TFL Extended – Book of Projects 2018 by TorinoFilmLab

TFL Extended 2018

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Over the years, TorinoFilmLab has been contacted by organizations and individual professionals looking for customized workshops orÂ immediate consultation in various areas: from fiction feature script to TV series development, from story editing to audience design and etc. We understood that it was necessary to create a new activity to complement our programmes offering punctual support combined with a flexible structure, able to cover the new areas and changing necessities of the industry. This is the seed that blossoms today as TFL Extended. In 2018, we have officially launched TFL Extended: a selection of intensive workshops addressed to teams of international professionals, who are willing to develop their skills through concrete work, under the guidance of high profile tutors. We have held four intensive residential workshops dedicated to TV Series, Script Development (two editions) and Creative Production respectively, with 59 projects and 83 participants from 35 countries. All workshops combined masterclasses, one to one meetings with international experts and group sessions, where participants can brainstorm with their colleagues and engage themselves in discussions. With TFL Extended we want to expand our network, create new partnerships and give the chance to more professionals to benefit on our pedagogical support. We hope you will enjoy reading the projects.

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TFL Extended – TV Series

APRIL 2018

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Eutropia Irene De Lucas Ramón

Ioan Ursuț Carla Fotea

Lights Out David Rocchio

Mapped Rachel Tillotson

Megaplex Hayk Matevosyan

My Place in the World Mattia Temponi Paolo Ferrara

Play Me Slobodan Karajlovic

Purgatoria Dana Nechustan Edward Stelder

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Catapult Benny Drechsel Peter Dörfler

Canvas City Daria Keršić

So You Better Run Yashar Alishenas The Origin of Another World Selin Karli The Panda Daniel Carsenty The Scheme Filippo Mazzotti

12 Days and Nights George Ktistakis

After the Brexit Laila Alina Reischer

CORA: The Saints of Boyacá Camilo Martín-Flórez

Dolores Chico Teixeira Sabina Anzuategui

Double Happiness Sebastian Mihăilescu Andrei Epure

I Wish I Could Hibernate Zoljargal Purevdash

Luna Park Florenc Papas Dritan Huqi

My Mad Madonna Cinzia Bomoll Josella Porto

Paris Syndrome Kimie Tanaka Erina Suto

Slaughterman Rafael Antonaccio Bernardo Antonaccio

The Blunder Alessandra Cardone

The Carjacker Oman Dhas

The Fertile Island Veronica Mengoli Giulia Forcolini

Letters to Strangers Valerie Wolf Gang Ognjen Obradovi

The Promised Land Shirin Rashidian

Marie Sidharth Mathawan

The Return José Hurtarte

No Man’s Land Arthur Ian

The Sea Needs to Heave Zain Duraie

The Sweet Bitterness of Ripe Pomegranates Andrej Volkashin True Love Cristina Gómez

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SEPTEMBER 2018

Open Sky Ferran Mendoza Soler Javier Loarte

Love Lowercase Willy Biondani Denise Gomes

Pearl Tears Lévon Minasian Ester Mann

Rotten Apples Tom Haines Anna Griffin

Road to Livramento Giuliana Monteiro Beatriz Monteiro

Son of the Ashes Dado Amaral Bruno Bettati

The Deleted Sidharth Mathawan Gagan Mathawan

The Penultimate Jonas Kærup Hjort Rikke Tambo Andersen

The Quest Natasha Markou JoAnn Hess

You Can’t Stop the Sea Rowland E. Jobson Tansi Inayat

Star Kristian Sejrbo Lidegaard Maria Møller Kjeldgaard

The 7th Day Julie Benegmos

The Foreign Agent Don Barak

Dark Side of The Moon Mona Deeley

The Invisible Jan Van Dyck

East of Death Tommaso Mottola

In a Pool of Ella Caroline Ingvarsson Olivier Guerpillon

Three Weeks Under the Sea Martin Kuba

Woman Without a Past Arman T. Riahi

Count to Ten Oleksandra Brovchenko Igor Savychenko

NOVEMBER 2018

Don’t Gaze Long Into the Abyss Mohammadreza Farzad Karel Poupě

Stoning the Jasmine Zaina Deeb

Bleeding Time Lucas Camargo de Barros

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In Our Image David Steiner

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Canvas City A drama series inspired by real events that tells the story of a survival on your own.

Daria Keršić Writer/director • Croatia

Daria Keršić earned a Master’s degree in Management, but she has been working as a writer for 10 years. She is currently a student at the Master’s programme in Screenwriting at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. Her fantasy Young Adult novel YA has been published in Croatia, and she is currently writing the sequels, as well as adapting the story into a TV series. She worked as an editorial assistant, content writer, film critic, actress, script supervisor, and 1st AD for major Croatian production companies. Daria attended numerous filmmaking and screenwriting workshops and schools, participated in many Young Cinephiles programmes at several film festivals, and she acted as a member of Young Jury at the Pula Film Festival in 2017. She wrote and directed two short films and she is currently in preproduction for her next two short films. She is also in the early stage of developing a feature script.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Daria Keršić daria_kersic@hotmail.com M +385 989113468

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It is 1943. The Nazis are getting closer and a 16-yearold Sofija is one of the Yugoslavian refugees who have to flee. Her life is already unbearable, with a secret pregnancy, a strict family and an arranged engagement to the man she does not love. They are going to El Shatt, a camp in Egypt. There are many obstacles: poor hygiene, disease epidemics, lack of food, foreign languages, and religions, a set of wartime rules. Nobody is on her side. What is Sofija willing to do to survive? Whatever it takes. INTENTION

I have Croatian producers from Drugi Plan company, and we are looking for co-producers.

Catapult Benny Drechsel Producer • Germany Benny grew up in Munich where he did not finish his education as a sculptor and stonemason. Afterward he was working for the Bavarian State Opera and in a nice little cinema which showed only Italian and French films from the 50s to late 70s that nobody wanted to see (apart from him and a bunch of people who today all work in the cinema industry). In 1997 Benny came to Berlin to work as a post-production supervisor and as an associate producer for documentary films and feature films. In 2002 he left Berlin for Barcelona, but he came back to found Rohfilm Productions with his former colleague and friend Karsten Stöter in 2005. Since 2016 Benny is the sole owner and producer at Rohfilm.

The King of Germany’s biggest amusement park goes bankrupt. He sees opportunities in Latin America but ends up in jail, turning the family apart. A true but bigger than life story. INTENTION

The project is in development, and we are looking for partners.

Peter Dörfler Writer/director • Italy Peter attended the Ulm School of Design in Offenbach am Main, where he graduated in 1995 in Camera and Directing. He worked as DoP on several documentaries, feature films, and more than 60 music videos. In 2006 Peter had his debut in directing with the TV documentary film Der Panzerknacker, and in 2009 he directed his second documentary Catapult, which premiered in Perspektive Deutsches Kino at Berlinale 2009. His following work The Big Eden had its world premiere at Berlinale’s Panorama 2011 and was nominated for the German Film Prize Lola 2012. Peter Dörfler lives and works in Berlin. CONTACT INFORMATION

Benny Drechsel benny@rohfilm.de M +49 1729488294

Peter Dörfler mail@peter-doerfler.de M +49 304408067

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Eutropia

Irene De Lucas Ramón Writer/director • Spain/France

Born in Valencia, Irene moved to Paris in 2005 for her doctoral thesis on early cinema’s pioneer Alice Guy. Her film training includes labs and masterclasses in scriptwriting (Fernando Castets), directing (Luis García Berlanga), and special effects (Reyes Abades). Member of the EWA – European Women’s Audiovisual Network and the CIMA – Spanish Association of Women Cineastes, she has written and directed most of her works in France, such as Le Jeu de Dames (Special Jury Award at Viña del Mar DIFF 2010, Best Short Film at Medina del Campo FF 2009, Best Script at Luna de Islantilla FF 2009) and La Marelle (Best Short Film on Civil & Political Rights at Valencia’s Justice Foundation 2012). She has published a book on Buñuel’s film Los Olvidados (“Los Olvidados. La Violencia de los Excluidos”) and collaborates regularly with publications on film analysis in newspapers and magazines. She is currently working on her second book while developing scripts for a social sci-fi series and a drama feature.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Irene De Lucas Ramón idelura@me.com M +33 684995542

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Paris, 2068. Massive suicide waves and sick leaves unfolded the worst crisis ever witnessed. Facing collapse, a costly scheme was implemented: Eutropia, a crane system, monthly relocates every building in the city to create the illusion of change for hopeless citizens. Shifts only made things worse. Human contact grows rare, severe depression still an endemic threat. Antidepressants now mandatory, citizens’ mood tracked and surveilled. Happiness becomes oppression. In the midst of despair, a sheer community rises in rebellion with one purpose: Skip the Shifts. True change only comes from within. INTENTION

Bible of the series and first episode’s screenplay is available. We are seeking producers.

Ioan Ursuț

Carla Fotea Producer • Romania

Carla is a young producer working for Hi Film Productions and Micro Film with Romanian producer Ada Solomon. While studying for her MA in Film Production, she worked with renowned filmmakers such as Cristian Mungiu and Nae Caranfil on their latest films. She also has four years of experience working in film festivals and two years of experience as a copywriter.

A Romanian artist tries to follow the life and crimes of a famous criminal through Romania, Italy and Sweden while getting caught up in a web of political conspiracies and mind games. INTENTION

Ioan Ursuț is in early development and we are currently looking for broadcasters and coproducers to join the project as early on as possible.

Carla is a graduate of Talents Sarajevo 2016, IDFA Academy 2017 and was nominated in the Young Hope Category of the Romanian Film Industry Awards in 2017. Projects Carla is currently involved in include Radu Jude’s next fiction and documentary films, Ivana Mladenovic’s next feature, as well as multiple other documentary and fiction features.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Carla Fotea carlafotea@gmail.com M +40 754090595

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Lights Out

David Rocchio Writer/director & Producer • USA

In 2013 David founded Stowe Story Labs, a nonprofit dedicated to helping emerging screenwriters, filmmakers, and creative producers hone their craft and learn skills and tools to get work made and seen. He wrote, directed and produced the short films The Brothers (Best of Capalbio International Short Film Festival 2011) and The Meeting (Finalist Best Screenplay, Los Angeles Independent Film Awards 2016). He finished as a quarterfinalist or higher in several screenwriting competitions including the Academy Nicholl Fellowships, PAGE, CineStory, San Francisco IndieFest, and Table Read My Screenplay, among others. He conceived and co-produced the UK Channel 4 documentary The Gun Shop, which aired to rave reviews and was a finalist for the AIBs Awards 2017.

Bill Wilkens loves chairing the select board in New Valletta – a farm town surrounded by majestic mountains. When a solar flare not only makes the lights go out, but kills the ability of people to use electricity everywhere and maybe forever, Bill must step up to lead his friends and neighbors as they are forced to confront, comprehend, and cope with epic change. The series follows the diverse and disparate people of New Valletta as they struggle to comprehend and adjust to life after “the event”. INTENTION

Lights Out will be set in a remote community that could – with hard work – be self-sustaining if the rest of the world fell away. We are interested in developing the project in a European or UK location (such as agricultural towns hemmed in by mountains or fishing/farm communities on an island).

CONTACT INFORMATION

David Rocchio rocchio.david@gmail.com M +1 8022791258

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We would love to talk with local creative producers/ writers that might want to explore the world we are creating.

Mapped

Rachel Tillotson Writer/director • United Kingdom

Rachel is a UK-based BAFTA award-winning filmmaker with an extensive short film and TV directing experience. She trained as an actress and directed theatre at Bretton Hall College (Leeds University) before completing a MA in Film Direction at the Royal College of Art. She directed nine shorts, financed by a range of funders such as LFVDA, UKFC, Film Four and Anglia TV. She sold her shorts internationally to many TV stations winning numerous awards. She attended the Cannes’ Cinéfondation screenwriting residency in Paris and attended the Guiding Lights programme. Rachel was on the BFI scheme Think, Shoot, Distribute, alongside Andrew Haigh (45 Years).

