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SEPT 25 – 28 UTRECHT FILMFESTIVAL.NL
HFM CO-PRO
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INTERNATIONAL SECTION OF THE NETHERLANDS FILM FESTIVAL
Contents
HFM Co-Production Platform 2014
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Credits and acknowledgments
Foreword
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International Projects
Dew by Denijal Hasanovic (Poland)
Egg, Flour and Sugar by Thérèse Ahlbeck (Sweden)
GameOver by Olena Fetisova (Ukraine)
High Dive by Adam Csaszi (Hungary)
I Want to Be Like You by Konstantin Bojanov (Bulgaria)
The Inconvenience by Benito Zambrano (Spain)
Little Paradise by Philipp Döring (Germany)
My Romantic History by Keri Collins (United Kingdom)
Pari by Siamak Etemadi (Greece)
Pretenders by Vallo Toomla (Estonia)
Something Useful by Pelin Esmer (Turkey)
Tacit Wisdom by Saara Cantell (Finland)
Trade by David Roddham (Ireland)
Upstream by Marion Hänsel (Belgium)
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Dutch Projects
10 Songs for Charity by Karin Junger
Forbidden Love by Nicole van Kilsdonk
Hairdresser’s Salon Beatrix by Mischa Kamp
Playboy Priest by Arne Toonen
A Shining Flaw by Erwin Olaf
To All Naked Men by Bassam Chekhes
Tonio by Paula van der Oest
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Previous Departures from HFM Co-Pro
Index
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The Holland Film Meeting 2014 takes place in cooperation with:
Film Producers
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With thanks to
Robert Alberdingk Thijm
Jean-Baptiste Babin
Amra Baksic-Camo
Julie Bergeron
Maegene Fabias
Mike Goodridge
James Hickey
Jovan Marjanovic
Nathalie Mierop
Gyda Velvin Myklebust
Dorien van de Pas
Franz Rodenkirchen
Guillaume de Seille
Tina Trapp
Gülin Üstün
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HFM Advisory Board
Ido Abram
Esther Bannenberg
Stienette Bosklopper
Ger Bouma
Ellis Driessen
Satu Elo
Marjan van der Haar
Sonja Heinen
Claudia Landsberger
Frank Peijnenburg
Marten Rabarts
Dominique van Ratingen
Netherlands Film Festival
Director
Willemien van Aalst
Head of Holland Film Meeting
Signe Zeilich-Jensen
Producer HFM & Coordinator
Guest Department
Susanne van Doorn
Coordinator HFM CoProduction Platform
Mercedes Martínez-Abarca
Guest Department
Daya de Jongh
Nasztázia Potapenko
Coordinator HFM Publicity
Tito Rodriguez
Moderators
Ido Abram
Ellis Driessen
Marten Rabarts
Jury Host
Ninelotte Dijk
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Editing HFM Co-Pro Dossier
Davinia Croes
Nick Cunningham
Design HFM Co-Pro Dossier
Marinka Reuten
Printing HFM Co-Pro Dossier
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Foreword
Welcome to the 16th edition of
the HFM Co-Production Platform
It has been an eventful and productive film year. We are happy that so many of the
projects presented at past editions of the Holland Film Meeting Co-Production Platform
(formerly the Netherlands Production Platform) have been screened at numerous
festivals or made their ways to cinemas in 2014: Atlantic., Supernova, Cornea, Come to
my Voice, Life According to Nino, The Reaper, Korso, The Lamb, See no Evil. One of our
former projects, Kurai, Kurai - Tales with the Wind by Marjoleine Boonstra, produced by
Volya Films in co-production with Oy Art, will have its premiere during the upcoming
Netherlands Film Festival.
The long-awaited Production Incentive was launched this spring in the Netherlands.
This gives extra support of 20 million euros per year to increase and stimulate Dutch
(co)production. The Netherlands Film Commission is a new initiative that was launched
simultaneously, aiming to make the Netherlands a more attractive location for both
national and international film productions. It goes without saying that the Holland Film
Meeting is very optimistic about this news and it is our hope that the new incentives will
help national and international producers establish more fruitful contacts during their
stay with us and make beautiful films together.
This dossier of the 16th edition of the Holland Film Meeting Co-Production Platform
presents 21 projects in development from 15 countries, and you will find a description
of each selected project, along with necessary logistical information. More background
information and links to previous works of the participants can be found on the special
Holland Film Meeting page of Festival Scope.
The pitching rehearsal for the participants is organized in co-operation with EYE Film
Institute. This year the HFM also offers a preparatory market analysis of projects by
experienced professionals. The 3-step format of the Platform remains unchanged,
offering public project presentations, round table sessions and one-on-one meetings.
A selection of former projects are invited back for a Work-in-Progress Session and the
HFM Co-Pro event will reach a dramatic climax during the prize-giving ceremony on
Saturday evening.
HFM is deeply grateful for the support and generosity of our sponsors, partners,
moderators, advisors and friends, and (last but not least) to all the gifted filmmakers
who have contributed to this year’s edition.
We wish you all an inspiring and fruitful time in Utrecht.
Willemien van Aalst
Festival Director
Signe Zeilich-Jensen
Head of Holland Film Meeting
Mercedes Martínez-Abarca
Coordinator HFM Co-Production Platform
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Dew (Rosa)
Skorpion Arte (Poland)
A Colombian Law student
arrives in Sarajevo to write a
study about the War Crimes
Tribunal but finds herself
playing a central role within
the tragic story of a new
friend.
Synopsis
CATALINA (25) is Colombian and has always dreamed of becoming a
writer. But lacking in self-confidence she never went for it, following
instead her father’s advice to study Law. She has just finished her
studies in Paris and has one wish: to bring her father from Colombia
to live with her in France. The only problem is she has been denied
an extension on her French residence permit. After consulting her
professor Catalina arrives in Sarajevo to carry out research into the
War Crimes Tribunal. She believes this study will help her get a job at
her University in Paris and thus solve her visa problems.
She quickly learns that her plan has failed when she is denied access
to the Sarajevo Mission’s archive. She meets NADA (38), a local who
works in the Mission as an interpreter. Nada suggests that Catalina
stays with her in Sarajevo. What Catalina doesn’t know is that the
week she stays with Nada will change her life forever.
She learns about the death of Nada’s brother, whose father had
forced to go to war, where the young boy was killed. Will Nada forgive
her father for the death of her brother? Catalina also meets Nada’s
boyfriend MARK (53) who works in the Mission as an investigator. As
a child Mark and his parents were forced to leave Poland, their home
country, forced because they were Jews. For Mark, these wounds are
still deep.
As the story unfolds all these pieces find their way into one single
picture and we come to realise that the film we are watching is
actually Catalina’s first novel.
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Director’s Statement
The first act promises to be a political thriller: a young woman arrives
in a foreign city with the aim of learning more about the Law cases.
The narrative is synthetic, dynamic, epic, but the scenes are short.
However by the end of the first act we understand that there won’t
be any cases to disentangle. Following a long but poignant scene
involving the interview of a victim of war, the political aspect takes on
a secondary role while the lead characters push the story in another
direction - both intimate and still. The narration slows down, the
scenes are longer and are constructed in a more analytical way.
Dew talks about people who have been hurt by the system, by war,
their roots destroyed. People who, despite their best intentions, begin
to hurt each other until finally they find their way to redemption and
salvation. This is why Dew is, above all, a story about hope.
Director’s Profile
Born in Bosnia, Denijal Hasanovic is a film director and screenwriter.
He left his home country because of the war, eventually travelling
to Poland where he continued his studies in film. He completed an
MA in Film Directing from the Polish National Film School in Lodz.
His graduation film The Letter had its premiere at the 52nd Berlinale.
Co-writer of Blodbond (Thicker than Water) which screened at the
31st Toronto International Film Festival and Milchwald at the 53rd
Berlinale. He is a teacher at the Polish National Film School in Lodz
and Head of the SCRIPT Screenwriting Programme at the Wajda
Studio, Warsaw.
Production Company / Producer’s Profile
Skorpion Arte is a Polish film production company founded in 2008.
They entered into film production with the prize-winning My Name
Is Ki (Venice Days 2011, Off Plus Camera, Toronto). In 2012 - 2013
Skorpion Arte produced Being like Deyna, awarded at the Great
Jantar “Youth and Film” First Film Festival, Heritage by one of the
most acclaimed directors in Poland, Andrzej Baranski (Karlovy Vary,
Montreal) and Manhunt by Marcin Krzyształowicz, a psychological
WWII thriller which won major awards in Poland: The Eagle Film
Award 2013, The Silver Lions Gdynia Film Festival 2012, and Off Plus
Camera “Making Way” First Prize 2012. Their latest production is All
About My Parents, a family comedy.
Denijal Hasanovic
Current Status
Shooting planned September - November 2014, Sarajevo. DOP
Bogumil Godfrejow. Cast: Andrzej Chyra (Poland), Lana Baric
(Croatia), Mirjana Karanovic (Serbia), Andrea Otalvaro (Colombia).
Film fund applications pending in Croatia and Serbia.
Aims at the HFM Co-Production Platform
To meet co-producers, festivals, sales agents, filling the gap
in the budget.
Previous work available on Festival Scope
The film The Letter (2001).
Malgorzata Jurczak
Agata Deka
Director
Denijal Hasanovic
Director’s Assistant
Agata Deka
Producer
Malgorzata Jurczak
Screenwriter
Denijal Hasanovic
Based on
an original screenplay
Languages
English/Spanish/Bosnian
Genre
Drama
Format
Digital
Running time
110 minutes
Target audience
International audience
Total budget
€1.017.898
Total budget in place
€794.898
Partners attached
Television Poland (TVP
SA), Polish Film Institute.
Co-producers: Pro.Ba
(Bosnia & Herzegovina),
Media Focus (Croatia),
Bas Celik (Serbia).
Distributor in Poland:
Kino Swiat
Present at HFM Co-Pro
Malgorzata Jurczak,
Agata Deka
Contact
Malgorzata Jurczak
Skorpion Arte
Chelmska 19/21
Warsaw 00-724
Poland
Tel: +48-501-204239
Email: [email protected]
www.skorpionarte.pl
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Egg, Flour and Sugar
eyefeed (Sweden)
Tiny Lumberjack (Sweden)
Oncologist Helena with
empathy issues realises
she can’t get pregnant. Her
husband leaves her, she is
fired and she is in free fall.
But during this fall she finds
herself.
Synopsis
HELENA, a sharp cancer expert pressing forty, has her
third miscarriage. But instead of mourning she carries on
working, and is even more unpleasant to her colleagues. She
unintentionally administers a life-threatening dose of morphine
to one of her patients (EMILIA). After this her boss seizes the
opportunity to get rid of her - “science isn’t missing you but
maybe humanity is”. Helena hides from her husband the fact that
she’s been fired and tries to find an equivalent job, which turns
out to be impossible. Meanwhile, he files for divorce.
To learn more about human nature she takes a course at the
university, only to realise that the students are half her age and
the topic is extremely non-empirical. Without any income or
husband Helena moves into a small apartment downtown and
unwittingly becomes neighbour to ANDERS, journalist and son of
Emilia.
When she thinks she is finally going to get a new job she is once
again left disappointed, so she tries to get her old one back, but
ends up deeply humiliated.
Anders and Helena meet. Anders is depressed because of his
mother (Emilia). Helena realises who he is, and he is impressed
with her knowledge of cancer without knowing anything of her
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background. Anders begs Helena to follow him to the hospital to
talk to the cancer-experts. Reluctantly she does so - in disguise.
But such is her frustration over Emilia’s treatment that her mask
slips, and she is soon ejected from the hospital.
Emilia is in need of a medicine that the hospital has chosen not to
buy. Without hesitation Helena drives to another hospital to beg
them to send this medicine to Emilia but again she is immediately
thrown out. On the way back Helena’s car breaks down. But when
she feels that all hope is lost she finally learns that the medicine is
actually on its way…
Helena has to go through a transition to become a better human
being – both to herself and to others. And to reach this stage of
complete transformation she has to be thrown into what she fears
the most – the real world. When she cannot protect herself behind
her doctor’s white collar she will be exposed and forced to deal with
situations she is not used to. That is her journey.
My vision as director is that this journey will be one of recognition
for the audience, where we perhaps may not approve of Helena’s
behaviour but understand her, and therefore will be able to love her
throughout the film.
Reporter at Swedish National Radio 1998-2000, journalist at
Swedish National Television 2000-2002. Education: Directing at
Swedish National Film School 2005-2008. Graduation film: Student
Academy Award Nominee 2010. Has written and directed several
shorts 2005-2014.
Eyefeed (established 1991) focuses on working with talented
female directors who develop their own feature film scripts. They
also produce documentaries and shorts, based on strong stories
and characters. Eyefeed has produced nine feature films, one TV
series for SVT and a number of documentaries. They co-produce
within Sweden and Europe. They are very active in the developing
from idea, synopsis and treatment, being very present during the
shooting and editing processes.
Thérèse Ahlbeck
Current Status
This film will be co-produced with the Swedish company Tiny
Lumberjack together with Marcus Olsson.
To find a co-producer from the Netherlands or Europe, get two
TV channels on board and get to know more about the Dutch film
industry.
The short film Lost in Stångby (2013).
Marcus Olsson
Håkan Bjerking
Director
Thérèse Ahlbeck
Producers
Håkan Bjerking,
Marcus Olsson
Screenwriter
Thérèse Ahlbeck
Based on
Language
Swedish
Genre
Comedy/Drama
Format
2:35 Cinemascope
Running time
92 minutes
Target audience
Women and couples aged
30 plus
Total budget
€1.333.333
€888.889
Partners attached
Swedish Filminstitute,
Film i Skåne, own
investment
Håkan Bjerking,
Thérèse Ahlbeck
Contact
Håkan Bjerking
eyefeed AB
Karlsrovägen 40
236 37 Höllviken
Sweden
Tel: +46-705-593080
www.eyefeed.se
2014 HFM Co-Pro 7
GameOver
Interfilm Production Studio (Ukraine)
As Ukrainian civil strife
escalates, a patriotic father
confronts his son who
exploits the situation
by inventing a lucrative
computer game based on
the harsh reality.
Synopsis
Swimming instructor MARKOVICH wins the Masters competition
in Kiev and is invited to the championships in Berlin. His wife TINA
and son VLAD, a video game developer, oppose the idea of “the old
idiot” going abroad alone. But the sultry team nurse GALYA agrees
to take care of Markovich in Berlin. There, they develop an odd, but
passionate affair.
Meanwhile, mass demonstrations begin in Kiev with students
demanding that Ukraine join the EU, followed by a brutal crackdown
by police. Impressed by the revolutionary unrest, Vlad develops a
game called ‘Save Ukraine’, in which players can move from virtual
space to reality by playing a protester or a provocateur. Vlad’s kids,
MISHA and DANA are as keen on ‘Save Ukraine’ as are the millions
of users.
Markovich receives stunning news about hundreds of dead
protestors in Kiev just before the competition in Berlin starts. He
loses.
