VENICE GAP – FINANCING MARKET BOOK OF PROJECTS FICTION AND DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILMS VR, INTERACTIVE, WEB AND TV SERIES 01 – 03.09.2017 www.labiennale.org VENICE GAP– FINANCING MARKET BOOK OF PROJECTS FICTION AND DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILMS VR, INTERACTIVE, WEB AND TV SERIES 74. Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica Cinema Department Director Venice Gap-Financing Market La Biennale di Venezia Alberto Barbera VR, Interactive, Web and its collaborators and TV Series for Book of Projects The Venice Production Bridge welcomes the Cinema Department Valentina Bellomo th Managing Director Consultants Erika Giorgianni 47 selected teams and their projects to the 4 Luigi Cuciniello Lucas Rosant Elena Mantoan Eva Morsch Kihn Chiara Marin Venice Production Bridge Sara Mazzucchi edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market Pascal Diot Collaborators Alessandro Mezzalira Savina Neirotti Violetta Bava Nikolas Montaldi Paolo Bertolin Since last year, the Venice Gap-Financing Market has expanded to host a larger number of projects [email protected] Matthieu Darras across different audiovisual forms. A total of 47 projects have been selected for this years' edition: www.labiennale.org Giacomo Durzi Francesco Giai Via feature fiction and documentary films, TV & web series and VR films. Elena Pollacchi Michel Reilhac Our hope was that this would bring variety, diversity, and the possibility for many decision makers that Liz Rosenthal were usually working only in one field to crossover to another, building bridges – as the new name of Jane Williams the Venice market suggests. We are proud to say that this has happened – and that in addition to the many feature films that in the past 3 years have closed their financing here in Venice and have then gone on to premiere at festivals worldwide, we can also celebrate the completion of documentaries, web series and virtual reality films. Another goal was to increase the number of eligible countries and present projects from all over the world while maintaining a strong focus on Europe, recognizing and celebrating co-productions between our continent and the others. We are pleased this year to welcome the first Chinese project in our selection, and a further 13 projects from 10 non-European countries. We have also worked to connect further the Venice Gap-Financing Market with the Festival and Biennale’s training activities – Biennale College Cinema & Virtual Reality. For this edition, the number projects has increased to 47, welcoming the 7 VR projects developed during the first edition of the Biennale College VR. The Festival is also increasing the activities of the VR theatre to host the first ever VR competition – Venice VR. Please welcome the 47 selected projects and their teams: 17 fiction films, 8 documentaries, 10 Virtual Reality projects, 5 TV series, and 7 Biennale College VR projects. During 3 intense days in Venice, they will meet with a large number of producers, private and public financiers, banks, distributors and sales agents, TV commissioners, Internet and video-platforms, institutions and post-production companies. Finally, let us celebrate the support of Creative Europe, through its MEDIA programme, that has accompanied the Venice Gap-Financing Market in the past 3 years. Pascal Diot Savina Neirotti Head of Venice Production Bridge VPB Content Curator Thanks to Db Logic S.r.l. Festival Scope The Book of Projects for 2017 has been edited using the information assembled by July 12th, 2017. The Venice Production Bridge may not be held responsible for possible errors. Fiction 8 Al-Taqareer An Sarah Wa Saleem (The Reports on Sarah and Saleem) 10 All the Pretty Little Horses 12 Bodyguard of Lies 14 Brighton 4 16 Cook, Fuck, Kill 18 Delphine D. 20 Di Pian (Shan Shui) 22 Die Adern Der Welt (The Veins of the World) 24 Etz Te'ena (Fig Tree) 26 Inzomnia 28 Irene 30 Ospite, L' (The Guest) 32 Rafiki (Friend) 34 Ragazza dei Sogni, La (The Dream Girl) 36 Road Kill 38 Science of Fictions, The 40 Yom Adaatou Zouli (The Day I Lost My Shadow) Documentaries 44 Až Přijde Válka (When the War Comes) 46 Bisbee '17 48 Cassandro the Exotico 50 Ciudad Oculta, La (The Hidden City) 52 Mitra 54 Storia di B. La Scomparsa di mia Madre (Story of B. The Disappearance of my Mother) 56 Village, Le (The Village) 58 What Walaa Wants Virtual Reality 62 7 Lives 64 Amrita 66 Escape VROOM 68 Kinshasa Now 70 Kruvinasis Sekmadienis VR (Bloody Sunday VR) 72 Lights VR 74 Melita Part 2 76 Passager (Passenger) 78 Tornado 80 Whitehats TV Series 84 Deniat na Bashtata (Father's Day) 86 Different Nature, Of a 88 Narcoamérica 90 Trauma 92 Virgen Roja, La (The Red Virgin) Biennale College VR 96 Isang Araw Na May PagAsa (A Day With Hope) 98 Ishulen (Ice Cave) 100 Medemens, De (The Neighbour) 102 My Girl Matryoshka 104 On/Off 106 Petit Pion Noir, Le (The Little Black Pawn) 108 Spomenik (Monument) Fiction Muayad Alayan DIRECTOR Rami Alayan PRODUCER GOALS AT GAP-FINANCING MARKET Director's Statement Production Profile To find late-stage co-production