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PRODUCT
GUIDE
CANNES
2929
INTERNATIONAL
2929 International, 9100 Wilshire Blvd,
Suite 500W, Beverly Hills, CA 90212
USA. Tel: 310.309.5706. Fax:
310.309.5708.
www.2929entertainment.com
Company Type: Sales
At Cannes: Shebnem Askin (President),
Michelle McDonald (Director of Sales
and Marketing), Jodie Adair (VP Sales
Administration), Stephanie Rich
(Assistant)
Office: Carlton, Tel: 334.93.06.4.235.
Fax: 334.96.06.8.235
WE OWN THE NIGHT
Drama
Language: English
Director: James Gray
Producer: Nick Wechsler, Mark
Wahlberg, Marc Butan
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg,
Eva Mendes, and Robert Duvall
Country of Origin: USA
A dramatic police thriller about an upand-coming nightclub manager in 1980s
Queens whose allegiance is torn between
his law enforcement family, and the
Russian mafia whose drugs are
increasingly dominating the club scene.
WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Barry Levinson
Producer: Art Linson
Cast: Robert De Niro
Delivery Status: Development
A sardonic comedy about the absurdities
in the daily life of a Hollywood producer.
3DD
ENTERTAINMENT
3DD Entertainment, 190 Camden High
Street, London, NW1 8QP, UK. Tel:
44.20.7428.1800. Fax: 44.20.7428.1818.
[email protected],
www.3DDgroup.com
Company Type: Distributor
At Cannes: Dominic Saville (Chief
Executive Officer), Acquisitions
Executive: Dominic Saville
Office: Suite #112 Miramar, Tel:
33(0)4.93.43.2912
BEFORE THE RAIN
Drama (1 x 130’)
Language: Macedonian, Albanian and
English
Director: Milcho Manchevski
Producers: Judy Counihan, Cédomir
Kolar, Sam Taylor, Cat Villiers.
Cast: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija,
Grégoire Colin, Labina Mitevska.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1994, Country of
Origin: Macedonia, France and UK
Set against a background of political
turbulence in Macedonia and London,
three love stories intertwine in this
Academy Award winning film, creating a
powerful portrait of modern Europe.
PUNK:ATTITUDE
Feature Documentary (1 x 90’)
Language: English
Director: Don Letts
Producer: A Metropolis Production for
3DD and Fremantle Media in Association
with IFC Originals and Cactus Three.
Co-production partners: IFC
Cast: Sex Pistols, Ramones, The Clash,
Nirvana, Iggy Pop.
Origin: United Kingdom
With a star-studded cast of historic and
modern figures in popular culture, this
feature length film takes a highly original
look at the punk movement.
BULL TROUBLE
Documentary (1 x 80’)
Language: English
Director: Marion McKeone
Producers: Marion McKeone, George
Moffly, Trevor Bowen.
Cast: Fearless riders, ferocious bulls,
crazed fans and rodeo legends.
Origin: USA
Bull Trouble is a harrowing, hilarious
and compelling sports documentary
unlike any other focusing on the most
dangerous sport on earth; professional
bull riding.
A
ACTION CONCEPT
action concept, an der hasenkaule 1,
Huerth 50354 Germany. Tel:
49.2233.508.100. Fax: 49.2233.508.180.
www.actionconcept.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Wolfgang Wilke (Sales and
Acquisitions)
Office: German Films, Tel:
49.172.212.7539
FINAL CONTRACT
Action (94’)
Language: English
Director: Axel Sand
Co-Production Partners: M 6
Producer: Hermann Joha
Key Cast: Drew Fuller, Tanja Wenzel,
Alison King
Budget: 4 million
Origin: Germany
An American courier driver in Berlin
falls in love with an assassin who uses
him for cover.
LASKO (IN THE NAME OF THE
VATICAN)
Action adventure (95’)
Language: English
Director: Diethard Küster
Co-Production Partners: M 6
Producer: Hermann Joha
Key Cast: Arnold Vosloo, Mathis
Landwehr
Budget: 5 million
Origin: Germany
The Vatican uses a secret order to protect
its faithful. Lasko is one of the warriors
of God.
ADRIANA CHIESA
ENTERPRISES
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, Via
Barnaba Oriani 24/A 00197 Rome, Italy.
Tel: 39.06.808.6052. Fax:
39.06.806.87855
At Cannes: ADRIANA CHIESA DI
PALMA (President), ROSSELLA GORI
(Head of International Sales), CHIARA
BONTURI (Marketing and Festival
Coordinator)
Office: Hotel Carlton - Salon du Bridge 1st floor, Tel: (mobile) 39.335.8265.984
LA SCONOSCIUTA
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Production: Medusa Film
Cast: Michele Placido - Claudia Gerini Margherita Buy – Alessandro Haber
Status: Now Shooting
Country of origin: Italy
It’s a story of mystery and love…
MARE NERO (DARK SEA)
(83’)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Roberta Torre
Cast: Luigi Lo Cascio – Anna Mouglalis
Production: Cattleya And Babe
Status: completed 2006
Country of Origin: Italy
A murder, an investigation, a journey
through a male world of desire where
real figures fuse and superimpose with
fantasies.
ANTONIO GUERRIERO DI DIO
(ANTONIO WARRIOR OF GOD)
(108 min)
Director: Antonello Belluco – Sandro
Cecca
Production: Angelo Bassi for AB Film
Cast: Jordi Molla’
Status: Completed 2006
This is the first film ever made about St.
Anthony of Padua, a Saint of universal
popularity, spellbinding leader and
avenger, beloved leader of action and
protest.
GHOST SON
Thriller (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Lamberto Bava
Cast: Laura Harring - John Hannah - Pete
Postlethwaite
Production: Star Edizioni
Cinematografiche Srl - Crc Srl
A breathless paranormal thriller on the
edge of suspense from beginning to end.
LA FIAMMA SUL GHIACCIO (ICE
ON FIRE)
(104 min)
Director: Umberto Marino
Cast: Raoul Bova – Donatella
Finocchiaro
Production: Alessandro Jacchia and
Maurizio Momi for Albatross Amp S.p.a.
Country of origin: Italy, Completion
year: 2005
The story of an unstable and passionate
love and perhaps an impossible one.
ROSSO COME IL CIELO (RED
LIKE THE SKY)
(96 min)
Director: Cristiano Bortone
Production: Daniele Mazzocca for Orisa
Produzioni
A moving, true story. The saga of a blind
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child who fights to reach out for his dreams
and his freedom.
THE FINE ART OF LOVE (MINE
HAHA)
(107 min)
Language: English
Director: John Irvin
Based On The Novel: Mine-Haha, The
Physical Education For Girls by Frank
Wedekind
Cast: Jacqueline Bisset
Production: Stefania Bifano and Ida Di
Benedetto for Titania Produzioni (Italy)
Creative Partners International (UK)
in collaboration with: Box Film, Balzer
International Film (Czech Rep.)
Country of origin: ITALY – U.K. – Czech
Republic
The sentimental and sensual education of
young girls.
I GIORNI DELL’ABBANDONO (THE
DAYS OF ABANDONMENT)
(96 min)
Director: Roberto Faenza
Based on the novel: I giorni
dell’abbandono by Elena Ferrante
published by: Edizioni E/O
Cast: Margherita Buy, Luca Zingaretti,
Goran Bregovic
Production: Elda Ferri for Jean Vigo Italia
and Medusa Film
A journey through the labyrinth of love and
passion.
ALL THE INVISIBLE CHILDREN
(123 min)
Language: English, Portuguese, Serbian,
Italian, Chinese with English Subtitles
Produced by: Maria Grazia CucinottaChiara Tilesi-Stefano Veneruso for MK
Film Productions, In co-production with
RAI CINEMA
Realized with the Special support of the:
Italian Development Cooperation Ministry
of Foreign Affairs in favour of UNICEF
and World Food Programme
Directors: Mehdi Charef, Emir Kusturica,
Spike Lee, Katia Lund, Jordan Scott,
Ridley Scott, Stefano Veneruso, John Woo
The lenses of eight magnificent directors.
Moving…heart felt stories…full of
joy…love…and solidarity. Music: Tina
Turner and Elisa theme song Teach me
again: an exceptional duet for All the
invisible children.
LA PASSIONE DI GIOSUE’ L’EBREO
(THE PASSION OF JOSHUA THE
JEW)
(104 min)
Director: Pasquale Scimeca
Cast: Anna Bonaiuto, Leonardo Cesare
Abude, Marcello Mazzarella, Giordana
Moscati
Production: Arbash Film
In the final decades of the fifteenth century,
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabelle reunify
Spain in the name of Catholicism. After
centuries of general co-existence, Jews
and Moslems are expulsed.
ALLIED
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP, INC.
Allied Entertainment Group, Inc., 8899
Beverly Blvd. Suite 911, West Hollywood,
CA 90048, USA. Tel.: 310.271.0703.
Fax: 310.271.0706.
www.alliedentertainment.com,
[email protected]
At Cannes: James Moder (Chairman),
Janet Y. Liu (VP – sales consultant, Asia)
Office: Riviera F17, Tel: 310.271.0703,
Fax: 310.271.0706
THE BARON AGAINST THE
DEMONS
Action / Sci-Fi Fantasy (new)
Director: Ricardo Ribelles
Producer: Ana Sanchez-Gijón & Ricrardo
Ribelles
Starring: Juan Carlos Romeu, Helena Le
Cumberri, Xavier Bertran
Delivery Status: Screening
In 2097 an enigmatic superhero, called
THE BARON, leads the crusade that the
religious organization Exorcio Deus
Machine is conducting against the forces
of Evil.
FALLEN ANGELS
Thriller (new)
Director: Ian David Diaz
Producer: Michael Derbas & Julian
Boote
Starring: Michael Ironside (“The Perfect
Storm”, “Starship Troopers”, “Total
Recall”, “Mindstorm”), Kai Wiesinger
(“Dracula”, “Murder on the Orient
Express”, “Terror in the Mall”,
“Hunger”), Jeff Fahey (“The
Lawnmower Man”, “Darkman III”,
“White Hunter Black Heart”,
“Epicenter”)
Abandoned and filled with a mysterious
past, Holy Angel School for Girls is
about to reveal its secrets of betrayal,
jealousy and vengeance.
WHOREHOUSE
Action / Psychological Thriller (94 min)
(new)
Director: Basil Schlegel
Producer: Sandra Fragel
Starring: George Tasudis (“White
Oleander”, “City of Angels”), Ilia Volok
(“ Airforce One” “Swordfish”), Olga
Vilner
A young and seemingly angelic girl,
Sady (Olga Vilner), comes to L.A.
following clues to the mysterious
disappearance of her father.
ALPINE PICTURES,
INC.
Alpine Pictures, Inc., 3500 Magnolia
Blvd., Burbank, CA 91505 USA. Tel:
818.333.2600. Fax: 818.333.2617.
http://www.alpinepix.com
At Cannes: Roland Carroll (President),
Rene Torres (President of International
Sales and Acquisitions), Theresa Wylie
(Contracts and Marketing Director)
Office: Palais 23.11, Tel:
33.04.92.99.80.86
LOVE IS THE DRUG
Director: Elliot Lester
Producer: Jed Nolan
Starring: John Patrick Armedori, Lizzy
Caplan, D. J Cotrona, Jenny Wade,
Jonathan Trent, and Daryl Hannah
The story of five recent high school
graduates filled with verve of youth and
the apprehension of the issues that
confront them during the summer before
college.
DARK HONEYMOON
Writer/Director: David O?Malley
Producer: Michael L. Meltzer
Starring: Daryl Hannah, Roy Scheider,
Sean Young, Eric Roberts
Delivery Status: In Production
Dark Honeymoon is a suspenseful tale of
obsession and manipulation about a man
who marries a seductive woman after a
brief and passionate relationship.
AMERICA VIDEO
FILMS
America Video Films, Virrey Loreto
2426, Capital Federal 1426 Rep.
Argentina. Tel: 54.11.4787.9098 / 9101.
Fax: 5411.4787.9094.
www.americavideofilms.com, Email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Enrique Maya (President),
Nicholas Bingham (Adviser), Claudio
Braslavsky (Director of Marketing &
Acquisitions), Utako Uniimi (Japanese
Representative), Maria Fernanda
Fernandez Vila (Business Affairs)
Office: Carlton Hotel – suite 225/226,
Tel: 33.4.93.06.40.06
FLIGHT 93
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Peter Markle
Principal Cast: Jeffrey Nordling Ty
Olsson.
Production Status: Completed
A PRAIRE HOME – CAPITOL FILMS
The story of the heroic passengers that
took back their plane in an effort to stop
a 9-11 terrorist attack.
BIRD FLU
Thriller (approx. 85 min)
Language: English
Director: Olivier Langlois.
Principal Cast: Richard Bohringer
Hippolyte Girardot
Production status: Completed / screening
Country of origin: France
A dreadful plague is being carried by
migrating birds and now threatens the
world population.
CHILDSTAR
Comedy (approx. 85 min)
Language: English
Director: Don McKellar
Principal Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Don
McKellar
Production status: Completed / screening
Country of origin: Canada
When you are only famous for fifteen
minutes….every second counts.
AMERICAN WORLD
PICTURES
American World Pictures, 16027 Ventura
Blvd, Suite 320, Encino, CA 91436 USA.
Tel: 818.380.9100. Fax: 818.380.0050.
www.americanworldpictures.com
At Cannes: Mark L. Lester
(President/CEO), Dana Dubovsky
(President of Production), Terese Linden
Kohn (Executive Vice President of
Distribution ), Rafael Jordan (Vice
President of Production)
Office: Riviera F6, Tel: US Cell:
001.323.363.9872, Fax: 818.380.0050
THE KINGMAKER
Action (90 minutes)
Director: Lek Kitaparaporn
Producer: David Winters
Cast: Gary Stretch, John Rhys-Davies
Country of Origin: Thailand
Fernando Da Gama, a young Portuguese
“Soldier of Fortune” sets sail for the
Orient seeking wealth. When the King is
poisoned, Fernando uncovers a plot
which could lead the kingdom into war.
HOBOKEN HOLLOW
Thriller/Horror (90 minutes)
Director: Glen Stephens
Producer: Patrick Durham and Glen
Stephens
Cast: Michael Madsen, Jason Connery,
Dennis Hopper, C. Thomas
Howell
Country of Origin: US
Based on the true story of a Texas slave
ranch, several drifters find themselves
confronted with the brutal evil of
Hoboken Hollow, a place many enter, but
none ever leave.
TEN COMMANDMENTS
Musical (120 minutes)
Director: Dennis Rosenblatt
Producer: BCBGMAXAZRIA
Entertainment, Max Azria, Charles
Cohen, 7
Art Productions
Cast: Val Kilmer
The critically acclaimed stage production
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of the classic story of Moses, the Hebrew
child who was raised as an Egyptian
prince, and then turned into a slave.
ARCHETYPE FILMS
Archetype Films, 228 Main St. Suite 14,
Venice, CA 90291 USA. Tel:
310.450.1711. Fax: 310.581.8040.
www.peacearch.com
At Cannes: Bateman Davis-Miller (Sr.
VP US Worldwide Sales and Co-Prods),
Suzanne Barron (International Sales
Consultant)
Office: Hotel Majestic 139-140, Tel:
33(0)4.97.06.85.40. Fax:
33(0)4.97.06.85.41.
HEART STOPPER
Slasher/Horror
Language: English
Director: Bob Keen
Leading Cast: Robert Englund, Meredith
Henderson, and James Binkley
Status: Now Available
Production Country: USA
After surviving the electric chair, a
maniacal serial killer stalks his victims in
an abandoned hospital, in search of a
new heart.
WARRIORS OF TERRA
Sci fi/Horror
Language: English
Director: Robert Wilson
Leading Cast: Edward Furlong, Ellen
Furey, Andrea Lui, Andrew Gillies
Status: Now available
A team of idealistic animal liberationists
fall prey to a horrifying entity upon
entering a secretive biotech facility.
FIVE GIRLS
Horror/ Exorcism
Language: English
Director: Warren Sonoda
Leading Cast: Ron Perlman
Status: Now Available
5 wayward teenage girls sent to a reform
school combine their unique psychic
powers to battle and ancient demon.
ARCLIGHT FILMS
Arclight Films, Building 22, Fox Studios
Australia. Driver Ave, Moore Park NS
2021 Australia. Tel: 61(0)2.8353.2440.
Fax: +61 (0)2 8353 2437,
www.arclightfilms.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Gary Hamilton (Managing
Director), Victor Syrmis (Chairman), Ian
Gibbins (General Manager), Jonathan
Deckter (President International Sales),
Lina Marrone (VP International Sales)
Office: Riviera C1, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.20, Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.32.21
BOBBY
Drama
Language: English
Director: Emilio Estevez
Producer: Edward Bass, Michel Litvak,
Holly Wiersma
Key Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Demi
Moore, Sharon Stone, Elijah Wood
Delivery Status: Post Production
Origin: USA
On the eve of Bobby Kennedy’s
presidential nomination and assassination
at the Ambassador hotel, the lives of
guests and workers cross paths and are
changed forever.
TWO THIRTY 7 (2:37)
Drama (96 min)
Language: English
Director: Murali K Thalluri
Producer: Murali K Thalluri, Kent Smith,
Nick Matthews
Key Cast: Teresa Palmer, Joel
Mackenzie, Marni Spillane
Origin: Australia
Following a group of high school
students through the course of a single
fateful day which ends in shocking
tragedy for one, an extraordinarily
compelling, emotionally devastating
exploration of teen suicide.
ROMULUS, MY FATHER
Drama
Director: English
Language: Richard Roxburgh
Producer: Robert Connolly, John
Maynard
Key Cast: Eric Bana
Origin: Australia
Adapted from an award winning memoir,
a heartbreaking celebration of decency
and compassion triumphing over
monumental tragedy and the power of a
father’s love.
ARD/DEGETO/TELEP
OOL
ARD/Degeto/Telepool, 429 Santa Monica
Blvd., Suite 700, Santa Monica, CA
90401 USA. Tel: 310.319.1353. Fax:
310.319.1354. [email protected]
At Cannes: Kristina Dubin, Head of U.S.
Office
Office: Hotel Majestic
ARRAMIS FILMS,
INC.
Arramis Films, Inc., 8903 - 17th NE,
Seattle, WA 98115-3207 USA. Tel:
323.572.0158. Fax: 206.782.8351.
www.arramisfilms.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Rafael Primorac
(President/CEO)
Office: Riviera, Booth M12, Tel:
323.302.2710
ULTIMATE FORCE
Martial Arts/Action/Thriller (94 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Mark Burson
Producer: Rafael Primorac; John Hicks
Key Cast: Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic;
Ruza Madjarevic; Igor Galo
Budget $1 million
Origin: USA
A film in the genre of “Enter the
Dragon” and “The Professional” starring
the exciting new action star, Pride/K1
champion Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic.
DEVIL’S VILLA
Horror/Action (95 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Mark Burson
Key Cast: Robert Englund; Armand
Assante
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget $1 million
Origin: USA
A spellbinding tale of black magic and
the occult, depicting the timeless struggle
between the forces of light and the forces
of darkness.
NITRO
Thriller (95 minutes)
Director: English
Language: Mark Burson
Budget $1 million
Origin: USA
Professional thief DALLAS PIKE is out
of prison and looking for revenge and
millions in uncut diamonds he stashed at
his brother-in-law’s funeral home.
ARRI MEDIA
WORLDSALES
ARRI Media Worldsales (Worldsales
Company), Türkenstr. 89, 80799 Munich,
Germany. Tel: 4989.38.09.1288. Fax:
4989.38.09.1619. www.arrimediaworldsales.de
At Cannes: Antonio Exacoustos (Head of
Worldsales)
Office: Int’l Village, German Pavilion
HEIMAT 3-A CHRONICLE OF
ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS
Chronicle (6 x 680 min)
Language: German
Director: Edgar Reitz
Producer: Robert Busch
Cast: Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer,
Christian Leonhard, a.o.
Delivery Status: Completed;
Year of Production: 2004
In six tragicomic episodes HEIMAT 3
tells the spirit of renewal of the early
1990’s recording how what began a
German dream became less and less
German, losing themselves instead in
global immensity.
DIE KIRSCHENKÖNIGIN
TV-Movie (3 x 264 min)
Language: German
Director: Rainer Kaufmann
Producer: Susanne Freyer
Cast: Johanna Wokalek, Heike Warmuth,
Johannes Zirner, Adele Neuhauser, a.o.
Ruth Goldfish, the daughter of a Jewish
owner of a small, but very special private
bank has a dream: she wants to become a
farmer.
BUONANOTTE TOPOLINO (BYE
BYE BERLUSCONI)
Comedy (89 min)
Language: Italian Version with English
subtitles
Director: Jahn Stahlberg
Producer: Martin Lehwald (Schiwago
Film)
Cast: Maurizio Antonini, Lucia Chiarla,
Pietro Bontempo. Fabio Bezzi,u.s.w.
Bye Bye Berlusconi is the first comedy
about an incumbent Prime Minister; a
real existing person who governs in
Rome.
ARTEDIS
Artedis, 12, rue Raynouard, Paris, 75016
France. Tel: 331.53.92.29.29. Fax:
331.53.92.29.20. cinemaartsent.com,
email: [email protected]
At Cannes: Pierre-Richard Muller
(Chairman), Chantal Lam (VicePresident)
Office: Residence du Grand Hotel, Bldg.
Le Cormoran II, 45 La Croisette. Tel:
04.93.99.56.67
MUJERES INFIELES
(UNFAITHFUL WOMEN)
http://www.mujeresinfieles.cl/
Comedy (107 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Rodrigo Ortuzar
Co-Production Partners: Jazz Films,
Chile Films
Producer: Jaime Solis
Key Cast: Maria Jose Prieto, Christian
Campos, Daniel Alcaino, María
Izquierdo
Origin: Chile
The comic and dramatic mishaps of
several women and their respective
partners confronting adultery and the
sexual liberation of today’s Chilean
society.
SPIN CYCLE
Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Scott Marshall
Co-Production Partners: Galilay
Entertainment, Evolving Pictures
Producer: Jack Gilardi, Jr.
Key Cast: Sarah Chalke, Lochlyn Munro,
Maxine Bahns, Howie Mandel, Esai
Morales, Jeff Fahey
Origin: USA
A diabolically funny action caper where
six people are held hostage in a
laundromat when a money exchange by
low-level gangsters goes sour.
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ARTIST VIEW
ENTERTAINMENT
Artist View Entertainment, 4425 Irvine
Avenue, Studio City, CA 91602 USA. Tel:
818.752.2480. Fax: 818.752.9339 .
[email protected]
At Cannes: Scott J. Jones (President), Jay
E. Joyce (Vice President)
Office: Riviera, J8, Tel: 33.4.92.99.32.41
DEAD LENNY
Action Comedy (90 min)
Cast: Armand Assante, Steven Bauer,
John Heard, Nicole Eggart, Whitney
Able, Joe Piscopo
Delivery Status: screening
Mobster Tony Thick is expecting $5
million in cash to be delivered by Lenny
Long, a mule for the mob. One problem
- Lenny has gone missing with the cash.
48 ANGELS
Drama (90 min)
Cast: Shane Brolly, John Travers, Ciaran
Flynn, Daragh Kelly
Delivery Status: screening
Seamus is a 9 year old boy who has been
diagnosed with a serious illness. In
search of a miracle, he sets off to find
God before God comes for him.
INTO THE FIRE
Thriller (95 min)
Cast: Sean Patrick Flanery, Melina
Kanakaredes, JoBeth Williams
A gritty adventure of three strangers left
broken after a series of tragic events
whose lives collide into moments of
emotional heroism and mutual healing.
ATLAS
INTERNATIONAL
Atlas International Film GmbH, 81543
Munich, Candidplatz 11, Germany. Tel:
49.89.21.09.750. Fax: 49.89.22.43.32.
E-Mail: [email protected],
www.atlasfilm.com
At Cannes: Mr. Dieter Menz (CEO,
Hotel de Provence), Mr. Philipp Menz
(VP Sales, Hotel Garden), Mr. Stefan
Menz (President, Hotel de France)
Office: Riviera, Stand M11/N12, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.88.05. Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.88.06
THE FURY OF THE ENTIRE
WORLD
Drama (90 minutes)
Language: Dutch with English Subtitles
Director: Guido Pieters
Cast: Cees Geel, Bart de Vries, Maarten
Heijmans
Status: completed, Screening on DVD
Country: Netherlands
The bestselling novel by Martin t’ Hart in
a gripping screen adaptation!
HEAD TRAUMA
Horror
Language: English
Director: Lance Weiler
Cast: Vince Mola, Jamil A.C. Mangan,
Mary Monahan, Jim Sullivan
Country: USA
From the creator of “THE LAST
BROADCAST” comes “HEAD
TRAUMA” - a mix of Asian Horror with
a western sensibility about a drifter who
is haunted by the ghosts of his past…
SIEGFRIED
Comedy (90 minutes)
Language: English dubbed
Director: Sven Unterwaldt
Cast: Tom Gerhardt, Mirco Nontschew,
Dorkas Kiefer, Markus Profitlich
Country: Germany
After centuries full of lies, it is time to
finally tell the true story about one of
literature’s biggest heroes!
AURORA
ENTERTAINMENT
CORPORATION
Aurora Entertainment Corporation, 9454
Wilshire Blvd., Suite M-11, Beverly Hills
CA 90212 USA. Tel: 310.858.1005. Fax:
310.858.1050.
At Cannes: Anatoly Fradis (President),
Mikhail Gugin (Vice President), Dana
Block (Executive Assistant)
Office: Hotel Majestic, Suite 108, Tel:
334.92.98.77.00, Cell: 39.348.706.9832.
Hotel Direct Line: 04.97.06.85.63, Fax:
04.97.06.85.89
BABI YAR
Drama
Language: English
Director: To be Announced in Cannes
Producer: Anatoly Fradis
Budget: 20 Million
Origin: USA
Centers on a young boy who witnesses
first hand a transformation of his idyllic
beliefs into a cataclysmic horror
Holocaust, powered by the brutal
German war machine.
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD:
NECROPOLIS
http://www.returnofthelivingdead4and5.c
om/
Horror (88 Min)
Language: English
Director: Ellory Elkayem
Producer: Anatoly Fradis, Steve
Scarduzio
Key Cast: Peter Coyote, John Keefe,
Aimee Lynn-Chadwick, Cory Hardrict
Budget : 7 Million
Origin: USA
A group of kids try to rescue a friend
from an evil research facility, but
unintentionally release hundreds of braineating zombies instead.
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD:
RAVE TO THE GRAVE
www.returnofthelivingdead4and5.com
Horror (93 Min)
Director: English
Language: Ellory Elkayem
Producer: Anatoly Fradis, Steve
Scarduzio
Key Cast: Peter Coyote, Jenny Mollen,
John Keefe, Aimee Lynn-Chadwick,
Cory Hardrict
Budget : 8 Million
Origin: USA
On Halloween night, a drug containing
Trioxyn 5, (which reanimates the dead) is
taken by unsuspecting kids and they turn
a rave into a zombie nightmare.
AZITA BOOKS &
FILMS, INC.
Azita Books & Films, Inc., 10620
Eastborne Ave. #201, Los Angeles,
California 90024 USA.
www.azitazendel.com
At Cannes: Azita Zendel
Office: Croissette Beach Hotel, Tel:
310.475.3773. Fax: 310.475.4043
CONTROLLED CHAOS
Drama (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Azita Zendel
Producer: Azita Zendel,
Key Cast: Don Hughes, Amy Blomquist,
Charley King
Budget: $1 millions
“A Fictionalized Account of Azita
Zendel’s Four Years as Oliver Stone’s
Assistant!
Witty! Juicy!” — New York Times
B
BAVARIA FILM
INTERNATIONAL
World Sales: Bavaria Film International,
Bavariafilmplatz 8, 82031 Geiselgasteig,
Germany. Tel: 49(0)89.6499.2686. Fax:
49(0)89.6499.3720. www.bavaria-filminternational.de, E-Mail :
[email protected]
At Cannes: Thorsten Schaumann (Head
of Bavaria Film International / Sales &
Acquisitions), Thorsten Ritter (Head of
Bavaria Film International / Marketing &
Acquisitions), Stefanie Zeitler (Sales
Manager), Klaus Rasmussen (Sales
Manager), Anegret Eckl (Sales Manager),
Sebastian Kiesmüller (Sales & Marketing
Manager)
Office: Riviera Booth N 9, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.18. Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.32.19
WILD CHICKS (DIE WILDEN
HÜHNER)
Family Comedy (108’)
Language: German, Subtitles in English
Producer: Uschi Reich, Peter Zenk
Production company: Bavaria
Filmverleih- und Produktions GmbH
Co-production company: Lunaris Filmund Fernsehproduktion GmbH
Director: Vivian Naefe
Casting: Jacqueline Rietz, An Dorthe
Braker
Year of Production: 2005, Country:
Germany
Every girl needs a best girlfriend. And
Sprotte has no less than three!
4 MUJERES DESCALZAS (4
WOMEN, BAREFOOT)
Drama (90’)
Language: Spanish, English subtitled
Director: Santiago Loza
Producer: Francesca Feder, Martín Loza
Production company: Aeternam Films
Co-production company: Arcano
Producciones
Year of Production: 2005, Country:
Argentina
Four women are searching for their place
in the city, in Argentina, in the world.
Breaking down barriers to confront and
share their innermost fears.
Demonstrating the mechanics of laughter
and of lunar eclipses.
AUSENTES (THE ABSENT)
Thriller (91’)
Language: Spanish, Subtitles English
Director: Daniel Calparsoro
Producer: Juan Alexander
Production company: Star Line
Productions
Co-production company: Estudios
Picasso - Telecinco
Year of Production: 2005, Country: Spain
A family moves to a gated community in
the suburbs so that the mother can find
respite from the problems that have been
plaguing her.
BETA CINEMA
Beta Cinema, Gruenwalder Weg 28 d,
82041 Oberhaching, Munich, Germany.
Tel: 49.89.673469.80. Fax:
49.89.673469.888. www.betacinema.com,
e-mail: [email protected]
At Cannes: Dirk Schürhoff (Managing
Director), Andreas Rothbauer (Head of
Theatrical Sales & Intl. Theatrical
Acquisitions), Delphine Eon (Assistant
International Sales)
Office: Palais de Festival (Office
Number L12), Tel: 33.4.92.99.32.12,
Fax: 33.4.92.99.32.13, Cell:
49.0160.9066.4357
THE LIVES OF OTHERS (DAS
LEBEN DER ANDEREN)
Drama (137 min)
Language: German with English subtitles
Director: Florian Henckel von
Donnersmarck
Producer: Quirin Berg, Max Wiedemann
Produced by: Produced by Wiedemann &
Berg Filmproduktion in coprodution with
Bayerischer Rundfunk, Arte, CREADO
Film with backing from
FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFF),
Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) and
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Cast: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck,
Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur
Year of Production: 2005/2006, Country
of Origin: Germany
East Berlin, November 1984. Five years
before its downfall, the former EastGerman government (GDR) ensured its
claim to power with a ruthless system of
control and surveillance.
DRESDEN - THE INFERNO
Historical Drama / 2nd World War (140
min)
Language: English and German with
CANNES 2006
English subtitles
Director: Roland Suso Richter
Producer: Nico Hofmann, Sascha
Schwingel,
Produced by: TeamWorx Television &
Film in coproduction with ZDF and EOS
Cast: Felicitas Woll, John Light,
Benjamin Sadler, Heiner Lauterbach,
Katharina Meinecke, Marie Bäumer, Kai
Wiesinger, Wolfgang Stumph, Jürgen
Heinrich, Susanne Bormann, Bert
Böhlitz, Anja Taschenberg
Year of Production: 2005/06, Country of
Origin: Germany
Thrilling drama on the bombing of
Dresden between February 13 and 15,
1945
NO SWEAT (IM SCHWITZKASTEN)
Comedy (97 min)
Director: Eoin Moore
Producer: Anne Leppin, Sigrid Hoerner
Produced by: moneypenny
filmproduktion in coproduction with
ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel and
workshop
Cast: Christiane Paul, Charly Hübner,
Andreas Schmidt, Esther Zimmering,
Steffi Kühnert, Laura Tonke, Edgar Selge
Origin: Germany
In his latest comedy Berlin-based Irish
director Eoin Moore presents the naked
truth about the state of the nation under
the sign of the economic crisis.
BIRCH TREE
ENTERTAINMENT
Birch Tree Entertainment, 7224
Plushstone St., Las Vegas, NV 89148
USA. Tel: 310.383.2782. Fax:
323.843.9650. www.birchtreefilms.com,
At Cannes: Art Birzneck (President &
CEO), Don Clovis (Producer)
Office: Carlton Hotel Suite 163, Tel:
334.9306.4006 ext. 163, Fax:
334.9306.025
HONOR
www.honorthemovie.com
Martial Arts Action (88 min)
Language: English
Director: David Worth
Producer: Patrick Kligel, Austin Moody
Key Cast: Russell Wong, Roddy Piper,
Jason Barry, Remy Bonjasky, Don Frye,
Masa Funaki, Nishi, Joanna Pacula,
Linda Park
Origin: USA
In a world where street gangs collide
with the law, neighborhood friends,
Raymond and Gabriel, must decide
which side of the battle to join.
THE DOLLHOUSE
Martial Arts Action
Language: English
Director: Austin Moody, Patrick Kligel
Producer: Patrick Kligel, Austin Moody
Origin: USA
A search to locate his brother’s killers
leads Tak, a lonely detective, to America
where he discovers that an organization
sworn to protect abused children is really
a sanctuary dedicated to the art of killing.
MATTI - HELL IS FOR HEROES
(MATTI)
www.solarfilms.com
Drama/Comedy (130 min)
Director: Finnish with English subtitles
Language: Aleksi Makela
Producer: Markus Selin
Key Cast: Jasper Paakkonen, Elina
Hietala, Juha Veijonen, Peter Franzen
Origin: Finland
Based on the life of ski-jumping legend
Matti Nykanen. From national hero to
tabloid laughing stock, Matti takes you
on a ride through the tragic and comical
life of this worshipped athlete.
FROZEN LAND (PAHA MAA)
www.solarfilms.com
Drama (124 min)
Language: Finnish with English subtitles
Director: Aku Louhimies
Producer: Markus Selin
Key Cast: Pertti Sveholm, Jasper
Paakkonen, Mikko Leppilampi, Pamela
Tola
Origin: Finland
A hectic, fast-paced and realistic
depiction of several people whose lives
overlap in a series of dramatic and tragic
events.
BLEIBERG
ENTERTAINMENT
Bleiberg Entertainment, Inc., 9454
Wilshire Blvd, Suite 200, Beverly Hills,
CA 90212 USA. Tel: 310.273.0003. Fax:
At Cannes: Ehud Bleiberg (Chairman &
CEO), Roman Kopelevich (VP of
Worldwide Sales), Shannon Banal (VP of
Operations), Nick Donnermeyer
(Executive Assistant)
Office: Riviera, J5
ONE LAST DANCE
Action / Drama
Cantonese - Singapore
Director: Max Makowski
Producers: Peter Loehr, Titus Ho
Principal Cast: Francis Ng, Harvey
Keitel
Status: Complete
The story of an assassin hired to kill the
men responsible for kidnapping an
important man’s son.
LOVE AND DANCE
Drama / Romance
Hebrew - Israel
Director: Eitan Anner
Producers: Eilon Ratzkovsky, Ehud
Bleiberg, Yossi Uzrad, Koby Gal-Raday
Status: Complete
In the vein of Billy Elliot, ten year old
Chen learns how to ballroom dance to
get away from his dysfunctional home
life as well as to impress a girl.
FROZEN DAYS
Psychological Thriller
Hebrew - Israel
Director: Danny Lerner
Executive Producers: Ehud Bleiberg,
Eduard Douek
Producers: Alan Lerner, Assaf Rav,
Danny Lerner
A young woman survives a suicide
bombing and assumes the identity of one
of its victims. As she moves into his
apartment her grip on reality starts to
crack.
BLUE STAR MOVIES
Blue Star movies, 6 Canal Boulevard,
London NW1 9AQ UK. Tel:
44.20.307.60090. Fax: 44.20.307.60091.
www.bluestarmovies.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Pete Maggi (President),
Pietro Dioni (Chief Executive Director),
Irene Masiello (Production Executive),
Nadia Porrati (Sales Manager)
Office: Tel: 33.628.82.69.87, Fax:
33.493.68.65.73
STAND BY LOVE
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Simon Wells
Producer: Pete Maggi, Blue Star Movies
Key Cast: Eric McCormack, Helen
Bonham-Carter
Country of Origin: UK
A search for truth is a search for love.