After returning from Germany Markovich, formerly a devout
communist takes a patriotic pro-Ukrainian position. He seriously
confronts the cynic Vlad, who capitalizes from the unrest and
continues to profit from his game. Vlad’s wife wants to flee the
country. Dana supports the protesters but is secretly dating ‘bad
guy’ GLIB. Misha fears that he may be drafted into the army and
miserable Tina falls into insanity.
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Markovich is fired from his job because the pool is going to be shut
down. He goes to the first-aid room to say goodbye to Galya, and finds
her making love with his son Vlad. Markovich suffers chest pains and
heads home through the dark city.
Meanwhile, Dana is playing ‘Save Ukraine’. On the monitor she sees
street-players attacking her grandfather. Markovich pushes one of
them, who Dana recognizes as her boyfriend. Glib smashes his skull
on the kerb and dies. The sign ‘GameOver’ flashes on Dana’s monitor.
It is extremely important for me, a Ukrainian citizen of Russian
descent who has been experiencing the civil unrest and terrible war
between Ukraine and Russia, to make a film about how long one
can live with his head buried in the sand, before the political events
touches him.
As a way of exploring the theme and reach the widest audience I have
incorporated the specially invented computer game ‘Save Ukraine’
into the story. The game symbolises the global world where ‘hard
men’ assume the guise of game developers (puppet players) and
subvert standard computer games like World Of Tanks, Call Of Duty,
Sniper Team... But sometimes they do not realise that they can also
lose, and in a deadly way…
I would like to underline that I now feel more Ukrainian than I ever
felt before, and that I need to make this film in order to warn the 16+
audience before it is too late.
Olena Fetisova is a Ukrainian director, scriptwriter and producer,
EFA member and EAVE 2009 graduate. She studied cinema at the
Moscow Film School VGIK. She wrote, directed and produced a
number of documentaries which were highly acclaimed both at
home and internationally. Her debut feature Paradjanov, UkrainianFrench-Georgian-Armenian co-production, premiered in Karlovy Vary
competition in 2013. The film has travelled to dozens of international
film festivals and won awards at Essonne, Odessa, Tallinn, Bucharest,
Batumi and Khanty-Mansiysk. The film was nominated as the
Ukrainian entry for the 2013 Academy Award For Best Foreign
Language Film.
Interfilm Production Studio was founded in 2001. The company
has produced many independent features and documentaries.
Interfilm is skilled at bringing together international co-productions,
particularly with France, Estonia, Georgia, and Armenia. Our
partners include ARTE France, Ukrainian State Film Agency, EAVE,
French Institute in Ukraine, and Goethe Institute, among others.
Our films have a wide festival and cinemagoers audience and have
been broadcasted both in Ukraine and internationally.
Volodymyr Kozyr has been working as producer/executive producer
for Interfilm since 2004. He has a reputable portfolio of coproductions, including internationally recognized documentaries
and features. The Ukrainian-Estonian feature co-production An
Awesome Tale (2008) received the Ukrainian State Award for best
Children’s Film and was selected for festivals in Bulgaria, Estonia,
Russia, Ireland, China, Canada, and USA. His latest multinational
co-production feature film Paradjanov (2013) received international
recognition at 16 international film festivals, and has already been
theatrically released in many countries.
Current Status
Script development (first draft). Financing.
We are aiming to attach Dutch and German co-producers as well as
European partners in cross-media project development.
Olena Fetisova
Volodymyr Kozyr
Director
Olena Fetisova
Producer
Volodymyr Kozyr
Screenwriter
Olena Fetisova
Based on
Language
Ukrainian
Genre
Family/Drama
Format
HD
Running time
90 minutes
Target audience
Aged 16+
Total budget
€753.400
€302.400
Sales company
Amadeus Entertainment
(UK) (letter of intent)
Partners attached
Co-production partner:
Ingrid Lill Høgtun,
Barentsfilm (Norway)
(letter of intent).
National partners: Open
Ukraine Foundation &
Development of Ukraine
Foundation, Zoo Cinema
(camera/light/grip
equipment in-kind),
Movchan PE (sound
equipment and SFX inkind).
Olena Fetisova,
Volodymyr Kozyr
The feature film Paradjanov (2013).
Contact
Volodymyr Kozyr
Interfilm Production Studio
Citadelna str. 6/8
Kyiv 01015
Ukraine
Tel: +38-067-2097288
www.interfilm.biz
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High Dive
FocusFox (Hungary)
Is it possible to come to
terms with past sins or
does trying to eradicate
them only create more?
Synopsis
BERTA’s (18) teenage world turns upside down as she stumbles upon
sinful family secrets that lead her to commit a brutal murder – her
initiation into adulthood’s vicious cycle of lies and violence.
She is in high school, estranged from her tough, silent father MIHÁLY
(50) and still reeling from the sudden suicide of her mother a year
ago for which she blames herself. She seeks refuge in the ethereal,
perfect world of high diving. Mihály is now remarried to Berta’s high
diving instructor, the young, sexy LINDA (35).
One day, Berta realises that a mysterious teenage boy, DÁVID (18)
is following her around, constantly watching her. Although terrified,
she confronts him but fear soon turns into love, which is requited. An
“enfant terrible”, Dávid cares deeply for his father who was paralyzed
in a hit-and-run accident, but he also seems to follow a frightening
and violent agenda.
When Mihály leaves on a business trip the icy relationship between
Berta and Linda begins to thaw, and together with Dávid, they take a
fateful trip to the family cabin deep in the woods. Dávid advances on
Linda, but then starts beating her up. When Berta intervenes Dávid
lashes out at her too. Linda hides in the woods, while Berta confronts
Dávid – only to learn the boy acted in revenge. Linda drove the car that
hit Dávid’s father: he came to the woods to kill her, but couldn’t do it.
Cornered Linda admits the truth about that night. Berta is shocked to
learn that her father was cheating on Berta’s real mother with Linda,
since they were together in the car. His illicit affair was the reason
behind her mother’s suicide. Suddenly facing a world of lies and sin,
Berta is driven to murder and in a haunting final scene, father and
daughter turn on each other in a confrontation only one of them will
walk away from.
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Such a complex, non-linear and highly metaphorical story must
have a realistic underpinning in its visual style to convey human
drama that cuts to the bone. I want to focus attention on the
characters with an understated, sparse visual style that does not
give in to conventional beauty and visual metaphor. Instead, I let
a slow progression of concrete images to create suspenseful,
stark visual poetry. Moreover, instead of conventional pictures
that are decorative, sharp and action-oriented in a bombastic
way, I want the visual style of High Dive to be grainy-hazy,
stripped to the bone and obscuring action to highlight
characters closed up in their own viewpoints. Such a sparse,
yet enigmatic style can convey the horror and thriller element
in an unsensational way, as it inherently builds suspense, and
does not use fast-edited extreme violence for shock value. On
the contrary: scenes of brutality are almost real-time, carefully
mapping even the smallest reactions.
Adam’s first feature Land of Storms premiered at the Panorama
section of Berlinale 2014. His first short films Seven Days and
Weak Days won awards at the Hungarian Film Week, including
Best Short Film and Critics Prize for Best Short Film, and the
latter was screened by FIPA in 2008. His short film Celebration
was screened at the Warsaw Film Festival and at the Brest Short
Film Festival in 2010.
In 2000 Andras Muhi established Inforg Studio and since then
he has worked as a producer and CEO. Inforg’s first short films,
Goldenbird and [email protected] won prizes at the 31st Budapest
Film Week. Since its launch the studio has produced and coproduced 24 feature films, 100 short films, 60 documentary
films and 10 animations. Lots of these films are participants and
often winners of prestigious international film festivals (Cannes,
Berlin, Warsaw, Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary, Locarno, Shanghai,
Amsterdam, Toronto, and Chicago among others). Bence
Fliegauf’s Just the Wind won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale and
Before Dawn by Balint Kenyeres won the prize for Best Short
Film at the European Film Academy. Andras Muhi became the
producer of Focusfox from 2014.
Current Status
Screenplay 2nd draft.
Find co-producers, sales agent, television pre-sale agents.
The feature film Land of Storms (2014).
Adam Csaszi
Andras Muhi
Director
Adam Csaszi
Producer
Andras Muhi
Screenwriters
Adam Csaszi, Ivan Szabo
Based on
Language
Hungarian
Genre
Drama
Format
HD
Running time
95 minutes
Target audience
Aged 16+
Total budget
€107.000
€100.000 investment
from FocusFox
Partners attached
Hungarian National
Film Fund
Adam Czaszi
Andras Muhi
Contact
Andras Muhi
FocusFox
Huvosvolgyi ut 141
Budapest 1021
Hungary
Tel: +36-309-493507
www.focusfox.hu
2014 HFM Co-Pro 11
I Want to Be Like You
Multfilm (Bulgaria)
When Pavel’s mother sends
him to spend the summer
in Bulgaria, he sets off for
France instead, determined
to become an apprentice to
his idol, the legendary French
artist, Arnaud.
Synopsis
PAVEL (16) withdrawn and emotionally volatile, lives in London with
his mother, an ex-rock singer. He draws obsessively, with a singular
focus of becoming an artist in the mould of his idol, legendary
French painter ARNAUD. When his mother’s new boyfriend invites
her to join his band on tour, she decides to send Pavel back to
Bulgaria. This presents Pavel with the perfect opportunity to set one
of his secret plans in action. He visits his well-off aunt in Antwerp
and then continues on to Amsterdam. His budding sexuality
leads him into the Red Light district, and where he meets PIRI, a
charismatic ex-con. The day after, they set off for France in Piri’s
“repossessed” van. On the road, Piri picks up two young hitchhikers
- JULIE and LOLA. Julie requests that they stop by her parents’ farm
outside Lille. Her family is hostile toward the visiting foursome.
Pavel spends the night in Julie’s room and learns from her that a
year earlier she had run away from home to be with another girl, an
act for which her family never forgave her. Pavel becomes smitten
with Julie but their paths are soon to separate. Pavel arrives in
Paris, where he purchases some art supplies, shaves his head and
hops on a train to Provence. He arrives unannounced at Arnaud’s
secluded estate, where the artist’s wife takes a liking to him. Pavel
stands in awe before his idol’s sculptures and paintings, like a
pilgrim at the holiest of sites. He declares that he has arrived to
become Arnaud’s apprentice. But when Arnaud returns and finds
the stranger in his studio, he angrily demands that he leave at once.
In the cat and mouse game that ensues, the misanthropic painter
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teaches Pavel a harsh life lesson. With his idol in ashes, Pavel takes
to the road again, this time to follow his heart’s desire.
This is a story of obsession, and near blind worship, of one’s artistic
idols. In some ways, it’s a reflection on my own difficult relationship
with art. Aged 16, I decided to “escape the world” and move to a
remote village, where one of my artistic idols had lived in seclusion.
I wanted to tell the story of a similar character in his formative
years, who, with enviable naiveté, decides to run away from home to
become an apprentice of an older enigmatic artist.
The film is meant to be a freewheeling adventure, celebrating
the liberation that comes from the “death” of one’s idols. Within
the structure of a classic road movie it will reflect closely the
protagonist’s emotional connection to the environment and
characters he encounters. It will be a film of elliptical imagery,
small gestures and inner-frame dynamics, conveying at once a
sense of timelessness, as well as urgency.
Director / Screenwriter’s Profile
Konstantin Bojanov is a producer, writer and director. His credits
include the award winning: Lemon Is Lemon (2001), Invisible (2005)
and Avé (Semaine de la Critique, 2011). His films have screened in
over 100 festivals, winning numerous international awards. Bojanov
is currently developing the feature documentary In Search for a
Miracle, based on William Dalrymple’s Nine Lives. I Want to Be Like
You will be his second feature.
Rebecca Lenkiewicz is one of the most prominent British
playwrights and screenwriters working today. Her most recent
screenplay, Ida, co-written with Pawel Pawlikowksi, was awarded at
London, Warsaw, Gdynia and Toronto film festivals.
Multfilm is owned by producers Ilian Djevelekov, Matey Konstantinov
and Georgi Dimitrov. In 2001 they founded their first company
Miramar film, which quickly became one of the leading film and
television producers in the country. In 2007 they produced the
feature film Zift by first time director Javor Gardev. The film was a
critical and commercial success. In 2011 the feature film Love.Net,
directed by Ilian Djevelekov, became one of the biggest national box
Konstantin Bojanov
office hits. The company’s credits include the co-productions There
Was Never a Better Brother (Russia/Bulgaria/Azerbaijan, 2011), as
well as Karbala (Poland/Bulgaria, 2015). Mila Voinikova joined the
company as a producer in 2009, after completing her graduate
studies at New York University’s Tisch School of Arts and working
in domestic distribution at the Weinstein Company. Multfilm is
committed to strong producer/director relationships and carrying
out each project from development through production, postproduction, sales and domestic distribution.
Current Status
We have secured 39% of the budget and we are in the process of
applying for funding in France and the UK. The screenplay is at the
final draft stage and we are currently casting.
We are looking for co-producers, a world sales agent, TV and
distribution presales, funds and post-production facilities. Coproducers could bring main and supporting actors, key creative
crew and post-production services.
The feature film Avé (2011).
Mila Voinikova
Derk-Jan Warrink
Director
Konstantin Bojanov
Producers
Mila Voinikova,
Konstantin Bojanov,
Janja Kralj,
Mike Downey,
Derk-Jan Warrink
Screenwriters
Konstantin Bojanov,
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Based on
Languages
English/Bulgarian/French
Genre
Drama/Road movie/
Coming of Age
Format
Digital
Running time
100 minutes
Target audience
Younger audience aged
20-35
Total budget
€1.650.000
€650.000
Partners attached
Bulgarian National
Film Center –
production grant.
Co-producers:
Argentum Lux Films
(Bulgaria), KinoElektron
(France), Film & Music
Entertainment (UK),
Lemming Film (The
Netherlands)
Mila Voinikova,
Konstantin Bojanov,
Derk-Jan Warrink
Contact
Mila Voinikova
Multfilm
40 Evlogi Georgiev Blvd.
Sofia 1124
Bulgaria
Tel: +359-2-9449514
www.multfilm.bg
2014 HFM Co-Pro 13
The Inconvenience
El inconveniente
TALYCUAL (Spain),
La Claqueta (Spain),
Tito Clint Movies (Spain)
Successful Sarah has finally
found the house of her
dreams at a bargain price.
But there is one “small”
inconvenience: the current
owner, 80-year-old Lola, will
live there until she dies.
Synopsis
SARAH’s found the perfect house: spacious, full of light, with nice
views and at a very, very low price. There’s only a small problem LOLA, the current owner, is going nowhere, at least not until the day
she dies. This date will presumably be soon, since she has twice had
heart surgery, smokes two packs of cigarettes a day and drinks like a
teenager at a fraternity party.
Sarah is the perfect example of a successful working girl. Well
established in her company, she is practical, straightforward and
is always aware of any problems that might arise, even though
this means she is perpetually worried. On the other hand, Lola is
enthusiastic about anything new that comes her way. Consequently,
their personalities clash. However, both women need each other.
