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2003
PR
ODUCT
GUIDE
CANNES
A
ADRIANA CHIESA
ENTERPRISES
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, Via Barnaba
Oriani 24/A - 00197 Rome, Italy. Tel:
39.0680.86052. Fax: 39.0680.86052.
At Cannes: Adriana Chiesa Di Palma
(President), Rossella Gori (Sales
manager), Céline Dalix (Assistant)
Office: Hotel Carlton / Salon du Bridge
1st floor, Tel: 0493064100
THE LEGEND OF AL, JOHN AND
JACK (LA LEGGENDA DI AL JOHN
& JACK)
Comedy
Directed by: Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo
and Massimo Venier
Production Company: Paolo Guerra for
A.Gi.Di. and Medusa Film
Cast: Aldo Baglio-Giovanni StortiGiacomo Poretti
BETWEEN LAND AND SKY (NE’
TERRA NE’ CIELO)
Drama
Language: Italian with English Subtitles
Directed By: Giuseppe Ferlito
Production Company: Immagina
Cinematografica Productions - Arbash
Film
Cast: Antonnella D’arcangelo - Davide
Gemmani
Country of origin: Italy
Status: market screening
A betrayed husband threatens to plunge
to his death and becomes a mistaken hero
trapped in a grotesque web of power and
interest.
BLACK ANGEL (SENSO ‘45)
Erotic Drama (108 min)
Directed By: Tinto Brass
Cast: Anna Galiena - Gabriel Garko
Production Company: CINE 2000
Country of Origin: Italy
In a languid Venice the devastating
passion between a sensuous woman and
a young and handsome officer.
GINGER AND CINNAMON (DILLO
CON PAROLE MIE)
Comedy
Directed By: Daniele Luchetti
Cast: Stefania Montorsi, Giampaolo
Morelli, Martina Merlino, Alberto Cucca
Production Company: Conchita Airoldi
for Studiocanal Urania
Delivery Status: First Market Screening
A comedy-of-errors filled with small
talk, sun, sea and music, broken diets,
antihistamines, camping stoves, tents,
sleeping bags and nervous girls.
EUGENIO I LOVE YOU (TI VOGLIO
BENE EUGENIO)
Genuine Touching Story (95 min)
Directed By: Francisco J. Fernandez
Cast: Giancarlo Giannini - Jacques Perrin
- Giuliana De Sio
Production Company: Arcipelago
Cinematografica
Based on a true story, a moving tale of
hope of a man whose disability has not
prevented him from living a fulfilling
life. Features an exceptional performance
by Giancarlo Giannini.
ADYTON
INTERNATIONAL
Adyton International, European office:
ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warszawa,
Poland. Tel: 0048.22.844.22.96. Fax:
0048.22.844.22.96. [email protected],
www.adyton.pl
Company Type: Producer, distributor
At Cannes: Kamil Wilczyn´ski - Sales
Coordinator
Office:
A VERY CHRISTMAS STORY
Family comedy (83 min)
Language: English
Director: Dariusz Zawislak
Producer: Dariusz Zawislak
Cast: Jan Englert, Pawel Burczyk,
Bartosz Opania, Kasia Olasz
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2001 Country of
Origin: USA/Poland
Budget: $ 1,500,000
Crazy adventures of an accountant with a
briefcase full of defrauded money, a girl
desperately looking for money for her
orphanage and an Angel of Death, who
doesn’t know anything about money and
doesn’t need to.
MAGIC STONE
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Jowita Gondek
Producer: Dariusz Zawislak
Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Olivier Shiflish
Delivery Status: Post Production
Origin: USA/Poland
Budget: $ 20,000,000
Appealing as HARRY POTTER,
CASPER or JUMANJI story of a little
girl who finds a magic blue bead which
can fulfill all her whishes and a witch
who follows her trying to steal the bead
and use it to make evil.
MR VIRGIN
Comedy, 90 min.
Language: English
Director: Przemek Angerman
Cast: Radoslaw Kaim, Krzysztof Pralat
Delivery Status: Ready to Delivery
Year of Production: 2002
Comedy of ErROrS. Two boys face the
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Location for the
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The Carlton Hotel
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problems of adolescence – their first
sexual contacts with girls. On their way
to discover the world of pleasures they
meet many beautiful women ready to
give them precious lessons.
EGOISTS
Drama, 103 min.
Language: English
Director: Mariusz Trelinski
Cast: Rafal Mohr, Magdalena Cielecka
Delivery Status: Ready to Delivery
A story about young elites of a big city,
alcohol, drugs, trans music and easy sex.
On their run from one bar to another,
from one lover to another they lose the
most important things in their lives.
Young people live on the edge – on the
edge of their physical and psychical
possibilities.
BIG, BIGGER & BIGGEST
Adventure
Language: English
Delivery Status: In Development
Origin: USA
Budget: $ 20,000,000
Kate and Peter save the world against the
aliens’ attack .
ALAIN SIRITZKY
PRODUCTIONS
Alain Siritzky Productions, 23, Rue
Raynouard, 75016 Paris, France. Tel:
33.1.42.24.50.50. Fax: 33.1.42 24 66 42.
[email protected].
www.ClickStudiosHollywood.com.
www.nakedshoppingnetwork.com
At Cannes: Alain Siritzky, George Pilzer,
Robby Amar
Office:
EMMANUELLE: LUST IN SPACE
(WORKING TITLE)
Erotic/Sci Fi
Emmanuelle is back and this time she is
going to show us what happens behind
her very own closed doors.
JACQUELINE HYDE
Erotic Horror
It’s a terrifying and extremely sexy
modern re-telling of the classic tale of
“The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson.
RING OF DESIRE
Erotic
It looks like an ordinary ring but it can
yield complete control over others while
corrupting the soul of the wearer. It’s an
erotic variation of “Lord Of The Rings”
where lust is eternal!
IMAGES OF FEAR
Horror
When Steven Thomas buys a used video
camera at a garage sale and takes it home
to his wife and teen-age daughter, he
quickly discovers he has just let evil into
his life.
ALSO OUR CATALOGUE:
Emmanuelle 2000 7x90’, Emmanuelle,
The New Adventures 7x90’, Justine
7x90’, The Click 7x90’, Butterscotch
7x90’, Passion & Romance 7x90’, The
Sex Files I & II 14x90’, Scandal 7x90’,
The Emmanuelle TV Series 7x90’,
Emmanuelle 5, 6 & 7 3x90’, Seducing
Fina 90’ and Wages of Lust 90’
ALLIANCE
ATLANTIS
Alliance Atlantis, Toronto: 121 Bloor
Street East, Suite #1500, Toronto,
Ontario, M4W 3M5, Canada. Tel:
416.967.1174. Fax: 416.960.0971.
Montreal: 5, Place Ville Marie, Suite
#1435, Montreal, Quebec, H3B 2G2,
Canada. Tel: 514.878.2282. Fax:
514.878.2419. London: 184 - 192
Drummond St., 2nd floor, London NW1
3HP England. Tel: 44.207.391.6900.
Fax: 44.207.383.0404. Australia: 401
Darling Street, Suite 2, Balmain, Sydney
NSW, 2041 Australia. Tel:
612.9810.8922. Fax: 612.9810.8966.
Shannon: Block 1, Unit C, Shannon
Business Park, Shannon, Co. Clare,
Ireland. Tel: 353.61.472.329. Fax:
353.61.472.228. Los Angeles: 808
Wilshire Blvd., 3rd Floor, Santa Monica,
CA 90401 USA. Tel: 310.899.8000. Fax:
310.899.8100, Edmonton: 3720-76
Avenue Edmonton, Alberta, T6B 2N9
Canada. Tel: 780.440.2022. Fax:
780.440.3400. Dublin: 40 Westland Row,
Dublin 2, Ireland, Tel: 353.1.449.8400.
Fax: 353.1.449.8470. Halifax: 1668
Barrington, Suite 500, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, B3J 2G3, Canada. Tel:
902.420.1577. Fax: 902.425.8260.
At Cannes: Charlotte Mickie (Managing
Director, International Motion Picture
Sales, Entertainment Group), Irene Read
(Managing Director, International
Distribution, Asia & Australasia,
Entertainment Group), Ariel Veneziano
(Director, International Motion Picture
Sales, Entertainment Group), Ted Riley
(President, Distribution, Entertainment
Group), Victor Loewy (CEO, Motion
Picture Distribution Group), Patrice
HOW MY MOTHER GAVE BIRTH TO ME
DURING MENOPAUSE
ALLIANCE ATLANTIS
The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com
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CANNES PRODUCT GUIDE
Theroux (President, Motion Picture
Distribution Group)
Office: 23, Rue Macé, 4th Floor, Cannes,
Tel: 33.(0)4.93.43.85.10. Fax:
33.(0)4.93.38.87.78
THE STATION AGENT
Drama
Director: Tom McCarthy
Producers: Mary Jane Skalski, Robert
May, Kathryn Tucker
Cast: Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson,
Bobby Cannavale
Status: Completed
Origin: US
A mismatched threesome forge an
unlikely bond, which ultimately reveals
that even isolation is better shared.
COMMENT MA MERE ACCOUCHA
DE MOI DURANT SA MÉNOPAUSE
(HOW MY MOTHER GAVE BIRTH
TO ME DURING MENOPAUSE)
Drama
Director: Sébastien Rose
Producers: Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal
Cast: Micheline Lanctôt, Paul Ahmarani
Status: Completed
Origin: Canada
At thirty, Jean Charles still lives
on...er...rather intimate terms with his
mother and his sister, but his new
girlfriend should change all that. Or
maybe not.
SERAPHIN: HEART OF STONE
Drama
Director: Charles Binamé
Producers: Lorraine Richard
Exec Producers: Vivianne Morin, Louis
Laverdière, Guy Gagnon, Patrick Roy
Cast: Pierre Lebeau, Karine Vanasse, Roy
Dupuis
Status: Completed
Origin: Canada
In a noble effort to save her father from
ruin, a beautiful young woman marries a
despicable miser despite her continuing,
clandestine love for another man.
FLOWER & GARNET
Drama
Director: Keith Behrman
Producers: Trish Dolman
Exec. Producers: Alexandra Raffé,
Margueritte Pigott, Bryan Gliserman,
Trish Dolman, Dean English, Jessica
Fraser
Cast: Callum Keith Rennie, Jane
McGregor, Colin Roberts, Dov
Tiefenbach, Kristin Thomson
LOVE’S BROTHER
ARCLIGHT FILMS
Status: Completed
Origin: Canada
A portrait of love and loss, hope and
heartbreak, FLOWER & GARNET is
also a love poem forged between a sister
and brother, both of whom are on the
verge of life crisis.
ALL THE REAL GIRLS
Drama
Director: David Gordon Green
Producers: Jean Doumanian, Lisa Muskat
Cast: Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel,
Patricia Clarkson
Status: Completed
Origin: USA
Eschewing love story clichés, ALL THE
REAL GIRLS is a contemporary portrait
of honesty and expectations in writerdirector David Gordon Green’s follow up
film to his award winning debut, George
Washington.
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
At Cannes: James R. Moder (Chairman),
Janet Y. Liu (VP Sales Consultant, Asia)
Office: J7 / K8 (Riviera), Tel.: 310-2710703, Fax: 310-271-0706,
[email protected]
LAS VEGAS WARRIOR
Action (97 min
Director/Producer: Nastasha Baron
Starring: Laurie Hanley, Suk Woo Nam
When a martial arts fighter gets killed
during a bare fisted kick-boxing fight, an
investigative journalist (Laurie Hanley)
decides to pursue this story.
THROTTLE
Action Thriller (92 min)
Director: Atul Sharma, Producer: Atul
Sharma & Cheryl Bedford
Starring: Liam Watson, Jody Booth
Jon, a career criminal, gets out of prison
determined to live it up in Baja with
millions that he and his only friend,
George, stole from a Drug Cartel.
HORRORVISION
Horror (85 min)
Director: Danny Draven, Producer: J.R.
Bookwalter and Scott Phillips
Starring: Jake Leonard, James Black as
“Bradbury” (“The Return”, “Out of
Sight”), and Special Appearance by
Scream Queen Brinke Stevens
(“Sideshow”, “Victoria’s Shadow”)
Dez, a web master, mistakenly logs onto
“horrorvision.com” - a website that kills
all who come across it.
HOME SWEET HOBOKEN
Comedy (92 min)
Director: Yoshifumi Hosoya, Producers:
Yuko Yoshikawa & Daisuke Sekiguchi
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Elizabeth Ashley,
Richard Kind (“Spin City”), Aida
Turturro (“The Sopranos”)
When an appraiser offers Beth cash for
some old jewelry, she discovers that a
ring she thought was worthless is
actually a rare Louis XV diamond valued
at $10 million!
PUPS
Action Drama (95 min) *Premiered on
HBO*
Director: Ash Producer: Daniel Berger
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Mischa Barton
(“Sixth Sense”, “Notting Hill”), Cameron
Von Hoy
Chronicles the story of a rebellious
“latch-key” teenager who finds his
mother’s gun.
ALPHA FILM GROUP,
INC
Alpha Film Group, Inc, 216 South Main
Street Alpharetta, Georgia 30004 USA.
Tel: 770.740.1962. Fax: 770.740.1046.
[email protected],
www.alphafilmgroup.com
Company Type: Distributor
At Cannes: Ray Guthrie (CEO), Ace
Cruz (Director)
Acquisition Executive: Susan Harris
Office: Tel: 770.560.2277
FATE
Psychological Thriller
Language: English
Director: Ace Cruz
Producer: Ace Cruz
Cast: Lee Majors, Philip Michael
Thomas, Michael Pare
Delivery Status: post production
Year of Production: 2002, Country of
Origin: United States
Budget: $2.5 million
Detective Cody Martin (Michael Pare)
and Detective Ciprian Raines (Philip
Michael Thomas) hunt a killer (Lee
Majors) who is using his victims as
characters in a demented story.
AMAZING MOVIES
Amazing Movies, 7471 Melrose Avenue,
Suite 7, Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA.
Tel: 323.852.1396. Fax: 323.658.7265.
[email protected],
www.amazingpix.com
Company Type: Sales Agent
At Cannes: Acquisition Executive
Douglas Witkins (President), Koing
Kuoch (Vice-President)
THE LONG RIDE HOME
Action Adventure (86 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Robert Macarelli
Producer: Paul Tinder
Cast: Eric Roberts, Randy Travis, Ernest
Borgnine
Delivery Status Complete
Origin: USA
Budget: 3.5 Million
Passion, revenge and murder mark this
action adventure set in the 1860’s Old
West. Jack Fowler must fight the law and
the lawless to clear his name and reunite
with his wife and son.
AMERICA VIDEO
FILMS S A
America Video Films S A, Virrey Loreto
2426, Capital Federal, 1426, Rep.
Argentina. Tel: 54.11.4787.9098 / 9101
Fax: 5411.4787.9094.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Enrique Maya (President),
Beba Maya (Public Relations), Freddie
Hancock (Senior V.P. Acquisitions),
Nicholas Bingham (Adviser)
Office: Carlton suite 225, Tel:
334.9306.4225. Fax: 334.9306.4226
WEDDING NIGHT
Comedy (92 min)
Language: French w/English subtitles
Director: Emile Caudreault
Producer: Denise Robert Daniel Louis
Principal Cast: Francois Morency ,
Genevieve Brouillette
Country of origin: Canada
Florence and Nicolas are not as afraid of
marriage as they are of uniting their own
families into one big family!
DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Donna Deitch
Producer: Dustin Hoffman Mimi Rogers
Principal Cast: Kirsten Dunst , Brittany
Murphy
Country of origin USA
A young woman is magically transported
into a WWII Nazi death camp.
THE AGENCY
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Mikael Salomon
Producer: Wolfgang Petersen
Principal Cast: Will Patton Gil Bellows
Gloria Reuben
Whether preventing terrorist attacks,
nuclear threats or biological warfare, the
agents of the CIA put their lives in peril
at every moment.
FIDEL
Action (200 min)
Language: English
Director: David Attwood
Producer: David V. Picker
Principal Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal ,
Victor Hugo Martin
The explosive untold true story of Fidel
Castro and Che Guevara´s rise to power.
VARIAN´S WAR
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Lionel Chetwynd
Producer: Barbra Streisand Cis Corman
and Edward Wessex
Principal Cast: William Hurt , Julia
Ormond
The untold true story of World War II
and an ordinary man who saved those
without hope from a fate no one could
imagine.
Email your press releases only during Cannes to:
[email protected]
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AMERICAN CINEMA
GROUP, INC
AMERICAN WORLD
PICTURES
American Cinema Group, Inc, 2550 N.
Hollywood Way, #204, Burbank , CA
91505-1055 USA.
At Cannes: Eric Karson (VP of
marketing)
Office: c/o Chris Davis International,
Riviera Office # G13, Tel:
33.04.92.99.88.41. Mobile:
33.06.08.52.79.40
LIBRARY
A library of feature films all of which
have been released Theatrically and now
available for the ancillary rights
exploitation.
American World Pictures, 6355 Topanga
Canyon Blvd. # 428, Woodland Hills, CA
91367 USA. Tel. 818.715.1480. Fax.
818.715.1081.
www.americanworldpictures.com
At Cannes: Mark L. Lester (President),
Gregory L. Stuart (Executive Vice
President, Acquisitions & Worldwide
Distribution)
Office: Riviera F6, Hotel Fax: Radisson
Montfleury c/o Mark Lester
33.(0)4.93.68.87.87, Gregory Stuart’s
cel: 33.(0)6.2429.9417
KNIGHT CLUB
Action
Language: English
Director: Russel Gannon
Production Company: Global Pictures
Producer(s): Jim Lotfi; Rob Nittolo &
Tony Rosamillia
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Lochlyn
Munro, Glenn Plummer
Status: Completed, screening at Cannes
Year Produced: 2003, Production
Country: USA
A young man succumbs to the power of
his job, forgetting about his friends and
earning the wrath of his mentor.
TULLY
Drama
Language: English
Director: Hilary Birmingham
Production Company: Small Planet
Pictures in association with Telltale
Films
Producers: Anne Sundberg and Hilary
Birmingham
Cast: Anson Mount; Julianne Nicholson
Country: USA
Explores a legacy of love between a
family of men, and the events of one
summer that change their world forever.
ISLAND OF THE MAPMAKER’S
WIFE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Michie Gleason
Production Company: Labouchere
Holland Films CV in association with
Virginia Films & Sigma Pictures
Producers: Matthijs Van Jeijningen;
Charles Melniker & Michie Gleason
Cast: Liam Cunningham; Natasha Little
Country: USA
Finley Descotes finds that desire,
obsession and political intrigue will
catapult her into a world she didn’t
expect.
MENACE
Action
Director: John Marino
Production Company: Banned in
America Films, a California Corp.
Producers: Spencer Thornton; Johhny
Ciarcia; S. Woody Wagner
Cast: Johnny Green; Alison Lohman
(WHITE OLEANDER)
Status: Completed, Screening at Cannes
Year Produced: 2003
From the Director of BAD
LIEUTENANT, Abel Ferrara Presents
MENACE. Brian Lovero, equal parts
AMERICAN CINEMA
INTERNATIONAL
American Cinema International, 4640
Lankershim Blvd Suite 500 N.
Hollywood, CA 91602. Tel:
818.985.8500. Fax: 818.985.4848.
At Cannes: George Shamieh (CEO),
Chevonne O’Shaughnessy (President)
Office: Riviera E-5., Tel:
33.(0).4.92.99.32.39.
TARGET
Action (91 minutes)
Director: William Web
Cast: Stephen Baldwin, James Russo,
Deborah Worthing, Yorgo Constantine
and Debra Wilson
Producer: William Webb
Delivery Status: Trailering in the office
When you become the “Target”, in a
Army Sniper’s game.
HATCHETMAN
(93 minutes)
Cast: Cheryle Burns, Nina Tapanin, Chris
Moir, and Jon Briddell
Director: Robert Tiffe
Producer: George Shamieh
As she and her friends try to stay alive,
Claudia and her detective boyfriend,
Sonny, try to figure out who the murderer
is.
WILDFIRE
Family/Disaster (93 minutes)
Director: Henri Charr
Producer: Jess Mancilla
Cast: Michael Preston, Jordan Seider,
Claire Smithies, Bob Lauder and Jr. Brad
Sergi
An out of control “WildFire” becomes
the biggest fire of the season threatening
thousands of acres of land.
LOCO LOVE
Romantic Comedy (93 minutes)
Director: Bryan Lewis
Producer: Bryan Lewis
Cast: Laura Elena Harring Roy Werner
Gerardo Mejia Margaret Scarborough,
Frank Gallegos
Love moved in... and so did the rest of
the family
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hustler and idealist, gets by as best he
can by selling dope and running petty
scams.
WHITE RUSH
Action / Thriller
Language: English
Director: Mark L. Lester
Production Company: American World
Pictures
Producers: Dana Dubovsky; Mark L.
Lester
Cast: Louis Mandylor (MY BIG FAT
GREEK WEDDING); Judd Nelson
Status: Completed, Screening in Cannes
Country: USA
Another chapter in traffic. A group of
young tourist couples come across a drug
deal gone bad while on vacation. One of
them is a cop.
AMSELL
ENTERTAINMENT
INC
AMSell Entertainment Inc, 12001
Ventura Place, Suite #404, Studio City,
CA 91602, USA. Tel: 818.766.8500. Fax:
818.766.8737. [email protected]
At Cannes: Alan Solomon (President),
Joseph Beral (Director of International
Sales and Marketing)
Office: Riviera, booth F9, Tel:
06.07.25.82.31
HALLOWEEN HOUSE PARTY
Urban Horror
Director: Leo J. Lawrence
Cast: Mac 10, Joe Torry
Producer: Giancarlo Gamboa
Status: Post-production
Derek and Shown are hired to tear down
a dilapidated old house. Shown, a typical
slacker, convinces Derek to throw a party
over a party over Halloween weekend.
BLOOD GNOME
Horror
Director: John Lechago
Cast: Vincent Bilancio, Melisa Pursley,
Ri Walton, Laurie Jameson, Charles
Monsby
Status: Ready for Delivery
Strange little creatures are behind a
series of bloody killings but are invisible
to everyone except a crime scene
photographer.
WIND AND CLOUD: A MARTIAL
ARTS SAGA
Martial Arts / Fantasy / Sci-fi FX / 3D
Animation TV Series (45 x 50 min)
Part One: episodes 1-24, Part Two:
episodes 24-45
Director: Chin-Liang Hsu (“The Sword
Of Great Silence” - Venice Film Festival
Nomination)
Stunt Director: YC MA (Jet Li’s “The
Scripture with No Words” and “Big
Bullet”, “Jackie Chan’s First Strike” &
“The East Is Red”
Cast: Sonny Chiba (Immortal Combat”,
“Aces: Iron Eagle III”), Chao Wen Cho
(Jet Li’s “The Legend”), Annie Wu
(“Jackie Chan’s First Strike”), Dialogue:
Ali Clark (“Hidden Dragon, Crouching
Tiger”)
A martial arts saga adapted from the
classic martial arts comic strip by MA
YUENG CHEN.
LEECHES
Horror
Director: David DeCoteau
Cast: Matthew Twining, Josh Henderson,
Stacey Nelson, Tony Carroccio, Charity
Rahmer, Mike Cole, Maya Parish,
Stephen Sowan Michael Lutz, Greg
Lyczkowski, Mark I. Miller, Trevor
Harris, Alexandra Westmore, Julie
Briggs, Tyler Sedustine
The swim team for a prestigious college
swim in a lake containing LEECHES,
which become infused with steroids and
transmogrify into giant leaches which
attack members of the swim team in a
bloody and brutal manner.
SPEED DEMON
Horror Thriller (90 min)
Director: David DeCoteau
Cast: Collin Stark, Mark Ian Miller,
Candace Moon, Trevor Harris, Amber
Loy, M. T. Church, Mike, Nick Doss,
Greg Carney, Robert Donavan, Jared
Edwards
A young man returns from college to his
hometown to attend his father’s funeral.
The town is overrun by a gang of his old
friends who are intent on living life fast
and furious.
ARCLIGHT FILMS
Arclight Films, 1201/39 McLaren Street,
North Sydney, Australia 2060. Tel:
61(0)2.9955.8825. Fax:
61.(0)2.9955.8828
At Cannes: Gary Hamilton (Managing
Director), Nicolas Chartier (Vice
President of World Wide Sales), Ian
Gibbins (General Manager), John Kim
(Development Manager)
Office: Riviera L7-L9, Tel:
33.(0)4.92.99.33.15. Fax:
33.(0)4.92.99.33.16
A DIFFERENT LOYALTY
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Marek Kanievska
Producer: Michael Cowan/Jason Piette
Principal Cast: Sharon Stone, Rupert
Everett
Production Status: In Production
Country of origin: UK
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A spirited woman’s loyalty is put to the
test when she discovers the man she
loves is a Russian spy.
BOLLYWOOD QUEEN
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Jeremy Wooding
Producer: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette
Principal Cast: Preeya Kalidas, Ian
McShane
Production Status: Completed
West Side Story goes east in this
heartwarming homage to Bollywood
musicals about two star-crossed lovers
crossing cultures, families and the law.
HEAD IN THE CLOUDS
Drama
Language: English
Director: John Duigan
Producer: Michael Cowan/Jason Piette
and Julia Palau
Principal Cast: Charlize Theron,
Penelope Cruz Stuart Townsend
Production Status: In Production
An idealistic student and a hedonistic
aristocrat love each other through war,
separation and infidelity in spite of the
seemingly irreconcilable differences.
LOVE’S BROTHER
Romance
Language: English
Director: Jan Sardi
Producer: Jane Scott, Sarah Radcliff
Principal Cast: Adam Garcia, Giovanni
Ribisi, Amelia Warner.
Production Status: Postproduction
Country of origin: Australia
In despair of ever finding love, an ugly
duckling uses a photo of his handsome
brother to convince a beautiful girl across
the sea to marry him.
MOONLIGHT
Romance/thriller
Language: English
Director: Paula van der Oest 2003
Academy award nominee Zus and Zo
Producer: JEmjay Rechsteiner, Jason
Piette, Michael Cowan, Jimmy de
Brabant, Michael Knobloch
Principal Cast: Laurien van den Broek,
Hunter Bussemaker, Andrew Howard
Brutal, tender and redemptive, a
controversial award winning coming of
age about losing innocence and love.
ARMADA PICTURES
INTERNATIONAL
Armada Pictures International, 9720
Wilshire Boulevard, 5th Floor, Beverly
Hills, CA 90212 USA. Tel. 310.205.9600.
Fax 310.205.9610.
At Cannes: Chris Sievernich (CEO),
Yarek Danielak (VP, International
Distribution), Matt Milich-(VP,
Production)
Office: Carlton Intercontinental - Suite
233, Tel. 33.4.93.06.42.33. Fax.
33.4.93.06.69.33
FAMILY OF THE YEAR
Comedy
Producer: Chris Sievernich, Matt Milich
Director: Joel Zwick (My Big Fat Geek
Wedding)
Cast: T.B.A.
Status: Pre-production
A hilarious comedy, Family of the Year
follows the Miller family, who, after
moving to a new town, have more trouble
getting along with each other than their
new neighbors.
ONE POINT ZERO
Thriller
Exec. Producers:Matt Milich, Andreas
Schmid, Andreas Grosch
Producer: Chris Sievernich, Thomas Mai,
RD Robb, Kyle Gates
Directors: Jeff Renfroe, Martenn Steinar
Thorsson
Cast: Jeremy Sisto, Deborah Unger, Udo
Kier, Rutger Hauer
Status: Production
A young programmer becomes a guinea
pig in a major corporate advertising
experiment
DRUM
Thriller
Exec. Producers:Matt Milich, Andreas
Producer: Chris Sievernich, Rudolf
Wichmann
Director: Zola Maseko
Cast: T.B.A.
Status: Casting
Set against the backdrop of exhilarating
1950’s Sofiatown in South Africa,
DRUM magazine gives birth to a popular
movement against apartheid.
DISTURBED (A.K.A. IDENTITY)
Thriller
Exec. Producer: Matt Milich
GOOD-BYE, LENIN - BAVARIA FILM INTERNATIONAL
Producer: Chris Sievernich, David
Hoberman, Ashok Amritraj
Director: Harold Becker
Cast: T.B.A.
Status: Development
A well-known pop psychiatrist suddenly
finds herself locked in a deadly struggle
of wills when her family, career, and life
are torn apart by a former patient.
ARRI MEDIA
WORLDSALES
Arri Media Worldsales, Türkenstr. 89,
80799 Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Tel:
49.89.3809.1288. Fax: 49.89.3809.1619.
www.arri-mediaworldsales.de
Company Type: Worldsales Company
At Cannes: Antonio Exacoustos (Head of
Worldsales/Producer)
Office: c/o Export Union of German
Cinema, German Pavilion, Festival de
Cannes/Village International, Esplanade
Georges Pompidou, Tel:
0033.4.93.99.05.24. Fax:
0033.4.93.99.05.25
ARTEDIS
Artedis, 12 Rue Raynouard, 75016 Paris.
France. Tel: 331.5392.2929, Fax:
At Cannes: Pierre-Richard Muller
(Director), Chantal Lam (President);
Acquisition executives: Pierre-Richard
Muller (Director), Chantal Lam
(President)
Office: Residence du Grand Hotel, Bldg.
Le Cormoran II, 45 La Croisette, 06400
CANNES. Tel/Fax: 04.93.99.56.67
TRIGGERED (LES PERCUTES)
Thriller
Director: Gerard Cuq
Producer: Denis Karvil
Cast: Christophe Laubion, Bernard Farcy
Delivery Status: completed
Country of Origin: France
After celebrating a colleague’s birthday, a
slightly drunk police detective goes into
his bank to ask for his credit card that
was just swallowed by the ATM machine.
THE TARGET TO KILL(LA CIBLE)
Comedy/thriller
Director: Pierre Courege
Cast: Daniel Russo, Hippolyte Girardot,
Anemone
Chris, a young navy serviceman
desperate to find a lost love, tries to enlist
the help of a TV show star to help him
find his girlfriend.
THE POACHER(LA BRACONNE)
Comedy
Director: Serge Penard
Cast: Francis Perrin, Henri Guybet
For young Jean, life in Normandy after
World War II takes on a new beginning
when he start living with his relatives.
THE SETTING SUN
Drama
Director: Tomono Ro
Soundtrack by Maurice Jarre with songs
from Ella Fitzgerald
Cast: Kato Masaya, Diane Lane, Donald
Sutherland
Country of Origin: Japan
Set in the 1930’s during the opium wars
between China and Japan, an idealistic
Japanese soldier is forced to question
alliances when he meets and falls in love
with the leader (Diane Lane) of the rebel
movement in Manchuria.
ARTEDIS LIBRARY
A collection of over 80 European Classic
Films including works by such Directors
as Claude Chabrol, Andre Techine,
Claude Sautet, Michel Deville, Just
Jaeckin, and Henry Verneuil among
others, offers a diverse selection of
adventure, comedy, drama, and eroticism.
ARTIST VIEW
ENTERTAINMENT
Artist View Entertainment, 12500
Riverside Drive, Ste #201, N. Hollywood,
CA 91607 USA. Tel: 818.752.2480. Fax:
818.752.9339. [email protected],
www.artistviewent.com
At Cannes: Scott J. Jones (President), Jay
E. Joyce (Vice President)
Office: Riviera Village J8, Tel:
04.92.99.33.28
UNSHACKLED
Thriller (95 Minutes)
Cast: Stacy Keach, Morgan Fairchild,
James Black, Burgess Jenkins
Based on a true story of Harold Morris,
Two prison inmates must push aside their
indifferences towards each other if they
are to survive the cruel and dangerous
prison world.
13TH CHILD: LEGEND OF THE
JERSEY DEVIL
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Lesley Anne
Down, Christopher Atkins, and Robert
Guillaume
For the first time, a 200 year-old legend
known as the “Jersey Devil” is brought to
life on the big screen. As Investigators
follow up on a series of intense, unusual
murders, they are pointed to the infamous
legend.
THE UNLIVING
Horror / Thriller (90 Minutes)
Cast: Paul Naschy, Jay Richardson,
Michelle Bauer
A rabid werewolf preys on visitors
searching a countryside estate for a
legendary buried treasure while he awaits
the day when the silver sword will be
removed from his heart.
UNSPEAKABLE
Action Thriller (90 Minutes)
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Dina Meyer, Lance
Henrikson, Jeff Fahey, Pavan Grover
Set in one of the toughest prisons in the
world, this chilling story tells of one
woman’s battle with terror and the
unspeakable evil that lurks within a
bizarre, unexplainable inmate.
BLACK CADILLAC
Action Thriller (90 Minutes)
Cast: Randy Quaid, Josh Hammond,
Jason Dohring, Kiersten Warren
Through the darkness of a cold winter
night, three young men face danger. head
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
THE ASYLUM
ATLAS PICTURES
The Asylum, 6671 Sunset Blvd., Bldg.
1593, Hollywood, CA 90028 USA. Tel:
323.463.6575. Fax: 323.463.6299.
[email protected]
Company Type: Sales
agent/producer/distributor
At Cannes: Sherri Strain (International
Sales), David Rimawi (Domestic Sales,
Acquisitions)
Office: Le Riviera E11/F12, Tel:
04.92.99.32.05
KING OF THE ANTS
Thriller
Directed by Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator,
Fortress, Dagon)
Starring: Daniel Baldwin (John
Carpenter’s Vampires), George Wendt
(Cheers), Kari Wuhrer (Eight Legged
Freaks).
When Sean Crawley is hired to stalk a
government official, little does he realize
it will lead to murder, torture and a wild
love affair with his victim’s widow.
CROAK
Creature horror
Delivery Status: Pre-production
When a deep space comet slams into a
tanker truck with a radio-active load, a
bucolic American town falls victim to a
plague of mutant frogs who infect the
townspeople, turning them into killer
amphibians.
CHAOS
Action
Starring Jason Barry (Titanic, Beyond
Re-Animator), Phelim Drew (Angela’s
Ashes, My Left Foot)
In a post-apocalyptic future, sports
consist of gladiator battles with fire,
motorcycles and chainsaws.
DEMON SLAYER
Horror
Starring David Carradine (Quentin
Tarantino’s Kill Bill), Michael Bowen
(Magnolia, Jackie Brown), Darren
Burrows (Northern Exposure), Bob
Balaban (Gosford Park)
When two serial killers begin their reign
of terror in the same small town, the FBI
sends out their secret weapon against evil
- an agent who can see into the soul to
the demon beneath.
KILLERS 2
Thriller
The lone survivor of a gangland
massacre is trapped in an insane asylum,
convinced that killers are out to silence
her forever.
Atlas Pictures, 919 N Alfred St. Suite
101, Los Angeles CA 90069 USA. Tel:
323.572.1590. Fax: 323.572.1594.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Aziz Alaoui (President/CEO),
David Hoffman (VP of Development),
Sandra Galvagny (VP of Intl
distribution), Wafae Alaoui director
marketing
Office: Noga Hilton, Tel:
33.06.21.20.90.21. Fax: 323.572.1594
SPENCER STONE
Action
Language: English
Producer: Atlas Pictures
Production Status: Pre-production
Country of Origin/co-production:
(UK/Germany/French)
A renegade CIA agent sets out to avenge
the murder of his wife by teaming up
with a French secret agent to thwart the
plans of a power-hungry mad scientist.
THE LISTINING GAME
Thriller
Language: English
Producer: Atlas Pictures
Country of Origin/co-production:
(Canada/Germany/UK)
A homicide detective tracks a serial killer
and realizes it is someone from the past.
Location for the
23RD year
The Carlton Hotel
Room 149
Tel: 04 93 06 41 49
Tel: 04 93 06 47 20
AURA
ENTERTAINMENT
Aura Entertainment, LLC. 9350 Wilshire
Blvd., Ste. 400, Beverly Hills, CA 90212
USA. Tel 310.278.9991. Fax:
www.auraent.com
At Cannes: Steve Bickel
(President/Partner), Jeffrey Kramer
(Partner), Brian Stearns (Creative
Affairs)
Office: The Majestic Hotel, Suite
759/760, Tel: 33.4.97.06.84.86. Fax:
33.4.97.06.84.87
THE BIG EMPTY
Dark Comedy
Directed by: Steve Anderson
Produced by: Steve Kaplan , Gregg
Daniel, Doug Mankoff, Andrew
Spaulding
Executive Producers: Steve Bickel,
Jeffrey Kramer, Keith Resnick and Jon
Favreau
Production Company: Aura
Entertainment, Echo Lake Productions,
Rainstorm Entertainment
Starring: Jon Favreau, Rachael Leigh
Cook, Sean Bean, Adam Beach, Daryl
Hannah, Kelsey Grammer and Joey
Lauren Adams
Tells the story of John Person, a budding
actor who is faced with a stalled career
as well as a mountain of debt.
LOVE COMES TO THE
EXECUTIONER
Dark Comedy
Directed by: Kyle Bergersen
Produced by: Doug Draizin, Steve Bickel
and Jeffrey Kramer
Production Company: Aura
Entertainment
Status: Casting
This insightful comedy is centered
around a recent college graduate who is
offered the position of executioner at the
local prison where his own brother is
slated to die.
AURUM
PRODUCCIONES S.A.
Aurum Producciones S.A., Avda. de
Burgos, #12, Floor 10 / 28036 Madrid,
Spain. Tel: 34.91.768.48.07. Fax:
34.91.768.48.33,
[email protected], www.aurum.es
Company Type: Sales agent, Producer,
Distributor
At Cannes: Ms. Mocha Aguilar (Dir.
International Sales), Mr. Alberto
Cañizares (Acquisitions Responsible),
Mr. Javier Gracia (Managing Director),
Ms. Teresa Moneo (Managing Director)
Office: A1/C2-C1 (Pavillion “Cinema
From Spain”)
Tel: 33.(0)4.92.99.88.27. Fax:
33.(0)4.92.99.88.28, Cell
34.625.15.95.05
SLAM (SLAM)
A Teen Comedy (96 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Miguel Martí
Producer: Pedro Uriol
Cast: Iván Hermes, Tomás Fonzi, Andreu
Castro
Prod: post production
Production: Spain
They scheme, deceive, use espionage,
greed, just about any lactive in hopes of
getting an interview with the legendary
rock-n- roller SLAM
NUDOS (LIFE TIDES)
A Romantic Story (107 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Lluis Maria Güell
Producer: Ovideo
Cast: Charo López, Goya Toledo, Carlos
Álvarez-Novoa
Prod: completed
Production: Spain
A Barcelonan fishermen’s simple world,
and unscrupulous big town lawyers
insurance company, collide in the story
of seaman’s mysterious death.
Sophisticated lawyer Silvia probes into
his world while changing her outlook on
life.
WHO IS WATCHING (MIL
CÁMARAS)
Teen Thriller (104 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: David Alonso
Producer: Lotus Films
Cast: Antonio Hortelano, Eva Marciel,
Fernando Andina
Prod. Status: completed
Production: Spain
A series of apparently ordinary events
involve a group of university students in
a disturbing story of suspense.
EL REY DE LA GRANJA (THE
KING OF THE FARM)
Children Comedy (95 min)
Language: Spanish
Directors: Gregorio Muro, Carlos Zabala
Producer: Bainet Zinema
Cast: Karlos Arguiñano, Javi Martín, Mar
Saura
Prod. Status: completed.
Production: Spain
After defeating RAMAKOR, asteroid
SONDAK’s tyrant, who had been using a
spherical artifact called NEURONIA to
hold his people under his mental control,
KIRIK flees the planet carrying
NEURONIA with him and seeks refuge
in our planet.
PEOR IMPOSIBLE (IT COULD
NEVER GET WORSE)
Teen Comedy (100 min)
Language: Spanish
Directors: José Semprún and David
Blanco
Producer: Morena Films
Cast: Victor Clavijo, Guillermo Toledo,
Elsa Pataki
Prod. Status: completed.
Production: Spain
Miguel is looking forward to a
passionate, intimate birthday with his
visiting girlfriend Fátima. When dubious
brother Alex bursts into the house
carrying a dead body, though, things get
out of control.
AV RELEASING
CORPORATION
AV Releasing Corporation, 10551 W.
Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064, USA.
Tel: 310.470.9295. Fax: 310.470.3785.
[email protected],
www.vreleasing.com
At Cannes: Andrew Van Slee (President),
John McHugh (Head of Distribution) and
Elke Kummerow (VP of Business
Affairs). Acquisitions Executive: John
McHugh
Office at Cannes: Private Residence
NET GAMES
Thriller (100 min)
Language: English
Director/Producer: Andrew Van Slee
Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Marina Sirtis &
Ed Begley Jr.
Delivery Status: Completed and ready for
delivery
Origin: USA
Lust, Mayhem, blackmail & murder
follow when Adam Vance(C. Thomas
Howell) decides to enter the world of
cyberchat.
SOLO ALBUM
BETA CINEMA
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
75
TOTALLY BLONDE
Comedy (98 min)
Language: English
Cast: Krista Allen, Michael Buble and
Maeve Quinlan
Delivery Status: Completed/ Still
available for some territories
Origin: USA
A sexy brunette dyes her hair to answer
the age old question...Do blondes really
have more fun?
TRANCERS 6
Sci-Fi (79 mins, 57 seconds)
Language: English
Director: Jay Woelfel
Producers: Maurice Smith and Charles
Band
Cast: Zette Sullivan, Jennifer Capo &
Robert Donavan
Delivery Status: Complete and Ready to
deliver
Origin: USA
In a return of the ground breaking
original film’s premise, Jack Deth is back
again to save the world from the most
lethal Trancers yet.
ADAM & EVIL
Horror
Language: English
Delivery Status: In Production
Origin: USA
After luring her classmates to a secluded
house, an evil & possessed Eve exacts
her revenge for their childhood pranks.
Status: Completed
Four girls return to their abandoned high
school to film a documentary about the
tragic events that happened during their
senior year.
MOURNING GLORY
Drama
Director: Barrett Esposito
Producer: Barrett Esposito and Amy
Gossels
Cast: Bill Sage and John Abrahams
Status: Completed
An eventful night forever changes the
faith and lives of a man and the younger
brother he is raising.
MIRROR MIRROR 4:
REFLECTIONS
Horror
Director: Paulette Victor-Lifton
Producer: Jimmy Lifton
Cast: Alice Amter and Grady Beard
Status: Completed
A costume party turns into a night of
terror as a creature of the night stalks the
partygoers.
HOBBS END
Thriller
Director: Phillip David Segal
Producer: Chris Dobbs
Cast: Catarina Conti and Brennan Elliott
Status: Completed
A grieving widow leading a reclusive
lifestyle is confronted with a serial killer
who as escaped from a maximumsecurity prison.
AVRIO FILMWORKS
RELEASING INC.
Bauer Martinez Studios, 801 West Bay
Drive, Suite 607, Largo, FL 33770-USA.
Tel: 727.582.9939. Fax: 727.582.9709.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Philippe Martinez
(Chairman/Chief Executive Officer),
Karinne Martinez (Chief Operating
Officer), Shirley Bester (International
Distribution), Karen A. Hamilton
(International Distribution)
Office: Noga Hilton, office number 306,
Tel: 33.4.92.99.70.00. Room 306
AFTER DEATH
Action
Director: Ringo Lam
Producer: Philippe Martinez, Alan
Latham
Executive Producer: Anthony Blakey,
Juan Montilla Eslava
Avrio Filmworks Releasing Inc., 1726
Tatlow Avenue, North Vancouver, BC V7P
2Z9 Canada. Tel: 604.924.1976. Fax:
At Cannes: Alan Solomon (President),
Joseph Beral (Director of International
Sales and Marketing)
Office: c/o AMSell Entertainment Inc.,
Riviera, booth Tel (914), Tel:
06.07.25.83.31
FALLEN ANGELS
Thriller
Director: Ian David Diaz
Producer: Michael Derbas
Cast: Michael Ironside, Jeff Fahey and
Kai Wiesinger
B
BAUER MARTINEZ
STUDIOS
GOLDEN SWALLOW - CELESTIAL PICTURES
Production Company: Lucky Ukfs
Cast: Jean Claude Van Damme
Status: Pre-production / SPP: July 2003
Budget: $20million
After his wife is brutally murdered, an
ex-cop wages war against the Chinese
triad, and becomes the protector of a very
special little girl: the adopted daughter of
the triad kingpin.
COVER PLAY
Action
Latham
Executive Producer: Anthony Blakey,
Juan Montilla Eslava
Production Company: Lucky UKFS
Cast: Jean Claude Van Damme
Status: Development / SPP: December
2003
Budget: $20 million
When the Seven Wonders casino-hotel is
taken over by Russian terrorists, the
hostages’ only hope rests with a reformed
thief accidentally trapped inside.
CITIZEN VERDICT
Political Thriller
Director: Philippe Martinez
Producer: Philippe Martinez, Helmut
Breuer
Co-Producer: Alan Latham, Stephanie
Martinez, Luc Campeau.
Executive Producer: Karinne Martinez,
Juan Montilla Eslava, Karen A.
Hamilton, Terrence S. Potter, Kim
Leggat, Douglas Miller, Ian Burlingham
Production Company: Aquarius Film
Company LLP in co-production with
Lucky 7 Productions/Exactlord
Productions, Lucky Select in association
with Curzon Motion Pictures
Cast: Armand Assante, Jerry Springer,
Roy Scheider
Status: In Post-Production/ Delivery July
2003.
Budget: $10million
Escalating crime has led the Governor of
Florida to allow a live trial & punishment
television show: “Citizen Verdict”. But
will justice be served, or are ratings the
ultimate prize?
DIGITAL JESUS
Suspense
Director: Howard Grenhalgh
Latham
Executive Producer: Anthony Blakey
Cast: Armand Assante
Status: Pre-Production
Budget: $6million
A demented serial killer hijacks the
internet to display his sick ‘campaign’.
Facing a death sentence of his own, an
embittered cop races to stop him before it
is too late.
MODIGLIANI
Drama
Director: Mick Davis
Producer: Philippe Martinez, André
Djaoui, Alan Latham
Executive Producer: Anthony Blakey
Cast: Andy Garcia
Budget: $12million
A passionate account of the last days of
the great artist - and the untold story of
his bitter rivalry with Picasso.
