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Writer: Cristiano Bortone, Fausto Brizzi [email protected] Romantic Comedy (81 min) Producer: Orisa Produzioni - Orkestra At Cannes: Maura Ford (Managing AFRICAN ODYSSEY Language: English 2012Wildlife Documentary (13x30 min OR Entertainment Director - Sales), Antony Ford (Company Director: Guy Browning 1x52 min) Key Cast: Guglielmo Scilla, Vincenzo Director - Acquisitions) Writer: Guy Browning Language: English Salemme, Enrica Pintore Office: Lerins R1, Tel: Co-Production Partners: Immense Director: Joanne Goldring Cohen Delivery Status: Completed +33(0)6.11.78.28.59 CARELESS LOVE Productions LLP. Writer: Joanne Goldring Cohen Year of Production: 2012 Country of Drama (105 min) Producer: Steffan Aquarone Executive Producer: Eliot Cohen Origin: Italy Language: English Key Cast: Tom Mitchelson, Alice Producer: Eliot Cohen "Know your prey"… "Make your first Director: John Duigan Zawadzki, Stephen Elder Year of Production: 2011 Country of date unforgettable"… "Show that you are Writer: John Duigan Delivery Status: Completed Origin: UK different"… These are just 3 of the 10 Co-Production Partners: Spirited Films, A lovelorn young gardener's awkward Blazing sunsets, vast landscapes, "golden rules" that Marco tries to master Luminous Pictures attempts at courting fall flat until an scorching deserts, great rivers, waterfalls when he falls hopelessly in love with the Producer: Jenny Day, Geoff Burton entire village give him their own well and mountains; lush deltas, huge dunes, stupendous Stefania. A model student, Key Cast: Nammi Le, Peter O’Brien, meaning, very British, lessons in love. palm fringed beaches, and shimmering she is as brilliant, sophisticated and Andrew Hazzard salt pans. Follow Robin Taylor on his popular as Marco is shy and awkward – Delivery Status: Screening African Odyssey to discover the beauty and a school drop out. Marco's father, an In order to help her debt-burdened 88 BERKELEY and variety of African wildlife while also irresistible womanizer, tries to come to parents, a university student takes on visiting some of Africa's most exclusive his son's rescue by teaching him the work as call girl but struggles to keep her COURT travel lodges. Available as 13 short "science and rules of love" behind his nocturnal activities from overwhelming 88 Berkeley Court, Baker Street, London, programmes or as one longer feature. own extraordinary success. Yet, Marco's London NW1 5ND United Kingdom, her life. MOSCOW CITY BALLET attempts become more and more Tel: 33668813775. ovcmedia.com, Ballet (Four 58 minutes Episodes) disastrous, until all seems completely lost [email protected] http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1324 Language: English – that is, until he discovers that the At Cannes: Joanne Goldring-Cohen Director: Joanne Goldring Cohen mysterious "chemistry" between two (Mrs), Eliot Cohen (Mr) PAPADOPOULOS & SONS Writer: Joanne Goldring Cohen people may simply be the courage to be Comedy (105 min) Office: Tel: 336.688.13775 Executive Producer: Eliot Cohen oneself… Producer: Eliot Cohen Language: English HALFWAY TO HEAVEN IO SONO LI Documentary (55 minutes) Key Cast: NADZEDAH PAVLOVA Director: Marcus Markou AKA: SHUN LI AND THE POET Writer: Marcus Markou Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Romantic Drama (96 min.) Co-Production Partners: Double M Films Director: Joanne Goldring Cohen Year of Production: 2011 Country of Language: Italian and Chinese with Writer: Joanne Goldring Cohen Ltd Origin: UK English subtitles Executive Producer: Eliot Cohen Producer: Sara Butler 1. Carmen 2. The Love and Death of Director: Andrea Segre Producer: Cohen Key Cast: Stephen Dillane, Georges Anna Karenina 3. Don Quixote The Writer: Marco Pettenello and Andrea Delivery Status: Completed Corraface, Ed Stoppard classic version of this work starring Segre Year of Production: 2011 Country of Delivery Status: Screening NADZEDAH PAVLOVA. Music by Co-Production Partners: in collaboration Origin: UK Following his ruin in the latest banking MINKUS, choreography adapted by with Rai Cinema in coproduction with In this exciting adventure we follow two crisis, a self-made millionaire reluctantly VICTOR SMIRNOV-GOLOVA Arte France Cinma motorbike enthusiasts, who put re-unites with his estranged freewheeling Producer: Jolefilm (Italy) in coproduction themselves to the test by taking on some brother to re-open the abandoned fish with Aeternam Films (France) difficult routes in the peak of the and chip shop they shared in their youth. Key Cast: Zhao Tao, Rade Sherbedgia, beautiful Himalayas, with mountain TALKING TO THE TREES Marco Paolini, Roberto Citran, Giuseppe passes more than 5,300 m above sea A Drama (92 min) Battiston level. We follow them every step of the Language: English Delivery Status: Completed way from New Delhi in India to Leh in Director: Ilaria Borrelli Year of Production: 2011 Country of Tibet. Writer: Ilaria Borrelli, Guido Freddi Origin: Italy Co-Production Partners: Capetoste ADRIANA CHIESA A sensitive and moving love story that Pictures http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1357 binds two solitudes on the fascinating Producer: Guido Freddi ENTERPRISES and foggy Venetian lagoon, a love song Key Cast: Ilaria Borrelli, Philippe Caroit, LEGENDS OF TENNIS Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, via Barnaba to the bond between a young Chinese Sports Documentary (45 minutes) Setha Moniroth Oriani 24 /A, Rome, 00197 Italy, Tel: immigrant woman, Shun Li, and Bepi Language: English Delivery Status: Screening +39 06.8086052 Fax: +39.06.80687855. 'the Poet', an old and beautiful Slav Director: Joanne Goldring Cohen A middle-class Parisian woman embarks www.adrianachiesaenterprises.com , fisherman. Their poetic universe is also a Writer: Joanne Goldring Cohen [email protected] on a quest to rescue the child her call between two cultures, very different, Executive Producer: Eliot Cohen husband had abused from a Cambodian Distributor yet not so distant, and a rapturous Producer: Eliot Cohen brothel and return her to her family in the At Cannes: (), Adriana Chiesa Di Palma odyssey into the deep heart of a lagoon, Key Cast: Andre Agassi, Ille Nastase, jungle. (President), Rossella Gori (Head of the womb of identities forever in John Mcenroe John McEnroe Ivan Lendl International Sales) PERCIVAL’S BIG NIGHT movement. Yet, such beauty goes beyond Fred Stolly Office: Carlton Hotel - Suite 133 - 1st Comedy (85 min) convention, transcends age, cultural Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Floor, Tel: Mobile +39 335 6990033 Year of Production: 2011 Country of milieu, society. It breaks the rules of both Director: William C. Sullivan the Chinese and local communities The Origin: UK http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1230 Writer: Jarret Kerr film, starring internationally acclaimed Co-Production Partners: New Percy A fascinating documentary featuring some of the greatest stars of Tennis. The Chinese actress Zhao Tao (Jia Zhang-ke Productions LLC. leading roles include "Still Life", Golden Producer: Caitlyn Coady programme shows them demonstrating their skills in past games, coupled with Lion, Venice), and Rade Sherbedgia ("In Key Cast: Tommy Nelms, Jarret Kerr, the Land of Blood and Money", "Harry

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Potter and the Deathly Hallows", savannah. UNTITLED RENNY HARLIN Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut"), is also L'ULTIMA SFILATA ALDAMISA PROJECT (THE DYATLOV PASS recent winner of the "Eurimages Award" AKA: THE LAST FASHION SHOW INCIDENT) at Seville Film Festival. Thriller (96 Min.) INTERNATIONAL Thriller Aldamisa International, 15760 Ventura Language: Italian with English Subtitles Language: English COSE DELL'ALTRO MONDO Blvd. Suite 1450, Encino, CA 91436 Director: Carlo Vanzina Director: Renny Harlin AKA: THINGS FROM ANOTHER USA, Tel: 1.818.783.4084 Fax: Writer: Enrico Vanzina, Carlo Vanzina, Writer: Vikram Weet WORLD 1.818.783.7944. Comedy (90 min.) and Franco Ferrini Executive Producer: Alexander www.aldamisa.com, Language: Italian with English subtitles Producer: Medusa Film produced by Rodnyansky [email protected] Director: Francesco Patierno International Video Producer: Kia Jam, Renny Harlin, Sergei Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor, Writer: Diego De Silva, Giovanna Koch, Key Cast: Francesco Montanari, Vanessa Bespalov, Sergey Melkumov Financier Francesco Patierno Hessler, Richard E. Grant, Giselda Key Cast: Holly Goss, Gemma Atkinson, At Cannes: Sergei Bespalov (Co- Co-Production Partners: in collaboration Volodi Matt Stokoe Chairman), Marina Bespalov (Co- with Medusa Film and with Sky Cinema Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: In Production Chairman), Nadine de Barros (President Producer: Rodeo Drive Year of Production: 2011 Country of Year of Production: 2012 Country of of International Sales & Distribution), Key Cast: Diego Abatantuono, Valerio Origin: Italy Origin: USA/Russia Jere Hausfater (COO), Eric Min Mastandrea, Valentina Lodovini Sex, blood, transgression... a captivating Blockbuster Director, Renny Harlin, (Director of International Sales & Delivery Status: Completed thriller against a backdrop of luxury, brings one of the greatest unsolved Distribution) Year of Production: 2011 Country of beauty and crime, and the hidden lives of mysteries of the 20th century to the big Office: Lerins S9 Origin: Italy the famous in the fashion world. The screen--the controversial Dyatlov Pass

An ironic, bittersweet, grotesque sudden death of a stunning top model http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1058 Incident. extravagant, outrageous comedy about and the obscure passion of a famous GOAT ISLAND relationships... An entrepreneur, though designer trigger a chilling mystery that Family/Adventure (90 min) FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY 2: A as mediocre as he is racist, has a leads a young detective from Milan to Language: English DAME TO KILL FOR (3D) voluptuous African lover. This does not Sweden, Rome, and Switzerland. In Action Director: D.J. Caruso stop him from advocating non-stop on Stockholm, a fashion house assistant Language: English Writer: D.J. Caruso his daily TV show the wish for a world spots a beautiful unknown girl selling Director: Robert Rodriguez Executive Producer: Alexander rid of all immigrants forever. One night, flowers in the town square. She would be Writer: William Monahan Rodnyansky after a cataclysmic storm, the city the perfect double to replace the Co-Production Partners: AR Films, Producer: Geyer Kosinski awakens with a shock: all of the deceased top model. the girl is taken to Quickdraw Productions, Miramax Films Key Cast: Chandler Canterbury, Annalise immigrants in town seem to have the famous couture house in Milan to Producer: Robert Rodriguez, Alexander Basso, Val Kilmer, Radha Mitchell vanished without a trace. The city's meet the designer, and he is absolutely Rodnyansky, Sergei Bespalov, Aaron Delivery Status: Screening inhabitants are soon on the verge of a spellbound. Now the new girl becomes Kaufman, Stephen L’Heureux Year of Production: 2012 Country of collective nervous breakdown. Not only the designer's adored top model for each Key Cast: TBA Origin: USA because they find they are helpless fashion show. She even moves into the Delivery Status: Pre-Production A young boy and girl, abandoned by without the know-how of an important former top model's luxurious apartment. Year of Production: 2012 Country of their peers as a cruel, summer prank, part of its work force, but also because Yet, as the designer launches his new Origin: USA learn the meaning of friendship and the they sincerely miss this colorful mass of muse, the killing does not stop... The highly anticipated second value of individuality. humanity. Indeed, they had rejected these GOLAKANI KIRKUK installment of the "Sin City" saga returns RED SKY people like foreign bodies, but now AKA: THE FLOWERS OF KIRKUK with a vengeance! Action/Adventure realize how much they were a part of the Language: English Romantic Drama (117 min.) MACHETE KILLS city and their lives. Language: Arabic with English subtitles Action Director: Mario Van Peebles LIONEL Director: Fariborz Kamkari Language: English Writer: Adam Prince Family (86 minutes) Writer: Fariborz Kamkari, Naseh Director: Robert Rodriguez Executive Producer: Randy Arrington Language: Italian with English subtitles Kamkari Writer: Kyle Ward Producer: Sergei Bespalov Director: Mohammed Soudani Co-Production Partners: RSI/SRG/SSR Executive Producer: Robert Rodriguez Key Cast: Cam Gigandet, Shane West, Writer: Sara Beltrame, Mohammed Ide Suisse, Regione Lazio by FILAS Producer: Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergei Rachael Leigh Cook, Bill Pullman, JC Soudani, Francesco Niccolini Spa, with the support of Eurimages, the Bespalov, Aaron Kaufman Chasez Co-Production Partners: Rsi- Italian Ministry of Culture MIBAC, Key Cast: TBA Delivery Status: Post Production Radiotelevisione Svizzera and Nykady's Media Programme, the Autonomous Delivery Status: Pre-Production Year of Production: 2012 Country of Production (Ivory Coast) Region of Kurdistan, Iraq. Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA/ Russia Producer: Amka Films Productions Producer: Far Out Films, T & C Films, Origin: USA A squad of rogue American and Russian Key Cast: Max Tardioli, Lorenzo Tanzi, Oskar The second film in the Machete trilogy fighter pilots take an off-the-record Aurora Andreaus, Amedeo Magnaghi, Key Cast: Morjana Alaoui, Ertem Eser, finds Machete mourning the loss of his mission to save the world from a and "Tsar the Lion" Mohamed Zouaoui, Mohammed Bakri beloved Sartana, slain during a run in devastating terrorist threat. Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed with the cartels. Machete is recruited by JAYNE MANSFIELD’S CAR Year of Production: 2010 Country of Year of Production: 2010 Country of the President of the United States for a Drama Origin: Italy Origin: Italy, Switzerland, Iraq mission which would be impossible for Language: English A great magnificent lion has been a part Deep red flowers bloom in an arid field any mortal man. Machete must battle his Director: Billy Bob Thornton of the little boy Lionel's life ever since near the town of Kirkuk in Iraq. They way through Mexico to take down a Writer: Billy Bob Thornton, Tom he can remember. At times he only feels seem to be the keepers of a secret, a love cartel leader, Mendez the Madman, who Epperson its presence, at others, the lion suddenly story as universal and timeless as it is threatens to fire a missile on the US. Producer: Geyer Kosinski, Alexander appears to him. Yet, who would ever intimately bound to a place and to a Machete foils Mendez's plot only to find Rodnyansky believe Lionel if he told anyone - a lion time. The bond between Najla and that the missiles are remote wired to and Key Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Robert in Switzerland? This magical African- Sherko is a profound story of impossible triggered by the madman’s still beating Duvall, Kevin Bacon, John Hurt, Ray Swiss tale for children and 'grown-up love. Impossible, because it is set during heart. The only man who can disarm the Stevenson, Frances O’Connor children' is filled with all the a moment in the history of the Kurdish missile is eccentric billionaire arms Delivery Status: Completed enchantment and spiritual force of people at the height of the genocide dealer, Luther Voz, who has hatched a Year of Production: 2011 Country of Lionel's ancient African world. It is also perpetrated against them by the regime plan of his own to spread war across the Origin: USA rich with Lionel's happy life in modern of Saddam Hussein. Based on true lives planet with a weapon in space. Machete An ensemble drama about families and Switzerland with his loving African-born and events, some of the darker moments takes on Voz and his army in order the effects of combat on fathers and mother and Swiss step-father, and of recent history must be evoked. Yet, dismantle his master plan for global sons, Jayne Mansfield’s Car looks at two Federico, his inseparable best friend. Yet, this is a story of the courage and the anarchy. colorful clans in 1969. Brought together the lion's presence becomes more and power of love. The power that can by the death of a woman who was more real to Lionel. One day during a transform, at least for a time, hatred into married, first to the Southern American school outing he is irresistibly drawn to a compassion, cruelty into self-sacrifice, Jim Caldwell (Robert Duvall) and then lion in its cage. The old lion appeals to betrayal into an act of loyalty. And, to the British Kingsley Bedford (John the little boy to set him free. Then the against the tragic course of history, the Hurt), her families meet for the first time two of them can return to mythical courage that can unite a man and a at the Caldwells’ home with uneasy Africa and to their dream of the infinite woman forever. curiosity. The culture clash of the Sixties,

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CARELESS LOVE – 7 & 7 PRODUCERS’SALES SERVICE and of the Old World versus the Old Key Cast: Donald Sutherland, Helen rulers who manipulate the inhabitants' Writer: Alexander Gonorovsky South, become a backdrop for the Hunt, Ted Danson, Mandy Patinkin, consciousness using special emitters, he Executive Producer: Kira Saksaganskaya Caldwells’ and the Bedfords’ heartfelt Billy Baldwin, Bryan Adams leads a rebel movement challenging the Key Cast: Vladimir Mashkov, Anjorka and sometimes hilarious struggles with Delivery Status: Completed established order. Based on the cult Strechel long-held resentments, family rivalries Year of Production: 2011 Country of classic novel by the Strugatsky Brothers. Delivery Status: Completed and secrets, and the memories of war and Origin: South Africa MURDER BY PROXY: HOW Year of Production: 2011 Country of how it shaped them all. 3D animated family adventure that tells AMERICA WENT POSTAL Origin: Russia SHANGHAI CALLING the heart-warming, coming-of-age story Documentary (76 minutes) A war epic set in a Siberian gulag, Ignat, Comedy, Romance of a man and his best-friend, a lovable Language: English a war hero, finds love and redemption Language: English and fearless dog named, Jock. Director: Emil Chiaberi with Elsa, a German fugitive, through Director: Daniel Hsia INHABITED ISLAND Writer: Emil Chiaberi their shared obsession with trains and Writer: Daniel Hsia AKA: PRISONERS OF POWER Executive Producer: Emil Chiaberi speed. Executive Producer: Janet Yang Action/Adventure, Science-fiction (119 Producer: James Moll, Michael Rosen GONE IN 60 SECONDS (1974) Key Cast: Daniel Henney, Eliza Coupe, minutes) Delivery Status: Completed Action/Adventure, Crime (105 minutes) Bill Paxton, Gene Le, Zhu Zhu, Alan Language: Russian Year of Production: 2011 Country of Language: English Ruck Director: Fedor Bondarchuk Origin: USA Director: H.B. Halicki Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Sergei Dyachenko The term "going postal" has become the Writer: H.B. Halicki Year of Production: 2012 Country of Executive Producer: Alexander way we commonly refer to the deranged Executive Producer: H.B. Halicki Origin: USA/China Rodnyansky mental state of someone who goes on a Key Cast: H.B. Halicki An ambitious New York attorney travels Producer: Dmitriy Rudovskiy shooting spree. What pushes people over Delivery Status: Completed to Shanghai and quickly finds himself in Key Cast: Vasiliy Stepanov, Pyotr the edge? Why bloodshed and why now? Year of Production: 1974 Country of a legal mess. He enlists the aide of an Fyodorov, Aleksey Serebryakov, Yuliya And what is it about the US Postal Origin: USA eccentric group of characters to help Snigir Service that has made it a poster child The runaway theatrical hit in 1974, save his job. Delivery Status: Completed for workplace massacres? This grossing over 40 million dollars, defined JOCK 3D Year of Production: 2010 Country of documentary examines the growing the genre of the car-chase film. Its raw AKA: JOCK, THE HERO DOG Origin: 2010 phenomenon of spree killings in the action at its best, 93 cars destroyed in the 3D, Animation, Family (75 minutes) The year is 2157. A Russian spacecraft, United States. crash-crushing, car-slamming 40-minute Language: English piloted by 22 year old Maxim THE EDGE chase scene. The icon and star of Gone Director: Duncan MacNeillie Kammerer, crashes on the distant planet, Action/Adventure, Drama, Romance (90 min.) in 60 Seconds films is Eleanor (A Ford Executive Producer: Dennis Rice Saraksh. After Maxim discovers that the Language: Russian Mustang) and she’ll slam you on a Producer: Duncan MacNeillie planet is governed by five anonymous Director: Aleksei Uchitel rocket ride you’ll never forget!

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Romantic - Drama (102 min) Scott Woods Sturgis encounter hustlers, women, AMERICAN WORLD Language: English Key Cast: Corin Nemec, Brooke Hogan, corrupt politicians, and mobsters in this Director: Margaret Whitton Gina Holden, Julie Berman, Vanessa Lee action-packed journey reminiscent of PICTURES Writer: Roger Towne, Joe Coomer Evigan, Eric Scott Woods, Hilary Cruz Easy Rider. American World Pictures, 21700 Oxnard Producer: Margaret Whitton, Steven Delivery Status: Post Production St., Suite 1770, Woodland Hills, CA BOGGY CREEK Tabakin Huge, vicious sand dwelling sharks Horror (88 minutes) 91367 USA, Tel: 1.818.340.9004 Fax: Key Cast: Rachel Nichols, Jackson terrorize teenagers at a spring break Director: Brian T. Jaynes 1.818.340.9011. Hurst, Linda Emond beach festival. SAND SHARKS!!! Writer: Brian T. Jaynes, Jennifer Minar www.americanworldpictures.com, Delivery Status: Completed Starring Corin Nemec and Brooke Producer: Bruce A. Kahn, Christian [email protected] Year of Production: 2011 Country of Hogan. Remde Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor Origin: USA Key Cast: Melissa Carnell, Stephanie At Cannes: Mark Lester (President), PIRANHACONDA A man searching for his past, and a Sci-Fi (86 minutes) Honore Jeffrey Goldman (President of woman living in the moment, come Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Worldwide Distribution), Dana together when they pursue the origins of Director: Jim Wynorski At her family's secluded cabin a girl and Dubovsky (President of Production), Dee a stray parrot. Writer: Mike MacLean her friends are stalked by a giant man- Camp (Vice President of Acquisitions) Executive Producer: Roger Corman eating beast. Office: Stand: C6 JABBERWOCKY Sci-Fi (86 minutes) Producer: Forest King SOMEBODY'S HERO http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=12018 Director: Steven R. Monroe Key Cast: Michael Madsen, Rachel Family (79 min) Writer: Rafael Jordon, Raul Inglis Hunter, Shandi Finnessey, Teri Ivens, Director: Darin Beckstead Producer: Mark L. Lester, Dana Rib Hillis, Christina DeRosa, Cindy Writer: Darin Beckstead INFECTED Thriller Dubovsky, Aaron L. Gilbert Lucas Producer: Guillermo Suescum, Robyn K. Language: English Key Cast: Tahmoh Penikett, Michael Delivery Status: Post Production Bennett Director: Jason Dudek Worth, Kacey Barnfield, Ian Virgo Year of Production: 2012 Country of Key Cast: Christopher Gorham, Susan Writer: Jason Dudek In this Sci-Fi/Fantasy tale, Jabberwocky Origin: USA Misner, Arthur J. Nascarella, Novella Executive Producer: Mark L. Lester chronicles the story of a young squire Half Piranha. Half Anaconda. All terror. Nelson Producer: Greg Strasburg, Jason Dudek who, alongside his brother, must become GROUP SEX Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Vinnie Jones, Danny Glover, a warrior to save his people and the Comedy (89 min) After accidentally foiling a robbery, an Taylor Handley, Margo Harshman, woman he loves after a horrific beast is Director: Lawrence Trilling average New York City accountant is Beverly Mitchell, Tiffany Hines, Ryan unleashed on the Kingdom. Writer: Lawrence Trilling, Greg thrust into the spotlight and becomes a Pinkston, Leebo Freeman, CS Lee ANSWER THIS! Grunberg real-life superhero, inspiring a city and Delivery Status: Post Production Comedy (113 min) Producer: Greg Grunberg, Frank winning the woman he loves. Year of Production: 2012 Country of Language: English Rainone,Lawrence Trilling, Artist W. SPIRIT HUNTERS Origin: USA Director: Christopher Farah Robinson Thriller (99 min) When a corrupt pharmaceutical company Writer: Christopher Farah Key Cast: Greg Grunberg, Josh Cooke, Director: J.P. Pierce unleashes a deadly virus on a remote Producer: Mike Farah, Anna Wenger Odette Yustman, Rob Benedict, Kym Writer: Monte M. Moore farm, an ex-marine and his friends Key Cast: Christopher Gorham, Chris Whitley, Henry Winkler, Tom Arnold, Producer: Ace Underhill, Monte M. become its unwitting test subjects. Parnell, Arielle Kebbel, Kip Pardue, Kali Kathrine Narducci, Lisa Lampanelli Moore, J.P. Pierce Hawk Andy accidentally joins a sex addiction MERCY Key Cast: Doug Jones, Michael Dorn, Drama / Romance (87 minutes) Delivery Status: Completed recovery group to win the girl of his Robert Picardo, Zack Ward Director: Patrick Hoelck Year of Production: 2010 Country of dreams, and along the way meets a group Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Scott Caan Origin: USA of wild characters. The filming of a new ghost-hunting A group of frustrated academics finally Producer: Scott Caan, Vince Palomino, DRAGON WASPS reality show becomes deadly when the Phil Parmet get a shot at beer, women, and nerdy Sci-Fi (86 min) crew turns on each other. redemption when they enter a citywide Key Cast: Scott Caan, Erika Christensen, Language: English SINBAD AND THE MINOTAUR Dylan McDermott, James Caan trivia tournament. Director: Joe Knee Sci-fi (88 min) Delivery Status: Completed SAND SHARKS Writer: Rafael Jordan, Mark Atkins Director: Karl Zwicky A young novelist tries to write about Sci-Fi Executive Producer: Mark Lester Writer: Jim Noble love, but realizes he will first need some Director: Mark Atkins Producer: Anthony Fankhauser, JJ Kim Producer: Dale G. Bradley, Grant real-life experience before taking on the Producer: Dana Dubovsky, Mark L. Key Cast: Corin Nemec, Dominika Bradley, Mark L. Lester, Dana Dubovsky subject. Lester, Stan Spry, Anthony Fankhauser, Wolski, Nikollete Noel Key Cast: Manu Bennett, Steven Grives, Cameron Larson, Scott Wheeler, Eric A BIRD OF THE AIR Delivery Status: Post Production Holly Brisley Year of Production: 2012 Country of Delivery Status: Completed Origin: USA Legendary voyager Sinbad rescues a The military must battle the harsh jungle princess, deciphers a treasure map, and CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS environment, dangerous mercenaries and defeats the fearsome Minotaur to find the HE LICK AND CCESS ULTURE IS OW a new breed of giant, killer Dragon long-lost golden head of the Colossus of T C A C N Wasps. Rhodes. & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. JACK THE REAPER KILL KATIE MALONE Horror (86 min) Horror (90 min) Director: Kimberly Seilhamer Director: Carlos Ramos Jr. Producer: Mark Erikson, Sheri Reeves, Writer: Carlos Ramos Jr., Mark and Kimberly Seilhamer Onspaugh Click on Key Cast: Tony Todd, Douglas Tait, Producer: Carlton Hickman Sally Kirkland and Chris Bruno Key Cast: Dean Cain, Masiela Lusha, Blue Boxes When a group of teens set out on a field Stephen Colletti, Jonathan 'Lil J' trip to a railroad museum, they encounter McDaniel, Fernanda Romero to Access ‘Railroad Jack', who makes sure their Delivery Status: Completed bus crashes and they are forced to Three College students buy a ghost in an Available explore Railroad Jack's carnival, where online auction and become owners of a the reaper “picks” them off one by one. violent spirit seeking revenge. Company BORN TO RIDE HOMEWRECKER Action (90 min) Thriller (84 min) Trailers Director: James Fargo Director: T. Vaughan Producer: Martin Guigui, Dahlia Writer: Tom Vaughan, Kristy Dobkin Automatically Waingort, Michael Edwards Producer: Chris Uettwiller, Dolly Hall, Key Cast: Casper Van Dien, Patrick Courtney Wulfe Muldoon, William Forsythe, Theresa Key Cast: Mayra Leal, Shelley Calene- Do Your Part To Russell Black, Sarah Prikryl Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Combat Global Warming Two motorcycle riders on their way to Two newlyweds try to afford their dream

4 The Business of Film CANNES MAY 2012 CANNES PRODUCT GUIDE house by asking their best friend to help Kepper, Johnny Lee SYDNEY UNPLUGGED A FEW BEST MEN with the mortgage, but he soon brings After uncovering a Pentagon plot, an Director: Alex Proyas, Russell Crowe, Director: Stephan Elliott home a stunning temptress determined to elite Army commando team battles the Anthony Lapaglia, Rachel Ward, John Key Cast: Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall, achieve her own dark version of the rugged jungle, their own government, Curran, John Polson, Kieran Darcy- Kevin Bishop, Laura Brent, Olivia American dream. and a nearly unstoppable android soldier. Smith, David Michod, Toni Collette, Ray Newton-John THE FRANKENSTEIN SYNDROME HYENAS Lawrence, Liev Schreiber, Ivan Sen Delivery Status: Completed Horror (88 min) Thriller (92 min) Delivery Status: Pre-Production Year of Production: 2012 Director: Sean Tretta Director: Eric Weston Year of Production: 2012 From the writer and producers of “Death Writer: Sean Tretta (Screenplay), Mary Writer: Eric Weston SYDNEY UNPLUGGED PRE- at a Funeral” and the director of “The Shelley (Novel) Producer: James Keitel PRODUCTION ‘Sydney’ will be a Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Producer: Dustin Lowry, Noah Todd, Key Cast: Costas Mandylor, Christa feature length film comprised of twelve Desert” comes a destination wedding Sean Tretta, Tiffany Shepis Campbell, Rudolf Martin, Joshua Alba, segments. Each segment will be helmed gone horribly wrong. When DAVID Key Cast: Ed Lauter, Tiffany Shepis, Christina Murphy, Mesahach Taylor by a different director that will showcase (Xavier Samuel) goes to Australia to Louis Mandylor, Kristina Wayborn Delivery Status: Completed Australia’s premiere city through a marry the love of his life, his hapless Delivery Status: Completed Roving clans of shape-shifting creatures variety of themes and storylines.The friends give a whole new meaning to the A secret research group develops a prowl for human prey; they are hunted depth and diversity of Australia’s phrase 'for better or worse.’ The chaos- serum that brings the dead back to life, by one man seeking revenge for the filmmaking talent, both behind and in filled wedding day is a hilarious culture but with horrific results. death of his loved ones. front of the camera will be on display– clash between his friends and her family from the ‘up and coming’ to the POUND OF FLESH TERROR TRAP because blood is thicker than water, and Thriller (97 min) Thriller (86 min) internationally renowned. Set in a cross so are David's three best men! Director: Dan Garcia section of Sydney locales, the stories will Director: Tamar Simon Hoffs NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN Writer: Tamar Simon Hoffs Writer: Dan Garcia take place in different months and form a Director: Peter Templeman Producer: Tamar Simon Hoffs, Charley Producer: Dan Garcia portrait of a complete calendar year. Key Cast: Ryan Kwanten, Bojan Cabrera, BJ Ford, Alfred Sapse Key Cast: David James Elliott, Heather Ultimately ‘Sydney’ will illustrate the Novakovic, Alice Parkinson, Ryan Corr, Key Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Angus Marie Marsden, Jeff Fahey, Michael vibrant and unique cultural and social Sarah Snook Macfadyen, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Madsen tapestries of life in one of the world’s Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed most beloved and inspiring cities. Timothy Bottoms, Bellamy Young, Taryn SKY FORCE 3D Southern, Whitney Able, Dee Wallace A couple forced to spend the night in a HEART OF DARKNESS 3D Family Animation Delivery Status: Completed rundown rural motel must fight for their Adventure Sci-Fi Director: Ching Chan, Ma Kam Fai, A popular university professor (Malcolm lives against a group of sick, masked Director: Roger Donaldson (THE BANK Chung Ip McDowell) running an escort service and killers. JOB, THE RECRUIT) Key Cast: Tony Tang pimping the school's beautiful co-eds Delivery Status: Pre-Production Year of Production: 2012 must avoid the police when a girl turns Year of Production: 2012 Cocky young firefighter TINNY can't up dead. ARCLIGHT FILMS Based on one of the greatest novels of all wait to lead his own team, and soaring Arclight Films, 8447 Wilshire Boulevard, time by Joseph Conrad, a knuckle with confidence following a successful GROUPIE Suite 101, Beverly Hills, CA 90211 US, whitening awe inspiring adventure into Thriller (85 minutes) rescue he defies veteran commander Tel: +1.310.777.8855. the outer limits. APOCALYPSE 2388. Director: Mark L. Lester CAPTAIN BEN and recklessly attempts www.arclightfilms.com, Earth is on the brink of extinction. Writer: Randall Frakes a solo mission. But when the flames [email protected] Legendary explorer KURTZ is sent on a Producer: Mark L. Lester, Dana burst out of control it's Tinny who has to Sales Agent desperate last bid mission to scout an Dubovsky be rescued by Captain Ben who is killed At Cannes: Clay Epstein (VP Sales & unknown planet on the far side of the Key Cast: Taryn Manning, Hal Oszan, while saving him. Crushed by guilt, Acquisitions), Gary Hamilton (Managing universe. A planet that may sustain Eric Roberts Tinny abandons his dream and quits the Director), Chris Perry (Chief Operating human life. But communication with Delivery Status: Completed fire brigade. He resigns himself to the Officer), Ying Ye (Managing Director, Kurtz mysteriously ceases and rookie When a mysterious groupie joins dreary fate of hauling coal and forgets Easternlight FIlms), Jesica Andres flight officer MARLOW is assigned the legendary cursed band "The Dark his former life, until one day a fire (Coordinator), Lina Marrone perilous task of completing the objective. Knights," a series of unexplained breaks out in the mines and his old (International Sales) Tracking Kurtz into the unknown he murders derails their comeback tour. instincts return. After rescuing his fellow Office: Marché du Film - Booth: Lerins reaches it. A new earth. And a race of PARADOX S5 – S6, Tel: +33.4.92.99.33.04 beings at the dawn of time. But Kurtz miners Tinny realizes his true calling and Sci-fi (86 min) has his own plans for the new world and rejoins the Fire Brigade just as disaster Director: Brenton Spencer http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=12868 man's last hope for survival. And to strikes. With his former team, Tinny is Writer: Cristos N. Gage, Ruth Fletcher achieve it he will take man to the only called to action and finds himself facing Gage WILD SIDE place that will protect paradise. Into the greatest inferno any of them have Producer: Aaron Gilbert Crime Thriller darkness. encountered. To overcome it, he'll have Key Cast: Kevin Sorbo, Steph Song, Director: Jesse Baget to overcome the one thing even greater – MENTAL Christopher Judge, Alan C. Peterson, Key Cast: Nicholas Cage, Juno Temple Comedy his own fear of failing. Alisen Down Delivery Status: Pre-Production Director: P. J. Hogan (MY BEST RUN FOR YOUR WIFE Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2012 FRIEND’S WEDDING, MURIEL’S Comedy Homicide detective Sean Nault (Kevin When small time crook and Lila Belle WEDDING) Director: Ray Cooney and John Luton Sorbo) investigates a series of grisly Clyde’s squeeze, Jimmy, is shot to death Key Cast: Toni Collette, Liev Schreiber Key Cast: Judi Dench, Cliff Richards, murders on a parallel earth where after robbing a local pawn shop, Lila Delivery Status: Post Production Rolf Harris, Richard Briers, Barry Cryer, technology is powered by magic rather (Juno Temple), who is also the town's When a philandering father's wife is Russ Abbot, Maureen Lipman, Andrew than science. local beauty queen, finds herself alone committed following a nervous Sachs, Donald Sindon. and on the run with a cache of stolen TAKEDOWN breakdown, he impulsively hires free Delivery Status: Completed Thriller (96 min) diamonds. Falsely fingered by a sleazy spirited hitchhiker SHAZ (Toni Collette) Year of Production: 2012 reporter bent on relaunching his career to Director: Raul Sanchez Inglis to take care of his five misfit daughters. PREDESTINATION Writer: Raul Sanchez Inglis, Matt Kelly national stardom by fabricating stories The wild, charismatic Shaz transforms Sci-Fi Thriller Producer: Matt Kelly about the town’s sweetheart, Buck Twitty the girls from town jokes into forces to Director: Spierig Brothers Key Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Estella has everyone convinced Lila aka Liberty, be reckoned with, particularly making a Key Cast: Ethan Hawke Warren, Deborah Kara Unger not only robbed the pawn shop but mark on sixteen-year-old CORAL who Delivery Status: Pre-Production A security guard confronts his own past embarked on a killing spree that includes has never encountered anyone as A riveting adventure through time with as he uncovers and destroys a corporate her very own parents. With Odel, a fearless, cool and reckless before. But two detectives from a secret government sex slave smuggling conspiracy. ruthless, yet perversely charming killer Shaz has a secret, and when Coral time traveling agency designed to hell-bent on retrieving the diamonds and FLESH WOUNDS discovers the real reason Shaz has come prevent future killers and terrorists from Action (85 min) hot on her heels, Lila begins a journey to town she must make a decision. committing their crimes. Director: Dan Garcia across the land of the Delta Blues that Betray her hero, the person who's witnesses her transformation from small BRANDED Writer: Gabriel Saint changed her life, or follow her and AKA: MOSCOW 2017 Producer: Dan Garcia town beauty queen to America's most become just as crazy. Director: Alexander Doulerain and Jamie Key Cast: Kevin Sorbo, Heather Marie wanted femme fatale. Bradshaw Marsden, Bokeem Woodbine, Kirk Key Cast: Leelee Sobieski, Ed Stoppard,

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Max Von Sydow INBRED faces an uphill battle. Raised as a Sikh, Delivery Status: Completed BRANDED is a dark and mind-bending Dark Horror Comedy pursuing his passion has meant Year of Production: 2012 journey into a surreal, dystopian society Key Cast: Jo Hartley, James Doherty, abandoning his turban and his faith - a For ten years Chinese orphan MEI MEI where corporate brands have unleashed a Seamus O’Neill, James Burrows, Neil rebellion that sets him on a collision (Zhu Lin) has been supported by monstrous global conspiracy to get Leiper,Nadine Rose Mulkerrin, Terry course with his religiously devout father. donations from RANDALL (Guy Pearce) inside our minds and keep the population Haywood, Chris Waller An action-filled sports comedy about a in Australia who sends her postcards that disillusioned, dependent and passive. Delivery Status: Completed young man's journey to find himself in a describe his idyllic family life. But when One man’s Misha (Ed Stoppard) passion THE POWER OF FEW new adoptive land, "Breakaway" brings a the orphanage choir tours Australia, Mei to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy Dramatic Thriller dash of Bollywood to Canada's favorite Mei discovers the shocking truth - will lead to an epic battle with the Language: English sport. Randall, who she thought was the perfect hidden forces that really control our Director: Leone Marucci WILD SALOME father figure, is actually a felon, locked world. Key Cast: Christopher Walken, Christian Documentary/Drama up in prison. Randall never imagined he CRAWLSPACE Slater, Q'orianka Kilcher Director: Al Pacino would ever meet Mei Mei and wants Sci-Fi Action Thriller Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Oscar Wilde (play), Al Pacino nothing to do with her. His donations Director: Justin Dix Year of Production: 2012 (concept) were just an attempt to dull the guilt of Key Cast: Ditch Davey, Peta Sergeant, Transpiring over twenty minutes on one Key Cast: Al Pacino, Jessica Chastain his past crimes. But undeterred by his John Brumpton, Leslie Simpson, Amber afternoon, 'The Power of Few' is a time- Delivery Status: Completed reluctance and recognizing his Clayton bending thriller starring Christopher Year of Production: 2012 loneliness, Mei Mei slips away from the Delivery Status: Completed Walken, Christian Slater, Q'orianka From virtuoso actor and artist Al Pacino, choir every day to visit Randall in From producers of Wolf Creek and Red Kilcher and Anthony Anderson. The film whose screen performances have shaped prison. However, in order to make Hill. A special forces unit sent to contain weaves together the lives of five unusual the landscape of modern cinema, comes money to stay in Australia Mei Mei a top secret underground military characters unknowingly connected to an his most volatile, decadent and personal naively becomes entangled with compound, come under attack from intricate smuggling operation on a day of vision yet: WILDE SALOME. Pacino Randall's crooked associates and he unknown forces. What seemed like a danger, mystery and transformation. takes us on a journey as he unravels and realizes where she's headed. To save Mei simple mission, turns deadly as soldiers Each character's personal struggle re-interprets Oscar Wilde's once banned Mei from his fate Randall must make an turn up mangled without a trace of a explores the roots of violent crime. A and most controversial work SALOME, impossible sacrifice. But by making it he killer. desperate teenager assaults a store clerk a scintillating tale of lust, greed and one won't just be saving Mei Mei, he might REDD INC in an effort to bring medicine to his woman's scorn. Working in the same be saving them both. Horror ailing baby brother. While delivering a style as his acclaimed LOOKING FOR HEARTBEAT AWAY Director: Daniel Krige mysterious package, a risky courier RICHARD, Pacino uses an uncanny mix Family Musical/Comedy Key Cast: Nicholas Hope, Kelly becomes the target of a ruthless gang of documentary, fiction and Director: Gale Edwards Paterniti, Sam Reid, James Mackay, Alan when she rescues a man on the run. Two improvisation to get to the root of Key Cast: Isabel Lucas, Sebastian Dukes,Haley McElhinney, Daniel Krige undercover agents conflict with the rules WILDE SALOME. From Barry Navidi, Gregory, William Zappa, Colin Friels Delivery Status: Completed of torture while raiding a terrorist cell. In the Producer of THE MERCHANT OF Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2012 an effort to feed himself, a delusional VENICE, and Robert Fox, the Producer Year of Production: 2012 Convicted 'Headhunter' serial killer and homeless man steals a gun from a cop of THE HOURS, with gorgeous KEVIN (Sebastian Gregory) is a former corporate manager, THOMAS and sells it to the wrong guy. Amid this cinematography from Benoit Delomme nineteen year-old with a dream: to play “REDD” REDDMANN (Nicholas Hope) tale of conflict and danger, one character (THE MERCHANT OF VENICE and lead guitar for a famous rock and roll is demented from various experimental emerges as a symbol of hope by creating THE PROPOSITION) WILDE band. But being a Rock God in the procedures he endured at the unorthodox a ripple effect that runs through each SALOME promises to be a profound sleepy harbour town of Montague isn't mental asylum from which he has now characters path setting forth a shift in vision of religion, politics, violence and easy, especially when your father escaped. Redd maintains his innocence reality in a way that only the spirit of sexuality, from one of the greatest artists (William Zappa) is the proud leader of and is determined to prove it. He creates youth can. of our time. the town's Marching Band. As the band Redd Incorporated, a twisted version of DANGEROUS LIAISONS THE ASSASSINS prepare for the upcoming the modern office environment, filling it Romance Thriller Epic Action championships, Kevin's father is hit by a with six abducted people he holds Director: Hur Jin-ho Director: Zhao Lin Shan truck and Kevin is forced to take over as directly responsible for his incarceration. Key Cast: Jang Dong-Gun, Zhang Ziyi, Key Cast: Chow Yun Fat, Crystal Liu Yi musical director. At the same time, the His captive 'human resources' are Cecilia Cheung, Shawn Dou, Lisa Lu Fei, Tamaki Hiroshi, Alec Su You Pen, Mayor (Colin Friels) decides to close literally chained to their desks and forced Delivery Status: Completed Annie Yi Neng Jing, Qiu Xin Zhi down the band in order to make way for to perform the impossible job of finding As war looms in Shanghai, glamorous Delivery Status: Post Production a tourist development project. But Kevin the real killer. They must work in libertine MO JIEYU (Cecilia Cheung) Year of Production: 2012 strikes a deal and the Mayor agrees that grueling circumstances to prove the runs into playboy XIE YIFAN (Jang In the year 198 BC, Cao Cao (CHOW if the band wins first prize at the unprovable or face gruesome Don-Gun) an ex boyfriend who's never YUN FAT), the Prime Minister of Han competition then their future is assured. consequences. stopped loving her and persuades him to Dynasty, ventured to the east and With the help of MANDY (Isabel Lucas) SHADOW PEOPLE play a treacherous game. Xie must defeated China’s greatest warrior Lv Bu, - the Mayor's daughter - Kevin must get Supernatural Thriller seduce the innocent and naïve DU terrifying every ambitious warlord across the band on his side, re-arrange an iconic Director: Matthew Arnold FENYU (Zhang Ziyi) and then dump the country. Several years later, after rock song for brass, and totally overhaul Key Cast: Alison Eastwood, Dallas her. But the game becomes increasingly taking the Han Emperor under his wing their dated routine..... All in four weeks... Roberts dangerous as Xie falls in love with Du, a Cao crowned himself King of Wei. He And of course, his father must never find Delivery Status: Completed game that will lead them all towards built a magnificent Bronze Sparrow out. Small town radio personality CHARLIE tragic and shocking consequences. Set in Island to symbolize his power and SHADOW PEOPLE CROWE (Dallas Roberts) is thrust into a 1930s Shanghai – the glamorous, rumors spread that he would replace the Supernatural Thriller mystery when a strange caller relates a tumultuous “Paris of the East” – this is Emperor. Meanwhile, young lovers Mu Director: Matthew Arnold terrifying experience during Crowe's late an adaptation of the French novel ‘Les Shun (TAMAKI HIROSHI) and Ling Jv Key Cast: Alison Eastwood, Dallas night call-in show. At the same time, Liaisons dangereuses’ by Choderlos de (CRYSTAL LIU YI FEI) were taken Roberts CDC Public Health Agent, SOPHIE Laclos, upon which DANGEROUS from a prison camp to a hidden tomb Delivery Status: Completed LANCOMBE (Alison Eastwood), is hot LIASONS (1988), which starred Glenn where they spent five cruel years Year of Production: 2012 on the trail of the cause of the rare Close and John Malkovich, was also together being trained as assassins for a SHADOW PEOPLE is a psychological- medical condition known as SUNDS based. secret mission. In the year 220 BC thriller that explores the rare medical (Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death BREAKAWAY astronomical signs predict dramatic phenomenon known as SUNDS(Sudden Syndrome). Her investigations entwine Comedy change. As a result, Cao’s son Cao Pi Unexplained Nocturnal Death her with Charlie's own discoveries and Language: English (QIU XIN ZHI) and Cao’s followers Syndrome). Millions of people across the take them both into a dark world and a Director: Robert Lieberman urge Cao to become the new Emperor. globe have had encounters with what decades old cover-up about the Key Cast: Vinay Virmani, Russell Peters, However opposing forces plot against they describe as dark, shadowy creatures phenomenon we now call, The Shadow Anupam Kher, Rob Lowe, Camilla Belle him. that visit them at night. Sometimes People. Once you open the door to the Delivery Status: Completed 33 POSTCARDS horrifying, sometimes deadly, these mystery...you’ll never sleep soundly Year of Production: 2012 Drama nocturnal intruders have been described again. RAJVEER (Vijay Virmani) dreams of Director: Pauline Chan as early as man's first recorded writings. being a professional hockey player but as Key Cast: Guy Pearce, Zhu Lin, Claudia But what are they? And what do they an Indian in a traditionally white sport he Karvan, Elaine Jin, Lincoln Lewis want? Small town radio personality

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CHARLIE CROWE (Dallas Roberts) is Supernatural Thriller destroying them both in the process. thrust into the mystery when a strange Director: Kaare Andrews CAUGHT INSIDE ARRI WORLDSALES caller relates a terrifying experience Key Cast: Jessica Lowndes, Juliana Psychological Thriller ARRI Worldsales, Tuerkenstr. 89, during Crowe's late night call-in show. Guill, Ryan Donowho, Jake Weary, Director: Adam Blaiklock Munich, Bavaria 80799 Germany, Tel: At the same time, CDC Public Health Landon Liboiron Key Cast: Ben Oxenbould, Daisy Betts, 0049.(0)89.3809.1288 Fax: Agent, SOPHIE LANCOMBE (Alison Delivery Status: Completed Sam Lyndon, Simon Lyndon, Leeanna 0049.(0)89.3809.1619. Eastwood), is hot on the trail of the Year of Production: 2012 Walsman, Harry Cook, Peter Phelps www.arri- cause of the rare medical condition Having lost her pilot mother to a tragic Delivery Status: Completed mediaworldsales.de,[email protected] known as SUNDS. Her investigations plane accident rookie aviator ADDIE's Year of Production: 2012 e entwine her with Charlie's own (Jessica Lowndes) father has forbidden When a tight-knit group of surfers Sales Agent discoveries and take them both into a her to fly. Nevertheless, determined to venture to a secluded island paradise on At Cannes: Antonio Exacoustos (Head of dark world and a decades old cover-up follow in her mother's footsteps she the 'surfari' of their lives, they make the Worldsales), Moritz Hemminger about the phenomenon we now call, The defiantly makes her debut flight taking mistake of bringing the one thing that (Director of Sales and Acquisitions), Shadow People. Once you open the door her friends to a rock concert in an eight can tear them apart. A beautiful young Wolfram Skowronnek-Schaer to the mystery...you'll never sleep seater when disaster strikes. A freak woman. As tensions boil over and (Consultant), Sylvia Edelmann (Sales soundly again . mechanical failure first sends the tiny friendships fall to the side, a monster Executive) PANIC AT ROCK ISLAND plane climbing through a storm to an emerges from within the most revered Office: Lérins - Booth S9a, Tel: Disaster Thriller impossible height, and then plummeting and feared amongst them. A monster ++33(0)4.9299.32 01 Director: Tony Tilse through a terrifying, inexplicable mist. who will turn the dream vacation into a Key Cast: Grant Bowler, Vince After regaining control, Addie and her nightmare fight for survival. http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1231 Colosimo, Damien Walshe-Howling, passengers find themselves lost in a SCARY OR DIE Jessiva Tovey, Dee Smart, Simone mysterious cloud bank and are Horror PORFIRIO Kessell, Anna Hutchinson confronted with a horrifying realization - Director: Michael Emanuel, Bob Drama, Feature Film based on real Delivery Status: Completed the very ground beneath them has Badway, Igor Meglic events (106 minutes) Year of Production: 2012 vanished and a malevolent force lurking Key Cast: Corbin Bleu, Bill Oberst Jr, Language: Spanish In the middle of a the beautiful harbor of in the clouds wants them dead. Domiziano Arcangeli, Nicole Moore, Director: Alejandro Landes Writer: Alejandro Landes Sydney, on the eve of the biggest public UNREQUITED Alexandra Choi live music party of the year, a body is Psychological Thriller Delivery Status: Completed Co-Production Partners: Carmelita, discovered ravaged by an mysterious Director: Jason Epperson Year of Production: 2012 Spain, Campo Cine, Argentine, Control contagion and Chief Medical Examiner Key Cast: Michael Welch, Sarah Habel, In a tapestry of tinseltown terror tales, a Z Films, Uruguay, ATOPIC, France JIM (Grant Bowler) immediately appeals David Keith, Clare Carey, Justin Boldoni flesh eating clown protects the one he Executive Producer: Francisco Aljure, for quarantine. But the party's too Delivery Status: Completed craves above all others, a dirty cop Jorge Manrique Behrens, Maja important to the city's coffers to cancel Year of Production: 2012 squares off with a necromancer, a Zimmermann and Jim's fears for the public become UNREQUITED tells the story of BEN mysterious beauty and a lonely heart Producer: Francisco Aljure & Alejandro personal when he learns his children JACOBS (Michael Welch), a troubled look for love in all the wrong places, Landes; Production Company: FRANJA ELMO (Christian Byers) and NINA young man who, on his 18th birthday, illegal Mexican zombies rise up, and a NOMO, Colombia (Jessica Tovey) are both at the event. must leave the group home for "troubled cajun sorcerer's gift of everlasting love Key Cast: Porfirio Ramirez Aldana, With the help of government spook teens", where he has been living for the goes awry. Jarlinsson Ramirez Reinoso, Yor Jasbleidy Santos Torres HIRSCH (Vince Colosimo), Jim takes past several months. After moving back BEREAVEMENT the law into his own hands and closes off in with his mother, Ben discovers that Thriller Horror Delivery Status: Completed all access to the event. But instead of his girlfriend JESSICA MORGAN Director: Stevan Mena Country of Origin: Colombia controlling the situation, a riot erupts that (Sarah Habel) has moved on with her life Key Cast: Michael Belhn, Alaxandra Confined to a universe that stretches throws the entire city into bedlam. With and is now dating an older college guy. Daddario, Peyton List only from bed to wheelchair, Porfirio – a the world collapsing around him, Jim Desperate for love and unable to cope Year of Production: 2012 man in diapers who sells call time on his discovers that not only has his wife with losing Jessica, Ben's troubled past In 1989, six year old MARTIN cell phone in a faraway city on the DENNY (Dee Smart) infiltrated the catches up with him as he kidnaps her in BRISTON was kidnapped from his outskirts of the Colombian Amazon - deadly pandemonium to find their an attempt to regain her affection. backyard swing in Minersville, dreams that he can fly. children, but the virus is no accident, and Spiraling out of control and on a very Pennsylvania. GRAHAM SUTTER, a THE DOMINO EFFECT the people responsible for it are the last dangerous path, Ben must decide psychotic recluse, kept Martin Drama (100 minutes) he'd ever suspect... whether to let her go, or to hold on to the imprisoned on his derelict pig farm, Language: English, Dutch, Chinese (Mandarin), Hindu ALTITUDE one person he loves, even if it means forcing him to witness and participate in unspeakable horrors. Chosen at random, Director: Paula van der Oest his victim's screams were drowned out Writer: Paula van der Oest by the rural countryside. For five years, Co-Production Partners: Mike Downey CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Martin's whereabouts have remained a & Sam Taylor mystery, until the 17 year old ALLISON Producer: Kees Kasander THE CLICK AND ACCESS CULTURE IS NOW MILLER (ALEXANDRA DADDARIO) Key Cast: James D'Arcy, David Hayman, Harriet Walters, Theo Maassen, Jelka & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. comes to live with her uncle, JONATHAN (MICHAEL BIEHN). van Houten, Bracha van Doesburgh, Xu While exploring her new surroundings, Linshu, Yang Gang, Indraneel Allison discovers that things aren't quite Bhattacharya, Sakina Jaffrey, Tiya Sircar, right at the farmhouse down the road. Manish Dayal, Priyamvada Sawant Click on Her curiosty disturbs a hornet's nest of Delivery Status: Post Production evil and despair that, once torn apart, can Year of Production: 2012 Country of never be closed. Origin: The Netherlands Blue Boxes „If global economy came to a sudden stop what would be the effect on families to Access worldwide? 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Key Cast: Christiane Paul, Stipe Erceg, Origin: U.S.A. Producer: Elaine Wickham Richy Müller, Marta Martin, Laura Roge The true untold story of a street dancer Key Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Emily ARTIST VIEW Delivery Status: Post Production who changed pop history...forever. Beecham, Susannah York Year of Production: 2012 Country of Delivery Status: Completed ENTERTAINMENT LEAVE IT ON THE FLOOR Artist View Entertainment, 4425 Irvine Origin: Germany Documentary - Music - Panorama Year of Production: 2009 Country of Ave., Studio City, California 91602 USA, Dakaria and Silvania, 12-year-old half- Berlinale 2012 (109min) Origin: United Kingdom Tel: 1.818.752.2480 Fax: vampire sisters, move from Transylvania Language: English Joanna is about to graduate from 1.818.752.9339. to Germany. Here the girls have to Director: Sheldon Larry University with her whole life set up for http://www.artistviewent.com, become accustomed to the conditions of Writer: Glenn Gaylord her, but she has decided to face up to a [email protected] human daily life: that is, go to school Executive Producer: Sheldon Larry, truth she has been avoiding her whole Distributor during the day, use lots of sun block and Marc L. Bailin life. Since she was small, she has had the At Cannes: Scott Jones (President), Jay fly during nighttime hours only. The Producer: Sheldon Larry, Jeffrey Larry, desire to become a Nun. Joyce (Vice President, Worldwide Sales) most important difficulty, however, is to Adam Larry, Glenn Gaylord HUGH HEFNER: PLAYBOY, Office: Riviera D8, Tel: find friends as they always need to be Key Cast: Ephraim Sykes, Miss Barbie- ACTIVIST AND REBEL +33(0)4.92.99.32.50 cautious about keeping the truth to Q, Phillip Evelyn, James Alsop, Andre Documentary (124min) themselves. Myers Language: English http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1004 DIE ANDERE HEIMAT Delivery Status: Screening Director: Brigitte Berman Drama (180 minutes) Year of Production: 2011 Country of Co-Production Partners: Metaphor Films SHE WANTS ME Language: German Origin: USA Producer: Victor Solnicki, Brigitte Comedy (90 min) Director: Edgar Reitz From Beyonce's musical team comes a Berman Key Cast: Josh Gad (MTV's Good Vibes, Writer: Edgar Reitz, Gert Heidenreich dance musical extravaganza that follows Key Cast: Hugh Hefner, Gene Simmons, Love & Other Drugs, The Rocker), Co-Production Partners: Les Films du a young man who enters the Los Angeles Jenny McCarthy, Mike Wallce, Dick Kristen Ruhlin (Frame of Mind, Life- Losange ballroom scene. Gregory, Revered Jesse Jackson, Tony ers), Hilary Duff (Lizzie McGuire, Producer: Christian Reitz SEANCE: THE SUMMONING Bennett, James Caan, Joan Baez, George Cinderella Story, Cheaper by the Dozen), Key Cast: Jan Schneider, Marita Supernatural Horror Lucas Charlie Sheen (Two and a Half Men, Breuer,Rüdiger Kriese, Maximilian Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Wall Street) Scheidt, Melanie Fouché, Eva Director: Alex Wright Year of Production: 2010 Country of Delivery Status: Completed Zeidler,Antonio Theresa Bill, Philine Writer: Alex Wright Origin: Canada Year of Production: 2012 Lembeck, Barbara Philipp, Reinhard Executive Producer: John Carbone, John A revealing look at the outspoken, An up and coming Hollywood Paulus G. Carbone, Mark Sanders flamboyant founder of the Playboy screenplay writer finds himself in a Delivery Status: In Production Producer: Chris Webster, Alex Wright empire. Rare footage and compelling tricky situation when an A-list actress Year of Production: 2012 Country of Key Cast: Bobby Campo, Nazneen interviews present a brilliant and shows interest in the role he has already Origin: Germany Contractor, Chris Olivero, Devon Odgen entertaining snapshot of the life of an promised to his girlfriend. Delivery Status: Screening extraordinary man and the controversies PROFILE OF A KILLER Year of Production: 2011 Country of that surrounded him. Thriller (90 min.) ARROW Origin: Canada 1 A MINUTE Key Cast: Joey Pollari (The ENTERTAINMENT Four college kids video themselves Docu-drama (90min) Inbetweeners, Avalon High), Gabriele holding a sance in the city morgue and Language: English Angieri, Emily Fradenburgh (Valor's INC. summon a demon, unleashing a Director: Namrata Singh Gujral Kids, Ghost from the Machine) Arrow Entertainment Inc., 7 Givins St., nightmare from which there is no escape. Writer: Namrata Singh Gujral Delivery Status: Completed Toronto, Ontario M6J 2X5 Canada, Tel: THE ATHLETE Co-Production Partners: UniGlobe Year of Production: 2012 1.416.516.0815 Fax: 1.416.850.9973. AKA: ATLETU Entertainment A highly intelligent serial killer has the http://www.arrow-entertainment.com, Docu-Drama (93min.) Producer: Nayomi Cooper police baffled, and fearing for who will [email protected] Language: English, Amharic Key Cast: Olivia Newton-John, Manrata be next, an acclaimed "profiler" is Sales Agent Director: Davey Frankel, Rasselas Singh Gujral, Melissa Etheridge, Jaclyn brought onto the case. Now the one man At Cannes: Steve Arroyave (CEO), Tania Lakew Smith, Diahann Carroll, Barbara Mori, who could solve the complex murders.... Sarra (Director of Sales) Writer: Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew Lisa Ray, Mumtaz, William Baldwin, just might be the next victim. Office: Riviera E21, Tel: Producer: Davey Frankel, Rasselas Priya Butt, Deepak Chopra FATAL CALL +33(0)4.92.99.33.31 Lakew, Darryn Welch Delivery Status: Completed Action/Thriller (90 min) Key Cast: Rasselas Lakew, Dag Year of Production: 2010 Country of Language: English http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1134 Malmberg, Ruta Gedmintas Origin: USA Key Cast: Jason London, Kevin Sorbo, Delivery Status: Completed In this powerful and inspirational docu- Danielle Harris, Lochlyn Munro THE SURREALIST Year of Production: 2009 Country of Delivery Status: Completed Drama drama, international celebrities come Origin: U.S.A., Ethiopia, Germany together to promote awareness and Year of Production: 2012 Country of Language: English The amazing true story of Ethiopian Origin: USA Director: Philippe Mora prevention, as well as support, survivors Olympic marathon champion Abebe of women's cancers. Starting a new life in the big city, Mitch Writer: Philippe Mora Bikila. meets Amy while out with co-workers. SNIFF: THE DOG MOVIE Producer: Frederick G. Bestall, Philippe Amy, a woman out of his league, draws Mora MAKE BELIEVE Docu-drama (85min.) Documentary (91min) Language: English him into an exciting romance. Soon, Key Cast: Alan Cumming, Judy Davis Language: English Mitch finds himself accused of murder Delivery Status: Pre-Production Director: Barry Stone Director: J. Clay Tweel Writer: Barry Stone and on the run, relentlessly pursued by Year of Production: 2012 Country of Co-Production Partners: Firefly Theatre both the law and an unknown killer. Origin: Australia Producer: Kim Webster & Films, Level 22 Key Cast: Neil Morrissey, Richard Huw, Confronted by both his past and his Surrealist Dali explodes onto the world Producer: Steven Klein present, Mitch must find an ultimate stage in drama and hilarity. The wildest Amanda Plummer Key Cast: Siphewe Fangase, Haroki Delivery Status: Completed solution before time runs out! ride yet in 3D. The unfilmable has Hara, Bill Koch, Krystyn Lambert, become filmable in three dimensions. Year of Production: 2010 Country of CONCRETE BLONDES Derek McKee, Nkumbuzo Ngonyana, Origin: USA Action/Thriller (90 min) BEYOND THE MOONWALK Lance Burton Two British actors, hired to be the dress- Language: English Drama Delivery Status: Completed Director: Nicholas Kalikow Language: English up concierges of a high-end San Year of Production: 2010 Country of Francisco dog hotel, decide to take the Writer: Nicholas Kalikow, Warren Director: David Christopher Loya Origin: USA Thomas & Chris Writer: Gary Bickal and Geron Canidate opportunity of a year-long contract to Six of the world's best young magicians make a documentary about dogs. Producer: Sean C. Covel Co-Production Partners: Vision 4 Media pursue the title of Teen World Champion Key Cast: Carly Pope, Samaire Executive Producer: Keith G. Myers, and lead us on their personal journeys of Armstrong, Diora Baird, John Rhys- David Christopher Loya, Steve Arroyave transformation through magic. Davies Producer: Paula Moreno, Geron THE CALLING Delivery Status: Completed Canidate, Gary Bickal Drama (90min.) Year of Production: 2012 Country of Key Cast: TBA Language: English Origin: USA Delivery Status: In Development Director: Jan Dunn Three girls discover $3 million in Year of Production: 2012 Country of Writer: Jan Dunn

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missing drug money and decide to steal Year of Production: 2011 Country of female Captain in the SAS) is found by film the entire family will enjoy. it. All goes well until one of the girls Origin: USA Italian special forces and returns to the CHICAGO OVERCOAT boyfriend concocts a plan to steal the Sheriff Ruben Ramirez finds a mute boy UK to investigate matters Action/Adventure money from the girls to pay off his debts living alone in the woods and takes a ADVENTURE OF GRIZZLY Director: Brian Caunter to a vicious two-faced gangster. special interest to find out who he is. The MOUNTAIN Writer: John W. Bosher, Brian Caunter, SHADOW WITNESS investigation reveals the boy's name is Family Andrew Alex Dowd, Josh Staman Thriller (90 min.) Samuel Bleak and uncovers the shocking Director: Eric Hendershot Producer: John W. Bosher Key Cast: Randall Batinkoff (X-Men: secrets of his past, including the tragic Writer: Eric Hendershot Key Cast: Frank Vincent (Goodfellas), First Class, Kick-Ass), Cat Tibo death of his mother. One thing is Producer: John Goodwell Katherine Narducci (The Sopranos), (Barbie), Elaine Hendrix (Parent Trap), certain... those who meet Samuel will Key Cast: Dalin Christiansen (Horse Mike Starr (The Black Dahlia), Stacy Kevin Sorbo (Soul Surfer) never forget his story. Crazy), David Stevens, Brittany Keach (American History X), Armand Year of Production: 2012 TROPHY KIDS Armstrong Assante (Hoffa) When a detective finds himself in the Comedy (90min) Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed middle of an Internal Affairs Language: English Year of Production: 2009 Year of Production: 2009 investigation, he is shocked when he Key Cast: Ryan Eggold, David When their father's ranch is threatened, The fates of an aging hitman and a learns a young girl holds all the answers. Gallagher, Tahyna Tozzi, Nathan Lee the two kids must work together to washed up detective become entwined However, the bigger problem is that she's Graham, Tania Raymonde protect the horses they love from when one last job leads to one last been reported missing and he's the main Delivery Status: Completed poachers--and in the process discover for chance to settle an old score. suspect. Year of Production: 2011 Country of themselves the secrets hidden in Grizzly CHRISTMAS ANGEL NATIONAL LAMPOON PRESENTS Origin: USA Mountain. Family ROBODOC A Manhattan playboy desires to have a BEDROOMS Director: Brian Brough Comedy (90 min.) film produced based on his party Drama Writer: Scott Champion, Brittany Key Cast: Alan Thicke (Growing Pains), lifestyle and hires a self-destructive Director: Youssef Delara, Michael D. Wiscombe David Faustino (Married with Children), aspiring playwright to write the script. Olmos, Victor Teran Producer: Brian Brough, Brittany Corin Nemec (Parker Lewis Can't As the mismatched pair struggles to Writer: Yousef Delara, Wynne Renz, Wiscombe Loose), David DeLuise (Wizards of complete the script they also find Victor Teran, Rebecca Woolf Key Cast: Academy Award® Nominee Waverly Place) themselves attracted to the same girl Producer: Shab Azma, Amir Delara, Bruce Davison (X-Men, Runaway Jury), Year of Production: 2012 which leads to a comical yet tragic tale Victor Teran, Youssef Delara KC Clyde (The Wild Stallion), Kari When an innovative health care company of three self-absorbed souls looking for Key Cast: Jordan Belfi (Surrogates, TV's Hawker (Bonneville) unveils RoboDoc, an android physician fame and fortune in the Big Apple. "Entourage"), Julie Benz (Saw V, TV's Delivery Status: Completed so carefully programmed it cannot make MISADVENTURES OF THE "Dexter"), Xander Berkeley (Terminator Year of Production: 2009 a medical mistake, a greedy medical DUNDERHEADS 2: Judgment Day), Moon Bloodgood Ashley (KARI HAWKER) feels alone malpractice lawyer sees a threat to his Adventure (90min) (Terminator Salvation), Barry Bostwick this Christmas as she searches fruitlessly livelihood. He'll stop at nothing to see Language: English (TV's "Cougar Town" & "Spin City"), for a job. But her neighbor Nick RoboDoc reduced to a heap of wires and Key Cast: Olympia Dukakis, Haley Joel Sarah Clarke (Twilight: Eclipse), Jesse (BRUCE DAVISON) knows exactly software. Osment,Alison Brie Garcia (Locker 13), Dee Wallace (E.T. what to do. He offers her a job to be his FLIGHT OF THE SWAN Delivery Status: Completed The Extra Terrestrial) assistant in the best work of all: helping Thriller (90min) Year of Production: 2011 Country of Delivery Status: Completed others. There?s only one catch: Ashley Language: English Origin: USA Year of Production: 2010 cannot tell anyone her new boss is a Key Cast: James D' Arcy, Alicia Witt, Meet the Dunderheads, an eccentric Four distinct stories set in four Secret Santa! Can she keep her big secret Colm Meaney, Linda Gray, Tom family that's been in the mountains for bedrooms. An evocative drama about the from nosy reporter Will (KC CLYDE)? Frederic, Larry Hagman far too long. Now one step ahead of the walls that separate people, the heartbreak CLOSED FOR THE SEASON Delivery Status: Completed law, Grandma Ira flees to Canada with and infidelity that are often the result and Horror Year of Production: 2011 Country of her two dysfunctional teenage grandkids the redemption that is possible when we Director: Jay Woelfel Origin: USA across the American West into a comic choose to speak the truth and tear down Writer: Jay Woelfel A young idealist is recruited by a US collision with the mainstream world. those walls. Producer: Jay Ellison, Jon D. Wagner multinational company and as he climbs CREEP VAN BELOW THE BELTWAY Key Cast: Aimee Brooks (Shark), the corporate ladder he loses friends, his Horror (90min) Drama Damian Maffei, William Waters, Joe family, his values and gradually Language: English Director: Dave Fraunces Unger (Cold Ones) transforms into the person he has always Key Cast: Brian Kolodziej, Angelina Writer: Jim Wareck, Brad Weir Delivery Status: Completed despised. Completely caught up in a web Armani, Collin Bernsen Producer: Jim Wareck Year of Production: 2011 of intrigue that tightens around him like Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Tate Donovan (Hercules), Kip Trapped in a forgotten amusement park, a vice, his path evolves into a nerve- Year of Production: 2011 Country of Pardue (Imaginary Heroes), Sarah Clarke a young girl finds herself terrorized by rending adventure of relentless conflicts Origin: USA (24), Spencer Garrett (Transformers), the living memories of the park. She and unexpected reversals. When Campbell, a vehicle-less 20- Annie Wersching (24), Xander Berekeley must break free from the park's grasp HUNTED BY NIGHT something slacker, innocently makes the (Taken) before she becomes its next victim. Action (90min) mistake of answering a FOR SALE sign Delivery Status: Completed CODE 207 Language: English placed on a dilapidated van, suspense Year of Production: 2010 Thriller, Action Key Cast: Jencarlos Canela, (Latin Pop and action take over as he is suddenly Washington DC, a town filled with Director: Tino Struckman star, TV's "Mi Corazón Insiste"), Juan C. caught-up in a deadly game of cat and political movers and shakers, consumes a Writer: Tino Struckmann Bofill, Al Galvez, Sonya Smith mouse that puts everyone close to him in former Congressional staffer that has Producer: Michael Costanza, David Delivery Status: Completed mortal danger. fallen from grace tries to get back in the Effler, Steven Effler, Mike Kobeck, Vito Year of Production: 2011 31 NORTH 62 EAST political game. Lapiccola, Milo Popp, Read Ridley In the Florida Everglades, three men on a Thriller BOATHOUSE DETECTIVES Key Cast: Jack Dimich, Tino hunting trip find bails of drugs just Director: Tristan Loraine Family Struckmann, Caspar von Winterfeldt, Jill dropped from an airplane. The men must Writer: Tristan Loraine, Leofwine Director: Eric Hendershot Headrick, Tiffany Anne Hughes, decide whether to be law-abiding Loraine Writer: Eric Hendershot Year of Production: 2011 citizens and report the drugs or take the Producer: Tristan Loraine Producer: Arizona Taylor Mack, an Army Ranger returning from drugs and sell them for millions of Key Cast: John Rhys-Davies (Lord of Key Cast: Ella Harris, Mason Johnson, the war is suddenly faced with a new dollars. Their decisions will take them on the Rings), Marina Sirtis (Star Trek: Oscar Hoggan, Cameron Phelts, war as his wife is kidnapped and he is spine-tingling confrontations with drug Enterprise), Heather Peace (The Devil's McKenzie Richards, Stacee Riekhoff, lead through town by corrupt police dealers who both outnumber... and Tattoo), Craig Fairbass (The Bank Job) Darren Ewing officers to an abandoned prison where outgun them. Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2010 the slick dealer Savage has set up shop SAMUEL BLEAK Year of Production: 2009 From the director of CLUBHOUSE surrounded by henchmen. Drama (90min) An elite SAS unit's position is revealed DETECTIVES comes BOATHOUSE COFFIN Language: English by the British Prime Minister to ensure DETECTIVES where four unlikely Thriller Key Cast: Deborah Kara Unger, David an arms deal goes ahead and to secure heroes go on an extraordinary mission Director: Kipp Tribble & Derik Wingo Zayas, Keith David, Jaime Murray, his re-election. All soldiers in the SAS with a ticking deadline, dead ends, false Writer: Kipp Tribble James Russo unit are thought to have died, until 2 leads, mistaken identities, and near Producer: Spencer F. Johnson, Kipp Delivery Status: Completed months later, when one of them (a misses in this high octane, kid driven Tribble, David Lanham, George

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Maraville, David Stever, Derik Wingo point. The women underestimate the generations until it ends up in the hands operative finds himself being chased Key Cast: Kevin Sorbo (SOUL consequences when they take matters of a young man who must choose to use through jungles, spying in underground SURFER, HAWAII 5-0, HERCULES), into their own hands as their opponent its power for good or for evil. waterways, and falling in love with an Bruce Davison, Johnny Alonso, Sunny forces them into a desperate situation, KINGS OF APPLETOWN attractive, yet stubborn American woman Doench and everyone pays a price. Adventure, New Releases, Family searching for her missing sister, an Delivery Status: Completed FATHER VS SON Director: Bobby Moresco archeologist who was in the wrong place Year of Production: 2011 Comedy Writer: Amanda Moresco at the wrong time. These two heroes are A masked stranger reveals to Jack that Director: Joe Ballarini Producer: Bobby Moresco, Amanda lead on a crusade against evil forces his estranged wife and her lover are Writer: Joe Ballarini, Paul Wolfe Moresco, Joseph A. Reilly even greater than they anticipated. buried underground in a wooden box and Producer: Michael Huffington Key Cast: Dylan Sprouse (THE SUITE MAZE, THE their oxygen will run out in 75 minutes. Key Cast: Eric Stonestreet (ABC's LIFE OF ZACK AND CODY, BIG Horror He must engage in a dangerous game of "Modern Family", Bad Teacher), Josh DADDY), Cole Sprouse (THE SUITE Director: Stephen Shimek cat and mouse with the masked stranger Dean (Young People F*ng, Bag Boy), LIFE OF ZACK AND CODY, BIG Writer: Katy Baldwin in order to save his wife...and himself. Heather Stephens (Lost Highway, DADDY), Victoria Justice Producer: Kristi Shimek, Jake Sorensen, ENDURE Dante's Peak), Paul Wolff, Cameron (VICTORIOUS, ZOEY 101) Timothy Guiteierrez, Katy Baldwin, Thriller Goodman ("90210") Year of Production: 2011 Stephen Shimek Director: Joe O'Brien Delivery Status: Completed Two boys witness a murder but decide to Key Cast: Shalaina Fotheringham Writer: Joe O'Brien Year of Production: 2010 not tell anyone out of fear. Along with (You're So Cupid!), Brandon Pearson, Producer: Phillip Glasser, Rob Tritton A young man trying to live a fairly their friend Betsy, they go on a journey Clare Niederpruem, Kyle Paul Key Cast: Judd Nelson normal life finds himself having to deal to find the real killer and at the same Delivery Status: Completed (TRANSFORMERS: ANIMATED, THE with his newly divorced father who time redeem themselves. Year of Production: 2010 BREAKFAST CLUB), Joey Lauren wants to immerse himself in the singles KREWS Five friends break in to a closed corn Adams (UNITED STATES OF TARA), scene. Thriller maze in the middle of the night and Tom Arnold (ROSANNE), Devon Sawa GENE FUSION Director: Hilbert Hakim decide to play a harmless game of tag. (FINAL DESTINATION) Family Writer: Joshua Leibner Little do they know that a psychopathic Delivery Status: Completed Director: Francois Brisson Producer: Paul O. Davis, Hilbert Hakim, killer has decided to play along. Year of Production: 2010 Writer: Gabriel Benson, Jeff Amano Christopher Hempstead, Matt McCoy MELANCHOLY FANTASTIC, THE After a shocking photo of a young Producer: Shaun McLaughlin Key Cast: Brian Geraghty (The Hurt Thriller - New Releases woman is found inside the twisted metal Year of Production: 2010 Locker, Jarhead), Jonathan Cake (First Director: A.D. Calvo of a fatal car crash, veteran detective Gene-Fusion: Gladiators 2310 A.D. is Knight), Sam Jones III (Glory Road), Writer: A.D. Calvo Emory Lloyd must risk everything to the THE sporting event of the future! Charles Malik Whitfield (Behind Enemy Producer: A.D. Calvo, Linda A. Calvo identify and find the woman before it's Futuristic gladiators control massive Lines) Key Cast: Amy Crowdis (THE too late. genetically designed super-creatures Delivery Status: Completed MESSENGER), Robin Lord Taylor FATAL SECRETS created to do battle in specially designed Year of Production: 2010 (STEP UP 3D), Josh Caras, Shirley Thriller super arenas filled with hundreds of A botched car-jacking forces two white- Knight (AS GOOD AS IT GETS, PAUL Director: Meir Sharony thousands of screaming fans. collar criminals Henry McFarlin (Brian BLART: MALL COP, DESPERATE Writer: Meir Sharony, Kathryn Cotter JUSTIN TIME Geraghty, The Hurt Locker, Jarhead) and HOUSEWIVES) Producer: Meir Sharony Family Peter (Jonathan Cake, First Knight) to Year of Production: 2011 Key Cast: Dina Meyer (Starship Director: Rob Diamond take refuge in the home of the thugs, A reclusive young girl Melanie, copes Troopers), Vincent Spano (Texas Writer: Rob Diamond, Troy Hinckley Wishbone (Sam Jones III, Glory Road) with the recent death of her mother by Rangers), Lela Rochon (Any Given Producer: Troy Hinckley and Rebob (Charles Malik Whitfield, constructing a life-size doll to keep her Sunday), Lea Thompson (Caroline in the Key Cast: Chris Laird (Tears of a King), Behind Enemy Lines) that accosted company. At first the doll, called Mor, City), Ernie Hudson (Oz), Ed Begley Jr. Shareece Pfeiffer (Forever Strong), them. KREWS is a provocative story that appears to be a harmless novelty-an (St. Elsewhere), Tess Harper (No Michael Flynn (Everwood), Alyx Gaudio pits the sophisticated world of wireless imaginary friend, until Mor convinces Country for Old Men) (Dadnapped), Mike Hildebrant, Matthew global trading against the primitive Melanie that 'someone must die' so that Delivery Status: Reese (Once Upon a Summer), Danny world of inner city drug trafficking. Over she may embrace life. Though dark in Year of Production: 2009 Trejo (Grindhouse) the course of one explosive night: worlds many ways, this is an alternative An attractive woman enlists the help of Delivery Status: collide, fortunes shift, lives are cast aside Christmas story with a shockingly happy her two best friends to confront a Year of Production: 2009 and the most unsuspecting of heroes ending. charming man with a secret background An ancient and magical amulet that has walks away with a multimillion dollar who has pushed her to the breaking the power to stop time is passed through MINOR DETAILS score! Family, Teen LITTLE HERCULES Director: John Lyde Family, New Releases Writer: Sally Meyer, Anne Edwards Director: Mohamed Khashoggi, Robert T OUR INGERTIPS Producer: John Lyde,Leah Faber, Anne CANNES A Y F Boris Edwards, Sally Meyer THE CLICK AND ACCESS CULTURE IS NOW Writer: Robert Boris Key Cast: Jennette McCurdy (iCarly), Producer: Marco Garcia, Chad Presnell Kelsey Edwards (Fish Burglars), Caitlin & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. Key Cast: Terry 'Hulk' Hogan, Elliott EJ Meyer (You're So Cupid!), Dani Gould, Robin Givens, Judd Nelson Churchran (Crossing Jordan), Lauren Year of Production: 2010 Faber (The First Christmas) Little Hercules travels from Mt. Delivery Status: Completed Olympus to live life as a mortal in Los Year of Production: 2009 Angeles where he comes face-to-face Click on Someone is trying to make the students with culture-clashing misadventures of sick at the prestigious Danforth Olympic proportions. Get ready to stand Blue Boxes Academy. Is it Mia or Riley - the Rich up and cheer for this wildly fun 3D Girls? Or could it be Emily, the family adventure. to Access Principal's daughter? Maybe it is wacky LOST TREASURE OF THE MAYA Sean Meneskie or even strange Professor Action/Adventure Available Plume. whoever it is, Abby, Paige, Claire Director: David Murphy and Taylor will have to put aside their Writer: David Murphy Company differences and join together to solve the Producer: David Murphy mystery. Trailers Key Cast: Michael Madsen (Sin City), Protasio (Border Lost), Heather Storm NAIL, THE Drama (Epic Movie), Richard Tyson (Black Automatically Director: James Quattrochi Hawk Down), Keith David (There's Something About Mary) Do Your Part To Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2009 Combat Global Warming An unpredictable, rugged, ex-military

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Writer: Jason Noto by disturbing visions from somewhere Corin Nemec, David DeLuise SUPER CAPERS Producer: Leo Rossi & Jame Quattrochi between the world of the living and the Delivery Status: Completed Family, Adventure Key Cast: Tony Danza (Who's the Boss), dead?haunting memories that keep him Year of Production: 2011 Director: Ray Griggs William Forsythe (Halloween), Tony from moving on. His buddy, Rusty When an innovative health care company Writer: Ray Griggs Luke Jr. (Mortal Sin), Dayanara Torres (Chad Lindberg, SUPERNATURAL, unveils RoboDoc, an android physician Producer: Ray Griggs, Ruben Lim (The Young and the Restless), Leo Rossi THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS), back so carefully programmed it cannot make Key Cast: Justin Whalin (Dungeons & (All In) in town for their high school reunion, a medical mistake, a greedy medical Dragons), Michael Rooker (Jumper), Delivery Status: Completed tries to wake Josh from his painful past, malpractice lawyer (Kenny Babel) sees a Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan), Year of Production: 2009 but a mysterious young waitress (Tania threat to his livelihood. He'll stop at Tiny Lister (The Wash) An over-the-hill, overweight ex-boxer Raymonde, LOST, COLD CASE) offers nothing to see RoboDoc reduced to a Delivery Status: and an abused young boy begin a a seductive alternative. heap of wires and software. Year of Production: 2009 relationship that gives them both a new PRINCE & THE PAUPER, THE SAFEHOUSE Would-be superhero, Ed Gruberman, and inspired life with a purpose: to only Family, New Releases Thriller, Action who possesses no super powers must 'fight for the right.' This heartwarming Director: James Quattrochi Director: John Poague join a team of misfit heroes-in-training story of two lost souls finding each other Writer: Amanda Moresco Writer: David Stever known as The Super Capers. Having on the streets and boxing arenas of Producer: Joseph A. Reilly Producer: Sheila Cutchlow and Spencer only faith, he must travel through time to Philadelphia will capture your heart. The Key Cast: Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse, Johnson uncover an evil plot involving some gold Nail is a story of forgiveness, hope and Kay Panabaker, Vincent Spano, Dedee Key Cast: Johnny Alonso (One Tree bullion, a fiery femme fatale, and a second chances. Pfeiffer, Ed Lauter, Sally Kellerman Hill), Sheila Cutchlow (Step Up), criminal mastermind with a dark secret ON THE INSIDE Delivery Status: Completed Carolina Hoyos (Lethal Force), Robert about Ed's past. Thriller Year of Production: 2011 Miano (Fast & Furious), Thomas YOU'RE SO CUPID Director: D.W. Brown Eddie and Tom (Cole and Dylan Calabro (Melrose Place) Comedy, Family Writer: D.W. Brown Sprouse, TV's 'The Suite Life of Zack Delivery Status: Completed Director: John Lyde Producer: Jamie Kennedy, Mike and Cody') are two 14-year-olds with Year of Production: 2009 Writer: Sally Meyer Rachmil, Mike Wittlin one thing in common: they both look To avenge the death of his ex-partner, a Producer: Cynthia Coury Sally Meyer Key Cast: Olivia Wilde (TRON: exactly alike. So when the boys former FBI agent takes on a cunning Brian Brough John Lyde LEGACY, HOUSE M.D., THE O.C.), accidentally meet on the set of Eddie's criminal with a diabolical motive. Key Cast: Brian Krause (Charmed), Nick Stahl (TERMINATOR 3), Dash new movie, they impulsively agree to SANTORINI BLUE Jeremy Sumpter (Peter Pan), Lauren Mihok trade places for the afternoon. But when Drama Holly (NCIS) Delivery Status: Completed the production company abruptly leaves Director: Matthew D. Panepinto Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2010 the city, Tom and Eddie soon find Writer: Matthew D. Panepinto, Deirdre Year of Production: 2009 A decent but troubled young man is sent themselves in deep double trouble when Lorenz Twin sisters with an insatiable desire to to a psychiatric institution for the no one believes who they both really are Producer: Deirdre Lorenz play matchmaker, find out that their criminally insane and soon finds himself in this fun-filled family adventure, based Key Cast: Deirdre Lorenz (LAW& skills are not just a gift from heaven, but in a fight for his life battling ghosts on a story by Mark Twain. ORDER: SVU), Matthew D. Panepinto rather that their father is actually Cupid. inside his head and very real enemies all RED ROSE OF NORMANDY (LAW & ORDER: SVU), Ice-T Life gets complicated when the sisters around him. Thriller, War, New Releases (JOHNNY MNEMONIC, LAW & fall for the same guy and now spend ONE IN THE GUN Director: Tino Struckmann ORDER: SVU), Richard Belzer (LAW & every waking moment plotting to Thriller Writer: Tino Struckmann ORDER: SVU, 30 ROCK), Dann Florek sabotage each other. Director: Rolfe Kanefsky Producer: Michael Costanza, David (LAW & ORDER: SVU, LAW& Writer: Rolfe Kanefsky Effler, Steven Effler, Mike Kobeck, Vito ORDER) Producer: Michelle Czernin, Von Lapiccola, Milo Popp Delivery Status: Completed ATLAS Chudenitz, Esther Goodstein, Miriam Key Cast: Damian Chapa, Jack Dimich, Year of Production: 2011 INTERNATIONAL Bertke, Victoria Burrows Claudia Crawford, Tino Struckmann A married couple whose relationship Key Cast: Steven Man (Sweet Deadly Year of Production: 2011 begins to unravel due to a sad betrayal FILM GMBH Dreams), Robert Davi (Stargate Caught in the middle of the advancing travels on a rediscovery journey from Atlas International Film GmbH, Atlantis), Katherine Randolph (Jarhead), Allies and the fanatical Gestapo during New York City to Santorini, Greece Candidplatz 11, Munich, 81543 Steven Bauer (Dead Lenny), James World War II, Klaus and Klaudia must while addressing the question: Can love Germany, Tel: +49.89.2109750 Fax: Russo (Machine) fight their way out and away, only to really be rekindled? +49.89.21097581. Delivery Status: Completed make one last stand together surrounded SELLING OF SCARRY MANOR, http://www.atlasfilm.com, Year of Production: 2010 in the middle of the biggest invasion in THE [email protected] When a struggling artist crosses paths world history. Horror/Comedy, New Releases Sales Agent with a wealthy business man's wife and RIVER WHY, THE Director: Emily Lou At Cannes: Stefan Menz (President), is enlisted to paint their home, deadly Drama Writer: Gabriel Diani Philipp Menz (President), Michel J. passion ignite. Hidden agendas, Director: Matthew Leutwyler Producer: Gabriel Diani, Emily Lou Vandewalle (Development and dangerous seductions and double crosses Writer: Thomas A. Cohen, John Jay Key Cast: Gabriel Diani, Janet Varney, Acquisitions), Susanne Groh (Program spiral his life out of control, leading to a Osborn Jr. Jonathan Klein, Etta Devine, Nancy Sales), Glenn Kendrick Ackermann motel filled with strange people and Producer: Kristi Denton Cohen Lenehan, Barry Bostwick (Program Sales), Christian Halsey twisted secrets. Key Cast: Zach Gilford (Friday Night Year of Production: 2011 Solomon (Atlas office Los Angeles) OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS, Lights), Amber Heard (Zombieland), A too-honest-for-his-own-good real Office: G11 - H 14, Tel: THE Kathleen Quinlan (Apollo 13), Dallas estate agent has to sell a haunted house +33.4.9299.3204 Thriller Roberts, William Devane, William Hurt before its ghostly inhabitants ruin his IMMIGRATION TANGO Director: A.D. Calvo (Academy Award Nominee, Best life. http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1223 Writer: A.D. Calvo Supporting Actor - The History of SHADOW WITNESS Producer: A.D. & LINDA A. CALVO, Violence) New Releases, Thriller PATRICK HADLEY, JOHN Delivery Status: Completed Director: Scott Ziehl Romantic Comedy (92 min) COURTMANCHE Year of Production: 2010 Writer: Rudy Luna, Ladonna Tebo Language: English Key Cast: Brendan Fehr (Roswell), Chad In this compelling romantic drama a Producer: Scott Ziehl, Ladonna Tebo Director: David Burton Morris Lindberg (The Fast and the Furious) rebellious 20 year old leaves home to Key Cast: Randall Batinkoff (X-Men: Writer: Martin L. Kelley ,Tania Raymonde (Lost), Beatrice Rosen live in seclusion along banks of a First Class, Kick-Ass), Cat Tebo Producer: Elika Portnoy (The Dark Knight), Narassia Malthe beautiful but wild river and what he (Barbie), Elaine Hendrix (Parent Trap), Key Cast: Elika Portnoy, McCaleb Burnett, Carlos Leon (Elektra), Sam Robards (American finds is not only himself but true love. Kevin Sorbo (Soul Surfer) Delivery Status: Completed Beauty), Stephnie Weir (MadTV), Delivery Status: Year of Production: 2012 ROBODOC Year of Production: 2010 Country of Shirley Knight (Paul Blart: Mall Cop) Comedy, New Releases When a detective finds himself in the Origin: USA Delivery Status: Completed Director: Stephen Maddocks snarls of an Internal Affairs An American couple and a foreign Year of Production: 2009 Writer: Douglas Gordon, M.D., Scott investigation, he has to turn to the only couple test the limits of friendship and Ten years after a tragic train accident Gordon, M.D. person he can trust, a young girl who love when they switch partners and get killed his girlfriend, Josh (Brendan Fehr, Producer: Douglas Gordon, Donald holds all the answers he needs. The only married for green cards. CSI:MIAMI, ROSWELL, FINAL Tynes problem is that she's been reported DESTINATION) finds himself haunted Key Cast: Alan Thicke, David Faustino, missing and he's the main suspect

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SWEETWATER Drama (118 min) An emigrant family wants to make a new Delivery Status: Completed Western Language: Dutch, German start on the coast of the Arctic Sea. Year of Production: 2012 Country of Language: English Director: Rudolf van den Berg Instead, a terrible accident calls Origin: USA Director: Loan Miller, Noah Miller Writer: Chris W. Mitchell and Rudolf everything into question. What role does A hilarious romantic romp. Follows Writer: Andrew McKenzie van den Berg guilt play in our happiness? sweet Jimmy (Eddie Griffin) as he Producer: Rick Benattar, Andrew J. Co-Production Partners: Fu Works and weaves the torrid tale of a love triangle Curtis, Jonathan English Cadenza Films between three slightly strange people Delivery Status: Pre-Production Producer: San Fu Maltha, Jeroen BLAIRWOOD who look at romance from completely Country of Origin: USA Koolbergen and Reinier Selen ENTERTAINMENT different points of view. Sarah takes the law into her own hands Key Cast: Jeroen Spitzenberger, Karl THE GAY DETECTIVE to avenge the death of her husband by a Markovics, Nyncke Beekhuyzen, Katja COMPANY Comedy (90 min) murderous rancher who rules the town of Herbers, Chava Voor in 't Holt Blairwood Entertainment Company, Language: English Sweetwater. Delivery Status: Screening Hollywood Production Center, 225 East Director: TBA SOFIA Year of Production: 2011 Country of Broadway, Glendale, CA 91205 USA, Writer: Van DaLay Thriller (90 min) Origin: The Netherlands Tel: 1.323.319.3978 Fax: 1.323.686.5379 Co-Production Partners: Henwards Language: English SÜSKIND tells the true story of Jewish . www.Blairwoodentertainment.com, Executive Producer: Sabrina Chen Louie Director: Isaac Florentine resistance hero Walter Süskind who [email protected] Producer: Ana Clavell Writer: Nancy L. Babine, Elika Portnoy worked for the Jewish Council in Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor Key Cast: TBA Producer: David E. Ornston Amsterdam during the Second World At Cannes: James Dudelson (President, Delivery Status: Pre-Production Key Cast: Christian Slater, Donald War. By playing a cat-and-mouse game CEO), Ana Clavell (COO), Sabrina Chen Year of Production: 2012 Country of Sutherland, Timothy Spall with SS Hauptsturmführer Aus der Louie (Vice President), Ryan Keller Origin: USA (Director of Sales) Delivery Status: Completed Fünten he managed to save almost a SHE WOLF Year of Production: 2012 Country of thousand Jewish children from Office: Lerins R1, Tel: 33.04.92.99.33.18 Horror/Fantasy (90 min) Origin: Bulgaria deportation. Language: English A former FBI agent finds himself back in COME ON, LET'S FIND A http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1184 Director: TBA the life of detective work when an TREASURE Writer: TBA unknown vigilante begins killing high- AKA: KOMM, WIR FINDEN EINEN PURIFICATION Co-Production Partners: Henwards Horror (91 min) priority terrorists. SCHATZ Executive Producer: Sabrina Chen Louie Children's Film, Family Entertainment Language: English Producer: Ana Clavell (74 min) Director: Joseph Ciminera Key Cast: TBA Language: German Writer: Joseph Ciminera Delivery Status: Pre-Production B Director: Irina Probost Producer: Joseph Ciminera Year of Production: 2012 Country of Writer: Nana A. Meyer, Juergen Key Cast: Joseph Ciminera, John Origin: USA Basedow and James Terriaca Nietmann THE INVISIBLE DOG Co-Production Partners: Papa Löwe Delivery Status: Completed Comedy (90 min) BETA CINEMA GMBH Filmproduktion, Virgin Lands Animated Year of Production: 2012 Country of Language: English Beta Cinema GmbH, Grünwalder Weg Pictures GmbH Origin: USA Director: TBA 28d, Oberhaching, 82041 Germany, Producer: Irina Probost A wealthy real estate investor located in Writer: Innes Glenn Tel: 49.89.673469.828 Fax: Key Cast: Animation New York, is caught between reality and Co-Production Partners: Henwards 49.89.673469.888. Delivery Status: Screening the supernatural. Executive Producer: Sabrina Chen Louie www.betacinema.com, Year of Production: 2011 Country of MY FAIR LIDY Producer: Ana Clavell [email protected] Origin: Germany Comedy (90 min) Key Cast: TBA Sales Agent An old treasure map, new friends and an Language: English Delivery Status: Pre-Production At Cannes: Dirk Schürhoff (Managing exciting adventure: just what Tiger and Director: Ralph R. Clemente Year of Production: 2012 Country of Director), Thorsten Ritter (Executive Bear were waiting for! Writer: R.P. Simms Origin: USA Vice President), Tassilo Hallbauer (Sales Producer: Sandi Bell and Ralph R. Executive) BLISS Clemente CITY OF GARDENS AKA: GLÜCK Drama (based on a true story) (98 mins) Office: deGrand Hotel Cannes, Bâtiment Drama (112 min.) Key Cast: Christopher Backus, Leigh Language: English and Spanish with le Goéland (ground floor), 45 Blvd. de la Language: German Shannon and Rus Blackwell subtitles Croisette, 06400 Cannes. The office is Director: Doris Dörrie Delivery Status: Completed Director: Camilo Vila next to the entrance of the Grand Hotel Writer: Doris Dörrie Year of Production: 2012 Country of Writer: Monty Fischer and Camilo Vila on the right hand side., Tel: Co-Production Partners: Constantin Origin: USA Key Cast: John Robinson, Alex Meraz, +33(0)4.9399.5580 Filmproduktion, Rainer Curdt Lidy is a blue collar worker who has Johnny Lewis, Grant Bowler, Debra fallen on hard times. After a chance http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1157 Filmproduktion Unger Producer: Oliver Berben, Rainer Curdt meeting with Miss Sal, a successful Drag Delivery Status: Post Production Key Cast: Alba Rohrwacher, Vinzenz Performer he undertakes a strange Year of Production: 2011 Country of LOST IN SIBERIA Kiefer, Matthias Brandt, Oliver Nägele journey of becoming a Marlene Dietrich Origin: USA AKA: AUSGERECHNET SIBIRIEN Impersonator. Comedy (101 min) Delivery Status: Screening City of Gardens is the true story of a Language: German with Russian parts Year of Production: 2011 Country of PAD YATRA blond Californian surfer, Wayne Origin: Germany Documentary (70 min) Montgomery (John Robinson), who has Director: Ralf Huettner Director: Wendy J.N. Lee Writer: Michael Ebmeyer, Minu Barati Based on a short story by bestselling relocated to exotic Lima, Peru in the author and Berlin defense attorney Writer: Wendy J.N. Lee 1980's to pursue surfing as he teaches Co-Production Partners: Jooyaa Executive Producer: Michelle Yeoh Filmproduktion Berlin GmbH, Getaway Ferdinand von Schirach (CRIME) sold in English to well-to-do kids. Wayne's more than 30 countries. Producer: Wendy J.N. Lee carefree lifestyle and romance with his Pictures GmbH, CTB Film Company, Key Cast: Daryl Hannah Cine Plus Filmproduktion MERCY beautiful girlfriend, Maritza, (introducing Delivery Status: Completed Anahi De Cardenas), ends when he is Producer: Minu Barati, Skady Lis, AKA: GNADE Year of Production: 2012 Country of Sergey Selyanov, Frank Evers Drama (132 min.) framed for drug possession during the Language: German, Norwegian, English Origin: US political chaos engulfing Lima. Key Cast: Joachim Król, Julya Men, Despite immeasurable danger, 700 Vladimir Burlakov, Katja Riemann, Director: Matthias Glasner FIX: THE EXTREME MINISTRY Writer: Kim Fupz Aakeson people trek across the perilous Armin Rohde Himalayan Mountain Range to save the MOVIE Delivery Status: Screening Co-Production Partners: Schwarzweiss Documentary (89 minutes) Filmproduktion, Knudsen & Streuber planet's "3rd Pole" from environmental Language: English Year of Production: 2011 Country of devastation before it is too late. Origin: Germany, Russia Medienmanufaktur, Ophir Film Director: Douglas Freel Producer: Kristine Knudsen, Matthias A TYPICAL LOVE Writer: Douglas Freel A donnish logistician from a German Romantic Comedy (85 min) mail order company is sent by his boss Glasner, Andreas Born Key Cast: Al Jourgensen, Paul Barker, Key Cast: Jürgen Vogel, Birgit Director: Jennifer James Trent Reznor, Lemmy Kilmister, Dave to oversee a project in Siberia - and finds Writer: R. Keefe Griffths and Jennifer love in the traditional singer Sajana. Minichmayr, Henry Stange Navarro, Maynard James Keenan, Delivery Status: Screening James Jonathan Davis, Timothy Leery SÜSKIND Year of Production: 2012 Country of Producer: R. Keefe Griffiths Delivery Status: In Production AKA: SÜSKIND Origin: Germany, Norway Key Cast: Eddie Griffin, Steve Bauer Year of Production: 2011 Country of

