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EURO CONNECTION 2017

9th EUROPEAN SHORT FILM CO-PRODUCTION FORUM Tuesday 7th February, 9H30 - 15H30, Hotel Holiday Inn Wednesday 8th February, 10H00 - 17H00, Short Film Market

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PITCHED PROJECTS

Session 1 Péter Fülöp The Inner Side - Dániel Reich fP Films - Hungary 3 Delphine Schmit Craps - Tünde Deak Perspective Films - France 4 Danielle Guirguis Circus Fondantini - Patrick Raats Smarthouse Film - Netherlands 5 Jonas César The Cycle - José Cavalheiro AIM Studios - Portugal 6

Session 2 Agnė Adomėnė The Juggler - Skirmanta Jakaitė Art shot - Lithuania 7 Eleni Kossyfidou The Silence of the Dying Fish - Vasilis Kekatos Blackbird Productions - Greece 8 Jiří Konečný Room by the Lake - Olmo Omerzu Endorfilm - Czech Republic 9 Milivoj Popovic Cyclists - Veljko Popovic Lemonade3d - Croatia 10

Session 3 olivier Chabalier Sap - Clémence Marcadier Gasp - France 11 Artur Wyrzykowski Klingert’s Diving Suit - Artur Wyrzykowski Artcore - Poland 12 olga Osorio Mouras - Olga Osorio Miss Movies - Spain 13 Jan Ijäs Las Hurdes - Land without People - Jan Ijäs Visiokolmio ltd - Finland 14

Session 4 Abigail Addison I’m OK - Elizabeth Hobbs Animate Projects - United Kingdom 15 kalle Wettre The Musical Spider - Henry Moore Selder Malade - Sweden 16 fani Skartouli Postcards from the End - Konstantinos Antonopoulos Neda Film - Greece 17

PRODUCERS FOCUS

Producers invited in collaboration with our European correspondents and partner film & media organizations:

Hristian Nochev Filmarc ltd Bulgaria 18 Alexandra Matheou Master & Slave ltd Cyprus 19 Katharina Jakobs Film Boutique Germany 20 Dhyaa Joda Hexatonic Films Germany 21 Roland Fischer Ocean Pictures Filmproduktion Germany 22 Emanuela Ponzano Kaos Italy 23 Angelo Rocco Troiano Mediterraneo Cinematografica Italy 24 Pawel Kosun Centrala Poland 25 Mihai Mitrica Puls Digital Production Romania 26 Viva Videnovic Strup Produkcija Slovenia 27 Alvaro Olalquiaga The Kitchen Coorp. Spain 28

INVITED COUNTRY Producers from Colombia 29

TIMETABLE 30 EVENT SCHEDULE 31 ACCESS MAP 32 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 33

• 2 • THE INNER SIDE l DANIEL REICH HUNGARY

SYNOPSIS Domi is a 33-year-old autistic boy who never speaks, and lives with his mother and father. They’ve tried everything to cure him, but to no avail. The mother cynically tells the story of their unlucky family. We learn that grandpa, when he passed away, left only books as inheritance. This proved a disappointment for the parents again, but the books become the first things in Domi’s life to bring him happiness. He becomes obsessed with books. The family tries a new psychologist, Aliz, who soon realizes how important books are for Domi. Now Aliz starts to write a story for Domi. This book changes the world around Domi and we see the story becoming alive and driving the boy towards a solution. After the breakpoint we get back to the real world again. Domi is with his mother and for the first time in his life he starts to speak.

Péter Fülöp (b.1980, Hungary) Dániel Reich (b. 1986, Hungary) has been working on film is an independent film director and productions for twelve years. He cinematographer. He graduated in has got experience from no-budget

DIRECTOR cinematography at the Academy PRODUCER music videos and shorts, through of Drama and Film in Budapest. domestic commercials and feature Starting his career with shorts during films, to Hollywood blockbusters. As film school, Dániel soon became part of a production he prefers to be one of the most recognized of his involved in the creative process of the film as well. He worked age. He won the Hungarian Cinematographers Goldeneye as location manager in such movies like Wolrd War Z (116’, award 2 times in a row. His latest short Recall (19’, 2016) 2013), and Die Hard 5 (98’, 2013). In the last four years, he – produced by Péter Fülöp – was also honoured with the made two domestic and two European co-production feature same award. He shot two features right after the Academy as production manager. He has got over 50 commercials and as Director of Photography. His creative hunger naturally a dozen shorts in his credit list. led him towards direction. Recall the short film he made recently, proves that his sensitivity is not only for the image, but also for the story and the drama. His visual style and COMPANY FP Films is a private company recently the cinematographic mind, offer him a great opportunity to funded by producer Péter Fülöp. Its short create and deliver special films. credit list includes an animation short and some commercials. The aim of the company is to create valuable short films and to produce internationally distributed features. FP Films is completing 29-minute narrative short Indian, by Fiction – HD Digital – 15 min Balász Simonyi, in co-production with France. Shooting dates: Spring 2017 Estimated total budget: 66,000 euros Secured financing: 53,000 euros (80%)*

FP Films, Zrínyi u. 14, 2890 Tata, Hungary Péter Fülöp/ [email protected]/ +36 30 443 9893

* Including 25,000 euros granted by the Médiatanács Magyar Media Mecenatúra Programja. 13,000 euros granted by the Hungarian Film Incentive, and a 15,000 euros contribution from co-production partner KMH Film.

• 3 • CRAPS l TÜNDE DEAK FRANCE

SYNOPSIS Irenka, a woman of Polish origin, has built a life for herself in Paris. She returns to Warsaw, to attend her father’s funeral - a man she has lost touch with over the years. She gradually realises she remembers nothing of her childhood. As she sorts through her dad’s belongings, she finds a pair of dice. Not knowing how to cope with the changes in her life, she decides to give herself up to chance. From now on, she will roll the dice each time she has a decision to make. She begins to drift through a city which has become alien to her, attempting to summon images from her past.

Delphine Schmit studied Tünde Deak is a director and biology and anthropology, artistic contributor for performing conducting research in arts, working mostly with Thierry epidemiology mainly in Africa. DIRECTOR Bedard, Marc Lainé and Mathieu PRODUCER Around this time she also started Cruciani. She has directed two writing film scripts. Her debut short plays, mixing theatre and video: film won the first price in Premiers The Melancholy of Resistance and Plans Angers. She integrated the The Box Man. As a video artist, she Script Workshop at La FEMIS. Soon after she founded with has directed a Moby Dick by Mathieu Cruciani, directed Isabelle Mathy and other European partners a production video installations for Marc Lainé, a short film series titled company, Perspective Films. Since then she has produced Portraits # for Madeleine Louarn. She has worked as editor more than 10 short films (incl. an Oscar nomination for Zones, a video installation by Grégoire Strecker. Her first in 2013), 6 documentaries (selected in more than 100 film Interior / Box (14’, 2015), produced by Perspective festivals) and 4 feature films (latest release on July 2015). Films, premiered at the Weierstadt FilmFest in August 2016. She is a script reader for the CNC and other funding commissions, she is teaching film production at the Caen University and leads the «First step» program in Picardy.

COMPANY Perspective films was foun- ded in 2008, with the purpose of creating an auteur-driven cinema in collaboration with producing partners in Belgium and Switzerland. In 2015, Gaëlle Jones joined Delphine Schmit. Together, they are are defining the editorial guideline of the structure in order to put in its center a certain way of reflecting on the world, a poetic rebellion, both politics and Fiction – HD – 30 min sensitive.2010). Shooting dates: October 2017 Estimated total budget: 100,000 euros Secured financing: 10,000 euros (10%)*

Perspective Films, 12 rue Calmels, 75018 Paris, France Delphine Schmit / [email protected] / +33.6 16 44 29 80

* Including 2,000 euros granted for scriptwriting by the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée, and 2,500 euros for music by the SACEM.

• 4 • CIRCUS FONDANTINI l PATRICK RAATS NETHERLANDS

SYNOPSIS Jack is a happy child born into a loving circus family. But there is something about Jack; his head is always turned to the camera. Despite its shortcomings he lives a happy circus life with the dream of one day being a human cannonball. But fate takes a turn and several deaths in the family are forcing Jack to enter a “normal” life. With ups and a lot of downs he kind of succeeds as a banker. But the nostalgia of the Fondantini Circus makes him want to break free.

