EUROPEAN COPRODUCTIONS: PORTUGAL Book of projects Index DE SEVILLA 17 FESTIVAL 3 PROGRAMME 4 A NOIVA/THE BRIDE Sérgio Trefaut / Faux www.faux.pt 6 AMANHÃ European Coproductions: Portugal Pedro Pinho / Terratreme www.terratreme.pt 8 AMERICA António Ferreira / Persona Non Grata Pictures www.pngpictures.com INDUSTRY GUIDE INDUSTRY 10 ANOCHE CONQUISTÉ TEBAS 1 Gabriel Azorín / DVEIN www.dvein.com 12 ARIEL Lois Patiño & Matías Piñeiro / Filmika Galaika www.filmikagalaika.com 14 LA EDAD Polo Menárguez / Capitán Araña www.capitanarana.com 16 LÉGUA Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra / Uma pedra no sapato www.umapedranosapato.com MAMACRUZ 18 Patricia Ortega / Acheron films - La Claqueta PC - SPi www.laclaqueta.com - www.acheronfilms.net - www.sp-i.pt/en 20 PROJECTO GLOBAL Ivo Ferreira / O som e a furia www.osomeafuria.com 22 UM FILME DE FERNANDO RIUZ VERGARA Concepción Barquero Artés / Azharmedia www.azharmedia.com 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA 17 FESTIVAL IN THIS SECOND EDITION EUROPEAN COPRODUCTIONS, A International JURY WILL GIVE THREE AWARDS: FESTIVAL ARTE SONORA DE SEVILLA AWARD ESTUDIOS AWARD RTP AWARD European Coproductions: Portugal 5,000 € 5,000 € 10,000 € in cash for the development of in post production services for broadcasting rights the winning project (editing and sound mixing) in RTP1 channel INDUSTRY GUIDE INDUSTRY 2 EUROPEAN COPRODUCTIONS is possible thanks to: Programme DE SEVILLA 17 FESTIVAL TUESDAY 10TH WEDNESDAY 11TH 15:00 - 15:20 10:00 - 10:15 ZOOM + YOUTUBE LIVE ZOOM + YOUTUBE LIVE European Coproductions opening with José Luis Opening by João Queirós (Consul of Portugal in Cienfuegos (Director of Seville Film Festival), Seville) and José Luis Cienfuegos (Director of Elisa Rodríguez (ICAA) and María Mineiro (ICA) Seville Film Festival) 15:20 - 16:00 10:15 - 11:45 European Coproductions: Portugal ZOOM + YOUTUBE LIVE ZOOM + YOUTUBE LIVE Special presentations and opportunities by An- Round table Tan cerca, tan lejos: Aiming at dalusia, Spain and Portugal Film Commissions. a coproduction increase between Spain and Panellist: Portugal. Panellist: Manuel Claro (Portugal Film Commission) Elisa Rodríguez (ICAA deputy director) Carlos Rosado (Spain Film Commission) Maria Mineiro (ICA vice-president) Piluca Querol (Andalucía Film Commission) Luis Urbano (O som e a fúria CEO) GUIDE INDUSTRY 16:00- 17:15 Olmo Figueredo (La Claqueta CEO) ZOOM FOR PROJECTS AND PRODUCERS 12:00 - 12:30 3 Pitch session (1st part). Presentation of 5 ZOOM + YOUTUBE LIVE projects, 15 minutes each: Award ceremony of European Coproduction 2nd - “A Noiva” by Sérgio Trefaut edition: Seville film festival award (5000 €), - “Amanhã” by Pedro Pinho Arte Sonora award (5000 € in post-production - “America” by Antonio Ferreira services) and RTP (10000 € for broadcasting rights in RTP1 channel) - “Anoche conquisté Tebas” by Gabriel Azorín Jury members: Marta Velasco (Aralan Films), - “Mamacruz” by Patricia Ortega Sara Santaella (ARTE SONORA) and José Fragoso 17:15 - 17:30 (RTP). Break 16:00 - 19:00 17:30 - 18:45 ZOOM ROOMS ZOOM FOR PROJECTS AND PRODUCERS One-to-one meetings for producers Pitch session (2nd part). Presentation of 5 projects, 15 minutes each: - “La edad” by Polo Menárguez - “Légua” by Filipa Reis & Joao Miller - “Ariel” by Lois Patiño & Matias Piñeiro - “Projecto Global” by Ivo Ferreira - “Um filme de Fernando Ruiz Vergara” by Concha Barquero & Alejandro Alvarado A noiva 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA 17 FESTIVAL The bride, a girl´s life after the war Director: Sérgio Tréfaut Producer: Faux Production Company: Faux / Les films d´ici / Project type: Feature film Mitosfilm European Coproductions: Portugal INDUSTRY GUIDE INDUSTRY 4 SYNOPSIS A teenager girl from a Christian background ran She is the widow of two jihadists and will soon away from home to marry a Daesh fighter. She be put on trial. became a bride of the Jihad. Will the western countries try to save her from Three years later, her life has dramatically the death sentence she might face under Iraqi changed. She is living in an Iraqi prison camp. law? What have three years of war and brain- Now she has two children to take care of and is washing done to her? pregnant again. The Bride is based on a true story. 