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1 PITCHBOOK 2016 CONNECTING COTTBUS TABLE of CONTENTS East West Co-Production Market at the Filmfestival Cottbus PITCH PITCHBOOK 2016 CONNECTING COTTBUS east west co-production market at the FilmFestival Cottbus BOOK 1 PITCHBOOK 2016 CONNECTING COTTBUS TABLE OF CONTENTS east west co-production market at the FilmFestival Cottbus TABLE OF CONTENTS › HORNET IN A BOTTLE Background Films s.r.o., Czech Republic ................................................... 3 › THE HEIRS Film and Media Production ZaFilm, Germany / Amondo Films, Poland ..................... 6 › WHITE WIDOWS DCM Pictures GmbH, Germany ............................................................. 9 › WITH RULES Transfax Films Production, Israel ......................................................... 12 › SISTER List Production, Macedonia .............................................................. 15 › THE RETURN East Studio / Opus Film, Poland .......................................................... 18 › BERLINER Mandragora, Romania .................................................................... 21 › STRAWBERRY JAM IGNIS, Serbia / Masterplan Pictures, Denmark ............................................ 24 › SAF Terminal Film, Turkey ..................................................................... 27 › VOROSHILOVGRAD Limelite, Ukraine / Film Brut GmbH, Switzerland ......................................... 30 › PINKLER Campfilm, Hungary ....................................................................... 33 › Imprint .................................................................................... 36 2 PITCHBOOK 2016 CONNECTING COTTBUS HORNET IN A BOTTLE east west co-production market at the FilmFestival Cottbus HORNETBACKGROUND FILMS S.R.O., CZECH IN REPUBLIC A BOTTLE PRODUCER AUTHOR / DIRECTOR Mikulas Novotny Vit Zapletal PRODUCERS: BUDGET: Mikulas Novotny, Radim Prochazka estimated production costs: € 1,200,000 financing already in place: € 10,000 AUTHOR: Vit Zapletal PARTNERS ALREADY ATTACHED: Czech Cinematography Fund (development support) DIRECTOR: Vit Zapletal LOOKING FOR: co-producers, funds, financiers DIRECTOR‘S PREVIOUS WORK: DUST OF THE GROUND (fiction feature, 2015, 98 min) CONTACT: https://vimeo.com/110694435 Mikulas Novotny & Martina Netikova (password: VIT) Background Films s.r.o. Korunni 1209/76 PROJECT DATA: Praha 10 genre: drama 101 00 length: 120 min Czech Republic shooting format: 2K (delivery: DCP) mobile: +420 777 910 290 (Mikulas) SUMMARY: email: [email protected] Jan is a young man in Communist Czechoslovakia of email: [email protected] the 1970‘s. To avoid being called up to the army, he web: www.backgroundfilms.cz takes refuge in a psychiatric clinic where he prepares to flee the country. Eventually, Jan must find out for himself whether it is possible to find real freedom within, or whether it is necessary to make a run for it and seek it elsewhere. 3 PITCHBOOK 2016 CONNECTING COTTBUS HORNET IN A BOTTLE east west co-production market at the FilmFestival Cottbus SYNOPSIS DIRECTOR’S NOTE — CSSR, 1972. 23-year-old Jan gets expelled from — The script for HORNET IN A BOTTLE has been written his university. His seemingly harmonious relationship with the aim of retaining as much historical authen- with the beautiful Helena is being undermined by the ticity as possible, as well as capturing the mood in apocalyptic mood of the day. They spend a blissful last Czech society at the beginning of the “normalisation evening together. process”, but, at the same time, looking to express more A few days later, Jan learns from the police that universal ideas. Helena has emigrated. His friend Zdenek tries to per- The original theme of freedom - where we fu- suade him to flee, too. In the end, Jan agrees, above all, sed the environment of the “loony-bin” with “totalita- because he would hate to waste two years as a con- rianism” - has developed over time and after circling script. They begin to communicate with a trafficker‘s around such concepts as fear, hatred, hope, justice and go-between. But everything is going at a snail‘s pace idiotic behaviour (in the sense of the original meaning and Jan has to take shelter as a fake patient at a Prague of the word from the Greek ‘idiótés‘ - an individual only psychiatric clinic to avoid the army. looking after his own interests and ignoring the needs of Initially, he isolates himself from the other pa- the community). This is, above all, a story of extricating tients, but, gradually, he listens to their life stories and, oneself from the malignant embrace of the feeling of a during long walks, reassesses his perception of his total lack of perspective and hopelessness, which is, of own situation. Zdenek informs him of the preparations course, a problem that also concerns many people today. on a regular basis, but then he