Bucharest Workshop 7Th-12Th of May 2014

Film TEEP Film Training for East European Professionals

Bucharest Workshop 7th-12th of May 2014

Film TEEP is a co-production training programme

Organized by With the financial support of

ARTVIVA NATIONAL CENTER OF CINEMATOGRAPHY Romania Romania In partnership with

FILM CENTER SERBIA GEORGIAN NATIONAL FILM CENTER - GNFC Serbia Georgia

GEOPOLY PROTON FILM Bulgaria Hungary

MACEDONIAN FILM FUND UKRAINIAN STATE FILM AGENCY Macedonia Ukraine

FESTIVAL ON WHEELS - ANKARA CINEMA ASSOCIATION ALT FILM Turkey Republic of Moldova

MEETINGS ON THE BRIDGE - IFF TALLINN BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL Turkey Estonia

KINOTAVR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FVG AUDIOVISUAL FUND Russian Federation Italy

FUTURE OF MEDIA GOLDEN APRICOT - GAIFF Poland Armenia

SLOVENIAN FILM CENTER VIDEO BROADCAST FILM Slovenia United Kingdom

Awards

WHEN EAST MEETS WEST, ITALY MANNHEIM MEETING PLACE 2

Welcome to Film TEEP

Welcome to Film TEEP!

As we are here to support and assist talented filmmakers to bring their stories on the big screen and, finally, to promote them,

As the first Film TEEP Workshop fulfilled its mission so proficiently,

We are happy to support the second Bucharest Film TEEP workshop, which will help you to improve the creative content and international potential of your feature projects and will continue to develop your professional network especially for the East European region, and to encourage an international audiovisual collaboration.

After the strict selection from March, the best teams have been invited to share and better their stories with very experienced trainers, brought from all over Europe. Having classes on scriptwriting, production and financing, as well as feedbacks from your tutors and from your colleagues will help you to continue your way to the final draft.

In this workshop you’ll share and get rich with a bunch of great ideas and knowledge, but with traditions and other important values from different people and cultures, as well.

So have a great and productive time in Bucharest.

17 times in the years to come, I wish to discover in the darkness of the theatre hall, on the large screen, the stories from this workshop.

Welcome to Romania,

Head of National Center of Cinema

Mihail Kogalniceanu

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Dear friends, dear colleagues,

To say “dear Friends“ is maybe a little bit optimistic before starting. Maybe hate and sorrow will flow in the streets of Bucharest in May.

But sure we are colleagues, cinema lovers, filmmakers and with dozens of stories to tell. This passion we share will tie us better than any common language, common political statement or even common films we love. What we think, believe or like is nothing in front of what we dream with, That’s the strength of cinema and your projects are strong.

This event has been set up very quickly, with generous support from the Romanian CNC. But the architect is Ruxandra Cernat, she was convincing, supporting and organising. You will be the scriptwriters, the directors, the producers… We will be the tutors, the production and script advisers, But without her, nobody could be here. Nobody could learn anything, not you, not me.

“Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. Because you never stop learning about film“. Francis Ford Coppola

Because it’s all about learning, dear colleagues, and this from other colleagues, in a different language from what you speak at home, with people not knowing where exactly you come from, and with their own world, taste and references. Like in the real cinema life.

To deal with foreigners, strangers and competitors is your destiny. You will never know if they want to build their own home on your field Or they want really to help you to make your home better Or simply they are polite… But further than opinions, advices or tricks, You will see you are not alone; you are part of a community, a film community willing to help you, improving your ideas, giving you some links and ready to answer in the future.

A vey warm welcome to this workshop, I hope it will be a creative tool for you. Because people need stories, Let’s be storytellers.

Patrice Vivancos May 2014 And “Be yourself, everyone else is taken And make your film, nobody else will do it“

4 Table of contents

Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond at work

Schedule……………………………………………………………………….6

List of participants & contacts………………………………………….11

Trainers’ profiles……………………………………………………………13

Guest lecturers …………………………………………………………….18

Film TEEP team profiles…………………………………………………..21

Screenings …………………………………………………………………..22

Selected Projects…………………………………………………………...25

Awards………………………………………………………………….…….74

Bucharest survival kit…………………………………………………….75

5 Schedule

Wednesday, 7th May GOLDEN TULIP VICTORIA BUCHAREST

Time Session Trainer 09:00 - Arrivals All 18:00 – Screening (optional) All 20:00 “Youth Without Youth” Director Francis Ford Coppola, 1st AD Anatol Reghin- tovschi (conference room, 1st floor) 21:00 - Welcome drinks All Cosmopolitan evening, sharing stories and traditions (conference room, 1st floor)

Youth Without Youth

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Thursday, 8th May GOLDEN TULIP VICTORIA BUCHAREST

Time Session Trainer 09:30 – Welcome Ruxandra Cernat 10:45 Introductions from Film TEEP Patrice Vivancos Aims of this workshop David Pope Trainers presentation Ana Sanz-Magallon Projects presentation Luc Ntonga 10:45 – “Thematic immersion: Does the essence of your story live David Pope 11:45 in all of its parts?” – lecture and Q&A 11:45 - Networking break All 12:15 (networking in the hotel lobby/bar, coffee can be served) 12:15 – “Production and Finances, or how to make Patrice Vivancos 13:30 your stories into real films ” - lecture and Q&A 13:30 – Lunch All 14:30 14:30 – Group meetings 16:30 Participants start working on their projects with the trainers DP (David Pope) group – room 1 ASM (Ana Sanz-Magallon) group – room 2 AR (Anatol Reghintovschi) group – room 3

Individual meetings (50 minutes per project) – 4 projects with Patrice Vivancos and Luc Ntonga 16:30 – Coffee break All 17:00 17:00 – Group meetings 19:00 Participants start working on their projects with the trainers DP (David Pope) group – room 1 ASM (Ana Sanz-Magallon) group – room 2 AR (Anatol Reghintovschi) group – room 3

Individual meetings (50 minutes per project) – 4 projects with Patrice Vivancos and Luc Ntonga (hotel lobby/bar area) 20:00 – “Ward no. 6” – screening, cinema Studio All 21:30 Based on Chekhov’s homonym story Directo: Karen Shakhnazarov Cast: Alexei Vertkov, Vladimir Ilin 21:30 Cocktail offered by the Russian Federation Embassy

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Friday, 9th May GOLDEN TULIP VICTORIA BUCHAREST

Time Session Trainer 9:30 – “Before and after the script: chain of titles, Patrice Vivancos 10:30 then festivals and film markets promotion” 10:30 - “Understanding the key value of marketing Luc Ntonga 11:30 & international sales at the development stage (... and being the smartest guy in the room!)” – lecture, Q&A 11:30 – Networking break All 12:00 (networking in the hotel lobby/bar, coffee can be served)

12:00 - “Script development tool box” - lecture and Q&A Ana Sanz-Magallon 13:00 13:00 – Lunch All 14:00 14:00 – Group meetings 16:00 Participants start working on their projects with the trainers DP (David Pope) group – room 1 ASM (Ana Sanz-Magallon) group – room 2 AR (Anatol Reghintovschi) group – room 3

Individual meetings (50 minutes per project) – 4 projects with Patrice Vivancos and Luc Ntonga (hotel lobby/bar area) 16:00 – Coffee break All 16:30 16:30 – Group meetings 18:30 Participants start working on their projects with the trainers DP (David Pope) group – room 1 ASM (Ana Sanz-Magallon) group – room 2 AR (Anatol Reghintovschi) group – room 3

Individual meetings (50 minutes per project) – 4 projects with Patrice Vivancos and Luc Ntonga (hotel lobby/bar area) 19:30 – “Blog”, director Elena Trape 21:30 Screening, Cervantes Institute 21:30 Cocktail offered by Cervantes Institute Bucharest In the honour of the Spanish Film TEEP delegation

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Saturday, 10th May GOLDEN TULIP VICTORIA BUCHAREST

Time Session Trainer 9:30 – “Pitching – blessing or curse?” Ruxandra Cernat 10:30 10:30 - “Worldwide famous Romanian actresses” - lecture, Q&A Irina Nistor 11:30 Case studies: “Plein Soleil” (France, Elvire Popesco, Alain Oana Pellea Delon), “I hate my job” (UK, Oana Pellea), “Je vous trouve Medeea Marinescu tres beau”(France, Medeea Marinescu), “4 months 3 weeks Laura Vasiliu 2 days” (Romania, Laura Vasiliu, Anamaria Marinca) Simona Bondoc

11:30 – Networking break 12:00 (networking in the hotel lobby/bar, coffee can be served)

12:00 - “Giving life to your characters - casting, Florin Serban 13:00 working with the actors, director’s vision” Irina Nistor

13:00 – Lunch 14:00 14:00 – Group meetings 16:00 Participants start working on their projects with the trainers

DP (David Pope) group – room 1 ASM (Ana Sanz-Magallon) group – room 2 AR (Anatol Reghintovschi) group – room 3

Individual meetings (50 minutes per project) – 4 projects with Patrice Vivancos and Luc Ntonga (hotel lobby/bar area) 16:00 - Coffee break All 16:30 16:30 – Group meetings 19:00 Group meetings Participants start working on their projects with the trainers DP (David Pope) group – room 1 ASM (Ana Sanz-Magallon) group – room 2 AR (Anatol Reghintovschi) group – room 3

Individual meetings (50 minutes per project) – 4 projects with Patrice Vivancos and Luc Ntonga (hotel lobby/bar area) 20:00 – “Plein Soleil” 23:00 Screening over a good red wine glass Terrace “Chez Elvire”, French Institute

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Sunday, 11th May GOLDEN TULIP VICTORIA BUCHAREST

Time Session Trainer 9:30 – “Characters searching for themselves” Anatol Reghintovschi 11:00 11:00 – Networking break 11:30 (networking in the hotel lobby/bar, coffee can be served)

11:30 - Group meetings 13:30 Participants start working on their projects with the trainers All DP (David Pope) group – room 1 ASM (Ana Sanz-Magallon) group – room 2 AR (Anatol Reghintovschi) group – room 3

Individual meetings with Patrice Vivancos and Luc Ntonga (hotel lobby/bar area)

13:30 – Lunch 14:30 14:30 - Group meetings 16:30 Participants start working on their projects with the trainers DP (David Pope) group – room 1 ASM (Ana Sanz-Magallon) group – room 2 AR (Anatol Reghintovschi) group – room 3

Individual meetings with Patrice Vivancos and Luc Ntonga (hotel lobby/bar area)

16:30 - Coffee break All 17:00 17:00 – Round table – feedback and wrap-up All 18:00 18:00 Well-deserved drink! 19:00 Screenings – participants’ previous works

22:00 Dance party (Frame Club, 7 euro/pers. drinks expenditure)

Monday, 12th May DEPARTURES

List of participants & contacts

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PATRICE VIVANCOS HEAD OF STUDIES

After University Studies in Paris and some theatrical experiences, Patrice Vivancos started in the cinema as Production Man- ager in Greece.

He did then some documentaries as Film Di- rector and then, after setting up a production company, directed a TV movie and two long feature films (“Xenia“ and “A Charmed Life“).

In 1995 he moved to France where he worked for many festivals and helm the “Forum du Cinéma Européen de Stras- bourg” till 2003 and organised also some conferences on cinema.

He has been the head of a Film Commission and Regional Fund in Valencia, Spain, till 2008.

In parallel, he participated to several conferences and Festival juries. He also wrote a book on European cinema in 2002 (publisher L’Harmattan/ Paris) and another one in 2014.

He currently works at the European Commission in Brussels.

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DAVID POPE LEADING SCRIPT TUTOR

Filmmaker, Script Consultant and Train- ing Provider

David is the director of advance films with whom he has slate of projects in development. www.advancefilms.com.

He has worked as script consultant on single projects and slates in US, Europe, Middle East, North Africa and Asia.

He is the annual consultant / moderator for the Rotterdam Lab at CineMart, co- designs and delivers Story Campus a travelling conversation on the nature and future of storytelling for screens and regularly teaches at film schools and runs workshops at international film festivals.

Directing credits include the award winning feature film MILES FROM NO- WHERE.

Previous clients include: BFI, UK Film Council, BBC, BAFTA, National Theatre, British Council, Cannes Cinefondation, Wajda School, The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Edinburgh International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Polish Film Institute, Media Business School, UK Film Centre Cannes Film Festival, Short Film Corner Cannes Film Festival, Expression en Corto, FIKE, Film London, Li- onhead Studios, Xingu Films, Irish Film Board, FAS Screen Training Ireland, Filmbase, MEDIA, Open Cinema, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, New Horizons Studio, NPA, NYFA, Estonian Film Institute, City University Lon- don and London Film Academy.

David was selected as a participant on the British Councils Cultural Leadership International Programme, is a member of the British Councils Creative Econ- omy Pool of Experts and a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.

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ANA SANZ-MAGALLON SCRIPT TUTOR

Ana graduated in Jour- nalism at the University of Navarra, and special- ized in Film at UCLA.

Since 1995 she has worked as a freelance analyst and story editor for different Production Companies, analyzing more than a thousand scripts and participating in the development of thirty released TV series and films, including the winner of the 2008 Goya Award for the best adapted screenplay “Bajo las Estrel- las”, 2009 Goya Award for First Time Director, “El Truco del Manco”, and 2010 Goya Award for First Time Director “Tres dias con la familia”.

Ana is also tutor and lecturer for various institutions and development workshops in Europe and Latinamerica; and has been a member of the jury in script contests of the Spanish and Colombian Ministry of Culture, Instituto Cervantes or Casa de America.

She is author of the book “Cuentalo Bien – Common Sense applied to stories”, published by Editorial Plot in 2007, now in its second edition.

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ANATOLI EDUARD REGHINTOVSCHI SCRIPT TUTOR

Writer-director with extensive experience in international coproductions, working first AD for some of the big names: Fran- cis Ford Coppola, Costa Gavras, Anthony Mingella. Passion for psychology and characters.