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA 17 FESTIVAL BIO DIRECTOR Sérgio Tréfaut is a multi-award winning director mentary film) and was the winner of Documenta European Coproductions: Portugal with three passports and fluent in many lan- Madrid 2010. guages. All his films have been presented at In- He has begun learning Arabic and has frequently ternational film festivals and shown in cinemas visited Iraq. He has been preparing THE BRIDE in and on TVs worldwide. He discovered the Middle the Kurdistan region and in Mosul with MITOS- East while shooting The City of the Dead in Cai- FILM as executive producer. Most of the locations ro Islamic Cemeteries in 2007-2009. The City of have already been chosen in cooperation with a the Dead premiered at IDFA (the Meca of docu- local crew. INDUSTRY GUIDE INDUSTRY 5 PRODUCTION COMPANY CONTACTS Producer Faux is a film production company cre- Calçadinha do Tijolo 48, 2º ated by Sérgio Tréfaut and based in Lisbon since 1100-608 Lisbon, Portugal 2003. It deals with creative documentaries and independent feature films for international au- [email protected] diences. All films in Faux’s catalogue have won +351 917 847 794 awards at International film festivals and been broadcast by TV channels around the world: ARTE (France-Germany), WDR (Germany), RTBF (Bel- gium), YLE (Finland), SVT (Sweden), TV3 Cataluña, ATTENDING Canal Sur, Canal História (Spain), ERT (Greece), EUROPEAN COPRODUCTIONS RTP, TV Cine (Portugal), Canal Brasil, GNT (Brazil), RTV (South Corea), among others. Faux also dis- tributes these films throughout a wide network of cinemas in Portugal. Sérgio Trefaut Producer/ Director Amanhã 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA 17 FESTIVAL Tomorrow Director: Pedro Pinho Producer: Tiago Hespanha Production Company: Terratreme Project type: Feature film European Coproductions: Portugal INDUSTRY GUIDE INDUSTRY 6 SYNOPSIS ALBERTO, a Portuguese environmental engineer strong desire to escape and shake off their or- who has decided to make a change in his life, igins. For ALBERTO, the connection between the travels to a West African metropolis (an imagi- three of them becomes the only guarantee of nary, futuristic city that is similar to both Guinea his mental health in the midst of a process of Bissau and Luanda), to work as an environmen- brutalisation and generalised barbarity that is tal engineer on a road-building project to link widespread among his expatriate colleagues at the jungle and the desert. Taken aback by the both the building yard and the NGO offices. As harshness of the elements, the oppressive heat the rainy season approaches, everything seems and the inherent loneliness that a white Euro- about to fall apart. Between the unconcealed pean has to endure in a society dominated by conflicts with local communities and suspicions rampant capitalism and a post-colonial mental- about global economic interests, ALBERTO, EMA ity, ALBERTO meets EMA and BEN. Just like him, and BEN engage in an intimate relationship with these two local residents are motivated by a unequal expectations. This leads them to pro- found questions of identity. 17 FESTIVAL DE SEVILLA 17 FESTIVAL BIO DIRECTOR Pedro Pinho has studied cinema in Lisbon, Paris, Barcelona, Maputo and Mindelo. His first doc- His first feature-length fiction film “A Fábrica umentary, Bab Sebta (co-directed with Freder- de Nada/The Nothing Factory” (2007) won the ico Lobo), won the Marseille Espérance Award. FIPRESCI International Critics award. Since then, Bab Sebta also won prizes for Best Documentary A Fábrica de Nada has received around 20 awards Film at DocLisboa (Portugal) and at ForumDoc BH at festivals all over the world. A Fábrica de Nada (Brazil). Um Fim Do Mundo/The End of the World, was commercially distributed in Portugal, France, a medium-length fiction film, debuted at the Spain, Germany, Switzerland, the United King- Berlin Festival in 2013, having won awards at the dom…among others. European Coproductions: Portugal Coimbra Caminhos do Cinema Português, and His films have been shown at festivals, show- was nominated for the Portuguese Golden Globe ings and retrospectives in places such as: MoMA, awards. The documentary, As Cidades e as Trocas/ the Lincoln Center, the Berlinale, BFI, the MALBA, Trading Cities (co-directed with Luisa Homem) the MACBA, Serralves, FIDMarseille, Toronto IFF, debuted in 2014 at FID Marseille, and was shown Rotterdam FF, Busan FF, FICUNAM, L’Alternativa at the Art of The Real in the Lincoln Center, NY de Barcelona, Festival de Munique, FIC Valdivia, and at DocLisboa. Karlovy Vary, among others. INDUSTRY GUIDE INDUSTRY PRODUCTION COMPANY CONTACTS 7 TERRATREME is a film production house created in Terratreme Filmes 2008 that came out of the urge of a few young Campo Grande, 111 filmmakers to find a production model that could 1700-089 Lisboa, Portugal suit the different forms, scales and time frames in which their own films were made. Our goal [email protected] was to articulate research and creation in a work method where each film’s needs would deter- mine the production model. Like the homony- mous film by Visconti — where a group of fish- ATTENDING ermen unites to buy a boat and stop depending EUROPEAN COPRODUCTIONS on the ship-owner that hired them — it was high time for us to acknowledge that production is a fundamental aesthetic variable in the way a film turns out. We believe that