TFL Extended 2019 Join TFL Extended in 2020! Develop your projects, deepen your competences & network with film professionals from all over the world in these intensive 4-day workshops.

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TFL Extended – Feature Film Dive deep into the writing process in these intensive development workshops. TURIN, APRIL 17TH – 21ST TURIN, JUNE 13TH – 16TH TURIN, JUNE 18TH – 22ND TURIN, SEPTEMBER 11TH – 15TH TFL Extended 2019 TFL Extended was a challenge and, like all TFL EXTENDED challenges, needed to have ambitious goals. With TFL Extended we aim at enlarging Angelica Cantisani our community, by granting access to professionals coming from all over the Head of TFL Extended world. We want to offer our pedagogic expertise also to the countries that cannot take part in our regular programmes and that do not benefit from any professional training possibilities in their areas. TFL Extended is now a dynamic reality able to offer immediate and tailor-made consultations in different areas: script development for fiction feature films, documentaries and TV series; professional training for story editors and audience designers and an international hub for creative producers who want to boost their projects and improve their networking skills. In the past two years we have had the pleasure to work with more than 200 professionals coming from all over the world, helping them to deliver new singular and intimate stories, born through productive collaborations. Stories that can engage audiences personally. These professionals worked together in a process of creation that perfectly honoured the main goal of storytelling: generating a unique voice, loud enough to catch the attention of the rest of the world, inspiring others. This success has been achieved mainly thanks to the devoted and caring work by the team of tutors and experts that have joined this adventure and put their expertise at the service of TFL Extended. A special thanks to Eilon Ratzovsky (Head of Studies), Axelina Gunnarsson, Laura Amelio and Costanza Fiore: there would be no TFL Extended without any of you. The results achieved until now have made the programme stronger and we are ready to face the next Extended challenges.

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3 24 Sisterhood INDEX 8 TV Series 11-15 APRIL Sytske Kok, Maaike Benschop

10 @Sunny 25 The Enchanted Ronnie Zidon Anna Marmiesse

11 Cinnamon Shops 26 The Magic Mountain Iryna Serebriakova Machteld van Gelder, Brechtje Schaling 12 Covered Kioumars Namiri 27 The Millennials Wout Peter Malestein, 13 Delivery Bas Broertjes Ivona Juka, Anita Juka 28 The Possessed 14 Dolores Bartosz Staszczyszyn, Anna M. Bofarull Maciej Kubicki

15 Eastern 20 The Surveillant Patryk Bugajski, Lars T. Therkildsen, Ewa Stec Maria Møller Christoffersen 16 Eternal City Anne Gately

17 Grannies on the Move 30 Georgina Hegedűs, Script Nikol Cibulya Development – Feature Film 18 Madama Reale 7-10 JUNE Tara Mulholland, Laura Piani 32 A Road to Damascus 19 Marquis of the Wolf Meedo Taha, Davide Mela, Marie Mouchel-Blaisot Andrea Scaglione 33 #africa 20 Mustard Adrian Perez Caroline Bergendahl Arnesen, Rebecca 34 All See None Wirkola Kjellman Zev Aaron

35 21 Notions Anna Nora Chloe Oonagh Kearney Ion Papaspyrou Barbara Healy 36 Breast 22 On Set Lucy Campbell Jana Zeineddine 37 Eastern Mediterranean Mais Salman Aliki Danezi Knutsen 23 September 38 Ferretti Brothers Jørgen Færøy Flasnes vs Real Madrid Roberto Costantini

4 TFL EXTENDED 2019 39 For a Better Place 54 Rites 70 Christina Zune Kwok, Uilin Wang Dee Meaden Nikola Spasic, Milanka Gvoic 40 Fragile 55 Saint Bernard Shapath Das Kat Steppe 71 Draw for Change! Vincent Coen, 41 Glory B 56 Selkie Guillaume Konstantinos Itandehui Jansen, Vandenberghe Antonopoulos, Reece Smith Luigi Campi 72 Dreaming Walls 57 Smaragda Amélie van Elmbt, 42 Gulizar Emilios Avraam Hanne Phlypo Belkıs Bayrak, Öktem Başol 58 The First Victim 73 Homeboys Mario Fernández Tamar Goren 43 Hindu Kush Alonso, Sanghmitra Aluk Amiri, Hitaishi 74 Princess:Warrior Francesco Merlino Ioana Ţurcan 59 The Postman 44 Kinky Francis Lau 75 Soul of the Desert Yayo Herrero, Mónica Taboada Tapia, Mintxo Díaz 60 The Visit Beto Rosero Bobby Prasetyo 45 Kissing Bug 76 Sounds From the Desert Luis Zorraquin 61 The Woman with Emilija Skarnulyte, a Missing Leg Elisa Fernanda Pirir 46 Let it Be Luigi Campi Łukasz Grzegorzek, 77 The Inventory Natalia Grzegorzek 62 Wild Boars Ilana Coleman, Thanasis Neofotistos, Jamie Gonçalves 47 Life in a Beat Grigoris Skarakis Amerissa Basta, 78 The Jungle Fever Dimitris Nakos – Supporting the Malayan Tiger 48 Lisa is a Whore 64 Script Conservation George Varsimashvili Development Paolo Volponi, Marta Skowron Volponi 49 Lucía. Manuela. Marina. – Documentary 7-10 JUNE Julio Mas Alcaraz 79 The Last Sebastian Peña-Escobar 50 My Cat Eyes 66 A Pena, KM100 Anna Petrus Cristina López Justribó 80 Unconventional Gardener 51 One: not even there 67 Anhell69 Alessandro Bernard, Alejandro Fernández Theo Montoya, Massimo Arvat Almendras,c José Juan Pablo Castrillón Ignacio Alonso 81 We, Women 68 Arteries Biljana Tutorov, 52 Panhellenic Camila Dutervil Britta Rindelaub Rinio Dragasaki 69 Cent’anni 53 Rhino Myth Maja Prelog Cecilie McNair, Karen Kristensen

5 112 Vacuum 82 Script 98 Script Yelizaveta Smith, Development Development Aleksandra Kostina – Feature Film – Feature Film 6-9 SEPTEMBER 10-13 SEPTEMBER 113 Xenos Athena Mandis

84 All Inclusive 100 Dark Soil Martin Lund, Brian Deane, Ruben Thorkildsen Wesley Dunne 114 Audience 85 Child Bride 101 Fifteen Design Bárbara Cunha, Peiman Zekavat 6-9 SEPTEMBER Paulo Caldas 102 Innocent Monsters 116 Isona Admetlla, 86 Dodecameron Michael Moody Tsz Ki (Catherine) Chan, Minos Papas Culpepper Síle Culley, 87 Johanna is Still Here 103 John’s Bicycle Giulia Claudia Massacci Pieter Solta Colin Riendeau WORKING WITH Las Mil y Una 88 Kindness 104 Kollam Stefanos Tsivopoulos Shalini Adnani

89 Love and Other 105 Matuna 118 Story Editing Endangered Languages Daniela Alejandra 6-9 SEPTEMBER Rupalee Verma Narváez Huertas, Javier Fernando 90 Lucía and the Pool Segovia Huertas 120 Anita Juka, Mariana Cobra Mariana Schneider, 106 Midnight Sun Annemarie Siemons 91 Nave Maria Nicolás Sandino WORKING WITH Sofia T. Gomes, Moreno Covered Barbie Heusinger 107 Retreat 122 Denise Jonkman, 92 Piaffe Steven Morales Pineda Francesco Nicola Ann Oren Renda, Marlou Rutten 108 Rifts WORKING WITH 93 Spas Geo Doba, Notions Maksym Nakonechnyi Dumitrana Lupu 124 Nicola Garcia Kropp, 94 The Flat Earth 109 The Border Jessie Mangum, Michal Laura Nasmyth Eryk Lenartowicz, Oleszczyk, Lily Slydel, Yvette Underwood 95 The Necklace Konstantinos Tzouflas WORKING WITH Rajesh Golla 110 The Servants’ Law Óscar Adán, The Woman with 96 You Don’t Know Me Juan Ruiz a Missing Leg Iryna Serebriakova / Woman Without a Past 111 Two Sisters Florence Keith-Roach

6 TFL EXTENDED 2019 141 The Rainbow Sky 128 Creative David Fu Xiang Sun Production Tan, Pou Sam Chan 18-23 NOVEMBER 142 The Unbalanced 130 Almost Never Too Late Ingrid Hrubaničová, Alfonso Acosta, Vít Janeček Carolina Mosquera 143 Toll 131 Beloved Carolina Markowicz, Harriet Teng Karen Castanho Teng Wong, Jackie Virginia Tse

132 Daughters 144 Tutors Barney Elliott, Ernesto Gonzalez

133 Enough Angineh Isanians, Emily Mkrtichian

134 Fallen King of Jai-Alai Oliver Fa, Fernando Lourenço

135 Investigator Mendonza Maxim Bessmertny, Jorge Cordeiro dos Santos

136 Karaoke King Federica Gianni, Lara Costa-Calzado

137 Lala Rocko D. Marquez, Marco Antonio Salgado Aguilera

138 Prime Time Jakub Piątek, Jakub Razowski

139 Tectonic Love Will Domingos, Aline Mazzarella

140 The Great Adventure Cecilia Stefanescu, Bogdan Craciun

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TV Series 11-15 April 2019

An intensive training workshop addressed to teams of professionals who want to strengthen their techniques and skills to develop and produce a TV series project. @Sunny

Sunny is a narcissistic, lesbian millennial who always has been an entertainer. She craves attention, and wherever she goes she plays Ronnie Zidon larger-than-life characters Writer/director • Israel that would get it for her. When she is shot to Internet Ronnie Zidon is a 25-year-old Israeli filmmaker fame by accidentally live- who creates bold, young LGBTQ content with a blogging her girlfriend heavy dose of humour. As an out lesbian in her field, cheating on her, she at once she is interested in increasing feminist and queer has all the attention she has visibility on our screens. Ronnie wrote and directed ever wanted. Sunny fights Israel’s first and only lesbian TV series, and is now to find a way to retain this developing a dramedy series. The pilot of attention, without exposing @Sunny won an Award of Merit at the Best Shorts her true self ever again, lest Competition. she will be rejected. She starts a vlog, and through the series, tries to figure out which character to portray, until eventually, she finds her authentic voice.

PROJECT STATUS I am currently looking for producers and broadcasters.

CONTACT INFORMATION Ronnie Zidon [email protected] M +972 502522556

10 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Cinnamon Shops

An 8-episode mini-series that explores the life and works of Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), the Polish writer and painter Iryna Serebriakova of Jewish origin. During his final months of life Scriptwriter • Ukraine in the ghetto, Schulz attempts his personal escape from this Born in 1988, Iryna earned a Master’s degree in unbearable reality. He starts Literature and is currently studying for her second working on his very last book. Master in Psychology. She studied Scriptwriting in In this book, he reinvents Kiev under the guidance of Dmytro Sukholytkyy- the provincial hometown of Sobchuk on his educational platform Terrarium. his childhood – Drohobych She wrote the feature film Over the Channel – lost in Austrian Galicia and co-wrote You Don’t Know Me together with populated by Polish, Jewish director Olga Zhurba, which are at final and early and Ukrainian communities. development stage, respectively. Childhood memories intertwine with day-dreamt family stories, immersed in a rich and controversial intercultural context. The art survives the war, the artist does not.

PROJECT STATUS The first draft is ready and we are currently seeking producers.

CONTACT INFORMATION Iryna Serebriakova [email protected] M +38 0509829365

TV SERIES • 11-15 APRIL 2019 11 Covered

Covered is a female-driven crime-drama series. It is about the unintended involvement of a successful western-style young Iranian Kioumars Namiri woman living in Germany in Writer/director • Germany the racketeering of secret criminal organisations while Kioumars was born 1973 in Iran and migrated she is searching for her to Germany in 1987. He earned a PhD in disappeared small niece. Computer Science from the University of Ostensibly, the series is about Karlsruhe and graduated in Screenwriting from the crime case related to the the Drehbuchwerkstatt München. He has written, niece, but the true subject of directed and produced two short films. Currently, the story is the transformation he is working on a culture-clash romantic comedy of the Iranian woman from funded by HessenFilm. He also works as a business a western-style toward a analyst and has published award-winning papers at traditional woman during the international conferences. search for her niece, including all the contradictions and complications this change brings to her life and relationships.

PROJECT STATUS The project is at an early development stage. We are looking for producers, broadcasters and funders.

This project was chosen for development in the TFL Extended Story Editing workshop.

CONTACT INFORMATION Kioumars Namiri [email protected] M +49 1798111262

12 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Delivery Ivona Juka Scriptwriter • Croatia Three women are forced by local mafia gangsters to Ivona is an award-winning film director and screenwriter. chop the bodies of executed Her latest feature film You Carry Me premiered at Karlovy victims, while still trying to live Vary International 2015 and was screened in their ordinary lives. more than 20 festivals all around the world, where it won several awards. The film was selected as the Montenegrin entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at Oscars 2016, PROJECT STATUS and later became the first film from the Balkan region to be We are looking for bought by . co-producers.

Anita Juka Producer • Croatia

Anita Juka started her own production company 4Film in 2003. She has produced 16 films and 8 European co-productions of different genres, including fiction features, creative feature documentaries, shorts and recently one mini TV series. Her credits include a large number of social awareness media and film literacy campaigns. She participated in international programmes such as Producers Lab Toronto, TransAtlantic Partners, eQuinoxe, and Screen Ireland, among others. Her films won more than 35 international awards and were distributed in more than 170 countries worldwide.

CONTACT INFORMATION Ivona Juka Anita Juka [email protected] [email protected] M +385 912519449 M +385 912512803

TV SERIES • 11-15 APRIL 2019 13 Dolores

Spain, early 20th century. Irreverent and wild, Dolores does not settle for her life of misery as daughter and wife Anna M. Bofarull of poor miners. After experiencing the death Writer/director & Producer • Spain of her children, she takes her life into her own hands Based in , Anna M. Bofarull studied and turns into Pasionaria, a Cinema and Human Sciences in Barcelona and strong woman leading the Paris. Her feature documentaries Footnotes (2009) fight for women and workers’ and Hammada (2010) were awarded and screened rights during the Spanish at festivals worldwide such as Montreal, São Paulo, Civil War, when she made Thessaloniki and Reykjavík. Her first fiction feature internationally famous the Sonata for Cello (2015) screened and was awarded slogan ¡No Pasarán! (They at 20 festivals all over the world. Her next feature Shall not Pass!). Sinjar has been selected at Cannes’ Cinéfondation L’Atelier 2019. Dolores will discover her lights and shadows, her desires and abandonments, her early revolutionary innocence as well as her tyranny and loyalty to the party later on.

PROJECT STATUS We are looking for producing partners, broadcasters and international co-producers.

CONTACT INFORMATION Anna M. Bofarull [email protected] M +34 675060993

14 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Eastern Patryk Bugajski Scriptwriter • Poland The powerful Wind is about to hit a remote community Patryk spent his formative years immersed in independent of highlanders when a nun culture. Educated in Social Politics, he is now synthesizing destroys a local church and his diverse experience into screenwriting. He attended ends up in a psychiatric ward. various courses and worked as a story editor on Illegals, People blame the Wind for a Canal+ Poland spy series. He is also a seasoned documentary filmmaker with many docuseries under his her doings as it is believed to belt. Currently, he is developing several TV series projects. poison minds and bring the evil from the mountains. Ola, a young shrink married into a wealthy family, sees the nun as a victim of the cloistered life. But is the nun really a victim? Or an avenger? As Ola unwittingly Ewa Stec opens the Pandora’s box, Scriptwriter • Poland long forgotten secrets start coming out and reveal the Ewa earned an MA in Screenwriting from the London dark side of her family. Film School as well as an MA in Spanish Studies from the Jagiellonian University. She wrote four novels. With the howling Wind Since starting to write for the small screen, she has getting closer, the violence attended many courses and workshops on film and TV. intensifies. It is payback time. Her interest also lies in criminology and psychology. She did voluntary work for the Metropolitan Police while PROJECT STATUS living in London and, after relocating to Warsaw, for Itaka, the Centre For Missing People. The commercial mini-bible, the treatment of the first episode and the storyline for the complete season are available. We are developing the project together with Telemark, and we are looking for broadcasters, co-producers and sales agents. CONTACT INFORMATION Patryk Bugajski Ewa Stec [email protected] [email protected] M +48 608396481 M +48 668890051

TV SERIES • 11-15 APRIL 2019 15 Eternal City

Eternal City is a mini-series set in Rome during World War II. Based on real events, it tells the story of an Irish priest who becomes a pivotal character Anne Gately in an extraordinary operation Producer • Ireland that saves thousands from imprisonment, deportation Anne’s production company An Pointe Productions and death. is based in Galway, Ireland. To date, she has The operation turns into a produced the feature films Pursuit and We daring collaborative effort, Ourselves, both written and directed by Paul involving individuals from Mercier. She is currently developing a third feature many countries and walks film. Anne has also written, directed and produced of life, that defies and two documentaries, Recording Marjorie and outmanoeuvres the Italian Stocking the Shelves. She was the General Fascists and German Nazis. Manager of the acclaimed Passion Machine But not everyone is saved. Theatre Company in Dublin, with whom she produced many new plays. This TV drama captures an escapade that inspired many to act and is a gripping period thriller designed to resonate with today’s audiences.

PROJECT STATUS The project is at an early development stage, and is supported by Screen Ireland and Screen Skills Ireland. The creative team includes Paul Mercier, Declan Brennan and Anne Gately. We are looking for financers and a co-producer.

CONTACT INFORMATION Anne Gately [email protected] M +353 851947971

16 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Grannies on the Move Georgina Hegedűs Writer/director • Hungary This is a coming-of-age dramedy about three Georgina earned an MA in Film Studies. Her graduation 70-year-old ladies who just short film 13 ½ Minutes was screened internationally and started their journey of self- was awarded at Thess International Short Film Festival discovery. 2013. Since then she developed several feature film screenplays, and worked on an original TV Series for They meet in a graphic HBO. Currently she is working on different TV series as a designer school where they scriptwriter, while she is preparing her first feature film as a become friends and help director, Look into the Eyes of a Stranger, based on a true each other to recognise how story about a woman who became a foster-mother for a their whole life has been refugee kid for the first time in Hungary. devoted to someone else. They will prove that age is just a number and together they start new adventures, because life only begins after 70. They will fight Alzheimer, demanding children, cheating and even dead husbands, but Nikol Cibulya mostly themselves. Writer/director • Hungary They will prove that Nikol earned an MA in Film Studies. After her graduation discovering our true identity she began working as a production assistant and as a never stops. story liner on a daily series. She has directed several music videos, fashion videos and online commercials. PROJECT STATUS Furthermore, Nikol has just finished her second short film and is currently developing the third. She is also working as The project is in development. a director for a Hungarian TV series. We have the Hungarian production company FilmTeam attached, and we are looking for co-producers and international financing.

CONTACT INFORMATION Georgina Hegedűs Nikol Cibulya [email protected] [email protected] M +36 302568320 M +36 205942166

TV SERIES • 11-15 APRIL 2019 17 Madama Reale Tara Mulholland Scriptwriter • France When Marie-Jeanne de Nemours, a futureless orphan Tara was born in London, she grew up in Ireland, and is in Paris, becomes Madama now based in Paris. She worked as a culture editor at The Reale, the Regent of Savoy, in International New York Times from 2005 to 2016. She 1675, her reign in the Italian wrote The Island, a French-British TV series which won the duchy upends the status quo CNC Writing Grant. in Europe. For a decade, she lives according to her own rules: defying Louis XIV, flaunting her lovers to the world, gleefully taking revenge on her late husband’s mistresses, Laura Piani and doing everything in her power to transform Turin into Scriptwriter • France “a new Athens” of culture. Laura has collaborated with directors like Diane Bertrand, But this woman, who wanted Cristina Pinheiro, Marion Laine and Éric Zoncka. Her to live like a man, was capable credits include the TV series Spiral (Canal+), Ronde de Nuit (France 3), Temps de Chien (ARTE) and Philharmonia of everything except loving (France 2). her only son. This is the story She is writing a romantic comedy produced by Le Petit of a mother and child fighting Bureau, co-writing Walkyrie and adapting the series Plan B, for power. both for TF1. PROJECT STATUS Madama Reale won the Film Commission Torino Piemonte contest The Savoia: The Series. The project is a co- production between Les Films d’Ici (France) and Lume Productions (). We are reaching the financing stage and we are currently looking for potential co- CONTACT INFORMATION producers, international sales Tara Mulholland Laura Piani agents, broadcasters and any [email protected] [email protected] kind of support. M +33 683497106 M +33 660375149

18 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Marquis of the Wolf Davide Mela Scriptwriter • Italy Aimone, the King’s secret son and the Prime Minister’s In 2013, Davide graduated in Philosophy from the personal spy, comes home University of Turin. In 2014, he attended a Master in after years of travel to find Film Production and Media, which resulted in his first himself in the middle of collaboration as a first AD for Smile by Davide Tosco, a a power struggle to lead docu-fiction feature produced and distributed by Rai. He th collaborates with several film production companies and 19 century Italy towards works as a line producer for Grey Ladder Productions. unification.

PROJECT STATUS The project is being developed with two production companies based in Turin: Dimago and Grey Ladder Productions. Andrea Scaglione We are currently looking for Producer • Italy international co-producers and partners. Andrea is an Italian director and executive producer, and CEO of the production company Dimago. As a producer, director and art director, he has collaborated with national and international broadcasters, networks and agencies. His credits include commercials (Lancia Veste la Moda, 2008), feature documentaries (Strade Bianche, 2008) and TV shows (Sereno Variabile, Rai). He is a service provider for the Sky shows #SkyBuffaRacconta and Mister Condò.

CONTACT INFORMATION Davide Mela Andrea Scaglione [email protected] [email protected] M +39 3333108135 M +39 3920960116

TV SERIES • 11-15 APRIL 2019 19 Mustard Rebecca Wirkola Kjellman Writer/director • In a little town in the north of Norway, five 15-year-old Rebecca earned a BA in Film and TV Production from girls are starting their last year Westerdals Oslo ACT. She has directed several TV series for of secondary school. When both NRK Super and NRK P3, and has won high-ranking their small-town community awards for her short films, commercials and music videos. is hit by a number of cat disappearances, they begin the search for the town’s psychopath and a new sisterhood is formed. A sisterhood that helps them through personal struggles and life itself. Caroline Bergendahl Arnesen As the town has no high Scriptwriter • Norway school of its own, the girls Caroline earned a BA in Screenwriting from The Norwegian cannot wait to move away Film School. She is currently developing several projects, from their godforsaken town. including a political thriller feature, a horror film project They just have to get through and a book adaptation. their final year.

