platige films - Another Day of Life
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platige films - Another Day of Life
DIRECTED BY RAÚL DE LA FUENTE & DAMIAN NENOW A FILM BASED ON RYSZARD KAPUŚCIŃSKI’S NOVEL “JESZCZE DZIEŃ ŻYCIA” [ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE] TABLE OF CONTENTS B A S I C P R O J E C T I N F O R M A T I O N 3 S Y N O P S I S 4 D I R E C T O R ’ S N O T E 6 D I R E C T O R S ’ P R O F I L E S 1 1 P R O D U C E R I N F O R M A T I O N 1 4 C O - P R O D U C E R I N F O R M A T I O N 1 6 S A L E S A G E N T 2 0 P A R T N E R S 2 1 1 / BASIC PROJECT INFORMATION TITLE LENGTH DIRECTED BY SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL FILM CONCEPT PRODUCTION CO-PRODUCTION GENRE BUDGET START OF PRODUCTION PLANNED END OF WORKS WEBSITE ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE ( JESZCZE DZIEŃ ŻYCIA ) 80 min Raúl de la Fuente ( Spain ), Damian Nenow ( P oland ) Raúl de la Fuente, Amaia Remírez, David Weber, Niall Johnson Raúl de la Fuente & Amaia Remírez Platige Films ( P oland ) Jarek Sawko, Ole Wendorff-Østergaard Kanaki Films ( Spain ) Amaia Remírez, Raúl de la Fuente Walking the Dog ( Belgium ) – Eric Goossens Wüste Film ( Germany ) – Stefan Schubert Animations Fabrik ( Germany ) – Joern Radel Puppetworks ( Hungary ) – Frantisek Ambrus full-length animated movie EUR 6.1 million August 2014 Q1 2017 www.anotherdayoflifefilm.com PLATIGE FILMS CONTACT PLATIGE FILMS [email protected] www.platige.com KANAKI FILMS Amaia Remírez [email protected] +34 648 764 852 THE FILM UNDER THE HONORARY PATRONAGE OF THE UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME W W W . A N O T H E R D A Y O F L I F E F I L M . C O M | 3 2 / SYNOPSIS Another Day of Life is a story of a reporter seeking the truth about war, who during a mortally dangerous journey through Angola encounters situations and events forcing him to change his attitude to work and life. The film’s action takes place during the three months Kapuściński spent in this war-torn country in 1975. PLATIGE FILMS During the expedition, the reporter realizes that he is a witness to events, the meaning of which requires him to go beyond the role of an observer. To recount the story of Angola, he will have to undergo a deep transformation himself. Another Day of Life ( Jeszcze dzień życia ), the book in which Kapuściński writes about his experience in Angola, bears witness to his rebirth both as a writer and as a human being. W W W . A N O T H E R D A Y O F L I F E F I L M . C O M | 4 3 / DIRECTOR’S NOTE Another Day of Life THE PLOT Another Day of Life is a movie based on the book written by legendary Polish war correspondent Ryszard Kapuściński. It tells the story of a journalist, left to himself to write a feature story on the civil war in Angola on the advent of its regaining independence in 1975. Kapuściński is an idealist, a friend to lost causes and revolutions. Although he had been to many front lines before, Angola was to change him forever. He was to get closer to the realities of war; he was to discover that journalistic reporting was far too limiting for him; he could dispatch his reports to the editor’s office by telex, yet his enormous imagination and internal voice are ill-fitted to this message-limiting machine. Kapuściński experienced a dangerous journey into the heart of darkness which changed him forever. He left for Angola as a reporter to come back as a writer. He discovered that the honest and idealistic world he was seeking does not exist in Africa… and so he created it by means of a typewriter and became a writer of a world renown. PLATIGE FILMS W W W . A N O T H E R D A Y O F L I F E F I L M . C O M | 6 Another Day of Life STYLE AND VISUAL PRESENTATION OF THE FILM Another Day of Life is a film which will be produced as a stylized animation with fragments of documentary photographs. We want to transport the audience to the war theatre, to the front lines, have the viewers stand next to Kapuściński, in the place where their eyesight is reduced to the foreground. What did Kapuściński feel during the war in Angola? Loneliness, fear, madness, panic… Life or death. TWO LAYERS OF NARRATION The story in our film will be delivered on two levels of narration. 1. 