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PROJECTS & PRODUCERS
CLERMONT-FERRAND2020
12
Tuesday Wednesday European 42th 35th
5th February 6th February short film Short Short
9h30 > 15h30 10h > 17h co-production Film film
Hotel Holiday Inn Short film market forum Festival market
EDITO
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es films Euro Connection vont aujourd’hui de uro Connection films now line up success stories
succès en succès dans les festivals du monde in festivals the world over. The Clermont-Ferrand
entier. Le forum de coproduction clermontois Short Film Market coproduction forum also
génère également d’importantes retombées generates major side effects. For instance, latest
indirectes. A titre d’exemple, La distance entre Palme d’Or winner The Distance Between
le ciel et nous, de Vasilis Kekatos, dernière Palme d’or Us and the Sky, by Vasilis Kekatos, was produced by a
du court métrage, est due à un remarquable tandem remarkable team of producers who matched at an earlier
de productrices qui se sont rencontrées précédemment edition of Euro Connection. Let’s hope this year’s vivid
à Euro Connection. Souhaitons des succès comparables edition will bring about similar future achievements for
aux projets et producteurs de cette douzième édition, participating projects and producers.
porteuse d’un souffle nouveau. We are proud that the call for projects 2020 was extended
Nous sommes fiers d’avoir pu étendre to 32 countries, with the inclusion of North
à 32 pays à l’appel à projets 2020, Macedonia and the Republic of Serbia
avec l’association cette année this year. Our most efficient network of
de la Macédoine du Nord et correspondents has helped identifying
Une plus grande de la République de Serbie. high quality projects from all over Europe.
Notre formidable réseau de
A wider
2020 also marks an important step for
ouverture correspondants a ainsi pu faire Euro Connection with the extension to outreach
remonter des projets de très international projects. In partnership with
haute qualité depuis l’ensemble the Institut Français, we are pleased to
de l’espace européen. launch “La Petite Fabrique”, a first showcase
2020 marque aussi une nouvelle of 5 international projects (outside the E.U.)
étape avec l’extension de Euro Connection that will bring their energy and specificity to Euro
à l’international. En partenariat avec l’Institut Français, Connection. The objective of completing these short films
nous avons le plaisir d’inaugurer “La Petite Fabrique”, is often attached to a feature in development.
premier volet de 5 projets internationaux (hors UE) qui Efforts are made to preserve the warm, professional
viendront enrichir Euro Connection. Avec en ligne de atmosphere of Euro Connection. The team of experts
mire la réalisation de courts métrages et bien souvent conducting the pitch training workshops is welcoming
le développement de futurs longs métrages. Laure Desmazieres and Michaela Sabo, in addition to
Tout est mis en œuvre pour préserver l’ambiance Wim Vanacker. The pitching sessions and producers
professionnelle et conviviale de ces rencontres. focus are hosted in a new venue, at Hotel Oceania. The
L’équipe d’experts qui encadre les ateliers de CNC short film team and the Institut Français film team
préparation aux pitchs s’étoffe avec Laure Desmazieres bring additional expertise and further opportunities of
et Michaela Sabo, aux côtés de Wim Vanacker. Un collaboration for French, European and international
nouveau lieu accueille les sessions de pitchs et les producers. All this combines to make the 12th edition of
focus producteurs, à l’Hotel Oceania. Des modules this already established event even more exciting.
complémentaires imaginés avec le CNC et l’équipe
cinéma de l’Institut Français viennent ouvrir encore le
potentiel de collaborations entre producteurs français,
européens et internationaux. Autant d’éléments qui
promettent de rendre ce rendez-vous bien implanté
toujours un peu plus exaltant.
LAURENT CROUZEIX.
Sauve qui peut le court métrage
CLERMONT-FERRAND SHORT FILM MARKET
2020 2
CONTENT PITCHED PROJECTS SESSION 1. Jacob Thomas RECLAIM - Taratoa Stappard Ngauruhoe Film - UNITED KINGDOM 4 Lelde Prūse THE DEER - Kristīne Vītola Woodpecker Pictures - LATVIA 5 Andrea Rapallini AGNUS DEI - Giuseppe Isoni Black Oaks Pictures - ITALY 6 Tina Tišljar 1001 NIGHTS - Rea Rajčič Eclectica - CROATIA 7 Thomas Micoulet BIR’EM - Camille Clavel-Bamberger Haut les mains Productions - FRANCE 8 SESSION 2. Konstantinos Baliotis FALL CHRISTMAS - Kostas Bakouris 2 Dimensions To Render - GREECE 9 Anna Marina Skouros FIRST NIGHT - Darshika Karunahara Meta Film - DENMARK 10 Gabriela Suciu APPALACHIA - Roxana Stroe Atelier de Film - ROMANIA 11 Hélène Mitjavile SCALE - Joseph Pierce Melocoton Films - FRANCE 12 Irina Rubina OSJA - Irina Rubina GERMANY 13 SESSION 3. Turid Rogne THE PERPETUAL TAPESTRY - Simone Hooymans Aldeles AS - NORWAY 14 Tünde Vollenbroek BURNOUT DIARY - Dario van Vree Studio Pupil - THE NETHERLANDS 15 Gorana Jovanović NO ELEPHANTS HERE - Gorana Jovanović Servia Film - SERBIA 16 Anna Di Toma ASTRONAUT TO UFO - Debora Vrizzi Agherose - ITALY 17 SESSION 4 - INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS “LA PETITE FABRIQUE” Lorine Plagnol GHOSTIN’ - Baloji Sungazer – UNITED-KINGDOM 18 J. Cardoza Herrera PALOQUEMAO - Jeferson Cardoza Herrera La Banda del sur Films - COLOMBIA 19 Nicolas Khabbaz DON’T WORRY, I’M NOT OKAY - Manon Nammour K - LEBANON 20 Chapin Hall AUANA - Alika Maikau Banana Blossom Films - HAWAII 21 Saeed Thomas BLACK GIRL IN THE RING - Joshua Paul M-One Productions - JAMAICA 22 PRODUCERS FOCUS Producers invited in collaboration with our European correspondents and partner film & media organizations: Pavlina Jeleva Geopoly Film EOOD BULGARIA 23 Yiannis Christoforou Decoy Images CYPRUS 24 Jana Brozkova Vernes CZECH REPUBLIC 25 Emmanuel-Alain Raynal MIYU Productions FRANCE 26 Nérimen Hadrami HIRVI FRANCE 27 Tinna Proppé Reykjavik Rocket ICELAND 28 Agnė Adomėnė Art Shot LITHUANIA 29 Dimitar Dimoski Focus Pocus Films NORTH MACEDONIA 30 Robert Sowa Krakow Film Klaster POLAND 31 Peter Badač BFilm SLOVAKIA 32 EVENT SCHEDULE 33 ACCESS MAP 34 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 35/36
RECLAIM UNITED
Taratoa Stappard KINGDOM
1919. England. When two young female, Māori performers provide after-dinner entertainment at a private party,
they are confronted by an ancestral spirit who guides them to reclaiming stolen taonga tapu (sacred objects) and to
wreaking bloody revenge.
PRODUCER. DIRECTOR. COMPANY.
Jacob Thomas is a London based Taratoa Stappard was born in Ngauruhoe Film is a London-based
producer from New Zealand. His Aotearoa, New Zealand. His father was production company, established in
short films have won numerous English and his mother is Māori. He is 2015 by producer Jacob Thomas.
prizes including HotDocs, Galway, writing his first feature, Marama that Ngauruhoe is the name of a volcanoe
Raindance and a Student Academy received early development funding in New Zealand and in te reo Māori
Award nomination. Since graduating from BFI NETWORK and he was recently means ‘throwing hot rocks’ which
from the National Film and Television selected for the ‘imagineNATIVE’ is what Ngauruhoe Film aims to
School with an MA in Producing Indigenous Screenwriting Intensive, do with visionary and emotionally
he has produced two features a year long program, supported by powerful films. Ngauruhoe Film’s
and numerous short films. Making Netflix. He has made six short films, first feature film Perfect 10 (84’),
Noise Quietly (2019, 95’), Dominic which have screened in festivals written and directed by Eva Riley,
Dromgoole’s debut feature, produced including, Edinburgh, BFI London, premiered at the London Film
with Alexandra Breede through Open Angers, Berlin and Busan, as well as Festival in 2019. Ngauruhoe Film is
Palm Films, was released in 2019 in the being acquired for broadcast by BBC2, developing a diverse range of films
UK. Perfect 10, written and directed BBC3, Film4 and Canal+. In his work as with a strong emotional punch.
by Eva Riley, co-produced with The a freelance filmmaker with public and
Bureau, and financed by the British charity sector clients, he has directed
Film Institute, BBC Films and Creative in locations including, Pakistan,
England premiered at the London India, Uganda, Eswatini (Swaziland),
Film Festival 2019. Zimbabwe and Siberia. Taratoa lives
in London and speaks German and
French.
Fiction – 2K Digital – 20’ Jacob Thomas
SHOOTING DATES jacob.f.thomas@gmail.com
TBC +44 7585 868 048
ESTIMATED TOTAL BUDGET
56,000€
SECURED FINANCING
* Including 149 900 € granted by the Slovak Audiovisual
1,700€ (3%)* Fund, the Polish Film Institute and the Bratislava Self-Go-
*verning
GrantedRegion
by the Māoriland Film Festival / NZFC
2020 4
2019 WINNER
THE DEER LATVIA
Kristīne Vītola
The Deer captures two days in the life of Hans, a 19-year-old youngster living with his family in a small town without
any clear vision of what to do in the future. Hans’ parents are annoyed by this lack of action and by his refusal to grow
up the way they would prefer. In a way, on an unconscious level, he feels more connected to the older generation –
the 80-year-old Grandma and the Old Man, whom he meets in an apple orchard where he’s picking apples to earn
some money. During a conversation with the Old Man near the orchard, he sees a deer. After a concert in a nightclub
Hans falls asleep in a backstage room and has a dream where he returns to the apple orchard to meet and to become
closer to the deer seen the day before.
PRODUCER. DIRECTOR. COMPANY.
Lelde Prūse studied Cultural Kristīne Vītola was educated Woodpecker Pictures is young
Management and Sociology. As a film as a scenographer and theater Latvian production company, which
producer, she is among the founders director. Initially, since 2002, she was has produced a range of short and TV
of the new, up-and-coming film successfully working as a stage and documentaries, as well as short fiction
production company Woodpecker costume designer for theater and and has currently just released their
Pictures. As a freelance producer, cinema productions. Since then she first fiction feature film.
Lelde has collaborated with other has been active as a director, writer,
local film companies, worked with set and costume designer of her
documentary theater, and produces productions, lately mainly focusing
the Conversation festival LAMPA - on scriptwriting, and film directing
one of the biggest festivals in Latvia - now working on her fiction short
(more than 20,000 attendees at the film Meeting Again. Kristine Vitola’s
2019 edition of the festival). She was main artistic belief is that “the logical
part of Emerging Producers 2019 perception of reality can be extremely
programme by Ji.hlava IDFF. flexible and therefore eternally
interesting, though sticking close to
the principle less is more is also very,
very important!”
Fiction – 15’ – HD Lelde Prūse
SHOOTING DATES: lelde@woodpeckerpictures.lv
September 2020 lelde.pruse@fondsdots.lv
ESTIMATED TOTAL BUDGET: +371 26466509
40,000€
* Including 149 900 € granted by the Slovak Audiovisual
Fund, the Polish Film Institute and the Bratislava Self-Go-
verning Region
2020 5
AGNUS DEI ITALY
Giuseppe Isoni
STE (13) lives in a village where he gets bullied by everyone else, up to the last bullying episode when the world
witnesses an astonishing miracle: his tears of blood. That terrifying unwordly mask starts to go viral on the Internet.
Suddenly the boy who everybody mocked has to decide how to act with those who humiliated him in the past.
PRODUCER. DIRECTOR. COMPANY.
Andrea Rapallini (b.1984 in Voghera) Giuseppe Isoni (Milan, 1985) is Expertise, creativity and original
graduated from the Faculty of Art, certified at the Italian School of solutions; these are the tools Black
Music and Cinema in Genoa in 2008. Comics (Scuola Nazione del Fumetto). Oaks Pictures provides on Italian
After a period in London where he In 2011, he published his first novel territory. Proficiency and flexibility
worked on the movie Inkheart (2008, Red Hyding Hood (Bevivino Editore). allow its staff to adapt to any situation
106’), he moved to Florence to work He wrote the screenplay for the in order to bring the best solution for
on film and TV sets. From 2014, he’s short film Remember (2014, 9’, dir. by the different demands of a dynamic
worked as production assistant Federico Zampaglione, finalist for the market. Thanks to its technical
on big productions, such as Tale of Nastri d’Argentro); Magic Alps (2018, equipment and collaborators team,
Tales, Dan Brown’s Inferno and Six 14’, finalists for the David il Donatello, the company can cover the entire
Underground. In 2016 was production selected at Clermont-Ferrand 2018, process of an audiovisual project,
manager on the movie Uma. Since awarded at Aspen Shortfest 2018); from pre-production and filming to
2017 he’s been production manager U Muschittieri (2018, 19’, dir. Vito post production, offering a complete
for the ad company Diaframma. Palumbo). In 2019, he will publish his service to all those authors who may
In parallel, he’s the co-founder first graphic novel Siegrune (Edizioni need support to make their projects
of Black Oaks Pictures through BD). come to life. Since its creation, Black
which he has produced short Oaks Pictures has produced a
films, documentaries, music videos dozen short films and international
and web series since 2013. documentaries.