PROJECT STATUS Mustard is at development stage. We have a season outline as well as a first draft pilot script. The project has received development funding from The Norwegian Film Institute, as well as from Filmfond Nord. We are seeking co-producers and broadcasters.

CONTACT INFORMATION Caroline Bergendahl Arnesen Rebecca Wirkola Kjellman [email protected] [email protected] M +47 94422789 M +47 91591436

20 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Notions Oonagh Kearney Writer/director • Ireland Cork is a city with a Northside and Southside divided by a Oonagh earned a BA in English and Philosophy from the river. The Northside is poor University College Cork and an M.Phil. in Irish Theatre from but dynamic; the Southside the Trinity College Dublin. She worked as a casting director is wealthy but reserved. On for The Wind That Shakes the Barley by (Golden the Northside lives the smart, Palm at 2006). After graduating from the National Film and Television School, Oonagh has rebellious 15-year-old Dawn written and directed nine award-winning shorts and a TV Deasy, and her unemployed pilot for RTÉ. Selected for the BBC Drama Writers Room single-mother Martha. On in 2017, her first feature Snow on Beara is in development the Southside lives the angry, with Screen Ireland. disillusioned 27-year-old PhD student Emmet, son to successful businessman Frank and his wife Sheenagh. When Dawn wins a place on an elite programme for bright kids, it forces her to seek help from Emmet. This puts the Barbara Healy two families and their values Producer • Ireland in direct conflict around the question of where one truly Barbara’s credits include the award-winning short film A Cake for Mabel by Jane McGee (2013), the BAFTA- belongs. nominated short film Fire by Chris Andrews (2015) and the US indie comedy feature The Outdoorsman by PROJECT STATUS David Haskell (2018). As Director of Tyrella Films, she is We have interest from an developing Oonagh Kearney’s feature film Snow on Beara, Irish broadcaster, a pilot the Canadian thriller Trapline, directed by Isabelle Sieb and co-written by Elissa Von Struth, as well as the black episode, series bible and a comedy Baggage by Jane McGee. new pilot script. We are looking for international financing, distributors and co-producers with the aim to shoot in summer 2020.

CONTACT INFORMATION This project was chosen for Oonagh Kearney Barbara Healy development in the TFL Extended [email protected] [email protected] Story Editing workshop. M +353 876422119 M +353 877111012

TV SERIES • 11-15 APRIL 2019 21 On Set Jana Zeineddine Writer/director • Jordan Lara, a Jordanian millennial and aspiring writer desperate Jana Zeineddine is a Lebanese/American actress, writer, to escape her privileged life theatre director, and creative producer. She earned an in Amman, lands her first job MA in Applied Theatre from The Royal Central School on the set of an American of Speech and Drama in London, and she worked as film shooting in the desert. a creative producer and actress in the TV series Fa Sol Ya (2014) and in the short video Tarab 3al 7atab (2015), In the process, she must among others. Jana is drawn to projects that challenge come to terms with the harsh stereotypes of Arab women and culture through comedy. reality of professionalism and independence among an unlikely tribe: dysfunctional production junkies. Through Lara, we get a fresh peek into the isolated lives of Jordanian filmmakers in the industry as they navigate Mais Salman through their personal Producer • Jordan obstacles to fulfill their professional duties, amidst the Mais Salman is a Jordanian film producer and director. cultural and communication She graduated in Industrial Engineering, but then decided challenges with the to follow her passion for film and storytelling, earning an MFA in Cinematic Arts at the Red Sea Institute of Cinematic American crew. Arts in Aqaba, Jordan. Salman has produced and directed several short films and documentaries around the MENA PROJECT STATUS region and is a fellow of the inaugural class of Global It is time to reclaim our Media Makers. narrative and show the world a positive female-driven ensemble of Arab characters in an accessible context and genre. On Set received the Jordan Film Development Fund from the Royal Film Commission – Jordan (RFC). CONTACT INFORMATION We are currently looking for Jana Zeineddine Mais Salman international co-producers, [email protected] [email protected] broadcasters and TV/SVOD M +962 799910399 M +962 796555960 pre-sales worldwide to bring this project to life.

22 TFL EXTENDED 2019 September

September is set in an alternative universe where humans – like almost every other species on the planet – have their sexuality tied to Jørgen Færøy Flasnes a mating season. For eleven Scriptwriter • Norway months of the year, humans live boring, sterile and asexual Jørgen earned a BA in Screenwriting from The lives, but when September Norwegian Film School where his exam film, arrives they become primed Generation Mars, was nominated for a Student for reproduction. Their Academy Award. Since his graduation, he has hormones take over and a written for several drama series and feature films, struggle to control frightful the latest being Nudes for the state broadcaster NRK feelings and desires begin. P3. Ahead of its Norwegian premiere, the series was At the center of the story is sold to BBC Three as the first non-English language an “ordinary” family of this series in the channel’s history. He is a FilmLab alternate universe: a young Norway alumnus, and has received the Norwegian woman, her mother and her Film Institute’s New Paths scholarship for the TV uncle, who in their own ways series project September. try their best to get through the mating season in one piece.

PROJECT STATUS The project is produced by Barbosa Film and is currently at treatment stage. We are seeking sales agents and international co-producers.

CONTACT INFORMATION Jørgen Færøy Flasnes [email protected] M +47 47024599

TV SERIES • 11-15 APRIL 2019 23 Sisterhood Sytske Kok Scriptwriter • Netherlands Sisterhood is a social hospital drama set in 1966 in the Sytske graduated in Scriptwriting and Directing from the Netherlands. Old men still Netherlands Film Academy and the Binger Filmlab. She rule the world, the baby directed the internationally acclaimed short film The boom generation is knocking Chinese Wall (2002) and the TV film Impasse (2005), for on the door, and student which she also wrote the screenplay. In recent years, Sytske has mainly focused on writing films, such as the revolts are about to erupt mid-length film Tunnel Vision by Stefano Odoardi, which throughout Europe. won several international awards. Sytske also teaches and Rebellious working-class works as a script consultant. girl Catrien is the first of her background to enter a prestigious Catholic nursing school. Her arrival shakes up the social order that her privileged classmates and the nuns running the school have always taken for granted. Maaike Benschop Catrien clashes with Sister Producer • Netherlands Alma, the proud school Maaike started her career at Phanta Film in 1996, since founder who fears her world 2000 as Head of Development and in 2012 as Creative and everything she believes in Producer. Her credits include Dennis Bots’ feature films are under attack. Vicious (2019) and Circus Noël (2019), Bas Devos’ Hell Hole (Berlinale Panorama 2019) and Ghost Tropic (Cannes PROJECT STATUS Directors’ Fortnight 2019), and the upcoming Mi Vida by Norbert ter Hall. She is developing a drama series about Sisterhood is at the former Dutch colonies in Indonesia as well as the development stage. second season of Daddy Day. Both series are supported by We are looking for Dutch broadcaster AVOTROS. co-producers, broadcasters and other financial partners worldwide.

CONTACT INFORMATION Sytske Kok Maaike Benschop [email protected] [email protected] M +31 0648478552 M +31 206260255

24 TFL EXTENDED 2019 The Enchanted

A new virus is starting to spread, causing people to sing and dance involuntarily. They are being called “The Anna Marmiesse Enchanted”. In a French city, a group of Writer/director • France people try to implement this new reality into their lives. Is Anna graduated from La Fémis in 2013. Since the world about to become then, she has been a script reader and consultant one giant musical? for several French production companies and TV networks. She wrote and directed her first short PROJECT STATUS film, the musical Lorraine Can’t Sing, in 2016. It has been picked up by France 2 and was screened The project is in development in numerous festivals all around the world. with Kaly Productions. Currently she is developing her first TV series We are looking for potential and a feature film. French and/or international co-producers.

CONTACT INFORMATION Anna Marmiesse [email protected] M +33 685532102

TV SERIES • 11-15 APRIL 2019 25 The Magic Mountain Machteld van Gelder Producer • Netherlands The Magic Mountain is a black comedy about members from In 2000, Machteld founded Kleine Storm, an independent the European elite hoping to TV production company based in Amsterdam. For nearly return to their high-power two decades she created, developed and produced a wide positions after treatment at variety of concepts and series for public broadcasters. the exclusive Zauberberg. Her fiction-experience ranges from comedy, to adapting plays for screen, to drama. She also directed several High up amidst the harsh documentary films and TV series. nature, charming mountain villages and discretion of the Alps, a group of overworked Europeans strive to recover in a luxurious clinic. A minister, a bank director, an actor, a billionaire’s daughter, a conductor and a diplomat Brechtje Schaling seek to reinvigorate their Producer • Netherlands exhausted bodies and minds. The series, inspired by After a career as a freelance line producer of feature films and TV series, Brechtje joined Kleine Storm in 2014 as Thomas Mann’s novel The Production Manager. Magic Mountain, is translated to the problems experienced by Europeans in this day and age.

PROJECT STATUS We are seeking for international partners, broadcasters and networks.

CONTACT INFORMATION Machteld Van Gelder Brechtje Schaling [email protected] [email protected] M +31 621534211 M +31 650686325

26 TFL EXTENDED 2019 The Millennials Wout Peter Malestein Writer/director • Netherlands In the late 90s, teenage twins Celine and Abel are tired of Born and raised in a religious tight-knit community, Wout their predictable lives in the did not grow up with a camera glued to his hand. Instead, religious community they his three brothers infected him with a love for movies grew up in and decide to that inspired him to the very core. In 2014, he graduated become anarchists. in Audiovisual Media, Film Directing and Screenwriting at the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht. His credits include the short documentary The Promised Land (2018), PROJECT STATUS broadcasted on Dutch television. The project is at early development stage. We are mainly looking for financing and broadcasters.

Bas Broertjes Producer • Netherlands

Bas Broertjes was born in Amsterdam. He graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2013, focusing on developing scripts. He worked as a producer and line producer on several short films, and together with Aydin Dehzad in 2014 he joined Kaliber Film, originally founded by Mete Gümürhan. In the past years, Bas was selected for IFFR CineMart’s Rotterdam Lab, IDFAcademy and Ji.hlava IDFF Emerging Producers programme.

CONTACT INFORMATION Wout Peter Malestein Bas Broertjes [email protected] [email protected] M +31 0616652770 M +31 0641251327

TV SERIES • 11-15 APRIL 2019 27 The Possessed Bartosz Staszczyszyn Writer/director • Poland During the Mass, an old lady hangs herself in the church. Bartosz is a screenwriter, journalist and script consultant. Her teenage granddaughter He graduated in Film Studies from the Jagiellonian Ada discovers that suicides University. His writing debut, the critically acclaimed spy have been happening in series Illegals, was broadcast by Canal+ Polska. He has also this area for years. The one been developing a war thriller series Krakau. As a journalist, he has collaborated with the major Polish media. who forced people to kill He attended Storytelling – The Collaborative Model course themselves was the ghost of a by EPI, and the Canal+ Series Lab (2016 and 2018). murdered Roma girl. The ghost possesses Ada’s body and gives her a task. She is supposed to find the girl’s body and bury her in the sacred ground. If she fails, the demon will force her to commit suicide. But it is not Maciej Kubicki the only threat for Ada. The Producer • Netherlands locals are ready to kill her to stop her from solving the Maciej graduated from the Institute of Polish Culture of mystery from the past. Now, the University of Warsaw and in Creative Production from the girl and the demon need the Wajda School. He works as a creative producer and scriptwriter for both cinema and TV. His credits include to work together. adaptations (In Treatment and Pact for HBO Europe, Illegals for Canal+ Polska) and original formats (Londoners PROJECT STATUS for TVP). Maciej is a board member of Telemark and an The project is currently in EAVE Producers Workshop, TorinoFilmLab, MIDPOINT, Ex advanced development. Oriente Film and DOK Incubator alumnus. The story outline, the mini bible and the script of the pilot episode are ready to be shared. We are looking for broadcasters and sales agents.

CONTACT INFORMATION Bartosz Staszczyszyn Maciej Kubicki [email protected] [email protected] M +48 500061482 M +48 508154480

28 TFL EXTENDED 2019 The Surveillant Lars T. Therkildsen Writer/director • Denmark The Surveillant is a dark paranoia comedy about Since 2007 Lars has written and directed several TV shows, identity, surveillance commercials, short films, and games. He is most known in and intelligence set in Denmark for his collaboration with actor and scriptwriter Copenhagen. Charter McCloskey. Together they have produced over 500 minutes of TV primarily for the Danish comedy channel After a tour of duty in TV2 Zulu. Lars is currently working on several feature films , Greg has settled as a scriptwriter. He has an undeniable passion for absurd for a desk job at the Danish universes and loveable but deeply flawed characters. Federal Intelligence. A job he finds slightly boring, but comforting. One day this changes, when Greg is ordered to surveil a person of interest that has suspected ties to terrorism. What ensues is a lot more Maria Møller Christoffersen than he bargained for and Producer • Denmark involves the government Maria Møller Christoffersen has a strong focus on sharing data with a social international collaborations and co-production of arthouse media giant. films. She recently co-produced Johannes Nyholm’s As the investigation Koko-Di Koko-Da, which was selected in Competition continues, Gregs paranoia at Sundance, IFFR and Gothenburg Film Festival 2019. unravels and the rabbit hole Nationally she is in supported development with a slate of various fiction and documentary films. Additionally, she goes deeper than imagined has produced several seasons of TV series for national in this dark comedy series, broadcasters. based on our current information society.

PROJECT STATUS We are in early development and currently looking for broadcasters to join the project.

CONTACT INFORMATION Lars T. Therkildsen Maria Møller Christoffersen [email protected] [email protected] T +45 21675213 T +45 28901506

TV SERIES • 11-15 APRIL 2019 29 Script Development – Feature Film Script Development – Feature Film 7-10 June 2019

A workshop addressed to teams of professionals, with feature film projects at an early development stage, aimed at encouraging the creative process necessary to achieve the best possible result in creating strong stories. A Road to Damascus Meedo Taha Writer/director • Lebanon When a compulsively introverted botanist witnesses Meedo is a Lebanese filmmaker and author who explores a political murder on the the space between memory and identity. He earned a road between Beirut and PhD in Architecture from the University of Tokyo and an Damascus, he realises he MFA in Directing from UCLA. His short film The Incident holds the only clue to the (2017) screened worldwide and won the Directors Guild of America Student Film Jury Award for Women and Minority mystery, a victim’s dying Directors, the Best College Short Film Award at the Phoenix words: “Feed the cat”. Film Festival and the Best First Film Award at the Lebanese Terrified of getting involved, Film Festival. His feature film project Other People he runs away — but the participated in the ’s Screenwriters Intensive, won the honorable mention at the Samuel hypothetical cat keeps him Goldwyn Writing Awards and was a finalist at Francis Ford up at night, leading him to an Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition. empty apartment that has no cat, but a telescope aimed at his own bedroom window. As the nation plunges into turmoil, the paranoid botanist treads through a minefield of absurd clues: a name from his past, a veiled woman in men’s Marie Mouchel-Blaisot shoes, and an acacia tree Producer • France between life and death.

Marie is a producer at MAT Productions, an independent PROJECT STATUS French company which develops and produces French and international projects, feature films and creative A Road to Damascus is documentaries. It is managed by Marie and Richard based on Meedo’s novel of Magnien, who have over 20 years of experience in the same title. production and distribution. Their recently completed The film project participated projects include Fataria by Walid Tayaa (with Tunisia), and they are currently in postproduction with L’Agnello in Rawi Screenwriters Lab, by Mario Piredda (with Italy). In addition to A Road to Hezayah Screenwriting Lab, Damascus (with Lebanon) they are in development on and the Producer’s Lab at the Glorious Ashes by Bui Thac Chuyên (with ). Doha Film Institute, where it received a development grant. CONTACT INFORMATION We seek co-production and Meedo Taha Marie Mouchel-Blaisot financing partners. [email protected] [email protected] M +1 3107800993 M +33 0685563172

32 TFL EXTENDED 2019 #africa

A couple is travelling the world with a bus. Supported by numerous sponsors, the journey is documented for a vast online community. Adrian Perez Everything is working out Writer/director & Producer • Switzerland fine, until they get stuck in Africa and find their real Adrian is a swiss filmmaker with Spanish roots. calling in life. He loves chocolate, cheese fondue, Sangria and #africa is a bloody love story tapas. The only thing he hates is clichés. that talks about the longing for identity and belonging in a time where communities become increasingly virtual and segmented.

PROJECT STATUS The project is currently in development and seeking a producer.

CONTACT INFORMATION Adrian Perez [email protected] M +41 793318728

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 7-10 JUNE 2019 33 All See None

In a prison-like city, Isaiah Foster, a black forty-year- old architect, tries to sell his humanitarian prison design for a price that will allow him Zev Aaron to leave the city for good with Writer/director • United States his young daughter. When Isaiah’s design is Zev was born in New York in 1990. After receiving a selected for construction BA in History with a concentration in the Intellectual by the city, a new life seems History of Modern Europe from The University of possible. But when touring Pennsylvania, he trained on black-and-white 16mm the prison construction and went on to make a series of experimental films site, Isaiah discovers two interrogating contemporary capitalism. He then dead penal laborers on the received an MA from the New School, studying grounds. Traumatized, he particular threads of nineteenth and twentieth feels responsible for what has century German and French philosophies, and occurred and jeopardizes the began shooting narrative short films on 16mm. prison’s construction. Isaiah descends into guilt-ridden paranoia and he and his daughter must run for their lives.

PROJECT STATUS The project is currently in development. A script rewrite is underway. We are seeking a producer.

CONTACT INFORMATION Zev Aaron [email protected] M +1 9173425724

34 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Anna Nora Chloe

This film shows 24 hours of a man’s life. He lives with his wife and her son from another marriage. Today his daughter is being born. Soon Ion Papaspyrou after birth the newborn girl Writer/director • Greece develops birth complications and gets transferred to the Ion was born in 1987 and is currently based in intensive care unit. At the Athens, Greece. He has completed three short same time, his stepson films to date. His short I Am Not Here Now (2013) mysteriously disappears was screened at a large number of international from school and the police film festivals and was praised for its innovative activates an Amber Alert format, including distinctions and awards. Ion has about the missing child. also directed a number of commercials and TV Torn between agonising documentary series. dilemmas in the maternity He is currently developing his debut feature film hospital and the ongoing Anna Nora Chloe. investigation about the missing child, this father is the protagonist of a Greek tragedy pulled down to the human scale, upon his ordinary life.

PROJECT STATUS Anna Nora Chloe is at an early development stage. The project is eligible for public funding under the Greek Film Centre programmes. We are looking for European co-producers and a sales agent. CONTACT INFORMATION Ion Papaspyrou [email protected] M +30 6944350184

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 7-10 JUNE 2019 35 Breast

Set in British suburbia, Breast is about a woman in an abusive marriage who finds a breast lump. Powerless in her own life, she ignores it. Lucy Campbell Instead discovering speed and Writer/director • United Kingdom freedom in a demonic car. The car seems to channel her Lucy is a UK based writer/director with a previous unspoken rage, nearly killing career as an inner-city doctor in Manchester UK. her husband in a massive Her award-winning short films (BFI, Film4, crash. Inside the car, her Fox/Hulu) have been programmed internationally. breast is mysteriously healed. She directed half hour children’s horror for CBBC/ She enjoys her body for the Canadian DHX, broadcast May 2019. She is drawn first time. But outside the car, to female led horror as a space to interrogate the her cancer is encroaching. politics/psychology of the female body. She has features in development with Fox/Hulu and BFI. Breast is an extraordinary She is represented by Ikenna Obiekwe at body horror about female Independent Talent. desire and the politics of the female body.

PROJECT STATUS Breast is currently in development, seeking financing.

CONTACT INFORMATION Lucy Campbell [email protected] M +44 7986613621

36 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Eastern Mediterranean

The island of Cyprus, early sixties. 35-year-old Margarita is an unsettled married woman, tormented by the political unrest of her country. Aliki Danezi Knutsen Her relationship with her Writer/director • Cyprus husband is challenged by an unconfessed conflict. Aliki has a BFA in Film from the Tisch School of the Compromised with the Arts-New York University and a Master’s Degree in new state of things, he Philosophy. She is a Fulbright Scholar, from New looks indifferently at the School for Social Research (thesis title: Human future while she burns with Nature and Storytelling). Her first three feature uncertainty for what is films, Roads and Oranges (1996), Bar (2003) and happening to her country and Chinatown-The Three Shelters (2018), received her life. several awards and quality distinctions at festivals In her husband’s uncle, a around the world. She works extensively in theater, charming idealist lawyer, and has directed several commercially and creatively Margarita finds the acclaimed plays. combativeness she desires. A strong erotic passion awakens and feeds her agitation even more. She soon realises she cannot ignore her feelings.

PROJECT STATUS Eastern Mediterranean is at an early script stage. It has secured a script development fund from the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture and we are looking for a producer and co-producers from Greece,

CONTACT INFORMATION Europe and around the world. Aliki Danezi Knutsen [email protected] M +30 6946536742

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 7-10 JUNE 2019 37 Ferretti Brothers vs Real Madrid

Achille is a water aerobics teacher who lives near Perugia and at the age of 43 still dreams to become a sport champion, no matter Roberto Costantini the sport. He is very good at Writer/director • Italy miniature golf, so when he discovers that mini golf is a Roberto has a background in philosophy and real sport his hope rises again. cinema. He started writing, directing and producing What he needs to become a short films with a group called ZooTroupe. Their champion is the mathematical short film Mavroscoufitsa (directed by Yannis help of his brother Ferruccio Yapanis) was selected at Cannes Film Festival 2002, who was a math professor and Roberto’s short film Virtus F.C. (2004) was in America, and has just co-produced by Sky Italia. Aside his productions he returned. The brothers have worked as technician and AD for cinema, TV and not seen each other since commercials. He also is an exhibitor running a their mother’s funeral 18 two-screen-room movie theatre near Perugia years ago. in Italy. They will have to reconnect in order to be a team again and for Achille to win the miniature golf tournament.

