TFL Extended – Book of Projects 2019

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Sisterhood Sytske Kok, Maaike Benschop

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@Sunny Ronnie Zidon

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The Enchanted Anna Marmiesse

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Cinnamon Shops Iryna Serebriakova

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Covered Kioumars Namiri

The Magic Mountain Machteld van Gelder, Brechtje Schaling

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The Millennials Wout Peter Malestein, Bas Broertjes

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The Possessed Bartosz Staszczyszyn, Maciej Kubicki

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The Surveillant Lars T. Therkildsen, Maria Møller Christoffersen

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Delivery Ivona Juka, Anita Juka

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Dolores Anna M. Bofarull

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Eastern Patryk Bugajski, Ewa Stec

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Eternal City Anne Gately

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Grannies on the Move Georgina Hegedűs, Nikol Cibulya

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Madama Reale Tara Mulholland, Laura Piani

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Marquis of the Wolf Davide Mela, Andrea Scaglione

A road to Damascus Meedo Taha, Marie Mouchel-Blaisot

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#africa Adrian Perez

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All See None Zev Aaron

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Anna Nora Chloe Ion Papaspyrou

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Breast Lucy Campbell

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Eastern Mediterranean Aliki Danezi Knutsen

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Mustard Caroline Bergendahl Arnesen, Rebecca Wirkola Kjellman Notions Oonagh Kearney Barbara Healy On Set Jana Zeineddine Mais Salman September Jørgen Færøy Flasnes

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Script Development – Feature Film JUNE 2019

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Ferretti brothers vs Real Madrid Roberto Costantini

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Rhino Myth Cecile McNair, Karen Kristensen

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Fragile Shapath Das

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Rites Dee Meaden

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Glory B Konstantinos Antonopoulos, Luigi Campi

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Saint Bernard Kat Steppe

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Selkie Itandehui Jansen, Reece Smith

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Gulizar Belkıs Bayrak, Öktem Başol Hindu Kush Aluk Amiri, Francesco Merlino

Smaragda Emilios Avraam

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The First Victim Mario Fernández Alonso, Sanghmitra Hitaishi

Cent’anni Maja Prelog

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Christina Nikola Spasic, Milanka Gvoic

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Draw for Change!

Vincent Coen, Guillaume Vandenberghe

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Dreaming Walls Amélie van Elmbt, Hanne Phlypo

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Homeboys Tamar Goren

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Princess:Warrior Ioana Ţurcan

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Soul of the Desert Mónica Taboada Tapia, Beto Rosero

Kinky Yayo Herrero, Mintxo Díaz

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The Postman Francis Lau

Kissing Bug Luis Zorraquin

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The Visit Bobby Prasetyo

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The Woman with a Missing Leg Luigi Campi

Sounds From the Desert Emilija Skarnulyte, Elisa Fernanda Pirir

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Wild Boars Thanasis Neofotistos, Grigoris Skarakis

The Inventory Ilana Coleman, Jamie Gonçalves

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The Jungle Fever – Supporting the Malayan Tiger Conservation Paolo Volponi, Marta Skowron Volponi

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The Last Sebastian Peña-Escobar

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Unconventional Gardener Alessandro Bernard, Massimo Arvat

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We, Women Biljana Tutorov, Britta Rindelaub

Let it Be Łukasz Grzegorzek, Natalia Grzegorzek Life in a Beat Amerissa Basta, Dimitris Nakos

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Lisa Antelia is a Whore George Varsimashvili

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Lucía. Manuela. Marina.

Julio Mas Alcaraz

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My Cat Eyes Anna Petrus

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One: not even there Alejandro Fernández Almendras,c José Ignacio Alonso

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Script Development – Documentary JUNE 2019

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A Pena, KM100 Cristina López Justribó

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Anhell69 Theo Montoya, Juan Pablo Castrillón

Panhellenic Rinio Dragasaki 62

Arteries Camila Dutervil

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TV Series April 2019

@Sunny

Ronnie Zidon Writer/director • Israel

Ronnie Zidon is a 25-year-old Israeli filmmaker who creates bold, young LGBTQ content with a heavy dose of humor. As an out lesbian in her field, she is interested in increasing feminist and queer visibility on our screens. Ronnie wrote and directed Israel’s first and only lesbian TV series, and is now developing a dramedy series. The pilot of @Sunny won an Award of Merit at the Best Shorts Competition.

Sunny is a narcissistic, lesbian millennial who always has been an entertainer.

She craves attention, and wherever she goes she plays larger-than-life characters that would get it for her.

When she is shot to Internet fame by accidentally liveblogging her girlfriend cheating on her, she at once has all the attention she has ever wanted. Sunny fights to find a way to retain this attention, without exposing her true self ever again, lest she will be rejected.

She starts a vlog, and through the series, tries to figure out which character to portray, until eventually, she finds her authentic voice.

PROJECT STATUS

I am currently looking for producers and broadcasters.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Ronnie Zidon ronnie.zidon@gmail.com M +972 502522556

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Iryna Serebriakova Scriptwriter • Ukraine

Born in 1988, Iryna earned a Master’s degree in Literature and is currently studying for her second Master in Psychology. She studied Scriptwriting in Kiev under the guidance of Dmytro SukholytkyySobchuk on his educational platform Terrarium.

She wrote the feature film Over the Channel and co-wrote You Don’t Know Me together with director Olga Zhurba, which are at final and early development stage, respectively.

A 8-episode mini-series that explores the life and works of Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), the Polish writer and painter of Jewish origin.

During his final months of life in the ghetto, Schulz attempts his personal escape from his unbearable reality. He starts working on his very last book.

In this book, he reinvents provincial hometown of his childhood – Drohobych – lost in Austrian Galicia populated by Polish, Jewish and Ukrainian communities.

Childhood memories intertwine with day-dreamt family stories, immersed in a rich and controversial intercultural context.

The art survives the war, but not the artist.

PROJECT STATUS

The project in development and we are currently seeking producers.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Iryna Serebriakova etudiante2x@gmail.com M +38 0509829365

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Covered

Kioumars Namiri Writer/director • Germany

Kioumars was born 1973 in Iran and migrated to Germany in 1987. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe and graduated in Screenwriting from the Drehbuchwerkstatt MĂźnchen. He has written, directed and produced two short films. Currently, he is working on a culture-clash romantic comedy funded by HessenFilm. He also works as a business analyst and has published award-winning papers at international conferences.

Covered is a female-driven crime-drama series. It is about the unintended involvement of a successful western-style young Iranian woman living in Germany in the racketeering of secret criminal organisations while she is searching for her disappeared small niece.

Ostensibly, the series is about the crime case related to the niece, but the true subject of the story is the transformation of the Iranian woman from a western-style toward a traditional woman during the search for her niece, including all the contradictions and complications this change brings to her life and relationships.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is at an early development stage. We are looking for producers, broadcasters and funders.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Kioumars Namiri k.namiri@gmail.com M + 49 1798111262

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Delivery Ivona Juka Scriptwriter • Croatia Ivona is an award-winning film director and screenwriter.

Her latest feature film You Carry Me premiered at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2015 and was screened in more than 20 festivals all around the world, where it won several awards. The film was selected as the Montenegrin entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at Oscars 2016, and later became the first film from the Balkan region to be bought by Netflix.

Three women are forced by local mafia gangsters to chop the bodies of executed victims, while still trying to live their ordinary lives.

PROJECT STATUS

We are looking for co-producers.

Anita Juka Producer • Croatia Anita Juka started her own production company 4Film in 2003. She has produced 16 films and 8 European co-productions of different genres, including fiction features, creative feature documentaries, shorts and recently one mini TV series. Her credits include a large number of social awareness media and film literacy campaigns. She participated in international programmes such as Producers Lab Toronto, TransAtlantic Partners, eQuinoxe, and Screen Ireland, among others. Her films won more than 35 international awards and were distributed in more than 170 countries worldwide.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Ivona Juka ivonajuka@yahoo.com M + 385 912519449

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Anita Juka aj@4film.hr M + 385 912512803

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Dolores

Anna M. Bofarull Writer/director & Producer • France

Based in Barcelona, Anna M. Bofarull studied Cinema and Human Sciences in Barcelona and Paris. Her feature documentaries Footnotes (2009) and Hammada (2010) were awarded and screened at festivals worldwide such as Montreal, São Paulo, Thessaloniki and Reykjavík. Her first fiction feature Sonata for Cello (2015) screened and was awarded at 20 festivals all over the world. Her next feature Sinjar has been selected at Cannes’ Cinéfondation L’Atelier 2019.

Spain, early 20th century.

Irreverent and wild, Dolores does not settle for her life of misery as daughter and wife of poor miners.

After experiencing the death of her children, she takes her life into her own hands and turns into Pasionaria, a strong woman leading the fight for women and workers’ rights during the Spanish Civil war, when she made internationally famous the slogan ¡No Pasarán! (They Shall not Pass!).

Dolores will discover her lights and shadows, her desires and abandonments, her early revolutionary innocence as well as her tyranny and loyalty to the party later on.

PROJECT STATUS

We are looking for producing partners, broadcasters and international co-producers.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Anna M. Bofarull abofarull@kaboga.eu M +34 675060993

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Eastern Patryk Bugajski Scriptwriter • Poland Patryk spent his formative years immersed in independent culture. Educated in Social Politics, he is now synthesizing his diverse experience into screenwriting. He attended various courses and worked as a story editor on Illegals, a Canal+ Poland spy series. He is also a seasoned documentary filmmaker with many docuseries under his belt. Currently, he is developing several TV series projects.

Ewa Stec Scriptwriter • Poland Ewa earned an MA in Screenwriting from the London Film School as well as an MA in Spanish Studies from the Jagiellonian University. She wrote four novels.

Since starting to write for the small screen, she has attended many courses and workshops on film and TV. Her interest also lies in criminology and psychology.

She did voluntary work for the Metropolitan Police while living in London and, after relocating to Warsaw, for Itaka, the Centre For Missing People.

The powerful Wind is about to hit a remote community of highlanders when a nun destroys a local church and ends up in a psychiatric ward.

People blame the Wind for her doings as it is believed to poison minds and bring the evil from the mountains.

Ola, a young shrink married into a wealthy family, sees the nun as a victim of the cloistered life. But is the nun really a victim? Or an avenger? As Ola unwittingly opens the Pandora’s box, long forgotten secrets start coming out and reveal the dark side of her family.

With the howling Wind getting closer, the violence intensifies. It is payback time.

PROJECT STATUS

The commercial mini-bible, the treatment of the first episode and the storyline for the complete season are available.

We are developing the project together with Telemark, and we are looking for broadcasters, co-producers and sales agents.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Patryk Bugajski patrykbugajski@yahoo.co.uk M +48 608396481

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Ewa Stec stecewa@aol.com M +48 668890051

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Eternal City

Anne Gately Producer • Ireland

Anne’s production company An Pointe Productions is based in Galway, Ireland. To date, she has produced the feature films Pursuit and We Ourselves, both written and directed by Paul Mercier. She is currently developing a third feature film. Anne has also written, directed and produced two documentaries, Recording Marjorie and Stocking the Shelves. She was the General Manager of the acclaimed Passion Machine Theatre Company in Dublin, with whom she produced many new plays.

Eternal City is a mini-series set in Rome during World War II. Based on real events, it tells the story of an Irish priest who becomes a pivotal character in an extraordinary operation that saves thousands from imprisonment, deportation and death.

The operation turns into a daring collaborative effort, involving individuals from many countries and walks of life, that defies and outmanoeuvres the Italian Fascists and German Nazis.

