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MIPTV 2007.PG
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10 FRANCS
111 PICTURES LTD
10 Francs, 28, rue de l’Equerre, Paris,
75019 France. Tel: 33.1.4874.4377. Fax:
33.7.4874.8265. www.10francs.fr, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Knafo Guy (General
Manager), Sibourd Patrick (International
Sales)
ABOUT “LADY CHATTERLEY” THE FILM
Art & Culture (52’)
Language: French
Director: Arnaud Louvet
Producer: Aeternam
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France
This movie is much more than a
traditional “making off”. It’s a reminder
that the blossoming of a movie is always
the result of a collective work.
IRANIAN KIDNEY BARGAIN SALE
Current Affairs (52’)
Language: English, Iranian
Director: Nima Sarvestani
Producer: Hysteria Films AB
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Sweden
Iran 2006, Mehrdad and Sohaila are
decided to sell one of their most valuable
possessions - their kidneys. Here, the sale
of organs is permitted, even subsidised
by the state.
BEST FRIENDS
Life Style (58’ / 5 x 25’)
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Sweden
Director: English, Russian
Language: Jerzy Sladkowski
Producer: Hysteria Films AB
Delivery Status: Completed
They are afraid of being left out, so
together they fight. But when their
school organize a kind of local Fame
Factory, the strong friendship between
Olesia and Natascha is put under threat.
BRANDON’S DREAM
Life Style (52’)
Language: French
Director: Pierre Meynadier
Producer: Image Image Production
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: France
Brandon is 9 years old and lives on one
of these island “Island of Sailors”: An
immense favela where thousand families
try to survive with the collection of the
recyclable waste of the city.
BRAZIL’S CONQUEST
History
Key Cast: Adventures, travel, horses,
culture, discovery, geography,history,
americas
Delivery Status: Completed
Brazil possesses only 5 centuries of
history…The vector common to the
conquest of all the regions of the country
is the horse…
111 Pictures Ltd, 1st Floor, 111 Wardour
Street, London, W1F 0UH UK. Tel:
44(0)207.758.0690. Fax:
44(0)0207.734.2819.
www.111pictures.com, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Alki David (Chairman),
Tony Lytle (Director of Sales), Eroulla
Constantine (Vice President, Sales)
Office: 04.28
ROAD TO HELL
Reality (8 x 30 minutes)
Director: Alki David
Producer: Alki David
Status: 3 Episodes completed
Road to Hell is an extreme hidden
camera show starring Alki David and Co.
VOYAGE – KILLING BRIGITTE
NIELSEN
Reality (6 x 54 minutes)
Director: Alki David
Producers: Alki David, Yanni Plotas
Cast: Brigitte Nielsen, Alki David
Status: 1st episode completed
Starring Brigitte Nielson, Voyage is the
first of six TV comedy shows that
combine total dramatic acting with
reality television.
OXFORD BLUES
Feature Film (Comedy/Drama) (97
minutes)
Director: Robert Boris
Producer: Elliott Kastner
Cast: Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Amanda
Pays
A young American hustler in Las Vegas
spots a rich English Lady. Smitten, he
pursues her to England, where his only
chance of getting together with her is to
enrol in Oxford and join the rowing
team.
NOMADS
Feature Film (Horror) (91 minutes)
Director: Adam Rifkin
Producer: Elliott Kastner
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Lesley-Anne
Down, Adam Ant
A French anthropologist gets murdered in
Los Angeles after he discovers the
existence of some unknown demonical
creatures. Before he dies, he reveals his
secret to a young doctor.
WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL
Feature Film (Mystery) (94 minutes)
Director: Etienne Perier
Producer: Elliott Kastner
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Robert Morely,
Nathalie Delon
Anthony Hopkins plays a secret service
agent tasked with solving the pirating of
millions of pounds of gold bullion in the
North Sea.
HOMEBOY
Feature Film (Drama) (115 minutes)
Director: Michael Seresin
Producers: Elliott Kastner, Alan Marshall
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Christopher
Walken, Debra Feuer
Johnny Walker (Mickey Rourke) is a
cowboy and a boxer. His brain is
damaged by years in the ring. He is in
love with Ruby but he?s shy and cannot
bring himself to tell her.
A CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL
Feature Film (Comedy/Drama) (100
minutes)
Director: Michael Winner
Producers: Elliott Kastner, Alan Marshall
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Anthony Hopkins,
Richard Briers
A man new to a smallish British town
joins an amateur theatre company. Once
there, he discovers that the drama on
stage is quite often nothing compared to
what’s happening behind the scenes.
ELLIOT KASTNER LIBRARY &
BRISTOL MEDIA LIBRARY
3DD
ENTERTAINMENT
3DD Entertainment, 190 Camden High
Street, London, NW1 8QP UK. Tel:
44.0207.428.1800.
Fax: 44.0207.428.1818.
www.3ddgroup.com,
email: [email protected]
Distributor
At MIP-TV: Dominic Saville (CEO),
Lara von Ahlefeldt (Director of Music
and Programming), Adam Wakeling
(Deputy Head of Sales), James Anderson
(Sales Manager), Suzanne Bull (Sales
Executive), Will Ennett (Sales Manager –
New Media)
Acquisition Executive: Rachel Job
Office: Stand No: 02.42, Tel:
33.4.9299.8032
LONDON LIVE
www.thealbumchartshow.co.uk
Music series (40 x 30’)
Language: English
Director: Andy Matthews
Producer: Maggie Kelly
Cast: The hottest artist’s of today and
tomorrow
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006 – 2007,
Country of Origin: UK
Two great series of the most dynamic
weekly music programme featuring the
world’s hottest artists of today and
tomorrow such as Placebo, The Killers,
Morrissey, Keane, Razorlight and
Basement Jaxx.
ROBBIE’S SHORTS
Short films (30’ - 6 films)
Language: English
Director: Various
Cast: A range of actors including Steve
Furst
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
Slick filming, original ideas and a wide
range of messages - all with the backdrop
of tracks from Robbie Williams’ latest
album Rudebox.
FOO FIGHTERS – SKIN AND
BONES
Music (1 x 60’ and 1 x 90’)
Language: English
Director: Danny Clinch
Producer: Three on the Tree
Productions, Linda Narvaez
Cast: Foo Fighters
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Filmed in LA during their 2006 tour, this
intimate show features tracks from the
Foo Fighters platinum-selling album In
Your Honour plus unique interpretations
of tracks from the Grammy Award
winning band’s entire career.
4KIDS
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
4kids Entertainment, Inc., 1414 Avenue
of the Americas, New York, NY 10019,
USA. Tel: 212.590.2100.
Fax: 212.590.2211.
Website: www.4kidsentertainment.com,
PORT PRECINCT - 2DF ENTERPRISES
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email: [email protected]
Producer
At MIP-TV: Alfred R. Kahn (Chairman
& CEO), Brian Lacey (Executive VP,
International), Gia DeLaney (Vice
President, International Program Sales),
Erin Silber (Consultant, International
Program Sales, Asia), Nancy Aries Koff
(Consultant, International Program
Sales), Sandra Vauthier-Cellier (SVP,
International Licensing, Retail &
Promotions)
Office: R31.21
VIVA PIÑATA
Animation (30 min)
Producer: 4Kids Entertainment
Delivery Status: Completed
Viva Piñata introduces the wacky,
anything-can-happen world of Piñatas.
These party animals blast off to parties
around the world to bring joy and fun to
kids of all ages.
CHAOTIC
Animation (30 min)
Producer: 4Kids Entertainment
Delivery Status: Completed
This animated series creatively draws
upon a dynamic trading card game that
elevates the level of interactivity and
engagement with and between kids never
before seen in an entertainment property.
YU-GI-OH! G/X
Animation (30 min)
Producer: 4Kids Entertainment
Delivery Status: Completed
Year three at Duel Academy begins when
top-ranked professional duelist Aster
Phoenix enrolls in the Academy,
sparking a series of mysterious events
that lead up to an astonishing revelation!
A
AB INTERNATIONAL
DISTRIBUTION
AB International Distribution, 132 ave
du Pdt Wilson 93210 la Plaine St Denis,
Cedex, France. Tel: 33-1.492.222.01.
Fax: 33-1.492.222.16. www.abinternational.com, email:
[email protected]
Distributor
At MIP-TV: Valerie Vleeschhouwer
(Managing Director), Marie laure
Hebrard (VP sales and acquisitions),
Julien Leroux (International Sales
Manager), Nathalie Hadjadj (Marketing
Manager)
Office: 22.01, Tel: 33.1.049.299.8312.
Fax: 33.1.049.299.3216
GENIE IN THE HOUSE
Series (52 x 26’) new season!
Language: English
Producer: MJTV, Nickelodeon, Canal J
Directed by: Jean-François Didelot,
Emmanuelle Dubergey, Steven Bawol,
Phil Ox
Cast: Katie Sheridan, Vicky Longley,
Jordan Metcalfe , Adam Morris
Delivery Status: season 2 in production
in 2007
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
origin: England
When Sophie and Emma moved into
their new house with their widower
father, they expected a quiet, boring life.
But the very first day they made a
discovery that meant it would be just the
opposite.
A CHILD’S SECRET
TV Movie (90’)
Language: French
Director: Serge MEYNARD,
Producer: EXPAND DRAMA with
R.T.B.F. (Télévision belge) &
FONTANA
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
origin: France
Mid-Eighteenth Century - Madame de
Solar, a provincial aristocrat, abandons
her ten year old, deaf-and-mute son,
Guillaume.
MAFIOSA
Series (8 x 52’)
Language: French
Director: Louis CHOQUETTE
Producer: Images et Cie
Cast: Hélène Fillières, Thierry Neuvic,
Daniel Duval, Marisa Berenson
Delivery Status: completed
Year Of Production: 2006, Country of
origin: FRANCE
Eight episodes portray the grandeur and
solitude of the Mafiosa’s rise to
power in modern day Corsica.
MERRY TRIBULATIONS
Series (8 x 52’/ 4 x 90’)
Language: French
Director: Stéphane KAPPES
Producer: EGO PRODUCTIONS
Delivery Status: completed
Cast: Chloé LAMBERT, Alexandre
BRASSEUR, Philippe LELIÈVRE
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
origin: France
Dramas, lies and deceit, mix-ups,
laughter and tears: all the basic
ingredients are gathered in this series for
a cheerful and delightful moment of
entertainment.
ADRIANA CHIESA
ENTERPRISES S.R.L.
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises s.r.l.,
Via Barnaba Oriani 24/A, 00197, Rome,
Italy. Tel: 39.0680.86052.
Fax: 39.06806.87855.
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Adriana Chiesa Di Palma
(President), Rossella Gori (Head of
International Sales)
Office: Stand ICE/ANICA, Pavillion
R36.17, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.8837. Mobile:
39.335.8265.984
CUBAN MEMORIES (MEMORIAS
CUBANAS):
A DAY WITH FIDEL (UN DÍA CON
FIDEL)
Documentary (90 minutes)
FIDEL REVEALS CHE (FIDEL
CUENTA EL CHE)
Documentary (58 minutes)
CUBA 30 YEARS AFTER (CUBA 30
AÑOS DESPUÉS)
Documentary (90 minutes)
CHE 40 YEARS LATER (EL CHE 40
AÑOS DESPUÉS)
Documentary (90 minutes)
POPE JOHN PAUL II AND FIDEL PART 1 & PART 2 (EL PAPA Y
FIDEL)
Documentary (90 + 90 minutes)
THE LONG MARCH OF THE MAYA
(MARCOS: “AQUÍ ESTAMOS)
Documentary (90 minutes)
Language: SPANISH with ENGLISH
subtitles
Director: GIANNI MINA’
Production: GME Productions
Status: completed
Country of origin: ITALY
Extraordinary unique collection of
unreleased images, impressive
reportages, live interviews, exclusive
declarations tracing the tormented
destiny of Cuba.
LA STRADA DI LEVI (PRIMO
LEVI’S JOURNEY)
Documentary (92’)
Language: various languages with
English subtitles
Director: Davide Ferrario
Production: ROSSOFUOCO and RAI
CINEMA
Status: completed
Country of origin: Italy
On January 27th, 1945, Primo Levi,
author of the worldwide famous novel
“if this is a man”, was liberated from the
Auschwitz concentration camp. It took
him ten months to get back to his home
in Italy.
LA SCONOSCIUTA (THE
UNKNOWN)
Noir-Thriller (118’)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Production: Medusa Film and Manigolda
Film
Cast: Ksenia Rappoport, Michele
Placido, Claudia Gerini, Margherita Buy,
Alessandro Haber
Status: completed
Country of origin: Italy
A contemporary, emotional, vibrant,
refined thriller with Nordic lights and
southern passions, mysterious deaths, an
avalanche of ambiguities. Rhythms that
explode at every shock with lacerations
punctuated by Ennio Morricone’s music.
VIAGGIO SEGRETO (SECRET
JOURNEY)
Romantic Mystery (107’)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Based on the novel “The
Reconstructionist” by Josephine Hart
Director: Roberto Ando’
Cast: Emir Kusturica - Alessio Boni Donatella Finocchiaro
Production: Medusa Film, Rodeo Drive
And Manigolda
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Italy
… a psychological mystery story, set in
sunny Sicily, intensely passionate,
erotically obsessive, sensual, a rare kind
of love that goes beyond the bonds of
flesh and blood…
LE ROSE DEL DESERTO (ROSES
FROM THE DESERT)
Comedy (102’)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Mario Monicelli
Production: Luna Rossa Cinematografica
Cast: Michele Placido, Alessandro Haber
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Italy
A satirical comedy in a remote outpost in
the Libyan desert. An isolated group of
soldiers live an idyll of peace,
brotherhood and romance as war rages
on the distant front.
PER NON DIMENTICARTI
(FORGET YOU NOT)
Period Humour-Drama (94’)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Mariantonia Avati
Production: Matteo Cinematografica
Cast: Anita Caprioli – Ettore Bassi
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Italy
Nine women, nine lives, nine intimate
portraits that go straight to the heart with
humour and drama. Excellent debut by
the daughter of Pupi Avati.
CUANDO LA VERDAD DESPIERTA
(THE THIN LINE OF TRUTH)
Drama (105’)
Language: Spanish, English, Italian, with
English subtitles
Director: Angelo Rizzo
Production: TITRIS S.A.
Cast: With the special appearance of
Fidel Castro
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Italy
When the search for truth explodes into
the suspense of a high tension thriller set
in Cuba.
DYING IN ATHENS
Language: Greek with English subtitles
Comedy - Musical (105’)
Director: Nikos Panayotopoulos
Production: Accelere s.a., Greek Film
Center, ERT, P.C.V. s.a., Marianna Films,
Nova
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Greece
An outrageous musical comedy on life,
death, sex and love.
BACIAMI PICCINA (THREE ON
THE ROAD)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Comedy (111’)
Director: Roberto Cimpanelli
Production: RODEO DRIVE and
MEDUSA FILM
Cast: Vincenzo Salemme – Neri
Marcore’ – Elena Russo
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Italy
…on the road to Venice…Luisa is
dreaming of marriage…Umberto of his
big chance…the crook has no more
dreams…
ANCHE LIBERO VA BENE (ALONG
THE RIDGE)
Drama (108’)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Kim Rossi Stuart
Production: RAI CINEMA and
PALOMAR
Cast: Kim Rossi Stuart – Barbora
Bobulova
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Italy
A tender and powerful look at a torn
family. The touching portrait of a little
boy. A solemn, emotional, masterfully
depicted story of childhood and family.
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ADVANTAGE MEDIA
GROUP
Advantage Media Group, 4298 Bright
Bay Way, Ellicott City, MD 21042 USA.
Tel: 410.465.0532.
Fax: 410.992.8063. www.advantagemedia-group.com
At MIP-TV: Michael P. du Monceau
(President), Lalee Downey-du Monceau
(Acquisitions)
Office: 19.19
ON SAFARI
Travel/Nature (6 x 60’)
A lyrical exploration of Africa’s most
exciting safari destinations.
THE CHAMPAGNE CHEF
Lifestyle (4 x 30)
This new continuing series features
worldwide cuisine with soul and jazz and
is hosted by with “Eatertainment” chef
Keith Jones.
GO SAFARI
Travel/Wildlife (12 x 5)
“Go on safari.right now. Take a break
and relax with the sights and sounds of a
five minute mini safari featuring
elephants, rhinos, giraffes, lions,
leopards and more…”
HOLLYWOOD’S MAGICAL
ISLAND – CATALINA
History/Travel (1 x 52’)
Get a first-hand glimpse of Hollywood’s
Magic Isle, the playground for the stars.
The film captures the mystical splendors,
natural beauty and romance of Santa
Catalina Island.
FIREPOWER TV
Special Interest (19 x 30’)
A dynamic series designed for every
shooting enthusiast.
SWISS RAILWAY JOURNEYS
Travel/Special Interest (24 x 55’)
This breathtaking series offers an
unparalleled travel guide to Switzerland
and it’s railways.
ADYTON
INTERNATIONAL
Adyton International, ul. Wittiga 5/16,
Warsaw, 03-188, Poland.
Tel: 48.609.981.429.
Fax: 48.22.614.90.32.
www.adyton.eu, email: [email protected]
At MIP-TV: Dariusz Zawislak (CEO),
Sylwia Kochaniec (Sales Executive),
Monika Blachnio (Sales Executive)
Office: c/o Media Umbrella Stand H4. 35
GENERATION JOHN PAUL II.
CROSSROADS.
www.adyton.eu
Documentary (1x94’ or 2x50’)
Language: English
Director: Jowita Gondek
Producer: Dariusz Zawislak
Key Cast: Biography of John Paul II.
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget 0,6 M Euro
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Poland, USA
This movie is based on the biography
of Karol Wojtyla, and tells the stories of
young people born when the popular
Polish priest become a pope for the
world.
FROM SOLIDARITY TO LIBERTY
www.adyton.eu
Documentary (1x90’ or 2x 50’)
Language: English
Director: Jowita Gondek
Producer: Dariusz Zawislak
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget 0,6 M Euro
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: Poland
More than twenty-five years ago
something remarkable happened at the
Gdansk Shipyard, now in different era
we are still trying to understand the
meaning of events that took place in
1980.
MAGIC STONE
www.magicstonethemovie.com
Family Adventure (90’)
Director: English
Language: Jowita Gondek
Co-Production Partners: Oliver Shiflish
Producer: Dariusz Zawislak
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: end of 2007,
Country of Origin: PL, HU, USA
Based on the Maria Kruger novel
“Caroline and The Magic Pen” is the
amazing story, full of spectacular
adventures and surprising situations.
THE BAIT
www.adyton.eu
Prime Time Suspense Drama (90’)
Language: English
Director: Dariusz Zawislak
Producer: Dariusz Zawislak
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget 1,6 M Euro
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Poland, USA
Our star detective is investigating the
death of a young girl. Following the
crime trail he finds new victims.
AETN
INTERNATIONAL
AETN International, 235 East 45th
Street, New York, NY 10017, USA.
Tel: 212.210.1400.
Fax: 212.907.9476.
www.AETNinternational.com,
email: [email protected]
At MIP-TV: Steve Ronson (Sr. Vice
President, Enterprises, A&E Television
Networks), Sean Cohan (Vice President,
International), Michael Katz (Vice
President Programming & Production,
AETN International), Simon Pollock
(Vice President & Managing Director,
Europe & Asia, AETN International),
Jonathan South (Director of Content
Sales, EMEA), Ling Sze Gan (Head of
Program Syndication, Asia)
Office: G3-18, Tel: 04.92.99.85.65
SONS OF HOLLYWOOD
Reality (60 min)
Language: English
Producer: Produced by iCandyTV, Inc.
for A&E Network
Delivery Status: Completed
Delve inside the lives of Tinseltown’s
well-heeled offspring. This series follows
the lives of Randy Spelling, son of the
late Aaron Spelling; Sean Stewart, son of
Rod Stewart; and David Weintraub.
Established in 1988 Fair Set
Organisation offers: the design &
problem-free setting-up of stands and
advertising billboards, at all major
European Film & TV Markets. Fair
Set Organisation is proud to be of
service annually to over 185
worldwide companies.
PETER FLOWER & THE TEAM @ FAIRSET
WISH ALL THEIR INTERNATIONAL CLIENTS
A SUCCESSFUL MIPTV 2006
Visit www.fairset.com
Email: [email protected]
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BLOOD DIAMONDS
Documentary (120 min)
Language: English
Producer: Produced by Bill Brummel
Productions for The History Channel
Delivery Status: Completed
The human cost of the illicit global
diamond trade is examined in the
provocative documentary BLOOD
DIAMONDS.
CONFRONTING JUSTICE
Reality (60 min)
Language: English
Producer: Produced by New Line
Television in association with Cinemaria
for A&E Network
Delivery Status: Completed
In CONFRONTING JUSTICE, the story
of a serious crime and its consequences
are told first-hand by the victims, their
families and the offender as they prepare
for an emotionally-charged face-to-face
meeting.
CRISS ANGEL MINDFREAK
Reality (30 min)
Language: English
Producer: Produced by Angel
Productions and The Firm for A&E
Network
Delivery Status: Completed
Master provocateur Criss Angel
captivates audiences with mind-boggling
demonstrations of his skills that escape
the confines of tradition and give birth to
a new breed of modern mysticism.
ALFRED HABER
DISTRIBUTION, INC.
Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc., 111
Grand Avenue, Suite 203, Palisades
Park, New Jersey 07650 USA. Tel:
201.224.8000. Fax: 201.947.4500.
www.alfredhaber.com
At MIP-TV: Alfred Haber (Founder),
Robert Kennedy (Executive Vice
President), Andrew Haber (Vice
President, International Sales), Adam
Haber (Vice President, International
Sales), Edward O’Donnell (Director,
International Sales), Christopher Brouder
(Director, International Sales)
Office: 19.01
INTERNATIONAL FIGHT LEAGUE
Event/Sport
The world’s first professional mixed
martial arts league. The best athletes
from the fighting and martial arts world
bring mixed martial arts to a whole new
level of competition:
IFL BATTLEGROUND
(22 x 120’) — Includes event action,
highlights league news, and takes an indepth look at the teams and their players.
Airs on MY NETWORK in the U.S.
IFL FIGHT NIGHT
(22 x 60’) — Showcases five fights
between two teams with an emphasis on
the main event. Airs on FOX SPORTS
NETWORK in the U.S.
MOST SHOCKING
Reality (39 x 60’)
The highest rated series on Court TV
ever, MOST SHOCKING, is the
breathtaking new ‘caught-on-camera’
reality series from Bruce Nash about the
heart-pounding world of law
enforcement.
BULLRUN
Reality (10 x 60’)
A testosterone-driven, high-speed car
race across America pitting 12 teams
against each other in an epic journey
filled with danger, brutal competition
and heart-pounding, down-to-the-wire
action! Airs on Spike TV in the U.S.
HOME JAMES
Reality (10 x 30’)
VH1’s newest reality series that looks at
the wild nightlife of Hollywood
(celebrities included) through the eyes of
the Home James designated driver
services.
IRON CHEF AMERICA – FORMAT
RIGHTS
Reality
Now the highest rated series on the Food
Network.
ULTIMATE BLACKJACK TOUR
Sports/Reality (20 x 60’)
Blackjack has arrived…on Network
Television! Intense and exciting
Elimination Blackjack™ tournaments
give the average person a chance to play
alongside the world’s very best players.
Airs on CBS in the U.S.
GHOST HUNTERS
Reality (52 x 60’)
A huge hit on the Sci Fi Channel,
helping propel the network to its best
Wednesday night ratings ever; just
ordered for a third season.
HOLLYWOOD SHOOTOUT: THE
ULTIMATE INTERVIEW SHOW
Talk/Interview - Season 3 (26 x 30’)
Überproducer Peter Guber and
VARIETY editor Peter Bart interview
and interface with a veritable who’s-who
of the biggest names in film today.
ALLIANCE
ATLANTIS
COMMUNICATIONS
Alliance Atlantis Communications, 121
Bloor Street East, Suite 1500, Toronto,
Canada M4W 3M5. Tel: 416.967.1174.
Fax: 416.960.0971. www.aactv.com,
email: [email protected]
Distributor
At MIP-TV: Ted Riley (Executive
Managing Director, International Content
Distribution), Philippe Renouard (Vice
President of Sales, Head of Drama,
International Content Distribution),
Stéphanie Röckmann-Portier (Vice
President of Sales, Head of Factual
Programs, International Content
Distribution), Irene Read *Managing
Director, Australasia and Asia,
International Content Distribution), Alan
Gregg (Vice President, Production and
Distribution, Children’s Television,
International Content Distribution), Rose
Marie Vega (Vice President of Sales,
United States and Latin America,
International Content Distribution)
Office: G3.14, Tel: 33.4-92.99.8348
AT THE END OF MY LEASH*
Factual (13 x 30 Minutes)
English
Dog advocate and human-being life
coach Brad Pattison brings his
innovative tough-love training and inyour-face counselling skills into
human/dog relationships to fix bad
behaviour – and teach old dogs and
owners, new tricks. *Tentatively titled
Stepping In It in the U.S.
PARTY MAMAS
Factual (13 x 30 Minutes)
English
A jam-packed, nerve-filled, triple-lattepaced ride through the lives of
controlling and super-demanding
mothers who pull out all the stops to
throw the best and most expensive
parties for their kids.
DESIGN INTERNS
Factual (6 x 50 Minutes)
English
A provocative and revealing all-access
pass into the exclusive, intimidating
world of a powerhouse design firm,
where twelve interior designers compete
for a coveted job at a renowned interior
design firm.
OUTLAW IN-LAWS
Factual (13 x 30 Minutes)
English
The series exposes the reality of in-laws
gone wrong, examining in-laws who
have become outlaws because of their
abrasive, shocking and sometimes
psychopathic behaviour.
SO CHIC – COUPLES
Factual (13 New Episodes; Series Total:
50 x 30 Minutes)
The show’s hosts use their flair and
savvy fashion know-how to achieve
great style at any cost while re-igniting
the flames of passion for couples who
want to recapture lost love!
AMERICA VIDEO
FILMS
America Video Films, Virrey Loreto
2426, Buenos Aires, 1426 Argentina. Tel:
541147879098. Fax: 541147879094.
www.americavideofilms.com, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Enrique Maya (President),
Nicholas Bingham (Adviser), Claudio
Braslavsky (VP Acquisitions and
Marketing), Silvia Curutchet (Sales
Executive), Utako Niimi (Japanese Rep.)
Office: 11.30, Tel: 33492998293
THE NEXT PREMONITION (DAVID
NOLANDE)
Supernatural Thriller (6 x 52’)
Language: French
Director: Nicolas Cuche
Key Cast: Frédéric Diefenthal
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: France
After killing an old fortune-teller in a car
accident, a man’s premonitory visions
dictate his fate and existence.
SWORD OF HONOUR
War/Drama (200’)
Director: Bill Anderson
Key Cast: Daniel Craig
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2001, Country of
Origin: UK
Daniel Craig ( James Bond in “Casino
Royale”) plays a British soldier torn
between his military obligations and his
resurgent desires for his beautiful exwife in this epic Second World War story
A FOR ANDROMEDA (THE
ANDROMEDA PROJECT)
Sci-Fi (90)
Director: English
Language: JOHN STRICKLAND
Key Cast: TOM HARDY, KELLY
REILLY
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
A strange radio signal from the
Andromeda constellation provides
instructions to build a supercomputer.
THE PASSION OF AYN RAND
Drama (104 min)
Language: English
Director: Chris Menual
Key Cast: Helen Mirren , Erick Stoltz,
Peter Fonda, Julie Delpy
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1999, Country of
Origin: USA
Helen Mirren gives an award winning
performance as eccentric author Ayn
Rand
AMERICAN WORLD
PICTURES
American World Pictures, 16027 Ventura
Blvd, Suite 320, Encino, CA 91436 USA.
Tel: 818.380.9100. Fax: 818.380.0050.
http://www.americanworldpictures.com
At MIP-TV: Mark L. Lester (President)
(Buying/Selling), Terese Linden Kohn
(Executive Vice President of
Distribution) (Selling)
Office: Palais 07.18, Tel: 1.323.363.9872
BONE DRY
Thriller (100 min.)
Director: Brett A. Hart
Producer: Brett A. Hart, Chad Stalcup,
Greg Hughs, Richard Saied
Country of Origin: USA
Cast: Luke Goss, Lance Henrikson, Dee
Wallace-Stone
Eddie (Luke Goss) finds himself forced
at gunpoint by Jimmy (Lance
Henrickson), an unseen assailant, on a
dark and brutal journey through the
harsh terrains of the Mojave desert.
I-SEE-YOU.COM
Comedy
Director: Eric Steven Stahl
Producers: Eric Steven Stahl, Robert
Egan, Hector Elizondo, Mirela Girardi
Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Beau Bridges,
Doris Roberts, Mathew Botuchis, Shiri
Appleby
A 17-year-old boy buys mini-cameras
and displays footage of his crazy family
online at I-see-you.com. The cash rolls
in as the site becomes a major hit and
everyone seems to have fun until it all
comes crashing down.
HACK!
Horror
Director: Matt Flynn
Producers: Brian Hartman, Sean Kanan,
Mike Wittlin, Joe Knee, Elsa Ramo, Elsa
Rand
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Starring Danica McKellar (“ The Wonder
Years”), William Forsythe (“The Rock”,
“The Devil’s Rejects”), Burt Young
(“Rocky”, “Transamerica”), Juliet
Landau (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”)
A group of college students attend a
biology field trip at a remote island and
become the unsuspecting victims of a
couple of reality film makers.
LITTLE ATHENS
Thriller
Director: Tom Zuber
Producer: Josh Lawler, Chad Marshall,
Tom Zuber, Johnny Asuncion, Anne
McCarthy, Jay Scully, Olivier Taillieu
Starring Jorge Garcia (“Lost”), Erica
Leerhsen (“The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre), Rachel Miner (“The Black
Dahlia”), Michael Pena (“World Trade
Center”, “Crash”), DJ Qualls (“Road
Trip”, “Hustle and Flow”)
Featuring an all-star cast, a group of
small-town youth tries to overcome
desperation and fear with tragic
consequences.
TRAVEL THE ROAD: SEASON 1 &
2 / 28 X 30
Faith
Director: Will Decker
Producers: Tim Scott, Will Decker,
Michael Scott
Cast: Tim Scott, Will Decker
Two daring adventurers are willing to
risk their lives to share the gospel. But in
the third-world, and thousands of miles
away from home, the reality of missions
is not what it seemed to be.
SOUL’S MIDNIGHT
Horror
Director: Harry Basil
Producers: Brian Cleveland, Jason
Cleveland, Gray Frederickson, Jerry P.
Jacobs
Cast: Armand Assante, Robert Floyd,
Elizabeth Ann Bennett, Lucila Sola
A present day thriller based on a historic
cult who delves into ancient rituals
revolving around the legend of St.
George.
LOST COLONY
Supernatural Horror
Director: Matt Codd
Producers: Mark Lester, Dana Dubovsky,
Rafael Jordon
Cast: Adrian Paul
Based on a true story, a group of English
colonists fight for their lives against a
supernatural evil force.
HIDDEN SECRETS
Faith Drama
Director: Carey Scott
Producers: Michael Scott, David A. R.
White, Russell Wolfe
Cast: John Schneider, Staci Keanan,
David White and Corin Nemec
Attending the hometown funeral of his
dearest friend, Jeremy is caught between
his new fiancé and an old flame that still
burns deep within his heart.
NIGHTMARE MAN
Horror
Director: Rolfe Kanefsky
Producer: Rolfe Kanefsky
Starring Tiffany Shepis, Blythe Metz
After receiving a mysterious demonic
African mask in the mail, Ellen Morris is
attached in her dreams by a being she
refers to as “The Nightmare Man”.
PIGGY BANKS
Thriller
Director: Morgan J. Freeman
Producer: Michael D. Manshel, Gustavo
Spoliansky, Jai Stefan
Cast: Tom Sizemore, Jake Muxworthy,
Lauren German, Killi Garner, Gabriel
Mann
A charming and brilliant sociopath
renews his sense of purpose in life when
he discovers he has a half sister, an
enchanting temptress that very much like
himself.
SURF SCHOOL
Comedy
Director: Joel Silverman
Producer: Juan Feldman, Susan Jackson,
Doyle McCurley
Cast: Harland Williams, Ryan Carnes,
Corey Sevier
A rag-tag bunch of seniors, complete
outsiders at their surf-crazed Laguna
Beach High School, decide to crash the
biggest team surf contest.
AMI GROUP
AMI Group, 34 Salisbury Street, London
NW8 8QE UK. Tel: 0044.20.7402.9111.
Fax: 0044.20.7723.3064.
www.ovcmedia.com, email:
[email protected]
Publishing, Production and DVD &
Music licensing
At MIP-TV: Eliot M. Cohen (Managing
Director)
Acquisition Executive: Eliot M. Cohen
Office: Stand H4.35 (the Marketplace
Stand), Tel: 33.4.9299.8596 /
33.6688.13775, Fax: 33.4.9299.8597
AFRICAN ODYSSEY
Wildlife (13?30mins)
Language: English
Director: Robin Taylor
Producer: Robin Taylor
Co-production partners: OVC Media Ltd
Cast: Featurung Robin Taylor
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: South Africa
Follow renowned photographer Robin
Taylor on his visually stunning journey
through the African Safari as he reveals
the exotic beauty of the animal, bird and
plant life he discovers.
HEALTHY LIFESTYLE
Health and Fitness (180 mins in total)
Language: English
Director: Joanne Goldring-Cohen
Producer: Eliot M. Cohen
Co-production partners: OVC Media
Ltd.
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2004/2005, Country
of Origin: UK
Each episode focuses on a different
aspect of Healthy Living, providing a
comprehensive guide to living healthily
with the help of alternative therapies,
stress-management techniques and Yoga.
LEGENDS OF TENNIS
Sports (60 mins)
Language: English
Director: Edited by Anthony Forster
Producer: Eliot M. Cohen & Joanne
Goldring-Cohen
Co-production partners: OVC Media
Ltd.
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: UK
A fascinating insight into the life behind
the scenes in the tennis world featuring
interviews with Yanik Noah and Rod
Laver.
OLYMPICS CENTENNIAL GOLD
Sports (10 x 45 mins)
Language: English
Director: Edited by Colin Byrom
Producer: Eliot M. Cohen & Joanne
Goldring-Cohen
Co-production partners: OVC Media
Ltd.
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
10 great programmes which feature
many of the Olympic’s greatest heroes. It
features interviews with top athletes like
Jonathan Edwards, Mike Conley, Allen
Johnson, Davenport, Pete Sampras and
many more.
ARTIST VIEW
ENTERTAINMENT
Artist View Entertainment, 4425 Irvine
Avenue, Studio City, CA 91602 USA. Tel:
818.752.2480. Fax: 818.752.9339.
At MIP-TV: Scott J. Jones (President),
Jay E. Joyce (Vice President)
Office: Stand 04.19, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.8205
PARK
Comedy ((90 min))
Cast: William Baldwin, Ricki Lake,
Cheri Oteri, Maulik Pancholy, Francesco
Quinn, Anthony ‘Treach’ Criss
Year of Production: Year of Production:
2007
10 people, 5 cars, 1 day.only in
L.A….Park takes place all in one day in
a public park in Los Angeles, as 11
disaffected Angelenos find both love and
loss in unexpected ways.
CALIFORNIA DREAMING
Comedy ((90 min))
Cast: Lea Thompson, Dave Foley,
Patricia Richardson.
Year of Production: Year of Production:
2007
In the R.V. On the road but can’t get out
of town. Bags packed, ready to go, but
troubles are afoot.
STRIKING RANGE
Action Thriller (95 min)
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Yancy
Butler, Jeff Speakman, Glenn
Morshower, Tom Wright
Year of Production: Year of Production:
2006
Eugene “Vash” Vasher (Lou Diamond
Phillips) and his mercenary team is
called in to protect an arms dealer after
he double crosses a terrorist group
purchasing a next generation weapon.
ALL IN
Drama (90 min)
Cast: Dominique Swain, Louis Gossett
Jr., Michael Madsen, James Russo
Year of Production: Year of Production:
2006
Medical student, Alicia “Ace” Anderson
(Dominique Swain) calls upon her expert
Texas Hold-em Poker skills taught by
her father (Michael Madsen)as she
struggles with the rigorous medical
training and mounting financial
pressures.
DEAD LENNY
Action Comedy (90 min)
Cast: Armand Assante, Steven Bauer,
John Heard, Nicole Eggart, Whitney
Able, Joe Piscopo
Year of Production: Year of Production:
2006
Mobster Tony Thick (Armard Assante) is
expecting $5 million in cash to be
delivered by Lenny Long, a mule for the
mob. One problem - Lenny has gone
missing with the cash.
T HE R ICHES - TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION
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ASP- ALAIN
SIRITZKY
PRODUCTIONS
ASP- Alain Siritzky Productions, 6399
Wilshire Bl. Suite 1007, Los Angeles, CA
90048 USA. Tel: 1.323.655.6845.
www.asproductions.net, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Alain Siritzky (President),
George D. Pilzer (Head of Sales), Sonia
Mehandjiyska (Sales Executive), Robby
Amar (Sales Executive)
Office: 25.09, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.82.81
EMMANUELLE THROUGH TIME
Soft-Erotic (7x90 minutes)
When Emmanuelle inherits a temple in
India, she discovers the power to
transport herself back in time!
EMMANUELLE’S PRIVATE
COLLECTION
Soft-Erotic (7x90 minutes)
From the sun-drenched beaches of the
Mediterranean to the classic elegance of
Eastern Europe and the glamour of
Hollywood, we’ll follow Emmanuelle on
her sexual escapade and sexual intrigue.
SEX FILES 3
A new series that blows the lid off an
alien invasion of the most intimate kind.
PRETTY COOL 2: POCKET GIRL
Comedy (90-minutes)
A new sexy teen comedy about a high
school senior, WALTER BUKELL, who
receives the latest cell phone equipped
with his own personal female Genie.
ATLAS
INTERNATIONAL
FILM GMBH
Atlas International Film GmbH,
Candidplatz 11, Munich, 81543
Germany. Tel: 49(0)89.210.97.50. Fax:
49(0)89.22.43.32. www.atlasfilm.com,
email: [email protected]
At MIP-TV: Philipp MENZ (President
Sales & Acquisition)
Office: German Films Stand No. 01.15
Umbrellastand at the Palais de Festival
THE DEVIL’S GATEWAY
(MAITLAND)
www.atlasfilm.com
Horror
Language: English
Director: Alexander HERGET
Producer: Alexander HERGET & Anne
MASON
Key Cast: Holly Brisley, Michael
Piccirilli, Rob Flanagan, Paul Moxey,
Stephen Adamson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Australia
February 14th 1973, a prison warden
goes on a murderous rampage in one of
Australia’s most notorious of prisons.
THE VICTORY MEDIA LIBRARY
(THE PAUL NASCHY
COLLECTION)
Horror
Language: English
Director: Leon Klimovsky, Amando de
Ossorio, a.o.
Producer: various
Key Cast: Paul Naschy, o.a.
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Spain
A prestigious package of 18 timeless
Spanish Horror classics, of which 10 star
Spain’s genre icon Paul Naschy.
Available for the first time restored and
remastered on state of the art High
Definition.
HEAD TRAUMA
http://myspace.com/headtraumamovie
Horror
Director: English
Language: Lance Weiler
Key Cast: Vince Mola, Jamil A.C.
Mangan, Mary Monahan, Jim Sullivan,
Meryl Lynn Brown
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
After a 20 year absence, drifter, George
Walker, returns home to settle his
grandmother’s estate. As if awakening
from a long dream, he finds his
childhood home condemned and littered
with the remnants of squatters.
SIEGFRIED - A DRAGON’S TALE
Comedy (90’)
Language: English, German
Director: Sven Unterwaldt
Producer: Herman Weigel
Key Cast: Tom Gerhardt, Mirco
Nontschew, Dorkas Kiefer, Markus
Profitlich
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Germany
It was a dark time, a time of death, a
time of endless battles for the legendary
treasure of the Nibelungen, a time long
forgotten. But it was also a time of noble
knights and true heroes.
ATN
ATN, O’Donnell 30A 3º, Seville, 41001
Spain. Tel: 34.95.456.1155. Fax:
34.95.422.9561. www.atn.es
At MIP-TV: Guillermo Fernandez
(International Sales Director)
Office: Tel: 34.658.835.959
TRAVEL IN THE WINE LANDS:
ANDALUSIA
http://www.atn.es/vinos.html
Documentary (8 x 26 min)
Language: Spanish, English
Director: Sergio Crespo
Producer: ATN
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Spain
A tour of one of the most exciting tourist
places in Spain. Discover Andalusia and
its famous wines and gastronomy.
FLAMENCO FROM A TO Z
http://www.atn.es/flamenco.html
Documentary (4 x 26 min)
Language: Spanish, English, Japanese
Director: Gonzalo Crespo
Producer: ATN
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Spain
Learn the most basic flamenco terms
related to dancing, singing or playing by
means of young artists and experts
demonstrations.