Daniëlle Guirguis worked on After his graduation in graphic serveral Dutch blockbusters before design, Patrick Raats started his she founded Smarthouse Films in career as an animator at Holland’s 2011. Every piece of content – most notorious animation studio. At DIRECTOR PRODUCER whether it is branded or not – is the Toonder Studio he specialised created with a heart of film. Every in the field of stop-motion while piece of content has charisma, so working on animated puppet Loeki to speak. After working for films as de Leeuw. Besides the craft of Black Book (145’, 2006) by Paul Verhoeven, Stricken (113’, animating he is skilled as an animation director and worked 2009) by Reinout Oerlemans and The Happy Housewife for many brands like Heineken, Lipton, NS, Uitmarkt, Cote (100’, 2010) by Antoinette Beumer, she produced 3 films at D’or, Hema and Sesame Street. After directing serveral the production company Shooting Star before she founded successful pre-school tv series, like as Nijntje (Miffy) and The Smarthouse Films. Tumblies (2013), he directed his first feature Woezel & Pip Op zoek naar de Sloddervos (70’, 2016) which was a great success with over 200.000 admissions in the Netherlands. COMPANY Smarthouse Films produces feature films, documentaries and commercials. The experimental art film The Common Sense (2014) was commissioned and shown at Holland’s leading art institutes De Appel, De Hallen, and Casco. The short filmsOnderstroom (11’, 2012, official competition NFF) and Nog 10 Minuten (7’, 2014, winner Cannes Short Film Festival) were both released in cinemas. The 6 short films produced as part of the program This is where Reconstruction Starts, commissioned by the IFFR, premiered at last year’s festival edition. The latest short, Route du Soleil (13’, 2016), premiered at this year’s NFF. Smarthouse’s first documentary Sea Gypsies is in post- Animation – HD Stop Motion – 7 min production and the first feature film La Holandesa is now in Shooting dates: to be defined production. Estimated total budget: 140,000 euros Secured financing: 2,400 euros (1,7%)*

Smarthouse Films, Nieuwe Achtergracht 17, 1018XV Amsterdam, Netherlands Danielle Guirguis/ [email protected] / +31 6 212 43 731

* Script development grant from the Dutch Film Fund.

• 5 • THE CYCLE l JOSE CAVALHEIRO PORTUGAL

SYNOPSIS A biologist, an engineer and a horticulturist work in a research station for the protection of biodiversity in a remote forest outpost, where they foster species differentiation. The three characters complement each other: A, the heavy sleeper, takes care of the plant nursery; B, the philosopher, is in charge of the machinery; C, the workaholic, studies living forms. But artificial biodiversification precipitates an ominous reaction of Nature. One night the course of the stars shifts: all living forms begin to uniformize fast. At the peak of standardization, they turn aggressive.

Jonas César (b. 1987 in Chaves) Zepe (b. 1956 in Porto). Degree holds of a post-graduate degree in Animation Cinematography at in Economics from the University LaCambre (Belgium); Doctorate cum of Porto, where he was member of DIRECTOR laude in Fine Arts at the Universidad PRODUCER the Pedagogical Board and of the Polytecnica de Valencia (Spain). monitoring committee for the Master in Assistant-Professor and Member of Economics (2009-2011). Co-founder the Scientific Board at the Fine Arts and executive director of FESTIMAGE School of the University of Lisbon. – International Image Festival (2007-2010). Member of Researcher and Pedagogic Coordinator at the Centre for Portuguese Animation House (since 2011). Executive producer Investigation and Studies in Art and Multimedia. General at HUSMA Production Company (2010-2013). Insurance Assembly President and Spokesman of the Animation consultant at Ernst & Young (2010-2014), currently, economist Cinema Directors’ Association at the Specialized Consulting at the Bank of Portugal. Co-founder and executive director at Section for Cinema and Audiovisual of the Ministry of AIM – Animation Studios. Projects under his supervision include Culture. Former Pedagogic Coordinator of the Center for various multi-location productions, from 2D/3D animation and Image and Narrative Techniques at the Modern Art Center VFX to video filming and interactive development. These projects of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Author of three short comprise independent productions and commercial projects for films and an animation series, awarded both nationally and major brands in over 10 different countries. internationally. A special mention to Stuart (11’, 2006) and Candide (11’, 2007), both nominated for the Cartoon D’Or. COMPANY AIM is an animation driven production company creating contents for Cinema, TV, Gaming and multi-platform communication. Relying on the multidisciplinary talent of its creative teams, it comprises a collective of artist specialized in 2D/3D animation and illustration, special effects and post-production; composers, musicians and sound designers working with several European production houses; an engineering team specialized in the Animation – Digital 2D and 3D Animation – 14 min development and programming of interactive content, with Shooting dates: May 2017 - May 2019 several published and award winning productions. Estimated total budget: 180,000 euros Secured financing: 140,000 euros (78%)*

AIM Studios - Animation Studios, Rua de Stª Catarina, 536, 3º, 4000-445 Porto, Portugal Jonas Silva César / [email protected] /+351.933 767 733

* Including 120,000 euros granted by ICA Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual.

• 6 • THE JUGGLER l SKIRMANTA JAKAITE LITHUANIA

SYNOPSIS We live in the same house, but with different apartments, jobs, situations, beliefs, visions. Each in our own compartment, we fool ourselves that the world is one and that it exists. Sometimes it seems that an incomprehensible thread becomes visible and I am on a verge of understanding… This film is about the other side of life - the scary, unknown side we never fully grasp, but we know is there, somewhere near, so close.

A founder and producer of Skirmanta Jakaitė (b. 1969) production company ART SHOT, is a director and animator with a Agnė Adomėnė, has educational BA in Animation from the Vilnius

background in culture management DIRECTOR Academy of Art and experience PRODUCER (The Master of Management, in animation production since Department of UNESCO Cultural 1989. The Juggler will be her third Management and Cultural Policy, directed short animated film. Her Vilnius Academy of Arts) and has previous films were also made worked in the film business since 2009, with experience in film using the technique of 2D drawn animation. We May Meet, distribution and exhibition (Art house cinema theatre PASAKA). We May Not (8’, 2011) was screened at many acclaimed Founded in 2012, independent production company ART SHOT international film festivals including Ottawa International focuses on developing, producing and co-producing short artistic Animation Festival, Hiroshima International Animation animated films. Since 2014 Agnė joined the team of European Festival, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Film Forum SCANORAMA as a film industry event coordinator. Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, Melbourne International In 2015 she became one of the founders and board members Animation Festival. Non-euclidean Geometry (11’, 2014, of the Lithuanian Animation Association, that was established to co-directed with Solveiga Masteikaitė ) was awarded the unite animation related companies, to provide network, to create Ecumenical Jury Prize at 6o th Short Film Festival Oberhausen and promote an attractive image of Lithuanian animation. and received Special International Jury Prize at Hiroshima International Animation Festival as well as The Lithuanian Film Academy award for The Best Lithuanian Animation Film of COMPANY Founded in 2012, ART SHOT is an the year. independent production company, focused on developing and producing short artistic animated films. The founder and producer of the company, Agnė Adomėnė aims to produce visually engaging animations with the potential Animation – 2D Animation – 10 min for international co-production and distribution. In 2016, the Shooting dates: July 2017 first completed production, a puppet animation film Ragnarok Estimated total budget: 90,000 euros (8’, directed by Urtė Oettinger and Johan Oettinger, Lithuanian Secured financing: 15,000 euros (17%)* - Denmark co-production) was awarded by Lithuanian Film Academy as The Best Lithuanian Animation Film of the year. Art Shot, J.Savickio st. 21-3B, 01108 Vilnius, Lithuania Agnė Adomėnė/ [email protected] / +370.620 88522

* Including 11,200 euros from the Lithuanian Film Center. Project is also a winner of the Baltic Pitching Forum 2016.

• 7 • THE SILENCE OF THE DYING FISH l VASILIS KEKATOS GREECE

SYNOPSIS Makis is a fish farm worker. On his way to work one morning, he is informed that he has died the day before. In his social circle, everyone treats him as though he were still alive; all the while knowing that he is deceased. After failed attempts to prove that he is alive, he accepts his fate with indifference and he spends his last day trying to secure shelter and caretakers for his beloved canaries, up until the time of his funeral.

Eleni Kossyfidouentered the field Vasilis Kekatos was born in of feature films firstly as production 1991 in Kefalonia, Greece. He manager for Real Life, by P. H. completed his degree in Film Studies Koutras (111’, 2004, Toronto IFF). in Brunel University of London. He DIRECTOR PRODUCER She founded her company in 2001, has worked as a director on several which became Blackbird production short documentaries and music in 2006, and produced / co- videos. His first short film,Retrograde produced Strella (111’, 2009) by (14’, 2015), was selected by Drama Panos H. Koutras (Berlinale Panorama), XENiA (134’, 2014) ISFF and Athens Premiere Nights IFF. His second short Zero by Panos H. Koutras (Un Certain Regard Cannes and Toronto Star Hotel (6’, 2016) won the Sundance Ignite “What’s Next?” IFF 2014). She also produced short filmsTwo Times Now (10’, Short Film Challenge. His next project, The Silence of the Dying 2007) by Michalis Konstantatos, Show Time (16’, 2006), by Fish has been selected to participate to the next Nisi Masa’s Theophilos. Papastylianos, Hot Dogs (19’, 2001) by Dimitris European Short Pitch 2017. He is also the artistic director Pantelias in co-production with ERT and Greek Film Center. of SeaNema Open Air Film Festival, a film festival in which the film projections are not hosted in cinema halls but in specially COMPANY Blackbird production was founded in formed areas by the sea. He lives and works in Athens. 2006. The company produced the feature film The Enemy Within (107, 2013) by Yorgos Tsemberopoulos (Montreal IFF, BFI IFF). It also produced 25 TV episodes (of 50’) on contemporary art The Era of Images by Dimitris Pantelias and 14 TV documentaries Mikropoleis / Small Towns (of 30’) by G. Gaitanidis, P. Miliou, Th. Kiaos for ERT/National Channel. It produced the short filmYoung Fish (19’, 2016) by Chrisanthos Margonis (Cinemed Montpellier 2016). The documentary Kostis Papagiorgis (The Sweetest Misanthropist) by E. Alexandrakis is in production. The feature film In This Land No One Knew How To Cry, by acclaimed Greek director G. Panoussopoulos, Fiction – HD – 20 min is in preproduction. In development are feature film Fantasia Shooting dates: November 2017 by A. Kardaras, and short filmsThe Silence of the Dying Fish by Estimated total budget: 47,850 euros V. Kekatos and The Woods by L. Tsalta. Secured financing: 23,500 euros (49%)*

Blackbird production, 3, Digeni Akrita str., 11471 Athens, Greece Eleni Kossyfidou / [email protected] / +30.6946127354

* Including 20,000 euros granted by ERT National TV Channel.

