The European Development Programme for Limited Budget
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20 17 with the support of in partnership with in partnership The European development programme for limited created by created budget feature films created by Le Groupe Ouest, European Film Lab was founded on the coast of western Brittany (France) in 2006. Over 500 filmmakers have received residential coaching since work started, making Le Groupe Ouest the acknowledged leader in this field. In 2016, after founding the Cross Channel Film Lab and on the back of its experience as TorinoFilmLab’s longstanding French associate, Le Groupe Ouest launched LIM, following an initial pilot year with Romanian partner Control N. Le Groupe Ouest is LIM’s managing partner and coordinator. with the support of in partnership with Founded in 2009 by The Flanders Audiovisual two screenwriters and Fund (VAF) is the a director, Control N cultural public funding is a cultural association, body of Belgium’s whose projects center Flemish Community. around training workshops, VAF aims to stimulate and film courses and seminars, support the independent most of them dedicated audiovisual creation to amateurs. Although in Flanders through its projects touch different an integrated approach. areas of culture (theatre, VAF also offers the dance, photography), Flemish professional Control N’s main focus sector the necessary is screenwriting, script framework, along with development and film a wide range of related events. Its declared accompanying activities purpose is to discover and support measures and promote young in the area of Talent talented film enthusiasts Development, Research, and to push for cinema Film Activities and with the support of education in Romania. Sustainability - the latter known as ‘e-Mission’. Krakow Festival Office Transilvania International (KBF) is one of the most Film Festival (TIFF) is active institutions in Polish the biggest international cultural life, responsible feature film festival in for Krakow’s largest Romania and has grown festivals and spectacular rapidly to become one events heralded in Poland of the most spectacular and across Europe in the annual events in the fields of music, theatre, region. The main goal is film, fine arts and literature the promotion of cinematic since the year 2000. art by presenting some Via the activities of Krakow of the most innovative Film Commission and and spectacular films Krakow Regional Film of the moment that with in partnership Fund, KBF supports the feature both originality development of audiovisual and independence of industry in the Malopolska expression, that reflect Region (film funding, unusual cinematic production support, language forms or focus professional training on current trends in created by created and industry events). youth culture. Supported by What if lowering Creative Europe – the cost of films MEDIA Programme triggered greater of the European Union, creativity? More in- LIM | Less is More depth filmmaking? is led by Le Groupe Without systematically Ouest and developed placing a burden in partnership of cost-reduction with Control N on filmmakers and (Romania), Vlaams production teams? Audiovisueel Fonds What if the aim was to – VAF (Belgium), build cost-constraints Krakow Festival into the screenwriting Office – KBF (Poland) stage and to make and the Transilvania such constraints offer International writers and directors Film Festival – greater stimulation? TIFF (Romania). LIM Workshop 1 – Moelingen, Flanders, Belgium In the past few years, LIM does not define The scheme is open a growing proportion limited budgets to 1st, 2nd and 3rd of the most creative in accounting terms, feature film projects, and interesting feature as such conditions as well as to artists films in international vary from country coming from theatre, independent cinema to country, according documentary and have been produced to economic context. visual arts. Four within the framework The LIM approach is emerging European of severely limited resolutely conceptual. producers wanting budgets. to strengthen their LIM offers a new ability to develop The aim of LIM generation of projects within a low is to help writers filmmakers, already to micro budget and writer/directors known either for frame will integrate integrate cost their short films the process. constraints into or first feature films, script development. the opportunity of designing their own route into limited budget feature film production. edito by Vassili Silovic Programme Director of LIM LIM | Less is More – is a newborn baby in the world of development programmes for feature films. It was conceived in the Far West of Europe, Finistère (meaning: the end of the Earth) in Brittany. But from the very beginning, since our first brainstorming session with Control N in Bucharest, LIM was intended as a European, a transnational, and a multicultural movement. It is therefore natural and a pleasure to