But not everyone is saved.

This TV drama captures an escapade that inspired many to act and is a gripping period thriller designed to resonate with today’s audiences.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is at an early development stage, and is supported by Screen Ireland and Screen Skills Ireland. The creative team includes Paul Mercier, Declan Brennan and Anne Gately.

We are looking for financers and a co-producer.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Anne Gately annegately2@eircom.net M +353 851947971

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Grannies on the Move Georgina Hegedűs Writer/director • Hungary Georgina earned a MA in Film Studies. Her graduation short film 13 ½ Minutes was screened internationally and was awarded at Thess International Short Film Festival 2013.

Since then she developed several feature film screenplays, and worked in an original TV Series for HBO. Currently she is working on different TV series as a scriptwriter, while she is preparing her first feature film as a director, Look into the Eyes of a Stranger, based on a true story about a woman who became a foster-mother for a refugee kid for the first time in Hungary.

Nikol Cibulya Writer/director • Hungary Nikol earned an MA in Film Studies. After her graduation she began working as a production assistant and as a story liner on a daily series. She has directed several music videos, fashion videos and online commercials.

Furthermore, Nikol has just finished her second short film and is currently developing the third. She is also working as a director for a Hungarian TV series.

This is a coming-of-age dramedy about three 70-year-old ladies who just started their journey of selfdiscovery.

They meet in a graphic designer school where they become friends and help each other to recognise how their whole life has been devoted to someone else.

They will prove that age is just a number and together they start new adventures, because life only begins after 70. They will fight Alzheimer, demanding children, cheating and even dead husbands, but mostly themselves.

They will prove that discovering our true identity never stops.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is in development.

We have the Hungarian production company FilmTeam attached, and we are looking for co-producers and international financing.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Georgina Hegedűs hgini42@gmail.com M +36 302568320

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Nikol Cibulya cibulya.nikol@gmail.com M +36 205942166

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Madama Reale Tara Mulholland Scriptwriter • France Tara was born in London, she grew up in Ireland, and is now based in Paris. She worked as a culture editor at The International New York Times from 2005 to 2016. She wrote The Island, a French-British TV series which won the CNC Writing Grant.

Laura Piani Scriptwriter • France Laura has collaborated with directors like Diane Bertrand, Cristina Pinheiro, Marion Laine and Éric Zoncka. Her credits include the TV series Spiral (Canal+), Ronde de Nuit (France 3), Temps de Chien (ARTE) and Philharmonia (France 2).

She is writing a romantic comedy produced by Le Petit Bureau, co-writing Walkyrie and adapting the series Plan B, both for TF1.

When Marie-Jeanne de Nemours, a futureless orphan in Paris, becomes Madama Reale, the Regent of Savoy, in 1675, her reign in the Italian duchy upends the status quo in Europe.

For a decade, she lives according to her own rules: defying Louis XIV, flaunting her lovers to the world, gleefully taking revenge on her late husband’s mistresses, and doing everything in her power to transform Turin into “a new Athens” of culture.

But this woman, who wanted to live like a man, was capable of everything except loving her only son. This is the story of a mother and child fighting for power.

PROJECT STATUS

Madama Reale won the Film Commission Torino Piemonte contest The Savoia: The Series. The project is a coproduction between Les Films d’Ici (France) and Lume Productions (Italy).

CONTACT INFORMATION

Tara Mulholland tmulholland@gmail.com M +33 683497106

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Laura Piani laurelpiani@gmail.com M +33 660375149

We are reaching the financing stage and we are currently looking for potential coproducers, international sales agents, broadcasters and any kind of support.

Marquis of the Wolf Davide Mela Scriptwriter • Italy In 2013, Davide graduated in Philosophy from the University of Turin. In 2014, he attended a Master in Film Production and Media, which resulted in his first collaboration as a first AD for Smile by Davide Tosco, a docu-fiction feature produced and distributed by Rai. He collaborates with several film production companies and works as a line producer for Grey Ladder Productions.

Aimone, the King’s secret son and the Prime Minister’s personal spy, comes home after years of travel to find himself in the middle of a power struggle to lead 19th century’s Italy towards unification.

PROJECT STATUS

Andrea Scaglione Producer • Italy Andrea is an Italian director and executive producer, and CEO of the production company Dimago. As a producer, director and art director, he has collaborated with national and international broadcasters, networks and agencies. His credits include commercials (Lancia Veste la Moda, 2008), feature documentaries (Strade Bianche, 2008) and TV shows (Sereno Variabile, Rai). He is a service provider for the Sky shows #SkyBuffaRacconta and Mister Condò.

The project is being developed with two production companies based in Turin: Dimago and Grey Ladder Productions.

We are currently looking for international co-producers and partners.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Davide Mela davide.mela08@gmail.com M +39 3333108135

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Andrea Scaglione andrea@d-imago.it M +39 3920960116

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Mustard Caroline Bergendahl Arnesen Scriptwriter • Norway Caroline earned a BA in Screenwriting from The Norwegian Film School. She is currently developing several projects, including a political thriller feature, a horror film project and a book adaptation.

Rebecca Wirkola Kjellman Writer/director • Norway Rebecca earned a BA in Film and TV Production from Westerdals Oslo ACT. She has directed several TV series for both NRK Super and NRK P3, and has won high-ranking awards for her short films, commercials and music videos.

In a little town in the north of Norway, five 15-year-old girls are starting their last year of secondary school. When their small-town community is hit by a number of cat disappearances, they begin the search for the town’s psychopath and a new sisterhood is formed.

A sisterhood that helps them through personal struggles and life itself.

As the town has no high school of its own, the girls cannot wait to move away from their godforsaken town.

They just have to get through their final year.

PROJECT STATUS

Mustard is at development stage. We have a season outline as well as a first draft pilot script. The project has received development funding from The Norwegian Film Institute, as well as from Filmfond Nord.

We are seeking co-producers and broadcasters.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Caroline Bergendahl Arnesen Rebecca Wirkola Kjellman caroline.arnesen@gmail.com rebeccakjellmann@gmail.com M +47 94422789 M +47 91591436

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Notions Oonagh Kearney Writer/director • Ireland Oonagh earned a BA in English and Philosophy from the University College Cork and a M.Phil. in Irish Theatre from the Trinity College Dublin. She worked as a casting director for The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Ken Loach (Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival 2006). After graduating from the National Film and Television School, Oonagh has written and directed nine award-winning shorts and a TV pilot for RTÉ. Selected for the BBC Drama Writers Room in 2017, her first feature Snow on Beara is in development with Screen Ireland.

Barbara Healy Producer • Ireland Barbara’s credits include the award-winning short film A Cake for Mabel by Jane McGee (2013), the BAFTAnominated short film Fire by Chris Andrews (2015) and the US indie comedy feature The Outdoorsman by David Haskell (2018). As Director of Tyrella Films, she is developing Oonagh Kearney’s feature film Snow on Beara, the Canadian thriller Trapline, directed by Isabelle Sieb and co-written by Elissa Von Struth, as well as the black comedy Baggage by Jane McGee.

Cork is a city with a Northside and Southside divided by a river. The Northside is poor but dynamic; the Southside is wealthy but reserved. On the Northside live the smart, rebellious 15-year-old Dawn Deasy, and her unemployed single-mother Martha. On the Southside lives the angry, disillusioned 27-year-old PhD student Emmet, son to successful businessman Frank and his wife Sheenagh.

When Dawn wins a place on an elite program for bright kids, it forces her to seek help from Emmet. This puts the two families and their values in direct conflict around the question of where one truly belongs.

PROJECT STATUS

We have interest from an Irish broadcaster, a pilot episode, series bible and a new pilot script.

We are looking for international financing, distributors and co-producers with the aim to shoot in summer 2020.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Oonagh Kearney Barbara Healy oonagh@oonaghkearney.com barbaramhealy@gmail.com M +353 876422119 M +353 877111012

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On Set Jana Zeineddine Writer/director • Jordan Jana Zeineddine is a Lebanese/American actress, writer, theatre director, and creative producer. She earned an MA in Applied Theatre from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and she worked as a creative producer and actress in the TV series Fa Sol Ya (2014) and in the short video Tarab 3al 7atab (2015), among others. Jana is drawn to projects that challenge stereotypes of Arab women and culture through comedy.

Mais Salman Producer • Jordan Mais Salman is a Jordanian film producer and director.

She graduated in Industrial Engineering, but then decided to follow her passion for film and storytelling, earning an MFA in Cinematic Arts at the Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Arts in Aqaba, Jordan. Salman has produced and directed several short films and documentaries around the MENA region and is a fellow of the inaugural class of Global Media Makers.

Lara, a Jordanian millennial and aspiring writer desperate to escape her privileged life in Amman, lands her first job on the set of an American film shooting in the desert.

In the process, she must come to terms with the harsh reality of professionalism and independence among an unlikely tribe: dysfunctional production junkies.

Through Lara, we get a fresh peek into the isolated lives of Jordanian filmmakers in the industry as they navigate through their personal obstacles to fulfill their professional duties, amidst the cultural and communication challenges with the American crew.

PROJECT STATUS

It is time to reclaim our narrative and show the world a positive female-driven ensemble of Arab characters in an accessible context and genre.

On Set received the Jordan Film Development Fund from the Royal Film Commission – Jordan (RFC).

CONTACT INFORMATION

Jana Zeineddine janaz22@yahoo.com M +962 799910399

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Mais Salman maissalman@gmail.com M +962 796555960

We are currently looking for international co-producers, broadcasters and TV/SVOD pre-sales worldwide to bring this project to life.

September

Jørgen Færøy Flasnes Scriptwriter • Norway

Jørgen earned a BA in Screenwriting from The Norwegian Film School where his exam film, Generation Mars, was nominated for a Student Academy Award. Since his graduation, he has written for several drama series and feature films, the latest being the upcoming series Nudes, for NRK P3. He is a FilmLab Norge alumnus, and has received the Norwegian Film Institute’s New Paths scholarship for the TV series project September.

September is set in an alternative universe where humans – like almost every other species on the planet – have their sexuality tied to a mating season. For eleven months of the year, humans live boring, sterile and asexual lives, but when September arrives they become primed for reproduction. Their hormones take over and a struggle to control frightful feelings and desires begin.

At the center of this story is an “ordinary” family of this alternate universe: a young woman, her mother and uncle, who in their own ways try their best to get through the mating season in one piece.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is produced by Barbosa Film and is currently at treatment stage.

We are seeking sales agents and international co-producers.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Jørgen Færøy Flasnes jfflasnes@gmail.com M +47 47024599

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Sisterhood Sytske Kok Scriptwriter • Netherlands Sytske graduated in Scriptwriting and Directing from the Netherlands Film Academy and the Binger Filmlab. She directed the internationally acclaimed short film The Chinese Wall (2002) and the TV film Impasse (2005), for which she also wrote the screenplay. In recent years, Sytske has mainly focused on writing films, such as the mid-length film Tunnel Vision by Stefano Odoardi, which won several international awards. Sytske also teaches and works as a script consultant.

Maaike Benschop Producer • Netherlands Maaike started her career at Phanta Film in 1996, since 2000 as Head of Development and in 2012 as Creative Producer. Her credits include Dennis Bots’ feature films Vicious (2019) and Circus Noël (2019), Bas Devos’ Hell Hole (Berlinale Panorama 2019) and Ghost Tropic (Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2019), and the upcoming Mi Vida by Norbert ter Hall. She is developing a drama series about the former Dutch colonies in Indonesia as well as the second season of Daddy Day. Both series are supported by Dutch broadcaster AVOTROS.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Sytske Kok sytskok@hetnet.nl M +31 0648478552

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Maaike Benschop film@phantavision.com M +31 206260255

Sisterhood is a social hospital drama set in 1966 in the Netherlands. Old men still rule the world, the baby boom generation is knocking on the door, and student revolts are about to erupt throughout Europe.