WORK EXPERIENCE 2005 – 2006 “Youth without Youth” Director-Producer Francis Ford Coppola Zoetrope-SRG Atelier 2004 “Cave” Director Bruce Hunt - Lakeshore 2003 –“Modigliani” Director Mick Davis - Lucky 7 2002 –“ Cold Mountain” Dir. Anthony Minghella/ Prod Acuna Boys/Sydney Pollack-Miramax Pictures 1999-2000 – “Amen” Dir. Costa Gavras/Prod KG Production C. Berri, M. Gavras 1999-2002 – “ Golem”, " Fragmente" , "Totem", "Dimineti pe mare", "Inevitabil Krapp"

EDUCATION 2011 – Humboldt Uni. Berlin/International Psychoanalytical University Ber- lin PhD - Psychoanalysis 2006-2009Titu Maiorescu University Bucharest –Denis Diderot University Paris VII – BA Psychology 1998–2002 “ Universitatea Media” Film Directing BA 1988 – 1994 Bucharest University – Faculty of Physics, grad “Theoretical Physics” MA. 1984 -1987 "Mihai Eminescu” High School Constanta

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LUC NTONGA LEGAL TUTOR

Luc NTONGA is managing director and co -founder of the French distribution company INSOMNIA WORLD SALES, which is dedicated to the marketing and distribution of independent films and unconven- tional documentaries.

Since 2004 he has been responsible for the distribution and licensing of more than three hundred titles including many Award -winning feature films.

In 2012, Luc NTONGA has founded COSMOPOLIS FILMS, a French new production company devoted exclusively to international coproductions.

17 Film TEEP Guest Lecturers

IRINA-MARGARETA NISTOR

Born on March 26, 1957 in Bucha- rest, Irina – Margareta Nistor is a BA of foreign languages, in 1980, French and English, graduating the Univer- sity with a paper about “Cocteau and his poem-films”.

She worked for The Romanian Televi- sion from 1980 until 1999, first as a film translator, then as a program producer. Here she had translated and subtitled over 500 movies and signed programs like: “Video-Guide”, “Series of Series”, “Screen”, and “Film Puzzle”.

She had dubbed live almost 5000 movies on video (from English, French, Ital- ian and Spanish).

She has translated over 100 books, novels, dictionaries and plays.

She conceived several cine-documents “Is History Repeating Itself?” a portrait of the huge actor Toma Caragiu, and a film study about the “Impact of Dallas soap-opera over the Romanian viewers”.

In 1993, she produced, in French, for TV5 Europe a one-hour program called “The Romanian Cinema after 1989”. She was the live commentator of film cere- monies such as: César, Cannes, Oscar, BAFTA, EMMY. She covers for the written and audio-video press famous festivals such as Cannes or Berlin.

She has for 9 years already a weekly one hour Sunday program on Radio Guerrilla and before on Radio Total: “The Voice of the Movies.”

She interviewed important personalities such as Giuliano Gemma, Bernard Pivot, Alan J.Pakula, Frédéric Mitterrand, Rutger Hauer, Sam Karmann, Park Chan Wook, Anthony Minghella, Yann Tiersen, Jean-Claude Carrière, Julie Délpy, Grace Zabriskie, Pim Van Hoeve, Michael Nyman, Bruce Beresford, Pe- ter Greenaway, Charles Aznavour, Francis Ford Coppola, Dardenne brothers, Carole Bouquet, Isabelle Huppert, and several ambassadors.

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Worldwide famous Romanian actresses

OANA PELLEA

in “I Really Hate My Job”

MEDEEA MARINESCU in “Je vous trouve très beau”

With Michel Blanc

LAURA VASILIU in “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”

With director Cristian Mungiu

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FLORIN SERBAN

Biography Studied and lectured at Columbia Univer- sity in New York and holds a Master's De- gree in Film Directing. He also graduated from the Romanian National University for Theater and Film in 2002 and received an MA in the Philosophy of Culture and Herme- neutics in 1998.

During his studies he wrote and directed short films and documentaries, and won numerous scholar awards and scholarships. His directorial debut feature film If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (2010) received the Silver Bear - Grand Prize of the Jury, and the Alfred Bauer Award for innovation in cinema at 2010 Berlinale. He is now working on his second feature film project BOX and is the director and coordinating professor at The Acting School in Bucharest, Romania.

Filmography Omul care nu a spus nimic (pre-production), 2014 Writer and director Short, 35 mm, Fantascope production

BOX (post-production), 2014 Writer and director Feature, 35 mm, Fantascope production

If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle - Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier , 2010 Writer and director (with Cătălin Mitulescu) Feature, 35 mm, Strada Film production

Emigrant (post-producțion), 2010 Writer, director, editor, producer Short, 35 mm, Fantascope production

Talk to her, 2005 Writer, director, editor, Video, 16 mm, DV, produced for CAST'OS

Jumătate de oraș face dragoste cu cealaltă jumătate, 2002 Writer and director Short, 35 mm, U.N.A.T.C. production

Mecano, 2001 Director (with Cristian Nemescu and Daniel Șerbănică), Short, 35 mm, U.N.A.T.C. production

Film TEEP team

FRONT OFFICE

RUXANDRA CERNAT, ARTVIVA President/ Head of Film TEEP

BA in Letters, Social Sciences & PR, MA in Advertising, MA in Film Production.

Over 10 years of experience in advertising as Creative Professional, PR, BTL Senior Specialist (Softwin), Marketing Coordina- tor for Romania and Bulgaria at Home Box Office (HBO). Since 2007, she worked as independent professional for several international film festivals such as Bucharest IFF, Independent Producers IFF, Moscow IFF and a training program EEFA TN.

Graduate of several training programs supported by Media/Media Mundus.

Since September 2012, President of ARTVIVA, developing large film events, support for IFF Dakino and Cinepolitica, organizing the annual Russian Film Days, Tarkovski’s Celebration, German - Family Portrait with the support of the Embassy of the Russian Federation, and the international training program Film TEEP with the support of the Romanian CNC.

ANDREI JAKAB, Production Assistant Studied International Affairs but during college years he was more and more attracted to the film industry so he started out as a volunteer at a few film festivals in Bucharest and step by step he ended up working at events and film festivals throughout the country.

ANA-CAROLA BUZATOV, PR Coordinator BA in Law, MA in Film Production & Scriptwriting. She prac- ticed law for 11 years, as legal consultant to the Helsinki Com- mittee, lawyer and head of the legal department for two national companies until she switched toward film for good.

She made more documentaries and weekly reportages as TVR journalist. Wrote, directed and produced more shorts. Worked as script consultant and wrote three feature screenplays. One of them, Esc obtained more international awards. She participated in the first Film TEEP edition with her last script.

ANDREEA-ELENA NITU, Online Coordinator She graduated the Faculty of Agrofoods and Environ- mental Economics. Currently she is a student in the final year of the master program "Quality Manage- ment, Expertise and Consumer Protection", Faculty of Commerce, Bucharest University of Economic Studies.

Film TEEP Screenings

The Opening Gala of Film TEEP 2014 - Film Training for East European Professionals, on the 8th of May 2014, from 8:00 PM, at Cinema Studio, will start with the screening of :

Ward no. 6

Adapted from an acclaimed short story by Anton Chekhov, “Ward no. 6” is a compelling and powerful cautionary tale of one man’s descent into madness. Updated to a contemporary setting and utilizing a semi-documentary approach, the film charts the existential crisis and sub- sequent decline of Dr. Ragin (Vladimir Ilici) from chief psychiatrist of a mental institution to asylum inmate.

Co-written and directed by veteran filmmaker Karen Shakhnazarov and selected as Russia’s entry for the 2010 Academy Awards, “Ward no. 6” is a compelling exploration of the fearfully delicate line that separates sanity and insanity.

Director: Karen Shakhnazarov Screenplay: Alexander Borodyansky, Karen Shakhnazarov DOP: Alexander Kuzentzov Music: Evgeny Kamdinsky Cast: Vladimir Ilin, Alexei Vertkov Russia, 2009, 83 minutes

The event is organized with the support of:

Russian Federation Embassy in Romania

MOSFILM Reprezentanţa UCIN Rossotrudnichestvo

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BLOG

“Blog” is the surprising tale of a group of teenagers, 15 year-old middle-upper class girls who are well educated, smart, sensitive and savvy. A group of youngsters with a secret plan and a shared purpose, something they believe to be an absolute goal and a universal truth: the need to experience strong emotions to set them apart from the rest.

Director: Elena Trapé

Spain, 2010, 90 minutes

The screening of our colleague Elena Trapé debute feature is hosted on 9th of May by :

Instituto Cervantes de Bucarest

The Instituto Cervantes is a non-profit organization founded by the Government of Spain in 1991. Its mission is to promote Spanish language teaching as well as that of Spain’s co-official languages, in addition to foster- ing knowledge of the cultures of Spanish-speaking countries throughout the world.

Instituto Cervantes offers a comprehensive programme of cultural and arts activities showcasing the best in literature, film, performing arts, visual arts and thought from Spain and Latin America.

Instituto Cervantes de Bucarest is located on 38, Regina Elisabeta Bd. More info at http://bucarest.cervantes.es.

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PURPLE NOON PLEIN SOLEIL

Adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s popular novel "The Talented Mr Ripley” .

Tom Ripley is sent to Europe by Mr. Greenleaf to fetch his spoiled, playboy son, Philippe, and bring him back home to the States. In return, Tom will receive $5,000. Philippe toys with Tom, pretending he will go back home, but has no intentions of leaving his bride to be, Marge, and honoring his father's wishes. After some time passes, Mr. Greenleaf considers the mission a failure and cuts Tom off. Tom, in desperation, kills Philippe, assumes his identity, and lives the life of a rich playboy. However, he will need all his conman abilities to keep Philippe's friends and the police off the trail.

James Berardinelli, praised Delon's acting: "Tom is fascinating because Delon makes him so". And also complimented the film for "expert camerawork and crisp direction." Berardinelli placed Purple Noon on his All-Time 100 list, and compared it to the 1999 film: "Almost every aspect of Rene Clement's 1960 motion picture is superior to that of Minghella's 1999 version, from the cinematography to the acting to the screenplay. Matt Damon might make a credible Tom Ripley, but only for those who never experienced Alain Delon's portrayal."

Director: René Clément Screenplay: Patricia Highsmith, René Clément, Paul Gégauff DOP: Henri Decaë Music: Nino Rota Cast: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt, Elvira Popescu France, Italy, 1960, 118 minutes

The Terrace Chez Elvire - is an outdoor space which gathers beautiful people, enthusiasts of film, theater and French Culture or just looking for an alternative to the crowded terraces from the old center of Bucharest. It has been the host of a series of special events in connection or addition to the events organized by the French Institute: film screenings (Anonymous Festival Retrospective 2013, Films de Cannes a Bucarest, French Film Fes- tival, Louis de Funes Movie Night, etc.), outdoor theater, markets, cock- tails and pop-up shops.

24 Selected Projects

AMAZE ME ...... 26

APPLE …………….…………………………………….…….……………………….29 AT HOME …………...………………………………………………………………..32

BLAGOJE ………………………………………………..…………………………...35

EDITED LIFE ………………………………………………………………………...37

FANCY ZARIFE …………..…………..…………………………………………..….40 FLOATING WORLD ………...……………………………………………………….42

GOD IS RETURNING HOME .…….……………………..………………………..45

MIRACLE IN CLUJ ..……..………………………………..………………………..48 PREDICTIONS ….………………………………………..………………………….51

REMISSION …………..……………………………………………………………..53

REPRODUCTION …………………………………………………………………….56

STEADY ……………………………….……………………………………………....58 THE LOOP …………………………………………………………………………….60

THE ONE WITHOUT A SCRIPT …………………………………………………..65

WILL YOU MARRY ME ……………………………………………………………..68 WISHING FOR TIME TO STAND STILL …………………………………………70

25 Selected Projects

AMAZE ME Writer: Liudmila N. Litvishko-Shaverdova Producer: Ksenia A. Turk

A Russian opera and ballet producer and his creative friends, with pleasure and difficulties, amaze and provoke the audience and create the glory for the Russian culture in the beginning of the 20th century in Europe. The main character, Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929) has an amazing taste and sense for talent and pushes his dancers, singers, composers and artists to their limits to create novel and stunning performances despite turbulent and dramatic relationships within his company.

The biography of Diaghilev looks like an extravagant adventurous novel. His life is full of ups and downs and paradoxes. He experiences triumph and bitterness of failure. He lives through bankruptcy, war, revolution and exile. He enjoys success but he never betrays his own vision of perfection to please the crowd. Diaghilev never hears the word “no” and can push through the walls of rejection. Sometimes he lives in luxury; sometimes he does not have enough money to pay his company or even his hotel bill. He is a spendthrift and a stingy person at the same time. He can squabble over pennies with his company or shower them with lavish gifts and dinners or even give his last dime for the medical treatment of a dancer’s child. He is a hy- pochondriac who can obsessively avoid a person who barely sneezes but he can also devotedly care for his sick brother, rush to the deathbed of his beloved composer Tchaikovsky who dies of cholera, or neglect his own fatal sickness.

Diaghilev enjoys moments of tenderness and deep understanding with people whose talents he discovers and suffers from their betrayal. Diaghilev may be ambitious and narcissistic, but he also knows how to be a good friend and how to love. He acts as Pigmalion, falling in love with his creations. He helps them to become famous. But he is also an absolute autocrat. Dictator- ship and dominating bring tragedy to his personal life. Diaghilev is a charming and pitiless tyrant manipulating people’s emotions, keeping them under his incessant control. Some of Diaghilev’s stars see him as Mefisto who takes their souls for the glory.

Diaghilev makes ballet history with his experiment on a gigantic scale. He strives to make a breakthrough and to demonstrate the Russian character to Europe. Prophet and tyrant, incor- rigible individualist, visionary and provocateur, he hears the music before the composer does and sees the dance before the first pas. His story is unique and interesting not only with rever- sals of fortune but also with the great number of life details of the composers, choreographers, artists and dancers who play significant roles in music, theatre and art of the 20th century. His relations with Mikhail Fokine, Alexander Benois, Leon Bakst, Vaslav Nijinsky, Igor Stravin- sky, Leonid Massine and Serge Lifar are filled with conflict and drama. He works with such future celebrities as Prokofiev, Balanchine, Derain, Braque and Picasso. Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, and Misya Sert play important roles in Diaghilev’s life. Diaghilev creates an ambi- ence and fertilizes the ground for those who have talent. He drags the best out of every artist around him. In the words of the dance expert Marie Rambert, “it was a tremendous advantage and tremendous honor to work for Diaghilev, but it was also an incredible joy, and they did more for him than they could have done for anybody else. It was interesting. It was made great for them by the presence of that giant, God rest his soul”.