SURVIVING DON QUIXOTE
http://www.atn.es/sobquijote.html
Documentary (52 min)
Director: Spanish, English
Language: Gonzalo Crespo
Producer: ATN
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Spain
Miguel De Cervantes started to write his
masterpiece while he was in prison in
Seville. What inspired him to create
those characters? Discover the previous
years of Miguel’s life.
A STORY OF THE SPANISH CIVIL
WAR
http://www.atn.es/guerra.html
Documentary (78 min)
Language: Spanish, English
Director: Gonzalo Crespo
Producer: ATN
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Spain
Two brothers fighting in different armies
represent the division caused by the civil
war in Spain. Their story also shows us
curious details of the war
B
BEACTIVE
PRODUÇÕES
INTERACTIVAS S.A.
beActive Produções Interactivas S.A.,
Avenida Duque d’Ávila, 23, 1º Direito,
1000-138 Lisboa, Portugal.
Tel: 351.213.100.142. Fax:
351.213.100.144. www.beactive.pt,
email: [email protected]
Producer
At MIP-TV: Nuno Bernardo (General
Manager), Isabel Lopes (International
Sales Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Nuno Bernardo,
Isabel Lopes
Office: H4.35, 5th floor, no.5,
Tel: 33.4.9299.8596.
Fax: 33.4.9299.8597
BIA & FRED AROUND THE
WORLD
www.biafred.com
Interactive Animated TV series
(13 x 22 min)
Language: Portuguese
Director: Hugo Albuquerque
Producer: Nuno Bernardo
Co-production partners: The Nightingale
Company
Delivery Status: in Pre-production
Budget: $1.2 million
Country of Origin: Portugal
Based on the bestselling children’s
books, the TV series “Bia & Fred around
the world” mixes animation with live
action.
GET OUTTA TOWN! – GOLD RUSH
EDITION
http://www.getouttatown.tv/
TV/Broadband show (65 x 5 min/ 13 x
25 min)
Language: English
Producer: Nuno Bernardo and Debbie
Nightingale
Co-production partners: The Nightingale
Company
Delivery Status: in Pre-production
Budget: $2 million
Country of Origin: Canada
A fast-paced, high-energy travel game
show geared to the 14 + adventure
seeker. Four Teams and the Audience
“on-line” have to find clues and answers
to win fabulous prizes in a “nation
against nation” competition.
GAMELAB 0.1
Teen drama TV series (22 x 30 min)
Language: English
Producer: Nuno Bernardo
Co-production partners: The Nightingale
Company
Delivery Status: in Pre-production
Budget: $2.6 million
Country of Origin: Portugal
Boasting the ‘intrigue’ of 24, the ‘smarts’
of CSI and the emotional engagement of
the O.C., GAMELAB 0.1 is a hip, new
television series about Love, Friendship,
Growing Up and the high-stakes
VIDEOGAME business.
HI5 RECORDS
Interactive Drama/Comedy TV series (26
x 25 min)
Language: English
Producer: Nuno Bernardo
Co-production partners: The Nightingale
Company
Delivery Status: in Pre-production
Budget: $2.4 million
Country of Origin: Portugal
Hi5 Records is a TV series that mixes
urban grittiness, solid drama and quirky,
intelligent humor, showing the struggle
of five young adults creating an
independent music recording company.
FINAL PUNISHMENT
www.castigofinal.com
Thriller/Horror film (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Hugo Albuquerque
Producer: Nuno Bernardo
Delivery Status: in Pre-production
Budget: $1 million
Country of Origin: Portugal
8 women convicted for violent murders
find themselves confined to a dark,
mysterious prison.
BENNETT MEDIA
WORLDWIDE
Bennett Media Worldwide, 2032
Armacost Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90025,
USA. Tel: 310.442.6630.
Fax: 310.442.8235.
www.bennettproductions.com
At MIP-TV: Mr. Robert Bennett
(Chairman of The Bennett Group), Mr.
Casey Bennett (President of The Bennett
Group), Mr. Paul Rich (CEO of Bennett
Media Worldwide), Mr. Darren Chuckry
(COO of The Bennett Group), Ms Jamie
Gao (Director of International Sales and
Acq.), Mr. Patrick Reynolds (Senior
VP& General Counsel)
Office: # 09.06,
Tel: 33.0.4.92.99.8188
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BEYOND THE LIST (A.K.A THE
LIST)
Reality (30 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
Dive into the subculture that is “invite
only,” where celebrities party behind the
velvet rope.
BIKINI DESTINATIONS
Reality (30 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
Top bikini models travel to spectacular
distant locales for dramatic photo shoots.
OH, NO! ITS KATO!
Reality (30 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
Kato Kaelin takes his quick wit and
sharp tongue to hotspots around the
world.
ADVENTURES OF HAWAIIAN
TROPIC GIRLS
Reality (30 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
Swimsuit beauties of Hawaiian Tropic
step into an around the world adventure.
BILLABONG’S J BAY: THE PURE
LINE
Reality (60 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
The discovery of surfer’s paradise, J Bay,
through the eyes of surfer Kelly Slater.
BOOST MOBILE PRO OF
SNOWBOARDING
Reality (60 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
Money is on the line in the world’s
richest snowboarding event in history.
DESTINATION X
Reality (30 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
Meet up with beautiful women as they
explore the exotic, but dangerous
locations.
MYSTERIES
Documentary (60 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
A documentary series where scientists
uncover historical myths.
THE HONDA SKI TOUR
Reality (60 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
Athletes compete in the skier cross and
the skier halfpipe events as famous
bands perform.
THE BILLIONAIRES CLUB
Reality (60 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
Showcases the most desirable
automobiles while providing a unique
glimpse at their wealthy owners.
THE EXTREMISTS
Reality (30 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
Extreme sports hosted by Laird Hamilton
and Gabrielle Reece.
STAG: LAST NIGHT OF FREEDOM
Reality (30 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
Explores the pleasures and consequences
of the greatest test any relationship can
endure: the Bachelor Party!
FLOW
Reality (30 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
Action sports extreme show featuring
surfer Kelly Slater and Supermodel
Cindy Crawford.
GIRLS FIGHT CLUB
Reality (60 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
Ultimate Fighting Champions coach
teams of young ladies in wrestling
matches.
RENEGADE ROAD
Reality (60 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
Join hosts Kato Kaelin and Jenn Brown
for a journey to the biggest motorcycle
rally.
BKN NEW MEDIA
LTD
BKN New Media Ltd, 77 Kingsway, 2nd
Floor, London, WC2B 6SR UK.
Tel: 44.0.20.7269.8680.
Fax: 44.0.20.7242.8335.
www.bknkids.com;
www.bknhomeentertainment.com,
email: [email protected]
Producer
At MIP-TV: Allen Bohbot (Group
Chairman & CEO), Rick Ungar
(Executive Producer), Nicola Andrews
(Sales Director, English, German, and
French speaking markets and Russia),
Laura Tapias (Managing Director, Spain,
Portugal, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Greece
and Cyprus), Matthew Graham-Clare
(Managing Director, BKN Home
Entertainment), Maria B. Fois (VP Sales
& Marketing, Italy, Central and South
America, Middle East, Africa & Turkey,
CIS, Eastern & Central Europe, and
Scandinavia)
Office: 11:32, Tel: 33.0.4.92.99.80.85
DORK HUNTERS FROM OUTER
SPACE
Animation (22 min)
Producer: BKN New Media
Delivery Status: Completed
Young alien cadets live undercover on
Earth to foil alien plans to destroy the
Universe.
ZORRO: GENERATION Z
Animation (22 min)
Producer: BKN New Media
Delivery Status: Completed
The melding of an historic legend with
power, high-tech gadgetry and vehicles
of the modern-day super-hero as the all
new El Zorro rides again!
LEGEND OF THE DRAGON
Animation (24 min)
Producer: BKN New Media
Delivery Status: Completed
The guardian of the temple has passed
on. A new Golden Dragon must be
chosen from twins born in the Year of
the Dragon. Only one will be chosen.
KONG: RETURN TO THE JUNGLE
Animation (90 min)
Producer: BKN New Media
Delivery Status: Completed
On the heels of the successful film, Kong
returns in this all new CGI animated
feature film.
JUNGLE BOOK - RIKKI-TIKKITAVI TO THE RESCUE
Animation (49 min)
Producer: BKN New Media
Delivery Status: Completed
A brand new, all-animal animated feature
film produced in CGI, based on the well
known story by Rudyard Kipling,
featuring Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the cool little
mongoose with attitude!
10 cute characters who help kids learn
the basics of the math world. We are
looking for co-production and presellers. Pilot available.
BLISSCOMEDIA
BLUEWING TV
Blisscomedia, Company: Strada Basse di
Dora, 42, Turin, 10146 Italy. Tel:
39.011.728126. Fax: 39.011.19503322.
www.blisscomedia.com, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Celestino Gianotti (General
Manager)
RIOMOKO FURRY FRIENDS
3D Animation (1 min)
Language: mute
Director: Celestino Gianotti
Producer: Blisscomedia
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Italy
A lovable cub stuck in a love-hate
relationship with his female counterpart.
A spot has been transmitted on national
TVs. Pilot available.
THE MAMBOBROS
3D Animation (1 min)
Language: mute
Director: Celestino Gianotti
Producer: Blisscomedia
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Italy
Three crazy funny brothers (Primero,
Secundero,Terzero) dance in amazingly
funny choreographies. Specifically
thought for mobile distribution. Work in
progress. Six episodes have been
transmitted on national TV.
NUMBER FRIENDS
3D Animation (1 min)
Director: italian
Language: Celestino Gianotti
Producer: Blisscomedia
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Italy
BlueWing TV, 2 Ikonuou str, Nea Smyrni,
17121 Greece. Tel: 33873856250. Fax:
33671419549.
At MIP-TV: Nicolas Koutsikas
(Manager)
GULF STREAM AND THE NEXT
ICE AGE
Documentary (52 min)
Language: English, French
Director: Nicolas Koutsikas, Stephan
Poulle
Co-Production Partners:
GrandAngle,2d3D
Producer: BlueWing TV Ltd
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget 350000 euros
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: France and Greece
An accident in the climate system, a
shutdown of the thermohaline
circulation, could be compared to an
accident in a nuclear power station
ARMAGNAC AND THE CHINESE
MUSQUETEERS
Docu (52 min)
Language: English/French
Director: Nicolas Koutsikas/Stephan
Poulle
Co-Production Partners: Georama TV;
Via Decouvertes
Producer: BlueWing TV ltd
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget 450000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France
Three Stories that will develop in a
parallel fashion and intertwine: that of
Armagnac; that of the Chinese porcelain,
and that of China, an emerging country
of constant surprises.
G ENIE I N T HE H OUSE - AB I NTERNATIONAL
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BREAKTHROUGH
FILMS &
TELEVISION
Breakthrough Films & Television, 122
Sherbourne Street, Toronto Ontario M5A
2R4, Canada. Tel: 416.766.6588. Fax:
416.769.1436.
www.breakthroughfilms.com, email:
[email protected]
Producer & Distributor
At MIP-TV: Ira Levy (Executive
Producer), Kevin Gillis (Executive
Producer), Tanya Kelen (Head of
Distribution), Nat Abraham (Head of
Canadian Acquisitions & Sales)
Office: 00.01
ATOMIC BETTY
Animation (30 min)
Producer: Breakthrough Animation
Delivery Status: Completed
An ordinary girl by day, Betty leads a
secret life as a Galactic Guardian and
Defender of the Cosmos!
CAPTAIN FLAMINGO
Animation (30 min)
Producer: Breakthrough Films
Delivery Status: Completed
Milo Powell dons his terrycloth cape as
Captain Flamingo and saves the day for
kids everywhere.
CRADLE OF LIES
TV Movie (90 min)
Producer: Breakthrough Films &
Television
Delivery Status: Completed
Haley discovers the man of her dreams
will do anything to have a son in order to
collect his inheritance or he risks losing
everything. The only problem is she’s
having a girl.
PARADISE FALLS
Drama (30 min)
Producer: Breakthrough Films &
Television
Delivery Status: Completed
Back for Season 3 – shot in HD - with
sexier and edgier pink-themed dramatic
antics in a town that looks like paradise
where everyone has a dirty little secret.
PATIENT FILES
Medical Docudrama (30 min)
Producer: Breakthrough Films &
Television
Delivery Status: Completed
At one of the best women’s hospitals in
the world, uncover stories about women
who face everything from high-risk
pregnancy to lung disease and more.
PLASTIC MAKES PERFECT
Documentary (30 min)
Producer: Breakthrough Films &
Television
Delivery Status: Completed
The series questions our beauty beliefs
with unique tests of hilarious hidden
camera experiments and through the
experience of patients whose beliefs
about their appearance leads them to
undergo cosmetic surgery.
SHAYE
Reality (60 min)
Producer: Breakthrough Films &
Television
Delivery Status: Completed
A gritty and entertaining factual series that
follows an all-female 30-something
country/pop trio on their quest to make it big.
BRITISH FILM
INSTITUTE
British Film Institute, 21 Stephen Street,
London, W1T 1LN United Kingdom. Tel:
44.20.7957.8909. Fax: 44.20.7436.4014.
www.bfi.org.uk, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: John Flahive (Film Sales
Manager), Jan Faull (Archive
Development Manager), Anne Billard
(Film Sales Development Manager)
Office: H.4.35 Programme Media, Tel:
44.7968.772792
BACON’S ARENA
Documentary (96 min)
Language: English
Director: Adam Low
Co-Production Partners: BBC and Estate
of Francis Bacon
Producer: Anthony Wall
Key Cast: Francis Bacon
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: UK
Documentary profile of the painter
Francis Bacon, available in the run up to
his centenary in 2009.
ANGER ME
www.angerme.com
Documentary (75 min)
Language: English
Director: Elio Gelmini
Co-Production Partners: Signale
Digitale, A Few Steps Productions
Producer: Carlo Vitali
Key Cast: Kenneth Anger
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Italy/Canada
Kenneth Anger silhouetted against
extracts from his films talks about his
extraordinary life and work.
BORDERLINE (WITH COURNEY
PINE SCORE)
Drama (71 min)
Director: English
Language: Kenneth Macpherson
Co-Production Partners: Pool Films
Producer: Kenneth Macpherson
Key Cast: Paul Robeson, Eslanda
Robeson, Gavin Arthur, Helga Doorn,
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1930, Country of
Origin: UK
Courtney Pine provides a stunning jazz
socre for this silent drama on the
consequences of an inter-racial affair.
CONSTANTINE GIANNIARIS
SHORTS
Drama (100 min)
Language: English and Greek
Director: Constantine Giannaris
Co-Production Partners: Arts Council of
Great Britain, Maya Vision
Producer: Constantine Giannaris
Key Cast: Louis Sedwin, Stavros Zalmas
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 1991 & 1995,
Country of Origin: UK and Greece
Collection of 3 gay shorts, “Caught
Looking”, “North of Vortex” and “A
Place in the Sun”
BUENA VISTA
INTERNATIONAL
TELEVISION
Buena Vista International Television, 3
Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith,
London, W6 9PE UK. Tel:
44.20.8222.1000. Fax: 44.20.8222.1620.
www.bvitv.com
Distributor
At MIP-TV: Tom Toumazis (evp and
managing director, BVITV EMEA &
Canada), Jim Brehm (svp sales, BVITV
EMEA), Philippe Maigret (svp
distribution, strategy and portfolio
development), Fernando Barbosa (svp,
BVITV Latin America), Steve
Macallister (svp & managing director,
BVITV Asia-Pacific), Steve Copestake
(svp marketing, BVITV),
Office: Stand A0.21
KYLE XY
Drama series (60 min)
Language: English
Producer: ABC Television Studio
Co-production partners: (Executive
producers ) Eric Bress, J. Mackye
Gruber (“Butterfly Effect,” “Final
Destination 2”), Chris Bender, J.C.
Spink, David Himelfarb
Key Cast: Matt Dallas (“Wannabe”),
Marguerite McIntyre (“The Days”),
Bruce Thomas (“Legally Blonde”), April
Matson (“Quintuplets”), Jean-Luc
Bilodeau (“Ill Fated”)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006/2007, Country
of Origin: USA
Follows the journey of a teenage boy
who emerges mysteriously from the
woods with no apparent memory of who
he is or where has been.
OCTOBER ROAD
Drama series (60 min)
Language: English
Producer: ABC Television Studio
Co-production partners: (Executive
producers) Gary Fleder, Scott Rosenberg,
Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, Peter
Tortorici
Key Cast: Bryan Greenberg (“One Tree
Hill”), Tom Berenger (“Platoon”), Laura
Prepon (“That ‘70s Show”), Brad Henke
(“North Country”), Evan Jones (“Eight
Mile”), Geoff Stultz (“Wedding
Crashers,” “7th Heaven”), Jay Paulson
(“Can’t Hardly Wait”), Warren Christie
(“The Days”), Odette Yustman
(“Kindergarten Cop”), Slade Pearce.
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Nick Garrett returns to his hometown
after 10 years. He has to repair
relationships with his friends after his
best selling novel, telling secrets about
them, leaves them feeling betrayed.
RATATOUILLE
Animated Feature
Language: English
Director: Brad Bird
Producer: Brad Lewis
Co-production partners: Walt Disney
Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios
Key Cast: (voice talent) Patton Oswalt,
Brian Dennehy, Brad Garrett, Janeane
Garofalo, Ian Holm
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006/2007, Country
of Origin: USA
A rat named Remy dreams of becoming
a great French chef despite his family’s
wishes and the obvious problem of being
a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic
profession.
UGLY BETTY
Comedy series (60 min)
Language: English
Producer: ABC Television Studio
Co-production partners: (Executive
producers) Ben Silverman, Silvio Horta,
Salma Hayek
Key Cast: America Ferrera (The
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants),
Ashley Jensen (Extras), Eric Mabius
(The O.C.), Ana Ortiz (Boston Legal),
Vanessa Williams (Chicago Hope), Alan
Dale (The O.C.)
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
In the superficial world of high fashion,
image is everything. So how could a girl
who is less than pretty possibly fit in?
BROTHERS & SISTERS
Drama series (60 min)
Language: English
Director: Ken Olin
Producer: ABC Television Studio
Key Cast: Calista Flockhart (“Ally
McBeal”) as Kitty, Rachel Griffiths (“Six
Feet Under”) as Sarah, Sally Field
(“Norma Rae”) as Nora Holden, Ron
Rifkin (“Alias”) as Saul Holden, Patricia
Wettig (“thirtysomething”) as Holly,
Balthazar Getty (“Alias”) as Thomas,
Dave Annable (“Reunion”) as Justin,
Matthew Rhys (“Titus,” “Love and other
Disasters”) as Kevin, John PyperFerguson (“Unforgiven,” “Nightstalker”)
as Joe and Sarah Jane Morris (“Felicity”)
as Julia.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006/2007, Country
of Origin: USA
“Brothers & Sisters” follows the Walkers
through the maze of American life today
— the pressures, limitless options and
the struggle to grow beyond our
backgrounds into ourselves.
CRIMINAL MINDS
Drama series (60 min)
Language: English
Producer: ABC Television Studio
Co-production partners: (Executive
producers) Mark Gordon, Edward Allen
Bernero
Key Cast: Mandy Patinkin (“The
Princess Bride”), Shemar Moore (“The
Young and the Restless”), Thomas
Gibson (“Eyes Wide Shut”), Matthew
Gray Gubler (“The Life Aquatic with
Steve Zissou”), AJ Cook (“Final
Destination 2”), Kirsten Vangsness
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
“Criminal Minds” is a suspense thriller
about an elite squad of profilers who
analyze the country’s most twisted serial
criminal minds, anticipating their next
move before they strike again.
nature-walk to explode into a full scale
avalanche of chaotic comedy!
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BW)M, LTD.
BW)M, Ltd., 6266 W. Sunset Boulevard,
Suite A; Los Angeles, CA 90028, USA.
Tel: 1.323.467.1408. Fax:
1.323.467.1438.
www.bwoodingmedia.com
International Distributor
At MIP-TV: Brenda Wooding (Managing
Director), Begoña Castillo (Intl. Sales
Associate)
Office: US Independents, R.30.18,
Mobile Tel: 1.323.841.3518. Tel:
33.4.92.99.88.06
BLACK & WHITE
2D & 3D Animation (15 x 6 min)
Producer: Zeppelin Animation, Ltd
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Israel
‘’Black & White’’ uses a combination of
2D and 3D animation and shots of babies
and toddlers to introduce babies to the
world of motion, sounds and colors.
ROOFTERS
Puppetry Animation (52 x 11 min)
Language: English, Swedish, Norwegian,
Danish
Producer: AB Svensk Filmindustri
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Sweden
Very hip and contemporary puppet show
filled with playful friendships, laugh-outloud humor, and a rocking musical track.
Way up on the rooftops there is whole
other world happening. Come meet our
friends- The Roofters!
BABY GENIUS
Animation/Live Action TV (103 X 3-7
min); DVD’s (10 x 40 min) + 8 Audio
CD’s (2-CDs per title)
Language: English
Producer: Pacific Entertainment, Inc.
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
The best in developmental edutainment
for young children, Baby Genius brand
includes DVD’s, Audio CDs, and books.
Honors include The Film Advisory
Board Award of Excellence and the Kids
First!® Coalition for Quality Children’s
Media.
THE EGGS
Animation (52 x 12 min)
Language: English
Producers: Eggs (Series 1) Productions
and B&T
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Benedict, Sunnyside, Yolky and
Scramble are Kazooligans and music,
sounds, rhythms and beats are their life!
Armed with sound snufflers and Shelly,
their artificially intelligent spacecraft,
they are on an “EGGciting” intergalactic
mission to find new groovy sounds.
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
Animation (10 x 22 min)
Language: English
Producer: Top Dog Media, Inc
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Covering over 35 classics, this animated
series tells the classic Myths of the Gods
the Goddesses the Heroes and the
creatures.
TALL TALES
Animation (10 x 22 min)
Language: English
Producer: Top Dog Media, Inc
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Covering all the best known American
Folktales, this newly produced animated
series includes stories such as Davy
Crockett, Johnny Appleseed and Annie
Oakley.
THE TALE OF TILLIE’S DRAGON
Animation (1 x 50 min)
Language: English, French, German,
Spanish, Italian and other languages
Producer: Stribling Nago Entertainment
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
An irresistible heart tingling story of
Tillie, her Uncle St. George- ancestor of
the great The Great Dragon-slayer – and
Tillie’s new best friend Herman, a
loveable fire breathing Dragon. Winner
of five prestigious family awards.
SILVERWING: THE MOVIE
TRILOGY & THE SERIES
Animation (3 x 72 min and as 13 x 22
min - Silverwing: The Series)
Language: English, French, Spanish,
Portuguese
Producer: Bardel Animation, distributed
by BW)M
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Canada
Shade Silverwing is an undersized
teenage bat whose one act of rebellion
puts his whole colony in grave danger
resulting in a premature migration.
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CABLEREADY
CABLEready, 98 East Avenue, Norwalk,
CT 06851 USA. Tel: 203.855.7979.
Fax: 203.855.8370.
www.cableready.net, email:
[email protected]
Distributor
At MIP-TV: Gary Lico (President/CEO)
Tel: 203.855.7979 x365, Sabrina
Sanchez-Ayala (Vice President of Sales
and Marketing) Tel: 203.855.7979 x366,
Lou Occhicone (Senior Vice President of
Program Operations),
Tel: 203.855.7979 x363, Jerry Patry
(Associate Director of Finance &
International Sales), Tel: 203.855.7979
x368, Liz Levenson (Program
Development),
Tel: 203.855.7979 x373
Office: R31.17, Tel: 33.492998846
ACCIDENT INVESTIGATOR
Crime & Investigation/High-Definition
(9 x 60)
Language: English
Producer: CMJ Productions
Cast: Rusty Haight (Host)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005-2006, Country
of Origin: Canada
Follow the investigation of auto
accidents where the scene is examined
from every angle to discover what really
happened and why.
BLACK WIDOW WOMEN
Crime & Investigation (1 x 60)
Language: English
Producer: Burrud Productions
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: U.S.
While most violent crime is committed
by men, women are not always the
gentler, softer, weaker sex, either.
BOUNTY HUNTERS
Crime & Investigation (1 x 120)
Language: English
Producer: As seen on National
Geographic Channel
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: U.S.
Follow the epic story of the world’s two
most successful bounty hunters who
attempt to locate and capture four
“fugitives” and save one of the largest
bail organizations in California.
DOMINICK DUNNE’S POWER,
PRIVILEGE AND JUSTICESM
Crime & Investigation (41 x 60)
Language: English
Producer: Court TV®
Cast: Dominick Dunne (Host)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002-2007, Country
of Origin: U.S.
DOMINICK DUNNE’S POWER,
PRIVILEGE AND JUSTICE gives the
inside story on notorious criminal cases
that reveal the lowest depths of High
Society.
FASHION TEAM
Entertainment (40 x 30)
Language: English
Producer: TV Guide Channel
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006-2007, Country
of Origin: U.S.
Offering a new twist on fashion
television, FASHION TEAM gives
viewers an inside look at the world of
fashion and what the top celebrities are
wearing.
FORENSIC FILES™/MEDICAL
DETECTIVES®
Crime & Investigation (298 x 30)
Language: English and Spanish
Available
Producer: Medstar Television
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1995-2007, Country
of Origin: U.S.
Each episode of FORENSIC FILES and
sibling series MEDICAL DETECTIVES
profiles intriguing crimes where science
catches the bad guy.
GREAT MUSEUMS
History/High Definition (32 x 30 + 6 x
60)
Language: English
Producer: Echo Pictures, Inc.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002-2006, Country
of Origin: U.S.
Discovery the history, the arts, science,
industry, technology and popular culture
as displayed in the museums to which
millions from around the world travel
everyday.
CANAMEDIA
Canamedia, 381 Richmond Street East,
Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario, M5A 1P6.
Tel: 416.483.7446. Fax: 416.483.7529.
www.canamedia.com, email:
[email protected]
TV Distributor
At MIP-TV: Andrea Stokes
(International Sales and Acquisitions
Manager), Lee Harris (North American
Sales and Acquisitions), Les Harris
(President)
Office: 02.10 in the Canadian Pavilion
ANGRY PLANET
Adventure/Science Series (13 x 30) HD
Language: English
Director/Producer: Peter Rowe
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
Angry Planet will take the audience on
an extraordinary tour of the world’s most
extreme natural phenomena as we film a
collection of unique and hair-raising
situations involving tornados, hurricanes,
blizzards and volcanoes.
THE ART OF BUILDING BODIES
Lifestyle/Health series (13 x 30)
Language: English
Director/Producer: Aida Memisevic
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007
Country of Origin: Canada
AT THE END OF MY LEASH - ALLIANCE ATLANTIS
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The Art of Building Bodies is a fastpaced, practical, lifestyle TV show that
explores and demystifies the world of
getting – and staying – fit. Each halfhour episode focuses on the secrets of
building sculpted, natural and defined
muscles.
CREEPY
Sci-Fi / Paranormal Series (13 x 60)
Language: English
Director/Producer: Bill Burke
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006
Country of Origin: Canada
Creepy is a weekly road-trip into the
sometimes nightmarish, but always
fascinating world of the paranormal.
CAPITOL FILMS
Capitol Films, Bridge House, 2nd Floor,
63-65 North Wharf Road London W2
1LA UK. Tel: 44.207.298.6200. Fax:
44.207.298.6201. www.capitolfilms.com,
email: [email protected]
At MIP TV: Sofia Neves (Sales
Director), Maya Amsellem (Head of
Business Affairs)
Office: Stand 04.16, Palais des Festivals,
Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.80.72
THE BEST TIMES OF OUR LIVES
(WORKING TITLE)
Romance / Drama
Language: English
Director: John Maybury
Producers: Rebekah Gilbertson, Sarah
Radclyffe
Writer: Sharman Macdonald
Leading Cast: Keira Knightley, Lindsay
Lohan
Status: In Pre-Production
Production Country: UK
Two feisty, free-spirited women are
connected by the brilliant, charismatic
poet who loves them both. A passionate,
sexy true story about a remarkable,
turbulent friendship.
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS
YOU’RE DEAD
Suspense Drama
Language: English
Director: Sidney Lumet
Writers: Sidney Lumet, Kelly Masterson
Production Company: Capitol Films
Producers: Michael Cerenzie, Brian
Linse, William S. Gilmore
Leading Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei and Albert
Finney
Status: In Post-Production
Production Country: USA
Two hard-up brothers attempt the perfect
robbery – no guns, no violence, no
problem. But when it all goes fatally
wrong, greed and revenge leave no-one
unscathed.
BLACKOUT
Horror / Thriller
Language: English
Director: Rigoberto Castenada
Writer: Ed Dougherty
Producers: Valerio Morabito, Simon
O’Leary
Leading Cast: Amber Tamblyn, Aidan
Gillen
Status: In Post-Production
Production Country: UK / Spain
The clock ticks for three strangers
trapped in an elevator. A high-concept
serial-killer thriller with a terrifying
climax.
SHROOMS
Horror
Language: English
Director: Paddy Breathnach
Writer: Pearse Elliott
Producers: Paddy McDonald, Robert
Walpole
Leading Cast: Jack Huston, Lindsey
Haun
Status: Completed
Production Country: Ireland
Five American college students go to
Ireland in search of notoriously potent
magic mushrooms. Terror strikes when
one by one they are brutally murdered.
But is it reality or is it just the
hallucinations?
YOU KILL ME
Comedy Drama
Language: English
Director: John Dahl
Producers: Al Corley, Bart Rosenblatt,
Eugene Musso
Writers: Christopher Markus and Steven
McFeely
Leading Cast: Ben Kingsley, Téa Leoni,
Luke Wilson
Status: In Post Production
Production Country: USA/Canada
Frank’s a cold-blooded hit-man for the
polish mob… and an alcoholic. He
screws up, packs up and goes west - to
rehab in San Francisco.
THE WENDELL BAKER STORY
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Andrew Wilson, Luke Wilson
Writer: Luke Wilson
Producers: Mark Johnson, David
Bushell, Luke Wilson
Leading Cast: Luke Wilson, Owen
Wilson, Eva Mendes
Status: Completed
Production Country: USA
Ex-con Wendell Baker tries to win back
his long suffering girlfriend by getting a
job at a retirement home. A friendship
with two of the elderly inhabitants
blossoms.
CELESTIAL
PICTURES LTD.
Celestial Pictures Ltd., Shaw
Administration Building, Lot 220, Clear
Water Bay Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Tel: 852.2927.1111. Fax: 852.2243.0099.
www.celestialpictures.com, email:
[email protected]
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At MIP-TV: Mr. Terry Mak (Executive
VP Distribution & TV Network), Mr.
Daniel Fung (VP Film & Channel
Distribution), Ms. Gigi Ko (Film &
Channel Distribution Manager)
Office: 03.05, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.8231
BURNING DREAMS
Documentary (75 mins)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Wayne Peng
Producer: Janet Yeo
Key Cast: Liang Yi, Yang Yang
Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: Taiwan
A time portal that takes the audience
through five decades of sensual thrills
with electrifying dance sequences across
the nostaleic and modern cityscapes of
Shanghai
CONTEMPORARY STYLES OF
KUNG FU
Documentary
Language: Chinese
Director: Lucky Lau
Producer: Gordon Cheung
Key Cast: Gordon Liu Chia-hui
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
The star of the martial arts classics “The
36th Chamber of Shaolin”, Gordon Liu
Chia-hui hosts this compelling
documentary on the “Big Five Forces” of
kung fu.
SEARCHING FOR SHANGRI-LA
Documentary
Director: Chinese
Language: Lawrence J. Brahm
Producer: Lawrence J. Brahm
Delivery Status: In Production
Country of Origin: China
An exhilarating documentary cross-over
between new-age travelogue and music
video featuring prominent chinese artists
Ai-Jing Dada Wa and Flora Cheong-leen
Director: Lawrence J. Brahm journeys to
Tibet in his guest to find the legendary
“Shangri-la”
CENTRE FILMS
MEDIA SALES LTD
Centre Films Media Sales Ltd, 1
Vauxhall Grove, London, SW8 1TD
United Kingdom. Tel: 44.208.566.2388.
Fax: 44.208.566.2388.
www.centremediasales.com
At MIP-TV: Gary Mitchell (Television
Sales Executive), Eddie Leahy
(Marketing Director)
Office: H4.35, Tel: 33.4.92.99.85.96.
Fax: 33.4.92.99.85.97
THE YOUNG LEGENDS
Historical action (2 hours)
Language: English
Director: Various
Producer: Exec Prod Kent Walwin
Key Cast: Various
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget ¤3 million per feature
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK/Various
A series of tv movies of young
heroes/heroines: Alexander, Marco Polo,
Genghis Khan, Cleopatra, Helen of Troy,
etc.
INTERGALACTIC COMBAT
(TEAM 1)
www.intergalacticcombat.com
Martial Arts /Sci Fi (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Ray Brady
Producer: Barry Heath
Key Cast: Gordon Alexander, Adrian
Rayment, Neil Rayment, Silvio
Simac, Elizabeth Tan, Tom Wu, Michael
Chomiak, Troy
Titus-Adams
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget ¤1 milliom
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
A martial arts sci-fi which could be the
basis for an international TV franchise a
World’s Strongest Man of Martial Arts.
MAD ABOUT (BOY’S TOYS)
24 minutes per episode
Director: English
Language: Various
Producer: Various
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget ¤30k per episode
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
What the rich do for fun, Extreme sports,
classic cars, Microlighting, Side car
racing par excellence etc and the girls
who shop and wait.
SNAPSHOTS OF WAR (SOVIET
BATTLES)
24 minutes per episode
Language: English
Director: John Clark
Producer: Kent Walwin/Frixos
Constantine
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget ¤30,000 per episode
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
Great Battles of the Twentieth Century
edited to reach a young audience and remastered in High Definition.
CINE
INTERNATIONAL
Cine International, Leopoldstr. 18,
Munich 80802, Germany. Tel:
49.89.39.10.25. Fax: 49.89.33.10.89.
www.cine-international.de, email:
[email protected]
Distributor
At MIP-TV: Susanne Groh (Head of
International Sales), Andrea Heuser
(Marketing Manager)
Office: Booth No. 01.15, Palais c/o
GERMAN FILMS, Tel: 33.4.9299.8202
ILL GOTTEN GAINS
www.cine-international.de
Drama (101 min)
Language: English
Director: Joel Ben Marsden
Producer: Joel Ben Marsden
Cast: Djimon Hounsou (GLADIATOR,
BLOOD DIAMOND), Akosua Busia,
De’Aundre
Bonds
Delivery Status: completed
Year of production: 1997, Country of
Origin: USA
The fictional uprising of the slaves
aboard the slave-ship ARGON MISS in
1869 - five years after slavery was
abolished in America – documents the
beginning of the battle between white
men and black.
THE ONLY ONE / VIDANGE
PERDUE
www.fobicfilms.com
Drama (89 min.)
Language: Flemish, Eng. Subt.
Director: Geoffrey Enthoven
Producer: Mariano Vanhoof
Cast: Nand Buyl, Viviane De Muynck,
Marijke Pinoy
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Delivery Status: completed
Year of production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Belgium
Thanks to his new neighbour Sylvia, 80year-old Lucien manages to start a new
life – he learns new tricks for the
household and even manages to have his
first computer lessons…
ALL I KNOW @BOUT YOU
www.moonfilm.de
www.cine-international.de
www.stardust-filmverleih.de
Drama/Romance (94 min)
Language: German, Engl. subt.
Director: Petra Katharina Wagner
Producer: Erik Stappenbeck, Joerg
Wagner, Petra Katharina Wagner, Peter
Polsak
Cast: Goetz George, Claudia Michelsen,
Monica Bleibtreu
Delivery Status: completed
Year of production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Germany
After Jost´s beloved wife Maria died, he
continues writing emails from “Maria to
Callas”. But after a while, Jost can´t wait
to meet with “Callas”.
YOU TOLD ME YOU LOVE ME
www.moana.de
Drama/Love Story (117 min)
Language: German, Engl. subt. in
preparation
Director: Rudolf Thome
Producer: Rudolf Thome
Cast: Hannelore Elsner, Johannes
Herrschmann, Anna de Carlo, Bastian
Trost
Delivery Status: completed
Year of production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Germany
Johanna and Johannes fell in love,
separated and finally realized their
endless love for each other…
CINEMAVAULT
RELEASING
INTERNATIONAL
INC.
Cinemavault Releasing International
Inc., 175 Bloor Street East, South Tower,
Suite 1011, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3R8,
Canada. Tel: 416.363.6060. Fax:
416.363.2305. www.cinemavault.com,
email: [email protected]
Sales Agent
At MIP-TV: Natalie Kampelmacher
(VP, International Distribution), Paco
Alvarez (VP, Sales & Acquisitions),
Ruby Rondina (Festivals & Publicity
Manager), Steve Arroyave (VP, General
Manager), Nick Stiliadis (CEO)
Acquisition Executive: Michael Paszt
Office: RSV.39,
Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.8918
INTERVIEW
Drama
Language: English
Director: Steve Buscemi
Producer: Bruce Weiss, Gijs van de
Westelaken
Cast: Sienna Miller, Steve Buscemi
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA/Netherlands
A fading journalist is forced to interview
America’s most famous TV soap star.
OUTSOURCED
Comedy
Language: English
Director: John Jeffcoat
Producer: Tom Gorai, David Skinner,
Cast: Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker,
Larry Pine, Asif Basra, Matt Smith
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
After his entire department is outsourced,
an American novelty products salesman
heads to India to train his replacement.
CANVAS
Drama
Language: English
Director: Joseph Greco
Producer: Lucy Hammel, Bill Erfurth,
Adam Hammel, Sharon Lane, Joe
Pantoliano
Cast: Joe Pantoliano, Marcia Gay
Harden, Devon Gearhart
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
One family’s struggle to overcome
adversity when a father and son are
faced with a mother’s illness.
STRANGE CULTURE
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Producer: Lise Swenson, Steven C. Beer,
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Thomas Jay Ryan,
Peter Coyote, Steve Kurtz, Josh
Kornbluth, Shoresh Alaudini, Cassie
Powell
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
An urgently topical story of Steve Kurtz,
a critic of the US food & drug
administration who stands accused of
bioterrorism by the US government.
THIS FILTHY WORLD
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Jeff Garlin
Producer: Jeff Garlin, Michele Armour
Cast: John Waters
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
An autobiographical stand-up comedy
set by John Waters delivering a cutting
edge perspective on his extraordinary
career, film by film.
THE LISTENING
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Giacomo Martelli
Producer: Giacomo Martelli, Paolo
Rossetti, Nicolai Iuul
Cast: Michael Parks, Maya Sansa,
Andrea Tidona
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Italy
Estranged by the degree of corporate
influence within the largest US listening
station in the world, an aging NSA
officer defects and mounts a clandestine
counter-listening station high in the
Italian alps.
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on the beach
(Between Miramar & Martinez)
Contact Olivier
Tel. (33) 4 93 94 20 68 Fax. (33) 4 93 43 60 91
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SPINNING INTO BUTTER
Drama
Language: English
Director: Mark Brokaw
Producer: Norman Twain, Lou Pitt,
Sarah Jessica Parker
Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Mykelti
Williamson, Beau Bridges, Miranda
Richardson, James Rebhorn, Victor
Rasuk
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Sarah Jessica Parker plays a college
Dean whose attitude is under fire after a
racial crime is committed on campus.
SCAR
Horror
Language: English
Director: Jed Weintrob
Producer: Jamie Gordon, Courtney Potts,
Norman Twain
Cast: Angela Bettis, Kirby Bliss Blanton,
Devon Graye, Ben Cotton, Christopher
Titus
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Brace yourself for an entirely new
dimension in larger-than-life horror shot
entirely in 3D: SCAR.
MADE IN JAMAICA
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Jerome Laperrousaz
Producer: Pascal Herold
Cast: Toots, Tanya Stephens, Elephant
Man
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A powerful portrait of the leaders of the
reggae music movement, and how
Reggae has become a worldwide
phenomenon.
… SO GOES THE NATION
Documentary
Language: English
Director: James D. Stern, Adam Del Deo
Producer: James D. Stern, Adam Del
Deo
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
An examination of America’s 2004
presidential election between George W.
Bush and John Kerry through the eyes of
diverse politicians, activists, and voters.
THREADS
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Michele Maher
Producer: Michele Maher
Cast: Katie MacNichol, David Thornton,
Juan Carlos Hernandez, Jerry Grayson,
Saundra Santiago, T.R Knight
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
In the vein of “The Devil Wears Prada,”
Threads is a sinfully hilarious movie
from writer/director Michele Maher, who
based the film on her own real life
experience working in the insane New
York fashion industry.
THE PUFFY CHAIR
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Jay Duplass
Producer: Mark Duplass
Cast: Mark Duplass, Kathryn Aselton,
Rhett Wilkins
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Josh Sagers drives cross-country on a
mission to deliver his father’s birthday
gift – a giant purple LazyBoy.
BLIND DATE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Stanley Tucci
Producer: Bruce Weiss, Gijs van de
Westelaken
Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Tony Shalhoub
Delivery Status: In production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA/Netherlands
The story of two fighting parents
desperately trying to reconcile after the
tragic loss of their daughter.