Rebellious working-class girl Catrien is the first of her background to enter a prestigious Catholic nursing school. Her arrival shakes up the social order that her privileged classmates and the nuns running the school have always taken for granted.

Catrien clashes with Sister Alma, the proud school founder who fears her world and everything she believes in are under attack.

PROJECT STATUS

Sisterhood is at development stage.

We are looking for co-producers, broadcasters and other financial partners worldwide.

The Enchanted

Anna Marmiesse Writer/director • France

Anna graduated from La Fémis in 2013. Since then, she has been a script reader and consultant for several French production companies and TV networks. She wrote and directed her first short film, the musical Lorraine Can’t Sing, in 2016.

It has been picked up by France 2 and was screened in numerous festivals all around the world.

Currently she is developing her first TV series and a feature film.

A new virus is starting to spread, causing people to sing and dance involuntarily.

They are being called “The Enchanted”.

In a French city, a group of people try to implement this new reality into their lives. Is the world about to become one giant musical?

PROJECT STATUS

The project is at development with Kaly Productions.

We are looking for potential French and/or international co-producers.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Anna Marmiesse marmiesse_anna@yahoo.fr M +33 685532102

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The Magic Mountain Machteld van Gelder Producer • Netherlands In 2000, Machteld founded Kleine Storm, an independent TV production company based in Amsterdam. For nearly two decades she created, developed and produced a wide variety of concepts and series for public broadcasters.

Her fiction-experience ranges from comedy, to adapting plays for screen, to drama. She also directed several documentary films and TV series.

Brechtje Schaling Producer • Netherlands After a career as a freelance line producer of feature films and TV series, Brechtje joined Kleine Storm in 2014 as Production Manager.

The Magic Mountain is a black comedy about members from the European elite hoping to return to their high-power positions after treatment at the exclusive Zauberberg.

High up amidst the harsh nature, charming mountain villages and discretion of the Alps, a group of overworked Europeans strive to recover in a luxurious clinic. A minister, a bank director, an actor, a billionaire’s daughter, a conductor and a diplomat seek to reinvigorate their exhausted bodies and minds.

The series, inspired by Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain, is translated to the problems experienced

by Europeans in this day and age.

PROJECT STATUS

We are seeking for international partners, broadcasters and networks.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Machteld Van Gelder machteld@kleinestorm.nl M +31 621534211

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Brechtje Schaling brechtje@kleinestorm.nl M +31 650686325

The Millennials Wout Peter Malestein Writer/director • Netherlands Born and raised in a religious tight-knit community, Wout did not grow up with a camera glued to his hand. Instead, his three brothers infected him with a love for movies that inspired him to the very core. In 2014, he graduated in Audiovisual Media, Film Directing and Screenwriting at the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht. His credits include the short documentary The Promised Land (2018), broadcasted on Dutch television.

In the late 90s, teenage twins Celine and Abel are tired of their predictable lives in the religious community they grew up in and decide to become anarchists.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is at early development stage.

We are mainly looking for financing and broadcasters.

Bas Broertjes Producer • Netherlands Bas Broertjes was born in Amsterdam. He graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2013, focusing on developing scripts. He worked as a producer and line producer on several short films, and together with Aydin Dehzad in 2014 he joined Kaliber Film, originally founded

by Mete Gümürhan. In the past years, Bas was selected for IFFR CineMart’s Rotterdam Lab, IDFAcademy and Ji.hlava IDFF Emerging Producers programme.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Wout Peter Malestein wp.malestein@gmail.com M +31 0616652770

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Bas Broertjes bas@kaliberfilm.nl M +31 0641251327

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The Possessed Bartosz Staszczyszyn Writer/director • Poland Bartosz is a screenwriter, journalist and script consultant.

He graduated in Film Studies from the Jagiellonian University. His writing debut, the critically acclaimed spy series Illegals, was broadcast by Canal+ Polska. He has also been developing a war thriller series Krakau. As a journalist, he has collaborated with the major Polish media.

He attended Storytelling – The Collaborative Model course

by EPI, and the Canal+ Series Lab (2016 and 2018).

Maciej Kubicki Producer • Netherlands Maciej graduated from the Institute of Polish Culture of the University of Warsaw and in Creative Production from the Wajda School. He works as a creative producer and scriptwriter for both cinema and TV. His credits include adaptations (In Treatment and Pact for HBO Europe, Illegals for Canal+ Polska) and original formats (Londoners for TVP). Maiej is a board member of Telemark and an EAVE Producers Workshop, TorinoFilmLab, MIDPOINT, Ex Oriente Film and DOK Incubator alumnus.

During the Mass, an old lady hangs herself in the church.

Her teenage granddaughter Ada discovers that suicides have been happening in this area for years. The one who forced people to kill themselves was the ghost of a murdered Roma girl.

The ghost possesses Ada’s body and gives her a task.

She is supposed to find the girl’s body and bury her in the sacred ground. If she fails, the demon will force her to commit suicide. But it is not the only threat for Ada. The locals are ready to kill her to stop her from solving the mystery from the past. Now, the girl and the demon need to work together.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is currently in advanced development.

The story outline, the mini bible and the script of the pilot episode are ready to be shared.

We are looking for broadcasters and sales agents.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Bartosz Staszczyszyn bartoszstaszczyszyn@gmail.com M +48 500061482

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Maciej Kubicki m.kubicki@gmail.com M +48 508154480

The Surveillant Lars T. Therkildsen Writer/director • Denmark Since 2007 Lars has written and directed several TV shows, commercials, short films, and games. He is most known in Denmark for his collaboration with actor and scriptwriter Charter McCloskey. Together they have produced over 500 minutes of TV primarily for the Danish comedy channel TV2 Zulu. Lars is currently working on several feature films as a scriptwriter. He has an undeniable passion for absurd universes and loveable but deeply flawed characters.

Maria Møller Christoffersen Producer • Denmark Maria Møller Christoffersen has a strong focus on international collaborations and co-production of arthouse films. She recently co-produced Johannes Nyholm’s Koko-Di Koko-Da, which was selected in Competition at Sundance, IFFR and Gothenburg Film Festival 2019.

Nationally she is in supported development with a slate of various fiction and documentary films. Additionally, she has produced several seasons of TV series for national broadcasters.

The Surveillant is a dark paranoia comedy about identity, surveillance and intelligence set in Copenhagen. A dark and funny satire about a guy on his first field job starting to doubt everything, even himself.

After a tour of duty in Afghanistan, Greg started having trouble finding any reason to connect with other people. He is recently hired at the Danish Federal Intelligence, a job he finds slightly boring, but suits him well.

After a promotion he is hired to surveil a man of interest.

Things starts to change, and his paranoia starts to unravel.

PROJECT STATUS

We are in early development and currently looking for broadcasters to join the project.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Lars T. Therkildsen lars@grasvaerk.dk T +45 21675213

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Maria Møller Christoffersen maria@beofilm.dk T +45 28901506

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A road to Damascus Meedo Taha Writer/director • Lebanon Meedo is a Lebanese filmmaker and author who explores the space between memory and identity. He earned a PhD in Architecture from the University of Tokyo and an MFA in Directing from UCLA. His short film The Incident (2017) screened worldwide and won the Directors Guild of America Student Film Jury Award for Women and Minority Directors, the Best College Short Film Award at the Phoenix Film Festival and the Best First Film Award at the Lebanese Film Festival. His feature film project Other People participated in the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriters Intensive workshop, won a honorable mention at the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards and was finalist at Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition.

Marie Mouchel-Blaisot Producer • France Marie is a producer for MAT Productions, an independent French company which develops and produces French and international projects, feature films and creative documentaries. It is managed by Marie and Richard Magnien, who have over 20 years of experience in production and distribution. Their recently completed projects include Fataria by Walid Tayaa (with Tunisia), and they are currently in postproduction with L’Agnello

by Mario Piredda (with Italy). In addition to A Road to Damascus (with Lebanon) they are in development on Glorious Ashes by Bui Thac Chuyên (with Vietnam).

CONTACT INFORMATION

Meedo Taha meedot@me.com M +1 3107800993

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Marie Mouchel-Blaisot m.mouchel@matproductions.fr M +33 0685563172

When a compulsively introverted botanist witnesses a political murder on the road between Beirut and Damascus, he realizes he holds the only clue to the mystery, a victim’s dying words: “Feed the cat”.

Terrified of getting involved, he runs away — but the hypothetical cat keeps him up at night, leading him to an empty apartment that has no cat, but a telescope aimed at his own bedroom window.

As the nation plunges into turmoil, the paranoid botanist treads through a minefield of absurd clues: a name from his past, a veiled woman in men’s shoes, and an acacia tree between life and death.

PROJECT STATUS

A Road to Damascus is based on Meedo’s novel of the same title.

The film project participated in Rawi Screenwriters Lab, Hezayah Screenwriting Lab, and the Producer’s Lab at the Doha Film Institute, where it received a development grant.

We seek co-production and financing partners.

#africa

Adrian Perez Writer/director & Producer • Switzerland

Adrian is a swiss filmmaker with Spanish roots.

He loves chocolate, cheese fondue, Sangria and tapas. The only thing he hates are clichés.

A couple is travelling the world with a bus. Supported by numerous sponsors, the journey is documented for a vast online community.

Everything is working out fine, until they get stuck in Africa and find their real calling in life. #africa is a bloody love story that talks about the longing for identity and belonging in a time where communities become increasingly virtual and segmented.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is currently in development and seeking for a producer.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Adrian Perez adrian.perez@projectaxelfoley.com M +41 793318728

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All See None

Zev Aaron Writer/director • United States

Zev was born in New York in 1990. After receiving a BA in History with a concentration in the Intellectual History of Modern Europe from The University of Pennsylvania, he trained on black-and-white 16mm and went on to make a series of experimental films interrogating contemporary capitalism. He then received an MA from the New School, studying particular threads of nineteenth and twentieth century German and French philosophies, and began shooting narrative short films on 16mm.

In a prison-like city, Isaiah Foster, a black forty-yearold architect, tries to sell his humanitarian prison design for a price that will allow him to leave the city for good with his young daughter.

When Isaiah’s design is selected for construction by the city, a new life seems possible. But when touring the prison construction site, Isaiah discovers two dead penal laborers on the grounds. Traumatized, he feels responsible for what has occurred and jeopardizes the prison’s construction.

Isaiah descends into guilt-ridden paranoia and he and his daughter must run for their lives.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is currently in development. A script rewrite is underway.

We are seeking a producer.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Zev Aaron thezevster@yahoo.com M +1 9173425724

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Anna Nora Chloe

Ion Papaspyrou Writer/director • Greece

Ion was born in 1987 and is currently based in Athens, Greece. He has completed three short films to date. His short I Am Not Here Now (2013) was screened at a large number of international film festivals and was praised for its innovative format, including distinctions and awards. Ion has also directed a number of commercials and TV documentary series.

He is currently developing his debut feature film Anna Nora Chloe.

This film shows 24 hours of a man’s life. He lives with his wife and her son from another marriage. Today his daughter is being born. Soon after birth the newborn girl develops birth complications and gets transferred to the intensive care unit. At the same time, his stepson mysteriously disappears from school and the police activates an Amber Alert about the missing child.

