THE BEST INDEPENDENT FILMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD FILM CATALOGUE 2015- 2017 ABOUT US MonteCristo International Entertainment LLC is a fast growing, dynamic and innovative worldwide film sales and distribution company. Each year MonteCristo acquires worldwide distribution rights to between five and seven award winning feature films, independently from their nationality or language of origin. These Films are selected based on story, genre, director, and their expected ability to move, inspire and further the understanding between different people and cultures. All must have been re- leased theatrically in the country of origin. Presently the Company licenses international rights and distributes films from the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Chile, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Sweden, Germany, Bulgaria, Italy, Japan, Thailand, Viet- nam, India, Singapore and many other countries. MonteCristo works with some of the best Theatrical and Video distributors worldwide. To date its Films have been released Theatrically throughout Asia, Latin-America, Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa the Middle East and North-America. MonteCristo maintains a marketing relationship with 7000 buyers worldwide and attends all major Film & Television markets, including AFM, Berlin/EFM, Cannes Film Festival, MIP-TV, Film Art Hong Kong, MIPCOM and Pusan/Asian Film Market. MonteCristo’s associated companies, The MonteCristo Fund (Delaware), MonteCristo Pictures (California) and MonteCristo Media Srl (Italy), develop, produce, finance and/or co-finance 1 to 3 feature films a year with budg- ets between USD $2-6 million dollars, which are then sold worldwide by MonteCristo International Entertainment. For further information, please contact : [email protected] TITLE: A TOY SELLER GENRE: FAMILY LENGTH 91m FORMAT: HDCam SR CAST: PIERRE RICHAR, AGNIYA DITNIYA, TATYANA LYUTAEVA DIRECTOR: YURI VASILEV PRODUCER: NATIONAL CINEMA YEAR: 2012 COUNTRY: RUSSIA LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN/FRENCH RELEASED IN: China Russia CIS SYNOPSIS: Nicolas Berlin unexpectedly finds himself in Russia, his historic homeland. There, he finds love, inher- its wealth, and turns from a simple toy seller into a real prince. Based on the beloved novel by Victor Dobrosotsky. RUSSIA TITLE: ALL THE DAYS BEFORE TOMORROW GENRE: COMEDY/DRAMA/ROMANCE LENGTH: 100m FORMAT: 35MM CAST: ALEXANDRA HOLDEN, JOEY KERN, RICHARD ROUNDTREE DIRECTOR: FRANCOIS DOMPIERRE PRODUCER: FRANCOIS DOMPIERRE & KEVIN LAYDON YEAR: 2007 COUNTRY: USA RELEASED IN: United States France Canada Middle East Turkey SYNOPSIS : In this quirky tale about a friendship that's almost something more, Joey Kern and Alexandra Holden play pals who ought to be lovers, but their timing has never been right. When Alison (Holden) makes a late-night visit to Wes (Kern) on the eve of leaving for Tokyo to rejoin her beau, the two chums travel down an emotional memory lane, discovering truths about their relationship in the process. UNITED STATES TITLE: ANINA GENRE: ANIMATION/FAMILY LENGTH: 80M FORMAT: DCP CAST: FEDERICA LACANO, MARIA MENDIVE, CESAR TRONCOSO DIRECTOR: ALFREDO SODERGUIT PRODUCER: JULIAN GOYOAGA, GERMAN TEJEIRA YEAR: 2013 COUNTRY: URUGUAY RELEASED IN: United States France Germany Taiwan Russia China South Korea SYNOPSIS: A fantastical journey into the world of a ten year old girl who, following a playground skirmish, is given the weirdest punishment in the history of weird punishments. URUGUAY TITLE: APARTMENT 1303 GENRE: HORROR LENGTH: 100m FORMAT: 35MM CAST: NORIKO NAKAGOSHI, ARATA FURUTA DIRECTOR: ATARU OIKAWA PRODUCER: THE MONTECRISTO FUND YEAR: 2007 COUNTRY: JAPAN LANGUAGE: JAPANESE RELEASED IN: Japan Sweden Russia Philippines USA South Korea UK Brazil Hong Kong Hong Kong Thailand France Mexico Singapore Turkey Vietnam Spain Peru Indonesia Poland Taiwan Italy Bolivia Greece Germany Australia Benelux Colombia SYNOPSIS: A modern ghost story which turns a love/hate relationship between mother and daughter into a tale of horror. Some rentals are too good to be true! From Kei Oishi, the writer of the book “The Grudge”, “Lady Venge- ance” and Ataru Oikawa, the Director of “Tomei”. JAPAN TITLE: APARTMENT 1303-3D GENRE: HORROR LENGTH: 87m FORMAT: DCP-3D/35mm CAST: MISCHA BARTON, REBECCA DE MORNAY, JULIANNE MICHELLE DIRECTOR: MICHAEL TAVERNA PRODUCER: THE MONTE CRISTO FUND YEAR: 2012 COUNTRY: USA LANGUAGE: ENGLISH RELEASED IN: Middle East Peru Germany North America Singapore Turkey UK Australia Italy Spain Brazil Mexico Indonesia France Hong Kong India Scandinavia Russia Benelux Malaysia Cambodia China Latin America (Theatrical and Pay TV) SYNOPSIS: Having grown up under the controlling grip of her fame-hungry mother, Janet Slate jumps at the oppor- tunity to move into what looks to be a great high-rise apartment in