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 st1 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). Bat dreams of winning the She is currently developing her first feature film National Olympiad. I Wish I Could Hibernate, which was selected for Talents Tokyo 2017 winning the Talents Tokyo Award. INTENTION Recently, Zoljargal has been selected for the Asian I Wish I Could Hibernate is at Film Academy 2018. script development stage. I am looking for producers. The budget proposed is € 250.000.

CONTACT INFORMATION Zoljargal Purevdash [email protected] M +976 881 281 34

TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 7 Luna Park Florenc Papas writer/director • Albania Set in Albania, Luna Park follows the relationship Florenc studied Film Directing at Academy of Film & between the lonely mother Multimedia Marubi in Tirana. After graduation, he developed his Mira and her troublemaker craft working in numerous short and feature films, promotional 16-year-old son Toni during videos, television series and broadcast documentaries. the civilian crisis of 1997. His diploma short film If… (2013) has been screened in numerous international film festivals, and his debut feature Like many other Albanian men, Open Door, an Albanian-Kosovan-Italian-Macedonian co- the father lives and works production is now in post-production. illegally in Greece in search of Florenc is an alumnus of Sarajevo Talents 2015, Berlinale a better life, and Mira has to Talents 2016 and First Films First 2017. Luna Park is his raise Toni alone. second feature film project in development. As the crisis hits the entire country, she decides to send him to his father by illegally crossing the border.

INTENTION We are at an early stage of development, and we are Dritan Huqi looking for co-producers. producer • Albania

Dritan graduated from the Albanian Economic University and the University of Law. He is the President of the Albanian Producers and Filmmakers Association, and member of the European Film Academy. In 2008 he founded On Film, which produced the feature films The Albanian by Johannes Naber, Distant Angels by Gjergj Xhuvani, the TV series Alarm für Cobra 11, and more than 30 shorts and documentaries films, among others. In 2011 he was selected for Cannes’ «Producers On The Move» by European Film Promotion. My Lake, supported by ANCC and Eurimages, is the next feature film project in production.

CONTACT INFORMATION Florenc Papas Dritan Huqi [email protected] [email protected] M +355 699 337 607

TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 8 Meet Mr. Ponzi

Carlo “Charles” Ponzi lands in Boston in 1917, in order to realize his “American Dream”. He finally seems to have found a way to become rich, but Filippo Mazzotti soon he discovers that his scriptwriter • Italy business idea is not feasible and it might be a scam. Filippo Mazzotti was born on the 3rd of March in His old mother’s expectations Lugo (Ravenna, Italy), on the same date and in the in Italy and the desire of his same village as Carlo “Charles” Ponzi. These two wife Rose for an happy family, coincidences led him through the development of a push him to go on and build an biopic about the life of this famous Italian con-artist. house of lies. Deception, lies In 2013, Filippo was working as a finance lawyer in and cover-up are the only way Rome when he started researching all the available to survive. documentation on the Italian swindler. In 2015 he Once started, the “Ponzi ended up his findings and started a first draft of a Scheme” is like a snowball treatment for the feature film Meet Mr. Ponzi. downhill becoming an In 2016 Filippo attended a professional course on avalanche. Screenwriting for Cinema hosted by Francesca Serafini at Scuola Belleville in Milan, Italy. INTENTION Together with scriptwriter Paolo Bernardelli, I am currently co-writing both a TV series (The Scheme) and a feature film (Meet Mr. Ponzi) based on the life of Carlo “Charles” Ponzi. We are looking for producers and directors both for the feature film and the TV series. We believe that the story of “Charles” Ponzi has to be narrated by us Italians: as it is CONTACT INFORMATION mainly about the “American Filippo Mazzotti Dream” of Italian immigrants in [email protected] the America of the twenties. M +39 345 183 57 24

TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 9 My Mad Madonna Cinzia Bomoll writer/director • Italy Kim meets Carmen in a Toronto Museum. Carmen Born in Bologna, she worked for Rai as an author and a looks like a Renaissance director from 2000 to 2007. She attended scriptwriting Madonna and Kim is obsessed classes at Rai-Script (2000), Mediatrade Fiction School with Italian art. Both are (2001) and Scuola Holden’s Enzimi (2002). orphans and lonely. It is easy Since 2000, Cinzia has directed several short films, and in to fall in love. 2007 she wrote, directed and produced her first feature Rahil’s Secret, which was distributed in USA and Canada and Vito, Carmen’s “dead” father on Netflix. Her second feature Balla con Noi – Let’s Dance, a calls her. He wants her back in musical, was produced by Rai Cinema in 2011. Italy. Kim leaves with her. With her company Amarcord, she produces features and In Sicily, they end up involved documentaries by Italian and international authors focusing in a tragic plot of police stories on stories with strong and provocative topics and plots. and mafia. Carmen gets more and more under her father’s influence and rejects Kim. Kim is hurt; she finds out that Vito is planning a terrorist attack and she fears that her “mad Josella Porto Madonna” will collaborate. scriptwriter • Italy Carmen’s final redemption will dissolve all Kim’s suspicions. Born in Catania, she graduated from the Italian National Film

School in 2006 and at Rai-Script in 2009. INTENTION Since 2004, Josella wrote several award-winning shorts, The project has already two documentaries and features such as Fabio Mollo’s debut film Il Sud è Niente, developed within TorinoFilmLab’s FrameWork Italians producers – Far 2010 and supported with a TFL Production Award, which had Out Films and Amarcord – its world premiere in Discovery at TIFF 2013. attached and we are looking She also co-wrote Il Bambino di Vetro by Federico Cruciani for an Italian distributor. and Fabio Mollo’s second feature There Is a Light. We are looking for Canadian and Swiss co-producers (and/or distributors) and an international sales agent, who CONTACT INFORMATION could also be one of the two Cinzia Bomoll Josella Porto co-producers in case. [email protected] [email protected] M +39 335 369 379

TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 10 Paris Syndrome Kimie Tanaka writer/director • Japan Sayo, a 32-year-old Japanese woman arrives in Paris with Born and raised in Nagoya, Japan, Kimie held an MFA from high expectations. But she New York Tisch School of the Arts Asia and a BA in Economics immediately discovers that from the University of Tokyo. Starting as a business analyst in work is many steps backward India, she moved to Chile, New York and Singapore, and she in her career. With more time pursued a career in filmmaking along the way. on her hands, but without Her debut short film To Us won the Best Short Award in anyone to share it with, Sayo Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2013. In 2015, her latest short film Hide & Seek premiered in Toronto and won the feels alone more than ever. Best Short Award in Sguardi Altrove Film Festival. Both films One day she meets another received nominations in various international film festivals. Japanese woman Mariko, who Kimie is based in Paris. declares to sacrifice her life entirely to her French fiancé. However, as Sayo gets closer to Mariko, she finds out that Mariko is having sex for money with unknown men. Meeting these men one by one out of curiosity, Sayo Erina Suto also starts to have sexual co-writer • Japan affairs, looking for an instant connection. Will she come to Born in Osaka and raised in Kenya, Japan and the United terms with herself and find the States, Erina held a BA degree from Tufts University with a validation of her existence that double major in Clinical Psychology and Japanese. After working with photography, music, and designer products in she longs for? Tokyo, she became active as a researcher for foreign media. She met Kimie in early 2018, and she started to collaborate INTENTION as a co-writer for Paris Syndrome, venturing outside of We are working on a second working behind the scenes. draft of the script. Currently based in Paris, Erina has been involved in projects We are looking for a French for outlets such as Vice Media, Arte, The Japan Times, Kyoto producer interested in sharing Journal and Knopf Doubleday Publishing. his/her views on real faces of Paris, and eventually a Japanese co-producer who is CONTACT INFORMATION keen on telling a story about a Kimie Tanaka Erina Suto modern Japanese woman. [email protected] [email protected] M +33 641 354 173

TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 11 Slaughterman Rafael Antonaccio writer/director • Uruguay José arrives in Uruguay from a post-war poverty-stricken Rafael wrote and directed the short films The Visit Spanish family when he is only (2006) and The Monster (2010), which were selected at 15 years old. His parents have several international film festivals, including FESAALP and sent him because they can not Kinoforum. With his brother Bernardo, he co-directed the feed him, and he becomes a videoclip of Revólveres y Rosas by Socio, awarded Best Video at Graffiti Awards 2017. butcher’s employee. They are currently developing their debut feature project He feels abandoned, but he In the Quarry (LABEX, FICViña WIP 2017, Usina del Sur and has to suppress his emotions Puentes Uruguay, EAVE, MVD Audiovisual Post Production to move on. He becomes a Fund) and Slaughterman, winner of the MVD Desarrolla 2017. father and a husband. In 2018, Slaughterman was also selected for Bolivia Lab and In 1968, when a ban of beef IBERMEDIA. is decreed, a black market of meat comes up. José focuses so hard on being the lead of the black market to be a good provider to his family that he loses the most important thing: the confidence of his teenage daughter, Rosita. Bernardo Antonaccio