Mapped is a sci-fi TV series that follows with the day-today personal and professional crises of “Mappers” and their clients at Pontem, a Mapping Company in Cambridge. Mappers are highly skilled and work with cutting-edge technology. Pontem harvests a deceased person’s visual and aural data, translating it into a unique code. This code appears to transform a Mapper into the deceased person so that from the grieving relatives and friends (clients) perspectives they can meet and talk with loved ones they’ve lost. Mapping is a unique fusion between human and machine with Mappers guiding each interaction. Everyone knows its role-play, but it’s popular and has taken off. INTENTION

Mapped seeks a strong TV producer and writer to help develop it from the treatment. My goal is to find funding for the pilot with a strong writer.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Rachel Tillotson www.racheltillotson.com till_r@hotmail.com M +44 7810627855

TFL EXTENDED – TV SERIES • APRIL 2018

Writer Stacy Gregg has shown interest in writing an episode, and scriptwriters Alice Nutter and Simon Beaufoy both praised Mapped as an idea.

Megaplex

Hayk Matevosyan Writer/director • Armenia

Born and raised in Armenia, Hayk Matevosyan is part of the generation that grew up in the depriving times of the Nagorno-Karabakh War between 1988 and 1994. Hayk immigrated to the U.S. with his family at the age of 17. After graduating from UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film, and Television in Los Angeles, Hayk directed several music videos and short films under the guidance of his mentor Mardik Martin, whose screenplays have brought to life some of Martin Scorsese’s most iconic films such as New York, New York, Raging Bull, and Mean Streets. Hayk’s films were screened in over 20 film festivals in the U.S. and internationally. He directed the Grammy Award-winning musician Daron Malakian’s latest music video. Hayk has been selected by the Black Factory Cinema mentorship programme thanks to which he will travel to Peru in May 2018 to direct a short film under the guidance of Werner Herzog.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Hayk Matevosyan haykmatevosian@yahoo.com M +0 18184451922

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Megaplex is set in the heart of San Fernando Valley, and it follows three roommates with vastly different personalities who work in a second-run movie theatre to support themselves while trying to make their dreams become reality. The show tackles the issue of “how does one end up working in this place” while giving a humorous look at what goes on behind the scenes of a local movie theatre. It explores friendship, love, heartbreak, dreams, the day-to-day work environment, dramas, and funny moments between the characters and the situations they are put in throughout each episode. INTENTION

I am looking for co-producers and funding.

My Place in the World Mattia Temponi Writer/director & Producer • Italy Born in 1984, Mattia Temponi started his career directing and producing short films and video clips. After authoring for documentary films, he worked as a director for a short film project funded by Italian Ministry of Education and shot inside Torino’s jailhouse, with a crew formed by real inmates. Besides his own independent production, he also worked as an editor and director for corporate videos and as executive producer for several short films and TV shows. Lately, he worked as a scriptwriter for Mediaset’s reenactment show Il Terzo Indizio.

1946. Italy votes, for the first time since the rise of Fascism and for the first time with universal suffrage. Italian women are called to take part in the political process of the country. In the year before the Liberation, most of them fought as partisans against Nazi and, of course, against other Italians loyal to the regime as well. From all the political sides, democratic women gained the role that was for too long denied to them.

Paolo Ferrara Scriptwriter • Italy Born in 1977, Paolo attended the Master in Narration Techniques at Scuola Holden in Torino.

INTENTION

The series completed its development stage and is currently seeking producers.

He wrote the short film Apartment 15, the comic book Evo-Z, and the horror short novels Il Candidato Ideale (Epika Edizioni – Italy) and L’Orrore Numero 91 (La Strada per Babilonia – Italy). He also wrote the children’s books Blu, il Pulcino Covato dal Frigo (Milena Edizioni – Italy) and Taht Al Ghitaa (The Monster and the Blankets, Kalimat Group – United Arab Emirates), and he co-wrote the videogames Blind and Omen: Exitio Plague for Tiny Bull Studios. Paolo currently works as a writer and as a speaker for a weekly Italian online radio show, Sono Cose Serie. CONTACT INFORMATION

Mattia Temponi mattia@cinefonie.it M +39 3397804154

Paolo Ferrara ppif77@gmail.com M +39 3346160589

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Play Me

Slobodan Karajlovic Director & Producer • Germany/Croatia

Slobodan Karajlovic produced several short films. The last one, Easter Eggs, which he also directed, was screened at several international film festivals, including Tribeca Film Festival, LA Shorts Fest, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, and many more. He co-produced Edi Muzina’s short film The Fire, which attended NISI MASA’s European Short Pitch 2013, in Luxemburg. Slobodan also completed all three modules of MAIA Workshops, an advanced training programme for emerging European producers. He has several projects in development as director and producer.

The marriage of a powerful banker and his wife is falling apart since their four-yearold daughter inexplicably died in her sleep. While the wife is trying to find comfort with her alienated sisters and to continue with life, he, unable to overcome the loss, is on a sure course of selfdestruction. When he suddenly disappears, the tragedy of a family becomes a tragedy of the whole community. And soon it becomes clear that their daughter did not die of a natural cause. This is a story about people who are going through their path of redemption, but bad things are hard to erase. INTENTION

We have a new, significantly improved draft of the pilot and we are working on the rewrite of the rest of episodes and the series bible at the moment. We are looking for development funding and co-producers, from the region and international. CONTACT INFORMATION

Slobodan Karajlovic s.karajlovic@rocketmail.com M +44 7769515380

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Purgatoria Dana Nechustan Writer/director • Netherlands Dana Nechushtan is an acclaimed Dutch director, mostly known for her feature films Nachtrit (selected as Best Dutch Film by Dutch Film Critics in 2006), Dunya & Desie (Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! at KVIFF 2008, Dutch candidate for Best Foreign Language Film at Oscars 2008, Cifej Prize of the World Academy for Quality Films at Tel Aviv Filmfestival for Children 2008), the TV film Offers and the TV drama series Annie M.G. (2010), Overspel (Golden Calf for Best TV Drama 2012) and Hollands Hoop (Golden Calf for Best TV Drama 2014).

Edward Stelder Scriptwriter • Netherlands Edward Stelder is a Dutch scriptwriter and actor who has worked on both feature films and TV series. He wrote the TV series Westenwind, IC, Bellicher, Black Tulip, Kicken! and Bitches (Golden Beelden for Best Comedy 2004), and the feature films A 1000 Kisses by Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen and Heaven on Earth by Pieter Kuijpers. Edward is currently working on different feature films and TV series such as The Affair, Albert and Soof: A New Beginning.

What would you do when discovering that your father and the family business are responsible for the suicide of your sister? After 10 years of absence, Dr. Michelle Crous returns home for the wedding of her brother. When her father gets shot, against all odds, she is able to save him. The police warn the strict Roman Catholic family that the perpetrators will come back and that the whole family should fear for its life. Michelle can not leave her wounded father and reluctantly regains contact with him, only to find out that he wants to plead guilty in a big upcoming lawsuit and thus ruin the family company. She helps him to abolish his sins, but when the police investigation reveals that he was part of a cover-up in which thousands of people – including Michelle’s sister – committed suicide due to the side effects of an antidepressant drug her father’s company produced, Michelle does not trust her father anymore and takes over. Michelle wants to free all the company’s patents and give away the company’s medicine for free. Will she succeed, or will she be crucified? INTENTION

CONTACT INFORMATION

Dana Nechushtan info@topkapifilms.nl M +31 203032494

Edward Stelder edward@stelder.com M +31 654602424

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A Dutch broadcaster is already attached. We are looking for international financing and co-producers.

So You Better Run

Yashar Alishenas Scriptwriter • Sweden

Yashar was born in Tehran and grew up in Stockholm. He has produced, written and acted in numerous shorts films shot in Sweden, France, and the UK, most recently SOAP, an English-language comedy set in Paris, as well as the feature Elegy for Yashar, which has been screened nationwide in Iran. Before attending TorinoFilmLab, his TV series So You Better Run was developed at a talent programme at Sweden’s national broadcaster SVT. The obsession with films and series was preceded by teaching languages – he speaks five of them – and studying philosophy, social sciences, and literature in Heidelberg and Oxford.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Yashar Alishenas yashar@theotherplace.se M +46 765892785

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A failed comedian tries to regain a sense of purpose in his new life as a substitute teacher, but goes too far when he starts hiding a refugee child at his school. We are invited to witness the painful, funny and strange ways in which the best of intentions unwittingly produce an avalanche of chaos and self-destruction. INTENTION

The project is currently in development.

The Origin of Another World

Selin Karli Producer • Turkey

Born in Istanbul, Selin received her BA in Communications from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California and her MFA in Producing from the American Film Institute Conservatory (AFI). Since 2014, she has been managing a project called New Turkish Films, which aims to promote Turkish Cinema around the most important international film festivals for the Film Producer’s Association of Turkey (Se-Yap). In May 2017, Selin founded Catco Film to develop independent features and TV Series that are dynamic and thought-provoking. Catco Film productions intend to intrigue the curiosity of global audiences with local stories and aims to challenge their thinking with fresh perspectives on social themes.

With a curiosity for eroticism, Halil Serif’s eagerness to spend family wealth with the artists quickly gains him a reputation in the art world of the 19th century Paris. A young diplomat turns into an art collector. His conservative Ottoman lifestyle turns into a bohemian escapade. He has only a few years before his adventures of the free world come to an end. INTENTION

The project is currently in development. We are looking for producing partners from France and international co-producers.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Selin Karli karli.selin@gmail.com M +90 5322777352

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The Panda

Daniel Carsenty Writer/director • Germany

Daniel Carsenty was born in 1982 in Frankfurt. He graduated in 2014 from the Filmuniversity Konrad Wolf in Potsdam with his first feature film After Spring Comes Fall, which premiered in New Voices at the Gothenburg International Film Festival 2015 and was awarded Best Feature at the Vilmos Szigmond Festival 2017. The rough-cut of his second film The Devil’s Driver, a documentary realized in collaboration with ARTE about a group of Beduin smugglers, has been screened at the Palestinian Showcase of Docs-InProgress at Cannes 2018, and will have its world premiere in 2019. Currently, he is developing the TV crime-series Hades together with the Munich-based production company NEUESUPER and the family drama-series The Silence of Money with ZDF Digital.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Daniel Carsenty dcarsenty@gmail.com M +49 1731868683

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What would have happened if War World II was finished in 1944 with a peace agreement between Nazi-Germany and the Allies? The Panda follows a Gestapo officer investigating a murder during the Olympic Games of Münich 1972 that leads him to a conspiracy going back to early of Hitler’s rise to power. Mixing elements of fictional storytelling in the style of what-would-have-happenedif with modern-day research, the series sheds light on one of Europe’s darkest moments. INTENTION

The Panda is currently in the stage of concept development. I am looking for producers as well as co-producers, world sales, distributors and commissioning editors from TV broadcasters and streaming platforms interested in joining me in this early stage of creation.

The Scheme

Filippo Mazzotti Scriptwriter • Italy

Filippo Mazzotti was born on the 3rd of March in Lugo (Ravenna, Italy), on the same date and in the same village as Carlo “Charles” Ponzi. These two coincidences led him through the development of a biopic (Meet Mr. Ponzi) and a TV series (The Scheme) about the life of of the world-famous Italian swindler. In 2015 Filippo completed a first draft of a treatment for the feature film Meet Mr. Ponzi. In 2016 Filippo attended a professional course on Screenwriting for Cinema hosted by Francesca Serafini at Scuola Belleville in Milan, Italy. He is currently co-writing the TV series The Scheme with writer Paolo Bernardelli.

