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The MeetMarket
The MeetMarket, now in its sixteenth edition, is one of the world’s largest documentary pitching forums, o ering documentary makers the opportunity to meet with hundreds of international funders, broadcasters, platforms, distributors and exhibitors. DocFest o ers a bespoke way to pitch new projects through matchmade meetings between filmmakers and industry representatives for creative and financial discussions. Projects include features and series in varying stages of development/production. The Industry team will coordinate more than 1,000 meetings for 55 projects, selected with the involvement of an international assessment committee from over 570 submissions.
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In a country that increasingly threatens the safety of LGBTQ people, an ancient way of life that celebrates five genders survives in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Expressing their sexuality freely, men, women, transmen, and trans-women are shepherded by the fifth gender, the gender-fluid ‘Bissu’. This film follows the intertwining stories of two of the last remaining Bissu, as their roles are being forgotten and their inclusive way of life is slipping away.
Countries of Production: Indonesia, United Kingdom Countries of Filming: Indonesia Genres: Anthropology / Ethnography, Gender / Women’s Rights, Social Issue Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: May 2022 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 85’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £117,899 Total Budget (Euros): €135,036 Total Budget (USD): $163,766 Total in Place (GBP): £4,510 Total in Place (Euros): €5,165 Total in Place (USD): $6,265 Confirmed Project Financiers: Tanakhir Films (Co-Production)/ Docs By The Sea (Donation) Please note: budget is currently based on Indonesian production and post-production costs.
Project Team
Director(s): Andrea Suwito Producer(s): Finbar Somers Co-Producer: Mandy Marahimin
Contact: Finbar Somers Company: Umbra Motion Picture Company Ltd. Email: finbar@finbarsomers.com
A Game of Secrets
In a Lisbon courtroom, a young man stands accused of having stolen thousands of confidential documents to expose professional football’s deepest secrets. Through the trial his spectacular revelations unfold, giving new insights into the hidden forces that control a sport turned billion-dollar industry – where 700-percent profits and parties on private islands are part of the business model. Cast with Kazakh oligarchs, private detectives, and globetrotting agents, the story of Football Leaks reads as a true crime thriller while posing moral questions to an audience way beyond football fans.
Countries of Production: Denmark Countries of Filming: Portugal, United Kingdom, Hungary Genres: Crime, Politics & Economics, Sports Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: August 2022 Slots: Feature Length, TV Broadcast Hour Final Length Details: 60’ / 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £587,000 Total Budget (Euros): €675,000 Total Budget (USD): $818,000 Total in Place (GBP): £117,300 Total in Place (Euros): €134,500 Total in Place (USD): $163,100 Confirmed Project Financiers: MEDIA Slate / Danish Broadcasting Corporation / DR Sales / Drive Studios
Project Team
Director(s): Niels Borchert Holm Producer(s): Peter Engel Broadcaster(s): Anders Bruus / Erling Groth, Danish Broadcasting Corporation Sales Agent(s): Kim Christiansen, DR Sales
Contact: Peter Engel Company: Wingman Media Email: engel@wingman.dk
A Good Bad Guy (W/T)
In his first letter to me, Scott Dozier makes it clear that he prefers execution to life in prison. But four years of sharing music, swapping artwork, and discussing Scott’s legacy can’t prepare me for his suicide. His death sends me trawling through our correspondence, road tripping to people and places from his past, and asking how Scott can help us imagine abolitionist futures. Photographed on 16mm across geographies of memory and inside Ely State Prison, this personal documentary contemplates the violences of capital punishment and the ethics of collaboration across prison bars.
Countries of Production: United States Countries of Filming: United States Genres: Crime, Experimental / Art, Point of View Project Status: Post-Production Estimated Completion Date: January 2022 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 75’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £288,151 Total Budget (Euros): €328,197 Total Budget (USD): $397,004 Total in Place (GBP): £73,606 Total in Place (Euros): €84,526 Total in Place (USD): $102,120 Confirmed Project Financiers: In addition to significant in-kind contributions, we have received support from the following grants: LEF Moving Image Fund (5000 USD) / Harvard Film Study Center Fellowship (5000 USD) / Pu n Foundation / Artist Grant (1450 USD) / Duke University Dean’s Research Award (1000 USD) / Pristo Filmmaking Award (1500 USD) / Flies Collective Film Grant (7500 USD)
Project Team
Director(s): Alex Morelli Producer(s): Daniel Garber Executive Producer(s): Sierra Pettengill
Contact: Alex Morelli Email: amorelli25@gmail.com
A Night of Knowing Nothing
Details to be announced. For more information, please contact the producers.
Countries of Production: France, India Countries of Filming: India Genres: Activism, Human Rights, Politics & Economics Project Status: Rough Cut Estimated Completion Date: September 2021 Slots: Feature Length, Online or Other Platforms Final Length Details: 90’, 52’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £132,000 Total Budget (Euros): €185,000 Total Budget (USD): $223,000 Total in Place (GBP): £98,000 Total in Place (Euros): €138,000 Total in Place (USD): $166,000 Confirmed Project Financiers: Sundance Documentary Institute (30k$) / IDFA Bertha Fund (17,5K€) / CNC (40K€) / Nouvelle Aquitaine (40K€) / Ciclic (13K€)
Project Team
Director(s): Payal Kapadia Producer(s): Thomas Hakim
Contact: Thomas Hakim Company: Petit Chaos Email: hakimthomas@gmail.com
Brotherhood (W/T)
Antek, 22, grows up in the conservative, right-wing and homophobic society of contemporary Poland. The Brotherhood is one of many groups of like-minded young men who demonstrate together against gay pride and hold survival camps in the forest, and Antek is their leader. But he is at the same time driven by general curiosity and in the end, it is through the women in his life, the tender, di cult, exciting relationships with them, that teach Antek to truly be a man. Where does Antek belong, what is ultimately his home: nation, brotherhood, or love?
Countries of Production: Switzerland, Poland Countries of Filming: Poland, Ukraine Genres: Personal & Human Interest, Politics & Economics, War & Conflict Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: October 2021 Slots: Feature Length, TV Broadcast Hour Final Length Details: 90’, 52’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £219,000 Total Budget (Euros): €250,000 Total Budget (USD): $303,000 Total in Place (GBP): £70,000 Total in Place (Euros): €80,000 Total in Place (USD): $97,000 Confirmed Project Financiers: Federal O ce of Culture (national fund): CHF 30000 / Zurich Film Fund (regional): CHF 20000
Project Team
Director(s): Hanka Maciag Producer(s): Esther van Messel Editor(s): Michal Poddenbniak DOP: Milosz Kasiura Distributor(s): Esther van Mester, First Hand Films Sales Agent(s): Esther van Mester, First Hand Films
Contact: Esther van Messel Company: First Hand Films Email: esther.van.messel@firsthandfilms.com
Call Nina!
The film takes a starting point in contemporary events and debates through the theatre world in the US, UK and Europe. We follow Josette Bushell-Mingo OBE, who is deeply a ected by the constantly present and ongoing debate around the BLM movement. In 2015 she decided to put up a theatre play based on the very same experience or question: why is it that we, still today, have to remind ourselves and express the need that “Black Lives Matter”? The question itself, both answers and problematises the constant and ever-current topic of race and class in our society and considers how far have we really come.
Countries of Production: Sweden, United Kingdom Countries of Filming: United Kingdom, United States, Sweden Genres: Activism, Arts & Culture, Gender / Women’s Rights, Social Issue Project Status: Post-Production Estimated Completion Date: June 2021 Slots: Feature Length, TV Broadcast Hour, Online or Other Platforms Final Length Details: 60’, 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £192,968 Total Budget (Euros): €220,000 Total Budget (USD): $266,803 Total in Place (GBP): £96,484 Total in Place (Euros): €110,000 Total in Place (USD): $133,402 Confirmed Project Financiers: Swedish National Television (SVT) / Swedish Art Council / Machete AB
Project Team
Director(s): Lamin Daniel Jadama Producer(s): Lamin Daniel Jadama, Daniela J - Alvarez Co-Producer: SVT - Swedish National Television Editor(s): Neil Wigardt DOP: Lamin Daniel Jadama Broadcaster(s): Theresa Traoré Dahlberg, Emelie Persson, SVT - Swedish National Television
Contact: Daniela J - Alvarez Company: Machete AB Email: daniela@machete.nu
Celtic Utopia
In ‘Celtic Utopia’ Irish Identity is in focus. The film portrays a new folk music movement – as yet unbaptized – but described as Weird Folk, New Strange Folk Sounds or Gurrier Folk, where “gurrier” roughly means trouble. During this Ballad Tour through Ireland, we ask the question: can music help a country understand its colonial heritage?
Countries of Production: Sweden Countries of Filming: Ireland Genres: Music Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: December 2022 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 75’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £397,467 Total Budget (Euros): €453,800 Total Budget (USD): $550,360 Total in Place (GBP): £36,083 Total in Place (Euros): €41,513 Total in Place (USD): $50,201 Confirmed Project Financiers: Swedish Film Institute / Konstnärsnämnden
Project Team
Director(s): Lars Lovén, Dennis Harvey Producer(s): Elin Lilleman Eriksson DOP: Jamie Goldrick
Contact: Elin Eriksson Company: MDEMC Produktion AB Email: elinlilleman@gmail.com
Colors of White Rock
On Mongolia’s coal mining highway, Maikhuu struggles courageously as a truck driver to support her family, motivated by the higher pay and dreams of a better life. Atthe same time, she finds herself working for the very industry that is destroying Mongolians’ land-based livelihoods and is forcing many to the highway in desperate search of employment while disregarding their safety along a road riddled with accidents, toxic pollution, poor hygiene, and corruption. Maikhuu’s story is symbolic of countless drivers caught in the contradictions and extreme costs of ‘Minegolia’s’ rise.
Countries of Production: Mongolia, France Countries of Filming: Mongolia Genres: Environment, Globalisation, Human Rights Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: May 2022 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £316,238 Total Budget (Euros): €360,274 Total Budget (USD): $437,715 Total in Place (GBP): £71,336 Total in Place (Euros): €81,250 Total in Place (USD): $98,715 Confirmed Project Financiers: Colors of Asia Best Pitch Award / French Tax Credit / Coproduction : Icity Films / Broadcaster : NHK (Japan) - Amount TBD
Project Team
Director(s): Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig Producer(s): Tessa LOUISE SALOMÉ Co-Producer: Chantal Perrin
Contact: Tessa Louise Salomé Company: Petite Maison Production Email: contact@petitemaisonproduction.com
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
On August 4th at 6:07 PM, many clocks in Beirut stopped working in the aftermath of the Beirut Port Explosion where hundreds of thousands lost their homes, lives and loved ones. Physically alive but dead on the inside, all Beirut residents questioned their rationale for staying in their disfigured city, clashing with a desire to simply give up and emigrate. Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano follows a film crew, as well as artists and activists – all survivors of the explosion – striving to continue their film shoot and other artistic endeavors in an e ort of resistance.
Countries of Production: Germany, Lebanon, France Countries of Filming: Lebanon Genres: Community, Geopolitics, Human Rights, Politics & Economics Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: November 2021 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 80’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £70,532 Total Budget (Euros): €80,000 Total Budget (USD): $94,250 Total in Place (GBP): £11,017 Total in Place (Euros): €12,500 Total in Place (USD): $15,083 Confirmed Project Financiers: BOSCH Filmprize Development 10.000€ / Own Investment
Project Team
Director(s): Cyril Aris Producer(s): Katharina Weser Co-Producer: Myriam Sassine DOP: Joe Saade
Contact: Katharina Weser Company: Reynard Films Email: katharina@reynardfilms.com
Eternity One
By the year 2050, Virginia’s Tangier Island will be uninhabitable. Sea level rise and erosion sink 15 feet of the Island’s coastline a year, taking a small community dating back to the 1670’s into the Chesapeake Bay with it. Eternity One blurs fact with fable, chronicling an island community scrambling to stay above water. Desperate for relief from the grips of climate change, residents imagine their way out of their doomed fate. The town mayor proposes a biblical ark. A young girl, a utopian new technology. The Army Corp of Engineers, a seawall. Some turn to the government, and others to God.
Countries of Production: United States Countries of Filming: United States Genres: Environment, Science, Technology Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: January 2022 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 90’ Website: http:// .memory.is
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £252,458 Total Budget (Euros): €288,374 Total Budget (USD): $350,000 Total in Place (GBP): £35,922 Total in Place (Euros): €41,196 Total in Place (USD): $50,000 Confirmed Project Financiers: Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund - Film Media Grant from Johns Hopkins
Project Team
Director(s): Marnie Ellen Hertzler Producer(s): Riel Roch-Decter, Emma Hannaway Editor(s): Albert Birney DOP: Corey Hughes Sales Agent(s): Amanda Lebow, CAA
Contact: Riel Roch Decter Company: Memory Email: rrd@memory.is
Fedora
The marriage between Betty Grafstein, a former jewellery designer, and José Castelo Branco, a TV celebrity and former gender-fluid model, has been challenging social norms regarding age and gender, and facing several controversies. But now, 25 years later, what keeps them together? Is this a love story? As the couple struggle with Betty’s advanced age and fear the uncertainty of the future, they try to maintain their appearance and social status while living in their Upper East Side apartment with their new housekeeper, and important secrets are revealed.
Countries of Production: Portugal, Mexico, United States Countries of Filming: United States, Portugal, Mozambique Genres: LGBTQIA+, Love, Personal & Human Interest Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: June 2023 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 105’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £181,500 Total Budget (Euros): €209,101 Total Budget (USD): $250,420 Total in Place (GBP): £73,518 Total in Place (Euros): €84,698 Total in Place (USD): $100,831 Confirmed Project Financiers: Cinema & Audiovisual Institute Portugal: £13200 / State fund -Diavlo Films: £2200 / Own investment: £10740 IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS: Disruptiva Sound / Music & Sound Post (£21384) / Diavlo Films O ce, research costs (£3960) / Cristian Caicedo: Camera equipment (£13048) / Lourdes Severny: Lodging, equipment (£6245) / Daniela Amezquita: Equipment(£2741)
Project Team
Director(s): Leland Palmer Producer(s): Eduardo Ruiz Vasconcelos Executive Producer(s): Maja Moguel, Diana Ibargüen Editor(s): David Araujo DOP: Cristian Delvalle Caicedo
Contact: Leland Palmer Company: Escombro Email: escombrofilms@gmail.com
Go Come Stay - New Nomads in Europe
Go Come Stay - New Nomads in Europe tells moving stories of people on the road, arriving or leaving. A film about their search for work, for success, happiness, respect and hope. Each of them has an individual story. It is abouttheir feelings, it is aboutthe loss of certainties and the hope for stability in their future.
Countries of Production: Germany Countries of Filming: France, United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine, Germany Genres: Globalisation, Personal & Human Interest, Politics & Economics Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: February 2023 Slots: Feature Length, Series & Formats Final Length Details: 90’ + 15’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): 482,275 - 525,981 Total Budget (Euros): 550,000 - 600,000 Total Budget (USD): 659,064 - 722,277 Total in Place (GBP): £35,015 Total in Place (Euros): €40,000 Total in Place (USD): $47,913 Confirmed Project Financiers: ARD Award, German TV
Project Team
Director(s): Andreas Voigt Producer(s): Barbara Etz
Contact: Barbara Etz Company: Filmproduction Email: bef.etz@etzfilm.de
Happiness
A family of two young sisters and a little girl escaped from their war-torn hometown in Eastern Ukraine to Moscow, seeking a better life. Their new life is plagued by family conflicts, broken hearts, bureaucracy, and financial and health problems. Now the sisters wage a war against each other and lash out at Inna’s 10-year-old daughter. Over the span of seven years we watch her grow up, and the time comes when she has to make her own choices. The story of life’s struggles intertwines with the coming-of-age story. Butthings may turn into happiness when, against all odds, a little miracle happens.
Countries of Production: Russia, Estonia Countries of Filming: Russia, Ukraine Genres: Faith / Religion, Gender / Women’s Rights, Personal & Human Interest, Refugees, Social Issue, Youth & Children Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: February 2022 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 90’, 52’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £158,000 Total Budget (Euros): €183,000 Total Budget (USD): $220,000 Total in Place (GBP): £31,000 Total in Place (Euros): €36,000 Total in Place (USD): $44,000
Project Team
Director(s): Dmitry Kubasov, Anastasia Murashkina Producer(s): Max Tuula, Maria Gavrilova
Contact: Max Tuula Company: Marx Film Email: studio@marxfilm.com
Untitled Vinay Shukla Project
Details to be announced. For more information, please contact the producers.