PROJECT STATUS The project is currently undergoing financing and rewriting. I foresee to shoot in late summer/autumn 2020 in Umbria, Italy. I have local support and I am looking for a French co-producer in order to have a French actress in the cast. CONTACT INFORMATION Roberto Costantini The film is going to be low [email protected] budget. M +39 3405214937

38 TFL EXTENDED 2019 For a Better Place Zune Kwok Writer/director • Hong Kong 34-year-old Alifa is a maid working in Hong Kong and Zune’s fiction short films are all grounded with strong the breadwinner of her family research and played by non-professional actors. A Day back in Indonesia. in a Life won Best Film at Munich International Festival of Film Schools in 2008. Downstream was in the international One day her best maid friend, competition at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Yulie, asks for help as she Festival in 2014. Zune was also one of the five directors was fired. She needs a place of the compilation film Ten Years (2015) which won Best to stay until she finds a new Picture at the Hong Kong Film Awards 2016. For a Better job. Grandpa, a lonely old Place is his first feature film. man who Alifa is looking after, shelters Yulie for a while. The trio share a family-like good time. Shortly after, Alifa learns that Yulie was unintentionally killed during a sex trade. The authorities cannot get hold of Yulie’s family since she used Uilin Wang a fake identity to come to the Producer • Taiwan country.

Based in Taipei, Uilin was selected for Berlinale Talents in By then, Alifa learns how little 2007. In 2011, he founded the production company Redbit she knew about her best Pictures in Taipei. The Blackout Village won Best Short friend. Film in Taipei Film Festival and was selected for the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival in 2011. In 2012, Double Fantasy PROJECT STATUS won the 1st prize at Taipei Golden Horse Film Project Promotion. Salli was selected in Produire au Sud Taipei The project is at a Workshop (2018) and Berlinale Talents Script Station (2019). development stage with a full treatment available. A complete 1st draft of the script will be available in September 2019. We plan shooting in Hong Kong with a small but important part in Indonesia. The estimated budget is CONTACT INFORMATION € 700,000. Zune Kwok Uilin Wang [email protected] [email protected] We are looking for a creative M +852 60773224 M +886 915028975 co-producer, to channel international art house markets and post-production support.

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 7-10 JUNE 2019 39 Fragile

The film starts at a dog breeding centre with a married couple and a dog, Kukku. The couple are in a fragile relationship, looking Shapath Das for ways to strengthen Writer/director & Producer • it, having furious fights over petty matters, which Shapath was born and brought up in Kolkata. For the ends with her decision of last 6 years he has been working as a film festival getting a divorce. He is programmer. He is in charge of Arthouse Asia eventually losing his cool. Film Festival as the festival director. This is a new Their relationship reaches a alternative industry focused on film festival which stagnancy. takes place in Kolkata, and has now become the To get pregnant, she, without second most important film festival. Shapath has informing him, stops taking produced two short films. contraceptives, and conceives a child. Her husband accepts the situation positively. But it all ceases when the pregnancy test turns out negative at the clinic. As Kukku conceives a batch of puppies, in utter disbalance, the wife starts envying Kukku’s motherhood.

PROJECT STATUS The project is currently in script development. We are looking for producers.

CONTACT INFORMATION Shapath Das [email protected] M +91 8276877445

40 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Glory B Konstantinos Antonopoulos Writer/director • Greece Two convicts, trapped in medieval pillories (wooden Konstantinos studied filmmaking at Columbia University in planks with holes that clasp New York. He co-wrote the feature film Symptom which together hands and head) participated at Torino Film Festival 2015. His feature script shipwreck on a deserted Memories From The Future participated in Sarajevo Film Mediterranean island. Festival’s CineLink 2016. His latest short Postcards From The End Of The World premiered at Sarajevo Film Festival Justinian II is the vicious, 2019. In the same year, Konstantinos received the Stavros dethroned emperor of Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Award. Byzantium, punished by nose mutilation. Zaharias is a peaceful, cross-eyed beekeeper. The two men desperately need to learn how to collaborate in order to survive, escape the island and reclaim their ruined lives. Luigi Campi Problem is: their pillories Scriptwriter • Italy render them physically useless. Luigi Campi and Konstantinos Antonopoulos met as postgraduate students at Columbia University and have An absurd, byzantine been collaborating since 2009. Luigi is a Fulbright fellow, buddy movie about power, Italian National Film School graduate, Berlinale Talents friendship and the need and Oxbelly Lab alumnus. His debut feature film My First to wipe your own ass with Kiss and the People Involved (2016) premiered at the somebody else’s hand. Los Angeles Film Festival and received top prizes at the Woodstock Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival and PROJECT STATUS Ashland Independent Film Festival. He lives between Rome and Athens. The project is currently at the stage of script development and early casting. It is intended to be filmed in Greece. We are looking for creative partners, co-producers and sales agents. CONTACT INFORMATION Konstantinos Antonopoulos Luigi Campi [email protected] [email protected] M +30 6973809038 M +30 6981497937

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 7-10 JUNE 2019 41 Gulizar Belkıs Bayrak Writer/director • Turkey Emre and Gülizar, who have a religious ceremony Belkıs earned her BA in International Relations and without knowing each other, Advertising Programme in 2006. She received her MA are forced to seek a man in degree in Film and Television from İstanbul Bilgi University France. in 2019. She directed her first short film The Aparment in 2018. Her second short film Cemile is in post-production. Finally, they find the man She is currently developing her first feature debut Gulizar. which makes them know In addition to her career as a filmmaker, she works for each other better. feature film projects and film festivals.

PROJECT STATUS The project is currently at a development stage. We are looking for European partners.

Öktem Başol Scriptwriter • Turkey

Öktem is a lecturer, script consultant and writer. He received his BA and MA in Cinema at Paris VII-Denis Diderot University. He received his PhD from Paris I-Sorbonne University in 1997. His prework for his thesis during his DEA year received the Best University Study Award from the French Union of Film Critics.

CONTACT INFORMATION Belkıs Bayrak Öktem Başol [email protected] [email protected] M +90 5365567999 M +90 5325245202

42 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Hindu Kush Aluk Amiri Writer/director & Producer • Afghanistan/Italy A man and wife have opinions so divergent about the Born in Afghanistan in 1990, based in Italy since 2006. future of their sons that their Graduated in Cinema at Scuola Holden, guided by Nicola relationship culminates in Giuliano. In 2012 he co-directed the documentary murder. An unconscious Welcome to Italy. In 2017 Aluk founded MURCHA Film. kid finds himself holding a In 2019 he produced Kyo, by Andrea Tomaselli. His two short films In the Dreams of My Little Dreams (2008) and weapon bigger than himself. Looking for a Home (2009) have been screened at Venice Two sisters destined for a Film Festival in the Premio Città di Venezia section. future of arranged marriages He won the jury prize Sguardo Altro twice at the Mestre see their fate change IFF, with the short films Happy Birthday (2012) and overnight. A twelve-year- Looking for a Home. old girl is obliged to cut her hair short and dress like a boy. Her sister, a victim of a chain of events, is given as compensation to a rich family. The common thread of this choral story is Hindu Kush, Rohid’s goat, which bears the Francesco Merlino same name as the mountain Scriptwriter • Italy range through which the Francesco was born in Perugia, Italy 1992. In 2014, he events unfold. founded the Emergenze magazine which published more than 50 articles. He graduated in Economics at PROJECT STATUS the University of Perugia in 2015 and in Creative Writing We are working on the first at Scuola Holden in 2018, guided by writers such as draft of the script. Alessandro Baricco, Paolo Cognetti, Marco Missiroli. He then received an MA in Management of Arts and Cultural Looking for a producer and Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University 2019. His novel Il Sole international co-producers. was published by Morlacchi in 2015, the short story Starsky for Retabloid was published in 2017 and in 2019 his story Energia Potenziale was published on Neutopia.

CONTACT INFORMATION Aluk Amiri Francesco Merlino [email protected] [email protected] M +39 3200860497 M +39 3351477140

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 7-10 JUNE 2019 43 Kinky Yayo Herrero Writer/director & Producer • Spain In one of the most marginal neighbourhoods of Madrid, His works have been recognized at Tribeca Film Festival the paths of two twin brothers (2011), Cannes Critics’ Week (2014), of diverge as they try to escape Catalonya (2014), Goya Awards (2015), and Tallinn Black from the environment in Nights FF (2018), receiving 200 prizes around the world. which they live. Both have His experimental feature The Maus (2017), supported by the Cannes Critics’ Week programme Next Step, screened been raised in “The Red at the Sitges Film Festival of Catalonya (2017) and the Tower”, a local block where Austin Fantastic Fest – USA (2017), won the Special the Eastern gangs do business Mention price at Next Wave Features, and was broadcasted with the flats evicted by by Netflix. the banks. Inspired by real events, the film describes the life of several low-level criminals from the suburbs of Spain.

PROJECT STATUS Mintxo Díaz The budget for the project is € 2.000.000. Producer • Spain We are looking for Mintxo was selected as a producer at Berlinale Talents co-producers and (2017) and IDFA Academy (2018). His works have been sales agents. recognized at Cannes Critics’ Week (2014), Tallinn Black Nights FF (2018), Tribeca Film Festival (2011), Goya Awards (2015), The Sitges Film Festival of Catalonya (2014) and BAFICI (2019), receiving 200 prizes around the world. He is a founding partner of The Melitón Studios and the programme Filming in Navarre with , an immersive workshop with the Iranian director, winner of two Oscars.

CONTACT INFORMATION Yayo Herrero Mintxo Díaz [email protected] [email protected] M +34 678268892 M +34 610809238

44 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Kissing Bug

15-year-old Nelson left school and smuggles goods across the Argentinian- Bolivian border to help his mother. He gets caught Luis Zorraquin by Gustavo, a police officer Writer/director • Argentina who put one kilo of cocaine in his bag. Luis is a film director and screenwriter, born in the Without possible defense, 80s in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2016, his debut Nelson is embarked on a feature Guaraní premiered at Tallinn Black Nights police plan to combat drug Film Festival, and was awarded at different festivals trafficking. He must travel around the world. He studied cinematography and to another city and establish developed his professional career in advertising a friendly relationship with cinema and is a founding partner of Modos, a Carol, the 14-year-old contemporary art gallery. Kissing Bug is his second daughter of the alleged cartel film as a director. boss. The problem is that in the meantime he will be in Gustavo’s custody, forcing him to decide between love or his life.

PROJECT STATUS Kissing Bug is in the advanced development stage, has a third version of the script that participated in the Unpublished Screenplay competition of the Havana Film Festival 2018, and in the Co-production Forum of the Guadalajara Festival in 2019.

CONTACT INFORMATION Luis Zorraquin [email protected] M +54 91141638709

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 7-10 JUNE 2019 45 Let it Be Łukasz Grzegorzek Writer/director • Poland 45-year-old Joanna is a loving mother, a caring Łukasz graduated from the Law and Administration daughter, a supportive wife Department at Warsaw University. He used to be a tennis and a great teacher. Trying player. His first feature fiction, Kamper, had its world to find balance between her premiere at Karlovy Vary IFF in 2016 and won the Discovery family and her own needs she Award at Raindance IFF 2016. His second film A Coach’s Daughter won the Best Youth Film Award at Cottbus IFF leads a double life. 2019. He also directed many commercials and videoclips. One day she receives a In his work he tries to be conscious and honest. blackmail: “I know that you do terrible, terrible things. Either you confess them in front of the whole school or I’ll do it for you”. From now on all of her fears come true. Natalia Grzegorzek PROJECT STATUS Producer • Poland The project is in Natalia graduated from Applied Social Sciences at Warsaw development: the second University and the DOK Pro workshop at Wajda School. draft of the script is available She produced Kamper (2016) and A Coach’s Daughter in English. (2018), both directed by Łukasz Grzegorzek. She also co-produced Winter Flies (2018) by Olmo Omerzu – We are looking for the Czech Republic’s Oscar candidate in 2018. She is international co-producers an expert at the Polish Film Institute. In Koskino she looks and will start applying for for international co-productions both as a minority and financing in the fall of 2019. main producer.

CONTACT INFORMATION Łukasz Grzegorzek Natalia Grzegorzek [email protected] [email protected] M +48 509206826 M +48 605764774

46 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Life in a Beat Amerissa Basta Writer/director • Greece Lena is a girl in her early 20s that lives in her family house Amerissa was born in Athens in 1979 and currently and makes a living working lives, works and creates her films in Athens. She studied at a local supermarket. Communication, Mass Media and Civilization in Panteion When she gets pregnant by University of Athens and earned a Master’s Degree in 25-year-old boyfriend Argyris, Cultural Management from the same institution, during which she took classes in filming and scriptwriting. She she decides to keep the baby, has been making short films and participating in film and despite the fact that she has television production since 2009. almost no support. Lena decides to march to her own beat.

PROJECT STATUS Life in a Beat is at an early development stage. Dimitris Nakos It participated at the MFI Script 2 Film Workshop. Writer/director & Producer • Greece The producer is Ioanna Dimitris was born in Athens in 1982 and earned a PhD Soultani (Soul Productions in cinema and philosophy. He is also a graduate of the - Greece), co-produced by National University of Athens and Panteion University of Athens. He is living and working in Athens as director, Panos Bisdas (Authorwave screenwriter and producer. He is currently in pre- - Greece). production, with his first feature film, called Meat and he also is co-writer of Amerissa Basta’s first feature film, Life in a Beat.

CONTACT INFORMATION Amerissa Basta Dimitris Nakos [email protected] [email protected] M +30 6958009839 M +30 6973709806

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 7-10 JUNE 2019 47 Lisa is a Whore

Lisa Andrieu is a theatre actress in a little town. One day she discovers a graffiti saying “Lisa Antelia is a Whore”. She gets concerned George Varsimashvili and erases it, but a couple of Writer/director & Producer • /France days later the same graffiti reappears in front of her George is a Georgian director born in 1986. theatre. He studied filmmaking at Paris 8 University and Later the new graffiti emerges ESRA Paris Film School. During his studies he in front of the school, where made a dozen short films and a graduation feature, she takes her kid. Lisa goes Particulier a Particulier (2012), which was released in on the hostile journey of theatres internationally. In 2017 he directed the short finding the author of these film Schody in Poland and in 2019 he was invited by writings. She has to confront Bela Tarr to direct a short film in Switzerland, that the people she has had premiered at Locarno Film Festival 2019. relationships with. Meanwhile the slogan “Lisa is a Whore” becomes popular in the community: painters improvise, musicians write songs and even a sex shop is called Lisa.

PROJECT STATUS The project is at a late development stage and we are looking for partners: co-producers, sales, distributors and festivals.

CONTACT INFORMATION George Varsimashvili [email protected] M +995 599148485

48 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Lucía. Manuela. Marina.

Three women at three different moments in recent Spanish history are joined by a seemingly invisible thread Julio Mas Alcaraz in this non-linear film. After her husband’s murder, Writer/director • Spain 20-year-old Lucía must run away from her town and learn Julio is a filmmaker and poet. He earned an MA in to survive with two young Filmmaking from the London Film School as well children in the middle of the as an International MBA from IE. He has directed Spanish Civil War. several short films, participating in more than 300 film festivals, winning numerous awards and selling Meanwhile, Manuela, who TV rights to major TV channels. His work has been is 32, is dealing with being commissioned, among others, by the National a single mother under the Gallery in London. He has also published five books Franco regime and its strict of poetry, being a finalist in the Spanish National Catholic rules. Poetry Award. Finally, 44-year-old Marina lives in our current time. She is suffering a midlife-crisis when she has to confront new discoveries about her past that shake everything that she has trusted so far.

PROJECT STATUS Lucía. Manuela. Marina. is in development. We have finished the first draft of the script. We are looking for a Spanish producer or co-producer with strong ties with European production companies.

CONTACT INFORMATION A TV series out of the script Julio Mas Alcaraz is not disregarded. [email protected] M +34 609485428

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 7-10 JUNE 2019 49 My Cat Eyes

Mia and Joseph are successful professional dancers at the Hamburg Ballet and they are expecting a baby. Their relationship Anna Petrus crashes when Mia’s fear Writer/director • Spain of cats turns into panic as memories from her childhood Anna is a filmmaker based in Barcelona. She studied begin to reappear in her mind. Filmmaking at Pompeu Fabra University and ESCAC. Despite Mia’s efforts, the She started directing documentaries but soon she black wild cats that invaded began to be interested in fiction films. Her short the small town in fiction films Trumpet (2011), Anniversary (2013) and where she was raised Bohèmia (2017) have been selected and awarded insistently come back to her in film festivals all around the world such as Festival and Mia feels she is herself des Films du Monde (Montréal), London Spanish turning into an evil cat. Film Festival and Long Beach International Film Festival, among many others. My Cat Eyes is her first One night, Mia travels to her feature film. former school and meets her six-year-old self. That encounter forces her to remember a terrible and forgotten memory from her childhood.

PROJECT STATUS The project is currently in development and we are seeking European co-producers and sales agents.

CONTACT INFORMATION Anna Petrus [email protected] M +34 626737687

50 TFL EXTENDED 2019 One: not even there Alejandro Fernández Almendras Writer/director • Chile 41-year-old, shabby journalist, Nelson, bonds with Alejandro’s debut feature Huacho premiered at Cannes a rebellious adolescent tennis Critics’ Week 2009. To Kill a Man (2014), his third feature star, 17-year-old Marcelo, film, won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Dramatic as he follows his explosive Competition at Sundance 2014 and garnered awards in a success on the ATP tour, dozen festivals. The film was also Chile’s Official Candidate for the Oscar’s and the Goya Awards. His feature film his own birdcage. Nelson Much Ado About Nothing premiered in 2016 at Sundance sees in Marcelo a wild but and Berlin film festivals. Alejandro is currently developing alienated person who’s losing several projects in both TV and film, in Chile and abroad. touch with his personal life, emotions and any sort of satisfaction coming from outside of the tennis world. Having a reflection and witnessing Marcelo’s drowning, Nelson understands that prioritizing José Ignacio Alonso his family life with his wife Scriptwriter & Producer • Chile Paty is now or never.

José studied Literature as well as Film and Television. Four years later Marcelo He made screenwriting his focus and in 2013 he was becomes number one granted a national development fund and then an Italian tennis player of the world, Farnesina scholarship which allowed him to study a Master nevertheless he is “not in International Screenwriting at the Catholic University even there”. in Milan. He has worked with Univision (USA) and film production companies in Chile and Spain. Also, he has PROJECT STATUS been part of the evaluation committee in local film funds. He is currently working on his first feature adaptation. The script is at a development stage, seeking for a second draft considering different advisors. Based on a biographical novel from the Chilean tennis player Marcelo Ríos, top ranked on the ATP Tour in 1998. CONTACT INFORMATION José Ignacio Alonso We are looking for script [email protected] development programmes, M +56 992342682 European producers, co-producers and funding.

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 7-10 JUNE 2019 51 Panhellenic

Pantelis, a 30-year-old small-town boy, gets caught stealing money from his father’s business and is forced to leave his hometown for the Rinio Dragasaki first time. Writer/director • Greece He heads to Athens to work as a night guard at Born in Athens, Rinio has studied film and the Panhellenic, the oldest documentary. She has written and directed three sports club in town. This job short films and a feature. Her short film Dad, Lenin is a chance for him to prove and Freddy (2011) was selected at numerous that he can be trustworthy international film festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand, and responsible. But, much São Paolo, Chicago, and won several distinctions. to his surprise, he discovers Her next short film Schoolyard premiered in something that has been Generation at Berlinale 2014 and was nominated for hiding beneath the club for a the Crystal Bear. Cosmic Candy (2019), her debut century: the ghosts of former film, was selected to participate in the Sundance Olympic champions who feed !f Istanbul Screenwriters Lab and had its World on the blood of the club’s Premiere at the Fantastic Fest in United States. young members. Trapped inside Panhellenic, Pantelis will have to confront these creatures of the past.

PROJECT STATUS Panhellenic will be produced by Fenia Cossovitsa, who is the owner of the well known Greek production company Blonde. It is the same team that produced Cosmic Candy, Rinio’s first feature film. Panhellenic is currently at an early development stage. CONTACT INFORMATION Rinio Dragasaki The project participated in [email protected] MFI Script 2 Film Workshop M +30 6949807016 and it has been applied in the 1st development stage of the Greek Film Centre.

52 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Rhino Myth Cecilie McNair Writer/director • Denmark Nanna, a 19-year-old Danish girl who just graduated high Cecilie is a film director based in Copenhagen. school, travels to She graduated from the alternative film school Super16 to work as a guide in a game in Denmark, in 2018, and directed various short films reserve. There she meets such as Mukwano (2016) and Lille A (2018). She is now in the handsome 22-year-old development with her first feature film Carapace at the Danish Film Institute, which is set to go into production African lodge worker Zenzo, early 2020. Rhino Myth will be her second feature film. and they immediately fall in love. Meanwhile, the reserve is haunted by poachers, who break into the park and kill the Rhinos for their horns. Zenzo witnesses a kill and is forced to collaborate by smuggling the horn to Karen Kristensen Asia, which involves Nanna. Producer • Denmark Gradually, Zenzo builds up more and more lies to keep Karen is a producer based in Copenhagen, who has living the dream with Nanna worked in the industry for more than 10 years. She started and to satisfy the poachers. out working at Zentropa Productions. After graduating from the National Film School of Denmark in 2017 with the But tragically, the dream will award winning short In a Month, she worked as associate soon crack. producer at Creative Alliance until April 2019, when she decided to start up her own company Leto Film to work PROJECT STATUS with emerging talents. Rhino Myth is in early development. We are finishing the treatment to start with the 1st draft in Fall 2019. We hope to go into production in spring 2022. We are currently looking for co-producers and funding.

CONTACT INFORMATION Cecilie McNair Karen Kristensen [email protected] [email protected] M +45 20987176 M +45 61653960

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 7-10 JUNE 2019 53 Rites

An Incel gunman suffers a crisis in the middle of his killing spree when the act of killing does not fulfil him in Dee Meaden the way he expected. Rites is a provocative and Writer/director • United Kingdom challenging film. It is similar to films such as Elephant (Gus Dee is a writer/director from London. She recently Van Sant, 2013), We Need graduated from the Directing Fiction MA at the To Talk About Kevin (Lynne National Film and Television School. She previously Ramsay, 2011) and Utoya trained in Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art (Erik Poppe, 2018) in that it and Chelsea College of Art and Design and enjoyed explores a high-school killing success as a fine artist ahead of moving to narrative spree but unlike those films in film. Dee has written and directed 10 shorts and is Rites, the lead character is the currently developing a number of feature length killer and we experience the projects. She is represented by Tracey Hyde at film from his point of view. Casarotto Ramsay & Associates. He is a killer who is human and knowable, someone we can understand and, in some moments, problematically and challengingly for the audience, he is someone we can empathise with.

PROJECT STATUS Rites is currently at first draft stage and a proof of concept short is in post-production. Dee is currently seeking a producer.

CONTACT INFORMATION Dee Meaden [email protected] M +44 7910845670

54 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Saint Bernard

Saint Bernard is the story of KarelJan who comes to terms with his troubled past by visiting the very man responsible for it: his Kat Steppe estranged brother Franz. Writer/director • Belgium Franz has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and is Kat studied film and art. Her documentary work admitted into a nursing home. garners universal praise for its visual mastery and its He enjoys the regular visits unique mix of storytelling, humour and meditation of a man he likes to talk to on the passing of time. She won 7 national awards about his condition and what and, in 2017, the Prix Europa, Berlin. Her latest work it means to forget. Franz does for television, Taboo (2018), won the Gold Medal not recognize his brother at the New York International TV & Film Awards KarelJan. and is nominated for the 2019 International Emmy Awards. The format is sold for production in Canada, Saint Bernard is a film about Australia, Spain and the USA. Saint Bernard, that place where our lost days her current project, is a mix of documentary have gathered, the Memory. and feature film. A film about how important and vulnerable our memory is and how it can be truthful and unreliable at the same time.

PROJECT STATUS The project is at the stage of research, writing and pre-production. Kat has been working as a voluntary nurse in a nursing home for people with Alzheimer’s and will continue to do so while her writing develops.

CONTACT INFORMATION Kat Steppe [email protected]

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 7-10 JUNE 2019 55 Selkie Itandehui Jansen Writer/director • United Kingdom/Mexico During a nightly storm Ron, a young foreign man, washes Itandehui graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy. up wounded and naked Her documentary Una Nave per Tornare (1998) screened on the shore of a Scottish at IDFA. She participated in the Guadalajara Talent Campus, coastal town. He finds refuge Cine Qua Non Lab, and Berlinale Talents. Her short film with Daonna, a young blind The Last Council was nominated for the Mexican Critics’ Award in 2013. Her recent film In Times of Rain won the woman. award for Best Emerging Feature at the Oaxaca FilmFest As he recovers, Ron insistently in 2018 and screened among others at the Santa Fe seeks something on the Independent Film Festival and the World Cinema Film beach. It turns out he is a Festival in Amsterdam. Selkie looking for his lost sealskin. Selkies are able to shift between a seal shape in the sea and a human form on the land by shedding or putting on their sealskin. While Ron secretly tries to Reece Smith find a way to return home, he develops feelings for Daonna. Producer • United Kingdom Ron will now have to choose Reece Smith is based in Edinburgh. He graduated from between his love for her or the Edinburgh College of Art with a BA (Hons) in Film & his love for the sea. TV, and now works for Swedish Production company Vogelperspektiv AB. His short films have screened at PROJECT STATUS festivals including The New York International Children’s Film Festival, London Short Film Festival and the Glasgow Selkie is currently in early Film Festival. In 2019 Reece founded Risky Whisky, a development. Scottish production company currently developing Selkie, We are interested in the alongside a Swedish/UK feature documentary. possibility of co-production both within the UK and internationally, and are also interested in hearing from sales agents.

CONTACT INFORMATION Itandehui Jansen Reece Smith [email protected] [email protected] M +44 7759503498 M +44 7904496043

56 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Smaragda

Smaragda is an identity crisis-coming of age drama/ comedy which takes place in Ayia Napa, Cyprus. It revolves around a childless middle- Emilios Avraam aged woman who lives off Writer/director • Cyprus collecting residuals from a kid’s TV show she used Emilios holds a diploma in Audio Visual to host. Communication, a BSC in Media Technology and One day she gets notified a Digital Compositing certificate. He has worked that the show will not be on hundreds of productions as an editor and visual broadcasted anymore and effects artist from TV commercials, to short and she will no longer get any feature films. Within the past 6 years he wrote and money off it and for the first directed many music videos and two short films that time after years of living screened in many festivals around the world and in a bubble, she gets a won multiple awards. He is currently developing the wakeup call. screenplay for his first feature film Smaragda. Smaragda and her other two socially misfit friends, wander around their everyday life trying to find a silver lining.

PROJECT STATUS The project has € 16.000 in place for script development funded by the Cyprus Cinema Advisory Committee. Producer attached to the project is Marios Piperides (AMP Filmworks). We are looking for co-producers, sales agents and partners.

CONTACT INFORMATION Emilios Avraam [email protected] M +357 99484646

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 7-10 JUNE 2019 57 The First Victim Mario Fernández Alonso Writer/director & Producer • Spain ‘‘In War, Truth is Always the First Victim’’ Mario is a Berlinale Talents alumnus. He directed the short film The Pack (2011), selected at the American Film Amina is a Pakistani woman Institute, British Film Institute London and Warsaw Film who works as an in-house Festival, and winner of Best Short Film at Interfilm Berlin, maid for a wealthy Spanish 2nd Best Short at Odense International Film Festival, and family. Tahir, Amina´s fiancé, Titra Price at Geneva IFF Tous Ecrans. He has co-written who also works for them, is the feature film Amar by Esteban Crespo, produced by accused by her employers Netflix and Avalon and screened at Malaga Film Festival of sexually harassing their in 2017, as well as El Desentierro by Nacho Ruipérez, 15-year-old daughter. They screened at Sevilla Film Festival 2019 and Shanghai Film Festival 2019. then fire Amina and Tahir from their respective jobs. After meeting a Muslim lawyer, Amina decides to defend Tahir and confront her employers, who she thinks are unfairly accusing her fiancé. Sanghmitra Hitaishi PROJECT STATUS Scriptwriter • India The project is currently at the A Berlinale Talents alumna, Sanghmitra is an actress, writer scriptwriting stage. and activist. She starred as a protagonist in the feature film Lajwanti by Pushpendra Singh (Berlinale Forum 2014) and in the short film Chidiya Udh by Pranjal Dua, which was selected at the Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2014 and won two national awards in India.

CONTACT INFORMATION Mario Fernández Alonso Sanghmitra Hitaishi [email protected] [email protected] M +34 699090687 M +91 9821508709

58 TFL EXTENDED 2019 The Postman

Keong is an ex-convict and a struggling truck driver. One day, his son Ming has a road accident. Keong rushes him to the hospital, but is unable Francis Lau to afford his medical bills. Writer/director • Singapore He appeals for financial aid, but the hospital refuses to Francis taught English Literature before he began his help him. career as a writer/director. The Postman, a thriller Keong turns to colleagues about marginalisation and the paradox of power, and friends, but because of grew out of a short film with the same name, The his criminal past, they turn Postman (Director’s Cut, 2018), that has traveled to him away. Desperate to 25 festivals, including DaKINO 2019 and Bucharest save his son, Keong forces International Film Festival 2019, where it ran for the himself to deliver drugs. In Best Director and Best Film awards respectively. the process, he becomes A published poet, Francis has presented his work the target of a ruthless and at literary festivals, notably ASEAN Universities Arts corrupt cop. Festival and 2nd ASEAN Writers’ Conference. As he battles to save his son, Keong realises that sometimes in order to defeat the devil, he needs to be the devil himself.

PROJECT STATUS The project is at development and financing stage. It will be shot in Southeast Asia, possibly Malaysia. We are looking for European and/or Asian co-producers, investors, as well as international distributors, casting, and post-production CONTACT INFORMATION facilities. Francis Lau [email protected] M +65 93691120

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 7-10 JUNE 2019 59 The Visit

When Murti, a 72-year-old lady hears about her long-lost friend falling into a coma, she decides to visit her. Bobby Prasetyo Murti and Mien were once teenagers fancying the Koes Writer/director • Indonesia Brothers, a Beatles-influenced pop music group. The band After completing his studies at the Indonesian was incarcerated for singing Institute of The Arts, Bobby debuted with writing western songs, an act seen as and directing short films, some of which have cultural imperialism. Mien’s been screened on various film festivals held both father, a militant supporting nationally and internationally. In 2018, Bobby the President, forbade his debuted his first commercial full-length movie daughter to listen to the which earned him the nomination of the Best Young band. Meanwhile, Murti is a Director in Piala Maya 2019. He also established daughter of a communist Asa Film, a production company in Bali which has party sympathizer. Then been working on various projects with international G30S/PKI happened. broadcasting companies. Hundreds of thousands of people were massacred and kidnapped. Murti sought for help to Mien’s father, but he turned her away.

PROJECT STATUS We are in the early stage of the script development. We are looking for co-producers and financers.

CONTACT INFORMATION Bobby Prasetyo [email protected] M +62 82236177565

60 TFL EXTENDED 2019 The Woman with a Missing Leg

A romantic comedy disguised as a murder mystery. Morgan Quince is a hero. Two years ago, while video- Luigi Campi voyeuring from his kitchen window, he witnessed the Writer/director • Italy murder of a prosthetic-legged beauty. He somehow cracked Luigi’s films explore different perspectives through the case and met his wife in idiosyncratic characters and alternative storytelling. the process. But now NBC He is a Fulbright fellow, Columbia University MFA, airs a made-for-TV-movie Italian National Film School graduate and Berlinale about the investigation, and Talents and Oxbelly Lab alumnus. His debut feature Morgan is portrayed as a film My First Kiss and the People Involved (2016) minor character! premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and received top prizes at the Woodstock, New Orleans To prove his main character and Ashland Film Festivals. He lives between Rome status, Morgan decides to and Athens. make his own movie about the murder. Welcome to Morgan’s version of The Woman with a Missing Leg.

PROJECT STATUS This English-language comedy has solid co- production possibilities, and seeks strong producers and allies. The script is at its third draft, and gaining momentum through selection at international labs (TFL, Oxbelly).

This project was chosen for CONTACT INFORMATION development in the TFL Extended Luigi Campi Story Editing workshop. [email protected] M +30 6981497937

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 7-10 JUNE 2019 61 Wild Boars Thanasis Neofotistos Writer/director • Greece Athena, being in late pregnancy, finds the perfect Thanasis is a director, writer and architect from Greece. ally in her unborn daughter, He is a Berlinale Talents alumnus. His short film Patision when everyone else opposes Avenue premiered at 2018, won 3 her quest to find the mother awards at Clermont-Ferrand and has already been selected she never met. in more than 20 film festivals. His graduation film Greek School Prayer (2014) was also a festival success. He is now in the financing stage of his debut feature film, which he PROJECT STATUS envisions as a dark, coming-of-age, folktale, Peter and the The project is at a Wolf (FirstFilmsFirst, MFI, MEDIA etc). development stage.

Grigoris Skarakis Scriptwriter • Greece

Grigoris was born and raised in Athens. He studied Medicine, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. His love for cinema led him to education involving narrative psychotherapy that mainly focuses on how narration showcases and at the same time forms the way an individual organises and experiences his life.

CONTACT INFORMATION Thanasis Neofotistos Grigoris Skarakis [email protected] [email protected] M +30 6936227090

62 TFL EXTENDED 2019 63 Script Development – Documentary Script Development – Documentary 7-10 June 2019

Addressed to teams of professionals, with documentary projects at an early development stage who are willing to dive deep into the writing process through an intensive development workshop. A Pena, KM100

A Pena is a small village located in Galicia, a foggy and rainy region of Spain. It is also situated in KM 100 of Camino Cristina López Justribó de Santiago, a Christian path. My family belongs to this Writer/director & Producer • Spain village, but my grandparents and my father left after the Cristina has been working as a producer in films, TV, Spanish Civil War. When I theatre and videoclips, including the documentaries was a child I remember my Mystery of the Nile by Jordi Llompart (2005), grandfather telling me he Bucharest, Memory Lost by Albert Solé, which won would never come back to Best Documentary at Goya Awards 2008 and Gabor his land while wearing dark by Sebastián Alfie, which won Best Documentary at glasses all the time. Malaga Film Festival 2013, among others. She has My grandfather had lost his also written and directed the short films The Love left eye one day hunting that Cannot be Hidden, which participated in the in A Pena. This is what he Clermont Ferrand ISFF Market 2014, and My Suitcase always said. (2016), which attended Sundance Spain and FICCI. This documentary is my own way to know my roots and what was really hidden by my grandfather’s dark glasses.

PROJECT STATUS The project is in development stage. Producers are looking for financial sources in order to start shooting in 2020. Two Spanish TV channels, TV of Catalonia and TV of Galicia, are interested in the project.

CONTACT INFORMATION Cristina López Justribó [email protected] M +34 687344977

66 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Anhell69 Theo Montoya Director • Colombia A week after I cast Camilo Najar, I wake up with the Theo was born in 1992 in Medellín. He graduated in news that he, at 21, had died. Audiovisual Communication at the University of Medellín. His last testimony was that He is the creator and director of the audiovisual laboratory casting of a dark atmosphere Desvio Visuala, a project designed to upload content to and with a nihilistic discourse. streaming platforms, experimental video, documentaries, video clips and short films. For more than 7 years he has Who was Camilo Najar? worked in audiovisual realization with the city’s young A victim of a youthful ideal? movements, focusing on queer, nihilistic and social issues. Or the purest portrait of a generation?

PROJECT STATUS This project is at a development stage, starting the pre-production in October 2019 and shooting Juan Pablo Castrillón during the month of January, Producer • Colombia 2020. Juan Pablo was born in 1986 in Medellín. He graduated By June, 2020 we expect to from the Audiovisual and Multimedia Communication have a first cut and go into programme at the University de Antioquia in 2011. He is a post-production. member of Rara Colectivo Audiovisual, a cinematography project management house, with which he premiered his debut feature, Los Días de la Ballena by Catalina Arroyave Restrepo, in South by Southwest (2018). The film was supported by the Colombian Film Fund.

CONTACT INFORMATION Theo Montoya Juan Pablo Castrillón [email protected] [email protected] M +57 3197989186 M +57 3016686809

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – DOCUMENTARY • 7-10 JUNE 2019 67 Arteries

Arteries is a documentary project about the native Latin Americans’ struggle through the lens of the political leadership of the Munduruku Camila Dutervil indigenous women. The Writer/director • Munduruku people are under threat, resisting against the Camila is both a filmmaker and an anthropologist. large-scale enterprises in the She attended film workshops at the Cuban Film Brazilian Amazon. School, at the Italian National Film School and at The documentary follows the Ateliers Varan. Her films were shown and got awards trajectory of two indigenous at film festivals such as Festival Todas Las Voces warriors, Alessandra and Contra el Silencio – Mexico, Festival de Brasília do Maria Leuza Munduruku, who Cinema Brasileiro, and many others. A standout both have learned to fight in her filmography is the documentary Maria do with the weapons of the 21st Paraguaçu, which won the Grand Prix in the Festival century. They go together on of Latin American Cinema in Brussels 2009. an expedition to the Zapatista territory in Mexico and weave extensive resistance networks through the open veins of Latin America.

PROJECT STATUS Arteries is currently in the stage of development. We are looking for Mexican co-producers and funding.

CONTACT INFORMATION Camila Dutervil [email protected] M +55(61) 999116949

68 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Cent’anni

All of my life I was sure that nothing extraordinary could happen to me. It was when my boyfriend Blaž was diagnosed with acute Maja Prelog Leukemia that I realized that Director • Slovenia Life itself is an extraordinary experience. Maja is a Ljubljana-based filmmaker. Her graduation After having bone marrow short film Wild East won the Vesna award at the transplantation, he goes on Festival of Slovenian Film 2012. She is a member of a trip with his road bike over the art group RÁ., finding her means of expression in Italy’s famous climbs to return cinema and other forms of artistic practices. She is to the place where his disease co-author of music videos for the world-renowned started. What he desires most art music group Laibach. She wrote, directed and is to be healthy. During the produced the short experimental film 2045, which adventurous but dangerous received the Best Slovenian Award at the FeKK trip we share our story of Ljubljana Short Film Festival 2016. which the true hero is Love, the greatest weapon we have. It is an ode to Life and a transformation of our personal experience into the art of film.

PROJECT STATUS The project is currently in production.

CONTACT INFORMATION Maja Prelog [email protected] M +38 640164061

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – DOCUMENTARY • 7-10 JUNE 2019 69 Christina Nikola Spasic Director & Producer • The transgender sex worker Christina lives with her cats Nikola is a film director, editor and producer based in Novi and invests her money in Sad. Currently a final-year PhD student in Dramatic Arts at antiques and engraved the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. His debut documentary wooden pieces. She is a Why Dragan Gathered his Band (2017) has been shown successful business woman at more than 40 festivals around the world. At one of the biggest Serbian festivals, Cinema City, it won an award for and the clients adore her Best Film. So far, the film has been shown on major TV because she fulfills their broadcasters in the Balkans including Al Jazeera Balkans, dreams and fantasies. RTRS, HRT, Klasik TV RTS. Her life becomes stressful after the arrival of an inspector who is chasing her and a stranger she falls in love with, but who suddenly disappears. After an exciting journey, she finds her love in an extremely rural area, Milanka Gvoic surrounded by family. Scriptwriter & Producer • Serbia By watching him, she decides Milanka graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the that it is best for her to back University of Belgrade and earned an MA in Philosophy. down, so she could protect In 2006, she started working as a Development and him from herself. New Content Implementation Coordinator at the Public Media Service RTV. In 2013, she co-founded the PROJECT STATUS production company REZON. The films she worked on as a screenwriter and as a producer were shown at festivals The project is at a late around the world, won several awards and were screened development phase and it on leading TV stations in the Balkans region. is supported by the Serbian Office for Human and Minority Rights. We are waiting for a production grant from Film Centre Serbia and we will start shooting by the end of 2019. CONTACT INFORMATION Nikola Spasic Milanka Gvoic It is an official co-production [email protected] [email protected] with the UK and it is aimed M +38 1631991705 M +38 1621690529 to be a wide European co-production.

70 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Draw for Change! Vincent Coen Writer/director & Producer • Belgium This TV series uses female cartoonists and their drawings Vincent is a writer-director working and living in Belgium. as a lens to look at a number He has made documentaries and fiction shorts. He also of major women’s rights worked as a scriptwriter for Belgian television and as a violations. Each episode will script consultant on numerous projects. He lives in Brussels portray a different cartoonist with his partner, his two kids and his dog. and zoom in on one of her drawings, she then takes us on a journey through her country in search of women who experience that cartoon for real. Every episode will have its own theme, depending on the country Guillaume Vandenberghe and the cartoonist. Director & Producer • Belgium All the episodes will be directed by local, female Guillaume studied photography at KASK School of Art in Ghent before turning to film studies at the Institut directors giving them their Supérieur des Arts (INSAS). He has directed several short own identity depending films as well as two award-winning feature documentaries. on the style of drawing, the subject matter and the director’s artistic vision.

PROJECT STATUS The project is in early development and we are seeking for international partners.

CONTACT INFORMATION Vincent Coen Guillaume Vandenberghe [email protected] [email protected] M +32 476668926 M +32 476680514

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – DOCUMENTARY • 7-10 JUNE 2019 71 Dreaming Walls Amélie van Elmbt Director • Belgium In less than two years the legendary Chelsea Hotel, After studying film at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion, known as a safe haven for Amélie started working with French director Jacques artists in New York for over a Doillon as an assistant and casting director on several of century, will be transformed his films. She directed and self-produced her first film, into a luxury hotel. Amid the Headfirst (2012), which screened in Cannes’ ACID section and received the Main Award at New York’s First Time renovation works, fifty-one Festival. Thanks to this festival, Amélie met Martin Scorsese, elderly residents still live who later executive produced her second feature, The there, protected by stabilised Elephant & The Butterfly, which screened at Tribeca Film rent. Festival in 2018. Between fear and excitement, each of them prepares for the reopening in his/her own way. Among them, dancer and choreographer Merle Lister, 81, is creating a new choreography. Hanne Phlypo While revisiting the history of the hotel, this film questions Producer • Belgium the link that has united the Hanne is a Belgian producer and founder of Clin d’oeil hotel and its artists. films. The company focuses on creative documentaries and author-driven films with a clear preference for PROJECT STATUS films with social or political statements by innovative filmmakers. Among her prior films are Houses with Small The film is in early Windows by Bülent Öztürk (2013), which gained an development. We have EFA nomination, Waiting for August by Teodora Mihai, done a preliminary shooting which won Best International Documentary Award Hot in spring 2019. Docs 2014, A Family Affair by Tom Fassaert (2015), which We are exploring the gained an EFA nomination, Manu by Manu Bonmariage, which participated in IDFA 2018, and By the Name of archives of the Chelsea in Tania by Mary Jimenez & Bénédicte Liénard, selected for collaboration with Sherill Generation 14plus at Berlinale 2019. Tippins, author of the book Inside the Dream Palace. We aim to start the principal photography in winter of CONTACT INFORMATION Amélie van Elmbt Hanne Phlypo 2019 and deliver the film by [email protected] [email protected] 2021. M +32 484884489 M +32 484974442

72 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Homeboys

Samuel and Isaac are two South-Sudanese teenagers who grew up in Israel and got deported in 2011. They dream Tamar Goren of being musicians. Amir, an Israeli music Director • Israel producer, comes to their refugee camp in Uganda. Tamar is a filmmaker born and raised in Tel-Aviv, The three become close, Israel. She attended the film department of the deciding to call their joint Minshar School of Arts, and she graduated with hip-hop crew the Homeboys honors in 2017 after writing and directing three short – a tribute to the trust and films, which were screened in various film festivals friendship that bonds them. worldwide, from Jerusalem Film Festival to Giffoni Film Festival. Currently, Tamar is working on two Through rhythm and sound, feature films – Homeboys and Nine Lives, a fiction this docu-musical film film in development. follows both the high hopes and hardships of the young refugees in a complex world. Will Samuel and Isaac realise their dream?

PROJECT STATUS A crew spent a few weeks in Uganda to film the musical process, access and trust, key elements for the success of the film was gained. We now look to raise funds to finance the second part of shooting. We plan to have the completed film in early 2020.

CONTACT INFORMATION Tamar Goren [email protected] M +972 525367799

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – DOCUMENTARY • 7-10 JUNE 2019 73 Princess:Warrior

Non-conforming women fighters redefine the feminine role model around the world.

Ioana Ţurcan PROJECT STATUS Princess:Warrior is a Director • docu-series in development. Ioana is an interdisciplinary visual artist, graduate of We are looking for the post-MA at the Royal Institute of Art, Sweden, co-producers to join the Dep. of Critical Images: Dignity and Representation, project in an early phase. a course under the guidance of the anonymous Syrian film collective Abounaddara. She also has an MFA degree in Film and Video Production from the College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse, New York, where she studied as a Fulbright scholar, a Documentary Filmmaking MA and a BA in Cinematography, Photography and Media.

CONTACT INFORMATION Ioana Ţurcan [email protected] M +40 742606326

74 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Soul of the Desert Mónica Taboada Tapia Director & Producer • Colombia Georgina, an indigenous transgender woman, embarks Anthropologist and filmmaker. She is currently working on a journey across the desert on two documentary projects, Queen of the People and to reconcile with her siblings. Solomon’s Cedar. Soul of the Desert won Señal Colombia Market and Proimágenes Fund. It was selected by the New After facing the tribe’s York Times Op-Docs, Pulitzer Center, and Tribeca Film challenges and her family, she Institute International Pitch 2017. She has participated in will probably realise that the Tribeca Film Institute Network, DocsMX Forum, ChileDoc most important thing is her Conecta, Talents Buenos Aires, DocMontevideo Pitch, own freedom. DocSP Market, Latin Pitch, DocsBarcelona, Marché du Film and MiradasDoc 2019. PROJECT STATUS The project is currently in pre-production.

Beto Rosero Producer • Colombia

Beto is a Colombian journalist, producer, director and first AD. He has worked in film festivals, advertising, features and short films. He directed the short film Blues 72 (2019), funded by Barranquilla Regional Grant, and worked as an AD in The Tale of Antonia by Jorge Cadena, which won the Short Film Tiger Award at IFFR 2017 and was selected at international festivals. He is currently producing Soul of the Desert, a documentary feature funded by Señal Colombia and Proimágenes Colombia FDC Fund.

CONTACT INFORMATION Mónica Taboada Tapia Beto Rosero [email protected] [email protected] M +57 3023910887 M +57 3183165061

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – DOCUMENTARY • 7-10 JUNE 2019 75 Sounds From the Desert Emilija Skarnulyte Director • Lithuania Ben Abshalom grows up in Chicago during the 60s, Emilija is a Lithuanian filmmaker. Her work consists of a while the city is wracked by series of political visions, in which she investigates reality violence and the civil rights with a poetic approach. Her films have been shown at movement is uprising. Edinburgh International Film Festival (2014), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2015) and the Baltic Pavilion of the One day 15-year-old Venice Biennale of Architecture (2016). She has received Abshalom, coming back from the Kino Der Kunst Project Award in Munich (2017). school, meets famous Sun Ra, who later on becomes his jazz master and they bond for life. In the 70s Abshalom leaves for the Middle East, refusing ever to come back to United States. But Abshalom never Elisa Fernanda Pirir told Sun Ra or anyone else Producer • Norway about his childhood or the reason why he left. Elisa works as producer at the Norwegian company Mer Film: an ambitious film production company that focuses on diversity, innovation and cultural relevance. She PROJECT STATUS produces features and documentaries and is in charge of We got funding for the the non-European co-productions. She participated in second phase of development EAVE Puentes 2018 and Berlinale Talents 2019. after the TFL workshop and are now developing the treatment before entering production.

CONTACT INFORMATION Emilija Skarnulyte Elisa Fernanda Pirir [email protected] [email protected] M +47 90735974

76 TFL EXTENDED 2019 The Inventory Ilana Coleman Writer/director • Mexico Families seek justice for their forcibly disappeared Ilana’s feature-length debut The Inventory is a Sundance relatives in Mexico, while a Documentary Fund grantee and participated at the staged committee of linguists Berlinale Doc Station 2019. In 2017, Ilana was named one perform an inventory of the of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent dictionary. Film” and won the Jovenes Creadores scholarship in Mexico. She attended the Berlinale Talents Guadalajara 2018 as one of the selected directors. PROJECT STATUS The Inventory is in development and will continue production throughout 2020. We are looking for international producers, sales agents, financing, and creative Jamie Gonçalves partnerships. Producer • United States The film won a grant from Jamie is a Sundance Creative Producing fellow and Impact Sundance and was selected Partners Documentary fellow. He has received support at the Berlinale Doc Station, from Sundance and the Venice Biennale, amongst others. DocMontevideo Pitching and Filmmaker Magazine named him as one of the “25 New Open City Assembly. Faces of Independent Film” in 2015. His credits include Killing Them Safely by Nick Berardini (2015), Las Nubes by Juan Pablo González (2017), Caballerango by Juan Pablo González (2018), Balloonfest by Nathan Truesdell (2018), The Water Slide by Nathan Truesdell (2018), and upcoming works by Nathan Silver, Nathan Truesdell, Isidore Bethel, Juan Pablo González, Kamau Bilal and Nick Berardini.

CONTACT INFORMATION Ilana Coleman Jamie Gonçalves [email protected] [email protected] M +52 5582330414 M +1 8474181393

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – DOCUMENTARY • 7-10 JUNE 2019 77 The Jungle Fever – Supporting the Malayan Tiger Conservation Paolo Volponi Writer/director & Producer • Italy A filmmaker and a biologist, husband and wife, head out Italian filmmaker and photographer living in Poland, Paolo to the primeval Malaysian was educated in Sociology. As a director, scriptwriter, rainforest in search of cameraman, editor and co-producer he realised the unique butterflies. documentaries The Last European Wild Horses (Honorable Mention for Artistic Approach at the International Wildlife Suddenly everything changes Film Festival 2009), The Gods of the Mountains (Scanno – they find themselves in the Natura Doc Festival 2012-winner, Rai Tre), The Vistula River middle of a rescue mission – Along the Old Salmon Route (2013, TVP1 and Planete+), to save a tiger trapped in Biebrza – The European Amazon (2016, TVP1) and Marta in snares. The locals invite them the Jungle (2015, FokusTV). to document the expedition, hoping the outside world will take action after seeing the Malaysian jungle drama. Sadly, the tiger dies. The couple is struck and decides to postpone their research to Marta Skowron Volponi join the effort of saving the Malayan tiger from extinction Writer & Producer • Poland – only 150 remain! Marta holds a PhD in Biological Sciences, is the author They start making an eye- of 12 scientific publications and vice-chairman of the opening documentary film. ClearWing Foundation for Biodiversity. Together with Paolo Volponi, she is the co-author of The Wolf Spirit, which was supported the Polish Film Institute. She took part in Paolo PROJECT STATUS Volponi’s film Biebrza – The European Amazon (2016) The project is at a as a scientific consultant, author of commentary and development stage. camera operator assistant. She is the main character of the documentary Marta in the Jungle (2015). Ongoing collaboration with Malaysian Perak State, financial support from co-producers Plantzania (Malaysia), co-production intent from Tearaway Films (UK), Nuvista Media (Malaysia), TVP (Poland). CONTACT INFORMATION Paolo Volponi Marta Skowron Volponi The project won funding for [email protected] [email protected] the development stage from M +48 514509525 M +48 660153420 Polish Film Institute. Looking for broadcaster/pre- selling/funding.

78 TFL EXTENDED 2019 The Last

For more than a decade, I have been travelling with two old and witty naturalists through the last forests of Paraguay. Not long ago, this Sebastian Peña-Escobar land was a green oasis. But Writer/director & Producer • Paraguay it changed dramatically with the expansion of cattle and Sebastian studied Economics, Business and Finance agriculture. in Paraguay, United States and Italy. Since 2002, he This film is about one last has developed and produced magazines, books and journey to a remote forest audiovisual content. He has published essays on which is about to be cleared. cultural theory, prose, poetry and articles. He has Along hypnotically straight co-produced the documentary Chicas Nuevas 24 roads and muddy trails, we Horas by Mabel Lozano (2015) and the feature film cross national parks, private Guaraní by Luis Zorraquin (2015). He is the producer reserves, and large cattle and executive producer of the feature film The territories. Heiresses by Marcelo Martinessi, which won double Silver Bear at Berlinale 2018. He has participated in A neo-romantic journey filled TFL FeatureLab (prev. FrameWork). with irony and skepticism, wisdom and hope, prompting questions and theories about the future of human societies.

PROJECT STATUS The project is at a development stage. We are working on the narrative structure and writing a more detailed version of the treatment. By the end of 2019, we will apply for production funding in Paraguay, Latin America and Europe through CONTACT INFORMATION Sebastian Peña-Escobar potential agreements with [email protected] co-producers in Argentina, M +59 5981955117 Uruguay, Germany and France.

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – DOCUMENTARY • 7-10 JUNE 2019 79 Unconventional Gardener Alessandro Bernard Director • Italy Plants speak, see, make independent and brilliant Since 2006 Alessandro has been writing and directing decisions. Beyond the documentary films broadcasted by the main international anthropomophical land channels and screened in festivals all around the world. designed by artificial He has produced and directed videos in scientific and intelligence, a new cultural fields. He works on the audiovisual production of events and exhibitions as a video designer and line horizon appears. producer, and as a writer and manager of cross-media A group of visionary scientists projects. He co-directed with Paolo Ceretto Space Hackers are discovering a new form of (2007), Programma 101: The Machine that Changed the intelligence: their experiments World (2011) and Waste Mandala (2015). go beyond the boundaries of science and offer inspiration and visionary solutions to the great environmental, social and political issues of our time. A cinematic journey to Massimo Arvat discover a “Close Encounter of the Third Kind”: will the Producer • Italy intelligence of plants inspire Massimo is a EAVE and Eurodoc graduate, a board member humans and change our of Eurodoc and IDS Academy. In 1992 he founded Zenit future? Arti Audiovisive, an independent production company producing documentaries for the main broadcasters and PROJECT STATUS platforms, including Rai, Sky, Fox, Arte, ZDF, Netflix, Yle, History Channel, Discovery Channel, VPRO, CBC. The films The project is currently at a produced by Zenit have participated in more than 150 development stage. festivals, including Cannes, Venice, IDFA, Hot Docs, Dok We are completing the cast of Leipzig, Sheffield DocFest, Torino Film Festival. the protagonists and writing a second draft of the treatment. We are interested in partnerships to develop an international co-production through regional, national, European and international CONTACT INFORMATION Alessandro Bernard Massimo Arvat cinema funding. [email protected] [email protected] M +39 3939726400 M +39 3393976260

80 TFL EXTENDED 2019 We, Women Biljana Tutorov Writer/director & Producer • Serbia In We, Women four extraordinary filmmakers Biljana is a director, producer and film curator. After – Kim Longinotto, Mirjana graduating in Art History in UCL (Belgium), she studied Karanović, Šejla Kamerić Film Anthropology and Drama in Paris. She is the author and Andrea Štaka – team of several short, feature and documentary films, video up to make a collective film installations and performances. In 2010 she founded Wake Up Films production, dedicated to the new talents from the on issues and taboos that region. In 2018 Biljana created the CIRCLE Women Doc still affect our daily life. We Accelerator. She is alumna of Eurodoc and Producers On film them as they meet and The Move, a member of EDN, EWA and EFA. discuss their work in progress, issues and achievements. This creative dialogue, including the excerpts of 4 short films they are making, is the core of We, Women, is threaded together by Julia Kristeva, French-Bulgarian Britta Rindelaub philosopher who is our guide Producer • Switzerland through this participative odyssey questioning the Britta is a Swiss producer dedicated to unconventional female condition and and hybrid projects, defining a diverse but consistent production line at Alva Film production. She studied representation of women ethnology and philosophy in Neuchâtel, photography, through centuries. video and performance in Barcelona and Geneva. In 2003 Britta received post-graduate degree in cinema from the PROJECT STATUS HEAD (Haute École d’Art et de Design) Geneva. The project is currently in development. We are looking for financers.

CONTACT INFORMATION Biljana Tutorov Britta Rindelaub [email protected] [email protected] M +38 1628919186 M +41 787715864

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – DOCUMENTARY • 7-10 JUNE 2019 81 Script Development – Feature Film Script Development – Feature Film 6-9 September 2019

A workshop addressed to teams of professionals, with feature film projects at an early development stage, aimed at encouraging the creative process necessary to achieve the best possible result in creating strong stories. All Inclusive Martin Lund Writer/director • Norway 30-year-old Mia is a playful and resourceful woman who Martin graduated from the National Film School of Norway has moved to Norway to live in 2008. His debut feature Twigson Ties the Knot (2010) is with her Norwegian husband among the biggest box office hits in Norway of all times. Jakob. But when she is forced His second feature, The Almost Man, took home the to wait for almost a year for Crystal Globe for Best Film and Best Male Actor at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2012. He has created TV a work permit, Mia feels that series such as The Games and MATCH. In 2018 Martin she is about to go crazy with wrote and directed the Amanda-winning youth drama loneliness. Psychobitch. In desperation for a community, she lies and says that, like Jacob and his colleagues, she has also experienced the terrible terror attack recently. Thus, Mia is included in their victim community. Ruben Thorkildsen But Mia’s participation makes Producer • Norway Jacob uncomfortable, Ruben is a film producer and founder of Ape&Bjørn. and soon the community He studied at the National Film School of Norway. becomes an arena where He produced Martin Lund’s Karlovy Vary Crystal Globe both good intentions and Winner The Almost Man (2012), and the Prix Jeunesse 2014 their relationship are put to winning TV series The Games. Ruben has produced other the test. titles like Wajib by Annemarie Jacir (2017), Rafiki by Wanuri Kahiu (2018), The Sunlit Night by David Wnendt (2019), PROJECT STATUS and the recent Norwegian box office hit Psychobitch by Martin Lund (2019). Ruben trained as Story Editor at The project is currently at a TorinoFilmLab in 2017. treatment stage. It is being developed at Ape&Bjørn. We will have a first draft ready by late 2019.

CONTACT INFORMATION Martin Lund Ruben Thorkildsen [email protected] [email protected] M +47 93003206 M +47 90935511

84 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Child Bride Bárbara Cunha Writer/director • Brazil Child Bride is a fiction feature that tells the delicate story of Bárbara is a filmmaker and she owns the production a girl who is finding herself company 99 Produções. She post-graduated in Studies of while her home is falling Image, studied Film Direction with Béla Tarr and advocates apart. for gender equity in films. She directed the short They won’t Steal my Voice (2018) and her feature documentary 14-year-old Lia is married to Prison Flowers (2019) premiered at São Paulo International Biu who is 27. They have a Film Festival. Child Bride was developed in LabGion. one-year-old son, Tião and Her next documentary God is a Woman was selected to live in a squat, by the seaside Documentary Campus/Ibermedia. of Brazil. Struggling with the new responsibilities in her life, Lia’s childhood is stolen while her dreams seems to age. Struggling for a future, she is forced to grow up and find her own voice. The film is a Paulo Caldas drama with a sociopolitical backdrop and through Lia’s Producer • Brazil path, the film deals with child Paulo is a director, producer and a partner of 99 marriage in Brazil. Produções. He produced and directed 5 TV series, 10 short films and 7 feature films. His projects seek to break PROJECT STATUS the frontier between fiction and documentary, many of The project is at an advanced them are films with a sociopolitical background, trying to understand the human being in an inhospitable reality. development stage. His productions have been part of the most important film We are looking for funding, festivals around the world such as Berlinale, Guadalajara, co-producers, distributors TIFF, Venice and Havana Film Festival. and sales agents.

CONTACT INFORMATION Bárbara Cunha Paulo Caldas [email protected] [email protected] M +55 11984662321 M +55 11994010603

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 6-9 SEPTEMBER 2019 85 Dodecameron

Dodecameron (12 Days of Christmas) is set in 1888 in a bleak Cypriot mountain village. Minos Papas Eleni, a grieving Viennese painter tries to resurrect her Writer/director & Producer • Cyprus 3 dead children by painting their portrait with magic Minos hails from sunny Cyprus and splits his time ingredients. Tricked by between Nicosia and New York, where he shoots the gorgon Medusa, Eleni and produces feature films, documentaries, summons the Kalikantzari short films and web content. His debut feature, instead, wicked creatures Shutterbug (2009) was described as “lynchian” and of the night who seduce “beautiful” by the Village Voice and the New York little neglected Michael into Times. Minos’ documentary, A Short Film about running with them. Eleni must Guns (2012) won Best Online Short at Tribeca. make the ultimate sacrifice His recent short film Tango on the Balcony (2016) to save the living boy and won Best Director at the International Short Film become a mother again. Festival of Cyprus. Minos is into Kubrick, Tarkovsky, soccer, death metal and kittens. Dodecameron is a cautionary tale about motherhood and growing up, set in a dark, gritty world of folklore and superstition.

PROJECT STATUS In development, currently seeking co-producers.

CONTACT INFORMATION Minos Papas [email protected] M +1 9174977026

86 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Johanna is Still Here

A romance. Johanna works, efficient like a robot, in a remote clinic. Her routine is disrupted when Jiri arrives, a new patient, who will Pieter Solta soon die. They fall in love. Writer/director • Belgium He awakens the playful, rebellious, timeless tiger in Pieter is a Belgian writer, director and filmmaker. her. She discovers that her He has written over 35 theater plays and his work is patients were all injured while published and staged in English, French, German, they were, each in their own Polish, Czech, Mandarin and Italian. His plays tour way, running against the internationally and are regular guests on significant clock. She decides to give a European theater festivals where he has received sign, a blow to the cause of awards for specific plays as well as for his oeuvre. their pain: the tyranny of time. He has made 2 award-winning short films and At the break of day, she looks published a novel and short stories. His work at the clock. At noon she received critical acclaim. has forgotten the time. At sundown she lets the clock explode. In the night, we remember her time with us.

PROJECT STATUS Johanna is Still Here is produced by Matching Socks, Pierre-Yves Le Cunff, in Belgium. We are looking for European co-producers and partners in the United Kingdom, Canada and North America. It is our intention to work with an A-listed actress.

CONTACT INFORMATION Pieter Solta [email protected] M +32 485896282

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 6-9 SEPTEMBER 2019 87 Kindness

What starts as a challenging path to Greek citizenship for Romanian immigrant Elena, turns into a journey of self-realization and Stefanos Tsivopoulos empowerment, when Yota Writer/director & Producer • Greece comes along the way. Kindness is a character- Stefanos is an interdisciplinary artist and award- driven drama about love winning filmmaker. He has written and directed amid social and economic over 20 short films which have showed in over 200 uncertainty. It is a story that exhibitions and film festivals worldwide including observes some of the most the Thessaloniki Film Festival 2017, Tate Modern urgent socioeconomic issues 2014, Centre Pompidou 2010 and BFI 2009. His film in Greek society through the History Zero (2013) represented Greece at the 55th intersecting lives of Elena, a Venice Biennale. He is the co-founder of DEBUNK Romanian cleaning lady, and Films in Athens. He received the Development Yota, a Greek activist. Award at Feature Expanded in 2016 and was selected at IFFR’s CineMart in 2017. Kindness is a story about new beginnings and navigates intimately through profound fears and desires to eventually arrive in a place of acceptance.

PROJECT STATUS Kindness is at a late development stage. The project was submitted for a production grant at the Greek Film Centre. We are seeking regional, European, and international co-producers and sales agents. The film will go into CONTACT INFORMATION production in early Stefanos Tsivopoulos Fall of 2021. [email protected] M +30 6980784930

88 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Love and Other Endangered Languages

Aparajita is a journalist who is cynical and suspicious of everyone. She begins to trace the history of a 19th century medical doctor, Rupalee Verma William Shatter. William is the Writer/director • India second protagonist. He was a deserter of the 1857 Indian Rupalee studied History in and Leiden Rebellion against the University. During her student days in the film British Raj. school, she wrote several stories and screenplays. Aparajita learns that the In 2016 she directed her first documentary, Joy in reason behind William’s the Market. In 2017 she began shooting her feature desertion during the rebellion film Murder on the Road to Kathmandu which was the story of William’s won Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor at the love for the remote horse Vienna IFF 2019. head island and its people. Aparajita’s quest for William’s story leads her to self- discovery and a sense of belonging towards the island and its people.

PROJECT STATUS The screenplay is complete. Being an Indo-European story, it requires input and cooperation from a European production house and I am pitching it in various European film festivals and forums.

CONTACT INFORMATION Rupalee Verma [email protected] M +91 9818387109

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 6-9 SEPTEMBER 2019 89 Lucía and the Pool

An unwanted pregnancy at the age of 36 forces Lucía to rethink her values and priorities in a journey to make a decision that will change Mariana Cobra her life. Writer/director • Brazil Growing up has never been easy, especially now that Mariana is a director based in São Paulo. She also her body will not wait. Lucia works as a screenwriter and cinematographer. Her has let life make her choices first experimental short film The Regret (2015) got for her, during her studies, selected for several festivals while her second short relationships, and so on. Now Lucía’s Tale, a fiction narrative, is currently in post- she must face adulthood and production. Her feature fiction script Lucía and the her own limitations in order Pool won a fund for development from the Brazilian to decide the path of her Agency of Cinema in 2018 (FSA). Her first feature life. Her unconsciousness, documentary, OUR blood OUR body (2018, FOX), through her dreams, will help was nominated for the International Emmy Kids Lucía to realise that she is not Awards in 2019. as free as she imagined.

PROJECT STATUS The project is at a development stage, it won a fund in 2018 for scriptwriting from the Brazilian Agency of Cinema. We are looking for producers, distributors and sales agents in Europe as we intend to shoot both in Brazil and Europe.