FROST FLOWERS
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Andrea Vecchiato
Producer: Pete Maggi from Blue Star
Movies
Key Cast: Holly Hunter
Life and death are closer than you think.
MY FAVOURITE GAME
Horror
Director: English
Language: Fabio Resinaro/Fabio
Guaglione
Co-Production Partners:
Producer: Pete Maggi from Blue Star
Movies
Key Cast: TBA
Country of Origin: Italy
One hunter. Many preys. All killers.
THE BLUM GROUP
The Blum Group, 603 Boccaccio Ave.,
Venice, CA 90291 USA. Tel:
310.302.0021. Fax: 310.301.9231.
www.theblumgroup.net,
[email protected]
At Cannes: Suzanne Blum (President),
Dale Eagle (Vice President, Acquisitions,
Marketing & Sales)
Office: Tel: 310.302.0021, Fax:
310.301.9231
BEYOND TREASON
www.beyondtreason.com
(100 min)
Language: English
Director: William Lewis
Co-Production Partners: Joyce Riley
Producer: Joyce Riley & William Lewis
Origin: USA
Feature Length Documentary covering:
Gulf War Illness, Depleted Uranium used
on battlefield, Vaccines given to our
troops and the serious illnesses that they
cause.
OUT OF THE BLUE
Drama (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Dennis Hopper
Producer: Leonard Yakir
Key Cast: Dennis Hopper, Linda Manz,
Sharron Farrell, Raymond Burr, Don
Gordon
Origin: USA
Cult Classic about a girl coming of age
in a dysfunctional family
BOOMTOWNMEDIA
INTERNATIONAL
(BTMI)
Boomtownmedia International (BTMI) in
cooperation with International Script &
Sales Company (ISSC), Genthiner
Strasse 8, Berlin 10785 Germany. Tel:
49(0)30.264.80.550. Fax:
49(0)30.264.80.555. www.rhythmisit.de,
www.triptoasia.de,
www.boomtownmedia.de
At Cannes: Uwe Dierks (CEO), Norbert
Maass (World Sales), Thomas Grube
(Head of Production)
Office: Media Stand (International
Village), Tel: 49.171.125.81.91 (Norbert
Mass, sales); 49.163.855.65.00 (Uwe
Dierks), 49.40.3603705265
TRIP TO ASIA – THE QUEST FOR
HARMONY
www.triptoasia.de
Documentary (ca. 90)
Language:
English/Spanish/French/German with
English subtitles
Director: Thomas Grube
Co-Production Partners: BBC and ZDF
Producer: BOOMTOWNMEDIA
Key Cast: Sir Simon Rattle and Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra
Origin: Germany
TRIP TO ASIA, the first film about the
mysterious inside life of the worlds best
orchestra is a breathtaking trip into the
ego of this community of individuals.
RHYTHM IS IT!
www.rhythmisit.de
Documentary (100 min)
Language: English/German with English
subtitles
Director: Thomas Grube and Enrique
Sánchez Lansch
Producer: BOOMTOWNMEDIA
Key Cast: Berlin Philharmonic, Sir
Simon Rattle, Royston Maldoom, Marie,
Martin and Olayinka
Origin: Germany
Teenagers Marie, Martin and Olayinka
have never danced or listened to
classical music before conductor Sir
CANNES 2006
43
Simon Rattle and the Berlin
Philharmonic challenge them to dance
Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’.
C
CAPITOL FILMS
Capitol Films, 23 Queensdale Place,
London W11 4SQ UK. Tel:
44.20.7471.6000. Fax: 44.20.7471.6012.
[email protected],
www.capitolfilms.com
At Cannes: David Bergstein (Chairman),
Jane Barclay (Managing Director),
Simon Crowe (Head of Sales), Eve
Schoukroun (Senior Sales Manager)
Office: 4 la Croisette, 2nd Floor, Tel:
33(0)4.93.39.23.70. Fax:
33(0)4.93.39.51.74
STORMBREAKER
Action Thriller
Language: English
Producer: Samuelson Productions
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Leading Cast: Mickey Rourke, Ewan
McGregor, Alicia Silverstone, Andy
Serkis, Bill Nighy, Sophie Okonedo,
Missi Pyle, Sarah Bolger, introducing
Alex Pettyfer
Status: World Premiere Screening –
Invitation only
Production Country: UK
Schoolboy Alex Rider is recruited into
MI6. His mission: to investigate his
uncle’s death and discover the secrets of
the computer Stormbreaker. Adapted
from the best-selling series by Anthony
Horowitz.
BORDERTOWN
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Gregory Nava
Producer: Mobius Entertainment
Leading Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Antonio
Banderas, Martin Sheen
Production Country: US
Status: World Premiere Screening –
Invitation only
An impassioned American reporter goes
to Mexico to investigate the brutal
murder of local young women. She soon
finds that her own life is in great danger.
FOUR LAST SONGS
Drama
Language: English
Director: Francesca Joseph
Producer: BBC Films
Leading Cast: Stanley Tucci, Jessica
Stevenson, Rhys Ifans, Marisa Paredes,
Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Bonneville,
Virgile Bramly, Jena Malone
Status: Completed – World Premiere
Screening
Production Country: UK / Spain
Larry dreams of being a great musician.
When the opportunity to stage a gala
tribute concert comes his way, he grabs it
with both hands.
BLACK WATER TRANSIT
Action Thriller
Language: English
Producer: Ascendant Pictures
Director: Samuel Bayer
Leading Cast: To be announced
Status: In Pre-Production – Shooting to
start June ‘06
Production Country: US
When Jack tries to set-up a contract killer
in order to protect his son, he finds
himself on the run for a murder that he
didn’t commit.
.45 (POINT 45)
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Gary Lennon
Producer: Mobius Entertainment
Leading Cast: Milla Jovovich, Angus
Macfadyen, Stephen Dorff
Status: Completed - World Premiere
Screening
In this sexy crime thriller, full of twists
and turns, danger and passion turn to
violence and deception when a criminal
couple’s relationship falls apart.
CARNABY
INTERNATIONAL
Carnaby International, New London
House, 172 Drury Lane, London WC2B
5QR UK. Tel: 44.207.074.1273. Fax:
44.207.074.1203
At Cannes: Mr. Will Machin (Head of
Sales), Mr. Ian Hall (Head of
Distribution)
Office: The Grand Hotel, Apt 2A
Cormorran II Entrance, 45 La Croisette,
Tel: 33(0)4.93.68.52.79.
www.carnabyfilms.com
DADDY’S GIRL
Psychological Horror
Language: English
Director: David Evans
Co-Production Partners: Carnaby Films
and Boda
Producer: Nerys Lloyd
Key Cast: Richard Harrington, Jaime
Winstone, Louise Delamare.
Origin: UK
Daddy’s Girl is a psychological horror
film set within a modern reconstructed
family.
A grief-stricken Doctor makes a fatal
error when he diagnoses a troubled
teenager’s obsession for blood as a
passing phase of teenage angst.
ARE YOU READY FOR LOVE?
www.areyoureadyforlove.co.uk
Romantic Comedy (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Helen Grace
Producer: Trudy Sargent
Key Cast: Michael Brandon, Ed Byrne,
Andy Nyman, Lucy Punch, Leigh
Zimmerman.
Origin: UK
3 singles, 3 days and a million romantic
possibilities.
AMERICA BROWN
www.americabrown.com
Drama (90 min)
Director: English
Language: Paul Black
Producer: Paul Black, Christina Weiss
Lurie, Andrew Fierberg
Key Cast: Ryan Kwanten, Hill Harper,
Natasha Lyonne, Elodie Bouchez, Karen
Black, Michael Rapaport.
Origin: USA
A coming of age drama that centers on a
young quaterback from West Texas, a
priset in New York and the two women
in their lives.
TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG
www.toomuchtooyoung.com
Comedy Adventure (88 min)
Language: English
Director: Trevor Steven Smith
Producer: Stuart D. Fenegan
Key Cast: Steve John Shepherd, Adam
Croasdell
Origin: UK
A comedy adventure about two streetwise brothers who take on the city
establishment.
CELESTIAL
PICTURES LTD.
Celestial Pictures Ltd., Shaw
Administration Building, Lot 220, Clear
Water Bay Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Tel: 852.2927.1111. Fax: 852.2243.0099.
www.celestialpictures.com,
[email protected]
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At Cannes: Gordon Cheung (EVP,
Acquisitions & Distribution), Michael
Chan (VP, Acquisitions & Business
Development)
Office: No.118 Carlton Hotel, 58 La
Croisette, BP 155, 06406 Cannes, Tel:
334.93.06.41.18, Fax: 334.93.06.81.18.
PERHAPS LOVE
Romantic Drama (108 min)
Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan
Producer: Andre Morgan
Key Cast: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhou Xun,
Jacky Cheung
Country of Origin: China
The story revolves around a love triangle
wrapped in a movie-within-a-movie, and
is punctuated throughout by a heartfelt
score and mesmerizing love songs
CONTEMPORARY STYLES OF
KUNG FU
Director: Lucky Lau
Producer: Gordon Cheung
Key Cast: Gordon Liu-Chia-Hui
The star of the martial-arts classic “The
36th Chamber of Shaolin”, Gordon LiuChia-Hui hosts this compelling
documentary on the “Big Five Forces” of
Kung Fu.
CELLULOID
DREAMS
Celluloid Dreams, 2 rue Turgot, Paris Fr
75009 France. Tel: 33.1.49.70.03.70.
Fax: 33.1.49.70.03.71. www.celluloiddreams.com, email: [email protected]
At Cannes: Ms. Hengameh PANAHI
(President), Ms. Charlotte MICKIE
(Managing Director), Ms. Tanja
MEISSNER (International Sales), Mr.
Sébastien CHESNEAU (International
Sales), Ms. Karina KORENBLUM
(International Sales)
Office: 2, La Croisette
OFFSIDE
Comedy (88’)
Language: Farsi
Director: Jafar Panahi
Producer: Jafar Panahi
Key Cast: Nazanin Sedighzadeh, Mahnaz
Zabihi, Golnaz Farnani
Origin: Iran
IT’S WINTER
Drama (84’)
Language: Farsi
Director: Rafi Pitts
Producer: Mohammad Mehdi Dadgoo
Key Cast: Ali Nicksolat, Mitra Hadjar
Origin: Iran
FAMILY LAW
Comedy (93’)
Director: Spanish
Language: Daniel Burman
Co-Production Partners: BD CINES
Key Cast: Daniel Hendler, Julieta Diaz
Origin: Argentina
CELSIUS
ENTERTAINMENT
Celsius Entertainment, Portland House,
4th Floor, 4 Great Portland Street,
London, W1W 8QJ UK. Tel:
44.20.7612.0040. Fax: 44.20.7612.0031.
www.celsiusentertainment.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Thierry Wase-Bailey (C.E.O.
& Head of Sales), Tim Grohne (Head of
Marketing & Distribution), Alfred Chubb
(Sales & Acquisitions Assistant),
Henriette Wollmann (Head of Legal
Affairs)
Office: Entrance 7D, 5th Floor,
Résidences Gray D’Albion, 20 bis Rue
des Serbes, Cannes. Tel:
33.04.93.39.87.66. Fax:
33.04.93.39.87.66
PARIS, JE T’AIME
Romance (120 min)
Language: French / English
Director: Coen Bros., Gus Van Sant &
Alexander Payne and more.
Producer: Claudie Ossard, Emmanuel
Benbihy, Chris Bolzli
Principal Cast: Steve Buscemi, Natalie
Portman, Elijah Wood
Country of Origin/co-production: France
CANNES 2006
A mythic journey through the Paris of
love and romance.
THE FLYING SCOTSMAN
Drama
Language: English
Director: Douglas Mackinnon.
Producer: Peter Broughan, Sara Giles &
Damita Nikapota
Principal Cast: Billy Boyd, Brian Cox &
Jonny Lee Miller
Production Status: Postproduction
Country of Origin/co-production: U.K.
True story of amateur cyclist Graeme
O’bree’s battle to overcome his bi-polar
disorder and break the world one-hour
distance record – which had remained
unbroken for nine years, on the bike he
designed himself.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO
JANIS
Music
Language: English
Director: Penelope Spheeris.
Producer: Peter Newman, Greg Johnson
and Bill Haney
Principal Cast: Alecia ‘P!NK’ Moore
Production Status: Preproduction
Country of Origin/co-production: U.S.A.
The highs and blues of rock legend Janis
Joplin - her quest for the perfect man in a
sea of free love.
CINE EXCEL
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC
Cine Excel Entertainment, Inc., 1219 W.
El Segundo Blvd., Gardena, CA 90247
USA. Tel: 818.848.4478. Fax:
818.848.1590. www.cineexcel.com,
At Cannes: David Huey (President &
CEO), Ed Tillman (VP Marketing &
Distribution), Yoko Suenaga (VP
International Servicing), Noel Lawrence
(VP Legal Affairs & Contracts)
Office: Riviera F17, Tel: 818.679.2994
THE DA VINCI CURSE
www.cineexcel.com/filmlib/dvc/dvcmain.html
Sci-fi / Thriller (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Mark Polonia
Co-Production Partners: Polonia Brothers
Entertainment
Producer: David Huey
Key Cast: Brian Berry, Bob Dennis,
Dave Fife
Origin: USA
During the second World War, American
Soldiers uncover the Holy Grail,
unleashing DaVinci’s and the Knights
Tempar’s secret curse.
THE ABOMINABLE.
www.cineexcel.com/filmlib/abom/abommain.html
Sci-fi (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Patrick Donahue
Key Cast: Heather DeVan, Jason DeVan
& Nick Orefice
Origin: USA
The giant 60’ Abominable Snowman
escapes and wreaks havoc in San
Francsico.
REPTILICANT
www.cineexcel.com/filmlib/rep/repmain.html
Sci-fi (90 min)
Director: English
Language: Desi Singh
Key Cast: Gary Daniels, Tina Desiree
Berg, Jason Scott Johnson
Origin: USA
A group of treasure hunters hide in
Alcatraz in search of $20 million dollar
diamonds, only to discover an alien
morphing reptile.
Johanna and Johannes fell in love,
separated and finally realized their
endless love for each other…
COMBAT SIXTEEN
Drama (90 min)
Language: German, Engl. subtitles
Director: Mirko Borscht
Producer: Susann Schimk, Joerg
Trentmann
Co-production partners: ZDF Das kleine
Fernsehspiel / RBB
Cast: Florian Bartholomaei, Ludwig
Trepte, Max Mauff
Delivery status: completed
Year of production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Germany
Georg (16) moves from Western
Germany to the Eastern part and is
separated from his friends…there he has
to fight for everything, including his life!
CINE
INTERNATIONAL
CINECLICK ASIA
Cine International, Leopoldstr. 18,
Munich 80802, Germany. Tel:
49.89.39.10.25. Fax: 49.89.33.10.89.
Email: [email protected],
www.cine-international.de
At Cannes: Lilli Tyc-Holm (President),
Susanne Groh (Head of International
Sales)
Office: Booth L 13, Riviera, Tel:
334.9299.3211
WINTER´S END
Thriller/Suspense (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Patrick Kenny
Producer: Damien Donnelly
Cast: Michael Crowley, Jilian Bradbury,
Adam Goodwin, Paul Whyte
Delivery Status: completed
Origin: Ireland
Farmer Henry, whose obsessive pursuit
of an heir to the farm forces his sister
Amy to make choices she spent her
whole life avoiding.
MARIA TO CALLAS
Drama/Romance (94 min)
Language: German, Engl. subt.
Director: Petra Katharina Wagner
Producer: Erik Stappenbeck, Christoph
Heckenbücker
Co-production partners: Michael Braun
Cast: Goetz George, Claudia Michelsen,
Monica Bleibtreu
Origin: Germany
After Jost´s beloved wife Maria died, he
continues writing emails from “Maria to
Callas”. But after a while, Jost can´t wait
to meet with “Callas”.
YOU TOLD ME YOU LOVE ME
Drama/Love Story (117 min)
Language: German, Engl. subt. in
preparation
Director: Rudolf Thome
Producer: Rudolf Thome
Cast: Hannelore Elsner, Johannes
Herrschmann, Anna de Carlo, Bastian
Trost
Origin: Germany
Cineclick Asia, 3F. Incline Bldg. 891-37
Daechi-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135280 South Korea. Tel: 822.538.0211.
Fax: 822.538.0479.
www.cineclickasia.com
At Cannes: Ms. SUH, Youngjoo
(Managing Director), Ms. CHI, Sang-eun
(Senior Manager), Ms. KIM, Yunjeong
(Manager, Marketing and Festival), Ms.
KIM, Luna H.Y.(Manager, Co-production
and Acquisition), Ms. PARK Ina (Staff,
Marketing and Festival)
Office: Riviera K 11, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.32
TIME
Drama (98 min)
Language: Korean
Director: KIM Ki-duk
Producer: KIM Ki-duk
Key Cast: SUNG Hyun-ah, HA Jungwoo
Budget 1 million USD
Origin: Korea
A young couple deeply in love with each
other tests their love with fatal methods
— even changing their own looks to
refresh their love as strangers.
THE HOST
Sci Fi
Language: Korean
Director: BONG Joon-ho
Producer: CHOI Yong-bae (exec.
Producer), JOH Neung-yeon
Key Cast: SONG Gang-ho, BYUN Heebong, PARK Hae-il, BAE Doo-na
Budget 11 million USD
Origin: Korea
A bit dull father desperately fights a
mysterious being to get back his beloved
daughter when she is taken away by it.
FAMILY TIES (TENTATIVE TITLE)
Drama
Director: Korean
Language: KIM Tae-yong
Producer: KIM Kwang-seop (EP), BAE
Yong-kook
Key Cast: MOON So-ri, GOH Doo-shim
Budget 2.5 million USD
Origin: Korean
A sister, a daughter, a boyfriend — all of
them try to be happy in the situation they
are in. Will they all be able to make it?
CINEMA ARTS
ENTERTAINMENT
Cinema Arts Entertainment, 6310 San
Vicente Blvd., Suite 540, Los Angeles, CA
90048 USA. Tel: 323.937.1085. Fax:
323.937.1186. cinemaartsent.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Pierre-Richard Muller
(Chairman), Chantal Lam (VicePresident)
Office: Residence du Grand Hotel, Bldg.
Le Cormoran II, 45 La Croisette, Tel:
04.93.99.56.67
ETHAN MAO
http://www.ethanmao.com/
Drama (87 min)
Director: English
Language: Quentin Lee
Co-Production Partners: Margin Films,
Trailing Johnson Productions
Producer: Stanley Yung, Quentin Lee
Key Cast: Jun Hee Lee, Raymond Ma,
Julia Nickson, Kevin Kleinberg, Jerry
Hernandez
Origin: USA/Canada
Thrown out of his father’s house when
his stepmother discovers he’s gay, Ethan
THE MOGULS – CONTENTFILM INTERNATIONAL
CANNES 2006
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Mao survives as a street hustler, all the
while plotting revenge on the family that
abandoned him.
SPECTRES
http://www.shadowlandfilms.com/spectre
s/
Sci-Fi (98 min)
Language: English
Director: Phil Leirness
Co-Production Partners: Shadowland
Films
Producer: Robert Ballo, Bud Robertson
Key Cast: Marina Sirtis, Lauren Birkell,
Dean Haglund, Tucker Smallwood, Linda
Park, David Hedison, Alexis Cruz, Chris
Hardwick
Origin: USA
A science-fiction ghost story focusing on
the estranged relationship between a
suicidal teenage daughter and her
workaholic mother.
CINEMAVAULT
Cinemavault Releasing International
Inc., 175 Bloor Street East, South Tower,
Suite 1011, Toronto ON, Canada, M4W
3R8. Tel: 416.363.6060. Fax:
416.363.2305. www.cinemavault.com, email: [email protected]
Company Type: Sales agent
At Cannes: Natalie Kampelmacher (VP
International Distribution), Paco Alvarez
(Sr. V.P. Production & Acquisitons),
Steve Arroyave (VP General Manager),
Michael Paszt (VP Acquisitions), Gerry
Moraitis (Director, Special Projects),
Jennifer Mesich (International Sales
Coordinator)
Office: M7/ N8, Tel: 33.4.92.99.3224
SPINNING INTO BUTTER
Drama
Language: English
Director: Mark Brokaw
Producer: Norman Twain, Lou Pitt, Sarah
Jessica Parker
Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Miranda
Richardson, Beau Bridges
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Origin: USA
Sarah Jessica Parker plays the Dean at a
New England college who is forced to
re-examine her own attitudes after a
racial hate crime is committed.
INTERVIEW
Drama
Language: English
Director: Steve Buscemi
Producer: Bruce Weiss
Cast: Steve Buscemi, Sienna Miller
Origin: USA
A remake of murdered filmmaker Theo
Van Gough’s original masterpiece
“Interview.” After falling out with his
editor, a fading political journalist is
forced to interview America’s most
popular soap actress.
BLOOD RISING
Action
Language: English
Director: Max Makowski
Producer: Nick Stiliadis
Cast: Jason Yee
Delivery Status: Production
Origin: USA
Father and son reunite to battle the
Yakuza.
CINEPHIL
Cinephil, 18 Levontin Street, Tel Aviv
65112 Israel. Tel: 972.3.5664129. Fax:
972.3.5601436. www.cinephil.co.il,
At Cannes: Philippa Kowarsky
(Managing Director)
Office: Israeli Film Fund’s RIVIERA
Stand F21, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.33.26 ,
Philippa Kowarsky cell: 972.54.4961114
YEAR ZERO (SHNAT EFES)
Drama (131’)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Joseph Pitchhadze
Producer: Joseph Pitchhadze, Dov
Steuer, Lior Shefer
Key Cast: Menashe Noy, Sara Adler,
Moni Moshonov, Keren Mor
Origin: Israel
In this widely-branching narration, the
lives of several people cross, people who,
for the most varied reasons, find
themselves at a turning point in their
lives.
WHAT A WONDERFUL PLACE
(EIZE MAKOM NIFLA)
Drama (102’)
Language: Hebrew, English, Russian,
Thai, Tagalog
Director: Eyal Halfon
Co-Production Partners: Norma
Productions
Producer: Assaf Amir, Yoav Roeh
Key Cast: Uri Gavriel, Evelyne kaplun,
Avi Oria, Ramon Bagatsing, Yossi
Graber, Yoav Hait
Origin: Israel
Sometimes the people closest to us are
total strangers; a Thai worker, a
Ukrainian prostitute, and a Philippine
caretaker in one tale set in contemporary
Israel.
NEWS FROM HOME / NEWS FROM
HOUSE
Documentary (97’)
Director: Hebrew, Arabic, English
Language: Amos Gitai
Co-Production Partners: Agav Films
(Israel), Artemis (Belgium), Agat
(France)
Producer: Amos Gitai, Michael Tapuach,
Origin: Israel
With NEWS FROM HOME/NEWS
FROM HOUSE, Amos Gitai completes
the trilogy which began with 1980’s
HOUSE and continued in 1998s A
HOUSE IN JERUSALEM.
CINETEL FILMS, INC.
CineTel Films, Inc., 8255 Sunset
Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA.
Tel: 323.654.4000. Fax: 323-650-6400.
www.cinetelfilms.com
At Cannes: Paul Hertzberg (President),
Lisa Hansen (Executive Vice President),
Marcy Rubin (Sr. Vice President,
International Distribution)
Office: Riviera, E2
LOCH NESS TERROR
Action/Adventure
Language: English
Key Cast: TBA
A rash of suspicious and gruesome
murders in a sleepy lakeside town has
authorities stumped. They soon realize
the culprit is not only connected to the
lake, but in it!
DARK STORM
Action/Adventure
Language: English
Director: Jason Bourque
Key Cast: Stephen Baldwin, William B.
Davis
On a secret military base a group of
scientists make a discovery unequalled
since the invention of the A-bomb.
SOLAR ATTACK
Action/Adventure
Director: English
Language: Paul Ziller
Key Cast: Mark Dacascos, Louis Gossett,
Jr.
When a giant Coronal Mass Emission
breaks off from the Sun and sends a giant
fireball hurtling toward the Earth,
scientists must blow up the polar ice caps
to stop it.
CJ ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
CJ Entertainment Inc., 26th Fl Star
Tower 737 Yeoksam-dong Kangnam-gu,
Seoul 135-984 Korea. Tel:
82.2.2112.6500. Fax: 82.2.2112.6599.
www.cjent.co.kr/eng
Company Type: (Sales agent, producer,
distributor)
At Cannes: Katharine Kim (Senior Vice
President), Kini Kim (Vice-President),
Josh Lee (Vice-President), Kwan Lee
(Director), Heejeon Kim (Director),
Michelle Chae (Manager) Acquisition
Executive: Eric Kim (Executive)
Office: E17/F20
THE CITY OF VIOLENCE
Action (88 min)
Language: Korean
Director: RYOO Seung-wan
Producer: KANG Hye-jeong
Cast: RYOO Seung-wan, JUNG Doohung, LEE Beom-soo
Budget: $6 Million
Origin: Korea
A story about a group of high school
friends whose relationship turns sour
after one of them kills his best friend
after many years.
LOVE PHOBIA
Language: Korean
Director: KANG Ji-eun
Producer: JUNG Seung-hye
Cast: CHO Seung-woo, KANG Hae-jung
Budget: $3 Million
Origin: Korea
A high school romance between two
people blossom on and off for years.
FORBIDDEN QUEST
Period Drama (142 min)
Language: Korean
Director: KIM Dae-woo Producer: CHOI
Wan
Co-production partners:
Cast: HAN Suk-gyu, LEE Beom-soo,
KIM Min-jung
Budget: $6 Million
Origin: Korea
A son of a reputed official comes across
an indecent novel that inspires him to
write one himself.
CLASSIC MEDIA
Classic Media, 860 Broadway, 6th Floor,
New York, NY 10003 USA. Tel:
212.659.3011. Fax: 212.659.1958.
www.classicmedia.tv
At Cannes: Doug Schwalbe (Head of
Worldwide Distribution)
Office: Agence Cannes Croisette
Miramar, 65 La Croisette, 06400 Cannes,
Tel: 33(0)4.9394.0002 - front of house
CASPER: SCARE SCHOOL
CG Animation (Adventure Comedy)
Director: Mark Gravas
Produced by: Evan Baily, Ralph
Guggenheim, Bob Mittenthal, Sandra
Walters
Status: In Development
When Casper learns that his friendliness
is a danger to ghosts and monsters
everywhere, his only hope is to go to
Scare School to develop his spooky side.
LONE RANGER: WAY OF THE
MASK
Animation
Produced by: Evan Baily, Michael Uslan
The Lone Ranger and Tonto face their
most unexpected challenge when six
samurai pursue a mad genius from Japan
all the way to the West Texas desert.
KUNG FOO MAGOO
Animation Feature (90’)
Status: in production
The master is back! Sensei Magoo in
whole new adventure.
CONQUISTADOR
WORLDWIDE
MEDIA, INC.
Conquistador Worldwide Media, Inc.,
606 N. Larchmont Blvd., Suite 112, Los
Angeles, CA 90004 USA. Tel:
323.464.8464. Fax: 323.464.8084.
www.conquistador-ent.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Pascal Borno (President),
Scott Karol (Ex. VP Finance & Business
Affairs)
Office: La Bris, 25 bd La Croisette, Tel:
04.93.39.30.58
RESCUE DAWN
Drama
CANNES 2006
Language: English
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Steve Marlton & Elton Brand
Key Cast: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn
Budget $15,000,000
The true story of a U.S. Navy Lieutenant
who is shot down on his first mission
and crash lands in Laos.
THE GREAT NEW WONDERFUL
Comedy/Drama (87:25)
Language: English
Director: Danny Leiner
Producer: Danny Leiner
Key Cast: Olympia Dukakis, Jim
Gaffingan, Judy Greer, Maggie
Gyllenhaal, Tom McCarthy, Edie
Falco,Tony Shalhoub,
Budget $2,000,000
The Great New Wonderful weaves five
stories, with an extraordinary cast,
portrayng life in New York City a year
after the World Trade Center attacks.
NINE LIVES
Drama
Director: English
Language: Rodrigo Garcia
Producer: Julie Lynn
Key Cast: Kathy Baker, Amy
Brenneman, Elpidia Carrillo, Glenn
Close, Robin Wright Penn, Stephen
Dillane, Dakota Fanning, Lisa Gay
Hamilton, Sissy Spacek, Holly Hunter,
Joe Mantegna, Ian McShane, Aidan
Quinn
Budget $4,000,000
By depicting nine different characters at
emotional crossroads, NINE LIVES
examines how women so often find
themselves captives of relationships,
both past and present.
CONTENTFILM
INTERNATIONAL
ContentFilm International, 19 Heddon
Street, London, W1B 4BG UK. Tel:
44.207.851.6500. Fax: 44.207 851.6506.
www.contentfilm.com
At Cannes: Jamie Carmichael (Managing
Director of ContentFilm International),
Harry White (Sales Manager), Judith
Baugin (Head of International
Marketing), Beatrice Neumann (Sales
and Acquisitions Assistant), John
Schmidt (CEO), Alexandra Keen (Head
of Legal and Business Affairs)
Office: 3rd Floor, 2 La Croisette, Tel:
33.4.93.38.58.88. Fax: 33.4.93.99.46.55
THE BOOK OF REVELATION
Controversial Erotic Thriller (120 min)
Language: English
Director: Ana Kokkinos
Producer: Al Clark
Cast: Tom Long, Greta Scacchi, Colin
Friels
Delivery Status: Completed - Screening
Origin: Australia
An erotic and hauntingly controversial
thriller about a ballet dancer at the peak
of his powers who is mysteriously
kidnapped by three hooded women for
twelve days.
THE MOGULS
Comedy (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael Traeger
Producer: Aaron Ryder
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Ted Danson, William
Fichtner, Patrick Fugit, Lauren Graham,
Glenne Headly, Tim Blake Nelson, Joe
Pantoliano, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Delivery Status: Complete - Screening
Origin: USA
They’ve had enough of not having
enough!
DRIVING LESSONS
Comedy Drama (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Jeremy Brock
Producer: Julia Chasman
Cast: Julie Walters, Rupert Grint, Laura
Linney
Delivery Status: Completed – Screening
Origin: UK
DRIVING LESSONS is a heartfelt,
touching and hilarious look at the effect
one delightfully eccentric older woman
can have on a young man with a lot to
learn.
OPEN
ALL
YEAR
(Tented & Heated)
ROUND
Lunch on the beach
Whatever the weather
THE
COPRODUCTION
OFFICE
The Coproduction Office, 24 rue
lamartine, Paris 75009 France. Tel:
3301.5602.6000, Fax: 3301.5602.6001.
At Cannes: Philippe Bober (Managing
Director), Florence Schapiro (Sales
Agent), Fabien Westerhoff (Sales Agent)
Office: Riviera L6
YOU, THE LIVING (DU LEVANDE)
Drama
Language: Swedish
Director: Roy ANDERSSON
Origin: Sweden
DELTA
Drama
Language: Hungarian
Director: Kornél MUNDRUCZÒ
Origin: Hungary
IMPORT EXPORT
Drama
Director: German
Language: Ulrich SEIDL
Origin: Austria
THE CORE STUDIO
CO., LTD.
The Core Studio Co., Ltd., 5F. Luxway
Bldg. Nonhyun-dong 99-7, Kangnam-gu,
Seoul 135-819 Korea. Tel: 822.545.6610.
Fax: 822.545.8813,
www.thecorestudio.net, email:
[email protected]
Available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com
CANNES 2005
MIDEM • MIPTV • CANNES • MIPCOM
The Restaurant
on the beach
(Between Miramar & Martinez)
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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At Cannes: Soma Chung (CEO /
President), E J Cho (VP-Int’l
Business), Jay Kim (Senior ManagerInt’l Business), Jamie Lee (ManagerInt’l Business), Chanjoo Chung
(Assistant-Marketing)
Office: J14 Riviera, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.01
BYSTANDERS
Thriller (106 min)
Language: Korean
Director: Im Kyungsoo
Producer: Cho Wonjang, Choi
Hyunsik
Key Cast: Yunjin Kim, Eric Moon,
Shin Eunkyung
Budget USD 4.5 M
Origin: Korea
A capsule note found in victim’s
stomach says the next prey. To stop
the murder, they have to reach the
scene before the killer.
NO MERCY FOR THE RUDE
Black Comedy Action
Language: Korean
Director: Park Chulhee
Producer: Hwang Woohyun
Key Cast: Shin Hakyun, Kim Minjun,
Yoon Jihye
Budget USD 4 M
Origin: Korea
He has his own rule to kill; only to
kill the people with scary faces or bad
manners.
DUELIST
Martial Arts (113 min)
Director: Korean
Language: Lee Myung-Se
Producer: Lee Myung-Se, Oh Eunsil,
O Sumi
Key Cast: Ha Jiwon, Gang Dongwon,
Ahn Sungki
Budget USD 8 M
Origin: Korea
They meet as enemy, but cruel destiny
forces them into the duel against love
at their hearts.
CRYSTAL SKY
PICTURES
Crystal Sky Pictures, 10203 Santa
Monica Blvd, 5th floor, Los Angeles, CA
90067 USA. Tel: 310.843.0223. Fax:
310.553.9895. www.crystalsky.com,
Email: [email protected]
At Cannes: Steven Paul (Chairman &
CEO), Joseph Inga (President of Crystal
Sky Finance), Benedict Carver (President
of Crystal Sky Pictures), Daniel
Diamond (President of Crystal Sky
Worldwide Sales)
Office: Inter-Continental Carlton Cannes,
Suites: 222, 223 & 224, Tel:
33.4.93.06.42.23. Fax: 33.4.93.06.40.25
CASTLEVANIA
Action/Horror
Language: English
Writer/Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Producers: Steven Paul, Benedict Carver,
Jeremy Bolt, Paul W.S. Anderson
Status: Development
Set in gothic Transylvania,
CASTLEVANIA is the story of the
Belmont Clan, a family of nobles born
into vampire slaying, who have become
Europe’s last hope against the dark
legions that threaten human existence.
BIG STAN
Comedy
Language: English
Cast: Rob Schneider
Director: Rob Schneider
Producers: John Schneider, Mark Dippe,
Ash Shah
Executive Producers: Steven Paul,
Benedict Carver
Status: Pre-Production
Seeking help from the mysterious martial
arts guru known only as The Master,
Stan hilariously transforms himself into a
kung fu expert.
TEKKEN
Action
Language: English
Producers: Steven Paul, Benedict Carver
In order to put to rest the ghosts of his
BOBBY Z – NU IMAGE
past, Jin Kazama enters the Tekken
tournament, a fierce and dangerous
competition featuring the world’s best
martial artists.
CURB
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL
Curb Entertainment International, 3907
West Alameda Avenue, Burbank, CA
91505 USA. Tel: 818.843.8580. Fax:
818.566.1719.
www.curbentertainment.com
At Cannes: Carole Curb (President), Ildi
Toth-Davy (Executive Director Head of
Sales)
Office: Riviera Booth N2, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.14. Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.32.15.
EL CORTEZ
Thriller
English
Director: Stephen Purvis
Producer: J.B. Roberts, Stephen Flick,
Dennis Bishop
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy
Midendorf, Bruce Weitz
Origin: USA
After five years in prison, Manny returns
to Reno where he gets caught up in a
labyrinth that leads to a murderous triple
cross.
FAMILY
Thriller
Language: English
Director: J.M. Logan
Producer: John M. Lawrence, Larry A.
Lee, Renee Humprey
Cast: Boyd Kester, Renee Humprey,
Tanner Richie
Origin: USA
When Eldon and Cole pick up a
hitchhiker, they quickly learn that
everything is not what it seems.
OPEN WINDOW
Drama
Language: English
Director: Mia Goldman
Producer: Lasse Hallstrom, Thomas K.
Barad, Midge Sanford
Cast: Robin Tunney, Joel Edgerton,
Cybill Shepherd
Origin: USA
A random act of violence threatens a
recently engaged couple’s relationship,
which underscores the healing power of
reclaiming one’s own self-determination.
D
DARCLIGHT FILMS
Darclight Films, Building 22, Fox Studios
Australia, Driver Ave, Moore Park NS
2021 Australia. Tel: 61(0)2.8353.2440.
Fax: 61(0)2.8353.2437.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Gary Hamilton (Managing
Director), Victor Syrmis (Chairman), Ian
Gibbins (General Manager), Jonathan
Deckter (President International Sales),
Lina Marrone (VP International Sales)
Office: Riviera C1, Tel: 33(0)4.9299.3220.