BAVARIA FILM
INTERNATIONAL
Bavaria Film International,
Bavariafilmplatz 8, 82031 Geiselgasteig,
Germany. Tel: 49.89.6499.3274. Fax:
49.89.6499.3720. http://www.bavariafilm-international.de
At Cannes: Michael Weber (Managing
Director), Thorsten Schaumann (Head of
Sales), Stefanie Zeitler, Brigitte Suárez
(Sales Manager), Thorsten Ritter (Head
of Marketing), Giuseppe Proietti (Agent
Italy)
Office: Stand N9, Tel:
33.(0)4.92.99.33.37. Fax:
33.(0)4.92.99.33.39. E-Mail:
[email protected]
THEY´VE GOT KNUT (SIE HABEN
KNUT)
Drama (107 min)
Language: German, Subtitled in: English
Director: Stefan Krohmer
Producer: Peter Rommel
Production Company: Home Run
Pictures, Allmedia
Cast: Valerie Koch , Hans-Jochen
Wagner, Ingo Haeb, Alexandra Neldel
Production Year: 2002, Country of
Origin: Germany
Love and politics were inseparable in the
80s, especially in West Germany, where
friends, lovers and families would chant
anti-Imperialist slogans in endless protest
marches.
THE CHILD I NEVER WAS (EIN
LEBEN LANG KURZE HOSEN
TRAGEN)
Drama (107 min)
Director: Kai S. Pieck
Producer: Bettina Scheuren
Production Company: MTM West
Cast: Tobias Schenke, Sebastian
Urzendowsky, Ulrike Bliefert, Walter
Gontermann
Origin: Germany
Between 1962 and 1966, four schoolboys
were abused, tortured and killed in
Germany’s Ruhr District. Their
tormentor, Jürgen Bartsch, was 15 at the
time of his first crime; 19 when he was
caught.
THE FLYING CLASSROOM (DAS
FLIEGENDE KLASSENZIMMER)
Drama (114 min)
Director: Tomy Wigand
Production Company: Bavaria
Filmverleih und Produktions GmbH,
Lunaris GmbH & Co KG
Producer: Uschi Reich, Peter Zank
Cast: Ulrich Noethen, Sebastian Koch,
Piet Klocke, Anja Kling
Origin: Germany
Jonathan is only twelve, but he’s already
gone through six boarding schools. His
last chance is Leipzig’s St. Thomas
School, home of the world-famous boys’
choir.
SOLINO
Drama (120 min)
Director: Fatih Akin
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
Producer: Ralph Schwingel, Stefan
Schubert, Hejo Emons
Production Company: WÜSTE
Filmproduktion und Wüste Film
Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Barnaby
Metschurat, Gigi Savoia, Antonella Attili,
Hermann Lause, Lucas Gregorowicz,
Bastian Trost
Origin: Germany
Italy in the 1960s. One day Romano and
Rosa, the parents of Gigi and Giancarlo,
two young brothers, decide to leave their
sun-drenched home in Apulia and move
to Germany.
NOWHERE IN AFRICA
(NIRGENDWO IN AFRIKA)
Drama (141 min)
Director: Caroline Link
Producer: Peter Herrmann
Production Company: MTM Medien &
Television
Cast: Merab Ninidze, Juliane Köhler, Lea
Kurka, Sidede Onyulo
Origin: Germany
The Jewish family Redlich emigrates to
Kenya in 1938, where Walter Redlich
(MERAB NINIDZE), a lawyer, works on
a farm as a caretaker.
BETA CINEMA
Beta Cinema, Dept. of Beta Film GmbH,
Robert-Bürkle-Str. 3, 85737
Ismaning/Munich, Germany. Tel:
49.89.9956.2719. Fax: 49.89.9956.2703.
[email protected].
www.betacinema.com
Company Type: World Sales Agent
At Cannes: Andreas Rothbauer
(Theatrical Sales/Acquisitions), Robert
Czajkowski (Co-Prod./Acquisitions),
Isabelle Palluaud (Festival Coordinator)
Office: The Riviera, Booth Nr. F 14
(Aisle F, booth 14), Andreas Rothbauer
Cell: 49.160.90664357. Robert
Czajkowski Cell: 49.170.6384689
SCHERBENTANZ (SHATTERED
GLASS)
Drama (95 min)
Language: German, subtitled in English
Director: Chris Kraus
Producer: Norbert W. Daldrop, Joseph
Rau
Produced by: avcommunication AG
Co-production partner: SWR, arte, BR
Cast: Jürgen Vogel, Andrea Sawatzki,
Nadja Uhl, Margit Carstensen, Peter
Davor
origin: Germany
After many years of voluntary separation
from his family, Jesko, the family’s
“black sheep”, is lured back to the family
villa for a celebration.
SOLO ALBUM
www.soloalbum-derfilm.de
Romantic Comedy (87 min)
Director: Gregor Schnitzler
Producer: Christoph Mueller
Produced by: Goldkind Film
Co-production partner: Clasart Film,
TV60Film
Cast: Thomas D, Leander Haussmann,
Sandy Moelling, Christian Naethe,
Matthias Schweighoefer, Nora Tschirner,
Oliver Wnuk
Delivery Status: Completed - First
Market Screening Of Completed Film
origin: Germany
Ben leads the kind of life that others can
only dream of.
DEVOT
www.devot-film.de
Psycho Thriller (92 min)
Director: Igor Zaritzky
Producer: Patrick Knippel, Steffen
Reuter, Igor Zaritzky
Produced by: Reflex Film
Co-production partner: Filmkollektiv
Film & Medien
Cast: Annett Renneberg, Simon Boeer
origin: Germany
One rainy night, Harry takes home a
young woman named Anja, who claims
to be a prostitute.
HERR LEHMANN (BERLIN BLUES)
www.herr-lehmann.de
Comedy (90 min)
Language: German
Director: Leander Haussmann
Producer: Claus Boje
Produced by: Boje Buck
Co-production partner: Pandora Film
Cast: Christian Ulmen, Katja Danowski,
Detlev Buck, Tim Fischer, Uwe-Dag
Berlin
Delivery Status: fine cut
origin: Germany
If you thought that time passes, meet
Frank Lehmann and you’ll realize that it
doesn´t!
COLDWATER
Romantic drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Ruba Nadda
Director of Photography: Derek Rogers
Executive Producers: Atom Egoyan,
Simone Urdl
Producer: Tracey Boulton
Produced by: Coldwater Productions, T.L
Boulton Productions Ltd.
Cast: Arsinée Khanjian, Michael Riley,
Simon Abkarian
Delivery Status: pre-production
origin: Canada
Coldwater is the story of a forty-year old
Arab woman who, for the first time,
learns to live her life on her own terms.
During Cannes Only
Tel:
04 93 06 41 49
or
Tel:
04 93 06 47 20
&
Fax
04 93 06 68 49
BEYOND FILMS
BUSKIN FILM
Beyond Films, 53-55 Brisbane St., Surry
Hills, NS 2010 Australia. Tel:
61.2.8217.2000. Fax: 61.2.8217.2035.
www.beyond.com.au,
[email protected]
At Cannes: Hilary Davis (Head of Sales
and Acquisitions), Stephen Kelliher
(Sales Executive), Isabel Rosenthal
(Acquisitions and Development
Manager)
Office: G5, Riviera, Tel: 33.4.9299.3227
HORSEPLAY
Black Comedy (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Stavros Kazantzidis
Producer: Allanah Zitserman
Key Cast: Marcus Graham, Bill Hunter,
Jason Donovan
Origin: Australia
An unsuccessful small time horse trainer
concocts a plan to rig the largest horse
Race in Australia.
CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE
Drama (87 min)
Language: Englishh
Director : John Deery
Producer: Davina Stanley
Key Cast: Jonathan Forbes, Brenda
Fricker, Hugh Bonneville
Origin: Ireland
Set in Ireland, this controversial film,
challenges celibacy and it’s implications
for the Catholic Church in the 21st
century.
TAKE AWAY
Comedy (86 MIN)
Director: English
Language: Marc Gracie
Producer: David Redman, Marc Gracie
Key Cast: Vince Colosimo, Stephen
Curry, Rose
Byrne
Origin: Australia
The story of Tony and Trev, two rival
small businessmen who are forced to
unite to battle a huge multinational.
VISITORS
Thriller (96 min)
Language: English
Director: Richard Franklin
Producer: Jennifer Hadden, Richard
Franklin
Key Cast: Radha Mitchell, Susannah
York, Dominic Purcell
Origin: Australia
One woman’s extraordinary adventure to
the edge of the world and the brink of
her mind.
CRACKERJACK
Comedy (92 min)
Language: English Director: Paul
MoloneyProducer: Stephen Luby, Mick
Molloy Key Cast: Mick Molloy, Bill
Hunter, Samuel Johnson
Origin: Australia
Dwindling membership and increasing
overheads make a local lawn bowls club
a prime candidate for takeover.
Buskin Film, Via P.L. Cattolica 3, 00195
Italy. Tel: 39.06.39030435. Fax:
39.06.39038231. [email protected].
www.buskinfilm.com
Company Type: Sales agent, producer,
buyer
At Cannes: Roberto Bessi (President),
Antonio Guadalupi (CEO), Vanessa
Capurso (International Sales),
Acquisition Executive: Vito Matassino
(President - Quality Film Distribuzione),
Adriano Levantesi (Ceo - Quality Film
Distribuzione)
Office: “Focus Italy” booth - Espace
Riviera C5-D4 D1-E8, Tel:
33.4.92993312. Fax: 33.4.92993313;
Hotel: Cannes residence
FIGLI - HIJOS
Drama (95 min)
Language: italian with english subtitles
Director: Marco Bechis
Producers: Amedeo Pagani and Vittorio
Cecchi Gori
Production company (companies): Storie
and Cecchi Gori Group
Cast: Carlos Echevarria, Julia Sarano,
Stefania Sandrelli, Enrique Piñeyro,
Evita Ciri,
Origin: Italy
The story of Javier and Rosa, children of
desaparecidos, who think they are
“brother & sister” .
IT’S NOT ME (NON SONO IO)
Thriller - psychological drama (92 min)
Language: Italian, Subtitles: english
Director: Gabriele Iacovone
Production company: Carisma
Cinematografica
Producer: Carlo Broglio and Raimondo
Crociani
Key cast Antonio Berardinelli, Andrea
Cambi,Agnieszka Duleba-Kasza
Delivery Status: completed/screening
Trying to escape his shady past in Sicily,
Matteo goes to Poland, but he finds out
that it’s not the Promised Land.
MISTER PERFECT
CHINA STAR ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
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THE COUNCIL OF EGYPT (IL
CONSIGLIO D’EGITTO)
Historical drama (132 min)
Director: Emidio Greco
Production company (companies):
Factory, Rai Cinema (Italy) S D P Films
(France) Focus Film Production and
Distribution (Hungary) - supported by
Eurimages - Council of Europe
Producer: Mariella Li Sacchi and
Amedeo Letizia
Key cast: Silvio Orlando, Tommaso
Ragno, Marine Delterme,
Sicily 1872. An intense history of
conspiracy interweaved by a monk to
damage aristocracy privileges, thanks to
the falsification of an Arab Codexes,
“The Council of Egypt”.
DAYS (GIORNI)
Drama (80 min)
Director: Laura Muscardin
Production company (companies): Movie
Factory with the participation of Telepiù
Producer: Francesco Paolo Montini
Key cast: Thomas Trabacchi, Riccardo
Salerno, Davide Bechini
Days is a love story between two men;
one of them is Hiv positive. One day he
meets a past love and his equilibrium
collapses.
LIBRARY
Various titles from new Italian auteurs
and old masters.
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: Sharon Harel (Managing
Director), Nicole Mackey (Head of
International Sales), Eve Schoukroun
(International Sales), Hannah Leader
(Legal & Business Affairs)
Office: 2nd Floor, 4 La Croisette, Tel:
00.33.(0).4.93.99.81.69. Fax:
00.33.(0).4.93.99.81.70SYLVIA
(PROVISIONAL TITLE)
Language: English
Director: Christine Jeffs
Producer: Alison Owen
Status: Post Production (Screening
Promo Reel)
Production Country: UK
Leading Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel
Craig, Michael Gambon, Blythe Danner,
Jared Harris
A passionate love story between two
brilliant minds, the American poet Sylvia
Plath and Ted Hughes, Britain’s Poet
Laureate.
THE COMPANY
Drama
Language: English
Director: Robert Altman
Leading Cast: Neve Campbell, James
Franco, Malcolm McDowell
Status: Post Production (Promo Reel
Screening)
Production Country: USA
Robert Altman follows up the success of
the Academy Award winning GOSFORD
PARK with THE COMPANY, a look
behind the scenes at the world of a ballet
company as only Altman could envision
it.
I’M NOT SCARED (IO NON HO
PAURA)
Thriller
Language: Italian
Running Time: 108 mins
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Leading Cast: Aitana Sanchez-Gijon,
Diego Abatantuono
Status: Screening
Production Country: Italy
During the hottest summer of the century,
a nine year-old boy discovers a terrible
secret: his village’s “grown-ups” have
kidnapped a child and are keeping him in
a hole beneath an abandoned house.
ANYTHING ELSE
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Woody Allen
Producer: Letty Aronson
Leading Cast: Jason Biggs, Christina
Ricci, Danny Devito, Stockard Channing,
Woody Allen
Status: Post Production
Country: USA
A serious comedy that takes place in
New York City.
INSIDE - CINEMAVAULT RELEASING INC
CALLAS FOREVER
Drama (111 min)
Language: English
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Leading Cast: Fanny Ardant, Jeremy
Irons, Joan Plowright
Status: Completed
Country: Italy/UK
Set in 1970’s Paris, this is an emotional
and inspirational fictional account of a
rock promoter who convinces the opera
diva Maria Callas to revive her career
through the aid of modern technology.
CELESTIAL
PICTURES LTD
Celestial Pictures Ltd, Shaw
Administration Building, Lot 220, Clear
Water Bay Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Tel: 852.2927.1111. Fax: 852.2243.0008.
[email protected].
www.celestialpictures.com
At Cannes: William Pfeiffer (CEO ),
Gordon Cheung (Executive Vice
President – Distribution)
Office: Carlton Inter-Continental Hotel Room 118, 58, La Croisetle BP 155. Tel:
33.0.4.9306.6818, Fax: 33.0.4.9306.4118
THE ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN
Martial Arts ( 117 min)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Chang Cheh
Producer: Runme Shaw
Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Pan Yin-tzu,
Chiao Chiao
Origin: Hong Kong
A mysterious swordsman whose one arm
is more powerful than his two-armed
rivals, Wang and Chang Cheh
revolutionized the Hong Kong kung-fu
genre and broke box office records across
Asia in this 1967 all time martial arts
masterpiece.
RETURN OF THE ONE-ARMED
SWORDSMAN
Martial Arts ( 108 min)
Language: Mandarin
Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Chiao Chiao
Origin: Hong Kong
Budget: $
This fight-filled action packed sequel is
even more accomplished and exciting
than the original. Fang Kang (starring
Jimmy Wang Yu), who just wants to lead
a quiet life, was challenged by the Eight
Demon Swordsmen.
GOLDEN SWALLOW
Martial Arts (108 min)
Language: Mandarin
Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Cheng Pei-pei, Lo
Lieh
Origin: Hong Kong
Budget: $
A swordplay epic of heartbreaking
romance, intrigue and stunning action
produced by the indomitable marital arts
team of director Chang Cheh
THE ASSASSIN
Language: Mandarin
Producer: Run-run Shaw
Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Chiao Chiao
Origin: Hong Kong
Budget: $
Set in the Six Kingdoms era in Chinese
history, the hero is betrayed by a jealous
rival. Only an accidental meeting with
another master material artist sets the
hero back on the road to vengeance.
THE CHINESE BOXER
Language: Mandarin
Director: Jimmy Wang Yu
Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Lo Lieh, Wang
Ping
Origin: Hong Kong
The Golden Age of kung-fu film’s first
superstar (Jimmy Wang Yu) wrote,
directed and starred in this classic
favorite.
CELLULOID
DREAMS
Celluloid Dreams, 2 Rue Turgot, 75009
Paris, France. Tel: 33.1.4970.8320. Fax:
33.1.4970.0371. Mob: 331.675.259.791.
[email protected],
www.celluloid-dreams.com
distributor
At Cannes: Hengameh Panahi (Director),
Pierre Menahem (International Sales),
Natalie Dana (International Sales),
Acquisition Executive: Hengameh Panahi
(Director)
Office: Résidence du Grand Hotel,
Appartement 7D Dauphin, 45, boulevard
de La Croisette - 06400 Cannes, Tel:
334.9399.8470. Fax: 334.9399.8471
ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES
Drama (90 min)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Yu Lik Wai
Production Companies: Hu Tong
Communication, Lumen Films
Producers: Li Kitming, Hengameh
Panahi
Cast: Cho Yong Won (Xuelan) Diao
Yinan (XiaoZhuai) Zhao Wei, Wei
(Xiaomian) , Na Ren (Lanlan)
Year of Production: 2002, Production
Countries: China, Korea, France
Sometime in the mid-21st Century, the
ruling sect-like power comes crashing
down. Before a similar regime takes
control, two fun-loving brothers decide to
take advantage of this chaotic gap in
history.
BELLEVILLE RENDEZ-VOUS (LES
TRIPLETTES DE BELLEVILLE)
Animation (75 minutes)
Language: French
Director: Sylvain Chomet
Production Companies: Les Armateurs,
Production Champion, Vivi Films, RGP
France, France 3
Producer: Didier Brunner
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
Countries: France, Canada, Belgium
When Madame Souza gave a racing bike
to her orphaned nephew, little did she
know that it would one day lead to the
adventure of a lifetime. Laughter and
tears abound in this burlesque thriller
animation film.
BRIGHT FUTURE
Drama
Language: Japanese
Director: Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Producer: Asai Takashi
Production company: Uplink
Co-producers OSHITA Harumi, IWASE
Sadayuki
Cast :ASANO Tadanobu, Odagiri Joe,
FUJI Tatsuya, SASANO Takashi,
SHIRAISHI Marumi
country: Japan
Enigmatic Mamoru lives alone with his
poisonous but hauntingly luminous
jellyfish. These attractive loners sting
whoever gets too close.
FACING WINDOW (LA FINESTRA
DI FRONTE)
Drama (106 min)
Language: Italian
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Producers: Tilde Corsi, Gianni Romoli
Production company: R&C Produzioni
Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo
Girotti, Raoul Bova, Filippo Nigro, Serra
Yilmaz
Production countries: Italy, U.K, Turkey,
Portugal
Giovanna has been married to her lazy
husband for 9 years. The only escape
seems to be blossoming romantic interest
with her neighbor, in the opposite
apartment.
FATHER AND SON
Drama (83 min)
Language: Russian
Director: Alexander Sokurov
Production Companies: Zero Films,
Lumen Films, Isabella Films
Producers: Thomas Kufus, Hengameh
Panahi
THE BUSINESS
OF FILM
London Head Office
41-42 Berners St.
London WIT 3NB
Los Angeles Office
5150 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles
California 90036
Production Countries: Germany, France,
Netherlands
A Father and his Son have lived together
for years in an old apartment in the
center of Saint Petersburg in spartial
fashion.
CHINA STAR
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP
China Star Entertainment Group, Unit
503C, Miramar Tower, 132 Nathan Road,
TST, Kowloon, HK. Tel: 852.2313.1873.
Fax: 852.2191.9900.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Charles Heung (Chairman),
Tiffany Chen (Vice Chairman), Ann
Hung (General Manager), Ada Lam
(Manager), Mell Ngai (Distribution
Executive)
Office: Riviera E6-01
WHY ME, SWEETIE?!
Romantic Comedy
Director: Jingle Ma
Producer: Cheung Chi Kwong
Cast: Louis Koo, Cherry Yin
Production status: Post - production
It is tormenting to any couple when both
of you are passionately in love, your
lover suddenly treats you like a total
stranger at the pinnacle of the
relationship.
LOOKING FOR MISTER PERFECT
Romantic Comedy
Director: Ringo Lam
Producer: Johnnie To
Cast: Shu Qi, Andy On
Production status: Post - production
Sometimes longed love relationship does
not make a perfect ending...
THE MUSCLE MAN
Action Comedy
Director: Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai
Producer: Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai
Cast: Andy Lau, Cecilia Cheung
Production status: In-production
How does a monk exert the advantage of
haleness? By joining the police force?
Or...by joining the haleness
tournament???
CHRIS DAVIS
INTERNATIONAL
Chris Davis International, 4612
Cartwright Ave., Toluca Lake, CA 91602
USA. Tel: 818.753.8950. Fax:
At Cannes: Chris Davis, Eris Karson
Office: Riviera Office # G13, Tel:
33.04.92.99.88.41, Mobile:
33.06.08.52.79.40. LA: mobile:
323.899.5465
MULE
Thriller
Director: Geoffrey Wright
Producer: Tone Ludwig & Alan Riche
Cast: Stephen Dorf, Sean Astin, Noah
Taylor
Delivery Status: Principal photography
commences June 2003
BLACK SKY
Thriller
Director and cast will be announced at
Cannes
Delivery Status: Principal photography
commences Summer 2003
Available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
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as a unique gift
for a business colleague
or a friend?
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Are you a collector seeking a
special edition?
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of your favorite author or
subject matter?
Are you seeking a rare book
as a special gift for a business
colleague or a loved one?
Paris-based antiquarian book dealer Olivier Krasker-Rosen
will search & find rare books for you at a fair market price.
“A library of beautifully-bound, antique books
in leather, is a discreet mark of culture.
The gift of a rare book to a friend or
business colleague is a gift that
signifies a cultural statement.
A good library is a portrait of our lives.”
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CINE EXCEL
ENTERTAINMENT
Cine Excel Entertainment, 1102 N.
Screenland Dr., Burbank, CA 91505
USA. Tel: 818.848.4478. Fax:
www.cineexcel.com
At Cannes: David Huey (President and
CEO), Carribou Seto (V.P. of
Production), Ed Tillman (V.P. of
Marketing), Gennady Bochkovsky (V.P.
International Servicing)
Office: Riviera J-7 and K-8
MAGMA: EARTH’S MOLTEN
CORE
Language: English
Director: Carribou Seto
Production Company: Cine Excel
Entertainment and Screenland Partners
XIX
Producer: David Huey
Key Cast: J. Scott Johnson, Tina-Desiree
Berg and Mel Novak
Country of origin: USA
Nuclear weapons are used to seal the
deadliest volcano.
VAMPIRE ASSASSIN
Horror, Action (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Ron Hall
XVII
Key Cast: Ron Hall and Mel Novak
In the tradition of Blade, to kill an army
of vampires, a man must become one.
GI-ANTS
Sci-Fi (90 minutes)
Language: English
XV
Producer: David Huey & Milan
Mrdjenovich
Key Cast: Mel Novak
Giant killer ants invade earth.
NEVER DIE ALONE
CONTENT INTERNATIONAL
POWER ELITE
Action/adventure (94 minutes)
Language: English
XII
Producer: David Huey & Milan
Mrdjenovich
Key Cast: Olivier Gruner, Rebecca
Ferratti, Mel Novak
Mercenaries kidnap the President of the
United States days before an
International Peace Treaty.
S.W.A.T. WARHEAD ONE
Action/adventure (90 minutes)
Language: English
XIV
Key Cast: Olivier Gruner, Rebecca
Ferratti, Gerald Okamura
Status: Completed
Los Angles’ elite police team must stop
terrorists that have a nuclear warhead.
CINEINTERNATIONAL
Cine-International, Leopoldstr. 18, D80802 Munich, Germany. Tel:
49.89.391025. Fax: 49.89.331089.
[email protected], www.cineinternational.de
Company type: Distributor
At Cannes: Lilli Tyc-Holm (President),
Susanne Groh (Head of Sales &
Acquisitions)
Office: L 11 Riviera, Tel:
33.4.92.99.32.06
RED AND BLUE
Drama (113 min)
Language: German, English subtitles
Director: Rudolf Thome
Producer: Rudolf Thome, Moana-Film
GmbH, Berlin
Cast: Hannelore Elsner, Serpil Turhan,
Hanns Zischler
Delivery status: complete
Year of production: 2002, Country of
origin: Germany
Although she really wanted to become a
racecar driver, Barbara is now an
architect. The stability of her designs
reflect the stability in her life, or so it
seems.
BOOMERANG
Dark Comedy (88 min.)
Language: Yugoslavian, English subtitles
Director: Dragan Marinkovic
Producers: Film Link, Vans, Zillion
Cast: Lazar Ristovski, Paulina Manov,
Nebojsa Glogovac
origin: Yugoslavia - Canada coproduction
A high-speed dark comedy and a slice of
life served with plenty of laughs and a
dash of bite.
CROP CIRCLES - THE COSMIC
CONNECTION
Documentary (85 min.)
Language: German, English
Director: Peterjürgen Heppa
Producer: CLIP, Munich, Germany
Origin: Germany
Documentary with scientific and
journalistic explanations of
electromagnetic, radioactive,
morphogenetic resonance and
polyembryotical aspects of the
phenomenon of CROP CIRCLES as well
as the genetic changes of the plants
concerned.
LES ENFANTS DE L’AMOUR
Family Drama (87 min)
Language: French with English subtitles
Director: Geoffrey Enthoven
Producer: Fobic Films, Gent, Belgium
Cast: Fauve De Loof, Michael Philpott,
Winnifred Vigilante
Delivery Status: complete
origin: Belgium
A family drama featuring a “patchwork
family”, i.e. a husband and wife who
both used to have other partners in life
and their kids’ worries and problems.
VIVA AFRICA (A FOUNTAIN FOR
SUSAN)
Comedy (105 min)
Language: English, German
Director: Dusan Rapos
Producer: Jiri Fojtik A.S.K.
Cast: Eva Vejmelkova, Alessandro Coari,
Ibrahim Maiga
Year of production:1999, Countries of
Origin: Slovak Republic, Czech
Republic, Zimbabwe
A family film and a romantic musical
comedy set against the background of the
African wilderness and the beauty of
Victoria Falls.
CINECLICK ASIA
Cineclick Asia (Interclick co., ltd.),
Incline Bldg. 3F, 891-37 Daechi-dong,
Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-280 Korea. Tel:
822 538 0211. Fax: 822.538 0479,9299
3245. http://www.cineclickasia.com,
[email protected]
At Cannes: Youngjoo SUH (Managing
Director), Sang-eun CHI (Manager),
Yunjeong KIM (Assistant Manager),
Rachel Y. KIM
Office: Riviera K 11
STEAL IT IF YOU CAN
http://www.cineclickasia.com/movie/steal
itifyoucan/index.asp
Comedy (96 min)
Language: Korean
Director: Kyung-su LIM
Producer: Jong-su CHOI
Key Cast: Sang-myun PARK, Ji-sub
SOH, Sun-mi SONG
Budget: US$ 3 Million
Origin: Korea
An elite computer programmer who
steals things for a hobby and a cowardly
father who desperately tries to protect his
family from the thief.
H
http://www.cineclickasia.com/movie/h/in
dex.html
Thriller (107 min)
Language: Korean
Director: Jong-hyuk LEE
Co-Production Partners:
Producer: Jung-wan OHh
Key Cast : Jin-hee JI, Jung-ah YEOM,
Seung-woo CHO
Budget: US$3 million
Origin: Korea
One year after a genius killer was put
into a jail, the same patterned murders
start again.
OGU : A HILARIOUS MOURNING
Drama (96 min)
Director: Korean
Language: Yoon-taek LEE
Producer: Du-young CHOI
Key Cast: Jae-Eun LEE, Bu-Ja Kang,
Kyoung-ik KIM
Budget: US$ 1.7 million
Origin: Korea
Angels of the death get a mission : escort
an old lady to her final resting place.
A TALE OF TWO SISTERS
Horror
Language: Korean
Director: Jee-woon KIM
Producer: Kimin OH, Jung-wan OH
Key Cast: Jeong-ah YEOM, Soo-jung
LIM, Geun-young MOON
Budget: US$ 3.7 million
Origin: Korea
Two sisters’ hatred against their
stepmother gets deadly when one of them
gets missing.
SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER
AND SPRING
Drama (101 min)
Language: Korean
Director: Ki-duk KIM
Producer: Seung-jae LEE, Karl
BAUMGARTNER
Key Cast: Young-ho OH, Jae-kyoung
SEO, Jong-ho KIM
Budget: US$ 2 million
Origin: Korea, Germany
In a Utopian afloat hermitage, human life
is portrayed to a monk’s life, from his
childhood to death, in accordance with
the change of four seasons.
CINÉGROUPE
CinéGroupe, 1010, Ste-Catherine Est, 6è,
Montréal, QC H2L 2G3 Canada. Tel:
514.849.5008. (3240). Fax:
514.849.5001.
At Cannes: Jacques Pettigrew (President
and C.E.O. CinéGroupe), Isabelle Marin
(VP Distribution CinéGroupe)
Office: Horizon Québec/SODEC
(Québec umbrella stand), Hotel: Splendid
(T)
P3K; PINOCCHIO 3000
3D animated feature film
Cast: voices of Malcolm MacDowell,
Howie Mandel and Whoopi Goldberg.
In an ingenious twist on one of the
world’s favorite stories, P3K Pinocchio:
3000 portrays the adventures of a little
robot whose greatest wish is to become a
real boy.
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
CINEMA ARTS
ENTERTAINMENT
CINEMAVAULT
RELEASING INC.
Cinema Arts Entertainment, 9350
Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 203, Beverly Hills,
Ca 90212 USA. Tel: 310.550.1085. Fax:
310.550.1182. Cinema [email protected]
At Cannes: Pierre-Richard Muller
(Director), Chantal Lam (President);
Acquisition executives: Pierre-Richard
Muller (Director), Chantal Lam
(President)
Office: Residence du Grand Hotel, Bldg.
Le Cormoran II, 45 La Croisette, 06400
CANNES. Tel/Fax: 04.93.99.56.67
LOOKING THROUGH LILLIAN
Drama
Director: Jake Torem
Cast: Jade Henham, Sam Bottoms,
Robert Glen Keith
Country of Origin: USA
An alluring but mixed-up L.A. girl flipflops between facing life’s uncertainty
under her own direction or “the good
life” provided by a wealthy, disturbing
middle-aged benefactor.
HERA PURPLE (DEVIL GODDESS)
Erotic drama
Director/writer: Chung Gil-Chae
Cast: Kim Chung, Lee Se-Chang, Lee
Ho-Sung
Country of Origin: Korea
It is a race against time as a group of
detectives must unlock the secret behind
a series of bizarre murders being
committed by a beautiful woman who is
possessed by the spirit of the mythical
goddess, Hera.
LULU
Drama
Director: Jean Henri Roger
Cast: Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Elli Medeiros,
Gerard Meylan, Bruno Putzulu
Proprietress of “Chez Lulu”, the most
popular bar in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer,
Lulu is radiant. But at the age of
seventeen, when her name was still
“Lucien”, she ran away to live out her
difference elsewhere.
STORY OF O
Erotic/drama
Director: Philip Leirness
Producer: Pierre-Richard Muller
Cast: Danielle Ciardi, Neil Dickson, Max
Parrish, Michelle Ruben
Based on the international huge success
novel by Pauline Reage, a 2003 new
adaptation set in the USA.
Cinemavault Releasing Inc., 434 Queen
Street East, Toronto, ON, Canada M5A
1T5. Tel: 416.363.6060. Fax:
http://www.cinemavault.com
At Cannes: Nick Stiliadis (hief Executive
Officer), Amy Beecroft (V.P.
International Sales) market cellphone
33.(0)6.0725.8357, Lars Bjork (L.A.
Sales Executive), market cellphone
33.(0)6.0725.8379, Steve Arroyave (V.P.
Production) market cellphone
33.(0)6.0725.8362, Irene Loewy (Senior
V.P. Acquisitions and Marketing), Paco
Alvarez (Production Executive) market
cellphone 33.(0)6.0725.8463, Stephen
Maynard (Director Acquisitions and
Development) market cellphone
33.(0)6.0725.8380, Icrus Murphy
(Production Coordinator) market
cellphone 33.(0)6.0725.8395
Office: Riviera M7/N8, Tel:
33.(0)4.92.99.33.29
THE LIMIT
Thriller (92 minutes)
Director: Lewin Webb
Producer: Gary Howsam, Jamie Brown
Production Company: GFT
Entertainment
Cast: Lauren Bacall, Claire Forlani,
Henry Czerny, Pete Postlethwaite
Origin: Canada / UK
PARIS
Thriller (97 min)
Director: Ramin Niami
Production Company: Sideshow Digital
Producer: Ramin Niami, Karen Robson
Cast: Chad Allen, Bai Ling, James Russo
Origin: United States
A rookie detective embarks on a
disturbing journey through the shadowy
underworld of Los Angeles and Las
Vegas.
INSIDE
Thriller (112 min)
Director: Michael Jette
Production Company: Christal Films
Producer: Michael Jette
Cast: Emmanuel Auge, Dominic
Darceuil, David Boutin
Origin: Canada
Sentenced to ten years in prison, Claude
realizes that inside only the strong
survive.
At CANNES
Elspeth Tavares can be reached
@ The Carlton Hotel
Office 149
Tel: 04 93 06 41 49 or Tel: 04 93 06 47 20
Fax:
04 93 06 68 49
DANGEROUS PEOPLE
Comedy (107 min)
Director: Louis Saia
Producer: Richard Goudreau
Production Company: Melleny
Production
Cast: Stephane Rousseau, Veronique
Cloutier, Marc Messier
Origin: Canada
A kidnapping and ransom plot out of
control.
LOST THINGS
Thriller (83 min)
Director: Martin Murphy
Producer: Ian Iveson
Production Company: ISM Films Pty
Ltd.
Cast: Leon Ford, Lenka Kripac, Steve Le
Marquand
Origin: Australia
A group of teens are terrorized during
spring break.
CINEPHIL
Cinephil, 18 Levontin Street, Tel Aviv,
65112 Israel. Tel: 972.3.5664129. Fax:
972.3.5601436. www.cinephil.co.il,
[email protected]
At Cannes: Philippa Kowarsky
(Managing Director)
Office: The Israeli Film Promotion Fund
Stand: Riviera, Stand F21, Tel:
04.92.99.33.32, Philippa Kowarsky Cell:
972.54.96.11.14
CAFE TALES
Drama/Black Comedy (90 min)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Amit Leor
Co-Production Partners: JCS
Productions, ICP
Producer: Mosh Danon
Key Cast: Moshe Ivgi, Elisheva
Michaeli, Arye Moskuna
Origin: Israel
Café Tales unfolds a day in the life of
Yutz, a frustrated poet in his fifties, and
his aging bohemian friends, who have
made the rickety `Café Braun` their
home, and its elderly proprietor, Leah
Braun their `mother`.
MATCHING HEART
Drama (85 min)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Eyal Shiray
Co-Production Partners: h Cinema Post
Production, ICP
Producer: David Mandil
Key Cast: Tinkerbell, Yoram Hatav, Orna
Porat
Origin: Israel
A story of a religious girl, running away
towards her destiny...
TRUMPET IN THE WADI
Drama (97 min)
Language: Hebrew, Arabic, Russian
Director: Lina & Slava Chaplin
Co-Production Partners: Ricki Shelach
Productions Ltd., ICP
Producer: Ricki Shelach
Key Cast: Alexander Senderovich,
Khawlah Hag-Debsy, Raeda Adon
Origin: Israel
An impossible love story between two
outsiders in the Israeli society: Huda an
Arab young woman and Alex, a new
immigrant from Russia.
MIKE BRANT-L’AISSE MOIS
T’AIMER
Documentary/Culture/Music (100 min)
Language: Hebrew, French
Director: Erez Laufer
Co-Production Partners: Erez Laufer
Films, Cineteve, INA Entreprise
Producer: Erez Laufer, Fabienne Servan
Schreiber
Origin: Israel, France
The rise and fall of the Israeli pop star
who shook the skies of France in the
1970s.
THE DARIEN DILEMMA
Documentary/History (58 min)
Director: Erez Laufer
Co-Production Partners:
Producer: Erez Laufer
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: 182555
Year of Production: 2003-4, Country of
Origin: Israel
At the beginning of World War II, a 1000
refugee pioneers, intend to reach Israel
on the Darien, a boat owned by the
Mossad.
CINETEL FILMS,
INC.
CineTel Films, Inc., 8255 Sunset Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA. Tel:
323.654.4000. Fax: 323.650.6400.
At Cannes: Paul Hertzberg (President),
Marcy Rubin (Sr. Vice President,
International Distribution), Mary Judy
(VP Distribution Services), Jason L.
Tolbert (Director of Acquisitions)
Office: Riviera E2
LOST TREASURE
Directed by: Jay Andrews
Starring: Stephen Baldwin, Nicolette
Sheridan
Status: Completed
After finding an ancient treasure map, an
International arms dealer kidnaps a
police detective, and sets out to Central
America in search of gold.
MASKED & ANONYMOUS
HANNIBAL PICTURES
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
81
MOMENTUM
Starring: Louis Gossett Jr., Teri Hatcher,
Michael Massee
Status: Completed
A man with telekinetic abilities has lived
in torment, afraid of exposing his
“secret” powers, until he meets with a
group of people with like powers, on the
run from an FBI agent who is trying to
destroy them.
SHOCK WAVE
Action/Disaster
A ground-splitting earthquake crumbles a
dam the size of the Hoover sending
millions of gallons of water barreling
into a major US city and residents
scrambling for their lives.
LEGEND OF THE PIT FIGHTER
Starring: Jamie Pressly, Casper Van Dien,
Dominique Vandenberg, Fernando
Carrillo
Status: Production
“Memento” meets “Bloodsport” when
the past of an amnesiac living as a
humble pit fighter comes back to haunt
him, reminding him that some things are
best left forgotten.
SUB-ZERO
Action/Disaster
After a satellite containing classified
information crashes into a mountain
peak, a team of experienced climbers and
military personnel must race to retrieve
the sensitive data despite the risk of an
avalanche and impending blizzard.
CJ ENTERTAINMENT
CJ Entertainment, 11th Fl, CJ Bldg, 500,
5 Ga, Namdaemoon-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul,
100-802, South Korea. Tel:
82.2.726.8564. Fax: 82.2.726.8291.
[email protected], www.cjent.co.kr
At Cannes: Mark Soh (CFO/CSO),
Edison Jeon (Senior VP of Int’l Sales and
Acquisitions), June Lee (Director of Int’l
Sales and Acquisitions), Jun Kim
(Assistant Manager of Int’l Sales and
Acquisitions)
Office: Riviera E21/F22, Tel:
33.(0)4.92.99.88.21
MEMORIES OF MURDER
Crime Drama
Director: Bong Joon-Ho
Cast: Song Kang-Ho (Sympathy for Mr.
Vengeance), Kim Sang-Kyung (Turning
Gate)
Status: Completed
Budget: $3.5m
Spanning six years, 10 young women are
found brutally raped and murdered in a
2km radius. In a country that has never
known such crimes, the dark whispers
about a serial killer grow louder.
SAVE THE GREEN PLANET
Dark Comedy
Director: JANG Jun-hwan
Cast: Shin Ha-kyun (Sympathy for Mr.
Vengeance)
Status: Completed
Budget: $3.5m
Byung-Gu believes that all of the earth’s
social ills are the evil doings of aliens.
Unless he can meet the prince from
Andromeda before the total lunar eclipse,
Planet Earth will be in grave danger.
MY TUTOR FRIEND
Comedy
Director: KIM Kyung-hyung
Cast: KWON Sang-woo (Volcano High),
KIM Ha-neul (Ditto)
Status: Completed
Budget: $1.7m
Soo-wan (Kim Ha-neul) and Ji-hoon
(KWON Sang-woo) are both 21 years
old.
UNBORN BUT FORGOTTEN
Horror
Director: IM Chang-jae
Cast: LEE Eun-ju (Bungee Jumping of
their own), JEONG Joon-ho (Marrying
the Mafia)
Status: Completed
Budget: $3m
Between a lie that can be seen and the
truth that is invisible, there is a small
gap. This is the “White Room” where
death gestates.
THE ROMANTIC PRESIDENT
Comedy
Director: JEON Man-bae
Cast: AHN Sung-ki (Nowhere To Hide),
CHOI Ji-woo (Nowhere To Hide)
Status: Completed
Budget: $2m
The youngest and the most talented
president in the history of Korea, Minwook lives and breathes with the people
by going undercover to see how they
really live.
CONTENT
INTERNATIONAL
THE EMPEROR’S WIFE
HOLLAND FILMS
Content International, 14/15 D’Arblay
Street - W1F 8DZ London, UK. Tel:
44.20.7851.9170. Fax: 44.20.7851.9171.
At Cannes: Judith Baugin (Marketing
Manager)
Office: 3rd floor, No 2 La Croisette, Tel:
33.4.93.38.58.88. Fax: 33.4.93.99.46.55
WICKED PRAYER
Action Horror
Language: English
Director: Lance Mungia
Producer: Jeff Most - Edward R.
Pressman
Key Cast: “Edward Furlong”
Origin: US
When Jimmy and his girlfriend are
murdered by a rampaging satanic cult, he
is reincarnated as ‘The Crow’, an
immortal vigilante who must quickly
learn of his powers and seek revenge.
RICK
Suspense - Black comedy
Language: English
Director: Curtiss Clayton
Producer: Ruth Charny, Jim Czarnecki
Key Cast: “Bill Pullman”, “Aaron
Stanford”, “Agnes Bruckner”
Origin: US
Cursed by a humiliated interviewee, a
bitter corporate vice-chairman bizarrely
accepts an offer to have his obnoxious
young boss murdered and finds himself
unable to stop the contract when he
develops a conscience…
THE UNDERTOW
Dramatic Thriller
Director: English
Language: David Gordon Green
Producer: Lisa Muskat, Edward R.
Pressman, Terrence Malick
Key Cast: “Josh Lucas”, “Jamie Bell”,
“Dermot Mulroney”
Origin: US
Two young brothers witness the murder
of their father from the hands of their evil
uncle, who then chases them trying to
steal their inheritance and prevent them
from telling the truth.
NEVER DIE ALONE
Action Thriller
Language: English
Director: Ernest Dickerson
Producer : DMX, Alessandro Camon
Key Cast: “DMX”, “David Arquette”,
“Michael Ealy”
Origin: US
A young reporter witnesses the murder of
a drug lord and is left with the victim’s
car and diary. As he pieces together the
man’s life and the events leading to the
murder, he finds himself drawn into an
ongoing cycle of violence.
BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY
Epic Drama
Language: English
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Producer: Tomas Backstrom, Petter J
Borgli, Terrence Malick
Key Cast: “Nick Nolte”, “Tim Roth”,
“Bai Ling”
Origin: US
Binh, a young Vietnamese man makes an
extraordinary six-month journey from his
village south of Saigon to Texas in search
of his long last GI father.
E-mail MIPCOM
MIFED & AFM 2004
Product Listings
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CONTROLLED
CHAOS MOVIE
Controlled Chaos Movie, 10620
Eastborne Ave. #201, Los Angeles, CA
90024, USA. Tel: 310.475.3773. Fax:
310.475.4043. controlledchaosmovie.com
At Cannes: Azita Zendel (President)
Office: Personal Residence, Tel:
33.07.7367.7823
CONTROLLED CHAOS
Drama (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Azita Zendel (Oliver Stone’s
former assistant)
Producer: Azita Zendel Co-production
partners: N/A
Cast: Don Hughes, Amy Blomquist,
Charley King
Origin: USA
Budget: $1 million
Inspired by Azita Zendel’s four years as
Oliver Stone’s assistant, this fictional
dramedy’s about the Assistant to a
famous Film Director that hides her boss’
scandalous lifestyle from a Reporter.
CREATIVE LIGHT
WORLDWIDE
Creative Light Worldwide, 8383 Wilshire
Blvd. Suite #212, Beverly Hills CA 90211
USA.Tel: 323.658.9166. Fax:
www.creativelightworldwide.com
At Cannes: Ted Chalmers (Head of
Worldwide Distribution), Ray Haboush
(Head of International Sales)
Office: Riviera L3/M4, Tel:
33.6.793.66449
AERO-TROOPERS
Animation
Language: English
Cast: Mark Hamill (voice); Billy West
(voice); Jess Harnell (voice);
Origin: USA
In a distant world, a dark force attacks a
floating society and only the Areo
Troopers cans save them.
EARWIGS
Science Fiction
Language: English
Cast: BRUCE CAMPBELL (Evil Dead)
Delivery Status: Pre-Sales
Origin: USA
Produced in association with Sci Fi
Pictures a group of environmentalists
must fight off an invading hive of ancient
insects who serve as protectors of the
Rain Forest.
AVATAR
Science-Fiction
Language: English
Cast: Joan Chen (Last Emperor), David
Warner (Planet of The Apes);
Origin: USA
In the tradition of BLADE RUNNER and
THE MATRIX, in the year 2023, a
female bounty hunter must battle an evil
mega-corporation in virtual reality and in
the real world.
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
MADE UP
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Cast: Tony Shalhoub (Galaxy Quest),
Gary Sinise (Forest Gump), Brooke
Adams (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
Origin: USA
An older woman undergoes an elaborate
makeover fooling her boyfriend into
thinking she is two different
women!TEQUILA EXPRESS
Action Thriller
Language: English
Cast: Christopher Atkins (Blue Lagoon)
Origin: USA
A deep cover DEA agent must rescue the
daughter of the California Governor from
drug terrorists.
CURB
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL
CORP.
Curb Entertainment International Corp.,
3907 West Alameda Ave., Burbank, CA
91505 USA. Tel: 818.843.8580. Fax:
818.566.1719.
www.curbentertainment.com
At Cannes: Carole Curb Nemoy
(President), Wendy Reeds (Executive
Director, Head of Sales)
Office: Riviera N2, Tel: 33.4.92.99.32.29.
Fax: 33.4.92.99.32.33
TOUGH LUCK
Thriller
Director: Richard Shepard (Oxygen)
Producer: Brian Etting, Josh Etting, Ram
Bergman, Carole Curb Nemoy, Mike
Curb
Cast: Armand Assante, Norman Reedus,
Dagmara Dominczyk
An intricate net of deceit and betrayal
entangles a wandering grifter (Norman
Reedus) who is hired by a traveling
carnival owner (Armand Assante) to
murder his beautiful wife (Dagmara
Dominczyk). Premiere!
100 MILE RULE
Thriller
Director: Brent Huff
Producer: Eric Gustavson, John Nelson
Cast: Jake Weber, Maria Bello, David
Thornton, Michael McKean
After his one-night affair is caught on
tape, a married salesman (Jake Weber)
must outwit a beautifully dangerous
woman (Maria Bello).
MAN’S BEST FRIEND
Romantic Comedy
Director: Rob Lundsgaard
Producers: Scott J. Sloan & Rob
Lundsgaard
Cast: Alexander Chaplin, Lindsay
Sloane, Richard Kind
Steven’s (Alexander Chaplin) new
romantic relationship with Rebecca
(Lindsay Sloane) is going great: they
both like dogs, good books, and
shopping.
WATER’S EDGE
Thriller
Director: Harvey Kahn
Producer: Harvey Kahn, Carole Curb
Nemoy, Mike Curb
Cast: Nathan Fillion, Daniel Baldwin,
Chandra West, Emmanuelle Vaugier
Country of Origin: Canada
In this tense and riveting tale, a novelist
and his wife uncover a vast web of sex,
murder, and lies in their quiet hometown.