1. ANIMATED NARRATION will play a double function. It will be used to recount historical events transpiring in 1975 and convey the surrealist realities of the war in Angola. Additionally, we will take advantage of the possibilities that animation gives in terms of shifting borders between the real world and the imagination. We want viewers to be kept in suspense and captivated, while asking themselves whether what is going on is happening in reality or in Kapuściński’s mind. The animation will constitute 65 minutes of the entire film. 2.2. DOCUMENTARY NARRATION will supplement the story recounted by means of animation in the likeness of a missing puzzle piece. The documentary will allow us to include the memory of those who survived and will furnish the story with a layer of reality. Not through interviews, but thanks to travelling to the places where the events of 1975 transpired and contact with animated characters which our camera will imbue with life in 2014. The viewer will embark on a film voyage to Angola, Cuba, and Portugal to meet Commandant Farrusco, a white man who joined the rebels, Queiroz, a fighter journalist who travelled across Angola with Kapuściński, and many other interesting characters the writer described in his book. The documentary photographs supplement the history presented in the animation, contributing to the realism, but above all else imbuing the work with EMOTIONS. The documentary part is going to constitute 20 minutes of the entire film. PLATIGE FILMS W W W . A N O T H E R D A Y O F L I F E F I L M . C O M | 7 STYLING IN ANIMATION 3D techniques provide a huge styling potential. WE CHOSE A CARTOON STYLE AS THE STYLING MODE. This manner of presenting similar themes has proved to be most successful in our previous projects. Cartoon graphics, brimming with graphical simplifications are perfectly fitted for illustrating this type of story. It furnishes us with a huge arsenal of ‘play’ tools: manipulation of colors, shapes, level of detail, graphical simplifications, etc. Moreover we employ a graphic convention that viewers can easily read and accept from the very beginning of the film, and so their attention will not be distracted by imperfections at the level of realism. The viewer will not be wondering if the water is sufficiently blue or whether the transparent skin effect was simulated or not. The style itself will supplement the story with the gritty and austere realism of war. STYLE OF DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHS Documentary photographs continue and supplement the story presented in the animation: Kapuściński, Angola, the year 1975. True survivors, advanced in years, RECALL the pain and despair they shared with our main protagonist – Kapuściński. PLATIGE FILMS Although we are working with real characters, we do our best to avoid the traditional visual style of a documentary film. There are no interviews shot directly in front of the camera lens. In 2014, we are going back to the script of war. We are recreating emotions with great care for the photography: travel, shots of the car interior, aerial photographs. Objective: a spectacular realistic image. W W W . A N O T H E R D A Y O F L I F E F I L M . C O M | 8 SOUND AND MUSIC Another Day of Life is a war film. Resorting to orchestral music, we seek a sound that would bring a legendary and epic world closer. We will also use several 1970s hit songs to put spectators in a suitable mood. Raúl De La Fuente and Damian Nenow PLATIGE FILMS W W W . A N O T H E R D A Y O F L I F E F I L M . C O M | 10 4 / DIRECTORS’ PROFILES RAÚL DE LA FUENTE DIRECTOR ( SPAIN ) Raúl de la Fuente is the scriptwriter and the responsible for the original idea for the film Another day of life . As Ryszard Kapuściński, main character of the film, Raul de la Fuente has travelled the world in search for stories, directing and writing the script for documentaries, spots, short films and TV programs in India, Angola, Lapland, Sierra Leone, Algeria, Mongolia, Ethiopia, Venezuela, Peru, Cuba, Bolivia, Guatemala, Ecuador, Russia, Kazakhstan, Poland, Rumania, USA, Canada, Qatar, UK, Switzerland, New Caledonia, Haiti, Benin, Togo… PLATIGE FILMS In 2015, Raúl de la Fuente’s film Minerita was shortlisted for the 88th Oscars© Academy Awards as Best Short Documentary Subject. The film won in 2014 the Goya Award, Spanish Cinema Academy, for Best Short Documentary Film