Sarah needs to sneakily measure the house to have the furniture
ready for when death comes to Lola. And Lola needs somebody to
spend time with since all her longtime friends have passed away.
Little by little, Sarah begins to drop her barriers and lets Lola into
her life, sharing with her not only her struggles within an unsatisfying
marriage but also her deepest fear of all, that of her own death. At
the same time, Lola’s way of life is modified by Sarah’s increasingly
caring manners, and she is affected by the young woman’s hidden
problems. A unique relationship, full of tenderness, emotion and
laughter, will develop between two women so different but so
similar in their own loneliness, and their cat and dog frostiness will
transform into a very close mother-daughter friendship.
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But things never turn out as they are expected. Lola shows no signs
of weakness and Sarah’s life suddenly begins to crumble when
sudden news comes her way. From then on, the way Sarah and Lola
are going to perceive life will change forever…
A friend told me about a fantastic play she had seen in Madrid.
Overcome by curiosity, I ventured out to see this supposedly
amazing piece of theatre. In essence, I realised that I had before
me a truly extraordinary work. Each scene filled me with emotion,
every action abounded with cinematographic images. I had rarely
felt anything like this before. Until that night, I had never considered
adapting a play. Ever since that evening, I felt with absolute clarity
that this was an extraordinary story, an incredible tale full of
humour and tenderness. Overflowing with emotion and feeling. Of
love and life.
In 1999 Benito Zambrano directed Solas, winning awards at the
Angers European First Film Festival, Mexico Ariel Awards, Berlin
International Film Festival, Brussels International Film Festival,
Cartagena Film Festival, Haifa International Film Festival and
the Havana Film Festival. In 2005 he directed his second feature,
Havana Blues, winning awards at the Havana Film Festival and Los
Angeles Latino Film Festival, as well as Turia and ACE Awards. In
2011 he made The Sleeping Voice, selected in San Sebastian, Miami
and Cartagena film festivals, again receiving nominations for the
Spanish Academy Awards and Film Writers Association Awards,
besides winning a Turia Award.
Bernabé Rico alternates his activity between theater and film.
He produced the feature film The Day out of Time (world premiere
August 2014), the documentary Morarte, the Tale of an Encounter
and the fiction short films There Is No Goodbye, Free Kick, Binges
and Cowboys, as well as the short doc Premiere, the last four also
directed by him. He is a member of AEPAA-APRIA (Andalusian
Producers Association), part of FAPAE (Spanish Federation of
Audiovisual Producers), and he belongs to the Short Film Industry
Association (AIC). He is also a partner of the film digital platforms
FeelDocs and FeelShorts, as well as UpToFest.
Benito Zambrano
Current Status
Zambrano is working with Juan Carlos Rubio on finishing the
screenplay. Geraldine Chaplin and Oona Chaplin - mother
and daughter in real life - are already attached to the project
(commitment letters available).
Looking for international co-producers and presales.
The feature film The Sleeping Voice (2011).
Bernabé Rico
Juan Carlos Rubio
Director
Benito Zambrano
Producers
Bernabé Rico,
Olmo Figueredo
Screenwriters
Juan Carlos Rubio,
Benito Zambrano
Based on
the play 100 m2 by Juan
Carlos Rubio
Languages
English/Spanish
Genre
Dramedy
Format
HD
Running time
90 minutes
Target audience
Women aged 30-60,
intelligent audiences
looking for touching and
inspirational stories
Total budget
€1.500.000
€375.000
Partners attached
Andalusian Film
Commission
Bernabé Rico
Benito Zambrano
Contact
Bernabé Rico
TALYCUAL
Lagar 5, 3-B
41004 Sevilla
Spain
Tel: +34-954-224424
www.talycual.com
2014 HFM Co-Pro 15
Little Paradise
Weydemann Bros. (Germany)
An idyllic camping site in the
heat of the summer. A dead
body at the lake. And three
families with a skeleton in the
closet.
Synopsis
An idyllic campsite in the middle of nowhere. It’s mid-summer and
the campers, among them the amateur singer SYLVIE (35), the
steakhouse chef DIETMAR (44) and the teacher and passionate
angler HERMANN (51), are enjoying the idle routine with their
families when a passing police van announces the gruesome news
that a dead body has been found nearby in the woods, and the
murderer is on the loose.
For the time being, everything seems to go on like before, but
below the surface, suspicions and rumours begin to breed. Is the
murderer still somewhere close? Is the murderer one of them?
In the sweltering heat, friendships and family divisions slowly give
way to new alliances. Dark secrets gradually become unearthed,
and hidden desires, envy and unsolved conflicts from the past create
a fatal momentum of mutual suspicion.
At the same time, a tender love story between two teenagers, DANI
(18) and SONJA (17) who want to break out of the confines of their
families, begins to develop within this poisoned atmosphere.
However, when Sylvie’s son disappears and rumours begin to
spread that the dead body was that of a child, everybody’s nerves
are on the edge. The campers decide to take matters into their own
hands. Spurred by Sylvie’s ex-husband, the shady policeman TOM
(39), they quickly reunite. Yet their witch-hunt for a culprit ends in a
moment of despair. The murderer is not found. Instead Hermann’s
wife ELVIRA (49) confronts the mob with the memories of the death
of her little son, one year ago, that nobody was able to prevent.
Finally, when the police announces that the case is solved, everyone
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tries to sweep under the carpet what has become visible over the
last days. Only Dani and Sonja refuse to go back to normal and
escape the campsite.
It looks like a perfect idyll: a tiny campsite, surrounded by a quiet
lake and a dark forest, with a name carrying a big promise: Little
Paradise. However, when a mysterious dead body is found, the
peaceful atmosphere melts away. There had been a battlefield
here in ancient times, and it is a battlefield that the Little Paradise
will soon turn into. At the campsite, this voyeuristic place “par
excellence”, we see various families slowly tear away each other’s
masks. Madness lurks everywhere and behind each caravan
window an abyss is to be found.
Soon, it is every man for himself. Everyone hides a loneliness deep
inside; but they all keep saying to themselves: ‘Hey, it’s vacation, I
feel good!’
That’s the core of the film: how all these smiling families suppress
their hidden fears and desires until they turn into a mob of animals.
Philipp Döring was born in Freiburg, Germany. After high school
he studied Germanics and graduated in 2004; during this time
he worked in a local cinema and shot his first short films.
Between 2004-2009 he studied film directing at the Filmakademie
Ludwigsburg. His graduation film At the Other End won the First
Steps Award for Best German Film School Film of the Year as well
as the German Cinematography Award.
In 2011, he founded his production company Blue Elephant. He
continued to shoot short films (The Nail, 2012; Maybe Later, 2013;
Meander, 2014) that were screened at festivals worldwide and
received several awards.
Weydemann Bros. produces films for the national and international
market. We have a vision of a narrative cinema that is both
entertaining and political. For us film is always a critical look at the
world and the times we live in. With our films we do not only hope to
get people laughing and crying, but to inform them and inspire them
to contemplate. Weydemann Bros. is based in Cologne and Berlin.
Weydemann Bros. is grant-holder of the AV Gründerzentrum
Cologne 2011 and a participant of the Berlinale Talent Campus,
Sarajevo Talent Campus, Rotterdam Lab, IDFAcademy and Cannes
Producers Network, as well as the MEDIA programmes EsoDoc,
Documentary Campus Masterschool, ep2c and EAVE Producers
Workshop.
Managing directors Jonas and Jakob D. Weydemann are members
of the European Film Academy.
Current Status
The project is at a financing stage. Shooting is scheduled for
summer 2015.
To find sales and co-production partners.
The short film Kann ja noch kommen (Maybe Later) (2013).
Philipp Döring
Jakob D. Weydemann
Director
Philipp Döring
Producers
Jonas Weydemann,
Jakob D. Weydemann
Screenwriter
Martin Behnke
Based on
the play Turista by Marius
von Mayenburg
Language
German
Genre
Dark, tragicomic
ensemble drama
Format
Arri Alexa
Running time
100 minutes
Target audience
Arthouse
Total budget
€1.505.000
€155.000
Partners attached
Nord Media, Kuratorium
junger Deutscher Film,
FFA
Jakob D. Weydemann,
Philipp Döring
Contact
Jakob D. Weydemann
Weydemann Bros. GmbH
Körnerstr. 45
50823 Cologne
Germany
Tel: +49-221-630605290
www.weydemannbros.com
2014 HFM Co-Pro 17
My Romantic History
Magnified Pictures (UK)
Based on the award-winning
stage play, My Romantic
History is a painfully funny
and brutally honest look at
love from both the male and
female perspective.
Synopsis
My Romantic History is where Annie Hall meets 500 Days of Summer,
a painfully funny and brutally honest look at love from both the male
and female perspective.
TOM (30) sleeps with his new colleague AMY (31). They go back
to hers because they are drunk, and because his flat smells of
bins and the sheets are disgusting. Unfortunately flashbacks of
his teenage heartbreak, Alison Hamilton, keep interrupting his
thoughts, and he is not keen to rush back into a new relationship
because “monomaniacal devotion gets you nowhere”.
Amy is single, and sick of work colleague Sasha’s passive
aggressive comments about why she hasn’t got a boyfriend.
Somehow, since she broke up with Calvin Kennedy at the university,
Amy’s love life has been a string of abject failures. To make matters
worse, she’s just woken up with Tom, the new-boy gimp from the
ninth floor.
A few days turn into a few weeks, but they both need to rid
themselves of the ghost of relationships past in order to be able to
negotiate a future, potentially with each other in it. Fortunately their
ex-loves have made it into the present, and aren’t quite what they
remembered…
Based on the award winning stage play by DC Jackson, and adapted
and directed by BAFTA Cymru-nominated, Screen International
Star of Tomorrow Keri Collins, My Romantic History is an insightful,
quick-witted comedy which allows you to get into the head of ‘that’
boy or ‘that’ girl, and see what they really think about love.
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With My Romantic History I intend to make a “funny film about
love”; a term coined by Richard Curtis to describe films like Lost In
Translation and 500 Days of Summer, which you would not describe
as traditional, formulaic romantic comedies. Neither Amy nor Tom
see the world as it really is; they view everything skewed through
the prism of their own experience and history, creating their own,
personal ‘reality’. Camera, lenses and framing will all reflect this,
giving the impression of our characters being at the centre of
their own universe. This will shift in the final act when Amy and
Tom come together, using a longer lens to create a more intimate
closeness between them, as this is the first time they have both
lived in the present without their pasts getting in the way.
Keri Collins is a BAFTA-nominated director and 2014 Screen
International Star of Tomorrow. His debut feature comedy
Convenience starred Vicky McClure (This is England), Adeel Akhtar
(Four Lions), Anthony Head (Buffy) and Verne Troyer (Austin Powers).
Convenience premiered at Raindance Film Festival and was named
by The London Film Review as one of the Top 10 British comedies of
2013 alongside The World’s End and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.
Keri was mentored by Sir Kenneth Branagh after being selected
for the BFI’s prestigious Guiding Lights scheme, and his BAFTA
Cymru-nominated short film Funday was described by Tony Grisoni
as “deliciously melancholic”.
Magnified Pictures was set up in 2008 by independent producer
Jessica Levick to develop and produce award-winning features,
short films and music videos. Jessica is a graduate of the UK’s
prestigious National Film & Television School, and her credits
include Associate Producer on Legacy (Idris Elba), and line producer
on Warp/Film4’s Bifa-nominated short Dr Easy. Magnified Pictures’
first feature, the critically acclaimed documentary Personal Best
directed by Sam Blair, was financed by the British Film Institute &
Adidas, and released by Verve Pictures in cinemas across the UK
in 2012. Magnified Pictures’ continued goal is to produce brave,
cinematic feature films that combine artistic distinction with
commercial viability, and which resonate with audiences worldwide.
Current Status
Final draft script, developed with the Welsh Film Agency. 30%
finance pending via public finance and UK Tax Credit. Casting
director Sarah Crowe (In The Loop, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa).
We are seeking a potential international co-producer, as well as
financiers/finance, and future international distribution and sales
partners. We look forward to testing the international market for an
independent British romcom.
Previous work available upon request to the producer
Keri Collins
Jessica Levick
Director
Keri Collins
Producer
Jessica Levick
Screenwriter
Keri Collins
Based on
the play My Romantic
History by DC Jackson
Language
English
Genre
Comedy
Format
HD
Running time
90 minutes
Target audience
Females aged 21+
Total budget
€1.260.000
€380.000
Partners attached
FFilm Cymru Wales
(Welsh Screen Agency)
Jessica Levick,
Keri Collins
Contact
Jessica Levick
Magnified Pictures Ltd
London
United Kingdom
Tel: +44-789-4033140
www.magnifiedpictures.co.uk
2014 HFM Co-Pro 19
Pari
Heretic (Greece)
The search of an Iranian
mother for her son, missing
in Athens, will take her on
a journey from the hidden
depths of her own self to her
ultimate freedom.
Synopsis
When BABAK, an Iranian student in Greece, doesn’t show up to
welcome his parents at Athens International airport, his mother
PARI is forced to go on a quest that will take her much further than a
mother’s search for a missing son.
Pari and her older husband FARROKH are ill-prepared to search
for a fugitive in an intimidating and alien environment. They are
devout Muslims, this is their first time abroad and they hardly speak
any English. Soon they reach a dead-end when they discover that
their son never even started his studies, was involved with radical
anarchist groups (possibly even worse than that) and is most
probably dead. And yet when Farrokh commands their return back
to their family in Iran, Pari does the unthinkable; she escapes to
continue the search alone.
Following the steps of her rebellious son, she uses everything and
everyone, from a dedicated feminist activist to a corrupt police
detective, to reach the darkest corners of the city, as well as the
hidden depths of her own soul.
And when she has no choice but to accept the loss, she is left with
her own awakened craving for freedom and the will to pursue it.
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Pari is a story about freedom that comes, as freedom always does,
at the highest of costs, a roller-coaster journey of self-discovery
as, step by step, she loses all the safety nets won by her past
compromises. Everything familiar is destroyed, either by the
harshness of the circumstances or by her own free choice. Is this
a senseless act of self-destruction or a necessary stage before
rebirth?
Pari is a stranger in a strange land who is as much terrified by this
new world as she is attracted to it. At its core, this is a story about a
new life born out of the struggle to accept great loss and overcome
desperation.
On a personal note, this is also a story about my new life in my new
country, Greece, and my freedom to live the life and make the films
that I want.
Pari is the name of my mother.
After directing shorts, Siamak worked extensively between 20042011 as Assistant Director (1st & 2nd) and Production Manager on
various feature films, TV series and documentaries. He also has
occasionally worked as an actor, both in theatre and cinema.
His last short film Cavo d’Oro had its world premiere in Locarno
Competition (2012) and was nominated for the Best Short Film
in the Greek Film Academy Awards. The movie was theatrically
distributed in Greece and continues its successful international
festival career.
Heretic was founded in 2013 by producers Konstantinos Kontovrakis
and Giorgos Karnavas in order to create an independent platform
for the development and production of author-driven feature films.
