The New Cinema Network Introduction The 2014 edition of New Cinema Network, the Festival’s coproduction market, will present 27 international projects selected by the committee composed of Marco Müller, Marie-Pierre Duhamel and Laura Buffoni, together with the staff of NCN. This year’s edition will feature quality, international projects, a higher than ever number of attending producers from all over the world, and a range of awards. Once again, New Cinema Network is honoured to count on the participation of Eurimages - the Council of Europe’s Film Fund - which will delegate the NCN jury to confer the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award : a cash prize of 30,000 Euro to the project most in line with the principles of collaboration and coproduction that inspire Eurimages. This year’s Eurimages jury for NCN is: Marie-Pierre Duhamel: film critic and film translator, she teaches at the French film school La Fémis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and other film schools. She worked for CNC, La Sept/ARTE and Centre Pompidou, and is a programmer for various international film festivals. Sandra Hebron: she is a freelance film consultant with over twenty years of experience in independent film exhibition, and is the board member of numerous arts and cultural organizations. She was the Artistic Director of the BFI London Film Festival from 2003-2011, as well as Cinemas Director of Manchester’s Cornerhouse. Elena Kotová: as scriptwriter, script editor and presenter for Czechoslovak (later Slovak) Television in Bratislava, she was the author of over 300 programs. She was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Kinofilm and was head of acquisitions for the distribution companies Remake and Itafilm. From 2005-2007, as creative producer, she made the documentary series within the program EQUAL of the European Union. Between 2009 and 2012 she was the script reader for Eurimages, and in 2012 she became the Czech national coordinator for Eurimages. This year’s edition will not only feature a larger number of projects than the past years, but it will also introduce a new set of prizes. Among them, the UNICEF Italia Special Mention , in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Convention on children’s rights. This Special Mention will be awarded to the Italian project that most effectively and delicately gives a voice and a face to children’s rights everywhere. The synergy between a talent platform like NCN and UNICEF Italia, which has always had special consideration for the relationship between culture, creativity and children’s rights, wants to support initiatives that will be able to promote knowledge as a key for freedom and growth, both in individuals and society as a whole. Finally, thanks to the new collaboration with Cubix International, this year New Cinema Network will also feature the Cubix International Award : a 5,000 Euro cash prize awarded to the best emerging European producer. The award is funded by Cubix International to support a production during its delicate phase of project development. 136 NCN ProjECtS Argentina Break Hernán Guerschuny ProjECt INForMAtIoN Synopsis Director’s Profile Company Profile During the four days of the Easter weekend, three couples and their children gather Hernan Guerschuny majored in film directing at CIC HC Films SrL original title in the countryside. In these four days we'll see the combination of the various (Centre of Film Investigation) and has a Social Haciendo Cine has 19 years of experience as a company Recreo components of the modern-day upper middle class generation of forty-something- Communications degree from the University of of cultural products and contents in Argentina. It was English title year-olds: children of divorce, psychoanalyzed, crossed by the new age of hyper Buenos Aires. Since 1995 he has directed the film founded by filmmakers Hernán Guerschuny and Pablo Break communication. Deep reflections on the search for “meaning”, blended with shallow Screenplay by business magazine Haciendo Cine. As a film director Udenio. In 1995 they founded Haciendo Cine, a leading ambitions and various anxieties will come together in an unusual context: a field Hernán Guerschuny, he’s been experimenting with short films for many magazine publication about the film industry in Latin Jazmín Stuart flown by hot air balloons, troubled by the mysterious death of a dog, and watered by years. In 2006 his short film La Cita won the Telefe America. Since 2001, they organize courses and Format litres of good red wine . The escaping time, the midlife pending matters, the Contest (local TV network) and the AXN Film Festival. seminars with professionals of the industry, including HD repressed wild sides, the duality of family life, the fantasy of running away and His feature film debut came in 2014 with The Critic . Pablo Trapero and Alejandro Agresti. Shooting Language returning to adolescence, success and failure, competition, appearances, the ghost of Guerschuny is currently in pre-production for his next Since 2009 they have organized