CONTACT INFORMATION Mariana Cobra [email protected] M +55 11972629888

90 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Nave Maria Sofia T. Gomes Writer/director & Producer • Brazil/ Sedated, tied up and fingers shoved into her vagina: Maria Born in London, Sofia is a Brazilian/Portuguese smiles next to her protective filmmaker. She holds a diploma in Film Directing and husband, José, whilst the a Master in Audiovisual Business Management from doctors are about to safely Carlos III University, Spain. Her work experience includes deliver their first offspring at a script supervising features and TV series and project management of Brazilian production company Dama maternity ward in Lisbon. Filmes. She directed the short film Miss Zuenig (2004) But behaving like a good girl and the second unit of the TV series Four Seasons in is not helping the progress of Havana (2016). Nave Maria is her first feature as a writer the labour and Maria hates and director. failure. She exchanges the epidural with an empathetic midwife’s weirdly sexual methods, confronting José and the doctor’s wrath. They curse her to excruciating pain and claim her insanity will kill the baby. Instead, Maria Barbie Heusinger transforms into a wild beast Writer & Producer • Germany that brings her baby into the world, in sheer ecstasy Barbie is an international production, sales and acquisitions consultant and a script coach, specialized in the and love. interface between international and national distribution, production, marketing, festival work and film funding. Until PROJECT STATUS 2014, Barbie held various positions at German Films Service The project is currently in + Marketing, Munich, being responsible for Latin America, development and we are Spain and Portugal. Currently, she is working as a Sales Manager at Sola Media/Germany and as a Film Marketing working on a second draft. Coach at FOCAL in Switzerland. The project was selected for the second round of consideration for the 2020 Sundance Script Development Lab. It is 20% Brazilian (Buriti Filmes), 20% Portuguese (Persona Non

CONTACT INFORMATION Grata) and we are seeking Sofia T. Gomes Barbie Heusinger European co-producers. [email protected] [email protected] M +35 1961864084 M +49 1749468591

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 6-9 SEPTEMBER 2019 91 Piaffe

32-year-old Ewa is a socially awkward woman, struggling to live a life of her own. She is a bit slow and from a young age, has been hiding behind Ann Oren the shadow of her charismatic Director • Israel/Germany twin sister Agnieszka. After Agnieszka suffers a manic Ann is a video artist and filmmaker born in Tel Aviv episode and gets locked up in 1979. She studied Film and Fine Arts at the School in a mental institution, Ewa of Visual Arts, New York. Her first documentary is forced to impersonate her feature The World is Mine (2017) was screened at sister and takes on her job as more than 25 festivals including Dok Leipzig 2017 a Foley Artist. (Escaping Realities) and New Horizons 2017 (Films She begins to create sounds on Art), and won Best IT Documentary at the Doker for a horror film featuring International Documentary Film Festival Moscow a horse. As Ewa entangles 2018 (Let IT dok!), Best Project in a Time Based herself in this horse’s world Media at the B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, while pretending to be Frankfurt 2017 (Exhibition), and Best Israeli Film at Agnieszka, a horsetail grows Epos Film Festival, the Tel-Aviv Museum 2019 (Israeli out of her body. competition). Ann lives and works in Berlin.

PROJECT STATUS A full script is completed. We have just produced a short film on the theme. We are looking for the main creative producer from Germany, France or Eastern Europe, to team up with. The idea is to shoot in Warsaw and/or Germany, with some flexibility.

CONTACT INFORMATION Ann Oren [email protected] M +49 15166210414

92 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Spas

A female drone operator is exchanged after two months of capture, but when she gets back home, she finds out that she is pregnant by the warden Maksym Nakonechnyi who raped her. Writer/director & Producer • Ukraine Will she manage to save herself and the child, while Maksym earned a BA in Directing in 2012 in Kyiv. living in a society that is He worked on TV projects for several years to then not ready to accept both of co-found the production company Tabor, which them? And what price should now makes documentaries, fiction films, theatre she pay for that salvation? plays, commercial and social ads and cultural volunteering projects. He has shot several fiction PROJECT STATUS shorts as a director and produced documentaries. Maksym was part of IDFA Academy, often Core Ukrainian financing of participates in B2BDoc pitches and workshops and 80% is confirmed, we are is an Eurodoc Alumnus. His previous project was looking for co-producers developed in Terrarium and The Write Retreat. to close the gap and start production. The final draft is in place as well as the main actress.

CONTACT INFORMATION Maksym Nakonechnyi [email protected] M +38 0934244919

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 6-9 SEPTEMBER 2019 93 The Flat Earth

When he can no longer afford his diet of energy drinks and jelly beans, a young man enters into a surreal journey through a world of alternative Laura Nasmyth facts and conspiracy theories, Writer/director • Austria across the flat earth he lives on. Born in the United Kingdom in 1984, Laura is Taking on the increasingly currently based in Vienna. In 2017 she realised popular conspiracy theory of her debut feature 8:30, which after a successful the Flat-Earthers, the film is a participation at international film festivals, earning satirical, post-utopian portrait numerous awards, is now in distribution in German of a scenario in which fake cinemas and was selected to screen on MUBI in news and online popularity June 2019. She is currently developing a short film in have come to entirely reign collaboration with the choreographer Elio Gervasi; over scientific fact and in an experimental thriller re-make of Jacques Deray’s which insta-zombies with La Piscine (1969), titled La Liquide and the feature ring-light reflections in their film The Flat Earth. eyes rule the world.

PROJECT STATUS The Flat Earth is in development with a complete second draft available in English. A preliminary budget has been drawn up for potential production in France and we are currently seeking co- producers and sales agents.

CONTACT INFORMATION Laura Nasmyth [email protected] M +43 6505404632

94 TFL EXTENDED 2019 The Necklace

The Necklace is about the journey of an Indian man who visits America to meet his daughter, twelve years after she is kidnapped by her own Rajesh Golla mother. Writer/director • India/United States The story explores the dynamics of a family as they Rajesh is an Indian film director and screenwriter navigate the emotional, residing in Los Angeles. His debut feature film, psychological and cultural Flavor of Life (2019), was an official selection at the barriers that have been built Urbanworld Film Festival in New York, San Antonio up between them after such and San Diego Latino Film Festivals. Rajesh is an extended separation. currently developing multiple projects through his Los Angeles based production company Sun PROJECT STATUS Temple Media. We are currently seeking producers and financiers.

CONTACT INFORMATION Rajesh Golla [email protected] M +1 6266884441

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 6-9 SEPTEMBER 2019 95 The Yellow Dot

33-year-old, ambitious marketing manager Macy is at a crossroads in her life. One day during an eye- tracking study of consumer David Lammers behaviour, she spies among Writer/director • Netherlands hundreds of other dots on a screen a single yellow dot David graduated as a director from the Netherlands moving against the expected Film Academy in 2001 with his film Alfred Maassen’s trend. She sees this dot as a Last Day (Cinéfondation, Cannes 2002). His debut representation of her own life. feature film Northern Light was in Competition at Where is she headed, how the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2006. does she interact with the Between 2007 and 2015 he worked as writer, world? director and creative producer for several successful As other disturbing events TV series. Currently, he is developing the script for happen, she starts to wonder his second feature film The Yellow Dot. if everything is connected in in ways she cannot rationally understand. At this point, the entire story she made of her life dissolves, and she will start looking for a new way of relating.

PROJECT STATUS The Yellow Dot received script funding from the Netherlands Film Fund and development funding from Creative Europe – MEDIA. Currently, the first draft is being written. Dutch production company Pupkin is attached to the project.

CONTACT INFORMATION David Lammers [email protected] M +31 624688746

96 TFL EXTENDED 2019 You Don’t Know Me

Lonely 45-year-old Valentyna decides to take care of 15-year-old Yulia, adopting her from an orphanage. Valentyna makes an Iryna Serebriakova impression as a successful, Writer • Ukraine competent and self-sufficient woman. She works as a life- In 2012 Iryna graduated from National University coach and supposedly is a of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with a Master’s Degree worthy candidate for the role in Literature Studies and is currently studying for of adoptive mother. However, her second Master’s degree in Psychology. This it turns out that in Yulia’s past, background led her to taking up writing for cinema. there is a lot of dark secrets. She was a participant in Documentary Summer Valentyna discovers that School organized by Locarno film Festival, Le she cannot control neither Groupe Ouest and other international schools and this rebellious teenager nor workshops. She is living and working in Kyiv. her own life. Can these two women, coming from totally different worlds, truly become mother and daughter?

PROJECT STATUS The project You Don’t Know Me is co-written with Olha Zhurba who is also going to direct the film. The development stage of the project was funded by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. The development is done and we are currently looking for co-production.

CONTACT INFORMATION Iryna Serebriakova [email protected] M +38 0509829365

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 6-9 SEPTEMBER 2019 97 Script Development – Feature Film Script Development – Feature Film 10-13 September 2019

A workshop addressed to teams of professionals, with feature film projects at an early development stage, aimed at encouraging the creative process necessary to achieve the best possible result in creating strong stories. Dark Soil Brian Deane Writer/director & Producer • Ireland Dark Soil is the story of Kate, a 16-year-old girl living on Brian is the founder of TW Films. He wrote and directed a rural dairy farm in 1980’s several short films which were screened all over the world, Ireland. Although still in picking up 35 nominations and 26 International awards. He school, she helps her mother is a Berlinale Talent Alumnus and is currently developing 3 Orla and her grandfather feature film projects with Screen Ireland. He is passionately compelled to bring the stories of outsiders, misfits and William on the land, hoping those left on the margins of society to the big screen. to inherit the farm, one year Dark Soil is his first feature film. after her father’s death. Her dreams are put in jeopardy after her uncle Tom returns with his teenage son and wife to challenge Kate’s claim for the farm. After a heated drunken argument, Kate accidentally Wesley Dunne kills her cousin and with her Writer • Ireland freedom and inheritance at risk, in a panic she hides the Wesley is a graduate and teacher at the Gaiety School of body leading her on a dark Acting and his credits include appearances in the TV series path towards destruction or Vikings, Darklands, Fair City and The Young Offenders. On stage Wesley has worked with some of the biggest names freedom. in Irish theatre including Rough Magic, Fishamble, Fortunes Fool and Reality Check Productions to name a few. He is PROJECT STATUS also the holder of an MA in Screenwriting from IADT, an We are currently developing award-winning writer and director as well as a stand-up the project with TW Films comedian. and Screen Ireland with the aim of shooting in late 2020/early 2021. We are currently looking to have discussions with potential co-production partners and sales agents.

CONTACT INFORMATION Brian Deane Wesley Dunne [email protected] [email protected] M +35 3879158704 M +085 785 0488

100 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Fifteen

A sex video of Maria and Andrea goes viral in a private school in Lima. When both girls are summoned to the principal’s office alongside Peiman Zekavat their parents, only Andrea Writer/director • United Kingdom shows up and there is no sign of Maria. Peiman is a filmmaker and Canon commissioned While an investigation opens cinematographer. His fictional films and on Maria’s disappearance, and observational documentaries focus on social and news of the girls having sex humanitarian issues. His documentaries aired sends shock waves through on Al Jazeera, Fox, CBC and screened at major the Christian community, documentary film festivals including Dok Leipzig. Andrea needs to acclimate to His 2018 short fiction Quince, which deals with her new life as her religious the aftermath of online bullying among teenagers family does everything in its in Peru, was longlisted for BIFA and selected for power to get their prodigal Oscars, BAFTA and EFA qualifying film festivals. daughter back on track, no matter the cost.

PROJECT STATUS The project is at an early development stage, a script rewrite is underway. We are looking for creative partners, Latin American co-producers and sales agents, with the aim to shoot in Summer of 2021.

CONTACT INFORMATION Peiman Zekavat [email protected] M +44 7414252676

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 10-13 SEPTEMBER 2019 101 Innocent Monsters

Innocent Monsters is a noir story set in the political unrest of London in 1985. Billy, a US college student, arrives for a prestigious exchange Michael Moody Culpepper programme. He hopes Writer/director & Producer • United States to escape his parochial, conforming upbringing. Michael is an architect and filmmaker who has By embracing provocative published and exhibited internationally. Working and irreverent ideologies, with his producing partners, Michael wrote, directed, Billy is unknowingly groomed and produced award-winning documentaries and by Daragh, an IRA operative. short movies. His documentaries have screened Billy falls hard for the thrilling at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and were and dangerous Daragh. licensed to broadcast on MTV/LOGO. His short films As Daragh draws Billy deeper won awards at Gaze International Dublin, Rhode into his plans, he develops Island International, Seattle Queer, and Renaissance feelings for Billy. Then a bomb Amsterdam. explodes in a hotel. Billy questions what he is willing to do for love. Daragh questions what he is willing to do in spite of love.

PROJECT STATUS Innocent Monsters is in development. There is a script and the team has secured a percentage of development funds from an HNI. We have a second producer onboard, Nikki Draper, based in Singapore. We are looking for co-production partners in Ireland, the United

CONTACT INFORMATION Kingdom, or other parts of Michael Moody Culpepper the European Union. [email protected] M +1 2069140830

102 TFL EXTENDED 2019 John’s Bicycle

Set in the 1980’s, John, an outgoing Canadian, cycles across Europe and meets Haitho, a girl from a small village in the mountains of Colin Riendeau Northern Greece. John falls in Writer/director • Canada love with Haitho, but Haitho’s grandmother does not like Colin is a director and multimedia artist from John, so she sets him on a Montreal. He has directed documentary and series of tasks that grow more narrative projects that have taken him all and more Herculean, hoping over the world. He has a BA in Specialization he will give up and go away. Communications Studies with a minor in Film Despite her attempts, Haitho Studies from Concordia University and a certificate falls for John. After their love in Screenwriting from the Université de Québec becomes obvious to the à Montréal. He currently has several narrative disapproving village, the star- and documentary projects at various stages of crossed lovers must choose: production. to risk all they have known for love, or give up and return to a disillusioned reality?

PROJECT STATUS The project is currently in late development. We are working with Greek co-producer Fenia Cossovitsa, Canadian producer Caroline Gaudette and executive producer Louis-Philippe Rochon. The script is in the 4th draft. We are looking for financing partners.

CONTACT INFORMATION Colin Riendeau [email protected] M +1 5142933452

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 10-13 SEPTEMBER 2019 103 Kollam

British/Indian teenager Maya visits her family on the backwaters of Kerala where her charismatic uncle, Rohan, is stealing sand from Shalini Adnani neighbouring rivers to fuel Writer/director • United Kingdom/India the construction of a tower he hopes will pay off the Shalini is a London-based, Chilean/Indian writer family debt. and director. Her first short films, Something More Maya develops a friendship Banal (2017) and Somebody’s Daughter (nominated with the villagers, but when for a Golden Egg at Reykjavik Film Festival in 2019), they strike and Rohan invents were screened at festivals worldwide. Her scripts a tale of lost jewelry which have been finalists at Atlanta Film Festival, Sundance soon has them working again, Screenwriters Lab and Script Pipeline. She is also a Maya begins to question her Berlinale Talents Alumna. In 2019 she made no- uncle’s intentions. Kollam budget feature film, A Grown Woman, attending the explores the crisis of illegal Edinburgh Film Festival’s Work in Progress selection. sand mining through the perspective of a young woman, and examines generational differences and the patriarchy’s loss of control.

PROJECT STATUS Kollam is in development. We are looking for financiers, co-producers and sales agents.

CONTACT INFORMATION Shalini Adnani [email protected] M +44 7557518114

104 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Matuna Daniela Alejandra Narváez Huertas Writer/director • Colombia Maria, one of the slaves of a Spanish ranch of the 16th Daniela was born in 1988 in Colombia. She trained century, decides to escape as a Filmmaker in Bogotá and studied Art Direction in by taking seeds to the free Barcelona. She has written and directed two short films town that the men founded and has worked in numerous high-level Colombian and a while ago. She knits a map Spanish film and television productions as an art director and SFX makeup artist. At the moment she is working on to get there over the head her first feature film, Matuna. of her little daughter and promises to return. Maria is captured and killed in front of everyone. That is when Antonia takes on the journey for freedom. When they arrive it seems desolate, but the Spaniards have arrived first Javier Fernando Segovia Huertas and the women surrender their freedom. Writer & Producer • Colombia Suddenly their men appear Javier was born in Colombia in 1987. He studied Film and and they win the battle. TV Directing in Buenos Aires. His work has stood out in Antonia gives the final blow. the field of web fictions. When returning to Colombia, he Thus, the women drop the deepened his studies in executive production in Bogotá, where he now resides, and began to produce film projects. seeds from their hair to He is currently in the creation of his own production germinate the free town. company, ONDA Films and Series which focuses on LGBTQI+ content and gender equality. PROJECT STATUS The project is at a development stage, applying to the Proimagenes/ Colombian Film Fund, with a possible co-production in Spain and in search of other partnering countries. The estimated budget is € 800.000.

CONTACT INFORMATION Daniela Alejandra Narváez Huertas Javier Fernando Segovia Huertas [email protected] [email protected] M +57 3158250689 M +54 3012525964

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 10-13 SEPTEMBER 2019 105 Midnight Sun

Midnight Sun is a drama inspired by the fragile sociopolitical situation of our country, in these current post conflict events. It is the story Nicolás Sandino Moreno of a mourning mother who Writer/director • Colombia doesn’t give up the search of her missing son, while being Nicolás is a university teacher, writer and director forced by the military to from Colombia. He is a professional in Audiovisual foster and mother a stranger’s Media, postgraduate student in Script Writing and child who has lost everything Film Editing from the University of California, UCLA. in the war. His first short film The Next Season was part of the Revolving around the International Film Students Meeting in San Sebastián casualties of war and forced Film Festival (2011). Nicolás has written scripts for disappearances, this drama the HBO series, Room 104 and also co-directed explores the life of a woman Vimeo Staff Picks videoclips for Unknown Mortal and a child who are forced Orchestra and Wunder Wunder. to embrace motherhood, as they serve each other as a shelter, forming a bond of identity, memory and resistance.

PROJECT STATUS The film is co-written with the lead actress, Academy Award Nominee, Catalina Sandino Moreno. The second draft of the script has been supervised by Rodrigo García Barcha. As Colombians, we can apply to a 60% tax rebate law with an international co-production.

CONTACT INFORMATION We are looking for a Nicolás Sandino Moreno producer, co-production [email protected] partners, investors and M +57 3507217560 distributors.

106 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Retreat

Roberto is an unemployed architect stepping into his 30’s who feels that he has not yet built a meaningful existence for himself. He Steven Morales Pineda returns home looking for Writer/director • Colombia solitude, to put the house back in order, with the excuse Steven is a Colombian filmmaker and screenwriter. of taking on the remodelling In 2017 he created the TV format Loro Viejo, winner of a beach house. But his life of MIPFormats International Pitch in Cannes the takes a tailspin when he runs same year. He wrote and produced the feature film into Luis Hernando, the priest Malpura, currently in post-production. His project who abused him as a child. Letters at Dusk received a writing grant from the Roberto soon finds himself Colombian Film Fund and is now in development debating the opposing mixed by Paralelo Producciones, the same company feelings of rage, lust and behind the development of Retreat, winner of the affection for this man. International Producers Forum – FICCI 2019 and a CNC writing grant. PROJECT STATUS There is a second draft of the script, written with the aid of a CNC writing grant. We are looking for international co-producers. The total budget is € 350.000, of which we have secured € 14.000. The project has been preselected by the Hubert Bals Fund and submitted to the Colombian Film Fund production grant.

CONTACT INFORMATION Steven Morales Pineda [email protected] M +57 3176467258

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 10-13 SEPTEMBER 2019 107 Rifts Geo Doba Writer/director • Romania “The head that bows, the sword will not cut off” is a Geo has studied Filmmaking in both London and famous Romanian saying. Bucharest, at the Screen Arts Institute, National Film Unbeknownst to most and Television School, and the National University of Romanians, there is a Theatre and Film in Bucharest. To date, she has written continuation: “but it won’t and directed two short films: Nollibrot (2014) and The Apartment (2019) and is currently working on her third one. see the sunlight either.” She enjoys writing drama and comedy for both children Rifts is about several and adults, as well as crime stories, and has several spec interwoven stories taking scripts in English. She sometimes moonlights as a standup place in modern Romania, comedian in Bucharest and enjoys creating comics. in a society plagued by corruption and the fear of fighting it. A father punches a teacher, a journalist gets fired for being a watchdog, a cop gets sued by a burglar he caught in the act, a nurse becomes a whistleblower to Dumitrana Lupu fight corruption. Producer • Romania These are some of the stories Dumitrana holds an MA in Film Production and has in this mosaic film dedicated produced several shorts that have been showcased to and inspired by the people in festivals around the world. She also works in film who want to see the sunlight. distribution and collaborates with various film festivals,

such as Transilvania International Film Festival (Industry PROJECT STATUS Guest Coordinator) and Bucharest International Dance Film Festival. She currently serves as an International Relations We are at the early stage of Officer for UNATC, the National University of Theatre and script development. We are Film in Bucharest. looking for co-producers, sales agents and partners.

CONTACT INFORMATION Geo Doba Dumitrana Lupu [email protected] [email protected] M +40 727566956 M +40 726670299

108 TFL EXTENDED 2019 The Border Eryk Lenartowicz Writer/director • Australia The Border is a black comedy. The last city left Eryk, born 1993, is a Polish/Australian writer and director. on earth, overpopulated, He is a graduate of two film schools, the Gdynia Film entirely surrounded by a School in Poland and the Australian Film, Television and decaying forest inhabited by Radio School. His previous short films have screened at the a mysterious creature that Cannes Film Festival (Cinéfondation, 2018), (2018), Denver International Film Festival (2018), feeds off human souls. FlickerFest International Film Festival (2018) and many Due to population control, more. Eryk is an avid fan of portraying the tragedies of life once a baby is born, a through dark humour. random citizen over the age of 60 must be sacrificed and forced into the forest. Only selected people from the upper echelons of this feudal society are able to procreate. Matylda, a low-rank Yvette Underwood government worker, seemingly the only normal Scriptwriter • Australia person in this unnormal Yvette comes from a Fine Arts background, graduating world, is forced to confront from the National Art School in 2018. She started working her reality once she gets in film in 2014, as a production designer on a multitude pregnant after a one-night of short films and music videos. She was the production stand. designer for Eryk Lenartowicz’s Dots (2017) that was selected for the Cinéfondation at Cannes in 2018. Since PROJECT STATUS then she has worked on a number of short films as both writer and production designer. The project is at an early development stage and is supported by Screen Australia. We are seeking a producer with an understanding of art-house cinema mixed with the potential for major commercial value, as well as financers and co-producers. CONTACT INFORMATION Eryk Lenartowicz Yvette Underwood [email protected] [email protected] M +61 0406751353 M +61 0400716333

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 10-13 SEPTEMBER 2019 109 The Servants’ Law Óscar Adán Writer/director • Colombia Colombia, 1902: the civil war is over. Liberal party survivors Óscar was born in Bogotá in 1980. He studied Filmmaking, must either face the firing Screenwriting and Education in Colombia and Mexico. He squad of government officials has worked as a scriptwriter for radio, graphic novel writer, or flee the country. professor and fiction author. He has directed and produced short films, some of which have been screened at film Amidst the chaos, Quintiliano, festivals and sold to international TV networks. He is now an Italian photographer, in development with his first feature film, Give Birth, which is hired to take portraits will go into production in early 2020. The Servants’ Law will of the winning high rank be his second feature film. commanders. However, as he embarks on his journey, he crosses paths with Pinilla, a defeated young Liberal sergeant, who is tracking down a bandit known as El Siervo Morales. Quintiliano questions the nature of Juan Ruiz his assignment when he Writer & Producer • Colombia decides to tail Pinilla across the mountains and moors to Juan studied Filmmaking at the National University of witness the real carnage and Colombia. He has produced, written and directed several documentaries and participated in research-creation aftermath of this brutal war. projects, where he has put in motion his interest in history and social issues. His work has been screened at festivals PROJECT STATUS and public TV networks. Recently, he joined forces with The project is currently Óscar to develop The Servants’ Law. He is also producing undergoing financing and the feature film Give Birth, which will be shot in 2020. rewriting. We are looking for creative partners, co-producers and sales agents.

