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UK FILMS FOR SALE EFM 2015 UK FILM CENTRE, STAND 38, EUROPEAN FILM MARKET, MARTIN GROPIUS BAU, NIEDERKIRCHNER STR 7, 10785 BERLIN TEL: + 49 30 209159 448 45 Years TThe Match Factory Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtney Thania Dimitrakopoulou +49 172 851 210 Genre: Drama 9 Director: Andrew Haigh [email protected] Status: Completed Market Office: MGB 32 Home Office tel: +49 221 539 709 0 Synopsis: There is just one week until Kate Mercer’s forty-fifth wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate. 47 Meters Down TAltitude Film Sales Cast: Vanessa Kirby Vicki Brown + 49 30 209 159 401 Genre: Thriller [email protected] Director: Johannes Roberts Market Office: MGB 136 Status: Pre-Production Home Office tel: +44 20 7478 7612 Synopsis: Twenty-something sisters Kate and Lisa are gorgeous, fun loving and ready for the holiday of a lifetime in Mexico. When the opportunity to go cage diving to view Great White sharks presents itself, thrill-seeking Kate jumps at the chance while Lisa takes some convincing. After some not so gentle persuading, Lisa finally agrees and the girls soon find themselves two hours off the coast of Huatulco and about to come face to face with nature's fiercest predator. But what should have been the trip to end all trips soon becomes a living nightmare when the shark cage breaks free from their boat, sinks and they find themselves trapped at the bottom of the ocean. With less than an hour of oxygen left in their tanks, they must somehow work out how to get back to the boat above them through 47 meters of shark-infested waters. 6Days66Years TMC Film Consultants Cast: Martin Landau, Tom Sizemore, Bobby Rhodes, Christopher Mili Cumic +44 7810 520 101 Lambert [email protected] Genre: Thriller Home Office tel: +44 7810 520 101 Director: Alex Madia Levi Status: Pre-Production Synopsis: A wealthy US businessman inherits a derelict estate following his grandfather's death. He soon discovers the manor was used during WWII by Nazi soldiers for satanic rituals; evil forces re-emerge 6 days, 66 years after the first ever killing in the woods Allies TParkland Pictures Cast: Chris Reilly, Edmund Kingsley, Julian Ovenden, Leon Vickers, Pierre-Louis Manes +44 779 432 7661 Matt Willis [email protected] Genre: Action/Adventure Market Office: UK Film Centre MGB 38 Director: Dominic Burns Home Office tel: +44 207 099 9212 Status: Completed Synopsis: August 1944. A team of British soldiers led by a US Captain are dropped behind enemy lines in France on a mission that could shorten the war. As nothing goes according to plan, commando Sgt Harry McBain and Cpt Gabriel Jackson know they must put aside personal animosity if the mission is to succeed. Inspired by true events, Allies tells the story of friendship and survival forged by war. Alone TGenesis Film Sales Cast: Damian Lewis Ben Colyer +44 7729 145 022 Genre: Science-fiction [email protected] Director: Kirk Weddell Market Office: UK Film Centre MGB 38 Status: Pre-Production Home Office tel: +44 20 3372 0998 Synopsis: A lone astronaut in an orbiting space station witnesses the Earth's destruction, he becomes caught in the resulting worm hole and gets catapulted back in time. He has just 24 hours to find out what happened and save mankind from annihilation. EFM 2015: UK Films for Sale 1 Angelica TPierpoline Films Cast: Jena Malone, Janet McTeer, Ed Stoppard, Tovah Feldshuh, Joyce Pierpoline +1 212 255 2340 Eliza Holland [email protected] Genre: Drama Market Office: Marriott Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein Home Office tel: +1 212 255 2340 Status: Completed Synopsis: In Victorian England, innocent shopgirl Constance falls in love with Dr. Joseph Barton, a medical researcher. They soon marry, but their intense passion is cut short. After the life-threatening birth of daughter Angelica, puritanical doctors order abstinence, condemning Constance for lascivious appetites. Sexual repression opens a rift between the young couple. Frustration leads to obsession and Constance becomes more and more protective of Angelica. Joseph's secrets fuel the growing conflicts. Then, late at night, the household begins to be disrupted by what appears to be a paranormal predator. The eerie nocturnal visits multiply, evermore menacing and vividly evoking Constance's deepest fears. With the help of staunch maid Nora, Constance reaches out to a spiritualist to cleanse the home of its terrors. But the arrival of charismatic Anne Montague brings even more complexities to the deteriorating Barton household. Constance places her deepest trust in Anne, and, together, they fight against a force that may be more sinisterly human than supernatural. Anti-Social TGenesis Film Sales Cast: Gregg