Fiction – 6K 16:9 – 16’ Andrea Rapallini
SHOOTING DATES: blackoakspictures@gmail.com
Summer 2020 +39 3887658954
ESTIMATED TOTAL BUDGET:
75,000€
SECURED FINANCING:
5,000€ (7%)*
* Granted by the Festival Delle Scoperte
2020 6
1001 NIGHTS CROATIA
Rea Rajčić
1001 Nights tells the story of EMA (85) and MAJA (80), the most loyal viewers and the funniest critics of Turkish soap
operas. For the last five years, Ema and Maja have spent every evening together, watching Turkish series in Ema’s
apartment in the Mediterranean town Split as a way of coping with loneliness. This is a story about a microcosm
that appears where we least expect it, but when we need it the most. It is a story of a friendship that started when
everything else ended.
PRODUCER. DIRECTOR. COMPANY.
Tina Tišljar got her master degree Rea Rajčić got her masters degree Eclectica is a film & TV production
in film production at the Academy in film production at the Academy of and postproduction company from
of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. During Dramatic Arts in Zagreb where she Zagreb, Croatia, founded by producers
her studies she worked on a number works as an assistant professor. During Ivan Kelava, Rea Rajčić and editor
of students projects. Some of the and after her studies she has worked Tomislav Stojanović. The company
more succesful student films she as the executive producer on various has co-produced international short
has produced are the short films by commercial, film and TV projects, films Red Light (2016, 21’, BU, Euro
Hana Jušić: Chill (2011, 10’, selected as marketing manager in one of the Connection 2015), Pommel (2018,
at IFF Oberhausen), Terrarium (2012, biggest distribution companies in 20’, UK, BIFA nominee) and The Flood
25’) and No Wolf Has a House (2015, Croatia, and as an associate of Croatian (2019, 15’, SI selected at Clermont-
24’, selected at IFF Rotterdam). From Audiovisual Centre as the head of Ferrand ISFF 2020) and in 2019 have
2009 to 2015 she has worked at the the Cinema Exhibition Department produced short films Sedra (16’) by
Croatian Audiovisual Centre in the project. Judita Gamulin and The Rudeness of a
Promotion department presenting She is the winner of the Young German Lady (15’) by Silva Ćapin. The
Croatian films on markets in Cannes, Producer award at Sofia International company is developing a slate of TV
Berlin, Clermont-Ferrand and others. Film Festival 2016 and was awarded dramas and other formats, as well a
She is currently working on film for best pitching at European Short number of feature films.
and TV projects in the production Pitch 2018 and part of the Emerging
company Eclectica in Zagreb. Producers class of 2019. 1001 Nights is
her debut short as director.
Creative documentary – HD – 20’ Tina Tišljar
SHOOTING DATES: tina@eclectica.com / +385 95 8790424
July 2020 – July 2021
ESTIMATED TOTAL BUDGET:
33,600€
SECURED FINANCING:
24,324€ (72%)* * Granted by the Hrvatski audiovizualni centar / Croatian Audio-
visual Centre
2020 7
BIR’EM FRANCE
Camille Clavel-Bamberger
In the north of Israel, Nagham, a Palestinian girl, rediscovers her family’s village, long since abandoned. The teenager
spends the summer reconnecting with memories of her grandfather.
HAUT LES MAINS
PRODUCER. DIRECTOR. COMPANY.
Thomas Micoulet is a former After studies in French Literature at Haut les Mains is a production
participant of «Atelier Ludwigsburg the Sorbonne University, Camille company based in Lyon (France)
Paris», European training program for Clavel-Bamberger goes to New York founded by independent producers
producers organized between La Fémis to study painting at the Arts Student’s Karim Aitouna and Thomas Micoulet.
(France), Filmakademie Ludwigsburg League. At his return to Paris, he acts The company produces both
(Germany) and the NFTS (UK). He in several films by Jacques Doillon, documentary and fiction films for
produced in 2013 Shopping (8’, directed Gérard Mordillat and Philippe Faucon. cinema and television with a special
by Vladilen Vierny) broadcasted on In 2004 he directs his first film Sergio interest on international coproduction.
Arte/SWR, that was selected in several (35’) in New York, a short fiction They have produced: Anna Roussillon’s
festivals (among them: San Sebastian about an undocumented Mexican documentary I Am the People (Je suis
IFF, Clermont-Ferrand FF, Oberhausen worker. The film wins the Special le peuple, 2014, 111’) selected at ACID
FF, São Paulo FF) and awarded in Brussels Prize of Clermont-Ferrand ISFF, and Cannes, Rotterdam IFF etc. David Yon’s The
SFF and Angers FF. He produced several is broadcasted on Arte. Afterwards, Night and the Kid (2015, 60’) selected at
short films, documentaries and fiction Camille Clavel-Bamberger directs the 65th Berlinale, Livreur (2015, 11’) by
film which were selected at ACID several documentaries about different Vladilen Vierny selected at Clermont-
Cannes, Berlinale, Rotterdam IFF, San cultural topics for French television Ferrand ISFF; Sans bruit (2017, 64’) by
Sebastian IFF. As a producer, he was part and one feature documentary about MML Collective presented at FID
of IDFAcademy, Doha Projects, Berlinale the Israel-Palestian conflict, titled Marseille and Doc Fortnight at the
Talents and is a member of Atelier Where to, Israel? (2011, 123’). MOMA ; and Poisonous Roses (2018, 70’)
Network. by Ahmed Fawzi Saleh premiered at
Rotterdam IFF and Egyptian candidate
for the best int’ feature film category at
the 2020 Oscars. Haut les Mains is part
of EAVE, Eurodoc and Atelier Network.
Fiction – 2K – 35’ Thomas Micoulet
SHOOTING DATES: contact@hautlesmainsproductions.fr
Summer 2020 +33 6 63 73 44 37
ESTIMATED TOTAL BUDGET:
181,900€
SECURED FINANCING:
TBC€ (%)* * Granted by the CNC Contribution Financière
2020 8
FALL CHRISTMAS GREECE
Kostas Bakouris
Nobody speaks about the unspeakable – sick children. Nobody ever speaks about their families – or their little
brothers, like Peter. Mom and Dad are always too busy or angry or exhausted for him. So, Peter spends his time
rollerblading through the vast hospital corridors, trying to find imaginary ways to cope with reality, discovering the
world through his exuberant eyes. After all, a hospital is a place of hidden wonders: singing nurses, dancing clocks,
and mad hatters! Peter faces the fine lines between fear and courage, agony and joy, life and death. A dramatic
musical or a music drama, about the ones who leave and the ones that stay behind.
PRODUCER. DIRECTOR. COMPANY.