The Scheme narrates the 9 months of rise and fall of Carlo “Charles” Ponzi and his “Scheme”. From the moment Carlo sets his fraud in motion, through its unexpected and sudden spread like wild fire, up to its apex and the resounding fall by the hand of his enemy Richard Grozier, publisher of the Boston Post. The TV series reveals the dark side of the “American Dream” in the “Roaring Twenties”. Grozier is ready to unmask the charismatic Italian swindler at the cost of ruining his newspaper, and is prepared to face his newsroom and the city of Boston which are acclaiming “the man who discovered dollars”. The Scheme is arena-driven. We explore all of the stories, reasons, dreams and illusions of the victims of the “bubble” created by the “Ponzi Scheme”. Each episode deals with possible answers to a sole question: ”Hope, is not it a lie itself?”. INTENTION

CONTACT INFORMATION

Filippo Mazzotti mazzotti.filippo@gmail.com M +39 3451835724

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We are in the development stage, and are looking for producers.

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12 Days and Nights

George Ktistakis Writer/director â&#x20AC;˘ Greece

Born in Crete, Greece, George Ktistakis received his BA in Film & TV studies from the University of Greenwich. After his first short film Half-Board Heaven, which premiered at the Drama International Short Film Festival 2012, he has directed several other short films, which circulated at national and international film festivals such as Athens IFF and WorldFest-Houston International Film & Video Festival. George is currently working on a TV series project as a co-director, as well as developing his first feature 12 Days and Nights with the support of the Greek Film Centre. He also works as an editor.

CONTACT INFORMATION

George Ktistakis geokti@outlook.com M +30 6946242103

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Greece, in the midst of World War II. Seven men and two women travel by fishing boat from Athens to the island of Crete, each one for different reasons. During their voyage, they discover that the occupying forces are not their only enemy. After making it to the island, the now seven companions have to go through one more hurdle before reaching their final destination. INTENTION

The project is currently in development stage. I am looking for a producer, Greek or international, to share my vision and bring it to the big screen.

After the Brexit

Laila Alina Reischer Writer/director • Austria/Egypt

As the daughter of a Catholic Austrian woman and a rebelling Arabian father, Laila Alina Reischer brings a strong contrastive background with her. Living through different cultures and settings gave her the ability to tell stories from an inside perspective. She studied at RADA and at London Film School, developing strong skills in filmmaking and acting. She was awarded Best Supporting Actress for her role in 22:43 by Markus Hautz at the New York City International Film Festival 2010, and she was selected for Berlinale Talents 2011 with her feature film project Anatomy Of A Separation. In 2013 she received the Arthur Haidl Prize for her achievements in the Austrian film industry. Her projects have also been selected for scriptFORUM Vienna and Diverse Geschichten.

The Brexit has plunged the European Union into a crisis. Austria, Germany and Italy have built transit centers on their peripheries while France discusses its exit from the Union. All migrants with no citizenship are collected and brought to the centers, before being deported to a no-man’s land on the Arabian Peninsula. In the transit center on the Austrian-German border, the refugee Amal falls in love with the center attendant Marteen, who escaped with her brother Bassam 15 years ago. The situation escalates when Bassam sees Amal being kissed by Marteen and he injures another attendant. Bassam is brought away while Amal feels guilty and is more and more torn in between her possible new life and the faith to Bassam. INTENTION

CONTACT INFORMATION

Laila Alina Reischer lailareischer@hotmail.com T +43 6642827268

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After the Brexit is a dystopia reflecting the current happenings in Europe and their possible impact. It is a treatise about a radical migration policy told through the eyes of an exceptional woman. It is an Austrian production looking for co-producers from Germany, the Balkan Region and the Arabian Peninsula. 25

CORA: The Saints of Boyacá

Camilo Martín-Flórez Writer/director • Colombia/Canada

Camilo Martín-Flórez is a filmmaker and a film-researcher with a BFA and an MA in Film Studies from Concordia University (CA), as well as an MFA in Documentary Filmmaking from the University of Barcelona. His works include the documentary films At Work (2008), which follows gypsy kids and their experiences at school in the gypsy communities in Barcelona; The Portrait of a Blue Dog (2010), focused on a South American immigrant artist in Catalunya; and the film triptych The Interrupted Chilean (2014), which has been selected and screened at several film festivals around the world. Camilo is currently in the post-production phase of his second documentary film triptych and in the developing phase of his first feature fiction film, while he pursues a Ph.D degree in Film Studies at the University of Bologna.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Camilo Martín-Flórez camilomartinflorez@gmail.com M +39 3488839795

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Cora’s beloved husband Miguel is obsessed with becoming the first saint of Colombia. Miguel loves Cora with the same intensity with which he loves his religion. He believes that their marriage is blessed with a child of God. Waiting to receive news of their consecration from the church, their only connection to the outside world is Panfilo, Miguel’s brother. Panfilo reveals Miguel and Cora’s intentions to the media, trying to convince Cora to leave Miguel. The news goes viral and the Church initiates their beatification. In the spotlight, five months pregnant, Cora needs to make a choice. INTENTION

I am looking for a producer, and I am entitled to apply for development, production and post-productions grants from the Canadian and the Colombian film funds.

Dolores Chico Teixeira Writer/director • Brazil Chico Teixeira has a strong background as a documentarist and he has been able to transport the natural look and veracity of acting into his fiction films. His work is recognized for his special talent with the actors, and his films have a sensitive look at the feelings hidden in everyday life, in family and intimate relationships. In 2007, his debut feature Alice’s House premiered in Panorama at Berlinale, and it won several awards such as Best First Work at Havana FF, the Gold Plaque at Chicago IFF, the Grand Prix and the E-Changer Award at Fribourg IFF, the FIPRESCI Prize and the Special Jury Award at Guadalajara IFF. His latest feature Absence was selected at Berlinale CoProduction Market in 2012 and had its world premiere in Panorama 2015. In the same year, it won 4 Golden Kikitos at Gramado FF, as well as Best Brazilian Film, Best Actor and the Special Jury Prize at Rio de Janeiro IFF.

Sabina Anzuategui

Dolores is turning 60 and she wants to make her dream come true: to gamble at an actual casino. She saved money to travel to Argentina with her daughter Débora (38) and her granddaughter Duda (17), where casinos are legal. Débora is unemployed and wishes to be rich. She dreams on opening a pizza delivery service with her daughter. But Duda has other dreams on her mind: she wants to become a police officer. The plot thickens when Duda and Dolores find out that Débora is in debt up to her neck, and she is threatened by an aggressive loan shark. Dolores and Duda fight to hold on to their dreams, while helping Débora dealing with reality.

Scriptwriter • Brazil Sabina Anzuategui co-wrote Absence by Chico Teixeira and 5 other multi-awarded feature films. She wrote the novels Panties on Clothesline (2005) and Affection (2011), and she is the author of the comics series Lost Pearls (2018). She also created the Youtube channel on Creative Writing Exercícios de Criação Literária. CONTACT INFORMATION

Chico Teixeira chicot@terra.com.br T +55 11981490933

INTENTION

In Brazil, Dolores will be produced by Bossa Nova Films, one of the most prominent production companies in the region. We are currently looking for co-producers and a sales agent.

Sabina Anzuategui sabina.anz@gmail.com T +55 1125749667

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Double Happiness Sebastian Mihăilescu Writer/director • Romania Sebastian has a BA and an MA in Film Directing from the National University of Theatre & Film in Bucharest, and he is a Talents Sarajevo alumnus. His latest short film – Old, Luxurious Flat, Located in Ultracentral, Desirable Neighborhood – premiered in the Leopards of Tomorrow Short Film Competition at Locarno 2016, and it was screened at MoMA and at Film Society of Lincoln Center in NY, among others. In 2015 he has worked as an AD for Radu Jude’s Berlinale-winner Aferim! and Radu Muntean’s One Floor Below, which premiered at Un Certain Regard. He is currently in financing with his debut feature and in pre-production with his next short.

Andrei Epure

When Camil, a 33-year-old Romanian copywriter, learns that his long-term girlfriend Diana is infertile, he shifts his fatherhood obsession to Rebecca, a Taiwanese woman he met at a corporate party a few days earlier. He goes to Taipei with a workrelated project hoping to relive the fling they had in Bucharest. But while Camil tries to seduce Rebecca, Diana has good news: she is pregnant. After an unsatisfying encounter with Rebecca, he returns home in celebration. His whole family seems happy. Even the wilted flowers from around the house have fully blossomed in his absence.

Scriptwriter • Romania Andrei has a BA in Audiovisual Communication followed by an MA in Screenwriting at the National University of Theatre & Film in Bucharest, where he also worked as an Assistant Professor in Screenwriting. Since university, he has co-written four feature films and various short films such as Old, Luxurious Flat, Located in Ultra-central, Desirable Neighborhood by Sebastian Mihăilescu, among others. He was selected for Berlinale Talents and Sarajevo Talents, and he is currently in development with two features and two short films. CONTACT INFORMATION

Sebastian Mihăilescu seb.mihailescu@gmail.com T +40 765704052

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Andrei Epure andrei.epure@outlook.com T +40 758567718

INTENTION

The project is produced by Ada Solomon and Diana Paroiu (Hi Film Productions – Romania). We are looking for co-producers, sales agent, distributors and film festival representatives from Taiwan and Europe. We aim at working with the Taiwanese co-producer towards sourcing local funding, planning the local shooting and developing the script regarding the realistic depiction of Taipei and the Taiwanese characters.

I Wish I Could Hibernate

Zoljargal Purevdash Writer/director • Mongolia

Zoljargal Purevdash studied Filmmaking at University of Obirin, Tokyo, Japan. Her first short film Over the City, Under the Sky won the Cinema Club Award at West Tokyo City Film Festival 2010. After her graduation, she came back to Mongolia and worked on several local films as a 1st AD. She directed the experimental short films Burgundy (Special Screening at the Altan Khalis Independent Film Festival 2013) and Outliers (Special Screening at the Altan Khalis Independent Film Festival 2017). She is currently developing her first feature film I Wish I Could Hibernate, which was selected for Talents Tokyo 2017 winning the Talents Tokyo Award. Recently, Zoljargal has been selected for the Asian Film Academy 2018.

Bat (15) is the oldest of five children living with their single mother in the povertystricken yurt districts of Ulaanbaatar. He is determined to win an academic Olympiad for a scholarship to enter a private school, but his alcoholic mother loses her job in the middle of winter and leaves him with his younger siblings. Bat is held back by his fierce pride and his refusal to ask for help to make ends meet. The other children struggle to find something to burn to heat their home every night, while Bat dreams of winning the National Olympiad. INTENTION

I Wish I Could Hibernate is at script development stage. I am looking for producers. The budget proposed is € 250.000.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Zoljargal Purevdash zorozolush@gmail.com M +976 88128134

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Luna Park Florenc Papas Writer/director • Albania Florenc studied Film Directing at Academy of Film & Multimedia Marubi in Tirana. After graduation, he developed his craft working in numerous short and feature films, promotional videos, television series and broadcast documentaries. His diploma short film If… (2013) has been screened in numerous international film festivals, and his debut feature Open Door, an Albanian-Kosovan-Italian-Macedonian coproduction is now in post-production. Florenc is an alumnus of Sarajevo Talents 2015, Berlinale Talents 2016 and First Films First 2017. Luna Park is his second feature film project in development.

In Albania’s post-communist landscape of 1997, a lonely mother, Mira, and her troubled teenage son, Toni, struggle through an outbreak of civil violence that tears their country apart. Like many Albanians, Mira’s immigrant husband, Arben, has managed to survive by working illegally in neighboring Greece for the past four years. As the financial crisis overwhelms Albania, Mira decides to take Toni illegally across the dangerous border by herself to find Arben.

Dritan Huqi Producer • Albania Dritan graduated from the Albanian Economic University and the University of Law. He is the President of the Albanian Producers and Filmmakers Association, and member of the European Film Academy. In 2008 he founded On Film, which produced the feature films The Albanian by Johannes Naber, Distant Angels by Gjergj Xhuvani, the TV series Alarm für Cobra 11, and more than 30 shorts and documentaries films, among others. In 2011 he was selected for Cannes’ «Producers On The Move» by European Film Promotion. My Lake, supported by ANCC and Eurimages, is the next feature film project in production. CONTACT INFORMATION

Florenc Papas florpapas@gmail.com M +355 699337607

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Dritan Huqi dhuqi@onfilmproduction.al M +355 692056175

INTENTION

We are at an early stage of development, and we are looking for co-producers.

My Mad Madonna Cinzia Bomoll Writer/director • Italy Born in Bologna, she worked for Rai as an author and a director from 2000 to 2007. She attended scriptwriting classes at Rai-Script (2000), Mediatrade Fiction School (2001) and Scuola Holden’s Enzimi (2002). Since 2000, Cinzia has directed several short films, and in 2007 she wrote, directed and produced her first feature Rahil’s Secret, which was distributed in USA and Canada and on Netflix. Her second feature Balla con Noi – Let’s Dance, a musical, was produced by Rai Cinema in 2011. With her company Amarcord, she produces features and documentaries by Italian and international authors focusing on stories with strong and provocative topics and plots.

Josella Porto Scriptwriter • Italy Born in Catania, she graduated from the Italian National Film School in 2006 and at Rai-Script in 2009. Since 2004, Josella wrote several award-winning shorts, documentaries and features such as Fabio Mollo’s debut film Il Sud è Niente, developed within TorinoFilmLab’s FrameWork 2010 and supported with a TFL Production Award, which had its world premiere in Discovery at TIFF 2013. She also co-wrote Il Bambino di Vetro by Federico Cruciani and Fabio Mollo’s second feature There Is a Light.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Cinzia Bomoll ama.amarcord@gmail.com M +39 335369379

Josella Porto josellaporto@gmail.com

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Kim meets Carmen in a Toronto Museum. Carmen looks like a Renaissance Madonna and Kim is obsessed with Italian art. Both are orphans and lonely. It is easy to fall in love. Vito, Carmen’s “dead” father calls her. He wants her back in Italy. Kim leaves with her. In Sicily, they end up involved in a tragic plot of police stories and mafia. Carmen gets more and more under her father’s influence and rejects Kim. Kim is hurt; she finds out that Vito is planning a terrorist attack and she fears that her “mad Madonna” will collaborate. Carmen’s final redemption will dissolve all Kim’s suspicions. INTENTION

The project has already two Italians producers – Far Out Films and Amarcord – attached and we are looking for an Italian distributor. We are looking for Canadian and Swiss co-producers (and/or distributors) and an international sales agent, who could also be one of the two co-producers in case.

Paris Syndrome Kimie Tanaka Writer/director • Japan Born and raised in Nagoya, Japan, Kimie held an MFA from New York Tisch School of the Arts Asia and a BA in Economics from the University of Tokyo. Starting as a business analyst in India, she moved to Chile, New York and Singapore, and she pursued a career in filmmaking along the way. Her debut short film To Us won the Best Short Award in Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2013. In 2015, her latest short film Hide & Seek premiered in Toronto and won the Best Short Award in Sguardi Altrove Film Festival. Both films received nominations in various international film festivals. Kimie is based in Paris.

Erina Suto Co-writer • Japan Born in Osaka and raised in Kenya, Japan and the United States, Erina held a BA degree from Tufts University with a double major in Clinical Psychology and Japanese. After working with photography, music, and designer products in Tokyo, she became active as a researcher for foreign media. She met Kimie in early 2018, and she started to collaborate as a co-writer for Paris Syndrome, venturing outside of working behind the scenes. Currently based in Paris, Erina has been involved in projects for outlets such as Vice Media, Arte, The Japan Times, Kyoto Journal and Knopf Doubleday Publishing. CONTACT INFORMATION

Kimie Tanaka kimie0125@gmail.com M +33 641354173

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Erina Suto erina.suto@gmail.com

Sayo, a 32-year-old Japanese woman arrives in Paris with high expectations. But she immediately discovers that work is many steps backward in her career. With more time on her hands, but without anyone to share it with, Sayo feels alone more than ever. One day she meets another Japanese woman Mariko, who declares to sacrifice her life entirely to her French fiancé. However, as Sayo gets closer to Mariko, she finds out that Mariko is having sex for money with unknown men. Meeting these men one by one out of curiosity, Sayo also starts to have sexual affairs, looking for an instant connection. Will she come to terms with herself and find the validation of her existence that she longs for? INTENTION

We are working on a second draft of the script. We are looking for a French producer interested in sharing his/her views on real faces of Paris, and eventually a Japanese co-producer who is keen on telling a story about a modern Japanese woman.

Slaughterman Rafael Antonaccio Rafael wrote and directed the short films The Visit (2006) and The Monster (2010), which were selected at several international film festivals, including FESAALP and Kinoforum. With his brother Bernardo, he co-directed the videoclip of Revólveres y Rosas by Socio, awarded Best Video at Graffiti Awards 2017.

José arrives in Uruguay from a post-war poverty-stricken Spanish family when he is only 15 years old. His parents have sent him because they can not feed him, and he becomes a butcher’s employee.

They are currently developing their debut feature project In the Quarry (LABEX, FICViña WIP 2017, Usina del Sur and Puentes Uruguay, EAVE, MVD Audiovisual Post Production Fund) and Slaughterman, winner of the MVD Desarrolla 2017.

He feels abandoned, but he has to suppress his emotions to move on. He becomes a father and a husband.

In 2018, Slaughterman was also selected for Bolivia Lab and IBERMEDIA.

In 1968, when a ban of beef is decreed, a black market of meat comes up. José focuses so hard on being the lead of the black market to be a good provider to his family that he loses the most important thing: the confidence of his teenage daughter, Rosita.

Writer/director • Uruguay

Bernardo Antonaccio Writer/director • Uruguay Bernardo wrote and directed the short film Extracorpus, which won the Bronze Skull at the Morbido Film Festival 2012. Alongside with In the Quarry and Slaughterman, he is also developing the feature film Collapse, which won the IBERMEDIA Development Fund 2016 and it has currently been selected in two categories at the Oaxaca FilmFest 2017 (Best Thriller Script and Best Global Script Challenge) and at the Blood Window Pitch at Ventana Sur 2017.

INTENTION

The total budget is € 750.000, and we have secured national funds including ICAU Development Fund, Montevideo Development Fund and ICAU International Positioning.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Rafael Antonaccio rantonaccio@gmail.com M +598 99684182

Bernardo Antonaccio bernaccio@gmail.com M +598 99062670

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The Blunder

Alessandra Cardone Writer/director • Italy

Alessandra worked for big advertising agencies as a copywriter. Her love for movies pushed her to study screenwriting. Waiting for Hollywood was her first short film, which was selected by many festivals. She co-wrote Boxing Paradise by Stefano Quaglia, which won a Special Mention for Best Screenplay at the Silver Ribbons 2008. She went on shooting commercials and short films screened at various festivals such as Charity (2010), Chapeau! (2011), A Question of Label (2012) and My Friend Johnny, which was selected at the Venice Days 2012. She directed the documentary film In Love With Shakespeare (Filmmaker FF 2014), which was screened at the London Italian Institute and purchased by Sky Classica. She is currently working on her first feature film Reflections, for which she obtained the Development Fund by MiBACT/CNC and Liguria Film Commission, and the Production Fund by FVG Film Commission. In 2018, her latest short film The Madeleine and the Stranger won the Audience Award – Dolomia for Best Short Film at Cortinametraggio, the Southern Short Awards and the Golden Oyster at the Kinookus FF. It has been selected in the Panorama of the Tirana IFF and and it has been purchased by Rai Cinema. CONTACT INFORMATION

Alessandra Cardone alessandra.cardone@gmail.com M +39 3392530120

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When the actor Johnny Depp arrives in Otranto for a shooting and starts attending Nicola’s restaurant, they become friends. Before his departure, Depp promises Nicola he will bring him and his daughter Aqua to L.A., to run his restaurant as a partner. Nicola, totally seduced by the star, starts dressing like Johnny and preparing their new life. He shares the dream with Aqua, who is also a good cook and longs to leave. Months go by and still no words from Depp. Aqua loses her hope and tries to bring her naïf and foolish father reason, but he does not stop dreaming of Johnny’s promise. Yet, are dreams just dreams? INTENTION

The idea for this dramedy comes from my documentary film My Friend Johnny. I am looking for a producer who can involve the real Johnny Depp to play himself, or another iconic actor. I will search for a good comic actor from Puglia as a protagonist, like Sergio Rubini, Emilio Solfrizzi or Checco Zalone. We have been invited to the Co-production Forum by Apulia Film Commission.

The Carjacker

Oman Dhas Writer/director • Malaysia

Oman is an experienced filmmaker from Malaysia and based in Singapore. He has developed, produced and directed a wide range of fiction and non-fiction contents such as Asia’s Underworld, a gritty crime documentary which garnered him Best Director at the Asian Television Award 2013. Oman’s first feature film Hotel De Sade premiered in the Official Selection at the New York City International Film Festival 2013. Among others, Oman’s recent work as a director includes Haunt Me, a supernatural drama pilot for the VOD platform HOOQ.

Siva, a 38-year-old taxi driver, left home 26 years ago after partaking in a violent incident. In the process, he abandoned his younger brother, Nanda, now 32. Siva learns Nanda is captured for owing money to Samy, a local mafia boss. Hit by guilt, Siva tries to reason with Samy but fails. He accepts a carjacking job to pay the debt while Nanda is held ransom at gunpoint. During the hijack, Siva meets Kali, 25, his victim, with whom he develops an unlikely bond. With time constraint to deliver the stolen car, Siva’s past and present will collide and he will risks losing his brother, once again. INTENTION

The project is at treatment stage and I am seeking a creative co-producer to develop further and secure finances for the international market.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Oman Dhas omandhas@gmail.com M +65 94741597

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The Fertile Island Veronica Mengoli Writer/director • Italy Veronica literally feels at home everywhere. She moved to London when she was 18, working as a waitress, a hair stylist and a window designer. Back to Italy, she left the university to follow a mentor and being introduced to Milan’s advertising market. There she learned what was worth knowing to be respected as a good 1st AD and, later, as a director. She recently directed the documentary StarS, co-produced by Rai Cinema, and which was selected in Documentary’s category at Donatello’s David 2018.

Giulia Forcolini Scriptwriter • Italy Born in 1980, Giulia graduated in History from Milan University, and in Cinema Communication and Promotion from Catholic University of Milan. After her studies, she worked for Magnolia as a production assistant and editorial staff. In 2008, she moved to Rome and took her first steps as assistant director. She worked with several film production companies and assisted various directors. At the same time, she cooperated with book editors and writers in content development. In 2014, she attended a Screenwriting Masterclass at Tracce in Rome. In 2015, she moved back to Milan, where she continues to work on movies and commercials set as well as to write her own scripts. CONTACT INFORMATION

Veronica Mengoli verodirector@gmail.com M +39 3387129079

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Giulia Forcolini giulia.forcolini@gmail.com

Is a human tale about what the society considers connatural, against nature, such as Maria, a woman that can’t give life, and The Doctor, a man that loves men. 1940. Mussolini by mistake gifted the Italian History of the first case of gay community. He deported a bunch of homosexuals on a tiny island in the middle of nowhere. Tremiti Islands, Puglia, south of Italy. Maria is Antonio’s wife, a simple woman. Antonio is the Carabiniere encharged to maintain the gap between deported and common people, a small community living in San Nicola. Maria will be the only one crossing that line to meet the doctor. This step will take her to a new level to understand her position through a different point of view. INTENTION

The project is at development and financing stage. It will be shot at Tremiti Island and Apulia. With our production company, Revoler (Rome), we are looking for European and/or North American co-producers, as well as for international distributors, casting, and post-production facilities.

