NEWS LETTER MAY 2005 Hello from Helsinki!
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NEWS LETTER MAY 2005 Hello from Helsinki!
NEWS LETTER MAY 2005 Hello from Helsinki! This is Jouni from Helsinki: My "Bam" film is not yet in production, but we - me and Kaarle Aho (Prod 5) who is the producer... - were in Siberia two months ago. It was fun.. and hard! And a month ago we pitched in Reykjavik: results have been good and it seems that we can make the film, and it is maybe going to be even "bigger" film than we though few months ago... Our next step is pitching at Idfa... So see you in Amsterdam. Best regards, Jouni Hiltunen (Script 3) Still in development Latest news about "Stolen Art" written by Simon Backes and produced by Aurélien Bodinaux for Néon Rouge Productions. We are actually in a rewrite process and have postponed production until summer 2005. We will let you know how it goes.Cordially, Aurélien Bodinaux (Prod 5) Professor Nick Higgins' Nick Higgins' most recent documentary film has been nominated for the UK Royal Television Society Awards as best factual programme from Scotland in 2004, Hidden Gifts, The Mystery of Angus MacPhee for YLE, SVT, VPRO, ZDF-3sat, Scottish Screen and Scottish Television, delivered in sept 2004. Nick continues to do a little teaching, and has recently founded a new course in documentary film and politics at the Glasgow School of Art. His book, “Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion” is now also available for sale at www.amazon.co.uk Lansdowne Productions Limited. 35 Lansdowne Crescent, Glasgow, G20 6NH, Scotland, U.K. Tel: +44 141 334 2480 Mobile: +44 7876 498 853 [email protected] Buon Viaggio, Michelangelo ! The french version of the film is ready. The Italian and English versions will be ready in spring 2005. At the moment I'm trying to obtain Italian regional funds and taking agreements with Italian newspapers for the DVD distribution. Buon Viaggio, Michelangelo is produced by Fandango and Merapi productions in association with Arte (France), TVE (Spain), Rai (Italy), Planet (Italy), Fondazione Ansaldo, Istituto Luce. ciao Anastasia Plazzota (Prod 3) Fandango. L’hôtel de mes rêves! I have just returned from Senegal, where we screened the 2003 EURODOC film “The Hotel”, now titled “L’HOTEL DE MES REVES for the inhabitants of the people in Popenguine, where we shot the film. We had also made a 16 min. short doc. called “Le voix de Popenguine” (Voices of Popenguine) to screen before the long doc. It contained statements by a number of people from the village on 4 themes – the village, the hotel, tourism and the future. Every new person, who appeared on the screen were received with cheers. It was a great experience, seeing people watch themselves on the screen and hearing their laughs and their discussions afterwards. We shot some footage during the screenings, at the first one on Saturday evening 700 people turned up, on the second on Sunday night there were 500 people! Signe Byrge Sørensen De nouveaux partenaires! De retour de Paris où nous avons rencontré une seconde fois les quelques producteurs avec qui on avait envie de travailler. Décision finale, Nord-ouest avec Sylvie Randonneix... On se réjouit beaucoup de cette coproduction! Luc Peter Love letters to a Dictator? By Inês de Medeiros and produced by Serge Tréfaut will be ready in April 06 A Women’s support Movement defending the dictatorship was set up in 1958. From the thousands of letters we discovered, it is clear that Salazar had strong popular support. He was loved and respected almost like a religious leader. Some precious archive show these women screaming under the dictator window like adolescents in a rock concert. But Salazar was an austere man, celibate and apparently sexless. What did this love signify then ? Co-Producer France : ADR Productions (Delphine Morel) Co-Producer Belgium : Néon Rouge Productions (Aurélien Bodinaux) Confirmed broadcaster : RTP (Portugal) Motivated Trisha ! The big news from me is hat I am no longer with Stanta. My colleague Cormac Hargaden and I, hav set up on our own. We are now motive television. It worked out as a management buy out of Setanta Television. Setanta Sport (the broadcaster) and my division