COASTLINES
Thriller
Writer/Director: Victor Nunez
Producers: Victor Nunez and Sam Gowan
Cast: Josh Brolin, Timothy Olyphant,
Sarah Wynter and William Forsythe
Sonny Mann (Timothy Olyphant), an excon returning home from prison, creates
a new dynamic for both friends and
enemies with his arrival.
D
DIMENSION FILMS
Dimension Films, 99 Hudson Street, 5th
Floor, New York, NY 10013 USA. Tel:
212.219.4100. Fax: 212.941.3836.
At Cannes: Rick Sands (COO, Miramax
Films), Edward Noeltner (Senior Vice
President, Distribution and Sales,
Miramax International), Marc Bunag
(Vice President, Creative Marketing,
Miramax International), Mark Lindsay
(Vice President, International
Distribution, Miramax International), Jill
Silfen (Vice President, Business and
Legal Affairs, Miramax International),
Lisa Lazure (Director, International
Publicity, Miramax International)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Salle Royan, 14,
La Croisette, Cannes, France. Tel:
4.97.06.85.00. Fax: 04.97.06.85.04
CURSED
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Wes Craven
Producers: Wes Craven, Marianne
Maddelena
Cast: Christina Ricci, Skeet Ulrich, Jesse
Eisenberg, John McGinley, Scott Baio,
Robert Forster, and Omar Epps
Status: In Production
County of Origin: USA
Horror master Wes Craven and writer
Kevin Williamson polish up their silver
bullets for this frightening new take on a
classic horror legend
SPY KIDS 3D: GAME OVER
Action Adventure
Language: English
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Producers: Elizabeth Avellan, Robert
Rodriguez
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino,
Daryl Sabara, Alexa Vega, Ricardo
Montalban, Holland Taylor, Danny Trejo,
and Sylvester Stallone
This time the Cortez family must come
together to defeat their arch-nemesis The
Toymaker (Stallone), when young
Carmen becomes trapped inside a virtual
reality video game.
SCARY MOVIE 3
Comedy/Horror Parody
Language: English
Director: David Zucker
Producer: Robert K. Weiss
Cast: Anna Faris, Camryn Manheim,
Anthony Anderson, special appearance
by Eddie Griffin, with Denise Richards,
with Regina Hall and Charlie Sheen.
David Zucker helms the 3rd installment
of the blockbuster parody franchise that
has grossed over $400 million.
DISTANT HORIZON
Distant Horizon, 8282 Sunset Boulevard,
Suite A, Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA.
Tel: 323.848.4140. Fax: 323.848.4144.
[email protected]. London: 61
Villiers Avenue, Surbiton, Surrey KT5
8BE London, UK. Tel: 020.8399.5126.
Fax: 020.8390.5341. [email protected]
At Cannes: Anant Singh (Producer),
Brian Cox (Producer), Sanjeev Singh
(Acquisitions Director), Paul Janssen
(Sales Executive)
Office: Hotel Savoy, Tel: 04.92.99.72.00
LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
Director: Shekhar Kapur (Four Feathers,
Elizabeth, Bandit Queen)
Producer: Anant Singh
Principal Cast: Morgan Freeman
Status: In Development
Long Walk To Freedom is the
autobiography of Nelson Mandela, South
Africa’s first democratically elected
president.
I CAPTURE THE CASTLE
Director: Tim Flywell (Madame Bovary,
The Woman In White)
Producers: Anant Singh, David M.
Thompson, David Parfitt (Shakespeare In
Love)
Principal Cast: Romola Garai, Rose
Byrne (Star Wars: Episode II), Henry
Thomas (Gangs Of New York), Marc
Blucas (Sunshine State, View From The
Top, We Were Soldiers), Bill Nighy
(Lucky Break), Tara Fitzgerald (Brassed
Off)
Status: Complete
I CAPTURE THE CASTLE is a
classically romantic tale of a young girl’s
emotional journey into adulthood, as she
discovers the secrets of her own feelings
and sexuality.
MR BONES
Director: Gray Hofmeyr
Producers: Anant Singh, Helena Spring
Principal Cast: Leon Schuster (Panic
Mechanic, Yankee Zulu), David Ramsey
(Pay It Forward, Three To Tango), Faizon
Love (The Parenthood, Blue Crush)
Status: Complete
Mr Bones is the highest grossing South
African film of all time. The king of the
Kavuki tribe is ageing and does not have
a male heir.
VOLCANO HIGH
Director: Kim Tae-Gyun
Producers: Seoung-Jae Cha, Woo-Suk
Kang
Principal Cast: Hyuk Jang, Min-A Shin,
Su-Ro Kim, Sang-Woo Kwon
Status: Complete
Volcano High tells the story of a young
man with incredible fighting powers that
he is forbidden to use.
DREAM
ENTERTAINMENT
Dream Entertainment, 8489 W. Third
Street, Suite 1038, Los Angeles, CA
90048 USA. Tel: 323.655.5501. Fax:
Company Type: Producer, Sales Agent
At Cannes: Ehud Bleiberg (Chairman &
CEO), Yitzhak Ginsberg (President),
Nadine de Barros (Vice President, Sales
& Acquisitions), Shannon Wilson
(Coordinator)
Office: Riviera: J1/K2, Tel: 04.9299.3335
DISASTER!
Claymation /Action/Comedy
Language: English
Director: Roy Wood
Producers: Ehud Bleiberg, Yitzhak
Ginsberg, John Glenn, Travis Wright,
Evan Astrowsky
Delivery Status: In Pre-Production
A hilarious spoof of big-budget action
films, “Disaster!” is the ultimate disaster
movie.
MONSTER MEN
Horror/Thriller
Language: English
Director: Michael Davis
Producers: Yitzhak Ginsberg, Ehud
Bleiberg, Larry Rattner
Cast: Eric Jungmann, Justin Urich, Aimee
Brooks
Delivery Status: In Post-Production
A monster man driving a monster truck
terrorize a couple of college kids
traveling cross-country.
HER MAJESTY
Family/Adventure
Language: English
Director: Mark J. Gordon
Producers: Walter Coblenz
Cast: Sally Andrews, Vicky Haughton,
Liddy Holloway, Mark Clare
Origin: USA
Set in 1953, Her Majesty is a widely
appealing coming of age story about a
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young girl who realizes her life-long
dream when Queen Elizabeth comes to
visit her small hometown.
GACY
Thriller/Horror
Language: English
Director: Clive Saunders
Producers: Larry Rattner, Tim Swain
Cast: Mark Holton, Charlie Weber
Origin: USA
From the same team that brought you
“Dahmer”, a shocking story about the
infamous American serial killer - John
Wayne Gacy.
WHITE GOLD
Action
Language: English
Director: Victor Ivanov
Producers: Victor Ivanov, Feyodor Popov
Cast: Josh Holland, Alexander
Dyachenko, Yevgeniy Sidikhin
Origin: USA
A rebellious California kid becomes heir
to a map believed to lead to gold stolen
in 1919 Russia and must fight the KGB,
FBI, and Russian mafia for the treasure.
DYNAMIC FILMS
Dynamic Films, 10612 McVine Ave.,
Sunland, CA 91040 USA. Tel:
818.352.7347. Fax: 818.352.7347.
Dynamicfilms.us.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Armand Gazarian (CEO),
Lindsay Norgard (VP Sales), Armine
Weiss (Business Affairs)
THE OSIRUS PROJECT (HIDDEN
AGENDA)
Action (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Scott McAboy
Producer: Amy Sydorick and Scott
Hohnbaum
Key Cast: Brixton Karnes, Rebekah
Carlton, Rick Cramer, William Zabka
Origin: USA
Elite American and British agents team
up to hunt down an international terrorist
in control of a nuclear satellite
11:14 - MDP WORLDWIDE
SHOW ME YOUR POTATOES
Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Jeremiah Bosgang
Producer: Wendy Perelman and Jeremiah
Bosgangh
Key Cast : Jerry Seinfeld, Jason
Alexander, Conan O’brien, Dick Cavett,
Michael Richards
Country of Origin: US
A struggling writer’s evolution from a
custodian to a studio executive, based on
a true story
BIKINI MANSION (LUCKY ANGEL)
Comedy (90 min)
Director: English
Language: Peter R. J. Deyell
Producer: Armen Balian
Key Cast: Robert Abrams, Ted Kurtz,
Betsy Monroe
A real estate agent inherits a mansion
that serves as an underground brothel
GAME OF SURVIVAL
Sci-fi/action (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Armand Gazarian
Producer: Lindsay Norgard
Key Cast: Nikki Hill, Cindy Coatman
Seven Prisoners from around the galaxy
compete in a brutal game for a chance
for freedom.
TIMELESS LOVE (ORIUNDI)
Drama (120 min)
Language: Italian
Director: Ricardo Bravo
Producer: Elaine Ferreira, Telmo Maia
Key Cast: Anthony Quinn, Leticia
Spiller, Paulo Betti, Paulo Autran
Country of Origin: Brazil
A man tormented by lost love gets a
second chance when he believes his
beloved wife is reincarnated.
E
ECHELON
ENTERTAINMENT
Echelon Entertainment, 8831 Sunset
Boulevard, Suite 300, West Hollywood,
California, USA 90069. Tel:
310.652.2893. Fax: 310.652.6237.
[email protected],
www.echelonent.com
At Cannes: Eric Louzil (President & CoCEO), Billy Blake (Co-CEO), Geoff
Jarvis (VP Of International Sales), Stacey
Parks (VP Of International Sales), Ellen
Roongcharoen (Sales Assistant), John
Howard (VP Of Press
Relations/Marketing), Acquisition
Executive: Gloria Morrison (President Of
Acquisitions/Development)
Office: E11/F12; Hotel “La Madrilene”,
15, Bd Alexandre III, 06400 Cannes, Tel:
33.0.4.97.06.37.37. Fax:
33.0.4.93.94.38.78,
BLUE FIRE
Sexual Angst Drama
Language: English
Director: Chia Hui Gao
Producer: Chia Hui Gao, Olivier Janin,
Michael A. Wong
Cast: Johnny Kwon, Victoria Linchon,
Jackson Ning
Origin: USA
Jack can’t help but to be drawn to his
lively, but ill-reputed, roommate, Lana
Lin. After passing judgment on Lana’s
loose lifestyle, Jack finds himself
desiring her.
DARK TOMORROW
Thriller
Language: English
Director: JOHN GOINS
Producer: JOHN GOINS
Cast: Chris Moller, Jen Lester, Alex Safi
Origin: USA
John celebrates going to college
basketball’s Final Four, but the next
morning, hears on TV that he stabbed his
fiancé a year ago. What happened in that
year?
DETENTION
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Andy Anderson
Producer: Robert J. Castaldo and
Kirksten C. Irick
Cast: John S. Davies, Marsha Dietlein,
and Gail Cronauer
Origin: USA
In this “Breakfast Club” meets
“Hellraiser,” the frazzled high school
teacher comes up with a truly unique
plan to bring his wayward students into
line.
DONALD AND DOT CLOCK
FOUND DEAD IN THEIR HOME
Quirky Romantic Comedy (82 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Michael Kowalski
Producer: J. Edmund Parcher
Cast: John E. Parcher, Eugenie
Bondurant, Joe Ochman
Origin: USA
In this match made for the Afterlife, he’s
a dancer who can’t keep a job while she’s
a psychic hot-line counselor obsessed
with the “Rodent Harmonic Balance.”
ECHO OF BLUE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Zach Sternheimer
Producer: Katy Wallin & Zach
Sternheimer
Cast: Lisa Lamendola, Kevin West, Art
Lafleur
Delivery Status: (pre, post, in production
or completed)
Origin: USA
The Fillet Man slices up his prey and
leads the corrupt city on a harrowing,
wild goose chase led by a young lady
THE BUSINESS OF
FILM
London Head Office
41-42 Berners St.
London WIT 3NB
EJS INTERNATIONAL
EJS International, 8130 Chase Avenue,
323.641.6705. Fax: 323.641.6705.
At Cannes: Ed Shields (Vice President,
International Sales), Christopher Shaw
(Director International Sales)
Office: Carlton Hotel Rm # 245, Tel:
33.(0).493.06.40.06, Ext 245. Fax:
33.(0).493.06.40.25
SPECK
Suspense/Horror
Language: English
Director: Keith Walley
Producer: Keith Walley, Tammi Sutton
Cast: Doug Cole, Beverly Ann Sotelo,
Stacy Cunningham
Budget: Under: $1 million
Based on the true story of serial killer
Richard Speck; in July of 1966 Speck
walked into a boarding house of eight
nurses in a Chicago suburb and
systematically terrorized and killed all
but one......
BLOODLETTING
Horror
Language: English
Director: Matthew Jason Walsh
Producer: JR Bookwalter, Matthew Jason
Walsh
Cast: Ariauna Albright, James L.
Edwards, Theresa Constantine
Budget: Under $1 million.
Serena Stalin wanted to learn from the
best. So she tracked down Butch Harlow,
one of the world’s most notorious serial
killers, and blackmailed him into
teaching her the fine art of murder.
GHOUL SCHOOL
Horror
Language: English
Director: Timothy O’rawe
Producer: Timothy O’rawe
Cast: William Friedman, Scott Gordon,
Paul Venier, Nancy Sirianni
What started out as an innocent lab
experiment by a few students has turned
into the biggest case of mass slaughter
ever!
ENTERTAINMENT 7
Entertainment 7, 15030 Ventura Blvd,
Suite # 762, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
USA. Tel: 818.709.9595. Fax:
Company Type: Sales Agent, Producer,
Distributor
At Cannes: Emilio Ferrari (Consultant),
Kelsie Black (Director of Intl. Sales), Bill
Wilder (Sales/Acquisitions)
Office: Carlton Hotel 133
WEST
Drama
Language: English
Director: Rick Pagano
Producers: A. Kitman Ho, Mark
McGarry, Emilio Ferrari
From the Producer of “Ali” and in the
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
tradition of “American Beauty”, comes
an intriguing story of a family that takes
to the road and discovers the mixed
blessing of traveling across America.
HOUSE OF HORROR
Horror
Language: English
Director: Emilio Ferrari
Producer: Emilio Ferrari
Fictitious modern day story based on the
famous Tales of Terror by Edgar Alan
Poe. The young Poe is drawn into a
psycho realm of a delusional nurse.
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST
WINTER
Thriller (90 minutes )
Language: English
Director/Producer: Emilio Ferrari
Cast: York Shackleton, Debbie Enton,
Jennie Chester
In the tradition of “Scream,” five teenage
friends enter the world’s biggest
snowboarding contest at Big Bear
Mountain.
INSIDE TAKE
Drama (300x 30 min)
Language: English
Producer: Darla Artura
Entertaining and exciting coverage of
Hollywood’s biggest movies including
“Tears in the Sun, Anger Management,
Basic, Catch Me If You Can, Daredevil,
XXX, Die Another Day, Emperor’s Club,
Shanghai Knights, Sweet Home
Alabama, The Hour.
MADE IN L.A.
Action Adventure
Language: English
Director/Producer: Emilio Ferrari
An action adventure about the greed and
deception that runs deep in the
underworld in the City of Angels. A fine
line that separates the good guys from
the bad guys becomes increasingly
obscured.
ESSE&BI
CINEMATOGRAFICA
esse&bi cinematografica, Largo della
Gancia, 5, 00195 Rome, Italy. Tel:
39.06.37511274, 39.06.37358533. Fax:
39.06.37511278.
[email protected],
www.essebicinema.com
Company Type: producer, distributor and
world sales
At Cannes: Veronica Salvi (President),
Paolo Modugno (chair man), Renato
Musillo (world sales), Acquisition
Executive: Francesca Avalle, Renato
Musillo
Office:
THE SECRET GUEST
Drama (82 min.)
Language: Italian
Director: Paolo Modugno
Producer: Veronica Salvi Co-production
partners: IPE, Italian Ministry for
Cultural Assets and Artistic Heritage.
Cast: Corso Salani; Romina Mondello;
Ludgero Fortes Dos Santos; Spiros
Focas; Gigi Angelillo and also featuring
Ben Gazzara
Origin: Italy
Budget: 2.844.213,02
A multiethnic group of musicians gives a
concert in a refuge camp.
LITTLE BEE JULIE AND LADY
LIFE
3D animation feature movie (75 min.)
Language: Italian
partners: Italian Ministry for Cultural
Assets and Artistic Heritage.
Cast: whit the voice of: Irene Grandi,
Ludovica Modugno, Raf, Michele
Mirabella and special featuring Nino
Manfredi.
Origin: Italy
Budget: 4.445.144,43
Little Bee is Mama Bee’s rebel daughter.
She wants to have a name, like children
do, and she chooses one herself: Julie.
RATS’S PARADISE
Drama
Language: Italian
Producer: Veronica Salvi
Cast: not definite/indefinite
Delivery Status: pre production
Origin: Italy
Budget: 2.617.949,73
Bucarest. Ceausescu’s regime collapsed
but it left behind itself an army of
children. They are nobody’s sons, they
have no past and no future, they live in
the drains, they are called “rats” and they
are treated accordingly.
RESPECT FOR INNOCENCE
Comedy
Language: Italian
Producer: Veronica Salvi
Cast: Jean Rochefort, Greta Scacchi,
Toni Servillo, Leo Gullotta, Selvaggia
Quattrini, Ludovica Modugno, Jenny
Alexander.
Origin: Italy
Budget: 3.182.881,95
Because of a snow storm seven
characters, typical of the contemporary
society, are obliged to spend the night in
a remote motel. Their paths have crossed
in the past.
LEO’S STORY
3D animation feature movie (75 min.)
Language: Italian
Director: Mario Cambi
partners: Dujass film, Italian Ministry for
Cultural Assets and Artistic Heritage.
Origin: Italy
It is the delicate story of Leo Sinkinghis-fangs, a lonely lion, that happens to
help Mona Elisa, a widow female
elephant, to give birth to two different
baby elephants.
www.thebusinessoffilm.com
EUROCINE
Eurocine, 33, Av. Des Champs Elysees,
75008 Paris, France. Tel:
33.1.42.25.64.92. Fax: 33.1.42.25.73.38.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Daniel LESOEUR
(Chairman), Ilona KUNESOVA (Head of
acquisition/development), Eric SERRA
(Consultant), Michelle MAGNAN
(Sales)
Office: Booth n° F3 at the RIVIERA,
Tel: 33 (O) 4 92 99 88 18
EL REY, THE MAN WHO
CHANGED THE FATE OF A CITY
Drama
Language: Spanish
Director: Antonio Dorado
Producer: Daniel Lesoeur
Starring: Fernand Solorzano, Vanessa
Simon, Olivier Pagès, Cristina Umana
Status: Delivery Status: In production,
shooting in Colombia
The life of Pedro Rey, the first narco
dealer who learned to kiss and kill in the
movies, and who, together with a North
American who worked in the Peace
Corps, introduced the traffic of cocaine
to Colombia in the 60’
WILD BEES (DIVOKE VCELY)
Black comedy
Director: Bohdan Slama
Producer: Viktor Schwarcz
Starring: Zdenek Rauser, Tatiana
Vilhelmova, Marek Daniel
Status: Completed - screening in booth
In a long forgotten village, somewhere in
Northern Moravia, detached from the rest
of the world and its revolutionary
changes, the web of relationships, hidden
loves and hidden aversions uncover a
picture.
NIGHTMARES COME AT NIGHT
Horror (90’)
Director: Jess Franco
Starring: Soledad Miranda, Diana Lorrys,
Paul Muller
Co-producers: Prodif - Eurocine
Music: Bruno Nicolaï
Status: completed - screening in booth
Obsessed with bloody nightly visions,
Anne lives in anguish of schizophrenia.
Is Anne gradually becoming mad, or is
she really the author of these murders ?
DE SADE’S DUET (SADE’S
EUGENIA)
Horror / Erotic (90 min)
Director: Jess Franco
Producers: EUROCINE / JK FILMS
Principal Cast: Soledad Miranda, Paul
Muller, André Montcall
Language: English French Italian
Videocassette
From the novel ‘Eugénie de Franval’
Eugenia and her father plan to commit
together a perfect crime.
JUSTINE DE SADE
Erotic (90 min)
Director: Claude Pierson
Producer: PIERSON
Productions/ICAR/CITEL
Principal Cast: Alice Arno, Yves Arcanel,
Georges Beauvillier
From the novel ‘Les Infortunes de la
vertu’. A young orphan, Justine, is
maltreated.
EUROPEAN FILM
PROMOTION (EFP)
European Film Promotion (EFP),
Friedensallee 14 - 16, 22765 Hamburg,
Germany. Tel: 49.40.3906252. Fax:
www.efp-online.com
Company Type: European association of
national marketing and promotion
At Cannes: Renate Rose (Managing
Director), Jo Muehlberger (Project
Manager)
Office:
F
FIJI AUDIO VISUAL
COMMISSION
Fiji Audio Visual Commission, Ground
Floor, Civic House, New Town Hall
Road, GPO Box 18080, Suva, Fiji. Tel:
679.330.6662. Fax: 679.331.4662.
fijiaudiovisual.org.fj.
www.fijiaudiovisual.com
Company Type: Film Commission Government Statutory Organisation
At Cannes: Taniela Bolea (Chief
Executive Officer), Wayne Covell (Legal
& Marketing
Manager), Acquisition Executive: Rogers
& Cowan
Office: Savoy Hotel, Salon B, 5 rue
Francois Einesy, Cannes 06400. Tel:
33.04.93.68.25.59 or 33.06.67.09.34.98
(Mobile), Fax: 33.04.93.68.25.59
FILM BRIDGE
INTERNATIONAL
Film Bridge International, 1316 Third
Street Promenade, Suite 105, Santa
Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel:
310.656.8680, Fax: 310.656.8683.
filmbridgeinternational.com
At Cannes: Ellen Wander, Incoronata
“Inc” Pagliuca, Lori Mathison
Office:
DOLAN’S CADILLAC
Director: Stacy Title (“Last Supper”)
Producer: Jonathan Sanger (“Vanilla
Sky,” “Mission Impossible 2”) and
Trevor Macy (“Auto Focus”)
SPRING SUBWAY - MEDIA ASIA GROUP
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
85
Delivery Status: Production: July 2003
A story by Stephen King, about a young
man who seeks revenge on the mobster
who killed his wife after she accidentally
witnesses a murder.
THE FOUR SAINTS
Written and directed by Jean-Pierre
Isbouts (Disney feature, “Walt: The Man
Behind the Myth”)
Production: September 2003
Based on the true story of four heroic
nurses who set up a medical post near the
front line during WWI; encountering
many great dangers and finding romance.
VANISHING ACTS
Director: Will Frears
Producer: Trevor Macy (“Auto Focus”)
Delivery Status: Production, October
2003
A sexy and deadly femme fatale seduces
a young doctor into a two million dollar
insurance scam that could cost them both
their lives.
FILMAX
INTERNATIONAL
Filmax International, Miguel Hernández
81-87, Districte Economic de
L’Hospitalet, 08908 L’Hospitalet de
Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain. Tel:
34.93.336.85.55. Fax: 34.93.263.08.24.
[email protected].
www.filmaxinternational.com
At Cannes: Julio Fernández (Chairman),
Carlos Fernández (CEO), Antonia Nava
(Sr VP of Sales & Co-productions),
Vicente Canales (Sales Manager), Jorge
Tuca (Head of Acquisitions), Carlos
Rojano (Sr VP of Marketing)
Office: Hotel Carlton, 7th Floor, Tel:
33.(0).493.99.80.42. Fax:
33.(0).493.99.80.43
THE MACHINIST
Suspense Thriller
Language: English
Director: Brad Anderson
Producer: Julio Fernández
Cast: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jasón
Leigh
Production Status: In-Production.
The story of TREVOR REZNIK, a latheoperator who is dying of insomnia.
THE GOLDFISH MEMORY
NONSTOP SALES AB
OBLIVION
Supernatural Thriller
Language: English
Director: Nacho Cerdá
In an isolated town, a doctor, John,
happily lives with his wife and child until
one day, a strange woman infiltrates their
family fortress, claiming that everything
John believes to be real is a fabricated
lie.
ROMASANTA
Horror
Language: English
Director: Paco Plaza
Producer: Julio Fernández & Brian Yuzna
Production Status: Pre-Production.
1850, North of Spain. The woods are
infested with wolves. Nobody dares go
through them. The people of the villages
are terrified.
EL CID, THE LEGEND
Animated Feature Film (80’)
Language: English / Spanish
Director: Josep Pozo
Status: In production
A time of war, a time of love, a time
when honour,...was life...
NOCTURNA
Animated Feature Film
Language: English
Director: Adrian Garcia , Enrique
Fernandez y Victor Maldonado
Producer: Julio Fernandez
Status: In Development
What is it that turns the night into night,
and fills it with such unexplainable
mystery?
FILMEXPORT
GROUP
FilmExport Group, Via Polonia, 9 00198 Rome, Italy. Tel:
39.06.8554266/85354321. Fax:
39.06.8550248. www.filmexport.com,
[email protected]
At Cannes: Roberto Di Girolamo
(President & CEO), Laura Maurano
(Sales Manager), Andrea Di Girolamo
(Marketing and Publicity)
Office: Stand Riviera C5/D4 - D1/E8,
Tel: 0033.04.92993346, Mobile:
39.335.7025.654.
WITCHERY DEAL (PACTO DE
BRUJAS)
Thriller-Horror
Language: Italian / Spanish / English
Directed By: Javier Elorrieta
Produced By: Origen S.L. - Anem Films
S.A.
Cast: Ramon Langa - Carlos Sobera Barbara Elorrieta
Prod. Year: 2002, Country Of Origin:
Spain - Italy
Doctor Degras is a skeptic psychiatrist
who works for the police; one night he
finds himself involved in the world of
witchcraft, tarot and messages from the
dead, revealing complex intrigues.
DARK OBSESSION (UNINVITED)
Thriller
Language: Italian / English
Directed By: Carlo Gabriel Nero
Produced By: Barolo Films - No Limit
Int’l
Cast: Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave,
Adam Hann-Byrd, Kevin Isola, Eli
Wallach
USA - Italy
All four members of a wealthy family are
found dead in their home and a young
boy is accused of the murder....
VENETIAN CAPRICE (CAPRICCIO
VENEZIANO)
Erotic
Directed By: Vincent Dawn
Produced By: La Perla Nera
Cast: E. Crawford, G. Parmeggiani, J.
Jerrugan
Italy
The perverse and transgressing amourous
encounters between a man and a woman,
both having the same wish: to carry their
relationship beyond the bonds of
convention.
THE LAND OF DEATH (LA TERRA
DELLA MORTE)
Horror
Directed By: Martin Miller
Produced By: Gianni Paolucci And
Robert Parnwell
Cast: Ydalia Suarez Alfaro, Claudio
Morales, Silvio Jimenez Hernandez,
Cindy J. Matic
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Country Of Origin: Italy
Story of a group of researchers
describing the horror life of cannibal
tribes in New Zealand.
SNUFF TRAP
Erotic Thriller
Directed By: Pierre Le Blanc
Production: La Perla Nera
Cast: Carla Dujany, Carlo Mucari,
Gabriele Gori, Federica Garuti
Country Of Origin: Italy
The dramatic story of a girl involved in
the terrible world of the “snuff movies”.
Cinématographie
Cast: Roschdy ZEM, Ivry GITLIS,
Emma SUAREZ, Rita DURAO
Origin: France
Sansa’s incredible adventures through the
world.
LES PLUMES DANS LA TETE
Drama (100 min)
Language: French
Director: Thomas de THIER
Producer: Jacques BIDOU, Marianne
DUMOULIN, Nicolas MEYER JBA
Production, Magellan Production
Co-production partners: Arte France
Cinéma, R.T.B.F (Télévision belge),
FMB 2 Films, 47ème parallèle
Cast: Sophie MUSEUR, Francis
RENAUD, Ulysse de SWAEF, Alexis
Den DONCKER
Origin: France, Belgium
WHERE IS MADAME CATHERINE
?
Drama
Language: French
Director: MARC RECHA
Producer: Jacques BIDOU, Luis
MINARRO, Marianne DUMOULIN(JBA
Production, Eddie Saeta)
Co-production partners: Arte France
Cinéma, FMB 2 Films
Cast: Dominique Marcas, Jérémie
Lippmann, Olivier Gourmet, Eduardo
Noriega
Origin: France
ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS
Language: Flemish
Director: Tom Barman
Producer: Kaat Camerlynck & Alex
Stockman, Christian Pierre
Cast: Natali Broods, Jonas Boel, Diane
De Belder, Titus De Voogdt, Eric Kloeck
Origin: Netherlands
Antwerp 2004. On a sweltering Friday
afternoon, 8 characters dream of a
different life.
FILMS
DISTRIBUTION
FOCUS FEATURES
Films Distribution, 6 rue de l’Ecole de
Médecine 75006 Paris, France. Tel:
33.153.103.398. Fax: 33.153.103.399.
[email protected].
www.filmsfilmsdistribution.com
Company Type: sales agent on the
international market place as well as
domestically for both library pictures and
new feature films
At Cannes: Nicolas BRIGAUD-ROBERT
(Head of Sales), François YON (Head of
Sales), Didar DOMEHRI (International
Sales)
Office: Riviera K5/L8, Tel:
33.492.998.836. Fax: 33.492.998.839
SANSA
Adventures (115 min)
Language: French
Director: Siegfried
Producer: Vagabondages, Arte France,
Mate Production
Co-production partners: Cofimage 12,
Gimages 4, Centre National de la
Focus Features, 417 Canal Street, 7th
Floor, New York, NY 10013 USA. Tel:
212.343.9230. Fax: 212.343.7412.
At Cannes: David Linde (Co-President ),
Amy Kaufman (Executive Vice
President, Acquisitions & CoProductions), Glen Basner (Executive
Vice President, International Sales &
Distribution), Heta Paarte (Vice
President, International Marketing and
Publicity), Tim Spencer (Vice President
International Sales), Jason Resnick (Vice
President, Acquisitions), Lee Magiday
(Vice President, Acquisitions)
Office: Palais d’Orsay, Penthouse, 62
Boulevard de la Croisette, Tel:
04.93.43.86.18. Fax: 04.93.43.84.79
BAD EDUCATION
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Producers: Agustín Almodóvar (El Deseo
D.A., S.L.U.)
Cast: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez,
Javier Cámara, Daniel Giménez Cacho
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
VANITY FAIR
Director: Mira Nair
Producer: Janette Day, Donna Gigliotti,
Lydia Pilcher
Cast: Reese Witherspoon
Status: In Pre-Production
Year of Prod: 2003
Born into the lower class, Becky Sharp
(Reese Witherspoon), one of literature’s
greatest female characters, can rely on
her wit, guile, and sexuality as she makes
her way up through London society circa
1820.
THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR
Director: Tod Williams
Producers: Ted Hope, Anne Carey,
Michael Corrente
Exec Producers: Roger Marino, Amy J.
Kaufman
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Jon
Foster
Year of Prod: 2003
Alternately tragic and comic, Door in the
Floor explores the complexities of love
in both its brightest and darkest corners.
LOST IN TRANSLATION
Director: Sofia Coppola
Producers: Ross Katz, Sofia Coppola
Cast: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson,
Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris
Status: In Post-Production
Year of Prod: 2002
A Valentine to the city of Tokyo and the
Americans who visit it.
21 GRAMS
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Producer: Alejandro González Iñárritu,
Ted Hope
Cast: Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro,
Naomi Watts
Year of Prod: 2002 - 2003
Life has a way of coming up with
resonant metaphors, incredible ironies,
and surprising coincidences.
FORTISSIMO FILM
SALES
Fortissimo Film Sales, Veemarkt 77 – 79,
Amsterdam 1019 DA, The Netherlands.
Tel: 31.20.627.3215. Fax:
31.20.626.1155.
www.fortissimofilms.com.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Wouter Barendrecht (Cochairman), Michael J. Werner (Cochairman), Esther Bannenberg (Director
of International Sales, Servicing and
Acquisitions), Winnie Lau (Director
International Sales & Distribution),
Nelleke Driessen (Director of
International Distribution), Ashley Luke
(Director of UK Acquisitions &
Development)
Office: Residence du Grand Hotel,
Entrance Goeland, Apartment 5D, 5th
floor, 06400 Cannes, Tel:
33.(0)4.93.38.41.40
16 YEARS OF ALCOHOL
Drama
Language: English
Director: Richard Jobson
Cast: Ewen Bremner, Kevin McKidd,
Laura Fraer, Lena Heady
Status: Completed
Country of Origin: UK
16 YEARS OF ALCOHOL is a
meditation on a man’s search for the
meaning of hope. The story follows
Frankie Mac through three periods in his
life as he looks for love, finds it and then
destroys it.
PARTY MONSTER
Drama (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Randy Barbato & Fenton
Bailey
Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Chloe Sevigny,
Seth Green
Status: Completed/Screening
The real life story of Michel Alig, leader
of the New York underground club kids
scene of the early 1990’s, who rose all
the way to the top only to see it crumble
before his eyes.
YOSSI & JAGGER
Drama (65 min)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Eytan Fox
Cast: Ohad Knoler, Yehuda Levi
Status: Completed/screening
Country of Origin: Israel
Based on a true story, “Yossi & Jagger”
portrays the love affair of two Israeli
officers in a remote army base on the
Israeli-Lebanese border.
YES NURSE! NO NURSE! (JA
ZUSTER! NEE ZUSTER!)
Comedy (104 min)
Language: Dutch
Director: Pieter Kramer
Cast: Loes Luca, Paul R. Kooij, Paul de
Leeuw
Country of Origin: Netherlands
When the wacky residents of Nurse
Klivia’s Guesthouse foil attempts by their
nasty neighbour to have them evicted, all
kinds of fun and craziness ensue. An
amazing, music and color-filled retro
homage to the innocent days of the
1960’s
A CHINESE ODYSSEY (TIANXIA
WUSHUANG)
Drama (105 min)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Jeff Lau
Cast: Tony Leung, Chang Chen, Faye
Wong
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
In Ming Dynasty China, two pairs of
siblings are destined for each other. But
fate throws countless obstacles in the
path of their happiness.
FRANCE
TELEVISIONS
DISTRIBUTION
France Televisions Distribution,
Immeuble “Le Barjac” - 1 Bd Victor
Hugo, 75015 Paris, France. Tél:
33.1.44.25.01.01. Fax: 33.1.44.25.01.95
At Cannes: Michel Liberman (CEO),
Jean-Paul Commin (Deputy CEO),
Emmanuel Itier (US Acquisitions),
Claudia Rae-Colombani (VP
International Sales), Sébastien Chesneau
(International Sales Manager), Joëlle
Prigent (Marketing & Festivals Manager)
Office: Stand Riviera N 1, Tel:
33.(0).4.92.99.32.07. Fax:
33.(0).4.92.99.32.12
THE RED KNIGHT (RENCONTRE
AVEC LE DRAGON)
Adventure (112 min)
Language: French
Director: Hélène Angel
Producer: Michel Saint-Jean / Diaphana
Productions
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Gilbert Melki,
Sergi Lopez, Emmanuelle Devos
Delivery Status: Post-production
The 11th Century …Felix is fifteen and
still a child, not fully a man yet. We find
him drowsing under a tree, fighting to
stay awake. If he falls asleep, the cold
will kill him.
THE MISSING HALF (L’AUTRE )
Language: French
Director: Benoit Mariage
Producer: Dominique Janne/K. Star
Cast: Laurent Khunen, Philipe
Grand’Henri, Dominique Baeyens, Jan
Decleir
Human beings have a flaw, a missing
part, that they can happen to find
unexpectedly within someone else.
THE BUTTERFLY (LE PAPILLON)
Dramatic Comedy
Director: Philippe Muyl
Producer: Patrick
Godeau/A.L.I.C.E.L.E.O
Main Cast: Michel Serrault, Claire
Bouanich
Delivery Status: Completed/screening
Julien is a butterfly collector. He sets off
in search of Isabelle, a butterfly as
beautiful as rare.
THE BOY WHO WANTED TO BE A
BEAR (L’ENFANT QUI VOULAIT
ÊTRE UN OURS)
Animation (78 min)
Language: Danish-French
Director: Jannik Hastrup
Producer: Dansk Tegnefilm Produktion
(Denmark) – Les Armateurs (France)
A polar bear gives birth to a stillborn
cub. In a cabin, a woman bears a strong
healthy boy. The polar bear is so griefstricken at the loss of her cub that her
mate steals the woman’s baby.
FRENCH MEN (LE C*UR DES
HOMMES)
Language: French
Director: Marc Esposito
Producer: Pierre Javaux, Pierre Javaux
Productions
Cast: Gérard Darmon, Jean-Pierre
Daroussin, Bernard Campan, Marc
Lavoine
Delivery Status: Completed/screening
Four modern guys, both stable and
immature, at a turning point in their adult
lives.
FRANCHISE
PICTURES
Franchise Pictures, 8228 Sunset Blvd.
L.A., CA 90046 USA. Tel: 323.848.3444.
Fax: 323.822.2165
At Cannes: Elie Samaha (Chairman,
C.E.O.), Mimi Steinbauer (President,
International Distribution), Nolan Pielak
(Director, International Distribution),
Karyn Isaacs (Vice President,
International Administration)
Office: Carlton - Suite 223, Tel:
33.4.9306.4223
MONKEYFACE
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Michael Douglas, Catherine
Zeta-Jones
A con artist gets a taste of her own
medicine when a team of con artists
targets her.
THE GREAT RAID - MIRAMAX INTERNATIONAL
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
87
THE WENDELL BAKER STORY
Director: Luke Wilson
Starring: Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson
An ex-con with a heart of gold is
paroled. Once gainfully employed at a
retirement home, he unveils an illicit
elderly sweatshop amidst opening his
eyes to the finer, more meaningful things
in life along the way...
LOVERBOY
Director: Kevin Bacon
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick
Going against the advice of those around
her, an over-protective single mother
keeps her six-year-old son out of school
in an effort to ‘save’ him from ordinary
life.
BEGINNING OF WISDOM
Director: William Dear
Starring: Matthew Perry, John Bennett
Perry
A funny, fish out of water romance
between a die-hard hippie and a very oldfashioned Montana rancher.
VOID MOON
Based On A Novel By: Michael Connelly
Director: TBA
Starring: TBA
A female cat burglar intercepts $2
Million in mob money and must use it as
a means to save her child from a corrupt
detective.
CREDITS NOT CONTRACTUAL
FREE SPIRITS FILM
PRODUCTIONS
Free Spirits Film Productions, 130
Muswell Hill Road, London, UK. Tel:
0208.444.2668. www.free-spiritsfilm.co.uk
Company Type: production company.
At Cannes: Jaap Mees
Office:
RAINBOW DAYS
(25” and 42 “ version)
On a multi-cultural festival for children
in Thamesmead (SE-London), set up
after the tragic racial killings of black
teenagers, Rolan Adams & Stephen
Lawrence.
JEEPERS CREEPERS 2 - MYRIAD PICTURES
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
Documentary (42” and 50”)
Language: English
Director: Jaap Mees
Producer: Jaap Mees Co-producer: Billy
Barton (Off The Beaten Track)
Cast: The Dubliners, Finbar Furey
(pipes) (Beaten Track)
Delivery Status: completed.
Year of Production: Rainbow Days (‘ 98)
Off The Beaten Track(2000), Country of
origin: UK
Budget: low-budget
Three brothers, all traditional musicians,
trace the footsteps of their father, Tommy
Barton, a Dublin virtuoso banjo - player.
Featuring The Dubliners and Uilleann
piper Finbar Furey (Gangs of New York).
FRIES FILM GROUP,
INC.
Fries Film Group, Inc., 22817 Ventura
Blvd. #909, Woodland Hills, CA 91364
USA. Tel: 818.888.3052. Fax:
At Cannes: Charles M. Fries (President),
Jon Fries (VP Sales)
Office: Riviera - Booth F-5
MIDNIGHT BOOGIE
Action Thriller
Language: English
Production Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin/Co-Production: USA
Five young parachutists go on a
competition jump over the Ivory Coast.
Their dare devil escapade lands them in
the middle of a bloody African civil war.
ROAD
Thriller
Language: English
Country of Origin/CO-Production: USA
While driving cross-country a young
professional woman accidentally runs
over and kills an innocent girl.
Unfortunately for the young woman, the
girl is related to a psychopathic killer
who vows revenge.
ALIEN AGENT
Sci-Fi
Language: English
Director: Sidney Furie
Country of Origin/CO-Production:
UK/Canada
A lawman from another Galaxy must
stop an invading force from building a
gateway between the two worlds.
RAY BRADBURY’S FROST & FIRE
Sci-Fi Action/Adventure
Language: English
Director: Buz Alexander
Principle Cast: Brad Renfro
UK/Canada
Space travelers crash land on a distant
planet where days are consumed in a
curtain of flame and the nights a frozen
wasteland. Compounding their misery,
radiation has compressed the human life
span to only seven days.
HUNT FOR THE DEVIL
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Allan Goldstein
Principle Cast: Michael Madsen
UK/Canada
A New York City detective tracks
Europe’s bloodiest serial killer after his
fiancé becomes the latest victim.
FULL MOON /
SHADOW
ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
Full Moon / Shadow Entertainment Inc.,
1626 N. Wilcox Ave, Suite 474,
Hollywood, CA 90028 USA. Tel:
323.822.2100. Fax: 323.822.1950.
At Cannes: Ed Shields (Vice President,
International Sales), Christopher Shaw
(Director International Sales)
Office: Carlton Hotel Rm # 245, Tel:
33.(0).493.06.40.06, Ext 245, Fax:
33.(0).493.06.40.25
VAMPIRE RESURRECTION
Horror
Language: English
Director: Denice Duff
Producer: Carol and Cliff Wenger
Cast: Denice Duff, James Horan, Jillian
McWhirter, Juliie Michaels
Budget: Under $1 million
Buried deep beneath the earth, Jonathan
has waited for 100 years to unite with his
true love; Victoria. Jonathan sacrificed
his soul and became a Vampire- will
Victoria do the same for him?
DELTA DELTA DIE
Horror
Language: English
Director: Devin Hamilton
Producer: Keith Walley
Cast: Julie Strain, Brinke Stevens, Joe
Dain, Tiffany Shepis
Budget: Under $1 million
Mother Fitch and her Delta Delta Pi
sorority college girls have an insatiable
taste for men; their flesh that is.
BIRTHRITE
Horror
Language: English
Cast: Zette Sullivan, Jennifer Capo,
Robert Donavan
A young girl discovers her true parents
were witches, and so is she.
BLEED
Horror
Language: English
Cast: Debbie Rochon, Danny Wolske,
Allen Nabors, Laura Nativo
The hot young members of the “Murder
Club” are being killed off one by one.
Who can be trusted? Can the killer be
stopped? Or will they all bleed?
JIGSAW
Horror
Language: English
Director: Harry James Picardi, Don
Adams
Producer: Charles band, Don Adams
Cast: Mark Vollmers, Brinke Stevens
A College art class tackles a bizarre
project - the end result is an exquisite
corpse they call Jigsaw. Their darkest
secrets come to haunt them when Jigsaw
comes to life targeting each of the
creators for a brutal death.
G
GAUMONT
Gaumont, 30, avenue Charles de Gaulle,
92 200 Neuilly Sur Seine, France. Tel:
33.1.46.43.21.80. Fax: 33.1.46.43.20.33.
www.gaumont.com
At Cannes: Franck CHOROT (President,
Worldwide Marketing and Distribution),
Philippe ROSTAIN (President
International Sales), Philippe de
CHAISEMARTIN (Senior Vice-President
International Sales Feature Films), Loïc
TROCMÉ (Director International Sales
Feature Films), Anne BERNSTEIN
(French TV Sales), Virginie ROYER
(Teledis, Sales Executive), Ariane
TOSCAN DU PLANTIER (Junior VicePresident, International Marketing)
Office: 55 La Croisette, Tel:
33.4.93.68.90.20. Fax: 33.4.93.68.79.49
FUREUR (AKA RAGE)
Drama
Director: Karim Dridi
Production: GAUMONT / ADR
Casting: Samuel Le Bihan - Yu Nan
Status: Completed
Set in the Paris chinatown. Can love
overcome rage?
MAIS QUI A TUE PAMELA ROSE?
(AKA BULLIT & RIPPER)
Spoof Comedy
Director: Eric Lartigau
Production: GAUMONT / KL
Casting: Kad, Olivier, Jean-Paul Rouve,
Gerard Darmon, Benedicte Loyen
Status: French Release June 04th 2003
Who killed Pamela Rose? Bullit and
Riper, two clumsy FBI agents,
investigate... ZAZ and the Farelly
Brothers french-style.
PERE ET FILS (AKA FATHER AND
SONS)
Comedy
Director: Michel Boujenah
Production: GAUMONT / AJOZ /
LITTLE BEAR: MAX FILMS
Casting: Philippe Noiret, Charles
Berling, Bruno Putzulu, Pascal Elbé
Status: French Release August 20th 2003
Leo fakes illness and organizes one “ last
“ trip to Canada to recapture his three
adult sons before he “dies”.
LOVELY-RITA.COM
Dark Comedy / Thriller
Edgar wanted to see sexy Rita, met on
the web, but the night of delights will
turn into a nightmare...
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
Director: Stephane Clavier
Production: GAUMONT / OUILLE
PRODUCTIONS
Casting: Christian Clavier, Julie Gayet,
Eddy Mitchell, Arielle Dombasle
Status: French Release September 2003
LES RIPOUX 3 (AKA PART-TIME
COPS)
Detective Comedy
Director: Claude Zidi
Production: CPZ/GAUMONT/PLAZZA
PRODUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL
Casting: Philippe Noiret, Thierry
Lhermitte, Lorant Deutsch
Status: French Release December 2003
Ten years after, our two scam artists from
the crooked days as cops, meet again...
but pitted against each other!
GEMINI FILMS
Gemini Films, 34 boulevard Sebastopol,
75004 – Paris, France.
[email protected]. www.geminifilms.com
At Cannes: Paulo BRANCO (Producer),
Laurent BAUDENS (Acquisitions &
Sales Manager – 33.(0)6.70.79.05.17),
Audrey HABER (Acquisitions & Sales –
33.(0)6.30.60.19.02), Maria Gabriela
PEREZ (Festival Coordinator –
33.(0)6.76.70.65.00)
Office: Riviera J3/ K4, Tel:
04.92.99.33.21, Fax: 04.92.99.33.22
THAT DAY ( CE JOUR LA)
Dramatic Comedy (105 min)
Language: French
Director: Raoul RUIZ
Status Completed, Premiere screening
Country of origin: France
Cast: Bernard GIRAUDEAU-Elsa
ZYLBERSTEIN -Michel PICCOLI
Livia is the sole inheritor of the immense
family fortune. But her father desperately
needs money...
A TALKING FILM
Drama (95 min)
Language: French, Italian, Greek,
Portuguese, English
Director: Manoel de OLIVEIRA
Cast: Catherine DENEUVE - John
MALKOVICH - Leonor SILVEIRA
Country of origin: Portugal - France
A cruise from Lisbon via Bombay,
Pompeii.... leads to a reflection on the
western civilization.
IT’S EASIER FOR A CAMEL...(IL
EST PLUS FACILE POUR UN
CHAMEAU...)
Dramatic comedy (105 min)
Language: French, Italian
Director: Valéria BRUNI TEDESCHI
Cast: Valéria BRUNI TEDESCHI Chiara MASTROIANNI - Jean Hugues
ANGLADE
Status Completed, Premiere screening.
Federica is rich, too rich. Overwhelmed,
she seeks comfort in the imaginary
where everything becomes perfect.
CLEAR SKIES AFTER RAIN
(WORKING TITLE) (APRES LA
PLUIE LE BEAU TEMPS)
Musical comedy (94 min)
Language: French
Director: Nathalie SCHMIDT
Cast: Julie GAYET - Clovis
CORNILLAC - Marc BARBE
A seductive impresario hires Rose for his
show, destined to be a hit...very far from
Broadway.
COME AND GO
Comedy (179 min)
Language: Portuguese
Director: João César MONTEIRO
Cast: João César MONTEIRO - Rita
PEREIRA MARQUES - Joaquina
CHICHAU
Country of origin: Portugal
The philosophico-erotic adventures of
João Vuvu.
GIANTS
ENTERTAINMENT
DISTRIBUTION INC.
Giants Entertainment Distribution Inc.,
10600 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 501, Los
Angeles, CA 90024 USA. Tel:
310.652.5400. Fax: 310.659.4000.
www.giantsfilms.com
At Cannes: David Dadon (Chairman),
Zee Batal (Executive Producer) Jacob
Dadon (Executive Producer), Coleen
Smith (Producer)
Office: Hotel Carlton, Suite 119, Tel:
33.4.93.06.40.06, Fax: 33.4.93.06.40.25
JUNGLE JUICE
Comedy (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Tony Vitale
Producer: David Dadon, Anthony J.
Cataldo, Richard Abramson
Key Cast: Christopher Walken, Morgan
Fairchild, Rutger Hauer, Robert Wagner,
David Deblinger, Darren Geare, R.J.
Knoll
Origin: USA
Darren is about to be married but his
bride leaves him at the alter. Darren and
his buddy RJ go on the honeymoon
together instead. Craziness ensues!
VERY MEAN MEN
Action/Comedy (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Tony Vitaleh
Producer: David Dadon, Steven Baio,
Neil P. White
Key Cast: Matthew Modine, Ben
Gazzara, Charles Durning, Burt Young,
Scott Baio, Louise Fletcher and Martin
Landau
Origin: USA
A bartender tries to frighten a tip out of a
cheap drunk by spinning a tale about two
notorious crime bosses who go to war
over a waitress being stiffed.
FACE TO FACE
Action/comedy (95 min)
Director: English
Language: Ellie Kanner
Producer: David Dadon, Neil P. White,
Steven Baio
Key Cast: Dean Stockwell, Scott Baio,
Joe Viterelli, Alex Rocco, Thomas
Calabro, Madchen Amick, Ellen
Travolta, and Meat Loaf
Origin: USA
For cousins Rich , Al and Philly, seeing
their fathers cry is a long shot. A funeral
changes everything, and the cousins
make it their mission to reconnect with
their dads.
BAD GUYS
Action (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Bryan Genesse
Producer: David Dadon
Key Cast: Michael Madsen, Bryan
Genesse, James Russo, Claudia
Christian, Damon Whitaker, Marty Kove,
Sasha Barrese and John Phillip Law
Origin: USA
DEA agents join a small town sheriff in
the fight of their lives to remove a major
drug dealer from the area. An all out war
erupts and no one is safe.
IDES OF MARCH
Action (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Darren Doane
Producer: David Dadon
Key Cast: Michael Madsen, Gary
Daniels, George Cheung
Origin: USA
Thomas Cane is an Ex-S.A.S. Agent. His
family is unaware that he is now a
professional killer who collects from
both sides, putting everyone in danger.
GMG
PRODUCTIONS&DIS
TRIBUTIONS SRL
GMG Productions&Distributions SRL,
Via Ripa di Porta Ticinese, 33 - 20143
Milano, Italy. Tel and Fax:
39.02.89403721. Mobile: 39.348
8819843. [email protected].
giannamariagarbelli.com
At Cannes: GIanna Maria Garbelli
Office: I.C.E./ANICA, Tel: (mobile)
39.348.8819843
TENTAZIONI METROPOLITANE
Drama (111 min)
Language: Italian English subtitles
Director: Gianna Maria Garbelli
Producer: Gianna Maria Garbelli
Cast: Gianna Maria Garbelli, Annie
Girardot, Maurizio Donadoni.
Origin: Italy
Budget: $ 1.000.000
A girl’s struggle for freedom is hindered
by fears, betrayals, mistrust and
temptations.
GOLDCREST FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
Goldcrest Films International, 65-66
Dean Street, London W1D 4PL, United
Kingdom. Tel: 44.(0).20.7437.8696. Fax:
44.(0).20.7437.4448
At Cannes: John Quested (Chairman,
N.Y. Office), Stephen Johnston
(President L.A. Office), Peter McRae
(SVP of Co-Productions), Abigail Walsh
(Sales Executive)
Office: 1st floor, 57 LA CROISETTE,
Centre Croisette, le Rose-Marie, Tel:
04.93.99.80.79. Fax: 04.93.99.80.76
GOLDCREST FILMS
INTERNATIONAL’S LIBRARY
Over 80 titles available to license
worldwide for Television and DVD
rights, including many award winning
features:
THE KILLING FIELDS
John Malkovich, Sam Waterston, Haing
Hgor, Julian Sands
THE MISSION
Robert DeNiro, Jeremy Irons, Liam
Neeson
THE NAME OF THE ROSE
(TV rights only)
Sean Connery, Christian Slater
A ROOM WITH A VIEW
Helena Bonham Carter, Daniel Day
Lewis, Judi Dench
GOLDEN NETWORK
ASIA LIMITED
Golden Network Asia Limited, Unit
1803A, Nanyang Plaza, 57 Hung To
Road Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Tel: 852.2751.1886. Fax: 852.2750.4862.
Cell: 33.(0).6.17.61.30.44.
[email protected]
Company Type: Sales Agent / Producer/
Distributor
At Cannes: Carrie WONG (Managing
Director), Clarence TANG (Head of
Sales and Acquisitions), Joanne CHAN
(Sales and Distribution Executive),
Lammy LI (Marketing Assistant);
Acquisition Executive: Clarence TANG
(Head of Sales & Acquisitions)
Office: Rivera H3, Tel:
33.(0).4.92.99.33.36. Fax:
33.(0).4.92.99.33.36
ONG BAK
Action (107 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Prachya Pinkaew
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Production Partners: Sahamongkol Film
International Co., Ltd / Baa-Ram-Ewe
GIRL IN CARABOUTTO - OVERSEAS FILMGROUP
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
89
Production
Cast: Tony Jaa, Mun Jokmok, Pumwaree
Yodkamol
Origin: Thailand
The first ever Thai film showing real
Muay Thai martial arts! An action
comedy starring Tony Jaa, the new action
star from Asia.
CHEERLEADER QUEENS
Comedy (120 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Poj Arnon
Producer: Chareon Iamphungporn
Production Partners: Five Star Production
Cast: Montonn Pariwat, Wongteap
Kunarattanawat, Sumet Saelee
Origin: Thailand
A hilarious romp about a group of socalled Thai ladyboys who try their best to
be accepted through their love of
cheerleading.
THE UNBORN
Horror (108 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Bhandit Thongdee
Producer: Prachya Pinkeaw
Production Partners: Sahamongkol Film
International Co., Ltd / Baa-Ram-Ewe
Production
Cast: Inthira (Sine) Jareonpura, Prangng
Chandtham, Aranya Namwong
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
Origin: Thailand
Based on a story that became the talk of
the town in Thailand in the year 2000.
The story begins when Por wakes up in
hospital, after being brutally beaten by a
drug dealer named Odd, about to give
birth.
ANGULIMALA
Action (93 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Suthep Tannitratana (Script
Advisor of “Bangkok: Dangerous”,
“Bang Rajan”)
Producer: Adirek Uncle Watleela
Production Partners: Film Bangkok
Cast: Stella Malucchi “Tears of the Black
Tiger”, Noppachai Chaiyanam, John
Rattanaveroj
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
UNDER THE RADAR
PICTURES IN PARADISE
Origin: Thailand
Angulimala is a cruel mass murderer in
the time of Buddha. His mission is to
destroy a thousand human lives.
However, he casts aside his sword, after
he realized the Buddha’s words of
wisdom...
NOTHING TO LOSE
Action / Drama (93 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Danny PANG “Bangkok:
Dangerous”, “The Eye”
Producer: Somsak
SONGTHAMMAKUL, Daniel YUN
Production Partners: Pang Brothers
Production
Cast: Pierre PNG “Chicken Rice War”
“Forever Fever”, Fresh, Yvonne LIM
Origin: Thailand
A game plan with death.
GOLDEN SUN FILM
CO., LTD.
Golden Sun Film Co., Ltd., 4 Floor, 7B
Dragon House, 7-7B Cameron Road,
Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Tel.:852.2385.5939. Fax: 852.2368.3873.
[email protected]
distributor
At Cannes: Lan Tien Hong (President),
Ketsarinh Lan (Kathy Lan) (Vice
president), Labourel Phouang Phet (Sales
Executive), Catherine Lin (Sales
Assistant), Acquisition Executive: James
Chung (Acquisition Manager), Agus
Wasita (Acquisition Manager)
Office: Riviera F4, Tel:
33.(0)4.92.99.88.20
PRA-A-PAIMANEE
Drama/Fantasy (92 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Chalart Sriwanna
Producer: Jirun Rattanaviriyachai
Cast: Julaluck Kittiyarat, Surachi
Sankarkat, Psassakorn Psamornbut
Origin: Thailand
A king sent his two sons to two different
cities where they were kidnapped and
fight for their survial...
HIGH VOLTAGE
Action/Adventure (92 Min)
Language: Chinese
Director: Kam Yeung Wah
Producer: Movie Master International
Film Co-production partners:
Cast: Donnie Yen, Roy Cheung
Origin: Hong Kong (China), Philippine
Since Chiang’s wife was murdered by a
drug dealing maniac name Meed, Chiang
has become the most lethal weapon of
the Hong Kong Police force.
IRON SISTER
Drama (92 Min)
Language: Chinese
Director: Yeh Hung Wei
Producer: Yang Su Mei Co-production
partners:
Cast: Shu Qi, Jackson Lou, Ada Yeung,
Allan Lan
Origin: Hong Kong (China)
The story is set in the period during the
Japanese in invasion of China in the
1930’s. A Chinese traitor Tung’s wife is
saved by Iron Sister, a member of
guerrillas.
HERO AMONG HEROES
Martial Arts
Language: Chinese
Director: Yuen Woo Ping, Chan Chin
Chung
Producer: Chan Chin Chung Coproduction partners:
Cast: Donnie Yen, Yuen Kit Ying
During the reign of Emperor Tao Kwang,
Ching Dynasty, opium does harm to our
folk. Tao Kwang appoints Lin Shih Tsui
to get rid of opium in South China...
TWO SHAOLIN KIDS IN HONG
KONG
Action/Adventure (92 min)
Language: Chinese
Director: Stephan Yip
Producer: Stephan Yip
Cast: Lau Kar Fai, Anita Lee, BoBo Ho
Two Shaolin Kids ran away from their
master HUNG CHEE and came to Hong
Kong. They met MONEY, a young
woman who was a pickpocket...
LAW OFFICES OF
GREG S. BERNSTEIN
Law Offices of Greg S. Bernstein, 9601
Wilshire Blvd., Suite 300A, Beverly Hills,
California, USA. Tel: 310.247.2790. Fax:
www.thefilmlaw.com
Company Type: Entertainment and
Finance Law, Producer Representative
At Cannes: Greg S. Bernstein
(Entertainment Attorney, Producer
Representative)
Office: Radisson Montfleury Cannes,
Local Tel: 011.33.4.93.68.86.86. Local
GRUPO NOVO DE
CINEMA E TV
Grupo Novo de Cinema e TV, Rua
Capitão Salomão, 42, Humaitá - Rio de
Janeiro, Cep:22271-040, Brasil. Tel:
5521.2539.1538. Fax: 5521.2266.3637
At Cannes: Alfredo Calvino, Alessandra
Durso, Daniela Ribeiro
Office: B3C6 - Riviera
A LOVE MOVIE (FILME DE AMOR)
by Julio Bressane
Romance (90 min) New
Three friends, Hilda, Matilda and Gaspar,
ordinary folk from the suburbs, meet up
on a weekend in a tiny, not exactly chic,
apartment downtown to gossip, drink and
have a general good time.
London Head Office Phone
44 207 372 9992
London Head Office FAX
44 207 372 9993
THE MAN OF THE YEAR (O
HOMEM DO ANO)
by José Henrique Fonseca
Thriller (115 minutes) New
An innocent bet among buddies turns
Michael, a common guy, into a murderer
and the hero of a whole town.
MANGO YELLOW (AMARELO
MANGA)
by Cláudio Assis
Drama (100 minutes) New
The feature debut of the multi-awarded
short film director Claudio Assis. Based
on his previous short “Texas Hotel”, the
film is a story of love encounters and
mismatchings, held in a 24-hour gap.
THE STORYTELLERS
(NARRADORES DE JAVÉ)
by Eliane Caffé
Comedy (100 minutes) New
Javé’s daily monotomy would never
change except for the fact of its imminent
extinction. A huge power plant project
might take the small village under water.
BREAKING UP (SEPARAÇÕES)
by Domingos de Oliveira
Comedy (116 minutes) New
After his 97 domestic hit “Amores”, de
Oliveira films another romantic comedy,
now dealing with what he calls the four
stages of a separation: DENIAL,
NEGOTIATION, REVOLT and
ACCEPTANCE.
GRUPO PI
Grupo Pi, C/ Lanzarote, 2 – San
Sebastián De Los Reyes, Madrid 28700,
Spain. Tel: 34.91.6592032. Fax:
www.grupopi.tv
At Cannes: Geraldine Gonard (Sales
Director), Álvaro Escribano (Sales
Manager), Isabel Moya (Sales Assistant)
Office: Stand number A1/C2-C1, Tel:
00.34.686.95.95.21
ARO TOLBUKHIN IN THE MIND
OF A KILLER (ARO TOLBUKHIN
EN LA MENTE DEL ASESINO)
Drama (94’)
Language: Spanish – English Subtitled
Director: Agustí De Villaronga, Lydia
Zimmermann, Isaac P. Racine
Producer: Oberón Cinematográfica
Co-Production Partners: Altavista Films
Cast: Daniel Jiménez Cacho, Carmen
Beato, Zóltán Józan
Year Of Production: 2002, Country Of
Orig: Spain - Mexico
A false documentary about a true killer.
YOU´LL BE BACK (VOLVERÁS)
Drama (106’)
Director: Antonio Chavarrías
Producer: Oberón Cinematográfica
Co-Production Partners: Altavista Films
Cast: Unax Ugalde, Tristán Ulloa, Joana
Rañe, Elizabeth Cervantes
Origin: Spain
Two antagonistic brothers, a gambler and
an architect, run into each other after
years.
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
MY MOTHER LIKES WOMEN (A
MI MADRE LE GUSTAN LAS
MUJERES)
Comedy (96’)
Director: Inés París, Daniela Fejerman
Producer: Fernando Colomo P.C.
Cast: Leonor Watling, Rosa María Sardá,
María Pujalte, Silvia Abascal, Álex
Angulo
Origin: Spain
Sofia, a famous pianist, announces her
daughters that she is in love again... but
this time with a woman.
BULGARIAN LOVERS (LOS
NOVIOS BÚLGAROS)
Drama (90’)
Director: Eloy De La Iglesia
Producer: Cartel Producciones
Co-Production Partners: Altube Filmeak,
Cuervo Films, Conexión Sur
Cast: Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Pepón
Nieto, Ditrán Biba, Roger Pera, Anita
Sinkovic
Origin: Spain
Daniel, madly in love with a Bulgarian
immigrant, will risk his dignity and
social position to make his lover happy.
THE BUSINESS
OF FILM
London Head Office
41-42 Berners St.
London WIT 3NB
Los Angeles Office
5150 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles
California 90036
Country of Origin: Canada/U.K.
Hacking in is easy. Getting away with it
can be murder.
H
H3O FILMED
ENTERTAINMENT
H3O Filmed Entertainment, 1415 West
Georgia Street, Suite 1804, Vancouver
V6G-3C8, Canada. Tel: 604.662.3345.
Fax: 604.662.7720.
[email protected].
www.h3ofilm.com
At Cannes: John Curtis (President /
CEO), Rod Akizuki (Senior Manager),
Sam Esteves (Sales Associate), Isabelle
Angot (Assistant)
Office: 6 La Croisette, 7th Floor, res.Le
Borgne, Tel: 04.93.38.46.35. Fax:
04.93.38.46.35. Mobile: 06.18.50.67.66
RIPPER II
Thriller/Horror
Director: Jonas Quastel
Producer: John Curtis, Evan Tylor
Delivery Status: Screening trailer/ PostProduction
Country of Origin: Canada / UK / Czech
Recreating the fear...
THE BARBER
Thriller (94:00)
Director: Michael Bafaro
Producer: Evan Tylor
Cast: Malcolm McDowell
Origin: Canada/UK
As seen through the eyes of a killer.
RIPPER: LETTER FROM HELL
Thriller / Horror (113:53)
Director: John Eyres
Producer: John Curtis, Evan Tylor
Origin: Canada/UK
Repeat the history.
GRENDEL
Action/Adventure
Director: TBA
Producer: Evan Tylor, John Curtis
Country of Origin: Canada/U.K.
The horrific result of genetic engineering
gone wrong terrorizes small-town
America.
TRIGGER JUNKIE
Thriller
Director: TBA
Producer: Evan Tylor, John Curtis
Delivery Status: Development
HAN
ENTERTAINMENT
LTD.
Han Entertainment Ltd., 29/F, 148
Electric Road, North Point, Hong Kong.
Tel 852.2284.0600. Fax 852.2164.4880.
www.han-entertainment.com
At Cannes: Thomas CHUNG (Managing
Director), Sabrina CHEN (General
Manager – Distribution), Philip
HEMNELL (General Manager Business Development), Anna LEUNG
(Executive Assistant)
Office: 2nd Floor, 55, La Croisette, Tel:
04.93.99.80.01. Fax: 04.93.39.01.71
SILVER HAWK
Action
Director: Jingle MA
Producers: Michelle YEOH, Thomas
CHUNG
Cast: Michelle YEOH, Richie JEN, Luke
GOSS, BOA, Michael Jai WHITE
Status: In production
Budget: USD15 million
Country of origin: Hong Kong
A ruthless villain is on the brink of
subverting the world - and only one
woman stands in his way.
JIANG SHI
Horror
Director: LAW Chi Leung
CHUNG
Cast: Anthony WONG, Brandon
CHANG
Budget: USD 5 million
An Asian horror comes alive to terrorize
the modern world.
HUA MULAN
Drama
Director: Peter PAU
CHUNG
Cast: Michelle YEOH
Budget: USD35 million
A sweeping tale of a woman warrior with
her courage to fight for love, family and
country.
THE TOUCH
Action Adventure (104 mins)
Director: Peter PAU
CHUNG
Cast: Michelle YEOH, Ben CHAPLIN,
Richard ROXBURGH
Status: Completed
Budget: USD 20million
An action adventure of the greatest
treasure where no ordinary human being
could ever reach.
HANNIBAL
PICTURES
Hannibal Pictures, 8265 Sunset Blvd.
Suite # 107, West Hollywood, CA 90046
USA. Tel: 323.848.2945. Fax:
323.848.2946.
[email protected].
www.hannibalpictures.com
Company Type: Sales, Distribution
At Cannes: Richard Rionda Del Castro
(Chairman of the Board & CEO),
Patricia Rionda Del Castro (President)
Office: Noga Hilton, Tel: 04.92.99.70.00.
Fax: 04.92.99.70.11. Cell: 06.87.70.94.67
MASKED AND ANONYMOUS
Drama
Language: English
Director: Larry Charles
Producer: Nigel Sinclair and Larry
Charles
Cast: Bob Dylan, Penelope Cruz, Jeff
Bridges, Jessica Lange, John Goodman,
Jeff Bridges, Mickey Rourke, Giovanni
Ribisi, Cheech Marin, Luke Wilson, Ed
Harris, Bruce Dern, Val Kilmer, Chris
Penn, Christian Slater, Richard Sarafian
Origin: USA
Budget: $10 million USD
In a city wracked by severe civil unrest,
Jack Fate (Dylan), is forced to make a
comeback to the performance stage as he
wrestles with his personal demons on the
eve of a benefit concert.
OLD SOLDIERS
Action
Language: English
Director: Andrzej Sekula
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro,
Gary Howsam
Cast: TBA
INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Los Angeles
San Diego
New York
Newark
Miami
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C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
91
Origin: UK-Spain-Canada
Budget: $14million USD
When the unsuspecting Christian
Gregson receives a mysterious package,
he is forced to team up with exmercenary Victor Conti as he is thrust
into a storm of death, violence, and
revenge.
ESCOBAR
Action
Language: English
Director: Andrzej Sekula
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro
Cast: TBA
Origin: Mexico-Spain-UK
Budget: $20million USD
The corruption, scandal, millions, and
political involvement surrounding the life
of infamous drug lord, Pablo Escobar.
YAKUZA
Action
Language: English
Origin: Canada-UK-China
Two powerful defenders of opposing
crime families hopelessly fall in love as
they fight against each other in a
malicious mafia war.
BALLAD TO THE END OF THE
WORLD
Action-Adventure
Language: English
Director: Tba
Origin: France-UK-Spain
In a lost enchanted world, a professional
football player of modern times fights his
way through a magical Conquistador
kingdom in search of his missing wife.
JISM - THE DARK SIDE OF DESIRE
WEG INDIA
HBO FILMS LONDON
HIGH POINT FILMS
HBO Films London, Warner House, 98
Theobald’s Road, London, WC1X 8WB,
United Kingdom. Tel: 44.207.984.5051.
Fax: 44.207.984.5052
At Cannes: Rosa Bosch, (Co-Managing
Director), Penny Wolf, (Co-Managing
Director)
Office: Majestic Hotel Suite #134, Tel:
04.97.06.85.34, Fax: 04.97.06.85.36
ELEPHANT
Drama (84 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Gus Van Sant
Executive Producers: Diane Keaton, Bill
Robinson
Producer: Dany Wolf
Cast: Alex Frost, John Robinson, Elias
McConnell
Delivery Status: Completed (screening)
Origin: USA
One beautiful fall day at an American
high school, filled with football, gossip,
schoolwork: an ordinary day until it is
unexpectedly shattered... A film by Gus
Van Sant.
AMERICAN SPLENDOR
Drama (100 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert
Pulcini
Producer: Ted Hope
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, James
Urbaniak
Origin: USA
For everyman Harvey Pekar, ordinary life
is pretty complex stuff. 2003 Sundance
Grand Jury Prize Winner.
MY HOUSE IN UMBRIA
Drama (102 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Richard Loncraine
Executive Producer: Frank Doelger
Producer: Ann Wingate, Co-ProducerMarco Valerio Pugini
Cast: Maggie Smith, Ronnie Barker,
Chris Cooper, Benno Fürµmann,
Giancarlo Giannini, Timothy Spall and
Emmy Clarke
Origin: USA
A poignant look at an unlikely group of
characters who find solace and friendship
after being thrown together in the wake
of a terrorist attack.
NORMAL
Drama (109 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jane Anderson
Executive Producers: Cary Brokaw,
Lydia Dean Pilcher
Cast: Jessica Lange, Tom Wilkinson
Origin: USA
Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson star in
this moving and humorous story of love
and acceptance when a Midwestern
husband announces his plan to have a sex
High Point Films, 25 Elizabeth Mews,
London NW3 4UH, UK. Tel:
44.20.7586.3686. Fax: 44.20.7586.3117.
[email protected].
www.highpointfilms.co.uk
Company Type: independent feature film
and TV movie sales company
At Cannes: Carey Fitzgerald (Managing
Director), Ronald de Neef (CEO), Julie
Murphy-Delaney (Director), Sital Haria
(Head Of Sales), Piers Nightingale
(Development Executive)
Office: Suite 501 Hotel Cristal, Tel:
33.06.85.67.27.32, Fax:
33.04.93.38.64.66
REBELLION
Romantic drama (1 x 93 min)
Language: English
Director: John Strickland
Producers: Malcolm Craddock & Robert
Cooper
Production companies: Picture Palace,
October Productions & BBC
Starring: James D’Arcy, Paloma Baeza,
Vincent Regan, Bill Paterson
Delivery Status: Complete
A powerful and moving tale of love and
passion set against the sweeping
backdrop of the Irish Rebellion.
THE DEBT
Thriller (1 x 100’ approx)
Language: English
Director: Jon Jones
Producer: Pier Wilkie
Production Companies: Strand
Productions & BBC
Starring: Warren Clarke, Hugo Speer,
Lee Williams
For cracking safes, Geoff Dresner is the
best, only now he wants to go straight.
But first he has to finish one last job...
BOOTLEG
Family (100’ approx.)
Language: English
Director: Ian Gilmour
Producers: Diana Kyle & Ewan Burnett
Productions & BBC
Starring: Martin Jarvis, Steven Geller,
Anthony Hammer.
It’s the near future, and chocolate is
illegal! Can Smudger and Huntley stand
up to the system?
FACE AT THE WINDOW
Family (1 x 100’ approx. or 6 x 25’)
Language: English
Director: Graeme Harper
Producer: Josephine Ward
Productions & BBC
Starring: Angelo Andreou, Andrew
Lancel, Angela Downs.
Afraid for his life, 10 year old refugee,
Erri, has fled to England. His only hope
now lies with three schoolchildren.
TWIN SISTERS (DE TWEELING)
Epic drama (1 x 129 min)
Language: Dutch/German
Director Ben Sombogaart
Producers: Anton Smit, Hanneke Niens
Production companies: IdtV Film
change.
Starring: Thekla Reuten, Nadja Uhl,
Jeroen Spitzenberger, Roman Knizka
Country of Origin: Holland
Two sisters long to reunite after being
cruelly separated before the war. But
when one marries an SS soldier and the
other a Jew, can their worlds ever be
reconciled?
HIGHLAND CREST
PICTURES
Highland Crest Pictures, 7471 Melrose
Avenue, Suite 7, Los Angeles, CA 90046
USA. Tel: 323.852.9484. Fax:
323.658.7265.
[email protected],
www.highlandcrestpix.com
At Cannes: Acquisition Executive
SIX WAYS TO SUNDAY
Action (97 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Adam Bernstein
Producer: Adam Bernstein
Cast: Adrien Brody, Norman Reedus,
Isaac Hayes, Deborah Harry
Budget: 3.5 Million
An eighteen year-old mama’s boy joins
the mob with unexpected results.
HOLLAND FILM
Holland Film, Jan Luykenstraat 2, 1071
CM Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel:
31.20.5707575. Fax: 31.20.5707570.
[email protected] Website:
www.hollandfilm.nl
Company Type: Promotion & Marketing
At Cannes: Claudia Landsberger
(Managing Director)
Office: Holland Film Stand , La Riviera
A3, Tel: 33.(0)4.92.99.32.48
MOONLIGHT
Drama (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Paula van der Oest
Producer: Emjay Rechsteiner-Staccato
Films Co-production partners: Spice
Factory, Delux Studios, Peppermint
Cast: Laurien van den Broeck, Hunter
Bussemaker, Andrew Howard
Origin: The Netherlands
Claire leads an idyllic suburban life. One
day a mysterious young man enters her
world. She’s looking for adventure. He’s
looking for an escape.
YES NURSE! NO NURSE!
Musical (104 minutes)
Language: Dutch
Director: Pieter Kramer
Producer: Bos Bros Film & TV
Productions Co-production partners:
Cast: Loes Luca, Paul de Leeuw, Paul R.
Kooij
A fantasy musical recounting the
adventures of the residents of Nurse
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
Klivia’s Rest Home as they combat the
efforts of their nasty landlord and
neighbour to have them evicted.
ADRENALINE
Drama (97 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Roel Reiné
Producer: Roel Reiné Co-production
partners:
Cast: Georgina Verbaan, Jason Fijal
Year of Production: 2002/2003, Country
of Origin: The Netherlands
When Jason’s girlfriend disappears, he
learns things are not always what they
seem. His search for who she really was
leads him to an illegal gang of thrill
seekers.
THE EMPEROR’S WIFE
Drama (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Julien Vrebos
Producer: Fu Works-San Fu Maltha and
Staccato Films-Emjay Rechsteiner Coproduction partners: Spice Factory,
Delux Films
Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Max
Beesley, Johnny de Mol
Year of Production: 2002/2003, Country
of Origin: The Netherlands
After six happy years of marriage, the
beloved Empress hasn’t given birth to an
heir. In a secret wing of the Imperial
Palace, an innocent virgin is being
prepared to replace her.
GODFORSAKEN
Drama (87 min)
Language: Dutch
Director: Pieter Kuijpers
Producer: IdtV Film BV Co-production
partners:
Cast: Egbert Jan Weeber, Tygo Gernandt,
Angela Schijf
Stan’s life changes when he meets up
with a young criminal Maikel and his
girlfriend Anna and takes up the path of
crime with him.
Origin: UK/Germany/Austria
Bio-pic of Alma Schindler who married
Gustav Mahler and had affairs with
Oskar Kokoshka and Walter Gropius
amongst others.
STEALING TIME
Black comedy (98 mins)
English language
Director: Marc Fusco
Producer: Michael Garrity, Mike M
Gabrawy
Cast: Peter Facinelli, Scott Foley, Ethan
Embry
Origin: USA
Four college friends attempt to pull off
one of the largest bank robberies in LA
history.
CARLO’S WAKE
Black comedy (90 mins)
English language
Director: Mike Valerio
Producer: James Alex
Cast: Martin Landau, Rita Moreno,
Michael Chiklis
Origin: USA
A colourful dysfunctional family gathers
to pay its last respects.
THE AMATI GIRLS
Romantic comedy (91 mins)
English language
Director: Anne De Salvo
Producer: James Alex
Cast: Cloris Leachman, Mercedes Ruehl,
Sean Young
Origin: USA
Four sisters who disagree about
everything except what matters most.
Family.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTMARE
Sci-fi horror (99 mins)
English language
Director: Charles Wallace
Delivery Status: In development
You’ll never let your imagination run
away with you again.
HOLLYWOOD
CLASSICS
HORIZON
ENTERTAINMENT
Hollywood Classics, 8 Cleveland
Gardens, London W2 6HA UK. Tel:
44.20.7262.4646. Fax: 44.20.7262.3242.
[email protected].
www.hollywoodclassics.com
Company Type: Sales agent
At Cannes: Joe Dreier (Director),
Melanie Tebb (Sales), John Flynn
(Director)
Office: 63 la Croisette, Le Lerina, 4th
Horizon Entertainment, Suite 205, 1040
Hamilton Street, Vancouver BC Canada
V6B 2R9. Tel: 604 632 1707 Fax: 604
632 1607. www.filmhorizon.com
At Cannes: Rob Straight (President –
Cell: 336.74.154.619), Michael Taverna
(Sales and Acquisitions Executive / Head
of Production – Cell 39.349.444.5160),
Caroline Stern (Distribution Manager –
Cell 336.74.154.618)
Office: Booth G4
JU-ON: THE GRUDGE 2
Horror (92 min)
Language: Japanese
Directed by Takashi Shimzu
Produced by Taka Ichise
Delivery Status: Completed 2003 /
Premiere, Screening
Budget: $US 3.5 million
The second theatrical sequel in a series
of four horrors about a lethal and
contagious curse originating from a
wrongful death.
HALLOW’S END
floor, Tel: 04.93.94.00.09
BRIDE OF THE WIND
Historial bio-pic (99 mins)
English language
Director: Bruce Beresford
Producer: Lawrence Levy, Evzen Kolar
Cast: Sarah Wynter, Jonathan Pryce,
Vincent Perez
Horror
Language: English (USA)
Directed by Jon Keeyes
Produced by Brandon Baker, Richard T.
Carey, Jon Keeyes, and Faras Rabadi
Executive Producers Robert Straight and
Michael Taverna
Starring Stephen Cloud, Brandy Little,
Amy Morris, Amy Jo Hearron, Matt
Moore
Delivery Status: Post-production /
Premiere
Trapped inside the haunted house,
students are murdered one by one, only
to come back as the creatures whose
costumes they were wearing. By
evening’s end, a handful of survivors
must take one last stand against a
houseful of ghouls, ghosts, zombies and
vampires.
JU-ON: THE GRUDGE
Horror (92 min)
Language: Japanese
Directed by Takashi Shimzu
Produced by Taka Ichise
Starring Okina Magumi, Misaki Ito,
Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa
Delivery Status: Completed 2002
A series of people die from a violent
curse that is re-born every time someone
is killed.
JULY RHAPSODY
Drama (103 minutes)
Language: Chinese (Hong Kong)
Directed by Ann Hui
Produced by Derek Yee, Ann Hui
Starring Jacky Cheung, Anita Mui,
Karena Lam, Shaun Tam
2002/Screening
A high school teacher finds himself in an
emotional tailspin when the return of his
wife’s ex-lover coincides with a student
falling in love with him.
INNER SENSES
Language: Chinese (Hong Kong)
Directed by Lo Chi Leung
Produced by Derek Yee
Starring Leslie Cheung, Karena Lam,
Maggie Poon, Lee Chi Hung
Delivery Status: Completed 2002
Budget: $US 4 million
A psychologist treating a patient who
claims to see dead people begins acting
in strange ways himself.
I
ICON
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL
Icon Entertainment International, The
Quadrangle, 180 Wardour Street, London
W1F 8FX UK. Tel: 44.(0)20.7494.8100.
Fax: 44.(0)20.7494.8101
At Cannes: Bruce Davey (Chairman),
Nick Hill (Chief Executive Officer UK
Icon Group), Simon Crowe (Head of
Sales), James Norrie (Sales Manager),
Caroline Johnson (Head of International
Marketing), Isabelle Lherondel
(International Marketing Manager)
Office: Les Jardins De La Croisette,
Block B, 6th Floor, 19 Rue Du Canada,
Tel: 33.(0).4.92.18.88.90. Fax:
33.(0).4.92.18.88.99
PAPARAZZI
Thriller
Director: Paul Abascal
Producers: Bruce Davey, Stephen
McEveety
Cast: Cole Hauser, Dennis Farina, Robin
Tunney
Delivery: Spring 2004
PAPARAZZI is a fast paced revenge
thriller. When action movie star Bo
Laramie and his family fall prey to the
PAPARAZZI, his instinct is to fight
back... How far would you go?
THE SINGING DETECTIVE
Musical Drama
Director: Keith Gordon
Producers: Mel Gibson, Steven Haft,
Bruce Davey
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright
Penn, Jeremy Northam, Katie Holmes,
Adrien Brody and Mel Gibson
Status: Completed, screening in Cannes
Delivery: Immediate
Based on the award winning television
series, Robert Downey Jr. stars as Dan
Dark, a writer of pulp detective novels.
FOOL PROOF - ALLIANCE ATLANTIS
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
93
BLACKBALL
Comedy
Director: Mel Smith
Producers: James Gay-Rees
Cast: Paul Kaye, James Cromwell,
Johnny Vegas, Alice Evans, Bernard
Cribbins, Imelda Staunton, James Fleet
and Vince Vaughan
Status: Completed, Screening TBA
A classic tale of triumph over adversity
that will quite literally bowl you over BLACKBALL!!
GLADIATRESS
Comedy
Director: Brian Grant
Producers: Damian Jones, Graham
Broadbent, Bruce Davey
Cast: Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan,
Sally Phillips (“Smack The Pony”)
Delivery: Summer 2003
In this hilarious new British comedy the
Romans are beating a bloody swathe
across the European Continent. Three
sisters - Smirgut, Dwyfach and
Worthaboutapig are all that stands
between Britain and the mighty Roman
Empire.
AMERICAN COUSINS
Director: Donald Coutts
Producer: Margaret Matheson
Cast: Danny Nucci, Shirley Henderson,
Gerald Lepkowski with Vincent Pastore
and Dan Hedaya
Status: Completed, Screening in Cannes
A feel good comedy about life, love, fish
and chips, guns and gangsters. The Cosa
Nostra have just moved to Scotland!
IFDC, INC.
IFDC, Inc. (International Film
Distribution Consultants), The Water
Garden, 1601 Cloverfield Blvd., Suite
200, South Tower, Santa Monica, CA
90404 USA. Tel:310.460.3537. Fax:
310.460.3445
At Cannes: Jerome Bliah (President),
Thorsten Schumacher (Acquisitions)
Office: Private Residence, Tel:
06.13.80.78.90 (Jerome Bliah’s mobile),
Fax: 04.93.99.45.34
ONE MAN’S WAR
Drama (91 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Sergio Toledo
Producer: Graham Benson, Colin
Callender
MOONLIGHT - ARCLIGHT FILMS
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Norma
Aleandro, And Fernanda Torres
Status: Completed
Country Origin: USA
Based on a shocking true story, a South
American family resists a brutal
dictatorship and fights for what they
believe in.
VOYAGE
Language: English
Director: John Mackenzie
Producer: John Davis, Tarak Ben Ammar,
Peby Guisez, Merril Karpf
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Eric Roberts, And
Karen Allen
Status: Completed
Country Origin: USA
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 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Charles Jarrot
Producer: Duke Fenady
Cast: Charles Bronson
Status: Completed
Country Origin: USA
Virginia is a little girl who lives in New
York City 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. [email protected]. In
Australia: IFM World Releasing Inc.
2/25 Second Street, Clayton, Victoria
3169, Australia. Tel: 61.3.9515.9249.
Fax: 61.3.9515.9248.
[email protected].
www.ifmfilm.com
At Cannes: Antony I. Ginnane
(President), Anthony J. Lyons (VP
International), David Makhlout (Director
International Sales)
Office: Palais des Festivals, Stand F. 19,
Tel: 33.04.92.99.32.04. Fax:
818.550.9728
GRIM WEEKEND - MARKET
PREMIERE
Language: English
Cast: Ken Hebert, Amanda Watson
5 people. 1 weekend. 12 miles from
nowhere. The killing has begun.
THE RISEN
Psychological Thriller (94 minutes )
Language: English
Director: Jeff Beesley
Producer: Gail Tilson
Cast: Alberta Watson, Eugene Lipinski,
Daniel Maslany, Peter Outerbridge,
Helen Shaver
Haunted by the image of a boy after
recovering from emergency surgery that
saved her life, Amanda searches for the
answers to the nightmares that have
invaded her mind. THE TURNER
AFFAIR
Mystery Thriller (89 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Geoff Cox
Producer: Pascale Cox, Geoff Cox
Cast Rachel Blakely, David Paterson,
David Orth, Peter Kent
Country of Origin: Australia
Deceit and seduction turn to murder
when a scheming couple commits one
scam too many.
HUNTING HUMANS
Director: Kevin Kangas
Producers: Rick Ganz, Kevin Kangas
Cast: Rick Ganz, Bubby Lewis, Lisa
Michele Trent
A serial killer stalks his victims, deciding
the best way to kill them by studying
their patterns.
IN THE RED
Action (87 minutes)
Director: Glenn Ruehland
Producers: Glenn Ruehland, Rina Reiss
Cast: Steve Bisley, Damien Bradford,
Terry Serrio, Allison Cratchley
It’s a turbo charged action drama about a
modern day gang with a passion for fast
women and even faster cars. Their highoctane passion is supported through
wheeling and dealing in a big city’s
brutal, opportunist underworld.
IMAGEWORKS
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL,
INC.
Imageworks Entertainment International,
Inc., Warner Center, 6140 Variel Avenue,
Woodland Hills, CA 91367 USA. Tel:
818.716.1670. Fax: 818.716.8004.
[email protected].
www.ImageworksEntertainment.com
Company Type: International
Distribution, International Production
At Cannes: David Shoshan (President,
Sales), Richard Pepin (President,
Production); Acquisition Executive:
David Shoshan
Office: Riviera L10, Tel:
33.(0)4.92.99.33.14. Fax: 818.716.8004
THE 4TH TENOR
Comedy (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Harry Basil
Producer: Joseph Merhi
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Robert Davi,
Charles Fleischer
Origin: USA
A restaurant owner(Dangerfield) falls in
love with an opera singer and, desperate
to impress her, travels to Italy to learn
how to sing.
THE BOX
Language: English
Director: Richard Pepin
Producer: David Shoshan, Richard Pepin
Cast: James Russo, Theresa Russell,
Brad Dourif, Steve Railsback, Jon Polito,
Michael Rooker
Origin: USA
A reformed prisoner falls in love with a
woman upon his release; together they
find THE BOX which leads to a web of
suspense and terror that takes them on a
dangerous journey.
KISS THE BRIDE
Drama (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Vanessa Parise
Producer: David Shoshan, Richard Pepin
Co-Production Partners: Jordan Gertner
Cast: Amanda Detmer, Sean Patrick
Flanery, Alyssa Milano, Brooke Langton,
Monet Mazur, Johnathon Schaech,
Vanessa Parise, Talia Shire, Burt Young,
Johnny Whitworth.
Origin: USA
Three radically different sisters return
home for the wedding of their traditional
sister, to find themselves in constant
struggle for love and validation.
MINDSTORM
Action/Sci-Fi (90 minutes)
Language: English
Producer: Richard Pepin, Michael Derbas
Cast: Eric Roberts, Antonio Sabato, Jr.,
Michael Ironside, Michael Moriarty,
Emmanuelle Vaugier, Ed O’Ross,
William B. Davis, Clarence Williams III
Origin: USA
A psychic’s investigation into the
disappearance of a Senator’s daughter
leads her to a dangerous cult and the
truth about her mysterious past.
WARRIOR
Action-Adventure (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: William Harper
Producer: David Shoshan, Bruce
Singman
Cast: Vincent Klyn, Yukmouth Of The
Luniz, Ron Joseph
Origin: USA
A part man, part deity must use his
supernatural powers to battle evil and
save his adopted homeland.
INDIGO
Indigo, 116 Great Portland Street,
London W1W 6PJ UK. Tel:
44.207.612.1700. Fax: 44.207.612.1705.
[email protected].
www.indigofilm.com
Company Type: distributor
At Cannes: David Lawley (Managing
Director)
Office: Tel: 44.20.7612.1700
FLYFISHING
Romantic comedy (82 minutes)
Language: English
Director: David Williams
Producer: David Williams/Helen
Baxendale
Cast: Kate Ashfield, Adam Croasdell,
Helen Baxendale
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
Origin: UK
Two men become gigolos to earn some
much-needed cash, however while their
debts diminish, their problems soon
mount up especially when one escort
falls in love with his best client?s
daughter!
Office: 6th Floor, 4 La Croisette, Cannes,
Tel: 33.(0)4.93.99.84.88. Fax:
33.(0)4.93.99.84.87. [email protected]
INITIAL
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP
Interactive Film Sales International, Inc.
(IFSI), 4240 Promenade Way, # 334,
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 USA. Tel:
310.823.7778. Fax: 310.868.2723.
Germany Office: Boll KG, Fullsichel 7,
51399 Burscheid, Germany. Tel:
49.611.531300. Fax: 49.611.531301.
www.boll-kg.de. www.house-of-thedead.com
Company Type: specializes in feature
films based on video games and other
branded properties.
At Cannes: Daniel Sales (President, IFSI,
Mobile in Cannes: 06.72.82.64.21),
Frédéric Demey (Consultant, Mobile in
Cannes: 06.88.83.13.35)
Office: Cannes 2003 - Carlton Hotel,
Suite # 163 - Tel: 04.93.06.40.06 - Fax:
04.93.06.40.29
HOUSE OF THE DEAD
Horror (2003)
Directed by Uwe Boll
Produced by Uwe Boll and Shawn
Williamson
Cast: Jürgen Prochnow, Jonathan Cherry,
Tyron Leitso, Will Sanderson
Delivery Status: Ready for Delivery Screening in Cannes
Budget: $12 Million.
Based on Sega’s Best Selling video
game. A band of college students go to a
rave on a mysterious island and get more
than they bargained for.
THE HEART OF AMERICA
Drama (2002)
Directed by Uwe Boll
Produced by Uwe Boll and Shawn
Williamson
Cast: Maria Conchita Alonso, Jürgen
Prochnow, Michael Paré, Patrick
Muldoon
Delivery Status: Ready for Delivery Screening in Cannes
Budget: $2.5 Million.
In this increasingly violent culture, THE
HEART OF AMERICA takes a hard look
at the issues and pressures faced by
teenagers in suburban high schools
everywhere, by following them through
their last day of school.
ALONE IN THE DARK
Action/Thriller (2004)
Produced and directed by Uwe Boll
Cast: TBA.
Budget: $35 Million.
Based on Infogrames best selling video
game property. Something is waiting in
the dark...It’s angry...It’s hungry...It’s
coming.
EXTREME LEADERS OF THE 20TH
CENTURY: FIDEL CASTRO
Documentary (2004)
Directed by Philip Selkirk
Produced by Uwe Boll
First Episode of a new 5x60min.
documentary serie entitled: “Extreme
Leaders of the 20th Century”. (Fidel
Initial Entertainment Group, 3000 W.
Olympic Blvd., Ste 1550, Santa Monica,
CA 90404 USA. Tel: 310.315.1722. Fax:
310.315.1723
At Cannes: Graham King (President),
Pamela Pickering (President, Sales &
Distribution), Schuyler Ha (VicePresident, Marketing)
Office: Carlton Hotel, Suite 238
(reception), 237, Tel: 33.04.93.06.42.38,
Fax: 33.04.93.06.40.55
THE ROSE AND THE SNAKE
Drama
Director: Rebecca Miller
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Catherine
Keener
When her father’s new love and her two
teenage boys come to live with them,
Rose undergoes a sexual awakening with
both liberating and devastating
consequences.
AVIATOR
Bio-pic
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio
Buoyed by vision, driven by imagination,
one man became an icon of the 20th
century: Howard Hughes. Visionary.
Daredevil. Mogul. Madman.
IN-MOTION
PICTURES
IN-motion Pictures, London Office
address: 5 Percy Street, London, W1T
1DG UK. Tel: 44.(0)20.7467.6880. Fax:
44.(0)20.7467.6890. [email protected]. www.inmotionpictures.com
At Cannes: Hilmar Siebert (Chairman),
Nigel Bremner (Managing Director),
Alex Walton (VP International Sales),
Sandra Keser (Head of Acquisitions),
Marcus Tustin (Snr VP, Business
Affairs), Hannah Rothman (Marketing
Manager )
THE BUSINESS
OF FILM
The ‘Independent’ choice
Published Daily during the
Cannes International
Film Festival 2003
INTERACTIVE FILM
SALES
INTERNATIONAL,
INC.
Castro, Aga Kahn, Muamar Al-Khadafi,
Augusto Pinochet, Mustafa Kemal
Atatürk)
INTERMEDIA FILM
Intermedia Film, 9350 Civic Center
Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA. Tel:
310.309.8400. Fax: 310.828.4132.
At Cannes: Moritz Borman (Chairman &
CEO), Jon Gumpert (Vice Chairman &
Head of Motion Picture Operations),
Bahman Naraghi (COO), Andreas Konle
Vorstand (CFO), Basil Iwanyk President
(Worldwide Production), Michael
Dragotto (President, Worldwide Sales)
Office: 2, la Croisette, Cannes, Tel:
334.93.99.80.83. Fax: 334.93.99.80.93
ALEXANDER
Drama
Director: Oliver Stone
Producers: Jon Kilik, Moritz Borman,
Thomas Schuely
Cast: Colin Farrell
Epic adventure tale about the life of
Alexander the Great.
BASIC
Drama
Director: John McTiernan
Producers: Mike Medavoy, Arnie Messer,
James Vanderbilt, Michael Tadross
Cast: John Travolta, Connie Nielsen and
Samuel L. Jackson
When a military training exercise goes
severely awry, a maverick DEA agent
and a tough female JAG officer must
investigate the disappearance of a highly
decorated drill instructor and several of
his cadets.
IF ONLY
Romance
Director: Gil Junger
Producers: Bobby Newmyer, Jeffrey
Silver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jill Gilbert
Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Paul Nicholls
After he fights with his girlfriend and she
dies in an accident, a man gets a second
chance to make her last day her best, not
realizing he cheated fate and it’s now
returned for him.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
PRESENTS: THE LEGEND OF
SURIYOTHAI
Action-Adventure
Language: Thai
Director: Chatrichalerm Yukol
Producers: Francis Ford Coppola, Kim
Aubry, Kamla Yukol
Cast: M.L. Piyapas Bhirombhakdi,
Sarunyoo Wongkrchang
A story of intrigue, romance and war
based on actual events in 16th century
Siam, this Cecil B. DeMille sized epic is
the most expensive and highest grossing
Thai production in history.
ME AGAIN
Thriller
Director: Dean Parisot
Producer: Beryl Vertue, David Willis
Cast: Diane Lane
Delivery Status: In production
A man with no memory must figure out
if he’s a hired assassin or an undercover
FBI agent, while trying to stay alive with
the help of a woman who may be his
partner - or his potential victim.
INTRAMOVIES
Intramovies, Via E. Manfredi 15, 00197
Rome, Italy. Tel: 00.39.06.807.61.57.06.807.64.28. Fax: 0039.06.807.61.56.
[email protected],
www.intramovies.com
At Cannes: Paola Corvino (President –
39.348.540.13.97), Jef Nuyts (Dir. of
Int.l Sales – 39.335.841.01.49), Micaela
Fusco (Dir. of TV Sales –
39.335.604.39.15), Federica Mei (Sales
Executive – 39.333.75.44.926)
Office: Riviera C5- D4 / D1-E8, Stand
Focus Italy, Tel: 33.4.92.99.88.11, Villa
Royale, Rue Commandant Andrè 29, 1st
floor, Tel / Fax: 33.4.93.68.42.53
PATER FAMILIAS
Drama (99 min)
Director Francesco Patierno
Producer: Umberto Massa for KUBLA
KHAN
Cast: Luigi Iacuzio, Federica
Bonvolonta, Francesco Pirozzi,
Francesco Di Leva
Country of Origin: Berlin, Year of
Production: 2003
After ten years in prison, MATTEO, has
a day of leave to return to his home
town. In 24 hours he has to settle an
account with his past and with himself.
EL ALAMEIN
War / adventure (99 min)
Director Enzo Monteleone
Producer: Cattleya
Cast: Paolo Briguglia, Pierfrancesco
Favino, Silvio Orlando
At El Alamein the Italo-German army is
blocked and forced to retreat.
FAST SOULS (ANIME VELOCI)
Drama (90 min)
Director Pasquale Marrazzo
Producer: Maurizio Tini
Cast: Giovanni Brignola, Tatjana Blacher
Francesco, a young man from Naples ,
who prefers to be called Francesca,
shares with the italian girl Giada an
apartment in Berlin. Together they dive
into the world of prostitution.
I AM EMMA (EMMA SONO IO)
Comedy (90 min)
Director Francesco Falaschi
Producer Bernadette Carranza, Paola
LES ENFANT
CINE - INTERNATIONAL
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
95
Lucisano
Cast Cecilia Dazzi, Pier Francesco
Favino, Elda Avignini
Due to a chance mistake, Emma is forced
to interrupts treatment for her mood
instability.
LOVE, LIES, KIDS...& DOGS
(UOMINI, DONNE, BAMBINI
E..CANI)
Comedy (93 min)
Director Eleonora Giorgi
Producer Massimo Ciavarro for Dharma
Cast Ornella Muti, Paolo Giommarelli,
Shasa Vitale
At 20 they marry for love and with a
child in the way.
ITALIA CINEMA
Italia Cinema, Via Aureliana, 63 - 00187
Roma, Italy. Tel: 3906.42012539. Fax:
42003530. [email protected].
www.tamtamcinema.com
At Cannes: Marina Cicogna (President),
Giorgio Gosetti (Director), Carla Cattani
(Project Manager), Andrea Paris (Project
Manager), Giovanni Marco Piemontese
(Communication Manager)
Office: Village Intìl, Italian Pavilion, Tel:
33(0)4.92590200. Fax: 92590199.
ITN DISTRIBUTION
ITN Distribution, 163 Third Ave., Suite
231, New York, NY 10003 USA. Tel:
212.777.7100 x 15. Fax: 212.387.0873.
http://www.itndistribution.com
At Cannes: Stuart Alson (President),
Anoo Cottoor (Vice President), Jack
Campbell (Director of Sales &
Acquisitions), Renata Lorenc (Director of
Marketing)
Office: Riviera F-11, Tel:
33.(0).6.0852.7459
HIGH TIMES’ POTLUCK
http://www.potluckmovie.com
Comedy/Action (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Alison Thompson
Co-Production Partners: Bernard/Scura
Productions
Producer: Jeri Carroll
Key Cast: Jason Mewes, Jason Isaacs,
Jackie “the jokeman” Martling, Sylvia
Miles, Victor Colicchio, Frank Adonis
Budget: 1.8million
Origin: USA
A suitcase filled with marijuana travels
the streets of Manhattan and passes
through the hands of musicians, mobsters
& drag queens, as it is sold, stolen, resold and re-stolen over and over again.
DROP DEAD ROSES
Dark Comedy (93 mins)
Language: English
Director: Jessica Hudsonh
CoProductionPartners : Danforth
Studios
Producer: Daniel D’or, G. Philip Jackson
Key Cast: Brian C. O’Halloran, Barbi
Castelvi, Diana Devlin, Chris
Diamantopoulos, Eddie McGee
Budget: 1million
Origin: USA
A romantically perverse story of two
regular guys who run an irregular
business and find themselves caught in a
twisted love story.
BIG APPLE
Director: English
Language: Danny Lerner
Co-Production Partners: Chantal Ughi
Producer: Danny Lerner, Mario Chioldi
Key Cast: Danny Lerner, Chantal Ughi,
Jaid Barrymore, Carlos Leon
Budget: 1million
Origin: USA
Angel McGee knows everything about
women...Max Rosenberg has never had a
woman...and Jackie is still looking for
the man of her dreams. A bizarre murder
mystery unfolds.
JACK’S OR BETTER
Dark Comedy (82 min)
Language: English
Director: Robert Sydney Mellette
Co-Production Partners: Ken Meyer
Producer: Hilton H. Smith
Key Cast: Jack Wallace, Nathan
Anderson, Matt Landers, Mesach Taylor
Budget: $1million
Origin: USA
A man kills his wife in the kitchen so
that he can play poker in the living room.
J
JAFFA
PRODUCTIONS LTD
Jaffaproductions Ltd, 9 Israeli`s St., TelAviv 64382 Israel. Tel:
972.(0)3.527.11.59. Fax:
972.(0)3.522.74.24. [email protected]
At Cannes: Riviera Hall, No. E-15 / F16. Tel: 33(0).4.92.99.32.26
Menahem Golan (Chairman)
THE RETURN FROM INDIA
Drama-Love Story (98 min)
Language: English.
Director: Menahem Golan.
Starring: Aki Avni, Riki Gal, Assi Dayan
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Israel
A strange and maybe impossible love
story between a young man (26) and an
older woman (50).
FINAL COMBAT
Family-Action-adventure (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Menahem Golan
Starring: Tonny White, Sonia Couling,
Richard Lynch
Status: Completed
Country of origin: U.S.A.
The story of the journey of a father and
son, Tonni and Ben, to find meaning in
their lives.
SUPER NINJA
Action, Martial Arts (90 min)
Language: English
Starring: Kely McClung, Gregory
Levayov, Richard Lynch
Tells the story of the going on behind the
scenes of the electronic industry.
ZAYA
Adventure- Love Story (100 min)
Language: English.
Director: Jonathan Paz.
Starring: Maayan Keret, Sami Hori, Dan
Tourgeman.
Status: Completed.
Based on a true story that happened in
Morocco at the end of the 30`s. Zaya is a
young beautiful Jewish girl living in the
Atlas Mountains who is drawn to a
freedom that it not available in the
primitive Berber village.
THE VALLEY TRAIN
Drama- youth sex (90 min)
Language: Hebrew (Subtitles in English).
Starring: Neta Moran, Ami Ushpitz, Dan
Tourgeman.
Status: Completed.
The legendary `VALLEY TRAIN` from
Haifa to Damascus was abruptly halted
during the war of independence in 1948.
But the vivid memory of that train
remains.
K
KANGJEGYU FILMS
KangJeGyu Films, 2F Olympia Center
828-10 Yoksamdong Kangnamgu Seoul
135-100 Korea. Tel: 82.2.2193.2001.
Fax: 82.2.2193.2199.
[email protected]. www.kjgfilm.com
Company Type: Production/ Distribution
Company
At Cannes: Bill Hwang (Manager,
Overseas Marketing and Distribution),
Cody Kim (Assistant Manager, Overseas
Marketing and Distribution)
Office: Stand D5, Tel:
33.(0)4.92.99.88.29
OVER THE RAINBOW
Language: Korean (English Subtititles)
Director: AHN JinWoo
Producer: Kim KyungKyu
Cast: LEE JungJae, JANG JinYoung
Origin: Korea
Budget: US$3.5 Million
JinSoo tries to retrace the fragments of
his memories that he lost during a car
accident about his lover with a help of
his old college friend YeonHee.
WET DREAMS
Comedy (94 min)
Director: Chosin Zeong
Producer: Rommie B. Meng
Cast: LEE BumSoo, KIM SunAh
Origin: Korea
Budget: US$3 Million
4 adolescent high school boys fall in love
with a beautiful new teacher and begins
to take her as an object of desire.
AKINDO - FRANCHISE PICTURES.
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
BLUE
Action/ Drama (106 min)
Director: LEE JungGook
Producer: CHOI HyunMook
Cast: SHIN HyunJoon, SHIN EunKyung,
KIM YoungHo
Origin: Korea
Budget: US$5 Million
Jun and TaeHyun, the two best SSU
officers, have to dive 185m underwater in
order to save a sunken submarine and
other officers trapped in it.
KATHY MORGAN
INTERNATIONAL
Kathy Morgan International, 12250 Sky
Lane, Los Angeles, CA 90049 USA. Tel:
310.472.6300. Fax: 310.472.6304.
At Cannes: Kathy Morgan (President),
Kimberly Fox (Director of International
Sales), Carrie Kommers (Director of
Marketing and Acquisitions)
Office: Le Grand Hotel, 45 La Croisette,
Cormoran II, Tel: 04.92.59.00.50. Fax:
04.92.59.00.14
THE INCREDIBLE MRS. RITCHIE
Family, Drama
Language: English
Directed by: Paul Johansson
Producers: Chad Oakes, Mike Frislev
Executive Producers: Nick Cassavetes,
Walter Josten, Jim Reeve, Steve Robbins,
Phil Alberstat, Jana Edelbaum
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Kevin Zegers,
Leslie Hope, David Schofield and James
Caan
Status: Completed
Countries: UK / Canada
A troubled teen trying to break free from
a school gang is given the chance to
redeem his criminal debt by working in
the garden of an eccentric woman.
VALENTIN
Family Comedy
Language: Spanish
Producer: Laurens Geels
Executive Producer: Eddy de Kroes
Directed by: Alejandro Agresti
Cast: Carmen Maura, Rodrigo Noya,
Julieta Cardinali, Jean Pierre Noher
Status: Completed
Year Produced: 2002
The world is not always what it seems
when viewed through the eyes of an 8year-old boy- especially when those eyes
are crossed.
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
Thriller
Language: English
Directed by: Eric Bress and J. Mackye
Gruber
Producers: Chris Bender, AJ Dix,
Anthony Rhulen and JC Spink
Executive Producers: David Krintzman
and William Shively
Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart
Status: Post-Production
Country: US
A gripping, supernatural thriller that taps
into the turbulent nature of past, present
and future.
THE RUM DIARY
Thriller / Drama
Language: English
Production Country: USA
Producers: Robert S. Kravis, Anthony
Rhulen, Greg Shapiro
Executive Producers: Hunter S.
Thompson, Nick Nolte, Johnny Depp,
William Shively
Cast: Johnny Depp, Nick Nolte, Josh
Hartnett, Benicio Del Toro
Based on Hunter S. Thompson’s best
selling first novel, “The Rum Diary” is a
tangled story of love, jealousy, treachery,
and lust set in the 1950’s boomtown of
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
KEYSTONE
ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
Keystone Entertainment Inc., 23410
Civic Center Way, Suite E-9, Malibu, CA
90265 USA. Tel: 310.317.4883. Fax:
www.keypics.com
At Cannes: Romana Danicova (VP
Worldwide Distribution), Michael
Strange (President)
Office: Riviera Stand L5-M6, Tel:
Romana Danicova Cell: 310.980.2027,
Michael Strange Cell: 310.980.2019
AIR BUD 6
Family
Language: English
Producers: Robert Vince & Anna
McRoberts
Buddy’s eager to try his paw at Rugby!
BMXP
Family
Language: English
McRoberts
Jack’s back on two wheels - as a BMX
racer!
AIR BUD: SPIKES BACK
Family (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Robert Vince
McRoberts
Cast: Katija Pevec, Jake Smith, Tyler
Boissonnault, Cynthia Stevenson, Edie
McClurg
Delivery Status: International Release
Date - July 2003
Origin: Canada
The fifth in this highly successful
franchise! Buddy and Andrea hit the
beach for some volleyball!
MXP: MOST EXTREME PRIMATE
Family (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Robert Vince
McRoberts
Cast: Devin Drewitz, Gwynth Walsh,
Rob Tinkler, Ian Bagg
Delivery Status: International Release
Date - July 2003
Origin: Canada
He was the Most Valuable Primate on the
ice in MVP1. He brought skateboarding
to new heights as the Most Vertical
Primate in MVP2 and now Jack’s off to
the slopes in Utah for his most eXtreme
adventure yet!
ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR
Comedy/Drama (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Don Scardino
Producers: Jana Edelbaum, Edgar
Lansbury
Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Andy Dick, Jon
Tenney, Timothy Olyphant
Delivery Status: Available for Delivery
Can a Soho video artist find happiness
with a bisexual Harley riding actor from
New Jersey? Only in New York!
KM CULTURE CO.,
LTD.
KM Culture Co., Ltd., 3rd Floor, Bojun
Bldg., 70-13 Nonhyun-dong, Kangnamku, Seoul 135-010 Korea. Tel:
82.2.3438.3842. Fax: 82.2.3438.3848.
www.kmculture.com
Company Type: Producer
At Cannes: Moo-seung PARK
(President), David B. LEE (VP), Judy
AHN (Head of Int’l Business), Sonya
KIM (Int’l Business); Acquisition
Executive: Moo-seung PARK
Office: Riviera Stand H6, Tel:
33.4.9299.3342 (office), 6.7580.1607
(mobile)
ADDICTED
Drama (114 min)
Language: Korean
Director: Young-hoon PARK
Producer: Choon-yeon LEE
Cast: Byung-hun LEE, Mi-yeon LEE
Delivery Status: Immediate
Origin: Korea
Budget: U$ 3.3M
Two brothers, Ho-jin and Dae-jin, get
caught in a sudden accident and both of
them falls into a coma at the same time.
CONDUCT ZERO
Comedy (98 min)
Language: Korean
Director: Keun-sik CHO
Producer: Choo-seong BANG, Younghoon PARK
Cast: Seung-bum RYU, Eun-kyung IM
Origin: Korea
Budget: U$ 3.6M
A gangly high school student whose
easygoing life becomes complex when he
falls in love and a new boy in town
challenges his fighting skills.
DOUBLE AGENT
Intelligence Drama (120 min)
Language: Korean/English/Russian
Director: Hyun-jung KIM
Producer: Bon-han KOO, Min-hee PARK
Cast: Suk-kyu HAN, So-young KOH
Origin: Korea
Budget: U$ 5.5M
The solemn cold war times of 1980. A
North Korean espionage agent Lim
Byung-ho defects to South Korea.
ICE RAIN
Adventure, Drama
Language: Korean/Japanese
Director: Eun-sook KIM
Producer: Bon-han KOO, Kui-duk CHOI
Cast: Sung-jae LEE, Seung-hun SONG,
Ha-neul KIM
Delivery Status: November 2003
Origin: Korea
Budget: U$ 5.5M
Joong-hyun, a man who hoards the pains
of a broken heart, his new love Kyungmin, and Woo-sung, who likes Kyungmin in vain, are driven by the fate of
love, and go on a journey to reach the top
of the Alps.
OH! BROTHERS
Comedy, Drama
Language: Korean
Director: Yong-hwa KIM
Producer: Choo-seung BANG, Youngwoon KIM
Cast: Jung-jae LEE, Bum-soo LEE
Delivery Status: September 2003
Origin: Korea
Budget: U$ 3M
One day, Sang-woo receives unexpected
news that his father has passed away and
that he inherited all of his father’s debt.
KEVIN WILLIAMS &
ASSOCIATES, S.A.
Kevin Williams & Associates, S.A., c)
Galeón 32, Bajo A, 28042 – Madrid,
Spain. Tel: 34.91.747.31.00. Fax:
34.91.747.70.00. [email protected],
www.kevinwa.com
At Cannes: Kevin Williams (President),
Fátima Urosa (Administrator)
Office: KWA stand Riviera F1, Tel:
33.06.82.72.91.37
CIUDADES OSCURAS (DARK
CITIES)
Drama (113 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Fernando Sariñara
Producer: Fernando Sariñara
Co-production partners: IMCINE,
FOPROCINE, Veneno producciones and
Altavista films.
Cast: Jesús Ochoa, Bruno Bichir, Alonso
SHATTERED GLASS - BETA CINEMA
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
97
Echanove.
Origin: Mexico
Budget: $ 2 m.
Carousel of cavorting low-lives from best
coppers to prostitutes, wife beaters to the
drug addict father who kills his own child
in a fit of pique while baby sitting.
CARLOS CONTRA EL MUNDO
(CARLOS AGAINST THE WORLD)
Drama (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Chiqui Carabante
Producer: Antonio Lobo
Co-production partners: Jaleo Films,
Letra M
Cast: Julián Villagrán, Victoria Mora,
Juanma Lara.
Origin: Spain
Budget: $ 1,5 m.
Picaresque lowlife dramatic comedy on
self-deception and how living in a
fantasy worlf affects others.
EL ALQUIMISTA IMPACIENTE
(THE IMPATIENT ALCHEMIST)
Drama (110 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Patricia Ferreira
Producer: Gerardo Herrero, Eduardo
Campoy
Co-production partners: Tornasol,
Continental producciones, Cartel,
Televisión de Galicia, S.A.
Cast: Ingrid rubio, Roberto Enríquez,
Chete Lera
Origin: Spain
Budget: $ 1,5 m.
Guy and girl detective team investigate
the murder of a nuclear powerplant
worker and a prostitute.
VIVA SAPATO! (SEX CHANGES
EVERYTHING!)
Comedy - (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Luis Carlos Lacerda
Producer: Iafa Britz, Walkiria Barbosa
Co-production partners: Total Films
(Brazil) and Euroficción (Spain)
Cast: Jorge Sanz, Laura Ramos, María
Galiana
WHY ME, SWEETIE?
CHINA STAR ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
Origin: Brazil /Spain
Budget: $ 2 m.
A pair of dance shoes go missing from
the Tropicana club with $5000 hidden in
the heels, setting off a chain of events.
NO DEBES ESTAR AQUÍ (DON’T
GO THERE AKA KEEP CLEAR)
Thriller
Language: Spanish
Director: Jacobo Rispa
Producer: Francisco Ramos
Co-production partners: Alquimia
Cinema, S.A.
Cast: Tristán Ulloa, Pablo Echarri
Origin: Spain
Budget: $ 1,5 m.
A gang of web surfing kids are looking
for extreme kicks some of which are
suicidal. It turns out they have been
victims of an evil manipulator.
L
LAKESHORE
INTERNATIONAL
Lakeshore International, 5555 Melrose
Avenue, Gloria Swanson Bldg. 4th Floor,
Hollywood, CA 90038, USA. Tel:
323.956.4222. Fax: 323.862.1456.
[email protected].
www.lakeshoreentertainment.com
At Cannes: Peter Rogers (President),
Virginia Longmuir (Senior Vice
President, International Business & Legal
Affairs and Operations), Robert Burke
(Vice President Worldwide Marketing),
Julie McLaughlin (Vice President
Worldwide Television), Elisabeth Costa
de Beauregard (Director, International
Sales), Bonnie X. Brocatto (Coordinator,
Office: Residence du Grand Hotel,
Cormoran II, 7th Floor, 45 Bvd de la
Croisette, 06400 Cannes. Tel:
04.93.99.85.04. Fax: 04.93.99.85.03
WICKER PARK
Psychological Drama
Director: Paul McGuigan
Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary
Lucchesi
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Matthew Lillard,
Rose Byrne, Diane Kruger
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
A psychological drama about a young
advertising executive (Hartnett) and his
obsessive search for a lost love.
UNDERWORLD
Action / Horror
Director: Len Wiseman
Lucchesi,
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman,
Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen, Shane Brolly
Romeo and Juliet if the Capulets were
vampires and the Montagues were
werewolves, UNDERWORLD is a
modern-day tale of forbidden love, set
against the ravages of an ancient and
bloodthirsty war between vampires and
werewolves.
THE HUMAN STAIN
Drama
Director: Robert Benton
Lucchesi, Scott Steindorff
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman,
Ed Harris, Gary Sinise.
A thought provoking drama about a
disgraced classics professor whose
defiant attitudes and affair with a
younger woman ultimately result in his
sudden death.
BULLETPROOF MONK
Action
Director: Paul Hunter
Producers: Charles Roven and Terence
Chang & John Woo
Executives Producers: Douglas Segal,
Kelley Smith-Wait, Michael Yanover,
Gotham Chopra, Caroline Macaulay
Cast: Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William
Scott, Jaime King, Karel Roden, Victoria
Smurfit
Status: Completed
For 60 years a mysterious monk with no
name has zigzagged the globe to protect
an ancient scroll - a scroll that holds the
key to unlimited power.
JUST A KISS
Romantic Comedy
Director: Fisher Stevens
Producers: Matthew Roland
Cast: Marisa Tomei, Kyra Sedgewick,
Ron Eldard, Marley Shelton, Taye Diggs
Status: Completed
An innocent kiss is more than best
friends can handle when infidelity
becomes a comic adventure into the dark
side of modern relationships.
LIGHTNING
ENTERTAINMENT
Lightning Entertainment, 1801 Avenue of
the Stars, Suite 1035, Los Angeles, CA
90067, USA Tel: 310.201.0980. Fax:
310.201.0852.
At Cannes: Richard S. Guardian
(President), Rich Goldberg (CoPresident)
Office: E4, Riviera T: +33 (0)4 92 99 32
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THE EVENT
Drama (112 mins)
Language: English
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Producer: Thom Fitzgerald, Bryan
Hofbauer
Cast: Parker Posey, Olympia Dukakis,
Sarah Polley, Don McKellar, Jane Leeves
and Brent Carver
Origin: Canada / US
THE EVENT is a bittersweet drama of
love, loss, and the amazing capacity we
have to prevail in the face of tragedy.
LUGARES COMUNES
Drama (110 mins)
Language: Spanish
Director: Adolfo Aristarain
Producer: Gerardo Herrero, Adolfo
Aristarain, Javier Lopez Blanco, Mariela
Besuievsky Cast: Federico Luppi,
Mercedes Sampietro, Arturo Puig
Origin: Spain
When Fernando is unexpectedly forced
into early retirement, this life changing
event shakes his calm and thoughtful
world.
ASHES & SAND
Drama (108 mins)
Language: English
Director: Bob Blagden
Producer: Andrew Holmes, Peter WatsonWood, Liam Badger, Nigel Thomas
Cast: Nick Moran, Lara Belmont,
Victoria Scarborough
Origin: UK
An ambitious and handsome detective
sergeant (Nick Moran) takes on the tough
contemporary world of teenage girl
gangs in Brighton.
AMANDLA!: A REVOLUTION IN
FOUR-PART HARMONY
www.amandla.com
Documentary (108 mins Language:
English)
Director: Lee Hirsch
Producer: Sherry Simpson, Desireé
Markgraaff, Lee Hirsch
Cast: Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela,
Abdullah Ibrahim
Origin: US
A soul stirring documentary that uses
exclusive interviews and rare, neverbefore-seen footage to document the vital
role that music played in the nearly halfcentury struggle against apartheid in
South Africa.
LAST PARTY 2000
Documentary (85 mins)
Language: English
Director: Rebecca Chaiklin, Donovan
Leitch
Producer: Rebecca Chaiklin, Stanley
Buchthal, Henri M. Kessler
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Susan
Sarandon, Robert Downey Jr.
Origin: US
With a fresh irreverent style, Last Party
2000 explores the state of democracy in
America, while chronicling the 2000 US
Presidential Election.
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Lions Gate Films International, Head
Office: 4553 Glencoe Ave., Suite 200,
Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA. Tel:
310.314.2000. Fax: 310.452.2670.
www.lionsgatefilms.com.
At Cannes: Nicolas Meyer (Co-President,
Lions Gate International), Sergei Yershov
(Co-President, Lions Gate International),
Peter Block President (Home
Entertainment, Acquisitions and New
Media), Tom Ortenberg (President,
Releasing), Ron Schwartz (Executive
Vice President, Home Video), Adam
Bialow (Vice President, International
Business and Legal Affairs)
Office: Riviera Booth # M1, Tel:
33.(0)4.92.99.32.18. Fax:
33.(0)4.92.99.32.25
GODSEND
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Nick Hamm
Executive Producers: Todd Wagner, Mark
Canton, Mark Cuban & Eric Kopeloff
Producers: Sean O’Keefe, Michael
Paseornek, Cathy Schulman & Marc
Butan
Cast: Robert DeNiro, Rebecca RomijnStamos & Greg Kinnear
Status: Production
A taut and gripping thriller about devoted
parents who turn to human cloning to
resurrect their murdered son. A doctor on
the forefront of genetic research leads the
couple into in the dangerous and deadly
experiment.
WONDERLAND
Drama
Language: English
Director: James Cox
Executive Producers: Michael Paseornek,
Marc Butan, Tom Ortenberg & Peter
Block
Producer: Holly Wiersma
Cast: Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth, Lisa
Kudrow, Josh Lucas & Carrie Fisher
Status: Production
The story of the drug related, 1981
Wonderland Avenue murders and the
primary suspect, porn king John Holmes.
SHATTERED GLASS
Drama
Language: English
Written and Directed by: Billy Ray
Executive Producers: Tom Cruise, Paula
Wagner & Michael Paseornek
Producers: Craig Baumgarten, Adam
Merims, Gaye Hirsch & Tove
Christensen
Cast: Hayden Christensen, Rosario
Dawson, Steve Zahn, Peter Sarsgaard,
Hank Azaria & Chloe Sevigny
Status: Post-Production
Based on an article in Vanity Fair,
Shattered Glass is the story of the rise
and fall of controversial political
journalist Steven Glass.
CONFIDENCE
Crime Thriller (98 minutes)
Language: English
Director: James Foley
Executive Producers: Eberhard Kayser,
Eric Kopeloff & Mario Ohoven
Producers: Marc Butan, Michael
Paseornek & Michael Ohoven
Cast: Edward Burns, Dustin Hoffman,
Andy Garcia, Rachel Weisz, Donal
Logue, Luis Guzman, Paul Giamatt &
Brian Van Holt
Status: Screening
Grifter Jake Vig and his team attempt the
con of a lifetime against a raging and
ruthless crime boss known as “The
King”.
CABIN FEVER
Horror (94 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Eli Roth
Executive Producers: Susan Jackson &
David Lynch
Producers: Evan Atrowsky, Sam Froelich,
Lauren Moews & Eli Roth
Cast: Jordan Ladd, Cerina Vincent, Rider
Strong & James DeBello
Status: Screening
A group of people are trapped in the
woods and methodically killed off by a
horrifying flesh eating disease.
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Company Type: Production & Sales
Company
At Cannes: Marina Fuentes, Will Machin
Office: 54 La Croisette, 2nd Floor, Tel:
33.(0).4.93.39.40.69. Marina Fuentes
Cell: 34.630.011.329. Will Machin Cell:
44.7899.796.263
SONG FOR A RAGGY BOY
Drama (93 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Aisling Walsh
Producer: Subotica Entertainment
Cast: Aidan Quinn, Iain Glen, Marc
Warren
Deliver Status: Completed - screening
origin: Ireland
Franklin (Aidan Quinn) returns to Ireland
after seeing his lover and best friend
murdered in the Spanish Civil war
against the fascist forces of General
Franco.
SALAMINA SOLDIERS (LOS
SOLDADOS DE SALAMINA)
Drama (120 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: David Trueba
Producer: Andres Vicente Gomez,
Cristina Huete
Cast: Ariadna Gil, Diego Luna, María
Botto
Delivery Status: Completed - Screening
origin: Spain
An unmotivated young writer finds her
inspiration whilst investigating the story
of an uncommon war hero. With the help
of an eccentric girlfriend, her voyage of
discovery uncovers forgotten memories
and unlocks her lost passion.
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STORMY WHEATHER (TIEMPO
DE TORMENTA)
Drama (87 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: Pedro Olea
Producer: Andres Vicente Gomez
Cast: Maribel Verdu, Jorge Sanz, Dario
Grandinetti, Maria Barranco
origin: Spain
Two couples with one destiny. Misplaced
hope leads to passion and betrayal in this
story of self-destruction. Their search for
resolution brings both hope and sadness
with stormy weather on the horizon.
OFF KEY (DIRECTOR´S CUT)
Comedy (100 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Manuel Gomez Pereira
Producer: Andrés Vicente Gomez
Cast: Joe Mantegna, Danny Aiello,
George Hamilton
Deliver Status: Completed - cassettes
available
origin: Spain
Ten years after their acrimonious split,
the world-famous three tenors are
reunited for what promises to be the
messiest wedding of the year. As old
hatreds surface, the world press gathers
to witness the chaos.
THE GREATEST ROBBERY EVER
(EL ROBO MÁS GRANDE JAMÁS
CONTADO)
Comedy (113 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: Daniel Monzón
Producer: Andres Vicente Gomez
Cast: Antonio Resines, Neus Asensi,
Manuel Manquiña, Javier Aller, Jaime
Barnatán
Delivery Status: Completed - cassettes
available
origin: Spain
Five of the world´s “finest” criminal
minds team up to plan the greatest, most
daring and most ridiculous robbery of all
time.
M
M6 - DROITS
AUDIOVISUELS
M6 - Droits Audiovisuels, 89 avenue
Charles-de-Gaulle, 92575 Neuilly-surSeine Cedex, France. Tel:
33.1.41.92.68.66. Fax: 33.1.41.92.68.69.
www.m6da.com
At Cannes: Laetitia de la Gravière
(Directrice Adjointe), Isabelle Drouart
(Directrice des ventes cinema)
Office: Riviera, Office K6
ASTERIX AND THE VIKINGS
BASED ON THE WORK OF RENÉ
GOSCINNY AND ALBERT
UDERZO
Animated feature film adaptated from
“Asterix and the Normans” (about 75’)
Language: French and English
Director: Stefan Fjeldmark
Producer: M6 Studio
Asterix and Obelix’s mission is to free
Goudurix before it is too late.
NOT FOR OR AGAINST QUITE
THE CONTRARY / NI POUR NI
CONTRE BIEN AU CONTRAIRE
Thriller (112’)
Language: French
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Producer: Aïssa Djabri, Farid Lahouassa,
Manuel Munz
Cast: Marie Gillain, Vincent Elbaz
Origin: France
A gang of young hoodlums have an easy
life pulling small time armed robberies.
One day, for the needs of a customer,
they enlist the services of a camera
operator, Caty, to film their
achievements. But does the gang really
trust her?
ANYTHING YOU SAY / MON
IDOLE
Thriller (112’)
Language: French
Director: Guillaume Canet
Producer: Alain Attal
Cast: Guillaume Canet, François
Berléand, Diane Kruger, Jean Rochefort
Origin: France
A TV show entitled “It is tissue time”
has a big success. Jean-Louis Broustal is
the idol of Bastien, 28.
IRENE
Comedy (98’)
Language: French
Director: Ivan Calbérac
Producer: Thierry de Navacelle
Cast: Cécile de France, Bruno Putzulu,
Olivier Sitruk, Patrick Chesnais
Origin: France
Rather pretty, Irene has everything to be
happy. But every time she meets
someone, it’s a real disaster... Which
means that aged thirty, Irene is still
unmarried...It’s time things changed!
MAGIC MEDIA INC.
Magic Media Inc., Róna u. 174.
Budapest, H-1145, Hungary. Tel:
36.1.422.3150. Fax: 36.1.252.8942.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Peter Barbalics (CEO Producer), Csaba Tör? (Executive
Producer), Erika Tarr (Line Producer),
Krisztina Holló (Associate Producer)
Office: H4 Riviera
FATELESS
www.fateless.com
Drama (120 min)
Language: Hungarian
Director: Lajos Koltai
Co-Production Partners: Kasander Film
Producer: Peter Barbalics
Budget: 10 million Euro
Year of Production: 2003-2004, Country
of Origin: Hungary
The path of a child’s soul, which
inescapably leads through the holocaust
universe
MAINLINE
RELEASING
MEMORIES OF MURDER - CJ ENTERTAINMENT
Mainline Releasing, 1801 Avenue of The
Stars, Suite 1035 Los Angeles, CA 90067
USA. Tel: 310.286.1001. Fax:
310.286.0530.
[email protected].
www.mainlinereleasing.com
At Cannes: Rich Goldberg (President),
Tannaz Anisi (Vice President,
Office: E4, Tel: 011.33.4.92.99.32.15
SIMPLE REVENGE
Thriller (90 mins)
Director: Brain Averill
Producer: Josh Eggleston
Cast: Frank Avoleita, Mellissa Picarello,
Holly Perkins, Anne Hawthorne, Andrew
Garman
Delivery Status: New & Completed
A psychological thriller where nothing is
as it appears. A woman denied a
promotion kills her boss, frames the
husband and all the while turning the
tables on the police.
JACK THE DOG
Comedy/Drama (90 mins)
Director: Bobby Roth
Producer: Bobby Roth, Jeff White
Cast: Nestor Carbonell, Barbara
Williams, Andrew F. Ferchland, Peter
Coyote, Anthony Paglia, Jurgen
Prochnow
A love story about a womanizer who
discovers true love. Unfortunately, that
often ends in pain, but the child of that
union can sometimes be the most perfect
love of all.
CHOOSING MATTHIAS
Family/Drama (90 mins)
Director: Caia Coley
Producer: Michael Feifer, Tamara
Seymour
Cast: Jeff Fahey, Caia Coley, Dylan
Kasch, Bo Hopkins
A young couple struggle to keep their
lives intact after tragically losing their
son. They find the sorrow impossible
until they meet a young boy, Matthias,
who has also tragically lost his family.
DESCENDANT
Thriller (90 mins)
Director: Kermit Christman; Del Tenney
Producer: Del Tenney, Kermit Christman,
Joyce North
Cast: Katherine Heigl (Valentine,
Roswell), Jeremy London (Gods And
Generals, Party Of Five)
The curse of Edgar Allen Poe is haunting
and deadly as his young descendant,
Ethan Poe, tries to survive his nightmares
and live a modern, normal life as a bestselling novelist.
ISLAND PREY
Romantic Thriller (90 mins)
Director: William Riead
Producer: Lorey Barton, Lisa Riead, Jack
Green, William Riead
Cast: Olivia Hussey (Saving Grace,
Tortilla Heaven), Don Murray (Mr.
Headmistress, Hearts Adrift), Anthony
Dennison (Rocket’s Red Glare, Skelton
Woman), Ed Asner
A momentary indiscretion results in a
nightmarish obsession as a woman fights
for her marriage and her life.
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OF F ILM ’ S
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MDP WORLDWIDE
MDP Worldwide, 1875 Century Park
East, Suite 2000, Los Angeles CA 90067
USA. Tel: 310.226.8300. Fax:
310.226.8350.
At Cannes: Mark Damon (Chairman and
CEO), Sammy Lee (Vice Chairman),
Stewart Hall (Board Member), Richard
Kiratsoulis (President and COO), Reiko
Bradley (Exec. Vice President
Distribution), Tatyana Joffe (Vice
President, Administrative Affairs)
Office: The Riviera - Office M14
BEYOND THE SEA
Musical Drama
Director: Kevin Spacey
Producer: Kevin Spacey, Arthur E.
Friedman, Mark Damon, Sammy Lee
Exec. Producer: Stewart Hall, Joanne
Horowitz
Cast: Kevin Spacey
The story of singer Bobby Darin, who
was told that he would not live past his
late teens due to a severe heart condition.
10 AGAIN
Romantic Comedy
Director: Blake Edwards
Producer: Jeffrey Edwards, John
Michaels, Mark Damon, Sammy Lee
Exec. Producer: Stewart Hall, Jeffrey
Tinnell
While waiting at a stop sign George
Webber sees an incredibly beautiful
woman on her way to be married. Rating
her the ultimate “10” which he’s never
done before, George becomes obsessed
with her perfection and the dream of
happiness she represents.
MONSTER
Drama
Director: Patty Jenkins
Producers: Charlize Theron, Donald
Kushner, Brad Wyman, Sammy Lee,
Mark Damon
Exec. Producer: Stewart Hall, Andreas
Cast: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci,
Bruce Dern, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Status: Post Production, Promo screening
in Cannes
Based on the true story of serial murderer
Aileen Wournos.
11:14
Black Comedy
Director: Greg Marcks
Producers: Beau Flynn, John Morrissey
Exec. Producer: Hilary Swank, Mark
Damon, Sammy Lee, Tripp Vinson, Raju
Patel, David Scott Rubin
Cast: Hilary Swank, Rachael Leigh
Cook, Patrick Swayze, Barbara Hershey,
Colin Hanks, Henry Thomas, Ben Foster.
status: screening in Cannes
Location for the
23RD year
The Carlton Hotel
Room 149
11:14 tells the seemingly random yet
vitally connected story of a set of
incidents that all converge one evening at
11:14pm.
GEORGE AND THE DRAGON
Drama
Director: Tom Reeve
Producers: Romain Schroeder, Todd
Moyer
Exec. Producer: Michael Burks, Frank
Huebner, Jeremy Saunders
Co-Producer: Jan Fantl
Cast: James Purefoy, Piper Perabo,
Patrick Swayze, Michael Clarke Duncan
George, a handsome English knight
desires to hang up his sword and settle
down to a quiet, peaceful life. On
returning to England, George finds King
Edgaar in a terrible state.
MEDIA ASIA GROUP
Media Asia Group, 24/F Causeway Bay
Plaza II, 463-483 Lockhart Road,
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Tel:
852.2314.4288. Fax: 852.2314.4248.
[email protected],
www.mediaasia.com
At Cannes: Jeffrey Chan (Head of
Distribution (Distribution/Sales – Tel:
852.2302.3894. Mobile: 852.9278.8888.
Fax: 852.2314.4247), Ricky Tse
(Assistant General Manager,
Distribution/Sales, Tel: 852.2302.3819.
Mobile: 852.9018.6578. Fax:
852.2314.4247), Frederick Tsui (Coproduction & Distribution – Tel:
852.2302.3810. Mobile: 852.9463.3446.
Fax: 852.2314.4248)
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INFERNAL AFFAIRS 2
Action Drama
Directors: Andrew LAU, Alan MAK
Producers: TBC
Main cast: Edison CHEN, Shawn YUE
and Anthony WONG
A prequel to Hong Kong’s hottest cop
thriller Infernal Affairs about a Triad’s
mole in the police vying with an
undercover cop in the Triads.
INFERNAL AFFAIRS 3
Action Drama
Directors: Andrew LAU, Alan MAK
Producers: TBC
Main cast: Andy LAU, Tony LEUNG,
Leon LAI, Kelly CHEN
Status In development
TIME BREAKER (WORKING
TITLE)
Action Comedy
Director: Stanley TONG
Producer: TBC
Main cast: Jackie CHAN
Status: In development
Jackie Chan fights across India and
China tracing a mythical gem, and
crosses path with his previous life in this
Stanley Tong-helmed actioner.
SILVER HAWK
Action
Director: Jingle MA
Producer: Thomas CHUNG, Michelle
YEOH
Main cast: Michelle YEOH, Richie JEN,
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C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
101
Brandon CHANG
Status: In development
Set in the near future, Michelle Yeoh
(The Touch) is a philanthropist fighting
for justice with a Zorro alter ego.
NO LONELY ANGELS
Drama (92 min)
Director: ZHANG Fanfan
Producer: YU Jiaen
Main cast: XIE Xiaodong, TAO Hong,
GUO Tao, LI Xiaoran
Status: Completed
Country of origin: China
The stories of a business man, his
girlfriend, a college student, and a
policeman entangle in the most
unexpected ways in modern Beijing.
MEDIA LUNA
Media Luna Entertainment GmbH & Co.
KG, Hochstadenstrasse 1-3, 50674
Cologne, Germany. [email protected]. Tel: 49.221.139.22.22.
Fax: 49.221.139.22.24
At Cannes: Ida Martins (CEO), Andrea
Breitkreuz (Sales Manager), Andrew
Chang (Sales Manager), Heike Krieg
(Sales & Marketing Manager)
Office: J 10, Tel: 33.4.92.99.82.02. Cell:
49.172.261.74.61
KILL ME TENDER
(89’)
by Ramón de España
Original Language: Spanish
Cast: Ingrid Rubio, Alberto San Juan,
Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Manuel
Manquiña
Country of Origin: Spain, Year of
Production: 2003
Recently widowed, Nestor has become
infatuated with Maribel, his cleaning
lady’s daughter and wants to legalize
their relationship at the earliest
opportunity.
JAGODA IN THE SUPERMARKET
(82’)
by Dusan Milic
Cast: Branka Katic, Srdjan Todorovic,
Dubravka Mijatovic, Danilo Lazovic,
Goran Radakovic, Mirjana Karanovic
Country of Origin: Serbia-Germany-Italy,
Branka Katic plays Jagoda
(“Strawberry”) a checkout girl at the
brand-new “Yugo-American”
supermarket in some unnamed Serbian
town.
THREE AND A HALF
(87’)
by Boris Mojsovski
Original Language: English
Cast: Kim Huffman, Don Allison,
Barbara Gordon, Walter Alza, Santino
Buda
Country of Origin: Canada, Year of
Production: 2002
Three artists, a writer, a director, and a
painter, imagine three separate stories of
yearning and loneliness that feature a
group of subway passengers with
different roles in each artist’s saga.
THREE DAYS OF RAIN
(98’)
by Michael Meredith
Original Language: English
Cast: Don Meredith, Michael Santoro,
Joey Bilow, Peter Falk, Merle Kennedy,
Erick Avari, Lile Lovett
Country of Origin: USA, Year of
Production: 2002
Three wet days in Cleveland, Ohio.
Michael Meredith’s debut as a director is
a film inspired by six short stories by
Anton Chekov, portraying everyday
conflicts in the lives of ordinary people.
THE TENTH SUMMER
Family Feature Film (90 min)
by Jörg Grünler
Starring Martin Stührk, Michelle Barthel,
Kai Wiesinger, Katharina Böhm
Country of Origin: Germany, Year of
Production: 2003
An entertaining family film about love,
moral and friendship seen trough the
eyes of the 9-years-old boy Kalli.
MEI AH FILM
PRODUCTION CO.,
LTD.
Mei Ah Film Production Co., Ltd., Mei
Ah Centre, 28, Chun Choi Street, Tseung
Kwan O Industrial Estate, Kowloon,
Hong Kong. Tel: 852.2751.3388. Fax:
852.2623.9880. www.meiah.com
distributor
At Cannes: Kenny Chau (Executive
BLIND HORIZON - NUIMAGE
Director), Sara Law (Assistant
Distribution Manager), Celia Wong
(Assistant Programme Manager),
Acquisition Executive: Kenny Chau
(Executive Director), Celia Wong
(Assistant Programme Manager)
Office:
PTU
Character Drama (90 min)
Language: Cantonese
Director: Johnnie To
Producer: Johnnie To Co-production
partners:
Cast: Simon Yam, Lam Suet, Ruby
Wong, Maggie Shiu
Origin: HK
The elite PTU ( Police Tactical Unit)
patrols a derelict harbor area, as
gangsters and punks roam the night.
MERCURE
INTERNATIONAL
Mercure International, 6 rue de l’Ecole
de Médecine 75006 Paris, France. Tel:
33.153.103.398. Fax: 33.153.103.399.
[email protected]
Company Type: sales company
specialized in European author movies.
At Cannes: Nicolas BRIGAUD-ROBERT
(Head of Sales), François YON (Head of
Sales), Didar DOMEHRI (International
Sales)
Office: Riviera K5/L8, Tel:
33.492.998.836. Fax: 33.492.998.839
VIRGIN OF LUST
Drama (140 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Arturo RIPSTEIN
Producer: Alvaro Garnica, Mate Cantero,
Mate Production, Tusitala, Iberautor,
Producciones Amaranta, Fado Films
Cast: Felipe TOVAR, Ariadna GIL, Juan
DIEGO
Origin: Spain
The 40’s, Mexico. Ignacio Jurado, “ El
Mikado” is a waiter, rather reserved and
lonely. Nevertheless, everything changes
when Lola (Ariadna Gil), a Spanish
prostitute of a certain self-destructive and
unpredictable tenderness bursts in his
life.
A NATION WITHOUT WOMEN
Drama (94 min)
Language: Indian
Director: Manish Jhâ
Producer: Ex Nihilo / SMG Production,
Patrick SOBELMAN (Ex Nihilo),
Nicolas BLANC (Ex Nihilo), Punkej
KHARABANDA (SMG Production)
Co-production partners: Gimages Films /
Diaphana Films
Cast: Tulip Joshi, Sudhir Pandey, Piyush
Mishra
Origin: India
In the land where women are worshipped
as goddesses, thousands of cases of
female infanticide go unreported every
year. A practise which has led to an
alarming fall in the ratio of men to
women.
STORMY WEATHER
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Solveig ANSPACH
Producer: Patrick SOBELMAN (Ex
Nihilo)
Co-production partners: Jean-Pierre et
Luc DARDENNE (Films du fleuve),
Baltasar KORMAKUR (Blue Eyes)
Cast: Elodie BOUCHEZ, Sigurlaug
JONSDOTTIR, Christophe SERMET
Origin: Iceland, France
MEXICAN FILM
INSTITUTE
Mexican Film Institute, Insurgentes Sur
674 Del Valle, Mexico City, 03100,
Mexico. Tel: 5255. 54.48.53.39
Fax: 5255. 54.48.53.80.
[email protected],
www.imcine.gob.mx
Company Type: Government Institute
At Cannes: Mr. Alfredo Joskowicz.
(General Director IMCINE), Mrs. Susana
López Aranda (Managing Director
International Promotion & Sales)
Office: STAND MECLA C-4, Tel :
04.92993341
LA PASIÓN DE MARÍA ELENA
(THE PASSION OF MARÍA ELENA)
Documentary (76 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Mercedes Moncada
Producer: Mercedes Moncada, Javier
Moron
Co-production partners: Chango films,
CONACULTA, IMCINE, U de G
Delivery Status: (completed)
Origin: Mexico
About a Raramuri woman from Mexico’s
Tarahumara mountain and her struggle
for justice when her son is killed when
he is run over by a white woman.
MIL NUBES DE PAZ CERCAN EL
CIELO (A THOUSAND CLOUDS OF
PEACE FENCE THE SKY)
Drama (80 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Julián Hernández
Producer: Roberto Fiesco
Co-production partners: Mil nubes-Ciney
Cooperativa Cinematográfica Morelos;
with the support of CONACULTA,
IMCINE, FONCA, Dirección General de
Actividades Cinematográficas de la
UNAM, Fundaciones MacArthur
Rockefeller, Technikos Post, Titán
Producciones.
Cast: Juan Carlos Ortuño, Juan Carlos
Torres, Perla de la Rosa
Origin: Mexico
For seven days, Gerardo, a teenage
homosexual roams the streets of Mexico
City in search of someone able to reveal
the secret hidden between the lines of a
goodbye letter.
LA CANCIÓN DEL PULQUE
(PULQUE SONG)
Language: Spanish
Director: Everardo González
Producer: Ángeles Castro, Hugo
Rodríguez
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
Co-production partners: CCC, IMCINE,
FONCA, PADID
Cast: Delivery Status: (completed)
Origin: Mexico
A portrait of daily life in La Pirata, a
pulque bar. A Portrait of its parishioners.
A tribute to pulque, to the people who
drink pulque, to ranchero music and the
barrio.
RECUERDOS (REMEMBRANCE)
Language: Spanish
Director: Marcela Arteaga
Producer: Ángeles Castro, Hugo
Rodríguez, Gustavo Montiel
Co-production partners: CONACULTA,
IMCINE, CCC, ECHASA
Origin: Mexico
A documentary story of people whose
lives are linked by ruptures such as the
Spanish Civil War, the Second World
War; people who have traveled around
the world in search of a place they can
belong.
MIFF-FILM
FESTIVAL
INTERNAZIONALE
DI MILANO
MIFF-Film Festival Internazionale Di
Milano, V.le Famagosta, 19, 20142 –
Milano, Italy. Tel: 39.02.8918.1179 /
02.5740.3738. Fax: 39.02.8912.5683.
USA: 2014 N Sycamore Avenue, 2nd flr
Hollywood, CA 90068-3736. Tel:
323.512.4450. Fax. 323.512.4484.
www.miffmilanofestival.com
Company Type: Film Festival
At Cannes: Andrea Galante (Director)
Office: Tel: 39.335.442.332 /
310.266.4252
MIRAMAX
INTERNATIONAL
Miramax International, 99 Hudson
Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10013
USA. Tel: 212.219.4100. Fax:
212.941.3836.
At Cannes: Rick Sands (COO, Miramax
Films), Edward Noeltner (Senior Vice
President, Distribution and Sales,
Miramax International), Marc Bunag
(Vice President, Creative Marketing,
Miramax International), Mark Lindsay
(Vice President, International
Distribution, Miramax International), Jill
Silfen (Vice President, Business and
Legal Affairs, Miramax International),
Lisa Lazure (Director, International
Publicity, Miramax International)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Salle Royan, 14,
La Croisette, Cannes, France. Tel:
04.97.06.85.00. Fax: 04.97.06.85.04
THE BATTLE OF SHAKER
HEIGHTS
Drama
Language: English
Director: Efram Potelle, Kyle Rankin
Producers: Chris Moore, Jeff Balis
Cast: Shia Laboeuf, Amy Smart, Elden
Henson, Anson Mount, Shiri Appleby
with Kathleen Quinlan and William
Sadler
The second Project Greenlight winner
from producers Matt Damon and Ben
Affleck. In many ways, Kelly Ernswiler
is your average shy 18 year old looking
to fit in and meet girls.
JERSEY GIRL
Comedy/Drama
Language: English
Director: Kevin Smith
Producer: Scott Mosier
Cast: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Liv
Tyler, George Carlin, and Jason Biggs,
introducing Raquel Castro.
Oscar winner Ben Affleck and Jennifer
Lopez star in this new romantic comedy
from writer/director Kevin Smith about a
smooth-talking public relations executive
who meets his match in an intelligent
and sexy young woman.
ELLA ENCHANTED
Fantasy
Language: English
Director: Tommy O’Haver
Producer: Jane Startz
Exec. Producer: Su Armstrong
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, Cary
Elwes, Vivica A. Fox, Joanna Lumley,
with Minnie Driver and Eric Idle
In this thoroughly modern fairytale, a
young and beautiful girl finds herself the
victim of an evil spell where she must
obey every command of those around
her.
THE GREAT RAID
Action Adventure/War Drama
Language: English
Director: John Dahl
Producers: Marty Katz, Lawrence Bender
Cast: Benjamin Bratt, James Franco,
Connie Nielsen, and Joseph Fiennes
From acclaimed director John Dahl (The
Last Seduction and Rounders) comes this
true story of a determined nurse, the man
who loved her, and the war that kept
them apart.
MODERN
ENTERTAINMENT
Modern Entertainment, 16255 Ventura
Blvd., Suite 1100, Encino, California
91436, USA. Tel: 818.386.0444. Fax:
818.728.8294.
At Cannes: Michael Weiser (President &
CEO), Ken DuBow (Sr. VP, Worldwide
Sales), Allyson Hall (VP, International
Sales), Leah Marks (Director,
International Sales), Andy Schreiber
(Consultant); Acquisition Executive: Ken
DuBow (Senior Vice President,
Worldwide Sales)
Office: Stand M8 (Riviera), Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.17
LIQUID BRIDGE
Action/Adventure (100 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Phil Avalon
Producer: Phil Avalon
Cast: Ryan Kwanten, Simone Kessell,
Jeremy Sims, Jarrod Dean
Origin: Australia
Budget: $3 million
A young man attempting to become a
professional surfer faces drug-smugglers
and his own fears.
FEAR OF SPEED
Language: English
Director: Jeff Centauri
Producer: Jeff Centauri
Cast: Dale Rutter, Ada Mae Johnson,
Alex Torre
Origin: USA
Budget: $750,000
Fast Cars, Furious Fights, Explosive
Action and Hot Girls!
RAQUEL BITTON SINGS EDITH
PIAF, HER STORY...HER SONGS
Documentary (97 minutes)
Language: English/French
Director: George Elder
Producer: George Elder
Cast: Raquel Bitton
Origin: USA/France
Budget: $1 million
A tribute to Edith Piaf through the
power, passion & awe-inspiring voice of
Raquel Bitton.
THE PACT
Language: English
Director: Strath Hamilton
Producer: Phil Avalon
Cast: Robert Mammone, Sigrid
Thornton, Peter O’Brien
Origin: Australia
Budget: $3 million
Fifteen years ago they made a
promise...that now may kill them all.
CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES
Drama (88 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Eric Byler
Producer: Eric Byler
Cast: Michael Idemoto, Jacqueline Kim,
Eugenia Yuan
Origin: USA
Budget: $500,000
A triangle of friendship, love and
deception tangles the lives of an auto
mechanic and the two women in his life.
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)
Office: The Carlton Intercontinental,
Suite 120/121, Tel: 04.93.06.41.21 or
04.93.06.68.21.
THE PROMISE
Director: Chen Kaige
Producers: Chen Hong, Chen Kaige, Han
San Ping, Etchie Stroh
Status: Start Principal Photography Fall
2003
Cntry of Origin: China
What is Destiny? Is it war, love or a
dream? A General, a Princess and a slave
entangled in a story about War, Love, and
Dream.
TOGETHER
Drama
Director: Chen Kaige
Producers: Ton Gang, Chen Hong
Cntry of Origin: China
Principal Cast: Tang Yun, Liu Peiqi,
Chen Hong, Wang Zhiwen, Chen Kaige,
Cheng Qian, Zhang Qing, Kim Hairi, Liu
Bing
Status: Completed
Thirteen-year-old Xiaochun goes with his
father to Beijing to study the violin.
There he meets Lili his first love, first
source of heartbreak and first true friend.
IN THE COMPANY OF HEROES
Action
Director: Allan A. Goldstein
Producers: Allan A. Goldstein, Etchie
Stroh, Martin Myers, Luciano Lisi
Principal Cast: N/A
Cntry of Origin: Canada/UK
Status: pre-production, shooting summer
2003 in Hong Kong
A double agent walks a tightrope
between villain and hero, set against
intrigue and espionage in Hong Kong
and the jungles of South East Asia.
THE TOOLBOX MURDERS
Thriller
Director: Tobe Hooper
Producers: Tony DiDio
ALEX & EMMA - FRANCHISE PICTURES
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
103
Cntry of Origin: U.S.
Evil lurks inside the Lusman Building: a
ruthless madman who uses drills, saws
and claw hammers to murder his victims.
EXTREME CLOSE UP
Thriller
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Producers: Geoff Garrett, Sean S.
Cunningham
Principal Cast: Sarah Chalke, C. Thomas
Howell, Jay Michael Ferguson
Status: completed
Cntry of Origin: U.S.A.
A reality TV show gets a boost in ratings
when a mysterious “accident” claims one
of the cast. As one member after another
is murdered, the show takes reality to an
EXTREME.
MORGAN CREEK
INTERNATIONAL
Morgan Creek International, 4000
Warner Boulevard, Building 76, Burbank,
CA 91522 USA. Tel: 818.954.4800. Fax:
818.954.4990. www.Morgancreek.com
At Cannes: James G. Robinson
(Chairman/CEO), Howard Kaplan
(CFO), Jonathan Deckter (VP
International)
Office: Martinez Hotel - Suite 620, Tel:
33.4.92.98.73.00. Tel: 33.4.93.39.67.82.
MOTION PICTURE
CORPORATION OF
AMERICA
Motion Picture Corporation of America,
1401 Ocean Avenue Suite # 301 Santa
Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel:
310.319.9500. Fax: 310-319-9501.
[email protected]. www.mpcafilm.com
Company Type: Producer, Distributor
At Cannes: Brad Krevoy(Chairman &
CEO), Sigrid Ann Davison (President of
International – mobile: 06.22.67.17.08),
Victoria Nevinny (Sr. VP Marketing –
mobile: 06.22.67.17.12), Francisco
Gonzalez (Manager, International Sales
and Marketing – mobile: 06.22.67.17.09)
Office: Majestic Hotel Suite 114, Tel:
04.97.06.85.33. Fax: 04.97.06.85.89
BLAST
Action
Language: English
Director: Anthony Hickox
Producer: Brad Krevoy, David Lancaster,
Klaus Rettig, Gerhard Schmidt.
Cast: Eddie Griffin, Beckin Meyer,
Vinnie Jones, Vivica A. Fox, Soup,
Shaggy
Origin: USA
Budget: US$20,000,000
A terrorist posing as environmentalist
hijacks an oilrig off the coast of
California with the intent of detonating
an electromagnetic bomb over the US.
BOOKIES
Dramatic Thriller (92 min.)
Language: English
Director: Mark Illsley
Producer: Alan Greenstone, Sabine
Mueller, Paul Greenstone, Gerhard
Schmidt, Andrea Kreuzhage, Brad
Krevoy.
Cast: Nick Stahl, Rachel Leigh Cook,
Lukas Haas, Johnny Galecki
Year of Production: 2002, Country: USA
Budget: US$15,000,000
A dramatic thriller about friendship and
loyalty set against the backdrop of two of
the most lucrative illegal activities around
the world- sports gambling on college
campuses and student run booking
making operations.
BARELY LEGAL
Comedy (93 min.)
Language: English
Director: David Mickey Evans
Producer: Brad Krevoy, Klaus Rettig,
David Kirkpatrick.
Cast: Erik Von Detten, Tom Arnold, Amy
Smart, Horacio Sanz, Sarah Jane Potts.
Country: USA
Budget: 15,000,000
A raucous teen comedy about a group of
teen-agers who cook up a misguided
scheme to meet girls and make moneyproduce an adult film.
DRACULA 3000
Sci-fi/ Horror
Language: English
Director/ Writer: Darell James Roodt
Producer: Brad Krevoy, David Lancaster,
LIFE TIDES - AURUM
David Wicht
Delivery Status: Production
Country: USA
Budget: US$4,000,000
Dracula returns in the year 3000 to
terrorize the crew of an intergalactic
spaceship in this new twist on the classic
horror legend.
BOAT TRIP
Comedy (95 min.)
Language: English
Director/ Writer: Mort Nathan
Producer: Brad Krevoy, Gerhard
Schmidt, Frank Huebner, Sabine Mueller
Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Horatio Sanz,
Vivica A. Fox, Roselyn Sanchez.
Country: USA
Budget: US$25,000,000
Hilarious comedy about two guys who
find fun, romance and adventure on a
Mediterranean vacation boat cruise.
MOVIEHOUSE
ENTERTAINMENT
Moviehouse Entertainment, 9 Grafton
Mews, London, W1T 5HZ, UK. Tel:
44.20.7380.3999. Fax: 44.20.7380.3998.
[email protected].
www.moviehouseent.com
At Cannes: Gary Phillips (Managing
Director), Mark Vennis (Managing
Director), Claire Battersby (Director of
Marketing & Publicity); Acquisition
Executive: Mark Vennis
Office: 55 la Croisette, 4th Floor, Tel:
04.93.43.80.65
AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A
SERIAL KILLER
Language: English
Director: Nick Broomfield & Joan
Churchill
Producer: Jo Human
Cast: Aileen Wuornos
Origin: UK
Claimed to be the first female serial
killer, Wuornos grants documentary
filmmaker Nick Broomfield her final
interview.
THE RAGE IN PLACID LAKE
Comedy (90 mins)
Language: English
Director: Tony McNamara
Producer: Marian Macgowan
Cast: Ben Lee, Rose Byrne, Miranda
Richardson
Origin: Australia
For anyone who ever felt different... your
hero has arrived.
FEAR X
Drama (91 mins)
Language: English
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Producer: Henrik Danstrup
Cast: John Turturro, James Remar,
Deborah Kara Unger
Origin: Denmark/UK
Murder. Obsession. Search. Truth.
LIVE FOREVER
Language: English
Director: John Dower
Producer: John Battsek
Cast: Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher,
Jarvis Cocker, Damon Albarn
Origin: UK
A life-affirming celebration of the
Britpop scene.
BLIND FLIGHT
Drama
Language: English
Director: John Furse
Producer: Sally Hibbin
Cast: Ian Hart, Linus Roache
Delivery Status: post-production
Origin: UK
From darkness to light. From despair to
hope. From solitude to the greatest
friendship of their lives. An epic true
story.
MOVIEVENTURES
LTD.
MovieVentures Ltd., Hill House, 1 Little
New Street, London, EC4A 3TR, UK. Tel:
44.207.493.7920. Fax: 44.207.493.8088.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Martin Katz, Karen Cuccaro,
Andrew Luff; Acquisition Executive:
Martin Katz
Office: Riviera K-1, Tel: 04.92.99.88.42
ANIMAL FARM
Animation (74 min)
Language: English
Directors: John Halas and Joy Batchelor
Producers: John Halas and Joy Batchelor
for De Rochemont Films
Year of Production: 1954 (classic, fully
restored)
Captures the spirit of Orwell’s timeless
political allegory in classic animation;
fully restored in superb colour and detail
from its original negative.
FREE ZONE
Drama
Language: English, French
Director: Connie Kaiserman
Producers: Merchant Ivory, Black Swan,
MovieVentures
Country of Origin: UK, France
True story of an English banker jailed by
French customs for transporting Nazi
gold that is linked to the most heinous
crime in WWII France.
WRECK OF THE EDMUND
FITZGERALD
Drama
Language: English
Producer: Martin J. Katz
Country of Origin: US, Canada, UK
Based on the actual events of the
devastating and deadly sinking of the
Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew in a
brutal storm on Lake Superior.
L.A. Office Phone
(323) 935-8228
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
ROCK N’ ROLL SUSHI
Music
Language: English, Japanese
Producer: MovieVentures
Country of Origin: UK, Japan
Rockumentary on the merging of
Japanese and American cultures from
WWII to the present.
MR INTERNATIONAL
FILM SALES
MR International Film Sales, 1 Westland
Square, Pearse Street, Dublin 2. Ireland.
Tel: 353.1.8814010. Fax: 353.1.8814011.
[email protected]
Company Type: Sales agent, Producer
At Cannes: Michael Ryan(Managing
Director), Gareth Jones (Sales
Consultant), Mary Clare Curran (Sales
Executive), Emma Scott (Producer),
Patrick O’Neill (Sales Assistant)
Office: 23 Criossette/23 rue Macet, Top
Floor, 06400 Cannes, Tel:
353.87.924.8880
MYSTICS
Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: David Blair
Producer: Mark O’Sullivan, Nigel
Warren Green
Co-production partners: MR Films &
Murphia Pictures
Cast: David Kelly, Milo O’Shea, Maria
Doyle Kennedy, Liam Cunningham
Origin: Ireland
David Kelly and Milo O’Shea scam a
living by assisting the widows of Dublin
in communing with their departed.
Unexpectedly our heroes make contact
with a dead gangster and reluctantly
become his earthly accomplices.
TIMBUKTU
Road Movie
Language: English
Director: Alan Gilsenan
Producer: John McDonnell, Martin
Mahon, Emma Scott
Co-production partners: Yellow Asylum,
Fantastic Films, MR Films
Cast: Eva Birthistle, Karl Geary, George
Papadjackos
Origin: Ireland
Budget: $1 million
Eva Birthistle (SALTWATER,
BORSTAL BOY) and Karl Geary (SEX
AND THE CITY) are Isobel and Deecy,
two childhood friends tightly bonded by
their childhood near death experience in
Ireland.
London Head Office
41-42 Berners St.
London WIT 3NB
Los Angeles Office
5150 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles
California 90036
MULTIMEDIA
CORPORATION
INTERNATIONAL,
INC
Multimedia Corporation International,
Inc, (Production Office): 19360 Rinaldi
St. #342, Porter Ranch, CA 91326 USA.
Tel: 818.368.0817. Fax: 818.368.1817.
[email protected].
mcmultimedia.de
At Cannes: Karin Thome (President),
Joseph G. Geissler (Director), Ricardo
Gaona (Vice President Acquistions)
Office: Tel: 0049.171.273.9070
JAGUAR
Producer : Karin Thome, MMC
Inc.,USA, Joseph Geissler MCM,
Germany
A beautiful treasure hunter and a drug
lord fight for their lives when they
encounter the mystical Jaguar people
deep inside the heart of the Amazon.
TWIN SOUL
Director: Karin Thome
Producer: Karin Thome, MMC Inc.,
USA, Joseph Geissler MCM Germany
A voodoo curse threatens the life of a
woman who is alerted by her son; Her
son who has been dead for 3 years.
PSYCHOSPHERE
USA,Joseph Geissler MCM Germany
Two kids must face their greatest fears
when their parents fall into the hands of
the evil ruler of ‘The Psychosphere’.
EMPIRE OF ASHES
Director: Ricky Gaona
Producer: Karin Thome,MMC Inc., USA,
Joseph Geissler, MCM Germany
A Punk Rock love story for those left
burning inside the margins.
TACOS AL CARBON
USA, Joseph Geissler, MCM Germany
An unexpected romance between a
Senate candidate and a Mexican
bullfighter.
MYRIAD PICTURES
Myriad Pictures, 405 S. Beverly Drive,
5th Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 USA.
Tel: 310.279.4000. Fax: 310.279.4001
At Cannes: Kirk D’Amico (President),
Eric Christenson (Executive Vice
President, Sales & Distribution), Sam
Horley (Senior Vice President,
International Distribution), Alice Weston
(Sales Executive), Lucas Foster
(President of Production), Marion
Pilowsky (Head of International
Production)
Office: Imperial Suite, Carlton Hotel, 58
La Croisette BP 155, 06400 Cannes
Cedex. Tel: 33.(0).4.93.43.6692. Fax:
33.(0).4.93.43.8281
TRAUMA
Supernatural Thriller
Director: Marc Evans
Producers: Jonathan Cavendish, Nicky
Kentish Barnes
Cast: Colin Firth, Mena Suvari
A man visits a spiritualist after his wife’s
tragic death, only to be given the chilling
news that she might still be alive.
BEING JULIA
Drama
Director: Istvan Szabo
Producers: Robert Lantos
Cast: Annette Bening
A celebrated actress embarks on a secret
and passionate affair with her son’s best
friend, until she realizes he has an
ulterior motive.
EULOGY
Comedy
Director: Michael Clancy
Executive Producers: Lucas Foster, Rory
Rosegarten, Shelly Glasser, Jonas
McCord, Kendall Morgan, Bo Hyde
Producers: Steven Haft, Kirk D’Amico,
Richard Lewis
Cast: Hank Azaria, Jesse Bradford,
Zooey Deschanel, Famke Janssen, Kelly
Preston, Ray Romano, Debra Winger
Status: Post-production
A young girl finds herself amidst a
comical frenzy when three generations of
a dysfunctional family reunite for her
grandfather’s funeral.
KINSEY
Biopic
Director: Bill Condon
Executive Producers: Francis Ford
Coppola, Bobby Rock, Kirk D’Amico,
Lucas Foster
Producers: Gail Mutrux
Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney
In 1953, the Kinsey Report exposed the
sexual habits and fantasies of everyday
Americans, creating controversy that
forever changed the life of Dr. Alfred
Kinsey, his wife and the world’s
perception of human sexuality.
A FOREIGN AFFAIR
Romantic Comedy
Director: Helmut Schleppi
Executive Producers: Dirk-Jan Bijker,
Tonneke Bijker, David J. Bijker, Esli
Bijker, David Arquette, Tim Blake
Nelson, Geert Heetebrij, Helmut
Schleppi
Cast: David Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson,
Emily Mortimer
Status: Completed
When their doting mother passes away,
two small-town American vegetable
farmers join a “romance tour” to Russia
in search of a wife to take care of them
both.
AAMAAR BHUVAN (THIS, MY
LAND)
Drama (105 mins)
Director: Mrinal Sen
Producer: P.D. Gupta;
Cast: Nandita Das, Koushik Sen.
Country of Origin: India
Human compassion helps two people
sort out life.
ARIMPARA (WART)
Drama
Director: Murali Nair
Producers: National Film Development
Corp. and Murali Nair
Cast: Nedumudi Venu, M.R. Gopakumar.
A rich Orthodox man has a black mole
under his lip that alienates him from his
surroundings.
DATTAK (THE ADOPTED)
Drama (120 mins)
Director: Gul Bahar Singh
Producer: National Film Development
Corp.
Cast: A.K. Hangal, Rajit Kapur.
A man comes to reconcile with his
father, but it is too late.
DANCE LIKE A MAN
Drama
Director: Pamela Rooks; cast: Arif
Zakaria, Shobana.
Producer: National Film Development
Corp.
A young aspiring dancer takes to her
parent’s profession.
DEVI AHILYA BAI
Drama
Directors: Nachiket and Jayoo
Patwardhan
Producer: NFDC, Government of India,
Government of Maharashtra
Cast: Shabana Azmi, Sadashiv
Amrapurkar
An 18th-century woman wants to commit
suicide at her husband’s funeral pyre but
lives to create history.
N
NATIONAL FILM
DEVELOPMENT
CORPORATION LTD.
National Film Development Corporation
Ltd., Discovery of India Bldg, Nehru
Centre, Dr. A.B. Road, Worli, Mumbai
400 018, India. Tel: 91.22.24.973.364/
24.951.413 /24.960.694. Fax:
91.22.24.973.364. nfdcindia.com.
[email protected]
Company Type : Producer, Distributor &
Exporter
At Cannes: D. Mukhopadhyay
(Managing Director), P. Parameswaran
(Director, Finance), V.P.S. Menon (Dy
General Manager, Export)
Office: B8 Riviera
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CJ ENTERTAINMENT
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
105
NEW CONCORDE
INTERNATIONAL
New Concorde International, 11600 San
Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049
USA. Tel: 310.820.6733. Fax:
310.207.6816. www.concordenewhorizons.com
At Cannes: Andrea Miller (Vice
President International Sales)
Office: Riviera L-10, Tel:
33.04.92.99.33.14
FIREFIGHT
Action (93’)
Language: English
Director: Paul Ziller
Producer: Elizabeth Sanchez, Paul Ziller
Key Cast: Stephen Baldwin, Nick
Mancuso, Steve Bacic
Budget: 1.5 M
Origin: USA
Criminals rob an armored truck in the
midst of a raging forest fire, the situation
gets even hotter when a gang of thugs
decide they want the money!
THE KILLER WITHIN ME
Thriller (95’)
Language: English
Director: Jesse Vint
Producer: Jesse Vint, Alan Vint
Key Cast: Corbin Timbrook, William
Benton
Origin: USA
A deceptively charismatic young exconvict is welcomed into the home of a
wealthy businessman as a houseguest.
The ex-con terrorizes the family who
understands too late that some people
can’t or won’t change.
FIRE OVER AFGHANISTAN
Action (92’)
Director: English
Language: Terrance Winkless
Producer: New Concorde and L & P
Productions
Key Cast: Fred Dryer, Jeff Stearns,
Jordan Bayne
Origin: USA
A Blackhawk helicopter pilot and his
passenger, a beautiful journalist, are shot
down by rebels in the middle of a civil
war. He must fight his way out of the
world’s deadliest terrain to save both of
them.
NEW LINE CINEMA
New Line Cinema, 116 N. Robertson
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA. Tel:
310.854.5811. Fax 310.659.4712. New
York: 888 7th Avenue, 20th Floor, New
York NY 10106 USA. Tel: 212.649.4900.
Fax: 212.659.4966
Company Type: independent producer
and distributor of theatrical motion
pictures.
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), Tracy Lorie
(Senior Vice President, International
Publicity), Elena Cahalan (Vice
President, International Contracts)
Office: Residence Croisette Miramar, 67
rue la Croisette, 9th Floor
ELF
Comedy
Director: Jon Favreau
Producers: Jon Berg, Todd Komarniki,
Shauna Robertson
Cast: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Zooey
Deschanel, Mary Steenburgen with
Edward Asner and Bob Newhart
Production Status: Post - Production
Buddy, a human raised on the North Pole
by elves finds out he really comes from
New York City and sets out to find his
biological father.
BIRTH
Psychological Mystery
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Producers: Jean-Louis Piel, Nick Morris,
Lizie Gower and Wang Wei
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall,
Cameron Bright, Arliss Howard, Danny
Huston, Ted Levine and Anne Heche
Production Status: In - Production
A 35-year old woman encounters a 10-
THE COLLECTOR - CINEMAVAULT CINEMAVAULT RELEASING INC.
year old boy who is in love with her.
Circumstances and actions lead her to
believe that he is the reincarnation of her
dead husband.
CELLULAR
Action-Thriller
Director: David Ellis
Producers: Dean Devlin, Lauren Lloyd
A man is thrust into a world or murder
and deception when he receives a
random, desperate call from a woman
who has been kidnapped.
AFTER THE SUNSET
Heist-Comedy
Producer: Beau Flynn
Cast: Pierce Brosnan
Picking up where most heists movies
end, a retired master thief finds himself
in a game of suspicion, robbery and
friendship with his life long nemesis.
NEW ZEALAND FILM
New Zealand Film, PO Box 11-546,
Wellington, New Zealand. Tel:
64.4.382.7680. Fax: 64.4.384.9719.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Barrie Everard (Chairman),
Ruth Harley (Chief Executive), Kathleen
Drumm (Marketing & Sales), Richard
Fletcher (Business Affairs), Michael
Wrenn (Creative & Marketing)
Office: 1st floor, Gray D’Albion, 17 la
Croisette/4 Rue des Serbes, Tel:
33.4.93.99.81.14, Fax: 33.4.93.99.81.15
NIKKATSU
CORPORATION
Nikkatsu Corporation, 3-28-12 Hongo,
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 Japan. Tel:
81.3.5689.1026. Fax: 81.3.5689.1044
Company Type: producer, distributor
At Cannes: Yasue Nobusawa (Manager),
Kiyoyuki Ishihara (Executive Director),
Kiyohiko Shoji (General Manager)
Office: Riviera K-7, Tel: 04.92.99.88.46
BLUES HARP
Drama (106min.)
Language: Japanese
Director: Takashi MIIKE
Producer: Naoya NARITA
Cast: Seiichi TANABE, Hiroyuki
IKEUCHI
Friendship and affection between a
young ambitious Yakuza and a half-blood
Blues Harp player.
JYU-SHI-REI, (CURSE, DEATH AND
SPRIT)
Horror (Omnibus/TV 65min.)
Language: Japanese
Director: Hideo NAKATA
Producer: Takahiro KOHASHI, Akira
OZEKI
Cast: Mitsuko OKA, Michiko HATA,
Yasuyo SHIRATORI
Three horror stories based on
televiewers’ experiences.
KOKKURI
Mysterious Horror (87min.)
Language: Japanese
Director: Takahisa ZEZE
Producer: Kazuyuki KOBAYASHI,
Minoru YOKOTE, Shigehiro ARAKE
Cast: Ayumi YAMATSU, Hiroko
SHIMADA, Moe ISHIKAWA
Spiritism play, Kokkuri bring three
unstable the lives of three unstable high
school girls to the edge of death.
AIKI
Martial Arts Drama (119min.)
Language: Japanese
Director: Daisuke TENGAN
Producer: Hisa IINO, Yasushi
MATSUDA, Shunsuke KOGA
Cast: Haruhiko KATO, Rie
TOMOSAKA, Ryo ISHIBASHI
AIKI-jujutsu helps a young man starts
his new live in a wheel chair.
HARMFUL INSECT
Drama (92min.)
Language: Japanese
Director: Akihiko SHIOTA
Producer: Hiroyuki NEGISHI, Takashi
HIRANO
Cast: Aoi MIYAZAKI, Seiichi TANABE,
RYO
Sachiko, a 13 years old girl, struggles
looking for love in a complicated society
and makes herself spin out of control.
NONSTOP SALES AB
Nonstop Sales AB, Döbelnsgatan 24, SE113 52 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel:
46.8.673.99.99. Fax: 46.8.673.99.88.
[email protected].
www.nonstopsales.net
Company Type: International sales agent,
seller
At Cannes: CG Anderson (CEO – Tel:
46.8.673.9999), Michael Werner (Sales
Director –Tel/mobile: 46.70.733 28 55),
Karin Thun (Sales Assistant –
Tel/mobile: 46.70.416.99.89)
Office: Scandinavian Terrace, 55 La
Croisette, Cannes
THE SLAUGHTER RULE
Drama (112 )
Language: English
Director: Alex Smith and Andrew Smith
Producer: Michael Robinson and
Gregory O’Connor
Prod. Comp: SOLARIS
Cast: Ryan Gosling, David Morse, Kelly
Lynch and Clea Duvall
Country: USA, Year: 2001
Shortly after his father’s death, Roy gets
cut from his high school football team.
He meets Gideon, who wants to recruit
him to his six-man football squad.
HAYFLOWER & QUILTSHOE
(HEINÄHATTU JA VILTTITOSSU)
Children (80 min)
Language: Finnish
Director: Kaisa Rastimo
Producer: Marko Rauhala
Prod. Comp: Kinotaurus
Cast: Katriina Tavi, Tilda Kiianlehto,
Minna Suuronen, Antti Virmavirta, Merja
Larivaara, Päivi Akonpelto, Robert
Enkell, Heikki Sankari
Status: Completed/stand screenings only
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
Country: Finland, Year: 2002
Hayflower and Quiltshoe are sisters and
spend all their time together. A change is
about to happen: In a week, Hayflower is
going to start school. 2 Finnish National
Awards.
FALLING SKY (HIMMELFALL)
Drama (83 min)
Language: Norway
Director: Gunnar Vikene
Producer: Sigve Endresen
Prod. Comp: Motlys, Alligator
Cast: Kim Bodnia, Maria Bonnevie and
Kristoffer Joner
Country: Norway, Year: 2002
It’s three days before Christmas at the
Sollihøgda psychiatric hospital. Reidar
expects to get hit in the head by a
meteor. He wants to save the whole
world from catastrophe, but most of all
he wants to save Juni. Winner of the
Canal+ Award in Gothenburg, 2002.
ONE-WAY TICKET TO MOMBASA
(MEMOLIPPU MOMBAASAN)
Teenage Drama (88 min)
Language: Finnish
Director: Hannu Tuomainen
Producer: Hannu Tuomainen
Prod. Comp: Cinemaker
Cast: Antti Tarvainen, Joonas Saartamo,
Johanna Rönnlöf
Status: completed/screening
Country: Finland, Year: 2002
A road movie about two young men who
travel through Finland to try to realize
their dreams before dying, “One-Way
Ticket to Mombasa” is a low-key, mostly
captivating drama.
THE GOLDFISH MEMORY
Language: English
Director: Liz Gill
Producer: Breda Walsh
Prod. Comp: Goldfish Film
Cast: Sean Campion, Flora Montgomery,
Stuart Graham, Jean Butler, Keith
McErlean, Fiona O’Shaughnessy, Justine
Mitchell, Aisling O’Neill, Peter Gaynor,
Demian McAdam and Lisa Hearns
Country: Ireland, Year: 2002
Goldfish Memory is a light-hearted look
at the dangers and delights of dating in
contemporary Dublin.
THE BUSINESS
OF FILM
London Head Office
41-42 Berners St.
London WIT 3NB
Los Angeles Office
5150 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles
California 90036
NORDISK FILM
INTERNATIONAL
SALES
Nordisk Film International Sales,
Halmtorvet 29, Copenhagen, 1700
Denmark. Tel: 45.33266880. Fax:
45.33266889.
www.sales.nordiskfilm.com,
[email protected]
At Cannes: Sanne Arloe (Sales
executive), Susan Wendt (Sales
executive), Klaus Rasmussen (Sales
executive), Kenneth Wiberg (General
Manager), Casper Hald (Sales Manager)
Office: The Scandinavian Stand, La
Croisette 55
STEALING REMBRANDT (AKA:
REMBRANDT)
Drama comedy
Language: Danish
Director: Jannik Johansen
Producer: Thomas Gammeltoft
Key Cast: Lars Brygmann, Jakob
Cedergren, Nikolaj Coster Waldau,
Nicolas Bro, Sonja Richter, Sören
Pilmark, Gordon Kennedy
of Origin: Denmark
Mick and Tom have been hired to steal a
painting from a museum. By accident,
they steal the wrong painting –
Denmark’s only original Rembrandt
masterpiece worth millions.
EVIL (ONDSKAN)
Drama
Language: Swedish
Director: Mikael Håfström
Producer: Hans Lönnerheden & Ingemar
Leijonborg
Key Cast: Andreas Wilson, Linda
Zilliacus, Henrik Lundström, Marie
Richardson, Johan Rabeus, Kjell
Bergqvist, Gustaf Skarsgard, Magnus
Roosman, Ulf Friberg
Origin: Sweden
16-year-old Erik lives a life with
violence and evil both at home and at
school. He is expelled from school due to
his violent behaviour and gets a final
chance to break with his past at a
boarding school.
BLIND HORIZON
Starring: Val Kilmer, Neve Campbell,
Sam Shepard, Faye Dunaway, and Amy
Smart
A man’s mysterious identity unravels as
he struggles to uncover a plot to
assassinate the president.
DEN OF LIONS
Starring Stephen Dorff, Bob Hoskins
Status: Ready
A Hungarian gypsy working for a
Russian mobster jeopardizes his position
when he becomes a double agent for the
FBI - who are trying to help Hungary
nail the Russian.
NATURAL DISASTERS
AVALANCHE
Status: Production
In the peaks high above Alaska’s Eagle
Ridge, the ice groans and rumbles under
the heavy blanket of fresh snow.
Status: Pre Production
EARTHQUAKE
Status: Pre Production
A respected engineer must avert a
disaster as a massive earthquake damages
a nuclear power plant causing a reactor
melt down.
O
OASIS
INTERNATIONAL
Oasis International, 6 Pardee Ave, Suite
103, Toronto, Canada. M6K 3H5. Tel:
416.588.6821. Fax: 416.588.7276.
[email protected].
www.oasisinternational.com
Company Type: International and
Domestic Distribution Company
At Cannes: Peter Emerson (President),
Valerie Cabrera (Executive VP), Steve
Murphy (VP, Sales), Prentiss Holman
(Sales Executive)
Office:
LONG LIFE, HAPPINESS AND
PROSPERITY
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Producer: Shaftesbury Films
Starring: SANDRA OH (ARLI$$,
Judging Amy, Bliss, Princess Diaries),
Introducing Valerie Tian, Chang Tseng
(Shang Hai noon, Romeo must Die),
Colin Foo (Josie and the Pussycats,
Saving Silverman) and from the award
winning director Mina Shum.
In hopes of finding fortune and romance
for her mother, Mindy’s sets on a
magical adventure and learns the
importance of keeping faith in this
sometimes difficult world.
SAMHAIN
Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Producer: Warehouse Films
Cast: Richard Greico (Wounded,
Manhattan Midnight), Jenna Jameson
(Porn n’ Chicken, Playboy’s Sizzling Sex
Stars), Chasey Lain (Playboy Sizzling
Sex Stars), Ginger Lynn Allen (Sunset
Stripped, The A-List) and Bobbie
Phillips (Weed Man, Showgirls, “Murder
One”)
Delivery Status: In Post Production
A disfigured mutant who comes from a
long line of incestuous cannibals hunts a
group of University students on a class
trip.
HEMINGWAY VS. CALLAGHAN
Mini-series (2 x 90 min)
Language: English
Producer: Shaftesbury Productions
Cast: Vincent Walsh (Random Passage)
Robin Dunne (American Psycho 2)
Gordon Pinsent (Shipping News) Maury
Chaykin (Nero Wolfe) and Ada Turturro
(The Sopranos)
Based on “That Summer in Paris” this
exciting new mini-series explores the
early career of Ernest Hemingway from
his first job as a writer in the backwater
of Toronto to his now famous life in
Paris in the early 30s.
HAVE MERCY
Feature Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Producer: Have Mercy Pictues
Cast: Alisa Wiegers (The Chippendalles
Murder) Clark Johnson (Love Come
Down) and Jacki Burroughs (Willard)
Have Mercy is the story of one woman’s
journey out of madness and into
craziness and a group of women who
journey in search of beauty and
wonderment in a world devoid of it.
NU IMAGE /
MILLENNIUM FILMS
Nu Image / Millennium Films, 6423
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles,
California 90048 USA. Tel:
310.388.6900. Fax: 310.388.6901.
[email protected].
At Cannes: Avi Lerner (Co-Chairman &
CEO), Danny Dimbort (Co-Chairman &
CEO), Carole Delossantos (Vice
President, International)
Office: Booth G9, Tel: 33.(0)4.92.88.02.
Fax: 33.(0)4.92.88.04
NINE LIVES
Starring: Wesley Snipes
Status: Production
Mistaken for a government agent, Dean
Klein is injected with a hallucinogenic
truth serum that gives his captors the
ability to alter his reality.
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C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
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INERTIA
Feature (90 min)
Language: English
Producer: Indian Snack Box
Cast: Jonas Chernick (“The Eleventh
Hour”, The Pentagon Papers) and Sarah
Constable (The many Trials of Jane Doe.
The lives of four characters are
sidetracked by desire deception and
adultery.
ODYSSEY
ENTERTAINMENT
LTD
Odyssey Entertainment Ltd, 1 Berkeley
Street, London, W1J 8 DJ UK. Tel:
44.(0).207.016.8847. Fax:
44.(0).207.016.9134. [email protected]
Company Type: Sales Agent, Finance
At Cannes: Ralph Kamp (Chairman and
CEO), Louise Goodsill (President and
COO), Amanda Evans (Vice President
Worldwide TV Sales), Matthew Hampton
(Vice President Marketing), Rachel
Woodeson (Vice President Legal &
Business Affairs), Pascal Degove (Sales
Executive); Acquisition Executive: Sarah
Arnott (Vice President Acquisitions)
Office: Vieux Port - Bay View Motor
Yacht, Tel: 33.(0)4.92.98.71.72, Fax:
33.(0)4.92.98.71.72
VEGGIETALES
Kids Animation (22 x 30 minutes. Kids
feature 1 x 82 minutes)
Language: English
of Origin: USA
One of the most popular kids video
series, VeggieTales has sold over 30
million units in the US alone. 22
hilarious episodes reinforce timeless
values and feature top-quality computer
animation.
BOMBO SPORTS
Documentary features
Language: English
Delivery Status: 5 completed, 1 in
production.
Year of Production: Country of Origin:
USA
Six gripping behind-the-scenes
documentaries take a uniquely human
look at the top teams and athletes in the
differing worlds of Soccer, NASCAR,
Rugby and Rodeo.
THE CROOKED MAN
Crime Thriller (1 x 90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: David Drury
Producer: Elli Jason Co-production
partners:
Cast: Ross Kemp, Liam Cunningham,
Natasha Little
Origin: UK
A pulsating action thriller that takes us
into a world of violence, betrayal,
kidnap, blackmail and surprisingly...love.
A television film premiere for the ITV
Network in the UK.
DEATHWATCH
Horror (92 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Michael J Bassett
Producer: Mike Downey, Sam Taylor,
Frank Hubner Co-production partners:
Cast: Jamie Bell, Hugo Speer, Andy
Serkis
Origin: UK / Germany
In the chaos of WW1, a small company
of British soldiers seek refuge in a
complex network of haunted trenches.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Musical Feature Film
Language: English
Director: Joel Schumacher
Producer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Year of Production: 2003/04, Country of
THE VIRGIN OF LIVERPOOL - SENATOR INNTERNATIONAL
Origin: UK
The world’s biggest musical tells the
classic and highly emotive story of the
love triangle between a beautiful young
opera singer, her childhood sweetheart
and a tormented, disfigured musical
genius.
OPEN SESAME CO.,
LTD.
Open Sesame Co., Ltd., 1-14-6 Ginza,
Chuo-ku, To 104-0061 Japan. Tel:
81.3.5159.0871. Fax: 81.3.3561.6262.
At Cannes: Ritsuko Abe (President),
Kaho Nakane (Executive Vice President)
Office: Apt. Roussel, Residence Victoria
ANTENNA
Drama (117 minutes)
Language: Japanese w/English Subtitles
Director: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
Producer: Hiroko Matsuda
Key Cast: Ryo Kase, Akemi Kobayashi
Origin: Japan
A heart-wrenching drama of a young
man and his family who gets over the
tragic death of his little sister.
HOTEL HIBISCUS
Drama (92 minutes)
Origin: Japan
Language: Japanese w/English subtitles
Director: Yuji Nakae
Producer: Hotel Hibiscus Parth ners
Key Cast: Honami Kurashita, Kimiko Yo
A coming-of-age story of a cheeky little
girl who goes into the adventure to
search the mythtic elfin in the exotic,
southern lsland of Japan.
A LAUGHING FROG
Erotic Comedy (96 minutes)
Origin: Japan
Director: Japanese w/English subtitles
Language: Hideyuki Hirayama
Producer: A Laughing Frog Partners
Key Cast: Kyozo Nagatsuka, Nene
Otsuka
Once a high profile banker, now a
fugitive hides himself in a storage room
and peeps into love affair of his wife
with her new boyfriend.
DRIVE
Action Comedy (102 minutes)
Origin: Japan
Director: SABU
Producer: Drive Film Partners
Key Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi, Kou
Shibasaki, Ren Osugi
About a hiper-square jitterbug
businessman who is happened to travel
with bank robbers on the run.
GOMEN
Drama (103 minutes)
Origin: Japan
Director: Shin Togashi
Producer: GOMEN Film Partners
L.A. Office Phone
(323) 935-8228
Key Cast: Masahiro Hisano, Yukika
Sakuratani
A coming-of-age story about a boy in
sixth grader who falls in love with a girl
in junior high school, who is “too old”
for him.
OVERSEAS
FILMGROUP/ FIRST
LOOK MEDIA
Overseas Filmgroup/ First Look Media,
8000 Sunset Blvd., East Penthouse, Los
323.337.1000. fax: 323.337.1078.
International Sales office: Via E. Jenner,
45 00151 Rome, Italy. Tel/Fax:
39.06.5327.5511.