1-900
Drama
Language: English
Director: Bob Balaban
Producer: Bruce Weiss, Gijs van de
Westelaken
Cast: Denis Leary, Hope Davis
Delivery Status: In production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA/Netherlands
Story of two people who meet on a
phone sex line and go through an entire
relationship without ever meeting in
person.
CINEPHIL
Cinephil, 18 Levontin Street, Tel Aviv,
65112 Israel. Tel: 972.3.566.4129. Fax:
972.3.560.1436. www.cinephil.co.il,
email: [email protected]
At MIP-TV: Philippa Kowarsky
(Managing Director)
Office: AO.09, Tel: 33.49.299.8503
9 STAR HOTEL
Documentary (78’)
Language: Arabic
Director: Ido Haar
Co-Production Partners: Channel 2
Israel, Humanistische Omroep, France 5,
YLE, TVO, SBS, TSR, TV2 Denmark
Producer: Edna Kowarsky, Elinor
Kowarsky - Eden Productions
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Israel
The intimate life of a Palestinian male
community living in hiding in the hills
surrounding the Israeli city of Modi’in.
A HEBREW LESSON (HA’ULPAN)
Documentary (122’)
Language: English, Hebrew, Chinese,
Russian, Spanish, German
Director: David Ofek
Co-Production Partners: Channel 2
Israel, Yes Docu
Producer: Edna Kowarsky, Elinor
Kowarsky - Eden Productions
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Israel
Chin, Sasha, Dong-Dong Marisol and
Annabelle met at the Adult Language:
School. Gathered from different parts of
the world in one classroom, they are
about to start a new life in Israel.
THE CEMETERY CLUB (MOADON
BEIT HAKVAROT)
Documentary (90’)
Director: Hebrew, Polish
Language: Tali Shemesh
Producer: Assaf Amir, Guy Lavie Norma Productions
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Israel
For over two decades, a group of women
and men have been meeting weekly at
Israel’s National Cemetery. Amongst the
graves of the nation’s dignitaries, they
debate philosophy, read poetry, eat lunch
and determine the fate of the Jewish
nation.
SOUVENIRS (SOUVENIRIM)
Documentary (75’)
Language: Hebrew, English
Director: Shahar Cohen, Halil Efrat
Co-Production Partners: Yes Docu Israel,
Joodse Omroep,
Producer: Sharon Shamir- Sirocco
Productions
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Israel
Shahar, an unemployed filmmaker,
discovers that his 82 year old father,
Sleiman, who had served in the Jewish
Brigade during WW2, may have left
behind some “Souvenirs” by having
impregnated two Dutch women.
pace, suspense and heartfelt drama as it
sends viewers on a riveting ride through
the streets of Jerusalem at the end of a
Labrador’s leash.
CINEXPORT
Cinexport, 78 av des Champs-Elysées,
75008 Paris, France.
Tel: 33.1.45.62.49.45.
Fax: 33.1.45.63.85.26. tvfrance-intl.com,
email: [email protected]
Sales agent
At MIP-TV: Mrs. Anne-Marie
ROMBOURG-CARACO (President)
Office: TV France International
collective stand, Mobile: 06.07.54.33.33
L’ OCCITANIENNE OU LE
DERNIER AMOUR DE
CHATEAUBRIAND
TV Fiction (90 min)
Language: french version
Directed by JEAN PERISSE
With Bernard Le Coq Valentine Teisseire
Roger Souza
Year of Production: 2006
The Young lady, Leontine de Villeneuve
has read all his novels and felt in love
with him.
LA BELLE ET LE SAUVAGE
TV Fiction (90 min)
Language: French version
Directed by Bertrand Arthuys
Cast: Didier Bezace, Maria De Medeiros,
Lionel Abelanski, Jacques Spiesser
My name is Louis Riquet, I am fifty
years old. I was a well known pedo-
psychiatre and a rather kind man. Now I
am an obscure ethnologist and a
misanthrope.
LE PARIS CANAILLE DE
TOULOUSE- LAUTREC (THE
VILLAINOUS PARIS OF
TOULOUSE LAUTREC)
Documentary (52 min)
Language: French and English version
Directed by Jacques Vichet
A wander through the Montmartre of the
Belle Epoque takes us back to the world
of TOULOUSE-LAUTREC.
VISITE PRIVEE … EN SICILE,
DANS LES PALAIS DES GUEPARDS
(PRIVATE VISIT… IN SICILY, IN
THE PALACES OF THE
LEOPARDS)
Documentary (52 min)
Language: available french and english
version
Directed by JACQUES VICHET and
CHANTAL BAUMANN
Driven by an incredible will to survive,
the last princes of Sicily, known as the
“Leopards” after the book by Guiseppe
Tomasi di Lampedusa and the Lucchino
Visconti film, struggled to preserve their
palaces.
CHAMPAGNE !
Documentary (52 min)
Language: French and English version
Directed by JACQUES VICHET
Year of Production: 2006
Since its discovery in 1670 by a
Benedictine monk called Don Pérignon,
Champagne has become an integral part
of any celebration.
SACHA GUITRY L’AME ET L’
ESPRIT WRITER AND ACTOR
(SACHA GUITRY, SOUL AND
MIND)
Documentary (52 min)
Language: french version
Directed by ARMAND ISNARD
Year of Production: 2006
Sacha Guitry, born February 21, 1885 in
St. Petersburg, Russia – died July 24,
1957.
He was a film actor, director and
screenwriter and playwright.
JEAN MARAIS, LE MAL ROUGE
ET OR 2006 (JEAN MARAIS
PASSION FROM THE HEART)
Documentary (52 min)
Language: french version
Directed by Armand ISNARD
The portrait of one of the most
celebrated star of French movies who
achieved his greatest success in classical
roles on stage.
MAURICE CHEVALIER, LE
COEUR QUI CHANTE (MAURICE
CHEVALIER, THE SINGING
HEART)
Documentary (52 min)
Language: french version
Directed by ARMAND ISNARD
The life of Maurice CHEVALIER is
fascinating. This man was not anything
like his happy-go-lucky public persona.
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COOKIE JAR
ENTERTAINMENT
Cookie Jar Entertainment, 266 King St.
West, 2nd Floor, Toronto, ON, M5V 1H8,
Canada. Tel: 416.977.3238.
Fax: 416.977.4526.
www.thecookiejarcompany.com
At MIP-TV: Michael Hirsh (CEO,
Cookie Jar Group), Toper Taylor
(President and COO, Cookie Jar
Entertainment), Jean-Michel Ciszewski
(Senior Vice President, International
Sales and Distribution, Europe), Alison
Warner (Vice President Distribution),
Wiebke Hoefer (Director of Sales,
Germany and Eastern Europe), Ann
Austen (Senior Vice President,
Development and TV/Video Sales),
Julie Ninomiya (Vice President of Asian
Sales)
Office: R30.33,
Tel: 33.4.9299.8891
MAGI NATION
Animation (30 min)
Language: English
Co-production partners: Cookie Jar
Entertainment and Daiwon (South
Korea)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
Magi Nation follows the adventures of
15-year-old Tony Jones, whose world is
forever changed when he is mystically
transported into Magi Nation - a
beautiful world created by the Magi.
HURRAY FOR HUCKLE
Animation (30 min)
Language: English
Co-production partners: Cookie Jar
Entertainment
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
Based on the works of Richard Scarry,
Hurray for Huckle offers children an
innovative blend of humor and
learning based around six characters
who try to solve everyday life
mysteries.
SPIDER RIDERS
www.Spiderriders.com
Animation (30 min)
Language: English
Co-production partners: Cookie Jar
Entertainment, Inc. and Yomiko
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Canada
Deep within the Earth,
far away from home, Hunter
Steele is in the fight of his life. He never
planned to be a hero, but he fell into his
destiny. Now he’s an elite warrior in the
underground war to save Arachna.
THE DOODLEBOPS
www.doodlebops.com
Animation (30 min)
Language: English
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: Canada
The Doodlebops combines music and
dancing, with fun stories to help
preschoolers increase their selfconfidence, in addition to encouraging
physical activity.
JOHNNY TEST
Animation (30 min)
Language: English
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Canada
Johnny Test chronicles the adventures of
a fearless 11-year-old boy, his genetically
engineered dog, Dukey, and his genius
twin sisters who use Johnny as their
guinea pig for science experiments.
D
DIC
ENTERTAINMENT
DIC Entertainment, 4100 W. Alameda
Ave., Burbank, California 91505 USA.
Tel: 818.955.5400. Fax: 818.955.5696.
www.dicentertainment.com, email:
[email protected]
Producer, Distributor
At MIP-TV: Andy Heyward (Chairman
& CEO), Jeff Edell (President), Nancy
Fowler (Head of Global Sales), Robby
London (EVP, Creative Affairs), Leslie
Nelson (SVP, International Sales and
Managing Director, European
Operations), Dan Waite, VP
(International Sales), Ryan Gagerman
(VP, International Sales)
Office: 17:01, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.8245
SUSHI PACK
Animated Adventure (26 x 30)
Language: English
Producers: DIC, American Greetings
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Sushi Pack consists of five very brave,
unique, smart, and active tweens who
just happen to be five pieces of sushi.
five pieces of sushi to life.
DINOSAURS
Animated Adventure (26 x 30)
Language: English
Producers: DIC
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Five teens are mysteriously infected with
a pre-historic virus that spontaneously
transforms them into Dinosaurs.
HORSELAND
Animated Adventure (26 x 30)
Language: English
Producers: DIC
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006
“Horseland” is set in the greatest stable
ever where kids and their horses compete
and have adventures, and the horses and
other animals can talk to each other —
about the humans!
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE
“SWEET DREAMS”
Animated Adventure (70 mins)
Language: English
Producers: DIC, American Greetings,
Twentieth Century Fox Home
Entertanment
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
In “Sweet Dreams,” Strawberry
Shortcake has a dream of fresh new
fields of berry bushes – enough for
everyone but the Peculiar Purple Pie
Man decides to steal Strawberry?s dream
– and everyone else?s dreams, too!
DIY DO IT
YOURSELF
NETWORK
DIY Do It Yourself Network, 9721
Sherrill Blvd., Knoxville, TN 37932,
USA. Tel: 865.694.2700. Fax:
865.690.2253. www.diynetwork.com
Producer/distributor
At MIP-TV: Kristen Jordan (SVP, Int’l
Development), Anna Alvord (Director,
Int’l Development), Paulette Bensussen
(Director, Int’l Development)
Office: Stand #R33.03, Tel:
33.04.92.99.89.09
B. ORIGINAL
Lifestyle, Crafts, Educational (130 x 20’)
Language: English
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006-07, Country of
Origin: USA
Armed with power tools and an eye for
beauty in uncommon places, an eclectic
crafter creates fresh, funky home décor.
10 THINGS YOU MUST KNOW
Lifestyle, Home Improvement,
Educational (26 x 22’)
Language: English
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006-07, Country of
Origin: USA
Top experts count down the most vital
insider tips every homeowner must know
before taking on various home
improvement projects.
THE DIRT ON GARDENING
Lifestyle, Gardening, Educational
(15 x 20’)
Language: English
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A master gardener and fellow experts
address viewer questions, tackling
perplexing dilemmas that challenge
home gardeners of all skill levels.
from camera selection to picture
composition to expert printing.
MY FAMILY
Comedy (85 x 30’)
Language: English
Director: Dewi Humphreys
Producer: John Bartlett
Co-production partners: Rude Boy
Productions
Key Cast: Robert Lindsay, Zoë
Wanamaker
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
My Family focuses on the chaotic life of
the Harper family, as Ben and Susan
grapple with bringing up their three
teenage children and other assorted
extended family members.
DORO
FILMPRODUKTIONS
GMBH
DoRo Filmproduktions GmbH,
Weinzingergasse 8 / 1, A-1180 Wien,
Austria. Tel: 43.1.876.8888. Fax:
43.1.876.5500. www.doro.net,
[email protected]
Film and TV production
At MIP-TV: Katharina Amport
E
EASTWEST FILM
DISTRIBUTION
GMBH
EastWest Film Distribution Gmbh,
Schottenfeldgasse 14, Vienna, V 1070
Austria. Tel: 44.207.580.6553. Fax:
44.207.580.6554. www.eastwestdistribution.com, email: [email protected]
At MIP-TV: Alan Rudoff (Head of Sales)
Office: H4.35 - EU Media Umbrella, Tel:
44.7930572866
12 IN A BOX (TWELVE IN A BOX)
http://www.eastwestdistribution.com/film_12inabox.htm
British Comedy (94’)
DLT
ENTERTAINMENT
DLT Entertainment, 10 Bedford Square,
London, WC1B 3RA, United Kingdom.
Tel: 44.207.631.1184. Fax:
44.207.636.4571.
www.dltentertainment.com
Producer, Distributor
At MIP-TV: Don Taffner Jr (Vice
President), Clare Alter (Vice President
Cable & Home Video Sales), Elfyn
Morris (Director of International Sales)
Katherine O’Brien (Sales Executive Latin America
Office: Stand No: R31.29, Tel:
33.482.99.8864
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RELEASING INTERNATIONAL INC.
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Language: English
Director: John McKenzie
Co-Production Partners: Masses Ltd
Producer: Bruce Windwood
Key Cast: Brian Mitchell, Anjella
Mackintosh, Kenneth Collard, Katy Wix,
Paul Willamson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
At a school reunion in a remote country
house twelve people present are offred
$2m each provided they all stay in the
house for 96 hours. If one leaves, they
all lose their cash.
SHOP OF DREAMS
http://www.eastwestdistribution.com/film_shopofdreams.htm
Drama (Feelgood feature) (100)
Year of Production: 2005
Country of Origin: Estonia
Language: Estonian (English subtitles)
Director: Peeter Urbla
Co-Production Partners: Exitfilm, Silva
Mysterium OY
Producer: Anneli Ahven, Peeter Urbla
Key Cast: Maarja Jakobson, Anne
Reemann, Evelin Pang, Karol Kuntsel,
Meelis Rammeld
Delivery Status: Completed
“A film about women, work, friendship,
love and money” Three women set up a
costume shop “shop of dreams” which
provides people what they need to make
their dreams come true.
KONTAKT
http://www.eastwestdistribution.com/film_kontakt.htm
Romantic Drama Feature (95’)
Director: Macedonian or German dub
version
Language: Sergej Stanojkovski
Co-Production Partners: Busse &
Halberschmidt & Skopje Film Studio
Producer: Marcelo Busse, Markus
Halberschmidt, Tomi Salkovski
Key Cast: Nikola Kojo, Labina
Mitevska, Petar Mircevski, Vesna
Petrushevska, Gjuner Ismael
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Macedonia/Germany
With renovations near completion,
Zana’s family arrive back at the house
and can see that she has fallen in love.
As they do not approve of ex-convict
Janko, they pay him to leave and never
return.
EDUCATIONAL
ADVENTURES
Educational Adventures, 710 Wilshire
Blvd., Suite 625, Santa Monica, CA
90401, USA. Tel: 310.451.0464. Fax:
704.334.7475. www.e3a.com
Producer
At MIP-TV: Luca Bentivoglio, CEO &
President, Educational Adventures
International
DANGER RANGERS
Animation (28 min)
Producer: Educational Adventures
Delivery Status: Completed
DANGER RANGERS, an awardwinning, series whose colorful cast of
animal characters, comedy, actionadventure stories, and catchy songs
empower children to make better safety
decisions.
EM.ENTERTAINMEN
T GMBH
EM.Entertainment GmbH, Beta-Strasse
11, D-85774 Unterfoehring, Germany.
Tel: 49.89.99500.0. Fax:
49.89.99500.111. http://www.em.tv,
email: [email protected]
Distributor and Producer
At MIP-TV: EM.TV AG: Werner E.
Klatten (CEO), Dr. Andreas (Pres CFO);
EM.Entertainment GmbH: Susanne
Schosser (Managing Director),
Dominique Neudecker (Director
International Productions &
Broadcasting); Flying Bark Productions
PTY. Ltd.: tba
Office: R 29.01, Tel./Fax:
33.4.92.99.88.76
MASTER RAINDROP
Action-Adventure-Comedy; 3D and 2D
Animation (26 x 24’)
Produced by: Flux Animation Studio
Ltd., Big Communications Pte Ltd,
Flying Bark Productions PTY Ltd.
Production Status: In production,
Available end of 2007
Master Raindrop follows the journey of
martial arts novices Raindrop and his
friend Shao Yen on their quest to save
their Master Yun – and ultimately their
entire world – from the evil General Bu.
CROCO LOCO
Edutainment, English language learning;
CGI and Live-Action (24 x 12’)
Produced by: peekaboo productions
GmbH, EM.Entertainment GmbH
Production Status: In production,
Available 3 episodes; Completion April
2008
With “The Crocophone”, the three
CROCO LOCOs discover the children’s
world and they comment on what they
see in English – thereby teaching the
foreign language to the audience in a
playful way.
ZIGBY
Comedy-Adventure; 3D-Animation (52 x
11’)
Produced by: EM.Entertainment GmbH,
Flying Bark Productions PTY Ltd.,
Production Status: In production,
Completion Fall 2008
Zigby lives in a treehouse in a grand
boab tree high above Mudwater Creek
on the fringes of the jungle. And what
better place to have adventures in than a
rich, lush jungle that’s buzzing with life,
full of fun and stacked with surprises?
ENYO
Fantasy-Adventure; CGI-Animation (26
x 26’)
Produced by: Magmafilms,
Funkhauserfilm, EM.Entertainment
GmbH
Production Status: financing, Completion
Fall 2008
At the dawn of history, in a strange
world far away…a nomadic tribe called
the Doodjies journey towards an
unknown destination, with them is an
orphan boy who unfailingly asks the
wrong questions…
NO COOKIES FOR TROLLZ
(WORKING TITLE)
Adventure; 2D/ 3D-Animation (26x24’)
Developed by: ZDF, EM.Entertainment
GmbH
Production status: development
Neunauge, Feuerkopf and Siebenpunkt
are three trollz living in a forest near a
camping site.
DOGSTAR
Sci Fi Comedy; 2D Animation (26 x 26’)
Produced by: Media World Pictures Pty
Ltd, ZDF, BBC, EM.Entertainment
GmbH, Daro Film Distribution
Production Status: In post-production,
completion March 2007
Whilst Earth is being evacuated, a
spaceship with the planet’s dogs on
board has gone astray somewhere in
outer space and in order to preserve
man’s best friend, it’s now time for the
Clark kids to find them.
ESPRESSO TV
Espresso TV, 9 York Villas, Brighton BN1
3TS United Kingdom. Tel:
44(0)1273.730.929. Fax:
+44(0)1273.299.403.
www.espressotv.com, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: David Hooper (Managing
Director)
Office: Tel: 44(0)7802.779.349
CASANOVA’S LOVE LETTERS
www.casanovasloveletters.com
Docu-Drama (105’)
Language: English
Director: Mark Murphy
Co-Production Partners: URM TV
Productions
Producer: Mark Murphy
Key Cast: Patrick Bergin, Tom Frederic,
David Acton, Sophie Lovell Anderson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
A new insight into the story of Casanova,
based on his lost Love Letters. He was a
true son of the renaissance, living a
tempestuous life and the most famous
love life of all time.
CASANOVA’S LAST STAND
Feature Doc (95’)
Language: English
Director: Mark Murphy
Producer: Mark Murphy
Key Cast: Patrick Bergin, Tom Frederic,
Sophie Lovell Anderson,
David Acton, Armand Assante
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: UK
Sebastian Marr fights the Church’s
resistance to publishing Casanova’s
controversial memoirs and bring his
fascinating legacy to the world.
THE TUBE
Docu-Soap (19 x 26’)
Director: English
Language: Will Grove-White, Joyce
Trozzo and Dan Waring
Producer: Colin Luke -Mosaic Films
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
Award-winning series delving behind the
scenes of the London Underground, into
the daily lives of its staff and stations.
Discover the secrets of the oldest and yet
safest underground system in the world.
MARCO POLO: THE CHINA
MYSTERY REVEALED
History Programme (1x78’ or 3x26’)
Language: English
Director: Jonathan Finnegan
Producer: Jonathan Finnegan for
National Geographic Asia
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: China
This epic documentary carries us away
on one of the greatest overland journeys
ever attempted by man and takes us
further to the truth behind the legend.
GHOST FLEET: THE EPIC
VOYAGE OF ZHENG HE
History Programme (1x94’ or 2x47’)
Zealand/China/India/Indonesia
Language: English
Director: Jonathan Finnegan
Producer: Jonathan Finnegan for
National Geograhic Channel Asia
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Singapore/New
The compelling story of the 14th Century
Chinese admiral Zheng He. We unravel
the mystery of the vanishing fleet and
bring the past alive in an epic adventure.
FIGHTING THE BLUE
www.fightingtheblue.com
History drama-documentary (4 x 52’)
Year of Production: 2005
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
Director: Stephen Saunders
Producer: Stephen Saunders, ASA
Productions
Delivery Status: Completed
This gripping drama-documentary
explores the resilience of the human
spirit during the Battle for Britain.
FAR & WIDE
Adventure & Travel (13 x 30’)
Language: English
Director: Wayne Gibbs
Producer: Wayne Gibbs/Pandora’s Box
Television
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Australia
Fast-paced travel adventure series that
transports the viewer to far-flung places
such as Phuket, Antarctica, India, Guam
and Finland.
BECAUSE IT’S THERE
Adventure & Travel (6 x 30’)
Language: English
Director: Toby Molins
Producer: Toby Molins/Altitude
Productions
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
A true adventure travel series. The
viewer experiences danger and
excitement as they are taken from the
summits of Tibet, through storms in the
Atlantic and into the Sahara.
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SPITFIRE - THE BIRTH OF A
LEGEND
History Documentary (1 x 47’)
Language: English
Director: Stephen Saunders
Producer: Stephen Saunders
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
The Spitfire remains in our minds to this
day, the fighter aircraft that saved Britain
from invasion and defeat. Discover the
story of this legendary aircraft.
THE PLANE FACTS
Documentary Programmes (26 x 30’)
Language: English
Director: Wayne Gibbs
Producer: Wayne Gibbs/Pandora’s Box
Television
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Australia
Fast-paced series of documentary
programmes, packed with amazing
aviation stories and facts from history to
the present day.
EUROPEAN FILM
ACADEMY E.V. / EFA
PRODUCTIONS
GMBH
European Film Academy e.V. / EFA
Productions GmbH, Kurfürstendamm
225, Berlin, 10719 Germany. Tel:
49.30.887.167.0. Fax: .49.30.887.167.77.
www.europeanfilmacademy.org /
www.efa-productions.com, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Marion Döring (Managing
Director), Nikola Joetze (Junior
Producer)
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2007
(AKA 20TH EUROPEAN FILM
AWARDS)
Awards Ceremony (90 minutes) TV
broadcast
Language: international or English
Director: Volker Weicker
Co-Production Partners: ZDF / ARTE
Producer: Marion Döring
Key Cast: presenters and nominees of
the European Film Awards
Delivery Status: In Production
EVERGREEN
ENTERTAINMENT
Evergreen Entertainment, Top Floor, 49
Goodge Street, London, W1T 1TE UK.
Tel: 44.20.7580.6553. Fax:
44.20.7580.6554.
www.evergreenentertainment.tv, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Steve Walsh (Managing
Director), Adam Selly (Sales
Consultant), Donna Ng, (Sales
Executive)
Office: H4.35, Tel: 44.20.7580.6553,
Fax: 44.20.7580.6554
CAPERTOWN COPS
www.evergreenentertainment.tv
Animation (52 x 12 min)
Language: English
Director: Jeff Degrandis
Producer: Diana Gage
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2000, Country of
Origin: Canada/ Philippines
Join our quartet of warm-hearted misfits
and enjoy their madcap adventures as they
try to keep Mayor Kickback and his slimy
District Attorney from breaking the law
LENNY & TWEEK
www.evergreenentertainment.tv
Pre-school Animation (25 x 5 min)
Language: English, German and French
Director: Jurgen Egenolf
Co-Production Partners: JEP Animations
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Austria
No time for Wittgenstein? Too busy for
Schopenhauer? Then you need Lenny &
Tweek: Fun and Philosophy in five min!
TAO SHU: THE WARRIOR BOY
www.evergreenentertainment.tv
Animation (52 x 12 min or 26 x 24 min)
Director: English and French
Language: Sung Lin Gun & Carlene Tan
Co-Production Partners: Peach Blossom
Media
Producer: Sung Lin Gun & Carlene Tan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Singapore
This brilliantly colourful series is set in
ancient China and follows the amazing
adventures of Tao Shu and his alter ego Warrior Boy!
F
FILMWERKSTATT
WIEN
Filmwerkstatt Wien, Mariahilferstraße
202/41, Vienna, 1150 Austria. Tel:
43.1.945.2784. Fax: 43.1.945.2784.
www.filmwerkstatt.com, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Barbara Weissenbeck
(Producer)
Office: H 4.35, Tel: 43.650.3452784,
Fax: 33.4.9299.8597
SINGING FOR LIVING - THE
VOICES OF SOUTH AFRICA
http://www.filmwerkstatt.com/capetowno
pera.html
Documentary (1 x 52 min)
Language: English, German, French
Director: Barbara Weissenbeck
Co-Production Partners: ORF (letter of
interest)
Producer: Barbara Weissenbeck
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2007/08, Country of
Origin: Austria
A portray of some of Cape Town Opera’s
singers in their everyday lives - when
every evening after the show they return
to their homes in the townships.
READY FOR WORLD CUP 2010.
TOKIO FORTISSIMO - AN
ORCHESTRA ON TOUR IN JAPAN
http://www.filmwerkstatt.com/Symphoni
ker.html
Documentary (52 min)
Language: English, German, French
Co-Production Partners: ORF, 3SAT,
RTR Fund
Producer: Barbara Weissenbeck
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006/07, Country of
Origin: Austria
A road movie following one of Europe’s
famous symphony orchestras with the
conductor Fabio Luisi on their tour
through Japan in autumn 2006. 5 cities
and 10 concert in 14 days.
BACKSTAGE - ARE YOU READY
FOR DANCE?
www.filmwerkstatt.com/backstage.html
Filler series (30 x 5 min)
Director: English, German, French
Language: Barbara Weissenbeck
Producer: Barbara Weissenbeck
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005/06, Country of
Origin: Austria
Most of the world’s latest dance
performances introduced with excerpts
of the work & interviews with all the
choreographers.
LIFE IS A DRAMA - DRAMA FOR
LIFE
http://www.filmwerkstatt.com/when%20I
%20m%2084.html
Documentary (1 x 50 min)
Language: German, English, French
Director: Barbara Weissenbeck
Co-Production Partners: ORF, 3SAT,
BRalpha
Producer: Barbara Weissenbeck
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Austria
An amusing portrait of a group of artists
aged 80 and older living together in an
artist’s retirement home. This film
presents a new stage for these retired
artists.
Int’l Development), Paulette Bensussen
(Director, Int’l Development), Beth
Higbee (VP, Fine Living Website)
Office: Stand #R33.03, Tel:
33.04.92.99.89.09
ALL THAT’S FIT
Lifestyle, Fitness, Nutrition (26 x 20’)
Language: English
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006-07, Country of
Origin: USA
Get in shape with practical exercise
routines and expert nutritional advice,
designed for the busy person with
serious fitness goals.
I WANT YOUR JOB
Lifestyle, Documentary (13 x 20’)
Language: English
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006-07, Country of
Origin: USA
Discover the perks – and realities – of
incredible dream jobs and meet the
fortunate few paid to do what they love.
WHAT’S YOUR TIME WORTH?
Lifestyle, Educational (13 x 20’)
Language: English
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006-07,Country of
Origin: USA
Weigh the benefits of hiring out routine
chores from never-ending to-do lists to
clear valuable time to pursue your
passions.
A GUY’S GUIDE TO ROMANCE
Lifestyle, Relationships, Educational (1 x 42’)
Language: English
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Experts offer an indispensable, stressfree guide to help any man plan the
perfect romantic rendezvous with his
special someone.
FINE LIVING TV
NETWORK
FOOD NETWORK
Fine Living TV Network, 9721 Sherrill
Blvd., Knoxville, TN 37932, USA. Tel:
865.694.2700. Fax: 865.690.2253.
www.fineliving.com
Producer/distributor
At MIP-TV: Kristen Jordan (SVP, Int’l
Development), Anna Alvord (Director,
Food Network, 9721 Sherrill Blvd.,
Knoxville, TN 37932, USA. Tel:
865.694.2700. Fax: 865.690.2253.
www.foodnetwork.com
Producer/distributor
At MIP-TV: Kristen Jordan (SVP, Int’l
Development), Anna Alvord (Director,
Int’l Development), Paulette Bensussen
(Director, Int’l Development), Beth
DURHAM COUNTY - GRANADA INTERNATIONAL
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Higbee (VP, Food Network Website)
Office: Stand #R33.03, Tel:
33.04.92.99.89.09
GIADA’S WEEKEND GETAWAYS
Lifestyle, Food, Travel (26 x 21’)
Language: English
Cast: Giada De Laurentiis
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006-07
Country of Origin: USA
Giada De Laurentiis maps out
unforgettable three-day culinary
excursions as she seeks the best local
flavors in cities across America.
DINERS, DRIVE-INS & DIVES
Lifestyle, Food, Travel (10 x 21’ / 1 x
42’)
Language: English
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006-07, Country of
Origin: USA
Hit the road and sample these longfavorite icons of American eateries,
where delicious, homemade “fast food”
is making a retro comeback.
THE HUNGRY DETECTIVE
Lifestyle, Food, Travel (11 x 21’)
Language: English
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A police detective/food critic leaves his
jurisdiction and, with help from local
informants, uncovers the best-kept
secrets in U.S. eateries.
PAULA’S PARTY
Lifestyle, Food, Cooking (39 x 42’)
Language: English
Cast: Paula Deen
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006-07, Country of
Origin: USA
Paula Deen takes her homestyle recipes
out of the kitchen and prepares them in
front of an enthusiastic live audience.
FOOTHILL
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
Foothill Entertainment, Inc., 1231 State
Street, Suite 206, Santa Barbara, CA,
USA. Tel: 805.965.4488. Fax:
805.965.1168.
www.foothillentertainment.com, email:
[email protected]
Co-Production and Distribution
At MIP-TV: Jo Kavanagh-Payne
(President), Gregory Payne (Chairman),
Patricia Ryan (Executive Vice President
of Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Jo KavanaghPayne
Office: Tel (mobile): Jo Kavanagh-Payne
- 805.637.6054, Gregory Payne 805.637.3280.
HIP HOP KIDZ
www.h2kz.com
Live Action Series (60 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Donn J. Viola
Producer: Mark Bacino and Jim Green
Co-production partners: Foothill
Entertainment, Inc.
Key Cast: The Hip Hop Kidz!
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
The Hip Hop Kidz find out that a record
company is holding a contest for a real
record deal and they have two weeks to
pull together to make the best hip hop
video they can.
PLANET BIZZARO, THE WORLD
ACCORDING TO ZOOMER
www.planetbizzaro.net
Puppetry/Live Action Series (52 x 11
mins packaged as 26 half hour episodes)
Language: English
Producer: Studio Bizzaro
Co-production partners: Vision New
Media
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Singapore/Malaysia
A young Earth girl named Amber, strikes
up an on-line friendship with Zoomer, an
alien teen-age boy who happens to live
on another planet.
KID GUIDES
www.kidguides.tv
Live Action Series (13 x 25’ eps)
Language: English
Director: Ira Winkler
Producer: Ira Winkler & Brooks T.
Moore
Co-production partners: Foothill
Entertainment, Inc.
Key Cast: Matt and Britney
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Kid Guides follows our two young hosts
as they travel to the most exciting zoos,
museums, aquariums and family
destinations in the world!
BUBBLE TOWN CLUB
www.foothillentertainment.com
Animation Series (104 x 11’ eps or 52 x
25’ eps)
Language: English
Director: Brad Bower
Producer: Studio Bizzaro and Vision
Animation
Co-production partners: Foothill
Entertainment, Inc.
Key Cast: Joe Murray, Brian
Zimmerman, Chio Su Ping and Brad
Bower
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Singapore/Malaysia
This fun filled, action packed underwater
adventure series portrays the everyday
life of the adorable sea creatures from
the South China Sea’s coral reef.
SPACE CLOWNS
www.foothillentertainment.com
Animation Series (26 x 25’ eps)
Language: English
Director: Brad Bower and Brian
Zimmerman
Producer: Brian Zimmerman
Co-production partners: Studio Bizzaro
and Vision Animation
Delivery Status: TBA
Year of Production: TBA
Country of Origin: Singapore
Space Clowns follows the planethopping exploits of a zany group of
intergalactic circus clowns who find
themselves battling The Villainously Evil
Ringmaster in a non-stop pie-in-the-face
animated adventure that pokes fun at the
entire sci-fi genre.
Deioma, Roger Ridley, Ari Welkom and
Jacob Cuddemi
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Kiddo is a magical little truck with the
unique ability to become a car, a boat, a
train or a plane, to help all of his
wonderful friends in magical Sunnyside.
FRENCH
CONNECTION FILMS
French Connection Films, 12, rue
Lamartine, Paris, 75009 France. Tel:
33(0)1.40.16.11.47. Fax:
33(0)1.40.16.07.01. www.frenchcx.com
At MIP-TV: Jean-Pierre Charlochet
(assistant producer/distributor), Nathan
S. Knight (executive
producer/distributor)
Office: H4.35, Tel: 33(0)6.73.58.43.24.
Fax; 33(0)1.40.16.07.01
THE LAST TRACKERS OF THE
OUTBACK
www.frenchcx.com
Documentary (52 min)
Language: English, French
Director: Eric Ellena
Co-Production Partners: IntoMedia,
AmunRa
Producer: Eric Ellena, Vanessa Escalante
Key Cast: George Musgrave, Billy Benn,
Teddy Egan Jangala,
Tommy George, Mitjili Gibson
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget 300,000 euros
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France
This thrilling documentary will reveal
the true adventures of the last great
aboriginal trackers in the breath-taking
natural setting of the Australian Outback.
THE MISTS OF MANENGOUBA
Eco-documentary (52 min)
Language: English, French
Director: Guillaume de Ginestel, JeanThomas Renaud
Producer: Franck Sanson & Eric Ellena
Partners: CNC (National Centre French
Film), UE (Union European), RFO TV,
Ministry of Cameroon Forest, Royal
Botanic Garden
Key Cast: Martin Cheek, Bethan
Morgan, the Bakossis tribe
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget 250,000.00 euro
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France
The shoot will take place in: Cameroon,
London and Belgium
Following the steps of botanist Martin
Cheek and primatologist Bethan Morgan,
we explore the enchanting region that
surrounds Mount Manengouba - a
volcano that has stood dormant for
millenia.
WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHERS
Wildlife documentary (52 min)
Director: English, French
Language: Jean-Thomas Renaud
Co-Production Partners: Eric Ellena
Producer: Franck Sanson
Key Cast: renowned French wildlife
photographers in Kenya
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget 150,000 euros
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: France
Kenya is the land of the safiri, of the
most breath-taking creatures on the
planet. In the midst of these animals,
work two risk-taking photographers, a
husband a wife.
THE HEALING WITHIN
Medical documentary (52 min)
Language: English, French
Director: Eric Ellena
Co-Production Partners: Antoine Laokira
Producer: Franck Sanso
Key Cast: Renowned Harvard Medical
School PHDs, practitioners
of meditation techniques in Paris, cancer
survivors in
Connecticut.
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget 150,000 euros
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: France
More and more doctors are turning to
meditational and dietary regimes to help
patients recover from cancer.
CHRISTIAN DIOR
Fashion documentary (52 min)
Language: English, French
Director: Philippe Lanfranchi
Co-Production Partners: Avro
Producer: Eric Ellena, Franck Sanson
Key Cast: Friends and confidants of
Christian Dior; journalists
from epoch who wrote about and knew
Dior.
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget 200,000 euros
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: France
It’s 1947. France is in the midst of
reconstruction after the war. Although
fabrics are being rationed, a young
designer wins the world over to his
daring vision of feminine elegance.
G
GLOBAL
TELEMEDIA, INC.
Global Telemedia, Inc., 1698 Post Road
East, Suite 1B, Westport, CT 06880,
USA. Tel: 203.259.9985. Fax:
203.259.9986. www.globaltelemedia.com
Distributor
At MIP-TV: Gregory Kimmelman
(President and CEO), Anne Corsak
(Manager of Sales and Marketing)
Acquisition Executive: Gregory
Kimmelman
Office: Stand 06.25 in the Palais, Tel:
33.4.92.99.8160
BEYOND OUR BORDERS
(33 x 30 min) and (46 x 60 min)
This ongoing cultural geography series
helps viewers understand other peoples’
histories, values, and interests.
SECRET SOCIETIES
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(4 x 60 min)
Produced in 2006
Delivery Status: available for worldwide
broadcast & DVD In high definition
The United States of America has more
than 360 million inhabitants. What are
the chances that the last two presidential
candidates (Bush, Kerry) belonged to the
same secret society?
AGAINST ALL ODDS
(13 x 30 min)
Delivery Status: Available for Worldwide
Broadcast and DVD
Experience what some have called, the
modern miracles of Israel, through the
eyes of a seasoned journalist, Michael
Greenspan, and explore the question:
why has Israel survived against all the
odds?
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
(4 x 60 min)
Delivery Status: Available for Worldwide
Broadcast and DVD
Walk among the ancients in this
fascinating “you are there” series!
GLADIATORS: BLOODSPORT OF
THE COLOSSEUM
(1 x 60 min)
Delivery Status: Available for Worldwide
Broadcast and DVD
The Roman Colosseum was the setting
for more terror, agony and horror than
has ever been witnessed anywhere. A
compelling insight into the violent,
deadly world of the gladiators.
THE WORLD OF…
(27 x 60 min)
Delivery Status: available for worldwide
broadcast & DVD
M&E Tracks Available
This unprecedented series takes you to
the far corners of the globe, to explore
the secrets of nature and wildlife, the
frontiers of science and technology, the
compelling questions of history and the
world we live in.
THE DA VINCI FILES
(6 x 60 Min, Plus 1 x 90 Minute Special)
Delivery Status: Available for Broadcast
and DVD
Filmed in High Definition
Though his life and his work have been
studied over and over again, do we really
know everything there is to know about
Da Vinci?
WAR CHILD
(3 x 60 min)
Delivery Status: Available for Worldwide
Broadcast and DVD
The three one-hour episodes, filmed on
location, are designed to raise the
awareness of general international
audiences to the dangers confronting
children in current and former war zones.
The dramas were funded by Hallmark
Entertainment.
THE GARDEN
hosted by Sir Paul McCartney and
Heather Mills McCartney
Concerns a Nicaraguan girl who is
maimed by a landmine and must cope
with her disability and the revelation that
her father once laid landmines.
ABDUCTION
Hosted by Aidan Quinn
Concerns Ugandan children forced to
serve as soldiers in the Lord’s Resistance
Army.
HIS NAME IS DANIEL
Hosted by Glenn Close
Concerns ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and
Herzegovina and the use of rape as a
weapon of war.
THE FOUR TOPS, LIVE!
(1 x 64 min)
Delivery Status: Available for Broadcast
and Home Video.
Recorded on September 23, 2006 live at
the Stardust in Las Vegas! Includes band
members Abdul “Duke” Fakir, Roquel
Payton, Theo Peoples, and Ronnie
McNeir!
GOLDCREST FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
Goldcrest Films International, 65-66
Dean Street, London, W1D 4PL UK. Tel:
44(0)207.437.8696. Fax:
44(0)207.437.4448.
www.goldcrestfilms.com email:
[email protected]
Production, Sales, Distribution, Finance
& Post Production
At MIP-TV: Stephen Johnston
(President), Abigail Walsh (Director of
Sales).
Acquisition Executive: Seth Carmichael
Office: Booth 09.30, Tel: 33.49.299.8213
39 POUNDS OF LOVE
http://www.39poundsoflove.com/
Genre, Running Time: Documentary (70)
Language: English
Director: Dani Menkin
Producer: Dani Menkin
Cast: Ami Ankilewitz
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
The story of one man’s courageous
journey to show the world that anything
is possible.
IN A DAY
http://www.inadaymovie.com//
Romance (80’)
Language: English
Director: Evan Richards
Producer: Evan Richards & Rowan
Athale
Cast: Lorraine Pilkington & Finlay
Robertson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
A disturbing encounter throws two
strangers together on the path of love,
but all is not what it seems. In A Day so
much can happen.
Acquisitions) (Mobile: 852.6848.3887),
Lammy Li (Sales and Marketing
Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Clarence Tang
Office: Tel: 852.9424.5010
DUCK FIGHT
Animation
Language: Thai / English
Director: Mr. Pink (Pornchai
Hongrattanaporn)
Producer: Pantham Thongsang
Co-production partners: Tai-Saduak
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget: USD 6M
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: Thailand
His poultry farm devastated by bird flu,
Hong and his kung-fu fighting duck disguised as a rooster - win a local cockfighting competition.