The Promised Land

Shirin Rashidian Scriptwriter • France/Iran

After graduating in 2005 from EM Lyon Business School and a career at iTunes as an editorial programmer, Shirin decided she wanted to tell stories. She attended online courses at UCLA Extension and a summer scriptwriting programme for TV Pilots at Columbia University. She won the Audience Award and the Jury Prize at the Valence Script Festival 2016 for her feature film The Promised Land. Shirin is currently co-writing the short animated film Noon, which was presented at MIFA Annecy 2018, and she is developing her first web series A Numbers Game, planned to be shot in October 2018. She speaks French, English, Persian, Italian and Spanish, and she writes her scripts in French and English.

Lelia is a Parisian girl in her late 30s who drinks too much and has meaningless love affairs until she finds out she is two months pregnant. It is her wake-up call: she has to quit drinking. So Lelia decides to spend the summer in Tehran, in the apartment of her estranged grandfather, the former general of the royal ground army before the 1979 Revolution. In Iran, she meets Ali. He speaks French and knows about Western culture. They hit it off right away, but what she does not know is that the Iranian police has recruited Ali to spy on her... INTENTION

I am looking for a director, a French producer and a co-producer. The film will be shot in France and also in another location that could pass for Iran.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Shirin Rashidian shirin.rashidian@gmail.com M +33 783242790

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The Return

José Hurtarte Writer/director • Spain

Since 2013, José Hurtarte (Guatemala, 1994) has contributed to numerous audiovisual projects as an assistant director, editor and camera operator. In 2016, he wrote, directed and produced his first short film Today. After not finding his way through film school, he decided to pursue a career in Literary Translation in Brussels, where he continues to work on various screenplays.

André and Costa have shared a cell for two years, and they are released around the same period of time. When they meet again, a mutual attraction seems to lie between them, but it remains unspoken. After their encounter, they go separate ways, and back to their new lives. Months later, André finds Costa looking for his help. Soon, the two men begin to spend time together in the way they used to. As they both drift away from the lives they were building, their past relationship comes back to the surface, and eventually takes them too far. INTENTION

I am currently looking for producers willing to lead a European co-production, which I believe should at least include a French company as well as one from Spain, preferably based in Galicia, where the story is set.

CONTACT INFORMATION

José Hurtarte jh@tepeufilms.com M +34 609205091 M +32 470931018

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The Sea Needs to Heave

Zain Duraie Writer/director • Jordan

Zain Duraie graduated in 2009 from the Toronto Film School, where she directed two short films as a part of her graduation project. In 2010, she began to work as a trainee at Philistine Films with the prestigious filmmaker Annemarie Jacir and the acclaimed producer Ossama Bawardi. She worked on the feature films When I Saw You (2012) and Wajib (2017) by Annemarie Jacir, as well as on Thank You for Bombing by Barbara Eder (2015) and The Rendezvous by Amin Matalqa (2016). Philistine Films also produced Zain’s short film Horizon, which premiered as Best of the Fest selects at Palm Springs Int. Shorts FF 2013, where it won the Audience Award. Horizon was also screened at the Montreal World Film Fest and the Cannes Short Corner, among others.

Nadia and Jalal are on the verge of a divorce, but their life takes an unexpected turn when their eldest son attempts suicide, causing immediate disruption and emotional shock in the family. Under such extreme pressures, Nadia and Jalal must come to terms with their son’s illness, which naturally puts their relationship to the test, all within a codified and judgmental society. INTENTION

I am looking for funding for the further development of the script, and a possible coproduction support.

In 2017, Zain was selected to work with the acclaimed Bosnian filmmaker Aida Begić on her latest film Never Leave Me. The script of Zain’s debut feature film project The Sea Needs to Heave was selected to be developed with the prestigious Asia Pacific Screen Academy and at Meditalents Residence.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Zain Duraie zain.duraie@gmail.com T +962 795868003

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The Sweet Bitterness of Ripe Pomegranates

Andrej Volkashin Writer/director • Macedonia

Andrej graduated in Film Directing at NATFA in Sofia, Bulgaria. His first short documentary Nothing in the Air premiered at Sofia Int. FF 2008, and his graduation film Kinder Surprise won the Audience Award at the Sofia Int. IFF 2011. His medium length musical comedy Shhh… Sing To Me premiered at the Vilnius Int. FF 2014 and was theatrically distributed in Bulgaria. His two latest short films Koliva and Ficus had their world premieres at the Huesca Int. Short FF 2018 and at Sarajevo Int. FF 2018 respectively. As a writer and director he is developing two feature film projects, both supported with the script development grants by the Macedonian Film Agency. His new short film Snake is currently in pre-production.

After the death of her younger sister, the life of the Macedonian housewife Dora (46) revolves around her demented mother, her teenage son and her husband, who is the town’s mayor. Everything changes when he brings home a refugee woman, Lilith (29), who lost her memory. A strong bond quickly develops between the two women leading to a passionate sexual encounter. Unable to handle the surfacing feelings Dora has struggled to keep buried throughout her life, she slowly starts losing her mind. INTENTION

The project won a scriptwriting grant by the Macedonian Film Agency and it already has a Macedonian producer. We are planning to submit it at the MFA’s first call in 2019 and to present it to European co-production forums and markets.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Andrej Volkashin andrej.ilcho.ilievski@gmail.com T +389 78437710

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True Love

Cristina Gómez Writer/director • Spain

Cristina Gómez was awarded a scholarship to study screenwriting at the International Film Television Foundation (FIA). Before graduation, she was invited to be a contributing writer for the TV comedy show AutoINdefinits, broadcasted by Canal 9. She continued to work as a writer for several daily and prime time weekly series such as Bon día, Bonica or Altra Oportunitat, while directing children’s TV shows. After creating and directing her own show Rubia en Apuros, she sold her TV series project Mourners, Inc. to an American network. Cristina has also edited and post-produced several international films, and she worked as a copywriter for many advertising agencies. She currently writes and performs as a stand-up comic.

Naila turns 30 and her life falls apart. Paralyzed by the situation, she feels the call to make her dream come true: to be a celebrity. She tried eight years ago and she got in the dating reality show True Love, but she dropped because of her boyfriend. She believes people will remember her, but not even Coraline, the host of the show, does. Coraline is a TV Star who wishes to become an intellectual journalist, but the network prevents her from doing it whilst they negotiate an injection of funds. Naila stalks Coraline, both online and in real life, with barely results. Things start flipping upside down after a social media scandal explodes and Naila and Coraline ally themselves to fight for their dreams. INTENTION

The project is at development stage. We are looking for co-producers interested in telling a contemporary story leaded by complex women. CONTACT INFORMATION

Cristina Gómez crgomgar@gmail.com M +34 616596085

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Bleeding Time

Lucas Camargo de Barros Writer/director • Brazil

Barros’ first short film Credit (2009) was highlighted by Revista Cinética as “the most acute portrayals of the lower class in Brazil so far”. He was selected for Talents Buenos Aires 2012 with his short film A Few Deaths, and his productions as writer, editor and producer were screened in film festivals such as IFFR Rotterdam, Visions du Réel and Tiradentes FF. His debut feature Petit Mal premiered at FIDMarseille 2018 and opened the new competition for avant-garde films at Brasilia FF 2018.

Bleeding Time is an exam that measures how long a wound takes to heal and Angela, a 47-year-old doctor, is plunged into a post-traumatic amnesia grief that spreads like a hemorrhage after the shadowy death of her son. Trying to deal with her loss and her son’s secretive homosexuality, she moves into a house of “orphan-mothers” with hunting remorses. Through psychographic rituals, they experience a collective hysteria where the bodies of their disincarnated children revives. Among hallucinations and bleeding dreams, Angela will realize she is the only one with the power to never let her child die again. INTENTION

Bleeding Time is a low-budget art-house film, which is currently in the scriptwriting stage, and it seeks international co-producers.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Lucas Camargo de Barros lucas@fraturafilmes.com M +55 11999706659

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Count to Ten Oleksandra Brovchenko Writer/director • Ukraine Oleksandra Brovchenko was born in 1989 in Kiev. In 2008 she graduated in Film and Television Directing from the Kiev National Ivan Karpenko-Kary University of Theater, Film and Television, where she also earned a BA in 2012.

Igor Savychenko Producer • Ukraine Igor Savychenko graduated in Mathematics from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev. In 2003 he moved into the audiovisual industry, becoming an internationally recognized film producer. He has developed a talent for creative films at a very early stage and has more than 14 years of experience in the film industry, producing 10 feature films, over 40 shorts, documentaries, TV films, mini-series and animated films.

Max Sheffard works as psychologist in a private clinic while being autistic, and his stepfather works with him. Max accidentally realizes that he is not only a doctor in the clinic, but also a patient. It is humiliating and he struggles, but suddenly his stepfather dies. Max loses any support. He starts to learn how to live like he never knew. He hides from the world, which falls upon him with accusations on his “diagnosis”. Only Max’s patient Anna will become his salvation and love. INTENTION

We have second draft of the script and we had a script session with script consultant Franz Rodenkirchen. We already have a co-producer from Norway. We are looking for third country co-producer, pre-sales, selectors for script development programmes and festivals.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Oleksandra Brovchenko aleksandrabrovchenko@gmail.com T +380 937035878

Igor Savychenko savychenko@directoryfilms.com T +380 503304471

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Dark Side of The Moon

Mona Deeley Writer/director • United Kingdom/Lebanon

Mona Deeley has worked at the BBC since 2012, where she has selected approximately 500 international short films for broadcast, and produced/directed 200 episodes of the Alternative Cinema weekly programme as well as seven documentaries, with several more in production. She has been involved in films for 15 years, programming for festivals at the BFI and at BAFTA.

Set in the 2040s, the film follows Dounia’s transformation from power broker to rebel leader and 21st century icon. It opens with Dounia’s flamboyant 30th birthday party on the eve of reluctantly joining President Jibara’s office at the NeoBeirut Corporation – one of the several corporate cities that have replaced the failed nation states of the Middle East, pushing their inhabitants to non-citizen zones. Dounia does this to placate her powerful aunt Aida, while fearing to alienate her brother Faisal who is a dissident artist. She tries to stir a middle course that keeps her family together, but it backfires when her brother goes missing. INTENTION

We are looking for co-producers and funding for one of the first futurist films from the Arab region, sounding the alarm on its dystopian trajectory, and putting a secular woman at the heart of its fight back. CONTACT INFORMATION

Mona Deeley mona@oliveproductions.co.uk T +44 7816842411

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East of Death

Tommaso Mottola Writer/director • Italy

Educated as an architect, Tommaso Mottola started his film career as assistant to Miloš Forman and Marco Ferreri. In the mid-80’s, he established Spectre Film which produced award-winning documentaries, directed TV series, and wrote several screenplays. His debut feature film is The Floating Island (1992). Tommaso is one of the founders, and for 20 years director of Capalbio International Film Festival, as well as EFA Board Member since 2011. He has recently directed the award-winning film Karenina & I (2017), starring Gørild Mauseth and Liam Neeson.

1874. William, a young British journalist, leaves from London to Sakhalin, the infamous Island of the deportees, to collect the remains of his father, who died in prison. Upon arrival, he is accused of a murder and thrown in jail. His life is not worth a ruble when he is freed by a gang of weird outlaws. At the end of a breathtaking experience of brutality, humor and beauty, William will learn the meaning of compassion, and will become a better man. Inspired by Anton Chekhov’s journey to Sakhalin, this “reversed Western” is populated by exiles, writers, lost bounty killers and billions of mosquitoes. INTENTION

East of Death is an Arctic Western with a touch of the Golden Age of Russian Literature, and it is set in a world never portrayed before. After years of researches, it is currently at the treatment stage with a Norwegian Producer attached. CONTACT INFORMATION

Tommaso Mottola 1tommaso.mottola@gmail.com T +39 3289853150

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I am looking for European/ North-American coproducers to finance the script and the pre-sales packaging.

