Gerhards
Co-production partners: ZDF Das kleine
Fernsehspiel, DFFB in association with
ARTE
Key Cast: Susanne Wolff, Johann von
Buelow
Origin: Germany
Rebecca and Julian are joyfully
expecting their first child. But as soon as
the baby is delivered, Rebecca falls into
a deep darkness – to the point that she
realizes she is becoming a threat to her
child.
CHERRY BLOSSOMS - HANAMI
www.kirschblueten-film.de
Drama (126 min)
Language: German, English, Japanese
Director: Doris Doerrie
Writer: Doris Doerrie
Producer: Molly von Fürstenberg,
Harald Kügler
Co-production partners: Olga Film, BR,
arte, ARD degeto
Key Cast: Elmar Wepper, Hannelore
Elsner, Aya Irizuki
Origin: Germany
The sudden death of his wife plunges a
terminally ill man into profound grief.
Realizing how little he knew her and
how little he showed her his affection, he
devotes his last weeks to fulfilling her
long-cherished dreams.
RESTLESS
http://www.bavaria-filminternational.com
Drama (100 min)
Language: English, Hebrew
Director: Amos Kollek
Writer: Amos Kollek
Producer: Talia Kleinhendler, Michael
Tapuach
Co-production partners: Pie Films LTD,
Hamon Hafakot Ltd.
Key Cast: Moshe Ivgy, Ran Danker,
Karen Young, Phyllis Sommerville
Origin: Israel, Canada, Belgium, France,
Germany
In this edgy and streetwise drama,
Moshe, an Israeli small-timer living in
New York has hit rock bottom when his
son, who was left behind in Israel, wants
to see him for the first time.
BETA CINEMA
Beta Cinema, Gruenwalder Weg 28d,
Oberhaching, 82041 Germany. Tel:
49.89.6734.69.80. Fax:
49.89.6734.69.888.
http://www.betacinema.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Dirk Schuerhoff (Managing
Director), Andreas Rothbauer (Head of
International Sales and Acquisitions),
Dorothee Stoewahse (Press & PR),
Delphine Eon (Festival Coordinator)
Office: R17, Tel: 33.4.9299.3323, Fax:
33.4.9299.3324
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE - FROM
JUNKIE TO IRONMAN (LAUF UM
DEIN LEBEN - VOM JUNKIE ZUM
IRONMAN)
Drama (102 min)
Language: German
Director: Adnan G. Koese
Writer: Adnan G. Koese, Fritjof Hohagen
Co-Production Partners: Enigma Film,
Odeon Pictures, Neue Kinowelt
Filmproduktion, Lunaris Film
Producer: Fritjof Hohagen, Clarens
Grollmann
Key Cast: Max Riemelt, Jasmin
Schwiers, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Axel
Stein, Robert Gwisdek, Ismail Deniz,Udo
Schenk, Ingo Naujoks
Origin: Germany
Andreas and his gang of friends are
troublemakers – they get stoned on grass,
go on shoplifting excursions and are
continually running from the cops.
FALCO (QUIT LIVING ON
DREAMS)
(FALCO - VERDAMMT WIR LEBEN
NOCH)
Drama (109 min)
Language: German
Director: Thomas Roth
Writer: Thomas Roth
Co-Production Partners: MR Film, Eos
Entertainment
Producer: Kurt J. Mrkwicka
Key Cast: Manuel Rubey,Christian
Tramitz, Nicholas Ofczarek, Patricia
Aulitzky, Susi Stach
Origin: Austria
TV movie about the life and death of
internationally successful Austrian singer
Falco.
HEART OF FIRE (FEUERHERZ)
Drama (92 min)
Language: Tigrinya
Director: Luigi Falorni
Writer: Luigi Falorni, Gabriele Kister
Co-Production Partners: A Burkert
Bareiss Production by TV60, Senator
Film Produktion, Aichholzer Film, Beta
Film
Producer: Andreas Bareiss, Sven
Burgemeister, Gloria Burkert, Bernd
Burgemeister
Key Cast: Letekidan Elias, Seble
Tilahun, Salomie Elias, Daniel Seyoum
Origin: Germany, Austria
Brought up in an orphanage, a 10-yearold Eritrean girl is reunited with her
family, only to be delivered into the
hands of the Eritrean Liberation Front
where, as a child soldier, her young but
courageous heart refuses to let her kill.
BLUE STAR MOVIES
LTD
Blue Star Movies Ltd, 175 – 185 Gray’s
Inn Road - London WC1X 8UE U.K. Tel:
0044.0.207.812 0700. Fax:
0044.0.207.812.0650.
www.bluestarmovies.com, email:
[email protected]
Producer
At Cannes: Pete Maggi (Chairman &
Head of Intl. Sales), Barbara Martins
(Head of Acquisitions)
Acquisition Executive: Barbara Martins
Office: Agarttha Yacht, Jetée AlbertEdouard, Cannes, Tel: 001.310.721.1060
CITY OF DRAGONS (CITY OF
NINE DRAGONS)
Martial Arts/Biopic
Language: Cantonese
Director: Fruit Chan
Writers: Paul Brown, Marc Brown and
Fruit Chan
Producers: Terence Chang & John Woo,
Lion Rock Productions; Wendy Winks, A
Wink and A Nod Productions; Pete
Maggi, Blue Star Movies.
Delivery Status: Preproduction
Budget: $10M
Origin: USA
City Of Dragons is the as-yet-untold
story of how a young Bruce Lee and his
friend Ah Hing came of age in the
British-ruled Hong Kong in the 1950s,
and learned Kung Fu from Yip Man.
STAND BY LOVE
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Writer: Vincent Angell
Producers: Pete Maggi, Blue Star
Movies/ Essence Entertainment; Wendy
Winks, A Wink and A Nod Productions;
Mark Kaplan & Harriet Greenspan,
Atypical Entertaiment.
Budget: $12M
Origin: USA
Love takes off again for ex-lovers
unexpectedly seated next to each other in
first class on a red-eye flight from LA to
London.
BOLD FILMS
Bold Films, 6464 Sunset Blvd., Suite 800,
1.323.769.8900. Fax: 1.323.769.8954.
At Cannes: David Lancaster (CoPresident), Gary Michael Walters (CoPresident), Stephanie Denton (President,
Worldwide Sales), Jim Harvey (SVP,
International Sales), Jill Montgomery
(Director of Operations, Worldwide
Distribution)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Ste. 138
LEGION
Action/Thriller
Language: English
Director: Scott Charles Stewart
Producer: David Lancaster
Key Cast: Lucas Black, Paul Bettany,
Dennis Quaid, Adrianne Palicki, Kate
Walsh, Tyrese Gibson, Charles S. Dutton
Delivery Status: In Production
Origin: USA
STARSHIP TROOPERS 3
Sci-Fi - Action
Language: English
Director: Edward Neumeier
Writer: Edward Neumeier
Producer: David Lancaster
Key Cast: Casper Van Dien, Jolene
Blalock
Origin: USA
COME EARLY MORNING
Drama (97 min )
Language: English
Director: Joey Lauren Adams
Writer: Joey Lauren Adams
Key Cast: Ashley Judd
Origin: USA
BOOMTOWN MEDIA
Boomtown Media, Fuggerstr. 33, Berlin,
10777, Germany. Tel: 49.30.814.529.50.
Fax: 49.30.814.529.55.
http://www.boomtownmedia.de, email:
[email protected]
Production, World Sales
At Cannes: Uwe Dierks (Producer),
Norbert Maass (World Sales Agent)
Acquisition Executive: Uwe Dierks
(CEO)
Office: MEDIA Umbrella or German
Focus (International village), Tel: Uwe
Dierks 49.163.855.65.00, Norbert Maass
49.171.125.81.91
TRIP TO ASIA
http://www.triptoasia.de
Language: English, German
Director: Thomas Grube
Writer: Thomas Grube
Producer: Uwe Dierks, Andrea Thilo,
CANNES 2008
Thomas Grube
Key Cast: Sir Simon Rattle, Berliner
Philharmoniker
Budget: $2.03 Million
Origin: Germany
TRIP TO ASIA, the first film about the
mysterious inside life of the Berliner
Philharmoniker is an inspiring film about
the power of music, the challenge of
finding harmony and the art of living –
together.
RHYTHM IS IT!
http://www.rhythmisit.com
Documentary (100 min.)
Language: German, English
Director: Thomas Grube, Enrique
Sánchez Lansch
Writer: Thomas Grube
Producer: Uwe Dierks, Andrea Thilo,
Thomas Grube
Co-production partners: RBB/arte, Cine
Plus, Germany
Key Cast: Sir Simon Rattle, Berliner
Philharmoniker, Royston Maldoom,
Marie Theinert, Martin Eisentraut,
Olayinka Shitu
Budget: $1.1 Million
Origin: Germany
A stirring film about empowerment
through dance and music, records the
first big educational project of the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Simon
Rattle.
BREAKOUT
ENTERTAINMENT
Breakout Entertainment, 1438 N. Gower
St., Box 70, Bldg. 70, Ste. 226, Los
Angeles, CA 90028. Tel: 323.860.7101.
Fax: 323.468.4665.
http://www.breakoutent.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Sherri Strain (President),
Christina Rosenberg (Vice President of
Development)
Office: Riviera Stand G19, Tel:
33.0.4.92.99.33.07
TALES FROM THE BORDELLO
Musical/Mystery (60 min)
Language: English
Directors: Craig Bernard & Shawn Foster
Writers: Craig Bernard & Shawn Foster
Producer: Sherri Strain
Key Cast: Brittney Powell, Christina
Rosenberg, Eliza Bane
Depicts a young woman living out her
fantasies, immersed in different
burlesque styles.
TREASURE HUNT – THE
ADVENTURES OF A PORN STAR
Sexy comedy
Language: English
Key Cast: Rebekah Kochan
Grace returns to her hometown for her
estranged father’s funeral; and learns she
must discover who her father’s one true
love was in order to receive her rather
large inheritance.
MEDUSA
Thriller
Language: English
An assassin, hired to kill a philanthropist
who is using a devious weapon to
overthrow a media empire; realizes the
weapon is a woman whose glare turns
victims into stone.
CAPITOL FILMS
Capitol Films, Bridge House, 2nd Floor,
63-65 North Wharf Road, London W2
1LA, UK. Tel: 44.207.298.6200. Fax:
44.207.298.6201. www.capitolfilms.com,
At Cannes: Peter Naish (Managing
Director), James Norrie (Head of Sales),
Jessica Malik (Sales Executive), Hannah
leader (General Counsel)
Office: 63 La Croisette, 1st Floor,
Cannes, 06400. Tel: 04.93.43.8257. Fax:
04.93.43.9050
LOVE RANCH
Romantic Drama
Language: English
Director: Taylor Hackford
Writer: Mark Jacobson
Producers: Taylor Hackford
Leading Cast: Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci,
Sergio Peris- Mencheta, Gina Gershon,
Bai Ling
Production Country: USA
Grace (Helen Mirren) is married to
Charlie (Joe Pesci), a violent gangster
constantly trying to hit the big time.
When Charlie dreams up yet another
money making enterprise, Grace’s
unexpected betrayal unleashes his fury
and he exacts his terrible revenge
THE EDGE OF LOVE
Romantic Drama
Language: English
Director: John Maybury
Writer: Sharman Macdonald
Producers: Rebekah Gilbertson, Sarah
Radclyffe
Leading Cast: Keira Knightley, Sienna
Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys
Status: Screening
Production Country: UK
Two feisty, free-spirited women are
connected by the brilliant, charismatic
poet who loves them both. A passionate,
sexy true story about a remarkable,
turbulent friendship.
BLACK WATER TRANSIT
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Tony Kaye
Writer: Matthew Chapman
Leading Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Karl
Urban, Brittany Snow
Status: Post-Production
A heart-stopping, pulse-pounding, nerverattling action thriller about violence,
betrayal, love and the desire to do good
when everything conspires against you.
CELSIUS
ENTERTAINMENT
LTD.
Celsius Entertainment Ltd., 32 Maple
Street, London W1T 6HB United
Kingdom. Tel: 44.20.7193.1801.
http://www.celsiusentertainment.com,
At Cannes: Thierry Wase-Bailey
(Managing Director and Head of Sales),
Henriette Wollmann (Head of European
Co-production, Legal and Business
Affairs)
Office: Entrance 7E, Apt 3E2, 3rd Floor,
Residences Gray D’Albion, 20 Bis rue
des Serbes, Tel: 44.20.7193.1801
FREAKONOMICS
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Various
Producer: Chad Troutwine, Seth Gordon
Origin: USA
Based on the publishing phenomenon
Freakonomics, some of the world’s most
innovative documentary filmmakers will
explore the hidden side of everything.
VIVALDI
Period drama
Language: English
Director: Boris Damast
Writer: Jeffrey Freedman, Boris Damast
Co-Production Partners: Mechaniks,
Hand Picked Films, Future Films
Producer: Andrea Kikot, Anthony
Romano, Michel Shane
Key Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Gerard
Depardieu, Alfred Molina
Origin: USA, UK
Based on a true account in the life of
Antonio Vivaldi, a young idealistic
priest, who defies overwhelming odds to
transform a school of orphaned girls into
an orchestra that plays Europe’s greatest
concert halls and, ultimately, for the
pope.
MANDA BALA (SEND A BULLET)
Language: English, Portuguese
Director: Jason Kohn
Co-Production Partners: Kilo Films,
Whitest Pouring Films
Producer: Joey Frank, Jared Ian Goldman
Origin: USA, Brazil
MANDA BALA explores the cycles of
violence that plague Brazil’s upper and
lower economic classes in fits of rampant
corruption and violent kidnappings.
Tel 04 93 06 41 49
DUSKA - CINEMAVAULT INTERNATIONAL
C
CINE EXCEL
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC
Cine Excel Entertainment, Inc, 1219 W.
El Segundo Blvd. Gardena, CA 90247
USA. Tel: 001.323.754.5500. Fax:
001.818.848.4478. www.cineexcel.com,
Sales Agent, Distributor
At Cannes: David Huey (President), Ed
Tillman (VP International Marketing),
Yoko Suenega (VP International
Servicing)
Acquisition Executive: David Huey
(President)
Office: Private Residence Office, Tel:
001.818.679.2994
CARNIVAL EVIL
Suspense / Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Director: David Huey
Writer: David Huey
Producer: Ray Guthrie
Co-production partners: Alpha Film
Group
Key Cast: Amanda Earl, Matt Felton,
“Barefoot” Bill Pacer
Budget: $1.8 million
Origin: USA
A sadistic killer binds, tortures and kills
his captives in his secret Carnival.
REPTILICANT
Sci-fi / Action
Language: English
Director: Desi Singh
Writer: David Huey / Desi Singh
Producer: David Huey
Key Cast: Gary Daniels, Tina-Desiree
Berg, Paul Darrigo
Origin: USA
Hidden on Alcatraz, a shape-shifting
creature attacks an elite group of thieves.
THE ABOMINABLE
Sci-fi / Action
Language: English
Director: Patrick Donahue
Writer: Sean Donahue
Producer: David Huey
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Key Cast: Heather DeVan, Jason DeVan,
Nick Orafice
Origin: USA
The captured 60’ abominable snowman is
unleashed in San Francisco.
CINEMAVAULT
Cinemavault, 175 Bloor Street East,
South Tower, Suite 1011, Toronto,
Ontario, M4W 3R8, Canada. Tel:
1.416.363.6060. Fax: 1.416.363.2305.
www.cinemavault.com, e-mail:
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Nick Stiliadis (CEO),
Caroline Stern (VP, International
Distribution), Racquel Mesina (Director
of International Sales), Cathy Hare
(International Sales Associate), Ruby
Rondina (Festivals & Publicity
Manager), Vanessa Sacco (Markets and
Festivals Coordinator)
Acquisition Executive: Michael Paszt
Office: Riviera G5/H8, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.33.27
BLIND DATE
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?f
ilm_id=Art-36
Drama
Language: English
Director: Stanley Tucci
Writer: David Schechter, Stanley Tucci
Producer: Bruce Weiss, Gijs van de
Westelaken
Key Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Stanley
Tucci, Thijs Romer
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening,
Origin: USA/The Netherlands
The story of two parents who talk, flirt,
and fight with each other to try and cope
with the loss of their young daughter. A
remake of Theo van Gogh’s 1996 Dutch
Academy Award winner.
KINTA
http://www.kinta1881.com/
Martial Arts
Language: Cantonese
Director: CL Hor
Writer: Chow Kam Leong
Producer: Jean Liang, Andy Lee, Andrew
Lee
Key Cast: Ho Ro Bin, Shawn Lee, Kuan
Jun Fei, Michael Chin, David Bao
1st Market screening
Origin: Malaysia
In this high-energy fight for freedom,
poor Chinese miners battle against a
tyrannical secret society bent on murder.
Malaysia’s first ever martial arts movie.
I.O.U.S.A.
http://www.agorafinancial.com/iousa.html
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Patrick Creadon
Producer: Christine O’Malley, Sarah
Gibson and Open Sky Entertainment
Key Cast: David M. Walker, Robert
Bixby, Diane Rehm, Alice Rivlin,
William Bonner, Harry Zeeve, Robert
Rudin, Ron Paul
1st market screening
Origin: USA
A well-studied, timely and thorough
investigation of America’s debt crisis.
ARTEFACTS
http://www.artefactsmovie.com/
Horror
Language: English
Director: Giles Daoust, Emmanuel
Jespers
Writer: Giles Daoust, Emmanuel Jespers
Producer: Giles Daoust, Emmanuel
Jespers
Key Cast: Mary Stockley, Felix Scott,
Max Digby, Jason Morell, Peter
Warnock, Veronique Van De Ven, Martin
George Swabey, Cecile Boland
First Market screening of completed
film.
Origin: Belgium
All your friends are being murdered – by
people they know – themselves!
SKILLS LIKE THIS
ilm_id=Rom-355
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Monty Miranda
Writer: Spencer Berger
Producer: Donna Dewey, Tim Gray,
Brian D. Phelan, Paul Aaron, Rock
Obenchain
Key Cast Spencer Berger, Gabriel
Tigerman, Brian D. Phelan, Kerry
Knuppe, Ned Bellamy
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
Origin: USA
In this inventive comedy, three friends
have their lives turned upside down when
one of them realizes that larceny might
be his best skill.
AFRICA UNITE
ilm_id=Spe-352
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Stephanie Black
Producer: Stephanie Black
Key Cast: Danny Glover, Lauryn Hill,
Ziggy Marley, Ky-Mani Marley, Damian
Marley, Rita Marley
Origin: USA
A masterfully executed film that is all at
once a Bob Marley concert tribute,
Marley family travelogue, and
humanitarian documentary.
USED PARTS
ilm_id=Art-365
Drama
Language: Spanish with English
Subtitles
Director: Aaron Fernandez
Writer: Aaron Fernandez
Producer: Aaron Fernandez, Morteza
Mohammadi
Key Cast: Eduardo Granados, Alan
Chavez, Carlos Ceja, Damayanti
Quintanar
Origin: Mexico, France, Spain
A 14-year-old boy is seduced by the
underworld of stolen car parts
DUSKA
ilm_id=Com-344
Dark Comedy
Language: Dutch, Russian, English with
English subtitles
Director: Jos Stelling
Writer: Jos Stelling, Hans Heesen
Producer: Hans de Weers, Reinout
Oerlemans, Hans de Wolf
Key Cast: Gene Bervoets, Sergei
Makovetsky, Sylvia Hoeks
Origin: The Netherlands, Russia, Ukraine
This dark comedy tells the story of an
aging film critic, a beautiful cinema
cashier and a Russian scrounger who
comes to visit and is not likely to ever
leave.
ROCKAWAY
AKA or FKA (also known as or formerly
known as):
ilm_id=Act-319
Action
Language: English, Spanish, Russian
with English subtitles
Director: Joshua & Jeffrey Crook
Writer: Joshua & Jeffrey Crook
Producer: Mark L. Pederson, Aldey
Sanchez
Key Cast: Nicholas Gonzalez, Mario
Cimarro, Manny Perez, Ricardo Chavira
Origin: USA
A returning Afghanistan war hero seeks
retribution for the brutal murder of his
wife & child.
THE GOLDEN BOYS
ilm_id=Rom-347
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Daniel Adams
Writer: Daniel Adams
Producer: Daniel Adams, Matt Janes,
Howard Katz, Michael Mailer
Key Cast: David Carradine, Rip Torn,
Bruce Dern, Mariel Hemingway, Charles
Durning, John Savage, Julie Harris
Origin: USA
Three retired sea captains, a beautiful
woman and a tossed coin. It all comes
together in The Golden Boys.
HOPE AND A LITTLE SUGAR
ilm_id=Art-363
Drama
Language: English
Director: Tanuja Chandra
Writer: Tanuja Chandra, Glenn Russow
Producer: Scott Pardo, Glenn Russow
Key Cast: Anupam Kher, Mahima
Chaudhry, Amit Sial
Origin: USA
A tale of love set against the forces of
hate.
1-900
Drama
Language: English
Director: John Turturro
Writer: David Schechter
Producer: Bruce Weiss, Gijs Van De
Westelaken
Key Cast: John Turturro
Origin: USA
Two people meet on a phone sex line and
go through an entire relationship without
ever meeting in person.
STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME
http://www.stealapencil.com/
Documentary
Language: English, Dutch
Director: Michèle Ohayon
Writer: Michèle Ohayon
Producer: Michèle Ohayon, Theo Van de
Sande
Key Cast: Jack Polak, Ina Soep, Ellen
Ten Damme, Jeroen Krabbe, Marieke
Oudejans, Jean Pierre Gillain
Origin: USA
A passionate and vibrant film by
Academy Award® nominee Michèle
Ohayon about the power of love and the
ability of humankind to rise above
unimaginable suffering.
CONFESSIONS OF A SUPERHERO
http://www.therealsuperhero.com/
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Matt Ogens
Producer: Jamie Patricof, Charlie Gruet,
Matt Ogens
Key Cast: Christopher Lloyd Dennis, Joe
McQueen, Jennifer Gehrt, Maxwell Allen
Origin: USA
Morgan Spurlock presents this
fascinating film that chronicles the lives
of three mortal men and one woman who
make their living working as superhero
characters on the sidewalks of
Hollywood Boulevard.
WIND MAN
ilm_id=Art-358
Drama
Language: Russian
Director: Khuat Akhmetov
Writer: Odelsha Agishev, Khuat
Akhmetov
Producer: Rauf Atamalibekov, Stanislav
Ershov
Key Cast: Igor Yasulovich, Kuandyk
Kystykbaev, Ayanat Esmagambetova
Origin: Russia
During a thunderstorm, a strange being
falls from the sky into a tiny village on a
forgotten stretch of the Kazakh steppe.
BLUE BLOOD
ilm_id=Thr-351
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Benjamin Cummings, Orson
Cummings
Writer: Benjamin Cummings, Orson
CANNES 2008
Cummings
Producer: Benjamin Cummings, Orson
Cummings
Key Cast: Bill Sage, Roy Scheider, Susie
Misner, Noelle Beck
Origin: USA
A trophy husband conspires to kill his
wife.
MIDNIGHT CLEAR
ilm_id=Art-356
Drama
Language: English
Director: Dallas Jenkins
Writer: Wes Halula
Producer: Kevin Downes, Dallas Jenkins
Key Cast: Stephen Baldwin, Kirk B.R.
Woller, Mary Thornton
Origin: USA
The lives of 5 people are changed
forever after they cross paths and
experience random and minor acts of
kindness.
THE FIRST SATURDAY IN MAY
http://www.thefirstsaturdayinmay.com/
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Brad Hennegan, John
Hennegan
Producer: Ellen Dux, The Hennegan
Brothers
Key Cast: Frank Amonte, Dan
Hendricks, Bob Holthus, Michael Matz,
Kiaran McLaughlin, Dale Romans
Origin: USA
An engrossing film that follows six
diverse trainers as they jockey for
position along the Kentucky Derby trailthe Holy Grail of horseracing and “the
most exciting two minutes in sports.”
FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO
ilm_id=Spe-372
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Daniel Karslake
Producer: Daniel Karslake
Key Cast: Chrissy Gephardt, Mary Lou
Wallner, Tonia Poteat
Origin: USA
A provocative and entertaining film that
reconciles homosexuality and the literal
interpretation of Biblical scripture.
QUANTUM HOOPS
ilm_id=Spe-374
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Rick Greenwald
Producer: Rick Greenwald
Key Cast: David Duchovny, Roy Dow,
Jordan Carlson, Travis Haussler, Day
Ivy, Scott Davies
Origin: USA
A basketball team of valedictorians,
engineers and physicists from one of the
country’s top academic institutions battle
to win at least one basketball game.
FAT HEAD
http://www.fathead-movie.com/
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Tom Naughton
Writer: Tom Naughton
Producer: Middle Road Pictures
Key Cast: Tom Naughton
Origin: USA
A hilarious response to “Super Size Me”
that exposes the myths behind modern
diets, the obesity epidemic and the
government’s role in keeping you happy
and healthy.
SPINNING INTO BUTTER
ilm_id=Art-34
Drama
Language: English
Director: Mark Brokaw
Writer: Rebecca Gilman, Doug Atchison
Producer: Norman Twain, Lou Pitt, Ryan
Howe
Key Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Mykelti
Williamson, Beau Bridges, Miranda
Richardson, James Rebhorn, Victor
Rasuk
Origin: USA
Sarah Jessica Parker plays a college
Dean whose attitude is under fire after a
racial crime is committed on campus.
OUTSOURCED
http://www.outsourcedthemovie.com/
Comedy
Language: English
Director: John Jeffcoat
Writer: George Wing, John Jeffcoat
Producer: Tom Gorai, David Skinner
Key Cast: Josh Hamilton, Ayesha
Dharker, Larry Pine, Asif Basra, Matt
Smith
Origin: USA
After his entire department is outsourced,
an American novelty products salesman
heads to India to train his replacement.
CANVAS
http://www.canvasthefilm.com/
Drama
Language: English
Director: Joseph Greco
Writer: Joseph Greco
Producer: Sharon Lane, Adam Hammel,
Lucy Hammel, Joe Pantoliano, Bill
Erfurth
Key Cast: Joe Pantoliano, Marcia Gay
Harden, Devon Gearhart
Origin: USA
One family’s struggle to overcome
adversity.
SCAR 3D
ilm_id=Hor-341
Horror
Language: English
Director: Jed Weintrob
Writer: Zack Ford
Producer: Norman Twain, Courtney
Potts, Jamie Gordon
The unabridged version of this Product Guide
CANNES 2008
MIDEM • MIPTV • CANNES • MIPCOM
OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND
(Tented & Heated)
Lunch on the beach whatever the weather
Celebrating 50 Years
Cannes Film Festival 2008
Contact Olivier
Tel. (33) 4 93 94 20 68 Fax. (33) 4 93 43 60 91
site address: http://www.rado-plage.fr
notre e-mail: [email protected]
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Key Cast: Angela Bettis, Kirby Bliss
Blanton, Christopher Titus, Ben Cotton,
Devon Graye
Origin: USA
Brace yourself for an entirely new
dimension in larger-than-life horror shot
entirely in 3D
INTERVIEW
www.sonyclassics.com/interview
Language: English
Director: Steve Buscemi
Writer: David Schechter, Steve Buscemi
Producer: Bruce Weiss, Gijs van de
Westelaken
Key Cast: Sienna Miller, Steve Buscemi
Origin: USA, and The Netherlands
A fading journalist is forced to interview
America’s most famous TV soap star.
MADE IN JAMAICA
ilm_id=Spe-26
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Jerome Laperrousaz
Writer: Jerome Laperrousaz
Producer: Pascal Herold
Key Cast: Bunny Wailer, Elephant Man,
Lady Saw, Toots
Origin: USA/France
A powerful portrait of the leaders of the
reggae music movement.
THIS FILTHY WORLD
ilm_id=Spe-27
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Jeff Garlin
Writer: John Waters
Producer: Jeff Garlin, Michele Armour
Key Cast: John Waters
Origin: USA
Legendary filmmaker and pop culture
icon John Waters takes us on an
outrageous and eye popping journey
celebrating his illustrious film career.
CINEPHIL
Cinephil, 18 Levontin Street, Tel-Aviv
65112 Israel. Tel: 972.3.566.4129. Fax:
972.3.560.1236.
http://www.cinephil.co.il, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Philippa Kowarsky (General
Manager), Ori Bader (Sales Manager)
Office:
COCALERO
Language: Spanish
Director: Alejandro Landes
Producer: Julia Solomonoff
Origin: Argentina-Boloivia
Cocalero follows Evo Morales for over a
year thorough his seemingly impossible
bid to become Bolivia’s first indigenous
president up to his win by an
unprecedented majority.
JERUSALEM IS PROUD TO
PRESENT (YERUSHALAIM GEA
LEHATSIG)
Documentary (80/58 min)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Nitzan Gilady
Producer: Galia Bador, Nitzan Gilady
Origin: Israel
Jewish, Muslim and Christian religious
leaders band together in a battle against
the World Pride events which were
scheduled to take place in Jerusalem. On
the other side the activists of Jerusalem’s
LGBT community center, who planned
the events.
FLIPPING OUT (FLIP)
Hebrew, English
Director: Yoav Shamir
Co-Production Partners: NFB, ITVS,
Sundance Channel, Keshet Broadcasting,
New Israeli Foundation for Film, BBC,
ARTE, SBS, VPRO, DR T
Producer: Michael Sharfstein, Kent
Martin, Philippa Kowrsky
Origin: Israel/Canada
Yoav Shamir (Checkpoint) offers an
insight into the widespread phenomenon
of young Israelis “flipping out” due to
excessive drug use during their grand trip
to India after completing their mandatory
military service.
CINESAVVY, INC.
Cinesavvy, Inc., 325 King St W, Suite
202, Toronto ON, Canada M5V 1J5. Tel:
1.416.598.2525. Fax: 1.416.599.2223.
www.cinesavvyinc.com
Sales agent
At Cannes: Hassain Zaidi (CEO), Jean
Breau (Creative Director)
Acquisition Executive: Abhi Rastogi
(Managing Director) Erin Rypstra
(Marketing Director)
Office: Riviera G11/H14, Tel:
1.416.832.8841
PHANTOM PUNCH
Drama (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Robert Townsend
Writer: Ryan Combs
Producer: Hassain Zaidi
Key Cast: Ving Rhames, Nick Turturro,
Bridget
Origin: Canada
From jail to world heavyweight boxing
champ, ‘Phantom Punch’ traces Sonny
Liston’s life and loves, ties to the mob
and mysterious death.
FRANKIE AND ALICE
Thriller/Drama
Language: English
Key Cast: Halle Berry
Delivery Status: pre-production
Origin: Canada
A young black woman, struggling with
multiple personality disorder, is torn
between who she is and the racist
Caucasian alter-personality that preys
upon her mind.
BOLLYWOOD ZOMBIE
Horror
Language: English
Origin: Canada
What seems like to be a match made in
heaven turns into a nightmare in this
Indian wedding when the bride and her
guests are transformed into a horde of
zombies.
CELL 213
Horror
Language: English
Origin: Canada
How does an inmate escape a haunted
prison?
GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
Horror
Language: English
Origin: Canada
An American family travels to Romania
to inherit a house on the eve of the
apocalypse.
CINETEL FILMS, INC.
CineTel Films, Inc., 8255 Sunset Blvd.,
1.323.654.4000. Fax:1. 323.650.6400.
http://www.cinetelfilms.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Paul Hertzberg (President),
Marcy Rubin (Sr. VP, International
Distribution), Eric Bernstein (VP,
International Distribution)
Office: Riviera, B2
HALLOWED GROUND
Horror
Language: English
Director: David Benullo
Writer: David Benullo
Producer: Daniel Grodnik, Timothy J.
Warenz
Key Cast: Jaimie Alexander
Origin: USA
After becoming stranded in a small,
middle-American town while driving
cross-country, a young woman discovers
that her arrival there was foretold a
century before by the town’s founding
preacher.
AUSSIE AND TED
Family
Language: English
Director: Shuki Levy
Writer: Shuki Levy and Tori Avey
Producer: Ronnie Hadar, Herb Linsey
Key Cast: Dean Cain, Beverly D’Angelo
Origin: USA
A family dog goes on an journey to
recover his little girl’s special teddy bear.
FIRE FROM BELOW
Action/Adventure
Language: English
Director: J.R. Mandish
Writer: William Langlois and Jim
Wynorski
Producer: Andrew Stevens
Key Cast: Kevin Sorbo, Glen Morshower
Origin: USA
When an industrialist hits a vein of pure
lithium while digging he unleashes a
disaster of epic proportions.
BA’AL
Action
Language: English
Director: Paul Ziller
Writer: Andrew Black
Producer: Lindsey Mcadam
Key Cast: Jeremy London
Origin: Canada
The storm god, Ba’al, in unleashed on
earth and an archeologist must find a
way to stop it.
CINEXPORT
Cinexport, 78 avenue des ChampsElysées, 75008 Paris, France. Tel:
33.1.45.62.49.45. Fax: 33.1.45.63.85.26.
tvfrance-intl.com and unifrance.org,
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Anne-Marie ROMBOURGCARACO (President), Ingrid LOISE
(Assistant)
Acquisition Executive: Anne-Marie
ROMBOURG-CARACO
Office: Village Int’l - Riviera European
Pavillion N 121, Tel: 06.07.54.33.33
LINO
Feature-film (92 min)
Language: French with English subtitles
After the death of the young woman he
has been lodging, a fifty years old man
finds himself alone with a two years old
little boy, Lino.
GANGLAMEDO
Feature-film (96 min)
Language: Chinese with English subtitles
Director: Dai Wei
Key Cast: Jung Shichen, Zinchen
Denchu, Zheng Hao, Yadong
Suolangwangmu
Origin: China
The first musical film about life in
modern Tibet, combining the mystery of
Tibetan, traditions, an legendary story
and elements of modern popular culture.
CJ ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
CJ Entertainment Inc., 2nd Fl., Sinsadong, Kangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-893
Korea. Tel: 82.2.2017.1114. Fax:
82.2.2017.1240. www.cjent.co.kr/eng
At Cannes: Katharine Kim (EVP of Int’l
Division & Distribution), Kini Kim (VP
of Int’l Sales), Josh Lee (VP of Int’l
Sales), Kwan Lee (Director, Int’l Sales),
Michelle Chae (Director, Int’l Sales),
CANNES 2008
Hee-jeon Kim (Director, Int’l Festivals)
FATE
Action (123 min)
Language: Korean, Subtitles English
Director: KIM Hae-gon
Scriptwriter: KIM Hae-gon
Production company: MKDK Producer
JO Won-jang
Key cast: SONG Seung-heon, KWON
Sang-woo, JI Sung
Status: Completed
Budget: 4.5M Delivery date March 20,
2008
Country of origin: Korea
Four friends plot to steal money meant
for the rival gang leader with hope of
starting new lives.
THE DIVINE WEAPON
Period drama
Language: Korean Subtitles English
Director: KIM Yoo-jin
Scriptwriter: LEE Man-hee
Production company: K&J Entertainment
Producer KANG Woo-suk
Key cast: JUNG Jae-young/HAN Eunjung/HUH Joon-ho
Budget: 10M Delivery date Summer,
2008
Joseon Dynasty (Korea) in 15th Century
secretly plans a development of the
world’s first explosive arrow launcher to
hold off Ming Dynasty’s territorial
expansion plan.
THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE
WEIRD
Language: Korean Subtitles English
Director: KIM Jee-woon
Scriptwriter: KIM Jee-woon, KIM Minsuk
Production company: Barunson Co., Ltd.
Producer: CHOI Jae-won, SEO Woo-sik
Key cast: SONG Kang-ho, LEE Byunghun, JUNG Woo-sung
Budget: 20M Delivery date Summer, 2008
While the Weird, a notorious train
robber, is stealing from a Japanese train
crossing the Manchurian plains, he
discovers a treasure map.
COACH 14
Coach 14, 21 rue Jean Pierre Timbaud,
Paris 75011. Tel: 33.1.40.21.72.79.
Fax: 33.1.47.00.10.02.
http://www.coach14.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Pape BOYE (Managing
Director Buyer), Jaume DOMÉNECH
(Managing Director), Caroline NATAF
(Acquisitions Manager Buyer), Anna
NOGUÉ (Marketing Manager, Festivals
Coordinator)
Office: Square Mérimé, 17 2nd floor,
Tel: 33.4.93.39.10.09. Fax:
33.4.93.39.22.75
LA SANGRE BROTA (BLOOD
APPEARS)
Drama (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Pablo FENDRIK
Writer: Pablo FENDRIK
Co-Production Partners: Juan Pablo
GUGLIOTTA (Magma Cine), Claire
LAJOUMARD (Acrobates Films), Ole
LANDSJÖAASEN (Neue Cameo
Key Cast: Arturo GOETZ, Nahuel P.
BISCAYART, Guillermo ARENGO,
Ailin SALAS, Stella GALAZZI,
Guadalupe DOCAMPO
Origin: ARGENTINA, FRANCE,
GERMANY
Arturo is a cab driver who has to obtain
two thousand dollars within twenty-four
hours: his older son, Ramiro, who left
home four years ago, has just phoned
from Houston asking for urgent help.
GALANTUOMINI
Action/Adventure, Drama, Thriller (90 min)
Language: Italian
Director: Edoardo WINSPEARE
Writer: Edoardo Winspeare, Andrea Piva,
Alessandro Valenti
Producer: Fabrizio MOSCA (Acaba
Produzioni)
Key Cast: Donatella FINOCCHIARO,
Fabrizio GIFUNI, Beppe FIORELLO,
Giorgio COLANGELI
Origin: ITALY
A well known judge comes back in his
native region, Salentino, in the South of
Italy to find out that his old friend is
dead and the woman he loved is working
now for a crime organization. In such
context, the triggering of the tragedy is
almost inevitable.