Fax: 33(0)4.92.99.32.21
SNOOP DOGG’S HOOD OF HORROR
Horror
Language: English
Director: Stacy Title
Producer: Jonathan McHugh, Tim Sullivan,
Jacob Hair, Chris Kobin
Key Cast: Snoop Dogg, Jason Alexander,
Ernie Hudson
Origin: USA
Hip Hop superstar Snoop Dogg acts as our
guide as he leads us into three terrifying
tales set in the “Hood.”
DARK RIDE
Horror
Language: English
Director: Craig Singer
Producer: Chris M. Williams, Dan Bickel
Key Cast: Jamie-Lynn DiScala, David
Rogers, Alex Solowitz
Origin: USA
Fast, furious and blood drenched mayhem!
A monstrous killer returns to his killing
ground, the theme park attraction ‘Dark
Ride’.
LIKE MINDS
Thriller (109 min)
Director: English
Language: Gregory Read
Producer: Jonathan Shteinman, Piers
Tempest
Key Cast: Toni Collette, Tom Sturridge,
Eddie Redmayne, Richard
Roxburgh, Patrick Malahide
Origin: Australia/UK
A detective investigates a brilliant young
student accused of murdering his classmate
and uncovers a macabre conspiracy
between the two disturbingly bright teens.
CANNES 2006
DENTSU INC. /
DENTSU TEC INC.
Dentsu Inc. / Dentsu Tec Inc., 1-11-10,
Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-8411 Japan.
Tel: 81.3.5551.9268. Fax:
81.3.5551.9475. www.dentsu.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Takehiko Chino (Senior
Manager), Satoko Uehara (Sales
Manager), Tetsu Ohsaki (Intl. Sales)
Office: F15, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.33.25
A CHEERFUL GANG TURNS THE
EARTH (YOUKI NA GANG GA
CHIKYU O MAWASU)
www.yo-gang.com/
Crime / Suspense (92 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Tetsu Maeda
Producer: Ryoichi Fukuyama / Kazutoshi
Wadakura
Key Cast: Takao Osawa, Kyoka Suzuki,
Shota Matsuda, Koichi Sato
Origin: JAPAN
A human lie-detector, one with an
extremely accurate biological clock, a
young light-fingered pickpocket and a
speech expert, the four extraordinary
outlaws set out on their adventure full of
games and love romances.
THE SAMURAI I LOVED (SEMISHIGURE)
www.semishigure.jp/
Samurai Drama (131 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Mitsuo Kurotsuchi
Producer: Nobuyuki Tohya
Key Cast: Somegoro Ichikawa, Yoshino
Kimura, Ryo Fukawa, Koji Imada,
Mieko Harada, Akira Emoto, Takeshi
Kato, Ken Ogata
Origin: JAPAN
A hidden love blossoming in the
beautiful country side of 19th century
Japan only to be cruelly twisted by fate.
THE WINDS OF GOD -KAMIKAZEwww.ceres.dti.ne.jp/elleco/winds/movie/winds_m.html
Action / Drama (125 min)
Director: English
Language: Masayuki Imai
Producer: Hajime Takeshita
Key Cast: Masayuki Imai, Takumi
Matsumoto, J.J Sonny Chiba, Hiroyuki
Watanabe, Nicholas Pettas
Origin: JAPAN
Pre-incarnated as Kamikaze pilots, two
comedians are distressed with their fate
and mission. As their mission fast
approaches they become indifferent to
death. What destiny awaits them?
MAMA JACK
Director: Gray Hofmeyr
Producers: Anant Singh, Helena Spring
Principal Cast: Leon Schuster (Mr
Bones)
Status: Complete
Following Mr Bones, South Africa’s
most successful film ever, comes Mama
Jack, the story of Jack Theron, an
ordinary person, working on a film set,
however, his movie director boss hates
his guts.
DISTANT HORIZON
DORO
FILMPRODUKTIONS
GMBH
Distant Horizon, 8282 Sunset Boulevard,
Suite A, Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA.
Tel: 323.848.4140. Fax: 323.848.4144.
email: [email protected].
London: 28 Vernon Drive, Stanmore,
Middlesex, HAT 7 2BT, United Kingdom.
Tel: 44208.861.5500. Fax:
At Cannes: Anant Singh (Producer),
Sanjeev Singh (Director of Acquisitions),
Brian Cox (Producer), Richard Jeffery
(Acquisitions)
Office: Ascenseur A, Apartment 1A, First
Floor, Palais D’Orsay, 62 La Croissette,
Cannes. Tel: 04.93.45.62.99. Fax:
04.93.45.88.71
PREY
Director: Darrell James Roodt (The
Oscar Nominated Yesterday, Sarafina!,
Cry, The Beloved Country)
Producers: Anant Singh, Helena Spring
Principal Cast: Bridget Moynahan (I,
Robot, The Sum Of All Fears, The
Recruit), Carly Schroeder (Firewall, We
All Fall Down, Mean Creek), Peter
Weller (Robocop)
Status: Post Production
Prey follows an American family who
travel to Africa for their dream holiday.
THE JOURNALIST AND THE
JIHADI: THE MURDER OF DANIEL
PEARL
Directors: Ahmed Jamal, Ramesh
Sharma
Producers: Anant Singh, Ramesh
Sharma, Ahmed Jamal Status: Complete
The film tracks the parallel lives of Wall
Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and
jihadi Omar Sheikh.
During Cannes Contact
The Business Of Film
Carlton Hotel Office 149
Tel 04 • 93 • 06 • 41 • 49
Email your press releases only during Cannes to:
[email protected]
DoRo Filmproduktions GmbH,
Weinzingergasse 8 / 1, A-1190 Wien,
Austria. Tel: 43.1.8768888. Fax:
43.1.8765500. [email protected],
www.doro.net
Company Type: Film- and TV
Production
At Cannes: Katharina Amport
E
EASTERNLIGHT
FILMS
Easternlight Films, Building 22, Fox
Studios Australia, Driver Ave, Moore
Park NS 2021 Australia. Tel:
61(0)2.8353 2440. Fax:
61(0)2.8353.2437.
[email protected]
Gary Hamilton (Managing Director),
Ying Ye (Director), Ian Gibbins (General
Manager), Jonathan Deckter (President
International Sales), Lina Marrone (VP
Office: Riviera C1, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.20. Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.32.21
RETURN TO RAJAPUR
(SEARCHING FOR SARA)
Drama
Language: English
Director: Nanda Anand
Producer: Nanda Anand, Dileep Singh
Rathore, Daniela Taplin Lundberg
Key Cast: Lynn Collins, Justin Theroux,
Manoj Bajpai
Origin: USA
A heartfelt story of love and destiny, a
rich drama set in the lush and historic
Indian desert town of Rajapur.
WAITING ALONE
Comedy
Language: Chinese
Director: Dayyan Eng
Producer: Dayyan Eng
Key Cast: Li Bingbing, Xia Yu, Gong
Beibi
Origin: China
Set in Beijing, the film is a window into
modern Chinese youth culture; a comingof-age tale which tells the first-personnarrative story of Wen (Xia Yu).
THE ROAD
Period drama (100’)
Director: Chinese
Language: Zhang Jiarrui
Producer: Ling Li
Key Cast: Zhang Jingchu, Fan Wei, Nie
Yuan
Origin: China
Li Chunfen, a rural bus ticket collector,
finds both passion and pain in her pursuit
of love. As her life starts to pass her by,
she decides to return to her roots and
finds a renewed hope for the future.
ELDORADO
INTERNACIONAL
Eldorado Internacional, Av. de Buros 14
10º G, Madrid, Madrid, 28036, Spain.
Tel: 34.91.767.11.04. Fax:
34.91.767.11.04.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Mocha Aguilar (Sales
Director), Jesus Moreno (Sales
Executive)
Office: Tel: 34.625.15.95.05 /
34.615.537.207
HOLE (ZULO)
Thriller (82 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Carlos Martín Ferrera
Producer: Adriá Gómez Marco, Carlos
Martín Ferrera
Cast: Jaume García Arija
Origin: Spain
Miguel wakes up in a hole underground
with no idea of how he got there. What at
first appears to be unreal turns out to be a
very real.
IT’S NOT YOU IT’S ME (NO SOS
VOS SOY YO)
Language: Spanish
Director: Juan Taratuto
Producer: Hernan Musaluppi, Juan
Traturo, Anton Reixa
Cast: Diego Peretti, Soledad Villamil
Origin: Argentina/Spain
After being left practically in the altar
Javier seeks comfort in his psychoanalyst,
his friends and his dog. Everything will
change when he decides to ask out Julia.
NINETTE
Language: Spanish
Director: José Luis Garci
Producer: Juan Carmona, Salvador
Gómez
Cast: Elsa Pataky, Carlos Hipólito
Origin: Spain
Andres’ first vacation ever will not be at
all what he expects, for in Paris he will
meet sexy, charming and voluptuous
Ninette. After meeting her, nothing will
ever be the same.
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ELEMENT FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
Element Films International, 7966
Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
90048 USA. Tel: (323) 330-8000. Fax:
(323) 330-8001.
www.elementfilmsintl.com
At Cannes: John Fremes (President),
Brad Maeder (Vice President)
Office: Riviera stand N1, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.35. Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.32.8
MR. BROOKS
Thriller
Director: Bruce A. Evans
Producers: Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner,
Raynold Gideon
Exec. Producers: Sam Nazarian, Adam
Rosenfelt, Thomas Augsberger, Marc
Schaberg
Cast: Kevin Costner, Demi Moore,
William Hurt
Status: In Production
A serial killer about to retire is urged to
continue killing by his alter ego and
simultaneously finds himself hunted by
the police and blackmailed by a witness
into mentoring him in the art of murder.
BOY TOWN
Comedy
Director: Kevin Carlin
Producers: Greg Sitch, Mick Molloy
Cast: Mick Molloy, Sally Phillips, Glenn
Robbins, Bob Franklin, Gary Eck, Wayne
Hope
Status: Post-Production
The most successful boy-band from the
“80’s reunites hoping to recapture their
former glory one more time.
THE LAST TIME
Drama-Comedy
Director: Michael Caleo
Producers: Adam Rosenfelt, Malcolm
Petal, Peter Samuelson
Exec. Producer: Sam Nazarian
Cast: Michael Keaton, Brendan Fraser,
Amber Valletta, Neal McDonough,
Michael Lerner
A top sales executive mentoring a naïve
recruit falls hard for the recruit’s fiancé,
jeopardizing both his career and
company.
ELEVEN ARTS, INC.
Eleven Arts, Inc., 2932 Wilshire Blvd,
Suite 204, Santa Monica, CA 90403
USA. Tel: 310.264.0818. Fax: 310-2640868. http://www.elevenarts.net,
[email protected]
Company type: Sales Agent
At Cannes: Ko Mori (The President)
Office: Palais 01 Stand 26.03, Tel:
310.430.0111 (Cell)
NORIKO’S DINNER TABLE
Drama (159 min)
Language: Japanese, English Subtitle
Director: Sion Sono
Producer: Takeshi Suzuki
Production Company: MOTHER ARK
Co., Ltd.
Principal Cast: Kazue Fukiishi, Ken
Mitsuishi, Tsugumi
Origin: Japan
A seventeen-year-old girl, Noriko, runs
away from unhappy home to Tokyo. She
ends up working for the group called
“Family Circle” that offers a service
called “Rental Family”.
HAZARD
Drama/Crime (103 min)
Director: Sion Sono
Production Company: Ellen Corporation
Producer: Takeshi Suzuki
Principal Cast: Joe Odagiri, Jai West,
Motoki Fukami
Origin/Co-production: Japan
A college student Shin goes to N.Y and
becomes involved with crime activities.
SODOM THE KILLER
Cult / Horror / Action (104 min)
Production Company: Euro Spac
Producer: Kenzo Horikoshi, Atsuko
Ohno, Mikihiko Hirata
Director: Hiroshi Takahashi
Principal Cast: Takashi Urai, Shoko
Nakahara, Rena Komine
Year Of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin/Co-production: Japan
From the Creator of Ringu.
Revolutionary Cult Movie is Born!
UBU ROY – SPI INTERNATIONAL
EUROPEAN FILM
PROMOTION
European Film Promotion, Friedensallee
14 - 16; 22765 Hamburg, Germany. Tel:
49.40.3906252. Fax: 49.40.3906249.
www.efp-online.com, [email protected]
Company Type: international marketing
and promotion
At Cannes: Renate Rose (Managing
Director), Jo Mühlberger (Project
Manager), Anna Vilim (Public
Relations), Susanne Davis (Project
Manager FSS)
Office: Cannes Croisette Apparthotel, 87,
rue d’Antibes, 06400 Cannes. Tel:
33.4.93.06.27.77. Fax: 33.4.93.68.30.84
F
FANTASTIC FILMS
INTERNATIONAL,
LLC
Fantastic Films International, LLC, 3854
Clayton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027
USA. Tel: 323.661.7088. Fax:
323.661.7188.
www.fantasticfilmsinternational.com
Company Type: Sales Agent / Producer
At Cannes: Roxane Barbat (President),
Fred deWysocki III (Partner)
Acquisition Executive: Fred deWysocki
III
Office: Carlton Intercontinental Hotel,
Suite #134, Tel: 04.93.06.41.34 /
04.93.06.81.34
AGENT C.R.U.S.H.
Animation, pre-production
Language: English
Director: Sean Robinson
Producer: Tony Ludwig, Fred
deWysocki, Sean Robinson
Delivery Status: Winter 2006 delivery
Budget: $15M
Origin: United Kingdom
From Oscar Winner PETER LAMONT
(“Titanic”, 20 “James Bond” movies,
“Aliens”, etc.) and Producer TONY
LUDWIG (“Starsky and Hutch”,
“Tomcats”, “The Family Man”, etc.)
comes the future of law enforcement:
AGENT C.R.U.S.H.
BOOK OF SWORDS
Language: English
Director: Peter J. Allen
Producer: Richard Isaac, Jin Kyu Pak
Co-production partners: Helena Son
Cast: Ho-Sung Pak, Liesel Guinto,
Richard Divizio
Origin: USA
Budget: $ 2,000,000
Martial arts at its spectacular best - open
the “Book of Swords” and be prepared to
witness a spectacular fight for Earth’s
salvation! Starring Ho-Sung Pak (Mortal
Kombat).
BLOODRAYNE
Horror / Action (94 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Uwe Boll
Producer: Uwe Boll, Dan Clarke,
Wolfgang Herold
Cast: Kristanna Loken, Michael Madsen,
Michelle Rodriguez, Billy Zane and Sir
Ben Kingsley Delivery Status:
Completed
Budget: $25M
Origin: Canada / Germany
In eighteenth century Romania, Rayne, a
dhampir (half human, half vampire)
fights to avenge her mother’s rape by her
father, Kagan, King of Vampires.
FIJI AUDIO VISUAL
COMMISSION
Fiji Audio Visual Commission, Ground
Flr, Civic House, New Town Hall Rd, PO
Box 18080, Suva, Fiji Islands. Tel:
679.330.6662. Fax: 679. 331.4662.
www.fijiaudiovisual.com
Company Type: Film Commission
At Cannes: Taniela (Dan) Bolea (Chief
Executive Officer)
Office: Fiji Audio Visual Commission,
c/- Rogers & Cowan, Intercontinental
Carlton Hotel Cannes, Salle Sirocco, 58,
Bd. La Croisette, BP155, 06414, Cannes
Cedex, Tel: 310.435. 8209
FILMAX
INTERNATIONAL
Filmax International, Miguel Hernández
81-87, Polígono Pedrosa, 08908
L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona,
Spain. Tel: 34.93.336.85.55. Fax:
34.93.263.08.24.
http://www.filmaxinternational.com, Email: [email protected]
At Cannes: Mr. Julio Fernández
(Chairman), Mr. Carlos Fernández
(CEO), Ms. Antonia Nava (SEVP of
Production), Mr. Jorge Tuca (Head of
Acquisitions & Development), Mr.
Rafael Cabrera (Head of International
Division), Mr. Vicente Canales (Head of
Sales)
Office: Hotel Carlton – Suite Sophie
Marceau (Suite 750), 58, Bld. La
Croisette, Tel: 33(0)4.93.06.4.750. Fax:
33(0)4.93.06.8.750
THE BACKWOODS
Action/Thriller (99 min)
Language: English
Director: Koldo Serra
Producer: Montfort Productions, Filmax
Entertainment, Videntia Frames
Producciones, The Holy Cow, Divine
Productions
Cast: Paddy Considine, Virginie
Ledoyen, Gary Oldman, Aitana SánchezGijón
Country of Origin: Spain
Two young couples have their peaceful
holiday disturbed by the discovery of a
deformed girl being held captive in an
isolated cabin.
THE KOVAK BOX
Thriller (110 min)
Language: English
Director: Daniel Monzón
CANNES 2006
Producer: Julio Fernández
Cast: Timothy Hutton, Lucía Jiménez,
David Kelly, Gary Piquer
David Norton is used to being in control.
As a best-selling author, he decides the
fate of his characters, his heroes, his
villains, their lives and their deaths. But
what happens when his fictional world
becomes all too real?
CAMARÓN
Drama (117 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Jaime Chávarri
Producer: Miguel Menéndez de Zubillaga
& Juan Riva
Cast: Oscar Jaenada, Jacobo Dicenta,
Verónica Sánchez, Merce Llorens
This film portrays the life story of the
Flamenco legend Camarón.
FILM ARTISTS
NETWORK
Film Artists Network, P.O. Box 93032,
Hollywood, CA 90093 USA. Tel:
818.344.0569. Fax: 818.344.0569.
www.filmartistsnetwork.com
At Cannes: Eugene Mandlecorn
(President), Chris Pilliczar (Executive
Vice-President), Marzia Larpin (Sales
Manager), Gloria De Felix (Sales
Representative), Serge Uzan (Sales
Representative)
33(0)4.92.99.80.66
REAL LOVE
http://www.reallovethemovie.com
Drama (1:20)
Language: English
Director: Don Abernathy
Producer: Don Abernathy, Beverly
Broadus Green, Chris Pilliczar, Verdell
Adams, Tony Todd
Key Cast: Snoop Dogg, Tony Todd, Joe
Estevez, Rae’ven Kelly, Houston
Summers, Elizabeth Bress
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget 3.5 Million (US Dollars)
Origin: USA
“Real Love” is based on the true life
story of Beverly Broadus Green, the
mother of Snoop Dogg (rap entertainer
and film star).
ROD KNOCK
Race Car Documentary (62 min)
Language: English
Director: Mark Lanza
Producer: Jason Lacky, Mark Lanza
(Southern Boyz Productions), Michael
Kunyavsky
Key Cast: April Lacky, Heather Lanza,
Jason Lacky, Kyle Stauffer, Mark Lanza,
Michael Kunyavsky, Mike “Stinky”
Vanderberg, Roman Sukharev
Origin: USA
Can 3 ex-streetracers buy an ordinary car
and turn it into a high-speed street race
car with only 2 thousand dollars?
EVIL REMAINS
Horror (81 Min)
Language: English
Director: Tom Sanders
Producer: Ron Rothstein (Spotlight
Films)
Key Cast: David Roers, Jesse Biltz,
Lynne Jacobellis, Amber Phillips,
Bradley Upton, Brian Owen Robinson,
Chris Boiceli, Garrett Lambert, Michelle
Crain, Pavel Royz
Year Of Production: 2003, Country Of
Origin: USA
Eight film students go to the mountains
to film their student horror film and
come face to fang with terrifying
vampires who try to kill them.
FILMEXPORT
GROUP SRL
Filmexport Group Srl, Via Del Pianeta
Urano, 60-00144 Rome, Italy. Tel:
39.06.52207432. Fax: 39.06.52278416.
[email protected],
www.filmexport.com
At Cannes: Roberto Di Girolamo
(President & CEO), Elisa D’Amico
(Sales Manager)
Office: Italia Pavilion, Riviera D1/D4,
Mobile: 39.335.7025.654, Tel:
334.9299.8823
THE NIGHT BEFORE FINALS (LA
NOTTE PRIMA DEGLI ESAMI)
Comedy
Language: Italian With English
Subtitles
Director: Fausto Brizzi
Production: Rai Cinema, Italian
International Film, Aurora Film
Cast: Giorgio Faletti, Cristiana
Capotondi, Nicolas Vaporidis
Country Of Origin: Italy
This film is a multifaceted generational
comedy: the young characters fall in
love, become desperate and have a
good time. And they grow up. They are
unaware of experiencing the end of a
bizarre decade – the Eighties.
PSYCHO GAME
Thriller - Drama
Language: Spanish With English
Subtitles
Director: Javier Elorrieta
Production: Chiricull, Sl – Origen, S.L.
(U.T.E.)
Cast: Maria Elena Swett, Fabian
Mazzei, Javier Martin
Country Of Origin: Spain
During a holiday in Spain, Javier and
Laura, a young couple from Chile, meet
with an apparently very friendly man,
Ignacio. The friendship turns into a
dramatic event for Laura, who is raped
by him and is forced to silence.
NOAH’S ARK
Cartoon Movie
Language: Italian, English, French,
German, Spanish
Director: Juan Pablo Buscarini
Production: Production Group Srl Patagonik Animation Group S.A.
Country Of Origin: Italy / Spain /
Argentina
Production Status: In Production
A classic animated film that tackles an
absolutely universal subject, in a
context of adventures and humour, in
which the animals are the main
characters.
FIVE STAR
PRODUCTION CO.,
LTD. (THAILAND)
Five Star Production Co., Ltd.
(Thailand), 61/1 Soi Thaweemitr2, Rama
9 Road, Huaykwang Bangkok 10320
Thailand. Tel: 662.246.9029. Fax:
www.fivestarent.com
Company Type: Production and
Distribution Company
At Cannes: Mr. Tian Ponvanit
(International Sales Director), Ms.
Aphiradee Iamphungphorn (International
Sales Executive), Ms. Arthita
Lertsethtakarn (Sales Coordinator), 4)
Mrs. Somjai Lertsethtakarn (Senior
Executive Director), Mr. Kiattikul
Iamphungporn (Executive Director)
Office: Riviera, G7, Tel: 661.934.8190
ART OF THE DEVIL 2
Horror (97 Minutes)
Language: Thai (with English Subtitle)
Director: Ronin Team
Producer: Five Star Production Co., Ltd.
Cast: Napakpapah Nakprasit, Namo
Tonggumnerd
Origin: Thailand
Six childhood friends, Ta, Por, Kim, Tae,
Nuch and Ko, return to their home
village during a university break.
THE UNSEEABLE
an Ex-rotic Horror
Director: Wisit Sasanatieng
Delivery Status: Preproduction
Origin: Thailand
In 1946 a pregnant rural girl desperate to
find a long lost husband, enters the city
of Bangkok.
THE SCREEN
Horror
Delivery Status: Preproduction
Country of Origin: Thailand
“A legend based on true events.”
FOCAL POINT
RELEASING, INC.
Focal Point Releasing, Inc., 9916 So.
Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills, Ca.,
90212 USA. Tel: 310.641.5360. Fax:
310.641.5693.
At Cannes: Barbara Mudge
Hotel: Hotel La Madrilene, Tel:
3304.97.06.37.37
Office: Riviera E7/F8
FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE
Family (new)
Language: English
Director: Nat Christian
Cast: Florence Henderson, Stephanie
Patton, Joseph Campanella
Delivery Status: Complete
A woman dies and while attempting to
return to Earth one last time, discovers
that Eternity is great, but the paperwork
is God awful!
SNUFF MOVIE
Horror
Language: English
Director: Bernard Rose
Cast: Jeroen Krabbe, Lisa Enos
While filming a horror movie, renowned
director, Boris Arkadin, mixes reality
with fiction until the two become blurred
beyond recognition.
INCUBUS
Horror
Language: English
Director: Anya Camilleri
Cast: Tara Reid
An abandoned laboratory hides a secret
until a group of youngsters seek
sanctuary from a storm within its
mysterious walls.
FOCUS FEATURES
Focus Features, 65 Bleecker Street, 3rd
Floor, New York, NY 10012 USA. Tel:
212.539.4000. Fax: 212.539.4099.
At Cannes: James Schamus, Andrew
Karpen, Alison Thompson, Heta Paarte,
Tim Spencer, Teresa Moneo, Jason
Resnick, Peter Kujawski
Office: Residence du Gray d’Albion, 12,
la Croisette, 2nd Floor, 06400 Cannes,
France. Tel: 04.93.68.06.76. Fax:
04.93.68.85.18
DAVE CHAPPELLE’S BLOCK
PARTY
IT’S ME NOW – SPI INTERNATIONAL
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Director: Michel Gondry
Producers: David Chappelle, Bob Yari,
Mustafa Abuelhija, Julie Fong
Cast: Dave Chappelle, Mos Def, Erykah
Badu, Jill Scott, Talib Kweli, Kanye
West, the Roots, Common, Dead Prez,
The Fugees
Academy Award-winner Michel Gondry
(Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
brilliantly captures comedy superstar
Dave Chappelle as he prepares to throw a
once-in-a-lifetime party in the streets of
Brooklyn, New York.
UNTITLED ZHANG YIMOU EPIC
Director: Zhang Yimou
Producers: Bill Kong; Zhang Weiping
Cast: Chow Yun Fat, Gong Li
When the King (Chow Yun Fat)
unexpectedly returns home to his Queen
(Gong Li) and two sons, he knows
immediately that something is rotten in
his lavish kingdom.
VOLVER
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Producers: Ester García
Exec Producers: Agustin Almodóvar
Cast: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura
FORTISSIMO FILMS
Fortissimo Films, Veemarkt 77-79, 1019
DA Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel:
31.20.627.32.15. Fax: 31.20.626.11.55.
E-mail: [email protected],
www.fortissimofilms.com
At Cannes: Wouter Barendrecht (Cochairman), Michael J Werner (Cochairman), Nicole Mackey (Senior Vice
President - International Sales), Winnie
Lau (Vice President - International
Sales), Esther Bannenberg (Senior Vice
President - TV & Ancillary Sales),
Nelleke Driessen (Co-managing
Director)
Office: Résidence du Grand Hotel,
Entrance Goeland, Apartment 5D, 5th
floor, 45, La Croisette, 06400 Cannes
BROKEN SKY
by Julián Hernández (Mexico, 2006,
Spanish)
Producer: Roberto Fiesco Trejo
Cast: Miguel Ángel Hoppe, Fernando
Alejandro Rojo
Status: Screening
CANDY
by Neil Armfield (Australia, 2006,
English)
Producers: Margaret Fink, Emile
Sherman
Cast: Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish,
Geoffrey Rush
Status: Screening
INVISIBLE WAVES
by Pen-ek Ratanaruang
(Thailand/Netherlands, 2006,
English/Japanese/Thai)
Cast: Asano Tadanobu, Gang Hye Jung,
Mitsuishi Ken
Status: Screening
Cannes 2006
Tel: 04 93 06 41 49
FORTUNE STAR
ENTERTAINMENT
(HK) LIMITED
Fortune Star Entertainment (HK)
Limited, 8/F One Harbourfront, 18 Tak
Fung Street, Hung Hom, Hong Kong.
Tel: 852 2621 8888. Fax: 852 2621
7771. [email protected]
At Cannes: Mr. Peter Poon (General
Manager), Ms. May Yip (Head of
Distribution), Ms. Esther Hau (Manager)
Office: Apartment C-21, Block C, 2nd
Floor, Relais de la Reine, 42/43 La
Croisette, Cannes, 06400. Tel:
3304.93.06.70.03. Fax:
3304.93.06.70.23.
THE THIRD EYE
Thriller
Director: Ms Carol Lai Miu-Suet
Production Company: Basic Pictures
Limited
Producers: Andrew Lau
Key Cast: Race Wong @2R; Wong You
Nam
Status: Completed
UNDERCOVER
Drama
Director: Mr Billy Chung Siu Hung
Limited
Key Cast: Shawn Yue, Sam Lee, Monie
Tung
Status: Post-production
A MOB STORY
Drama
Director: Mr Herman Yau Lai To
Limited
Key Cast: Cheung Chi Lam; Cheung Tat
Ming
FRIES FILM GROUP,
INC.
Fries Film Group, Inc., 22817 Ventura
Blvd. #909, Woodland Hills, CA 91364
USA. Tel: 818.888.3052. Fax:
818.888.3042.
At Cannes: Charles M. Fries (President),
Adam Welles (VP of Worldwide Sales)
Office: Riviera F.5
NUMB
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: T.B.A.
Principle Cast: Mathew Perry
Production Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin/Co-Production:
U.S.A.
When a writer falls in love with his soul
mate, her love cures him of his neurotic
personality.
LESSER EVIL
Thriller
Language: ENGLISH
Principle Cast: Allison Eastwood
Country of Origin/Co-Production:
U.S.A.
A fashion designer is attacked & raped.
Together with a detective they catch her
attacker only to discover that he has an
ironclad alibi.
THE COVENANT (AKA CANES)
Thriller
Language: English
Principal Cast: Eddie Furlong, Michael
Madsen, Chandra West
A New York executive tries to break a
pact with the devil who has been
controlling him with a mystical, evil
cane.
G
GAUMONT
Gaumont, 30 Avenue Charles de Gaulle,
92200 Neuilly Sur Seine, France. Tel:
33.1.46.43.21.80. Fax:
33.1.46.43.20.33. www.gaumont.fr
At Cannes: Franck CHOROT (Chief
Executive Officer), Loïc TROCME
(Head of Sales and Acquisitions),
Philippe de CHAISEMARTIN (VicePresident International Sales, Feature
Films), Dorothée GROSJEAN
(International Sales & Publicity
Manager), Anne BERNSTEIN
(Directrice TV France), Virginie
ROYER (International Sales Manager)
Office: 55 La Croisette, Tel:
33.4.93.68.90.20, Fax: 33.4.92.18.33.70
THE VALET (LA DOUBLURE)
Comedy
Director: Francis Veber
Production: GAUMONT
Cast: Gad Elmaleh, Daniel Auteuil,
Kristin Scott Thomas, Virginie Ledoyen,
Alice Taglioni, Richard Berry
Status: Completed / Screening
Snapped by a paparazzo with Elena, his
mistress, a dazzling supermodel,
billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to
avoid a catastrophic divorce by coming
up with an outrageous lie.
OSS 117
Adventure Comedy
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Production: GAUMONT / MANDARIN
FILMS
Cast: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Béjo,
Aure Atika, Philippe Lefebvre
Egypt, 1955. Cairo is a veritable den of
spies. The President of France
dispatches his master weapon to bring
order to this bedlam before all hell
breaks loose. Its name: Hubert
Bonisseur de la Bath, alias Agent OSS
117.
CASHBACK
Comedy / Drama
Director: Sean Ellis
Production: LEFT TURN FILMS
Cast: Sean Biggerstaff, Emilia Fox,
Shaun Evans, Michelle Ryan
After a painful breakup, Ben develops
insomnia. To kill time, he starts working
the late night shift at the local
supermarket, where his artistic
imagination runs wild.
GLOBAL CINEMA
GROUP
Global Cinema Group, 9229 Sunset Blvd.
#215, West Hollywood, CA 90069 USA.
Tel: 310.443.7788. Fax: 310.443.7739.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Peter Elson (President), Liz
Federowicz (Director of Operations),
Lars Bjorck (Consultant)
Office: Majestic Hotel - Suite 224, Tel:
33.04.97.06.84.89. Hotel:
33.04.92.98.77.00. Fax:
3304.93.38.97.90
THE MARSH
Thriller/Suspense
Director: Jordan Barker
Producer: Peter Simpson and George
Flak
Starring: Gabrielle Anwar, Forest
Whitaker
Status: Complete; Screening in Cannes A
young stressed out writer of children’s
books on a holiday in the country finds
herself in the midst of a supernatural
mystery that turns fatal for a number of
seemingly innocent villagers – and she’s
next!
FOODFIGHT!
Animation
Director: Lawrence Kasanoff
Producers: Lawrence Kasanoff, George
Johnsen, Joshua Wexler
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Eva Longoria,
Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff, Wayne Brady,
Chris Kattan, Christopher Lloyd
Budget: $60 Million
P &A: Lionsgate (minimum $20 million
P&A) will be at the center of a domestic
P&A campaign projected at well over
$150 million.
MORTAL KOMBAT KRUSADES
Action
Director: Mink
Producer: Lawrence Kasanoff
Status: Pre-production
Budget: $35 million
The Black Arts Sorcerers create an
unholy alliance; bent on revenge, their
unquenchable desire to rule the Earth
leads them plan to kidnap Earth’s
greatest fighters.
GOALPOST FILM
Goalpost Film, 54 Lynette Avenue,
London SW4 9HD, U.K. Tel:
44.20.8673.6114.
Company Type: Sales Agent
At Cannes: Tristan Whalley (Managing
Director)
Office: 19 Quai Saint Pierre, 3rd Floor,
06400, Cannes. Tel: 44.7771.966.190
CLUBLAND
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Cherie Nowlan
Producer: Rosemary Blight
Co-production partners: Essential
Viewing Pictures in association with
Film Finance Corporation Australia,
Palace Films, Goalpost Film, New
South Wales Film & Television Office,
Shaftesbury Films and Sunday Night
Movies
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Khan Chittenden,
CANNES 2006
Emma Booth, Richard Wilson and
Frankie J. Holden
Delivery Status: Post production
Origin: Australia
A sexual coming of age comedy about an
inexperienced 20 year old, his raucous
comedienne mother and his assertive new
girlfriend.
CHINA PROJECT NO. 8
Director: Richard Bowen
Delivery Status: Pre production
THE CLIMB
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Matt Lipsey
Producer: Steve Ackhurst and Barney
Jeffrey
Delivery Status: Pre production
An epic account of heroism,
determination and high-altitude hissy fits;
a “Best in Show” / “Spinal Tap”
mocumentary style look at mountain
climbers.
THE TOURIST
Thriller
Written and directed by: Tom Petch
Produced by: David Kennaway and Tim
Hollier
Computer games for real.
GOLDCREST FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
Goldcrest Films International, 65/66
Dean Street, London W1D 4PL, United
Kingdom. Tel: 44(0)20.7437.8696. Fax:
44(0)20.7437.4448.
[email protected]
At Cannes: John Quested (Chairman,
N.Y. Office), Stephen Johnston
(President – Goldcrest Films Inc.),
Abigail Walsh (Sales Manager), Nick
Quested (Vice-Chairman), Seth
Carmichael (Director Acquisitions and
Development), Wayne Godfrey
(Acquisitions & Development)
Office: 25 La Croisette, Bagatelle
IN A DAY
Romance/Comedy
Director: Evan Richards
Producer: Rowan Athale, Evan Richards
Cast: Lorraine Pilkington, Finlay
Robertson
Production Status: Completed. Screening
in Market
A disturbing encounter throws two
strangers together on the path of love,
but all is not what it seems. In A Day so
much can happen.
39 POUNDS OF LOVE:
Director & Producer: Dani Menkin
Production Status: Completed. Screening
in Market
Cast: Ami Ankilewitz
The uplifting true story of one man’s
courageous journey to show the world
that anything is possible.
ELVIS AND ANABELLE:
(ROMANCE)
Director: Will Geiger
Cast: Max Minghella, Blake Lively,
Mary Steenburgen, William Baldwin,
When a young mortician revives a
suicidal beauty queen from the dead,
love blossoms in the strangest way.
LIBRARY
Goldcrest Films International’s library
also has over 80 titles available to license
world-wide for Television and DVD
rights, including many award winning
features. We are also buying All Rights
Worldwide.
GOLDEN NETWORK
ASIA LIMITED
Golden Network Asia Limited, Unit 2003,
Futura Plaza, 111-113 How Ming Street,
Kwun Tong, Hong Kong. Tel:
852.27511886. Fax: 852.27504862.
[email protected]
Company Type: Sales agent, producer,
distributor
At Cannes: Carrie Wong (Managing
Director), Clarence Tang (Head of Sales &
Acquisitions), Lammy Li (Sales &
Marketing Manager), Hallie Chan
(Marketing Assistant), Ming So (Marketing
Assistant)
Acquisition Executive: Clarence Tang
(Head of Sales & Acquisitions)
Office: Riviera L11, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.33.07
GHOST GAME
Horror
Language: Thai
Director: Sarawut Wichiensam
Producer: Pantham Thongsang, Karun
Kumanuwong
Co-production partners:
Cast: Pacharapon Jantieng, Pongsak
Rattanaphong, Supatsiri Patomnupong
Budget: US $ 1 M
Origin: Thailand
Terror seeps from the walls in a Cambodian
prison reality show.