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Ksenia A. Shaverdova-Turk

License Status: Member, State Bar of California, passed July 2006 bar exam on a first try. Bar No. 246587

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

04.2008 ESRI REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA – Present Contracts and Intellectual Property Attorney

09.2006 COUNTY OF TULARE, DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE VISALIA, CALIFORNIA – Deputy District Attorney 09.2007 Law Clerk (09.2006 – 12.2006)

02.2005 SONY ELECTRONICS INC. SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – Contracts Administrator – Contract Assignment 01.2006 Marketing and Advertising Compliance Analyst – Contract Assignment

03.2004 NOERR STIEFENHOFER LUTZ MOSCOW, RUSSIA – Associate 10.2004

1.2002 – GOWLINGS INTERNATIONAL INC./NESTLE FOOD LLC MOSCOW, RUSSIA 03.2004 Intellectual Property Attorney/Law Clerk

12.2000 RUSSIAN AUTHORS’ SOCIETY (RAS) MOSCOW, RUSSIA – Staff Attorney 01.2002 06.2000 DRAGA LTD. MOSCOW, RUSSIA – Law Clerk 12.2000 1996 – CTC TELEVISION / STORYFIRST COMMUNICATIONS MOSCOW, RUSSIA 2000 EDUCATION

1995 – MOSCOW STATE LAW ACADEMY (MGUA), MOSCOW, RUSSIA 2000 ( UNIVERSITE PANTHEON-ASSAS (PARIS II), PARIS, FRANCE, Student Exchange Program.

MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY, MOSCOW, RUSSIA, Foreign Languages Department.

UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO SCHOOL OF LAW (BARCELONA, SPAIN AND FLORENCE, ITALY)

RUSSIAN STATE INSTITUTE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, MOSCOW, RUSSIA, Trademark Course.

28 Selected Projects

APPLE Writer/Director: Imamaddin Hasanov Producer: Andra Popescu

Logline: Two alienated sisters are doing what they can, each in her own way, in order to save the life of a little girl. Two opposite ways of living dramatically collide, confronting their own compromises.

Two sisters live under the same roof alienated from each other. The lack of money forced them to live together. They have different views on life, the older sister prays every day and despises her younger sister for being a prostitute. But they both need each other’s true love, support and friendship although they are not aware of it yet; therefore, their relationship seems impossible to them. Emine, the older sister has a nine-years old daughter. She is sick and there are no money for her opperation. Emine earns very little for the hard work she performs, barely enough for the child’s food and medication. The younger sister, Meryem pays for the apartment. Emine is compelled to steal the money for the rent in order to save her child. But the owner of the apartment is not able to wait any longer, he threatens the sisters. Emine can’t cheat anymore but she can’t give back the money which she collected for her daughter! Therefore, Meryem has to pay for her sister’s debts, one way or another!

29 Selected Projects

Imamaddin Hasanov

Born: 15.10.1980, Guba, Azerbaijan

Education: 1998-2002 BA in Film Directing from Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts, Baku, Azerbaijan; 2006-Courses on documentary- Stu- dio Ateliers Varan - Jean Ruoch, Tbi- lisi, Georgia;

Work Experience: 2013-2014 Staged the theatre play "Garden of Dreams", based on a Par- viz Bashardust's novel at “Oda” Theatre, Baku; 2009-2013 Creative Director -“Free Art” Production; 2012 Creative Director - “MZ” Pro- duction ; 2008-2012 Creative Director - State TV channel Az TV; 2007-2008 Creative Director - Space TV channel (Azerbaijan); 2006-2007 created the Youth Center in the Union of Theatrical Figures of Azerbaijan and staged the play "Ali and Nino" based on Kurban Said's novel; 1999-2006 Director and Actor - Baku Camera Theatre;

Other events: 2014 – Participant at Berlinale Talents; 2014 – Robert Bosch Co-production Prize Nominee; 2013 –3rd place award - “New Breath” Script Competition organized by the Ministry of Cul- ture and Tourism and The Union of Cinematographers of Republic of Azerbaijan; 2013 – Young Professional Program -Festival of Central and Eastern European Film Wies- baden; 2013 – EURASIADOC, Documentary Scriptwriting Residency, Almaty-Kazakhstan; 2013 –East Doc Platform/ Project Market, One World Film Festival; 2012 – 2013 – INPUT International Film Festival and Workshop; 2012 – START International Film Festival of Youth and Students; 2012 – “BEST PITCH” Award - “Holy Cow” documentary project –Caucadoc Project Develop- ment Workshop, Tbilisi, Georgia; 2012 – Tbilisi Film Market Documentary Film Project Pitching for Robert Bosch Stiftung; 2012 – Baku Film Institute, Training for Producer – Workshop by Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan.

Filmography: 2012-2013 – “Holy Cow” – 52’ doc/film (Azerbaijan, Romania, Germany) 2011 – “The Happiness of Virgin or Invisible Side” 2011-2012 – “Dede Gorgud and Haydar Aliyev” (“Dədə Qorqud və Heydər Əliyev”) – 42’ TV/ film 2010 – “7 Bold People” – 45’ Experimental TV / film 2007-2008 – “Just for people who are awake” – TV Series at SPACE TV

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Andra Popescu

Andra Popescu is a cultural worker who's involvment covers several artistic domains, across different platforms and institutions. She started in November 2004 as an assistant curator for the opening exhibition of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, assisting Cristoph Buchel and Gianni Motti. She continued her involvement with the cultural scene with an exhibition at „Galeria Noua” Bucharest and developed her organisational skills in the frame of several international film, music and theatre festivals, including collaboration with the audio-visual experimental international festival Simultan. During her one year stay in Azerbaijan in 2012, she coordinated several children's theater play at Kukla Teatri Baku and other cultural initiatives in Icerisheher . She met director Imamaddin Hasanov and together they developed the project „Holy Cow”, winner of Best Pitch Award in the frame of Caucadoc Project Development 2012. The project was also selected in 2013 for the EastDoc Platform Prague, Young Proffesional Co-production Workshop in Wiesbaden, Germany, Jihlava Industry Days in Czech Republic and got nominated for Robert Bosch Co-production Prize in Berlin. Currently she works in Bucharest as a film producer.

Education:

2012-2014 MA in Philosophy and Social Sciences at West University, Timisoara, Romania

2002-2006 BA in Photography/Cinema Studies at National Academy of Arts, Bucharest, Ro- mania

Work Experience:

2012- Film Producer at 4 Proof Film, Bucharest, Romania www.4prooffilm.ro

2011-2012 Volunteer (European Voluntary Service) - Administration of State Historical Architectural Reserve “Icerisheher” Baku, Azerbaijan

2010-2011 Graphic Designer at Weddict, Cannes, France www.weddict.fr

2009-2010 Image Editor for TVT 89 Timisoara, Romania

2006-2010 Photographer & Image Editor for Studio Bilec Timisoara, Romania

Languages:

Romanian, English and French

31 Selected Projects

AT HOME Writer/Director: Gorana Jovanović Producer: Anja Jeremić

Milena and her fiancé Boro are having disagreements over their future life together. He wants Milena to sell her river house and move with her young daughter Andjela to the city, to live with him. She likes the river house, but understands that a life with someone else means sacrifice and that moving to the city means Andjela will be closer to school that she starts at the end of the summer. This is all being decided on the day of Andjela’s surprise birthday party that Milena and Boro have prepared for her.

The trouble arises when Vanja, Milena’s stepson from her first marriage, comes out of prison on the same day, comes back home and moves back in. His father is gone and he had no idea that Milena now has a new family. He feels left out and spitefully declares that he will not let the house be sold, as it is his house after all. Milena tries to come to a solution, even ready to give up the house, in case Vanja doesn’t back out. Boro puts pressure on her to solve the situation, which starts getting out of control, as Vanja brings over a call-girl and two thugs come looking for him to settle something. His reasons for being difficult are more deeply rooted than Boro realizes and the fact is that he doesn’t want so much to keep the house, as he wishes to keep Milena around.

Milena struggles to confront either of the two of them as she herself wants to have it both ways – stay at her dream house and start a new life with a decent and loving man. Eventu- ally she is made to choose between the two, with each choice carrying its own set of consequences.

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Gorana Jovanović

Biography Born in 1988 in Belgrade, Serbia. Finished a four-year design school in Belgrade. She had studied writing and directing in Belgrade and London.

Gorana had directed 6 short films, 4 music videos and worked on over 18 short films in various, mostly HoD roles. She has also participated at the 2013 Sarajevo Tal- ent Campus as a screenwriter.

Her graduation film KING FOR A DAY has been nominated for the Royal Television Society’s Student Televi- sion Award for Best Fiction in the London region, as well as for Best Drama, Best Performances and Best Film at UK National Student Film Festival Screenfest.

Education 2010 - 2013 BA FILM & TV PRODUCTION University of Westminster, London 2007 - 2009 FILM DIRECTING Academy of Arts, Belgrade 2003 - 2007 GRAPHIC DESIGN Secondary School of Design, Belgrade

Filmography 2014 LEAVE 8’ fiction writer/director 2013 KING FOR A DAY 17’ fiction director 2012 THE CANTEEN 7’ fiction writer 2009 BABINE 12’ fiction writer/director 2008 PROGRAM 6’ fiction writer/director 2008 FABRIKA 13’ documentary director 2007 DRIMIN OV JU 5’ fiction writer/director

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Anja Jeremić

Biography Born and raised in Belgrade, Anja had started freelancing during the beginning of her BA studies. She has 7 years of experience in production, primarily as Produc- tion Manager and Line Producer.

Anja had worked on both domestic and foreign productions of various feature and short films, TV series, reality shows, commercials, international festivals and music videos.

Education 2005 – 2012 BA & MA Production in Media and Culture, Academy of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

2001 – 2005 G y m n a s i u m »Mihailo Petrović-Alas«, Belgrade, Serbia

Work Experience

Feb 2014 – ongoing LineProducer TV series »MALA ISTORIJA SRBIJE« | Serbia | 365 episodes planned

Aug – Oct 2013 Production Coordinator web series »#SamoKažem« | Serbia/Montenegro/Macedonia/BH *Winner of the Satellite Award for Original Short-Format Program

2011 – 2012 Line Producer sitcom »PEVAJ, BRATE!« | season 1 & 2 | 48 episodes

2011 – 2014 Assistant Producer TV series »BUDVA NA PJENU OD MORA« | season 1 & 2 | 24 episodes

2009 Producer short fiction film »ŽIVOT POSLE« | dir. Milan Milić

Oct 2007 – Jan 2008 Assistant Line Producer TV series »ZAUSTAVI VREME« | 20/100 episodes

2007 Production Coordinator feature film »SERBIAN SCARS« | dir. Brent Huff

2007 Production Assistant & Transportation Coordinator feature film »ČITULJA ZA ESKOBARA« | dir. Milorad Milinković

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BLAGOJE Writer: Livia U. Corsi Producer: Emanuele Nespeca

Blagoje is an old man who lives alone in Pančevo, a town 15 kilometers from Belgrade.

The year is 1999. When Nato attacks Serbia, Blagoje stays at home, refusing to move into the shelters with the other citizens. He doesn’t want this war to turn his life upside down.

Danica, 40, his neighbor, has a completely different attitude. She is very frightened and she tries to talk Blagoje into hiding in the shelter, but he won’t go. She doesn’t give up on trying to convince him to go with her because Blagoje has come to represent the father she never had, and Danica doesn’t want to lose him. (Danica has been alone ever since she was orphaned as a small child.)

When the mayor of Pančevo announces that Nato has started bombing the oil refinery and they are in danger of an ecological disaster Danica panicked. Driven by loneliness, Danica, enters Blagoje's home and tries to drag him with her. An argument ensues and turns into a brutal fight. Blagoje gets incredibly angry with Danica: it’s an inhuman anger. A couple of days later, Blagoje is bedridden because of a dislocated ankle, and in need of help. He apologizes to Danica, telling her that he had regularly episodes similar to the one he had with her. That inhuman anger comes from the past. The same inhuman anger that hit him in 1944, in Mathausen, after he had survived life in a concentration camp. The Nazis, there, forced him to relinquish everything he had in order to stay alive, and he never fully regained the dignity he lost.

When Serbia is attacked, Blagoje swears that he will get through the conflict with his pride in- tact this time, and because of Danica’s devotion to him, Blagoje emerges from this war emotionally unharmed.

When the war is over, after more than two months of bombing, Blagoje is exhausted. Outside his window, the sky is red. The flames in the refinery are as high as buildings an apocalyptic horizon. Blagoje lies down on his bed to rest with his cat. He lets out a sigh of relief and his lips curl into a smile. He is at peace. The war, this time, didn't take his humanity.

However, this war didn’t leave Blagoje as unharmed as he thinks. The air that he just inhaled will leave toxic, chemical traces in his lungs - traces that will turn to cancer – a cancer that kill him in just over a year.

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Livia U. Corsi

Birth: July 7th 1974, Rome, Italy.

Skills Journalist from July 2000

Education and training: MFI Script 2 Film workshops with the project “Blagoje”. Workshop of creative writing with Stas’ Gawronski. Workshop of creative writing with Paola Gaglianone. Seminary of screenwriting at Premio Solinas held by Marco Martani. Seminary of screenwriting at Premio Solinas held by EnzoMonteleone. Seminary of screenwriting at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia(in Milan). 8° Master Rai/Script for screenwriters held by F. Scardamaglia, G.Ventriglia, D. Matteucci, L. Forlai, S. Reali, C. Ercolino, etc.

Work experience: Development of the screenplay feature film “Blagoje”.

Development of the documentary subject “Once upon a time the Prince Charming” produced by Spaghetto Film.

Author of the behind the scenes short film “A Letter from Madras”directed by Irish Braschi and produced by Spaghetto Film in cooperationwith Regional Council of Piedmont.

Director of the behind the scenes of “And than came silence” directed byIrish Braschi and produced by 11 Marzo Film in cooperation with RaiCinema and Italian Ministry for Colture and Heri- tage.

Develompment of the subject of the short film “Goran” produced by Spaghetto Film.