• 8 • ROOM BY THE LAKE l OLMO OMERZU CZECH REPUBLIC

SYNOPSIS This night will most likely be his last and he knows it. He is 75 years old and he’s a doctor. His name is Ivo. Behind the doors of the hospital room, his family members and friends are waiting. Ivo’s grandson also comes to the hospital with his young new girlfriend who got pregnant recently. When he introduces her to the old man, Ivo asks tiredly if he could see her breasts. In the hallway, the old physician’s wish becomes a public affair. Everyone realizes this might be his last wish but at the same time, they try to stay more or less considerate towards the young woman. How will the family solve such a delicate situation? And is this truly Ivo’s last wish?

Jiří Konečný graduated from Olmo Omerzu was born in VŠE in Prague (University of Econo- 1984 in Ljubljana. During his mics) – department of international studies at FAMU in Prague he business (2001) and FAMU, Film DIRECTOR directed several short films and his PRODUCER Academy in Prague – department 40-minute fiction The Second Act of production (2004). He founded (43’, 2008) was hugely successful his own independent production with festival juries throughout company Endorfilm. In 2008 he Europe. In 2011, Omerzu was selected for Producers on the Move at the Cannes Film graduated from FAMU with his feature debut A Night too Market. In 2007 he participated in the EAVE international Young (65’), a Czech-Slovenian co-production film that was training programme. distributed in Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia and Slovenia. After a successful premiere in the in the Berlinale’s Forum section in 2012, the film was invited COMPANY Endorfilm is an independent to numerous international festivals, winning several awards, production company mainly focused including the Czech Film Critics’ Award for the Discovery on quality arthouse films for cinema. of the Year. In 2015, he finished his second feature Family Endorfilmis one of the most active Czech Film (95’), a co-production between five countries with the production companies, specializing in support of Media and Eurimages. The film premiered at San international co-productions. Their films Sebastian IFF in New Directors Competition. It received the were screened at many major film festivals, including five times Award for Best Artistic Contribution at Tokyo IFF and other attendance at Berlinale: Matchmaking Mayor (80’) by Erika awards. Hníková in 2011 (Best Film in Forum), A Night Too Young (65’) by Olmo Omerzu in 2012, Aferim! (108’) by Radu Jude in 2015 in the Main competition (received a Silver Bear for the Best Director), Koza (75’, 2015) by Ivan Ostrochovský in the Forum section (nominated for Best Debut award), and Little Harbour (90’, 2017) by Iveta Grofova for Generation section. Fiction – Arri Alexa 2K – 25-30 min Their films were also selected four times as national candidates Shooting dates: September 2017 for the Academy Awards. Estimated total budget: 183,000 euros Secured financing: 41,125 euros (23%)*

Endorfilm, Prímetická 1187/4, 140 00 Prague 4, Czech Republic Jiří Konečný / [email protected] / + 420.602 358 373

* Including 35,185 euros granted by the Czech National Film Fund.

• 9 • CYCLISTS l VELJKO POPOVIC CROATIA

SYNOPSIS Cycling season is in full swing. Two obvious leaders in the tour so far are the cyclists the film follows. We see them not struggling only for the tour cup but more importantly for the love of the Laidy. While the last leg of the tour has started, in the small village where the race is being held comes Wilhelm Gustloff, the largest passenger boat of its time.

Milivoj Popovic has a Masters Veljko Popovic graduated Degree in Sculpting from the from the Art Academy in Zagreb, Academy of Fine Arts in Split and a painting department in 2003. BA in Computer Programming. He The following year he became an DIRECTOR PRODUCER co-founded lemonade3d in 2005. associate at the Art Academy as He’s worked in the studio as one of the an assistant to the professor Simon producers on various commissioned B. Narath (computer graphics and work and on 4 short animated films. animation). In 2005 he co-founded He also worked as the main CG sculptor on many of those lemonade3d, a 2d/3d computer graphics studio. In 2012 projects. In 2015 he produced the short animated film Planemo he became a tenured professor at the Art Academy, and in (14’) which was screened in Animafest, Annecy, Ottawa etc. 2012/14 Head of the Department of Film and Video. Since He is an ongoing visiting professor at the TV Academy in Split. 2008 he has directed 5 short animated films winning over 50 international awards including Fipresci award in Annecy 2008, Oscar qualifying Animated Eye in Aspen 2008, Cartoon East award at Animafest 2010, Golden Dove at DOK Leipzig 2012... In 2014 he was nominated for membership COMPANY Lemonade3d is a Croatian based in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscar). studio specialized in 2d/3d computer graphics for computer games, TV, print and film founded in 2005. We have produced a number of computer titles, five award winning short animated movies, and a truck load of commercial content for clients world wide. Work done by the studio members received over 50 international awards, including the Oscar qualifying Animated Eye award at Aspen and the Fipresci international film critics society award at Annecy.

Animation – Full HD – 5 min Shooting dates: June 2017 Estimated total budget: 67,000 euros Secured financing: 50,000 euros (74%)*

Lemonade3d, gotovčeva 4, 21000 Split, Croatia Milivoj Popovic / [email protected] / + 385.95 806 5744

* Granted by the Croatian Audio-visual Centre.

• 10 • SAP l CLEMENCE MARCADIER FRANCE

SYNOPSIS 1916, Great War. Ernest, 18 years old, a sapper, must dig a tunnel underground, at ten meters deep, to place dynamite at a strategic position. But the enemy is also digging and is so close that one can hear their voices. Ernest must act to stop their progress.

After graduating with a B.A. in A graduate with a Master in Cinema, Olivier Chabalier Cinema from the Paris 8 University, started as production and distribution Clémence Marcadier began assistant for the company Autour de as assistant director and production DIRECTOR PRODUCER Minuit. He then launched the short assistant before making her first film festival «Pris de court», in Paris, short fiction, Tom (20’, 2012). that he programmed for 4 years Her second film, A Summer (12’, before turning to production in 2010 2014), got selected in many by creating the company GASP! with Clémence Marcadier. festivals, including BFI, FICFA, Off-court. Sap, her third short, won a scriptwriting grant from the Île de France region and is currently in funding. At the same time, Clémence has been producing fiction and animation films at GASP! since 2010.

COMPANY GASP! is a production company created in 2010 by Olivier Chabalier and Clémence Marcadier to carry out audacious projects with a strong and distinctive perspective. We support films using new technologies or whose visual and narrative concept tends towards experimentation and/or genre. Our last two shorts were selected in many festivals (Ottawa, Odense, Interfilm). While continuing the production of short films, the company is currently developing an animation series and a feature length fiction.

Fiction – HD – 20 min Shooting dates: September 2017 Estimated total budget: 187,600 euros Secured financing: 43,600 euros (23%)*

GASP !, 8 rue Edouard Robert, 75012 Paris, France Olivier Chabalier/ [email protected] /+33.6 18 54 75 02

* Including 10,000 euros Development support from the Région Île-de-France Film Fund.

• 11 • KLINGERT’S DIVING SUIT l ARTUR WYRZYKOWSKI POLAND

th SYNOPSIS Wrocław, 18 century. Six-year-old Bi is looking for her little brother Oscar, who was taken by the flood. Her father Karl Klingert after this loss completely devoted himself to making the world’s first diving suit. The first presentation of the suit is coming. If it goes well, the family will move to England. Bi says they should stay and wait for Oscar. When she discovers her father’s biggest invention, in darkness and lightings, she takes it for a monster. She thinks the monster possessed her father and decides to destroy it before she loses her brother forever.

