Projects
Projects
A Guide To Living For The Dead
Category: Buyers Showcase
Directed by: Baris Fert
Produced by: Ipek Erden (Vayka Film), Emre Pekçakir
Country of Production: Turkey
Original Title: Ölüler Için Yasam Kilavuzu
Genre: Action, Dark Comedy, Thriller
Language: Turkish
Deniz, a crime machine who lost her feelings and ability to empathize years ago, chases after a mysterious software that is supposed to be in Istanbul and finds herself in a chaotic, one night only adventure.
Guest Star
Category: Thessaloniki Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Vasilis Christofilakis
Produced by: Vasilis Christofilakis, Teta Apostolaki + Atmosphere People, Greek Film Center, ERT
Country of Production: Greece
Original Title: Guest Star
Genre: Feature film
Language: Greek
Runtime: 120min
Completed in: 2022
Loukianos is the son of two famous Greek actors. Although he tries to live up to their fame, he is broke, living a tiny apartment and suffering from agoraphobia. His life is about to change when he is offered to be the host of a successful late-night talk show.
Chrysantemum Day
Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Simon Mozgovyi
Produced by: Alex Chepiga, Artem Koliubaiev, Daryna Zakharova, Kateryna Lachyna (Mainstream Pictures LLC)
Country of Production: Ukraine, North Macedonia
Original Title: Свято Хризантем
Genre: Feature film
Language: Ukrainian
Runtime: 90min
Completed in: 2023
A story of relations between a young medical doctor and her patient – an old “flower-woman”, known as a healer, who mysteriously survives a nuclear explosion having completely lost her memory and identity. With clear orders to achieve results, the doctor manages to bring back some memory bit by bit, but these remembrances became unbearable for the old Healer…
Back to the Sea of my Deseaced
Category: SANFIC Industria Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Esteban García Garzón
Produced by: Ivette Liang (Galaxia 311), Marco Antonio Salgado (Cinema226)
Country of Production: México, Colombia
Original Title: Regreso al Mar de mis Muertos
Genre: Feature film
Language: Español
Runtime: 75min
Completed in: 2022
Chico (11) lives with Ismelda (71), his Wayúu grandmother, by a sidewalk in the Colombian Guajira. A couple of years after Sara’s death, Chico’s mother, he begins to dream of his indigenous ancestors who ask him to go back to his mother’s bones in Jepirra, the sacred place of the Wayúu.
A Room of His Own
Category: HAF Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Matan YAIR
Produced by: Maya FISCHER, Green Productions
Country of Production: Israel, Italy
Original Title: A Room of His Own
Genre: Feature film
Language: Hebrew
Runtime: 80min
Completed in: 2022
Since Uri’s father moved out, Uri’s mother has been sleeping in Uri’s room. However, Uri is seeking his own path and his own room to deal with this world.
Epiphania
Directed by: Jan Kounen
Produced by: Philippe Aigle & Séverine Lathuillière - Naïa Productions
Country of Production: France, Belgium
Original Title: Epiphania
Language: French
Runtime: 90min
Completed in: 2023
After a giant tsunami, the arrival of a new hybrid species disrupts the social order. These half-human, half-animal children, called Epiphanians, develop a visceral hatred of human beings as they grow up. The Earth, mistreated and threatened by Humans, seems to be sending its own army.
Dark Nature
Category: Fantastic 7
Directed by: Berkley Brady
Produced by: Michael Peterson
Country of Production: Métis, Canadian
Original Title: Dark Nature
Genre: Horror
Language: English
Toronto International Film Festival
A therapy group are forced to confront the monsters of their past when an isolated weekend retreat in the Canadian Rockies tests not only their emotional resilience, but their ability to survive.
Deja-vu
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Narrative
Produced by: Martin Schmidt, Raumkapsel Animation
Directed by: Dennis Stein-Schomburg
Original Title: Déjà-vu
Lead Artist: Dennis Stein-Schomburg
Runtime: 15-30 minutes (Variable due to interactive aspect.)
Language: English
Completed in: 2021
Synopsis:
In the city of “Evia” residents are infected with light. A girl discovers what appears to be the host. She befriends it and houses it. Not to the delight of the other residents who want to drive the host away. A persecution begins…
Director’s statement:
People shape cities. But who are these people and how do they react when an apparent threat invades their living space.
In Deajvu its about exploring a detailed world to linger, combine and make up your own experience.