downtown Detroit. While the neighbors seem a bit strange and the building superintendent a lowlife, Janet unpacks her things and celebrates her new freedom, only to wake in the morning with a mean headache and strange bruises on her neck. Determined not to return to her mother’s home, Janet stays in the apartment in spite of numerous chilling encounters, until one night her boyfriend Mark finds her in the middle of the street, fallen from the balcony thirteen stories above. Deemed a suicide by inves- tigators, Lara, Janet’s older sister, knows better and is determined to reveal the truth behind her baby sister’s death. UNITED STATES TITLE: BLACK PIMPERNEL GENRE: DRAMA LENGTH: 95m FORMAT: 35MM CAST: MICHAEL NYQVIST, LUMI CAVAZOS, KATE DEL CASTILLO, PATRICK BERGIN DIRECTOR: ASA FARINGER & ULF HULTBERG PRODUCER: MICHAEL LUNDERSKOV YEAR: 2007 COUNTRY: SWEDEN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH RELEASED IN: Scandinavia Hungary Latin-America Indonesia Middle East North-America Germany (Free Television) SYNOPSIS: Based on the life of the Swedish ambassador Harald Edelstam and his efforts to help people in Chile at the time of the military coup in 1973. During the terror that follows the coup, Edelstam struggles for humanity, jus- tice and decency. After saving hundreds of civilians from sure death, Edelstam is challenged once more, this time to save his newfound love from the death penalty issued by the military regime of Pinochet. An impossible task, a des- SWEDEN TITLE: BLIND MALICE GENRE: HORROR LENGTH: 100m FORMAT: HDCAM CAST: GRECE ZABRISKIE, TIM BAGLEY, ANGELINA PREN- DERGAST DIRECTOR: GRAHAM STREETER PRODUCER: ALEX LEBOSQ YEAR: 2014 COUNTRY: USA LANGUAGE: ENGLISH RELEASED IN: North-America SYNOPSIS: Karen, a visually impaired teen, and her grandmother make a routine visit to clean the family owned rental property. Things become unsettling when Karen finds herself alone and childhood memories surface. UNITED STATES TITLE: BONOBO GENRE: COMEDY LENGTH: 82m FORMAT: DCP CAST: JAMES NORTHON, TESSA PEAKE-JONES, JOSIE LAW- RENCE , ELEANOR WYLD DIRECTOR: MATTHIEW HAMMETT KNOTT PRODUCER: FARHANA BHULA YEAR: 2014 COUNTRY: UNITED KINGDOM LANGUAGE: ENGLISH RELEASED IN: United Kingdon North America (VoD) SYNOPSIS: A straight laced middle-aged widow attempts to remove her daughter from a hippy sex commune. UNITED KINGDOM TITLE: BORDERING ON BAD BEHAVIOR GENRE: WAR COMEDY LENGTH: 105m FORMAT: DCP CAST: TOM SIZEMORE, BERNARD CURRY, OZ ZEHAVI DIRECTOR: JACK MULDER PRODUCER: LEIGH FERREIRA, CHRIS ROLAND YEAR: 2014 COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA LANGUAGE: ENGLISH RELEASED IN: Germany North America South Africa SYNOPSIS: Bad behavior and military mayhem ensue on the border of chaos when a volitale cocktail of three sol- diers’s bruised ego’s and hatred are forced to reconcile… with good weed, good drinks and good times! SOUTH AFRICA TITLE: A BOY CALLED TWIST GENRE: DRAMA LENGTH : 115m FORMAT: CAST: JARRED GEDULD DIRECTOR: TIM GREENE PRODUCER: STEVEN MARKOVITZ, AURELIA DRIVER & CLARE VAN ZYL YEAR: 2005 COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA LANGUAGE: ENGLISH RELEASED IN: USA France Indonesia Greece Middle East SYNOPSIS: A BOY CALLED TWIST is a harrowing tale of a South African street-kid’s search for love, based on Charles Dickens’ classic OLIVER TWIST. Growing up neglected in a rural orphanage, Twist escapes to the unpre- dictable freedom of Cape Town, where he falls in with Fagin’s gang of street urchins. With a gritty honesty steeped in its vibrant characters, BOY CALLED TWIST superbly captures the contemporary equivalents of Dickens’ seedy individuals as it shadows the timeless tale in its own inimitable style. SOUTH AFRICA TITLE: CANO DORADO aka GOLDEN GUN GENRE: ACTION/DRAMA LENGTH: 95m FORMAT: 35MM CAST: CAMILA CRUZ, LAUTARO DELGADO, TINA SERRANO DIRECTOR:EDUARDO PINTO PRODUCER: OMAR JADUR YEAR:2010 COUNTRY: ARGENTINA RELEASED IN: Australia SYNOPSIS: Panceta works at a metal factory but his ambition to make money finds him manufacturing home- made guns and selling them in slums. ARGENTINA TITLE: CAGES GENRE: DRAMA LENGTH: 90m FORMAT: HDCam CAST: MAKOTO IWAMATSU, ZELDA RUBINSTEIN, TAN KHENG HUA DIRECTOR: GRAHAM STREETER PRODUCER: JOSHUA WONG YEAR: 2006 COUNTRY: SINGAPORE LANGUAGE: ENGLISH RELEASED IN: Asia SYNOPSIS: A single Singaporean mother comes face-to-face with her despised and estranged father of 20 years. A story of three generations, secrets, miscommunication and a bond created by a young son who is blind results in CAGES; a powerful and poetic family love story about the intricacies of life. Set against the backdrop of Singapore songbirds, this eloquent journey of a woman, her blind son and her father, captures the unique and heart- wrenching portrait of family, tradition, and the universal dialect of love and hope. SINGAPORE TITLE: CHIMERES GENRE: VIMPIRE HORROR LENGTH: