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Igudesman & Joo – world class musicians competing for fame and fortune – find their friend- ship and career at risk due to their own idiocy. With the help of their celebrity and musician friends, the music-comedy duo rush to save their careers. Set in the uninhibited world of music and shot documentary-style, Igudesman & Joo must navigate zealous fans, greedy business partners, and their own ambition in order to rediscover their passion for music. CREDITS & PROJECT INFO

Original language: English Target audience: Teens/Adults Genre: Comedy/Documentary Format: Mockumentary/Road Movie Planned Length: 90’ - 120‘ Finishable by: November 2017 Estimated cost: 482.000 USD Shot in: USA (75%) Europe – countries tbd Platform/Outlet: Festivals and Movie Theaters

Produced by: Aleksey Igudesman & Julia Rhee Directed by: Aksel Stasny Written by: Mike Lee, Aksel Stasny, Aleksey Igudesman & Hyung-ki Joo Editing by: Mike Lee & Kyle Langenbach Co-Producers: Kyle Langenbach, Sebastian Leitner, Andrew Goodwin Music by: Igudesman & Joo Production Company: Music Traveler Productions TREATMENT

Igudesman & Joo perform for a sold out crowd at the Igudesman goes full diva – champagne for breakfast, Hindenburg Music Festival. Though critics agree it gold violins, and pole dancers. Joo tries the route of a is “the best show of their career,” Igudesman & Joo shock rocker (a la Ozzy Osbourne) and makes headlines feel artistically uninspired. Igudesman is momentarily when he sprays blood on the audience and sets a cheered up by the attention of a groupie, however, priceless piano on fire. Forced to resume the rest of while Joo is at his hotel FaceTiming for hours with his their tour piano-less, while Igudesman goes looking family back home. for female attention, Joo is constantly looking for a piano. The next day, their manager, John Malkovich – who has the same name as THE John Malkovich but the Sick of their squabbling, Sean Lennon convinces manager wears glasses so it couldn’t possibly be the his friends to go on a spirit journey to reset their same man – promises greater success if they rebrand minds and their friendship. They all head to the as One Dimension or Backalley Boyz or *N-SINCERE. desert to try ayahuasca. After accidentally drinking the Malkovich tells Igudesman he is responsible for the entire batch, Lennon falls into a hallucinogenic coma. group’s success. And then Malkovich tells Joo the Unable to leave Lennon alone in his state, Igudesman same thing. & Joo then contract dysentery and begrudgingly help each other by fetching toilet paper and digging holes This plants a seed in everyone’s brain. At each to shit in. performance on their tour, Igudesman & Joo try to upstage each other. The act falls apart but the audience Though their friendship is salvaged, Igudesman & Joo eats it up. Igudesman & Joo believe their own hype sadly decide to go their separate ways with their music. and embrace their fame by collecting celebrity music Igudesman plays Madison Square Garden with his new students and indulging their vanity with beauty piano man, . Midway through the concert, routines that include teeth whitening, juice cleanses, Billy Joel walks off stage… and in a poignant reunion, spray tans, and body waxing. Joo appears on stage to finish the song. TRAILER PREVIOUS PROJECTS

NOSELAND, a feature-length, humorous documentary about a classical music festival with John Malkovich and Roger Moore, featuring classical music and some of its stars in a non-glamorous but real and authentic, crazy way whilst poking fun at everything but the joy of music itself.

It was part of over 18 festivals worldwide and also awarded “Most En- tertaining Documentary” in the USA 2012. It was nominated for “Best Directing and Editing” at the Madrid International Film Festival in 2012 and later on brought to German movie theaters and DVD by missing- FILMs.

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Aleksey Igudesman & Sir Roger Moore: Sir Roger Moore is not Ready John Malkovich, , Aleksey Igudesman ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN - What makes you think that a musician and, as you quite rightly put it in the synopsis, a wanna-be film Together with the pianist Hyung-ki Joo, he appears as an interview with myself maker, can make a decent movie withoutDIRECTOR‘S having BIOGRAPHY IGUDESMAN & JOO. Their show “A Little Nightmare any kind of movie making experience? Music“ has received much acclaim by critics and audien- Aleksey Igudesman is known as a violinist, but has also Why? ces and been watched on YouTube over 28 million times. It is not quite true that I‘ve had no previousestablished movie himself as a composer, conductor, actor and They often perform with , Julian Rachlin, Well, the ways in which this question can be answered making experience. I have edited many of my ownfilm clips maker. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and at and short films for YouTube or as extras on DVDs. , Viktoria Mullova, Emanuel Ax, John are manifold, depending on what you (or I in this case) the age of 12 he was accepted to the prestigious Yehudi actually mean. But since I happen to know (mostly due Because my work with IGUDESMAN & JOO involves a lot Malkovich among others. of comedy where the visual side is as importantMenuhin as the School in England. He then studied violin with to intuition) that I probably meant “why?“ in reference to Boris Kuschnir at the Vienna Conservatory. the movie “Noseland“, I will precede to answer as follows: music and the spoken word, I have been experimenting IGUDESMAN & JOO appeared in front of half a million Because Julian asked me to. with film for numerous years. people, alongside rock legends such as Simple Minds, Igudesman’s music is published by UNIVERSAL EDITION. Kim Wilde, Sinead O’Connor, Tears for Fears and Robin Also, the humorous documentary “IGUDESMANHis & JOO:compositions have been performed world wide by And because it had always been a dream of mine to make Gibb from the BeeGees. a classical music mocumentary. Julian Rachlin, the main Everything You Wanted to Know About Classicalsoloists, Music“, ensembles and orchestras, often with him as a which was produced for ZDF/Arte and shownsolo on TV violinist in and conductor. He has often performed his protagonist in this movie, apart my humble self, is my Aleksey Igudesman plays a Santo Serafin 1717 violin, oldest friend. I have known him since we were less than many countries, was created with me being in theviolin editing duets in the project “Violins of the World“, in which kindly loaned to him by ERSTE BANK and a bow by the 6 years old. In fact, the story goes that Julian started to room for many hours. his poems are recited by Sir Roger Moore. learn the violin because of hearing me and my dad play- modern bow maker Benoit Rolland. In fact, most of the material that can be seen which ing together. Igudesman has written for and performed as a soloist on features me in a leading role, was created with me in the www.igudesmanandjoo.com several movie soundtracks and worked closely with editing room. And a lot of it with the highly talented film www.alekseyigudesman.com Our parents have been friends since before we were born. Academy Award© winning film composer Hans Zimmer After each of our families had immigrated from the Soviet maker Sebastian Leitner, who I teamed up with to make on numerous movies such as “Sherlock Holmes“, which Union, we all ended up in Vienna, the city where we first “Noseland“. met and are still based in. was nominated for the Oscar for the best original score. Yes, I freely admit, without his knowledge of Helighting, has co-written the soundtrack for “Jealous of Throughout the many years we have known each other, cameras and a dozen other crucial things for filmthe making, Birds“ together with Hans Zimmer, which won the Julian and I have been involved in numerous projects I would not have been able to do it. But is thatGrand not the Prize for the best original score in the Rhode together, whether on stage performing with each other, director’s job? To have a vision, and instinct, andIsland way too International Film Festival. New collaborations with developing ideas for Julian‘s wonderful festival or little knowledge of how to put it into practice, thenZimmer get a are in the works. drinking slightly too expensive wines and chasing the great team together who do most of the work? Hmmm, well, maybe not. ladies. Igudesman has directed, produced and starred in the 3 feature length documentary “Noseland“ about the Julian Rachlin & Friends festival, featuring John Malkovich and Noseland_Brochure_A5_2013_1.indd 4 13.02.2013Sir Roger 15:18:28 Moore.

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(1) Development The L4PM “work in progress video” One pager (incl. Title, Logline, Short synopsis) Concept / Skeleton script Total $ 40.000,00

(2) Pre-Production Script and revisions Pre Production Estimated Total $ 302.000,00

(3) Production Script revisions Production Estimated Total $ 41.000,00

(4) Post-Production Picture Edit Sound Mix Color Correction Export to DCP Admin $ 30.000,00 P&A $ 69.000,00 Estimated Total $ 99.000,00

Total, all Stages $ 482.000,00 CONTACT

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