Torn between agonising dilemmas in the maternity hospital and the ongoing investigation about the missing child, this father is the protagonist of a Greek tragedy pulled down to the human scale, upon his ordinary life.

PROJECT STATUS

Anna Nora Chloe is at an early development stage.

The project is eligible for public funding under the Greek Film Centre programmes.

We are looking for European co-producers and a sales agent.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Ion Papaspyrou ion@ionpapaspyrou.com M +30 6944350184

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Breast

Lucy Campbell Writer/director • United Kingdom

Lucy is a UK based writer/director with a previous career as an inner-city doctor in Manchester UK. Her award-winning short films (BFI, Film4, Fox/Hulu) have been programmed internationally.

She directed half hour children’s horror for CBBC/ Canadian DHX, broadcast May 2019. She is drawn to female led horror as a space to interrogate the politics/psychology of the female body. She has features in development with Fox/Hulu and BFI. She is represented by Ikenna Obiekwe at Independent Talent.

Set in British suburbia, Breast is about a woman in an abusive marriage who finds a breast lump. Powerless in her own life, she ignores it.

Instead discovering speed and freedom in a demonic car.

The car seems to channel her unspoken rage, nearly killing her husband in a massive crash. Inside the car, her breast is mysteriously healed.

She enjoys her body for the first time. But outside the car, her cancer is encroaching.

Breast is an extraordinary body horror about female desire and the politics of the female body.

PROJECT STATUS

Breast is currently in development, seeking finance.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Lucy Campbell lucyhelencampbell@icloud.com M +44 7986613621

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Eastern Mediterranean

Aliki Danezi Knutsen Writer/director • Cyprus

Aliki has a BFA in Film from the Tisch School of the Arts-New York University and a Master’s Degree in Philosophy. She is a Fulbright Scholar, from New School for Social Research (thesis title: “Human Nature and Storytelling”). Her first three feature films, Roads and Oranges (1996), Bar (2003) and Chinatown-The Three Shelters (2018), received several awards and quality distinctions at festivals around the world. She works extensively in theater, and has directed several commercially and creatively acclaimed plays.

The island of Cyprus, early sixties. 35-year-old Margarita is an unsettled married woman, tormented by the political unrest of her country.

Her relationship with her husband is challenged by an unconfessed conflict.

Compromised with the new state of things, he looks indifferently at the future while she burns with uncertainty for what is happening to her country and her life.

In her husband’s uncle, a charming idealist lawyer, Margarita finds the combativeness she desires.

A strong erotic passion awakens and feeds her agitation even more. She soon realizes she cannot ignore her feelings.

PROJECT STATUS

Eastern Mediterranean is at an early script stage.

CONTACT INFORMATION

It has secured a script development fund from the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture and we are looking for a producer and co-producers from Greece, Europe and around the world.

Aliki Danezi Knutsen info@alikidaneziknutsen.com M +30 6946536742

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Ferretti brothers vs Real Madrid

Roberto Costantini Writer/director • Italy

Roberto has a background in philosophy and cinema. He started writing, directing and producing short films with a group called ZooTroupe. Their short film Mavroscoufitsa (directed by Yannis Yapanis) was selected at Cannes Film Festival 2002, and Roberto’s short film Virtus F.C. (2004) was coproduced by Sky Italia. Aside his productions he worked as technician and AD for cinema, TV and commercials. He also is an exhibitor running a 2 screen-room movie theatre near Perugia in Italy.

Achille is a water aerobics teacher who lives near Perugia and at the age of 43 still dreams to become a sport champion, no matter the sport. He is very good at miniature golf, so when he discovers that mini golf is a real sport his hope rises again.

What he needs to become a champion is the mathematical help of his brother Ferruccio who was a math professor in America has just returned.

The brothers have not seen each other since their mother’s funeral 18 years ago.

They will have to reconnect in order to be a team again and for Achille to win the miniature golf tournament.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is currently undergoing financing and rewriting.

I foresee to shoot in late summer/autumn 2020 in Umbria, Italy.

I have local support and I am looking for a French co-producer in order to have a French actress in the cast.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Roberto Costantini costantini.rob@gmail.com M +39 3405214937

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The film is going to be low budget.

Fragile

Shapath Das Writer/director & Producer • India

Shapath was born and brought up in Kolkata. For the last 6 years he has been working as a film festival programmer. He is in charge of Arthouse Asia Film Festival as the festival director. This is a new alternative industry focused on film festival which takes place in Kolkata, and has now become the second most important film festival. Shapath has produced two short films.

The film starts at a dog breeding centre with a married couple and a dog, Kukku. The couple are in a fragile relationship, looking for ways to strengthen it, having furious fights over petty matters, which ends with her decision of getting a divorce. He is eventually losing his cool.

Their relationship reaches a stagnancy.

To get pregnant, she, without informing him, stops taking contraceptives, and conceives a child. Her husband accepts the situation positively.

But it all ceases when the pregnancy test turns out negative at the clinic.

As Kukku conceives a batch of puppies, in utter disbalance, the wife starts envying Kukku’s motherhood.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is currently in script development.

We are looking for producers.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Shapath Das shapath@doab.in M +91 8276877445

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Glory B Konstantinos Antonopoulos Writer/director • Greece Konstantinos studied filmmaking at Columbia University.

He has directed several documentaries and narrative shorts such as Without Glasses which received a Special Award at Drama Film Festival 2009 and Lea which won an Honorary Distinction at Athens International Film Festival 2013.

He co-wrote the feature film Symptom by Angelos Frantzis, which participated at the Torino Film Festival 2015. Konstantinos’ script Memories from The Future participated in Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink 2016. In 2019 he received the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Award.

Luigi Campi Scriptwriter • Italy Luigi Campi and Konstantinos Antonopoulos met as postgraduate students at Columbia University and have been collaborating since 2009. Luigi is a Fulbright fellow, Italian National Film School graduate, Berlinale Talents and Oxbelly Lab alumnus. His debut feature film My First Kiss and the People Involved (2016) premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and received top prizes at the Woodstock Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival and Ashland Independent Film Festival. He lives between Rome and Athens.

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Justinian II is the vicious, dethroned emperor of Byzantium, punished by nose mutilation. Zaharias is a peaceful, cross-eyed beekeeper. The two men desperately need to learn how to collaborate in order to survive, escape the island and reclaim their ruined lives.

Problem is: their pillories render them physically useless.

An absurd, byzantine buddy movie about power, friendship and the need to wipe your own ass with somebody else’s hand.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is currently at the stage of script development and early casting.

It is intended to be filmed in Greece.

We are looking for creative partners, co-producers and sales agents.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Konstantinos Antonopoulos konstantinos@eitherorproductions.com M +30 6973809038

Two convicts, trapped in medieval pillories (wooden planks with holes that clasp together hands and head) shipwreck on a deserted Mediterranean island.

Luigi Campi luigi@luigicampi.com M +30 6981497937

Gulizar Belkıs Bayrak Writer/director • Turkey Belkıs earned her BA in International Relations and Advertising Programme in 2006. She received her MA degree in Film and Television from İstanbul Bilgi University in 2019. She directed her first short film The Aparment in 2018. Her second short film Cemile is in post-production.

She is currently developing her first feature debut Gulizar.

In addition to her career as a filmmaker, she works for feature film projects and film festivals.

Emre and Gülizar, who have a religious ceremony without knowing each other, are forced to seek a man in France.

Finally, they find the man which makes them to know each other better.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is currently at a development stage.

We are looking for European partners.

Öktem Başol Scriptwriter • Turkey Öktem is a lecturer, script consultant and writer.

He received his BA and MA in Cinema at Paris VII-Denis Diderot University. He received his PHD from Paris I-Sorbonne University in 1997. His prework for his thesis during his DEA year received the Best University Study Award from the French Union of Film Critics.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Belkıs Bayrak bayrakbelkis@gmail.com M +90 5365567999

Öktem Başol oktem.basol@bilgi.edu.tr M +90 5325245202

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Hindu Kush Aluk Amiri Writer/director & Producer • Afghanistan/Italy Born in Afghanistan in 1990, based in Italy since 2006.

Graduated in Cinema at Scuola Holden, guided by Nicola Giuliano. In 2012 he co-directed the documentary Welcome to Italy. In 2017 Aluk founded MURCHA Film.

In 2019 he produced Kyo, by Andrea Tomaselli. His two short films In the Dreams of My Little Dreams (2008) and Looking for a Home (2009) have been screened at Venice Film Festival in the Premio Città di Venezia section.

He won the jury prize Sguardo Altro twice at the Mestre IFF, with the short films Happy Birthday (2012) and Looking for a Home.

Francesco Merlino Scriptwriter • Italy Francesco was born in Perugia, Italy 1992. In 2014, he founded the Emergenze magazine which published more than 50 articles. He graduated in Economics at the University of Perugia in 2015 and in Creative Writing at Scuola Holden in 2018, guided by writers such as Alessandro Baricco, Paolo Cognetti, Marco Missiroli. He then received a MA in Management of Arts and Cultural Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University 2019. His novel Il Sole was published by Morlacchi in 2015, the short story Starsky for Retabloid was published in 2017 and in 2019 his story Energia Potenziale was published on Neutopia.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Aluk Amiri aluk@murchafilm.com M +39 3200860497

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Francesco Merlino francescomerlino92@gmail.com M +39 3351477140

A man and wife have opinions so divergent about the future of their sons that their relationship culminates in murder. An unconscious kid finds himself holding a weapon bigger than himself.

Two sisters destined for a future of arranged marriages see their fate change overnight. A twelve-yearold girl is obliged to cut her hair short and dress like a boy. Her sister, a victim of a chain of events, is given as compensation to a rich family.

The common thread of this choral story is Hindu Kush, Rohid’s goat, which bears the same name as the mountain range through which the events unfold.

PROJECT STATUS

We are working on the first draft of the script.

Looking for a producer and international co-producers.

Kinky Yayo Herrero Writer/director & Producer • Spain His works have been recognized at Tribeca Film Festival (2011), Cannes Critics’ Week (2014), Sitges Film Festival of Catalonya (2014), Goya Awards (2015), and Tallinn Black Nights (2018), receiving 200 prizes around the world.

His experimental feature The Maus (2017), supported by the Cannes Critic’s Week programme Next Step, screened at the Sitges Film Festival of Catalonya (2017) and the Austin Fantastic Fest – USA (2017), won the Special Mention price at Next Wave Features, and was broadcasted

by Netflix.

In one of the most marginal neighbourhoods of Madrid, the paths of two twin brothers diverge as they try to escape from the environment in which they live. Both have been raised in “The Red Tower”, a local block where the Eastern gangs do business with the flats evicted by the banks.

Inspired by real events, the film describes the life of several low-level criminals from the suburbs of Spain.

PROJECT STATUS

Mintxo Díaz Producer • Spain Mintxo was selected as a producer at Berlinale Talents (2017) and Idfa Academy (2018). His works have been recognized at Cannes Critics’ Week (2014), Tallinn Black Nights (2018), Tribeca Film Festival (2011), Goya Awards (2015), The Sitges Film Festival of Catalonya (2014) and BAFICI (2019), receiving 200 prizes around the world.

He is a founding partner of The Melitón Studios and the programme “Filming in Navarre with Asghar Farhadi”, an immersive workshop with the Iranian director, winner of two Oscars.

The budget for the project is € 2.000.000.