In a Pool of Ella Caroline Ingvarsson Writer/director • Sweden Caroline Ingvarsson is from Malmö, Sweden. She earned an MA in Broadcast Journalism from City University London, UK, and a Diploma in Screen Studies from Sydney Film School, Australia. Her short Beneath the Spaceship won the After Bergman Script Award in 2014, and premiered at TIFF in 2015. Her latest short We Were Three premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2018 and has been screened on Swedish TV. Ingvarsson is a Berlinale Talents and IDFA Academy alumna.

Olivier Guerpillon Writer • Sweden Olivier Guerpillon is a French-born Swedish filmmaker. He has written and directed several short films and co-written the Swedish feature While We Live (2016) with Dani Kouyaté, which was nominated to the African Movie Academy Award for Best Script 2017. He has produced several Award-winning feature films, such as Broken Hill Blues by Sofia Norlin (Berlinale and Tribeca FF 2014), and Sound of Noise by Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjärne Nilsson (Cannes FF 2010).

CONTACT INFORMATION

Caroline Ingvarsson Olivier Guerpillon caroline.ingvarsson@gmail.com olivier@silverfilms.se T +46 768298229 guerpillon.o@gmail.com T +46 709740097

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Tom is Australian; Ella is Swedish. They met down under and it was love at first sight. Ella feels at home in Australia, but when she gets a unique job opportunity back home, in Sweden, the couple decides to move there temporarily. Tom is eager to try his chances “up north”, while Ella feels more reluctant to move so close to her family. But the reality will be much different, as Ella thrives amongst her friends and relatives, while Tom slowly diminishes in the new country, without a proper job or social network. Tom’s self-esteem plummets as a result of being totally dependent on Ella. INTENTION

We are working on a first draft of the script. The film will be produced in Sweden, and we are currently looking for European and/or Australian co-producers, as well as distributors and sales agent.

In Our Image

David Steiner Writer/director & Producer • France/USA

David Steiner lives between Paris and Los Angeles. He produced Katie Says Goodbye by Wayne Roberts, which premiered at TIFF 2016 and had its theatrical release on April 2018. His shorts were selected at HollyShorts FF, Cinequest FF, Leiden IFF, Miami FF, WorldfestHouston, San Jose ISFF, Richmond IFF, and Minneapolis Saint Paul IFF, among others. His latest screenplay In Our Image is shortlisted for Sundance’s Development Track programme 2019.

Faced with the imminent death of their only son, a divorced neurologist and his ex-wife fight over whether to replicate their son’s brain digitally in a computer, to give him a new type of existence freed from biological limitations. Certain of the righteousness of his cause and hoping to get his ex-wife’s love back, he forces it and triggers fundamental questions about human existence neither society nor religion have faced before. INTENTION

The project has a treatment, several key scenes written, and a 5-minutes proof-ofconcept short screenplay. Investors in my previous feature productions pledged equity pending full financing and cast. I am looking for a producer.

CONTACT INFORMATION

David Steiner steiner@parallellcinema.com T +33 687333247

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Letters to Strangers Valerie Wolf Gang Director • Slovenia Valerie graduated in Directing from University of Nova Gorica and FAMU Prague. Her short films have been screened at various international festivals and received numerous international grants and awards. Her short film Distant Memory (2014) received a Vesna National Film Award for Best Student Film. Currently, Valerie is working on her first feature film together with scriptwriter Ognjen Obradovi and producer Miha Černec (Staragara).

Ognjen Obradovi Scriptwriter • Serbia Ognjen earned a BA and an MA in Dramaturgy from the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade, under the mentorship of professor Srđan Koljevi. In 2013, he wrote his first theatre play Sunday: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, which was staged in Belgrade Drama Theater. Later on, he cooperated with various theater, radio and film productions as a scriptwriter.

The shy 16-year-old Ana starts to work as a cleaning lady in an apartment house in Ljubljana. When the dog of the old tenant disappears, Ana sends him an anonymous letter claiming the dog is alive to cheer him up. Seeing this simple intervention was effective, Ana starts sending letters to other tenants to help them with their problems. Her actions open a Pandora box of lies and secrets in the building. Ana starts enjoying controlling other people’s lives. Realizing that everything has gone too far, Ana tries to stop the avalanche she created, but that is not possible anymore. INTENTION

The script is being developed and we are seeking coproducers who are interested in creating an exciting but complex film that reflects the secrets of human interactions. Young Ana experiences (virtual) reality and it changes her perspective on life. Can she handle the power of manipulation?

CONTACT INFORMATION

Valerie Wolf Gang info@valeriewolfgang.com T +386 51322750

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Ognjen Obradović ognjen.obradovic.ue@gmail.com

Marie

Sidharth Mathawan Writer/director • India

Born in Kashmir, Sidharth studied Architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, India. He has over 10 years of experience in the art department with directors such as Wong Kar-wai, Emmanuel Lubezki, and he is a Berlinale Talents 2010 alumnus. He attended Producers Workshop at Cannes 2017. His latest short À La Carte, set in Paris, is in postproduction. His feature script The Deleted, set in Berlin, was finalist at MFI Script 2 Film Workshop 2017. He works across India and Europe.

Marie, a socially awkward young woman living in Paris, having had enough of perfect parents, friends in love and blissful existence of strangers on social media, decides to end her seemingly miserable life giving herself 48 hours to say goodbye to friends and family and live out her last weekend. After her decision, Marie is led into a journey of self-discovery as she finds how a simple shift in perspective can reveal an entirely new world, when a series of events send her down the rabbit hole again. It is a story of a young woman’s internal mental struggle while the world around her falls apart. INTENTION

The project is in development and in final round for CineMart 2019.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Sidharth Mathawan contact@sidharthmathawan.in T +91 8800526669

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We are looking for European producers, co-producers, post-production partners specially from France, as well as a Chinese co-producer for a main cast and International sales and distribution agents for our Indo-European projects.

No Man’s Land

Arthur Ian Writer/director • Armenia/USA

Arthur Ian was born in the former Soviet Union. In 2006 he directed his first feature documentary, Looking for Romeo, which documents the gruesome world of child-trafficking, prostitution and child abuse in several countries of Western Europe and North America. In 2013 he began working on his first feature film Crossing, which tells the story of a Soviet family lost between its present and past, having survived the end of the Cold War and the Great Recession of 2007-2009.

In the final days of the war in the Caucasus, a truce is established between Armenians and Azeris. Murad and Edward, two soldiers from different sides, turn out to be childhood friends from the same village prior to the war. Murad invites his Armenian friend, Edward, to come to his son’s wedding behind the front line. He leaves his brother with the Armenian soldiers to guarantee Edward’s safe return. At the wedding Edward meets Anna, a girl he loved prior to the war, who is married to Murad. Suddenly, warning shots from both sides escalate into artillery fire as the truce breaks down. As the two parties run to each other, a shell explosion marks the tragic ending. INTENTION

We are looking for co-producers and additional funding for the project. The shooting will take place in Armenia and Georgia and the budget is initially estimated at € 300.000. CONTACT INFORMATION

Arthur Ian arthur.ian.film@gmail.com T +1 2136755050

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Open Sky Ferran Mendoza Soler Writer/director • Spain Ferran Mendoza is a fiction and documentary filmmaker born in Barcelona and based in Brooklyn. His short fiction films have been selected at numerous festivals, such as Valladolid IFF, Florida FF, and Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares, amongst others. On the documentary side, his series Like Art (2017) is currently at streaming at Vice.com. He has developed two documentary series: Bridging US, currently seeking distribution, and Orthodoxy in Alaska, for National PBS. Open Sky will be his first fiction feature film.

Javier Loarte Writer/director • Spain Javier Loarte is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker born in Madrid. After participating in Berlinale Talents, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Columbia University, where he earned an MFA in Film in May 2015. His films have been screened at Telluride FF, Montreal World FF, Zinebi – Bilbao Int. Festival of Documentary and Short Film, Valencia Cinema Jove IFF, Uppsala ISFF, and at several museums of contemporary art, including the Pompidou Centre and Tate Modern, as well as broadcasted on television.

Due to flawed Spanish laws, two families are forced to fight for an apartment: a Spanish working class family, the rightful owners, and a Moroccan immigrant family who rented the house from a shady organization that convinced them it was empty. After an attempt to re-occupy the apartment ends up with the Moroccan daughter in hospital, the feeble ties that kept the families together start to unravel. While both fathers wage war on each other, endangering the people they wanted to protect in the first place, other family members try to find a peaceful solution before it’s too late. INTENTION

We are currently looking for producers and/or co-producers, as well as financing.

Open Sky will be his first fiction feature film.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Ferran Mendoza Soler Javier Loarte ferranmendozasoler@gmail.com thisisjavierloarte@gmail.com T +1 3473667202 T +1 3474861481

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Pearl Tears Lévon Minasian Writer/director • Armenia/France Born in Armenia, Lévon Minasian, nourished by Soviet cinema and Russian literature, wished to make movies from an early age. Being an actor in Armenia, a writer in France, and a stage director in Russia, his determination has never faltered. Beyond the languages and cultures that meet within him, he is driven by a passion for beautiful stories. After some award-winning short films, he directed the high concept feature musical black comedy Bravo Virtuoso (2017), an Armenian-French-Belgian co-production.

Ester Mann Writer • France Doctor in Literature, Ester Mann is a professor, scriptwriter and author. Her books have been published by Reflets d’Ailleurs, Cipango, and L’Harmattan, among others. Her latest novel The Angel’s Thread will be released in Oct 2018 by Vents d’Ailleurs. In collaboration with Lévon Minasian, she is the coauthor of award winning short and feature films, including Moskvitch, My Love (2015), a Franco-Armenian feature by Aram Shabazyan, which won several awards in various international festivals.

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After an ephemeral flirt with a young man passing through town, Mariam discovers she is pregnant. Refusing to believe what is happening to her, she denies her pregnancy to protect herself in this so-called “traditional” but hostile society. INTENTION

The project is at development/financing stage. It is scheduled to be shot in Armenia, and post-produced in Europe. The film is produced by Agat Films & Cie (France) and AnEva (Armenia), and it received financial support from Normandy Region.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Lévon Minasian leomins@yahoo.fr T+33 661997325

The talented 16-year-old musician Mariam lives with her mother and brother in Armenia, which has been hit hard by economic crisis where no future exists for young people. While her mother, stricken with cancer, leaves for Russia to undergo treatment, and her brother is mobilized on the border, where young soldiers lose their lives to enemy fire every day, Mariam remains alone.

Ester Mann esteraude@gmail.com T +33 612354613

We are looking for co-producers, sales agent, distributors, financial partners in Europe and worldwide.

Road to Livramento Giuliana Monteiro Writer/director • Brazil Giuliana started her career working as a producer. After obtaining her MFA in Film Production from the New York University, she has written and directed eight short films and is currently in post-production with her first documentary feature film Bento. Her films have been screened and awarded at film festivals such as Berlinale, Havana FF, Slamdance IFF, Chicago IFF, and San Sebastían IFF, among others. Giuliana has co-founded and is currently working at Elefanti Films.