COMPANY Artcore is a Warsaw-based production Artur Wyrzykowski studied and post-production studio, established directing, production managing in 2007 by Artur Wyrzykowski. It and scriptwriting. He participated creates, produces and post-produces in Midpoint - Training The Trainers commercials as well as short and program, Ekran developing feature films. It’s a member of Polish program, New Horizons Studio Audiovisual Producers Chamber of and Maia Workshops. Since 2007 Commerce (KIPA) and Polish Animation DIRECTOR / PRODUCER he has run his production company Producers Association (SPPA). Its goal is to produce features that produces commercials and and TV series, but most importantly to tell good stories. offers postproduction and animation services. He produced and directed the short film Everything (15’, 2008), that was distributed in cinemas in Poland. He directed some episodes of a very popular daily TV series Presbitery and several commercials which he also produced. Currently he’s working on two short animations as a director/producer and one Swiss-Polish feature as a producer.

Animation – 4K – 20 min Shooting dates: Summer 2017 Estimated total budget: 200,000 euros Secured financing: 40,000 euros (20%)*

Artcore, Żegiestowska 18, 02-924 Warsaw, Poland Artur Wyrzykowski / [email protected] / +48.504 288 855

* Including Development support from the Polish Film Institute, support as co-producer from CETA Audiovisual Technology Center in Wroclaw and Studio Nice Berlin.

• 12 • MOURAS l OLGA OSORIO SPAIN

SYNOPSIS ‘Mouras’ are figures in Galician mythology that came originally from Celtic tradition. They are similar to fairies. It is not difficult to believe in ‘mouras’ when you are 6 years old, especially in the middle of a magic forest where your mom just wants to feed your fantasies.

Producer and editor of Mouras, Director, producer and writer of cofounder (with Olga Osorio) of the Mouras, Olga Osorio teaches production company Miss Movies filmmaking at the Escola de Imaxe and also its legal representative, e Son in A Coruña, where she also DIRECTOR PRODUCER Juan Galiñanes was twice teaches cinematography at the nominated to the Goya Awards and Faculty of Media Sciences. Her won the Mestre Mateo Award four first short fiction film, reStart (15’, times. Today, Galiñanes directs the 2015), was in the official selection animated series Tutu” for Clan TVE while he works on his first of the Sitges Film Festival and in numerous international film long-term real image project with the production company festivals, including Fantasia, PIFFF, Les Utopiales in Nantes Vaca Films. As a producer, he has been responsible for the or BIFFF in Brussels. The film won best script at Etheria in Los short films 3-1=0, reStart, Einstein-Rosen and for the video Ángeles and made Olga the recipient of the Best Galician clips Garden’s Road and Buscando a Superfama. director at the 43 Curtas Film Fest. She is also the co-director of Garden’s Road (2014), which was awarded the Mestre Mateo Award from the Galician Academy in 2015. She received again the Mestre Mateo Award 2016 for her video Miss Movies is a small production company COMPANY clip Buscando a Superfama (2015), which also won the from A Coruña that was created at the end of Jury Award at the Cans Film Festival. She recently finished 2013 by Olga Osorio and Juan Galiñanes, her second short film as director, Einstein-Rosen (9’, 2016), primarily aimed at pulling off personal projects which she also wrote. Einstein-Rosen premiered nationaly in from both filmmakers, although they have also the official section of the 49th Sitges Fantasy Film Festival taken on work on request for third parties, and internationaly at the Leuven International Short Film essentially advertising work. Miss Movies’ Festival and her script was one of the finalists at the Vértigo productions to date are: Short Films: 3-1=0 screenplay contest, at La Mano Festival (Madrid). (25’, 2014), reStart (15’, 2015), Einstein- Rosen (9’, 2016); Music videos: Garden’s Road (2014), Buscando a Superfama (2015); Advertising: Así eres, así somos (2015), Galicia sabe (2016).

Fiction – 4K – 9 min Shooting dates: May 2017 Estimated total budget: 24,000 euros Secured financing: 15,000 euros (62%)*

Miss Movies, C/José Vázquez Rozas, 1, 3º C, 15008 A Coruña, Spain Olga Osorio / [email protected] / +34.610230810

* Including 10,832 euros granted by Agadic.

• 13 • LAS HURDES, LAND WITHOUT PEOPLE l JAN IJÄS FINLAND

SYNOPSIS The movie takes place in las Hurdes in Spain, 70 years after Luis Buñuel made his famous documentary Tierra sin Pan in the same location. Today that same “cursed” province has been deserted even though the EU has tried to keep it alive. The villages from Buñuel’s movies have been abandoned. In many villages there is only one resident left and for that one resident the EU has built a basketball court and a playground. In the poor province of Hurdes, Buñuel is considered a satyr and a gormandizer.

COMPANY Visiokolmio Ltd (founded 1988) Jan Ijäs (b. 1975) lives and is a Helsinki-based production works in Helsinki, Finland. He company focusing today on studied documentary film directing ambitious film art, documentaries at the University of Art and Design and fiction. Today the company in Helsinki and has worked mainly focuses on Jan Ijäs’ film productions. The company with documentary, fiction and has produced several short films and its first feature length alternative film. The films of Ijäs documentary film Waste will be ready in 2017. DIRECTOR / PRODUCER deal with serious social themes. Ijäs’s films have been shown very widely abroad film festivals and as installations in museums and galleries. Ijäs directed and produced several short documentaries and his first feature length documentary called Waste is in production and will be ready in 2017.

Creative Documentary – 35 mm – 15-20 min Shooting dates: Summer 2017 Estimated total budget: 110,000 euros Secured financing: 21,800 euros (20%)*

Visiokolmio ltd, Kalevankatu 44 A15, 00180 Helsinki, Finland Jan Ijäs / [email protected]/ +358.40 701 641

* Including 10,000 euros from the Finnish Film Foundation and 8,000 euros from AVEK (Promotion Centre for Audio Visual Culture).

• 14 • I’M OK l ELIZABETH HOBBS UNITED KINGDOM

SYNOPSIS It is 1917 and Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka is in hospital, injured and shell-shocked from World War One, and heartbroken from the end of his famous love affair with Alma Mahler. Whilst recovering, he writes a brilliant play. The absurd visual metaphors from the play will be woven through the film to throw light upon Kokoschka’s real life experiences in love and war. The film will be animated and will combine a mixture of drawing, paper puppets and archive footage.

Abigail Addison has been Elizabeth Hobbs is an animator producing artists’ animation for based in London. She has been the past 7 years. These films have making films for 16 years. Her films screened at many international DIRECTOR are driven by a strong narrative, PRODUCER festivals, with Apocalypse Rhyme experimental in form and often winning a British Animation Award based on curious overlooked stories in 2014. In 2016, Abigail from history. Her films often employ produced Silent Signal, bringing methods from her printmaking together animators and scientists to produce six animations background, but always explore and stretch the material for exhibition at UK galleries and festivals worldwide, and possibilities of the medium. Her films have won many awards she produced Chris Shepherd’s Johnno’s Dead (8’, 2016, and travelled widely to international film festivals. They include selected in Clermont-Ferrand) in collaboration with Autour The Emperor (4’, 2001), The True Story of Sawney Beane de Minuit. Abigail is currently producing animated short I’m (11’, 2005), The Old, Old, Very Old Man (7’, 2007) and OK with Director Elizabeth Hobbs, having produced her Imperial Provisor Frombald (4’, 2013). Elizabeth’s newest film short Imperial Provisor Frombald (4’) for Channel 4 in 2013. G-AAAH (1’ ,2016) is a short created with a typewriter, has She is Associate Producer on Richard Squires’ experimental won 2 awards since it premiered and received a Vimeo Staff documentary, Claude: The Hysterical Laughter of the Cartoon Pick. Villain.

COMPANY Animate Projects is an award- winning production company working at the intersection of film, animation and art. Since its establishment in 2007 by producers Abigail Addison and Gary Thomas, it has maintained an international reputation for producing high quality, experimental films for exhibition across broadcast, festival, gallery, public Animation – Digital – 5 min and digital platforms. It has supported talent to make ambitious Shooting dates: May/October 2017 moving image projects, and has worked with more than 90 Estimated total budget: 58,000 euros filmmakers. Secured financing: 35,500 euros (61%)*

Animate Projects, 45 Empress Road, Derby DE23 6TD, United Kingdom Abigail Addison/ [email protected] / + 44.7789 686903

* Including grants from the Arts Council England and the Elephant Trust.

• 15 • THE MUSICAL SPIDER l HENRY MOORE SELDER SWEDEN

SYNOPSIS The phone rings in the office of private detective Bellytail. As the caller, Plattenberg, tells the PI his story, the images unfold. Plattenberg lives with his wife and their deformed kid, Runt, who is only a living head. Mrs Plattenberg is driving him crazy with playing piano to a dancing spider. Drunk one night, Plattenberg kills the spider, sending his wife into a catatonic state. But secretly, Runt is plotting his revenge. Based on the story «The Music-Loving Spider» by Belgian comic book artist Philippe Foerester.