Konstantinos Baliotis is a producer Kostas Bakouris (b. 1982 in Greece) 2 Dimensions To Render (2D2R) is
based in Piraeus, Greece. He has an studied Film, Television and Sociology, Konstantinos Baliotis’ production
ongoing collaboration with some and holds a Master’s Degree in company since 2018. Under this
of the most vital film production Psychology and Mass Media. He label, two feature films are currently
companies in Greece, such as Blonde, started working as a director in at script development stage, Avanos
Marni films, Stefi & Lynx Productions, music videos for various artists, and by Panagiotis Charamis and The
Logline, Steficon, as line producer soon went on directing TV shows, Birds Are Singing for Us by Stratoula
and production manager in short documentaries and special events. Theodoratou, while two short films
and feature length fiction and His first short, Heimlich (2017, 19’), was are in pre-production stage, Apallou
documentary films. As a producer selected at over 60 international film by Nikos Avgoustidis and Fall
he started out in 2017 with the short festivals and won nearly 30 awards Christmas by Kostas Bakouris.
film Avanos (2018, 20’) by Panagiotis and distinctions. He has also directed
Charamis. a theatrical play, works in the field of
advertisement and commercials and
is now preparing his PhD.
Fiction – Digital 2.35:1 – 20’ / 25’ Konstantinos Baliotis
SHOOTING DATES: kdbaliotis@gmail.com
October 2020 +30 6974374310
ESTIMATED TOTAL BUDGET:
60,000€
SECURED FINANCING:
20,000€ (35%)* * Granted by the National Greek Television / Microfilm
program
2020 9FIRST NIGHT DENMARK
Darshika Karunahara
Two Tamil sisters, driven by their sexual curiosity, experience their first time - the same night. The conscientious big
sister has just been arranged married and is ready for the longawaited wedding night. Simultaneously the little
sister sneaks out to meet her flirt. The one sister has waited till this exact night and the other sister can’t wait any
longer. First Night portrays the split between values and urge in a culture with high ideals.
PRODUCER. DIRECTOR. COMPANY.
Anna Marina Skouros is a producer Darshika Karunahara is an Meta Film has become a front runner
at the Danish production company interdisciplinary artist working across in the Danish film industry with many
Meta Film. At Meta Film she started the fields of virtual reality, total esteemed titles in its catalogue. They
out working as a producer assistant installations, performances, sound have the pleasure of collaborating
on the 2018 Un Certain Regard installations and film. Her projects with some of Scandinavia’s most
winner, Border (110’), a Swedish/ explore and unfold the narrative, both experienced talent. This gives the
Danish co-production. Since then physically and digitally, stimulating company the capacity to also lift and
her passion for strong collaborations senses and emotions - often including strengthen new talent – and gives
across borders has grown into her new technological methods and tools. every project a mix of well-established
everyday purpose as she’s in the She is the founder and creative leader ground and fresh, innovating flavor.
lead of building up financing for the of an artistic performance and sound Due to this Meta Film has a strong
company’s projects and managing group The Oval Room, that explores focus on passing on experience to
co-productions and collaborations the boundaries of erotic art and new-comers through smaller projects
with broadcasters and distributors on creates participatory performances such as short films.
both features and TV-series. First Night and sound experiences. She graduated
is her first own professional short film with a MSc. in Innovation and Business
as producer and the project fits right Development, leading her to pursue
into her ambition to give quiet stories a career in virtual reality technology,
a louder voice. where she quickly star ted
experimenting with storytelling,
sexuality and performance art.
Fiction – Digital – 15’ Anna Marina Skouros
SHOOTING DATES: annamarina@metafilm.dk
June 2020 +45 30134584
ESTIMATED TOTAL BUDGET:
25,000€
SECURED FINANCING:
15,200€ (61%) * Granted by the Odense Film Festival 2019 – 1st place at
Pitch me Baby competition
2020 10APPALACHIA ROMANIA
Roxana Stroe
Sam (17) spends his time with his friends, committing petty crimes and riding motorcycles. Raelynn is a Protestant girl
raised by her father, the local pastor, in a strictly religious manner. Sam sees Raelynn at her baptism ceremony held on a
lake. He starts following her daily and attending church services, just to see her. But Raelynn doesn’t seem interested in him
until, one day, she goes swimming and Sam saves her from drowning. Sam becomes Raelynn’s miraculous savior, her first
and only love. The entire community is against them. He plans to run away with Raelynn, but things go out of hand.
PRODUCER. DIRECTOR. COMPANY.
Gabriela Suciu graduated from Roxana Stroe studied Film Directing Atelier de Film is a Romanian film
UNATC with a BA in Directing, an at UNATC Bucharest. Her short production company founded in
MA in Production and a PhD in films participated in numerous 2012. The company’s direction has
Coproduction. Since 2008, she has international festivals and gained been set to engage in the production
consistently produced 6 to 8 titles a several awards. Her latest short, A of short and feature films of all genres,
year, all lengths, genres and formats. Night in Tokoriki (18’), premiered at by providing the knowledge and
In 2012, she founded Atelier de Berlinale Generation 2016 where it capabilities of logistics on the one
Film, a production and distribution received the special Generation 14+ hand and offering marketing and
company to support debut films and jury award. A Night in Tokoriki has distribution consultancy later on for
promising directors. Among the titles more than 100 festival selections and talented Romanian directors. Among
she produced is the documentary film has won awards in many international the successful projects in which
The Dabija Brothers (2015, 62’) which film festivals (Mammoth Lake – Best Atelier was involved are Love Bus
premiered at Montreal World Film Narrative Short, Namur – Format (2014, 73’), The World is Mine (2015,
Festival and was released on VOD on Court Prize etc.). Roxana was selected 104’) and the most recent Several
Cinesquare and the debut feature film to present her work in Future Frames Conversations about a Very Tall Girl
Several Conversations about a Very Tall at the 51st Karlovy Vary Film Festival. (2018, 70’).
Girl (2018, 70, TIFF Cluj and Edinburgh Some main characteristics of her style
FF) by Bogdan Olteanu. would be the minimal dialogue and
the use of music and slow-motion in
key scenes.
Fiction – Digital – 20’ Gabriela Suciu
SHOOTING DATES: gabisuciu.exec@gmail.com
August-September 2020 +40 723889169
ESTIMATED TOTAL BUDGET:
80,000€
SECURED FINANCING:
10,000€ (13%)* * Granted by the Forest Film Production SRL
2020 11SCALE FRANCE
Joseph Pierce
Will has lost his sense of scale. As his drug addiction spirals out of control, his family life is left on the brink of disaster.
He starts to untangle the sequence of events that led him to this decaying situation.
PRODUCER. DIRECTOR. COMPANY.