and it’s having an outstanding documentary career, with over 140 selections since its release in October 2013 at international film festivals such as IDFA ( Amsterdam ), the most important documentary film forum, or Clermont-Ferrand ( France ), the best festival for short format, and was elected to represent Spain at the filmmakers gathering organized by UNESCO-Golden Nights in Paris. Minerita has won 45 international prizes so far and got theatrical exhibition in cinemas in Spain. W W W . A N O T H E R D A Y O F L I F E F I L M . C O M | 11 His first feature film Nömadak TX was the most awarded Spanish documentary film at international film festivals in 2007 ( 17 prizes and more than 150 festivals ). Released in 2006 at San Sebastian International Film Festival, got the CICAE Award, ( Confédération Internationale des Cinemas D’Art et d’Essai ). With this film Raul de la Fuente got the Best Young Director Award at Guadalajara International Film Festival, México, 2007. The film was produced for the Spanish Public Television TVE. Nömadak TX was shot in India, Algeria, Lapland, Morocco and Mongolia. In 2012, Raúl de la Fuente was Nominee for the Goya in Best Short Film for Black Virgin, a short film about how sex is for Mozambican women. During 2013, the United Nations Development Program, UNDP Haiti, commissioned him a documentary trilogy about the country, culminating in the request for a new feature documentary, I Am Haiti. That same year, Raul de la Fuente directed in Mozambique the documentary film A Luta Continua, selected in several Film Festivals such as PUKAÑAWI in Bolivia or A Film For Peace in Italy. I Am Haiti, was premiered at the 62nd Edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival and was screened as the opening film at Zinemaldia.Cat, Barcelona. It has been awarded at the BioBioCine International Film Festival in Chile, FENACO in Peru and the the Social Impact Media Awards in Los Angeles, USA, it has been included in their prestigious catalogue “Travelling Series”. In 2015 the film was awarded as Best Documentary at the International Film Festival of Santa Cruz in Bolivia. PLATIGE FILMS W W W . A N O T H E R D A Y O F L I F E F I L M . C O M | 12 DAMIAN NENOW DIRECTOR ( P OLAND ) Animation director and Team Leader at Platige Image. Graduate of the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz. He directed three original short animations: The Aim (2005), Wielka Ucieczka ( T he Great Escape ) (2006) and Paths of Hate (2010). All these works were well-received at international festivals. The last of them, Paths of Hate, was screened at more than 90 international festivals. It won 25 awards. The following are worth mentioning amongst the most important: honorary mention of the Jury at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the Jury Award at the SIGGRAPH 2011 Computer Animation Festival, award for the best animated film and the Jury award at the ComicCon IIFF. The film was also included in the group of ten films competing for an Oscar nomination. Damian Nenow has been cooperating with Platige Image since 2005. He is a co-creator of numerous projects, from commercials to special artistic projects. He has also conducted the works of the layout team formed within Platige Image since last year. He is also responsible for editing such movies as Kinematograf ( T he Kinematograph ) ( directed by Tomek Bagiński ) and Animowana historia Polski ( T he Animated History of Poland ) ( directed by Tomek Bagiński ). PLATIGE FILMS In 2011 he directed Miasto ruin ( City of Ruins ) – an animated documentary showing Warsaw in the spring of 1945. The film was produced for the Warsaw Rising Museum. The film garnered substantial interest worldwide; it was screened at the Moscow International Film Festival. It was also appreciated by the American Visual Effect Society, which nominated the production to it VES Award in 2011. The second of the special projects directed by Nenow – Move your imagination: Nature – is a short animation created for the needs of a campaign promoting Polish tourism at the largest tourism industry event – the ITB fair in Berlin. The film produced for the Polish Tourist Organization was screened during the fair opening ceremony in 2011. In 2013, Damian Nenow directed a spot entitled Głód jest tyranem ( Hunger is a