[email protected].
www.firstlookmedia.com
At Cannes: Chris Cooney (CEO, CoChairman, First Look Media), Robbie
Little (President, Co-Chairman, First
Look Media), William Lischak (COO,
CFO, First Look Media), MJ Peckos
(President, First Look Pictures), Liz
Mackiewicz (Sr. VP, Worldwide Sales &
Distrib, Overseas Filmgroup), Brian
Oshea (Sr. VP, Worldwide Sales &
Distrib, Overseas Filmgroup), Gina
Nahum (VP, International Sales (Rome),
Overseas Filmgroup), Steven Demille
(Sr. VP, marketing, First Look Home
Entertainment), Jd Beaufils (Director,
Sales & Library Licensing, Overseas
Filmgroup), Giovanna Trischitta
(Executive Coordinator), Ellen Little
(President, The Little Film Company)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite# 753, Tel:
04.97.06.84.76. Fax: 04.97.06.84.78
THE BOYS FROM COUNTY CLARE
Comedy
Director: John Irvin
Producer: Evzen Kolar, Wolfgang
Esenwein, Ellen Little
Principal Cast: Colm Meaney, Bernard
Hill, Andrea Corr, Philip Barantini,
Charlotte Bradley, Shaun Evans, Patrick
Bergin
This heartwarming comedy centers
around two brothers, John Joe and
Jimmy, who haven’t seen each other in
twenty years.
INTO THE WILDERNESS
Romantic Adventure
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Producer: William Vince, Rob Merilees
Principal Cast: Barry Pepper, Annabella
Piugattuk, James Cromwell
Stranded by a plane crash a thousand
miles from civilization, pilot Charlie
Lavery sets out across the endless tundra
for the nearest outpost.
LUTHER
Epic Drama
Director: Eric Till
Producer: Brigitte Rochow, Christian P.
Stehr, Alexander Thies
Principal Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Alfred
Molina, Clair Cox, Sir Peter Ustinov,
Bruno Ganz
Delivery Status: Screening, INVITE
ONLY
Overcoming his own inner demons,
Martin Luther, a German monk,
challenges the political and religious
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
authorities of his time and starts a
revolution of the mind and spirit, which
continues today the world over.
THE TESSERACT
Suspense thriller
Director: Oxide Pang
Producer: Takashi Kusube, Naoki Kai,
So-Jun Bee, Jun Hara, Koichi Shibuya
Principal Cast: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers,
Saskia Reeves
Delivery Status: Screening
In the belly of Bangkok’s underworld,
four strangers lives are about to
change...forever.
LETHAL DOSE (LD50)
Psychological Horror
Director: Simon de Selva
Producer: Alistair Maclean-Clark, Basil
Stephens
Principal Cast: Katharine Towne,
Melanie Brown, Tom Hardy
Delivery Status: Screening
A group of young activists get more than
they bargained for when they break into
an animal research lab, only to find that
they have become the subjects of a grisly
experiment.
P
PARAGON FILM
GROUP
Paragon Film Group, 209 East Alameda
Avenue, Burbank, CA 91502 USA. Tel:
818.845.7148.
www.paragonfilmgroup.com,
[email protected]
At Cannes: Scott Bedno (Vice President,
Sales & Acquisitions), Matthew
McCombs (President)
Office: Riviera C9, Fax: 818.566.6639
HELLBORN
Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Philip Jones
Producer: Philip Jones, Matthew
McCombs
Key Cast: Bruce Payne, Tiny Lister Jr.,
Tracy Scoggins
Origin: USA
A young doctor uncovers a demonic cult
and must escape before becoming the
next victim of “The Harvester”
BACKFLASH
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Philip Jones
Producer: Philip Jones, Matthew
McCombsh
Key Cast: Robert Patrick, Jennifer
Esposito, Melissa Joan Hart, Colm
Meaney
Origin: USA
There’s nothing real in this...but the
money.
The usual
Location for the
23RD year
The Carlton Hotel
Room 149
PARK
ENTERTAINMENT
LTD
Park Entertainment Ltd, 4th Floor, 50-51
Conduit Street, London W1S 2YT UK.
Tel: 44(0).20.7434.4176. Fax:
44.(0).20.7434.4179.
[email protected].
www.parkentertainment.com
Company Type: Sales agent/distributor
At Cannes: Jim Howell (CEO), Simon
Barnes (Head Of Film Sales), Linda
Vezzoli (Marketing and Sales Executive)
Office: Room 143 Carlton
Intercontinental, 58 La Croisette, Tel:
33.(0).4.93.06.41.43. Fax:
33.(0).4.93.06.40.25 (Room 143)
THE GREAT GOOSE CAPER
Family Comedy (85 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Nicholas Kendall
Producer: Wendy Hill-Tout, Alex Brown
Cast: Chevy Chase, Joan Plowright,
James Purefoy, Kari Matchett, Max
Morrow
Origin: Canada/UK
A talking Goose brings the sparkle back
to a little boy’s life but it’s a race against
time to save the bird from the Christmas
cooking pot.
THE PURIFIERS
Martial Arts
Language: English
Director: Richard Jobson
Producer: Richard Jobson, Chris Atkins
Cast: Kevin McKidd, Troy Titus-Adams
Delivery Status: in production
A modern day gang movie set against a
martial arts backdrop in a Britain of the
near future.
ALIEN SOUP
Family Comedy
Language: English
Director: Stephen Cookson
Producer: Stephen Cookson, David Ball
Budget: $9 million
Strange aliens arrive on earth to taste the
best tomato soup in the galaxy.
NINE DEAD GAY GUYS
Comedy (83 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Lab Ky Mo
Producer: Lamia Nayeb St-Hilaire
Cast: Steven Berkoff, Michael Praed, Vas
Blackwood
Origin: UK
Two ordinary Irish lads’ outrageous
journey through London’s underground
gay scene.
TWO MEN WENT TO WAR
Comedy Drama (108 minutes)
Language: English
Director: John Henderson
Producer: Ira Trattner, Pat Harding
Cast: Kenneth Cranham, Leo Bill, Derek
Jacobi
Year of Production:2001, Country of
Origin: UK
A comedy drama based on the true story
of two British army dentists who, in
1942, decide to take the war into their
own hands and invade France.
PATHE
INTERNATIONAL
Pathe International, 10, rue Lincoln,
75008 Paris, France. Tel:
331.40.76.94.38. Fax: 331.40.76.91.23.
[email protected].
www.patheinternational.fr
At Cannes: Olivier GRANIER (CEO)
Pascal DIOT (Director of sales) Christine
HAYET (Director of sales); Acquisition
Executive: Olivier GRANIER (CEO)
Office: 331.40.76.94.38, Tel:
334.92.99.33.03, Fax: 334.92.99.33.06
LE BISON
Comedy (96 min)
Language: french
Director: Isabelle NANTY
Producer: Claude BERRI Co-production
partners:
Cast: Isabelle NANTY, Edouard BAER,
Pierre François MARTIN LAVAL
Origin: France
LA BEUZE
(95 min)
Language: french
Director: Francois DESAGNAT &
Thomas SORRIAUX
Producer: Abel NAHMIAS
Cast: Michael YOUN, Vincent
DESAGNAT
Origin: France
Alphonse Brown, illegitimate son of
James Brown, has been friends with
Scotch since childhood. They live in Le
Havre, making a living from seedy scams
and deals until the day Alphonse gets
himself arrested.
PAS SI GRAVE
Language: french
Director: Bernard RAPP
Producer: Didier CRESTE Coproduction partners:
Cast: Sami BOUAJILA, Romain DURIS,
Jean Michel PORTAL
Origin: France
Three feuding foster brothers, Leo, Max
and Charlie, are suddenly sent from
foggy Liège in Belgium to sunny
Valencia in southern Spain on a mission
to fulfill the dying wish of their foster
father.
MALEFIQUE
Horror (90 min)
Language: french
Director: Eric VALETTE
Producer: Marc Missonnier & Olivier
DELBOSC Co-production partners:
Cast: Gérald LAROCHE, Philippe
LAUDENBACH, Clovis CORNILLAC,
Dimitri RATAUD
Delivery Status: (pre, post, in production
or completed)
Origin: France
A prison cell. Four prisoners. Carrère,
young company director accused of
fraud. Marcus, 35 year-old transsexual in
the process of transformation. Daisy, 20
year-old, mentally retarded. Lassalle, 60
year-old intellectual who murdered his
wife.
JE RESTE
Comedy
Language: french
Director: Diane KURYS
Producer: Alain TERZIAN Coproduction partners:
Cast: Sophie MARCEAU, Vincent
PEREZ, Charles BERLING
Origin: France
Marie-Dominique and Bertrand form a
close-knit couple, but only on the
surface.
PATHÉ
INTERNATIONAL-UK
Pathé International-UK, London office:
Kent House, Market Place, London W1W
8AR UK. Tel: 44.207.462.4427. Fax:
44.20.7436.7891. e:
[email protected]. Web:
http://www.pathe.co.uk/
At Cannes: Alison Thompson (ead of
Sales), Moyra Lock (Marketing
Manager), Stephen Murphy (Business
Affairs Manager), Mike Runagall
(International Sales Co-ordinator)
Office: c/o The Riviera, Stand N7, Tel:
33(0).4.92.99.33.03. Fax:
33(0).4.92.99.33.06
BODYSONG
Feature Documentary (83 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Simon Pummell
Producer: Janine Marmot (I Could Read
the Sky, Institute Benjamenta)
Production Company: Hot Property
Films
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening
Country: UK
The epic story of love, sex, violence,
death and dreams. The story of our lives,
told through moving images from around
the world.
SAVE THE GREEN PLANET
CJ ENTERTAINMENT
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
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BROKEN WINGS (K’NAFAYIM
SHVUROT)
Drama (87 minutes)
Language: Hebrew (English-subtitled)
Director: Nir Bergman
Producer: Assaf Amir
Production Company: Norma
Productions
Cast: Orly Zilberschatz Banai, Maya
Maron, Nitai Gvirtz
Country: Israel
An uplifting and optimistic tale,
BROKEN WINGS portrays a family,
which despite a series of crises, manages
to come back from the brink of disaster.
THE PRINCIPLES OF LUST
Drama (108 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Penny Woolcock (The Death of
Klinghoffer, Tina Goes Shopping)
Producer: Madonna Baptiste
Production Company: Blast! Films
Cast: Alec Newman (Long Time Dead;
Greenwich Mean Time), Marc Warren
(Men Only; Dad Savage; Band of
Brothers), Sienna Guillory (Late Night
Shopping; Take a Girl Like You)
Status Completed/Screening
Country: UK
Paul is suffering from writer’s block and
a growing languidness, until he meets
two people: Billy, a charismatic and
dangerous risk-taker who exposes Paul to
the darker side of life; and Juliette with
whom he falls passionately in love.
WONDROUS OBLIVION
Drama (104 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Paul Morrison (Oscar
nominated for Solomon and Gaenor)
Producer: Jonny Persey
Co-Producer: Lesley Stewart (The Full
Monty, Trainspotting)
Executive Producer: Michael Kuhn
Production Company: APT Films
Cast: Delroy Lindo (Malcolm X, Get
Shorty, The Cider House Rules), Emily
Woof (Pandemonium, The Full Monty,
This Year’s Love), Stanley Townsend (In
the Name of the Father, The Snapper,
The Miracle), Sam Smith (Oliver Twist TV Mini Series)Year Produced: 2003,
Status Screening/World Premiere
Production Country: UK
PEACHES
CINEMAVAULT RELEASING INC.
Eleven year-old David Wiseman is mad
about cricket but no good at it. He has all
the kit but none of the skill, and he’s a
laughing stock at school.
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING
Romantic Drama
Language: English
Director: Peter Webber
Producer: Andy Paterson, Anand Tucker
Production Company: Archer Street
Cast: Colin Firth (Bridget Jones’ Diary,
The Importance of Being Earnest),
Scarlett Johansson (Eight Legged Freaks,
Ghost World, The Man Who Wasn’t
There), Tom Wilkinson (In the Bedroom,
The Importance of Being Earnest, The
Full Monty)
Status In Post-Production
Country: UK
Set in 17th century Holland, GIRL
WITH A PEARL EARRING tells the
imagined and highly seductive story
behind one of Vermeer’s greatest and
most enigmatic paintings.
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 protected]
At Cannes: Ted Rosenblatt, Daniel Gerst
and Tamar Chafets
Office: Carlton Inter Continental Hotel,
Suite 201, Tel: 33.493.064.201. Fax:
33.493.066.901.
A SLIPPING-DOWN LIFE
Romantic Drama
Director: Guy Pearce (Memento, The
Count of Monte Cristo, Time Machine),
Lili Taylor (Live From Bagdad, High
Fidelity, The Haunting),
Producer: Richard Raddon
Status: Completed
Guy Pearce gives another amazing
performance, here as a seductive
musician whose newfound success
becomes dependent on the obsessive
infatuation of a devoted fan (Lili Taylor).
WOOLY BOYS
Adventure Comedy
Director: Leszek Burzynski
Producers: Robert Schwartz
Principle Cast: Peter Fonda (Ulee’s Gold)
, Kris Kristofferson (Blade II, Planet Of
The Apes), Keith Carradine (Wild Bill),
Joseph Mazzello (Jurassic Park I & II)
Status: Completed
It’s family friendly fun when a city-bred
teenager gets caught up in a series of
misadventures after being “kidnapped”
by his sheep rancher grandfather.
SHOOTERS
Crime Drama
Director: Colin Teague, Glenn Durfort
Producers: Margery Bone
Principle Cast: Adrian Dunbar (The
General, The Crying Game), Andrew
Howard (Band of Brothers), Louis
Dempsey (Stones In Their Pockets),
Melanie Lynskey (Heavenly Creatures,
Coyote Ugly).
Status: Completed
This Universal Pictures UK release
depicts a stylized London underworld
where deception and intimidation are
24/7 and betrayal is the only way out.
SEVEN GIRLFRIENDS
Romantic Comedy
Director: Paul Lazarus
Producers: Paul Lazarus, J. Todd Harris,
Barry Opper
Principle Cast: Tim Daly (TV’s The
Fugitive, Object of My Affection), Mimi
Rogers, Olivia D’Abo, Jami Gertz,
Elizabeth Pena
Status: Completed
It’s hard to be “Mr. Right”; just ask his
seven girlfriends!
PICTURE THIS!
ENTERTAINMENT
Picture This! Entertainment, 7471
Melrose Avenue, Suite 7, Los Angeles,
CA 90046 USA. Tel: 323.852.1398. Fax:
www.picturethisent.com
Company Type: Sales Agent, Distributor
At Cannes: Acquisition Executive:
EBAN AND CHARLEY
Drama (89 minutes)
Language: English
Director: James Bolton
Producer: Chris Monlux
Cast: Giovani Andrade, Brent Fellows
Budget: 1 Million
When a fifteen year old boy’s friendship
with a young school teacher begins to
deepen, controversy erupts.
PICTURES IN
PARADISE
Pictures In Paradise, Ocean Studios, 1
John Lund Drive, Hope Harbour 4212,
Australia. Tel: 61.7.55108466. Fax:
61.7.55108522.
www.picturesinparadise.com.au
Company Type: producer, distributor
At Cannes: Chris Brown (Producer),
Defrim Isai (Co-producer Business
Affairs)
Office: c/- Australian Film Commission,
Level 8, 52 La Croisette, Tel:
33.4.93998507. Fax: 33.4.93998504
BLURRED
Teen Comedy (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Evan Clarry
Producer: Chris Brown, Chris Fitchett
Co-production partners: Claymoss,
Portman Films, Becker Ent, FFC, PFTC.
Cast: Mathew Newton (Looking for
Alibrandi), Kristian Schmid
(Neighbours), Jessica Gower (Secret Life
of Us), Petra Yared (MDA)
Origin: Australia
School’s Out...and it’s only 200 miles to
the party of a lifetime! Every year more
than 70,000 Australian school leavers
head for the beaches of Australia’s Gold
Coast to celebrate with a wild mixture of
sun, surf and sex.
UNDER THE RADAR
Comedy Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Co-production partners: Macquarie Film
Investments, Nine Films, Hoyts,
FFC, PFTC.
Cast: Clayton Watson (Matrix Reloaded),
Nathan Phillips (Australian
Rules), Chloe Maxwell, Steady Eddy.
Delivery Status: post
Origin: Australia
Four twenty-somethings travel to the
coast together, each with their own
agenda. Chaos ensues as they unwittingly
find themselves caught up in the midst of
a deadly crossfire between two rival
gangs.
THE LOCALS
Horror (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Greg Page
Producer: Steve Sachs
Co-production partners: New Zealand
Film Commission
Cast: John Barker (Mercy Peak), Dwayne
Cameron (The Tribe, Street Legal), Kate
Elliott (Toy Love, Street Legal), Aidee
Walker
Origin: New Zealand
Two best friends Grant and Paul hit the
road for a weekend of surfing, booze and
hopefully . . . girls.
LAB RATS
Language: English
Five Backpackers find themselves down
and out in London. Desperate for money
they’ll do anything including becoming
guinea pigs at a drug research facility.
CLASS
Black Comedy Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Director: John Ruane (Death in
Brunswick, That Eye The Sky)
When American student Julian Mitchell
enrolls at the exclusive Darworth
Grammar he doesn’t expect to be
persecuted by the elitist teacher nicknamed ‘Spider’.
The Business Of Film Location
for the 23RD year
The Carlton Hotel
Room 149
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
PM
ENTERTAINMENT
PM Entertainment, Corporate Office:
11835 West Olympic Blvd., Suite #550,
310.444.4113. Fax: 310.444.4102.
At Cannes: Lenny Shapiro, Dan March
Office: Riviera, booth Tel (914), Tel:
06.73.68.09.41
FIRETRAP
Action / Adventure
Director: Harris Done
Producers: Vince Ravine, John Kelly
Cast: Dean Cain, Richard Tyson, Mel
Harris
Status: Completed
When the robbery of a classified
computer chip goes awry, the burglar
must elude the police, secret agents and a
deadly fire.
LAYOVER
Thriller
Director: Alan McElrory
Producers: Vince Ravine, John Kelly
Cast: David Hasselhoff, Gregg Henry,
Yvonne Scio
Status: Completed
A steamy airport affair becomes one
man’s nightmare, as the woman he made
love to turns out to be the wife of a
dangerous jewelry dealer.
EPICENTER
Action / Adventure
Producer: Michael Derbas
Cast: Traci Elizabeth Lords, Gary
Daniels, Jeff Fahey
Status: Completed
A female cop must escort a notorious
criminal across Los Angeles to jail
during an earthquake crisis.
PORTMAN FILM
Portman Film, 21-25 St Anne’s Court,
London, W1F OBJ UK. Tel:
44.20.7494.8024. Fax: 44.20.7494.8046.
[email protected].
www.portmanfilm.com
At Cannes: Tristan Whalley, Tim Buxton,
Jane Baker, Jenifer Landor, Mia Walker,
Louise Matthews
Office: Grand Hotel Residences,
Entrance Flamant, 6th Floor, Bell 60CH,
Tel: 04.93.99.81.41. Fax: 04.93.99.81.60
INTERMISSION
Black Comedy (100 min)
Language: English
Director: John Crowley
Producer: Stephen Woolley, Neil Jordan,
Alan Moloney
Cast: Colin Farrell, Kelly Macdonald,
Shirley Henderson
Origin: Republic of Ireland/ United
Kingdom
A couple break up briefly (the
“intermission” of the title), sending
ripples through the lives of everyone
around them.
THE ACTORS
Comedy (96 min)
Language: English
Director: Conor McPherson
Producer: Stephen Woolley, Neil Jordan,
Redmond Morris
Cast: Michael Caine, Dylan Moran,
Miranda Richardson
Origin: United Kingdom
Two struggling, eccentric actors Tom
(Dylan Moran) and O’Malley (Michael
Caine) prove the little known adage that
bad actors make great crooks.
A.K.A
Drama (118 min)
Language: English
Director: Duncan Roy
Producer: Richard West
Cast: Matthew Leitch, Lindsey Coulson,
Diana Quick
Audaciously split into three simultaneous
frames, AKA tells the story of Dean,
young, disaffected and trapped. With
cunning and deceit, he adopts a fantasy
life among the upper echelons of British
and European society.
BLURRED
Comedy/ Road Movie (92 min)
Language: English
Cast: Matthew Newton, Jess Gower,
Kristian Schmid
Origin: Australia
Every year more than 70,000 school
leavers head for the sun-drenched
beaches of the Gold Coast to celebrate
their release from school.
ANITA & ME
Comedy (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Metin Huseyin
Producer: Paul Raphael
Cast: Kathy Burke, Lynn Redgrave,
Mark Williams
Meena (Chandeep Uppal) is 12 years old
and lives in the village of Tollington,
“the jewel of the Black Country” - in
1972. She is the daughter of Indian
parents who have come to England to
give her a better life.
PROMARK
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP
Promark Entertainment Group, 3599
Cahuenga Blvd. West, Los Angeles, CA
90068 USA. Tel: 323.878.0404. Fax:
Website:
At Cannes: Mr. Jonathan Kramer
(President), Mr. Eric Bernstein (Vice
President of International Sales), Ms.
Annouchka Lesoeur (Vice President
Office: Riviera Both M9/N10
I WITNESS
Action-Adventure
Language: English
Director: Rowdy Herrington
Producer: David Bixler, Shelly Strong
Cast: Jeff Daniels, James Spader, Portia
de Rossi
Delivery Status: Completed (96:00)
James Rhodes (Jeff Daniels) knows that
there is a corporate cover up to the
bodies that were found in Tijuana.
GRAVELAND
Action-Adventure
Language: English
Director: Robert Stadd
A spaceship headed by ambitious
Captain Kyle Baskin of XYCOR
Corporation is en route to Mars to
investigate a mysterious energy source
which could save the earth.
GHOST MONKEY
Action-Adventure
Language: English
Director: Paul Andersen
A simian-like serial killer moves in the
shadows and strikes with vicious force,
ripping out the hearts of its victims.
BACKTRACK
Action-Adventure
Language: English
Director: Tim Bogart
When a mysterious man with no identity
and no memory of his past saves the life
of a homeless woman, the FBI must
track him down before he realizes who
he truly is.
R
RAI TRADE
Rai Trade (Sales), Via Umberto Novaro
18, 00195 Rome, Italy. Tel: 39.06.374
98469. Fax: 39.06. 37516222.
[email protected], www.raitrade.it
At Cannes: Roberto Di Russo (President
and Ceo), Andrea Portante (Sales and
Marketing Director), Sesto Cifola (Head
of Cinema and Fiction International
Sales), Giulia Filippelli (Cinema and
Fiction International Sales Executive),
Susanna Gianandrea (Promotion,
Corporate Image and International
Festivals)
Office: M 10- Riviera Palais Des Festival
IL CUORE ALTROVE (A HEART
ELSEWHERE)
(103 min)
Language: Original version with English
subtitles
Director: Pupi Avati
Production: Rai Cinema, Antonio Avati
for Duea Film
Cast: Neri Marcorè, Giancarlo Giannini,
Vanessa Incontrada, Sandra Milo, Guilio
Bosetti, Nino D?Angelo.
The film is set in the 1920s. Nello , a shy
academic type lives with his family in
Rome where his father is tailor to the
Pope.
PERLASCA (THE COURAGE OF A
JUST MAN)
(131 min)
subtitles
Director: Alberto Negrin
Co-production with Rai Fiction, Palomar
- Endemol, Focus Film- Budapest,
France 2/Hamster Productions- Paris,
SVT- Sveriges Television- Stockholm
Cast: Luca Zingaretti, Amanda Sandrelli,
Mathilda May
Set in Budapest towards the end of the
Second World War, this is based on the
true story of Giorgio Perlasca, the Italian
“Schindler” who risked everything to
save thousands of Jews from being
killed.
A SECOND CHANCE
(119 min)
subtitles
Director: Pasquale Squitieri
Production: Rai Cinema, Cosmopoli
Corporation
Cast: Giorgio Albertazzi,
Naples is a city of a thousand intrigues
and contrasts. De Gregorio is a cynical,
disillusioned and eccentric lawyer who
hates the squalor and meanness of the
city.
ANTONIA’S RECIPES
(96 min)
subtitles
Director: Tonino Cervi
Production: Rai Cinema, Splendida
Produzioni
Cast: Emanuela Muni, Gabriele Lavia,
Domiziana Giordano, Laura Betti, Andy
Luotto
The story, set in the 1900s, revolves
around a writer called Augusto and a
rather special cook.
TI DISPIACE SE BACIO MAMMA
(120 min)
subtitles
Director: Alessandro Benvenuti
Production: Rai Cinema, Massimo
Ferrero for Blu Cinematgografica
Cast: Alessandro Benvenuti, Natasha
Stefanenko
Sandro finds it difficult to get
romantically involved when he’s got
three over-curious sisters and a father
who is still chasing after every woman he
sees.
THE COOLER - CONTENT INTERNATIONAL
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RAMOJI FILMS USA
Ramoji Films USA, 7726 Laurel Canyon
Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91605 USA.
Tel: 818.255.5333. Fax: 818.255.5666.
www.ramojifilmcity.com
Company Type: Worldwide distribution,
production, co-production, financing, and
facilities available.
At Cannes: Ramoji Rao (Ramoji Film
City Chairman), Sridhar Sreekakula
Worldwide Sales & Marketing – cell:
001.646.258.8519), Chandra Pandula
(Acquisition & Development), Arun
Kumar (General Manager, International
Film Division)
Office: Palais 01- Stand 22.02
HOME INVADERS
Action/Drama
Delivery Status: New, Completed
Executive Produced by Spike Lee
Starring: Yancey Arias (from lead from
Kingpin), Keith David, Luis Guzmán)
A street punk is forced to join a
dangerous criminal ring. Great action,
gritty, and similar in style to Sopranos.
SEA OF RAGE
Thriller
A killer is loose. Thriller and suspense
action that takes place on board a
catamaran in the middle of the ocean, it
will leave you on the edge of your seat!
SEX AND THE TEENAGE MIND
Comedy (96 min)
Cast: Michael Ray Bower, Dinica
McKeller, Richard Karn, Dee Wallace
Stone
Country of Origin: filmed completely in
USA
An “American Pie” style of comedy that
shows us all strange and funny thoughts
that happen inside the mind of a teenage
boy.
MERCY OF THE SEA
Drama (112 min)
Cast: Martin Sheen, Renee Estavez, Mike
Bernardo
Country of Origin: filmed completely in
Europe
A touching story about children who are
separated from their family during a war,
and the mother who gives up everything
in order to search for them.
MY TUTOR FRIEND - CJ ENTERTAINMENT
TUJHE MERI KASAM
Language: Hindi language
Cast: Ritesh Deshmukh, Genelia
A heartwarming romantic comedy about
two friends who grow up as neighbors
and their misadventures in romance, only
to find out that the ideal mate is really
living across the street!
REGENT
ENTERTAINMENT
Regent Entertainment, 1401 Ocean
Avenue, Suite 300, Santa Monica,
California 90401 USA. Tel:
310.260.3333. Fax: 310.260.3343.
Company type: Producer and distributor
Web: www.regententertainment.com
At Cannes: Gene George (President,
Regent Entertainment), Mark Reinhart
(Senior V.P., Sales/Acquisitions), Jeff
Schenck (COO)
Office: Mobile: USA 310-804-9360
A GOOD NIGHT TO DIE
Crime Drama (90 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Craig Singer
Executive Producers: Jeffrey Schenck,
Gary Stretch, Mark R. Harris
Producers: Chris Williams, Paul
Colichman, Stephen P. Jarchow, Jeffrey
Schenck
Cast: Michael Rapaport, Gary Stretch,
Seymour Cassel, Robin Givens, Deborah
Harry, Ralph Macchio, James Russo,
Ally Sheedy, Lainie Kazan
Two screwed-up hit men trying to get out
of the mob business discover that one is
hired to kill the other.
FRIENDS AND FAMILY
Comedy (90 minutes)
Language: English
Producers: Linda Moran, Kristen Coury,
Joseph Triebwasser
Director: Kristen Coury
Cast: Tony Lo Bianco, Anna Maria
Alberghetti, Greg Lauren, Christopher
Gartin
Stephen and Danny are a gay couple in
Manhattan who have it all, until a
surprise visit from Stephen’s parents
threatens to blow the boys’ big secret.
CAVE IN
Action Disaster (90 minutes)
Language: English
Producers: Stephen P. Jarchow, Paul
Colichman, Jeffrey Schenck
Director: Rex Piano
Cast: Mimi Rogers, Ted Shackleford
A tough woman in charge of a large
mining operation learns that a massive
cave-in has trapped her husband and son
miles underground....in a tunnel that is
rapidly filling with water.
PARADISE VIRUS
Action Disaster (90 minutes)
Language: English
Producers: Stephen P. Jarchow, Paul
Colichman, Jeffrey Schenck, Brian
Trenchard-Smith
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Cast: Lorenzo Lamas, Ralf Moeller,
Melody Thomas-Scott
A virologist and her son, vacationing on
an island, race against time to prevent a
deadly virus from reaching the mainland.
TERROR PEAK
Action Disaster .(90 minutes)
Language: English
Executive Producers: Stephen P. Jarchow,
Paul Colichman, Jeffrey Schenck
Producers: Grant Bradley, Jozsef Fityus
Director: Dale G. Bradley
Cast: Parker Stevenson, Lynda Carter,
Antony Starr
While on tour in New Zealand, a thrillseeking family confronts the forces of
nature when the volcano they are
exploring becomes active.
RENAISSANCE
FILMS
Renaissance Films, 34-35 Berwick Street,
London W1F 8RP, UK. Tel:
44.20.7287.5190. Fax: 44.20.7478.5100.
[email protected].
www.renaissance-films.com
At Cannes: Angus Finney (Managing
Director), Claire Taylor (Head of
International Sales), Michaela Piper
(Head of Marketing & Publicity), Sophie
Janson (Head of Development &
Acquisitions)
Office: Villa Antoine, 3 rue Jean Baptiste
Dumas, Tel: 04.93.68.92.67 or
04.93.68.84.23, Fax: 04 93 99 81 90
THE MOTHER
Drama
Director: Roger Michell
Producer: Kevin Loader
Cast: Anne Reid, Daniel Craig
Delivery Status: Delivery June 2003
From the acid pen of Hanif Kureishi
comes another brilliant and shocking
slice of modern metropolitan life.
REX MEDIA
Rex Media, 17351 Sunset Blvd., Suite
304, Pacific Palisades, CA, 90272, USA.
Tel: 310.230.8420. Fax: 310.230.8520.
[email protected], rexfilms.com
distributor
At Cannes: George Lascu (President),
Cyndy Kuipers (VP); Acquisition
Executive: George Lascu
Office: Carlton Suite 145, Tel:
310.435.7383. Fax: 310.230.8520
RED SERPENT
Action/Adventure (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Eugen Tanasescu
Producer: Oleg Kapanets, George Lascu
Cast: Roy Scheider, Michael Paré, Oleg
Taktarov
Origin: USA
L.A. Office Phone
(323) 935-8228
L.A. Office FAX
(323) 935-8229
An American businessman caught in the
middle of a drug deal gone bad, must
race against time to survive a powerful
Russian Mafia Drug Lord.
ANTI-KILLER
Action Adventure (111 min)
Language: Russian
Director: Yegor MikhalkovKonchalovsky
Producer: Vladimir Kilburg, Yusup
Bakshhiev
Cast: Gosa Kytenko, Mikhail Ulyanov
Origin: Russia
Budget: 4 million $
#1 Box Office in Russia 2002. Criminal
investigator, Fox is released from prison
only to find that hit men are after him in
a tale of violence and redemption.
ANTI-KILLER 2
Action Adventure (95 min.)
Language: English
Director: Yegor MikhalkovKonchalovsky
Producer: Vladimir Kilburg, Yusup
Bakshhiev
Cast: Gosa Kytenko, Mikhail Ulyanov
Delivery Status: In-Production
Origin: Russia
Budget: 5 million $
Sequel to the successful Anti-Killer 1
BASE
Action Adventure (95 min.)
Language: English
Director: TBA
Producer: George Lascu, Cyndy Kuipers
Cast: TBA
Origin: USA
Budget: 7 million $
DARKNESS FALLING
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Dominic Shiach
Producer: Peter Simpson
Co-production partners:
Cast: Jason Priestley, Patsy Kensit, Paul
Johansson
Origin: Canada
Budget: 2 million $
A lawyer investigating the suicide of her
sister uncovers a sinister plot.
RIKI SHELACH
PRODUCTIONS LTD.
Riki Shelach Productions Ltd., 14 Beit
Zuri st.Tel-Aviv, 69122 Israel. Tel:
972.3.6429783 / 972.3.7329954. Fax:
972.3.6412648 / 972.3. 5739808.
[email protected]
Company Type: Sales agent / Production
At Cannes: Riki Shelach
Office: F 21 ( Israeli Pavilion), Tel:
972.52.508133
A TRUMPET IN THE WADI
Drama (97 min)
Language: Hebrew-Arabic
Director: Lina and Slava Chaplin
Producer: Riki Shelach
Cast: Alexander Senderovich, Khawlah
Debsy
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
Origin: Israel
Budget: $ 500,000
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.
ROAD SALES USA
Road Sales USA, 3599 Cahuenga Blvd.
West, Los Angeles, CA 90068 USA. Tel:
323.878.0404. Fax: 323.878.0486.
[email protected]
(President), Ms. Annouchka Lesoeur
(Vice President International Sales), Mr.
Eric Bernstein (Vice President of
THE BLUES
Documentary (7X 90 min.)
Language: English
Director: Charles Burnett, Clint
Eastwood, Martin Scorsese
Under the guiding hand of Executive
Producer Martin Scorsese, THE BLUES
is a series of impressionistic and
iconoclastic films- each director
exploring the music through his own
personal connections.
TEN MINUTES OLDER: THE
TRUMPET AND THE CELLO
Compilation Film (2X 85 min.)
Language: Various
Director: Victor Erice, Spike Lee,
Bernardo Bertolucci
Producer: Ulrich Felsberg, Nicolas
McClintock, Nigel Thomas
Delivery Status: Completed (2X 85 min.)
Country of Origin: Germany
Each of the distinguished directors has
been given ten minutes to present their
vision of the theme TIME.
S
SENATOR
INTERNATIONAL
Senator International, 8666 Wilshire
Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
USA. Tel: 310 360 1441. Fax: 310 360
1447.
At Cannes: Hanno Huth (CEO), Joe
Drake (President), Brian Goldsmith
(CFO and EVP of Operations), Pierre
Weisbein (EVP, Sales & Distribution),
Brent Jack (VP International Marketing),
Mali Kinberg (ales Coordinator),
Delphine Perrier (Manager, Business and
Legal Affairs, Contract Administration)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite 142, Tel:
33(0)4.97.06.86.00. Fax:
33(0)4.97.06.86.03
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY
Drama
Language: English
Writer/Director: Mary McGuckian
Producers: Michael Lionello Cowan,
Samuel Hadida, Garrett McGuckian,
Mary McGuckian, Denise O’Dell
Co-Producers: Jason Piette
Executive Producers: Jeff Abberley,
Craig Darian, Victor Hadida, Peter
James, Howard Kanzanjian, James
Simpson
Cast: Robert DeNiro, Kathy Bates,
Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray
Abraham, Pilar Lopez de Ayala,
Geraldine Chaplin
Set in the 18th century, is about a quest
for the reason behind the deaths of five
people caused by “the finest bridge in all
of Peru” mysteriously collapsing.
THE GRUDGE
Horror
Language: English
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Producers: Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Taka
Ichise
Centers on a murderous supernatural
curse, born from a grudge held by
someone who dies in the grip of
powerful anger.
HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO
WHITE CASTLE (WORKING
TITLE)
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Danny Leiner
Producer: Greg Shapiro
The ultimate comedy for the
disenfranchised. One night, two very
likeable underdogs determine that they
absolutely must have White Castle
hamburgers and set off on an
unbelievable quest to obtain them.
THE VIRGIN OF LIVERPOOL
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Lee Donaldson
Producers: Andrew Boswell, Vadim Jean
Cast: Ricky Tomlinson, Johnny Vegas,
Imelda Staunton, Paul Barber, Claire
Hackett, Tom Georgeson, Jake Abraham,
Ashley McKechnie, Katie Ellen Jones,
Reece Noi
Status: Screening
Country of Origin: UK/Germany
A dysfunctional family is turned upside
down when a precocious 12 year-old girl
brings home a Madonna effigy to save
her from demolition - only to discover
that miracles can happen when you least
expect them.
SHOCHIKU CO., LTD.
Shochiku Co., Ltd. 4-1-1 Tukiji, Togeki
Blg. 12th floor, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8422
Japan. Tel: 81.3.5550.1623. Fax:
81.3.5550.1654. [email protected].
Website: http://www.shochiku.com/film
(English), http://www.shochiku.co.jp
Company Type: sales, acquisition,
producer, distributor, exhibitor
At Cannes: Takeo Hisamatsu (Director),
Masahiko Seki (Director), Masaki Koga
(Manager, Sales, International Business
Division), Shinobu Suzuki (Manager,
THE BUSINESS OF
FILM
Los Angeles Office
5150 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles
California 90036
Acquisition, International Business
Division)
Office: Res. Grand Hotel - Albatros 1C,
Tel: 04.93.68.59.80
THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI
Drama, Samurai (129 min.)
Language: Japanese
Director: Yoji Yamada
Producer: Shigehiro Nakagawa, Hiroshi
Fukazawa, Ichiro Yamamoto
Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa,
Min Tanaka
Origin: Japan
Budget: $5,000,000
Competition film at Berlin 2003. Seibei
is a reserved low-ranking samurai, but he
gets involved in a dispute within the clan
and must take order of his lord to kill
WHEN THE LAST SWORD IS
DRAWN
Drama, Samurai (137 min.)
Language: Japanese
Director: Yojiro Takita
Producer: Hideshi Miayajima
Cast: Kiichi Nakai, Koichi Sato, Miki
Nakatani
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening at
Cannes
Origin: Japan
Budget: $4,000,000
Closing film at Tokyo Internatinal Film
Festival 2002. Inside “Shinsen-gumi,”
group of patriotic samurai, was
Yoshimura, the best swordsman among
its members, but also, anything but a
usual image of a samurai.
MOON CHILD
Action, Drama, Sci-Fi (119 min.)
Language: Japanese
Director: Takahisa Zeze
Producer: Takashi Hirano
Cast: Hyde, Gackt, Lee-Hom Wang,
Zeny Kwok
Cannes
Origin: Japan
Friends struggle to live facing trust, love
and betrayal, but what they do not know
is that one has hidden powers.
LOVE COLLAGE (TENTATIVE
TITLE)
Romantic drama (115 min.)
Language: Japanese
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Producer: Hiroki Ueda
Cast: Ryoko Hirosue, Ryuhei Matsuda
Cannes
Origin: Japan
A letter arrives from ex-girlfriend who
ought to be dead. It is an invitation for
her exhibition held in New York, where
she left to become a photographer.
TO DANCE WITH THE WHITE
DOG
Drama (99 min.)
Language: Japanese
Director: Takashi Tukinoki
Producer: Naotaka Yoshida
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Shiho Fujimura,
Kaho Minami
Origin: Japan
The old man after losing his wife is
surprised when a white dog suddenly
comes into his life and gives him reason
to live.
SHORELINE
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
Shoreline Entertainment, Inc., 1875
Century Park East, Suite 600, Los
Angeles, 90067 California USA. Tel:
310.551.2060. Fax: 310.201.0729.
Mobile phone: 310.985.2152.
[email protected].
www.shorelineentertainment.com
At Cannes: Morris Ruskin (President),
Steve Chicorel (Exec. VP Sales &
Marketing)
Office: Carlton Hotel, Room 147, Tel:
04.93.06.41.47
MOVING ALAN
Road movie/Comedy (85 min)
Language: English
Director: Christopher Shelton
Production Company: Roadkill
Productions
Producer: Ray Donohue & Andrew
Berman
Key Cast: : Marely Shelton, Samantha
Shelton, Misha Collins
Status: First market screening of
completed film
A ditsy young widow and her estranged
sister go on the road to get rid of Alan’s
body
A KIND OF AMERICA
Comedy (115 min)
Language: Hungarian, Subtitles English
Director: Gabor Herendi
Production Company: Skyfilm Studio
Producer: Gabor Herendi
Key Cast: Tibor Szervet, Csaba Pindroch,
Gyozo Szabo
completed film
Country of origin: Hungary
Three Hungarian Brothers will do
anything get an American film Producer:
to buy their script
THE ONLY HOTEL
Thriller (93 min)
Language: English
THE RED KNIGHT
FRANCE TELEVISIONS DISTRIBUTION
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
113
Production Company: Globocine
International Pictures
Producer: Ivan Francis ClementsDirector:
Stuart Collinge Collinge
Key Cast: :Haidee Augusta, Danielle
Budlong, Eric Redman
completed film
Escaping from muggers, a penniless
young woman barters work for shelter in
a gangster infested hotel.
PARASITE
Horror (95 min)
Language: English
Production Company: Fearnot and
Shoreline
Producer: Jason and Chris Kingsley
Director: Andrew Prendergast
Key Cast: : Saskia Gould, Conrad
Whitaker
Status: Completed
A mutated Parasite feeds on the crew of
an oil rig.
CENTIPEDE
Horror (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Gregory Gieras
Production Company: San Diego Films,
Ushakiron and Shoreline
Producer: Eileen Craft
Key Cast: Margaret Cash, Larry Casey
Status: Completed
Giant Centipedes attack a group of
adventure enthusiasts as they are
exploring a deep cave.
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),
Bruce Livingston (Chief Financial
Officer), Monica Vespe (Vice President,
International Sales), Shauna Shapiro
Jackson (Executive Vice President),
Leslee Jones-Allmon (Director
Worldwide Distribution Services), Cara
Shapiro (Vice President, Acquisitions),
Linda Paolucci (Sales Administration)
CROCKED LINE
CINEMAVAULT RELEASING INC.
Office: Carlton Hotel, Suites 241 & 242
– Phone 011.04.93.06.42.40
SUPER SUCKER
Comedy
Directed by Jeff Daniels
Produced by Tom Spiroff
Cast: Jeff Daniels (“Gods and Generals,”
“The Hours”), Matt Letscher (“Gods and
Generals,” “Good Morning Miami”),
Harve Presnell (“Legally Blonde,” “Mr.
Deeds,” “Patch Adams”) and Dawn Wells
(“Gilligan’s Island”)
A couple of door-to-door vacuum cleaner
salesmen compete for territory, when one
of them discovers new uses for his
vacuum cleaner attachments, thrilling
housewives beyond their wildest
imaginations!
SHELTER ISLAND
Erotic thriller
Directed by Geoffrey Schaaf
Produced by Paul Corvino, Allen Bain,
David Michaels III, Jesse Scolaro
Stars Patsy Kensit (“Twenty One,”
“Lethal Weapon 2”), Ally Sheedy
(Independent Spirit Award winner for
“High Art,” “The Breakfast Club,” “St.
Elmo’s Fire”), Stephen Baldwin (“Sex
Monster,” “Table One,” “Friends &
Lovers,” “The Usual Suspects”), Chris
Penn (Award winner for “The Funeral,”
“Stealing Harvard,” “Murder by
Numbers,” “Reservoir Dogs”).
After being mugged, a wealthy New York
woman retreats to her country estate with
her girlfriend. Everything goes terribly
wrong when they let a stranger into their
home during a storm.
LEFT BEHIND 2: TRIBULATION
FORCE
Action Thriller
Directed by Bill Corcoran
Produced by Nicholas D. Tabarrok and
Cloud Ten Pictures
Stars Kirk Cameron (“Left Behind,”
“Growing Pains”), Brad Johnson (“Left
Behind,” “Always,” “Nam Angeles,”
“Flight Of The Intruder”), Clarence
Gilyard ((“Left Behind,”
“Die Hard,” “Top Gun,” “Earthquake”),
Chelsea Noble (“Left Behind,” “Growing
Pains”), Gordon Currie, Janaya Stephens.
Sequel to the international sleeper hit
LEFT BEHIND, based on the best selling
book series that has sold copies
worldwide in numbers comparable to
Harry Potter.
AMY’S ORGASM
Romantic comedy
Directed by Julie Davis
Produced by Julie Davis and Fred
Kramer
Stars Julie Davis (“I Love You, Don’t
Touch Me”), Nick Chinlund (“Con Air,”
“Eraser, “ Disney’s “Te Kid”), Caroline
Aaron (“Deconstructing Harry,”
“Sleepless In Seattle,” “Primary Colors”),
Mitchell Whitfield (“Sgt. Bilko,” “My
Cousin Vinny”).
A 29 year old Ivy League educated selfhelp author grudgingly falls in love with
the ultimate womanizer, a radio shockjock who has a reputation for hitting on
his bimbo guests.
GIVING IT UP
Romantic Comedy
Directed by Christopher Kublan
Produced by Daniel Bigel & Michael
Mailer
Stars Mark Feurstein (“Two Weeks
Notice,” “What Women Want,” “Rules Of
Engagement” And The Lead In Tv’s New
Hit “Good Morning, Miami”), Ali Larter
(“Final Destination,” “Final Destination
2,” “Legally Blonde”), Dabney Coleman,
Amy Redford (Daughter Of Robert
Redford, “Maid In Manhatten”)
A handsome New York ad executive with
a harmless addition to the opposite sex
meets his match in a smart and beautiful
woman who wants nothing to do with
him.
SOFI FILM
PRODUCTION GMBH
Sofi Film Production GMBH,
Panoramaweg 7A, 41334 Nettetal,
Germany N.R.W.. Tel:
49(0)2153.40.25.40. Fax:
49(0)2153.40.25.41. [email protected]
At Cannes: Mark Tachalov (Producer)
Office: Riviera Hall, No. E-15 / F-16.
Tel: 33(0).4.92.99.32.26
THE RETURN FROM INDIA
Drama-Love Story (98 min)
Language: English.
Director: Menahem Golan.
Starring: Aki Avni, Riki Gal, Assi Dayan
Status: Completed
A strange and maybe impossible love
story between a young man (26) and an
older woman (50).
FINAL COMBAT
Family-Action-adventure (90 min)
Language: English
Starring: Tonny White, Sonia Couling,
Richard Lynch
Status: Completed
The story of the journey of a father and
son, Tonni and Ben, to find meaning in
their lives.
SUPER NINJA
Action, Martial Arts (90 min)
Language: English
Starring: Kely McClung, Gregory
Levayov, Richard Lynch
Tells the story of the going on behind the
scenes of the electronic industry.
ZAYA
Adventure- Love Story (100 min)
Language: English.
Starring: Maayan Keret, Sami Hori, Dan
Tourgeman.
Status: Completed.
Based on a true story that happened in
Morocco at the end of the 30`s. Zaya is a
young beautiful Jewish girl living in the
Atlas Mountains who is drawn to a
freedom that it not available in the
primitive Berber village.
