Book of PROJECTS AND PRODUCERS 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 • presented by • in association with • with support from • and in collaboration with CLERMONT-FERRAND 2017 39th SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 32nd SHORT FILM MARKET CONTENT 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.