Tyrant ) created in the frames of the United Nation’s campaign Zero Hunger Challenge. W W W . A N O T H E R D A Y O F L I F E F I L M . C O M | 13 5 / PRODUCER INFORMATION PLATIGE FILMS Platige Films sp. z o.o. is a daughter company of Platige Image S.A., established to run film productions. Platige Image S.A. is an award-winning Polish post-production studio. It specializes in creating computer graphics, 3D animation, realization of digital special effects, and composition of images for production of commercials and feature films. The studio released several hundred TV commercials, program openings, video clips, and produced special effects for Polish and foreign award-winning films. The Studio engages in the production of animated films and special projects. It produced Tomek Bagiński’s films: KATEDRA [The Cathedral] – an Oscar nominee, and SZTUKA SPADANIA ( The Fallen Art ) – the winner of the BAFTA award, as well as ARKA ( the ARK ) by Grzegorz Jonkajtys, shown at the Cannes festival competition. Platige Image also creates films promoting Polish history and culture – ANIMOWANA HISTORIA POLSKI ( The Animated History of Poland ) ( directed by Tomek Bagiński, 2010 ), MIASTO RUIN [City of Ruins] ( directed by Damian Nenow, 2010 ), JANA MATEJKI BITWA POD GRUNWALDEM W 3D ( Jan Matejko’s Battle of Grunwald in 3D ) ( narrated by Rafał Kidziński, 2010 ). PLATIGE FILMS The Studio extends its operations to producing the so-called special projects, including the visualization of Krzysztof Penderecki’s concert entitled Siedem Bram Jerozolimy [Seven Gates of Jerusalem], crowning the world-famous composer’s 75th birthday, as well as films prepared for such institutions as the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development ( PARP ), the Warsaw Rising Museum, the National Museum in Warsaw, or the National Centre for Culture. W W W . A N O T H E R D A Y O F L I F E F I L M . C O M | 14 KANAKI FILMS SPAIN KANAKI FILMS is a Spanish company originating from the Basque Country. The main area of its operations covers production of feature and documentary films for international markets. It was established by the award-winning director Raúl de la Fuente and producer Amaia Remírez. In 2015, their film Minerita was shortlisted for the 88 th Oscars© Academy Awards as Best Short Documentary Subject. The film won in 2014 the Goya Award, Spanish Cinema Academy, for Best Short Documentary Film and it’s having an outstanding documentary career with over 140 selections and 40 awards since its release in October 2013. Kanaki Films produced the short film Black Virgin in 2012 and was nominated for the Goya Awards in the Short Documentary category. In 2013, Kanaki Films produced in Mozambique the documentary film A Luta Continua, selected in several Film Festivals such as PUKAÑAWI in Bolivia or A Film For Peace in Italy. In 2014 the company premiered the feature documentary I Am Haiti at the 62nd Edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival. The film has been awarded at the BioBioCine International Film Festival in Chile, FENACO in Peru and the the Social Impact Media Awards in Los Angeles, USA, where it has been included in their prestigious catalogue “Travelling Series”. In 2015 the film was awarded as Best Documentary at the International Film Festival of Santa Cruz in Bolivia. The company has a vast experience in shooting in foreign and developing countries. It has shot documentaries in Lapland, Sierra Leone, Algeria, Mongolia, Ethiopia, Venezuela, Peru, Cuba, Bolivia, Guatemala, Ecuador, Russia, Kazakhstan, Poland, Rumania, USA, Canada, UK, Switzerland, New Caledonia, Haiti, Morocco. The company combines creative projects with assignments from international institutions. PLATIGE FILMS Another Day of Life has the support of the Spanish Cinema Institute ( ICAA ), Basque Government, Navarre Government, Eurimages, Televisión Española, EiTB and Canal+. W W W . A N O T H E R D A Y O F L I F E F I L M . C O M | 15 6 / CO-PRODUCER INFORMATION WÜSTE FILM GERMANY WÜSTE FILM was established in Hamburg in 1989. It is currently managed by Stefan Schubert. From the beginning of its existence, WÜSTE FILM Hamburg and its sister companies in Cologne and Berlin have produced more than 40 feature films of all genres, among them such works as: Forgotten ( 2 012 ) directed