MCDULL, THE ALUMNI
Comedy (90 min)
Language: Cantonese
Director: Samson Chiu
Producer: Brian Tse, Jojo Hui, Peter Ho-sun
Chan
Cast: Kelly Chen, Anthony Wong, Chen
Bo-Lin
Budget: US $3 M
Origin: Hong Kong
In this live action / animated film, over 40
stars from HK, Taiwan and China were cast
to play the grown-up of the famous
characters in MCDULL.
A BITE OF LOVE
Family (110 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Siwaporn Pongsuwan
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Cast: Grace Techaratanaprasert
Budget: US $ 1.5M
Origin: Thailand
A heart-warming tale about the bond
between a lonely girl and a puppy.
GOOD NEWS GROUP
Good News Group, 30, Haroun Street,
4th Floor, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt. Tel:
202.762.4723. Fax: 202.762.4723.
www.goodnews4films.com
Company Type: Production &
Distribution
At Cammes: Emad Adeeb (Chairman),
Adel Adeeb (CEO), Mohamed Talkhawi
(Marketing Director), Nour El Tonny
(Head of Distribution), Youssef Sherif
Rizkallah (Festival Consultant)
Office: Palais 01 - Booth 22.02, Tel:
2012.788.9667, Fax: To be Determined
THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING
Drama (174 Minutes)
Language: Arabic with English Subtitles
Director: Marwan Hamed
Producer: Good News Group
Cast: Adel Imam, Nour El Sherif, Yousra,
Hend Sabry, Khaled Sawi, Mohamed
Imam
Budget: 4 Million U$
Origin: Egypt
The Yacoubian Building tackles several
characters that live in the building called
“Yacoubian” which is a real building that
exists till today in down town Cairo.
HALIM
Drama (148 Minutes)
Language: Arabic with English Subtitles
Director: Sherif Arafa
Cast: Ahmed Zaki, Solaf Fawakhergy,
Mona Zaki, Gamal Soliman, Haitham
Ahmed Zaki
Origin: Egypt
The life and times of the “nightingale”
Abdel Halim Hafez. The story is based
on the biography of the famous and
legendary male singer in the Arab world
- Abdel Halim Hafez.
MOHAMED ALI (SEEKING COPRODUCTION)
Drama & Historical Biography (Feature
Film)
Language: Arabic
Director: Hatem Ali
Cast: Yehia Fakharani & presently
casting
Origin: Egypt
Mohamed Ali came to Egypt from
Macedonia with an Albanian contingent
to fight the forces of the French
exhibition. After accomplishing the
mission and the departure of the French
forces, Mohamed Ali stayed in Egypt.
GREENESTREET
FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
GreeneStreet Films International, 9
Desbrosses Street, New York, NY 10013
USA. Tel: 212.609.9000. Fax:
212.609.9099.
Company Description: sales, distribution
and acquisitions arm of the New-York
based production and finance company
GreeneStreet Films.
At Cannes: Ariel Veneziano (President),
Crystal Bourbeau (Coordinator)
Office: Palais des Arcades, 4ème étage,
32, rue du Commandant André, 06400
Cannes FRANCE. Tel: 04.93.99.00.07
BILL
Language: English
Romantic Comedy
Director: Melisa Wallack, Bernie
Goldmann
Cast: Aaron Eckhart
Fed up with his image as an incompetent
underachiever, Bill (Eckhart) bottoms out
when he catches his picture-perfect wife
cheating on him.
GARY THE TENNIS COACH
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Danny Leiner
Cast: Seann William Scott
Producers: John Penotti, Fisher Stevens,
Tim Williams, Michael Nathanson
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
An overzealous high school janitor, who
has not recovered from his failed career
as a tennis pro, begins coaching his
beloved sport to a group of misfits and
leads them to the Nebraska state
championship.
TENDERNESS
Language: English
Teen Thriller
Director: John Polson
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
A confused sixteen-year old girl becomes
entranced with Eric, a young man
recently released from prison.
Email your press releases only during Cannes to:
[email protected]
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LAW OFFICES OF
GREG S. BERNSTEIN
H
Law Offices of Greg S. Bernstein, 9601
Wilshire Blvd., Suite 240, Beverly Hills,
California, USA. Tel: 310.247.2790. Fax:
310.247.2791. www.thefilmlaw.com
Company Type: Entertainment and Film
Finance Law, Producer Representative
At Cannes: Greg S. Bernstein
(Entertainment Attorney, Producer
Representative)
Office: Novotel Montfleury Cannes,
NEW IN 2006 Tel: 33 6 03 08 90 24
HALCYON
INTERNATIONAL
PICTURES LLC
GRUPO PI
Grupo Pi, C/ Génova 21, 7º DCHA,
Madrid, 28004, Spain. Tel:
34.91.308.22.60. Fax: 34.91.310.09.59.
[email protected], www.grupopi.tv
At Cannes: Laura Miñarro (Sales
Manager), Naomi Denamur (Sales
Executive), María José Camacho (Sales
Coordinator)
Office: A1 C2-C5, Tel: 34.686.95.95.20
LOVE IN SELF DEFENCE (AMOR
EN DEFENSA PROPIA)
Drama (100 min)
Language: Spanish And English Subtitled
Director: Rafa Russo
Producer: Mediapro
Co-production partners: NBC Universal,
Global Networks Spain
Cast: Ana Fernández, Gustavo Garzón,
Andrés Gertrudis
Delivery Status: Completed - Screenings
Origin: Spain
Rubén and Adriana have just met, by
chance, in a bar. He lies. She hides the
truth.
CROSSING BORDERS (UN
FRANCO CATORCE PESETAS)
Drama (96 min)
Director: Carlos Iglesias
Producer: Drive Cine
Cast: Carlos Iglesias, Javier Gutiérrez,
Nieve De Medina
Origin: Spain
Spain, 1960. Two friends named Martin
and Marcos decide to look for jobs in
Switzerland.
PROMEDIO ROJO, HIGH SCHOOL
GUIDE TO SURVIVAL (PROMEDIO
ROJO)
Comedy (104 min)
Director: Nicolás López
Producer: Aldea Films
Co-production partners: Sobras
Producciones, Amiguetes Entertainment
Cast: Santiago Segura, Ariel Levy,
Benjamín Vicuña, Xenia Tostado
Origin: Spain
Roberto’s life changes radically when
Cristina arrives at school, a new girl who
will revolve his hormones and who will
fall in love with the handsome-winner
type of guy from an upper grade.
Halcyon International Pictures LLC,
8306 Wilshire Blvd. Suite #680, Beverly
Hills CA 90211 USA. Tel: 310.388.6087.
Fax: 310.388.0481.
www.halcyonpix.com,
[email protected]
At Cannes: Brian Yuzna (Partner), Ray
Haboush (Partner), Ted Chalmers
(Partner)
Office: Riviera L3/M4, Tel:
33(0)6.79.36.64.49
HOUSE OF RE-ANIMATOR (2007)
USA
Horror
Director: Stuart Gordon
Cast: Jeffrey Combs
Delivery Status: Development.
Country of Origin/Language:
U.S./English
The saga of Herbert West continues, as
he finds himself in the White House with
a very special patient to work with.
EVERDARK (2007) USA
Horror
U.S./English
Based on the true story of a poltergeist
haunting that terrorizes a family and
town they live in.
SPRAWL (2007) USA
Horror
U.S./English
From horror master, Brian Yuzna, a pack
of rabid grizzly bears terrorize a
suburban community that is encroaching
upon the wilderness.
HANNIBAL
PICTURES
Hannibal Pictures, 8265 Sunset
Boulevard, Suite 107, West Hollywood,
CA 90046 USA. Tel: 323.848.2945. Fax:
323.848.2946.
[email protected],
www.hannibalpictures.com
Company Type: Producer, Distributor
and Sales agent
At Cannes: Richard Rionda Del Castro
(Chairman & CEO), Patricia Rionda Del
Castro (President), Mathilde Aupetit
(Director of Intl’ Sales & Marketing),
Frederic Theulier (Executive Intl’ Sales
& Marketing)
Office: Riviera, booth M12, Cell:
336.0725.8130
CHASING THE DRAGON
Action
Language: English
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro,
Alan Lee, Wallis Nicita
Co-production partners: Double Edge
Entertainment
Cast: Wesley Snipes
Budget: $25 million
Origin: USA, Taiwan
“Chasing the Dragon” is full blast actionadventure about a heroic FBI agent and
his relentless pursuit of a ruthless Asian
drug lord.
FAST FLASH TO BANG TIME
Thriller
Language: English
Director: W. Peter Iliff
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro
Budget: $27 million
Origin: USA
A gritty detective thriller set in Florida
about two cops in the throes of addiction
who team up to solve a kidnapping.
ESCOBAR
Action-Adventure
Language: English
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro,
Jose Ludlow
Budget: $25 million
Origin: USA
Pablo Escobar’s political aspirations lead
him into a full-fledged war against his
own country and the United States.
HANWAY FILMS
Hanway Films, 24 Hanway Street,
London, W1T 1UH, UK. Tel:
44.207.290.0750. Fax: 44.207.290.0751.
[email protected],
www.hanwayfilms.com
At Cannes: Tim Haslam (CEO), Alex
Walton (Director of Sales), Thorsten
Schumacher (Manager, International
Sales), Jonathan Lynch-Staunton
(Director of Marketing & Distribution),
James Royall (Director of Distribution
Business Affairs), Jemma Setterfield
(Marketing & Distribution Manager),
Rouzie Hassanova (Sales Coordinator)
Office: 4th Floor, Villa Royale, 41 La
Croisette, Cannes, Tel:
33(0)4.93.68.84.26. Fax:
33.(0)4.93.68.42.58
AWAY FROM HER
Director: Sarah Polley
Producer: Daniel Iron, Jennifer Weiss,
Victoria Hirst
Cast: Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis,
Gordon Pinsent
Origin: Canada
A tender yet heart wrenching love story
about the kind of love that becomes
possible after a lifetime of tenderness,
betrayal, hurt and companionship.
BECOMING JANE
Director: Julian Jarrold
Producer: Graham Broadbent
Cast: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy,
Maggie Smith, Julie Walters
Origin: UK
The true love affair that inspired the
young Jane Austen to become the famous
novelist that we know and love today.
IMPY’S ISLAND
Director- Reinhard Klooss & Holger
Tappe
Producer- Reinhard Klooss & Holger
Tappe
Origin: Germany
A kid’s animation film starring
Dinosaurs, Penguins, Sea-Elephants and
Lizards.
HARMONY GOLD
Harmony Gold, 7655 Sunset Blvd., Los
Angeles, CA 90046 USA. Tel:
323.851.4900. Fax: 323.851.5599.
[email protected],
www.harmonygold.com
At Cannes: Melissa Wohl (Vice
President, Sales)
Office: D’Orsay, 62, La Croisette, 4th
Floor, Cannes. Tel: 33.4.93.94.2658 or
310.309.7779. Fax: 33.673.96.6143
ROBOTECH: THE SHADOW
CHRONICLES
Sci-Fi Animation (1 x 90 minutes) –
World Premiere
Featuring the voices of Mark Hamill and
Chase Masterson
Picking up where the groundbreaking
series Robotech left off, ROBOTECH:
THE SHADOW CHRONICLES brings a
startling conclusion to the war with the
Invid when the people of Earth are
finally liberated.
DEATH TO THE SUPERMODELS
Comedy (1x 82 minutes)
Starring: Jaime Pressly, Kimberley
Davies, Sung Hi Lee and Brooke Burns
This smart, sexy comedy/thriller sees the
world’s five greatest supermodels
brought together for the ultimate
swimsuit photo shoot on an idyllic
tropical island.
SIBLINGS
Dark-comedy (1 x 85 minutes)
Starring: Sarah Polley, Alex Campbell
and Sarah Gadon
David Weaver brings new meaning to the
old adage “you can’t choose your
family” as this mixed up mess of halfsisters and stepbrothers scramble to
resolve the demise of their evil
stepparents.
HBO ENTERPRISES
HBO Enterprises, 1100 Avenue of the
Americas, New York, NY 10036 USA.
Tel: 212.512.1000. Fax: 212.512.5698
Company Type: Theatrical Distributor
At Cannes: Charles Schreger (President,
International Distribution), Heather
McVicar (Vice President, Marketing)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite #134, Tel:
04.97.06.85.34. Fax: 04.97.06.85.36
AS YOU LIKE IT
Comedy (running time 126 min.)
Language: English
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Producers: Kenneth Branagh, Judy
Hofflund and Simon Moseley
Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Kevin Kline,
Alfred Molina
CANNES 2006
Year of Production: 2005-6, Country of
origin: UK
Kenneth Branagh’s imaginative
adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy.
STARTER FOR TEN
Romantic Comedy (running time 95
min.)
Language: English
Producer: Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman,
Pippa Harris
Executive Producer: Sam Mendes,
Steven Shareshian, Nathalie Marciano,
Michelle Chydzik
Director: Tom Vaughan
Cast: James McAvoy, Alice Eve,
Rebecca Hall,
Year of Production: 2005-6, Country of
Origin: UK
From producers Tom Hanks and Gary
Goetzman, a romantic comedy about
growing-up and finding love.
PU-239
Drama
Language: English
Director: Scott Burns
Producers: Guy Louthan, Miranda de
Pencier, Charlie Lyons
Executive Producers: Steven Soderbergh,
George Clooney, Ben Cosgrove, Armyan
Bernstein, Zanne Devine, and Peter Berg.
Cast: Paddy Considine, Radha Mitchell
origin: US
From producer Steven Soderbergh and
Beacon Pictures, a dramatic-thriller about
the Russian mob and the illegal trade of
nuclear materials.
HERE! FILMS
here! Films, 10990 Wilshire Blvd.,
Penthouse, Los Angeles, California
90024 USA. Tel: 310.806.4298. Fax:
310.806.4268.
www.regententertainment.com/herefilms.
htm
Company type: Producer and Distributor
At Cannes: Mark Reinhart (Executive
VP, Distribution & Acquisition) Mobile:
323.791.8094, Brittany Ballard
(Acquisitions Consultant) – Mobile:
310.488.6062, Jeff Schenck (President,
here! Studios) – Mobile: 310.779.0113
FIXING FRANK
Drama Feature (103 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael Selditch
Producer: Michael Selditch
Cast: Andrew Dan Butler, Andrew Elvis
Miller, Paul Provenza
Fixing Frank is a powerful and unsettling
drama exploring conversion therapy, the
scientifically unproven method of turning
homosexuals straight.
DANTE’S COVE
Supernatural Thriller Series
Feature length movies or one hour
episodics
Language: English
Director: Sam Irvin
Producer: Sylvia Hess, L.L.M.
Cast: William Gregory Lee, Gregory
Michael, Tracy Scoggins, Charlie David
A sexy young group of twentysomethings living in an apartment
complex on a peaceful California
beachside town are plunged into a world
of intrigue, secrets and shifting ties when
their town’s sinister, supernatural past
comes alive.
THIRD MAN OUT: A DONALD
STRACHEY MYSTERY
Mystery/Suspense Series (98 min)
Language: English
Director: Ron Oliver
Producers: James Shavick, Kirk Shaw
Cast: Chad Allen, Sebastian Spence, Jack
Wetherall, Sean Young
Detective series which centers on gay
private eye, Donald Strachey (Chad
Allen), who delves into the seedy world
of urban corruption, making enemies as
he solves crimes.
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
Profile: Holland Film is the official
marketing & promotion agency for Dutch
film abroad.
At Cannes: Claudia Landsberger
(managing director, cell:
31.6.5437.4077), Anne-Marie van der
Meer (project coordinator)
Office: 107, Holland Film Pavilion,
Village International
NORTHERN LIGHT
Drama (85’)
Language, subtitles: Dutch. English
subtitles
Director: David Lammers (debut feature
film)
Producer/sales: Motel Films
co-production: The Netherlands
Co-prod. partner: Vpro Television
Cast: Raymond Thiry, Dai Carter,
Melody Klaver (DEEP)
Delivery Status, year: Completed, 2006
Country of origin/Int’l
Two years after a tragic accident Lucien
is forced to take care of his son and fight
for what he still has left.
SONG FROM THE OTHER SIDE
Mystical thriller (90’)
subtitles
Directors: André van der Hout (THE
ARM OF JEZUS), Adri Schrover
Producer/sales: Waterland Film & TV
Cast: Vincent Croiset, Rosa Reuten
(FLIRT), Susan Visser (AMAZONES,
POLLEKE)
Country of origin: The Netherlands
A fatal confrontation between a modern
cosmopolitan man and a rural village that
has survived the turn of many centuries.
THE FURY OF THE ENTIRE
WORLD
Drama-thriller (108’)
subtitles
Director: Guido Pieters (THE BLACK
METEOR)
Producer: NEDFILM & TV B.V.,
[email protected], www.nedfilm.tv
Co-prod. partner: TROS-TV (NL)
Key cast: Maarten Heijmans, Cees Geel
(SIMON), Viviënne van den Assem
(ZOOP IN AFRICA)
Delivery status, year: Completed, 2006
Country of origin: The Netherlands
Based on the book by Maarten ‘t Hart
about a mysterious murder case and the
stirring times of Alexander Goudveyl’s
younger years after WWII.
HOLLYWOOD
WIZARD
Hollywood Wizard, 4629 Van Nuys Blvd.,
Suite A, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA.
Tel: 818.461.9349. Fax: 818.461.9143.
At Cannes: Tony Kandah (President &
CEO), Mirna Kandah (Vice President)
Office: Riviera booth No. H5, Tel:
33(0)492.99.32.33
www.hollywoodwizard.com, email:
[email protected]
1000 BULLETS
Action
Language: English
Producer: Tony Kandah
Budget: 2 million
Origin: USA
Blinded by hate, driven by revenge, hardcharging DEA agent Roxanne Malone
abandons her career to hunt the men who
murdered her fiance.
GOODNIGHT JOSEPH PARKER
Drama (91 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Dennis Brooks
Producer: Dennis Brooks
Key Cast: Paul Sorvino, Debi Mazar,
Steven Tyler
Budget 2 million
Origin: USA
For the past seven years Joseph Parker’s
dream has only grown stronger and he’s
come back home with the means to attain
it; to marry the one he left behind.
HORRORS OF WAR
War (91 minutes)
Director: English
Language: Peter John Ross, John
Whitney
Producer: Tony Kandah
Budget: 1 million
Origin: USA
Hitler unleashes his secret weapons
which terrorize U.S. soldiers fighting the
Third Reich. A group of war-hardened
GIs must find the source of these
weapons, a Dr. Schaltur and stop him
before Hitler’s horrific vision can be
fully realized.
HORIZON
ENTERTAINMENT
Horizon Entertainment, Suite 207, 1040
Hamilton Street, Vancouver BC Canada
V6B 2R9 Tel: 604.632.1707. Fax:
604.632.1711. www.filmhorizon.com
At Cannes: Rob Straight (President),
Caroline Stern (Director of Distribution
and Marketing), Shay Wilson
(Distribution Coordinator)
[email protected]
Office: Riviera G4, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.50
DREAMLAND
Drama (95 min)
English (USA)
Directed by Jason Matzner
Produced by Doug Mankoff, Andrew
Spaulding
Starring Agnes Bruckner, John Corbett,
Kelli Garner, Justin Long, Gina Gershon
Completed 2006
Budget $US 3 million
A young woman caught in a love triangle
must choose between loyalty and
fulfilling her own destiny.
THE CURSE
Horror (115 min)
Japanese
Directed by Koji Shiraishi
Produced by Taka Ichise
Starring Masafumi Kobayashi, Marika
Matsumoto, Kana Yano
Completed 2006
Budget $US 2 Million
A journalist investigating ancient
demonic rituals discovers they are still
taking place, and the last one may have
gone horribly wrong.
JOURNEY FROM THE FALL
Drama (135 min)
Vietnamese/English (USA/Thailand)
Directed by Ham Tran
Produced by Lam Nguyen
Starring Kieu Chinh, Long Nguyen,
Diem Lien, Jayvee Mai The Hiep
Completed 2006
Budget $US 2 million
Inspired by actual events, the film
follows a family’s fight for freedom and
the mass exodus of boat people in the
wake of war-torn Vietnam.
STORMBREAKER – CAPITOL FILMS
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IFDC INC.
I
ICON
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL
Icon Entertainment International, Solar
House, 915 High Road, North Finchley,
London N12 8QJ UK. Tel:020 8 492 6300
Fax:020 8 492 6301 www.iconmovies.net
At Cannes: Bruce Davey (President),
Martin Bigham (Chief Executive Officer
UK Icon Group), Peter Naish (Head of
International Distribution), James Norrie
(Sales Manager), Anthony Buckner
(Sales Manager), Caroline Johnson
(Head of International Marketing)
Office: 57 La Croisette, Rosemary
Entrance – rue F. Einesy (next to the
Carlton) 1st Floor,
06400 Cannes. Tel: 33(0)4.93.06.26.40.
Fax: 33(0)4.93.06.26.49
Credits not contractual
POKER NIGHT
Thriller
Director: Nick Gillard
Producers: Greg Francis, Marina Grasic,
John Kelly, Tove Christensen
Cast: Hayden Christensen
Delivery Status: In Pre- Production
Rookie detective Stan Jeter stumbles
into the trap of a killer sociopath and
must rely on his mentors’ wisdom to
fight his way out.
BUTTERFLY ON A WHEEL
Thriller
Director: Mike Barker
Producers: Infinity/Irish
DreamTime/Icon
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Gerard Butler,
Maria Bello
Neil (Gerard Butler) and Abbey Warner
(Maria Bello) have the perfect marriage
and the perfect life. When their young
daughter is suddenly kidnapped their
lives are shattered.
APOCALYPTO
Director: Mel Gibson
Producers: Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey
Cast: TBC
Mythic Action Adventure
Delivery Status: In Post Production
From Academy Award® winning
filmmaker Mel Gibson (“The Passion of
the Christ”, “Braveheart”), comes
APOCALYPTO: a heart stopping mythic
action-adventure set against the turbulent
end times of the once great Mayan
civilization.
IFDC Inc., (International Film
Distribution Consultants, Inc.), 1901
Avenue of the Stars, Suite 930, Los
Angeles CA 90067 USA. Tel:
310.788.2803. Fax: 310.788.2823.
www.ifdcinc.com, email:
[email protected]
Company Type: International Film
Distribution, Acquisitions & Financing
At Cannes: Jerome Bliah (President)
Acquisition Executive: Jerome Bliah
(President)
Office: Private Residence, Tel:
06.13.80.78.90
VOYAGE
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: John MacKenzie
Producer: John Davis, Tarak Ben
Ammar, Peby Guisez
Cast: Rugtger Hauer, Erik Roberts,
Karen Allen
A couple embarks on a high seas
adventure across the Mediterranean to
save their troubled marriage.
YES VIRGINIA, THERE IS A
SANTA CLAUS
Family (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Duke Fennedy
Producer: Charles Jarrott
Cast: Charles Bronson
Virginia is a little girl who lives in New
York at the turn of the century whose
faith in Christmas rekindles the faith and
hope of those around her.
IFM WORLD
RELEASING INC.
IFM World Releasing Inc., 1328 East
Palmer Avenue, Glendale, California
91205,USA. Tel: 818.243.4976. Fax:
818.550.9728. www.ifmfilm.com, E-mail:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Antony I. Ginnane
(President), Anthony J. Lyons (VP
International), David Makhlout (Director
Office: Palais - Riviera Village, Booth
F.19
CRUEL WORLD
Thriller (1 x 92 min)
English
Cast: Edward Furlong (Terminator,
American History X) & Jaime Pressly
(My Name Is
BLACK BOOK – CONTENT FILM INTERNATIONAL
Earl, Torque)
Delivery Status: Completed/2006 Market
Premiere
9 contestants compete in the ultimate
reality show. If you are voted off, you
die.
BACHELOR PARTY MASSACRE
Language: English
Delivery Status: Completed/2006 Market
Premiere
A female Serial Killer is on the loose
and for a Bachelor and his friends, a
night of festivities are about to become a
bloody nightmare.
THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY
Biopic (1 x 114 min)
Language: English
Stars: Gary Busey , Charles Martin
Smith, Don Stroud
Delivery Status: Completed/Market
Premiere
Gary Busey gives an electrifying Oscar
nominated performance (Best Actor 1978) as Buddy Holly - the musical
genius from Texas who changed the tune
of Rock ‘n’ Roll history.
IHQ INC.
iHQ Inc., 5F 88 Samsung-dong
Kangnam-gu, Seoul 135-090 Korea. Tel:
822.6005. 6731. Fax: 822.6005.6004.
www.ihq.co.kr
At Cannes: Catherine Park (Head of
Int’l), Jenny Kim (Sales for Europe &
USA), Jude Jung (Co-production &
Festival), Shawn Choi (Int’l Marketing &
Distribution)
Office: G15, Tel: 334.92.99.33.09
DAISY
Drama (115’)
Language: Korean/ Chinese
Director: Andrew Lau
Producer: Jung Hoon Tack
Key Cast: Jun Ji Hyun, Jung Woo Sung,
Lee Sung Jae
Budget USD 10 Mil.
Origin: Korea
An elite Interpol agent and a ruthless
hitman are both in love with the same
young woman.
ONE FINE BRIGHT DAY
(WORKING TITLE)
Drama (110’)
Director: Korean
Language: Park Kwang Su
Producer: Jung Hoon Tack
Key Cast: Park Shin Yang, Ye Ji Won
Budget USD 4.5Mil.
Origin: Korea
A selfish man Jongdu who is a health
freak finds out that he had a daughter.
THE IRON TEACHER
Comedy (110’)
Language: Korean
Director: Lee Dogn Ha
Producer: IFilm
Key Cast: TBD
Budget USD 3.5 MIL
Origin: Korea
A natural-born coward, Gang-chul
decided to become a teacher, thinking
that only a teacher wouldn’t be beaten by
boys, and make his dream come true.
IMAGEWORKS
ENTERTAINMENT
INT’L, INC.
Imageworks Entertainment Int’l, Inc.,
6140 Variel Ave., Woodland-Hills, CA,
91367, USA. Tel: 818.716.1670. Fax:
818.716.8004.
www.imageworksentertainment.com, email
[email protected]
Company Type: International
Distribution, International Production
At Cannes: David Shoshan (President),
Ben Brower (Sales), Ronit Shamay
(Sales), Andrew Leong (Sales, Asia)
Acquisition Executive: David Shoshan
Office: Riviera E11/F12, Cell::
33(0)4.92.99.8207
FINAL MOVE
Thriller (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Joey Travolta
Producer: David Shoshan
Cast: Schulze, Lochlyn Munro, Rachel
Hunter, Amanda Detmer with Daniel
Baldwin and David Carradin
Origin: USA
FBI and LAPD rely on Detective
Marlowe’s psychic visions to solve the
“Chess Piece Murders”, a deadly chess
match between the LAPD and thought to
be executed serial killer.
THE DERBY STALLION
Family (99 min)
Language: English
Director: Craig Clyde
Producer: Tonja Walker Davidson &
Kevin Summerfield
Cast: Bill Cobbs, Zac Efron, Billy
Moses, Crystal Hunt and Tonja Walker
Origin: USA
A teenage boy fights for his dreams, his
passion for horses… and to be a winner
in life.
PLANE DEAD
Sci-Fi thriller
Language: English
Director: Scott Thomas
Producer: David Shoshan and Scott
Thomas
Cast: Kevin J. O’connor, Erick Avari,
Richard Tyson,David Chisum, Kristen
Kerr, , John Noble, Raymond J. Barry,
Derek Webster, Dale Midkiff, Laura
Cayouette, Sarah Laine.
Origin: USA
A life and death battle erupts on a routine
flight after massive thunderstorms trigger
the release of an infected “flesh eating”
scientist smuggled onboard in a secret
coffin
CANNES 2006
IMAGINATION
WORLDWIDE, LLC
INDEPENDENT FILM
SALES (IFS)
Imagination Worldwide, LLC, 9107
Wilshire Blvd., Suite 625, Beverly Hills,
CA 90210 USA. Tel: 310.888.3494. Fax:
310.859.7173. www.imagination-llc.com
At Cannes: Pierre David (Chairman &
CEO), Tom Berry (Co-Chairman),
Lawrence Goebel (President), Romana
Samaritani (Vice President), Kendall
Nowlin (Marketing Coordinator), Travis
Stevens (Contract & Acquisitions
Administrator)
Acquisition Executive: Travis Stevens
Office: Carlton, Tel: 334.93.06.42.21,
Fax: 334.93.06 42.20
THE GARAGE
Horror
Language: English
Producer: Oliver Simon
Cast: TBA
Delivery Status: pre-production
Trapped in the concrete belly of a giant
parking garage, a small group of
strangers find themselves unwilling
players in a madman’s diabolical game.
LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER
Thriller
Language: English
Producer: Tom Berry, Pierre David
Cast: TBA
Origin: Canada
When a woman begins to investigate the
mysterious death of her daughter, she
uncovers her daughter’s secret affair with
her professor – and a web of lies that
may put her own lifein jeopardy.
CHRISTIE’S REVENGE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Douglas Jackson
Producer: Pierre David, Tom Berry,
Stefan Wodoslawsky
Cast: TBA
Origin: Canada
When an unsuspecting family invites
their daughter’s teenage friend to live
them, their happy home is torn apart by
the discovery that ‘Christie’ is actually
plotting revenge against them for the
death of her father.
Independent Film Sales (IFS), 32
Tavistock Street, London WC2E 7PB UK.
Tel: 44207.257.8734. Fax:
Cannes 2006
Tel: 04 93 06 41 49
Email your press
releases only
during Cannes to:
thebusinessoffilm
@sdi06.fr
44207.240.9029.
At Cannes: Luc Roeg (Managing
Director of Artists Independent Films
and Independent Film Sales), Ana Ayesta
(Head of Film Sales and Production),
Andrew Orr (Head of Acquisitions and
Business Affairs), Beth Jasinski (Sales
Co-ordinator)
Office: Relais de la Reine, 42/43
Boulevard de la Croisette, 7th Floor, Apt
C71
Tel: 33(0)4.93.06.70.13. Fax:
33(0)4.93.06.70.33. Andrew Orr Tel:
44(0)774.896.3051, Beth Jasinski Tel:
44(0)779.626.3671
HALLAM FOE
Directed: David Mackenzie
Produced by: Sigma Films
Cast: Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles, Claire
Forlani and Ciarán Hinds
Hallam is almost over the sudden death
of his mother when he begins to suspect
that his beautiful step-mother may have
had a hand in her death.
KLIMT
Written and Directed by: Raúl Ruiz
Produced by: EPO-Film, Film-Line
Productions, Lunar Films, Gemini Films
and Andreas Schmid
Cast: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres,
Stephen Dillane and Saffron Burrows
Status: Completed/screening
A virtuoso homage to the famous painter
Gustav Klimt and his life, set against the
rich tapestry of the Fin de Siecle.
NIGHT TRAIN
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Produced by: Luc Roeg at Artists
Independent Films and Steven
Soderbergh at Section 8
Status: In development
A contemporary thriller based on the
critically acclaimed Martin Amis novel.
INDUSTRYWORKS
DISTRIBUTION INC.
IndustryWorks Distribution Inc., 325
West Seventh Avenue Vancouver, B.C.
V5Y 1M2 Canada. Tel: 604.876.0547.
Fax: 604.876.0541.
At Cannes: Evan Tylor (President),
Melanie Kilgour (VP Sales), Paul
Hampton (Chairman), Sadie Smith
(Distribution Coord.)
Office: 24 la Croisette, 3rd Floor, Tel:
04.93.39.89.87
THE REAL SANTA
Drama
Director: Peter Gardos
Producer: Denes Szekeres
Co-Producer: Vincent DeVille
Cast: Gyorgy Cserhalmi, Blanka Szilasi
Budget: $3 million
Status: Completed, screening at Cannes
A down-on-his-luck piano player takes a
job as a shopping mall Santa and is
confronted by a precocious 8-year-old
girl who demands to receive a bicycle,
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just as her mother promised she would.
THE CONDEMNED
Horror
Director: Adam Druxman (previous name
incorrect!!!)
Producer: Gabriel Napora, Levi James,
Tim Marlowe
Executive Producer: Marlowe Harvey,
Evan Tylor
Cast: Luis Guzman, Liane Balaban
Status: In post-production
Budget: $1.5 million
A group of filmmakers breaks into an
abandoned mental institution which they
soon discover is far from being deserted.
VELVET REVOLUTION
Action
Director: Oleg Stepchenko
Executive Producers: Oleg Lyjbaev,
Gennady Remizov
Producer: Oleg Stepchenko
Cast: Alexey Kravchenko, Alexey A.
Petrukin, Anna Churina, Oleg Taktarov
Status: Completed
Budget: $7 million
A Russian special agent is flung into the
ruthless world of international drug
trafficking when he inadvertently
confiscates a cell phone from the
assistant of a nefarious drug lord.
INFRAME
Inframe, Linton House, 39 - 51 Highgate
Road, London. NW5 1RS UK. Tel:
020.7424.7820. Fax: 020.7428.8396.
www.inframe.net, e-mail
[email protected]
At Cannes: Joe Dreier (Director), Steven
Mackler (Director), JoJo Dye
(Acquisitions and Marketing) Emese
Nemeth (Marketing)
Acquisition Executive: Steven Mackler,
JoJo Dye
Office: Riviera A8, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.33.29
LIE STILL
Supernatural Thriller (80 min)
Language: English
Production Companies: Indobrit Pictures
Ltd
Producer: Navin Chowdrey
Director: Sean Hogan
Key Cast: Stuart Laing, Nina Sosanya,
Robert Blythe
Status: Completed
Year: 2006, Country of Origin: UK
When a young man rents a room in an
old house, his new home starts to take a
hold on him and the other tenants are
about to introduce themselves…
SEHNSUCHT (LONGING)
Drama (85 min)
Language: German, Subtitles
Director: Valeska Grisebach
Production Companies: Peter Rommel
Productions
Producer: Peter Rommel
Key Cast: Andreas Mueller, Ilka Welz,
Anett Dornbusch
Status: Completed
Year: 2006, Country of Origin: Germany
When a happily married man develops
strong feelings for another woman his
stable way of life turns upside down.
BLACK SHEEP
Black Comedy (99 min)
Language: German, Subtitles
Director: Oliver Rihs
Production Companies: Oliwood
Productions
Producer: Oliver Rihs and Olivier Kolb
Key Cast: Robert Stadlober, Tom
Schilling, Jule Böwe
Status: Completed
Year: 2006, Country of Origin: Germany
A black comedy about some low life
Berliners struggling to find meaning to
their lives through sex, humor and
conflict.
INITIAL
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP, INC.
Initial Entertainment Group, Inc., 3000
West Olympic Boulevard, Suite 1550,
Santa Monica, CA 90404 USA. Tel:
310.315.1722. Fax: 310.315.1723. e-mail
[email protected]
Company Type: Sales agent, producer,
distributor
At Cannes: Eric Christenson (President,
Sales and Distribution)
Office: 24, La Croisette - 5th Floor, Tel:
33.4.92.98.95.09
NEXT
Drama
Language: English
Director: Lee Tamahori
Producer: Graham King, Todd Garner,
Arne Schmidt, Nicholas Cage, Norm
Golightly
Cast: Nicholas Cage, Julianne Moore,
Jessica Biel
Origin: USA
A man who can see his future and change
events before they happen is being chased
by the FBI, who want to use him as their
latest tool in the fight against terrorism.
FIRST BORN
Thriller (95 mins)
Language: English
Director: Isaac Webb
Producer: Rick Schwartz, Lemore Syvan
Cast: Elisabeth Shue
Delivery Status: post production
Origin: USA
Fear and panic grip a new mother when
she and her husband move to a remote
house, where she is tormented by horrible
visions and nightmares.
AN UNFINISHED LIFE
Drama (107 mins)
Language: English
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Producer: Leslie Holleran, Alan Ladd Jr.,
Kelliann Ladd
Cast: Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman,
Jennifer Lopez
Origin: USA
A woman, desperate to care for her
daughter, reconnects with her estranged
and emotionally wounded father-in-law,
and together, all three forge a renewed
lease on life.
INTANDEM FILMS
Intandem Films, 22 Soho Square,
London, United Kingdom. Tel:
44207.851.3800. Fax: 44207.851.3830.
www.intandemfilms.com
Company Type: Sales Company and
Executive Producers.
At Cannes: Gary Smith (CEO), Andrew
Brown (Director), Billy Hurman
(Director), Denise Bridgeman
(Production and Marketing), Sasha Dein
(Production and Marketing)
Office: Majestic Barriere Hotel Suite
138. Tel: 33.492.98.77.00. Fax:
33.493.38.97.90
CIVIC DUTY
Psychological Thriller
Language: English
Director: Jeff Renfroe
Producer: Andrew Lanter,Tina Pehme,
Kim Roberts, Peter Krause, Andrew
Joiner.