Hélène Mitjavile is cofounder and Joseph Pierce is an award winning Melocoton Films was created by
producer at Melocoton Films, where animator and flmmaker. On graduating Theo Laboulandine and Hélène
she produced a dozen short fictions from the National Film and Television Mitjavile in 2012. While Theo
among which 7 coproductions. School in 2008, he was named one produces new media and TV content,
She is now working on French of Screen International’s Stars of Hélène focuses on film production
and international shorts as well as Tomorrow. His graduation film Stand with a special taste for arthouse
feature coproductions, while also Up (2008, 7’) screened at over 30 coproductions. They produced a
investing her time as an expert in international film festivals, winning dozen short fictions, among which
various commissions (the Ile-de- major prizes in France, UK, Spain coproductions with Finland, Croatia,
France Regional Fund, «Jules et and Poland. His 2010 Channel 4 Hungary, Czech Republic, the US,
Jim»’s Moulin d’Andé, Cannes Focus commissioned short A Family Portrait the UK and Brazil. Their films have
Copro, Euro-Connection, etc), taking (4’) screened in over 45 festivals, screened at festivals such as Toronto,
part in markets and workshops (she winning multiple awards including Palm Springs, Clermont Ferrand,
was selected as story editor for the Best Animation at Bristol Encounters Angers Premiers Plans, Warsaw,
workshop Less is More by Groupe and made the long-list for an Academy Zagreb, London SFF, Encounters
Ouest) and in political intiatives such Award. His short in collaboration with Bristol etc and they have worked
as the Independent Producer’s Union 59 Productions The Pub (2012, 7’) won with buyers such as Arte and France
where she is an elected member multiple awards including the top Télévisions.
of the Bureau. Her last short film prize at Raindance, LA Film Festival
production Tender Age (2019, 27’) by and Melbourne International Film
Julien Gaspar-Oliveri is presented in Festival. It screened at over 40 festivals
the national competition in Clermont- worldwide. He completed his first live
Ferrand 2020. action short The Baby Shower in 2016
(15’, Euro Connection 2016).
Animation – Rotoscopy based on live-action HD Helene Mitjavile
takes and 3D modeling – 12’ helene@melocotonfilms.com
SHOOTING DATES: + 33 6 60 16 95 07
May 2020 - August 2021
ESTIMATED TOTAL BUDGET: * Including 20 000 € granted by the CNC FAIA
320,000€ (development),
15 000 € by the Région Nouvelle Aquitaine (production),
SECURED FINANCING: 5 000€ by the Département de la Charente (production),
125,000€ (39%)* the CNC contribution financière avant réalisation – grant for
2020 12OSJA GERMANY
Irina Rubina
18-year-old Osja feels how his words will leave a “pattern” on the “glass of eternity”, even though 30 years later his
body will disappear in a mass grave, during Stalinist repressions. The tragic story of the poet mixes with associative,
defragmented sounds and images inspired by his poetry to form a sensual and absurd experience into the past.
PRODUCER / DIRECTOR. COMPANY.
Irina Rubina was born in Moscow including Annecy, Stuttgart and For all her own projects which she
and grew up in Russia and Germany. Ottawa, and received 15 awards. She has realised so far, Irina Rubina
Her serpentine road to film included graduated with a short documentary acted both as a director and as a
detours into free art (photography 1000 Miles Till the Next Embrace (2019, co-producer. This double role helps
and installation) and mathematics - 58’), which was co-produced with a her to keep a good overview of all
both have given her a good amount French production company Lardux the processes during the production
of acceleration and inspiration for Films, supported by CNC, PROCIREP of her films and is an advantage for
her later work. In 2011-2018 she and ANGOA. The interaction and them. For this reason she holds both
studied animation and documentary intersections of media and art forms positions in Osja as well.
film at the Filmakademie Baden- (dance and film, music and poetry,
Württemberg, where she created documentary and animation) are a
several award winning short films. great source of inspiration to her.
In 2013-2014 she participated in
animation program at Gobelins,
l’école de l’image in Paris as an
exchange student. Her last animation
film Jazz Orgie (2015,1’) was screened
at more than 140 festivals worldwide,
Animation – 16/9 4K – 8’ Irina Rubina
SHOOTING DATES: irina.rubina@gmail.com
August 2020 - April 2021 +49 1725242699
ESTIMATED TOTAL BUDGET:
142,500€
SECURED FINANCING:
57,500€ (40%)* * Granted by the ELES, FFA, incl. deferrals
2020 13THE PERPETUAL TAPESTRY NORWAY
Simone Hooymans
The perpetual tapestry is an experimental animation about a modern vision of the apocalypse of the world today.
It is about transformation, about bees and a collapsing and disappearing world. All is connected by threads in a
handmade, woven tapestry.
PRODUCER. DIRECTOR. COMPANY.
Turid Rogne is a Norwegian Simone Hooymans is a visual artist Aldeles AS is a film production
documentary producer and director and animator born in the Netherlands, company based in Bergen, Norway.
with a passion for animation. She has who lives and works in Norway. She Since the start in 2005, the company
studied documentary filmmaking graduated from the Art academy for has produced and co-produced
and TV-journalism at Volda University visual art in Arnhem (Artez) and Breda a number of acclaimed shorts,
College, Norway, and has produced (St. Joost) in the Netherlands. Simone documentaries and art films. Aldeles
several documentaries and shorts, Hooymans makes experimental is owned and run by Elisabeth
such as the animated shorts The animations based on a hand drawn Kleppe, Turid Rogne, Kieran Kolle
Captain, the Pilot and the Singer world which combined with digital and Elin Sander. Their core ambition
(2014) and Earthfall (2019). In 2005 animation techniques. She creates is to produce films driven by strong
she was one of the founders of the elusive, yet disturbing landscapes artistic visions that will reach, engage
production company Aldeles AS inspired by our constant struggle to and challenge a broad national and
in Bergen. She now travels between understand the world. Her selected international audience.
Norway and Sweden where she lives filmography includes Broken Horizon
with her family, while developing new (2008, 5’) The Quiet Beauty (2018, 5’)
ambitious projects within animation, and most recently Earthfall completed
fiction and documentary. in 2019. Her films have been shown
at a great number of exhibitions and
festivals around the world, including
Art Quake Kyoto 2019 where she won
the prize for Best Animation for her
film All That Space Between Us (5’).
Animation – HD – 10’ Turid Rogne
SHOOTING DATES: turid@aldeles.no
September 2020 +47 90073708
ESTIMATED TOTAL BUDGET:
167,000€
SECURED FINANCING:
12,300€ (7%)* * Granted by the Western Norwegian Film Centre and The
Audio and Visual Fund, Norway
2020 14BURNOUT DIARY THE
Dario van Vree NETHERLANDS
Maaike is an illustrator, lover of tea, and a perfectionist. Her life is fun fun fun, but also busy busy busy. Maaike
optimistically pulls through the many long working days and social engagements, thanks to an ‘inner voice’ that she
affectionately calls her Little Dictator. But when Maaike gets a full-on panic attack, out of nowhere, her deepest fear
becomes reality: she can no longer be perfect… During a year of burnout that follows, Maaike goes on a personal
quest with her Little Dictator, learning to accept that being ‘good enough’ really is good enough.
PRODUCER. DIRECTOR. COMPANY.