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Origin: USA LEADING LADIES for their own truth. An unscrupulous Delivery Status: Post Production FIX - THE MINISTRY MOVIE gives a Musical/Romance GLB reporter (Jaime Gomez) infiltrates the Year of Production: 2011 Country of raw look as these possessed artists fight - Language: English group in order to expose her, only to find Origin: USA and create - while attempting to reach, Director: Erika Randall Beahm and himself drawn into the mystery that When a convoy of America soldiers and achieve, infamous greatness. Daniel Beahm Doris is. Both funny and deeply disappears in Afghanistan, a Special OPS Ministry took the genre of industrial rock Writer: Erika Randall Beahm and Daniel emotional, this story is filled with team is deployed on a search and rescue and made it mainstream, and along the Beahm compelling questions about the meaning mission. They encounter mega scorpions, way their music and take no prisoners Key Cast: Melanie Lapatin, Benji of our existence and the dangers of giant spiders and oversized snakes which lifestyle influenced the leaders of some Schwimmer, Laurel Vail, Shannon Lea predicting 2012 and the end of it all. were created when a vortex into another of today's most important rock bands, Smith ELITE dimension was opened by a former such as Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Korn, and Delivery Status: Completed Action (106 mins) government scientist. The team has to The Dead Kennedys. With live Year of Production: 2010 Country of Language: Spanish / English with figure out a way to close the wormhole. performances by Ministry, in depth Origin: USA subtitles Can they close it in time? interviews with the band, and The Camparis are a family of women in Director: Andres Ramirez THE DOGFATER appearances by Trent Reznor of Nine which everyone knows her place. Sheri Writer: Jean-Paul Polo and Josean Rivera Family (88 min.) Inch Nails, Maynard Keenan of Tool, is the larger-than-life, overbearing stage Varquer Language: English Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead, mom. Once a young and beautiful Key Cast: Denise Quiones, Jorge Alberti, Director: Richard Boddington Jonathan Davis of Korn, Dave Navarro ballroom champion, Sheri now lives Frank Perozo Writer: Russell Scalise and Michael of Red Hot Chili Peppers/Jane's vicariously through her youngest Delivery Status: Completed Hamilton--Wright Addiction, Ogre Nivek of Skinny Puppy, daughter Tasi, the darling of the local Year of Production: 2010 Country of Producer: Russell Scalise Jello Biafra of The Dead Kennedys, Dr. amateur ballroom circuit. Sheri's oldest Origin: Puerto Rico Key Cast: Chris Parnell, William Cuddy Timothy Leary and William S. daughter, Toni, is Tasi's practice partner, After 20 years in federal prison, the most Delivery Status: Completed Burroughs - to name a few- FIX is a the wallflower who must quietly support dangerous and powerful drug dealer of Year of Production: 2010 Country of punch-in-the-stomach affair that dares to them all. The only consistent man in the the Caribbean manages to escape. Origin: USA show beyond the boundaries of good life of the Campari women is Cedric, Unable to trust his own police force, the When a Mafia Don's right-hand man, a taste and common decency. Tasi's dance partner and Toni's best Governor creates a special tactics group bulldog named Sonny, swallows his BURMA: A HUMAN TRAGEDY friend. Find out what happens to each as called “Elite” - a group of incorruptible heirloom ring, comedy ensues as two of Documentary (85 mins) they reexamine their roles in modern life officers from different countries of Latin the Don's best soldiers try and retrieve Language: English and Burmese with and on the dance floor and learn to "Let America- to hunt down the drug the ring from Sonny, who has been subtitles Love Lead." overlord. Matters get complicated adopted by a new family. Director: Neil Hollander APOCALYPSE (ACCORDING TO quickly when both sides get played by Key Cast: Anjelica Huston DORIS) the drug lord's psychopath henchman, Delivery Status: Completed Drama (92 minutes) and they find themselves redrawing their BRISTOL MEDIA Year of Production: 2011 Country of Language: English loyalties as old blood feuds threaten the Origin: USA Director: Victor Goss entire mission - and their lives. INTERNATIONAL, In this harrowing documentary the brutal Writer: Victor Goss INC. regime of the military Junta in Burma is Key Cast: Jaime Gomez, Elise Bristol Media International, Inc., 1755 fully exposed. Through interviews with Robertson, Christian J Meoli BLUE GALAXY York Avenue #23G, New York, NY 10128 refugees, survivors and Burma's Delivery Status: Completed INTERNATIONAL, United States, Tel: +1.212.245.5462 democratically elected president and Year of Production: 2010 Country of Fax: +1.212.722.2049. Peace Nobel Prize Winner Aung San Suu Origin: USA LLC www.bristolmedia.com, Kyi, the terrifying landscape of an A modern day Cinderella story of a Blue Galaxy International, LLC, 13412 [email protected] ongoing genocide of the ethnic woman coming to wisdom, Apocalypse Ventura Blvd., Suite 250, Sherman Oaks, Sales Agent, Distributor minorities that flies in the face of (According to Doris) is an unusual New CA 91423 USA, Tel: 1.818.907.7226 At Cannes: Tony Manne (President), international law comes horribly alive. Age drama about Doris (Elise Fax: 1.818.907.7216. Tony Lytle (Consultant) Filmed surreptitiously and under Robertson), a desert housewife cum www.bluegalaxyinternational.com, Office:,Tel: +1.917.545.8650 Fax: constant life threatening conditions, medium/channeler who finds herself in [email protected] +1.212.722.2049 Burma - A Human Tragedy offers a rare the middle of chaos as the prophecies Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor glimpse into the systematic human she's made about the End of the World At Cannes: Marcy Rubin (President), http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1035 extermination that has gone pretty much start coming true. Soon she has a Fiorenza Cella (Chief Executive Officer), ignored. following of “disciples” - all searching Andrew Stevens (Chief Operating VISIONARIES: JONAS MEKAS Officer) AND THE (MOSTLY) AMERICAN Office: Lerins, R13, Tel: 04.92.99.33.08 AVANT-GARDE CINEMA Documentary ( 95 min.) CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1185 Language: English Director: Chuck Workman HE LICK AND CCESS ULTURE IS OW T C A C N AGAINST THE WILD Writer: Chuck Workman APPENING HE UTURE IS OW Family Producer: Chuck Workman & H ! T F N . Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Director: Richard Boddington Year of Production: 2010 Country of Writer: Richard Boddington Origin: USA Producer: Richard Boddington Chuck Workman, best known for his Key Cast: TBD montages at the Academy Awards Click on Delivery Status: Pre-Production ceremonies, delivers a crash course in Year of Production: 2012 Country of experimental and underground film. Blue Boxes Origin: Canada Interspersed with his story are old and Two adolescents and their dog journey to new interviews with prominent figures in to Access visit their father. When the light plane the Avant-Garde movement, including they are aboard crashes in the woods, Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Ken Available they must seek help for the unconscious Jacobs, Peter Kubelka, David Lynch, and pilot. As they encounter a bear and a Andy Warhol, as well as film critics Fred Company pack of wolves, their dog proves to be Camper and Amy Taubin. A superlative their protector and eventually leads them editor, Workman distills a heady brew of Trailers to safety. clips that covers decades of Automatically THE VORTEX groundbreaking work. Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi THAT COLD DAY IN THE PARK Language: English Thriller (103 Minutes) Director: Peter Basler Language: English Do Your Part To Producer: Danny Roth Director: Robert Altman Combat Global Warming Key Cast: Ted Jonas, Jack Plotnick Writer: Gillian Freeman

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Producer: Donald Factor, Robert Altman, KILL ME THREE TIMES Austria and the US attempting to unravel Leon Mirell Thriller CINEMA ARTS his life's mystery; funny and intimate, Key Cast: Sandy Dennis, Michael Burns, Language: English ENTERTAINMENT this isn't a film about the holocaust. John Garfield, Jr. Director: Greg McLean MAORI BOY GENIUS Delivery Status: Completed Writer: James McFarland (ARTEDIS) Lifestyle (85mins) Year of Production: 1969 Country of Producer: Laurence Malkin, Share Cinema Arts Entertainment (Artedis), 12, Language: English/Maori with English Origin: USA Stallings, Tania Chambers rue Raynouard, Paris, 75016 France, subtitles A prudish spinster takes in a young man Key Cast: Alice Braga, Sullivan Tel: 00.331.53.92.29.29 Fax: Director: Peitra Brettkelly she sees huddled on a bench outside her Stapleton 00.339.81.38.21.79. Producer: Peitra Brettkelly window one drizzling afternoon. Sandy Delivery Status: Pre-Production www.cinemaartsent.com, Delivery Status: Completed Dennis and Michael Burns star as the Country of Origin: Australia [email protected] Year of Production: 2012 Country of unlikely couple whose relationship In a sundrenched Australian surfing Distributor Origin: New Zealand At Cannes: Pierre Richard Muller quickly enters the realm of the bizarre-in town, a young American woman is the At 4, Maori boy, Ngaa Rauuira, learnt (Chairman), Chantal Lam (President) the dark recesses of her mind. thread that binds three tales of murder, English, at 12 he began his first Office: Cormoran 2, Residences du OBSESSION blackmail, and revenge. university degree, at 14 he googled Thriller ( 98 min.) Grand Hotel, 45, La Croisette, 06400 international polities and came up with IN THE BLOOD Cannes, Tel: 00.339.52.24.54.99; Language: English Action/Thriller Yale University and at 16, he went. Mobile: 00.336.60.90.25.41 Fax: Director: Brian de Palma Language: English “He’s been chosen. He’s a tohunga, a 00.339.52.24.54.99 Writer: Paul Schrader Director: John Stockwell wiseman. But really he’s just a child”. Producer: George Litto Writer: James Robert Johnston & LOVE FREE OR DIE Key Cast: Cliff Robertson, Genviève Bennett Yellin http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1126 Lifestyle/Culture/Religion/ (90mins) Bujold Executive Producer: The Pimienta Film Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Company EXPOSURE Director: Macky Alston Year of Production: 1976 Country of Thriller (1 x 100 min) Producer: Shaun Redick, Ray Mansfield, Producer: Sandra Itkoff Origin: USA Language: English Marina Grasic, Cash Warren, Baron Delivery Status: Completed High melodrama, creeping insanity and Director: Carlos Nunes Year of Production: 2012 Country of Davis barely contained delirium abound in this Writer: Gordon Scott Venters Origin: USA Key Cast: Gina Carano, Stephen Lang dizzying tribute to the high tension Producer: Peter Langone How does an openly gay Bishop Delivery Status: Pre-Production thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock from Key Cast: Corey Feldman, Savanna reconcile his love for his partner and his Country of Origin: USA director Brian de Palma (Carrie, Samson, Stefani Ortega love for God? Love Free or Die is a After her husband’s disappearance while Scarface, Dressed to Kill). A master class Delivery Status: Pre-Production portrait of Gene Robinson, elected as on a tropical vacation, a grieving wife in mounting on EEs and claustrophobia, Year of Production: 2012 Country of Bishop in 2003 by the Episcopal Church passionately and recklessly pursues the OBSESSION is a classic 70s thriller Origin: USA in New Hampshire. Attending his men whom she believes kidnapped and twist that will leave you speechless. A suspense thriller with a romantic heart consecration in a bullet proof vest, killed him. at it’s core, showcasing South Florida OVER THE EDGE Robinson has lived with death threats Drama ( 95 min.) UNDONE and shining a much needed light on the every day since. Love Free or Die Action Language: English dangers in the un-regulated modeling follows Robinson from his 2008 civil Director: Jonathan Kaplan Language: English industry. union, to his rejection from the once-a- Writer: Charlie Haas and Tim Hunter Director: Rob Cohen BICYCLE BRIDE decade meeting of bishops at the Producer: George Litto Writer: Peter Calloway Comedy (1 x 104 min) Lambeth Conference, to Obama’s Key Cast: Michael Kramer, Matt Dillon, Producer: David Greathouse, Rob Language: English inauguration. His presence at the Pamela Ludwig, Vincent Spano Barnum Director: Hassan Zee Episcopal General Convention the Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Pre-Production Writer: Hassan Zee following year challenges the church’s Year of Production: 1979 Country of Country of Origin: USA Producer: Hassan Zee stance on issues such as gay marriage Origin: USA During a heist in a pharmaceutical Key Cast: Melanie Kannokada, Andreas and the consecration of gay bishops. Jonathan Kaplan direct this hot-blooded research facility in Boston, the leader of Wilson, Shruti Tewari Love Free or Die (a play on the state of cult classic about kids left to discover the crew looses his memory and turns Delivery Status: Completed New Hampshire’s motto, “Live Free or their own values and coming up with against his team. Year of Production: 2011 Country of Die”), not only celebrates the Origin: USA enough drugs, booze and discontent to BLACK WINGS HAS MY ANGEL inspirational actions of one man, but the push everyone Over the Edge. 14-year- Thriller Bicycle Bride is a witty film about a changing landscape of the Church. old Matt Dillon makes his screen debut Language: English rebellious young woman Beena, whose ONE DAY AFTER PEACE as the kids charismatic, doomed leader. Director: Alfonso Pineda Ulloa family still clings to their old school Documentary (88') The authentic soundtrack by Van Halen, Writer: Christopher Peditto & Alfonso beliefs about behavior and marriage for Language: English, Hebrew, Arabic with The Ramones, Cheap Trick and others Pineda Ulloa & Barry Giffor women. English subtitles provides the film's rock 'n roll heart. Producer: Anthony Moody, Elijah Wood, Director: Erez Laufer and Miri Laufer Chris Peditto Producer: Erez Laufer Key Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Anna Paquin, CINEPHIL Delivery Status: Post Production C Elijah Wood Cinephil, 18 Levontin Street, Tel Aviv, Year of Production: 2012 Country of Delivery Status: Pre-Production 65112 Israel, Tel: +97235664129 Fax: Origin: Israel Country of Origin: USA +97235601436. Robi Damelin, an Israeli of South www.cinephil.co.il,[email protected] CARGO An escaped con-artist and a high priced Sales Agent African origin, lost her soldier son in the call girl plan one last heist which leads At Cannes: Philippa Kowarsky occupied territories. Robi tries to ENTERTAINMENT to their downfall. (Mangeing Director) reconcile with her son's Palestinian Cargo Entertainment, 440 Lafayette killer, however he refuses, stating that her son was part of the occupation army. Street, New York, NY 10003 United http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1189 States, Tel: +1.646.354.7160 Fax: Now Robi travels to South Africa, 15 years after the end of Apartheid to seek +1.212.674.0081. SIX MILLION AND ONE www.cargoentertainment.com, Lifestyle/History/Culture/Comedy (93 answers from the South African model of [email protected] mins) the Truth and Reconciliation Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor, Financier Language: Hebrew/English/German with Committees, can this model ever work in At Cannes: Marina Grasic (CEO & English Subtitles Israel ? Robi returns home in order to Managing Partner), Mark Lindsay THE BUSINESS Director: David Fisher broker a new kind of forgiveness in the (President of Distribution), Krysanne Co-Production Partners: ZDF/Arte, Yes Israeli/Palestinian communities and Katsoolis (Head of Acquisitions & Co- OF ILM Docu support of the release from jail of the www.thebusinessoffilmdaily.comF Productions), Tristan Weisgal (Sales & Delivery Status: Completed guy who killed her son. Development) Year of Production: 2011 Country of LOVE FREE OR DIE Office: Residence Grand Hotel - Entree Origin: Israel Documentary (90’) Goeland, 45 Boulevard de La Croisette, Following his father's memoir, the Language: English Cannes 06400, Tel: +33.4.93.68.19.23 filmmaker 'drags' his siblings across Director: Macky Alston http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1371 Producer: Sandra Itkoff

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Delivery Status: Completed group of film animators test the limits of with English subtitles Director: Zakia Tahiri Year of Production: 2012 Country of their athleticism (or lack thereof), and a Director: David Fisher Producer: Zakia TAHIRI Origin: USA group of aging jocks show they still Co-Production Partners: ZDF/Arte, Yes Key Cast: Aziz SAADALLAH, Nezha Love Free or Die is about a man whose know how to have a good time. A Docu RAHIL, Khadija ASSAD, Abderahim two defining passions are in direct celebration of personal determination Producer: David Fisher BARGACHE, Chantal LADESSOU conflict: his love for God and for his and the power of family and friends, Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed partner Mark. Gene Robinson is the first Hood to Coast proves that you’re never Year of Production: 2011 Country of Year of Production: 2008, Country of openly gay bishop in Christendom. His too old or too young to attempt the Origin: Israel Origin: Morocco consecration in 2003, to which he wore a extraordinary. Following his father's memoir, the The manager of a clothing factory bullet-proof vest, caused an international WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM filmmaker 'drags' his siblings across terrorizes all women… One day his wife stir, and he has lived with death threats Documentary (90') Austria and the US attempting to unravel discovers that he may be a gentleman every day since. Truth follows Robinson Language: English with English subtitles his life's mystery; funny and intimate, and cats a spell on him, so it never ends. from small-town churches to Director: Heather Courtney this isn't a film about the holocaust. THE DUST MEN Washington's Lincoln Memorial to Producer: Heather Courtney EPILOGUE AKA: CENTRE DE London's Lambeth Palace, as he calls for Delivery Status: Completed Documentary (90') RETRAITEMENT DES ORDURES all to stand for equality - inspiring Year of Production: 2011 Country of Language: Dutch with English subtitles MENAGERES ( CROM) bishops, priests and ordinary folk to Origin: USA Director: Dutch with English subtitles TV series (13 X 26 min) come out from the shadows and change From a snowy small town in Northern Co-Production Partners: Mollywood, Language: French and English history. Michigan to the mountains of Noord Film and Lichtpunt Director: Bruno DEVILLE HITLER'S CHILDREN Afghanistan and back, Where Soldiers Producer: Ellen de Waele (Serendipity Producer: Gérard RUEY Documentary (78) Come From follows the four-year Films) Key Cast: Anne Richard, Roland Language: English, German, Hebrew journey of childhood friends, forever Delivery Status: Completed Vouilloz, Marina Golovine, Jean Luc with English subtitles changed by a faraway war. Year of Production: 2011 Country of Borgeat Director: Chanoch Ze'evi SOMEWHERE BETWEEN Origin: Belgium Delivery Status: French version and Co-Production Partners: MDR, WDR, Documentary (93') Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Neel German version with English subtitles SWR, TSR, Reshet TV Language: English decides to orchestrate her own death. Year of Production: 2011, Country of Producer: Chanoch Ze'evi (Maya Director: Linda Goldstein Knowlton Epilogue offers a unique and Origin: Switzerland Productions), Simone Bauman (Sazonia Producer: Linda Goldstein Knowlton extraordinary insight into her final The admiring look of children, an opera Entertainment) Delivery Status: Completed months and her family's heartbreaking tune, the smell of dust bins, what else to Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2011 Country of acceptance and love. be happy? Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA JORDAN: 2 000 YEARS OF Origin: Israel-Germany The product of China's 1979 one-child HISTORY Descendants of the most powerful policy, four remarkable Chinese CINEXPORT Documentary (52 minutes HD) figures of the Nazi regime (Hoess, American teenage girls, adopted from Cinexport, 49 avenue Paul Language: French and English Goering, Himmler and Frank) were left a orphanages in the 1990's share their Doumer,75116 Paris, France, Tel: Director: Jacques VICHET dark inheritance that associates them stories - the unbearable clash of cultures, 33.1.45.62.49.45 & 33.1.45.03.33.43. Producer: Jacques VICHET with one of the greatest abominations in painful abandonment and the warmth Fax: 33.1.45.63.85.26, tvfrance-intl.com Delivery Status: April 2012 history and love of the new families and unifrance.org, Year of Production: 2012 LOST BOHEMIA CINEMA JENIN [email protected] Country of Origin: France Documentary (78') Documentary (95') Sales Agent The kingdom of Jordan is strewn with Language: English Language: Arabic, English, with English At Cannes: Anne-Marie ROMBOURG- the traces of its fertile history, the Director: Josef Birdman Astor subtitles CARACO (President) influences of Greek, Roman and Muslim Producer: Jody Shields, Jonathan Director: Marcus Vetter Acquisition Executive: Anne-Marie rulers. ROMBOURG-CARACO Ferrantelli, Anne Carey Co-Production Partners: SWR, BR, LES 100 PLUS BELLES Office: EURO AIM STAND, Tel: Delivery Status: Completed ARTE, YES Docu, MFG Baden- MERVEILLES DU MONDE Year of Production: 2011 Country of Wurttemberg, Medienboard Berlin- 06.07.54.33.33 Documentary series (13 X 52’ in HD) Origin: USA Brandenberg, DFFF Deutscher EL MYSTERIO DE LAS LAGUNAS Language: French and English For over a century New York’s Carnegie Filmforderfons, Sundance Institute, The Documentary film (52 or 92 min) Director: Jacques VICHET Hall rented work-live studio spaces atop Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts: Language: Spanish with French subtitles Producer: Blue Bird Productions the famous music hall to artistic tenants Cinema Project. or English subtitles Delivery Status: Completed such as Marlon Brando, Paddy Producer: Marcus Vetter, Uwe Dierks, Director: Atahualpa LICHY Year of Production: 2010, Country of Chayefsky and Isadora Duncan. “As a Thomas Grube, Philippa Kowarsky Producer: Atahualpa LICHY Origin: France tenant with unlimited access into this Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Natural and archaeological wonders little known world, I began to videotape Year of Production: 2011 Country of Year of Production: 2011, Country of throughout the world. Origin: France my neighbors whose lives intersected Origin: Israel-Germany LOIRE VALLEY PALACES with decades of artistic history. But the An ambitious initiative to re-open a Dans les Andes vénézuéliennes, les Documentary (4 X 52’ HD) project took an abrupt turn when The previously abandoned cinema in the histoires racontées par les habitants nous Language: French and English Carnegie Hall Corporation terminated all West Bank city of Janin offers a nuanced font voyager dans le temps en suivant le Producer: Blue Bird Productions our leases, and instigated a plan to and textured view into the city and the fil que tissent les légendes à travers le Delivery Status: May 2012 eliminate the 115 year old artists colony dedicated, loyal, and often conflicted récit oral. Year of Production: 2012 put in place by Andrew Carnegie”. Lost group of people who follow a dream. 1,2,3 VOLEURS Country of Origin: France Bohemia follows the protracted battle by WHEN THE DRUM IS BEATING AKA: LA PRISE EN PASSANT The four palaces: AMBOISE, the tenants to preserve their community Documentary (88') TV fiction (90 min) VILLANDRY, BLOIS and CHEVERNY Language: French and the rich heritage of the studios Language: English, Creole with English BUENOS AIRES, THE CAPITAL OF HOOD TO COAST sutitles Producer: Martine Lheureux TANGO Documentary (90') Director: Whitney Dow Key Cast: Isabelle Carre, Nicolas Cazale, Documentary (52’ HD) Language: English Co-Production Partners: ITVS, NBPC, Olivier Sitruk, Abraham Belaga Language: French and English Director: Christoph Baaden Sundance Institute Delivery Status: French version Producer: Blue Bird Productions Producer: Christoph Baaden Producer: Whitney Dow, Jane Regan, December 2011 Delivery Status: May 2012 Delivery Status: Completed Daniel Morel Year of Production: 2011 Year of Production: 2012 Year of Production: 2011 Country of Delivery Status: Completed Country of Origin: France Country of Origin: France Origin: USA Year of Production: 2011 Country of A divorced man, living by his As well as being the political capital, Heartfelt, funny and inspiring, the Origin: USA grandparents, steals the company where Buenos Aires is also Argentina’s largest documentary Hood to Coast follows four A journey through Haiti's tortured history he works and soon becomes well known city and contains its busiest port. It is very different teams on an epic journey with the music and memories of the in the newspapers and admired for his best known as the world capital of tango. to conquer the world’s largest relay race. members of Septenrional, the country's harmless. JEANNE D’ARC A 67 year old heart attach survivor oldest and most celebrated big band NUMBER ONE Documentary (52’ HD) returns to conquer the race that nearly SIX MILLION AND ONE Feature-film (86 min) Language: French killed her, a family in mourning runs to Documentary (93') Language: Moroccan language with Director: Armand ISNARD honor the memory of their beloved, a Language: Hebrew, English, German French subtitles and English subtitles Producer: Armand ISNARD

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PORN IN THE HOOD – GAUMONT Delivery Status: July 2012 ivory carved astrology board. But little Director: Steven R. Monroe Year of Production: 2012 CINETEL FILMS, does she know that the fate of all Key Cast: Ed Quinn Country of Origin: France humanity will soon be decided by the Delivery Status: In Production Saint Joan of Arc, nicknamed “The Maid INC. deadly forces this mystical ivory board is When an ominous dark star appears in CineTel Films, Inc., 8255 Sunset Blvd., of Vaucouleurs” is a national heroine of about to unleash on mankind... the sky on Christmas Eve, massive Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA, Tel: +1 France and a Roman Catholic saint. earthquakes and cataclysmic natural 323.654.4000 Fax: +1 323.650.6400. EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE Thriller disasters shake the earth! SLOW JAPAN www.cinetelfilms.com, Documentary (52’ HD) Director: TBA [email protected] THE PHILADELPHIA Language: French with English subtitles Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor Key Cast: TBA EXPERIMENT Producer: Pierre MATHIOTE At Cannes: Paul Hertzberg (President), Delivery Status: In Development Action/Disaster Delivery Status: May/june 2012 Eric M. Bernstein (Sr. Vice President, Charlotte is a timid and sheltered girl Director: Paul Ziller Year of Production: 2012 International Distribution) trying to forget her past. But what she'll Key Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Michael Country of Origin: France Office: Riviera B2, Tel: soon find out is that her future and her Pare Un voyage extraordinaire, à pied, à +33(0)4.92.99.33.17 past are forever linked to a dark and Delivery Status: Post Production travers le Japon, presque 1000 Km. Dans dangerous truth. When an attempt to recreate a decades- ces forêts millénaires, Massimo et Gaia http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1291 INDEPENDENCE DAYSASTER old government experiment goes horribly ont poursuivi leur itinéraire le long des Action/Disaster wrong, it rips a hole in the fabric of anciennes routes de pèlerinage Director: TBA space and time, causing the USS ZODIAC: SIGNS OF Key Cast: TBA Eldridge to reappear causing massive DESTRUCTION Action/Disaster Delivery Status: In Development destruction. Language: English The 4th of July. America's day of SUPER STORM Director: TBA independence. A day for fireworks, Action/Disaster Writer: TBA celebrations, parades, and backyard Director: Sheldon Wilson Producer: TBA barbecues. But this year, the residents of Key Cast: David Sutcliffe, Erica Cerra, Key Cast: TBA Moose Ridge are in for a holiday Mitch Pileggi Delivery Status: Pre-Production celebration they never expected... Delivery Status: Post Production As curator of her university's collection THE 12 DISASTERS OF Jupiter's famous blemish, the Great Red of antiquities, Elizabeth is thrilled when CHRISTMAS Spot, has vanished! But when massive a new artifact arrives; a 2,000-year-old Action/Disaster storms are reported in North America, it

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quickly becomes apparent that the Great Director: Kasper Barfoed Delivery Status: In Production THE DAY Red Spot has landed on Earth! Writer: F. Scott Frazier Year of Production: 2012 Country of Thriller (90 minutes) END OF THE WORLD Co-Production Partners: Furst Films, Origin: USA Language: English Action/Disaster Matador Pictures In the first of a slate of horror films from Director: Doug Aarniokoski Director: Steven R. Monroe Producer: Sean Furst, Bryan Furst, Nigel production company Slasher Films Writer: Luke Passmore Key Cast: Greg Grunberg, Neil Grayston Thomas (founded by rock legend Slash), Gore Co-Production Partners: JR Television Delivery Status: Post Production Key Cast: John Cusack, Malin Akerman, Verbinski’s protégé and visionary Holding Company & House in a Field When massive earthquakes violently Liam Cunningham director Anthony Leonardi, brings us LLC shake cities and mysterious plasma Delivery Status: Post Production NOTHING TO FEAR, a terrifying and Producer: Guy A. Danella spheres pummel the earth's surface, cries Year of Production: 2011 Country of bloodcurdling vintage horror film. Key Cast: Shawn Ashmore, Ashley Bell, of 'Armageddon' echoes across the Origin: USA THE DALLAS BUYERS CLUB Cory Hardrict world... Starring John Cusack and Malin Drama Delivery Status: Completed COLLISION EARTH Akerman, THE NUMBERS STATION is Language: English Year of Production: 2011 Country of Action/Disaster a potent mix of ‘Bourne’-style action and Director: Jean-Marc Vallée Origin: USA Director: Paul Ziller ‘Assault on Precinct 13’ thrills… In Writer: Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack Robert Rodriguez’s prodigiously talented Writer: Ryan Landels Rudy Thauberger order to stay alive, you must learn who Co-Production Partners: TBC protégé Douglas Aarniokoski directs Key Cast: Kirk Acevedo, Andrew Airlie, to trust, who to protect and who to kill. Producer: Robbie Brenner, Rachel THE DAY, an edge-of-your-seat war Diane Farr SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF Rothman-Winter, Nathan Ross action horror, in the vein of MAD MAX, Delivery Status: Completed Thriller Key Cast: Matthew McConaughey, ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 and Year of Production: 2011 Language: English Hilary Swank FROM DUSK TIL DAWN. When a massive comet collides with the Director: Mike Figgis Delivery Status: Pre-Production LOVELY MOLLY sun, the explosion jettisons the planet Writer: Mike Figgis Country of Origin: USA Horror (95 minutes) Mercury from its orbit and sends it on a Co-Production Partners: Red Mullet Following his blistering powerhouse Language: English fatal collision course with Earth! Producer: Vito Di Rosa performance in 'The Lincoln Lawyer', Director: Eduardo Sanchez Key Cast: Sebastian Koch, Lotte Matthew McConaughey hits the mark Writer: Eduardo Sanchez Verbeek, Rebecca Night once again in the inspirational and Co-Production Partners: Possession CONTENT MEDIA Delivery Status: Post Production extraordinary true story about one man's Partners LLC Year of Production: 2012 Country of fight for life and justice against the Producer: Robin Cowie, Gregg Hale, CORPORATION Origin: UK Jane Fleming, Mark Ordesky Content Media Corporation, 19 Heddon enormous power and unyielding Multi-award winning Writer/Director Key Cast: Gretchen Lodge, Johnny Street, London, W1B 4BG UK, Tel: corruption of the US government's Food Mike Figgis brings us his mesmerizing Lewis, Alexandra Holden 44.207.851.6500 Fax: and Drug Administration. Also starring new Film, SUSPENSION OF Delivery Status: Completed 44.20.78516506/04. the incomparable, twice Oscar®-winning DISBELIEF - an intoxicating psycho- Year of Production: 2011 Country of www.contentmediacorp.com, Hilary Swank. sexual murder-mystery reminiscent of Origin: USA [email protected] THE PACT Sales Agent modern classics Mulholland Dr. and Thriller/Ghost (91 minutes) The groundbreaking director of The At Cannes: Jamie Carmichael (President, Black Swan. Blurring the lines between Language: English Blair Witch Project takes us beyond the Film), Harry White (Head of Sales), reality and fiction, we watch as a world Director: Nicholas McCarthy edge once again with LOVELY MOLLY, Toby Melling (Head of Television and renowned screenwriter and literature Writer: Nicholas McCarthy a petrifying and deeply disturbing DVD Sales), Judith Baugin (Head of professor becomes deeply implicated in Co-Production Partners: Locked Door haunted house possession story with an International Marketing), Rebecca Berry the murder of a mysterious and beautiful Films LLC astonishing debut from Gretchen Lodge, (Senior Marketing Manager), Libby young French woman… Producer: Ross M Dinerstein that is already being tipped as the finest D'Arcy (VP of Business Affairs) NOTHING TO FEAR Key Cast: Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien, film of Eduardo Sánchez’s career. Classic Horror Office: 32 rue du Commandant André Haley Hudson OUTPOST: BLACK SUN (corner Croisette), 4th floor, Cannes, Tel: Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Horror (87 Mins) +33.9.50.58.14.45 Director: Anthony Leonardi III Year of Production: 2011 Country of Language: English Writer: Jonathan W.C. Mills Origin: USA Director: Steve Barker Co-Production Partners: Slasher Films http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=179 Based on Nicholas McCarthy’s Writer: Steve Barker, Rae Brunton Producer: Rob Eric, Michael Williams, acclaimed spine-chilling Sundance 2011 Co-Production Partners: Black Camel Slash THE NUMBERS STATION short, and from the Producer of Xavier Pictures Action/Thriller Key Cast: Clancy Brown, Anne Heche, Gens’ SXSW sensation THE DIVIDE, Producer: Arabella Croft, Kieran Parker Language: English James Tupper comes a terrifying ghost story in the Key Cast: Catherine Steadman, Richard classic horror tradition of Hitchcock’s Coyle, Julian Wadham PSYCHO, Argento’s SUSPIRIA and Delivery Status: Completed Nakata’s RINGU... Year of Production: 2011 Country of CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Origin: UK HICK THE CLICK AND ACCESS CULTURE IS NOW Road Movie (95 minutes) In the sequel to the hit Nazi Zombie Language: English action horror movie, OUTPOST, we & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. Director: Derick Martini return to the aftermath of the reanimated Writer: Andrea Portes & Derick Martini mayhem. Packing an even bigger punch, Co-Production Partners: Hick Production OUTPOST:BLACK SUN delivers more Company LLC action and even more fights and frights, Producer: Jonathan Cornick, Charles de as the un-dead legion breaks out in its Click on Portes, Steven Siebert, Christian Taylor ruthless quest for power. ‘28 Weeks Key Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Blake Later’ meets ‘Cloverfield’ meets ‘Aliens’ Blue Boxes Lively, Eddie Redmayne in OUTPOST: BLACK SUN, an action Delivery Status: Completed horror movie that brings the most evil to Access Year of Production: 2011 Country of force of the 20th century screaming back Origin: USA to life…again. Available Equal measures of David Lynch and OUTPOST: RISE OF THE Terrence Malick, with nods to classics SPETSNAZ Company GIANT and THE WIZARD OF OZ, Horror Martin Scorsese protégé and award Language: English Trailers winning Director Derick Martini brings Director: Kieran Parker us an emotive, often funny but Writer: Rae Brunton Automatically compelling story about 13 year old Luli’s Co-Production Partners: Black Camel life on the road and the extraordinary Pictures experiences that will shape her life Producer: Arabella Croft, Kieran Parker Do Your Part To forever. Key Cast: TBC Delivery Status: In Production Combat Global Warming Year of Production: 2012 Country of

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Origin: UK Angeles to New York with a love- In the third installment of the hit Nazi CURB damaged group of passengers. These D Zombie action horror movie, OUTPOST: strangers buckle up for love's bumpy RISE OF THE SPETSNAZ, we discover ENTERTAINMENT ride. Curb Entertainment, 3907 West Alameda the horrifying origins of these Avenue, Burbank, CA 91505 USA, Tel: TAKE ME HOME DISTRIBUTION supernatural soldiers and see them in Romantic comedy (90 minutes) 1.818.843.8580 Fax: 1.818.566.1719. ferocious gladiatorial battle against the Language: English www.curbentertainment.com WORKSHOP (HK) most ruthless and notorious of all Sales Agent Director: Sam Jaeger military special forces: the Russian At Cannes: Carole Curb (President), Writer: Sam Jaeger LIMITED Distribution Workshop (HK) Limited, Spetsnaz. THE TERMINATOR meets Conor Barrett (Marketing and Assistant Producer: Sam Jaeger Unit 215, 2/F, Innocentre, 72 Tat Chee CROSS OF IRON in OUTPOST: RISE Sales) Key Cast: Sam Jaeger, Amber Jaeger, Ave, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon,Hong OF THE SPETSNAZ. Office: Riviera G2, Tel: Victor Garber Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Tel: +33(0)4.92.99.33.21 Delivery Status: Completed 852.27688678 Fax: 852.27128200. Year of Production: 2011 Country of [email protected] CORSAN http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1127 Origin: United States Sales Agent Corsan, Brouwersvliet 21, 2000, Having discovered that her husband is At Cannes: Nansun SHI (Chairman), Antwerp, Belgium, Tel: DEADLINE cheating on her, Claire jumps into a New Jeffrey CHAN (CEO), Virginia LEUNG +32.3.234.25.218 Fax: +32.3.226.21.58. Thriller (95 Minutes) York taxi and tells the driver to just (Head of Sales), Christy CHOI (Senior www.corsanfilms.com, [email protected] Sales Agent, Producer, Financier Language: English drive. Distribution Manager) At Cannes: Paul Breuls (CEO), Director: Curt Hahn WHITE IRISH DRINKERS Office: Cormoran II, 3rd floor, Grand Catherine Vandeleene (COO), Pascal Writer: Mark Ethridge Thriller (95 minutes) Residences, 45 la Croisette, Tel: Borno (President of sales), Alain Executive Producer: Curt Hahn Language: English +33(0)4.93.68.53.00 Gillissen (Head of sales and marketing), Producer: Curt Hahn, Molly M. Mayeux Director: John Gray Emelie Vervecken (Vice president Key Cast: Eric Roberts, Steve Talley, Writer: John Gray http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1097 corporate operations) Anna Felix, Lauren Jenkins Producer: Paul F. Bernard Delivery Status: Completed Office: Carlton 137-138, Tel: Key Cast: Stephen Lang, Peter Riegert, THE LAST TYCOON +32.499.69.71.31 Year of Production: 2011 Country of Karen Allen Gangster Thriller Origin: United States Year of Production: 2010 Country of Language: TBC The murder of an African American Origin: United States Director: WONG Jing http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1355 youth in rural Alabama has gone Brooklyn, 1975: two brothers looking for Producer: Andrew LAU unpunished, unsolved and uninvestigated a way out of their working-class Key Cast: Sammo HUNG, CHOW Yun KILLING SEASON Action for almost twenty years neighborhood make a pact to rob a local Fat Language: English ABEL'S FIELD theater on the night of a Rolling Stones Delivery Status: Pre-Production Director: Mark Steven Johnson Family (100 Minutes) concert. Story based on a true life crime boss Language: English who built his empire through the 1920s Writer: Evan Daugherty FEW OPTIONS Director: Gordie Haakstad and 30s in Shanghai, before the World Co-Production Partners: Nu Image AKA: A FEW OPTIONS, ALL BAD Executive Producer: Avi Lerner, John Writer: Aron Flasher Thriller (90 minutes) War II made a mess out of everything. Producer: Tore Knos Tompson Language: English WHITE DEER PLAIN Producer: Paul Breuls, Ed Cathell Key Cast: Kevin Sorbo, Samuel Davis Director: George Pappy, Jr. Epic Drama Key Cast: Robert De Niro, John Travolta Delivery Status: Completed Writer: George Pappy, Jr. Language: Mandarin Delivery Status: Post Production Year of Production: 2011 Country of Producer: Jason Ninness Director: WANG Quan An Year of Production: 2012 Origin: United States Key Cast: Kenny Johnson, Brad Dourif, Key Cast: ZHANG Feng Yi, ZHANG Yu Seth, a high school senior, works hard to Qi, WU Gang SINGULARITY Erin Daniels, Michael Sheen, Rainn Adventure support himself and his adorable twin Wilson Delivery Status: Screening Language: English sisters. Abel becomes his mentor. But Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2012 Country of Director: Roland Joffe how can Abel find the courage to face Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: China Writer: Roland Joffe his past and help his friend? Where will Origin: United States Adapted from the historical novel by Seth find the faith and support to face his Producer: Paul Breuls After 22 years in prison for a crime he CHEN Zhongshi, the film is set in the future? ABEL’S FIELD is an inspiring, Key Cast: Josh Hartnett, Bipasha Basu, did not commit, Frank just wants to start eponymous White Deer Village in moving, coming-of-age story offering Abay Deol over. When he is told he must kill a man Shaanxi Province where the two most drama, comedy, heart, and…hope. Delivery Status: Post Production or be killed, he is left with Few Options. important families, BAI and LU, lived Year of Production: 2012 SOME GUY WHO KILLS PEOPLE together in peace but a turmoil leads to a Thriller (90 minutes) RISING STARS Family (90 minutes) fierce struggle for land ownership EMPEROR Language: English Thriller Language: English between the families. A young woman Director: Jack Perez Language: English Director: Lawrence Kopleman new to the village soon finds herself Writer: Ryan Levin Director: Lee Tamahori Writer: Bernard Koppleman caught between the two camps. Using Producer: Michael Goldman, Ryan Writer: Michael Thomas Producer: Daniel Cleaver, John Madara her beauty as a way of gaining influence Levin, Michael Wormser and a means of survival, the heroine of Producer: Paul Breuls Key Cast: Jacqueline Biels, Burt Klein, Key Cast: Kevin Corrigan, Barry WANG's latest film manages to remain Delivery Status: In Development Barry Corbin Year of Production: 2013 Bostwick, Karen Black, Lucy Davis true to herself and those she loves. Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON 2525 Year of Production: 2011 Country of Year of Production: 2010 Country of Sci-fi Origin: United States GATE Origin: United States 3D Martial Arts (122 min) Language: English Three musical acts and three filmmakers Ken Boyd, fresh out of the loony bin, Language: Chinese Writer: Wesley Clark are paired up in a battle to see who can sets out to kill those he deems Director: TSUI Hark Producer: Paul Breuls create the best original song and music responsible for his miserable life. Writer: TSUI Hark Delivery Status: In Development video. Year of Production: 2013 OVERNIGHT Producer: Nansun SHI, TSUI Hark, YU Romantic Comedy (90 minutes) Dong Language: English Key Cast: Jet LI, ZHOU Xun, CHEN Kun Director: Valerie Breiman Delivery Status: Screening Writer: Valerie Breiman Year of Production: 2011 Country of Producer: Daniel Gruskoff, Zach Origin: China Norman, Michael Viner THE BUSINESS The first 3D martial arts film to be Key Cast: Rachel Blanchard, James produced and directed by TSUI Hark. D'Arcy, Gbenga Akinnagbe OF ILM The hunt for an escaped concubine Delivery Status: Completed www.thebusinessoffilmdaily.comF quickly truned into a game of cat & Year of Production: 2011 Country of mouse, as the infamous Dragon Inn was Origin: United States once again the centre stage for fortune, Jenny shares a red-eye flight from Los romance and vengeance.

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A SIMPLE LIFE Key Cast: Heather GRAHAM, Lang Delivery Status: Completed Drama (119 mins) Lang Year of Production: 2011 Country of DOUBLE DUTCH Language: Chinese Delivery Status: Completed Origin: China, Hong Kong Director: Ann HUI From the Academy Award winning team The Chinese remake of Mel Gibson's INTERNATIONAL Double Dutch International,,Toronto, ON Writer: Susan CHAN, Roger LEE behind 'Peter and the Wolf', this is a 'What Women Want" Canada, Tel: 877.914.3847 Fax: Producer: Ann HUI, Roger LEE, Pui fantastic family adventure film using CATCHING MONKEY 866.839.3244. Wah CHAN cutting edge live action, stop motion 3D Thriller www.doubledutchmedia.ca,info@doubled Key Cast: Andy LAU, Deanie IP animation and 3D. The soundtrack is Language: Chinese utchmedia.ca Delivery Status: Screening composed by Frederic Chopin and Director: TSUI Hark Sales Agent, Distributor Year of Production: 2011 Country of performed by super-star pianist Lang Key Cast: Charlie YOUNG, YU Nan, At Cannes: Jason Moring (President - Origin: Hong Kong Lang, who also co-stars. Daniel CHAN Films), Ron Moring (President - A heartwarming tale between a film EAST MEETS WEST 2011 Delivery Status: Post Production International) producer and his old family maid. The Comedy (99 minutes) The term "catching monkey" is the Office: Canadian Pavilion - International master-servant relationship takes a Language: Chinese Taiwanese phrase for "catching an affair Village - Riviera 123, Tel: Tel: sentimental turn when the maid enters Director: Jeff LAU red-handed". It is also the name of a 1.416.994.8373 the elderly home. Key Cast: Eason CHAN, Ekin CHENG, hacker-for-hire group that specializes in THE SORCERER AND THE WHITE Karen MOK gathering info from people's online http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1187 SNAKE Delivery Status: Completed accounts. Period Action Fantasy (94 mins) Once upon a time in the Heavens, there JUST CALL ME NOBODY DORFMAN Language: Chinese lived eight deities who were constantly Martial Arts Comedy (91 minutes) Romantic Comedy (90 min) Director: Tony CHING Siu Tung at loggerheads with one another. The Language: Chinese Language: English Producer: YANG Zi Heavenly Emperor couldn't take their Director: CHU Yen Ping Director: Brad Leong Key Cast: Jet LI, Eva HUANG, bickering any longer, and banished all of Key Cast: Xiao Shen Yang, ZHAO Ben Writer: Wendy Kout Raymond LAM, Charlene CHOI them to the mortal world, until they had Shan, Kelly LIN Executive Producer: Leonard Hill Delivery Status: Completed learnt the meaning of unity. Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Sara Rue Elliot Gould Johann Country of Origin: China LET'S GO Year of Production: 2011 Country of Urb Haaz Sleiman Sophie Monk Based on the legendary folklore in Action Thriller (95 mins) Origin: China Catherine Hicks Scott Wilson China, the White Snake spirit falls for a Language: Chinese A shoemaker in ancient China became a Delivery Status: Completed mortal scholar, but romance soon draws Director: WONG Ching Po superb martial artist by accident, but his Year of Production: 2012 Country of a relentless sorcerer hot on her trails. Producer: Willie CHAN skills were put to the test when he fell Origin: USA In the vein of movies such as BRIDGET WORLD OF FLYING MACHINE Key Cast: Juno MAK, Stephy TANG for the Emperor's fiancée. JONES’S DIARY, MY BIG FAT 3D Animation (64 minutes) Delivery Status: Completed THE FRIGHTENING NIGHT Director: Various Directors Country of Origin: Hong Kong Thriller GREEK WEDDING, MURIEL’S Producer: Hugh WELCHMAN Let's go, friend! "You've got to be Language: Chinese WEDDING and MOONSTRUCK, Delivery Status: Completed awesome once in a lifetime". A Director: XU Bin DORFMAN is an antic, romantic World of Flying Machine, is the pure fantastical homage to the Japanese Key Cast: TANG Yi Fei, ZHU Hong Jia comedy about twenty-seven year old animation spin-off, of the live anime, as an orphan teams up with the Delivery Status: Post Production Deb Dorfman, a lovable doormat, who is action/animation feature film. All films local rascals to seek vengeance on the Country of Origin: China uprooted from the beige comfort of the in World of Flying Machine are set to archrival who severs his arm. An aspiring actress is harassed by a suburban San Fernando Valley and caught up in the kaleidoscopic whirlwind Chopin's varied and timelessly beautiful TREASURE INN mysterious stalker. When she is on Etudes, performed by Lang Lang. Period Action Comedy (97 mins) location for a new horror film, a series of of a newly revitalized downtown L.A. In the course of one week, while hoping to DOUBLE TROUBLE Language: Chinese haunting is driving her sanity to the Action Comedy Director: Jing WONG edge. win the heart of her unrequited love interest, Deb changes in ways she never Director: David Hsun-Wei CHANG Writer: Jing WONG LOVER'S DISCOURSE Key Cast: Jaycee CHAN, XIA Yu, Producer: YU Dong,Jeffrey CHAN Romantic Drama (118 mins) thought possible. In discovering the Jessica C. Key Cast: Nicholas TSE, Nick Language: Chinese renaissance downtown, Deb ignites a Delivery Status: Post Production CHEUNG, Charlene CHOI, HUANG Yi Director: Derek TSANG,Jimmy WAN renaissance of her own and profoundly RUSH HOUR meets THE HANGOVER, Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Eason CHAN, Karena LAM, transforms both herself and those around get ready for a wild ride with a new Year of Production: 2011 Country of Kay TSE her. generation of action comedy stars Jaycee Origin: China, Hong Kong Delivery Status: Completed WARHOUSE Psychological Thriller (80 min) CHAN, CHEN Handian, XIA Yu, Jessica Once upon a time in China, two street Year of Production: 2011 Country of Language: English C. as they hunt down a stolen painting. inspectors named Gong and Ba were on Origin: Hong Kong Director: Luke Massey Trouble is twice as fun when you're in the mysterious murder case in town. Four relationships intersects in Hong Writer: Ben Read good company! However, when the real murderer was Kong as the citizens of the crowded Executive Producer: Ben Read finally revealed, Gong realized the cosmopolitan city discovers lovers and THE LION ROARS 2 Producer: Luke Massey Action Comedy danger was much closer to home than he loved ones ?V who is our most beloved Key Cast: Joseph Morgan, Matt Ryan Director: Joe MA could ever imagine. in this city that never sleeps? Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Cecilia CHEUNG, Xiao Shen OVERHEARD II ONCE UPON A TIME IN TIBET Year of Production: 2012 Country of Yang Action Thriller (119mins) Drama/Romantic Origin: UK Delivery Status: Post Production Language: Chinese Director: DAI Wei Warhouse is a gripping, brutal, Country of Origin: Hong Kong, China Director: Alan MAK, Felix CHONG Key Cast: SONG Jia, Peter HO psychological drama with a supernatural In ancient China, the she-devil in town Producer: Derek YEE Delivery Status: Completed edge that charts one man’s fight to bets no man can remain faithful to a Key Cast: LAU Ching Wan, Louis KOO, In the beginning of the World War II, preserve his humanity and sanity over woman, until a strategist dares her to an Daniel WU American pilot Robert Smith is taking years of terrible imprisonment. Royal experimental marriage. Delivery Status: Completed part in the effort to help China fighting Marine A.J Budd (Joseph Morgan) CHRISTMAS ROSE Year of Production: 2011 Country of against the Japanese forces. During a awakens in a mysterious house and is Drama Origin: Hong Kong liaison cargo mission from India to forced to fight for his life every day Language: Cantonese The creative team of ??Infernal Affairs?? China, his cargo plane crashes against grotesque, inhuman opponents. Director: Charlie YEUNG presents a nail-biting cat-and-mouse somewhere in Tibet. Trapped alone in an unchanging prison Producer: TSUI Hark game between a stock broker with a of unbreakable routines, he must kill Key Cast: Aaron KWOK,GWEI Lun-mei shady past, a street-smart cop, and a every day, or die himself. As days stretch Delivery Status: In Production surveillance expert with a hidden agenda. into years, the isolation and unceasing Country of Origin: Hong Kong WHAT WOMEN WANT violence threaten his very soul. The only THE FLYING MACHINE Romantic Drama (116mins) note of hope lies in the journals of a 3D Animation/Live Action Language: Chinese THE BUSINESS former prisoner of the Warhouse, WWI Language: English Director: CHEN Daming officer Lieutenant Edward Sterling (Matt Director: Martin CLAPP, Geoff Producer: Dede Nickerson, CHEN OF ILM Ryan). Discovered behind a secret wall, www.thebusinessoffilmdaily.comF LINDSEY Daming, Jeffrey CHAN Sterling’s journals serve as a mentor to Producer: Hugh WELCHMAN Key Cast: Andy LAU, GONG Li

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THE NUMBERS STATION – CONTENT FILMS the young marine and help to keep him summer school before his mom and dad to unforeseen places, shattering and Through an odyssey marked by greed, alive, but what dark fate befell their discover he's failed senior science. At reconstructing the worlds they have both violence, and ultimately, belonging, author? The stories of these two men school, Levi falls in love with his carefully constructed. LUCKY shows how a child's spirit can from different times interweave as their classmate, Katie, and learns that he has LUCKY bring out decency, humility and even desperation to escape the house and the to make the choice between playing Drama (100 min) love in adults struggling to survive in the endless killing leads them both into tennis and receiving a proper education. Language: Zulu, Hindi, English new South Africa. taking terrible measures. GENERAL EDUCATION is a quirky Director: Avie Luthra NOTORIOUS GUYS GENERAL EDUCATION comedy about a family learning to grow Writer: Avie Luthre AKA: LES FAMEUX GARS Comedy (85 min) together. Co-Production Partners: How Town Comedy (85 min) Language: English UNION SQUARE Films - Out of Africa Language: French Director: Tom Morris Drama (81 mins) Executive Producer: Christopher Wilmot Director: Ady El Assal Writer: Elliot Feld, Jaz Kalkat, Tom Language: English Producer: Lance Samuels Key Cast: Godié, Nytt, Last ‘Ar, Taipan, Morris Director: Nancy Savoca Key Cast: Jayashree Basavaraj, Shile Caty Baccega Executive Producer: Elliot Feld, Jaz Executive Producer: Rich Guay Dlamini Delivery Status: Post Production Kalkat, Tom Morris Key Cast: Mira Sorvino, Tammy Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2011 Country of Key Cast: Chris Sheffield, Maiara Walsh, Blanchard, Mike Doyle, Michael Rispoli Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Luxembourg Elaine Hendrix, Bobby Campo, Delivery Status: Completed Origin: South Africa The Notorious Guys follows Steven, a Mercedes Masohn, Janeane Garofalo, Year of Production: 2011 Country of LUCKY is a South African feature slow minded daydreamer and his band of Larry Miller Origin: USA length film about a ten-year-old orphan misfit friends, Guy, Armand and Henri. Delivery Status: Completed A reluctant reunion of two estranged who leaves his Zulu village, following While attending a special education Year of Production: 2012 Country of sisters. One is on the verge of marriage; the death of his mother, to make his own school in Luxembourg, Steven and his Origin: USA the other is on the verge of a nervous life in the city...only to find no one will friends are surprised to find out that they Levi Collins is set to go to the local breakdown. Both struggle with truths help him, except a formidable Indian have been selected to go to Portugal on a University on a tennis scholarship, but he they're hiding from each other - and from woman with a inherent fear of Africans. student exchange program. Being half- forgot to tell his parents one thing - he themselves. Lucy and Jenny's Together, unable to speak each other's Portuguese, Steven is elated at the didn't graduate. As a result, he must take combustible reunion brings both of them language, they develop an unlikely bond. chance to see his homeland and he

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constructs a plan for him and his friends cannot escape. Conversely, his best FAST GIRLS Delivery Status: In Production to enjoy Portugal their own way, with a friend Charlie (David Huynh), despite Sports Drama Year of Production: 2012 suitcase full of counterfeit money. When his wealthy upbringing, has become Language: English London's music has transmitted the soul a spy passes himself off as a tour guide completely infatuated with the gangster Director: Regan Hall of the city to all corners of the earth. to convince Steven to give him the lifestyle and seeks a way in. When the Writer: Noel Clarke, Jay Basu, Roy This is the story of a metropolis that no suitcase and is arrested by Police for murder of a fellow gang member ignites Williams longer exists and the new London that illegal counterfeiting, Steven and his a violent street war, both Justin and Producer: Damian Jones has evolved to takr its place. friends become Police enemy number Charlie become embroiled in a conflict Key Cast: Lenora Crichlow, Lily James, HALF OF A YELLOW SUN one. With their faces all over local news, that will change both of their lives Noel Clarke, Rupert Graves, Phil Davies, Drama they must figure a way home and avoid forever. In this astonishing feature film Bradley James Language: English being arrested by Police. Notorious Guys debut, director Byron Q has crafted a tale Delivery Status: Screening Director: Biyi Bandele is a comedic trip filled with sex, money that deftly balances gritty realism with Year of Production: 2012 Country of Writer: Biyi Bandele and....uh... air balloons! stylized visuals in a manner that Origin: UK Producer: Andrea Calderwood, Gail VIERNES DE ANIMAS transcends the “gangsta movie” genre. Fast Girls ia a sexy, feisty, frenetic and Egan Thriller (90 mins) Featuring outstanding performances from fast-paced drama with romance, conflict Key Cast: Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Language: Spanish hip hop artist Thai Ngo in the lead role, and the thrill of a championship final. Ejiofor Director: Perez Gamez Raul David Huynh (Baby), Jessika Van GODDESS Delivery Status: Pre-Production Producer: Isi Sarfati (Foreign Exchange) as Justin's love Musical Romantic -Comedy Year of Production: 2012 Country of Key Cast: Iran Castillo, Magda Guzman interest and Walter Wong (Street Kings, Language: English Origin: UK Delivery Status: Completed TV's Sons of Anarchy) Director: Mark Lamprell Based on the best-selling novel by Year of Production: 2011 Country of Writer: Mark Lamprell, Joanna Weinberg Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Origin: Mexico Producer: Richard Keddie, Andrena Yellow Sun is an epic love story weaving Andy and Hugo are childhood friends, E Finlay together the lives of four people swept however, Ande has a secret that is Key Cast: Laura Michelle Kelly, Ronan up in the turbulence of war. manifested by an incident at a bar an Keating, Magda Szubanski BETTER LIVING THROUGH unprecedented event. Hugo realizes what Delivery Status: Screening CHEMISTRY happened and asks his friend. Andy hides Year of Production: 2011 Country of Comedy a gift, which lets you see the other side EALING METRO Origin: Australia Language: English of life to which embodied souls, your INTERNATIONAL In this musical romantic comedy, stir- Director: David Posamentier, Geoff gift or curse (as he calls it) gives the Ealing Metro International, Ealing crazy Elspeth Dickens has to choose Moore story the nuance necessary to trigger a Studios, Ealing Green, London, W5 5EP between fame and family when a Writer: David Posamentier, Geoff Moore series of events that shake our character. UK, Tel: +44.208.584.6708 Fax: glittering opportunity for international Producer: Felipe Marino, Joe Neurauter, At each corner, at every moment the plot +44.208.758.8658. stardom beckons. Keith Calder of this film, we descend into the depths www.ealingmetro.com, LAST CALL AT THE OASIS Key Cast: Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, of darkness and we also rise to the top of [email protected] Documentary Michelle Monaghan, Judi Dench the sky. A Tale of Souls, beyond good Sales Agent Language: English Delivery Status: Pre-Production and evil. At Cannes: Will Machin (Head of Director: Jessica Yu Year of Production: 2012 BANG BANG International Sales and Distribution), Writer: Jessica Yu, Inspired by the book A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful Crime (101 min) Natalie Brenner (EVP, International by Alex Prud'homme life spirals out of control when he starts Language: English, Vietnamese Sales), Sam Parker (Sales and Producer: Elise Pearlstein, Jessica Yu an affair with a dangerously seductive Director: Byron Q Acquisitions Manager), Jemma Sands Key Cast: Erin Brockovich, Jack Black customer who takes him on a joyride Key Cast: Thai Ngo, David Huynh, (Festival and Marketing Director), JoJo Delivery Status: Screening with explosive consequenses involving Jessika Van, Walter Wong Dye (Press and Marketing Director), Year of Production: 2011 Country of sex, drugs and possibly murder. Delivery Status: Completed Linda Deacy (Head of International Origin: USA Year of Production: 2011 Country of Servicing) The global water shortage is the biggest BAILOUT Comedy Origin: USA Office: C21, Relais de la Reine, 42/43 social issue facing the world today. This Language: English Justin (Thai Ngo) is a troubled teenage La Croisette, Tel: +33.6 33.29.13.14 powerful and stimulating film shatters Director: Michael Winterbottom gang member who runs away from home myths and provides solutions whilst Writer: Jess Walter after a fight with his mother. Despite a http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1030 being entertaining, shocking and funny Producer: Michael Besman, Melissa real desire to pursue a career in music, in equal measures. Parmenter gang life has trapped Justin in a world he TRAP FOR CINDERELLA Key Cast: Jack Black Thriller Delivery Status: Pre-Production Language: English Year of Production: 2012 Director: Iain Softley One morning Matt Prior wakes up to CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Writer: Iain Softley find himself jobless, crippled with debt, Producer: Robert Jones, Dixie Linder, convinced his wife is having an affair THE CLICK AND ACCESS CULTURE IS NOW Iain Softley and six days away from losing his home. Key Cast: Tuppence Middleton, & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. Bailout is a hysterical, heartfelt tale of Alexandra Roach, Kerry Fox how we can reach the edge of ruin and Delivery Status: Screening Year of Production: 2011 begin to make our way back. A beach house at a French resort is Click on gutted by fire. Trapped inside are two women - one rich and the other poor. ECHO BRIDGE Blue Boxes Only one of them survives, burnt beyond ENTERTAINMENT recognition and in a state of total Echo Bridge Entertainment, 8383 to Access amnesia. Who is she, the heiress or her Wilshire Blvd., Suite 530, Beverly Hills, penniless friend? A killer, or an intended CA 90211 USA. Tel: 1.323.658.7900. Available victim? Fax: 1.323.658.7922, BABYLON/DON www.echobridgeentertainment.com, Company Documentary - Music [email protected] Language: English Sales Agent, Distributor Trailers Director: Julien Temple At Cannes: Daniel March (President, Writer: Julien Temple International), Gilda Demirtas (Director, Automatically Producer: Julien Temple, Rosa Bosch International Sales) Office: Lerins, R2, Tel: +33(0)4.92.99.33.10 Do Your Part To Combat Global Warming

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TOMORROW YOU'RE GONE Delivery Status: Completed NIGHTFALL estranged brother Yang (Nicholas Tse)! AKA: BOOT TRACKS Year of Production: 2011, Country of AKA: DAI ZHUI BOU When the organization betrays Yang and Thriller Origin: USA Crime Thriller (107 minutes) kidnaps his daughter Sheng, the brothers Language: English Hirokin, a reluctant warrior with a dark Language: Cantonese / Mandarin join forces to rescue Rachel and Sheng. Director: David Jacobson past, must fulfill his destiny when forced Director: CHOW Hin Yeung THE GREAT MAGICIAN Writer: Matthew F. Jones to choose between avenging the murder Writer: Christine TO Chi Long Mystery / Romance / Action (128 mins) Producers: Larry Rattner, Holly Wiersma of his family and fighting for the Producer: Bill KONG, Ivy HO Language: Mandarin Key Cast: Michelle Monaghan, Stephen freedom of a people long abused. Key Cast: Nick CHEUNG, Simon YAM, Director: Derek Yee Dorff, Willem Dafoe Janice MAN, Kay TSE Writer: Chun Tin-nam, Derek Yee, Lau Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Ho-leung Year of Production: 2011, Country of Year of Production: 2012 Country of Executive Producer: Albert Yeung, Yu Origin: USA EDKO FILMS LTD. Origin: Hong Kong Dong, Jeffrey Chan EDKO Films Ltd., 1212, Tower II, An ex-con sets out to take revenge The brutal murder of a celebrity Producer: Peggy Lee, Mandy Law Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, against the people who have hurt him in musician will cause a hardheaded Key Cast: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Lau Hong Kong, 040 Hong Kong, Tel: the past. detective to pursue a killer from the past, Ching-wan, Zhou Xun +852.2529.3898 only to discover that in revenge, there's a Delivery Status: Screening GOATS Fax: +852.2529.5339. Comedy (92 min.) fine line between love and hate. Year of Production: 2012 Country of [email protected] Language: English Sales Agent LOVE IS NOT BLIND Origin: Hong Kong, China Director: Christopher Neil At Cannes: June Wu (Head of AKA: SHI LIAN 33 TIAN In the early 1920’s, on the streets of Writer: Mark Jude Poirier International Sales and Distribution), Romantic Comedy (110 minutes) Beijing, the nation’s most talented Producers: Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Catherine Shao (Assistant Manager, Language: Mandarin performers have gathered to show off Eric Kopeloff, Shannon Lail International Sales and Distribution), Director: TENG Huatao their most spectacular skills. One day, a Key Cast: David Duchovny, Vera Bella Liu (Assistant Manager, Writer: BAO Jingjing challenge is set: 50 silver dollars to Farmiga, Keri Russell, Minnie Driver, Ty International Sales and Distribution) Key Cast: WEN Zhang, BAI Baihe whoever can reproduce the incredible Burrell, Graham Phillips Office: Riviera C12-03 Delivery Status: Completed magic trick “Eight Immortals’ Treat”. Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2011 Country of Zhang Xian (Tony Leung) appears Year of Production: 2011, Country of http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1027 Origin: China amidst the waiting crowd and decides to Origin: USA Suddenly dumped by her boyfriend of 7 try his hand at it. Ellis prepares to leave his luxurious years, Xiaoxian doesn't think she can go UNTITLED TANG WEI PROJECT THE LAST SUPPER home in Tucson for an East Coast prep Romantic comedy on until her sassy, but jaded, co-worker War Epic school, leaving behind his new age Director: XUE Xiaolu forces her to realize how little she Language: Mandarin mother and the only real father he has Writer: XUE Xiaolu understands about love. Director: Lu Chuan ever known, Goat Man. Key Cast: TANG Wei Key Cast: Liu Ye, Daniel Wu, Chang THE L.A. COMPLEX Delivery Status: In Production Chen Drama (19 x 60) Year of Production: 2012 EMPEROR MOTION Delivery Status: Post Production Language: English Spoiled city girl Wen is embarking on a Year of Production: 2012 Country of Writer: Martin Gero PICTURES Origin: Hong Kong, China trip from Beijing to Seattle with one goal Emperor Motion Pictures, 28/F, Emperor Producers: Martin Gero, Linda Schuyler, The early history of a nation unfolds in mind: to give birth to her rich, married Group Centre, 288 Hennessy Road, Stephen Stohn through the actions of three heroes – Liu boyfriend's son and secure herself the Wanchai, Hong Kong, Tel: Co-production Partner: Epitome Pictures Bang, Xiang Yu and Han Xin – who life of luxury she's always wanted. But 852.2835.6688 Fax: 852.2893.4309. Key Cast: Jewel Staite, Chelan chased their dreams of uniting a warring when Wen arrives in Seattle, a city www.emp.hk,enquiry.emp@emperorgrou Simmons, Cassie Steele, Jonathan nation and fought through major colored by the romantic undertones of p.com Patrick Moore her favorite film Sleepless in Seattle, she Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor milestones of the Chu-Han Contention Delivery Status: In-Production will meet and unexpectedly fall for a At Cannes: Albert Lee (CEO), May Yip years in the third century. From the Julu Year of Production: 2012, Country of driver named Frank who is the opposite (General Manager, Sales & Distribution), War to the Hongmen Banquet, the Gaixia Origin: Canada of everything she thought she wanted in Catherine Chau (Manager, Sales & War to the death of HanXin, the The L.A. Complex is a sexy new drama a man. Distibution) narration of Liu Bang – who would be that follows the triumphs and trials of six COLD WAR Office: Relais de la Reine, Apartment the founding emperor of the new Han twenty-somethings newly arrived in Los AKA: HAN ZHAN C41, 4th Floor, 42/43 La Croisette, Dynasty – sets the stage for a tale of Angeles to pursue their dreams of Police Action Cannes, Tel: +33.04.93.06.70.07 Fax: betrayal and brothers at war, where the stardom. Language: Cantonese / Mandarin +33.04.93.06.70.27 last man standing inherits a nation. THE HERETICS Director: Longman LEUNG, Sunny Remarks: The film is distributed by Drama (10 x 60) LUK http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1025 EMPEROR MOTION PICTURES for Language: English Writer: Longman LEUNG, Sunny LUK selected territories Director: Giacomo Battiato Producer: Bill KONG, Matthew TANG, THE VIRAL FACTOR THE BULLET VANISHES Producers: Georges Campana, Jennifer Ivy HO Action (122 mins) Suspense Kawaja, Julia Sereny Key Cast: Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung Ka- Language: Mandarin/Cantonese/English Language: Cantonese Co-production Partners: Sienna Films, Fai, Eddie Peng, Aarif Rahman, Charlie Young Director: Dante Lam Director: Lo Chi-leung Breakout Films Delivery Status: Post Production Writer: Dante Lam, Jack Ng, (Story by: Producer: Derek Yee Key Cast: TBC Year of Production: 2012 Country of Candy Leung) Key Cast: Lau Ching-wan, Nicholas Tse Delivery Status: Pre-Production Origin: Hong Kong Executive Producer: Albert Yeung, Solon Delivery Status: Post Production Budget: $36 million Asia's safest city is about to be tested. So, Wang Zhongjun In an arsenal during the warlord era in Year of Production: 2012, Country of FIRST TIME Producer: Candy Leung, Albert Lee, China, a girl, accused of stealing bullets, Origin: France AKA: DI YI CI Solon So, Wang Zhonglei is shot to death by the Boss. Six months The true story of a great injustice, the Romance, Drama Key Cast: Jay Chou, Nicholas Tse, Andy later, a series of murders occur. genocide of an entire religious people Language: Mandarin On, Bai Bing Policemen Bao and Guo investigate the and one ruling family's fight to defend Director: HAN Yan Delivery Status: Screening case. But all the clues point to the dead their beliefs and protect the ones they Writer: HAN Yan Year of Production: 2012 Country of girl! They then discover that “stealing love. Producer: Ivy Ho, Bill Kong Origin: Hong Kong, China bullets” is a cover-up for a conspiracy HIROKIN Key Cast: Angelababy, Mark Chao, Shan IDC Agent Jon (Jay Chou) sustains grave between the Boss and the Police Chief. Action (105 min) Jiang,Bai Baihe, Tian Yuan injuries on a mission and decides to The latter tries to have Bao and Guo Language: English Delivery Status: Post Production spend his final days with his mother. She killed, but that increases their Director: Alejo Mo-Sun Year of Production: 2012 Country of tells him a long-held secret. To fulfill her determination to solve the mystery. Writer: Alejo Mo-Sun Origin: China, Hong Kong wishes, Jon goes to Southeast Asia. He Finally, they find the real murderer… Producers: John Caliendo, Braxton Pope, When her high school crush suddenly befriends medical specialist Rachel ( Lin DIVA Gregory Welteroth, Alejo Mo-Sun resurfaces in her life, terminally ill Peng). When she is forced into the Drama Co-production Partner: Will Clay college student Shi experiences the schemes of a criminal organization, Jon Language: Cantonese Key Cast: Wes Bentley, Jessica Szohr, sweetness of romance that can only attempts rescue and becomes the target Director: Heiward Mak Angus Macfadyen, Laura Ramsey, Julian come with first love. of the organization that includes his Producer: Chapman To Sands Key Cast: Joey Yung, Chapman To, Mag

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Lam, Hu Ge, Carlos Chan K9 MOUNTIES THE PERFECT RUNNER Delivery Status: Post Production ESPRESSO TV Lifestyle, Crime (6 x 30') Science and Nature (1 x 44') Year of Production: 2012 Country of Espresso TV, 25 York Villas, Brighton, Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Origin: Hong Kong, China BN1 3TS UK, Tel: +44.1273.730929. Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2011 When an accident temporarily robs her www.espressotv.co.uk,[email protected] Year of Production: 2011 How did our ancestors survive the shift of her voice, Diva J flees to a small .uk Watch as some of Canada's finest police from trees to land, and evolve to Distributor deserted village to heal both her mental officers are pushed to the limit in a 17 dominate the planet? The answer lies in At Cannes: Elfyn Morris (Head of and physical wounds. Her life changes week training programme at the PCMP's a remarkable ability: humans are nature’s Sales), David Hooper (MD) when she meets and falls in love with the Police Dog Service Training Centre. Dog perfect endurance runners. Office: Stand:H4.35 Booth 18, Fifth blind Hu Ming, who inspires her to make and trainer go through intense, physically Anthropologist Niobe Thompson Floor, Palais, Tel: +44.7802.779349 a comeback. But, in her absence, a new demanding training requiring self journeys back in evolutionary time. He diva has risen. R has become an motivation, tenacity and fitness. The talks with leading biologists and with http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=279 overnight sensation that everyone sees as bond between man and dog is those whose survival still depends on the main contender for J’s crown. Yet, inseparable as they work together to find endurance running. From the highlands their successes have come at a high D'ART D'ART lost people, track wrongdooers, search of Ethiopia, to the most remote place in Arts and culture (300 x 1') price. J is secretly pining for a forbidden for explosives and protect VIP's. Arctic Siberia, to the world's toughest Language: French, English love that seems destined to wither, and R ultramarathon, the Perfect Runner Delivery Status: Completed THE LONG MARCH TO FREEDOM has found that the road to stardom is History (3 x 45') weaves cutting-edge science with Year of Production: 2010 littered with estranged friends and Language: English gripping adventure, leaving the viewer D’Art d’Art is an art magazine, hosted painful break-ups. But in the midst of Delivery Status: Completed with an inspiring understanding of our by Frédéric Taddeï. From Gainsborough this, both divas rise to find their own Year of Production: 2011 common evolutionary inheritance as the to Bacon, discover the greatest artists, voice. running ape. and the anecdotes behind the pieces of This series tells, for the first time, the TRIAD art you can see in British museums.For story of the thousands of British, ARTISTS ON FILM Drama arts and culture (60 x 24') instance: did you know that his American and Commonwealth POW’s Language: Cantonese Language: various contemporaries suspected Rodin to be who were forced to march from Poland Director: Daniel Chan Delivery Status: Completed nothing more than a fraud who moulded to Germany in the winter of 1945, to Producer: Ng Kin-hung Year of Production: 2010 Country of his sculptures? D’Art d’Art is an original evade the advancing Soviet army. Key Cast: William Chan, Michelle Wai, Origin: The Netherlands format, currently rallying 8 Million Testimony from survivors focuses on the Derek Tsang Artists on Film is a series of viewers per episode in France.d’Art desperation of marching in awful Delivery Status: In Production concentrated, high-quality films showing d’Art has become a powerful brand in conditions to joy at the moment of Year of Production: 2012 Country of visual artists at work. Each episode France. d’Art d’Art can become a liberation. Many of the interviews Origin: Hong Kong, China profiles four complete portraits of up and powerful brand for your TV channel. describe powerful, and occasionally College-educated Harvard decides to funny accounts of events during the coming artists and a preview of their become a gangster. He is promoted ELIZABETH OF BERLIN different projects. History (1 x 64') march. At the moment of liberation, seen through the ranks, then heads his own Language: English in library footage of the period, the BARBARIC GENIUS team. As Hong Kong prepares for its Biography (1 X 52'/ 72') Producer: Steven Martin survivors explain their feelings of being 1997 handover, Harvard works with the Language: English Delivery Status: Completed free men again, in a country that was police to ensure survival of his gang. His Delivery Status: Completed This documentary depicts the motivation now falling apart. former boss BJ helps him out and they Year of Production: 2011 Country of of a theologian who on penalty of MOTHER OF NORMANDY swear friendship. Harvard is able to Origin: IRELAND imprisonment and death, questioned and History (English) move along with the times, cashing in on In the early ‘90s, writer John Healy was opposed the Nazification of her Church Delivery Status: Completed trends just ahead of the authorities. He everywhere – on TV, in the papers, being and the moral degradation of her country. Year of Production: 2011 gets into businesses beyond their interviewed, reviewed, profiled. He had The film celebrates a courageous woman Madame Simone Renaud witnessed the jurisdiction, particularly internet porn. many qualities that made him appealing who foresaw that silence would be liberation of France in1944 from a very Harvard goes legitimate, getting rid of to the media, but the most attractive one complicity but that moral and religious unique vantage point – St. Mere Eglise – the violent aspects of gangsterhood, was a sense of danger. As well as being objection could prevent a genocide and the 1st town liberated in the D Day alienating the fighters and those who an award-winning author and the subject the destruction of Christianity in invasion It was here that she, along with cannot adapt. Harvard decides to resolve of an award-winning feature film, John Germany. her three young sons and husband a gangland power struggle by himself – watched the triumph and tragedy unfold Healy had a history of violence. First he but discovers that the person betraying ESCAPESEEKER was a street wino, battling for survival in Adventure and Travel (18 x 30') during a day that defined history. It was him is . . . a world of psychopaths, then a Language: English here that so many American soldiers, tournament chess player, turning his ANGRY KID Delivery Status: Completed who gave their lives to protect freedom Comedy extraordinary talent into a means of Year of Production: 2011 and democracy, found their final resting Language: Mandarin escape from the gutter, and then he wrote Follow Mel, a pint-sized globetrotter place. Madame Renaud spent a lifetime Director: Huang Lei his life story, The Grass Arena. But who is mother to six, step-mother to two, tending to the graves of those American Key Cast: Wang Yiming, Xiao Yuzhen, success didn’t last. After a dispute with and grandmother of eight. Inspired to soldiers and corresponding with their Zhang Jiayi, Chen Kun, Fan Wai his publishers made the front pages in change the way grandmothers are viewed loved ones. She became friend, family Delivery Status: Post Production 1991, his work was taken out of print and fueled by the burning urge to travel, and touchstone to those whose lives were Year of Production: 2012 Country of suddenly and remained unavailable for Mel has probably done more as a granny forever changed by D-Day. Origin: Hong Kong, China many years. Now, after 16 years, he’s than most the entire span of their life. Ao’s parents work overseas, leaving Ao PARADISE GARDENS making a comeback, launched once more Mel and her team capture some of the Nature, Lifestyle (9 x 25') with his deaf and taciturn grandfather. on the world stage, with the likes of Earth’s most luxurious and sought-after Delivery Status: Completed Ao runs away. He meets Lan. She had Irvine Welsh and Daniel Day-Lewis as destinations and takes the adventures that Year of Production: 2011 been kidnapped and has just escaped. his cheerleaders. His book, The Grass people most often only dream of Paradise Gardens portrays the passionate Bad guys are chasing her. Ao fights them Arena, out of print since 1991, is selling accomplishing. owners of the most beautiful and off and they head towards Lan’s home. extraordinary gardens in the country. well, with a new foreword by Day- Meanwhile, Ao’s parents return, and get GETTING TO GREENWICH Lewis. Barbaric Genius chronicles one Sport/ Lifestyle (8 x 30') They are passionate about their gardens the police involved. Ao and Lan bond on man’s journey from violent oblivion, Delivery Status: Completed and create the most unique paradises. the journey. They arrive at Lan’s village through redemption and acceptance, then In the run up to the Olympics, this series Now they welcome us for an exclusive where her home has been reduced to back to where he started out. It tells a shows how British equestrians are peek into their green wonders. Paradise rubble. The bad guys and the Gang Boss story about what it’s like to be London- preparing for London 2012. Profiling 8 Gardens goes beyond the locked gates also arrive. Ao and Lan wage war against Irish, freakishly talented but cursed with budding contenders for Team GBR and no-entry signs to enter a world full them. Soon, Ao’s parents, grandfather an inability to escape your across the 3 Olympic and 1 Paralympic of stories, passion and beauty. Each and the police also arrive, and arrest all circumstances. disciplines of dressage, showjumping, episode the narrator takes us on a the bad guys! The family is reunited. eventing, & para-equestrian dressage. journey where we visit and portray four A BRUSH WITH THE LANDSCAPE Everyone is happy, including Lan, who arts and culture (3 x 45') Each episode focuses on a competitor passionate and often eccentric garden now has a new home with her new Language: English covering their preparations, hopes, and lovers and their exceptional gardens. Delivery Status: Completed family. Remarks: The film is distributed fears, and what it would mean to them to Year of Production: 2011 by EMPEROR MOTION PICTURES for step on the podium. selected territories Glyn Macey is one of the UK's foremost

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LOVE FICTION – FINECUT young artists, whose fresh approach to I Am Going to Make a Miracle follows APOLLO 17: THE UNTOLD STORY story of three brave astronauts and the painting is bringing a new vibrancy to the work of award-winning theatre OF THE LAST MEN ON THE thousands of men and women who the British art scene. He is well known director, Mehmet Ergen, and his now MOON supported them. The Untold Story of the for his work with organisations such as legendary Arcola Theatre. Science & History (1 x 55 min) Last Men on the Moon contains the R.N.L.I and the National Trust. A MASTER OF DRAMATIC SPACE Language: English spectacular NASA footage and exclusive brush with the Landscape follows Glyn Arts and culture (1 X 40) Director: Alexander & Elliot Weaver interviews with space scientists who painting at 100 of the most beautiful Year of Production: 2010 Producer: Free Spirit Films worked on the Apollo programme during National Trust landscapes in the country. Jaroslav Malina, one of the world's best Delivery Status: Completed the 60's and 70's. A fascinating hour long Glyn uses different mediums and known stage-designers, was born in Year of Production: 2011 Country of special examining the crowning glory of methods to capture his subjects bringing Prague in 1937. He lived under both Origin: UK lunar exploration and the determination them to life on the canvas. His seemingly Nazi and communist governments. His In 1961, JFK committed the resources of of a generation. effortless techniques and infectious refusal to join the Communist Party his nation and launched Project Apollo. CHARLOTTE: A ROYAL AT WAR enthusiasm will leave you inspired and initially hampered his career; yet as By 1972, only two years after Neil AKA: LÉIF LÍ TZEBUERGER ready to reach for the paintbrush painter and stage-designer he has Armstrong first walked on the moon, History & Royalty documentary (1 x 98, yourself! managed to achieve a reputation public and political interest in Apollo 1 x 52 or 2 x 49 min) I AM GOING TO MAKE A reaching far beyond the borders of his had dwindled. NASA was forced to Language: English MIRACLE native country. What drives him as an cancel their last three missions, making Director: Roy Tostevin Arts and culture artist and how did he manage to stay Apollo 17 man's final mission to the Co-Production Partners: Centre national Language: English creative in an oppressive environment? moon. This documentary is the de l'audiovisuel Delivery Status: Completed remarkable story of the final days of Producer: Grace Productions Year of Production: 2010 NASA's Apollo program. It tells the Delivery Status: Completed

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Year of Production: 2010 Country of them well. This story of a rise to the his steed. This documentary presents an English landscape. Windfarm Wars is the Origin: UK pinnacle of power is a fascinating ancient martial tradition established by story of a deeply divided community The remarkable untold story of the Royal portrait of struggle and achievement. the Soma clans' famous founder and one with a conclusion that will impact on the propagandist in pearls who inspired a THE MIDDLE MEN that his direct bloodline descendants future of land-based renewable energy in nation through the power of radio, Social & Investigative documentary (1 x continue to proudly preside over 33 the UK. Filmed over four turbulent reaching her people in their darkest hour. 52 or 70 min HD) generations later. The Soma Noma Oi is years, each episode explores in candid This documentary presents the true Language: English more than just a tradition; it is living detail a story that goes to the heart of the account of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Director: Meghan Horvarth history and the last bastion of authentic renewable energy issue, our attitudes Luxembourg and her government's Producer: Murmur Research samurai culture. towards it and the future for on-shore pursuit of freedom for their country, Delivery Status: Completed SPOILT ROTTEN wind energy around the world. With against brutal occupation. As Hitler's Year of Production: 2010 Country of Social & Medical (1 x 59 min) phenomenal access to both sides of this army invades in 1940, Charlotte and key Origin: UK Language: English bitter local dispute we explore the truths government ministers escape across the Reveals the emotional and material Director: Janice Finch and myths of a highly controversial French border while those who stay worlds of eight middle-aged men living Co-Production Partners: BBC energy resource - on shore wind-power. behind endure five bitter years of and working in England, each Producer: Chameleon Television occupation at the hands of the Third confronting life on their own terms. The Delivery Status: Completed Reich. Against criticism she has concept of middle age is changing as Year of Production: 2010 Country of abandoned her people, the Grand recent generations live longer and Origin: UK EUROPACORP Europacorp, 137 Rue du Faubourg Duchess uses the airwaves to broadcast healthier lives. Men in the 21st century Britain's largest children's hospital is Saint-Honoré, Paris, 75008 France. propaganda messages, the only real are meeting new challenges in radically treating younger and younger patients for Tel: +33.1.53.83.03.03 Fax: weapon at her disposal. The programme different ways than their fathers. They preventable health problems. With +33.1.53.83.03.70. combines eyewitness testimony with are dealing with social changes such as unprecedented access to Alder Hey www.europacorp.com, dramatic reconstructions and unique feminism, an uncertain economy, and a Children's Hospital in Liverpool, this [email protected] colour archive. reported sense of ‘confusion' among men hour long BBC documentary meets the Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor and their role in today's society. The kids, the pediatricians treating them and CLINTON & THE CLINTONS At Cannes: Marie-Laure Montironi Social & Biography documentary (1 x 55 Middle Men is a HD documentary telling then follows them home in an attempt to (Chief Sales Officer), Cécile Fouché min) intimate stories from a male perspective uncover the root cause of their problems. (International Sales Manager), Andrei Language: English including a recovery from addiction, a The A&E is a busy department and Von Kamarowsky (International Sales Director: Alan Scales commitment to marriage, a new business having to deal with cases including Manager) Co-Production Partners: BBC venture, an episode of depression and a drunk children, glue ear and obesity clog Office: Majestic Hotel Office Suite 250 Producer: Infinity Television return to bachelorhood. up a system that's already under Delivery Status: Completed RITUAL: THE SAMURAI OF THE considerable strain. The hospital http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1198 Year of Production: 2008 Country of SOMA NOMA OI estimates they spend around a million Origin: UK History & Culture (1 x 48 min HD) pounds a year on treating preventable INTERSECTION The fascinating story behind one of Language: English conditions, enough to buy them a new Action America's most famous political families Director: Christopher O'Brien MRI scanner. It is clear that some of the Director: David Marconi and the pressure of running the most Producer: Nanban Productions basic health messages from the doctors Writer: David Marconi powerful country in the world. This hour Delivery Status: Completed are not getting through to parents or their Co-Production Partners: EuropaCorp & long documentary explores the childhood Year of Production: 2009 Country of kids. of the man who grew up to be the Origin: Canada Grive Productions TOSCA: FLEXING AT 49 Key Cast: Frank Grillo, Jaimie president of the United States, A stunning high definition journey into Lifestyle & Reality (8 x 24 min HD) Alexander, Roschdy Zem, Marie-Josée identifying character traits to create an the last refuge of Japans once legendary Language: English Croze, Charlie Bewley, Moussa Maaskri evocative psychological profile along the warriors. Samurai traditions are practised Director: Naomi Wise Delivery Status: Post Production way. The story of his wife is an even by the descendants of one of Japans Co-Production Partners: Viva Network Year of Production: 2012 more meteoric climb to success as she oldest feudal dynasties. They are the Producer: Up Front Entertainment SCOTT and TAYLOR DOLAN are rich, transformed herself from a woman inheritors of one of the most spectacular Delivery Status: Completed beautiful, and newly married. On their dealing with a very public infidelity into traditional festivals in the world, that of Year of Production: 2009 Country of honeymoon in Morocco, they survive a a very successful politician in her own the thousand year old Soma Noma Oi. Origin: Canada multiple car crash in the middle of the right. Examines the Clintons' personal This is a unique and gruelling exercise An eight-part High Definition lifestyle desert that leaves three people dead, and and political lives with important designed to test the equestrian skill and series that goes behind the scenes with an array of survivors on a desert contributions from many who know endurance of the mounted samurai and Tosca Reno, the ultimate Canadian intersection that include a wanted supermum. As she approaches 50, the smuggler, an undercover police officer, a unstoppable mother, successful author, woman kidnapper with a baby, and an public speaker, and fitness model decides unconscious Australian who Taylor had CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS to push the limits of herself and her seduced to kill her husband Scott. This family and compete one final time as a HE LICK AND CCESS ULTURE IS OW begins a journey of deceit, revelation, T C A C N bodybuilder, much to the annoyance of and death that leads to a riveting her daughters. Tosca: Flexing at 49, is an & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. conclusion in a Tangiers souk. A story of exhilarating ride that captures her highs betrayal and lies, Scott and Taylor are and lows as she struggles to balance her forced to confront the bitter secrets that commitment to her family, her work and lay between them. another cookbook launch with rigorous MÖBIUS training and an extreme diet in Click on Thriller preparation for the big competition. Language: French There will be pain and gain but will it be Blue Boxes Director: Eric Rochant all worth it in the end? Writer: Eric Rochant to Access WINDFARM WARS Co-Production Partners: Récifilms - Axel AKA: BLOWN APART Films - Les productions du Trésor - Environmental (4 x 60 min) Available EuropaCorp Language: English Key Cast: Jean Dujardin & Cécile de Director: Jeremy Gibson Company France Co-Production Partners: BBC Delivery Status: Pre-Production Producer: SevenStones Media Trailers Moïse, the leader of an elite FSB (ex- Delivery Status: Completed KGB) unit, is in London on the trail of a Year of Production: 2011 Country of Automatically powerful oligarch suspected of money Origin: UK laundering. His team bullies Alice, a A dramatic four-part observational series smart young trader operating way over Do Your Part To examining what happens when a wind her limit, into working for Moïse. Alice farm of nine 120-metre high turbines is soon realizes the potential for profit in Combat Global Warming planned for construction on a sensitive

28 The Business of Film CANNES MAY 2012 CANNES PRODUCT GUIDE playing both sides so everybody wins, in the corridors of power in this Origin: France LOOK OF LOVE but Moïse becomes convinced she will suspenseful crime thriller by Xavier Based on the novel by Valérie Zenatti. Romance blow her cover and put her life in danger. Palud, director of The Eye, based on an Tal is 17 years old. Naïm is 20. She’s Director: Arie Posin He decides to do what no spymaster original idea by Luc Besson. A beautiful Israeli. He’s Palestinian. She lives in Writer: Matthew McDuffie and Arie should ever do—make direct contact young woman is escorted home late at Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were Posin with his agent. An innocent first meeting night by her bodyguard. When she’s born in a land of scorched earth, where Producer: Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lynn soon develops into a passionate affair alone, a shadowy figure emerges from fathers bury their children. They must Key Cast: Annette Bening, Ed Harris, that will change their lives forever, just the darkness and strangles her. A endure an explosive situation that is not Robin Williams, Amy Brenneman, Jess not in the way they expected. superbly planned and executed murder. of their choosing at an age where young Weixler THE BOY WITH THE CUCKOO- The investigation is led by veteran people are falling in love and taking their Delivery Status: In Production CLOCK HEART detective Lassalle, a loner who is place in adult life. A bottle thrown in the Year of Production: 2012 Country of Animation (90') intrigued by the blind piano tuner whose sea and a correspondence by email Origin: USA Language: French prints are all over the apartment. But his nurture the slender hope that their Five years after losing the love of her Director: Mathias Malzieu & Stéphane alibi checks out and his disability makes relationship might give them the strength life, one moment suddenly changes Berla him an unlikely murderer. Soon, as the to confront this harsh reality – to grapple Nikki (Bening) forever…at first sight Writer: Mathias Malzieu (Based on the victims pile up with no obvious link with it, and thereby ever so slightly and with one glimpse, she falls in love book by Mathias Malzieu - Flammarion between them except the ingenious and change it. Only 60 miles separate them again. The object of her affection, Tom Editions) elaborately staged circumstances of their but how many bombings, check-points, (Harris), is the man of her dreams - a Co-Production Partners: EuropaCorp - deaths, Lassalle finds himself hunting a sleepless nights and bloodstained days handsome art teacher with a big heart, Duran - France 3 Cinéma serial killer. When he gets too close to stand between them? kind smile and zest for life. And he just Key Cast: Mathias Malzieu, Olivia Ruiz, some shady business in the corridors of LOVE LASTS THREE YEARS happens to look exactly like Nikki’s Emily Loizeau, Rossy de Palma, Babet, power, his superiors take him off the Romantic Comedy (90') deceased husband, Garrett. Harthur H., Grand Corps Malade & Jean case, but Lassalle continues his Language: French THE QUIET ONES Rochefort investigation with the support of his Director: Frederic Beigbeder Supernatural Thriller / Horror Delivery Status: In Production young partner Héloïse. The murderer is Writer: Frederic Beigbeder, Christophe Language: English Year of Production: 2010 Country of playing with him, drawing him into a Turpin and Gilles Verdiani Director: John Pogue Origin: FRANCE high-risk game of cat and mouse, in Co-Production Partners: The Film - Writer: Tom Deville Edinburgh, late 19th century. Little Jack which Lassalle has everything to lose. AKN-Europacorp-France 2 Cinema- Producer: James Gay-Rees is born on a day so cold that his heart THE MAN WHO LAUGHS Scope Pictures Key Cast: Jared Harris remains frozen. In her house on top of a Drama Key Cast: Gaspard Proust,Louise Delivery Status: Pre-Production big hill, Madeleine the midwife replaces Language: French Bourgoin, Joey Starr, Jonathan Lambert, Year of Production: 2012 Country of the defective organ with a cuckoo-clock. Director: Jean -Pierre Ameris Frederique Bel, Elisa Sednaoui & Valerie Origin: UK It will work, she warns him, as long as Writer: Guillaume Laurant Lemercier Inspired by true events, THE QUIET Jack doesn’t touch the hands of the Co-Production Partners: Incognita Films Delivery Status: Completed ONES tells the story of an unorthodox clock, doesn’t lose his temper and, above Key Cast: Marc-Andre Grondin, Gerard Year of Production: 2011 Country of professor who uses controversial all, doesn’t fall in love. But Jack’s Depardieu, Christa Theret, Emmanuelle Origin: France methods and leads his best students off encounter with a fiery-eyed little girl Seigner, & Ulrich Matthes Adapted from Frédéric Beigbeder’s the grid to take part in a dangerous singing on a street corner and his Delivery Status: In Production bestseller, a scintillating romantic experiment: to create a poltergeist. decision to chase after her across Europe Country of Origin: France comedy starring Louise Bourgoin and THERESE to Andalusia test the resistance of his Academy Award-nominated Gérard Gaspard Proust. When his wife Anne Romantic Thriller makeshift heart to breaking point. Depardieu (Cyrano de Bergerac) stars leaves him for a successful writer, Marc Language: English TAKEN 2 with César Award winner Marc-André Marronnier, a high-profile literary critic, Director: Charles Stratton Action (105') Grondin (The First Day of the Rest of is rocked by her accusations that he is Writer: Charles Stratton Language: English My Life) and Emmanuelle Seigner (La immature and fickle. In despair or maybe Producer: Mickey Liddell, William Director: Olivier Megaton Vie en Rose) in Jean-Pierre Améris’s defiance, Marc starts writing a cynical Horberg Writer: Luc Besson & Robert Mark (Romantics Anonymous) adaptation of pamphlet denouncing love. At the same Key Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Jessica Kamen Victor Hugo’s classic novel, which was time, his life is turned on its head by his Lange, Oscar Isaac, Tom Felton Producer: EUROPACORP the direct inspiration for the character of encounter with Alice, an irresistible and Delivery Status: Pre-Production Key Cast: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, the Joker in Batman. Abducted and inaccessible young woman, who forces Year of Production: 2012 Country of Famke Janssen mutilated as a child by the sinister Marc to reconsider everything he Origin: USA Delivery Status: In Production Comprachicos, Gwynplaine is believes in... A romantic thriller set in the lower Year of Production: 2011 Country of abandoned and raised by traveling depths of 1860s Paris, THERESE is a Origin: France showman Ursus. The diabolical smile tale of obsessive love, adultery, murder In the sequel to massive worldwide hit, etched on his face by the Comprachicos and revenge based on Emile Zola’s Taken ($226 million worldwide), Liam provokes fascination and hilarity, and EXCLUSIVE MEDIA scandalous novel THERESE RAQUIN. Exclusive Media, 9100 Wilshire Neeson and Maggie Grace run into “The Man Who Laughs” is soon a CAN A SONG SAVE YOUR LIFE? trouble in Istanbul. When Bryan Mills popular fairground attraction in towns up Boulevard Suite 401 East, Beverly Romance / Music / Comedy finds out that his ex-wife Lenore is and down the country. Audiences are Hills,CA 90212 USA, Tel: Language: English getting a divorce, he invites her and their enthralled by the tender romance of 1.310.300.9000 Fax: 1.310.300.9001. Director: John Carney daughter Kim to join him in Istanbul on Gwynplaine and Dea, the young blind www.exclusivemedia.com, Writer: John Carney the perfect weekend break with the aim woman he saved from a snowstorm. [email protected] Producer: Anthony Bregman Sales Agent, Producer, Financier of winning back Lenore’s heart. But When he discovers that he is in fact the Key Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Hailee At Cannes: Guy East (Co-Chairman), Bryan killed to save his daughter, in the heir to titles and riches, Gwynplaine Steinfeld Alex Walton (President of International original film, and now he and his family resolves to use his position to plead the Delivery Status: Pre-Production Sales and Distribution), Paul Davidge must pay. Bryan and Lenore are cause of the poor. But he is confronted Year of Production: 2012 Country of (COO International), Caroline Raufi abducted, but Kim manages to escape.. by the cynicism and seduction of the rich Origin: USA (Executive Vice President, International THE BLIND MAN and powerful. Nobody listens. They just Seduced by dreams of making it in the Business and Legal Affairs), Peter Naish Thriller (90') keep on laughing at him. big city, Gretta and her long-time (Senior Vice President, Digital & Library Language: French boyfriend move to New York to pursue A BOTTLE IN THE GAZA SEA Distribution), Lisa Perkins (Vice Director: Xavier Palud Drama/Romantic (90') their passion for music. She’s President of International Marketing and Writer: Luc Besson & Eric Besnard Language: French - Hebrew - Arabic - heartbroken when he dumps her, but her Publicity), Julia Benaroya (Director of Co-Production Partners: Europacorp – English world takes a turn for the better when a Publicity), Cynthia Kim (International France 2 Cinema down-on-his-luck record producer Director: Thierry Binisti Sales Executive), Angus Sutherland Key Cast: Lambert Wilson, & Jacques (Ruffalo) stumbles upon her singing in a Writer: Valerie Zenatti, Thierry Binisti (Marketing Executive), Akshay Mehta Gamblin local bar. Somewhere between friendship Co-Production Partners: TS Productions (Digital & Library Distribution Delivery Status: In Production and their love of music, the two strangers - EMA Films- LAMA Films Coordinator) Year of Production: 2011 Country of strike a chord that captures the hearts of Key Cast: Agathe Bonitzer, Mahmud Office: 63 La Croisette, 06400 Cannes Origin: France / Morocco / Belgium / everyone around them, proving that Shalaby, Haim Abbass (above Felix) Italy Delivery Status: Completed every great story has its own soundtrack. A cynical detective stumbles on intrigue Year of Production: 2010 Country of http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1163 ROBOT AND FRANK