CONTENTFILM
INTERNATIONAL
ContentFilm International, 19 Heddon
Street, London, W1B 4BG, UK. Tel:
44.20.7851.6500. Fax: 44.20.7851.6506.
www.contentfilm.com, e-mail
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Jamie Carmichael (President,
CFI), Harry White (Head of Sales),
Kristian Brodie (Sales Executive),
Graham Begg (Head of Film &
Television Finance), Judith Baugin (Head
of International Marketing), Rebecca
Berry (Marketing Manager)
Acquisitions Manager: Beatrice
Neumann
Office 3rd floor, 2 La Croisette, Tel:
04.93.38.58.88, Fax: 04.93.99.46.55
THE MESSENGER
Emotional Road-Trip Drama
Language: English
Director: Oren Moverman
Writers: Alessandro Camon, Oren
Moverman
Producers: Mark Gordon, Benjamin
Goldhirsh
Key Cast: Ben Foster
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Origin: USA
A poignant, yet ultimately life affirming
road movie about one of the toughest
jobs around…
RELEASE
Violent action-packed comedy-horror
Language: English
Director: Stephen Leslie
Writers: Stephen Leslie
Producers: Damian Jones
Origin: UK
An original and hilariously brutal satire,
and a gloriously twisted evocation of the
American dream…
COPRODUCTION
OFFICE
Coproduction Office, 24 rue Lamartine
75009 Paris, France. Tel:
331.35602.6000. Fax: 331.5602.6001.
www.coproductionoffice.eu, email:
[email protected]
Producer and Sales Agent
At Cannes: Florence Schapiro (Sales),
Sarah Calderon (Sales), Philippe Bober
(CEO), Isabell Wiegand (Administration
and Production), Susanne Marian
(Producer)
Acquisition Executive: Philippe Bober
Office: Riviera Booth stand G3/ H6, Tel:
334.9299.3226, Fax: 334.9299.3233
DELTA
Drama (90min)
Language: Hungarian
Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Writer: Kornél Mundruczó, Yvette Biro
Producer: Viktoria Petranyi, Susanne
Marian, Philippe Bober
Co-production partners: Proton Cinema,
Essential Filmproduktion
Key Cast: Orsi Tóth, Felix Lajko, Lili
Monori
Budget: 1,5 M US $
Origin: Hungary
A young man returns to the wild,
labyrinthine landscape of the Delta after
having been away since early childhood.
There he meets a sister he never knew he
had. Together they build a house. But the
locals will not accept this “unnatural”
relationship.
PANIQUE AU VILLAGE
Animation
Language: French
Director: Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar
Writer: Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar,
Guillaume Malandrin, Vincent Tavier
Producer: La Parti
Key Cast: Benoit Poelvorde, Frederic
Janin
Origin: Belgium
The misadventures of Horse, Indian and
Cowboy, quiet inhabitants of a village,
who set out in search of their enemies,
the Atlantans, traitorous underwater sea
creatures.
MEMORY HOTEL
Animation
Language: German
Director: Heinrich Sabl
Writer: Heinrich Sabl
Producer: Heinrich Sabl Film Produktion
Co-production partners: Parisienne de
Production
Delivery Status: Production
Year of Production: 1999-2009, Country
of Origin: German
SPLINTER CONTENTFILM INTERNATIONAL
CRYSTAL SKY
WORLDWIDE
Crystal Sky Worldwide, 10203 Santa
Monica Blvd., 5th Floor, Los Angeles,
CA 90067 USA. Tel: 1.310.843.0223.
Fax:1. 310.553.9895.
www.crystalsky.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Steven Paul (CEO &
Chairman), Daniel Diamond (President,
Crystal Sky Worldwide), Scott Karol
(EVP of Strategic Planning, Business
Affairs, and Production)
Office: Intercontinental Carlton, Tel:
33.4.93.06.42.23
TEKKEN
Action/Adventure
Language: English
Director: Dwight Little
Writer: Alan McElroy
Producer: Steven Paul & Benedict Carver
Key Cast: Jon Foo, Cary Tagawa, Ian
Anthony Dale, Kelly Overton
Origin: USA
A Parkoor style action movie based on
the video game sensation of the same
name.
ROBOSAPIEN
Family
Language: English
Director: Sean McNamara
Writer: Max Botkin
Producer: Avi arad & Steven Paul
Key Cast: Penelope Ann Miller, David
Eigenberg, Bobby Coleman, Holliston
Coleman
Origin: USA
A boy and an escaped military robot find
each other and transform one another’s
lives.
OPPOSITE DAY
Family
Language: English
Director: R. Michael Givens
Writer: Max Botkin
Producer: Steven Paul & Jamee Natella
Key Cast: French Stewart, George
Wendt, Colleen Crabtree, and Pauly
Shore
CANNES 2008
55
Origin: USA
An experiment goes wrong – and when
the mist clears everything has changed.
Becoming completely opposite, the
adults become children and the children
become adults.
CURB
ENTERTAINMENT
Curb Entertainment, 3907 West Alameda
Avenue, Burbank, CA, 91505, United
States. Tel: 1.818.843.8580.
Fax:1. 818.566.1719.
www.curbentertainment.com,
Producer, Distributor
At Cannes: Carole Curb (President),
Conor Barrett
(Marketing and Assistant Sales)
Acquisition Executive:
Christy Peterson
Office: Riviera H2
WAR WOLVES
Language: English
Director: Michael Worth
Writer: Michael Worth
Producer: Carole Curb
Key Cast: John Saxon, Michael Worth,
Tim Thomerson, Adrienne Barbeau
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Country of Origin: United States
A band of she-wolves and a special
forces unit are pitted against each
other in the race to hunt for a
fellow soldier infected with the
Werewolf virus in the
United States.
CONJURER
Horror (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Clint Hutchison
Writer: Clint Hutchison, David Yarbough
Producer: Richard Mix
Key Cast: Andrew Bowen, Maxine
Bahns, John Schneider
Delivery Status: Complete
Origin: United States
Recovering from a miscarriage, an art
photographer and his wife move to a
rural farm that may be haunted by a
presence that threatens their relationship.
SHORT TRACK
www.shorttrack.com
Family (103 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Marie Hopkins
Writer: Marie Hopkins
Producer: Chris McGuinness,
Marie Hopkins
Key Cast: Pepper Sweeney, Barbara
Niven, Joshua Snyder, Ann Bratton,
Patrick Gorman
Year of Production:
2008, Country of Origin:
United States
Blake longs to race in a top series and
struggles to find a way to allow his deaf
son to follow his footsteps and survive
his daughter falling for a young
California racer.
EBS WORLD
ENTERTAINMENT
EBS World Entertainment, 3000 W.
Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90404
USA. Tel: 1.310.449.4065. Fax:
1.310.449.4061. http://www.ebsla.com,
At Cannes: Richard Cooper (CEO),
Wayne Wong (President), Rick Jordan
(VP of Production), Josh Plaza
(Acquisitions Assistant Manager), Adam
Nelson (Acquisitions Assistant)
Office: B18
HEIST
Crime thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Rick Jordan, Richard Cooper
Writer: Rick Jordan, Lee Denny
Producer: Wayne Wong, Richard Cooper,
Rick Jordan
Key Cast: Rick Jordan, Erik David,
Christian Mendez
K is an accomplished bank robber. But his
world is turned upside down when his
brother needs help to pay off a debt to a
vicious drug kingpin. Will the heist pay off?
A CONSPIRACY
Thriller (91 min)
Language: English
Director: Rick Jordan
Writer: Matt Jordan
Producer: Wayne Wong, Richard Cooper,
Rick Jordan
Key Cast: Rick Jordan, Athena Maria
Bitzis, Rob Pralgo, Ray Lloyd
Chad Udall is a young attorney on the
skids. Things only get worse when he is
the only witness to a murder that puts
him in the middle of a conspiracy
involving a prestigious law firm, the FBI,
and his best friend.
BALCANCAN
Dark comedy (89 min)
Director: Darko Mitrevski
Writer: Darko Mitrevski
Producer: Darko Mitrevski
Key Cast: Vlado Jovanoski, Adolfo
Margiotta, Branko Djuric
Country of Origin: Macedonia
A Macedonian military deserter and his
Italian blood-brother are searching for a
dead grandmother, wrapped up in a
stolen carpet, all over the Balkan’s
criminal underworld.
ECHELON STUDIOS
Echelon Studios, 1725 Victory Blvd.,
Glendale, CA 91201 USA. Tel:
1.818.500.1640. Fax: 1.818.500.1644.
http://www.echelonstudios.us/ , email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Sandro Gohoho (Vice
President of International Sales), Eric
Louzil (President & CEO), Michael
Mondini (International Film Consultant),
Craig Minor (Vice President of
International Sales), Tim Kelly (Vice
President of Domestic & International
Sales)
Office: Tel: 33.4.93.38.62.91, Fax:
33.4.93.39.49.71
MY PINK SHIRT
http://www.mypinkshirt.com/
Drama (75 min)
Language: English
Director: Charles Kassatly
Writer: Charles Kassatly
Co-Production Partners: No One To
Blame Productions, Mouska Media
Producer: Charles Kassatly
Key Cast: Peter Bloch-Hansen, Badih
Bou Chakra, Milly Crnogorac, Craig Cyr,
Giancarlo Brun Del Re, Audrey Demers,
Margit Gmainer, Athena Guy, Jennifer
Kalinowski, Aida Memisevic,
Origin: Canada / USA
After her mother contracts the AIDS
virus, Regency must learn to survive on
her own.
CHRONICLES OF AN EXORCISM
Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Nick G. Miller
Writer: Nick G. Miller, Matthew
Ashford, David Michael Ross
Co-Production Partners: NGM
Enterprises
Producer: Matthew Ashford, Ray W.
Keziah, John Mullis, David Michael
Ross
A NO-HIT NO RUN SUMMER - MAX FILMS
Key Cast: Matthew Ashford, Rob G.
Kahn, Nick G. Miller, Heather Harvey,
David Michael Ross, Dara Wedel, Ray
W. Keziah, Sara Howell
Origin: USA
Based on what appears to be a true
exorcism, and shot documentary style,
the story of two amateur filmmakers
who, at the request of the Church,
document the exorcism of young Tina
Miller over a three day period.
MICHTAVIM LE AMERICA (DEAR
MR. WALDMAN)
http://www.dearmrwaldman.com/
Drama (90 min)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Hanan Peled
Writer: Hanan Peled
Co-Production Partners: Israeli Film
Fund, Open Doors Films
Producer: Yoav Halevy, Hanan Peled
Key Cast: Rami Heuberger, Jenya
Dodina, Ido Port, Roy Mayer, Ela
Armoni, Evelyn Kaplun, Doval’e
Glickman, Gadi Poor, Esti Svidenski, Eli
Gorenstein
Origin: Israel
Hilik chooses to test his father’s love to
him, while accepting the risk of loosing
him.
E
ECHO BRIDGE
ENTERTAINMENT
Echo Bridge Entertainment, 8383
Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 530, Los Angeles, CA
90211 USA. Tel: 1.323.658.7913. Fax:
1.323.658.7922.
www.echobridgeentertainment.com,
Distributor
At Cannes: Michael Rosenblatt
(President & CEO), Dan March
(Executive Vice President), Patti Rose
(Director - International Sales)
Office: Riviera R19, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.14
RUN FOR HER LIFE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Balthazar Kormakur
Producer: 26 Films
Key Cast: Dermot Mulroney
Origin: USA
In a desperate attempt to save his daughter
from a rare disease, a father jeopardizes
his career, family and life when he finds
himself involved in the middle of a
criminal underworld medical ring.
MY LIFE IN RUINS
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Donald Petrie
Writer: Mike Reiss
Producer: Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman,
Michelle Chydzik, Nathalie Marciano
CANNES 2008
Key Cast: Nia Vardalos, Richard
Dreyfuss, Rita Wilson
Origin: USA
A romantic comedy set amongst the ruins
of Ancient Greece, in which a GreekAmerican tour guide finds unexpected
adventure and romance.
JUST ADD WATER
Comedy (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Hart Bochner
Writer: Hart Bochner
Producer: Robin Bissell, Clifford Werber
Key Cast: Danny DeVito, Justin Long,
Jonah Hill, Dylan Walsh
Origin: USA
A hysterical film of human predicament
and resolve about a man who dares to
dream—and in the process gains the
courage to pursue his childhood love and
confront his hometown thugs.
ELEVEN ARTS, INC
Eleven Arts, Inc, 2932 Wilshire Blvd.,
#204, Santa Monica, CA 90403 USA.
Tel: 1.310.264.0818. Fax:
1.310.264.0868.
http://www.elevenarts.net, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Ko Mori (President), Kana
Aida (Executive Manager)
Office: Riviera H11
BLOODY SNAKE UNDER THE SUN
Drama (124 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Yu Ni
Writer: Kiyot Inagaki
Producer: Thiro Yamashita
Key Cast: Aoi Miyazaki, Shogen
Origin: Japan
Glaring but delicate. Warm and yet
brutal. Scent of people living in Okinawa
in 60’s.
WHERE ARE WE GOING?
Gay (100 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Yoshihiko Matsui
Writer: Yoshihiko Matsui
Producer: Atsuko Ohno
Key Cast: Shuju Kashiwabara, Anzu
Origin: Japan
ULTIMATE LOVE STORY
(PERFECT WITNESS)
Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Thomas C. Dunn
Writer: Mark Borkowski, Thoman C.
Dunn
Producer: Yan Fisher Romanovsky
Key Cast: Wes Bentley
Origin: USA/Spain
This unsetting psychological thriller
explores the dark side of the human
psyche and the depths to which one man
will sink to make his mark.
ENLIGHTENMENT
FILMS
Enlightenment Films, 87a Pimlico Rd,
Chelsea, London SW1 W8PH United
Kingdom. Tel: 44.207.824.8755.
www.enlightenmentfilms.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Hanan Kattan (Producer,
Head of Sales), Shamim Sarif (Writer,
Director), Jana Kralikova (International
Marketing Consultant)
Office: Cannes Port, Yacht ‘African Cat’,
Bureau Du Port, Gare Maritime 06400
CANNES. Tel: 33.645.063.998,
33(0)645.063.982
I CAN’T THINK STRAIGHT
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Shamim Sarif
Writer: Shamim Sarif
Producer: Hanan Kattan
Production Company: Enlightenment
Productions
Leading Cast: Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth
Status: Completed (Market screening
premiere)
Production Country: United Kingdom
Tala, a London-based Palestinian,
prepares for her elaborate wedding in
Jordan when she meets Leyla, a young
British Indian woman who turns her
world upside down.
THE WORLD UNSEEN
Drama
Language: English
Director: Shamim Sarif
Writer: Shamim Sarif
Producer: Hanan Kattan
Production Company: Enlightenment
Productions
Leading Cast: Lisa Ray, Parvin Dabas,
Sheetal Sheth
Status: Completed
Production Country: United Kingdom,
South Africa
In 1950’s South Africa ruled by
apartheid, free-spirited owner of café
Amina meets introverted wife Miriam
and their unexpected attraction pushes
them to question the rules that binds
them.
ESSENTIAL
ENTERTAINMENT
Essential Entertainment, 9000 Sunset
Boulevard, Suite 600, Los Angeles, CA
90069 USA. Tel: 1.310.550.9100. Fax:
1.310.550.9101.
At Cannes: Jere Hausfater (CEO), John
Fremes (President, International), Mark
Padilla (Director, Sales and Distribution),
Randy Hermann (CFO/COO), Neil
Kaplan (Chief Business Development
Officer), Sunil Bhuta (VP, Legal and
Business Affairs)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite 133, 14, La
Crosiette, Cannes, France 06400. Tel:
33(0)4.97.06.85.01, Fax:
33(0)4.97.06.85.12
MY ONE AND ONLY
Starring Renee Zellweger
Directed by Richard Loncraine (The
Gathering Storm, My House in Umbria,
The Gathering Storm, Band of Brothers –
TV series)
Written by Charlie Peters (My Father the
Hero, 3 Men and a Little Lady, Blame it
on Rio).
Produced by Aaron Ryder (The Prestige,
The Mexican, Memento)
Delivery Status: In Pre Production
In this bitter sweet romantic comedy, a
freewheeling mother drives across the
country in search of true love – and drags
her two teenage sons along for the ride.
STAN HELSING
Written and to be Directed by Bo Zenga
(Executive Producer - Scary Movie)
Produced by Stone Village Pictures
(Love in the Time of Cholera, Turistas)
Delivery Status: In Pre Production
On Halloween night reluctant hero and
video-store clerk STAN HELSING must
save a town from the 6 most feared
monsters in cinematic history.
SOLOMON KANE
Written and Directed by Michael J.
Bassett
Produced by Samuel Hadida (Resident
Evil, Silent Hill, Brotherhood of the
Wolf)
Starring James Purefoy (Vanity Fair,
Rome – HBO Series, Resident Evil), Pete
Postlethwaite (Closing the Ring, The
Omen, The Usual Suspects), Rachel
Hurd-Wood (Perfume, Peter Pan), Max
Von Sydow (The Diving Bell and the
Butterfly, Rush Hour 3), Mackenzie
Crook (Pirates of the Caribbean, The
Brothers Grimm), Alice Krige (Lonely
Hearts, Silent Hill).
A mercenary who owes his soul to the
devil redeems himself by fighting evil.
EUROCINE
Eurocine 33, Av. Des Champs Elysees,
33.1.42.25.64.92. Fax: 33.1.42.25.73.38.
www.eurocine.net, E-Mail:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Daniel LESOEUR
(Chairman), Ilona KUNESOVA (Head of
acquisition/development), Thomas
LESOEUR (Acquisitions/Development)
Office: n° C 3 at the Riviera
IN THE ATTIC
Animation
Director: Jiri BARTA
Producer: M. Smidmajer
Status: Pre production
Courageous toys undertake a dangerous
journey through a forsaken attic to rescue
their friend a beautiful doll from the ruler
of the Empire of Evil.
DON QUIJOTE
Director: 0rson Welles
Producer: Paxi Irrigoyen
Starring: Orson Welles, Akim Tamiroff, F
Feiguera
Status: Completed - screening in booth
Actual transposition of Cervantes’s
master piece shot over 20 years by Orson
Welles and edited by Jess Franco.
EL REY
Drama
Language: Spanish
selected/nominated Oscar & Goyas
Director: Antonio Dorado
Producer: Daniel Lesoeur
AMINA & MIRIAM
ENLIGHTENMENT FILMS
Starring: Fernand Solorzano, Vanessa
Simon, Olivier Pagès, Cristina Umana
Status: completed
Master of ESCOBAR, the life of Pedro
Rey, the first narco dealer who learned to
kiss and kill in the movies.
EUROPEAN FILM
PROMOTION
European Film Promotion, Friedensallee
14-16, Hamburg, 22765, Germany. Tel:
49.49.3906252. Fax: 49.49.3906249.
www.efp-online.com, email: [email protected]
Promotion
At Cannes: Renate Rose (Managing
Director), Jo Mühlberger (Project
Manager), Susanne Davis (Project
Manager), Sabine Rolinski (PR)
Office: Tel: 49.160.440 9595
PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE
European Film Promotion (EFP) is
uniquely positioned to promote and
market European cinema throughout the
world. In Cannes EFP is present with
PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE, a
project designed to spotlight European
production talent.
F
FABRICATION FILMS
Fabrication Films, 8701 W. Olympic
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035 USA. Tel:
1.310.289.1232. Fax: 1.310.289.1292.
http://www.fabricationfilms.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Chris Perry (Executive Vice
President)
Office:
STILETTO
http://www.
Thriller/Action (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Nick Vallelonga
Writer: Paul Sloan
Producer: Warren Ostregard
Key Cast: Tom Berenger, Michael Biehn,
Stana Katic, William Forsythe, James
Russo, Tom Sizemore, Dominique Swain
CANNES 2008
57
Budget: $4 million
Origin: USA
The seemingly random killings of an
assassin puzzle her lover.
FROM A PLACE OF DARKNESS
Thriller/Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Douglas Raine
Writer: Douglas Raine, Scott Kenyon
Baker
Producer: Phyllis Boyd, Jeffrey Chernov,
Catherine Conklin
Key Cast: Tracis Schuldt, John Savage,
Bronson Pinchot
Budget: $1 million
Origin: USA
Miles, a documentary filmmaker living
off old success, finds his “second” break
in the seedy world of snuff films.
DEEP WINTER
Language: English
Director: Mikey Hilb
Writer: John Protass, Micah Abrams
Producer: Glenn Zoller
Key Cast: Eric Lively, Kellan Lutz,
Michael Madsen, Luke Gross, Robert
Carradine
Budget: $3 million
Origin: USA
Best friends set out to be the first people
to ski a dangerous Alaskan peak.
NIGH WATCHER (SUICIDE TAPES)
Thriller/Horror (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Will Gordh
FANTASTIC FILMS
FANTASTIC FILMS
INTERNATIONAL,
LLC
Fantastic Films International, LLC.,
3854 Clayton Avenue, Los Angeles,
90027 CA, USA. Tel: 1.323.661.7088.
Fax: 1.323.661.7188.
www.fantasticfilmsinternational.com
At Cannes: Roxane Barbat (President),
Fred Dewysocki III (Partner), Lina
Naujokaite (Sales Assistant)
Office: Carlton International Hotel, Suite
#134, Mobile 1.310.560.9577
SPIRIT OF THE FOREST
Animation (78 min)
Language: English
Director: David Rubin
Production Company: Dygra Films
Producer: Manolo Gomez
Executive Producer: Fred deWysocki
Key Cast: Sean Astin, Ron Perlman,
Giovanni Ribisi, Anjelica Huston
Status: Completed, Screening
Country of origin: Spain
A powerful businessman wants to build a
highway through the forest.
AGENT C.R.U.S.H.
Animation
Language: English
Director: Sean Robinson
Production Company: Crush Productions
Ltd.
Producer: Tony Ludwig, Barrie
Robinson, Fred deWysocki, Roxane
Barbat
Key Cast: Roger Moore, Neve Campbell,
Brian Cox
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Two hundred years into the future, will
AGENT C.R.U.S.H., the future of law
enforcement, save the world?
SIDE EFFX
Sci-Fi (93 min)
Language: English
Production Company: Pagomas
Entertainment
Producer: Johnathan Brown
Key Cast: Eloise Joseph, Dave Judge
Country of origin: UK/ Italy
A bloody roller coaster that will test
everyone’s nerves, especially after
discovering that searching for eternal
youth, the scientists have instead
uncovered the after life.
COWBOY SMOKE
Western (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Will Moore
Production Company: Bandwagon Films
Producer: Will Moore
Key Cast: Matthew T. Johnston, Chad
Matthews, Estella Perez
A modern take on the spaghetti westerns
of the 1960’s that breaks down the
mythic Cowboy one bullet at a time.
THE LAST BAD NEIGHBORHOOD
Action/ Martial Arts (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Mark Duncan
Producer: Mark Duncan
Key Cast: Paul Logan (Days of our
Lives, Friends), Tara Platt, Zena Leigh,
Robert Nyman
In the near apocalyptic future, The
Silverstone Corporation is trying to take
over Dockland, the valuable waterfront
property under the firm rule of Bishop,
but the takeover won’t be easy – who
will win this battle???
THY KINGDOM COME
Horror (87 min)
A MAZON J ACK 3 MS
T RUST N ORDISK
Language: English
Director: Ilmar Taska
Production Company: Redark Pictures
Producer: Lorenzo von Lorch
Key Cast: Julian Berlin, Marian Zapico,
Tiya Sircar
On a quiet summer night, in an isolated
mansion, Peter is plagued by terrifying
visions in which Heaven and Hell mingle
into one dark landscape, inhabited by
creatures hell-bent on precipitating the
FILM ARTISTS
NETWORK
end of the world.
Film Artists Network, P.O. Box 323,
Canoga Park, CA 91305 USA. Tel:
1.818.344.0569. Fax: 1.818.344.0569.
www.filmartistsnetworkdistribution.com,
At Cannes: Chris Pilliczar (EVP), Gisela
Berk (Sales)
Office: 22.07 In the Palais 01, Tel:
33.492.998.107
EAMONS ROAD
www.mistyhazeproductions.com
Horror (75 min)
Language: English
Director: Janelle Morrissey
Writer: Janelle Morrissey
Producer: Janelle Morrissey
Key Cast: Bernice Tremblay, Josh
Hamilton, Rich Caron
Origin: USA
Tormented and disfigured by
neighbourhood bullies, a maniac turns
unpredictably lethal, seeking horrifying
revenge.
RAGE
www.ragemovie.com
Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Chris Cones & Jason Crabtree
Writer: Chris Cones & Achilles Gacis
Producer: Chris Cones & Sean
Eichenberg
Key Cast: Chris Cones, Sean Eichenberg,
Achilles Gacis
Origin: USA
Disturbing flashbacks add insight into the
mind of a killer, RAGE… IT’S IN ALL
OF US
THE HORROR WITHIN (EVIL
REMAINS)
Horror (81 min)
Language: English
Director: Tom Sanders
Writer: Edward Gross and Tom San
Producer: Ron Rothstein
Key Cast: Jesse Biltz, Lynne Jacobellis,
David Roers
Origin: USA
Film students go to the Hollywood Hills
to make a horror film and come face to
“FANG” with terrifying vampires and
other demons
THE FILM
CONSULTANCY
PARTNERS
The Film Consultancy Partners, 5-11
Mortimer Street, London W1T3JB UK.
Tel: 44.207.467.9804. Fax:
44.207.299.3391
At Cannes: Penny Wolf (Partner)
Office: Mobile: 44.777.592.3750
INCONCEIVABLE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Mary McGuckian
Writer: Mary McGuckian
Producer: Jeff Abberley, Martin Katz,
Mary McGuckian
Production Company: Pembridge
Pictures
Leading Cast: Jennifer Tilly, Andie
MacDowell, Geraldine Chaplin
Status: Completed
Production Country: United Kingdom
Singles, lesbians infertile couples, a pair
of gay men (and the odd widow who
needs the inheritance) - all desperate for
that one thing that will change their lives
forever - a child.
THE FILM
DEPARTMENT
The Film Department, 8439 Sunset Blvd.,
2nd Floor West Hollywood, CA 90069,
U.S.A. Tel: 1.323.785.3700. Fax:
1.323.785.3799. www.filmdept.com
Production Company; Sales Agent
At Cannes: Mark Gill (CEO), Neil
Sacker (COO/President), Steve Bickel
(President, International), Kristen
Figeroid (VP, International Sales), Robert
Katz (President, Production)
Office: Gray d’Albion, 12 La Croisette,
3rd floor, Tel: 33.0.4.93.45.11.17
THE REBOUND
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Bart Freundlich
Writer: Bart Freundlich
Producer: Mark Gill, Robert Katz, Tim
Perell
Key Cast: Catherine Zeta Jones; Justin
Bartha
Origin: U.S.A
A romantic comedy set in New York City
about a 25-year-old man and his new
neighbor, a 40-year-old, sexy single
mother who catches more than his eye.
LAW ABIDING CITIZEN
Thriller
Language: English
Writer: Kurt Wimmer
Producer: Lucas Foster, Mark Gill,
Gerard Butler, Alan Siegel
Key Cast: Gerard Butler
Origin: U.S.A
A psychopathic mastermind orchestrates
gruesome murders across the city, all
from inside his prison cell. The
prosecutor responsible for his sentence is
the only one who can stop him.
CANNES 2008
BROTHERS IN ARMS
Action
Language: English
Director: Marcel Langenegger
Writer: Noah Lukeman, Jordan Roberts
Producer: Mark Gill, Robert Katz, Kip
Konwiser
Origin: U.S.A
A true story set at the end of World War
II.
FILMEXPORT
GROUP
Filmexport Group, Via Del Pianeta
Urano, 60, Rome, Italy. Tel:
06.52207432. Fax: 06.52278416.
www.filmexport.com, e-mail:
[email protected]
Sales agent
At Cannes: Roberto Di Girolamo
(President), Laura Maurano (Sales
Manager), Elisa D’Amico (Sales
Manager)
Office: Hotel Palais Stéphanie,
Brougham Room, 1st Floor, Tel:
0033.4.92.99.52.90
DESTINY RIDE (SANS ETAT
D’AME - LA DONNA DI NESSUNO)
www.sansetatdame-lefilm.com
Thriller (96’)
Language: French, Italian, English
Director: Vincenzo Marano
Producer: Les Films de l’Astre,
Filmexport Group
Key Cast: Laurent Lucas, Hélène de
Fougerolles, Candice Hugo
Origin: France, Italy
A high-profile prostitute, a dreaded
judge, an idealistic journalist: the love
that they feel for each other will at once
become deadly.
MILAN PALERMO, THE RETURN
(MILANO PALERMO, IL RITORNO)
www.milanopalermoilritorno.it
Action (95’)
Language: Italian, English
Director: Claudio Fragasso
Producer: SANMARCO FILM - GLOBE
FILMS
Executive Producer: Pietro Innocenzi
Key Cast: Giancarlo Giannini, Raoul
Bova, Ricky Memphis, Gabriella
Pession, Enrico Lo Verso
Origin: Italy
Turi Arcangelo Leofonte, the mafia’s
bookkeeper, after accepting to cooperate
with the Law causing the arrest of almost
the whole Scalia clan, and after serving
his 11 years sentence, is being released.
BETTER THAN EVER (MEJOR
QUE NUNCA FKA: LIKE IT HOT?)
Comedy (90’)
Language: Spanish, Italian, English
Director: Dolores Payas
Producer: Zahori Media, Production
Group, J.L.A
Key Cast: Victoria Abril, Enrique Rocha,
Gabriella Pession, Pep Ferrer, Anna
Galiena, Rocco Papaleo
Origin: Spain, Italy, France
Abandoned by her husband after years of
marriage, Isabel thought her sexual life
was over. but she had still a lot to learn.
FILMS
DISTRIBUTION
Films Distribution, 34 rue du Louvre,
33.1.53.10.33.99. Fax: 33.1.53.10.33.98.
www.filmsdistribution.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Cannes, Nicolas BRIGAUDROBERT (Partner), Sébastien BEFFA
(Partner), François YON (Partner), Didar
DOMEHRI (International Sales
Director), Paméla LEU (TV Sales
Manager), Martin CARAUX (Marketing
& Festivals Manager)
Office: Stand E5/F8 (Riviera)
SEA WALL (THE) (UN BARRAGE
CONTRE LE PACIFIQUE)
Drama
Language: French
Director: Rithy Panh
Producer: Catherine Dussart
Key Cast: Isabelle Huppert; Gaspard
Ulliel; Astrid Berges-Frisbey
Origin: France
In French Indochina, the tragic story of a
mother and her two children, living in a
total destitution.
A L’AVENTURE
Director: Jean-Claude BRISSEAU
Producer: Frédéric NIEDERMAYER
Key Cast: Carole Brana, Nadine Chibani,
Arnaud Binard
Delivery Status: Post - Production
Origin: France
A young woman, bored with her lifestyle,
decides to leave everything behind. Her
meetings and encounters will lead her to
new pleasures, but also to the borders of
fantastique.
ON WAR (DE LA GUERRE)
Drama
Language: French
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Producer: Kristina Larsen
Key Cast: Mathieu Amalric; Asia
Argento, Guillaume Depardieu.
Origin: France
Bertrand, a film-maker approaching
forty, decides to follow a man to an
isolated part of the world, The Kingdom,
ruled by a mysterious and charismatic
woman, Uma.
ELDORADO
Language: French
Director: Bouli Lanners
Producer: Jacques-Henri Bronckart
Key Cast: Fabrice Adde, Bouli Lanners
Country of Origin: Belgium
MELODRAMA HABIBI (UNE
CHANSON DANS LA TÊTE)
Comedy/Drama
Language: French
Director: Hany Tamba
Producer: Emmanuel Agneray, Jérome
Bleitrach
Key Cast: Patrick Chesnais
Origin: France
In the 1970’s, Bruno Caprice was briefly
successful with his first and only hit
single. Unexpectedly, a Lebanese
businessman wants him to sing in Beirut,
where people remember his song.
FILMSHARKS INT’L
Filmsharks Int’l, Av. Diaz Velez 4323,
Buenos Aires, BsAs 1425 Argentina. Tel:
0054.11.4774.5044. Fax:
0054.11.4774.5044. www.filmsharks.com,
Sales Agent, Producer
At Cannes: Guido Rud (CEO)
Acquisition Executive: Guido Rud
(CEO)
Office: Tel: 33.6.1460.7471
LLAMANDO A UN ANGEL
(CALLING AN ANGEL)
http://www.llamandoaunangel.com
Black Comedy (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Pancho Rodríguez, Héctor
Rodríguez & Rodolfo Guzmán
Writer: Pancho Rodríguez, Héctor
Rodríguez & Rodolfo Guzmán
Key Cast: Luis Felipe Tovar; Patricia
Llaca; Mónica Dionne; Julio Bracho;
Pablo Abitia; Sherlyn; Eduardo España;
Marco Treviño; Andres Montiel; Alberto
Estrella; Manuel Ojeda; Flor Payan; Julio
Cesar Fido & Angel Cervantes
Budget: 1.0 M US$
Origin: MEXICO
Three men share nothing but the same
name: Angel Flores Fuentes.
CHICHA TU MADRE
Dramatic Comedy (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Gianfranco Quattrini
Writer: Gianfranco Quattrini
Co-Production Partners: BD Cine, Primi
Quattrini and Cinema Digital
Key Cast: Jesus Aranda, Tula Rodriguez,
Pablo Brichta, Jean Pierre Reguerraz
Budget: 1.0 M US$
Origin: PERU, ARGENTINA
When he learns that his teenage daughter
has become pregnant, Julio Cesar
understands the time has come for him to
change his destiny, stop driving a taxi
and assume his vocation as a Tarot
reader.
DESIERTO SUR
Road Movie / Drama (100 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Shawn GARRY
Writer: Trinidad Jimenez
Producer: Mauricio ARRAIGADA
Key Cast: Marta ETURA, Carolina
VARLETA, Héctor NOGUERA,
Alejandro BOTTO, Ernesto MALBRÁN,
Héctor MORALES.
MY DEAR ENEMY
FINECUT / CINECLICK ASIA
Budget: 1.0 M US$
Origin: Chile
Sofia is a young Spanish girl who loses
her mother to an illness. An enigmatic
letter falls into her hands, one that her
mother sent to Chile when she was alive.
FINANCIERS:
GOLDCREST FILM
FINANCE LLP.
Goldcrest Film Finance LLP., 65- 66
Dean Street, London W1D 4PL UK. Tel:
44.207.437.8696. Fax: 44.207.437.4448.
http://www.goldcrestfilms.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Adam Kulick (Partner),
Anthony Walters (Manager), Samantha
Holcroft (Executive Coordinator)
Office: 7th Floor, 25 La Bagatelle, La
Croisette
ICB
ENTERTAINMENT
FINANCE
ICB Entertainment Finance, 500 North
Brand Blvd., Suite 1650, Los Angeles,
CA 91203 USA. Tel: 1.818.254.2242.
Fax: 1.818.459.7082. www.icbef.com,
Financier
At Cannes: David Hutkin (Deputy
Managing Director), Lisa Stoute (VP),
Vivian Tarn (Fin. Analyst)
Office: cell: 1.916.768.2144
FINECUT CO., LTD /
CINECLICK ASIA
Finecut Co., Ltd / Cineclick Asia, Suite
#636, Daewoo I-ville Myungmoonga,
891-23 Daechi-dong, Gangnam-gu,
Seoul, 135-280, Korea. Tel:
822.569.8777. Fax: 822.569.8577,
www.finecut.co.kr, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Ms. Young-joo SUH
(Managing Director), Ms. Luna KIM
(Senior Manager, Finance & Coproduction), Ms. EJ CHO (Senior
Manager, Sales & Marketing), Ms. Yun-
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jeong KIM (Senior Manager, Sales &
Marketing), Ms. Rachel KIM (Assistant
Manager, Festival & Marketing)
Office:
LION’S DEN (LEONERA)
www.finecut.co.kr
Drama (105 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Pablo TRAPERO
Writer: Santiago MITRE, Martín
MAUREGUI, Alejandro FADEL, Pablo
TRAPERO
Producer: Pablo TRAPERO (P), SUH
Young-joo (P) Walter SALLES (Co-P)
Key Cast: Martina GUSMAN, Elli
MEDEIROS, Rodrigo SANTORO
Budget: 1.2 million Euro
Origin: Argentina
Convicted for the murder of one man and
attempted murder for another, Julia waits
in prison for her verdict. To make matters
worse, Julia discovers she is pregnant by
one of the men.
OPIUM WAR
Company: CINECLICK ASIA (Fantom
Co., Ltd)
www.cineclickasia.com
Drama (100 min)
Language: English and Dari
Director: Siddiq BARMAK
Writer: Siddiq BARMAK
Producer: Siddiq BARMAK(P), Shohreh
GOLPARIAN (P), Michio SUZUKI(CoP), Carole SCOTTA (Co-P), Youngjoo
SUH (Co-P)
Key Cast: Joy SUBA, Peter BUSSIAN
Budget: US$ 0.8 million
Origin: Afghanistan
After a U.S. chopper crashes in an
Afghan desert, a white officer and a
black soldier encounter a local family
living in deserted Russian tanks.
CROSSING
www.finecut.co.kr
Drama (107 min)
Language: Korean
Director: KIM Tae-kyun
Writer: LEE Yoo-jin
Producer: CHEONG Eui-seok(EP), KIM
Sun-yong(EP), CHIN Hee-moon(EP),
JUNG Suk-young(EP), HONG Jeeyong(P), Patrick CHEH(P), KIM Taekyun(P)
Key Cast: CHA In-pyo, SHIN Myeongcheol
Origin: Korea
When his mother dies, Joon, a young
North Korean boy sets out to find his
father by crossing the border to China,
not knowing his father had become a
North Korean refugee in South Korea
against his will.
FIVE STAR
PRODUCTION
THAILAND
Five Star Production Thailand, 61/1 Soi
Thaweemitr 2, Rama 9 Road,
Huaykwang, Bangkok, 10320 Thailand.