We are looking for co-producers and sales agents.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Yayo Herrero yayoherrero@dynamite-films.com M +34 678268892

Mintxo Díaz mdiaz@dynamite-films.com M +34 610809238

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Kissing Bug

Luis Zorraquin Writer/director • Argentina

Luis is a film director and screenwriter, born in the 80s in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2016, his debute feature Guaraní premiered at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, and was awarded at different festivals around the world. He studied cinematography and developed his professional career in advertising cinema and is a founding partner of Modos, a contemporary art gallery. Kissing Bug is his second film as a director.

15-year-old Nelson left school and smuggles goods across the ArgentinianBolivian border to help his mother. He gets caught

by Gustavo, a police officers who put one kilo of cocaine in his bag.

Without possible defense, Nelson is embarked on a police plan to combat drug trafficking. He must travel to another city and establish a friendly relationship with Carol, the 14-year-old daughter of the alleged cartel boss. The problem is that in the meantime he will be in Gustavo’s custody, forcing him to decide between love or his life.

PROJECT STATUS

Kissing Bug is in the advanced development stage, has a third version of the script that participated in the Unpublished Screenplay competition of the Havana Film Festival 2018, and in the Co-production Forum of the Guadalajara Festival in Mexico 2019.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Luis Zorraquin luiszorraquin@gmail.com M +54 91141638709

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Let it Be Łukasz Grzegorzek Writer/director • Poland Łukasz graduated from the Law and Administration Departament at Warsaw University. He used to be a tennis player. His first feature fiction, Kamper, had its world premiere at Karlovy Vary IFF in 2016 and won the Discovery Award at Raindance IFF 2016. His second film A Coach’s Daughter won the Best Youth Film Award at Cottbus IFF 2019. He also directed many commercials and videoclips.

In his work he tries to be conscious and honest.

45-yaer-old Joanna is a loving mother, a caring daughter, a supportive wife and a great teacher. Trying to find balance between her family and her own needs she leads a double life.

One day she receives a blackmail: “I know that you do terrible, terrible things. Either you confess them in front of the whole school or I’ll do it for you”.

From now on all of her fears come true.

Natalia Grzegorzek Producer • Poland Natalia graduated from Applied Social Sciences at Warsaw University and the DOK Pro workshop at Wajda School.

She produced Kamper (2016) and A Coach’s Daughter (2018), both directed by Łukasz Grzegorzek. She also co-produced Winter Flies (2018) by Olmo Omerzu – the Czech Republic’s Oscar candidate in 2018. She is an expert at the Polish Film Institute. In Koskino she looks for international co-productions both as a minority and main producer.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is in development: the second draft of the script is available in English.

We are looking for international co-producers and will start applying for financing in the fall of 2019.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Łukasz Grzegorzek lukgrzegorzek@gmail.com M +48 509206826

Natalia Grzegorzek natalia@koskino.pl M +48 605764774

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Life in a Beat Amerissa Basta Writer/director • Greece Amerissa was born in Athens in 1979 and currently lives, works and creates her films in Athens. She studied Communication, Mass Media and Civilization in Panteion University of Athens and earned a Master’s Degree in Cultural Management from the same institution, during which she took classes in filming and script writing. She has been making short films and participating in film and television production since 2009.

Lena is a girl in her early 20s that lives in her family house and makes a living working at a local supermarket.

When she gets pregnant by 25-year-old boyfriend Argyris, she decides to keep the baby, despite the fact that she has almost no support.

Lena decides to march to her own beat.

PROJECT STATUS

Life in Beat is at an early development stage.

Dimitris Nakos Writer/director & Producer • Greece Dimitris was born in Athens in 1982 and earned a PhD in cinema and philosophy. He is also a graduate of the National University of Athens and Panteion University of Athens. He is living and working in Athens as director, screenwriter and producer. He is currently in preproduction, with his first feature film, called Meat and he also is co-writer of Amerissa’s Basta first feature film, Life in a Beat.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Amerissa Basta amerissam@yahoo.com M +30 6958009839

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Dimitris Nakos d.v.nakos@gmail.com M +30 6973709806

It participated at the MFI Script 2 Film Workshop.

The producer is Ioanna Soultani (Soul Productions - Greece), co-produced by Panos Bisdas (Authorwave - Greece).

Lisa Antelia is a Whore

George Varsimashvili Writer/director & Producer • Georgia

George is a Georgian director born in 1986.

He studied filmmaking in Paris 8 University and ESRA Paris Film School. During his studies he made a dozen short films and a graduation feature, Particulier a Particulier (2012), which was released in theatres internationally. In 2017 he directed the short film Schody in Poland and in 2019 he was invited by Bela Tarr to direct a short film in Switzerland, that will premiere at Locarno Film Festival 2019.

Lisa Antelia is a theatre actress in a little town. One day she discovers a graffiti saying “Lisa Antelia is a Whore”. She gets concerned and erases it, but couple of days later the same graffiti reappears in front of her theatre.

Later the new graffiti emerges in front of the school, where she takes his kid. Lisa goes on the hostile journey of finding the author of these writings. She has to confront the people she has had relationships with.

Meanwhile the slogan “Lisa is a whore” becomes popular in the community: painters improvise, musicians write song and even a sex shop is called Lisa.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is at an early development stage and we are looking for partners: co-producers, sales, distributors and festivals.

CONTACT INFORMATION

George Varsimashvili vars-studio@hotmail.com M +995 599148485

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Lucía. Manuela.

Marina.

Julio Mas Alcaraz Writer/director • Spain

Julio is a filmmaker and poet. He earned a MA in Filmmaking from the London Film School as well as an International MBA from IE. He has directed several short films, participating in more than 300 film festivals, winning numerous awards and selling TV rights to major TV channels. His work has been commissioned, among others, by the National Gallery in London. He has also published five books of poetry, being a finalist in the Spanish National Poetry Award.

Three women at three different moments in recent Spanish history are joined by a seemingly invisible thread in this non-linear film.

After her husband’s murder, 20-year-old Lucía must run away from her town and learn to survive with two young children in the middle of the Spanish Civil war.

Meanwhile, Manuela, who is 32, is dealing with being a single mother under the Franco regime and its strict Catholic rules.

Finally, 44-year-old Marina lives in our current time. She is suffering a midlife-crisis when she has to confront new discoveries about her past that shake everything that she has trusted so far.

PROJECT STATUS

Lucía. Manuela. Marina is in development. We have finished the first draft of the script.

We are looking for a Spanish producer or co-producer with strong ties with European production companies.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Julio Mas Alcaraz poesiaenobras@gmail.com M +34 609485428

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A TV series out of the script is not disregarded.

My Cat Eyes

Anna Petrus Writer/director • Spain

Anna is a filmmaker based in Barcelona. She studied Filmmaking at Pompeu Fabra University and ESCAC. She started directing documentaries but soon she began to be interested in fiction films. Her short fiction films Trumpet (2011), Anniversary (2013) and Bohèmia (2017) have been selected and awarded in film festivals all around the world such as Festival des Films du Monde (Montréal), London Spanish Film Festival and Long Beach International Film Festival, among many others. My Cat Eyes is her first feature film.

Mia and Joseph are successful professional dancers at the Hamburg Ballet and they are expecting a baby. Their relationship crashes when Mia’s fear of cats turns into panic as memories from her childhood begin to reappear in her mind.

Despite Mia’s efforts, the black wild cats that invaded the small town in Catalonia where she was raised insistently come back to her and Mia feels she is herself turning into an evil cat.

One night, Mia travels to her former school and meets her six-year-old self. That encounter forces her to remember a terrible and forgotten memory from her childhood.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is currently in development and we are seeking for European co-producers and sales agents.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Anna Petrus annapetrus@hotmail.com M +34 626737687

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One: not even there Alejandro Fernández Almendras Writer/director • Chile Alejandro’s debut feature Huacho premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week 2009. To Kill a Man (2014), his third feature film, won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Dramatic Competition at Sundance 2014 and garnered awards in a dozen festivals. The film was also Chile’s Official Candidate for the Oscar’s and the Goya Awards. His feature film Much Ado About Nothing premiered in 2016 at Sundance and Berlin film festivals. Alejandro is currently developing several projects in both TV and film, in Chile and abroad.

José Ignacio Alonso Scriptwriter & Producer • Chile José studied Literature as well as Film and Television.

He made screenwriting his focus and in 2013 he was granted a national development fund and then an Italian Farnesina scholarship which allowed him to study a Master in International Screenwriting at the Catholic University in Milan. He has worked with Univision (USA) and film production companies in Chile and Spain. Also, he has been part of the evaluation committee in local film funds.

He is currently working on his first feature adaptation.

41-year-old, shabby journalist, Nelson, bonds with a rebellious adolescent tennis star, 17-year-old Marcelo, as he follows his explosive success on the ATP tour, his own birdcage. Nelson sees in Marcelo a wild but alienated person who’s losing touch with his personal life, emotions and any sort of satisfaction coming from outside of the tennis world.

Having a reflection and witnessing Marcelo’s drowning, Nelson understands that prioritizing his family life with his wife Paty is now or never.

Four years later Marcelo becomes number one tennis player of the world, nevertheless he is “not even there”.

PROJECT STATUS

The script is at a development stage, seeking for a second draft considering different advisors.

Based in a biographical novel from the Chilean tennis player Marcelo Ríos, top ranked on the ATP Tour in 1998.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Alejandro Fernández Almendras fernandezfilm@yahoo.com M +56 975691383

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We are looking for script development programmes, European producers, co-producers and funding.

Panhellenic

Rinio Dragasaki Writer/director • Greece

Born in Athens, Rinio has studied film and documentary. She has written and directed three short films and a feature. Her short film Dad, Lenin and Freddy (2011) was selected at numerous international film festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand, São Paolo, Chicago, and won several distinctions.

Her next short film Schoolyard premiered in Generation at Berlinale 2014 and was nominated for the Crystal Bear. Cosmic Candy (2019), her debut film, was selected to participate in the Sundance !f Istanbul Screenwriters Lab and had its World Premiere at the Fantastic Fest in United States.

Pantelis, a 30-year-old small-town boy, gets caught stealing money from his father’s business and is forced to leave his hometown for the first time.

He heads to Athens to work as a night guard at the Panhellenic, the oldest sports club in town. This job is a chance for him to prove that he can be trustworthy and responsible. But, much to his surprise, he discovers something that has been hiding beneath the club for a century: the ghosts of former Olympic champions who feed on the blood of the club’s young members.

Trapped inside Panhellenic, Pantelis will have to confront these creatures of the past.

PROJECT STATUS

Panhellenic will be produced

by Fenia Cossovitsa, who is the owner of the well known Greek production company Blonde. It is the same team that produced Cosmic Candy, Rinio’s first feature film.

Panhellenic is currently at an early development stage.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Rinio Dragasaki drrinos@yahoo.gr M +30 6949807016

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Rhino Myth Cecile McNair Writer/director • Denmark Cecile is a film director based in Copenhagen.

She graduated from the alternative film school Super16 in Denmark, in 2018, and directed various short films such as Mukwano (2016) and Lille A (2018). She is now in development with her first feature film Carapace at the Danish Film Institute, which is set to go into production early 2020. Rhino Myth will be her second feature film.

Karen Kristensen Producer • Denmark Karen is a producer based in Copenhagen, who has worked in the industry for more than 10 years. She started out working at Zentropa Productions. After graduating from the National Film School of Denmark in 2017 with the award winning short In A Month, she worked as associate producer at Creative Alliance until April 2019, when she decided to start up her own company Leto Film to work with emerging talents.

Nanna, a 19-year-old Danish girl who just graduated high school, travels to South Africa to work as a guide in a game reserve. There she meets the handsome 22-year-old African lodge worker Zenzo, and they immediately fall in love. Meanwhile, the reserve is haunted by poachers, who break into the park and kill the Rhinos for their horns.