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Drama / Comedy getaway driver “Charlie Bronson” agrees Director: Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin him when he turns into a little werewolf Language: English to break the rules of witness protection Executive Producer: Ralph Zipper, Chris on his 7th birthday, so he jumps from his Director: Jake Schreier to drive his sexy girlfriend to California Miller, Paolo Coppola, Michele Farinola, bedroom window and runs through the Writer: Christopher D. Ford so she can land her dream job. When the Neeraj Kohli, Exclusive Media Group park, chasing ducks and chickens. When Producer: Galt Niederhoffer, Sam authorities and his former crew learn he Producer: Ed Cunningham, Seth Gordon, daylight comes, he returns home, and Bisbee, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Lance is back behind the wheel, they hit the Dan Lindsay, Rich Middlemas, wakes up as Alfie again. His foster Acord road to chase him down. Exclusive Media Group brother Timmie thinks it’s awesome, but Key Cast: Frank Langella, Susan SNITCH Delivery Status: Completed Alfie doesn’t want to be a werewolf. Sarandon, Liv Tyler, James Marsden, Action/Thriller Year of Production: 2011 Country of He’s afraid his foster parents won’t want Peter Sarsgaard, Jeremy Strong, Jeremy Language: English Origin: USA him anymore. Alfie wants to keep his Sisto Director: Ric Roman Waugh Set against the backdrop of an American secret whatever it takes… Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Justin Haythe, Ric Roman football season, Undefeated is a coming- ANTON CORBIJN INSIDE OUT Year of Production: 2011 Country of Waugh of-age vérité documentary film centering Documentary (90 min) Origin: USA Executive Producer: Justin Haythe, on three underprivileged student-athletes Language: Dutch/English Set in the near future, Frank Weld Becki Trujillo, Participant Media from inner-city Memphis and an Director: Klaartje Quirijns (Langella), an aging dad and a retired Producer: Nigel Sinclair, Matt Jackson, unexpected volunteer coach who Writer: Klaartje Quirijns, Thomas den jewel thief, lives a solitary life until his Jonathan King, Dwayne Johnson, Dany struggles to provide them with the Drijver son (Marsden) installs a caretaker robot Garcia, Tobin Armbrust, Alex Brunner discipline, resources and inspiration Co-Production Partners: CTM, to look after him. With the help of his Key Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Susan they'll need to not only overcome their Production Value, Savage Film, Fastnet new unsuspecting friend, Frank attempts Sarandon,Benjamin Bratt, Jon Bernthal, bleak surroundings, but also to win the Producer: LEV Pictures to woo a local librarian (Sarandon) and Barry Pepper first playoff game in their high school's Delivery Status: Screening resumes the criminal escapades of his Delivery Status: Post Production 110-year history. Year of Production: 2012 Country of past…and a new heist duo is born. Year of Production: 2011 Country of GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN Origin: The Netherlands DISCONNECT Origin: USA THE MATERIAL WORLD An intimate portrait of Corbijn as he Drama Action superstar Dwayne Johnson Documentary Feature Film Music travels the world as photographer, Language: English headlines this fast paced thriller as a Director: Martin Scorsese filmmaker and video-artist. A unique Director: Henry-Alex Rubin father whose teenage son is wrongly Executive Producer: Margaret Bodde look at the drama and conflict inherent Writer: Andrew Stern accused of a crime and is sentenced to Producer: Olivia Harrison, Nigel within the man himself: the sacrifice of Producer: William Horberg, Mickey 10 years in jail. In order to clear his Sinclair, Martin Scorsese his private life for a meteoric career, his Liddell, Jennifer Hilton son’s name, he dangerously goes Key Cast: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, commercial success against his desire for Key Cast: Jason Bateman, Jonah Bobo, undercover and risks everything, Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton, Ravi Shankar, artistic recognition, and how audience Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Michael including his own life, to reduce his Phil Spector, Terry Gilliam, Jackie adulation contrasts with his personal Nyqvist, Paula Patton, Haley Ramm, son’s sentence. Stewart, Eric Idle, George Martin, Olivia loneliness. Director Quirijns’ close Andrea Riseborough, Alexander END OF WATCH and Dhani Harrison and more personal relationship with Anton has, Skarsgård, Max Thieriot Action/Thriller/Crime Delivery Status: Completed over two years, allowed her Delivery Status: Post Production Language: English Year of Production: 2011 Country of unprecedented access to both the man Year of Production: 2011 Country of Director: David Ayer Origin: USA and his work. Origin: USA Writer: David Ayer Academy Award-winning director Martin COOL KIDS DON'T CRY Interweaving multiple emotional Executive Producer: Randall Emmett, Scorsese uses rare, never before seen AKA: ACHTSTE GROEPERS storylines about people searching for George Furla, Adam Kassan, Chrisann photos and footage as well as unreleased HUILEN NIET human connection in today’s wired Verges recordings in this deeply personal film family (90 minutes) world of the internet, DISCONNECT Producer: John Lesher, David Ayer, chronicling the life of George Harrison Language: Dutch (English subtitles) explores the consequences of living life Nigel Sinclair, Matt Jackson as a Beatle, his success as a solo artist Director: Dennis Bots everywhere but right here. Key Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael and his lifelong quest to balance the Writer: Karen van Holst Pellekaan RUSH Peí±a, Anna Kendrick, America Ferrera material and the spiritual. Co-Production Partners: Rinkel Film, Epic/Action/Thriller Delivery Status: Post Production Bijker in co-production with Living Language: English Year of Production: 2011 Country of Stone Director: Ron Howard Origin: USA EYE FILM Producer: Reinier Selen Writer: Peter Morgan A powerful story of family, friendship, INSTITUTE Key Cast: Johanna ter Steege, Hanna Producer: Ron Howard, Brian Oliver, love, honor and courage, END OF Obbeek, Hanna Verboom, Eva van der Brian Grazer, Eric Fellner, Peter Morgan WATCH follows young Los Angeles NETHERLANDS Gucht and Andrew Eaton police officers Taylor (Gyllenhaal) and EYE Film Institute Netherlands, PO Box Delivery Status: Screening Key Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Zavala (Peña) as they patrol the meanest 37767, Amsterdam, 1030 BJ The Year of Production: 2012 Country of Brühl, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria streets of south central Los Angeles. Netherlands, Tel: + 31.20.7582.375 Origin: the Netherlands Lara Through a unique point of view, we Fax: + 31.20.7582.370. COOL KIDS DON’T CRY tells the story Delivery Status: In Production experience a riveting portrait of the city’s www.international.eyefilm.nl,internation of Akkie, a spirited young girl, who Year of Production: 2012 Country of darkest and most violent corners and the [email protected] loves soccer, even though her classmate Origin: UK/Germany cops who risk their lives there every day. At Cannes: Sandra den Hamer (CEO), Joep thinks that soccer is not meant for Claudia Landsberger (Head EYE Set against the sexy, glamorous and SO UNDERCOVER girls. When Akkie is diagnosed with spectacular 1970s golden age of Formula Action/Comedy International), Ido Abram (Director of leukemia, she remains optimistic. She 1 racing, RUSH portrays the exhilarating Language: English Presentation & Communications) even continues interfering with the true story of two of the greatest rivals the Director: Tom Vaughan Office: Village International - Dutch school soccer tournament while she is world has ever witnessed – handsome Writer: Allan Loeb, Steven Pearl Pavilion - Stand # 109 lying in the hospital. But when Akkie’s English playboy James Hunt Producer: Allan Loeb, Steven Pearl, Tish health deteriorates so much she is no (Hemsworth) and his methodical, Cyrus, Nigel Sinclair, Tobin Armbrust http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1011 longer able to participate in the brilliant opponent Niki Lauda (Brühl). Key Cast: Miley Cyrus, Jeremy Piven, tournament, Joep comes up with a really HIT AND RUN Mike O’Malley, Josh Bowman, Kelly ALFIE THE LITTLE WEREWOLF special plan. Osbourne AKA: DOLFJE WEERWOLFJE AKA: OUTRUN Family (90 minutes) FIDGETY BRAM Action/Romantic comedy Delivery Status: Post Production AKA: BRAMMETJE BAAS Language: English Year of Production: 2011 Country of Language: Dutch (English subtitles) family (80 minutes) Director: Dax Shepard, David Palmer Origin: USA Director: Joram Lürsen Language: Dutch (English subtitles) Writer: Dax Shepard The world’s #1 pop star, Miley Cyrus, Writer: Tamara Bos Director: Anna van der Heide Producer: Andrew Panay, Nate Tuck, stars as a young private investigator who Co-Production Partners: BosBros in co- Writer: Tamara Bos Kim Waltrip must transform herself from a tough, production with Ciné Cri de Coeur Co-Production Partners: BosBros Key Cast: Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell, street wise private investigator to a Key Cast: Ole Kroes,Maas Bronkhuyzen, Key Cast: Coen van Overdam, Katja Bradley Cooper, Tom Arnold refined, sophisticated university girl to Kim van Kooten, Remko Vrijdag Herbers, Tjebbo Gerritsma Delivery Status: Post Production help protect the daughter of a one-time Delivery Status: Screening Delivery Status: Screening Year of Production: 2011 Country of mobster. Year of Production: 2011 Country of Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: the Netherlands Origin: USA UNDEFEATED Origin: the Netherlands Living under an assumed identity, ex- Documentary Feature Film Alfie has no idea what is happening to Fidgety Bram thinks a lot about the

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world around him. He is looking forward Hemel has lived closely with her father father disapproves. When his father finds Barrie - have other issues on their mind. to entering the first grade but Gijs since the early death of her mother. out that Jojo has lied to him they have a They are at war with the nearby town, unfortunately he ends up in the class of Gijs has an endless string of young huge argument and Jack flies away. Jojo Schijndel. This means illegal street races the strict Mr. Fish. The old-fashioned women attached to him, but Hemel feels is sad and runs away too, but in the end and massive fights. But when the teacher doesn’t care about Bram’s that none of them constitute a threat to it is not Jack who comforts Jojo, but his zombies take their first victim, the two internal, mobile, unfocussed world and their exclusive relationship. This father. groups must join forces to face a greater does whatever it takes to make him do changes, however, when Gijs meets KILL ZOMBIE! evil. things right. Bram’s parents must Sophie, a talented young auctioneer. AKA: Zombibi NOVA ZEMBLA subsequently struggle with the extent to JACKIE action, comedy (85 minutes) historical drama (108 minutes) which their son must adapt without comedy, roadmovie (100 minutes) Language: Dutch (English subtitles) Language: Dutch (English subtitles) becoming miserable. Language: Dutch/English (English Director: Erwin van den Eshof, Martijn Director: Reinout Oerlemans THE HEINEKEN KIDNAPPING subtitles) Smits Writer: Hugo Heinen AKA: DE HEINEKEN Director: Antoinettte Beumer Writer: Tijs van Marle Co-Production Partners: Eyeworks Film ONTVOERING Writer: Marnie Blok, Karen van Holst Co-Production Partners: Talent United & TV Drama in co-production with Crime, Thriller (100 min) Co-Production Partners: Eyeworks Film Producer: Talent United: Paul Ruven Inspire Pictures Language: Dutch & TV drama Key Cast: Mimoun Ouled Radi, Yahya Producer: Eyeworks Film & TV Drama: Director: Maarten Treurniet Producer: Hans de Weers Gaier, Gigi Ravelli Hans de Weers, Reinout Oerlemans Writer: Kees van Beijnum, Maarten Key Cast: Carice van Houten, Jelka van Delivery Status: Screening Key Cast: Doutzen Kroes, Robert de Treurniet Houten, Holly Hunter Year of Production: 2012 Country of Hoog, Victor Reinier Co-Production Partners: Topkapi Films Delivery Status: Screening Origin: The Netherlands Delivery Status: Screening Producer: IDTV Film/Topkapi Films Year of Production: 2012 Country of When two competitive groups of friends Year of Production: 2011 Country of Key Cast: Rutger Hauer, Reinout Origin: the Netherlands wake up together in jail, they are the Origin: the Netherlands Scholten van Aschat, Gijs Naber, Sallie Twin sisters Sofie and Daan (33) have only ones who do not know that the Gerrit de Veer, a novice writer on a 16th Harmsen been raised by their two fathers. When night before the city was evacuated due century Dutch merchant vessel, Delivery Status: Screening they receive an unexpected phone call to the outbreak of a virus. But instead of chronicles the daring mission to discover Year of Production: 2011 Country of from their- hitherto unknown- biological trying to reach the safety zone, they a trade route across the North Pole to Origin: The Netherlands mother in the US (Jackie) they embark decide to save a girl who is stuck in a Asia. But the heroic journey turns into THE HEINEKEN KIDNAPPING is on an amazing adventure that alters their building where the heart of the virus is tragedy when the ship gets stuck in the based on the capture of beer tycoon assumptions about everything that they located. This means that they will have relentless, penetrating ice. The men are Alfred Heineken that hit the headlines in once believed to be true. The trip with to pass by literally hundreds of forced to spend the winter on the frozen, the 1980s, both in the Netherlands and the strange and ill adjusted Jackie will zombies… arctic wasteland of Nova Zembla, across the world. The film goes beyond change Sofie’s and Daan’s life for good. MY ADVENTURES BY V. fighting polar bears, hunger and lethal the well-known story of the kidnap itself KAUWBOY SWCHWRM temperatures. Their chances of making it to tell of Heineken's revenge, which Family (87 min) AKA: SWCHWRM until the following spring are virtually culminates in the pursuit of the Language: Dutch (English subtitles) family (85 minutes) zero… kidnappers across the world. The prime Director: Boudewijn Koole Language: Dutch (English subtitles) SEXWORK & ME focus is on the psychological power Writer: Jolein Laarman, Boudewijn Director: Froukje Tan Documentary (55 minutes) struggle between the successful Koole Writer: Helena van der Meulen Language: Dutch/English businessman and a ruthless young Co-Production Partners: Waterland Film Co-Production Partners: Flinck Film in Director: Clare Sturges criminal bearing a grudge. Producer: Waterland Film: Jan van der co-production with Kasander Film Co-Production Partners: TCF Film HEMEL Zanden, Wilant Boekelman Producer: Flinck Film: Sabine Productions Drama (80 min) Key Cast: Rick Lens, Loek Peters, Cahit Veenendaal, Michiel de Rooij Producer: TCF FILM: Rik Sinkeldam & Language: Dutch Olmez, Susan Radder Key Cast: Georgina Verbaan, Hans Maurice Engelen Director: Sacha Polak Delivery Status: Screening Dagelet Delivery Status: Screening Writer: Helena van der Meulen Year of Production: 2012 Country of Delivery Status: Screening Year of Production: 2012 Country of Producer: Circe Films Origin: The Netherlands Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: the Netherlands Key Cast: Hannah Hoekstra, Hans Jojo (10) lives with his father, whom he Origin: the Netherlands A documentary that gives a fresh Dagelet, Rifka Lodeizen adores, even though he can be sometimes MY ADVENTURES is the perspective on 21st century legal Delivery Status: Screening difficult and aggressive. One day Jojo autobiography of Swchwrm (9), who has prostitution through the frank stories of Year of Production: 2011 Country of finds a jackdaw that he names Jack, and only one ambition: to become a writer of Amsterdam red-light district sexworkers Origin: The Netherlands decides to take care of it even though his books that leave people astounded. And at a time when tighter regulation while he struggles with his opening threatens their livelihood. sentences, he also intends to fall in love, SILENT CITY and so he practises both day and night, in Drama (100 minutes) CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS secret. Finally, at the end of by far the Language: Dutch/English/Japanese HE LICK AND CCESS ULTURE IS OW saddest day of his life, he writes an (English subtitles) T C A C N adventure that moves even the seemingly Director: Threes Anna & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. impenetrable Queen, for whom suffering Writer: Threes Anna is ’mundane’, to tears. Co-Production Partners: KeyFilm in co- NEW KIDS NITRO production with Samsa Film, Skyline action, comedy (78 minutes) Entertainment Language: Dutch (English subtitles) Producer: KeyFilm: Hans de Wolf, Click on Director: Steffen Haars, Flip van der Hanneke Niens Kuil Key Cast: Laurence Roothooft Blue Boxes Writer: Steffen Haars, Flip van der Kuil Delivery Status: Screening Co-Production Partners: Eyeworks Film Year of Production: 2012 Country of to Access & TV Drama in co-production with Origin: the Netherlands Inspire Pictures, Bridge Entertainment Rosa arrives in Tokyo to learn the art of Available Group, Tip of the Blanket filleting fish from Japan´s best fish chef. Producer: Eyeworks Film & TV Drama: Because of the difficulty communicating Company Hans de Weers, Reinout Oerlemans Rosa grows more and more lonely. Key Cast: Steffen Haars, Flip van der SÜSKIND Trailers Kuil, Huub Smit, Tim Haars, Wesley van Drama (117 minutes) Gaalen Language: Dutch (English subtitles) Automatically Delivery Status: Screening Director: Rudolf van den Berg Year of Production: 2011 Country of Writer: Rudolf van den Berg, Chris W. Origin: the Netherlands Mitchell Do Your Part To Friesland is stricken by a zombie plague, Co-Production Partners: Fu Works, but in Maaskantje the New Kids - Cadenza Films Combat Global Warming Richard, Rikkert, Gerrie, Robbie and Producer: San Fu Maltha, Jeroen

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Koolbergen, Reinier Selen ABSOLUTE ASSASSIN save his own life, a young man finds bad things begin to happen. Sex, drugs Key Cast: Jeroen Spitzenbergen, Karl Action (90 minutes) himself the target of a nation-wide and voodoo! Markovics, Nyncke Beekhuyzen, Language: English manhunt after joining an on-line reality READY OR NOT Nasrdin Dchar Director: Emilio Roso service where the applicants become Action (90 minutes) Delivery Status: Screening Writer: Kris Kardash, Emilio Roso real-life human targets that are marked Language: English Year of Production: 2012 Country of Executive Producer: Nicki Ben for death. Director: Sean Doyle Origin: The Netherlands Producer: Emilio Roso, Orna SUBMISSION Writer: Christian Oliver, Sean Doyle 1942. In an attempt to save a group of Rachovitsky Martial Arts Action Executive Producer: Shannon Wilcox Jewish children from deportation, Walter Key Cast: Steven Bauer, Vincent Pastore, ANGEL DOG Producer: Minor Childers, Norman Süskind befriends the SS officer Michael Madsen, Emilio Roso Family Reiss, Sean Doyle Ferdinand Aus der Fünten. When the Delivery Status: Completed FIST 2 FIST Key Cast: Christian Oliver, Seamus latter discovers that Süskind has been Year of Production: 2011 Country of Martial Arts Dever, Evan Helmuth, Fernanda Romero using him, and that their friendship is Origin: USA IMMORTAL ISLAND Delivery Status: Completed nothing but a lie, the Nazi exacts a A thrilling action adventure journey into Horror Thriller Year of Production: 2009 Country of ruthless revenge upon the Jew. the underworld of a professional killer. AS NIGHT FALLS Origin: USA WAVUMBA Ray has lost everything, his girl and the Horror Comedy Four former college buddies find Documentary (75 minutes) son he never knew he had. Hired by his READY OR NOT themselves on the adventure of their Language: Dutch/Swahili (English old mob friend Lou (Michael Madsen), Romance Adventure lives, when on the morning after a Las subtitles) Ray must settle the score with the PRIME OF YOUR LIFE Vegas bachelor party, they end up Director: Jeroen van Velzen Russian mob while battling his dark past. Romance stranded deep in Mexico penniless, being Writer: Jeroen van Velzen, Sara Kee When the bullets stop, there will be only SUBMISSION chased, falling in love, and fighting to Co-Production Partners: SNG Film one assassin standing. Action (95 minutes) make it back across the border in time Producer: SNG Film TURKLES Language: English for the wedding. Delivery Status: Screening Family Adventure (88 Minutes) Director: Kenneth Chamitoff, Adam Year of Production: 2012 Country of Language: English Boster Origin: the Netherlands Director: Frank Eberling Writer: Kenneth Chamitoff FANTASTIC FILMS When I lived in Kenya as a child I was Writer: Frank Eberling Executive Producer: Les Connard very susceptible to the stories told to me Executive Producer: Chel Tassey, Robert Producer: Kenneth Chamitoff, Adam INTERNATIONAL, by an old fisherman. As I got older, my Tassey, Raymond Eberling Boster LLC belief in supernatural powers Producer: Chel Tassey, Robert Tassey, Key Cast: Ving Rhames, Ernie Reyes, Fantastic Films International, LLC, 3854 disappeared, but a part of me still longed Kim Stryker Jr., John Savage Clayton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027 for the open way I looked at life and for Key Cast: Haley Jane Sicard, Noah Delivery Status: Completed USA, Tel: 1.323.661.7088 Fax: the magic that filled everything with Centineo, Taylor Blackwell Year of Production: 2011 Country of 1.323.661.7188. colour. That is why I wanted to return to Delivery Status: Completed Origin: USA www.fantasticfilmsinternational.com, the country I grew up in. Where I met Year of Production: 2011 Country of Set in fight capital of the world, Las [email protected] Masoud, the last shark hunter… Origin: USA Vegas, Submission is a high-action At Cannes: Roxane Barbat (President), A group of environmentally conscious mixed-martial arts film featuring an all- Fred deWysocki (Partner) teenagers spend their summer at Camp start cast. The “Rocky” for the cage Office: LERINS booth R18, Tel: Loggerhead monitoring sea turtle nests generation, Submission is the tale of a 310.560.9577 F along the local beaches. When precious young man’s attempt to overcome his http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1128 turtle eggs mysteriously begin past mistakes to become a world disappearing, the heroic kids go champion fighter. DELHI SAFARI 3D Animation undercover to stop a band of bumbling ANGEL DOG FAIRWAY FILM bad guys from selling the eggs for profit Family / Dog (90 minutes) Language: English on the black market. Turkles is a fun Language: English Director: Nikhil Advani ALLIANCE Co-Production Partners: Krayon Pictures Fairway Film Alliance, 533 Venice Way, comedic adventure for the entire family. Director: Robin Nations Pvt. Ltd. Venice, California 90291 United States, Writer: Robin Nations NINJA ZOMBIES Key Cast: Vanessa Williams, Jason Tel: 1.310.948.2538 Fax: Horror Comedy (82 minutes) Executive Producer: Kevin Nations Alexander, Cary Elwes, Christopher 1.310.943.1650. Language: English Producer: Kevin Nations Lloyd, Brad Garrett www.fairwayfilmalliance.com, Director: Noah Cooper Key Cast: Jon Michael Davis, Farrah Delivery Status: Screening [email protected] Writer: Noah Cooper, Mike Castro White Sales Agent Producer: Mike Castro Delivery Status: Completed Country of Origin: India At Cannes: Marty Poole (President), Key Cast: Mike Lee, Mike Castro, Arun Year of Production: 2011 Country of A fun, motley crew of animals embark Craig Adlard (President Sales) Storrs Origin: USA on a journey across the mountains and Office: Riveria C 17, Tel: Delivery Status: Completed This heartwarming film is about a dog rivers of India, hitching rides in trains 1.310.948.2538 Fax: 1.310.948.2538 Year of Production: 2011 Country of named Cooper who is the lone survivor and trucks to take their petition to the leader of the humans in Delhi. Along the FLASHBACK Origin: USA of a terrible car accident. Jake, a family Science-Fiction Action (95 minutes) A college slacker geek begins having patriarch, loses his wife and children in way they discover that not only are their Language: English nightmares, flashes from the life of a the accident. With the help from this homes in jeopardy, but the homes and Director: Brendan Rogers samurai and an ancient sword that can angel dog, Jake puts his life together and lives of thousands of other animals as Writer: Brendan Rogers raise the dead. When undead ninjas even finds love again. An inspirational well. Their exciting journey becomes one Executive Producer: John Mondelli begin attacking his friends, he discovers story for the entire family! where enemies become friends and an Producer: John Mondelli, Will Philips, unlikely family comes together to fight that the samurai was actually his IMMORTAL ISLAND Brendan Rogers ancestor and he is the only one who can Horror Thriller (90 minutes) for what rightfully belongs to them - A Key Cast: Andrew Ramos, Will Philips, save the world from a ninja zombie Language: English HOME. Alexa Cappiello apocalypse! Blood, guts, comedy, ninjas, Director: Joe Knee Z-BAW Delivery Status: Completed zombies, and a ton of fun! Writer: Darrin Cummings, Joe Knee 3D Animation Year of Production: 2012 Country of Language: English / Spanish EMULATION Executive Producer: Buddy Winsett Origin: USA Action Adventure (90 minutes) Producer: Robert Sterrett, Adrian Director: Ricardo Gomez Science fiction adventure meets Language: English Brunori, Paul Silver Co-Production Partners: Imagination Hollywood satire in this action-packed Director: Tom Getty Key Cast: Christian Campbell, Brian Films / Fantastic Films CGI comedy. Our heroes Jack and Writer: Tom Getty Drolet, Eric Scott Woods, Somali Rose Delivery Status: Completed Tiffany use a time machine for travel to Producer: Tom Getty Delivery Status: Completed Country of Origin: Mexico and from the future to escape the Key Cast: Tom Getty, Jeff Howanek, Year of Production: 2010 Country of In a far off galaxy, in order to bring clutches of greedy studio executives, Jocelyn Meehan Origin: USA balance to the universe, the gods forged gun-toting bad guys, and an army of Delivery Status: Completed A group of college students travel to an five trophies honoring 5 virtues: Love, angry futuristic robots! Year of Production: 2011 Country of island with a charismatic, greedy ship Strength, Wisdom, Leadership and Origin: USA captain. When the kids learn of an Friendship. One of these trophies can only be earned once every 50 years by http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1358 A non-stop action thriller. Framed for ancient curse and a mysterious powder murder and forced to go on the run to that can bring the dead back to life, very winning the Great Intergalactic

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Tournament of a hockey/soccer-like sport SHE WOLF RISING Productions Inc. and helps track down a jewel thief. called "Z-BAW". ZAX and his evil Horror Delivery Status: Completed MAX MAGICIAN AND THE Niurax Corporation plan to seize control Language: English Country of Origin: USA LEGEND OF THE RINGS of planet Mantar by stealing four of the Director: Marc Leland A Kung-Fu Monk comes to the States to Family, Live Action trophies and then winning the Great Z- Co-Production Partners: Triboro take care of his deceased brother's son. Language: English BAW Tournament to get the fifth trophy. Pictures/Cat Productions While setting up a school and learning Director: Kevin Summerfield Only young KIBIT and his Key Cast: Tiffany Shepis, Debbie about life in the US, he becomes Co-Production Partners: Scorpio Studios inexperienced team of: MARA, PLUNK Rochon, Tina Krause embroiled in an underground fighting Producer: Kimberly Gough and BERDI will have the opportunity to Delivery Status: Completed club in order to save the lives of his Key Cast: Timothy Stultz, Ken save the planet. But, Kibit's team doesn't Country of Origin: USA friends. Mitzkowitz, Erika Ann, Steven Barry stand a chance unless they first locate A nonstop supernatural thriller that EL DORADO - IN 3D (LIVE Prince RAH "The Legend", a former great Z- explores the dark side of underground ACTION) Delivery Status: Screening BAW player, who is the only person able filmmaking. Gina Skylar (Tiffany Horror / Comedy / Musical Country of Origin: USA to coach this underdog team to victory. Shepis), the reigning queen of horror Language: English A young boy receives an ancient magical The action is even more amazing when lures one of her passionate fans, Jake Director: Richard Driscoll book that opens a mystical door into an viewed in the native stereoscopic 3D. Bubar (Tim Mandala) into her decadent Producer: House of Fear enchanted kingdom where an adventure THE UNLEASHED world of illusions and myths. Jake's Key Cast: Daryl Hannah, David filled with warriors, elves, queens and Sci Fi / Horror (92 mins) desire for Gina is challenged when he Carradine, Patrick Bergin, Michael sorcerers awaits. Language: English discovers that she is a descendent of the Madsen, Brigitte Nielsen, Steve DOGS OF CHINATOWN Director: Manuel H. DaSilva She Wolf, Lupa, who protected Romulus Guttenberg, Jeff Fahey, Oliver Tobias, Martial Arts Action Writer: Diane DaSilva, L.A. Lopes and Remus, the founders of Rome. The David Soul Key Cast: Eric Jacobus & Ray Carbonel Executive Producer: Wilson DaSilva She Wolf guards and nurtures the Delivery Status: Post Production (The Stunt People), Huyen Thi (Fall Key Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Trisha helpless while in human form, but once Country of Origin: UK Down Dead), Bill Oberst Jr (Sherman's Echevarria, Jessica Salgueiro she transforms, she is bestial and This is a live action 3D March, The Secret Life Of Bees), Patrick Delivery Status: Completed dangerous. Is this real or just another comedy/horror/musical/road movie and Keenan (Dark Remains), Christy Year of Production: 2012 Country of scene from one of Gina's movies? The is the first ever British movie to be shot Johnson (Tobe Hooper's Mortuary) Origin: Canada twists continue as demons, beasts and a in 3D. As they arrive at El Dorado's Delivery Status: Completed Madison Kennard, a troubled woman mentally unstable movie producer try to 200th Anniversary Celebration the Country of Origin: USA dealing with her dark past, must venture stop their forbidden desire. townsfolk are hungry to celebrate their Dogs Of Chinatown combines a hyper- home after an 8 year absence following THE WINTER PRINCE AND THE beloved town - which does prove to be reality "Sin City" look with amazing her mothers death. Almost instantly after FLAME ETERNIUM unfortunate to the tourists who come to martial arts action by cult superstars The her return, Madison must cope with the Sci-Fi / Family visit. What ensues is murder, mayhem, Stunt People, all set in a world filled haunting memories of a childhood best Language: English cannibalism, an appreciation of blue with gangsters, strippers and assassins. forgotten. Lindsay, a childhood friend of Director: Tom Whitus grass, oh and a severed ear. MATCHMAKER MARY Madisons with an adventurous nature, Co-Production Partners: Fantastic Films AGENT C.R.U.S.H. Family / Children hears of Madison's arrival and has every International / Silver Hills Pictures Animation, Action Language: English intention of reconnecting a friendship Key Cast: celebrity cast to be announced Language: English Director: Tom Whitus once had. Bizarre and unexplainable Delivery Status: Pre-Production Director: Sean Robinson Producer: Silver Hills Pictures events occur within the house after old Country of Origin: USA Co-Production Partners: Crush Key Cast: Jeff Fahey, Jillane Klaus, friends come together and dabble with Prince Frederick, a young warrior of Productions Ltd. Katherine McNamara the infamous Ouija board. Lindsay, being mysterious royal lineage, and the Producer: Tony Ludwig, Barrie Delivery Status: Completed all too curious of the board and its sorcerer Thomas travel in search of Robinson, Fred deWysocki, Roxane Country of Origin: USA undeniable power, gives into the adventure. Their quest leads them to the Barbat Seen thru the eyes of a young girl on the persuasion of an unknown entity and Kingdom of Paradiso a former Shangri- Key Cast: (voice overs) Ioan Gruffudd verge of womanhood, who enjoys allows it to possess her. Madison must la now stuck in an eternal winter, (Fantastic 4), Neve Campbell, Roger meddling into adult lives with the help of overpower her deepest fears and find a because a dark wizard has extinguished Moore, Brian Cox, Brian Blessed, (also animal adoption, the story emphasizes way to release Lindsay and abolish the The Flame Eternium to force the just added: Danny Glover) the connection between people's need for presence that haunts her. beautiful Princess Roxana into an Delivery Status: Screening "unconditional love" and illustrates how the lives of six people can be changed RAPTURE unwanted marriage. When Frederick - Country of Origin: UK Sci-Fi/ Horror dubbed The Winter Prince by the locals - The setting for the movie is two hundred with a little help from a pre-teen Language: English falls in love with Princess Roxana, it is years into the future, much has changed matchmaker and three adorable puppies. Director: Richard Lowry up to he and Thomas to re-ignite the but one thing remains a constant, crime Flame Eternium and bring warmth back Co-Production Partners: Royal 11 Films and it's getting a little bizarre. FIJI AUDIO VISUAL Producer: Kimber Eastwood to the frozen Kingdom. Thomas can't A FOX'S TALE Delivery Status: Completed defeat the dark wizard, but he does have Animation - Comic Adventure COMMISSION Country of Origin: USA a plan - find the last dragon hidden an Key Cast: (voice-overs) Freddie Fiji Audio Visual Commission, Ground It happens without warning. All electrical the icy mountain cave and trick it into Highmore, Miranda Richardson, Bill Floor, Civic House, New Town Hall devices are abruptly shut down. Dark, re-lighting the flame with its hellish Nighy and Sienna Miller Road, GPO Box 18080, Suva Fiji, Tel: unearthly clouds form over cities and breath - before Frederick's love is lost Delivery Status: Completed 679.330.6662 Fax: 679.331.4662. towns from which lightning strikes and forever. Country of Origin: Hungary / UK www.fijiaudiovisual.org.fj,Email: vaporizes its victims. Food and water is SAM STEELE AND THE CRYSTAL "Little Jack" (Freddie Highmore) is an [email protected] suddenly contaminated, causing bacterial CHALICE adorable young fox who is busy enjoying At Cannes: Florence Swamy (Acting infection that kills within the hour, Family / Children a blissful life, chasing frogs, butterflies Chief Executive Officer), Jone Tikoca Ominous robed figures sweep the cities Language: English and playing in the forest with his loving (Account) and landscapes, vaporizing everyone in Director: Tom Whitus family. Until one night when his perfect Office: Loews - 5/Atrium, Tel: sight. Caught on the outside of Producer: Silver Hills Pictures world is turned upside down. 011.679.330.6662 civilization are four people, confronted Key Cast: Kevin Sorbo, Dee Wallace, SAM STEELE AND THE JUNIOR with the unexplainable dangers Jacob Hays, Katherine McNamara DETECTIVE AGENCY http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1177 surrounding them at every turn. In their Delivery Status: Post Production Family / Children perilous journey to find refuge, the Country of Origin: USA Language: English THE SILENT CRY burning questions arise: is this an alien Sam and the junior detective agency go Director: Tom Whitus Drama (5 mins.) attack on mankind? God's biblical wrath? on a treasure hunt to find the crystal Producer: Silver Hills Pictures Language: English Biological warfare from an earthbound chalice enlisting the help of a Russian Key Cast: Luke Perry, M. Emmett Director: Shilpa Lal enemy? As the nightmarish events operative with a mysterious past and Walsh, Jacob Hays, Katherine Writer: Shilpa Lal continue to unfold, the grim reality murky motives. McNamara Producer: Vyas Singh, Shivneel Mudaliar becomes clear to them, that by day's end LAST KUNG FU MONK Delivery Status: Screening and Ashal Mishra. School: Labasa SKM mankind will be extinct. With over 150 Martial Arts Country of Origin: USA Sangam College state-of-the-art visual effects shots, this Language: English 13-year-old Sam Steele Jr. forms his own Key Cast: Aqelea Ratumuda, Eseta is a must have apocalypse thriller. Director: Li Peng Zhang private detective agency to emulate his Cokanasica, Dipshika, Milika Co-Production Partners: Shaolin Film father, Des Moines detective Sam Steele,

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Dimataneca Producer: Monish Sharma. School: "Sex & the City"), Terrence Howard Delivery Status: Completed Natabua High School ("Iron Man," "Hustle & Flow," "Crash") FILMEXPORT Country of Origin: Fiji Key Cast: Rosa Murikanaka, Aaron Delivery Status: Screening The film tells the story of Selina, a form Wong, Alanieta Tagituimua, Nathan Fully completed film with new edit, new GROUP Filmexport Group, Largo Guglielmo La 7 student who is constantly under Ross, Makelesi Maugulevu and Bhawish orchestration and theme song written by Pegna 18, Rome,00128 Italy, Tel: pressure from her mother to score good Patel Diane Warren & sung by Jennifer +39.06.52207432 Fax: marks in school exams. As the film Delivery Status: Completed Hudson. U.S. Distributor to be announced +39.06.52278416. unravels we learn what really happens to Country of Origin: Fiji soon. www.filmexport.com, Selina. Alienated by bickering parents and The powerful love story that changed the [email protected] SECOND CHANCE propelled by teen troubles, Grace finds world. Winnie and Nelson Mandela Sales Agent Drama/Family (5 mins.) solace in her boyfriend, Ryan. Grace's endured more than twenty years of At Cannes: Roberto Di Girolamo Language: English naive trust blinds her from seeing Ryan's separation and political turmoil (President), Laura Maurano (Sales Director: Avishkar Naicker true intentions until it is too late. ultimately tearing them apart. Manager), Elisa D'Amico (Sales Writer: Manisha Nandani Mudliar, Rahit KANIA NA YALO BULA (EAT THE ADMISSIONS Manager) Rohitesh Ali, Payal Pallavi SOUL OF LIFE) Romantic Comedy Office: Riviera – booth G22, Tel: Producer: Upesh and Nikil. School: Nadi Thriller/Horror (10 mins.) Director/Writer: Adam Rodgers (Oscar +33.6.21238379 SKM Sangam College Language: English Nominee for, "The Response," short film Key Cast: Shirani, Chang, Manisha, Director: Clarence Dass 2010) http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1130 Waisake, Payal and Rajeshneel Writer: Clarence Dass Producer: Sonya Lunsford ("The Help") Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Mell Tuqota Jr. Cast: Andy Garcia & Vera Farmiga DARIO ARGENTO'S DRACULA Country of Origin: Fiji Key Cast: Albert Rolls, Danl Whiteside Principal Cast: Andy Garcia Vera Farmiga Stereoscopic 3D - Horror (106') A 17 year old high school student and Dane Morllng About two parents who meet when taking Language: English, Italian becomes pregnant. Her parents, whilst Delivery Status: Completed their children to interviews for admissions Director: Dario Argento upset initially, eventually stand by her Country of Origin: Fiji to a University. Writer: Dario Argento, Stefano Piani, and support her. The major theme A young couple arrives at a secluded Delivery Status: Filming Antonio Tentori, Enrique Cerezo portrayed in this story is giving people a camp site to meet up with friends. What Producer: Multimedia Film Production, NAPA second chance and support so that they they get is an experience in grueling Romantic Crime Thriller (13 one hour Enrique Cerezo P.C. can improve themselves and learn from terror, when they find out that their episodes) Key Cast: Thomas Kretschmann, Marta their mistakes to better the lives. friends have be overcome by a sinister Sergeant Scarlett Harding returns home Gastini, Asia Argento, Rutger Hauer, evil. Unax Ugalde, Miriam Giovanelli BEYOND THE WEB from Afghanistan and becomes sheriff of Thriller (5 mins.) the California wine town, Napa. Her first Delivery Status: Completed Language: English order of business is to investigate the Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Italy Director: Rodney Antonio FILM BRIDGE murder of her ex-lover. Writer: Rodney Antonio Based on the original novel by Bram INTERNATIONAL THE POISONERS Stroker, about the vampire Dracula, an Producer: Samuela Tunabua. School: Comedy Film Bridge International, 1316 Third icon of twentieth century culture. Lautoka Muslim College Street Promenade, Suite 105, Santa Director: Jon Amiel ("Sommersby," Key Cast: Niko Naituku, Milika Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel: "Copy Cat," "Entrapment") EVIL THINGS Kuruilaba, Ana Maria, Eparama Producer: Jeanna Polley ("Laws of AKA: COSE CATTIVE 1.310.656.8680. Thriller (90 min) Sauvakatoga and Filimoni Tevita and Attraction" "I'm Not Scared") Fax: 1.310.656.8683. Language: English Samuela Rodney Cast: Emily Watson, Anna Friel, Lena filmbridgeinternational.com, Director: Simone Gandolfo Delivery Status: Completed [email protected] Headey, Ken Duken, Hanno Koffler, Country of Origin: Fiji At Cannes: Ellen Wander - 310.526-3456 Producer: Inside Productions Alexander Scheer Key Cast: Marta Gastini, Pietro Ragusa, The film is about young girls making (Cell), Lori Mathison, Amanda Seward Quirky Comedy based around true events, friends on the internet. A young meets up During CANNES our office is located at Aaron Jorge Reg Moss, Nicola Sorrenti, is a bold and darkly comedic tale of Jennifer Mischiati with her internet friend and is found Residences Grand Hotel, Use Entrance - women left alone to run their farming murdered. Cormoran 2 (5th Floor) Office Tel: Delivery Status: Completed community while their husbands go off to Year of Production: 2012 Country of THE REAL VICTIM 33.4.93.39.76.29 / US Cell: 310.526.3456 battle a war. With only the German POWs Drama (5 mins.) Origin: Italy WINNIE for company close relationships are A contemporary horror movie. A Language: English Director: Darrell Roodt ("Sarafina," "Cry, forged - sex and death are soon to Director: Marshanell Leong the Beloved Country metaphor on voyeurism and on the follow.. meaning of punishment, but also on Writer: Marshanell Leong Cast: Jennifer Hudson ("Dreamgirls," CLAUSTROPHOBIC cynicism that turns it all into a show, Sci-Fi Thriller even gratuitous violence. Delivery status: completed THE BIG HEART OF GIRLS T OUR INGERTIPS From New Deal Studios whose award CANNES A Y F AKA: IL CUORE GRANDE DELLE winning special effects have been seen in THE CLICK AND ACCESS CULTURE IS NOW RAGAZZE more than 20 films including "Inception," Comedy (85 min) & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. "Shutter Island," The Dark Knight" & Language: English "Iron Man." - Set 200 Years in the Future: Director: Pupi Avati In an attempt to escape her past, Officer Producer: Duea Film Spa in Karen Dante, boards a cargo airship collaboration with Medusa Film Spa and headed for deep outer space. Sky Cinema Click on STRANGERS LOVERS KILLERS Key Cast: Cesare Cremonini, Micaela Thriller Ramazzotti, Gianni Cavina, Andrea Blue Boxes Delivery status: completed Roncato, Erica Blanc A highly stylized Thriller filmed in Delivery Status: Screening to Access Sydney, Australia and Shanghai. A Year of Production: 2011 Country of Chinese Mob Boss in debt to the wrong Origin: Italy Available people, attempts to recover his young A sweet but troubled romance set in the daughter who has been kidnapped by his first half of the Thirties in a small Company enemies. countryside village in Central Italy. MADLY IN LOVE APARTMENT IN ATHENS Trailers Romantic comedy AKA: APPARTAMENTO AD ATENE Delivery status: completed Drama (95 minutes) Automatically Teen daughter Eva, her mother Judith, her Language: Greek, German, English Aunt Barbara and her big sister Michelle Director: Ruggero Dipaola share experiences of romance, love and Producer: L'Occhio e la Luna Do Your Part To sex. Key Cast: Laura Morante, Richard Combat Global Warming Sammel, Gerasimos Skiadaresis

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Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2010 Country of THE MOLE 2 Delivery Status: Screening Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Italy AKA: LA TAUPE 2 Country of Origin: Origin: Italy The erotic adaptation of John Cleland's Thriller (2 x 52 minutes or 1 x 104 Belgium/France/Canada Based on the novel APARTMENT IN 18th century novel FANNY HILL, tells minute TV movie) When Paulo, a young pianist, and Ilir, a ATHENS by Glenway Wescott, the film the story of an innocent northern country Language: French, English bass player meet by chance it is love at deals with topics such as drama, history girl travelling to London to seek her Director: Vincenzo Marano first sight. Shortly after their first night and war during the German occupation fortune and ending up in a brothel. Writer: Sergio Gobbi, Laurent Scalese Paulo moves in with Ilir but soon their of Athens in 1943. MY LAI FOUR Producer: Les Films de l'Astre / TF1 harmonious relationship becomes a DEEP WITHIN Action- Drama (100 minutes) Films Production / AT-Production / turbulent roller coaster ride between AKA: TAGLIONETTO Language: English R.T.B.F love, addiction and passion which will Horror / Thriller (90 minutes) Director: Paolo Bertola Key Cast: Ingrid Chauvin, Linda Hardy, change their lives forever. Language: Italian, English Writer: Gianni Paolucci, Stefano Pomilia Ma? Anh L?, Cathy Min Jung SOFIA'S LAST AMBULANCE Director: Federico Rizzo Producer: Gianni Paolucci Delivery Status: Completed Documentary (76 min) Producer: Margherita Film Key Cast: Beau Ballinger, Yvette Yzon, Year of Production: 2009 Country of Director: Ilian Metev Key Cast: Dorotea Mercuri, Giulio Riccardo Flammini Origin: France Key Cast: Krassimir Yordanov, Mila Forges Davanzati, Nino Frassica, Delivery Status: Completed Paris nowadays... when two corpses are Mikhailova, Plamen Slavkov Giacomo Gonnella,Antonio Barbero, Year of Production: 2009 Country of found in a car boot, for Sandra Longo it Delivery Status: Screening Carmelo Galati Origin: Italy is clear that those homicides have been Year of Production: Delivery Status: Screening Based on real events that took place on ordered by the boss of the local Chinese Bulgaria/Croatia/Germany Country of Year of Production: 2011 Country of the 16th of March 1968 at My Lai, South mafia. Origin: 2012 Origin: Italy Vietnam and written in the book "My MILAN PALERMO, THE RETURN Sofia, Bulgaria. In a city where only 13 Anna Benanzio an affirmed psychiatrist, Lai" by Seymour M. Hersh winner of the AKA: MILANO PALERMO, IL ambulances struggle to serve several is being asked to run a psychiatric Pulitzer Prize. RITORNO million people, three paramedics face examination on a guy who killed his THE LEGEND OF MELITA Action (95 minutes) Kafkaesque situations. Fighting against mother and sister. After many difficulties AKA: LA LEGGENDA DI MELITA Language: Italian, English an avalanche of absurdities in a she finds a way to his heart but she also 3D Animated Film - Fantasy (84') Director: Claudio Fragasso crumbling medical system, they do what discovers that she hides the same evil... Language: English Executive Producer: Pietro Innocenzi they do best: save lives. THE NEW MONSTERS TODAY Director: Paolo Bertola Producer: Sanmarco Film - Globe Films DOM - A RUSSIAN FAMILY AKA: I MOSTRI OGGI Producer: Diamonds International Film, Key Cast: Giancarlo Giannini, Raoul Drama / Action (109 min) Comedy (100') PH-ITA Digital Graphics Studios Bova, Ricky Memphis, Gabriella Director: Oleg Pogodin Language: Italian, English subtitles Delivery Status: Completed Pession, Enrico Lo Verso Key Cast: Sergei Garmash, Bogdan Director: Enrico Oldoini Year of Production: 2010 Country of Delivery Status: Completed Stupka, Vladimir Yepifantsev Writer: Enrico Oldoini, Giacomo Origin: Italy Year of Production: 2007 Country of Delivery Status: Screening Scarpelli, SILVIA Scola, Marco Tiberi, When the earth was populated by strange Origin: Italy Year of Production: 2012 Country of Franco Ferrini creatures, the arrival of the ice age Sequel to DARING YOUNG (Palermo Origin: Russia Producer: Dean Film, Colorado Film, seemed to mark its end, but the Milan, One Way). Turi Arcangelo In a large house in the middle of the Warner Pictures intervention of an alien community will Leofonte, the mafia's bookkeeper, after steppes, the Shamanovs meet for a Key Cast: Diego Abatantuono, Sabrina raise its fate bringing with them a new accepting to cooperate with the Law family gathering. When suddenly the Ferilli, Giogo Panariello, Claudio Bisio, mysterious force... causing the arrest of almost the whole eldest brother Victor appears after a 25 Scalia clan, and after serving his 11 Angela Finocchiaro, Carlo Buccirosso BETTER THAN EVER year absence, unspoken family conflicts years sentence, is being released... Delivery Status: Completed AKA: MEJOR QUE NUNCA FKA: come to light. Nobody suspects that Year of Production: 2010 Country of LIKE IT HOT? NOAH'S ARK Victor is escaping his dark past and that Origin: Italy Comedy (90 minutes) AKA: EL ARCA killers are looking for his hiding place. This picture is to be considered the third Language: Spanish, Italian, English Animation (87 minutes) MORE THAN HONEY chapter of the "trilogy" of the episode- Director: Dolores Payas Language: Spanish, Italian, English Documentary (90 min) films THE MONSTERS by Dino Risi Producer: Zahori Media, Production Director: Juan Pablo Buscarini Director: Markus Imhoof (1963) and THE NEW MONSTERS Group, J.L.A Producer: Production Group, Patagonik Year of Production: 2012 Country of (1977) by Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli Key Cast: Victoria Abril, Enrique Rocha, Film Group Origin: Germany/Austria/Switzerland and Ettore Scola, the masters of comedy. Gabriella Pession, Pep Ferrer, Anna Delivery Status: Completed Einstein once said: "If the bee disappears Once again, all the contemporary vices Galiena, Rocco Papaleo Year of Production: 2007 Country of from the surface of the earth, man would and fears are ironically described, Delivery Status: Completed Origin: Argentina, Italy have no more than four years to live." In because time pass by but all our defects Year of Production: 2008 Country of A classic animated film that tackles an the past five years, billions of honeybees are always the same. Origin: Spain, Italy, France absolutely universal subject, in a context simply vanished for reasons still obscure. DIRTY WAR Abandoned by her husband after years of of adventures and humour, in which the If the bees keep dying, it will have AKA: LE ULTIME 56 ORE marriage, Isabel thought her sexual life animals are the main characters. drastic effects for humans as well: more Action - Drama (106 minutes) was over... but she had still a lot to than one third of our food production Language: Italian, English learn... depends on pollination by honeybees and Director: Claudio Fragasso FILMS BOUTIQUE their life and death are linked to ours. A THE MOLE Films Boutique, Köpenicker Str. 184, Writer: Rossella Drudi AKA: LA TAUPE 2M euro budget documentary by Oscar Producer: Heles Film Production Thriller (2 x 52 minutes or 1 x 100' TV Berlin, Germany, Tel: nominated director Markus Imhoof and Key Cast: Gianmarco Tognazzi, Luca movie) 49.30.69.53.78.50 Fax: by the creators of "LET'S MAKE Lionello, Barbora Bobulova, Simona Language: French, English 49.30.69.53.78.51. MONEY" & "WE FEED THE Borioni, Primo Reggiani Director: Vincenzo Marano www.filmsboutique.com, WORLD". Delivery Status: Completed [email protected] Writer: Sergio Gobbi, Victor Arnold and At Cannes: Jean-Christophe Simon KUMA Year of Production: 2010 Country of Drama (93 minutes) Laurent Scalese (Sales), Cristina Cavaliere (Sales), Origin: Italy Language: Turkish / German Producer: Les Films de l'Astre / TF1 Valeska Neu (Festivals), Marine Rechard The film highlights how Army personnel Director: Umut Dag Films Production / AT-Production / (Legal), Gabor Greiner (Acquisitions) of the "peace keeping" missions have Key Cast: Nihal Koldas, Begüm Akkaya, R.T.B.F. Office: Riviera Booth E10, Tel: died and are still dying, killed by cancer Vedat Erincin, Dilara Karabayir Key Cast: Ingrid Chauvin, Linda Hardy, +33.4.92.99.32.25 caused by radioactivity of "depleted Yannis Baraban Delivery Status: Screening uranium" contained in weapons and Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2012 Country of http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1249 bullets. Year of Production: 2007 Country of Origin: Austria FANNY HILL Origin: France Fatma lives with her husband and family Erotic (91 minutes) BEYOND THE WALLS in Vienna. When Ayse, a 19-year-old girl A heroin cache vanishes from a customs Drama (98 min) Language: English from the Turkish countryside, is chosen depot. Commandant Sandra Longo is Language: French to get married to Fatma’s son, a special Director: May Chio Dimao dispatched from Paris. There is a mole Director: David Lambert friendship evolves between the two Producer: Moonlight International Film and she has to find it. Key Cast: Guillaume Gouix, Matila women. But soon this relationship is put Key Cast: Zoe Simpson, James Kavaz, Malliarakis, David Salles, Mélissa to the test as the family has to face a James Donnelly Désormeaux-Poulin Delivery Status: Completed difficult stroke of fate.

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KEEP THE LIGHTS ON Director: Geoffrey Enthoven Co-Production Partners: Jeonwonsa Film various fields; tactics, weapons, Drama (101 minutes) Producer: Fobic Films, Mariano Vanhoof Co. explosives, underwater diving, Director: Ira Sachs Key Cast: Gilles De Schryver, Robrecht Producer: Kim Kyounghee camouflage, etc. With their help, Lee Key Cast: Thure Lindhardt, Zachary Vanden Thoren, Tom Audenaert, Isabelle Key Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Yu Junsang, executes his plans to rob the entire Booth, Paprika Steen De Hertogh Jung Yumi storage of ice that will be used for the Delivery Status: Screening Delivery Status: Screening Delivery Status: Completed crown prince's birthday party which will Year of Production: 2012 Country of Year of Production: 2011 Country of Year of Production: 2012 Country of initiate CHO's downfall. Origin: USA Origin: Belgium Origin: Korea PIETA Keep The Lights On chronicles the Three guys in their early twenties love A young woman and her mother run Drama emotionally and sexually charged wine and women but they are still away to the seaside town of Mohang to Language: Korean journey of two men. New York in the virgins. Under the guise of a wine tour escape their mounting debt. The young Director: Kim Ki-duk Nineties. Documentary filmmaker Erik they embark on a journey to Spain woman begins writing a script for a short Writer: Kim Ki-duk and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a hoping to have their first sexual film in order to calm her nerves: There Co-Production Partners: Kim Ki-duk casual encounter and soon become a experience. Nothing will stop them. Not are three women named Anne, and each film couple. They are risk takers— even their handicaps: one is blind, the woman consecutively visits the seaside Executive Producer: Kim Ki-duk compulsive and fueled by sex. In an other is confined to a wheelchair and the town of Mohang. A young woman tends Producer: Kim Soon-mo almost decade-long relationship defined third one is completely paralyzed. to the small hotel by the Mohang Key Cast: Lee Jung-jin, Cho Min-soo by highs, lows, and dysfunctional UNFAIR WORLD foreshore owned by her parents. A Delivery Status: Post Production patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his Drama (107 minutes) certain lifeguard can be seen restlessly Year of Production: 2012 Country of own boundaries and dignity and to be Director: Filippos Tsitos wandering up and down the beach that Origin: Korea true to himself. Producer: Alexandra Boussiou, Gian lies nearby. Each Anne stays at this small Hired by moneylenders, a man lives as a EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY Pero Ringel hotel, receives some assistance from the loan shark brutally threatening people for Drama (107 minutes) Key Cast: Antonis Kafetzopoulos, owner's daughter, and ventures onto the paybacks. This man, without any family, Director: Radu Jude Theodora Tzimou, Christos Stergioglou beach where they meet the lifeguard. has caused so much pain to countless Producer: Ada Solomon - HI FILM Delivery Status: Screening GHOST SWEEPERS people without any fear. One day, a Key Cast: Gabriel Spahiu, Mihaela Year of Production: 2011 Country of Horror, Comedy woman appears in front of him claiming Sirbu, Serban Pavlu, Sofia Nicolaescu, Origin: Greece Language: Korean to be his mother. He coldly rejects her at Tamara Buciuceanu Botez It’s hard to be honest in a dishonest Director: Shin Jung-won first, but gradually accepts her in his life Delivery Status: Screening world. Sotiris has almost given up. Writer: Kwon Sung-hui and even decides to quit his cruel job. Year of Production: 2012 Country of Luckily he still has his job as a cop, Co-Production Partners: Saram Then suddenly the mother is kidnapped. Origin: Romania which provides a modest opportunity to Entertainment and Dasepo Club Co. Ltd. Assuming that it would be by someone Marius is a divorced man in his late fight the system. Executive Producer: Lee So-young, Billy he had hurt in the past, he starts to track thirties. His five year-old daughter Sofia HOLIDAYS BY THE SEA Acuman, Kim Hyun-suk down people he had harassed. The man lives with her mother, which causes Comedy (77 minutes) Producer: MC Kang, Park Kyung-won finally finds the one, only to realize that Marius a deep frustration. On the day Director: Pascal Rabate Key Cast: Kim Soo-ro, Kang Ye-won, this guy had committed suicide a long Marius arrives to take his daughter on Key Cast: Jacques Gamblin, Marie De Lee Jae-hoon time ago and the woman is actually the their annual holiday, he is not allowed to Medeiros, François Damiens, Dominique Delivery Status: Post Production mother of the victim; it all had been a take her with him. The situation soon Pinon, Marie Kremer, Gustave Kervern, Year of Production: 2012 Country of self-fabricated kidnap to take revenge gets out of control with all the family François Morel Origin: Korea against the man to kill his very soul. Delivery Status: Screening taking part in a web of humor, violence, Chan-young, a young journalist, is sent THE WEIGHT childish songs, police interventions and Year of Production: 2011 Country of to cover a story when all the top Drama love statements. Origin: France shamans from nationwide gather up for a Language: Korean FOUR SUNS Finally it’s weekend and everybody is grand exorcism at a small village Director: Jeon Kyu-hwan Drama (102 min) heading to the coast. Two retirees in a notorious for dark rumors about an evil Writer: Jeon Kyu-hwan Director: BOHDAN SLÁMA snail paced vehicle and a beach house as spirit. They barely manage to even enter Co-Production Partners: Treefilm Key Cast: Jaroslav Plesl, Anna large as a stamp cross a couple of punks the village for this evil spirit is unlike Producer: Choi Mi-ae Geislerová, Marek Sácha, Karel Roden, in love living in a house drawn on the anything anyone has seen so far. The Key Cast: Cho Jae-hyun, Zia Jirí Mádl, Klára Melísková, Igor Chmela sand. Two impostors play golf next to a group of shamans begins their grand Delivery Status: Post Production Delivery Status: Screening funeral procession, an umbrella ritual, but with the strange eerie force Year of Production: 2012 Country of Year of Production: 2012 Country of representative meets his mistress in a that dominates the entire village and Origin: Korea Origin: Czech Republic hotel and the life of two unhappy repeated attacks by the spirit, most of the Hunchback JUNG is a mortician who Jára has lost his job, his family is falling couples is turned upside down by a lost shamans run for their lives. Only five works at the morgue cleaning and apart and his only companion and friend kite. Many bizarre and funny encounters best shamans remain along with Chan- dressing dead bodies. Born with a hump is Karel, a lonely weirdo who feels very happen during holidays by the sea. The young. So the six begin to explore the like a camel, his life is as painful as closely bound to nature. Unemployed film is a tribute to Jacques Tati’s classic dark secrets of the village while crossing a desolate desert. While the and immature, he tries to keep his family "Mr. Hulot’s Holiday". preparing for the biggest battle against karmas of those around him and the dead together, to make his wife stay with him, the evil forces. people that he comes across at the to protect his teenage son from drug THE GRAND HEIST morgue add on weights of pain to his abuse and to protect Karel from himself - FINECUT CO., LTD. Period Action Adventure life, the love hate relationship that he has but who will protect Jára? Finecut Co., Ltd., 4F, Incline B/D., 891- Language: Korean with his stepbrother who wants to 37, Daechi-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, KING CURLING Director: Kim Joo-ho become a woman weighs down on his Comedy (75 minutes) Korea, Tel: +82.2.569.8777 Fax: Writer: Kim Min-sung life even more. +82.2.569.9466. Director: Ole Endresen Co-Production Partners: Dhuta Co.Ltd. LOVE 911 Producer: 4 ? Films www.finecut.co.kr,[email protected] and AD406 Romance Sales Agent Key Cast: Atle Antonsen, Jan Sælid, Executive Producer: Kim Woo-taek, Ahn Language: Korean At Cannes: Youngjoo SUH (CEO), Kåre Conradi, Linn Skåber Dong-gyu, Cha Ji-hyun, Kim Min-sung Director: Jung Ki-hoon Yunjeong KIM (Director of Int'l Sales), Delivery Status: Screening Producer: Oh Jung-hyun Luna H.Y. KIM (Director of Int'l Sales & Writer: Jung Ki-hoon Year of Production: 2011 Country of Key Cast: Cha Tae-hyun, Oh Ji-ho Co-production), Yura KWON (Director Co-Production Partners: ORM Origin: Norway Delivery Status: Post Production of Festival & Marketing), Sejin LEE PICTURES Co., Ltd. Truls Paulsen, once a great curling-star, Year of Production: 2012 Country of (Sales & Marketing) Executive Producer: Kim Woo-taek, Han learns that his coach Gordon is on his Origin: Korea Office: Riviera E9/F12, Tel: Sung-gu, Lee Min-ho deathbed. To pay for the needed About 250 years ago in Korea, people +33(0)4.92.99.33.30 Producer: Son Seung-jin operation, Truls' last chance is to gather struggle under the tyranny of the first Key Cast: Ko Soo, Han Hyo-joo his old team mates to compete again and http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1099 vice-premier CHO who has taken Delivery Status: In Production win the championship cash prize.Will possessions of power and commercial Year of Production: 2012 Country of Truls lead his team to victory and save IN ANOTHER COUNTRY Origin: Korea Drama (89 min.) supremacy over ‘ice?, the most valuable Kang-il is a 911 rescue worker who his old friend? Language: Korean, English commodity in that time. Unable to stand refuses to love anyone since he lost his COME AS YOU ARE Director: Hong Sangsoo CHO's tyranny, LEE, an ingenious young wife. Tortured with guilt and regret that Tragi-Comedy (115 minutes) Writer: Hong Sangsoo man whose father was eliminated by Language: Flemish/French CHO, gathers a group of experts in he wasn's there for his wife when she's

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HIGHWAY GOSPEL – K5 dying, he loses all his will to live. Mi- Origin: Korea Key Cast: Ha Jung-woo, Kong Hyo-jin Key Cast: Yoon Je-moon soo is a surgical doctor who would do After refusing to cover up the affiliated Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Post Production just about anything to achieve her goal, University’s error regarding the national Year of Production: 2012 Country of Year of Production: 2012 Country of with no interest in love. One day, she is university entrance exam, Professor KIM Origin: Korea Origin: Korea sued by patient's family because of her Kyoung-ho is unfairly dismissed. He Joo-wol is a novelist suffering from HAN is a man who is all about pursuing wrong prescription and needs a witness loses his lawsuit for reinstatement and writer’s block. One day, he goes to a stable, solid, sound, and safe life. He not to lose her license, and that witness his appeal is overruled without reason. Germany and meets Heejin, a film has been working as a public officer for turns out to be Kang-il. Although she So he threatens the judge with a distributor, and falls in love. Back in the past 10 years, with utmost discovers that she was the very doctor crossbow demanding a fair trial and the Seoul, he convinces her out on a date. satisfaction in his steadfast life and work. who lost his wife on the operating table two wrestle ending up with the judge Joo-wol finds out Heejin had lived in Living up to his motto “You lose when in the past, she tries to get close to him claiming a blood wound. However, KIM Alaska, loves photography, and does not you get excited over things, he is with the ill intentions only to use him as argues that he didn’t shoot the judge and shave. He gets shocked by the thick hair respected for his superior ability in her witness. Yet when Mi-soo joins as a the trial proceeds with difficulty: a battle growing under her armpits, but it dealing with angry civil complaints paramedic at his fire station, they slowly at court without concessions, confronting strangely inspires him to write again; a without losing his self-control and is begin to fall for each other. statements, crucial evidences missing. mystery suspense detective series about a anticipated to be on a fast track at work. UNBOWED Lawyers give up on KIM due to his woman with hairy armpits. It becomes an But, one day an indie rock band moves Drama (101 min.) uncompromising character. But when he immediate sensation. Then, Joo-wol in the basement of his house, and they Language: Korean meets an unorthodox lawyer PARK, the discovers more about Heejin, including turn his life upside down far from Director: Chung Jiyoung trials start to get lively. her complicated pasts with numerous stability. Will he get his peaceful life Writer: Han Hyunkeun LOVE FICTION men. back? Co-Production Partners: Chung Jiyoung Romantic Comedy (121 min.) DANGEROUSLY EXCITED Film Language: Korean Drama (101 min.) Executive Producer: Lee Eun, Chung Director: Jeon Gye-soo Language: Korean Jiyoung Writer: Jeon Gye-soo Director: Koo Ja-hong Producer: Chung Jiyoung Co-Production Partners: Samgeori Writer: Koo Ja-hong Key Cast: Ahn Sungki, Park Wonsang Pictures Co. Ltd. and Fantagio Co-Production Partners: Mapo film Delivery Status: Completed Executive Producer: Woody KIM Executive Producer: Koo Ja-hong Year of Production: 2012 Country of Producer: Shin Young-il Producer: Jung Hyeyoung

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years. Behind the shadow of war and Dern, Ridley Scott Origin: Finland FIRST HAND FILMS devastation, Khazar shows us a window Delivery Status: In Production December 21, 2012. This date, identified First Hand Films, Fritz Heeb-Weg 5, into a nation with unimaginable Year of Production: 2013 Country of by the Maya nearly 1,400 years ago, has 8050 Zurich, Switzerland, Tel: struggles, and an unwavering will to Origin: Sweden in recent years become the source of +41.44.312.20.60 Fax: survive. A light and entertaining look at the big great curiosity and debate. Some believe +41.44.312.20.80. YOU LAUGH BUT IT'S TRUE stories and their makers: having it will bring catastrophic events, others www.firsthandfilms.com, Documentary (52/84') exclusive access to Bergman's private an era of enlightenment. But what did [email protected] Language: English archive with more than 1500 films, an the ancient Maya themselves believe? In Sales Agent, Producer Director: David Paul Meyer eclectic collection of films was found, '2012: The Beginning' we travel the At Cannes: Esther van Messel (CEO), Writer: David Paul Meyer spanning from the more predictable ones world to examine what the sacred Maya Gitte Hansen (Deputy Director) Producer: Day 1 Films by Tarkovsky, Bunuel, Truffaut, to the texts really say. Office: POD ZONE, Level - 01, stand n Key Cast: Trevor Noah more surprising, such as ”Blues 11.32, POD 02 BEER IS CHEAPER THAN Delivery Status: Completed Brothers”, ”FoulPlay”, ”Jurassic Park” THERAPY Year of Production: 2012 Country of and ”Ghostbusters”. A new insight into Documentary (1 x 55 mins & 1 x 78 http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1179 Origin: USA/South Africa the genius of Bergman and most of all, a mins) In the world of stand-up comedy in portrait of the greatest filmmakers of Language: English SEDUCED AND BLACKMAILED South Africa, multiracial comedian today. How they work, why they choose Producer: Zeppers Film & TV Documentary (51 min) Trevor Noah creates material from his the themes they keep coming back to and Production Language: German, Swissgerman, experiences during apartheid as he why film is an artform like no other. Delivery Status: Completed Italian, English prepares for the biggest show of his life. Year of Production: 2011 Country of Director: Aldo Gugolz, Romeo Regenass 24 HOURS JERUSALEM Documentary (1440 min (consecutive Origin: The Netherlands Writer: Aldo Gugolz, Romeo Regenass THE WILL Documentary (58/86') 24x60'), 1x90', 4x60') 'I'm 22 years old and I must have killed Producer: prêt-à-tourner Language: Danish, German with Engl. Language: Hebrew, Arabic, English 30 people. The same thing that you were Key Cast: Helg Sgarbi, Ernani Barretta Sts Producer: Zero One production given badges for over in Iraq, you would Delivery Status: Completed Director: Christian Sønderby Jepsen Delivery Status: In Production be considered a serial killer over here. Year of Production: 2012 Country of Producer: Copenhagenbombay Year of Production: 2012 Country of That's a very weird thought to have Origin: Switzerland Delivery Status: Completed Origin: Germany, Israel running around in your head when it's Helg Sgarbi, a charming Swiss man, tries Year of Production: 2012 Country of More than half of the world population dark, going to sleep or late at night.' to extort 14 million Euro from BMW’s Origin: Denmark believes Jerusalem to be their religious There is no place for doubt, sadness and major shareholder Susanne Klatten by Henrik’s ass is in a tight corner. His center. Amongst the symbols and fear in the American army. Back home, threatening to publish intimate photos. girlfriend has split, drug and alcohol politics, daily life of the city's diverse many soldiers struggle with these She contacts the police, Sgarbi is abuse have gotten the upper hand, and inhabitants clamors on, intertwining the feelings. Beer is Cheaper than Therapy arrested. But this case is only the tip of he’s deeply in debt. When everything is stories of Jerusalem. This is a portrait of portrays what goes on behind the facade the proverbial iceberg: Several gullible most dire and his woes seem wholly one day in the life of the tumultuous city, of heroism and the 'John Wayne women were blackmailed by Sgarbi. The insurmountable, a door to new life is allowing viewers to participate in a mentality'. money probably went to an Italian opened when Henrik’s wealthy multi-level unique realtime experience. miraclehealer and his sect.?Is he the WHEN I WAS DEAD grandfather dies, leaving behind him a The format is governed by the idea of Documentary (1 x 55 mins & 1 x 78 mastermind behind the crime? huge fortune. But at the promise of following different protagonists over a mins) WHERE MY HEART BEATS money, family war breaks out, and years 24 hour period, and portraying a day in Language: Dutch Documentary (58/72') of failure and betrayal are revealed. their lives in real time from their Producer: Zeppers Film & TV Language: Swedish, Afghan with Engl. perspective. The audience perceives what Production Sts BERGMAN'S VIDEO Series (6x45') they are watching almost as happening in Delivery Status: Completed Director: Khazar Fatemi Language: English their real time. The broadcast time then Year of Production: 2011 Country of Writer: Khazar Fatemi Director: Hynek Pallas, Jane Magnusson, corresponds with the time the material Origin: The Netherlands Producer: Quasar Productions Fatima Varhos was shot one year earlier, and so the Meet three very different people with Key Cast: Khazar Fatemi Producer: Gädda Five viewer actually gets to experience a their experiences in the moments Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Robert De Niro, Woody Allen, period of 24 hours almost as it happened between life and death. Getting a Year of Production: 2012 Country of Francis Ford Coppola, Nicole Kidman, in reality. complete overview of all the important Origin: Sweden Isabella Rosselini, Ang Lee, Michael moments in your life in a single moment; Journalist and former refugee Khazar THE ART OF YODELING Haneke, Les Dardennes, Terry Gilliam, Documentary (58/72) experiencing an indescribable lightness Fatemi returns to her childhood country Claire Denis, Martin Scorsese, Laura Language: Norwegian, English and gentleness; hearing divine music and of Afghanistan for the first time in 20 Director: Eivind Tolas being welcomed by the deceased you Writer: Eivind Tolas loved in your life: Near Death Producer: Flimmer Film Experiences. Industrial designer Sam van CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Key Cast: Polkabjorn, Kleine Heine Haaster, in a quest for freedom, goes on HE LICK AND CCESS ULTURE IS OW Delivery Status: Completed a solo skiing trip to the North Pole. T C A C N Year of Production: 2012 Country of When he is buried under metres of snow & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. Origin: Norway following and avalanche he caused Hipster goes yodel... We follow the himself, he is miraculously saved. Koos philosophy student and yodeler van Rijswijk, a working-class big-city Polkabjørn on his way to the ultimate dweller, was not the trusting type until, yodel experiences, and to success. He after a motor scooter accident, he is met Click on and his musical companion ”Kleine by a welcoming committee in heaven. A Heine” take their yodel act from the university-trained engineer, Henriette ter Blue Boxes narrow fjords of Norway to huge Braake, ends up in hospital after a stadium concerts, the world’s leading pulmonary embolism. She can't breathe to Access throat expert, the Faroe Islands, Texas and as the nurses are running around and Germany. We meet their enthusiastic calling for oxygen, Henriette suffocates Available manager, a male stripper and one of the and takes off. biggest yodel fans on earth. Why are GENERATION SMS Company they doing this? Do they really like it? Documentary (1 x 52 mins & 1 x 75 And will ”Polkabjørn” ever meet ”Der mins) Trailers Jodlerkönig”, his big yodel hero? Language: English 2012: THE BEGINNING Producer: Triple Threat TV LLC Automatically Documentary (1 x 52mins) Production Language: English, Spanish Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Wild4Wisdom Oy Ab Year of Production: 2011 Country of Do Your Part To Production Origin: USA Delivery Status: Completed Academy Award winner Bill Couturi Combat Global Warming Year of Production: 2012 Country of (producer, Common Threads: Stories

40 The Business of Film CANNES MAY 2012 CANNES PRODUCT GUIDE from the Quilt) turns his camera on six the USA and marks the first time ever begin a new life. He is soon befriended Year of Production: 2012 Country of unique individuals in their teens as they his family has authorized the use of their by Dong, a handsome smooth talker who Origin: Singapore / Hong Kong ready their thumbs for US National own private archives. Macdonald joined offers him a place to stay. But he Ming is a surveillance expert with an Texting Championship for a $ 50'000 with the Marley family, Chris Blackwell discovers that there is another guy, Lam, obsession: he wants to film everything prize, defying techie-geek stereotypes by and Steve Bing to direct the ultimate, living there too. The two guys who turn that happens around him. It’s a showcasing their ability to excel socially authorized documentary film on the life, out to be boyfriends, steal all his cash compulsion linked to an accident which as well as in the classroom. Who are legacy and global impact of a legend, and belongings and run away. Lam, who left him blind in one eye. When a new they who spend their lives text one of the most influential singers, then in turn is abandoned by Dong, technology becomes available that can messaging, and why do they do it so songwriters, musicians and activists in returns to the street as a prostitute, while restore his eyesight, Ming jumps at the obsessively? history. Only a handful of musicians Khoa, disillusioned and left penniless, chance. But when a new client hires him MOUNTAIN LOVE STORY have ever achieved such an impact and takes on menial jobs to survive. to follow the beautiful daughter of a Documentary (1 x 52 mins & 1 x 63 Bob Marley, though his life was far too Realizing that both are lonely, they begin shady businessman, everything begins to mins) short, stands among them. a loving yet delicate relationship. unravel around him. Language: Polish BEIJING FLICKERS SEA SHADOW DJINN Producer: Vertical Vision Film Studio AKA: YOU-ZHONG Coming of age (98') Supernatural Horror Thriller Production Drama (96') Language: Arabic Language: Arabic/English Delivery Status: Completed Language: Mandarin Director: Nawaf Al-Janahi Director: Tobe Hooper Year of Production: 2011 Country of Director: ZHANG Yuan Writer: Mohammed Hassan Ahmed Producer: Daniela Tully, Tim Symthe Origin: Poland Writer: ZHANG Yuan, KONG Ergou, LI Producer: Rami Yasin, Daniela Tully Key Cast: Khalid Laith, Razane Jammal, Polish alpinists Eliza Kubarska and Xinyun, YANG Yishu Key Cast: Omar Al Mulla, Neven Madi, Aiysha Hart David Kaszlikowski take a journey Co-Production Partners: China Film Abrar Al Hamad Delivery Status: Post Production inside the fjords of southern Greenland Co.,Ltd, Beijing Asian Union Culture & Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2011 Country of to reach the world's highest sea cliff. The Media Investment, Ltd, Beijing Century Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: UAE huge granite wall is reachable only by Good-tiding Co.,Ltd Origin: UAE A young Emirati couple move into a new Kayak across an eerie, storm-ridden and Executive Producer: DONG Ping, HAN Set in a small seaside neighborhood in luxury high-rise apartment, only to find freezing sea. Capsizing in this area Sanping the United Arab Emirates, SEA they have entered the nightmarish world means hypothermia and death within Producer: ZHANG Yuan SHADOW follows teenagers Mansoor of djinn, supernatural beings from Arabic minutes. Several days of risky cliff Key Cast: Duan Bowen, Lv Yulai, Shi and Kaltham as they struggle with lore. climbing follow - all for a kiss at 1500m Shi, Li Xinyun, Han Wenwen tradition and convention in their journey MONSOON SHOOTOUT altitude. This is an extraordinary Delivery Status: Post Production towards adulthood. Bound by family and Action/Thriller romance in one of the most beautiful Year of Production: 2012 Country of deeply-rooted values, the pair must find Language: Hindi landscapes you have ever seen. Origin: China the courage to forge their own paths. Director: Amit Kumar Beijing 2012. Not everyone is living the BUGIS STREET REDUX Writer: Amit Kumar golden life. Four unlikely friends Drama (98') Co-Production Partners: Yaffle Films, FORTISSIMO FILMS struggle with their own life predicaments Language: English & Mandarin Anurag Kashyap Films, Pardesi Films, Fortissimo Films, Van Diemenstraat 100, in the glamorous, prosperous modern Director: Yonfan Dar Motion Pictures Amsterdam, 1013 CN The Netherlands, metropolis, find solace and support in Writer: Yonfan, Fruit Chan Executive Producer: Asif Kapadia and Tel: 31.20.627.3215 Fax: each other. Producer: Yonfan & Katy Yew Lee Stone 31.20.626.1155. FULL CIRCLE Key Cast: HIEP Thi Le, Michael LAM, Producer: Trevor Ingman www.fortissimofilms.com, AKA: FEI YU LAO REN YUAN Greg-O Key Cast: Vijay Verma, Nawazuddin [email protected] Drama (104') Delivery Status: Completed Siddiqi, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Neeraj Sales Agent Language: Mandarin Year of Production: 1995/2012 Country Kabi, Geetanjali Thapa, Sreejita De, At Cannes: Michael J. Werner Director: ZHANG Yang of Origin: Hong Kong Iravati Harshe, Jayant Gadeker, Omkar (Chairman), Nelleke Driessen (Managing Writer: ZHANG Yang, HUO Xin, In revisiting and reworking his earlier Das, Director), Nicole Mackey (Executive ZHANG Chong cult classic, Director Yonfan had all the Delivery Status: Post Production Vice President - Sales and Acquisitions), Co-Production Partners: China Film Co., contemporary film restoration tools and Year of Production: 2012 Country of Winnie Lau (Senior Vice President - Ltd., Desen International Media Co., Ltd. toys at his disposal. BUGIS STREET Origin: India Sales and Acquisitions), Courtney Noble Producer: Ann AN, LI Li, ZHANG REDUX is the outcome of that effort. MONSOON SHOOTOUT explores the (Director - Festivals & Markets), Ellis Qiang When it first hit the film and festival impact that one’s choices make on the Driessen (Acquisition Consultant - Key Cast: XU Huanshan, WU Tianming, circuit BUGIS STREET was a lives of others. As heavy monsoon rains Europe and Middle East), Laura Talsma LI Bin, YAN Bingyan groundbreaking film for the director and lash the badlands of Mumbai, Adi, a (Festival Services Manager), Niloufar Delivery Status: Post Production for Asia. Shot on location in Singapore, rookie cop out on his first assignment Siassi (Director of TV and Ancillary Year of Production: 2012 Country of the actual spot (then called Bugis faces a life altering decision when he Sales) Origin: China Junction/Bugis Street) was long known must decide whether to shoot or not to Office: 1st floor (Apt. Zanzi) - 5 Square A heart warming tale of a group of to locals as the center of the real shoot. The film presents three scenarios, Mérimée, 06400 Cannes,Tel: irrepressible senior citizens living in a nightlife there. It was where one could all resulting from the decision that Adi 33.4.9339.8731 nursing home who are energized when find local transvestites, prostitutes, and makes. Each decision takes him on a one of them decides that they should transsexuals mixing it up with both journey that pits him against a system http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1309 compete in a television variety show Singapore’s high society and that demands a compromise on his competition. underground gay culture together with morals. Finally, however, Adi and we MARLEY US sailors and soldiers on military leave. come to understand that every choice has Documentary LOST IN PARADISE Drama, Gay (103') The film features actress Hiep Thi Le in its price. Language: English Language: Vietnamese her first role right after her film debut in Director: Kevin Macdonald SHIP OF THESEUS Director: Vu Ngoc Dang Oliver Stone’s HEAVEN AND EARTH. Drama Producer: Steve Bing, Charles Steel, Writer: VU Ngoc Dang, LUONG Manh The film also featured and co-starred Language: Hindi Ziggy Marley Hai many of the real locals from Bugis Director: Anand Gandhi Key Cast: Bob Marley Co-Production Partners: BHD Co., Ltd. Writer: Anand Gandhi Delivery Status: Completed Street. The film marked Yonfan’s first & Vietnam Studio Producer: Mukesh Shah of Ridhi Sidhi Year of Production: 2011 Country of collaboration with Fruit Chan who Producer: Thi Bich Hien Ngo Films Origin: USA served as screen writer and later went on Key Cast: Luong Manh Hai, Ho Vinh Key Cast: Aida El-Kashef, Soham Shah, MARLEY is the definitive film about a to become a renowned director in his Khoa, Hieu Hien, Phuong Thanh Neeraj Kabi true international icon of the 20th own right. Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Post Production Century. His music and message of love CAMERA Year of Production: 2011 Country of Year of Production: 2012 Country of and redemption are known throughout Suspense/Thriller Origin: Vietnam Origin: India the world and his story has finally been Language: Cantonese LOST IN PARADISE takes a SHIP OF THESEUS explores the moral brought to life in this definitive work by Director: James Leong and ethical boundaries of human the acclaimed talent of Kevin provocative yet compassionate look at a Co-Production Partners: Lianain Films, existence as told through the stories of Macdonald. Filming took place as far group of people who live, love and exist Singapore Film Commission and three disparate individuals – an afield as Ghana, Japan and the UK, in on the fringes in modern Vietnam. Khoa, Fortissimo Films. experimental photographer, an ailing addition to Bob’s beloved Jamaica and a naive, innocent 20 year old guy from Key Cast: Sean Li, Venus Wong the countryside arrives in Saigon to Delivery Status: Post Production monk and a young stockbroker – who

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unknowingly have a connection that CORMAN’S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF unearthed Kesey’s footage, audio WETLANDS neither the audience, nor they A HOLLYWOOD REBEL tracks the recordings, and photographs and created AKA: MARÉCAGES themselves, are aware of until the end of triumphant rise of Hollywood’s most a fully immersive cinematic experience. Drama (111') the film. prolific writer-director producer, the true This Magic Trip is guaranteed to blow Language: French WHAT MAISIE KNEW “godfather” of independent filmmaking. your mind. Director: Guy Édoin Drama/ Comedy While known for working fast—some of MAMA AFRICA Writer: Guy Édoin Language: English his films were made in two days—and Documentary (90') Co-Production Partners: MAX FILMS Director: Scott McGehee and David wallowing in the cult movie world of Language: English & French Producer: Luc Vandal, Félize Frappier Siegel monsters, bad special effects, schlocky Director: Mika Kaurismäki Key Cast: Pascale Bussières,Gabriel Writer: Nancy Doyne & Carroll acting, and plentiful nudity, Corman is Producer: Rainer Kölmel Maillé, Luc Picard, François Papineau, Cartwright also a respected rebel of cinema. He Key Cast: Miriam Makeba, Zenzi Angèle Coutu, Denis Dubois Producer: William Teitler, Chuck dealt with hot-button social topics like Monique Lee, Nelson Lumumba Lee, Delivery Status: Completed Weinstock, Daniela Taplin Lundberg race and feminism. He created his own Hugh Masekela,Angelique Kidjo and Year of Production: 2011 Country of Key Cast: Julianne Moore, Steve production and distribution company, others Origin: Canada Coogan, Alexander Skarsgård tagging it “America’s Biggest Delivery Status: Completed Tragedy strikes a family in rural Canada Delivery Status: Post Production Independent.” And he taught the next Year of Production: 2011 Country of struggling to keep their dairy farm from Year of Production: 2011 Country of generation of film greats, including Origin: Germany/ South Africa/ Finland going under. The man of the family is Origin: USA Scorsese, Demme, Coppola, Cameron, A documentary about the late, incredibly killed in a freak accident leaving his wife Darkly comic and emotionally even Ron Howard. From Corman’s first talented and charismatic South African as the sole provider and caregiver compelling, WHAT MAISIE KNEW is feature in 1955 to the set of his new film, musical icon, Miriam Makeba, who looking after her rebellious teenage son an evocative portrayal of the chaos and DINOSHARK, this entertaining traveled the world with her powerful who is dealing with his emerging complexity of a modern marriage. documentary has all the blood and guts voice speaking a message against racism sexuality. The father’s sudden death is WHITE FROG of Corman’s lurid and fascinating career, and poverty and for equality and peace. not the first time this family suffers a Coming of Age/Drama with essential insights from MAMA AFRICA is an homage to this loss. Now the bonds of family are being Language: English contemporaries and students. Learn the extraordinary and impressive artist who tested when the relationship between Director: Quentin Lee roots of indie filmmaking, laced with incarnates the voice and the hope of mother and son becomes strained as she Writer: Fabienne Wen, Ellie Wen boobs, violence, guns and creatures! Africa. seeks comfort in the arms of a stranger Producer: Chris Lee, Joel Soisson, Ellie JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI WARRIORS OF THE RAINBOW: who arrives at the farm with Wen Documentary (83') SEEDIQ BALE questionable intent. Key Cast: Joan Chen, BD Wong, Booboo Language: Japanese Action Epic (150') CAIRO 678 Stewart Director: David Gelb Language: Seediq language & Japanese Drama (100') Delivery Status: Completed Co-Production Partners: City Room Director: WEI Te-Sheng Language: Arabic Year of Production: 2011 Country of Media, Weaver/Pellegrini, Preferred Writer: WEI Te-Sheng Director: Mohamed Diab Origin: USA Content, Sundial Pictures Co-Production Partners: ARS Film Writer: Mohamed Diab WHITE FROG is an emotional story of Producer: David Gelb Production, Central Motion Picture Co-Production Partners: Dollar Film / the universal power of family, friendship Key Cast: Jiro Ono, Yoshikazu Ono, Corporation New Century Production and love positioned to appeal to a broad Takashi Ono, Masuhiro Yamamoto Producer: John WOO, Terence CHANG, Key Cast: Ahmed El Feshawy, Bushra, audience in vein of ORDINARY Delivery Status: Completed Jimmy HUANG Maged El Kedwany, Nahed El Sebai, PEOPLE meets STAND BY ME. Year of Production: 2011 Country of Key Cast: LIN Ching-Tai, Umin Boya, Nelly Karim EL GUSTO Origin: USA / Japan ANDO Masanobu, Vivan HSU Delivery Status: Completed Documentary (93') In the basement of a Tokyo office Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2010 Country of Language: French/Arabic building, 85 year old sushi master Jiro Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Egypt Director: Safinez Bousbia Ono works tirelessly in his world Origin: Taiwan It may be a taboo subject but the simple Writer: Safinez Bousbia renowned restaurant, Sukiyabashi Jiro. Set in 1930's Formosa - now Taiwan, fact is that incidences of sexual Executive Producer: Philippe Maynial As his son Yoshikazu faces the pressures WARRIORS OF THE RAINBOW tells harassment in Egypt are on the rise. In Producer: Heidi Egger, Safinez Bousbia of stepping into his father’s shoes and the true story of the Wushe Incident in this bold and frank film, we witness a Key Cast: Mamad Haïder Benchaouch, taking over the legendary restaurant, Jiro which aboriginal Seediq tribe warrior number of perspectives on the matter, Rachid Berkani, Ahmed Bernaoui - san relentlessly pursues his lifelong Mouna Rudo led his people to rebel through the eyes of three women drawn Delivery Status: Completed quest to create the perfect piece of sushi. against Japan then occupying the island. from across Cairo's complex social Year of Production: 2011 Country of THE MAGIC TRIP: KEN KESEY’S Rudo, assembling a Seediq force of 300 hierarchy. Fayza is a traditionally- Origin: France / UAE / Ireland / Algeria SEARCH FOR A KOOL PLACE men and fighting with ancient guns, minded mother, in search of justice. Seba Safinez Bousbia’s ambitious and moving Documentary (90') spears and minimal weaponry sought to is a wealthy jewelry designer, recovering documentary tells the amazing story of Language: English reclaim their land, their dignity and their from a vicious gang assault. Nelly, an the reunion and reconciliation of a group Director: Alex Gibney and Alison honor by taking on the incredible might aspiring stand-up comic draws national of Muslim and Jewish musicians fifty Ellwood of the Japanese army. outrage for daring to file a sexual years after their separation during the Writer: Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood TORMENTED harassment lawsuit. The film follows this Algerian Civil War and follows their Producer: Will Clarke 3D Horror/Thriller (83') trio as, frustrated by the lackadaisical story as they are brought back together Delivery Status: Completed Language: Japanese response from authorities, they decide to to form a new orchestra, “El Gusto,” and Year of Production: 2011 Country of Director: Takashi Shimizu take the law into their own hands and perform at an extraordinary concert in Origin: USA Writer: Sotaro Hayashi begin exacting violent revenge on men France. Ever wonder what it’s like to drop acid? Co-Production Partners: Ogura Jimusyo Inc. foolish enough to try and harass them. Look no further. In 1964, Ken Kesey, Producer: Masayuki Tanishima, Satoru CORMAN'S WORLD: EXPLOITS ISZTAMBUL OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL celebrated author of One Flew over the Ogura Drama (99') Documentary (95') Cuckoo’s Nest, took a mythic excursion Key Cast: Hikari Mitsushima, Teruyuki Language: Hungarian/English/Turkish Language: English across America from the West to the East Kagawa, Takeru Shibuya, Tamaki Ogawa Director: Ferenc Török Director: Alex Stapleton Coast. Fueled by massive doses of LSD, Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Ferenc Török Co-Production Partners: Far Hills Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters Year of Production: 2011 Country of Producer: Lászlo Kántor Pictures embarked on the ultimate road trip. Their Origin: Japan Key Cast: Johanna ter Steege, Lukáts Producer: Alex Stapleton, Izabela Frank, destination: Tomorrowland at the New Director Takashi Shimizu's new film Andor, Yavuz Bingöl, Varga Norbert Jeffrey Frey, Mickey Barold, Stone York World’s Fair. Steered by Jack centers on a young boy whose family Delivery Status: Completed Douglass Kerouac’s infamous companion, Neal seems to be falling apart around him. Year of Production: 2011 Country of Key Cast: Roger Corman, Robert De Cassady, Kesey and company rigged The situation gets worse when he Origin: Hungary Niro, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, their psychedelic bus with cameras and a manifests a growing and dangerous 55 year-old Katalin flees her Ron Howard, Jonathan Demme, Bruce sound system and set out to chronicle a friendship and reliance on a stuffed dysfunctional marriage and family and Dern, Quentin Tarantino, Paul W. S. journey that took them through space, rabbit that comes to life. Is he crazy; is finds herself in Istanbul where newfound Anderson, Peter Fonda, Todd McCarthy time, and the boundless landscape of the his sister alive or dead; is their love ensures her emotions are liberated and many others imagination. Forty-plus years later, illustrating father going insane or are and a return to her old life is not Delivery Status: Completed Academy Award–winning filmmaker they all delusional? Shimizu ventures possible. Year of Production: 2011 Country of Alex Gibney (TAXI TO THE DARK once more into the terrifying corners of Origin: USA SIDE) and codirector Alison Ellwood the mind.