Countries of Production: India Countries of Filming: India Genres: Geopolitics, Politics & Economics, Social Issue Project Status: Post-Production Estimated Completion Date: October 2021 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £422,666 Total Budget (Euros): €485,605 Total Budget (USD): $587,113 Total in Place (GBP): £279,850 Total in Place (Euros): €321,597 Total in Place (USD): $388,822 Confirmed Project Financiers: Doc Society / Sundance / MEMESYS and Partners
Project Team
Director(s): Vinay Shukla Producer(s): Vinay Shukla, Khushboo Ranka Co-Producer: Luke W Moody
Contact: Vinay Shukla Email: vinay@memesyslab.com
Here, the Silence is Heard
Gabriela returns to the revolted port city of Valparaíso in Chile, that her family had to leave in the 70’s when they went into exile in Germany and Spain. Aiming to break the unstoppable spell of permanenttransit, she reforms and moves into the run-down family home. Suddenly, Gabriela becomes the only one responsible for her hospitalised grandfather, standing in for family abroad. In the meantime, her grandmother’s traumatic memories awaken, as her life partner – a survivor of the torture inflicted by a murderous state – becomes absent once again, and violence begins to infiltrate the house at nightthrough the windows.
Countries of Production: Chile Countries of Filming: Chile Genres: Current A airs, Human Rights, Social Issue Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: September 2023 Slots: Feature Length, TV Broadcast Hour Final Length Details: 50’, 75’ Website: http:// .grietacine.com
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £178,690 Total Budget (Euros): €204,080 Total Budget (USD): $247,525 Total in Place (GBP): £10,000 Total in Place (Euros): €11,390 Total in Place (USD): $13,830 Confirmed Project Financiers: 11.390 €/£10.000/13.830 USD: Assembly Lab development fund, by Open City Documentary Festival. 29.430 €/£25.740/35.670 USD: Own contributions from the production company and team members.
Project Team
Director(s): Gabriela Pena Producer(s): Picho García Editor(s): Sophie França DOP: Inti Briones
Contact: Picho García Company: Grieta Cine Email: picho@grietacine.com
In Your Shadow
My father and I were never able to talk about his past as a guerrilla soldier. But now that I’m a parent myself, I strongly feel the need to explore not only his life’s erratic path, but mine as well. Our journey will be divided into three episodes, following my father’s three di erent names and identities. From the township of Soweto as the child, Boikanyo, to exile in Angola and his life as the elite guerrilla freedom fighter Lerato, and ending as Kenneth, the traumatised veteran he is today. By retracing his steps, I hope to free us both from the shadow of the past.
Countries of Production: Netherlands, South Africa Countries of Filming: Netherlands, South Africa, Angola, Russia, Germany Genres: Personal & Human Interest, War & Conflict Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: December 2023 Slots: Feature Length, TV Broadcast Hour Final Length Details: 55’, 90’, 3 × 45’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £1,087,620 Total Budget (Euros): €1,258,461 Total Budget (USD): $1,538,783 Total in Place (GBP): £99,033 Total in Place (Euros): €114,590 Total in Place (USD): $140,115 Confirmed Project Financiers: Confirmed financiers: NL Film Fund (development funding), NPO fund (development funding) , EOdocs (broadcaster). Approx. €320.000 of the budget comes from semi-automatic funding. By June 2021, we expect to have aprrox. €350.000 - €650.000 (= 25 - 50%) of the financing in place.
Project Team
Director(s): Thabi Mooi, Tom Fassaert Producer(s): Renko Douze, Hasse van Nunen Broadcaster(s): Margit Balogh, EOdocs (NL) Distributor(s): Wiepko Oosterhout, Periscoop
Contact: Renko Douze Company: Een van de jongens Email: renko@eenvandejongens.nl
Indiefilm october 2020_01
Details to be announced. For more information, please contact the producers.
Countries of Production: United Kingdom, Norway Countries of Filming: United Kingdom, Norway, Vietnam, Thailand Genres: Crime, Investigative, Personal & Human Interest Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: September 2023 Slots: Feature Length, Series & Formats, TV Broadcast Hour, Online or Other Platforms Final Length Details: 90’, 52
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £980,000 Total Budget (Euros): €1,100,000 Total Budget (USD): $1,340,000 Total in Place (GBP): £131,000 Total in Place (Euros): €150,000 Total in Place (USD): $180,700 Confirmed Project Financiers: Norwegian Film Institute / Mid Norwegian film Center / Fritt Ord Foundation / Viken Filmcenter
Project Team
Director(s): Håvard Bustnes Producer(s): Carsten Aanonsen
Contact: Carsten Aanonsen Company: Indie Film as Email: carsten@indiefilm.no
Is There Anybody Out There?
My body is extremely unusual, and I’ve never seen another like my own. Is There Anybody Out There? is a personal documentary following my search to track down other individuals with the same rare disability as me. The film also explores the experience of being a disabled pregnant woman as well as the emotional process of becoming a mother, when I unexpectedly find out I am pregnant. Perhaps more than anything however, this story is about ableism – about living in a world where you’re seen as less than human – and what it takes to love yourself fiercely despite this.
Countries of Production: United Kingdom, Scotland, United States Countries of Filming: United States, India, Scotland, United Kingdom Genres: Activism, Biography, Gender / Women’s Rights, Health, Human Rights, LGBTQIA+, Personal & Human Interest, Point of View, Social Issue Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: May 2022 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 90’ Website: http:// .hotpropertyfilms.com
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £375,000 Total Budget (Euros): €427,710 Total Budget (USD): $515,265 Total in Place (GBP): £180,000 Total in Place (Euros): €205,300 Total in Place (USD): $247,310 Confirmed Project Financiers: Doc Society / BFI / Chicken & Egg / UK Tax Credit
Project Team
Director(s): Ella Glendining Producer(s): Janine Marmot Editor(s): Claire Ferguson DOP: Annemarie Lean-Vercoe
Contact: Janine Marmot Company: Hot Property Films Ltd Email: janine@hotpropertyfilms.com
Israel and Palestine on Swedish TV 1959 - 1989
A new film from the makers of The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 and Concerning Violence, Israel and Palestine on Swedish TV 1959 - 1989 is made up of unique and visually striking footage from perhaps the most comprehensive archive in the world – depicting both sides of the conflict – the Swedish Television archive. Challenging and changing the conventions of how history is written through archive material, the film tells the story of how one country’s media perceived one of the world’s most infected territorial conflicts.
Countries of Production: Sweden Countries of Filming: Genres: Geopolitics, History, War & Conflict Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: November 2022 Slots: Feature Length, Series & Formats, TV Broadcast Hour Final Length Details: 90’, 58’, 3×60’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £538,000 Total Budget (Euros): €605,000 Total Budget (USD): $731,000 Total in Place (GBP): £188,000 Total in Place (Euros): €212,000 Total in Place (USD): $256,000 Confirmed Project Financiers: SVT (SEK 1.850.000) / SFI (SEK 300.000)
Project Team
Director(s): Göran Hugo Olsson Producer(s): Tobias Janson, Dennis Harvey (Assistant Producer) Editor(s): Britta Norell, Emilia Mellberg (Script Editor) Broadcaster(s): Ingemar Persson & Lars Säfström / Juan Pablo Libossart, SVT /The Swedish Film Institute
Contact: Dennis Harvey Company: Story Email: dennis@story.se
It Didn’t Start With You
Chloe travels to Sri Lanka to reconnect with her estranged grandmother, attempting to convince her to leave her abusive husband and restore the family unity. Through intimate home videos, Chloe invites us into her world. As she comes to terms with the violence her mother and grandmother su ered, she unravels her own past and discovers she has a secret she is yetto confront. It Didn’t Start With You explores the lasting impact of cross-continental, intergenerational trauma, and shows that despite enormous hardship and pain, love and happiness can prevail.