The co-founders of Heretic produced some of the most successful
recent Greek art-house titles, including Wasted Youth (Rotterdam,
Toronto, Guadalajara, BAFICI and more), Boy Eating the Bird’s Food
(Karlovy Vary, Toronto Rotterdam and more) and The Eternal Return
of Antonis Paraskevas (Berlinale, Toronto, Thessaloniki). They have
been trained at the Binger, EAVE and ACE and they have both been
Producers on the Move, representing Greece in 2013 and 2014.
Their projects have participated in international co-production
markets like CineMart, Berlinale Co-production Market, New
Cinema Network and Thessaloniki Crossroads, while they have
been selected for major development programmes such as Torino
Film Lab and the Berlinale Residency.
Current Status
We are currently in development, at second draft stage.
To establish contacts with Dutch producers for potential coproduction, as well as financiers and distributors.
The short film Cavo d’Oro (2012).
Siamak Etemadi
Konstantinos Kontovrakis
Director
Siamak Etemadi
Producer
Screenwriter
Siamak Etemadi
Based on
Languages
Greek/Farsi/English
Genre
Drama
Format
HD
Running time
100 minutes
Target audience
Woman aged 35-55
Total budget
€875.000
Partners attached
Co-producer: Le Bureau
(France)
Konstantinos Kontovrakis,
Siamak Etemadi
Contact
Heretic
Promitheos 18
Chalandri 15235
Greece
Tel: +30-210-6005260
www.heretic.gr
2014 HFM Co-Pro 21
Pretenders
Metafoorid
Amrion Production (Estonia)
Anna and Juhan seize the
opportunity to pretend they
are better than others, even
as their game brings them to
the brink of self-destruction.
Synopsis
Intent on repairing a rift in their relationship, ANNA and JUHAN
retreat to a seaside house lent to them by well-heeled friends.
After witnessing an accident on the rocky shore, they take in a
wounded woman and her husband - a couple they find they have a
lot in common with. Anna and Juhan begin to pretend they own the
house, engaging their guests in a game of domination that propels
their relationship to the brink of destruction.
Pretenders is a chamber drama about relationships which, as the
story evolves, transforms into a thriller mystery. The film flirts with
the psychoanalytical approach to human consciousness, whereby
at the core of personality lie the unconscious and conflicting parts
of the personality. When they lose balance between each other, the
situation can lead to neuroses and primitive defense mechanisms.
I am looking for reflections, equivocal objects, transformations,
mise-en-scène and deep focus, which would metaphorically, yet
minimalistically, support the situation the characters are in as well
as their evolution.
Vallo Toomla is a young promising talent in Estonian cinema. He has
played roles both in front and behind the camera but is best known
as a director. Vallo has directed several short films and an animated
film.
Livia Ulman and Andris Feldmanis are a writing team who have
extensive experience in writing for television dramas, including
Revenge Office, a top of the rating crime/comedy series which was
sold as a format to FremantleMedia. Livia and Andris have also
already penned three feature film screenplays.
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Amrion is a production company founded by Riina Sildos in 2003
to produce high quality feature films and documentaries for local
and international cinema and TV markets. The main aim is to
make international co-productions with young promising talents
and already acclaimed directors. What all the projects have in
common is the filmmakers’ personal vision, both with regard to
subject matter as well as visual aspects. As the former head of the
Estonian Film Foundation Riina Sildos has extensive knowledge and
experience in international financing and marketing and is one of
the most recognized personalities in the Baltic film industry. She
established Baltic Films, the promotional body for marketing Baltic
Films, and Baltic Event which is the largest co-production market in
the region. She is a national representative of Estonia at EAVE and a
member of ACE and European Film Academy.
Current Status
Pre-production. We have selected the main cast (four actors) and
made a test shoot with a few scenes from the script. Working on
final draft of the script.
To find co-producers, sales agents.
Vallo Toomla
Riina Sildos
Andris Feldmanis & Livia Ulman
Director
Vallo Toomla
Producer
Riina Sildos
Screenwriters
Livia Ulman,
Andris Feldmanis
Based on
Language
Estonian
Genre
Drama
Format
HD
Running time
90 minutes
Target audience
Adolescents and above
Total budget
€850.000
€570.200
Partners attached
Estonian Film Institute,
Estonian Cultural
Endowment, MEDIA
Riina Sildos,
Vallo Toomla
Contact
Riina Sildos
Amrion Production
Nurme 45
Tallinn 11616
Estonia
Tel: +372-50-48985
www.amrion.ee
2014 HFM Co-Pro 23
Something Useful
İşe yarar bir şey
Sinefilm (Turkey)
Leyla, a lawyer, and Canan,
a nursing student, meet on
a long distance train. Yavuz,
a paralyzed man, is waiting
for a nurse to help him die.
When they get together, Leyla
is now the poet, Yavuz is the
admirer of Leyla, Canan is
Yavuz’s executioner.
Synopsis
LEYLA (42), a lawyer, takes the train from Ankara to Izmir for her
high school reunion dinner. On the train she meets CANAN (21), a
nursing student going to Izmir for a job interview. From the girl’s
uptight behaviour and a phone conversation she overhears, Leyla
senses that something is troubling Canan. They get into a deep
conversation when Canan brings up a story experienced by an
acquaintance of hers who was asked for help by his paralyzed friend
to end his life. But he couldn’t kill him.
During the trip, Canan suddenly leaves the train at a station. But
then she jumps back on in tears. Leyla understands that Canan
is traveling to Izmir not to go to a job interview but to assist in the
suicide of the paralyzed man she spoke of earlier. Leyla offers to
accompany her for this difficult visit.
They visit the paralyzed YAVUZ (45) at his home where he is waiting
for the nurse who will end his life. Yavuz is amazed when he sees
Leyla: having expected a nurse, he finds himself face to face with
Leyla, a poet he admires.
An intense discussion begins between the trio. For Yavuz, who
expects to die without any farewells, this last afternoon has turned
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into a very pleasurable one. As the daylight fades, the mood is one
of life rather than death and of poetry rather than reality. While
Canan is preparing the injection, Leyla suggests coming back again
the next day. Hesitant at first, Yavuz eventually takes her offer.
That evening, Leyla leaves Canan in a hotel room and sets off for
the high school reunion dinner. After her first visit to Yavuz and
before the second one tomorrow, the reunion dinner now becomes
a ‘last supper’ for Leyla.
Why does a poet (Leyla) decide to accompany a man (Yavuz)
who wants to die and a young nurse (Canan) who has taken on
the difficult task of killing him? To help them? Because she is
fascinated by them? Because she is fascinated by death? Because
she is curious? Or is it because she wants to do something useful?
Would Leyla have done something more useful by accompanying
Canan and spending time with Yavuz? Why does the artist
continually seek to do something useful, when art exists as a
powerful and magical tool for understanding life? I’ll be searching
for some answers in the continuous movement of the train, in the
crowds of the city of Izmir, in Yavuz’s calm apartment and at Leyla’s
reunion dinner which turns into the venue for the “last supper”.
Pelin Esmer was born in Istanbul. After she majored in Sociology
she worked as a first assistant director on various films. She
founded Sinefilm where she has produced and directed her films
The Play, 10 to 11 and Watchtower. Her films premiered at festivals
such as Toronto, San Sebastian, Tribeca and Rotterdam and
received many international awards. In 2007, she was invited to the
Cinefoundation Festival de Cannes. The directors of the world’s
leading film festivals selected her as one of the world’s most
promising directors in the book Take 100: The Future of Film: 100
New Directors, published by Phaidon.
Focusing on independent film projects, Sinefilm was founded by
director Pelin Esmer in 2005 where she produced her featurelength films together with producer colleagues Tolga Esmer and
Nida Karabol Akdeniz. Among Sinefilm productions are the highly
praised award-winning features The Play, 10 to 11 and Watchtower,
all directed by Pelin Esmer.
10 to 11 and Watchtower are both produced as Turkish/German/
French co-productions where Sinefilm has been the delegate
production company. 10 to 11 was a co-production with ARTE France
whereas Watchtower was supported by the Turkish Cultural Ministry,
CNC, Medienboard Berlin-Brandendurg and Eurimages. Both of
the films have been released in Turkey, France, Germany and the
US. Sinefilm (Tolga Esmer) also line-produced a four-episode ARTE
France documentary on Istanbul.
Current Status
Financing.
Meeting with potential co-producers, sales agents and potential
financiers.
The feature film Watchtower (2012).
Pelin Esmer
Dilde Mahalli
Director
Pelin Esmer
Producer
Pelin Esmer
Associate Producer
Dilde Mahalli
Screenwriters
Baris Bicakci,
Pelin Esmer
Based on
Language
Turkish
Genre
Drama
Format
HD
Running time
90-100 minutes
Target audience
Arthouse
Total budget
€800.000
€240.000
Partners attached
Turkish Ministry of
Culture, Hubert Bals
Fund (Script and Project
Development)
Pelin Esmer,
Dilde Mahalli
Contact
Pelin Esmer
Sinefilm
Rıza Pasa sk. 10/4
Istanbul 34710
Turkey
Tel: +90-216-4501141 / +90-539-5966182
www.sinefilm.com
2014 HFM Co-Pro 25
Tacit Wisdom
Hiljainen Tieto
Periferia Productions (Finland)
Götafilm (Sweden)
Pomor Film (Norway)
A true story of passion and
betrayal set against the
growing hysteria of a lethal
witch hunt.
Synopsis
The story of ANNA (16) takes place on Åland Island in 1666, just as
the most widespread and systematic witch hunts in Scandinavian
history were beginning. In all, 16 women were convicted of being in
league with the devil, and seven of them were executed.
For Judge PSILANDER, who has mastered the newest witch
theories of the time, the trials are meant to cleanse the island of
superstition, and to let science and common sense prevail. The main
character, the intelligent yet stubborn Anna, is afforded an intimate
view of the events, having just started working as a maid in the
judge’s house.
To Anna’s misfortune, she falls intensely in love with her friend
RAKEL’s husband ELIAS, but his infatuation with her quickly fades. A
hurt and jealous Anna decides to get her revenge and falsely reports
Rakel to Judge Psilander.
It’s only when Rakel is arrested, and things get out of hand, that
Anna realises the gravity of her behaviour. This is the beginning of
her lonely battle, a desperate attempt to right her wrongdoing.
Tacit Wisdom is a story about guilt and atonement, and the search
for one’s identity. The historical era comes alive with all the colours,
noises, dirt and smells of a 17th Century village. The camera moves
close to people, catching the senses and emotions. As a contrast
to all this, the Åland island landscape provides an amazing visual
setting. On a rocky island surrounded by the sea with its autumn
storms, a person, with her fears and hopes, is tiny and frail.
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Saara Cantell is a director and screenwriter. She has written and
directed numerous short films as well as five feature films – Unna
& Nuuk (2006), the award-winning features Heartbeats (2010)
and The Stars Above (2012) and recent box-office hits The Two and
Only (2013) and Jill and Joy (2014), which became Finland’s most
watched film after its first weekend. Cantell was voted Finland’s
Best Film Director in 2010, and she was also awarded a State Film
Arts Prize jointly with the cinematographer Marita Hällfors. Her
film Heartbeats received 7 nominations at the Jussi Awards, plus
a nomination for a best director.
Production Company Profile / Producer’s Profile
Periferia Productions acts as a creator, producer and co-producer
of feature films, documentaries and tv-series. Producers Markku
Flink and Outi Rousu have a long experience of international coproductions. They have co-produced films and tv-series with the
Nordic countries, UK, Germany, Ireland, France, Czech Republic,
Slovak Republic, Luxemburg and Japan. Their films have been
screened in all five continents and have received numerous
national and international awards. Markku Flink is member of
ACE. He graduated as a documentary film director in Norway in
1993 and as an EAVE producer in 2004. In 1999, Flink founded a
regional film fund and a film commission in Oulu. He acted as the
Executive Director of a regional film foundation POEM 1999-2008.
He was a member of the board of the National Cinema Council
and is an active member of the Central Organisation of the Finnish
Film Producers.
Current Status
Finances in place: 44 %. The next version of the script will be
available in September 2014. Main cast and crew are mostly
attached to the project. The first day of principal photography is
planned to be in Autumn 2015.
We are looking for a co-producer (post-production), pre-sales,
distribution and financing.
The feature film The Stars Above (2012).
Saara Cantell
Markku Flink
Leena Virtanen
Director
Saara Cantell
Producer
Markku Flink
Screenwriters
Leena Virtanen,
Saara Cantell
Based on
Languages
Swedish/Finnish
Genre
Drama
Format
Digital
Running time
110 minutes
Target audience
Audience interested in
historical drama, but
given the film’s young
cast and focus on the
supernatural, it has the
possibility to cross over
to a younger target group
Total budget
€3.145.000
€1.383.800
Partners attached
Financiers: Finnish
Film Foundation,
the Government of
Åland, Church Media
Foundation, Svenska
Kulturfondet (Swedish
Cultural Foundation).
Broadcasting
companies: YLE TV1
(Finland), Swedish YLE.
Distributors: Nordisk
Film (Nordic countries)
Sales Company
Trust Nordisk
Markku Flink,
Saara Cantell
Contact
Markku Flink
Perieria Productions
Honkatie 8
06100 Porvoo
Finland
Tel: +358-40-5166504
www.periferiaproductions.fi
2014 HFM Co-Pro 27
Trade
Roads Entertainment (Ireland)
Based on his own awardwinning play Trade,
screenwriter Mark
O ‘Halloran is writing a
powerful film of passion and
shame to be realised by new
UK director David Roddham
(Coward).
Synopsis
COLM is 54, married with two children and comes from a lower
middle class background. His entire working life has been spent
in the north docks at a cargo company where he is now a middle
manager. Outwardly staid and ineffectual, he also, occasionally,
cruises for gay sex in public places around the north docks and the
city centre. These episodes have been sporadic, compartmentalised
and functional in nature; simple money/sex exchanges.
However, in the aftermath of the devastating death of his father, he
has a brief but violent encounter with a young rent boy, JAY, that
affects him deeply and brings with it sexual, moral and emotional
awakenings that threaten to pull his life apart.
As Colm is reluctantly drawn into Jay’s chaotic life, his own sense
of identity begins to fracture. He struggles to reconcile himself to
the passionate feelings he experiences for the younger man and
to his own duties as both father and husband. His already tense
relationship with his son SHANE (a similar age to Jay) explodes into
outright animosity, whilst his relationship with his wife descends
into guilt-wracked silence and pain.
Colm struggles to find what is the correct moral choice for him
given his compromised circumstances and to find both peace of
mind and closure. As events spiral out of control, Colm’s need for
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honesty compels him to confess all to his son, thus precipitating
the collapse of his home-life. The shock and shame of the emotions
he feels then boils over into an act of shocking violence that will
change everything for Colm and all those who know him.