Sulkin, Meghan Markle, Josh Myers, Christian Berkel Ben Colyer +44 7729 145 022 Genre: Crime [email protected] Director: Reg Traviss Market Office: UK Film Centre MGB 38 Status: Completed Home Office tel: +44 20 3372 0998 Synopsis: Two brothers, Central London; Dee is a street-artist, he considers himself an Anarchist and together with his best mate Jason embarks on a roller-coaster, politicised stencil-campaign across the city - having a wild time whilst sticking two fingers up at the establishment. Older brother Marcus is a smash-and-grab robber who, along with his gang, launches a crime-wave upon London's exclusive designer jewellers - brazenly raiding the West End on high-power motorbikes armed with sledgehammers like a band of modern day outlaws. For both Dee and Marcus, being Anti-Social is a way of life! As Dee challenges the system his graffiti unintentionally strikes a chord with the city's art-elite and he is gradually seconded into the gallery world and beyond - his continued illegal street-art actions only further cementing his newly found appraise within London's trendy art-circles. Meanwhile, Marcus' criminal daredevilry begins to afford him credibility within the capital's organised crime-rings - he becomes a notable underworld face and his gangland aspirations suddenly escalate to greater, more dangerous heights. After moving into a city apartment with his Californian fashion-model girlfriend, Kirsten, Dee's career beckons abroad under the patronage of an international art-dealer - he is to relocate to Berlin. As Dee and Kirsten prepare to leave for an exciting start together Marcus' world violently implodes at the crux of a savage gang-war! Dee, subsequently cross-haired by the closing ranks of the Law and the Lawless, is forced to side-step into the underworld of Armed-Robbery due to his allegiance and risk everything he has become. Arab Idol TSeville International Cast: Mohammad Assaf Natalie Kampelmacher 1 647 618 6193 Genre: Drama [email protected] Director: Market Office: Marriott 1010 Status: Production Home Office tel: 1 514 878 2282 Synopsis: From Academy Award ® nominee Hany Abu-Assad, comes this inspirational drama based on the incredible true story of Mohammad Assaf, winer of ARAB IDOL™ 2013. The Beat Beneath My Feet TSpotlight Pictures Cast: Luke Perry, Nicholas Galitzine Scott Bedno Genre: Family [email protected] Director: John Williams Market Office: MGB 156 Status: Post-Production Home Office tel: +1 323 871 2551 Synopsis: Tom, a teenage loner, dreams of becoming a rock star but feels thwarted by his God-fearing single mother, Mary. When an intimidating stranger moves into the flat below and plays loud rock music at all hours, Tom recognises him as disgraced guitarist, Max Stone, from rock band "Nothing" , who had disappeared presumed dead years earlier owing a fortune in unpaid tax. Tom agrees not to reveal him to the authorities on condition that Max, now known as Steve, teaches him rock guitar. Tom soon must learn what it takes to be a real Rock Star! EFM 2015: UK Films for Sale 2 Big Game TAltitude Film Sales Cast: Samuel L Jackson, Onni Tommila, Jim Broadbent, Ray Vicki Brown + 49 30 209 159 401 Stevenson, Mehmet Kurtulus, Felicity Huffman, Victor Garber, [email protected] Ted Levine Market Office: MGB 136 Genre: Action/Adventure Home Office tel: +44 20 7478 7612 Director: Jalmari Helander Status: Completed Synopsis: Oskari, a timid 13-year-old, anxiously awaits his fate. Tradition dictates that like his forefathers before him, the boy's time has come to spend one day and one night alone in the wilderness. Armed with only a bow and arrow, he must return with a prize to prove himself to be a man. Terrified and alone, he wanders through a vast and unforgiving forest when suddenly he hears a deafening rumbling sound. Racing to investigate, Oskari discovers an escape pod. Not just any escape pod - this pod belongs to Air Force One and the battered and bruised man lying before him is the President of the United States! In the skies above, terrorists are hurtling their way to the crash site hell-bent on kidnapping the President. Now the fate of the most powerful man in the world lies in the hands of a 13-year-old-boy. Plunged into a deadly game of cat and mouse with only hours to spare, Oskari and the President must team up to survive the most extraordinary night of their lives. Bill TIndependent Cast: Jim Howick, Martha Howe-Douglas, Mathew Baynton, Simon Calum Gray +44 7828 258 976 Farnaby, Helen McCrory, Damian Lewis [email protected] Genre: Family Market Office: MGB 04 Director: Richard Bracewell Home Office tel: +44 20 7257 8734 Status: Completed Synopsis: BILL tells the story of how hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare leaves his family and home to follow his dream.