Countries of Production: United Kingdom Countries of Filming: United Kingdom, Sri Lanka Genres: Experimental / Art, Gender / Women’s Rights, Personal & Human Interest Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: April 2022 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £320,119 Total Budget (Euros): €348,929 Total Budget (USD): $409,752 Total in Place (GBP): £6,000 Total in Place (Euros): €6,540 Total in Place (USD): $7,680 Confirmed Project Financiers: One World Media: £1,000 / $1,280 / €1,090 John Brabourne Award: £5,000 / $6,400 / €5,450
Project Team
Director(s): Chloe Abrahams Producer(s): Emma Norton Executive Producer(s): Wuhan Wuhan (2020) - Producer Left-Handed Pianist (2020) - Producer Finding Yingying (2020) - Producer The Dilemma of Desire (2020) - Producer Minding the Gap (2018) - Producer Editor(s): Stella Heath Keir DOP: Alice Aedy
Contact: Chloe Abrahams Email: chloeabrahams.film@gmail.com
Lost Futures
The late Mark Fisher is widely thought of as one of the most important writers of the 21st century. Fisher’s theories were prescient. With the planet on the brink of mass extinction, the re-emergence of the far right and the growing gap between the rich and poor, we face uncertainty on every front. This film will place Fisher, and the hope he engendered, at the front and centre of the global cry for change. By charting Fisher’s life we see how he was shaped by the world around him, and how his thinking is the logical conclusion of someone concerned with a lost future.
Countries of Production: Ireland Countries of Filming: United Kingdom, United States, Germany, France Genres: Arts & Culture, Biography, Current A airs, History, Personal & Human Interest, Politics & Economics, Social Issue Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: June 2022 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 75’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £275,697 Total Budget (Euros): €315,000 Total Budget (USD): $381,981 Total in Place (GBP): £13,128 Total in Place (Euros): €15,000 Total in Place (USD): $18,189 Confirmed Project Financiers: Screen Ireland Development Funding
Project Team
Director(s): Niall McCann Producer(s): Matthew Boyd, Tadhg O’Sullivan
Contact: Niall McCann Company: Redemption Films Email: redemptionfilms@gmail.com
Love Alone Can’t Make a Child
Like many couples in love, Maria (38) and Christiane (46) share a dream of having a child of their own. But finite time, physical limitations due to Maria’s paraplegia, and a discriminatory system that raises legal matters make this a far more challenging undertaking. Filmed over many years, and in several countries, it captures moments both serious and humorous, creating an intimate portrait of a relationship fraught with challenges and the shifting roles of who is more dependent on who, where the limits of how far they are willing to go to achieve their dream are continually put to the test.
Countries of Production: Germany, Norway Countries of Filming: Germany, Denmark, Ukraine, Norway Genres: Gender / Women’s Rights, LGBTQIA+, Love Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: June 2022 Slots: Feature Length, TV Broadcast Hour Final Length Details: 90’ + 52’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £308,692 Total Budget (Euros): €358,630 Total Budget (USD): $431,664 Total in Place (GBP): £137,729 Total in Place (Euros): €160,000 Total in Place (USD): $192,590 Confirmed Project Financiers: Künstlerinnenförderung der Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa Berlin Rise & Shine World Sales (MG) / Kloos & Co / ZDF / Mattima Films
Project Team
Director(s): Judith Beuth Producer(s): Andrew Grant, Stefan Kloos Sales Agent(s): Stefan Kloos, Rise & Shine World Sales
Contact: Andrew Grant Company: Mattima Films Email: andrew@mattimafilms.com
Madame Négritude
Martiniquan writer and activist Suzanne Roussi Césaire and her husband Aime Césaire were central to the black power movement, Négritude. The Césaires and their contemporaries would go on to be the first leaders of post-colonial Africa and the Caribbean, and to redefine how black people regarded themselves around the world. For fifty years the impact of writer and activist Suzanne Césaire on some of the most influential works of art and political movements in the world was overshadowed by the political star of her husband Aimé, until now.
Countries of Production: United States, France, Martinique Genres: Arts & Culture, Community, Experimental / Art, Gender / Women’s Rights, Geopolitics, Love, Politics & Economics Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: December 2022 Slots: Feature Length, TV Broadcast Hour Final Length Details: 50’, 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £536,208 Total Budget (Euros): €623,104 Total Budget (USD): $750,000 Total in Place (GBP): £57,684 Total in Place (Euros): €65,996 Total in Place (USD): $80,000 Confirmed Project Financiers: We currently have several grants in place totaling $80,000.00 USD. This funding does not come with any rights deals.
Project Team
Director(s): Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich Producer(s): Christine Sanders
Contact: Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich Email: madeleine.hunt.ehrlich@gmail.com
Malcolm
Malcolm Shabazz, Malcolm X’s first ‘male heir’, was found murdered in Mexico City in 2013. By 28, he had been incarcerated for his role in the death of his grandmother, Betty Shabazz, witnessed his mother’s entrapment by the FBI and been a member of the Bloods gang. Malcolm had been in and out of jail, made a pilgrimage to Mecca and attempted to lead a new generation of activists. Was his death merely the tragic end to another doomed black life, or was it a conspiracy to extinguish the legacy of one of the most powerful figures in recent history?
Countries of Production: United Kingdom, United States Countries of Filming: United States, Mexico Genres: Activism, Biography, Investigative Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: November 2022 Slots: Feature Length, Series & Formats Final Length Details: 50’ x 3, 90
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £995,000 Total Budget (Euros): €1,140,000 Total Budget (USD): $1,380,000 Total in Place (GBP): £17,500 Total in Place (Euros): €20,000 Total in Place (USD): $25,000 Confirmed Project Financiers: IFP/HBO fund
Project Team
Director(s): Usayd Younis Producer(s): Cassie Quarless
Contact: Usayd Younis Company: black & brown films Email: info@blackbrownfilm.com
Marai
Everyone in Marai, a village of 38 people, says thatthe ‘igarapé’ has a mother – but Heloisa says it doesn’t. Her courage to challenge the water spirit leads the adults in the village to believe she has the gift of spirituality, and they frequently ask her to predict the future – be itthe football match result, the gender of a baby or the destiny of a sick person. ‘Marai’ shows how Heloisa weaves the children’s world with the underwater world, in a life built by the forest. By looking at her relationship with her grandmother, the film also looks into a generational conflict: although there is a plan for her future, Heloisa is not yet what others believe she will become.
Countries of Production: Brazil Countries of Filming: Brazil Genres: Anthropology / Ethnography, Arts & Culture, Community, Environment, Human Rights, Nature & Wildlife, Personal & Human Interest, Social Issue, Youth & Children Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: December 2022 Slots: Feature Length, TV Broadcast Hour, Online or Other Platforms Final Length Details: 50’, 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £151,569 Total Budget (Euros): €176,121 Total Budget (USD): $212,000 Total in Place (GBP): £0 Total in Place (Euros): €0 Total in Place (USD): $0
Project Team
Director(s): Lara Carmo Producer(s): Fernanda Guimaraes Abreu
Contact: Fernanda Guimaraes Abreu Company: Feever Filmes Email: abreufernanda@gmail.com
Matabeleland
Matabeleland chronicles the lives of three people from a once industrious but now marginalised region that has experienced more violence than peace since Zimbabwe’s inception. Through intimate moments with Chris, a struggling immigrant in neighbouring Botswana; Nokuthaba, an ambitious but unemployed youth; and Shari, a white anthropologist and grandmother, this film paints a complex canvas of life for Zimbabweans in a post-Mugabe era. Is it possible to break free from a cycle of dreams deferred, broken families, racial and tribal tensions that have plagued the country for decades?
Countries of Production: Zimbabwe Countries of Filming: Zimbabwe, Botswana Genres: Community, Current A airs, History, Human Rights, Personal & Human Interest, Point of View Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: December 2022 Slots: Feature Length, Online or Other Platforms Final Length Details: 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £170,054 Total Budget (Euros): €197,300 Total Budget (USD): $237,321 Total in Place (GBP): £3,583 Total in Place (Euros): €4,157 Total in Place (USD): $5,000
Project Team
Director(s): Nyasha Kadandara Producer(s): Sam Soko
Contact: Sam Soko Company: LBx Africa Email: ssoko@lbxafrica.com
Motherboard
Motherboard is an intimate autobiographical feature documentary in which filmmaker Victoria Mapplebeck chronicles life as a single mother raising her son, Jim. Living together in their South London flat, the pair have faced more than their share of challenges, from an absent father to breast cancer to the global pandemic. Exploring and celebrating resilience, Motherboard was filmed over seventeen years by Victoria on a series of smartphones. Who do we become when the going gets tough? This film is ultimately proof that bad times can make us rather than break us.