Zenzo witnesses a kill and is forced to collaborate by smuggling the horn to Asia, which involves Nanna.

Gradually, Zenzo builds up more and more lies to keep living the dream with Nanna and to satisfy the poachers.

But tragically, the dream will soon crack.

PROJECT STATUS

Rhino Myth is in early development.

We are finishing the treatment to start with the 1st draft in Fall 2019. We hope to go into production in spring 2022.

We are currently looking for co-producers and funding.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Cecile McNair mcnaircecilie@gmail.com M +45 20987176

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Karen Kristensen karen@letofilm.dk M +45 61653960

Rites

Dee Meaden Writer/director • United Kingdom

Dee is a writer/director from London. She recently graduated from the Directing Fiction MA at the National Film and Television School. She previously trained in Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art and Chelsea College of Art and Design and enjoyed success as a fine artist ahead of moving to narrative film. Dee has written and directed 10 shorts and is currently developing a number of feature length projects. She is represented by Tracey Hyde at Casarotto Ramsay & Associates.

An Incel gunman suffers a crisis in the middle of his killing spree when the act of killing does not fulfill him in the way he expected.

Rites is a provocative and challenging film. It is similar to films such as Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2013), We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011) and Utoya (Erik Poppe, 2018) in that it explores a high-school killing spree but unlike those films in Rites, the lead character is the killer and we experience the film from his point of view.

He is a killer who is human and knowable, someone we can understand and, in some moments, problematically, challengingly for the audience, he is someone we can empathize with.

PROJECT STATUS

Rites is currently at treatment/ first draft stage and looking for a producer.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Dee Meaden meaden.d@gmail.com M +44 7910845670

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Saint Bernard

Kat Steppe Writer/director • Belgium

Kat studied film and art. Her documentary work garners universal praise for its visual mastery and its unique mix of storytelling, humour and mediation on the passing of time. She won 7 national awards and, in 2017, the Prix Europa, Berlin. Her latest work for television, Taboo (2018), won the Gold Medal at the New York International TV & Film Awards. The format is sold for production in Canada, Australia, Spain and the USA. Saint Bernard, her current project, is a mix of documentary and feature film.

Saint Bernard is the story of Kareljan who comes to terms with his troubled past by visiting the very man responsible for it: his estranged brother Franz.

Franz has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and is admitted into a nursing home.

He enjoys the regular visits of a man he likes to talk to about his condition and what it means to forget. Franz does not recognize his brother KarelJan. Saint Bernard is a film about that place where our lost days have gathered, the Memory.

A film about how important and vulnerable our memory is and how it can be truthful and unreliable at the same time.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is at the stage of research, writing and pre-production.

Kat has been working as a voluntary nurse in a nursing home for people with Alzheimers and will continue to do so while her writing develops.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Kat Steppe saintbernardmovie@gmail.com

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Selkie Itandehui Jansen Writer/director • United Kingdom/Mexico Itandehui graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy.

Her documentary Una Nave per Tornare (1998) screened at IDFA. She participated in the Guadalajara Talent Campus, Cine Qua Non Lab, and Berlinale Talents. Her short film The Last Council was nominated for the Mexican Critics’ Award in 2013. Her recent film In Times of Rain won the award for Best Emerging Feature at the Oaxaca FilmFest in 2018 and screened among others at the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival and the World Cinema Film Festival in Amsterdam.

Reece Smith Producer • United Kingdom Reece Smith is based in Edinburgh. He graduated from the Edinburgh College of Art with a BA (Hons) in Film & TV, and now works for Swedish Production company Vogelperspektiv AB. His short films have screened at festivals including The New York International Children’s Film Festival, London Short Film Festival and the Glasgow Film Festival. In 2019 Reece founded Risky Whisky, a Scottish production company currently developing Selkie, alongside a Swedish/UK feature documentary.

During a nightly storm Ron, a young foreign man, washes up wounded and naked on the shore of a Scottish coastal town. He finds refuge with Daonna, a young blind woman.

As he recovers, Ron insistently seeks something on the beach. It turns out he is a Selkie looking for his lost sealskin. Selkies are able to shift between a seal shape in the sea and a human form on the land by shedding or putting on their sealskin.

While Ron secretly tries to find a way to return home, he develops feelings for Daonna.

Ron will now have to choose between his love for her or his love for the sea.

PROJECT STATUS

Selkie is currently in early development.

We are interested in the possibility of co-production both within the UK and internationally, and are also interested in hearing from sales agents.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Itandehui Jansen itandehui.film@gmail.com M +44 7759503498

Reece Smith reece@riskywhisky.scot M +44 7904496043

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Smaragda

Emilios Avraam Writer/director • Cyprus

Emilios holds a diploma in Audio Visual Communication, a BSC in Media Technology and a Digital Compositing certificate. He has worked on hundreds of productions as an editor and visual effects artist from TV commercials, to short and feature films. Within the past 6 years he wrote and directed many music videos and two short films that screened in many festivals around the world and won multiple awards. He is currently developing the screenplay for his first feature film Smaragda.

Smaragda is an identity crisis-coming of age drama/ comedy which takes place in Ayia Napa, Cyprus. It revolves around a childless middleaged woman who lives off collecting residuals from a kid’s TV show she used to host.

One day she gets notified that the show will not be broadcasted anymore and she will no longer get any money off it and for the first time after years of living in a bubble, she gets a wakeup call.

Smaragda and her other two socially misfit friends, wander around their everyday life trying to find a silver lining.

PROJECT STATUS

The project has € 16.000 in place for script development funded by the Cyprus Cinema Advisory Committee.

We are looking for co-producers, sales agents and partners.

The script is currently in its 5th draft.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Emilios Avraam emilios.avraam@gmail.com M +35 99484646

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The First Victim Mario Fernández Alonso Writer/director & producer • Spain Mario is a Berlinale Talents alumnus. He directed the short film The Pack (2011), selected at the American Film Institute, British Film Institute London and Warsaw Film Festival, and winner of Best Short Film at Interfilm Berlin, 2nd Best Short at Odense International Film Festival, and Titra Price at Geneva IFF Tous Ecrans. He co-written the feature film Amar by Esteban Crespo, produced by Netflix and Avalon and screened at Malaga Film Festival in 2017, as well as El Desentierro by Nacho Ruipérez, screened at Sevilla Film Festival 2019 and Shanghai Film Festival 2019.

Sanghmitra Hitaishi Scriptwriter • India A Berlinale Talents alumna, Sanghmitra is an Actress, writer and activist. She starred as a protagonist in the feature film Lajwanti by Pushpendra Singh (Berlinale Forum 2014) and in the short film Chidiya Udh by Pranjal Dua, which was selected at the Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2014 and won two national awards in India.

A young Pakistani woman, Amina, works as a maid for a wealthy Spanish family in the south of Spain. She has been working for them for 6 years and also has taken care of their 14-year-old daughter, Maria.

Amina lives in the service quarters, 200 metres away from the house of the employers. When Amina is visited by a childhood lover from Pakistan that she wants to marry, he is accused of sexually molesting the daughter of Amina’s employers.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is currently at the script writing stage.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Mario Fernández Alonso telerrio@hotmail.com M +34 699090687

Sanghmitra Hitaishi sanghmitra.hitaishi@gmail.com M +91 9821508709

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The Postman

Francis Lau Writer/director • Singapore

Francis taught English Literature before he began his career as a writer/director. The Postman, a thriller about marginalisation and the paradox of power, grew out of a short film with the same name, The Postman (Director’s Cut, 2018), that has traveled to 25 festivals, including DaKINO 2019 and Bucharest International Film Festival 2019, where it ran for the Best Director and Best Film awards respectively.

A published poet, Francis has presented his work at literary festivals, notably ASEAN Universities Arts Festival and 2nd ASEAN Writers’ Conference.

Keong is an ex-convict and a struggling truck driver. One day, his son Ming has a road accident. Keong rushes him to the hospital, but is unable to afford his medical bills.

He appeals for financial aid, but the hospital refuses to help him.

Keong turns to colleagues and friends, but because of his criminal past, they turn him away. Desperate to save his son, Keong forces himself to deliver drugs. In the process, he becomes the target of a ruthless and corrupt cop.

As he battles to save his son, Keong realises that sometimes in order to defeat the devil, he needs to be the devil himself.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is at development and financing stage. It will be shot in Southeast Asia, possibly Malaysia.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Francis Lau narrativefilms@gmail.com M +65 93691120

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We are looking for European and/or Asian co-producers, investors, as well as international distributors, casting, and post-production facilities.

The Visit When Murti, a 72-year-old lady hears about her long-lost friend falling into comatose, she decides to visit her.

Bobby Prasetyo Writer/director • Indonesia

After completing his studies at the Indonesian Institute of The Arts, Bobby debuted with writing and directing short films, some of which have been screened on various film festivals held both nationally and internationally. In 2018, Bobby debuted his first commercial full-length movie which earned him the nomination of the Best Young Director in Piala Maya 2019. He also established Asa Film, a production company in Bali which has been working on various projects with international broadcasting companies.

Murti and Mien were once teenagers fancying the Koes Brothers, a Beatles-influenced pop music group. The band was incarcerated for singing western songs, an act seen as cultural imperialism.

Mien’s father, a militant supporting the President, forbid his daughter to listen to the band. Meanwhile, Murti is a daughter of a communist party sympathizer.

Then G30S/PKI happened.

Hundreds of thousands of people were massacred and kidnapped.

Murti sought for help to Mien’s father, but he turned her away.

PROJECT STATUS

We are in the early stage of the script development.

We are looking for co-producers and financers.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Bobby Prasetyo bobby@asafilm.co M +62 82236177565

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The Woman with a Missing Leg A romantic comedy disguised as a murder mystery.

Luigi Campi Writer/director • Italy

Luigi’s films explore different perspectives through idiosyncratic characters and alternative storytelling.

He is a Fulbright fellow, Columbia University MFA, Italian National Film School graduate and Berlinale Talents and Oxbelly Lab alumnus. His debut feature film My First Kiss and the People Involved (2016) premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and received top prizes at the Woodstock, New Orleans and Ashland Film Festivals. He lives between Rome and Athens.

Morgan Quince is a hero.

Two years ago, while videovoyeuring from his kitchen window, he witnessed the murder of a prosthetic-legged beauty. He somehow cracked the case and met his wife in the process. But now NBC airs a made-for-TV-movie about the investigation, and Morgan is portrayed as a minor character!

To prove his main character status, Morgan decides to make his own movie about the murder. Welcome to Morgan’s version of The Woman with a Missing Leg. PROJECT STATUS

This English-language comedy has solid coproduction possibilities, and seeks strong producers and allies.

The script is at its third draft, and gaining momentum through selection at international labs (TFL, Oxbelly).

CONTACT INFORMATION

Luigi Campi luigi@luigicampi.com M +30 6981497937

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Wild Boars Thanasis Neofotistos Writer/director • Greece Thanasis is a director, writer & architect from Greece. He is a Berlinale Talents alumnus. His short film Patision Avenue premiered at Venice Film Festival 2018, won 3 awards at Clermont-Ferrand and has already been selected in more than 20 film festivals. His graduation film Greek School Prayer (2014) was also a festival success. He is now in the financing stage of his debut feature film, which he envisions as a dark, coming-of-age, folktale, Peter and the Wolf (FirstFilmsFirst, MFI, MEDIA etc).

Athena, being in late pregnancy, finds the perfect ally in her unborn daughter, when everyone else opposes her quest to find the mother she never met.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is at a development stage.