OEDO ROCKET
Animation (30 mins per Epi)
Language: Japanese
Director: Seji MIZUSHIMA
Producer: MadHouse
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
A fireworks maker is convinced by a
mysterious girl to make a rocket big
enough to fly to the moon. He and his
neighbors have a heap of fun doing so.
TOKYO TRIBE 2
Animation (13 x 30 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Tatsuo SATO
Producer: MadHouse
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Japan
Two urban tribes are drawn into a war
over a gangland killing. The leaders of
the two tribes were once friends. Will
they hurt or help each other now?
THE BEAST CLAW
Animation (13 x 30 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Masaaki YUASA
Producer: MadHouse
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Japan
A young man and woman from families
with an ancient vendetta fall in love and
have to run away from persecution.
MCDULL, PRINCE DE LA BUN
78 min
Language: Chinese
Director: Brian Tse and Toe Yuen
Producer: Brian Tse
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: Hong Kong
Inspired by J.K. Rowling, Mrs Mac tries
her hand at writing. At bedtime, she tells
McDull the story she wrote although
McDull keeps asking her to read him
Harry Potter instead.
MY LIFE AS MCDULL
(75 min)
Language: Chinese
Director: Toe Yuen
Producer: Brian Tse
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002, Country of
Origin: Hong Kong
McDull is a little pig like so many
others. His daily life resolves around
school, dreams of exotic journeys, and
hopes of great sporting
accomplishment… but will McDull
become “bun snatching” Olympic
champion?
MCDULL & MCMUG TV SERIES
Animation (13 x 30 min)
Language: Chinese
Director: Brian Tse, Alice Mak
Producer: Brian Tse, Alice Mak
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1997-2001, Country
of Origin: Hong Kong
Combining creativity and laughter with
education, Mcdull and his friends of
Springfield Kindergarten make you
laugh!
PILI MARTIAL ARTS PUPPETS
SERIES: WU LIN WARRIORS
Martial Arts Puppets (28 Series, 891 Epi
(65min per Epi)
Language: Chinese
Director: Chris Huang
Producer: Chris Huang
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1999 & 2006
Country of Origin: Taiwan
In order to restore harmony at the
Mountain Top Academy, the Wulin
Warriors have to find The Seven Stars,
GOLDEN NETWORK
ASIA LIMITED
Golden Network Asia Limited, Unit
2003, Futura Plaza, 111 – 113 How
Ming Street, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong.
Tel: 852.2751.1886. Fax: 852.2750.4862.
email: [email protected]
Sales Agent
At MIP-TV: Carrie Wong (Managing
Director) (Mobile: 852.9424.5010),
Clarence Tang (Head of Sales &
THE KILLERS - 3DD ENTERTAINMENT
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cosmic fighters mysteriously connected
to the Great Dragon Constellation.
GRANADA
INTERNATIONAL
Granada International, 48 Leicester
Square, London. WC2H 7FB UK. Tel:
44(0)20.7491.1441. Fax:
44(0)20.7493.7677.
www.granadamedia.com/international,
email: [email protected]
Distributor
At MIP-TV: Nadine Nohr (Managing
Director), Tim Mutimer (Director Of
Sales), Paul Raven (Marketing Director)
Office:
THE JANE AUSTEN COLLECTION:
MANSFIELD MARK,
NORTHANGER ABBEY, EMMA
Drama (2 x 95 min, 1 x 105 min)
MANSFIELD PARK
A co-production of Company Pictures
and WGBH Boston
Lavish adaptation of Mansfield Park.
The story follows Fanny Price (Piper), as
she is taken from her life of poverty to
the sumptuous home of her aunt and
uncle.
NORTHANGER ABBEY
A co-production of Granada and WGBH
Boston
Sumptuous retelling of the Austen
classic, Northanger Abbey. Inducted into
the wealthy society of eighteenth century
Bath, Catherine attracts the attention of
two men and an invitation to stay.
EMMA
Emma is by turns a classic comedy, love
story and mystery. United Film and
Television Productions in association
with Chestermead Ltd and A&E
Network.
INSTINCT
Drama (2 x 70 or 112 min)
Cast: Anthony Flanagan (Cracker;
Vincent)
A Tightrope North production and
Ingenious for ITV
A gripping, emotionally charged
story of two very different men drawn
together in their search for love and
identity.
DURHAM COUNTY
Drama, New Series (2: 6 x 48 min)
A Muse Entertainment and Back Alley
Film co-production
Durham County is an emotionally
powerful new series that centres on
Detective Mike Sweeney (Hugh Dillon –
Assault On Precinct 13) and his family
as they move from the city to a
seemingly idyllic suburb in the hope of
making a new start.
MOBILE
Drama (4 x 50 min)
Cast: Starring Julie Graham (William
And Mary), Michael Kitchen (Foyle’s
War), John Thomson (Cold Feet),
Samantha Bond (Die Another Day) and
Keith Allen (Robin Hood).
Producer: ITV Productions
A nail-biting conspiracy drama set
against the backdrop of the Iraq war.
TO CATCH A KILLER
Drama (95 min)
Producer: Granada/GC Films coproduction in association with FFC
The powerful and moving real-life drama
about the murder of British backpacker
Peter Falconio and the traumatic ordeal
faced by his girlfriend Joanne Lees, first
in the Australian Outback and then at the
hands of the international press.
SWARM
Drama (90 min)
An Ignite Entertainment Production in
association with Granada America
Nail-biting disaster movie in which a
swarm of deadly, genetically mutated
ants overwhelm a commercial aeroplane
in mid air, destroying the aircraft and
eating the passengers alive.
AND SHE WAS
Hollywood TV Movie, 90 min
Producer: Jaffe/Braunstein Films LLC in
association with Granada America
Emmy® Award-winning actress Kirstie
Alley (Cheers; Fat Actress; Veronica’s
Closet) plays Oscar®-winning
screenwriter Byrdie Langdon in this
entertaining look at ageism in
contemporary Hollywood.
LIPSTICK
Hollywood TV Movie (90 min)
Cast: (Sarah Chalke – Scrubs)
A Grossbart Kent Production in
association with Granada America
Life-affirming movie about a young
woman determined to meet the challenge
of her breast cancer with courage–her
bright red lipstick that becomes a potent
symbol of her positive attitude.
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GRB
ENTERTAINMENT
GRB Entertainment, 13400 Riverside
Dr.Ste.300 Sherman Oaks CA 91423
USA. Tel: 818.728.7186.
Fax: 818.728.7676. www.grbtv.com
At MIP-TV: Gary R Benz (CEO),
Marielle Zuccarelli (Sr.Vice President Of
International Sales), Hud Woodle
(Director of International sales), Marine
Kzadhikyan (Account Executive
International Sales), Michael Branton
(Exec VP Creative Affairs), Brant
Pinvidic (Senior VP Development). Todd
Weinstein (VP Business Affairs and
Creative Development)
Acquisition Executive: Brenda Bisner
(Director of Acquisition)
Office: Tel: 33.04.92.99.8873
MONSTER JAM
Sports (26 x 60 min)
Produced by: Live Nation,
Distributor/Rights: GRB
Year of Production: 2007 – 2008
The USHRA Monster Jam is a thrill-asecond four-wheel drive extravaganza.
Events take place in the best Stadiums
and Arenas in North America.
IHRA
(INTERNATIONAL HOT ROD
ASSOCIATION) NITRO JAM
SERIES
Sports (23 x 60 min)
Produced by: Live Nation,
Distributor/Rights: GRB
Year of Production 2007 - 2008
Over 300 M.P.H. The most exotic race
cars on Earth! It’s Nitro! It’s fire! It’s
total desire!
WORLD SUPERCROSS GP / AMA
SUPERCROSS SERIES
Sports (34 x 60 min)
Produced by: Live Nation,
Distributor/Rights: GRB
Year of Production: 2007 – 2008
Created in 1974, Supercross has become
the premier motorcycle race series in the
world. Events are held U.S. and
International stadiums where intensely
competitive dirt race tracks are
constructed within the venues.
ARENACROSS
Sports (13 x 60 min)
Produced by: Live Nation,
Distributor/Rights: GRB
Year of Production: 2006 – 2007
The Arenacross series is the largest
indoor motorsport series in the world.
Top amateur and professional riders
compete for fame and fortune in arenas
across the United States.
DIAGNOSIS X
Scripted Reality (10 x 60 min)
Produced by: GRB, Distributor/Rights:
RGB
Year of Production: 2007
DIAGNOSIS X tells the true stories of
real doctors challenged to solve actual
medical mysteries.
BLUE ADDICTION
Sports (13 x 30 min)
Produced by: Extreme Sports Ent,
Distributor/Rights: GRB
Year of Production: 2006 - 2007
Watch in awe as the strongest waves
around the globe are conquered by the
world’s best tow-in surfers; these waves
are more than 15 ft high in some of the
deepest blue waters on the planet!
H
HARMONY GOLD
Harmony Gold, 7655 Sunset Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA.
Tel: 323.851.4900. Fax: 323.851.5599.
email: [email protected]
At MIP-TV: Frank Agrama (Chairman &
CEO), Melissa Wohl (Vice President,
Sales), Christy Pawlak (Director, Business
Development)
Office: R31.28, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.8871
HEART OF FEAR
Thriller (120 min)
Starring: Annie Wood, Brad J. Sergi, and
Brandon Bass
Year of Production: 2006
Heart of Fear is a thriller full of surprise and
suspense evolving from the heartwarming
story of a young ambitious woman and a
little boy in search of protection and love.
ROBOTECH: THE SHADOW
CHRONICLES
Sci-Fi Animated Feature (90 min) HD
Starring: Mark Hamill (Star Wars),
Chase Masterson (Star Trek)
The biggest sequel news in the history of
anime comes during the celebration of
Robotech’s 20th anniversary, its new
film The Shadow Chronicles!
ABE & BRUNO
Family (95 min)
Starring: Brad J. Sergi, Kevin Scott
Allen, Blythe Metz, Candice Rose,
Year of Production: 2006
Abe and Bruno are best friends and
roommates. Bruno is a neat freak, Abe a
regular slob.
BALL & CHAIN
Romantic Comedy (89 min)
Starring: Kal Penn, Lisa Ray, Asrani,
Sunil Malhotra, Purva Bedi, Ismail
Bashey, Johnny Kastl
Year of Production: 2006
It’s a setup! Deep in the heart of Texas,
Ameet and Saima have a problem: they
were perfectly happy avoiding each other
until their old-fashioned parents set them
up to get married.
LITTLE MISS MOONBEAM
Animated Series (26 x 4 min)
Year of Production: 2006
Love genie to the rescue!
HDH
COMMUNICATIONS
HDH Communications, Via Lusardi, 7 20122 Milano, Italy.
Tel: 39.2.5830.5949. Fax: 39.2
5830.9965. email:
[email protected],
www.hdhcommunications.it
Distributor At MIP-TV: Ms. Lucia
Robatto (Vice President Intn.l Sales),
Ms. Lisiana Bucci (Intn.l Sales)
Office:
JIM BRIDWELL, THE AMERICAN
LIVING LEGEND
Sport (60 min)
Language: English
Producer: Michele Radici
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Italy
An extraordinary documentary about the
world’s foremost alpinist of the 70s, Jim
Bridwell, and his thrilling life free
climbing on extreme rocks.
THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM:
FROM POPE JOHN PAUL II TO
POPE BENEDICT XVI
Religion (60 min)
Language: English, Italian, German,
Spanish, Polish
Producer: Vatican Television Center
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Italy
Tu es Petrus (You are Peter): in order to
ensure the Church’s continuity, John Paul
II carefully pondered on the conclave of
cardinals that would follow his death.
DOGS FROM A TO Z - NEW
EPISODES
(89 x 30 min)
Language: English, Spanish, Russian,
Japanese, French
Producer: Running TV
Year of Production: 1996-2007, Country
of Origin: Italy
An extraordinary documentary about the
world’s foremost alpinist of the 70s, Jim
Bridwell, and his thrilling life free
climbing on extreme rocks.
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HOLLYWOOD
CLASSICS
Hollywood Classics, Linton House, 3951 Highgate Road, London, NW5 1RS
UK. Tel: 44.20.7424.7280. Fax:
44.20.7428.8936.
www.hollywoodclassics.com, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Melanie Tebb (Sales
Coordinator), David Llewellyn Jones
(TV Sales Director), Steve Mackler
(Consultant)
Office: H4.35, Tel: 44.774.774.3615
TIME BANDITS
Fantasy (116 min)
Language: English
Director: Terry Gilliam
Key Cast: Sean Connery, John Cleese
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1981, Country of
Origin: UK
DORIAN BLUES
Comedy (88 min)
Language: English
Director: Tennyson Bardwell
Producer: Portia Kamons
Key Cast: Michael McMillian, Lea
Coco, Mo Quigley
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
LORD OF THE FLIES
Drama (91 min)
Director: English
Language: Peter Brook
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1963, Country of
Origin: UK
HOME & GARDEN
TELEVISION (HGTV)
Home & Garden Television (HGTV),
9721 Sherrill Blvd., Knoxville, TN
37932, USA. Tel: 865.694.2700. Fax:
865.690.2253
www.hgtv.com
Producer/distributor
At MIP-TV: Kristen Jordan (SVP, Int’l
Development), Anna Alvord (Director,
Int’l Development), Paulette Bensussen
(Director, Int’l Development), Mary
Ellen Iwata (VP, Program & Talent
Development, HGTV)
Office: Stand #R33.03, Tel:
33.04.92.99.89.09
LIVING WITH ED
Lifestyle, Docu-Soap (6 x 22’)
Language: English
Cast: Ed Begley, Rachelle Carson
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Actor/environmentalist Ed Begley’s life
is chronicled in this unscripted docusoap as he strives to put his earthfriendly passion into everyday practice.
24 HOUR DESIGN
Lifestyle, Home Décor (39 x 22’)
Language: English
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006-07, Country of
Origin: USA
A resourceful design team performs total
makeovers to challenging rooms in just
one day, providing maximum impact in
minimal time.
MAKING OF AN HGTV DESIGN
STAR
Lifestyle, Docu-Soap (4 x 22’ / 1 x 43’)
Language: English
Cast: David Bromstad
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006
Country of Origin: USA
Follow the HGTV Design Star winner as
he is thrust into the spotlight, preparing
for and shooting his new series.
COLOR SPLASH
Lifestyle, Home Décor (13 x 22’)
Language: English
Cast: David Bromstad
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006-07, Country of
Origin: USA
HGTV Design Star champion David
Bromstad transforms tired rooms into
vibrant, unforgettable spaces with colors
that compliment each homeowner’s
personality.
UP ON THE ROOF
Lifestyle, Home Décor (1 x 43’)
Language: English
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006
Country of Origin: USA
The sky’s the limit when creative
homeowners find fresh, innovative ways
to utilize the rooftops of their urban
residences.
HS MEDIA CONSULT
HS Media Consult, Wasenstrasse 29,
72135 Dettenhausen, Germany. Tel:
49.7157.620008. Fax: 49.7157.620009.
www.hsmedia-consult.de, [email protected]
Distributor
At MIP-TV: Heide Schramm (MD)
Office: H4.35 Media Marketplace Stand,
Tel: 49.172.9415939. Fax: 33.4. 9299
8597
THE GUATEMALAN HANDSHAKE
Drama (96 min)
Language: English
Director: Todd Rohal
Producer: The Universal Artificial Limb
Co.
Co-production partners: Brainbox
Productions
Cast: Will Oldham
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: U.S.A.
A feast for the senses , a challenge to the
brain is this hitchhiker’s guide to the
American hinterland. This film isn’t
afraid of anything.
SCHOOL TRIP INTO POACHERS’
TERRITORY
www.hsmedia-consult.de
Documentary (52 min)
Language: English
Director: Marcus Lenz, Ingo Rudloff
Producer: Ingo Rudloff
Cast: African children and park rangers
Delivery Status: completed
Budget: $75 000
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Germany
Village Children near the Lower
Zambesi National Park in Africa, who
traditionally hate wild animals, get the
chance to experience them with a ranger
in the National Park.
THE CHILDREN MUSICIANS OF
SAN JOSÉ
www.hsmedia-consult.de
Documentary (29 min.)
Language: German
Director: Etienne Boussac
Producer: fuego-film
Cast: Eduardo Villegas, Berliner
Symphoniker
Delivery Status: completed
Budget: $ 30 000
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Germany
Musician Eduardo Villegas founded a
music school in his native Venezuelan
village of San José. Now 8 children
musicians got a chance to tour in
Germany.
MOHAMMED ESSAD BEY - IN THE
NAME OF THE LION
www.hsmedia-consult.de
Documentary (1 hr/90 min)
Language: German, English
Director: Ralf Marschalleck
Producer: UmWeltFilm GmbH
Co-production partners: GermanAserbeidjanian Society
Cast: Mohammed Essad Bey alias
Kurban Said
Delivery Status: in production
Budget: $ 350 000
Year of Production: 2006-2007, Country
of Origin: Germany
Mohammed Essad Bey alias Kurban
Said was a stateless visionary and bestselling author who tried to find mutual
understanding of the Christian Religion
and Islam.
ASTERIX & CO - ALBERT
UDERZO’S WORLD OF COMICS
www.hsmedia-consult.de
Documentary (53 min)
Language: English
Director: Jo Müller
Producer: Egmont Ehapa Publishers
Cast: Albert Uderzo, Rene Goscinny,
Gerard Depardieu
Delivery Status: completed
Budget: $170 000
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: Germany
Albert Uderzo will be 80 in April 2007.
The characters he invented , Asterix and
his friends, continue their success story.
HUB MEDIA GROUP
PTE LTD
Hub Media Group Pte Ltd, 58 Koon
Seng Road , Singapore 426993. Tel:
65.63487627. Fax: 65.63449419.
[email protected]
Distributor / Producer
At MIP-TV: Kevin Balhetchet
(Managing Director) Jovie Saddul
(Director) Cindy Sison (Director Features)
Acquisition Executive: Jovie Saddul
SHELLDON
3D Animation Series, (26 x 24’)
Language: English
Producer: Shellhut Company
Delivery Status: 2008
Budget: $2,6M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Singapore
A Children’s animation series based on
Sea-shell characters in a world under the
sea.
JOURNEY WITH TERRY
2D animation series (26 x 24’)
Language: English
Producer: GC4
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget: $1.8M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Singapore
Children’s edutainment animation series
based on Terry a tarsier and his friends.
ANG PAMANA: THE
INHERITANCE
Supernatural Thriller (Completed
Feature)
Language: English
Director: Romeo Candido
Producer: Carolyn Mangosing
Co-production partners: GlobalReach
Canada
Cast: Darrel Gamotin, Nadine Villasin,
Phoemela Baranda, Nicco Lorenzo
Garcia
SLIP - MAVERICK GLOBAL
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Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Philippines ./ Canada
I
IFM WORLD
RELEASING INC.
IFM World Releasing Inc., 1328 East
Palmer Avenue, Glendale, California
91205, USA. Tel: 1.818. 243.4976. Fax:
1.818.550.9728. www.ifmfilm.com,
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Antony I. Ginnane
(President), Anthony J. Lyons (VP
International), David Makhlout (Director
International Sales)
Office: Palais du festival - Booth 01.02 IFTA Stand, Tel: 33.04.92.99.82.07. Cell:
61.412.982.770
MALCOLM
Comedy / Childrens (1 x 90 min)
Language: English
Country of Origin: Australia
Delivery Status: Delivery Status:
Completed
Using Malcolm’s whacky mechanical
inventions, Malcolm and Frank go on to
commit a rash of crimes. A comedy for
all the family.
8 BALL
Childrens (1 x 90 min)
Language: English
Delivery Status: Delivery Status:
Completed
Country of Origin: Australia
An artist ponders leaving a project in
order to relocate with his television
reporter girlfriend. Meanwhile, he strikes
up a friendship with an ex-convict
employed on the same project.
CELIA
Childrens (1 x 103 min)
Language: English
Delivery Status: Delivery Status:
Completed
Country of Origin: Australia
An imaginative and somewhat disturbed
young girl fantasizes about evil creatures
and other oddities to mask her
insecurities while growing up in rural
Australia.
CATERPILLAR WISH
Drama Theatrical Release (1 x 94 min)
Language: English
Written & Directed by Sandra Sciberras
Stars: Susie Porter & Wendy Hughes
Delivery Status: Delivery Status:
Completed
Country of Origin: Australian
A coastal township full of secrets. A
woman with a past. A child with
questions. A man, too afraid to love. This
winter, one wish will change everything.
NAILED
Horror / Thriller (1 x 89 min)
Language: English
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Australia
A man stumbles along a desert road in a
zombie like state with a 6 inch nail
sticking out of his forehead.
EM 4 JAY
Drama (1 x 87 min)
Language: English
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Australia
Doomed lovers Emma and Jay descend
into a criminal rampage to support their
heroin habits. Despite being madly in
love ultimately nothing can save them
from themselves.
IMAGEWORKS
ENTERTAINMENT
INT’L INC.
Imageworks Entertainment Int’l Inc.,
6140 Variel Ave., Woodland Hills, CA
91367 USA. Tel: 818.716.1670. Fax:
818.716.8004.
www.imageworksentertainment.com,
email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: David Shoshan, Joanna
Burish
Acquisition Executive: David Shoshan
Office: IFTA Pavillion: 01.02, Tel:
33(0)675.755.165. Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.8207
PLANE DEAD
http://www.imageworksentertainment.co
m/PlaneDead.htm
Sci-Fi (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Scott Thomas
Producer: David Shoshan
Cast: Kevin J. O’connor, with Erick
Avari and Richard Tyson.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: United States of America
Ominous thunderstorms trigger the
release of an undead, flesh hungry
scientist who was secretly smuggled into
the cargo-hold of 747 Jetliner.
GUARDING EDDY
www.imageworksentertainment.com
Drama / Family (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Scott McKinsey
Producer: Brian Presley
Cast: Brian Presley and Kiko Ellsworth
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
This is the true story of Eddy Patterson,
a likeable 18 year old kid who suffers
from a mental disorder.
ONE OF OUR OWN
http://www.imageworksentertainment.co
m/ooo.html
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Abe Levy
Producer: Jack Robinson, Silver Tree,
Terry Chase Chenowith
Cast: Josh Randall, Claire Rankin,
Mathew Lillard, Kate Beahan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: United States of America
Desperate to have a baby against all
odds, a thirty something couple engage a
young woman to bear their child.
THINGS YOU DON’T TELL
http://www.imageworksentertainment.co
m/tydt.htm
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Alex Melli
Producer: Bibi Ong-VanZandt, Alex
Melli
Cast: Ryan Reyes, Amanda Bauman,
Noel Thurman
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United States of America
Interweaving plots involving a psychotic
mother, a cheating husband and an
insane young man, end in a
psychological climax that will leave you
breathless.
LYCANTHROPY
http://www.imageworksentertainment.co
m/lycanthropy.htm
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Kevin McDonagh
Producer: Kevin McDonagh
Cast: George Calil, David Bradley, Freya
Archard
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
Investigating a murder, Detective Alex
Taylor infiltrates a club and discovers
that people are being slipped a drug that
makes them think they are werewolves.
MOTHER GHOST
www.imageworksentertainment.com
Drama (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Rich Thorne
Producer: Rodney Montague and Fred
Chandler
Cast: Kevin Pollak, Dana Delany, Joe
Mantegna, Garry Marshall, David Keith,
and James Franco
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
Keith’s mother passed away a year ago,
and he feels like he has moved on with
his life. Until one morning his mother’s
jewelry shows up on Keith’s bathroom
sink, the same jewelry she was buried in.
TRUCE
www.imageworksentertainment.com
Family / Western (96 min)
Language: English
Director: Matthew Marconi
Producer: James Dobbs
Cast: Buck Taylor and Samantha Droke
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
This modern-day western set in Northern
California revolves around Harry Dobbs,
who is raising his granddaughter after
her mother dies.
FINAL MOVE
http://www.imageworksentertainment.co
m/finalmove.htm
Thriller (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Joey Travolta
Producer: David Shoshan
Cast: Matt Schulze, Lochlyn Munro,
Rachel Hunter, Amanda Detmer with
Daniel Baldwin and David Carradin
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: United States of America
Dan Marlowe, a clairvoyant detective
who thought he had captured the right
man, comes out of retirement to put an
end to the game that he thought was
already won.
BOSTON STRANGLER
www.imageworksentertainment.com
Thriller (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Keith Walley
Producer: Jason Van Vleet
Cast: Mauro Lannin and Jason David
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Boston, Massachusetts, 1962. Now,
through the eyes of the killer himself, we
are taken on a sadistic journey from the
jail cell to the grave, reliving each
terrifying event one murder at a time.
MIRACLE AT SAGE CREEK
www.imageworksentertainment.com
Family / Western (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Bobby Bastarche
Producer: Thadd Turner
Cast: David Carradine, Wes Studi, Irene
Bedard
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
The Franklin and Red Eagle families are
well known rivals in the lawless Western
Frontier. When disaster strikes, these two
families will be forced to confront their
many differences as lives hang in the
balance.
THE CUTTING ROOM
www.imageworksentertainment.com
Dark Comedy (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Ian Truitner
Producer: Filipe Pimento
Cast: E.G. Daily, Weetus Cren, Mark
Elias
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
This psycho-thriller / dark comedy will
have you laughing one second and
jumping out of your seat the next.
THE 8TH PLAGUE
www.imageworksentertainment.com
Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Frank Guerrero Jr.
Producer: Eric Willford and J. Michael
Whalen and Frank Guerrero JR.
Cast: Syn Devil, Terry Jernigan and Paul
Bugelski
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Relentless terror, gore, and bone-chilling
thrills are the first signs of The 8th
Plague.
DARK HEART
http://www.imageworksentertainment.co
m/DarkHeart.htm
Drama (103 min)
Language: English
Director: Kevin Lewis
Producer: Steven Nash
Cast: Greg Joelson, Darcy Halsey, R.D.
Call, Nick Cornish, Brian Howe, William
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Dennis, Hurley Huntley
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: United States of America
Upon returning from the Iraq War, Matt
Taylor is unable to recognize the
hometown he left behind. Leaving one
war for another, he is forced to conquer
his own inner demons, as well as those
of his countrymen.
BLUR
www.imageworksentertainment.com
Thriller (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Nick Briscoe
Producer: Nick Briscoe, Michael
Sorvino, Charlie Pasquale
Cast: Salvator Xuereb, Michael Sorvino
and Wendy Carter
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
An artist toils in preparation for the
biggest gallery opening of his career. The
creative process takes him deep into the
depths of his mind, where he begins to
experience premonitions of a terrible
fate.
LAKE CONSEQUENCE
www.imageworksentertainment.com
Drama
Language: English
Director: Rafael Eisenman
Producer: Avram Kaplan
Cast: Billy Zane, and Joan Severance
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1993, Country of
Origin: USA
Irene has her life thrown in a spin when
she becomes attracted to Billy, a member
of a landscape crew outside her house.
IMAGINA
INTERNATIONAL
SALES
Imagina International Sales, Calle
Génova 21 7º DCHA, 28004 Madrid,
Spain. Tel: 34.91.308.22.60. Fax:
34.91.310.09.59. www.imaginasales.tv,
email: [email protected]
Distributor
At MIP-TV: José Huertas (CEO)
[email protected], Geraldine Gonard
(Sales Director) Mobile:
34.686.95.95.21, Laura Miñarro (Sales
Manager) Mobile: 34.686.95.95.20,
Naomi Denamur (Sales Executive)
Mobile: 34.686.95.95.22, Javier Méndez
(Head of New Media) Mobile:
34.690.62.13.45, Lorena Molloy
(Marketing Manager) Mobile:
34.669.42.94.97
Office:
SMS
School Series (185 x 25’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Guillermo Fernández Goizard,
Javier Jiménez, Rafael Carvajal and
Marco Castillo.
Producer: Ernesto Pozuelo And Carmen
Ortiz
Cast: Amaia Salamanca, Raúl Peña, Aroa
Jimeno, María Castro, Yon González,
Guillermo Barrientos, Mario Casas,
Antonio Hortelano, Virginia Rodríguez,
Pablo Penedo, Lola Marceli, Javier
Albalá, Jesús Ruyman, Alejandra Torray,
Joseph Linuesa.
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2006-2007
Country of Origin: Spain
A daily series, set in a private school,
narrating the life of a group of rich, posh
young adults whose existence is altered
by the arrival of a new classmate who
has just left a reformatory.
CROSSING BORDERS (UN
FRANCO, 14 PESETAS)
www.unfranco14pesetas.com
Drama (96’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Carlos Iglesias
Producer: Susana Maceiras, Mario
Pedraza
Co-Production Partners: TVG
Cast: Carlos Iglesias, Javier Gutiérrez,
Nieve de Medina and Isabel Blanco
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Spain
Spain, 1960. Two friends decide to look
for jobs in Switzerland.
RED & WHITE
Documentary (26’)
Language: Spanish
Director: José Joaquín Brotons
PRODUCER: Iñigo Pérez Tabernero y
Mariano Rodríguez
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Spain
‘’Red & White’’ is a documentary about
the fiesta of Saint Fermin on the 7th of
July in the city of Pamplona.
HIT IT OR BEAT IT
Quiz Show (1250 X 50’)
Language: Spanish
Producer: Patxi Alonso
Host: Carlos Sobera
Delivery Status: In production
Year of Production: 2001, Country of
Origin: Spain
Hit or Beat It are 50 minutes fast paced
daily quiz show in which 5 women and 5
men compete against each other in
various rounds of general knowledge
questions during a whole week.
THINGS THAT HAPPENS (COSES
QUE PASSEN)
TV movie Drama (90’)
Language: Catalan/Spanish/English
subtitles
Director: Silvia Munt
Producer: Ovideo
Cast: Silvia Munt, Julio Manrique,
Mariola Ruiz
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Spain
A fashion designer opens up her shop in
a neglected neighbourhood of a big
town, attracted by the bohemian
atmosphere of the district, which is
undergoing a regeneration process
causing deep city planning and social
changes.
INTRAMOVIES SRL
Intramovies SRL, Via E. Manfredi 15,
00197 Rome, Italy. Tel: 39.06.807.61.57.
Fax: 39.06.807.61.56.
www.intramovies.com www.intramovies.org, email:
[email protected]
Sales agent
At MIP-TV: Paola Corvino (C.E.O.),
Micaela Fusco(VP International Sales),
Federica Mei(Director of Tv Sales)
Office: Espace RIVIERA Italian
Pavillion - Stand # R.36.17
RUDOLF NUREYEV AT “LA
SCALA”
Documentary (70 min)
Language: Italian with English Subtitles
Director: Dino and Claudio Risi
Producer: Alexandra della Porta Rodiani
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: ITALY
Thirty years of history and emotions.
Rudolf Nureyev lives again in the
unpublished images from La Scala
archives and in the memories of friends
and partners.
DAILIES – END TITLE
Documentary (90 min)
Language: Italian with English Subtitles
Director: Riccardo Paoletti
Producer: Marco Belardi
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: ITALY
A documentary on Italian Cinema seen
through the eyes of all the technicians
that no one knows.
ASSUNTA SPINA
Drama (2 x 100 min)
Language: Italian with English Subtitles
Director: Riccardo Milani
Producer: Titanus
Co-production partners: Rai
Cast: Michele Placido, Bianca Guaccero,
Lina Sastri
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: ITALY
Naples 1909. Urged on by her father
who is too poor and too desperate,
Assunta is torn between the love of three
men.
BEFORE YOU KNOW IT
Comedy (100 min)
Language: Italian with English Subtitles
Director: Ivan Polidoro
Producer: Movie Factory
Cast: Lorenza Indovina, Gianfelice
Imparato, Gianni Ferreri,
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: ITALY
In the attempt to make ends meet and
find distraction from their daily life, our
three heroes play their music now and
then in the town clubs, with no success.
One day everything changes.
ISTITUTO LUCE
Istituto Luce, Via Tuscolana 1055, 00173
Rome, Italy. Tel: 39.06.7299.2213. Fax:
39.06.722.2493. www.luce.it, email
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Cristina Cassano
Office: Italian Pavillon - Riviera 36.17,
mobile: 39.320.7678.693
FOREVER VESPA
Documentary (52’)
Directed by Pippo Cappellano and
Marina Cappabianca
Version available: Italian and Italian with
English subtitles
Produced by Capmar Studios, Istituto
Luce and RAI Educational
Exactly 60 years after its arrival on the
scene, Vespa is still a cult object
worldwide even for the younger
generations, a vehicle capable of
changing its look while keeping its own
familiar design.
RUDY
(52’)
Documentary Rodolfo Valentino
Version available: Italian and Italian with
English subtitles
Directed by Andrea Bettinetti
Produced by: Good day Film, Luce, Fox
History Channel Italy, Avro, RTI.
The life and career of Rudolph Valentino
as the first ever pop-icon of the mass
media era in the roaring 1920’s.
THE TRAGEDY OF THE
BATTLESHIP ROMA
Documentary (55’)
Version available: Italian and Italian with
English subtitles
Directed by Leonardo Tiberi
Produced By: Istituto Luce and Fox
History Channel Italy
The tale of the tragedy of the battleship
Roma told for the first time after 63
years by 15 contemporary witnesses,
including the son and daughter of the
GABON - NGTI
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fleet commander, Admiral Bergamini.
BELLISSIME – SIMPLY
BEAUTIFUL
Documentary (124’)
Version available: Italian and Italian with
English subtitles
Directed by Giovanna Gagliardo
Produced by: Istituto Luce
Depicts history’s crucial events with
female sensitivity and emotiveness.
PADRE PIO
Documentary (42’)
Directed By: Massimo My
Produced By: Mymax Edutainement
Prophet, diviner, stigmatist, sufferer,
mystic – many things - and their
opposites - were said about him.
J
JANSON MEDIA
Janson Media, 88 Semmens Road,
Harrington Park, New Jersey 07640
USA. Tel: 201.784-8488.
Fax: 201.784-3993.
www.janson.com, email:
[email protected]
Company Type: Distributor
At MIP-TV: Stephen Janson (President),
Zara Janson (VP), Betsy Van Ost
(Director of DVD Sales), Lynne
Warshavsky (Int’l Sales)
Office:
CHEF’S A’FIELD: CULINARY
ADVENTURES THAT BEGIN ON
THE FARM
Cooking (26 x 30 min)
Language: English
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: United States
This series explores the vital
relationship between great chefs and
their food sources.
CHO OYU: WEST OF EVEREST
Adventure (1 x 52 min)
Language: English
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: United States
Follow a team of climbers and
experience firsthand the harsh reality of
expedition life as they attempt to climb
Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in
the world.
CHEF’S STORY
Cooking (26 x 30 min)]
Language: English
Delivery Status: (completed)
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United States
Following a format inspired by Inside
the Actor’s Studio, each half-hour
program of Chef’s Story focuses on a
master chef whose life, work, and
evolution as a food legend is thoroughly
explored.
RACEHOSS
Biography (1 x 120 min)
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003
Country of Origin: United States
Acclaimed filmmaker Sean Hepburn
Ferrer (the son of iconic Hollywood
actors Audrey Hepburn and Miguel
Ferrer) presents the life story of former
convict turned do-gooder Albert Race
Sample in the 2003 biographical
documentary Racehoss.
FREQUENCY: A MUSIC SERIES
HOSTED BY DAVE KOZ
Music (13 x 30 min)
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006
Country of Origin: United States
From Hip-hop to jazz, rock to country,
Frequency showcases artists from all
major music genres. Each episode
includes a special guest appearance —
an interview with Dave Koz followed by
a unique duet performance.
JEP ANIMATION
JEP Animation, Schillerst. 6, 50968
Cologne, Germany.
Tel: 49.221.93474525.
Fax: 49.221.93474511.
www.jep-animation.de,
[email protected]
Production Company
At MIP-TV: Juergen Egenolf
(Managing Director)
Office: The Marketplace,
Tel: 49.170.3162210
THE CITY FARM HOTEL
Animated Sitcom (26 x 24 min)
Language: German / english
Director: Juergen Egenolf
Producer: Juergen Egenolf
Delivery Status: in development
Budget: ¤ 4.5 Mio
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: Germany
The City Farm Hotel, a little corner of
the country in the centre city centre run
by people and… animals.
FIENDISH FRED
Animated TV Series (26 x 24 min)
Language: German / english
Director: Dietmar Kremer
Producer: Juergen Egenolf
Co-production partners: Your Family
Entertainment YFE
Delivery Status: in development
Budget: ¤ 5.2 Mio
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: Germany
Little devil Fred is told to get the hell out
of hell, and banished to our world…
until he can complete 666
wicked deeds.
THE HILL MILL
Animated TV Series (26 x 10 min)
Language: German / english
Director: Rudi Mertens
Producer: Juergen Egenolf
Delivery Status: in development
Budget: ¤ 2.5 Mio
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: Germany
In the mill on the hill live Janet,
Wendell and Tito. When Wendell goes
out of the door, sanity goes out of the
window. Not possible? Believe it,
because at Hill Mill everything is
possible!
K
KELLER
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP
Keller Entertainment Group, 1093
Broxton Avenue, Suite 246 Los Angeles,
90024 USA. Tel: 310.443.2226.
Fax: 310.443.2226.
www.kellerentertainment.com
Producer
At MIP-TV: Max Keller (CEO),
Micheline Keller (President)
Acquisition Executive: Max Keller
Office: c/o IFTA, MIPTV 2007, Stand
01.02, Palais Des Festival, Cannes,
France. Tel: 04.92.99.8207
EYE FOR AN EYE
www.eyeforaneye.com
Reality Based series (30 min. x 157)
Language: English
Director: Ken Smith
Producer: Scott Kirkpatrick, Ken Smith
Co-production partners: National
Lampoon, Atlas Worldwide.
Key Cast: Judge Akim
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Judge “Extreme” never awards his
litigants money, instead he offers
payback of monumental proportions.
1362 THE KENSINGTON ENIGMA
Documentary (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Ed Larson
Writer: Ed Larson
Producer: Ed Larson, Nicholas Geist
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Long before Columbus set sail,
Norsemen established settlements in
North America.
KINOWELT
INTERNATIONAL
GMBH
Kinowelt International GmbH, KarlTauchnitz-Str. 10, Leipzig, 04107
Germany. Tel: 49.341.355.960.
Fax: 49.341.355.96419.
www.kinowelt-international.de,
email: [email protected]
At MIP-TV: Stelios Ziannis (Head of
World Sales), Rainer Kölmel (Buyer),
Michael Kälmel (Buyer), Anja Uecker
(Director Sales)
Office: German Films Umbrella Stand
O1.15
OBSESSION
Drama (100’)
Language: English
Director: Peter Sehr
Producer: Wolfgang Esterer
Key Cast: Daniel Craig, Heike
Makatsch, Charles Berling
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1997, Country of
Origin: Germany, France
A tale of two passions. In the sprawling
evolving metropolis Berlin, a trumpet
player named Myriam lives with Pierre
and loves him dearly. She’s also
irresistibly attracted to John.
THE HELMA SANDERS-BRAHMS
COLLECTION
Drama
Language: German
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms
Co-Production Partners: Helma Sanders
Filmproduktion
Producer: Helma Sanders-Brahms
Key Cast: Eva Mattes, Ursula von Berg,
Hildegard Knef, Dominik Bender
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget 10 Mio.
Year of Production: 1975-1996, Country
of Origin: Germany
Kinowelt International proudly present
twelve of the most important and
interesting movies by Helma SandersBrahms.
ASTERIX TV AND DVD
COLLECTION
Animation
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1968-1994, Country
of Origin: France
Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt, wants to
impress Caesar and so she makes a bet
with him: She will have a magnificent
palace built to perfection In only three
months.
THE ALEXANDER KLUGE
COLLECTION
Language: German
Director: Alexander Kluge
Key Cast: Alexander Kluge, Jutta
Hoffmann, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Juergen
Prochnow
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 1966-1986, Country
of Origin: Germany
As a tribute to Alexander Kluge
Kinowelt International will release a
fully restored DVD Collection of 13
Alexander Kluge films available as well
for TV.
THE MICHAEL VERHOEVEN
COLLECTION
Language: German
Director: Michael Verhoeven
Co-Production Partners: Sentana
Filmproduktion GmbH
Producer: Michael Verhoeven
Key Cast: Monika Baumgartner, Lena
Stolze, Peter Matic, Juergen Prochnow
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1982-2006, Country
of Origin: Germany
A collection of great movies by the 2007
- Life Time Achievement Award Winner
Michael Verhoeven.
THE FASSBINDER COLLECTION
Drama
Language: German
Director: Rainer Wener Fassbinder
Key Cast: Armin Müller-Stahl; Barbara
Sukowa; Helga Feddersen; Mario Adorf
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 1973.1881, Country
of Origin: Germany
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WILLIAMS
ASSOCIATES
KWA – Kevin Williams Associates, C/
Galeon nº32 Bajo A , 28042 Madrid,
Spain. Tel: 34 91.747.31.00.
Fax: 34 91.747.70.00.
www.kevinwa.com, email:
[email protected]
Sales Agent
At MIP-TV: Kevin Williams (President)
Acquisition Executive: Kevin Williams
Office: 01.02, Tel: 04.92.99.8207
LA CAJA (THE WOODEN BOX)
Comedy (112 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Juan Carlos Falcón
Producer: Aiete Ariane
Cast: Angela Molina, Elvira Mínguez,
Antonia San Juan
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Spain
Satirical black comedy takes the
vaudeville gag of the Body in the
coffin to create a social statement
of the end of dictatorship.