Assistant director in the documentary “I believe in Miracles” directed byIrish Braschi and produced by On My Own Production and Toscana FilmCommission. (Documetary shot inside the Spike Lee’s film “Miracle at St.Anna” and inserted as an extra in the Blu Ray edition of the Ameri- canfilm.)

Assistant director of the special “Pinocchio – the film” produced by Lux Vide and Rai Uno.

Editing of the screenplay “Sotto il cielo di Kabul” produced by MariposaFilm with the support of European Commission Media Programme.

Cooperated in the research and screenplay for the TV miniseries“Eravamo solo mille” directed by Stefano Reali and produced byCosmo Production and Rai Uno.

Cooperated in the research and screenplay for the TV miniseriesL’uomo Sbagliato” directed by Stefano Reali and produced byAlbatross AMP and Rai Uno.

36 Selected Projects EDITED LIFE Writer: Ioan Antoci Director: Violeta Gorgos

A filmmaker, who failed in life and career, tries to reconcile her family members by making a movie about a utopian version of them.

Middle age Alina Negrea lives a dull marriage with a pathetic husband and two uncontrollable juvenile boys. Her only escape is cinema where she works as a documentary director. The editing room is her favorite place. But her projects are not highly supported by producers and studio. In fact, last film was a total flop.

Reunited with widower father and two young brothers at her mother’s memorial, Alina feels that even her kin have distanced one another.

But Tudor, her father, a renowned professor, has a big surprise for all. He wrote, as therapy, a screenplay. A story inspired from their past, a confession about his relation with their mother and the childhood of Alina. And he wants, before his death, to see this utopian story made into a feature film. But the characters of the story have no resemblance with the unhappy, prob- lematic and false real counterparts.

Alina reluctantly accepts “the job” despite the sappy tone of the script, knowing that she will never control the project.

Diving into the life of characters, Alina discovers little dirty secrets not only from the past, but from the present too. While one of her brother cheats his wife indulging himself in shady business, the other one, family pride, he is risking his medical license by failing all exams.

But the biggest shock is provided by Tudor himself who, apparently, let his beautiful teaching assistant Olimpia, pregnant.

Confronted with the real life and Alina’s refusal to continue with the film, Tudor has a stroke and temporarily paralyzes.

Trying to cut the bad scenes and gluing the good ones, Alina forces herself to put order in her life and in the movie she makes. First, she gives all her energy in finishing the film. Secondly, she convinces her brothers to act more like their bright and praiseworthy cinematic avatars. While caring her ill father, Alina finds time also to share with her husband and her kids. But blending reality with fiction is not an easy task.

When Tudor asks for Olimpia to play a role in the movie, paying her for an abortion too, Alina confronts Olimpia directly, accusing her to be responsible for everything.

Guilty of anything, Olimpia accepts the money and have an abortion. But, soon after the inter- vention, Olimpia dies from bleeding complications.

With this heavy burden on their consciences, Negrea family makes some redemption attempts: the older brother ceases his dubious affairs, the other one becomes a doctor, Alina finishes the film and Tudor regains his health and participates alongside entire family at the premiere of the movie. A real hit. The producers and the studio expect worldwide success.

Proud of her edited masterpiece, Alina leaves the film role in the editing room and joins the small party at her birthplace home. Her family is gathered around Tudor, sharing a moment of peace and love. After all, reality is always better than fiction. 1 37 Selected Projects

Ioan Antoci

Writer/Screenwriter Câinele japonez/The Japanese Dog, 2008 – feature script, directed by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu and produced by Libra Film in 2013, published at http:// editura.liternet.ro/carte/266/Ioan - Antoci/Cainele-japonez.html 2008 – shorts: Memories of love, The king of beggars, The beginning 2009 - SuperBstar, feature script, selected in Cinelabs workshop, IIFF, Iaşi; shorts: Ionel and trains, Movie lovers, Nihil sine Morte 2009 – Mario, Maria, Marinel – by Violeta Gorgos, feature script, co-writer 2010 - Raish, feature script, co-written with Robert L. Jones, selected în Film Teep and Mannheim Workshop 2013; 2011 - Otherworld, feature script, co- written with Robert L. Jones; shorts: The box, Ordinary things: hands, Extraordinary things: The heist, Drinks 2012 - Wasia/Time of impostors, feature script, screen adaptation after „Impostor”, novel written by Viorel Savin, attached director Visarion Alexa 2013 – Family of artists, short script; 2012 – 2013 – Pogon, feature script, work in progress, selected in Transilvania Talent Lab, TIFF, Cluj-Napoca, 2012 2013 – Edited life, feature script, director Violeta Gorgos, selected in Film Teep 2014

Filmography/Produced scripts: Memories of love, 2008 Movie lovers, 2009 Nihil sine Morte, 2010 – selected in Portobello, London, UK; Bogocine, Bogota, Columbia; (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1664734/) The Japanese Dog/Câinele Japonez, 2013, directed by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, produced by Libra Film; Official Selection – New Directors of San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain; (http:// www.imdb.com/title/tt3223280/)

SHORT STORIES: Livia and Santa Claus; Livia and the exact science of kisses; Renata of Tiff; Straman: translu- cent man; Livia and Saint Nicholas (http://scrieliber.ro/author/ioan-antoci/)

The store of shoe boxes; Eva without heels in Short story magazine, (http:// www.revistadepovestiri.ro/lansare-10-rev-de-pov/)

Crossroads/Răspântia, in Literary Zone/Zona literară, 2013

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Violeta Gorgos

Film/ television director

Professional experience: 1997–1990: Scientific colaborator, Department of Musicology and Folklore, Arts Institute, Chisinau, Moldova 1990–2006: Producer and tv- entertainer at the Teleradio Company of State Moldova 2006 – present: Artistic director at TVR Iasi, Romania

International Festivals – participation, films and awards: 1997: DaKino Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania –“Sad Symbols”, selected by Pro TV 1998: Breac 21, Ljubleana, Slovenia - “A Child's Virtual Dream”, //Golden Antena 98, Al- bena, Bulgaria - “Story of Light and Dark” 1999: DaKino Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania- “Sad Winter Tale” 2001: Golden Praga, Cehia- “The Movie of Great Love”// Etnos, Bacau, Romania - “Sad Win- ter Tale”// Euromuzica, Austria - “Trigon Group”//7 Arts, Calarasi, Romania - “Story of Light and Dark”//Televst Festival, Timisoara, Romania - “The Visible of an Invisible Festi- val” - award for the best broadcast-ed essay and for freedom of speech 2002: Euromuzica, Olimpia, Greece - “Trigon group” 2003: Golden Begger, Praga, Cehia - “Earth's Voice”//Jovaia voda, Novosibirsk - “Earth's Voice”//7 Arts, Calarasi, Romania - “Time goes by, time comes around” - award for the best experimental movie 2005: Anonymous, Sf. Gheorghe, Romania - “Sin of Sin” 2006: Niste tarani, Slatioara, Romania - “Malanca” - award for the best ethnographic movie// 7 Arts, Calarasi, Romania - “Wedding in Basarabia” - award for the best Making off. 2007: Golden Beggar, Kosite, Slovacia - “A Mother from the Land of the Shadows” – Great Award and the festival's trophy; // 7 Arts, Calarasi, Romania – Racord “Ticu” - award for cinema essay 2008: Asterfest, Strumica, Macedonia - “A Mother from the Land of the Shadows” - jury's award for artistic sensitivity in a documentary movie// Prix CIRCOM-“A Mother from the Land of the Shadows” - Mention Vivre L'Europe, // Cine days International Music Film Festi- val, Skopje, Macedonia – Racord “Manuel Manastireanu”// SIMFEST, Targu Mures, Romania - “Sex in the URSS” - Great Award and Trophy of the festival.// 7 Arts, Calarasi, Romania - “Making off Jazz Festival” - award for the best making off; “Sex in the URSS” - award for the best documentary.// Autumn in Voronet, Gura Humorului, Romania - “A Mother in the Land of the Shadows” - award for stage directing. 2009: 7 Arts, Calarasi, Romania - “Wedding in Basarabia” - award for the best Making Off. 2010: APTR Award (Romanian Professionals in Television Association) - “TVR Iasi Calen- dar”// Niste Tarani, Slatioara, Romania - “Born, not made” - award for the best ethno movie, //7 Arts, Calarasi, Romania - “Passing” - award for essay. Initiator and organizer of: Cronograf International Documentary Film Festival, Other relevant activities: Expert for Media Laboratory, organized by OWH TV Studio in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007. Member of the jury for the all 10 editions of Cronograf Festival, Chisinau; Member of the jury for Golden Beggar, Kosite, Slovacia – 2008; Member of the Cinematografic Union of the Moldavian Republic. 39 Selected Projects FANCY ZARİFE Writer: Suzan Guverte

A guard becomes a prisoner…

ZARIFE (6) is the youngest of a poor family living in the suburbs of Istanbul with brother Kamil who is only 3 years older and the mother. The rules of their life are formed with the letters they receive from their father who is a truck driver working in Middle East, and rarely comes to Tur- key.

Honor and woman pride are the main values they believe in. The family members live to dignify these values. Knowing it, Kamil, is appointed as the substitute leader of the family and has the task to protect the family members’ honor since the father is a way all the time. Kamil loves his sister and protects her every way he can. But over time, the love and the care between them, suffocates their life as a result of this responsibility bourdon on their shoulders.

Since Zarife is not going to school yet, her social life takes place around her neighborhood friendships. Again one day, Zarife joins her friends outside to play. As they are running around as a part of the game, Zarife accidently gets stuck in a corner of a staircase. Her friend Recep (7) suddenly approaches her and lifts her skirt in a perverted way and stare to her legs. Zarife feels snookered and guilty at the same time, because it was thought to her in the family that every girl is responsible to keep her privacy; otherwise her family would be ashamed. Recep tells Zarife that he will not tell her brother what happened if she shows him her underwear once again, tomorrow. For Zarife, her brother hearing such a story is the worst thing ever. So, she accepts what Recep asks for.

Zarife has a terrible night and in the morning she reaches to Recep’s house in order to fulfill her duty. At that moment, she witnesses Recep’s mother’s and father’s discussion about the father’s mistress, Süslü (Fancy) İlknur, which is the prostitute of that neighborhood. As Recep requested, Zarife again shows her underwear to him, thinking, this will be the end of the night- mare. But this day is only the starting of depressing and intimidated days she will have.

The kids in the neighborhood slowly hear about Zarife’s fame with another attempt of Recep offering Zarife’s body to his friends. In small groups, they start to reach and ask her to do similar stuff she did for Recep. In a very short time, Zarife becomes the toy of the boys in the neighborhood with the threats they are giving. We witness the sexual harassment a 6 year old gets from group of small boys day by day. Every time, she steps outside, a new kid holds her up and asks her to do things, which triggers their curiosity. This harassment comes to extreme points; the possibility of rumors getting into Zarife’s family’s ears kills her inside and makes her weak enough to say ‘Yes’ every time a boy asks for her to show her skin. By time, Zarife gets de- pressed, keeps herself out of social life without letting her family realize the situation.

One day, a hope rises for her; her girlfriends ask her to join them to play at one of the girls’ house. But, unfortunately Zarife falls into their trap and gets stuck with 15 boys in a room of the house she went to play to. Just seconds before the guys are about to attack her, a door opens and the black sheep of the neighborhood, Süslü İlknur, comes to rescue her.

Zarife’s family learns about her situation in an unexpected way when İlknur brings Zarife to home. We see couple of scenes in a row, which family struggles while they are making the right decision to get out of this situation and at the end we see that the guardians release the prisoner, but the prisoner becomes her own guardian.

40 Selected Projects

Suzan Guverte

Education University of Bath, Sep 10- Oct 11, Bath / United Kingdom - MSc Interna- tional Management

BogaziciUniversity, Sep 03 - Jan 09, Istanbul/ TURKEY - BA in Tourism Administration

MacquireUniversity, July 07- Dec 08, Sydney/ AUSTRALIA - BA exchange student in Management

Tarsus American College, Sep 97- June 03, Mersin/TURKEY - Highschool

Extra-Curricular Education MujdatGezen Acting School , Sep 04 - June 05, Student in Acting Department

Ayla Algan Art School, Sep 05 - June 06, Student in Acting Department

BSF Art School , Sep 07- June 08, Student in Directing of Photography Department

Work Experience Çamaşırhane Film- Assistant Producer, Sept 2013 -Recep İvedik 4, Feature Film

2012 Film Production – Coordinator, Sept 2012 – July 2013, Commercials :Pepsi, Molfix, Digi- turk, Yedigün, ZiraatTurkiye Football Cap, Ülker, Arçelik…

Hipnottis.com – Co-Founder, Sept 2012 -

Gurunzi.com, Brand Coordinator and Sales Manager,Sep2011- Sep 2012

Hilton AirportHotel, Hotel Management and Sales Trainée, Fort Lauderdale, Florida / USA, May 09 – Apr 10,

DNA Film production, Assistant Producer, Aug 08- Nov 08

Marriot Hilton Head Golf and Beach Resort, Hotel Management andSales Trainee, Savannah, Sth Carolina / USA, Jun 06 – Sep 06

Hyatt Regency, Human Resources Intern, Jun 05 – Aug 05

Voluntary work Volunteer Project Manager for ‘Students Working and Living on Streets’, Sep 06 –Sep 08 Ro- tary’s Children and Youth Welfare School

Head of ‘Mobile Library for Town Schools ‘Project, Sep 02- Jun 03 Bogazici University Social Welfare Committee, Istanbul/TURKEY

Languages : Turkish, English, French, Spanish

41 Selected Projects FLOATING WORLD Writer/Director/Producer: Robert Jones Co-writer: Toshiji Takeshima

Ryoichi Hyodo, a tattoo artist estranged from his family, returns to Tokyo from NYC to see his dying father, Kingo Hyodo, who is undergoing experimental radiation. Kingo, a renowned painter at the center of an Ukiyoe art dynasty active since the Edo period, reveals that his brother, Makoto, has been missing since after the Tohoku Tsunami.

Fearing the worst, Ryoichi heads to the temporary housing near Minamisouma where their family’s ancestral home was destroyed by the tsunami and made unsafe by the radiation released by Fukushima. With Makoto nowhere to be found, he seeks out his childhood love Mi- yako, who is grieving because she lost her father in the tsunami. For Ryoichi, the loss is personal as her father is an Ukiyoe colleague of Kingo.