Grigoris Skarakis Scriptwriter • Greece Grigoris was born and raised in Athens. He studied Medicine, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. His love for cinema led him to education involving narrative psychotherapy that mainly focuses on with how narration showcases and at the same time forms the way an individual organizes and experiences his life.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Thanasis Neofotistos thaneofotistos@hotmail.com M +30 6936227090

Grigoris Skarakis skarakis_greg@hotmail.com

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Script Development – Documentary June 2019

A Pena, KM100

Cristina López Justribó Writer/director & Producer • Spain

Cristina has been working as a producer in films, TV, theatre and videoclips, including the documentaries Mystery of the Nile by Jordi Llompart (2005), Bucharest, Memory Lost by Albert Solé, which won Best Documentary at Goya Awards 2008 and Gabor

by Sebastián Alfie, which won Best Documentary at Malaga Film Festival 2013, among others. She has also written and directed the short films The Love that Cannot be Hidden, which participated in the Clermont Ferrand ISFF Market 2014, and My Suitcase (2016), which attended Sundance Spain and FICCI.

A Pena is a small village located in Galicia, a foggy and rainy region of Spain. It is also situated in KM 100 of Camino de Santiago, a Christian path.

My family belongs to this village, but my grandparents and my father left after the Spanish Civil War. When I was a child I remember my grandfather telling me he would never come back to his land while wearing dark glasses all the time.

My grandfather had lost his left eye one day hunting in A Pena. This is what he always said.

This documentary is my own way to know my roots and what was really hidden by my grandfather’s dark glasses.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is in development stage.

Producers are looking for financial sources in order to start the shooting in 2020.

Two Spanish TV channels, TV of Catalonia and TV of Galicia, are interested in the project.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Cristina López Justribó clj.berlanga@gmail.com M +34 687344977

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Anhell69 Theo Montoya Director • Colombia Theo was born in 1992 in Medellín. He graduated in Audiovisual Communication at the University of Medellín.

He is the creator and director of the audiovisual laboratory Desvio Visuala, a project designed to upload content to streaming platforms, experimental video, documentaries, video clips and short films. For more than 7 years he has worked in audiovisual realization with the city’s young movements, focusing on queer, nihilistic and social issues.

A week after I cast Camilo Najar, I wake up with the news that he, at 21, had died.

His last testimony was that casting of a dark atmosphere and with a nihilistic discourse.

Who was Camilo Najar?

A victim of a youthful ideal?

Or the purest portrait of a generation?

PROJECT STATUS

Juan Pablo Castrillón Producer • Colombia Juan Pablo was born in 1986 in Medellín. He graduated from the Audiovisual and Multimedia Communication programme at the University de Antioquia in 2011. He is a member of Rara Colectivo Audiovisual, a cinematography project management house, with which he premiered his debut feature, Los Días de la Ballena by Catalina Arroyave Restrepo, in South by Southwest (2018). The film was supported by the Colombian Film Fund.

This project is at a development stage, starting the pre-production in October 2019 and shooting during the month of January, 2020.

By June, 2020 we expect to have a first cut and go into pre-production.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Theo Montoya desvisuales@gmail.com M +57 3197989186

Juan Pablo Castrillón soyjuanpc@gmail.com M +57 3016686809

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Arteries

Camila Dutervil Writer/director • Brazil

Camila is both a filmmaker and an anthropologist.

She attended film workshops at the Cuban Film School, at the Italian National Film School and at Ateliers Varan. Her films were shown and got awards at film festivals such as Festival Todas Las Voces Contra el Silencio – Mexico, Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro, and many others. A standout in her filmography is the documentary Maria do Paraguaçu, which won the Grand Prix in the Festival of Latin American Cinema in Brussels 2009.

Arteries is a documentary project about the native Latin Americans’ struggle through the lens of the political leadership of the Munduruku indigenous women. The Munduruku people are under threat, resisting against the large-scale enterprises in the Brazilian Amazon.

The documentary follows the trajectory of two indigenous warriors, Alessandra and Maria Leuza Munduruku, who both have learned to fight with the weapons of the 21st century. They go together on an expedition to the Zapatista territory in Mexico and weave extensive resistance networks through the open veins of Latin America.

PROJECT STATUS

Arteries is currently in the stage of development.

We are looking for Mexican co-producers and funding.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Camila Dutervil camiladutervil@gmail.com M +55(61) 999116949

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Cent’anni

Maja Prelog Director • Slovenia

Maja is a Ljubljana-based filmmaker. Her graduation short film Wild East won the Vesna award at the Festival of Slovenian Film 2012. She is a member of the art group RÁ., finding her means of expression in cinema and other forms of artistic practices. She is co-author of music videos for the world-renowned art music group Laibach. She wrote, directed and produced the short experimental film 2045, which received the Best Slovenian Award at the FeKK Ljubljana Short Film Festival 2016.

All of my life I was sure that nothing extraordinary could happen to me. It was when my boyfriend Blaž was diagnosed with acute Leukemia that I realized that Life itself is an extraordinary experience.

After having bone marrow transplantation, he goes on a trip with his road bike over Italy’s famous climbs to return to the place where his disease started. What he desires most is to be healthy. During the adventurous but dangerous trip we share our story of which the true hero is Love, the greatest weapon we have.

It is an ode to Life and a transformation of our personal experience into the art of film.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is currently in production.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Maja Prelog majadoroteja@gmail.com M +38 640164061

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Christina Nikola Spasic Director & Producer • Serbia Nikola is a film director, editor and producer based in Novi Sad. Currently a final-year PhD student in Dramatic Arts at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. His debut documentary Why Dragan Gathered his Band (2017) has been shown at more than 40 festivals around the world. At one of the biggest Serbian festivals, Cinema City, it won an award for Best Film. So far, the film has been shown on major TV broadcasters in the Balkans including Al Jazeera Balkans, RTRS, HRT, Klasik TV RTS.

Milanka Gvoic Scriptwriter & Producer • Serbia Milanka graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade and earned a MA in Philosophy.

In 2006, she started working as a Development and New Content Implementation Coordinator at the Public Media Service RTV. In 2013, she co-founded the production company REZON. The films she worked on as a screenwriter and as a producer were shown at festivals around the world, won several awards and were screened on leading TV stations in the Balkans region.

The transgender sex worker Christina lives with her cats and invests her money in antiques and engraved wooden pieces. She is a successful business woman and the clients adore her because she fulfills their dreams and fantasies.

Her life becomes stressful after the arrival of an inspector who is chasing her and a stranger she falls in love with, but who suddenly disappears. After an exciting journey, she finds her love in an extremely rural area, surrounded by family.

By watching him, she decides that it is best for her to back down, so she could protect him from herself.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is at a late development phase and it is supported by the Serbian Office for Human and Minority Rights.

We are waiting for a production grant from Film Centre Serbia and we will start shooting by the end of 2019.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Nikola Spasic spasic.nikola91@gmail.com M +38 1631991705

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Milanka Gvoic inkubator.rezon@gmail.com M +38 1621690529

It is an official co-production with the UK and it is aimed to be a wide European co-production.

Draw for Change!

Vincent Coen Writer/director & Producer • Belgium Vincent is a writer-director working and living in Belgium.

He has made documentaries and fiction shorts. He also worked as a scriptwriter for Belgian television and as a script consultant on numerous projects. He lives in Brussels with his partner, his two kids and his dog.

Guillaume Vandenberghe Director & Producer • Belgium Guillaume studied photography at KASK School of Art in Ghent before turning to film studies at the Institut Supérieur des Arts (INSAS). He has directed several short films as well as two award-winning feature documentaries.

This TV series uses female cartoonists and their drawings as a lens to look at a number of major women’s rights violations. Each episode will portrait a different cartoonist and zooming in on one of her drawings, she then takes us on a journey through her country in search of women who experience that cartoon for real. Every episode will have its own theme, depending on the country and the cartoonist.

All the episodes will be directed by local, female directors giving them their own identity depending on the style of drawing, the subject matter and the director’s artistic vision.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is in early development and we are seeking for international partners.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Vincent Coen vincentcoen7@gmail.com M +32 476668926

Guillaume Vandenberghe guillaume_vandenberghe@yahoo.fr M +32 476680514

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Dreaming Walls Amélie van Elmbt Director • Belgium After studying film at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion, Amélie started working with French director Jacques Doillon as an assistant and casting director on several of his films. She directed and self-produced her first film, Headfirst (2012), which screened in Cannes’ ACID section and received the Main Award at New York’s First Time Festival. Thanks to this festival, Amélie met Martin Scorsese, who later executive produced her second feature, The Elephant & The Butterfly, which screened at Tribeca Film Festival in 2018.

Hanne Phlypo Producer • Belgium Hanne is a Belgian producer and founder of Clin d’oeil films. The company focuses on creative documentaries and author-driven films with a clear preference for films with social or political statements by innovative filmmakers. Among her prior films are Houses with Small Windows by Bülent Öztürk (2013), which gained an EFA nomination, Waiting for August by Teodora Mihai, which won Best International Documentary Award Hot Docs 2014, A Family Affair by Tom Fassaert (2015), which gained an EFA nomination, Manu by Manu Bonmariage, which participated in IDFA 2018, and By the Name of Tania by Mary Jimenez & Bénédicte Liénard, selected for Generation 14plus at Berlinale 2019.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Amélie van Elmbt amelie.ve@gmail.com M +32 484884489

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Hanne Phlypo hanne@clindoeilfilms.be M +32 484974442

In less than two years the legendary Chelsea Hotel, known as a safe haven for artists in New York for over a century, will be transformed into a luxury hotel. Amid the renovation works, fifty-one elderly residents still live there, protected by stabilised rent.

Between fear and excitement, each of them prepares for the reopening in his own way. Among them, dancer and choreographer Merle Lister, 81, is creating a new choreography.

While revisiting the history of the hotel, this film questions the link that has united the hotel and its artists.

PROJECT STATUS

The film is in early development. We have done a preliminary shooting in spring 2019.

We are exploring the archives of the Chelsea in collaboration with Sherill Tippins, author of the book Inside the Dream Palace.

We aim to start the principal photography in winter of 2019 and deliver the film by 2021.

Homeboys

Tamar Goren Director • Israel

Tamar is a filmmaker born and raised in Tel-Aviv, Israel. She attended the film department of the Minshar School of Arts, and she graduated with honors in 2017 after writing and directing three short films, which were screened in various film festivals worldwide, from Jerusalem Film Festival to Giffoni Film Festival. Currently, Tamar is working on two feature films – Homeboys and Nine Lives, a fiction film in development.

Samuel and Isaac are two South-Sudanese teenagers who grew up in Israel and got deported in 2011. They dream of being musicians.

Amir, an Israeli music producer, comes to their refugee camp in Uganda.

The three become close, deciding to call their joint hip-hop crew the HomeBoys – a tribute to the trust and friendship that bounds them.

Through rhythm and sound, this docu-musical film follows both the high hopes and hardships of the young refugees in a complex world.

Will Samuel and Isaac realise their dream?

PROJECT STATUS

A crew spent a few weeks in Uganda to film the musical process, access and trust, key elements for the success of the film was gained. We now look to raise funds to finance the second part of shooting.

We plan to have the completed film in early 2020.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Tamar Goren tamargoren0@gmail.com M +972 525367799

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Princess:Warrior Non-conforming women fighters redefine the feminine role model around the world.

