November PRODUCTPRODUCTPRODUCTPRODUCTGUIDEGUIDEGUIDEGUIDE CANNESAFM 2004 LA VITA CHE VORREI +ENTERTAINMENT 3DD (139 min) +Entertainment, 468 N. Camden Drive, ENTERTAINMENT A Language: Italian with English subtitles Suite 250, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA. ABS PRODUCTION Director: Giuseppe Piccioni (Light Of Tel: 310.860.5604. Fax: 310.860.5194. LTD My Eyes) [email protected], www.plusent.com 3DD Entertainment Ltd, 190 Camden BARCELONA Producer: Lionello Cerri Company Type: Sales agent/distributor High Street, London, NW1 8QP, United ABS Production Barcelona, Rambla Production Company: Rai Cinema - At AFM: Pejman Partiyeli (President), Kingdom. Tel: 4420.7428.1800. Fax: 44 Catalunya, num.87-10º2ª, 08008- Lumiere & Co. - MTM in collaboration Acquisition Executive: Pejman Partiyeli 20.7428.1818. [email protected], Barcelona, Spain. Tel: 34.93.487.84.36. with Mikado Office: Suite 858 www.3DDtv.co.uk Fax: 34.93.487.15 41. Cast: Luigi Lo Cascio: “La Meglio DEATH TUNNEL [email protected], Gioventù” - Best Actor at the Venice Horror (95 min) Company Type: Distributor www.absproduction-barcelona.com Film Festival for “Light Of My Eyes,” Language: English At AFM: Dominic Saville (CEO) Company Type: Producer, distributor Sandra Ceccarelli: Best Actress At The Director: Philip Adrian Booth Office: Room # 626, Tel: 310.458.6700 At AFM: Ms. Eva Baró (Producer), Mr. Venice Film Festival for “Light Of My Producer: Christopher Saint Booth, THE CUTTING EDGE: THE MAGIC OF MOVIE EDITING Antoni Sole (Producer) Eyes” Shane Dax Taylor Documentary (60 or 90 minutes) Office: Suite 212 (COPCA-Catalan Films Status: First Market Screening Cast: Melanie L. Lewis, Yolanda Language: English & TV), Tel: 310.458.6700 ext.212. Fax: Country of Origin: Italy Pecoraro, Annie Burgstede, Kristin Director: Wendy Apple 310.388.3030. ANSWER ME - NEL MIO AMORE Drama (95 min) Novak, Steffany Huckaby Producer: TECP, Inc. in association with JUNGLE RED Language: Italian with English subtitles Delivery Status: Completed ACE, Starz Encore, NHK & Warner Musical (120 min) Director: Susanna Tamaro Year of Production: 2004, Country of Home Video Language: English Director: Antoni Aloy Production Company: International Origin: USA Cast: Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Five college girls stranded in an old Producer: Eva Baró, Antoni Sole Italian Film (IIF) Coppola, George Lucas, Anthony diseased hospital, terrorized by the five Delivery Status: pre-production Producer: Fulvio Lucisano Minghella and James Cameron. ghosts of its tortured past, must escape Budget: 7,2 M. $ Cast: Licia Maglietta, Urbano Barberini Delivery Status: Post-Production through the underground Tunnel of Year of production: 2005, Country of Status: First Market Screening Year of Production: 2003 / 2004, Country Death. Origin: Spain Country of origin: Italy SPOOKED - THE HAUNTING OF A of Origin: USA This acid musical comedy is about the First feature film by Susanna Tamaro, KENTUCKY SANATORIUM An insight into the little known art of friendship of two socially inadaptable acclaimed European novelist, based on Documentary/Horror (90 min) film editing, featuring the cinema's adolescents, who escape to India in order her latest bestseller “RISPONDIMI.” Language: English greatest storytellers. Directors of both SAIMIR to live their yearning for freedom. Drama (92 min) Director: Christopher Saint Booth, Shane Hollywood blockbusters and seminal EL HOMBRE QUE LLEGÓ A UN Dax Taylor independent films will reveal the close PUEBLO Language: Italian / Albanian with English subtitles Producer: Christopher Saint Booth, collaboration they have with their Drama (120 min) Language: Spanish Director: Francesco Munzi Shane Dax Taylor editors. Delivery Status: Completed MARTIN SCORSESE - SCORSESE Director: Miguel Pereira Producer: Daniele Mazzoca, Cristiano Year of Production: 2004, Country of ON SCORSESE Producer: Eva Baró, Antoni Sole Bortone, Gianluca Arcopinto Origin: USA Documentary (60' or 90') Delivery Status: production Production Company: Orisa Produzioni, The true story of Hollywood filmmakers Language: English Budget: 1,5 M. $ Pablo who set out to document the horrific past Cast: Martin Scorsese Year of production: 2004, Country of Cast: Mishel Manoku - Xhevdet Feri - of a diseased and haunted Kentucky Delivery Status: Post-Production Origin: Spain Lavinia Guglielman Sanatorium but encountered a more Year of Production: 2004, Country of Pedro, a small-scale drug dealer, travels Status: First Market Screening terrible reality, Fear Has No Cure. Origin: USA to the remote desert Jujuy. There he has Country of origin: Italy SHADOWBOX With completion just prior to the release to decide whether to accept a second Saimir, an Albanian boy, has known Horror (95 min) of Martin Scorsese's