Beatriz Monteiro Scriptwriter & Producer • Brazil Beatriz’s latest work includes the documentary films The Prologue by Gabriel Marinho (2013) and Yoani Travels by Raphael Bottino & Peppe Siffredi (2015). She wrote and developed original series for channels like National Geographic, Discovery, A&E, History, Vice and HBO. The projects she recently produced were selected at Berlinale Co-Production Market, San Sebastían Co-Production Forum and Cannes Producers Network. Beatriz Monteiro has co-founded Elefanti Films with Giuliana.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Giuliana Monteiro elefanti.films@gmail.com T +55 11974252525

Beatriz Monteiro elefanti.films@gmail.com T +55 1130792308

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In a collapsed Brazil, two brothers meet after ten years. João (45), a forsaken truck driver, returns home and stumbles into an ecological disaster. The dam of a mining company crumbled, burying his family house. Learning about the tragedy through the news, Martin (35), a deadbeat man, decides to return driven by his own interests. In order to get compensated for their loss, Martin and João need the signature of their younger brother Lucas (30) who, from what they know, is living in the deep South of the Country. Martin convinces João to go on a journey in search of Lucas, causing their paths to cross one more time. INTENTION

The project is in late development and financing stage. We are looking for a South American co-producer – since 25% of the film will be shot in Uruguay – and an European co-producer. We are also looking for a sales agent to bring the film to the attention of international audiences and markets.

Star Kristian Sejrbo Lidegaard Writer/director • Denmark Born in 1989, Kristian graduated from the independent film school Super16 in 2016 as a director. Additionally he earned a BA in History with electives in Philosophy and Literature, and he spent a semester in Paris. He has written and directed five short films including Emmafilmemma, which won the Daniel Award at Castellinaria 2014, and Sombra, which received a Special Mention at Angers European First FF 2016. His debut feature Songs in the Sun premiered at Slamdance FF 2017 and was awarded Best Feature Narrative Film at Amsterdam IFF 2018.

Maria Møller Kjeldgaard Producer • Denmark Born in 1989, Maria graduated from Super16 in 2016 as a producer. Additionally she earned a Master in Film Studies and spent a semester in London. In 2013 Maria established her production company, Manna Film. Maria also works as a line-producer, and she has been a part of Young Nordic Producers Club, ACE Producers Training Days and MAIA Workshops. She worked with Kristian on their first feature film Songs in the Sun.

Star is a Faustian tale in a minimalistic thriller; a combination of poetic relation-based scenes and heavy beats, of Antonioaesthetics and eclectic internet imagery. The film takes place in a hotel where Star/Daisy tries to regain strength after turning silent on stage at a massive stadium concert. Her life is hard work and excessive loneliness. Endless days with her entourage in over-the-top decor. Daisy is lonely and invites a writer to the hotel. But a dark energy visits her at night and as Daisy reaches new personal heights, her dreams turn into a nightmare. INTENTION

Star is in early development. We will have a first draft at the end of 2018 and we will apply for TFL ScriptLab. The budget is €1.200.000. Star will have an international cast and it will be in English, Danish and French. We are looking for French and European co-producers, sales agents and distributors.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Kristian Sejrbo Lidegaard kristiansejrbo@gmail.com T +45 30369995

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Maria Møller Kjeldgaard mmkjeldgaard@gmail.com T +45 61462682

Stoning the Jasmine

Zaina Deeb Scriptwriter • Jordan

Born and raised in Amman, Zaina Deeb earned a BA in English Literature from Jordan University, plus a 10-year experience in web design and management. A self-taught screenwriter, her yearning to tell-atale is inspired by the amount of untold stories in the Middle East: a place that is richly controversial yet indulgingly harmonious. In 2017, Zaina reawakened her passion for writing with Stoning the Jasmine. Since then, she has attended several workshops including Rawi Screenwriters Lab and ScreenBuzz.

In the midst of the Syrian war, Sa’ad, a Jordanian fighter pilot crashes over an ISIS controlled zone. Considered an infidel, he is interrogated, tortured and sentenced to death. Awaiting execution, Sa’ad finds hope in the kindness of Reda, a young boy who is forced to work in ISIS prisons. An unexpected turn-of-events presents a miraculous escape opportunity, where he ends up in the house of an old man and his granddaughter Hind, with whom he kindles a unique connection. Longing to go back home, Sa’ad embarks on a quite dangerous journey, one that forces him to face a very harsh reality. INTENTION

Stoning the Jasmine is at an early development stage.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Zaina Deeb zainadeeb82@gmail.com T +962 777429822

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With producer René Bastian of Belladonna NY, and Jordanian co-producer Cindy Le Templier on board, we are looking for co-producers, funding, partners, and people to join our amazing team to bring this beautiful story to the screens.

The 7th Day

Julie Benegmos Writer/director • France

Julie Benegmos studied Architecture in Paris. She directed her first documentary short film during her exchange study at the Academy of Arts in Jerusalem. After her studies, she went to India and met a set designer for movies who employed her on a project. In 2010 her first short feature film Anaïs was selected at Paris Court Devant Festival 2015 and bought by TV5 World. The script of her debut feature film The 7th Day was selected at Le Groupe Ouest and The Gan Fondation in 2017.

In a neighborhood of immigrants on a hill of Jerusalem, the old Haïm died and left his small community of outsiders. Together, the inhabitants will have to fight against the government to keep their homes. Slowly overwhelmed by doubts, fears and racism they will finally lose their land. INTENTION

The 7th Day is a black comedy full of colours at the stage of treatment. I am looking for French and Israeli producers to get involved in the project. I am not excluding any other international production to co-produce the film.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Julie Benegmos julie.benegmos@gmail.com T +33 662840478

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The Foreign Agent An all-nighter neo-noir psychological thriller.

Don Barak Writer/director • Israel

Don Barak holds a BFA from TAU Tisch Film School. He has produced, directed and written several short films, including Elevation (2013), which he produced and was theatrically released & TV broadcasted in Israel. Don held management and consulting roles in various editions of Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, and also worked as a film critic. In 2015, he edited The Short Screenplay Book (TAU), and he is now writing a book on storytelling and a short-story collection. He has worked in production and consulting roles on Israeli TV & film productions. He also works as a script doctor and is developing a TV series.

Terrorist attacks hit France. Ethan (33) – a former Israeli interrogator hiding in Paris under fatwa – is recruited by the DGSI to foil the imminent attack, and in return get his fatwa in revoked. But as he finds strange things about their mysterious suspect, he becomes more and more entangled in a web of intrigue and personal demons. When the doors close on him, suddenly becoming a suspect, he must flee the city. But with threats from all sides and every corner, and he stands alone before the nightmarish city maze. Will he even survive the night? INTENTION

We have an interest from an American production company, and we are looking for producers and financing.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Don Barak donbarprod@gmail.com +972 548146683

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The Invisible

Jan Van Dyck Writer/director • Belgium

Jan directed the short films Until It Hits You (2013) and Homeful Bliss (2015), and he is now developing The Nipple Whisperer, a short dark fairytale about overcoming grief and loosing fear, and N’Oubliez Jamais, a documentary series about 6 charismatic 70-year-old women. He is also co-writing Kawasaki, a feature film directed by Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah, and The Expectation, a feature film by Noud Heerkens, about an all-consuming love.

When Sara, a single mum in her early 40’s, learns that her son Micky was hit by a car and instantly died, her world collapses. Meanwhile, she cannot cry and the severe eczema from which she suffered slowly goes away. This troubles her severely. She reaches out to Théo, her son’s 30-year-old boyfriend. He reveals that Micky led a secret life. Sara discovers she did not know her son at all and that she does not know how to love properly. The year after Micky’s dead is a year in which Sara transforms from a mother into the woman she did not allow herself to be, and she will be able to mourn. INTENTION

This film about learning to mourn and to love is produced by Nino Lombardo (Prime Time) and received development support from the Flemish Audiovisual Fund.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Jan Van Dyck janvan.dyck@skynet.be T +32 496890498

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Part of the story (a summer holiday) will be set in France. So we are currently looking for European co-producers and distributors.

Three Weeks Under the Sea

Martin Kuba Writer/director • Czech Republic

Martin Kuba studies Film Direction at FAMU Prague, developing his debut feature film Three Weeks Under the Sea there. His professional experience include assistant for HBO original series Wasteland (2016) and intern dramaturgy at Black Camel Pictures, Glasgow. His recent short films The Celebration, The Lion, the Antelope and the Beautiful Blonde, and Kill Me If I Fall Asleep have been screened internationally, including at Warsaw IFF 2015 and Montreal World FF 2016.

Misha (24) returns to the border town for his father’s funeral, only to find out that it is all been faked. He starts drowning in his Russian father’s past, lured into small-town crimes by his old friends from local Russian mafia, but also falls for two very different girls. Too late he discovers he is here to play a vital role in events much bigger than he can carry, when he finally traces down the shadow of his father, presumed military attaché at the withdrawal of Red army from Czechoslovakia. Misha may, however, not be able to resurface anymore, burdened by past crimes, now even of his own. INTENTION

A gangster film story of Three Weeks Under the Sea brings together surreal imagery, intimate themes and the troubled history of the region, lightened up by comedic lens.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Martin Kuba mart.kuba@gmail.com T +420 776198998

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Produced by Moloko Film, Prague, the project is in the late stage of development, and we are now looking for international co-production partners.

Woman Without a Past

Arman T. Riahi Writer/director • Austria

Arman T. Riahi was born in Iran and grew up in Vienna. His first documentary Schwarzkopf premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival 2011. His second documentary and cross-media project Everyday Rebellion, co-directed with his brother Arash, was Austria’s most successful film at festivals in 2014, and his latest documentary Kinders won the Special Jury Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival 2017. His first feature film, the black comedy The Migrumpies (2017), was among the three most successful Austrian films at the box office.

When Maryam wakes up in a hospital, she has no memory of her past. Soon she is confronted with a husband she does not love, children she cannot remember, and a very religious and unfamiliar life inside the Muslim community of a central European city. While trying to be the proper Muslim woman everybody expects her to be, Maryam meets the inspiring and outgoing Elsa, who has left her abusive husband. And as Maryam’s memory returns little by little, she understands there is someone in her life she has to be afraid of: her former self. In the end, Maryam has to decide between liberating herself or liberating her family. INTENTION

Woman Without a Past is a social drama with a whodunnit twist; a suspenseful examination of identity, character and social peer-group pressure.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Arman T. Riahi armanriahi@me.com T +43 69912291026

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Renowned Austrian production company Golden Girls Film is producing, but we are looking for an European co-production and looking for world sales.

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Don’t Gaze Long Into the Abyss Mohammadreza Farzad Writer/director • Iran Born in 1978, Mohammadreza Farzad graduated from Teheran University of Fine Art in Theatre Studies. His first two short films Into Thin Air and Blames & Flames premiered in Forum Expanded at Berlinale 2011 and 2012 respectively. He also co-wrote the short Revolutionary Memories of Bahman Who Loved Leila by Farahnaz Sharifi (2013). His third short The Forget-Me-Not Egg premiered at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2013 and won the Sepanta Award for Best Short Documentary at the Iranian Film Festival 2013. His latest film Wedding: A Film premiered at DOK Leipzig 2015.

Don’t Gaze Long Into the Abyss is an incredible tale, yet based on a true story, about Jiří Polák, a forgotten Czech documentary filmmaker and painter. The story is set at Hormoz, a primitive remote island at the Persian Gulf, during Polák’s self-exiled stay in 1971-1978. A genius caught between two historical limbos – Prague Spring in 1968 and Islamic Revolution in 1978. A sultry visual essay stumbling between fiction and documentary. A meditative long gaze into the abyss of love, freedom, faith and destiny.

Karel Poupě Producer • Czech Republic Karel’s main interest is in cross-media projects and feature documentary films. He has developed and produced the feature film Touch Me Not by Adina Pintilie (2018) and the documentary film When the War Comes by Jan Gebert (2018), as well as several multimedia exhibitions such as Memory of Nations, which focuses on periods and events that had shaped the modern history of the Czech nation forming its memory.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Mohammadreza Farzad farzadoc@gmail.com T +98 9366435650

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Karel Poupě karel@bypink.cz T +42 0734762866

INTENTION

We are looking for coproducers, especially from France (part of the film is set in France as the second main character is of French origin), as well as post-production support. We would like to talk to sales agents, distributors and TV commissioning editors.