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MICHAEL a young female lawyer whose when it seems that the worst is over, a Simon Wade is a fairly normal man. Drama (98') professional license has been revoked is terrible rumble can be heard in the Underneath the surface, however, things Language: Bengali/Hindi several months pregnant. She lives alone, distance, drawing ever closer to the are not what they seem. Simon hunts Director: Ribhu Dasgupta while her journalist husband is obliged to house. But the vehicle which stops in through online, searching for young, Writer: Debaloy Bhattacharya, Neel live in hiding. Pursued by the authorities, front of the house is not another killing suicidal women. Simon has a particular Guha and almost a stranger in her own country, machine, but rather a wandering caravan condition: he craves blood. Producer: Anurag Kashyap, Guneet she decides to flee. called the Circus Fantasticus, containing THE SHOCK LABYRI NTH: Monga, Sunil Bohra ON THE EDGE a group of bizarre yet utterly human EXTREME 3D Key Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Mahie AKA: SUR LA PLANCHE characters. Is it possible for something 3D Thriller (89') Gill, Purav Bhandare Drama (106') beautiful to happen in this landscape of Language: Japanese Delivery Status: Completed Language: Arabic war and death? Intertwining naturalism Director: Takashi Shimizu Year of Production: 2011 Country of Director: Leïla Kilani with magic poetry, SILENT SONATA Writer: Daisuke Hosaka Origin: India Writer: Leïla Kilani unveils a completely new view of war. Executive Producer: Masao TESHIMA Set in Kolkata, this is a character-driven Co-Production Partners: Aurora Films & WINTER'S BONE Producer: Masayuki Tanishima,Satoru psychological drama in which Socco Chico Films Drama / Thriller (100') Ogura, Dai Miyazaki MICHAEL (Naseeruddin Shah), a loyal, Producer: Charlotte Vincent Language: English Key Cast: Yuya Yagira (Best Actor, hard working police officer is ordered by Key Cast: Mouna Bahmad, Nouzha Director: Debra Granik Cannes 2004 for NOBODY KNOWS), his superiors to open fire on a peaceful Akel, Sara Betioui, Soufia Issami Writer: Based On The Novel Winter’s Misako Renbutsu, Ryo Katsuji, Ai crowd of protesters. He shoots away Delivery Status: Completed Bone By Daniel Woodrell Maeda (BATTLE ROYALE 2) from the crowd but a bullet accidentally Year of Production: 2011 Country of Key Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, John Delivery Status: Completed ricochets and kills a 12-year-old boy. Origin: Morocco / France / Germany Hawkes, Dale Dickey Year of Production: 2010 Country of Michael’s career, and whole life start to In Tangiers, Morocco, four young girls Delivery Status: Completed Origin: Japan fall apart especially when he is fired (Badia and Imane and two close friends) Year of Production: 2010 Country of The story follows a group of teenagers from the force and he begins to receive each around twenty, live their lives Origin: USA dealing with the disappearance of their threatening phone calls suggesting amongst the army of workers who fill up 17-year-old Ree Dolly is on a mission to friend, Yuki, at an amusement park’s retribution on his own son as soon as his the city. Their lives are stories of love, find her father, after he uses their house ghost house. On a rainy day 10 years 12th birthday arrives. The clock starts choices and shattered destinies. Badia as a way of securing his bail and later, Yuki inexplicably returns. ticking and as he struggles to protect his and Imane work in a shrimp-packaging disappears. Faced with the possibility of However, no sooner is she united with son, his eyesight starts to fail. Taking on factory, a difficult and humiliating job, losing her home, Ree challenges her her former friends than she collapses, odd jobs to survive he works in a local where the strong odor of shrimp seeps outlaw kin’s code of silence and risks her and the group rushes her to a nearby cinema and starts making extra money into the pores of their skin. Badia’s life in order to piece together the truth to hospital. But after checking in, they by pirating movies. The story of a good hands are busy and her head even busier; save her family. discover that things are not quite as they man falling off the path and his struggle to wash away the shrimp smell she NORWEGIAN WOOD seem at the medical center. As the night to hold his life and family together. perfumes herself with lies and pretends Romantic Drama (133') wears on, the group sinks deeper and GOODBYE to be. Language: Japanese deeper into the events from a decade ago Drama (104') SILENT SONATA Director: Tran Anh Hung that led to Yuki’s disappearance... it Language: Farsi Drama (75') Writer: Based on the best-selling novel raises the question: can you really trust Director: Mohammad Rasoulof Director: Janez Burger by Haruki Murakami your childhood memories? Writer: Mohammad Rasoulof Producer: Jožko Rutar, Petra Bašin, Key Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama, Rinko LAST ROMANCE Co-Production Partners: Shargh Tamasha Morgan Bushe Kikuchi (Oscar nominated Best Drama (101') Media Key Cast: Leon Luèev, Rene Bazinet, Supporting Actress for BABEL),Kiko Language: both Cantonese & Mandarin Producer: Mohammad Rasoulof Pauliina Räsänen, Ravil Sultanov Mizuhara versions available Key Cast: Leyla Zareh, Hassan Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Director: Yonfan Pourshirazi, Behname Tashakor, Sima Year of Production: 2010 Country of Year of Production: 2010 Country of Writer: Yonfan Tirandaz, Roya Teymorian, Fariba Origin: Slovenia Origin: Japan Producer: Lin Tsui Jedikar, Shahab Hoseini, Omid Rohani, When the deafening rattle of war dies Published in 1987 and since translated Key Cast: Maggie Cheung, Cherie Fereshteh Sadreorafai, Bahar Katouzi away, Stevo wanders the field where into 33 languages, Haruki Murakami’s Chung, Shingo Tsurumi Delivery Status: Completed traces of warfare can be seen and his bestselling novel NORWEGIAN WOOD Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2011 Country of house, badly amaged, still stands. He is is a story of loss and heartbreak in a time Year of Production: 1988/2011 Country Origin: Iran left alone with his son and daughter; his of global instability and is brought to the of Origin: Hong Kong In the desperate situation of today’s Iran, wife having been hit by a grenade. Just screen by Tran Anh Hung. Tokyo, the In this Hong Kong classic, Yonfan’s ‘80s late 1960s…Students around the world aesthetic reaches its peak in LAST are uniting to overthrow the ROMANCE, a touching but light-hearted establishment and Toru Watanabe’s coming of age drama perfectly CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS personal life is similarly in tumult. At complemented by two of the decade’s HE LICK AND CCESS ULTURE IS OW heart, he is deeply devoted to his first most intriguing screen beauties, Cherie T C A C N love, Naoko, a beautiful and Chung and Maggie Cheung. Firmly & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. introspective young woman. But their grounded in the realities of Hong Kong, complex bond has been forged by the LAST ROMANCE tells the uncertainties tragic death of their best friend years facing best friends So-so (Cherie), who before. Watanabe lives with the influence does what she must to survive on her of death everywhere. That is, until own luxurious terms, and Nancy Click on Midori, a girl who is everything that (Maggie), more naïve perhaps but Naoko is not – outgoing, vivacious, nonetheless love-struck by the same Blue Boxes supremely selfconfident – marches into handsome Japanese boy who, alas, his life and Watanabe must choose cannot fulfill both girls’ destinies. An to Access between his past and his future. opulent time capsule of a pivotal VAMPIRE moment in both the girls’ lives and the Available Romantic thriller (110') magical place called Hong Kong. Language: English PRINCE OF TEARS Company Director: IWAI Shunji Drama (123') Writer: IWAI Shunji Language: Mandarin Trailers Co-Production Partners: Rockwell Eyes, Director: Yonfan Convergence Entertainment Writer: Yonfan Automatically Producer: IWAI Shunji, Tim Kwok Co-Production Partners: Peony5 Film Co Key Cast: Kevin Zegers, Keisha Castle- Ltd (Taiwan), Filmagic Pictures Hughes, Rachel Leigh Cook Company (Taiwan), Far Sun Film Co Ltd Do Your Part To Delivery Status: Completed (Hong Kong) Year of Production: 2011 Country of Producer: Fruit CHAN Combat Global Warming Origin: USA/Canada Key Cast: FAN Chih-Wei, Joseph

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CHANG, Terri KWAN, ZHU Xuan, of the taichi-style movements and black comedy, DOUBLE FIXATION. It ASHES OF TIME REDUX Kenneth TSANG, CHIAO Chiao, Jack resplendent costumes as brought to life is a mixture of mystery, murder, and Drama (93') KAO, LIN Yo-Wei by kunqu stars Zhang Jiqing, Wang mirth that is as much BRAZIL as Language: Chinese Delivery Status: Completed Fang, and Zhao Wenlin, performers VERTIGO. Asian audiences a quarter- Director: Wong Kar Wai Year of Production: 2009 Country of whose mastery of the art has elevated century ago might not have been so "in" Writer: THE EAGLE-SHOOTING Origin: Taiwan/Hong Kong, China them to the status of Chinese national on the humor of a film so ahead of its HEROES by Louis Cha It happened in 1950s Taiwan, during the treasures. time that DOUBLE FIXATION hasn't Executive Producer: Tsai Mu Ho, Chan period known as the “White Terror,” PEONY PAVILION aged a bit in the intervening years. In Ye Cheng when an anti-Communist campaign Drama (123') one of his first major screen roles, music Producer: Jeff Lau, Wong Kar Wai swept up the island in hysteria. One Language: Mandarin megastar Jacky Cheung plays a Key Cast: Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, autumn afternoon, two sisters returned Director: Yonfan photographer madly in love with Cherie Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Carina Lau, Tony from school to find their once-happy Writer: Yonfan Chung -- she's so breathtakingly Leung Ka Fai, Charlie Young, Jacky home ransacked by military police and Executive Producer: Chen Kun-Hou gorgeous but she's far more complex Cheung, Maggie Cheung (special their parents arrested and accused of Producer: Yonfan than he realizes, disappearing and appearance) being Communist spies. The film follows Key Cast: Rie MIYAZAWA, Joey reappearing in San Francisco. An added Delivery Status: Completed a quartet of characters - the dashing air WANG, Daniel WU attraction is that the scene was shot on Year of Production: 2008 Country of force officer father, his beautiful devoted Delivery Status: Completed the actual San Francisco street where Origin: Hong Kong wife, a mysterious scar-faced bureaucrat Year of Production: 2001 Country of Kim Novak tormented James Stewart in In ancient China, on the edge of a vast and a general’s glamorous wife. Their Origin: Hong Kong VERTIGO. It all adds up to a unique desert, swordsman Ouyang Feng (Leslie lives and loves intertwine until PEONY PAVILION could only be a '80s blend of Hong Kong and Cheung) lives the life of a vagabond, everything erupts in a rhapsody. Amid Yonfan picture, and arguably 2001's Hollywood, a stylistically Yonfan double earning his livelihood by hiring others as life in that turbulent era, friendship, boldest production, incorporating fixation. assassins. Pitiless and cynical, his heart passion, high-minded ideals and dignity passages of traditional Kunqu opera into STORY OF ROSE has long been wounded by a love he are all put on trial in the courtroom of a lush romantic story featuring superstars Romantic Drama (90') neglected then lost. But as the seasons human desire. from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. Language: Cantonese come and go, and so do friends and COLOUR BLOSSOMS Yonfan’s movies have a thematic Director: Yonfan enemies alike, he begins to reflect back Drama (106') consistency in their depiction of Writer: Yonfan upon the origin of his solitude. Language: Cantonese, English & idealized love that is fleetingly found Producer: Yonfan 2046 Japanese and then irrevocably lost. PEONY Key Cast: CHOW Yun Fat, Maggie Drama (120') Director: Yonfan PAVILION is no exception, taking place CHEUNG Language: Chinese (Cantonese / Writer: Yonfan in 1930s Suzhou and centering on the Delivery Status: Completed Mandarin)/Japanese Executive Producer: Fruit Chan intense relationships between the fifth Year of Production: 1985 Country of Director: Wong Kar Wai Key Cast: Keiko MATSUZAKA, Teresa wife of an opium-addicted aristocrat (Rie Origin: Hong Kong Writer: Wong Kar Wai CHEUNG, Harisu, Sho, Carl NG Miyazawa), her husband's female cousin The only celluloid romantic connection Executive Producer: Chan Ye-cheng Delivery Status: Completed (Joey Wang), and a handsome instructor between two of Hong Kong's biggest Producer: Wong Kar Wai Year of Production: 2004 Country of (Daniel Wu) who himself learns a few superstars - Chow Yun-fat and Maggie Key Cast: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Faye Origin: Hong Kong things in the process. Cheung. Adapted from one of the best- Wong, Takuya Kimura, Zhang Ziyi, An art film from a true artist. Yonfan BISHONEN selling novels by Yi Shu - Hong Kong’s Carina Lau Ka Ling, Chang Chen, Bird trains his celebrated eye on five Drama, Queer Interest (101') own Francois Sagan, STORY OF ROSE Thongchai McIntyre, with a special desperate individuals in his controversial Language: Chinese tells the tale of a beautiful young appearance by Maggie Cheung Man Yuk erotic drama COLOUR BLOSSOMS. Director: Yonfan woman, Rose, living an idyllic life with Delivery Status: Completed Teresa Cheung stars as a real estate agent Writer: Yonfan her brother in Hong Kong. They are Year of Production: 2004 Country of drawn into a torrid - and sadomasochistic Executive Producer: Sylvia Chang close; so close that their bond has a Origin: Hong Kong/China - relationship with a morose, strikingly Key Cast: Daniel WU, Stephen FUNG, subtle hint of incest. The bond is broken He was a writer. He thought he wrote handsome Japanese photographer played SHU Qi, Terence YIN, Jason TSANG, when her brother dies, until one day about the future but it really was the by male model Sho. The two cavort in a Kenneth TSANG, CHIAO Chiao, Rose meets a young guy named Ga- past. In his novel, a mysterious train left luxurious apartment owned by an elegant CHEUNG Tat Ming Ming who looks like her deceased for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone upper-crust Japanese lady (played by Delivery Status: Completed brother. who went there had the same Japanese diva Matsuzaka Keiko), Year of Production: 1998 Country of A CERTAIN ROMANCE intention...to recapture their lost crossing paths with an infatuated Origin: Hong Kong Drama (92') memories. It was said that in 2046, policeman (Carl Ng), a mysterious BISHONEN is perhaps the most talked- Language: Cantonese nothing ever changed. Nobody knew for Korean woman (Korean transsexual about Yonfan movie, having been invited Director: Yonfan sure if it was true, because nobody who Harisu), and an increasingly tangled web to over 40 international film festivals Writer: Yonfan / Chung-Ping-Yip went there had ever come back- except of violence, criss-crossing passions, and including Berlin, Toronto, London, Producer: Yonfan for one. He was there. He chose to leave. lurid, unchecked desires. Tokyo and named "Best Picture" in Key Cast: Anthony TANG, NG Mei-Chi He wanted to change. BREAKING THE WILLOW Milan. Yet when it was initially released Delivery Status: Completed IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (110') in Hong Kong, BISHONEN was also the Year of Production: 1984 Country of Romance (97') Language: Mandarin most censured. Produced by Sylvia Origin: Hong Kong Language: Cantonese Director: Yonfan Chang and narrated by Brigitte Lin, In the vein of Jacques Demy’s romantic Director: Wong Kar Wai Producer: Yonfan BISHONEN is the emotional travails of films and the visual beauty of works by Writer: Wong Kar Wai Key Cast: ZHANG Jiqing, WANG Fang, a handsome gigolo (Stephen Fung) and a Sarah Moon and David Hamilton, A Executive Producer: Chan Ye-cheng ZHAO Wenlin hunky cop (played by Daniel Wu in his CERTAIN ROMANCE marks the Producer: Wong Kar Wai Delivery Status: Completed debut role), who is trying to come to directorial debut of Yonfan. The story Key Cast: Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (Su Year of Production: 2003 Country of terms with his sexuality. Extravagantly follows the emerging sexuality of the Li-Zhen), Tony Leung Chiu-wai (Chow Origin: Hong Kong breathtaking and lavishly romantic, the leading actress through encounters with Mo-Wan), Rebecca Pan (Mrs. Suen), Lai In this film, his only documentary, film is considered to be one of Hong first love, secret love, one way love, Chen (Mr. Ho), Siu Ping-lam (Ah-ping). Yonfan explores the world of kunqu -- Kong’s most homo-erotic cinematic Electra Complex and same sex love. All Delivery Status: Completed considered by many to be the most statements. these themes were either hinted at or Year of Production: 2000 Country of exquisite form of Chinese opera with its DOUBLE FIXATION overtly represented. Using soft focus and Origin: Hong Kong refined blending of drama, dance, poetry, Drama (96') grainy film stock, Yonfan creates a visual Hong Kong, 1962. Chief editor of a local and music in this intricate and intimate Language: Cantonese world never before seen in Hong Kong daily newspaper, Chow and his wife look at the stage production, Director: Yonfan cinema. Working with a crew and cast of move into new accommodation in a BREAKING THE WILLOWS. The story Writer: Yonfan / Xiao Mei then unknowns, A CERTAIN building mainly inhabited by the centers on a phoenix coronet, a crown Producer: Lin Tsui ROMANCE marks the film debut of Shanghai community. He soon meets Li- worn by aristocratic ladies in ancient Key Cast: Cherie CHUNG, Jacky many of its actors as well as its zhen, a very beautiful young woman who China, connecting two Chinese women CHEUNG, Pauline WONG cinematographer, art director and film has also just moved in with her husband. belonging to different eras and different Delivery Status: Completed composer. Many of whom have become Chow and Li-zhin become friends but, classes. With a visual richness and Year of Production: 1987 Country of major forces in Hong Kong cinema. one day, they are forced to face the facts: cinematic grace rarely seen in a Origin: Hong Kong their respective partners are having an documentary, Yonfan captures the magic Hitchcock meets High Camp in Yonfan's affair…

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HAPPY TOGETHER Writer: Umakanth Thumrugoti Delivery Status: Completed Drama, Queer Interest (96') Producer: Soumya Sriraman, Umakanth Year of Production: 2009 Country of G Language: Chinese Thumrugoti Origin: USA (Cantonese/Mandarin)/Spanish Key Cast: Teja, Shiva Varma, Kunal BORAT meets JACKASS Director: Wong Kar Wai Sharma shockumentary: Competitors risk their Writer: Wong Kar Wai Delivery Status: Completed G-MACHINE, INC. lives, lose their self respect and break the G-Machine, Inc., 11693 San Vicente Executive Producer: Chan Ye-Cheng Year of Production: 2010 Country of law in hilarious and dangerous stunts for Blvd. No. 248, Los Angeles, CA 90049 Producer: Wong Kar Wai Origin: USA big cash prizes. USA, Tel: 1.310.713.7486. Key Cast: Kwong-Wing (Ho Po-wing), A group of young teens have 7 days to ZMD: ZOMBIES OF MASS www.thegmachineinc.com, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (Lai Yiu-fai), produce the greatest movie ever and DESTRUCTION [email protected] Chang Chen (Chang) instead cause an embarrassment for Horror/Comedy (92 min) Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor Delivery Status: Completed family and friends. Language: English At Cannes: Ron Gell (President & CEO), Year of Production: 1997 Country of MYSTERY TEAM Director: Kevin Hamedani Cynthia Marquoit (Chairman) Origin: Hong Kong Comedy (105 min) Writer: Ramon Isao, Kevin Hamedani Office: The Carlton, Tel: 310.713.7486 Lovers who are happy together are all Language: English Producer: John Sino the same. Lovers whose relationships fall Director: Dan Eckman Key Cast: Janette Armand, Doug Fahl, http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1105 apart are all different, unique in the ways Writer: Donald Glover, DC Pierson, Cooper Hopkins they inflict emotional tortures on Dominic Dierkes Delivery Status: Completed PETER & VANDY themselves and each other. Lai Yiu-Fai Producer: Meggie McFadden Year of Production: 2009 Country of Drama (95 min) (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Ho Po-Wing Key Cast: Donald Glover, DC Pierson, Origin: USA Language: English (Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing) were in Dominic Dierkes In the style of "Zombieland", a zomedy Director: Jay DiPietro love when they arrived in Argentina Delivery Status: Completed where terrorists are blamed for Writer: Jay DiPietro from Hong Kong. But something went Year of Production: 2009 Country of unleashing weapons of mass destruction Producer: Peter Sterling, Austin Stark wrong while they were driving south in Origin: USA - Zombies! Benji Kohn search of adventure... Derick Comedy take their internet Key Cast: Jason Ritter, Jess Weixler PONTYPOOL stardom to the big screen as three teen Horror/Thriller (95 min) Delivery Status: Completed detectives with zero intelligence and one Language: English Country of Origin: USA FORWARD MOTION big murder. Their internet web hits are in Director: Bruce McDonald 'Peter and Vandy' is a love story told out Forward Motion, 24 Doddington Dr., the millions. Writer: Tony Burgess of order. Set in Manhattan, the story Toronto, Ontario M8Y 1S4 Canada, Tel: CONTAGION Producer: Jeffrey Coghlan, Ambrose shifts back and forth in time, juxtaposing +1.416.454.9077. Sci Fi (90 min) Roche, J. Miles Dale Peter and Vandy's romantic beginnings www.forwardmotionent.com, Language: English Key Cast: Stephen McHattie, Lisa with the twisted, manipulative, regular [email protected] Director: John Lechago couple they become. The film explores Sales Agent Houle, Georgina Reilly Writer: John Lechago the question most couples ask At Cannes: Paco Alvarez (President) Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Vincent Biliancio, Tai Chan themselves... 'How the hell did we get Office: Riviera, Stand #: C19, Tel: Year of Production: 2008 Country of Ngo this way?' +33(0)4.92.99.33.28 Origin: Canada Key Cast: Victoria DeMare, Vincent A virus spread through talking P.V.C. - 1 Bilancio, Ronnie Lewis Thriller (85 min) http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=66 annihilates a small town, leaving the Delivery Status: Completed remaining few with only two options: Language: Spanish w/ Subtitles English Year of Production: 2009 Country of “Shut up or die.” Director: Spiros Stathoulopoulos BLACK GOLD: STRUGGLE FOR Origin: USA Writer: Dwight Istanbulian & Spiros FOR MY FATHER THE NIGER DELTA A bio-genetic mutation is stolen from a Stathoulopoulos Drama / Thriller (93 min) Drama/ Romance (98 min) lab that spawns a hideous shape shifting Producer: Jace Hall, Spiros Language: English Language: Heberew, Arabic alien. Stathoulopoulos Director: Jeta Amata Director: Dror Zahavi Key Cast: Merida Urquia, Daniel Paez, Writer: Jeta Amata ANGELS WITH ANGLES Writer: Ido Dror, Yonatan Dror Comedy (87 min) Alberto Sornoza Producer: Jeta Amata, Wilson Ebiye, Co-Production Partners: Relevant Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Captain Hosa Okunbo, Ori Ayonmike Produktion, Israfilm, Spring Hill Director: Scott Edmund Lane Country of Origin: USA/Columbia Key Cast: Billy Zane, Mbong Amata, Entertainment Writer: Scott Edmund Lane, Mark Pietri Shot in real time and one continuous Vivica A. Fox Producer: Heike Wiehle-Timm, Zvi Producer: Scott Edmund Lane, Paul take, PVC-1 is based on the true story of Delivery Status: Completed Spielmann Greenberg, Melissa Wegman a woman who is turned into a human Year of Production: 2011 Country of Key Cast: Hili Yalon, Shredi Jabarin, Delivery Status: Completed time bomb in an act of terrorism. Origin: Nigeria / USA Shlomo Vishinsky Year of Production: USA One local Niger Delta community's Delivery Status: Completed PALO ALTO Rodney Dangerfield plays God in his last Comedy, Drama (100 min) struggle against their own government Year of Production: 2008 Country of on screen performance. George Gorshin Language: English and a multi-national oil corporation who Origin: Germany / Israel plays the role of George Burns, a cigar Director: Brad Leong has plundered their land and destroyed Love distracts a young man from smoking angel complaining about Writer: Brad Leong, Tony Vallone the environment. fulfilling an obligation to save his heaven. Producer: Daniel Engelhardt THIS IS NOT AN AMERICAN father's honor. HUNGRY HILLS Key Cast: Tom Arnold, Aaron Ashmore, MOVIE Period Drama (92 min) SIX REASONS WHY Eve Brent, Hailey Bright, Shoshana Comedy / Gangster (90 min) Western (90 min) Language: English Bush, Christina DeRosa, Ryan Hansen, Language: English Language: English Director: Rob King Robin Hines Director: Sasho Pavlovski Director: The Campagna Brothers Writer: Gary Fisher Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Pavel Jech Writer: The Campagna Brothers Producer: Rhonda Baker, Avi Country of Origin: USA Producer: Dejan Iliev, Dejan Dimeski, Producer: The Campagna Brothers Federgreen, Gary Fisher On their last night of Thanksgiving Sasho Pavlovski Key Cast: Colm Feore, Dan Wooster, Key Cast: Keir Gilchrist, Alexander De break, four old friends, now all college Key Cast: Senko Velinov, Tanya Mickov, Christopher Harrison, Mads Koudal Jordy, Alexia Fast freshmen, realize their small town has Ky Evans Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed more meaning than they ever imagined. Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2008 Country of Year of Production: 2009 Country of Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Canada LORD, SAVE US FROM YOUR Origin: Canada Origin: Macedonia In the style of "El Mariachi", one man FOLLOWERS Two teens take a stand against the law Documentary Feature (100 min) A dying crime boss makes his last and stands against the bloodthirsty and become men. Language: English biggest heist to look like a Hollywood gunslingers that terrorize the lawless Director: Dan Merchant production, lots of guns and special MIDGETS VS. MASCOTS west. Shocumentary (90 min) Writer: Dan Merchant effects, but This Is Not An American Language: English Producer: Jeff Martin, Jon Manning, Dan Movie. Director: Ron Carlson Merchant 7 DAYS IN SLOW MOTION Key Cast: Bill Maher, Bono, George W. Family (100 min) Writer: Kevin Andounian Bush, Tony Campolo, Stephen Colbert, Language: English Producer: Brad Keller, Joey Stewart Ann Coulter Director: Umakanth Thumrugoti Key Cast: Gary Coleman, Jason Meyews, Ron Jeremy Delivery Status: Screening

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Country of Origin: USA Radical Islam to Western civilization. Director: Douglas Elford-Argent intend to put through his skull… The humorous, provocative and moving Using unique footage from Arab Writer: Douglas Elford-Argent ANNE FONTAINE’S PROJECT examination of the Culture Wars and television, it reveals an 'insider's view' of Producer: Douglas Elford-Argent, Tedd Romance faith in America. Featuring interviews the hatred the Radicals are teaching, their Willet Director: Anne Fontaine from all sides of the issues, the film is a incitement of global jihad, and their goal Key Cast: Gwendolyn Garver, Kristian Co-Production Partners: CINE@, MON balanced, challenging and entertaining of world domination. The film also Capalik, Cal Thomas VOISIN PRODUCTION, HOPSCOTCH foray into the most divisive and difficult traces the parallels between the Nazi Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, topics in our culture. movement of World War II, the Radicals Country of Origin: USA Xavier Samuel, James Frecheville ROMAN of today, and the Western world's Seven years after Christy Dawson loses Delivery Status: Screening Horror (92 min) response to both threats. Featuring her father, she begins having dreams A gripping tale of love, lust and the Language: English interviews with Daniel Pipes, Steve about him. What she doesn't know is that power of friendship, that charts the Director: Angela Bettis Emerson, Alan Dershowitz, a former she is beginning her future as a Dreamer. unconventional and passionate affairs Writer: Lucky McKee PLO terrorist, and a former Hitler Youth When her dreams begin to become embarked on by two lifelong friends, Lil Producer: Chris Wayne, Steve Copeland, Commander reality, Christy seeks the help of Kyle and Roz, who fall in love with each Jonathan Serota STEALING MARTIN LANE Walker, but soon loses her trust for him other’s sons. Afraid of facing the ire and Key Cast: Kristen Bell, Lucky McKee, Drama - Comedy (95 min) when he can't explain why he was found judgement of their insular seaside Nectar Rose Language: English at two crime scenes. The Police arrest community, the two affairs continue over Delivery Status: Completed Director: James Furino Kyle and hold him at the jail. Forced to the years in secret, until their discovery Country of Origin: USA Writer: James Furino learn more alone, she soon discovers the threatens to tear apart the two lives and Roman (Lucky McKee) is a lonely Producer: Larry Mitchell truth and goes back to the only person families of the young men, who must young man who yearns to find love, Key Cast: Dylan Baker, Isiah Whitlock, who will listen to her. eventually choose between a well-worn happiness and companionship. Jr. James Furino path, or following their true desires. Tormented by his ungrateful co-workers Delivery Status: Completed THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS and trapped in a life of tedium as a Country of Origin: USA GAUMONT SPIVET welder in a local factory, Roman's one Inspired by true events, Stealing Martin Gaumont, 30, Avenue Charles de Gaulle, Emotional journey pleasure is his obsession with the elusive Lane offers a window into the life of a 92200 Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France, Tel: Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet beauty (Kristen Bell) who lives in the disarmingly insightful homeless man, 33.1.46.43.21.80 Fax: 33.1.46.43.20.33. Co-Production Partners: GAUMONT, apartment in his building complex. When Harold "Chopper" Jones, who is trying to www.gaumont.net, [email protected] EPITHETE FILMS, TAPIOCA FILMS At Cannes: Cecile GAGET (Head of a chance encounter with the young turn his life around. This dramatic Key Cast: TBA International Sales), Yohann COMTE woman goes horribly wrong, a moment comedy, set against the gritty backdrop Delivery Status: Pre-Production (Deputy Head of Sales), Adeline of frenzied desperation triggers a chilling of the streets of New York City, tells a T.S. Spivet lives on a ranch in Montana FALAMPIN (International Sales turn of events leading to murder. As he poignant tale of friendship, hope, and with his mother, who is obsessed with Manager) teeters between deranged fantasy and making a difference in another person's beetle morphology, his cowboy father, Office: 2 rue Bivouac Napoleon, 4th cold reality, Roman's struggle to hide his life. who was born 100 years too late, and his Floor, Tel: +33.4.93.68.90.20 grisly secret is further complicated by an HOMELAND 14 year old sister, who dreams of being eccentric neighbor (Nectar Rose) who Romantic Drama (93 minutes) Miss America. T.S. is a 12 year old child http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1301 develops an unlikely attraction to Roman Language: English prodigy with a passion for cartography and forces herself into his dark and Director: Michael Eldridge and scientific inventions. One day he tortured world. Writer: Brad Rothschild PORN IN THE HOOD receives an unexpected call from the Producer: Brad Rothschild, Michael AKA: LES KAIRA Smithsonian announcing he has won the OBSESSION: RADICAL ISLAM'S Comedy Eldridge, Steven Moskovic Baird award for the discovery of the WAR AGAINST THE WEST Director: Franck Gastambide Documentary (95 minutes) Key Cast: Max Rhyser, Yifat Sharabi perpetual motion machine, and is invited Co-Production Partners: GAUMONT / Language: English Delivery Status: Completed to make a speech. Unbeknownst to all, MANDARIN CINEMA / SAVE FERRIS Director: Wayne Kopping Country of Origin: USA he decides to head for Washington D.C. Key Cast: Franck Gastambide, Medi Writer: Raphael Shore, Wayne Kopping The amazing love story of an young crossing the United States on a freight Sadoun, Jib Pocthier, Katsuni Producer: Peter Mier, Raphael Shore couple in New York City, an Israeli train... but no one at the Smithsonian has Delivery Status: Screening Key Cast: Alan Dershowitz, Brigitte young man and a Palestinian girl and the any idea that he is only a child... Gabriel, Martin Gilbert history that tries to keep them apart. Mousten, Abdelkrim and Momo are three CAMILLE REWINDS Delivery Status: Completed childhood friends who have always lived AFTERTHOUGHT in the slums of Melun. All three wear AKA: CAMILLE REDOUBLE Country of Origin: USA Horror (85 min) Comedy drama baseball caps and gym shoes, and all Obsession is a film about the threat of Language: English Director: Noémie Lvovsky three have the same problem: they are Co-Production Partners: GAUMONT, F desperately single and spend their days COMME FILMS, CINE-@, France 2 watching life go by, unmotivated and CINEMA with no ambition. And then one day they CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Key Cast: Noémie Lvovsky, Samir discover a classified ad in a porn Guesmi, India Hair, Judith Chemla HE LICK AND CCESS ULTURE IS OW magazine, announcing auditions to T C A C N Delivery Status: Post Production become a porn star. Hard up for women Camille was sixteen years-old when she & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. and cash, they decide to go for what met Eric. They fell madly in love and sounds like the best job in the world. had a daughter… 25 years later: Eric is This attempt becomes a journey of leaving Camille for a younger woman. discovery and the greatest adventure of That’s New Year’s Eve, and Camille their lives. Click on suddenly finds herself back in her past. PUSHER She is sixteen again and has returned to Thriller her parents, her girlfriends, her Blue Boxes Director: Luis Prieto childhood… and Eric. Will she flee and Co-Production Partners: EMBARGO try to change the course of their lives? to Access FILMS, VERTIGO FILMS Will she fall in love with him again, Key Cast: Richard Coyle, Agyness Deyn even though she knows how their story Available Delivery Status: Screening will end? As edgy and explosive as Nicolas Company Winding Refn’s 1996 cult classic, this THE DANDELIONS English language remake sees a small AKA: DU VENT DANS MES Trailers time London drug dealer descend into MOLLETS Comedy drama debt hell following a spot of bad luck Director: Carine Tardieu Automatically and a series of bad choices. The more desperate his behaviour gets the more Co-Production Partners: GAUMONT, isolated he becomes until there is KARE PRODUCTIONS, DIRECT Do Your Part To nothing left standing between him and PRODUCTIONS the nine millimetre bullet his debtors Key Cast: Agnès Jaoui, Denis Podalydès, Combat Global Warming Isabelle Carré, Isabella Rossellini

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Delivery Status: Post Production CHEERFUL WEATHER FOR THE focusing on an American fighting to save YUGO AND LALA Rachel Gladstein is nine years old. Her WEDDING thousands of Iraqis whose lives are in AKA: YU GUO HE LA LA: SHEN MI mother smothers her with love. Her Romantic Drama (90 min) danger because they worked for the U.S. SHI JIE father is cheerfully cynical and her Language: English STOLEN SEAS CGI-Animation (86 min) grandmother adorably treacherous. Director: Donald Rice Documentary (84 min) Language: Mandarin Rachel dreams of being loved by her Writer: Donald Rice & Mary Henely Language: English Director: Wang Yun-fei nasty blond teacher, of being accepted Magill, adapted from the acclaimed Director: Thymaya Payne Writer: Wang Yun-fei into the Barbie Fan Club and becoming novel by Julia Strachey Writer: Mark Monroe Co-Production Partners: Beijing the only friend of Marina Campbell, Producer: Teun Hilte Producer: Andrew Walker, Heather Cheerland Film & TV Cultural whose mother is dead and whose father Key Cast: Felicity Jones (Chalet Girl, Phenix Communication Co., Ltd is an English baron. But it’s back to Like Crazy), Luke Treadaway (Attack Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Yuan Mei school and Rachel is sleeping with her the Block, Clash of the Titans), Elizabeth Year of Production: 2011 Country of Delivery Status: Post Production schoolbag and wetting the bed. Her McGovern (Emmy Award-winning series Origin: USA Year of Production: 2012 Country of mother insists on her going into therapy Downton Abbey) Stolen Seas presents a chilling Origin: China / Hong Kong with a most unusual psychiatrist and, to Delivery Status: Screening exploration of the Somali pirate Yugo meets a white "liger" - half lion, make things worse, obnoxious and Year of Production: 2011 Country of phenomenon and forces you to rethink half tiger - who introduces itself as Lala. chubby Valerie has set her sights on Origin: UK everything you thought you knew about Shocked that she can understand the Rachel and is pestering her to become Today is Dolly's wedding, and her family pirates. animal's language, Yugo chases Lala up a her friend. When fate is picking on you, is arriving at the manor house with all HUMAN TOWER mountain where a giant Cloud Whale what’s the use of fighting back?... the cheerfulness, chaos and petty Documentary (75 min) swallows them whole. Inside its stomach grievances that bubble to the surface at Director: RAM DEVINENI AND CANO there are many different creatures, all such gatherings. However, when the time ROJAS excitedly being transported to Animal GLOBAL CREATIVE comes for the beautiful but secretive Producer: RAM DEVINENI AND Paradise where only 99 chosen ones are bride to make her grand entrance, the CANO ROJAS admitted every ten years. But human AND MEDIA AGENCY appearance of Dolly's lover from a Global Creative and Media Agency, 125, Delivery Status: Completed beings are forbidden in the kingdom; any previous summer cuts short her desire to Jalan KIP 8 Taman Perindustrian KIP, Year of Production: 2011 Country of that stay for more than 3 days will be join in the festivities and embark on her Sri Damansara, Kuala Lumpur 52200 Origin: USA transformed into an animal. Yugo seeks new life with her new husband in South Malaysia, Tel: +603 6272 8818 Fax: Three hundred bodies in Chile, Spain help from Uncle Bear to find the way America. +603 6272 7863. and India climbing to reach the sky to home. As time is about to run out, Yugo www.gcma.tv,[email protected] PRIVATE PEACEFUL build a human tower — all for a touch of and Lala uncover Tiger General's plot to Agent Family Drama (100 min) glory. open a magical portal and turn every At Cannes: Adam Ham (Executive Language: English human being in the world into an animal. BROOKLYN BOHEME Director), Andrea Lok (Marketing Director: Pat O'Connor (Dancing at Documentary (74 min) As Yugo's friends are transformed into Communications Manager) Lughnasa, Circle of Friends, A Month in Language: English animals, she desperately finds a way to Office: Booth #05.20 the Country) Director: Diana Paragas, Nelson George destroy the gateway only to discover that Writer: Simon Reade, based on the Producer: Diana Paragas, Nelson her friend Lala is the portal... highly-acclaimed, award-winning novel George, Nick Quested A CHERRY ON A http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1307 of the same name by Michael Morpurgo Key Cast: Spike Lee, Branford Marsalis, POMEGRANATE TREE (internationally renowned writer of the Chris Rock AKA: SHI LIU SHU SHANG JIE multi-award winning WAR HORSE) Delivery Status: Completed YING TAO Producer: Guy De Beaujeu, Simon GOLDCREST FILMS Year of Production: 2011 Country of Drama (89 min) Reade Origin: USA Language: Mandarin INTERNATIONAL Key Cast: George Mackay (The Boys are An intimate portrait of the black arts Director: Chen Li Goldcrest Films International, 65-66 Back, Birdsong), Jack O'Connell (This is movement that exploded in Brooklyn, Writer: Gootime Motion Picture Studios Dean St, London, W1D 4PL UK, Tel: England, Skins), Alexandra Roach (The New York from the mid 1980s through Co-Production Partners: Gootime +44.207.437.8696 Fax: Iron Lady), Richard Griffiths (The +44.207.437.4448. the 90s Cultural Communication Co., Ltd. History Boys, Harry Potter), Frances de Producer: Li Rui www.goldcrestfilms.com, la Tour (Harry Potter and the Deathly DOIN IT IN THE PARK Documentary (85 min) Key Cast: Shi Chun-ling, Ning Li, Miao [email protected] Hallows: Part 1), Maxine Peake Language: English Ting-ru Sales Agent (Shameless, Red Riding, Silk) Director: Bobbito Garcia, Kevin Couliau Delivery Status: Post Production Office: La Bagatelle, Penthouse Delivery Status: Screening Producer: Bobbito Garcia, Kevin Year of Production: 2012 Country of Apartment, 25 La Croisette, Cannes, Year of Production: 2011 Country of Couliau, Thibaut de Longeville Origin: China 06400, Tel: +33.4.93.68.59.64 Origin: UK Delivery Status: Completed Guanzhuang Village's Kong Fanhua will From the writer of War Horse. Brothers http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1023 Year of Production: 2011 Country of stop at nothing to maintain her position Charlie and Tommo’s idyllic existence is Origin: USA as village head. First she orders her turned upside down when they both fall THE GIRL In New York, pick-up basketball is not husband back from his job in a coastal for the beautiful Molly. Drama (90 min) just a sport but a way of life. The film city to visibly support her in the Language: English - Spanish BURN upcoming elections. Then she visits the Documentary (85 min) explores the definition, history and Director: David Riker (Writer/ Director culture, of street basketball. village's power brokers and young of the award winning La Ciudad) Language: English upstarts one-by-one so as to keep them Writer: David Riker Director: TOM PUTNAM & BRENNA under her control by fair means or foul. Co-Production Partners: Christian Val SANCHEZ GOLDEN NETWORK But when a villager goes missing - a Delievre (Sex, Shame & Tears), Tania Writer: TOM PUTNAM & BRENNA woman who broke the family planning SANCHEZ Zarak ASIA LIMITED policy when she became pregnant with a Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Paul Mezey (Maria Full of Golden Network Asia Limited, Unit third child - the chaos that ensues Year of Production: 2012 Country of Grace, Half Nelson) 1508, Nanyang Plaza, 57 Hung To Road, transforms the power dynamics in the Origin: USA Key Cast: Abbie Cornish (Sicker Punch, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong PRC, Tel: village and creates the opportunity for a With footage shot by the firefighters Limitless, W.E.), Will Patton (A Mighty 852.2751.1886 Fax: 852.2750.4862. new candidate to emerge. Kong meets themselves this is a year at the heart of [email protected] Heart, Remember the Titans, her greatest challenge yet in the form of the most overworked and underequipped Sales Agent Entrapment) Meng Xiaohong, the young woman firehouse in the USA. At Cannes: Carrie Wong (Managing Delivery Status: Completed whom Kong trained up and once Director), Clarence Tang (Head of Sales Year of Production: 2011 Country of THE LIST considered her successor. Meng proves Documentary (83 min) and Acquisitions), Andree Sham (Senior Origin: USA/Mexico herself a worthy competitor by coming Language: English Sales and Marketing Executive), Candy having lost custody of her son, a up with innovative solutions to the many Director: Beth Murphy, Sean Flynn Chik (Sales and Marketing Assistant), desperate young mother makes an ill- complex issues facing the village. Producer: Beth Murphy Fay Zhang (Sales and Marketing Assistant) conceived attempt to smuggle a group of Adapted from Li Er's celebrated and Delivery Status: Completed Office: Riviera E.19, Tel: Mexican migrant workers across the controversial novel. border. Year of Production: 2011 Country of +852.6848.3887 / +852.9424.5010 Origin: USA A contemporary Oskar Schindler story http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=140

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THE KICK Origin: USA AKA: THINGS FALL APART Action / Comedy (94 min) H After an unfortunate event, a young Inspirational Drama (111 minutes) Language: Korean, Thai man’s life is completely changed leaving Language: English Director: Prachya Pinkaew him unable to pursue his dreams, until Director: Mario Van Peebles Writer: Lee Jong-suk HANNIBAL fifteen years later, when he is given a Writer: Curtis Jackson, Brian Miller Co-Production Partners: The Kick chance to go back and change history. Co-Production Partners: Cheetah Vision Company, Inc. & Bangkok Filmstudio CLASSICS SETUP Films Producer: Kang Sung-Kyu, Sangar Hannibal Classics, 8265 Sunset Blvd., Action (85 Minutes) Executive Producer: Patricia Eberle, Chatchairungruang Suite 106, West Hollywood, CA 90046 Language: English Richard Rionda Del Castro, Anthony Key Cast: Taejoo, K Kim, Jija Yanin USA, Tel: 1.323.848.2945 Fax: Director: Mike Gunther Gudas, Michael Corso Mitananda 1.323.848.2946. Writer: Mike Gunther, Mike Behrman Producer: Curtis Delivery Status: Completed www.hannibalclassics.com, Co-Production Partners: Cheetah Vision Key Cast: Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Ray Year of Production: 2011 Country of [email protected] Films, Emmett Furla Films Liotta, Mario Van Peebles, Lynn Sales Agent Origin: S. Korea, Thailand Executive Producer: Rick Jackson, Whitfield At Cannes: Richard Rionda Del Castro Moon's family are masters in different Fredrik Malmberg, Daniel Wagner, Delivery Status: Completed (Chairman & CEO), Patricia Rionda Del styles of Taekwondo: Yoon in cooking Anthony Gudas, Michael Corso, Brandt Year of Production: 2010 Country of Castro (President) style, Taeyang in dancing style, Taemi in Andersen, Martin Blencowe, Ted Fox, Origin: USA Office: Tel: 323.848.2945 Fax: soccer style and youngest Typhoon can Peter Benz, Mike Rapp, Richard Rionda Inspirational sports drama centering on a 323.848.2946 break anything with his steely forehead. Del Castro, Patricia Eberle, Barry remarkable football talent who becomes When Typhoon is kidnapped, his whole Brooker, Stan Wertlieb a better person when his athletic career is family of martial artists must steal a Thai http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1339 Producer: Randall Emmett, Curtis suddenly jeopardized. national treasure to secure his freedom. Jackson, George Furla THE BIG BANG TOKAREV Key Cast: Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Action (101 minutes) THE SWORD IDENTITY Action Bruce Willis, Ryan Phillippe, Randy Language: English AKA: WO KOU DE ZONG JI Language: English Couture Director: Tony Krantz Martial Arts (110 min) Director: TBA Language: Mandarin Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Erik Jendresen Writer: Jim Agnew & Sean Keller Year of Production: 2010 Country of Co-Production Partners: The Big Bang Director: Xu Hao-feng Executive Producer: Patricia Eberle, Jim Writer: Xu Hao-feng Origin: USA Production Inc., Flame Ventures, North Agnew, Sean Keller Longtime friends Sonny, Vincent, and Co-Production Partners: Gootime By Northwest Entertainment Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro Dave grew up on the mean streets of Cultural Communication Co., Ltd. Executive Producer: Rich Cowan, Key Cast: Nicolas Cage Detroit, destined for a life of crime. After Producer: Li Rui Richard Salvatore, Patricia Eberle, Delivery Status: Pre-Production a successful but bloody diamond Key Cast: Yu Cheng-hui, Song Yang, Cassian Elwes, Gary Howsam, Lewin Year of Production: 2012 Country of robbery, Vincent turns on his friends, Zhao Yuan-yuan Webb, Ross Dinerstein Origin: USA shooting them and leaving them for Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Tony Krantz, Richard Rionda A reformed criminal comes home to find dead. But Sonny isn’t dead, and when he Del Castro, Erik Jendresen Year of Production: 2011 Country of that his daughter has been kidnapped by recovers, he scours the criminal Key Cast: Antonio Banderas, Thomas Origin: China the Russian mob. He rounds up his old underworld, hell bent on revenge. Kretschmann, William Fichtner, Sienna Once upon a time in the Southern crew and seeks his own brand of justice. Guillory, Autumn Reeser, Snoop Dogg, Chinese city of Guancheng, there lived SLEIGHT OF HAND Delroy Lindo, Sam Elliott four families, each of them faithful Action/Comedy HANNIBAL Delivery Status: Completed keepers of martial arts. Anyone who Language: English Year of Production: 2009 Country of wanted to establish a new school, or a PICTURES Director: Brad Mirman Origin: USA new form of kung fu, had to fight his Hannibal Pictures, 8265 Sunset Blvd., Writer: Brad Mirman A tough investigator is hired to find a way through the family¡¯s gates. Two Suite 107, West Hollywood, CA 90046 Executive Producer: Patricia Eberle, missing stripper, but is taken into the swordsmen enter the city to request a USA, Tel: 1.323.848.2945 Fax: Johnny Martin, Cam Cannon, Hayley custody of three cops when everyone he competition and start their own school, 1.323.848.2946. Magouirk, Fredrik Malmberg, Daniel questions ends up dead. He recounts the their strange new weapons are mistaken www.hannibalpictures.com, Wagner events that led to his abduction, which for Japanese swords and therefore Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro, [email protected] Sales Agent involve a brutal Russian boxer, a sexy forbidden by purist Chinese masters as a Richard Salvatore, Dave Ornston At Cannes: Richard Rionda Del Castro waitress, and a megalomaniacal foreign fighting device. They are accused Key Cast: Ray Liotta, Christian Slater, (Chairman & CEO), Patricia Rionda Del billionaire looking for The Big Bang. of being Japanese pirates by the masters Ving Rhames, Thomas Jane, Anthony Castro (President), Hayley Magouirk The solution to the mystery will cost ten of the martial arts schools. Facing arrest, Anderson, Peter Stormare, Jon Lovitz (Vice President), Pamela Popp (Director lives, net $30 million, and just might the swordsmen must prove the value of Delivery Status: Pre-Production of Business Affairs), Cam Cannon explain – well – everything. swordsmanship by defeating the masters Year of Production: 2010 Country of (Director of Development) Origin: USA CASINO JACK and a living legend who has returned Office: Tel: 323.848.2945 Fax: A trio of blue collar working stiffs end AKA: BAGMAN from exile in the mountains. 323.848.2946 Thriller (108 Minutes) BANGKOK KUNG FU up in possession of a rare gold coin that Language: English Action/Adventure (107 minutes) belongs to a notorious gangster. When http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1338 Director: George Hickenlooper Language: Thai they lose the coin, the gangster gives Writer: Norman Snider Director: Yuthlert Sippapak them six days to find it or pay him what Co-Production Partners: Bagman (2009) it’s worth. REPEATER Writer: Yuthlert Sippapak Action Inc. Co-Production Partners: RS Public Co., TOUCHBACK Language: English Executive Producer: Richard Rionda Del Family (122 Minutes) Ltd. Director: R. Ellis Frazier Castro, Lewin Webb, Dana Brunetti, Language: English Producer: Yuthlert Sippapak Writer: R. Ellis Frazier, Benjamin Budde Patricia Eberle, Oscar Generale, Warren Director: Don Handfield Key Cast: Mario Maurer, Arak Executive Producer: Patricia Eberle, Nimchuk, Angelo Paletta, Donald Writer: Don Handfield Amornsupasiri, Sucharat Manaying Hayley Magouirk, Cam Cannon Zuckerman, Domenic Serafino Co-Production Partners: Freedom Films Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro, Producer: Gary Howsam Independent, LLC Year of Production: 2011 Country of Geoffrey Ross, Johnny Martin Key Cast: Kevin Spacey, Barry Pepper, Executive Producer: George Furla, Origin: Thailand Key Cast: Michael Jai White, Dolph Kelly Preston, Jon Lovitz, Rachelle Randall Emmett, Alexandria Klipstein, Four young boys are stolen from their Lundgren, Vinnie Jones LeFevre Patricia Eberle, Richard Rionda Del families. Handicapped by their Delivery Status: Pre-Production Delivery Status: Completed Castro, Shannon Gardner, Derek kidnappers, they are forced to become Year of Production: 2012 Country of Year of Production: 2009 Country of Beumer, Michael Corso, Anthony Gudas, beggars on the street. However, they Origin: USA Origin: Canada Paul Ross, Tony Stacy manage to escape and are taught Shaolin An expert assassin is hired to track down A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and Producer: Brian Presley, Carissa Buffel, Kung Fu by a master together with a a notorious hacker who has leaked his protégé go down hard as their Kevin Matusow young girl. When the five children have information about global governments schemes to peddle influence lead to Key Cast: Brian Presley, Kurt Russell, grown up, they must reunite again to and corporations, but finds himself a corruption and murder. Based on a true Melanie Lynskey, Christine Lahti fight for justice and stop the man who target in the aftermath of the job. story. Delivery Status: Completed has killed their master. Year of Production: 2010 Country of ALL THINGS FALL APART GUN Action (82 Minutes)

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PIRATE BROTHERS – MULTIVISIONAIRE Language: English Oliver, Erik Anderson have been kidnapped. Inspector Enzo real history of the 20th century. Director: Jessy Terrero Key Cast: Thomas Jane, Ving Rhames, Avolfi fears it’s worse. They team up to Fascinating art historian Lord Steinway Writer: Curtis Elsa Pataky, French Stewart, Leland rescue her from a sadistic killer known leads you through the odyessy. Co-Production Partners: Cheetah Vision Orser, Chris Yen, William Abadie, only as Yellow. GERMAN SONS Films, Emmett Furla Films Gregory Harrison, Doug Hutchison Documentary Executive Producer: Patricia Eberle, Delivery Status: Completed HARD DRIVE Language: English Richard Rionda Del Castro, Anthony Year of Production: 2008 Country of Director: Philippe Mora Gudas, Peter Graham, Stephen Hays, Origin: USA PICTURES Writer: Philippe Mora & Harald Hard Drive Pictures, 1400 North Richard Jackson A tough private eye takes a job retrieving Grosskopf Havenhurst Drive, Los Angeles, CA Producer: Randall Emmett, Curtis a case containing a mysterious secret. Producer: Philippe Mora & Harald 90046, Tel: 1.323.650.1940. Jackson, George Furla Bullets, fists, and blood fly as he fights Grosskopf [email protected] Key Cast: Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Val through an army of thugs to protect the Producer At Cannes: Philippe Mora (President) Delivery Status: Completed Kilmer secret. Office: C/O Steve Arroyave, Arrow Year of Production: 2011 Delivery Status: Completed GIALLO Entertainment The documentary about artists Harald Year of Production: 2009 Country of Thriller (92 Minutes) Grosskopf and Philippe Mora, and how

Origin: USA Language: English http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1182 their friendship reconciled their opposite Gritty action thriller about a determined Director: Dario Argento German family histories. Grosskopf's Detroit police detective on a collision Writer: Jim Agnew, Sean Keller father was a Nazi Party member in the THE GERTRUDE STEIN MYSTERY course with a smart, tough arms dealer. Co-Production Partners: Giallo Wehrmacht and Mora's father was a OR SOME LIKE IT ART GIVE 'EM HELL MALONE Productions Limited Comedy docufiction Jewish Resistance fighter. Action (96 Minutes) Executive Producer: David Milner, Luis Language: English CONTINUITY Language: English De Val, Oscar Generale, Patricia Eberle, Director: Philippe Mora Comedy thriller (100 minutes) Director: Russell Mulcahy Martin McCourt, Lisa Lambert, Nesim Writer: Philippe Mora Language: English Writer: Mark Hosack Hason, Billy Dietrich, Donald A. Barton, Producer: Philippe Mora Director: Philippe Mora Co-Production Partners: Malone Claudio Argento Key Cast: Jonathan Ball, Rena Riffel, Writer: Philippe Mora Productions, Inc., North By Northwest Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro, Hoyt Richards, Bob Seideman, D.M Producer: Philippe Mora Entertainment Rafael Primorac, Adrien Brody Thomas, Sandy Lieberson, Lutz Becker Key Cast: Paul Clemens, Hoyt Richards, Executive Producer: Martin Barab, Key Cast: Adrien Brody, Emmanuelle Delivery Status: Completed Victoria Bullock, Rena Riffel,Philippe Patricia Eberle, Oscar Generale, Armand Seigner, Elsa Pataky Year of Production: 2011 Mora Speca, Rich Cowan, Walter Josten, Jeff Delivery Status: Completed News break: Gertrude Stein lived on into Geoffray Year of Production: 2008 Country of the 21st Century, changing events Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro, Origin: UK throughout her life on incredible secret Richard Salvatore, Johnny Martin, Brian In Italy, a woman fears her sister may missions. This film blows the lid off the

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Delivery Status: Post Production Michael Rapaport Delivery Status: Completed Clemente Year of Production: 2012 Country of Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2012 Country of Delivery Status: Post Production Origin: USA Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA Year of Production: 2011 Country of A rogue intelligence group send remote Origin: USA For decades, Pennhurst psychiatric Origin: Canada viewers back to 33AD to try and prove Celeste (Eva Longoria) hires three, gun- hospital has been haunted by turbulent From a small town in Iran, a young Leila that God exists. happy, outlaw brothers to get her godson supernatural forces. When a local TV rises up to teach her world about THE SURREALIST back from Carlos (Billy Bob Thornton), show embarks on a mission to capture acceptance and rekindles a lost love Fantasy her drug-dealer ex-husband. But, Carlos this paranormal activity, they discover along the way. Language: English isn't giving up the boy or the boy's something completely unexpected. As THE EXHIBITION Director: Philippe Mora inheritance without an all-out war. The restless souls from the past torment the Documentary (90 minutes) Writer: Philippe Mora brothers must fight sexy, bondage crew members, they fear for their lives Language: English Co-Production Partners: Column Pictures assassins, a group of crazy Native as one by one they are gruesomely Director: Damon Vignale Producer: Philippe Mora, Fred Bestall American hunters, and even a Federal murdered. In a surprising revelation, they Producer: Damon Vignale Delivery Status: Pre-Production Agent (Paul Wesley). Prepare yourself discover something more terrifying than Delivery Status: Post Production Year of Production: TBA Country of for a whip-ass extravaganza of non-stop the ghosts. A suspenseful nail-biting Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: TBA thrills and intense action from start to thriller about how certain things are Origin: Canada A fantasy exploration into the finish. better off left a mystery. Painter Pamela Masik shares her reasons imagination of Salvador Dali including REVENGE FOR JOLLY! FAT BALLERINA for immortalizing the 49 female victims his imaginary love affair with the Mona Comedy Comedy of serial killer Robert Pickton in her Lisa.To be filmed in 3D. Language: English Language: English artwork. Director: Chadd Harbold Director: Evan Greenberg DEADSVILLE Writer: Brian Petsos Writer: Evan Greenberg Horror (90 minutes) HIGHLAND FILM Producer: William Green, Aaron L. Producer: Dan Dubiecki Language: English Ginsburg, Atlas Independent Key Cast: Chloe Grace Moretz, Kristen Director: Thomas Newman GROUP Key Cast: Elijah Wood, Kristen Wiig, Bell, Bailee Madison Writer: Thomas Newman Highland Film Group, 9200 Sunset Blvd. Ryan Phillippe, Adam Brody, Oscar Delivery Status: Pre-Production Producer: Thomas Newman Suite 600, West Hollywood,CA 90069 Isaac, Gillian Jacobs, Kevin Corrigan, Year of Production: 2013 Country of Delivery Status: In Development USA, Tel: 1.310.271.8400 Fax: Garret Dillahunt, Kevin Corrigan, David Origin: USA Country of Origin: Canada 1.310.278.7500. Rasche A laugh-out-loud comedy starring When an evil sheriff leads the massacre www.highlandfilmgroup.com, Delivery Status: Post Production Kristen Bell and Chloe Grace Moretz of an Indian village they return from the [email protected] Sales Agent Year of Production: 2012 Country of about an ambitious, slightly overweight dead to seek justice. At Cannes: Arianne Fraser (CEO), Origin: USA ballerina with an overbearing mother BONG OF THE DEAD Delphine Perrier (Head of International REVENGE FOR JOLLY! follows a man who will stop at nothing to become a Horror (90 minutes) Sales), Maria Rogers (Director of (Brian Petsos) who, with the help of his star. Language: English International Sales) cousin (Oscar Isaac), seeks to avenge the SOMEDAY THIS PAIN WILL BE Director: Thomas Newman Office: Lerins - R6A, Tel: death of his beloved dog, who was killed USEFUL TO YOU Writer: Thomas Newman +33.07.87.72.10.15 (Arianne Fraser under confusing and suspicious Comedy (105 minutes) Producer: Thomas Newman mobile) Fax: 310.278.7500 circumstances. The two men follow a Language: English Key Cast: Mark Wynn, Simone Bally, Jy series of clues in an attempt to track Director: Roberto Faenza Harris

http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1349 down the dog's murderer, leaving a path Writer: Dahlia Heyman Delivery Status: Completed of destruction in their wake. Producer: Elda Ferri, Ron Stein Two stoners capitalize on a zombie Key Cast: Marcia Gay Harden, Lucy outbreak by harvesting bodies for THE BAYTOWN DISCO PENNHURST Action (98 minutes) Supernatural Thriller Liu, Deborah Ann Woll, Stephen Lang, marijuana fertilizer. Language: English Ellen Burstyn, Peter Gallagher, Toby Language: English NINJA'S CREED Director: Barry Battles Director: Michael Rooker Regbo Martial Arts (90 minutes) Writer: Barry Battles, Griffin Hood Writer: Joe Nelms Delivery Status: Completed Language: English Producer: Robert Teitel, William O. Producer: Jason Pinardo, Tom Rooker Year of Production: 2012 Country of Director: Babar Ahmed Perkins Key Cast: Haylie Duff, Beverley Origin: Italy Writer: Babar Ahmed Key Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Eva Mitchell, Michael Rooker, Amanda In this touching dramedy, Manhattan Producer: Babar Ahmed Longoria, Paul Wesley, Serinda Swan, Dunn, J. LaRose, Robb Pruitt, Jimmy teenager James Sveck (Toby Rego) plots Key Cast: Pat Morita, Eric Roberts, Travis Fimmel, Daniel Cudmore, Palumbo, Michael McKiddy escape from his bourgeois, middle-class Lalaine, Gail Kim life to small town Kansas. All the while, Delivery Status: Completed lying to his willfully self absorbed Year of Production: 2011 parents (Peter Gallagher and Marcia Gay A fierce assassin arrives in America to CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Harden) and well-meaning life coach kill a high school girl, the last living heir (Lucy Liu) about how excited he is to to a faraway kingdom. THE CLICK AND ACCESS CULTURE IS NOW head to Brown University in the fall. SHARKWISE & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. Documentary (90 minutes and 50 minutes) HORIZON MOTION Language: English PICTURES Director: Lieven Debrauwer Horizon Motion Pictures, 116 w. 6th Producer: Frank De Wulf, Marc Sluszny Click on avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V5Y 1k6 Key Cast: Marc Sluszny Canada, Tel: 1.604.638.4889 Fax: Delivery Status: Completed Blue Boxes 1.604.739.8835. Year of Production: 2011 Country of www.horizonmotionpictures.com, Origin: Belgium to Access [email protected] Extreme athlete and adventurer Marc Sales Agent Sluszny swims with sharks and shares Available At Cannes: Rob Straight (President) their hidden world. MUSIC FROM THE BIG HOUSE Company http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1328 Documentary (90 minutes) Language: English Trailers UNDER THE APPLE BOX Director: Bruce McDonald Drama (90 minutes) Producer: Erin Faith Young, Jennifer St. Automatically Language: English John Director: Ellie Fox Key Cast: Rita Chiarelli Writer: Ellie Fox Delivery Status: Completed Do Your Part To Producer: Kimberly Wakefield Year of Production: 2011 Country of Key Cast: Lorena Griffiths, Mike Origin: Canada Combat Global Warming maximumRita Chiarelli, an award-

52 The Business of Film CANNES MAY 2012 CANNES PRODUCT GUIDE winning recording artist, decides to take Moomin Valley - everything is grey; not PICTURES, COMING TO EAT YOU adventure from the past. Back in the Old a pilgrimage to the birthplace of the just the sky and the river, but the trees, AKA: Mondomanila World, he researches the origins of his blues—Louisiana State Maximum the ground, the Moominhouse, too! Mondo (69 mins) father and uncle, the famous Traum Security Penitentiary a.k.a Angola Moomintroll runs to ask the well-read Language: Filipino/English subtitled in brothers: Rudolf, a famous novelist, and Prison. Muskrat if he knows what is happening. English Samuel - once a notorious gangster in ONCE MORE WITH FEELING Muskrat declares that this is the way Director: Khavn De La Cruz Chicago. While traveling through Drama (90 minutes) things tend to look like before the earth Writer: Khavn, Norman Wilwayco Transylvania and Bucovina (former Language: English faces an awful fate coming from the Co-Production Partners: Filmless Films, Austro Hungarian Empire provinces) Director: Jeff Lipsky sky... With the help of his father, Kamias Road Robert meets Tanya, a Government Producer: Nick Huston, Paul Jarrett Moominpappa, Moomintroll and his Key Cast: Timothy Mabalot, Marife archivist. Together they find Sami, the Key Cast: Palminteri, Drea de Matteo, worried friends build the best raft ever Necesito, Palito last surviving family friend, a cinema Linda Fiorentino and start on a challenging journey to the Delivery Status: Completed projectionist who was chased out of his Year of Production: 2009 Country of observatory. The wise professors there Year of Production: 2010 Country of old movie theatre by a greedy local Origin: USA must know what the threat from space is Origin: Philippines/Germany politician. While Robert helps Sami win Sixty is the new Forty and Frank all about! The trek is not easy. The brave Beyond tragedy, planted firmly in the his theatre, Sami gives Robert his Gregorio and his daughter Lana are entourage, Moomintroll, Sniff and territories of madness, "Mondomanila" is identity back. having simultaneous mid-life crises. Snufkin face many obstacles, yet also not about a celebration of self- OUT LOUD STAINED meet new and old friends. But they make destruction, but simply a backyard full of LGBT (98 mins) Thriller (90 minutes) it to the observatory: the professor lovable fuckers. Language: Arabic with English subtitles Language: English calculates that a ferocious comet will WHEN THE DRAGON Director: Samer Daboul Director: Karen Lam reach the Earth in four days, four hours, SWALLOWED THE SUN: THE Writer: Samer Daboul Writer: Karen Lam four minutes and 44 seconds... HISTORY OF TIBET TOLD BY Producer: Abzurd Productions, Phoenix Producer: Karen Lam IRIS RICHARD GERE Eye Pictures Key Cast: Sonja Bennett, Tinsel Kory Drama (81 mins) Documentary (115 minutes) Key Cast: Rudy Moarbes, Ali Rhayem, Delivery Status: Completed Language: Swedish, with English Language: English/Tibetan Jad Hadid Year of Production: 2009 Country of subtitles Director: Dirk Simon Delivery Status: Completed Origin: Canada Director: Ulrika Bengts Writer: Dirk Simon, Kristen Riordan Year of Production: 2011 Country of A booksellers obsession with a former Writer: Annina Enckell, Mikael Co-Production Partners: Free Motion Origin: Lebanon lover threatens to unravel her Wahlforss Films OUT LOUD, a modern story of relationship with her adopted sister and Co-Production Partners: Långfilm Producer: Vanessa Philippe, Dennis friendship and love in different ways expose the deadly secret of their past. Productions Finland Oy Haysbert, Dirk Simon among upcoming Lebanese generation GHOSTS DON'T EXIST Key Cast: Magnus Krepper, Tobias Key Cast: Dalai Lama, Lhasang Tsering, facing social conflicts overcoming it and Horror (90 minutes) Zilliacus, Emmi Pesones Samdhong Rinpoche making their lives a better world. Young Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed heroes face tragedies that forever will Director: Eric Espejo Year of Production: 2011 Country of Year of Production: 2010 Country of change their lives. Jason and Nathalie Producer: Eric Espejo, Tanner Cooley, Origin: Finland | Sweden Origin: USA create new family of friends. Each Richard Friend, Aaron Goodmiller "Life doesn't have to be either-or, it can Unfortunately, the 14th Dalai Lama and becomes aware of personal struggles and Key Cast: Chris Cooley, Phillip Roebuck be both." A hauntingly beautiful and the Tibetan people receive little political overcomes it as inevitable outside threat Year of Production: 2011 Country of unusual coming-of-age tale, filmed on support in their drive to put an end to the remains. Out Loud, five young friends Origin: USA 35mm. The acting and directing matches Chinese brutal regime, as international and a woman in Lebanon take a bold A booksellers obsession with a former the high quality of the writing. Touching, governments are seemingly motivated by step towards revelation of mind and lover threatens to unravel her yet not overly emotional, it draws you in economic interests in China. The lack of heart. relationship with her adopted sister and from the first moment and transports you progress toward a free, or even a truly THE PRECINCT expose the deadly secret of their past. to 1890 with IRIS, who, abandoned by autonomous Tibet, urges more and more AKA: SAHE her artist mother, discovers the joys of young Tibetans to consider alternatives Mystery | Drama (116 mins) friendship and family on a remote to the Dalai Lama's Middle Way Policy, Language: Azerbaijani | Turkish | HOUSE OF FILM island.It's a story of the human condition a compromise on Tibet's Independence. Russian House of Film, 427 N. Canon Dr. Suite and how even deep prejudices can be The controversial discussion about the Director: Ilgar Safat #201, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA, overcome by the simple act of kindness right strategy for achieving a free Tibet - Writer: Ilgar Safat Tel: +1.818.647.0118 Fax: and the willingness to strive for non-violent or violent, autonomy or Key Cast: Midhat Aydinov, Farid +1.818.647.0118. individuality. complete independence - is becoming Bagirov, Zaza Bejashvili www.houseoffilm.com, SEAMONSTERS more emotionally charged day by day. Delivery Status: Completed [email protected] Drama (97 minutes) Monks have been leading Tibet and Year of Production: 2010 Country of Sales Agent Language: English Tibetans for generations, not only in Origin: Azerbaijan | Georgia At Cannes: AvaB (CEO/President), Director: Julian Kerridge religious, but also in worldly matters. The story is set in Baku. A famous Andrew Gallagher (Head of Sales), Writer: Martin Sadofski, Julian Kerridge But monks have vows that bind them. photographer has to choose between Elliott Mazzola (Sales & Acquisitions Co-Production Partners: Orange Trousers And often those vows conflict with the accepting a valuable job offer in Africa Executive) Producer: Angela Gordon needs of politics. The Tibetan movement or marrying his fiancee - a Office: PALAIS: Level 01 stand n° Key Cast: Rita Tushingham, Georgia today is divided and weakened by an young,talented sculptor inspired by 21.01, Tel: +33.669.95.77.68 Henshaw, Andrew Knott ongoing argument whether the Dalai images of ritual dances. The Delivery Status: Completed Lama"s Middle Way Policy is the right photographer decides to accept the job http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1208 Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: UK strategy or not... offer and - once again - postpones his Seamonsters tells the story of two THE PHANTOM FATHER wedding. During the ensuing quarrel, the MOOMINS AND THE COMET shiftless young friends, Sam (Jack AKA: Tatal Fantoma photographer and his fiancee have a car CHASE McMullen) and Kieran (Reece Noi), who Road Movie/Comedy (90 minutes) accident along the road which leads to Family (77 minutes) are whiling away their time during the the ancient cave city. They later find Language: Finnish/ English dub Language: English | Romanian off-season in Worthing. The pair are themselves in a police precinct, where Director: Maria Lindberg Director: Lucian Georgescu stuck in a kind of limbo: too old to be the photographer has to come to terms Writer: Joel Backström, Iivo Baric, Writer: Barry Gifford (based on a story kids any more, vaguely aware that it’s with his dread of women or he will not Anders Larsson, Minna Karvonen by), Lucian Georgescu time to act grown-up. When they meet leave the precinct alive. Co-Production Partners: Oy Co-Production Partners: GAV Lori (Leila Mimmack), a melancholy, Filmkompaniet Alpha Ab Producer: Lucian Georgescu, Joachim REGGAETON/LA CLAVE mysterious girl, Sam is drawn to her World Music Documentary (80 mins) Producer: Tom Carpelan von Vietinghoff even though she doesn’t offer him any Language: Spanish, with English Key Cast: Max von Sydow, Alexander Key Cast: Marcel Iures, Barry Gifford, encouragement. When Sam is called out subtitles Skarsgård and Stellan Skarsgård Mihaela Sirbu of town to attend a funeral, Lori and Director: Mariella Sosa Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Co-Production Partners: MS Films (II) Year of Production: 2010 Country of Kieran end up spending the day together Year of Production: 2011 Country of Delivery Status: Completed Origin: Finland doing stupid things, getting drunk, and Origin: Romania Year of Production: 2008 Country of One day Moomintroll notices that collapsing by sea, despite the fact that American Professor Robert Traum takes Origin: USA something strange has happened in the they despise each other. By the time Sam a sabbatical and turns his back on a returns, everything has changed. present without surprise, to live an Reggaeton-La Clave is a fascinating

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musical documentary film about the NOTHING SPECIAL Language: English CHAINED similarities between two types of music Comedy (99 minutes) Director: Irene Maffei AKA: HOBBY FARM genres known today as Salsa and Language: English Writer: Eliot Webster, Andrew Nicholas Thriller (94 mins) Reggaeton. We were fortunate enough to Director: Angela Garcia Combs Co-Production Partners: Xylomancy Language: English have gathered the hottest stars of Writer: Angela Garcia Combs Films Director: Brad Diebert reggaeton as well as the old school Co-Production Partners: Yellow Producer: Eliot Webster Writer: Paul Murphy & Brad Diebert greats of salsa. We have interviewed Wallpaper Productions Key Cast: Zina Badran, Richard Holt, Producer: Paul Murphy, Brad Diebert & salsa icons such as Ruben Blades, Producer: Sascha Schneider Tyrone Lopez Glen Whitely Johnny Pacheco, Willie Colon, Ismael Key Cast: Karen Black, Barbara Bain, Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Paul Murphy, Travis Miranda, Gilberto SantaRosa and on the Julia Garcia Combs Year of Production: 2010 Country of McMahon, Vince Sorrenti reggaeton side we interviewed billboard Delivery Status: Completed Origin: UK Delivery Status: Completed chart - topping artists such as Julio Year of Production: 2010 Country of The dilemma faced by one woman over Year of Production: 2008 Country of Voltio, Tego Calderón, Hector "El Origin: USA whether or not to abort the baby she Origin: Australia Father" just to name a few.These artists In her debut feature film, writer/director carries inside while the world around HOBBY FARM is an action-packed all came together with the same purpose Angela Garcia Combs spins a dark and falls apart. Meena Patel (Zina Badran) gangster film set in the outskirts of to discuss how two different styles of funny tale of an ambitious young woman leaves her home and boyfriend, spending Sydney in the late 1970s. Out of jail after music can have so much in common and at a crucial turning point in her career the week preceding her abortion with a 5 years, Julian is rewarded by his crime how their music is all composed under and her relationship with her bi-polar student whom used to be besotted with syndicate for keeping quiet. He is put in "La Clave," the five-note two-bar rhythm mother. Louise (Julia Garcia Combs) is her. She hopes he still is, for he is only charge of a gentlemen's pleasure house pattern which generates rhythmic an insurance underwriter living in Los one left to turn to. The only one who (the Hobby Farm) and trusted with the measurement and is the foundation and Angeles with her mother, May (Karen could help her keep the baby. proceeds of illegal gambling. But the backbone of Salsa (and all Afro-Cuban Black), who has recently been evicted women he meets and the secrets he based music). They also take you on an from her Section 8 apartment after the carries proves deadly. When faced with extraordinary journey back in time to the building was condemned. May's shaky the horrific treatment of one of the roots that influenced all of these different grip on reality begins to loosen when she I kidnapped girls newly brought to the types of music, which is AFRICA and its becomes aware of the close relationship farm, Julian must overcome the demons rhythm of "drums and percussion." between Louise and her trailblazing boss, of his own past and turn against the only ELECTRONIC AWAKENING Catherine (Barbara Bain), whom Louise life he has ever known, to save the girls, Spiritual Documentary (90 mins) admires and adores. Catherine is secretly IFDC and himself. IFDC, 1901 Avenue of the Stars, Suite Language: English fighting cancer and has an estranged BRAILLE Director: Andrew Johner relationship with her own daughter, and 930, Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA, Tel: Action (90 min) Writer: Drew Martinez reaches out to Louise as a surrogate. At 1.310.788.2803 Fax: 1.310.788.2823. Language: English www.ifdcinc.com, [email protected] Co-Production Partners: Keyframe- the same time, Catherine is pushing Agent Director: Matthew Chuang Entertainment Louise to accept a big promotion, which At Cannes: Jerome Bliah (President), Writer: Matthew Chuang Key Cast: Erik Davis, Goa Gil, Alex will compel Louise to relocate to New Victoria Romley (Executive Assistant) Producer: Luke Graham Grey York. Things heat up when May and Office: Tel: 310.788.2803 Fax: Key Cast: Nicky Wright, Renny Holder, Delivery Status: Completed Catherine meet by chance on Mother's 310.788.2823 Zero Murray, Paula Duncan Year of Production: 2011 Country of Day and an alarming confrontation Delivery Status: Completed

Origin: USA ensues... http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1077 Year of Production: 2010 Country of In Electronic Awakening, director SMOKING | NON SMOKING Origin: Australia Andrew Johner lifts the veil on an Nick, once a thief who is now blind, AKA: THE PACK FORGET ME NOT underground spiritual movement that has Drama Courtroom (120 minutes) Horror (90 minutes) enlists the services of three young developed within electronic music Language: English Language: English thieves Renny, Zero and Dave to help cultures worldwide. This close encounter Director: Alyssa Rallo Bennett Director: Tyler Oliver him retrieve a precious diamond, and with the mysticism of rave questions the Writer: Alyssa Rallo Bennett, Gary Writer: Tyler Oliver, Jamieson Stern finish the job that he started fifteen years origin of religion, and offers insight into Bennett Producer: Vindicated Pictures ago. the future of man's spirituality. It Co-Production Partners: Electric Movies Key Cast: Carly Schroeder, Cody Linley, FAMILY DEMONS investigates this culture's significance to Producer: Alyssa Rallo Bennett, Brie Gabrielle Horror (81 min) the prophecies of 2012, and how this Josselyne Herman-Saccio Delivery Status: Completed Language: English bizarre and sacral relationship to Key Cast: Lucie Arnaz, Elisabeth Moss, Year of Production: 2009 Country of Director: Ursula Dabrowsky electronic music has evolved the group Roger Robinson Origin: USA Writer: Ursula Dabrowsky overtime, and where it seems to be Delivery Status: Completed When Sandy Channing's friends start Producer: Sue Brown leading them. Year of Production: 2010 Country of disappearing, she discovers that they Key Cast: Cassandra Kane, Kerry Reid, ONE LAST GAME Origin: USA have awakened the spirit of a girl they Alex Rafalowicz AKA: GELLERT - GAME OVER The Pack brings to the forefront the wronged long ago. Delivery Status: Completed Thriller (82 minutes) complexities and anguish of how any of Year of Production: 2009 Country of WSW Language: English us can get caught in the cultural and Drama, Television (60 minutes) Origin: Australia Director: Stefan legal shift of our nation. The question Language: English Billie, a teenage girl, endures a miserable Writer: Michael Wallner, Elisabeth The Pack catches us all with is: "What if Delivery Status: In Development existence with her alcoholic mother. She Kübler-Ross your behavior was legally accepted for Country of Origin: USA is cruelly punished every day, both Co-Production Partners: Grand Hotel Pictures dozens of years and all of a sudden it Hour television drama about business physically and emotionally just for being Producer: Norbert Kneibl, Ken Duken came into question?" In a hand-picked women born. She has never been to school, she Key Cast: Ken Duken, Regina Lund, case, an ambitious Assistant District is not allowed to get a job, and she is not Dan van Husen Attorney (Carlos Leon) prosecutes a wife permitted to leave the house.... ever. Delivery Status: Completed and mother (Lucie Arnaz) for three IFM WORLD JOURNEY TO SPIRIT ISLAND Year of Production: 2011 Country of counts of murder after her forty-seven Action Adventure (93 min) Origin: Germany year old husband (Scott Bryce) dies of RELEASING Language: English Gellert is addicted – he plays poker. lung cancer from allegedly breathing her IFM World Releasing, 1328 East Palmer Director: Lí¡szló Pal Poker is his passion, his addiction, he’s second-hand smoke for thirty years. Avenue, Glendale, CA 91205 USA, Tel: Writer: Lí¡szló Pal, Crane Webster obsessed with it. Like back in the days Mourning the loss of his father, their 1.818.243.4976 Fax: 1.818.550.9728. Producer: Rodger Spero, Bruce D. Clark together with his companions Obonya twenty-four year old son (Ryan http://www.ifmfilm.com, Key Cast: Bettina Bush, Brandon and Rul he sits on his seat in the bar 667. [email protected] Douglas, Gabriel Damon, Tarek Homchick) decides to testify against his Distributor One last game as he always said. He McCarthy, Tony Acierto mother. At first, the jury struggles with At Cannes: Antony I. Ginnane wants to pay back Tonia and put Delivery Status: Completed what appears to be a ridiculous case, but (President), Tony Lyons (VP. everything in order again. He needs this Year of Production: 1989 Country of one juror's doubts forces the jury into an International) Origin: USA last chance. He plays his cards like he intriguing, emotional and complicated Office: Carlton Office 121, Tel: + Superlative photography by Vilimos always does, he is very cheerful to win choice regarding addiction, loyalty and 33(0)4.93.06.4121 this game when suddenly Obonya pulls a individual responsibility. Zsigismond highlights the family- knife out of his pocket. Glistening light, RU-486: THE LAST OPTION http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1109 oriented outdoor drama Journey to Spirit he opens his eyes wide. Drama (Social) (89 minutes) Island. Set in the Pacific Northwest, the

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NAMELESS GANGSTER – SHOWBOX films stars Bettina Bush as Maria, a Mullen, Jim Steele, David Shoshan The story of friends as they prepare for teenaged Native American girl. When IMAGEWORKS Producer: Michael Taverna, Eric certain death at the hands of a massive her grandmother organizes a protest Mantion, David-Alexander Coiteux asteroid, sex-inducing drugs, a three- against defiling their ancestors' sacred ENTERTAINMENT Key Cast: Mischa Barton, Rebecca De hundred foot giant, and a horde of other burial ground, Maria takes up the Fight INTERNATIONAL Mornay, Julianne Michelle, Corey absurd problems. against the greedy Indian developer who Imageworks Entertainment International, Sevier, and John Diehl STOLEN IDENTITY is trying to persuade his tribe to sell the 21910 Plummer Street, Chatsworth, CA Delivery Status: Post Production Period Piece, Drama lonesome 'Spirit Island' to make way for 91311 USA, Tel: 1.818.349.5777 Fax: Year of Production: 2012 Country of Language: English a congress center. 1.818.349.6777. Origin: USA Writer: David Shoshan, Rick Swirkal, www.imageworksentertainment.com, A modern ghost story which turns a Eddie O?Flaherty [email protected] love/hate relationship between mother Producer: David Shoshan Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor and daughter into a tale of horror. Some Key Cast: TBA At Cannes: David Shoshan (President / rentals are too good to be true. Delivery Status: Pre-Production CEO), Ingrid Raines (Acquisitions) APOCALYPSE, CA. Year of Production: 2011 Country of Office: La Croisette Across from The Sci Fi Fantasy (90 mins.) Origin: USA HE USINESS Palais Des Festivals., Tel: 04.93.68.62.50 Language: English Right after World War II, a Jew who T B Director: Chad Peter survived the Holocaust steals the identity http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1036 OF ILM Writer: Chad Peter of another man to survive in Soviet www.thebusinessoffilmdaily.comF APARTMENT 1303 3D Co-Production Partners: Alexander controlled Poland and lives well until his AKA: APARTMENT 1303 Cardinale, Nick Mathis, Eric Branco past comes back to haunt him. Horror Producer: Chad Peter BUTCHERED Language: English Key Cast: Nick Mathis, Erin Bodine, Horror (77 minutes) Director: Daniel Fridell Anne McDaniels Language: Enlgish Writer: Jim Steele, Michele Taverna Delivery Status: Completed Director: Charles Stewart Jr. Co-Production Partners: Fullum Films Year of Production: 2011 Country of Writer: Sheila Brothers and Roxanne Executive Producer: Cindy Nelson- Origin: USA Marchano

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Co-Production Partners: Anthem Pictures finds unexpected love while pursuing her A beautiful woman pretends to be and Eleven Bravo Productions dreams of independence and high stakes married while running a bed-and- IMAGINATION Producer: Phillip Troy Linger debating. breakfast business but falls in love with a Key Cast: Timothy Woodward Jr., Nikki handsome guest and can?t tell him the WORLDWIDE LLC POKER CLUB, THE Imagination Worldwide LLC, 9107 Beall, Corey Broadwater Thriller (89 minutes) truth. Wilshire Boulevard, Suite #625, Beverly Delivery Status: Completed Language: English RAY OF SUNSHINE Hills, CA 90210 USA, Tel: Year of Production: 2010 Country of Director: Tim McCann Drama (86 mins.) 1.310.888.3494. www.imagination- Origin: United States Writer: Richard Chizmar Language: English llc.com, wyarbrough@imagination- A group of teens decide to spend the Co-Production Partners: Bruce Devan, Director: Norbert Meisel llc.com weekend on a local island to say their Jordan Gertner Writer: Rae Rodgers Sales Agent final goodbyes before heading off to Producer: Richard Chizmar Co-Production Partners: Nancy Kwan At Cannes: Pierre David (Chairman and college. Little do they know, a convicted Key Cast: Jonathan Schaech, Jana Producer: Norbert Meisel CEO), Tom Berry (Co-Chairman), serial killer escapes from the authorities Kramer Key Cast: Matthew Carroll, Seymour Lawrence Goebel (President), Trina while on death row at a maximum Delivery Status: Completed Cassell, Nancy Kwan Searcy (VP of Sales and Business security prison. Touted in the headlines Year of Production: 2008 Country of Delivery Status: Completed Affairs) of the local papers as "The Butcher" due Origin: USA Year of Production: 2006 Country of Office: The Carlton Hotel,Suite 121, Tel: to the manner he hacked up his victims Four friends discover and accidentally Origin: USA 33(0)4.93.06.41.21 in the local town deli, he takes cover on kill a burglar -- who may not be alone -- A young girl disguises herself as a boy

the very same island. It become a battle in the kitchen during their weekly poker and searches for her father, a free- http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1080 for survival as the teens attempt o fight night. wheeling musician who abandoned her back against this unimaginable foe. when she was a child. THIRD NAIL, THE THE WICKED SHADOW WITHIN, THE Thriller -Drama (90 mins.) KICKING THE DOG Horror (100 minutes) Thriller-Horror (90 mins.) Language: English Comedy (91 mins) Language: English Language: English Director: Kevin Lewis Language: English Director: Peter Winther Director: Silvana Zancolo Writer: Huntley Ritter, Kevin Lewis Director: Randy Scooter Lammey Writer: Michael Vickerman Writer: Daniel Aarons, Giovanni Eccher Co-Production Partners: Ann Luly, Writer: Randy Scooter Lammey Producer: Marvin Towns, Jr.,Couni Co-Production Partners: Pier Luigi Corvi Huntley Ritter Co-Production Partners: Malachi Young Mora, Anna Maria Murro Producer: Jonathan Bross McGlone Key Cast: Devon Werkheiser, Justin Producer: Paolo Lato Key Cast: Huntley Ritter, Krista Allen, Producer: Randy Scooter Lammey Deeley, Jess Adams, Janmie Kaler, Key Cast: Hayley J. Williams, Beth Charles S. Dutton, Key Cast: Elizabeth Schmidt, Carl T. Caitlin Carmichael Winslet, Laurence Belcher, Bonny Delivery Status: Completed Evans, Vidette Lim Delivery Status: Completed Ambrose, Rod Hallett. Year of Production: 2008 Country of Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2012 Country of Delivery Status: Completed Origin: USA Year of Production: 2009 Country of Origin: US Year of Production: 2007 Country of A man wrongfully accused for murder is Origin: USA Ding Dong: The Witch is ALIVE!!! Origin: Italy release from prison then must struggle 12 young, sexy friends gather in a PUNISHMENT A grieving mother convinces her child to with revenge and redemption while summer cabin for one last wild party Horror contact her dead son only to discover trying to save his kidnapped daughter. before they all make life changing Language: English that the dead child has surprising plans SIGNIFICANT OTHER, THE decisions. Director: Jason Christopher for her. Romantic Comedy (90 mins.) THE DESCENDANT Writer: Jason Christopher LOVE AND DEBATE Language: English Horror (95 mins.) Producer: Jason Christopher, Roy Romantic Comedy (96 mins.) Director: Shalene Portman Language: English Koriakin, Deven Lobascio Language: English Writer: Shalene Portman Director: Philippe Spurrell Key Cast: Jen Dance, David J. Bonner, Director: Jessica Kavana Producer: Shalene Portman Writer: Philippe Spurrell, Joel Asa Miller Chelsey Garner, Shaun Paul Costello, Writer: Jessica Kavana Key Cast: Brittany Joyner, Danny Boaz, Co-Production Partners: David Rigby Mathew Nadu Producer: Gina Philips, Amy Greenspun Stephanie Young, Morgana Shaw. Producer: Philippe Spurrell Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Adam Rodriguez, Gina Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Rob Diloreto, Ilona Garcen, Year of Production: 2011 Country of Philips, Sean Astin. Year of Production: 2009 Country of Tadhg MacMahon Origin: US Delivery Status: Completed Origin: USA Delivery Status: Completed A Father is about to take revenge... Year of Production: 2006 Country of Year of Production: 2007 Country of THE LIST Origin: USA Origin: Canada Thriller A beautiful, ambitious Miami woman A young man visits an old family home Language: English in a small town and discovers a secret Director: Klaus Huttmann that shocks the entire town. Writer: Klaus Huttmann TOUCH, THE Producer: Patrick Fisher, Michael CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Drama (90 mins.) Knowles THE CLICK AND ACCESS CULTURE IS NOW Language: English Key Cast: Sienna Guillory, Bill Paterson, Director: Jimmy Huckaby Clive Russell, Nigel Planer, Anthony & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. Writer: Art Ayris Flanagan Co-Production Partners: Rick Traum, Delivery Status: Post Production Rick Silanskas Year of Production: 2012 Country of Producer: Joseph T. Lyons Origin: UK Key Cast: Kristia Knowles, Shauna Being number one is the kiss of death... Click on Bartel, Brooke Newton, Bruce Borgan, STATIC (IN 3D) Cree Ivy Thriller Blue Boxes Delivery Status: Completed Language: English Year of Production: 2005 Country of Director: Todd Levin to Access Origin: USA Writer: Todd Levin, Gabriel Cowan, A former stripper and alcoholic woman John Suits, Andrew Orci Available joins a church to seek redemption causes Producer: Gabriel Cowan, John Suits them to fight over whether she belongs Key Cast: Milo Ventimiglia, Sarah Company there or not. Shahi, William Mapother, Sara Paxton Delivery Status: Completed Trailers Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: US Automatically When you hear them coming, you're THE BUSINESS already dead! OF ILM Do Your Part To www.thebusinessoffilmdaily.comF Combat Global Warming

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THE THOMPSONS: THE it! HUNKY DORY HAMILTONS 2 GABE: THE CUPID DOG INDEPENDENT Musical drama Vampire Thriller Family Film (90:32) Independent, 32 Tavistock Street, Language: English Language: English Language: english London,WC2E 7PB UK, Tel: Director: Marc Evans Director: The Butcher Brothers Director: mike feifer +44.207.257.8734 Fax: Writer: Laurence Coriat Writer: The Butcher Brothers,Cory Writer: mike feifer +44.207.240.9029. Producer: Jon Finn, Dan Lupovitz Knauf Producer: Mike Feifer, David DeCrane, www.independentfilmcompany.com, Key Cast: Minnie Driver Aneurin Executive Producer: Pierre David,Nicola Noel Zantisch [email protected] Barnard Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor Pearcey Key Cast: Boti Bliss, Brian Krause, Delivery Status: Screening At Cannes: Luc Roeg (CEO), Michael Producer: Rob Weston, Joseph Linden Ashby, Michael Woods, Barbara Year of Production: 2011 Country of Robinson (CFO), Andrew Orr McKelheer, Travis Stevens. Niven, Ashley Jones and Ralph Waite Origin: UK (Managing Director), Abigail Walsh Key Cast: Cory Knauf, Samuel Child, Delivery Status: Completed From the producers of Billy Elliot comes (Head of Sales), Sarah Lebutsch (Sales Joseph McKelheer Year of Production: 2011 Country of this funny, life-affirming and nostalgic and Marketing Executive), Calum Gray Delivery Status: Completed Origin: US film featuring music from artists as (Sales and Marketing Executive), Karina Year of Production: 2011 Country of A mischievous dog plays matchmaker! diverse as David Bowie, Lou Reed, The Gechtman (Marketing Manager), Sarah Origin: UK/US Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, DEVIL SEED Townsend (Head of Marketing), Daniel The Hamiltons have snuck into a new Dusty Springfield and Electric Light Horror (96:30 minutes) Dale (Head Acquisitions and town under a new name...but they're not Orchestra. Language: English Development), Philip Herd (Head of the most bloodthirsty people living there! Director: Greg A. Sager Production) ARCHIPELAGO Drama EXTRACTED Writer: Greg A. Sager Office: Suite 222, Le Merigot Hotel, Tel: Language: English Sci Fi /Thriller Producer: Dwight Coughlan, Gary 1.310.395.9700 Language: English Elmer, Geoff Hart, Greg. A. Sager Director: Joanna Hogg Director: Nir Paniry Writer: Joanna Hogg Key Cast: Michelle Argyris, Shantelle http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1044 Writer: Nir Paniry Canzanese, Vanessa Boze Producer: Gayle Griffiths Producer: Gabriel Cowan, John Suits Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Christopher Baker, Kate Fahy, SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED Tom Hiddleston, Andrew Lawson, Lydia Key Cast: Sasha Roiz, Jenny Mollen, Year of Production: 2011 Country of Sci-fi Romantic Comedy (84 min) Leonard, Amy Lloyd Nick Jameson Origin: Canada Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Evil grows within... Director: Colin Trevorrow Year of Production: 2010 Country of Year of Production: 2011 Country of WAKE UPAND DIE Writer: Derek Connolly Origin: UK Origin: US Thriller (84 minutes) Producer: Marc Turtletaub, Peter Saraf, Deep fractures within a family dynamic Thomas Jackson has invented a device Language: English Stephanie Langhoff, Colin Trevorrow begin to surface during a getaway to the that allows him to enter people's Director: Miguel Urrutia and Derek Connolly Isles of Scilly. minds...Little does he know that he's Writer: Miguel Urrutia Key Cast: Aubrey Plaza Mark Duplass about to get trapped in the mind of a Producer: Liliana Tavera, Miguel Urrutia Jake Johnson Kristen Bell U WANT ME TO KILL HIM Thriller (tbc) murderer. Key Cast: Luis Fernando Bohorquez, Delivery Status: Screening Language: English THE WIFE HE MET ONLINE Andrea Montenegro Year of Production: 2012 Country of Director: Andrew Douglas Thriller (90 min) Delivery Status: Completed Origin: USA Writer: Mike Walden Language: English Year of Production: 2011 Country of Three employees of Seattle Magazine Producer: Steve Golin (Anonymous Director: Curtis Crawford Origin: Colombia head to the scenic, seaside community of Content), Bryan Singer Writer: Christine Conradt Sleeping with him was her first mistake. Ocean View, WA to find and profile the Key Cast: Jack O'Connell, Olly Executive Producer: Pierre David, Tom man behind a bizarre and hilarious ALL ALONE Alexander, Jaimie Winstone, Anna Berry Mystery-Thriller (90 minutes) classified ad looking for a partner to Maxwell Martin, Ruth Wilson Key Cast: Sydney Penny, Cameron Language: English travel through time. Darius (Aubrey Mathison, Cynthia Preston, Barbara Director: Jon Cellini Plaza), a live—at—home college grad Delivery Status: Post Production Niven Writer: Jon Cellini with a chip on her shoulder, interns at Year of Production: 2011/12 Country of Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Jon Cellini, Suzy Cote, Mandy the magazine. Along with her fellow Origin: UK Year of Production: 2011 Country of Levin, Beth Navarro, Brice Williams intern Arnau (Karan Soni), a studious A thriller detailing the true story of a Origin: Canada Key Cast: Many Levin, Suzy Cote, Brice Biology major working at the magazine teenage boys' descent into the dangerous They met online...After a whirlwind Williams, David Haydn-Jones to build his resume, and their hard world of the internet and the harrowing romance, they are getting married! If he Delivery Status: Completed partying boss, Jeff (Jake Johnson), the consequences of his actions. When 16 only knew... Year of Production: 2011 Country of threesome set out to profile the lunatic year old Mark meets local girl Rachel on Origin: US behind the preposterous ad. the internet and begins an intense online GANGSTERS, GUNS AND relationship, he quickly finds that he's ZOMBIES It was the perfect murder...until they STORAGE 24 Horror turned on each other! Creature Feature besotted and that he'll do anything for Language: English Language: English her. Even befriend her awkward, loner THE PREACHER'S DAUGHTER brother John. When Rachel, who is Director: Matt Mitchell Drama Thriller (107 minutes) Director: Johannes Roberts trapped within the grips of an abusive Writer: Matt Mitchell Language: English Writer: Noel Clarke boyfriend, is murdered, Mark and John Producer: Clare Pearce, Mark Evans Director: Michelle Mower Producer: Noel Clarke, Manu Kumaran develop violent desires to avenge her Key Cast: Vincent Jerome, Huggy Lever, Writer: Michelle Mower Key Cast: Laura Haddock, Noel Clarke, death. The actions draw the attention of a Fabrizio Santino Producer: Adam Donaghey, Susan Colin O'Donoghue, Antonia Campbell- secret government department, as they Delivery Status: Completed Elkins, Michelle Mower Hughes, Jamie Thomas King unwittingly stumble upon an ongoing Year of Production: 2011 Country of Key Cast: Andrea Bowen, Adam Delivery Status: Screening operation. Soon Mark is recruited to Origin: UK Mayfield, Ron Jackson Year of Production: 2011/12 Country of commit a devastating, harrowing crime, They owned the streets..until now! Delivery Status: Completed Origin: UK one that made British legal history. AXED Year of Production: 2010 Country of London is in chaos. A military cargo Thriller (88 minutes) Origin: US plane has crashed leaving its highly EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP Documentary (86 mins) Language: English They thought she was the perfect classified contents strewn across the city. Language: English Director: Ryan Lee Driscoll daughter... Completely unaware London is in Writer: Ryan Lee Driscoll lockdown, Charlie (Noel Clarke) and Producer: Jaimie d'Cruz Producer: Ryan Lee Driscoll Shelley (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), Key Cast: featuring Banksy, Thierry Key Cast: Jonathan Hansler, Andrea accompanied by best friends Mark Guetta, Shepard Fairey Gordon, Nicola Posener (Colin O'Donoghue) and Nikki (Laura Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Haddock) are at Storage 24 dividing up Year of Production: 2010 Country of Year of Production: 2011 Country of their possessions after a recent break-up. Origin: UK This is the inside story of Street Art - a Origin: UK THE BUSINESS Suddenly, the power goes off. Trapped in brutal and revealing account of what His job kept him sane...now he's just lost a dark maze of endless corridors, a OF FILM mystery predator is hunting them one by happens when fame, money and www.thebusinessoffilmdaily.com one. In a place designed to keep things vandalism collide. 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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN KONG Kyung-hyun, SEO Young-joon Producer: LEE Sang-cheol Drama (111 min) INDIESTORY INC. Producer: KONG Quee-hyun Key Cast: HWANG Jung-min as Hyun- Language: English Indiestory Inc., 4FL., BaekAk B/D, 135- Key Cast: LEE Ju-seung, JUNG Young- soon, KIM Mi-hyang as Myung-soon, Director: Lynne Ramsay 4, Tongin-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 110- ki, PARK Sang-hyuk HAN Song-hee as Su-jin Writer: Lynne Ramsay and Rory 043 Korea, Tel: 82.2.722.6051 Fax: Delivery Status: Screening Delivery Status: Completed Kinnear, based on the novel by Lionel 82.2.722.6055. Year of Production: 2011 Country of Year of Production: 2011 Country of Shriver www.indiestory.com, Origin: Korea Origin: Korea Co-Production Partners: Independent, [email protected] Soon-kyu, a high school student, caught A middle-aged woman, Hyun-soon has a Sales Agent Jennifer Fox Productions, BBC Films sight of a UFO by chance with his secret that she doesn't want to reveal to At Cannes: Stanley KWAK (CEO), Kate and Steven Soderbergh classmates. To find the UFO, they leave others. Her unconscious old mother in a WON (International Business Manager) Producer: Luc Roeg for a so-called "UFO mountain". When hospital and her pregnant daughter in her Office: Village International #121 - Key Cast: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, they arrive there, they meet a girl named 20's only know Hyun-soon's secret. KOFIC Booth, Tel: +33.6.4386.8328 Ezra Miller Ji-hyun who tells them to leave. But they Hyun-soon stands at the cross roads of Delivery Status: Completed don't turn back and keep their steps religious conviction and cold reality. Year of Production: 2011 Country of http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1374 towards the mountain. 3 days later, they Should she leave her mother attached to Origin: UK come back and insist they've contacted a life support machine indefinitely or Eva puts her ambitions and career aside THE KING OF PIGS aliens the last night except Soon-kyu should she disconnect it? Thriller Animation (97 min) to give birth to Kevin. The relationship who blacked out due to overdrinking. Language: Korean DANCING CAT between mother and son is difficult from After hearing that Ji-hyun's missing, he Documentary, Animal (76 min 16 sec) Director: YEUN Sang-ho the start. When Kevin is 15, he does leaves for the mountain again to answer Language: Korean Writer: YEUN Sang-ho something unforgivable in the eyes of his own questions- UFOs, aliens and Ji- Director: YUN Ki-hyoung Co-Production Partners: "The King of the entire community. Eva grapples with hyun. Writer: LEE Yong-han, YUN Ki-hyoung Pigs' Production Committee, Studio her own feelings of grief and Producer: KANG Young-mee Dadashow BLOODY FIGHT IN IRON-ROCK responsibility. Did she ever love her son? Key Cast: Narration: LEE Yong-han, Executive Producer: PARK Jeong-hwan, VALLEY And how much of what Kevin did was Action, Western (89 min) YUN Ki-hyoung LEE Eung-chul her fault? Language: Korean Delivery Status: Completed Producer: CHO Young-kag Director: JI Ha-jean Year of Production: 2011 Country of HOLY ROLLERS Key Cast: YANG Ik-june as JUNG Jong- Thriller (87 mins) Writer: JI Ha-jean Origin: Korea suk, OH Jeong-se as HWANG Kyung- Language: English Producer: YOON Ki-ho Poet LEE became enthralled by stray min, KIM Hye-na as KIM Chul, PARK Director: Kevin Asch Key Cast: LEE Mu-seang as Chul-ki, cats living in his neighborhood. He Hee-von as young HWANG Kyung-min, Writer: Antonio Macia YOON Sang-hwa as Ghost Face, CHOI recorded their daily lives in pictures and KIM Kkobbi as young JUNG Jong-suk Producer: Danny A. Abeckaser, Tory Ji-eun as Tae-yeon gave them names. The pictures by him Delivery Status: Completed Tunnell, Per Melita, Jen Gatien Delivery Status: Post Production were published in a book entitled "Bye Year of Production: 2011 Country of Key Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Year of Production: 2011 Country of Kitty, and Thank You". Commercial film Origin: Korea Ari Graynor Origin: Korea director, I stumbled across the poet's Kyung-min, a businessman, and Jong- Delivery Status: Completed Chul-ki who just got out of prison kills a book and became interested in stray cats. suk, a failed writer, are former Year of Production: 2009 Country of police officer and a junk shop owner in There are a lot of stray cats in my schoolmates. During a reunion dinner Origin: UK order. He always carries a small ballerina neighborhood. I capture their lives on they look back on their school days, Inspired by actual events, Holy Rollers is music box with old memories. Chul-ki film and giving them food and water, I when a particularly cruel group of the incredible story of a group of young leaves for Kangwon province to find the felt a change in myself. students, "the dogs", exercised a reign of Hasidic Jews smuggling Ecstasy in late remaining two people in his memos, terror by hazing and bullying part of the A TIME TO LOVE '90s New York. Ghost Face and Axe. Ghost Face and Romance, Drama, Comedy (80 min) other students, the "pigs". One day, Kim Axe commits murder by order of their Language: Korean ABEL Chul, one of their mates, stood up to the Documentary (82 mins) boss and become wanted criminals. The Director: BOO Ji-young, YANG Ik-june "dogs", becoming the only hope of Language: Spanish two hide out at an illegal gambling house Co-Production Partners: BOO Ji-young, ending their tyranny. Fifteen years on, he Director: Diego Luna in Kangwon province run by the boss. YANG Ik-june remains a hero. But behind this figure, Writer: Diego Luna, Augusto Mendoza Committing all sorts of crimes all their Producer: SONG Jae-young(1st episode), the two men recall the murky story of Co-Production Partners: Gael Garcia life, the two have no where left to run PARK Na-mi(2nd episode) their bond. Bernal away. Key Cast: (1st episode) SEO Ju-hee as Producer: Pablo Cruz PADAK Soon-im, KIM Sun-bin as Jun-young Animation Music Drama (78 min) MOTHER Key Cast: Christopher Ruiz-Esparza, Documentary (102 min) (2nd episode) HEO Jun-seok as Jin- Language: Korean Karina Gidi, Jose Maria Yazpik Language: Korean cheol, RYU Hae-young as Min-jeong Director: LEE Dae-hee Delivery Status: Completed Director: TAE Jun-seek Delivery Status: Completed Writer: LEE Dae-hee Year of Production: 2010 Country of Writer: TAE Jun-seek Year of Production: 2011 Country of Producer: LEE Dae-hee Origin: Mexico Executive Producer: KIM Hwa-beom Origin: Korea Key Cast: SHI Young-jun, KIM Hyeon- Nine-year-old Abel has stopped talking Producer: KIM Hwa-beom Romance film by two talented Korean ji, AHN Young-mi, HYEON Gyeong-su, since his father left home. One morning Key Cast: LEE So-sun as LEE So-sun filmmakers-BOO Ji-young (Sisters on LEE Ho-san he starts to speak again, but pretends to (Mother) the Road) and YANG Ik-june Delivery Status: Post Production be the head of the family. Delivery Status: Screening (Breathless) Under theme of "love", two Year of Production: 2012 Country of Year of Production: 2011 Country of directors, BOO Ji-young and YANG Ik- MEEK'S CUTOFF Origin: Korea Western/drama (102 mins) Origin: Korea june put together two shorts to create one Once a free fish in the ocean, the Language: English On narrow streets of Changsin-dong are feature omnibus film. "Moonwalk" by 'Mackerel' was caught by the fishing net Director: Kelly Reichardt people living along. And there is a BOO portraits the middle aged woman's and brought to the fish tank in a seafood Writer: Jon Raymond grandmother, Madame Lee So-seon. love that cannot come true and restaurant. She searches for a way out Producer: Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani, After the death of her son, Martyr Chun "Immature" by YANG is about a man intentionally and relentlessly since she Elizabeth Cuthrell, David Urrutia Tae-il, she stood by those who were with a broken heart who coincidentally came into the tank. The skeptic pessimist Key Cast: Michelle Williams, Will living painful, harsh lives. She was meets a young innocent girl and begins 'Old-flatfish', was also from the ocean Patton, Paul Dano always upright and honest. This is the new love that heals him. unlike other fishes in the tank raised in Delivery Status: Completed story of her last 2 years to the eternal the fish farm. As the longest survivor in INVASION OF ALIEN BIKINI Year of Production: 2010 Country of sleep. The film, "Mother", is the last Horror, Science Fiction, Action, Martial the tank, he reigns over other fishes with Origin: USA laugh, the last cry, and the last message Arts, Comedy (75 min) his knowledge of survival. To him, In the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, a she left for the world through the Language: Korean Mackerel's protest against him to escape wagon team of three families hires camera. Director: OH Young-doo mountain man Stephen Meek to guide from the tank is a threat to his regime. JESUS HOSPITAL Writer: OH Young-doo them over the Cascade Mountain. U.F.O. Family Drama (91 min) Executive Producer: JANG Yoon-jung Fantasy Drama (91 min 50 sec) Producer: JANG Yoon-jung Language: Korean Language: Korean Key Cast: HA Eun-jung as Monica, Director: KONG Quee-hyun Director: SHIN A-ga, LEE Sang-cheol HONG Young-geun as Young-gun, father Executive Producer: SONG Ko-eun, Writer: SHIN A-ga Delivery Status: Completed KANG Hoon, PARK Young-sook, Executive Producer: LEE Hyun-woo, CHOI Yoo-soon Year of Production: 2011 Country of