Countries of Production: United Kingdom Countries of Filming: United Kingdom Genres: Gender / Women’s Rights / Health / Youth & Children Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: December 2021 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 75’ Website: https://firstpersonfilms.co.uk/in-development/
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £100,000 Total Budget (Euros): €114,218 Total Budget (USD): $138,433 Total in Place (GBP): £40,000 Total in Place (Euros): €45,687 Total in Place (USD): $55,373 Confirmed Project Financiers: ATLANTIC NOMAD WFTV Bursary
Project Team
Director(s): Victoria Mapplebeck Producer(s): Carol Nahra Executive Producer(s): Debbie Manners, Adam Gee Editor(s): Lisa Forrest
Contact: Victoria Mapplebeck Company: First Person Films Email: victoriamapplebeck@gmail.com
Mrs Robinson
Driven by the muscular storytelling of award winning Irish director Aoife Kelleher, Mrs Robinson is a film of ambition and intent, very much in the activist tradition of RBG and My Name is Pauli Murray. Telling an inspirational life story with intergenerational appeal, ittracks tectonic shifts in personal, political, and social values over a period of 50 years. Far from a grey hagiography, the film applies a thumping rock n’ roll aesthetic to recent history, blending it artfully with raw moments of intimate access to illuminate epic societal battles for equality and human rights.
Countries of Production: Ireland Countries of Filming: Ireland, United States, Somalia Genres: Activism, Biography, Gender / Women’s Rights, History, Human Rights, Social Issue Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: January 2022 Slots: Feature Length, TV Broadcast Hour Final Length Details: 1 × 75 and 1 × 50
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £390,000 Total Budget (Euros): €450,000 Total Budget (USD): $540,000 Total in Place (GBP): £65,000 Total in Place (Euros): €75,000 Total in Place (USD): $90,000 Confirmed Project Financiers: Screen Ireland
Project Team
Director(s): Aoife Kelleher Producer(s): Trisha Canning Executive Producer(s): Cormac Hargaden Contact: Cormac Hargaden Company: Loosehorse Limited Email: cormac@loosehorse.ie
Omitama (W/T)
Omitama follows Geofroy, Elian, and Jess as they turn to a Japanese cult for salvation. Surviving in a country ravaged by colonialism makes the organisation’s claims of living in the midst of an apocalypse resonate deeply with the protagonists. However, as they struggle to pay their dues, their paths diverge - some buying into the organisation’s racist ideology, leading them to believe being born Black and African is a punishment for the sins of their past lives, while others turn back to the traditional spirituality of their ancestors.
Countries of Production: United Kingdom, Côte d’Ivoire Countries of Filming: Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, United Kingdom Genres: Environment, Faith / Religion, Personal & Human Interest Project Status: Post-Production Estimated Completion Date: December 2021 Slots: Feature Length, Series & Formats, Online or Other Platforms Final Length Details: 90
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £210,000 Total Budget (Euros): €244,000 Total Budget (USD): $294,000 Total in Place (GBP): £131,000 Total in Place (Euros): €150,000 Total in Place (USD): $182,000 Confirmed Project Financiers: Sons of Rigor / Various Independent Equity Financiers
Project Team
Director(s): Matthew Maria Producer(s): Joshua Llewellyn, Joël Akafou Co-Producer: Martina Bassenger
Contact: Joshua Llewellyn Company: EDS Productions Email: joshua.llewellyn@somebodynobody.co.uk
Q
Q is a journey exploring the inner life of a family where the mothers taught the daughters to love a stranger over one another and themselves, exploring the abuses, struggles and triumphs that arose from such an unnatural reality. It’s a generational narrative, stretching from the 1960s to the modern day, and also a story that is both dangerous and necessary to tell. Through the time that is spent with each generation, the film attempts to understand the dark cloud thatthis group has placed on a family, most of whom remain in denial that a dark cloud is present at all. It is a story that doesn’t necessarily end when the director calls “cut.”
Countries of Production: Lebanon, United States Countries of Filming: Genres: Faith / Religion, Gender / Women’s Rights, Personal & Human Interest Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: November 2021 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £324,366 Total Budget (Euros): €371,337 Total Budget (USD): $450,600 Total in Place (GBP): £92,457 Total in Place (Euros): €106,553 Total in Place (USD): $127,500 Confirmed Project Financiers: ITVS Diversity Development Fund - $25,000 IDA’s Enterprise Development Fund - $15,000 Tribeca All Access - $10,000 Sundance Development Fund - $15,000 Firelight Media Documentary Lab - $15,000 Chicken and Egg (Egg)celerator Lab - $40,000 Sundance Stars Collective Granting Fund - $7,500
Project Team
Director(s): Jude Chehab Producer(s): Jude Chehab Editor(s): Fahd Ahmed
Contact: Jude Chehab Company: Chehab Films, LLC Email: jude.chehab@gmail.com
Red Herring
Aged 24, Kit was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour. In a small town on the South coast of England, his dad Lawrence – still struggling to come to terms with his own dramatic family secret - throws himself into a series of obscure diversion tactics and begins to transform his identity. His mum, Julie – a community nurse who spends her time caring for dying patients – can’t cope with the idea of living through the death of her son and takes solace in eccentric spiritual endeavors of her own.
Countries of Production: United Kingdom Countries of Filming: United Kingdom Genres: Faith / Religion, Health, Personal & Human Interest Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: September 2022 Slots: Feature Length, TV Broadcast Hour Final Length Details: 90’, 60’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £315,413 Total Budget (Euros): €363,909 Total Budget (USD): $437,698 Total in Place (GBP): £61,500 Total in Place (Euros): €70,983 Total in Place (USD): $85,370 Confirmed Project Financiers: BFI Doc Society: £53,000
Project Team
Director(s): Kit Vincent Producer(s): Ed Owles Co-Producer: Dea Gjinovci Executive Producer(s): Rachel Wexler & Jez Lewis, Bungalow Town
Contact: Ed Owles Email: ed@postcodefilms.com
Second Generation
Miriam and Gloria are the stars of the junior women’s basketball team for Antaois, a club primarily made up of the children of migrants to Greece. Born in Athens to West African parents, Miriam and Gloria are now 15, entering their last two years of high school and striving to lead their team to the national championship. While navigating the experiences of adolescence amidst poverty, racism, and statelessness, they dream of being recruited by a professional basketball program, an opportunity that would profoundly change their lives.
Countries of Production: Greece, Spain Countries of Filming: Greece Genres: Gender / Women’s Rights, Sports, Youth & Children Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: January 2024 Slots: Feature Length, TV Broadcast Hour Final Length Details: 52’ + 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £510,650 Total Budget (Euros): €583,181 Total Budget (USD): $701,386 Total in Place (GBP): £0 Total in Place (Euros): €0 Total in Place (USD): $0
Project Team
Director(s): Elpida Nikou, Rodrigo Hernandez Producer(s): Elpida Nikou, Rodrigo Hernandez Co-Producer: Kellen Quinn
Contact: Elpida Nikou Email: elp.nikou@gmail.com
Sugar Island
The Batey Consuelito is a tiny ghetto where sugar workers live with their families. It stands isolated, surrounded by cane fields, miles away from the nearest town. Ana Ingrid is a Dominican girl of Haitian descent who lives there with her mother and father. She’s 14 years old, and she’s pregnant. Ana Ingrid is forced into adulthood as she has to deal with her pregnancy, requiring her to abandon school and look for a job. Amidst hostile conditions, the baby comes. Another sugar worker is born, and the cries of this new life mingle with the sound of the new planting.
Countries of Production: Dominican Republic, Spain Countries of Filming: Dominican Republic Genres: Activism, Gender / Women’s Rights, Social Issue Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: September 2022 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 90
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): 436127,50 Total Budget (Euros): €500,000 Total Budget (USD): 606240,00 Total in Place (GBP): 113384,10 Total in Place (Euros): €130,000 Total in Place (USD): 93500,55 Confirmed Project Financiers: Ibermedia Development / Ibermedia Coproduction / Canary Islands Government
Project Team
Director(s): Johanné Gómez Terrero Producer(s): Fernando Santos Díaz Co-Producer: David Baute
Contact: David Baute Company: Tinglado Film, S. L. Email: tingladofilm@gmail.com
Sunday in Japan
Sunday, a Ugandan refugee living in Tokyo for 13 years, visits the immigration bureau every two months. Each time there is the possibility of being detained. Leo, an exchange student from the UK, finds himself studying in Tokyo and taking on voluntary work at a cafe meet-up for refugees. There he strikes up a conversation with Sunday and they end up renting an apartmenttogether. Through their shared love for film and without any experience, they set about filming short scenes. These grow in scale and ambition, from real to surreal, embracing Sunday’s pain and dreams.