Cast: Peter Krause, Richard Schiff, Kari
Matchett, Khaled Abol Naga
Delivery Status: Completed.
Year of Production: 2005/6, Country of
Origin: USA
An American accountant obsessed with
terrorist plots and cable news gets a jolt
when an unattached Islamic graduate
student moves in next door.
PRIMAL SCREAM
Horror
Language: English
Director: Albert Magnoli
Producer: Steve Gagnon
Cast: Trent Ford, Stark Sands, Charity
Shea, Victor Webster, Sherri Saum
Origin: USA
Budget: $ 6 million
A modern Horror/Thriller film about
young adults terrorised by a killer. The
film is based on an unfinished
documentary of Serial Killers by a first
time Japanese filmmaker.
THE OTHER SIDE
Fantasy Black Comedy
Language: English
Director: David Michaels
Producer: Michel Shane, Jory Weitz,
Diane Sillan Isaacs, Kent Harper
Cast: Brittany Murphy, Ryan Gosling,
Giovanni Ribisi, Tim Roth, Anjelica
Huston
Cannes 2006
Tel: 04 93 06 41 49
Email your press
releases only
during Cannes to:
thebusinessoffilm
@sdi06.fr
Origin: USA
Budget: $ 25 million
THE OTHER SIDE is a wonderful
modern day fable, a mix of “Beetlejuice”
and “Alice in Wonderland”.
INTRAMOVIES
Intramovies, Via E. Manfredi 15, 00197
Rome, Italy. Tel: 39.06.8076157. Fax:
39.06.8076156. www.intramovies.com,
www.intramovies.org, mail@intramovies
.com
At Cannes: Paola Corvino (C.E.O.), Jef
Nuyts (Director of International Sales),
Micaela Fusco (VP International Sales),
Federica Mei (Director of Tv Sales)
Office: “Italia Pavilion”– Riviera, Stand
N. D1-E8, Paola Corvino mobile:
39.335.84.10.149, Jef Nuyts mobile:
39.348.540.13.97, Micaela Fusco mobile:
39.335.604.39.15. Federica Mei mobile:
39.333.75.44.926
NEVER AGAIN AS BEFORE (MAI +
COME PRIMA)
Family Drama (106 min)
Director: Giacomo Campiotti
Producer: Prana Film in collaboration
with Medusa and Sky
Cast: Laura Chiatti, Natalia
Piatti,Federico Battilocchio, Nicola
Cipolla, Marco Velluti, Marco Casu
Giulia, Martina, Fava, Lorenzo, Enrico,
and Max aren’t best friends in spite of
the 5 years spent together in the
classroom, but all the same they decide
to leave together for an adventurous
holiday in the mountains. .
FOREVER BLUES
Family Drama (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Franco Nero
Producer: Franco Nero
Cast: Franco Nero, Paola Saluzzi, Daniel
Piamonti
A story about the magical and universal
power of music, which like hope has no
boundaries.
BEAUTY & THE BASTARD (TYTTÖ
SINÄ OLET TÄHTI)
Teenage Romance (102 min)
Language: Finnish with English Subtitles
Director: Dome Karukoskivvv
Producer: Helsinki-Filmi OyHelsinki
Cast: Pamela Tola, Samuli Vauramo,
Pamela Tola, Samuli Vauramo
A teenage romance from Finland where it
became a B.O. hit since its release in
October and obtained 8 Jussi Awards
nominations (the “Finnish Oscars”) for
Best Film, Director, Actor, Actress,
Music, Sound design, Editor, Set design.
IN BED (EN LA CAMA)
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Matìas Bize
Producer: Adrián Solar for Ceneca
Producciones (Chile), Christoph MeyerWiel for CMW Films (Germany)
Cast: Blanca Lewin, Gonzalo Valenzuela
In Bed…the place where you love, where
you dream – and where you betray.
CANNES 2006
K
KARLIN-GREEN
MEDIA
Karlin-Green Media, 23801 Calabasas
Road, Suite 2038, Calabasas, CA
91302 United States. Tel:
818.224.3888. Fax: 818.224.3869.
www.karlingreen.com
At Cannes: Penny Karlin (CoPresident), Kelly Green (Co-President),
Elaine McGee (Acquisitions Manager)
Office: Tel: 334.93.68.95.62, mobile:
818.915.2880
KATHY MORGAN
INTERNATIONAL
Kathy Morgan International, 12250 Sky
Lane, Los Angeles CA 90049 USA. Tel:
310.472.6300. Fax: 310.472.6304.
Kathy Morgan Mobile: 310.593.3808
At Cannes: Kathy Morgan (President)
Office: Le Grand Hotel Residences, 45
La Croisette, Cormoran II 5th Floor,
Tel: 04.92.59.00.50. Fax:
04.92.59.00.14
THE CLEANER
Language: English
Director: Les Mayfield
Producers: Brett Ratner and Jay Stern
Exec. Producers: A.J. Dix and Anthony
Rhulen
Cast: Lucy Liu, Nicollette Sheridan,
Cedric the Entertainer
Production Status: Post-Production and
screening in Cannes
Jake wakes up with a bump on his
head, a briefcase full of cash and a
dead FBI agent next to him.
IN THE LAND OF WOMEN
Language: English
Director: Jonathan Kasdan
Producers: Steve Golin and David
Kanter
Executive Producer: Lawrence Kasdan
Cast: Meg Ryan, Adam Brody, Kristen
Stewart, Olympia Dukakis,
screening in Cannes
Leaving Los Angeles to mend his
broken heart and take care of his ailing
grandmother, a young man helps a
family deal with love, tragedy and
learning to cope.
BLIND GUY DRIVING
Language: English
Director: James Keach
Producers: Costa Theo, Joy Mellins,
Dave Shanks, James Keach
Cast: Chris Pine, Eddie Kaye Thomas,
Jane Seymour, Anjali Jay
screening in Cannes
Being blind never stopped Danny from
getting anything he wanted, but when it
comes to the girl of his dreams being
blind is the least of his troubles in this
hilarious romantic comedy.
KEYSTONE
ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
Keystone Entertainment Inc., 23410
Civic Center Way, Suite E-9, Malibu, CA
90265 USA. Tel: 310.317.4883. Fax:
310.317.4903. www.keypics.com, Email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Mr. Tim Brown (VP
Worldwide Sales & Distribution)
Office: Riviera M6, Tel: (Tim Brown)
604.351.1537
ANNIE THE NANNIE
Family (100 min)
Language: English
Producers: Michael Strange & Anna
McRoberts
Country of Origin: Canada, Year of
Production: 2006
Donald Comox is in a bind. His proper
English nanny has just quit in the middle
of his tour for Governorship, claiming
his kids were unmanageable.
SPYMATE
Family (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Robert Vince
Producer: Robert Vince, Anna
McRoberts
Cast: Chris Potter, Emma Roberts,
Richard Kind, Pat Morita
Delivery status: Completed
Production: 2003
Minkey, the highly trained super spy
chimp, must team up with his ex-partner
Mike in this high action comedy to
rescue Mike’s daughter from the clutches
of the evil Dr. Farley.
CHESTNUT
Family (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Robert Vince
Producer: Robert Vince, Anna
McRoberts
Cast: Christine Tucci, Justin Louis, Barry
Bostwick
Production 2003
Chestnut is arguably the most lovable
Great Dane in New York City…but
trying to hide him in a small high-rise
apartment proves to be a very BIG
problem for sisters Sal and Ray.
KIMMEL
INTERNATIONAL
Kimmel International, 250 Hudson
Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10013
USA. Tel: 212.431.5550. Fax:
212.431.5822.
At Cannes: Mark Lindsay President
(Kimmel International), Jill Silfen (Sr.
Vice President, Business Affairs),
Marcello Paolillo (Director of
Acquisitions & Development, Kimmel
International), Joann Andres Manager
(Sales and Administration, Kimmel
International)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite 240, 14,
boulevard de la Croisette, Cannes,
France. Tel: 3304.97.06.85.51. Fax:
3304.97.06.86.13
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DEATH AT A FUNERAL
Language: English
Director: Frank Oz
Producers: Sidney Kimmel, Share
Stallings, Larry Malkin, Diana Philips
Executive Producers: William Horberg,
Bruce Toll, Andreas Grosch, Philip
Elway
A farcical ensemble comedy about a
dysfunctional British family as they
gather for the patriarch’s funeral.
BREACH
Language: English
Director: Billy Ray
Producers: Scott Kroopf, Robert F.
Newmyer, Scott Strauss
Co-Producer: Jeffrey Silver
Executive Producers: Sidney Kimmel,
William Horberg
Cast: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe,
Laura Linney, Kathleen Quinlan
Inspired by the true story of notorious
FBI double-agent Robert Hanssen who
sold secrets of global importance, Breach
is a dramatic thriller where young agent
Eric O’Neill finds himself in a lethal
game of spy-versus-spy.
GRIFFIN AND PHOENIX
Language: English
Director: Ed Stone
Producers: Sidney Kimmel, Amy Israel,
Paul Brooks, Ed Stone, Jason Blum
Executive Producers: Scott Niemeyer,
Bruce Toll, Norm Waitt, Cary McNair,
Marina Grasic
Cast: Amanda Peet, Dermot Mulroney
Status: Screening
A heart-wrenching love story set in New
York City about two people who face a
seemingly insurmountable obstacle that
may stand between them and a last
chance at love.
Budget: 1,5 mio $
Origin: Germany/USA
Chronicles the epic life, times and
creative genius of Robert Wilson,
intimately revealing for the first time one
of the most controversial, rule-breaking
and downright mysterious artists of our
era.
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER- WHAT
DID YOU DO IN WAR, DAD?
Documentary (97´00)
Language: German/English/Ukrainian
with English subtitles
Director: Michael Verhoeven
Producer: Sentana Filmproduktion
GmbH
Co-production Partners: Eikon, Ernst
Ludwig Ganzert
Budget: 1 Mio
Origin: Germany
The Wehrmacht-Exhbition showed in
eleven major cities, challenged an
established social taboo – the image of
the morally proper Wehrmacht was
attacked.
PLAYA DEL FUTURO
Road Movie, Romantic Comedy
Language: German/Spanish, English
subtitles
Director: Peter Lichtefeld
Producer: Bosko Biati Film, Jörn Rettig
Co-production Partners: Kinowelt
Filmproduktion GmbH, Rainer Kölmel
Cast: Peter Lichtefeld
Budget: 3 Mio.
Origin: Germany
A story of ordinary people and their half
buried dreams and desires, they meet up
at the end of the world and find their
chance to make a new beginning.
KINOWELTINTERNATIONAL
KWA, Galeon, 32 B-A, Madrid 28042
Spain. Tel: 3491.747.3100. Fax:
3491.747.7000. www.kevinwa.com,email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Kevin Williams (President)
Office: Riviera F1, Tel: 34.667.540.547
THE CRIME OF A BRIDE
Musical Docu-drama (85’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Lola Guerrero
Co-Production Partners: TELESPAN
2000
Producer: Tomás Cimadevilla
Key Cast: María Botto, Rafael Amargo,
Cristina Rota.
Origin: Spain
María accept the role of the bride in a
new stage adaption of a universal play by
Lorca (Blood Wedding).
THEY ROBBED HITLER’S DICK
Comedy (80’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Pedro Temboury
Producer: TELESPAN 2000
Key Cast: Manuel Gancedo, Manuel
Tallafe
Kinowelt International GmbH, KarlTauchnitz-Strasse 10, Leipzig 04107,
Germany. Tel: 49.341.35596 0. Fax:
49.341.35596-419. www.kinoweltinternational.de, email:
[email protected]
Company Type: Sales Agent/Buyer
At Cannes: Rainer Koelmel (Buyer),
Michael Koelmel (Buyer), Stelios
Ziannis (Head of World Sales), Daniel
Guckau (SVP Acquisitions) Anja Uecker
(Int´l Sales Manager)
Acquisition Executives: Rainer Koelmel,
Michael Koelmel, Daniel Guckau, Stelios
Ziannis
Office: Marché du Film, Riviera, Booth
No L13, Tel: 33.492.99.3211
ABSOLUTE WILSON
Documentary (105´00)
Language: English
Director: Katharina Otto-Bernstein
Producer: Penny CM Stankiewicz
Cast: Robert Wilson, Susan Sontag,
David Byrne
KWA
Origin: Spain
Berlín, 2006. Turkish construction
workers stumble upon Adolf Hitler’s
secret bunker and his incorrupt penis.
THE OUTCOME
Drama (105’)
Director: Spanish
Language: Juan Pinzás
Co-Production Partners: Atlantico Films
Producer: Pilar Sueiro
Key Cast: Jose Sancho, Beatriz Rico,
Javier Gurrutxaga
Origin: Spain
Loosely based on the same characters as
the second feature, the producers,
director and writer of a film project meet
up at a hotel.
L
LAKESHORE
INTERNATIONAL
Lakeshore International, 9268 West Third
Street, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA. Tel:
310.867.8000. Fax: 310.300.3015.
www.lakeshoreentertainment.com, Email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Peter Rogers (President,
International), Eric Reid (COO,
Lakeshore Entertainment), Virginia
Longmuir (Sr. Vice President,
International Business & Legal Affairs &
Operations), Julie McLaughlin (Vice
President, International Sales), Elisabeth
Costa de Beauregard Rose (Vice
President, International Sales), Robert
Burke (Vice President, Head of
Worldwide Marketing)
Office: Residence du Grand Hotel,
Cormoran II, 7th Floor, 45 Boulevard de
la Croisette 06400 Cannes, FRANCE.
Tel: 04.93.68.06.96. Fax: 04.93.68.74.09
THE DEAD GIRL
Dark Thriller
Director: Karen Moncrieff
Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Henry
Winterstern, Gary Lucchesi
Cast: Josh Brolin, Rose Byrne, Toni
Collette, James Franco, Marcia Gay
Harden, Mary Beth Hurt, Brittany
Murphy, Nick Searcy, Giovanni Ribisi,
Mary Steenburgen, Kerry Washington
Delivery Status: Pre Production,
Availability: 2006/2007
The dark mystery behind a young
woman’s death is gradually revealed
through the intersecting stories of
seemingly unconnected people whose
lives are each touched by her brutal
murder.
BLOOD & CHOCOLATE
Romance
Director: Katja von Garnier
Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary
Lucchesi, Richard Wright
Cast: Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy,
Olivier Martinez
Delivery Status: Post Production,
Availability: 2006
Nineteen year old Vivian Gandillon has
spent her life on the run from the truth….
that she is a werewolf.
THE LAST KISS
Drama
Director: Tony Goldwyn
Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary
Lucchesi, Andre Lamal, Marcus Viscidi
Cast: Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Casey
Affleck, Rachel Bilson with Blythe
Danner and Tom Wilkinson
Delivery Status: Post Production,
Availability: 2006
From the Academy Award winning writer
of “Crash” and “Million Dollar Baby”
comes the romantic misadventures of
four best friends who weave one
poignant story of how love and
commitment can turn grown men into
boys.
SHE’S THE MAN
Comedy (105 min)
Director: Andy Fickman
Producer: Lauren Shuler Donner
Cast: Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum,
Laura Ramsey, Robert Hoffman, Alex
Breckinridge
Delivery Status: Available, Availability:
Now
She’s a high school girl pretending to be
her twin brother to make the boys
football (soccer) team. With women
chasing her and men off limits, will
falling in love put an end to her game?
LATIDO
Latido, C/Veneras 9,6°, 28013 Madrid,
Spain. Tel: 34.915.488.877. Fax:
34.915.188.878. www.latidofilms.com,
At Cannes: Massimo Saidel (Managing
Director), David Castellanos
(International Sales), Gilles Sousa (Legal
and Business Affairs)
Office: Riviera A1 C2 C5, Tel: Massimo
Saidel cell: 34.635.431.270, David
Castellanos cell: 34.675.526.497, Gilles
Sousa cell: 33.632.510.025
LOS AIRES DIFFICILES (ROUGH
WINDS)
Romantic Drama (117min)
Director: Gerardo Herrero
Producers: Tornasol Films, Milufilms,
Continental Producciones, Maestranza
Films
Cast: Cuca Escribano
Recent winner of Malaga Film festival, a
mystery and erotic tale from the best
selling writer of “The ages of Lulu”.
PURA SANGRE (YOUNG BLOOD)
Children’s Romantic Comedy (83min)
Producers: ALIGATOR
PRODUCCIONES
Director: Leo Ricciardi Fernandez
Cast: Norma Aleandro, Ana Fernandez,
introducing young Oscar Alegre
Country of Origin: Argentina, Spain
Poignant Coming-Of-Age about a 9years
CANNES 2006
old boy who must live with unknown
relatives across the ocean.
HEAVEN’S DOORS
Drama (140min)
Director: Swel and Imad Noury
Producers: Pilar Cazorla
Country of Origin: Morocco, Spain
Recent Panorama Discovery heralded as
the Moroccan “Amores Perros” by young
brothers co-directing.
Social Club with amazing performances
and riveting human stories.
TENNESSEE
Director: Aaron Woodley
Cast: Mariah Carey
Two brothers, Carter and Ellis, embark
on a journey from New Mexico to find
their estranged father in the hopes of
saving Ellis, who has been diagnosed
with terminal leukemia.
LEE DANIELS
ENTERTAINMENT
LIGHTNING
ENTERTAINMENT
Lee Daniels Entertainment, 39 West
131st Street, Suite 2, Harlem, NY 10037
USA. Tel: 646.548.0930. Fax:
646.548.9883.
www.leedanielsentertainment.com
At Cannes: Dave Robinson (CFO / Head
of Sales), Asger Hussain (Worldwide
Distribution)
Office: Noga Hilton, Office 304, 50
Boulevard de la Croisette, Cannes 06414.
Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.75.80
SHADOWBOXER
Director: Lee Daniels
Cast: Cuba Gooding, Jr., Helen Mirren,
Stephen Dorff, Macy Gray, Vanessa
Ferlito
Status: Completed/screening, US release
June 9 2006
A ruthless mob boss wants his wife dead.
Rose and Mikey are hired assassins who
suffer a crisis of conscience and decide
to spare the pregnant wife.
PROVOKED
Director: Jag Mundhra
Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Naveen Andrews,
Miranda Richardson
Status: Completed/screening. Premieres
in Cannes 2006
Based on the true story of a Punjabi
woman named Kiranjit Ahluwalia who
unknowingly enters into an arranged
marriage with an abusive husband.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
Director: Mark Bamford
Cast: Debbie Brown, Eriq Ebouaney,
Nthati Moshesh
In gorgeous seaside Cape Town, three
women’s lives are turned upside down as
they struggle with loneliness and love at
the Good Hope Animal Shelter.
DANCE CUBA
Directors: Cynthia Newport, Babara
Kopple, Boris Ivan Crespo
Cast: Alicia Alonso, Carlos Acosta,
Lorna Feijoo
Status: Post-Production. US theatrical
release September 2006
Follows in the footsteps of Buena Vista
Lightning Entertainment, 301 Arizona
Avenue, Suite 400, Santa Monica, CA
90401 USA. Tel: 310.255.7999. Fax:
310.255.7998. www.lightning-ent.com,
At Cannes: Marc Greenberg (President),
Rich Goldberg (President), Richard S.
Guardian (Co President), Tannaz Anisi
(Senior VP of International Sales)
Office: Riviera E6
CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD
Drama
Language: English
Director: Stephen Simon
Producer: Stephen Simon
Executive Producers: Gay Hendricks
Cast: Henry Czerny, Ingrid Boulting,
Vilma Silva, Bruce Page
Delivery Status: Completed/screening at
Cannes
Year of Production: 2006 Country of
Origin: USA
From the books by Neale Donald Walsch
that inspired and changed the lives of
millions worldwide, the story of a man
who, reaching the lowest point in his life,
asks God some very hard questions.
SECRETS OF THE CODE
www.secretsofthecode.com
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Jonathan Stack
Producer: Dan Burstein, Donald
Zuckerman, Brian Edelman
Delivery Status: Completed/screening at
Cannes
Year of Production: 2006 Country of
Origin: USA
This film will be the definitive
examination of the controversial ideas
raised by the book and forthcoming
blockbuster film – “The Da Vinci Code”.
PARZANIA
www.parzania.com
Drama
Language: English
Director: Rahul Dholakia
Producer: K.B. Sareen, Kamal Patel,
Rahul Dholakia
Tel 04 • 93 • 06 • 41 • 49
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Sarika, and
Corin Nemec
Delivery Status: Completed/ screening at
Cannes
Origin: INDIA
Inspired by a true story, PARZANIA is a
powerfully breathtaking untold story of
one family, and a community’s loss
during an act of communal violence that
stunned the world and changed a country
forever.
LIONSGATE
Lionsgate, 2700 Colorado Blvd, 2nd
Floor, Santa Monica, CA 90404 USA.
Tel: 310.255.3700. Fax: 310.255.3770.
www.lionsgatefilms.com
At Cannes: Nicolas Meyer (President,
International), Stephanie Denton
(President, International Sales), Peter
Block (President, Acquisitions and CoProductions), Jason Constantine (Senior
Vice President, Acquisitions), Adam
Bialow (Senior Vice President,
International Business and Legal
Affairs), Shyama Friedenson (Vice
President, International Marketing)
Office: Riviera M1, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.33.11. Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.33.18
DEVIL TO PAY
Thriller
Language: English
Produced by: Doug Mankoff, J. Todd
Harris, Andrew Spaulding
Executive Producers: Marc Toberoff,
Lucy Liu
Cast: Lucy Liu
A courageous mother of two is
determined to save her children’s lives
after a kidnapper demands that she rob
her own bank and bring him the money.
ROGUE
Action
Language: English
Directed by: Philip G. Atwell
Produced by: Steve Chasman,
Christopher Petzel & Jim Thompson,
Executive Producer: Mike Elliott
Cast: Jet Li, Jason Statham, Devon Aoki,
John Lone, Ryo Ishibashi
After his partner and family are killed
apparently by the infamous and elusive
assassin Rogue, FBI agent Jack Crawford
becomes obsessed with revenge as his
world unravels into a vortex of guilt and
betrayal.
SAW III
Horror
Language: English
Directed by: Darren Lynn Bousman
Produced by: Mark Burg, Oren Koules,
Gregg Hoffman
Executive Producers: Leigh Whannell,
James Wan, Stacy Testro, Daniel Jason
Heffner, Peter Block, Jason Constantine
The third installment of the Box Office
franchise hit, SAW.
THE LITTLE FILM
COMPANY
The Little Film Company, 12930 Ventura
Boulevard #822, Studio City, CA 91604
USA.
Company Type: World Sales Company
At Cannes: Robbie Little, Clay Epstein
Office: Suite 127 Majestic Hotel, Tel: 33
492 98 77 00, Robbie Little mobile
44.7710.305.326, Clay Epstein mobile
44.7730.396.260
TSOTSI
www.tsotsi.com
Academy Award, Best Foreign Language
Film of 2005
Written and Directed by Gavin Hood
Produced by Peter Fudakowski
Cast: Presley Chweneyagae, Terry Pheto
and Zola
Traces six days in the life of a ruthless
young gang leader who shoots a woman
outside her home and steals her car—
unaware, in his panic, that her baby is in
the back seat.
AN AMERICAN HAUNTING
www.anamericanhauntingonline.com
Written and Directed by Courtney
Solomon
Produced by Christopher Milburn, Andre
Rouleau, Courtney Solomon
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek,
James D’Arcy, Rachel Hurd-Wood
Based on true events. In 1818 Tennessee
the Bell family desperately battles an
unknown demon which is terrorizing
their young daughter.
AMINÎ (SANCTUARY)
Directed by Yousaf Ali Kahn
Executive Producer Ellen Little
Producer Gill Parry
Orphaned by the war in Iraq, a 12-yearold Kurdish boy, Shwan, rescues a stray
dog —about to be shot — and together
they set out on a perilous journey to find
a place where they’ll be safe…
M
MAINLINE
RELEASING
Mainline Releasing, 301 Arizona Avenue,
Suite 400, Santa Monica, CA 90401,
USA. Tel: 310.255.1200. Fax:
310.255.1201.
www.mainlinereleasing.com, Email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Marc Greenberg (President),
Tannaz Anisi (Senior VP of International
Sales)
Office: Riviera E6
HOUSE OF BLOOD
http://www.chainreaction-movie.de/
Horror
Language: English
Director: Olaf Ittenbach
Producer: Hanns-Arndt Jovy
Executive Producer: Olaf Ittenbach
Cast: Christopher Kriesa, Martina
Ittenbach, Jürgen Prochnow, Dan van
Husen
Delivery Status: Completed / Screening
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61
at Cannes
Origin: Germany
A prison bus collides with Dr. Douglas
Madsen’s car in the woods, killing most
of the inmates. Douglas and four inmates
survive, one of them severely injured.
JEKYLL + HYDE
http://www.jekyllandhydethemovie.com/
main.html
Horror/ Thriller
Language: English
Director: Nick Stillwell
Producer: David Court, Nick Stillwell,
Ean Thorley
Executive Producer: David Court, Sandra
S. Hughes, Leonard Perillo, Hersh Saluja
Cast: Bryan Fisher, Bree Turner, Maria
del Mar, Zachary Bennett, Jeff Roop,
Kate Kelton, Landy Cannon
Origin: UK
Two young students, at an East Coast
Medical School - Henry “J” Jekyll and
Mary Glover, begin illicitly
experimenting with ecstasy in order
create a drug that will adapt and enhance
their personalities.
BLOOD COLD
Horror
Language: English
Director: Matt Cantu, Lance KR Kawas
Producer: Bob Brown, Janese. F Horton
Executive Producer: R. Michael
Bergeron, Bob Brown
Cast: Scott Vickaryous, Melissa Shuman,
Shanti Lowry
Origin: USA
Set in the deep freeze of a northern
Michigan winter, a group of college
students volunteer to assist their
psychology professor with his research,
their weekend retreat turns into a
nightmare.
MANDARIN FILMS
DISTRIBUTION CO
LTD
Mandarin Films Distribution Co Ltd,
27th Floor, Chinachem Century Tower,
178 Gloucester Road, Wanchai, Hong
Kong. Tel: 852.25791718. Fax:
852.25791712. www.mandarinfilms.com
Company Type: Producer, Distributor
At Cannes: Raymond Wong (Chairman),
Nansun Shi (Producer), Virginia Leung
(Head of Distribution), Christy Choi
(Distribution Executive), Kari Kong
(Distribution Officer)
Office: Riviera E-9
DRAGON TIGER GATE
Action
Language: Chinese
Director: Wilson Yip Wai-shun
Producer: Raymond Wong, Nansun Shi,
Yu Dong
Co-production partners: Mandarin Films
Distribution Co. Ltd., Shanghai Film
Group Corporation, Beijing PolyBona
Film Distribution Co., Ltd.
Cast: Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, Shawn
Yue
Delivery Status: Post production
Budget: US$10M
Origin: Hong Kong/ China
Adapted from popular HK manga, the
movie features three young heroes in
their guest of justice.
SEVEN SWORDS
Language: Chinese
Director: Tsui Hark
Producer: Tsui Hark, Lee Joo Ick, Ma
Zhong Jun, Pan Zhizhong
Co-production partners: Beijing Ciwen
Film & TV Production Co. Ltd., Boram
Entertainment, Inc, City Glory Pictures
Ltd.
Cast: Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Charlie
Young
Budget: US$18M
Origin: Hong Kong/ China/ Korea
Seven warriors come together to protect
a village from a massacre.
MANDATE PICTURES
Mandate Pictures, 8750 Wilshire
Boulevard, Suite 300 East, Beverly Hills,
CA 90211 USA. Tel: 310.360.1441. Fax:
310.360.1447.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Joe Drake (President), Brian
Goldsmith (CFO & EVP of Operations),
Mali Kinberg (EVP, Head of Int’l Sales
& Distribution), Brent Jack (SVP,
Marketing), Helen Lee Kim (VP,
International Sales), John Biondo (VP,
Business & Legal Affairs)
Office: Majestic, Suite 142, Tel:
04.97.06.86.00, Fax: 04.97.06.86.03
MY SASSY GIRL
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Producers: Paul Brooks, Mark Morgan,
Roy Lee
Exec Producers: Guy Oseary, Jay
Polstein, Milton Kim, Doug Davison,
Scott Niemeyer, Norm Waitt
Charlie, a shy and idealistic college
student has never been in love. When he
rescues the beautiful and elusive Jordan
from falling to her death, his life is
changed forever.
JUNO
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Brad Silberling
Producers: Mason Novick, John
Malkovich, Lianne Halfon, Russell Smith
A sixteen year old girl is faced with an
unplanned pregnancy and makes the
unlikely decision to keep the baby and
find the “perfect” adoptive parents.
SOLSTICE
Supernatural Thriller
Language: English
Producers: James Stern, Adam Del Deo
Writer/Director: Daniel Myrick
Cast: Shawn Ashmore, Elisabeth
Harnois, Tyler Hoechlin, Amanda
Seyfried, Hilarie Burton, Matt O’Leary
Status: In production
A supernatural thriller about a group of
friends who unlock secrets from their
past when the barrier between the living
and the dead is opened during the
Summer Solstice.
MAVERICK GLOBAL
Maverick Global, 1191 East Newport
Center Drive, Suite 210, Deerfield
Beach, Florida 33445 USA. Tel:
954.422.8811. Fax: 954.429.0565.
www.maverickglobal.cc
At Cannes: Jack Campbell (Director of
International Sales), Doug Schwab
(Company President), Al Perez de la
Mesa (Director of Acquisitions, TV
Sales), Tim Swain (Executive
Consultant)
Office: Riviera G-13, Tel:
334.92.99.32.42
THIS THING OUR OURS
Action (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Danny Provenzano
James Caan, Frank Vincent, Vincent
Pastore, Danny Provenzano, Edward
Lynch, Louis Vanaria, Christian Maelen,
Chuck Zito, Pat Cooper, and introducing
Paul Vario
Origin: USA
An ambitious young mobster plans an
innovative bank robbery via the Internet
to impress the New Jersey Mob and
secure his advancement in the Cosa
Nostra chapter.
CARLITA’S SECRET
Action Thriller (91 min)
Language: English
Director: George Cotayo
Cast: Eva Langoria, Maria Bravo,
Alejandra Gutierrez, David Martinez,
Steve Roth, Andy Sottilare and Alain
Mora
Origin: USA
A hot sexy thriller about a naive girl (Eva
Longoria of Desperate Housewives) who
dreams of being a dancer in New York,
but finds her dreams shattered when her
deadly past returns to haunt her.
NORA’S HAIR SALON
Comedy (84 min)
Language: English
Director: Jerry LaMothe
Jennifer Lewis, Bobby Brown, Tatyana
Ali, Kristian Bernard, Jean-Claude La
Marre
Origin: USA
Nora (Jennifer Lewis, Madea’s Family
Reunion) a young no-nonsense owner of
a hair salon full of sassy, eclectic stylists
thought of by Nora as family rather than
employees.
MAX FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
INC.
Max Films International Inc., 1751, rue
Richardson, Suite 2.102, Montréal,
Québec H3K 1G6 Canada. Tel:
514.282.8444. Fax: 514.282.9222.
www.maxfilms.ca, E-mail:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Roger Frappier (President &
Producer), Luc Vandal (Producer),
Alexandra Wermester (Director, Int’l
Sales & Marketing), Félize Frappier
(Coordinator, Int’l Sales & Festivals)
Office: Canada PAVILION
THE SECRET LIFE OF HAPPY
PEOPLE (LA VIE SECRÈTE DES
GENS HEUREUX)
(UNE SIMPLE CATASTROPHE)
Director: Stéphane Lapointe
Producers: Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal
Cast: Marc Paquet, Gilbert Sicotte, Marie
Gignac, Catherine de Léan
Status: Completed/screening (market
premiere)
Origin: Canada
Thomas, a 24 year-old man, falls in love
with Audrey but Audrey is on a
mission…
REVENGE : A USER’S GUIDE
(GUIDE DE LA PETITE
VENGEANCE)
Dark Comedy
Director: Jean-François Pouliot
Cast: Marc Béland, Michel Muller,
Pascale Bussières, Gabriel Gascon
Status: In Production - from the team of
La Grande Séduction (Seducing Doctor
Lewis), Screening – Teaser Trailer
Origin: Canada
After years of cruel psychological
harassment by his boss, an accountant in
an upscale jewellery store will have the
surprise of his life when he tries to fight
back.
SAINT MARTYRS OF THE
DAMNED (SAINTS-MARTYRS-DESDAMNÉS)
Suspense (116 min)
Director: Robin Aubert
Cast: François Chénier, Isabelle Blais
Origin: Canada
When a journalist and his photographer
embark on a mission to investigate a
series of human disappearances taking
place in a small town, they encounter the
unimaginable.
Carlton Hotel Office 149 Tel 04 • 93 • 06 • 41 • 49
CANNES 2006
MAXIM MEDIA
INTERNATIONAL
MEDIA 8
ENTERTAINMENT
Maxim Media International, 5025 South
Ash Avenue, Building B-2, Tempe, AZ
85282 USA. Tel: 480.966.4070. Fax:
480.966.4570. www.emaximmedia.com
Company Type: Sales Agent, Producer,
Distributor
At Cannes: Darrin Ramage (President)
and Charity Glick (Executive Sales &
Acquisitions Coordinator).
Acquisition Executive: Charity Glick
33(0)4.92.99.80.53, mobile (Darrin
Ramage) 480.980.6069
BLOOD LEGEND
Horror (85 min)
Language: English
Director: Rusty Nelson
Producer: Dave Sterling
Cast: Syn DeVil, Jeff Dylan Graham,
Ron Jeremy, Randal Malone
Origin: USA
Back from the grave after being burned
at the stake for being a witch, Moira’s
human form can only be kept if she
makes the ultimate sacrifice. Can the
wrongs of the past be re-written?
BRANDED
Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Darla Enlow
Producer: Darla Enlow
Cast: Trey Fillmore, Jamie Sworski, Dru
Callis
Origin: USA
Mitch Steiger is being pulled deeper into
someone’s twisted world of drugs, sex
and rock & roll. What he must do to
survive will lead him to the edge of
insanity.
CURSE OF PIRATE DEATH
Horror (85 min)
Language: English
Director: Dennis Devine
Producer: David Sterling and Darrin
Ramage
Cast: Vernon Wells, Syn DeVil, Ron
Jeremy, Randal Malone
Origin: USA
Media 8 Entertainment, 1875 Century
Park East, Suite 2000, Los Angeles CA
90067 USA. Tel: 310.226.8300. Fax:
310.226.8350.
Company Description: independent film
entertainment company engaged in
producing, financing and licensing
feature films worldwide.
Office: Riviera, Office M14, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.88.11
THE GIRLS’ GUIDE TO HUNTING
AND FISHING
Romantic Comedy
Director: Marc Klein
Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alec
Baldwin
Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as Brett
Eisenberg, an ambitious young book
editor living in the literary hotbed of
Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
LOVEWRECKED
Comedy
Director: Randal Kleiser
Producer: Joe Anderson, Wendy
Thorlakson, Sammy Lee
Cast: Amanda Bynes, Chris Carmack,
Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Jonathan Bennett
Status: Completed
Eighteen year-old Jenny (Amanda
Bynes), is ecstatic when she finds herself
“marooned” on a tropical island with her
favorite rock star, Jason (Chris
Carmack).
UNDEAD OR ALIVE
Horror comedy
Director: Glasgow Phillips
Cast: Chris Kattan, James Denton
Something’s rotten in the Old West –
literally.
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: 2314.4248. Email:
[email protected],
www.mediaasia.com
At Cannes: Jeffrey Chan (Head of
Distribution/Sales), Frederick Tsui
(Senior Manager - Distribution &
Production), Vanessa Lo (Manager Distribution/Sales), June Wu (Manager -
JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT- NU IMAGE
Distribution/Sales), Cora Yim (Senior
Manager, Acquisition & Marketing)
Office: 15 Square Mérimée (3rd floor),
Tel: 04.93.99.44.01. Jeffrey Chan Tel:
852.2302.3894. Mobile: +852.9278.8888.
Fax: 852.2314.4247, Frederick Tsui Tel:
852.2302.3810. Mobile: 852.9463.3446.
Fax: 852.2314.4248, Vanessa Lo Tel:
852.2302.3835. Mobile: 852.9488.1759.
Fax: 852.2314.4247, June Wu Tel:
852.2302.3819. Mobile: 852.9225.7233.
Fax: 852.2314.4247, Cora Yim Tel:
852.2302.3822. Mobile: 852.9889.9226.
Fax: 852.2314.4248
AN ANDREW LAU PROJECT
Thriller
Director: Andrew LAU, Alan MAK
Main cast: Tony LEUNG Chiu-wai
Status: In development
Country of origin: Hong Kong
A police sergeant teams up with his
former partner turned private detective to
investigate the gruesome murder of his
father-in-law.