Ioana ลขurcan Director โ ข Romania

Ioana is an interdisciplinary visual artist, graduate of the post-MA at the Royal Institute of Art, Sweden, dep. of Critical Images: Dignity and Representation, a course under the guidance of the anonymous Syrian film collective Abounaddara. She also has an MFA degree in Film and Video Production from the College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse, New York, where she studied as a Fulbright scholar, a Documentary Filmmaking MA and a BA in Cinematography, Photography and Media.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Ioana ลขurcan ioana.turcan@studioset.tv M +40 742606326

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PROJECT STATUS

Princess:Warrior is a docu-series in development.

We are looking for co-producers to join the project in an early phase.

Soul of the Desert Mónica Taboada Tapia Director & Producer • Colombia An anthropologist and a filmmaker. She is currently working on two documentary projects, Queen of the People and Salomon’s Cedar. Soul of the Desert won Señal Colombia Market and Proimágenes Fund. It was selected by the New York Times Op-Docs, Pulitzer Center, and Tribeca Film Institute International Pitch 2017.

She has participated in Tribeca Film Institute Network, DocsMX Forum, ChileDoc Conecta, Talents Buenos Aires, DocMontevideo Pitch, DocSP Market, Latin Pitch DocsBarcelona, Marché du Film and MiradasDoc 2019.

Georgina, an indigenous transgender woman, embarks on a journey across the desert to reconcile with her siblings.

After facing the tribe’s challenges and her family, she will probably realize that the most important thing is her own freedom.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is currently in pre-production.

Beto Rosero Producer • Colombia Beto is a Colombian journalist, producer, director and first AD. He has worked in film festivals, advertising, features and short films. He directed the short film Blues 72 (2016), funded by Barranquilla Regional Grant, and worked as an AD in The Tale of Antonia by Jorge Cadena, which won the Short Film Tiger Award at IFFR 2017 and was selected at international festivals. He also worked as an AD in the feature film Mi Amigo Shakespeare by Victor Trespalacios (2019).

CONTACT INFORMATION

Mónica Taboada Tapia monicataboadat@gmail.com M +57 3023910887

Beto Rosero produccion@karibbean.co M +57 3183165061

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Sounds From the Desert Emilija Skarnulyte Director • Lithuania Emilija is a Lithuanian filmmaker. Her work consists of a series of political visions, in which she investigates reality with a poetic approach. Her films have been shown at Edinburgh International Film Festival (2014), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2015) and the Baltic Pavilion of the Venice Biennale of Architecture (2016). She has received the Kino Der Kunst Project Award in Munich (2017).

Elisa Fernanda Pirir Producer • Norway Elisa works as producer at the Norwegian company Mer Films: an ambitious film production company that focuses on diversity, innovation and cultural relevance.

She produces features and documentaries and is in charge of the non-European co-productions. She participated in EAVE Puentes 2018 and Berlinale Talents 2019.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Emilija Skarnulyte emiskarnulyte@yahoo.com

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Elisa Fernanda Pirir elisa@merfilm.no M +47 90735974

Ben Abshalom grows up in Chicago during the 60s, while the city is wracked by violence and the civil rights movement is uprising.

One day 15-year-old Abshalom, coming back from school, meets famous Sun Ra, who later on becomes his jazz master and they bond for life.

In the 70s Abshalom leaves to Middle East, refusing ever to come back to United States.

But Abshalom never told Sun Ra or anyone else about his childhood or the reason why he left.

PROJECT STATUS

We got funding for the second phase of development after the TFL workshop and are now developing the treatment before entering production.

The Inventory Ilana Coleman Writer/director • Mexico Ilana’s feature-length debut The Inventory is a Sundance Documentary Fund grantee and participated at the Berlinale Doc Station 2019. In 2017, Ilana was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” and won the Jovenes Creadores scholarship in Mexico. She attended the Berlinale Talents Guadalajara 2018 as one of the selected directors.

Families seek justice for their forcibly disappeared relatives in Mexico, while a staged committee of linguists perform an inventory of the dictionary.

PROJECT STATUS

The Inventory is in development and will continue production throughout 2020.

Jamie Gonçalves Producer • United States Jamie is a Sundance Creative Producing fellow and Impact Partners Documentary fellow. He has received support from Sundance and the Venice Biennale, amongst others.

Filmmaker Magazine named him as one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2015. His credits include Killing Them Safely by Nick Berardini (2015), Las Nubes by Juan Pablo González (2017), Caballerango by Juan Pablo González (2018), Balloonfest by Nathan Truesdell (2018), The Water Slide by Nathan Truesdell (2018), and upcoming works by Nathan Silver, Nathan Truesdell, Isidore Bethel, Juan Pablo González, Kamau Bilal and Nick Berardini.

We are looking for international producers, sales agents, financing, and creative partnerships.

The film won a grant from Sundance and was selected at the Berlinale Doc Station, DocMontevideo Pitching and Open City Assembly.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Ilana Coleman Ilana@sinsitiocine.com M +52 5582330414

Jamie Gonçalves Jamie@sinsitiocine.com M +1 8474181393

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The Jungle Fever Paolo Volponi Writer/director & Producer • Italy Italian filmmaker and photographer living in Poland, Paolo was educated in Sociology. As a director, scriptwriter, cameraman, editor and co-producer he realized the documentaries The Last European Wild Horses (Honorable Mention for Artistic Approach at the International Wildlife Film Festival 2009), The Gods of the Mountains (Scanno Natura Doc Festival 2012-winner, Rai Tre), The Vistula River – Along the Old Salmon Route (2013, TVP1 and Planete+), Biebrza – The European Amazon (2016, TVP1) and Marta in the Jungle (2015, FokusTV).

Marta Skowron Volponi Writer & Producer • Poland Marta holds a PhD in Biological Sciences, is the author of 12 scientific publications and vice-chairman of the ClearWing Foundation for Biodiversity. Together with Paolo Volponi, she is the co-author of The Wolf Spirit, which was supported the Polish Film Institute. She took part in Paolo Volponi’s film Biebrza – The European Amazon (2016) as a scientific consultant, author of commentary and camera operator assistant. She is the main character of the documentary Marta in the Jungle (2015).

CONTACT INFORMATION

Paolo Volponi paolo@clearwingfound.com M +48 514509525

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Marta Skowron Volponi marta@clearwingfound.com M +48 660153420

– Supporting the Malayan Tiger Conservation

A filmmaker and a biologist, husband and wife, head out to the primeval Malaysian rainforest in search of unique butterflies.

Suddenly everything changes – they find themselves in the middle of a rescue mission to save a tiger trapped in snares. The locals invite them to document the expedition, hoping the outside world will take action after seeing the Malaysian jungle drama.

Sadly, the tiger dies. The couple is struck and decides to postpone their research to join the effort of saving the Malayan tiger from extinction – only 150 remain!

They start making an eyeopening documentary film.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is at a development stage.

Ongoing collaboration with Malaysian Perak State, financial support from co-producers Plantzania (Malaysia), co-production intent from Tearaway Films (UK), Nuvista Media (Malaysia), TVP (Poland).

Looking for broadcaster/preselling/funding.

The Last

Sebastian Peña-Escobar Writer/director & Producer • Paraguay

Sebastian studied Economics, Business and Finance in Paraguay, United States and Italy. Since 2002, he has developed and produced magazines, books and audiovisual content. He has published essays on cultural theory, prose, poetry and articles. He has co-produced the documentary Chicas Nuevas 24 Horas by Mabel Lozano (2015) and the feature film Guaraní by Luis Zorraquin (2015). He is the producer and executive producer of the feature film The Heiresses by Marcelo Martinessi, which won double Silver Bear at Berlinale 2018. He has participated in TFL FeatureLab (ex FrameWork).

For more than a decade, I have been travelling with two old and witty naturalists through the last forests of Paraguay. Not long ago, this land was a green oasis. But it changed dramatically with the expansion of cattle and agriculture.

This film is about one last journey to a remote forest which is about to be cleared.

Along hypnotically straight roads and muddy trails, we cross national parks, private reserves, and large cattle territories.

A neo-romantic journey filled with irony and skepticism, wisdom and hope, prompting questions and theories about the future of human societies.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is at a development stage.

We are working on the narrative structure and writing a more detailed version of the treatment.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Sebastian Peña-Escobar sepescopy@gmail.com M +59 5981955117

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By the end of 2019, we will apply for production funding in Paraguay, Latin America and Europe through potential agreements with co-producers in Argentina, Uruguay, Germany and France.

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Unconventional Gardener Alessandro Bernard Director • Italy Since 2006 Alessandro has been writing and directing documentary films broadcasted by the main international channels and screened in festivals all around the world.

He has produced and directed videos in scientific and cultural fields. He works on the audiovisual production of events and exhibitions as a video designer and line producer, and as a writer and manager of cross-media projects. He co-directed with Paolo Ceretto Space Hackers (2007), Programma 101: The Machine that Changed the World (2011) and Waste Mandala (2015).

Massimo Arvat Producer • Italy Massimo is a EAVE and Eurodoc graduate, a board member of Eurodoc and IDS Academy. In 1992 he founded Zenit Arti Audiovisive, an independent production company producing documentaries for the main broadcasters and platforms, including Rai, Sky, Fox, Arte, Zdf, Netflix, Yle, History Channel, Discovery Channel, VPRO, CBC. The films produced by Zenit have participated in more than 150 festivals, including Cannes, Venice, IDFA, Hot Docs, Dok Leipzig, Sheffield DocFest, Torino Film Festival.

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A group of visionary scientists is discovering a new form of intelligence: their experiments go beyond the boundaries of science and offer inspiration and visionary solutions to the great environmental, social and political issues of our time.

A cinematic journey to discover a “Close Encounter of Third Kind”: will intelligence of plants inspire humans and change our future?

PROJECT STATUS

The project is currently at a development stage.

We are completing the cast of the protagonists and writing a second draft of treatment.

We are interested in partnerships to develop an international co-production through regional, national, European and international cinema funding.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Alessandro Bernard alessandro.bernard@gmail.com M +39 3939726400

Plants speak, see, make independent and brilliant decisions. Beyond the anthropomophical land designed by artificial intelligence, a new horizon appears.

Massimo Arvat arvat@zenit.to.it M +39 3393976260

We, Women Biljana Tutorov Writer/director & Producer • Serbia Biljana is a director, producer and film curator. After graduating in Art History in UCL (Belgium), she studied Film Anthropology and Drama in Paris. She is the author of several short, feature and documentary films, video installations and performances. In 2010 she founded Wake Up Films production, dedicated to the new talents from the region. In 2018 Biljana created the CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator. She is alumna of Eurodoc and Producers On The Move, a member of EDN, EWA and EFA.

Britta Rindelaub Producer • Switzerland Britta is a Swiss producer dedicated to unconventional and hybrid projects, defining a diverse but consistent production line at Alva Film production. She studied ethnology and philosophy in Neuchâtel, photography, video and performance in Barcelona and Geneva. In 2003 Brita received post-graduate degree in cinema from the HEAD (Haute École d’Art et de Design) Geneva.

In We Women four extraordinary filmmakers – Kim Longinotto, Mirjana Karanović, Šejla Kamerić and Andrea Štaka – team up to make a collective film on issues and taboos that still affect our daily life. We film them as they meet and discuss their work in progress, issues and achievements.

This creative dialogue, including the excerpts of 4 short films they are making, is the core of We Women, is threaded together by Julia Kristeva, French-Bulgarian philosopher who is our guide through this participative odyssey questioning the female condition and representation of women through centuries.

PROJECT STATUS

The project is currently in development.

We are looking for financers.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Biljana Tutorov biljana.tutorov@wakeupfilms.net M +38 1628919186

Britta Rindelaub britta@alvafilm.ch M +41 787715864

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