THE VALLEY TRAIN
Drama- youth sex (90 min)
Language: Hebrew (Subtitles in English).
Starring: Neta Moran, Ami Ushpitz, Dan
Tourgeman.
Status: Completed.
The legendary `VALLEY TRAIN` from
Haifa to Damascus was abruptly halted
during the war of independence in 1948.
But the vivid memory of that train
remains.
SOLO
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP
Solo Entertainment Group, 9350 Wilshire
Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90275 USA. Tel:
310.205.6262. Fax: 310.205.6264.
www.solo-ent.com
Company Type: International Sales
At Cannes: Christian Halsey Solomon
(Partner), Lee Solomon (Partner), Glenn
Kendrick Ackermann (SVP, International
Sales and Distribution)
Office: Gray D’Albion, 3rd Fl., 17
Croisette, Tel: 04.93.99.80.51
NINE MILES DOWN
Psychological Thriller
Language: English
Director: Anthony Waller
SPICE FACTORY (UK)
LTD
Spice Factory (UK) Ltd, 81 The
Promenade, Peacehaven, Brighton, BN10
8LS, UK. Tel: 01273.585.275. Fax:
Company Type: Film Production
At Cannes: Michael Cowan (Joint
Managing Director), Jason Piette (Joint
Managing Director), Alex Marshall
(Head of Business Affairs, Lucy
Shuttleworth (Head of Development)
Office: Arclight Films / Vine
International Pictures
BOLLYWOOD QUEEN
Language: English
Director: Jeremy Wooding
Production company/s: Spice Factory
(UK) Ltd, Stretch Limo Productions,
Great British Films / Enterprise Films
Producer: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette,
Jeremy Wooding
Cast: Preeya Kalidas, James McEvoy, Ian
McShane
West Side Story set in East London with
bindis.
HONOUR THY FATHER
Drama
Language: English
Director: Jacob Berger
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Guillaume
Depardieu
ONE PERFECT DAY
Drama
Language: English
Director: Paul Currie
Producers Charles Morton (Lightstream
Films) Australia, Michael Cowan Jason
Piette (Spice Factory) UK
Cast: Andrew Howard, Daniel Spielman,
Leeanna Walsman, Kerry Armstrong,
Abbie Cornish
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
Year Of Production: 2002 Country of
Origin: UK, Australian
EMPEROR’S WIFE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Julien Vrebos
Producers: Emjay Rechsteiner (Staccato
Films) Dutch, San Fu Maltha (Fu Works)
Dutch, Jimmy De Brabant (Delux
Productions) Luxembourg, Michael
Cowan Jason Piette (Spice Factory) UK
Cast: Rosana Pastor, Jonathan Rhys
Meyers, Max Beesley
Delivery status: Post Production
Year Of Production: 2002
In the land of 1001 nights the law
dictates that the Emperor must take a
new wife if his current Empress does not
bear a son within seven years of
marriage.
JERICHO MANSIONS
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Alberto Sciamma
Production company/s: Spice Factory
(UK) Ltd, Milagro Films, Snowfall
Films, Transfilm Inc.
Producer: Jason Piette, Michael Cowan,
Jean-Marc Felio, Suzanne Lyons
Cast: James Caan, Jennifer Tilly,
Genevieve Bujold, Maribel Verdu
A murder in a NYC apartment building
leads its agoraphobic superintendent to
suspect himself of the killing.
STORM
ENTERTAINMENT
Storm Entertainment, 127 Broadway,
Suite 200, Santa Monica, CA. 90401
USA. Tel: 310.656.2500. Fax:
Company Description: independent film
finance, production and worldwide
distribution company
At Cannes: H. Michael Heuser (President
& CEO), Asadeh Khanedani (Manager,
International Distribution)
Office: Carlton Intercontinental Hotel
Cannes, Office # 234, 58, La Croisette B.P. 155, 06414 Cannes Cedex, France.
Tel: 33.04.93.06.42.34. Fax:
33.04.93.06.69.34
CRUSADE IN JEANS
Action/Adventure
Director: Ben Sombogaart
Producer: Kees Kasander
Executive Producer: H. Michael Heuser
Cast: To be announced
Brilliant scientists Jan and Joanne
Hefting have invented the Displacement
Chamber: a time machine. When their
16-year old son Dolf secretly
experiments with the time machine in the
lab of his parents, he is “shot” back in
time...
PREACHER
Action
Director: Rachel Talalay
Producer: Rupert Harvey
Executive Producers: H. Michael Heuser,
Tom Astor, Jim Reeve, Steve Robbins
Status: Start of Principal Photography:
June 2003
When a rupture in Heaven unleashes the
full power of God on a hapless
congregation, a small town minister with
a troubled past and an epic destiny finds
himself facing Demons, Angels, rednecks
and the Saint of Killers himself.
Credits not contractual
EMMA THOMPSON PRESENTS
JOHNNY HIT AND RUN PAULINE
Drama
Writer/Director: Fay Lellios Efrosini
Producer: H. Michael Heuser, Kees
Kasander
Executive Producer: Emma Thompson
Status: Start of Principal Photography:
August 2003
Young and beautiful Pauline meets the
handsome and suave Johnny at the
beach; her life is changed- Mansions,
Grand Hotels and...Abuse.
OUTLANDERS
Action/Thriller
Director: Dominic Lees
Producers Producers: Michael Riley,
Angus Lamont
Executive Producer: H. Michael Heuser
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Douglas Henshall,
James McAvoy, Dagmara Dominczyk
A series of murders are being committed
in Berlin amid the migrant worker
community.
SHINER
Action
Director: John Irvin
Producer: Geoffrey Reeve, Jim Reeve
Executive Producer: Laura Townsley,
Barry Townsley
Cast: Michael Caine, Martin Landau,
Frances Barber, Frank Harper, Andy
Serkis, Matthew Marsden, Claire
Rushbrook
Status: Completed. Cassettes available
Michael Caine stars as Billy SHINER
Simpson, a small time boxing promoter
with big ideas.
STUDIOCANAL
Studiocanal, Espace Lumière, 5-13 Bd de
la République, 92514 BoulogneBillancourt, France. Tel:
33.1.71.75.99.99. Fax: 33.1.71.75.89.86.
www.studiocanal.com
At Cannes: Muriel Sauzay, Christine
Ghazarian, John Kochman, Marie
Boudier, Saya Huddleston, Mylene
Cayol-Cythere
Office: Pavillon Riviera, Stand N5, Tel:
33.4.92.59.02.95. Fax: 33.4.92.59.02.73
COMME UNE IMAGE (L O O K A T
ME)
Language: French
Director: Agnès Jaoui
Production companies: Les Films A4
Production country: France
Lolita Cassard is unhappy and
overweight, and all she wants is her
father’s approval.
CONFIDENCES TROP INTIMES
(TOO MUCH INFORMATION)
Drama
Language: French
Director: Patrice Leconte
Producers: Alain Sarde
Production companies: Studiocanal
Leading Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire,
Fabrice Luchini
She goes to see a therapist and tells him
her problems in intimate detail. He
listens and she trusts him. But he’s not a
shrink, he’s a tax adviser. LE
CONVOYEUR (CASH TRUCK)
Comedy
Production companies: Eskwad
Producers: Richard Grandpierre
Production companies: Eskwad
Leading Cast: Albert Dupontel, Jean
Dujardin, François Berléand, Aure Atika
Vigilant, a small cash transportation
company, is in crisis. Three of its
armored trucks have been robbed in the
last year.
GENESIS
Documentary
Director: Claude Nuridsany and Marie
Pérénnou
Producers: Alain Sarde
An African storyteller recounts the world
‘s creation. A tall story like every tale.
But this is a real story since it relates our
past.
LA PROPHETIE DES
GRENOUILLES (RAINING CATS
AND FROGS)
Animation
Director: Jacques-Rémy Girerd
Production companies: Folimage,
Studiocanal, France 2 Cinéma, RhôneAlpes Cinéma
The frogs’ grim prophecy has become a
reality. Forty days and nights of rain see
Tom and Lili, heroes in short trousers,
stranded on a modern-day Noah’s ark.
dark personal life comes back to haunt
her as she investigates a string of grisly
murders.
DOT THE I
Drama
Director: Matthew Parkhill
Producers: George Duffield, Meg
Thomson
Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Natalia
Verbeke, James D’Arcy
The classic tale of a woman choosing
between passion and safety is seen
through multiple perspectives, and keeps
you guessing until the final twist.
GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS
Documentary
Director: James Cameron
Producers: Chuck Comski, Ed Marsh,
Gig Rackauskas
Cast: James Cameron, Bill Paxton
James Cameron’s deep sea adventure to
the final resting place of the Titanic
comes to life in this ground-breaking
documentary film.
I AM DAVID
Drama
Director: Paul Feig
Producers: Clive Parsons, Lauren Levine,
Davina Belling
Cast: Joan Plowright, Jim Caviezel, Ben
Tibber
Based on the best selling book, I AM
DAVID is an exhilarating tale of a
courageous young boy, who in 1951
escapes from a Stalinist prison camp to
walk across Europe and find freedom.
SUMMIT
ENTERTAINMENT
SURF FILM S.R.L.
Summit Entertainment, 1630 Stewart
Street, Suite 120, Santa Monica, CA
90404 USA. Tel: 310.309.8400. Fax:
310.828.4132.
At Cannes: Patrick Wachsberger
(President & CEO), Bob Hayward
(COO), David Garrett (Executive Vice
President), Erik Feig (President,
Production & Acquisitions), Harold van
Lier (Vice President, International Sales),
I.S. Film Distribution Executives
attending: Paula Endara (Vice President,
Marketing & Publicity ), Maitreya
Yasuda (Vice President,
Contracts/Business Affairs)
Office: 2, la Croisette, Tel:
33.4.93.99.80.83. Fax: 33.4.93.99.80.93
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Action-Adventure
Director: Frank Coraci
Producer: Hal Lieberman, Ed Saxon
Cast: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Cecile
de France
Jackie Chan takes an epic turn in this
extravagant adventure tale, based on the
Jules Verne classic.
BLACKOUT
Thriller
Director: Phillip Kaufman
Producers: Arnold Kopelson, Anne
Kopelson, Barry Baeres
Cast: Ashley Judd, Andy Garcia, Samuel
L. Jackson
A San Francisco homicide detective’s
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]. www.surfFilm.com
At Cannes: Mr. Massimo Vigliar
(President); Mrs. Stefania Carnevale
(foreign sales manager); Mrs. Agnès
Trincal (foreign sales executive); Mrs.
Elena Francot (Italian sales manager).
Office: Focus Italy - Anica (Riviera) C5 /
D4 - D1 /E8, Tel: 33.(0).4.92.99.88.15
THE END OF A MYSTERY (LA LUZ
PRODIGIOSA)
Art movie (102’)
Language: Spanish, Italian, Subtitles:
English
Director: Miguel Hermoso
Producer: Azalea Producciones
Cinematografica S.A. - Surf Film S.r.l.
Key Cast: Nino Manfredi, Alfredo
BUDDY - NONSTOP SALES AB
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
115
Landa, Kiti Manver
Status: Completed
Federico Garcia Lorca did not die after
an execution by Franco’s troops in
August 1936. Disfigured from the shot
which also made him amnesiac and
mentally disturbed, he lived many long
years without knowing who he really
was.....
NOWHERE
Art movie (110’)
Language: Italian, Spanish, English,
Subtitles: English, French
Director: Luis Sepúlveda
Producer: Surf Film (Italy) - Patagonik
Film Group (Argentina)- Castelao
Productions S.A. (Spain)
Key Cast: Harvey Keitel, Angela Molina,
Jorge Perugorria, Luigi Maria Burruano
Status: Completed
The secret services of a 1980s Latin
American dictatorship round up a group
of opponents. The prisoners are taken to
an old abandoned railway station in the
desert, called “Nowhere”.
A NIGHT WITH SABRINA LOVE
Art movie (99’)
Language: Spanish, Italian, subtitles:
English
Director: Alejandro Agresti
Producer: Patagonik Film Group
(Argentina) - Surf Film (Italy) - P.H.F
Film (Spain)
Key Cast: Cecilia Roth, Giancarlo
Giannini, Tomas Fonzi, Julietta Cardinali
Status: Completed
A young and bored seventeen years old
boy from a very small village in
Argentina, wins a night of love with the
porno star Sabrina.
THE PROTAGONISTS”
Art movie / drama (90’)
Language: English, Italian
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Producer: Surf Film in collaboration with
Medusa
Key Cast: Tilda Swinton, Andrew
Tiernan, Michelle Hunziker, Fabrizia
Sacchi
Status: Completed
London. One night in January 1994 two
students decided to commit the perfect
crime. They stop a stranger and brutally
murder him, then they return to normal
college life.
ORDER OVER JUSTICE - BAJO
BANDERA
Drama (106’)
Language: Spanish, Italian
ALEX & EMMA - FRANCHISE PICTURES
Director: Juan Josè Jusid
Producer: Prisma Film (Argentina) - Surf
Film (Italy)
Key Cast: Miguel Angel Solà, Federico
Luppi, Daniele Liotti , Omero Antonutti
Status: Completed
Argentina 1969. Major Molina is sent to
a remote garrison in south Patagonia to
investigate the brutal murder of a soldier,
Lito.
T
TANDEM
COMMUNICATIONS
GMBH
Tandem Communications GmbH,
Josephspitalstrasse 15, 80331
Munich/Bavaria, Germany. Tel:
49.89.96.22.83.00. Fax:
49.89.96.22.83.10. [email protected].
www.tandemcom.de
Company Type: Production &
Distribution
At Cannes: Rola Bauer (Managing
Director), Irina Ignatiew (Head of Intl.
Sales), Stefan Brunner (Business and
Financial Affairs); Acquisition Executive:
Irina Ignatiew
Office: “La Brise”; 25, La Croisette, 5th
floor, Tel: 33.04.92.98.95.09
SUMURU
Sci-Fi (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Darrell James Roodt
Producer: Stefan Jonas, Rola Bauer, Tim
Halkin
Co-production partners: 1. Towers of
London for RTL
Cast: Alexandra Kamp, Michael Shanks
Origin: Germany & South Africa
Budget: 4,000,000 $ US
Two astronauts land on far away planet,
that was colonized centuries ago finding
out that women are the ruling class.
POST IMPACT
Action-Adventure (110 min)
Language: English
Director: Christopher Schrewe
Producer: Phil Roth, Rola Bauer, Tim
Halkin
Co-production partners: (German
Network) UFO Films & RTL Television
for RTL (German Network)
Cast: Bettina Zimmermann, Dean Cain;
Delivery Status: in Production
Year of Production: 2003. Country of
Origin: Germany & Bulgaria & UK &
Spain;
Budget: 5,000,000 $ US
After the strike of a meteor, the European
Continent is ice-covered; few survivors
travel to the cold zone to locate a device
that could give mankind new hope.
A LIGHT IN DARK PLACES
Action-Drama (2x2 hrs. Mini Series)
Language: English
Director: Kaspar Heidelbach
Producer: Michael Souvignier, Sam
Davis, Martin Zimmermann
Co-production partners: Produced by
Zeitsprung Production for SAT 1
(German Network) Worldwide
Distribution by Tandem Communications
GmbH
Cast: Heino Ferch, Jan Josef Liefers,
Heike Makatsch
Delivery Status: in Production
Year of Production: 3. 2003, Country of
Origin: Germany
Budget: 6,500,000 $US;
The story of two miners, who happen to
be trapped 180 ft underground fighting to
stay alive as the world watches and
prays.
JOHANNA THE POPE
Historical Drama (2x2 hrs. Mini Series)
Language: English
Director: TBC
Producer: Rola Bauer, Tim Halkin
Co-production partners: Towers of
London & Telepool for ARD (German
Network)
Delivery Status: in Development
Origin: Germany & UK
Budget: 20,000,000 $ US
The story of a young girl raised in 9th
century Saxony, whose one day’s destiny
is to become the first and only female
pope.
THE RING (WORKING TITLE)
Historical Drama (2 x 96 min MiniSeries and 1 x 120 min theatrical feature)
Language: English
Director: Uli Edel (TBC)
Producer: Rola Bauer, Tim Halkin
Delivery Status: in Development
Country of Origin: Germany & South
Africa
Budget: 18,000,000 $ US
Invincible by a powerful sword,
invulnerable by a dragon’s blood,
invisible by a magic helmet: Siegfried
might win all the world’s gold an glory.
If he hadn’t taken THE RING
TELEPOOL
Telepool, Sonnenstrasse 21, Munich,
80331 Germany. Tel: 49.89.558.76.0.
Fax: 49.89.558.76.188. www.telepool.de.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Dr. Thomas Weymar
(General Managing Director), Marc
Gabizon (Deputy Managing Director),
Dr. Cathy Rohnke (Deputy Managing
Director), Wolfram Skowronnek (Sales
Executive), Silke Wilfinger (Acquisition
Executive)
Office: Palais Riviera L1/M2, Tel: 04,92
993307
ANGST (DER ALTER AFFE ANGST)
Drama (95 min)
Origin: Germany
Language: German
Director: Oskar Roehler
Co-Production Partners: TV 60 Film
Producer: Neue Bioskop Film
Key Cast: Marie Bauemer, André
Hennicke,Vadim Glowna
A modern lovestory, as unusual as life
itself.
KISS AND RUN
www.kissandrun.de
Language: German
Director: Annette Ernst
Producer: Stoked Film
Key Cast: Ken Duken, Maggie Peren,
Anja Herden, Hinnerk Schoenemann
Origin: Germany
An actress, a drifter and their love for
movies
MY LAST FILM (MEIN LETZTER
FILM)
Drama (90 min)
Director: German
Language: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Co-Production Partners: Multimedia
GmbH
Producer: Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt
Key Cast: Hannelore Elsner, Wanja Mues
Origin: Germany
This is Marie’s last film; the last solo
performance of a grand actress.
THE WORKS
The Works, 4 Great Portland Street,
London W1W 8QJ UK. Tel:
44.20.7612.1080. Fax: 44.20.7612.1081.
At Cannes: Aline Perry (CEO ), Joy
Wong (Head of International Sales),
Rebecca Kearey (Head of Marketing and
Distribution), Clare Crean (Senior Sales
Executive)
Office: 4th Floor, Residence du Grand
Hotel (entrance ‘Flamant’), 45 La
Croisette Tel: 04.93.39.49.41
REMEMBER ME
Drama
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Producer: Domenico Procacci
Cast Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura
Morante, Monica Bellucci, Nicoletta
Romanoff & Silvio Muccino
Delivery Status: Market Screening
The study of a seemingly content middleclass household whose individual crises
tug at the seams of their fragile family
unit.
IN THIS WORLD
Drama
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Producers: Andrew Eaton & Anita
Overland
Cast: Jamal Udin Torabi & Enayatullah
Delivery Status: Market Screening
A road movie documenting the journey
of two Afghanis travelling from
Peshawar, Pakistan to London.
COUNTRY OF MY SKULL
Drama
Director: John Boorman
Producers Robert Chartoff, Mike
Medavoy, Lynn Hendee & Kieran
Corrigan
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette
Binoche & Brendan Gleeson
Country Of My Skull is a story charting
the unfathomable depths of human
cruelty and the redeeming power of
forgiveness and love.
CODE 46
Futuristic Drama
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Producer: Andrew Eaton
Cast: Tim Robbins & Samantha Morton
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Set in the near future, Code 46 is a
compelling tale of forbidden love.
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS
Comedy-Drama
Director: Writer Stephen Fry
Producers Gina Carter & Miranda Davis
Cast: Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily
Mortimer, Michael Sheen, Dan Aykroyd,
Jim Broadbent, Stockard Channing, Peter
O’Toole, Simon Callow, Jim Carter,
Richard E Grant & David Tennant
Delivery Status: In Post-Production
Adapted from the Evelyn Waugh novel
‘Vile Bodies’. Bright Young Things
revolves around a set of friends whose
wild and shocking antics cause them to
crash and burn in their search for newer
and faster sensations.
THOMPSON STARR
ORGANIZATION
Thompson Starr Organization, 20211
Sherman Way, Ste. 1705, Beverly Hills,
CA 90210 USA. Tel: 8l8.998. 8l26. Fax:
8l8.773.8962. [email protected]
Company Type: Distributor & Sales
Agents
At Cannes: Joey Thompson (President),
Jen Starr (Sales), Chaya Finton
(Marketing), George Thompson
(Acquisitions)
Office: Hotel Bleu Rivage - 6l La
Croisette, 06400 Cannes. Tel:
4.93.94.24.25 – at Palais: 93.39.0l.0l,
Fax: 4.93.43.74.92
BLITZKRIEG BOP
Family (62 min)
Language: English
Cast: Blondie, The Dead Boys, The
Ramones
Budget: High end
The glory days of Punk Rock explosion
with Blondie.
NASHVILLE SOUND
Family (90 min)
Language: English
Cast: Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Loretta
Lyn
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening
Budget: High End
Back to best days of country music on
44th anniversary of Grand Old Opry.
SCRUGGS AND FRIENDS
Family (90 min)
Language: English
Producer: David Hoffman
Cast: Earl Scruggs, The Byrds, Bob
Dylan
Delivery Status: screening
Budget: High end
Scruggs performs fusion of country and
rock with Charlie Daniels and friends.
WEEKEND REBELLION
Family (85 min)
Language: English
Cast: Grand Funk Railroad, The Tams,
Swinging Medallions
Budget: High End
LIBRARY
125 Titles. Predominantly English
speaking, with great classic feature films
and rare titles.
TRANSIT FILM
GMBH
Transit Film GmbH, Dachauer Str. 35,
80335 Munich, Germany. Tel:
49.89.599885.0. Fax: 49.89.599885.20.
[email protected].
www.transitfilm.de
Company Type: Worldsales, Distribution,
Production company
At Cannes: Loy W. ARNOLD (Managing
Director), Acquisition Executives: Mark
GRUENTHAL (Head of Sales)
Office: Tel.: Mr. Arnold:
49.171.85.36.361
FASSBINDER IN HOLLYWOOD
Director: Robert FISCHER
Producer: Fiction Factory, Munich
Co-production partners: Crossed Arrows
& Bayerischer Rundfunk
Cast: Ulli Lommel, Michael Ballhaus,
Hanna Schygulla, Wim Wenders
Year of Production: 2002, County of
Origin: Germany
Fassbinder was influenced greatly by
American Studio films of the 1950s. Ulli
Lommel and Documentary Filmmaker R.
Fischer conducts a tour of Hollywood.
Fassbinder´s influence on Hollywood is
still being felt today.
METROPOLIS
by Fritz Lang
Silent Feature Film (118 min)
Language: Intertitles in English, German,
French, Spanish and Italian (DVD)
Director: Fritz Lang
Producer: Original Version: UniversumFilm AG (Ufa), 1925/26
Restored and Reconstructed Version on
DVD 2001: Transit Film, Munich and
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation,
Wiesbaden
Distribution Partners: USA: Kino
International/New York Great Britain:
Eureka/London
Germany: Transit Classics, distributed by
Universum Film/Munich and Blackhill
Pictures/Hamburg
Spain: Divisa Red/ Madrid
Australia: Potential Films/Sydney
Cast: Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf
Klein-Rogge, Gustav Fröhlich, Fritz
Rasp
Year of Production: Original Version:
1925/26, Restored and Reconstructed
Version with Original Music Score by
Gottfried Huppertz: 2001, County of
Origin: Germany
Fritz Lang´s METROPOLIS out on
DVD. This 2 DVD Set includes 43
Minute documentary on the making of;
Feature: The Digital Restoration; Photo
galleries; Biographies; Surround sound
of new orchestral score; Audio
Commentary
TRANS-PACIFIC
MEDIA
Trans-Pacific Media, 8491 Sunset
Boulevard, Suite 800, Los Angeles, CA
90069 United States. Tel: 323.654.4933.
Fax: 323.654.4921.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Laurie Woodrow (President),
Dan Griffiths (Senior Vice-President)
Office: 47 La Croisette, Cormoran 2, 3rd
Floor, Tel: 04.93.68.59.95
TROMA
ENTERTAINMENT
Troma Entertainment, 733 Ninth Avenue,
New York, NY 10019 USA. Tel:
212.757.4555 ext.30. Fax: 212.399.9885.
www.troma.com/sales. [email protected]
At Cannes: Lloyd Kaufman (President of
Troma Entertainment), Jonathan Lees
(Director of International Sales), Jamie
Harvey (Film Buyer), Robert O’Dell
(Film Buyer), Dan Martin (Sales
Assistant)
Office: F-13 (Riviera), Tel:
33.(0)4.92.99.33.10
ALL THE LOVE YOU CANNES
Director: Sean McGrath, Gabriel
Friedman, Lloyd Kaufman
Cast: The Troma Team & Friends
Status: Completed
A hilarious, thought provoking, and
entertaining twist on marketing and
promoting your truly independent vision
at Cannes.
APOCALYPSE SOON
Director: Gabriel Friedman
Cast: Dave Mattey, Heidi Sjursen, Lloyd
Kaufman
Status: Completed
A no holds barred look at Lloyd
Kaufman and the Troma Team’s
misadventures during the filming of
Citizen Toxie.
TALES FROM THE CRAPPER
Erotic-Comedy/Horror/Sci-Fi/Action
(100 min)
Director: India Allen, Lloyd Kaufman,
Dave Paiko, Doug Sakmann, Brian Spitz
Cast: Julie Strain, Arban Ornelas, Lloyd
Kaufman
Status: Completed
An anthology featuring sinister vampire
strippers, a man-eating penis, and the
largest amount of breasts ever in Troma’s
thirty-years.
TRUST FILM SALES
Trust Film Sales, Avedoere Tvaevej 10,
Filmbyen 12, Hvidovre, 2650 Denmark.
Tel: 45.36.86.87.01. Fax: + 45 36 77 44
48. www.trust-film.dk, [email protected]
At Cannes: Annakarin Ström (CEO),
Tine Klint (Sales and Projekt Coordinator), Peter Aalbaek Jensen (Sales
Assistant), Rikke Ennis (TV - Sales
Executive), Lissy Bellaiche (Festival
Consultant)
Office: Tel: 45 25 39 84 94, Fax:
45.22.22.80.60
DOGVILLE
Drama (177 min)
Language: English
Director: Lars von Trier
Co-Production Partners: Danish Film
Institute, DR, Slot Machine, Arte France
Cinema, France 3 Cinema, Canal+,
Euroimages, Is
Producer: Vibeke Windeløv
Key Cast: Nicole Kidman and more
CABIN FEVER - LIONS GATE FILMS INTERNATIONAL
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
117
Budget: 10 mill. USD
Origin: Danish
Set in an American town in the Rocky
Mountains in the 1930s. Lars von Trier
re-explores the concept of goodness.
INHERITENCE (ARVEN)
Drama (106 min)
Language: Danish
Director: Per Fly
Co-Production Partners: Danish Film
Instituth e, Norwegian Film Institute,
Nordisk Film & TV Fond, TV2 Denmark
and Egmont Ente
Producer: Ib Tardini
Key Cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Lisa
Werlinder, Ulf Pilgaard, Ghita
Nørby,Lars Brygmann,
Karina Skands,Peter Steen, Diana
Axelsen, Jesper Christensen, Dick Kaysø
Budget: 18,6 mill. DK Kr.
Origin: Danish
INHERITANCE is the second film in Per
Fly’s trilogy depicting three layers of
Danish society; this story deals with the
wealthy elite.
DOGS AND DEER: DOGVILLE
CONFESSIONS
Director: Danish / English
Language: Sami Sarif
Producer: Carsten Holst
Key Cast: Lars von Trier, Nicole
Kidman, Lauren Bacall
Budget: 365.000 Euro
Origin: Danish
Behind the scene, of the intense drama
during the making of “Dogville”
U
UNIFIED FILM
ORGANIZATION
Unified Film Organization, 100 E. Cedar
Avenue, Building 16, Burbank, CA 91502
USA. Tel: 818.846.0465. Fax:
818.846.0256.
At Cannes: Jeffery Beach (President),
Phillip Roth (C.E.O.), TJ Sakasegawa
(VP Production and Distribution)
Office: Palais des Festival, Riviera Stand
No. J8
PHANTOM FORCE
1868 - OVERSEAS FILM GROUP
Action Adventure
Delivery Status: in production
A portal to the underworld is opened and
a special team of operatives must save
the world from supernatural forces.
DRAGON STORM
Action Adventure
Cast: Maxwell Caulfield, John RhysDavies
A brood of dragons attack a kingdom and
a group of mismatched but talented
villagers is formed to destroy them.
TORUS
Action Adventure
Cast: David Keith, Billy Dee Williams
Is it God? A machine? Weapon?
Questions fly after a rocky, towering
structure known as a ‘torus’ bursts up
from the ground in Russia.
In this modern day adaptation of the
Dostoyevsky novel, a struggling law
student confesses a gruesome crime in an
attempt to free his tormented soul.
NIGHTMASTER
Language: English
Director: Mark Joffee
Producer: Robert Sanders, Peter Ramster,
Grahame Jennings
Cast: Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge),
Tom Jennings, Vince Martin
Six select students from the leading
karate school play private night games,
sharpening their defense skills, until their
games turn deadly.
V
Vitagraph, Via Schiavonia 1, Bologna,
40121, Italy. Tel: 39.051.267150. Fax:
39.051.267310. [email protected] www.vitagraph.it
Company Type: Sales agent, distributor
At Cannes: Filippo D’Angelo (Managing
Director), Acquisition Executive: Filippo
D’Angelo (Managing Director)
Office: Village INT’L - Media Program
Pavilion, Tel: (reception desk)
33.4.92590220
THE LAST PISTOLERO
Western Comedy (9 min)
Language: original version English
Subtitled
Director: Alessandro Dominici
Producer: CKS cinema e comunicazione
& Ass. Culturale Celluloide Coproduction partners:
Cast: Franco Nero
Origin: Italy
Budget: $ 30.000,00
A man roves the open space of an
abandoned industrial complex. Wearing a
hat, boots and belt, the last pistolero is
ready to face his final challenge...
A BORDER OF MIRRORS
Language: original version English
Subtitled
Director: Stefano Savona
Producer: Alessandro Arangio Ruiz
(Tipota Movie Company) & Maat
Produzioni
Origin: Italy
Budget: $ 100.000,00
Sicilian emigrants in Tunisia and
Tunisian emigrants in Sicily, exchanges
and flows: the daily life of a precarious
life on the borderline.
SPECTRUM DIAMOND - THE
MYTH AND THE LEGEND OF
MATTHEW SMITH
Language: English and Finnish spoken
with English subtitles
Director: Opificio Ciclope
Producer: Opificio Ciclope Coproduction partners: Tele+ (Italy); YLE
(Finland)
Origin: Italy
Budget: $ 70.000,00
VISION FILMS
Vision Films, 4626 Lemona Avenue,
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA. Tel:
818.784.1702. Fax: 818.788.3715.
[email protected]
At Cannes: Lise Romanoff (Managing
Director Worldwide Sales), Andre Relis
(Director of International Sales), Lauren
Proctor (Distribution Coordinator)
Office: Noga Hotel
SPANISH JUDGES
Action Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Oz Scott
Producer: Prosperity Pictures
Cast: Mathew Lillard, Vincent
D’Onofrio, Valeria Golina
Mayhem breaks loose when a young
ruthless con man talks his way into a
scam involving stolen antique guns. Only
one person will walk out alive.
BABERELLAS
Sexy Sci-fi Spoof (87 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Chuck Cirino
Producer: Alexia Cirino
Cast: Shauna O’Brian, Julie K. Smith,
Sasha Peralta, Julie Strain
Four beautiful over-sexed girls save Earth
from the axis of evil.
THE EROTIC FILM COLLECTION
OF JAG MUNDHRA
Erotic Thriller (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jag Mundhra
Producers: Jag Mundhra and Victor
Bhalla
Cast: Lee Anne Beaman, Tahnee Welch,
Steven Bauer, Richard Tyson, Jennifer
McShane
6 feature films: MONSOON, SHADES
OF GRAY, IRRESISTIBLE IMPULSE,
TAINTED LOVE, IMPROPER
CONDUCT.
CRIME & PUNISHMENT
Drama/ Thriller (90 min.)
Language: English
Producer: Evgeny Afineevsky &
Menahem Golan
Cast: Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Vanessa
Redgrave, Margo Kidder
VITAGRAPH
One day, at school, Mattew Smith fiddles
with a Tandy, a nearly serious computer:
he becomes the programmer of the bestselling videogame for ZX Spectrum, JET
SET WILLY.
VORTEX PICTURES
Vortex Pictures, 9420 Wilshire Blvd.,
Suite 250, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 USA.
Tel: 310.278.1450. Fax: 310.278.0885.
[email protected].
www.vortexpictures.com
At Cannes: Paul Brooks (President),
Scott Niemeyer (CFO), Dean Shapiro
(Sales Executive), Jennifer Cusentino
(Int’l Marketing Mgr), Erica Motley,
Suzanne Barron (Sales)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite 137 & 138,
Tel: 33.04.97.06.85.45. Fax:
33.04.97.06.85.89
ROLLING KANSAS
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Thomas Haden Church
Producer: Norm Waitt, Paul Brooks, Jeff
Levine
Cast: Rip Torn, James Roday, Charlie
Finn
Origin: USA
Rolling Kansas is the story of the three
brothers Murphy and their two best
friends who set out on a hilarious journey
in search of a mythical “Magical Forest
of Marijuana”.
DYSFUNKTIONAL FAMILY
Comedy (95 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: George Gallo
Producer: Paul Brooks, David Purmet,
Eddie Griffin
Cast: Eddie Griffin
Origin: USA
Eddie Griffin’s “DysFunKtional Family”
is his hilarious comic stand-up routine
intercut with cinéma vérité scenes of his
actual family that lends insight into his
impersonations and insights on society.
POOLHALL JUNKIES
Language: English
Director: Mars Callahan
Producer: Karen Beninati, Vincent
Newman, Tucker Tooley
Cast: Christopher Walken, Chazz
Palminteri, Rod Steiger, Rick Schroder
Origin: USAIn the violent world of high
stakes pool, Johnny’s betting the bank on
a clean break.
THE MAN FROM ELYSIAN FIELDS
Drama (105 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: George Hickenlooper
Producer: Andy Garcia, Donald
Zuckerman, Andrew Pfeffer
Cast: Andy Garcia, Mick Jagger, Olivia
Williams, James Coburn, Julianna
Marguiles
Delivery Status:
Origin: USA
Byron Tiller (Andy Garcia) could please
any woman...except the one he loved.
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3
EMMETT’S MARK
Language: English
Director: Keith Snyder
Producer: Graham Taylor, Brad Fuller,
Franny Baldwin Benullo
Co-production partners: Taylor/Fuller
Production, Genuine Article Pictures
Cast: Scott Wolf, Gabriel Byrne, Tim
Roth
Origin: USA
Police Detective Emmett Young has three
days to solve a brutal murder...his own.
W
WEG INDIA
WEG India, 8 Palm Crest, Main Avenue,
Santacruz (West), Mumbai 400-054,
India. Tel: 9122.26051011 / 26051842.
Fax: 9122.26052621. [email protected].
www.dvdworldwide.com
At Cannes: Avinaash Jumani
(International Sales & Acquisitions),
Amit Jumani (International Sales &
Acquisitions), Kavi Jumani (International
Sales & Acquisitions), Ranchor Jumani
(International Sales & Acquisitions)
Office: Riviera - Booth # J6, Tel:
06.75710630
JISM - THE DARK SIDE OF
DESIRE
www.jismthefilm.com
Thriller / Romance (133 min)
Director: Amit Saxena
Producer: Pooja Bhatt
Key Cast: John Abraham, Bipasha Basu
& Gulshan Grover
Delivery Status: Completed, Market
Screenings
Country of Origin: India, Year of
Production: 2003
Kabir Lal, a restless, reckless alcoholic
lawyer, has a chance encounter with
Soniya Khanna a young, sexy and
dangerously ambitious wife of middleaged industrialist Rohit Khanna. The
sexual chemistry between the couple
intensifies their relationship.
SUPARI
Action Drama (125 min)
Director & Producer: Padam Kumar
Key Cast: Uday Chopra, Nandita Das,
Rahul Dev, Nauheed, Purab Kohli, Akash
Saigal and Irfan Khan
Delivery Status: Completed, Market
Screenings
Production: 2003
Easy money was what a group of best
friends Aryan, Papad, Chicken and
Mushy wanted. And one person who
showed them the easiest way to make all
their dreams come true was the
mysterious woman Mamta.
YEH LAMHE JUDAAI KE
Romance / Drama
Director: B. Tiwari
Producer: Vishva Light & Sound Ltd.
Key Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Raveena
Tandon, Amit Kumar, Divya, Mohnish
Behl, Kiran Kumar & Anupam Kher
Production: 2003
Love, romance and memories have
always played a special role in one’s life.
A love story of an upcoming singer and
his promoter. Success and confusion gets
in between their romantic future as a
couple.
CHURA LIYAA HAI TUMNE
www.clht.com
Thriller / Romance (144 min)
Director: Sangeeth Sivan
Producer: PFH RAVE
Key Cast: Zayed Khan, Esha Deol, Sahil
Ankola, Rakhi Sawant, Vijay Raaz &
Gulshan Grover
Production: 2003
Tina is urgently summoned to Bangkok,
where she is told that her uncle has died
in an accident. She is shocked to learn
that her uncle was wanted in India for a
massive gold heist.
DHUND - THE FOG
Thriller / Suspense (135 min)
Director: Shyam Ramsay
Producer: Yashovardhan Tyagi
Key Cast: Amar Upadhya, Aditi
Gowitrikar, Apoorva Agnhhotri, Divya
Palat, Shweta Menon, Prem Chopra &
Gulshan Grover
Production: 2003
A group of college friends become the
target of an unknown serial killer who
keeps a close eye on them to take
revenge one by one.
WILD BUNCH
Wild Bunch, 99 rue de la Verrerie, 75004
Paris, France. Tel: 33.1.53.01.50.24 /
33.1.53.01.50.49
At Cannes: World Sales: Vincent
Maraval, Carole Baraton, Gaël Nouaille;
Co production financing: Juliette Renaud
Office: Sales Office: 3 La Croisette, 2nd
floor, Tel: 33.4.93.99.84.54. Fax:
33.4.93.99.85.11. Marketing Office: 6 La
Croisette, 4th floor, door on the right,
Tel: 33.4.93.99.85.10. Fax:
33.4.93.99.85.08
ALEXANDRA’S PROJECT
Directed by Rolf de Heer
Cast: Gary Sweet, Helen Buday, Bodgan
Koca
Steve arrives home on his birthday to
find his family gone. His wife has left
him a videotape. Alone in the house, he
starts to watch...
THE CAT RETURNS
A Studio Ghibli Film
Directed by Hiroyuki Morita
Produced by Toshio Suzuki and Nozomu
Takahashi
A spellbinding animation fantasy from
Studio Ghibli, a tale of enchantment and
adventure from the producers of Hayao
Miyazaki’s Academy Award-winning
“Spirited Away”.DEAD END
A horror film by Jean- Baptiste Andrea
and Fabrice Canepa
Producer: James Huth (Serial Lover, La
Marque Jaune)
Cast: Ray Wise (Twin Peaks), Alexandra
Holden, Lin Shaye (There’s Something
About Mary), Mick Caine, Amber Smith,
Billy Asher
A savagely funny, black-as-night
supernatural thriller: Christmas becomes
a living hell as the Harrington family is
torn bloodily apart.
DEVILS (LES DIABLES)
Director: Christophe RUGGIA
Cast: Adèle Haenel, Vincent Rottiers,
Rochdy Labidi, Jacques Bonaffe, Aurélia
Petit.
Chloé is 13 and mute, entirely dependent
on her younger brother, Joseph. Driven
by his limitless love for her, Joseph does
whatever it takes to keep them together.
PERSONA NON GRATA
Director: Oliver Stone
Production: Rule 8, Wild Bunch, Ixtlan
Cast: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Ariel
Sharon, Ehud Barak, Benjamin
Netanyahu
March 2002. Israelis and Palestinians at
war. Diplomacy deadlocked. Violence
escalating. In search of first-hand
perspectives, Oliver Stone leads a
documentary crew into the very heart of
the conflict.
WINCHESTER FILMS
Winchester Films, 19 Heddon St., W1B
4BG, London, United Kingdom. Tel:
0207.851.6500. Fax: 0207.851.6505.
[email protected].
www.winchesterent.com
Company Type: Sales agent, distributor,
film finance
At Cannes: Gary Smith (CEO), Hadeel
Reda (CEO LA Office), Billy Hurman
(snr VP sales and marketing), Andrew
Brown (snr VP sales and marketing),
Gareth Jones (Head of UK Film
Production and Finance); Acquisition
Executive: Mick Southworth (CEO of
Distribution)
Office: Noga Hilton, Presidential Suite
305, Tel: 33.4.92.99.75.66. Tel:
33.4.92.99.75.67. Fax: 33.4.92.99.75.68
THE NIGHT WE CALLED IT A DAY
Drama (100 mins)
Language: English
Director: Paul Goldman
Producer: Nik Powell, Emile Sherman,
Peter Clifton
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith,
David Hemmings
Delivery Status: Completed-World
Premiere
Year of Production: 2002-3, Country of
Origin: Australia/UK
Budget: $8 million.
The true story of Frank Sinatra’s 1974
Australian tour during which he managed
to alienate a whole nation.
HARV THE BARBARIAN
Comedy
Language: English
Director: TBC
Producer: Winchester Films
Cast: TBC
Origin: UK
Budget: $16 million
A Monty Pythonesque tale of a simpleminded barbarian who goes on an epic
journey of self-discovery.
RED DWARF
Comedy (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Doug Naylor
Producer: Charles Armitage
Cast: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny
John-Jules
Origin: UK
Budget: $ 15 million
A comedy based on the globally
successful sci-fi comedy TV adventure
series.
HOLLYWOOD NORTH
Comedy (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Peter O’Brian
Producer: John Gillespie
Cast: Alan Bates, Mathew Modine,
Jennifer Tilly
Origin: Canada/UK
Budget: $ 3.5 million
A comedy drama about a smart,
handsome and successful lawyer.
Nothing had ever stood in his way...until
he decided to make a movie!
SCORCHED
Comedy
Language: English.
Director: Gavin Grazer.
Producer: Neverland Films, Al Corly,
Bart Rosenblatt.
Cast: John Cleese, Woody Harrelson,
Alicia Silverstone, Rachel Leigh Cook.
Origin: USA
Budget: $15 million
Three small town bank employees all
unwittingly make plans to rob the bank
during the same weekend.
NINE LIVES - NUIMAGE
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Y
YORK
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL
York Entertainment International,
4565 Sherman Oaks Ave., Sherman Oaks,
CA 91403 USA. Tel: 818.788.4050.
Fax: 818.788.4011.
www.yorkentertainment.com
At Cannes: Gregg Ratinoff (Director of
Office: Noga Hilton, Room 303, Tel:
33(0).492997000
SCARECROW - SLAYER
Action-Horror
Starring Tony Todd (Candyman)
Delivery Status: Completed, ready for
delivery June 1, 2003
A college freshman is killed during a
fraternity prank and is resurrected as a
demonic Scarecrow. Seeking twisted
revenge, he terrorizes a small town next
to a major university.
EL CHUPACABRA
Action-Horror
Stars Naughty By Nature rapper Anthony
“Treach” Criss (Love and A Bullet,
Empire, Book of Love), Eric Alegria,
Elina Madison
Delivery Status: Completed post
production - July, 2003 delivery
After his capture in the wilderness, the
legendary, bloodthirsty creature El
Chupacabra escapes into the city creating
mayhem and panic.
13 DEAD MEN
Action-Adventure
Cast: Lorenzo Lamas, Mystikal, Ashley
Tucker
Delivery Status: Completed post
production - July, 2003 delivery
A master diamond thief, is framed and
convicted for murder and imprisoned on
death row in a high security facility.
SCARECROW
Action-Horror
Delivery Status: ready for delivery
Year of production 2002
Scarecrow is the story of a small town
teenage boy who was bullied by his
classmates, his teacher, and his family.
SCREAM BLOODY MURDER
Teen-Adventure
Delivery Status: completed 2003 ready
for delivery
A hilarious spoof of Halloween and The
Texas Chain Saw Massacre! Hot girls in
tight school uniforms are trapped in the
middle of nowhere with a psycho killer
in hot pursuit.
Z
ZENPIX
Zenpix, 3599 Cahuenga Blvd. West, Los
323.878.0404. Fax: 323.878.0486.
[email protected]
(President), Ms. Susan Jackson (CoPresident), Ms. Annouchka Lesoeur
(Vice President International Sales), Mr.
Eric Bernstein (Vice President of
BRIAR PATCH
Thriller (102 min.)
Language: English
Director: Zev Berman
Producer: Lauren Moews, Sam Froelich
Cast: Dominique Swain, Henry Thomas,
Arie Verveen
Inez Macbeth is a beautiful young girl
who plots a murder scheme to escape her
abusive dead-beat husband.
VENUS AND MARS
Comedy (90 min.)
Language: English
Director: Harry Mastrogeorge
Producer: Bernd F. Lunkewitz, Emmo
Lepert, Uwe Scott
Cast: Daniela Amavia, Julie Bowen,
Lynn Redgrave
Country of Origin: Germany
Kay Vogel may only be 26 but she’s
already given up on love, blaming it as a
cause of her worst mistakes.
NO TURNING BACK
Drama (103 min.)
Language: English
Director: Jesus Nebot,
Producer: Eduardo Campoy, Jesus Nebot
Cast: Jesus Nebot, Chelsea Rendon,
Vernee Watson-Johnson
An illegal immigrant in the United States
hoping to build a better future for his
five-year-old daughter but gets caught up
in a tragic accident that may jeopardize
everything.
THE RISING PLACE
Drama (93 min.)
Language: English
Director: Tom Rice
Producer: Tom Rice, Tracy A. Ford,
Marshall Peck
Cast: Lauren Hollman, Elise Neal, Mark
Webber
Set in the picturesque landscape of the
Mississippi Delta in the 1940’s, “The
Rising Place” follows the close
friendship of two young women, one
white and the other black as they face the
discrimination of their time.
GABRIELA
Drama (103 min.)
Language: English
Director: Vincent Jay Miller
Producer: Vincent Jay Miller, Vincent J.
Francillon
Cast: Jamie P. Gomez, Seidy Lopez,
Zach Galligan
Mike dreams of finding his soul matewhen he thinks he has met her in
Gabriela, a sensitive beautiful therapist,
she turns out to be engaged.
THE BUSINESS OF FILM
Los Angeles Office
5150 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles
California 90036
HOUSE OF A 1000 CORPSES
LIONS GATE FILMS INTERNATIONAL
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 3

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