writer/director • Uruguay INTENTION

Bernardo wrote and directed the short film Extracorpus, We are looking for Latin which won the Bronze Skull at the Morbido Film Festival 2012. American and European Alongside with In the Quarry and Slaughterman, he is co-producers. also developing the feature film Collapse, which won the IBERMEDIA Development Fund 2016 and it has currently been selected in two categories at the Oaxaca FilmFest 2017 (Best Thriller Script and Best Global Script Challenge) and at the Blood Window Pitch at Ventana Sur 2017.

CONTACT INFORMATION Rafael Antonaccio Bernardo Antonaccio [email protected] [email protected] M +598 99 68 41 82 M +598 99 06 26 70

TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 12 Son of the Ashes Dado Amaral writer/director • Brazil 1963. A tragic accident shocks a small village in Brazil’s Dado began his professional career as an actor in theatre and TV. countryside: a circus burns to He wrote and directed 8 short films, among them two documentaries about the ground killing 140 people the prophet Gentileza, a well-known character in Brazil, whose story has and all the animals. inspired the script of Son of the Ashes. He created and directed the favela Sci-Fi TV series Alfavela. The pilot was broadcasted by TV Brasil in 2010. A truck driver has a divine revelation, an astral call that Based in Paris since 2015, Dado created La Centrale, an association that entrusts him with the mission develops a network of artists and creators from Latin America and Europe. to rebuild the world from the His next feature film project Dark Matter is now in development, and he is ruins of the circus. looking for partners to complete Laura, a documentary shot in Argentina about Laura Bonaparte, an ex-Mother of Plaza de Mayo about whom He leaves his wife, his children Cortázar wrote a short story. and his work to dedicate himself entirely to transform the huge ashtray of the ruins into what he calls Birds Heavenly Garden.

INTENTION Our production company in Izabella Faya Brazil has access to Brazilian producer • Brazil funding to produce this feature, and we are looking Izabella is Executive Producer at 3 Tabela Filmes. She produced the feature film for a European co-producer Southwest by Eduardo Nunes, which premiered in Competition at IFFR 2012 that can offer investments and and was screened in 27 countries and won 23 awards, including two FIPRESCI. funding for post-production. She wrote and produced the TV series Ernesto and Juacas, a Disney TV show, as well as two seasons of Gaby Estrella and the multi-awarded documentary We are also looking for a 5 Times Chico. sales agent that can help us Izabella also produced the documentaries Pantanal and A Year in Antarctica in finding ways to increase (Production Award at IFFNY 2018), as well as Nunes’ 2nd feature Unicorn the film’s performance in (world premiere at Berlinale 2018; Jury Award at Festival Luso Brasileiro de international festivals and Comédia 2018). world sales.

CONTACT INFORMATION Dado Amaral Izabella Faya [email protected] [email protected] T +33 658 351 150 T +55 219 932 468 47

TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 13 The Blunder

When the actor Johnny Depp arrives in Otranto for a shooting and starts attending Nicola’s restaurant, they become friends. Before his Alessandra Cardone departure, Depp promises writer/director • Italy Nicola he will bring him and his daughter Aqua to L.A., to Alessandra worked for big advertising agencies as a run his restaurant as a partner. copywriter. Her love for movies pushed her to study Nicola, totally seduced by the screenwriting. Waiting for Hollywood was her first star, starts dressing like Johnny short film, which was selected by many festivals. and preparing their new life. She co-wrote Boxing Paradise by Stefano Quaglia, He shares the dream with which won a Special Mention for Best Screenplay at Aqua, who is also a good cook the Silver Ribbons 2008. and longs to leave. She went on shooting commercials and short films Months go by and still no screened at various festivals such as Charity (2010), words from Depp. Aqua loses Chapeau! (2011), A Question of Label (2012) and My her hope and tries to bring her Friend Johnny, which was selected at the Venice Days naïf and foolish father reason, 2012. She directed the documentary film In Love With but he does not stop dreaming Shakespeare (Filmmaker Film Festival 2014), which was of Johnny’s promise. screened at the London Italian Institute (Shakespeare’s Century 2016) and purchased by Sky Classica. Yet, are dreams just dreams? She is currently working on her first feature film INTENTION Reflections, for which she obtained the Development Fund by MiBACT/CNC and Liguria Film Commission, The idea for this dramedy and the Production Fund by FVG Film Commission. comes from my documentary In 2018, her latest short film The Madeleine and the film My Friend Johnny. Stranger won the Audience Award – Dolomia for I am looking for a producer Best Short Film at Cortinametraggio and the Golden who can involve the real Oyster at the Kinookus Film Festival, and it has been Johnny Depp to play himself, purchased by Rai Cinema. or another iconic actor, like Brad Pitt, Malkovich or Di Caprio.