When Ryoichi confirms Miyako’s assertion of a rumor about his brother being one of the work- ers involved in clean-up work at the Fukushima power station overseen by a local Yakuza syn- dicate, he confronts the leader, Naoki, a dangerous rival for Miyako’s affection.

Naoki refuses to release Ryoichi because, he says, he is owed money from Makoto. Skeptical of this accusation and protective of his brother, Ryoichi and Miyako sneak onto the base station on the outskirts of Fukushima to rescue Makoto before he is deployed to begin the work.

The Yakuza stop them but Naoki is impressed with Ryoichi’s determination so he offers an alternative to Makoto doing the clean-up work that will be revealed if they go to an abandoned fish market the next day. Ryoich agrees to this mysterious offer but not without Naoki upping the stakes by abducting Miyako to assure he follows through.

Failing to convince the police to believe his story and help, Ryoichi ventures out alone to the market. He finds his brother and the Yakuza and uncovers the truth that Makoto had pushed his father’s Ukiyoe business into bankruptcy and, therefore, had to pay for his father’s treatment with a Yakuza loan. Without money to pay it back, Makoto took the hazardous job for the Yakuza instead.

To free his brother and Miyako, Naoki unveils that the deal is that Ryoichi must finish Naoki’s tattoo body suit to perfection in three days but any mistaken line will result in bokkei, tattoo punishment of every mistaken line on Makoto. Ironically, the tattoo is from Kingo’s most famous Ukiyoe painting.

When Ryoichi undertakes the work and multiple mistakes result in the Yakuza forcing him to repeat them on Makoto as punishment, Ryoichi cracks under the pressure and quits. He only restores his confidence by going out to the ocean where his brother and he surfed as youth on waves like his father painted.

Though Ryoichi successfully completes the tattoo, Naoki doesn’t release Miyako as promised so Ryoichi takes matters into his own hands and, with Makoto, goes to the Yakuza hideout to vanquish her captors, saving her without spilling blood. Shamed, the collusive police finally arrest Naoki and his cohorts.

Surviving the ordeal, Ryoichi suits up with Makoto to go surfing now that the government says that the ocean radiation is no longer dangerous. A taxi pulls up at the beach with a recovered but weak Kingo who smiles as he watches his sons surf. 42 Selected Projects

Robert Jones

Professional Experience Stoic Films, Hamden, Connecticut 09/03-Present Writing/Directing/Producing/Cinematography/Editing

Wrote/Produced/Directed/Edited multiple award-winning independent short film, Play War, which screened in the United States and internationally; including in competition at the Academy Award accredited film festival, Palm Springs International ShortFest. Wrote/Produced/Directed independent short film of PEN-nominated, Rome Prize winning author Peter Orner’s short story, The Raft, with eight-time Emmy award winning actor Edward Asner. Independently raised approximately $50,000 in resources for completion of The Raft Wrote/Producing original short project, An Impossible Place, with Tony nominated American actress Condola Rashad and Genie nominated French actresses Fatou N’Diaye attached in lead roles. Wrote/Produced/Directed/Shot/Edited book trailer for Peter Orner’s latest collection, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge Directing/Producing book trailer for award winning Irish author Paul Lynch’s novel, Red Sky in Morning.

Education University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA Bachelor of Arts, Film Studies (2003) Pratt Institute, New York City, NY Completed two years in fine arts foundation/film-video program

Courses and certificates Film TEEP workshop, Bucharest, Romania (May 2013/May 2014) Co-production training program to develop fiction feature film projects and set up and build professional network to encourage collaborations between both EU and non-EU member states (http://www.artviva.ro/) Tom Lazarus, Script Consultant, online Private consultation with the acclaimed writer (Stigmata) and professor (2010 - present) (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0493842/ and http://www.tomlazarus.com/) Sundance Shorts Lab, New York City, NY Seminar of screenings, panels and discussions offering firsthand insight and access into development, production and distribution of narrative short-form storytelling (2011) (http://www.sundance.org/programs/shortslab/)

Awards Artist Fellowship Award, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism Film & Video, $5000 (2009) Best Digital Short, Big Bear Lake International Film Festival Play War (2004) Best of Trés Courts, Festival International des Trés Courts, 7th edition Play War (2004) Best Short Short, Desert Sun Awards, Palm Springs International Short Fest Play War (2004)

43 Selected Projects

Toshiji Takeshima

Film The Wreck - Yukio (Lead) - Haus+Longhitano (Kevin Haus) Thigh - Butoh (Lead) - DC Production (Daniel Cowen) Hungry for Gold - Tochi (Lead) - Int’l Olympic Committee (Edouard Getaz) Love in New York - Top of the Rock Man (Lead) - Sasie Sealy Film (Gabrielle Demeestere) The Raft - Japanese Sailor - Stoic Films (Robert Jones)

Television How To Make It In America - Guest Star HBO (Julian Farino) The World Astonishing News - Yoichi (Lead) - NTV (Shunsuke Morita) Cashmere Mafia - Guest Star - ABC (Matthew Penn)

Theatre Dojoji - Anchin (Lead) - Pan Asian Rep (Tisa Chang) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Lounge Singer(u/s Toru) - Edinburgh Int’l Festival/ Singapore Arts Festival (Stephen Earnhart) A Streetcar Named Desire - Stanley (Lead) - The Cherry Pit (Austin Pendleton) The Shanghai Gesture - Tong kai Li - Mirror Rep (Robert Kalfin) The Old House - Yoshi (Lead) - HB Playwrights Theatre (Laura Esterman)

Voice over NBA MAZDA Lufthansa Panasonic Microsoft Adidas UPS Canon 20 Century Fox “Shutter” Trailer “Life of Pi” dir. Ang Lee

Education Herbert Berghof Studio (HB Studio), New York, Drama (3years Training) Scene Study- Austin Pendleton, Method Technique- Jeanne Kaplan, On Camera Acting- Karen Ludwig, Vocal performance- Eric Michael Gillett ,

Courses and certificates Dance- Michael Blake, Barrie Estes, (2years) Stanislavski Method Training, Sal Romeo Japanese Samurai Sword Technique (TATE-Do) (7years)

Professional Affiliations Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Member since 2009 American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) Member since 2011 Actor’s Equity Association (AEA) Member since 2011 Japan Actors Union (JAU) Member since 2011

Awards Japan National Education award for poetry – First Place Extraordinary Ability Artist visa (USCIS) Extraordinary Ability Artist permanent US resident (USCIS)

44 Selected Projects

GOD IS RETURNING HOME Writer/Director: Petar Ristovski Producer: Gorana Grozdanic

The plot time is present, but the problems in Kosovo date from the past. Mutual disagreements between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo persist. The barricades on the roads are held mostly by young people; older generation did its share of the dirty work and have withdrawn into poli- tics.

The last piece of land in the village belongs to Vukman. He left Kosovo long time ago, when his best friend from the young days raped Rada, his girlfriend. Now, the same woman, together with a young man Nikola, goes to find Vukman, who lives in Vojvodina, in order to bring him back to Kosovo so he could claim his property, for hadžijaBekim wishes to expropriate the land and to use it for building a mosque.

On the road back to Kosovo, in a Jeep pulling a small, mobile, Orthodox church, Nikola finds out that Žana, the daughter of Rada and his beloved, is in fact Bekim's daughter.

In meantime, Žana is being kidnapped by the sons of Bekim, who rape her and sell her as a prostitute; they don't know that she is their half-sister. In a motel where they spent a night, Vukman and Nikola find Žana and manage to set her free. Žana and Rada stay in a monastery, while Vukman and Nikola continue their journey to Vukman's land in order to defend it. Vuk- man, through Nikola, challenges Bekim to a classic duel; the duel results with the death of both Vukman and Bekim, as well as of Bekim's two sons. On his deathbed, Vukman behests Nikola to divide his land in two parts, giving one part to the Albanians, so the feud would come to an end.

Nikola goes to the Albanian funeral, and Talif, a young man of Albanian origin, goes to Vuk- man's funeral. In the last scene, at the Vukman's property, one finds Vukman's grave by the mobile church. Rada, Nikola and Žana (an a nun) stand by the grave. The film ends with the sounds of hammering – the Albanians are building a mosque on the other part of Vukman's land. However, the two parts of the land are divided with a barbwire.

45 Selected Projects

Petar Ristovski

Born on May 6th 1986 in Belgrade.

He graduated Film and Television directing in 2012 from Faculty of drama arts at Belgrade University.

His graduation movie “Where is Nadja” (directed by 8 directors, Petar was one of them) has achieved success and was screened at European Film Festival Palic, Film script festival at Vrnjacka Banja, Film festival Nis, Inter- national film festival “LIFFE” Leskovac, festival “Free Zone”. At film festival “Cinema City”, film won special jury award at the screening program National Class.

Filmography as Director: 2012 Where is Nadja (feature), director of one scene (Train) 2009 Prozor / Window (TV movie) 2009 Vesele 90-te / Cheerful 90’s (TV movie) 2008 Stanica / Station (short) 2008 Opovo najntinajnersi (short documentary) 2007 Fist 03 (documentary) 2007 Brizni otac / Loving father (short)

As Producer: 2011 White lions (directed by Lazar Ristovski)

46 Selected Projects

Gorana Grozdanic

Own Master Degree in Film and Television Produc- tion from National Academy (Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade University) in Serbia, during which she got three Best student Awards and Special Award as student of the year sponsored by EFG Bank.

For past 10 years she had worked as Television Producer (General Manager for Universiade 2009 - IBC, held in Belgrade and Producer for live broadcast of the Former American president Mr. Bill Clinton visit to Montenegro at 2011).

After many commercials and corporate videos she filmed 3 Internationally recognized feature movies: Wait for me, and I will not come (by MiroslavMom- cilovic), White lions (by Lazar Ristovski), Death of a Man in Balkans (Best camera at Karlovy Vary 2012 by Miroslav Momcilovic).

She also produced few TV Movies and TV serie "Ulicalipa" for National Broadcasting Corp. (RTS). At the summer of 2012.she was participant of Sarajevo Talent Campus during Sara- jevo Film Festival and EAVE training at Palić.

Currently, she is developing three feature films as a freelance producer and works as an independent producer at her production company Bastards production in Belgrade.

47 Selected Projects

MIRACLE IN CLUJ Writer/Director: Botond Püsök Producer: Melinda Boros

Miracle in Cluj is a realistic comedy/drama, spoken in Romanian and Hungarian, which takes place in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania. The main character of the film is a working- class mother, who secretly enters a pyramid-game, hoping that she will be able to offer her family a better future. She takes out a bank loan on their apartment and doesn’t say a word to her husband or children, pretending that she’s not up to anything bad. Her monotonous weekdays suddenly become quite adventurous, and her decision creates further conflicts within the family. Will they be able to solve them?

Pyramid-games have created chaos worldwide, even in post-communist Romania, where mil- lions of people got easily trapped by the promise of financial wellbeing. That’s why it’s quite easy to identify with our main character. Nevertheless she’s not motivated by greediness, but the belief that she may be able to ensure her family a stable, happier future.

The film plays on two levels: on the first the relationships between family members are becoming more and more complicated, while the other works as a social mirror and presents a society which allows and even generates the blossoming of pyramid-games.

48 Selected Projects

Botond Püsök

Born in 1986, Romania, Botond Püsök graduated at the Sapientia - Hungarian University of Transyl- vania, Department of Film, Photography and Media as a film director. Since then, he works in the media and is a founding member of SpotFilm, the production company at which he works as a director.

He directed six short films to date which participated at national and international film festivals.

SPOTFILM Film production services in Transylvania www.spotfilm.ro

Co-Founder

2014 Weekend – Romanian casting director, extras coordinator - Feature film/thriller, produced by Budapest Film and KMH One Film - Directed by Áron Mátyássy

2013 Alice – production partner, cameraman - Interactive theatre project, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland - "Virtual Theatre – Cultural Bridge", Hungarian-Romanian Cross- border Cooperation Programme 2007-2013

2011 The Story of the Mikó-Castle – director - Short-films, historical, The Secrets of the Fountain and The Feast - produced by SpotFilm for the Szekler Museum of Ciuc’s continual exhibition, The Story of the Mikó-Castle

2010 Picnic in Concrete Fields – director of photography, editor - Experimental shorts, Romanian-Hungarian-Austrian co-production - The films present the built industrial heritage of Romania

2009 We Need A Team In Red-White-Black – director, editor - Documentary, 67 min. - The story of the successful hockey team Hockey Club Csíkszereda

49 Selected Projects

Melinda Boros

She’s a graduate of the Sapientia – Hungarian University of Tranylvania, where she majored in Film, Photography and Media studies.

She quickly discovered her area of interest and deepened her knowledge in art film distribution and art cinema management, film funding and production.

Her work experience includes the production of five shorts and two feature films, a project manager, production and distribution assistant job at Argo Audiovisual Association and Cine Corvin Inc respectively.

She now works as head of acquisitions at Clorofilm Inc. Boros took part in several community projects and works as a location and project manager at TIFF Transilvanian International Film Festival.

50 Selected Projects PREDICTIONS Writer: Mae Deyrolle - Tan

A small group of hunters meet an old man in the forest in the 1960s. He tells them that he can see into the future. After a few rounds of vodka and lengthy persuasion, he agrees to tell each of them how and when they will die. None of them believe him and go back to their lives.

When the first hunter to die does so exactly how the old man predicted, followed by the next right up to the last man 40 years later, a slightly surreal story begins. It takes a dramatic turn when the last man to die decides to tell his grandson the story. He also tells his grandson that the old man in the forest said that his grandson would have the gift of second sight just like this mysterious man they encountered.

Rob is a sensitive child who has suffered a great deal because his parents have an unhappy relationship, he decides not to 'see' anymore after he and his mother are involved in a serious car accident and she does not survive.

Although born and raised in North America, he spends a lot of time with his grandfather in the Mazury lake region in Poland – these are his happiest times. He has a bad relationship with his father. He decides to start a business with his brother Mikey who has an even worse relationship with their father and has long since left the family home upon turning 18.

They start a business together and are very successful. They lead a life of partying and big spending. However they are very different and when they get into a fight and his brother is se- riously injured and ends up in hospital, Rob decides to leave this life and start something new in Poland.

After 2 years, Rob's life has completely changed. He is happier and more at peace. He now rides a bicycle and his hobbies and interests in bikes and music have become more serious. He leads a simple happy life and now has a close friend called Wojtek – a vegan who is very similar to him. They spend a lot of time together.

One day he meets a gypsy at a fair who wants to tell him his fortune. He is horrified and tells her he doesn't want to know anything. But she manages to grab his hand and she tells him he has a gift of second sight and that he will have to face the challenges and find great happiness or suffer tragic consequences.

Rob meets a girl name Ola and falls in love with her. Due to her flighty unpredictable nature, their relationship is exciting but tempestuous. The have great pyrotechnic fights and argu- ments one minute and make great passionate love the next.

One night Rob comes home drunk and has a dream that he is running in a maze with Ola taunting him and sending him in the wrong direction from a place above where she can see everything. He can't seem to get out. When he finally does, she is retreating into the house. He goes after her and finds that the house is nothing but an empty ruin and Ola is gone. Except a voice which sounds like her.

The house is nothing but a shell, like a gutted ruin during the Warsaw Uprising. A barely audi- ble voice tells him that everyone has left this place, that he must too if he wants live.

Rob wakes up in a cold sweat relieved that it was only a dream. He is at a crossroads and has to decide what to do next. 51 Selected Projects

Mae Deyrolle - Tan

Education: Jan 2001 University of Oxford Rewley House – Creative Writing for Fiction. Special Mention Oct 97 - Jun 98 Université Paris III Sor- bonne: Diploma in French as a Foreign Lan- guage (Advanced Level) Nov 96 – Jun 97 Alliance Française – Paris: Beginner and Intermediate Level Certificate 1988 Cambridge GCE ‘A’ Level - Singapore

Since July 2006, Warsaw Film Producer/Consultant: Nicolas de Staël 2013/14 – documentary project in development/filming – French/Polish/ Belgian co production New Xawery Zulawski Project 2012/14– Fea- ture length fiction in Development. Creative Advisor / Co Producer Rewers dir. Borys Lankosz – Arranged Market Screenings & Meetings with Sales Agents Festival Representatives for Berlinale Negotiations with French distributor and signing of Deal Memo 2010. L’Europe Autour de l’Europe 2009 – Festival of East European Cinema in Paris. Selection for Poland and Public Relations. With the support of the Polish Cultural Institute in Paris. Raven & the Cross 2009 dir. Cezary Iber. Feature in development. Successful application for December 08 session for Polish Film Institute (Pisf) Development subsidies. Christine War My Love Agnieszka Holland – Successful search for international co production partner in the UK. 2008 Sense of Home (Singaporean TV Series) 1 episode (Budapest) shot by Singaporean associate (shot May 2008). Assisted in production services. L’Europe autour de l’Europe 4th Edition of Non Competitive European Arthouse Cinema Festival with an accent on Central European films. Pre selection for Poland, funding and negotiations with Polish Institute in Paris and various other public entities. Assisting in Public Relations. A l’Est 2007 Festival of East European Cinema in Rouen. Managing all invited guests (actors/directors) for public meetings, special events and press conferences. Assisting the Pro- gramme Director in negotiations for some of the films programmed. www.alest.org NoMansLand Feature idea developed with Canadian(Québec)-Hungarian Co Production in mind. Script Development 2006/7 Awarded SODEC development grant 2005. Overnight (Hungarian/German/Asian Co Production) Search and negotiation with Singapor- ean Co Producer, application for State Film Funds SFC (Singapore Film Commission) Script Development and Production Budget (Singaporean Part) Associate Producer 2005/06

Jan 03 - May 03 7th Heaven Films Paris/London Script Development A Plane for my Soul. Semi-autobiographical feature by London based Iraqi director. Sep 02 – Jun 07 Substances CC Paris/Nice Producer Production service liaison for film companies in Western Europe looking for partners in Romania and Hungary Coma Disco (Part I of a two part short) Paris Producer 2004 Blind (12min short funded by PACA Region). Nice 2003/4

Feb 95 - Jun 96 BATEY ADS (Singapore) Pte Ltd Singapore Account Manager Nov 93 - Jan 95 EC1 CONSULTING GROUP Pte Ltd Singapore Account Manager

52 Selected Projects REMISSION Writer/Director: Hovhannes Galstyan Producer: Raffi Niziblian

44-year-old play write Gabriel and 42-year-old oncologist Marie are a married couple. Gabriel had just turned 19 when one day he witnesses from behind a window of an abandoned beach house, how an elderly midwife was performing an illegal abortion on Marie. She was one of Leo’s (Gabriel’s older bother) girlfriends. The bloody scene of a home made abortion marks Gabriel, which fills him with rage and hatred towards his older brother and compassion and love towards his victim, the 17-year-old Marie. The following day, a drunken Leo drowns at sea. After the death of Leo and the torturous abortion, Gabriel and Marie decide to leave France and move to Armenia, their ancestral homeland.

Now, in 2013, The couple is well established in their careers and have a seemingly happy family life. Except, Marie, who will soon be 43, is thinking how a child will make their family more complete. 25 years after being together, Marie gives Gabriel an ultematum. Either he checks his sperm to inseminate her or she gets a private donor. Marie’s one-sided decision becomes a thorn in the couple’s relationship. Gabriel cheats on Marie for the first time with the 26-year-old Janet.

Janet is a dancer. She is commissioned from France to perform in Gabriel’s libretto, where she embodies two charachters: a man and a woman. Dancing as a man, Janet is obliged to wear a tight corset, which causes her unbearable pain. Examination results show that there is a malignant tumor in Janet's right breast. Additional results show that Janet is now in remission. What’s more, the results indicate that Janet is actually pregnant.

Gabriel leaves for Montpelier. His father, who is in an old age home located on the Mediterra- nean seashore, is losing his memory. His father does not recognize him, but treats him as Leo. Gabriel is disturbed by the fact. He starts thinking back about how he has lived his life in the shadows of his brother. Three months after his arrival, Gabriel leaves Montpellier. Upon his return, which coincides with his birthday, Gabriel leaves Marie announcing that he will now start living his own life.

Left alone, Marie focuses all her energy on caring for her patient, Janet. Marie and Janet agree to work together and do everything possible to keep the baby healthy. The end of Janet’s remission coincides with her fifth months of pregnancy. Marie's colleagues suggest discussing the termination of the pregnancy with the patient and her relatives. Marie sug- gests that the baby's father may help in the matter. Gabriel, Marie and Janet's meeting at the open-air cafe reveals the secret of this triangle. After their meeting, Marie returns home, alone. Gabriel has rented a cabin near the lake and has been living in solitary. Janet disappears from Marie’s life.

After eight months, during one spring night, Marie’s door knocks. At the door stands Janet with a baby in her arms. Janet informs Marie about a dance troupe in her hometown, Lyon, that has offered her a role. She now needs to intensively rehearse to get back on stage. She wans to make sure that she has completely recovered. In the meantime, she asks Marie to be the temporary guardian of the baby until Janet makes all arrangements. After an all nighter, at mid-day, the two women set off to the lake to find Gabriel for Janet to say her goodbye. Gabriel has changed. Janet suspects that the couple has separated. Marie takes the crying baby to the car. Janet and Gabriel are left alone. Janet tells Gabriel that she is dying.

53 Selected Projects

Hovhannes Galstyan

Director /writer /producer at Parallels Film Production

Biography Born in 1969 in Yerevan, Armenia. Graduated from the film-director's department (Faculty of Culture) of Armenian State Pedagogical Institute. First cinema experience: the student work I DARE TO REMEMBER, 1993 (director/ producer). Worked at the Private Look Studio LTD as a CEO from 1999 to 2003. In 2005 established PARALLELS FILM PRO- DUCTION LLC independent film company for production of the international film project BONDED PARALLELS (first long feature as a director/producer). Currently is working on his 2nd long feature REMISSION (Director/writer/producer) as well as in a long feature comedy-drama HALF MOON BAY (Producer), released at March 2014.

Professional Carrier: September 2005 - Present: Parallels Film production LLC; Founder and CEO 2004 – 2000: Private Look LTD. Founder and head. 1993 – 1999: STUDIA 69 Individual / sole proprietorship. Founder. 1987 – 1998: Armenian state television. Assistant of TV Director

Filmography Writer/Director/Producer: REMISSION. 2015, digital, color, 100 min, status: in-production Scriptwriters: Marine Zakaryan, Hovhannes Galstyan, Director: Hovhannes Galstyan Producers: Hovhannes Galstyan, Raffi Niziblyan, Garen Tsaturyan, Gevorg Gevorgyan, Luc Ntonga BONDED PARALLELS. 2009, 35mm, color, format 1:1/85, Dolby SRD, 86 min Written and directed by Hovhannes Galstyan Produced by Hovhannes Galstyan, Gevorg Gevorgyan, Olivier Oursel, Trond Brede Andersen The World premiere: 31st Moscow IFFe, “Perspectives” Competition The EU premiere: 39th edition of IFF Rotterdam, “Bright Feature” Program World Distribution: INSOMNIA WS 1993 I DARE TO REMEMBER. b/w, 10min. Graduate work Writer: HUMP AND WINGS 1998 future film script. Awarded by the RA Ministry of Culture DUSHKO 1999 BONDED PARALLELS 2003 Best script award, 13 IFF ARPA, LA, California USA REMISSION 2012 Producer: HALF MOON BAY. 2014, RED, color, 80 min THE PHEASANT HUNTER. 2013, RED, color, Short 23min, I DARE TO REMEMBER, 1993

54 Selected Projects

Raffi Niziblian

Executive Producer at Parallels Film Pro- duction

Biography As a founder of Deem Communications, Raffi Niziblian’s accomplishments are in- strumental to his newest professional en- deavor.

Prior to establishing Deem Communica- tions in 2006, Raffi held the title of Com- mercial Manager for VivaCell Mobile Opera- tor. Raffi was vital to the implementation of the company’s commercial operations. By introducing assertive sales techniques and a strategic, nationwide advertising cam- paigns, he earned the “Best New Brand of 2006” awarded from the Ministry of Econ- omy.

As the Program Director for the Land and Culture Organization (LCO), Raffi focused on the promotion, outreach and expansion of this multinational grassroots organization. In Montreal, Canada, Raffi developed the provincial communication plan for Scouts Canada. He also developed new programs reaching multicultural and underprivileged communities. and Raffi also expanded the Community Development Program to hundreds of volunteer participants during his tenure.

Raffi holds a degree in Communications Studies and Community Economic Development from Concordia University. He communicates in five languages. He is the Founding President of Kanachastan, an environmental NGO and a co-founder of the Ad Council of Armenia.

Since 2012 has accepted the position of Executive Producer and International Relations at Prallels film Production LLC.

Selected filmography “IREX 15th Anniversary Film” – Documentary produced on the occasion of the celebration of the 15th anniversary of IREX (USAID project) in Armenia. Director. 2011

“Europe Day in Armenia” – Two, made-for-TV documentary film about EU projects in Arme- nia celebrated through Europe Day event held in Yerevan. Director. 2012 and 2013.

“Ashot” – A short biographical film about the life of an Armenian from the city of Shushi. The film held in private screenings in Armenia, Canada and USA. Director/Producer. 2005

“15” – a short documentary commemorating the survivors of the 1988 earthquake of Gumri, Armenia. The Canadia-Armenian co-production was screened at the Goldern Apricot Inter- national Film Festival in Yerevan. Director/Producer. 2003

“Remission” - Drama, 100min, Color. internal drama about married couple in a love triangle. Executive Producer. 2012-15

55 Selected Projects

REPRODUCTION Writer/Director: Atasay Koç

Melih Ferman’s name is written in golden letters in the history of cinema as a Turkish filmmaker. His name has become a big legend in movie circles. The sad part is that Melih died, or was killed, at an early age. “Reprodüksiyon” is a mockumentary that looks into Melih's past and aims to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the circumstances of his death.

Everything starts with a movie set. As a kid, Melih is very much influenced by what he sees. He decides that he wants to become a director. But his father is afraid of Melih’s imagination. In order to prevent him from taking this path, he takes him out of school. Melih runs away from home without hesitation.

Melihworks in different jobs. However every time his passion to films gets him fired. Finally he finds himself working in a pirated CD shop. First he learns how to capture movies to a computer. He starts manipulating the edits and sounds of movies. He adds visual effects. Soon enough, his reproductions start selling more than the original ones. Fame finds him through a film critic. He writes a critic on a “Melih Reproduction” believing he has seen the original film. Melih becomes very famous overnight.

Korsan Baba, the head of the pirated movie scene in the arcade, takes notice first andthreat- ens Melih to work for him. Melih's name is also often referred to in art circles and symposi- ums. During a debate, a famous director becomes delirious with rage. He pulls out his gun and points it at Melih. He accuses Melih of stealing his life.

This event drags Melih into a severe depression. Melih doesn’t leave his shop for days. Even- tually,his father comes to his aid.Melih decides to make his own movie. However, this will not be as easy as it seems. Melih will risk losing himself in pursuing the making of his movie.

56 Selected Projects

Atasay Koç

He graduated from Ankara University Sociology Depart- ment in 2002. His thesis was on “Cinema as a tool of creat- ing public opinion”.

Following his graduation, he attended Cinema Studies program in FAMU (Film and TV School of Academy of Perform- ing Arts in Prague).

He was a founder “Association of Friends of Cinema”. He made many screenings from World Cinema. He was an editor in chief of a well known cinema magazine called “Sekans”.

He then started his masters degree on Cinema and TV in Istanbul Bilgi University.

He worked as an assistant director in many TV commercials.

Since 2008, he is writing scripts for TV serials. Magnificent Century, Revenge and Waiting For the Sun are some of the famous Turkish TV series he wrote.

His short films competed and won awards in in numerous film festivals both national and international.

His last work is a feature film script called ‘’Reproduction’’ by which he won ‘Best First Script’ award in TURSAK (Turkish Foundation of Cinema and Audio-visual Culture).

57 Selected Projects

STEADY Writer: Razvan Badea

‘Steady’ is a love story born out of the ashes of an emotionally abusive relationship.

After getting a text message from her ex threatening to kill himself in place that had been important for the two of them, Dana goes after him to stop him. Her friend and work colleague, Mircea joins her when he realizes she shouldn’t be alone during such difficult moments.