CONTACT INFORMATION Óscar Adán Juan Ruiz [email protected] [email protected] M +57 3006952167 M +57 3168061371

110 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Two Sisters

A dramedy about two estranged half-sisters, 29-year-old Stevie and 33-year-old Raf, who are forced together for the first Florence Keith-Roach time in years to visit their Writer/director • United Kingdom dying grandmother in Sicily. Ostensibly they want to Florence began writing and acting in theatre before lay claim to the crumbling being selected for Channel Four’s Drama 2017 family cinema, but really, they writing programme. She is now developing several need to confront the painful United Kingdom and United States TV shows. reasons behind their fractured She won a BFI Future Film Bursary for feature film relationship. Stevie, who development in 2017. Her short film, A Family Affair, idolises her sister, hopes this has won numerous awards, named Best of the Fest trip will repair their bond, in at Inside Out Fest and Palm Springs’ Shorts Fest fact she lied about the dying 2019 and is playing at BFI London Film Fest 2019. grandmother to make Raf Florence is acting in The Great (Hulu), written by come. But Raf is preoccupied Tony Mcnamara. by her own demons; her Sicilian mother’s death and a fiancé who insisted on coming and whom Raf is trying to break apart from.

PROJECT STATUS Two Sisters is in development in the United Kingdom and is seeking Italian co-producers.

CONTACT INFORMATION Florence Keith-Roach [email protected] M +44 7876508072

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 10-13 SEPTEMBER 2019 111 Vacuum Yelizaveta Smith Director • Ukraine A man is missing. He disappeared during his shift Yelizaveta was born in Odessa in 1990. She graduated from at the train station where Kiev National University of Theatre and Cinema in 2014. he works as a switchman. During the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, she took part in the Nobody knows where he protests and began filming a documentary. In December is and the police starts an 2014, she started to volunteer with children in the city of Mykolaivka in the Donetsk area, destroyed by the war. investigation. The volunteering process was the start of her movie Marta, the adult daughter of School N° 3, which won the Grand Prix at Berlinale 2017 the missing man, has to come Generation 14+ programme. Vacuum will be her debut to her hometown to settle feature fiction film. the legal issues and to sell the flat. Marta wants to sell the apartment as soon as possible to get rid of everything that links her to her father with whom she had no contact for more than 20 years. Aleksandra Kostina Marta is surprised to discover her own feelings about her Producer • Ukraine unknown father. She begins Aleksandra is based in Kyiv. Since 2007 she has worked to look for any details to find on numerous feature films, mostly international out what kind of man her co-productions. As an executive producer, her credits father was. include La Semaine de la Critique award-winning Ukrainian

hit The Tribe (2014), by director Myroslav Slaboshpitskiy. PROJECT STATUS In 2018 she established her own production company, Bosonfilm, which is currently developing the debut feature The project is currently at film Pamfir, by Ukrainian director Dmytro Sukholytkyy- an early development stage. Sobchuk, selected for the Cinéfondation Residence. The project has the Ukrainian production company Bosonfilm attached. As the project is planned as an Ukrainian/Polish/ German co-production, we are looking for co-producers CONTACT INFORMATION and distributors from these Yelizaveta Smith Aleksandra Kostina territories, as well as sales [email protected] [email protected] agents. M +38 0633930004 M +38 0672977357

112 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Xenos

Xenos is a drama about a Greek Cypriot family living in London since 1974, having never returned. Three sisters: Sophia, Helen, Christi and Athena Mandis their mother, Maro have just Writer/director • United Kingdom lost their father/husband. To their shock, his wish is Athena is a lecturer in Film Practice at the Queen to be buried in Cyprus with Mary University of London and an award-winning their full attendance. Failure filmmaker, whose journey began in theatre with to carry this out, will mean the David Glass Ensemble. Her work has screened they forfeit the inheritance at festivals world-wide. Xenos won best screenplay and Maro will become at Cyprus IFF in 2018. Her project The Return was homeless. Reality forces them selected to the Film London/Ampulia Development to concede. Each of them Lab 2018. She is currently in preproduction with braces for what this journey two short films, Losing Grace and Daughter, in will unearth. post-production with a documentary on Cypriot Migration and developing another feature, Polly. Confronting the traumas of the past, the lies they have told, and the secrets they have hidden, they seek redemption in understanding their loss.

PROJECT STATUS Together with producer Marilena Parouti, we are seeking co-producers and funding. The project is at a script stage.

CONTACT INFORMATION Athena Mandis [email protected] M +44 7834719620

SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT – FEATURE FILM • 10-13 SEPTEMBER 2019 113 Audience Design Audience Design 6-9 September 2019

An intensive workshop addressed to audio-visual professionals wishing to gain solid hands-on experience through a workshop framework, creating audience engagement strategies for feature film projects in various stages of development. THE PARTICIPANTS DEVELOPED AN AUDIENCE DESIGN STRATEGY FOR Las Mil y Una Isona Admetlla Germany/Spain Set in a community of project houses, Las Mil y Una is a coming of age story which explores deep friendship and sexual awakening. When 16-year-old Iris meets Audience Design is an 18-year-old Renata, a young woman with a tough past, obligatory exercise in she feels immediately attracted to her. She will have to every production process overcome her fears and struggle with her insecurities that leads to a feeling of in order to experience her first love. A story full of vertigo when imagining tenderness in a very hostile environment where desire the doors it opens. takes many forms in the darkness, and where gossip can turn into a hostile weapon.

Lucía Chávarri Producer • Argentina Isona is a sociologist, cultural manager, lecturer and advisor. Born in Barcelona, SELECTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH she lives in Berlin where she works at the Berlinale World Cinema Fund. She also designs tailor-made seminars and trainings and is member of the selection committees of the Málaga Festival Fund, Co-Production Event and of the Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales Spain. She is also an expert reader for Creative Europe – MEDIA and often participates as a speaker, trainer or advisor in international events.

CONTACT INFORMATION Isona Admetlla [email protected] M + 49 3025920516

116 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Tsz Ki (Catherine) Síle Culley Giulia Claudia Chan Ireland Massacci Hong Kong Italy

I want to create Audience Audience Design, for I strongly believe Design strategies for the me, is about bridging that, nowadays, it is works of Asian filmmakers the heart of a film to its fundamental to reflect to build open dialogues potential audiences for about how we engage with more understanding maximum engagement audiences, and find for our society. and appreciation. new ways of doing so by implementing new strategies to build awareness and foster desire.

Together with Oscar-winner After graduating from the Having always been interested Ruby Yang, Catherine National Film and Television in film studies, Giulia established the Hong Kong School in London, Síle joined undertook an 18-month Documentary Initiative in Pulse Films’ distribution course in Documentary 2015 as project manager. The team before venturing into Filmmaking at the Civic initiative supports filmmakers Event Cinema at CinemaLive, School of Cinema Luchino in Hong Kong, China and where she worked on Visconti in Milan. As a final Asia with seed funding and alternative content for the big project for this course, she mentorship. Catherine is a screen. Síle joined Altitude wrote and directed, together graduate in journalism and Films where she worked on with Massimiliano Mastroluca, has worked in public relations many award-winning film Virginia Meneghini and and administration across campaigns including the Francesco Persano Adorno, Hong Kong and China for broadcasts of many one-day- the documentary Cosa over 10 years. She embraces only events for Eric Clapton, Può un Corpo, which was new perspectives, in search Liam Gallagher, Ai Weiwei presented at the Nuovo of the best platform for and many others. Based in Cinema di Pesaro Festival storytelling. Dublin, Síle now works as 2018. She also attended a freelance consultant in Milan’s Experimental Center of distribution. Cinematography, specializing in Film Production.

CONTACT INFORMATION CONTACT INFORMATION CONTACT INFORMATION Tsz Ki (Catherine) Chan Síle Culley Giulia Claudia Massacci [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] M +852 92129669 M +353 0873864243 M +39 3471872225

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Story Editing 6-9 September 2019

A hands-on training workshop for film professionals willing to accompany writers and directors in the development of their fiction feature film and TV series projects. THE PARTICIPANTS WORKED ON STORY EDITING FOR Covered Anita Juka Croatia DEVELOPED IN TFL EXTENDED – TV SERIES • 11-15 APRIL 2019 (SEE P. 12)

Covered is a female-driven crime-drama series. Story Editing for me is It is about the unintended involvement of a successful creating a story with western-style young Iranian woman living in Germany a strong message and in the racketeering of secret criminal organisations while impact. I believe it is my she is searching for her disappeared small niece. duty as a storyteller and Ostensibly, the series is about the crime case as a woman to produce related to the niece, but the true subject of the story more work that resists is the transformation of the Iranian woman from a conventional models western-style toward a traditional woman during of portraying female the search for her niece, including all the contradictions characters. and complications this change brings to her life and relationships. Anita has produced 16 films and 8 European co-productions of different Kioumars Namiri genres. Her films have been Writer/director • Germany supported by Eurimages and have won more than 75 awards at film festivals. One of her feature films is You Carry Me (2015) which was nominated by the European Film Academy for the Best European Film and was also the official Oscar entry from Montenegro. It became the first film from the whole region to be bought by Netflix, it is now distributed in 190 countries and available for 135 million people to watch.

CONTACT INFORMATION Anita Juka [email protected] T +385 14828774

120 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Mariana Schneider Annemarie Germany Siemons Netherlands

I hope to motivate Working as a script editor writers to discover is a never-ending story, a something in their stories wonderful, adventurous that surprises. journey together with Even themselves. writers and directors.

Mariana works and lives Annemarie has been working in Frankfurt am Main. She for production companies for has been working as a TV twenty years, first on PR and journalist and producer. marketing and since 2013 as In 2017/18 she attended a script editor. Award winning the full-time European Film titles she previously worked Producing masterclass in on are: Sarah Veltmeijer’s Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris. Kiem Holijanda, winner of Currently, she is a freelance the Crystal Bear Best Short commissioning editor Film Generation 14Plus at with ZDF/ARTE for culture, the Berlin International Film documentary and online Festival 2018, and Hiba Vink’s programming. She also works Remember to Check out, in education for the Hessen nominated for the Best Short Film and Media Academy. Film at the Netherlands Film Festival 2016. Annemarie is currently connected to DOXY Films in Amsterdam as a script editor.

CONTACT INFORMATION CONTACT INFORMATION Mariana Schneider Annemarie Siemons [email protected] [email protected] M +49 1741737469 M +31 0650572644

STORY EDITING • 6-9 SEPTEMBER 2019 121 THE PARTICIPANTS WORKED ON STORY EDITING FOR Notions Denise Jonkman Netherlands DEVELOPED IN TFL EXTENDED – TV SERIES • 11-15 APRIL 2019 (SEE P. 21)

Cork is a city with a Northside and Southside divided Story editing for me is by a river. The Northside is poor but dynamic; the finding a way to get the Southside is wealthy but reserved. On the Northside story to the centre stage, lives the smart, rebellious 15-year-old Dawn Deasy, it is all about the story and and her unemployed single-mother Martha. On the how we can tell it in the Southside lives the angry, disillusioned 27-year-old PhD best possible way. student Emmet, son to successful businessman Frank and his wife Sheenagh. When Dawn wins a place on an elite programme for bright kids, it forces her to seek help from Emmet. This puts the two families and their values in direct conflict around the question of where one truly belongs. Denise earned her Bachelor in Journalism in 2011. But not feeling like a ‘true’ Oonagh Kearney journalist, always on the Writer/director • Ireland hunt for news, but more like a storyteller in the broadest sense, she started to work for the production company Barbara Healy BlazHoffski. She became a Producer • Ireland format developer and worked on all types of genres from (factual) entertainment and documentary series, to gameshows and children’s TV. Recently BlazHoffski founded a new drama company: Holland’s Licht. Denise now works as a full time developer and story editor for Holland’s Licht, focusing on Dutch TV series.

CONTACT INFORMATION Denise Jonkman [email protected] T +31 203018462

122 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Francesco Nicola Marlou Rutten Renda Netherlands Italy

When it comes to story As a story editor my editing, nobody knows passion is to help talented anything for sure. And that and ambitious creators is why I love it. bring their stories to life, stories that move people because of the urgency, social impact or the great concept.

After graduating from Scuola Marlou holds a Master’s Holden in Dramaturgy of TV degree in Film (with a major Series, Francesco developed in Dramaturgy) and she also several scripts with directors completed the Netherlands such as Stefano Lodovichi, Film Academy in Production. Pippo Mezzapesa and After this she worked on Lorenzo Sportiello. He is various sets. In 2011 she now working as a script became Head of Programme consultant and talent scout for the Netherlands Film for Nightswim, a glocal Festival in Utrecht. In 2016 production company based she joined KPN, a Dutch in Rome. He also likes to cable provider as one of their write, he presented a mini- Story Editors and worked on series on the Italian royal the series Fenix. In 2017 she family at Venice Production joined Lemming Film as Head Bridge 2018. of Development for series. She has worked on projects like the TV series Heirs of the Night and Zenith.

CONTACT INFORMATION CONTACT INFORMATION Francesco Nicola Renda Marlou Rutten [email protected] [email protected] M +39 3427190807 M +31 614184376

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The Woman with Woman Without a Past a Missing Leg

DEVELOPED IN TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPED IN TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT – FEATURE FILM • 7-10 JUNE 2019 (SEE P. 61) DEVELOPMENT 2018

A romantic comedy disguised as a When Maryam wakes up in a hospital, murder mystery. she has no memory of her past. Soon she Morgan Quince is a hero. Two years ago, is confronted with a husband she does while video-voyeuring from his kitchen not love, children she cannot remember, window, he witnessed the murder of a and a very religious and unfamiliar life prosthetic-legged beauty. He somehow inside the Muslim community of a central cracked the case and met his wife in the European city. process. But now NBC airs a made-for- While trying to be the proper Muslim TV-movie about the investigation, and woman everybody expects her to Morgan is portrayed as a minor character! be, Maryam meets the inspiring and To prove his main character status, outgoing Elsa, who has left her abusive Morgan decides to make his own husband. And as Maryam’s memory movie about the murder. Welcome returns little by little, she understands to Morgan’s version of The Woman there is someone in her life she has to be with a Missing Leg. afraid of: her former self. In the end, Maryam has to decide between liberating herself or liberating Luigi Campi her family. Writer/director • Italy

Arman T. Riahi Writer/director • Austria

124 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Nicola Garcia Jessie Mangum Michal Oleszczyk Kropp United Kingdom Poland Germany

I am dedicated to helping I’m a story geek, I love to I like to help filmmakers curate great stories help writers distil the best in the process of feeling because I am enchanted version of their story. and understanding their by their capacity to provide stories, themes and respite when desired, and structures, as well as to provoke and challenge assisting in bringing those when required. The scope stories to the audience in and diversity of stories we a clear and exciting way. can tell are limitless.

Nicola is a German/ Jessie was a co-producer of Michal is a script consultant Filipina, born in Hong Kong Julien Temple’s The Eternity and film critic based in and raised in Singapore. Man which premiered in Warsaw. He works as an Gripped by storytelling Locarno in 2008, and Deborah Assistant Professor at the from a young age, she has Mailman’s Ralph (2009) Artes Liberales Department in worked in production and which won the Australian the University of Warsaw. development in theatre IF Award for Best Short. As His writing on film has and stages across London, production executive at the appeared at Cineaste and Edinburgh, Singapore and sales company Goalpost Film RogerEbert.com. He has Manila. In 2015 she focused her credits include Michael worked multiple times as her attention on dramaturgy, Winterbottom’s The Trip a screenplay evaluation gaining her Master’s Degree (2010), Wayne Blair’s The expert at the Polish Film in Theatre from the University Sapphires (2012) and Ben Institute and also as the of Edinburgh. Currently Wheatley’s Happy New Year, Artistic Director of Poland’s based in Berlin, Nicola works Colin Burstead (2018). She has largest festival of Polish films: as an associate producer also produced Anna Maguire’s Gdynia Film Festival. He is at Fireglory Pictures, and Constellations (2018) which a guest script consultant at continues to work as a story won awards in Palm Springs Screenplay Atelier. editor with independent and Underwire Film Festival writers and filmmakers alike. and Rene Pannevis’ feature Looted (Film London/BBC Films/BFI).

CONTACT INFORMATION CONTACT INFORMATION CONTACT INFORMATION Nicola Garcia Kropp Jessie Mangum Michal Oleszczyk [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] M +49 15119553820 M +44 7552606417 M +48 534799140

STORY EDITING • 6-9 SEPTEMBER 2019 125 Lily Slydel Konstantinos England Tzouflas Greece

I am passionate about I want to help curate supporting emerging great stories because and experienced talent I am passionate about in telling the stories they storytelling. want to tell as effectively as possible.

Lily is a story editor with Konstantinos is a postdoctoral experience in script researcher at the University editing, production and of Zurich. He finished his commissioning. She currently PhD thesis on Film Narration works at Greenacre Films, (Mosaic Films) at the Paris developing features and Diderot University. He has high-end TV dramas. She worked in the production was an associate producer of audiovisual projects in on 11 short films for BFI/ Greece and Spain. He has BBCFour talent scheme also participated in various ‘Born Digital’, leading on the workshops on scriptwriting assessment of 800 projects and realised projects both and commissioning 24 as scriptwriter and script shorts for broadcast. Lily has consultant. production managed award- winning short films, such as Run(a)way Arab (2017) by Amrou Al Kahdi, and assesses scripts for and Working Title.

CONTACT INFORMATION CONTACT INFORMATION Lily Slydel Konstantinos Tzouflas [email protected] [email protected] M +44 7810712812 M +41 798504528

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Creative Production 18-23 November 2019

An initiative addressed to teams of writer/director and producer with projects at an early development stage, who are willing to dive deep into the writing and production process along with an intensive development workshop. Almost Never Too Late Alfonso Acosta Writer/director • Colombia In the city of rain, bombs and Rock & Roll, Juan, a Alfonso graduated from Film School at National University high school contrarian kid of Colombia. His first feature film The Crack, which becomes the main suspect premiered at Busan International Film Festival 2012, mixes of the murder of his school drama and horror in a bloody nightmare. Alfonso also principal. wrote Chocó by Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza, a feature film that premiered at the Berlinale in 2012. His second feature Juan not only has to deal film Anger, a drama-mystery film will premiere in 2020. with Lizarazo, a run-down Currently he is directing his first short TV series, Laika in detective in charge of the the Stars which is a mixture of friendship, adolescence, investigation, but also with astronomy and animalism. Amanda, his distant mother, who doubts her son’s innocence. In this frantic weekend, Juan has to look into the abyss into which his life has fallen and prove his innocence. Carolina Mosquera Bogotá, December 6th, 1989. A new bomb blast shakes the Producer • Colombia city; a bloody morning after Carolina is a Colombian producer and actress. She which those lives thrown graduated from Film School at National University of together by the teacher’s Colombia. She participated as a producer in EAVE-Puentes murder will never be the in 2016. Her main interest is to produce sustainable films same. of high artistic value with a strong, fresh and original vision. She produced The Crack by Alfonso Acosta, in PROJECT STATUS co-production with Rizoma Films (Argentina) and Eone as sales agent. Carolina was the producer and main character The project is currently at a of Anger by Alfonso Acosta, an atmospheric, hypnotic and development stage with a 6th brutal film where she deals with uncomfortable topics. version of the script available. Currently she is producing her first short TV series, Laika in We are looking for partners, the Stars. co-producers, international sales and festivals.

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CONTACT INFORMATION Alfonso Acosta Carolina Mosquera [email protected] [email protected] M +57 3153697218 M +57 3144228652

130 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Beloved Harriet Teng Teng Wong Director • Macau Being the executive chef at the Macau Governor’s Palace, Teng Teng has a deep understanding of the culture Tim leads a prestigious life, between west and east, she is very active in the film until the sudden death of his industry and is an experienced scriptwriter and film editor. wife subverts his entire world. She gained her MA in Film Directing and was granted the Lily, their daughter, is involved Beijing Film Academy Scholarship by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission in 2009. She also received the in the divorce process of Sony Scholarship for Outstanding Students, granted by her “married” boyfriend. The Beijing Municipal Education Commission and Sony China abandoned garden at home in 2009. Her project My Dreamer Daddy was awarded the is a portrayal of their lives, Film Project – Grand Award at the 2017 Guangdong-Hong until an admission letter to Kong-Macau Film Production Investment and Trade Fair. a gardening course from Portugal shows up. Tim decides to join the course on behalf of his wife and starts an adventurous journey in search for his beloved.

Jackie Virginia Tse PROJECT STATUS We are looking for Producer • Macau co-producers and financing. Jackie is an independent producer and executive director. During her 15 years in the film industry, Jackie has SELECTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH participated in many different projects and has served as the executive producer of Macau Salon Film for 6 years. These experiences have contributed to her becoming an independent producer today. Her credits include the feature films Guia in Love by Tak-Sam Leong (2015), Return of the Cuckoo by Patrick Kong (2015) and From Vegas to Macau 3 by Wong Jing & Andrew Lau (2016), among others.