welcome you all here to Cluj-Napoca’s TIFF (Transilvania International Film Festival) for one of the first public presentations of LIM. Since launching only a few months ago, we can say that LIM has done well: 290 applications from 57 countries. It answers to a real need. Now, for this first edition, sixteen projects have been selected. They are all featured in this booklet and will be presented by their authors at a special event organised within TIFF’s industry programme. Sixteen most talented projects from almost as many countries and cultures. This might seem slightly naive, but bringing them together, making them work together and share their ideas and dreams, regardless of cultural and economic differences is something that we are very proud of in these times of populist threats of all kinds. We love to think of LIM not only as a professional platform but as a home for new talents, for people who cherish the idea that great cinema does not necessarily demand material overkill. Who know that narrative, production and directing can be approached in different ways. LIM is about accepting constraints as a trigger for more freedom, for more creativity and intensity. It is a field for new exploration by filmmakers, an experiment that we plan to build collectively, with input from all of you here: writers, directors, producers, distributors and broadcasters. LIM would not have come into being without the support of our core partners. We want to take this opportunity to thank all of them warmly for their trust. edito by Antoine Le Bos Artistic Director of LIM Founder of Le Groupe Ouest A few years ago, on our Finistère beaches, despite the seagulls and the wind, a series of concerns started to haunt us. In this beginning of 21st century, independent cinema is facing difficult times. Losing financing, losing distribution and losing audience. Especially young audiences. As a result, a significant number of the new generation of filmmakers is growing up without viewers, apart from a handful of festival aficionados. At a time when populism is thriving on post-truth absence of meaning; at a time when we need to build a shared belief in a future we can understand; the most lively, sensitive and rebellious side of cinema is needed more than ever. It is needed but it is economically fragile, undermined by market forces and by monotonously formatted commercial production. As our understanding of this phenomenon has grown, we have begun to see script-consultancy and mentoring as a sacred mission: helping filmmakers recapture the craft of addressing humans, of impacting on others. And we have set out to build bridges between independent cinema and the wider audience. LIM embodies that struggle. Instead of letting an entire generation of filmmakers fall into audience- less limbo, we want their voices to be heard. Cinema is an art of cardinal importance in today’s societies, an art-form that can and must speak out boldly. LIM uses the constraints of a limited budget to push creativity and storytelling, so independent filmmakers regain their voice. We want to use the power of limitation as a tool for intensity, as a tool to gain purpose, a tool to increase meaning and power, and to recapture the audience. As Stravinsky puts it so very wonderfully: ‘the more art is bound by limitations, the freer it is.’ Today, only Europe seems to be able to provide the momentum our mission requires. table of content 12 — 13 projects 46 — 47 producers 14 — 15 Animus 48 Jelena Mišeljić Tomasz Śliwiński 49 Fred Prémel 16 — 17 Anselinii Dan Radu Mihai 50 Gabi Suciu 18 — 19 Banvard 51 Aneta Zagórska Pieter Coudyzer 20 — 21 Corcovado Borealis 52 — 53 tutors Karolis Kaupinis 54 Marcel Beaulieu 22 — 23 Electricity Ivaylo Minov 55 Pierre Hodgson & Svetozar Georgiev 56 Antoine Le Bos 24 — 25 Not Here. Not Us. Taisia Deeva 57 Leonardo Staglianò 26 — 27 Organs in the Grass Rory Alexander Stewart 58 — 59 events 28 — 29 Sandra Simão Cayatte 60 — 61 partners & team 30 — 31 Showdots Kabir Mehta 32 — 33 Sister Dina Duma 34 — 35 Stephanie Leonardo van Dijl 36 — 37 The Belly of the Whale Marianela Maldonado 38 — 39 The Paths of my Father Mauricio Osaki 40 — 41 Tro Fañch Giil Taws 42 — 43 We Kiss in Dark Nightclubs and I Explain Daphné Hérétakis 44 — 45 Wolf Nathalie Biancheri projects 12 — 13 Animus Tomasz Śliwiński [email protected] M + 48 5 01 51 19 38 14 — 15 Synopsis Deep in the Polish forests, by the beautiful chain of lakes, there is a village with many folk legends about ancient indestructible creatures that once inhabited these lands, but they have fallen into a deathlike sleep deep in the waters of the lakes. This is the place that Marta, 30-year-old girl, remembers from her childhood. Today, being pregnant with Peter, she persuades him that this will be the best place to spend last months before delivery of the baby. They rent a cottage house near the lake, few kilometers from the main village. Peter is a 30-year-old masculine, very handsome guy.