were obviously developing in opposite directions so this seemed the best for everyone. I'm delighted. It's a great opportunity. We have kept some of our own way. So, an exciting 2005 ahead for me, and I'm sure for everyone else too. Hope to see at least some of you this year. Trisha CANNING MOTIVE Unit 18, Guinness Enterprise Centre Taylor's Lane Dublin 8 Tel : 353 1 415 1245 This is my new e-mail address - [email protected] Website : www.motive.ie Jutta Krug is back to WDR, Cologne, after a one-year-break due to the birth of her son Adrian. She is now commissioning editor for creative documentaries (90 minutes) ! Cordialement, Jutta Christiane Hinz moved to WDR (Cologne) beginning of May She will be in Sintra for the MiniForum and Screenings of the many EURODOC projects she committed with NDR-Arte, and will explain us her new position and slot… Thanks to Christiane Hinz (NDR, ARTE Redaktion), various projects are already finished: American Dreams, 5x26' by Liam McGrath, produced by Setanta Television Dublin, Trisha Canning & Zero film Berlin, Thomas Kufus. Broadcasted on ARTE : 1-5.11.04 Dream land, 43' produced by Uldis Cekulis Vides Filmu Studija, Riga Broadcasted on ARTE : 30.09.04, good audience in France ! Festivals : Nordische Filmtage Lubeck, IDFA Amsterdam and various others. The Hotel, 52' produced by Signe Byrge Sorensen, Spor Media, Copenhagen, is close to rough cut. Second Hand Road 52', produced by Raffaele Brunetti, B&B films, Roma, is close to rough cut. A lot of other collaboration with EURODOC colleagues as Seda, People of the Marsh, 52' produced by Uldis Cekulis Vides Filmu Studija, broadcasted on ARTE : 20.01.05 Christiane Hinz (Prod 4) ARTE dans sa tour d’ivoire? On est en attente pour "Zuoz - La Tour d'Ivoire"... Le projet est chez Arte, (Christine Reisen, soirée théma dimanche) depuis environ six semaines et on (Christian Baute et moi) a rendezvous avec elle à la fin du mois... Si tout va bien le tournage commencera en novembre/décembre... C'est tout ce que je peux vous dire actuellement. Bien à vous et à toute l'équipe d'eurodoc Daniella Marxer (Script 3) [email protected] Howard Fast, histoire d'un Rouge a été diffusé par YLE Teema en mars. Le film sera en compétition au festival De l'Encre à l'écran en avril. Vivement Lundi ! et Richard Hamon développent un nouveau projet autour de l'histoire du court métrage documentaire de René Vautier, Afrique 50. Another film I never succeeded (let’s say not yet...) in financing my film on “young-guys-full-of-postcolonial-guilt-going-to-help-the-african-poors-on-humanitarian-projects-and-facingtheir own-contradictions-there”. ...but I am editing my film on “young-middle-class-leftwing-educated-guys-(12-of-them)faced-with-their-guilt-and-contradictions-in an-employer-employee-situation-in whichthey-have-the-difficult-part: the-employer’s-one”. Turned down by all channels, little money, one year of shooting... and great material : Les Meilleures intentions (The Best Intentions), Jean-Marc La Rocca (Eurodoc-Script participant), 57’, prod. Quark Productions, coprod. Forum des Images, 2005 Les jeunes couples qui se lancent dans la création d’une crèche parentale n’ont guère d’expérience du fonctionnement d’un collectif. Les généreuses intentions de départ passeront-elles dans les faits et dans quel état ? A group of young couples decide to set up a day nursery according to their values. Will their initial well-meant intentions turn into realit… and under what conditions? Selection Festival du Réel 2005 Jean-Marc La Rocca (Script 1) [email protected] Festival Cinéma du Réel Marie-Pierre Duhamel-Muller is now the artistic Director of the Festival! Cinéma du Réel www.bpi.fr The following films were also selected : Madame B. 10’, France, by Thomas Sipp (Eurodoc-Script participant), 2004 In her luxurious, but increasingly empty house, Madam B. sees nothing but her memories. Après-midi dansant – 54’ Réalisation : Carolina Dias (Eurodoc-Script) et Monica Araujo Production : Refinaria Filmes Une rencontre avec des habitués des bals pour le troisième âge à Rio de Janeiro. Des hommes et des femmes qui ont choisi de vivre leur vieillesse différemment. Media 3.14 es trasllada/ se muda/ moves / démenage NEW ADRESS - NOUVELLE ADRESSE Media 3.14 Edifici Imagina Gaspar Fàbregas 81 ES - 08950 ESPLUGUES DE LLOBREGAT Phone : 34 93 476 15 51 Fax : 34 93 476 15 52 [email protected] Retour vers l’Italie Je vous signale que j'ai fait un pré-montage du film que j'ai développé avec Eurodoc : on a eu un cable, un peu de CNC et la Procirep. Je devrais bientôt commencer à travailler avec une monteuse. Ensuite nous devrons chercher d'autres fonds. À bientôt Fulvia Alberti The World of Boris Lurie Unfortunately, I have not been able to get funding yet. (A not very well known artist and a holocaust survivor does not fit in the regular program and was too late to get one of the uncountable shoah-memorial-documentary-slots and perhaps too late to change the title too?). Circumstances forced me to start with the shooting without funding. The main character of my film is 80 and he felt seriously ill last summer. That’ s why I went to New York for shooting in October, when he felt much better. Most of the shooting is done now. I worked with the well-known cameraman Rainer Hoffmann (Berlin) who has made a lot of award-winning documentary films for arte/ARD/ZD. The material looks great. Boris Lurie and his friends are impressing! I am very happy that we made it! Now I am working on the rough-cut to figure out, what else we need to shoot and where else we have to go to finish the film. With the rough-cut it should be more likely to convince commissioning editors to support the project. Maybe I am dreaming...... but I am still very confident! Best regards, Reinhild www.defi-filmproduktion.de Dali nominated aux Emmy’s!! Le Project sur Dali que j'avais ‘sous la table’ quand j'ai participé à Eurodoc-Production 20002001 a été co-produit avec la société française Article Z et la participation de France 5 (Muriel Rosé). Le film poursuit sa carrière aux Emmy's internationaux. Il a été nominé pour le meilleur programme d'art du continent européen! J'ai très souvent pensé que je n'aurais pas pu réaliser ce film, sans notre équipe de travail, mais sans doute pas non plus sans la formation suivie à EURODOC. Hasta pronto, Josep Rovira For ever Lenin ! Jérome Amimer (Prod 5) - Leitmotiv Production (France) a obtenu une aide au développement de la PROCIREP. France 5 s’est positionné comme le co-producteur principal et le film a obtenu des pré-achats de la TSR, de la TSI (Suisse), de la RTBF (Belgique), de SBS (Australie), de DR TV (Danemark), de YLE (Finlande), de TV Ontario (Canada) ainsi que TV5 Monde! Jérôme Amimer et son co-producteur Mike Chamberlain de Stampede (UK) sont en pourparlers avec la BBC. Le co-producteur belge Aurélien Bodineaux de Néon Rouge, a déposé une demande auprès de la Communauté Française de Belgique. [email protected] Shoah and Pin-ups I have some news regarding my project "Shoah and Pin-ups” I developed through Eurodocscript in 2003-2004. The main character of my film is 80 years old and he felt seriously ill last summer. That’s why I went to New York for shooting in October, when he felt much better. Now more than half of the shooting is done. I worked together with the well-known cameraman Rainer Hoffmann from Berlin. He made a lot of documentary films for ZDF/arte. The material looks great and I am very happy that we made it! There is no financing till today but I am working on the financing and I believe in the project! I am planning to finish shooting till March 2005 and making a rough-cut till April. As you may have heard there is a vivid exchange in between the German group and we have had Eurodoc Session 3 in Bonn! The next meeting will be to discuss my rough-cut. That’s nice isn’t it? Yours Reinhnild Dettmer-Finke KEEP IN TOUCH Montse Bartui (Prod 2) is currently working with Joan Ubeda in MEDIA PRO! [email protected] Fierce People Having gained complete access to the man at the centre of the controversy, Napoleon Chagnon, we have shot him at his home in America and out hunting. On the Funding front, we have are following up on three American distributors who have shown serious interest in taking the north American rights. In terms of archive, we have gained access to all the finished films material that we would need. We are in the final stages of securing access to rushes of the