spring / summer line-up 2013 edition two NOTAnother SEPIDEH Happy by Berit Madsen MY MISTRESS Ending by Stephen Lance by John McKay TALE OF A FOREST SOMETIMES LOVE NEEDS A RE-WRITE by Ville Suhonen & Kim Saarniluoto cover Contents Completed Films 4 Not Another Happy Ending 10 Tale of a Forest 14 The Rocket 16 Best Man Down 24 Free Range Spotlight on... 12 Wish You Were Here In Production 26 The Turning In Post-Production 6 Sepideh 8 My Mistress 20 Crack, Back and Sack 22 Sleepwalker 28 In Real Life Labels 18 Komedy 30 Future Classics 32 Documentaries 32 Series 34 Children and Family 37 Rip-Out Index 38 Rip-Out Contacts Where to find us... LevelK in Cannes: Scandinavian Terrace, 55, La Croisette Screenings In Cannes NOT ANOther HAPPY EndinG: Friday May 17th at 13:30 in Star 4 NOT ANOther HAPPY EndinG: Saturday May 18th at 15:30 in Star 3 THE ROCKET: Thursday 16th at 11:30 in Star 3 TALE OF A FOREST: Thursday 16th at 13:30 in Star 3 FREE RANGE: Monday 20th at 13:30 in Star 4 View all completed titles in the LevelK VIP Lounge at www.levelk.dk page 2 page 3 Completed Films Completed Films NOT ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING Sometimes Love Needs a Re-Write hen a struggling publisher discovers his only successful author is blocked he knows he has to unblock her or he’s finished. With her newfound success, she’s become too damn happy and he thinks she can’t write when she’s happy. The only trouble is, the worse he makes her feel, the more he realises he’s in love with her. KAREN STANLEY W GILLAN WEBER NOT ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING. AMY MANSON & IAIN DE CAESTECKER KATE DICKIE & FREYA MAVOR WITH GARY LEWIS AND HENRY IAN CUSICK Sometimes love needs a re-write BRITISH FILM COMPANY AND CREATIVE SCOTLAND PRESENT A SYNCHRONICITY FILMS PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH BBC SCOTLAND. NOT ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING STARRING KAREN GILLAN, STANLEY WEBER, IAIN DE CAESTECKER AND AMY MANSON, KATE DICKIE AND FREYA MAVOR, LOUISE GOODALL AND JOHN BETT WITH GARY LEWIS AND HENRY IAN CUSICK. LINE PRODUCER WENDY GRIFFIN DIRECTOR OF / PHOTOGRAPHY GEORGE CAMERON GEDDES / EDITOR CALUM ROSS / ORIGINAL SCORE LORNE BALFE / PRODUCTION DESIGNER ANDY HARRIS / SOUND RECORDIST KENNY ALLAN / COSTUME DESIGNER LOUISE ALLEN / HAIR & MAKE-UP DESIGNER JACQUI MALLETT. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS STEVE MILNE & CHRISTIAN EISENBEISS, ROBBIE ALLEN, EWAN ANGUS / PRODUCED BY CLAIRE MUNDELL, CO-PRODUCED BY WENDY GRIFFIN, WRITTEN BY DAVID SOLOMONS, DIRECTED BY JOHN MCKAY © NOT ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING LTD MMXII. www.notanotherhappyending.com @NAHappyEnding DESIGN: WEARED8.COM ILLUSTRATION: WWW.KAROLINSCHNOOR.CO.UK All Photos: Anne Binckebanck NotAnother_Poster_Final_V6.indd 1 18/12/2012 16:45 NOT ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING / Romantic Comedy / 99 min / United Kingdom / 2013. Directed by John McKay. Produced by Claire Mundell & Wendy Griffin for Synchronicity Film. Cast: Karen Gillan (Dr. Who), Stanley Weber (Borgias) & Iain de Caestecker. 2 Screeenings: Friday 17th at 13:30 (1:30 PM) Star 4 Saturday 18th at 15:30 (3:30 PM) Star 3 page 4 page 5 In Post-Production SEPIDEH epideh wants to become an astronaut. She spends her nights exploring the secrets of the universe, while her family will do anything to keep her on the ground. The expectations to a young Iranian woman are very different from Sepideh’s ambitions, and her plans to go to university are in danger. But Sepideh holds on to her dream! She takes up the fight and teams up with Sthe world’s first female space tourist, Anousheh Ansari. SEPIDEH / Documentary / 88/52 min / Denmark / 2013. Directed by Berit Madsen. Produced by Stefan Frost & Henrik Underbjerg for Radiator Film. Domestic theatrical release October 2013 by DoxBio page In Post-Production MY MISTR ESS “It’s important that my first film give audiences an artistic experience that is both visually and emotionally exciting, and I couldn’t be happier with the world-class calibre of cast and crew who are joining us on this amazing journey” Director Stephen Lance Director Stephen Lance t’s a long hot summer for Charlie has just advertised for a gardener. it, exploring it, sharing it, all for Boyd. He’s sixteen, his hormones But she is forgotten when Charlie money. So Charlie falls in love, and are racing and the girl who could be walks in on a family tragedy and he despite herself so does she, drawn to his girlfriend can’t be, because he’s tumbles into a world of pain, a pain this troubled boy who takes all the just found out his mother is having so intense Charlie thinks no-one pain she can give and uses it to heal an affair with her father. One thing can help him. He’s wrong. Someone himself. And as Charlie heals, he takes his mind off his problems, the can. Maggie, the beautiful French turns that healing back onto her, his mysterious woman down the street stranger. She’s a professional, and Mistress. who has visitors day and night, and she specialises in pain. Giving All Photos: Stephen Photos: All Lance