A key figure in the Dutch animation Following his animation studies at Founded in 2014 by two key figures
industry, Amsterdam-based Tünde the prestigious KASK academy in in Dutch animation – producer
Vollenbroek lives and breathes Belgium, Dario van Vree has been Tünde Vollenbroek and director
animation. She co-owns animation directing animation with an eye Dario van Vree – Studio Pupil has
house Studio Pupil, where she for the weird, the incentive and the quickly become an accelerator for
produces animation in short, feature, power of character performance. His the country’s animation industry. The
series and cross-media formats. work is characterized by clarity, humor Amsterdam-based creative studio
Recently Vollenbroek was awarded and a love for paradoxes. In 2016 Van creates animated shorts, series,
the Business Award at the Animation Vree’s animated short Taboek (3’) was features and cross-media pieces. Their
Production Day, for innovative released, reaching half a million offline IP is original and impactful, engaging
business strategies. She is also a and another half a million online and ambitious, often lighthearted and
board member of the European viewers. Besides directing, Van Vree always full of character.
Animation Awards, curator at the teaches animation at the Willem de
KLIK/Kaboom Animation Festival, Kooning Academy and co-founded
and correspondent at the world’s top the KLIK Amsterdam Animation
animation resource Cartoon Brew. Festival.
Animation – HD (2D digital animation) – 25’ Tünde Vollenbroek
SHOOTING DATES: tunde@studiopupil.com
Late 2020/early 2021 +31 647264049
ESTIMATED TOTAL BUDGET:
300,000€
SECURED FINANCING:
47,062€ (16%)* * Granted by the Netherlands Film Fund, Creative Industries
Fund NL, AFK
2020 15NO ELEPHANTS HERE SERBIA
Gorana Jovanović
Frenki is a former junior boxing champion, but hardly anyone remembers this short spell of fame in his life. His uncle
Šiljo has a small moving business and calls Frenki when he needs help. Sometimes he also calls Čombe, a local brute
whose biggest entertainment is to make fun of Frenki “the champ”. Although usually he avoids doing it, on this
very day, Šiljo is forced to call both of them. They have two jobs to do: one entails a delivery of stuffed animals to a
museum and the other one clearing the house of Frenki’s recently deceased former coach Zlaja, whom Frenki blames
for his own failed boxing career.
PRODUCER / DIRECTOR. COMPANY.
Gorana Jovanović (b. 1988, Bararev (Bulgaria), and is currently Servia Film was founded by Miloš
Belgrade) graduated from the in production and post-production Ljubomirović with the intention
University of Westminster in London with two of her own short fiction of producing creative projects by
as a director of a short drama King for films, Requiem for Laika (Best Pitch young authors and a special interest
a Day (2013, 17’). The same year, she Award at 2015 European Short Pitch) in developing towards international
took part in Sarajevo Talent Campus and Armadilla, both supported by co-production. It currently has two
as a screenwriter. She is the writer of the Film Centre Serbia, which she is films in production and one in post-
the short film Mercury (2018, 14’, dir. also producing. She initially took up production, all supported by the
Kyla Simone Bruce), which won the producing in order to help her own Film Centre Serbia: a feature-length
Best Screenplay Award at the 2018 projects get realised. She is currently documentary Do Not Come Home
Festival Européen Court Métrage in producing three short fiction films by Miloš Ljubomirović and Danilo
Nice and has been nominated for under the umbrella of Servia Film. Lazović (EURODOC, BDC Discoveries,
the Screenwriting Award at the 2018 With her experience in screenwriting BELDOCS Work in Progress, Docs in
Underwire Film Festival in London. and script development, she is mostly Thessaloniki and FEST Forward) and
Gorana has written screenplays interested in exploring international short fiction films Requiem for Laika
for two short films produced in co-production potential of projects at and Armadilla by Gorana Jovanović.
2019: Slow Dogs by Kyla Simone the writing stage.
Bruce (14’, UK) and Baikal by Deyan
Fiction – Digital – 15’ Gorana Jovanović
SHOOTING DATES: goranajjovanovic@gmail.com
October 2020 +381 642130466
ESTIMATED TOTAL BUDGET:
77,600€
SECURED FINANCING:
1,000€ (2%)* * Granted by the Conseil Departemental des Alpes-Mari-
times through Festival Européen Court Métrage, Nice
2020 16ASTRONAUT TO UFO ITALY
Debora Vrizzi
In the deep outer space Debora, the Astronaut, floats through the stars. After a turbulence, she wakes up in an
unrecognisable place. It is a domestic space filled with religious pictures. The voice of an old woman prays rosaries,
sings and guides her while she explores the house, where the everyday objects are completely transformed. In
the kitchen, she meets two aliens who are sitting around a table with a gash in the middle. They communicate
telepathically and tell us about the other of life.
PRODUCER. DIRECTOR. COMPANY.
Anna Di Toma studied film Video artist and DOP, Debora Agherose is an audiovisual
restoration and archiving at University Vrizzi graduated at Accademia di production company founded
of Udine, where she analyzed several Belle Arti in Bologna and at Centro in 2010 in Udine by director
home movies archives in order Sperimentale di Cinematografia with and producer Dorino Minigutti. They
to catalogue and valorize them. G. Rotunno, where she learnt how develop and produce documentaries
Before graduating, she starts working to put light at the service of the tale. in collaboration with foreign partners
at Agherose as production secretary As a DOP, some of her works were mainly for the television market. Their
on the documentary series Int/Art screened at international festivals main interest is script development
and as assistant producer on the such as Venice, Cannes, Berlin and of historical and contemporary
full-length documentary Atlas of TIFF. She works with moving images, documentaries that could reflect
Memory (2020, 80’), by Debora photography and human body to on social dynamics by focusing on
Vrizzi. She is currently developing as reflect about personal and collective individual and collective memory
producer two short fictions, The Dark identity. and reusing the archival audiovisual
Vein by Luca Bertossi and Astronaut to material. Agherose is currently
UFO by Debora Vrizzi. extending its production towards
fiction short films that focus on the
same topics of individuality and
memory.
Fiction, creative documentary – 4K – 15’ Anna Di Toma
SHOOTING DATES: anna.ditoma@agherose.com
June 2020 +39 347 036 5509
ESTIMATED TOTAL BUDGET:
120,000€
SECURED FINANCING:
5,000€ (4%)* * Granted by the FVG Audiovisual Fund
2020 17Selected in
GHOSTIN’ collaboration with UNITED
Baloji KINGDOM
GHOSTIN’ is an experimental short film developing the theme of the impossible mourning in three sequences of
illustrated monologues. The common denominator of these stories is a phone handset. This phone is connected to
nothing else but the intimate and unfathomable pain of the person who dials the number of his lost one.
PRODUCER. DIRECTOR. COMPANY.