Kalle Wettre (b. 1976) grew up Coming from a background in the in Uddevalla, a small village on the Swedish alternative music scene, Swedish west coast, as the second Henry Moore Selder turned youngest in a family of 4 kids. After early to film and studied film theory DIRECTOR PRODUCER spending 10 years in Gothenburg at the Stockholm University and where he studied at film school and practical filmmaking at the Stockholm played music he moved to Stockholm Film School. Henry’s films often deal where he still lives. Today Kalle with topics such as alienation and produces commercial film through his production company The estrangement, often with a keen eye for life’s absurdities. While Producers (est. in 2006) and features, shorts and docs through working as a director of commercials and music videos, he has production company Malade (est. 2009). Kalle also does created a body of short film work. The result is several award freelance work for other production companies. His latest short winning short films like the musicals Deadly Boring (9’, 2001) film, a stop-motion film calledBath House (15’, 2014, dir. Niki and She Is Dead (14’, 2002), and the dramatic sci-fi novella Lindroth von Bahr) has been screened all over the world and won filmA Living Soul (30’, 2014), which was in competition at the Grand Prix at Anima in 2015. His feature length documentary In Clermont-Ferrand film festival in 2014, as was She Is Dead in the Country (51’, 2014, dir. Anders Jedenfors) was nominated 2004. Henry has also worked with several renowned visual best Swedish Documentary at Guldbaggen (Swedish Academy artists and written and developed several in development feature Awards) in 2015. film and TV scripts both for Scandinavian and international production companies and broadcasters.

COMPANY Malade was started in 2009 as an artist collective within the visual medium. Malade believes in creativity within the collective group and has a strong sense of collaboration between borders. Nothing is impossible as long as everybody works together. As Fiction – HD – 13 min a film company Malade works in many shapes, from the artistic Shooting dates: to be defined to the commercial, the most important factor being passion and Estimated total budget: 200,000 euros determination in every project. No compromises, the heart must Secured financing: 6,000 euros (3%)* speak. Malade, Skeppsbron 38, 11130 Stockholm, Sweden Kalle Wettre / [email protected] / +46.707 147727

* Development support granted by the Swedish Film Institute.

• 16 • POST-CARDS FROM THE END l KONSTANTINOS ANTONOPOULOS GREECE

SYNOPSIS DIMITRA (40) and DIMITRIS (40) are trapped in their dysfunctional marriage. They try to endure the rest of their vacation with their two little daughters, on a remote beach of a Greek island. Their routine breaks when they notice that their phones, TV and internet have stopped working. Trying to deal with the crisis, the couple discovers that the phenomenon is widespread and alarming. Dimitra and Dimitris will have to overcome their internal antagonisms and unresolved issues in order to find a way to safely escape the island. Postcards From The End is a relationship comedy about rediscovering communication in an increasingly absurd, modern world.

Fani Skartouli is a film producer Konstantinos Antonopoulos and a lawyer. Following her legal (b. 1984, in Athens) studied film studies in Paris, she worked with law directing at Columbia University, firms in Brussels, Paris and Athens in DIRECTOR NY, and received his Master of PRODUCER the fields of Intellectual Property rights Fine Arts with Honors. In the US he and Employment law. She regularly worked as an editor in narrative films, advises production companies in the documentaries and advertisements. course of their filmmaking process. He directed six short films, of which She was part of the production team of Symptom (87’, 2015), Lea (14’, 2013) won the Honorary Distinction at Athens Virus (2017), a co-production between Greece, France and International Film Festival and Without Glasses (9’, 2009) Latvia and Pity, a co-production between Greece and Poland, won the Special Award at Drama Film Festival. He returned supported by Eurimages and currently in production. She was to Greece, where he directed the documentary series Beyond the post-production co-coordinator of the documentary series Silicon Valley (2014), Greeks Gone West (2015) and Insider’s Insider’s Guide (2016), Greeks Gone West (2015), the Guide (2016). He also directed commercials and music videos. associate producer of short filmFlowers and Bottoms (6’, 2016) He was the editor of the US feature film My First Kiss And The and the executive producer of the short film Our Lead Guitarist People Involved (81’, 2016), directed by Luigi Campi, and co- (11’, 2012), by Konstantinos Antonopoulos. She frequently wrote the screenplay of the feature film Symptom (87’, 2015), collaborates with various Athens-based film producers. directed by Angelos Frantzis. He teaches filmmaking at the Onassis Cultural Center. COMPANY Neda Film was established in Athens in 2014 by producer Amanda Livanou as a vehicle for the production of feature and documentary films as well as for international co-productions filmed in or

with Greece. In addition Neda produces commercials and corporate videos for selected clients. Neda Fiction – HD – 20 min is the producer of feature film Park (100’, 2016) by Sofia Shooting dates: September 2017 Exarchou, in collaboration with Madants Films (Poland). The film Estimated total budget: 40,000 euros won the New Directors award in San Sebastian International Secured financing: 8,000 euros (20%)* Film Festival. Currently in editing are the new documentaries from Panagiotis Evangelidis and Eva Stefani. Currently in production Neda Film, 5 Karytsi Square, 10561 Athens, Greece is feature film Pity, directed by Babis Makridis and co-written by Fani Skartouli / [email protected] / +30.6945525017 Babis Makridis and Efthymis Filippou. * Including 2,000 euros granted by the Greek Film Center for the Drama Pitching Lab Award.

• 17 • FILMARC LTD l HRISTIAN NOCHEV BULGARIA

FILMARC Ltd 42 Gurko st. Ap.12 1000 Sofia Bulgaria

Creation date: 2011

[email protected] / +359.888 465 183

COMPANY FILMARC Ltd. was founded in July 2011 by Tsvetodar Markov and Hristian Nochev, who have been writing, directing and producing for film and television during the last twenty years or so.

Hristian Nochev graduated SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: in Film and TV Directing at the National Academy for Theatre • Hunting down Small Predators (fiction, 93’, 2010), and Film Arts (Sofia, Bulgaria). directed by Tsvetodar Markov PRODUCER Since 1990 he has been writing, • Vocation: Actress (documentary, 57’, 2014), directed by directing and producing for film Olga Markova and TV. His selected filmography • While Aya Was Sleeping (fiction, 87’, 2016), directed includes Border (1994), Christmas byTsvetodar Markov Possible (2001), Hunting Down Small Predators (2010), • Insomnia (fiction, 29’, 2016), directed by Radoslav While Aya Was Sleeping (2016), as well as a great number Kamburov of TV shows – including Music Idol, The Voice of Bulgaria, Survivor, Bulgaria’s Got Talent, etc.

CURRENT PROJECTS:

• French Cinema, directed by Galina Georgieva – in pre- production

• 18 • MASTER AND SLAVE l Alexandra Matheou CYPRUS

Master & Slave Kerkionos 8A, Pallouriotissa 1036 Nicosia Cyprus

Creation date: 2016 Number of staff: 3

[email protected] / +357.99823297

COMPANY Master and Slave is an independent film production company founded in 2015 and dedicated to making motion pictures that span a range of genres. By championing new talent in Cyprus and forging relationships with a wide range of collaborators across Europe and the world, we are looking to tell our stories with passion and conviction. Master and Slave also offers sound design and audio post-production services run by company co-founder Christos Kyriacoullis.

Alexandra Matheou is a SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: Cypriot filmmaker and writer. She studied Law at King’s College • Anorak (fiction, 12’, 2014), by Alexandra Matheou London and holds an LLM Master’s PRODUCER in Commercial and Financial Law. In 2009, she completed an MA in Film at University College London (UCL). In the same year she wrote and directed her first short film A Winter Sonnet for the Golden Clouds. The film opened at the Cambridge Film Festival (Official Selection) and also won the Best Work of Fiction Award at the Crashfest International Film Festival in Thessaloniki. In 2011, she was commissioned by the Cyprus Ministry of Labour to produce and direct The Road towards Equality, a documentary on Gender Equality in the workplace. Since 2012, Alexandra has worked as an Assistant for Production Company Matador Pictures (The CURRENT PROJECTS: Wind That Shakes the Barley, Ten Minutes Older: The Cello). She also spent a year working as a Junior Assistant and Script Reader • Ashes to Ashes, by Alexandra Matheou – pre production for UK Distribution and International Sales Agent The Works Film • Crossing Death, by Christos Kyriacoullis, Kika Georgiou – Group. In 2014, Alexandra joined The Discovery Channel as pre production Programming Coordinator for West Europe and later, the Nordic regions. Her second short film Anorak premiered in competition at the Athens International Film Festival 2015 and won two awards (Best Editing and Best Actress) in the International Short Film Festival Cyprus (ISFFC) 2015.

• 19 • FILM BOUTIQUE l KATHARINA JAKOBS GERMANY

Film Boutique Werderstrasse 26 50672 Köln Germany

Creation date: 2007 Number of staff: 2

[email protected] / +49.177 59 02 866

COMPANY Katharina Jakobs and Markéta Polednová, two production graduates of the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy with years of experience in their field, foundedFilm Boutique GbR in Cologne in January 2007. Their business focuses on the creation of documentary, short and feature films for cinema and television. Additionally, the company offers such services as line producing and production management during the development period, project coordination and post-production. Film Boutique’s vision is that of creating powerful films of an individual character. Film Boutique received company-foundation subsidies from North Rhine-Westphalia’s Mediengründerzentrum [Audio-visual foundation centre] and also benefited from the centre’s encompassing range of seminars and advisory tutorials.