Chagnon films via the Smithsonian Institute and Timothy Asch’s widow. Chagnon has already given us his unmitigated permission. Co-producers : Caroline Bonmarchand - Avenue B Production (France), José Padilha (Filmmaker, Brazil). Mike Chamberlain - Stampede (UK) [email protected] Enrica et les eurodoc-iens Les 'sales têtes' avancent, on n'a pas encore signé de contrats de diffusion mais on a obtenu une aide au développement de Media Plus. Et les rapports avec le coproducteur français (Christine Doublet - Program 33) et le coproducteur allemand (Thomas Kufus - zero film) sont très cordiaux et... eurodoc-iens! Enrica Capra, Graffiti Doc, Torino News from Exile Family Movie The film is financed by FFW (Vienna Film Fund), ORF, BKA (Art Fund Austria) and Arte France. We are now in editing, Arte will broadcast a 60 minutes version in April 2005 and the 90 minutes cinema version will be ready in June 2005. The film by Arash Riahi (Script 2) is produced by Geza Horvat (Prod 5) GoldenGirls Filmproduktion, Austria [email protected] Cyril & Valerianne CLEJANI histoires, stories, povesti by M. Bergman & F. Fichefet was produced Cyril Bibas (promotion Eurodoc 2002), Entre Chien et Loup, Belgium, and Valérianne Boué, TS Production, France. Ces retrouvailles avec les Tziganes de Cléjani en Roumanie sont empreintes de nostalgie : celle d’un temps passé où l’argent était plus facile, où les musiciens étaient demandés dans le monde entier, et où Johnny Depp en personne leur faisait des promesses... Meeting the gypsies of Clejani in Rumania again is tainted with nostalgia. There was a time when money was easier to come by, the musicians enjoyed world-wide popularity and Johnny Depp himself had made them promises... American success for Elly! 'Through Hell and High Water', a feature documentary developed through Eurodoc won a Silver World Medal at the New York Festivals 2005 in the documentary feature category. Carl Ludwig Rettinger from Lichtblick Films was the co-producer. Taylored Productions developing a documentary called 'Still Trucking After All These Years' a big important film on being black in the 20th century while taking us right up to the present complex 21st century, as seen through the eyes and experiences of Dr. Maya Angelou, the highly respected African American poet and writer. Awaiting news of first funding from USA. Best wishes, Elly M Taylor New address: Taylored Productions Ltd The Caledonian Art House 752-756 Argyle Street, Glasgow G3 8UJ Tel 0141-221 7351 Fax 0141 248 4397 [email protected] Conceição Tavares (Script 2) My postal address in Lisbon is: Av. Almirante Reis, 237 rc/dt.º PT-1000-051 Lisboa [email protected] L’Apothéose d’Arthur Bispo de Rosario est terminé ! Nouvelles coordonnées : Maione de Queiroz Silva La Sellerie Memillon 28800 Saint Maur sur le Loir tel : 33 (0)2 37 96 26 48 [email protected] Willy Ronis J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer que le film de Michel Toutain et Georges Chatain vient d'obtenir le Prix de la Démarche Photographique au 28ème festival du Film d'Art qui s'est déroulé à la Maison de l'Unesco à Paris. Patrick Séraudie. The guggenheim and the baroness I am very happy with my EURODOC project : it was screened on Arte with favourable review, we had the U.S. premiere at the Guggenheim itself with a reception. Now the Goethe-Institut has invited me to New York again to show the film after the opening of the Rebay show at the Guggenheim in May. We have one a Bronze Medal at the New York Festivals and were / are invited to the Szolnok Festival (Hungary) and the Montréal Film Festival of Fine Arts. Everything else you would like to know you can read on our website: www.the-baroness.com. Chantz en tournée en France Chantz, l’enfant-jazz produit par Dominique Le Pivert, Grenade production (Eurodoc n°3), a représenté la France dans le cadre des diffusions d’Eurodocuzone. Novocine souhaite sortir le film en salle en avril, dans sa version de 92’. Universal produit le 1er disque de Chantz. Avec Glinda Powell et le réalisateur Mohamed Kounda, ils seront en tournée de promotion dans toute la France. Ne les ratez pas ! [email protected] The Roman mass-media network! The project is still under development, after fully