Tel: 662.246.9025. Fax: 662.246.2105.
www.fivestarent.com, email:
[email protected]
Production and Distribution
At Cannes: Ms. Aphiradee
Iamphungphorn (International Sales
Executive), Mr. Tian Ponvanit (Senior
Executive Director), Mrs. Somjai
Lertsethtakarn (Senior Executive
Director)
Office: Riviera G23, Tel: 6681.934.8190
ART OF THE DEVIL 3 (LONG
KHONG 2)
www.longkhong2.com
Horror (85 minutes)
Language: Thai
Director: Ronin Team
Writer: Kongkiat Komesiri
Key Cast: Napakpapah Nakprasit /
Suppakorn Kitsuwan / Namo
Tonggumnerd
Origin: Thailand
Panor (Napakpapah Nakprasit), a
seductive rural teacher, longs to live a
normal, peaceful life like everyone else
in her village. But her beauty becomes
her biggest curse.
THE RED EAGLE
Action
Language: Thai
Director: Wisit Sasanatieng
Writer: Wisit Sasanatieng
Key Cast: Ananda Everingham
Delivery Status: In Development
Origin: Thailand
THE SCREEN AT KAMCHANOD
www.thescreenthemovie.com
Horror (98 minutes)
Language: Thai
Director: Songsak Mongkolthong
Writer: Songsak Mongkolthong
Key Cast: Achita Pramoj Na Ayudha /
Pakkaramai Potranan
Origin: Thailand
Based on a true story, “The Screen at
Kamchanod” is set in 2007, a modern
world still haunted by past mystery.
.
FORTUNE
FEATURES, INC.
Fortune Features, Inc., 127 Broadway,
Suite 221, Santa Monica, CA 90401
USA. Tel: 310.601.8346. Fax:
435.604.8346. www.fortunefeatures.com,
Worldwide Sales, Production and
Financing of Motion Pictures.
At Cannes: Kourosh Esmailzadeh (CEO)
THE METHOD
www.TheMethod.tv
Author/Cast: Srikumar S. Rao, Ph.D
Director/Producer: Kourosh Esmailzadeh
(“Living Luminaries”(Executive
Producer), “Venus in Furs” by Stephen
Jeffreys)
Status: In production.
A feature length documentary
manifesting, in an instructional and
highly engaging manner, a revolutionary
results-oriented mental process that
anyone can use to achieve success and
lasting fulfillment.
DALAI LAMA RENAISSANCE
Documentary / Inspirational
Producer/Director: Khashyar Darvish
(“Black Hawk Waltz”)
Co-Producer: David Mueller
Narrated By: Harrison Ford
Status: Completed / Screeners Available.
Narrated by Harrison Ford, Dalai Lama
invites a group of leading thinkers to his
Himalayan residence to discuss solutions
for some of the world’s major problems.
Awards: Winner of 10 awards and
counting…
LIVING LUMINARIES
Docudrama / Inspirational
Director: Larry Kurnarsky
Writers: Larry Kurnarsky and S. A.
Mulvihill
Producer: Michael J. Lasky
Exec. Producers: - Kourosh Esmailzadeh
(“Venus in Furs”, “The Method”), Dawn
Olmstead, Gene Sloan, Bo Linten
Status: Completed / Screeners Available.
Our young seeker’s journey reaches
some of the most inspirational
individuals of our day.
For further information, please contact:
FORTUNE STAR
ENTERTAINMENT
(HK) LIMITED
Fortune Star Entertainment (HK)
Limited, 8/F, One Harbourfront, 18 Tak
Fung Street, Hunghom, Kowloon, HK.
Tel: 852 2621 8888. Fax: 852 2621
7771.
www.fortunestarentertainment.com,
Distributor
At Cannes: Ms Yvonne Chuang (Vice
President, Program Syndication and
Distribution), Ms Esther Hau (Associate
Vice President), Ms Elyse Leong
(Assistant Manager)
Office: TBC
RULE #1
Thriller (92.88 min)
Language: Cantonese
Director: Kelvin Tong
Writer: Kelvin Tong
Producer: Candy Leung
Key Cast: Ekin Cheng, Shawn Yue,
Fiona Xie and Stephanie Che
Budget: US$2M
Year of production: 2008, Country of
Origin: Hong Kong
Every day, the Police Force receives
about 185 phone calls. 180 are about
fights, rapes, murders and robberies. The
other 5 begin with “There’s something
strange in my house.”
FORWARD MOTION
ENTERTAINMENT
Forward Motion Entertainment, 24
Doddington Drive, Toronto On M8Y 1S4
Canada. Tel: 1.416.503.4089.
http://www.forwardmotionent.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Paco Alvarez (President)
Office: Canada Pavilion No. 124, Int’l
Villiage - Riviera, Tel:
33.(0).6.0717.7253
THE LISTENING PROJECT
http://www.thelisteningprojectfilm.com
Language: English
Director: Dominic Howes, Joel Weber
Producer: Jim Pohlad
Origin: USA
A global journey in search of what the
world thinks of America.
RED GOLD
www.Redgoldthemovie.com
Drama-Romance
Language: English
Director: John Irvin
Writer: Alessandro di Gaetano
Producers: Kim Todd, Roberto Bessi,
Alessandro deGaetano
Status: Pre-Production / Presales
Budget: $10 million
Year of Production: Aug. 2008,
Countries: Canada / Italy
A young American girl falls in love with
an Italian prisoner-of-war, tearing her
small Indiana town apart.
RISE OF THE DEAD
Horror
Language: English
Director: William Wedig
Written by: Joshua and Jeffrey Crook,
Kris Scotto
Original Music: Evan Wilson
Producers: Drew Oppelt, Barbara Burch,
Matt Regney, Patrick Pope
Cast: Erin Wilk, Stephen Seidel, Chris
Ferry
Status: Complete
Year: 2007, Country: US
FRIES FILM GROUP,
INC.
Fries Film Group, Inc., 22817 Ventura
Blvd. Suite 909, Woodland Hills, CA
91364 USA. Tel: 1.818.888.3052. Fax:
1.818.888.3042.
Distributor
At Cannes: Charles M. Fries (President),
Adam Welles (VP of Worldwide Sales)
Office: Rivera F5
ALIEN AGENT
Action (2007)
Cast: Mark Dacascos, Billy Zane, and
Amelia Cooke
Status: Completed and Ready for
Delivery
A lawman from another Galaxy must
stop an invading force from building a
gateway to our world.
NUMB
Romantic Comedy (2007)
Director: Harris Goldberg
Cast: Mathew Perry, Lynn Collins, Kevin
CANNES 2008
Pollak and Mary Steenburgen
Status: Completed and Ready for
Delivery
When a writer falls in love with his soul
mate, her love cures him of his neurotic
personality.
WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD:
TAKE 2
Comedy (2008)
Director: Tony Markes
Cast: Adam Rifkin, and Norby
Greenberry, Special Appearances by
George Lucas, Tom Hanks, and Will
Smith.
A mockumentary that shows you the
REAL Hollywood. Filmmaker Alan
Rifkin takes an unknown, wannabe Actor
under his wing and aims to make him a
star.
G
GAUMONT
30, Avenue Charles de Gaulle, 92200
Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France.
Tel: 33.1.46.43.21.80.
Fax: 33.1.46.43.20.33.
www.gaumont.net
At Cannes: Christophe RIANDÉE
(C.E.O.), Loïc TROCMÉ (Head of Sales
and Acquisitions), Yves CHEVALIER
(Acquisitions Consultant), Cécile
GAGET (Sales & Acquisitions),
Dorothée GROSJEAN (Sales), Virginie
ROYER (Sales)
Office: 2, rue Bivouac Napoleon, 4th
Floor, Tel: 33.4.93.68.90.20. Fax:
33.4.92.18.38.18
JCVD
Comedy
Director: Mabrouk el Mechri
Production: GAUMONT
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Karim
Belkhadra, Zinedine Soualem, François
Damiens
Status: Private Screening (on invitation
only)
When the life of Jean-Claude Van
Damme collides with the reality of a
hold-up in Brussels, Belgium, suddenly
the huge movie star turns into an
ordinary guy, filled with fears,
contradictions and hopes.
A FRENCH GIGOLO (CLIENTE)
Drama
Director: Josiane Balasko
Production: GAUMONT / LGM Cinéma
Cast: Nathalie Baye, Eric Caravaca,
Isabelle Carré
Status: Completed / Screening
Judith is level-headed woman in her
fifties. She lives alone and regularly
treats herself to the sexual services of
young men selected on Internet escort
sites. That’s how she meets Patrick,
whose kindness and simplicity win her
over.
DADDY COOL (15 ANS ET DEMI)
Comedy
Director: François Desagnat & Thomas
Sorriaux
Production: GAUMONT
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Lamboley
Philippe Le Tallec, a scientist living in
the USA, has to come back to France to
look after his young girl Eglantine,
whose he hasn’t seen in many years.
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Thriller
Director: Olivier Marchal
Production: GAUMONT / LGM Cinéma
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Olivia Bonamy
Schneider, an incorruptible cop, goes
against the opinion of his superiors and
begins an investigation which leads him
to the gates of hell.
GK FILMS / INITIAL
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP
GK Films / Initial Entertainment Group,
1411 5th St. Suite 200, Santa Monica, CA
90401USA. Tel: 310.315.1722.
Fax: 310.315.1723.
At Cannes: Maxine Leonard (SVP,
Marketing and Publicity)
Office: 24 La Croisette (at La Bris), 3rd
Floor, Cannes 06400,
Tel: 33.4.93.39.89.87
THE YOUNG VICTORIA
Drama
Language: English
Director: Jean Marc Vallee
Producer: Graham King, Martin
Scrosese, Tim Headington, Sarah
Ferguson
Key Cast: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend,
Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Jim
Broadbent
Country of Origin: UK
Chronicles Victoria’s rise to power,
focusing on the early turbulent years of
her reign and her legendary romance and
marriage to Prince Albert.
BANGKOK DANGEROUS
Action-Adventure
Language: English
Director: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
Producer: William Sherak, Jason
Shuman, Norm Golightly
Key Cast: Nicolas Cage
An anonymous assassin travels to
Bangkok to handle four kills for an
underworld crime boss, but his
conscience becomes his enemy in the
city that never sleeps.
GARDENER OF EDEN
Dark Comedy
Language: English
Director: Kevin Connolly
Producer: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad
Simpson, Allen Bain
Key Cast: Lukas Haas, Erika
Christensen, Giovanni Ribisi
A 25 year old slacker discovers his
purpose in life after accidentally
apprehending a local rapist – to protect
the good people of his small town… by
any means necessary.
GLOBAL CINEMA
GROUP LLC
Global Cinema Group LLC, 9229 Sunset
Blvd. Suite #400 Los Angeles CA 90069
USA. Tel: 1.310.443.7788. Fax:
1.310.443.7739
e-mail: [email protected]
Company Type: Distributor
At Cannes: Peter Elson (President)
Office: Residences of The Grand Hotel
JUST BURIED (PUSHING UP
DAISIES)
Black Comedy (93 mins)
Language: English
Director: Chaz Thorne
Writer: Chaz Thorne
Producer: John Watson, Pen Densham,
Bill Niven, Chaz Thorne
Cast: Rose Byrne, Jay Baruchel, Graham
Greene
Origin: CANADA
Oliver just inherited a funeral home in a
town where nobody is dying ….yet.
FOODFIGHT!
Animation
Language: English
Director: Lawrence Kasanoff
Writer: Sean Derek
Producer: Lawrence Kasanoff, George
Johnsen, Joshua Wexler
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Eva Longoria,
Hilary Duff
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2007-2008, Country
of Origin: USA
In the supermarket at night when the
lights go out, the grocery store
transforms.
RESTRAINT (RAVENSWOOD)
Drama/Thriller/ Suspense (92 mins)
Language: English
Director: David Denneen
Writer: Dave Warner
Producer: Anna Fawcett, Mark Lazarus,
Todd Fellman, Dan Halsted
Cast: Travis Fimmel, Stephen Moyer,
Teresa Palmer
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. The
three of them play out a dangerous game
of seduction, power and fear.
NEARING GRACE
Drama (105 mins)
Language: English
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Writer: Jacob Aaron Estes
Producer: Rick Rosenthal, Susan
Johnson, Tracy Underwood
Cast: Gregory Smith, Jordana Brewster,
Ashley Johnson, David Morse
Origin: USA
In New Jersey Suburbia circa 1979, one
high school senior loses and finds grace
in the dreamlike world of teenage
longing.
YOU’RE SO DEAD
Horror Comedy (100 mins)
Language: English
THE KREUTZER SONATA - INDEPENDENT
Director: Norman T. Vane
Writer: Norman T. Vane
Producer: Sean Javid, Norman T. Vane
Cast: Robert Parks-Valletta, Lindsey
Kelley, Jamie Perez Sorrentini
Origin: USA
A group of dead people hang out at a
cemetery at night and take over the
bodies of the living who enter.
THE G-MACHINE,
INC.
The G-Machine, Inc., 11685 Gorham
Ave., Suite 5, Los Angeles, CA 90049
USA. Tel: 1.310.713.7486.
Fax: 1.310.207.1936.
http://www.thegmachineinc.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Ron Gell (President & CEO),
Cynthia Marquoit (Chairman)
Office: LERINS Stand R21, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.43
ON THE DOLL
http://www.onthedoll.com/
Teen/Coming of Age (102 min)
Language: English
Director: Thomas Mignone
Writer: Thomas Mignone
Co-Production Partners: Doom
Incorporated, Jeff Most Productions,
Your Half Media Group
Producer: Jeff Most, Ryan Harper, John
Saviano
Key Cast: Brittany SNOW, James
RUSSO, Josh JANOWICZ, Stephen
SOWAN, Theresa RUSSELL
Origin: USA
Highly Provocative, On The Doll is a
story of the victims of child abuse, and
the pain it visits upon their later lives.
With interweaving stories following
victims and victimizers, the film depicts
the variety of experiences of abuse.
PVC-1
http://www.pvc-1themovie.com/cast.html
Thriller (85 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Spiros STATHOULOPOULOS
Writer: Dwight ISTANBULIAN, Spiros
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STATHOULOPOULOS
Producer: Jace HALL, Spiros
STATHOULOPOULOS
Key Cast: Alberto SORNOZA, Andres
MAHECHA, Daniel PAEZ, Hugo
PEREIRA, Merida URQUIA
Country of Origin: USA,
COLOMBIA, GREECE
Shot in real time and one continuous
take, PVC-1 is based on the
true story of a woman who is turned into
a human time bomb in an act of
terrorism.
ROMAN
Thriller/Horror (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Angela BETTIS
Writer: Lucky MCKEE
Producer: Chris WAYNE, Jonathan
SEROTA, Steve COPELAND
Key Cast: Kristen BELL, Lucky
MCKEE, Nectar ROSE
Origin: USA
A companion film to LionsGate’s MAY.
Roman (Lucky McKee) is a lonely young
man who yearns to find love, happiness
and companionship.
OBSESSION: RADICAL ISLAM’S
WAR AGAINST THE WEST
http://www.obsessionthemovie.com/
Language: English
Director: Wayne KOPPING
Writer: Raphael SHORE, Raphael
SHORE, Wayne KOPPING, Wayne
KOPPING
Producer: Peter MIER, Peter MIER,
Raphael SHORE, Raphael SHORE
Key Cast: Alan DERSHOWITZ, Alan
DERSHOWITZ, Brigitte GABRIEL,
Brigitte GABRIEL, Martin GILBERT,
Martin GILBERT, Nonie DARWISH,
Nonie DARWISH, Steven EMERSON,
Steven EMERSON
Origin: USA
Obsession is a film about the threat of
Radical Islam to Western civilization.
GOALPOST FILM
LIMITED
Goalpost Film Limited, 3rd Floor, 258260 Lavender Hill, London SW11 1LJ,
UK. Tel: 0207.585.3222.
Fax: 0207.585.3230.
http://www.goalpostfilm.com
At Cannes: Tristan Whalley (Managing
Director), Nicki Parfitt
(Co-managing Director)
Office: Résidences du Grand Hôtel, 45
Croisette, 06400 Cannes, entrance:
Flamant, 4th floor
THE ESCAPIST
Thriller (106 min)
Language: English
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Writer: Rupert Wyatt and
Daniel Hardy
Co-Production Partners: Parallel Films
and Picture Farm
Producer: Alan Moloney and Adrian
Sturges
Key Cast: Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes,
Liam Cunningham, Seu Jorge, Dominic
Cooper, Steven Mackintosh and Damian
Lewis
Origin: Ireland/UK
Frank Perry is an institutionalized
convict twelve years into a life sentence.
When his daughter falls ill, he is
determined to make peace with her
before it is too late.
ELISE
Drama
Language: English
Director: James Bogle
Writer: James Bogle
Producer: Ben Grant
Key Cast: Natalie Imbruglia
Origin: Australia
How can you understand one day without
understanding the day before?
CLUBLAND (INTRODUCING THE
DWIGHTS)
http://www.clublandthefilm.com
Drama (108min)
Language: English
Director: Cherie Nowlan
Writer: Keith Thompson
Producer: Rosemary Blight
Key Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Khan
Chittenden, Emma Booth
Origin: Australia
Tim has a new girlfriend. It should be the
perfect romance but something is holding
him back. He has a dark secret.
GOLDCREST FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
LTD.
Goldcrest Films International Ltd., 6566 Dean Street, London W1D 4PL, UK.
Tel: 44.207.437.8696. Fax:
44.207.437.4448,
[email protected]
At Cannes: John Quested (Chairman),
Stephen Johnston (President), Nick
Quested (Director), Laura Murphy (Sales
And Marketing)
Croisette
ELVIS & ANABELLE
http://www.elvisandanabelle.com
Romance/ Drama
Language: English
Director: Will Geiger
Writer: Will Geiger
Key Cast: Max Minghella, Blake Lively,
Mary Steenburgen, Joe Mantegna, Keith
Carradine
Status: completed
Origin: USA
When a young mortician revives a
suicidal beauty queen with an innocent
kiss, love blossoms in the strangest way.
GOLDCREST
INDEPENDENT
Goldcrest Independent, 65-66 Dean
Street, London W1D 4PL UK. Tel:
44.207.437.8696. Fax: 44.207.437.4448.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Pierre Weisbein (SVP Sales)
Croisette
THE CHOSEN ONE
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Rob Schneider
Writer: Rob Schneider, Boon Collins
Producer: John Schneider
Key Cast: Rob Schneider, Steve
Buscemi, Holland Taylor
Origin: USA
Like the Dalai Lama with a drinking
problem.
CASS
Drama
Language: English
Director: Jon S. Baird
Writer: Jon S. Baird
Producer: Stefan Haller
Key Cast: Nonso Anozie, Natalie Press,
Linda Bassett
Origin: UK
Cass Pennant: media sensation and head
of the UK’S most feared football gang.
The incredible true story of one man’s
struggle for IDENTITY AND
REDEMPTION.
Origin: Hong Kong
The king’s assassin will inherit the throve
unless a princess can learn the art of war
and protect her kingdom from invaders
and enemies within.
THE TRUCK
Thriller
Language: Korean
Director: Kwon Hyung-jin
Writer: Jang Hyung-mo
Producer: Tcha Sung-jai, Kim Mi-hee
Key Cast: Yu Hae-jin, Jin Ku
Origin: Korea
A truck driver in desperate need of
money for his daughter’s operation,
transports a cargo of corpses, but when
he picks up a witch hiking serial killer
his nightmare really begins.
WUSHU
Martial Arts (101 min)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Antony Szeto, Dennis Chan
Writer: Lau Ho-leung, Dennis Chan
Producer: Jackie Chan, John Sham,
Colette Koo
Key Cast: Sammo Hung, Wang Wenjie,
Liu Fengchao, Wang Fei, Liu Yongchen,
Wang Yachao
Budget: US$ 4 million
Origin: China
At a school for martial arts, a small
group of students form a close friendship
that is put to the test when they each
train in a different form of competitive
fighting.
Golden Network Asia Limited, Unit 1508,
Nanyang Plaza, 57 Hung To Road, Kwun
Tong, Hong Kong. Tel: 852.2751.1886.
Fax: 852.2750.4862. email:
[email protected]
Sales agent
At Cannes: Carrie WONG (Managing
Director); Clarence TANG (Head of
Sales and Acquisitions); Lammy LI
(Sales and Marketing Manager); Melanie
YIP (Sales and Marketing Executive);
Elise WONG (Senior Sales and
Marketing Assistant)
Acquisition Executive: Clarence TANG
(Head of Sales and Acquisitions)
Office: LERINS STAND P1, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.88.08
AN EMPRESS AND THE
WARRIORS
http://www.anempressandthewarriors.co
m
Epic / Martial Arts (95 min)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Tony Ching Siu-tung
Writer: James Yuen, Cheung Tan, Chun
Tin-nam
Producer: Claudia Chung, Eric Tsang
Key Cast: Donnie Yen, Guo Xiaodong,
Kelly Chen, Leon Lai
Budget: US$ 15 million
Gorilla Pictures, 2000 West Olive
Avenue, Burbank, CA 91506 United
States. Tel: 1.818.848.2198. Fax:
1.818.848.2232.
http://www.gorillapictures.net, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Bill Gottlieb (CEO), Don
Wilson (Executive VP)
Office: H16/G11-H14, Tel:
1.818.419.9814
THE LEGEND OF SASQUATCH
http://www.bigfootmovie.net
Family/ Animation (73 min)
Language: English
Director: Thomas Callicoat
Producer: Bill J. Gottlieb
Key Cast: William Hurt, John RhysDavies
“Legends never leave us, as long as we
believe.”
THE LAST SENTINEL
http://www.gorillapictures.net
Sci-Fi / Action
Language: English
Director: Jesse Johnson
Writer: Jesse Johnson
Key Cast: Don Wilson, Katee Sackhoff,
Bokeem Woodbine, Keith David
“The last of the warriors could now be
GOLDEN NETWORK
ASIA LIMITED
GORILLA PICTURES
CANNES 2007
our last hope.”
SOFT TARGET (CROOKED)
http://www.gorillapictures.net
Action / Thriller
Language: English
Director: Art Camacho
Writer: William C. Martell
Key Cast: Don “The Dragon” Wilson,
Olivier Gruner, Gary Busey
“The only thing more lethal than the
lawless – is the law itself.”
GREEK FILM
CENTRE
Greek Film Centre, 10 Panepistimiou Av,
Athens 10674 Greece. Tel:
00.30.210.36.48.007. Fax:
00.30.210.36.14.336. http://www.gfc.gr,
At Cannes: George Papalios (President),
Demetrios Sofianopoulos (Vice
President), Evi Lazari (Head of Sales and
Promotion), Iliana Zakopoulou (Head of
Festivals and International Cultural
Events), Stavroula Geronimaki (Sales
and Promotion Coordinator)
Office: Village International Greek
Pavilion 126
EL GRECO
Drama (117 min)
Languages: English, Spain, Greek
Director: Iannis Smaragdis
Writer: Iannis Smaragdis
Producer: Alexandros Films
Key Cast: Nick Ashdon, Juan Diego
Botto, Laia Marull
Origin: Greek
An epic tale of un uncompromising artist
and fighter for freedom, Domenicos
Theotocopoulos, known to the world as
“EL GRECO”.
CORRECTION
Drama (83 min)
Languages: Greek, Albanian
Director: Thanos Anastopoulos
Writer: Thanos Anastopoulos, Vasilis
Raisis
Key Cast: Yiorgos Symeonidis, Ornela
Kapetani, Savina Alimani
Origin:
A man gets out of prison and undertakes
a homeless journey into the
contemporary Athens. On his way he
will meet a woman and a little girl.
VALSE SENTIMENTALE
Drama (109 min)
Language: Greek
Director: Constantina Voulgaris
Writer: Constantina Voulgaris
Key Cast: Alexandros Voulgaris, Andreas
Kontopoulos, Loukia Michalopoulou
Origin: Greece
A love story where nothing happens,
where they say nothing and where
change.means nothing.
THREE MOMENTS
Drama (80 min)
Language: Greek
Director: Petros Sevastikoglou
Writer: Petros Sevastikoglou, Petros
Lambroulis
Key Cast: Evgenia Dimitropoulou,
Christos Nikolaou, Roula Pateraki
Origin: Greece
Every twenty years, a comet passes by
and carves a fiery footpath over a lake.
Those who love can cross it walking
over the waters. Love at three ages, at
three moments, will face the challenge
LAW OFFICES OF
GREG S. BERNSTEIN
Law Offices of Greg S. Bernstein, 9601
Wilshire Blvd., Suite 240, Beverly Hills,
California, USA. Tel: 1.310.247.2790.
Fax: 1.310.247.2791.
www.thefilmlaw.com
Entertainment and Film Finance Law,
Producer Representative
At Cannes: Greg S. Bernstein
(Entertainment Attorney, Producer
Representative)
Office: Novotel Montfleury Cannes,
Local Tel: 1.310.266.5365
H
HANNIBAL
PICTURES
Hannibal Pictures, 8265 Sunset
Boulevard, Suite 107, West Hollywood,
CA 90046 USA. Tel: 1.323.848.2945.
Fax: 1.323.848.2946.
www.hannibalpictures.com, e-mail:
[email protected]
Producer, Distributor and Sales agent
At Cannes: Richard Rionda Del Castro
(Chairman & CEO), Patricia Rionda Del
Castro (President), Jonathan Collins
(Director of Production and Sales)
Office: Intercontinental Carlton Office
132, Tel: 33(0)4.93.06.40.06 – Office
132, Jonathan Collins Cell:
33(0)6.74.59.62.57
GIALLO
Thriller/Action
Language: English
Director: Dario Argento
Producer: Rafael Primorac, Richard
Rionda Del Castro
Executive Producer: Adrien Brody, Oscar
Generale, Claudio Argento, Luis De Val,
David Milner, Billy Dietrich, Patricia
Eberle
Cast: Adrien Brody, Emmanuelle
Seigner, Elsa Pataky
Delivery Status: Pre-Production (Start
Production: May 12, 2008)
Budget: $14 million
Country of Origin: Italy, UK
In Italy, an American woman fears her
sister may have been kidnapped.
Inspector Enzo Lavia fears it’s worse.
They team up to rescue her from a
sadistic killer known only as Yellow.
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Action
Language: English
Director: Chris Nahon
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro,
Wallis Nicita, W. Peter Iliff, Gilles
Thompson
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Bob Sapp
(Start Production: June 30, 2008)
Budget: $17 million
Country of Origin: UK, France
A ruthless Asian drug lord kills several
FBI Agents and flees back home to Asia.
But the Agent he left alive comes after
him, hungry for revenge and justice.
THE LAST WARRIOR
Post-Apocalyptic Action
Language: English
Director: John Eyres
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro,
BJ Rack, Gilles Thompson
Cast: Vincent Perez,
Laurence Fishburne
Delivery Status: Pre-Production (Start
Production: August 4, 2008)
Budget: $17 million
Country of Origin: Hungary, Canada,
France
In a war-ravaged and disease-ridden
future, a soldier genetically altered
killing machine escapes impending
destruction and goes on the run, leaving
a trail of destruction in his wake.
CUBA AND THE NIGHT
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Joseph Ruben
Producer: Wallis Nicita, Peter
Barsocchini, Richard Rionda Del Castro
Budget: $28 million
Country of Origin: US
In post-Castro Cuba, an American
journalist meets a mysterious and sexy
lounge singer whose dangerous political
ties lead him to uncover an assassination
plot. But with Castro dead… who is the
target?
ADRIFT IN MANHATTAN
Drama
Language: English
Director: Alfredo De Villa
Producer: Steven J. Brown
Cast: Heather Graham, Billy Baldwin,
Victor Rasuk
Delivery Status: Immediate
The complicated and sometimes tragic
lives of four New Yorkers intersect in
miraculous ways.
GIVE ‘EM HELL MALONE
Action
Language: English
Producer: Richard Salvatore, Johnny
Martin, Richard Rionda Del Castro
Cast: Thomas Jane, Ving Rhames
Budget: $12 Million
A tough as nails private eye takes a
simple job from an enigmatic and unseen
Frenchman, and the job turns violent,
escalating into one shootout,
knife-fight and fistfight
after another.
HANWAY FILMS
Hanway Films, 24 Hanway Street,
London, W1T 1UH, UK. Tel:
44(0)207.290.0750. Fax:
44(0)207.290.0751.
www.hanwayfilms.com, e-mail:
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Tim Haslam (CEO), Thorsten
Schumacher (Dir. Sales & Distribution,
General Manager), Sofia Neves
(Director, Sales), Jonathan LynchStaunton (Director, Marketing &
Distribution), Stephan Mallmann (COO),
Jan Spielhoff (Director, Business Affairs)
Office: Residence Gray d’Albion, 1st
floor Right, 27 La Croisette / 4 rue des
Serbes, 06400 Cannes, Tel:
33(0)4.9368.3423, Fax:
33(0)4.9368.3756
FRANKLYN
Thriller
Director: Gerald McMorrow
Writer: Gerald McMorrow
Producer: Jeremy Thomas
Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Sam Riley & Eva
Green
Origin: UK
Four lost souls are on a mission; two
worlds divide them; one single bullet will
decide their fate.
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
Period drama
Director: Julian Jarrold
Writer: Andrew Davies & Jeremy Brock
Producers: Douglas Rae, Robert
Bernstein, Kevin Loader
Cast: Emma Thompson, Ben Whishaw,
Matthew Goode, Michael Gambon,
Hayley Atwell
Origin: UK
Adapted from one of the truly great
works of fiction of the 20th century,
Brideshead Revisited is a gorgeously
evocative romantic epic portraying a
story of forbidden love and the loss of
innocence.
SUNSHINE CLEANING
Drama
Director: Christine Jeffs
Writer: Megan Holley
Producers: Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub,
Glenn Williamson, Jeb Brody
Cast: Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Steve
Zahn, Alan Arkin
Origin: US
A poignant and bittersweet family film,
about respect, love and clearing up body
parts.
HIGH POINT MEDIA
GROUP
High Point Media Group, Suite 16,
Deane House Studios, Greenwood Place,
London, NW5 1LB, UK. Tel:
0044(0)207.424.6870. Fax:
0044(0)207.485.3281.
www.highpointfilms.co.uk, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Ronald de Neef (CoFounder), Carey Fitzgerald (Managing
Director), Elisar Cabrera (Director of
Sales & Marketing, Theatrical), Piers
Nightingale (Head of Development), Lisa
Gifford (Territory Manager), Carl Simons
(Head of Production and Acquisitions)
Acquisition Executive: Piers Nightingale
/ Carl Simons
Office: Residences du Grand Hotel,
Cormoran II Entrance, 3rd Floor, ring
bell: no. 33, 47 Croisette, 06400 Cannes.
Tel: 0033(0)4.93.38.05.87
SKIN
Drama (85 minutes)
Director: Hanro Smitsman
Producers: Marc Bary
Production Company: IJswater Film
Cast: Robert de Hoog,
John Buijsman, Sylvia Poorta
Delivery Status: complete
Country: The Netherlands
Based on true events, in 1979 a
seventeen year old boy, in trying to break
free from a father traumatized by the
Holocaust, is led into the emerging
skinhead youth culture and Neo Nazi
movement.
NOTHING TO LOSE
Director: Pieter Kuijpers
Producers: Sander van Meurs, Andre
Teelen
Production Company: Pupkin Films
Cast: Theo Maassen, Lisa Smit
A convicted killer goes on the run from a
psychiatric prison, taking a 13 year old
girl
hostage on the way.
STORM BOUND
Family, Adventure (135 minutes)
Director: Steven de Jong
Producers: Klaas de Jong
Production Company: Bridge
Entertainment
Cast: Pim Wessels, Martijn Hendrickx,
Billy Zomerdijk
A high seas adventure for all the family,
as 14 year old Hajo and his friends join
the crew on Captain Bontekoe’s ship
bound for East India.
TWISTS OF FATE
Drama (90 minutes)
Director: Jerzy Stuhr
Producers: Juliusz Machulski
Production Company: Zebra Films
Cast: Kamil Mackowiak, Karolina
Gorczyca, Katarzyna Maciag.
Country: Poland
Opportunist and all round cheat, Bartek,
finds his curiosity aroused when a
mysterious man appears to stage his own
disappearance.
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, E-mail:
[email protected]
Holland Film is the official marketing &
promotion agency for Dutch film
worldwide.
At Cannes: Claudia Landsberger
(Managing Director) cell:
31.6.5073.7681
Office: 106, Holland Film Pavilion,
Village International, Tel: 33(0)493 t.b.c.
CALIMUCHO
Docu-drama (90’)
Language, subtitles:
Dutch/German/French/Rumanian,
English subtitles
Director: Eugenie Jansen (Sleeping
Rough)
Producer/Sales: Circe Films
Co-production: The Netherlands
Cast: Dicky Kilian, Willy Soeurt, Tarek
Hannoudi, Peter Verberk
Delivery status: Post-Production
origin/Int’l
A docu-drama chronicling a complex
relationship within a small circus on the
verge of breakdown.
CAN GO THROUGH SKIN
Psychological drama (100’)
Language, subtitles: Dutch, English
subtitles
Director: Esther Rots (debut feature film)
Producer/Sales: Rots Filmwerk, NFI
Producties
Cast: Rifka Lodeizen (Simon), Wim
Opbrouck (Sea of Silence)
Delivery status: Post-Production
Year: 2008, Country of origin/Int’l
Logline: The silent aftermath that follows
a young woman’s tragedy is broken by
her discovery of nature’s ancient
rhythms.
KATIA’S LITTLE SISTER
Drama (90’)
Email your press releases only during Cannes to:
[email protected]
CANNES 2008
Language, subtitles: Dutch/Russian,
English subtitles
Director: Mijke de Jong (Stages)
Producer/Sales: KeyFilm
Cast: Betty Qizmolli, Julia Seykens, Olga
Louzgina
Delivery status: post-production
Year: 2008, Country of origin/Int’l
A thirteen-year old girl adapts to survive
the grim world of her mother and older
sister.
HORIZON MOTION
PICTURES
Horizon Motion Pictures, 1271 Howe
Street, suite 111, Vancouver BC V6Z 1R3
Canada. Tel: 1.604.632.1707. Fax:
1.604.632.1711..
http://www.horizonmotionpictures.com,
At Cannes: Rob Straight (President),
Anna Manheimer (Sales & Acquisitions
Manager)
Office: G20, Riviera, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.33.22.
RED AWN, THE (HONGSE
KANGBAIYIN)
http://www.horizonmotionpictures.com/t
heredawn.asp
Drama (101 min)
Language: Mandarin with English subs
Director: Cai Shangjun
Writer: Gu Xiaobai, Cai Shangjun, Chen
Weidong
Producer: Li Xudong
Key Cast: Yao Anlian, Lu Yulai, Shi
Junhui, Wang Hong, Fan Jiang
Origin: China
A father returns to the family he
abandoned, only to discover his wife has
died and his son doesn’t want him back.
DEAD WOOD
http://www.horizonmotionpictures.com/d
eadwood.asp
Horror (85 min)
Language: English
Director: David Bryant, Sebastian Smith
Writer: David Bryant, Sebastian Smith,
Richard Stiles
Producer: David Bryant, Sebastian
Smith, Richard Stiles
Key Cast: Fergus March, Emily Juniper,
John Samuel Worsey, Rebecca Craven
Origin: United Kingdom
Deep in the woods of Britain, four
friends fight for their lives against a
supernatural monster.
PUCKHEADS
http://www.horizonmotionpictures.com/p
uckheads.asp
Language: English
Director: Simon Dekker
Writer: Linda Jennifer Neilson, Simon
Dekker
Producer: Linda Jennifer Neilson, Simon
Dekker
Origin: Canada
A journey into the hearts and minds of
sports fans and the mayhem of the
Stanley Cup ice hockey playoffs.
HYDE PARK
INTERNATIONAL
Hyde Park International, 14958 Ventura
Blvd., Suite 100, Sherman Oaks, CA
91403 USA. Tel: 1.818.783.6060. Fax:
1.818.783.6319
At Cannes: Lisa Wilson (President),
Ashok Amritraj (CEO)
Office: Carlton Hotel, 140/141, Tel:
818.516.4746
THE OTHER END OF THE LINE
Romantic Comedy
Director: James Dodson
Writer: Tracey Jackson
Producer: Ashok Amritraj
Key Cast: Jesse Metcalfe, Shriya, Sara
Foster, Larry Miller
A beautiful young Indian woman and an
American businessman cross cultural
barriers in this uplifting romantic comedy
in the vein of PRETTY WOMAN.
THE GIFT
Thriller
Director: Greg Marcks
Writer: Mikhail Nitsberg and Kevin
Elders
Producer: Steve Richards
Key Cast: Shane West, Ed Burns, Ving
Rhames, Martin Sheen
A young computer engineer receives
mysterious SMS messages that
dramatically change his life and cause
him to be investigated by the FBI.
THE CITY OF YOUR FINAL
DESTINATION
Drama
Director: james Ivory
Writer: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Producer: Richard Hawley, Ashok
Amritra
Key Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Laura
Linney, Hiro Sanada, Charlotte
Gainsbourg, Omar Metwally, Norma
Aleandro, Kate Burton
Doctoral student Omar Razaghi must get
authorization to write an autobiography
of Latin American author Jules Gund
from the late Writer: ‘s brother, widow,
and mistress.
TELL TALE
Thriller
Director: Michael Cuesta
Writer: David Callaham
Producer: Ridley Scott, Tony Scott,
Michael Costigan, Christopher Tuffin,
Martin Shore
Key Cast: Josh Lucas, Brian Cox, Lena
Headey
A riveting psychological thriller that sets
Edgar Allen Poe’s haunting story, “The
Tell Tale Heart”, against the backdrop of
modern science.
STREET FIGHTER
http://streetfightermovie.net/
Action
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Writer: Justin Marks
Producer: Ashok Amritraj
Key Cast: Kristin Kreuk, Michael Clarke
Duncan, Taboo, Chris Klein, Robin
Shou, Neil McDonough
A major live action motion picture based
on Capcom’s most popular videogame
franchise featuring Chun Li’s heroic
journey for justice.
SECRET REALM
Animation
Director: Thomas G. Murphy
Key Cast: Brian Cox, James Cosmo,
Sylvester McCoy
A roller coaster animated film in which a
boy, his dog, and a fairy unite to stop an
evil lord who controls a mysterious
monster.