Katharina Jakobs studied SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: film production at the Baden- Württemberg Film Academy and • Worst Case Scenario (fiction, 82’, 2014) by Franz Müller

PRODUCER completed her studies in 2005, • Happy Hour (fiction, 95’, 2015) by Franz Müller – co- having specialised in International production with Ireland & Creative Producing. Before her • United Interest (animation, 9’, 2016) by Tim Weimann studies, she worked as an intern – selected at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2017, and production assistant in the TV Labo Competition and film industry between 1995 and 2001. From 2005 to 2007 she was junior producer at Coin Film, production company in Cologne, focusing on European art-house feature films and documentaries. Besides producing films with Film Boutique, she also works as a line producer for films like feature documentary Cahier africain (118’, 2016) by Heidi Specogna about the Central African Republic, produced by Filmpunkt, Cologne and PS FILM, Zürich, which premiered CURRENT PROJECTS: in Locarno in 2016 or Leaning into the Wind (93’, 2016) by Thomas Riedelsheimer about the artist Andy Goldsworthy, • The Housewife by Alisa Berger - feature film, in produced by Skyline Productions Ltd, Edinburgh, UK. development • Dance me to the End of Love by Ulrike Molsen – feature film, in development • Sommerschool by Freya Stewart and Jovan Arsenic – feature film, in development

• 20 • HEXATONIC FILMS l DHYAA JODA GERMANY

Hexatonic films Sanderstrasse17 12047 Berlin Germany

Creation date: 2006 Number of staff: 3

[email protected] / +49.305 265 51 46

COMPANY Hexatonic Films is a collaboration between brothers Osama Rasheed and Muha Nad Rasheed. After working as director of photography and cinematographer for nine years, Osama Rasheed made his directorial debut with The Society, a short film which premiered at the 40th Toronto Film Festival in 2015. Osama Rasheed wants to continue working with the topics addressed in The Society, contemporary social and political issues as they relate to the Arab diaspora.

Dhyaa Joda, director & film SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: producer, was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1979. He studied cinema • The Society (fiction, 14’, 2015) by Osama Racheed at the University of Fine Arts in PRODUCER Baghdad, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 2004. Up until 2005 he worked as a cameraman and filmmaker for several Arabic and Iraqi TV channels such as AlArabiya, and Alhurra Iraq in Baghdad. Joda left Baghdad for Brussels, Belgium in 2005 and has lived there ever since. In 2009 he directed the film Message for Dar alSalam, which was screened at Antwerp’s Monty theatre in Belgium. He completed a professional photography program at the Brussels Art Academy’s Agnes Varda School in 2012. His photographs have been exhibited in galleries around Belgium. He is currently editing CURRENT PROJECTS: his first feature length documentary,Dance with a Bullet, and shooting several short films. • Sabeya , by Dhyaa Joda - pre-production • Sameblood , by Oday Sadoon - post-production • Supercluster , by Muha Nad Rasheed - post-production

• 21 • OCEAN PICTURES FILMPRODUKTION l ROLAND FISCHER GERMANY

OCEAN PICTURES Filmproduktion Wespachweg 5 87700 Memmingen Germany

Production office : Klostergasse 2 78462 Konstanz Germany

Creation date: 2005 Number of staff: 3 (+2 freelancer)

[email protected] / +49. (0)179 549 40 13

COMPANY OCEAN PICTURES Filmproduktion develops and produces ambitious German and international films in close cooperation with filmmakers and partners. CEO & Producer Roland Fischer is responsible for Andersartig (Den- nis Stein-Schomburg, 2011), which won the FFA-Short Tiger Award, the critically acclaimed short Sechster Sinn, Drittes Auge, Zweites Gesicht (Jan Riesenbeck, 2012/2013), which was nominated for the German Short Film Award. He also produced the Berlinale 2015 selected The Old Man And The Bird (Dennis Stein-Schomburg, 2015) and the price-winning coproduction Schwerelos, by Jannis Lenz. Latest projects are the Swiss-German coproduction Greater Than (Kate Haase & Sebastian Hühnel) and the Austrian-German coproduction Wannabe (Jannis Lenz), in competition at Clermont-Ferrand 2017. OCEAN PICTURES is currently developing several short and feature films.

Born in the south of Germany. A SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: trained banker with the expertise of funding startup companies. Studied • Different (Andersartig) (5’, 2011, animation), from 2002 to 2007 at the University PRODUCER by Dennis Stein-Schomburg of Applied Sciences Ansbach - • Sixth Sense, Third Eye, Second Face (14’, 2012/2013, multimedia & communication (Film- exp.-fiction), by Jan Riesenbeck and TV-Produktion). As the assistant • The Old Man and the Bird (7’, 2015’, animation), of the line producer at Hofmann by Dennis Stein-Schomburg & Voges Entertainment working on several Cinema- and • Own Drum (15’, 2015, animation), by Kai Stänicke TV-Projects (f.e. Wo ist Fred and Türkisch für Anfänger). In • Schwerelos (10’, 2016, exp.-documentary), addition to that working as an assistant for funding at the by Jannis Lenz FilmFernsehFonds Bayern. • Greater Than (9’, 2017, exp.-animation), by Kate Haase Since 2007 developing, funding and producing films and & Sebastian Hühnel TV-projects with his own company OCEAN PICTURES • Wannabe (30’, 2017, crossmedia-fiction), Filmproduktion. by Jannis Lenz – Int’l Competition Clermont-Ferrand 2017

CURRENT PROJECTS:

• Current projects on request.

• 22 • KAOS l EMANUELA PONZANO ITALY

Kaos Via fonteiana 86 00152 Roma Italy

Creation date: 2010 Number of staff: 2

[email protected] / +39.342 146 94 24

COMPANY Kaos is a cultural association whose purpose is the dissemination of cultural activities, theater, cinema, art in ge- neral, both at national and international levels with specific interest in the theater and film industry, and the desire to produce mainly short & feature films on social issues or concerning matters of great importance in the international debate.

Emanuela Ponzano was born SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: in Brussels, of Italian nationality. She graduated in Political • Bagnasciuga (fiction, 3’45, 2008), by Emanuela Science at the University Libre PRODUCER Ponzano de Bruxelles in 1995 and the • Riflessi (fiction, 21’, 2009), by Emanuela Ponzano National Academy of Dramatic • Reminder (spot, 2’, 2010), by Michela Alessia Marcato Arts in Liege in Belgium in 2000. • La Slitta (fiction, 19’, 2016), by Emanuela Ponzano In 2009 after the experimental in B & W Bagnasciuga (2008), she directed her first short fiction, Reflections (21’, 2009) selected in more than 30 international festivals, which won the 3rd edition of the festival Cortovisione IFF for best short film. In 2015 she made her latest fiction short film The Sled (19’), still in distribution after 70 official international selections and a score of awards. As an actress she plays, among others, in The Investigation (112’, 2006) by Giulio Base, The Moon and the Stars (102’, CURRENT PROJECTS: 2007) by John Irvin and Jealousy (77’, 2013) by Philippe Garrel presented at the 70th Venice Film Festival. Currently • A New Perspective, by Emanuela Ponzano- in co- she is writing her first feature film. production • Fin de Siècle, by Emanuela Ponzano – feature film in development (Italy, Hungary, France, Poland co-production)

• 23 • MEDITERRANEO CINEMATOGRAFICA l ANGELO ROCCO TROIANO Italy

Mediterraneo Cinematografia Via La Malfa 5, Bernalda (MT) Italy

Creation date: 2014 Number of staff: 3

[email protected] / +39.388 9251703

COMPANY Mediterraneo Cinematografica is an Italian independent audio-visual production company, created in November 2014 with the intent to make quality authorial products and with the ambition to become a leading company in the sector over time. Today’s corporate structure is the natural continuation of the cultural association Basiliciak that was founded in 2008 with the mission to produce and promote the Lucan cinema. Authorial works of different genres and themes ranging from integration to social issues at work, or the future of the younger generation. Personal and collective successes have led the Basiliciak’s two founding members, Giuseppe Marco Albano and Angelo Troiano, to create Mediterraneo Cinematografica. The pair has worked with all regional and local institutions, making documentary, commercial, or corporate films.