LA ULTIMA MIRADA
(THE LAST GAZE)
www.laultimamirada.com
Drama (90 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: Patricia Arriaga
Producer: Nao Films
Co-production partners: IMCINE
Cast: Sergi Mateu, Marisol Centeno and
Arcelia Ramírez
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Mexico
The story of a man losing his sight
surrounded by beautiful women.
LA PIEL VENDIDA (SKIN FOR
SALE)
Documentary (90 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: Vicente Pérez-Herrero
Producer: Tiempos Difíciles
Cast: Bibian Norai, Nacho Vidal,
Anastassia Mayo
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Spain
Extraordinary insight into the
crepuscular underworld that is the porn
industry from the point of view of the
actors. Shot in Barcelona – European
capital of porn!
LOCOS POR EL SEXO (CRAZY
SEX)
www.locosporelsexolapelicula.com
Comedy (90 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: Javier Rebollo
Producer: Lan Zinema
Co-production partners: Amboto
Audiovisual
Cast: Jordi Vilches, Karra Elejalde and
Inma del Moral.
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006,
Country of Origin: Spain
For their therapy the inmates
of a mental institution get a day trip to a
bordello!
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LA SILLA (THE CHAIR)
Drama (97 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: J. D. Wallovits
Producer: Eddie Saeta
Cast: Francesc Garrido, Ulises Dumont,
Francesc Orella
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Spain
Set on an monotone industrial estate, the
allegory of modern-day alienation turns
on a man who sets his heart on acquiring
a chair from a bric-a-brac shop.
His only identifiable passion will prove
his undoing.
DIAS DE AGOSTO
(AUGUST DAYS)
www.diesdagost.com
Road Movie (93 minutes)
Language: Catalan
Director: Marc Recha
Producer: BENECE
Cast: David Recha, Marc Recha,
Mariona Ordoñez
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Spain
Contemplative movie on the pleasures of
summertime and storytelling by Marc
Recha whose previous movie was
selected in Cannes.
SE ARRIENDA (FOR RENT)
Drama (109 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Alberto Fuguet
Producer: Goa Films
Cast: Luciano Cruz Coke, Francisca
Lewin, Felipe Braun
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Chile
Young and successful 80’s rock star
struggles to get by 15 years later made
worse by his friends from before having
found success.
AR MENO UN QUEJIO (IF ONLY A
LAMENT)
Music Documentary (80 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Fernando de France
Producer: Eddie Saeta
Cast: Vicenta Ndongo, Chico Ocaña
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Spain
A young couple discover how to enjoy
life through the Flamenco music of the
group Martires del Compás.
LA CASA DE MI ABUELA (MY
GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE)
Documentary (80 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Adán Aliaga
Producer: IB Cinema
Co-production partners: Salto de Eje
Cast: Marina Fuentes, Marita Pastor.
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Spain
Looks into the peculiar relationship
between Marina, an impulsive and
irreverent 6-year old girl, and Marita, her
75 year old grandmother.
L
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LAKESHORE
INTERNATIONAL
Lakeshore International, 9268 West
Third Street, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
USA. Tel: 310.867.8000.
Fax: 310.300.3015.
At MIP-TV: David Dinerstein (President,
Marketing and Distribution), Julie Sultan
(Vice President, International Sales),
Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard Rose
(Vice President, International Sales)
Office: 07.08, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.8301
AMAZING GRACE
Drama (111 min)
Director: Michael Apted
Producers: Edward Pressman, Terrence
Malick, Patricia Heaton, David Hunt,
Ken Wales
Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai,
Ciarin Hinds, Rufus Sewell, Youssou
N’Dour with Michael Gambon and
Albert Finney
Country of Origin: UK
In the late 18th Century, a young British
politician’s life is changed forever after a
chance meeting with an ex-slave
convinces him to launch a nationwide
movement to abolish slavery.
THE MISSING STAR
Drama (103 min)
Director: Gianni Amelio
Producer: Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni
Stabilini, Marco Chimenz
Cast: Sergio Castellitto, Tai Ling
Country of Origin: Italy
An Italian engineer arrives in China, desperate
to warn others of a potential problem with a
blast furnace recently sold to them.
BOYNTON BEACH CLUB
Drama (105 min)
Director: Susan Seidelman
Producer: Florence Seidelman, Susan
Seidelman
Cast: Joseph Bologna, Dyan Cannon,
Len Cariou, Sally Kellerman, Michael
Nouri, Brenda Vaccaro
Country of Origin: USA
“Boynton Beach Club” is a romantic
comedy about our amazing capacity to
rebound and fall in love…. at any age.
WORLD’S GREATEST MAGIC I-V
Magic (1 x 120 min)
Cast: Hosted by John Ritter with World
Class Magicians
Availability: Now
Be prepared to be astounded as the
world’s greatest magicians gather and
create a magic show that will amaze and
excite all audiences. 18 magicians from
around the world perform their best on
stage.
SHORT STORY CINEMA
Short Film Series (58 x 30 min)
Cast: Brad Pitt, Tobey Maguire, Uma
Thurman
Availability: Now
Short Story Cinema bravely takes the art
of the short story and raises it to new
cinematic heights. Featured among the
tiles is “Leibermann in Love”, winner of
an Academy Award® for Best
Achievement in a Live Action Short
Film.
AUTUMN IN NEW YORK
Drama (106 min)
Cast: Richard Gere, Winona Ryder,
Anthony LaPaglia
Availability: Now
When a wealthy NYC playboy meets a
beautiful art student, he’s drawn into a
passionate affair. When he tries to end it,
he discovers her dark secret – she is
dying of a terminal illness.
THE GUNRUNNER
Action/Adventure Feature (83 min)
Cast: Kevin Costner, Sara Botsford, Paul
Soles, Gerard Parkes
Availability: Now
It’s 1926 and drifter Ted Beaubien gets
mixed up in a deadly mission during the
Chinese Civil War. After his girlfriend is
executed, he vows to get revenge by
becoming a gunrunner.
FAMOUS HOMES AND
HIDEAWAYS
Celebrity Series (72 x 30 min)
Cast: Hosted by Donna Hanover
Availability: Now
Get up-close-and-personal with the
biggest stars in Hollywood. From home
tours and hot properties, to hidden
hideaways and postcards from paradise,
this fast-paced show gives new meaning
to “living large”.
SKOOLED - OHMTV
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LATO SENSU
PRODUCTIONS
LATO SENSU Productions, 5 rue des
nouvelles écoles 69290 Grézieu la
Varenne, France. Tel: 33.4.7844.6235.
www.latosensu.tv, email:
[email protected]
Producer
At MIP-TV: Muriel BARRA (Producer),
Sylvain BRAUN (Director)
Office: H4.35, Tel: 33.4.9299.8596. Fax:
33.4.9299.8597
THE CHANGEMAKERS
Documentary Series
Language: English, French
Director: Sylvain BRAUN
Producer: Muriel BARRA
Delivery Status: developement
Budget: 300 000 $
Country of Origin: France
This documentary series (short or length
format) present men and women through
the planet who develop companies which
go in the good direction, environmentally
and socially speaking.
LIFESIZE
ENTERTAINMENT
Lifesize Entertainment, 194 Elmwood
Dr., Parsippany, NJ, 07054, U.S.A. Tel:
973.884.4884. Fax: 973.428-9550.
www.lifesizeentertainment.com, email:
[email protected]
Company Type: Distributor/Sales Agent
At MIP-TV: Bruce Frigeri (President),
Marc Hughes (Sales & Acquisitions
Manager)
Office: Booth # 06.27
AMERICAN CANNIBAL
www.american-cannibal.com
Feature Documentary (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael Nigro & Perry Grebin
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A brutal Survivor-style reality show
produced by Kevin Blatt was shut down
suddenly in September 2005. This film
documents the human cost of popular
entertainment.
THINGS TO DO
www.thingstodomovie.com
Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Theodore Bezaire
Producer: Gerry Lattman
Cast: Mike Stasko, Daniel Wilson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
An unstable and indifferent office
worker, Adam Stevenson, leaves his job
and escapes to his childhood home to
reevaluate his “life strategy”.
SHAKING DREAM LAND
www.shakingdreamland.com
Drama, 91 min
Language: English
Director: Martina Nagel
Producer: Katrina Moss
Cast: Philip Winchester, Jesper
Christensen, Cloudia Swann
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
Robert (Philip Winchester, Flyboys) and
Alice (Cloudia Swann) are the ‘perfect
couple’. But the moment they get
pregnant, dark secrets from Robert’s
childhood fly unbidden into the present
and threaten to destroy their future.
LIGHTNING
ENTERTAINMENT /
MAINLINE
RELEASING
Lightning Entertainment / Mainline
Releasing, 301 Arizona Avenue, Suite
400, Santa Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel:
310.255.1200 ext. 208. Fax:
310.255.1202. www.lightning-ent.com,
email: [email protected]
Company Type: Sales Agent
At MIP-TV: Mathilde Aupetite (Director,
International Sales)
Office: Stand R30.31, Tel:
334.9299.8847
BICKFORD SCHMECKLER’S
COOL IDEA
Comedy (79 min)
Language: English
Director: Scott Lew
Producer: Paul & Christ Weitz
Cast: Patrick Fugit (Almost Famous,
Saved), John Cho (Harold & Kumar Go
To White Castle), Cheryl Hines
(Turistas), Matthew Lillard (Scooby
Doo, Scream),Olivia Wilde
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: US
This sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll
comedy is about a young man who has
hidden himself away in a world of brainmelting, intellectually grandiose ideas.
COUGAR CLUB
Comedy (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Christopher Duddy
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Cast: Joe Mantegna, Faye Dunaway (The
Rules Of Attraction, Changing Hearts),
Loretta Devine (Dreamgirls), Warren
Cole, Jason Jurman, Izabella Scorupco
(Exorcist: The Beginning)
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: US
When Spence and Hogan graduate from
college, life looks bleak. They are forced
to work for hideous divorce lawyers that
torture them constantly.
THE DARK HOUR (LA HORA
FRIA)
Sci-fi / horror (92 min)
Language: Spanish w. English subtitles
Director: Elio Quiroga
Cast: Omar Muñoz, Jorge Casalduero,
Julio Perillán, Nadia de Santiago, Marco
González, Carola Manzanares, Pepo
Oliva, Pablo Scola, Sergio Villanueva
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006
A group of eight people live isolated in
crumbling installations.
street racing.
LIONSGATE
Lionsgate, 2700 Colorado Avenue, Suite
200, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA. Tel:
1.310.255.3700. Fax: 1.310.255.3880.
www.lionsgate.com/tv/, email:
[email protected]
Distributor/Syndication/Rights Holder
At MIP-TV: Kevin Beggs (President,
Television Programming & Production),
Craig Cegielski (SVP, Programming &
Sales, International Television), Amanda
Cordner Director (International
Television Sales), Sandra Stern (Chief
Operating Officer, Television), Teri
Fleming (Director, Marketing
International Television), Tori Crotts
(Coordinator, International Television
Sales & Marketing), Ken Katsumoto
(Executive Vice President, Family
Entertainment), Rand Stoll (Executive
Vice President, Television Sale)
Office: LR 1.02
MADMEN
Drama (13 x 60 min Season 1)
Language: English
Cast: John Slattery, Elisabeth Moss,
January Jones, Vincent Kartheiser,
Christina Hendricks, Jon Hamm, Maggie Siff
Country of Origin: USA
A cinematic drama set in the world of
1960’s Madison Avenue and will follow
the professional lives, social mores and
sexual exploits of ad execs at a time
when the industry was at its height of
glamour, power and prestige.
KILL PIT
Drama/Action (8 x 60 min. Season 1)
Language: English
Cast: John Leguizamo, Donnie Wahlberg
Country of Origin: USA
When a bank heist goes terribly wrong, a
group of ex-military robbers take
hostages and initiate a season long
standoff with the authorities.
WEEDS
Drama/Comedy (10 x 30 min. Season 1,
12 x 30 min. Season 2, 15 x 30 min.
Season 3)
Language: English
Cast: Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth
Perkins, Tonye Patano, Romany Malco,
Justin Kirk, Hunter Parrish, Alexander
Gould, Kevin Nealon, Martin Donovan
Country of Origin: USA
A modern dramedy about a suburban
mom who becomes the neighborhood
marijuana dealer as a way to support her
family after the sudden death of her
husband.
THE LOST ROOM
Sci-Fi - Limited Series/ 3 x 120 min.
Language: English
Cast: Peter Krause, Julianna Margulies,
Roger Bart, Elle Fanning
Country of Origin: USA
When homicide detective Joe Miller
stumbles upon a seemingly innocuous
motel room key, he unlocks the door to a
world of unimaginable power and
becomes the target of those who are
willing to stop at nothing to claim it.
THE DRESDEN FILES
Drama (11 x 60 min. Season 1)
Language: English
Cast: Paul Blackthorne, Valerie Cruz,
Rebecca McFarland
Country of Origin: USA
Based on the best selling “Dresden
Files” novels by Jim Butcher, Dresden
Files tells the story of Harry Dresden, a
Chicago-based private detective with
extraordinary abilities.
THE LITTLE FILM
COMPANY
The Little Film Company, 12930 Ventura
Blvd. #822, Studio City, CA 91604 USA.
www.thelittlefilmcompany.com, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Clay Epstein (VP Sales and
Acquisitions) 44.7730.396.260.
Office: IFTA Stand No. 01.02
BLINDSIGHT
www.blindsightthemovie.com
Feature (Documentary)
Language: English, Tibetan
Director: Lucy Walker
Producer: Sybil Robson Orr
Key Cast: Sabriye Tenberken, Erik
Weihenmayer
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK/Tibet
Set against the breathtaking backdrop of
the Himalayas, Blindsight follows the
gripping adventure of six Tibetan
teenagers on a climbing expedition up
the northside of Mount Everest.
PROTÉGÉ
www.protegethemovie.com
Feature (Crime/Thriller)
Language: Chinese
Director: Derek Yee
Producer: Peter Chan
Key Cast: Andy Lau, Daniel Wu, Zhang
Jingchu, Louis Koo
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Hong Kong
Special agent Nick (Daniel Wu), is deep
undercover in the heart of Asia’s
lucrative crime trade as he plays protégé
to one of the key players in the game,
“Banker” (Andy Lau).
CUT OFF
Feature - Action/Thriller
Language: English
Director: Gino Cabanas
Producer: Gino Cabanas
Key Cast: Amanda Brooks, Thomas Ian
Nicholas, Kurupt, Malcolm McDowell,
Ann Archer, and Faye Dunaway.
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, County of
Origin: USA
Patricia is a beautiful young girl stuck in
a dead end job, living in the smallest
trailer in the trailer park. But when her
dream turns into a nightmare, she
realizes that her real life isn’t so bad
after all.
STONE’S WAR
Feature (Action/Adventure)
Language: English
Director: Marko Makilaakso
Producer: Barr Potter
Key Cast: James Van der Beek
Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008
Captain Martin Stone is leading a finelytrained, elite platoon of American &
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Finnish soldiers as they attack an enemy
bunker.
BROADWAY: THE GOLDEN AGE
www.broadwaythemovie.com
Feature (Documentary)
Language: English
Director: Rick McKay
Producer: Albert M. Tapper & Rick
McKay
Key Cast: Carol Burnett, Shirley
MacLaine
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
“Broadway” is the most important,
ambitious and comprehensive film ever
made about America’s most celebrated
indigenous art form.
LOMBARDO FILMS
Lombardo Films, Tengstrasse 22, D80798 München. Germany. Tel:
49.89.216.676.36. Fax:
49.89.216.676.37.
http://www.lombardofilms.com, email:
[email protected]
Producer Distributor
At MIP-TV: Lara Juliette Sanders
(Director, Producer), Olivier Lombardo
(Procurist)
Acquisition Executive: Lara Juliette
Sanders
Office: Media Stand, Tel:
49.171.796.33.75
CELEBRATION OF FLIGHT
www.celebration-of-flight.com
Documentary film (78 min)
Language: English
Director: Lara Juliette Sanders
Producer: Lara Juliette Sanders
Delivery Status: in distribution
Budget: 260 000 EUR
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Germany
Celebration of Flight is about the deep
love for flying and a unique friendship
between a 78 year old Swede and a 16
year old Dominican boy.
M
M6 D.A. - SND
M6 D.A. – SND, 89, Avenue Charles de
Gaulle, 92575 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
Tel: 33.1.41.92.68.66. Fax:
33.1.41.92.68.69. www.m6da.com
Sales agent
At MIP-TV: Laetitia de la Gravière(Deputy
Manager), Caroline Mougey (Head of
Sales), Isabelle Drouard (France Sales),
Gregory Chambet (International Marketing
& Sales )
Office: stand m6 24.02
LAURA, THE COURSE OF
RIVIERA
Mini-Series (4x90’)
Language: French
Director: Jean-Teddy FILIPPE
Producer: Sama Productions
Key Cast: Delphine CHANEAC, Sophie
DUEZ
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: France
Luisa Fontane is found dead just after
the birth of her daughter, Laura. A tarot
card was next to her. Is this just an
accident, a murder or a malediction?
ROMERO & JULIET
Action Comedy (90’)
Language: French
Director: Williams CREPIN
Producer: K Star
Key Cast: Dany BRILLANT, Natacha
LINDINGER
Delivery Status: in production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France
Patrice Roméro, the best cop of
Marseille, made a fortune by writing
soap-novels. And cold-blooded inspector
Juliet is investigating were does his
money come from!
SURPRISE WEDDING
Comedy (90’)
Language: French
Delivery Status: in production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France
Stephane and Deborah are on their
honeymoon before they even got
married. Franck and Lily, their friends
who never met before, are organizing a
wedding in their absence.
WELCOME TO PINK PARADISE
Documentary (90’)
Language: French
Director: Clothilde Pierre
Producer: 909 Productions
Year of Production: September 2006,
Country of Origin: France
Created in 2002 by David and Cathy
Guetta, world-known figures of the
nightlife, the Pink Paradise is Paris’ most
famous and classy cabaret.
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN
Animation (150x50’), Comedy (90’)
Language: French
Director: Piano
Producer: Piano
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: France
Funny stories for kids and Grown-Ups. A
series where each episode is unique with
its own visual and animation style
SAVING SHILOH
Drama/Family (1 x 90 min)
Language: English
Director: Sandy Tung
Producer: Sandy Tung, Seth Willenson,
Carl Borack, Dale Rosenbloom
Principal Cast: Scott Wilson, Gerald
McRaney, Jason Dolley, Ann Dowd,
Kyle Chavarria
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
The suspenseful conclusion of this movie
trilogy about a young boy who risks
everything to save his best friend, the
brave beagle Shiloh!
SEVENTEEN AND MISSING
Drama (1 x 90 min)
Language: English
Director: Paul Schneider
Principal Cast: Dee Dee Pfeiffer,
Matthew Harrison, Tegan Moss
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
A mother’s paranormal visions aid in
finding her daughter and bringing her
broken family back together.
THE TERRORISTS NEXT DOOR
Drama (1 x 90 min)
Language: English
Principal Cast: Kathleen Roberts,
Chenier Hundal, Chris Martin and
Michael Ironside
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
The chilling story of a race against time,
as CSIS and the FBI piece together the
clues that lead from an extremist gunned
down in France, to a terrorist sleeper cell
blending in on the quiet streets of
Montreal.
PARADISE TEXAS (WORKING
TITLE)
Drama (1 x 90 min)
Language: English
Director: Lorraine Senna
Producer: Tom Asina, Executive
Producer, Howard Griffith, Producer
Principal Cast: Timothy Bottoms,
Meredith Baxter, Sheryl Lee
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
A problematic film shoot and one young
boy provide the inspiration for a
successful movie star to pursue his lost
dream and at the same time, reunite his
family.
MAVERICK GLOBAL
Maverick Global, 1191 East Newport
Center Drive, Suite 210, Deerfield
Beach, Florida 33442 USA.
Tel: 1.954.422.8811.
Fax: 1.954.429.0565. Int’l
Cell: 44.7738.843.066.
www.maverickglobal.com
Sales Agent
At MIP-TV: Jack Campbell (Director of
International Sales)
Office: IFTA Stand: 04.92.99.8207,
Mobile: 44.7738.843.066
SEX & CONSEQUENCES
Erotic Thriller (1 x 84 min)]
Language: English
Director: Michael Valverde
Cast: Joan Severance, Corbin Bernsen,
Rodney Scott, Charles Van Eman
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A provocative and voyeuristic thriller,
starring Joan Severance, Corbin Bernsen
and Rodney Scott, in which a depressed
housewife’s increasingly bizarre sexual
behavior eventually leads to deadly
consequences.
DEATH KNOWS YOUR NAME
Psychological Thriller (1 x 90 min)]
Language: English
Director: Daniel de la Vega
Cast: Rodrigo Aragon, Kevin Schielle,
Hugo Hallbrich, Mimi Rivera,
Veronica Mari, Patricia Gomez
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Argentina
After discovering a human skull in the
abandoned hospital wing of an insane
asylum, a psychiatrist unleashes an evil
curse in the form of a lethal and bloody
infectious disease.
MARVISTA
ENTERTAINMENT
MarVista Entertainment, 12519 Venice
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90066 USA. Tel:
310.737.0950. Fax: 310.737.9115.
www.marvista.net, email:
[email protected]
Producer and Distributor
At MIP-TV: Fernando Szew (CEO),
Joseph Szew (COO/CFO), Michael D.
Jacobs (President, Production and
Distribution), George Port
(EVP/President of MarVista Home
Entertainment), Beatrice McMillan (Vice
President of International Sales), Vanessa
Goglio (Vice President of International
Sales)
Office: MIP Booth: RSV.46,
Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.8925
WOW! WOW! WUBBZY - STAR MEDIA
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SEA OF FEAR
Thriller (1 x 90 min)]
Language: English
Director: Andrew Schuth
Cast: Edward Albert, Katherine Bailess,
Kieren Hutchison, Burgess
Jenkins, Adam Mayfield, Christopher
Showerman, Caroline Walker
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
On a weekend boat trip, a group of
friends discuss death scenarios they each
fear the most, then start to disappear one
after the other.
THE CHAMPAGNE GANG
Crime Thriller (1 x 91 min)]
Language: English
Director: Daniel Zirilli
Cast: Suri Serano, Candise Lakota,
Lacey Toups, Tarah Tobiason, Damon
Whitaker, Jesse Camacho,
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
Four beautiful California beach girls pull
heists throughout San Diego, and
successfully elude the cops while they
reward themselves with champagne
toasts and surfing vacations to Mexico
and Hawaii.
SLIP
Supernatural Thriller (1 x 98 min)]
Language: English
Director: Brian Maris
Cast: Don Turner, Jill Small, Hosea
Simmons, Sky Soleil
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
In this supernatural thriller set in LA’s
inner-city, troubled spirits of the recently
departed “slip” into Sarah’s body, and
compel her to do their bidding.
MAYDIA
Maydia, 18 av des Oliviers, Vence,
06140 France. Tel: 33(0)4.93.58.95.81.
Fax: 33(0)4.93.24.69.46. www.maydia.fr,
email: [email protected]
At MIP-TV: Mary Byrne (sales &
acquis), Roland Sicsic (sales & acquis)
Office: H4.35, Tel: 0616907785
VIVA CARTHAGO
Animated Series (13 x 26’ , 4 x 78’)
Language: french
Co-Production Partners: L’Autre Rive
Productions/Cinetelefilms
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: France
A spirited team of adventurers travel
through time aboard an enchanted ship
and discover key moments of ancient
Mediterranean History.
MEDITERRANEAN TALES
Documentary series (13 x 26’ / 6x 52’)
Language: french
Co-Production Partners: L’Autre Rive
Productions/Cinetelefilms
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: France
Traces the history of ancient civilisations
who contributed so much to the
advancement of humanity.
MARE NOSTRUM
Documentary (52’ / 90’)
Director: french, eng subtitles
Co-Production Partners: L’Autre Rive
Productions/Cinetelefilms
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France
Many habits and fashions of today were
daily traditions in the ancient
Mediterranean, particularly those dealing
with food, pharmacopoeia, sport and
theatre.
MEDIA LUNA
ENTERTAINMENT
Media Luna Entertainment,
Hochstadenstrasse 1-3, Cologne, 50674
Germany. Tel: 49.221.801.4980.
Fax: 49.221.801.498.21.
www.medialuna-entertainment.de,
email: [email protected]
At MIP-TV: Ida Martins (Managing
Director), Andrew Chang (Senior Sales
& Acquisition Manager), Viviana
Horalek (Festival & Marketing
Manager), Jan Kramer (Sales &
Acquisition Manager), Jürgen Tobisch
(Sales & Acquisition Manager)
Office: 18.15,
Tel: 33(0)492.99.80.70. Fax:
33(0)492.99.80.70
BOG OF BEASTS
Drama (82 min)
Language: Portuguese with English
subtitles
Director: Claudio Assis
Co-Production Partners: REC
Productores Associados
Producer: Parabolica Brasil
Key Cast: Mariah Teixeira, Fernando
Teixeira, Caio Blat
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Brasil
Ruthless edge of the life of a young
Brazilian girl growing up in a society
shaped by violence and sexual abuse.
Assis doesn’t leave much doubt about
her future and shows Brazil at a moral
all-time low.
LOVE MADE EASY
www.lovemadeeasy.ch
Comedy (78 min)
Language: English
Director: Peter Luisi
Producer: Peter Luisi, Kristin Holt
Key Cast: Melanie Winiger, Martin
Landau, Ralph Gassmann
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA/Switzerland
Until now they have always chewed on
the short end of life. Pellini is too small,
Mobo a paraplegic, Bowman fat, Gilbert
a klutz and Gus a loser. But they are
about to put an end to this!
PRINCESS
Drama (93 min)
Language: German with English subtitles
Director: Birgit Grosskopf
Co-Production Partners: WDR
Producer: Colonia Media Filmproduktion
GmbH/Label 131
Key Cast: Henriette Müller, Irina
Potapenko, Desirée Jaeger, Amina
Schichterich
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Germany
A girl gang roams their territory in a
typical German suburb - between cheap
apartment blocks and discount markets.
Things escalate in a horrible fashion and
one of them has to make a sacrifice.
MONSTER
DISTRIBUTES
Monster Distributes, The Rear 51
Merrion Square, Dublin 2, 2 Ireland. Tel:
353.1.611.4934. Fax: 353.1.611.4935.
www.monsterdistributes.com
At MIP-TV: Mr. Andrew Fitzpatrick
(Chairman), Mrs. Deirdre Barry (VP of
Sales and Acquisitions), Ms. Laura
Kilpatrick (Sales Executive)
Office: Stand H4.35
BIENVENUE AU CANNES
Documentary (84’)
Language: English
Director: Richard Schickel
Producer: Andrew Fitzpatrick, Brian
Jamieson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: US
A new feature length documentary which
celebrates the 60th anniversary of the
world’s greatest film festival, and gives
an insider’s look at all the madness, the
politics, the glamour and the underbelly
of it all.
PLANET ROCK PROFILES
www.planetrock.net
Music (130 x 30’)
Language: English
Director: Susan Broe
Producer: Susan Broe
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Ireland
The world’s leading series of profiles of
major music artists including Shakira,
Nelly Furtado, Beyonce, Snow Patrol,
The Killers and Black Eyed Peas.
DUST DEVILS
Documentary (43’)
Director: English
Language: Dearbhla Glynn
Producer: Aprile Blake
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: USA
Far out on a vacant expanse of the
Nevada Desert, USA, 25,000 people
gather once a year late in August to
experience Burning Man.
SLIM PIG
Animation (39 x 7’)
Language: English
Director: Gary Blatchford
Producer: Malcom Parry
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
Slim Pig is a new animated television
series for pre-school children. Slim the
star of the show is a two-dimensional pig
living in a three-dimensional world.
ANNA AND THE MOODS
Animation (half-hour)
Language: English
Director: Gunnar Karlsson
Producer: Hilmar Sigurdsson, Arnar
Thorisson
Voices: Bjork, Damon Albarn, Terry
Jones, Sjon and Thorunn Laurusdottir
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Iceland
The story tells of Anna and her family
and how one day they all wake up to a
frightful reality.
MOONSTONE
ENTERTAINMENT
Moonstone Entertainment, P.O. Box
7400, Studio City, CA 91614 USA. Tel:
818.985.3003. Fax: 818.985.3009.
At MIP-TV: Mr. Ernst “Etchie” Stroh,
Ms. Yael Stroh
Office: 03.23, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.82.24
TALES OF THE OCCULT
Thriller (30 min)
Director: Various
Writer: Various
Producers: Etchie Stroh
Status: Development
Cntry of Origin: U.S.A.
Terrifying stories of the supernatural for
the twighlight hours, taken from a
reservoir of 2,500 documented stories
including the Best Seller “Haunted
America”.
DIAMOND DOGS
Action Feature
Director: Shimon Dotan
Writer: Leopold St-Pierre
Producers: Etchie Stroh, Shimon Dotan,
Louis Liu, Barry Glasser
Cntry of Origin: Canada, China
Principal Cast: Dolph Lundgren
Status: Post-Production
In this first installment of the franchise
we meet Ronson, the adventurer and
world traveler. Always short of money, a
man of few words, a gun for hire … the
solution to your problem!
SOL GOODE
Comedy
Director: Danny Comden
Writer: Danny Comden
Producers: Happy Walters, Matthew
Weaver, Tucker Tooley, Vincent
Newman
Principal Cast: Balthazar Getty, Carmen
Electra, Jamie Kennedy, Tori Spelling,
Robert Wagner
Status: completed
Cntry of Origin: US
A charismatic L.A. twenty-something
who has always relied on charm, good
looks and fast talk to glide through life
must reexamine his life after a series of
mounting misfortunes hit him.
DEAL OF A LIFETIME
Romantic Comedy
Director: Paul Levine
Writer: Katharine R. Sloan
Producers: Yoram P. Omtal, Daniel
Helberg
Principal Cast: Kevin Pollak, Michael
Goorjian, Jennifer Rubin, Shiri Appleby
Status: Completed
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Cntry of Origin: USA
Henry Spooner would sell his soul for a
date with the most popular girl in school
and now he finally has his chance!
MORGAN CREEK
INTERNATIONAL
Morgan Creek International, 10351
Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 200, Los
Angeles, CA 90025 USA. Tel:
310.432.4848. Fax: 310.432.4844.
www.morgancreek.com
At MIP-TV: Howard Kaplan (Chief
Operating Officer)
GEORGIA RULE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Garry Marshall
Producer: James G. Robinson, David
Robinson
Key Cast: Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan,
Felicity Huffman, Dermot Mulroney,
Cary Elwes, Garrett Hedlund, Christine
Lakin.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Three generations of top actresses unite
in a film about the power of redemption,
freedom in forgiveness and unbreakable
bonds of motherhood.
SYDNEY WHITE
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Joe Nussbaum
Producer: James G. Robinson, David
Robinson
Key Cast: Amanda Bynes, Matt Long,
Sara Paxton, John Schneider, Jack
Carpenter, Crystal Hunt, Jeremy
Howard, Samm Levine, Danny Strong,
Adam Hendershott.
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
In a modern retelling of the classic Snow
White fairytale, a plumber’s daughter
and her merry band of misfits upset the
social order at their Greek dominated
college.
MYRIAD PICTURES
Myriad Pictures, 3015 Main St.#400
Santa Monica, CA 90405 USA. Tel:
310.279.4000. Fax: 310.279.4001.
www.myriadpictures.com
Sales agent/ distributor
At MIP-TV: Elias Axume (VP,
Distribution and Operations)
Office: IFTA Stand # 01-02, Tel:
04.92.99.8207
PARTITION
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Vic Sarin
Producer: Tina Pehme, Kim Roberts
Key Cast: Jim Mistry, Kristin Kreuk,
Neve Campbell
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
An epic Romeo and Juliet story set
against the violent backdrop of the
tumultuous partition of India and
Pakistan.
JACK & JILL VS THE WORLD
Comedy/Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Vanessa Parise
Producer: Vanessa Parise, Nicholas
Tabarrock, Roger Spottiswoode
Key Cast: Freddie Prinze Jr. Taryn
Manning
Delivery Status: post production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: US
Super stylish and successful, advertising
guru Jack meets his match when he
encounters and falls in love with the
fiery and independent Jill.
TRAILER PARK BOYS: THE
MOVIE
Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Mike Clattenburg
Producer: Mike Clattenburg, Barrie
Dunn, Michael Volpe
Key Cast: John Paul Tremblay, Robb
Wells, Mike Smith
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
Three friends are looking to complete
one last criminal job so they can retire
on all the profits and give up their life of
petty crime, but things don’t quite go
according to plan.
10 ITEMS OR LESS
Comedy (82 min)
Language: English
Director: Brad Silberling
Producer: Lori McCreary, Julie Lynn,
Brad Silberling
Key Cast: Morgan Freeman, Paz Vega
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: US
When a famous actor is abandoned in an
unfamiliar part of town he is rescued by
the local check out girl and an unlikely
friendship develops that leaves life long
impressions on both of them.
N
NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC
TELEVISION
INTERNATIONAL
National Geographic Television
International, Shepherds Building East,
Richmond Way, London W14 0DQ, UK.
Tel: 44.20.7751.7555.
Fax: 44.20.7751.7556. www.natgeotvint.com, email: [email protected]
Distributor
At MIP-TV: Ian Jones (President),
Edwina Thring (Head of Acquisitions &
Co-Productions), Anna Fuge (Head of
Sales), Karen Vermeulen (Head of Kids’
Sales), Michelle Waldron (Director of
Marketing & Communications)
Office: R29.41, Tel: 33(0)4.9299.8862,
Fax: 33(0)4.9299.8862
DOOMSDAY VOLCANO
Science Documentary (1 x 52 min)
Language: English
Producer: Ron Bowman, NGT
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: US
Did the eruption of the ancient Santorini
volcano destroy one of the Europe’s first
civilisations and was it also responsible
for the Biblical plagues of Egypt?
GABON: TRIUMPH OF THE WILD
Natural History Documentary (1 x 52
min)
Language: English
Producer: Paul Spillenger, NGT
Co-production partners: NHK and BBC
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: US
One visionary African leader and a group
of scientists have defied conventional
wisdom about exploiting the land and
out of the wild, have created 13 new
national parks in Gabon.
THE GREAT INCA REBELLION
History Documentary (1 x 52 min)
Language: English
Producer: Graham Townsley, NGT
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: US
In 1532 one of the mightiest New World
civilisations was defeated by less than
200 Conquistadors. But new evidence
suggests that maybe the history books
didn’t get things quite right….
MIGHTY MOVERS SERIES 2
Science Documentary (4 x 52 min)
Language: English
Producer: French Horwitz, NGT
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: US
Mighty mechanical movers are the stars
as they work some of the largest and
most sophisticated operations in the
world. Episodes include Rock Easters of
Iceland and Panama Canal Unlocked.
NEFERTITI AND THE LOST
DYNASTY
History Documentary (1 x 52 min)
Language: English
Producer: Brando Quilici for NGT
Co-production partners: ZDF
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: US
A CSI-style investigation, with
impressive, new cutting-edge scientific
tests, exploring the mystery of Nefertiti Ancient Egypt’s most famous queen –
and her long-lost mummy.
EYE OF THE LEOPARD
Natural History Documentary (1 x 52 &
1 x 96 min)
Language: English
Producer: Dereck & Beverly Joubert
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Botswana
This beautiful new programme, from two
of the most famous wildlife filmmakers
of all time, follows a leopard and her cub
over time through the Okavango Delta in
Botswana.
THE HUMAN FOOTPRINT
Society Documentary (1 x 90 min)
Language: English
Producer: Nick Watts, Touch Productions
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
This fascinating programme
demonstrates the components of an
average British life using startling
images and statistics. See how many
toiletries we consume and how much
waste we create in a lifetime.
IGGY ARBUCKLE
Kids (26 x 22 or 52 x 11)
Language: English
Co-production partners: Blueprint
Entertainment, Oasis International and
National Geographic Kids’
Entertainment
Delivery Status: In production
Year of Production: 2006-7, Country of
Origin: US
Iggy, the nature-loving pig and his
beaver friend Jiggers, explore the great
outdoors and have full-blown comedic
adventures of epic proportions. For 6-11
year-olds.
MAMA MIRABELLE’S HOME
MOVIES
Kids – 26 x 22 or 52 x 11
Language: English
Co-production partners: National
Geographic Kids’ Entertainment,
CBeebies and King Rollo Films
Delivery Status: In production
Year of Production: 2006-7, Country of
Origin: US
A pre-school series celebrating the
comedy, drama and wisdom of the
animal kingdom through animation and
remarkable clips from the National
Geographic and BBC archives.
MISSING STAR - LAKESHORE INTERNATIONAL
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NBC UNIVERSAL
INTERNATIONAL
TELEVISION
DISTRIBUTION
NBC Universal International Television
Distribution, 100 Universal City Plaza,
Universal City, CA 91608 USA. Tel:
818.777.1300. Fax: 818.866.1554
At MIP-TV: Peter Smith (President,
NBC Universal International), Belinda
Menendez (President, NBC Universal
International Television Distribution)
Office: TBD
THE BLACK DONNELLYS
Drama (13 x 60 min) NBC
Exec. Producers: Paul Haggis, Bobby
Moresco
Cast: Jonathan Tucker, Tom Guiry,
Olivia Wilde, Keith Nobbs, Billy Lush,
Michael Stahl-David, Kirk Acevedo,
Kate Mulgrew
Meet the Donnelly brothers: Tommy (the
smart one), Jimmy (the hot-headed one),
Kevin (the unlucky one), and Sean (the
pretty one). There is nothing these four
Irish brothers wouldn’t do to protect
each other.
HEROES
Drama (23 x 60 min) NBC
Exec. Producers: Tim Kring, Dennis
Hammer, Allan Arkush, David Semel
(pilot)
Cast: Santiago Cabrera, Tawny Cypress,
Greg Grunberg, Ali Larter, Masi Oka,
Adrian Pasdar, Hayden Panettiere,
Sendhil Ramamurthy, Leonard Roberts,
Milo Ventimiglia, Noah Gray-Cabey,
Jack Coleman
Some people are born to be
extraordinary. They thought they were
like everyone else…until they awoke
with extraordinary abilities.
RAINES
Drama (7 x 60 min) NBC
Exec. Producers: Graham Yost
Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Madeleine Stowe,
Malik Yoba, Linda Park, Dov Davidoff,
Matt Craven, Nicole Sullivan
Los Angeles. Present day. Michael
Raines, an eccentric but brilliant cop,
solves murders in a very unusual way he turns the victims into his partners.
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
Drama (22 x 60 min) NBC
Exec. Producers: Peter Berg, Brian
Grazer, Jason Katims, David Nevins,
Sarah Aubrey
Cast: Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton,
Zach Gilford, Adrianne Palicki, Jesse
Plemons, Minka Kelly, Scott Porter,
Aimee Teegarden, Gaius Charles, Taylor
Kitsch
High school football isn’t just a sport,
it’s a way of life. Friday Night Lights
focuses on the high school football
program in the small town of Dillon,
Texas.
30 ROCK
Comedy (21 x 30 min) NBC
Exec. Producers: Tina Fey, Lorne
Michaels, JoAnn Alfano, Dave Miner,
Marci Klein
Cast: Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy
Morgan, Jane Krakowski, Scott Adsit,
Jack McBrayer, Judah Friedlander
Welcome to the set of The Girlie Show, a
fictional television show that serves as
the backdrop to Tina Fey’s new
workplace comedy…where the laughs
are just as big backstage as they are
onstage.
ANDY BARKER, P.I.
Comedy (6 x 30 min) NBC
Exec. Producers: Conan O’Brien,
Jonathan Groff, David Kissinger, Jeff
Ross
Cast: Andy Richter, Tony Hale, Marshall
Manesh, Clea Lewis
When CPA Andy Barker is mistaken for
the private detective who used to occupy
his office, he embraces this twist of fate
and takes the case.
THE STARTER WIFE
Limited Series/Miniseries (6 x 60 min or
3 x 120 min) USA
Exec. Producers: Gigi Levangie Grazer,
Sara Parriott, Josann McGibbon,
Stephanie Davis, Howard Klein
Cast: Debra Messing, Judy Davis, Anika
Noni Rose, Peter Jacobson, Chris
Diamantopoulos, Stephen Moyer, Joe
Mantegna, Miranda Otto
Emmy award-winner Debra Messing
stars as the bored and pampered wife of
a Hollywood studio executive who is
dumped just weeks before her pre-nup
was set to expire (and just as age has
begun to take its toll)!
PSYCH
Drama (30 x 60 min plus 1 x 120 min)
USA
Exec. Producer: Steve Franks, Kelly
Kulchak, Chris Henze
Cast: James Roday, Dule Hill, Corbin
Bernsen
A light-hearted drama, Psych stars James
Roday as Shawn Spencer, a young police
consultant who solves crimes with
powers of observation so acute the
precinct detectives think he’s psychic.