Countries of Production: United Kingdom, Portugal Countries of Filming: Japan Genres: Community, Human Rights, Personal & Human Interest, Politics & Economics, Refugees, Social Issue Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: September 2022 Slots: Feature Length, Series & Formats, TV Broadcast Hour, Online or Other Platforms Final Length Details: 58’, 90’ Website: http:// .moonroadmedia.com
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £168,347 Total Budget (Euros): €195,282 Total Budget (USD): $234,002 Total in Place (GBP): £15,150 Total in Place (Euros): €17,574 Total in Place (USD): $21,059 Confirmed Project Financiers: N/A
Project Team
Director(s): Leo Nelki, Sunday Bamweyana Producer(s): Antonio Ribeiro, Golriz Kolahi
Contact: Antonio Ribeiro Company: Moon Road Films Ltd Email: antonio@moonroadmedia.com
The Female Gaze
The Female Gaze: A Revolution Named Desire is a creative documentary adapted from Iris Brey’s eponymous 2020 book. Drawing on movie clips, interviews with filmmakers, and newly shot footage, the film explores onscreen representations of the female experience in an autobiographical form.
Countries of Production: France Countries of Filming: France, United States, United Kingdom Genres: Arts & Culture, Gender / Women’s Rights Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: August 2023 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 75’ Website: https:// .totem-films.com/documentaire/ the-female-gaze/
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £554,953 Total Budget (Euros): €633,700 Total Budget (USD): $760,440 Total in Place (GBP): £52,275 Total in Place (Euros): €59,700 Total in Place (USD): $71,640 Confirmed Project Financiers: International Sales MG: Totem Films
Project Team
Director(s): Iris Brey Producer(s): Bérénice Vincent DOP: Inès Tabarin Sales Agent(s): Agathe Valentin, Totem Films
Contact: Elsa Payen Company: Atelier Totem Email: elsa@totem-films.com
The Last Great Event
This is the untold and scarcely believable story of how a group of youngsters - 23 year old Ray Foulk and his younger brothers Ronnie and Bill, along with close friend Rikki Farr, all complete amateurs with zero experience - managed to lure the greatest names in music to come to their home, a sleepy little island o the coast of England. Together, they pulled o the biggest rock festival in history, but the commercial forces of music and the anti-capitalistic hippy movement combined to leave the young men bankrupt, filled with resentment and broken dreams.
Countries of Production: Sweden, United Kingdom Countries of Filming: United Kingdom, United States, Sweden Genres: Adventure, Arts & Culture, Music, Personal & Human Interest Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: December 2022 Slots: Feature Length, TV Broadcast Hour Final Length Details: 58 & 90
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £815,295 Total Budget (Euros): €941,160 Total Budget (USD): $1,132,187 Total in Place (GBP): £17,400 Total in Place (Euros): €19,884 Total in Place (USD): $24,100 Confirmed Project Financiers: Swedish Film Institute (development stage 1)
Project Team
Director(s): Phillip Carter Producer(s): Dylan Williams Editor(s): Ben Stark
Contact: Dylan Williams Company: Backflip Media AB Email: dylan@backflipmedia.se
The Last Tour of Yemen
The Last Tour of Yemen is the story of Kais, a tour guide who juggles family life, daily bombardment from Saudi attacks on Yemen, and the pressures of finding work to feed his family. Through Kais we journey with the tourists on idyllic beaches, and with journalists venturing into famine areas where the majority of Yemen’s population teeter on the edge of starvation. Using visual interplay between beauty and su ering, the film will question what role Western governments, including the UK, have in this situation, showing how they are implicated by profiting from the sale of weapons in the world’s most undocumented war.
Countries of Production: United Kingdom Countries of Filming: Yemen Genres: Travel & Adventure, War & Conflict, Wildlife Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: February 2022 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 60’, 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £390,000 Total Budget (Euros): €450,000 Total Budget (USD): $544,000 Total in Place (GBP): £0 Total in Place (Euros): €0 Total in Place (USD): $0
Project Team
Director(s): Sean Mcallister Producer(s): Sean Mcallister Co-Producer: Hans Roberts Eisenhauser Executive Producer(s): Hans Robert Eisenhauer is a producer, known for Of Fathers and Sons (2017), Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) and The Return to Homs (2013). Editor(s): Matt Scholes
Contact: Sean McAllister Company: 10 films ltd Email: sean@seanmcallister.com
The Plague
At first, there is doubt. Informational chaos triggers anxiety. Panic kicks in, or, contrarily, denial and repression. Regardless of time, the patterns of human reactions in the face of epidemics are similar. Today’s pandemic and the Polish smallpox epidemic of 1963 serve as the background for a universal story about anxiety, an emotion that, just like a virus, isn’t alarming at first, but spreads quickly and intensifies. In this film we observe a gradation of the protagonists’ emotional states, as well as how anxiety influences various aspects of their lives.
Countries of Production: Poland Countries of Filming: Poland Genres: Experimental / Art, Health, Personal & Human Interest Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: May 2022 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 75’ Website: http://theplague.pl
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £176,400 Total Budget (Euros): €200,800 Total Budget (USD): $243,200 Total in Place (GBP): £33,490 Total in Place (Euros): €38,135 Total in Place (USD): $46,180 Confirmed Project Financiers: Polish Film Institute -€ 20 370 / Wrocław City Council - € 6 670 / National Film Archive - Audiovisual Institute (FINA) - € 11 105
Project Team
Director(s): Monika Kotecka Producer(s): Paweł Kosuń
Contact: Marta Szymanowska Company: Centrala Film Email: szymanowska@centralafilm.pl
The Untitled Scholars Project
Details to be announced. For more information, please contact the producers.
Countries of Production: United Kingdom Countries of Filming: United Kingdom, United States, Kenya Genres: Education, Globalisation, Technology Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: January 2022 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £750,000 Total Budget (Euros): €856,147 Total Budget (USD): $1,038,748 Total in Place (GBP): £240,364 Total in Place (Euros): €276,272 Total in Place (USD): $333,539 Confirmed Project Financiers: Field of Vision / Firelight Media / BFI / Doc Society / Wellcome Trust / Enriching Engagement Award Oxford University / Assembly Lab Open City Film Festival
Project Team
Director(s): Eloise King Producer(s): Eloise King, Riel Roch-Decter Executive Producer(s): Patricia Kingori Sales Agent(s): Amanda Lebow, CAA
Contact: Eloise King Company: White Teeth Films Email: EloiseKing@Whiteteethfilms.com
The Time of Pomegranates
When Beta’s brother killed another boy in their village in Albania, he triggered a blood vendetta against her family. Whilst the brother was sent to prison, the threat of revenge remained due to widespread belief in the ‘Kanun’, an alternative justice system which maintains murder must be avenged to restore honour. Beta’s father fled to London, fearing for his life. This film is told from Beta’s point of view as she grows up confined to the family home in Albania, and from her father’s perspective as he struggles to gain the family asylum in the UK.
Countries of Production: United Kingdom Countries of Filming: Albania, United Kingdom Genres: Anthropology / Ethnography, Gender / Women’s Rights, Point of View Project Status: Rough Cut Estimated Completion Date: October 2021 Slots: Feature Length, TV Broadcast Hour, Online or Other Platforms Final Length Details: 70’-80’ + 50’ Website: http:// .keypictures.org
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £160,000 Total Budget (Euros): €182,000 Total Budget (USD): $220,000 Total in Place (GBP): £80,500 Total in Place (Euros): €91,775 Total in Place (USD): $111,100 Confirmed Project Financiers: Al Jazeera broadcast a 24’ version which includes footage from this film. This provided 1/4 of the total budget. ‘The Time of the Pomegranates’ is vastly di erentto the Al Jazeera exposé (which was journalistic in nature) and includes 70% new footage. The other 1/4 of budget comes from investors. All rights are available.