I
ICON
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL
Icon Entertainment International, Solar
House, First Floor, 915 High Road
London N12 8QJ, UK. Tel:
44.208.492.6300. Fax: 44.208.492.6301.
www.iconmovies.net, email: [email protected]
Film sales, finance & production
company
At Cannes: Mark Gooder (Chief
Executive Officer, Icon Group), Ariel
Veneziano (President, Icon Entertainment
International), Anthony Buckner (Senior
International Sales Manager), Abby
Kadell (International Sales Manager),
Jonathan Page (Manager), Steve
Bestwick (Sales Administration
Manager)
Acquisition Executives: Hugo Grumbar
(President, Icon Film Distribution Ltd,
UK), Toby Hill (Head of Acquisitions,
Icon Film Distribution Ltd, UK), Ian
Dawson (Head of UK Home
Entertainment), Greg Hughes (General
Manager, Icon Home Entertainment,
Australia)
Office: Residence Le Grand Hotel, 45 La
Croisette, Flamant Entrance, 4th Floor,
06400 Cannes. Tel: 33.4.92.28.33.40,
Fax: 33.4.92.28.33.41
TRIANGLE
Psychological Thriller
Director: Christopher Smith
Producer: Jason Newmark
Cast: Melissa George
From the Director of Creep and
Severance, comes TRIANGLE, a unique
concept horror-thriller that turns the
genre on its head.
PUSH
Sci Fi thriller
Director: Paul McGuigan
Producers: Bruce Davey, William Vince
Screenplay: David Bourla
Cast: Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning,
Camilla Belle, Djimon Hounsou
Delivery Status: In post-production
A sci-fi thriller that takes us into the
secret world of psychic espionage.
HUNGER
Drama
Director: Steve McQueen
Producers: Laura Hastings-Smith, Robin
Gutch
Screenplay: Enda Walsh, Steve McQueen
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Liam
Cunningham
A challenging and unforgettable feature
film by the multi award winning creative
team of British artist film-maker Steve
McQueen and Irish writer Enda Walsh.
MARY & MAX
Animated feature
Director: Adam Elliot
Producers: Melanie Coombs
Screenplay: Adam Elliot
Cast: Toni Collette, Eric Bana, Barry
Humphries
The claymation tale of the lifelong penfriendship between Mary Dinkle, living
in suburban Melbourne, Australia and
New Yorker Max Horovitz.
BIRDS OF AMERICA
Comedy
Director: Craig Lucas
Producers: Daniela Taplin, Celine
Rattray, Jana Edelbaum, Hilary Swank,
Galt Niederhoffer
Screenplay: Elyse Friedman
Cast: Matthew Perry, Hilary Swank, Ben
Foster, Ginnifer Goodwin
Delivery Status Completed
This heartfelt comedy, in the vein of
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE and
SIDEWAYS, follows three adult siblings:
a straight-edge professor, his sexually
promiscuous sister and hippie kid
brother.
IDREAM
INDEPENDENT
PICTURES
IDream Independent Pictures, 309,
Gainsborough House, 81 Oxford Street,
London W1D 2EU, UK. Tel:
44.207.903.5116. Fax: 44.207.903.5333.
http://www.idreamindependent.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Rohit Sharma (PresidentInternational Sales), Kanika Vasudeva
(Asst. Vice President-Sales)
Office: Booth No. 22.02 (A) Palais, Tel:
33.(0).492.998.065
TAHAAN (A BOY WITH A
GRENADE)
www.tahaanthefilm.com
Drama (105 mins)
Language: Hindi (With Subtitles)
Director: Santosh Sivan
Writer: Santosh Sivan, Ritesh Menon,
Paul Hardart
Producer: IDream Production and
Santosh Sivan Films
Key Cast: Anupam Kher, Rahul Bose,
Victor Banergee, Rahul Khanna & Purav
Bhandare.
CANNES 2008
65
Origin: India
A fable- like journey of an 8yr old boy
Tahaan. Having lost his best friend, his
donkey Birbal, to a business man as part
of debt re-payment he sets off on a long
struggle to bring the donkey
back home.
FROZEN
www.frozen.co.in
Drama (110 mins)
Language: Hindi/Ladakhi
(With Subtitles)
Director: Shivajee Chandrabhushan
Writer: Shankar Raman
Producer: Sea Gull Media Productions
Co-production partners: Alan McAlex,
Shankar Raman
Key Cast: Danny Denzongpa, Gauri,
Skalzang Angchuk Gultuk, Yashpal
Sharma
Origin: India
The film depicts the life of this family
whose dream like existence is interrupted
by inevitable odds, one after the other
after the army settles a hundred yards
across their doorstep.
OCEAN OF PEARLS
oceanofpearls.com
Drama (94 mins)
Language: English
Director: Sarab Neelam
Writer: V Prasad
Producer: Jim Burnstein
Co-production partners: Jeff Dowd,
Curtis Hall
Key Cast: Omid Abtahi,
Todd Babcock, Ron Canada,
Heather McComb, Ajay Mehta
Country of Origin: U.S.A
When his compromises result in the
death of a patient,
Amrit begins to reexamine the value of
the religious traditions he’d turned his
back to.
VANAJA
vanajathefilm.com
Drama (111 mins)
Language: Telugu (With Subtitles)
Director: Rajnesh Domalpalli
Writer: Rajnesh Domalpalli
Producer: Latha R. Domalapalli
Key Cast: Mamatha Bhukya, Urmila
Dammannagari, Ramachandriah
Marikanti
Country of Origin: India/ U.S.A
The film explores the chasm
that divides classes as a young girl
struggles to come of age.
THE VOYEURS
Drama (102 mins)
Language: Bengali (With Subtitles)
Director: Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Writer: Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Producer: B.A.G Films
Key Cast: Prosenjit Chaterjee,
Sameera Reddy, Amitav Bhattacharya
Origin: India
When a young man falls in love, he
cannot imagine that his innocence will
turn to guilt and lead to him and his
friend being chased by the police.
THE UNFORGETTABLE
www.theunforgettablethefilm.com
Drama (105 mins)
Language: English
Director: Arsala Qureishi and Sabrina
Louis
Writer: Arsala Qureishi
Producer: Vandal Films
Key Cast: Raji James, Sofia Hayat,
Chook Sibtain, Salman Qureishi
Origin: India
“The Unforgettable” depicts the stark
contrast in individualistic beliefs
interwoven in a web of romance,
mystery, travesty and triumph.
IFM WORLD
RELEASING
IFM World Releasing,
1328 East Palmer Avenue, Glendale, CA
91205 USA.
Tel: 1.818.243.4976.
Fax: 1.818.550.9728.
2/25 Second Street, Clayton Victoria
3169, Australia.
Mob: .61.412.982.770.
http://www.ifmfilm.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Antony I. Ginnane
(President), Anthony J. Lyons (VP
International)
Office: Palais Riviera #C19
MR. HELL
http://www.ifmfilm.com/titles/mrhell1.htm
Horror (102 min)
Language: English
Director: Rob McKinnon
Writer: ack Rhodes, David Carren
Producer: David Carren, Jolene
McMaster
Key Cast: Larry Cashion, Tracy
Scoggins, Amy Morris, Alan Martin,
Tina Cohen
Origin: USA
Dr. Matthews had been working on
secret biological weapons when he was
slain by the brutal psychopath Mr.
HELL. Fourteen years later, Tyler is
grown and working at the same lab
where her father met his grisly fate.
TEN DEAD MEN
http://www.http://www.ifmfilm.com/titles
/10deadmen1.htm
Action (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Ross Boyask
Writer: Chris Regan
Producer: Phil Hobden
Key Cast: Brendan Carr, Terry Stone,
John Rackham
Origin: UK
Ryan thought he had left past behind
him, but a blood-debt owed to an old
friend means he unwittingly crosses the
ruthless crime boss Hart the one man he
can never escape.
LITTLE ERIN MERRYWEATHER
http://www.ifmfilm.com/titles/littleerinm
erry1.htm
Thriller (84 min)
Director: David Morwick & Michael
Civille
Producer: Jason Miller, David Morwick
& James Shay
Writer: David Morwick
Principal Cast: Vigdis Anholt, David
Morwick, Elizabeth Callahan & Frank
Ridley
Murders hit a college campus. Is a ‘little
red riding hood’ look-alike responsible?
IM GLOBAL
IM Global, 9242 Beverly Blvd., Ste. 201,
Beverly Hills, C.A., 90210, U.S.A. Tel:
1.310.777.3590. Fax: 1.310.550.3896,
www.imglobaltv.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent/Distributor
At Cannes: Stuart Ford (CEO), Ruzanna
Kegeyan (Senior VP Intl. Sales and
Distribution), Tim Grohne (VP Intl. Sales
and Distribution, UK office), Bonnie
Voland (Intl. Marketing and Publicity),
Catherine Quantschnigg (VP, Sales and
Distribution), Amal ElWardi (Director,
Intl. Distribution and Development)
Acquisition Executive: Amal ElWardi
Office: Riviera stand H7, Fax:
1.323.657.5354
BUNRAKU
Action/Adventure
Director: Guy Moshe
Writer: Guy Moshe
Producer: Keith Calder, Nava Levin,
Ram Bergman
Key Cast: Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore,
Ron Perlman, Woody Harrelson
A mysterious drifter and a Japanese
warrior join forces to bring down the
corrupt “woodcutter” Nicola. Fantasy
and reality and Samurai and Western
myths come together in the totally fresh
world of BUNRAKU.
NAILED
Comedy
Director: David O. Russell
Writer: David O. Russell, Kristin Gore
Producer: David Bergstein, Lucy Fisher,
Kia Jam, Judd Payne, Matthew Rhodes
Co-production partners: Jeff G. Waxman
Key Cast: Jake Gyllenhaall, Jessica Biel,
James Marsden, Catherine Keener
Sweet, socially challenged small-town
receptionist Sammy Joyce (Jessica Biel)
improbably rises to national prominence
when a clumsy workman accidentally
implants a huge nail in her brain.
RELIGULOUS
Documentary/Comedy
Director: Larry Charles
Producer: Palmer West, Jonah Smith
Key Cast: Bill Maher
Delivery Status: post-production
Flush from the success of Borat, 2006’s
most successful and outrageous comedy,
Larry Charles brings us a satirical,
insightful, and controversial look at the
role of institutional religion around the
world.
SHELTER
Horror/Thriller
Director: Bjorn Stein, Mans Marlind
Writer: Michael Cooney
Producer: Darlene Caamano, Emilio Diez
Barroso, Neal Edelstein, Mike Macari
Co-production partners: Bill Bannerman
Key Cast: Julianne Moore, Jonathan
Rhys Meyers
Single mother and dedicated psychiatrist
Cara Jessup (Julianne Moore) centers her
professional reputation on debunking the
idea of “multiple personality syndrome”,
until she encounters a criminal mental
patient whose powers defy rational
explanation.
INDEPENDENT
Independent, 32 Tavistock Street, London
WC2E 7PB, United Kingdom. Tel:
44.207.257.8734. Fax: 44.207.240.9029.
www.independentfilmcompany.com,
email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent, Production Company
At Cannes: Luc Roeg (CEO), Michael
Robinson (CFO ), Andrew Orr (MD),
Abigail Walsh (Head of Sales), Sarah
Townsend (Head of Marketing), Sarah
Lebutsch (Sales and Marketing
Executive), Philip Herd (Production
Assistant)
Office: Independent, 2nd floor, 23 rue
Macé, Cannes 06400, Tel:
33.4.9338.2910
NEW TOWN KILLERS
http://www.independentfilmcompany.co
m/sales/index.cfm?go=film,24
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Richard Jobson
Writer: Richard Jobson
Producer: Luc Roeg, Richard Jobson
Co-production partners: Independent,
Str8jacket Creations, Scottish Screen &
The Screen East Content Investment
Fund in association with LipSync & The
Glasgow Film Office
Key Cast: Dougray Scott, Alastair
Mackenzie, James Pearson, Charles
Mnene
Origin: UK
Two disenchanted private bankers, with
the world at their feet get their kicks
from playing a 12 hour game of man
hunt with people from the margins of
society…
MOON
Sci Fi Thriller
Language: English
Director: Duncan Jones
Writer: Nathan Parker
Producer: Stuart Fenegan, Nicky Moss,
Trudie Styler
Co-production partners: Liberty Films &
Xingu Films
Key Cast: Sam Rockwell, Kaya
Scoledario, Matt Berry, Benedict Wong
CANNES 2008
Origin: UK
Sam Bell, who works in solitude on a
moon base called Selene, discovers that
his contract may be set to expire and that
there are plans for replacing him… and
the new recruit is eerily familiar.
ADULTHOOD
Urban drama
Language: English
Director: Noel Clarke
Writer: Noel Clarke
Producer: Damian Jones, George Isaac
Co-production partners: Cipher Films, DJ
Films
Key Cast: Noel Clarke, Adam Deacon,
Scarlett Alice Johnson, Femi Oyeniran,
Red Madrell, Cornell John, Ben Drew
Delivery Status: post production
Origin: UK
After Kidulthood comes Adulthood…
After six years in prison for killing Trife,
Sam Peel’s first day of freedom will be
one he never forgets.
THE KREUTZER SONATA
Drama
Language: English
Director: Bernard Rose
Writer: Bernard Rose, based on a novel
by Leo Tolstoy
Producer: Naomi Despres, Lisa Enos,
Lisa Henson
Co-production partners: Animandala,
Giant Door Productions
Key Cast: Danny Huston, Elisabeth
Röhm, Anjelica Huston, Matthew Yang
King
Delivery Status: post production
Origin: USA/UK
Based on the novel by Tolstoy with
music by Beethoven. A man is driven
into a state of morbid jealousy when he
becomes convinced his wife is having an
affair, where his uncontrollable rage can
only lead to tragedy.
NIGHT TRAIN
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Writer: Nicolas Roeg and Michael Allin,
based on the novel by Martin Amis
Producer: Luc Roeg, Ann Carli, Pier
Francesco Aiello; executive producer
Steven Soderbergh
Co-production partners: Independent and
PFA Films
Key Cast: Elisabeth Shue, Nick Nolte,
Michael, Madsen, Raoul Bova, Toby
Jones
Delivery Status: pre production
Origin: UK/US
Female police officer Mike investigates
the death of the flawlessly beautiful
Jennifer, her close friend and daughter of
the Police Chief, thereby discovering that
we never truly know those we are closest
to.
THE INDIAN FILM
COMPANY-STUDIO 18
The Indian Film Company-Studio 18,
402, Turf Estate, Off. Dr. E Moses Road,
Mahalakshmi, Mumbai, Maharashtra
400011 India. Tel: 91.22.6629.1818. Fax:
91.22.2491.1418.
http://www.theindianfilmcompany.com /
www.studio18india.com,
At Cannes: Hemant Bhardwaj (Senior
Vice President, Intl Operations), Tanuj
Garg (Head, UK & Europe), Gayathiri
Batra (Head, UAE & Rest of the World)
Office: Booth No. 25.05, Palais 01, Tel:
33.6.8221.4336
JAB WE MET
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Writer: Imtiaz Ali
Producer: Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision
Ltd
Key Cast: Shahid Kapur, Kareena
Kapoor, Dara Singh, Tarun Arora, Kiran
Juneja, Pavan Malhotra, Saumya Tandon
Origin: India
JAB WE MET was one of the most
loved films of 2007. Audience polls
across the world hailed it as the sweetest
and finest love-story to come out of
Bollywood.
WELCOME
Comedy (152 min)
Language: Hindi
Director: Anees Bazmee
Writer: Anees Bazmee and Abbas
Tyrewala
Producer: Base Industries
Key Cast: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif,
Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar, Feroz Khan
Origin: India
From the creators of “Hera Pheri, Phir
Hera Pheri” and “No Entry”, some of
Bollywood’s biggest blockbusters,
WELCOME boasts of lavish locales,
chartbusting music and major star power;
making it the biggest knockabout comic
caper of 2007.
SINGH IS KINNG
Action Comedy
Language: Hindi
Director: Anees Bazmee
Writer: Anees Bazmee
Producer: Adlabs and Blockbuster Movie
Entertainers
Key Cast: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif,
Kirron Kher, Javed Jafri
Origin: India
Shot extensively in Australia and the
cultural North-Indian state of Punjab, the
film revolves around a gang of dreaded
criminals who are transformed by a
good-hearted man and his selfless love
for a pretty girl.
GOLMAAL RETURNS
Comedy
Language: Hindi
Director: Rohit Shetty
Producer: Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision
Ltd.
Key Cast: Ajay Devgan, Tusshar Kapoor,
Kareena Kapoor, Arshad Warsi, Celina
Jaitly
Origin: India
This much-awaited sequel of the
uproariously comic smash-hit “Golmaal”
arrives as GOLMAAL RETURNS with
renewed star power, chartbusting music,
punch and vigour!
INDUSTRYWORKS
ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
IndustryWorks Entertainment Inc., 325
West 7th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V5Y
1M2 Canada. Tel: 1.604.876.0547. Fax:
1.604.876.0541. www.industryworks.com, email: [email protected]
At Cannes: Evan Tylor (President), Craig
Adlard (VP Sales), John Curtis (Finance
& Business Affairs)
Office: Riviera G20, Tel: 33.0607358426
THE CYCLE
www.cyclethemovie.com
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Micheal Bafaro
Writer: Micheal Bafaro
Producer: Evan Tylor, John Curtis, Liza
Co-production partners: Czech Republic,
North American Pictures
Key Cast: Daryl Hannah
Origin: Canada
While driving down a country road,
Carrie (Daryl Hannah) rescues Amy, the
lone survivor of a terrible massacre in the
woods.
WALK ALL OVER ME
www.industry-works.com
Thriller (92 mins)
Language: English
Director: Robert Cuffley
Writer: Robert Cuffley, Jason Long
Producer: Carolyn McMaster, Colin
Neale, Kyle Irving
Key Cast: Leelee Sobieski, Tricia Helfer,
Lothaire Bluteau
Origin: Canada
A girl on the run joins forces with a
Dominatrix, when they become a target
of the mob’s search for a missing million
dollars.
45 RPM
Family
Language: English
Director: David Schultz
Producer: Chad Oakes, Mike Frislev
Key Cast: Micheal Madsen, Amanda
Plummer, Kim Coates, August
Schellenberg
Origin: Canada
In the spring of 1958, a reclusive
teenager discovers love, loss, and rock
‘n’ roll.
ELEGY - LAKESHORE ENTERTAINMENT
THE CROSS ROADS
Action/War
Language: French
Director: David Aboucaya
Producer: David Aboucaya
Key Cast: Manuel Goncalves, Christian
Perrette, Lucas Pedroni
Origin: France
In 1944, a small group of American
soldiers find themselves trapped behind
enemy lines due to the incompetent
orders of their commanding officer.
INFERNO
ENTERTAINMENT
Inferno Entertainment, 1888 Century
Park East, Suite 1180, Los Angeles CA
90067 USA. Tel: 1.310.598.2550. Fax:
1.310.598.2551. http://www.infernoentertainment.com, email: [email protected]
At Cannes: Bill Johnson (Partner), Jim
Seibel (Partner), James MacLean (VP
Intl Sales), Pamela Pickering (Intl Sales),
Jana Toepfer (Intl Sales)
Office: Majestic 115 and 116
AN UNFINISHED COUNTRY
Drama/Thriller
Language: English
Writer: Mark Wheaton
Producer: Inferno, Blue Star Pictures
Key Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Jim
Sturgess (both interested)
Origin: US
A whip-smart med student plans to land
his dream job after cracking the world’s
toughest residency at a hospital, located
in the most violent sector of a city that is
ready to explode.
HACHIKO (A DOG’S STORY)
Family Drama
Language: English
Director: Lasse Hallström
Writer: Stephen P. LINDSEY
Co-Production Partners: Dean Schnider
Producer: Richard Gere, Bill Johnson,
Vicki Shigekuni Wong, Paul Mason
Key Cast: Richard Gere, Joan Allen,
Sarah Roemer
Budget: $17M US$
CANNES 2008
67
Origin: USA
This heartwarming true story is an
American adaptation of a Japanese tale
about a loyal dog Hachiko.
THE WOMEN
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Diane English
Writer: Diane English
Producer: Victoria Pearman, Diane
English, Bill Johnson, Mick Jagger
Key Cast: Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes,
Annette Bening, Jada Pinkett-Smith,
Candice Bergen, Bette Midler, Debra
Messing, Carrie Fisher
Budget: 20.0 M US$
Origin: USA
Based on the iconic George Cukor 1939
Classic: A hip New York comedy about a
tight-knit group of female friends dealing
with friendship, divorce and betrayal.
INTANDEM FILMS
Intandem Films, 22 Soho Square,
London, W1D 4NS, UK. Tel: 44
207.851.3800. Fax: 44 207.851.3830.
www.intandemfilms.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Company and Executive Producers
At Cannes: Gary Smith (CEO), Andrew
Brown (Director), Billy Hurman
(Director), Sasha Fugazzola
(Acquisitions and Film Finance
Manager), Justine Stanley (Assistant to
CEO, Communications Manager).
Acquisition Executive: Sasha Fugazzola
Office: Relais de la Reine (between the
Carlton and the Majestic) 42/43 La
Croisette. Apartments C-21 & C-22
(Block C), Tel: C-21 is: 33.4.93.06.70.03
and C-22: 33.4.93.06.70.04
HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS &
ALIENATE PEOPLE
Comedy (100mins)
Language: English
Director: Robert Weide
Writer: Peter Straughan
Producer: Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth
Karlsen
Key Cast: Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst,
Megan Fox, Jeff Bridges, Danny
Huston, Gillian Anderson
Origin: UK
An adaptation of Toby Young’s hilarious
memoir. Sidney Young an oddball,
celebrity-obsessed misfit desperately tries
to establish himself in the glamourous
world of a prestigious New York
magazine.
JOLENE
Drama (100mins)
Language: English
Director: Dan Ireland
Writer: Dennis Yares
Producer: Riva Yares and Zachary Matz
Key Cast: Jessica Chastain, Dermot
Mulroney, Denise Richards, Chazz
Palminteri, Rupert Friend, Michael
Vartan
Based on E.L. Doctorow’s story: “Jolene:
A Life” Jolene at 15 flees her abusive
past to begin a journey of love,
heartbreak and redemption.
BLOWN
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Martha Fiennes
Writer: George Tiffin
Producer: Shani Hinton, Martha Fiennes,
George Tiffin
Key Cast: Thandie Newton, Guy Pearce
Origin: UK
Tasked with the most crucial mission of
his career, a British secret service agent
must decide if his duty is to his country
or the truth.
LET IT RIDE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Simon West
Writer: David Harris
Producer: Mace Neufeld and David
Kennaway
Delivery Status: Pre production
Origin: USA
An ingenious heist thriller in the great
tradition of Get Shorty and Out of Sight
involving a beautiful blackmailer, and a
cool $5Million.
INTRAMOVIES SRL
Intramovies Srl, Via E. Manfredi 15,
Rome 00197 Italy. Tel: 39.06.807.7252.
Fax: 39.06.807.6156.
http://www.intramovies.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Paola Corvino (CEO),
Micaela Fusco (VP Interrnational Sales),
Jeff Nuyts (Head of International Sales),
Federica Mei (Director of TV Sales),
Marco Valerio Fusco (Sales Coordinator)
Office: Palais Stephanie - Brougham
Room - 1st Floor
AT A GLANCE (COLPO D’OCCHIO)
Thriller (117 min)
Language: Italian with English Subs
Director: Sergio RUBINI
Writer: Angelo PASQUINI, Carla
CAVALLUZZI, Sergio RUBINI
Producer: Riccardo TOZZI
(CATTLEYA), Giovanni STABILINI
(CATTLEYA), Marco CHIMENZ
(CATTLEYA)
Key Cast: Sergio RUBINI, Riccardo
SCAMARCIO, Vittoria PUCCINI
Origin: ITALY
Lulli, a famous art critic, has a
relationship with the young Gloria.
Gloria falls for Adrian, a tormented artist
still looking for his big break. Instantly
Lulli finds himself with a single thought:
to ruin Adrian.
TELL ME ABOUT LOVE (PARLAMI
D’AMORE)
Romance (109 min)
Director: Silvio MUCCINO
Writer: Silvio MUCCINO, Carla
VANGELISTA
(CATTLEYA)
Key Cast: Aitana SANCHEZ-GIJAN,
Silvio MUCCINO, Carolina
CRESCENTINI, Geraldine CHAPLIN
Origin: ITALY
Nicole, married and a teacher, Sasha,
almost twenty years her junior meet
during a car accident. A casual encounter
will change them, reintroducing them to
the joy of living and loving.
BLACK AND WHITE (BIANCO E
NERO)
Comedy, Romance (100 min)
Director: Cristina COMENCINI
Writer: Cristina COMENCINI, Giulia
CALENDA, Maddalena RAVAGLI
(CATTLEYA)
Key Cast: Fabio VOLO, Ambra
ANGIOLINI, AÃ¯ssa MAÃ?GA
Origin: ITALY
Racial integration is Elena’s profession
and passion. All too often her husband
Carlo must attend evening charity events
where he feels distinctly out of place.
During one of these evenings, Carlo
meets Nadine, a beautiful black woman.
ISTITUTO LUCE
Istituto Luce, via Tuscolana 1055 Rome
00173 Italy.
At Cannes: Cassano Cristina (Int’l Sales
Executive), Luciano Sovena (Managing
Director), Maria Carolina Terzi (Dir. of
Communication Dept.), Claudia Bedogni
(Buyer)
Office: Palais Stephanie Salon Brougham
1st Floor -Italian Pavillion, Tel (mobile):
39.320.7678693
BLANCA - POLVERE
Drama (82’)
Directed by: Danilo Proietti and
Massimiliano D’Epiro
Cast: Primo Reggiani Gaia Bermani
Amaral Gianmarco Tognazzi
Domini and Giona are best friends. They
are both very different from each other.
Domini dreams of being a director.
C O V E RBOY LOVE AND ANGER
OF A “PRECARIOUS
GENERATION”
Drama (97’)
Directed by: Carmine Amoroso – 2007
Cast: Eduard Gabia, Luca Lionello,
Chiara Caselli, Francesco Dominerò,
Gabriel Spahiou, Razvan Cacoveanu
Special guest: Luciana Littizzetto
Tells the story of shared experiences on
the fringes of a prosperous city and it
illustrates how the savagery of a daily
dog-eat-dog struggle for survival can be
opposed by the bonds of genuine
friendship.
L’ABBUFFATA
Comedy (100’)
Directed by: Mimmo Calopresti –
(“Volevo solo vivere” / “I only wanted to
live” – Cannes Film Festival 2006 –
International Competition / “La seconda
volta” / “The second time” Cannes Film
Festival 1995 – International
Competition)
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Diego
Abatantuono (I’m not scared by Gabriele
Salvatores), Paolo Briguglia (The
Hundred Steps, El Alamein), Valeria
Bruni Tedeschi, (A Good Year by Ridley
Scott, Munich by Steven Spielberg),
Donatella Finocchiaro (The Wedding
Director by Marco Bellocchio).
Diamante, a small town in Calabria,
southern Italy. Hardly an exciting place.
Gabriele, Marco and Nicola are three
youngsters, who would like to shoot a
movie.
ITN DISTRIBUTION
ITN Distribution, 505 E. Windmill Lane,
Suite 1B-102, Las Vegas, NV 89123 USA.
Tel: 1.702.361.1430. Fax:
1.702.361.6309.
http://www.itndistribution.com
At Cannes: Stuart Alson (President),
Nicole Holland (Vice President),
Annalisa San Juan (Vice President of
Office: Riviera C-11, Tel:
1.702.361.1430, Fax: 1.702.361.6309
LIGHT OF OLYMPIA
3D Animation (90 min)
Language: English
Director: San Wei Chan
Writer: Sarah Kinney
Producer: Santoon Productions
Key Cast: Phyllis Diller, Debbie
Reynolds
Origin: USA
3D Feature Animation. What do a bronze
donkey, a witch doctor, demi-gods, a
princess and a torch all have in common?
They’re all going to the Olympic games!
VALLEY OF ANGELS
Action (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Jon Rosten
Writer: Jon Rosten
Producer: Spenser Winslow
Key Cast: Danny Trejo, George Katt
Origin: USA
A young drug dealer living the wild life
in upscale West LA searches for
enlightenment and a path out of his very
dangerous world.
LIME SALTED LOVE
Art house,Thriller, Drama (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Danielle Agnello, Joe Hall
Writer: Danielle Agnello
Producer: Danielle Agnello, Joe Hall,
Kristanna Loken
Key Cast: Kristanna Loken, Kate del
Castillo, Danielle Agnello, Joe Hall,
David J. O’Donnell, George Castaneda.
Origin: USA
Lime Salted Love is a minimalist, surreal
examination of abandonment, guilt,
CANNES 2008
abuse and psychic pain set in this
minute’s hipster enclaves of Los Angeles.
J
JOINT
ENTERTAINMENT
Joint Entertainment, 421-6F, Guangfu
South Rd., Taipei 11074 Taiwan.
Tel: 886.2.2720.6007.
Fax: 886.2.2758.8516. http://www.jent.com.tw, email: [email protected]
At Cannes: James LIU (President),
Andrew CHANG (Manager.
Internat.Affairs)
Office: UniTaiwan
THE MOST DISTANT COURSE
http://www.j-ent.com.tw/sales/
Drama (114 min)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Jing-Jei LIN
Writer: Jing-Jei LIN
Key Cast: KWAI Lun-Mei, MO Zi-Yi,
JIA Xiao-Guo
Origin: Taiwan
Three heartbroken individuals go on
different journeys to search for the
meaning of love.
KEEPING WATCH
http://www.j-ent.com.tw/keepingwatch/
Drama (92 min)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Fen Fen CHENG
Writer: Fen Fen CHENG
Producer: James LIU
Key Cast: Joseph Chang, Haden Kuo
Origin: Taiwan
A young girl’s mundane life takes a swift
turn as she falls for a handsome boy with
mysterious identities.
CAFE ASTORIA
http://www.j-ent.com.tw/sales/
Drama
Language: Mandarin
Director: Chihyen YEE
Writer: Chihyen YEE, James LIU
Co-Production Partners: Tara Contents,
Joint Entertainment
Producer: Satoru ISEKI, James LIU
Country of Origin: Taiwan
It is a story about a Russian restaurant,
Café Astoria, first opens in Shanghai in
1935 by a Russian Jewish exile and a
Chinese lawyer. Together, they and their
customers witness a world in turmoil.
K
KATAPULT FILM
SALES
Katapult Film Sales, 8490 Santa Monica
Blvd. #5, West Hollywood, CA 90069
USA. Tel: 1.310.358.0303. Fax:
1.310.358.0333. www.katapultfilms.com,
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Joni Sighvatsson (Partner),
David Jourdan (Managing Director),
Christine D’Souza (Sales Coordinator),
Anna Kvorning (Office Manager)
Office: G3, Tel: 33(0)6.27.67.56.46,
Fax: 1.310.358.0333
DEATH IN LOVE
www.DeathinLovethefilm.com
Drama (97:14min)
Director: Boaz Yakin
Writer: Boaz Yakin
Producer: Boaz Yakin, Joseph N. Zolfo
Key Cast: Josh Lucas, Jaqueline Bisset,
Lucas Haas, Adam Brody
Origin: USA
“Death in Love” depicts the effects of a
Jewish woman’s love affair with the
doctor in charge of human experiments
in a Nazi concentration camp on the lives
of her sons many years later.
HEIMA
www.heima.co.uk
Language: English/Icelandic
Director: Dean DeBlois
Producer: John Best, Dean O’Connor
Key Cast: Sigur Ros
Origin: Iceland
This film documents their legendary tour
with intimate reflections from the band
and a handful of new acoustic
performances.
JOY DIVISION
Documentary (96min)
Language: English
Director: Grant Gee
Producer: Tom Atencio, Tom Astor,
Jacqui Edenbrow
Key Cast: Ian Curtis, Peter Hook,
Bernard Summer, Tony Wilson, Anton
Corbijn, and many more
Origin: UK/US
Featuring the unprecedented participation of
the surviving band members, this film tells
their story of beauty and loss in the city.
The Business Of Film
Tel 04 • 93 • 06 • 41 • 49
KATHY MORGAN
INTERNATIONAL
Kathy Morgan International, 12250 Sky Lane,
Los Angeles, CA 90049 USA.
Tel: 1.310.472.6300.
Fax: 1.310.472.6304.
www.kmifilms.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Kathy Morgan (President)
Veronica Hool (Head of Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Zach Luna (Head of
Acquisitions)
Office: Le Grand Hotel Residences, 45
La Croisette, Cormoran II 5th Floor, Tel:
04.92.59.00.50, Fax: 04.92.59.00.14
SWING VOTE
Family Comedy
Language: English
Director: Joshua Michael Stern
Writer: Joshua Michael Stern and
Jason Richman
Producers: Jim Wilson and Kevin
Costner
Key Cast: Kevin Costner, Paula Patton,
Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper,
Nathan Lane, Stanley Tucci, George
Lopez, Judge Reinhold, Mare
Winningham, Richard Petty, Willie
Nelson and introducing Madeline
Carroll.
Delivery Status:
Post Production - Screening
in Cannes
Origin: USA
A comical look at the journey
of one father and daughter,
who discover that everyone has the
power to change the world.
LAUNDRY WARRIOR
www.laundrywarrior.net
Action Adventure
Language: English
Director: Sngmoo Lee
Writer: Sngmoo Lee
Co-production partners: Barrie Osborne,
Michael Peyser, Jooick Lee
Key Cast: Jang Dong-kun, Kate
Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush, Danny Huston
Origin: New Zealand
A visually stunning, non-stop action
adventure, where East meets West in a
genre bending hero?s tale of love and
redemption.
CAMILLE
Romance (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Gregory MacKenzie
Writer: Nick Pustay
Producer: Albert S. Ruddy
Co-production partners: A Mark
Entertainment
Key Cast: Sienna Miller,
James Franco, David Carradine
Origin: USA
A heartfelt tale of two lost
souls who learn the meaning
of true love in this dark romantic
comedy about a wedding
gone awry.
BLACK & WHITE - INTRAMOVIES
KEYSTONE
ENTERTAINMENT
Keystone Entertainment, 3rd Floor, 2339
Columbia St, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 3Y3,
Canada. Tel: 1.604.873.9739.
Fax: 1.604.873.5919.
www.keypics.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Nolan Pielak (VP Worldwide
Distribution), Rebekah Burgess-Smith
(Manager Worldwide Distribution)
Acquisition Executive: Nolan Pielak
Office: Booth G6, Tel: 33.675.462.512
MURPH
Family Feature Film
Language: English
Director: Anna McRoberts
Writer: Anna Mc Roberts
Producer: Anna McRoberts
Delivery Status: In Development,
Budget: $5mil
Origin: Canada
A runt thoroughbred d Murph takes the
racing world by storm when he meets Ty,
a small 9 year old who always dreamed
of having a race horse.
ANNIE THE MAGICAL NANNIE
Family Feature Film
Language: English
Director: Anna McRoberts
Writer: Anna Mc Roberts
Producer: Anna McRoberts
Budget: $5mil
Origin: Canada
The creators of Disney’s Air Buddies
presents the all new story of Annie, the
adorable chimpanzee from the magic
show, who mistakenly ends up on the
Governor’s doorstep just as his
mischievous children have driven their
last nanny out.
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KIMMEL
INTERNATIONAL
Kimmel International, 250 Hudson
Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10013
USA. Tel: 1.212.431.5550.
Fax: 212.431.5822.
At Cannes: Mark Lindsay President
(Kimmel International), Jill Silfen (EVP,
Business Affairs), Marcello Paolillo (VP,
Sales and Acquisitions, Kimmel
International), Joann Andres (Manager,
Sales and Administration, Kimmel
International)
Office: Residence du Grand Hotel, Le
Dauphin, Apt 11D, 45 Boulevard
de La Croisette, Cannes, France 06400.
Tel: 04.97.06.33.72.
Fax: 04.97.06.34.28
MOTHERHOOD
Comedy
Directed by: Katherine Dieckmann
Written by: Katherine Dieckmann
Produced by: Rachel Cohen, Jana
Edelbaum, Pamela Koffler, Christine
Vachon
Cast: Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards,
Minnie Driver
Eliza Welch (Thurman) is like any other
mom with two kids, a loving but absentminded husband (Edwards), and a strong
desire to find time for herself - yet she’s
about to have a day that would challenge
even the toughest maternal multi-tasker.
MANAGEMENT
Romantic Comedy
Directed by: Stephen Belber
Written by: Stephen Belber
Produced by: Sidney Kimmel, Wyck
Godfrey, Marty Bowen
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn,
Woody Harrelson, with Fred Ward
Executive Producers: William Horberg,
Bruce Toll, Jim Tauber, Nan Morales,
Jennifer Aniston
The sweet and funny story of Sue, an
uptight, overworked traveling
saleswoman of hotel art (Aniston), who
ends up in a roadside motel managed by
Mike (Steve Zahn), an underachieving,
lonely man who still lives with his
parents.
SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK
Comedy
Directed by: Charlie Kaufman
Written by: Charlie Kaufman
Produced by: Anthony Bregman, Charlie
Kaufman, Spike Jonze, Sidney Kimmel
Executive Producers: William Horberg,
Bruce Toll, Ray Angelic
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams,
Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne
Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis
From Charlie Kaufman, perhaps the most
distinctive screenwriting voice in film
history, comes a visual and philosophic
adventure of epic proportions.