CONTACT INFORMATION I will search for a good Alessandra Cardone comic actor from Puglia as a [email protected] protagonist, like Sergio Rubini, M +39 339 253 01 20 Emilio Solfrizzi or Checco Zalone.

TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 14 The Carjacker

Siva, a 38-year-old taxi driver, left home 26 years ago after partaking in a violent incident. In the process, he abandoned his younger brother, Nanda, Oman Dhas now 32. writer/director • Malaysia Siva learns Nanda is captured for owing money to Samy, Oman is an experienced filmmaker from Malaysia a local mafia boss. Hit by and based in Singapore. He has developed, produced guilt, Siva tries to reason with and directed a wide range of fiction and non-fiction Samy but fails. He accepts a contents such as Asia’s Underworld, a gritty crime carjacking job to pay the debt documentary which garnered him Best Director at while Nanda is held ransom the Asian Television Award 2013. at gunpoint. Oman’s first feature film Hotel De Sade premiered During the hijack, Siva meets in the Official Selection at the New York City Kali, 25, his victim, with whom International Film Festival 2013. Among others, he develops an unlikely bond. Oman’s recent work as a director includes Haunt Me, With time constraint to deliver a supernatural drama pilot for the VOD the stolen car, Siva’s past and platform HOOQ. present will collide and he will risks losing his brother, once again.

INTENTION The project is at treatment stage and I am seeking a creative co-producer to develop further and secure finances for the international market.

CONTACT INFORMATION Oman Dhas [email protected] M +65 94 74 15 97

TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 15 The Fertile Island Veronica Mengoli writer/director • Italy Is a human tale about what the society considers connatural, Veronica literally feels at home everywhere. She moved to against nature, such as Maria, London when she was 18, working as a waitress, a hair stylist a woman that can’t give life, and a window designer. and The Doctor, a man that Back to Italy, she left the university to follow a mentor and loves men. being introduced to Milan’s advertising market. There she learned what was worth knowing to be respected as a good 1940. Mussolini by mistake 1st AD and, later, as a director. gifted the Italian History of the She recently directed the documentary StarS, co-produced first case of gay community. by Rai Cinema, and which was selected in Documentary’s He deported a bunch of category at Donatello’s David 2018. homosexuals on a tiny island in the middle of nowhere. Tremiti Islands, Puglia, south of Italy. Maria is Antonio’s wife, a simple woman. Antonio is the Carabiniere encharged to maintain the gap between Giulia Forcolini deported and common people, scriptwriter • Italy a small community living in San Nicola. Maria will be the only Born in 1980, Giulia graduated in History from Milan one crossing that line to meet University, and in Cinema Communication and Promotion the doctor. This step will take from Catholic University of Milan. her to a new level to understand After her studies, she worked for Magnolia as a production her position through a different assistant and editorial staff. In 2008, she moved to Rome point of view. and took her first steps as assistant director. She worked with several film production companies and assisted various directors. At the same time, she cooperated with book INTENTION editors and writers in content development. The project is at development In 2014, she attended a Screenwriting Masterclass at Tracce and financing stage. It will in Rome. In 2015, she moved back to Milan, where she be shot at Tremiti Island and continues to work on movies and commercials set as well as Apulia. to write her own scripts. With our production company, Revoler (Rome), we are CONTACT INFORMATION looking for European and/or Veronica Mengoli Giulia Forcolini North American co-producers, [email protected] [email protected] as well as for international M +39 338 712 90 79 distributors, casting, and post- production facilities.

TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 16 The Promised Land

Lelia is a Parisian girl in her late 30s who drinks too much and has meaningless love affairs until she finds out she is two Shirin Rashidian months pregnant. It is her wake-up call: she scriptwriter • France/Iran has to quit drinking. So Lelia decides to spend the summer After graduating in 2005 from EM Lyon Business in Tehran, in the apartment of School and a career at iTunes as an editorial her estranged grandfather, the programmer, Shirin decided she wanted to tell stories. former general of the royal She attended online courses at UCLA Extension and ground army before the 1979 a summer scriptwriting programme for TV Pilots at Revolution. Columbia University. She won the Audience Award In Iran, she meets Ali. and the Jury Prize at the Valence Script Festival 2016 He speaks French and knows for her feature film The Promised Land. about Western culture. Shirin is currently co-writing the short animated film They hit it off right away, but Noon, which was presented at MIFA Annecy 2018, what she does not know is and she is developing her first web series A Numbers that the Iranian police has Game, planned to be shot in October 2018. recruited Ali to spy on her... She speaks French, English, Persian, Italian and Spanish, and she writes her scripts in French INTENTION and English. I am looking for a director, a French producer and a co-producer. The film will be shot in France and also in another location that could pass for Iran.

CONTACT INFORMATION Shirin Rashidian [email protected] M +33 783 242 790

TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 17 The Return

André and Costa have shared a cell for two years, and they are released around the same period of time. When they meet again, a mutual attraction José Hurtarte seems to lie between them, writer/director • Spain but it remains unspoken. After their encounter, they go José Hurtarte (Guatemala, 1994) moved from Brussels separate ways, and back to to Madrid to study Sociology, but found Cinema their new lives. instead, at an acting course for beginners. Since he Months later, André finds was 19, he has worked as an assistant director, editor Costa looking for his help. and camera operator. In 2016, he wrote, directed and Soon, the two men begin to produced his first short film, Today. spend time together in the After being rejected from film school for already way they used to. having “a confirmed, personal universe”, he is now As they both drift away from dedicated to the development of various screenplays. the lives they were building, their past relationship comes back to the surface, and eventually takes them too far.

INTENTION I am currently looking for producers willing to lead an European co-production, which I believe should at least include a French company as well as one from Spain, preferably based in Galicia, where the story is set.

CONTACT INFORMATION José Hurtarte [email protected] M +34 609 20 50 91

TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 18 The Saints of Boyacá

Cora’s beloved husband Miguel is obsessed with becoming the first saints of Colombia. Miguel loves Cora with the same intensity with Camilo Martín-Flórez which he loves his religion. He writer/director • Colombia/Canada believes that their marriage is blessed with a child of God. Camilo Martín-Flórez is a filmmaker and a Waiting to receive news of film-researcher with a BFA and an MA in Film Studies their consecration from the from Concordia University (CA), as well as an MFA in church, their only connection Documentary Filmmaking from the University to the outside world is Panfilo, of Barcelona. Miguel’s brother. His works include the documentary films At Panfilo reveals Miguel and Work (2008), which follows gypsy kids and their Cora’s intentions to the media, experiences at school in the gypsy communities in trying to convince Cora to Barcelona; The Portrait of a Blue Dog (2010), focused leave Miguel. The news goes on a South American immigrant artist in Catalunya; viral and the Church initiates and the film triptych The Interrupted Chilean (2014), their beatification. which has been selected and screened at several film festivals around the world. In the spotlight, five months pregnant, Cora needs to make Camilo is currently working on his first feature fiction a choice. film, while he pursues a Ph.D degree in Film Studies at the University of Bologna. INTENTION I am looking for a producer, and I am entitled to apply for development, production and post-productions grants from the Canadian and the Colombian film funds.