EUREKA
One-Hour Drama (24 x 60 min plus 1 x
120 min) SCI FI Channel
Exec. Producers: Andrew Cosby, Jaime
Paglia, Karl Schaefer
Cast: Colin Ferguson, Salli RichardsonWhitfield, Joe Morton, Debrah
Farentino, Matt Frewer, Erica Cerra,
Jordan Hinson, Ed Quinn
For years, the government has been
relocating the world’s geniuses (and their
families) to the bucolic Pacific
Northwest town of Eureka, where daily
life straddles the line between
unprecedented innovation and total
chaos.
PARIS ENQU TES CRIMINELLES
Drama (8 x 60 min)
Cast: Vincent Perez, Sandrine Rigaux
This French adaptation of “Law &
Order: Criminal Intent” features an all
European cast and stars internationally
acclaimed actor Vincent Perez.
THE STEVE WILKOS SHOW
Talk-Syndicated (160 x 60 min)
Exec. Producer: Richard Dominick
Host: Steve Wilkos
Steve Wilkos, the highly recognizable
former Chicago police officer, turned
security guard for “The Jerry Springer
Show,” hosts the upcoming talk show
entitled The Steve Wilkos Show.
THE SPRINGER HUSTLE
Reality (8 x 30 min) VH1
Exec. Producers: Mike Malloy, Richard
Dominick, Jim Ackerman, Michael
Hirschorn
The Springer Hustle is an in-depth,
insider’s look at how America’s most
controversial television show is put
together.
TOP DESIGN
One-Hour Alternative (10 x 60 min)
Bravo
Exec. Producers: Scott Stone, Clay
Newbill
Host: Todd Oldham
Top Design offers a behind-the-scenes
look at the creative, competitive and
client-driven interior design business.
WELCOME TO THE PARKER
Alternative (6 x 60 min) Bravo
Exec. Producers: Ted Skillman, Belisa
Balaban
Welcome to the Parker (working title) is
a docu-series that takes viewers into the
world of the luxurious Parker Palm
Springs hotel.
WHO WANTS TO BE A
SUPERHERO?
Alternative (14 x 60 min) SciFi Channel
Exec. Producers: Bruce Nash, Stan Lee,
Scott Satin
Eleven finalists face off in a series of
weekly challenges testing courage,
integrity, self-sacrifice, compassion and
resourcefulness.
BANJA
Animated (26 x 30 min) Canal +
Exec Producers: Henri Magalon
Banja is the story of a pop star who finds
himself imprisoned on an island after
tearing up the contract binding him to his
powerful employers.
NDRL
NDRL, 27,Rue Cambaceres, Paris,
75008 France. Tel: 33.875.7524.5363.
Fax: 33.1.4225.2717. www.ndrl.fr, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Renaud Lombart (MD)
Office: H4.35, Tel: 33(0)6.1335.8463
AMAZING JAPAN
Entertainment (20 x 4’)
Language: Japanese, English, French
Producer: NDRL
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2000-2002, Country
of Origin: France
Amazing Japan – an unbelievable series
of the most eccentric Japanese clips.
Castle on the roof, Dog sommelier, Ear
cleaning shop.
HELLO KITTY PARADISE
Animation (16 x 26’)
Language: french, english, Japanese
Producer: Sanrio/TV Tokyo
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1999, Country of
Origin: Japan
From the famous Hello Kitty’s world. an
animation series for kids 2 to 6 years old
THE IMPOSTOR (THE
CHAMELEON)
Documentary (52 min)
Director: French, English
Producer: Cineteve
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: France
The famous story of Frederic
BOURDIN, AKA the chameleon,
stealing the identity of runaway children.
when he is old enough to be a father? a
totally fascinating talent for acting and
ability to manipulate the authorities.
TAP DANCE, STEP BY STEP
Documentary (52 min)
Language: French, English
Producer: Cineteve
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: France
Who has never been amazed, one day, at
seeing Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
dance? 52 minutes of happiness all over
the tap dance’s world, with the most
beautiful numbers, in solo, duo, in line,
the greatest artists, dancers, singers…
ASTERIX IS BACK
http://www.filmwerkstatt.com/Asterix%2
0back.html
Documentary series (8 x 50 min / 8 x 30
min)
Language: English, German, French
Director: Barbara Weissenbeck
Producer: Barbara Weissenbeck
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2007/08, Country of
Origin: Austria
Asterix and his friends emerge here and
there as the comic figures they are, but
are embedded within a “real picture”
travel documentary series visiting
Corsica, Britain, Switzerland, Spain,
Belgium, Egypt.
NHU AFRICA
c/o e.tv, Longkloof Studios, Block B,
Darters Road, Cape Town 8001, South
Africa. Tel: 27.21.422.0012. Fax:
27.21.422.0012.
At MIP-TV: Sophie Vartan / Caroline
Pryce
Office: 27.82.3755022.
The NHU Africa (Natural History Unit),
based in South Africa, has been
established to produce, commission and
acquire wildlife and natural history
productions for African filmmakers.
LEGENDS OF THE LAKE
(1 x 47 min)
Language: English
Director: Maanda Ntsendeni
Producer: NHU AFRICA
Delivery Status: post production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: South Africa
DESERT WANDERERS
(1 x 47 min)
Language: English
Director: Younus Salie
Producer: NHU AFRICA
Delivery Status: post production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: South Africa
WILD DOG CITY DOG
(1 x 47 min)
Language: English
Director: Motheo Seleke
Producer: NHU AFRICA
Delivery Status: production
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FROGS INVESTIGATIVE
(1 x 47 min)
Language: English
Director: Jaco Loubsher
Producer: NHU AFRICA
Delivery Status: production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: South Africa
CHEETAH WOMAN
(1 x 47 min)
Language: English
Director: Sophie Vartan
Producer: NHU AFRICA
Delivery Status: production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: South Africa
NONSTOP SALES AB
NonStop Sales AB, Döbelnsgatan 24,
Stockholm, 113 52 Sweden. Tel:
46(0)8.673.99.80. Fax:
46(0)8.673.99.88. www.nonstopsales.net,
email: [email protected]
At MIP-TV: CG Anderson (CEO),
Michael Werner (Sales Manager), Judith
Toth (Sales Executive), Karin Thun
(Sales Executive)
Office: 18:17, Tel: 46.704.16.99.89
DESMOND OCH
TRÄSKPATRASKFÄLLAN
(DESMOND AND THE SWAMP
BARBARIAN TRAP)
www.desmondfilm.se
Stop-Motion Animation / Children
Family (68 min)
Language: Swedish
Director: Magnus Carlsson
Co-Production Partners: Film i Väst
Producer: The Jolly Patron AB
Key Cast: Sten Ljunggren, Shanti
Roney, Rikard Wolff, Anna Blomgren,
Ola Rapace
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Sweden
Desmond and his friends have had
enough of the ghastly monster that lives
in the swamp behind Mrs. Crocodile’s
house. That is, if he exists; because no
one’s seen him.
KEISARIN SALAISUUS (THE
EMPEROR’S SECRET)
3D-Animation /Children Family (85
min)
Language: Finnish
Director: Riina Hyytiä
Producer: Helsinki-filmi Oy
Key Cast: Mika Ala-Panula, Anna
Bentley, Heikki Hilander, Erja Manto
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Finland
Paavo is the chief in a small village but
the village blacksmith Sauli dares to defy
Paavo and is driven away from the
village. Everyone misses Sauli,
especially his small adopted baby girl.
KÖLD SLÓD (COLD TRAIL)
Thriller (90 min)
Director: Icelandic
Language: Björn Br. Björnsson
Producer: Sagafilm
Key Cast: Thröstur Leó Gunnarsson,
Elva Ósk Ólafsdóttir, Hjalti
Rögnvaldsson, Aníta Briem, Helgi
Björnsson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Iceland
A suspense story about a ruthless
newspaper reporter whose life is
threatened when he decides to
investigate a suspicious death in an
isolated power plant located in the
highlands of Iceland.
EXIT
www.exitfilm.se
Thriller (97 min)
Language: Swedish, Danish
Director: Peter Lindmark
Co-Production Partners: Röde Orm Film
Producer: Isis Cataegis Pictures
Key Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Alexander
Skarsgård, Samuel Fröler, Börje Ahlstedt
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Sweden
Hunger for power and money but also
loyalty, love and sacrifices are all
elements in this intense thriller which
plays out in the world of finances and
upper class. Starring Mads Mikkelsen
(Casino Royale).
PAID
www.paidthemovie.com
Thriller (91 min)
Language: English
Director: Laurence Lamers
Producer: Slavenburg Films
Key Cast: Murilo Benício, Anne
Charrier, Tom Conti, Guy Marchand,
Corbin Bernsen
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: The Netherlands
In an English Language: gangster
thriller, in ‘film noir’-style, a French call
girl and a Brazilian hit man have to pay
a high price to regain their freedom.
up in jail and an urban legend is created
about the stolen money.
NORDISK FILM
INTERNATIONAL
SALES
Nordisk Film International Sales,
Mosedalvej 14, Valby, 2500 Denmark.
Tel: 45.3618.8200. Fax: 45.3618.9550.
http://nordiskfilmsales.com/, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Ms. Tine Klint (Sales
Executive), Ms. Susan Wendt (Sales
Executive), Ms. Eva Nerman (Sales
Manager), Mr. Kenneth Wiberg (General
Manager), Mr. Torben Jorgesen (Sales
Manager)
Office: R33.11
BECK - THE SCORPION (BECK 17
– SKARPT LÄGE)
Thriller (90 min)
Language: Swedish
Director: Harald Hamrell
Co-Production Partners: Klaus Bassiner,
Wolfgang Feindt, Peter Nadermann &
Tobias Bringholm
Producer: Tomas Michaelsson & Lars
Blomgren
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Sweden
A woman is brutally battered by a man
in a kitchen.
BROTHERS - THE RETURN
(TUSENBRÖDER ÅTERKOMSTEN)
Thriller (91 min)
Language: Swedish, Estonian & English
Director: Erik Leijonborg
Producer: Hans Lönnerheden & Daniel
Alfredson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Sweden
Hoffa floats ashore in Estonia after his
stolen escape boat has exploded. He tries
to start a new life there but his longing
for his family is too strong and he
decides to try to get back to Sweden.
CLASH OF EGOS
(SPRÆNGFARLIG BOMBE)
Comedy (91 min)
Director: Danish
Language: Tomas Villum Jensen
Producer: René Ezra & Leila Vestgaard
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005/2006, Country
of Origin: Denmark
Tonny has just served a sentence for acts
of violence. He promises to reform and
is awarded a few hours of visitation with
his two kids.
COLD FEET (KALDE FØTTER)
Comedy (80 min)
Language: Norwegian
Director: Alexander Eik
Producer: Brede Hovland
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Norway
Kalle arrives back in his hometown after
becoming stinking rich from creating a
product called Lick-a-Baum in the US.
His has only one goal in mind; to get
back together with his childhood
sweetheart Trine.
CRUMBS - SANTAS LITTLE
HELPER (KRUMMERNE - SÅ ER
DET JUL IGEN)
Family (90 min)
Language: Danish
Director: Morten Lorentzen
Producer: Regner Grasten
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Denmark
12 year old Crumb still believes in Santa
Claus. Everyone else thinks he’s just
being childish. His belief sends him on a
dangerous mission to save both Santa
and Christmas!
FIDIBUS
Comedy (95 min)
Language: Danish
Director: Hella Joof
Producer: Thomas Gammeltoft
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Denmark
Kalle likes to hang out and smoke hash
with his friend Agger at the free town
Christiania in Copenhagen. In a moment
of weakness Kalle lets himself be hired
by the local upper-pusher, Paten.
FATHER OF FOUR - LIVING
LARGE (FAR TIL FIRE - I STOR
STIL)
Family (92 min)
Language: Danish
Director: Claus Bjerre
Co-Production Partners: Jørgen
Kristiansen & Niels Bokkenheuser
Producer: Henrik Møller-Sørensen
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Denmark
Uncle Anders receives a letter informing
him that he has inherited the Krageholm
Castle, so the family scrub their holiday
on Bornholm and set their course for
Funen.
GHOSTS OF CITÉ SOLEIL
Documentary (86 min)
Language: English, French & Creole
Director: Asger Leth
Producer: Mikael Chr. Rieks, Tomas
Radoor & Seth Kanegis
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004/2005, Country
of Origin: Denmark / US
Two hours off the shores of Miami
Beach, Haiti lies nestled next to the
Dominican Republic, ignored by the rest
of the world. This is where THE
GHOSTS OF CITÉ SOLEIL takes place.
MARIA´S MEN (MARIAS MENN)
Drama (75 min)
Language: Norwegian, Danish
Director: Vibeke Ringen
Producer: Synnøve Hørsdal
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Norway
Maria (41) is surrounded by men.
WILDFIRE - LIONSGATE
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NU IMAGE /
MILLENNIUM FILMS
Nu Image / Millennium Films, 6423
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
90048 USA. Tel: 310.388.6900.
Fax: 310.388.6901. www.nuimage.net
At MIP-TV: Danny Dimbort (Co
Chairman), Christian Mercuri (VP)
Office: IFTA Pavilion
MAD MONEY
Director: Callie Khouri
Starring: Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah &
Katie Holmes
Status: Pre Production
A middle-aged woman finds herself in
need of money and enlists two other
working girls to help steal millions of
dollars. They bond, get rich and – face a
full investigation.
HERO WANTED
Director: Brian Smrz
Starring: Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Status: Pre Production
A small town trash collector stages a
robbery so he can impress a girl by being
the hero and stopping it.
CLEANER
Director: Renny Harlin
Starring: Samuel Jackson and Ed Harris,
Eva Mendes
Status: In Production
A man who specializes in cleaning up
crime scenes is drawn into a mystery
when he cleans the evidence of a murder
before it’s been reported.
BLONDE AMBITION
Director: Scott Marshall (Keeping Up
With the Steins)
Producer: Garry Marshall
Starring: Jessica Simpson and Luke
Wilson
Status: Post Production
A small town girl climbs the corporate
ladder in the big city.
HOMELAND SECURITY
Director: George Gallo
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Meg Ryan,
Colin Hanks and Selma Blair
Status: Post Production
A young FBI agent discovers that his
mother has fallen in love with a
notorious art thief.
WAR, INC.
Director: Josh Seftel
Starring: John Cusack, Hilary Duff,
Marisa Tomei, Ben Kingsley and Joan
Cusack
Status: Post Production
A government assassin is sent to a
Middle-Eastern warzone where he is
assigned to kill a rogue leader while
posing as a chaperone for an Arab pop
star.
BRILLIANT
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Scarlett Johansson
Master thief and rich playboy Charlie
Beaumont recruits a beautiful young cat
burglar to help him steal a billion dollars
worth of diamonds.
RAMBO 4
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Starring: Sylvester Stallone
Status: In Production
John Rambo is back in the latest action
packed installment of the popular film
series.
KING OF CALIFORNIA
Director: Michael Cahill
Starring: Michael Douglas and Evan
Rachel Wood
Status: Post Production
When a precocious teenager is reunited
with her eccentric father, she
accompanies him on an exciting hunt for
buried Spanish treasure.
FLU BIRDS
Status Pre Production
Havoc is wreaked on a small town when
a flock of infected birds descend and
spread a killer virus.
WITCHES
Status: Pre Production
A group of evil witches seek revenge on
three kids whose ancestors were noted
for hunting and slaying witches.
WHEN NIETZSCHE WEPT
Director: Pinchas Perry
Starring: Armand Assante, Ben Cross
and Joanna Pacula
Status: Post Production
Passion, love, obsession and betrayal
contribute to the complex and intriguing
relationships between Friedrich
Nietzsche, Dr. Josef Brauer, Sigmund
Freud and the beautiful Lou Salome.
O
OASIS
INTERNATIONAL
Oasis International, 6 Pardee Ave., Suite
101 Toronto, ON M6K 3H5 Canada. Tel:
416.588.6821. Fax: 416.588.7279.
www.oasisinternational.com,
[email protected]
Distributor rights holder
At MIP-TV: Peter Emerson (President),
Valerie Cabrera (Executive VP of Sales),
Prentiss Holman (Director of
International Sales) and Ben Bishop
(Sales and Acquisitions Executive)
Acquisition Executive: Ben Bishop
Office: Booth 20.02
11 CAMERAS
http://www.oasisinternational.com/10_tra
ilers/11cameras.htm
Drama (22 x 30 min)
Language: English
Director: Various
Producer: Shaftesbury Films
Cast: Ashley Leggat (Confessions of a
Teenage Drama Queen, Ace Lightning)
Allan Van Sprang (Degrassi: The Next
Generation, Saw III, Earth: Final
Conflict)
Adrian Roberto (Degrassi: The Next
Generation, Ice Princess)
Delivery Status: Original episodes
completed Format rights available
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
11 Cameras is a voyeuristic look at
human relationships and the new ways
we connect to one another in the digital
age, told through the language of
webcams and computer desktops.
VERY BAD MEN
http://www.oasisinternational.com/10_tra
ilers/very_bad_men.htm
True Crime Series (13 x 1 hour)
Language: English
Director: Various
Producer: Make Believe Media
Delivery Status: Completed (season 2 in
pre-production)
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
Predators, Swindlers and Masters of
Fraud…Very Bad Men are everywhere.
This incredible seven-part, one hour true
crime series exposes some of the most
notorious criminals on record
EXPLORATION: WITH RICHARD
WEISE
http://www.oasisinternational.com/10_tra
ilers/exploration.html
Travel Adventure Series (43 x 30 min)
Language: English
Director: Various
Producer: Litton Entertainment
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Explore mysterious lands, exotic cultures
and meet some of the world’s most fierce
and fascinating creatures.
REGENESIS
http://www.oasisinternational.com/10_tra
ilers/regensis.html
Dramatic Series (39 x 1 hour)
Language: English
Director: Various
Producer: Shaftesbury Films
Cast: Peter Ourterbridge (Lucky Number
Sleven, Land of the Dead), Wendy
Crewson (TV’s 24, Santa Clause 2, Away
from Her, The Covenant,) Dmitry
Chepoveysky (Man of the Year, K-19:
The Widowmaker)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
Never has our species been so close to
solving the mysteries of our existence
and yet every step brings us closer to our
own demise.
OHM:TV GMBH
ohm:tv GmbH, Habsburgerring 3, D50674 Cologne, Germany.
Tel: 49.221.759.1455.
Fax: 49.221.759.1456.
www.ohmtv.com, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Joris Eckelkamp (Managing
Director, International Sales), Hans
Spielthenner (Managing Director, Format
Development and Acquisition)
Office: R33.08 (Riviera), Tel: Tel.
33.674.479405. Mobile (Hans
Spielthenner) 33.674.479405. Mobile
(Joris Eckelkamp) 49.172.929.5499
MY STREET AND I
Format, Reality, Docu
Producer: Cuarzo Producciones S.L.
Status: Finished format
Country of Origin: Spain
My Street and I offers viewers a close
and intimate look behind the scenes of a
typical street revealing some of the
secrets of its inhabitants.
SKOOLED
Format, Reality, Docu
Producer: Breakthrough
Status: Finished format
Country of Origin: Canada
Kids are experts at being kids. Teachers
are experts at being teachers. So what
happens when they switch places?
SOLD IN SIXTY SECONDS
Contest, Entertainment (12 x half hour
plus 1 hour special)
Producer: Media Cartel & Linda Ujuk
Productions
Status: Finished format
Country of Origin: Australia
A revolutionary competition clip show
and challenge for avid TV viewers,
amateur filmmakers and video bloggers
to make the most memorable 60 second
ad for a popular brand.
MY TEDDY BEAR IS TRYING TO
KILL ME
Animation (10 x 1 minute)
Language: No dialogue
Producer: Mobstar Media
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Sweet Amy loves her Teddy more than
anything in the whole wide world! Teddy
has been with her ever since she can
remember. But lately Teddy has not been
quite the same.
THE AMAZING ADRENALINI
BROTHERS
(10 x 2 1/2 minutes;
screensavers/wallpapers)
Producer: Pesky
Country of Origin: UK
From their mysterious homeland, a place
wracked by danger and disaster, come
the most extreme stunt performers the
world has ever seen – three brothers:
Xan, Adi and Enk.
GIRLZ TV
Mobile tv Channel (1 hour monthly
loop)
Language: German, English
Producer: mango tv
Every girl’s best friend, Girlz is the first
mobile channel entirely dedicated to
teenage girls and young women.
OVC MEDIA LTD
OVC Media Ltd, 88 Berkeley Court,
Baker Street, London NW1 5ND UK.
Tel: 44.20.7402.9111.
Fax: 44.20.7723.3064.
www.ovcmedia.com
Production, Distribution and DVD
licensing
At MIP-TV: Ms. Joanne Goldring-Cohen
(Managing Director)
Acquisition Executive: Ms. Joanne
Goldring-Cohen
Office: Stand H4.35 (the Marketplace
Stand), Tel: 33.4.9299.8596 /
33.6688.13775. Fax: 33.4.9299.8597
GREAT WOMEN OF THE
OLYMPICS
Sport (60 mins)
Language: English
Director: Anthony Foster
Producer: Joanne Goldring-Cohen / Eliot
M. Cohen
Co-production partners: OVC Media Ltd
Cast: Narrated by Gareth Hunt
Delivery Status: Completed
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Budget: $350, 000.00
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
A collection of female athletes at the
pinnacle of their various Olympic
disciplines. Featuring Jan Romary
(fencing), Mary-Ann Burglyn (cycling),
Candis Cable (disabled marathon) plus
more. Also included is a brief history of
the Modern day Olympics.
FIRST 100 YEARS OF THE
OLYMPICS
Sport (3 x 26 mins or 75 mins)
Language: English
Director: Eliot M. Cohen
Producer: Joanne Goldring-Cohen, Eliot
M. Cohen
Co-production partners: OVC Media Ltd
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $350.000
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
These programmes follow the progress
of the games from their inception in
1896, all the way through to Barcelona
“92.
THE YOUNG EXPLORERS CLUB
Wildlife, (6 x 26 mins)
Language: English
Director: Robin Taylor
Producer: Eliot M. Cohen, Robin Taylor
& Joanne Goldring-Cohen
Co-production partners: OVC Media Ltd
Delivery Status: In-Production
Budget: $400.000
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
Filmed in Botswana’s magical Okavango
Delta, one of the world’s great wildlife
sanctuaries, each episode follows young
people and their parents as they
experience the wonders of the African
Wilderness and its high profile animal
stars for the first time.
MOSCOW CITY BALLET
Music / Dance Documentary
Language: English
Director: Yoav Peleg
Producer: Joanne Goldring-Cohen, John
Hawkins
Co-production partners: OVC Media Ltd
Cast: staged by Victor SmirnovGolovanov, featuring music by Ludwig
Minkus.
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: Russia
The series encompasses classic works
such as Don Quixote and also modern
pieces including The Carmen Suite based
on Merimee’s novella. The series
features performances by Nadzedah
Pavlova.
P
PASSPORT
INTERNATIONAL
ENTERTAINMENT,
LLC
Passport International Entertainment,
LLC, 10520 Magnolia Blvd., North
Hollywood, CA 90601 USA.
Tel: 818.760.1500. Fax: 818.760.1532.
www.passportentertainment.com,
email: [email protected]
At MIP-TV: Andrea Miller (VP
Worldwide Sales)
Office: 01.02, Tel: 04.92.00.8207
HOLLYWOOD SINGING AND
DANCING: A MUSICAL HISTORY
Documentary (13 x One-Hour)
Language: English
Director: Mark McLaughlin
Producer: Mark McLaughlin
Key Cast: Shirley Jones (Host), Jennifer
Hudson, Bill Condon,Tommy Tune, Liza
Minnelli, Shirley MacLaine, Sylvain
White (Director, “Stomp the Yard”) Rob
Marshll, Rita Morena, Leslie Caron.
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: In Production,
Country of Origin: USA
The definitive show of its kind full of
amazing performances from
Hollywood’s most-beloved musicals.
Each musical is a masterpiece
accompanied by archival footage and
exclusive new interviews.
CASH POKER
www.ultimatepokerchallenge.com
Poker Show (26 x One-Hour)
Language: English
Director: Rob George
Producer: Danny Pugliese
Key Cast: Kenny Tran, Doyle Brunson,
Max Pescatori, Jennifer Tilly.
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
The action is much more dramatic than
tournament poker as players put down
their own money (between US$25,000 –
100,000) and keep playing until they
loose it all or win!
HISPANIC HOLLYWOOD
Documentary (120 Minutes)
Director: English
Language: Steve Stolier
Producer: Steve Stolier
Key Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Penelope
Cruz, Salma Hayek, Antonio Banderas,
Robert Rodriguez, Rita Moreno, Ricardo
Montalban, Raul Julia, Edward James
Olmos, Maria Conchita Alonso.
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A fascinating and entertaining look at the
history of Latino performers in
Hollywood from early silent days
through Hollywood’s golden years to
today’s superstars, featuring rare clips
and exclusive interviews.
THE WHO: THE VEGAS JOB
Concert (87 Minutes)
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Language: English
Director: Ron De Maraes
Producer: Woody Fraser
Key Cast: Roger Daltrey, Pete
Townshend, John Entwhistle.
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 1999, Country of
Origin: USA
October 1999, THE WHO, performed for
the first time in 20 years. Meant to be
seen by millions, due to a technical
glitch, was seen only by those in
attendance.
PATHE LONDON
OFFICE
Pathe London Office, Kent House, 14-17
Market Place, London, W1W 8AR UK.
Tel: 44.207.462.4427.
Fax: 44.207.436.7891.
www.pathepicturesinternational.co.uk,
email: [email protected]
At MIP-TV: Mike Runagall (Head of
Pathe Pictures International)
Office: Booth 10.12 at the Riviera, Tel:
33.4.92.99.81.05
BIG NOTHING
Dark Comedy (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Co-Production Partners: Andras Hamori,
Gabriella Stollenwerck
Key Cast: Simon Pegg, David
Schwimmer, Natascha McElhone, Mimi
Rogers, Jon Polito, Alice Eve
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
Charlie (Schwimmer), a frustrated,
unemployed teacher decides to take
revenge on life by embarking on a “foolproof” blackmailing scheme by joining
forces with an unpredictable scammer
Gus (Pegg) and his ambitious exgirlfriend Josie (Eve).
DEEP WATER
Feature Documentary (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell
Producer: Al Morrow, Jonny Persey,
John Smithson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
Set against the backdrop of the turbulent
1960’s, DEEP WATER is the stunning
MADE
IN
true journey of a free-thinking but
desperate electronics inventor who enters
the most daring nautical race ever—the
first ever Sunday Times Golden Globe
solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race.
DIRTY SANCHEZ: THE MOVIE
Comedy (96 min)
Director: English
Language: Jim Hickey
Producer: Rupert Preston, Bobby Allen
Key Cast: Lee Dainton, Michael
“Pancho” Locke, Mathew Pritchard, Dan
Joyce
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
The Devil has rounded up the Sanchez
boys to set them the ultimate challenge to travel the world in search of the Seven
Deadly Sins.
MISCHIEF NIGHT
Drama (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Penny Woolcock
Producer: Abi Bach, Willow Grylls
Key Cast: Kelli Hollis, Qasim Akhtar,
Holly Kenny, Michael Taylor, Ramon
Tikaram
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
When Mischief Night falls upon a multicultural neighborhood in Northern
England, chaos ensues when all of life’s
goings on – the good, the bad, and the
high flying – crawl out from under the
bedcovers.
AMERICAN GUN
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Aric Avelino
Producer: Ted Kroeber
Key Cast: Donald Sutherland, Forest
Whitaker, Marcia Gay Harden, Linda
Cardellini, Nikki Reed, Tony Goldwyn
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
In a world where guns lurk in places
you’d never imagine, the precious
balance between the tragedy and triumph
of everyday life rings true in
AMERICAN GUN.
AS IT IS IN HEAVEN (SA SOM I
HIMMELEN)
Drama (130 min)
Language: Swedish
JAMAICA - CINEMAVAULT RELEASING
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Director: Kay Pollak
Producer: Anders Birkeland, Goran
Lindstrom
Key Cast: Michael Nyqvist, Frida
Hallgren, Lennart Jahkel, Helen Sjoholm
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: Sweden
An internationally acclaimed music
conductor drastically interrupts his career
and retires to his childhood village in the
North of Sweden.
THE ABDUCTION CLUB
Romantic Comedy (96 min)
Language: English
Director: Stefan Schwartz
Producer: Neil Peplow, David Collins,
Yves Marmion
Key Cast: Daniel Lapaine, Sophia
Myles, Matthew Rhys, Alice Evans
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002, Country of
Origin: UK
A fast and furious period romp, THE
ABDUCTION CLUB is inspired by a
series of real life events in Ireland in the
late 1700s.
PORCHLIGHT
ENTERTAINMENT
PorchLight Entertainment, 11777
Mississippi Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90025
USA. Tel: 310.477.8400.
Fax: 310.477.5555.
www.porchlight.com,
email: [email protected]
At MIP-TV: Adam Wright (SVP,
Worldwide Sales), Karen Roberts (SVP,
Acquisitions), Katherine Kaufman (VP,
Worldwide Sales), JD Beaufils (VP,
Worldwide Sales), Jeffrey Engelen
(Director of International Licensing)
Office: Riviera 34.03,
Tel: 9299-8804
THE ULTIMATE GIFT
www.theultimategift.com
Family (114 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael O. Sajbel
Producer: Rick Eldridge, John Shepherd
Key Cast: James Garner, Drew Fuller,
Brian Dennehy, Abigail Breslin
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
When his wealthy grandfather passes
away, a young man is given 12 “gifts,”
tasks he must accomplish that challenge
him in every way and change him
forever.
MONSTER WARRIORS
Action-Adventure (52 x 30’)
Language: English
Director: Wilson Coneybeare
Co-Production Partners: Coneybeare
Stories Inc.
Producer: Wilson Coneybeare, Barbara
Patten
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
In this comic book come to life, four
clever and dynamic teenagers battle bmovie monsters. A live-action/CGI
comedy adventure series.
HOLIDAZE: THE CHRISTMAS
THAT ALMOST DIDN’T HAPPEN
Animated (6 x 60’)
Director: English
Language: David H. Brooks
Co-Production Partners: Madison Road
Entertainment, Bix Pix Entertainment
Producer: Kelli Bixler, Jak Severson,
Jonathan Prince
Key Cast: Fred Savage, Dylan Sprouse,
Cole Sprouse, Emily Osment, Fred
Willard, John O’Hurley, Gladys Knight,
Harland Williams, Paul Rodriguez
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
‘Holidaze’ is a series of seasonal DVD
and television specials designed to be
presented during select holidays,
featuring a newly-created set of iconic
holiday characters in classic stop-motion
animation.
RAIN
Drama (106’)
Language: English
Director: Craig DiBona
Co-Production Partners: Merv Griffin
Entertainment, Big Headz Media
Producer: Travis Hollman, Jason
Kabolati
Key Cast: Faye Dunaway, Brooklyn
Sudnao, Robbert Loggia
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
An African American teenager is sent to
live with her welathy white grandmother
after her sister is murdered.
RHYTHM OF LIFE
Drama (109’)
Language: English
Director: P. Patrick Hogan
Co-Production Partners: Pescadito
Productions
Producer: Steve Loh
Key Cast: Julie Hagerty, Stephen
Tobolowsky, Phillip Vaden
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A young man will do whatever it takes to
make his dying mother’s wish come true
- to visit the Vatican and meet the Pope.
FARMKIDS
www.farmkids.com
Animated (26 x 12’)
Language: English
Director: Scott Strachan
Producer: Ian Jones
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Australia
The Farmkids are a bunch of fastlane
pampered city animals who live a star
studded life in a popular nursery petting
zoo, their lives take a funny unexpected
turn when they suddenly get relocated to
a rural farm.
MY GOLDFISH IS EVIL
Animated (26 x 30’)
Language: English
Director: Nicolas J. Boisvert
Co-Production Partners: Sardine
Productions
Producer: Ghislain Cyr, Steven Majaury
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
The hilarious adventures of a young boy
named Beanie and his little pet “Mr.
Bubbles”- a talking goldfish who wants
nothing less than to conquer the entire
world!
PORTFOLIO
ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
Portfolio Entertainment Inc., 110
Eglinton Avenue East, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, M4P 2Y1. Tel: 416.483.9773.
Fax: 416.483.6537.
www.portfolioentertainment.com, email:
[email protected]
Producer, Distributor
At MIP-TV: Lisa Olfman (Founder &
President), Joy Rosen (Founder &
President), Annmarie Lesiuk (Head of
Sales & Acquisitions), Jon Rutherford
(Sales Manager)
Office: Canada Pavilion - Stand 00.01,
Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.83.56. Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.83.57
CARL? (CARL SQUARED)
www.carlsquared.com
Animation (30 min)
Language: English
Director: Mike Csunyoskca
Producer: Portfolio Entertainment
Cast: Ensemble
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005/2006/2007,
Country of Origin: Canada
When a slacker teen accidentally clones
himself he discovers that the miracle of
cloning is skin-deep as he scrambles to
cover up the trail of chaos left by his
exuberant clone.
SPELLZ
Kids How To/Instructional (11 min)
Language: English
Director: Ron Allen
Producer: GAPC Entertainment
Cast: Ensemble
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
Ever wondered just how magicians do
their amazing tricks? Spellz is a fastpaced, fun romp that reveals the
mysteries behind everyday and “not so
everyday” magical tricks!
ANIMAL MAGNETISM
Lifestyle/Reality (30 min)
Language: English
Director: John Dolin
Producer: Big Coat Productions
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003/2004, Country
of Origin: Canada
This series looks at the intimate bond
that humans and animals forge with each
other. Each episode features three
unforgettable stories of animals and their
owner’s commitment to their pets.
BREATHING SPACE YOGA
Lifestyle (60 min)
Language: English
Director: Wayne Moss
Producer: Big Coat Productions
Cast: Diane Bruni (Host)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003/2004, Country
of Origin: Canada
Breathing Space Yoga demonstrates how
to improve physical performance and
confidence, release tension, and promote
peace of mind.
TOP DOGS
www.topdogs.tv
Reality/Sports (60 mins.)
Language: English
Producer: Polar Bear Entertainment
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004/2005/2006,
Country of Origin: Canada
Top Dogs will take the game of “fetch”
to a whole new level as canine athletes
compete in challenging sports.
HEADS UP
Factual/Family Ent. (30 min)
Language: English
Producer: Soapbox Productions
Cast: Bob MacDonald (Host)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005/2006, Country
of Origin: Canada
The series go beyond the basics of the
Big Dipper and the Moon, and
introduces you to the magical content
and practical context of the night sky.
CAMPUS VETS
www.campusvets.com
Factual/Lifestyle (30 min)
Language: English
Producer: The Eyes Project / Peace Arch
Entertainment
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004/2005, Country
of Origin: Canada
From working ranch to high-tech
emergency rooms, Campus Vets tells the
dramatic stories of students and animal
patients at one of the world’s most
modern veterinary schools.
R
REGENT
ENTERTAINMENT
Regent Entertainment, 10990 Wilshire
Blvd, Penthouse, Los Angeles, CA 90024
USA. Tel: 310.806.4256.
Fax: 310.806.4268.
www.regententertainment.com
At MIP-TV: Gene George (President),
Meggan Kimberley (Vice President)
Office: 03.24-05.23
NUCLEAR HURRICANE
Disaster (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Fred Olen Ray
Cast: Jamie Luner, Jack Scalia, David
Millbern, Meredith McGeachie
Delivery Status: Post-Production
At a nuclear power plant, the cooling
system becomes a problem when the
“mother of all storms” is headed straight
towards it.
HOME BY CHRISTMAS
Family (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Gail Harvey
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Cast: Linda Hamilton, Rob Stewart
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: Lifetime
Julie lives a comfortable life with two
children and her husband of 21 years.
But when her husband leaves her for a
younger woman, she reluctantly
accustoms herself to a more modest
lifestyle.
STOLEN LIFE
Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Donald Wrye
Cast: Antonio Sabato Jr., Odette
Yustman,
Delivery Status: Post-Production
US Broadcaster: Lifetime
A young school teacher engaged to a
handsome firefighter has the seemingly
perfect life until she accompanies some
girlfriends on a spring break trip.
KISS THE BRIDE
Comedy
Language: English
Director: C. Jay Cox
Cast: Tori Spelling, James O’Shea,
Philipp Karner, Amber Benson, Joanna
Cassidy
Delivery Status: Post-Production
In high school, Matt and Ryan were best
friends. But in the ensuing ten years,
they’ve lost contact. So when Matt
receives an invitation to Ryan’s wedding
he’s surprised!
SHOW BUSINESS: THE ROAD TO
BROADWAY
Documentary (102 min)
Language: English
Director: Dori Borinstein
Cast: Harrison Chad, Kristin Chenoweth,
Alan Cumming, Boy George, Susan
Haskins, Jeff Marx, Idina Menzel, Rosie
O’Donnell
Delivery Status: Completed
“ShowBusiness” follows the four highprofile productions that would eventually
become Tony nominees for Best
Musical.
LONG LOST SON
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Cast: Gabrielle Anwar, Craig Sheffer
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: Lifetime
Many years ago, Kristen lost her son
when her estranged husband took him
sailing in a dangerous storm. But, while
watching a friend’s vacation video, she
sees a glimpse of two familiar faces.
THE WIVES HE FORGOT
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Mario Azzopardi
Cast: Molly Ringwald, Mark Humphrey,
Shannon Sturges
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: Lifetime
When a man stumbles into Charlotte’s
law office, she discovers that he has
contracted amnesia. But all is not as it
seems, and Charlotte may find that doing
the right thing isn’t always as easy as
expected.
CHRISTMAS DO-OVER
Family/Holiday (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Catherine Cyran
Cast: Jay Mohr, Daphne Zuniga, Ruta
Lee, Adrienne Barbeau
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: ABC Family
Feeling obligated to spend Christmas
visiting his ex-wife, young son, and
former in-laws, a shallow jingle writer
finds himself living Christmas day over
and over again.
MY SILENT PARTNER
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Ron Oliver
Cast: Joanna Going, Greg Evigan, Tim
Conlon
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: Lifetime
A San Francisco police inspector’s
comfortable life falls apart when she
discovers her husband wants a divorce.
SPIDERS
Sci-Fi (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Tibor Takács
Cast: Patrick Muldoon, Vanessa
Williams, Thomas Calabro
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: Sci-Fi
A young ski team’s plans to train for the
Olympics at a remote Ski Resort are
halted when a scientist working at a
nearby government lab arrives with an
emergency: giant spiders bred at the lab
have escaped.
RHI
ENTERTAINMENT
RHI Entertainment, 1325 Avenue of the
Americas, 21st Floor, New York, NY
10019 USA. Tel: 212.977.9001. Fax:
212.977.9049. www.rhifilms.com
At MIP-TV: Robert Halmi Jr. (President
& CEO, RHI Entertainment, LLC), Peter
von Gal, (COO, RHI Entertainment,
LLC), Joel Denton (President of
Production and Distribution, RHI
Entertainment, LLC), Torquil Macneal
(SVP, International Sales), John
Alexander (SVP, International Sales &
Worldwide DVD Distribution), Michael
Oesterlin (SVP, International Sales)
Office: R38.09, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.8872
TIN MAN (SCI FI)
Fantasy (6 Hours)
Director: Nick Willing
Cast: Alan Cumming, Zoe Deschanel
In this cyber-twisted update based on
Frank Baum’s classic book, The Wizard
of Oz, a leather-clad, soul-sucking
sorceress named Azkadellia has scorched
the once-beautiful land of O.Z. into a
desolate wasteland.
FLASH GORDON
Action/Adventure (22 x 1 Hour)
A hero returns to television in this
completely reimagined series. Legendary
characters Flash Gordon, Dale, and Dr.
Zarkoff are pitted against the powerhungry Ming, who’s plans to rule the
universe are just the beginning.
DRACULA
Horror/Thriller (4 Hours)
In this inventive updating of Bram
Stoker’s novel, the legendary vampire
and descendant of Vlad the Impaler
resurfaces in New York City to free his
insane servant Renfield from the
confines of Ward’s Island.
RIGEL
ENTERTAINMENT
Rigel Entertainment, 4201 Wilshire
Blvd., Suite 555, Los Angeles, CA 90010
USA. Tel: 323.954.8555. Fax:
323.954.8592. www.rigel.tv, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: John Laing (CEO), Sherrie
Guerrero (VP Sales), Bryan Hambleton
(International Sales), Anja Bosch
(Director, Marketing and Creative
Services), Toni Sole (International Sales)
Office: 14.17, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.8247
TYRANNOSAURUS AZTECA
Science Fiction (90’)
Language: English
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Conquistadors land in a mysterious gulf
and are soon trapped by primitive natives
who worship a live tyrannosaurus rex.
HEATSTROKE
Science Fiction (90’)
Language: English
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Aliens are causing global warming, but
Major O’Bannon and his crack team of
commandos are out to stop them.
BLONDE AND BLONDER
Comedy (90’)
Director: English
Language: Dean Hamilton
Key Cast: Pamela Anderson, Denise
Richards, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Meghan
Ory, Kevin and John Farley
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
Dawn and Dee are two blondes who get
mistaken as two professional assassins
who are assigned to “take out” the head
of the Chinese Mafia.
