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TFL Extended – Script Development June 2018 12 Days and Nights P. 3 After the Brexit P. 4 Dolores P. 5 Double Happiness P. 6 I Wish I Could Hibernate P. 7 Luna Park P. 8 Meet Mr. Ponzi P. 9 My Mad Madonna P. 10 Paris Syndrome P. 11 Slaughterman P. 12 Son of the Ashes P. 13 The Blunder P. 14 The Carjacker P. 15 The Fertile Island P. 16 The Promised Land P. 17 The Return P. 18 The Saints of Boyacá P. 19 The Sea Needs to Heave P. 20 The Sweet Bitterness of Ripe Pomegranates P. 21 True Love P. 22 TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 2 12 Days and Nights Greece, in the midst of World War II. Seven men and two women travel by fishing boat from Athens to the island of Crete, each one for George Ktistakis different reasons. During their writer/director • Greece voyage, they discover that the occupying forces are not their Born in Crete, Greece, George Ktistakis received only enemy. his BA in Film & TV studies from the University of After making it to the island, Greenwich. the now seven companions After his first short film Half-Board Heaven, have to go through one more which premiered at the Drama International hurdle before reaching their Short Film Festival 2012, he has directed several final destination. other short films, which circulated at national and international film festivals such as Athens INTENTION IFF and WorldFest-Houston International The project is currently Film & Video Festival. in development stage. George is currently working on a TV series project I am looking for a producer, as a co-director, as well as developing his first Greek or international, feature 12 Days and Nights with the support of the to share my vision and bring Greek Film Centre. He also works as an editor. it to the big screen. CONTACT INFORMATION George Ktistakis [email protected] M +30 694 624 21 03 TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 3 After the Brexit The Brexit has plunged the European Union into a crisis. Austria, Germany and Italy have built transit centers on their peripheries while France Laila Alina Reischer discusses its exit from the writer/director • Austria/Egypt Union. All migrants with no citizenship are collected and As the daughter of a Catholic Austrian woman and brought to the centers, before a rebelling Arabian father, Laila Alina Reischer brings being deported to a no-man’s a strong contrastive background with her. Living land on the Arabian Peninsula. through different cultures and settings gave her the In the transit center on the ability to tell stories from an inside perspective. Austrian-German border, the She studied at RADA and at London Film School, refugee Amal falls in love with developing strong skills in filmmaking and acting. the center attendant Marteen, She was awarded Best Supporting Actress for her who escaped with her brother role in 22:43 by Markus Hautz at the New York City Bassam 15 years ago. The International Film Festival 2010, and she was selected situation escalates when for Berlinale Talents 2011 with her feature film project Bassam sees Amal being kissed Anatomy Of A Separation. by Marteen and he injures In 2013 she received the Arthur Haidl Prize for her another attendant. achievements in the Austrian film industry. Her Bassam is brought away while projects have also been selected for scriptFORUM Amal feels guilty and is more Vienna and Diverse Geschichten. and more torn in between her possible new life and the faith to Bassam. INTENTION After the Brexit is a dystopia reflecting the current happenings in Europe and their possible impact. It is a treatise about a radical migration policy told through CONTACT INFORMATION the eyes of an exceptional Laila Alina Reischer woman. [email protected] It is an Austrian production T +43 664 282 72 68 looking for co-producers from Germany, the Balkan Region and the Arabian Peninsula. TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 4 Dolores Chico Teixeira writer/director • Brazil Dolores is turning 60 and she wants to make her dream Chico Teixeira has a strong background as a documentarist come true: to gamble at and he has been able to transport the natural look and an actual casino. She saved veracity of acting into his fiction films. His work is recognized money to travel to Argentina for his special talent with the actors, and his films have a with her daughter Débora (38) sensitive look at the feelings hidden in everyday life, in family and intimate relationships. and her granddaughter Duda (17), where casinos are legal. In 2007, his debut feature Alice’s House premiered in Panorama at Berlinale, and it won several awards such as Débora is unemployed and Best First Work at Havana FF, the Gold Plaque at Chicago IFF, wishes to be rich. She dreams the Grand Prix and the E-Changer Award at Fribourg IFF, the on opening a pizza