disappears. Meanwhile, The rhythm of the storytelling is subjugated to Jan becomes friends with a mysterious patient called Jan‘s actual frame of mind and changes accordingly. Magda. During their strolls in the clinic‘s grounds, Thus, the first fifth of the film is sleepily serene, the they plan a trip. When they pick up his car, an irritated next fifth feels tense, the third fifth stagnant, the and paranoid Zdenek turns up after all, and gives Jan fourth laid-back and the final part (using a slight exag- the news: the original plan has come to nought and geration) is full of action. there is nothing left but to try and cross the border on You don‘t see a classically built plot here, but their own. Jan doesn‘t want to get involved in an ad hoc rather an exposure and catastrophe (with a catharsis) operation. Zdenek tries to convince him by describing that includes an essay occasionally refreshed by minor his recent interrogation at the hands of the Secret Police. attractions on the basis of props, minor characters and On their way to the Austrian border, Jan tries to parallel plots. dissuade him. He realises his friend is carrying a gun. But Zdenek insists. He picks a good spot. They leave Magda in the nearest town and carry on to the border by themselves. Jan agrees to go on if Zdenek throws his gun away. Zdenek promises, but wants to hang on PRODUCER‘S NOTE to the weapon for the time being, and, at the decisive moment, having wandered through a forest and arrived — We aim to attract the audience not only through at the barbed wire fence, he goes back on his word. Jan the cinematic quality of the project, but also with our tries to change Zdenek‘s mind one last time, but, in the chosen topics from history related to the Communist end, he lets Zdenek cross the border alone. A little later, past – our natural focus is therefore to find partners he hears shots, but there is no way for him to find out from the post-Communist countries of Central and what has happened to Zdenek. Eastern Europe. He gets back to the car and looks for Magda. He Although the story of our film takes place in drives aimlessly through the countryside. Here, psycho- Communist Czechoslovakia, we hope that it is not logically at rock bottom and at the end of his tether, he just the shared history (even nostalgia in many) that - paradoxically - finally feels free. makes HORNET IN A BOTTLE attractive for international 4 PITCHBOOK 2016 CONNECTING COTTBUS HORNET IN A BOTTLE east west co-production market at the FilmFestival Cottbus partners: It is a universal story about young people longing for freedom outside the structures of the soci- COMPANY PROFILE al order which they do not believe in - to say the least. Our second aim at connecting cottbus is to attract — A company bringing together the most prominent partners from Western European countries with suf- members of the emerging producer generation with ficiently diversified markets and where sophisticated well-known names. Background Films was founded cinema can find an audience, such as France, Germany, in 2011 by Mikulas Novotny and Klara Zaloudkova. the Netherlands or Italy, to some extent. As producers, they focus on the development and pro- In the near future, the Czech State Cinemato- duction of feature and documentary films with inter- graphy Fund will have more funds available than in national ambitions and of the highest artistic quality. the past. The composition of its council is also fa- Last year, Tomasz Milenik‘s debut, JOURNEY TO ROME, pre- vourable for ambitious projects like ours: its members miered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival are renowned experts who are determined to sup- in the East of the West section. Background‘s recent port the next generation of filmmakers and are not productions include the short documentary RESORT merely trying to satisfy the local audience‘s demand by Martin Hruby, which screened at Karlovy Vary in for mainstream products, but rather wanting to con- 2015, the upcoming feature documentaries HELENA‘S sider the cinematographic parameters for the best Eu- LAW by Petra Nesvacilova, and BLIND GULLIVER by Martin ropean arthouse production. We are going to apply for Rysavy, as well as Karel Vachek‘s film essay COMMUNISM € 300,000 for production support, which is a realistic (currently in production). amount. The interest in the subject matter and the Although Background Films is a relatively young project‘s director was already shown by the high ra- company, the list of members also includes the leading tings granted by the State Cinematography Fund when Czech producer Radim Prochazka, whose portfolio in- development support was awarded. cludes films by Robert Sedlacek or Karel Vachek, and Czech Television had already supported the di- who also focuses on young and debuting directors.
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