I MY MISTRESS / Romance / Australia / 2013. Directed by Stephen Lance. Produced by Leanne Tonkes for Mini Studios. Australian Distribution: Transmission Films. Cast: Emmanuelle Béart (Mission Impossible), Harrison Gilbertson (Accidents Happen) & Rachael Blake (Sleeping Beauty). page 9 Completed Films TALE OF A FOREST Tale of a Forest is a film for the whole family about the unique Finnish forest and its colourful and diverse life. ale of a Forest is a film for the whole family about the unique Finnish forest and its colourful and diverse life. The main characters of the film are the various inhabitants of the forest: the bears and the elk, the snakes and the owls, the ants, the frogs and the flying squirrels, the ancient soul birds such as the Siberian Jay, the Lapland Owl and T many, many others. DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY HANNU SIITONEN MIKKO PÖLLÄNEN TEEMU LIAKKA FILM EDITOR KIM SAARNILUOTO SOUND DESIGNER JUHA HAKANEN MUSIC PANU AALTIO SCREENPLAY VILLE SUHONEN PRODUCER MARKO RÖHR DIRECTORS VILLE SUHONEN KIM SAARNILUOTO PRODUCTION SUPPORT FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION / ELINA KIVIHALME TALE OF A FOREST / Documentary / 88 min / Finnish. Directed by Ville Suhonen & Kim Saarniluoto. Produced by Marko Röhr for MRP Matila Röhr Productions. Domestic release: 70,000 admissions. 1 Screeening: Thursday 16th at 13:30 in Star 3 page page Spotlight on... Spotlight on... WISH YOU WERE HERE Awards: AACTA Award for Best Screenplay AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actor FCCA Awards - Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing Best Film Sound Design at the Australian Screen Sound Guild Awards Australian Cinematographer’s Society (ACS) Gold Award Australian release: Hopscotch 1.7 million boxoffice US release June 7th, 10 cities by eOne Entertainment our friends lose themselves in the fun of a carefree South East Asian holiday. Only three return home. Dave and Alice come back to their young family desperate for answers about Jeremys mysterious disappearance. When Alices sister, Steph, returns not long after, a nasty secret is revealed about the night her boyfriend went missing. But it is only the first of many. Who amongst them knows what happened on that fateful night when they were dancing under a full Fmoon in Cambodia? WISH YOU WERE HERE / Drama / 93 min / Australia / 2011. Directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith for Aquarius Films. Produced by Angie Fielder. Cast: Joel Edgerton (The Great Gatsby, Zero Dark Thirty), Teresa Palmer (I am no Four) page 12 page 13 Completed Films Completed Films “...FOR ME, CINEMA MUST BE DEEPLY EMOTIONAL, EXCITING AND TR ANSPORTING - A PERSONAL JOURNEY WHICH ECHOES AN EVOLVING GLOBAL PSYCHE. THIS IS ‘THE ROCKET’.” Director Kim Mordaunt boy who is believed to bring bad luck leads his family and a couple of ragged misfits through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity–filled journey through a land scarred by war, to prove he’s not cursed he builds a giant rocket to enter the most lucrative but dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival. All Photos: Greenwood Tom A2013 THE ROCKET / Drama / 96 min / Australia, Laos, Thailand / 2013. Directed & written by Kim Mordaunt. Produced by Sylvia Wilczynski. Prod. Company: Red Lamp Films. Australian Dist.: Curious Film. 1 Screeening: Thursday 16th at 11:30 in Star 3 page 14 page 15 Completed Films hen their obnoxious and over-served Minneapolis is just the start of their best man [Lumpy] unexpectedly adventure, as the well-intended dies at their destination wedding sacrifice surprises at every turn. in Phoenix, a bride & groom are And when the newlywed’s path forced to cancel their honeymoon leads them to a fifteen-year-old girl and fly home to the snowy Midwest in a small, northern Minnesota to arrange for his funeral. But town – all bets are off on who getting Lumpy’s body back to Lumpy really was. “...I wanted to make a film that HowW well do we had the reality and character really know our depth of an indie. I wanted to weave together oldest friends? an entertaining story that took What if you were you on an unexpected, remembered for emotional ride...” one decision, one Director Ted Koland act, one moment in your life... Photo: James Ramsay BEST MAN DOWN / Drama / 90 min / United States / 2013. Writen & directed by Ted Koland. Produced by David Abbitt, Jen Roskind & Sharyn Steele for Koda Entertainment. Cast: Justin Long, Jess Weixler, Tylor Labine. US Release: Magnolia Pictures, 2013. page 1 Komedy Komedy “DIRECTING COMEDIES IS TERRIFYING BECAUSE IF PEOPLE DON’T LAUGH – THEY’RE RIGHT AND YOU’RE WRONG!” Director Rasmus Heide (director of ‘Take the Trash’, ‘The Christmas Party’, ‘All for One’ & ‘All for Two’) ALMOST PERFECT TAKE THE TRASH BODY FAT INDEX OF LOVE RAPID RESPONSE CORPS Comedy / 98 min / Denmark Comedy / 80 min / Denmark Comedy / 98 min / Finland Comedy / 91 min / Bulgaria Anne feels compelled to find the Sometimes you’ve got to take Body Fat Index of Love is a A comedy, combining action and sperm donor and ensure that he is the trash.