Lorine Plagnol has been working Born in Lubumbashi (Democratic Sungazer is a UK based company
in international film and television Republic of the Congo) and based work ing with international
production for seven years. From in Belgium, Baloji is an award- collaborators from a diverse
France to England, she developed winning musician and filmmaker. In background. We develop bold
her expertise through high end TV Swahili, Baloji originally means man projects and intend to produce them
dramas, factuals and independent of science but during the colonial in ethical and sustainable ways. We
films, most recently managing a era this transformed into man of strongly believe that in today’s global
feature documentary for ESPN to be occult sciences, and into sorcerer society, where images have become
released in summer 2020, the French today This name has been translating a primary language and method of
filming part of the 1st season of the through his work, shaping an eye for interpreting the world, evolving this
bilingual Sky Production Das Boot and dreamlike worlds and magic realism. dialogue is one of the most powerful
coordinating the feature film The Man As a musician, Baloji has released two ways to effect change. Through
in The Hat. In 2018, she co-founded critically-acclaimed albums and two high quality work, and stories from
with Oskar Pimlott a production Eps. As a filmmaker, Baloji has directed voices that have traditionally been
company called Sungazer, currently six shorts such as Kaniama Show and marginalized, we intend to alter the
assembling a slate of feature films, Zombies (winner of the Principal Prize paradigms of today.
television series and interactive at Oberhausen Short Film Festival
projects. 2019 and selected for LFF 2019 and
Clermont-Ferrand ISFF 2020).
Fiction – digital – 15-20’ Selected filmgraphy Lorine Plagnol
SHOOTING DATES: - Kaniama Show (2018, 22’48”) lorine@sungazer.co.uk
2020 - Zombies (2019, 15’) +44 788 153 4425
ESTIMATED TOTAL BUDGET:
45,000€ Feature film project
- The Omen (original title: Augure) (Final
Draft, funding stage)
2020 18Selected in
PALOQUEMAO collaboration with
COLOMBIE
Jeferson Cardoza Herrera
In the gloom of Paloquemao Square, Pedro,a 27-year-old lives with a blood addiction. As he consumes, he feels his
body with ecstasy. Pedro has an obsession with Angie, a 15-year-old girl. She drags him to a tragic and bloody death.
DIRECTOR. COMPANY.
Jeferson Cardoza Herrera is a where he won the BFM award in Obra La Banda del Sur is a genre film
director and producer of film and Bogoshorts Film Market 2018. His production company founded in 2019
television from the Manuela Beltrán professional experience also includes and based in Bogotá, whose main
University. Co-founder of the film content for creative television, with interest is horror, thriller and fantasy
production company La Banda Del projects such as Creemos en Boyacá films. After the successful reception
Sur Films, he has also been part of 2nd season (screenwriter and director, of the short film May 28 (Veintiocho de
the Sogamoso Film Festival team 2018) for Channel 13, as well as Mayo) - directed by one of its founders
since 2019. In 2017, he released his developing the general production - in several national and international
first short film, Veintiocho de Mayo, charge for the channel of Bogoshorts festivals such as Morbid Film Fest, La
that premiered at the Bogoshorts TV 2018 & 2019. Banda del Sur is in the development
15th edition and was awarded the of the feature film Veintiocho de Mayo
BFM award at Obra Bogoshorts and a second short film about a
Film Market 2017. It was awarded vampire in the Paloquemao Market
Best national short film at Bogota’s Square.
Horror Film Festival, and nominated
for best Latin American short film at
the Morbido Film Fest, while playing
at many other festivals. His second
short film, Malicia Indígena, had its
world premiere at Bogoshorts 2017,
Fiction – 1:2:35 – 13 min Selected filmgraphy Jeferson Cardoza Herrera
SHOOTING DATES: - Veintiocho de Mayo (2017, 13’) jefersoncardozaherrera@gmail.com
April 2020 - Malicia Indígena (2018, 15’) +57 3204566947
ESTIMATED TOTAL BUDGET:
Feature film project
28,000€
- Veintiocho de Mayo (script writing)
TRAVEL SUPPORT:
ProImágenes Colombia
2020 19DON’T WORRY, I’M NOT OKAY LEBANON
Manon Nammour
Two sisters are spending another ordinary day, each her way. They are fine they say! As long as their children are
having an admirable life. How can anyone love that much without loving themselves?
PRODUCER. DIRECTOR. COMPANY.
Nicolas Khabbaz is a Lebanese Manon Nammour, Lebanese “K” (Kay) Production is an independent
filmmaking graduate and holds a Ph.D director and production designer, film and theatre production company
in cinema, focused on the cinema studied filmmaking at Notre Dame based in Beirut – Lebanon. It was
of small nations and the question University (NDU) and graduated established in 2010 and its profile
of its identity in Lebanese Film and with Et je vole, her first film. Manon contains more than 16 theatre plays
Cultural Identity. He is the program participated in “La Manufacture” and 8 feature and short films including
director of the NDU International an atelier organized and hosted by Manon Nammour’s latest two films,
Film Festival and the Batroun the FIFF Namur (Belgium) where On the Ropes and Barakat.
Mediterranean Film Festival, which he she has developed her film On the
founded. Nicolas is the director of the Ropes (2016, 17’), which premiered
Audiovisual Arts Department at the in Locarno Film festival. In 2018,
Notre Dame University – Lebanon, Manon was selected as one of the
since 2012. Khabbaz participates five “Arab Stars of Tomorrow” an
in several international festivals as a initiative by Screen International UK
filmmaker, jury member and curator. and Dubai International film festival
He produced and co-wrote his first that encourages young talents from
feature film Waynon (Void, 2013, 75’), the region to develop their career.
which was the Lebanese Academy Barakat (2019, 14’) is Manon’s latest
Award Representative at the Oscars short, premiered at the 44th Toronto
in 2014. Nicolas has produced several International Film Festival.
award-winning shorts, among them,
On the Ropes and Barakat by Manon
Nammour.
Fiction – Digital – 14 min Selected filmgraphy Nicolas Khabbaz
SHOOTING DATES: - Barakat (2019, 14’) nicolaskhabbaz@hotmail.com
September 2020 - On the Ropes (2016, 17’) +961 3 483432
ESTIMATED TOTAL BUDGET: - Et je vole (2013, 12’)
55,000€
Feature film project
SECURED FUND: - Happy New Year (Working title /
15,000 USD Early development)
TRAVEL SUPPORT:
Institut Français in Beirut
2020 20Selected in
AUANA collaboration with
HAWAI’I
Alika Maikau
After the death of her teacher, a regal Hawaiian dancer faces her first solo-performance on Hula’s most important
stage. Without the strict guidance she is accustomed to, she looks to her fellow practitioners, into herself, and up to
the heavens for a sign from her ancestors that she is worthy.
PRODUCER/CINEMATOGRAPHER. DIRECTOR. COMPANY.