CONTACT INFORMATION Camilo Martín-Flórez [email protected] T +1 514 489 20 43

TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 19 The Sea Needs to Heave

Nadia and Jalal have lost their former familiar relationship. They are forced into an extremely difficult circumstance when their Zain Duraie oldest son Basil attempts writer/director • Jordan suicide in his last year of school, causing an immediate Zain Duraie graduated in 2009 from the Toronto Film disruption and an emotional School, where she directed two short films as a part shock in the family. of her graduation project. In 2010, she began to work Both parents’ different as a trainee at Philistine Films with the prestigious perceptions of their son’s filmmaker Annemarie Jacir and the acclaimed illness clash, causing more producer Ossama Bawardi. tension and confusing the She worked on the feature films When I Saw You lives of their youngest son (2012) and Wajib (2017) by Annemarie Jacir, as well and daughter, who are deeply as on Thank You for Bombing by Barbara Eder (2015) affected by the situation. and The Rendezvous by Amin Matalqa (2016). Under such extreme pressures, Philistine Films also produced Zain’s short film Nadia and Jalal must hide Horizon, which premiered as Best of the Fest selects their son from a judgmental at Palm Springs Int. Shorts FF 2013, where it won and highly codified society the Audience Award. Horizon was also screened at instantly destabilizing all their the Montreal World Film Fest and the Cannes Short perceived conventions and Corner, among others. traditional order. In 2017, Zain was selected to work with the acclaimed Bosnian filmmaker Aida Begić on her latest film Never INTENTION Leave Me. The script of Zain’s debut feature film I am looking for funding for project The Sea Needs to Heave was selected to be the further development of developed with the prestigious Asia Pacific Screen the script, and a possible co- Academy and at Meditalents Residence. production support.

CONTACT INFORMATION Zain Duraie [email protected] T +962 795 868 003

TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 20 The Sweet Bitterness of Ripe Pomegranates

After the death of her younger sister, the life of the Macedonian housewife Dora (46) revolves around her demented mother, her Andrej Volkashin teenage son and her husband, writer/director • Macedonia who is the town’s mayor. Everything changes when Andrej graduated in Film Directing at NATFA in Sofia, he brings home a refugee Bulgaria. woman, Lilith (29), who lost His first short documentary Nothing in the Air her memory. premiered at Sofia Int. FF 2008, and his graduation A strong bond quickly film Kinder Surprise won the Audience Award at the develops between the Sofia Int. IFF 2011. two women leading to a His medium length musical comedy Shhh… Sing To passionate sexual encounter. Me premiered at the Vilnius Int. FF 2014 and was Unable to handle the surfacing theatrically distributed in Bulgaria. His two latest short feelings Dora has struggled films Koliva and Ficus had their world premieres to keep buried throughout at the Huesca Int. Short FF 2018 and at Sarajevo Int. her life, she slowly starts losing FF 2018 respectively. her mind. As a writer and director he is developing two feature film projects, both supported with the INTENTION script development grants by the Macedonian The project won a Film Agency. His new short film Snake is currently scriptwriting grant by the in pre-production. Macedonian Film Agency and it already has a Macedonian producer. We are planning to submit it at the MFA’s first call in 2019 and to present it to European co-production forums and markets.

CONTACT INFORMATION Andrej Volkashin [email protected] T +389 78 43 77 10

TFL EXTENDED – SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT • JUNE 2018 21 True Love

Naila turns 30 and her life falls apart. Paralyzed by the situation, she feels the call to make her dream come true: to be a celebrity. She tried eight Cristina Gómez years ago and she got in the writer/director • Spain dating reality show True Love, but she dropped because of Cristina Gómez was awarded a scholarship to study her boyfriend. screenwriting at the International Film Television She believes people will Foundation (FIA). Before graduation, she was invited remember her, but not even to be a contributing writer for the TV comedy show Coraline, the host of the show, AutoINdefinits, broadcasted by Canal 9. does. Coraline is a TV Star She continued to work as a writer for several daily and who wishes to become an prime time weekly series such as Bon día, Bonica or intellectual journalist, but the Altra Oportunitat, while directing children’s TV shows. network prevents her from After creating and directing her own show Rubia en doing it whilst they negotiate Apuros, she sold her TV series project Mourners, Inc. an injection of funds. to an American network. Naila stalks Coraline, both Cristina has also edited and post-produced several online and in real life, with international films, and she worked as a copywriter barely results. Things start for many advertising agencies. She currently writes flipping upside down after a and performs as a stand-up comic. social media scandal explodes and Naila and Coraline ally themselves to fight for their dreams.

INTENTION The project is at development stage and it will be shot in France. We are looking for co-producers interested in telling a contemporary story CONTACT INFORMATION leaded by complex women. Cristina Gómez [email protected] M +34 616 596 085

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