latest feature, The chance in life. nothing but his father’s sordid world of Language: English Aviator, this intriguing documentary human trafficking. Yet, he discovers the Director: Philip Adrian Booth promises to be an incredible portrait of ADRIANA CHIESA beauty, pain and innocence of first love. Producer: Christopher Saint Booth probably the most critically acclaimed THE DAY OF THE FALCON / IL Cast: Supermodel Pippi, Dougald Park director of recent times. ENTERPRISES GIORNO DEL FALCO (Bruce Almighty), Matthew McGrory ACONVERSATION WITH Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, Via (87 min) (Big Fish) GREGORY PECK Barnaba Oriani 24a, 00197 Roma, Italy. Language: Italian with English subtitles Director: Rodolfo Bisatti Delivery Status: Completed Documentary (97') Tel: 39.06.80.86.052. Fax: Year of Production: 2004, Country of Language: English Production Company: Ipotesi Cinema in 39.06.80.68.78.55. collaboration with RAI Cinema Origin: USA Cast: Gregory Peck, any others [email protected] Producer: Elisabetta & Ermanno Olmi Delivery Status: Post-Production Confined to a hospital for the criminally At Mifed: Adriana Chiesa Di Palma Cast: Stefano Cassetti, Mario Rodighiero, insane a teenage boy is haunted by his Year of Production: 2004, Country of (President), Rossella Gori (Sales Giacomo De Domenico tormented past of being locked up in a Origin: USA Manager), Celine Dalix (Marketing & Status: First Market Screening tomb-like box and has horrific flashbacks Not your usual film biography, the film Festival coordinator), Luisa Mattucci Country of origin: Italy and visions. goes on-the-road with the Oscar winner (Technical Department) PROMISED LAND What if you were afraid to go outside, and his one man show, just three years Office: A11 - Hall 10/2, Tel: Language: English but something didn't want you to stay in? before his poignant death at the age of 87. 39.335.8265.984 Status: First Market Screening Country Of Origin: Switzerland THE BUSINESS OF FILM - INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL INFORMATIVE - Director: Michael Beltrami Production Company: Amka Films Los Angeles Office Productions in coproduction with Orione 5150 Wilshire Blvd. Cinematografica & TSI - Swiss Television in association with Istituto Luce Los Angeles, California 90036 Producer: Tiziana Soudani Coproducers: Silvia Innocenzi, Giovanni L.A. Office: Phone (323) 935-8228 Fax (323) 935-8229 Saulini Cast: Chad Smith, Ruth Gerson, Lalaine The unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com AFM FEBRUARY 2005 The Business of Film 57 AFM PRODUCT GUIDE ON MY SKIN / SULLA MIA PELLE RUNAWAY (IL FUGGIASCO) - ACTIONCONCEPT ALLIED Language: Italian with English subtitles (THE FUGITIVE) Director: Valerio Jalongo Thriller Actionconcept, an der hasenkaule 1, ENTERTAINMENT Production Company: Pequod Language: Italian with English subtitles huerth, 50354 Germany. Tel: Producer: Rosario Rinaldo Director: Andrea Manni 49.2233.508.100. Fax: 49.2233.508.180. GROUP, INC. Cast: Ivan Franek, Donatella Production Company: Feelmax, RAI www.actionconcept.com Allied Entertainment Group, Inc., 8899 Finocchiaro, Vincenzo Peluso Cinema At AFM: Wolfgang Wilke (sales & Beverly Blvd. Suite 911, West Hollywood, Status: First Market Screening Cast: Daniele Liotti, Roberto Citran, acquistions), Hermann Joha (CEO) CA 90048, USA. Tel: 310.271.0703. Fax: Country of origin: Italy Joaquim De Almeida Office: 315, Tel: 49.172.2127539 310.271.0706. When a man serving a long prison Country of origin: Italy CLOWN www.clown-derfilm.de [email protected] sentence is accorded permission to have Aman on the run unjustly accused of Action (90 min) At AFM: James Moder (Chairman), Janet a daytime job, he discovers love, respect murdering a woman. A true story, a Y. Liu (VP - sales consultant, Asia), and his own dignity through the love of a fast-paced thriller. The life of a fugitive Language: english Director: Sebastian Vigg David Newman (VP) courageous and determined woman. in Paris, Barcelona and Mexico. Office: Loews Santa Monica Beach STOLEN CHILDHOOD THE CARD PLAYER Producer: Hermann Joha Hotel, level 6, office # 604, Tel: Drama Psycho-Technological-Thriller Key Cast: Xenia Seeberg, Goetz Otto, Language: English Sven Martinek 310.271.0703. Fax: 310.271.0706 Language: Italian with English subtitles WHOREHOUSE Director: Andrea & Antonio Frazzi Director: DARIO ARGENTO Delivery Status: Completed Action / Psychological Thriller (94 min) Production Company: Pequod Production Company: Medusa Film, Budget 5 mio Director: Basil Schlegel Producer: Rosario Rinaldo Opera Film Year of Production: 2004, Country of Producer: Sandra Fragel Cast: Gianluca Di Gennaro, Carmine Cast: Stefania Rocca, Liam Origin: Germany Starring: George Tasudis ("White Cunningham, Claudio Santamaria,