Chapin Hall was raised in Hawai’i and Alika Maikau is a native-Hawaiian Banana Blossom Pictures is the
has since lived and worked all over filmmaker based out of Honolulu, Hawai’i-based production-company
the world. He is a life-long practitioner Hawai’i. In 2017 he was nominated of Cinematographer, Chapin Hall.
of visual art, having formally studied for Best Made In Hawai’i Short at the Mostly a vehicle for the co-production
sculpture and art history at the Hawai’i International Film Festival for of films he is lensing, the company’s
prestigious School of the Art Institute Keep You Float (2017, 15’), which led to pre-vious work includes the short-
of Chicago before following his an invitation to the ‘Ohina Filmmakers documentary Pencil Urchin (2017, 20’)
mother’s footsteps into photography. Lab, where his next script earned him a about famed surfer, Daniel Jones, PBS’
When the opportunity arose to mentorship under Joe Robert Cole (Black American Masters short-documentary
assist the legendary documentary Panther, 2018, 134’). Joe oversaw the on poet, Jamaica Osorio, This is the
cinematographer, Bob Richman, development of what would become Way We Rise (2020, 12’) and the award
Chapin jumped at the chance. During his next short, Mauka To Makai (2018, winning narrative short film, Moloka’i
that tenure he worked under some duration), which premiered at the end Bound by Director, Alika Maikau.
of the best directors of non-fiction of 2018 and was awarded Best Made In
film; from RJ Cutler, Joe Berlinger and Hawai’i Short at the Hawai’i International
Bruce Sinofsky, to Academy Award Film Festival. Filmmaker Magazine
winners like Nathaniel Kahn, and published an article in 2019 entitled
Davis Guggenheim. This and many Made Visible, where they went on to say
other experiences across a decade about Mauka “Bringing to the screen a
as a camera- assistant, gaffer, DIT world little seen even in Hawaiian films,
and camera operator gave him an it wove a universal tale of economic
unrivaled workplace-education. struggle and longtime friendship into a
proudly local, indigenous setting.”
Fiction – 16mm Film Selected filmgraphy Chapin Hall
~8-10min - Keep You Float (2017, 15’) chapin_hall@yahoo.com
SHOOTING DATES: - Mauka To Makai (2018, 25’) +1 808 228-7934
APRIL 2021 - Moloka’i Bound (2019, 9’)
ESTIMATED TOTAL BUDGET: Feature film project
46,000€ - Moloka’i Bound (shooting late
Summer 2020)
2020 21Selected in
BLACK GIRL IN THE RING collaboration with
JAMAICA
Joshua Paul
Set in the backdrop of 18th century Jamaica, Black Girl In the Ring tells a coming-of-age story around the Jamaican
national hero figure of Nanny of the Maroons. Nanny is pushed out when she tries to play brown girl in the ring and
is warned by her brother Accompong to not do anything foolish. Nanny has been planning her escape with her four
brothers. They decide to make the final preparations and execute their escape. During their escape, the runaways are
caught but get away due to Nanny’s prowess and her brother’s support.
PRODUCER. DIRECTOR. COMPANY.
Saeed Thomas began working in Joshua Paul is a Jamaican filmmaker M-one is a production company
the field professionally in 2012 as a and entrepreneur with his eyes set based in Jamaica, providing creative
stage technician, backstage assistant on the principal objective of telling and technical services for Film and
and audio tech. He honed his skills at culturally and socially impactful Commercials. They create dynamic
production companies and theatres stories. He has a strong interest in motion pictures focusing on
in his hometown of Kingston, Jamaica. themes of realism and conflict based providing technical services at the
He has collaborated on projects with on intra-personal as well as societal highest quality. M-one provides
renowned international companies issues. Joshua’s first major work was a seasoned team of editors and
and organizations such as Hulu, UNICEF, his final year Bachelor’s production, cinematographers who handle the
Concacaf, IAAF and event production The Misadventures of Brian and Sachin projects with professionalism and
‘The Elegant Affairs’. Saeed is the co- (2015, 34’), best indigenous short experience. Some clients include
founder and Managing Director of at the World Festival of Emerging Transitions Ltd, Red Bull, Flow, Wray
M-One. Saeed has worked on various Cinema. After university, he directed And Nephew, Appleton, and Campari.
short films such as Enhanced, Kinto, Cross Enhanced, nominated for Best Short
My Heart and Flight. Saeed is a graduate at the Urban Action International
of the University of the West Indies, Film Festival at HBO (2016). He
Mona where he attained his Bachelor directed Kinto (2018, 15’) which won
of Arts degree in Entertainment and multiple awards across the US and the
Cultural Enterprise Management. Caribbean.
Fiction – 8K – 12 min Selected filmgraphy Saeed Thomas
SHOOTING DATES: - Kinto (2018, 15’) saeedojo@gmail.com
August 1, 2020 - August 3, 2020. - For My Daughter (2019, 15’) +8764415769
ESTIMATED TOTAL BUDGET: Feature film project
40,000€ - Mad Master Of Edinburgh Castle
(Script Writing)
2020 22GEOPOLY FILM EOOD BULGARIA
Pavlina Jeleva
CREATION DATE: 2014
STAFF : 3
geopolyfilm@gmail.com
+359888605350
COMPANY.
Geopoly Film EOOD was founded in 2014 by Pavlina Jeleva, producer with
significant experience as co-owner of Geopoly OOD, founded in 1995.
Geopoly Film works in close collaboration with the Bulgarian National Film
Center, the Bulgarian National Television, the Sofia Municipality, Eurimages
and other public funding bodies. One of Geopoly Film’s main ambitions
PRODUCER.
is to support talented first feature directors and reveal them to larger
Pavlina Jeleva is a Bulgarian film international audiences.
critic and producer who graduated
in Film Studies from the National
Theatre and Film Academy. In 1993–
1994 Pavlina Jeleva was both
National representative at Eurimages
and FIPRESCI coordinator of the SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY. CURRENT PROJECTS.
Bulgarian Film Critics Association.
In 1995 she co-founded Geopoly, a Dimiter Shishmanov: But to Think Snowdrops At The End Of The Train
production company that produced (documentary, 60 min, 2014) by Galina D.Georgieva - short film,
over 10 features and nearly 50 Requiem For Mrs J. (fiction, 94 min, pre-production
documentaries. Since 2007 she is 2017) The Little Marquise by Stanislav
Bulgaria’s correspondent of the Donchev - documentary, production
A New Life (documentary, 75 min,
online film industry publication Film
2018) A Boat In The Rain by Yoana
New Europe. In 2014 she founded
Atanasova - animation short,
her second company, Geopoly Film
production
producing creative documentaries,
animated films and European feature 22 Meters by Stefan Denolyubov -
co-productions. One of Geopoly’s feature, development
latest successful co-production is Egle
Vertelyte’s Miracle (Lithuania/Bulgaria/
Poland) and Geopoly Film’s - Bojan
Vuletic’s Requiem For Mrs. J. (Serbia/
Bulgaria/Macedonia/France/Russia),
both supported by Eurimages.
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