THE BANQUET
Period Action Drama
Director: FENG Xiaogang
Producer: YUEN Wo-ping
Main cast: Ziyi ZHANG, GE You,
ZHOU Xun, Daniel WU
Country of origin: Hong Kong & China
A queen who secretly hankers for her
stepson marries her brother-in-law when
he ascends the throne after the King dies.
EXILED
Thriller
Director: Johnnie TO
Producer: Johnnie TO
Main cast: Anthony WONG, Richie JEN,
Francis NG, Nick CHEUNG
Status: In production
Country of origin: Hong Kong
Four Triad hit men have an ultimate
showdown with another goon who shoots
down their former comrade hiding in
Macau.
MEDIA LUNA
ENTERTAINMENT
Media Luna Entertainment,
Hochstadenstr. 1-3, Cologne, 50674
Germany. Tel: 49.221.801.498.0. Fax:
49.221.801.498.21. [email protected], www.medialunaentertainment.de
At Cannes: Mrs. Ida Martins (Managing
Director), Mr. Sven Westphal (Sales &
Acquisitions Manager), Ms. Nadine
Rudisch (Festival & Marketing Manager)
Office: Riviera J 10
3° COLDER
Drama (103 min)
Language: German Subtitles English
Production companies: blue eyes Fiction
& Sabotage Films
Producer: Corinna Mehner; Martin
Cichy; Martin Husmann; Karsten Aurich
Director: Florian Hoffmeister
Key cast: Bibiana Beglau; Sebastian
Blomberg; Johann von Bülow; Meret
Becker
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Germany
A day which is different from any other.
12 TANGOS – ADIOS BUENOS
AIRES
Documentary (90 min & 60 min )
Language: Spanish Subtitles English
Director: Arne Birkenstock
Production companies: Fruitmarket –
Kultur & Medien GmbH; Tradewind
Pictures; Co - Production ZDF/Arte
Producer: Arne Birkenstock; Thomas
Springer; Helmut G. Weber
Key cast: Roberto Tonet; Yolanda
Zubieta; Luis Borda
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Germany
12 Tangos – Return Ticket to Buenos
Aires tells the story of several tangueros
in crisis-ridden Buenos Aires.
DEAD LONG ENOUGH
Drama (83 min)
Language: English
Director: Tom Collins
Production company (companies) Grand
Pictures; Co-Production company
BODA; Green Park Films; Producer:
Paul Donovan
Key cast: Jason Hughes; Michael Sheen;
Angeline Ball; Douglas Henshall
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Ireland
Ben Jones, a worn out and depressed
Lawyer, lives in the shadow of his
promiscuous TV celebrity brother Harry.
MIROVISION INC.
Mirovision Inc., #504 Boam Bldg. 528
Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu Seoul 135-888
Korea. Tel: 82.2.3443.2553/2502. Fax:
82.2.3443.4842. www.mirovision.com,
At Cannes: Jason CHAE (CEO), Mina
SUH (VP of Int’l Division), Nelly
CHANG (Manager of Int’l Division),
Yura KWON (Manager of Int’l
Division), Daniel KIM (Assistant
Manager of Int’l Division)
33(0)4.9299.3334
DASEPO NAUGHTY GIRLS
http://www.mirovision.com/english/movi
e/new_poster.asp?movie_sno=88
Comedy
Language: Korean
Director: E. J-yong
Producer: AHN Dong-kyu
Key Cast: KIM Ok-bin, PARK Jin-woo,
LEE Kyun, YOO Gun, LEE Min-hyuk,
NAM Ho-jung, KIM Byul, PARK Hyewon
Origin: Korea
Forget the common sense! The fairy tale
is over.
LES FORMIDABLES
Action
Language: Korean
Director: CHO Min-ho
Producer: Jason CHAE
Key Cast: PARK Joong-hoon, CHUN
Jung-myung
Origin: Korea
Whether the enemy or the comrade, they
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share the fate.
SAM’S LAKE
Thriller (86 min)
Director: English
Language: Andrew Christopher ERIN
Co-Production Partners: Mirovision Inc.
Producer: Amy GREEN, Cassie YOO,
Julian Chang ZOLKIN, Eric
THOMPSON
Key Cast: Fay MASTERSON, Sandrine
HOLT, William Gregory LEE, Stephen
BISHOP
Origin: USA
Some legends should not be told.
MONTECRISTO
INTERNATIONAL
MonteCristo International, 2444
Broadway #135 NYC, NY 10024 USA.
Tel: 917.647.7587. Fax: 420.224.934.550.
www.MonteCristoEntertainment.com, email:
[email protected]
Company Type: Sales Agent, Producer,
Distributor
At Cannes: Michael Taverna (President &
CEO), Cindy Nelson-Mullen (Sales &
Acquisitions)
Acquisition Executive: Michael Taverna
& Cindy Nelson-Mullen
Office: Riviera C-3, Tel: 917.647.7587 or
06.27.77.5292
STARFISH HOTEL
Thriller (98 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: John Williams
Producer: 100 Meter Films
Cast: Sato Koichi, Kiki, Emoto Akiro
Delivery Status: Ready for delivery
Origin: Japan
In Jo Kurodo’s mystery novels strange
things happen – there’s always a sinister
rabbit, someone always ends up
dead…and there is a universe called
Darkland found only through a hidden
tunnel. Be sure not to tell Jo Kurodo your
dreams!
ESCAPE
Action (116 min)
Language: Russian
Director: Jegor Koncalovskij
Producer: Central Partnership
Cast: Jevgenij Mironov, Alexej
Serebrjakov
Origin: Russia
A respected doctor is found unjustly guilty
of killing his beautiful wife. He must
escape prison to find the truth…but
someone wants him dead, while another
needs him alive!
MARS
Drama (100 min)
Language: Russian
Director: Anna Melikan
Producer: Sabina Eremeeva, Ruben
Dishdishyan
Cast: Yuri Kutsenko, Nana Kiknadzs,
Artur Smolyaninov
Origin: Russia
Boris, a famous boxer, finds himself in
Mars, a town where everyone works at the
toy factory. He spends only one day in
town but that day changes the lives of the
people in town forever…
MOONSTONE
ENTERTAINMENT
Moonstone Entertainment, P.O. Box 7400,
Studio City, CA 91614 USA. Tel:
818.985.3003. Fax: 818.985.3009
At Cannes: Mr. Ernst “Etchie” Stroh
(CEO), Mrs. Yael Stroh (President), Mr.
Shahar Stroh (Director of Acquisitions &
Development)
Office: The Carlton Intercontinental, Suite
120/121, Tel: 04.93.06.41.21 or
04.93.06.68.21
A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
Director: Janusz Kaminski
Producers: Donald Zuckerman, Howard
Himelstein, Etchie Stroh, Sarah Radclyffe
Principal Cast: TBA
Based upon the Oscar Wilde play - a
young man discovers his future employer
is actually his father and a despicable
character.
THE PROMISE
Director: Chen Kaige
Producers: Chen Hong, Chen Kaige, Han
San Ping, Etchie Stroh
Principal Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada, Jang
Dong-Gun, Cecilia Cheung, Nicholas Tse
Status: completed
Country of Origin: China
What is Destiny? Is it war, love or a
dream? A General, a Princess and a Slave
entangled in a story about War, Love, and
a Dream.
THE TULIPS - SPI INTERNATIONAL
MOTION PICTURE
CORPORATION OF
AMERICA
Motion Picture Corporation of America,
1333 Second Street, Suite 210, Santa
Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel:
310.319.9500. Fax: 310.319.9501.
www.mpcafilm.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Brad Krevoy
(CEO/Chairman), Francisco Gonzalez
(VP, International Sales and Marketing)
Office: Majestic Hotel Suite 109
7 DAYS
www.7daysthemovie.com
Action/Drama (95 minutes)
Language: Spanish/English
Director: Fernando Kalife
Producer: Bernardo Bicharra, Leonardo
Villareal
Key Cast: Jaime Camil, Eduardo
Arroyuelo, Martha Higareda
Origin: Mexico
A concert promoter gambles his life with
the mob to fulfill his dream of bringing the
greatest rock band - U2 - to his hometown.
Speacial appearance and music by U2.
HOT TAMALE
Action/Comedy (105 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael Damian
Producer: Janeen Damian, Michael
Damian
Key Cast: Diora Baird, Camen Electra,
Jason Priestly, Randy Spelling
Origin: USA
A road trip leads a man into a wild maze
of hit-men, women, jewel thieves and a
salsa band in this “Pulp Fiction” style
comedy.
MOVIEHOUSE
ENTERTAINMENT
Moviehouse Entertainment, 9 Grafton
Mews, London W1T 5HZ UK. Tel:
44(0)20.7380. 3999. Fax:
44(0)20.7380.3998. Email:
[email protected],
www.moviehouseent.com
At Cannes: Gary Phillips (Managing
Director/Head of Sales), Mark Vennis
(Managing Director/Head of
Acquisitions)
Office: Les Jardins Du Grand Hotel, 45
Bvd La Croisette Entrée: Flamant 6th
Floor. Tel: 04.93.38.65.93
THE TIGER’S TALE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: John Boorman
Producer: John Boorman
Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall
Origin: Ireland
From legendary director john Boorman
comes the tiger’s tale, a thriller starring
Brendan Gleeson and Kim Cattrall.
SCOTT WALKER: 30 CENTURY
MAN
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Stephen Kijak
Producer: Mia Bays
Cast: David Bowie, Sting, Bono
origin: UK
Feature documentary following
production of the latest album from 60’s
music star Scott Walker, of ‘The Walker
Bros’ fame, who inspired Bowie, Sting,
Radiohead, etc.
SMALL ENGINE REPAIR
Drama
Language: English
Director: Niall Heery
Producer: Tristan Orphen Lynch,
Dominic White
Cast: Iain Glen, Steven Mackintosh
origin: Ireland
Doug, an aspiring country and western
singer with a heartbreaking voice, has one
last chance to make it.
MYRIAD PICTURES
Myriad Pictures, 3015 Main Street, Suite
400, Santa Monica, CA 90405 USA. Tel:
310.279.4000. Fax: 310.279.4001.
At Cannes: Kirk D’Amico (President and
Chief Executive Officer), Ann Dubinet
(President of Distribution), Jim Harvey
(Executive Director, Sales and
Distribution), Mary Herne (SVP,
Worldwide Television), Maxine Leonard
(Executive Vice President, Marketing &
Publicity)
Office: The Penthouse 7G2, Gray D’Albion
Residence, 4 rue des Serbes, Cannes 6400
Tel: 3304.93.99.04.69, Fax:
3304.93.68.72.03
DEATH DEFYING ACTS
Romantic Drama
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Producers: Chris Curling, Marian
Macgowan
Cast: Guy Pearce
Status: Pre production
A beautiful stage psychic attempts to con
the famous Harry Houdini but instead a
passionate love affair takes hold.
THE SHADOW CHASER
Thriller
Director: Thaddeus O’Sullivan
Producers: Michael Mailer, Kirk D’Amico
Cast: Samuel L Jackson
A high level security expert finds himself in
Italy desperate to find a beautiful and
famous novelist who is protecting her own
secret.
DARK MATTER
Drama
Director: Chen Shi-Zheng
Producer: Mary Salter, Kirk D’Amico
Cast: Val Kilmer, Meryl Streep
Inspired by a true story, a young Chinese
student comes to the US to study the
origins of the universe and dreams of
winning the Nobel Prize for his ‘dark
matter’ theory.
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NEW FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
New Films International, 8484 Wilshire
Blvd., #510, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
USA.. Tel: 323.655.1050. Fax:
323.655.1070. www.newfilmsint.com,
At Cannes: Nesim Hason (President),
Ron Gell (Executive Vice President),
Radu Nicolau (President of Eastern
European Markets), Izak Saul (Vice
President of Asian + Latin American
Markets + Middle East), Stefania Vitali
(Vice President of Western European +
Australian Markets)
Office: Hotel Carlton, Rooms 164 + 165,
Tel: 33.493.06.4006. Fax:
33.493.06.4025
LIVING & DYING
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Jon Keeyes
Producer: Brandon Baker, Nesim Hason,
Ron Gell
Key Cast: Edward Furlong, Michael
Madsen, Arnold Vosloo
Two killers turn the tables on a trio of
bank robbers. Unexpectedly finding
themselves in a hostage situation and
surrounded by police, the robbers are
forced to become the heroes and save the
hostages before they are executed.
BLOODY NUMBERS
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Arthur Anderson
Producer: Nesim Hason, Ron Gell,
Suzanne Zizzi, Christopher May, Katrina
Nahikian
A young woman must come to grips with
a strange supernatural gift in order to
track down the serial killer who
murdered her sister and still remains at
large.
LAURA SMILES
Thriller (98 min)
Director: English
Language: Jason Ruscio
Producer: Ted Hartley, Ric Arthur
Key Cast: Petra Wright, Mark Derwin,
Kip Pardue
A riveting, cinematically clever and
ironic tale of a woman’s attempt to
invent her life after a shocking loss, and
how it spins out of control through a
series of sexual adventures.
NEW LINE CINEMA
NEW ZEALAND FILM
New Line Cinema, 116 N. Robertson
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA. Tel:
310.854.5811. Fax: 310.659.4712.
www.newline.com
At Cannes: Rolf Mittweg (President and
Chief Operating Officer of Worldwide
Distribution and Marketing), Camela
Galano (President, New Line
International), Nestor Nieves (Executive
Vice President - New Line
International), Robert Remley (Senior
Vice President, International Marketing),
Elena Cahalan (Vice President,
International Contracts), Tracy Lorie
(Senior Vice President, International
Publicity), Carolyn Blackwood (Senior
Vice President, Business & Legal
Affairs)
Office: Residence Croisette Miramar, 67
rue la Croisette, 9th Floor, 06400
Cannes. Tel: 33(0)4.93.94.09.52. Fax:
33(0)4.93.45.92.25.
HAIRSPRAY
Musical
Director: Adam Shankman
Producers: TBD
Cast: John Travolta, Queen Latifah,
Billy Crystal
It’s 1962 – the 50’s are out and change is
in the air. Tracey Turnblad, a big girl
with big hair and an even bigger heart,
has only one passion – dancing.
NATIVITY
Drama
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Producers: TBD
Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Shohreh
Aghdashloo, Nadin Sawalha, Oscar
Isaac is in negotiations
Christmas: A day of giving and joy, of
family and celebration. A day so etched
in our collective consciousness that is
known in virtually every culture around
the world, even non-Christian cultures.
MIMZY
Sci-Fi Epic
Director: Robert Shaye
Producers: TBD
Cast: Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton,
Michael Clarke Duncan, Rhiannon Leigh
Wryn, Chris O’Neil
In the tradition of E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial and Close Encounters of the
Third Kind, MIMZY tells the
extraordinary story of a family’s
experience with a universe beyond their
imaginations.
New Zealand Film, Level 2, The Film
Centre, 119 Jervois Quay, Wellington,
New Zealand. Tel: 644.382.7680. Fax:
At Cannes: Ruth Harley (CEO, New
Zealand Film Commission), Kathleen
Drumm (Head of Sales and Marketing),
Caroline Grose (Head of Development),
Catherine Juniot (Business and Legal
Affairs)
Office: New Zealand Film, 1st Floor,
Residence Gray d’Albion, 17 La
Croisette/4 Rue des Serbes (entrance Rue
des Serbes), Tel: 04.93.68.82.29. Fax:
04.93.39.31.76 Contact: Kathleen
Drumm, (French Mobile:
06.22.85.59.12), Ruth Harley
06.26.91.79.24, Kathleen Drumm
06.22.85.59.12, Caroline Grose
06.20.63.34.60, Catherine Juniot
06.22.85.62.58
BLACK SHEEP
Horror Comedy
Directed by: Jonathan King
Producer: Philippa Campbell
There are 40 million sheep in New
Zealand… and they’re pissed off! On a
vast sheep station a reckless genetic
engineering experiment goes horribly
wrong, turning sheep into blood thirsty
killers.
EAGLE VS SHARK
Comedy Drama
Directed by: Taika Waititi
Producer: Ainsley Gardiner, Cliff Curtis
Cast: Loren Horsley, Jemaine Clement
Status: Post production
Finding love means loving who you
really are.
ROBERT SARKIES ARAMOANA
PROJECT **WORKING TITLE
ONLY**
Drama
Directed by: Robert Sarkies
Producer: Tim White, Steven O’Meagher
Cast: Karl Urban
Status: Post production
The peaceful innocence of a tiny seaside
village is shattered by the actions of one
man.
Carlton Hotel Office 149 Tel 04 • 93 • 06 • 41 • 49
NONSTOP SALES AB
Nonstop Sales AB, Döbelnsgatan 24, SE113 52 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel:
46(0)8.673.99.80. Fax: 46(0)8.673.99.88.
[email protected],
www.nonstopsales.net
Company Type: International Sales
Agent
At Cannes: Michael Werner (Sales
Director) (Mobile 46.70.733.28.55),
Judith Toth (Sales Marketing Manager)
(Mobile 46.704.169983), Karin Thun
(Sales Executive) (Mobile
46.704.16.99.89)
Office: Scandinavian Film Stand
FROSTBITE (FROSTBITEN)
Vampire (98 min)
Language: Swedish, German
Director: Anders Banke
Producer: Magnus Paulsson, Solid
Entertainment
Cast: Petra Nielsen (THE POLICE
MURDERER), Jonas Karlström, CarlÅke Eriksson (THE SIMPLE-MINDED
MURDERER)
Origin: Sweden
Annika and her teenage daughter Saga
have just moved to a small town in
northern Sweden to make a new start in
life. Slowly it becomes clear that the
sleepy town carries a dark secret.
NINA’S JOURNEY (NINAS RESA)
Drama (125 min)
Language: Swedish, Polish (German)
Director: Lena Einhorn
Producer: Kaska Krosny, East of West
Film AB
Cast: Agnieszka Grochowska (WARSAW
by Dariusz Gajewski) , Maria Chwalibóg
(KORCZAK by Andrzej Wajda, A
LONELY WOMAN by Agnieska
Holland), Andrzej Brzeski (HOLY
WEEK by Andrzej Wajda)
Origin: Sweden
The true story of Nina Einhorn’s life
from the childhood in 1930’s Poland to
her death in Sweden.
NEW YORK WAITING
Romantic Drama (96 min)
Director: Joachim Hedén
Producer: Jonas Sörensson, Way Feature
Films, Sonet Film
Cast: Chris Steward, Annie Woods,
Katrina Nelson
Origin: Sweden
A story of a first meeting and a second
chance.
NOTRO FILMS
Notro Films, Lincoln 11, 3º 4ª,
Barcelona, 08006 Spain. Tel:
34.93.567.0505. Fax: 34.93.567.0504.
www.notrofilms.com
At Cannes: Jose María Irisarri (Chairman
/ Partner / Management), Adolfo Blanco
(CEO / Partner / Buyer), Eduardo
Escudero (Operations Manager)
Office: Apartment Heinz, La Brise 24, La
Croisette 1st Floor, Tel: 33.4.93.39.30.58
HONOR OF THE KNIGHTS AKA
QUIXOTIC (HONOR DE
CAVALLERÍA)
Drama (110 min)
Language: Catalan
Director: Albert Serra
Co-Production Partners: Albert Serra
Producer: Albert Serra
Key Cast: Lluis Carbó, Lluis Serrat
Origin: Spain
Officially selected for Directors’
Fortnight Cannes International Film
Festival section, it’s a poetic free
adaptation of Cervantes’ novel “Don
Quixote.”
WITHOUT YOU (SIN TI)
Drama (97’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Raimon Masllorens
Co-Production Partners: Raimon
Masllorens
Producer: Raimon Masllorens
Key Cast: Ana Fernández, Pep Munné
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Origin: Spain
Written by Alicia Luna (“Take My
Eyes”) it tells Lucia’s story, wife and
mother of two children whom an absurd
domestic accident forces her to do what
she had never before dared: face herself.
HOLE (ZULO)
Thriller (82’)
Director: Spanish
Language: C. Martin Ferrera
Producer: Adria Gomez Marco
Key Cast: Jaume García Arija
Origin: Spain
Miguel, an ordinary guy on his way to
work like any other day, is kidnapped
and imprisoned in a tiny well.
NOVA WORLD SALES
Nova World Sales, Krizeneckeho nam.
1078/5, Prague 5, 152 00, Czech
Republic. Tel: 420.24.24.24.578. Fax:
420.24.24.24.576. [email protected]
At Cannes: Eliska Fuchsova (Head of
Sales)
Office: Czech Republic - Polish - Slovak
RAFTERS
Teenage Comedy (104 min)
Language: Czech (English subtitles)
Director: Karel Janak
Producer: Adam Dvorak
Co-production partners: TV Nova
Cast: Vojta Kotek, Jiri Madl, Milan
Steindler, Veronika Freimannova, Bela
Sarayova
Budget: 1 000 000 $
Origin: Czech Republic
A teenage comedy viewed ove rone
summer, dealing with friendship,
adrenaline and sex.
WRONG SIDE UP
Feature Film (107 min)
Language: Czech (English subtitles)
Director: Petr Zelenka
Producer: Pavel Strnad
Co-production partners: CP 2000,
Pegasoso Film, Sissart
Cast: Ivan trojan, Zuzana Sulajova, Nina
Diviskova, Miroslav Krobot
Budget: 1 000 000 $
Origin: Czech Republic
Comedy of manners where a love story is
an excuse to meet people in search of
love and understanding, people desperate
to make contact with each other.
Cannes 2006
Tel: 04 93 06 41 49
NU IMAGE /
MILLENNIUM FILMS
Nu Image / Millennium Films, 6423
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
90048 USA. Tel: 310.388.6900. Fax:
310.388.6901.
At Cannes: Danny Dimbort (Co
Chairman), Avi Lerner (Co Chairman),
David Sobieraj (President Domestic
Video & Television), Carole
DeLosSantos (Executive VP Int’l Sales
& Distribution), Adele Yoshioka (VP
International Distribution), Christian
Mercuri (Vice President), Inc Pagliuca
(International Marketing & Sales)
Office: Hilton Cannes / Suite 302, Tel:
33.4.92.99.70.00. Fax 33.4.92.99.70.11
TIL DEATH BASED ON THE FILM
ELECTION BY FAMED DIRECTOR
JOHNNY TO
Director: TBA
Producer: Moshe Diamant
Starring: Jean Claude Van Damme
Just out of a coma, a crooked cop must
find a way to put the pieces of his life
together, take down his would-be killer
and re-connect with his estranged wife.
RAMBO 4
Director: TBA
Starring: Sylvester Stallone
Status: Pre Production
John Rambo is back in the latest action
packed installment of the popular film
series.
HOME OF THE BRAVE
Director: Irwin Winkler
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Christina
Ricci, Jessica Biel and Curtis “50 Cent”
Jackson
A group of Iraqi war veterans return home
only to realize that war has changed them
in ways they can’t explain.
THE KING OF CALIFORNIA
Director: Michael Cahill
Starring: Michael Douglas and Evan
Rachel Wood
When a precocious teenager is reunited
with her eccentric father, she
accompanies him on an exciting hunt for
buried Spanish treasure.
DAY OF THE DEAD
Director: Steve Miner (Halloween H20,
Friday the 13th, Part 2, 3D)
Starring: TBA
The remake of the classic horror film.
RIN TIN TIN
Director: Danny Lerner
Starring: Armand Assante
Based on the true story of a remarkable
German Shepherd who is rescued by a
WWI soldier and becomes a symbol of
hope when the nation needed a hero.
THE DEATH & LIFE OF BOBBY Z
Director: John Herzfeld
Starring: Paul Walker, Laurence Fishburne
A hapless ex-con finds his life in danger
after being called upon to impersonate a
highly successful drug dealer.
JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE
NIGHT
Director: Eric Eason
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Mos Def,
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Alice Braga
and Scott Glenn
A thriller of betrayal and redemption
which pits a tortured son against his father
as they separately develop plans to escape
the lurid South American underworld of
drugs, sex and money.
LONELY HEARTS
Director: Todd Robinson
Starring: John Travolta, James Gandolfini,
Jared Leto, Salma Hayek and Laura Dern
A cop is obsessed with catching a
murderous couple in the seedy world of
1940s Florida
THE CONTRACT
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: John Cusack and Academy
Award ® winner Morgan Freeman
A small town man puts everyone around
him at risk by bringing a notorious
assassin to justice.
ZOMBIES
Director: Joe Cardone
Starring: Chloe Moretz, Scout Taylor
A battered wife moves her two children to
a remote family estate to find herself in a
desperate struggle to save her family from
an ambush of monstrous zombies.
THE INQUIRY
Director: Giulio Base
Starring: Dolph Lundgren, F. Murray
Abraham, Max Von Sydow, Monica Cruz
and Daniele Liotti
The Roman Emperor sends an Army
General to Jerusalem shortly after the
crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth to
investigate the myths and mysterious
occurrences surrounding his life and
death.
O
OASIS
INTERNATIONAL
Oasis International, 6 Pardee Ave, Suite
101, Toronto, Canada M6K 3H5. Tel:
416.588.6821. Fax: 416.588.7276.
www.oasisinternational.com, email:
[email protected]
Company Type: International and
Domestic Distribution Company
At Cannes: Peter Emerson (President),
Valerie Cabrera (Executive VP), Prentiss
Holman (Director of International Sales),
Ben Bishop (Sales Executive)
Office:
EXONERATED
Docu/Drama (1 x 90 mins)
Language: English
Producers: Greg Schultz and Steven
Tabakin
Executive Producer: Bob Balaban, Allan
Buchman
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Danny Glover,
Brian Dennehy, Delroy Lindo and Aiden
Quinn
A stunning exposé of the American
Criminal Justice System gone horribly
wrong.
NEIL
Feature Drama (90 mins)
Language: English
Producers: A Thousand Lights Dark Inc.
Starring: Greg Bryk (A History of
Violence, Shoot ‘em Up), Mary Krohnert
(Soul Food)
The only thing between Neil and selfdestruction is the mysterious appearance
of Anna who slowly reveals the
disturbing but vague details of his past
and offers him something he has never
had – a future.
EVIL BREED: THE LEGEND OF
SAMHAIN
Horror (1 x 90 mins)
Language: English
Producers: Dawne Everett, Carmelo
Caruana
Starring: Jenna Jameson, Richard Grieco,
Bobbi Phillips
An ancient cannibalistic cult reappears
after being hidden from civilization for
centuries.
OCHAVO STUDIOS
Ochavo Studios, 275 Route 10 East
Building 220 No. 346, Succasunna, NJ
07876 USA. Tel: 908.852.5991. Fax:
908.852.7640. www.ochavostudios.com,
At Cannes: Gaspar Hernandez III
(Producer & Sales), Mary E. Rauscher
(Acquisition & Sales), Donald Nussbaum
(Legal & Finance)
Office: Palais Stand 22.05, Tel:
33.4.92.99.80.34
INNER RAGE
http://www.ochavostudios.com
Action, Crime (113 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Gaspar Hernandez III
Producer: Gaspar Hernandez III, Donald
M. Nussbaum
Key Cast: Joe Estevez, William Smith,
Kevin T. Collins, Andrew Roth
Budget 500K
Origin: USA
A group of criminals hiding from the
law, inside a bordello, find themselves
trapped as their leader relishes in the
tormenting and sadistic killings of those
around him.
WORDS
Horror (100 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Gaspar Hernandez III
M. Nussbaum
Key Cast: Joe Estevez
Budget 1.5M
Origin: USA
Trading in the corporate life for a rural
one to write her first horror novel, a
woman loses control as her writing opens
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a dark door and what she writes actually
starts to happen, each keystroke bringing
to life unspeakable horrors.
DEATH RUN
Action, Adventure, Horror (100 Minutes)
Director: English
Language: Gaspar Hernandez III
M. Nussbaum
Budget 6.0M
Dead, bigoted police officers rule and
terrorize Death Run Road, a barren two
hundred mile stretch through the
unforgiving heat of Death Valley.
ODD LOT
INTERNATIONAL
Odd Lot International, 368 N. La
Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048
USA. Tel: 310.652.0999. Fax:
310.6520718. www.oddlotent.com
At Cannes: Gigi Pritzker (C.E.O.), Brian
O’Shea (EVP Worldwide Distribution),
Laura Ivey (EVP Business and Legal
Affairs)
Office: # 758
RETURN TO SENDER
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Mimi Leder
Producers: Gigi Pritzker, Deborah Del
Prete
Cast: TBD
Status: Pre-production (Start Date:
09/2006)
A father and son who have been
estranged most of their lives are
challenged to go their separate ways
forever or reconcile when they both fall
in love with the same woman.
ODYSSEY
ENTERTAINMENT
LIMITED
Odyssey Entertainment Limited, 10A
James Street, London WC2E 8BT, UK.
Tel: 44.207.520.5610. Fax:
44.207.520.5611. [email protected]
At Cannes: Ralph Kamp (Chairman &
CEO), Louise Goodsill (President &
COO), Pascal Degove (Head of Sales),
Sarah Arnott (VP Acquisitions), James
Scott (Sales & Contracts Executive),
Matthew Hampton (Marketing
Consultant)
Acquisition Executive: Christopher Bird,
VP Acquisitions
Office: Motor Yacht ‘Bay View’, Quai
Albert-Edouard, Tel: 334.92.98.71.72.
Fax: 334.92.98.71.72
AUGUST RUSH
Family
Language: English
Director: Kirsten Sheridan
Producer: Richard B. Lewis
Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Keri
Russell, Freddie Highmore, Robin
Williams
Origin: USA
This uplifting and magical modern
Fairytale tells the story of a 10 year old
orphan whose amazing musical Gifts
serve to reunite him with his long lost
parents.
FADE TO BLACK
Thriller (104 Mins)
Language: English
Director: Oliver Parker
Producer: Barnaby Thompson, Jonathan
Olsberg
Cast: Danny Huston, Diego Luna, Paz
Vega, Christopher Walken
Origin: UK, Serbia, Italy
Rome 1948. When an actor is killed on
his set, Orson Welles is drawn into a
dangerous web of shady dealings,
political scheming and murder.
RENAISSANCE
Animation (95 mins)
Language: English
Director: Christian Volckman
Producer: Aton Soumache, Alexis Vonarb
Co-Production Partners: Onyx Films
Cast: Daniel Craig, Ian Holm, Jonathan
Pryce
Origin: France
A vivid thriller set in a troubled future
where a beautiful young scientist is
kidnapped. Her only chance Is a sombre
cop ensnared in a visionary Paris of the
future.
P
PATHE
DISTRIBUTION
Pathé Distribution, 10 rue Lincoln 75008
Paris, France. Tel: 33(0)1.40.76.91.69.
Fax: 33(0)1.40.76.91.94.
www.patheinternational.com, Email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Olivier Granier (CEO),
Christine Hayet (Deputy General
Manager International and Catalogue),
Antoine Cochet (Sales Executive),
Mayalen de Croisoeuil (Sales Executive),
Vivien Aslanian (Deputy General
Manager Video – Acquisitions), Nathalie
Villette (International Marketing
Manager)
Office: Résidences du Grand Hotel, 45
La Croisette, Apt. 4A Ibis, 06400
Cannes. Tel: 334.936.819.78. Fax:
334.936.846.59.
CAMPING
Comedy (95 min)
Language: French
Director: Fabien Onteniente
Production Company: Patrick Godeau –
Aliceleo
Cast: Gérard Lanvin, Mathilde Seigner,
Franck Dubosc
Status: completed
Budget: 14 M
It’s that holiday time of year again.
Between Bastille Day on July 14 and the
August 15 public holiday, life in France
goes on hold.
LA MAISON DU BONHEUR (A
HAPPY HOME)
Drama (103 mins)
Language: French
Director: Dany Boon
Producer: Claude BERRI
Cast: Michèle Laroque, Daniel Prévost,
Dany Boon
Status: completed
Budget: 9.5 M
A stingy husband decides to finally be
generous with his wife by buying her a
country house.
MES COPINES (GIRLFRIENDS)
Comedy (90 mins)
Language: French
Director: Sylvie Ayme
Production Company: Christophe
Cervoni, Mathias Rubin, Eric Juherian
Cast: Rossy de Palma, Patrick Braoudé
Status: completed
Budget: 4M
The first teenage movie 100% Girls!
PATHÉ LONDON
OFFICE
Pathé London Office, Kent House, 14-17
Market Place, London W1W 8AR UK.
Tel: 44207.462.4427. Fax:
44207.436.7891.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Mike Runagall (Head of
Pathé Pictures International) (Cell:
44.7949.074.552), Claire Taylor
(Consultant) (Cell: 44.7880.790.069),
Riaya Aboul Ela (Marketing and
Publicity Manager) (Cell:
44.7977.197.411), Sarah Lucas (Sales
Assistant) (Cell: 44.7917.528.741)
Office: Résidences du Grand Hotel, 45
La Croisette, Apt. 4A/E Ibis, 06400
Cannes, France. Tel: 334.9368.1978. Fax:
334.9368.4659
THE WALKER
Drama
Language: English
Director: Paul Schrader
Producers: Deepak Nayar
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott
Thomas, Lauren Bacall
Status In Production
Origin: UK
In the opulent world of Washington’s
political upper crust, one man’s passion
for the good things in life entrench him
in a world of betrayal and murder.
MICHAEL APTED FOOTBALL
PROJECT (WORKING TITLE)
Feature Documentary
Language: English
Director: Michael Apted
Producers: Eileen Gregory, Ben
Goldhirsh
Status In Production
Origin: UK/USA
Set against the powerful imagery,
physical beauty and blazing action of the
game of football, six stories intertwine in
a dramatic and moving examination of
the social impact of the game across the
world.
DIRTY SANCHEZ: THE MOVIE
Reality Comedy
Language: English
Director: Jim Hickey
Producers: Rupert Preston, Bobby Allen
Cast: Lee Dainton, Michael “Pancho”
Locke, Matthew Pritchard, Dan Joyce
Status In Post-Production
Origin: UK
The Devil has rounded up the Sanchez
boys to set them the ultimate challenge to travel the world in search of the Seven
Deadly Sins.
PEACE ARCH FILMS
Peace Arch Films, 5-11 Mortimer Street,
3rd Floor, London W1T 3JB UK. Tel:
44(0)20.7299.3721. Fax:
44(0)20.7299.3728. Email:
[email protected],
www.peacearch.com
At Cannes: Penny Wolf (Managing
Director), Lissa Lebel (Director of
International Sales), Jana Kralikova
(International Marketing Manager),
Tasha Pearson (Legal & Business
Affairs)
Office: Hotel Majestic 139-140, Tel:
33(0)4.97.06.85.40. Fax:
33(0)4.97.06.85.41
DELIRIOUS
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Tom Dicillo
Producer: Bob Salerno
Leading Cast: Steve Buscemi, Alison
Lohman, Michael Pitt
Status: In Post Production
A down-at-heel paparazzo befriends and
hires as an assistant; a young homeless
man dreaming to become the lover of a
famous pop siren.
CHAPTER 27
Drama
Language: English
Director: Jarrett Schaefer
Producer: Bob Salerno
Leading Cast: Jared Leto, Lindsay Lohan
Status: In Post-Production
A terrifying glimpse into the deranged
mind of Mark David Chapman during the
days leading up to his murder of John
Lennon.
GUANTANAMERO (FORMERLY
‘ARRITMIA’)
Thriller
Language: English, Spanish
Director: Vincente Penarrocha
Producer: Michiyo Yoshizaki
Leading Cast: Rupert Evans, Sir Derek
Jacobi, Natalia Verbeke
Status: In Post-Production
Production Country: Spain
A chilling yet sensitive insight into the
mind of an ambivalent captor at an
internment camp as he struggles to
separate fantasy from reality.
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PFG
ENTERTAINMENT
PFG Entertainment, Inc., 429 Santa
Monica Boulevard, Suite 600, Santa
Monica, California 90401 USA. Tel:
310.393.5788. Fax: 310.393.0882.
www.pfgentertainment.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Ted Rosenblatt
Office: Carlton Intercontinental Hotel,
Suite 201, Tel: 04.93.06.42.01 /
04.93.06.82.01
THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM
GORDON
Thriller
To be directed by Nick Mastandrea (The
Breed)
Delivery Status: In Pre-Production
Adapted from Stephen King’s bestselling
novel by Executive Producers and
Writers, George Romero and Steven
King, chronicles a young girl’s
confrontation with panic and terror while
lost in a forest filled with her worst fears.