Trade is a sparse and intense contemporary drama that dares you
to look at everything head on, and leaves you with a feeling that just
might make you feel uncomfortable in your own skin. Fear of losing
control is the central theme of the film. This theme is reflected in
Colm’s central journey, as he slowly unpeels through the story. A
key tonal reference for performance (and to an extent visually) for
Trade to me is Steve McQueen’s Hunger. What is so striking about
the film is its absolute starkness and rawness. It’s intimate, but still
cinematic. It’s poetic, but unpretentious. It’s beautiful, even when
regarding images of unsurpassed ugliness. Trade will be shot with
an elegant, gliding camera. Using the full width of the widescreen
frame to achieve painterly compositions, allowing the actors to
move with the full depth and width of each frame.
David Roddham is an emerging British filmmaker, whose extensive
career has spanned 15 years of on-set special effects, with
experience in over 28 films. Recently, David co-wrote, produced and
directed Coward, a short film based on a collection of true stories of
Irish volunteer soldiers in WWI.
Mark O’Halloran is an award-winning Irish born screenwriter, actor
and playwright. He has written screenplays for critically acclaimed
Irish films Adam and Paul (2004), Garage (2007) and the TV series
Prosperity. His most recent play, Trade, won the New Play Award at
the Irish Times Theatre Awards, 2011.
Roads Entertainment is an innovative film production company
established by successful entrepreneur Danielle Ryan and
acclaimed Irish producer Alan Maher. The company is focused
on developing and producing ambitious feature films and
documentaries, aimed at the international theatrical market while
exploring new distribution models.
David Roddham
Supported by the Roads Luxury Group’s team of financial and legal
experts, this is a full–service production company taking projects from
conception to exploitation. This enables the company to grow in an
enterprising and pragmatic fashion.
Roads Entertainment is talent-led and each project ranges across a
variety of genres, each designed to reach the widest audience possible.
Roads has recently completed its first feature documentary, After
the Dance, for the BBC’s flagship documentary strand Storyville, and
supported by the Irish Film Board.
Currently in production is the major feature documentary Being Ap,
financed by BBC Films, Universal Pictures, Irish Film Board and
Northern Ireland Screen and in partnership with Moneyglass Films.
Current Status
Final stages of development. Screenplay completed. Planning to shoot
first quarter 2015. Attaching cast to lead roles and securing production
funding. Scouting locations, compiling storyboards and introducing
project to appropriate distributors and sales agent.
This will be the first opportunity to present Trade to a group of
trusted industry peers at an international level and to engage in
robust discussion in relation to the project. We hope to secure a co–
production partner, primarily from the Netherlands and gain interest
from European funding bodies.
Alan Maher
Mark O’ Halloran
Director
David Roddham
Producer
Alan Maher
Screenwriter
Mark O’ Halloran
Based on
a stage play of the
same name Trade by
Mark O’Halloran
Language
English
Genre
Drama
Format
35mm Film,
Anamorphic
Running time
90 minutes
Target audience
Upscale arthouse aged
25-49
Total budget
€1.300.000
Irish Film Board –
amount tbc
Partners attached
Irish Film Board, Portico
Capital
Alan Maher,
David Roddham
The short film Coward (2012).
Contact
Alan Maher
Roads Entertainment
19 - 22 Dame Street
Dublin 2
Ireland
Tel: +353-1-6755279
www.roads.co/film
2014 HFM Co-Pro 29
Upstream
En amont du fleuve
Man’s Films Productions (Belgium),
SNG Film (The Netherlands)
Two half-brothers become
acquainted while travelling
upstream on their dead
father’s boat, on a river in the
Cambodian wilderness.
Synopsis
On board a little tub of a boat, HOMER and JOÉ, both in their fifties,
sail up a river in the Cambodian jungle. Until the recent death of
their father, they did not know about each other’s existence. Yet, they
are half-brothers. SEAN, an enigmatic Irish adventurer, joins them.
Upstream is a psychological adventure where these modest and
solitary men will reveal some of their secrets, and their hopes
perhaps, and where blood ties, whether they like it or not, will unite
them.
For this new project Upstream I wanted to try something new. I
asked Hubert Minganelli (author of the book I adapted for Noir
Ocean), to write a scenario for me. I gave him the premise: two men
in their fifties sailing upstream on a boat in the middle of the jungle.
A third man also in his fifties joins them during the voyage.
I knew these three men. Three actors with whom I had worked, with
whom I wanted to work again, that I wanted to bring together. To
write a tailor-made scenario for Olivier Gourmet, Sergi Lopez and
John Lynch.
The lack of words, the lack of verbal communication interests me,
and can be found in a number of my films.
My characters, Homer and Joé, half-brothers find it difficult to talk
about themselves. The first, traumatised by an absent father who
ignored his existence, the second by the violence of this same man.
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Marion Hänsel was born in 1949 in Marseille and grew up in
Antwerp. She set up her own company Man’s Films in 1977 in order
to make her first short film Equilibres. The Bed was her first feature
film. She also produced all of the 11 films she directed, such as
Dust, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Sounds of Sand, Noir
Océan, and Tenderness, winning many international prizes.
Retrospectives of her work are regularly organised all over the
world.
The company was established in 1977 by Marion Hänsel. Man’s
Films Productions produced all the films directed by Marion Hänsel.
It also produced or co-produced features and documentaries by
other directors, e.g. No Man’s Land by Danis Tanovic, Los Caminos de
la Memoria by José Luis Peñafuerte, Diego Star by Frédéric Pelletier
and Atlantic. by Jan-Willem van Ewijk.
Current Status
Financing stage. Cambodian recess arranged for October 2014.
Finding co-producers, distributors, television pre-sales.
The feature film La Tendresse (2013).
Marion Hänsel
Digna Sinke
Monique Marnette
Director
Marion Hänsel
Producers
Marion Hänsel,
Digna Sinke
Screenwriters
Hubert Mingarelli,
Marion Hänsel
Based on
Language
French
Genre
Psychological adventure
Format
HD – 2:35
Running time
80 minutes
Target audience
Adults
Total budget
€1.995.650
€1.112.150
Partners attached
Fédération WallonieBruxelles, RTBF
(Belgian Television),
Belgian Tax Shelter
Marion Hänsel,
Digna Sinke,
Monique Marnette
Contact
Marion Hänsel
Man’s Films Productions
Avenue Mostinck 65
Bruxelles 1150
Belgium
Tel: +32-2-7717137
2014 HFM Co-Pro 31
10 Songs for Charity
De Productie (The Netherlands),
Minds Meet (Belgium)
Five black women live
illegally in the Netherlands,
working as a cook, dancers
or prostitutes. They endure
many humiliations with
humor and resilience until it
becomes too much, and they
revolt.
Synopsis
When Nigerian CHARITY (24) leaves her country to go to Holland,
she’s forced to take her teen sister HAPPY (16) with her. Charity is
full of ambition and determined to become a rich woman. She is
also fully aware that she will be earning her money as an illegal
prostitute in the business of the ruthless MADAM DOLORES. Happy
is young and naïve. She doesn’t realise what awaits her.
From the moment they arrive in Europe the sisters are watched
continuously by the assiduous police officer DAVE who sees it as
his mission to fight human trafficking. They come to live in a bleak,
anonymous suburb where they share a flat with three other women:
the Brazilian FELICIA (45) earning her living as a dominatrix at
Madam Dolores, the Dominican ESPERANZA (32), working as a
nightclub dancer and the Surinamese PATIENCE (40) who sells
home-made meals. All are yearning for a legal, normal life and very
reluctant to accept these two poor African whores in their midst, as
if they were degrading them all.
While Charity is willing to sacrifice anything in order to achieve her
goal, Happy on the other hand, resists more and more the brutal
exploitation by Madam. Madam gets totally enraged and has Happy
beaten up so badly that she loses an eye. Charity has to choose
between her sister and her dream of wealth. And police officer Dave
puts pressure on her to testify against Madam, offering nothing but
a one-way ticket back home in return.
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Finally the women of the flat offer their solidarity and help as they
all realise that they need each other to survive in this dark world.
In the end they revolt openly against their destiny, singing a furious
but exhilarating song from the roof of the flat, joined by the whole
neighbourhood.
In the black neighbourhood where I live, I often meet them. Black
women from Africa or Latin America who live in the Netherlands
illegally, working as cleaners, caretakers or prostitutes. Exploited,
humiliated and hounded. By pimps, customers and police alike.
Still, they appear anything but beaten down. Streetwise and shrewd.
Bold and brazen. Used to taking punches. I admire their vitality,
their resilience and inventiveness. They inspire me. They are the
source of this film.
I want to capture their energy and musicality in this film. That’s
why I decided to tell their story in a modern musical. With music
which belongs to them and encompasses their history: Soul, R&B,
Latin and Afrobeat. The women reveal their inner lives in the songs.
In a raw urban musical that has to be harrowing and painful and
dares to be ugly. A musical version of La Haine, but with colour and
humour.
Karin grew up in French-speaking Belgium and studied French
literature and Communication Science at the University of
Amsterdam. She makes fiction and documentaries. Her work
has a strong sense of urgency, a strong social commitment and
inventiveness in style. Her documentary Birthplace Unknown won
the Joris Ivens Award at IDFA. Her first fiction Great! won the Silver
Bear for Best Short at the Berlinale 2004. Her first full length
feature Bolletjes Blues (2006), an urban musical about a drug dealer
in love, won a Golden Calf for Best Music and was nominated
for Best Scenario, Best Main Actor and Production Design in the
Netherlands.
Fotograaf Patricia Steur
Karin Junger
Annemiek van Gorp and René Goossens have been working
together in De Productie since September 1998.
De Productie produces arthouse drama and documentaries with a
strong social involvement and an artistic challenge. We regularly
participate in co-productions and we work with both budding talent
and experienced directors. We try, where possible, to bring the
two together. De Productie does not only intend to be a meeting
place for local and national talent, but also a reliable partner in
international co-productions. Our main focus is on films that stand
out through their chosen form and the appeal of their courageous,
sometimes controversial subject matter, and that successfully
balance form, content and emotion.
We are looking for universal stories, told from the heart, that are
as multifaceted and colourful as the filmmakers themselves.
Filmmakers who have the potential to appeal to a wide audience, far
beyond the borders of the Dutch market.
Current Status
Script 2nd draft, start of project development.
Finding co-producers, funds, pre-sales, sales agent.
Annemiek van Gorp
René Goossens
Director
Karin Junger
Producers
Annemiek van Gorp,
René Goossens,
Tomas Leijers
Screenwriters
Karin Junger,
Brigit Hillenius
Based on
Languages
English/Dutch/Spanish
Genre
Musical/Drama
Format
Digital
Running time
90 minutes
Target audience
First: women aged 2665. Second: general
arthouse-oriented public
Total budget
€1.648.000
€38.000
Partners attached
Netherlands Film Fund
René Goossens,
Karin Junger
The documentary Sexy Money (2014).
Contact
René Goossens, Annemiek van Gorp
De Productie
Gashouderstraat 9
3061 EH Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: + 31-651-513744 / + 31-614-535162
www.deproductie.nl
2014 HFM Co-Pro 33
Forbidden Love
Oude Liefde
Waterland Film (The Netherlands)
When two divorced and
remarried sixty-year-olds
meet again at their son’s
funeral, their love resurfaces,
but it isn’t long before their
autumnal puppy love spins
their family out of control.
Synopsis
FER and FRANSJE haven’t seen each other since their tragic
divorce. After more than two decades they finally meet again at
their son’s funeral, both supported by their new partners, the much
younger, slightly hysterical NATHALIE and the wise but passionate
Italian CESARE.
Without really knowing why, Fer calls Fransje after the funeral,
which to their surprise leads to a date. It’s an emotional meeting,
full of exposed and subdued emotions. After the first date a second
one follows. And then… a first kiss. They decide this should never
happen again.
In the meantime, their two adult daughters are both struggling
with love in their own dysfunctional but seemingly lighthearted
way. HILDE changes jobs and men like most people change their
underwear and recently acquired a new position at a pet crematory
run by “a very handsome man in his 50s”. TESS is trying to re-enter
the dating world and luckily finds herself assured of the unsolicited
advice of JOHAN, her fresh ex-husband. She is determined to handle
her divorce a million times better than her parents did, but doesn’t
realise her ambivalent relationship with Johan is very confusing to
their two young children. Both daughters are happy their parents
at least talk to each other again, as they still vividly remember their
dramatic divorce.
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A series of secret dates follow and the love between Fer and Fransje
starts to resurface ever more seriously. After a while they decide
to drift along and see where it leads them. It isn’t long before the
inevitable happens and their autumnal puppy love is discovered
by their granddaughter MYRTHE. Soon Nathalie, Cesare, Tess and
Hilde are informed and react with a mixture of shock, grief and
shame. When the cocktail of bereavement, relived tragic divorce and
ever-so-unsuccessful quest for love starts to spiral out of control,
the two lovers are put on the spot by their bewildered family…
With Forbidden Love we intent to make a contemporary drama,
provoking but not dreary, a realistic, humorous portrayal of how
modern relationships work. At its core is a painful event, the
death of a grown-up child. This leads the family relations between
parent and child to be turned upside down. Especially in a time
when traditional family relations are hard to find, this will be a
story many can identify with. We are looking for the right balance
between emotions we can relate to, playfulness, and wry humour.
Dialogue will play an important role in the film, but not at the cost
of its visual aspect. This doesn’t mean we want extreme locations
or spectacular camera work. What we want to do is to visualise a
contemporary, recognizable world.
Nicole van Kilsdonk graduated from the Netherlands Film
Academy in 1991. She directed television films such as Zadelpijn
and Ochtendzwemmers (nominated for the 2000 Dutch Film Critics
Award). With the successful adolescent drama How to Survive
Myself, Van Kilsdonk showed her talent in working with young
actors. In 2004 she won a Golden Calf for her television drama
Making Waves. In 2011 she received the Cinekid Award for her
endearing youth film Taking Chances. The feature film In the Heart
written by Peer Wittenbols, will be released in January 2015. In the
summer of 2014, her feature film Ventoux by writer Bert Wagendorp
will be shot in France.
Waterland Film produced the feature film Kauwboy by Boudewijn
Koole. At the Berlinale 2012, it won the Best First Feature Award
and the Best Youth Film Award. The film was the Dutch entry for the
Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film and won the EFA European
Discovery Award and the EFA Young Audience Award. Recent coproductions include The Third Side of the River by Célina Murga,
(selected for the 2014 Berlinale), Milagros Mumenthaler’s Back to
Stay (Golden Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress in Locarno
2011) and Bullhead by Michaël R. Roskam (nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 2012). The family
film Life according to Nino by Simone van Dusseldorp will open
Cinekid 2014. In January 2015 the feature film In the Heart by Nicole
van Kilsdonk will be released in the Dutch theatres. Currently in
development are co-productions Disappearance by Boudewijn Koole
and Sleep by Jan-Willem van Ewijk.
Current Status
Script in development.
Looking for co-production partners, financing partners and sales
agent.