As they journey through places filled with memories (both pleasant and unpleasant), Dana and Mircea find each other and fall in love. However, their love is threatened by Dana’s resid- ual feelings for her ex, her guilty conscience and the nostalgia of places that aren’t what they seem. With a rich and wild imagination and memories blending past, present and fiction, Dana is continually engrossed in a state that leads her towards self-destruction.

Mircea tries to make her forget her previous relationship and the suffering she went through, even though he doesn’t know much about them because Dana doesn’t like talking about the details. All he has to go on are bizarre memories and mixes of real and fiction.

In the end, they don’t manage to find her ex and Mircea convinces her to move on.

Several days later, Dana gets a call from her ex’s mother and she finds out he did end up dying. She feels free and ready to live in the moment with Mircea.

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Razvan Badea

Born: June 17th 1986

Education - Copenhagen University – Faculty of Science, Mas- ter’s Degree in Bioinformatics (2010-2012) - Politehnica University of Bucharest, Faculty of Computer Science and Control Engineering (2005- 2009)

Experience - ‘Lonely Kangaroo’ 2014 – Short (In production) - Shorts TV The Pitch 2014 (Bucharest, Romania) – with the short ‘Falling Stars’, co-written with Roxana Andrei - Bucharest Script Lab 2013 (Bucharest, Romania) – ‘Licorice Dreams’ – feature film - Anim’est International Film Festival 2013 (Bucharest, Romania) - Volunteer - Rise of Euphoria Filmmaking Workshop 2013 (Helsinki, Finland) – ‘Propinquity’ short - Transilvania Talent Lab 2013 (Cluj, Romania) – Screenwriter Talent – ‘Play It Out’ - feature film - Next International Short Film Festival 2010, 2012-2014 (Bucharest, Romania) – Volunteer/ Host, Location Manager - CPH:DOX Documentary Film Festival 2012 – Supervolunteer - Next International Short Film Festival 2012 (Bucharest, Romania) – Volunteer/Host - CPH:DOX 2011 Documentary Film Festival – Volunteer - ‘Asenzie’ Screenwriting Contest 2011 (Bistrita, Romania) – Winner for ‘Look at All Those Mul- berries!” - HBO National Screenwriting Contest 2009 (Cluj, Romania) – Nominated for ‘Sunny Rain’ - Ion Manu Screenwriting Contest 2009 (Otopeni, Romania) – Nominated for ‘Jellery Whymde and Absolute Power’

Languages - English - fluent - French - fluent

Interests: - Cooking : trying out new recipes and cuisines and sharing them with friends - Traveling : discovering new cultures and sights, cultural exchange through couchsurfing, being atour guide in unknown places for friends and family - Cinema : watching films, screenwriting, documentaries

59 THE LOOP Selected Projects Writer/Producer: Yusuf Alper Akın Director/Producer: İbrahim Sırdaş Yıldız

The film is about a man who doesn't remember anything except last three years. In the last three years, he couldn't find any clue about his life and he couldn't find anybody familiar. The man can foresee some parts of his future in his dreams, but he is unable to control these dreams and doesn't know when they will come true. He tries to find his past with the guide of clues from the future. The most frequently seen dream is “a man in front of a desolated house”. In the first part of the film the man is mostly introvert. We hear from the man's voiceover about his perspective about the other lives and his own life as he spends time in different places. In this period he rejects to communicate with other people and lives in his own world. In this journey he meets some characters who will give direction to his life. One of these is a neighbour with whom they will build a mother-child relationship later on. He finds a therapist with the help of his dreams and they play mind games continously then he has an emotional relationship with the secretary of the therapist. In this part he gives up spending time to look for his unremembered past and tries to settle into a new life. One day, he goes to the therapist's house for medical reasons and he learns that both the man and the therapist have the same tattoo and there is an unknown relation in between and, terrified enough, he gets out of the house. The therapist gets the order from the organisation to get out of the man's life and she gets out of his life taking her secretary with her with the order of erasing the secretary's memories. Meanwhile, the neighbour's mother passes away and the neighbour leaves the town, too which means that the man is alone again. In this while though he can't control what he can see in his dreams, he learns how to elicit more detailed information thanks to a book, again inspired by one of the dreams. Now he starts controlling that ‘man in front of a desolated house” and he manages to reach the house. He discovers that he is the one in those dreams by living the same scene. He finds out some clues regarding a murder of a woman at the house. Then, in another dream he sees, he reaches a businessman. The businessman tells the man what he knows, and tells that only thing he knows is that he has hit to the man and woman's car in an accident, the woman has died in the accident and he has given some money to the man to conceal this incident. At the desolated house to where he has come with the businessman the man starts to talk and ask more, after them the policeman comes into the house and after that they see the woman in front of them, the woman shoots at the businessman and kills him. The woman in- troduces herself as the twin sister who has come for revenge.The man sees himself in front of the woman at the desolated house, he finds the house with the help of his dreams and goes to the house where the woman lives. The woman firstly confesses that she isn't the twin sister but the woman who is thought to be dead. She tells that, firstly she was sent to take him to the organisation and when a love has started between them this time she tried to take him away from the organisation without explaining the organisation to him, and she requested him to control his dreams for the escape plan from the organisation. She continues to tell that he has shot her accidentally in that house, as they were trying to reach the hospital the businessman hit to their car accidentally, everyone thought that she was dead but the organisation took her from the hospital, cured and saved. The woman continues to tell that as far as she knows he has taken money from the businessman to conceal the event and she has been hating him for this reason. In these scenes there is “the mentor” whose voice is heard and who controls and gives orders to the organisation, as well as a blind man and dog the man sees in different times. In the last but one scene we learn that these the people are the same. The mentor tells the man a different reality. In this reality, the man has nothing to do with the organisation, the woman wasn't sent to him to make him a member of the organisation but she was there for them to fall in love, the mentor has designed controlled and destined incidents, the money supplier was not the businessman but the mentor himself, and the man will learn to control to see the future in the way he does in time. Throughout the film, the reality the man reveals is very different as the businessman, the woman and the mentor tell different stories and there is a clue that the ultimate reality could be another reality untold. In the last scene of the film, the man finds the woman in a memory-erased state and tells the woman that he will tell everything she is curious about. The man starts to take first steps of becoming the next mentor and the loop goes on.

1 60 Selected Projects

Yusuf Alper Akın

Birth Date, Year: 19 October 1981, Ankara

Education 1987-1991 Kurtulus Primary School, Ankara 1991-1998 TED Ankara College, Ankara. 1998-2004 Gazi University Medical Faculty, Ankara

Residence: 2006-2011 Ankara University Medical Faculty, Neurology Residence 2011-2012 Eskişehir Military Hospital, Neurology Specialist 2012- Bilkent University, UMRAM, Neuroscience Researcher

Filmmaking Training: Spring 2010 Ankara Sinematek Foundation, Screenplay Workshop Summer 2011 Prag Film School Summer Filmmaking Workshop Winter 2013-2014 Ankara AFSAD Foundation, Photography Workshop

Previous Works: Little Things, Short Film-Screenplay & Director, Prag 2011 Portakal (Orange), Short Film-Screenplay, Eskişehir 2012 Pazartesi (Monday), Short Film-Screenplay, Eskişehir 2012 Karton Gemi (Carton Ship), Feature Film- Screenplay & Producer, Eskişehir, 2014

Screenplay (Screenplay Finished For Feature Filmmaking, Waiting For Production): Ev (The House), Ankara 2010 Döngü (The Loop), Ankara 2014 Dingo (Dingo), Ankara 2014 Vita, Mare et Natura, Ankara 2014 Köşe Kapmaca (Puss in the Corner), Ankara 2014

61 Selected Projects

İbrahim Sırdaş Yıldız

Born: 21 December 1982, Sivas

Education: 1989-1994 Emlak Kredi Primary School, Aksaray 1994-1997 Hazım Kulak Anatolian High School, Aksaray 1997-2000 Kızıltepe Anatolian High School, Mardin 2003-2010 İnonu University, Science- Literature Faculty, Mathematics, Malatya

Current Work: 2010 - Director, Producer in Lam Ajans, Ankara & Mardin 2013 - Theater Actor in Government Theater, Ankara

Acting History: Played in more than 30 acts in theater in lead role. (Such as; Play It Again, Sam, Run For Your Wife, The Painter, The Truck, ), 2003-2010 Played in TV – Series; Sıla : as İbrahim, 2009 Behzat Ç. : as Adem, 2013

Previous Works: Füga (The Fug) Short Film - Screenplay & Director, Malatya 2007 Arayış (Quest),, Short Film - Screenplay & Director, Malatya 2008 Portakal (Orange), Short Film - Director, Eskişehir 2012 Pazartesi (Monday), Short Film - Director, Eskişehir 2012 Karton Gemi (Carton Ship), Feature Film - Director & Producer, Eskişehir, 2014

Screenplay (Screenplay Finished For Feature Filmmaking, Waiting For Production): Evlat (The Son), Ankara, 2014 Off Road, Off Village, Ankara, 2014

62 Selected Projects

Çağdaş Yildiz

Photojournalist/Producer

03.10.2008 Photographer Ankara Mechanical Engineers Community The Exhibition “ Machine and Art”

04.06.2010 Photographer exhibiting his own work “ ses/sound” Mardin Mardin Bienal

10.11.2008 Photographer exhibiting his own works Çankaya University AFFK

2010 Photographer Ankara Cernmodern Workshop Sinemardin Organisation

2009 Organizer Photographer GAP Mardin Youth House Mardin Gapgenc Festival

2009 - … Photographer and photograph editing Studio Rebet, Ankara Studio Rebet, Ankara (my own studio)

Also, 2 other exhibitions still in progress

2011- ... Lam Agency Producer-Manager

2014 Karton Gemi (Carton Ship) Feature Film Producer - Cinematographer

63 Selected Projects

Çiğdem Ünsal Akın

Born: 30 September 1984, Ankara

Education: 1991-1995 Atatürk Primary School, Ankara

1995-1999 Cumhuriyet Anatolian High School, Kırşehir

1999-2002 Küçükçalık Anatolian High School, Kayseri

2002-2009 Ankara University Medical Faculty, Ankara

Current Work: 2012 - Numune Research and Training Hospital, Family Medicine Residence Training, Medical Doctor

Previous Works: Portakal (Orange), Short Film – Art Director, Eskişehir 2012 Karton Gemi (Carton Ship), Feature Film – Story Inspiration for Screenwriting, Eskişehir, 2014

Major Interests: 2009 - Semi-Professional Tango Dancer

64 Selected Projects

THE ONE WITHOUT A SCRIPT Writer: Alpgiray M. Ugurlu Producer: Umut Bayoglu

The human being, receiving the scripts left at his door, lives according to them. It isn't known where, by whom and how the scripts're written. And no other has the conscience to question this.

One morning, copywriter Özgür Başarır (33) doesn't receive his script at his door. This situation, which he thinks as an ordinary mistake, becomes a chaos that continues growing.

The first day script doesn't come. He goes to work the next day, but his ID card is invalid. He is taken under custody after he fights to get in. The crazy man he meets under custody is driven out of the system like him. His talk to the crazy man makes Özgür think that he has two ways to get off the situation he's in; he'll either enter the system back or make the system collapse.

Özgür goes to his father to learn about his past. After the things his father tells him, he goes to the grave of his mother. One think strikes him, all of the graves have the same size. He gets suspicious and digs the grave of his mother and he sees that it is empty.

Özgür goes back home but cannot enter. There are other people living in his home. The only person he can go is his close friend Kemal. Although he believes in Özgür's story, Kemal is scared of defying the system and drives Özgür away from his house.

Wandering around in the streets without knowing what to do, Özgür finds a deserted restaurant. He rests here for a while, eats and hides. Observing the outside from the restaurant, he realizes how helpless people are and faces the fact that he's one of them and decides to de- stroy the system. He prepares a romantic dinner for Ayşe, his girlfriend and starts his actions by making believe the person closest to him.

At the dinner table, although things go smoothly at first, Ayşe cannot say anything outside the script. Özgür's unable to wake Ayşe up from her sleep and goes back to his father's house in disappointment. They talk about their past with his father. After this conversation Özgür learns that he does not have a past.

Özgür sees that his father's script does not come at the door and notices that his father is dead. He hides away from the officers that come to fetch his father's dead body and finds himself outside again.

Without knowing where to go, after a few days of watching the things around him, he enters into the yard of a luxurious house that he finds. He hides. When the "father of the house" opens the door, Özgür kills him. He wears his clothes and disguises as him. Özgür is now the father of the house.

As if nothing happened, he has breakfast with the family. Everyone acts according to the script. Özgür is caught by officers when he steps outside to go to work.

The system, which replaces Özgür with another father, abandons Özgür in the middle of the desert after a long journey. Özgür is now alone in the middle of nothingness.

65 Selected Projects

Alpgiray M. Ugurlu

Born in Manisa, 1983.

Graduated from Istanbul Technical University Civil Engineering and Istanbul Bilgi University Film and Television Master. He is currently studying Proficiency in Art in Beykent University.

He received several awards for his short films since 2005.

Also directed music video clips and commercials.

His first feature "Overture" was screened in 32th Istanbul Film Festival, 50th Golden Orange Festival (Antalya) in competition, Jagran Film Festival 2013 (Mumbai), and 13th Frankfurt Turkish Film Festival.

He teaches film production during his academic life and works on his second feature.

66 Selected Projects

Umut Bayoglu

He studied Cinematography in Maltepe Univer- sity.

Worked as assistant director of photography and cinematographer for some projects.

Founded a production company for commercials. He still works on feature film projects.

67 Selected Projects

VEUX-TU M'ÉPOUSER Writer: George Ganea

COLLIN and GRAINNE have been together five years now and he’d like to know how she feels about marriage. She generally tells him that she doesn’t want to get married, but what if she’s waiting for him to pop the question and he can’t read the signs? And the signs start to show up. They go to a wedding and she has the time of her life. After a night of Halo and drinks, one of Collin’s friends advices him to get married. Fast. It only gets better!