CONTACT INFORMATION Harriet Teng Teng Wong Jackie Virginia Tse [email protected] [email protected] M +853 66775479 M +853 66446555

CREATIVE PRODUCTION • 18-23 NOVEMBER 2019 131 Daughters Barney Elliott Writer/director & Producer • Peru/United States Mateo Flores is a widower in his forties who suffers from a Born and raised in NYC. Barney graduated from The terminal illness that requires London Film School and is the writer/director of the a bone-marrow transplant. award-winning short films True Colours (2007), Último When his 7-year-old Recurso (2010) and the feature film, The Debt (2015). The daughter, Olivia, is tested, not Debt was developed at both the Cannes Film Foundation’s Residence (2007) and the Binger Filmlab (2008). The film only does Mateo learn that is starring Stephen Dorff, David Strathairn, Carlos Bardem, she is not a match, but worse, and executive produced by Christine Vachon. It was he discovers that she is not released theatrically in the US, Europe and Latin America his biological daughter. and is currently available on demand and on Netflix. Determined to find the culprit of his deceased wife’s infidelity, Mateo uncovers a horrific truth: his biological child was incorrectly tagged in the incubation ward where she was born. Despite his deteriorating health, Mateo Ernesto Gonzalez tracks down the location of Writer & Producer • Peru/Switzerland his biological daughter in the hope that his two daughters Ernesto is a corporate executive and entrepreneur with international background and extensive experience in will begin a relationship that business development, investment banking and corporate will last a lifetime. affairs. He founded the business development firm Qala Latam Partners, focusing on the Brazilian, Peruvian and PROJECT STATUS Chilean markets. He earned a JD from Universidad de We have a first treatment and Navarra and an MBA from Harvard. He is also a professional actor. As a producer, he has led the financial design, capital aim to have a finished script raising, marketing and distribution strategy for cinema and within the next 9 months. theatre projects. Based on our treatment we have already been working on securing Peruvian sponsors and investors for the project and are starting to look for European and North American co-production CONTACT INFORMATION opportunities. Barney Elliott Ernesto Gonzalez [email protected] [email protected] M +51 989399834 M +51 997599439

132 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Enough Angineh Isanians Writer/director • Enough is an intimate look into a family torn apart by Angineh is based in Yerevan, Armenia. For nearly a decade, a revolution in modern she has worked on Iranian narrative film sets as a key Armenia. part of the camera department, contributing to some of Iran’s most well-known contemporary feature films. In Lilit and Narek are silently 2019, she received an award from the National Cinema struggling to make ends Center of Armenia to direct her first short film, Beyond the meet and to provide for their Threshold, and is currently developing her first feature film family; they hold no hope for about a family pushed to the edge during Armenia’s Velvet a brighter future in Armenia. Revolution. Their daughter, Arevik, resents them for their apathy and runs off to join the country’s youth as they overthrow the government. In order to stay together through the growing protests Emily Mkrtichian and civil unrest, the family must learn how to reject their Producer • Armenia/USA apathy and believe in a better Emily is an Armenian-American producer and director. future for them all. She directed the viral web doc Levon: a Wondrous Life (2013). Emily produced the multi-award-winning short film PROJECT STATUS 140 Drams by Oksana Mirzoyan, which won Best Short Enough is currently in script at the Izmir Film Festival 2013, among others. Together with Anahid Yahjian, she co-directed the Armenian sci-fi development. short Transmission (BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2019). She also directed the short documentary SELECTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Motherland with its world premiere at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in 2019, about the women who risk their lives to rid their country of landmines left from an ethnic war.

CONTACT INFORMATION Angineh Isanians Emily Mkrtichian [email protected] [email protected] M +374 93562629 M +1 9494913419

CREATIVE PRODUCTION • 18-23 NOVEMBER 2019 133 Fallen King of Jai-Alai Oliver Fa Writer/director • Macau This is a story of a retired jai- alai master from the ‘80s who Oliver is a musician who runs a live music service rediscovered his passion after company. He began filmmaking in 2013, he has directed he was offered a chance to feature films, short films, music videos, promotional videos, lead a school jai-alai team. entertainment series as well as documentaries. Oliver is capable of managing limited resources and he can deliver The film highlights a series no matter what the situations are. Currently, he is trying of complicated dynamics, to establish himself in the film industry through various connections, twists, secrets, projects and roles as director, scriptwriter, actor, music dreams and lies between director and cinematographer. friends, lovers and family members. This is a drama that uses an interestingly unique sport as the backdrop to take the audience to experience a series of emotional Fernando Lourenço rollercoasters that reflect life. Writer & Producer • Macau PROJECT STATUS Fernando (PhD, MRes, MSc, BA Hons), is an eclectic The project is currently at a academic with interests and practices in a range of sectors. development stage. Having been initially trained in a top-tier art school, Kingston School of Art, his greatest passion inclines THIS PROJECT ALSO PARTICIPATED towards the arts. Fernando is the vice-president of Chong IN TFL EXTENDED SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT, Chin Association of Macau which helps local creative JUNE 2019. talents and promotes the creative industries. Via this association, Fernando supported the production of short- SELECTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH films, documentary and indie feature films.

CONTACT INFORMATION Fernando Lourenço Oliver Fa [email protected] [email protected] M +853 62021000 M +853 62838377

134 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Investigator Mendonza Maxim Bessmertny Writer/director • Macau Macau, 1980. Hotel Casino Cascais is robbed and one Maxim was born in Vladivostok, Russia and raised in Macau. employee is murdered. He is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of Private Detective Mendonza the Arts and a founder of Pontus Maximus Productions. is summoned to Macau from He has written, directed and produced narrative short Portugal to investigate. He films during the past nine years, many of which have won numerous awards worldwide, notably Tricycle Thief which does not speak a word of won the Kodak Gold Award after its world premiere at the Chinese and everyone is Toronto International Film Festival 2014 and Sampan (2017) suspicious of him. which recently premiered in his birth town of Vladivostok. He is led to Maria, a local Macau lawyer who speaks Chinese and Portuguese. Through her, Mendonza finds out about Chang, a Macau businessman who is acquiring a tender in a newly formed ferry transportation business. Jorge Cordeiro dos Santos Mendonza starts to suspect Writer & Producer • Macau that Chang might have Jorge was born and raised in Lisbon but has been living in somehow been involved in Macau for more than a decade. Graduated in Architecture the casino robbery and tries and having studied Screenwriting in New York, he spends to catch him red-handed. his days either assisting on the design of buildings, or managing his production company Gremlin Films. PROJECT STATUS He recently started collaborating with director Maxim Bessmertny and both wrote The Handover, a short comedy We are looking for that got funded and is currently in post-production. They co-producers and financing. are now developing their first feature film. THIS PROJECT ALSO PARTICIPATED IN TFL EXTENDED SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT, JUNE 2019.

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CONTACT INFORMATION Maxim Bessmertny Jorge Cordeiro dos Santos [email protected] [email protected] M +853 62893782 M +853 62034539

CREATIVE PRODUCTION • 18-23 NOVEMBER 2019 135 Karaoke King Federica Gianni Writer/director • Italy After an earthquake, Raoul, a doe-eyed teenager, and Federica’s two short films Primo (2017) and The Friend his wandering older brother from Tel Aviv (2015) have been shown in international Danilo leave their mountain film festivals including Palm Springs International Festival village to live outside Rome of Short Films, Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival, with their estranged uncle, Frameline Film Festival, Outfest, and have received awards from the Director’s Guild of America, IFP and Vimeo. She who works at a marketplace is currently developing her first feature film Karaoke King, that is on the verge of closing. selected for Oxbelly Screenwriters & Directors Lab and IFP The brothers’ relationship is Film Week 2019. put at risk as they try to find their place in this new environment. Raoul falls for Samuele, the market’s handsome bartender, while Danilo gets involved with a local organisation that spreads right-wing sentiment Lara Costa-Calzado around the city. Their differing Producer • Spain lifestyles clash together as they try to organize a karaoke Lara is a Spanish film producer based in the U.S. In 2016, event to save the market. she produced Primo by Federica Gianni, which premiered at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films in 2017 and was awarded by IFP and Vimeo. She produced PROJECT STATUS Selah and the Spades by Tayarisha Poe which premiered The project is at a at 2019. Lara is currently in development and financing production with Molly by Sally Potter, Never Rarely stage. We are aiming to shoot Sometimes Always by Eliza Hittman and Federica Gianni’s first feature Karaoke King. in 2020. We are looking for co-producers, financial partners, sales agents and distributors in Europe and worldwide.

CONTACT INFORMATION Federica Gianni Lara Costa-Calzado [email protected] [email protected] M +39 3394798489 M +1 3237997181

136 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Lala Rocko D. Marquez Writer/director • Mexico Lala is inspired by real events. In a rural town in Western Rocko directed several award-winning short films, including Nevertheless, It’s Beautiful (Oaxaca FilmFest Mexico, Lala, a 24-year- 2012, Lucerne IFF 2012) and After Dark, which won Best old woman with a mental Fiction Short Film at the Festival Internacional de Cine disability, has for 14 years de Tequila 2018 and the Press Award at Short Shorts been chained by her Film Festival Mexico 2018, among others. He is currently grandmother Virginia, who directing the documentary feature Imposter(s), winner at believes Lala is demonized LABEX Argentina 2018, MiradasDoc Market 2019, Pitch due to her condition. Blanca, 189 at Oaxaca FilmFest 2019. He is currently developing Lala’s younger sister, is fed his first fiction feature Lala, with which he participated in Santiago Lab at SANFIC 2018 and Málaga Festival Fund & up with the abuses of Virginia Coproduction Event 2019. and 22-year-old Aristeo, her narco brother. Blanca steals Aristeo’s money and car to flee with Lala, ignoring that the trunk is loaded with drugs. Heading to Tijuana in search of their mother Rosaura, whom they Marco Antonio Salgado Aguilera have not seen for years, they Producer • Mexico are pursued by Aristeo and his boss. Marco is a Mexican film producer, director of development In parallel, we follow & production of Cinema226, with extensive experience in post, marketing, and distribution. He is a producer of Rosaura’s life, since Lala’s more than 30 films, 5 international co-productions and 4 birth. TV series. His credits include titles of prestigious directors such as Ignacio Ortiz, Carlos Carrera, Jesús Magaña, Lucía PROJECT STATUS Carreras, and Andrés Kaiser (Feral, 2018, Best Mexican Lala is in development and Feature at Los Cabos Film Festival), as well as presence at festivals and markets in Berlin, Toronto, San Sebastian, searching financing with the Malaga, Guadalajara and Cabos. company Mental Revolution Films in co-production with Cinema226 and the rental house Elemental. It was part of the Santiago Lab of the CONTACT INFORMATION Santiago International Film Rocko D. Marquez Marco Antonio Salgado Aguilera Fest 2018 and of the Malaga [email protected] [email protected] Fund & Coproduction Event M +52 13312114514 M +52 15528647594 of the Malaga Film Fest 2019.

CREATIVE PRODUCTION • 18-23 NOVEMBER 2019 137 Prime Time Jakub Piątek Writer/director • Poland In 1999 Sebastian locks himself in a TV studio. He Jakub was born in 1985. He graduated from the Polish has two hostages, a gun, and National School of Film, Television and Theater in an important message for Łódź. While studying he produced the documentary the world. A few hours later, meditation When You Return (2006), the short feature after police negotiations, he films Uninhabited House (2007) and 350km (2009) as well as the short documentary Carousel Guys (2008). releases the hostages and His film Mother (2009) was screened at more than fifty surrenders. international festivals. In 2014 he completed the mid- He never tells his message. length documentary One Man Show which premiered in The story of the failed terrorist Dok Leipzig. In 2018 he completed the short fiction film Users which premiered in Slamdance Film Festival. attack is intertwined with the TV archive materials from the late ‘90s that leave various clues of what Sebastian’s message was. As the credits roll, every viewer is connected by one question: if I had the world’s Jakub Razowski attention for a moment, what would I say? What would I Producer • Poland rebel against? Born in 1986. Jakub graduated from Warsaw School of Economics with a Master’s Degree in Management and PROJECT STATUS Polish National School of Film, Television and Theater in Łódź, Postgraduate studies in Film Production. He Prime Time is at a late has been working in the film industry for over 10 years development stage. The as a Unit Production Manager, Production Coordinator shooting is scheduled for and lately Producer. Jakub worked for leading Polish the second half of 2020. We Production companies and TV stations. Since April 2018 he are seeking co-producers, is permanently hired by Watchout Studio for feature and sales agents and festival commercial productions. representatives.

CONTACT INFORMATION Jakub Piątek Jakub Razowski [email protected] [email protected] M +48 693838360 M +48 601420007

138 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Tectonic Love Will Domingos Writer/director • Brazil In the near future of an ultraconservative Brazilian Will is based in Rio de Janeiro. He started his film career in society, Antonia lives in 2009. His first short film Marrow (2013) had its international mourning since the recent premiere at UNAM International Film Festival, and was murder of her gay son Luan. awarded Best Short at Rio Gay Film Festival. With an On Sundays, she materializes aesthetic research on gender and sexuality, he directed two other short films, Warthog (2015) and Enlightened her suffering with a strange Gloria (2015). Will is also a film editor and was part of 2019 ritual: she puts on a Berlinale Talents in the Editing Studio. bulletproof vest and has a masked young man shoot her in the chest with a gun. The masked man is Luan’s doppelgänger, and together they spend the rest of the day visiting places she never went to with her dead son. Aline Mazzarella When the media activist Producer • Brazil hacker Selma comes into Antonia’s life, her grieving Film producer graduated in Cinema at the Federal finds a new meaning, and a Fluminense University, with Master’s Degree in Visual desire for revenge starts Arts at Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, in Italy. She was a project assistant at the Roberto Marinho to grow. Foundation, where she worked on the content production of Paço do Frevo and MIS/RJ museums. In 2014, she PROJECT STATUS founded the production company Estúdio Giz, where she In development. Looking works as a Business Developer. for co-producers, script labs, funding.

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CONTACT INFORMATION Will Domingos Aline Mazzarella [email protected] [email protected] M +55 21969030097 M +55 21968165836

CREATIVE PRODUCTION • 18-23 NOVEMBER 2019 139 The Great Adventure Cecilia Stefanescu Writer/director • Romania Lucia, a 35-year-old woman, goes with her husband, son In 2002 Cecilia made her debut with the novel Love Sick and friends to the beach, in which was published in three editions and translated to a Bulgarian village near the French, Italian, Polish and Spanish. She wrote the script Romanian border. A newly for the feature film Love Sick by Tudor Giurgiu (2006), an arrived man comes and adaptation based on her homonym novel. The film had its international premiere at the Berlinale, Panorama section. perturbs the peaceful holiday. The short film Ferdinand 13 (2015), was her directorial Though at first the two debut. The film won the special mention in Zagreb Film families welcome him gladly, Festival. Her second short, Morski Briz (2018), was selected gradually we learn that Lucia in Transilvania Film Festival and Sarajevo Film Festival. already knows the stranger and that they are having an affair. The seaside village is shaken when a local child disappears without a trace. All clues point to her lover.

Bogdan Craciun PROJECT STATUS Producer • Romania Development stage. A second draft of the script is available. Born in 1980 in Transilvania, Bogdan has been a producer for Libra Film since 2006. He participated in the EAVE We will apply for development Producers Workshop in 2015 with Iulia Rugina’s project support from Romanian Film Breaking News which was in official competition of Karlovy Centre at the end of this year, Vary International Film Festival in 2017. In 2016 he co- and involve possible produced Menocchio, by Alberto Fasulo which premiered co-producers early in 2020. in competition at Locarno International Film Festival 2018. He is currently in post-production with Tudor Cristian Ideally the shoot would take Jurgiu’s second feature film, And They May Still Be Alive place in late autumn of 2021. Today, that participated in the TorinoFilmLab programme Looking for co-producers, Framework in 2016. financers and international sales agents.

CONTACT INFORMATION Cecilia Stefanescu Bogdan Craciun [email protected] [email protected] M +40 721378719 M +40 733735909

140 TFL EXTENDED 2019 The Rainbow Sky David Fu Xiang Sun Tan Writer/director • Macau The story is set in Macau and is focused on a small family David is studying at the Faculty of Mass Communication in of five members: the mother, the Taiwan Providence University. During his high school who works as a dealer at studies, he directed many short films, which received the casino; the father, who several awards. manages a Public Relations company; the unemployed older brother; the sister, a school social worker; and the younger brother, a student. The parents are busy workers and do not have time to Pou Sam Chan raise their children, causing alienated relationships. In this Producer • Macau environment, the mother tries Sam is studying Business Administration at the University of her best to save the situation. Macau, where he also acts as Deputy Minister leader of the The film follows the Public Relations Department. He also participated in social interactions between services through the Macau CCAC election volunteer team. these characters to reflect the situation of many Macanese families, focusing on the importance of communication in deadlocked relationships.

PROJECT STATUS The project is currently at a script development stage.

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CONTACT INFORMATION David Fu Xiang Sun Tan Pou Sam Chan [email protected] [email protected] M +853 62808995 M +853 63126968

CREATIVE PRODUCTION • 18-23 NOVEMBER 2019 141 The Unbalanced Ingrid Hrubaničová Scriptwriter • Slovakia 45-year-old Nadia is at a stage in life where she Since her graduation, Ingrid has been working, writing has decided to start living and publishing in two areas – linguistics and theatre. anew after her divorce, She was member of Stoka and later Skrat, two legendary feeling more composed alternative theatres in Bratislava. She wrote two novels and successful than earlier. and several theatre plays. She also co-authored Synonymous Dictionary of Slovak (2004). Ingrid worked Yet, paradoxically, she finds on several hybrid films directed by Zuzana Piussi such as herself in a whirlwind of Grandmother (2008), Hero of Our Times (2009) or The even bigger and unsolvable Difficult Choice (2016). She has received several Slovak problems of all kinds, from awards for her work. immediate conflicts in the neighbourhood to authorities and her daughter’s school teachers. The repeating and growing failure to communicate leads to an increase in her frustration. A woman who longs for living Vít Janeček a peaceful life, working and Producer • Czech Republic raising her daughter gradually becomes a lonely neurotic Vít graduated from the School of Philosophy and from FAMU, both in Prague. Later, he worked as a curator and mess. script editor for film programmes and started to write The Unbalanced is a story told and make films. Since 2002, he has been teaching at Film through dark humour. and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts where he founded The Center of Audiovisual Studies and later PROJECT STATUS worked as the Head of FAMU International. Since 2006 he has held teaching programmes in Myanmar and produced We have finished the one of the first recent indie fiction films made purely by development of the script Myanmar filmmakers The Monk, directed by The Maw (supported by two Slovak Naing (2014). In 2014 he founded D1film together with funds) and started financing Zuzana Piussi and they focus on authorial films with strong the production. social themes. We plan to shoot in the Summer of 2020.

CONTACT INFORMATION Ingrid Hrubaničová Vít Janeček [email protected] [email protected] M +421 948047134 M +420 603164232

142 TFL EXTENDED 2019 Toll Carolina Markowicz Writer/director • Brazil Suellen is a toll booth attendant who starts using Carolina has written and directed 6 short films that were her own job to help a gang selected to more than 300 festivals, including Director’s of thieves steal watches from Fortnight – Cannes Film Festival, Locarno International people driving to the coast. Film Festival, South by Southwest and Toronto International Film Festival, and have received more than 100 awards. But only for a noble cause: The most recent, The Orphan, won the Queer Palm in to raise enough money to Cannes (2018) and has received more than 50 awards so send her son to an expensive far. Carolina was also showcased in a piece at Indiewire gay conversion workshop in 2018 that portrayed “Some of the Most Exciting New performed by a Latin preacher Filmmakers”. She is developing her feature film Toll, which has received the Tribeca All Access Development Grant. who is a superstar in the field.

PROJECT STATUS We have secured 17,40% of the financing and a Portuguese co-producer. Now, we are developing the second version of the Karen Castanho script and we want to add co-producers that could Producer • Brazil contribute to attaching Karen is the founding partner of Biônica Filmes where talents, especially a director she is responsible for structuring, financing and finding of photography, the actor distributors for the projects. Karen is also in charge of who will play the preacher Biônica’s co-productions. She has a vast network of and image post-production. partners and sponsors which enables Biônica Filmes to have long-lasting agreements. Karen has developed co-productions with major studios. Additionally, she has produced with Portuguese O Som e a Fúria and is developing a project with Argentine Le Tiro Cine.

CONTACT INFORMATION Carolina Markowicz Karen Castanho [email protected] [email protected] M +55 11994734593 M +55 11973071120

CREATIVE PRODUCTION • 18-23 NOVEMBER 2019 143 TUTORS TFL EXTENDED 2019

Eszter Angyalosy Amra Bakšić Čamo Hungary • Screenwriter, Story Editor Bosnia and Herzegovina • Producer TV Series, Script Development Creative Production – Feature Film, Story Editing

Philippe Barrière Benjamin Cölle France • Story Editor, Scriptwriter Germany • Audience Designer, Producer Script Development – Feature Film Audience Design, Creative Production

Isabelle Fauvel Giacomo Durzi France • Story Editor Italy • Story Editor, Scriptwriter TV Series, Script Development – TV Series Feature Film, Creative Production

Gabor Greiner Diana Groó Hungary • Sales Agent Hungary • Writer, Director, Producer Creative Production Script Development – Documentary

Gabor Krigler Osnat Nishri Hungary • Screenwriter, Story Editor Israel • Story Editor Story Editing Creative Production

Eilon Ratzkovsky Gyorgy Palos Israel • Producer Hungary • Director, Producer TV Series, Script Development – Script Development – Documentary Feature Film, Creative Production

Răzvan Rădulescu Ezequiel Sakson Romania • Scriptwriter, Director Argentina • Producer Script Development – Feature Film Creative Production

Oda Schaefer Noemi Schory Germany • Producer, Scriptwriter Israel • Director, Producer Script Development – Feature Film Script Development – Documentary

Eva Svenstedt Ward Leonardo Staglianò Sweden • Story Editor Italy • Scriptwriter Script Development – Feature Film Script Development – Feature Film

Gino Ventriglia Italy • Story Editor TV Series, Script Development – Feature Film, Creative Production

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