Nicole van Kilsdonk
Peer Wittenbols
Ineke Kanters
Jan van der Zanden
Director
Nicole van Kilsdonk
Producers
Ineke Kanters,
Jan van der Zanden
Guusje van Deuren
Screenwriter
Peer Wittenbols
Based on
Language
Dutch
Genre
Tragicomedy
Format
HD
Running time
90 minutes
Target audience
Aged 30+, mainly female
Total budget
€1.535.000
€57.500
Partners attached
Ineke Kanters,
Jan van der Zanden,
Peer Wittenbols,
Guusje van Deuren
The feature film Taking Chances (2011).
The film In the Heart is available upon request to the producer.
Contact
Ineke Kanters, Jan van der Zanden
Waterland Film
Moermanskade 111
1013 BC Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: + 31-207-630663
www.waterlandfilm.nl
2014 HFM Co-Pro 35
Hairdresser’s Salon
Beatrix
Kapsalon Beatrix
BosBros (The Netherlands)
A story about three women
from three generations, each
at a turning point in their
lives. Each wants to stay in
control, but they all discover
along the way how to let go.
Synopsis
MARGOT (42) can’t accept the fact that her husband WILLEM
wants a divorce. Her mother TRIX (69) doesn’t want to close her
hairdressing salon and does her best to keep the business open.
ROMY (11), a bit chubby, hides from all the troubles in her life, her
maturing body, her parent’s divorce, her faltering relationship with
her father and from the school performance pressure laid upon her
by her mother. But she can’t hide forever. If she wants to be happy,
she must do something!
Grandmother Trix is very strict. Order and tidiness are important to
her and she’s also cynical and sarcastic. She doesn’t mind having
children around, but only if they behave well and do as they are told.
Since Romy was a baby she would stay over at grandmother’s place
and play in the box in the corner of the salon, but now Trix would
rather have her upstairs as “Romy is a big one these days”. She can
be a bit harsh when dealing with her loved ones.
But thank God for EMINE, the youngest employee at the salon, who
is a big support for Trix and is really sweet to Romy.
Trix is almost seventy years old and gradually things are going
wrong. After Emine moves away Romy begins to notice the “errors”
and also sees a change in her grandmother’s behaviour. Trix is
becoming more relaxed, is sweeter, softer and a bit crazy. While
Romy sees the positive side of her grandmother’s slowly developing
dementia, her mother Margot sees nothing but decline.
After a while Trix can no longer hide the fact that she needs help.
The salon needs to close and after a few more “incidents” she
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is placed in a nursing home. Romy is scared to show her school
results to her mother so she decides to run away. Away from all of
her problems. She takes Trix to the beach - the beach and the sea
which her grandmother wants to see so badly…
After Winky’s Horse and Where is Winky’s Horse, Tamara Bos has
again come up with a wonderful idea for a film. It’s a small but
touching and beautiful story that will appeal to audiences of all
ages. The strength of the characters Tamara has created is that
they are full of emotion, making them real and recognizable. And
although they are vulnerable, there is always room for a laugh. It’s a
film full of adventures and surprises that doesn’t avoid social issues
such as growing old, being a hard-working single mother and a
girl’s passage into womanhood. We would like to do some more
research into dementia. We want to get as close to the characters
as possible and include original and lifelike details.
Mischa Kamp studied communication before turning to filmmaking.
After directing several shorts, documentaries, series and TV films
for Dutch television she directed her first feature film, the wonderful
children’s movie Winky’s Horse (2005) and in 2007 the sequel Where
is Winky’s Horse. Her latest film Boys (2014) is a great success at
international film festivals.
Since 1994 Tamara Bos has worked as a full-time (script)writer. She
is also mother of three children, a daughter and two sons. In April
1999, she received the LIRA Writers’ Award for the scripts for the
children’s drama series Class Dismissed. The script of Winky’s Horse
received a Golden Calf for Best Screenplay at the Netherlands Film
Festival in 2005.
BosBros has set the standard for high-quality film and television
productions in the Netherlands since 1989. Burny Bos and his team
have also presented Dutch youth films and youth television series
abroad and have won many awards in the process. The BosBros
productions are timeless and therefore great entertainment for
each new generation of children and their parents. Working closely
together with the best screenwriters and directors, but at the same
time on the look-out for new talent, BosBros has a proven track
record in producing classics such as The Flying Liftboy, Minoes,
Winky’s Horse, Alfie, the Little Werewolf and Wiplala.
Current Status
Script development.
We’re looking for financing and co-production partners.
The feature film Winky’s Horse (2005).
Mischa Kamp
Tamara Bos
Burny Bos
Jolande Junte
Director
Mischa Kamp
Producer
Burny Bos
Jolande Junte
Screenwriter
Tamara Bos
Based on
Language
Dutch
Genre
Drama
Format
HD
Running time
90 minutes
Target audience
Family
Total budget
€1.200.000
approximately
€35.100
Partners attached
Netherlands Film Fund development
Burny Bos,
Jolande Junte,
Mischa Kamp
Contact
Burny Bos
BosBros
Frederiksplein 43
1017 XL Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: + 31-205-244030
www.bosbros.com
2014 HFM Co-Pro 37
Playboy Priest
Playboy Priester
Rinkel Film (The Netherlands)
The true story of a playboy
priest who lives by the motto
‘You can sin as long as you’re
really sorry afterwards’,
spending alms on brothels
and bars. But only God is
untouchable.
Synopsis
Inspired by the life of Joep Haffmans, the true story of the rise and
fall of a playboy priest. After being educated in a seminary which
teaches that you can sin as long as you’re really sorry, Haffmans
moves easily between Sunday Mass, brothel and bar. How can he
warn his flock against life’s temptations if he hasn’t experienced
them himself? When he starts spending collection plate money on
his partying with drugs and women, and selling church treasures,
it’s clear to everybody but Haffmans that things have got out of
control…
We get on a roller coaster ride that we want to last forever, until we
see the brick wall looming in the distance and we can’t get the lap
bar to unlock. There’s a thin line between “carpe diem” and the kind
of excess that will destroy one’s immortal soul, and a man of god
should tread lightly. ‘Memento mori!’ we shout at the screen, but
Haffmans will not listen.
This film will not present him as a one-dimensional priest,
squandering church money on caviar and whiskey, and fucking
everything that moves (though there will be some of that...), Playboy
Priest is a character piece about someone who loves the taste of
power, but cannot handle it. Not at all.
And we, the audience, will watch, enthralled and in horror, in morbid
fascination.
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Arne Toonen is a director, artist and owner of online gallery
Prints & The Revolution. After a few years successfully directing
commercials for different brands, Arne co-founded HazazaH
Pictures in 2004, an independent film production company
specializing in the creation and production of documentaries,
short and feature films. Arne has a keen eye for characterization
and infuses his work with a signature comic sense. His feature
film Dik Trom (2010) was awarded a Golden Film and his 2012
feature Black Out earned a Golden Calf nomination.
Founded in 1997 by producer Reinier Selen, Rinkel Film is an
independent film production company located in the artistic
heart of Amsterdam. Our philosophy is to produce highquality, character-driven feature films and television drama,
often inspired by true stories, and always in collaboration with
(international) co-producers. After graduating from Art College
with a major in documentary film directing, Selen decided he
wanted to produce instead. This resulted in his first film, the
critically acclaimed short The Bicycle (1998). Since then, Rinkel
has produced a dozen feature films, such as Backslide, Nothing
Personal, Süskind and Cool Kids Don’t Cry, that have solidified
Rinkel’s reputation inside and outside of the Netherlands. In 2014
Rinkel Film is releasing four new feature films: Accused, Love
Eternal, Secrets of War and Brand New-U.
Current Status
At script stage.
To present Playboy Priest to financiers and other decision makers,
both in the Netherlands and internationally. We believe this
project to have strong international appeal and aim for a crossborder distribution basis in which we would like to involve our
international partners to-be as early as possible.
The feature film Black Out (2012).
Arne Toonen
Reinier Selen
Director
Arne Toonen
Producer
Reinier Selen
Screenwriters
Jan Eilander,
Michel Sluysmans
Based on
the book In Gods Naam
by Henk Langenberg &
Maarten van Laarhoven
Language
Dutch
Genre
Drama/Black comedy
Format
Digital
Running time
100 minutes
Target audience
Vocational to higher
educated, aged 18-30,
attracted by (tragicomic) dramas such
as Blow and Amadeus.
Secondary target
audience is 30-65
year olds interested in
true-based stories and
religious/social themes
Total budget
€3.000.000
€489.750
Partners attached
Netherlands Film Fund,
Creative Europe,
Cinéart
Co-producers
HazazaH Pictures
(The Netherlands),
Tarantula sárl
(Luxembourg),
Ciné Cri de Coeur
(Belgium)
Reinier Selen,
Arne Toonen
Contact
Reinier Selen
Rinkel Film
Bremstraat 1-3
1031 EK Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: + 31-206-163231
www.rinkelfilm.com
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A Shining Flaw
Een Schitterend Gebrek
Eyeworks Film & TV Drama (The Netherlands)
Disfigured by smallpox,
Casanova’s first love flees to
Amsterdam where she works
as a veiled prostitute. When
they meet again she realises
she possesses a deeper
understanding of love than
Casanova ever will.
Synopsis
In Amsterdam 1758, LUCIA, a renowned veiled courtesan known
as Galathee, recognises a French diplomat as her greatest love,
GIACOMO CASANOVA, who she knew sixteen years before. Without
revealing her true identity, they again become acquainted. In a bid
to seduce her, he explains how he has grown to distrust women
because he was betrayed by his first love – Lucia. Lucia realises that
it is the thought of her that is keeping him from truly loving anyone
again.
The encounter evokes memories of her childhood, in Pasiano in 1742.
On the estate where her parents worked as servants, 14-year-old
Lucia and 17-year-old Giacomo meet. It’s love at first sight. Leaving
for Venice to become a diplomat, Giacomo promises to return and
marry her next spring. She takes classes to prepare for life as a
diplomat’s wife and in the spirit of the Enlightenment, focuses on
intellect and reason. Tragically, a smallpox epidemic leaves her face
deformed. When Giacomo returns for their wedding, she decides it
would be better for his career to hide from him. Hoping he will forget
about her, she begs her mother to tell Giacomo that she has betrayed
him by taking off with another suitor.
Sixteen years later, it appears that her plan to make him forget has
failed and Lucia attempts to undo the damage. She offers herself up
to him – her veil at once protecting her secret and keeping up their
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intellectual and erotic game. They become real lovers again. But
in the end, when Lucia shows him her unveiled face, she realises
that Giacomo will never be able to love her unconditionally and she
leaves him again. With her unborn child she leaves for America,
knowing that her troubled life has given her a deeper understanding
of love than Casanova’s adventures ever can.
Never once in my personal life, nor during my career as a
photographer and short film director, have I been quite as captivated
by both the subject matter and overwhelming visual approach of a
book. Arthur Japin’s In Lucia’s Eyes encompasses everything I feel
that a film should express and visualise: a passionate history of the
life and love of a central character who is the exception to the rule.
A woman, one who is at the same time both adventurous and tragic,
who manages to put her shortcomings to unique use and emerge
triumphant in the game of love.
I do not want to make a typical historical costume drama. Rather, I
want it to be instantly clear that we’re dealing with a fantasy world.
We will alternate between exterior locations and set models with a
truly unique Dutch imprint. I intend to use extremely precise nonbaroque tropes and references to both the painting and architecture
of the Dutch Golden Age painting.
Mixing photo journalism with studio photography Erwin Olaf
emerged on the international art scene in 1987, subsequently
staging many prestigious exhibitions and awards. Film is also a
very important medium for his art. His films have been screened at
several leading museums and film festivals all around the world.
He won numerous international art and media prizes, such as
Photographer of the Year in the International Colour Awards in 2006.
In 2008 he received a Lucie Award in the USA and in 2011 he won
the prestigious Dutch State Prize of the Arts. He was also awarded
Artist of the Year in the Netherlands in 2013.
Eyeworks Film &TV Drama is a film-and television drama producer
with a portfolio consisting of many big titles including Academy
Award-winning feature Antonia’s Line (1996), and many critically
acclaimed family films such as Crystal Bear winner Bluebird (2005),
Scratches in the Table (1998), Mariken (2000), Polleke (2003) and The
Letter for the King (2008). Stricken (2009) was a box-office hit with
more than 1.2 million visitors and the historic epic 3D film Nova
Zembla (2011), the New Kids films (2011, 2012, 2013) and The Happy
Housewife (2010) also attracted large audiences. New Kids Turbo
was a number one film in Germany. The Marathon (2012) won the
national Press and Public Award and the thriller Daylight (2013)
won a Rembrandt award. Jackie (2012) and The Dinner (2013) were
selected for Toronto International Film Festival. In Autumn 2014
Wonderbroeders and Pak van mijn hart will be released. Since June
2014 Eyeworks has been part of Warner Bros.
Current Status
We are developing the script with support of the Netherlands Film
Fund. Broadcaster AVRO is on board.
We are looking for international co-production partners.
Short films of Erwin Olaf.
Erwin Olaf
Arthur Japin
Judith Hees
Maarten Swart
Director
Erwin Olaf
Producers
Judith Hees,
Maarten Swart
Screenwriter
Arthur Japin
Based on
the novel In Lucia’s Eyes
by Arthur Japin
Languages
Dutch/Italian/and
possibly English
Genre
Epic drama
Format
HD
Running time
100 minutes
Target audience
Aged 20-50, especially
female
Total budget
€3.250.000
€832.500
Partners attached
AVRO, A-Film Benelux
Judith Hees,
Maarten Swart,
Erwin Olaf
Contact
Judith Hees, Maarten Swart
Eyeworks Film & TV Drama
Raamplein 1
1016 XK Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31-206-661892
Email: [email protected],
[email protected]
www.eyeworks.tv
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To All Naked Men
Ela jamie al rejal al urat
Bassam Chekhes Production (The Netherlands),
Silkroad Production (France)
One night, Salman wakes up
frightened. He must escape
the investigation that was
taking place in his dream,
as he realises that he knows
much more about the crime.
Synopsis
The war in Syria is drawing to an end, the first reliable election due
to be conducted against a backdrop of ruins. Nobody knows what
political deals have been made in order to maintain unity, nor which
laws will be applied.
One night the strong but secretive SALMAN wakes up frightened. He
must escape the investigation that was taking place in his dream,
as he realises that he knows a lot more about the crime that took
place within it.
The hidden body is that of SALMA, his missing sister. Surprisingly,
she now has a nine-year-old son, WAEL, who knows Salman well
and welcomes him back to the family.
Salman is living alone. A few years ago, he succeeded in running
away from Syria and settled on the outskirts of Beirut. He works as
a seller, driving his rusty pickup and trading in anything that makes
money. But these journeys never threaten his life as much as the
ones in his sleep, as they begin to reveal the circumstances of his
sister’s disappearance.
I feel that we live in a time when our relationships and beliefs
are being harshly judged, easily categorised and pushed toward
extremism. So to protect our individuality we become less tolerant,
more isolated, secretive and fearful.
Eleven years ago, the “are you with us or against us?” motto was
created to drag governments into the war in Iraq. But today, this
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motto has made its way into our society’s institutions, and even
into family life. But who do we refer to when we talk about “us”?