Project Team
Director(s): Simon Hipkins Producer(s): Simon Hipkins Executive Producer(s): Charly Feldman Editor(s): Mariko Montpetit DOP: Simon Hipkins
Contact: Simon Hipkins Company: Key Pictures Email: simon@keypictures.org
The Tuba Thieves
The Tuba Thieves fictionalises real events and lived experiences through a hard of hearing sensory system. A Deaf woman is given a drum kit by her Deaf father, while marching band students reconcile with tuba thefts from Los Angeles high schools. These scenes are intercut with reenactments of historical concerts.
Countries of Production: United States Countries of Filming: United States Genres: Music, Point of View, Other Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: December 2021 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £571,533 Total Budget (Euros): €660,024 Total Budget (USD): $790,000 Total in Place (GBP): £399,069 Total in Place (Euros): €462,005 Total in Place (USD): $556,000 Confirmed Project Financiers: $100,000 Ford Foundation / $40,000 Chicken and Egg / $30,000 Creative Capital / $20,000 SFFILM / $355,000 Contracting
Project Team
Director(s): Alison O’Daniel Producer(s): Rachel Nederveld Co-Producer: Eliza Moley
Contact: Rachel Nederveld Email: rcnederveld@gmail.com
The White Doctor
Ten years after Renee Bach, a then 19 year old American, established her non-profit Serving His Children’, a case is being made against her by the parents of children who died in her care. They allege Bach posed as a doctor despite having no qualifications and treated children with fatal consequences. The upcoming trial is already being cited as a textbook example of the ‘White Saviour’ complex in Africa, and an indictment of an industry that some say does more damage than good. Bach refutes all the allegations.
Countries of Production: Ireland, Kenya Countries of Filming: Uganda Genres: Activism, Gender / Women’s Rights, Geopolitics, Religion, Social Issue Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: September 2022 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £466,027 Total Budget (Euros): €532,275 Total Budget (USD): $645,140 Total in Place (GBP): £0 Total in Place (Euros): €0 Total in Place (USD): $0 Confirmed Project Financiers: Screen Ireland Development Financing
Project Team
Director(s): Zippy Kimundu Producer(s): Ciaran Cassidy
Contact: Ciaran Cassidy Company: Little Wing Films Email: ciaran@littlewingfilms.com
Tish
Tish Murtha’s photography of people on the margins of society in Thatcher’s Britain challenged inequality. However, despite early acclaim for her work, Tish was unable to make a living from photography and lived in poverty until her death. Tish follows her daughter Ella, who revisits key images and moments in her mother’s life in order to elevate and preserve a legacy that may otherwise have been lost. In digging into the past, Ella comes to terms with her own grief at her mother’s passing and reconnects with her family.
Countries of Production: United Kingdom Countries of Filming: United Kingdom Genres: Arts & Culture, Biography, Gender / Women’s Rights Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: June 2022 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £350,000 Total Budget (Euros): €400,000 Total Budget (USD): $485,000 Total in Place (GBP): £40,000 Total in Place (Euros): €45,000 Total in Place (USD): $55,000 Confirmed Project Financiers: Kickstarter
Project Team
Director(s): Paul Sng Producer(s): Jen Corcoran Co-Producer: Hopscotch Films - John Archer
Contact: Jen Corcoran Company: Freya Films Email: jen@freyafilms.co.uk
Untitled Digital Privacy Project
Details to be announced. For more information, please contact the producers.
Countries of Production: United Kingdom Countries of Filming: United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States, Brazil, Qatar Genres: Activism, Crime, Current A airs, Experimental / Art, Human Rights, Investigative, Social Issue, Technology, Thriller Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: October 2022 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £621,673 Total Budget (Euros): €694,899 Total Budget (USD): $844,555 Total in Place (GBP): £37,000 Total in Place (Euros): €41,298 Total in Place (USD): $50,189 Confirmed Project Financiers: Doc Society/ BFI / Tribeca Gucci Grant / Catapult Film Fund
Project Team
Director(s): Kate Stonehill Producer(s): Steven Lake Co-Producer: Sorcha Bacon DOP: Molly Manning Walker
Contact: Steven Lake Company: Rubix Films Email: stevenwlake@gmail.com
Untitled Hydebank Film
Ryan spends his last season as an inmate caring for a flock of sheep inside a Northern Irish prison’s walls. Upon release, he is thrust back into a precarious political environment as he ventures to raise his own flock, putting faith in the only occupation he has known to bring him solace.
Countries of Production: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, United States Countries of Filming: Northern Ireland Genres: Community, Crime, Social Issue Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: January 2023 Slots: Feature Length, TV Broadcast Hour, Online or Other Platforms Final Length Details: 90’, 50’ Website: https:// .rossmcclean.com/feature-development
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £273,690 Total Budget (Euros): €304,100 Total Budget (USD): $343,633 Total in Place (GBP): £54,060 Total in Place (Euros): €61,738 Total in Place (USD): $74,830 Confirmed Project Financiers: BFI DocSociety Features Fund - secured - £45,000 Northern Ireland Screen (development) - secured - £7,500 Open City Development Lab - secured - £2,000
Project Team
Director(s): Ross McClean Producer(s): Bronte Stahl
Contact: Bronte Stahl Email: brontestahl@gmail.com
Untitled Marjolaine Grappe Film
Details to be announced. For more information, please contact the producers.
Countries of Production: France, United States Countries of Filming: United States Genres: Social Issue, Technology, War & Conflict Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: September 2022 Slots: Feature Length, TV Broadcast Hour Final Length Details: 52’, 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £931,256 Total Budget (Euros): €1,076,243 Total Budget (USD): $1,286,450 Total in Place (GBP): £134,416 Total in Place (Euros): €154,844 Total in Place (USD): $185,570 Confirmed Project Financiers: Memento - 106.844 EUR Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée (CNC) - 28.000 EUR PROCIREP - 4.000 EUR Brouillon d’un Rêve - 4.000 EUR SFFILM (In-Kind Support) - 14.310 USD
Project Team
Director(s): Marjolaine Grappe Producer(s): Dana Nachman, Thierry Marro, Chelsea Matter DOP: Emilie Noblet Sales Agent(s): Dan Braun, Submarine Entertainment
Contact: Marjolaine Grappe Email: marjolaine.grappe@gmail.com
Untitled: Miss Africa South
Weaving through the history of South African non-segregated pageantry comes the iconic story of Miss Africa South. South African women of colour, representing a country that does not exist, compete againsttheir “whites only” Miss South Africa counterparts at the Miss World Pageants in the early 1970s. Embroiled within the tale of South Africa’s segregated past comes the untold story of the forgotten Black beauty queens who fought for not only a crown but for their national identity too. Through the lens of sequins and lace, a nation at war with itself is seen.
Countries of Production: South Africa Countries of Filming: United Kingdom, South Africa Genres: History, Social Issue, Other Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: January 2023 Slots: Feature Length, Series & Formats, TV Broadcast Hour Final Length Details: 80’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £218,655 Total Budget (Euros): €250,437 Total Budget (USD): $303,611 Total in Place (GBP): £5,115 Total in Place (Euros): €5,859 Total in Place (USD): $7,111 Confirmed Project Financiers: Sun International Hotel Group (Research & Development)
Project Team
Director(s): Aliki Saragas-Georgiou, Jacqui-Lee Katz Producer(s): Bridget Pickering, Aliki Saragas-Georgiou, Jacqui-Lee Katz Co-Producer: Darren Kerr
Contact: Aliki Saragas-Georgiou Company: Elafos Productions Email: aliki@elafos.co.za
Vestibule
Vestibule combines documentary, essay, and dance film forms to chronicle the director’s decade-long journey to diagnose and treat a vulvar disorder. Facing painful intercourse, an unclear diagnosis, and unhelpful treatments, she fights for sexual health, agency, and pleasure in a society and healthcare system centered on cis male bodies. In the disorienting space between social conditioning and her own lived experience, she discovers herself - and that the only way to have agency is to advocate for her own needs.