by Alex Schmidt ( the official selection at the 69 th Film Festival in Venice ), Alive and Ticking ( 2 011 ) directed by Andi Rogenhagen ( the International Film Festival in Shanghai ), Die Tür [The Door] ( 2 009 ) directed by Anno Saul ( the Silver Melies Award at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival ), Emmas Glück [Emma’s Bliss] ( 2 006 ) directed by Sven Taddicken ( the official selection at the International Film Festival in San Sebastian ), Gegen die Wand ( Head-On ) ( 2 004 ) directed by Faith Akin ( the EFA Award for the best European film, Deutscher Filmpreis Award for the best film, Goya Award for the best foreign film ), Kurz und schmerzlos ( Short Sharp Shock ) ( 1 999 ) directed by Fatih Akin ( the Brown Leopard Award for the best actor at the 51 st Locarno Film Festival ), and Wasteland ( 1 997 ) directed by Andrea Schwartz ( the award for the best documentary film at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival ). Other films co-produced by WÜSTE FILM include Flammen & Citronen ( Flame & Citron ), a work by Ole Christian Madsen ( 2 008 ), completed in co-production with Denmark and subsidized from the Council of Europe’s EURIMAGES – European Cinema Support Fund. PLATIGE FILMS W W W . A N O T H E R D A Y O F L I F E F I L M . C O M | 16 WALKING THE DOG BELGIUM WALKING THE DOG is an independent animation studio established in 1999 by a duo of producers, Anton Roebbeen and Erica Goossens, who thanks to the success of their earlier films ( L ittle Big One and Trix ) launched their own operations focusing on the production of full-length animated films which present a huge artistic challenge. The company’s headquarters and studio are located in the center of Brussels, at C-Mine in Genk. Today, Walking The Dog can boast the completion of a number of projects in the capacity of a co-producer and as an independent animation studio. The company began to gain a world-wide recognition thanks to such full-length Oscar-nominated films as: Les triplettes de Belleville ( T he Triplets of Belleville ) from 2013 ( directed by Sylvain Chomet ) and Tom Moore’s The Secret of Kells from 2009. Another great success was The Day of the Crows ( 2 012 ), directed by J.C. Dessaint ( the first screening at the Cannes festival in 2012 ). The following year, the studio participated in co-producing Pinocchio ( Enzo D’Alo ), nominated for the EFA Award in the best full-length animated film category in 2013. It was the first full-length 2D animated film in the studio’s history produced without the use of paper, but created fully with the use of the latest digital technologies. The same technique was used in the work on The Congress by Ari Folman ( the film won the EFA Award for the full-length animated film, it was shown at Quinzainerealisateurs in Cannes in 2013 ). The Walking The Dog studio has become specialized not only in traditional 2D animation, but in the production of CGI films, as well. Un Monstre a Paris ( A Monster in Paris ) from 2011, directed by Bilbo Bergeron ( a film nominated to the César Award and awarded at LAAF ) was the studio’s first co-production with Europacorp. Both companies also co-operated at producing Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart ( Mathias Malzieu and Stéphane Berla ). The film was first screened in February 2014 and it was nominated in the Generation Kplus category at the Film Festival in Berlin in the same year. At present, Walking The Dog has engaged in production of the film entitled Richard the Stork . This full-length stereoscopic animated movie will be co-produced with partners from Germany, Norway, Luxembourg, and Belgium. PLATIGE FILMS W W W . A N O T H E R D A Y O F L I F E F I L M . C O M | 17 ANIMATIONS FABRIK GERMANY AF is a one-stop visual effects and animation production house based in Hamburg, Germany, operational since May 2000. In our studio we offer a wide range of services backed by more than a decade of experience. With a very strong background in feature films and character animation, we continuously expand our skills and look for new challenges. Every project is something special and comes with it's very own requirements; we treat them all with the passion they deserve. Our creative services span from concept creation to full production. Talented in-house artists