He first checks online and after that goes to a jewellery store where he buys her a ring. On Doomsday he wakes up early and on a small patch of clean snow, right under their bedroom window, he draws a man kneeling and a lady in front of the man. He adds a message: Veux-tu m'épouser? When she wakes up, the municipality has cleaned the streets. Collin goes out and buys a blank puzzle and makes his drawing on it. Again, adds the message: Will you marry me? She refuses. He’s vexed. She climbs on a chair and takes down Collin’s suitcase. She throws him out.

MEGANNE is the teacher at the kindergarten in Grainne and Collin’s building. And she was also thrown out by her boyfriend, XOWIE. He brings her to the kindergarten in his taxi. He throws out her suitcases. One opens wide. Collin, who was sitting on the stairs, helps her. Meganne invites Collin to a party she organized for the kids. After the party, they share a hotel room. They stay up all night and talk and have fun and decide to move in together. Next day, on their way to the metro, Collin is punched from behind. Meganne is fixing his hair- style, his shirt. She kisses his forehead. She kisses his bruises.

Meganne goes to a speed dating event with her friends LORRAINE and MAKAYLA. The next day they share a taxi. Xowie, the driver, is one of the men both Meganne and Lorraine were supposed to date. Xowie asks Meganne to dinner. She accepts and they have great fun. After a while they move in together.

Xowie changes. After a big loss he comes home drunk and picks on his mother. Meganne finds her on the floor, next to the door, crying, while Xowie is sleeping fully dressed. Days later, Meganne leaves him sleeping and goes to prepare the party at the kindergarten. She spends there all night. Xowie wakes up, can’t find her, gets drunk again.

When she returns Xowie almost forces her into making sex. After he’s done he gets out of bed and he pulls down her suitcase: We’re done. Get dressed. You’re moving out. Back at the kindergarten Xowie throws out her suitcases. He drives around town, twice goes back to the kindergarten, without going in. Ends up at the betting parlour, looking at the events he bet on the previous day and finds out he got them all right!

Returns to the kindergarten, waits outside, sees the party ending and Meganne and Collin taking a taxi. Follows them to the hotel and sleeps in his car. Next morning he sees them come out, crosses the street and hits Collin. Back in his car he shows Meganne the money. They both cry. Meganne returns to Collin. They squeeze each other with power, like they’d want to become one: I have to go back to him. He’s going to lose all that money and in a few weeks he’s going to need me.

Meganne is back in Xowie’s taxi. He asks her to marry him. She says yes.

68 Selected Projects

George Ganea

BUCHAREST SCRIPT LAB DECEMBER 2013 - FEBRUARY 2014 Organized by ASceR; Held by Gareth Brookes

FINAL ACT NOVEMBER 2013 Screenplay; psychological thriller; 94 pages; English LOGLINE: Two years after being demoted for shooting a priest, a brilliant detective is given the case of a serial killer who uses his victims' corpses to enact Shakespeare plays.

VEUX-TU M'ÉPOUSER JANUARY 2013 Screenplay; romantic comedy; 89 pages; English LOGLINE: After being turned down and thrown out by his girlfriend, right when he was asking her to marry him, a young man falls in love with the kindergarten teacher from his building, a girl with a big heart and an ex-boyfriend with an addiction for betting, who wants her back.

SORICEII VERZI (GREEN MICE) SEPTEMBER 2012 Screenplay; con-artist comedy; 122 pages; Romanian & English LOGLINE: A sly young man wants to buy, for an American, mice from the locals in a village. Problems arise when the mayor wants to sell him all the mice he budgeted for and the mayor’s young girl falls in love with him.

LANT DE CRIME IN REGIE (CHAIN OF MURDERS IN REGIE) JANUARY 2011 Screenplay; psychological thriller; 107 pages; Romanian LOGLINE: A smart psychiatrist, with huge professional success, discovers that he takes amazing, artistic photos, when one of his students is killed by a mental patient.

TE LAUD, BARZA (I PRAISE YOU, STORK) APRIL 2010 – Poetry collection

INTRE DOUA... (BETWEEN TWO...) APRIL 2010 - Novel

FUMATUL INTERZIS! (NO SMOKING!) JULY 2009 – Short stories collection

69 Selected Projects

WISHING FOR TIME TO STAND STILL Writer/Director: Elena Trapé Co-writer: Miguel Ibáñez Producer: Marta Ramirez

Olivia, Eloy, Guille and Clarice arrive in Berlin with the intention of surprising Comas, a friend of theirs since they were teenagers, on his 35th birthday.

However, he doesn’t receive them as they expected: on the very first night he disappears without any explanations and won’t even pick up the telephone. The group’s expectations then start to crumble like a house of cards.

Overwhelmed by her impending motherhood and the forced turn her life is about to take, Olivia wants to have a break, to forget for a few days about the stress and pre-maternal pres- sures brought about by the relationship with her love partner. In Berlin she will find a re- newed passion to recover an old love of hers: in Comas’s house she finds a written agreement which both of them signed fifteen years back whereby they both committed themselves to be together when they turned thirty-five.

Although the personal relationship between Clarice and Guille couldn’t be worst at this point in time, she agrees to accompany him on this journey in the hope of remembering why she fell in love with him. For his part, Guille, in a headlong rush forward, plans to ask Clarice to marry him. When she rejects him, he will have to rethink his life.

For Eloy, being again together with his friends means reliving the happiest days of his life, the days when he was a teenager without worries. And yet, soon enough he will start to feel iso- lated and ignored.

Comas has managed to live a life that isn’t as desirable as he would like it to be, though thanks to it he needn’t be held accountable towards anyone for his acts. He has just broken up with Marion, a German girl who is younger than him, and feels disappointed: the expectations he had when he arrived in Berlin haven’t been fulfilled. And that surprise visit his friends have planned just highlights his feelings of failure.

During that weekend and separately, the four friends will have to confront the disappointment brought about by the fact that they must accept that their lives aren’t what they expected them to be like when they were younger.

70 Selected Projects

Elena Trapé

Writer/director

After getting her in Art History by the UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), and having coursed a master in Cultural Management in 2000, Elena Trapé entered in the ESCAC (Escola Superior de Cin- ema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya) determined to be a film director.

In 2004 she graduated in Cinema Direction with her graduating project I don’t want the night, her first short film in 35mm, for which she received several awards. Pyja- mas (2008) was her second short film in 35mm.

The downfall was her first TV film, shooted in summer 2008 and nominated on the best TV film category at the 2009 Gaudi’s awards.

In 2010 her first feature film, Blog, was released at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Zabaltegi Section) winning the Otra Mirada Award and nominated as Best Break- out Director at the CEC Prizes (Circle of Cinematographic Critics).

Professionally she combines her activity as a professor in ESCAC with the development of her own fiction projects and the advertisement direction in different productions companies.

Wishing for time to stand still is her second feature film project. www.elenatrape.com

71 Selected Projects

Miguel Ibáñez Monroy

Writer

Miguel graduated at ESCAC in 2000, having focused mainly on screenplay writing.

Apart from several television programmes (“Més Dinamita (More Dynamite)”, “La Luai el món” (Lua and the World), etc, he worked as a playwright with the company Comediants as a co-writer of the theatre projects: “Skribo, una aventura caligráfica,” and “Perséfone, variaciones mortales”, both premiered in 2011.

In the field of fiction he has written the scripts for the TV movie projects “Elsmiralls de la Nit” (Mirrors of the Night), produced by Marta Figueras and based on the novel of the same name by Jordi Sierra, and “Agost” (August), produced by Ovideo. Both projects are in development.

Currently, he is also working for Zentropa Spain, writing the script of the screen adaptation of the novel “El año de la Plaga,” by Marc Pastor (published by RBA).

In 2012 he was selected in the Media “AdaptLab” workshop, focused on the screenplay adaptation of novels.

72 Selected Projects

Marta Ramirez

Founded in 2014, Coming Soon is a production company aimed at producing fiction feature films, documentaries and TV movies.

Coming Soon will be focusing on the production of independent films by young authors and directors with a new and original outlook, who are open to the public and keen on being present in leading festivals. Coming Soon will seek coproductions with European and Latin Ameri- can companies to implement projects aimed at the International market.

With over fifteen years’ experience in the sector, Marta Ramírez is the executive producer of Coming Soon.

After studying Audiovisual communication she started working as production and postproduc- tion coordinator. She has worked in several production companies like Oberon Cinematogràfica and Rodar y Rodar, having participated in the production of films such as “La por” (The fear), directed by Jordi Cadena (Valladolid Film Festival), “Dictado” (Childish games), directed by Antonio Chavarrías (Berlin Festival – Official Section), “La teta asustada” (The milk of sorrow), directed by Claudia Llosa (nominated for the Oscar for best foreign language film – Golden Berlin Bear), “Elisa K”, by Judith Colell & Jordi Cadena (San Sebastian Festival – Official Section. Special Jury Award) and “El orfanato” (The Orphanage), by Juan Antonio Bayona, amongst many others.

73 Awards

At the end of the program, the two projects displaying the greatest potential will go on to participation in Mannheim Meeting Place - the co-production market at IFF Mannheim Heidel- berg (November 2014 – www.iffmh.de/en) or the When East Meets West at IFF Tri- este (January 2015 - http://www.wemw.it/).

The Mannheim Meeting Place (MMP) is perhaps the only co-production market in the world that takes start-up arthouse film producers on a co-production matching experience that can last up to 10 weeks each year. It begins each August for a deadline in November. (2014: 10th to 13th November).

Once MMP Project Outlines (pitches written specifically for co-producers) are completed, (* see Co-Producer Guide- lines at http://www.iffmh.de/mannheim-meeting-place/ producer-guidelines-2014) they are sent to relevant minor- ity producers and experts around the world for feedback and improvement. This provides a natural selection proc- ess that determines a place at MMP Mannheim Heidelberg in November 2014.

MMP Residents (industry experts) include world professionals from the Production, Legal, Financial, Literary, Music, Sales, Acquisition and other film industry sectors – so knowledge, talent and feedback are present throughout.

WHEN EAST MEETS WEST is organized by the FVG Audiovisual Fund and the Trieste Film Festival, in collaboration with EAVE, EURIMAGES, and the support of MEDIA Programme, Direzione Centrale per il Cinema – MIBAC and CEI.

The main aim is to bring together every year financiers, decision makers and film professionals coming from Eastern European countries, Italy and another selected Western European region (a different one every year). After a first focus on the French film industry in 2011, the Nordic countries in 2012, the 2013 encour- aged and build up new important connections with the German speaking countries.

WHEN EAST MEETS WEST will include two different actions: 1. Pitching for 20 selected projects; 2. East West Film Forum – framework programme with round tables, presentations, case studies; A special committee formed by EAVE experts and FVG Audiovisual Fund representatives will select 20 projects – feature films and documentaries – in development coming from Eastern Europe, Italy and the German speaking countries. All selected producers will pitch their projects to a large panel of decision makers attending the event and will have the opportunity to set individual meetings. The main aim is to set up a platform where it is possible to meet funds representatives, commissioning editors, sales agents and possible co-producers from both sides of Europe.

Along with the pitching and one-to-one meetings, the East West Film Forum will offer the possibility to explore and know in detail the Eastern and Western audiovisual landscapes through round tables, presentations and case studies. The main goal is to offer a complete and detailed overview of both film industries (with a focus for this 2013 edition on the Ger- man speaking countries), so to offer to all participants the chance to fully understand the co- production and distribution possibilities. 74 Bucharest Information

Location Attractions Bucharest is the capital of Romania. It is the Old Town (Historic Center) largest city in Romania, located in the south- Old Court Palace and Church (Open 10:00 east of the country, on the banks of the Dam- - 18:00) - The Old Court, first built on this bovita River, less than 70 kilometres (43 mi) site in the second part of the 15th-century north of the Danube River. by Vlad Ţepeş, was considerably extended during the 16th-century, by Mircea Cioba- Climate nul, and again a century later, by Constan- The climate is temperate and continental, with tin Brancoveanu, who added a splendid four distinct seasons. The average annual tem- voievodal palace, decorated with marble and perature is 11 °C (52 °F) in the South. Spring icons. The palace was partially destroyed by is pleasant with cool mornings and nights and a series of fires in the 19th century however, warm days. and subsequently neglected. Next door to the palace is the Old Court Church, dating Time from 1545. Romania is in the Eastern European Time By the middle of the 17th century the area Zone: GMT + 2 hours. around the old palace was Bucharest mer- chant district, which it to all intents and Population purposes remained until the end of World War II, when many of the rightful owners of Approximately 96.6% of the population of Bu- the houses and businesses which lined the charest is Romanian. Other significant ethnic area’s streets were arrested by the commu- groups are Hungarian, Jewish, Gypsy, Turk, nist authorities, and their property confis- Chinese, German, Greek, Italian. cated and left to rot. The entire area - viewed as being far too bourgeous for communist Language tastes - was then neglected for decades. The official language in Romania is Romanian. Lipscani Streeet gets its name from the Hungarian, German, English, French are also large number of traders who, in the 18th understood and widely spoken. Romania is a century, sold wares here brought from Leip- full member of La Francophonie. zig, which at the time was one of the largest trading posts in Europe. Religion 86.7% of the country's population is Orthodox Stavropoleos Monastery, built in 1724 by the Greek monk Ioanikie Stratonikeas. Christian. Other major Christian denomina- tions include Protestantism (5.2%), Roman Ca- It’s worth checking out the Glassblower’s tholicism (4.7%) and the Romanian Greek- Courtyard (Curtea Sticlarilor; 9-11, Selari Catholik Church (0.9%). Str. ) a former inn now put to good use as an artisan’s workshop and as the home of a Currency Exchange couple of decent bars and pubs. National currency: Leu (RON) Today packed with cafes - most of which 1 Euro = 4.47 RON offer hookah pipes and exotic tobaccos - 1 USD = 3.23 RON Pasajul Macca-Vilacrosse was built in 1891 as a conduit between Calea Victoriei – then Communications the busiest street in the city – and the Na- To call Bucharest from abroad: +40 tional Bank. This was Bucharest’s first shopping mall. Emergency Casa Poporului - House of the People-is Free-of-charge call from any phone: 112. the world's largest civilian building, most expensive administrative building and heavi- Power Supply est building. Costa Gavras shot scenes of The current is 220 volts AC, 50 Hz, European- the film Amen in the Palace, meant to repre- style 2-pin plugs are in use. sent the Vatican.

Cismigiu Gardens - next to the old town 75