WHEN A MAN FALLS IN THE
FOREST
Drama (90’)
Language: English
Director: Ryan Eslinger
Key Cast: Sharon Stone, Timothy
Hutton, Dylan Baker, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
A powerful drama that brings together
four unlikely characters who manage to
create meaning in their lives through
difficult situations.
RIVE GAUCHE
ENTERTAINMENT
Rive Gauche Entertainment, 15442
Ventura Blvd. Suite 101, Sherman Oaks,
CA, 91403, USA. Tel: 818.784.9912.
Fax: 818.784.9916. www.rgitv.com
Producer
At MIP-TV: Dorothy Crompton (Senior
V.P. of Sales), Jeff Houser (V.P. Sales &
New Media), Jonathan Kramer
(Chairman), Mark Rafalowski (President
Television), Jennifer Smith (Senior V.P.
of Co-Productions & Acquisitions),
James Marrinan
Office: 03.21
WHACKED OUT SPORTS
Reality (30 min)
Producer: Rive Gauche Entertainment
Delivery Status: Completed
This adrenaline-fueled series documents
jaw-dropping, outrageous sports bloopers
from around the world. Featuring a
collection with everything from colliding
cars, shocking stunts and odd sports to
gross eating contests more!
REAL STRANGE
Documentary (60 min)
Producer: Rive Gauche Entertainment
Delivery Status: Completed
This series delves into the
realms of unbelievable people, places,
things and events. Each episode is full of
visually compelling, nearly
inconceivable stories.
SPACE CLOWNS - EM ENTERTAINMENT
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DOG WHISPERER
Reality (30 min, Season 1), Reality (60
min, Seasons 2 & 3)
Producer: Rive Gauche Entertainment
Delivery Status: Completed
Each episode displays Caesar Milan’s
ability to communicate with and
rehabilitate dogs. But, therapy doesn’t
stop with the pets. Cesar often has to retrain the owners to be effective leaders.
DINOLAB
Documentary (60 min)
Producer: Rive Gauche Entertainment
Delivery Status: Completed
Where ‘living, breathing’ digital
dinosaurs come to life and are put
through the ultimate tests of physical
endurance utilizing advanced
technological sciences. Dinolab is
innovative science programming at
its best.
RIVE GAUCHE
MOTORS & MORE
Rive Gauche Motors & More, 15442
Ventura Blvd. Suite 101, Sherman Oaks,
CA, 91403 USA. Tel: 310.301.9101.
Fax: 310.388.0132.
www.menandmotors.net
Producer
At MIP-TV: Dorothy Crompton
(Senior V.P. of Sales)
Office: 03.21
EMMA’S A-Z OF
AMERICAN SEX
Reality (30 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
Emma Ford travels the USA discovering
what gets Americans hot under the
collar.
FAMILY BUSINESS
Reality (30 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
Behind the scenes look at the life of
Adam Glasser and his alter ego
“Seymour Butts” as he juggles family
and his career in the Adult
Entertainment industry.
STRIP POKER
Reality (30 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
This classy, erotic program will
feature some of the most beautiful
British girls playing 3-card poker.
The stakes are high as the losers
will have to remove a piece of
clothing.
OUT OF CONTROL
Reality (30 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
Series devoted to exciting world of
rally racing.
CONCEPT CARS
Reality (30 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
Exploring the inspiring world of
concept cars.
100 MOST POPULAR
CARS EVER
Reality (60 min)
Delivery Status: Completed
Series devoted to the most popular
cars ever and what it is about them
that makes them popular.
S
SANDRA CARTER
GLOBAL
Sandra Carter Global, 43-32 22nd Street
#300, Long Island City, NY 11101 USA.
Tel: 718.752.9252. Fax: 718.752.9256,
www.sandra-carter.com, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Sandra Carter (President),
Ettore Botta (Vice President of Sales),
Daniella Kilim (Executive Director,
International Sales), Monique Nayard
(Consultant), Nancy Apolo (Account
Executive Latin America )
Office: 12.26
STORY OF FASCISM
Documentary (5 x 60 min)
Language: English
Director: Gianni Ubaldo Canale
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Italy
This film serves as an illustrative guide
to fascist history in its many
incarnations.
HISTORY OF NAZISM
Documentary (2 x 50 min)
Country of Origin: Italy
Language: English
Director: Franco Rostagno
Delivery Status: Completed
The birth, the evolution, and the
hegemony of Nazism in Europe, through
the trials at Nuremburg. Why was such
an evil ideology so popular?
WALTZING ANNA
Romance (100 min)
Director: English
Key Cast: Emmanuelle Chirqui, Robert
Capelli Jr., Paige Turco, Artie Lange
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United States
An unscrupulous NYC doctor is
sentenced to work at an upstate nursing
home. He meets Jill, a beautiful and
compassionate nurse who believes in the
power of love and the strength of
loyalty.
PHREAKER
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United States
Nix is a hacker, ripping off phone and
cable companies to make a living. A
federal agent is determined to bring him
to justice. Nix must also deal with his
girlfriend’s psychotic husband.
JAILBAIT
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Brett C. Leonard
Key Cast: Michael Pitt, Stephen Adly
Guirgis
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: United States
Randy finds himself locked up in prison
for 25 years. Jake, a remorseless lifer
recognizes Randy’s fear and offers him
advice. But Jake has more than
mentoring in mind!
SCREENTIME PTY
LTD
Screentime Pty Ltd, 108 Alexander
Street, Crows Nest, Sydney, NSW, 2065,
Australia. Tel: 61.2.9439.4911.
Fax: 61.2.9439.4922. www.screentime.tv.
email: [email protected]
Television Production Company
At MIP-TV: Des Monaghan (Executive
Director) Mbl: 61.410.300.456, Bob
Campbell (Executive Director) Mbl:
61.419.989.837
Acquisition Executives: Des Monaghan,
Bob Campbell
SCREENTIME
LIMITED
Screentime Limited, 68 Sale Street,
Freemans Bay, Auckland New Zealand.
Tel: 64.9.30.33.339. Fax: 64.9.30.78.885.
www.screentime.tv, email:
[email protected]
Acquisition Executive: Philly Iles (Head
of Production) Mbl: 64.21.334.661
SCREENTIMESHINAWIL
Screentime-Shinawil, The Digital Depot,
The Digital Hub, Thomas Street, Dublin
8, Ireland. Tel: 353.1.488.5855. Fax:
353.1.488.5871. www.screentime.tv,
email: [email protected]
At MIP-TV: Larry Bass (CEO)
Acquisition Executive: Larry Bass, Mbl:
353.86.381.2044
AUSTRALIA
THE SOCIETY MURDERS
Contemporary Drama (2 hours)
Language: English
Director: Brendan Maher
Producer: Fiona Eagger and Greg
Haddrick
Executive Producers: Des Monaghan and
Sue Masters
Cast: Georgie Parker, Nicholas Eadie,
Daniela Farinacci, Asher Keddie,
Matthew Le Nevez
Year of Production: 2005/early 2006 &
on air Network TEN 2006
Country of Origin: Australia
The Society Murders follows the events
surrounding the disappearance of
Margaret Wales-King and her husband,
Paul.
MARY BRYANT
Period drama (22 x 2 hours)
Language: English
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Producers: Greg Haddrick and Andrew
Benson
Cast: Romola Garai, Alex O’Lachlan,
Jack Davenport, Sam Neill, Tony Martin,
David Field
Delivery status: Delivered – on air
Network TEN (Australia), ITV (UK) &
TV3 (New Zealand)
Year of Production: Shoot – 2004; Post 2005
Budget: AUD$16 million
Country of Origin: Australia/UK
True life epic of an extraordinary young
woman and her fight for the freedom and
dignity of her young family in the colony
at Botany Bay.
MDA
Drama (22 x 1 hours: Series I - 22 x 1
hours: Series II – 22 x 1 hours: Series III
– 3 x mini series of 4 hours per mini
series)
Language: English
Directors: Various
Producer: Denny Lawrence
Cast: Shane Bourne, Jason Jonovan,
Kerry Armstrong, Angie Milliken, Sigrid
Thornton, Lisa McCune, Vince
Colossimo
Delivery status: Series I and II have
aired on ABC Television and Series III in
pre-production
Years of Production: 2002/2003,
2004/2005, Country of Origin: Australia
The cases, the personalities, the issues
involved in medical litigation.
HELLO GOODBYE
Reality
Language: English
Executive Producer: Karen Willing
Cast: Not applicable
Delivery Status: delivered and on air
from March 2006 on Nine Network
Australia
Years of Production: 2005/2006, Country
of Origin: Australia
The emotion of the departures and
arrivals at Sydney’s International Airport
FROM HERE TO MATERNITY
Observational Documentary (8 x 30 min)
Language: English
Executive Producer: Karen Willing
Host: Antonia Kidman
Delivery Status: Delivered and on air –
the W Channel (Foxtel)
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Australia
Takes an honest look at what it’s like to
have a baby as it follows nine very
different couples from the late stages of
pregnancy through to life at home with
their new baby.
PROJECT GREENLIGHT
AUSTRALIA SERIES II
Reality (12 x 30 min plus a low budget
feature film)
Language: English
Executive Producers: Chris Berry, Bob
Campbell
Delivery Status: delivered and on air
from September 2006 – feature currently
in production
Years of Production: 2006/2007, Country
of Origin: Australia
Aspiring first time feature film writers
and directors compete in a short film
competition for the right to direct their
first feature film with a $1 million
budget.
DUSTY: LITTLE BY LITTLE
Reality (8 x ? hours)
Language: English
Executive Producers: Karen Willing,
Denise Eriksen, Alison Black
Delivery Status: delivered and on air
from March 2006
Years of Production: 2005/2006, Country
of Origin: Australia
This observational documentary series
follows the creation of an original
Australian musical on the life and times
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of the first pop diva …. the legendary
Dusty Springfield.
A SONG FOR THE SOCCEROOS
Reality (7 x ? hours)
Language: English
Executive Producers: Karen Willing
Delivery Status: delivered and on air
from late March 2006
Years of Production: 2005/2006, Country
of Origin: Australia
Amateur and professional song writers
from all over Australia compete for the
right to provide the “anthem” for
Australia’s Socceroos who are competing
in the World Cup for the first time in
thirty three years.
POPSTARS I, II, III & IV
Reality (13 x ? hours & 2 x 1 hours for
Series I; 10 x ? hours plus 3 x 1 hours
for Series II; 15 x ? for Series III and 25
x 1 hour for Series IV)
Language: English
Executive Producers: Des Monaghan &
Jacqui Culliton
Delivery Status: Popstars I & II & III
delivered and aired on The Seven
Network Popstars IV (Popstars Live)
aired on The Seven Network
Years of Production: 2000, 2001, 2002,
2003, 2004, Country of Origin: Australia
It all started with 2,500 girls from all
over Australia. The Judges were faced
with the task of selecting only five who
would succeed as pop stars.
STRIP SEARCH – THE REAL FULL
MONTY
Reality (9 x ? hours)
Language: English
Producer: Rob Menzies
Presenters: Billy Cross & Leah McLeod
Delivery Status: Completed and telecast
on the Nine Network March to May
2003
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: Australia
A fun, warm, sometimes cheeky and
hugely entertaining look at the behindthe-scenes processes involved in creating
a world class male revue act.
SHAFTESBURY
FILMS
Shaftesbury Films, 163 Queen Street
East, Suite 100, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada M5A 1S1. Tel: 416.363.1411.
Fax: 416.363.1428. www.shaftesbury.org
Company type: Producer and Distributor
At MIP-TV: Shane Kinnear (VP Sales &
Marketing), Ryan St. Peters (Sales
Representative), Rebecca Herr
(Marketing Representative)
Office: R27.12, Shane Kinnear mobile:
Canada 416.624.3076, Ryan St. Peters
mobile: Canada 416.520.1149
LIFE WITH DEREK SEASON III
Kids Live Action Comedy (26 x 30 min)
Language: English, French, German,
Italian, Neutral Spanish
Producers: Christina Jennings, Scott
Garvie, Daphne Ballon, Suzanne French,
Laurie McLarty, Jeff Biederman
Director: Steve Wright, Benji Weinstein,
Paul Fox, Craig Pryce
Cast: Michael Seater, Ashley Leggat
Delivery Status: Completed
Life with Derek is a live-action comedy
about a modern blended family. Each
episode is a comic war between two selfobsessed teenagers, Casey and Derek, in
a take-no-prisoners fight for control of
their house, their school, and their world!
BOOKY MAKES HER MARK
Family MOW (90 minutes)
Language: English
Producers: Christina Jennings, Peter
Moss, Scott Garvie, Phyllis Platt, Laurie
McLarty
Director: Peter Moss
Cast: Megan Follows, Tatiana Maslany
Delivery Status: Completed
Booky Thomson is a spunky fifteenyear-old girl whose inspirational dreams
of becoming a great writer help to lift the
spirits of everyone around her.
SHORELINE
ENTERTAINMENT
Shoreline Entertainment, 1875 Century
Park East, Suite 600, Los Angeles, CA
90067 USA. Tel: 1.310.551.2060. Fax:
1.310.201.0729.
www.shorelineentertainment.com, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Sam Eigen (Director of
World Wide Distribution), Brian Sweet
(Director of Sales)
Office: FILMART Booth B14/B15, Tel:
423.663.060080. Fax: 1.702.974.0707
THE SIGNAL
Horror (95 min)
Language: English
Director: David Brucker, Jacob Gentry,
and Dan Bush
Co-Production Partners: Shoreline
Entertainment
Producer: Alexander A. Motlagh and
Jacob Gentry
Key Cast: AJ Bowen, Anessa Ramsey,
and Chadrian McKnight as Jim Parsons
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A mysterious signal transmitted from all
media devices in the town of Terminus
drives everyone to madness and murder,
except one man, who must fight the
violence within himself to save the
woman he loves.
WEIRDSVILLE
Comedy (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Alan Moyle
Co-Production Partners: Shoreline
Entertainment
Producer: Nicholas Tabarrok
Key Cast: Scott Speedman, Taryn
Manning, and Wes Bently
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Screwball comedy of two junkies on the
run from a satanic cult, a cabal of midget
knights, a vengeful drug dealer, and a
mouse.
MAN IN THE CHAIR
Drama (107 min)
Director: English
Language: Michael Schroeder
Producer: Michael Schroeder
Key Cast: Christopher Plummer, Michael
Angarano, and Robert Wagner
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Coming of age drama surrounding the
relationship between Cameron, a
rebellious 17 year old from a broken
home, and Flash, the last living crew
member from the acclaimed film
“Citizen Kane”.
EVERYTHING’S GONE GREEN
Comedy/Drama (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Paul Fox
Co-Production Partners: Shoreline
Entertainment
Producer: Chris Nanos, Elizabeth Yake,
and Henrik Meyer
Key Cast: Paul Costanzo, Steph Song,
and JR Bourne.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Canada
Ryan, a good-natured slacker surrounded
by over-achievers, is tempted into a
money laundering scheme, but struggles
with his ill gotten gains while trying to
find happiness and his place in the world.
DEAD MAN’S CARDS
Drama (91 min)
Language: English
Director: James Marquand
Co-Production Partners: Stray Dog
Films
Producer: James Marquand, Mathew
Whyte, Sigvaldi Karason
Key Cast: Paul Barber, Tom Bell and
James McMartin
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
Tom, an ex-boxer, is on the ropes. With a
failed career and marriage, he’s lost his
fighting spirit and has started down a road
to self-destruction. But Paul, his mentor,
shows him how to get his “fight” back.
SHOWCASE
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
Showcase Entertainment, Inc., 21800
Oxnard Street, Suite 150, Woodland
Hills, CA 91367 USA. Tel: 818.715.7005.
Fax: 818.715.7009.
www.showcaseentertainment.com
At MIP-TV: David A. Jackson
(President), Scott Bedno (Director of
International Sales), Bruce Livingston
(Chief Financial Officer)
Office: Palais - Stand 09.02, Tel:
33(0)6.07.43.59.13
HER BEST MOVE
(100 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Norm Hunter
Producer: Norm Hunter
Key Cast: Leah Pipes, Scott Patterson,
Daryl Sabara, Drew Tyler Bell
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A 15-year-old girl is torn between her
dreams of being a professional soccer
player and being a normal teenage girl. A
sweet film for the entire family!
FLIGHT 29 DOWN
Family (22 min)
Language: English
Director: D. J. MacHale
Producer: Stan Rogow
Key Cast: Allen Alvarado, Corbin Bleu,
Halle Hirsh, Jeremy Kissner,
Johnny Pacar, Lauren Storm, Kristy Wu
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
Flight 29 Down follows the adventures
of young castaways who are stranded on
a South Pacific island after their plane
crashes on its way to a once in a lifetime
camping adventure.
LIFE WITH DEREK - SHAFTESBURY PICTURES
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VERITAS: PRINCE OF TRUTH
Family
Director: English
Language: Arturo Ruiz-Esparza
Producer: Arturo Ruiz-Esparza
Key Cast: Sean Patrick Flanery, Bret
Loehr, Amy Jo Johnson, Tyler Posey,
Kate Walsh
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A young boy has to fight an evil menace
that could destroy the earth, when
Veritas, his favorite comic book hero,
comes to life to seek his help!
A PERFECT FIT
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Ron Brown
Producer: Ron Brown
Key Cast: Adrian Grenier, Leila Arcieri,
Polly Draper, Victoria
Rowell, Michele Santopietro
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A young woman thinks she’s finally found
her “prince charming” only to find out he is
tortured by homicidal nightmares and has
lost his grip on reality, putting her life at risk.
BACK IN BUSINESS
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Chris Munro
Producer: Neil J. Gardiner
Key Cast: Martin Kemp, Chris Barrie,
Stefan Booth, Joanna Taylor,
Dennis Waterman, Brian Blessed
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
A British comedy in the tradition of “The
Pink Panther,” finds Britain’s most
dashing conman about to pull off his
biggest caper yet, while avoiding
Scotland Yard’s worst detective.
STARZ MEDIA
Starz Media, 2950 N. Hollywood Way,
3rd Floor, Burbank, CA 91505 USA.
Tel: 818.748.4072. Fax: 818.748.4611.
www.starz.com
At MIP-TV: Neil Braun (President,
Distribution and Marketing), David Ozer
(Executive Vice President, Television)
33(0)6.09.63.24.64, Alisha Serold (Vice
President, Television and Family
Entertainment) 33(0)6.19.58.24.15,
Patti Rose (Director International Sales)
33(0)6.19.86.11.45, Dimiter Nikolov
(Director of Operations)
33(0)6.27.31.83.74
Office: Stand: Riviera, Seaview 25,
Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.89.26
WOW! WOW! WUBBZY!
Flash animated pre-school series (26 x
22 or 52 x 11)
Executive Producers: Fred Seibert, Susan
Miller, Scott D. Greenberg, John W.
Hyde
Wubbzy just wants to have fun. He and
his best pals Widget (she just wants to
build) and Walden (he just wants to
think) face the challenges of each day
with the best resource they’ve got friendship!
BUY THE TICKET, TAKE THE
RIDE: HUNTER S. THOMPSON ON
FILM
Documentary (1 x 90 min)
Executive Producers: Michael Ruggiero,
Stephan Shelanski.
Producers, Christopher Black, Tom
Thurman
Main Cast: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del
Toro, John Cusack, Sean Penn, Harry
Dean Stanton, Gary Busey, Tom Wolfe,
Ed Bradley, Ralph Steadman, Leonard
Maltin. Narrated by Nick Nolte.
A documentary on the life and legacy of
“gonzo” writer Hunter S. Thompson author of “Fear & Loathing in Las
Vegas.”
MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION
Science fiction anthology (6 x 44 min)
Executive Producers: John W. Hyde,
Brad Mendelsohn, Andrew Deane, Keith
Addis. Co-executive producers, Lisa
Richardson, Mick Garris, Sam Egan
Main Cast: Sam Waterston, Anne Heche,
Terry O’Quinn, Brian Dennehy
Professor Stephen Hawking will
introduce each episode as “Masters Of
Science Fiction” brings to the screen
celebrated short stories from the world’s
most highly regarded science fiction
writers.
MASTERS OF HORROR TWO
One-hour films (13 x 60 min)
Executive Producers: Steve Brown,
Morris Berger, John W. Hyde, Mick
Garris, Keith Addis, Andrew Deane
Main Cast: Meatloaf, George Wendt,
Ron Perlman
The second serving of “Masters of
Horror” splashed blood across U.S.
television last fall, following the success
of the Emmy-winning “Masters of
Horror,” with contributions from many
of the horror genre’s most highly
regarded directors.
BEHIND THE MASK
Horror Feature (1 x 90 min)
Executive Producers: Al Corley, Andrew
Lewis, Eugene Musso, Bart Rosenblatt.
Producer, Scott Glosserman
Main Cast: Nathan Baesel, Angela
Goethals, Zelda Rubinstein, with Scott
Wilson and Robert Englund
Leslie Vernon, the next greatest
psycho-slasher has allowed a
documentary film crew to follow him
as he plans and executes his
impending reign of terror over the
citizens of the sleepy town of Glen
Echo.
ELOISE
Animated, traditional 2D (13 x 22 or
5 x 44, plus 1 x 66)
Executive Producers: Stephen R.
Brown, Morris Berger, John Hyde,
Patrick Meehan, Thomas D. Adelman,
Ken Lipman
Main Cast: Lynn Redgrave, Tim
Curry
At long last, the magic of Kay
Thompson’s storytelling and Hilary
Knight’s breathtaking illustrations
are coming to life in a series of
specials featuring everyone’s
favorite six year-old force of
nature.
STAN LEE PRESENTS: THE
CONDOR
Animated movie (1 x 70 min)
Executive Producers: Stephen Brown,
Morris Berger, John W. Hyde, Stan Lee,
Gil Champion
Main Cast: Wilmer Valderamma
Overcoming crippling injuries, Tony
Valdez, a Latino Pro Skateboarder,
utilizes nano-technology and the spirit of
the Condor to redefine his life.
SURF FILM
Surf Film, Via Padre G. A. Filippini, 130
– 00144, Rome, Italy.
Tel: 0039.06.5262101.
Fax: 0039.06.5293816.
www.surffilm.com, email:
[email protected]
Producer, Distributor
At MIP-TV: Stefania Carnevale (Head of
International Sales), Elena Francot
(Domestic Sales Manager), Menna De
Villamor (Sales Assistant)
Office:
MARCELLO
Documentary (about 90’)
Language: Italian, English, French
by Mario Canale, Annarosa Morri
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Italy
Ten years after his death, the name
Mastroianni still evokes memories of an
era: a world composed of talent, good
looks , charm, gentleness and seduction.
LOOKING FOR SOPHIA
Documentary (85’)
Language: Italian, Subtitles: English
by Roberto Olla, Danila Satta
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: Italy
Sophia Loren: her maiden name is Sophia
Scicolone, she was first know in romantic
picture stories as Sophia Lazzaro. Who’s
Sophia? Who is she really?
A SECRET’S LIFE
Documentary (82’)
Language: Italian, English, Spanish
by Enrico Coletti
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Italy
The extraordinary life of an Italian: the only
European to play a leading role in the Cuban
Revolution. The story of Gino Donè, an
ordinary man who lived a hero’s life in secret.
TRAVELLING WITH CHE
GUEVARA
Docufilm following “The motorcycle
diaries” by Walter Salles (120’)
Language: Original Spanish version –
English, Italian
by Gianni Minà
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: Italy
Re-living all this seems like a dream.
Alberto Granado, Che’s travelling
companion is Latin American, goes
through the same adventures of 1952
while following the crew of “The
Motorcycle Diaries “ directed by
Walter Salles.
T
TANDEM
COMMUNICATIONS
GMBH
Tandem Communications GmbH,
Sonnenstraße 14, Munich 80331
Germany. Tel: 49.89.96.22.83.00. Fax:
49.89.96.22.83.10. www.tandemcom.de,
email: [email protected]
At MIP-TV: Rola Bauer (Managing
Director), Tim Halkin (Managing
Director), Jonas Bauer (Prod/Sales Rep)
Bernard Schwab (Intl.Sales Executeve)
Office: R 37.15, Tel: 33.49.299.89.14
PAINKILLER JANE
www.tandemcom.de
Action Series (22 x 60 min)
Language: English
Director: various
Co-Production Partners: Starz Media
Productions, Insight Filmstudios
Producer: Kirk Shaw, Gil Grant, Rob
Word, Kristanna LØken , Rola Bauer
Key Cast: Kristanna LØken
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget $33m US
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Jane is a new kind of hero; her ability to
overcome pain and her keen mind makes
her perfect for a secret mission.
THE COMPANY
Action Thriller (3 x 90 min)
Language: English
Director: Mikael Salomon
Co-Production Partners: Sony Pictures
Television, Scott Free Production, John
Calley Production
Producer: Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, John
Calley
Key Cast: Chris O’Donnell, Alfred
Molina, Michael Keaton, Alessandro
Nivola, Rory Cochrane, Tom Hollander,
Alexandra Maria Lara, Natascha
McElhone, Raoul Bova, Erika Marozsán,
Misel Maticevic
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget $35m US
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
An action-packed thriller that traces the
activities of the CIA’s underground fight
with the KGB, spanning the globe from
Moscow to Berlin, from Washington to
Cuba.
NORA ROBERTS COLLECTION:
ANGELS FALL/MONTANA
SKY/BLUE SMOKE/CAROLINA
MOON
Romantic Thrillers (4 x 90 min)
Director: English
Language: Ralph Hemecker, Mike Robe,
David Carson, Stephen Tolkien
Co-Production Partners: Mandalay
Pictures, Stephanie Germain Productions
in association with Tandem
Communications
Producer: Peter Guber, Stephanie
Germain, Peter Strauss
Key Cast: Heather Locklear, John
Corbett, Claire Forlani, Jacqueline
Bisset, Oliver Hudson, Alicia Witt
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Delivery Status: Completed
Budget $20m US
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A built-in Franchise with the four
compelling, fast-paced thrillers ANGELS
FALL, MONTANA SKY, CAROLINA
MOON and BLUE SMOKE based on
novels by Nora Roberts.
THE STARZ FANTASY AND
ADVENTURE COLLECTION:
SANDS OF OBLIVION
Fantasy/Adventure (approx. 90 min.)
Language: English
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget $5m US
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
An ancient Egyptian curse is unleashed
after having been buried amongst the
sets of Demille’s original Ten
Commandments in California.
TF1
INTERNATIONAL
TF1 International, Immeuble Central
Park - 9, rue Maurice Mallet, 92130
Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.
Tel: 33(0)1.41.41.21.68. Fax:
33(0)1.41.41.21.33.
www.tf1international.fr
Worldwide Distribution
At MIP-TV: Patrick BINET (CEO),
Nicolas ESCHBACH (Executive VP
International Distribution), Annabel
BIGHETTI (Senior Executive VP TV
Sales & Acquisitions), Adeline FONTAN
TESSAUR (Senior VP International
Sales & Acquisitions), Dimitri
STEPHANIDES (International Sales
Manager), Anna MARSH (International
Sales Manager)
Office: Riviera Village – Booth n° R
36.18
UNTHINKABLE Thriller TV Movie (85’) NEW
Version: English (USA)
Director: Keoni Waxman (Amber’s
Story, The Suspect)
Written by: Richard Leder (Amber’s
Story, The Suspect)
Cast: Michelle Forbes (Prison Break,
24), Steven Grayhm, Rachel Hayward,
Philip Granger, Jerry Wasserman
Production company: Nasser
Entertainment Group Production
Delivery date: Early 2007
A detective and mother finds herself torn
between her job as a cop and her role as a
mother when her son commits a brutal murder.
MYSTERE (WORKING TITLE)
Mini series NEW
Director: Didier Albert
Author: Malina Detcheva and Franck
Ollivier
Cast: Toinette Laquière (Zodiac Murders
2, Arnaud Binard, ann Sundberg, Babsie
Steger, Patrick Bauchau, Marisa
Berenson, Lio…
Coproduction: TF1 / Alma Productions
Year of Production: 2007
IN TF1’s new summer saga, a strange
geometric shape in a field becomes
the key to a young woman’s dark
family past.
MIND OVER MURDER
Thriller/TV Movie (90’)
Director: Christopher LEITCH
(Charmed, Moonlighting)
With: Tori SPELLING (Scary Movie 2,
Scream 2, Beverly Hills, 90210), Dean
McDERMOTT (Open Range, Against
the Ropes), Tyrone BENSKIN (Largo
Winch), Mark CAMACHO (Wicker
Park, The Score)
Production: © MUSE Entertainment /
SOUND VENTURE Productions / 2005
Status: Completed
Holly Winters (Tori Spelling), an
assistant D.A. in her mid-30s, is hit by a
car injuring her head. As a result, she
discovers that she has the ability to read
people’s minds.
BLACK WIDOWER
Thriller/TV Movie (90’)
Director: Christopher LEITCH
(Charmed, Moonlighting)
With: Kelly McGILLIS (At first sight,
Top Gun, Perfect Prey, Witness), Francis
X. McCARTHY, David LIPPER
Production: © MUSE Entertainment /
2005
Status: Completed
Bobbi Amos is found dead after a night
of kinky sex and partying with her
husband Lowell “Ed” Amos. Although
Ed acts like a distraught husband when
the police arrive, it all appears a little
suspicious to Officer Patrick Henahan.
CRIME INSIDERS (TRUANDS)
Thriller
Version: French
Director: Frédéric SCHOENDOERFFER
(Spybound)
With: Benoît MAGIMEL (Sky Fighters,
Crimson Rivers 2, The Piano Teacher),
Philippe CAUBÈRE, Béatrice DALLE
(Betty Blue, Trouble Every Day)
Produced by: Eric NÉVÉ (Spybound,
Doberman) - CARCHADORON in
coproduction with LA CHAUVESOURIS and STUDIOCANAL
French Release: January 17th, 2007
Paris, city of lights, city of nights. The
brutal world of Parisian organized crime,
where aging mob boss Claude Corti rules
over his pack of power-hungry thugs
with an iron fist.
THE MOLE NEW (LA TAUPE)
Investigation/Mini series (2 x 53’ or
106’)
Director: Vincenzo Marano
Authors: Sergio Gobbi, Victor Arnold
and Laurent Scalese
Cast: Ingrid Chauvin (Dolmen, Ladies of
the Law, Mediterranee), Linda Hardy,
Yannis Baraban (Zodiac urders 1 & 2),
Jean-Christophe Bouvet (Taxi 4)
Coproduction: Les Films de l’Astre / AT
Production / RTBF
Year of Production: 2007
When a heroine cache vanishes from a
customs depot, inspectors set out to
track down the infiltrator in their
ranks.
PRIME SUSPECT NEW
(PREMIER SUSPECT)
Mini series (2 x 60’ or 120’)
Director: Christian Bonnet
With: Natacha Amal (Ladies of the Law,
Deep ecrets), Bruno Madinier (Dolmen,
Deep ecrets)
Produced by: Exilène Films
Year of production: 2006
A woman judge must fight to prove the
innocence of her husband, accused of
kidnapping his ex-wife…
TIES OF BLOOD NEW (LES LIENS
DU SANG)
Drama/Thriller - TV Movie
(110’ or 2 x 55’)
Director: Régis Musset
Author: Matthieu Savignac
Cast: Pierre Arditi, Ivan Gonzalez
Production: Merlin Productions
Year of Production: 2007
When young Alexandre Landrin is
charged with the murder of his rich
mistress, he asks Antoine Meyer, a onetime criminal attorney who is now a
ruthlessly successful corporate lawyer, to
defend him.
THE LADY OF IZIEU NEW (LA
DAME D’IZIEU)
Drama/Mini series (2 x 90’)
Director: Alain Wermus
Authors: Alain Stern and Stéphane
Kaminka
Cast: Véronique Genest (Julie Police
Commissioner), Vincent Winterhalter,
Gaëla Le Devehat, Charles Lelaure
Coproduction: Sam et Compagnie /
GMT Productions
Year of Production: 2006
The moving true story of the woman
who tried to save Jewish children from
Nazi barbarism…
A MOTHER’S FIGHT (MARIE
HUMBERT: L’AMOUR D’UNE MÈRE)
Drama/TV Movie (96’)
Based on the books, “I Request the Right
to Die”, by Vincent Humbert published
by Michel Lafon Editions, and “I Am
Not a Murderer” by Dr. Chaussoy
published by Oh ! Editions
Director: Marc Angelo
Author: Isabel Sebastian
Cast: Florence Pernel, Edouard Collin,
Matyas Simon,Michael Alcaras, Eric
Franquelin
Year of Production: 2006
The true story of a mother’s fight for her
disabled son’s right to die.
THE TELEVISION
SYNDICATION
COMPANY, INC.
The Television Syndication Company,
Inc., 501 Sabal Lake Drive, Suite 105,
Longwood, FL 32779, USA. Tel:
407.788.6407. Fax: 407.788.4397.
www.TVSCO.com, email:
[email protected]
Distributor
At MIP-TV: Cassie M. Yde (President)
Acquisition Executive: Cassie M. Yde
Office: 4.92.59.44.44, Tel: 4.92.59.44.44
AQUA KIDS
www.aquakids.tv
Children,26 x30’
Language: English, Spanish
Director: George Stover
Producer: Adventure Productions
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: Ongoing-began
production 2005, Country of Origin:
USA
The Aqua Kids are on a critical mission
to educate today’s youth on our
fascinating marine environment and why
it is so vital we conserve our underwater
world.
BLOOD AND OIL
Documentary (1 x 112’)
Language: English
Director: Marty Callghan
Producer: Marty Callghan
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
The devastating conflict and Western
political intrigue that laid the foundation
for wars, coups, revolts and military
interventions in the Middle East begins
here.
EXPLORING HISTORY’S
TREASURES
Series (13 x 30’)
Language: English
Producer: Frank W. Pandozzi
Productions
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
HEROES - NBC UNIVERSAL
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Explore land untouched for hundreds of
years, as footsteps return to remote areas
in search of traces of the past.
EXPO
Documentary/High Definition (1 x 116’)
Language: English
Director: Michael Bussler
Producer: Inecom Entertainment
Cast: Gene Wilder-Narrator
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
Nearly 28 million visit the Fair. Dubbed
the “White city,” it inspires future
innovators like Henry Ford and Frank
Lloyd Wright, debuts the Ferris Wheel
and Cracker Jack, and in many ways,
markets the beginning of the 20th
Century.
GETTYSBURG
Documentary (1 x 180’)
Language: English
Director: Michael Bussler
Producer: Inecom Entertainment
Cast: Keith Carradine-Narrator
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
This film focuses on one of the most
exciting periods in United States history
- America’s Civil War. The scenic beauty
of the Gettysburg battlefield is captured
along with the personal stories of the
men who fought there.
HORSES OF GETTYSBURG
Documentary/High Definition (1 x 180’)
Language: English
Director: Michael Bussler
Producer: Inecom Entertainment
Cast: Ronald F. Maxwell-Narrator
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
This cinematic documentary tells the
story of the estimated 72,000 horses and
mules that fought at the Battle of
Gettysburg.
JOHNSTOWN FLOOD
Documentary (1 x 64’)
Language: English
Director: Michael Bussler
Producer: Inecom Entertainment
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss-Narrator
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: USA
True story of heartbreak, heroism and the
courage to survive. May of 1889, the
South Fork Dam explodes, unleashing a
40-foot wall of water.
THOMPSON STARR
ORGANIZATION
Thompson Starr Organization, 325
Maple Drive, PMB 11236, Beverly Hills,
CA 90213 USA. Tel: 818.998.8126. Fax:
818.773. 8962. [email protected]
Distributor
At MIP-TV: Joey Thompson (President),
Jen Starr (Sales), Trish Russel
(Acquisitions), Chaya Finton
(Marketing)
Offices: Hotel Mexicana, 30 rue Dr.
Dautheville, Juan Les Pins, 06160. Tel
33.4.93.61.31.34, Fax: 33.4.93.67.56.51.
Convention at Palais Tel: 4.93.43.74.92
BLITZKRIEG BOP
(62 min)
Blondie, the Dead boys, The Ramones
The glory days of Punk Rock Explosion.
SAVAGE OUTDOOR WORLD
Documentaries (26 half hour in English)
Producer/Director: Gordon Eastman
Spectacular wilderness adventures.
Never to be seen again.
SUPER CHILDREN’S STORIES
26 half hours
Sheer fun episodes, animated and filmed
excitement. Award winning programs.
THE ADVENTURES OF PETER
COTTONTAIL
52 half hours
In English and Spanish
Thornton Burgess’s Peter Cottontail and
his friends of The Green Forrest.
THE GREAT WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
Casts of famous actors
Complete Collection of Globe Theatre
Plays from Macbeth to The Taming Of
The Shrew. Captivating.
JOHNNY CASH
His greatest Country Western Concert
loaded with likes of Loretta Lynn, Dolly
Parton ,Tex Ritter, Roy Acuff, Jeannie C.
Reilly.
THE NASHVILLE SOUND
TOEI ANIMATION
CO., LTD
Toei Animation Co., Ltd, 58 YokoderaMachi, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo 162-0831,
Japan. Tel: 81.0.3.5261.7619.
Fax: 81.0.3.5261.3875.
www.toei-anim.com, email: [email protected]
Producer
At MIP-TV: Kanji Kazahaya (Director of
Int’l Dept.)
Office: R36.12
DIGIMON DATA SQUAD
Animation (30 min)
Producer: Toei Animation
Delivery Status: Completed
Follow the former schoolyard punk
Masaru Daimon and his digital partner
Agumon as they lead the DATS team in
protecting the human world from evil
Digimon who threaten it!
YES! PRETTY CURE 5
Animation (30 min)
Producer: Toei Animation
The fourth season of the Pretty Cure
features a five girl team as they fight
against Nightmare while they capture all
the Pinky fairies to get their one wish
granted.
TOMWIL, INC
Tomwil, Inc., 4905 Gentry Avenue, Valley
Village, California 91607 USA. Tel:
818.769.0883. Fax: 818.769.0887.
[email protected]
Distributor
At MIP-TV: James Rokos (President),
Wilda A. Rokos (Exec. V.P.)
Acquisition Executive: James Rokos
Office: 09.20, Tel: 04.92.99.8161
CHEERLEADER U
Reality (6x30’)
Language: English
Director: Wilda A. Rokos
Producer: James R. Rokos
Cast: University of Kentucky
Cheerleaders
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A reality series that follows the
renowned University of Kentucky
cheerleaders through the year from
tryouts, endless practices, personal
hardship, to the National Finals to find
out if they will again be the National
Champions.
PINKS
Motorsport reality (49x30’)
Language: English
Delivery Status: 3 seasons completed,
season 4 in production
Year of Production: 2005-2007, Country
of Origin: USA
The hit series on Speed Channel is back
for 4th season as more amateur drag
racers pit car against car with the loser
forfeiting his “pink” slip.
SUPER BIKES!
Motorsports (26x30’)
Language: English
Delivery Status: 1 season completed,
season 2 in production
Year of Production: 2006 – 2007,
Country of Origin: USA
Each episode is packed with highrevving, tire shredding, wheel standing
stunts on the most exhilarating machines
on the planet.
V-TWIN TV
Motorsports (26x30’)
Language: English
Producer: Glen Morgan
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Backyard bike builders, the world’s top
professional painters, custom
builders…V-TWIN TV takes you
underneath the tattooed skin of
motorcycling.
UNIQUE WHIPS
Motorsports (40x60’)
Language: English
Cast: Will Castro
Delivery Status: 2 seasons completed,
season 3 in production
Year of Production: 2005-2007, Country
of Origin: USA
An unscripted series that gives viewers a
look inside the Unique Autosports world
of celebrity car customizing.
TPI
TPI, 4520 Daly Drive, Chantilly, VA
20151 USA. Tel: 703.222.2408. Fax:
703.222.3964. www.tpiltd.com, email:
[email protected]
Producer & distributor
At MIP-TV: Larry Higgs (President),
Ron Alexander (Director of International
Sales), Amanda Rockwell (Program
Development)
Acquisition Executive: Nancy Epstein
Office: Stand R35.03
LONG ROAD TO HEAVEN
Drama (120 min)
Language: English
Director: Enison Sinaro
Producer: TPI
Co-production partners: Kalyana Shira
Films
Cast: Alex Komang, Raelee Hill, Mirrah
Foulkes, Surya Saptura
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA/Indonesia
Based on a true story, the film follows
the events leading up to and after the
terrorist attacks on two nightclubs in Bali
in 2002.
TOUCHED BY WATER
Documentary (1 x 60 min)
Language: English
Director: Tamas Wormser
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
Shot in 14 countries, a look at how we
all relate to water…from historic bathing
rituals in India to exotic European spas.
THE EMERALD EMPIRE: LAND
OF HOPE AND SHADOWS
Documentary (1 x 60 min)
Language: English
Producer: TPI
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
We look at the state of the world’s
largest emerald producing area in
Colombia and the life and death struggle
between the mine owners and narcotrafficers.