Today the war in Syria, as well as other conflicts in the region, is
cultivating sectarian violence and ideological killing, but when
both the killer and the victim come from the same family, how
can we survive?
Bassam Chekhes was born in Syria. He left his civil-engineering
studies behind and moved to the Netherlands where he studied
audio-visual art, graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy
in Amsterdam.
Being at art school enriched his passion for photography and
filmmaking, but pushed him to learn about every technical
aspect of the process. While studying he worked for numerous
production companies, and collaborated on various projects
with other artists and filmmakers.
He shot, directed and produced a dozen short films, the
latest of which, Waiting for P.O. box, premiered at Cannes 2012
and became the first Syrian short to be selected for Cannes
competition.
Behrooz Hashemian has a BA in Film Production from Hunter
College City University, NY-USA. He produced Journey to the
Sun (1999), directed by Yeşim Ustaoğlu, which received the Blue
Angel Prize at the 1999 Berlinale, and Best Film, Best Director,
Fipresci Prize and the Audience Award at the 1999 Istanbul
Film Festival, among others. His other films are Summersalt in
the Coffin (1997) by Dervis Zaimoglu and Manhattan by Numbers
(1993) directed by Amir Naderi.
Current Status
Development stage, third draft of script.
Our aim at the HFM Co-Production Platform is to continue
presenting the project to international professionals and to explore
new possibilities for collaborating with partners from different
regions, we also would like to extend our network with a wider
range of broadcasters, financiers, distributors, television and
theatrical sales agents.
The short film Waiting for P.O. Box (2012).
Bassam Chekhes
Behrooz Hashemian
Director
Bassam Chekhes
Producer
Behrooz Hashemian
Screenwriter
Bassam Chekhes
Based on
Language
Arabic
Genre
Drama
Format
HD
Running time
90 minutes
Target audience
Arthouse audience aged
25+
Total budget
€900.000
€50.000
Partners attached
AFAC (Arabic Fund
For Culture And Art)
(Lebanon),
Ustaoğlu Production
(Turkey)
Bassam Chekhes,
Behrooz Hashemian
Contact
Bassam Chekhes
Bassam Chekhes Production
Staalstraat 4/III
1011 JL Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31-655-506446
2014 HFM Co-Pro 43
Tonio
NL Film and TV (The Netherlands)
Tonio deals with the loss of a
22-year-old son, the beloved
and only child of his parents
Adri and Miriam.
Synopsis
On his way home after a night of partying, TONIO, 22-year-old son of
famous writer ADRI and his wife MIRIAM, is hit by a car and taken to
intensive care. The police pick up his parents, just in time to see him
die in the hospital. Life has suddenly changed drastically for them.
They are in mourning, but must also avoid spiraling into an endless
pool of misery.
Adri tries to find his footing by meticulously researching the
events that took place in Tonio’s life the weeks before the accident,
whereas Miriam tries to hold on to her friends and family, and most
importantly to her relationship with Adri. On the other hand we also
witness, in retrospect and through Adri and Miriam’s eyes, their love
affair and the birth of Tonio who grows up to be a curious, open and
talented child.
For Adri, the search for Tonio’s experiences and whereabouts
becomes a total obsession: every detail is important, and may take
him closer to the son he lost.
Screenwriter’s Statement
Once you lose a child, the “why” becomes unimportant. Fate strikes
a deal with Chance, and you’re left empty-handed. There is no
reason, no motive, no logic, no cause and effect. Tonio dies and Adri
and Miriam are left behind.
The film is told through multiple perspectives - Miriam’s, Adri’s
and occasionally Tonio’s, who is busy trying to lead his student life.
There’s no classic drama, just raw emotions.
What we see is not always chronological. Moments, experiences,
quotes enter into secretive connections. Some scenes, like the
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police bringing the news of the accident, are told several times from
different perspectives. Memories cannot be deleted, but take on a
different shape every time.
Despite the gut-wrenching content, Tonio is not a sombre novel, and
will not be a gloomy film. It is as much a portrait of a young man
growing up as it is a mosaic of moments, events and emotions that
make for a moving and dynamic film. Memories shine in the light
of this energy. Adri is searching for signs of vitality, and finds life.
Numerous are the occasions where Miriam and Adri enjoy Tonio’s
life tremendously, in all phases of his existence. They find joy and
pride, over and over again. Tonio is what binds them together – also
after he’s passed away.
Director Paula van der Oest was Oscar-nominated for her film
Zus en Zo and won Golden Calfs (Dutch Film Awards) for Black
Butterflies and The Domino Effect. In 2012 she was guest of honour
at the Netherlands Film Festival.
Hugo Heinen is a prolific writer of TV and feature drama. He has
written multiple series for public TV, and the cinema, most recently
Nova Zembla, the most successful Dutch film of 2011. He has
written the script for the upcoming feature film Knielen op een bed
violen/My Father’s Garden, one of the best-selling Dutch novels since
WWII.
Alain de Levita started NL Film and TV in 2001, and now, after
more than 20 feature films and even more TV series, NL Film
and Television is one of Holland’s leading feature and TV drama
producers. Projects range from successful children’s series (some
in their eighth season) to big budget feature films like The Storm for
Universal.
Sytze van der Laan is a longtime producer of international film and
television. As independent producer and former managing director
of Studio Hamburg, Germany, he produced feature films for Disney
Studios, BBC Films, and TV movies and series for all German
networks.
Current Status
First draft of the script available. Benelux distributor attached.
With Tonio being a universal story about life, love and the fear of
loss of both, combined with an ambitious script both in terms of
emotions and form, we think the film can be a veritable European
cinematic experience that deserves ambitious co-producers. We
are hoping for inspiring meetings with producers from any larger
European territory, with a preference for France, Germany and the
United Kingdom.
Paula van der Oest
Hugo Heinen
Sytze van der Laan
Alain de Levita
Director
Paula van der Oest
Producers
Sytze van der Laan,
Alain de Levita
Screenwriter
Hugo Heinen
Based on
the novel Tonio by A.F.Th.
van der Heijden
Language
Dutch
Genre
Drama
Format
Digital
Running time
90 minutes
Target audience
Adults
Total budget
€2.000.000
script development
Partners attached
A-Film Benelux
Sytze van der Laan
Contact
Sytze van der Laan
NL Film and TV B.V.
Johannes Vermeerstraat 55
1071 DM Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: 31-20-5747626
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
www.nlfilm.tv
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IN THE HEART HFM CO-PRO 2012
THE LAMB HFM CO-PRO 2012
Previous Departures from
HFM Co-Pro (as of August 2014)
2013
In post-production
CROSS YOUR HEART
(Petri Kotwica), Vertigo
Production, Finland
DO YOU LOVE ME
(Lina Luzyte), Just a moment,
Lithuania
EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO
(Peter Greenaway), Submarine,
The Netherlands
Pre-production
THE DREAM-GOD
(Valeriya Gai Germanika),
Proline Film, Russia
A QUIET PASSION
(Terence Davies), Hurricane
Films, UK
WRECK IT!
(project title: SCRAPPERS! A
NORTHERN WESTERN) (Max
Zähle), Tamtam Film, Germany
Financing
THE ABSENCE
(Rainer Kirberg), jucca film
Angerbauer Kirberg & Kotchi,
Germany / Zeitun Films, Spain
THE CLIFF SHORE
(Mehmet Can Mertoglu),
Kamara, Turkey
EXOTIC PICTURES
(Edwin), Lemming Film, The
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Netherlands / Babibutafilm,
Indonesia
HEARTSTONE
(Gudmundur A. Gudmundsson),
FRÆ films, Iceland
MONK
(Ties Schenk), Viking Film, The
Netherlands
MY NAME IS EMILY
(Simon Fitzmaurice), Kennedy
Films / Newgrange Pictures,
Ireland
PLAY ME, KUSTURICA
(Uros Tomic), Film House
Kiselo Dete, Serbia
WITCH OF THE FENS
(Thijs Schreuder), Fu Works,
The Netherlands
In development
THE BURNING BRIDGES
(Pablo González), La Mer a
Boire Productions, France
EQUATOR
(Hans van Nuffel), Savage Film,
Belgium
THE FEAR OF GOD
(Simon de Waal), Shooting
Star Film Production, The
Netherlands
GOD’S LEGS
(Pablo Malo), Imval
Producciones, Spain
LA HOLANDESA
(Marleen Jonkman),
Smarthouse Films, The
Netherlands
PASSING CLOUDS
(Tatiana Korol), Wostok / Scala
Productions, UK
PIGS IN THE WIND
(Stergios Paschos), Marni
Films, Greece
On hold
KAI
(Oleg Sentsov), CryCinema,
Ukraine
2012
Completed
IN THE HEART
(Nicole van Kilsdonk),
Waterland Film, The
Netherlands – Release TBA
THE LAMB
(project title: SOUTH FACING
WALL) (Kutlug Ataman), The
Institute for the Readjustment
of Clocks, Turkey – Berlinale
2014, Panorama
SEE NO EVIL
(project title: KNUCKLES’
LAST TAPE) (Jos de Putter),
Dieptescherpte, The
Netherlands – Rotterdam 2014
TRESPASSING BERGMAN
(project title: BERGMAN’S
VIDEO) (Jane Magnusson,
Hynek Pallas), Gädda Five,
Sweden – Venice 2013, Venezia
Classici
In post-production
DUST CLOTH
(Ahu Öztürk), Ret Film, Turkey
MOTHERLAND
(Senem Tüzen), Yeni
Sinemacilar / Tato Film / Zela
Film, Turkey
PARADISE TRIPS
(Raf Reyntjens), Caviar Films,
Belgium
Shooting
EUROPE’S BORDERLANDS
(Jakob Preuss), Weydemann
Bros., Germany
Pre-production
J.KESSELS
(Erik de Bruyn), CTM LEV
Pictures, The Netherlands
Financing
IN FROM THE COLD
(project title: JOHANNA’S
SON) (Martin Krejci), Rinkel
Film, The Netherlands /
Stink London, UK / Dawson
Productions, Czech Republic
KORSO HFM CO-PRO 2011
MUDO
(Daniel Martín Novel), Impronta
Films, Spain
PILGRIMAGE (Brendan
Muldowney), SP Films, Ireland
RUNT (Ieuan Morris), Fragrant
Films, UK
In development
DEATH OF A SALARYMAN
(Adrian Sitaru), Vernon Films,
UK
FATHER
(Artur Urbánski), Apple Film
Production, Poland
INTO THE BLUE
(Jaap van Heusden), IJswater
Films, The Netherlands
2011
Completed
45 MINUTES TO RAMALLAH
(Project title: COOL WATER)(Ali
Samadi Ahadi), brave new work
film productions, Germany Montreal 2013
ALL CATS ARE GREY
{Savina Dellicour), Tarantula
Films, Belgium – Montreal
2014
ALL CATS ARE GREY HFM CO-PRO 2011
THE BLUE WAVE
(Merve Kayan, Zeynep Dadak),
Bulut Film, Turkey – Berlinale
2014, Generation 14plus
CULTURE FILES
(Various), Gebreuder Beetz
Filmproduktion, Germany –
Released in 2013
KORSO
(Akseli Tuomivaara), Bufo,
Finland – Edinburgh 2014
THE ONLY SON
(Project title: THE JOURNEY)
(Simonka de Jong), IDTV Docs,
The Netherlands Film Festival
– IDFA 2012
TENDERNESS
(Marion Hansel), Man’s Film
Productions, Belgium –
Rotterdam 2013
YOZGAT BLUES
(Mahmut Fazil Coskun), Hokus
Fokus Film, Turkey – San
Sebastian 2013
In post-production
BLACK DIAMOND
(Arthur Harari), Les Film
Pelleas, France
In pre-production
HEINZ
(Piet Kroon), BosBros, The
Netherlands
THE RANGER
(PJ Dillon), Fastnet Films,
Ireland
Financing
THE BOOK OF EVERYTHING
(project title: THOMAS AND
THE BOOK OF EVERYTHING)
(Ineke Houtman), Eyeworks
Film & TV Drama, The
Netherlands
OUR HOUSE
(Stefan Fjeldmark), Zentropa
RamBUk, Denmark
In development
WHISPERING CLOUDS
(Meikeminne Clinckspoor),
Flinck Film, The Netherlands
2010
Completed
THE AFTERMATH
(Wladyslaw Pasikowski), Apple
Film Production, Poland –
Gdynia 2012
THE BAG OF FLOUR
(Kadija Saidi Leclere), La
Cie Cinématographique
Européenne, Belgium –
Tanger 2012
LIFE ACCORDING TO NINO
(Simone van Dusseldorp) Family
Affair Films/Waterland Film &
TV, The Netherlands – Cinekid
2014, Opening film
LIFE? OR THEATRE?
(Frans Weisz), Quintus Films,
The Netherlands - IDFA 2011
LIKE THE WIND
(Marco Simon Puccioni), Intel
Film, Italy – Rome 2013
A LONG STORY
(Project name: BLACK SEA)
(Jorien van Nes), Circe Film, The
Netherlands –Netherlands Film
Festival 2013, Competition
RAT KING
(Petri Kotwica), Making Movies,
Finland - Released in 2012
THE REAPER
(project title: SAINT ANNE IN
THE FIELD )( Zvonimir Juric),
Kinorama, Croatia – Toronto
2014, Contemporary World
Cinema
RUN AND JUMP
(Steph Green), Samson Films,
Ireland – Tribeca 2013
THE SKY ABOVE US
(Marinus Groothof), LEV
Pictures, The Netherlands –
Release TBA
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THE REAPER HFM CO-PRO 2010
WHAT RICHARD DID
(Project title: BLACKROCK)
(Lenny Abrahamson), Element
Pictures, Ireland – Toronto
2012, Contemporary World
Cinema
In pre-production
TOLDI
(Project title: T PROJECT)
(György Pálfi), Katapult Film,
Hungary
Financing
THE GADFLY
(Project title: SOMETHING
DIFFERENT) (Jasmin Dizdar),
Sterling Pictures, UK
In development
DEVOTION
(Martin Gypkens), Cine Plus
Filmproduktion, Germany
INTO THE FLAME
(Project title: IN THE POET’S
HOUSE) (Sander Burger), NFI
Productions, The Netherlands
THE TRAIN STATION
(Mohamed Al-Daradji), Human
Film, UK
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LIFE ACCORDING TO NINO HFM CO-PRO 2010
2009
Completed
À PERDRE LA RAISON
(Project title: AIMER A PERDRE
LA RAISON) (Joachim Lafosse),
Versus Productions, Belgium
- Cannes 2012, Un Certain
Regard
ATLANTIC.
(Project title: LAND.) (JanWillem van Ewijk), Augustus
Film, The Netherlands –
Toronto 2014
COME TO MY VOICE
(Hüseyin Karabey), A-Si
Production, Turkey –
Berlin 2014, Competition
Generation 14plus
CORNEA
(Jochem de Vries), NFI
Productions, The Netherlands
and Riva Films, Germany –
Released in 2014
HEAVEN ON EARTH
(Pieter Kuijpers), Pupkin Film,
The Netherlands –Released in
2013
THE INNER ZONE
(Fosco Dubini), Dubini
Filmproduktion, Germany –
Switzerland - Released in 2012
LIZA, THE FOX-FAIRY
(Károly Ujj Mészáros),
Filmteam, Hungary – To be
released in 2014
MISTER JOHN
(Christine Molloy/Joe Lawlor),
Samson Films, Ireland –
Edinburgh 2013
MY BROTHERS
(Paul Fraser), Treasure
Entertainment, Ireland Galway Film Fleadh 2010
MY BROTHER THE DEVIL
(Sally El Hosaini), S Films, UK Sundance and Berlinale 2012
THE STATE OF SHOCK
(Andrey Kosak), Vertigo/
Emotion Film, Slovenia –
Slovenian 2011
THE UNSAVED
(Project title: FLYING
LESSONS) (Igor Cobileanski),
Saga Film, Romania – Karlovy
Vary 2013
In pre-production
FROG ZAGREB TOKYO
(Project title: FROG) (Elmir
Jukic), Refresh Production,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Financing
MY FATHER’S GARDEN
(Ben Sombogaart), NL Film &
Television, The Netherlands
In development
MR. LU’S BLUES
(Maria von Heland), 27 Films
Production, Germany
NOMADES
(Project title: THE BOY
WHO DID NOT CRY) (Olivier
Coussemacq), Local Films,
France
2008
Completed
BEYOND
(Project title: THE PIGSTIES)
(Pernilla August), Hepp Film
AB, Sweden - Venice 2010,
Critic’s Week
BULLHEAD
(Project title: THE FIELDS)
(Michael R. Roskam), Savage
Film, Belgium - Berlinale 2011,
Panorama
INVASION
(Dito Tsintadze), Twenty
Twenty Vision Filmproduktion,
Germany - Munich 2012
CORNEA HFM CO-PRO 2009
ISZTAMBUL
(Project title: ISTANBUL)
(Ferenc Török), Uj Budapest
Filmstudió, Hungary - Dublin
2010
OUR GRAND DESPAIR
(Seyfi Teoman), Bulut Film,
Turkey - Berlinale 2011,
Competition
PLAYOFF
(Eran Riklis), Topia
Communications, Israel Released in 2011
THE RUNWAY
(Ian Power), Fastnet Films,
Ireland - Galway Film Fleadh
2010
SHANGHAI BELLEVILLE
(Show-Chun Lee), Clandestine
Films, France – Released in
2011
SHOCKING BLUE
(Mark de Cloe), Waterland
Film & TV, The Netherlands –
Rotterdam 2010
THE SNOW QUEEN
(Marko Räät), F-Seitse, Estonia
- Released in 2010
ATLANTIC. HFM CO-PRO 2009
SOMEWHERE TONIGHT
(Project title: 1-900) (Michael
Di Jiacomo), Column Film, The
Netherlands - Karlovy Vary
2011
SON OF BABYLON
(Project title: UM-HUSSEIN)
(Mohamed Al-Daradji), Human
Film, United Kingdom Berlinale 2010, Panorama
SONNY BOY
(Maria Peters), Shooting
Star Film Production, The
Netherlands - Stony Brook
New York 2011
URSUL
(Project title: THE BEAR) (Dan
Chisu), Libra Film, Romania Transilvania 2011
Financing
SEEING CHRIS
(Tom Cairns), Newgrange
Pictures, Ireland
2007
Completed
ADRIENN PÁL
(Ágnes Kocsis), Print KMH,
Hungary - Cannes 2010, Un
Certain Regard
DUSK
(Project title: WITHOUT LIMIT)
(Hanro Smitsman), Corrino
Netherlands Film Festival 2010
THE FLOWERS OF KIRKUK
(Project title: KIRKUK)
(Fariborz Kamkari), Farout Out
Films, Italy – Rome 2010
THE GREAT KILAPY
(Zézé Gamboa), David & Golias,
Portugal – Toronto 2012
THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE
WORLD
(Radu Jude), Hi Film
Productions, Romania Berlinale 2009, Forum
KURAI, KURAI - TALES WITH
THE WIND
(Marjoleine Boonstra), Volya
Films, The Netherlands –
MILO
(Berend Boorsma & Roel
Boorsma), Fu Works, The
Netherlands – Giffoni 2012
OB IHR WOLLT ODER NICHT
(Project title: LAURA) (Ben
Verbong), Elsani Film,
Germany - Released in 2009
SHIRLEY - VISIONS OF
REALITY
(Gustav Deutsch), KGP
Kranzelbinder Production,
Austria – Berlinale 2013,
Forum
SUPERNOVA
(Tamar van den Dop), Revolver,
The Netherlands –Berlinale
2013, Generation Kplus
TOMORROW WILL BE BETTER
(Dorota Kedzierzawska), Kid
Film Sp Zoo, Poland - Berlinale
TONY 10
(Mischa Kamp), Lemming Film,
The Netherlands - Released
in 2012
WAKE WOOD
(David Keating), Fantastic Film,
Ireland - Lund Fantastic Film
Festival 2014
2014 HFM Co-Pro 49
MISTER JOHN HFM CO-PRO 2009
2006
Completed
BON APPÉTIT
(David Pinillos), Morena Films,
Spain - Malaga 2010
CHRISTMAS STORY
(Juha Wuolijoki), Diadik GmbH,
Germany - Sarasota 2008
HERE AND THERE
(Darko Lungulov), Media Plus,
Serbia - Tribeca 2009
THE HOURGLASS
(Project title: THE SANDS)
(Szabolcs Tolnai), Art &
Popcorn, Serbia – Serbian Film
Festival 2007
INVOLUNTARY
(Ruben Östlund), Platform
Production, Sweden - Cannes
2008, Un Certain Regard
LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES
(Stefan Arsenijevic), Art &
Popcorn, Serbia - Berlinale
2008, Panorama
MISSION LONDON
(Dimitar Mitovski), SIA
Advertising, Bulgaria Released in 2010
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KURAI KURAI -TALES WITH THE WIND HFM CO-PRO 2007
NONO, THE ZIGZAG KID
(Project title: THE ZIGZAG KID)
(Vincent Bal), BosBros, The
Netherlands – Netherlands
Film Festival 2012, Opening
Film
PRACTICAL GUIDE TO
BELGRADE WITH SINGING
AND CRYING
(Project title: FROM
BELGRADE WITH LOVE) (Bojan
Vuletic), Art & Popcorn, Serbia
- Released in 2011
SOME OTHER STORIES
(Hanna Slak / Ivona Juka /
Ines Tanovic / Marija Dzidzeva
/ Ana Maria Rossi), SEE Films,
Serbia / Slovenia / Croatia
/ Bosnia and Herzegovina /
Macedonia - Pula 2010
THE STORM
(Project title: 1953) (Ben
Sombogaart), NL Film &
Television, The Netherlands Released in 2009
SUMMER HEAT
(Monique van der Ven),
Zomerhitte BV/Mulholland
Picures, The Netherlands Released in 2008
SWCHWRM
(Project title: MY ADVENTURES
BY V.SWCHWRM) (Froukje Tan),
Flinck Film, The Netherlands Stockholm 2012
TWO EYES STARING
(Project title: DEAD GIRL)
(Elbert van Strien), Accento
Films, The Netherlands Released in 2009
ZERO
(Pawel Borowski), OpusFilm,
Poland – Busan 2009
Post-production
MOSCOW NEVER SLEEPS
(Project title: MOSCOW
VELOCITY) (Johnny O’Reilly),
Snapshot Films, Russia /
Ireland
2005
Completed
ALLEZ, EDDY!
(Gert Embrechts), Manta Film,
Belgium - Released in 2012
ATLANTIS
(Digna Sinke), Waterland Film
& TV, The Netherlands - San
Sebastian 2009
BLACK BUTTERFLIES
(Project title: SMOKE &
OCHRE) (Paula van der Oest),
Riba Film, The Netherlands Tribeca 2011
IT’S HARD TO BE NICE
(Srdjan Vuletic), Refresh
Production, Bosnia and
Herzegovina – Sarajevo 2007
KINO LIKA
(Dalibor Matanic), Kinorama,
Croatia - Pula 2008
NADINE
(Erik de Bruyn), Rocketta
PROJEKCIÓ
(Project title: GIRLS) (Tamás
Buvári), Inforg Studio, Hungary
– Released in 2006
THE WAR IS OVER
(Mitko Panov), Kamera 300,
Switzerland – Rotterdam 2007
In development
AMSTERDAM GOTHIC
(Project title: EXHIBITION)
(N.N.), Film Events, The
Netherlands
SUPERNOVA HFM CO-PRO 2007
2004
Completed
MADONNAS
(Maria Speth), Pandora
Film Produktion, Germany Berlinale 2007, Forum
MAMAROSH
(Moma Mrdakovic), Yalla Film
Productions, France - Moscow
2013
NIGHT RUN
(Dana Nechustan), Waterland
WINTER IN WARTIME
(Martin Koolhoven), Isabella
Films, The Netherlands Berlinale 2009
WOLFSBERGEN (Nanouk
Leopold), Circe Films, The
Netherlands - Berlinale 2007,
Forum
THE WORLD IS BIG
AND SALVATION LURKS
AROUND THE CORNER
(Stephan Komandarev), RFF
International, Bulgaria - Sofia
2008
MAMAROSH HFM CO-PRO 2004
2003
Completed
BLIND
(Tamar van den Dop), Phanta
Vision Film, The Netherlands Giffoni 2007
DENNIS P.
(Pieter Kuijpers), Pupkin Film,
The Netherlands - Released
in 2007
DOTCOM
(Luis Galvão Teles), Fado
Filmes, Portugal - Coimbra
2007
DUSKA
(Jos Stelling), Jos Stelling
EX-DRUMMER
(Koen Mortier), CCCP, Belgium
- Warsaw 2007
GUERNSEY
(Nanouk Leopold), Circe Films,
The Netherlands - Cannes
2005, Director’s Fortnight
THE HOUDINI GIRL
(Kfir Yefet), Tomori Films, UK –
Released in 2013
HOUSE OF BOYS
(Jean Claude Schlim), Delux
Productions, Luxembourg Released in 2009
P.S. BEIRUT
(Project title: BENJAMIN’S
BRIEFCASE) (Michael
Shamberg), Yalla Film
Productions, France - turned
into series
THE RABBIT ON THE MOON
(Jorge Ramirez Suarez),
Beanca Films, Germany Berlinale 2005, Special
REYKJAVIK-ROTTERDAM
(Project title: SAS REYKJAVIK
- ROTTERDAM) (Óskar
Jónasson), Blueeyes
Productions, Iceland –
Rotterdam 2010
YOU BET YOUR LIFE
(Antonin Svoboda), coop99
Filmproduktion, Austria Toronto 2005
WHEN NIGHT FALLS
(Ineke Houtman), Waterland
2002
Completed
CALIMUCHO
(Eugenie Jansen), Circe Films,
The Netherlands - Berlinale
2009, Forum
EEP!
(Rita Horst), Lemming Film,
The Netherlands - Berlinale
FLORIS
(Johan Nijenhuis), NL Film &
Television, The Netherlands Released in 2004
HIDDEN FLAWS
(Paula van der Oest),
Filmproducties de Luwte, The
Netherlands – Netherlands
Film Festival 2004
JAM (Lieven Debrauwer),
K-Line, Belgium - Venice Days
2004
SPOON
(Willem van de Sande
Bakhuyzen), Lemming Film,
The Netherlands – Released
in 2005
THE AVIATRIX OF KAZBEK
(Project title: MOUNTAINS AT
SEA) (Ineke Smits), Isabella
Rotterdam 2010
SOUTH
(Martin Koolhoven), Isabella
Films, The Netherlands Vancouver 2004
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Index
Titles
Production Companies
Producers
10 Songs for Charity 32
Dew 4
Egg, Flour and Sugar 6
Forbidden Love 34
GameOver 8
Hairdresser’s Salon Beatrix 36
High Dive 10
I Want to Be Like You 12
The Inconvenience 14
Little Paradise 16
My Romantic History 18
Pari 20
Playboy Priest 38
Pretenders 22
A Shining Flaw 40
Something Useful 24
Tacit Wisdom 26
To All Naked Men 42
Tonio 44
Trade 28
Upstream 30
Amrion Production (Estonia) 22
Bassam Chekhes Production (The Netherlands) 42
BosBros (The Netherlands) 36
De Productie (The Netherlands) 32
eyefeed (Sweden) 6
Eyeworks Film & TV Drama (The Netherlands) 40
FocusFox (Hungary) 10
Götafilm (Sweden) 26
Heretic (Greece) 20
Interfilm Production Studio (Ukraine) 8
La Claqueta (Spain) 14
Magnified Pictures (UK) 18
Man’s Films Productions (Belgium) 30
Minds Meet (Belgium) 32
Multfilm (Bulgaria) 12
NL Film and TV (The Netherlands) 44
Periferia Productions (Finland) 26
Pomor Film (Norway) 26
Rinkel Film (The Netherlands) 38
Roads Entertainment (Ireland) 28
Silkroad Production (France) 42
Sinefilm (Turkey) 24
Skorpion Arte (Poland) 4
SNG Film (The Netherlands) 30
TALYCUAL (Spain) 14
Tiny Lumberjack (Sweden) 6
Tito Clint Movies (Spain) 14
Waterland Film (The Netherlands) 34
Weydemann Bros. (Germany) 16
Håkan Bjerking 7
Konstantin Bojanov 13
Burny Bos 37
Guusje van Deuren 35
Mike Downey 13
Pelin Esmer 25
Olmo Figueredo 15
Markku Flink 27
René Goossens 33
Annemiek van Gorp 33
Marion Hänsel 31
Behrooz Hashemian 43
Judith Hees 41
Jolande Junte 37
Malgorzata Jurczak 5
Ineke Kanters 35
Konstantinos Kontovrakis 21
Volodymyr Kozyr 9
Janja Kralj 13
Sytze van der Laan 45
Tomas Leijers 33
Jessica Levick 19
Alain de Levita 45
Alan Maher 29
Andras Muhi 11
Marcus Olsson 7
Bernabé Rico 15
Reinier Selen 39
Riina Sildos 23
Digna Sinke 31
Maarten Swart 41
Mila Voinikova 13
Derk-Jan Warrink 13
Jakob D. Weydemann 17
Jonas Weydemann 17
Jan van der Zanden 35
Directors
Thérèse Ahlbeck 7
Konstantin Bojanov 13
Saara Cantell 27
Bassam Chekhes 43
Keri Collins 19
Adam Csaszi 11
Philipp Döring 17
Pelin Esmer 25
Siamak Etemadi 21
Olena Fetisova 9
Marion Hänsel 31
Denijal Hasanovic 5
Karin Junger 33
Mischa Kamp 37
Nicole van Kilsdonk 35
Paula van der Oest 45
Erwin Olaf 41
David Roddham 29
Vallo Toomla 23
Arne Toonen 39
Benito Zambrano 15
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