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Origin: Korea Key Cast: Chloe-Grace Moretz, Paddy practically pushed on a plane to a place of Film Commission Torino Piemonte, In A city hero, Young-gun saves a young Considine called Queimada in South America. He's coproduction with: Rectangle lady from unidentified assailants and Delivery Status: Pre-Production given no information on what he should Productions brings her into his house. She is an alien Year of Production: 2012 Country of be doing with the criptic statement "the Producer: Carlo degli Esposti, Nora which needs sperms to breed and Origin: United States less you know, the better..." Barbieri, Conchita Airoldi, Patrizia seduces Young-gun to get his sperms. A humanizing and dramatic twist on the LOVE IS IN THE AIR Massa However, Young-gun has taken a vow of zombie genre, Maggie is the poignant AKA: COM’È BELLO FAR Key Cast: Claudio Santamaria, chastity and wants to keep his virginity story of a father’s unconditional love set L’AMORE Francesco Turbanti, Paolo Cioni until his marriage. She exhausts every against the backdrop of a Zombie Comedy (97 min) Delivery Status: Screening means of gaining his sperms but it does Apocalypse. Language: Italian with English subtitles Year of Production: 2011 Country of not come up to her expectation. Director: Fausto Brizzi Origin: Italy Writer: Fausto Brizzi, Andrea Agnello, If anything happens we’ll be the first to INTRAMOVIES Marco Martani go It’s the seventies. Italy is rolled by Intramovies, Via E. Manfredi, 15, Rome, Co-Production Partners: Wildside in terrorism and among the students grows INFERNO Rome, 00197 Italy, Tel: collaboration with Medusa Film the idea that a military coup may be Inferno, 1888 Century Park East, Suite +39.06.8076157 Fax: +39.06.8076156. Producer: Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Mieli imminent. It all starts innocently when 1540, Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA, Tel: www.intramovies.com, Key Cast: Fabio De Luigi, Claudia Renzo and Fabio go to Pino’s house for 1.310.598.2550 Fax: 1.310.598.2551. [email protected] Gerini, Filippo Timi an audition. Pino is a sort of a Sales Agent www.inferno-entertainment.com Delivery Status: Screening transgressive ballad composer . His Sales Agent At Cannes: Paola Corvino (CEO), Jef Year of Production: 2012 Country of songs are all politics and rebellion to the At Cannes: Jim Seibel (Partner, Co- Nuyts (Director of International Sales), Origin: Italy establishment, and Renzo and Fabio Chairman), Bill Johnson (Partner, Co- Federica Mei (International Sales How long can a marriage hold in dream of being accepted into the band. A Chairman), Lesly Gross (SVP Manager), Marco Valerio Fusco absence of a satisfying sex component? muffled phone call and a swirling International Sales and Administration), (International Sales Executive) Andrea and Giulia - an outward paranoia descends on the trio. Pino Sophie Seifried (Director of International Office: Riviera G20 successful couple with a teenage son - persuades the two would - be musicians Sales & Acquisitions) are in fact on the brink of a crisis when that they have to escape dragging them Office: 52 Boulevard de la Croisette, Tel: http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=147 Giulia’s childhood friend Max steps into along in the only means of transport at 1.310.614.9457 their lives like a tornado. Now a hand: Renzo’s father ‘s old FIAT. But THE LITHIUM CONSPIRACY successful porno star, Max will offer where to? They don’t really know . http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1369 AKA: BREVE STORIA DI LUNGHI advice based on his own erotic Finally the three feckless lefties decide TRADIMENTI experience, sparkling up the entire to fly across the Austrian border Drama Thriller (104 min) GRACE OF MONACO household out of its lethargic humdrum escaping from a danger that - in fact - Biography/Romance/Drama Language: Italian with English subtitles routine. resides only in their imagination. Any Language: English Director: Davide Marengo little detail on the road, (a policeman Director: Olivier Dahan Writer: Paolo Logli, Alessandro Pondi, THE LEGEND OF KASPAR having a coffee in a bar, a couple of Writer: Arash Amel Davide Marengo HAUSER militaries waiting at the train cross), is Producer: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam Producer: Emme, Rai Cinema; Produced AKA: LA LEGGENDA DI KASPAR interpreted by the trio as a signal of the Key Cast: Nicole Kidman by Sandro Silvestri, Maura Vespini HAUSER Drama (95 minutes) impending government power change. Delivery Status: Pre-Production Key Cast: Guido Caprino, Carolina Language: Italian and English with Year of Production: 2012 Country of Crescentini, Maya Sansa, Flora THE COMMANDER AND THE English subtitles Origin: United States Martinez, Philippe Leroy, Salvo Basile STORK Director: Davide Manuli The story of the iconic Grace Kelly, who Delivery Status: Screening AKA: IL COMANDANTE E LA Writer: Davide Manuli after her storybook wedding to the Year of Production: 2012 Country of CICOGNA Co-Production Partners: Blue Film and Comedy Prince of Monaco, helped shape a nation Origin: Italy Shooting Hope Productions, with the Language: Italian with english subtitles with her grace, beauty and strength. Nowadays you don't conquer a contribution of MiBAC and Regione Director: Silvio Soldini country.You buy it. Giulio, torn between MAGGIE Autonoma della Sardegna In association Writer: Doriana Leondeff, Marco Drama/Thriller/Fantasy a wife who's labeled him a workaholic with: FourLab, Produzione Straordinaria Pettenello, Silvio Soldini Language: English and a job that seems to have no future Producer: Bruno Tribbioli, Alessandro Co-Production Partners: Lumière & Co., Director: Henry Hobson after a banking merge, is being Bonifazi and Davide Manuli Ventura Film, RSI Radiotelevisione Writer: John Scott Key Cast: Vincent Gallo, Claudia Gerini, svizzera italiana Producer: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Elisa Sednaoui, Silvia Calderoni, Producer: Lionello Cerri, Andres Matthew Bear, Trevor Kaufman Fabrizio Gifuni Pfaeffli, Elda Guidinetti Delivery Status: Screening Key Cast: Valerio Mastandrea, Alba Year of Production: 2012 Country of Rohrwacher, Giuseppe Battiston, Claudia CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Origin: Italy Gerini, Luca Zingaretti HE LICK AND CCESS ULTURE IS OW Reaching a deserted Mediterranean Delivery Status: Post Production T C A C N beach, in an uncertain time and place, Year of Production: 2012 Country of & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. Kaspar Hauser must measure himself Origin: Italy against the evil of a Grand Duchess who Elia (who is skipping school absorbed in feels her power over the community is secretly raising a stork), and his teenager threatened. To get free of the blond sister who, unbeknownst to herself, has intruder, she seeks help from Pusher, a been tagged as a porn star in the internet. Click on criminal with whom she has a To help his daughter out of her relationship, and who knows how to free unpleasant plight, Leo ends up in the Blue Boxes her of the “enemy”. Too bad he hasn’t office of a shady lawyer, where he meets taken into account the Sheriff, a deejay Diana a budding artist that’s decorating to Access who considers Kaspar to be the new the place. The coming and goings of Messiah. Leo, his children, Diana and a fresco of Available THE FIRST ON THE LIST friends and passers- by, are followed AKA: I PRIMI DELLA LISTA with a critical and highbrowed eye by Company Comedy (85 minutes) the statues in the square, in a dreamy Language: Italian with English subtitles atmosphere of a misty Turin. Trailers Director: Roan Johnson THE ISLAND OF THE FALLEN Writer: Davide Lantieri, Roan Johnson, ANGEL Automatically Renzo Lulli, Francesco Bruni AKA: L'ISOLA DELL'ANGELO Co-Production Partners: Palomar, Urania CADUTO Pictures with Rai Cinema, with the Drama Do Your Part To support of MiBAC – Direzione Generale Language: Italian with English subtitles Cinema, In association with: FIP – Film Director: Carlo Lucarelli Combat Global Warming Investimenti Piemonte with the support Writer: Carlo Lucarelli

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Producer: Kaos Cinematografica, Stemal A former American boxer now exiled in Hollywood screenwriter fights to finish SECRET AT ARROW LAKE Entertainment Bangkok, is forced to confront his his latest script with an unrealistic Family (83 min.) Key Cast: Giampaolo Morelli, Gaetano violent past after meeting a mysterious deadline. He finds himself in the center Language: English Bruno, Rolando Ravello, Giuseppe fight fan from his hometown. of a murder investigation involving a Director: Brad Keller Cederna, Lorenzo Perpignani, Sara IDENTICAL prominent politician's wife. Writer: Bonnie Orr Sartini Thriller (90 min.) NICTOPHOBIA Producer: Brad Keller Delivery Status: Post Production Language: English Thriller (85 minutes) Key Cast: Dedee Pfeiffer (Cybill, Up Year of Production: 2012 Country of Director: Daniel Bollag Language: English Close & Personal), C. Thomas Howell Origin: Italy Writer: Daniel Bollag, Yumiko Bollag Director: Douglas Elford-Argent (E.T., The Outsiders, The Hitcher), Ali 1925, in an unnamed island - prison to Producer: Daniel Bollag Writer: Thomas Bilyeu, Douglas Elford- Faulkner (Twilight Saga: Breaking human outcasts - a young policeman Key Cast: Ed Asner, Jonathan Togo (Star Argent Dawn), Gary Teague (Friday Night tries to find a clue to a series of of CSI: Miami), Emily Foxler (The Lost Producer: David Frank Fletcher Jr., Lights), Jay Johnston (The Sarah unexplained brutal homicides. Tribe, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past). Gregg Luckman Silverman Program) Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Michael Madsen, Rachel Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2011 Country of Hunter, Jennifer Tisdale Year of Production: 2011 Country of ITN DISTRIBUTION Origin: USA Delivery Status: Completed Origin: USA ITN Distribution, 9663 Santa Monica Identical twins are born, one is good and Year of Production: 2010 Country of Mia Williams, raised on the family Bed Blvd. #859, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 one is evil. They need each-other to Origin: USA & Breakfast by Sara, a loving single USA, Tel: 1.702.882.6926. exist, but they deeply resent the others A man pushed to the edge by a bank mom grows up believing her father was www.itndistribution.com, existence. They both fall in love with the foreclosure decides to get even. lost, M.I.A., in the Gulf War. A tragic [email protected] same woman. A love triangle forms accident results in the sudden death of Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor CITIZEN JANE which leads to murder. Thriller (89 minutes) Sara and Mia finds herself alone to care At Cannes: Stuart Alson (President), Language: English for the B&B while attending college. Nicole Holland (VP) BRUTAL Action (90 minutes) Director: Armand Mastroianni Daniel Williams, a hard-edged Office: Riviera C-11, Tel: Language: English Writer: James Dalessandro businessman from New York, arrives at 1.702.882.6926 Director: Kamal Ahmed Producer: Eric Mitchell, Sonny Grosso the B&B and Mia suspects he may be Writer: Kamal Ahmed Key Cast: Ally Sheedy, Meat Loaf, Sean her lost father. The townsfolk believe he http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=47 Producer: Kamal Ahmed, Stuart Alson, Patrick Flanery, Patty McCormack, Nia may be responsible for Sara's death. As David Coppa, Brent Stuart, Nicholas Peeples events unfold, Daniel clears his name THE RULE OF LAW Malinosky Delivery Status: Completed and finds acceptance from the Action (89 min.) Key Cast: Peter Greene, Kevin Corrigan Year of Production: 2010 Country of community and Mia finds a father at last. Language: English (The Black Donnellys, The Departed), Origin: USA Director: Moziko Wind WARRIORS OF THE APOCALYPSE Frederico Castelluccio (Sopranos), Jane's idyllic life is shattered when her Action (89 minutes) Writer: Michael Miccio Arthur J. Nascarella (Sopranos) beloved Aunt Gertrude McCabe is Language: English Producer: Moziko Wind Delivery Status: Completed brutally murdered in San Jose. Jane's Director: Len Kabasinski Key Cast: Stephanie Betesh, David Year of Production: 2011 Country of heartbreak turns to horror when a Writer: Len Kabasinski Novak, JJ Brewer, Dallas Malloy, Origin: USA brilliant police detective, Jack Morris, Producer: Len Kabasinski Markiss McFadden, Brad Potts, Circus- BRUTAL stars Peter Greene (Pulp finally convinces her that the killer is Key Cast: Darian Caine, Pamela Sutch, Szalewski Fiction) in a story that follows the plight none other than her beloved boyfriend, Debbie D, Blue Meanie Delivery Status: Completed of four friends who pay the ultimate Tom O'Donnell. Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2012 Country of price when they seek revenge against a Year of Production: 2009 Country of Origin: USA DEFCON 2012 low-level gangster. Sci-Fi (92 min) Origin: USA A new age of terrorism is taking place in Language: English After WWIII has devastated America, a the United States. FBI Director, Frank ALL ABOUT EVIL Horror Director: R. Christian Anderson small band of female warriors attempt to Fitzgerald, is helping an Iranian terrorist Language: English Writer: Brian Neil survive long enough to make it to the group frame innocent American citizens Director: Joshua Grannell Producer: Brian Neil, John Wessmann, last city left standing. rendering them guilty for terrorist acts Writer: Joshua Grannell Carolina Liechtenstein they did not commit. The seventh victim, THE FARM Producer: Darren Stein Key Cast: Ryken Zane, Shy Pilgreen, Xu Horror (90 minutes) Tom Cali, is on the run trying to prove Key Cast: Natasha Lyonne (But I'm A Razer Language: English his innocence. Cheerleader, American Pie), Thomas Delivery Status: Completed Director: Hank Bausch, Andrew Jackson SINS EXPIATION Dekker (IMDB rank #967, A Nightmare Writer: Paul Farrell Action/Crime (90 min.) Year of Production: 2010 Country of on Elm Street, Foreverland), Ashley Fink Producer: Hank Bausch, Andrew Language: English Origin: USA (Glee, You Again), Jack Donner (J. Jackson, Paul Farrell Director: Carlo Fusco In 2012, a devastating war between Edgar, Stigmata, General Hospital). Key Cast: Michael Hotop, Ashley Writer: Christian Repici humans and aliens left the earth a Delivery Status: Completed Salazar, Freddie Meyer Key Cast: Danny Glover, Steven Bauer, nuclear wasteland. 200 years later the Year of Production: 2011 Country of Delivery Status: Completed John Savage, Anne Jeffreys, Cassandra descendants of both civilizations have Origin: USA Year of Production: 2010 Country of Gava, Hal Yamanouchi, Giovanni returned in search of treasure and lost A mousy librarian inherits her father's Origin: USA Martorana, Ervin Bejleri, Elisabetta artifacts. After landing their ship on the beloved but failing old movie house. In Charlie and his little brother Simon are Rocchetti. abandoned planet, Kaynin, Rune, and order to save the family business, she Delivery Status: Completed Archer descend into an underground city. the last ones left on Earth. They must discovers her inner serial killer - and a Year of Production: 2012 Country of THE BILL COLLECTOR fight to survive and battle zombies along legion of rabid gore fans - when she . Origin: Italy Drama the way starts turning out a series of grisly shorts. Two ex-gangsters meet on a high speed Language: English INTERSTATE What her fans don't realize yet is that the Thriller (80 minutes) train to Sicily. Director: Cristobal Krusen murders in the movies are all too real. Writer: Cristobal Krusen Language: English KNOCKDOWN Director: Marc-Andre Samson Action (93 minutes) MYSTERIA Producer: Cristobal Krusen Thriller (90 minutes) Writer: Marc-Andre Samson Language: English Key Cast: Danny Trejo (Disney's Spy Language: English Producer: Marc-Andre Samson Director: Todd Bellanca Kids, Machete), Gary Moore, Brandon Director: Lucius Kuert Key Cast: Shiloh Fernandez Writer: Todd Bellanca, Sasha Levinson Hardesty Writer: Lucius Kuert Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Todd Bellanca, Sarote Tabcum Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Rafael Primorac, Stuart Alson, Year of Production: 2008 Country of Jr Year of Production: 2011 Country of Robert Miano, Gerald Kessler Origin: USA Key Cast: Bai Ling, Tom Arnold, Casey Origin: USA Key Cast: Danny Glover, Billy Zane, A Montreal DJ, following his girlfriend Evans While working at a bill collection agency Martin Landau, Michael Rooker, Robert to Los Angeles, falls into a deadly Delivery Status: Completed in Norfolk, VA an old debt of Lorenzo Miano, Peter Mark Richman, Meadow relationship with a couple of female Year of Production: 2011 Country of Adam's own suddenly comes due when hitchhikers. Origin: USA Williams Frankie Gutierrez, an L.A. loan shark, Delivery Status: Completed shows up at his door. BOSTON GIRLS Year of Production: 2011 Country of Thriller (90 min) Origin: USA Language: English A once famous and now a washed-up Director: Gabriel Bologna

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Writer: Camille Solari Producer: Eduardo Sanchez, Matthew VAMPIRE DOG Language: English Producer: Camille Solari, Jon Saphire Compton, Reed Frerichs Family (90 minutes) Director: Jason Daly Key Cast: Danny Trejo, Renee Taylor, Key Cast: Jo Jonz, Larry Cedar, Maya Language: English Writer: Shawn Copenhaver, Jason Daly Camille Solari Parish Director: Geoff Anderson Producer: Shawn Copenhaver Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Tracy McMenemy Key Cast: Lorena King, Victor Gonzalez, Year of Production: 2010 Country of Year of Production: 2011 Country of Producer: Tim Brown Cecilia Huete Origin: USA Origin: USA Key Cast: Norm MacDonald (voice) Delivery Status: Completed Tired of their boyfriends' infidelities, two "MARTIN meets LET THE RIGHT Colin MacKechnie, Julia Sarah Stone, Year of Production: 2011 Country of girls from Boston make a New Year's ONE IN" - The Horror Chick Amy Matysio Origin: USA pact to wipe out everyone who has ever THE DEVIL'S BUSINESS Delivery Status: Completed A resort town haunted by a serial killer mistreated them - and they soon embark Horror (75 min) Year of Production: 2012 Country of soon holds the fate of five unsuspecting on a murderous revenge spree in this Language: English Origin: Canada visitors. thriller. Director: Sean Hogan A boy unwittingly adopts a 600 year old Writer: Sean Hogan "talking" vampire dog and soon Producer: Jennifer Handorf, Jay Slater discovers that when they face their fears K J Key Cast: Billy Clarke, Harry Miller, they can do anything. Jack Gordon THE COTTAGE Delivery Status: Completed Thriller (90 minutes) Year of Production: 2011 Country of Language: English Origin: UK Director: Chris Jaymes K5 INTERNATIONAL JINGA FILMS A professional killer and his rookie Writer: Nick Antosca - A DIVISION OF K5 Jinga Films, 22 Carnaby Street, London, apprentice arrive at an isolated country Co-Production Partners: Joker Films W1F7DB United Kingdom, Tel: house to eliminate a mystery man. The Producer: Bettina O'Mara, Kristen MEDIA GROUP 44.20.7287.0050 Fax: 44.20.7494.9492. would-be killers spend time in the dark, Dalton www.jingafilms.com, wondering what sort of man their target Key Cast: David Arquette, Kristen GMBH K5 International - a division of K5 [email protected] is, but the house has nasty secrets - Dalton, Victor Browne Sales Agent Media Group GmbH, Konradinstr. 5, including a very gruesome discovery in Delivery Status: Completed At Cannes: Rosana Coutinho (Head of Munich, 81543 Germany, Tel: the garage - and, when their target comes Year of Production: 2012 Country of Sales & Acquisition), Julian Richards +49(0)89.3750559-0 Fax: home early, the hit does not go as Origin: USA (Head of Production) +49(0)89.3750559-05. planned. After renting her guest house to a Office: Riviera E-7, Tel: 06.2787.46.48 www.k5mediagroup.com, stranger (Arquette), Bree (Dalton) soon CLOSED CIRCUIT EXTREME www.k5international.com, discovers he is not the perfect tenant she http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1205 AKA: CIRCUITO CHIUSO [email protected] EXTREME thought he would be. Sales Agent Horror (86 min) At Cannes: Oliver Simon (Partner - Sales BLACK FOREST: HANSEL AND MACHINE HEAD Language: English Thriller (90 minutes) & Production), Daniel Baur (Partner - GRETEL & THE 420 WITCH Comedy Horror (90 min) Director: Giorgio Amato Language: English Sales & Finance), Carl Clifton (Partner - Language: English Writer: Giorgio Amato Director: Jim Valdez Sales & Marketing), Sara Boss (Sales & Director: Duane Journey Producer: Antonio Manetti and Marco Writer: Joel Souza Marketing), Erica Motley (Head of Writer: David Tillman Manetti Producer: Bettina O'Mara, Jim Valdez Acquisitions), Oda Schfer (Head of Producer: Mark Morgan, Brett Hudson, Key Cast: Stefano Fregni, Francesca Key Cast: Sharon Hinnendael, Nicole Development) James Cotten Cuttica, Gaia Insegna Zeoli, Cristina Corigliano Office: Les Jardins du Grand Hotel Key Cast: Lara Flynn Boyle, Molly C. Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed (Shops), 45 Boulevard de la Croisette, Quinn, Michael Welch, Cary Elwes Year of Production: 2011 Country of Year of Production: 2012 Country of Tel: +33.643.863.786 Delivery Status: Post Production Origin: Italy Origin: USA A young couple break into the house of a Year of Production: 2012 Country of When three beautiful college students http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1293 Origin: USA suspected serial killer and plant hidden meet for Spring Break their dream camera's to record his crimes. When they From the producer of TWILIGHT - A vacation quickly turns into a nightmare RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST contemporary spin on the classic German attempt to retrieve the evidence they are when a masked man begins to terrorize Thriller fairy tale “Hansel & Gretel” about a trapped by the killer and are forced to them. Language: English/Urdu fight for their lives. brother and sister who battle a witch that SPACE MILKSHAKE Director: Mira Nair uses marijuana to lure teenagers into her FACE TO FACE Sci-Fi - Comedy (90 minutes) Writer: Mohsin Hamid & Ami Boghani suburban home where she devours them Comedy / Drama (86 min) Language: English and William Wheeler to maintain her youth and beauty. Language: English Director: Armen Evrensel Producer: Lydia Dean Pilcher Director: Michael Rymer Writer: Armen Evrensel Key Cast: Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, RITES OF SPRING Thriller (86 min) Writer: David Williamson Producer: Rob Merilees, Holly Baird, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland Language: English Producer: Gabrielle Christopher and Shayne Putzlocher Delivery Status: Post Production Director: Padraig Reynolds Leanne Hanley Key Cast: Robin Dunne, Kristin Kreuk, Year of Production: 2011 Country of Writer: Padraig Reynolds Key Cast: Chris Connelly, Greg Baldoni, Amanda Tapping, Billy Boyd Origin: USA/India/Turkey/Pakistan Producer: Eric Thompson, Wes Benton Laura Gordon Delivery Status: Post Production Based on the best-selling novel, The Key Cast: A J Bowen, Anessa Ramsey, Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2012 Country of Reluctant Fundamentalist is a riveting Marco St. John, James Bartz, Kat Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Canada international thriller. It follows the story Randolph, Shanna Forestall, Skylar Origin: Australia Jimmy, a bottom of the barrel "space- of a young Pakistani man, chasing Burke, Sonny Marrinelli, Hannah Bryan. A story about sex, lies and bullying in waste" technician finds himself playing corporate success on Wall Street, who Delivery Status: Completed the work place the role of the hero as his spaceship ultimately finds himself embroiled in a Year of Production: 2012 Country of inadvertently leaps back and forth conflict between his American Dream, a Origin: USA between dimensions. hostage crisis, and the enduring call of Kidnappers abduct the daughter of a JOKER FILMS INC. SKEW his family's homeland. Joker Films Inc., 3-130 555 Brooksbank wealthy socialite and hide out in an Thriller (90 mins) Ave., North Vancouver, BC V7J 3S5 NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON abandoned school where feelings of guilt Language: English Romantic Thriller Canada, Tel: 1.604.983.5436. divide the group. Events spiral out of Director: Seve Schelenz Language: English www.jokerfilms.com, control when their hideout becomes a Writer: Seve Schelenz Director: Bilie August [email protected] Key Cast: Amber Lewis, Richard Olak, hunting ground for a mysterious creature Sales Agent Writer: Greg Latter & Ulrich Herrmann Robert Scattergood with a bloodlust that comes every first At Cannes: Nolan Pielak (President, (Screenplay), Pascal Mercier (Novel) Delivery Status: Completed day of Spring. International Distribution) Producer: Kerstin Ramcke, Peter Year of Production: 2011 Country of Reichenbach, Günther Russ, Andreas MIDNIGHT SON Office: Lerins – R6, Tel: 1.778.829.8424 Horror / Romance (86 min) Origin: Canada Knoblauch, Michael Lehmann On July 19th, 2005, three friends went Key Cast: Jeremy Irons, Mélanie Language: English http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1083 Director: Scott Leberecht on a road trip. They never came back. Laurent, Jack Huston Writer: Scott Leberecht BEWARE Delivery Status: In Production Horror (90 minutes)

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Year of Production: 2011 Country of footage, King Kelly is a sensational the same fate, and fail. (Legally OK, HIGHWAY GOSPEL Origin: USA journey into hedonistic American youth production/marketing personnel can Documentary (91 min) Raimund Gregorius, a Swiss Professor culture and the YouTube generation. confirm the final version per their Language: English abandons his lectures and buttoned- VEHICLE 19 specifications unless it is revised to Director: Jaret Belliveau down, life to embark on a thrilling Action mention cast, then let me know but Writer: Craig Jackson, Jaret Belliveau adventure that will take him on a journey Language: English should be ok regardless). Executive Producer: Sean Buckley to the very heart of himself. Director: Mukunda Michael Dewil SILVER TONGUES Producer: Craig Jackson SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS Writer: Mukunda Michael Dewil Thriller (87min) Delivery Status: Completed Documentary (108 min) Producer: Ryan Haidarian, Peter Safran Language: English Year of Production: 2011 Country of Language: English Key Cast: Paul Walker Director: Simon Arthur Origin: USA Director: Will Lovelace / Dylan Southern Delivery Status: Post Production Writer: Simon Arthur A coward dies a thousand deaths, a brave Producer: Thomas Benski, lucas Ochoa, Year of Production: 2012 Country of Producer: Jared Moshe, Leda Nornang man dies but once. B.C. renegades race James Murphy Origin: USA Key Cast: Lee Tergensen, Enid Graham, down mountain highways on customized Key Cast: James Murphy, Keith Wood, A recently paroled man is framed and Emily Meade longboards.... Pat Mahoney, Al Doyle, Nancy Whang must circumvent an entire police force in Delivery Status: Completed EXIT Delivery Status: Completed a city he doesn’t know, if he is to clear Year of Production: 2011 Country of Sci-Fi (90 min) Year of Production: 2012 Country of his name. Origin: USA Language: English Origin: USA/UK VERY GOOD GIRLS Two lovers travel from town to town, Director: Marek Polgar The last days of LCD Soundsystem Thriller playing a dark game of deceit that soon Key Cast: Kylie Trounson, David GIRLS AGAINST BOYS Language: English spirals out of control. Whitley Psycho sexual Thriller (92 min) Director: Naomi Foner WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY Delivery Status: Completed Language: English Writer: Naomi Foner MAKES Year of Production: 2011 Country of Director: Austin Chick Producer: Lee Clay, Michael London Thriller (91 min) Origin: USA Writer: Austin Chick Key Cast: Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Language: German Every day growing numbers of men and Producer: Clay Floren, Aimee Shieh Olsen Director: Peter Payer women walk the streets of the city, Key Cast: Danielle Panabaker, Nicole Delivery Status: Pre-Production Writer: Kai Hensel opening doors. They leave their families, LaLiberte, Andrew Howard, Liam Aiken Year of Production: 2013 Country of Producer: Mathias Forberg, Viktoria their jobs, their entire lives behind so Delivery Status: Completed Origin: USA Salcher they can open dozens of doors. They Year of Production: 2012 Country of Two New York City girls pact to lose Key Cast: Simon Schwarz, Anna believe that the city is a maze. They are Origin: USA their virginity during their first summer Unterberger, Nicholas Ofczarek searching for a door they're convinced GIRLS AGAINST BOYS is a out of high school. When they both fall Delivery Status: Completed has been lost - the exit. They don't know provocative and superbly entertaining for the same guy, the best friends find Year of Production: 2011 Country of what's waiting behind it, but they all psycho-sexual thriller about two their relationsip tested for the first time. Origin: Austria agree that whatever it is it must be bartenders who, after one of them is HIGH SCHOOL In this psycho-thriller that owes much to something better. brutally assaulted, team up on a killing Comedy (102 min) the likes of Hitchcock and Haneke, a GHOSTED spree in New York - and take revenge on Language: English weekend trip to the Tyrolian Alps turns Thriller (99 min) the men who have mistreated them. Director: John Stalberg Jr. into a deadly cat-and-mouse chase when Language: English KING KELLY Writer: John Erik Linthorst, Stalberg Jr the past catches up with, and comes Director: Craig Viveiros Comedy (87 min) & Stephen Susco literally crashing into, politician Robert Key Cast: John Lynch, Martin Language: English Producer: Arcadiy Golubovich, Janacek. Compston, Craig Parkinson, Art Malik, Director: Andrew Neel Raymond J. Markovich, Warren Zide SING YOUR SONG Hugh Quarshie, David Schofield Writer: Andrew Neel, Mike Roberts Key Cast: Adrien Brody, Michael Documentary (105 min) Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Tom Davis, Luke Meyer, Chiklis, Sean Marquette Language: English Year of Production: 2011 Country of Ethan Palmer Delivery Status: Completed Director: Susanne Rostock Origin: UK Key Cast: Louisa Krause, Libby Year of Production: 2010 Country of Producer: Michael Cohl, Gina Belafonte, Hard hitting prison movie 'GHOSTED' Woodbridge, Roderick Hill Origin: USA Jim Brown, William Eigen, Julius R. tells a story of survival inside a violent, Delivery Status: Completed A high school valedictorian who gets Nasso godforsaken British prison. Jack a model Year of Production: 2012 Country of baked with the local stoner finds himself Key Cast: Harry Belafonte, Sidney prisoner, has kept his head down and Origin: USA the subject of a drug test. The situation Poitier, Huddie W. Ledbette (Ledbelly) done his time. After his wife confirms Made entirely from camera-phone causes him to concoct an ambitious plan Delivery Status: Completed that she is leaving him, on the to get his entire graduating class to face Year of Production: 2011 Country of anniversary of their son's death, the only Origin: USA thing that keeps him from going under is Told with a remarkable sense of the new prisoner, Paul in whom Jack intimacy, visual style, and musical takes a paternal interest. CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS panache, Susanne Rostock's inspiring THE KEY MAN THE CLICK AND ACCESS CULTURE IS NOW biographical documentary, SING YOUR Thriller (82 min) SONG, surveys the life and times of Language: English & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. singer/actor/activist Harry Belafonte. Director: Peter Himmelstein LIBRARY State library size, Key Cast: Hugo Weaving, Brian Cox, predominant type of film and age (e.g. Jack Davenport 250 titles from European auteurs of the 1970s). Delivery Status: Completed BUCK Year of Production: 2011 Country of Documentary (88 min) Click on Origin: USA Language: English It’s 1975 in New England, and BOBBY Director: Cindy Meehl Blue Boxes SCHEINMAN is an insurance salesman Producer: Julie Goldman whose career is on the slide. With his Key Cast: Buck Brannaman (Himself), to Access position at his company in jeopardy and Robert Redford (Himself) his wife yearning for a better life, Bobby Delivery Status: Completed Available is looking for a shortcut to the American Year of Production: 2011 Country of dream. It looks like that just might Origin: USA Company happen when IRVING and VINCENT, "The Horse Whisperer" may be the stuff two apparently wealthy businessmen, of Hollywood legend but the cowboy Trailers introduce themselves to him expressing who inspired the novel and film is very interest in a ‘Key Man policy,’ an real. Buck Brannaman - master Automatically agreement to insure his business should horseman, raconteur and philosopher - is either he or his business partner Charles a no-excuses cowboy who travels the Hawthorne die. Do Your Part To world sharing a hard-won wisdom that's often more about human relationships Combat Global Warming than about horses.

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HERE Key Cast: Joel Edgerton, Rhona Mitra, ravaged by a zombie outbreak. When Romance (120 min) Thomas Kretschmann KALEIDOSCOPE one of them receives a cry for help from Language: English Delivery Status: Completed a sole survivor they are all forced to Director: Braden King Year of Production: 2009 Country of FILM DISTRIBUTION embark on a reluctant rescue mission, Kaleidoscope Film Distribution, 104-108 Key Cast: Ben Foster, Lubna Azabal Origin: New Zealand pitting their wits, and risking their lives Oxford Street, London, W1D 1LP UK, Delivery Status: Completed Simon and Pam were once a golden against these flesh devouring mutants. Tel: +44(0)203.397.4418. Year of Production: 2011 Country of couple but two small children, two The body parts are flying in this blood www.kaleidoscopefilmdistribution.com, Origin: USA cracked nipples and one waning libido thirsty battle between good and evil. [email protected] Braden King's festival hit (Sundance FF, has snuffed out their fire. Simon is Sales Agent, Distributor I AGAINST I Berlinale Panorama, London BFI) HERE enormously flattered when another At Cannes: Spencer Pollard (CEO), Thriller (80min) is the first American film produced in the woman focuses her attention on him but Caroline Stern (Director of International Language: English country of Armenia. The film is a will he take it any further? Or will Sales & Acquisitions), Rosie Flynn Director: Mark CRIPPS, David landscape-obsessed road movie that Simon find that some men are not wired (International Sales Executive) ELLISON chronicles a brief but intense romantic for adultery, that some men are just too Office: Lerins S3, S4 Producer: James MARQUAND, relationship between an American nice? Krystian KOZLOWSKI, Matthew satellite-mapping engineer (Ben Foster) THE VISITOR http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1287 WHYTE and an expatriate Armenian photographer Drama (99 min) Key Cast: Kenny DOUGHTY, Ingvar (Lubna Azabal), who impulsively decide Language: English EGGERT SIGUR?SSON, Mark THE BACHELOR KING 3D to travel together into uncharted territory. Director: Tom Mc Carthy Documentary (75min) WOMACK, Sónia BALACÓ, John Will's Shepard's solitary work. Key Cast: Richard Jenkins, Hiam Language: English CASTLE GET LOW Abbass, Haaz Sleiman, Danal Gurira Writer: Sir David ATTENBOROUGH Delivery Status: Screening Comedy (103 min) Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Sias WILSON, Anthony Year of Production: 2012 Country of Language: English Year of Production: 2007 Country of GEFFEN Origin: UK Director: Aaron Schneider Origin: USA Key Cast: Sir David ATTENBOROUGH A story of jealousy, murder and betrayal, Key Cast: Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, In THE VISITOR Richard Jenkins, who Delivery Status: Screening I Against I is set over 12 hours, using Sissy Spacek was Oscar nominated for this role, is Year of Production: 2011 Country of different timelines to reveal a dark, edge Delivery Status: Completed sixty-two-year-old Walter Vale, Origin: UK of your seat thriller that takes numerous Year of Production: 2009 Country of sleepwalking through his life. Having In spectacular 3D, join one King Penguin twists and turns en-route to an explosive Origin: USA lost his passion for teaching and writing, on his incredible adventure from finale. Set in a nocturnal underworld, For decades a legend has haunted the he fills the void by unsuccessfully trying awkward adolescence to fatherhood. two men are un-wittingly set up to kill foothills of the East Tennessee to learn to play classical piano. When his each other by a third as part of a sinister SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: Appalachians. The stories about the college sends him to Manhattan to attend trap. They have to learn to trust each THE ART OF RAP shotgun- wielding recluse are legion. a conference, Walter is surprised to find Documentary (111min) other in order to stay alive but the clock Some say Felix Bush (Duvall) has killed a young couple has taken up residence in Language: English is ticking and their pursuer is always one men with his fists and at 70 years old he his apartment. Director: Ice-T step ahead of them. Starring Kenny still looks as if he could and would. A MATTER OF SIZE Producer: Paul TOOGOOD Doughty (City Rats, The Crew) When he comes down from the hills, Comedy (90 min) Key Cast: Eminem,Dr. Dre,Snoop THE MAN INSIDE people treat him like something wild Language: Hebrew Dogg,Ice - T,Kanye WEST, Feature Film/Thriller (95min) until he disappears again into the Director: Sharon Maymon, Erez Tadmor Common,Nas,Mos Def,Ice Cube,Chuck Language: English mountain mist. Key Cast: Itzik Cohen, Dvit benedek, D,Afrika Bambaataa,Run Dmc,Q- Director: Dan Turner WASTING AWAY Alon Dahan, Shmulik Cohen Tip,Melle Mel Writer: Dan Turner Comedy Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Screening Producer: Dean Fisher Language: English Year of Production: 2009 Country of Year of Production: 2012 Country of Key Cast: Ashley Bashy Thomas, Peter Director: Matthew and Sean Kohnen Origin: Israel Origin: UK Mullan, Michelle Ryan Key Cast: Matthew Davis, Julianna "A Matter of Size" is a comedy about a Ice T takes us on an intimate journey Delivery Status: Screening Robinson, Michael Grant Terry, Betsy ‘coming out’ of a different kind - into the heart and soul of hip hop in a Year of Production: 2012 Country of Beutler, Joel McCrary overweight people learning to accept unique feature length film that goes Origin: UK Delivery Status: Completed themselves. beyond the stardom and the bling, to Desperate not to be like his father, a Year of Production: 2007 Country of PING PONG PLAYA explore the minds of the grandmasters of young boxer must fight everything he Origin: USA Comedy (96 min) the genre. Featuring interviews and knows to stop history repeating Turning the zombie film on its head, this Language: English performances from 47 of the biggest INTERVIEW WITH A HITMAN film is an oddball comedy from the Director: Jessica Yu names in the business including Feature Film/Action (90min) perspective of the brain munching Key Cast: Jimmy Tsai, Andrew Vo, Eminem, Dr Dre, Kanye West, Snoop Language: English monsters themselves. Khary Payton, Jim Lau Dogg, Run DMC, Ice Cube, Doug E Director: Perry Bhandal TOAST Delivery Status: Completed Fresh, Big Daddy Kane, Q-Tip, and Writer: Perry Bhandal Coming of age (96 min) Year of Production: 2007 Country of many more – Ice T is granted Producer: Dean Fisher Language: English Origin: USA unparalleled access to the personal lives Key Cast: Luke Goss (Blood Out, Blade Director: S. J. Clarkson A kid dreams of playing professional of these legends, in this seminal take on II), Caroline Tillette, Stephen Marcus, Key Cast: Helena Bonham, Ken Stott, basketball in order to escape his dead- how rap has developed as an expressive Dermot Keaney, Rene Zagger, Ray Victoria Hamilton, Freddie Highmore end job, living in the suburbs, his bossy art form and a positive social and Panthaki Delivery Status: Completed older brother and running his Mom's cultural force. An ode to music and the Delivery Status: Screening Year of Production: 2010 Country of ping pong classes. movement Ice T has been a force within. Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: UK WONDERFUL WORLD A must see for any fan of music. Origin: UK One of the highlights of Berlinale 2011 Romantic Comedy (89 min) KILL ZOMBIE! In his final mission, an elite hitman, and based on the award-winning book by Language: English AKA: ZOMBIBI returns to erase his past, only to find that Nigel Slater, TOAST tells the story of Director: Joshua Goldin Horro/Comedy (90min) somebody has messed with his future. how the young Nigel falls in love with Key Cast: Matthew Broderick Language: Dutch HOOLIGAN food as a little boy. Growing up in a Delivery Status: Completed Director: Martijn SMITS, Erwin VAN Documentary (95min) home when everything tinned is best Year of Production: 2008 Country of Origin: USA DEN ESHOF Language: English Nigel craves real food. He loves Could fish really fall from the sky? Ben Writer: Tijs VAN MARLE Director: Donal MacIntyre (A Very cookbooks and gazes longingly at the Singer, the world's most negative man, Producer: Frank GROENVELD British Gangster) delights on display in the village shop. refuses to believe even the tiniest miracle Key Cast: Uriah ARNHEM, Wouter Writer: David Malone When his mother dies he and his father is possible. He spends all his time BRAAF, Noel DEELEN Producer: Duncan Napier-Bell are heartbroken but time heals and the fighting a corporate super organism, Delivery Status: Screening Key Cast: Donal MacIntyre, Ray ample charms and lemon meringue pies otherwise known as "The Man", whose Year of Production: 2012 Country of Winstone (Narrator) of the new cleaner. appearances haunt him even in his small Origin: Netherlands Delivery Status: Completed SEPARATION CITY one bedroom apartment. Barricaded After a night in jail, four hung-over Year of Production: 2012 Country of Romantic Comedy (106 min) behind a worldview of cynicism, Ben is friends and one gutsy female police Origin: UK Language: English not expecting anything from anybody officer emerge to discover their city From the director of “A Very British Director: Paul Middleditch anymore. Gangster”, Hooligan is a shocking

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exposé that tackles the dark side of STRIPPERS VS WEREWOLVES Year of Production: 2012 Country of and organize the ambush of a German football from England to Germany, Italy, Action/Horror (95min) Origin: UK armor unit. Lives will be shattered, hope Turkey, Brazil, Argentina, and the United Language: English On her Diamond Jubilee, ITN explores will be lost, love will be found, and men States Director: Jonathan GLENDENING the ups and downs or Queen Elizabeth will be changed...forever. VICTIM Writer: Pat HIGGINS II's 60 year reign. AGE OF THE DRAGONS Feature Film/Thriller (80min) Producer: Jonathan SOTHCOTT WILLIAM & KATE: A FIRST Action/Adventure, Fantasy Language: English Key Cast: Barbara NEDELJAKOVA, ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Language: English Director: Alex Pillai Robert ENGLUND, Sarah DOUGLAS, Documentary/Factual Entertainment (1 x Director: Ryan Little Writer: Ashley Chin, Michael Maris Lucy PINDER, Martin KEMP, Ali 45’ or 1 x 90’) Writer: McKay Daines with story by Ann Producer: Danny Donnelly, Jason Maza BASTIAN, Adele SILVA Language: English Black and Gil Aglaure Key Cast: Ashley Chin, Jason Maza, Delivery Status: Completed Director: Tracy Manners Co-Production Partners: Metrodome Ashley Madekwe, Michael Maris, Adam Year of Production: 2012 Country of Producer: Tracy Manners Producer: (Executive Producers) Gil Deacon, David Harewood, Leititia Origin: UK Delivery Status: Completed Aglaure, Joe Pia, and Peter Urie Wright, Shanika Warren-Markland At the Silvadollaz strip club, a stripper Year of Production: 2012 Country of Key Cast: Danny Glover, Vinnie Jones, Delivery Status: Completed named Justice performs a private lap Origin: UK Corey Sevier, and Sofia Pernas Year of Production: 2012 Country of dance for Mickey, a man who violates It was a fairy tale wedding watched by Delivery Status: In Production Origin: UK the no-touching policy ... by sprouting more than 2 billion people around the Year of Production: 2011 Country of A career criminal breaks free from his fangs and claws and trying to eat her! globe. But what has happened to the Origin: USA gangland life only to find himself the Justice panics and takes the only option happy couple since the world stopped to DragonFire retells Herman Melville's target of retaliation. open to her: she drives a silver fountain watch this amazing spectacle? classic story, Moby Dick. Set in a ELFIE HOPKINS pen through Mickey’s eye, into his brain, REUNITING THE RUBINS mythical realm, Captain Ahab seeks Feature Film/Thriller (91min) killing him instantly. Oops… Jeanette, Feature Film/Comedy (95min) revenge on the great “White Dragon” Language: English the club’s owner, believes murdering Language: English that slaughtered his family when he was Director: Ryan Andrews customers is bad for business, so she Director: Yoav Factor young. Writer: Ryan Andrews & Riyad orders the club’s bouncer to quietly Writer: Yoav Factor EVERYMAN'S WAR Barmania dispose of the body. There the matter Producer: Yoav Factor & Jonathan Action/Adventure/Drama/History (104 Producer: Michael Wiggs & Jonathan should end ... if Mickey hadn’t been a Weissler minutes) Sothcott member of a bloodthirsty and vengeful Key Cast: Timothy Spall (Harry Potter, Language: English Key Cast: Jaime Winstone (Made in pack of werewolves. When Mickey’s Sweeney Todd), Rhona Mitra Director: Thad Smith Dagenham), Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast, corpse surfaces, Jack Ferris, the (Underworld, Ali G In Da House), James Writer: Craig Smith 44 Inch Chest), Aneurin Barnard werewolves’ charming and vicious Callis (Bridget Jones' Diary), Honor Producer: Jay Lance and James (Ironclad), Kimberley Nixon (Angus, leader, swears bloody vengeance and Blackman (Goldfinger, The Avengers) WilderHancock; Executive Producer: Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging), Will sends his pack out to hunt down the Delivery Status: Completed Thad Smith Payne, Kate Magowan (Stardust) killers. Little does he know, Justice is Year of Production: 2010 Country of Key Cast: Cole Carson, Lauren Bair, Delivery Status: Completed actually the fiancée of his second in Origin: UK Michael J. Prosser, and Sean McGrath Year of Production: 2012 Country of command, Scott. To make matters worse, A father’s dream vacation is ruined by Delivery Status: Completed Origin: UK Justice bites Scott during sex and now his aged mother who is hell-bent on Year of Production: 2009 Country of When a cannibal family moves into a may be infected with the curse of seeing her dysfunctional adult Origin: USA quiet village, Elfie Hopkins and her best lycanthropy herself. Add to the mix grandchildren together one last time “Everyman's War” is the true story of friend find themselves in a race against werewolf Barker, the masturbating man- before she dies. Don Smith's heroic experience at the time to expose their secret and save their child; Sinclair, the occultist with low Battle of the Bulge with the 94th disappearing neighbours. self-esteem; a bevy of the most beautiful Infantry, when he risked his life to save a PANIC BUTTON women this side of heaven and you have KOAN INC. town. Koan Inc., P.O. Box 982557, Park City, Horror (95min) the perfect recipe for balls to the wall, ONLY THE BRAVE Language: English skimpily clad, strippers on werewolves UT 84098 USA, Tel: 1.435.645.7244 Action/Adventure/Drama/History (100 Director: Chris CROW action-packed goodness. Strippers v Fax: 1.435.645.8644. www.koaninc.com, minutes) Writer: Frazer LEE, John Werewolves - stripping has never been [email protected] Language: English Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor SHACKLETON, David SHILLITOE this hairy! Director: Lane Nishikawa At Cannes: Gil Aglaure (President), Producer: John SHACKLETON Writer: Lane Nishikawa MIDNIGHT TANGO Devin Carter (VP of Sales), Tamara Bell Key Cast: Scarlett Alice JOHNSON, Arts /Other (85min) Co-Production Partners: Sal Baldomar (Acquisition Executive) Jack GORDON, Michael JIBSON, Elen Director: Colin Fay Producer: Karen Criswell, Eric Hayashi, Office: 25.06, Tel: 334 9299 8263 RHYS Producer: Arlene Phillips, Adam Spiegel Jay Koiwai, Lane Nishikawa, and Harriet Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Vincent Simone, Flavia Cheng Year of Production: 2011 Country of Cacace http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1112 Key Cast: Tamlyn Tomita, Pat Morita, Origin: UK Delivery Status: Completed Jason Scott Lee, and Mark Decascos Four young people win a competition of Year of Production: 2011 SAINTS AND SOLDIERS: Delivery Status: Completed a lifetime; Jo (Scarlett Alice Johnson – Tango world champions, Vincent Simone AIRBORNE CREED Year of Production: 2006 Country of Action/Drama/War (90 minutes) Adulthood), Max (Jack Gordon – and Flavia Cacace, dazzle in this brand Origin: USA Language: English Heartless) Gwen (Elen Rhys – Season Of new live theatre event, deliverable in all Being greatly outnumbered, the Nisei Director: Ryan Little The Witch) and Dave (Michael Jibson – formats. (2nd generation Japanese-American) Writer: Lincoln Hoppe, Lamont Gray The Bank Job) head off on an all 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team LORD OF THE DANCE Executive Producer: Adam Abel, Gil expenses paid trip to New York, courtesy Arts/Other (94min) broke through German lines and suffered Aglaure, Ryan Little of social network All2gethr.com. As they Language: English 800 casualties to save 211 soldiers of the Producer: Ryan Little, Adam Abel board the private jet, they are asked to Director: Macus Viner “Lost Battalion” during WWII. Key Cast: Corbin Allred, Jasen Wade, relinquish their mobile phones and take Producer: Vicki Betihavas, Kit Hawkins Brenden Whitney SHADOWHEART part in the in-flight entertainment – a Western (100 minutes) Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2012 Country of new online gaming experience. Once Language: English Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA airborne, it soon becomes evident after Director: Dean Alioto Origin: UK On August 15th 1944, an invasion in some provocative and disturbing Writer: Dean Alioto, Peter Vanderwall, A 3D movie event, is Flatley’s Provence, France was organized by the challenges, that their mystery host knows Brad Goodman, with story by Justin remounted billion dollar show, filmed Americans to support and protect the far more about them than they’d ever Ament over 6 live performances in London and allied troops marching to Berlin who had dared imagine. Trapped at 30,000 feet Producer: Justin Ament, Rick August Dublin. already landed in Normandy on June 6, with everything at stake, they must play Goeckel, Matt Silver, and Patrick ELIZABETH II: A DIAMOND 1944. After jumping over Provence for the lives of their loved ones, as a Stapleton; Executive Producers: Bruce JUBILEE CELEBRATION during the night, three paratroopers who series of twists lead the game toward its Ament, Jeremy Danial Boreing, and Joel Documentary/ Factual Entertainment have to regroup with their fellow soldiers Moore gruesome and shocking finale. Panic /History (DVD - 3 x 60”, TV - 3 x 45'') in the village of Les Arcs, help the local Key Cast: Angus Macfayden, Daniel Button is a breathless psychological Language: English resistance to free some of their members horror for the 21st century, which carries Director: Tracy Manners Baldwin, William Sadler, and Justin the stark warning to us all… When you Producer: Tracy Manners/Emma Read Ament live your life online, there is no Esc… Delivery Status: Post Production Delivery Status: Completed

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Year of Production: 2009 Country of Rauschelbach, and Jason Rauschelbach CHURCH BALL Key Cast: Tim Large, Jeremy King, Origin: USA Key Cast: Elizabeth Kell, Mandi Comedy/Sport (91 min) Robb Maus, Steve Roth, Ralph A. Villani James Conners returns to his hometown Kreisher, Kevin McClatchy, and Owen Language: English Year of Production: 2012 Country of in 1865 to avenge his father's death Szabo Director: Kurt Hale Origin: USA against the ruthless Will Tunney and Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Paul Eagleston, Kurt Hale The backs of the Axis alliance have been must choose between revenge and Year of Production: 2008 Country of Co-Production Partners: Dave Hunter broken... or have they? A U.S. redemption. Origin: USA Producer: George Dayton, Kurt Hale Submarine is sent on a Top Secret rescue SCOUT CAMP A young couple's romantic weekend Key Cast: Fred Willard, Andrew Wilson, mission searching for downed pilots and Comedy/Family (83 minutes) getaway at a secluded mountain ranch Clint Howard, Gary Coleman, Steve discovers German and Japanese troops Language: English becomes an unfathomable nightmare Anderson, Amy Stewart, Larry Bagby together on an Island in the Pacific. The Director: Garrett Batty when they discover the truth about the Delivery Status: Completed Axis Alliance has all the ingredients for Writer: Garrett Batty caretaker and area. Year of Production: 2006 the ultimate weapon. Will they be able to Producer: Garrett Batty, Drew Gilliland, BUCKAROO: THE MOVIE Dennis Buckstead has the hardest calling change the tide of the war? Drew Champion, and Robert Starling Family/Western (95 minutes) in his church. Not only has he been Key Cast: Kirby Heyborne, Shawn Language: English asked to coach a group of non-basketball Carter, Nate Harper, and Tanner Mudrow Director: James A. Brooks players, he is to lead them to the L Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Bob Holland championship. Year of Production: 2009 Country of Co-Production Partners: Farah Ibrahimi, SUITS ON THE LOOSE Origin: USA Jim Kilber, Lori Kilber, David Skrock, Comedy (93 min) York Hayes returns to camp for his last and Paul Towel Language: English week, determined to make it his best. Producer: Robert S. Brock, Dee Dee Director: Rodney Henson LATIDO CONSORCIO Unfortunately, things get crazy as he Brooks, Rose Lindsay, and Greg Shelton Writer: Rodney Henson DE EXPORTACION deals with the antics of his fellow troop Key Cast: Simon R. Baker, Gary Busey, Co-Production Partners: Kelly Moran- members. Lindsay Wagner, and George Gerdes Brown DEL CINE ESPANOL GRIZZLY PARK Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Dave Hunter, George Dayton, Horror/Thriller (95 minutes) Year of Production: 2008 Country of Kurt Hale, Rodney Henson S.L Latido Consorcio de Exportacion Del Language: English Origin: USA Key Cast: Robert Prosky, Charles Cine Espanol S.L, Veneras, 9, Madrid, Director: Tom Skull Jerome, a troubled gang member, is sent Napier, Val Johnson, Orlando Brown, Madrid 28013 Spain, Tel: Writer: Tom Skull from the streets to work on a farm. Fred Dryer +34.91.548.88.77 Fax: Co-Production Partners: Nick Nunziata While there, he discovers more about Delivery Status: Completed +34.91.548.88.78 www.latidofilms.com, Producer: Belle Avery and Jeanne Stack; himself and obtains a new outlook on Year of Production: 2005 Country of [email protected] Executive Producers: Peter Julien Chang, life. Origin: USA Sales Agent Dianne Crittenden, and Merlin Reaume DRAGON HUNTER Suits on the Loose is the story of two At Cannes: Miren Zamora (International Key Cast: Glenn Morshower, Randy Action/Adventure/Fantasy/thriller (90 rebellious teens, Justin and Ty, and their Sales), Juan Torres (Sales & Wayne, Zulay Henao, and Emily Foxler minutes) breakout from a desert survival camp. Acquisitions), Oscar Alonso (Festivals & Delivery Status: Completed Language: English SAVAGE Subsidies), Silvia Iturbe (Managing Year of Production: 2008 Country of Director: Steve Shimek Sci-Fi / Horror / Action / Adventure (87 Director) Origin: USA Writer: Steve Shimek minutes) Office: CINEMA FROM SPAIN Stand Eight young adults are sent to do Producer: Maclain Nelson Language: English RIVIERA A5 community service at Grizzly Park. Key Cast: Isaac C. Singleton Jr., Kelly Director: Jordan Blum

There, they are hunted by an escaped Stables, Orlando Seale, Maclain Nelson Writer: Jordan Blum, Lynn Drzick, http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=61 serial killer along with the ferocious Delivery Status: Completed Nancy Gideon animals of the forest. Year of Production: 2008 Country of Producer: Bo Buckley, Christopher VIOLETA WENT TO HEAVEN Origin: USA THE LODGE Cook, Justin Soponis, DJ Perry AKA: VIOLETA SE FUE A LOS Horror/Thriller (85 minutes) Orphaned, when Orc's killed his parents, Key Cast: Martin Kove, Tony Becker, CIELOS Language: English Kendrick was raised by his brother, Lisa Wilcox, Shane Callahan Drama (110min) Director: Brad Helmink and John Darius. Remembering his mother's Delivery Status: Completed Language: Spanish Rauschelbach prophesies of a Dragon Hunter, Darius Year of Production: 2010 Country of Director: Andres Wood Writer: Deb Havener and Kendrick journey to the castle of Origin: USA Writer: Andres Wood, Elisea Altunaga, Co-Production Partners: John Brandt Ocard -the Dragon Hunter training A blazing forest fire rips through Bear Guillermo Calderon, Rodrigo Bazaes. Producer: Brad Helmink, John grounds. Valley National Park. The animals are Co-Production Partners: Wood being forced out of their habitat Producciones, Maiz Producciones. including a beast that was better left Producer: Patricio Pereira, Pablo Rovito, undiscovered. Fernando Sokolowycz T OUR INGERTIPS CANNES A Y F PATHFINDERS - IN THE Key Cast: Francisca Gavilan, Cristian THE CLICK AND ACCESS CULTURE IS NOW COMPANY OF STRANGERS Quevedo, Patricio Ossa, Thomas Durand, Action, History, War (90 minutes) Luis Machin & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Director: Curt A Sindelar Year of Production: 2011 Country of Writer: Charlie Armstrong, Curt A Origin: Chile - Brasil - Argentina Sindelar Violeta Went to Heaven tells the path of Producer: Curt A. Sindelar, Jacob Tiller Chilean Violeta Parra, mother of the Click on Key Cast: Michael Conner Humphrey's, Latin American Folk, tracing her James Robinson, Christopher Serrone, evolution from impoverished child to Blue Boxes Jon Ashley Hall, Ryan Findley international sensation and pop culture Year of Production: 2011 Country of icon, while capturing the swirling to Access Origin: USA intensity of her life. A secret mission is launched prior to the THE SEX OF THE ANGELS Available D-Day Invasion. A small elite group of AKA: EL SEXO DE LOS ANGELES American paratroopers drop behind Drama (105 min) Company enemy lines and land right in the lap of Language: Spanish - Catalan the German Infantry. Director: Xavier Villaverde Trailers USS SEAVIPER Writer: Ana Maroto Action, Adventure, Drama, History (100 Co-Production Partners: Continental Automatically minutes) Producciones, Dream Team Concept, Language: English CCFBR Produçoes Director: Ralph A Villani Producer: Pancho Casal, Jordi Mendieta, Do Your Part To Writer: Lynanne Rockhill Xavier Villaverde, Bob Costa. Producer: Rob Norris, Ralph A Villani, Key Cast: Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Alvaro Combat Global Warming Michael Teutsch

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Cervantes, Llorenc Gonzalez. Writer: Roberto Santiago, Pablo Producer: Elisa Saldaña Max, a retired military man who lives in Delivery Status: Completed Fernandez Key Cast: Quim Gutierrez, Miguel Angel a village on the Costa de la Luz. After Year of Production: 2012 Country of Co-Production Partners: Castafiore Silvestre, Celia Freijeiro, Juan Diego, Jon is expelled from school, his mother Origin: Spain Films, Tornasol Films, Cacerola Films Axel Fernandez, Carolina Cao decides to send him away with Max to The story of a group of youngsters who Executive Producer: Mariela Besuievsky Delivery Status: Screening teach him a lesson. But it won’t be that learn how to live following their Producer: Gerardo Herrero, Mariela Year of Production: 2012 Country of simple, Jon likes to flirt with danger and emotions, forgetting stereotypes and Besuievsky, Laura Imperiale Origin: Spain the veteran has now settled down into a striking social rules. Who is in love with Key Cast: Oscar Casas, Demian Bichir, Fins and Brinco were best friends when comfortable life. Both characters will whom? Ana Claudia Talancon, Antonio Resines, teenagers. Twenty years later, they meet have to confront their fears and FROZEN SILENCE Antonio Tejero, Ernesto Alterio again: one is a police officer and the limitations. AKA: SILENCIO EN LA NIEVE Delivery Status: Completed other, drug dealer. Leda has always been Thriller (114 min) Year of Production: 2011 Country of between them Language: Spanish Origin: Spain, Mexico HOLD-UP! LAW OFFICES OF Director: Gerardo Herrero Ivan is an eleven-year-old boy who is AKA: ¡ATRACO! Writer: Nicolas Saad going to play against the World's best Thriller GREG S. BERNSTEIN Law Offices of Greg S. Bernstein, 301 N. Co-Production Partners: Tornasol films, football players, besides living his first Language: Spanish Canon Dr., Suite 318, Beverly Hills, Lietuvos Kino Studija great love story. This is an adventure that Director: Eduard Cortés California 90210 USA, Tel: Producer: Gerardo Herrero, Carlos you'll never forget. A story full of Writer: Marcelo Figueras, Piti Español, 1.310.247.2790 Rodriguez, Jose Velasco, Javier Lopez adventures and football for the whole Eduard Cortés, based in the idea of Fax: 1.310.247.2791. Blanco family. Pedro Costa. www.thefilmlaw.com, Key Cast: Juan Diego Botto, Carmelo Executive Producer: Pedro Costa, FROM TUESDAY TO TUESDAY [email protected] Gomez, Jordi Aguilar, Victor Clavijo, AKA: DE MARTES A MARTES Gerardo Herrero, Luis-Alberto Scalella At Cannes: Greg S. Bernstein Francesc Orella Drama (90min) Producer: Martín Cabañas (Entertainment Attorney, Producer Delivery Status: Completed Language: Spanish Key Cast: Guillermo Francella, Nicolás Representative) Year of Production: 2012 Country of Director: Gustavo Fernández Triviño Cabré, Amaia Salamanca, Oscar Jaenada, Office: Novotel Montfleury Cannes, Tel: Origin: Spain - Lithuania Writer: Gustavo Fernández Triviño Jordi Martínez, Daniel Fanego. Mobile: 1.310.266.5365 Winter 1943. The Russian front. A Producer: Gabriel Pastore Delivery Status: Post Production Battalion of the Spanish 'Blue Division' Key Cast: Alejandro Awada, Pablo Pinto, Year of Production: 2012 Country of runs into a desolated landscape where a Malena Sanchez, Daniel Valenzuela. Origin: Spain http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1347 corpse lies on the ice; his throat slit. Delivery Status: Completed May 1956. The same headline on every Engraved in blood on his shoulder it Year of Production: 2012 Country of Spanish paper: “A movie-like heist”. reads 'Watch out, God is Watching You'. Origin: Argentina Two heavily armed men wearing military LIGHTNING YEAR OF GRACE Juan is a 35 years old man whose have outfits rob a famous jewellery in Madrid ENTERTAINMENT AKA: AÑO DE GRACIA bodybuilding as hobby. He work in a and steal some pawned jewels which, Comedy dirty factory where in spite of his mysteriously, belong to Evita Perón. Lightning Entertainment, 301 Arizona Language: Catalan muscles, is mistreated by his colleagues Avenue, Suite 400, Santa Monica, CA UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE 90401 USA, Tel: +1.310.255.7999 Fax: Director: Ventura Pons. and boss. His dream is to quit the factory CROSS Writer: Carme Morell, Jaume Cuspinera, and be the owner of his own gymnasium, +1.310.255.7998. AKA: BAJO LA SOMBRA DE LA http://www.lightning- Ventura Pons. but he knows with such a way of life he CRUZ Co-Production Partners: Els Films de la needs time to achieve his dream. A night, Documentary (72min) ent.com/index_new,info@lightning- ent.com Rambla when Juan leaves the factory after his Language: Spanish Sales Agent Producer: Ventura Pons. overtime, he saw a rich man trying to Director: Alessandro Pugno At Cannes: Robert Beaumont Key Cast: Rosa Maria Sarda, Oriol Pla, rape a saleswoman that he cross every Executive Producer: Gabriella Manfre, (President), Mathilde AUPETIT (VP of Santi Millan. day. Juan decides to do nothing and let Antonio Saura, Alessandro Pugno, International Sales), Alexandra Delivery Status: Completed the rich man does. He begins an Enrico Giovannone, Andrea Parena, COCEAN (VP of International Sales), Year of Production: 2011 Country of investigation for know who is this man. Francesca Frigo Joseph DICKSTEIN (SVP of Origin: Spain Juan could find the man and begin Producer: Luca Cechet Sansoe Acquisitions and Marketing), Audrey David is 20 years old and newly arrived blackmail: He does not denounce him if Delivery Status: Completed DELANEY (VP of Acquisitions and in Barcelona. Gràcia, a bitter old hag in the man gives him money to open his Year of Production: 2012 Country of Marketing), Richard Guardian her late sixties, offers him free room in gymnasium to change his life. The man Origin: Italy,Spain (Consultant) exchange for his companionship. They accepts the blackmail but Juan can’t let An untold journey inside the Valles de Office: Lerins R7 - S10, Tel: will soon realize that they have more in his act unpunished, he gives all the los Caidos (Valley of the Fallen) 33.0.4.92.99.33.19 common than they thought. information to the saleswoman that she Monastery: the daily life of the can do a prosecution. Finally Juan has CHINESE TAKE-AWAY benedectine monks and the education of http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1065 AKA: UN CUENTO CHINO reached his dream, but also he loses Chorus children, based on a mix of Comedy (100 min.) many important things of his life. Catholic integralism and traditionalism. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING Language: Spanish GRAZING THE SKY The monumental complex founded by Comedy (84min) Director: Sebastian Borensztein AKA: A RAS DEL CIELO dictator Francisco Franco between 1939 Language: English Writer: Sebastian Borensztein Documentary 3D (80min) and 1950, whose rests are held in the Director: Brian Dannelly Co-Production Partners: Castafiore Language: Varius Languages Basilica, is a symbol of the actual Writer: Chris Colfer Films, Tornasol Films, Pampa Films, Director: Horacio Alcalá political mission of the Catholic Church Executive Producer: Chris Colfer & Alywood Mediterraneo Writer: Horacio Alcalá which is getting a new boost through all Jason Michael Berman Producer: Gerardo Herrero, Pablo Bossi, Producer: Carlos Batres Europe. Producer: Rob Aguire & Mia Chang Juan Pablo Buscarini, Benjamin Odell Delivery Status: Post Production 15 YEARS AND A DAY Key Cast: Chris Colfer, Christina Key Cast: Ricardo Darin, Huang Sheng Year of Production: 2012 Country of AKA: 15 AÑOS Y UN DÍA Hendricks, Rebel Wilson, Dermot Huang, Muriel Santa Ana, Ivan Origin: Canada, Spain, Holland Drama Mulroney Romanelli, Enric Rodriguez In collaboration with Cirque Du Soleil. Language: Spanish Delivery Status: Screening Delivery Status: Completed An exciting perspective for circus lovers. Director: Gracia Querejeta Year of Production: 2012 Country of Year of Production: 2011 Country of The evolution of this art form is Writer: Gracia Querejeta, Antonio Origin: USA Origin: Argentina, Spain presented with admiration and Mercero Santos The film chronicles the exploits of a high A comedy about the strange coexistence appreciation. A closer look at the Executive Producer: Gerardo Herrero, school student as he blackmails his which Roberto, a cranky loner, and Jun, challenge of defying gravity. Mariela Besuievsky fellow senior classmates into a Chinese man who is lost in Buenos ALL IS SILENCE Producer: Joseán Gómez contributing to a school magazine he's Aires and speaks no Spanish, are forced AKA: TODO ES SILENCIO Key Cast: Tito Valverde, Maribel Verdú, publishing. In this satirical comedy about into. Drama (119min) Aaron Piper, Belén López, Susi Sánchez surviving high school, STRUCK BY IVAN'S DREAM Language: Spanish Delivery Status: Pre-Production LIGHTNING follows the story of a AKA: EL SUEÑO DE IVAN Director: José Luis Cuerda Year of Production: 2012 Country of young man’s unorthodox pursuit of a Family (101 min) Writer: Manuel Rivas Origin: Spain better life. Language: Spanish Executive Producer: Gerardo Herrero, depicts the relationship between a Director: Roberto Santiago Antonio Saura, Carlos Rodriguez troubled teenager and his grandfather

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THE HOT FLASHES Writer: Stephen Amis & Serge De Nardo life is changing in ways that are Key Cast: Corey Page, Stef Dawson, Comedy Executive Producer: Stephen Amis unexpected and long overdue. William Emmons Language: English Producer: Tait Brady, Lynne Wilson, BLOODWORK Delivery Status: Completed Director: Susan Seidelman Key Cast: Jim Knobeloch, Dan AKA: PHASE ONE Year of Production: 2011 Country of Writer: Brad Henning Balcaban, Jak Wyld, Thriller (99min) Origin: Australia Executive Producer: Laurie Lacob Year of Production: 2012 Country of Language: English Traveling south on the coast, through Producer: Brad Henning & Nina Origin: Australia Director: Eric Wostenberg remote countryside, a goup of friends Henderson Moore A top secret time travel experiment Writer: David Nahmod encounter a stranger. Stopping to help, Key Cast: Brooke Shields, Daryl during World War II sends a group of Executive Producer: Chris Chesser they endure a shocking and unrelenting Hannah, Virginia Madsen, Camryn American soldiers catapulting ahead into Producer: Karen Glasser, Brandon Nutt, game of cant-and-mouse, and discover Manheim, Wanda Sykes a future where the Nazis have won the David S. Ward, that nothing will ever be the same again. Delivery Status: Post Production war and enslaved the planet. Now they Key Cast: Travis Van Winkle, Tricia Year of Production: 2012 Country of must fight to get back to their time and Helfer Origin: USA save the planet from the Nazis' grip! Delivery Status: Completed M Sparks fly in this hilarious comedy when COLUMBUS CIRCLE Year of Production: 2011 Country of five middle-aged Texas women decide to Thriller (86min) Origin: Canada start an unlikely basketball team. All Language: English Best friends Greg and Rob, college former high-school champs, the women Director: George Gallo roommates, decide to earn a little extra prepare to take on a crew of sassy high- Writer: George Gallo, Kevin Pollack cash by participating in a two-week MAGNOLIA school girls – the current state Executive Producer: Christopher Mallick pharmaceutical test over the Christmas PICTURES champions – to raise money for breast Producer: William Sherak holidays. Locked into a remote hospital Magnolia Pictures, 49 West 27th Street, cancer prevention. The new team of Key Cast: Selma Blair, Amy Smart, facility far out in the isolated 7th Floor, New York, NY 10001 USA, misfits goes to comic extremes to prove Giovanni Ribisi countryside, they find themselves part of Tel: 1.212.924.6701 Fax: themselves on and off the court, and Delivery Status: Completed a bizarre series of tests. But as order and 1.212.924.6742. after becoming a national media Year of Production: 2010 Country of control start to break down, it becomes http://www.magpictures.com, sensation, end up gaining a new lease on Origin: USA clear that the drugs are having [email protected] life. A young reclusive heiress attempts to increasingly dangerous side effects, and Sales Agent, Distributor HEAVEN'S DOOR buy the apartment of her deceased that no one involved in the test will be At Cannes: Eamonn Bowles (President), AKA: DOORWAY TO HEAVEN neighbor. AS her request goes safe for long. Laird Adamson (Head of International Sales), Natsu Furuichi (Manager- Family unanswered, she encounters Lillian and SCENTS & SENSIBILITY Language: English Charlie, the new owners of the apartment Family, Romantic Comedy (88min) International Sales), Dori Begley (SVP Director: Craig Clyde and suddenly her previously sheltered Language: English Acquisitions), Peter Van Steemburg Writer: Craig Clyde & Bryce W. life becomes threatened in unexpected Director: Brian Brough (Director Acquisitions), John Von Fillmore and terrifying ways. Writer: Brittany Wiscombe Thaden (Manager- Acquisitions), Randy Wells (Home Entertainment) Key Cast: Charisma Carpenter, Dean BRAKE Executive Producer: Brian Brough Cain, Kirstin Dorn Action, Thriller (91min) Producer: Brittany Wiscombe Office: 24 La Croisette, La Brise 2nd Delivery Status: Post Production Language: English Key Cast: AShley Williams, Marla Floor, Tel: +1.917.608.6413 Year of Production: 2012 Country of Director: Gabe Torres Sokoloff, Nick Zano Origin: USA Writer: Timothy Mannion Delivery Status: Completed http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1081 From the producers of THE WILD Executive Producer: Gabe Torres, Year of Production: 2011 Country of STALLION and A CHRISTMAS WISH Producer: James Walker, Nathan West Origin: USA JACK AND DIANE comes a heartwarming family tale about Key Cast: Stephen Dorff, Chyler Leigh, Elinor and Marianne find themselves Romance (93min) a small town girl who discovers a Tom Berenger penniless after their father is charged Language: English window into Heaven and uses her new Delivery Status: Completed with swindling investors and his fortune Director: Bradley Rust Gray found powers to help heal and bolster Year of Production: 2011 Country of is taken away. They struggle to find jobs Writer: Bradley Rust Gray faith in her small community until she is Origin: USA where their family name won't be held Producer: Jen Gatien, Karin Chien, So faced with the ultimate sacrifice. What appears to be a random kidnapping against them. Now they must fend for Young Kim, Bradley Rust Gray Key Cast: Juno Temple, Riley Keough SERVITUDE becomes something more sinister when themselves, in life and love, as they meet Comedy (90min) Secret Service Agent Jeremy Reins potential suitors in the real world of hard Delivery Status: Completed Language: English discovers he's being used as a pawn in a work. Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: U.S.A. Director: Warren P. Sonoda terrorist plot. Watching the clock tick BOY WONDER Writer: Michael Sparaga down to an unknown catastrophe, Jeremy Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller (95min) Jack and Diane fall head over heels in Producer: Sean Buckley & Michael is forced by his captors to listen to the Language: English love one hot summer in New York City. Sparaga outside world on the brink of collapse, Director: Michael Morrissey But neither Jack's tough exterior nor Key Cast: JOe Dinicol, John Bregar, knowing that the only way to save the Writer: Michael Morrissey Diane's demure innocence prepare them Dave Foley people he loves is to divulge a secret that Executive Producer: Michael Morrissey for the intensity of their feelings. As Delivery Status: Screening he has sworn to protect. Producer: John Scaccia Diane struggles to maintain their budding romance, she must also try to Year of Production: 2011 Country of THE TROUBLE WITH BLISS Key Cast: James Russo, Zulay Henao, conceal from Jack the increasingly dark Origin: Canada AKA: EAST FIFTH BLISS Bill Sage, Tracy Middendorf When Josh goes in to quit his job Comedy, Drama (96min) Delivery Status: Completed and violent visions that have begun to waiting tables at Ranch Steakhouse, he Language: English Year of Production: 2010 Country of plague her. Weaving horror elements into discovers the restaurant is woefully Director: Michael Knowles Origin: USA a distinctive and fresh yet timeless and short-staffed for the night. To make Writer: Michael Knowles, Douglas Light A young boy (Caleb Steinmeyer) universal first-love story, Bradley Rust matters worse, the company’s new Executive Producer: Michael Knowles witnesses the brutal murder of his Gray applies his inimitable vision to this owners are sending over a mean son-of- Producer: John Ramos, John Will mother, leading him to become a self- idiosyncratic story of the joys and terrors gun from head office to audit operations. Key Cast: Michael C. Hall, Lucy Liu, appointed vigilante -a teenager who of first love. Unable to abandon his post when he's so Peter Fonda, Chris Messina roams the mean streets of New York City THE ABCS OF DEATH desperately needed, Josh decides to work Delivery Status: Completed to protect the city's troubled and less Horror one final shift – and what a shift it turns Year of Production: 2011 Country of fortunate. But Sean's quest for justice Language: Various out to be! Not only is the restaurant Origin: USA and vengeance soon spirals out of Director: Bruno Forzani & Helene overrun by intolerable guests, but Josh A comedic tale about 35-year-old Morris control - even as the search for his Cattet, Kaare Andrews, Angela Bettis, also uncovers a secret memo that reveals Bliss (Michael C. Hall), who has not mother's killer races to its shocking Adrian Bogliano, Jason Eisner, Ernesto the new owners plan on firing all the quite grown up yet - he wants to travel conclusion. Diaz Espinoza, Xavier Gens, Noboru Iguchi, Thomas Malling, Jorge Michel staff. Josh takes control, rallying his but has no money, he needs a job but has WRATH fellow servers to take over the restaurant no prospects, and, worst of all, he still Thriller (98min) Grau, Anders Morgenthaler, Yoshihiro for one final, glorious night. shares an apartment with his widowed Language: English Nishimura, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Simon Rumley, Marcel Sarmiento, Jon 25TH REICH father. When he finds himself suddenly Director: Jonathan Neil Dixon Science Fiction (88 minutes) falling into a romantic relationship with Writer: Jonathan Neil Dixon Schnepp, Srdjan Spasojevic, Timo Language: English the precocious 18-year-old daughter of a Executive Producer: Jonathan Neil Tjahjanto, Andrew Traucki, Nacho Director: Stephen Amis friend, Morris quickly discovers that his Dixon Vigalondo, Jake West, Ti West, Ben

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Wheatley, Adam Wingard, Yudai Productions LIFE'S A BREEZE I'M STILL HERE Yamaguchi, Lee Hardcastle (Winner of Executive Producer: Edward H. Hamm, Comedy Mocumentary (107 min) The ABCs of Death competition) Jr., Richard Kelly Language: English Language: English Producer: Ant Timpson, Tim League Producer: Sean McKittrick, Jeff Culotta Director: Lance Daly Director: Casey Affleck Delivery Status: Post Production Key Cast: Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr Writer: Lance Daly Writer: Casey Affleck, Joaquin Phoenix Year of Production: 2012 Country of Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Macdara Kelleher Producer: Casey Affleck, Joaquin Origin: Various Year of Production: 2011 Country of Key Cast: Fionnula Flanagan, Kelly Phoenix Twenty-six directors. Twenty-six ways to Origin: U.S.A. Thornton, Pat Shortt Key Cast: Joaquin Phoenix die. The ABCs of Death is perhaps the Genre-defying director-comedian Bobcat Delivery Status: In Production Delivery Status: Completed most ambitious anthology film ever Goldthwait's new piece of social Year of Production: 2012 Country of Year of Production: 2010 Country of conceived with productions spanning commentary on post 9/11 America is a Origin: Ireland Origin: USA fifteen countries and featuring segments subversive and violent dark comedy. A story of comedy, warmth, and hope I'M STILL HERE follows the Oscar- directed by over two dozen of the Frank (Joel Murray) has had enough of about an Irish family as they search for a nominated Joaquin Phoenix as he world's leading talents in contemporary the downward spiral of American lost fortune around the streets of Dublin. announces his retirement from a genre film. Provocative, shocking, funny culture. Divorced, unemployed, and TROLLHUNTER successful film career in the fall of 2008 and ultimately confrontational, The possibly terminally ill, Frank truly has Thriller, Action (103min) and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip ABCs of Death is the definitive vision of nothing left to live for. But instead of Language: Norwegian hop musician. modern horror diversity. taking his own life, he buys a gun and Director: Andre Ovredal MANDRILL TIM & ERIC'S BILLION DOLLAR decides to take out his frustration on the Producer: John M. Jacobsen, Sveinung Action (90 min) MOVIE cruelest, stupidest, most intolerant people Golimo Language: Spanish Comedy (94min) he can imagine in the country. Key Cast: Otto Jespersen, Robert Director: Ernesto Diaz Espinoza Language: English THE GOOD DOCTOR Stoltenberg, Knut Naerum Writer: Ernesto Diaz Espinoza Director: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim Thriller (90min) Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Derek Rundell, Marko Zaror Writer: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim Language: English Year of Production: 2010 Country of Key Cast: Marko Zaror, Celine Co-Production Partners: Funny or Die, Director: Lance Daly Origin: Norway Reymond, Alejandro Castillo Abso Lutely Writer: John Enbom A documentary about a group of film Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Tim Heidecker, Eric Co-Production Partners: Viddywell students who discover what they believe Year of Production: 2009 Country of Wareheim, Jon Mugar, Ben Cosgrove, Executive Producer: Leonid Lebedev, is a government conspiracy to keep the Origin: Chile Dave Kneebone, Adam McKay, Will Sharon Miller existence of trolls in the North of Mandrill, Chile's top assassin, went into Ferrell, Chris Henchy, Todd Wagner Producer: Jonathan King, Dan Etheridge, Norway hidden from the general public. the murder business hoping to get Key Cast: Tim Heidecker, Eric Orlando Bloom revenge on the one-eyed man who killed CONAN O'BRIEN CAN'T STOP Wareheim, Jeff Goldblum Key Cast: Orlando Bloom, Riley Documentary (88min) his parents. Now Mandrill's time has Delivery Status: Completed Keough, Rob Morrow, Taraji P. Henson, Language: English finally come, complicated by the fact Year of Production: 2011 Country of Troy Garity, Michael Pena Director: Rodman Flender that he finds the target's daughter, Origin: USA Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Gavin Polone, Rachel Griffin, Dominik, irresistible. An all new feature film from the twisted Year of Production: 2011 Country of Kat Landsberg SMASH HIS CAMERA minds of cult comedy heroes Tim & Eric Origin: U.S.A. Key Cast: Conan O'Brien, Andy Richter, Documentary (89 min) ("Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Orlando Bloom stars as an ambitious Stephen Colbert Language: English Job!") Tim and Eric are given a billion first year medical resident eager to Delivery Status: Completed Director: Leon Gast dollars to make a movie, but squander impress his superiors and colleagues, but Year of Production: 2011 Country of Producer: Adam Schlesinger, Linda every time... With their lives at stake, the struggling with loneliness and racked Origin: USA Saffire guys skip town in search of a way to pay with self-doubt. When a beautiful young A documentary on Conan O'Brien's Key Cast: Ron Galella the money back, and happen upon a patient (Keough) is admitted for a simple comedy tour of the U.S. and Canada Delivery Status: Completed chance to rehabilitate a bankrupt mall- infection and shows him attention and after leaving his post at "The Tonight Year of Production: 2010 Country of for a billion dollars. kindness, he gets the much-needed boost Show" and severing his relationship with Origin: USA GOD BLESS AMERICA of self-esteem he craves. But as the NBC. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis sued him, Black Comedy (104) patient's health starts to improve, he and Marlon Brando broke his jaw. The Language: English begins tampering with her treatment, LIMELIGHT Documentary (92min) story of notorious, reviled paparazzo Ron Director: Bobcat Goldthwait doing anything to keep her in his care. Language: English Galella opens a Pandora's Box of issues Writer: Bobcat Goldthwait Director: Billy Corben from right to privacy, freedom of the Co-Production Partners: Jerkschool Producer: Billy Corben, Alfred press and the ever-growing vortex of Spellman, Jen Gatien celebrity worship. Key Cast: Peter Gatien, Moby, Ed Koch AND EVERYTHING IS GOING T OUR INGERTIPS Delivery Status: Completed FINE CANNES A Y F Year of Production: 2010 Country of Documentary (89 min) THE CLICK AND ACCESS CULTURE IS NOW Origin: U.S.A. Language: English The filmmakers of the famed COCAINE Director: Steven Soderbergh & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. COWBOYS series tell tales of the New Producer: Kathie Russo, Amy Hobby, York City night scene and ecstasy trade Joshua Blum in the 1990s against the backdrop of the Key Cast: Spalding Gray rise and fall of Peter Gatien and his Delivery Status: Completed notorious night clubs. Year of Production: 2010 Country of Click on Origin: USA GODFATHER'S OF GANJA: Spalding Gray's shows were vibrant, SQUARE GROUPER Blue Boxes Documentary (103 min) hilarious and moving, drawing unstintingly on the most intimate aspects Language: English of his own life. His death came tragically to Access Director: Billy Corben early, in 2004; this compilation of Producer: Billy Corben, Alfred Spellman interview and performance footage nails Available Delivery Status: Completed his idiosyncratic and irreplaceable Year of Production: 2010 Country of brilliance. Company Origin: U.S.A. From the filmmakers of the hit cult 180 DEGREES SOUTH Documentary (85 min) Trailers series COCAINE COWBOYS comes a Language: English documentary that chronicles marijuana Director: Chris Malloy Automatically smuggling in South Florida during the Producer: Tim Lynch, Rick Ridgeway, 1970s and '80s. Emmett Malloy Do Your Part To Key Cast: Yvon Chouinard, Doug Tompkins, Jeff Johnson Combat Global Warming Delivery Status: Completed

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Year of Production: 2009 Country of favorite drug lords and dazzling new Yann Bean student security guard must fight to undo Origin: USA characters who tell their stories on Delivery Status: Completed the professor's work. A dark force is at The film follows adventurer Jeff Johnson camera for the very first time. Year of Production: 2009 Country of work in the cadaver lab this Christmas as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of Origin: Spain and this unconventional band of heroes his heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug Based on true events. Flying Heroes is are the only hope the world has against Tompkins to Patagonia. MAGUS the story of a group of farmyard carrier an army of living corpses that are DOWN TERRACE pigeons that are enlisted into the Allied quickly recruiting new members. The Dark Comedy (90 min) ENTERTAINMENT Homing Pigeon Corps. undead have been given the gift of life Magus Entertainment, Bramenberg 1, Language: English and it's up to the janitor to take it back. Eemnes, 3755 BT Eemnes, Tel: LITTLE BIG PANDA 2D & 3D Director: Ben Wheatley Animation (82 min) +31654768797 Fax: +31356949407. VAMPIRES Writer: Ben Wheatley, Robin Hill Language: English Black Comedy (89 mins) [email protected] Producer: Conor McPherson Sales Agent Director: Greg Manwaring, Michael Language: French / English subtitles Key Cast: Julia Deakin, Robert Hill, At Cannes: Rick van den Heuvel Schoemann Director: Vincent Lannoo Robin Hill Office: Lerins S13 (Terra Mater / Writer: Jorg Tensing Writer: Vincent Lannoo, Frédérique Delivery Status: Completed RBMH), Tel: + 31.6.54.768.797 Co-Production Partners: Benchmark Broos Year of Production: 2009 Country of Entertainment, ORB Filproduktion, Co-Production Partners: Left Field

Origin: UK http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1217 Executive Producer: Frank Hubner, Ventures Ben Wheatley's debut feature. Bill and Armin Timmermann, Gilles Waterkeyn, Producer: John Engel Karl have just got out of jail free but all Hua Shen Key Cast: Carlo Ferrante, Vera Van SEXWORK & ME RED LIGHT is not well at Down Terrace. The family Producer: Michael Schoemann Dooren, Pierre Lognay CONVERSATIONS business just isn't working out and Karl's Documenrary Human Intrest (55') Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed had more than he can take of his old Language: English Year of Production: 2010 Country of Year of Production: 2010 Country of man's philosophising and preaching. Director: Clare Sturges Origin: Germany Origin: Belgium Karl's girlfriend is pregnant - by him? Producer: Maurice Engelen, Rik Somewhere in the majestic Chinese They did it! They made a documentary Who knows... Either way?a little Sinkeldam highlands of our days: the Panda’s on a bunch of vampires! A family of information goes a long way and its Delivery Status: Completed survival is several endangered as the vampires, bored with immortality, lives definitely time for a spring clean. Year of Production: 2012 Country of bamboo is becoming scarce, and humans in Belgium, eats illegal immigrants, REJOICE AND SHOUT Origin: The Netherlands continuously expand into their habitat. children, handicapped folk, and takes Documentary (115 min) Amsterdam’s red light district – every advantage they can suck out of the Language: English infamous, provocative, erotic – seducing country’s social system. Samson, a Director: Don McGlynn thousands of tourists each year. This film MAISON NOIR seventies throwback, lives his 55th year Producer: Joe Lauro goes behind the windows of one of Maison Noir, 427 N. Canon Dr. Suite like he’s forever 20. Grace, an eternal Key Cast: J Smokey Robinson, Andrae Europe’s most exciting cities to discover #201, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA, teenager bent on being human again, Crouch, Mavis Staples, Ira Tucker, Marie the real-life stories of the extraordinary Tel: +1 818.647.0118 Fax: +1 keeps committing suicide. George, the Knight, Willa Ward, Ira Tucker Jr. women working there as legal 818.647.0118. patriarch, manages as best he can, Delivery Status: Completed maisonnoir.net, [email protected] heading the eccentric family and its on- prostitutes. Enter the notoriously private Sales Agent Year of Production: 2009 Country of going squabbles with the neighboring world of Amsterdam red light working At Cannes: AvaB (CEO/President), Origin: USA vampires. It turns out vampires must girls to find out what life’s really like in Andrew Gallagher (Head of Sales), Packed with evocative photos, rare audio keep to a strict code. They are, for the windows – where you’ve got to learn Elliott Mazzola (Sales & Acquisitions recordings, stirring film appearances and example, prohibited from sleeping with fast, stay smart and pay your taxes like Executive) TV programs, REJOICE AND SHOUT their leader’s wife. That’s where Samson everyone else. Journey under the red Office: PALAIS : Level 01 stand n° covers the 200 year history of African went too far… Now he and his whole lamps in the heart of Amsterdam as the 21.01, Tel: +33.669.95.77.68 American Christianity. Literally film raises compelling questions and family are exiled to Quebec, where even hundreds of hours of music have been explores controversial changes that vampires have to work for a living! A http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1210 reviewed, and the creme de la creme was threaten the very existence of the red fresh, biting comedy from Vincent chosen. light windows... Get an exclusive insight Lannoo! KNIFEPOINT CASINO JACK AND THE UNITED into the world of real Red Light working Horror (83 mins) SEARCHING FOR ANGELS Thriler (89 mins) STATES OF MONEY girls – each with a captivating story to Language: English Documentary (118 min) Language: English tell – each who has found her way to this Director: Jed Strahm Language: English Director: Nadeem Soumah age-old profession. The girls This human Writer: Jed Strahm Director: Alex Gibney Writer: Nadeem Soumah interest documentary focuses on a select Co-Production Partners: Knifepoint Writer: Alex Gibney Co-Production Partners: Rendition Films group of lively, articulate women Key Cast: Krista Braun, Katherine Producer: Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood, Producer: Nadeem Soumah & Kegan Sant working as legal prostitutes in Randolph, Kym Jackson Zena Barakat Key Cast: Vivica Fox, Veronika London, Amsterdam’s red light windows. By Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Jack Abramoff, Tom Delay, Delivery Status: Completed showing the day-to-day life of this Year of Production: 2011 Country of Stanley Tucci, Paul Rudd Year of Production: 2011 Country of usually closed group, who spend hours Origin: USA Delivery Status: Completed Origin: Canada behind the windows, the documentary On Christmas Eve, Abbie and her Year of Production: 2009 Country of Who is Jane Doe? That's the question opens up a world normally invisible to wheelchair-bound sister Michele are Origin: USA everybody wants an answer to, including the public... and reveals they’re just like forced to put aside their personal From Academy Award-winning herself. Jane Doe, played by Veronika us. Supporting interviews Meet a regular differences in order to survive an all- documentarian Alex Gibney (TAXI TO London (Body Language, HBO series customer, red light residents and visitors, night onslaught of violence when they THE DARK SIDE), comes a probing "Lingerie") is a young prostitute and people who work alongside the women discover their Venice loft complex is the investigation into the lies, greed and heroin addict found by paramedics in help organizations, plus find out just target of a group of vicious home corruption surrounding D.C. super- laying on the street in a pool of blood. how Amsterdam city council is invaders led by Jess and his sadistic lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his cronies. She is the victim of a violent altercation proposing dramatic changes that may sister Lorraine. COCAINE COWBOYS III: LOS threaten this world-famous area. Come a which leaves her with a severe head ZOMBIES AT CHRISTMAS injury. Stricken by amnesia and MUCHACHOS & THE REMIX little closer to this unique, complex AKA: A Cadaver Christmas Documentary struggling with her heroin addiction, she world – before it disappears forever. Horror, Comedy (85 mins) Language: English is on a quest to discover her identity but CHER AMI Language: English Director: Billy Corben most importantly who did this to her and AKA: FLYING HEROES Director: Joe Zerull Producer: Billy Corben, Alfred Spellman why. She is taken in by a nurse played Animation (85 min) Writer: Hanlon Smith-Dorsey, Joe Zerull Key Cast: Griselda Blanco, Charles by Vivica A. Fox (Kill Bill, Language: English Key Cast: Jessica Denney, Sarah Garvey, Cosby Independence Day) who is a motherly Director: Miquel Pujol Andrew Harvey Delivery Status: Post Production figure to her. Along her quest she comes Writer: Miquel Pujol Iban Roca Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2011 Country of along several characters from her past Co-Production Partners: Accio, AAMPS, Year of Production: 2011 Country of and the clues to the answers she seeks Origin: USA Digital Dreams Films Origin: USA slowly come to light, revealing many The latest film in the incredibly Executive Producer: Jordi Castelltort United by terrifying and bizarre horrible truths. With this information, successful COCAINE COWBOYS Producer: Benat Beitia circumstances, the janitor, the drunk, the feelings of curiosity quickly turn to a series. THE REMIX takes us back to Key Cast: Phil Austin, Cyrille Autin, bartender, the cop, his perp, and the crime-ridden Miami, featuring old thirst for retribution