KINOWELT
INTERNATIONAL
GMBH
Kinowelt International GmbH, KarlTauchnitz-Str. 10, 04107 Leipzig,
Germany. Tel: 0049.341.355.960. Fax:
0049.341.355.96.419. www.kinoweltinternational.de, email: Kinowelt
International GmbH
At Cannes: Daniel Guckau (Managing
Director, Buyer), Stelios Ziannis (Head
of World Sales, Buyer), Dr. Michael
Koelmel (Buyer), Bertil le Claire
(Managing Director, Buyer), (Barbara
Knabe (Director TV Sales GSE), Anne
Kerstan (Assistant World Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Stelios Ziannis
Office: Rivèra, Stand F15, Tel: 0033.(0)
492.993.310, Fax: 0033.(0) 492.993.311
REVERSE SHOT – REBELLION OF
THE FILMMAKERS
(GEGENSCHUSS – AUFBRUCH
DER FILMEMACHER)
Language: German
Director: Dominik Wessely Co-Director:
Laurens Straub
Writer: Rainer Koelmel, Laurens Straub,
Dominik Wessely
Producer: Rainer Koelmel, Kinowelt
Filmproduktion GmbH
Co-production partners: Filmverlag der
Autoren, Bayerischer Rundfunk,
Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Arte
Budget: 1 Mill. Euro
Origin: Germany
A documentary motion picture that tells
the story of the exceptional author
collective known as Filmverlag der
Autoren. With interviews from Wim
Wenders, Hark Bohm, Rainer Werner
Fassbinder and others.
THE LOVES OF PHARAOH (DAS
WEIB DES PHARAO)
Drama/ silent movie (120 min)
Language: silent movie, German
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Writer: Norbert Falk, Hanns Kräly
Producer: Ernst Lubitsch Film;
restoration: Alpha Omega digital GmbH
Co-production partners: restoration:
Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv, Filmmuseum
München in cooperation with George
Eastman House
Key Cast: Emil Jannings, Dagny Servaes,
Lyda Salmonova, Harry Liedtke, Paul
Biensfeldt, Friedrich Kühne, Paul
Wegener, Albert Bassermann
Year of Production: 1922, restoration:
2005, Country of Origin: Germany
A full digital film restoration of Ernst
Lubitsch’s same-named monumental
silent movie from 1922. The “lost film”
has not been seen in this restored version
since more than 80 years.
KOAN
Koan, P.O. Box 982557, Park City, UT
84098 USA. Tel: 1.435.645.7244. Fax:
1.435.645.8644. http://www.koaninc.com
At Cannes: Gil Aglaure (President),
Tamara Bell (Vice President), Devin
Carter (Director of Sales), Paul Madsen
(Acquisitions)
Office: Tel: 011.336.2182.7036
THE LODGE
Horror/Thriller (85 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Brad Helmink, John
Rauschelback
Writer: Deb Havener
Co-Production Partners: John Brandt
Producer: Brad Halmink, Jason
Rauschelbach, John Rauschelbach
Key Cast: Kevin McClatchy, Mandi
Kreisher, Elizabeth Kell, Owen Szabo
Origin: USA
A young couple’s weekend getaway at a
secluded mountain ranch becomes an
unfathomable nightmare when they
discover the truth about the caretaker.
BERKELEY
Drama (88 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Bobby Roth
Writer: Bobby Roth
Producer: Bobby Roth, Jeffrey White
Key Cast: Hinry Winkler, Nick Roth,
Laura Jordan, Sarah Carter
Year of Production: 2005 released 2007,
Berkeley is the story of Ben Sweet (Nick
Roth), an eighteen year old boy who
comes to UC Berkeley in 1968 to study
accounting and avoid the draft.
IMPRINT
Thriller/Suspense (85 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Michael Linn
Writer: Keith Davenport, Michael Linn
Co-Production Partners: Larry T Pourier
Producer: Chris Eyre, Carolyn Linn
Key Cast: Tonantzin Carmelo, Carla-Rae
Holland,Michael spears, Cory Brusseau,
Charlie White Buffalo
Origin: USA
Shayla Stonefeather, a native American
attorney prosecuting a Lakota teen in a
controversial murder trail.
KWA
KWA, Galeon 32, Bajo A ; 28042
Madrid; Spain. Tel: 0034.91.747.3100.
Fax: 0034.91.747.7000.
www.kevinwa.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Kevin Williams (President),
Beatriz Adán (Sales Assistant)
Acquisition Executive: Kevin Williams
Office: Riviera C1, Tel:
0034.667.540.547
PRETEXTS (PRETEXTOS)
Drama (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Silvia Munt
Writer: Silvia Munt and Eva Baeza
Producer: Ovideo TV
Key Cast: Silvia Munt, Laia Marul,
Manuel Aleixandre
Origin: Spain
Contrasting lives of 2 women. One a
succesful theatre director with marriage
problems. The other a nurse for the
elderly who lives alone.
HAFNER’S PARADISE (EL
PARAISO DE HAFNER)
www.hafnersparadise.com
Language: German - Spanish
Director: Günter Schwaiger
Writer: Günter Schwaiger
Producer: Günter Schwaiger P.C.
Key Cast: Günter Schwaiger, Paul Maria
Hafner
Origin: Austria
The story of an octagenerian exgestapo
officer living his contented last days in
Madrid, proud of his past and in denial
of the Holocaust.
THE KING OF FOOLS (EL REY DE
LOS HUEVONES)
Comedy (100 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: Boris Quercia
Writer: Boris Quercia
Producer: Chile Chitá
Key Cast: Boris Quercia, Angie Jibaga,
Tamara Acosta
Country of Origin: Chile
Rich and sweet comedy about a man who
finds love where he least expects it. The
latino “Something Wild”
L
LAKESHORE
ENTERTAINMENT
Lakeshore Entertainment, 9268 W Third
St., Beverly Hills, CA, 90210, USA. Tel:
1.310.867.8000. Fax: 1.310.300.3015.
www.lakeshoreentertainment.com, email:
[email protected]
Producer / Distributor
At Cannes: Eric Reid (COO), David
Dinerstein (President, Worldwide
Marketing and Distribution), Robert
Burke (EVP, Worldwide Marketing),
Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard Rose
(SVP, International Sales), Jonathan
Deckter (SVP, International Sales),
Stephanie Klein (VP, International
Business & Legal Affairs
Office: Residence Centre Croisette, First
Floor, 56/57 La Croisette, Tel:
04.93.45.11.85, Fax: 04.93.45.13.35
FAME
Drama
Language: English
Director: Kevin Tancharoen
Writer: Allison Burnett
Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Gary
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Lucchesi
Origin: USA
A dynamic reinvention of the Oscar®winning film and globally successful TV
series, FAME captures the visceral
excitement and explosive energy of
young artists and performers struggling
to prove their talent and find their own
voice.
VENETIAN AFFAIR
Romantic Drama
Language: English
Director: Marco Ponti
Writer: Allison Burnett
Lucchesi
Origin: USA
A delightful celebration of passion, artful
wickedness, and sexual intrigue, A
VENETIAN AFFAIR is a seductive true
story of impassioned young lovers who
struggle to sustain – against all odds –
their forbidden love affair.
GAME
Action
Language: English
Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Writer: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Lucchesi, Skip Williamson, Richard
Wright, Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Key Cast: Gerard Butler, Michael C.
Hall, Kyra Sedgwick, Amber Valletta,
John Leguizamo
Delivery Status: Post-production
Origin: USA
In GAME, a non-stop action thriller set
in the near future, death row inmate
Kable (Gerard Butler) emerges as a cult
hero of an ultra-violent multi-player
online game, in which wealthy gamers
control the actions of bloodthirsty
convicts.
ELEGY
Drama (106 min)
Language: English
Director: Isabel Coixet
Writer: Nicholas Meyer
Lucchesi, Andre Lamal
Key Cast: Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley,
Dennis Hopper, Peter Sarsgaard, Patricia
Clarkson, Deborah Harry
Origin: USA
A sophisticated graduate student
(Penélope Cruz) gets tangled up in an
erotic, all-consuming affair with her
professor (Ben Kingsley), a cultural critic
obsessed with female beauty.
CRANK 2: HIGH VOLTAGE
Action
Language: English
Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Writer: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Lucchesi, Skip Williamson, Richard
Wright
Key Cast: Jason Statham
Origin: USA
In the new, high-octane sequel, a Chinese
mobster steals Chev’s nearly
indestructible heart and replaces it with a
battery-powered artificial ticker that
requires regular jolts of electricity to
keep working.
LATIDO FILMS
Latido Films, C/ Veneras 9, 6th floor,
Madrid 28013 Spain. Tel:
34.91.548.88.77. Fax: 34.91.548.88.78.
http://www.LatidoFilms.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Massimo Saidel (Head of
International Sales), Malte Ollroge
(International Sales), Silvia Iturbe
(General Manager), Oscar Alonso
(Festivals & Subsidies Coordinator)
Office: A5 (Spanish Cinema / ICEX)
Riviera Hall, Tel: 34.635.431.270
14 KILOMETERS (14
KILOMETROS)
Drama (95 min)
Language: Bambara, Hausa, Tamashek,
Arabic, French
Director: Gerardo Olivares
Writer: Gerardo Olivares
Producer: Wanda Vision
Key Cast: Adoum Moussa, Aminata
Kanta
Origin: Spain
14 kilometers is the short distance
between North Africa and Spain. For
immigrants, it is an incredibly long
journey.
WHO’S NEXT (TODOS ESTAMOS
INVITADOS)
Thriller (95 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Manuel Gutierrez Aragon
Writer: Manuel Gutierrez Aragon,
Angeles Gonzales-Sinde
Producer: C.I.P.I. Cinematografica
Key Cast: Oscar Jaenada, Jose Coronado,
Vanessa Incontrada, Inaki Miramon,
Adolfo Fernandez, Kike Diaz De Rada,
Leire Ucha, Inaki Font, Paul Zubillaga,
Inaki Iratorza
Origin: SPAIN
Jon a Basque gunman has Memory loss
after a bloody attack, and is released
early from Prison. Other organization
members want to enlist him again, to kill
a university Professor.
MANUELA & MANUEL (MANUELA
Y MANUEL)
Comedy (94 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Raul Marchand Sanchez
Writer: Jose Iganacio Valenzuela
Producer: Sonia Fritz, Frances Lause
Key Cast: Humberto Busto, Elena Iguina,
Sunshine Logrono
Origin: Puerto Rico
Friends can be such a drag. Hidden
identities, misunderstandings, and the
tension between friends pretending to be
what they are not.
.
LIGHTNING
ENTERTAINMENT
Lightning Entertainment, 301 Arizona
Avenue, Suite 400, Santa Monica, CA
90401. Tel: 1.310.255.7999. Fax:
1.310.255.7998. www.lightning-ent.com
LONGTALE
INTERNATIONAL
LongTale International, 3699 Wilshire
Blvd., Suite 850, Los Angeles, CA 90010
USA. Tel: 1.323.733.1000.
http://www.longtale.com. email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Omar Kaczmarczyk
(Managing Director), Lars Bjorck (VP
Sales), Ava B. (VP Acquisitions), David
Holbert (General Manager), Lisa Lutz
(Director of Sales)
Office: LERINS Stand R10, Tel:
33(0)6.21.88.45.57
PRINCE OF THE HIMALAYAS
Drama (108 min)
Language: Tibetan
Director: Sherwood Hu
Writer: Sherwood Hu, Tsering Dorje
Co-Production Partners: Hus
Entertainment and Shanghai Film Studio
Producer: Sherwood Hu
Key Cast: Purba Rgyal, Zomskyid,
Dobrgyal, Trashi Sonamdolgar
Origin: Tibet
It’s Hamlet set in ancient Tibet. Prince
Lhamoklodan learns of his father’s
mysterious death and returns home to
find his uncle has taken the throne—and
the widowed queen.
LOOKING FOR PALLADIN
Drama-comedy (115 min)
Language: English
Director: Andrzej Krakowski
Writer: Andrzej Krakowski
Co-Production Partners: Pine Hill
Productions and Tousi Productions
Producer: Mahyad Tousi
Key Cast: Ben Gazzara, Talia Shire,
David Moscow, Vincent Pastore, Pedro
Armendariz, Jr.
Status: completed
Origin: Guatamala
Young, arrogant Hollywood talent agent,
Josh Ross (Moscow) is sent to
Guatemala to find two-time Oscar winner
and retired actor Jack Palladin (Gazzara),
propels him on an unexpected journey.
MILAREPA: MAGICIAN,
MURDERER, SAINT
http://www.milarepamovie.com/
Action Adventure (90 min)
Language: Tibetan
Director: Neten Chokling
Writer: Neten Chokling
Producer: Gregory Kruglak, Neten
Chokling,
Key Cast: Gimyan Lodro, Jamyang
Lodro, Lakpa Tsamchoe, Orgyen Tobgyal
Status: completed
Origin: Bhutan
The story of the real-life 11th century
Tibetan mystic, one path to
BORDERLINE - MAX FILMS
enlightenment begins with revenge, a
stolen inheritance, black magic, and a
soul in peril.
ON THE LINE
http://www.OnTheLineFilm.com
Language: English
Director: Peter Glenn and Jason A.
Schmidt
Writer: Peter Glenn
Producer: Ron Schmidt and Peter Glenn
Key Cast: Martin Sheen and Susan
Sarandon
Status: completed
Origin: USA
A bold new look at the movement to shut
down the School of the Americas and
U.S. foreign policy in Latin America.
Winner of the 2008 Silver Telly Award.
THE BLUE HOUR
http://www.thebluehourmovie.com
Drama (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Eric Nazarian
Writer: Eric Nazarian
Producer: Lynnette Ramirez and Brian
Knappmiller
Key Cast: Clarence Williams III, Alyssa
Milano, Yorik Van Wageningen, Emily
Rios, Derrick O’Connor, Paul Dillon,
Sarah Jones
Status: completed
Origin: USA
A graffiti muralist, a camera repairman, a
blues guitarist, and an elderly pensioner,
all linked to the Los Angeles River,
strangers that rarely communicate yet
share brief moments of connection
OIL ON WATER
http://www.oilonwater-movie.com
Psychological drama (109 min)
Language: English
Director: Peter Matthews
Writer: Ellie Matthews
Co-Production Partners: Tidal Wave
Productions
Producer: Ellie Matthews
Key Cast: St.John Alexander, Tyler
Bizzell, Bianca Lishansky
Status: completed
Origin: South Africa
Anna is a journalist living with Max, an
artist. Their relationship begins to
collapse when Max starts hearing voices
and having visions. Anna discovers it
may be too late.
A CALL TO ARMS
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http://www.acalltoarmsmovie.com
Language: English
Director: Scott Miller
Writer: Scott Miller
Co-Production Partners: Scott Miller and
Company
Status: completed
Origin: USA
The incendiary story of US soldiers
ordered to receive anthrax vaccine, a
story of abuse of power, betrayal of trust,
and personal gain at the cost of lives.
OUT OF BALANCE:
EXXONMOBIL’S IMPACT ON
CLIMATE CHANGE
http://www.worldoutofbalance.org
Language: English
Director: Tom Jackson
Co-Production Partners: Joe Public Films
Producer: Tom Jackson
Status: completed
Origin: USA
A quest to find out more about climate
change and the huge forces that are
blocking imperative change. Winner of
three film festivals.
M
MAINLINE
RELEASING
Mainline Releasing, 301 Arizona Avenue,
Suite 400, Santa Monica, CA 90401.
Tel: 1.310.255.1200.
Fax: 1.310.255.1201.
www.mainlinereleasing.com
At Cannes: Rich Goldberg
(Co-President – Mainline
Releasing/Lightning Entertainment),
Marc Greenberg (Co-President –
Mainline Releasing/Lightning
Entertainment), Paul Gardner (CoPresident – Lightning Media), Richard
Guardian (Co-President – Lightning
Entertainment), Joseph Dickstein
(SVP – Lightning Entertainment),
Sonia Mehandjiyska (Director –
Lightning Entertainment/Mainline
Releasing), Mathilde Aupetit (Director –
Lightning Entertainment/Mainline
Releasing)
Office: R7/S8 Lerins, Mobile: Mathilde
Aupetit: 1.310.266.9987, Sonia
Mehandjiyska: 1.818.448.1451
THE HUMAN CONTRACT
Drama/Thriller
Writer/Director: Jada Pinkett Smith
Cast: Jason Clarke (Death Race,
Brotherhood), Paz Vega (The Six Wives
Of Henry Lafay, Spanglish, Sex And
Lucia), Jada Pinkett Smith (Reign Over
Me, Madagascar), Ted Danson (Mad
Money, Saving Private Ryan, Three Men
And A Baby)
Delivery Status: In Post Production
The Human Contract is the provocative
journey of a successful but repressed
advertising executive in full control of
his life and career.
HEY HEY IT’S ESTHER
BLUEBERGER
Drama/Comedy (115 min)
Writer/Director: Cathy Randall
Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes (The
Vinter’s Luck, Whale Rider), Danielle
Catanzariti, Toni Collette (The Black
Balloon, Little Miss Sunshine)
A smart, rueful and dead-on portrait of
life’s unending quest to fit in. . . and the
girl who solves it by completely breaking
out - introduces a feisty outsider hero
unlike any other seen on screen.
FROZEN KISS
Drama/Thriller
Director: Harry Bromley Davenport
Cast: Mimi Rogers (Austin Powers:
International Man Of Mystery, Lost In
Space), Cameron Goodman, Jamie Martz
Delivery Status: In Post Production
Based on true events that made national
headlines, Frozen Kiss is a story of
rescue and survival set against a raging
blizzard.
KEMPER, THE CO-ED KILLER
Horror (90 min)
Director: Rick Bitzelberger
Cast: Christopher Stapleton, Stephanie
Skewes
Inspired by the events surrounding Ed
Kemper, the Santa Cruz serial killer
Commonly referred to as the co-ed
Killer.
MAGNOLIA
PICTURES
Magnolia Pictures, 49 W 27th Street, 7th
FL, New York, NY 10001, USA. Tel:
1.212.924.6701. Fax: 1.212.481.3964.
www.magpictures.com
At Cannes: Laird Adamson (Head of
Acquisition Executive: Tom Quinn (Head
of Acquisitions)
Office: 25 La Croisette, 4th Fl, Le
Bagatelle, Cannes 0640, Tel:
1.917.601.4771
BIGGER STRONGER FASTER
www.biggerstrongerfastermovie.com
Documentary (106mn)
Language: English
Director: Christopher Bell
Writer: Christopher Bell
Producer: Alex Buono
Co-production partners: Tamsin Rawady;
Jim Czarnecki
Key Cast: Christopher Bell, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Carl Lewis
Origin: USA
From the producers of Bowling For
Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 comes a
new film that unflinchingly explores the
win-at-all-cost culture through the lens of
a personal journey.
UNTITLED KIRBY DICK PROJECT
Documentary (TBD)
Language: English
Director: Kirby Dick
Producer: Amy Ziering
Delivery Status: In production
Origin: USA
Sex, Lies and HDCam.
Kirby Dick casts a keen investigative eye
on the recent spate of DC sex scandals
uncovering the high costs of political
hypocrisy and America’s tortured
prurience.
NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD
http://www.smartartists.com.au/not-quitehollywood/
Documentary (90mn)
Language: English
Director: Mark Hartley
Writer: Mark Hartley
Producer: Craig Griffin
Co-production partners:
Michael Lynch
Key Cast: Quentin Tarantino,
Jamie Lee Curtis, Henry Thomas
Origin: Australia
The first detailed examination and
celebration of the Australian genre films
of the 70’s and early 80’s and the
undervalued auteurs and actors who
brought them to life.
COCAINE COWBOYS II:
HUSTLIN’ WITH THE
GODMOTHER
http: //www.cocainecowboys.com/
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Billy Corben
Writer: Billy Corben
Producer: Alfred Spellman
Co-production partners: Billy Corben
Key Cast: Griselda Blanco, Charles
Cosby
Delivery Status: Post production
Origin: USA
The Godmother, Griselda Blanco, returns
with her longtime companion and co
conspirator, Charles Cosby, in this true
life story.
QUID PRO QUO
http://www.hdnetfilms.com/quidproquo/i
ndex.html
Drama (81mn)
Language: English
Director: Carlos Brooks
Writer: Carlos Brooks
Producer: Sarah Pillsburry, Midge
Sanford, Jason Kliot
Key Cast: Nick Stahl, Vera Farmiga,
Kate Burton
Origin: USA
A journalist is drawn into a dark and
bizarre subculture as he investigates a
story that ultimately leads him to the
shocking truth about himself.
GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF
DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON
http://www.magpictures.com/films.aspx
Documentary (120 mn)
Language: English
Director: Alex Gibney
Writer: Alex Gibney
Producer: Alex Gibney, Graydon Carter,
Alison Ellwood & Eva Orner, Jason
Kliot
Key Cast: Johnny Depp, Jimmy Carter,
Jimmy Buffett
Delivery Status: Completed, screening
Origin: USA
The story of the life and death of
maverick journalist Thompson, from his
letters, articles, manuscripts and books.
MANDARIN FILMS
DISTRIBUTION CO.
LTD.
Mandarin Films Distribution Co. Ltd.,
Room 1801-2, Westlands Centre, 20
Westlands Road, Quarry Bay, Hong
Kong. Tel: 852.2579.1718. Fax:
852.2579.1712.
http://www.mandarinfilms.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Raymond Wong (Chairman),
Nansun Shi (Producer), Virginia Leung
(Head of Distribution), Christy Choi
(Asst. Distribution Manager), Jennifer
Yip (Distribution Executive)
Office: Riviera C10-02
IP MAN
Martial Arts
Language: Chinese
Director: Yip Wai-shun
Writer: Edmond Wong
Producer: Raymond Wong
Key Cast: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam
Budget: 10M
Origin: Hong Kong
Based on the true story of Ip Man - the
celebrated kung fu master of Bruce Lee
MISSING
http://www.missingthemovie.com/index_
march2008.html
Thriller
Language: Chinese
Director: Tsui Hark
Writer: Tsui Hark
Producer: Tsui Hark
Key Cast: Sin-je Lee, Isabella, Chen
Chang
Budget: 8M
Origin: Hong Kong
A romantic engagement in an underwater
city leads to a series of mysterious
encounters
FLASH POINT
http://www.flashpointthemovie.com
Martial Arts (87mins)
Language: Chinese
Director: Yip Wai-shun
Writer: Szeto Kam-yuen, Nicholl Tang
Producer: Nansun Shi, Donnie Yen
Key Cast: Donnie Yen, Louis Koo,
Collin Chou
Budget: 10M
Origin: Hong Kong
Pre-1997, a hero’s story about a detective
sergeant who truly believes that the only
way to fight crime is “The Road of No
Return”
CANNES 2008
MANDATE
INTERNATIONAL
Mandate International, 2700 Colorado
Blvd, 2nd Floor, Santa Monica, CA
90404 USA. Tel: 1.310.255.3700. Fax:
1.310.255.3770. www.lionsgatefilms.com
At Cannes: Helen Lee Kim (President,
International), Anne-Marie Boysen (Vice
President, International Sales), Crystal
Bourbeau (Manager, International Sales),
Wendy Reeds (Home Entertainment
Sales), John Feltheimer (CEO Lionsgate), Joe Drake (CO-COO &
President – Lionsgate), Steve Beeks
(CO-COO & President – Lionsgate)
Office: Villa d’Estelle, 12-14 Rue des
Belges, Tel: 33(0)4.9298.3335, Fax:
33(0)4.9368.8454
WHIP IT!
Comedy
Director: Drew Barrymore
Writer: Shauna Cross
Producer: Barry Mendel
Cast: Ellen Page
Status: Pre-Production
Whip It! follows the exploits of Bliss, a
rebellious teenage girl who is always
being pushed into beauty pageants by her
overbearing mother.
ALPHA AND OMEGA
Animation/Adventure
Directors: Rick Rich, Anthony Bell, Ben
Gluck
Cast: Justin Long, Hayden Panettiere,
Christina Ricci, Dennis Hopper and
Danny Glover
U.S. Release: Lionsgate
Determined to rejoin their pack, two
mismatched wolves begin a dangerous
trek across unfamiliar terrain, battling the
odds, the elements, the bears and one
another - - and finding love along the
way.
SAW V
Horror
Director: David Hackl
Writers: Patrick Melton & Marcus
Dunstan
Producers: Mark Burg and Oren Koules
Cast: Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson
U.S. Release: Lionsgate – Fall 2008
In the fifth installment of the SAW
franchise, Hoffman is seemingly the last
person alive to carry on the Jigsaw
legacy. But when his secret is threatened,
Hoffman must go on the hunt to
eliminate all loose ends.
THE 4TH KIND
Sci-Fi Thriller
Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi
Screenplay by: Olatunde Osunsanmi
Story by: Dr. Abigail Tyler, Olatunde
Osunsanmi & Terry Lee Robbins
Producers: Paul Brooks, Joe Carnahan,
Terry Lee Robins
Cast: Milla Jovovich
Close Encounter of the 1st Kind –
Sighting of a UFO. Close Encounter of
the 2nd Kind – Physical Evidence. Close
Encounter of the 3rd Kind – Contact. The
only thing more frightening…the 4th
Kind.
MAVERICK GLOBAL
Maverick Global, 1191 East Newport
Center Dr, Deerfield Beach, FL 33442
USA. Tel: 954.422.8811.
Fax: 954.429.0565.
Website: www.maverickglobal.com
Distributor
At Cannes: Doug Schwab
(President), Tim Warren (VP of Sales),
Jack Campbell (Director, International
Sales)
Acquisition Executive:
Doug Schwab
Office: Riviera, Booth G-8,
Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.15
CURSE OF THE WEEPING
WOMAN: J-OK’EL
Thriller (88 min)
Language: English
Director: Benjamin Williams
Writer: Jeremy Svenson, Andy Whitaker
& Peter Theis
Producer: Andres Rodriguez Franco,
Benjamin Williams,
Paola Madrazo del Rio, Juan Carlos
Arizmendi
Key Cast: Tom Parker, Ana Patricia
Rojo, Dee Wallace
Budget: $1 million
Origin: USA
The haunting spirit of a woman who
drowned her babies centuries ago has
returned to claim more children
as her own!
KUSH
Action (90 min)
Language: English
Director: York Shackleton
Writer: York Shackleton
Producer: Lenny Shapiro, Jonathan
Serota, Christopher Wayne, William
Phelps
Key Cast: Bret Roberts, Nicole Marie
Lenz, Mike Erwin
Budget: $ 500,000
Origin: USA
A group of young drug dealers make the
biggest mistake of their lives when they
front a 10-pack of Kush to a risky
crack-head.
ARMY OF THE DEAD
Language: English
Director: Joseph Contegiacomo
Writer: Tom Woosley
Producer: Joseph Conti, Paul Conti,
Fred Tepper
Key Cast: Ross Kelly, Stephanie
Marchese, Miguel Martinez
Budget: $1 million
A professor and his
students unleash a long
dormant curse and soon find
themselves in a battle with skeletal
warriors.
The adventure of a lifetime just
might turn into the last adventure
of their lives.
MAX FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
INC.
Max Films International Inc., 1751, rue
Richardson, Suite 2.102, Montréal,
Québec H3K 1G6 Canada. Tel:
1.514.282.8444. Fax: 1.514.282.9222.
www.maxfilms.ca, [email protected] /
[email protected]
At Cannes: Roger Frappier (President &
Producer), Alexandra Wermester
(Director, Int’l Sales & Marketing),
Félize Frappier (Sales)
Office: Québec Pavillion, Stand 129
A NO-HIT NO-RUN SUMMER (UN
ÉTÉ SANS POINT NI COUP SÛR)
Dramatic Comedy
Director: Francis Leclerc
Writer: Marc Robitaille
Producer: Barbara Shrier
Production: Palomar
Cast: Patrice Robitaille, Pier-Luc Funk,
Jacynthe Laguë, Roy Dupuis
Status: Completed/screening
Origin: Canada
Martin is 12 years old and dreams of
making the neighbourhood baseball
team. When he gets cut, his father steps
in and together they spend a summer full
of hope and disappointment, line drives
and foul balls.
BORDERLINE
Erotic Drama
Producers: Roger Frappier and Luc
Vandal
Director: Lyne Charlebois
Writer: Marie-Sissi Labrèche and Lyne
Charlebois
Cast: Isabelle Blais, Jean-Hugues
Anglade
Status: Completed/screening
Origin: Canada
An erotic drama about a woman facing
her 30th birthday who looks back at her
life growing-up with her grandmother,
crazy mother and her over-indulgence
with men, sex and alcohol.
MAXIM MEDIA
INTERNATIONAL
Maxim Media International, 5025 South
Ash Ave. Bldg. B-2, Tempe, AZ 85282
United States. Tel: 1.480.966.4070.
Fax: 1.480.966.4570.
http://www.emaximmedia.com
At Cannes: Sean Argo (International
Sales)
Office: Palais 01 Booth 19.01, Tel:
1.480.980.6069. Fax: 1.480.966.4570
SECRETS OF THE CLOWN
http://www.secretsoftheclown.com
Horror (90 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Ryan Badalementi
Writer: Ryan Badalementi
Producer: Ryan Badalementi
Key Cast: Kelli Clevenger, Dusty
Mitchell, Paul Pierro
After the murder of his best friend,
Bobbie is haunted by nightmares which
TRAIN - NU IMAGE
will guide him to unlock the “Secrets of
the Clown”.
DEATH OF A GHOST HUNTER
http://www.emaximmedia.com/inat/bigpi
cture.php?id=7229
Horror (105 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Sean Tretta
Writer: Sean Tretta
Key Cast: Patti Tindall, Mike Marsh,
Davina Joy, Lindsay Page
Carter Simms was offered to conduct a
paranormal investigation. What
transpired is the most frightening and
tragic paranormal investigation in the
history of modern “Ghost Hunting”.
ZOMBIES ANONYMOUS
http://www.emaximmedia.com/inat/bigpi
cture.php?id=7230
Horror (109 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Marc Fratto
Writer: Marc Fratto
Producer: Andrew Dantonio
Key Cast: Gina Ramsden, Joshua Nelson,
Christa Mce
Meet Angela. She is the perfect neighbor.
She is quiet, young, pretty and keeps to
herself. But Angela is different. Very
different. She is dead.
MEDIA ASIA
DISTRIBUTION
Media Asia Distribution, 24/F Causeway
Bay Plaza II, 463-483 Lockhart Road,
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Tel:
852.2314.4248. Fax: 852.2314.4248.
www.mediaasia.com, Email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Ricky Tse (Head of
Distribution/Sales) Tel: 852.2302.3819,
Mobile: 852.9018.6578, Fax:
852.2314.4247; Frederick Tsui (Senior
Manager - Distribution & Production)
Tel: 852.2302.3810, Mobile:
852.9463.3446, Fax: 852.2314.4248;
Vanessa Lo (Manager Distribution/Sales) Tel: 852.2302.3835,
CANNES 2008
73
Mobile: 852.9488.1759, Fax:
852.2314.4247
Office: 15 Square Mérimée (3rd floor)
06400 Cannes.
THE SNIPER
Action
Director: Dante LAM
Producer: Candy LEUNG
Scriptwriter: NG Wai Lun, Dante LAM
Main cast: Richie JEN, HUANG
Xiaoming and Edison CHEN
Status: Market screening
Country of origin: Hong Kong
Expelled from the force in the wake of a
mission gone tragically wrong, a police
sniper determines to take revenge by
changing over to the other side of the
law.
THE ASSASSINS
Action Thriller
Director: Soi CHEANG
Main cast: Louis KOO and Richie JEN
Status: In production
Country of origin: Hong Kong
Several lone assassins who never met
before decide to join forces to rescue the
facilitator of their operation.
NANKING! NANKING!
Drama
Director: LU Chuan
Main cast: LIU Ye, GAO Yuanyuan
Status: In production
Country of origin: China
A tragic love story unfolds during the
darkest period of Chinese history: the
Nanking Massacre in 1937.
.
MEDIA CREATIV
CONSULT GMBH
Media Creativ Consult GmbH,
Türkenschanzplatz 7, Wien, 1170,
Austria. Tel: 43.1.876.88.88. Fax:
43.1.876.8888. www.rossacher.com,
Film- and TV production
At Cannes: Katharina Amport
MEDIA MARKET
CONSULTANTS S.A.
Media Market Consultants S.A., 216
Chemin de Bergier, Qrt. Condamine,
Chateauneuf de Grasse, 06740 France.
Tel: 33.4.93.42.48.82. Fax:
33.4.93.42.44.61.
http://www.mediamarketconsultants.com,
email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Frances Willington (Senior
Executive Consultant), Robert Willington
(Executive Consultant), Christophe
Dalloz (VP. Consultant), Arnaud
Morisque (Technical Consultant), Fred
Canal (Assistant to Frances Willington)
Office: Hotel Majestic Office 704, Tel:
33.4.92.98.77.00, Fax: 33.4.93.38.97.90
METRO-GOLDWYNMAYER STUDIOS
INC. (MGM)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.
(MGM), 10250 Constellation Blvd. Los
Angeles, CA 90067-6241, USA. Tel:
1.310.449.3000. Fax: 1.310.586.8750.
www.mgm.com
Producer, Distributor
At Cannes: Harry Sloan (Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer), Mary Parent
(Chairperson, Worldwide Motion Picture
Group), Erik Lomis (Executive Vice
President, International Theatrical and
Home Entertainment), Jeff Pryor
(Executive Vice President, Corporate
Communications)
Office: Tel: Erik Lomis - 1.310.449.3315
MK2
mk2, 55 rue traversière, Paris, 75012
France. Tel: 331.446.730.30. Fax:
331.430.729.63. http://www.mk2catalogue.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Mathilde Henrot (Director of
Sales), Matthieu Giblin (Intl Sales
Executive), Juliette Schrameck (Intl
Sales Executive), Dorothée Pfistner
(Sales & Marketing Executive),
Nathanaël Karmitz (Managing Director)
Office: Res. Du Grand Hotel 47, la
Croisette, Entrance Dauphin, 8th Floor,
Tel: 04.93.68.83.21, Fax: 04.93.68.31.72
SUMMER HOURS (L’HEURE
D’ÉTÉ)
http://www.summerhoursmovie.mk2.com/
Drama (102 minutes)
Language: French
Director: Olivier Assayas
Writer: Olivier Assayas
Co-Production Partners: mk2
Producer: Marin Karmitz, Nathanaël
Karmitz, Charles Gillibert
Key Cast: Juliette Binoche, Charles
Berling, Jérémie Rénier
Budget: 6.3 M$
Origin: France
The divergent paths of three forty
something siblings collide when their
mother, heiress to her uncle’s exceptional
19th century art collection, dies suddenly.
RUMBA
www.rumba-film.com
Comedy (85 Minutes)
Language: French
Director: Dominique Abel, Fiona
Gordon, Bruno Romy
Writer: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon,
Bruno Romy
Co-Production Partners: MK2, Courage
mon amour
Producer: Marin Karmitz, Nathanaël
Karmitz, Charles Gillibert, Dominique
Abel, Fiona Gordon
Key Cast: Dominique Abel, Fiona
Gordon, Bruno Romy, Philippe Martz
Budget: 2.7 M$
Origin: France, Belgium
Teachers in a rural school, happy couple
Fiona and Dom have a common passion:
Latin Dancing.
MONO FILM CO.,
LTD.
Mono Film Co., Ltd., 200 Jasmine
International Tower 31st Fl. Moo 4
Chaengwattana Road, Pakkred,
Nonthaburi 11120 Thailand. Tel:
66.2.502.0731. Fax: 66.2.584.5314.
www.mono-film.com
Production company
At Cannes: Rachel P. Jamawatr (Asst. to
MD & International Relations
Supervisor); Ornanong (Meemie)
Athadthawaree (Int’l Relations Officer)
Office: G29 Riviera
THE FOLLOWER
Horror
Language: Thai
Director: Pleo Sirisuwan
Producer: Jirun Ratthanviriyachai
Budget: $ 1.5 – 2.0 million USD
Origin: Thailand
Is wreck-less driving the ONLY cause of
a “freak” car accident? Who really is in
control behind the wheel of your secondhand car?.solve the mystery in the horror
film…THE FOLLOWER.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Drama
Language: Thai
Director: Pongpat Wachirabunjong
Writer: Kongdej Jaturanrasmee
Producer: Thanya Wachirabunjong
Key Cast: Ananda Everingham,
Chayanan Manomaisantiphap
Budget: $ 1.0 million USD
Origin: Thailand
What is the most important birthday gift
you’ve ever received? .For him, it was
“Her”.A young man and a young woman
are brought together by destiny because
of a small travel pocketbook as a means
of their unique connection.
MONTECRISTO
INTERNATIONAL
MonteCristo International, 459
Columbus Avenue #334 NYC, NY 10024
USA. Tel: 1.917.647.7587. Fax:
1.917.677.8300.
www.MonteCristoEntertainment.com,
email
[email protected]
At Cannes: Michael Taverna
(CEO/President), Cindy Nelson-Mullen
(Sales & Acquisitions Executive),
Kathryn Arnold (US Productions), Irene
Masiello (EU Productions).
Acquisition Executive: Cindy NelsonMullen
Office: Riviera Stand #A3, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.50, Fax: 1.917.677.8300
END CALL
(90 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Kiyoshi Yamamoto
Writer: Kiyoshi Yamamoto
Producer: T. O Entertainment
Co-production partners: The MonteCristo
Fund
Key Cast: Yuji Tomomi, Eri Takada,
Tetsu Watanabe
Delivery Status: Post-Production,
Delivery July 1st, 2008
Budget: $1.0 m
Origin: Japan
A group of high school girls call the
Devil to have a wish granted and cannot
end the call until they are dead.
HUTONG DAYS
Drama/Family (90 minutes)
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Director: Zhanjun An
Writer: Zhifu Niu
Producer: Bruce Feirstein, Ted Perkins
Co-production partners: China Film
Group, IDG China Media, China Film
Group
Key Cast: Bai Qing Xin, Jiaoqian Dai,
Yan Danchen and Ruofeng Jiang
Delivery Status: Completed, Ready for
delivery
Budget: $3.0 m
Origin: China
A touching contemporary drama about
the emerging Chinese middle class.
ALL THE DAYS BEFORE
TOMORROW
Comedy/Drama/Romance (100 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Francois Dompierre
Writer: Francois Dompierre
Producer: Francois Dompierre, Kevin
Leydon
Co-production partners: Kangoo Films
Key Cast: Alexandra Holden, Joey Kern
& Richard Roundtree
Delivery Status: Completed & Ready for
delivery
Budget: $1.5 m
Origin: Canada
In this quirky episodic tale about a
friendship that’s almost something more,
Joey Kern and Alexandra Holden play
pals who ought to be lovers, but their
timing has never been right.