and selected projects Spanish old age and death, the comfort of bourgeois life, the drugs and rock and roll. film project Break . that will be involved in the section “Primer Corte“ of Main Locations the film market of Ventana Sur. As a production Capilla del Señor, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2014 the Critic company, HC Films has produced several commercials, Director’s Statement FEATURE FILM documentaries and TV shows. The company has also The scenes in Break will seek as much realism as possible, in a way that will identify a 2006 La Cita managed the distribution of Argentinean films from generation of people in their 40’s that have common concerns. In order to achieve this, SHORT FILM fellow Argentinean directors like Santiago Giralt and Main Producer there will be an emphasis on working closely with the actors to find the characteristics HC Films Telefe Contest: Best Short Film Award Pablo Fendrik. and particularities of each character. The choice of the actors is as important as the AXN Film Festival: Best Short Film Award HC Films has acquired the rights to adapt Abzurdah , Bonpland 1343 7° “C“ characters in the film, which were written with specific actors in mind. The film will be 1414 Buenos Aires the bestselling novel by Cielo Latini, into a motion shot with two cameras. The coverage will be nervous but decisive, seeking the picture. In early 2014 they premiered their first feature Argentina combination between realism and the aesthetics offered by the countryside location. Ph. +54 1147759072 film The Critic written and directed by Hernan The photography will represent different moments with different looks. The first, more Guerschuny, and produced by Pablo Udenio. pablou pastel-like with less contrast, when the families enjoy their weekend; the second with @haciendocine.com.ar more contrast and stronger lighting, for when the problems start to arise. The air- balloons sequence will serve as a visual rest from this increasingly oppressive world. Estimated budget The music won’t highlight the situation, only a few songs from the 80’s will serve as an € 400.398 element to show a world where sex, drugs and baby milk bottles can co-exist. Financing in place € 281.050 Financiers/partners already involved INCAA (Argentina ): € 226.654 Alta Definicion Argentina SA (Argentina ): € 27.198 Zub Sonido (Argentina ): € 27.198 138 139 NCN ProjECtS Austria Angelo Markus Schleinzer ProjECt INForMAtIoN Synopsis Director’s Profile Company Profile Angelo is the story of an African man sold into slavery and sent to Europe, where he Born in Vienna in 1971, Markus Schleinzer worked as a Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion GmbH original title receives his eponymous name through the holy sacrament of baptism. The story casting director from 1994 to 2010, contributing to five Based in Vienna, Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion Angelo begins in 1720 in Messina, and will find its symbolic ending in the 1848 October television series, including Kommissar Rex und Julia – has, since its creation in 1995, produced dozens of Screenplay by Revolution in Vienna. die Bezirksrichterin , as well as some fifty feature films, projects for film and television. Markus Schleinzer It is the story of a man who, with a career unusual for his time, went from being Format among which Jessica Hausner's Lovely Rita , Hotel and With both advertising and film departments, the object to subject, to object again. It is a story about obtaining identity in a time ARRI RAW, DCP Lourdes , Ulrich Seidl's Dog Days , Shirin Neshat's company produces theatrical features, documentaries, Shooting Language marked by roll-playing and conformity. The protagonist lives a life entirely dedicated Women without Men , and Michael Haneke's The Piano television series, ads and corporate films. In addition French, German, to the needs of others; the story of a servant is always the story of his masters. Teacher, The Time of the Wolf , and, most recently, to international co-productions with Germany, France, Italian, Czech Angelo is an “exotic” foreigner who, recognizably so, cannot operate in incognito but casting the children's roles for Haneke's The White Great Britain, Italy and various East-European Main Locations Austria, who nonetheless uses his only means available – his servitude to others- to move Ribbon . Michael , his feature film debut as director and countries, it has also been behind a number Czech Republic, Italy, ahead; to progress farther than anyone would have ever thought possible. scriptwriter, premiered in competition at the Cannes of low-budget first feature productions. Germany Film Festival in 2011, and has been sold in numerous Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion coproductions has territories and garnered many prizes at festivals participated in competition at festivals such as Berlin, Director’s Statement around the world. Toronto, Sarajevo, Locarno, San Sebastian, Montréal Angelo Soliman is a semi-mythical figure from Viennese history, whose fame extends and Moscow, among others.