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PICTURES, COMING TO EAT YOU A disturbed sculptor assumes the identity Producer: Cheng Keung-fai, Song Dai AKA: MONDOMANILA of a small town priest and designs a Key Cast: Aaron Kwok, Charlie Yeung, MARCO POLO Mondo (69 mins) game of divine madness for a Paw Hee-ching, Carlson Cheng Language: Filipino | Tagalog unsuspecting town. Delivery Status: In Production FILM AG Marco Polo Film AG, Director: Khavn De La Cruz Year of Production: 2011 Country of DELIVERED Handschuhsheimer Landstraße 73, Writer: Khavn, Norman Wilwayco Thriller Origin: Hong Kong Heidelberg, Baden-Wí?rttemberg 69121 Co-Production Partners: Filmless Films, Language: English A unique historical film of Hong Kong Germany, Tel: +49(0)6221.400780 Kamias Road Director: Michael Madison between the late 40's and the historic Fax: +49(0)6221.400884. www.marco- Key Cast: Timothy Mabalot, Marife Writer: Brandon Manbeck handover on 1st July 1997. Based on true polo-film.de,[email protected] Necesito, Palito Co-Production Partners: Nelson Madison story, the film is about how a fisherman Producer Delivery Status: Completed Films became the first Chinese Senior Manager At Cannes: Annette Scheurich (CEO) Year of Production: 2010 Country of Key Cast: Robert Rusier, Alana Stewart, in a Traditional British Corporate and the Office: Media Stand number H4.35, Tel: Origin: Philippines | Germany Toshi Toda hard life of his mother who struggled to +49(0)160.1523615 Beyond tragedy, planted firmly in the Delivery Status: Completed raise 8 children. territories of madness, "Mondomanila" is Year of Production: 2010 Country of IP MAN 2 http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=235 not about a celebration of self- Origin: USA Martial Arts (108 mins) destruction, but simply a backyard full of Driven by a promise, fueled by revenge. Language: Cantonese, Mandarin, English THE WORLD'S GREATEST lovable fuckers. True Romance and Vanishing point, the Director: Yip Wai-shun BALLOON ADVENTURES TERMITE: THE WALLS HAVE Mojave desert is the backdrop for this Writer: Edmond Wong Documentary (5 x 50') EYES heartfelt story of betrayal and Co-Production Partners: Mandarin Films Language: English Suspense (75 mins) redemption. An eclectic collection of Limited, He Nan Movie Group Ltd, Director: Annette Scheurich Language: English unique characters that include Japanese Beijing Shengshi Huarui Film Writer: Annette Scheurich Director: John Walcutt gangsters, an Italian proctologist, an Investment & Management Ltd, Desen Co-Production Partners: ZDF/ ARTE Writer: John Walcutt, Jennie Marie Armenian art dealer and a hero with a International Media Co. Ltd Executive Producer: Marco Polo Film Pacelli very cool car set the stage for this Key Cast: Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, AG Co-Production Partners: Too Nice Guys, modern crime thriller. Huang Xiao-ming, Xiong Dai-lin, Kent Producer: Annette Scheurich Pete Galaxie Productions COLD BLOOD CANYON Cheng, Pierre Ngo, Fan Sui-wong, To Delivery Status: In Production Producer: John Walcutt Anthony Supernatural Thriller (90 mins) Yue-hong, Darren Shahlavi, Ashton Year of Production: 2010-2012 Country Gutierrez and Michael Roth Language: English Chen, Simon Yam, Calvin Cheng of Origin: Germany Key Cast: Herb Astrow, Irene Carol, Director: Alec Tuckman Delivery Status: Completed In our new five-part series we explore Reichel Caviteno Writer: Eric Bram, Alec Tuckman Year of Production: 2009 Country of the world´s most fascinating landscapes Delivery Status: Completed Co-Production Partners: Film Warriors Origin: Hong Kong with hot-air balloons. Breathtaking Year of Production: 2011 Country of Entertainment The sequel of "Ip Man", continues adventures await the balloonists in the Origin: USA Key Cast: Lulu Brud, Elissa Dowling preserving the spirit of WIng Chun and endless vastness of the Gobi Desert, in A troubled young girl gets a job at a and Dan Holahan narrating Ip Man's new life in Hong the snow-covered mountain-sides of the modeling school where she is tortured by Delivery Status: Completed Kong. Alps or at the steep rock faces of the the voices in her head and the sounds in Year of Production: 2007 Country of Venezuelan Tepuis. Emotional human IP MAN the walls. Roman Polanski meets Roger Origin: USA Martial Arts (107 mins) encounters, exotic cultural experiences Corman in this micro-budget masterpiece When Mr. and Mrs. Myers move into Language: Cantonese, Mandarin, English and thrilling nature adventures are made by a group of students under the their highly coveted Beverly Hills home, Director: Yip Wai-shun promising ingredients for a dynamic, leadership of veteran actor John Walcutt they wonder why the price tag is too Writer: Edmond Wong exciting and entertaining series about the SLEEPER good to be true. Their daughter, Danielle, Co-Production Partners: Mandarin Films special life of ballooning enthusiast and Action discovers the truth when a neighbor tells Distribution Co. Ltd., Time Antaeus their quest for the “Great Picture”. her one of the previous owners was Language: English Media Group GOBI BEAR - SECRET SURVIVOR murdered there years ago. When Director: Dru Brown Producer: Raymond Wong IN THE MONGOLIAN DESERT Writer: Michael Skelton, Dru Brown Danielle falls prey to the hauntings of Key Cast: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Documentary (52') Co-Production Partners: Seven8 Media the ghostly victim who lived there, Ikeuchi Hiroyuki, Xiong Dai-lin, Lam Language: English Key Cast: Scott "Raven" Levy, Ty Danni's dream home turns into the house Ka-tung, Fan Sui-wong, Xing Yu, Wong Director: Brian Leath & Annette Hungerford, Brue Hopkins from hell after she is tortured and You-nam, To Yue-hong, Calvin Cheng Scheurich Delivery Status: Completed attacked by the evil apparition. After Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Brian Leath & Annette Scheurich Year of Production: 2009 Country of Danielle's cries go unheard by her Year of Production: 2008 Country of Executive Producer: Marco Polo Film Origin: USA oblivious parents, she realizes she must Origin: Hong Kong AG Enigmatically silent, and driven by love, get out of the house as quickly as Based on the true story of IP MAN - the Producer: Annette Scheurich possible or she is going to be the next the man known as Resnik was mentor of kung fu superstar Burce Lee. Delivery Status: In Development imprisoned for butchering another man victim of an even greater threat. Year of Production: 2012-2013 Country MISSING and kidnapping the young girl at the Thriller & Romance (117 mins) of Origin: Germany heart of his obsession, Kelly. For the Language: Cantonese, Mandarin Deep in the heart of the Gobi Desert a safety of his fellow inmates, Resnik was MANDARIN FILMS Director: Tsui Hark black mountain range towers over only ever allowed to wake, eat and DISTRIBUTION CO Writer: Tsui Hark endless plains. Its nameless canyons and exercise alone, after dark, he learned to Co-Production Partners: Mandarin Films peaks give shelter to the rarest mammal like it. Now having escaped during a LTD Distribution Co Ltd, China Film Group on earth: the Gobi Bear. Less than 40 of midnight transfer, Resnik is headed back Mandarin Films Distribution Co Ltd, Corporation, Enlight Pictures Limited, these wolly brown creatures edge out a to Moonlight Bay, and Detectives Room 4101, 41/F The Lee Gardens, 33 Dong Tian Motion Picture Investment perilious existence in an unforgiving Raynor and Molloy have only 12 hours Hysan Avenue,, Causeway Bay,, Hong Limited desert. Their footprints inspire wondrous to stop him before the sun goes down, Kong Hong Kong, Tel: 852.2579.1718 Producer: Raymond WONG Nansun SHI tales of a desert yeti and witnesses and the carnage begins, again. Fax: 852.2579.1712 HAN San Ping WANG Chang Tian accounts seem far closer to legend than http://www.mandarinfilms.com, THE CONFESSIONAL Key Cast: LEE Sinje, Isabella, CHANG truth. Yet, against all odds, Mongolian Horror (117 mins) [email protected] Professor Samiya and his crew of Producer Chen, GUO Xiao Dong, Tony LEUNG Language: English Ka Fai, CHANG Cheng Yue wildlife photographers and scientists set Director: James Anthony Cotton At Cannes: Alice Law (CEO), Chiu-yi out on a mission to find the Gobi Bear - Leung (Distribution Manager) Delivery Status: Completed Writer: James Anthony Cotton Year of Production: 2008 Country of a quest to prove its existence and thus Co-Production Partners: Cornerstone Origin: Hong Kong help it survive global changes that Consulting Services, Lionfish Group http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=76 A romantic engagement in an underwater threaten its arid habitat. On their tedious Producer: James Anthony Cotton & city leads to a series of mysterious search,the team is rewarded with Martha V. Holder HUNDRED YEARS OF A FLOATING encounters. breathtaking views of untouched Key Cast: Victor Browne, Peter CITY landscapes. On lonely hikes they cross Quartaroli, Patrick Kilpatrick Drama paths with Bactrian camel, Mongolian Delivery Status: Completed Language: Cantonese wild ass, even a snowleopard. The Gobi Year of Production: 2009 Country of Director: Yim Ho Bear however is not easy to find. Origin: USA Writer: Yim Ho

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CHRISTMAS WINTER ROMANCING IN THIN AIR have done and what led them to this WONDERLAND MEDIA ASIA GROUP Romantic Drama (111 min) state. Documentary (52') Language: Cantonese / Mandarin THE GUILLOTINES Language: English HOLDINGS LIMITED Director: Johnnie TO Action Media Asia Group Holdings Limited, 4/F Director: Annette Scheurich Writer: WAI Ka Fai, YAU Nai Hoi, Language: Chinese East Commercial Block, South Horizons, Writer: Annette Scheurich Ryker CHAN, Jevons AU Director: Andrew LAU 18A South Horizons Drive, Ap Lei Chau, Executive Producer: Marco Polo Film Producer: Johnnie TO, WAI Ka Fai Writer: Aubrey LAM Hong Kong, Tel: +852.2314.4288 Fax: AG Key Cast: Louis KOO, Sammi CHENG Producer: Peter Ho-Sun CHAN, Jojo +852.2314.4248. http: Producer: Annette Scheurich Delivery Status: Completed HUI //www.mediaasia.com/,wwdist@mediaasi Delivery Status: In Development Year of Production: 2012 Country of Key Cast: HUANG Xiaoming, Ethan a.com Year of Production: 2011-2012 Country Sales Agent Origin: Hong Kong JUAN, Shawn YUE, Boran JING of Origin: Germany At Cannes: Ricky Tse (Head of A Hong Kong movie megastar jilted at Delivery Status: Post Production Winter casts a very special, magical Distribution / Sales), Fred Tsui (Assistant the altar by his actress bride finds true Year of Production: 2011 Country of spell. It's a time for traditions and General Manager), Vanessa Lo love in a neurotic fan while licking his Origin: Hong Kong, China customs: snowmen come to life, Santas (Manager) wound in high-altitude Yunnan in China. An elite squad of young imperial wander through brightly-lit Christmas Office: 3rd Floor, 15 Square Merimee, LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE bodyguards, trained to use the deadly markets, much to the delight of the 06400 Cannes, Tel: +33(0)4.93.99.44.01 Suspense (107 min) guillotines, is the last line of defense to children. But indigenous animal life pays Language: Cantonese the Emperor’s Court. But little do they no heed to this human idyll. For them, Director: Johnnie TO realize the conspiracy behind their http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1138 winter is a time of austerity. Squirrels, Writer: YAU Nai Hoi, WONG King Fai, mission... boars and lynx all have their own Jeff CHEUNG MOTORWAY BLIND DETECTIVE strategy for surviving the winter. But Action / Crime (89 min) Producer: Johnnie TO Crime despite an amazing ability to adapt, the Language: Cantonese Key Cast: LAU Ching Wan, Richie JEN, Language: Chinese fight for survival is hard - and can often Director: Soi CHEANG Denise HO Director: Johnnie TO only be won with the help of human Writer: Joey O'BRYAN, FUNG Yat Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Johnnie TO, WAI Ka Fai beings. The film takes us on a journey Chun Year of Production: 2011 Country of Key Cast: Andy LAU, Sammi CHENG through wintry Germany - underscored Producer: Johnnie TO Origin: Hong Kong Delivery Status: In Production by a childlike enthusiasm for the cold Key Cast: Anthony WONG, Shawn A bag of stolen money worth $5m forces Year of Production: 2012 Country of season. Snow-covered fairy-tale YUE, GUO Xiaodong three ordinary people to make soul Origin: Hong Kong landscapes and touching tales about Delivery Status: Screening searching decisions about right and Forced to leave service after turning animals create a special heart-warming Year of Production: 2010 Country of wrong and everything in between on the blind, a former detective ekes out his winter atmosphere that not even adults Origin: Hong Kong morality scale. living by solving cold cases for police can escape: Contemplative, amusing and Relentlessly tense and violent action PUNISHED rewards. When an attractive hit team fascinating all at the same time, the film thriller plunges into the violent and Suspense Thriller (96 min) inspector enlists his help in a personal lyrically illustrates the charm of an dangerous world of speed. Language: Cantonese case, he decides to take a stab. enchanting Christmas Winter Director: LAW Wing Cheong LOVE IN THE BUFF SWITCH Wonderland. Romantic Comedy (111 min) Writer: FUNG Chih Chiang, LAM Fung Action Drama Language: Cantonese / Mandarin Producer: Johnnie TO Language: Chinese Director: PANG Ho-cheung Key Cast: Anthony WONG, Richie JEN, Director: Jay SUN Writer: PANG Ho-cheung, LUK Yee Sum Janice MAN Producer: HAN Sanping Producer: PANG Ho-cheung, Subi Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Andy LAU, ZHANG Jingchu, LIANG Year of Production: 2011 Country of LIN Chi-ling Key Cast: Miriam YEUNG, Shawn YUE Origin: Hong Kong Delivery Status: In Production THE BUSINESS Delivery Status: Completed A tycoon whose daughter is found dead Year of Production: 2012 Country of Year of Production: 2012 Country of while being abducted has sworn to Origin: Hong Kong OF ILM Origin: Hong Kong avenge her at all cost. When one of China’s most famous www.thebusinessoffilmdaily.comF When two ex-lovers from Hong Kong DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART landscape paintings, which was split in cross paths in Beijing, they realize they Romantic Comedy (115 min) two some 300 years ago and have been still have feelings for each other and start Language: Cantonese & Mandarin on display in China and Taiwan orchestrating trysts and assignations Director: Johnnie TO respectively, is about to be publicly behind their partners' back. Writer: WAI Ka Fai, YAU Nai Hoi, exhibited in its combined entirety, Ryker CHAN, Jevons AU thieves and gangsters scramble to steal it Co-Production Partners: China Film against all odds. Media Asia Audio Video Distribution CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Co., Ltd. MEDIA LUNA NEW THE CLICK AND ACCESS CULTURE IS NOW Producer: WAI Ka Fai, Johnnie TO Key Cast: Louis KOO, Daniel WU, FILMS & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. GAO Yuanyuan Media Luna New Films, Aachener Delivery Status: Completed Strasse 24, Cologne, 50674 Germany, Year of Production: 2011 Country of Tel: +49(0)221.51091891 Fax: Origin: Hong Kong +49(0)221.51091899. An original twist on the eternal triangle, www.medialuna.biz,[email protected] Click on where secret crush and unrequited love Sales Agent take on altogether newfangled meanings At Cannes: Ida Martins (Managing Blue Boxes of their own. Director), Alessandro Lombardo LACUNA (Aquisition and Festivals) to Access Drama (95 min) Office: Riviera, D10, Tel: Language: Mandarin +49.170.966.7900 Available Director: Derek TSANG, Jimmy WAN Writer: Derek TSANG, Jimmy WAN, http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1326 Company ZHANG You-you, Yoyo Producer: PANG Ho-cheung, Subi GOLDEN SHOES Trailers LIANG Drama/Gay (84 min) Key Cast: Shawn YUE, ZHANG Jingchu Language: Spanish Automatically Delivery Status: Post Production Director: Antonio Hens Year of Production: 2012 Country of Writer: Abel González Melo & Antonio Origin: Hong Kong Hens Do Your Part To Two strangers who wake up in bed Co-Production Partners: Vanessa together oblivious to how it happened Portieles Combat Global Warming must work together to find out what they

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Producer: Antonio Hens Dagelet, Rifka Lodeizen, Mark Rietman, Writer: Yong Mun Chee unconditionally—his mum. But when he Key Cast: Milton García, Reinier Díaz, Barbara Sarafian, Eva Duijvestein, Ward Co-Production Partners: Shannon meets the gorgeous Katie, Rocco realises Luís Alberto García, Mirtha Ibarra, Toni Weemhoff, Ali Ben Horsting, Elske Makhanian that he needs to make some changes. Cantó Rotteveel, Maarten Heijermans Executive Producer: Linda Pianigiani, Enlisting the help of his zany neighbour Delivery Status: Post Production Delivery Status: Completed Evelyn Juwita Sasmito, Jeannes Linarte, Mrs. Cotoletta, Rocco attempts to Year of Production: 2012 Country of Year of Production: 2012 Country of Marsio Juwono counteract his image as a big mamma’s Origin: Cuba and Spain Origin: The Netherlands Producer: Yong Mun Chee, Delon Tio, boy, and to discover the key to Katie’s It is the story of two boys in the edge of Hemel has lived closely with her father Brett Henenberg heart. marginalty. One being a clandestine in Gijs since the death of her mother. Gijs Key Cast: Eric Mabius, Will Yun Lee, TANGUERO Havanna (people must not live out of the has an endless string of women attached Fernando Noriega, Luke Brandon Field, Drama/Romance (78 min) towns were they are registered, in Cuba). to him, but Hemel feels that none of Laura Ramsey, Elsa Pataky, Erick Avari Language: Spanish with English subtitles The other has to prostitute for the turist them is a threat to their exclusive Delivery Status: Completed Director: Emanuele Persico to earn his living. They both met in the relationship. This changes when Gijs Year of Production: 2011 Country of Writer: Silvia Gilardi, Emanuele Persico football field of the slum they live in. No falls in love with the young auctioneer Origin: USA/Singapore/Indonesia Producer: Emanuele Persico (Pesca matter the restrictions of their lives, no Sophie. Meanwhile Hemel fights a Los Angeles 2005. In a run-down hotel Production) matter they lead a common life with guerrilla war with every man in town, named Normandie, Takashi, a Japanese Key Cast: Omar Quiroga, Veronica their young wifes, they fall in love and looking for the difference between sex hitman with a mysterious and violent Palacios, Jorge Juanatey, Alberto Alfredo have to struggle to change they world and love. past, checks in. He strikes an unusual Dassieu, Tito Roca, Maria Cecilia they have been living in. BEAT DOWN friendship with Blake, the hotel manager Cervini, Mario Gabriel Florentin, 9 FULL MOONS Comedy (93 min) who lives in the shadow of a mistake Ricardo "Tito" Franquelo, Juan Carlos Love-Story (103 min) Language: English that cost him his marriage. Also living in Stasi, Daniel "Flaco Dany" García Language: English Director: Deanne Foley the hotel is Guy, a 23 year-old British Delivery Status: Completed Director: Tomer Almagor Writer: Deanne Foley, Iain Macleod backpacker who sleeps with a different Year of Production: 2011 Country of Writer: Tomer Almagor Producer: Paul Pope (Pope Productions) girl each night. His careless ways Origin: Argentina/Italy Producer: Gabrielle Almagor, Joy Saez, Key Cast: Rob Wells, Marthe Bernard, eventually gets him and his new best Omar, a Tango instructor, is forced to Bret Roberts Tony Nappo, Janet Kidder, Daniel friend, Julio, an illegal Mexican return to Buenos Aires because of an Key Cast: Amy Seimetz, Bret Beirne, Mark O'Brien, Andy Jones, immigrant with a big dream, in trouble.. important phone call. He discovers an Roberts,Donal Logue,Harry Dean Laura Dennis IMPLOSION unrecognizable city, meets relatives, old Stanton, James Duval,Dale Dickey,Brian Delivery Status: Completed Drama (88 min) friends and meets Veronica, his McGuire, Foster Timms, Pamela Adlon, Year of Production: 2011 Country of Language: German with English subtitles childhood friend. They remember the Tipper Newtons Origin: Canada Director: Sören Voigt time they had spent together years before Delivery Status: Completed Fran White is sweet eighteen years old Writer: Sören Voigt and decide to take on a difficult Year of Production: 2012 Country of and a real firecracker. More than Producer: Hans Eddy Schreiber, Kai challenge. That’s how Omar rediscovers Origin: USA anything, Fran dreams of becoming a Kuennemann, Jordi Rediu, Norbert himself in Tango. Is the pursuit of Frankie, a wildly enigmatic and hard- professional wrestler. Her single-father Llarras (Karibufilm, Zip films, Living happiness, dreams, regain our lives and partying social butterfly, compensates Whitey is a former-pro (known as White Films) above all, an alternative to the vulgarity, her loneliness with different men. But Lightning in the ring) with broken Key Cast: Sven Gielnik, Eye Haidara, the worship of money and the decline of she falls in love with Lev, an attractive dreams of his own and is dead set Carolina Clemente, Hans-Jochen ethics. The trip traces metaphorically the solitary young musician with a radically against Fran wrestling. Fran is Wagner,Eriq Ebouaney one made at the end of '800 by European different personality: she is Fire, he is determined though and when Whitey’s Delivery Status: Completed immigrants towards South America. Ice! Free-spirited and nonconformist old rival Dark Thunder comes to town, Year of Production: 2011 Country of MILONGUEROS towards social norms, they experience a she runs away to join his tour. For her Origin: Germany/Spain Documentary (49 min) rollercoaster ride full of emotions... first time she meets her mother, a sexy Seventeen-year-old Thomas and his Language: Spanish with English subtitles PATTY'S CATCHUP ex-wrestler. Whitey is devastated and father Niels spend their summer holidays Director: Andrea Zambelli & Andrea AKA: POMMES ESSEN while he tries to get his daughter and his at the Spanish coast. But their father and Zanoli Family (86 min) wife back, Fran wrestles for her son time out takes a turn when a boat Writer: Andrea Zambelli, Andrea Zanoli Language: German with English subtitles dreams... with African refugees sinks close to their Producer: Emanuele Persico (Pesca Director: Tina von Traben UNCONDITIONAL hotel. One of them is 20-year-old Production, Lab80 film) Writer: Tina von Traben, Rüdiger Drama/Gay/Thriller (92 min) Djamile. On a motorbike tour Thomas Key Cast: Alberto Dassieu, Flaco Dani, Bertram Language: English runs into Djamile and quickly decides to Eduardo “Nene” Masci Executive Producer: Michael P. Aust Director: Bryn Higgins hide her from the Spanish authorities and Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Dagmar Niehage (dagstar Writer: Joe Fisher the smugglers who brought her to Year of Production: 2012 Country of film) Executive Producer: Clare Duggan, Tom Europe. When Niels and Angelica, Origin: Argentina/Italy Key Cast: Luise Risch, Tabea Willemsen, Harvey, Sean Kelly Thomas’ teacher and his father’s love Every night, in the historic and most Marlene Risch, Thekla Carola Wied, Producer: Bryn Higgins (Stone City affair, learn about Thomas’ secret the important milongas in Buenos Aires, in Anneke Kim Sarnau, Smudo Films) situation is getting even more explosive. addition to an incredible number of fans Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Harry McEntire, Madeleine Niels does not support his son’s plans at of Tango, the most famous Milongueros Year of Production: 2012 Country of Clark, Christian Cooke, Melanie Hill, all. Naive but passionate Thomas tell and explain how the Tango, before Origin: Germany James Bolam struggles to find a way to save Djamile. being a wonderful music and a sensual The struggle of Patty's family's little Delivery Status: Completed Deeper and deeper, he explores an dance, it is primarily "a way of life ". Imbiss versus uncle Walther's chain of Year of Production: 2012 Country of unknown world of desperation, hope, BEHOLD THE LAMB fastfood restaurants, fighting to guard the Origin: UK greed, violence, betrayal, sorrow and... Drama (83 min) secret her family inherited: the best ever Teenage twins Kristen and Owen are love. Language: English German sausage sauce! Smart and misfits in the real world, bored of caring BIG MAMMA'S BOY Director: John Mcllduff ambitious, teenage Patty finally realizes for their mum and fantasising about Romantic Comedy (98 min) Writer: John Mcllduff that the recipe to her own happiness is to murdering her. Then along comes Liam: Language: English Producer: Kevin Jackson (Dumbworld use her talent to support her family. A tough, charming, full velocity, genuinely Director: Franco Di Chiera Productions) "Heimat" film about pride, betrayal and cool. Kristen fancies him with the Writer: Frank Lotito, Matteo Bruno Key Cast: Aoife Duffin Eddie: Nigel family ties. intensity of someone in a fairytale. But Producer: Matteo Bruno (VALARC O’Neill, Michael Mason, Marta HEMEL Liam takes Owen out drinking – and the Films) McIlduff, Barry Etherson, Sandra Ni Drama/Erotik (80 min) depth of Liam’s mis-wired obsessions Key Cast: Frank Lotito,Holly Valance, Bhrion, Rose Henderson, Paddy Rocks, Language: Dutch with English subtitles soon emerge. Liam offers unconditional George Kapiniaris, Osvaldo Maione, Oisin Murray, Shaun Paul McGrath Director: Sacha Polak love to Owen…on one condition: not to George Kapiniaris, Maria Venuti, Pia Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Helena van der Meulen be dressed like a man! Miller, Costas Kilias, Year of Production: 2011 Country of Co-Production Partners: VPRO WHERE THE ROAD MEETS THE Delivery Status: Completed Origin: UK Television, Bella Cohen Films, Jaleo SUN Year of Production: 2011 Country of In an attempt to save the neck of his Films Drama (93 min) Origin: Australia junkie son Joe, Eddie agrees to do a Producer: Stienette Bosklopper (Circe Language: English, Japanese, Spanish Rocco has it all: a great job in real estate, mysterious pick up with the help of Joe’s Films BV) with English subtitles a hot car and a woman who will do girlfriend Liz. The two head off across Key Cast: Hannah Hoekstra, Hans Director: Yong Mun Chee anything for him and loves him mid Ulster and eventually find

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themselves in possession of a lamb. En- Writer: Scud Writer: Jim Chim and always completes her missions. route they fumble their way through a Producer: Scud (Artwalker Ltd.) Producer: Wong Jing Thanks to her band of killers, Madame series of comic, tragic and disturbing Key Cast: Osman Hung, Linda So, Haze Key Cast: Jim Chim, Koni Lui, Harriet Rose has expanded her criminal adventures; Liz, struggling with her own Leung, John Tai, Tang Wei, Calvin Yeung, Tyson Chak, Jacquelin Ch'ng, organization, and now assigns missions drug addiction, crippling sensitivity and Wong, Owen Lee, Alice Chen, Betty DaDa, Z.O. in many parts of the world. CK Long has desire to connect with her disabled son Chan, Christepher Wee Delivery Status: Completed never imagined that he would one day who lives with foster parents. Eddie, an Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2011 Country of become the target of his own daughter's overweight and depressed ex accountant Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Hong Kong mission. does his best to assume the role of a drug Origin: Hong Kong SEX & CHOPSTICK ONCE UPON A TIME IN trafficker but his constant cradling of the Love is life, life as it is. Not every love AKA: The Forbidden Legend: Sex & SHANGHAI lamb and love of bird watching doesn’t story is a fairy tale. After a dramatic Chopstick Matial Arts (Approx. 95 minutes) do a lot for his tough guy image. In wedding feast, unusual love stories Erotic (93 mins) Language: Chinese and English between moments of unexpected heroism unfold towards unexpected endings. Language: Cantonese Director: Ching-Po WONG and unlikely sightings of birds (vultures Inspired by real life cases, LOVE Director: Chin Man Kei Executive Producer: WONG Jing in Mid Ulster) Eddie’s dysfunctional ACUTALLY… SUCKS! is about love Writer: Chin Man Kei Key Cast: Philip Ng, Sammo Hung, humanity connects with Liz’s tortured that gone bad: a brother and sister in Producer: Chin Man Kei Andy On past and a kind of healing begins. love but caught by the mother, a married Key Cast: Hikaru Wakana, Kaera Delivery Status: In Production SNEAKERS painter falls for his young life drawing Uehara, Serina Hayakawa, Yui Year of Production: 2012 Country of Drama (105 min) model of same sex, an intimacy between Morikawa, Lam Wai Kin, Leung Cheuk Origin: China, Hong Kong Language: Bulgarian with English a dance school teacher and his rich but Moon, Tam Kon Chung In the 1900¡ıs, MA YONG ZHEN joined subtitles senior student, a lesbian couple one of Delivery Status: Completed many hopeful laborers to seek work in Director: Valery Yordanov, Ivan which has role-play paranoid, a dreadful Year of Production: 2009 Country of Shanghai. Remaining honest and Vladimirov love triangle ending with the girl being Origin: Hong Kong refusing to join a gang, he became Writer: Valery Yordanov beheaded…LOVE ACUTALLY… ALL ABOUT LOVE friends with gangster LONG QI. Producer: Galina Toneva, Kiril Kirilov SUCKS! celebrates love that no one care Lesbian & Romance (105 min) Japanese spy HASHIMOTO, furious that (Gala Film Ltd.) but actual life is love, love as it is. Language: Cantonese Long turned down his proposal, tries to Key Cast: Ina Nikolova, Ivan Barnev, Director: Ann Hui kill both of them. Ma luckily survives, Ivo Arakov, Philip Avramov, Vasil Writer: YeeShan Yang and is now determined to help his people Draganov, Valeri Yordanov MEGA-VISION Producer: Ann Hui by decimating the bad elements in Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Sandra Ng, Vivian Chow, Shanghai. Year of Production: 2011 Country of PICTURES LIMITED Eddie Cheung, William Chan, Joey Man, Mega-Vision Pictures Limited, 11/F, 78 Origin: Bulgaria Jo Koo Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, In the beginning of summer six young Delivery Status: Completed MEI AH Hong Kong, Hong Kong 852 China, people escape from their failures – in Year of Production: 2010 Country of Tel: 852.27900381 Fax: 852.23147120. their families, love, money, ambitions, Origin: Hong Kong ENTERTAINMENT www.mvphk.biz,[email protected] meeting with those that are different. Producer, Distributor, Financier GROUP LTD. They escape from the City, taken over by At Cannes: Wong Jing (CEO), Angela Mei Ah Entertainment Group Ltd., Mei those that are different. Each one of them Wong (General Manager), Ronan Wong MEGA-VISION Ah Centre, 28 Chun Choi Street, Tseung escapes East of Hell... to the point (Distribution Manager) PROJECT Kwan O Industrial Estate, Kowloon, farthest away, the sea coast, a clean and Office: RIVERIA C12-02, Tel: Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong kong, pristine beach. The clean beach brings 852.97366360 DISTRIBUTION Tel: 852.2751.3388 Fax: 852.2799.3643. them together and reopens the LIMITED http://www.meiah.com, prospective of hope to them all. But is http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=53 [email protected] such an escape at all possible? Mega-Vision Project Distribution Producer, Distributor Limited, 11/F., 78 Hung To Road, Kwun At Cannes: Sara Law (VP - BLOWFISH TREASURE HUNT Tong, Hong Kong, China, Tel: Romantic Drama (90 min) Family Adventure (100 mins) Distribution), Winnie Chan (Distribution 852.2790.0381 Fax: 852.3902.3380. Language: Mandarin with English Language: Mandarin & Cantonese Executive) Producer, Distributor Office: Riviera C2 subtitles Director: Wong Jing At Cannes: Gordon Cheung (President, Director: Chi Yuarn Lee Writer: Wong Jing Acquisition & Distribution) http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1060 Writer: Chi Yuarn Lee, Vicci Pan Producer: Wong Jing Office: Riviera, E17 Producer: Li-Fen Chien (Happy Pictures Key Cast: Cecilia Cheung, Ronald Co. Ltd.) Cheng, Shao Bing, Liu Hwa, Lin Miao THE SILENT WAR (AKA http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=27 Key Cast: Vicci Pan, Kang Jen Wu, Yi Ke, Ekin Cheng WINDSEEKER) Ching Lu, Angel Yao, Hong Xiu Wu, Delivery Status: Post Production Action Drama NAKED SOLDIER Fernando Hsieh, Yi-Ping Cheng, Chien Year of Production: 2011 Country of Language: Chinese Action (Approx. 95 mins) Director: Alan Mak Cheng Chen, Chu Lin, Hsin Pei Wu Origin: Hong Kong Language: Chinese and English Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Felix Chong HIS MAJESTY'S MAGISTRATE Director: Marco Mak Key Cast: Tony LEUNG, Xun ZHOU, Year of Production: 2011 Country of Period Detective (~90 mins) Writer: Wong Jing Origin: Taiwan Language: Mandarin & Cantonese Mini YANG Producer: Wong Jing Delivery Status: Pre-Production Xiao-Zhun's world is like the elevator Director: Wong Jing Key Cast: Sammo Hung, Jenn Tse, Ankie she operates in a department store: static, Writer: Wong Jing Year of Production: 2011 Country of Beilke, Lena Lin, Philip Ng, Andy On Origin: HONG KONG polite, low-key. When she catches her Producer: Wong Jing Delivery Status: Screening boyfriend cheating on her, the shy girl Key Cast: Louis Koo Things don't always go as your eyes see Year of Production: 2011 Country of while truth's always hidden underneath. decides to find a better home for her pet Delivery Status: Pre-Production Origin: Hong Kong blowfish. A lonely baseball coach Year of Production: 2012 Country of In 1950s, the China Republic Interpol agent CK Long busted a billion- Government is newly established. purchases the blowfish at an internet Origin: Hong Kong dollar drug deal fifteen years ago. The auction. He is waiting in his trashed Revolutionists in different parts of China RED EYES cartel has avenged itself by hiring seek chances to revolt. Everywhere is home for his wife, who left him. When Suspense Madame Rose's organization of assassins Xiao-Zhun takes the Blowfish across Language: Mandarin & Cantonese restless and chaotic. 701 Headquarter, to kill CK Long's entire family. In consists of Inspection, Interpretation and town to his house, they make passionate Director: Wong Jing & Wang Guangli revenge, she kills the entire family of love in the surreal blue light of his Writer: Wang Guangli Operation, is set up to spy conspiracy chief investigator CK Long. Long through telegraph. But one day in aquarium. She stays with him, but their Producer: Wong Jing himself survives, and believes his young love staggers like a blowfish… until one Delivery Status: In Development October, all of a sudden, the enemy shut daughter is still alive. In fact, for these down 126 military channels for 30 hours. day, the Coach finally wants to learn this Year of Production: 2012 Country of fifteen years, the girl has been kidnapped girl’s real name. Origin: Hong Kong After these long hours, when they tune by Madame Rose, brainwashed and back the channels, only daily news is LOVE ACTUALLY...SUCKS! MICROSEX OFFICE trained into beautiful, sexy killer being broadcasted. Without concrete Romantic Drama (84 min) Comedy (90 mins) Phoenix. Phoenix has now become the Language: Cantonese with English Language: Cantonese information, operators at the frontline are top-ranked killer in Madame Rose's at risk. Chang Xue-ning is of subtitles Director: Lee Kung Lok & Jim Chim organization. She is skilled in combat, Director: Scud Operation's. She is sent back to the

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Headquarter as her identity has been Year of Production: 2011 Country of why this happened. But Yi Xian Tian has Kin Hung disclosed in Hong Kong. Reporting in Origin: HONG KONG/CHINA already disappeared. Because of loyalty, Producer: NG Kin Hung 701, she is astonished by her supervisor, Qiu Jin - the first female revolutionist in the masters there vow to take revenge for Key Cast: (Mr. – Alan PO, Dash TAM, Guo Zhong-xing, who used to woo her. Chinese history. Based on real Chinese the high warlord no matter what; Ip Man MJ TAM, Ronny LAI, Tom TO), Mag Their relation is still a mystery. Xue- history during the period around 1900 and Kung Yi start their journey to hunt LAM,Michelle WAI, Jeana HO, Bonnie ning's new mission is to seek for worthy and is about the famous female down Yi Xian Tian... XIAN, CHAN Wai Man, Eva LAI, who gets superb aural comprehension. revolutionist QIU JIN, who was also a LADY KUNG FU Delivery Status: Post Production She targets Luo San-er, the piano tuner kung fu master. The movie depicts how Martial Arts Year of Production: 2012 Country of of Song Qing Ling but it turns out she she was influenced by another Language: Mandarin Origin: Hong Kong brings Luo's personal assistant, He Bing revolutionist starred by Dennis To and Director: Joe CHEUNG Alan is a job hopper who just got fired at to report duty. Bing is uncivilized and became a brave woman with the ultimate Writer: Man Lung HO his fifth job in two years. His father has blind but his hearing is splendid - can aim to transform China. The revolution Executive Producer: Si Yuan WU been hoping that he could take over the even hear the wind. Is he strong enough was failed at the end and QIU JIN was Key Cast: Jing BAI, Zhi Hua DONG, family business, but he insisted to create to be the saviour in this silent war? executed at the age of 31. Kara HUI, Shao Qun YU, Collin CHOU his own path even though he has no WU DANG THE GRANDMASTERS Delivery Status: Completed passion for everything. He ran into his Martial Arts Martial Arts Year of Production: 2011 Country of high school bandmate – Dash. Dash has Language: Chinese Language: Chinese Origin: China been working at a music store after Director: Patrick LEUNG Director: Kar-wai WONG The charming and pretty Wing Chun(Bai graduation. Although Dash’s girlfriend Key Cast: Vincent CHIU, Dennis TO, Producer: Kar-wai WONG, Jacky PANG Jing) met a former Shaolin master, Ng Jeana doesn’t like what he’s doing, he’s Louis Fan, Mini Yang Key Cast: Tony LEUNG Chiu-wai, Mui (Wai Ying Hung), who offers to still very happy as long as he’s Delivery Status: Pre-Production ZHANG Zi-yi, ZHANG Zhen,SONG train her in a unique form of close range surrounded by music. Dash invited Alan In early Republican China, rumors were Hye-kyo, ZHAO Ben-shan, WANG combat. Javing trained for the requisite to join his band, but Alan has been going around about the treasure in Xing-chang three months, she 0easily defeats Gao dragging on this because he’s not Wudang Mountain. An American Delivery Status: In Production who forces her to marry with. Leung Bao enthusiastic about music. Until he saw conspirator took his well-trained kung fu With martial arts becoming more popular Chou (Yu Shao Qun) is a handsome Meg, the lead singer whom he loves at daughter to Wudang by sponsoring a in the Thirties, more people seek to learn young scholar who has also been trained first sight, he decided to join the band… Taoist martial arts competition, to steal them via the professionals at Foshan in in martial arts by his parents (Yuen Wah the treasure. Out of expectation, a Southern China. Some of the and Yuen Chau, ‘Kung Fu Hustle'). disciple represented Wudang to compete experienced masters like to challenge Intially, Bao Chou is put off by Wing MOONSTONE with other martial arts masters for the their counterparts and undergoing battles. Chun's rambunctious ways, but a championship. During the competition, To have their whole concentration, it is genuine romance soon develops between ENTERTAINMENT Moonstone Entertainment, P.O. Box resentment incurred against different their practice to lock up the venues and them. Imperial officer Lau Yam (Wai Tin 7400, Studio City, CA 91614 USA, Tel: parties, the relationship became no one is allowed to leave during battles. Chee) leads his master, Kam Ying 1.818.985.3003 Fax: 1.818.985.3009. complicated, a Korean female Tai Chi No food and no rest before reaching any (Collin Chou), to Guangdong in pursuit www.moonstonefilms.com, descendant fell in love with the results. Ip Man is a young rich man of Ng Mui and the other Shaolin rebels. [email protected] American conspirator and the secret of extremely talented in martial arts, but he Though Kam Ying was once in love with Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor the treasure had been revealed. The chooses to keep a low profile. Yet this Ng Mui, this doesn't stop him from At Cannes: Mr. Etchie Stroh (CEO), treasure is the key of the magnetic field doesn't keep him out of these troubles killing her comrades, and finally Mrs. Yael Stroh (President) of Wudang, if it's stolen, Wudang would ahead. One day he is trapped in this threatening Yim Wing Chun and her Office: LERINS R21, Tel: be devastated. To protect Wudang, a battleground so he has to use every family. In a final showdown, Ng Mui 06.17.42.12.74 group of young heroes rallied around to means in order to get out of there. The proves no match for Kam Ying, and it is CAUGHT IN THE WEB defeat grant masters. It's the time the masters are amazed by his abilities. left to Wing Chun, helped by Bao Chou, Drama long-lost Wudang martial arts returned... Master Kung and his daughter Kung Yi to finally defeat this apparently Language: Mandarin THE WOMAN KNIGHT OF are amongst, and the latter is attracted to invincible foe. Yim Wing Chun promises Director: Chen Kaige MIRROR LAKE this newcomer. A high warlord originally her master that she will disseminate the Delivery Status: Post Production Martial Arts (115min) from the North comes to Foshan. He has art to which she has given the name. Year of Production: 2012 Country of Language: Mandarin brought many masters with him in order LAN KWAI FONG Origin: China Director: Herman YAU to hide his true agenda. At the same Realistic (95min) The story of three women whose worlds Key Cast: Crystal Huang, Dennis TO, battleground where Ip Man is trapped, he Language: Cantonese collide in this social commentary about Anthony Wong, Xin Xin XIONG is suddenly assassinated by his own Director: Wilson CHIN the 'sound bite' society we are becoming, Delivery Status: Completed guard Yi Xian Tian. No one has a clue of Producer: Kin Hung NG where perception becomes reality and Key Cast: Z.O. CHEN, Shiga LIN, judgments based on limited facts quickly Bonnie XIAN spread, without regard for the truth or the Delivery Status: Completed damage they could cause. The same CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Year of Production: 2011 Country of technology that connects us can be used HE LICK AND CCESS ULTURE IS OW Origin: HONG KONG to tear us apart. T C A C N Lan Kwai Fong (LKF), a well-known & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. party location in Hong Kong with loads http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1121 of nightclubs and bars. Everyone likes to go LKF for fun, one night stand or even COMPULSION true love. LKF had captured joys and Dark Comedy sorrows of many... Steven and Jennifer Language: English Click on had one night stand but they both could Director: Egidio Coccimiglio feel true love comes along. Producer: Gary Howsam, Bill Marks Blue Boxes Unfortunately, misunderstanding tore Key Cast: Heather Graham, Carrie-Anne them apart and Jennifer decided to Moss, Kevin Dillon, Joe Mantegna to Access disappear from LKF. After eight months, Delivery Status: In Production Steven was promoted to work at head Year of Production: 2012 Available office in Australia. He reunited with A psychological thriller based on the Jennifer again at his farewell party but Korean blockbuster 301-302. Company Jennifer had already engaged with his FAVELA boss. Can true love be found in this Action / Thriller Trailers place? Or only sex is the way out of this Language: English place? Director: Isaac Florentine Automatically LIVES IN FLAMES Producer: Etchie Stroh Musical Drama/ Coming-of-age Key Cast: TBA Language: Catonese Delivery Status: Pre-Production Do Your Part To Director: Jacky Lee Year of Production: 2012 Country of Writer: Lam Fung, Mark Wu Origin: Brazil Combat Global Warming Executive Producer: LI Kuo Hsing/NG

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RECALL shadows waiting. To betray his new Delivery Status: Completed Origin: USA Thriller Chinese boss Zhen into revealing the Year of Production: 2012 Country of Locked up as a servant for most of his Language: English treasure’s location, Saul tries every trick Origin: India life Tim realizes he must embrace the Director: TBA he can think of, even playing on the When General Morris De Silva receives values of his captor or never know Writer: Paul Schrader sexual tension stirring between him and a threatening demand – to free five freedom again. Producer: Etchie Stroh, Robert Katz Zhen’s beautiful wife, Kun Hua. But terrorist prisoners, or face bomb KNIFE FIGHT Key Cast: TBA their game begins too late. One by one, retribution – he makes the easy decision Political Comedy (100 min.) Delivery Status: In Development others arrive: a group of mercenaries not to negotiate. But when the first bomb Language: English Year of Production: 2012 Country of representing ruthless bankers, a shady detonates, the decision to keep the Director: Bill Guttentag Origin: USA gunman who might be a federal marshal, prisoners captive must be readdressed, Key Cast: Rob Lowe, Carrie-Anne Moss, A mission gone wrong, a crime covered and the local sheriff and his deputy -- all and his search for the man behind the Julie Bowen up … nightmare or reality? have motives of their own. Saul finds treat begins. Delivery Status: Completed himself up against far worse men than THE STORY OF ELEANOR RIGBY Year of Production: 2011 Country of himself and is forced to shift plans and Origin: USA (HIS STORY/HER STORY) MULTIVISIONNAIRE allegiances in a deadly multi-sided face- Romance When a scandal is brewing, crisis off of bluffs, gambles, and betrayals as Language: English manager Paul Turner is the only man PICTURES he struggles to find the gold and come who can spin a story in a politicians MultiVisionnaire Pictures, 3080 W. Director: Ned Benson out alive. favour. Valley Blvd. Ste B., Alhambra, CA 91803 Writer: Ned Benson USA, Tel: 1.626.737.8357 Fax: PIRATE BROTHERS Key Cast: Jessica Chastain, Joel RESPONSIBLE ADULTS Action (96 mins.) Romantic Comedy 1,626.737.8642. Edgerton,William Hurt Language: English Language: English www.multivisionnaire.com Delivery Status: Pre-Production Sales Agent Director: Asun Mawardi Year of Production: 2012 Country of Director: Jon Poll At Cannes: Sean Haley (Managing Writer: Matthew Ryan Fischer, Douglas Origin: USA Key Cast: Katie Holmes, Chace Partner), Stephanie Ogrodnik Galt, Asun Mawardi When Eleanor and Conor are faced with Crawford (Acquisitions Manager), Wendy Howell Producer: Asun Mawardi, Jimmy hard life lessons they cope in very Delivery Status: Pre-Production (International Sales Executive) Djulianto, Gina Maria, Keith Brinksman different ways. Each of their stories is Year of Production: 2012 Country of Office: RIVIERA D2, Tel: Key Cast: Robin Shou, Imd Verdy told in a separate film. Origin: USA Bhawanta, Marcio Fernando da Silva Liz, a 30 year old med student meets a +33(0)4.92.99.32.22 Fax: BREAKING THE GIRLS 1.626.737.8642 Delivery Status: Completed Thriller (87min.) charming 22 year old. Their chemistry is Year of Production: 2011 Country of Language: English electric until she realizes they met 15 http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1316 Origin: Indonesia Director: Jamie Babbit years earlier when she was his babysitter. Sunny and Verdy are orphan brothers, Key Cast: Madeline Zima, Agnes FREELOADERS not by blood but by will. Life takes them Comedy (80 min.) I AM BAD Bruckner, Shawn Ashmore Thriller (83 mins.) down two completely different paths. Delivery Status: Completed Language: English Language: English Verdy is adopted by a wealthy family Year of Production: 2011 Country of Director: Dan Rosen Director: David Rackoff and inherits a powerful enterprise, and Origin: USA Key Cast: Jane Seymour, Josh Lawson, Writer: David Rackoff Sunny enters the pirate underworld. Alex and Sara commiserate over their Nat Faxon Producer: Louise Runge, Samantha Years later Sunny and Verdy come face enemies, and Alex suggests they kill off Delivery Status: Completed Housman, Darren Brady to face when Verdy's fiancee is each other’s nemeses. Sara shrugs it off Year of Production: 2011 Country of Key Cast: Pauley Perrette, Taylor Dayne, kidnapped by pirates. Reunited, they as a morbid joke until someone turns up Origin: USA Caprice Crawford, Wilson Heredia, fight to save her and stop the dead. The story follows a group of slackers Jaime Gomez international criminal scheme of the who are living for free in rock star, SECONDS OF PLEASURE Delivery Status: Completed entire pirate operation. Sexy Drama Adam Durwitz, mansion. But their Year of Production: 2012 Country of Language: English cherished lifestyle is threatened when the Origin: USA Writer: Neil LaBute musician decides to sell his pad. I AM BAD is a voyeuristic rollercoaster MYRIAD PICTURES Key Cast: Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser, DINO TIME (3D) Myriad Pictures, 3015 Main St. Suite experience of the life of a serial killer-- Christina Hendricks Animated Family Adventure (106min) 400, Santa Monica, CA 90405 U.S., Tel: seen entirely through the eyes of the Delivery Status: Pre-Production Language: English 1.310.279.4000 Fax: 1.310.279.4001. Director: John Kafka, Yoon S. Choi killer himself. He is forced to reconcile Year of Production: 2012 Country of www.myriadpictures.com, Key Cast: Jane Lynch, Billy Baldwin, his romantic feelings for the woman he Origin: USA [email protected] Rob Schneider loves with his unstoppable bloodlust. Sales Agent, Producer A flight from Chicago to London brings Delivery Status: Completed The first person point of view gives us At Cannes: Kirk D'Amico (President and five strangers together. As their secrets Year of Production: 2012 Country of an intimate yet inescapable closeness to Chief Executive Officer), Lisa Gutberlet come to light the cracks running through Origin: USA the bizarre and twisted world as he sees (Vice President, Worldwide their marriages and relationships are Three curious kids accidentally start a it. Distribution), Katie Irwin (Manager, exposed, and new passions are ignited. time machine that takes them back to the HEATHENS AND THIEVES Distribution) NOBODY WALKS dinosaurs! Action, Adventure, Crime, Western (110 Office: 41 la Croisette/29 rue Romance (83min) mins.) Commandant Andre, Tel: + Language: English Language: English 33.4.93.68.76.38 Director: Ry Russo-Young Director: Megan Peterson, John Douglas Writer: Ry Russo-Young, Lena Dunham N Sinclair http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1166 Key Cast: John Krasinski, Olivia Writer: John Douglas Sinclair Thirlby, Rosemarie DeWitt Producer: Peter H. Scott, Matthew Delivery Status: Completed Marconi INESCAPABLE NDRL Thriller Year of Production: 2012 Country of NDRL, 73, bd Haussmann, Paris, 75008 Key Cast: Don Swayze, Gwendoline Language: English/Arabic w/subtitles Origin: USA France, Tel: 33(0)613358463. Yeo, Andrew Simpson, Richard Doyle, Director: Ruba Nadda Family man and professional sound www.ndrl.fr,[email protected] Michael Robert Brandon Key Cast: Marisa Tomei, Alexander designer, Peter, agrees to help an aspiring Agent Delivery Status: Completed Siddig, Joshua Jackson director finish her art film but her At Cannes: Renaud Lombart (MD) Year of Production: 2012 Country of Delivery Status: Post Production presence upsets the balance of his family. Office: H4-35 Media, Tel: Origin: USA Year of Production: 2011 Country of 33(0)613358463 When two drifters hear rumors of a CHAINED Origin: USA Psychological Thriller (98 min.) Chinese railroad worker hiding stolen When Adib discovers his daughter is Language: English http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1269 gold at a isolated ranch, the desperate missing he returns to Syria in the hopes Director: Jennifer Lynch men put a conspiracy into motion to steal of finding her. Key Cast: Vincent D’Onofrio, Julia AMAZING JAPAN the “Chinaman’s Gold” themselves -- Ormond, Eamon Farren Short series (30X 4 min each) before other interested parties close in. A COMMON MAN Thriller (86 min) Delivery Status: Completed Language: Japanese Saul, one of the drifters, uses his charm Language: English Year of Production: 2011 Country of Director: Renaud Lombart and his horse skill to get hired as a ranch Director: Chandran Rutnam Writer: NDRL hand, while partner Bill lurks in the Key Cast: Sir Ben Kingsley, Ben Cross Executive Producer: Renaud Lombart

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Producer: NDRL Gochev Writer: Daniel J. Gillin A subversive tale that interlaces five Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Emil Andreev (12 episodes, Producer: Daniel J. Gillin stories set in Los Angeles, where no Year of Production: 2012 Country of 2011-2012), Iordan Bankov (12 episodes, Key Cast: Michael Madsen, Robert taboo is left unexplored as each character Origin: France 2011-2012), Aleksandar Chobanov (12 Miano, Tiny Lister, Michael Masini, Ya careens toward a dark and often comic Unbelievable series of short docs about episodes, 2011-2012), Vania Nikolova Boy, Ali Costello, Trisha Lurie, Ben fate. Amazing things that Japanese do! Rabbit (12 episodes, 2011-2012), Aleksandar Maccabee FLYING LESSONS sitter, Castle on the roof, Dog sommelier, Spasov (12 episodes, 2011-2012), Georgi Delivery Status: Completed Drama Rice sommelier, ear cleaning shop; you Ivanov (12 episodes, 2011), Teodora Year of Production: 2011 Country of Language: English will not believe what you’ ll see! Vasileva (12 episodes, 2011) Origin: USA Director: Derek Magyar Producer: Dimitar Gochev, Dimitar TROPHY tells the story of man's Writer: Thomas Kuehl Mitovski, Rosen Tzankov obsession for POWER and how far they Producer: Jenny Hinkey, Derek Magyar NEW FILMS Key Cast: Milena Nikolova, Marian will go sometimes to claim the "PRIZE". Key Cast: Maggie Grace, Hal Holbrook, Valev and Lilia Marvilya "Trophy" adds a new twist to the Jonathan Tucker, Christine Lahti, Cary INTERNATIONAL Delivery Status: Completed stereotypical MOB MOVIES in that the Elwes New Films International, 14320 Ventura Year of Production: 2011 Country of TROPHY WOMAN in this case gets Delivery Status: Completed Blvd.# 619, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 Origin: Bulgaria more than the normal ABUSE and Year of Production: 2010 Country of USA, Tel: 1.818.501.2720 Fax: The specially trained agent Martin has monetary benefits of rolling with the Bad Origin: USA 1.818.501.2780. been appointed to the most dangerous Boys, she gets Mr. Right. The film has With her life at a crossroads, 25 year old www.newfilmsint.com, mission in Bulgaria - to go undercover in twists and turns, Action, humor, the Sophie Conway returns home to the [email protected] Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor the gang of the mafia boss Djaro. On his power of the Mafia, showdowns, small town she always wanted to forget. At Cannes: Nesim Hason (President), way he has to encounter a lot of seduction and the reality that DREAMS Once home, she is faced with the friends Keith Birkfeld (Director of WW Sales), challenges in order to completely do come true even when it all seems and lovers she left behind, a tangled Duygu Eroglu (Assistant to President), become part of the criminal world. His impossible. relationship with her Mother, and Harry Juliana Birkfeld (Sales Representative) task becomes more complicated when he A NOVEL ROMANCE Pleasant, an Alzheimer's Disease patient Office: RIVIERA # B1, Tel: meets the big boss's girl Sunny. While Romance who, in an opposing way, shares Sophie's +33(0)4.92.99.32.02 undercover he gets a promotion in the Language: English struggle to remember. mafia hierarchy and becomes part of the Director: Allie Dvorin SAVING GRACE B. JONES http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1139 world - full of crime, violence and Writer: Allie Dvorin Drama, Thriller corruption. "Undercover" is a modern Producer: Morris S. Levy Language: English crime series which realistically depicts Key Cast: Shannon Elizabeth, Steve LIVING DARK: THE STORY OF Director: Connie Stevens the reality of the underground world in Guttenberg and Natalya Rudakova TED THE CAVER Writer: Connie Stevens Horror/ Thriller (112 min) Bulgaria. It is a fictional series and is not Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Ralph S. Singleton, Connie Language: English related to any real persons. However the Year of Production: 2011 Country of Stevens Director: David Hunt plot contains a number of real events Origin: USA Key Cast: Tatum O'Neal, Michael Biehn, Writer: David Hunt, Kevin Brown happening in the modern life that cover Two New York singles move in together Penelope Ann Miller, Evie Thompson Producer: Joseph Armour, Marc the pages of newspapers and magazines- after one gets fired and the other loses Delivery Status: Completed Crandall, David Hunt, Thomas Olaimey gangster wars, drug market her boyfriend tragically. They move in as Year of Production: 2009 Country of Key Cast: Chris Cleveland, Matthew redistribution, forgery, gun shots in the friends and think nothing will change as Origin: USA Alan, Circus Szalewski, Mark Hayter city center, corruption schemes, bank friends, but everything does. In a 1950s-era Missouri town the life of Delivery Status: In Production robberies etc. SCORE: A HOCKEY MUSICAL a couple is thrown into chaos when the Year of Production: 2012 Country of PETUNIA Comedy/ Drama/ Musical (92 min) husband's sister is released from the local Origin: USA Comedy/ Drama Language: English asylum and comes to live with the Two brothers, reunited for their father's Language: English Director: Michael McGowan family. funeral, stumble upon the entrance to a Director: Ash Christian Writer: Michael McGowan SATIN nearby cave, where they are slowly Writer: Ash Christian, Theresa Bennett Producer: Avi Federgreen, Michael Comedy, Drama, Romance forced to confront the true, nightmarish Producer: Thora Birch, Ash Christian, McGowan Language: English cause of their father's death. Based on Jordan Yale Levine Key Cast: John McDonald, Noah Reid, Director: Christopher Olness the popular Ted the Caver Internet Key Cast: Thora Birch, Brittany Snow, Allie MacDonald, Olivia Newton-John, Writer: Christopher Olness, Hamilton legend. Eddie Kaye Thomas, Christine Lahti Nelly Furtado von Watts THE LEVENGER TAPES Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Chip Bent, Christopher Horror/ Thriller (93 min) Year of Production: 2011 Country of Year of Production: 2010 Country of Olness, Hamilton von Watts Language: English Origin: USA Origin: Canada Key Cast: Hamilton von Watts, Melissa Director: Mark Edwin Robinson An off beat family of New Yorkers must Seventeen-year-old Farley has led a Joan Hart, Robert Guillaume, Alley Mills Writer: Mark Edwin Robinson come to terms with their own misgivings sheltered life, raised on a diet of home Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Danny Roth, David C. about life, relationships and the sheer schooling, organic living and trips to the Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: USA Robinson unpredictability of love itself. Petunia art gallery. To his parents' dismay, Farley A washed up Vegas lounge singer, Jack Key Cast: Johanna Braddy, Lili weaves together the lives of brothers loves to play shinny with the local rink Satin (Hamilton von Watts), has no Mirojnick, Morgan Krantz, Chris Charlie (Tobias Segal), Adrian and rats. To their even greater dismay, Farley money, no job, and delusional aspirations Mulkey Michael (Eddie Kaye Thomas) as they is scouted and signed by the owner of fame. When Jack is forced to leave Delivery Status: Completed unlearn everything their psychoanalyst (Stephen McHattie) of a junior league Vegas, he packs up his old Cadillac and Year of Production: 2011 Country of parents have taught them. While team, where he becomes an instant star. hits the road for Atlantic City. But his car Origin: USA Michael's cynical wife Vivian (Thora But Farley discovers that stardom comes dies in the desert and Jack is left Detectives in a remote town pore Birch) discovers she is pregnant, the with a price-including the expectation to stranded in the small town of Lost through every frame of a troubling tape family is also changing. Charlie's would fight on the ice. Throw in a changing Springs. There, Jack meets jazz legend to find the whereabouts of three missing be boyfriend George (Michael Urie) is in relationship with his best friend (Allie turned mechanic, Doc Bishop (Robert college students. The chilling footage a polyamorous relationship with fitness MacDonald), and Farley finds himself Guillaume), who helps him with his car becomes more and more disturbing when fanatic Robin (Brittany Snow) and losing his way. trouble. Although Jack is far from the the students come upon the bloody dress Adrian has developed a unrelenting sex BURNING PALMS stage, he begins to find himself feeling at of an 8-year-old girl in the secluded addiction. Meddling parents Felicia Comedy/ Drama home in the small town. When he meets wilderness and take it upon themselves (Christine Lahti) and Percy (David Language: English local bar owner, Lauren Wells (Melissa to find her. Linking the case of the Rasche) must decide whether to reignite Director: Christopher B. Landon Joan Hart), Jack starts to see there is missing girl and the missing students the spark in their relationship or start all Writer: Christopher B. Landon more to life than chasing fame and together, the detectives race to piece over again. Petunia is a film about a Producer: Jason Hewitt, Oren Segal, fortune. Doc encourages Jack to explore enough information together to find them dysfunctional family unit on the verge of Steven Chester Prince his true love of music, while Lauren alive. a nervous breakdown. This is the story of Key Cast: Zoe Saldana, Rosamund Pike, provides the audience he has always UNDERCOVER SERIES how they pick up the pieces. Shannen Doherty, Lake Bell, Dylan wanted. But as Jack realizes this town Action, Crime, Drama (60 min/ episode) TROPHY McDermott, Paz Vega has more to offer him than the bright Language: Bulgarian Crime/ Action Delivery Status: Completed lights of the big city, his Vegas past Director: Victor Bojinov, Dimitar Language: English Year of Production: 2010 Country of catches up with him -- what unfolds is Director: Daniel J. Gillin Origin: USA comedy at the crossroads of life.

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HIT LIST as a professional assassin, Ken (Hirofumi "MEGANE" now delivers to you "Rent- Delivery Status: Completed Comedy, Romance (90 min) Arai) takes up work at a local a-Cat" to fill the hole in your heart. Year of Production: 2010 Country of Language: English motorcycle shop. Together with fellow "Rent-a-Cat, cat, cat. Feeling lonely? I'll Origin: Japan Director: Minh Collins ex-assassin Yoko (Jun Fubuki), Ken is lend you a cat." Every day, Sayoko The director of "Tokyo Gore Police" Writer: Thompson Evans trying to go straight and build a new life. (Mikako Ichikawa) walks along the created the ultimate zombie film! Producer: Elmer Ventura, Minh Collins However, his dark past isn't giving up riverside pulling a cart full of cats, KARATE-ROBO ZABORGAR Key Cast: Shirly Brener, Joseph that easily. Akira (Jun Murakami), Ken's repeating these words through her Action (101 minutes) Lawrence former boss and himself an assassin, has megaphone, hoping to rescue lonely Language: Japanese Delivery Status: Completed been coming around pressuring Ken to hearts. Director: Noboru Iguchi Year of Production: 2010 Country of return to high stakes, professional TOKYO OASIS Producer: Yoshinori Chiba, Toshimichi Origin: USA killing. Caught between Akira and Yoko, Drama (83 min) Ohtsuki Charlotte is a woman with anger Ken's peaceful existence begins to Language: Japanese Key Cast: Itsuji Itao, Yasuhisa Furuhara, management issues whose therapist unravel. Director: Kana Matsumoto, Kayo Mami Yamasaki suggests she write a journal to keep her A STORY OF YONOSUKE Nakamura Delivery Status: Completed emotions in check. Unlucky in love, she (WORKING TITLE) Writer: Kana Matsumoto, Kayo Year of Production: 2010 Country of ventures online to find a boyfriend. Just AKA: YOKOMICHI YONOSUKE Nakamura, Tomoko Shiraki Origin: Japan as she reaches her limit of unsuccessful Drama Executive Producer: Mitsuru Oshima A Japanese classic hero is re-created by dates, Charlotte meets her soul mate Language: Japanese Producer: Shuichi Komuro, Enma the director of "Robo Geisha"! Lyle. Everything is perfect until Lyle Director: Shuichi Okita Maekawa, Kumi Kobata NINIFUNI finds Charlottes journal and sets out to Writer: Shuichi Okita and Shiro Maeda Key Cast: Satomi Kobayashi, Ryo Kase, Drama/Short (42 min) prove just how deeply he loves her. Key Cast: Kengo Kora, Yuriko Haru Kuroki, Tomoyo Harada Language: Japanese Yoshitaka, Sosuke Ikematsu, Ayumi Ito, Delivery Status: Completed Director: Tetsuya Mariko Go Ayano Year of Production: 2011 Country of Writer: Tetsuya Mariko NIKKATSU Delivery Status: In Production Origin: Japan Producer: Oshikazu Nishigaya,Yuki Year of Production: 2012 Country of Being somewhat isolated, Tokyo, Nishimiya,Yoshihisa Kino CORPORATION Origin: Japan contains a massive amount of Key Cast: Masaru Miyazaki,Takashi Nikkatsu Corporation, 3-28-12, Hongo, Set in the 1980's, Yonosuke Yokomichi is information and a substantial population. Yamanaka,Momoiro Clover Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033 Japan, Tel: a college student who isn't very special A place where one goes with the flow. A Delivery Status: Completed 81.3.5689.1014 Fax: 81.3.5689.1044. or unique, except he dances the place where interactions between people Year of Production: 2011 Country of http://www.nikkatsu.com, SAMBA! But somehow, people who've have slowly faded. This movie explores Origin: Japan [email protected] Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor met him always remember him. Based the connection between such place and TANAKA, a man who lives in the At Cannes: Emico Kawai (International on a novel "Yokomichi Yonosuke" by the people who inhabit it though a countryside, breaks into a game arcade Sales) Shuichi Yoshida ("Parade","Villain") woman's soul searching journey to self with his friend, robs the safe and runs Office: Japan booth, Palais 01 21.02- *Now in production. discovery. This movie is an anthology of away with the store owner's car. After 23.01 RENT-A-CAT actors, directors and writers with Tokyo straying on a highway route, he finally AKA: RENTANEKO in their hearts. ends up a lonesome beach. A few days Drama (110 min) http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1085 DEADBALL later, a girls idle group, Momoiro Clover, Language: Japanese Action Comedy (99 minutes) visits the beach for their music video Director: Naoko Ogigami Language: Japanese AKAI KISETSU (WORKING TITLE) shoot, and find his car in the bushes. Writer: Naoko Ogigami Drama Director: Yudai Yamaguchi MAY'N 3D Language: Japanese Executive Producer: Mitsuru Oshima, Writer: Keita Tokaji Music Director: Tetsuhiko Nono Haruhisa Murokawa, Hiroaki Kitano Producer: Yoshinori Chiba, Shin Language: Japanese Writer: Tetsuhiko Nono Producer: Akira Kubota, Shuichi Torisawa Director: Hideaki Sunaga Key Cast: Hirofumi Arai Jun Murakami Komuro, Kumi Kobata Key Cast: Tak Sakaguchi, Mari Hoshino, Producer: Koichi Shibuya, Shinjiro Niinobu Ryomei Tomorowo Taguchi Key Cast: Mikako Ichikawa, Reiko Miho Ninagawa, Takamasa Suga Nishimura Masatoshi Nagase Jun Fubuki Shigeru Kusamura, Ken Mitsuishi, Maho Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: May'n Izumiya Yamada, Kei Tanaka, Katsuya Kobayashi Year of Production: 2011 Country of Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Post Production Delivery Status: Completed Origin: Japan Year of Production: 2010 Country of Year of Production: 2012 Country of Year of Production: 2012 Country of Grab your bat and hold onto your balls? Origin: Japan Origin: Japan Origin: Japan It's game time!! A Japanese highly targeted singer A director of "KAMOME DINNER" and Breaking away from his underworld job YAKUZA WEAPON "May'n" appears in 3D documentary AKA: GOKUDO HEIKI film! Yakuza Action (105 minutes) COLD FISH Language: Japanese Thriller (150min) CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Director: Tak Sakaguchi, Yudai Language: Japanese HE LICK AND CCESS ULTURE IS OW Yamaguchi Director: Sion Sono T C A C N Writer: Yudai Yamaguchi, Tak Sakaguchi Writer: Sion Sono & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. Producer: Yoshinori Chiba, Syuichi Producer: Yoshinori Chiba Takashino, Toshiki Kimura Key Cast: Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Denden, Key Cast: Tak Sakaguchi, Shingo Asuka Kurosawa Tsurumi, Mei Kurokawa, Takashi Delivery Status: Completed Nishina Year of Production: 2010 Country of Click on Delivery Status: Completed Origin: Japan Year of Production: 2011 Country of Inspired by a true event, COLD FISH is Blue Boxes Origin: Japan a bloodcurdling suspense drama that The team who brought you VERSUS unveils the underlying insanity of an to Access have returned with another hard-edged ordinary man. battle royale featuring tough gangsters, SANKAKU Available deadly women and cybernetic penis Drama (99 min) implants! Language: Japanese Company HELLDRIVER Director: Keisuke Yoshida Action Horror (105 minutes) Producer: Yoichi Arishige, Go Miura, Trailers Language: Japanese Tomoo Fukatsu, Tsuyoshi Soga Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura Key Cast: Sousuke Takaoka, Erena Ono, Automatically Writer: Daichi Nagisa, Yoshihiro Tomoko Tabata Nishimura Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Yoshinori Chiba, Hiroyuki Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: Japan Do Your Part To Yamada One summer, 30 years old Momose falls Key Cast: Yumiko Hara, Eihi Shiina, in love with his girlfriend's teenage Combat Global Warming Yurei Yanagi, Kazuki Namioka sister.

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ALIEN VS NINJA first-born son inherits everything and the COMPANY ORHEIM Thomas Moldestad Action (90min) remaining offspring must fend for AKA: KOMPANI ORHEIM Producer: Jorgen Storm Rosenberg, Language: Japanese themselves. The law has been cast aside Drama (100 min) Lasse Greve Alsos Director: Seiji Chiba/Yuji Shimomura in many areas and groups of men, knife- Language: Norwegian Key Cast: Ane Viola Andreassen Semb, Writer: Seiji Chiba wielding thugs, nicknamed “toughs”, Director: Arild Andresen Johan Tinus Austad Lindgren, Toralf Producer: Yoshinori Chiba control the fields. The blade rules the Writer: Lars Gudmestad, Arild Andresen Maurstad, Per Christian Ellefsen, Elsa Key Cast: Masanori Mimoto, Donpei land. United by blood. Divided by love. Producer: Yngve Saether, Sigve Lystad, Hilde Lyrån Tsuchihira, Miki Hijii Judged by knife. Endresen Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed SILENT CITY Key Cast: Kristoffer Joner, Cecilie Year of Production: 2011 Country of Year of Production: 2010 Country of AKA: SILENT CITY Mosli, Rolf Kristian Larsen Origin: Norway Origin: Japan Drama (87 min) Delivery Status: Screening The anticipated 3D sequel to the A band of great Iga Ninja encounter Language: English, Dutch Year of Production: 2011 Country of successful children's action adventure never-seen-before creatures, Alien! The Director: Threes Anna Origin: Norway feature "Magic Silver" which became a creator of "Death Trance" and "The Writer: Threes Anna A strong, human tale about growing up big success after its domestic premiere in Machine Girl" presents new blood action Producer: KeyFilm, Hanneke Niens & with an alcoholic father, but also an Norway with over 350 000 admissions. film. Hans de Wolf energetic story about teenage lust and Magic Silver has been sold world-wide MUTANT GIRLS SQUAD Key Cast: Laurence Roothooft, Ayako pain – about liberation and redemption. to more than 50 countries. The story of Action (90min) Kobayashi, Kenichi Sano BODY OF WATER Magic Silver 2 is set high up in the Blue Language: Japanese Delivery Status: Screening Psycological thriller (105 min) Mountain, where young queen Blureose Director: Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Year of Production: 2012 Country of Language: Finnish finds it more and more difficult to live Nishimura, Tak Sakaguchi Origin: Netherlands Director: Joona Tena within the boundaries of the Blue Gnome Writer: Noboru Iguchi Rosa arrives in Tokyo to learn the art of Writer: Pekka Lehtosaari, Joona Tena, community. When she becomes aware Producer: Yoshinori Chiba filleting fish from the famous Master Mikko Tenhunen that a dangerous glacier is threatening Key Cast: Yumi Sugimoto, Yuko Kon. Because of the difficulty Producer: Marko Röhr the Blue Mountain valley and the Red Takayama, Suzuka Morita communicating Rosa grows more and Key Cast: Krista Kosonen, Kai Lehtinen Gnomes living there, she sets out on a Delivery Status: Completed more lonely. Broke and desperate, Rosa and Viljami Nojonen journey to find the Blue Horn, a magical Year of Production: 2010 Country of starts to work as hostess in a night club, Delivery Status: Screening instrument that can change the weather. Origin: Japan entertaining Japanese business men. Year of Production: 2011 Country of With this instrument she might be able to Rin, who is 16 year old girl, joins a After a horrible night at the club, she Origin: Finlnad save the Red Gnomes. group of girls who are born as Mutant, ends up at the fishing pond of the Julia becomes the target of disturbing LOFT the breed of mutants that have existed restaurant, learns to understand the fish attacks by a supernatural spirit. To fight Thriller (110 min) long before the so-called "Japanese" and is finally accepted by Master Kon. A the spirit she must uncover a dark secret Language: Dutch invaded their land. Now the revenge of heart warming story about cultural in her own family history. Director: Antoinette Beumer the mutant girls begins! differences when west meets east in SIMON AND THE OAKS Writer: Bart De Pauw, adaptation by ETERNAL FIRST LOVE Tokyo, in the style of Lost in Drama (120 min) Saskia Noort Romantic Drama (105min) Translation, Fear and Trembling and In Language: Swedish and German Executive Producer: Hilde De Laere, Language: Japanese the mood for love. Director: Lisa Ohlin Rachel van Bommel, Sander Meurs Director: Yoshinori Muratani Writer: Marnie Blok Producer: Woestijnvis, Millstreet Films, BECOMING REDWOOD Producer: Katie Noma Executive Producer: Per Holst, John M Pupkin Film AKA: BECOMING REDWOOD Key Cast: Saki Aibu, Daisuke Maki, Comedy/Drama (93 min) Jacobsen, Sveinung Golimo, Steffen Key Cast: Fedja van Huíªt, Barry Atsma, Takashi Tsukamoto Language: English Reuter, Patrick Knippel, Marc-Daniel Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Gijs Naber, Delivery Status: Completed Director: Jesse James Miller Dichant, Leander Carell Chico Kenzari Year of Production: 2010 Country of Writer: Jesse James Miller Producer: Christer Nilsson Delivery Status: Completed Origin: Japan Producer: Joely Collins, Chad Willett Key Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Helen Year of Production: 2011 Country of A bittersweet tale of an everlasting first Key Cast: Ryan Grantham, Jennifer Sjöholm, Jan Josef Liiefers, Stefan Origin: The Netherlands love. Copping and Chad Willett Gödicke Five friends have a secret pact where Year of Production: 2012 Country of Delivery Status: Completed they share a trendy loft apartment in Origin: Canada Year of Production: 2011 Country of which they can discreetly entertain their NONSTOP SALES AB 11 year old Redwood lives alone with his Origin: Sweden mistresses and conquests. It seems like a NonStop Sales AB, Box 27134, hippie father since his mother left them Simon has had a loving childhood, but great arrangement until, one winter Stockholm, 102 52 Sweden, Tel: when he was 2 years old. He dreams still feels alien in the working class morning, they discover the naked body +46.840010033 Fax: +46.840010003. reuniting his parents by beating Jack neighbourhoods of 1940's Gothenburg. of a young woman. No one knows who http://www.nonstopsales.com, Nicklaus at the 1975 Masters of golf. Against his parents' will he, being she is or how she got there. The group [email protected] intellectually gifted, turns to an turns in on itself as they start to suspect Sales Agent When his father is arrested for illegal education otherwise reserved for young each other. It soon becomes clear that At Cannes: Michael Werner (Sales drugs, Redwood is sent to live with his men of academic heritage. There he they know far less about each other than Manager), Peter Torkelsson (Senior Sales mother, her militant husband, two mean meets Isak, the son of a wealthy Jewish they had initially thought. Executive), Rachel Bodros Wolgers spirited stepbrothers and an elderly, bookseller who has flead the German (Sales Coordinator) agoraphobic, step-grandfather Earl. BRIGHT SIDE OF THE MOON, THE persecutions. The boys and their families' Drama (120) Office: Scandinavian Films, 55 La Suddenly his life flips upside down! lives will interconnect in unexpected Language: Russian (partly English) Croisette, Tel: +46.734.39.99.88 Fax: Original score and a collection of songs ways as the war rages all over Europe. Director: Massimo Guglielmi +46.8.400.100.03 by Phil Collins, Cat Stevens, Tom Cochrane Marianne Fredriksson is one of Sweden's Writer: Massimo Guglielmi, Cinzia Tani, internationally most read authors, her Alessandro Leone http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1016 SOUNDBREAKER books have been translated into more Producer: Maria Christina Marolla AKA: ICE BELLOWS than 40 languages and have sold over 17 Key Cast: Branko Djuric, Lyanka Gruy, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE Documentary (86 min, 60 min) Language: Finnish million copies. SIMON AND THE Tanja Ribic NORTH OAKS is based on her critically Director: Kimmo Koskela Delivery Status: Completed AKA: HÄRMÄ acclaimed novel with the same name. It's Year of Production: 2011 Country of Western (128 min) Producer: Kimmo Koskela, Klaus also the first feature film adaptation Origin: Italy/Russia Language: Finnish Heydemann, Gernot Steinweg based on her books. SIMON AND THE Tonja has a dream, to walk on the moon. Director: JP Siili Delivery Status: Screening OAKS stars Sweden's rising star Bill Tonja will become a cosmonaut just like Writer: JP Siili Year of Production: 2012 Country of Skarsgård (Simple Simon, Arn - The her uncle Vladimir. Producer: Jarkko Hentula Origin: Finland Knight Templar) as Simon. Key Cast: Lauri Tilkanen, Mikko Finland's most vibrant and daring ITALIAN KEY, THE Romantic Drama (100 minutes) Leppilampi, Pamela Tola accordionist, Kimmo Pohjonen, breaks MAGIC SILVER 2 - THE QUEST Language: English Year of Production: 2012 Country of the sound barrier in contemporary musik FOR THE MYSTIC HORN Family (85 min) Director: Rosa Karo Origin: Finland film making. Language: Norwegian (English dub is Writer: Rosa Karo 19th century. In the plainlands of available) Producer: Tuomas Kantelinen, Peter O. Ostrobothnia, Western Finland, a Director: Arne Lindtner Naess Almond, Seppo Toivonen tradition prevails, according to which the Writer: Gudny Ingebjorg Hagen & Key Cast: Gwendolyn Anslow, Joana

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Cartocci, Elsa Cartocci, Leo Vertunni, complicated friendships, young love, scarecrow, but things don't go the way Andreas Wilson, Richard Ulfster, anxious mothers and overambitious Fergie expected them too. NU Joeanna Sayler football coaches. At the heart of the THE FOREST PEOPLE Delivery Status: Completed events, we find twelve year old Jo. Jo Children/Family (3 X 25) IMAGE/MILLENNIU Year of Production: 2011 Country of tries to avoid both potential girlfriends, Language: Norwegian M FILMS Origin: Finland/Italy/US mothers and football coaches, as he is Director: Trond Jacobsen Nu Image/Millennium Films, 6423 The Italian Key is a romantic fairy tale hunting desperately for a rare football Writer: Morten Myklebust Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048 about a 19-year-old orphan who gets, as card which he believes will solve all his Key Cast: Eivind Lundby, Linn Olssen, USA, Tel: 1.310.388.6900 Fax: her sole inheritance, an antique key that problems. Jo has a smart head, but a Kalle Øby 1.310.388.6901. unlocks both an old villa in Italy and the weak body. Even so, he gets by Delivery Status: Completed www.nuimage.net , [email protected] mysteries of her family history. relatively well - until Mari throws him a Year of Production: 2011 Country of Sales Agent, Producer 5 - CINQUE glance, and he acquires The Liverpool Origin: Norway At Cannes: John Fremes (President of Crime (99 min) Goalie. The forest people live deep in the woods. International Sales), Jeffrey Greenstein Language: Italian I TRAVELALONE Even though they live next to humans, Office: Riviera F1, Tel: Director: Francesco Dominedí? Drama (94 minutes) they avoid all contact with us, beacause +33(0)4.92.99.32.40 Fax: Writer: Francesco Dominedí?, Riccardo Language: Norwegian as they say: the humans have forgotten +33(0)4.92.99.32.41 Papa Director: Stian Kristiansen how to live in harmony with nature. The Producer: Walter D'Errico Writer: Tore Renberg Forest People is a great adventure series http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1147 Key Cast: Francesco Arca, Massimo Producer: Yngve Saether for the entire family. Bonetti, Alessandro Borghi, Matteo Key Cast: Rolf Kristian Larsen, Ingrid SOUTH OF NEW YORK WHITE HOUSE TAKEN Branciamore, Walter D'Errico, Giada De Bolsø Berdal, Amina Elonora Bergrem, Comedy (85 minutes) Director: Antoine Fuqua Blank, Cristian Marazziti, Angelo Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen, Gustaf Language: Italian (partly English) Writer: Creighton Rothenberger & Katrin Orlando, Rolando Ravello, Stefano Hammarsten Director: Elena Bonelli Benedikt Sammarco Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Elena Bonelli Key Cast: Gerard Butler Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2011 Country of Producer: Claudio Lido Orlandini Delivery Status: Pre-Production Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Norway Key Cast: Elena Bonelli, Francesco A disgraced U.S. Secret Service agent is Origin: Italy Jarle Klepp is a 25-year-old student of Paolantoni, Franco Neri, Gianfranco the only man who can save the President Confidential information revealed. literature with a passion for Adorno, Gallo, Luca Napolitano, Carmen and the country when the White House is Revenge carried out. The life line of the Proust and grown-up women - and Napolitano, Fioretta Mari seized by Terrorists. palm of a hand, slashed in the name of definitively not Tamagochi's, Lady Di Delivery Status: Completed HOMEFRONT friendship. Five guys, grown up on the and small kids. The news that he is the Year of Production: 2010 Country of Director: Gary Fleder streets of Rome and friends since their father of a seven year old girl - and that Origin: Italian Writer: Sylvester Stallone first teenage encounter, suddenly move she will come visiting next week - enters A former Broadway star, Jenny, tries to Key Cast: Jason Statham up from minor crimes to successfully his life like a nuclear bomb. Jarle Klepp reach for the stars one last time by Delivery Status: Pre-Production pulling of a professional robbery. They has to become an adult. Is he able to teaming up with the up and coming A DEA Agent retires to a seemingly find themselves in a new world of easy grow up? Does he want to grow up? talent Carmelina. Together they search quiet town, that is hiding an underbelly of violence and drug trafficking. When money and beautiful women but will WHO? for love, happiness and success in this they hold their own in the more Pre-school (2 x 30 or 16 x 4) highly original Italian-American musical his family is threatened he is forced back aggressive, evil and ruthless environment Language: Swedish comedy. into action to save his loved ones and the community. that follows? Director: Jessica Laurén PSALM 21 BEYOND THE BORDER Writer: Stina Wirsén Horror (94 min) BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP War/Drama (120 min) Producer: Linda Hamback Language: Swedish Director: Rowan Joffe Language: Swedish Key Cast: Gunnar Bohlin Director: Fredrik Hiller Writer: Rowan Joffe; Based on the Director: Richard Holm Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Fredrik Hiller Worldwide Bestseller by S.J. Watson Writer: Johnny Steen, André Sjöberg Year of Production: 2010-2011 Country Producer: Fredrik Hiller & Thabo Key Cast: Nicole Kidman Producer: Johnny Steen, André Sjöberg of Origin: Sweden Malmén Delivery Status: Pre-Production Key Cast: André Sjöberg, Antti Reini, Endearing big stories for the small. Little Key Cast: Jonas Malmsjö, Per Ragnar, A woman, unable to remember her life Bjørn Sundquist Teddie-Piggy and her friends have fun, Görel Crona, Josefin Ljungman, Julia regains her memory and discovers that Delivery Status: Completed play games, tussle and cuddle with each Dufvenius everything she thought was true is a lie. Year of Production: 2011 Country of other in stories with happy endings about Delivery Status: Completed THE PAPERBOY Origin: Sweden getting lost, winning games, hitting Year of Production: 2010 Country of Director: Lee Daniels (Precious) December 1942, Sweden is on the verge yourself on the beak and being different Origin: Sweden Key Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Zac of being invaded. Two young soldiers because you are yellow for our littlest PSALM 21 is the story of a beloved Efron, David Oyelowo, Macy Gray, John leave their roadblock post to get to the children. The films are based on the young Stockholm priest, Henrik Cusack, Nicole Kidman Norwegian border to catch a glimpse of popular books with the same titles and Horneus, who suffers from horrific Delivery Status: Post Production the occupying Nazis. Their adventure are produced in close collaboration with nightmares about his dead mother. One The story of a young man who returns to ends in a disaster, and the day after, Stina Wirsén, a children book author, day, he receives word from the coroner his small Florida home town to help his Lieutenant Stenström finds out that one widely known for her illustrations. Each in the remote village of Borgvattnet that reporter brother uncover the truth about a of the missing soldiers is his brother. short episode is based on a book, his father, also a priest, has drowned man on death row, who might have been Now he has to lead a rescue team behind portraying real issues and everyday under circumstances unknown. Henrik wrongly convicted. In the process, he enemy lines in a secret mission to questions faced by our little ones: Who's travels through the dark forests of falls for the convict’s lover. Conflict, retrieve his brother. Deep in the dark lonely and who doesn't sleep? And Northern Sweden all the way up to danger, deceit, seduction and betrayal Norwegian woods Stenström realizes whose grandma is it really, why does Borgvattnet to find out what really ensue. OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2012 that completely other borders needs to be cousin call her that as well? happened. His inquires about his father's CANNES FILM FESTIVAL death seems to set clandestine forces into Available territories include: India, crossed if they are to get out of there LITTLE GREY FERGIE AND HIS motion. Shadows from the other side Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, alive... NEW FRIEND CLUNKY emerge - and cross the threshold to our Vietnam. LIVERPOOL GOALIE, THE Children/Family (89 min) Children/Comedy (85 minutes) Language: Norwegian world. With one purpose - revenge. THE BIG WEDDING Language: Norwegian Director: Trond Jacobsen Director: Justin Zackham (The Bucket Director: Arild Andresen Writer: Morten Myklebust List) Writer: Lars Gudmestad Producer: Anne Amalie THOWSEN Key Cast: Robert De Niro, Katherine Producer: H?kon ?ver?s, Karin Julsrud Key Cast: Joachim BERG, Tiril HEIDE- Heigl, Amanda Seyfried, Diane Keaton, Key Cast: Ask von der Hagen, Susanne STEEN, Ole-Kristian LIMA, Dan Robert Susan Sarandon, Robin Williams Boucher, Andrine Saether, K?re Conradi THORSEN THE BUSINESS Delivery Status: Post Production Delivery Status: Screening Delivery Status: Completed A dysfunctional, divorced couple must Year of Production: 2010 Country of Year of Production: 2011 Country of OF ILM pretend to be still married at their Origin: Norge Origin: Norway www.thebusinessoffilmdaily.comF adopted son’s wedding in order to please In THE LIVERPOOL GOALIE both Little Grey Fergie feels lontely on the the guest of honor: his religious birth girls and boys play football, worship farm and gets Goggen to build the fully mother. 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include: Bulgaria, Czech & Slovak, Delivery Status: Post Production unfortunate incident involving a hot meat Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand, Scott, a degenerate outcast returns home NZ FILM pie, a ginger cat and the untimely death Vietnam. to make amends with his family. of a Scandinavian football star. Unfortunately his former high school COMMISSION THE ICEMAN NZ Film Commission, Level 3, 119 SHIHAD - BEAUTIFUL MACHINE Director: Ariel Vroman sweetheart has married his brother. Their Documentary Ghuznee Street, Wellington, 6011 New Key Cast: Michael Shannon, Winona reunion leads to sexual tension, hilarity, Language: English Zealand, Tel: +64.4.3827680 Fax: Ryder, Ray Liotta, Chris Evans and relationships being first strained, Director: Sam Peacocke +64.4.3849719. Delivery Status: Post Production then broken, and ultimately rebuilt. Writer: Sam Peacocke www.nzfilm.co.nz,[email protected] THE ICEMAN is the true story of Available worldwide excluding: Sales Agent, Financier Producer: Grant Roa, Laurence Richard Kuklinski, loving husband, Australia, Canada, China, CIS, France, At Cannes: James Thompson (Head of Alexander devoted father, ruthless killer. He is Germany, Greece, Latin America, Middle Sales and Marketing), Graeme Mason Key Cast: Featuring Jon Toogood, Tom believed to have killed more than 250 East, Portugal, Scandinavia, South (CEO), Chris Payne (Development Larkin, Phil Knight and Karl people between 1954 and 1985. Africa, Turkey. Executive), Jasmin McSweeney Kippenberger Available territories include: Bulgaria, PLAYING THE FIELD (Marketing Executive) Delivery Status: Completed Czech & Slovak, Ex-Yugo, Hong Kong, Director: Gabriele Muccino (The Pursuit Office: Level 1, I'imperatrice, 44 la Year of Production: 2012 Country of Hungary, Italy, Japan, Philippines, of Happyness) Croisette, Cannes, Tel: +64.9368.2069 Origin: New Zealand Romania, Singapore, South Korea, Key Cast: Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, NZ's most successful rock band took Spain, Taiwan,Thailand, Vietnam. Uma Thurman, Judy Greer, Catherine http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1075 their dreams all the way to the giddy LOVELACE Zeta-Jones, Dennis Quaid heights of the US music scene. A Director: Academy Award® Winners, Delivery Status: Post Production terrorist attack, ill-advised name-change THE WEIGHT OF ELEPHANTS Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman Gerard Butler plays a retired world Drama and swift-talking managers saw those Key Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Peter famous soccer star who tries to rebuild a Language: English dreams fall apart at the seams in one Sarsgaard, James Franco, Sharon Stone, relationship with his son and ex-wife by Director: Daniel Joseph Borgman fated moment in LA's notorious 'Viper Chris Noth, Hank Azaria, Sarah Jessica coaching his kid’s soccer team. While Writer: Daniel Joseph Borgman Room'. After multiple best-selling Parker, Chloë Sevigny, Wes Bentley, soccer is a hands-free sport, the mothers Co-Production Partners: Zentropa albums and a bond that has endured for Adam Brody of the other kids can’t keep their hands Entertainments/Severe Features over 23 years this documentary examines Delivery Status: Post Production off the coach, which imperils his plan. Producer: Katja Adomeit, Leanne the notions of family, loyalty and success The life of Linda Lovelace told through U.S. Theatrical release December 25th, Saunders for four friends that almost took the the production of Deep Throat, her 2012 (FilmDistrict) Available territories Key Cast: Demos Murphy, Angelina biggest music industry in the world by abusive relationship with Chuck Traynor include: Bulgaria, Ex-Yugo, Malaysia, Cottrell, Matthew Sunderland, Catherine storm... and eventual spearheading of the South Korea Wilkin FRESH MEAT feminist antipornography movement. THE TEXAS CHAINSAW Delivery Status: Post Production Comedy Horror Available territories include: Airlines, MASSACRE 3D Year of Production: 2012 Country of Language: English Bulgaria, CIS & Baltics, Germany, Hong Director: John Luessenhop (Takers) Origin: New Zealand/Denmark Director: Danny Mulheron Kong, Hungary, India, Italy, Malaysia, Delivery Status: Post Production Adrian, 9 years old, lives with his Writer: Briar Grace-Smith, Brad Philippines, Romania, Singapore, Spain, Legendary horror icon Leatherface is grandmother. He is sensitive and lonely Abraham, Joseph O'Brien Turkey, Vietnam. back for more murder and mayhem. U.S. but strikes up an unlikely friendship with Producer: Dave Gibson KILLING SEASON Theatrical Release January 4, 2013 a crazy, mysterious 10 year old girl that Key Cast: Temuera Morrison Hanna Director: Mark Steven Johnson (LIONSGATE) Available territories moves in across the street. Only it seems Tevita Kate Elliot (Daredevil, Ghost Rider) include: Bulgaria, Czech and Slovak, Ex she might just be the one who recently Delivery Status: Post Production Key Cast: Robert De Niro, John Travolta Yugo, Hungary, India, Indonesia, disappeared with her siblings in a Year of Production: 2012 Country of Delivery Status: Post Production Malaysia, Romania, Singapore, South neighbouring town; the girl everyone is Origin: New Zealand Two former wartime adversaries battle Korea, Spain, Vietnam talking about on the evening news. A gang of criminals take a middle class one another in the wilderness. Available THE MOST FUN YOU CAN HAVE Maori family hostage and discover too territories include: Hong Kong, Italy, DYING late that they're a family of cannibals. Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Drama MT ZION Spain, Vietnam. Language: English Drama STRAIGHT A’S Director: Kirstin Marcon Language: English Director: James Cox (Wonderland) Writer: Kirstin Marcon Director: Tearepa Kahi Key Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Anna Paquin, Executive Producer: Tim White Writer: Tearepa Kahi Luke Wilson Producer: Alex Cole-Baker Producer: Quinton Hita Key Cast: Matt Whelan Roxane Key Cast: Stan Walker, Temuera Mesquida Morrison Delivery Status: Screening Delivery Status: Post Production CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Year of Production: 2011 Country of Year of Production: 2012 Country of THE CLICK AND ACCESS CULTURE IS NOW Origin: New Zealand Origin: New Zealand Michael's in a race against time after Turei's family are hard-working potato & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. learning he has only months to live. farm workers in rural New Zealand. A Stealing his own treatment money, he talented musician, Turei dreams of his leaves his loved ones behind and heads band being the support act for Bob to London. Intent on going out in a blur Marley's New Zealand tour and finding of sex, drugs and mayhem, eerything success in a world outside the confines Click on changes when he falls for a mysterious of farm work. But its a dream that French girl named Sylvie. challenges the traditions and values of Blue Boxes TWO LITTLE BOYS his Maori upbringing and will set him at Comedy (108 min) odds with his family - particularly his to Access Language: English father, who has some lost ambitions of Director: Robert Sarkies his own. Available Writer: Duncan Sarkies, Robert Sarkies SHOPPING Producer: Vicky Pope, Tim White Crime Drama Company Key Cast: Bret McKenzie Hamish Blake Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Director: Mark Albiston, Louis Trailers Year of Production: 2011 Country of Sutherland Origin: New Zealand Writer: Mark Albiston, Louis Sutherland Automatically An irreverent comedy about Nige, his Producer: Anna McLeish, Sarah Shaw best mate Deano and their riotous Key Cast: Kevin Paulo, Jacek Koman, misadventures as they struggle with their Alistair Browning Do Your Part To imploding long term friendship which Delivery Status: In Production has been put under pressure by an Year of Production: 2012 Country of Combat Global Warming Origin: New Zealand

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New Zealand, 1981: seduced by a apartment on the same day that he A DOG FOR CHRISTMAS animals' market in Tehran have only 24 charismatic career criminal, 16 year old unexpectedly confronts his ex- Family (90 minutes) hours to take a large cow from Willie must choose where his loyalty lies downtown to uptown, with their jobs and ?girlfriend, he turns to his childhood Language: English - with a family of shoplifters, or with his futures at stake. The spectators follow friend,Jack. Jack and the ex-?girlfriend, Director: Joel Rising own blood. Kate, both challenge Nash to commit to Key Cast: Dean Cain, Richard Karn, their obligatory journey with the rope THE LAST DOGS OF WINTER bikeracing. As Nash pulls his life Dustin Diamond which is tied around the cow. Karkhani Documentary together with his friend’s support,a tragic Delivery Status: Post Production very cinematically describes the contrast Language: English turn of events challenges his ability Year of Production: 2012 Country of which exists between the south and the Director: Costa Botes toremain committed and he instead runs Origin: USA north of a metropolis. Writer: Costa Botes away from everyone. He unwittingly When the entire family stays at Dave & NOSE, IRANIAN STYLE Producer: Costa Botes starts a painful and often humorous Sandy's home for the holidays, comedy Documentary, Drama (52 min.) Delivery Status: Completed journey towards growing up. Despite ensues! Kassandra wants a puppy for Language: Persian with English Subtitle Year of Production: 2011 Country of isolating himself in the high desert,Nash Christmas...Mom and Dad aren't ready Director: Mehrdad Oskouei Origin: New Zealand becomes surrounded by an eccentric for that...Will Santa grant Kassandra's Writer: Mehrdad Oskouei, Alireza Since 1976 Brian Ladoon has fought to group of tourists that provide the only wish for Christmas? Bahrami, Mandana Karimi keep the Canadian Eskimo Dog from unconventional support he needs to Co-Production Partners: Sheherazad extinction by keeping them in harsh return home fueled with the desire to Media International (SMI), Katayoon natural conditions which maintain the race and to win back the woman he loves Shahabi extreme stamina of the breed. The twist in this inspirational story set on the P Producer: Mehrdad Oskouei is they share their environment with exciting backdrop of amateur cycling. Delivery Status: Completed itinerant polar bears. As global warming PEAKVIEWING TRANSTLANTIC Year of Production: 2005 Country of and eco-tourism provoke growing FILM LIBRARY Origin: Iran pressure on his activities, Brian and his Fantasy and Family PARASTOO FILM Why does Iran have the highest statistics beloved dogs are facing an even more Language: English Parastoo Film, 49 Highland Park Blvd., for nose jobs in the world?! This uncertain future. Delivery Status: Completed Thornhill, Ontario L3T 1B4 Canada, documentary is about nose jobs in Iran. Tel: 1.416.873.9816. THE ORATOR 19 library titles from on the UK's best The filmmaker researches the reason that producers of family and fantasy films www.parastoofilm.com, the young Iranian generation is so AKA: O LE TULAFALE [email protected] Drama with all star casts available again. Distributor interested in changing their appearances. Language: Samoan A UNICORN CHRISTMAS At Cannes: Hessam Ghorbanian Through nose jobs, the film surveys and Director: Tauti Tusi Tamasese Family Fantasy (Founder & Managing Director) analyzes the urban society and today's Writer: Tauri Tusi Tamasese Language: English youth of Iran, especially in social, Producer: Catherine Fitzgerald Director: Paul Matthews http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1158 psychological, cultural, and political Key Cast: Fiaula Sanote Tausili Writer: Paul Matthews fields. Pushparaj Co-Production Partners: Opus HEIRAN PERSIAN CATWALK Delivery Status: Completed Distribution Feature, Drama (88 min.) Documentary, Drama (53 min.) Year of Production: 2011 Country of Key Cast: TBD Language: Persian with English Subtitle Language: Persian with English & Origin: New Zealand Delivery Status: In Development Director: Shalizeh Arefpour French Subtitles A beautiful tale of ritual, tradition, Year of Production: 2012 Writer: Shalizeh Arefpour, Naghmeh Director: Marjan Alizadeh courage and love. Saili, a small man with As the snow falls a few weeks before Samini Writer: Marjan Alizadeh a big heart, must find the courage to Christmas, Polly’s favourite mare is Producer: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Producer: Life Media International speak up for those whom he loves. about to foal but things are going wrong. Jahangir Kosari Delivery Status: Completed The mare is in danger, the birth of the Key Cast: Baran Kosari, Mehrdad Year of Production: 2009 Country of foal too much for her. Polly blames her Sedighian, Khosro Shakibaei, Farhad Origin: Iran O aunt for bringing bad luck and for trying Aslani, Zhaleh Sameti, Fouzhan Mahdis is a 20 year old girl who wishes to destroy her life. She feels she has Arefpour, Mohsen Mokari to be a model in Iran, despite the nowhere to turn. In desperation, she Delivery Status: Completed negative views of the country towards prays for a miracle and calls on the Year of Production: 2009 Country of the subject. Mahdis' father is also a legendary King of the Forest, the Origin: Iran highly religious man who does not make OPUS DISTRIBUTION Unicorn, for help. Polly’s mare dies but the situation any better for her. However, Opus Distribution, 4132 Greenbrier During the rule of Taliban in in her place is her foal, a real live Afghanistan, about 3 million illegal Mahdis tries to pursue her dream and Lane, Tarzana, CA 91356 USA, Tel: unicorn. Polly is filled with hope. But battles with the obstacles facing her +1.818.708.8278 Fax: +1.818.708.8278. Afghani immigrants fled to Iran, causing keeping the unicorn out of the clutches numerous problems for the Iranian every day. Through the story of Mahdis, www.opusdistribution.com, of the press, an unscrupulous magician this documentary delves into the institute [email protected] society in accepting them. This film Distributor and the local circus, plunges Polly and depicts the story of a 17 year old rural of fashion and its history in Iran, which At Cannes: Ken DuBow (President), her friend, twelve-year old Toby, into a girl by the name of Mahi (Fish), who is of much significance. Suzanne Barron (VP International Sales) magical adventure that sees Polly’s comes from a war-stricken family in PERSIAN RUG Office: R11 family reunited. On Christmas Day the southern Iran. Mahi falls in love with Documentary, Drama (49 min. & unicorn is returned to the vastness of the Heiran, an Afghan student, who has 35min.) Hercynian Forest where it brings good Language: Persian with English Subtitle http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1195 come to their village to work. However, luck and hope to all that see it. Mahi's family being strictly against her Director: Massoud Bakhshi Writer: Massoud Bakhshi PELOTON DEADLY SIBLING RIVALRY marriage to an Afghan, forces her to Romantic Drama (90min) Female Thriller (90min) choose one between her family and an Co-Production Partners: VPRO Language: English Language: English Afghan boy. Netherland Director: Hanalee Culpepper Producer: Massoud Bakhshi Director: J.J. Gerber LOOSE ROPE Writer: J.J. Berber Writer: Steve Peterson Feature, Drama (82 min.) Delivery Status: Completed Executive Producer: John Lawrence, Jeff Co-Production Partners: Seven Palms in Language: Persian with English Subtitle Year of Production: 2010 Country of Johnson association with Maple Island Films Director: Mehrshad Karkhani Origin: Iran Producer: Jeff Johnson, Kelly L. King, Executive Producer: J. Vincent Reppert Writer: Mehrshad Karkhani, Babak Our Persian Rug depicts the perplexing Geno Salvatori and Kevin Goetz Panahi memories of a young man who can't Key Cast: KC Clyde, Jennifer Klekas Producer: Johnson Chan and John Co-Production Partners: Documentary forget his past. At the center of this Delivery Status: Completed Murlowski and Experimental Film Center (DEFC family history is a Persian rug that the Year of Production: 2011 Country of Key Cast: Charisma Carpenter, Kyle Producer: Habibollah Kaseh Saz man's grandmother once wove. Staring at Origin: USA Richards, Christa B. Allen, Ben Milliken Key Cast: Pejman Bazeghi, Babak this rug, he obsessively scans through While bike messenger Phillipe Nash Delivery Status: Completed Hamidian, Keramat Roudsaz, Narges photo albums to see which of his family dreams of racing bikes,he also has a hard Year of Production: 2011 Country of Mohammadi members are lying and which ones are time committing to anything in his life, Origin: USA Delivery Status: Completed telling the truth. let alone a sport that demands Two sisters, identical twins and fierce Year of Production: 2008 Country of pain,suffering and hours of training. rivals play a deadly game of switching Origin: Iran When Nash loses his job and his identities. When one sister falls into a Two young rural men who work at the coma, the other sister steps into her life.

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IT IS ALWAYS LATE FOR want to have an ordinary death, Maryam BEAST OF BURDEN THE REACH FREEDOM decides to go to war as a reporter and to 3D Animation AKA: STEPHEN KING'S 'DO THE Documentary, Drama (53 min.) die as a hero. ”Goodbye, Life” is the Language: English DEAD SING?' Language: Persian with English Subtitle story of a woman who by saying Director: Kirby Atkins Thriller Director: Mehrdad Oskouei goodbye to her previous life finds a new Writer: Kirby Atkins Language: English Writer: Mehrdad Oskouei way to live. Co-Production Partners: Regal Works Director: TBC Producer: Mehrdad Oskouei GRADUALLY Media & Leafy Teeth Productions Writer: Seamus McNally and Julie Talen Delivery Status: Completed Feature, Drama (74 min.) Executive Producer: Maureen Smith Producer: DownEast Village Films Year of Production: 2007 Country of Language: Persian with English Subtitle Producer: David Pitts Key Cast: TBC Origin: Iran Director: Maziar Miri Key Cast: (voices) Bruce Willis, Jodie Delivery Status: Pre-Production Have you ever thought there are kids Writer: Parviz Shahbazi Foster, Morgan Freeman, Ian Holm Year of Production: 2013 Country of who dream of freedom? Three teenage Producer: Jahangir Kosari Delivery Status: Pre-Production Origin: USA boys in Tehran House of Correction are Key Cast: Mohammad-Reza Foroutan, Year of Production: 2014 Country of Quoted by Stephen King as the ‘story the innocent victims of serious social Niloofar Khoshkholgh, Hassan Origin: USA he’d most like to be remembered for problems which the Iranian society is Poorshirazi, Maryam Boobani, Shahrokh A ‘Thoriphant’ is a four legged working after his death’, the Reach is a 1.5 mile faced with, such as addiction, poverty, Frootanian animal that is intelligent and can speak. stretch of water between Goat Island & and divorce. Delivery Status: Completed Mosley and his Thoriphant family live the Maine coastline. One cold winter the UNFINISHED STORIES Year of Production: 2005 Country of and work on their master Simon’s farm. Reach freezes over & 95 year old Stella Feature, Drama (76 min.) Origin: Iran Simon is a mean, and greedy man and makes her first trip ever across to the Language: Persian with English Subtitle Mahmoud who works in the Railroad when one day he pushes Mosley too far mainland. Her troubled journey triggers a Director: Pourya Azarbayjani Company outside Tehran learns of the Mosley breaks free, charging into the flood of memories & hallucinations, Writer: Pourya Azarbayjani disappearance of his wife who has a enchanted wood to try to find the culminating in a riveting conclusion of Producer: Pourya Azarbayjani and Jalil record of mental illness. When he returns mythical ‘Uprights’ - Thoriphants with redemption and deliverance Shabani to Tehran to look for her, the neighbors hands and fingers and able to stand on BITE CLUB Key Cast: Setareh Pesyani, Hengameh start to make his life impossible with two legs. Trailed by a wicked hunter Action, Comedy Ghaziani and Saiideh Amir Saii their gossip. Mosley will make a treacherous journey, Language: English Delivery Status: Completed encountering new friends, strange lands Director: Rob Green Year of Production: 2007 Country of and magical creatures. A 3D animated Writer: Chris Nyst Origin: Iran PARK adventure for all the family. Co-Production Partners: Nyst This film is the story of 3 young women, ENTERTAINMENT WILL TO SUCCEED Entertainment, Park Entertainment, Setareh, Hengameh and Saiideh. Each Comedy Park Entertainment, 54 Broadwick Stree, Screen Australia woman has a different story. They are Language: English London, W1F 7AH UK, Tel: Producer: Scott Corfield abandoned by their men and they are in Director: Rob Loos +44(0)207.434.4176 Fax: Delivery Status: Pre-Production the streets of Tehran because they have +44(0)207.434.7251. Writer: Rob Loos Year of Production: 2012 Country of nowhere else to go. Setareh is a young www.parkentertainment.com, Co-Production Partners: Regal Works Origin: UK / Australia girl, out of her house, because her [email protected] Media & zing productions Nicky Picolo works as a doorman and parents are against her marriage with the Sales Agent Executive Producer: Maureen Smith minder for shifty strip club operator boy she loves... Hengameh is a pregnant At Cannes: Jim Howell (CEO), Paul Producer: David Nicksay Billy Turquoise. Desperate to be his own woman who left the house after a fight Howell (Sales Executive) Key Cast: Jansen Panettiere, Helen Hunt, boss, he sees his opportunity in an old with her husband... And Saiideh must Office: 45 La Croisette, Residence Grand Richard Dreyfuss, Elizabeth Perkins abandoned warehouse, where he hopes to leave the hospital with her new born Hotel, Entrée Albatross, 2nd Floor, Tel: Year of Production: 2013 Country of set up his own club. Soon the police turn baby because she does not have money +44(0)7775.612.651 Origin: USA up, investigating a spate of murders and her husband is in prison... When 15 yr old Will arrives at Hudson where the victims have had their bodies BEAUTIFUL CITY http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1236 Academy the reality dawns that this is drained of blood. Nicky soon realises the Feature, Drama (102 min.) his parents dream; not his. As if dealing building is not uninhabited as first Language: Persian with English Subtitle with his mum’s serious illness was not MONSTER BUTLER thought, and that resident in the Director: Asghar Farhadi enough, it seems his first 24 hours at Thriller basement are vampires responsible for Writer: Asghar Farhadi school will be his ultimate test. A Language: English the murders. Not being bothered by some Producer: Iraj Taghipour Director: Doug Rath roommate intent of having Will expelled, pesky vampires, Nicky, along with his Key Cast: Faramarz Gharibian, Taraneh Writer: Peter Bellwood the flirtatious headmasters daughter, a motley assortment of villains sets about Alidoosti, Babak Ansari, Ahoo Co-Production Partners: Dark House ruthless and dangerous initiation, and evicting his blood-sucking residents. Kheradmand Films Park Entertainment meeting the girl of his dreams give us: Delivery Status: Completed Executive Producer: Wilson Da Silva ‘Ferris Buellers Day Off’ meets ‘Easy A’ THE LAST OF THE GREAT APES Documentary, 3D Year of Production: 2004 Country of (DHF) meets ‘Dead Poets Society’. Language: English Origin: Iran Producer: LA Lopez (DHF) MANILA BAY Director: Jeremy Hogarth Akbar has been held in a rehabilitation Key Cast: Malcolm Mcdowell, Joanne Action Writer: Jeremy Hogarth, Norm center for committing murder at the age Whalley, Gary Oldman (tbc), Max Language: English Wilkinson, Peta Ayers of sixteen when he was sentenced to Beesley Director: Terence Daw Co-Production Partners: Vision Quest death. Legally speaking, he had to reach Delivery Status: Pre-Production Writer: Terence Daw Entertainment, Screen Australia the age of eighteen so that the sentence Year of Production: 2013 Country of Co-Production Partners: Audience Films Producer: Norm Wilkinson could be carried out. Now, the day after Origin: UK Ltd, Philippine Film Studios Key Cast: Holly Carroll his 18th birthday, Akbar is transferred to The true story of Archibald Hall a Producer: Terence Daw prison to await the day of his execution. Glaswegian serial killer, who spent a Key Cast: Luke Goss, Chris De Leon Delivery Status: Pre-Production Akbar's sister and his friend, Ala, are his large period of his life in prison. During Delivery Status: Pre-Production Year of Production: 2012 Country of only hope to convince his plaintiff to one such stint he decided to reform and Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Australia stop the execution... refine himself. Learning the ways of the Origin: UK The worlds' great apes are dangerously close to extinction. Holly Carroll is an GOODBYE, LIFE English aristocracy he eradicated all London Flying Squad Detective Ray Feature, Drama (93 min.) forms of his Scottish accent, adopted the Denham welcome s a trip to the exotic attractive, feisty and passionate young Language: Persian with English Subtitle name Roy Fontaine and, passing without Phillipines to see his best mate marry a scientist who has made it her life's Director: Ensieh Shah-Hosseini suspicion, promptly became a butler to local girl. Whilst at the wedding Ray mission to protect these primates. Writer: Ensieh Shah-Hosseini the upper classes. Abusing his position comes across an old criminal rival, who's Confronting poachers, loggers and Producer: Seyyed Saeid Seyyedzadeh he conned some of the country’s top hiding out in Manila. Unable to rest until animal smugglers in her quest, she will Key Cast: Ladan Mostofi, Mohammad socialites before in a downward spiral of he brings his rival to justice, he uncovers travel from The Congo to Sumatra Mokhtari, Esmat Reza-Pour insanity, murdering the very family he a sinister criminal underworld involving engaging with these animals Delivery Status: Completed served. Fontaine’s deceptive nature, his best mate, his new wife and her rich Year of Production: 2006 Country of charm and wit, and perfected act earned father. Battling gun runners, drug Origin: Iran him the long standing, notorious title of dealers, corrupt police and politicians it's During the Iran - Iraq war (1980-1988) ‘Monster Butler’ a non-stop action, one man war, across Maryam, a young divorced woman, the exotic and bustling Manila Bay wants to commit suicide. As she doesn't

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fraud are revealed. An unexpected, Benson, Adam Busch PARLAY FILMS bloody error forces him to turn to the PFG Delivery Status: In Production Parlay Films, 1540 2nd Street, Suite 200, most unlikely corner for help. Year of Production: 2012 Country of Santa Monica, CA 90401 USA, Tel: ENTERTAINMENT Origin: USA RED LIGHTS PFG Entertainment, 429 Santa Monica 1.310.315.1722 Paranormal Thriller (113 minutes) In the great tradition of anthology shows, Blvd., Suite #600, Santa Monica, CA Sales Agent, Producer Language: English such as, THE TWILIGHT ZONE and 90401 USA, Tel: 1.310.393.5788 Fax: At Cannes: Lisa Wilson (President of Director: Rodrigo Cortes OUTER LIMITS comes these new 1.310.393.0882. International Distribution) Writer: Rodrigo Cortes thrilling, and chilling tales from Tom http://www.pfgentertainment.com/,mail@ Office: Apartment 4 Flamant, Grand Producer: Adrian Guerra, Rodrigo Cortes Holland, who wrote and directed some of pfgentertainment.com Hotel, 45 La Croisette, Tel: Lisa Wilson's Key Cast: Robert De Niro, Sigourney the most memorable episodes of TALES mobile: 818.516.4746 Sales Agent Weaver, Cillian Murphy, Elizabeth Olsen At Cannes: Ted Rosenblatt (President) FROM THE CRYPT, as well as Delivery Status: Screening AMAZING STORIES. Domestic http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1140 Office: Lerins R12, Tel: Year of Production: 2011 Country of +33(0)4.92.99.33.07 distribution through Image Entertainment Origin: Spain & Fearnet.com

THE WORDS When a psychologist's investigation into http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1362 Drama (96 minutes) paranormal activity focuses on whether Language: English or not a world-renowned psychic is PLANETA INFORM Director: Brian Klugman and Lee KILLING FRANK actually a fraud, her results are far from Mystery Thriller Sternthal expected. FILM DISTRIBUTION Writer: Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal Language: English Planeta Inform Film Distribution, 5/10 VAMPS Director: Tom Holland Nizhniy Susalniy lane, Moscow, 105064 Executive Producer: Laura Rister, Comedy (92 min) Writer: Tom Holland Russia, Tel: 007.916.782.02.35 Fax: Cassian Elwes Language: English Co-Production Partners: Dead Rabbit 007.495.783.76.57. Producer: Michael Benaroya, Tatiana Director: Amy Heckerling Films http://sales.planeta-inform.com, Kelly, Jim Young Writer: Amy Heckerling Delivery Status: Pre-Production [email protected] Key Cast: Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons, Producer: Lauren Versel, Molly Hassell, Zoe Saldana, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Year of Production: 2012 Country of Sales Agent, Distributor Stuart Cornfeld Origin: USA At Cannes: Bankovskaya Anastasia Wilde, Ben Barnes, Nora Arnezeder Key Cast: Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Delivery Status: Screening From writer/director Tom Holland (Head of International Sales), Myshkina Ritter, Sigourney Weaver (Child’s Play, Fright Night, Stephen Natalia (CEO of Planeta Inform Year of Production: 2011 Country of Delivery Status: Completed Origin: USA King’s Thinner), a diabolical story of Telecontent), Litvinov Dmitry (CEO of Year of Production: 2010 Country of greed and murder. Wealthy misanthrope Planeta Inform Group of companies) THE WORDS follows a writer who, at Origin: USA the peak of his literary success, discovers Frank, a manipulative business tycoon Office: Riviera E16 Stacy (Ritter) and Goody (Silverstone) hated by all who know him, is reduced to the price he must pay for stealing have been living the good “night-life” in another man's work. a vegetable-like state after an accident. http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1038 New York City as two young, beautiful His family and key employees gather at ARBITRAGE vampires until love enters the picture and his isolated mansion to figure out how to KAJINEK Thriller (100 min) each has to make a choice that will Language: English declare him legally dead and divide the Crime, Action/Adventure, Biography jeopardize their immortality and much bounty of his estate. They didn’t count (118 min) Director: Nicholas Jarecki more. Writer: Nicholas Jarecki on the oddly-dedicated nurse who blocks Language: Czech with english subtitles Producer: Laura Bickford, Kevin Turen, their intentions... or the fact that they Director: Petr Jakl Justin Nappi, Robert Salerno would all start dying themselves, one-by- Writer: Marek Dobes, Petr Jakl Key Cast: Richard Gere, Susan one. It is plain that these gruesome Producer: Petr Jakl, Lubosh Vala Sarandon, Tim Roth, Brit Marling, deaths are no accident. There is a Key Cast: Konstantin Lavronenko, Laetitia Casta, Nate Parker fiendishly clever murderer amongst Tatiana Vilhelmova, Boguslav Linda Delivery Status: Screening HE USINESS them. The question quickly becomes, Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2011 Country of T B who is doing the killing? And why? Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: USA MY FATHER'S WILL Origin: Czech OF ILM Romantic Comedy (87 mins) Jiri Kajinek has nothing to lose. He has Arbitrage tells the story of hedge-fund www.thebusinessoffilmdaily.comF magnate Robert Miller (Gere). In over Language: English been given a life sentence for a double his head, Miller is desperately trying to Director: Fred Manocherian murder. His young lawyer, ignoring his complete the sale of his trading empire Writer: Fred Manocherian lack of trust in her, attempts tirelessly to to a major bank before the depths of his Producer: Vince P. Maggio help and renew the court process. She Key Cast: Victor Alfieri, Ione Skye, has to secure new evidence and, at the Gerry Bamman same time, repel pressure from the Delivery Status: Completed police, deal with arrogance of the court CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Year of Production: 2010 Country of and witnesses living in fear. She soon THE CLICK AND ACCESS CULTURE IS NOW Origin: USA finds out that it is dangerous to ask A wealthy playboy and successful questions. Nonetheless, she is attracted & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. businessman must fulfill his father’s by Kajinek's case. What is her motive? dying wish by living for a month without V PERINE the benefits of his fame or fortune. AKA: THE MAGICAL DUVET Victor Alfredi (Angels&Demons, Days Comedy, Musical (103 min) of Our Lives) and Ione Skye (Say Language: Czech with english subtitles Click on Anything…, Private Practice) star in this Director: F. A. Brabec modern day “Prince and The Pauper” Writer: Miroslav Adamec Blue Boxes romantic comedy that proves… you Producer: Eva Hartmanova, Radka don’t need money to find true love. Homolova, Michal Kroupa to Access TOM HOLLAND'S TWISTED Key Cast: Eliska Balzerova, Karel TALES Belohradsky, Lucie Bila Available Sci-Fi Thriller Delivery Status: Completed Language: English Year of Production: 2011 Country of Company Director: Tom Holland Origin: Czech Writer: Tom Holland A wonderful family 3D comedy made in Trailers Co-Production Partners: Dead Rabbit the high-spirited style of Mamma Mia. In Films a relaxed world, where everybody used Automatically Producer: Tom Holland and David to dance rock'n'roll and the streets were Chackler full of pink Cadillacs, good and bad Key Cast: William Forsyth, Sarah Butler, dreams hidden in our quilts take form. Do Your Part To Bonnie Piesse, Noah Hathaway, The musical adventure culminates in the Combat Global Warming Cameron Banfield, Angela Bettis, Amber magical world of dreams.

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TADAS BLINDA. PRADZIA changes names and starts living a simple the special service. Gradually, he Hentschel, George Sampson AKA: TADAS BLINDA. BEGINNING and peaceful life. When the son Ivan understands that the true evil is the Delivery Status: Screening Adventure, Drama, History (110 min) grows up, he heads back to Russia on a system he works for – the highly Year of Production: 2012 Country of Language: lithuanian with english dubious agenda that gives a start to a corrupted officials who get rid of Origin: UK subtitles maelstrom of betrayals, pursuits, family witnesses with his hands. When a top street dancer is humiliated Director: Donatas Ulvydas secrets and their disclosures which PRINCE YAROSLAV and challenged by the best American Writer: Jonas Banys involve both the mob and the Russian AKA: YAROSLAV. TISYACHY LET crew, he sets off to gather the best Producer: Zilvinas Naujokas secret services. Ivan has to go through NAZAD dancers from around the world to take Key Cast: Mantas Jankavicius, Agnija deaths of his comrades, escapes from Action, Historic (99 min) them on - with a dance style they weren't Ditkovskite, Tatyana Lyutaeva, Vidas deadly traps, meetings with new friends Language: Russian with english subtitles expecting. With landmark locations, a Patkavicius, Antanas Shurna and a decisive rescue of his mother to Director: Dmitry Korobkin spectacular fusion of dance styles and an Delivery Status: Completed find his path in life. Writer: Marina Koshkina, Natalia unparalleled vibrancy, the sequel to Year of Production: 2011 Country of CUCARACHA 3D Nazarova StreetDance sees our hero fall in love Origin: Lithuania Animation (120 min) Producer: Oleg Syrkov, Vladimir Byrkin with a beautiful salsa dancer as he Set in the restless outskirts of the Language: Russian with english subtitles Key Cast: Alexander Ivashkevich, discovers the magic, power and passion Russian Empire in the 19th century, Director: Armen Adilkhanyan Alexey Kravchenko, Svetlana Chuikina, of dancing streetdance / latin for the ”Fireheart: The legend of Tadas Blinda“ Writer: Amet Magometov Victor Verzhbitsky, Valery Zolotukhin, ultimate global dance off. is a historical adventure in which a story Producer: Gevorg Nersisyan, Armen Elena Plaksina, Konstantin Milovanov SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN of honor, freedom and love unfold. Born Manasaryan, Armen Adilkhanyan Delivery Status: Completed Documentary (83 mins) as a serf, Tadas has always felt that there Key Cast: Yuryi Stoyanov, Alena Year of Production: 2010 Country of Language: English is something important in store for him. Babenko, Sergey Rychenkov, Velimir Origin: Russia Director: Malik Bendjelloul But when political events and intrigue Rusakov, Olga Orlova, Lyanka Gryu The 11th century sees the tribal wars Writer: n/a turn his peaceful world upside down, he Delivery Status: Completed devastate the ancient lands of Russia. Executive Producer: John Battsek must summon all his strength and Year of Production: 2011 Country of The woods, roads and rivers are invaded Producer: Simon Chinn courage to meet the responsibilities that Origin: Russia by brigands who live on a slave trade. Delivery Status: Screening have befallen him. An unforgettable cast, Flame of love in the heart of ... a They sell their prey to fierce Khazar Year of Production: 2012 Country of a riveting plot, and a wonderful mix of cockroach? Always cheerful and merry tribes. Young prince Yaroslav decides to Origin: UK/Sweden adventure, and passion are brought little cockroach named Bite, who lives put an end to raids and barbarism, to stop Rodriguez was the greatest ‘70s US rock together to create a truly legendary tale inside of the computer processor, is sad hostility between the tribes and unite the icon who never was. Momentarily hailed reminiscent of Robin Hood – a source of today. He falls in love with a girl- lands under his reign. as the finest recording artist of his inspiration for young and old alike. cockroach Lika, who is madly in love generation, he disappeared into oblivion PYRAMMMID with theater and Chuck, the beetle. Bite – rising again from the ashes in a AKA: PIRAMMMIDA is to win Lika’s heart and to survive in PROTAGONIST completely different context a continent Action, Thriller, Biography (105 min) the street wars against beetles and PICTURES away. SEARCHING FOR SUGAR Language: Russian with english subtitles pigeons. MAN is a film about hope, inspiration Protagonist Pictures, 4th floor, Waverley Director: Eldar Salavatov and the resonating power of music. RORRIM BO & THE MAGIC House, 7-12 Noel Street,, London, W1F Writer: Maxim Vasilenko, Sergey GOBLET 3D 8GQ UK, Tel: +44.207.7349.000 YOUR SISTER'S SISTER Kraynev, Sergey Mavrody Comedy (90 mins) AKA: VOLSHEBNIY KUBOK www.protagonistpictures.com, Producer: Sergey Livnev, Georgiy Language: English RORRIMA BO 3D [email protected] Malkov, Michail Liash Animation, Fantasy, Family (100 min) Sales Agent Director: Lynn Shelton Key Cast: Mantas Jankavicius, Agnija Language: Russian with english subtitles At Cannes: Ben Roberts (CEO), Nada Writer: Lynn Shelton Ditkovskite, Tatyana Lyutaeva, Vidas (may be on english) Cirjanic (Sales Director), Jeremy Baxter Executive Producer: Vallejo Gantner, Patkavicius, Antanas Shurna Director: Ekaterina Grokhovskaya (Head of Acquisitions), Bridget Pedgrift Jennifer Roth, Mark Duplass and Lynn Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Ekaterina Grokhovskaya, Fedor (Head of Marketing), Simon Osborn Shelton. Year of Production: 2011 Country of Letunovskiy, Alexey Sheglov (Head of Legal and Business Affairs), Producer: Steven Schardt Origin: Lithuania Producer: Vladimir Polyakov, Igor David Bartholomew (Sales and Festivals Key Cast: Emily Blunt, Rosemarie Set in the restless outskirts of the Zadorin, Alexandr Revva Co-ordinator) DeWitt, Mark Duplass Russian Empire in the 19th century, Key Cast: Andrey Leonov, Alexey Office: Residence Grand Hotel, Entrance Delivery Status: Screening ”Fireheart: The legend of Tadas Blinda“ Alekseev, Renata Litvinova Ibis-7th Floor 45 La Croisette, Tel: Year of Production: 2011 Country of is a historical adventure in which a story Delivery Status: In Production +33(0)4.93.39.30.70 Origin: US of honor, freedom and love unfold. Born Year of Production: 2012 Country of While still mourning the recent death of as a serf, Tadas has always felt that there Origin: Russia http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1079 his brother, a bereft and confused man is something important in store for him. Long ago the inhabitants of a fairytale finds love and direction in a most unexpected place But when political events and intrigue world imprisoned the evil spirit of witch THE IMPOSTER turn his peaceful world upside down, he Vergilda in a goblet and hid it on our Drama documentary (91 mins) THE DEEP BLUE SEA must summon all his strength and planet. Nowadays the goblet is found and Language: english Drama (98 mins) courage to meet the responsibilities that the enchantments are broken. Vergilda is Director: Bart Layton Language: English have befallen him. An unforgettable cast, free and she seeks revenge. Nobody Co-Production Partners: A+E Ent, Film 4 Director: Terence Davies a riveting plot, and a wonderful mix of knows that she gets stronger with Executive Producer: Simon Chinn, John Writer: Terence Davies (from the play by adventure, and passion are brought children’s fears. But there appears a Battsek Terence Rattigan) together to create a truly legendary tale good-natured creature Rorrim Bo who is Producer: Dimitri Doganis, RAW Co-Production Partners: Film4 / BFI reminiscent of Robin Hood – a source of deliberate to help the kids fight the Delivery Status: Screening Film Fund / inspiration for young and old alike. witch. All Rorrim lacks is a little Year of Production: 2011 Country of Executive Producer: Katherine Butler, Lisa Marie Russo, Peter Hampden, LEGATEE bravery. Origin: UK Norman Merry AKA: BRIGADA. NASLEDNIK THE SOLDIER This is the incredible true story of one of Producer: Sean O'Connor and Kate Action (120 min) AKA: SLOVE. PRIAMO V SERDCE the greatest deceptions of all time, in Language: Russian with english subtitles Action (90 min) which a 23 year old Frenchman Ogborn Director: Denis Alexeev Language: Russian with english subtitles convinces the authorities and a grieving Key Cast: Rachel Weisz, Tom Writer: Denis Alexeev, Alexandr Director: Yuri Korolev family that he is their lost child. Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale Delivery Status: Screening Inshakov Writer: Yuri Korolev STREETDANCE 2 Producer: Alexandr Inshakov, Leonid Producer: Alexey Podsohin, Kirill young teen (85 mins) Year of Production: 2011 Country of Lebedev, Ekaterina Panfilova Balmin Language: English Origin: UK Key Cast: Ekaterina Guseva, Ivan Key Cast: Alexei Chadov, Andrey Director: Max and Dania A married woman is torn between her Makarevich, Cyrill Nagiev Chadov, Karina Hidekel Writer: Jane English desire for a younger man and the Delivery Status: Post Production Delivery Status: Completed Co-Production Partners: BFI / BBC conventions of the time in this 1950s Year of Production: 2012 Country of Year of Production: 2011 Country of Films love-triangle Origin: Russia Origin: Russia Producer: James Richardson, Allan Niblo In an attempt to shake off the perils of A top fighter returns to the civil life, he - Vertigo Films the past, the family of a notorious sees his devotion in eliminating Key Cast: Sofia Boutella, Falk criminal escapes to the United States, criminals and becomes the best sniper of

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Co-Production Partners: Magnet VALLEY OF SAINTS Writer: David Weissman R Producer: Michael London, Gary Ungar, Drama (82 minutes) Producer: David Weissman Jeanette Buerling, Michele Ohayon, Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Lauren Versel Director: Musa Syeed Year of Production: 2011 Country of RADIANT FILMS Key Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Brendan Writer: Musa Syeed Origin: USA Fraser Producer: Nicholas Bruckman A deep, reflective look back at the arrival INTERNATIONAL Delivery Status: Pre-Production Key Cast: Gulzar Bhat, Neelofar Hamid, and impact of AIDS in San Francisco. Radiant Films International, 9862 Year of Production: 2012 Country of Afzal Sofi Easton Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210 Origin: USA Delivery Status: Completed USA, Tel: 1.310.278.4299. A romantic comedy centered on three Year of Production: 2012 Country of RED BULL MEDIA [email protected] different couples with one thing in Origin: Kashmir, USA Sales Agent common: infidelity. Their stories connect HOUSE In the valley of Kashmir, a lakeside city Red Bull Media House, Oberst- At Cannes: Mimi Steinbauer (President over a long weekend in New York and convulses with riots and curfews. A and CEO), Aska Yamaguchi (VP, Lepperdinger-Straße 11-15, Wals near Paris. young man tries to escape, when he International Sales) Salzburg, Salzburg 5071 Austria, Tel: meets a beautiful environmentalist in an Office: Residence du Grand Hotel, 3rd O2 +43662224028641. Action, Thriller abandoned houseboat. Trapped together Floor,3A, 45 Blvd de la Croisette, sales.redbullmediahouse.com, Language: English in his floating village, their blossoming Entrance: Cormoran 2, Tel: [email protected] Director: Joe Dante romance threatens to derail his dreams. Sales Agent, Producer 33.0.4.93.38.05.87 Writer: Ronnie Christensen VITO At Cannes: Berend Dreier (Sales Producer: Jeanette Buerling, Michele Documentary (93 minutes) Manager), Rick van den Heuvel (Sales http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1373 Ohayon Language: English Agent to Red Bull Media) Delivery Status: Pre-Production Director: Jeffrey Schwarz Office: Lerins S13 LULLABY Year of Production: 2012 Country of Writer: Jeffrey Schwarz Comedy/Drama Origin: USA Producer: Jeffrey Schwarz http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1222 Language: English In a futuristic society, a solar flare has Key Cast: Lily Tomlin, Armistead Director: Andrew Levitas rendered the surface of the earth Maupin, Larry Kramer, Bruce Vilanch, Delivery Status: Pre-Production MOUNT ST. ELIAS inhospitable, forcing humanity to live in Documentary/Adventure (102 min) Year of Production: 2012 Country of Michelangelo Signorile, Rob Epstein, domed cities at the bottom of the ocean, Language: English, German Origin: USA Jeffrey Friedman with O2 companies farming oxygen from Director: Gerald Salmina Filled with considerable comedic beats, Delivery Status: Completed the surrounding water, and controlling its Writer: Gerald Salmina LULLABY explores the power of life, Year of Production: 2011 Country of supply. Tired of these conditions, an Executive Producer: Gerald Salmina, its transformative moments and Origin: USA ambitious scientist devises a way to Philipp Manderla reconnections between loved ones. Author of "The Celluloid Closet," the attempt restoring the world’s Producer: Gerald Salmina Estranged from his family, Jonathan first book to critique Hollywood’s atmosphere. Key Cast: Axel Naglich, Peter receives word that his father, Robert, portrayals of gays on screen, Vito Russo Ressmann, Jon Johnston, Paul Claus, who has been fighting illness for over a 5 DAYS OF WAR became a passionate advocate for justice Steven Siig, Günther Göberl, Beat decade, has chosen to take his own life AKA: 5 DAYS OF AUGUST during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s via Action, War, Thriller (90 minutes) Kammerlander, Volker Holzner in less than forty-eight hours. What the newly formed ACT UP. Language: ENGLISH Delivery Status: Completed follows is an unexpected journey of love, ZOMBIE FEVER Director: Renny Harlin Year of Production: 2009 Country of laughter, and forgiveness. Action, Comedy, Horror Writer: David Battle, Mikko Alanne Language: Russian Origin: Austria Producer: Mirza Davitaia, George Lascu, Director: Kirill Kemnits A dramatic and awe-inspiring feature Koba Nakopia, Renny Harlin Writer: Sergey Torchilin, Kirill Kemnits documentary following three of the RECREATION Key Cast: Andy Garcia, Rupert Friend, world’s greatest ski mountaineers to Recreation, 2913 Third Street, Suite 310, Co-Production Partners: Rex Films Val Kilmer, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Mount St. Elias in their attempt to realize Santa Monica, CA 90405 USA, Tel: Producer: Sergey Torchilin, George Heather Graham the longest ski descent of the world. 1.310.305.1285 Fax: 1.310.305.1223. Lascu, Mikhail Kupfer, Andrey Kupfer Delivery Status: Completed www.recreationgroup.com, Key Cast: Julia Volkova, Mikhail THE ART OF FLIGHT 3D Year of Production: 2011 Country of Action (80 min) [email protected] Efremov, Lady Waks Origin: Georgia, Finland, Romania Sales Agent Delivery Status: Post Production Language: English An American journalist, his cameraman, At Cannes: Ariel Veneziano (President), Year of Production: 2012 Country of Director: Curt Morgan and a Georgian native get caught in the Perrine Bakhshay (Aquisitions and Origin: Russia Writer: Curt Morgan crossfire of the war between Russia and Co-Production Partners: Brain Farm Operations), Juraj Barabas (Sales) When a meteor crashes ruining a wild Georgia. Based on a true story. Digital Cinema, Venture 3D, Dolby Office: Lérins # R18 | Palais des beach party infecting everyone with Executive Producer: Travis Rice, Scott Festivals, Tel: +33(4)89.73.33.35 JASON AND THE NECRONAUTS "Zombie Fever"…the dead start walking Action, Adventure (90 minutes) Bradfield, Ryan Runke, Greg Jacobs, (Direct) the Earth. A special–forces veteran joins Language: English Charlie Rosene, Circe Wallace a group of misfits in an apocalyptic fight Director: Kevin Van Hook Producer: Curt Morgan, Chad Jackson http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1350 for liberty, justice and the "Mother of all Writer: Kevin Van Hook Key Cast: Travis Rice, Pat Moore, Scotty Zombie Wars." Producer: Kevin Van Hook, Fred Lago, DCP, Jake Blauvelt, Jeremy RED HOOK SUMMER Kuehnert, Michael Hamilton-Wright WEEKEND Jackson Drama (120 minutes) Drama (90 minutes) Key Cast: Casper Van Dien Delivery Status: Post Production Language: English Language: English Delivery Status: Pre-Production Year of Production: 2012 Country of Director: Spike Lee Director: Andrew Haigh Writer: Spike Lee, James McBride Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA Writer: Andrew Haigh Co-Production Partners: 40 Acres and A Origin: USA A new breed of action sports film comes Producer: Tristan Goligher Mule The mythological hero is challenged to to life with "The Art of FLIGHT 3D," a Key Cast: Tom Cullen, Chris New Producer: Spike Lee, James McBride battle by a jealous god, traveling into the Curt Morgan film. Equal parts action and Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Jules Brown, Clarke Peters, underworld to recruit an army of the adventure mix with the inevitable drama Year of Production: 2011 Country of Spike Lee, Tony Lysaith, Nate Parker, dead and face his formidable enemy. encountered along the way. Two years in Origin: USA James Ransone, Thomas Jefferson Byrd the making, "The Art of FLIGHT" gives After a drunken house party, Russell Delivery Status: Completed iconic snowboarder Travis Rice and heads out to a gay club where he picks Year of Production: 2012 Country of friends the opportunity to redefine what up Glen. What's expected to be just a Origin: USA is possible in the mountains. Immerse one-night stand becomes something else. A boy from Atlanta lands in Brooklyn to yourself in the cinematic experience as spend the summer with his grandfather, WE WERE HERE Brain Farm and their ever-expanding HE USINESS Documentary (90 minutes) who he's never seen before. T B arsenal of filmmaking technology Language: English capture the dramatic beauty of the MARRIED AND CHEATING OF ILM Director: David Weissman Comedy, Romantic Comedy www.thebusinessoffilmdaily.comF culture, wildlife and scenic landscapes Language: English the riders take in along the way. Director: Raymond De Felitta Writer: Raymond De Felitta

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HOTFLASHES – LIGHTNING ENTERTAINMENT STORM SURFERS 3D Producer: Thomas Rilk Director: Gerardo Olivares One wild, one growing up in captivity. Documentary/Action/Expedition (90 Key Cast: Hannes Arch, Paul Writer: Gerardo Olivares The breathtaking beauty of the Alps min) Bonhomme, Vito Wyprächtiger Co-Production Partners: Wanda Films bears a dark secret. A lonely shepherd Language: English Delivery Status: Post Production Executive Producer: José María Morales, overcoming his deepest fears. Jean- Director: Justin McMillan, Chris Nelius Year of Production: 2012 Country of Miguel Morales Jacque Annaud’s “The Bear” on Eagles! Writer: Chris Nelius Origin: Austria Producer: José María Morales, BRAZIL – CARNIVAL OF LIFE Co-Production Partners: Red Bull Media "Heaven is home of the birds, we are Sophokles Tasioulis Documentary (90 min) House, Sixty Foot Films, Firelight, merely guests". Daredevil pilots battle it Key Cast: Carlos Bardem, Sancho Language: English, German Screen Australia, Fulcrum Media out at Air Races around the globe, flying Gracia, Juan José Ballesta Director: Christian Baumeister Finance, Deluxe Australia, Madman, E- only meters above the ground, all at 400 Delivery Status: Completed Writer: tba Film, NSW Digital Media km/h. Year of Production: 2010 Country of Co-Production Partners: Terra Mater Executive Producer: Marcus Gillezau, THE LAZARUS PROTOCOL Origin: Spain Factual Studios Ellenor Cox, Philipp Manderla Thriller (96 min) At the tender age of 7, Marcos is sold by Executive Producer: Walter Köhler, Producer: Marcus Gillezeau, Ellenor Cox Language: English his father to a goatherd and taken to live Sophokles Tasioulis Key Cast: Ross Clarke-Jones, Tom Director: Paul Finelli to the Valley of Silence, a remote area of Producer: Walter Köhler, Sophokles Carroll, Ben Matson, Maya Gabeira, Writer: Paul Finelli the Sierra Morena Mountains, in Spain. Tasioulis Kelly Slater, Ian Walsh Co-Production Partners: Terra Mater There, Marcos will discover the secrets Delivery Status: In Production Delivery Status: Post Production Factual Studios, Tomcat Productions, of the wild. However, once the old Year of Production: 2014 Country of Year of Production: 2012 Country of Finger Films goatherd dies, the young boy will have to Origin: Austria Origin: Australia Executive Producer: Peter Fonda survive alone in the woods for 12 years, South America’s largest country serves Epic. Extraordinary. Insane. A wild Producer: Walter Köhler, Thomas becoming the leader of a pack of wolves. as the backdrop of an powerful, adventure set in the world of big wave Feldkircher THE CRY OF THE EAGLE emotional nature documentary. In the surfing. Bringing together accessible, Key Cast: Peter Fonda, Michael Desante, Drama (90 min) tradition of “Deep Blue”, “March of the cutting-edge science with real life drama Travis Fimmel Language: German Penguins” and “Earth”, Brazil will give and the most spectacular surf images Delivery Status: Post Production Director: Otmar Penker, Gerald Salmina audiences an emotional roller coaster ever captured on film, Storm Surfers is a Year of Production: 2012 Country of Writer: Gerald Salmina et al. ride through the emerald forest and its classic story of friendship, adventure and Origin: Austria Co-Production Partners: Terra Mater inhabitants. courage. Lazarus Fell (TRAVIS FIMMEL), Factual Studios SMOKE ON (WT) former Navy SEAL and expert for covert Executive Producer: Walter Koehler, Documentary (110 min) operations, lost his father, Solomon Fell Sophokles Tasioulis Language: German (PETER FONDA), a high ranking secret Producer: Walter Koehler, Sophokles Director: Thomas Rilk service officer during the 9/11 attacks, Tasioulis Writer: Andreas Laschober, Thomas Rilk now he seeks personal revenge. Key Cast: tba Co-Production Partners: Rilk Film, Red AMONG WOLVES Delivery Status: In Production Bull Media House AKA: ENTRELOBOS Year of Production: 2014 Country of Executive Producer: Thomas Rilk, Drama (118 min.) Origin: Austria/France Philipp Manderla Language: Spanish with English subtitles The tale of two golden eagle brothers.

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MIXED KEBAB Plummer, Lou Castel RED GRANITE REEL SUSPECTS Drama (98min) Delivery Status: Completed Reel Suspects, 42, rue René Boulanger, Language: Dutch & Turkish Year of Production: 2011 Country of PICTURES Paris, Paris 75010 France, Tel: 0033 1 Director: Guy Lee Thys Origin: Germany Red Granite Pictures, 9255 Sunset Blvd, 42 40 12 84 Fax: 0033 9 57 73 07 66. Writer: Guy Lee Thys Berlin in the very near future. The public Suite 710, West Hollywood , California www.reelsuspects.com, Producer: Guy Lee Thys health system has broken down and a 90069 USA, Tel: 1.310.703.5800 Fax: [email protected] Key Cast: Cem Akkanat, Karlijn flourishing black market for prescription 1.310.246.3849. Sales Agent Sileghem, Simon Van Buyten, Rudolf drugs has emerged. Dr. Ketel is working At Cannes: Danny Dimbort (President, At Cannes: Matteo Lovadina (CEO), Segers-Dorf, Ergun Simsek, Tania as an underground doctor on the streets International Sales and Distribution), Emmanuelle Courtois (Head of Sales & Cnaepkens, Lukas De Wolf, Gamze and in the backyards. The drugs he needs Christian Mercuri (President, Festivals), Olivier Oren (Financial Tazim for his work he steals from the few International Sales and Distribution), Inc Director & Aquisitions) Delivery Status: Completed remaining pharmacies. The American Pagliuca (Sr. VP, International Office: Riviera - Stand G23 Year of Production: 2012 Country of security guard Louise has made it her Distribution) Origin: Belgium priority to bring Ketel down. The http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1199 http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1372 Mixed Kebab tells the coming-out story renegade doctor now faces a life-altering of a Belgian-born gay Turk. Ibrahim falls decision: is his work philanthropic or is VANISHING WAVES for young and handsome Kevin but is he a resistance fighter. He can convince OUT OF THE FURNACE Sci-Fi Drama betrothed to his attractive yet expensive Louise to join his cause, but other Action/Thriller Language: Lithuanian Director: Scott Cooper cousin Elif. At the same time, his petty security guards pick up where she left Director: Kristina Buo yt Writer: Christian Bale, Zoe Saldana, ž ė criminal kid brother Furkan converts to and the hunt continues. Writer: Kristina Buo yt & Bruno ž ė Islamic fundamentalism and becomes a Woody Harrelson, Sam Shepard, Casey Samper LIVE EAST DIE YOUNG punk in white pyjamas. Drama (92) Affleck, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker Co-Production Partners: Tremora & Language: English Key Cast: Christian Bale, Zoe Saldana, Acajou Films THE YEAR DOLLY PARTON WAS Director: Laura Hypponen Woody Harrelson, Sam Shepard, Casey Producer: Ieva Norviliene MY MOM Family Drama (95 min) Writer: Laura Hypponen Affleck, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker Key Cast: Marius Jampolskis, Jurga Delivery Status: In Production Language: English Co-Production Partners: Electric Blue Jutait , Martina Jablonskyt ė ė Director: Tara Johns Films Country of Origin: USA Delivery Status: Post Production Writer: Tara Johns Producer: Laura Hypponen A CASE OF YOU Year of Production: 2012 Country of Co-Production Partners: Palomar Key Cast: Zoe Grisedale, James Jeanette Romantic Comedy Origin: Lithuania Producer: Barbara Schrier Main, Lewis Grolle Director: Kat Coiro Have you ever dreamed of being inside Key Cast: Macha Grenon, Gil Bellows, Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Justin Long, Evan Rachel the head of another person? Have you Julia Stone Year of Production: 2012 Country of Wood, Brendan Fraser, Sienna Miller, ever wished to experience the ideal Delivery Status: Completed Origin: United Kingdom Vince Vaughn, Sam Rockwell relationship, where two minds come into Year of Production: 2011 Country of A voyeuristic, dogma-esque look into the Delivery Status: Post Production total fusion? Country of Origin: USA Origin: Canada substance-fuelled lifestyle and THE SECOND DEATH It’s 1976, and Elizabeth is your average aspirations of the fashion-forward FRIENDS WITH KIDS Thriller (91 min) suburban 11-year-old girl when she London’s East End set. Comedy Language: Spanish discovers she has been adopted. As she Director: Jennifer Westfeldt Director: Santiago Fernández Calvete DAY & NIGHT runs away searching for her true identity, Drama (101 min) Key Cast: Adam Scott, Jennifer Writer: Santiago Fernández Calvete she ends up leading her adoptive mother Language: German Westfeldt, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Co-Production Partners: MAGMA CINE into a cathartic crosscountry trek only to Director: Sabine Derflinger Maya Rudolph, Chris O'Dowd, Megan Producer: Juan Pablo Gugliotta find themselves in the end. Writer: Eva Testor, Sabine Derflinger Fox, Edward Burns Key Cast: Agustina Lecouna, Mauricio Executive Producer: Eva Testor Delivery Status: Completed Dayub, Guillermo Arengo HATED Drama (91 min) Producer: Eva Testor, Nina Kusturica US Distributor: Lionsgate/Roadside Delivery Status: Completed Language: English Key Cast: Anna Rot, Magdalena Attractions Year of Production: 2012 Country of Director: Lee Madsen Kronschlager, Philipp Hochmair, Martina Origin: Argentina Writer: Lee Madsen Spitzer, Manuel Rubey, Adrian Topol, Clueless on a gruesome case, a skeptical Co-Production Partners: The Royal We Martin Brambach, Kyrre Kvam and lonely policewoman in a small Films Delivery Status: Completed village, is guided by a newly arrived Producer: Kirsten Wagner Year of Production: 2011 Country of clairvoyance gifted boy, who claims that Key Cast: Matthew Hutchingson, Origin: Austria the murderer is the Virgin Mary. Genevieve Cortese, Ellen Woglom, Why not work for an escort service and Delivery Status: Completed make a lot of money? She's already had Year of Production: 2011 Country of plenty of bad sex, but was never paid for CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Origin: USA it. Lea employs this iron-clad argument HE LICK AND CCESS ULTURE IS OW A tale of the rise and fall of an unknown to win over her best friend Anna. They T C A C N rock band and the girl who made it all then plunge into an adventure between & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. happen... day and night... Q CAT & MOUSE Erotic drama (104 min) Psychological Thriller Language: French Language: Dutch Director: Laurent Bouhnik Director: Maartje Seyferth & Victor Click on Writer: Laurent Bouhnik Nieuwenhuijs Producer: Acajou Films Writer: Maartje Seyferth Blue Boxes Key Cast: Déborah Révy, Hélène Co-Production Partners: Moskito Films Zimmer, Gowan Didi Executive Producer: Victor to Access Delivery Status: Completed Nieuwenhuijs Year of Production: 2011 Country of Producer: Maartje Seyferth & Victor Available Origin: France Nieuwenhuijs Sex is the outcome of all the most Key Cast: Amanda KALF Company beautiful love stories. Delivery Status: In Development DR KETEL Year of Production: 2012 Country of Trailers Thriller (80 min) Origin: Netherlands Language: German Can we trust our memory? Or do our Automatically Director: Linus de Paoli memories more and more deceive us Writer: Linus de Paoli when time passes? In "Cat and Mouse", Co-Production Partners: DFFB/ 25 year old Bela is still living with his Do Your Part To Schattenkante mother in the middle of nowhere. When Producer: Anna de Paoli his mother dies, the people of a nearby Combat Global Warming Key Cast: Ketel Weber, Amanda village start to meddle in his life. They

96 The Business of Film CANNES MAY 2012 CANNES PRODUCT GUIDE even interfere with Bela's love-life, but SELF-MURDERERS Key Cast: Sedjulla Moldahanov, Berik Delivery Status: Completed without obtaining the desired result – a Comedy Ajtzhanov, Denis Nikiforov, Gosha Year of Production: 2011 Country of relationship with the sensual Olga. Bela Language: Russia Kutsenko, Ivan Zhidkov, Gulnar Origin: USA does not like at all what the village has Director: Egor Baranov Dusmatova Based on the best-selling graphic novel decided for him. Mainly because he Writer: Yuriy Patrenin, Aleksander Delivery Status: Completed written by Steve Niles (30 Days of fancies young Marie, the girl from the Strizhenov, Egor Baranov A creative team of young Night), Remains is set in a chilling post- local pub. But every attempt of Bela to Key Cast: Evgeniy Stichkin, Oksana cinematographers sets out to the risky apocalyptic Reno, Nevada, and follows follow his own wishes seems to be Akinshina, Aleksey Vorobyov journey to Afghanistan. Their goal is a the survivors of a bizarre accident that doomed. What do the villagers hope to Year of Production: 2012 Country of documentary shooting. They are reduced most of the world's population obtain? What occurrence makes them Origin: Russia accompanied by a man who fought in to zombies. The group takes refuge in a interfere? When it turns out that Bela's A comedy about dizzy adventures of Afghanistan and lost his leg in the vacant casino and fights a losing battle own memories are deceiving him, three friends who decided to commit fighting. He is still skilled in battle and against an undead army which grows fragments of what happened in the past suicide. Gathering around them like- familiar with the Afghan customs and steadily stronger, smarter and more start to erupt and force him into fatal minded men, new friends decide to traditions. But no one knows that he aggressive by the minute. decisions. finally fulfill the last wish of each other. served in Russian special force elite BAD KARMA This, at first glance, the harmless battalion and has his personal reasons to Action/Adventure solution turns the characters' lives into a return to Afghanistan... Language: English RUSSIAN WORLD continuous kaleidoscope of breathtaking THE TARGET Director: Suri Krishnamma events. Drama/Action (154 min) Writer: Steve Allrich VISION Language: Russia Producer: Christine Holder, Danny Roth, Russian World Vision, 16/3, THE NANNIES Comedy / Family Movie Director: Alexander Zeldovich Mark Holder Krasnoproletarskaya st., Moscow, Language: Russia Writer: Vladimir Sorokin, Alexander Key Cast: Ray Liotta, Dominic Purcell, 127473 Russia, Tel: +7.495.645.00.03 Director: Ashot Keshyan Zeldovich Andy McPhee Fax: +7.495.645.00.03. Writer: Olga Antonova, Sergey Key Cast: Maxim Sukhanov, Justine Delivery Status: Post Production www.ruswv.com, Bessmentniy, Pavel Karnaukhov Waddell, Vitaliy Kischenko, Danila Year of Production: 2011 Country of [email protected] Distributor, Agent Key Cast: Nikolay Naumov, Ararat Kozlovsky, Daniela Stoyanovich, Nina Origin: US At Cannes: Ekaterina Levitan (Head of Keshyan, Ludmila Artemyeva, Aglaya Loschinina After surviving a horrific car wreck en International Department) Shilovskaya, Lina Dobrorodnova Delivery Status: Completed route to a robbery, career criminal Jack Office: Russian Cinema Fund Stand (A7, Year of Production: 2012 Country of Year of Production: 2011 Country of Molloy turns over a new leaf: honest Riviera), Tel: +7.495.645.00.03 Fax: Origin: Russia Origin: Russia employment and the love of a great girl. +7.495.645.00.03 The provincial businessmen in the The year 2020... All over Russia stability But when Yale- fresh out of prison and tourism industry, who have never really and prosperity triumph. The heroes bent on vengeance, starts stalking

http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1364 treated seriously family life, children and belong to Russia’s elite. They are Molloy and frames him for a brutal their work have a very important trip prosperous, influential, and happy, but robbery/homicide, Molloy finds his new abroad. They dream of successful results they feel they are losing their youthful life quickly falling apart, as all he loves MY FALLEN ANGEL Melodrama (90 min) in the negotiations. But suddenly the energy and passion. Determined to and cares for is targeted for destruction Language: Kazakhstan responsibility for the three entirely reverse this process, they travel to by his psychopathic former partner-in- Director: Talgat Temenov unmanageable children falls to them. Central Asia in search of an abandoned crime. Writer: Talgat Temenov Everything would be fine, if they were secret astrophysical facility. Rejuvenated, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 3D: Key Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Talgat not children of the capital business- they return to their normal lives, but as RE-ANIMATION Temenov woman, our heroes' potential investor. each character’s destiny unfolds, it Horror (90 min) Delivery Status: Completed Friends have to deal with the children, would seem that eternal life has its Language: English Year of Production: 2012 Country of their grandmother, who came ostensibly downside... Director: Jeff Broadstreet Origin: Kazakhstan to help, and German rivals, trying not to Writer: Jeff Broadstreet The young talented singer Aisha dreams fail in such an important deal for them. Producer: Thomas S. Byrnes, Lawrence of singing in France and win Paris by her MOMS Greenstein talent. A very wealthy banker helps her Comedy / Family Movie S Key Cast: Andrew Divoff, Jeffrey in fulfillment of her wishes. She receives Language: Russia Combs, Sarah Lieving an invitation to Paris, she is close to Director: Evgeniy Abizov, Sarik Delivery Status: Completed fulfill her dream, but at this same time Andreasyan, Alan Badoev Year of Production: 2011 Country of the fate presents her another gift - a Writer: Olga Antonova, Sergey SCREEN MEDIA Origin: US Screen Media, 757 3rd Avenue, 3rd meeting with a real love ... Bessmentniy, Pavel Karnaukhov After inheriting the family mortuary, a Key Cast: Sergey Bezrukov, Dmitriy Floor, New York, NY 10017 USA, Tel: pyrophobic mortician accidentally MISSION: THE PROPHET 1.212.308.1790 Fax: 1.212.308.1791. Thriller/Action (85 min) Duzhev, Mikhail Porechenkov, Egor exposes hundreds of uncremated bodies www.screenmedia.net, Language: English (dubbed)/ Russian Beroev, Gosha Kucenko, Aleksandr to toxic medical waste. As the corpses [email protected] (original) Oleshko, Igor Vernik Sales Agent re-animate, the mortician's inheritance- Director: Rodney James Hewitt Year of Production: 2012 Country of At Cannes: Joseph Kovacs (President), seeking younger brother unexpectedly Writer: Alexander Izotov Origin: Russia David Fannon (Executive Vice shows up, stumbling upon a full zombie Key Cast: Eric Roberts, Stephen Every year on the International Women's President), Almira Ravil (Senior Vice outbreak! Baldwin, Marat Basharov, Alexey Day telephone networks transfer millions President: International Sales), Michael MEMORIAL DAY Chadov, Michael Madsen, Dimitriy of phone calls and SMS messages. The Dwyer (Vice President: Internal Sales & AKA: SOUVENIRS Persin, John Freedman, Olga Radionova vast majority of phone calls are Acquisitions), Gary Delfiner (Senior Action/Adventure (90 min) Delivery Status: Completed addressed to the most important women Vice President of Digital Distribution), Language: English Various European countries are in the lives of everyone - to our mothers. Suzanne Blech (President, Domestic) Director: Sam Fischer undergoing a velvet revolution. It But what would it be if because of Office: Riviera Hall, Booth R31.28, Tel: Writer: Marc Conklin appears as if they are orchestrated by a enormous number of calls telephone +33.4.9299.8832 Producer: Craig Christainsen single directive. At this time in Moscow, network is break down? What would we Key Cast: James Cromwell, Jonathan as a result of improbable circumstances, do? Someone would wait until network http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1143 Bennett, Jackson Bond an American reporter named John is rebuilt and would congratulate his Delivery Status: Completed Litgow becomes a very famous mom in the evening or even the next day. Year of Production: 2011 Country of REMAINS journalist. His analytical forecasts But others, like the heroes of our movie, Origin: US AKA: STEVE NILES' REMAINS regarding changes in Russian politics would change their plans to congratulate Horror (88 min) Two generations. Two wars. One story. and economics come to fruition with their moms just today ... personally ... as Language: English On Memorial Day in 1993, 13 year old amazing accuracy. An impression arises a kid!.. Director: Colin Theys Kyle finds his grandfather Bud’s WWII that John has a gift of foreseeing the THE MEMORY Writer: John Doolan footlocker. Bud has not spoken of the future. However, a secret behind his AKA: RETURNING TO THE "A" Producer: Andrew Gernhard, Zach war since its end, but when presented rapid career growth attracts a Action / War Drama (110 min) O'Brien with the souvenirs within, he tells Kyle sophisticated plan of cruelty. Language: Russia / Kazakhstan Key Cast: Grant Bowler, Lance Reddick, the story behind each one. As Bud Director: Egor Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky Miko Hughes, Tawny Cypress recounts his harrowing tales, we see not Writer: Vladimir Moiseenko only his traumatic experiences in

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combat, but also how they mirror Kyle’s for the weekend to celebrate. When they zombies and armed soldiers, who are and the Nationalist Chinese Government future in war-torn Iraq. After suffering a accidentally release a long-buried evil, equally indiscriminate in their - in a land where the truth is not what it devastating injury, Kyle returns for one their dream home is transformed into a destruction. Camille finds other immune seems and the only people he can trust, final mission before his unit is due to be house of horror as the original owner children and, with them, searches for an cannot be trusted at all. Inspired by sent home. Presented with a moral returns to exact bloody revenge. escape from their living hell. actual events. dilemma of leadership similar to one FORGET ME NOT DEEP WINTER VISIONEERS faced by Bud—whether to spare an Horror (90min) Action (96 min) Comedy (95 min) individual life or let one person die to Language: English Language: English Language: English potentially save many others—Kyle Director: Tyler Oliver Director: Mikey Hilb Director: Jared Drake finally understands why his grandfather Writer: Tyler Oliver, Jamieson Stern Writer: John Protass, Mikey Hilb, Glenn Writer: Brandon Drake was so reluctant to share his past. Producer: Tyler Oliver, Jamieson Stern Zoller Producer: Henry Capanna, James COLD SWEAT Key Cast: Carly Schroeder, Cody Producer: Glenn Zoller Henney, Jory Weitz AKA: SUDOR FRIO Lineley, Brie Gabrielle, Chloe Bridges Key Cast: Kellan Lutz, Michael Madsen, Key Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Judy Greer, Thriller (90 min) Delivery Status: Completed Eric Lively Missi Pyle, Mia Maestro, D.W. Moffett, Language: Spanish Year of Production: 2009 Country of Delivery Status: Completed James LeGros Director: Adrián García Bogliano Origin: USA Year of Production: 2008 Country of Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Adrián García Bogliano, Ramiro A party-filled graduation weekend turns Origin: USA Year of Production: 2007 Country of García Bogliano, Hernán Moyano into a nightmare for popular class Pals since childhood, downhill skier Origin: US Executive Producer: Pablo Bossi, Juan president Sandy Channing when her Tyler Crowe and snowboarder Mark Visioneer George Washington Pablo Buscarini friends begin to vanish one by one and a Rider seek out the ultimate downhill Winsterhammerman (Zach Galifianakis) Producer: Juan Pablo Buscarini vengeful spirit is to blame. snow sport experience in the Alaskan lives a comfortable but monotonous life Key Cast: Facundo Espinosa, Marina ASSASSINS' CODE wilderness. in this slightly futuristic black comedy. Glezer, Camila Velasco, Omar Gioiosa AKA: SERPENT RISING LAST RITES OF RANSOM PRIDE But when people start exploding from Delivery Status: Completed Action/Thriller (90 min) Western (96 min) stress and George is showing early Year of Production: 2010 Country of Language: English Language: English symptoms, he's forced to examine his Origin: Argentina Director: Lawrence Riggins Director: Tiller Russell life. Taking a look at his prestigious job, When Roman's girlfriend disappears, he Writer: Lawrence Riggins, David W. Writer: Tiller Russell, Ray Wylie his sexless marriage and his resistance to expects to find her in the arms of another Smith Hubbard life coaching, George reconsiders the man. And find her he does but there is no Producer: Karen Kaing Producer: Michael Frislev, Duncan philosophy of happiness through lover on the scene, only a pair of crazy Key Cast: Min Su Choi, Tiffany Yee, Montgomery, Chad Oakes mindless activity. old men keeping her locked away in the John Savage Key Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Peter THE SCREEN MEDIA LIBRARY basement of their crumbling mansion. Delivery Status: Completed Dinklage, Dwight Yoakam, Jason Over 600 Feature Films of all Genres Armed with wild-eyed political ideals Year of Production: 2011 Country of Priestley, Lizzy Caplan, Cote de Pablo, UNIVERSAL STUDIOS DVD and case after case of decades-old and Origin: USA Jon Foster PLATINUM COLLECTION highly unstable dynamite, the villainous To hide from his past sins as a Delivery Status: Completed 200 Universal Titles available for DVD duo are conducting illicit experiments on government assassin, former agent Paul Year of Production: 2009 Country of rights a string of young women lured to their Thorn withdrew to an anonymous Origin: USA home via the internet. If Roman cannot identity and a quiet life of normalcy. When Juliette (Lizzy Caplan) sets out to free his young love, she is likely to end When a former partner delivers bring her slain lover -- outlaw Ransom SHORELINE up in pieces, thanks in part to a generous blueprints for a lethal technological Pride -- home to Texas to be buried, she ENTERTAINMENT slathering of nitroglycerine. secret and dies on Paul's floor, Paul is knows the journey won't be easy, but she Shoreline Entertainment, 1875 Century AKUMA forced back into the deadly world of has little idea of the dangers that lie Park East #600, Los Angeles, CA 90067 AKA: THE ENTITY international espionage where nothing is ahead in this dark Western drama. The USA, Tel: +1.702.646.0005 Fax: Horror as it seems, betrayal is the standard, and film's cast includes Scott Speedman as +1.702.974.0707. Language: English lives are expendable. the murdered bad boy, Dwight Yoakam www.slefilms.com, [email protected] Director: Deon Taylor COUGAR HUNTING as a homicidal reverend, Kris Sales Agent Writer: Deon Taylor, Joe Bockol, Blayne Teen Comedy (90min) Kristofferson as a rival outlaw, and Jason At Cannes: Sam Eigen (EVP), Brian Weaver Language: English Priestley and W. Earl Brown as a pair of Sweet (VP of Sales), Morris Ruskin Producer: Deon Taylor, Roxanne Avent Director: Robin Blazak bounty hunters. (CEO) Delivery Status: Pre-Production Writer: Robin Blazak FORMOSA BETRAYED Office: The Majestic #135, Tel: Year of Production: 2012 Country of Producer: Robin Blazak, Matt Sinnreich Thriller (90 mins) +1.702.524.3114 Fax: +1.702.974.0707 Origin: US Key Cast: Lara Flynn Boyle, Vanessa Language: English Akira Tanaka, a young & attractive but Angel, Matt Prokop, Randy Wayne, Director: Adam Kane http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1256 emotionally damaged Japanese woman Jillian Murray, Robin Blazak Writer: Will Tiao, Katie Swain, Charlie moves to the United States to escape a Delivery Status: Completed Stratton, Brian Askew, Nathaniel DIVORCE INVITATION past marked by tragedy. She moves in Year of Production: 2010 Country of Goodman, Yann Samuel Romantic Comedy (110 minutes) with her sister Hana and her new Origin: USA Producer: David Allen Cluck, Adam Language: English husband Adam, hoping to leave her Frustrated with their romantic prospects, Kane, Will Tiao Director: S.V. Krishna Reddy demons behind and start a new life. But three twenty-something buddies head out Key Cast: James Van der Beek, Wendy Writer: Bala Rajasekharuni as Akira’s behavior grows increasingly to the slopes of Aspen Colorado to hunt Crewson, Will Tiao Executive Producer: Venkat erratic and strange disturbances mark the Cougars: hot older women with a taste Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Jonathan Bennett Jamie-Lynn night, Akira is forced to reveal her real for younger men. Their quest for mature Year of Production: 2009 Country of Sigler Nadia Bjorlin reason for coming: to flee the malevolent women turns into one hilarious disaster Origin: USA Delivery Status: Completed spirit that has been tormenting her since after another. In the early 1980s, an FBI Agent is Year of Production: 2021 Country of childhood… and which appears to have DESCENDENTS assigned to investigate the murder of a Origin: US followed her here. Horror (74 min) respected professor. Through his Divorce Invitation' centers on Mike MASK MAKER Language: Spanish investigation, he unearths a spider web Christian, a happily married man who Horror (93 min) Director: Jorge Olguin of international secrets that has been runs into his high school sweetheart Language: English Writer: Jorge Olguin, Carolina Garcia thriving within college campuses across Alex, and after all these years, sparks Director: Griff Furst Producer: Jorge Olguin, Ana Maria America for decades. His investigation still fly. When Mike is determined Alex Writer: Griff Furst, Eric Miller Aguilar, Cristian Aguilar, David Brown takes him across the Pacific to the island is his true soul mate, he realizes he has a Producer: Kenneth M. Badish, Daniel Key Cast: Karina Pizarro, Camille Lynch nation of Taiwan, where with the help of huge problem-he signed an iron-clad pre- Lewis Delivery Status: Completed the outspoken widow and an unlikely nuptial agreement and his wife will not Key Cast: Nikki Deloach, Stephen Year of Production: 2008 Country of spy, he learns that the Professor's killing let him out of the marriage. Colletti, Anabella Casanova Origin: Chile was not a random act, but a desperate LOST AND FOUND IN ARMENIA Delivery Status: Completed A mysterious contagion spreads turning move by a scandalous government intent Romantic Comedy (110 minutes) Year of Production: 2010 Country of humans into zombies. A handful of on keeping its nefarious activities under Language: English Origin: USA children are born with immunity to the wraps. Our detective soon finds himself Director: Gor Kirakosian A young couple purchases a 19th century disease. One of the immune, Camille, on a collision course against the U.S. Writer: Krist Manaryan plantation home and invites friends up wanders the desolate wastelands, evading State Department, the Chinese Mafia,

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Producer: Valerie McCaffrey Delivery Status: Completed Director: Gabriel Marino Year of Production: 2012 Country of Key Cast: Jamie Kennedy Angela Year of Production: 2012 Country of Writer: Gabriel Marino Origin: South Korea Sarafyan Origin: Chile Key Cast: Lucia Uribe, Olivia Lagunas Infamous thief Macao Park brings Delivery Status: Completed In search of a true western Sergio travels Delivery Status: Completed together best thieves from Korea and Year of Production: 2012 Country of to the rural deserts of Chile where Year of Production: 2012 Country of Hong Kong for his latest job: $20 Origin: Armenia becomes trapped in a local desert Origin: Mexico million diamond known as "Tear of the A US Senators son who attempts to community where he's mistaken for a On the last day of high school, a young Sun", kept safely away in a Macao forget the break up of his fiancée, is marked man. In the middle of a heated woman leaves her world behind to begin casino. But his plan takes an unexpected forced to vacation in Turkey by his best dispute, Sergio must fight for his life and a secret and mysterious journey of self- turn when Korean leader Popeye brings friend. A para sailing trip mishap lands learn to walk in the shoes of a real discovery. Eighteen-year-old María is a Pepsi, an old flame. While working him in a small village in Armenia. It is outlaw in order to escape. lonely and promiscuous dreamer together to steal this fabled diamond, there he meets his fate that will change YAKEL: 100 YEAR OLD CHIEF struggling to make sense of her life in they all have their own agendas to derail his life forever. Drama/Documentary (70 minutes) harsh and vibrant Mexico City. She the plan and keep the diamond for MEU PAIS Language: Yakel embarks on an epic road trip, from themselves. Unbeknownst to them, AKA: MY COUNTRY Director: Rachael Wilson Mexico City's urban chaos to the deserts Macao Park, too, has plans for everyone Drama (84 min) Writer: Rachael Wilson of Sinaloa and the vast oceans of La Paz. in the team. Who end up with the Language: Spanish Key Cast: Yakel tribe Within these immense and shifting diamond and live to see another day? Director: Andre Ristum Delivery Status: Completed landscapes, María comes of age. In a THE SCENT Writer: Andrew Ristum, Marco Dutra, Year of Production: 2012 Country of spectacular and spiritual conclusion, the Thriller, Drama (117 min) Octavio Scopelliti Origin: New Zealand natural world embraces María with pure Language: Korean Producer: Gullane and Sombumbo Set in the small, tribal village of Yakel poetic force. Director: KIM Hyoung-jun Movies on the Vanuatu island of Tanna, this is Writer: HWANG Sung-gu Key Cast: Rodrigo Santoro, Cauã the remarkable story of 108-year-old Executive Producer: CHOI Jun-young Reymond, Debora Falabella, Paul Joseph Chief Kowia as he nears the end of his SHOWBOX/ Producer: BEAK Sunny and Anita Caprioli. long, eventful life. As he faces his Key Cast: PARK Hee-soon,PARK Si- Delivery Status: Completed mortality, he worries what will happen to MEDIAPLEX yeon Showbox/Mediaplex, 3F, 174-15 Dogok- Year of Production: 2012 Country of his people when he is no longer there to Delivery Status: Completed Dong, Gangnam-Gu,, Seoul, 135-504 Origin: Chile guide them. Without Chief Kowia’s Year of Production: 2012 Country of Korea, Tel: +82.2.3218.5649 Fax: Marcos and Thiago are brothers with a influence, can the people of Yakel Origin: South Korea +82.2.3444.6688. broken relationship. Marcos lives in Italy continue to hold the world at bay? Seon-wu is a private investigator who is www.showbox.co.kr/english,sales@show where he leads a life full of propriety. specialized in the adultery cases using GENERATION P box.co.kr Thiago lives in Brazil and spends his Comedy/Drama/Sci-Fi (116 minutes) Sales Agent, Distributor, Financier his olfactory sense. While investigating time wasting his father’s money on Language: Russian At Cannes: Judy AHN (Head of Int'l on an affair, his client, a mysterious booze and women. After their father Director: Victor Ginzburg Business • Sales & Acquisitions), Soojin woman named Soo-jin, turns up dies, they are faced with astonishing Writer: Victor Ginzburg JUNG (General Manager • Sales), Sonya murdered and Seon-wu becomes a news: their father had another daughter, Executive Producer: Jim Steele KIM (General Manager • Sales & suspect for being at the crime scene. As a mentally disturbed girl, who has lived Key Cast: Vladimir Epifantsev Festival), June LEE (Manager • he tries to cover up the tracks of murder, in a private mental institute all her life. Delivery Status: Completed Acquisitions), Eugene KIM (Int'l the evidences confirming his presence at This new reality leads the brothers into Year of Production: 2011 Country of Marketing) the scene start turning up and he gets new experiences, forcing them to Origin: Russia Office: LERINS R3-S2, Tel: framed as a murderer. confront totally new and unexpected Mesopotamian conspiracy theories. The +33(0)4.92.99.32.43 / 44 A COMPANY MAN situations, which lead to a new and spirit of Che Guevara summoned by a Action, Thriller important understanding between them. Ouija board. These aren't what one http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1354 Language: Korean SAL thinks of when it comes to Russian Director: LIM Sang-yun cinema, but Generation P is a game AKA: SALT DON'T CLICK Writer: LIM Sang-yun Western (100 mintues) changer that explodes with unique and Horror (91 min) Executive Producer: YOU Jeong-hun Language: Spanish outrageous style. Language: Korean Producer: OH Ju-hyun Director: Diego Rougier UN MUNDO SECRETO Director: KIM Tae-kyung Key Cast: SO Ji-sub,LEE Mi-youn,KIM Writer: Diego AKA: A Secret World Writer: KIM Tae-kyung Dong-jun Co-Production Partners: Rougier Drama (87 minutes) Executive Producer: YOU Jeong-hun Delivery Status: Post Production Key Cast: Fele Martinez Language: Spanish Producer: AHN Dong-kyu, CHA Ji-hyun, Year of Production: 2012 Country of JANG Won-suk Origin: South Korea Key Cast: PARK Bo-young, JOO Won, A professional assassin who regards KANG Byul killing as nothing more than repetitious CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Delivery Status: Post Production routine, meets a former singer who he THE CLICK AND ACCESS CULTURE IS NOW Year of Production: 2012 Country of used to adore and start feeling doubts Origin: South Korea about his life and work. & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. Jung-mi, who's been living alone with CONFESSION OF MURDER her elder sister after their parents left for Action, Drama the US, uploads UCC often in hopes of Language: Korean being famous. One day, she gets the Director: JUNG Byung-gil video so called "forbidden video" Writer: JUNG Byung-gil Click on illegally cannot be downloaded. After Executive Producer: YOU Jeong-hun watching the video, there happen series Producer: JANG Won-suk Blue Boxes of strange incidents to Jung-mi. Now, Key Cast: JUNG Jae-young,PARK Si- Se-hi has to find the way to save her hoo to Access only sister from the curse of the video. Delivery Status: Post Production THE THIEVES Year of Production: 2012 Country of Available Action, Crime Origin: South Korea Language: Korean, Chinese, English What's the truth and identity of the Company Director: CHOI Dong-hoon author of the a book titled "I am the Writer: CHOI Dong-hoon Murderer," claiming responsibility for Trailers Executive Producer: YOU Jeong-hun the murders that took place 17 years Producer: AHN Su-hyun ago? Automatically Key Cast: KIM Yun-seok, KIM Hye-soo, MAN ON THE EDGE LEE Jung-jae, Gianna JUN, Simon Comedy,Drama YAM, OH Dal-soo, KIM Hae-sook, KIM Language: Korean Do Your Part To Soo-hyun, Derek TSANG, Sinje LEE Director: JO Jin-kyu Delivery Status: Post Production Executive Producer: YOU Jeong-hun Combat Global Warming Producer: KIM Woo-jae

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Key Cast: PARK Shin-yang RED VACANCE BLACK WEDDING THE NEWEST PLEDGE Director: Julian Higgins Delivery Status: In Production Erotic Drama (90min) Comedy Producer: Bertie Higgins Year of Production: 2012 Country of Language: Korean Language: English Key Cast: Tom Sizemore, Robert Origin: South Korea Director: KIM Tai-sik, PARK Chul-soo Director: Jason Michael Brescia Thorne, Bertie Higgins, David Castro, Kwang-ho works for a mob and he's well Writer: KIM Tai-sik, PARK Chul-soo Writer: Jason Michael Brescia Bianca Valentin, Marshall Lytle trusted by his boss. Suddenly, he is Producer: KIM Hyo-jeong, LEE Yeon-jin Producer: Bob Burton Delivery Status: Post Production getting sick for no apparent reason. Then Key Cast: CHO Seon-mook, AHN Ji- Key Cast: Mindy Sterling, Jason Mewes, Year of Production: 2011 he learns that his illness cannot be cured hye, LEE Jin-joo, OH In-hye Rob Steinhauser, Joseph Booton The year is 1976 and it is a dangerous unless he becomes a shaman. Will he be Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Post Production year in the Straits of Yucatan. The man is a mobster or a shaman? Year of Production: 2011 Country of Year of Production: 2012 Country of Jack Hooks, a former cop set up by his MR.GO 3D Origin: South Korea Origin: USA corrupt partner and sent to jail for a drug Drama, Comedy, Sports The well thought out vacation plans of Animal House meets Three Men and a crime he didn't commit. After being Language: Korean, Chinese, Japanese an immoral couple is ruined when the Baby when a baby is left on the doorstep yanked out of prison with an early Director: KIM Yong-hwa husband's wife joins in. It is truly a of a bunch of college guys! release deal offered by the DEA, he is Writer: KIM Yong-hwa damned vacation. ALL I WANT IS CHRISTMAS sent on a do or die mission; bring down Executive Producer: YOU Jeong-hun AKA: IRA FINKELSTEIN'S the drug trade of his former partner, Key Cast: XU Jiao, SUNG Dong-li CHRISTMAS Frank Rossi and his contacts. Delivery Status: In Production SHOWCASE Adventure/Comedy/Family ANNABELLE & BEAR Year of Production: 2012 Country of Language: English Drama Origin: South Korea ENTERTAINMENT, Director: Sue Corcoran Language: English This sports human drama is about a INC. Writer: Sue Corcoran Key Cast: Curt Massof, Olivia Walby, young Chinese circus ringmaster Showcase Entertainment, Inc., 23679 Producer: Sue Corcoran Ruby Harris 'WeiWei' and her baseball playing gorilla Calabasas Road - Suite 807, Calabasas, Key Cast: David DeLuise, Elliott Gould, Delivery Status: Completed as they're scouted into Korean baseball CA 91302 USA, Tel: 1.818.876.9617 Elijah Nelson The story of Bear – a burly, bald, league and become superstars. Fax: 1.818.876.8501. Delivery Status: Completed tattooed biker who is suddenly thrust NAMELESS GANGSTER: RULES http://www.showcaseentertainment.com, Year of Production: 2011 Country of into fatherhood when his ex is no longer OF THE TIME [email protected] Origin: USA capable of caring the 2 year old child he Crime, Drama (133 min) Distributor Ira J. Finkelstein is obsessed with never knew. Annabelle & Bear takes us Language: Korean At Cannes: David A. Jackson Christmas. He's seen every Christmas on an unexpected journey that leads Bear Director: YOON Jong-bin (President), Shauna Shapiro-Jackson movie ever made and his dreams are to discover the life-altering love found in Writer: YOON Jong-bin (Executive Vice President), Cara Shapiro filled with reindeer, sleigh rides and the heart of his little girl. This multiple Executive Producer: YOU Jeong-hun (VP of Acquisitions), Leslee Allmon SNOW. The problem? Ira's Jewish - and award-winning audience favorite stars Producer: PARK Shin-kyu, HAN Jae- (VP-Worldwide Distribution Services), at 11 years old, Christmas is passing him the YOUNGEST LEADING ACTRESS duk Linda Paolucci (Director Sales by. When Ira's hopes for a holiday EVER IN A FEATURE FILM – 2 YEAR Key Cast: CHOI Min-sik,HA Jung-woo Administration and Market Coordinator) vacation in Aspen are dashed, he hatches OLD OLIVIA WALBY! Walby will steal Delivery Status: Completed Office: Lerins R 13, Tel: 04.92.99.33.08 a plan to finally get the Christmas of his your heart and, as stated in many Year of Production: 2012 Country of dreams. Flying unaccompanied to visit reviews, this film is a must-see! Origin: South Korea http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=247 his grandparents in Florida, he swaps EDGAR ALLAN POE'S 'ANNABEL Customs officer gets involved in drug tickets with Mikey, another 11-year-old LEE' dealing by chance and meets a mob boss ACE WONDER on his way to Christmastown, WA . Ira Thriller who introduces him the dark underworld Adventure/Family/Mystery gets more than he bargained for when he Key Cast: Kristen Hagen, Jon of mobsters. Language: English experiences his first "White Christmas". Woodward-Kirby Director: John Robert Moore LOVE ON-AIR MONIKA Delivery Status: Post Production Romance (120 min) Writer: John Robert Moore Action/Thriller the story of Jack Blythe, an artist who Producer: Jeff Moreland, Chad Language: Korean Language: English rents a summer house in a quiet beach Gundersen Director: KWON Chil-in Director: Steven Monroe town to find creative inspiration. He gets Key Cast: Gator Moore, Derek Executive Producer: YOU Jeong-hun Writer: Steven Monroe more than he bargained for when he Moreland, Jeff Moreland, Robert Producer: JEUN Ho-jin Key Cast: Jason Wiles, Cerina Vincent, meets a beautiful but hauntingly Grossman, Jeff Moore, John Robert Key Cast: LEE Min-jung, LEE Jung-jin C. Thomas Howell mysterious woman who offers to be his Moore Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2011 subject for a painting. When Jack Delivery Status: Post Production Year of Production: 2012 Country of A man who is troubled by visions and discovers that his seductive stranger Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: South Korea premonitions is ultimately led to Las resembles a woman presumed dead for Origin: United States Gina, a former member of idol group, Vegas. It’s there that he meets the 18 years, he becomes obsessed with Ace Wonder is a boy detective, works as the DJ for a radio show called beautiful and mysterious MoniKa, a uncovering the truth. Soon, Jack is struggling to find a storyline for his "Wonderful Radio" now but the rating of young woman who turns out to have caught up in a terrifying struggle that latest novel. When his path tangles with the show has hit the bottom. One day, its been killed the night before he even met will unravel an unsolvable mystery and Derek Morton, a simple family mystery producer is replaced by Jae-ik, a her. He is then forced to put the puzzle reveal a horrific secret. becomes a very real case of espionage notorious name in the station with his together of what happened, how she is and discovery. "My name's Ace Wonder, EXTINCTION cold-hearted aspiration. Fighting like still present and help MoniKa with her Thriller/Horror P.I., and I'm about to take on my first cats and dogs, the two struggle to reform revenge on the killers of her younger Language: English real case ... the program. However, as they learn sister. Director: Niki Drozdowski about each other's weakness and wounds, YOU MAY NOT KISS THE BRIDE Producer: Daniel Buder Action/Romantic Comedy THE WANNABES they start opening up their hearts and Teen Comedy Key Cast: Daniel Buder, Luise Bahr, Language: English come up with a plan to reshape their Director: Eric Dean Seaton Klaus Ebert Director: Rob Hedden show. Writer: Doreen Spicer Country of Origin: Germany Writer: Rob Hedden Producer: Ron Stern, Christine LeMaire In the vein of “28 Days Later” and “I FROM SEOUL TO VARANASI Key Cast: Katharine McPhee, Rob Drama (98min) Delivery Status: Completed Am Legend,” a retrovirus has entered Schneider, Mena Suvari, Kathy Bates, Language: Korean, English, Hindi Live-action comedy/music series into the world, killing almost everyone, Dave Annable, Ken Davitian, Vinnie Director: JEON Kyu-hwan featuring Savvy, a multicultural sing- turning the dead into flesh-eating Jones, Tia Carrere, Kevin Dunn Writer: JEON Kyu-hwan and-dance troupe who has been played zombies, and the few survivors have to Delivery Status: Completed Producer: CHOI Mi-ae on Radio Disney, as a group of kids fight for survival. The future of mankind Year of Production: 2010 Country of Key Cast: YOON Dong-hwan,CHOI attending an arts prep school who is at stake in this post-apocalyptic Origin: USA Won-jung attempt to achieve their pop star dream. thriller! This English-language movie In the spirit of Romancing The Stone, an Delivery Status: Completed THE WANNABES is now HBO Family was shot entirely in Germany by a young unassuming pet photographer is thrown Year of Production: 2011 Country of Latin America's NUMBER ONE show and talented group of filmmakers with a into serious action, adventure and Origin: South Korea and will be premiering in the U.S. on very strong visual style. romance when he is forced to marry a A successful married couple goes Starz next month!! Croatian bride and then must rescue her PSYCHIC EXPERIMENT through turbulent times. Then, another Thriller after she is kidnapped while on their THROUGH THE EYE love and world is coming into their lives. 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Producer: Phil Roy considered a messenger of the gods. right? Not so fast! When the parents first Key Cast: Denton Blane Everett, Katie However, within his own pride, the meet, they hate each other, so the kids SIERRA-AFFINITY Featherston, Reggie Bannister, Adrienne White Lion is a danger as his white coat have to take extreme measure to make Sierra-Affinity, 9378 Wilshire Blvd #210, King makes him stand out in the dangerous their plan work. As they say, games are Beverly Hills, CA 90212 USA, Tel: A small town is unwittingly subject to a African wilderness. When Letsatsi, an for kids, even the most popular game of 1.424. 253.1060 Fax: 1.424. 653.1977. government medical experiment. Some adorable White Lion is born, he is cast all - the game of love! www.sierra-affinity.com, info@sierra- of the townspeople develop from his pride and is forced upon a affinity.com CATALINA ISLAND Sales Agent psychokinetic powers with unexpected, perilous journey of survival. Letsatsi not Family (2 X 90') At Cannes: Nick Meyer (President & and deadly, results. "Experimental only survives his journey but, with the Language: English CEO), Marc Schaberg (COO & CFO), Activity" is a taut thriller which features help of an older lion Nkulu and a young Director: Todd Turner, John Schneider Joey Monteiro (SVP, International the most recent feature film performance Shangaan warrior, Letsatsi grows up to Producer: Scott LeGrand Marketing), Kristen Figeroid (SVP, by Katie Featherston since her star- be an adult lion and creates a pride of his Key Cast: John Schneider, Jessica Tuck, International Sales), Jonathan Kier (EVP, making performance in "Paranormal own, thus becoming the REAL Lion Kimberly Caldwell, George Segal, Billy International Sales), Virginia Longmuir Activity." The cast also includes genre King! Dee Williams, Jeffrey Tambor, Eric (EVP, Business & Legal Affairs) favorites including Adrienne King Lange ANGEL CAMOUFLAGED Office: 35 La Croisette, 2nd Floor, Tel: ("Friday the 13th"), Glenn Morshower Language: English Delivery Status: Completed +33(0)4.93.30.18.52 (TV's "24," "Transformers 2"), and Director: R. Michael Givens 2 X 90' mini-series We like to describe horror legend, Reggie Bannister Producer: Ken Dalton and Aaron Steele- the series as'Northern Exposure' on an ("Phantasm" series). Nicolson island, as it's full of fun and interesting http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1348 JOE DANTE PRESENTS TRAIL OF Key Cast: James Brolin Carlos Bernard characters and the scenery is Dilana Robichaux Warrick Grier Tessie THE COUP BLOOD breathtaking. Twenty-six miles to a new Intense Thriller Action, Thriller Santiago life. Language: English Language: English Delivery Status: Completed GUARDIANS OF THE POWER Director: John Erick Dowdle Director: Joseph Guerrieri, Justin Country of Origin: USA MASKS Writer: John Erick Dowdle, Drew Guerrieri Angel Camouflaged stars rock star Animation/Kids/Tweens Dowdle Writer: Joseph Guerrieri, Justin Guerrieri ‘Dilana,' finalist in the hit show “Rock Language: English Co-Production Partners: Brothers Executive Producer: Joe Dante Star Supernova,” rock legend Patty Director: Bob Jacques, Rann Watumull Dowdle Productions Producer: Matthew Hsu, Vero Shamo- Smyth, the Marshall Tucker Band, Kurtis Producer: Rann Watumull, David A. Executive Producer: Garcia Blow and James Brolin. “Angel Jackson, Heung Soo Park, Yan Xiao Qun Producer: Steve Alexander, Drew Key Cast: Robert Picardo, Trevor Camouflaged” is empowering film with Delivery Status: Completed Dowdle, Rob Paris and Adam Ripp Torseth, Tim Barraco, Kandis Erickson attitude, that appeals to women and to A 10-year-old American girl, Annie, is Key Cast: Owen Wilson, Pierce Brosnan Delivery Status: Completed anyone reaching for a dream. It features forced to spend the summer with her Delivery Status: In Development On a weekend camping trip deep in the an up-and-coming female singer who has grandmother, Nainai & younger cousin, Year of Production: 2012 Country of forest, a young U.S. Marine recruit and everything she needs to make it to the Yong in China. One day a local Origin: USA his six friends stumble upon the top—the looks, the voice, the attitude but construction project opens up a once In their new overseas home, an American murdered bodies of a vacationing couple. hides her skills behind a whisky bottle. sealed portal to the twilight realm family soon finds themselves caught in They are mistaken for the killers by a She wants to get away from everything releasing evil forces! Annie discovers the middle of a coup, and they frantically deeply-disturbed war veteran who calls including her hard living lifestyle. When she & Yong come from a long line of look for a safe escape while rebels himself the "Angel of Death." The she finds that she and her brother have warriors who must defeat these evil mercilessly attack the city. veteran is determined to teach them the inherited a dilapidated, abandoned bar, forces. Under Nainai's guidance, Annie horrors of war through a series of they decide to reopen it. In the process of EMPEROR & Yong learn to fight these evil forces as Drama tortuous mind games that leaves Jim and rebuilding the bar, she discovers she has well as get along themselves. By wearing Director: Peter Webber his friends struggling for their lives. been able to rebuild herself. Power Masks, which increase their Writer: Vera Blasi and David Klass GEORGE A. ROMERO PRESENTS LOCAL COLOR abilities tenfold, they transform into Co-Production Partners: Krasnoff/Foster Drama DEADTIME STORIES,VOLUMES I mighty warriors! A clash of cultures & Entertainment, United Performer’s Director: George Gallo & II villains leads to many exciting Studio Horror/Thriller Writer: George Gallo adventures for these two young warriors. Producer: Yoko Narahashi, Gary Foster, Director: Matt Walsh, Jeff Monahan, Producer: James W. Evangelatos, David SPACE DOG Eugene Nomura, Russ Krasnoff Michael Fischa Permut, Mark Sennet, Julie Lott Gallo Animation Key Cast: Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Writer: Jeff Monahan Key Cast: Amrin Mueller-Stahl, Trevor Language: English Jones, Toshiyuki Nishida, Eriko Hatsune Producer: Matt Walsh, Jeff Monahan, Morgan, Ray Liotta, Charles Durning, Delivery Status: In Development Delivery Status: Post Production Michael Fischa Samantha Mathis, Ron Perlman, Diana A super-smart dog from a distant planet, Inspired by true events, EMPEROR is an Delivery Status: Completed Scarwid Sirius (aka Dog Star), crash lands on epic story of love and understanding set In the tradition of “Creepshow” and Delivery Status: Completed earth! 12-year-old Jimmy Patterson amidst the tensions and uncertainties of “Tales From the Crypt,” legendary horror "Local Color" is inspired by the true convinces Space Dog he has to stay the days immediately following the director George A. Romero brings you story of a renowned artist who looks undercover until they are able to repair Japanese surrender at the end of World two volumes of horror tales that will back on the summer of his defining year, his ship and get him back home. And War II. chill you to the bone! Each volume has when he befriended an elderly genius what's the best way to disguise a super- three scary tales and, as a bonus to his painter who turned his his back not only THE HIVE smart dog? Pretend to be an earthling Suspense Thriller millions of fans, George Romero, on art, but life. Over the course of the dog, of course! Space Dog is completely Director: Brad Anderson himself, introduces each story and acts as summer, the student's enthusiasm and offended that he has to "dumb down," Writer: Rich D’Ovidio a guide on this scary ride. innocence rekindles the master's passion. but in order to get back home he has no Co-Production Partners: Troika Pictures Together, they give one another a FRAT PARTY other choice. And thus begins the Producer: Bradley Gallo, Jeffrey Graup, Sexy Teen Comedy priceless gift. The student learns to see journey of Space Dog and his new Michael Helfant, Robert Stein Language: English the world through the eyes of an artist, family, the Pattersons. Along the way, Key Cast: Halle Berry, Abigail Breslin Key Cast: Randy Wayne, Caroline while the master remembers to see and Space Dog discovers that while these Delivery Status: Pre-Production D'Amore embrace life and its beauty. humans may not be particularly smart, Set against the backdrop of a 911 Delivery Status: Post Production THE LITTLE MATCH MAKERS they are, dare I say it...loveable? emergency center, this fast-paced In the tradition of "Bachelor Party," a Family suspense pic follows a 911 operator who campus stud attempts to make it through Director: Agustin Castaneda, Mario Ortiz must face her own fears in order to save his bachelor party without giving in to Writer: Agustin Castaneda a teenage girl from a disturbed killer. many female temptations in his path. Producer: Agustin Castaneda, Mario THE COLONY WHITE LION Ortiz Sci-Fi Action Family Adventure Key Cast: Hannash Frantz, Julian Ortiz, Director: Jeff Renfroe Language: English HE USINESS Jacleen Haber, Agustin Castaneda T B Writer: Jeff Renfroe, Patrick Tarr, Pascal Director: Michael Swan Delivery Status: Post Production Trottier and Svet Rouskov Producer: Kevin Richardson In the tradition of “The Parent Trap,” a OF ILM www.thebusinessoffilmdaily.comF Co-Production Partners: Alcina Pictures, Delivery Status: Completed ten-year old girl and ten-year old boy Item 7, Mad Samurai Productions In Africa, according to legend of the conspire to get their divorced parents to Producer: Paul Barkin, Marie-Claude Shangaan people, the White Lion is meet, fall in love, and get married. Easy,

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Poulin & Pierre Even and Matthew Cervi Delivery Status: Screening Key Cast: Sharlto Copley, Daniel Wu, Howell, Alex Orlovsky, Jamie Patricof Key Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Kevin Celeste & Jesse met in high school and Michael Nyqvist, Anamaria Marinca Key Cast: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Zegers, Bill Paxton got married young. They laugh at the Delivery Status: Post Production Cooper, Eva Mendes, Rose Byrne, Ben Delivery Status: Post Production same jokes and finish each other’s A group of astronauts, handpicked from Mendelsohn and Ray Liotta Beneath the icy surface, survivors of sentences. They are forever linked in around the world, make the arduous Delivery Status: Post Production Colony Seven struggle as food supplies their friend’s minds as the perfect couple journey to Jupiter’s frigid, glacial moon Luke (Gosling) is a professional dwindle and temperatures continue to – she, a high-powered businesswoman Europa in search of extraterrestrial life. motorcycle rider who turns to bank drop. Plagued by illness and internal and budding novelist; he, a free spirit The only thing more intimidating and robberies to support his newborn son, but conflict, the colonists suspect the worst who keeps things from getting boring. unpredictable than the trip itself is what when he crosses paths with a rookie when they mysteriously lose contact with Their only problem is that they have the team will encounter upon arrival… police officer (Cooper) their violent Colony Five - the only other known decided to get divorced. Can their perfect FILTH confrontation spirals into a tense settlement. Sam, a strong-willed relationship withstand this minor Dark Comedy generational feud. THE PLACE mechanic with a tragic past, joins a team setback? Director: Jon S. Baird BEYOND THE PINES is a rich dramatic headed up by Briggs on a dangerous WER Writer: Jon S. Baird (From the novel by thriller that traces the intersecting lives expedition to find out what happened. Suspense Thriller Irvine Welsh) of fathers and sons, cops and robbers, After a hellish trek, they discover a Language: English Co-Production Partners: Steel Mill heroes and villains. threat much worse than imagined, and Director: William Brent Bell Pictures, Maven Pictures, Egoli Tossell PARKER now Colony Seven must win a savage Writer: William Brent Bell & Matthew Film Crime Thriller battle to preserve the last of humanity. Peterman Producer: Ken Marshall, Jon S. Baird, Language: English HEAT Co-Production Partners: Room 101, Jens Meurer, Will Clarke, Trudie Styler Director: Taylor Hackford Action Prototype and Celine Rattray Writer: John J. McLaughlin (Based on Director: Brian DePalma Producer: Steven Schneider, Matthew Key Cast: James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, the novel FLASHFIRE by Richard Writer: William Goldman Peterman, Morris Paulson Eddie Marsan, Jim Broadbent, Imogen Stark) Co-Production Partners: Incentive Delivery Status: In Production Poots, Joanne Froggatt, Gary Lewis, Co-Production Partners: Incentive Filmed Entertainment, Current WER offers a similar style of Martin Compston, Kate Dickie and Filmed Entertainment, Current Entertainment, FilmDistrict filmmaking the team brought to THE Shirley Henderson Entertainment, Sidney Kimmel Producer: Steven Chasman, Jason DEVIL INSIDE, applied to another Delivery Status: Post Production Entertainment Statham classic horror mythology. Filth is an Edinburgh-set darkly comedic Producer: Les Alexander, Jonathan Key Cast: Jason Statham EVERLY drama; a riotous tale about the abuse of Mitchell, Steven Chasman, Taylor Delivery Status: In Development Action power through a character who is Hackford, Sidney Kimmel, Matthew HEAT tells a story of a merciful ex- Director: Joe Lynch powerless to halt his own rapid decline Rowland gunman (Statham) who makes his living Writer: Yale Hannon (Screenplay), Joe into oblivion during a trivial police Key Cast: Jason Statham, Jennifer in Cote d’Azure as a “chaperone”, Lynch & Yale Hannon (Story) murder investigation. Despite it Lopez, Nick Nolte, Michael Chiklis, helping his clients to be as tough as he Co-Production Partners: Crime Scene providing an ideal opportunity to Clifton Collins Jr., Wendell Pierce, Patti once was. When a close friend is brutally Pictures eliminate his rival colleagues in the race LuPone beaten by a high-rolling mobster, he has Producer: Rob Paris, Adam Ripp, Luke for promotion - a promotion he so Delivery Status: Post Production no choice but to help her get her revenge Rivett desperately craves - Detective Bruce PARKER is a thief and when necessary – and ends up in more trouble than he ever Key Cast: Kate Hudson Robertson (McAvoy) has other obstacles a killer. He’s tough but has a code. imagined. Delivery Status: Pre-Production to overcome, including: alcohol & drug Everyone is equal. He will never take CELESTE & JESSE FOREVER A desperate woman, trapped in her addiction, a dramatic deterioration in his money from people who need it. His Romantic Comedy apartment, must fend off scores of mental health, and some increasingly word is his bond and if he is crossed he Director: Lee Toland Krieger assassins sent by her ruthless ex, a demanding extra-marital affairs. The will strike back relentlessly – and you Writer: Rashida Jones, Will McCormack nefarious drug kingpin. filmmakers describe it as American will cheer him on. Co-Production Partners: Team Todd, THE EUROPA REPORT Psycho meets Bad Santa via In Bruges. ENDER’S GAME Envision Media Arts Sci-Fi Thriller EVIDENCE Epic Adventure Producer: Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd, Language: English Horror Thriller Language: English Lee Nelson Director: Sebastian Cordero Language: English Director: Gavin Hood Key Cast: Rashida Jones, Andy Writer: Philip Gelatt Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi Writer: Gavin Hood (Based on the novel Samberg, Chris Messina, Ari Co-Production Partners: Misher Films, Writer: John Swetnam by Orson Scott Card) Graynor,with Elijah Wood and Emma Wayfare Entertainment Co-Production Partners: Bold Films, Co-Production Partners: OddLot Roberts Producer: Kevin Misher, Ben Browning Marc Platt Productions Entertainment, KO Paper Products, Producer: Marc Platt, Adam Siegel, Summit Entertainment, Chartoff Michel Litvak, David Lancaster, Productions Anthony Rhulen Producer: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Key Cast: Stephen Moyer, Radha Gigi Pritzker, Linda McDonough, Orson HE LICK AND CCESS ULTURE IS OW Mitchell, Torrey DeVitto, Caitlin Stasey, Scott Card, Lynn Hendee, Robert T C A C N Dale Dickey, Harry Lennix, Nolan Chartoff & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. Gerard Funk, Albert Kuo Key Cast: Harrison Ford, Asa Delivery Status: Post Production Butterfield, Sir Ben Kingsley, Viola EVIDENCE is a unique “found footage” Davis, Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin style story that opens in the middle of Delivery Status: In Production the desert outside of Los Angeles, where Based on the best-selling, award winning Click on a massacre has just occurred. The only novel by visionary author Orson Scott evidence at the crime scene is the Card, ENDER’S GAME is a futuristic Blue Boxes victim’s personal electronic devices, adventure about a brilliant young including a camcorder, camera and two strategist, named Ender Wiggin, who is to Access cell phones. With nothing else to go on, drafted by the International Fleet to save two detectives must analyze the bits of the human race. Available found footage to piece together the DARLING COMPANION identity of the ruthless killer. Romantic Comedy Company THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES Director: Lawrence Kasdan Crime Drama Writer: Lawrence Kasdan, Meg Kasdan Trailers Language: English Co-Production Partners: Werc Werk Director: Derek Cianfrance Works, Kasdan Pictures, Likely Story Automatically Writer: Derek Cianfrance, Ben Coccio, Producer: Anthony Bregman, Lawrence Darius Marder Kasdan, Elizabeth Redleaf Co-Production Partners: Sidney Kimmel Key Cast: Mark Duplass, Richard Do Your Part To Entertainment, Electric City Jenkins, Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, Entertainment, Hunting Lane Films Elisabeth Moss, Sam Shepard, Dianne Combat Global Warming Producer: Sidney Kimmel, Lynette Wiest, Ayelet Zurer

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Delivery Status: Screening journey to find the Christmas Star in Key Cast: Beverly D'Angelo, Steve background arrives for their own reasons In DARLING COMPANION, Beth order to free the kingdom from a curse Guttenberg and beliefs. It is on this island where (Keaton) saves a bedraggled lost dog and bring back a long lost princess, but Delivery Status: Post Production they will paint three humorous and from the side of the freeway on a wintry some mighty foes try to stop her. A Year of Production: 2012 Country of passionate stories of love, family and day in Denver. Struggling with her Christmas adventure for the whole Origin: USA friendship. distracted, self-involved husband Joseph family set in a magnificent winter In the tradition of “Home Alone,” a THE BOUNTY (Kline) and an empty nest at home, Beth wonderland. loving father and his adorable daughter Action Comedy forms a special bond with the rescued FREDDY FROGFACE move into a fancy apartment building, Language: Chinese animal. When Joseph loses the dog after Family Animation (81min) rent free, but there’s one catch—NO Director: FUNG Chin Chiang a wedding at their vacation home in the Language: Danish/English DOGS ALLOWED! That means to keep Key Cast: Chapman TO, Fiona SIT, Alex Rockies, the distraught Beth enlists the Director: Peter Dodd and Gerd Fredholm their adorable pup, Shakey, they’ll have MAN help of the few remaining guests and a Writer: Søren Danielsen to hide Shakey, but that’s easier said than Delivery Status: Completed mysterious young woman in a frantic Producer: Erik Wilstrup and Nina Crone done. Shakey has a habit of escaping the Year of Production: 2012 Country of search. Each member of the search party Key Cast: None, Animation apartment and ends up being caught by Origin: Hong Kong is affected by the adventure, which takes Delivery Status: Completed the building’s bumbling manager. Facing In Hong Kong, when a criminal is them in unexpected directions - comic, Year of Production: 2011 Country of eviction, what will they do to keep captured and put charges on, the person harrowing, and sometimes deeply Origin: Denmark Shakey? Watch “I Heart Shakey 3D” to who helped with providing tips and emotional. Being small doesn´t make life easy for find out! information would be awarded with the CASA DE MI PADRE little ten-year-old Victor and his friends, associated bounty. Therefore, as long as Physical Comedy who not only have to face a world full of you have the abilities, this is always a Language: Spanish stern grown-ups but also the town bully STAR ALLIANCE legal and a fair ¡§job¡¨. This is an action Director: Matt Piedmont Freddy Frogface. When a circus comes MOVIES (HK) CO. comedy film about bounty hunting, with Writer: Andrew Steele to the sleepy little town, Victor is thrilled a mix of craziness and modern humor. Co-Production Partners: Nala Films, at having the chance to perform in a LTD Following the exciting adventure of a Gary Sanchez Productions talent show with his dog Sausage. Yet Star Alliance Movies (HK) Co. Ltd, Unit bounty hunter and a life-loving young Producer: Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Freddy soon comes up with a sinister 302, Block A, East Sun Industrial Center, girl as they are chasing after a criminal Emilio Diez Barroso, Darlene Caamano plot of his own to spoil Victor´s plans... 16 Shing Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Hong who is believed to be hiding in their Loquet, Andrew Steele Kong, Tel: +852.21160946 Fax: neighborhood, the story uncovers the Key Cast: Will Ferrell, Gael Garcia +852.39090431. minds of different walks of life that are Bernal, Diego Luna, Genesis Rodriguez, SPOTLIGHT [email protected] beyond expectations. After all, we are Efren Ramirez Producer, Distributor living in a world of bounties. Delivery Status: Screening PICTURES At Cannes: Sheyong HAO (Managing Spotlight Pictures, 6671 W. Sunset Blvd. Scheming on a way to save their father's Director), Manhing CHAN (Acquisition SUMMER LOVE LOVE #1591, Hollywood, CA 90028 USA, Tel: Drama ranch, the Alvarez brothers find Manager), Angus CHAN (Director), +1.323.871.2551 Fax: +1.323.446.7349. Language: Chinese themselves in a war with Mexico's most Lammy Li (Distribution Manager) www.spotlight-pictures.com, Director: Wilson CHIN feared drug lord, the mighty Onza. Office: Riviera G15a, Tel: [email protected] +33(0)4.9299.3228 Key Cast: Alex FONG,Elanne KWONG, Sales Agent Owodog, Terrance CHIU Siu Fay At Cannes: Scott Bedno (President of Delivery Status: Completed SOLA MEDIA GMBH International), Ryan McCombs (VP of http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1352 Sola Media GmbH, Filderhauptstr.49, Year of Production: 2011 Country of Acquisitions), Matthew McCombs Origin: Hong Kong Stuttgart, Baden Württemberg 70599 THE INCREDIBLE TRUTH (CEO) Fong, Ryan and Fatty are three young Germany, Tel: +49.711.4793666 Fax: Office: G3 Rivirea Horror +49.711.4792658. Language: Chinese men, living three different yet ordinary www.sola-media.com, post@sola- Director: Sam LEONG lives in Hong Kong. They only have one http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1047 media.com Key Cast: Christy CHUNG, Kunimura thing in common. They all have been Sales Agent JUN, Megumi KAGURAZAKA, LIU single for a long time and desperately At Cannes: Solveig Langeland ATLAS SHRUGGED: PART 1 Yan, Sam LEE seeking love. (Managing Director), Tania Pinto da Sci-Fi (97min) Language: English Delivery Status: In Production MOON LIGHT: THE VAMPIRES Cunha (Sales Associate), Imke Horror (88mins) Director: Paul Johansson Year of Production: 2012 Country of Wulfmeyer (Legal and Finance) Language: Chinese Writer: Ayn Rand Origin: Hong Kong Office: Riviera Booth E8, Tel: Director: Jil Wong Executive Producer: John Agliloro An artist named Jiajia promised to show +49.177.278.1625 Key Cast: Johnny CHEN, QIN Zihan Producer: Harmon Kaslow her girl friend Wei Ling around in Japan Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Taylor Schilling but eventually fails to show up for no http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1375 Year of Production: 2012 Country of Delivery Status: Completed reason. After Wei Ling goes and gets Year of Production: 2011 Country of accommodated in a family-run host Origin: China JOURNEY TO THE CHRISTMAS Origin: USA spring hotel of Shimizu, Jiajia¡ıs A suspicious death of a military guard STAR Who is John Galt? Japanese boyfriend, she brings her happens in a town believed to have Christmas adventure (90min) endless weird experience as if she¡ıs unknow fortune. The new mayor Fu Language: Norwegian DETENTION OF THE DEAD Horror comedy (87min) haunted, and the hotel even sinks into a Tianjing starts an investigation with his Director: Nils Gaup (Academy Award series of horrible homicides, in which the sister Ziyun, an autopsist, on the first day Nominee for "Pathfinder") Language: English Director: Alex Craig Mann victims are all family members of the of his assumption. But they are just Writer: Kamilla Krogsveen, Sverre Shimizu¡ıs without exception. Every clue going around in circles and the case Brandt Writer: Rob Rinow Producer: Brooke Anderson found is connected to Jiajia. The becomes more complicted. Tianjing is Co-Production Partners: Moskus Film survived Shimizu¡ıs servant Tadao grasps framed and cast into the prison by the AS, Storm Rosenberg AS Key Cast: Christa B. Allen, Max Adler Delivery Status: Screening Wei Ling to entice the murderer. But local chief of security whose scheme to Executive Producer: Lasse Greve Alsos, whether Jiajia is dead or alive along with rob the grave is discovered by Tianjing. Jorgen Strom Rosenberg Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA the identity of murder remains a secret Ziyun decides to work with a young Producer: Sigurd Mikal Karoliussen, Jan until the very end of the story. Taoist priest to continue her investigation Eirik Langøen "The Breakfast Club" meets "Shaun of PASSION ISLAND and tries to rescue her brother. More Key Cast: Agnes Kittelsen (Happy the Dead" tale about a group of oddball Drama (93 mins) deaths of military guards foster the Happy), Anders Basmo Christensen high school students who find Language: Chinese rumors of ¡§killing hopping vampires¡¨ (Kontiki, North) themselves trapped in detention with Director: KAM Kwok leung known to the public. The town is panic- Delivery Status: Post Production their classmates having turned into a Key Cast: Simon YAM, Joan CHEN, stricken. And the truth behind the ancient Year of Production: 2012 Country of horde of Zombies. Francis WU, CHANG Chen, Janice grave is gradually revealed along with Origin: Norway I HEART SHAKEY 3D MAN, SONG Jia the collision of science and superstition Norway’s most beloved Christmas story Family (90min) Delivery Status: Completed between the autopsist and the priest. is directed by academy award nominee Language: English Director: Kevin Cooper Year of Production: 2012 Country of Nils Gaup and will be released by the Origin: Hong Kong Walt Disney Company Nordic in 2012. A Writer: Eric Stolze Producer: Deanna Cooper On a magnificent resort in Cagayan, a courageous girl sets out on a hazardous group of people with different

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Key Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gilles STUDIO CITY T Lellouche, Anais Demoustier THE ASYLUM Delivery Status: Screening The Asylum, 72 East Palm Avenue, PICTURES Country of Origin: France Burbank, CA 91502 USA, Tel: Studio City Pictures, 11350 Ventura France, late 1920s. Lovely and free- 1.323.850.1214 Fax: 1.818.260.9811. Blvd., Suite 101, Studio City, CA 91604 spirited, Thérèse marries her neighbor www.theasylum.cc,comments@theasylum USA, Tel: 1.818.505.8030 Fax: TERRA MATER Bernard Desqueyroux, thus joining their .cc 1.818.505.1102. Producer, Distributor respective properties into one vast estate. [email protected] FACTUAL STUDIOS At Cannes: David Rimawi, Paul Bales, Bernard tolerates his brilliant, passionate At Cannes: Jim Harvey (President, Kendall Anlian International) GMBH young wife’s strong character and Terra Mater Factual Studios GmbH, Office: Riviera A16 Office: Res. Grand Hotel, Entree opinions, but she soon finds herself Wambachergasse 2, Vienna,1130 Austria, Albatross, Apt 4S, 45 Bd de la Croisette, suffocated by the boredom of her Tel: +43.1.870030 Fax: http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1359 Tel: 33(0)4.83.73.60.82 provincial life and her husband’s +43.1.87003.27609. intellectual mediocrity. She dreams of www.terramater.at,[email protected] Paris, longs for stimulation and culture BIGFOOT http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1170 Sales Agent, Producer Creature (90 min) At Cannes: Rick van den Heuvel (Sales and, despite herself, starts to seek a way When Bigfoot attacks an '80s-themed FINAL GIRL Agent) out. Until the day Bernard gets music festival, concert promoter Thriller Office: Lerins S13, Tel: + 31.6 intoxicated with deadly arsenic… What HARLEY HENDERSON sets out to Language: English 54.768.797 starts as a mistake turns into an attempt capture the beast - but hippie burnout Director: Tyler Shields to poison him. Thérèse is found out and, SIMON QUINN will do anything to Writer: Adam Prince http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1142 in addition to being disgraced in both her protect the "endangered species." The Producer: Jack Nasser, Marco Torres, own and her husband’s families, she project stars Danny Bonaduce, Barry Rob Carliner THE LAZARUS PROTOCOL must face justice for her attempted Williams and Sherilyn Fenn and will Delivery Status: Pre-Production Thriller (96 minutes) murder… debut in the U.S. on Syfy. Year of Production: 2012 Country of Language: English DRIFT ADOPTING TERROR Origin: Canada Director: Paul Finelli Action/ Adventure Thriller (90 min) Four teenage boys choose the wrong Writer: Paul Finelli Language: English Tim and Cheryl Broadbent are excited to victim for their final initiation. Co-Production Partners: Terra Mater Director: Morgan O'Neill, Ben Nott finally adopt Mona, a beautiful baby girl. 5 MINUTES TO LIVE Factual Studios, Tomcat Productions, Producer: Cherub Pictures,World-Wide But when the baby’s biological father Thriller Finger Films Mind Films starts stalking them, Tim and Cheryl’s Language: English Executive Producer: Peter Fonda Key Cast: Sam WORTHINGTON, life becomes a nightmare. The project Director: Jan de Bont Delivery Status: Post Production Xavier SAMUEL, Myles POLLARD, will air on Lifetime Television in the Writer: Raul Sanchez-Inglis Year of Production: 2012 Country of Lesley-Ann BRANDT U.S. and stars Sean Astin, Samaire Producer: Jack Nasser, Joseph Nasser Origin: Austria Delivery Status: Screening Armstrong, Brendan Fehr and Monet Delivery Status: Pre-Production Lazarus Fell (Travis Fimmel), former Country of Origin: USA Mazur. Year of Production: 2012 Country of Navy SEAL and expert for covert Set in breathtaking locations and inspired Origin: Canada GOLDEN WINTER operations, lost his father, Solomon Fell by the true story of Australia ’s Family (90 min) A high ranking bank manager has a few (Peter Fonda), a high ranking secret legendary surfwear moguls,the film Jack, a runaway boy, befriends Rory, a minutes to complete a large transfer in service officer during the 9/11 attacks, chronicles the rise of the world ’s homeless Golden Retriever. Together, order to save his wife’s life - but things now he seeks personal revenge. premiere action sp ort and the expansion they help stop a bank robbery, and a nice never go as planned of the laid back surf attitude as a global family adopts them just in time for UNMASKED lifestyle . A story of passion and Christmas. Thriller TF1 corruption, friends hip and loyalty, Language: English DEAD WALKING deadly addictions and fractured Action (90 min) Director: Geoff Sax INTERNATIONAL TF1 International, 1 Quai du Point du relationship . When the undead overrun San Francisco, Writer: Peter Scott Vicaire a desperate group survives by locking Producer: Jack Nasser, Joseph Nasser Jour,Boulogne Billancourt, 92100 NOW IS GOOD France, Tel: 00.33.1.41.41.21.68. Drama (99min) themselves inside Alcatraz Prison and Delivery Status: Pre-Production must gamble everything on finding a Year of Production: 2012 Country of www.tf1international.com, [email protected] Language: English Sales Agent Director: Ol Parker way to stop the zombie scourge. Origin: Canada At Cannes: Daniel Preljocaj (Managing After the death of his son, a man joins a Producer: Graham BROADBENT, Pete YOU DIDN’T HOLD YOUR Director), Sabine Chemaly (EVP PETE CZERNIN BREATH mysterious club so he can relive the International Distribution), Gregory Horror (90 min) events that led to his child’s death Key Cast: Dakota FANNING, Jeremy Chambet (VP International Sales & IRVINE, Paddy CONSIDINE, Olivia In this supernatural thriller, friends on a NASH Acquisitions), Cristina Batlle (VP road trip explore a cemetery where the Documentary WILLIAMS International Sales & Acquisitions), Gaia Delivery Status: Screening ghost of a notorious serial killer jumps Language: Enlgish Dancy (VP International Sales & Country of Origin: UK from body to body in order to pick them Director: Michael Hamilton, Corey Ogilvie Acquisitions) Tessa is seventeen and passionate about off. Producer: Michael Hamilton Office: Stand: Riviera H3, Tel: 00.33.4 life. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, AGE OF THE HOBBITS Key Cast: Steve Nash 92.99.88.03 Fax: 00.33.4.92.99.88.04 she determines to use every moment, Action / Fantasy (90 min) Delivery Status: Completed In an ancient age, an enslaved hero Year of Production: 2012 Country of compiling a catalogue of what a normal http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1297 escapes his bonds and begins a teenager would experience, including Origin: Canada dangerous quest to claim an enchanted losing her virginity and taking drugs. A documentary featuring the dagger that will free his people. ANTIVIRAL With the help of her friend Zoey, she sets humanitarian and NBA All Star. Thriller the list in motion. And while her parents THE CHILDREN’S TABLE THE DAWN RIDER Language: English Holiday (90 min) and brother each deals with their fear of Western, Action (94min) Director: Brandon Cronenberg For thirty years, Sam and Katherine have losing her in their own way, Tessa Director: Terry Miles Producer: Niv Fichman (Rhombus spent Christmas Eve at the Children's explores a whole new world, determined Writer: Joseph Nasser Media) Table. When Sam learns she is moving to live every day as intensely as possible. Producer: Jack Nasser, Joseph Nasser Key Cast: Caleb LANDRY JONES, away, he has one night to tell her he Key Cast: Christian Slater, Donald Douglas SMITH, Malcolm Falling in love with Adam, her new loves her. Sutherland, Jill Hennessy neighbour, wasn’t on the list, but it MCDOWELL, Sarah GADON HANSEL & GRETEL Delivery Status: Screening Delivery Status: Screening proves to be the most exhilarating Action / Fantasy (90 min) Shortly after reconnecting with his Country of Origin: Canada experience of them all... A modern retelling of the classic tale. estranged father, John Mason is shot and THERESE DESQUEYROUX Teen siblings must escape from a his father killed during a train robbery. Romance, Drama psychotic recluse living in the woods. He recuperates at a nearby ranch and Language: French ATLANTIC RIM falls for a local, Alice, but doesn't know Director: Claude Miller Sci-Fi (90 min) the man responsible for his father's death Writer: Claude Miller, Natalie Carter When giant monsters crawl out of the is right under his nose...Alice's brother. Producer: Yves Marmion - UGC YM Atlantic Ocean and attack the Eastern

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Seaboard, the US Government is forced After the mysterious death of his best Delivery Status: Completed Julia Stiles Anupam Kher and Chris to trust A.I. robots to defend the country. friend, a 16 year-old struggles to expose Country of Origin: USA Tucker MEGA SHARK VS. MECHA SHARK the grim secrets surrounding a suspicious Against all odds and everyone's advice, a Delivery Status: Post Production Sci-Fi (90 min) neighbour an his apparently haunted selfish twenty-year-old drop-out Year of Production: 2011 Country of house. connected to the wrong crowd tries to Origin: USA DRACULA 3D take care of his little sister. Adapted from the best-selling novel by THE LITTLE FILM Thriller Matthew Quick, THE SILVER LININGS Language: English PLAYBOOK is a touching, one-of-a- COMPANY Director: Dario Argento THE SOLUTION kind comedy about love and second The Little Film Company, 12930 Ventura Key Cast: Thomas Kretschmann, Asia chances. Pat Peoples (Bradley Cooper) is Blvd. Suite 822, Studio City, CA 91604 Argento, Rutger Hauer ENTERTAINMENT a man always trying to look on the bright USA, Tel: 1.818.762.6999 Fax: Delivery Status: Post Production side of life –the title of the story takes 1.818.301.2186. GROUP A deluxe 3D redux of Bram Stocker's it’s name from the expression that “every www.thelittlefilmcompany.com, The Solution Entertainment Group, 3539 masterpiece that defines the limitless cloud has a silver lining.” Released from [email protected] Laurel Canyon Blvd, Los Angeles, CA Sales Agent, Producer, Financier parameters of what I horror film can be. 91604 USA, Tel: 1.310.272.9002 the hospital after losing his wife to Sales Agent, Producer, Financier At Cannes: Robbie Little (President & THE EYE OF THE STORM another man, Pat believes this age-old CEO), Elie Mechoulam Comedy At Cannes: Lisa Wilson (Founder and adage is just the ticket to trying to win Office: Lerins - R1, Tel: French cell: Language: English Partner), Myles Nestel (Founder and her back and get his life on track. Trying 33(0)6.67.16.13.30 Director: Fred Schepisi Partner), Malee Nerenhausen (VP of to remain resolutely undiscouraged, Pat Key Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis, International Distribution) moves back in with his parents and Office: Apartment 4 Flamant, Grand http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1250 Charlotte Rampling devotes himself entirely to becoming the Delivery Status: Completed Hotel, 45 La Croisette, Tel: Lisa Wilson's man his wife always wanted him to be. Country of Origin: Australia mobile: 818.516.4746 But it’s an uphill battle. Until Pat meets AMERIQUA Romantic Comedy Elizabeth Hunter controls all in her life - Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a beautiful Language: English, Italian society, her staff, her children; but now http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1239 young woman whose life also has not Director: Marco Bellone, Giovanni the aging great beauty will determine her turned out the way she wanted. Together, Cosonni most defiant act. Will she be able to WRITERS the couple will try and navigate through Key Cast: Bobby Kennedy III, Giancarlo choose when and how shedies? Bittersweet comedy their lives and stay true to who they are, Language: English Giannini, Alec Bladwin LIPSTIKKA always just one adventure away from a Country of Origin: Italy/UK Romantic drama Director: Joshua Boone unique friendship, and possibly even A lazy graduate's rich parents cut him off Language: English (with Hebrew and Writer: Joshua Boone love. Executive Producer: Michael A. with a $5000 check and an ultimatum to Arabic) THE MASTER start a life of independence and Director: Jonathan Sagall Simpson, Eric Brenner, Myles Nestel, Drama responsibility. Instead, he buys a plane Key Cast: Clara Khoury, Nataly Attiya, Lisa Wilson Language: English ticket to Italy, gets robbed upon arrival DanielCaltagirone Producer: Judy Cairo Director: Paul Thomas Anderson and winds up in. What chance does a Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson timid American kid, who doesn't speak Country of Origin: Israel/UK Connelly, Lily Collins, Logan Lerman, Producer: Paul Thomas Anderson, Italian and hangs out with sloppy Italian Two Palestinian teenagegirls sneak into Nat Wolff, Liana Liberato, Kristen Bell JoAnne Sellar, Daniel Lupi, Megan party hounds, have against the dark the Jewish part of Jerusalem for a night Delivery Status: Post Production Ellison forces of organized crime in Italy? on the town, but their youthful prank Year of Production: 2012 Country of Key Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman suddenly goes all wrong and follows Origin: USA Joaquin Phoenix Amy Adams Laura BENEATH THE DARKNESS Thriller them through time. Will they be able to An acclaimed novelist's relationship with Dern Jesse Plemons David Warshovsky Language: English piece together a broken past in order to his ex-wife, collegiate daughter, and Delivery Status: Post Production Director: Martin Guigui make sense of it today? If so, who's story teenage son are examined in this funny, Year of Production: 2012 Country of Key Cast: Dennis Quaid, Aimee is the one that actually happened? tough, and touching drama/comedy that Origin: USA spans a single, tumultuous year in their Teegarden, TonyOller LITTLE GLORY Written and directed by Academy Delivery Status: Completed Family lives. Award® nominee Paul Thomas Country of Origin: USA Language: English Anderson (the acclaimed director of, Director: Victor Lannoo There Will Be Blood, Magnolia and Key Cast: Cameron Bright, Isabella THE WEINSTEIN Boogie Nights), this storystars Academy Blake Thomas, Hannah Murray COMPANY Award® winner Philip Seymour The Weinstein Company, 99 HUDSON Hoffman (Capote) and Academy STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10013 USA, Award® nominee Joaquin Phoenix Tel: 1.212.941.3800 Fax: (Walk The Line). Set in America in the CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS 1.212.941.3949. years following World War II, a THE CLICK AND ACCESS CULTURE IS NOW www.weinsteinco.com, charismatic intellectual (Hoffman) [email protected] launches a faith-based organization and & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor taps a young drifter (Phoenix) as his At Cannes: Harvey Weinstein (Co- right-hand man. But as the faith begins Chairman), Bob Weinstein (Co- to gain a fervent following, the onetime Chairman), David C. Glasser (COO), vagabond finds himself questioning the Dylan Sellers (President, Production and belief system he has embraced, and his Click on Acquisitions), Michael Rothstein mentor. A truly one-of-a-kind drama, (President, International), Ennis Hensley which promises magnetic virtuoso Blue Boxes (SVP, International Sales) performances, the film marks the fifth Office: Residence Gray d'Albion, collaboration between Anderson and to Access Apartment 6G1, Tel: +33.493.30.12.65 Hoffman, following Hard Eight, Boogie Fax: +33.493.30.12.83 Nights, Magnolia and Punch Drunk Available Love. http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1360 BUTTER Company Comedy/Drama THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Language: English Trailers Comedy/Drama Director: Jim Field Smith Language: English Writer: Jason Micallef Automatically Director: David O. Russell Producer: Michael De Luca, Jennifer Writer: David O. Russell based on a Garner, Alissa Phillips novel by Matthew Quick Key Cast: Jennifer Garner Ty Burrell Do Your Part To Producer: Donna Gigliotti Bruce Cohen Olivia Wilde Rob Corddry Ashley Key Cast: Bradley Cooper Jennifer Greene Alicia Silverstone with Yara Combat Global Warming Lawrence Robert De Niro Jacki Weaver Shahidi and Hugh Jackman

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Delivery Status: Completed (30 Rock), Danielle Panabaker (The discovered a rich new ingredient to their Year of Production: 2011 Country of Crazies), Matt Bush (Adventureland), THE WORKS organic blend – human corpses! James, Origin: USA Chris Zylka (The Amazing Spider-Man) The Works, 5th Floor, Fairgate House, Sophie and Wes are about to discover A tale of competition at its most cut- and David Koechner (Anchorman: The 78 New Oxford Street, London, WC1A that relationships can be bloody hard throat, BUTTER surveys the raw Legend Of Ron Burgundy). 1HB UK, Tel: +44(0)207.612.1080 work, especially when someone’s trying Fax: +44(0)207.612.1081. ambition of Laura Pickler (Jennifer ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH to turn you into liquid fertiliser. Garner), the wife of Bob Pickler (Ty 3D Animation www.theworksfilmgroup.com, ASHES Burrell), Iowa’s long-reigning champion Language: English [email protected] Dramatic Thriller butter carver. For 15 years, Laura has Director: Cal Brunker om Language: English Sales Agent relished her high-profile role as the Writer: Cal Brunker and Bob Barlen Director: Mat Whitecross At Cannes: Clare Crean (Head of Sales), beautiful, loyal helpmate to her affable, based on an original screenplay by Tony Writer: Paul Viragh & Mat Whitecross Julia Short (Head of Acquisitions), Ailsa artistically gifted husband. But when Leech and Cory Edwards Producer: Fiona Neilson and Esther Scott (Head Of Marketing), Beatrice Bob is pressured to retire and allow Producer: Donna Gigliotti Catherine Douglas Neumann (Acquisitions Manager), someone else a chance at glory, an Winder Luke Carroll Key Cast: Ray Winstone, Jim Sturgess, Naomi Weiner (Sales and Marketing indignant Laura decides to enter the Key Cast: Jessica Alba, Rob Corddry, Lesley Manville, Jodie Whittaker, Luke Executive) competition herself. She is first in line on Brendan Fraser, James Gandolfini, Sarah Evans. Office: C12 Relais De La Reine, 42/3 La sign-up day, only to see her odds of Jessica Parker and Craig Robinson Delivery Status: Post Production Croisette, Tel: 0493301069 victory fall below 100 with the arrival of Delivery Status: In Production Year of Production: 2011 Country of an unlikely yet formidable contender: Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: UK 10-year-old Destiny (Yara Shahidi), the Origin: USA http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1345 Frank Barron (Ray Winstone) wakes to African-American foster child of local The 3D animated family comedy find himself locked in a hospital secure couple Julie and Ethan (Alicia ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH GOOD VIBRATIONS unit, confused by memory loss, and Comedy Drama (97mins) Silverstone and Rob Corddry). And catapults movie goers to planet Baab plagued by visions of a woman (Lesley Language: English that’s not all. Bob’s would-be mistress, where admired astronaut Scorch Manville). He is tracked down and Director: Glen Leybrun and Lisa Barros bad-girl stripper Brooke (Olivia Wilde) Supernova (Brendan Fraser) is a national visited by his estranged son James (Jim D’Sa also declares her candidacy, as does his hero to the blue alien population. A Sturgess), anxious to take his father back Writer: Glenn Patterson and Colin #1 fan, Carol-Ann (Kristen Schaal). master of daring rescues, Scorch pulls home to be with his family. The doctor Carberry Facing three opponents, mocked by her off astonishing feats with the quiet aid of explains to him that Frank is suffering Producer: Chris Martin and Andrew stepdaughter Kaitlen (Ashley Greene) his nerdy, by-the-rules brother, Gary from Alzheimer’s, and has been confined Eaton and furious with her husband, Laura (Rob Corddry), head of mission control to the hospital for his own good – he is Key Cast: Richard Dormer, Dylan Moran resolves to do whatever it takes to win. at BASA. When BASA’s no-nonsense prone to violence as a result of the Jodie Whittaker And if that means resorting to sabotage – chief Lena (Jessica Alba) informs the disease. In a moment of madness, James Delivery Status: Screening and recruiting her dim-witted former brothers of an SOS from a notoriously breaks his father out of the ward, and the Year of Production: 2011 Country of boyfriend Boyd (Hugh Jackman) as a co- dangerous planet, Scorch rejects Gary’s two men go on the run. The journey Origin: Ireland conspirator – then so be it. In the warnings and bounds off for yet another proves difficult for James, who has to Terri Hooley is a radical, rebel and tradition of Best In Show and Election, exciting mission. But when Scorch finds cope with Frank’s hallucinations and music-lover in 1970s Belfast, when the BUTTER can be enjoyed as a himself caught in a fiendish trap set by mood swings, while hiding from the bloody conflict known as the Troubles straightforward, albeit merrily twisted, the evil Shanker (James Gandolfini), it’s police. As they travel, glimpses of the shuts down his city. As all his friends comedy about American life and culture. up to scrawny, risk-adverse Gary to do old Frank emerge, and gradually the two take sides and take up arms, Terri opens But Laura Pickler probably wouldn’t be the real rescuing. As the interplanetary begin to bond. But both men are weighed a record shop on the most bombed half- surprised if the liberal media views stakes rise to new heights, Gary is left to down by the past, and neither is quite mile in Europe and calls it Good BUTTER as a veiled commentary on the save his brother, his planet, his beloved who they seem… Vibrations. Through it he discovers a larger world of politics. wife Kira (Sarah Jessica Parker) and compelling voice of resistance in the their adventure hungry son Kip! PIRANHA 3DD city’s nascent underground punk scene. Horror TIMELESS FILMS WU XIA Galvanising the young musicians into Language: English Action/Drama (97:40) Timeless Films, 20A The Ridgeway, action, he becomes the unlikely leader of Director: John Gulager Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan Cuffley, Hertfordshire EN6 4AR United a motley band of kids and punks who Writer: Patrick Melton & Marcus Writer: Peter Ho-Sun Chan Kingdom, Tel: 0044.1707.879723. join him in his mission to create a new Dunstan and Joel Soisson Based on Producer: Peter Chan, Jojo Hui www.timelessfilms.co.uk,info@timelessfil community, an alternative ulster, to bring Characters Created By Peter Goldfinger Key Cast: Donnie Yen Takeshi ms.co.uk his city back to life. Sales Agent, Producer & Josh Stolberg Kaneshiro Tang Wei Jimmy Wang Yu At Cannes: Ralph Kamp (CEO & Producer: Mark Canton, Marc Toberoff, Kara Hui 100 BLOODY ACRES Comedy Horror Chairman), Sarah Arnott (SVP Joel Soisson Delivery Status: Completed Language: English Productions & Acquisition), Rebecca Key Cast: Danielle Panabaker, Matt Year of Production: 2011 Director: Cameron Cairnes and Colin Kamp (Marketing Manager), Gareth Bush, David Koechner, Chris Zylka, From acclaimed producer and director, Cairnes Kamp (Sales Executive) Katrina Bowden, with Gary Busey, and Peter Ho-Sun Chan (Bodyguards and Writer: Cameron Cairnes and Colin Office:,Tel: 0044.77607.86625 Christopher Lloyd Special Appearance Assassins), comes the martial arts Cairnes By David Hasselhoff swordplay action epic, WU XIA. It is the Producer: Julie Ryan (Cyan Films), Kate http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1032 Delivery Status: Completed late Qing Dynasty and Liu (martial arts Croser (Cyan Films) and Chris Wyatt Year of Production: 2011 Country of superstar, Donnie Yen) is a simple Key Cast: Angus Sampson, Anna Origin: USA papermaker, leading a simple life with JUSTIN AND THE KNIGHTS OF McGahan, Oliver Ackland After the terror unleashed on Lake his beautiful wife Ayu (Lust/Caution’s VALOUR (3D) Delivery Status: Post Production Animation Victoria in PIRANHA 3D, the pre- Tang Wei) and their two sons. But when Year of Production: 2011 Country of Language: English historic school of blood thirsty piranhas a skilled detective (Japanese superstar Origin: Australia Director: Manuel Sicilia are back. This time, no one is safe from and House of Flying Daggers star James is heading to a music festival in Writer: Manuel Sicilia & Matthew the flesh eating fish as they sink their Takeshi Kaneshiro) turns up in their the bush with girlfriend Sophie and best Jacobs razor sharp teeth into the visitors of village following the deaths of two mate Wes. He plans to propose to her Co-Production Partners: Kandor summer’s best attraction, The Big Wet bandits during a robbery, suddenly this weekend, unaware (for the moment) Graphics Water Park. Christopher Lloyd (Back To nothing is what it seems! Detective Xu that she and Wes have been screwing on Producer: Kerry Fulton, Ralph Kamp & The Future) reprises his role as the quickly realizes that the incident in the sly. When their car breaks down, Antonio Banderas eccentric piranha expert with survivor question was no ordinary botched friendly local and co-owner of a Key Cast: Freddie Highmore, Saoirse Paul Scheer (The League) and a partially robbery, and his dogged inquiry threatens struggling blood and bone fertilizer Ronan, Mark Strong, Rupert Everett, devoured Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction) to dredge up the dark secrets of Liu’s business, Reg Morgan, stops to offer a Charles Dance, Barry Humphries, James back for more fish frenzy. David past - threatening not only Liu and his lift. But Reg is eyeing off a business Cosmo, David Walliams, Julie Walters, Hasselhoff trades in the sandy beaches of family, but the entire village. In the opportunity here: he and his partner, big Antonio Banderas “Baywatch” to be a celebrity lifeguard at ensuing game of cat-and-mouse, Yen brother Lindsay, have recently Delivery Status: In Production the racy water park. Prepare for double ups-the-ante of martial arts choreography Year of Production: 2011-2012 Country the terror, double the action and double by crafting fight sequences that truly of Origin: Spain the D’s in this sequel also starring Gary defy gravity. Set in a magical world that children still Busey (Lethal Weapon), Katrina Bowden

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dream of, Justin and the Knights of Kaufmann, Christoph Maria Herbst Executive Producer: Mark L. Lester, In the witty satire Bad Parents, suburban Valour is a story about the determination Delivery Status: Screening Jeffrey Goldman mother Kathy (Janeane Garofalo) signs of a kid to reach his dream. It is a tale Year of Production: 2011 Country of Producer: Anthony Fankhauser up her seven-year-old daughter for the about friendship, honour and courage. A Origin: Germany Key Cast: Gary Stretch, Michael Worth, local club soccer team. Not realizing heart-warming stroy filled with When will little Widkie finally become a Alicia Ziegler, Natasha Berg what she’s gotten into, Kathy finds adventure, action and fun. real Viking? This question is giving his Delivery Status: In Production herself at the center of the hyper- POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (3D) father Halvar sleepless nights. But when Year of Production: 2012 Country of competitive, dog-eat-dog world of soccer Animation Sven the Terrible kidnaps the chief of Origin: USA moms obsessed with their children’s Language: English Flake, Wickie unexpectedly gets his big A raid on a terrorist stronghold becomes success. Every game is “win at all costs” Director: Mike Disa chance. As deputy chief, he leads the a fight for survival when a group of for these women, and the march towards Writer: Kim Fuller, Annika Bluhm & Mighty Vikings Tjure, Snorre, Urobe, soldiers encounters a land filled with the State Cup quickly spirals out of Nicole Dubuc Gorm, Ulme and Faxe, thereby attracting bloodthirsty dinosaurs! Captain John control… Featuring an all-star cast of Co-Production Partners: Classic Media the help of the fearless SVENJA. They Steakley leads an elite special forces some of today’s funniest comics and & Rubicon Holding set sail for the Cape of Fear and, after a team into the South American jungle to comediennes including Cheri Oteri Producer: Robert Anich, Ceri Barnes, whirlwind of adventures, reach Sven’s rescue Angeles Ibanez, a beautiful (Saturday Night Live), Michael Boatman Annika Bluhm castle where Halvar is incarcerated. scientist, from the clutches of terrorist (Spin City, Arliss), Kristen Johnston (3rd Key Cast: Stephen Mangan, Jim However, the greatest task still awaits guerrillas and take out their heinous Rock From the Sun, Bride Wars), Reiko Broadbent, Rupert Grint, David Tennant the Viking troupe. They set off over leader, Marquez. But the team's Aylseworth (24, Hawaii 5-0) and Delivery Status: In Production raging oceans, tropical beaches and helicopter goes down under enemy fire Christopher Titus (Titus). Writer/Director Year of Production: 2011-2012 Country dangerous icy wastelands in pursuit of and Steakley and his team find Caytha Jentis, with insider authenticity of Origin: United Kingdom the legendary treasure of the Gods, themselves in a prehistoric crater where and specificity, shares the absurd yet Everyone's favourite postie, Postman Pat, pitting themselves against an equally dinosaurs still exist! On the run from a very real world of the dark side of youth comes face-to-face with the dark side of determined Sven the Terrible – but vicious T-Rex, ferocious velociraptors, a sports and with humor and heart exposes fame when he enters a national TV talent Wickie wouldn’t be Wickie if he hadn’t a stampeding triceratops, crazed rebels, the void in her parents' lives that youth show. This children?s TV icon hits the few tricks up his sleeve to prevent Sven and a scheming professor who has lived soccer fills. big screen for the first time and in 3D. getting there first. amongst the dinosaurs for years, ALL'S FAIRE IN LOVE TROLL: THE TALE OF A TAIL Steakley and his team must save the girl Comedy (108 min.) Animation and hope they have enough ammo to Language: English Language: English TITAN GLOBAL make it out of the jungle alive! Director: Scott Marshall Director: David Dulac & Kristian Kamp ENTERTAINMENT HIGH ROAD Writer: Scott Marshal, Jeffrey Wine, R. Writer: Jorn Kolsrud, Kristian Kamp, Comedy (87 min.) A. White Titan Global Entertainment, 21700 Johnny Carlsen, Jonny Westernes & Paul Language: English Executive Producer: Michael Oxnard Street, Suite 1770, Woodland Gerstenberger Director: Matt Walsh Mendelsohn, Randy Mendelsohn, Adrian Hills, CA 91367 USA, Tel: 818-340- Co-Production Partners: Great River Writer: Matt Walsh, Josh Weiner Ward, Joseph Woolf 9004 Fax: 818-340-9011. Productions & Sagatoon & Timeless Executive Producer: Erik Rommesmo, Producer: Scott Reed, Ron Singer www.titanglobal-ent.com Films Jeff Schlossman Key Cast: Christina Ricci, Owen Sales Agent, Distributor Producer: Rainer Soehnlein & Ralph Producer: Kirk Roos, Matt Walsh, Inman Benjamin, Ann-Margret, Matthew At Cannes: (Mark L. Lester (President), Kamp Young Lillard, Cedric the Entertainer, Nadine Jeffrey Goldman (President of Key Cast: TBC Key Cast: James F. Pumphrey, Abby Velazquez, Bill Engvall Worldwide Distribution) Delivery Status: In Production Elliott, Lizzy Caplan, Ed Helms, Horatio Delivery Status: Completed Office: Stand: C6 Year of Production: 2011 Country of Sanz, Rob Riggle, Matt L. Jones, Joe Lo Year of Production: 2009 Country of Origin: United States/Norway http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1331 Truglio Origin: USA Hidden deep in a dark forest lies the Delivery Status: Screening In this outrageous romantic comedy Kate Troll Kingdom of Ervod, where a young MY ANGEL Year of Production: 2012 Country of (Christina Ricci) abandons a career in troll prince named Trym must undertake Family (87 min.) Origin: USA business for her love of acting. Star the adventure of a lifetime to save his Language: English A hilarious teenage road trip movie with college quarterback Will (Owen father, who has been turned into stone. Director: Stephen Cookson Ed Helms (The Hangover), Lizzy Caplan Benjamin) must appease Professor THE WEDDING VIDEO Writer: Stephen Cookson (Trueblood, Hot Tub Time Machine) Rob Shockworthy (Cedric the Entertainer) Romantic Comedy Executive Producer: Peter Keegan Riggle (Saturday Night Live), and after missing class all semester. And so Language: English Producer: Stephen Cookson Horatio Sanz (Saturday Night Live). both find themselves spending their Director: Nigel Cole Key Cast: Timothy Spall, Brenda Young slacker Glenn “Fitz” Fitzgerald summer as employees at Ye Olde Times Writer: Tim Firth Blethyn, Celia Imrie, Mel Smith, Joseph (James Pumphrey) splits his time Renaissance Faire. Ruled by the Queen Co-Production Partners: Squirrel Films Phillips between his girlfriend Monica (Abby of the Faire (Ann-Margret), Will and Producer: James Gay-Rees Delivery Status: Completed Elliott), playing in his band, and his Kate join as peasants, subject to the Key Cast: Rufus Hound, Lucy Punch, Year of Production: 2011 Country of “business” – selling contraband. When whims of the Faire's nobles. But despite Robert Webb, Harriet Walter, Miriam Origin: England his band breaks up, Fitz starts dealing the Faire's rigid hiearchy Will and Kate Margolyes When his mother is seriously injured in a out of his garage and hanging with his forge a connection. Can true love prosper Delivery Status: Post Production car accident, 15-year-old Eddie, together 16-year-old sidekick, Jimmy (Dylan amidst furious rivalry and Elizabethan Year of Production: 2011 Country of with his brother Stewart, faces an O’Brien). Then, just as his former band costume? Can a man who's never ridden Origin: UK uncertain Christmas. Without their mates (Zach Woods, Matt L. Jones, a horse win a joust? May the best knight From the writer and director of mother, the two boys must look after Lizzy Caplan) achieve success, and triumph. Also starring Matthew Lillard ‘Calendar Girls', ‘The Wedding Video' is themselves. One night, when they’ve run Monica finds out she’s pregnant, one of (SLC Punk) and Nadine Velazquez (My a romantic comedy set in the cut-throat out of food, and the electricity goes out, Fitz’s deals goes awry and he and Jimmy Name is Earl). world of English society weddings. Eddie’s mother visits him in a dream go on the lam. On the run from the cops, WICKIE AND THE TREASURE OF asking him to bring her an angel’s halo amid guns, broken bones, sassy cabbies THE GODS (3D) in order to save her. Convinced it was and rude hookers, Fitz must find his way AKA: WICKIE AUF GROßER more than just a dream, Eddie sets out to to safety. FAHRT (3D) find an angel, but can he save his mother BAD PARENTS Family (96mins) before Christmas? This touching family Comedy Language: German film also stars Timothy Spall (The Language: English Director: Christian Ditter King’s Speech, the Harry Potter series, Director: Caytha Jentis Writer: Christian Ditter Vanilla Sky) and Academy Award ® Writer: Caytha Jentis Co-Production Partners: Constantin Film nominated Brenda Blethyn (Atonement, Producer: Caytha Jentis, Dorothy Fucito THE BUSINESS & RatPack Film Pride & Prejudice). Key Cast: Janeane Garofalo, Christopher Executive Producer: Martin Moszkowicz Titus, Michael Boatman, Cheri Oteri, OF ILM JURASSIC ATTACK www.thebusinessoffilmdaily.comF Producer: Christian Becker Sci-Fi (86 min.) Bill Sage, Reiko Aylesworth, Rebecca Key Cast: Jonas Hämmerle, Valeria Language: English Budig, Kristen Johnston Eisenbart, Waldermar Kobus, Miriam Director: Anthony Fankhauser Delivery Status: Post Production Tolkien, Nic Romm, Christian A. Koch, Writer: Rafael Jordan Year of Production: 2012 Country of Olaf Krätke, Patrick Reichel, Günther Origin: USA

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Co-Production Partners: Ardor Pictures, Bunker and start to kill anyone who Key Cast: Mira Sorvino, Peter Fonda, TRICOAST Kinkier jeopardizes their mission. "Apocalypse Louis Gossett Jr., Booboo Stewart, Jason Executive Producer: Marcy Levitas Now" revisited with legendary UFC London, Lolita Davidovitch, Brandon WORLDWIDE Hamilton, Strathford Hamilton, Samir fighters. Tyler Russell TriCoast Worldwide, 11124 W. Srivastava Delivery Status: Completed Washington Blvd., Culver City, TREASURE OF THE BLACK Producer: Cameron Van Hoy Year of Production: 2011 Country of California 90232 USA, Tel: JAGUAR Key Cast: Jon Lovitz, Joan Severance, Action/Adventure (102min) Origin: USA +1.310.458.7707, Dennis Haskins, Ken Davitian, Cameron Language: English A heartwarming family story about how www.tricoastworldwide.com, Van Hoy, Michael Drayer Director: Mike Bruce a young boy's life is turned around by [email protected] Sales Agent Delivery Status: Post Production Writer: Mike Bruce, Cameron Van Hoy the love of a dog. At Cannes: Strath Hamilton (CEO), Year of Production: 2012 Country of Co-Production Partners: Ardor Pictures STANDING OVATION Marcy Levitas Hamilton (CEO), Priscilla Origin: USA Executive Producer: Strath Hamilton, Family (105min) Ross (VP International Sales), Daisy Two geeky dreamers who invent shark Marcy Levitas Hamilton, Priscilla Ross, Language: English Hamilton (Business Development proof wet suits fall in with a gangster Samir Srivastava Director: Stewart Raffill Executive), Tory Weisz (Executive and beautiful woman while trying to Producer: Cameron Van Hoy Writer: Stewart Raffill Producer) finance there sceam. Key Cast: Timothy V. Murphy, Michael Co-Production Partners: Kenilworth Film Office: Riviera B4, Tel: +1.818.917.7747 TWO JACKS Drayer, Cameron Van Hoy, Hidetoshi Productions, West 8 Films Romantic Drama (91 mins.) Imura, Masayuki Imai Executive Producer: James Brolin, http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1265 Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Suzanne Nunez, William Lewis Director: Bernard Rose Year of Production: 2011 Country of Producer: Diane Kirman Writer: Bernard Rose Origin: USA Key Cast: The 5 Ovations, The Wiggies, INUK Adventure (88min) Co-Production Partners: Rough Diamond Two boys with a get rich quick scheme Alanna Palombo, Joel DeCarlo Language: Greenlandic(English Productions end up in prison, but when they meet a Delivery Status: Completed Subtitles) Producer: Julia Verdin famed treasure hunter named Blake West Year of Production: 2010 Country of Director: Mike Magidson Key Cast: Danny Huston, Sienna Miller, with a plan to break out they agree to Origin: USA Writer: Jean-Michel Huctin, Mike Jack Huston, Jacqueline Bisset, Izabella journey out into THE DEVIL'S DESERT In the vein of Disney’s ‘High School Magidson Miko to uncover a mysteriously cursed artifact. Musical’, we follow a group of friends Co-Production Partners: C'est La Vie Delivery Status: Post Production Blake West's former employer, a competing for a national tween music Films, Docside Production Year of Production: 2012 Country of japanese industrialist, is determined to video contest. Producer: Sylvie Barbe, Mike Magidson Origin: USA beat our heroes to the treasure and stop TANZANIA: A FRIENDSHIP Key Cast: Gabe Petersen, Ole Jorgen The Story of legendary film director Jack the boys by any means necessary. JOURNEY Hammeken, Rebekka Jorgensen, Sara Hussar, a notorious gambler and BAD ACTRESS Documentary (104min) Lyberth, Elisabeth Skade womanizer, returning to Los Angeles the Comedy (85min) Language: English Delivery Status: Completed scene of his glorious past. Juxtaposed Language: English Director: Sylvia Caminer Year of Production: 2012 Country of with the story of his son years later Director: Robert Lee King Writer: Sylvia Caminer Origin: Greenland/France returning to Los Angeles for his Writer: David Michael Barrett Co-Production Partners: Dolger Films, A 16-year-old boy who is taken from his directorial debut and the struggles that Co-Production Partners: HMO Nurse IndiGenius Films broken family life in the capital city of come along with trying to step out of the Pictures Executive Producer: Doug DeLuca, Greenland and placed in a home for shadow of his famous father. Executive Producer: Jon Gerrans, Michael Hinds, Joseph Perez troubled youth in the remote north of the THE BUNKER Marcus Hu Producer: Sylvia Caminer country. What follows is a dramatic, Action/Adventure (91 mins.) Producer: Lisa Schahet Key Cast: Kristen Kenney,Venance arctic journey as Inuk and the other teens Language: English Key Cast: Beth Broderick, Chris Mulkey, Ndibalema at the center are led on a cross-ice Director: Joe Black Ryan Hansen, Vincent Ventresca, Keri Delivery Status: Completed voyage where they will be forced to Writer: Joe Black Lynn Pratt, Corbin Bernsen, Dee Wallace Year of Production: 2011 Country of grow into adulthood and face their Producer: Joe Black Delivery Status: Completed Origin: USA troubled pasts. Key Cast: Ken Shamrock, Mike Brown Year of Production: 2011 Country of The story follows Venance Ndibalema, a Delivery Status: Post Production SHARKPROOF Origin: USA man who was born into poverty in Africa Action/Comedy (95min) Year of Production: 2012 Country of Bad Actress is a guilty pleasure of a film but found a way out through a college Language: English Origin: USA that gleefully mocks the world of education in the United States, and Director: Simon Chan & Joe Rubalcaba A rogue special forces unit goes pyscho. Hollywood and Fame, which reminds us Kristen Kenny an American raised by an Writer: Cameron Van Hoy They hide out in a North Vietnamese that Justice has nothing on Celebrity. upper/middle class family as they SNITCH undertake a transformational trip to Thriller (97min) Venance's homeland. Language: English CINEMA IS EVERYWHERE CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Director: Joe Di Maio Documentary (98min) HE LICK AND CCESS ULTURE IS OW Writer: Eric Troyer Language: English, Cantonese, French, T C A C N Co-Production Partners: Cascade Hindi, Arabic & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. Pictures, Witness Insecuriy Director: Teal Greyhavens Executive Producer: Eric Troyer Writer: Teal Greyhavens Producer: Joe Di Maio, Eric Troyer Co-Production Partners: Spiral Pictures Key Cast: Edward Furlong, Edward Producer: Jason E. Gordon Asner, Brain Krause, Elaine Hendrix, P.J. Key Cast: Tilda Swinton, Mark Cousins, Click on Byrne, Meat Loaf, Grace Johnston Javed Akhtar, Shyam Benegal, Fruit Delivery Status: Completed Chan, Sudhir Mishra, Stanley Kwan Blue Boxes Year of Production: 2012 Country of Delivery Status: Completed Origin: USA Year of Production: 2011 Country of to Access Raised by the Torino crime family after Origin: USA the death of his parents,Johnny Graham A documentary feature film that ties four Available is repeatedly torn between loyalty to his narratives - from China, India, Scotland, adoptive family and his conscience. and Tunisia- together with countless Company SMITTY insights from venerable filmmakers and Family (93min) ordinary moviegoers. An aspiring actress Trailers Language: English in Mumbai battles to break into Director: David Mickey Evans Bollywood; two friends in Scotland take Automatically Writer: Michael Baumgarten a mobile film festival across the Co-Production Partners: TriCoast Studios highlands; a young crew in Hong Kong Executive Producer: Ami Artzi, Strath embarks on the shooting of its first film; Do Your Part To Hamilton, Tory Weisz a Tunisian director anxiously anticipates Producer: Marcy Levitas Hamilton, the premiere of his controversial film at Combat Global Warming Michael Baumgarten a major festival. These stories are woven

112 The Business of Film CANNES MAY 2012 CANNES PRODUCT GUIDE together with scenes from video stores, The Sinatra Club is where they plan the Tennessee town where Sheriff Jimmy from a fiercely independent "one man projection booths, studios, cinemas, and heist and John Gotti starts his rise to Muldoon and younger brother, Deputy show" to an established 'family' winery slums into a vivid meditation on the fame. Lloyd Muldoon have a firm grasp of law where the word family is a registered power of cinema to shape our world. THE GRAND and order until a handsome stranger, trademark. An eccentric "rich kid" OPUS Comedy (104min) Denny White comes to town. As soon as attempts to make his mark in his fathers Horror (87min) Language: English White arrives, supernatural events begin newly acquired vineyard and "two Language: English Director: Zak Penn to occur. marketing" executives are determined to Director: Micah Levin Writer: Zak Penn, Matt Bierman APRIL SHOWERS tap into new markets with an edgy high- Writer: Andrew Bird, Micah Levin Co-Production Partners: Insomnia Media Drama (94min) concept label. We follow this group Co-Production Partners: Movie Magic Group, Eleven Eleven Films, IMG Film Language: English through the toils of harvest, and their Media Productions, Megatrend Media 7 Director: Andrew Robinson quest for recognition leading to the Executive Producer: Brett Leonard, Executive Producer: Matt Bierman, Writer: Andrew Robinson Golden Harvest Gala! Micah Levin, Seth Levin Kirkwood Drew, Ayman Kandeel, Ari Co-Production Partners: April Showers THE DEBT Producer: Andrew Bird, Mark Cramer Palitz, Jordan Udko Executive Producer: Ami Artzi, Strath Thriller (100min) Key Cast: Brian R. Norris, Dylan Moore, Producer: Jeff Bowler, Ross M. Hamilton, Marcy Levitas Hamilton, Jerry Language: German/Hebrew Kandice Melonakos, Demarkes Dogan, Dinerstein, Gary Marcus, Zak Penn, Bret Del Colliano, Jol Eisenberg, Eugene Director: Assaf Bernstein Nate Scholz, Mikhail Roberts, Carolyn Saxon, Bobby Schwartz Mandelcorn,Timothy Owens Writer: Assaf Bernstein, Ido Rosenblum Jania, Arielle Ramos Key Cast: Woody Harrelson, Judy Greer, Producer: Jenna Edwards, April Wade Co-Production Partners: Evanstone Films Delivery Status: Completed David Cross, Cheryl Hines, Chris Key Cast: Kelly Blatz, Daryl Sabara, Ltd., Pronto Film Year of Production: 2011 Country of Parnell, Werner Herzog, Ray Romano, Janel Parrish, Ellen Woglom, Illeana Producer: Eitan Evan Origin: USA Mike Epps, Dennis Farina, Jason Douglas, Tom Arnold Key Cast: Gila Almagor, Neta Garty, Itay In the vein of 'Saw', we follow eight Alexander Delivery Status: Completed Tiran, Edgar Selge actors who submit videos to be cast in a Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2009 Country of Delivery Status: Completed horror film, only to discover that the Year of Production: 2007 Country of Origin: USA Year of Production: 2007 Country of action is all too real. As they are picked Origin: USA A dramatized retelling of what it was Origin: Israel off one by one, minds start to wonder if Set in the world of professional poker we like to be a survivor in the midst of the In 1965, Rachel Brenner is one of three the elusive director is creating his follow six players as they reach the final nation's largest school shooting. Mossad agents who capture "The greatest masterpiece yet. table of the Grand Championship. One of HUMBLE PIE Surgeon of Birkenau", a Nazi war THE DEAD the players (Woody Harrelson) has a lot Comedy (84min) criminal. "The Surgeon" manages to Horror (105min) at stake, his plan is to buy back his dead Language: English escape so the agents fabricate "The Language: English grandfather's hotel-casino from the real Director: Chris Bowman Surgeon's" death and return home as Director: Howard J. Ford, Jonathan Ford estate developer who stole it, by winning Writer: Hubbel Palmer heroes. More than thirty years later, "The Writer: Howard J. Ford, Jonathan Ford the world's most famous high stakes Co-Production Partners: Alkaline Surgeon" returns to confess his crimes. Co-Production Partners: Indelible poker tournament. Industries, American Fork Productions, The three agents now need to terminate Productions THE SPEAK Bratt Studios, Framework Pictures, him to protect the lie. Executive Producer: Amir S. Moallemi Horror (85min) Jeremy Coon Productions UNDERGROUND Producer: Howard J. Ford, Amir S. Language: English Executive Producer: Derek Ferguson Sci-FI (87min) Moallemi Director: Anthony Pierce Producer: Derek Beumer, Maya Browne, Language: English Key Cast: Rob Freeman, Prince David Writer: Brett Donowho, Lamont Magee, Jeremy Coon, Shannon B. Gardner Director: Rafael Eisenman Oseia Anthony Pierce, Martin Wiley Key Cast: William Baldwin, Mary Lynn Writer: Charles Morris Jr. Delivery Status: Completed Co-Production Partners: Quorum Rajskub, Hubbel Palmer, Kathleen Co-Production Partners: Tax Credit Year of Production: 2010 Country of Entertainment, Tony-Seven Films, The Quinlan, Bruce McGill Finance Origin: United Kingdom Speak Productions Delivery Status: Completed Executive Producer: Van Burrows, The Dead takes place in the near future, Executive Producer: Rick Dugdale, Paul Year of Production: 2009 Country of Robert Folk most of the world has succumbed to the Hudson, Arni Johannson, Tia Campbell Origin: USA Producer: Anthony Gudas virus of the living dead. After crashing Peterson At nearly 400 pounds, Tracy Orbison is a Key Cast: Ross Thomas, Sofia Pernas, off the coast of Africa Lt. Brian Murphy Producer: Brett Donowho, Anthony wide target. When he sets out to pursue Adrian R'Mante, Christine Evangelista, battles for survival across the terrible Pierce, Martin Wiley his dream of acting, the grocery clerk Jack Donner, Inbar Lavi terrian of Africa in search of a way to get Key Cast: Tom Sizemore, Kristina finds an assortment of people waiting to Delivery Status: Completed back to his beloved family in the USA. Anapau, Steven Nelson, Tina Casciani, dash his dreams: his acting coach, who Year of Production: 2010 Country of Saved by a local military man, who is Brett Donowho has designs on his sister Peggy; his Origin: USA also searching for his son, both men join Delivery Status: Completed juvenile-delinquent friends, who suck A group of friends fight for their lives forces, all the while battling against the Year of Production: 2011 Country of him into their petty crimes; and his God- against the lethal and ravenous creatures ever-present threat of the living dead. Origin: USA fearing, self-loathing mother. Through it lurking beneath the Earth's surface. The AT THE SINATRA CLUB We follow a young film crew as they all, Tracy remains irrepressibly upbeat, group finds themselves at the mercy of Drama (87min) attempt to create a paranormal web convinced he's destined for something creatures genetically engineered by the Language: English series in the most haunted hotel in the big. military to be expendable in battle. Director: James Quattrochi U.S. After performing a ritual called CORKED! Though they fought countless battles in Writer: Salvatore Polisi THE SPEAK, the crew unleashes spirits Comedy (90min) Iraq, these friends never knew real fear Co-Production Partners: Ubatz that they are simply not prepared for. Language: English until they went underground. Productions, San Pietro Productions, THE CURSED Director: Ross Clenenden, Paul Hawley ONE MORE NIGHT United Pacific Studios Horror (88min) Writer: Ross Clenenden, Paul Hawley Comedy (95) Executive Producer: Mark Belasco, Language: English Co-Production Partners: 28 Language: English Roberta Mariani Director: Joel Bender Entertainment Director: Sarah Kelly Producer: Brooke Lewis, Warren Writer: Martin Watson Executive Producer: Jay Hoffman Writer: Sarah Kelly, Tim Talbott Ostergard, Debrah Polisi, Salvatore Co-Production Partners: Chain Gang Producer: Brian A. Hoffman Co-Production Partners: Lather Films, Polisi, James Quattrochi Films, Proton Entertainment, Melfi Key Cast: Ross Clenenden, Brian A. Rachel Rothman Films, Tycoon Key Cast: Jason Gedrick, Danny Nucci, &Associates, Krakatau Films Hoffman, Rob Reinis, Jeffrey Weissman Entertainment_ Michael Nouri, Joey Lawrence, Ellen Executive Producer: Ami Artzi, Strath Delivery Status: Completed Executive Producer: David Grasso Hollman Hamilton, Marcy Levitas Hamilton, Year of Production: 2009 Country of Producer: Gary Bryman, Mike Jackson, Delivery Status: Completed Mark L. Harrison Origin: USA Rachel Rothman Year of Production: 2011 Country of Producer: Louis Mandylor, Phil Melfi, A hilarious tale told by documentary Key Cast: Connie Britton, Peter Origin: USA Brad Thornton, Devin Watson filmmakers of four distinctly different Facinelli, Eric Stoltz, Sarah Clarke, Ione It's 1972 and the mafia crime families Key Cast: Costas Mandylor, Louis wineries and their intertwined fate in Skye, David Herman, William Mapother are at war, but that isn't enough to stop a Mandylor, Brad Thornton, James Northern California wine country. A Delivery Status: Completed young, unknown, John Gotti, who has Marshall, Josie Davis prestigious celebrity wine critic is Year of Production: 2006 Country of big ideas and even bigger ambitions. Delivery Status: Completed coming to the area and everyone is Origin: USA Gotti pulls together an unlikely crew Year of Production: 2010 Country of trying to make sure their wine ends up When Valinda's parents decide to sell mad up of one member from each crime Origin: USA on his golden palate. A diverse group of their Pacific Palisades home, she reunites family to pull off a silver bullion heist. A supernatural thriller set in a cozy characters inhabits this region, ranging with her high school friends for a wild

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and hilarious bash of bashes in one last and is in the process of reestablishing his PURGE Origin: Rumania, France, Germany effort to relive their carefree days at the relationship with his teenage son, AKA: PUHDISTUS Belzebub, the son of vampires,is looking site where so many of their fondest Marcus. But things go awry. Not a lot. Drama (125 min) for a new place to stay... memories occurred. Just a passing remark. A random lie. And Language: Finnish THE HEIRS OF DRACULA MY BROTHER as the snow falls and the Christmas Director: Antti Jokinen Documentary Feature (90´min) Drama (100min) lights are lit, the lie spreads like an Writer: Marko Leino, Antti Jokinen, Language: English, Rumanian, German Language: English invisible virus. The shock and mistrust based on a book by Sofi Oksanen Director: Jean Kail Director: Anthony Lover gets out of hand, and the small Co-Production Partners: Kristian Taska, Co-Production Partners: UBU Writer: Anthony Lover community suddenly finds itself in a Maria Avdjushko Productions Co-Production Partners: Angel Baby collective state of hysteria, while Lucas Producer: Markus Selin, Jukka Helle Executive Producer: Jean Uliczay Entertainment, Liberty Artist, My fights a lonely fight for his life and Key Cast: Liisi Tandefelt, Laura Birn, Producer: Jean Uliczay Brother Productions LLC dignity. Krista Kosonen Delivery Status: Pre-Production Executive Producer: Michael Malagiero, Year of Production: end2012 Country of EASY MONEY II Delivery Status: Post Production Steven Rock Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Rumania / Germany AKA: SNABBA CASH II Producer: Gingi Rochelle, John Sawyer, Thriller (97 min) Origin: Finland The heirs of the vampire family Gregory Segal Language: Swedish, Spanish, Serbic, Two women from two different eras DRACULA in the new cyber Key Cast: Vanessa Williams, Tatum Libanese, English linked by separate tales of deceit, era...beginning from a bygone era... O'Neal, Nashawn Kearse, Christopher Director: Babak Najafi desperation - and fear. Aliide has Scott, Fredro Starr Writer: Maria Karlsson, Peter Birro – experienced the horrors of the Stalin era Delivery Status: Completed based on a novel by Jens Lapidus and the deportation of Estonians to UFO Year of Production: 2007 Country of Co-Production Partners: Nordisk Film, Siberia, but she herself has to cope with INTERNATIONAL Origin: USA Film i Väst, Sveriges Television, the guilt of opportunism and even An inner city story of two impoverished Nouvago Capital, Hobohm Brothers manslaughter. One night in 1992 she PRODUCTIONS boys, Isaiah and James. James is Film finds a young woman in the courtyard of UFO International Productions, 13412 developmentally disabled. Their mother, Executive Producer: Daniél Espinosa & her house; Zara who has just escaped Ventura Boulevard, Ste 250, Sherman L'Tisha, finds herself in a tragic Michael Hjorth from the claws of the Russian mafia who Oaks, California 91423 United States, situation. Dying of tuberculosis, she Producer: Fredrik Wikström held her as a sex slave. Aliide and Zara Tel: 1.818.501.1500 Fax: desperately tries to get her two boys, Key Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, engage in a complex arithmetic of 1.818.501.1595. http://ufofilm.com, eight and eleven at the time, adopted Dragomir Mrsic, Fares Fares, Dejan suspicion and revelation to distill each [email protected] Producer, Distributor together. Finding that only Isaiah can be Cukic other’s motives. Gradually, their stories At Cannes: Jeffery Beach (CEO - Sales), adopted. L'Tisha makes the only choice Delivery Status: Post Production emerge, with the culmination of a tragic Phillip Roth (CEO - Production), Cherise she feels she can make; creating an Year of Production: 2012 Country of family drama of rivalry, lust, and loss. Honey (VP - Production & Distribution), unbreakable bond of love between the Origin: Sweden Carly Machlis (Production & boys, and hoping that bond will get them JW, the promising business student who Distribution Coordinator) through life. Her prayers are answered as became an organized coke smuggler, is U Office: Lerins, R13, Tel: the boys overcome impossible odds on serving hard time in prison and is 33.04.92.99.33.08 their way to adulthood, staying as close struggling to get back to an honest life. as ever as young men dealing with life's But a man from his past - the former obstacles. hitman Mrado Slovovic - changes UBU PRODUCTIONS http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1050 everything. Jorge returns to Sweden to UBU Productions, P.O.Box 40 19 65, pull off a giant coke deal. But the deal VAMPYRE NATION Munich, 80719 Germany, Tel: Action/Adventure, Horror, Thriller TRUSTNORDISK fails terribly and now he has to flee the TrustNordisk, Filmbyen 28, Hvidovre, ++49(0)160 928.150.21. Language: English country with both the police and the Hvidovre 2650 Denmark, Tel: [email protected] Director: Todor Chapkanov Serbian mafia on his tail. Mahmud owes Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor, Agent 0045.36.86.87.88. www.trustnordisk.com, Writer: Rafael Jordan the Serbian boss, Radovan a large sum of At Cannes: Mr. Jean Uliczay (President, [email protected] Producer: Jeffery Beach, Phillip Roth Sales Agent money. When he can´t pay off his debt Producer, Exec.Producer, Director), Rita Key Cast: Andrew Lee Potts Neil At Cannes: Rikke Ennis (CEO), Susan he is left with only one choice - to find Gorenstein-Collin (Acquisitions), Jackson Roark Critchlow Wendt (Head of Sales), Nicolai and kill Jorge. Monika Woltering (Filmmarketing) Delivery Status: Post Production Korsgaard (Sales Manager), Silje ESCAPE Office: Media European Pavilion, Year of Production: 2011 Country of Nikoline Glimsdal (Sales Manager), AKA: FLUKT International Village Riviera #120, Tel: Origin: United States Lena Juhl Seidelin (PR & Marketing Action/Adventure (75 min) 0033(0)4.92.59.02.93 In the not-too-distant future, former Manager), Sara Shafika Otten (Head of Language: Norwegian enemies must work together when a Legal Affairs), Lissy Bellaiche (Festival Director: Roar Uthaug http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1040 hybrid species starts hunting down both Consultant) Writer: Thomas Moldestad human and vampire alike. Office: THE SCANDINAVIAN Co-Production Partners: Filmfondet WEB PIRATES DEADLY DESCENT TERRACE, 1st Floor 55 LA Fuzz, Filmkraft Rogaland Fantasy / Sci-Fi (90´min) Action/Adventure, Horror, Thriller CROISETTE 06400 CANNES, Executive Producer: Are Heidenstrøm, Language: English, Rumanian Language: English Martin Sundland, Audun Lyngholm Director: Jean Kail Director: Marko Makilaakso Co-Production Partners: UBU http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1368 Wittenberg, Hugo Hagemann Føsker Writer: Nathan Atkins Producer: Martin Sundland, Are Productions / Temesvar CinemaFilm Producer: Jeffery Beach, Phillip Roth Productions THE HUNT Heidenstrøm Key Cast: Adrian Paul Nicholas Boulton Executive Producer: Jean Uliczay AKA: JAGTEN Key Cast: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Isabel Chuck Campbell Drama (111 minutes) Christine Andreasen, Kristian Espedal Producer: Jean Uliczay Delivery Status: Post Production Language: Danish Delivery Status: Post Production Delivery Status: Pre-Production Year of Production: 2011 Country of Director: Thomas Vinterberg Year of Production: 2012 Country of Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: United States Writer: Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Origin: Norway Origin: Rumania / Germany When a group of skiers and Lindholm Ten years after the Black Death ravaged Pirates search their victims in the cyber snowboarders mount a search along a Co-Production Partners: Charlotte the country, a poor family is on a journey world... remote mountaintop, what they find Pedersen, Jessica Ask, Madeleine to find better living conditions. On a BELZEBUB instead is a legendary predator waiting Ekman, Martin Persson deserted mountain pass, they are attacked Black Comedy (90´min) for them. Producer: Sisse Graum Jørgensen, by a gang of ruthless outlaws. They only Language: English, French, Rumanian SUPER TANKER Morten Kaufmann spare the life of the nineteen year old Director: Jean Uliczay Action/Adventure, Science-fiction, Key Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Signe. She is taken captive and the gang Co-Production Partners: UBU Thriller Larsen, Susse Wold takes her back to their camp. Here she Productions / Transsylvania Film Language: English Delivery Status: Post Production learns that she is intended a fate worse Productions Director: Jeffery Scott Lando Year of Production: 2012 Country of than death. Signe understands that the Executive Producer: Jean Uliczay Writer: Nathan Atkins, Jeffery Scott Origin: Denmark only solution is to escape. Producer: Jean Uliczay Lando Following a tough divorce, 40-year-old Delivery Status: In Production Producer: Jeffery Beach, Phillip Roth Lucas has a new girlfriend, a new job Year of Production: 2012 Country of Key Cast: Ben Cross Callum Blue David

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Schofield ELIMINATION Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller Affairs are trying to change them. They Delivery Status: Completed Action/Adventure, Horror, Thriller Director: Gary Jones face many obstacles setting the history Year of Production: 2010 Country of Director: Juan Carlos Vargas Writer: David Hohl straight and not mixing up anything as Origin: United States Writer: John Azpilicueta, Juan Carlos Producer: Jeffery Beach, Phillip Roth they go. A team of specialists must find a way to Vargas Delivery Status: In Production DIVISION III: FOOTBALL'S contain the world's deadliest biological Producer: Jeffery Beach, Phillip Roth When a black hole threatens to consume FINEST weapon after a super tanker is overturned Key Cast: Danny Vasquez, Nicole our solar system, mankind’s only hope Comedy (98 min) by a rogue wave. Warner, Meredith Grau for survival resides within the creation of Language: English THE ONE WARRIOR Delivery Status: Completed a space ark. Director: Marshall Cook Action/Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller Year of Production: 2010 ANTI GRAVITY Producer: Convoy Entertainment Language: English When a group of actors are cast in a Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller Key Cast: Andy Dick (News Radio), Mo Director: Tom Stout reality series, none of them realize the Director: Trip Reed Collins (The 40 Year Old Virgin), Will Writer: David A. Prior competition has deadly consequences Writer: Nathan Atkins Sasso (Happy Gilmore), Adam Carolla Key Cast: Jason David Frank James until it’s already too late. Producer: Jeffery Beach, Phillip Roth (The Man Show) Russo Dominic Keating LIGHTNING STRIKES Delivery Status: In Production Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed Action/Adventure, Horror, Thriller After accidentally releasing an anti- Year of Production: 2011 Country of Year of Production: 2010 Country of Director: Gary Jones gravity material, a team of international Origin: USA Origin: United States Writer: David A. Prior scientists must discover how to reverse An overly aggressive and crazy coach is Born of myth and ancient legend, there is Producer: Jeffery Beach, Phillip Roth the effects before the world separates hired to help save a losing college but one man who possesses the strength Key Cast: Kevin Sorbo, David Schofield, from itself. football team, but his insane ways necessary to overcome the tyranny of the Annabel Wright quickly make him the players' worst dread lord Shoukata. Delivery Status: Completed nightmare. He will try ANYTHING to COLD FUSION Year of Production: 2009 get results. However, his outrageous Action/Adventure, Science-fiction, Trapped by a freak storm, a group of V coaching style and hilarious pranks are Thriller survivors slowly begin to realize that exactly what this team of misfits needs Language: English lightning is anything but a natural to transform them into winners! Director: Ivan Mitov phenomenon. VISION FILMS INC. SNOW WHITE: A DEADLY Writer: Nathan Atkins FIRE QUAKE SUMMER Producer: Jeffery Beach, Phillip Roth Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller Vision Films Inc., 14945 Ventura Blvd., Horror (90 min) Key Cast: William Hope Adrian Paul Director: Steve Williams Suite 306, Los Angeles, CA 91403 USA, Language: English Michelle Lee Writer: Robert Unger Tel: 1.818.784.1702 Fax: Key Cast: Shanley Caswell, Eric Roberts Delivery Status: Completed Executive Producer: Jeffery Beach, 1.818.788.3715. (The Dark Knight, The Expendables), Year of Production: 2010 Country of Phillip Roth www.visionfilms.net, Maureen McCormick (The Brady [email protected] Origin: United States Delivery Status: In Production Distributor Bunch) When alien technology is stolen by a As a series of underground fires threaten At Cannes: Lise Romanoff (Managing Delivery Status: Completed rogue military unit, the top female to melt the Earth from within, mankind Director/ CEO, Worldwide Distribution), Year of Production: 2012 Country of operatives from both America and Russia must take drastic measures before the Adam Wright (Executive VP, Origin: USA are assigned to neutralize the threat. planet becomes a scorched wasteland. International Sales & Acquisitions), A modern retelling of a timeless tale. SUPERCOLLIDER JET STREAM Vincent Tola (International Sales and Snow is abducted at the order of her Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller Acquisitions), Jennifer Schultz (Sales & wicked stepmother and taken to an Director: Jeffery Lando Director: Jeffery Lando Marketing Coordinator) isolated wooded discipline camp, run by Writer: Jeffery Lando Writer: Jeffery Lando Office: F3 in the Riviera, Tel: a ruthless hunter. When each of her Executive Producer: Jeffery Beach, Executive Producer: Jeffery Beach, Niko 818.784.1702 fellow seven campers begin dying off Roma Roth, Niko Foster Foster, Bruce A. Kahn one by one, Snow must uncover the dark Producer: Jeffery Green, Phillip Roth Producer: Jeffery Green, Phillip Roth http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1174 and twisted secret of the forest before Delivery Status: In Production Delivery Status: In Production she becomes the next victim. Year of Production: 2012 A meteorologist witnesses a deadly 12 DOGS OF CHRISTMAS II LAKE EFFECTS When a malfunctioning super collider weather phenomenon as jet streams Family (Approx 90 min) Family/ Drama (90 min) creates a temporal shift, a lone scientist lower down to ground level, with 500 Language: English Language: English must restore the natural order before our mph winds that threaten to destroy us all. Director: Kieth Merrill Director: Michael McKay world tears itself apart. CRYSTAL SKULLS Writer: Kieth Merrill Writer: Sara Elizabeth Timmins, Scott Key Cast: Sean Patrick Flanery (The Winters Boondock Saints, Dead Zone), Danielle Producer: Sara Elizabeth Timmins Chuchran (Dr. Seuss The Cat in the Hat, Key Cast: Scottie Thompson (Star Trek), CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS A Christmas Wish), D.B. Sweeney (The Jane Seymour (Wedding Crashers), THE CLICK AND ACCESS CULTURE IS NOW Event, Memphis Belle), Alli Simpson Madeline Zima (The Nanny), Sean Delivery Status: In Production Patrick Flanery (The Boondock Saints) & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. Year of Production: 2012 Country of Delivery Status: Completed Origin: USA Year of Production: 2011 Country of Neighborhood teenagers find themselves Origin: USA in a race against time and impossible When her father unexpectedly dies, a odds to rescue a dog orphanage from an high-powered attorney comes back to the Click on unscrupulous tycoon. magical lake house where she grew up to reevaluate her life and rediscover the ILLUSIONAUTS, THE Blue Boxes 3D Animation, Family (82 min) values she left behind. 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Producer: Moderncine Thomas, Felicity Jones, Tom Hollander Co-Production Partners: Opening Night NAKED HARBOUR Key Cast: Pollyanna McIntosh, Sean Delivery Status: In Production Productions AKA: Vuosaari Bridgers, Angela Bettis Year of Production: 2012 Country of Producer: Tamar Sela Drama (123 min) Delivery Status: Completed Origin: UK Key Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Language: Finnish Year of Production: 2010 Country of A passionate and moving look at the love Catherine Keener, Christopher Walken, Director: Aku LOUHIMIES Origin: USA affair between Charles Dickens and his Mark Ivanir, Imogen Poots Writer: Nina Repo, Mikko Kouki, Aku The Woman is the last surviving member mistress Nelly Ternan. For both secrecy Delivery Status: Post Production Louhimies of a violent clan that has roamed the was the price, and for Nelly a life of Year of Production: 2012 Country of Co-Production Partners: Edith Film, Northeast Coast for decades. When the "invisibility". Origin: US CTB Film Prodution, Mogador Film, last of her family is killed in a battle BYZANTIUM Four members of a world-renowned Synchro with the police, The Woman finds herself Horror / Fantasy string quartet struggle to stay together in Producer: First Floor Productions alone, severely wounded…and Language: English the face of death, competing egos and Key Cast: Laura Birn, Amanda Pilke, vulnerable. Unfortunately, she is now a Director: Neil Jordan insuppressible lust. Mikko Kouki, Jasper Pääkkönen, Sean far too easy prey for local hunter, Writer: Moira Buffini BETHLEHEM Pertwee successful country lawyer and seriously Co-Production Partners: Number 9 Political Thriller Delivery Status: Screening disturbed family man Christopher Cleek. 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Co-Production Partners: Headline flesh. Pretty soon, everyone's dying to Origin: Australia A LATE QUARTET get laid! Venice is having trouble with the men in Pictures, Magnolia Mae Films, BBC Drama her life: she breaks up with her lover and Films, BFI Language: English UNTITLED CATHERINE starts an affair with her best friend. To Producer: Gabrielle Tana, Stewart Director: Yaron Zilberman HARDWICKE PROJECT Drama her chagrin, her ex-hippy dad, camped MacKinnon, Christian Baute Writer: Seth Grossman, Yaron Zilberman Key Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Language: English, Swedish on her sofa for a week, ignores it at all. Director: Catherine Hardwicke CLIP (EYE ON FILMS LABEL!) Writer: Peter Birro AKA: KLIP CANNES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Producer: Malte Forssell, Helena Drama (102 min) Danielsson, Maria Dahlin Language: Serbian THE CLICK AND ACCESS CULTURE IS NOW Key Cast: Noomi Rapace, Ola Rapace Director: Maja Milos Delivery Status: Pre-Production Writer: Maja Milos & HAPPENING! THE FUTURE IS NOW. Year of Production: 2012 Country of Executive Producer: Jelena Mitroviæ Origin: Sweden Producer: FILM HOUSE BAS CELIK From the director of TWILIGHT and Key Cast: Isidora Simijonoviæ, Katarina THIRTEEN comes a rock'n'roll love Pe?iæ, Sonja Janièiæ, Monja Saviæ, story about scandal, glamour, betrayal Jovana Stojiljkoviæ Click on and ambition in the swinging sixties. Delivery Status: Screening Year of Production: 2012 Country of Blue Boxes Origin: Serbia WIDE Jasna is a beautiful girl in her mid-teens, to Access Wide, 40, rue Sainte Anne, Paris, 75002 leading a crude life of the postwar France, Tel: 0033.01.53.95.04.64 Fax: generation in Serbia. With a terminally Available 0033.01.53.95.04.65. ill father and dispirited mother, she is www.widemanagement.com, disillusioned and angry with everyone Company [email protected] and everything, including herself. Sales Agent At Cannes: Loic Magneron Having a huge crush on a boy from Trailers (General Manager), Clementine Hugot school, she goes on a spree of sex, drugs (Head of Sales & Acquisitions), Ilaria and partying, constantly filming with her Automatically Gomarasca (Festivals Manager), Nawid mobile phone. Still, in that very harsh Sarem (Eye On Films Coordinator), environment love and tenderness emerge. Michelle Palant (Eye on Films Coordinator) Do Your Part To Office: RIVIERA E/6

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THE PARADE Key Cast: Philippe Duqesne,Adeline Co-Production Partners: Bokomotiv AKA: PARADA Rebeillard, Valerie Maes Filmproduktion AB, TVP WONDERPHIL Comedy / Drama (116') Delivery Status: Screening Producer: Angelus Silesius Language: Serbian-croatian Year of Production: 2012 Country of Key Cast: Rutger Hauer, Michael York, PRODUCTIONS Wonderphil Productions, 4712 Admiralty Director: Srdjan Dragojevic Origin: France Charlotte Rampling Way #324, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 Writer: Srdjan Dragojevic The daily life of a today's family is Delivery Status: Completed USA, Tel: 1.310.482.1324 Fax: Co-Production Partners: Prva Srpska suddenly shaken when the youngest Year of Production: 2011 Country of 1.925.755.0131. Televizija, Mainframe, Sektor Film, child, Romain, is caught masturbating Origin: Sweden, Poland www.Wonderphil.biz,[email protected] Forum Ljubljana, Film & Music and filming himself with his mobile Lech Majewski, one of Europe’s most z Entertainment phone in his biology class at school.. adventurous and inspired filmmakers, Sales Agent Producer: Delirium Film BEAST PARADISE (EYE ON FILMS translates Bruegel´s masterpiece The At Cannes: Phil Gorn (CEO), Sanders Key Cast: Nikola Kojo (Lemon), Milos LABEL!) Procession to Calvary into cinema, Robinson (President) Samolov (Radmilo), Hristina Popovic AKA: LE PARADIS DES BÊTES mischievously inviting the viewer to live Office: Palais, Booth 22.01, Tel: French (Perl) (1h43) inside the aesthetic universe of the mobile at the market: 06.88.26.14.44 Delivery Status: Screening Language: French painting as we watch it being created. Year of Production: 2012 Country of Director: Estelle Larrivaz THIS IS NOT A FILM http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1054 Origin: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Writer: Estelle Larrivaz/ Guillaume AKA: IN FILM NIST Macedonia, Montenegro Daporta Documentary (75 min) SOLID STATE A homophobic, middle-aged, Serbian Co-Production Partners: Rhne Alpes Language: Persian Sci-fi (90 minutes) gangster ends up sacrificing himself to Cinma, Upian Director: Jafar PANAHI and Mojtaba Language: English protect Gay freedom in his country. Executive Producer: Mezzanine Films MIRTAHMASB Director: Stefano Milla TEY Producer: Matthieu Bompoint Producer: Jafar PANAHI and Mojtaba Writer: Gero Giglio AKA: AUJOURD’HUI Key Cast: Stefano Cassetti (Dominique), MIRTAHMASB Co-Production Partners: Claang (86 min) Graldine Pailhas (Cathy), Muriel Robin Delivery Status: Completed Entertainment & Wonderphil Productions Language: French, Wolof (Stphane) Year of Production: 2011 Country of Executive Producer: Phil Gorn & Enrico Director: Alains Gomis Delivery Status: Completed Origin: Iran De Palo Writer: Alains Gomis Year of Production: 2012 Country of Producer: Stefano Milla & Riccardo De Co-Production Partners: MAIA Origin: France Palo CINEMA, CINEKAP, AGORA FILMS Dominique is a domineering and WIDE HOUSE Key Cast: Debbie Rochon, Suzi Producer: Granit Production possessive father who runs a pet store Wide House, 40, rue Sainte Anne, Paris, Lorraine, Ava Brunini, and Vivica A. 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The band tries to escape the place where Death still sometimes warns Giovanetti area before they, too, become infected. that it is coming. Co-Production Partners: C'EST AU 4 http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1279 But the only way to escape is to defeat CALM AT SEA Cristine Asperti this alien outbreak. AKA: LA MER À L'AUBE Executive Producer: Svetlana Novak RICHARD THE RED LION Drama (90 min) Producer: C'EST AU 3 BERGMAN AND MAGNANI: THE Action/Adventure/Fantasy (90 min) Language: French Key Cast: Noor, Uzma Ali, Baba WAR OF VOLCANOES Language: English Director: Volker Schlöndorff Muhammad, Gunga Saeen, Mithu Saeen AKA: LA GUERRA DEI VULCANI Documentary (52') Director: Stefano Milla Writer: Volker Schlöndorff Delivery Status: Completed Language: Italian with English Subtitles Co-Production Partners: Claang Co-Production Partners: PROVOBIS Year of Production: 2012 Country of Director: Francesco Patierno Entertainment & Wonderphil Productions FILM GmbH, ARTE France Origin: France, Pakistan Writer: Chiara Laudani, Francesco Producer: Stefano Milla & Phil Gorn Producer: Les Canards Sauvages Noor wants to be a man. He doesn't Patierno Delivery Status: Pre-Production Key Cast: Léo Paul Salmain, Marc belong anymore to the Khusras, Executive Producer: TODOS Year of Production: 2012 Country of Barbé, Ulrich Matthes Jean-Marc Roulot Pakistan's transgender community. And CONTENTOS Y YO TAMBIEN Origin: USA & Italy Delivery Status: Screening he is definitely done with the love story Producer: Clara Del Monaco Nearing the end of his life, King Henry Year of Production: 2012 Country of he had with one of them.. Delivery Status: Post Production II decides to test the loyalty and honor of Origin: France THE MOLE (EYE ON FILMS Year of Production: 2012 Country of his son in a tournament of brutal strength Volker Schlöndorff comes back with a LABEL!) Origin: Italy and courage in which Richard will drama film dealing with the « Hostage AKA: KRET The story of the biggest jet-set love acquire the surname of Lionheart. Question” paying a moving tribute to the (108') scandal of all times. 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BRONX Producer: Stefano Milla, Riccardo De the hostages refuse to wear a blindfold Key Cast: Boryz Szyc (Pawel), Marian AKA: TONY CURTIS : DRIVEN TO Palo, Phil Gorn and that the rifleman are looking them Dziedziel (Zygmunt), Magdalena STARDOM Documentary (96' & 55) Delivery Status: Completed right in the eyes, we can’t help getting Czerwinska (Ewa) Language: English Year of Production: 2011 Country of deeply caught by the dreadful reality of Delivery Status: Completed Director: Ian Ayres Origin: USA & Italy wartime. Year of Production: 2012 Country of Writer: Ian Ayres A king makes a pact with an ancient SEXUAL CHRONICLES OF A Origin: Poland Executive Producer: YADE FRENCH demon and after many years of ruling his FRENCH FAMILY PAWEL, a Polish man in his early 30's CONNECTION kingdom in peace, the demon has come AKA: CHRONIQUE SEXUELLES works with his father ZYGMUNT, by Producer: Eric Ellena to collect. Now a group of rival D'UNE FAMILLE D'AUJOURD'HUI importing second-hand clothing from the Delivery Status: Completed gladiators must fight for the survival of Sexy Drama (85') North of France to Southern Poland.. Year of Production: 2012 Country of the kingdom. And the duel they never Language: French THE MILL AND THE CROSS Origin: France expected is about to begin. Director: Jean-Marc Barr and Pascal AKA: THE MILL AND THE CROSS A feature documentary that takes a closer DEATH GRIP Arnold Drama (91 min) look at the troubled life of Bernie Action/Martial Arts (90 minutes) Writer: Pascal ARNOLD Language: English Schwartz, a rebel from the Bronx, and Language: English Co-Production Partners: Mokey Pack Director: Lech Majewski his ascent to celebrity in Hollywood. Delivery Status: Post Production Films, Supersonic Writer: Michael Francis Gibson, Lech Year of Production: 2012 Country of Producer: Toloda Majewski

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Origin: USA Year of Production: 2012 Country of NIGHTBEASTS SPARROW Kenny is in for the fight of his life. He Origin: USA Sci-fi/Action (80 minutes) Horror (72 minutes) must save his brother who has been Mike Malone gets involved in a drug Language: English Language: English kidnapped by a mysterious religious scheme with a young boxer and a petty Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed group in this action-packed fight against thief. They manage to pull off a heist and Year of Production: 2010 Country of Year of Production: 2011 Country of evil. Mike makes a clean getaway. But things Origin: USA Origin: Poland THE LACKEY get complicated when Mike's young In this 35mm film, Charles tries to Six teenage friends set off on a camping Action (93 minutes) cohorts deviate from the plan and don't reunite with his estranged son, Tim, by trip in the woods. However, 'Camp Language: English cover their tracks properly – bringing taking him on a weekend hunting trip. In Happy Dreams' turns out to be 'Camp Director: Shaun Piccinino Mike back into the game. the mountain community, the legend of Nightmare' as legend states it's the site of Writer: Shaun Piccinino BROADWAY'S FINEST the Sasquatch surfaces from the darkness a murder. The teenagers' disbelief in this Key Cast: Shaun Piccinino, Rickey Bird, Action/Drama (87 minutes) of the woods. Now Charles and Tim urban legend is soon changed when Orlando McGuire, Vernon Wells, David Language: English must fight for their lives or become strange happenings begin to occur to Pires, Guy A. Grundy, Jeremy Dunn, Director: Stephen Morro victims to this horrific native curse. each of them. Sonny Sison, DT Carney Key Cast: Adam Storke, Nick Cornish, HERCULES SAVES CHRISTMAS STREET BROTHERS Delivery Status: Completed John Lavelle, Thomas G. Waites, Larry Family (90 minutes) Action/Martial Arts (90 minutes) Year of Production: 2012 Country of Pine Language: English Language: English Origin: USA Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Shorty Rossi, Derek Zemrek & Director: Phil Gorn In this Guy Ritchie-like action flick, Year of Production: 2012 Country of Leonard Pirkle Co-Production Partners: Wonderphil JUDE ST. CLERE discovers he has a Origin: UK Key Cast: Shorty Rossi, Hercules, Productions daughter by his junkie ex-girlfriend. "Midnight Run" meets "The Hangover" Mackenzie Phillips, Danny Arroyo, Mark Producer: Phil Gorn, Sanders Robinson, Completely broke and with his daughter as three struggling actors impersonate McClure, Kathy Garver Randi Acton starving, he reluctantly takes on one last New York City undercover cops. They Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Chandler Maness, Andy job which quickly entwines him dead chase down a notorious drug dealer in Year of Production: 2011 Country of Macfarlane, Michelle Kiyono smack in the middle of a bloody mob order to get the authentic material Origin: US Delivery Status: Pre-Production war. needed to create their own cutting edge Santa has given Hercules the duty to try Year of Production: 2012 Country of MAN MADE police drama. Things are rarely what and save one child on the Naughty List. Origin: USA AKA: I'M NOT JESUS MOMMY they seem in this gritty action-comedy. Hercules choses an orphan boy named During a championship match, JESSE, a Thriller/Sci-fi (89 minutes) mixed martial artist, throws the fight and RANCID Max Moogle, an adorable twelve-year- Language: English Sci-fi/Horror (92 minutes) old boy with a knack for getting into must go on the run from the mafia. He Director: Vaughn Smith Language: English mischief who dreams of being part of a hides out with his estranged brother. Year of Production: 2010 Country of Director: Alastair Orr loving family. When the mafia learns of Jesse's Origin: USA Delivery Status: Completed MOB RULES location, the two brothers must fend off The world's first successful human Year of Production: 2011 Country of AKA: TIC the mafia - while trying not to kill each cloning project brings Kimberly a son Origin: South Africa Crime/Action (97 min) other in the process. named David. Seven years after David's Four applicants, with their own hidden Language: English SEXLESS IN THE CITY birth, wars, famine and natural disasters agendas, are accepted by a mysterious Director: Keith Parmer romantic comedy of every kinds have plagued the Earth. corporation to participate in a medical Key Cast: Lennie James, Gary Language: English As Kimberly struggles to survive her experiment at an isolated testing facility. McDonald, Treva Etienne, Daniele Director: Phil Gorn biggest challenge is raising her son. Favilli Co-Production Partners: Wonderphil THE HOUSE Strange occurrences surrounding the Drama (109) Delivery Status: Completed Productions young boy are only becoming worse and Language: English Year of Production: 2010 Country of Delivery Status: In Development more mysterious. Director: Desiree Lim Origin: USA Year of Production: 2012 Country of THE SUPPRESSOR Key Cast: Natalie Skye, Zak Santiago, Fate meets fortune when small-time Origin: USA Action/Martial Arts (90 minutes) Alex Zahara, Emile Ullerup, Zahf Paroo, hoods shoot for the big score by holding A diverse group of 20-somethings search Language: English David Richmond-Peck, Olivia Cheng a club owner hostage for ransom. But in the streets of San Francisco. Director: Ara Paiaya Delivery Status: Completed time is running out, as the past catches MCS FIGHTS Key Cast: Ara Paiaya Year of Production: 2011 Country of up with all of them and the clock tics series (22 minutes) Delivery Status: Completed Origin: Canada slowly toward the moment of truth. Language: English Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2011 Country of Jean Kaneko moves into an empty home. RISEN Origin: UK She discovers she's not the only occupant drama (100 minutes) Year of Production: 2012 Country of A modern day “Death Wish”, this action- in the house. A cynical college professor, Language: English Origin: USA packed thriller is set amongst the seedy his bitter sister, her devoted husband, a Director: Neil Jones @MCSfights! is an action-packed underbelly of Scottish organized crime. disgruntled cab driver and a washed-up Key Cast: Stuart Brennan, John Noble, highlight show featuring the best When his wife is killed by a burglar, drifter are all squatting. They are not Shane Richie, Erik Morales moments in caged combat from across Blake Bradley takes the law into his own supposed to be there because they're Delivery Status: Completed the United States. hands and begins defending innocent actually dead. As Jean confronts these Year of Production: 2010 Country of victims. But all is not what it seems and souls as tormented as herself, they Origin: UK soon Blake finds himself going from the inevitably end up in an entangled mass Based on a true story, Howard Winstone WORLDWIDE FILM hunter to the hunted. of secrets and lies. lost three fingers on his right hand at the ENTERTAINMENT age of 16 but despite only being able to THE GERBER SYNDROME FORBIDDEN LOVE Worldwide Film Entertainment, 6363 W. Thriller/Sci-fi (88 minutes) make a fist with one hand, he went on to AKA: WANTU RIVER 83rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90045 USA, Language: Italian drama (83 minutes) win every boxing title in his division and Tel: 1.310.641.5360 Fax: Delivery Status: Completed Language: Mandarin eventually be crowned the champion of 1.310.641.5693. Year of Production: 2011 Country of Delivery Status: Completed the world. www.wfewfe.com, [email protected] Origin: Italy Year of Production: 2011 Country of JACK FALLS Sales Agent A viral disease spreads all over the Origin: China Action (100 minutes) At Cannes: Barbara Mudge (President), world. It is extremely contagious, fast JASMIN, an "Urban Youth" from Language: English Richard DeLong (EVP Marketing & spreading, and deadly. A TV crew is Beijing, witnesses her parents Key Cast: Simon Phillips, Alan Ford, Acquisitions), Sean Hutchison (Director making a documentary about the disease accidentally breaking a Mao statue. She Dexter Fletcher, Jason Flemyng, Olivia of Sales and Acquisitions) and the way society is coping with it by reports them to the Red Guard. Her Hallinan Office: Lerins S-7, Tel: documenting the stories of three people parents are beaten to death and Jasmin is Delivery Status: Completed +33(0)4.92.99.32.05 Fax: who are dealing with Gerber's sent to a remote village in Mongolia. Year of Production: 2011 Country of 1.310.641.5693 Syndrome. SHANHUA, a simple, warm-hearted Origin: UK THE LAST ACT village girl, takes Jasmin under her In this film noir thriller, former http://www.synopsisandtrailers.com/cannes2012/company.php?market=cannes2012&ID=1320 Action/Drama (89 minutes) protection. They become intimate undercover police officer, JACK Language: English friends. Despite opposition from the men ADLETH, survives a mafia murder Director: Ronald Quigley in their village, the two girls vow to be attempt in Amsterdam and returns to Key Cast: Ronald Quigley together forever. London to seek revenge. "A fun and Delivery Status: Completed stylish thriller." - Britfilms.tv

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TRADE OF INNOCENTS Crime Thriller (90 mins.) Language: English, Cambodian, Vietnamese Director: Christopher Bessette Writer: Christopher Bessette Co-Production Partners: Dean River Production Producer: Jim Schmidt, William Bolthouse, Laurie Bolthouse Key Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Mira Sorvino, John Billingsley, Trieu Tran Delivery Status: Screening Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Thailand An American couple becomes an advocate for an Asian American girl who becomes prey to a Cambodian brothel. STEALING ROSES Romantic Comedy (96 mins.) Language: English Director: Megan Clare Johnson Writer: Megan Clare Johnson Co-Production Partners: Little Studio Films Producer: Megan Clare Johnson, Alexia Melocchi Key Cast: John Heard, Cindy Williams, Bruce Davison, Josie Davis, Mark Famiglietti, Jude Ciccolella Delivery Status: Screening Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA A touching romantic comedy born from the tragic circumstances of a husband, terrified at the prospect of losing his seriously ill wife, who plans a bank robbery to pay for her medical treatments. It’s his only way of beating the high cost of dying. VENOM Thriller (85 mins.) Language: English Director: Gary Breslin Writer: Joan Canning Boris Co-Production Partners: Straight Line Movies Producer: Wolf Schmidt Key Cast: Jessica Morris, Oliviah Crawford, Roberto ‘Sanz’ Sanchez Delivery Status: Screening Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA After their car breaks down in an isolated desert, a mother and young daughter are relentlessly pursued by a deadly snake.

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