SWEPT AWAY
Documentary (1 x 60 min)
Language: English
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Belgium
Two adventurers cross the dangerous
currents of the Bering Straight from
Siberia to Alaska.
THESE AMAZING PEOPLE
Series (7 x 30 min)
Language: English, Spanish, Arabic
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Series features amazing stories ranging
from the French Spiderman who climbs
the world’s tallest buildings to a teenage
girl bullfighter in Mexico.
IN TRANSIT
Documentary (1 x 60 min)
Language: English
Director: Berke Bas
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
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Origin: Turkey
A look at refugees from Iraq and other
countries who are stranded in Istanbul
awaiting passage to Western Europe.
PYRAMID OF CHEOPS
Documentary (1 x 60 min)
Language: English
Director: Luca Trovellesi Cesana
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Italy
Join us on an exploration of the
pyramids of Egypt and examine how
they were built.
TRANSGLOBE
Transglobe, C/ Forjadores, 32, Pol. Ind.
Prado Del Espino, 28660 Boadilla Del
Monte, Madrid, Spain. Tel.:
34.91.632.6160. Fax: 34.91.632.6867.
www.transglobefilms.com, email:
[email protected]
Company Type: Distributor-Producer
At MIP-TV: Joaquin Linares (Managing
Director)
Office: Tel: 34.91.632.6160
TRAVELLER SOUL
Documentary wildlife, nature (13 x 23’)
Language: English/Spanish
Director :Javier Linares/Jan Araujo
Productor:Javier Linares
Delivery Status :Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Spain
The aim of TRAVELLER SOUL is to
show the extraordinary diversity of life
on Earth, the result of millions of years
of evolution.
THE END OF A STYGMA
Documentary Health, Investigation (13 x
23’)
Language: English/Spanish
Director: Jesus Sanchez Romeva
Producor: Javier Linares
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Spain
Across the interventions of the different
persons involved in the treatment and the
struggle against the leprosy, THE END
OF A STIGMA offers a vision real and
updated of the problematics of this
disease.
SAVING THE LYNX
Documentary wildlife, nature,
Investigation (1 x 45’)
Language: English/Spanish
Director: Juan José Fernández
Echeverría
Producer: Javier Linares
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Spain
Even they are left spaces privileged
where the nature follows its course,
changes, evolves by itself.
SHARK MISTAKES
Documentary wildlife, nature,
Underwater (1 x 45’)
Language: English/Spanish
Director: Javier Linares/Jan Araujo
Producer: Javier Linares
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Spain
This documentary highlights the
interaction between man and shark,
seeking to eradicate the widespread idea
of an evil devourer of men.
A HISTORY OF MADRID
Documentary History, Current affairs (1
x 52’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Juan R. Ibañez/ Juan Novoa
Producer: Javier Linares
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Spain
Revising the history of the Windsor
Tower, we can make a route through the
last 30 years of Madrid and Spain.
THE TIGER WAR
Documentary wildlife, nature (1 x 52´)
Language: English/Spanish
Director: Fernando Gonzalez Sitges
Producer: Javier Linares
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: Spain
The subject of this story is a formidable
hunter on whose empire the sun is now
setting.
HIDDEN SECRETS OF THE OCEAN
Documentary science, current affairs (1 x
52’)
Language: English/Spanish
Director: Manuel Morales
Producer: Javier Linares
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: Spain
We dive down into the depths of the
ocean to discover treasures of nature,
animals that, once investigated, can
provide us with the chemistry necessary
to combat this illness that plagues
humanity.
KRAKEN PROJECT: IN SEARCH
OF THE GIANT SQUID
Documentary Discovery (1 x 52’)
Language: English/Spanish
Director: Fernando Gonzalez Sitges
Producer: Javier Linares
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: Spain
A group from the Spanish production
company Transglobe Films is
undertaking a campaign in search of the
legendary giant squid in the depths of the
Carrandi trench.
PLASTIC SURGERY BEFORE AND
AFTER
(45 x 1 Hours)
STUNTDAWGS
(13 Half Hours)
NAMASTE YOGA
(26 Half Hours)
MAKE SOME NOISE
(13 Half Hours)
TWENTIETH
CENTURY FOX
TELEVISION
DISTRIBUTION
Twentieth Century Fox Television
Distribution, P.O. Box 900, Beverly
Hills, CA 90213-0900, USA. Tel:
310.369.1000. Fax: 310.369.8877.
www.fox.com
Distributor
At MIP-TV: Mark Kaner (President,
Twentieth Century Fox Television
Distribution), Marion Edwards
(President, International Television,
Twentieth Century Fox Television
Distribution), Jamie McCabe (Executive
Vice President, Worldwide Pay-PerView, Video-On-Demand, Electronic
Sell-Through), Michael Bessolo (Senior
Vice President, Marketing, Publicity and
Promotions, Twentieth Century Fox
Television Distribution), Gina Brogi
(Vice President, Worldwide Pay
Television), Rosemary Churns (Vice
President, Pay-Per-View, Video-OnDemand)
Acquisition Exec: Marion Edwards
(President, International Television,
Twentieth Century Fox Television
Distribution)
Office: E3.01, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.8507
DRIVE
www.fox.com
Drama (13 x 60 min)
Language: English
Director: Various
Executive Producers: Tim Minear, Ben
Queen, Greg Yaitanes
Co-production partners: Produced by
Twentieth Century Fox Television
Cast: Nathan Fillion (Alex Tully),
Kristin Lehman (Corrina Wiles), Mircea
Monroe (Ellie), Rochelle Aytes (Leigh),
Kevin Alejandro (Winston Salazar),
Emma Stone (Violet Trimble), Melanie
Lynskey (Wendy), Taryn Manning (Ivy
Chitty), Riley Smith (Rob Laird), Dylan
Baker (John Trimble), J.D. Pardo (Sean
Salazar), Michael Hyatt (Susan), Charles
Martin Smith (Mr. Bright).
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
DRIVE is an action-fueled drama
following a diverse group of Americans
driving for their lives (or the lives of
their loved ones) in a sinister, crosscountry road race.
THE WEDDING BELLS
www.fox.com
Drama (13 x 60 min)
Language: English
Director: Various
Executive Producers: David E. Kelly,
Jonathan Pontell
Co-production partners: Produced by
David E. Kelley Productions in
association with Twentieth Century Fox
Television
Cast: Kadee Strickland (Annie Bell), Teri
Polo (Jane Bell), Sarah Jones (Sammy
Bell), Michael Landes (David Conlon),
Benjamin King (Russell Hawkins), Chris
Williams (Ralph Snow).
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A romantic dramedy about a familyowned wedding planning business
dedicated to helping its clients live
happily ever after… or at least until they
get to the parking lot.
THE RICHES
www.foxfast.com
Drama (13 x 60 min)
Language: English
Director: Various
Executive Producers: Dmitry Lipkin,
Eddie Izzard, Dawn Prestwich, Nicole
Yorkin, Michael Rosenberg, Mark
Morgan, Guy Oseary.
TVFILMBIZ INTL
Tvfilmbiz Intl, 20501 Ventura Blvd., Suite
280, Woodland Hills CA 91364 USA.Tel:
818.346.9711. Ext. 14. Fax:
818.346.9036. www.tvfilmbiz.com
At MIP-TV: Scott A. Hanock (Pres Intl
Sales)
Office: #15.30
LIFES FUNNIEST MOMENTS
(125 Half Hours)
PLANETS FUNNIEST ANIMALS
(225 Half Hours)
PROS VS JOES
(20 x 1 Hours + Format Rights)
MONSTER NATION
(40 x 1 Hours)
AIR PLANET
(130 Half Hours)
THE WINNER - TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION
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Co-production partners: Produced by FX
Productions and Maverick Television in
association with Twentieth Century Fox.
Cast: Eddie Izzard (Wayne Malloy),
Minnie Driver (Dahlia Malloy), Todd
Stashwick (Dale Malone), Shannon
Marie Woodward (Di Di Malloy), Aidan
Mitchell (Sam Malloy), Noel Fisher
(Cael Malone), Jason Douglas (Dale
Malloy), Louis Herthum (Trooper
Yardley).
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver star as
con artists who take on the identity of a
deceased suburban family to try and live
a “normal” life with their three children.
SAVING GRACE
www.foxfast.com
Drama (13 x 60 min)
Language: English
Director: Various
Executive Producers: Nancy A. Miller,
Gary A. Randall, Artie Mandelberg
Co-production partners: Fox Television
Studios
Cast: Holly Hunter (Grace Anadarko),
Laura San Giacomo (Rhetta), Leon
Rippy (Earl), Bokeem Woodbine (Leon),
Kenneth Johnson (Ham), Bailey Chase
(Butch).
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Oscar winner Holly Hunter stars as
Grace, a jaded Oklahoma City police
detective who is visited by an irascible
angel and offered an opportunity to
redeem her life…
THE WINNER
www.fox.com
Comedy (6 x 30 min)
Language: English
Director: Various
Executive Producers: Seth MacFarlane,
Ricky Blitt
Co-production partners: Produced by
Twentieth Century Fox Television
Cast: Rob Corddry (Glen Abbott), Keir
Gilchrist (Josh), Erinn Hayes (Alison
Miller), Linda Hart (Irene), Lenny
Clarke (Ron).
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A late-blooming slacker, still living with
his parents, finally steps out into the
world to try to make something of
himself when the only girl he ever kissed
returns to town.
THE SINGLES TABLE
www.fox.com
Comedy (6 x 30 min)
Language: English
Director: Various
Executive Producers: Bill Martin, Mike
Schiff
Co-production partners: Produced by
Twentieth Century Fox Television
Cast: John Cho (Ivan), Alicia Silverstone
(Georgia), Conor Dubin (Eli), Jarrad
Paul (Adam), Rhea Seehorn (Stephanie).
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
The story of five witty and single
strangers at a wedding with one thing in
common: they are each a party of one
stuck at a remote table for singles.
PRISON BREAK
www.fox.com
Drama (44 x 60 min)
Language: English
Director: Various
Executive Producers: Paul T. Scheuring,
Matt Olmstead, Kevin Hooks, Marty
Adelstein, Dawn Parouse, Neal Moritz,
Brett Ratner
Co-production partners: Produced by
Twentieth Century Fox Television and
Adelstein-Parouse Productions
Cast: Dominic Purcell (Lincoln
Burrows), Wentworth Miller (Michael
Scofield), Robin Tunney (Veronica
Donovan), Amaury Nolasco (Fernando
Sucre), Marshall Allman (LJ Burrows),
Wade Williams (Capt. Brad Bellick),
Paul Adelstein (Agent Paul Kellerman),
Robert Knepper (T-Bag), Rockmond
Dunbar (C-Note), Sarah Wayne Callies
(Dr. Sara Tancredi), William Fichtner
(Alexander Mahone), Peter Stormare
(John Abruzzi), Stacy Keach (Warden
Henry Pope), Lane Garrison (Tweener),
Silas Weir Mitchell (Haywire), John
Heard (Governor Tancredi).
Delivery Status: Season 2 in Production;
Season 1 Completed
Year of Production: 2005-2007, Country
of Origin: USA
Drama about prison escapees on the run
from the authorities and a government
conspiracy. They are desperate to be the
first to reach a hidden stash of $5 million
and evade capture.
SHARK
www.fox.com
Drama (22 x 60 min)
Language: English
Director: Various
Executive Producers: Brian Grazer,
David Nevins, Ian Biederman, Ed
Redlich, Rod Holcomb
Co-production partners: Produced by
Imagine Television in association with
Twentieth Century Fox Television
Cast: James Woods (Sebastian Stark),
Jeri Ryan (Jessica Devlin), Samuel Page
(Casey Woodland), Sophina Brown
(Raina Troy), Alexis Cruz (Martin
Allende), Sarah Carter (Madeline Poe),
Danielle Panabaker (Julie Stark).
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2006-2007, Country
of Origin: USA
A drama that follows the professional
and personal life of Sebastian Stark,
who, after a shocking outcome in one of
his cases, brings his cutthroat tactics to
the prosecutor’s office.
U
UBU PRODUCTIONS
UBU Productions, P. O. Box 40 19 65 ,
Munich D-80719, Germany.
Tel: 49.160.928.150.21.
[email protected]
Production, distribution
At MIP-TV: Mr. Jean Uliczay
(President, Prod., Exec. Producer), Ms.
Alice Kanterian (Acquisitions), Mr. Jean
Kail (Director)
Office: Media booth
HANG HIM HIGHER
Road movie (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Jean Kail
Producer: Jean Uliczay
Co-production partners: UBU
Productions
Delivery Status: pre-production
Budget: 3 mill. US $
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA / F / D
The Hang Man needs the hanging men to
be satisfied.
DRACULA ON THE ROAD
Horror comedy (90 min)
Language: English, Romanian
Director: Jean Uliczay
Producer: Jean Uliczay
Co-production partners: UBU
Productions, Tansylvania Productions
Delivery Status: post-production
Budget: 3mill. US $
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Germany / Romania
Dr. Franckenstein as Dracula on the road
in Europe.
ISLAMIC ATTACK
Reality-based (120 min)
Language: English, French, German
Director: Jean Kail
Producer: Jean Uliczay
Co-production partners: UBU
Productions
Delivery Status: post production
Budget: 3 mill. US $
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Germany, GB, F
The Islamic conquest in Europe.
V
VALLEY
PRODUCTIONS
Valley Productions, 39/41 Hanover
Steps, St. George’s Fields, London W2
2YG United Kingdom.
Tel: 44.207.402.7543.
Fax: 44.207.262.5736.
www.brianjacksonfilms.com
At MIP-TV: Brian Jackson (CEO), Ms.
Jo Jackson (Chief Designer)
Office: The Media Market Place
Umbrella. Stand H4:35
GREAT RUSSIAN WRITERS
Art Documentary (8 x 30 min)
Language: English
Director: Various
Co-Production Partners: Gostelradio
Productions
Producer: F. Constantine
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: completed
Year of Production: Various, Country of
Origin: UK & Russia
Beautifully filmed in-depth studies of the
lives of Russia’s immortal literary giantsTolstoy; Pushkin; Chekhov; Dostoevsky;
Gorky; Blok; Mayakovsky and
Pasternak. An ‘A List’ acquisition.
GREAT RUSSIAN COMPOSERS
Art Documentary (6 x 30 min)
Language: English
Director: various
Co-Production Partners: Gostelradio
Productions
Producer: F. Constantine
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: completed
Year of Production: various, Country of
Origin: UK & Russia
Lovingly produced in-depth studies of
the lives of Russia’s renowned
composers- Mussorgsky; Tchaikovsky;
Scriabin; Rimsky Korsakov;
Rachmaninov and Chaliapin. A ‘must
have’ for every Arts Schedule.
VITAGRAPH
Vitagraph, Via Schiavonia 1 I-40121
Bologna Italy. Tel: 39.051.267.150. Fax:
39.051.267.150. www.vitagraph.it, email:
[email protected]
Sales agent and distributor
At MIP-TV: Filippo D’Angelo (general
manager)
Acquisition Executive: Filippo D’Angelo
Office: MEDIA Stand number H4.35
(4th and 5th floor of the Palais des
Festivals in Cannes), Tel: 33.4.92998596,
Fax: 33.4.92998597
ONLY BELLE - A SERIAL KILLER
FROM SELBU
Documentary (52 min)
Language: English
Director: Anne Berit Vestby
Producer: Anne Berit Vestby
Delivery Status: completed
Budget: 250,000$
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Norway
Belle Gunness, born in Selbu, Norway in
1859, became one of the most notorious
female serial killers of all times in
Chicago.
RING! A BOXING STORY
Documentary (55 min)
Language: Italian, English
Director: Giotto Barbieri
Producer: Giotto Barbieri
Delivery Status: completed
Budget: 150,000$
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Italy
Ring! starts from the pure gesture of
boxing and its hard training to what this
sport is today.
MY HUSBAND ANDREI
SAKHAROV
Documentary (52 min)
Director: Inara Kolmane
Producer: Janis Juhnevics & Imants
Mozers
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Delivery Status: completed
Budget: 300,000$
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Latvia / France
How does the brains of the Soviet
regime, an academician, the father of the
hydrogen bomb, become a champion of
human rights?
VOX FILM- UND
FERNSEH- GMBH &
CO. KG
VOX Film- und Fernseh- GmbH & Co.
KG, Richard- Byrd- Strasse 6, 50829
Koel, Germany. Tel: 49.221.953.4397.
Fax: 49.221.953.4469. www.vox.de
Television Company
At MIP-TV: Frank Hoffmann (Managing
Director), Katja Rieger (Programme
Development), Beate Uhrmeister-Barz
(Head of Feature Film & TV Series)
Office: no booth at market, pending
contact number
W
WATERFRONT
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP LTD
Waterfront Entertainment Group Ltd,
1720 West 2nd Avenue, Vancouver, BC
V6J-1H6 Canada. Tel: 1.604.738.5188.
Fax: 1.604.738.5189.
www.waterfrontpictures.net, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: David Doerksen (President /
CEO)
Office: Canada Pavilion 02.07, Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.83.14. Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.83.57
RED ROVER
www.waterfrontpictures.net
Thriller (100 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Marc Grenier
Producer: Lee Faulkner
Key Cast: William Baldwin, Jodi Lyn
O’Keefe
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget $5.5 million
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: Canada
Siblings travel to their ancestral mansion
and encounter strange occurrences that
ultimately lead to the revelation that their
family’s ancient secrets of the occult
have left them in danger.
A VERY FAIRY CHRISTMAS
www.waterfrontpictures.net
Animated holiday special (48 min)
Language: English
Director: Ron Crown
Producer: Jim O’Grady
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget $1.5 million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
Through an amazing encounter with one
of Santa’s fairies, a young girl learns the
true meaning of friendship and
Christmas by helping to finalize Santa’s
‘Naughty and Nice’ list.
A FAIRY TALE CHRISTMAS
www.waterfrontpictures.net
Animated holiday special (48 min)
Director: English
Language: Tim Tyler
Producer: Philip Doerksen
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget $1.5 million
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Canada
A kidnapped, young princess must find
her way back to her father’s kingdom
and prove that she is in fact his long-lost
daughter by giving him a special
Christmas song.
CAUGHT IN THE HEADLIGHTS
www.waterfrontpictures.net
Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Gavin Wilding
Producer: David Doerksen
Key Cast: Erika Eleniak; Stacey Keach;
Kim Coates
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget $3.5 million
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: Canada
A simple case of “retrieve and return”
escalates into a frenzied cat and mouse
game for Federal agent Kate Parker in
this exciting thriller.
FEAR OF THE DARK
www.waterfrontpictures.net
Thriller / horror (93 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Kim Bascombe
Producer: Lee Faulkner
Key Cast: Kevin Zegers; Jesse James;
Linda Purl
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget $4.0 million
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: Canada
Dale refuses to take his brother’s new
fear of the dark seriously until terrifying
events begin to occur and Dale starts to
understand Ryan’s horror.
Z
ZDF ENTERPRISES
GMBH
ZDF Enterprises GmbH, Lise-MeitnerStr. 9, D-55129 Mainz, Germany.
Tel: 49.6131-.91221.
Fax: 49.6131.991229. www.zdfenterprises.de
At MIP-TV: Alexander Coridass
(President and CEO), Armin Rabe (Vice
President and COO), Markus Schaechter
(Chairman of the Supervisory Board)
Office: Mainz 14, HRB 4927
UPDATE - THE WORLD IN 50
YEARS
www.zdfenterprises.de/update_the_world_in_50_
years.13805.htm
Documentaries / Social Issues and
Science 3 x 52’
Producer: Uwe Kersken, Gruppe 5
Filmproduktion
Status: NEW
Country of Origin: Germany
This high-gloss documentary series
presents visions of tomorrow’s world
that are visually stimulating and meet the
highest international standards.
VERDUN - DESCENT INTO HELL
www.zdfenterprises.de/verdun_descent_into_hell.
13953.htm
Documentaries / History and Biographies
(1 x 52’)
Producer: Loopfilm GmbH
Status: NEW
Country of Origin: Germany
The Battle of Verdun – the battle that
was to become the symbol for the
insanity of modern warfare - raged for
300 days.
EXPEDITION WALLACEA
www.zdfenterprises.de/expedition_wallacea.1394
9.htm
Documentaries / Wildlife and Nature (1
x 52’ / HDTV)
Producer: Matthias Kopfmueller,
Greenscreen TV
Status: NEW
Country of Origin: Germany
In 1850, Alfred Russell Wallace
investigates the island world of the
Malayan archipelagos - and discovers
that the nature there is separated into two
parts through a mysterious magical
border.
BLACK SEPTEMBER
www.zdfenterprises.de/black_september_the_attac
k_on_the_1972_munich_olympics.12276
.htm
Documentaries / History and Biographies
(1 x 90’)
Producer: Leopold Hoesch, Broadview
TV
Status: NEW
Country of Origin: Germany
September 11th. Government officials
are told that terrorists have hijacked a
plane and are about to carry out a
devastating suicide attack. A familiar
scenario – but it’s Munich, 1972 and not
New York, 2001.
DESERTS - DESTROYERS OF
CIVILIZATION
www.zdfenterprises.de/deserts_destroyers_of_civi
lization.13576.htm
Documentaries / Social Issues and
Science (2 x 50’ / HDTV)
Producer: Ralf Dilger, medicine
Status: NEW
Country of Origin: Germany
According to the United Nations,
desertification affects more than 2.6
billion people in 110 countries.
LIVING IN THE SKY
Documentaries / Social Issues and
Science (1 x 50’)
Producer: Timm Ellwart, arte
Status: NEW
Country of Origin: Germany
What will the high-rise life of the future
really be like? Architects in Hong Kong,
Vienna and Munich show their
achievements and their plans, in radically
contrasting cities.
TURNING THE WORLD ON ITS
HEAD
www.zdfenterprises.de/turning_the_world_on_its_
head.13293.htm
Documentaries / Social Issues and
Science (1 x 43’)
Producer: arte
Status: NEW
Country of Origin: Germany
Four billion years ago, a day on earth
lasted just five hours. Even 900 million
years ago, the world revolved in just
eighteen hours!
THE REAL NEANDERTHAL MAN
Documentaries / Social Issues and
Science (1 x 45’)
Producer: ZDF for ZDF Enterprises
Status: NEW
Country of Origin: Germany
We all know the word ‘Neanderthal’ as
an unflattering qualifier for some of our
more uncultured and dim-witted fellow
humans. But was the real Neanderthal
man truly such an intellectual dunce and
social oaf?
KDD
www.zdfenterprises.de/kriminaldauerdienst.13925
.htm
Series / Crime and Suspense (24 x 45’
and 1 x 90’ (pilot))
Producer: Kathrin Breininger / Hofmann
& Voges, München
Status: NEW
Country of Origin: Germany
The officers of Berlin’s ‘KDD’ are
always the first at the scene of the crime.
‘We don’t open files, we put out fires!
STOLBERG
www.zdfenterprises.de/stolberg.13927.htm
Series / Crime and Suspense (14 x 60’)
Producer: Network Movie, Köln
Status: NEW
Country of Origin: Germany
Duesseldorf police inspector Martin
Stolberg is a man one easily confides in even in the bleakest and most depressing
circumstances.
ZIA FILM
DISTRIBUTION
Zia Film Distribution, 369 Montezuma
Ave. #320, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
USA. Tel: 505.438.9299. Fax:
505.438.6137. www.ziafilm.com,
[email protected]
Worldwide Distributor
At MIP-TV: Bobbi Valentine (President)
Douglas M. Heller (Exec. VP)
Acquisition Executive: Douglas M.
Heller
Office: Stand O7.16
AN AMERICAN CHRISTMAS
CAROL
Family (96 min)
Language: English
Producer: Scrooge Productions
Cast: Henry Winkler; David Wayne
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 1983 (Remastered in
1999), Country of Origin: Canadian
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In the update of the Charles Dickens’
classic, Victorian London is transformed
into 1933 Concord, New Hampshire
where this tale recounts the adventures
of a more modern Scrooge, as portrayed
by Henry Winkler.
THE BONEYARD
Horror (98 min)
Language: English
Producer: Backbone Productions
Cast: Phyllis Diller, Ed Nelson, Norman
Fell
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 1991, Country of
Origin: USA
A bizarre cult murder leads a psychic
and a detective to the county morgue
where they encounter a weird graveyard
shift supervisor and a hip coroner.
DON’T GO NEAR THE PARK
Horror (95 min )
Language: English
Cast: Aldo Ray, Meeno Peluce
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 1979 (Remastered in
2006), Country of Origin: USA
12,000 years ago, two members of a
superhuman tribe abuse the treasured
secret of eternal youth using the ritual of
cannibalism. When discovered by the
Queen of their tribe, they are cursed to
an eternity of old age.
DUTY DATING
Romantic Comedy (94 min)
Language: English
Cast: Lauren Sinclair, Paul Satterfield
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2000, Country of
Origin: USA
If love could be bottled and sold, our
painful longings would end. “Duty
Dating” is the magical film that
examines this desire and gets results.
SHERLOCK HOLMES: HOUND OF
THE BASKERVILLES
Mystery Thriller (101 min)
Language: English
Producer: Sy Weintraub
Cast: Ian Richardson, Denholm Elliot
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 1883 (Remastered in
1999), Country of Origin: United
Kingdom
This masterful retelling of a timeless tale
of murder and supernatural mystery, is a
fresh interpretation of the ageless stories
of Sherlock Holmes.
BOX OFFICE AMERICA
Weekly Entertainment (52 x 30 min)
Language: English
Delivery Status: In production Weekly
Year of Production: on-going for 14
years, Country of Origin: USA
The hottest weekly half-hour of
Hollywood’s biggest motion picture box
office hits has been sold around the
world. This fast-paced hosted countdown
show gives you big-screen feature film
highlights, superstars and on-location
specials.
HOLLYWOOD HIGHLIGHTS
Weekly Entertainment Program
Language: English
Delivery Status: In production weekly
Year of Production: On-going For 14
years, Country of Origin: USA
The largest and most comprehensive
catalog of short-form show biz
entertainment segments on Hollywood.
This library contains more than 1,000
individual featurettes, from one to five
minutes in length including, (Star
Chatter, Legends of Hollywood, Coming
Soon, Behind the Scenes.
THE SERIAL KILLERS
Reality (13 x 30 min)
Language: English
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 1995, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
Chilling and provocative look at 13 of
America’s most infamous contemporary
serial killers. Through in-depth
interviews with law enforcement
officers, victim’s relatives and the
criminals themselves.
NO VACANCY
Environmental Documentary (60/90 min)
Language: English
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
If current world population trends were
to continue, human numbers could more
than double, hitting an astounding
number of 13 BILLION sometime in the
22nd Century. A population explosion of
such magnitude (not could) would be
ecologically disastrous.
MAD COWBOY
Environmental Documentary (60/110
min)
Language: English
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
The surprising odyssey of a 4th
generation Wyoming cattle rancher who
turns “vegan” and overcomes a
paralyzing tumor, who along with Oprah,
wins a free speech battle against the
Cattlemen’s Association.
HIGH AMBITIONS IN THE
HIMALAYA
Adventure/Lifestyle Documentary, 60
min
Language: English
Director: Curt Dowdy
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
On the world’s highest mountains, most
climbers return home without reaching
the summit.and some don’t return at all.
High Ambitions follows five
international teammates as they attempt
Mount Cho Oyu in Tibet.
CLIPS/FOOTAGE
Funny, sexy, bizzare, bloopers, outtakes,
50 hours avail.
Language: English
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2000-2007, Country
of Origin: USA, Australia, France
A wild collection of pets antics, sports
crashes, TV Show Bloopers, Reality
footage, wedding bloopers and more!
ZZJ
ZZJ, Avda. de los Descubrimientos, 11
Isla de la Cartuja, Seville, 41092 Spain.
Tel: 34.955.091.100. Fax:
34.955.091.101. www.zzj.es, email:
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Ms. Talinka Martínez
(Commercial Director), Mr. José Maria
Zafra (Managing Director)
Office: Stand Number H.435, 4th and
5th Floor, Tel: 34.618.705.515
THE MEMORY OF THE WIND
Documentary (60’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Fernando Blanco
Producer: Rafael González
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Spain
Based on the diary written by the sailor
Cristóbal Serrán during the first roundthe-world trip of the training-ship “Juan
Sebastián de Elcano” in 1928, the
documentary is a trip sailing now in the
same ship, and tying up in the same
ports.
CHILDREN’S NIGHT SHOW
Formats (90’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Laura Fernández
Producer: Guillermo Jimeno
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Spain
What would happen if small children
took the control of the television for
several hours? Who will they interview,
what will they discuss, who would sing?
And who would watch the program?
Everyone.
GOD-AWFUL
Formats (60’)
Director: Spanish
Language: Guillermo Jimeno
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Spain
An original Entertainment program that
combines fiction and reality to tackle the
news in a different way. Seven female
characters, with different personalities,
bring to the audience the current news
with intelligence and irony.
PIANO, PIANO
Formats (30’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Guillermo Jimeno
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Spain
The quiz and the show, joined by music.
30 minutes to solve questions, guess
songs and to have a good time with our
favourite artists.
TOPTALENT
Formats (150’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Guillermo Jimeno
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Spain
Do you know how to sing? Show it, sing
in a duo with our consecrated artist and
the audience decides.
SCRAMBLED PLATES
Formats (30’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Guillermo Jimeno
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003-2006, Country
of Origin: Spain
Two pairs of contestant answer questions
starting with the letters and numbers of
car license plates. The answer will be
alphabetical or numeric, coinciding with
the data appearing on the plates.
HOME DELIVERY
Formats (45’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Guillermo Jimeno
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: Spain
This is a modern quiz show - live, and
for surprise, in the contestant’s own
home.
RED NUMBER
Formats (120’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Guillermo Jimeno
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1997-2002, Country
of Origin: Spain
Liquidating a debt was never so
amusing. Would you like to say goodbye to huge mortgage or a car loan or a
business debt?
DOUBLE GAME
Formats (90’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Guillermo Jimeno
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002, Country of
Origin: Spain
A game quiz and reality show where
characteristics are mixed. To win this
question and answer game, emotional
answers prevail above intelligence and
knowledge.
FLASHBACK
Formats (55’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Guillermo Jimeno
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002-2003, Country
of Origin: Spain
Flashback is the first TV show that uses
hypnotic regression as way to travel back
to the past in order to find lost episodes
of the memory. The most touching
testimonies return to television.
THE FOLLOWING ARE
ALL ADDITIONAL LATE
LISTINGS FOR MIPTV
FILMEXPORT
GROUP
Filmexport Group, Via Del Pianeta
Urano, 60, Rome, Italy.
Tel: 06.52207432.
Fax: 06.52278416.
www.filmexport.com,
email: [email protected]
Sales agent
At MIP-TV: Roberto Di Girolamo
(President), Laura Maurano (Sales
Manager)
Office: stand ICE/ANICA – Riviera –
Nr. 36.17, Tel: 04.92998837
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NOAH’S ARK
Animation
Language: Spanish, Italian, English
Director: Juan Pablo Buscarini
Producer: Production Group, Patagonik
Animation Group
Delivery Status: postproduction
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Argentina, Italy
A classic animated film that tackles an
absolutely universal subject, in a context
of adventures and humour, in which the
animals are the main characters.
THE NIGHT BEFORE FINALS
Comedy (100’)
Language: Italian, English
Director: Fausto Brizzi
Producer: RAI CINEMA, ITALIAN
INTERNATIONAL FILM, AURORA
FILM
Key Cast: Giorgio Faletti, Cristiana
Capotondi, Nicolas Vaporidis
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: ITALY
This film is a multifaceted generational
comedy: the young characters fall in
love, become desperate and have a good
time… and they grow up.
PSYCHO GAME
Thriller (110’)
Language: Spanish, English,
Director: Javier Elorrieta
Producer: CHIRICULL – ORIGEN
(U.T.E.)
Key Cast: Maria Elena Swett, Fabian
Mazzei, Javier Martin
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Chile, Spain
During a holiday, Javier and Laura, a
young couple, meet with an apparently
friendly man. The friendship turns out in
a dramatic event for Laura.
THE BALL (LISCIO)
Family (80’)
Language: Italian, English,
Director: Claudio Antonini
Producer: ASP
Co-production partners: DODICI
DICEMBRE
Key Cast: Laura Morante, Umberto
Morelli, Antonio Catania
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Italy
Monica, an Italian folk singer, wants to
start her own career while her son would
like to help her choosing the right man
and the right music for her.
ISLAND OF THE LIVING DEAD
Horror (91’)
Language: English,
Director: Vincent Dawn
Producer: LA PERLA NERA
Key Cast: Yvette Yzon, Alvin Anson,
Ronald Russo
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Italy
A crew are shipwrecked on an island that
isn’t marked out on a map. It would
seem to be a desert island but they are
not alone.
GREENESTREET
FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
GreeneStreet Films International, 275 S.
Beverly Drive, Suite 210, Beverly Hills,
CA 90212 USA. Tel: 310.860.1113.
Fax: 310.860.1311.
www.greenestreetfilms.com
At MIP-TV: Ariel Veneziano (President,
GreeneStreet Films International),
Annouchka Lesoeur (Sales Consultant)
Office: IFTA stand 01.02, Tel:
04.92.99.8207
TENDERNESS
Thriller
Language: English
Director: John Polson
Producer: John Penotti, Howard Metzler,
Charles Randolph
Key Cast: Russell Crow, Jon Foster,
Sophie Traub
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Lori, a 16-year old runaway, becomes
entranced with Eric, a young man with a
violent past, recently released from
prison.
SLOW BURN
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Wayne Beach
Co-Production Partners: Sydney Kimmel
Entertainment
Producer: Fisher Stevens, Sidney
Kimmel, Bonnie Timmerman, Tim
Williams
Key Cast: Ray Liotta, James Todd Smith
aka LL Cool J., Jolene Blaylock, Mekhi
Phifer, Taye Diggs
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 5005, Country of
Origin: USA
A District Attorney is involved in a 24hour showdown with a gang leader while
being manipulated by an attractive
assistant District Attorney and a cryptic
stranger both at the same time.
ONCE IN A LIFETIME
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Paul Crowder, John Dower
Producer: John Battsek, Fisher Stevens,
Tim Williams
Key Cast: Matt Dillon (narrator)
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
During New York’s wild 70s, a group of
visionary, “larger than life” executives
brought together the world’s biggest
soccer stars to create the New York
Cosmos which soon became the
epicenter of the city at its most extreme,
creative and decadent times.
YES
Drama
Language: English
Director: Sally Potter
Co-Production Partners: UK Film
Council
Producer: Christopher Sheppard, Andrew
Fierberg
Key Cast: Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian,
Sam Neill
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: UK
Suffocating in a failed marriage, a
woman sparks an affair with a Lebanese
surgeon exiled in London.
2001 MANIACS
Horror
Language: English
Director: Tim Sullivan
Producer: Christopher Tuffin, Brett
Nemeroff, Eli Roth, Scott Spiegel, Boaz
Yakin
Co-Production Partners: Velvet
Steamroller Entertainment
Key Cast: Robert Englund
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006
On the way to spring break, a group of
college kids take a detour through an Old
Southern town. The people of Pleasant
Valley insist the kids stay for their
annual barbecue celebration...but instead
of getting a taste of the old South, the
old South gets a taste of them!
SCREEN MEDIA
VENTURES, LLC
Screen Media Ventures, 757 Third
Avenue, New York, NY 10017 USA.
Tel: 212.308.1790. Fax: 212.308.1791.
www.screenmedia.net
At MIP-TV: Joseph Kovacs (President),
Almira Malyshev (Senior VP,
International Sales), Michael Dwyer
(Director of International Sales)
Office: Riviera - Stand R36.04,
Tel: 33.4.92.99.88.10
DISHDOGZ
Director: Mikey Hilb
Starring: Haylie Duff, Luke Perry and
Marshall Allman
Year of Production: 2005
A coming of age story about a teenager
working at an extreme sports camp as a
dishwasher and his relationship with the
chef, who was a skateboarding pioneer
back in the day.
PREY FOR ROCK AND ROLL
Director: Alex Steyermark
Starring: Gina Gershon, Drea de Matteo,
Lori Petty, Shelly Cole
Year of Production: 2003
An all-girl rock quartet named
Clamdandy tries to break out of
obscurity on the Los Angeles scene.
NINE LIVES
Director: Andrew Green
Starring: Paris Hilton, Amelia Warner
Year of Production: 2002
When nine hard-partying pals converge
on an ancient Scottish estate for a
weekend of bacchanalia, their plans turn
ghoulishly awry after they discover that
the house holds a grisly secret.
ELLIE PARKER
Director: Scott Coffey
Starring: Naomi Watts, Rebecca Riggs
Co-stars Rebecca Rigg, Mark
Pellegrino, Chevy Chase and Scott
Coffey, who also directed the film.
Year of Production: 2005
Ellie lives the typical life of a
struggling actress in Hollywood, but
somehow, she finds a way to laugh
through it all in this charming comedy
that first found its audience as a short
film.
THE SCREEN MEDIA LIBRARY
Over 400 Feature Films of all Genres.
SULLIVAN
ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
Sullivan Entertainment Inc., 110
Davenport Road, Toronto, ON, M5R 3R3
Canada. Tel: 416.921.7177. Fax:
416.921.7538. www.sullivanmovies.com
email: [email protected]
Producer/Distributor
At MIP-TV: Kevin Sullivan (President),
Klaus Northmore (Director, Sales &
Acquisitions), Christine Chiu (Manager,
Sales & Acquisitions), Thom Chapman
(Manager, Sales & Acquisitions)
Office: 15.20, Tel: 33.(0).4.92.99.8096
WATER, WATER
Enviro-Documentary (3 x 60’)
Language: English
Director: Guo Fangfang
Writer: Larry Bawman, Maggie Siccini
Producer: Gerald Sperling
Co-production partners: Shaanxi
Productions - China
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Canada
A three-part series that exposes today’s
growing water crisis around the world.
MAGIC FLUTE DIARIES
Drama (120’)
Language: English
Director: Kevin Sullivan
Writer: Kevin Sullivan
Producer: Kevin Sullivan
Key Cast: Rutger Hauer, Warren
Christie, Laura DeCarteret
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2006/07, Country of
Origin: Canada
Nothing is as it seems and we soon learn
that Tom’s mysterious love interest is
being held against her will in a lavish
palace.
ANNE OF GREEN: PART IV
Drama (2 x 120’)
Language: English
Director: Kevin Sullivan
Writer: Kevin Sullivan
Producer: Kevin Sullivan
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Year of Production: 2007/08, Country of
Origin: Canada
VISION FILMS /
VISION MUSIC
Vision Films / Vision Music, 14945
Ventura Blvd. Ste. 306, Sherman Oaks,
CA 91403 USA. Tel: 818.784.1702. Fax:
818.788.3715. www.visionfilms.net,
www.visionmusicinc.net, email:
[email protected],
[email protected]
At MIP-TV: Lise Romanoff (Managing
Director, Worldwide Distribution), Andre
Relis (Vice President Intl. Sales &
Acquisitions)
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ANNIE: LIFE AFTER TOMORROW
Documentary (75 min)
Year of Production: 2006
What do Sarah Jessica Parker, Alyssa
Milano, Molly Ringwald, Julie Stevens
and over 40 other young girls have in
common? They all began their careers as
child actresses appearing in the hit
musical “Annie.”
TREASURES OF LONG GONE
JOHN
Documentary (90 min)
Year of Production: 2007
Pop culture, Collectables, Low Brow
Art, and the Music of anti-mogul, inde
rock label (White Stripes), Long Gone
John defines the eccentricities of fringe
culture.
MAGNIFICENT ITALIA
Travel Series (24 x 1/2 hr)
Year of Production: 2006
Take an unprecedented journey though
Italy, from the Alps, to Tuscany, to
Umbria, to Rome, to Venice, to the
Basilicata and to Sicily in stunning Hi
Def photography.
7EVENTY 5IVE
Feature Horror (90 min)
Year of Production: 2007
College students are engaged in a
harmless prank-calling contest called
“75” which ultimately becomes lethal.
Starring Rutger Hauer and Brian Hooks.
PREACHING TO THE CHOIR
Feature Drama (95 min)
Starring Patti LaBelle, Eartha Kitt,
Tichina Arnold
Year of Production: 2006
Twin brothers, one a minister and the
other a gangsta rapper come together in
this story of unconditional love &
redemption.
BEHIND THE VIDEO: SERIES
TV series (13 x 1/2 hr)
Year of Production: 2006
Lloyd Banks, 50 Cent, G Unit, Mariah
Carey & other hip-hop artists give you a
behind-the-scenes look at the making of
their hit videos.
TUPAC: REVELATION
Documentary (115 min)
Year of Production: 2007
10 Years after the assassination of Tupac
Shakur, this amazing new film offers
“insider” evidence that the police have
ignored.
ROCK THE BELLS
Documentary (90 min)
Year of Production: 2007
An inside look at what it took to bring
the Wu-Tang Clan together for their
final performance with all the Clan
members including ODB.
PUNK’S NOT DEAD
Documentary (104 min)
Year of Production: 2007
A celebration of 30 years of Punk Rock,
featuring Green Day, Offspring, Social
Distortion, Sum 41, My Chemical
Romance, and more!
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