and a large pool of freelancers allow us to fluently assemble the perfect team for every project. We will also offer support and advice in early stages of project development with great pleasure. A proprietary asset management system forms the backbone of our production pipeline and allows us to easily keep the overview in complex projects, regardless of how many hundred shots required. A large number of work stations for 3D and compositing, plugged into a bold render farm, let us tackle even the most ambitious projects in advertising, as also for television series and feature films. For animation requiring natural movements and fast results we possess our own, highly mobile motion capture system. Several editing and grading suites connected to a 3D capable cinema provide a comfortable environment to work closely with our clients. PLATIGE FILMS We have won several honours and awards for our work: • Winner of the ADC – Art Directors Club – Award, Germany for the Cinemaxx Power Drill • Best Children’s Film Awards for Captain Bluebear and Laura’s Star, • Animago Production Award and the Bronze Lion, Cannes, for the Mercedes “Embryo” spot, • Silver World Medal at the New York Festival for the TV series “Little Dodo”, • And the Silver Swiss ADC Award for the ZVV spot. W W W . A N O T H E R D A Y O F L I F E F I L M . C O M | 18 PUPPETWORKS HUNGARY Puppetworks Animation Studio is a Budapest-based digital animation studio. Founded in 2009 by a team of highly-talented Hungarian 3D artists, Puppetworks has grown into an international studio of over 100 artists from 12 different countries dedicated to creating high-quality 3D media. Since its inception, Puppetworks has become renowned for the striking visual content it has produced for feature films, television, games, advertising and integrated media. To date, the studio has completed over 50 animated projects with the bulk of these projects being associated with names such as BBDO, Eset, Ubisoft, Microsoft and Riot Games. More recently, Puppetworks has begun to develop its own ideas into transmedia concepts with the studio's primary focus being the family genre. The first of these concepts to be realized is “The Tale of Momonga,” an animated feature project currently in the pre-production and funding stage. PLATIGE FILMS W W W . A N O T H E R D A Y O F L I F E F I L M . C O M | 19 7 / SALES AGENT INDIE SALES INDIE SALES is an international company with offices in Paris and Madrid, established in 2013 to handle film sales and engage in the international co-production of films. It was set up by Nicolas Eschbach – an experienced sales agent and producer Eric Névé. A combination of professional experience and knowledge of the film market gives INDIE SALES a solid position on the existing film distribution market. NICOLAS ESCHBACH ran the sales department in TF1 International, he worked on the most important French films which achieved international success: Olivier Dahan’s La môme ( L a Vie en Rose ) or Jean-Paul Salomé’s Arsène Lupin ( A dventures of Arsene Lupin ). His experience also includes the work on such films as: Todd Haynes’s Far from Heaven, featuring Julianne Moore, Take This Waltz directed by Sarah Polley, Michele Placido’s Romanzo Criminale , and Bertrand Tavernier’s In the Electric Mist . ERIC NÉVÉ, a co-founder of INDIE SALES, is a producer known for his ability to discover and develop young talented directors, such as Jan Kounen Doberman, Olivier Dahan Le petit poucet ( Tom Thumb ), Romain Gavras Our Day Will Come , Kim Chapiron Sheitan. He was a producer of international blockbusters: Les femmes de l'ombre ( F emale Agents ) directed by Jean-Paul Salomé and featuring Sophie Marceau, and Frédéric Schoendoerffer’s Agents secrets ( Secret Agents ) and Truands ( P aris Lockdown ). PLATIGE FILMS CONTACT Eleanor Coleman e c o le m a n @ in die s ale s . e u W W W . A N O T H E R D A Y O F L I F E F I L M . C O M | 20 STATE AGENCIES INVESTORS AND TV STATIONS SALES AGENT AND DISTRIBUTION HONORARY PATRONAGE ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE | partners | 21 PLATIGE FILMS UL. RACŁAWICKA 99 02-634 WARSZAWA + 48 22 844 64 74 + 48 22 898 29 01 [email protected] w w w.platige.com KANAKI FILMS ARTIKUTZA PLAZA 4, BAJO 2 20015 SAN SEBASTIÁN +34 648 764 852 [email protected] w w w.kanakifilms.com