CUBA—LOST AND FOUND
Romantic Comedy
To be directed by John Roberts
(DreamWorks’ Paulie)
Delivery Status: In Pre-Production
A return visit to Havana by two very
competitive twenty-something daughters
of a Cuban mother and Scottish father
result in a series of social calamities and
sexual trysts that no tourist guide could
have ever predicted!
COME AS YOU ARE
Romantic Comedy
Director: Chuck Rose
Producer: Echo Gaffney and Chuck Rose
Status: Completed
Eight old college friends…three bizarre
days…one embarrassing secret…
PORCHLIGHT
ENTERTAINMENT
Porchlight Entertainment, 11777
Mississippi Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
90025 USA. Tel: 310.477.8400. Fax:
310.477.5555. www.porchlight.com,
At Cannes: Adam Wright (SVP
Worldwide Sales)
Office: Riviera J8, Tel: 9299-3241
THE KID AND I
Comedy (93’)
Language: English
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Co-Production Partners: Brad Wyman
Productions
Producer: Penelope Spheeris, Brad
Wyman, Tom Arnold
Key Cast: Tom Arnold, Eric Gores,
Linda Hamilton, Henry Winkler,
Shannon Elizabeth, Joe Mantegna
Origin: USA
Bill Williams is hired to write a sequel to
the action film that made him famous,
but his new co-star is a rich kid with no
acting experience.
RENART THE FOX
Animation (90’)
Language: English
Director: Theirry Schiel
Producer: Sophia Kolokouri, Thierry
Schiel
Origin: Luxembourg
In his quest for an elusive treasure,
Renart must use his quick mind to
triumph over brute strength and the
incompetence of his motley gang of
associates.
IMAGINUM
Animation (82’)
Director: Spanish
Language: Alberto Mar, Isaac Sandoval
Capuccino
Producer: Fernando De Fuentes
Origin: Mexico
Three crazy aliens are forced by an even
crazier alien called Yxxxxx to break
loose from the space nuthouse in which
they live, all with the sole purpose of
conquering the universe.
PUERTO RICO FILM
COMMISSION
Puerto Rico Film Commission, 355 FD
Roosevelt Ave. Suite 106, Hato Rey, PR
00918. Tel: 787.758.4747. Fax:
787.756.5706. M 787.376.1138.
At Cannes: Luis A. Riefkohl Miranda
(Executive Director of the Commission),
Cristina Caraballo (Marketing Manager)
Office: 22.12 at the Palais, level 1, Tel:
34.664.36.53.24
PROYECTO 54
Drama, 110 minutes
Language: Spanish
Director: Roberto Busó
Producer: Alquimia Films
Origin: Puerto Rico
A challenging look at the complexities of
contemporary foreign policy, detailing
the attack on the US Congress by Puerto
Rican Nationalists in 1954.
FILIBERTO: DEAD OR ALIVE
Documentary
Language: Spanish
Director: Leandro Fabrizi
Producer: Freddie Marrero
Co-production partners: None
Origin: Puerto Rico
The violent death of Filiberto highlighted
the colonial condition of Puerto Rico.
COCOROTE
Drama (110 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: Christian Suau
Producer: Adrianne Franciscus and
Patricia Beato
Co-production partners: Buena Onda
Films
Budget: 1 MM
Origin: Puerto Rico
When the drug lord of La Perla is busted
and convicted to death row, his younger
brother, Papito, has to fill his shoes,
creating an underworld uprising against
the system as his best defense.
Q
QED
INTERNATIONAL
QED International, 9595 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 800, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 USA.
Tel: 310.273.3004. Fax: 310.273.3006.
Kimberly Fox mobile:310.447.4424
At Cannes: Bill Block (CEO), Paul
Hanson (COO), Kimberly Fox (SVP
Worldwide Distribution) mobile:
310.447.4424, Tatyana Joffe (VP
International Distribution) mobile:
310.666.5061, Nicolina Liddi (Sales
Coordinator) mobile: 323.244.3214,
Elliot Ferwerda (VP Production)
Office: 67 La Croisette, 7th Floor, Tel:
33.04.9346.8013
SPRING BREAK IN BOSNIA
Language: English
Director: Richard Shepard
Producers: Mark Johnson (Gran Via
Productions), Scott Kroopf (InterMedia),
Bill Block (QED International)
Origin: US
A disgraced reporter convinces his
former cameraman and an inexperienced
young journalist to accompany him on a
dangerous mission to find a Bosnian war
criminal in hiding.
R
RAI TRADE
Rai Trade (Sales), Via Umberto Novaro
18, 00195 Rome, Italy. Tel:
39.06.374.98469. Fax: 39.06.375.16222.
www.raitrade.it, E-mail: [email protected]
At Cannes: Sesto Cifola (Head of
Cinema and Fiction International Sales),
Catia Rossi (Cinema and Fiction Sales
Executive)
Office: Italia Pavilion (Riviera C7-C9 / D
2-D4)
THE SECOND WEDDING NIGHT
(LA SECONDA NOTTE DI NOZZE)
Comedy (103’)
Language: Italian, English subtitles
Director: Pupi Avati
A Duea Film and RAI Cinema
production
Cast: Antonio Albanese, Neri Marcorè,
Katia Ricciarelli
The Apulia Region in the period
immediately following the Second World
War. All revolves around the strange
character of Giordano Ricci.
FIRE AT MY HEART ( FUOCO SU
DI ME)
Feature Film / Costume (184’)
Director: Lamberto Lambertini
Language: Italian, English subtitles
A Indrapur Cinematografica, Stella Film,
RAI Cinema and Focus Film production
Cast: Omar Sharif
The film is set in Naples 1815, during
the last months of the Reign of Joaquin
Murat. It is a violent period when the
King has to face a rebellious population.
THE LAST UTOPIA – ROBERTO
ROSSELLINI
Documentary (90’)
Director: Jean Louis Comolli
A co-production Vivo Films (Italy) TV 5,
Ina, Cinecinema and the contribution of
Rai Trade and Istituto Luce
At the start of the sixties, Roberto
Rossellini, the most famous of the Italian
Film directors decided to turn away from
the conventional film industry to devote
himself to an immense project. .
RENEGADE
PICTURES
Renegade Pictures, 10203 Santa Monica
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA. Tel:
310.843.0223. Fax: 310.553.9895.
www.crystalsky.com /renegadefilms.htm,
At Cannes: Patrick Ewald (President
Renegade Pictures), Shaked Berenson
(Director of Sales)
Office: Inter-Continental Carlton
Cannes, Suites: 223 & 222, 58 La
Croisette, BP 155, 06406 Cannes Cedex,
France, Tel: 334.93.06.82.23. Fax:
334.93.06.40.25
THE PLEASURE DRIVERS
Crime-Thriller
Language: English
Director: Andrzej Sekula (Cube 2)
Producer: Timothy Patrick Cavanaugh
Cast: Billy Zane, Angus MacFayden,
Lauren Holly, Lacey Chabert, Meat Loaf
Status: Finished Film
Budget: $4 Million
In this crime-thriller, a vicious hit
woman, a nymphomaniac call girl, an
adulterous therapist, and a desperate
kidnapper all find themselves on a
collision course with each other in the
underbelly of Los Angeles.
TEN ‘TIL NOON
Crime-Thriller
Language: English
Director: Scott Storm (Burn)
Cast: Alfonso Freeman (Shawshank
Redemption, Nurse Betty), Jenya Lano
(Stealing Candy, S.W.A.T, Blade),
Thomas Kopache (Catch Me If You Can,
Leaving Las Vegas)
Status: Completed
Budget: $1 Million
A jet-lagged Larry Taylor awakens to
find two strangers in his bedroom, and
over the next ten minutes, will
experience the most terrifying and
possibly final moments of his life.
SHADOWS
Horror
Language: English
Director: Adam Mason (Broken)
Producer: Steven Paul
Cast: Andrew Howard, Elize du Toit,
Matt Berry
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Budget: $7 Million
A psychology teacher takes a group of
students to an abandoned asylum where
they become the victims of their own
experiment.
REVELATION
INTERNATIONAL
Revelation International, 21 rue
Dautancourt, Paris 75017 France. Tel:
33.1.42.29.60.40. Fax: 33.1.42.29.15.5,
www.ldistribution.com/worldsales, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Charles Ganem (Head of
Sales), Amihai David Gat (Acquisitions),
Johanna Teichmann (Sales Assistant)
33(0)4.92.99.33.21
WE SHOULD NOT EXIST (ON NE
DEVRAIT PAS EXISTER)
Drama (90 min)
Language: French
Director: HPG
Co-Production Partners: Laurent
Bagnard-Viotti, Patrick Giordano
Producer: HPG
Key Cast: HPG, LZA, Rachida Brakni
Budget 1000000 Euro
Origin: France
The star of the porn industry decides to
change his life.
WASTED! (FRACASSÉS!)
Trash Comedy (87 min)
Language: French
Director: Franck Llopis
Producer: Franck Llopis, Julien Guéris
Key Cast: Vincent Desagnat, Edouard
Montoute, Alysson Paradis
Budget 1,8 Mill Euro
Origin: France
24 hours in the life of Pedro, the “nicest”
cannabis dealer in Paris.
A CITY IS BEAUTIFUL AT NIGHT
(UNE VILLE C’EST BEAU LA NUIT)
Drama (90’)
Director: French
Language: Richard Bohringer
Producer: Richard Bohringer, Denis
Charvet
Key Cast: Richard Bohringer, Robinson
Stevenin, Romane Bohringer
Budget 3 Mill Euro
Origin: France
David follows Richard and his band
through three continents; a rich
experience for both of men.
Cannes 2006
Tel: 04 93 06 41 49
RIGEL
ENTERTAINMENT
Rigel Entertainment, 4201 Wilshire
Blvd., Suite 555, Los Angeles, California
90010, USA. Tel: 323.954.8555. Fax:
323.954.8592. www.rigel.tv, email:
[email protected]
Company Type: Producer and
Distributor
At Cannes: John Laing (President),
Kristie Smith, Bryan Hambleton, Sherrie
Guerrero
RAZOR
Language: English
Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Richard Moll
Delivery Status: Pre Production
Razor is a quirky thriller with a yelloweyed monster Razor, a prehistoric wild
Hyena that devours non-puritan souls.
CONFESSIONS OF A
SOCIOPATHIC SOCIAL CLIMBER
II
Comedy/Drama (1 x 90 min)
Language: English
Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt
12 HOURS TO LIVE
Drama (1 x 90 min)
Language: English
Cast: Ione Skye
18 year old Amy is kidnapped by a
ruthless killer. To complicate matters,
Amy is a diabetic and if she doesn’t get
an insulin shot in a few hours, she will
fall into a coma and die.
RIKI SHELACH
PRODUCTIONS LTD
Riki Shelach Productions Ltd, 18
Hanatziv St., Tel Aviv, Israel. 67018. Tel:
972.36243050. Fax: 972.36243151.
[email protected]
Company Type: Film Production
Company
At Cannes: Mr. Riki Shelach
Office: Israeli pavilion
A TRUMPET IN THE WADI
Drama (97 min)
Language: Hebrew/ Arabic with English
Subtitles
Director: Lina & Slava Chaplin
Producer: Riki Shelach
Cast: Khawlah Hag –Debsy, Alexander
Sanderovich
origin: Israel
Budget: $510,000
An impossible love story between two
outsiders in Israeli society; Alex is a new
immigrant from Russia, and Huda is an
Arab young woman from Haifa.
2 MINUTES FROM FARADIS
Comedy (50 min)
Language: Hebrew with English
subtitles
Director: Danny Sirkin
Cast: Hishman Sliman, Efrat Boinwald,
Shmuel Viloz’ni, Nuly Omer
Origin: Israel
Budget:$200,000
A very funny love story between a
seventeen years old girl from ZichronYaakov and an Arab young boy from the
Arab village Faradis (2 minutes from
Zichron-Yaakov).
A BODY IN THE SAND
T.V. Drama (45 min)
Language: Hebrew with English
subtitles
Director: Riki Shelach
Cast: Ezra Dagan, Sassi Saad, Israel
Poliakov,
Origin: Israel
Budget: $140,000
Political thriller depicting a true story
which took place in Israel six years
before the state was inaugurated.
S
SCREEN MEDIA
VENTURES, LLC
Screen Media Ventures, LLC, 757 Third
Avenue, New York, NY 10017 USA. Tel:
212.308.1790. Fax: 212.308.1791.
www.screenmedia.net
At Cannes: Almira Malyshev (Senior
VP, International Sales), Michael Dwyer
(Director of International Sales), Robert
Baruc (President-Screen Media Films)
(Acquiring for US), Suzanne Blech
(Senior VP Sales & Acquisitions)
(Acquiring for US)
Office: Riviera: Stand F23
WHAT’S EATING GILBERT
GRAPE?
Drama (90 mins)
Directed by Lasse Hallstrom
Starring: Johnny Depp, Leonardo
DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis
Year: 1993
Despite all the crushing responsibility,
Gilbert perseveres. But will he ever be
able to live his own life?
SWIMMING WITH SHARKS
Comedy (101 mins)
Directed by George Huang
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley,
Benicio Del Toro
Year: 1994
In this black comedy, gullible Guy
(Frank Whaley) lands a job as personal
assistant to Buddy Ackerman (Kevin
Spacey), a repulsive, cutthroat studio
exec.
LETTERS FROM A KILLER
Thriller (103 mins)
Directed by David Carson
Starring Patrick Swayze, Gia Carides
Race Darnell (Patrick Swayze) sits on
death row for a felony he didn’t commit
and passes the time by corresponding
with four lonesome ladies via taperecorded “letters.”
SEVEN ARTS
INTERNATIONAL
Seven Arts International, 6310 San
Vicente Blvd. Suite 510, Los Angeles, CA
90048 USA. Tel: 323.634.0990. Fax:
323.634.1061. www.7artspictures.com,
At Cannes: Peter Hoffman (Chairman),
Daniel Diamond (Consultant), Kate
Hoffman (Executive Vice President),
Sandra Staggs (Sales & Marketing),
Justin Kelly (Business Affairs)
Office: M.Y. South Paw, Tel:
33(0)6.07.40.92.76
DEAL
Drama
Language: English
Director: Gil Cates Jr.
Producer: Michael Arata
Key Cast: Burt Reynolds, Bret Harrison,
Jennifer Tilly, Nick Carter, Shannon
Elizabeth, Mimi Rogers
Origin: USA
As an ex-gambler teaches a hot-shot
college kid some things about playing
cards, he finds himself pulled into the
world series of poker, where his protégé
is his toughest competition.
MIRROR WARS
Drama (112 mins)
Language: English
Director: Vasili Chiginsky
Producer: Oleg Kapanets
Key Cast: Armand Assante, Malcolm
Mcdowell, Olga Yakovtseva, Rutger
Hauer, Valeri Afanasyev
Budget $10 Million
Origin: Russia
Russian Air Force pilot Boris Korin,
acting under orders from rogue former
agent Murdoch, hijacks a Sukhoi fighter
at a Moscow air show in 2005.
NOISE
Black Comedy
Director: English
Language: Henry Bean
Producer: Susan Hoffman
Key Cast: Tim Robbins, Bridget
Moynahan, William Hurt
Origin: USA
A man, driven mad by the noise of New
York, finds himself caught in the most
impossible of conundrums.
HOME OF THE BRAVE - NU IMAGE
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SHOCHIKU CO., LTD.
Shochiku co., ltd., 4-1-1 Tsukiji, Togeki
Bldg. 12th Floor, Chuo-ku 104-8422
Tokyo, Japan. Tel: 813.5550.1623. Fax:
813.5550.1654. Email:
[email protected],
http://www.shochikufilms.com (English)
At Cannes: Teruki Matsumoto (Director),
Masaki Koga (Head of International
Business Division), Kazunori Moriguchi
(Acquisitions Manager), Satoko Ishida
(Assistant Manager Sales), Kiwamu Sato
(Assistant Manager Sales), Junko
Kawaguchi (Assistant Manager Sales)
Office: Residence du Grand Hotel 1C &
1E Albatros
HANA (HANAYORI MO NAO)
Drama / Samurai
Director / Writer: Kore-eda Hirokazu
(Nobody Knows, After Life)
Starring: Junichi Okada (Tokyo Tower,
Fly, Daddy, Fly), Rie Miyazawa (The
Twilight Samurai, Ashura), Tadanobu
Asano (Cafe Lumiere, Zatoichi)
The story follows a young samurai, fated
to avenge his father’s death. Will he
choose vengeance and honor, or will he
choose life?
SEA WITHOUT EXIT (DEGUCHI
NO NAI UMI)
Drama
Director: Kiyoshi Sasabe (Half a
Confession – Han ochi)
Based on the story by Hideo Yokoyama
Starring: Ebizo Ichikawa (Kabuki Actor),
Yusuke Iseya (CASSHERN, Distance)
Koji Namiki, a talented young pitcher,
enters university, but soon afterwards
injures his elbow, but hopes to get on the
field with his teammates.
YOJI YAMADA PROJECT (BUSHI
NO ICHIBUN)
Drama / Samurai
Director: YOJI YAMADA (The Twilight
Samurai)
Starring: Takuya Kimura (2046, Howel’s
Moving Castle-voice)
The third of the Samurai Trilogy. The
film depicts a strong and deep love
between a young samurai, who loses his
eyesight during a mission, and his wife
who eventually sacrifices herself to save
her husband’s honor.
SHORELINE
ENTERTAINMENT
Shoreline Entertainment, 1875 Century
Park East, Suite 600, Los Angeles, CA
90067, USA. Tel: 310.551.2060. Fax:
310.201.0729.
[email protected],
www.shorelineentertainment.com
Company Type: Sales and Production
At Cannes: Brian Sweet (Director of
International Sales), Sam Eigen (Director
of World-Wide distribution), Morris
Ruskin (President), Chelsea Miller (Sales
Representative)
Office: 135, Tel: 423.663.060080
DARK CORNERS
Horror
Language: English
Director: Ray Gower
Producer: Nigel Thomas
Co-production partners: Shoreline
Entertainment, Matador Pictures
Cast: Thora Birch, Toby Stephens,
Christien Anholt
Delivery Status: In post-production, RFD
in May 2006
Budget: Independent Production
Origin: USA
A horror mindbender about a woman
who battles living two lives, one in her
dreams and one in reality, while stalked
by ugly creatures led by the twisted
monstrosity Needletooth.
THE FIFTH PATIENT
Thriller
Language: English
Director Amir Mann
Producer Amir Mann, Darren Moorman,
Morris Ruskin
Co-production partners: Shoreline
Entertainment
Cast: Nick Chinlund, Brendan Fehr,
Isaach DeBankole, Peter Bogdanovich
Delivery Status: In post-production, RFD
in 2006
Origin: USA
American John Reilly awakes to the
confusion and chaos of a remote African
hospital; his memory, his very identity
seemingly wiped from existence.
INSIDE OUT
Thriller (93 min)
Language: English
Director: David Ogden
Producer: Timothy Linh Bui
Co-production partners: Ogdenigma
Entertainment
Cast: Eriq La Salle, Steven Weber, and
Russell Wong
Origin: USA
When Dr. Peoples, a charming yet
bizarre psychologist, moves into an
idyllic suburban community the
neighborhood wives suddenly start
turning against their husbands and in
favor of the strange doctor.
SHOW EAST
Show East, 10F New Seoul B / D 618-3
Shinsa-dong, 618-3 Shinsa-dong,
Gangnam-gu Seoul 135-894 Korea
(South). Tel: 82(0)2.3446.9590. Fax:
82(0)2.3446.9620.
www.showeast.co.kr/eng
At Cannes: Michelle Son (Head of Int’l
Business), Jan Chung (Manager of Int’l
Business), Luna Choo (Assistant
Manager of Int’l Business)
Office: G3/H3, Tel: 06.24.34.95.51
OH! MY GOD
http://www.showeast.co.kr/eng/movie//oh
mygod/abstract.jsp
Comedy
Language: Korean
Director: Jung-Woo KIM
Co-Production Partners: CY Film Co.
Producer: Chang-Yong SONG
Key Cast: CHOI Sung-kook, Shinee
Budget 2.3 M US$
Origin: Korea
Playboy meets prosecutor! At a first
sight, Eun-joo, a tough prosecutor falls in
love with hopeless playboy Jung-hwan.
MOKDUGI VIDEO
http://www.showeast.co.kr/eng/movie//m
okdugi/abstract.jsp
Horror (53 minutes)
Language: Korean
Director: Jun-Hyung YUN
Co-Production Partners: Sio Film
Producer: Syd LIM
Key Cast: A-Ram YANG, Youn-Ho JO
Budget 150K US$
Origin: Korea
A hidden video camera captures a ghost
at a sub-urban motel and that leads to
reveal a shocking story behind the motel,
the murder and the haunted house.
THE COOK (WORKING TITLE)
Drama
Director: Korean
Language: Yun-Su JEON
Producer: D.J. Kim
Origin: Korea
A story about finding the best cook
among descendents of legendary chefs
and trying to achieve new legend through
the cooking competition. Based on the
story “Shik-Gaek”, a national best selling
comic book by HUR Young-man.
SHOWBOX /
MEDIAPLEX, INC.
Showbox / Mediaplex, Inc., 16F hansol
Bldg, 736-1, Yeoksam-Dong GangnamGu Seoul 135-983 Korea. Tel:
822.3218.5636. Fax: 822.3444.6688.
http://www.showbox.co.kr
At Cannes: JEONG Tae-sung (COO),
Judy AHN (VP of International
Business), Chris LEE (Acquisition
Executive), CHUNG Younghong (Coproduction Manager), Agnes LEE (Sales
Manager)
Office: Noga Hilton Cannes #306
NOW AND FOREVER
www.thelovetree.co.kr/
Drama (105 mins)
Language: Korea
Director: KIM Seong-jung
Producer: SEO Jun-won
Key Cast: CHOI Ji-woo, CHO Han-sun
Origin: Korea
A Story about a woman, who can’t love
anyone. And a man, who doesn’t want to
love anyone.
ALMOST LOVE
www.awoongdawoong.co.kr/
Drama (116 mins)
Language: Korea
Director: LEE Han
Producer: Han Sung-gu
Key Cast: KWON Sang-woo, KIM Haneul
Origin: Korea
Ji-hwan and Dal-rae, friends for 13
years. But their relationship starts
seesawing between a mere friendship
and a love.
FOR HOROWITZ (WORKING
TITLE)
Drama
Director: Korea
Language: KWON Hyung-gin
Producer: TCHA Seung-jae
Key Cast: UM Jung-wha, SHIN Eui-jae
Origin: Korea
Dream shattered pianist goes on with her
life by discovering a boy who is a
musical genius until she finds a secret
which will change her life forever.
SHOWCASE
ENTERTAINMENT
Showcase Entertainment, Warner Center,
21800 Oxnard Street, Suite 150,
Woodland Hills, California 91367 USA.
Tel: 818.715.7005. Fax: 818.715.7009.
www.showcaseentertainment.com
At Cannes: David A. Jackson
(President), Shauna Shapiro Jackson
(Executive Vice President), Scott Bedno
(Director of International Sales), Bruce
Livingston (Chief Financial Officer),
Leslee Jones-Allmon (VP -Worldwide
Distribution Services), Linda Paolucci
(Executive Assistant), Cara Shapiro
(Vice President- Acquisitions)
Office: Carlton Hotel – Suites 241 &
242, Tel: 33.4.93.06.4241
BETWEEN
Thriller / Lifetime Network Premiere in
U.S.!)
Starring Poppy Montgomery (co-star of
Nine Network’s “Without a Trace” with
Anthony LaPaglia) and Daniel Pino
(Nine Network’s “Cold Case”)
Nadine Roberts, a beautiful lawyer from
Chicago, travels alone to Tijuana,
Mexico in search of her missing sister.
Her investigation leads her on a mindbending adventure as she attempts to
unravel the compelling truth, which
lies…BETWEEN.
FLIGHT 29 DOWN
TV Series
Producers: Stan Rogow (TV’s “Lizzie
McGuire”) and DJ MacHale (“Are You
Afraid of the Dark”)
Follow these young castaways who are
stranded on a South Pacific island in this
new television series created for
DISCOVERY KIDS and airing on NBC.
ALCHEMY
Comedy/Romance (ABC Family
Primetime Premiere)
Directed by Evan Oppenheimer
Produced by Kenneth Schapiro
Stars Sarah Chalke (TV’s “Scrubs,
“Roseanne”), Thomas Cavanagh (TV’s
“Ed”), Illeana Douglas (“Ghost World,”
“To Die For”)
When a genius claims he invented a
computer capable of falling in love, it’s
man versus machine when his computer
is pitted against a real-life ladies man for
the affections of a beautiful woman.
CANNES 2006
SPI INTERNATIONAL
POLAND
SPI International Poland, ul.Tyniecka
38a, 02-621 Warsaw, Poland. Tel:
48.22.854.03.37. Fax: 48.22.848.45.70.
[email protected], www.spi.pl
Company Type:
distributor/producer/sales agent
At Cannes: Piotr Reisch (President), Ewa
Lipinska (General Manager), Anna
Traczewska (Marketing Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Piotr Reisch
Office: Tel: 48.603.193.820
SYMMETRY
Drama (99’)
Language: Polish/English subtitles
Director: Konrad Niewolski
Producer: SPI International, EM Studio
Co-production partners: Konrad
Niewolski, Radek Stys, Piotr Reisch
Cast: Arek Detmer, Andrzej Chyra,
Kinga Preis
Budget: 700.000 $
Origin: Poland
A prison drama. Lukasz, a young,
educated man gets arrested and is placed
in a cell with real criminals.
UBU ROI
Drama (90’)
Director: Piotr Szulkin
Producer: Euro Film
Cast: Jan Peszek, Kasia Figura
Budget: 800.000 $
Origin: Poland
Ubu, luring the mob with vision of
democracy and freedom, violently takes
over the power in the country. His cruel
and stupid reign are submitted only to
one cause - filling up his pouch.
NO MERCY
Action (116’)
Director: Wojciech Wojcik
Producer: SPI International Poland , TVP
Cast: Pawel Wilczak, Radoslaw Pazura,
OlafLubaszenko
Budget: 1.500.000 $
Origin: Poland
When a police general is assassinated in
Warsaw, the mafia is trying to control the
top political powers.
A rickshaw puller’s life is turned around
when he’s given a menial job with the
Union Carbide plant.
the dangerous and seductive life of New
Europe’s criminal underworld,
OUTLANDERS is a film about fast
money, easy women and desperate lives.
SPICE FACTORY
THE STEEL
COMPANY
SUMMIT
ENTERTAINMENT
The Steel Company, 9220 Sunset, Suite
212, Los Angeles, CA 90069 USA. Tel:
310.274.7221. Fax: 310.274.7507.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Gordon Steel (President),
John Baca (Vice President)
Office: Palais Riviera, 7 rond pont
Dubou d’ Angers, 06400 Cannes. Tel:
334.9339.9954
Summit Entertainment, 77 Dean Street,
London W1D 3SH UK. Tel:
44207.494.1724. Fax: 44207.494.1725.
Los Angeles: 1630 Stewart Street, Suite
120, Santa Monica CA. Tel:
310.309.8400. Fax: 310.828.4132.
Company Type: Motion picture company
that finances, produces and sells feature
films to the global marketplace.
At Cannes: Patrick Wachsberger
(President & CEO), Bob Hayward
(COO), David Garrett (Executive Vice
President), Harold Van Lier (Senior Vice
President, International Sales), Erik Feig
(President, Production & Acquisitions),
Andrew Matosich (Executive Vice
President & General Counsel)
Office: 2 la Croisette, 4th Floor, Tel:
33(0)4.93.68.00.28. Fax:
33(0)4.93.38.81.28.
BABEL
Drama
Produced and Directed by Alejandro
González Iñárritu
Producers: Jon Kilik, Steve Golin
Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael
Garcia Bernal, Kôji Yakusho, Adriana
Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi, Boubker Ait el
Caid and Said Tarchani
Production Status: Post-Production
Country of Origin: México
In an instant, the lives of four separate
groups of strangers collide when an
accident triggers events beyond their
control.
BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA
Fantasy
Director: Gabor Csupo
Producer(s): Hal Lieberman
Cast: Annasophia Robb, Josh Hutcherson
Production Status: Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
The story of an 11-year-old boy and girl
who create an imaginary land called
Terabithia, filled with giants, trolls and
other magical beings. From the producers
of NARNIA and based on the bestselling novel by Katherine Paterson.
MIKE LEIGH UNTITLED ‘06
Director: Mike Leigh
Country of Origin: U.K.
MISS POTTER
Drama
Director: Chris Noonan
Producers: Mike Medavoy, Arnold
Messer & David Thwaites And David
Kirschner & Corey Sienega
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor
Production Status: Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
A bold yet intimate exploration of
Beatrix Potter’s heart and imagination:
the man she loved, the success she
craved, and the animal creations that
were more real to her than the stifling
conventions of Victorian England would
ever be.
CREDITS NOT CONTRACTUAL
Spice Factory, 14 Regent Hill, Brighton
BN1 3ED, UK. Tel: 44.1273.739182.
Fax: 44.1273.749122.
[email protected],
www.spicefactory.co.uk
Company Type: Producer
At Cannes: Michael L Cowan (Producer),
Jason Piette (Producer), Alex Marshall
(Head of Business Affairs), Lucy
Shuttleworth (Head of Development),
Emily Kyriakides (Film Coordinator),
Mel Hider (Producers Assistant), Shirine
Best (Development Coordinator)
Office:
THE LITTLE WHITE HORSE
Family
Language: English
Producer: Michael L Cowan, Jason
Piette, Monica Penders, Meredith Garlick
Delivery Status: In development
Origin: UK/Hungary/Germany
With the mysterious words of a curse
uttered by her father on his deathbed
echoing in her head, Maria is sent to live
in a remote corner of England with
relatives she never knew she had.
THE NAZI OFFICER’S WIFE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Mike Figgis
Producer: Michael L Cowan, Jason Piette
& Laurent Zilber
Country of Origin:
UK/France/Austria/Hungary
As the Nazis take over the streets of
Vienna, terrorising the citizens, Edith is
shocked to find she’s been expelled from
the university for being Jewish.
BHOPAL
Drama
Language: English
Director: Ravi Kumar
Producer: Michael L Cowan, Jason Piette
& Dominic Norris
Origin: UK/India
THE BOOK OF REVELATION - CONTENTFILM INTERNATIONAL
STORM
ENTERTAINMENT
Storm Entertainment, 127 Broadway,
Suite 222, Santa Monica, CA 90401
USA. Tel: 310.656.2500. Fax:
www.stormentertainment.com
Business: Selling, Buying, Production,
Finance
Company Description: independent film
finance, production and Worldwide
distribution company
At Cannes: H. Michael Heuser (President
& CEO), Kourosh Esmailzadeh
(Director, Int’l Distribution), Anthony
Pupatello (Marketing Co-ordinator)
Office: Hotel Majestic, 14 La Croisette Suite 107, Tel: 04.92.98.77.00. Fax:
04.93.38.97.90, Tel: Mobile: H. Michael
Heuser 310.251.7200
PLAYED
Thriller
Director: Sean Stanek
Producers: Nick Simunek, Caspar von
Winterfeldt, Mick Rossi
Cast: Val Kilmer, Gabriel Byrne,
Anthony LaPaglia, Vinnie Jones, Patrick
Bergin, Joanne Whalley, Patsy Kensit,
and introducing Mick Rossi
The London underworld is filled with
despicable characters, and if you are one
of the lucky, you get taken out quickly.
Ray (Mick Rossi) isn’t so lucky.
LADY GODIVA, BACK IN THE
SADDLE
www.ladygodivabackinthesaddle.com
www.flickr.com/photos/lady_godiva/sho
w/
Comedy
Director: Baz Taylor
Producers: Frank Sacks, Heath Jones
Trouble is brewing once again in
Coventry. Mayor Derek Osbourne is in
debt to local mobster Ray Carlton, who
in turn wants permission to push through
plans for a casino on site of the one of
Coventry’s ancient municipal parks.
OUTLANDERS
Action / Thriller
Director: Dominic Lees
Producer: Michael Riley
Exec. Producer: H. Michael Heuser
Cast: Jakub Tolak
Status: Post-Production.
The story of a young man’s journey into
CANNES 2006
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SURF FILM S.R.L.
Surf Film s.r.l., Via Padre G.A. Filippini,
130 – 00144 Rome, Italy. Tel:
39.06.52.62.101. Fax: 39.06.52.93.816.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Mr. Massimo Vigliar
(President); Mrs. Stefania Carnevale
(Head Int’l sales); Mrs. Elisabetta Volpe
(International sales executive); Mrs.
Elena Francot (Domestic sales manager).
Office: Italia Pavilion N. C7-C9/D2-D4
and D1-E10/D3-E2, Palais Des Festivals
– Riviera Esplanade Georges Pompidou,
06400 Cannes. Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.88.24
THE TORTURER
Horror (95’)
Language: English
Director: Lamberto Bava
Producer: DUE P.T. Cinematografica –
Dania Film – Surf Film in collaboration
with General Video
Status: Completed
Who is the torturer who tears to pieces
the bodies of the implausible actresses?
MARCELLO
Documentary (about 90’)
Available Languages : Italian, English,
French
Director: Mario Canale, Annarosa Morri
Producer: Surf Film (Italy) – Orme
(Italy) – Acab (Italy) in collaboration
with LA 7
Status: In post - production
Ten years after his death, the name
“Mastroianni” still evokes memories of
an era: a world composed of talent, good
looks, charm, gentleness and seduction.
A SECRET LIFE WITH FIDEL
Documentary (82’)
Available Languages : Italian, English,
Spanish
Director: Enrico Coletti
Producer: Surf Film (Italy) – HD Film
(Italy)
Status: Completed
Contents: Original shooting - Exclusive
interviews – Archives footage
The extraordinary life of an Italian: the
only European to play a leading role in
HOME OF THE BRAVE - NU IMAGE
the Cuban revolution. The story of Gino
Donè, an ordinary man who lived a
hero’s life in secret.
SYBARITE FILMS
Sybarite Films, 7215 Hillside Avenue,
Suite 36, Hollywood, CA 90046 USA.
Tel: 323.851.4111. Fax: 323.851.4111.
www.sybaritefilms.com
At Cannes: Russell Van Stroud
(President), Efren Muro (Executive
Director)
Office: 22-08
9 LIVES OF MARA
Thriller (85’)
Language: English
Director: Balaji K. Kumar
Producer: Efren Muro
Key Cast: Bret Loehr, Troy Gentile,
Patrick Bauchau, Chad Donella
Origin: US
A young boy believes his stepmother is a
witch and is haunted by her spirit after
he kills her.
THE QUILTMAKERS OF GEE’S
BEND
Documentary (60 mins)
Language: English
Director: Celia Carey
Producer: Celia Carey
Key Cast: Arlonzia Pettway, Nettie
Young, Bill Arnett, Mary Lee Bendolph
and Jane Fonda
Origin: US
The craft of quilt making is taken to the
next level by the women of Gee’s Bend,
who are discovered to have been making
inspiring works of art for decades. Their
creations have made art critics
worldwide take notice and question the
standards by which art is defined as
such.
THORNTON DIAL: HAS
SOMETHING TO SAY
Documentary
Director: English
Language: Celia Carey
Producer: Celia Carey
Key Cast: Thornton Dial
Origin: US
Contemporary artist, Thornton Dial,
gives insight to the artwork that has
made art critics take notice and
reexamine some of the prejudices that
exists in the art world.
DEEP SKIN (WORKING TITLE)
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Javier Prato
Producer: Efren Muro
Key Cast: Reichen Lehmkuhl, Danny
Teeson, Alec Mapa and Norman
Guzman
Origin: US
A young doctor searches for love in
vanity driven Los Angeles. Can he trust
his heart?