Origin: Germany
Devices: Oculus Rift series/Quest
Platform: Alexandria
A Sad and Vulgar Loner
Original Title: Un Vulgar y Triste
Directed by: Efthymia Zymvragaki
Produced by: Patricia Sánchez Mora (Gris Medio, Spain) co-producers: Novena Nube - Kaboga - Thurnfilm - Tranvía
Country of Production: Spain, Germany
Runtime: 90', 60'
Expected Release: November, 2022
Production Stage: Post production
Budget: €388,800 (50% in place)
1st Feature: Yes
Looking for: Gap financing, strategic guidance, buyers, sales agent, distributors, festivals
Synopsis:
A Sad and Vulgar Loner explores what happens when an abusive man speaks out, positioning himself as a critic of violence. Without excusing his acts, the film creates a space in which the abuser has a voice, bringing a new perspective on violence and abuse with a focus on the breaking of violent cycles and the urgent need for a healing process in society.
Director’s profile:
Efthymia Zymvragaki works as a director, writer and cinematographer. Drawn to social and gender issues, she is attracted towards intimate, first-person approaches to complex and lesser-known realities, with the desire to explore spaces of intimacy within and between people.
After graduating in Psychology. University of Crete, Greece in 2001, studied photography Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain (2003-2005) and completed a Master in Artistic Production and Research at the University of Barcelona (2011-2012).
Her film career began during her Master’s degree by means of artistic productions and by collaborating with Angelo Orlando for the production company Gris Medio. She is an alumni of the IDFA Academy, the CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator and the Acció Producció, Dones Visuals, LIM Development Angels, DOK.incubator International Program 2022.
Producers’s profile:
Patricia Sánchez Mora, graduate in Library Science and Documentation, Audiovisual Communication (University of Extremadura), Master in Audiovisual Anthropology (UB). Alumni of Acció Producció Dones Visuals, 2021, LIM Development Angels, 2021, DOK.incubator International Program 2022. She is head of the L’Alternativa Professionals program (pitching, mentoring, meetings and industry activities) since 2010. In 2007 she created the production company Novena Nube. The films she has produced have been selected for festivals such as DOK Leipzig, Visions du Réel, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Busan, BFI London Film Festival, Cinespaña, Festival de Málaga, Sevilla European Film Festival, D’A Film Festival, Mecal, Seminci and Zinemaldia.
Dame Valerie Adams: More Than Gold
Original Title: Dame Valerie Adams-More Than Gold
Directed by: Briar March
Produced by: Leanne Pooley (Eight Productions, New Zealand)
Country of Production: New Zealand
Runtime: 90'
Expected Release: October, 2022
Production Stage: Post Production
Budget: $1,250,000 USD (100% in place)
1st Feature: No
Looking for: Sales Agents, Festivals, Distributors, Buyers
Synopsis:
The inspirational story of one of the World’s greatest shot-putters; Olympic gold medallist Dame Valerie Adams. Tokyo was the Tongan, New Zealander’s 5th Olympic campaign and the culmination of an odyssey that started with a troubled childhood, traversed poverty, health issues and a near death experience…to the top of the sport’s world – where she stands as a role model, a mother, and an athletics icon.
Director’s profile:
Briar March is a filmmaker and Fulbright scholar. Her films have been broadcast on major television networks around the world, have been theatrically released, and are regularly exhibited in film festivals having won over 30 international awards. Her last feature Mother’s of the Revolution premiered at the BFI London Film Festival (2021). Her filmography also includes feature documentaries, A Place To Call Home (2014), There Once was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho (2010), and Allie Eagle and Me (2004), as well as documentary shorts: The Coffin Club (2017), Smoke Songs (2012), Michael & His Dragon (2010), Sick Wid It (2010), and Promenade (2011). In 2011-2012 she was a full-time Instructor in Documentary Film Production at Florida Atlantic University. Briar received an M.F.A in Documentary Film and Video Production at Stanford University, and a B.F.A at Auckland University’s Elam School of Fine Arts.
Producers’s profile:
Leanne Pooley has been a documentary filmmaker for over 25 years. She has directed films all over the world, winning over 30 international awards awards (including Best Documentary at TIFF). Leanne is a New Zealand Arts Laureate, an “Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit” and a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (The Oscars). Born in Canada, Leanne immigrated to New Zealand in the mid-1980’s and began working for TVNZ. In 1992 she moved to England where she made documentaries for Britain’s major broadcasters including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 as well as PBS and Discovery in America. Leanne returned to New Zealand in 1999 and established SPACIFIC FILMS. Her documentaries have screened in more than 100 countries and include topics ranging from rugby to the Pope.