delivery FIPRESCI Prize and the Special Jury Award at Guadalajara IFF. service with her daughter. But His latest feature Absence was selected at Berlinale Duda has other dreams on her Co-Production Market in 2012 and had its world premiere mind: she wants to become a in Panorama 2015. In the same year, it won 4 Golden Kikitos police officer. at Gramado FF, as well as Best Brazilian Film, Best Actor and the Special Jury Prize at Rio de Janeiro IFF. The plot thickens when Duda and Dolores find out that Débora is in debt up to her neck, and she is threatened by an aggressive loan shark. Dolores and Duda fight to hold on to their dreams, while helping Débora dealing with Sabina Anzuategui reality. scriptwriter • Brazil INTENTION Sabina Anzuategui co-wrote Absence by Chico Teixeira and 5 other multi-awarded feature films. In Brazil, Dolores will be produced by Bossa Nova She wrote the novels Panties on Clothesline (2005) and Affection (2011), and she is the author of the comics series Films, one of the most Lost Pearls (2018). prominent production companies in the region. She also created the Youtube channel on Creative Writing Exercícios de Criação Literária. We are currently looking for co-producers and a sales agent. CONTACT INFORMATION Chico Teixeira Sabina Anzuategui [email protected] [email protected] T +55 119 814 909 33 T +55 112 574 96 67 TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 5 Double Happiness Sebastian Mihăilescu writer/director • Romania When Camil, a 33-year-old Romanian copywriter, learns Sebastian has a BA and an MA in Film Directing from the that his long-term girlfriend National University of Theatre & Film in Bucharest, and he is a Diana is infertile, he shifts Talents Sarajevo alumnus. his fatherhood obsession to His latest short film – Old, Luxurious Flat, Located in Ultra- Rebecca, a Taiwanese woman central, Desirable Neighborhood – premiered in the Leopards met at a corporate party a few of Tomorrow Short Film Competition at Locarno 2016, and it days earlier. was screened at MoMA and at Film Society of Lincoln Center in NY, among others. In 2015 he has worked as an AD for He goes to Taipei with a work- Radu Jude’s Berlinale-winner Aferim! and Radu Muntean’s related project hoping to relive One Floor Below, which premiered at Un Certain Regard. the fling they had in Bucharest. He is currently in financing with his debut feature and in But while Camil tries to seduce pre-production with his next short. Rebecca, Diana has good news: she is pregnant. After an unsatisfying encounter with Rebecca, he returns home in celebration. His whole family seems happy. Even the wilted flowers from around the house have fully Andrei Epure blossomed in his absence. scriptwriter • Romania INTENTION Andrei has a BA in Audiovisual Communication followed by an MA in Screenwriting at the National University of Theatre The project is produced & Film in Bucharest, where he also worked as an Assistant by Ada Solomon and Diana Professor in Screenwriting. Paroiu (Hi Film Productions Since university, he has co-written four feature films and – Romania). various short films such as Old, Luxurious Flat, Located We are looking for in Ultra-central, Desirable Neighborhood by Sebastian Mihăilescu, among others. co-producers, sales agent, distributors and film festival He was selected for Berlinale Talents and Sarajevo Talents, representatives from Taiwan and he is currently in development with two features and two short films. and Europe. We aim at working with the Taiwanese co-producer CONTACT INFORMATION Sebastian Mihăilescu Andrei Epure towards sourcing local [email protected] [email protected] funding, planning the local T +40 765 704 052 T +40 758 567 718 shooting and developing the TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 6 I Wish I Could Hibernate Bat (15) is the oldest of five children living with their single mother in the poverty-stricken yurt districts of Ulaanbaatar. Zoljargal Purevdash He is determined to win an academic Olympiad for a writer/director • Mongolia scholarship to enter a private school, but his alcoholic Zoljargal Purevdash studied Filmmaking at University mother loses her job in the of Obirin, Tokyo, Japan. Her first short film Over the middle of winter and leaves City, Under the Sky won the Cinema Club Award him with his younger siblings. at West Tokyo City Film Festival 2010. After her graduation, she came back to Mongolia and worked Bat is held back by his fierce on several local films as a 1st AD. pride and his refusal to ask for help to make ends meet. The She directed the experimental short films Burgundy other children struggle to find (Special Screening at the Altan Khalis Independent something to burn to heat Film Festival 2013) and Outliers (Special Screening at their home every night, while the Altan Khalis Independent Film Festival 2017).