T
TELEPOOL GMBH
Telepool GmbH, Sonnenstrasse 21;
80331 München, Germany. Tel:
49.89.55.876.226. Fax:
49.89.55.876.229. www.telepool.de
Company Type: Sales, distribution,
acquisition
At Cannes: Dr. Thomas Weymar (CEO),
Marc Gabizon (Deputy Managing
Director), Philippe van Doornick (eputy
Managing Director), Kristina Dubin
(Head US Office Telepool)
Acquisition Executive: Wolfram
Skowronnek
Office: Palais Riviera L1/M1, Tel:
33(0)492993239. Fax: 33(0)492993240
FC VENUS – WOMEN WITH BALLS
AKA FC VENUS
Comedy (99 min)
Director: Ute Wieland
Producer: Ralf Schübel, Stefan Schubert
Co-production partners: Egoli Tossell
Film, GFP Medienfonds, SevenPictures
Film
Cast: Nora Tschirner, Christian Ulmen,
Florian Lukas, Anneke Kim Sarnau,
Heinz Hoenig
Origin: Germany
The outcome of the ultimate soccer
match, Venus versus mars, decides for
Paul, Anna and their friends whether
soccer will continue to dominate their
lives.
MORE THAN 1000 WORDS
Documentary (77 min.)
Language: English
Director: Solo Avital
Producer: Oliver Berben
Co-production partners: Medienfonds
GFP II KG
Origin: Germany
Ziv Koren’s photographs have helped
shape our perception of the Middle East
conflict. The story of a man’s struggle
with a history, in which he is involved.
THE WILD SOCCER BUNCH 3 AKA
DIE WILDEN KERLE 3
Family Entertainment (95 min.)
Director: Joachim Masannek
Producer: Ewa Karlström, Andreas
Ulmke-Smeaton
Cast: Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht, Sarah
Kim Gries, Constantin Gastmann, Raban
Bieling, Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht,
Nick Romeo Reimann, Marlon Wessel,
Konrad Baumann, Kevin Iannotta, Leon
Wessel-Masannek, Claudia Michelsen,
Uwe Ochsenknecht
Origin: Germany
The Wild Soccer Bunch is back! Will
they beat the Beastly Beasts, an opponent
more devious, more diabolical, more than
even they had ever imagined – girls?!
WHOLETRAIN
Drama (95 min.)
Director: Florian Gaag
Producer: Christoph Müller, Sven
Burgemeister
Cast: Mike Adler, Florian Renner, Elyas
M’Barek, Jacob Matschenz
Origin: Germany
In their quest for fame and other writer’s
respect, David, Tino and Elyas endeavour
to write a Wholetrain and get caught up
in a chain of events that will change their
lives forever.
TF1 INTERNATIONAL
TF1 International, Immeuble Central
Park - 9, rue Maurice Mallet , 92130
Issy-les-Moulineaux – France. Tel:
33(0)1.41.41.17. 63. Fax:
33(0)1.41.41.17.69.
www.tf1international.fr
At Cannes: Mr. Patrick Bidet (Chairman)
Le Grand Hotel, Mrs. Sara May
(Executive VP Acquisitions), Mr. Nicolas
Eschbach (Executive VP International
Distribution), Gray D’Albion, Miss
Adeline Fontant Tessaur (Senior VP
International Sales & Acquisitions) Gray
D’Albion, Mr. Dimitri Stephanides
(International Sales Manager)
Office: Riviera N3, Tel: 04.92.99.32.08 –
04.92.99.32.09, Fax: 04.92.99.32.10
LA VIE EN ROSE (LA MOME)
Version: French
Director: Oliver Dahan (Crimson Rivers
2, Little Tom Thumb)
Producers: Alain Goldman (Crimson
Rivers 1& 2) - Légende Enterprises in
coproduction with Okko Productions
Cast: Marion Cotillard (A Good Year, Big
Fish, A Very Long Engagement, Love Me
If You Dare, Taxi 1,2 and 3), Sylvie
Testud, Gérard Depardieu (36,
Nathalie…), Jean-Paul Rouve (A Very
Long Engagement, Monsieur Batignole),
Pascal Greggory (Arsene Lupin, The
Nest, The Messenger: The Story Of Joan
Of Arc), Clotilde Courau (A Very Long
Engagement, See How They Run),
Emmanuelle Seigner (The Ninth Gate)
Status: shooting, Delivery: 2007
From the slums of Paris to the limelight
of New York, Edith Piaf’s life was a
battle to sing and survive, live and love.
The most exciting and ambitious project
of French cinema in 2007.
POLTERGAY
Version: French
Director: Eric Lavaine
Cast: Clovis Cornillac ( Tiger Brigades; A
Very Long Engagement) Julie Depardieu
( A Very Long Engagement, Little Lili )
Producers: Same Player; Babe Films
Delivery: Late 2006
LES ARISTOS
Version: French
Director: Charlotte de Turckheim
Cast: Charlotte de Turckheim, Jacques
Weber, Victoria Abril, Rossy de Palma
Producers: Hugo Films ( Arsene Lupin,
Beautiful Memories )
Delivery Status: In Post Production,
Delivery Late 2006
THE BESIEGED FORTRESS (LA
CITADELLE ASSIEGEE)
CANNES 2006
Versions: French and English
Director: Philippe Calderon (The City of
Ants)
Producers: Thierry Commissionat and
François Calderon -Les Films du Rêve- in
coproduction with IRD (Institut de
Recherche et de Développement)
Delivery: Late 2006
In the midst of the African savannah, in
the safety of their two-meter-high tower,
over a million termites are hard at work
when disaster suddenly strikes: a deluge of
tropical rain floods galleries and chambers
provoking panic and chaos.
CRIME INSIDERS (TRUANDS)
Director: Frédéric Schoendoerffer
(Spybound)
Cast: Benoît Magimel (Sky fighters,
Crimson rivers 2, The Piano teacher),
Philippe Caubère, Béatrice Dalle (Betty
Blue, Trouble every day)
Producers: Eric Névé (Spybound,
Doberman) - Carchadoron in coproduction
with La Chauve-Souris and Studiocanal
Status: in post production, Delivery Early
2007
A stylish, brutally realistic and intensely
violent glimpse inside the ruthless,
Parisian underworld.
GONE FOR A DANCE (J’AURAI
VOULU ETRE UN DANSEUR)
Director: Alain BERLINER (Ma Vie en
Rose – Golden Globes 1998: Best foreign
language film - Cannes Film Festival
1997: in official selection at the Director’s
Fortnight)
Producers: Patrick QUINET (A
Pornographic Affair; coproducer of Merry
Christmas, Love Me If You Dare) ARTÉMIS Productions and LIAISON
Cinématographique
Cast: Vincent ELBAZ (Love is in the Air),
Cécile de FRANCE (Les Poupées Russes,
The Spanish Apartment), Jean-Pierre
CASSEL, Jeanne BALIBAR
Status: In post production, Delivery Late
2006
With his pretty wife and young son,
François leads a happy and stable
existence until he watches “Singin’ In The
Rain” for the first time.
THOMPSON/STARR
ORGANIZATION
Thompson/Starr Organization, PO Box
ll236, Beverly Hills. CA 90213Tel: Tel:
8l8.998.8126 USA. Fax: 818.773.8962.
[email protected]
Company Type: Distributors and Agents
At Cannes: Joey Thompson (President),
Jen Starr (Marketing), Chaya Finton
(Sales), George Thompson (Acquisitions)
Office: Hotel Mexicana, 30 rue Dr.
Dautheville, Juan Les Pins, 06l60. Tel:
334.93.6l.31.34. Fax: 334.93.67.56.34.
Convention Tel: 334.93.39.01.01
JOHNNY CASH HUGE NASHVILE
CONCERT
Country/Western music (83 min)
Language: English
Cast: Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Dolly
Parton, etc.
Cash and great Country/Western stars at
huge concert.
THE WACKY WORLDS OF
DOCTOR MORGUS
Comedy (87 min)
Language: English
Cast: Sid Noel, Dan Barton
Morgus and comatose Zelda join evil
plot to take over the world.
NORTH OF THE SUN
Language: English
Cast: Gordon Eastman
Last great hunters in Artic world that can
never be filmed again.
Shogakukan/Hakuhodo DY media
partners/Tokyo FM/Nippon Shuppan
Hanbai/Lawson Ticket
Producer: Akihiro Yamauchi, Genki
Kawamura, Kenzo Abe
Key Cast: Yui Ichikawa, Reo Morimoto,
Naoki Tanaka, Hiroshi Abe
Origin: Japan
In a solitary island, one man survived the
massacre of villagers. When he was
rescued, he lost his mind and shouted a
mysterious warning; “When you hear
siren, never go out.”
TOHO
INTERNATIONAL
CO., LTD.
TRICOAST STUDIOS
Toho International Co., Ltd., 1-7-1
Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0006
Japan. Tel: 81.3.3213.6821. Fax:
81.3.3213.6825. www.toho.co.jp
At Cannes: Yukio Kotaki (Sales
Manager), Kazuhito Shimozawa (Sales
Manager)
Office: D - 6 at Riviera, Tel:
04.92.99.32.02
STAR REFORMERS (KENCHO NO
HOSHI)
Drama (131 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Hiroshi Nishitani
Co-Production Partners: Toho/Fuji
TV/INP/Hakuhodo DY media
partners/SDP/Shogakukan
Producer: Kei Haruna, Minami Ichikawa,
Hirotsugu Usui
Key Cast: Yuji Oda, Kou Shibasaki, Koji
Ishizaka, Wakako Sakai, Kuranosuke
Sasaki, Hisashi Igawa
Origin: Japan
A major reform of small supermarket,
which is suffering from a slump in
business, done by young, smart and
promising official and a part-time sales
girl.
SPRING SNOW (HARU NO YUKI)
Drama (150 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Isao Yukisada
Co-Production Partners: Toho/Fuji
TV/Hori Prod./SDP/Hakuhodo DY media
partners/
Producer: Minami Ichikawa, Kei Haruna,
Hirotsugu Usui
Key Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yuko
Takeuchi, Sosuke Takaoka, Kyoko
Kishida, Takaaki Enoki, Michiyo Okusu,
Ayako Wakao
Origin: Japan
Based on a novel by Yukio Mishima. A
tale of true love between young
aristocrats, Kiyoaki and Satoko, in the
early 20th century that shines and melts
like snow in spring.
FORBIDDEN SIREN
Horror (87 min)
Director: Japanese
Language: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Co-Production Partners: Toho/TV Asahi,
TriCoast Studios, 1547 10th Street Santa
Monica CA 90401 USA. Tel:
310.458.7707. Fax:310.458.7701.
www.tricoast.com
Company Type: Producer
At Cannes: Marcy Levitas Hamilton
(CEO), Strathford Hamilton (Director)
Office: Arsenal Pictures/ Riviera, Tel:
310.435.4481
THE PET
Drama (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: D Stevens
Producers: Marcy Levitas Hamilton
Strath Hamilton
Cast: Pierre Dulat Andrea Edmondson
Delivery Status: Completed - Rep
Arsenal Pictures
Origin: USA
A Beautiful young American girl is
seduced by a European businessman into
becoming his Pet and ultimately into
caged slavery.
FREESTYLE
Teen dance with music stars
Language: English
Director: Martin Wiley
Producers: Marcy Levitas Hamilton
Strath Hamilton
Co-Production: Lionsgate
Cast: Brian Friedman Brittney Spears,
Hilary Duff, Aaron Carter, Mya, Ashanti.
Delivery Status: completed Rep –
American World Pictures
Budget: 1 million
origin: USA
Learn all the cool moves and dance like a
superstar with Brittney Spears
Choreographer Brian Friedman
U
UBU PRODUCTIONS
UBU Productions, P.O. Box 40 19 65 ,
Munich D-80719, Germany. Tel:
49.160.928.150.21.
[email protected]
Company Type: (Producer, distributor)
At Cannes: Mr. Jean Uliczay (President,
Producer, Executive Producer), Ms. Alice
Kanterian (Acquisitions)
Hotel: Cannes Beach Residence
Office: Media
NAZICOMRADES
Documentary (2 x 60 min)
Language: english, german
Director: Jean Kail
Producer: Jean Uliczay
Co-production partners UBU Productions
Budget: 500,000. US $
Origin: GB/ D
Nazis and neonazis as close comrades.
DING DING BANG BANG
Children / teen (90 min)
Language: english, french
Director: Jean Uliczay
Co-production partners: UBU
Productions
Delivery Status: post-production
Budget: 500,000.- US $
Origin: Germany / France
A teeniegang on animal rescue.
ISLAMIC ATTACK
Reality-based (70 min)
Language: english, french, german
Director: Jean Kail
Co-production partners: UBU
Productions
Delivery Status: in production
Budget: 1 mill. US $
Origin: G / F / D
The Islamic conquest in Europe.
FAST F OOD N ATION - H ANWAY F ILMS
CANNES 2006
73
UGC
INTERNATIONAL
UGC International, 24 avenue Charles
de Gaulle, Neuilly-sur-Seine 92200
France. Tel: 331.46.40.44.00. Fax:
331.46.37.73.21.
At Cannes: Said BEN SAID (President),
Eva DIEDERIX (VP Sales), Christophe
PECOT (Sales Executive), Adeline
FALAMPIN (Marketing & Sales), Pierre
MONFORT (Business Affairs Manager)
Office: 4, la Croisette (1st Floor), Tel:
33.4.93.68.41.99. Fax: 33.4.92.98.82.69
INJU
Thriller
Language: French/Japanese
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Producer: Said Ben Said / UGC
Budget 15 M
Origin: France
THE WITNESSES (LES TEMOINS)
Drama
Language: French
Director: Andre Techine
Key Cast: Emmanuelle Beart, Michel
Blanc, Julie Depardieu, Sami Bouajila,
Johan Libereau
Budget 6,8 M
Origin: France
A SECRET (UN SECRET)
Drama
Director: French
Language: Claude Miller
Producer: Yves Marmion / UGC
Key Cast: Ludivine Sagnier, Cecile de
France, Patrick Bruel, Mathieu Amalric,
Julie Depardieu
Budget 10 M
Origin: France
FAMILY HERO (LE HEROS DE LA
FAMILLE)
Melodrama
Language: French
Director: Thierry Klifa
Key Cast: Emmanuelle Beart, Gerard
Lanvin, Catherine Deneuve, Miou-Miou,
Claude Brasseur, Geraldine Pailhas,
Michael Cohen, Valerie Lemercier, Gilles
Lellouche, Pascal Elbe
Budget 12 M
Origin: France
THE STONE COUNCIL (LE
CONCILE DE PIERRE)
Thriller
Language: French
Director: Guillaume Nicloux
Producer: Yves Marmion / UGC
Key Cast: Monica Bellucci, Catherine
Deneuve, Moritz Bleibtreu, Sami
Bouajila, Elsa Zylberstein
Budget 20 M
Origin: France
LA TETE DE MAMAN
Drama
Language: French
Director: Carine Tardieu
Producer: Christophe Rossignon
Key Cast: Karin Viard, Chloe Coulloud,
Kad Merad, Pascal Elbe
Budget 10 M?
Origin: France
UNITEL PICTURES
INTERNATIONAL
Unitel Pictures International, P.O. Box
642319, Los Angeles, CA 90064 USA.
Tel: 310.451.7476. Fax: 310.496.0252.
At Cannes: Cindy Sison (Head of Intl.
Sales), Vincent Nebrida (VPAcquisitions & Productions)
Office: Riviera D5, Tel: 33.4.9299.3324
THE BLOSSOMING OF MAXIMO
OLIVEROS (ANG PAGDADALAGA
NI MAXIMO OLIVEROS)
(100 min)
Language: FILIPINO with English
Subtitles
Directed by: Auraeus Solito
Producer: Raymond Lee Genre: Coming
of Age Drama
Cast: Nathan Lopez, Soliman Cruz, JR
Valentin No. Am.
One night, Maxi is saved from a beating
by hoodlums by a rookie copy and a
special friendship blooms.
CAVITE
Thriller
SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE - THE WORKS MEDIA
Language: English and Filipino with
English subtitles.
Produced/Written/Directed by: Neill Dela
Llana and Ian Gamazon
Cast: Ian Gamazon No. American
Distributor: Truly Indie
A young man arrives in the Philippines,
and receives an ominous call from a cell
phone. In order to save his kidnapped
family, he becomes a pawn in activities
beyond his control.
LIFE, TRANSLATED
Romantic Drama
Directed by: Kiefer Liu (AGAN)
Cast: Edison Chen (INFERNAL
AFFAIRS), Jennifer Li, Cary Woodworth
A coming-of-age story of three youths
from different parts of the world, who
together explore unripe love, friendship
and growing pains within the confines of
a strict British boarding school system.
PINOY BLONDE
http://www.pinoyblonde.com
Comedy
Language: Filipino with English
subtitles.
Produced by: Tony Gloria
Directed by: Peque Gallaga No.
American Distributor: UNICO ENT.
Status: Completed / Screeners Avail
Andrew and Conrad are cousins, film
school dropouts who have been tasked by
their shady uncle to deliver a package to
a certain hotel.
LA VISA LOCA
http://www.lavisaloca.com
Satirical Comedy
subtitles
Directed by: Mark Meily (CRYING
LADIES)
Produced by: Tony Gloria and Sharon
Cuneta
Cast: Robin Padilla, Rufa Mae Quinto,
Johnny Delgado
A 30-year-old driver wants nothing more
in life than to get a US visa. He’ll do
anything to get one. His story takes place
during Holy Week, a time of penitence in
the Philippines.
AWAKEN (SA AKING
PAGKAGISING, SA AKING
KAMULATAN)
Drama
subtitles
Produced/Written/Directed by: Ato M.
Bautista
Cast: Carlo Aquino, Ketchuo Eusebio,
Cholo Barreto No
Status: Completed / Screeners Avail
A realistic glimpse of the Filipino youth
in the gut of Manila’s urban gullies, this
drama is a staggered vista of social
events, exploring the day-to-day survival
of people with broken dreams, pent-up
anger and abnormal sexuality.
MAGDALENA AKA SANTA
SANTITA
http://www.santasantita.com
Drama
Directed by: Laurice Guillen (Director,
AMERICAN ADOBO) U.S. Theatrical UNICO ENT. March 2005
Produced by: Tony Gloria
Cast: Angelica Panganiban, Jericho
Rosales
A young woman (Malen) continues the
work of her deceased mother as a prayer
woman.
CRYING LADIES
Directed by Mark Meily
IMELDA
Directed by Ramona Diaz
MAGNIFICO
Directed by Maryo Delos Reyes
V
VISION FILM
DISTRIBUTION
Vision Film Distribution, Rydygiera 7,
Warsaw 01-793 Poland. Tel:
4822.839.60.09. Fax: 48.22.839.13.67.
www.vision.pl, [email protected]
At Cannes: Wlodzimierz Otulak
(President), Artur Godlewski (Director of
International Sales and Acquisitions)
Office: Tel: (Artur Godlewski mobile)
48.603.98.76.44
PERSONA NON GRATA
www.personanongrat.vision.pl
Drama (127 min)
Language: Polish with English subtitles
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
Producer: Iwona Ziulkowska-Okapiec
Cast: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Nikita
Michalkow, Daniel Olbrychski
Co-Production Partners: Studio Filmowe
TOR
Budget 2 mlln US$
Origin: Poland, Russia, Italy
Wiktor, Polish ambassador in Urugway
grieving over his late wife, returns to
Poland where he meets a very close
friend Oleg – a Russian diplomat. Wiktor
suspects that Oleg had a love affair with
his wife.
THE WELTS (PREGI)
www.pregi.vision.pl
Drama (95 min)
Language: Polish with English subtitles
Director: Magdalena Piekorz
Co-Production Partners: Studio Filmowe
TOR, Vision Film Production, APF,Non
Stop Film Service
Producer: Krzysztof Zanusssi, Iwona
Ziulkowska-Okapiec, Wlodzimierz
Otulak
Cast: Michal Zebrowski, Jan Frycz,
Agnieszka Grochowska
Budget 1 mlln US$
Origin: Poland
A contemporary story about maturing to
fatherhood, about how childhood
determines our adult life, and above all a
very special love story. Polish entry for
Oscars 2004.
CANNES 2006
VISION FILMS
Vision Films, 14945 Ventura Blvd. Ste.
306, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA. Tel:
818.784.1702. Fax: 818.788.3715.
[email protected],
www.visionfilms.net
At Cannes: Lise Romanoff (Managing
Director Worldwide Sales), Andre Relis
(VP Int’l Sales and Acquisitions), Becky
Langlais (Sales Assistant)
Office: In the Palais 21.01, Cell:
33(0)6.7974.7775
RISING SON: LEGEND OF
SKATEBOARDER CHRISTIAN
HOSOI
Documentary (96 minutes)
Director: Cesario “Block” Montano
Narrated by: Dennis Hopper
A Quincy “QD3”Jones production
Screening of Completed Film
The story behind the rise, fall, and
rebirth of the legendary “rock star” of
skateboarding, Christian Hosoi.
BACKWATERS
Cast: Tamzin Outhwaite, Nicolas Irons,
Jason Flemyng
A famous actress is crippled in a car
accident and visits the famous Kerala
Spa in India for treatment. But soon she
winds up missing in the backwaters and
her cheating husband is framed for her
murder.
WATERBORNE
Director: Ben Rekhi
Cast: Christopher Masterson (Malcolm
in the Middle), Jon Gries (Napoleon
Dynamite), Ajay Naidu (Office Space),
Shabana Azmi (Fire), Jake Muxworthy (I
Heart Huckabees), Mageina Tovah
(Spiderman 2)
Are we prepared for the next attack?
When a suspected bio-terrorist attack
contaminates LA?s water supply, the city
is cast into turmoil. Three, interwoven
personal stories show how far a person
will go to ensure their own survival.
EXITZ
Sci Fi Thriller (90 minutes)
Director: Laurens Postma
Cast: Malcolm McDowell (Clockwork
Orange), Stephen Billington (Resident
Evil), Beth Winslet
Delivery Status: Screening at stand
21.01 in the Palais
A computer games tycoon Percy
(Malcolm McDowell) creates a strange
new game where reality is the game and
the real people become the pawns, only
to find out he is the one being played.
NATASHA
Cast: Algina Lipskis (Anastasia), Jenna
Harrison, Richard Lintern
Screening at stand 21.01 in the Palais
Student by day, stripper by night, a
beautiful Russian girl poses as an
exchange student in the Yorkshire village
of Little Haven to escape the grisly
underworld of St. Petersburg.
VISION MUSIC
Vision Music, 14945 Ventura Blvd. Ste.
306, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA. Tel:
818.784.1702. Fax: 818.788.3715.
[email protected],
www.visionmusicinc.net
At Cannes: Lise Romanoff (Managing
Director Worldwide Sales), Andre Relis
(VP Int’l Sales and Acquisitions), Becky
Langlais (Sales Assistant)
Office: In the Palais 21.01, Cell:
33(0)6.7974.7775
PUNK’S NOT DEAD
Documentary feature (120 minutes)
Director: Susan Dynner
A celebration of 30 years of Punk Rock.
Featuring interviews, performances, and
behind-the-scenes journeys with the
bands and their fans who keep the subculture alive.
MIXTAPE, INC. THE MOVIE
Documentary feature (100 minutes)
Director: Walter Bell
An unprecedented look into the gritty
world of illegal Hip Hop Mixtapes with
Kayne West, Xzibit, 50 Cent and more.
A love-hate relationship between the
Feds, the artists, the fans and the record
labels.
BOSS ‘N UP
Musical, Drama, Romance (90 minutes)
Director: Pook Brown
A Snoopadelic & Geffen Records
Production
Cast: Snoop Dogg, Lil? Jon, Trina,
Shillae Anderson, Hawthorn James (The
Five Heartbeats) and Larry McCoy
(Malcolm X)
Snoop, a charismatic pimp climbs to the
top, but finds he must choose between
love and the game. Inspired by the music
from Snoop?s Rhythm and Gangsta
Album.
DEATH OF A DYNASTY
Music, Comedy, Thriller (90 minutes)
Director: Damon Dash
Cast: Damon Dash, Jay Z, Chloe
Sevigny
Enter the closed doors of hip-hop empire
Roc-a-Fella Records, with a journalist
who thinks he’s a “playa”, only to find
out he is the one being played.
LIVE CONCERTS!
Performance (90 minutes each)
Produced by: ABC Entertainment
Iggy Pop, Chic, Steve Gibbons,
Jefferson Starship, Macy Gray, Iron
Butterfly, Ja Rule, JadaKiss, Flavor Flav,
Shaggy, James Brown, Vanilla Fudge,
and more!
VOLTAGE PICTURES
Voltage Pictures, 6422 Deep Dell Place,
Los Angeles, CA 90068 USA. Tel:
323.464.8351. Fax: 323.464.8362.
www.voltagepictures.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Nicolas Chartier (CEO /
President), Nadine de Barros (VP, Sales
& Acquisitions)
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. Nicolas Chartier:
310.890.4199. Nadine de Barros:
323.533.3630
THE MUTANT CHRONICLES
Action/Adventures, Sci-Fi
Language: English
Director: Simon Hunter
Producer: Ed Pressman, Stephan
Belafonte, Pras Michel, Tim Dennison
Key Cast: Thomas Jane, John Malkovich,
Benno
Furman, Ron Perlman
Budget $25M
Origin: USA/UK
300 years in the future, mankind has
almost destroyed his world.
EL CANTANTE
Romantic drama
Language: English
Director: Leon Ichaso
Producer: Julio Caro, Simon Fields,
Jennifer Lopez and David Maldonado
Key Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony
Budget $20M
Origin: USA
Based on the true-life story of the
world’s most famous salsa singer Hector
Lavoe (Marc Anthony) and his volatile
relationship with his wife Puchi (Jennifer
Lopez).
SISTERS
Thriller
Director: English
Language: Douglas Buck
Producer: Ed Pressman, Alessandro
Camon, Stephan Belafonte
Key Cast: Chloe Sevigny, Stephen Rea
and Lou
Doillon
Origin: USA/Canada
A horrific retelling of the original Brian
De Palma film. Leading a disturbingly
sheltered existence at the hand of her
controlling psychiatrist, Angelina is
desperate to release herself from his hold
on her.
THE TRIPPER
Horror
Language: English
Director: David Arquette
Producer: David Arquette, Courteney
Cox, Evan Astrowsky, Neil Machlis
Key Cast: Jamie King, Thomas Jane,
Jason Mewes,
Balthazar Getty, Paul Reuben, Lukas
Haas.
Origin: USA
As a group of friends head to a modernday Woodstock concert for a weekend of
sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, a psychotic
killer in a Reagan mask has his own gory
agenda for mayhem – to finish what he
started so many years ago.
W
THE WEINSTEIN
COMPANY
The Weinstein Company, 345 Hudson
Street, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10014
USA. Tel: 646.862.3400. Fax:
646.368.7000.
At Cannes: Glen Basner (President,
International), Richard Baker (Vice
President, International Marketing),
Michael Rothstein (Vice President,
International Sales & Distribution),
Michal Podell (Vice President,
International Business & Legal Affairs),
Jonathan Kier (Director of International
Distribution)
Office: The Hotel Martinez – Salon
Matisse, 73 La Croisette, Cannes 06406.
Tel: 04.92.98.74.83. Fax: 04.92.98.74.56
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA
TURTLES
Director: Kevin Munroe
Producers: Thomas K. Gray, Galen
Walker
Production Status: In production
Mean, green, and back on the big screen.
GRIND HOUSE
Thriller
Directors: Robert Rodriguez, Quentin
Tarantino
Producers: Robert Rodriguez, Quentin
Tarantino, Elizabeth Avellán
Noun: An inner-city theater in disrepair
since its glory days as a movie palace of
the ‘30s and ‘40s - known for “grinding
out” non-stop double-bill programs of Bmovies.
SICKO
Director: Michael Moore
Cast: Michael Moore
If you want to stay healthy in America,
don’t get sick.
FANBOYS
Director: Kyle Newman
Cast: Kristen Bell, Jay Baruchel, Sam
Huntington, Chris Marquette, Thom
Bishops, Dan Fogler
Producers: Kevin Spacey, Dana Brunetti,
Evan Astrowsky, Matthew Perniciaro
Production Status: In pre-production
Three friends who need to get a life are
about to embark on the mission of a
lifetime.
ROGUE
Thriller
Director: Greg McLean
Cast: John Jarratt, Radha Mitchell,
Michael Vartan
Producers: Greg McLean, David
Lightfoot, Matt Hearn
Production Status: In post-production
CANNES 2006
75
Terror lies just beneath the surface.
SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS
Director: Todd Phillips
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Heder,
Jacinda Barrett, Sarah Silverman,
Michael Clarke Duncan, David Cross,
Horatio Sanz
Producers: Todd Phillips, Dan Goldberg,
Geyer Kosinski
If you want to get lucky, you have to go
to school.
WILD BUNCH
Wild Bunch, 99 Rue De La Verrerie, 75
004 Paris, France. Tel:
00.33.1.53.01.50.30. Fax:
00.33.1.53.01.50.49. www.wildbunch.biz
At Cannes: Vincent MARAVAL (Sales
agent), Gael NOUAILLE (Sales agent),
Carole BARATON (Sales agent), Silvia
SIMONUTTI (Sales agent), Rosa
ATTAB (Acquisition), Juliette RENAUD
(Co-productions)
Office: 23 rue Macé 4° étage
ARRIVEDERCCI AMORE AND
CIAO
Action Thriller (113 min)
Language: Italian
Director: Michele Soavi
Producers: Conchita Airoldi, Dino Di
Dionisio / Urania Film, Rai Cinema,
Wild Bunch
Principal Cast: Alessio Boni, Michele
Placido, Isabella Ferrari
Production Status: Completed/screening
Country of Origin/co-production: Italy,
France
Returning to Italy from exile, former
terrorist Giorgio will stop at nothing in
his ruthless pursuit of a new life.
CHARLIE SAYS
Drama
Language: French
Directors: Nicole Garcia
Producers: Alain Attal / Productions Du
Trésor, Studiocanal, France 3 Cinema
Principal Cast: Jean-Pierre Bacri,
Vincent Lindon, Benoit Magimel, Benoit
Poelvoorde
Six men and a boy confront difficult
choices: triumph or fail, none will ever
be the same again.
NOMAD
Action-Adventure
Language: English
Directors: Sergei Bodrov And Ivan
Passer
Producers: Pavel Douvidzon , Ram
Bergman
Principal Cast: Kuno Becker, Jay
Hernandez, Mark Dacascos
Country of Origin/co-production:
Kazakhstan
Mystic swordsman, indomitable warrior,
the Kazakhnomad ascends to his place
beside cowboy, gladiator and samurai in
the pantheon of celluloid heroes.
PAN’S LABYRINTH
Fantasy
Language: Spanish
Directors: Guillermo Del Toro
Producers: Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo
Del Toro, Frida Torresblanco, Bertha
Navarro
Estudios Picasso, Tequila Gang
Principal Cast: Sergi Lopez, Maribel
Verdú , Doug Jones
Country of Origin/co-production: Spain
In the dark heart of Pan’s labyrinth,
hidden in the remote depths of Fascist
Spain, the soul of the Fairy King’s
daughter is fighting to be reborn.
MY BEST FRIEND
Comedy
Language: French
Directors: Patrice Leconte
Producers: Olivier Delbosc And Marc
Missonnier For Fidelite Films
Principal Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Dany
Boon, Julie Gayet
Country of Origin/co-production: France
Challenged by his colleagues, a
successful antiques dealer with no time
for relationships embarks on a search for
his mythical best friend.
THE WORKS
The Works, Portland House, 4 Great
Portland Street, London, W1W 8QJ UK.
Tel: 44.20.7612.1080. Fax:
44.20.7612.1081.
At Cannes: Joy Wong (Head of The
Works International), Clare Crean (Sales
Manager), Juliette Gill (Head of
Marketing), Jan Spielhoff (Business
Affairs)
Office: 8th Floor, Entrance Ibis,
Residence du Grand Hotel, 45, La
Croisette. Tel: 04.93.38.46.93
SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE
Comedy (88 mins)
Director / Producer: Ed Blum
Cast: Eileen Atkins, Holly Aird, Hugh
Bonneville, Tom Hardy, Douglas Hodge,
Adrian Lester, Andrew Lincoln, Ewan
McGregor, Gina McKee, Sophie
Okonedo, Eglantine Rembauville, Mark
Strong, Catherine Tate, Polly Walker,
Benjamin Whitrow
Delivery Status: New title– Screening
Set one summer’s afternoon on
Hampstead Heath, London, ‘Scenes of a
Sexual Nature’ delves into the minutiae
of seven couples.
Tel 04 • 93 • 06 • 41 • 49
LATE LISTING
CENTRE FILM
MEDIA SALES LTD
Centre Film Media Sales Ltd, 46 Crispin
Street, Spitalfields, London E1 6HQ,
United Kingdom. Corporate – Production,
Finance Tel: 44.207.247.3444. Fax:
44.207.247.9684. Sales / Acquisitions:
Tel: 44.208.566.2388. Fax:
44.208.566.2388. Cell: 44.7748.986.060.
www. centremediasales.com
At Cannes: Kent Walwin
44.7810.541.563. Eddie Leahy
44.7748.986.060
Office: Pavilion 20 (European Union),
Village International (Behind Riviera),
Tel: 33(0)4.92.59.02.51. Fax:
33(0)4.92.59.02.52.
CORTEX
Futuristic thriller
Directed by Raoul Girard.
UK 2005
Tom Lawson (Christopher
Goodman)works as an assassin for an
Organization headed by The Master
(David Warner) which has implanted a
transmitter in his brain to monitor his
‘work’.
ENCOUNTERS
Directed by Pat Kelman
Cast: David Kershaw, Hannah Smith
UK 2005
London can be a lonely city for the young
unattached hence the success of “speed
dating” events.
EICHMANN
Delivery Status: In pre-production
Country: Germany and Spain, Postproduction in UK.
Snoo Wilson directs his own script based
on the interrogation of Adolph Eichmann
(Thomas Kretschmann) by Avner Less
(Adam Goldberg) of Mossad. Filming in
Hungary,
YOUNG LEGENDS
Delivery Status: In pre-production
A series of dramas about the formative
years of historic and legendary figures –
Alexander (in post) , Genghis Khan,
Julius Caesar, Merlin, Ivanhoe,
Bouddicca, Hannibal etc.
CINEMA
MANAGEMENT
GROUP
Cinema Management Group, 9056 Santa
Monica Blvd. #204, West Hollywood, CA
90069 USA. Tel: 310.300.9959.
www.CinemaManagementGroup.com
At Cannes: Edward Noeltner (President)
Cell: 336.18.71.24.41, Jill Sattinger (Sr.
VP Business Development) Cell:
336.18.71.18.51, Oudy Bloch (Director
International Sales) Cell:
336.18.71.19.56, Keri Kleypas
(Operations Coordinator), Cell:
33.6.18.71.22.96
Office: 25 rue des Etats-Unis, 3rd Floor,
Tel: 334.93.39.28.83
EVER AGAIN
Documentary
Narrated by Academy Award winner
Kevin Costner
Delivery Status: Screening
Examines the current disturbing
resurgence of violent anti-Semitism and
fanatic intolerance throughout Europe.
THE TRIALS OF DARRYL HUNT
The riveting story of a black man
convicted by an all white jury to life in
prison for a murder he never
committed.
HOLLYWOOD
CLASSICS
Hollywood Classics, Linton House, 3951 Highgate Road, London, NW5 1RS
UK. Tel: 44.207.424.7280. Fax:
44.7428.8936.
www.hollywoodclassics.com, email:
[email protected]
At Cannes: Joe Dreier (Director),
Melanie Tebb (Sales Coordinator),
David Llewellyn-Jones (TV Sales
Director)
Office: 63 la Croisette, 4th floor, Tel:
04.93.94.00.09
PARK
ENTERTAINMENT
Park Entertainment, 50-51 Conduit St.,
London, UK. Tel: 44. 207.434.4176.
Fax: 44.207.434.4179.
www.parkentertainment.com
At Cannes: Jim Howell (CEO), Simon
Barnes (Head of Sales), Denise Vickers
(Sales Executive)
Office: Riviera village. L9M10, Tel:
04.92.99.32.27
UNIFIED FILM
ORGANIZATION
Unified Film Organization, 3400 W.
Alameda Avenue, Suite 200, Burbank,
CA 91505 USA. Tel: 818.846.0465.
Fax: 818.846.0256.
At Cannes: Jeffery Beach (CEO)
Office: Riviera Stand E2, Tel:
33.4.92.99.88.09
UTV MOTION
PICTURES
www.utvmotionpictures.com
Description: UTV is India’s largest
integrated entertainment and media
major and one of the leading players in
South Asia.
At Cannes: Ms. Amrita Pandey
(International Sales, Licensing &
Syndication), Mr. Ashoka Holla
(International Motion Pictures &
Acquisition), Mr. Tanuj Garg
(International Motion Pictures Marketing
& Distribution)
Office: 17.04 (close to the main aisle at
The Palais), Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.81.07.
Fax: 33(0)4.92.99.81.44
CANNES 2006

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