Countries of Production: United States Countries of Filming: United States Genres: Gender / Women’s Rights, Health, Sex / Sexuality Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: September 2022 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 90’ Website: https://rileymakesdocs.com/
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £484,565 Total Budget (Euros): €554,983 Total Budget (USD): $673,049 Total in Place (GBP): £0 Total in Place (Euros): €0 Total in Place (USD): $0
Project Team
Director(s): Riley Hooper Producer(s): Caitlin Mae Burke
Contact: Riley Hooper Email: rileyrhooper@gmail.com
Volver a Volver (Return Again)
The Sykora family are four Venezuelans, who, alongside six million others, have escaped the collapse of their country over the past years. They land in the Czech Republic, the place where Grandpa Jan was born, and a nation whose cultural dynamics couldn’t be further from Venezuelan idiosyncrasies. In a matter of months, the Sykora’s savings have almost vanished; they cannot find jobs and su er culture shock on a daily basis. Roles invert as siblings have to take over the duties of the parents and the dream of having a normal life seems, again, to be unreachable. For how long can they endure?
Countries of Production: Czech Republic, Venezuela Countries of Filming: Czech Republic, Spain, Venezuela Genres: Human Rights, Refugees, Social Issue Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: June 2024 Slots: Feature Length, TV Broadcast Hour Final Length Details: 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £251,916 Total Budget (Euros): €287,978 Total Budget (USD): $354,249 Total in Place (GBP): £14,715 Total in Place (Euros): €17,000Total in Place (USD): $20,400 Confirmed Project Financiers: Czech Film Fund (Development Fund)
Project Team
Director(s): Valerio Mendoza, Jorge Sánchez Calderón Producer(s): Katerina Cerna DOP: Matej Pinos
Contact: Katerina Cerna Company: Negativ Email: katerina@negativ.cz
We are Here to Stay
Poised in the space of a fishing harbour, embraced by sea and sky, Sharada buys and sells fish. The film follows her spirited fightto survive the challenges of caste dynamics, enmeshed in life atthe harbour. She faces sti competition from a powerful fishing community that has unfairly benefited from their unstinting supportto the Hindu-right. Staying with Sharada through fishing seasons, we witness her e orts to keep business and family afloat; she remains resolute in her quiet opposition to the steady infiltration of fundamentalist forces in the harbour.
Countries of Production: India Countries of Filming: India Genres: Gender / Women’s Rights Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: May 2023 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £123,500 Total Budget (Euros): €110,000 Total Budget (USD): $150,000 Total in Place (GBP): £3,700 Total in Place (Euros): €4,125 Total in Place (USD): $5,000
Project Team
Director(s): Sunanda Bhat Producer(s): Anirban Dutta Editor(s): Bina Paul DOP: Vikas Urs
Contact: Sunanda Bhat Company: Songline Films Email: songlinefilms@gmail.com
We are Volcanoes
Details to be announced. For more information, please contact the producers.
Countries of Production: Hong Kong SAR China Countries of Filming: Genres: Experimental / Art, Gender / Women’s Rights, Technology Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: May 2022 Slots: Feature Length, TV Broadcast Hour Final Length Details: 85’, 60’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £300,663 Total Budget (Euros): €343,367 Total Budget (USD): $416,178 Total in Place (GBP): £14,448 Total in Place (Euros): €16,500 Total in Place (USD): $20,000 Confirmed Project Financiers: Private Investment
Project Team
Director(s): Sharon Yeung, Natalie A. Chao Producer(s): Peter Yam, Sharon Yeung DOP: Natalie A. Chao
Contact: June Wong Email: p22r@protonmail.com
Werner Herzog - Radical Dreamer
Werner Herzog is an icon. Many images from his films are now part of the collective memory. The circumstances surrounding his productions are the stu of legend. In Hollywood in particular, he himself has acquired cult status. Using exclusive glimpses into Herzog’s work process, previously unknown archive material and numerous interviews with fellow artists, we undertake a trip that helps us understand his personal concept of “ecstatic truth”, overlaying fact and fiction in search of a deeper essence and that takes us to those places in the world and in ourselves where ecstasy can be found.
Countries of Production: Germany, United Kingdom Countries of Filming: Genres: Arts & Culture, Biography, History Project Status: In Development Estimated Completion Date: June 2022 Slots: Feature Length, TV Broadcast Hour Final Length Details: 52’, 60’, 90’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £639,914 Total Budget (Euros): €730,000 Total Budget (USD): $878,459 Total in Place (GBP): £70,127 Total in Place (Euros): €80,000 Total in Place (USD): $96,269 Confirmed Project Financiers: ZDF/ARTE
Project Team
Director(s): Thomas von Steinaecker Producer(s): Bernhard von Hülsen Co-Producer: André Singer Editor(s): Volker Schaner DOP: Henning Brümmer Broadcaster(s): Dieter Schneider, ARTE
Contact: Bernhard von Hülsen Email: b.huelsen@3b-produktion.de
Whores Like Us
After the eruption of COVID-19 in an impoverished Buenos Aires, a group of unionised sex workers try to secure their livelihood. The strange normality, increasingly policed and paranoiac, projects onto them new images of abjection and contagion. Can this collective body preserve life, or at least a life that’s worth living? Their profession depends on what is the cause of so much panic: contact between bodies.
Countries of Production: Argentina Countries of Filming: Argentina Genres: Activism, Community, Experimental / Art, Gender / Women’s Rights, Human Rights, LGBTQIA+, Love, Point of View, Politics & Economics, Sex / Sexuality, Social Issue, Other Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: January 2023 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 75’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £166,037 Total Budget (Euros): €190,000 Total Budget (USD): $230,264 Total in Place (GBP): £16,604 Total in Place (Euros): €19,000 Total in Place (USD): $23,026 Confirmed Project Financiers: Polo Audiovisual de Córdoba / Mecenazgo Cultural / Fondo Nacional de las Artes
Project Team
Director(s): Agustina Comedi Producer(s): Guido Deniro, Anahí Farfán Editor(s): Valeria Racioppi Sales Agent(s): Maria Vera, Kino Rebelde
Contact: Guido Deniro Company: Arde Cine Email: ardecine.argentina@gmail.com
Women Against The Bomb
In 1981, 37 women from Cardi set out on a 10-daylong protest march in a stand againstthe British government’s nuclear program. They reach the Greenham military base, where cruise missiles are set to be housed. Realizing the march isn’t enough to draw attention to their cause, they decide to camp out. Hundreds of women join them. Up to 30,000 people are drawn to their non-violent protest and they end up inspiring thousands of women across the globe. Today, the Greenham Common peace camp still holds an important place within anti-militarism movements, due to both its longevity and its role in helping to launch the budding ecofeminist movement.
Countries of Production: France Countries of Filming: United Kingdom Genres: Activism, Gender / Women’s Rights, History Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: November 2021 Slots: TV Broadcast Hour Final Length Details: 52’ + 70’
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £284,348 Total Budget (Euros): €323,702 Total Budget (USD): $391,941 Total in Place (GBP): £134,755 Total in Place (Euros): €155,200 Total in Place (USD): $185,832 Confirmed Project Financiers: Arte France - 150 000 € / RTS - Switzerland - 5 200 €
Project Team
Director(s): Sonia Gonzalez Producer(s): Anne Labro DOP: Amy Newstead
Contact: Anne Labro Company: Tangerine Productions Email: anne.labro@tangerine-productions.com
Yoyogi
Yoyogi combines two strange and seemingly overlapping peculiarities. On the one hand is the distant, almost scientific in its dryness, observation of ordinary scenes from people’s lives in the park. On the other hand comes the feeling of some kind of magic, and of the impossibility of what is happening.
Countries of Production: Estonia,Japan Countries of Filming: Japan Genres: Anthropology / Ethnography, Experimental / Art, Nature & Wildlife Project Status: In Production Estimated Completion Date: February 2022 Slots: Feature Length Final Length Details: 72’ Website: http://allfilm.ee/work/yoyogi-haiku/
Financing
Total Budget (GBP): £148,011 Total Budget (Euros): €172,051 Total Budget (USD): $207,106 Total in Place (GBP): £112,568 Total in Place (Euros): €130,851 Total in Place (USD): $157,512 Confirmed Project Financiers: Estonian Film Institute - 80 000 EUR / Estonian Cultural Endowment- 5 000 EUR / Own investment- 10851 EUR / Japanese co-producer - 35 000 EUR Estonian Cultural Endowment- 20 000 EUR (in progress) Estonian Public Broadcasting - 1200 EUR (in progress) International funds - 20000
Project Team
Director(s): Max Golomidov Producer(s): Volia Chajkouskaya, Ivo Felt
Contact: Volia Chajkouskaya Email: volia@allfilm.ee