re-writing the original concept. Soon, this new concept and project that will be presented to potential partners and commissioning editors. I am in contact with Mediterranean colleagues, to reinforce a partnership with Portugal (Contra Costa produçoes) and Italy (B&B Films). José Antonio Hergueta, Malaga Caroline Barraud Depuis décembre 2004, a quitté la société de production FILMES DO TEJO (Lisbonne, Portugal) et sa filiale française LES FILMS DE L’APRÈS-MIDI, afin de travailler comme free- lancer auprès de différents producteurs. Elle coordonne actuellement auprès d’AporDOC, l’Association portuguaise pour le documentaire, différentes actions liées à la promotion et divulgation du documentaire portugais à l’étranger : stand AporDOC au Sunny Side of the Docs 2005, édition de la revue internationale DOCS.PT. [email protected] Barbara under working! Isabelle, so nice to hear from you, but I am under so much pressure here at the moment in the middle of production on a big BBC1 dance project - I can’t quite click into the Eurodoc ‘state of mind’ !!!! All I can hope is that I will surface soon from the local broadcaster and get back into the Euro thinking with new international projects to collaborate on….. I’m snowed under working here on these two big BBC 1 prime time dance docs, but still feel connected to the network, which is saying something about the strength of the relationships made through Eurodoc, and the working process…. Love to all, and I’ll surface in Europe again soon with some new collaborations!!!! All bests, Barbara Orton Bonjour à tous, Merci de noter ma nouvelle adresse mail. A bientôt. Didier Gerbaud [email protected] Dream Land by Leila Pakalnina The Vides Filmu Studija and NDR/arte coproduction “Dream Land” has been finished summer 2004 in 3 versions. We are also very happy that original music for the film was composed by famous Japanese film composer Shigeru Umebayashi. The ARTE version was broadcasted n September 2004 as well as selected for Nordische Filmtage Luebeck. The short version (35 min, without narration) was selected for Pusan International Film Festival and IDFA. Best Greets, Uldis Cekulis (Prod 4) Riga, Latvia [email protected] Made in Iran Un film documentaire de Nader T. Homayoun. 75 et 52 min. Caroline Bonmarchand revient de Téhéran où elle a mis en place la production exécutive du film (négociation des archives et rencontre avec l'archiviste, direction de production, rencontre avec l'équipe, rencontre avec les intervenants...). Nous avons un vendeur international sur le film : Jane Balfour Services Chaines confirmées : ARTE (Dana Hastier / Soirée Théma) / TSR / YLE / RAISAT Distribution US : First Run / Icarus (NY) Dates de tournage : Juin - Juillet 2005 en Iran et à NY Par ailleurs, je coproduis avec Mike Chamberlain, le projet Eurodoc de Stampede “Fierce People”, qui est une coproduction ARTE avec Christoph Jorg! Caroline Bonmarchand (Prod 5) Anna Rodgers back to Laos… She has received Production Finance from The Irish Film Board for her documentary 'Today is better than two tomorrows' (Eurodoc Script 3). Vinegar Hill Productions in Donegal, Ireland are producing it. We have received Media Slate Development funding. I will be spending the next 6 months in Laos. Anna Rogers (Script 3), Ireland [email protected] Gerrit Messiaen Everything is going fine. My documentary project about Lucien Hervé has received funding in Belgium from the Flemish Filmfund (VAF) and from the French filmfund. My producer (Martine Barbé - Image Creation) has found a Hungarian Coproducer. Best wishes, Gerrit Vive le réseau! J’ai co-produit avec Zangra Productions le film "Mauriac un journaliste engagé" et ai conclu un préachat avec la RTBF. J'ai pu grâce à EURODOC constituer un réseau de producteurs, pour le projet documentaire sur l'Argentine, "Le tango de la dette" de Marie-France Collard. Pour l'Allemagne, je travaille avec Meike Martens de Ma.Ja.De et nous avons de sérieuses pistes de financement et depuis peu, un producteur argentin, Américo Films, compte se joindre à nous. Je suis en contact avec Grenade Production pour “Rwanda 94” et “Rwanda 2004”, projets de films produits par le Groupov (troupe de théâtre belge) pour qui je travaille en tant que