Love Lowercase Willy Biondani Director • Brazil Willy Biondani started his career as a still photographer. He spent 6 years living in Paris where he started working as a film director. He directed the short films Nocaute (1993) and White Nights on a Saturday of Glory (2000), as well as an award-winning adaptation of Brazilian João Guimarães Rosa’s classic novel Grande Sertão: Veredas (2008). Since 2005, he is a partner and director at Bossa Nova Films. Overman (2018) is his debut feature film.

Denise Gomes Producer • Brazil Denise is a partner and manager of Bossa Nova Films. Her credits include the feature films Violeta Parra Went to Heaven by Andrés Wood (Dramatic World Cinema Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival 2012), Absence by Chico Teixeira (Berlinale Panorama 2015) and A Sort of Family by Diego Lerman (Jury Prize for Best Screenplay at San Sebastián 2017).

Samuel is an almost 40-yearold German literature professor who lives alone in an apartment. He is a man who has great difficulty in socializing but also has a great fear of dying alone. Samuel’s life begins to undergo a revolution the day he wakes up with a small cat in his bed. Committing to get rid of the little intruder, he is obligated to relate to a cycle of people and things that will lead him to encounter love and regain the meaning of his life. INTENTION

The project is in the development stage, and we are seeking co-producers in other territories.

Denise also produced series and documentaries for TV broadcasters such as GNT/TV Globo, HBO, Discovery Channel, Fox and National Geographic.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Willy Biondani Denise Gomes willy@bossanovafilms.com.br denise@bossanovafilms.com.br T +55 1138112000 T +55 1138112000

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Rotten Apples Tom Haines Writer/director • United Kingdom Tom has won acclaim for his narrative music videos and documentary works for BBC, Channel 4 and Tate. His evocative storytelling has led him to work with brands such as Google and Expedia. Tom is passionate about storytelling, creating worlds and characters through writing and directing dramatic films, including the coming of age short Night of the Foxes (IFFR 2013, BFI London Film Festival 2013), and more recently The Mission, which premiered at LA Shorts Fest 2018.

Anna Griffin

An idyllic summer at a wealthy Kent apple farm is brutally interrupted by a murdersuicide. The teenage boy Neil and his single mother Jenny are starting over, working for the farming family who live next to the tragedy. Neil is trying to reform his delinquent ways and he finds a father figure in Miles, the patriarchal farmer. And when Miles takes Neil under his wing, we realize how his life, and that of his family, is intertwined with the victims, exposing blame, infidelity, crop failure and potential danger.

Producer • United Kingdom Anna is an indie producer working in documentary and fiction with Wellington Films and Griffin Pictures. Her credits include the debut feature documentary Paa Joe & The Lion (2016) by Benjamin Wigley, Hope Dickson Leach’s critically acclaimed The Levelling (2016) and, most recently, Matt Palmer’s Netflix thriller Calibre (2018). In 2017 Anna set up her own company, Griffin Pictures, and she is currently developing The Tunnel by BAFTA nominated Arash Ashtiani. Anna is one of 2018 Screen’s Stars of Tomorrow.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Tom Haines info@tom-haines.com T +44 7591908674

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Anna Griffin anna@wellingtonfilms.co.uk T +44 7979807316

INTENTION

Rotten Apples is currently at treatment stage, and we are looking for development support to take the project to script and begin to start packaging ready for market. We very much welcome the input from other producers and we are very open to exploring the possibility of a co-production.

Son of the Ashes Dado Amaral Writer/director • Brazil Dado Amaral was born in Rio de Janeiro where he followed his studies in Journalism, Literature and Theatre. He began his professional career working as an actor in theatre and TV. He has now written and directed eight short films, among them two documentaries about the Prophet Gentileza, a well-known character in Brazil, whose story has inspired the screenplay of Son of the Ashes.

Brazil, 1963. At a small village, a circus burns down killing 120 people. A truck driver, deeply touched by this tragedy, has a divine revelation entrusting him a mission: to rebuild the world starting with the ruins of the circus. He then leaves his wife, his children and his work to dedicate four years of his life to planting there the “Bird’s Heavenly Garden”.

Bruno Bettati Producer • Chile Bruno is the General Manager of Jirafa Films, a production company set in Valdivia with 16 feature films premiered internationally. Bruno is also a distributor of Chilean films on the domestic market since 2011. For 10 years he has lectured for audiovisual producers from all around Chile and Latin America at workshops held in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia, France, Switzerland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Germany. He is also a consultant on creative economy, public television, cinema and media.

INTENTION

This is the first feature film of the director targeting at the international market. We are strengthening the characters, structure and dialogues of the first script draft. We are also consolidating the Chile-Brazil co-production relation, and exploring other co-producers.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Dado Amaral gentileza@gmail.com T +33 658351150

Izabella Faya izabellafaya@gmail.com T +55 21993246847

Bruno Bettati bruno@jirafa.cl T +56 998211708 TFL EXTENDED – CREATIVE PRODUCTION • NOVEMBER 2018

The Deleted Sidharth Mathawan Writer/director • India Born in Kashmir, Sidharth studied Architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, India. He has over 10 years of experience in the art department with directors such as Wong Kar-wai and Emmanuel Lubezki. He is a Berlinale Talents 2010 alumnus and attended the Producers Workshop at the Cannes Film Market 2017. His latest short À La Carte, set in Paris, is in post-production, and his feature script The Deleted, set in Berlin, was finalist at the MFI Script 2 Film Workshop 2017. He works across India and Europe.

Gagan Mathawan Producer • India Gagan Mathawan is an entrepreneur, involved in creating businesses throughout the Asia Pacific region for 25 years. He founded Electric Monk Motion Pictures in 2017 and attended the Producers Workshop at the Cannes Film Market 2017 with a slate of projects in development. Since then, he has produced Sidharth’s short films The Desire For Desires (Chicago South Asian Film Festival Competition 2018) and À La Carte.

Konrad’s only respite comes from his bohemian neighbor, Lotte, whom he secretly fantasies. His constant paranoia causes him to lose his job, his friends and drives away his daughter. With no sleep and a neverending struggle to unravel the mystery, he ends on a downward spiral with evidences that incriminate himself. He must confront his past or risk losing his sanity and his estranged daughter. INTENTION

Gagan is a member of the Indian Motion Picture Producers’ Association (IMPAA).

The project is in development. We are looking for European producers, co-producers, post-production partners especially from Germany.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Furthermore, we are interested in meeting international sales and distribution agents for our Indo-European projects.

Sidharth Mathawan Gagan Mathawan contact@sidharthmathawan.in gagan@electricmonkfilms.com T +91 8800526669 T +91 9818286731

2018, Berlin. A visit to a former GDR prison triggers a series of hallucinations for Konrad, a recluse, leading to a murky world of lies and conspiracies of the notorious Stasi, the East German secret police.

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The Penultimate Jonas Kærup Hjort Writer/director • Denmark Jonas Kærup Hjort is a Danish film director based in Copenhagen. He has a background as a theatre director and graduated from the National Film School of Denmark. His graduation short film In a Month won the Talent Award at the Odense International Film Festival 2017. Jonas is now developing his first feature film The Penultimate with development funding from the Danish Film Institute.

Rikke Tambo Andersen Producer • Denmark Rikke Tambo Andersen is a producer from Copenhagen, who has been working in the industry for more than 10 years. She works with both fiction and documentary and has produced several feature documentaries and short films, including the NORDIC:DOX Award 2018 winner Lykkelænder by Lasse Lau. Rikke was selected for Euro Connection in 2015 and for Emerging Producers at Jihlava International Documentary FF in 2017. Since 2018 she is a member of EAVE.

One fatal day, The Water Inspector enters a building in a desolated area. Soon he finds himself trapped inside facing an “Alice in Wonderland”-like maze of obstacles, set in motion by The Angel, who is on a quest to decide whether or not to become human. Pushed around and tested, The Water Inspector loses track of himself and his humanity. The Angel loses faith in him after he commits murder and banishes him to the basement. As The Water Inspector is locked away, we see that this is not the first time The Angel lost faith. In the darkness of the basement, a sea of water inspectors are confined. INTENTION

The Penultimate is in late development. We hope to go into production in the Summer of 2019 and complete the film in January 2020. We are seeking co-producers, sales agents, funding, broadcasters and festival representatives.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Jonas Kærup Hjort jonashjort@hotmail.com T +45 61651604

Rikke Tambo Andersen rikke@tambofilm.dk T +45 40373031

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The Quest Natasha Markou Writer/director • United Kingdom Natasha combines writing, directing and producing in her skillset and has a global outlook to film and media. This explains her international activities and the completion of two feature films in 2018, as an Executive and Associate Producer: Killbird, in a cross-border collaboration with Canadian partners; and Crystal Swan, a Belarusian, USA and UK co-production which is preparing for its Oscar nomination screening in the Foreign Film category. Natasha is working on her next film, a cross-border collaboration between the UK, USA and Greece.

JoAnn Hess Scriptwriter • USA JoAnn Hess is a multi-award winning, optioned and hired scriptwriter who has written several scripts in Crime Drama, Thriller and Action/Thriller genres. JoAnn’s scripts were finalist at the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, 2nd Rounder of the Austin FF, and 3rd Place of the London Film Awards, among others. Her credits include Framer and The Devil’s Dandruff by Peter Field (World War Z, Edge of Tomorrow), both in preproduction, and Fakers, directed by Tom Delmar (Snatch).

CONTACT INFORMATION

Natasha Markou natmarkou@gmail.com T +44 7415872531

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JoAnn Hess joannhess5@gmail.com T +1 3306870208

Daria, a woman with a hidden past, is taken in by her sister Clara, who suddenly goes missing. Daria is accused of murder when blood is found on her clothing. She struggles to find her sister, against the relentless dark visions that come with a warning – “they are coming to get you”. Daria discovers the truth surrounding Clara’s disappearance as well as her mother’s intentions. She rushes to her childhood home, where everything began. Surrounded by police, Daria knows there is only one way she can unravel the mystery of her origins and discover who she really is. To live, she must first die… INTENTION

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

You Can’t Stop the Sea Rowland E. Jobson Writer/director • United Kingdom Rowland has a background in advertising, documentary, and films for cinema. He has worked for major brands and broadcasters including Samsung, Sony PlayStation, Mazda, Channel 4, ZDF and ITV. His works received one D&AD Award and two IVCA Clarion Awards, and his short film GirlLikeMe premiered at Venice Film Festival 2009, going on to win four international awards. Rowland developed his first feature film Into the Light with the inaugural Biennale College – Cinema in 2012.

Tansi Inayat Producer • United Kingdom Tansi has an established record in both UK and international productions with over 20 years’ experience spanning documentary, drama and across all broadcast media platforms. Having worked as a director and producer, her skills range across editorial and production. She recently produced a short VR film and a feature-length fiction film for theatrical release. Tansi is currently collaborating with writer/directors with several feature scripts in development.

A troubled homeless illegal immigrant boy, surviving on the streets of the Côte d’Azur, finds solace and safety when taken in by Celine, a young French/English female photographer. Forsaking her boho lover she adopts him. Ten years on, the boy and his adoptive mother have become lovers as he struggles to find himself and his identity. Celine’s ex-lover re-enters their lives, and discovered their tryst. He exacts revenge by promising to catapult the boy to fame, on the condition that he abandons Celine. INTENTION

The project is currently in development seeking funding, national and international co-producers. We would also like to meet sales agents to discuss the possibilities of potential markets for this unique film.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Rowland E. Jobson rowland@seefood.tv T +44 7970344132

Tansi Inayat tansi@musemedialtd.com T +44 7971883038

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