MOONSTONE
ENTERTAINMENT
Moonstone Entertainment, P.O. Box
7400, Studio City, CA 91614 USA. Tel:
1.818.985.3003. Fax: 1.818.985.3009.
www.moonstonefilms.com
At Cannes: Mr. Ernst “Etchie” Stroh
(CEO), Mrs. Yael Stroh (President), Mr.
Michael Grant (Director Production &
Marketing)
Office: The Carlton Intercontinental,
Suite 120/121, Tel: 04.93.06.41.20
FROM A BUICK 8
Sci-Fi / Horror
Director: Tobe Hooper
Writers: Richard Chizmar, Johnathon
Schaech
Producers: Robert Katz, Etchie Stroh,
Mick Garris
CANNES 2008
When a state trooper is killed on the side
of the road, the boy discovers his father’s
dark secret in the barracks’ back shed.
Based on the Stephen King novel.
THE FALLS (RAPE - A LOVE
STORY)
Drama
based on the Novel by: Joyce Carol
Oates
Director: Harold Becker
Writer: John Mankiewicz
Producer: Robert Katz, Harold Becker,
Etchie Stroh
Teena Maguire should not have tried to
shortcut her way home with her daughter
that Fourth of July evening … Not after
midnight … Not through Rocky Point
Park.
HOLY ROAD
Western
Director: Simon Wincer
Writer: Michael Blake
Producers: Robert Katz, Etchie Stroh
Status: Development
Cntry of Origin: USA
The long awaited sequel to the Academy
Award-winning Dances with Wolves.
ENDGAME
Action
Director: Jeno Hodi
Writer: Tibor Fonyodi, Jeno Hodi
Producers: Etchie Stroh, Jeno Hodi,
Norbert Blecha
Status: Development
From a post apocalyptic New York, to
modern day Death Valley to the
underworld of Greek mythology, a game
has been played down through the
centuries. This is Endgame, where
fearless heroes and heroines are pitted
against the demon armies of Hades.
MORGAN CREEK
INTERNATIONAL
Morgan Creek International, 10351
Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 200, Los
Angeles, CA 90025 USA. Tel:
1.310.432.4848. Fax: 1.310.432.4844.
http://www.morgancreek.com
At Cannes: James G. Robinson
(Chairman/CEO), Howard Kaplan (Chief
Operating Officer), Brian Robinson
(SVP, Worldwide Marketing), David
Robinson (SVP, Production), Greg
Mielcarz (VP, Worldwide Publicity)
Office: Hotel Martinez, Suite 619
MOTION PICTURE
CORPORATION OF
AMERICA
Motion Picture Corporation of America,
10635 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 180,
1.310.319.9500. Fax: 1.310.319.9501.
http://www.mpcafilm.com
At Cannes: Brad Krevoy
(CEO/Chairman), Francisco González
(VP, International Sales & Marketing)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite 109, Tel:
04.97.06.85.33, Fax: 04.97.06.85.89
KILLER MOVIE
http://www.seekillermovie.com
Horror/Thriller/Comedy (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Jeff Fisher
Writer: Jeff Fisher
Key Cast: Leighton Meester, Paul
Wesley, Nestor Carbonell, Kaley Cuoco,
Robert Buckley, Jason London, Al
Santos, Torrey DeVitto
Origin: USA
A reality TV show shoot goes
terrifyingly awry when its crew becomes
stranded on a remote town. A killer is on
the loose, stalking cast and crew one by
one.
MOONDANCE ALEXANDER
http://www.moondancealexander.com
Family/Adventure (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael Damian
Writer: Michael Damina, Janeen Damian
Producer: Brad Krevoy
Key Cast: Kay Panabaker, Don Johnson,
Lori Loughlin, Sasha Cohen
Origin: USA
A young girl inspires her mother and a
down-and-out trainer with her passion
and determination to win a horse riding
competition.
MOVIE AVENUE
INTERNATIONAL
CORP.
Movie Avenue International Corp., c/o
1675 Broadway 17N-34, New York, NY
10022 USA. Tel: 1.646.557.4320. Fax:
1.212.265.9371. www.movie-avenue.com,
At Cannes: Lydia Y. Segundo (Officer,
Producer, Sales Agent)
Office: 67 Docteur Picaud, Cannes, Tel:
1.917.669.1870
BROS AND ARROWS
Comedy (95 min)
Language: English Subtitles
Director: K. Snyder
Scriptwriter: K. Snyder
Producer: L.Y. Segundo, D. Jellerette
Production company: Movie Avenue
International
Key cast: Nadine Ellis, Dave Chapelle
(proposed, non contractual)
Status: In development
Budget: $4.5 M Delivery date TBD
Urban Comedy with Hip Hop and action.
THE UNDERTAKERS
Black Comedy (95 min)
Language: English Subtitles
Director: K. Snyder
Scriptwriter: K. Snyder, Y. Braxton
Producer: L.Y. Segundo, D. Jellerette
Production company: Movie Avenue
International
Key cast: (non contractual) Nya Long,
Wayne Brady, Harry Lennox
Budget: $4 M
Status: Pre-production
Maybe an old story we all know. Two
brothers, two rivals in love with the same
woman, but the twist …the brothers run
GOOBY - PORCHLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT
a funeral empire and the femme fatale is
just that, fatally killer.
EL HOMBRE DE ARENA (THE
SANDMAN)
Drama (102 min)
Language: Spanish Subtitles English
Director: José Manuel González-Berbel
Scriptwriter: José Manuel GonzálezBerbel
Producer: Harold Sánchez
Production company: Iroko Films, Las
Siete Sillas
Key cast: María Valverde, Hugo Silva,
Samuel LeBihan, Alberto Jiménez
Status: Completed
Budget: $4M
Country of origin: Spain/France
Two love birds fly out of the cuckoo’s
nest in a stirring Spanish romance of mad
love and doomed passion.
MOVIEHOUSE
ENTERTAINMENT
Moviehouse Entertainment, 11 Denmark
Street, 4th Floor, London WC2H 8LA,
UK. Tel: 44.20.7836.5536. Fax:
44.560.2052.002.
http://www.moviehouseent.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Gary Phillips (Managing
Director/Head of Sales), Mark Vennis
(Managing Director/Head of
Acquisitions)
Office: Residence Du Grand Hotel, 47 La
Croisette, 6th Floor (Entrance Flamant),
Tel: 04.93.38.65.93
JERUSALEMA
http://www.jerusalementjha.com
Thriller (120 min)
Language: English
Director: Ralph Ziman
Writer: Ralph Ziman
Producer: Tendeka Matatu
Key Cast: Rapulana Sepheimo, Ronnie
Nyle, Shelly Meskin, Jeffrey Sekele,
Robert Hobbs
Origin: South Africa
If you’re going to steal. steal big and
hope like hell you get away with it!
EL CANTANTE
http://www.elcantantemovie.com
Drama (116 mins)
Language: English
Director: Leon Ichaso
Writer: David Darmstaedter, Leon
Ichaso, Todd Anthony Bello
Producer: Julio Caro
Key Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony
Origin: USA
El Cantante celebrates the life and music
of the legendary Puerto Rican salsa
singer Hector Lavoe, a pioneer of the
sound and sensibility that redefined Latin
music in the 1960s and 70s.
ABRAHAM’S POINT
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Wyndham Price
Writer: Wyndham Price
Producer: Anthony Purves
Key Cast: MacKenzie Crook
Origin: UK
Mackenzie Crook (Pirates of the
Caribbean 1/2/3) plays ‘Comet Snape’ a
man with a mysterious past who embarks
on a journey to uncover the truth behind
his past.
MOVING PICTURES
FILM & TV
Moving Pictures Film & TV, 7330 N.
16th Street, Suite A314, Phoenix, AZ
85020 United States. Tel:
1.602.283.0099. Fax: 1.602.283.0098.
http://www.movingpicturesfilmandtv.com
At Cannes: Ted Chalmers, Margaret
Tritch
Office: Riviera D-4. Mobile
1.623.476.9150.
4 WEEKS OF SUNSHINE
http://www.silentroadcinema.com
Drama (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Steven Kiefer
Writer: Steven Kiefer
Co-Production Partners: Silent Road
Cinema
Producer: Brian Gamble, Michael
McBay, Beat Muller
Key Cast: Steven Kiefer, Christine Iobst,
Marco Aguilar, Juce Peterson
Budget: 1.2 Million
Origin: USA
A Championship boxer is blinded during
a prize fight, but later is given a brief
window of sight which he keeps to
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himself to observe those around him.
MATTIE FRESNO AND THE
HOLOFLUX UNIVERSE
http://www.mattiefresno.com/
Comedy/Drama/Fantasy (92) Minutes
Language: English
Director: Phil Gallo
Writer: Steve Bretschneider & Phil Gallo
Co-Production Partners: Mattie Fresno
Film Partners LLC
Producer: Steve Bretschneider, Donna
Miller
Key Cast: Angela Pierce, Carol Alt, Ellen
Cleghorne, Orson Bean
Budget: 1.2 Million
Origin: USA
Mattie Fresno lands in jail for murder
and discovers an unexpected solution to
her problems as her freedom awaits in
the holoflux universe.
DO IT FOR JOHNNY
http://www.doitforjohnny.com/
Language: English
Director: Hayler Garcia
Writer: Hayler Garcia
Co-Production Partners: Tao Engine
Philms
Producer: Scott Baxendale, Haylar
Garcia
Key Cast: Johnny Depp (Appearance)
Budget: 1.2 Million
Origin: USA
Johnny Depp is featured in this
documentary, as three unknowns
filmmakers from Colorado pursue the
Box Office Superstar with sometimes
hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking
results.
MULTIVISIONNAIRE
Multivisionnaire, 3080 W. Valley Blvd.,
Suite B, Alhambra, CA 91803 USA. Tel:
1.626.737.8357. Fax: 1.626.407.4197.
www.multivisionnaire.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Sean T, Haley (Managing
Partner), Erika Kao-Haley (Managing
Partner)
Acquisition Executive: Sean T, Haley
(Managing Partner), Erika Kao-Haley
(Managing Partner)
Office: Palais 20.04a, Tel: 33
6.34.49.32.42, Fax: 1.626.407.4197
THE DARK LURKING
www.multivisionnaire.com
Sci Fi (114 min)
Language: English
Director: Greg Connors
Writer: Greg Connors
Producer: Stuart Wall
Key Cast: Tonia Renee, Bret Kennedy,
and Ozzie Devrish
Budget: $2 Million
Origin: Australia
Mutant creatures are unleashed when
researchers made the wrong discovery.
Eight survivors must be rescued from
outpost beneath the earth. One survivor
has a deadly surprise.
BODY/ANTIBODY
http://www.leisuresuit.net/bodyantibody/
Thriller (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Kerry Douglas Dye
Producer: Jordan Hoffman
Origin: USA
A shut-in clean-freak gets involved with
the a dysfunctional girl. Their
relationship blossoms until her crazy exboyfriend appears, and they plot to kill
him.
MYRIAD PICTURES
Myriad Pictures, 3015 Main Street, Suite
400, Santa Monica CA 90405 USA. Tel:
1.310.279.4000. Fax: 1.310.279.4001.
www.myriadpictures.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Kirk D’Amico (President and
CEO), Pamela Rodi (EVP Marketing and
Publicity), Elias Axume (VP Distribution
and Operations), Lisa Gutberlet
(Director, Sales), Patrick Murray
(Production and Finance)
Office: Villa Royale, 41 Croisette/29 Rue
Commandant Andre, 4th Floor Suite,
Cannes 06400. Tel: 1.310.279.4000. Fax:
1.310.279.4001
174
Drama
Language: Portuguese
Director: Bruno Barreto
Writer: Bruno Barreto, Braulio
Mantovani
Based on a true event, 174 tells the gritty
story of young Sandro, who lives in the
slums of Rio de Janiero.
CRY OF THE OWL
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Jamie Thraves
Producer: BBC Films, Studio Hamburg,
MACT Productions and Sienna Films
Key Cast: Julia Stiles and Paddy
Considine
Origin: USA
Based on the novel by Patricia
Highsmith, a troubled young women
becomes irresistibly drawn to a man she
discovers has been stalking her.
NOT FORGOTTEN
Supernatural Thriller
Language: English
Director: Dror Soref
Producer: Donald Zuckerman
Key Cast: Simon Baker, Paz Vega,
Richardo Chavira, Claire Forlani
Origin: USA
When his daughter is kidnapped, Jack
Bishop discovers that the only way he
can get her back is to enlist the help of
the cult La Santa Muerte, the
worshippers of the dead.
N
NIKKATSU
CORPORATION
NIKKATSU Corporation, 3-28-12,
Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033
Japan. Tel: 81.3.5689.1018. Fax:
81.3.5689.1044. http://www.nikkatsu.com
At Cannes: Keizo Yuri (Director, Film
Business Division), Kiyoshi Banba
(Director, Film Business Strategies
Division), Kenjiro Toba (Senior
Manager, Licensing/Videogram Business
Department), Koichi Shibuya (Senior
Manager, Film Business Strategies
Office)
Office: G17
ONE MILLION YEN GIRL
http://www.nigamushi.com
Drama (121min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Yuki Tanada
Writer: Yuki Tanada
Producer: Kumi Kobata, Tadashi Tan
Key Cast: Yu Aoi,Mirai Moriyama,
Pierre Taki,Terunosuke Takezai, Ryusei
Saito,Sumie Sasaki
Budget
Origin: Japan
Suzuko is already tired of people. She
begins a journey and promises herself to
stick with one rule: once she saves up a
million yen, she must leave for another
town.
SING, SALMON, SING!
http://www.utatama.com
Comedy, drama (120min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Makoto Tan
Writer: Hiromitsu Kurihara, Makoto Tan
Producer: Yoichi Arishige, Kiyoe Noma,
Ryusei Kawmi
Key Cast: Kaho, Gori, Hideo Ishiguro,
Eri Tokunaga, Akiko, Hiroko
Yakushimaru
Origin: Japan
Kasumi is a soprano part-leader of
Chorus Club. One day, she is said“you
look like spawning salmon”. Shocked by
unexpected words, she decides to quit
club
NAOKO~WINNING RUNNERS
http://www.naoko-movie.com
Drama, sports (120min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Tomoyuki Furumaya
Writer: Tamio Hayashi, Tomoyuki
Furumaya, Yohei Nagao
Producer: Hirohisa Mukuju, Osamu
Kubota, Yoichi Arishige
Key Cast: Juri Ueno, Haruma Miura,
Tsurube Shofukutei
Origin: Japan
Naoko falls into the sea by accident.
Yusuke’s father saves her life at the
sacrifices of his life. A few years later,
Naoko meets Yusuke who becomes a
famous runner.
NONSTOP SALES AB
NonStop Sales AB, Dobelnsgatan 24,
Stockholm, 11352 Sweden. Tel:
00.46.8.673.99.80. Fax:
00.46.8.673.99.33.
http://www.nonstopsales.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: CG Anderson (CEO),
Michael Werner (Sales Manager), Judith
Toth (Sales Executive), Cathrin Wentzel
(Marketing Coordinator)
Office: Scandinavian Terrace (55 La
Croisette), Tel: 0046.707.33.28.55
GNOMES AND TROLLS
http://www.gnomesandtrolls.com
Children Family (74 min + 5 x 15 min
TV)
Language: English
Director: Robert Rhodin
Writer: Robert Rhodin, Salvatore
Cardoni
Producer: White Shark Film
Key Cast: EG Daily (HAPPY FEET),
Greg Berg (CHICKEN LITTLE, THE
WILD AND TOY STORY), James
Arnold Taylor (TMNT), André Sogliuzzo
(THE POLAR EXPRESS)
Origin: Sweden
GNOMES AND TROLLS tells the story
about Junior, a teenage gnome who
embarks on a heroic journey together
with his best friend Sneaky, a paranoid
neurotic crow.
MANHUNT (ROVDYR)
http://www.rovdyrfilm.no
Horror (76 min)
Language: Norwegian
Director: Patrik Syversen
Writer: Patrik Syversen and Nini Bull
Robsahm
Co-Production Partners: Norsk
Filmstudio, Euforia Film
Producer: Fender Film AS
Key Cast: Henriette Bruusgaard, JornBjorn Fulller-Gee, Lasse Valdal,
Nini Bull Robsahm
Origin: Norway
The Summer of 1974. Four youths on a
hiking trip are abducted and dropped off
in the woods. Someone is out hunting
and they’re the prey.
THE MAN WHO LOVED YNGVE
(MANNEN SOM ELSKET YNGVE)
http://www.mannensomelsketyngve.no
Drama (98 min)
Language: Norwegian
Director: Stian Kristiansen
Writer: Tore Renberg
Producer: Motlys
Key Cast: Rolf Kristian Larsen, Ida Elise
Broch, Arthur Berning, Ole
Christoffer Ertvaag
Origin: Norway
Jarle Klepp got everything; the best
girlfriend and the coolest buddy, with
whom he will launch punk band, Mathias
Rust Band. But then Yngve, the new boy
in class appears.
THE KAUTOKEINO REBELLION
(KAUTOKEINO-OPPRORET)
CANNES 2008
http://www.kautokeino-opproret.no
Drama (96 min)
Language: Norwegian
Director: Nils Gaup
Writer: Nils Gaup, Nils Isak Eira
Producer: Filmlance International,
Rubicon TV AS
Key Cast: Mikael Persbrandt, Peter
Andersson, Anni-Kristiina Juuso,
Mikkel Gaup, Asle Mathis Gaup, Nils
Peder Isaksen Gaup, Mikael Nyqvist,
Bjorn Sundquist
Origin: Norway
A historical saga set in 1852,
modernisation is about to enter the
desolate village of Kautokeino where
authority is held by a ruthless liquor
dealer.
NOTRO FILMS
Notro Films, Balmes 243 Ático,
Barcelona, 08006 Spain. Tel:
34.93.238.4030. Fax: 34.93.238.4031.
http://www.notrofilms.com
At Cannes: Alex Lafuente (Head of
Office:
LOW QUALITY PEOPLE (GENTE
DE MALA CALIDAD)
Comedy (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Juan Cavestany
Writer: Juan Cavestany
Co-Production Partners: Telespan 2000
& Telecinco Cinema
Producer: Tomas Cimadevilla & David
Serrano
Key Cast: Alberto San Juan, Maribel
Verdú, Fernando Tejero
Origin: Spain
An ensemble cast comedy that narrates
with brutal humour how sometimes we
make terrible choices without really
wanting it and how life can transform us
into low quality people with those we
need the most.
DESPERATE WOMEN
(ENLOQUECIDAS)
Comedy (96 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Juan Luis Iborra
Writer: Juan Luis Iborra & Antonio
Albert
Co-Production Partners: Cuarteto PC, El
Paso PC & Notro Films
Producer: Óscar del Caz, Marc Cases,
Sergio Castellote, Beatriz Navarrete &
Carlos Ibáñez
Key Cast: Silvia Abascal, Verónica
Forqué, Concha Velasco, Iván Sánchez
Origin: Spain
Blanca meets the man of his dreams,
falls in love and loses him all in one
week.
FERMAT’S ROOM (LA
HABITACIÓN DE FERMAT)
Thriller (88 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Luis Piedrahita & Rodrigo
Sopeña
Writer: Luis Piedrahita & Rodrigo
Sopeña
Co-Production Partners: Notro Films &
Boca a Boca
Producer: José María Irisarri, Adolfo
Blanco, César Benítez
Key Cast: Lluis Homar, Alejo Sauras,
Elena Ballesteros, Santi Millán &
Federico Luppi
Origin: Spain
Four mathematicians, who do not know
each other, are invited by a mysterious
host on the pretext of resolving the
greatest enigma. The room in which they
find themselves turns out to be a
death-trap.
THE CODE
Director: Mimi Leder
Cast: Morgan Freeman and Antonio
Banderas
A veteran thief recruits a young crook to
help him pull off one final job in order to
repay his debt to the Russian mob.
RIGHTEOUS KILL
Director: Jon Avnet
Writer: Russell Gewirtz (Inside Man)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Curtis
“50 Cent” Jackson
Two New York cops find themselves in
pursuit of a serial killer who leaves
poems about the crime he just
committed.
Nu Image/Millennium Films, 6423
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
90048 USA. Tel: 1.310.388.6900. Fax:
1.310.388.6901. www.nuimage.net,
[email protected]
At Cannes: Avi Lerner (Co Chairman),
Danny Dimbort (Co Chairman),
Christian Mercuri (President
International Distribution), Dimiter
Nikolov (VP, International Business and
Legal Affairs), Adele Yoshioka (VP,
International Distribution), Jeffrey Giles
(International Coordinator)
Office: Riviera, F1, Tel: 334.92.99.32.38
BROOKLYN?S FINEST
Director: Antoine Fuqua (Training Day,
Shooter)
Writer: Michael Martin
Cast: Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan
Hawke, Wesley Snipes
Status: Pre Production
Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind
up at the same deadly location after
enduring vastly different career paths.
CONAN
COMING SOON!
More details on the adventure based on
the mythical conqueror, Conan the
Barbarian.
NINJA
Director: Isaac Florentine
Cast: TBD
A ninja hiding in New York is forced to
confront his past when a brutal gang of
Yakuza assassins uncover his identity
LIES AND ILLUSIONS
Director: Tibor Takacs
Cast: Christian Slater and Cuba Gooding,
Jr.
A school teacher is trapped in the high
tech world of espionage when his two
lovers, both spies, fight to recover stolen
gems while being tracked by ruthless
villains.
STREETS OF BLOOD
Director: Charles Winkler
Cast: Val Kilmer, Curtis “50Cent”
Jackson, Sharon Stone
Two city cops fight corruption on the
streets and in their own force.
NZ Film, Level 3, 119 Ghuznee Street,
Wellington 6011 New Zealand. Tel:
64.4.382.7682. Fax: 64.4.384.9719.
http://www.nzfilm.co.nz, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Ruth Harley (CEO), Kathleen
Drumm (Head of Sales and Marketing),
Marilyn Milgrom (Head of
Development), Sarah Cull (Head of
Business Affairs)
Office: 1st Floor, Residence Gray
d’Albion, 17 La Croisette/4 Rue des
Serbes (entrance via Rue des Serbes)
SECOND-HAND WEDDING
Drama
Language: English
Director: Paul Murphy
Writer: Nick Ward with Linda Niccol
Producer: Nigel Stanford, Paul Murphy,
Kerry Robins
Key Cast: Geraldine Brophy, Holly
Shanahan, Ryan O’Kane
Origin: New Zealand
Cheryl is planning her big day, but
there’s only one problem - her mother.
THE TATTOOIST
http://www.thetattooistmovie.co.nz
Horror
Language: English
Director: Peter Burger
Writer: Matthew Grainger and Jonathan
King
Co-Production Partners: Eyeworks
Touchdown and MediaCorp Raintree
Pictures
Producer: Robin Scholes
Key Cast: Jason Behr, Mia Blake
Origin: New Zealand
A tattoo artist must stop an angry spirit
who is tattooing his clients to death.
A SONG OF GOOD
http://www.asongofgood.com
Psychological Drama
Language: English
Director: Gregory King
Writer: Gregory King
Producer: Mark Foster
Key Cast: Gareth Reeves, Matthew
Sunderland, Danielle Cormack
Origin: New Zealand
NU
IMAGE/MILLENNIU
M FILMS
NZ FILM
After committing a shocking crime, Gary
secretly decides to change his life and
become a good person. But deciding is
one thing, changing is another.
O
VACLAV - SIMPLY CINEMA
ODD LOT
INTERNATIONAL
Odd Lot International, 9601 Jefferson
Blvd., Suite A, Culver City, CA 90232
USA. www.oddlotentertainment.com,
At Cannes: Gigi Pritzker
(Co-CEO), Bill Lischak (COO), Brian
O’Shea (EVP Worldwide Distribution),
Andrew Boyd (Director, Marketing &
Publicity), Bernardo Da Fonseca
(Director, International Distribution),
Shirley Kim (Manager, International
Business Affairs)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite 759/760.
10, La Croisette, BP 163 06407, Cannes,
France. Tel: 33(0)4.97.06.84.93, Fax:
33(0)4.97.06.84.94
BOTTLE SHOCK
Drama
Language: English
Director: Randall Miller
Screenplay: Jody Savin & Randall
Miller, Ross Schwartz
Producers: J. Todd Harris, Jody Savin,
Randall Miller, Brenda Lhormer, Marc
Lhormer, Marc Toberhoff
Cast: Bill Pullman, Alan Rickman,
Rachael Taylor, Chris Pine, Freddy
Rodriguez, Dennis Farina
Status: Screening
The charming true story of father and son
winemakers in Napa Valley and the
British Wineshop owner who organized
the famous Paris Tastings of 1976 that
put California wines on the map and
changed viticulture forever.
THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
Action
Language: English
Director: Jesse Johnson
Writer: Rick Yune
Producers: Andrew Zarrow, Patrick Cole,
Rick Yune
Cast: Rick Yune, Keith David, Bokeem
Woodbine
Status: Complete
An infant boy is orphaned by a gang of
killers only to be saved and adopted by
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an unlikely Samaritan and his son.
THE OPEN ROAD
Drama
Language: English
Director: Michael Meredith
Writer: Michael Meredith
Producers: Charlie Mason, Justin MooreLewy, Michael Meredith, Jordan Foley,
Laurie Foxx, David Schiff
Exec Producer & Visual Consultant:
Wim Wenders
Cast: Justin Timberlake, Jeff Bridges,
Kate Mara, Mary Steenburgen,
Harry Dean Stanton, Lyle Lovett
A young man tries to reconnect with his
famous father as he struggles to get him
home to his ailing mother’s bedside.
THE GREAT GHOST RESCUE
Adventure Fantasy
Language: English
Director: Yann Samuell
Writer: David Solomons (From the book
by Eva Ibbotson)
Producers: Miriam Segal, Martin Katz
Status: In Prep
Country of Origin: UK
21st century fantasy adventure movie for
audiences of all ages, it’s the story of
Humphrey, a small ghost with a big
problem — his family has lost their
home, and they’re off to find a new
haunting ground.
ODYSSEY
ENTERTAINMENT
Odyssey Entertainment, 10A James
Street, London, WC2E 8BT UK. Tel:
44.20.7520.5610. Fax: 44.20.7520.5611.
Sales agent
At Cannes: Ralph Kamp (Chairman &
CEO) (Sales), James Scott (VP
International Sales), Libby D’Arcy (Head
of Business Affairs), Louise Goodsill
(President & COO)
Office: Vieux Port Bateaux Bayview, Tel:
33.492.98.71.72, Fax: 33.492.98.71.72
DAYDREAM NATION
Teenage Drama
Language: English
Director: Mike Goldbach
Writer: Mike Goldbach
Producer: Michael Bessman, Cameron
Lamb
Key Cast: Hayden Panettiere, Keiran
Culkin
Delivery Status: Pre-Production,
Delivery 2009
A seventeen year old girl moves to a
small town haunted by the presence of a
serial killer and begins an affair with the
one person she connects with: her
teacher.
IMPY’S WONDERLAND
Animation
Language: English
Director: Reinhard Klooss, Holger Tappe
Producer: Reinhard Klooss, Holger
Tappe
Delivery Status: Completed and
screening
Impy, a clever little dinosaur, leaves his
island in search of adventure, falls in
with the shrewd amusement park owner,
Barnaby and must be reached by his
adorable sister and animal friends.
NUTCRAKER: THE TRUE STORY
Family
Language: English
Director: Andrew Konchalovsky
Producer: Paul Lowin, Andrei
Konchalovsky
Key Cast: Elle Flanning, Nathan Lane,
John Turturro, Richard E. Grant
Set in 1920’s Vienna, Mary’s magical
nutcracker doll comes to life on
Christmas night taking her on a
whirlwind adventure she’ll never forget.
OSCILLOSCOPE
PICTURES
Oscilloscope Pictures, 511 Canal St., 5E,
New York, NY 10013 United States. Tel:
1.212.219.4029. Fax: 1.212.219.9538.
http://www.oscilloscopepictures.com
David Fenkel (Sales)
Office:
GUNNIN’ FOR THAT #1 SPOT
http://www.gunninmovie.com
Language: English
Director: Adam Yauch
Producer: Adam Yauch & Jon Doran
Key Cast: Michael Beasley, Kevin Love,
Jerryd Bayless, Donte Greene, Kyle
Singler, Brandon Jennings, Tyreke
Evans, and Lance Stephenson
A look at eight of the nation’s top high
school basketball players as they are
groomed for the limelight.
OSTROW AND
COMPANY
Ostrow and Company, 100 South Doheny
Drive Suite 210, Los Angeles, CA 90048
USA. Tel: 1.310.276.5007.
http://www.ostrowandcompany.com
At Cannes: Page Ostrow (President),
Mark Belasco (Sales Associate), Mark
Horowitz (Sales Associate)
Office: Tel: 1.310.276.5007
FAT HEAD
Language: English
Director: Tom Naughton
Producer: Page Ostrow, Tom Naughton
Budget: Under 1 million
Origin: USA
A parody on Spurlock’s Supersize Me
that exposes the lies the U.S. government
feeds us about our diets.
JUVIES
Language: English
Director: Leslie Neale
Producer: Page Ostrow, Mark Wahlberg,
Leslie Neale, John Densmore
Key Cast: Mark Wahlberg
Budget: 500,000
Origin: USA
Expose on kids behind bars in US
prisons
.
P
PATHÉ
INTERNATIONAL
Pathé International, Paris Office: 2 rue
Lamennais, 75008 Paris, France.
Tel: 33.1.71.72.33.05.
Fax: 33.1.71.72.33.10.
E-mail: [email protected].
London Office: Kent House, 14-17
Market Place, London, W1W 8AR, UK.
Tel: 44.207.462.4427. Fax:
44.207.436.7891
At Cannes: Muriel Sauzay (EXVP Pathé
International) Cell # 33.6.16.59.83.13,
Mike Runagall (SVP Pathé International)
Cell # 44.7949.074.552, Saya
Huddleston (VP Pathé International) Cell
# 33.6.21.71.09.98, Mayalen de
Croisoeuil (Sales Executive) Cell #
33.6.60.53.10.09), Agathe Theodore
(Sales Executive) Cell # 33.6.70.72.37.32
Office: Résidences du Grand Hotel, 45
La Croisette, Ibis Block, 4th Floor, Apt.
4A, Tel: 33(0)4.93.46.09.27, Fax:
33(0)4.93.68.98.67
CHÉRI
Drama
Language: English
Director: Stephen Frears
Screenplay: Christopher Hampton
Producers: Bill Kenwright, Tracey
Seaward
Production: Alan MacDonald
Key Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates,
Rupert Friend, Felicity Jones
Origin: UK
OCEANS
Feature Documentary
Language: French
Director: Jacques Perrin, Jacques
Cluzaud
Producers: Jacques Perrin, Nicolas
Mauvernay
Original Music by Bruno Coulais and
Paul McCartney
Produced by Galatée Films in association
with Pathé
Origin: France
The film Oceans is a hymn to the sea,
exploring the last uncharted territories on
this planet.
THE ILLUSIONIST (WORKING
TITLE)
Feature Animation
Director: Sylvain Chomet
Based on an Orignal Story by Jacques Tati
Producers: Bob Last, Sally Chomet
Origin: UK/France
PEACE ARCH
ENTERTAINMENT
Peace Arch Entertainment, 4640
Admiralty Way, Suite 710, Marina Del
Rey, CA 90292, USA. Tel:
1.310.776.7208. Fax: 1.310.823.7147.
www.peacearch.com, e-mail:
[email protected]
Peace Arch Entertainment acquires and
produces theatrical, home entertainment,
and television content for distribution to
worldwide markets
At Cannes: John Flock (President and
COO), Mary Herne (EVP, International
Television/Home Entertainment),
Suzanne Barron (SVP, International
Television/Home Entertainment),
Caroline Dubourg (SVP, Business
Affairs), Roy Bodner (SVP – Film and
Television Marketing and
Communications)
Acqusition Executives: Berry
Meyerowitz (President, Peace Arch
Home Entertainment), Larry Greenberg
(SVP, Acquisitions)
Office: Riviera, Lerins, S9,
Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.45,
Fax: 33(0)4.92.99.32.46
WINGED CREATURES
Drama (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Rowan Woods
Writer: Roy Freirich
Producer: Robert Salerno
Key Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Forest
Whitaker, Dakota Fanning
Origin: USA
Linked together by a life-changing
tragedy, the survivors of a multiple
murder are each left to comprehend their
mortality and redefine their place in
society.
THE DEAL
Language: English
Director: Steven Schachter
Writer: William Macy, Steven Schachter
Producer: Irene Litinsky, Michael Prupas
Key Cast: William H. Macy, Meg Ryan,
LL Cool J
Origin: USA
When a struggling producer’s lead actor
is kidnapped from the set, he hatches a
scheme with an executive to save the star
and the movie.
GOAL 3
Sport Drama
Language: English
Director: Andrew Morahan
Writer: Mike Jefferies, Piers Ashworth
Producer: Matt Barrelle, Peter Heslop,
Mike Jeffereis
Co-production partners: Piers Ashworth
Key Cast: JJ Field, Leo Gregory, Kuno
Becker, Anna Friel
Origin: USA
The final installment in the action-packed
fast-paced soccer trilogy, Goal 3 features
international stars like Kuno Becker,
David Beckham and Alessandro Nivola.
CANNES 2008
PFG
ENTERTAINMENT
PFG Entertainment, 429 Santa Monica
Blvd., Suite 600, Santa Monica, CA
90401 USA. Tel: 310.393.5788. Fax:
310.393.0882.
http://www.pfgentertainment.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Ted Rosenblatt (President)
Office: Carlton InterContinental Hotel
Suite 201, Tel: 04.93.06.4.201, Fax:
04.93.38.31.10
A WAY WITH MURDER
Crime Thriller
Language: English
Director: Dan Neira
Producer: Medhat Faltas, Sam Faltas,
Tony DiDio
Key Cast: Michael Madsen, Kim Morgan
Greene
Origin: USA
An apparent victim’s hidden criminal
past is ultimately uncovered by the same
detective hired to protect her.
CHUCK BERRY AND BO
DIDDLEY’S ROCK N’ ROLL ALLSTAR JAM
Music, Documentary (60 min)
Language: English
Director: Ron Terry
Producer: Ron Terry
Key Cast: Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley,
Mick Fleetwood, Ron Wood, Carl
Wilson, John Mayall
Origin: USA
In 1985, Bo Diddley put together a band,
cooked them all a barbecue dinner, and
then they put on a show. It’s an R&B
jamfest. Available for the first time for
international DVD distribution.
TOOLBOX MURDERS… THE
RETURN
Dir: Dean Jones
Prod.: Tony DiDio
Writer: Jeffrey Reddick
Status: Preproduction
Logline: The Toolbox Murders are
beginning… again.
PORCHLIGHT
ENTERTAINMENT
Porchlight Entertainment, 11050 Santa
Monica Blvd., 3rd Floor, Los Angeles,
CA 90025 USA. Tel: 1.310.477.8400.
Fax: 1.310.477.5555.
www.porchlight.com, email:
[email protected]
Distributor
At Cannes: William Baumann (President
& COO), Ken DuBow (President
Worldwide Distribution), JD Beaufils
(VP, Worldwide Sales), Katherine
Kaufman (VP, Worldwide Sales), Jeffrey
Engelen (VP, Worldwide Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Ken DuBow
Offices: R8, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.33.15
GOOBY
www.coneybearestories.ca
Family (94 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Wilson Coneybeare
Writer: Wilson Coneybeare
Producer: Wilson Coneybeare
Co-production partners: Coneybeare
Stories
Key Cast: Robbie Coltrane, Eugene
Levy, David James Elliott, Matthew
Knight
Origin: Canada
Eleven year old Willy’s childhood toy,
Gooby, comes to life as a real life sixfoot tall monster who helps Willy
through rough times, with hair-raising
and hilarious adventures ensuing.
RUNNING THE SAHARA
www.runningthesahara.com
Language: English
Director: James Moll
Producer: Rick Eldridge, Marc Joubert,
Larry Tanz
Co-production partners: LivePlanet,
Independent Producers Alliance
Key Cast: Charlie Engle, Ray Zahab,
Kevin Lin
Origin: US
In 2006, an international expedition team
of three men undertook a quest that no
human being has ever fulfilled….they
will run across the Sahara Desert.
THE NOTE
Family (87 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Douglas Barr
Writer: Paul W. Cooper
Producer: Steve Solomos
Co-production partners: Wildrice,
Lightworks Pictures, Doone City Pictures
Key Cast: Genie Francis, Ted McGinley,
Katie Boland
Origin: US
After a tragic plane crash, a local
journalist discovers a note that she
believes was written by one of the
passengers. As she seeks the note’s
intended receiver, she unexpectedly
confronts her own personal demons in
the process.
PRESTIGE
Prestige, P.O. Box 7400, Studio City, CA
91614 USA. Tel: 1.818.985.3003. Fax:
1.818.985.3009.
At Cannes: Mr. Jay Firestone (Partner),
Mr. Etchie Stroh (Partner), Mrs. Yael
Stroh (Partner), Mr. Ron Gell
(International Sales), Mr. Michael Grant
(Marketing)
Office: LERINS, Stand R21, Tel.:
04.92.99.32.43
THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP
Thriller/Horror
Director: Stuart Gordon
Writer: Dennis Paoli
Producers: Robert Katz, Etchie Stroh
Cntry of Origin: USA
A psychiatrist is seduced by an other
worldly spirit in this film adaptation of
the H.P. Lovecraft story.
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL NANNY
Comedy Feature
Director: Dana Lustig
Writer: Dana Lustig
Producers: Dana Lustig, Etchie Stroh
Cntry of Origin: U.S.A.
The story of a has-been rocker who ends
up as the nanny in the home of one of his
ex-groupies.
Q
QED
INTERNATIONAL
QED International, 9595 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 800, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 USA.
Tel: 310.273.3004. Fax: 310.273.3006.
At Cannes: Kimberly Fox, EVP
(International Distribution), Tatyana Joffe
(VP, International Distribution), Heather
Montgomery (Worldwide Sales
Coordinator), Rachel Korn (Market
Assistant)
Office: 67 la Croisette, 7th floor, Tel:
33(0)4.93.46.02.33, Heather
Montgomery mobile: 1.310.922.7821
W (BUSH)
Language: English
Director: Oliver Stone
Writer: Stanley Weiser
Producers: Moritz Borman, John Kilik,
Bill Block
Cast: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks,
James Cromwell, Ellen Burstyn
Production Status: Pre Production
Love him or hate him, George W. Bush
is one of the most controversial men in
recent memory. Prepare yourself to find
out the truth about a man who changed
this world forever.
DISTRICT 9
Language: English
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Producer: Peter Jackson
Writer: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
A PERFECT GETAWAY
Language: English
Director: David Twohy
Writer: David Twohy
Executive Producers: John Davis, Bill
Block, Kimberly Fox
Producers: Ryan Kavanaugh, Tucker
Tooley, Robbie Brener
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Timothy Olyphant,
Steve Zahn, Kiele Sanchez
US Distribution: MGM
A newlywed couple’s excitement turns to
Tel 04 93 06 41 49
fear when they receive news of a series
of gruesome murders that have been
taking place on the islands where they
are honeymooning.
WAITZ IN STARLIGHT
TOHOKUSHINSHA FILM CORPORATION
QUANTUM
RELEASING
Quantum Releasing, 209 East Alameda
#203, Burbank, CA 91502 USA. Tel:
1.818.255.9900 . Fax: 1.818.255.9903.
www.quantumreleasing.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Jamie Thompson (President
of Distribution), Michael Lurie (Director
of Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Jamie Thompson
(VP Sales and Acquisitions)
Office: Riviera B20, Tel: 1.310.929.7494
BABY
www.babythemovie.com
(100min)
Language: English
Director: Juan Chung
Writer: Juan Chung
Producer: Jason Serrato
Key Cast: Tzi Ma, Ron Yuan, Feodor
Chin, Dana Lee, Kenneth Choi, Kenzo
Lee
Origin: USA
STRIKE
Comedy (94min)
Language: English
Director: Tommy Reid
Writer: Ross Paterson
Producer: Patrick Durham, Tara Reid,
David E Ornston, Tommy Reid, Jonathan
Sacher
Key Cast: Ross Paterson
Origin: USA
Ross rules the lanes and becomes a
national icon for a new breed of bowler
but loses his friends to fame and fortune.
FINAL ENGAGEMENT
Thriller (96min)
Language: English
Director: Ari Novak
Writer: Jessica Tuffley
Producer: Jessica Tuffley
Key Cast: Peter Green, Arlene Tur
Origin: USA
Jacqueline is used as a pawn by her
Miami crime boss father in order to
expand his empire. Now a journey down
he aisle may turn deadly.
CANNES 2008
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R
RAI TRADE
Rai Trade, Via Umberto Novaro 18,
Rome, 00195 Italy. Tel: 39.06.374.981.
Fax: 39.06.370.1343.
http://www.raitrade.it, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Renato Parascandolo
(President), Alba Calia (Vice President),
Carlo Nardello (CEO), Sesto Cifola
(Head of Cinema and TV Sales),
Alessandra Sottile (Docs, Factual,
Fashion and Lifestyle International
Senior Sales Executive)
Office: Palais Stephanie, Salon
Brougham 1st Floor
THE VICEROYS
Historical Drama (120 min)
Language: Italian with English subs
Director: Roberto Faenza
Co-Production Partners: Jean Vigo Italia,
Rai Cinema
Country of Origin: Italy
A rich historical drama. A Sicilian family
with a father who is a tyrant and who
even deprives his daughter of the right to
love.
HIGH SCHOOL LOSERS
Comedy (90 min)
Director: Luca Biglione
Co-Production Partners: Devon
Cinematografica, Dania Film, Surf Film
Michele’s failing grades convince his
parents to pull him out of school and hire
a private teacher. The boy is further
humiliated when his virtual life as a
Latin lover on internet is unmasked.
WALTZ
Drama (87 min)
Director: Salvatore Maira
Producer: Home Production
The lives of two people are drastically
changed in the space of one and a half
hours.
REACH UP HIGH
ENTERTAINMENT
LTD
Reach Up High Entertainment Ltd, 86
Seymour Grove, Manchester, United
Kingdom, M16 0LW. Tel:
44.161.876.4169. Fax:
44.0845.330.5156.
www.reachuphigh.com,
[email protected]
Production Company
At Cannes: Demetris Kyriacou
(Managing Director)
Office: European Pavilion, Tel:
44.770.105.7443
THE KITCHEN GAMES
Animation/Family/Comedy (100
minutes)
Language: English
Directors: Andrew Bishop, Dirk Maggs
Writers: Dirk Maggs, Andrew Bishop,
Keith Reeves
Producers: Andrew Bishop, Keith
Reeves, Demetris Kyriacou, Keith Evans
Budget: $ 18 million
The most imaginative re-telling of the
famous Romeo & Juliette story, which
includes Adventure, Romance, Extreme
Sports. .and the Kitchen Sink!
DRAGON DALE
Action/Adventure/Fantasy (110 minutes)
Language: English
Writer: David Howard
Producers: Peter Kuhn, Gertain
Rooijakkers
Demetris Kyriacou, Kai Roger Gruneke
Budget: $ 40 million
Origin: Germany
To Finn (13) and his sister Caitlin (15), it
feels like their family has been fighting
forever, but it’s really only been for the
last thousand years.
TAINTED LOVE
Language: English
Director: Raj Dani
Writer: Raj Dani
Producers: Raj Dani, Andy Birmingham,
Demetris Kyriacou
Key Cast: Thora Birch, Danny Dyer,
John Rhys Davies & Dennis Hopper
Budget: $ 4 million
Late one night, Charlie and Mia hitch a
lift of Underwood. The couple proceed to
kidnap and torture the driver. Underwood
manages to escape as the deadly pursuit
continues.
RIGEL
ENTERTAINMENT
Rigel Entertainment, 4201 Wilshire Blvd.
#555, Los Angeles, CA 90010 USA. Tel:
1.323.954.8555. Fax: 1.323.954.8592.
http://www.rigelentertainment.com,
At Cannes: John Laing (CEO), Laura
Hoffman (VP Sales), Bryan Hambleton
(Sales), Robert Halvorsen (International
Marketing Coordinator), Elizabeth
Leister (International Sales Coordinator)
Office: Riviera D8, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.88.06, Fax: 1.323.954.8592
FREE STYLE
http://www.movieset.com/freestyle
Children/Teen, Drama, Family, Sports
(93 min)
Language: English
Director: William Dear
Producer: John F.S. Laing
Key Cast: Corbin Bleu, Madison Pettis,
Penelope Ann Miller, Sandra Echeverria
In this riveting coming-of-age story,
Cale’s guts and determination to
compete, and his compassion and loyalty
to those he loves, lead him to triumph in
the face of adversity.
STUCK
http://www.rigelentertainment.com
Thriller (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Stuart Gordon
Key Cast: Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea,
Russell Hornsby
RIVE GAUCHE
FILMS
Rive Gauche Films, 15442 Ventura
Boulevard, Suite 101, Sherman Oaks,
CA, 91403, U.S. Tel: 1.818.386.1035.
Fax: 1.818.784.9916.
www.rgitv.com/films, email:
[email protected]
Distributor
At Cannes: Jon Kramer (Chairman &
CEO)
Office: #E20
BLACK POINT
Action 90:00
Language: English
Director: David Mackay
Key Cast: David Caruso, Susan Haskell
Origin: USA
A reclusive ex-Navy officer befriends a
woman and tries to save her from an
abusive relationship with her gangster
lover.
CONTAMINATED MAN
Action/Thriller (90:00)
Language: English
Director: Anthony Hickox
Key Cast: William Hurt, Peter Weller,
Natascha McElhone
Origin: USA
A virus that kills on contact is set free
after a disgruntled employee breaks into
a top-secret laboratory and is accidentally
infected.
ROISSY FILMS
Roissy Films, 58, rue Pierre Charron,
Paris, 75008 France. Tel:
33.1.53.53.50.50. Fax: 33.1.42.89.26.93.
www.roissyfilms.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Raphaël Berdugo (Managing
Director), Yohann Comte (International
Sales - New feature films), Marie-Anne
Pujol (Sales Manager, catalogues)
Office: Riviera B1/C2, Tel:
33.4.92.99.32.20, Fax: 33.4.92.99.32.21
SERAPHINE
Biopic (100 min)
Language: French
Director: Martin Provost
Writer: Martin Provost
Producer: Gilles Sacuto & Milena Poylo
- TS Productions
Key Cast: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich
Tukur, Anne Bennent
Budget: 6000000 US$
Origin: France
As Séraphine paints her most inspired
canvas, the grace of her work leads her
into the realms of madness
STORY OF JEN
Drama (90 min)
French & English
Director: François Rotger
Writer: François Rotger
Co-Production Partners: Christal Films
Producer: Tom Dercourt / Cinema
Defacto
Key Cast: Marina Hands,Laurence
Leboeuf, Tony Ward
Budget: US $ 3000000
Origin: France
Jen, sixteen, lives with her mother in a
small isolated town in Canada. Ian enters
into their lives.
ONE DAY YOU’LL UNDERSTAND
(PLUS TARD TU COMPRENDRAS)
Drama (89 min)
Language: French
Director: Amos Gitai
Writer: Based on Jérôme Clément’s book
Producer: Nicole Collet / Image et
Compagnie - Laurent Truchot / Agav Films
Key Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Hippolyte
Girardot, Emmanuelle Devos,
Dominique Blanc
Budget: US$ 4500000
Origin: France
Successful lawyer Victor realizes that his
mother Rivka has never told him
anything about the deportation of her
Russian Jewish parents.
S
SAHAMONGKOLFILM
INTERNATIONAL
CO., LTD.
Sahamongkolfilm International Co., Ltd.,
388 S.P. Building 9th Floor Zone B
Phaholyothin Road Samsen nai
Phayathai Bangkok 10400 Thailand.
Tel: 662.273.0930. Fax: 662.271.0620.
www.sahamongkolfilm.com
Film Production and Distribution.
At Cannes: Mr. Gilbert Lim (Executive
Vice President), Mr. Pitaya Sithi –
Amnuai (Director of International Sales),
Ms. Rapeepat Jumnongjit (Sales
Executive), Mr. Gerald Lim (Director of
Acquisitions), Mr. Panu Aree (Director of
Acquisitions)
Office: 23.02/25.01 (PALAIS 01), Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.80.16, 33(0)688.449.039
QUEENS OF PATTANI
Action-Adventure.
Language: Thai with English Sub.
Director: Nonzee Nimibutr.
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert.
Cast: Dan Chupong, Ananda
Everingham, Sorapong Chatree, Anna
Sesumun, Caroline Jarunee Desneiges,
Sano Hirokazu, Jarunee Suksawas
Status: First market screening of
completed film
CANNES 2008
Origin: Thailand.
The Queens of Pattani is Thailand’s
biggest ever cinematographic adventure.
An epic tale of Queen Hijau of Pattani is
based on a true story of passion,
subterfuge, sorcery and conspiracy.
NAK
Animation-Comedy
Director: Pakapong
SANTANAPHANICH
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert.
Cast: Sasikarn APICHARTWORASIN,
Tongchai PRASONGSANTI
completed film
Origin: Thailand.
The story of Nak begins 200 years after
she and her ghoul like friends decide to
leave the hustle and bustle of Bangkok
and retire to the peace and quiet of the
countryside.
SOM TUM
Action
Director: Nontakorn Taweesook
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Cast: Nawarat Techaratanaprasert,
Nathan Jones, Choopong Changproong
completed film
Origin: Thailand.
The first time on screen together of the
junior dynamic duo – “Grace Nawarat”
and “Kat” from “Born to Fight.” The two
teamed up an ultimate fighting with
“Nathan Jones” from Troy, Tom Yum
Goong.
SALT.
Salt., 3rd Floor, 1A Adpar Street, London
W2 1DE United Kingdom. Tel:
207.535.6714. Fax: 207.563.7283.
http://www.salt-co.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Samantha Horley (Managing
Director), Nina Kolokouri (Sales
Director), Susan Wrubel (US Productions
and Acquisitions), Cleo Hector (Sales
and Distribution Assistant)
Office: Grand Hotel, 45bd La Croistette,
Tel: 486.687.081. Fax: 493.685.029
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA
LEE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Rebecca Miller
Writer: Rebecca Miller
Co-Production Partners: Elevation
Filmworks, Plan B Entertainment
Producer: Lemore Syvan, Dede Gardner
Key Cast: Robin Wright Penn, Alan
Arkin, Monica Bellucci, Maria Bello,
Blake Lively, Julianne Moore, Keanu
Reeves, Winona Ryder
Origin: USA
Rebecca Miller writes and directs this
drama-comedy with an extraordinary cast
headed up by Robin Wright Penn, Keanu
Reeves and Maria Bello.
WHITE LIGHTNIN’: THE JESCO
WHITE MURDERS
Drama (84 min)
Language: English
Director: Dominic Murphy
Writer: Shane Smith, Eddy Moretti
Co-Production Partners: Vice Films, Film
& Music Entertainment
Producer: Mike Downey, Sam Taylor
Key Cast: Carrie Fisher, Muse Watson,
Ed Hogg
Vice presents the outrageous cult story of
Jesco White, the dancing outlaw. Starring
Carrie Fisher, Muse Watson and
introducing Ed Hogg.
DONKEY PUNCH
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Olly Blackburn
Writer: David Bloom, Olly Blackburn
Co-Production Partners: Warp X
Producer: Angus Lamont, Robin Gutch,
Mark Herbert
Key Cast: Robert Boulter, Sian Breckin,
Tom Burke, Nichola Burley, Julian
Morris, Jay Taylor, Jaime Winstone
A freak accident during a party on a
yacht escalates into a ruthless fight for
survival in this horror thriller. A
Sundance favourite.
SCREEN MEDIA
VENTURES
Screen Media Ventures, 757 Third Ave.
Floor 3, New York, NY, 10017, USA. Tel:
1.212.308.1790. Fax: 1.212.308.1791.
www.screenmedia.net OR
www.screenmediafilms.net, email:
[email protected] OR
[email protected]
Distributor
At Cannes: Almira Malyshev (Senior VP,
International Sales), Michael Dwyer
(Vice President of International Sales and
Acquisitions), Robert Baruc (President of
Screen Media Films), Suzanne Blech
(Senior VP of Sales and Acquisitions
Screen Media Films)
Acquisition Executive: Michael Dwyer,
Suzanne Blech
Office: Riviera - Stand E21, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.18
TURN THE RIVER
http://www.turntheriver.com/
Thriller/Drama (92 mins)
Language: English
Director: Chris Eigeman
Writer: Chris Eigeman
Producer: Chris Eigeman and Ami
Armstrong
Key Cast: Famke Jannsen, Rip Torn,
Matt Ross
Budget: $ 500,000
Origin: USA
Kailey Sullivan sets up a high-stakes
pool match that, if she wins, will give her
enough money to start a new life with
her son.
WHO’S YOUR MONKEY?
(THROWING STARS)
Comedy (86 mins)
Language: English
Director: Todd Breau
Writer: Ryan Steckloff
Producer: Todd Breau
Key Cast: Scott Grimes, Jason London,
Kevin Durand, David DeLuise
Budget: $ 625,000
Origin: USA
Over the course of a single night, four
childhood friends kill a drug dealer,
rescue animals, dispose of a dead body
and discover the unbreakable bonds of
friendship.
CHRISTMAS IS HERE AGAIN!
http://www.christmasishereagain.com/
Family/Animation (74 mins)
Language: English
Director: Robert Zappia
Writer: Robert Zappia and Marco Zappia
Producer: Robert Zappia and Jim Praytor
Key Cast: Kathy Bates, Brad Garrett,
Edward Asner, Shirley Jones
Budget: $ 7.5 Million
Origin: USA
A star-studded, award winning musical
animated tale that follows the exciting
journey of an orphan and her unlikely
band of adventures as they set out to
recover Santa’s toy sack.
SEVEN ARTS
INTERNATIONAL
Seven Arts International, 38 Hertford
Street, London W1J 7SG UK. Tel:
44.20.3006.8222. Fax: 1.323.372.3790.
http://www.7artspictures.com
At Cannes: Peter Hoffman (Chairman),
Kate Hoffman (Executive Vice
President), Justin Kelly (Vice President,
Business Affairs), Eric Min (Vice
President, Distribution), Sean O’Kelly
(Head of Television Sales)
Office: M.Y. South Paw - Quai Albert
Edouard, Tel: 44.7917.186.853, Fax:
1.323.372.3790
NEUROMANCER
Sci Fi/Action/Adventure
Language: English
Director: Joseph Kahn
Writer: William Gibson, Joseph Kahn
Producer: Julia Verdin
Budget: 65M
Origin: Canada
William Gibson’s classic science fiction
novel that coined the terms “cyberspace”
and “virtual reality” is the harrowing tale
of a world in which technology has gone
out of control.
MORTAL ARMOR: THE LEGEND
OF GALAHAD
Action/Adventure
Language: English
Director: Mikael Salomon
Writer: Joel Gross
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
Origin: UK/Hungary
A coming-of-age take on Sir Galahad’s
quest for the Holy Grail.
GOLD OF VALHALLA
TRUSTNORDISK
SHORELINE
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
Shoreline Entertainment, Inc., 1875
Century Park East, Ste. 600, Los
Angeles, CA 90067 USA. Tel:
1.310.551.2060. Fax: 1.702.974.0707.
www.slefilms.com, e-mail:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Morris Ruskin (CEO /
Producer), Sam Eigen (Director of
Distribution), Brian Sweet (Director of
Sales), Brandon Paine (Director of
Acquisitions)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite 135,
Mobile: 1.702.524.3114, Fax:
1.702.974.0707
THE ELDER SON
Comedy (85 min)
Language: English
Director: Marius Balchunas
Producer: Scott Sturgeon and Jon Veague
Key Cast: Shane West, Rade Serbedzija,
and Leelee Sobieski
Status: Completed
Year Of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
The life of Max, a Russian clarinetist
living in Los Angeles, changes when Bo,
a local thief looking for a hideout after a
botched car heist, passes himself off as
Max’s long-lost son.
HIGH LIFE
Heist
Language: English
Director: Gary Yates
Producers: Robin Cass & Gary Yates
Executive Producers: Morris Ruskin &
Elizabeth Jarvis
Key Cast: Timothy Olyphant and Joe
Anderson
Origin: Canada/USA
A hilarious portrait of male-pattern
stupidity.
WUSHU WARRIOR
Martial Arts
Language: English
Director: Alain Desrochers
Producer: Suzanne Girard
Executive Producer: Morris Ruskin
CANNES 2008
81
Key Cast: Matt Frewer, and Tod Fennell
Origin: Canada/China
China, 1862: Lord Lindsay rules the
opium trade and the clandestine Red
Lotus Society, a group of trained Wushu
warriors, is the only force fighting to
restore justice to the people.
ON BROADWAY
Comedy/Drama (98 min)
Language: English
Director: Dave McLaughlin
Producer: Dave McLaughlin
Key Cast: Joseph McIntyre, Eliza
Dushku, and Will Arnet
Status: Completed
Origin: USA
After falling off of a roof, Jack O’Toole’s
uncle dies in his arms. Over wrought
with emotion, Jack decides to write a
play about the funeral.
SHOW EAST
Show EAST, 6F New Seoul B/D, 618-3,
Shinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 135894, Korea. Tel: 82.2.3446.9590. Fax:
82.2.3446.9620. www.showeast.co.kr/eng
At Cannes: DJ KIM (President),
Michelle SON (Head of Int’l Business) ,
Luna CHOO (Manager of Int’l Business)
Office: Riviera E 15/17
HIMALAYA, WHERE THE WIND
DWELLS
Drama (108min)
Language: Korean, English, Tibetan
Director: JEON Soo-il
Writer: JEON Soo-il
Producer: DJ KIM
Key Cast: CHOI Min-sik, Tsering Kiple,
Tenjing Sherpa
Budget: US$ 1M
Origin: Korea
The vast lands of the Himalayas stand
before him. There, he is finally able to
discover his true self. Beyond the sudden
snowstorms, he watches the backside of
himself headed somewhere.
LE GRAND CHEF
www.showeast.co.kr/eng
Drama (114min)
Language: Korean
Director: JEON Yun-su
Writer: SHIN Dong-ick, JEON Yun-su
Producer: DJ KIM
Co-production partners: LEE Sung-hun
Key Cast: KIM Kang-woo, LIM Wonhee, LEE Ha-na
Budget: US$ 4.5M
Origin: Korea
The secret of royal chef and his knife –
and the one who deserves to be the best
cook of the nation.
SHOWBOX /
MEDIAPLEX, INC
Showbox / Mediaplex, Inc, 16F Hansol
Bldg, 736-1 Yeoksam-dong, Gangnamgu, Seoul, Korea 135-983. Tel:
82.2.3218.5649. Fax: 82.2.3444.6688.
www.showbox.co.kr, Email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent, Distributor, Financier
At Cannes: Judy AHN (Head of Sales),
Soojin JUNG (Senior Manager), Sonya
KIM (Manager), Tae JO (Assistant
Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Chris Lee
Office: Lerins booth R3/S2, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.33.06
DREAM
Drama (93 min)
Language: Korean, Japanese
Director: Kim Ki-duk
Writer: Kim Ki-duk
Producer: Kim Ki-duk, SONG Myungchul
Key Cast: Odagiri Joe, LEE Na-young
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening
Budget: $1M
Origin: Korea
Jin wakes up from a nightmare of a
traffic accident. It drives him to the very
spot where a real accident took place.
THE GUARD POST (GP506)
Thriller (122 min)
Language: Korean
Director: KONG Su-chang
Writer: KONG Su-chang
Producer: KONG Su-chang, LIM Jungha
Key Cast: CHUN Ho-jin, CHO Hyun-jae
Budget: $3M
Origin: Korea
At a guard post that overlooks the DMZ,
an entire platoon has been wiped out. A
soldier is discovered with a bloody ax in
his hands, then falls into a coma.
A TALE OF LEGENDARY LIBIDO
LITTLE WITCH - SIMPLY CAMERA
Erotic Period Comedy (120 min)
Language: Korean
Director: SHIN Han-sol
Writer: SHIN Han-sol
Producer: LEE Seo-yull
Key Cast: BONG Tae-kyu, KIM Sin-ah,
OH Dal-soo
Budget: $4.5M
Origin: Korea
Byun is a tragic character with a massive
inferiority complex problem which stems
from his seriously impaired libido. But
he chance encounters a monk and gains
the ultimate male power of never-ending
erection.
SHOWCASE
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
Showcase Entertainment, Inc., 21800
Oxnard Street, Suite 150, Woodland
Hills, CA 91367 USA. Tel:
1.818.715.7005. Fax: 1.818.715.7009.
http://www.showcaseentertainment.com
At Cannes: David A. Jackson (President),
Shauna Shapiro-Jackson (Executive Vice
President), Bruce Livingston (Chief
Financial Officer), Scott Bedno (Director
of International Sales), Linda Paolucci
(Executive Assistant & Market
Coordinator)
Office: Riviera-Lerins S-1
LABOU AND THE PIRATE
TREASURE OF CAPTAIN
LEROUGE
Family
Language: English
Director: Greg Aronowitz
Writer: Greg Aronowitz & Sheri Bryant
Producer: Sheri Bryant
Key Cast: Bryan James Kitto, Darnell J.
Hamilton, Marissa Cuevas,
Earl J. Scioneaux, Jr., Chris Violette,
Kelson Henderson
Origin: USA
Three kids team up in a search for
missing pirate treasure! During their
quest, they stumble across Labou, a
legendary swamp creature who helps the
kids find the treasure.
DISMAL
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Raymond L. Brown
Producer: Dennis “Dink” Adams,
Raymond L. Brown, W. Jeffrey Frizzell
Key Cast: William Gregory Lee, Richard
Riehle, Mark Joy
Origin: USA
Two friends are looking forward to a
weekend of drinking and fishing, but the
Great Dismal Swamp has other plans.
PURPLE VIOLETS
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Edward Burns
Writer: Edward Burns
Producer: Margot Bridger, Edward
Burns, Aaron Lubin
Key Cast: Selma Blair, Debra Messing,
Patrick Wilson, Edward Burns
Origin: USA
A funny and touching story of a woman
still searching for herself as she enters
her thirties.
SIMPLY CINEMA
Simply Cinema, Barrandov Film Studios,
Krizeneckeho nam. 322, 152 00 Prague
5, Czech Republic. Tel: 420.267.073.518.
Fax: 420.267.073.516.
www.simplycinema.cz,
[email protected]
At Cannes: Eliska Kaplicky Fuchsova
(Director of International Sales)
Office: Village Int’l Riviera, Pavilion
103, Czech Film Centre, Tel:
420.724.257.833
VACLAV
Drama
Language: Czech, Subtitles: English
Director: Jiri Vejdelek
Writer: Marek Epstein
Producer: Jaroslav Boucek
Production Company: BUC-FILM
Leading Cast: Ivan Trojan, Emilia
Vasaryova, Jan Budar
Status: Completed (Market screening)
Production Country: Czech Republic
An involving drama of a mother’s love, a
brother’s hate and the secrets of a father.
Semi-autistic Vaclav’s tragic journey
from village fool to jailed criminal.
Based on a true story of one of President
Havel’s vast amnesties.
DAFFODILS & TOUGH GUYS
Comedy
Language: Czech
Director: Viktor Taus
Writer: Radek John, Ivo Pelant
Producer: Jaroslav Nietsch
Production Company: Pragofilm, Esence
Slovakia, TV Markiza, Czech Television
Leading Cast: Radek Brzobohaty,
Veronika Freimanova
A sequel to 1983 cult comedy Snowdrops
and Aces about a misbehaved group of
teenagers on a school ski trip.
LITTLE WITCH ON A
BROOMSTICK
Fantasy
Language: Czech
Director: Vaclav Vorlicek
Writer: Vlastimil Mistrik, Vaclav
Vorlicek
Producer: Jaroslav Nietsch, Jaroslav
Kucera
Production Company: Pragofilm,
DesignBros, Czech Television
Leading Cast: Jirina Bohdalova, Jiri
Labus, and introducing Helena
Novackova
9-year old Saxana, spirited daughter of a
mortal father and a run-away witch,
discovers her mum’s book of magic and
is transported to a Fairyland just in time
to save it from a dangerous villain from
Cartoonland.
CANNES 2008
SOMEKINDAWONDE
RFUL PRODUCTIONS
INC.
SomeKindaWonderful Productions Inc.,
1699 West 69th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C.
V6P 2W7 Canada. Tel: 1.778.995.2786.
www.somekindawonderful.ca
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Jennifer Chow (President)
Office:
FALLING FOR GRACE
www.fallingforgrace.com
Romantic Comedy (104 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Fay Ann Lee
Writer: Fay Ann Lee with Karen Rousso
Producer: Fay Ann Lee, Carl Rumbaugh,
Michelle Botticelli, Stephanie Wang,
Susan Batson, Juan Carlos Zapata
Key Cast: Gale Harold, Fay Ann Lee,
Christine Baranski, Ken Leung, Margaret
Cho
Mistaken at an opera soirée as the heiress
of a famous fashion dynasty, Grace is
suddenly swept into the inner circle of
Manhattan’s elite and ushered into the
arms of New York’s most eligible
bachelor.
SPI INTERNATIONAL
POLAND
SPI International Poland, ul.Tyniecka
38a, 02-621 Warsaw, Poland. Tel:
48.22.854.03.37. 48.22.646.20.36. Fax:
48.22.848.45.70. www.spi.pl, e-mail:
[email protected]
Distributor, producer & sales agent
At Cannes: Piotr Reisch (President),
Marta Krutel (General Manager), Joanna
Hanusiak ( PR & Marketing Manager),
Rafa? Buks (Producer)
Acquisition Executive: Piotr Reisch
Office: Tel: 48 603.193.820
MIDNIGHT TALKS
Romantic comedy (95’)
Language: Polish/English subtitles
Director: Maciej Żak
Producer: Piotr Reisch, Marcin Jaworski,
Agata Janicka
Co-production partners: SPI International
Polska, 50/50 Films, POLSAT TV
Cast: Marcin Dorociński, Magdalena
Różczka, Weronika Książkiewicz
Budget: 800.000 USD
Origin: Poland
SKYLIGHTS
Drama (100)
Producer: Marcin T. Jaworski, Beata
Kawka, Piotr Reisch
Co-production partners: SPI
International Poland,
Cast: Beata Kawka, Joanna Brodzik
Budget 500.000 USD
Origin: Poland
Beata and Sygita meet each other as
teenagers in a smalltownish atmosphere
of Poland of the 80-ies. Beata is
dreaming of runaway for a big city.
CHAOS
Drama (98’)
Director: Ksawery Zulawski
Producer: SPI International Poland
Co-production partners: Polish
Production Agency, TVP, The
Documentary and Feature Film Studio
Cast: Maria Strzelecka, Marcin
Brzozowski, Bolec, Magdalena Cielecka
Origin: Poland
A manifesto of the generation of the 30 –
somethings. Three step-brothers, three
different personalities, three different
worlds. Search for freedom,
antiglobalistic rebellion and above all search for love.
SPICE FACTORY
Spice Factory, 14 Regent Hill, Brighton
BN1 3ED, UK. Tel: 44.1273.739182.
www.spicefactory.co.uk, email:
[email protected]
Producer/Financier
At Cannes: Michael L Cowan, Jason
Piette, Mariah Sayer, Mel Hider, Taz
Basunia
Acquisition Executive: Michael L Cowan
Office: Nouma Blanc Apartment, 23 La
Croisette (2nd floor), Entrance on rue
Macé above the Louis Vuitton store. Tel:
Michael Cowan 33(0)6.77.44.78.73,
Jason Piette 33.(0)6.77.44.80.27
ECLIPSE
(96 min)
Language: English
Director: Greg Mackenzie
Writer: Edgar Martin
Producer: Michael L Cowan, Jason Piette
Delivery Status: Late Stages Of
Development
Budget: US$20
Origin: England
Sci-fi action film. ‘Dead Calm In Space’
SULLIVAN
ENTERTAINMENT
Sullivan Entertainment, 110 Davenport
Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5R 3R3,
Canada. Tel: 1.416.921.7177 . Fax:
1.416.921.7538.
www.sullivanmovies.com, email
[email protected]
Distributor
At Cannes: Trudy Grant (President),
Kevin Sullivan (Executive Producer),
Cameron Moffat (Sales and Acquisitions
Manager), Taylor Sullivan
(Acquisitions), Doug Smith (Sales
Consultant), Sandra Chwialkowska
(Creative Affairs Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Cameron Moffat
Office:
MOZART’S MAGIC FLUTE
Drama (1 x 120min)
Language: English
Director: Kevin Sullivan
Writer: Kevin Sullivan
Producer: Trudy Grant, Ray Sager,
THE CODE - NU IMAGE MILLENNIUM FILMS
Kevin Sullivan
Key Cast: Warren Christie, Rutger Hauer
Origin: Canada
When Tom falls in love, he enters a
world of intrigue and danger that is
reflected in his onstage role in Mozart’s
classic fairytale.
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES: A NEW
BEGINNING
Drama (1 x 120min)
Language: English
Director: Kevin Sullivan
Writer: Kevin Sullivan
Producer: Trudy Grant, Kevin Sullivan
Key Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Barbara
Hershey, Rachel Blanchard
Origin: Canada
When a long-hidden secret is discovered
under the floorboards at Green Gables,
Anne retreats into her memories to relive
her troubled early years prior to arriving
as an orphan at Green Gables and being
adopted by the Cuthberts.
LOVE IS WORK
Romantic Comedy (1 x 120min)
Language: English
Director: John Kalangis
Writer: Christopher Binney
Producer: John Kalangis
Key Cast: Fabrizio Filippo, Shauna
MacDonald
Origin: Canada
The story of five couples in an
innovative, honest, raw human drama
that tells the true story about middle class
life and love.
THE OVERLOOKERS
Drama/Comedy (1 x 120min)
Language: English
Director: Chris Smets
Writer: Chris Smets
Producer: Damon Middleton
Key Cast: Hanna Dalton, Romano
Orzari, Ophira Eisenberg
Origin: USA/Canada
A lonely web designer, a cynical
photographer, a suave ladykiller, a
restless young wife and an infatuated
detective all come together in this awardwinning film.
SUMMIT
ENTERTAINMENT
Summit Entertainment, 77 Dean Street,
London W1D 3SH.
Tel: 44(0)207.494.1724.
Fax: 44(0)207.494.1725. In Los Angeles:
1630 Stewart Street, Suite 120, Santa
Monica CA, Tel: 1.310.309.8400. Fax:
1.310.828.4132
Summit Entertainment is a worldwide
theatrical motion picture development,
financing, production and distribution
studio.
At Cannes: Patrick Wachsberger
(President & Co-Chair, Summit
Entertainment; CEO, Summit
International), Bob Hayward (COO,
Summit Entertainment), David Garrett
(President, Summit International),
Ralpho Borgos (Senior Vice President,
International Sales), Erik Feig (President,
Production & Acquisitions), Andrew
Matosich (Executive Vice President,
Business Affairs)
Office: 2, La Croisette, Penthouse, Tel:
33(0)4.86.68.80.75. Fax:
33(0)4.80.80.51.77
TREE OF LIFE
Drama
Director: Terrence Malick
Producers: William Pohlad, Sarah Green,
Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Grant Hill
Writer: Terrence Malick
Cast: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica
Chastain
Production Status: In Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
The story of a family who must come to
terms with a devastating loss. In doing
so, they discover life’s most important
lessons of unselfish love and forgiveness.
THE GHOST
Political Thriller
Director: Roman Polanski
Producers: Roman Polanski, Robert
Benmussa, Alain Sarde
Writers: Robert Harris and Roman
Polanski
Production Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: CEE
A ghostwriter is sent to write the
memoirs of a former UK prime minister,
and becomes embroiled in an explosive
mystery.
STEP UP 3D
Drama/Music/Romance
Director: Jon M. Chu
Producers: Adam Shankman, Jennifer
Gibgot, Patrick Wachsberger, Erik Feig
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POPE JOAN
Drama
Director: Sönke Wortmann
Writers: Heinrich Hadding & Sönke
Wortmann
Producers: Martin Moszkowicz & Oliver
Berben
A 9th century woman disguises herself as
a man and rises through the Vatican
ranks.
KNOWING
Sci Fi/Thriller
Director: Alex Proyas
Writers: Stuart Hazeldine, Ryne Douglas
Pearson, Juliet Snowden & Stiles White,
Richard Kelly, Alex Proyas
Producers: Jason Blumenthal, Todd
Black, Steve Tisch, Alex Proyas
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne,
Chandler Canterbury
Production Status: In Production
A time capsule is unearthed fifty years
after it’s first buried in young Caleb’s
elementary school. One mysterious
artifact: a sheet with a long column of
numbers.
SUNSTONE
ENENTERTAINMENT
8, Palmcrest, Main Avenue Road,
Santacruz (W), Mumbai 400 054 India,
Tel: 9122.26051770.
At Cannes: Sanjay Jumani (Director),
Shanti Jumani (Proprietor)
Office: 24.01 @ Palais, Tel: 0679319154
MOHABBAT HO GAYI HAI TUMSE
(140 min)
Language: Hindi
Director: Rishi Talwar
Producer: Sunstone Entertainment
Key Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Chandrachur
Singh, Shamita Shetty,Puru Raj Kumar,
Alok Nath, Shana, Tinu Anand,
Vishwajeet Pradhan & Others
Budget: 1.5 Million Dollar
Origin: India
It’s a story of a girl (Ria) a man (Tony)
and a sharp shooter police inspector (Jai).
Ria loves Tony but her father convince
her to marry Jai.
MAINE PYAAR KYUN KIYA
Romantic Drama (135min)
Language: Hindi
Director: David Dhawan
Key Cast: Salmaan Khan, Katrina Kaif &
Sushmita Sen .
Budget: 25 Million Dollar
Origin: India
It’s a triangle story between one man and
two girls.
MADHOSHIYAAN
Musical (120 min)
Language: Hindi
Director: Mahal
Writer: Mahal
Producer: Sunstone Entertainment
Key Cast: Mahal, Gaurav Datta, Nishant
& Others
Budget: 1.5 Million Dollar
Origin: India
The story of a successful film director of
this world in search of a deep passionate
subject of another world and a
mysterious king of another world in
search of deep passion of this world.
SURF FILM
Surf Film, Via Padre Filippini, 130
00144 Rome Italy. Tel:
0039.06.52.62.101. Fax:
0039.06.52.93.816. www.surffilm.com,
Distributor, Producer
At Cannes: Massimo Vigliar (President),
Stefania Carnevale (Head of International
Sales), Elisabetta Volpe (International
Sales Executive)
Office: I Club Palais Sthephanie by
Sofitel First Floor. 50, Boulevard de la
Corisette 06414 Cannes, Tel:
00.33.4.92.99.69.52
THE AFRICAN GAME
Thriller
Language: English - Italian
Director: Micheal E. Lemick
Writer: Michael E. Lemick
Producer: Massimo Vigliar (Surf Film),
Luciano Martino (Dania Film)
Co-production partners: in association
with Marco Vancini
Key Cast: Luca Ward, Bryony Afferson,
Rachel Grant
Origin: Italy
An action movie that takes place in the
extraordinary African locations. The
story of an international killer, nailed by
the double game of his own purchaser.
THE HUSH
Drama (105’)
Language: Italian English subtitles
Director: Stefano Incerti
Writer: Stefano Incerti Rocco
Oppedisano
Producer: Massimo Vigliar (Surf Film)
Key Cast: Alessio Boni, Giuseppe
Battiston, Florencia Raggi
Origin: Italy
In 1978 an Italian sports journalist, sent
to Buenos Aires for the football world
cup, falls in love with a mysterious
woman and for love he lets himself get
involved in the tragic reality of the
regime.
