CATALOGUE BERLINALE CO-PRODUCTION MARKET February 8–10, 2015 Berlin House of Representatives Berlinale Co-Production Market Berlin International Film Festival a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH (KBB) Potsdamer Straße 5 10785 Berlin Germany Phone + 49 30 25 92 05 17 Fax + 49 30 25 92 05 29 [email protected] www.efm-berlinale.de CONTENTS BERLINALE CO-PRODUCTION MARKET Preface 5 Official Projects (in alphabetical order by company) 7 64-A Films, Colombia & Motivo Films, USA KILLING JESUS 8 Agitprop, Bulgaria NY GyPSY 10 Atmo, Sweden SWOON 12 Bananeira Filmes, Brazil ANIMAL RACE 14 Bir Film, Turkey UGUR 16 Chacal Filmes & Tirisia Cine, Mexico THE BLACK PEOPLE (lA NEGRADA) 18 Dugong, Italy & Picofilms, France SAMOUNI ROAD 20 Fly Film, UK LIKE A VIRGIN 22 Horsefly Productions, Greece & Endorphine Production, Germany ALL THE PREtty LIttLE HORSES 24 Jirafa, Chile & Cinéma Defacto, France LOS PERROS 26 La Unión de los Ríos, Argentina CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 28 Maipo Film, Norway THE ASH LaD: IN THE HALL OF THE MOUNtaIN KING 30 Millstreet Films, The Netherlands THE HERO 32 MoviePlus Productions, Israel LIVE FROM JERUSALEM 34 Poetic License Motion Pictures, India PHOTOGRAPH 36 Roads Entertainment, Ireland TRADE 38 Rohfilm, Germany 3 DayS IN QUIBERON 40 Sahara Films Producciones, Chile DAMNED KIDS 42 Salon Pictures, UK My NAME IS LENNY 44 Truenorth, Iceland IN FRONT OF OtHERS 46 Berlinale Directors Projects (in alphabetical order by company) 49 Focus-Fox Studio, Hungary HIGH DIVE 50 Jar Pictures, India SWay WITH ME 52 Polare Film, Georgia My HAPPY FaMILY 54 2 Rotterdam-Berlinale Express (in alphabetical order by company) 57 Homemade Films, Greece THE MIRACLE OF THE SARGASSO SEA 58 Pucará Cine, Argentina ROJO 60 Tandem Production, Germany & Garmata Films, Ukraine LUXEMBOURG 62 Talent Project Market (in alphabetical order by Talent) 65 Emilija Chochkova, Macedonia THE SECRET INGREDIENT 66 Guillaume de la Boulaye, France ONE THOUSAND 68 Galen Fletcher, Canada SAM AND THE ANGEL 70 Gema Juarez Allen, Argentina & Abner Benaim, Panama BIENCUIDAO 72 Serhat Karaaslan, Turkey PaSSED by CENSOR 74 Rami Kodeih, Lebanon SONS OF SUNDay 76 Davi Pretto, Brazil UNTIL THE Way 78 Ingvild Søderlind, Norway WONDER CHILD 80 Bee Thiam Tan, Singapore PONTIANAK 82 Charlotte Walls, UK POMEGRANatE SOUP 84 Company Matching (in alphabetical order by company) 87 Dv8 Films, South Africa 88 Dynamo, Colombia 90 Element Pictures, Ireland 92 Tarantula Luxembourg, Luxembourg 94 Topkapi Films, The Netherlands 96 Index 99 Team / Imprint 104 3 The Berlinale Co-Production Market 2015 takes place in cooperation with: The Berlinale Co-Production Market 2015 is part of the EFM. 4 Dear Colleagues and Friends, Welcome to the 12th Berlinale Co-Production Market. time this year, get a taste of new drama series projects at our new “CoPro Series” Pitching on Tuesday, February 10. Once again, we have selected 36 promising, high-quality feature projects, as well as 5 renowned international All of this is made possible thanks to our valued part- companies, with whom we look forward to setting up ners and sponsors to whom we want to express our lots of meetings. heartfelt thanks: above all the MDM – Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung and Creative Europe MEDIA. We are The 20 OFFICIAL PROJECTS were selected from 331 sub- also grateful to our event partners who are supporting missions. They have all been developed by internation- us this year, and the Berlin House of Representatives – ally experienced production companies and have at which will once again turn into the “home for producers” least 30% of their financing, or local production funding, during the Berlinale Co-Production Market. And last but already in place. not least, we want to thank the VFF Verwertungsge- sellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduzenten, ARTE, and As in previous years, 3 further promising projects come Eurimages, who are each donating prestigious and gen- to us via the ROTTERDAM-BERLINALE EXPRESS, straight erous awards to selected projects. from CineMart at Rotterdam. To date, 190 former Berlinale Co-Production Market pro- This year, we are also excited to introduce 3 fresh pro- jects have been made – which equates to more than jects by directors who have shown their previous films 40% of all presented projects. at the Berlinale. While these new projects may not have as much financing in place to date, we have great faith Five of these films, co-productions originating from in these directors and their producers, and therefore feel four different continents, will be presented at this year’s that these BERLINALE DIRECTORS Projects are ready to Berlinale. BIG FATHER, SMALL FATHER AND OTHER STORIES be presented to you. by Phan Dang Di is selected in Competition, ABSENCE by Chico Teixeira and WHY ME? by Tudor Giurgiu will For the TALENT PROJECT MARKET, 10 upcoming produc- screen in Panorama, while THE BODA BODA THIEVES by ers and directors from Berlinale Talents were selected Yes! That’s Us and ZURICH by Sacha Polak are selected in from 245 applications. In this section, you can find sev- Forum. eral projects at earlier stages or with smaller budgets, as well as discover directors and producers who are just Enjoy reading and meeting this year’s projects, have a stepping into the international co-production arena. good time at the Berlinale Co-Production Market and please return to us with wonderful films! Our COMPANY MATCHING Programme is a specially developed matchmaking format that doesn’t focus on specific projects, but on the production companies themselves – their structure, philosophies and project slates. Here, we are pleased to present 5 companies from Colombia, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and South Africa. While targeted matchmaking and hand-picked projects take centre stage at the Berlinale Co-Production Market, we also aim to encourage general networking among the 500 selected producers and financiers from all over the world who are attending in order to discuss the selected projects, and to get up-to-date producer- oriented information, meet the “Books at Berlinale” Dieter Kosslick Sonja Heinen representatives for adaptation rights, and, for the first Festival Director Berlinale Co-Production Market 5 Berlinale Co-Production Market OFFICIAL PROJECTS BERLINALE CO-PRODUCTION MARKET 7 KILLING JESUS 64-A FILMS, Colombia & MOTIVO FILMS, USA Writers Laura Mora, Alonso Torres Director Laura Mora Producers Diego F. Ramirez, Maja Zimmermann Diego F. Ramirez 64-A Films Project Information Format Arri Alexa to DCP Running Time 95 min Genre Drama Target Audience Arthouse crossover Maja Zimmermann Shooting Start Spring 2016 Motivo Films Shooting Language Spanish Main Cast (confirmed, requested, favoured) Stephanie Siegman (r) Financial Information Total Budget 1.152.800 € Laura Mora Financing already in place (35,2 %) 405.500 € Financiers / Partners already confirmed Proimágenes, Colombia (public fund, development support and automatic promotion grant) 113.000 € Caracol TV, Colombia (presale, Colombian TV rights) 127.500 € 64-A Films, Colombia (own investment and deferments and private equity investment) 115.000 € Motivo Films, USA (own investment and deferments) 50.000 € Looking for "We are looking for co-producers and post-production partners as well as a sales agent. We would ideally like to find one European, particularly French or German, and one Latin American co-producer as we would like to apply to Ibermedia, but we are open to other countries as well. One leading role for a foreigner (Spanish-speaking), some key crew 64-A Films positions and the post-production are open for international partners.” Carrera 8B # 107 - 04 Bogotá Colombia Company Profiles Phone +57 1 48 38 99 3 64-A FILMS is a Bogota-based production company which creates award-winning feature Mobile +57 31 13 07 10 46 films, TV and new media content. Credits include: DOG EAT DOG (Sundance, 2008); ALL [email protected] YOUR DEAD ONES (Sundance, 2011); ONE, THE STORY OF A GOAL (Guadalajara, 2011) and www.64Afilms.com 180 SECONDS (Miami, 2012). More recently, the company produced FRAGMENTS OF LOVE (in post-production) and CIUDAD DELIRIO, which opened the 2014 Cartagena Film Festi- Motivo Films US val. It also provided production services for Ken Sanzel’s BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA. CEO Diego 1431 Lucile Ave Ramirez was the executive producer on the hit TV series ESCOBAR, EL PATRÓN DEL MAL. Los Angeles, CA 90026 LA-based MOTIVO FILMS is spearheaded by Maja Zimmermann who has co-produced USA and executive produced several award-winning features with European and Latin Ameri- Phone +1 32 34 28 16 23 can partners, such as the Colombian dramas PORFIRIO (2011) and FIELD OF AMAPOLAS [email protected] (2012), the Mexican documentary DEATH IN ARIZONA (2014) and feature LA 4A COMPA- NIA (2014), and the Polish thriller HEL (2015). In 2015, Zimmermann will be co-producing the Swiss-Argentinian production POZO DE AIRE. 8 Berlinale Co-Production Market 64-A FILMS, Colombia & MOTIVO FILMS, USA A young Colombian student accidentally crosses paths with her father’s assassin and so is forced to define the limits of her own humanity. The encounter with the assassin will reveal how much it takes to kill, as Paula recognises in him a reflection of her own self. Synopsis Director’s Note Young art student Paula witnesses the murder of her KILLING JESUS aims to be a simple, naturalistic, narra- father, a popular political science professor and human tive and character-driven drama that seeks to explore rights advocate in Medellín. She catches a glimpse of complex emotions. The cinematic challenge may lie in the murderer’s face as he rides past her house on a mo- portraying violence through intimacy, so we can under- torbike, after killing her father in cold blood. stand the magnitude and complexity of the sociopoliti- Pain-stricken and filled with anger, Paula faces the cal context of a society in conflict.