Palestine, Netherlands, Germany, Mexico partners, world sales and explore At the heart of the film lies PalCine Productions is a financing possibilities through the truth about our capacity production company based investments, film funds and Al-Taqareer An Sarah Wa Saleem as human beings to connect in Bethlehem, Palestine. It cultural grants with one another despite our produces narrative feature, FEATURE The Reports on Sarah and Saleem HD, 120', colour differences and despite our documentary and short films in Muayad Alayan environments that are often addition to offering production BASED ON Original Screenplay by Rami Alayan designed to enforce our divisions. services to other local and LANGUAGES Jerusalem provides a perfect international groups, non-profit Arabic, Hebrew, English Director's Biography setting to explore these themes organizations, communities and Muayad Alayan is a film director and producer based in Palestine. LOCATIONS and will be incorporated in the institutions producing audio- West Bank, Jerusalem His first short filmLesh Sabreen premiered at Clermont-Ferrand in film as a character itself showing visual projects set in Palestine. BUDGET 2009. His directorial first featureLove, Theft and Other Entanglements, how it reacts to the social € 740.747 premiered at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival - Panorama drama affecting the lives of the Main Filmography FINANCING IN PLACE and was distributed in over 20 territories. € 620.747 characters and to the unfortunate 2016 – Love, Theft and Other circumstances that put them at Entanglements by Muayad PRODUCTION COMPANY Log-Line PalCine Productions (Palestine) the center of the existential fears Alayan, Berlin IFF – Panorama, The affair between a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman in CO-PRODUCTION of Israelis and Palestinians. The Edinburgh IFF, Dubai IFF KeyFilm (Netherlands), Manderley Jerusalem takes a dangerous political turn leaving them to deal with film will leave the audience with 2012 – Sacred Stones (Doc) by Films (Germany), Mono Films (Mexico) more than their broken marriages. a sense of hope that despite Muayad Alayan and Laila Higazi, PARTNERS everything humans can connect Aljazeera Documentary Film Hubert Bals Fund – IFFR, Netherlands Synopsis Film Fund, World Cinema Fund – and stand with each other, not Festival Berlin IFF, Arab Fund for the Arts and Sarah and Saleem find in each other the solace and refuge they need by ignoring the realities that set 2012 – Private Sun (Short) by Culture (AFAC), Palestinian Ministry of from their troubled relationships. They meet in the back of Saleem's them apart in the first place, Rami Alayan, Sofia IFF, Palm Culture Cinema Fund, MAD Solutions, delivery truck away from the eyes of their respective Israeli and Film Lab Palestine, See-Through-Films but by identifying their common Springs International Shortfest Palestinian communities in Jerusalem and behind the back of Sarah's SOLD TERRITORIES pains and quests and breaking Montreal World FF Arab Countries husband and Saleem's wife. When Saleem innocently invites Sarah for a from the divisive expectations to 2012 – Mute (Short) by Muayad drink at a bar, their troubles begin. Following a heated argument with a PROJECT STAGE do what's right. Alayan, Guanajuato IFF, Financing and pre-production politically connected man, Saleem is framed with false accusations that Athens IFF PREVIOUS WORK ON trigger Palestinian and Israeli authorities to arrest him. In the security- 2009 – Lesh Sabreen (short) FESTIVAL SCOPE paranoid setting of Jerusalem, Saleem faces suspicions that question Love, Theft and Other Entanglements by Muayad Alayan, Clermont his relationship with Sarah. Was Saleem running an illegal drug and Fernand FF, Aspen FF, Dubai FF prostitution ring? Or was he attempting to recruit Sarah as a spy for the CONTACTS DELEGATE PRODUCTION COMPANY Palestinians to extract information from her husband, a colonel in the Israeli army? Proving Saleem's innocence hinges on Sarah's ability to tell NAME / SURNAME the truth about their affair and face the consequences of her husband Muayad Alayan and Saleem's wife discovering their infidelity. PHONE / CELL PHONE +972 528089352 EMAIL [email protected] WEB palcine.net ADDRESS Al-Marj Street, Beit Sahour Bethlehem, Palestine 8 9 Michalis Konstantatos DIRECTOR Yorgos Tsourgiannis PRODUCER GOALS AT GAP-FINANCING MARKET Director's Statement Production Profile To seek additional partners and Greece, Germany, Netherlands funding primarily in the form of I was always interested in Horsefly Productions is the equity investment and to secure a observing the changes that production label of Athens-based world sales agent All the Pretty Little Horses people experience in their lives, producer, Yorgos Tsourgiannis. FEATURE Michalis Konstantatos especially the big, violent ones. Since its inception in 2004, it Video 4k, 90' approx, colour Changing a house or a country, has produced and co-produced BASED ON losing a job, wealth or someone a number of award-winning Original screenplay they love.