TONINO GUERRA: CINEMA’S
POET
Documentary
Language: Italian
Director: Nicola Tranquillino
Producer: Massimo Vigliar (Surf Film)
Origin: Italy
His life, his films, the characters of
another time narrated by the poetry of the
biggest Italian scripwriter: Tonino
Guerra.
T
TELEPOOL GMBH
Telepool GmbH, Sonnenstrasse 21,
80331 Munich, Germany.
Tel: 49.89.55876.0. Fax:
49.89.55876.188. www.telepool.de,
At Cannes: Dr. Thomas Weymar
(Managing Director), Marc Gabizon
(Deputy Managing Director), Irina
Ignatiew (EVP International), Anja
Uecker (Sales & Acquisition)
Acquisition Executive: Dr. Thomas
Weymar, Marc Gabizon, Silke Wilfinger,
Julia Müntefering
Office: Palais Riviera, Booth F3 / G2,
Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.11
LILLY THE WITCH – THE
DRAGON AND THE MAGIC BOOK
(HEXE LILLI)
Family Entertainment (90 min)
Language: German
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Writer: Armin Toerkell, Ralph Martin,
Stefan Ruzowitzky
Producer: Corinna Mehner, Martin
Husmann, Michael Coldewey
Co-production partners: Babelsberg Film
GmbH, Germany, Walt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures, Germany, Classic SRL,
Italy, Dor Film Produktionsgesellschaft
GmbH, Austria, Steinweg Emotion
Pictures S.L. Spain, Walt Disney Motion
Pictures, Spain
Key Cast: Alina Freund, Anja Kling,
Ingo Naujoks, Pilar Bardem, Sami
Herzog, Yvonne Catterfeld, Michael
Mittermeier
Budget: $ 12 Mio
Origin: Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain
Little Lilly is apprenticed to become the
successor of Surulunda the Witch.
Directed by OSCAR winner Stefan
Ruzowitzky, this magical US$12 million
family fairy-tale combines Live Action
and CGI. Released by DISNEY.
WITHIN THE WHIRLWIND
Drama (110 min)
Language: English
Director: Marleen Gorris
Writer: Nancy Larson
Producer: Christine Ruppert, Piotr
Mularuk, Hubert Toint, Vincent
Macheras
Co-production partners: Yeti Films
Warsaw, Saga Film Brussels, Lorival,
Paris
Key Cast: Emily Watson, Ulrich Tukur
Budget: $ 9.7 Mio
Origin: Germany, Poland, Belgium,
France
Russian poet Evgenia Ginzbourg
survived the Soviet Gulag only because
of her faith in poetry. OSCAR™ winner
Marleen Gorris directs OSCAR™
nominee Emily Watson and awardwinning Ulrich Tukur in this deeply
moving drama.
TF1
INTERNATIONAL
TF1 International, Immeuble Central
Park – 9 rue Maurice Mallet 92130 Issy
les Moulineaux France.
Tel: 33.1.41.41.21.68
Fax: 33.1.41.41.21.33.
www.tf1international.com,
At Cannes: Nicolas Eschbach (EVP
International Distribution), Grégory
Chambet (International Sales Manager),
Coralie Chave (SVP International Sales),
Anna Marsh (International Sales
Manager), Dimitri Stephanides (VP
Office: Riviera H3
BELLAMY
Language: French
Director: Claude Chabrol
Writer: Claude Chabrol and Odile Barski
Producer: Aliceleo Cinema – Patrick
Godeau
Key Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Clovis
Cornillac, Jacques Gamblin, Marie Bunel
Origin: France
For the first time, after 50 years of movie
making, Claude Chabrol joins forces
with Gérard Depardieu in a suspenseful
and original psychological thriller.
INSIDE RING (PREMIER CERCLE)
Language: French
Director: Laurent Tuel
Producer: Christine Gozlan/ Thelma
Films, Alain Terzian/ Alter Films
Key Cast: Jean Reno, Gaspard Ulliel,
Vahina Giocante, Sami Bouajila
Delivery Status: In Preproduction
Year of Production : 2008, Country of
Origin: France
A circle of violence surrounds a young
man -Gaspard Ulliel- trying to break free
from the gang headed by his fearsome
father -Jean Reno.
BACK TO THE WILD, THE
ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG
BONOBO
Director: Alain Tixier
Writer: Alain Tixier, Philippe Calderon,
Guillaume Vincent
Producer: Les Films du Reve – TF1
International
A touching story of hope, love and
courage of a young Bonobo ape, on his
journey back to Nature. Set in the
beautiful Congo jungle.
THE STEEL
COMPANY
The Steel Company, 9220 Sunset Blvd Ste
212, Los Angeles, CA 90069 USA.
Tel: 1.310.274.7221.
Fax: 1.310.274.7507.
[email protected]
Office: Palais Riviera, 7 Rond-Point
Duboys d’ Angers, 06400 Cannes
Tel: 334.9399.9954,
Tel 334.8668.8824
CANNES 2008
THINKFILM
INTERNATIONAL
THINKFilm International, Bridge House,
2nd Floor, 63-65 North Wharf Road,
London, UK
W2 1LA. Tel: 44.207.298.6200. Fax:
44.207.298.6201.
www.thinkfilmcompany.com, Email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Peter Naish (Managing
Director), Will Machin (Head of
International), Aranka Matits (Sales
Executive), Hannah Leader (General
Counsel)
Office: 63 La Croisette, 1st Floor,
Cannes, 06400, Tel: 04.93.43.8257. Fax:
04.93.43.9050
UNDER THE MOUNTAIN
Fantasy Adventure
Language: English
Director: Jonathan King
Writers: Matthew Grainger, Jonathan
King
Producers: Richard Fletcher, Matthew
Grainger, Jonathan King
Leading Cast: Sam Neill, Bruce Spence
Production Country: New Zealand
When an all-powerful, supernatural
enemy stirs after centuries of
imprisonment in the depths below
Auckland’s volcanoes, teenage twins,
Theo and Rachel, must rediscover their
telepathic bond to save mankind in this
thrilling fantasy-adventure.
THE OXFORD MURDERS
Mystery
Language: English
Director: Alex de la Iglesia
Writer: Guillermo Martinez
Producers: Gerardo Herrero, Mariela
Besuievski, Alvaro Augustin, Elena
Manrique
Leading Cast: John Hurt, Elijah Wood,
Leonor Watling
Status: Screening
Production Country: Spain/UK
A new student and esteemed professor at
Oxford University team up to solve a
puzzling series of ‘mathematically
linked’ murders.
FIVE DOLLARS A DAY
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Nigel Cole
Writer: Neal Dobrofsky, Tippi Dobrofsky
Producers: Carol Baum, Jane Goldenring,
Kia Jam
Leading Cast: Christopher Walken,
Alessandro Nivola, Amanda Peet, Sharon
Stone, Peter Coyote, Dean Cain.
Status: Screening
On a riotous road trip across America,
this is the last chance for the odd couple,
Nat and his son, to disclose long-buried
secrets and heal bitter wounds.
THOMPSON/STARR
ORGANIZATION
Thompson/Starr Organization, l25 N.
Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 902l0
USA. Email address: [email protected]
Distributor
At Cannes: Joey Thompson (President),
Jen Starr (Sales), George Alain
(Acquisition), Chaya Finton (Marketing)
Office: Hotel Mexicana 30 rue Dr.
Dautheville, Juan Les Pins, 06160, Tel:
33.4.93.5l.3l.34, Fax: 33.4.67.56.34,
Convention Tel: 33.4.93.0l.0l
ROD STEWART & FACES
Rock Music (80 min)
Cast: Rod Stewart, Kenny Jones, Keith
Richards, etc.
Enormously popular rock concert.
BLITZKRIEG BOP
Great Rock Concert (80 min)
Cast: Blondie, Dead Boys, Ramones
One and only blitzkrieg sound.
THE NASHVILLE SOUND
Country music (79 min)
Cast Johnny Cast, Loretta Lynn, Dolly
Parton, etc.
Giant country music STARS concert.
TOEI COMPANY,
LTD.
Toei Company, Ltd., 2-17, 3-chome,
Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8108 Japan.
Tel: 81.3.3535.7621. Fax:
81.3.3535.7622. http://www.toei.co.jp/
Sales Company
At Cannes: Mr. Tadayuki OKUBO
(Manager, International Sales), Ms.
Shiori TAKATA (Asst. Manager,
International Sales), Mr. Gen
MIZOGUCHI (Asst. Manager,
Office: Riviera Stand A11, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.33.40
OROCHI -BLOOD(107 minutes)
Language: Japanese, English subtitles
Director: Norio TSURUTA
Writer: Hiroshi TAKAHASHI
Producer: Gen SATO, Masatake
KONDO,
TsutomuYAMAMOTO2008TsutomuYA
MAMOTO
Key Cast: Yoshino KIMURA, Noriko
NAKAGOSHI, Mitsuki TANIMURA
Budget: 3.0 M US$
Origin: Japan
A horrifying tragedy of two beautiful
sisters of a mysterious family with a
deep, dark secret. Based on a legendary,
bizzare comic by “The Master” Kazuo
UMEZU.
CHAMELEON
http://www.c-leon.jp/
(97 minutes)
Director: Junji SAKAMOTO
Writer: Shoichi MARUYAMA
Producer: Kazuhito AMANO, Tatsuya
KUNIMATSU, Yukiko SHII
Key Cast: Tatsuya FUJIWARA, Asami
MIZUKAWA, Shun SHIOYA
Budget: 3.0 M US$
Origin: Japan
The ultimate crime action about a young
con man and his love.
GOD’S PUZZLE (KAMISAMA NO
PUZZLE)
http://www.kami-puzzle.com/
(135 minutes)
Director: Takashi MIIKE
Writer: Masaru NAKAMURA
Producer: Haruki KADOKAWA
Key Cast: Hayato ICHIHARA, Mitsuki
TANIMURA
Budget: 5.0 M US$
Origin: Japan
A sci-fi love fantasy about a college
dunce and a female teenage physics
genius who take on a “universal” theme
in unlocking the secrets of the universe
to create their own cosmos!!
TOHOKUSHINSHA
FILM CORPORATION
Tohokushinsha Film Corporation, 4-8-10
Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8460
Japan. Tel: 81.3.5414.0297. Fax:
81.3.5414.0430. http://www.tfcrights.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Kentaro Yoshida (Manager,
International Sales), Ena Ogawa
(International Sales)
Office: Tel: 080.1029.4004
MY DARLING OF THE
MOUNTAINS - TOKUICHI IN LOVE
http://yamano-anata.jp/
Drama (94min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Katsuhito Ishii
Writer: Hiroshi Shimizu
Producer: Chihiro Kameyama, Hiroyuki
Taniguchi, Kaoru Matsuzaki, Kazutoshi
Wadakura
Co-Production Partners: FUJI
TELEVISION, J-dream,
TOHOKUSHINSHA, TOHO
Key Cast:Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Ryo Kase,
Maiko, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Tomokazu
Miura
Origin: Japan
REDLINE
Car Race Animation
Language: Japanese
Director: Takeshi Koike
Writer: Katsuhito Ishii, Yoji Enokido,
Yoshiki Sakurai
Origin: Japan
The newest Animated feature from
MADHOUSE (Papurika) about love,
conspiracy, mass-destruction and a battle
to survive –and all of this revolves
around the world’s deadliest super-sonic
automobile race-REDLINE.
ENCARNACIÓN
BAVARIA FILM INTERNATIONAL
WALTZ IN STARLIGHT
http://www.hoshikage.jp/
Drama (97min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Shingo Wakagi
Writer: Shingo Wakagi
Producer: Hiroyuki Taniguchi
Key Cast: Koishi Kimi
Origin: Japan
This unusual personal film, half-and-half
mixture of documentary and fiction with
taste of OZU’s family drama,
successfully leaves a nostalgic
impression on the viewers and strangely
its impact is more than a documentary
and fiction.
TRICOAST
INTERNATIONAL
TriCoast International, 1547 10th StreetSanta Monica, CA 90401, USA. Tel:
1.310.458.7707. Fax: 1.310.458.7701.
www.TriCoastInternational.com, email:
[email protected]
Distributor
At Cannes: Ami Artzi (President), Strath
Hamilton (CO-CEO), Marcy Levitas
Hamilton (CO-CEO)
Office: Riviera B4
EASY + RIDER: THE SAGA
CONTINUES
Action/ Adventure
Language: English
Director: Dustin Rikert
Writer: Phillip Pitzer, Dustin Rikert
Producer: Philip Pitzer, Sheree J Wilson,
Dustin Rikert
Key Cast: Sheree J Wilson, Jeff Fahey,
Michelle Borth
Origin: USA
THE CURSED
Sci-Fi Thriller
Language: English
Origin: USA
MOVING MCALLISTER
Comedy (129 min)
Language: English
Director: Andrew Black
Writer: Ben Gourley
Producer: Ben Gourley
Key Cast: Ben Gourley, John Heder,
Mila Kunis, Rutger Hauer
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85
Origin: USA
Desperate to score points with his boss,
he commits to a favor he can’t afford. He
ends up in a rundown truck headed to
L.A. with his boss’s possessions, his
Hollywood -bound niece, and her pet pig.
TRUSTNORDISK
TrustNordisk, Filmbyen 12, 2650
Hvidovre, Denmark. Tel: 4536868714.
Fax: 4536774448. www.trust-film.dk &
www.sales.nordiskfilm.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Rikke Ennis (CEO), Susan
Wendt (Head of sales), Nicolai
Korsgaard (Sales Executive & Marketing
Manager), Marie-Louise Rasmussen
(Junior Sales), Ditte Hollesen (PR),
Thomas Mai (New business)
Office: Scandinavian Terrace, Terrace 55,
La Croisette
UBU PRODUCTIONS
UBU Productions, P.O. Box 40 19 65,
Munich, D-80719 Germany. Tel:
49.160.928.150.21. Fax: 49.89.478.231.
Email: [email protected]
At Cannes: Mr. Jean Uliczay (President,
Producer, Exec. Prod.), Ms Alice
Kanterian (Acquisitions), Ms Rita CollinGorenstein (Film Marketing)
Office: MEDIA The marketplace
DRACULA’S HELLS ANGELS
Horror Comedy (90 min)
Language: English, German, French
Director: Jean Kail
Co-Production Partners: Transsylvania
Film Productions / UBU Productions
Producer: Jean Uliczay
Budget: 3,000,000.- US$
Year of Production: end 2008, Country of
Origin: Romania, GB
The angels of hell supports Dracula in
his daily work and business.
MAURICE GUEST
Romantic drama (90 min)
Writer: Julia Britton
Co-Production Partners: Australian
International. Pictures, UBU Productions
Producers: Wayne Groom, Jean Uliczay
Budget: 10,000,000.- US$
Origin: Australia, Germany
The story of the bohemian lives of
talented music students attracted from all
over the world to the Leipzig
conservatorium in the 1890’s.
HANG HIM HIGHER
Action / adventure (100 min)
Language: English, French
Director: Jean Kail
Co-Production Partners: UBU
Productions
Producer: Jean Uliczay
Budget: 3,000,000,-US$
Origin: USA; France, Germany
The hang man needs the hanging men to
be satisfied.
U
UFO
INTERNATIONAL
PRODUCTIONS
UFO International Productions, 3400 W.
Alameda Avenue, Suite 200, Burbank, CA
91505 USA. Tel: 1.818.846.0465. Fax:
1.818.846.0256.
At Cannes: Jeffery Beach (CEO), Phillip
Roth (CEO)
Office: Riviera D10, Tel:
33(0)92.99.32.41
MAGMA: VOLCANIC DISASTER
Action Adventure
Cast: Xander Berkeley, Amy Jo Johnson,
Reiko Aylesworth
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.
LIGHTNING STRIKES
Action Adventure
A small town in North Carolina is
surrounded by an electrical storm and it
won’t let anyone leave. Because there is
something in the lightning. Something
ancient. Something evil.
UGC
INTERNATIONAL
UGC International, 24 avenue Charles
de Gaulle, 92522 Neuilly sur Seine
cedex, France. Tel: 331.46.40.46.42.
Fax: 331.46.37.73.21
Sales agent
At Cannes: Saïd BEN SAID (President),
Romain SETROUK (Head of Sales),
Adeline FALAMPIN (Sales Executive)
Office: 4 la Croisette, 1st floor - Cannes
I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (IL Y A
LONGTEMPS QUE JE T’AIME)
Drama (105 minutes)
Language: french
Director: Philippe Claudel
Writer: Philippe Claudel
Producer: Yves Marmion
Key cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa
Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent
Grevill
Delivery status: completed
Budget: 6 M euros
origin: France
Juliette, Lea. Two sisters whom life had
once violently separated. Juliette returns
after 15 years having long since burnt her
bridges with her family who had rejected
her.
INJU, THE BEAST IN THE
SHADOW (INJU, LA BETE DANS
L’OMBRE)
Thriller
Language: french, japanese
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Writer: Barbet Schroeder, Jean-Armand
Bougrelle, Frédérique Henri
Producer: Saïd Ben Saïd
Key cast: Benoit Magimel, Lika
Minamoto, Ryo Ishibashi
Delivery status: post production
Budget: 12 M euros
origin: France
A crime writer travels to Tokyo to
receive a prestigious Japanese literary
prize. He finds himself at the center of a
diabolical plot worthy of the most
terrifying thrillers.
SECRETS OF LUCKY LUKE
(LUCKY LUKE)
Comedy
Language: French
Director: James Huth
Producer: Saïd Ben Saïd
Key cast: Jean Dujardin
Delivery status: pre production
Budget: 27 M euros
origin: France
He “shoots faster than his shadow”.
LUCKY LUKE. The one and only. The
fearless gunslinger is sent on a mission
by the President to bring order to Daisy
Town, where Luke grew up.
UNIFIED PICTURES
Unified Pictures, 19773 Bahama St.,
Northridge, CA 91324 USA. Tel:
1.818.576.1006. Fax: 1.818.534.3347.
Unified Pictures is a production company
whose focus is on acquiring, developing
and producing cutting-edge and
artistically innovative films.
At Cannes: Keith Kjarval (President),
Kurt Rauer (President), Ben Ruffman
(Head of Production), Ann Dubinet
(Head of Strategic Planning, Acquisitions
and Distribution), Mia Niebruegge
(Production Coordinator)
Office: Hotel Majestic Cannes Barrière,
10 La Croisette, 6408 Cannes, France,
Suite Room #: 139, Direct Phone in
suite: 33(0)4.97.06.85.07. Unified email
while in Cannes:
[email protected]
BOB FUNK
Comedy
Directed and Written by Craig Carlisle
Cast: Michael Leydon Campbell,
Rachael Leigh Cook, Amy Ryan, Grace
Zabriskie, Eddie Jemison, Stephen Root
Producer: Ben Ruffman, Keith Kjarval
Bob Funk revolves around the quickwitted and sardonic title character who is
fired from his job by his mother.
XII
www.XIIthemovie.com
Horror
Directed by Michael A. Nickles
Written by Michael A. Nickles
Producers: Keith Kjarval
Cast: Mercedes McNab, Steven Brand,
Nick Searcy, Emily Hardy
Five years ago, a jury decided the fate of
one man.tonight, he decides theirs.
V
VIETNAM MEDIA
CORP. - BHD CO.,
LTD.
Vietnam Media Corp. - BHD Co., Ltd.,
18th Floor, Prime Center, 53 Quang
Trung, Hanoi, Vietnam. Tel:
844.943.4133. Fax: 844.943.4135.
http://www.vietnammediacorp.com
At Cannes: NGO Thi Bich Hanh (Vice
President), NGUYEN Thi Bao Mai
(Manager of Sales & Acquisition)
Office: G14, Tel: 33(0)618.700.782
THE LITTLE HEART
Drama (98 min)
Language: Vietse
Director: NGUYEN Thanh Van
Writer: NGUYEN Quang Lap
Co-Production Partners: Blue
Productions; The Global Film Initiative
Producer: Vietnam Feature Film Studios
Key Cast: Nguyen Lan Ha; Hoang Kim
Hanh; Hong Anh; Nguyen Xuan Thanh;
Origin: Vietnam
The film follows the plight of a village
girl, sold to a city brothel.
BI, DON’T BE AFRAID
Psychological drama (90 min)
Language: Vietse
Director: Phan Dang Di
Writer: Phan Dang Di
Co-Production Partners:
VietnamMediaCorp; Chanh Phuong Film
Producer: Jimmy NGUYEN PHAM;
NGUYEN Bao Mai
Key Cast: Thanh Minh PHAN; Hoa
Thuy NGUYEN; Kieu Trinh NGUYEN;
Viet Linh TRAN; Hong Van HA; Mai
Chau NGUYEN
Pre-Production - Year of Production: 2008,
Country of Origin: Vietnam
A seven year-old boy, an irresponsible
husband, a tolerant wife, a loyal old
maid, a spinster and an old grandfather,
each has different desire in one family.
VISION FILMS
Vision Films, 14945 Ventura Blvd., Suite
306, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA.
Tel: 1.818.784.1702. Fax:
1.818.788.3715. www.visionfilms.net,
E-Mail: [email protected]
At Cannes: Lise Romanoff (Managing
Director), Andre Relis (VP of Int’l
Sales), Brady Bowen (Sales Executive)
Office: R21.01
EXIT SPEED
Thriller
Directed By: Scott Ziehl
Starring: Lea Thompson (Back to the
Future, Caroline in the City), Fred Ward
(Tremors, The Player, Sweet Home
Alabama), Alice Greczyn (Lincoln
Heights, House of Fears), Desmond
Harrington (Wrong Turn, We Were
Soldiers)
Ten passengers aboard a bus must fight for
their lives when attacked by a nomadic
biker gang.
CANNES 2008
MAMA, I WANT TO SING!
Drama (90 minutes)
Directed By: Charles Randolph-Wright
Starring: Ciara (GRAMMY Award
Winner), Billy Zane (Titanic), Patti
LaBelle (GRAMMY Award Winner), and
Lynn Whitfield (The Josephine Baker
Story, A Thin Red Line Between Love
and Hate)
Music-sensation Ciara stars in the tale of
a young girl pursuing her dreams and the
faith that it takes to reach them.
WHAT WE DO IS SECRET
Bio-Pic (90 minutes)
Directed By: Rodger Grossman
Starring: Shane West (A League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen, ER), Bijou
Phillips (Almost Famous), Rick Gonzales
(War Of The Worlds), and Noah Segan
The extraordinary story that captures the
explosive and tumultuous life of Darby
Crash, the seminal singer and songwriter
of The Germs.
NATIONAL LAMPOON’S TV: THE
MOVIE
Comedy (86 minutes)
Director: Sam Maccarone
Starring: Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Preston
Lucy, and Wee-man
‘Jackassian’ stunts spoof ‘Fear Factor’ to
‘Wife Swap’ to ‘The Apprentice’ to
‘Girls Gone Wild’. Nothing is off limits.
JACKIE CHAN & BRUCE LEE
FILM PACKAGE
Martial Arts
From: The Dick Randall Collection
Year of Production: 1973-1983
Over 20 martial arts films from 19731983 including ‘Master With Cracked
Fingers’, ‘Young Bruce Lee’, ‘The Little
Dragon’, and ‘True Game of Death.’
VISION MUSIC
Vision Music, 14945 Ventura Blvd., Suite
306, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA. Tel:
1.818.784.1702. Fax: 1.818.788.3715.
www.visionmusicinc.net, E-Mail:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Lise Romanoff (Managing
Director), Andre Relis (VP of Int’l
Sales), Brady Bowen (Sales Executive)
Office: R21.01
CLASH: THE JOE STRUMMER
STORY
Documentary/Performance (62 minutes)
The life of one of the original members
of The Clash, Joe Strummer, and his
reasons behind the split of one of the
most iconic punk rock groups of the day.
BOB MARLEY: FREEDOM ROAD
Documentary/Performance DVD (55
minutes), CD (45 minutes)
The legendary singer’s life on the road,
and his rise to fame with insight from
Esther Anderson.
PUNK’S NOT DEAD
Documentary Feature (105 minutes)
Directed By: Susan Dynner
A celebration of 30 years of punk rock
featuring interviews and performances by
Green Day, Offspring, Social Disorder,
Rancid, NoFX, UK Subs, and more.
JIMI HENDRIX: FEEDBACK
Documentary (DVD 52 minutes, CD 57
minutes)
Hendrix’s life through the eyes of his
girlfriend and friends, including
explosive performance footage.
LIMP BIZKIT: LIVE AT
ROCKPALAST 2001
Performance (75 minutes)
Exclusive performance featuring the
band’s original line up and hits including
‘Faith’, ’My Generation’, and ‘Nookie’.
ROLLING STONES: CHARLIE IN
MY DARLING
The Stones two-day Irish tour in 1965
with fantastic behind-the-scenes and
interviews with the band.
JANIS JOPLIN: LIVE
Intimate radio-session performances
including short interviews between songs
and hits like ‘Ball & Chain’, ‘Coo Coo’
and more.
BEATLES: THE JOURNEY
The rise and rise of the supergroup,
including rare archive footage, newsreels,
and unique interviews.
THE BEST OF ROD STEWART &
THE FACES
Live performances of Rod Stewart & The
Faces, one of Britain’s biggest 70’s
bands.
LEGENDS IN CONCERT
Performance (30 x 1 hr)
Live in concert with Elvis Presley, Frank
Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Louis Armstrong,
Luciano Pavarotti, Whillie Nelson, Tom
Jones and more.
VOLTAGE PICTURES
Voltage Pictures, 6360 Deep Dell Place,
1.323.464.8351. Fax: 1.323.464.8362.
http://www.voltagepictures.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Nicolas Chartier (CEO),
Nadine de Barros (VP Sales and
Acquisitions), Jenn Lee (Head of
Business Affairs), Mimi Steinbauer
(Sales Consultant)
Office: Relais de la Reine la Croisette,
42/43 La Croisette, #C-11, Tel:
33.0.4.93.06.70.01, Fax:
33.0.4.93.06.70.21
HYBRID
Action Thriller
Language: English
Director: Eric Valette
Writer: Neal Marshall Stevens (Thir13en
Ghosts)
Co-Production Partners: Minds Eye
Entertainment, Convergence
Entertainment
Producer: Stallion Media
Key Cast: Oded Fehr (The Mummy,
Mummy Returns), Shannon Beckner
(American Pie Presents: Beta House)
Origin: US
An automotive mechanic with a tortured
past encounters a challenge like no other
when she reports to her job on the night
shift at a Chicago police garage
RUSLAN
Action
Language: English
Director: Jeff King (Killing Point)
Writer: Mark Damien James
Producer: Insight Film Studios (Tortured,
Personal Effects)
Key Cast: Steven Seagal
Origin: US
Reformed Russian Mafioso turned crime
novelist, Ruslan, returns home to
discover his estranged daughter is
marrying the son of his lifelong nemesis.
After his loved ones are brutally
attacked, vengeance brings his past to
life.
BIG EYES
Drama
Language: English
Director: Scott Alexander & Larry
Karaszewski (1408, Ed Wood, The
People vs Larry Flynt)
Writer: Scott Alexander & Larry
Karaszewski (1408, Ed Wood, The
People vs Larry Flynt)
Co-Production Partners: Albert Berger &
Ron Yerxa (Little Children, Little Miss
Sunshine, Election)
Producer: Dan Halsted (Garden State,
Any Given Sunday)
Key Cast: Kate Hudson (Fool’s Gold,
How to lose a guy in 10 days, Almost
Famous), Thomas Haden Church
(Sideways, Spiderman 3)
Origin: US
True story of Margaret Keane, the
talented painter who married a
mesmerizing con artist. For years, he
took the credit she deserved until one day
Margaret finds the strength to claim her
fame and fortune.
W
WIDE
MANAGEMENT
Wide Management, 40 rue Sainte Anne,
Paris 75002 France. Tel:
00.33.1.53.95.04.64. Fax:
00.33.1.53.95.04.65.
http://www.widemanagement.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Loic Magneron (Manager),
Anais Clanet (Head Of Sales), Camille
Rousselet (Festivals Manager), Tessa
Maia (International Sales)
Office: Riviera E6
EL CAMINO
http://www.widemanagement.com/fiche.p
hp?id=697
A TALE OF TEO MOZZIES - TRUSTNORDISK
Drama (91 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Ishtar Yasin
Writer: Ishtar Yasin
Co-Production Partners: Stéphane
Millière (Gedeon programmes), Loic
Magneron (Wide Management)
Producer: Ishtar Yasin (Astarte
Producciones)
Key Cast: Sherlyn Paola Velasquez,
Marcos Ulises Jiménez, Jean Francois
Stevenin
Origin: Costa Rica
In Nicaragua, Saslaya, a 12 year old girl,
runs away with her brother, Darío, to
look for their mother, who immigrated to
neighbouring Costa Rica 8 years before.
REDEMPTION SONG
hp?id=689
Language: English
Director: Markus Hansen, Jean-Marie
BOULET
Writer: Markus Hansen, Jean-Marie
Boulet
Producer: Loic Magneron (WIDE
Management)
Key Cast: Billy Bang
Origin: France
This film is about the desire to overcome
and transcend the trauma of war through
music and art.
I DREAMT UNDER THE WATER
(J’AI REVÉ SOUS L’EAU)
hp?id=690
Drama (73 min)
Language: French
Director: Hormoz
Writer: Hormoz, Philippe Arrizabalaga
Co-Production Partners: Sébastien
Burnet, Philippe Arrizabalaga, Hormoz
(Triskel Film)
Key Cast: Hubert Benhamdine, Caroline
Ducey,
Christine Boisson, HPG, Eva Ionesco
Origin: France, USA
20-years-old Antonin is secretly in love
with Alex his best friend. After Alex’s
brutal death, Antonin succumbs to an
overwhelming sexuality that leads him
into prostitution.
CANNES 2008
87
WILD BUNCH
Wild Bunch, 99 rue de la verrerie. 75004
Paris. France. Tel: 00.33.1.53.01.50.30.
Fax: 00.33.1.53.01.50.49.
www.wildbunch.eu
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Vincent Maraval (head of
sales), Gaël Nouaille (sales agent), Silvia
Simonutti (sales agent), Emmanuelle
Castro (marketing)
Acquisition Executive: Rita Dagher,
Agnes Mentré
Office: 4, la croisette, 2nd floor
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF MY
SEXUAL FAILURES
Language: English
Director: Chris Waitt
Writer: Chris Waitt
Producer: Mary Burke & Henry Trotter
for WARP X LTD
Key Cast: Chris Waitt
Origin: UK
Follows Chris Waitt, an independent
filmmaker, as he interviews his exgirlfriends to find out why he is such as
loser in love.
DOWNLOADING NANCY
Drama
Language: English
Director: Johan Renck
Key Cast: Maria Bello, Jason Patric,
Rufus Sewell, Amy Brenneman
Origin: USA
Driven by guilt, rage and erotic longing,
a woman, her husband and another man
are caught up in a twisted, tragic quest
for belonging and sexual fulfillment via
the darkest pathways of the Internet.
MARADONA
Documentary
Language: English, Spanish,
Director: Emir Kusturica
Writer: Emir Kusturica
Producer: Jose Ibanez for Pentagrama
Films
Origin: France, Spain
A celebration of the extraordinary
resurrection of Diego Maradona: sporting
hero, people’s champion, fallen idol and
inspiration to millions.
THE WORKS
INTERNATIONAL
The Works International, Portland
House, 4 Great Portland Street, London,
W1W 8QJ, UK. Tel: 44(0)20.7612.1080.
Fax: 44(0)20.7612.1081.
www.theworkslimited.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Joy Wong (Head of The
Works International), Clare Crean (Sales
Manager), Juliette Gill (Head of
Marketing)
Office: Residences du Grand Hotel, 45
La Croisette, Cormoran, 7th Floor, Tel:
33(0)4.93.68.44.89
THE MARKET (PAZAR – BIR
TICARET MASALI)
Drama (93 mins)
Director: Ben Hopkins
Writer: Ben Hopkins
Producer: Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
Cast: Tayanç Ayaydin, Genco Erkal
Delivery Status: Market Premiere
Set in Turkey, a market trader is given
the chance of a lifetime to invest in an
exciting business deal. There’s one
problem – the cash isn’t his.
SUMMER
Drama
Director: Kenny Glenaan
Writer: Hugh Ellis
Producers: Camilla Bray
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Steve Evets,
Rachael Blake
Delivery Status: Market Premiere
Shaun has had twelve years to reflect on an
intense summer of love, sex and loyalty,
but his best friend’s imminent death forces
him on a journey to confront his past.
SOMERS TOWN
Drama (71mins)
Director: Shane Meadows
Writer: Paul Fraser
Producer: Barnaby Spurrier
Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello,
Kate Dickie, Ireneusz Czop, Perry
Benson, Elisa Lasowski
Delivery Status: Screening
Tommo is a runaway from the Midlands
while Marek is simply lonely. A chance
meeting in Somers Town, London, leads
to an unexpected partnership and an
unlikely friendship.
WORLDWIDE FILM
ENTERTAINMENT,
LLC
Worldwide Film Entertainment, LLC, 280
So. Beverly Drive, Suite 306, Beverly
Hills, CA 90212 USA.
Tel: 1.310.641.5360.
Fax: 1.310.641.5693.
http://www.wfewfe.com,
E-mail: [email protected]
Distributor
At Cannes: Barbara Mudge,
Richard DeLong
Office: Lerins P2, Hotel: Private
Apartment, Tel: 1.310.849.1001
THE GRIND
Thriller
Language: English
Director: John Millea
Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Michael Walsh,
Tome Sizemore
Delivery Status: Complete - Screening
A slimebag and a tech geek join forces to
raise money on-line through a reality
peep show and identity theft but the
competition gets out of hand.
ADRIFT IN MANHATTAN
Drama
Language: English
Director: Alfredo de Villa
Cast: Heather Graham, Victor Rasuk,
William Baldwin, Dominic Chianese
Delivery Status: Complete - Screening
In NYC, a chance encounter on the
subway brings together the loneliness,
desperation, and tragedy of strangers
whose lives intersect.
WEDDING WEEKEND
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Bruce Leddy
Cast: Molly Shannon, David Alan
Basche, Elizabeth Reaser
College buddies and their wives gather
10 years later to sing at a wedding and
the trip down the aisle takes some rakish
detours.
Y
YARI FILM GROUP
Yari Film Group, 10850 Wilshire Blvd.,
6th Flr., Los Angeles, CA 90291 USA.
Tel: 1.310.234.0904.
Fax: 1.310.234.0902.
http://www.yarifilmgroup.com
At Cannes: Bob Yari (CEO), David
Glasser (CCO & President, International
Distribution), Dennis Brown (CFO), Bill
Immerman (COO), Ennis Hensley (Vice
President, International Distribution)
Office: Yacht
KILLING PABLO
Action
Language: English
Director: Joe Carnahan
Writer: Mark Bowden (novel) & Joe
Carnahan (Screenplay)
Producer: Bob Yari, Mark Gordon, Jason
Zelin
Key Cast: Christian Bale, Joaquin
Phoenix
From his rise as a drug cartel leader in
Medellin, Colombia in the 1970s, to his
death in a bloody shootout in Medellin in
1993, the legend of Pablo Escobar has
captivated millions the world over.
THE GOVERNESS
Romantic comedy
Language: english
Writer: Wendy Braff revisions by David
Parker, C.Jay Cox, Susan V. Hoffman
and
Producer: Sidney Ganis, Bob Yari, Simon
Fields, Alex Siskin and Jennifer Lopez
Key Cast: Jennifer Lopez
A nanny who robs families of their
riches, finds herself falling in love with
the single father and the rambunctious
children she works for.
THE LONELY MAIDEN
Comedy
Language: english
Director: Peter Hewitt
Writer: Mike LeSieur
Producer: Bob Yari, Lori McCreary,
Rob Paris, Morgan Freeman
Key Cast: Morgan Freeman, Christopher
Walken, William H. Macy, Marcia Gary
Harden, Breckin Meyer
Three security guards at a museum find
that their beloved art pieces are being
moved to another museum.
They concoct a scheme to steal their
artworks back.
LATE LISTING
NEW FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
New Films International, 14320 Ventura
Blvd. #619 Sherman Oaks California,
Los Angeles, USA. Tel: 1.818.501.27.20.
Fax: 1.818.501.27.80.www.newfilmsint.com
Film Distribution and Production Company
At Cannes: Nesim Hason (President),
Bill Marcus (President of Worldwide
Sales / Partner), Mark Clark (VP of
Acquisitions & Production), Angelique
Mermet (Director of Worldwide Sales),
Rita Baghdadi (Creative Assistant to the
President)
Acquisition Executive: Mark Clark
Office: - Carlton Suite # 164,
Tel: 334. 93.06.40.06.
THE ALPHABET KILLER
www.alphabetkiller.com
Language: English
Director: Rob Schmidt
Writer: Tom Malloy
Producer: Aimee Schoof, Isen Robbins,
Tom Malloy
Co-production Partners: New Films
International
Key Cast: Eliza Dushku, Timothy
Hutton, Cary Elwes, Michael Ironside
Origin: US
The Alphabet Killer is the true story of
the double initial killings in the
Rochester, NY.
A BEAUTIFUL LIFE
Drama (80 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Alejandro Chomski
Writer: Wendy Hammond, Deborah Calla
Producer: Nesim Hason, Deborah Calla,
Bob Holof
Co-production partners: Robert Lansing
Parker
Key Cast: Jesse Garcia, Angela Sarafyan,
Bai Ling, Debi Mazar, Dana Delany,
Rena Owen
Origin: US
Escaping her abusive past, Maggie finds
a shelter near Esther, a stripper with
singing aspirations. After staying the
night with Esther’s illegal immigrant
friend David, the two get closer and fall
in love.
DAY ZERO
www.dayzeromovie.com
Drama (92 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Bryan Gunnar Cole
Writer: Robert Malkani
Producer: Anthony Moody
Key Cast: Elijah Wood, Chris Klein, Jon
Bernthal
Origin: US
Day Zero, follows the lives of three best
friends in New York City who have thirty
days to come to terms with their fate.
CANNES 2008

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