Angelo Rocco Troiano has SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: a background in politics, which started with the Sinistra Giovanile • AnnA (drama, 15’, 2013), by Giuseppe Marco Albano (Left Youth) and culminated as PRODUCER • Thriller (drama / comedy, 15’, 2014), by Giuseppe Secretary of the Democratic Party. Marco Albano – winner of David di Donatello 2015 for Since May 2014 he’s been a best Italian short film. councillor for the borough of his hometown of Bernalda. He studied law and is a trained assistant director and script supervisor. He is a founder of the Basiliciak cultural association, which was missioned to develop regional cinema. In 2013 he jumped in as production coordinator on short film AnnA, by Giuseppe Marco Albano, with whom he also developed and made Thriller, which won the David di Donatello for Best Italian Short Film in 2015. Together, they founded Mediterraneo Cinematografica. In 2014 Angelo Troiano CURRENT PROJECTS: also won the Gold Elephant Award for Best Producer at the Catania Film Festival. • Acquario (Aquarius, short film), by Lorenzo Puntoni - pre-production • L’Avenir (short film) by Luigi Pane - pre-production • Vedi Napoli e poi muori (See Naples, Then Die, feature film), by Giuseppe Marco Albano - development • Crabs (feature film), by Giuseppe Marco Albano – development

• 24 • CENTRALA DISTRIBUTION l PAWEL KOSUN POLAND

Centrala Film, ul. Sienkieiwcza 52 37, 90-058 Lodz, Poland

Creation date: 2004 Number of staff: 3

[email protected]/ +48.664 084 949

COMPANY Centrala Distribution focuses on producing documentaries and fictions by young filmmakers. The team consists of people coming from diverse work backgrounds. The core of the team are: Jacek Nagłowski, Agnieszka Janowska, Paweł Kosuń - the founders, owners and producers in Centrala. Films produced in Centrala have been presented and successful at many international film festivals such as Cannes, Visions du Réel, Planete + Doc, Krakow Film Festival, Warsaw Film Festival, Hot Docs and other.

Pawel Kosun is a journalist, film SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: producer and member of the film production company Centrala. • Deer Boy (15’, 2017), by Katarzyna Gondek, After graduating in Spanish PRODUCER Poland/Belgium/Croatia ; producer Philology from the University of • Tower, bright day (90’, 2017), by Jagoda Szelc, Wroclaw, he began working as a co-producer film producer and has worked on • Forest 4 a.m. (90’, 2016), by J.J.Kolski; co-producer productions of both documentaries • Monk of the sea (69’,2016, documentary), Poland/ and feature films (for example Czech Oscar Entry In the Germany; producer Shadow, 106’, 2012, by David Ondricek). He graduated • Gottland (6 x 25’; and 100’ version, 2014), from Andrzej Wajda’s Master’s School with a major by Bohdan Bláhovec et al, Czech Republic, Poland, in creative production, and is a winner of the MFG Film Slovakia; co-producer Foerderung Baden Wuertemberg scholarship. He attended • In the Shadow (102’, 2012’), by David Ondříček, Czech Ludwigsburg-Paris Atelier and graduated from La Femis in Republic/Poland, Slovakia; co-producer France and NFTS in London with a specialisation in film production. He attended the Emerging Producer’s Program 2015 at Jihlava Film Festival. Founder of the Wroclaw Film Foundation. CURRENT PROJECTS:

• Lipstick on the glass (fiction), by Kuba Czekaj • Safe & Quiet (fiction – Berlinale Script Station 2017), by Justyna Tafel • Pardon (fiction), by Jan Jakub Kolski • Ordinary Acts of Bravery (fiction), by Filip Kasperaszek • Revolution Revisited (documentary), by Andreas Hoessli

• 25 • PULS DIGITAL PRODUCTION l MIHAI MITRICA ROMANIA

Puls Digital Production 41, Alizeului str. Bucharest Romania

Creation date: 2014 Number of staff: 10

[email protected] / +40.722 59 56 38

COMPANY Puls Digital Production is a production company specializing in production of animated films, SFX and very challenging live action films. It was founded in 2014 with the desire to share creativity and innovation in the animation field.Puls Digital Production loves working with talented filmmakers, whether just beginners or established artists, and is open and passionate to discover their visions and develop their creativity at artistic standards. The studio works mostly in SFX and 3D animation, but is anxious to explore other techniques: 2D, rotoscoping, mixed media etc. The company is able to develop the needs of each specific project and carry it out from development, storyboarding, character design, modeling, animation to post-production, including compositing, visual effects, stereoscopic 3D and more.

Mihai Mitrica holds a BS in SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: Economics – Public/Cultural Ma- nagement from the Academy of • The Scream (2011), animation directed by Sebastian Economic Studies of Bucharest. PRODUCER Cosor, Since June 2006 he has been Di- • World War Cup (2017), animation directed by rector and Founder of Anim’est - in- Sebastian Cosor ternational animation film festival in Bucharest.

CURRENT PROJECTS:

• 8 minutes by Sebastian Cosor – pre-production • Ceva by Paul Muresan – production • Aievea by Anton Octavian – pre-production

• 26 • STRUP PRODUKCIJA l VIVA VIDENOVIĆ SLOVENIA

Strup Produkcija Celovška cesta 43 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia

Creation date: 2004 Number of staff: 1

[email protected] / +386.401 728 58

COMPANY Strup is an independent production company based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, founded in 2004 to produce quality film, animation and multimedia projects. In 2008–2012, Strup realized several large-scale multimedia installations with museums in Slovenia. In 2012 Strup re-focused on independent film production with international potential, including animation, documentary and fiction films. Strup is interested in strong, ambitious artistic projects with emerging and experienced filmmakers.

Viva Videnović‘s formal SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: education is in International Relations, she holds a masters’ • Idyll (fiction, 89’, 2015), by Tomaž Gorkič degree at University of Ljubljana in PRODUCER • Every True Poet (documentary, 12’, 2014), by Nejc Saje 1997. As a self-employed producer and Jeffrey Young she has worked in different cultural • Meat Chain (short fiction, 15’, 2010), by Tomaž Gorkič fields. Her productions include • Vixen in Fox Language (animation, 8’, 2009), by Miha over 100 concerts and two music Knific festivals, a literary festival and many exhibitions. She has • Courtyard (animation, 24’, 2006), by Nejc Saje also worked as a book editor, a print journalist and in TV • Rudi Omota: Hidden Chapter of Slovenian and radio media. She’s been active in film production since Cinematography (documentary ,60’, 2004), by Dražen 2004. After her first film, a documentary Music is the Art Štader of Time, LP Film Pankrti – Dolgcajt (47’, 2005), she moved to Oscar-winning company Studio Maj where she worked as production assistant. She joined Strup in 2012. She has variety of projects in production or in development, including CURRENT PROJECTS: documentary, animation, short and feature fiction films. • Apoptosis , by Tomaž Gorkič, short fiction – in post- production • Freedom or Die, by Vladimir Blaževski, feature fiction – in post-production • Martin Krpan by Nejc Saje, animation – in production • The Tunnel, by Gregor Andolšek, short fiction – in production • Pumpkin on the Hot Roof of the World, by Nejc Saje & Jeffrey Young, documentary – in production • Spuffies , by Jaka Ivanc, short animation – in pre- production • Metod , by Tomaž Gorkič, feature fiction – in development

• 27 • THE KITCHEN CORP. l ÁLVARO OLALQUIAGA SPAIN

The Kitchen Corp General Arrando nº7 28010 Madrid Spain

Creation date: October, 2012 Number of staff: 5

[email protected] / +34.677450728

COMPANY The Kitchen Corp. is an audiovisual and production company focused on advertising whose core aim is to meet the new and emerging audiovisual needs of both clients and agencies. The company’s foundation stones are a professional team whose members bring together a wealth of experience and expertise. Being able to manage projects from start to finish, we have full control of all the stages involved in the process. The company has its own post-production service, including editing, colour correction, graphics animation, FX composition and CG.

Álvaro Olalquiaga holds a SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: degree in Advertising & Public Relations from the Universidad • Como yo te amo (22’, 2016), by Fernando García-Ruiz, Complutense de Madrid. Álvaro PRODUCER Clermont-Ferrand 2017 International Competition. has over 10 years experience in international advertising agencies, such as Tiempo BBDO, Bates and Sra.Rushmore. In 2007, he founded The Kitchen Films, a production company focused CURRENT PROJECTS: on creating and developing top quality audiovisual projects for digital environments. At the end of 2012, he partnered with Fernando García-Ruiz (Director) Javier Sanjuan (Line • At the moment, the team is preparing a film project with Producer) and Andres Talegón (Postproduction) to found The Diego San José, one of the most renowned screenwriters Kitchen Corp. In the summer of 2015 the team shot Como yo in Spain. te amo, its first comedy short film. The short film was finalized in February 2016. Since then it has won over 15 awards and 30 nominations.