producteur exécutif. GRENADE PRODUCTIONS va prochainement entrer en coproduction sur le documentaire “Rwanda 2004”. Amorces de coproduction sur des projets avec Mat Films et Audiovisioconcept. Pour moi, le réseau fonctionne et c’est formidable ! Bien cordialement, Isabelle Truc (Prod 3), Bruxelles [email protected] In Search of My Family I have been on and off shooting for the last long time. I did a few days shooting with my mother in August 2003 in Oxford. Since then I have filmed her having tea with Nelson Mandela and also receiving an award from the President in Pretoria - and I used that opportunity to take her back to certain locations in Jhb that were in the script - and that worked well. In the meantime the film I completed in April 'A South African Love Story' was shown in Toronto and has been well received elsewhere and has been chosen to be shown on Robben Island during Sithengi in Cape Town. About to start edit – which has been delayed due to finance. All the best to all of you. Toni Strasburg (Script 1) [email protected] or [email protected] Flat 3, 38 Canfield Gardens, UK- London NW6 3LA Tel:+44(0)207 328 2536 Fax:+44(0)207 372 6649 Mariama primée au Fespaco! Pourquoi? premier film de la réalisatrice sénégalaise Sokhna Amar a été primé au Panaroma du FESPACO et sera en compétition au festival Vues d'Afrique de Montréal. Ce court métrage documentaire est une coproduction Guiss Guiss Communication (Mariama Sylla), Vivement Lundi !, RFO. In production: Lillian Stirling, Balthazar Film, Alsace (Prod 5) Le mullo marchait va entrer en tournage avec France 3 Alsace. Attend une réponse de la RTBF. [email protected] KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE FAMILY: Ulla Simonen joined AVEK as a production consultant. AVEK Hietaniemenkatu, 2 FI - 00100 Helsinki Tel: + 358-9-4315 2352 Fax: + 358-9-4315 2377 www.kopiosto.fi/avek/ [email protected] And Cilla Werning moved to KINOTAR ! My new mail address is [email protected] Kinotar Oy Meritullinkatu 33 E FI-00170 Helsinki Tel: +358-9-135 1863 Fax:+358-9-1357864 www.kinotar.com Rasa Miskinyte Head of Film Production Department Lithuanian Radio and Television S.Konarskio str. 49 LT-03123 Vilnius Tel.: +370 5 2363193 Fax: +370 5 2363208 [email protected] Susanne Brandstätter En Vision Productions Wipplingerstrasse 24-26/XXIII 1010 Vienna - Austria A Greek friend Please make a note of my new e-mail address: [email protected] My home-office telephone number remains : 30 210 9400841 Thank you Apostolos Karakasis Olaf Grunert is now based in Strasbourg Dear friends and colleagues, From beginning of 2005 I start my new position in ARTE. I will become director of the Theme Night Department at ARTE Headquarters in Strasbourg. My new address: ARTE G.E.I.E. 4 quai du Chanoine Winterer BP 20035 F- 67080 Strasbourg CEDEX Tel. : +33 3 8814 2101 Email : [email protected] Mes nouvelles coordonnées professionnelles : Fabrice Estève Gédéon Programmes 155, rue de Charonne F-75011 Paris Tel (direct): +33 (0) 1 55 25 59 15 Fax : +33 (0) 1 55 25 59 01 [email protected] www.gedeonprogrammes.com J'ai également le plaisir de vous communiquer les coordonnées de la productrice qui me remplace à Ampersand : Edmée Millot [email protected] Tel. +33 (0) 1 44 11 12 38 Fax +33 (0) 1 44 11 12 30 J’espère vous retrouver bientôt pour de nouvelles aventures. Fabrice Vanni joined GA&A I am pleased to announce that Vanni Gandolfo has joined the GA&A Productions' team as Executive Producer. Over the last couple of years GA&A Productions has been growing constantly and with the recent assignment of the Slate Funding 2 a larger number of projects will go into development. Vanni is joining us at this crucial time and brings additional enthusiasm and energy as well as his contacts in the international market. The production team will be composed by Vanni ([email protected]), Gioia Marchetti as Senior Producer ([email protected]), Ilaria Sbarigia as Researcher/Producer ([email protected]) and Sabina Tranquilli as Production Manager ([email protected]). Warmest regards, Gioia Avvantaggiato President & CEO GA&A Productions srl 2, Piazza Martiri di Belfiore 00195 Rome, Italy tel. + 39 06 3613 480 fax + 39 06 3614 042 www.gaea.it http://www.gaea.it