• 28 • INVITED COUNTRY PRODUCERS FROM COLOMBIA

CHICAMOCHA FILMS / John Chaparro

Created in 2014, Chicamocha Films is a young production company based in Bucaramanga and Bogota. The company’s filmography includes titles likeNaranjas (Oranges, 14’, 2014), by Iván D. Gaona, which premiered in Clermont-Ferrand 2014, won Jury Prize in Palm Springs, was awarded Best Latin American Short in Mar del Plata, and was selected in some 40 festivals the world over. Fiction short El Embudo (The Mountain, 12’, 2014) premiered at the Krakow Film Festival 2015 and also played some 40 festivals, while documentary short Cien años más viejo (A Hundred Years Older, 18’, 2015) premiered at the Festival de Cine Latino de Chicago 2016. Both titles were directed by company founder John Chaparro. Currently Chicamocha Films is developing its first feature documentary Hijos de dios, completing the short El artista (The artist), and looking for funding for fiction short Carmen. https://es-la.facebook.com/chicamochafilms / [email protected]

CONTRAVIA FILMS / Oscar Ruiz Navia

Founded in 2006 Contravía Films offers a solid platform for independent auteur cinema in Colombia. It completed 10 short films by different directors, each bringing an intimate look into varied stories. The company’s feature films include: El Vuelco Del Cangrejo, by director-producer Oscar Ruiz Navia (FIPRESCI prize Berlinale Forum 2010), La Sirga, by William Vega (Director’s Fortnight Cannes 2012), Los Hongos, by Oscar Ruiz Navia (Special Jury Prize Locarno 2014), Siembra by Santiago Lozano and Ángela Osorio (Locarno 2015). Epifanía, by Oscar Ruiz Navia and Anna Eborn, premiered in Busan 2016. In 2017 the short film La muerte y el cabro, by Juan Pablo Caballero, will be released and shooting will start for La Virgen Negra by same director. Contravía coproduces Tormentero, by Rubén Imaz (in post- production), with Axolote Cine in Mexico and Aurora Dominicana in the Dominican Republic. Also in post-production is Sal, by William Vega, developed at the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence and the Torino Film Lab. The documentary features Fait Vivir, by Oscar Ruiz Navia, and Dopamina, by Natalia Imery Almario, are currently in development and funding stage. contraviafilms.com.co / [email protected]

LA BANDA DEL CARRO ROJO / Diana Perez Mejia

La Banda del Carro Rojo Producciones S.A.S. is a Colombian film production company founded by executive producer Diana Perez Mejia and director Ivan D. Gaona. It produced the feature film Pariente (Guilty Men), by Ivan D. Gaona selected in Venice Days 2016 and Toronto 2016, and the feature Güepsa, Historias Cortas de Santander (Short Tales from the South) by same director to be released in 2017, with the support of the Colombian Film Fund. The latter brings together several short films by Ivan such as Los Retratos (Portraits, 14’, 2012 – Locarno, Clermont-Fd Colombian Promises) Completo (16’, 2014 – Clermont-Fd 2015) or Forastero (Outsider, 20’, 2015 – Clermont-Fd 2016), which together collected over 200 selections and awards. La Banda del Carro Rojo also takes short film titles in its catalogue for distribution and sales. http://labandadelcarrorojo.com.co / [email protected]

MESTIZA FILMS / Isabel Cristina Vásquez

Mestiza Films is a cinema production company based in Colombia lead by Isabel Cristina Vásquez as executive producer and director Carlos Montoya. Isabel is a doctor, specialized in local and regional development with audio-visual production experience working with com- munities. Mestiza creates local stories with a universal background. They recently produced the short film Camino del agua (8’, 2014) which screened at Berlinale Generation 2015 and is playing in this year’s Clermont-Ferrand ‘Colombian Promises’ focus. Now they are working on their next short film A chair lost in the woods, that won a production incentive from the Colom- bian Film Fund in 2016. www.mestizacine.com / [email protected]

• 29 • timetable Tuesday 7th February, 9H30 - 15H30, Hotel Holiday Inn, 59 bd F.-Mitterrand, Groundfloor

9H30 Inauguration of Euro Connection 2017

9H45 - 10H40 Pitching Session 1 THE INNER SIDE, dir. Dániel Reich – FP Films (HU)* CRAPS, dir. Tünde Deak – Perspective Films (FR) CIRCUS FONDANTINI, dir. Patrick Raats – Smarthouse Film (NL) THE CYCLE, dir. José Cavalheiro – AIM Studios (PT) Producers Focus – profiles of invited producers

10H40 Coffee break

11H00 - 11H50 Pitching Session 2 THE JUGGLER, dur. Skirmanta Jakaitė – Art shot (LT) THE SILENCE OF THE DYING FISH, dir. Vasilis Kekatos – Blackbird Productions (GR) ROOM BY THE LAKE, dir. Olmo Omerzu – Endorfilm (CZ) CYCLISTS, dir. Veljko Popovic – Lemonade3d – (HR) Producers Focus – profiles of invited producers International Focus – co-produce with Colombia

12H00 Lunch break

13H45 - 14H35 Pitching Session 3 SAP, dir. Clémence Marcadier – Gasp (FR) KLINGERT’S DIVING SUIT, dir. Artur Wyrzykowski – Artcore (PL) MOURAS, dir. Olga Osorio – Miss Movies (ES) LAS HURDES – LAND WITHOUT PEOPLE, dir. Jan Ijäs – Visiokolmio ltd (FI) Producers Focus – profiles of invited producers

14H40 - 15H30 Pitching Session 4 I’M OK, dir. Elizabeth Hobbs – Animate Projects (GB) THE MUSICAL SPIDER, dir. Henry Moore Selder – Malade (SE) POSTCARDS FROM THE END, dir. Konstantinos Antonopoulos – Neda Film (GR) Producers Focus – profiles of invited producers

18H00 Closing cocktail offered by the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC)

Wednesday 8th February, 10H00 - 17H00, Short Film Market, rue Abbé de l’Epée

10H00 - 17H00 Business Meetings at the MEDIA Rendez-Vous area, Short Film Market

* country codes: standard ISO 3166-1

• 30 • Access Map

The Maison de la Culture

Euro Connection Hotel Holiday Inn 59 bd F.-Mitterrand Groundfloor

Maison de la Culture

T IN R O Short Film . U P J.M A Market

Short Film Market rue Abbé-de-l’Epée

Kyriad Prestige 25 av. de la Libération

Hints: The Maison de la Culture hosts the Clermont-Ferrand festival’s main venue, headquarters and delegate centre. The Hotel Holiday Inn is easy to find; it is located on the same boulevard (F. Mitterrand) as the front entrance to the Maison de la Culture, just one block down the street, on the same sidewalk. The Short Film Market is located right behind the Maison de la Culture, in the Gymnase Jean et Honoré Fleury, which is accessible from the rue Abbé de l’épée. The Kyriad Prestige is right outside the Short Film Market’s main entrance. All locations are within a 5-minute walking distance. Contact Laurent Crouzeix (+33.677 10 51 68 / [email protected]) Julie Rousson (+33.673 528 966 / [email protected])

• 31 • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We would like to express our gratitude to the following for their precious assistance as correspondent organisations in Europe:

Juhani Alanen, Jukka-Pekka Laakso, Tampere Short Film Festival Kamen Balkanski, MEDIA Desk Bulgaria Eugénie Bottereau, Jacopo Chessa, CNC - Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio Zsuzsanna Brasher, Daazo Jemma Desai, Will Masa, British Council Film Stella de Wijk, Kirsten Ruber, Go Short Miguel Dias, Festival Curtas Vila do Conde Una Feely, IndieCork Film Festival Andreas Fock, Swedish Film Institute Stavroula Geronimaki, Greek Film Centre Franziska Kache, AG Kurzfilm e.V. – German Short Film Association Geneviève Kinet, Wallonie Bruxelles Images Carole Kremer, Nobert Laporte, Film Fund Luxembourg Ismael Martin, Madrid En Corto Marija Milovanovic, Vienna Independent Shorts Frank Moens, Leuven International Short Film Festival Angélique Muller, Film Grain Foundation Kimonas Mylonas, Alexia Roider, International Short Film Festival of Cyprus Barbara Orlicz-Szczypula, Krakow Film Foundation Martina Petrovic, MEDIA Desk Croatia Igor Prassel, Animateka International Animated Film Festival Ene Katrine Rasmussen, MEDIA Desk Denmark Ramona Sarbu, Romanian Film Promotion Marketa Santrochova, Czech Film Center Miguel Valverde, IndieLisboa

Euro Connection 2017 also wishes to thank the following partner organisations for their kind cooperation :

Relais Culture Europe - Europe Créative France, Laurence Barone, Pascal Brunet, Lilyane Crosnier Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée – Frédérique Bredin, Julien Neutres, Valentine Roulet, Morad Kertobi Baltic Pitching Forum 2016 – Lithunian Shorts, Riga IFF, 2ANNAS Riga ISFF, Sleepwalkers ISFF, Shortest International Short Film Center Unifrance, Benoît Blanchard, Christine Gendre

Sauve qui peut le court métrage would like to thank Harald Trettenbrein, Soon-Mi Peten, Elena Boggio, Géraldine Hayez, at the Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency, Idzard Van der Puyl, Catherine Fadier, Séverine Thuet and the Commision Cinéma at the PROCIREP for their support to the 2017 edition of Euro Connection and the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market.

Euro Connection 2017 was organized by: Laurent Crouzeix, Julie Rousson, Sauve qui peut le court métrage

The pitch-training workshops were conducted by Gabriele Brunnenmeyer and Wim Vanacker

© Sauve qui peut le court métrage

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