Marketplace Pitching Papers 2016

GALWAY
FILM FAIR
Industry Handbook
#filmfleadh
20th Galway Film Fair
7th 9th July 2016
The Marketplace
Table of Contents
A - BAHN .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Akajava Films .................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Anne Zohra Barrached ................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Artbox ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Blunt Stuff ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
The Bureau Film Company ........................................................................................................................................................ 16
The Content Providers/Braveheart Films ........................................................................................................................... 18
David Kinsella Productions ....................................................................................................................................................... 21
De Warrenne Pictures Limited ................................................................................................................................................ 23
Duckling Development ............................................................................................................................................................... 25
Euroart (Media) Limited ............................................................................................................................................................ 27
Family Affair Films ....................................................................................................................................................................... 30
Fantastic Films ............................................................................................................................................................................... 32
Film Road Productions ............................................................................................................................................................... 34
Film-Art Film Institution ............................................................................................................................................................ 37
Five Knight Films .......................................................................................................................................................................... 39
Isabelle Stever ............................................................................................................................................................................... 42
Julia Stovell ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 44
Kinomind Films ............................................................................................................................................................................. 46
Kwassa Films .................................................................................................................................................................................. 50
LACIMA Producciones, S.L. ........................................................................................................................................................ 53
Lirithe Rnda Productions ...................................................................................................................................................... 55
Life to Live Films ........................................................................................................................................................................... 57
Lugh Films ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 60
Magic Bear Productions ............................................................................................................................................................. 63
Mammoth Films Limited ............................................................................................................................................................ 66
Marcin Ostasz ................................................................................................................................................................................. 68
Martina Babisova .......................................................................................................................................................................... 71
Mojo Raiser Production, SIA KMVKP ..................................................................................................................................... 73
Monami Agency ............................................................................................................................................................................. 76
Patchwork Productions .............................................................................................................................................................. 78
Pinball Films Limited .................................................................................................................................................................. 80
plays2place Productions ............................................................................................................................................................ 82
ROADS Entertainment ................................................................................................................................................................. 86
Sarah Brocklehurst Productions ............................................................................................................................................. 88
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Seahound Films Limited ............................................................................................................................................................. 90
Spier Films ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 92
Treasure Entertainment ............................................................................................................................................................ 94
Tuffi Films ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 97
Vico Films ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 100
Zanzibar Films ............................................................................................................................................................................. 102
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A - BAHN
Name
Marion Guth
Position
Co-founder/Producer
Address
15A rue Emile Mark

L-4620 Differdange
Luxembourg
Telephone
+352 661 163 820
Mobile
+352 661 163 820
Website
www.a-bahn.com
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
marion@a-bahn.com
Marion is the cofounder of a_BAHN (Luxembourg and France), a documentary and
fiction films production company, specialising in new forms of storytelling. She has
focused her productions on citizen-provided content, working on themes such as
wartime sexual violence, modern slavery in Lebanon or how to create an intergenerational community to consider the possible future of our society...
Her first production, broadcast by ARTE, SOUNDHUNTERS, was awarded a GOLD FIPA
and a nomination at the Europa Prize in Berlin. EAVE Producer Workshop alumni, she
orientates her activities toward international co-productions, as her latest features
ARTIC DREAM and AFTERGLOW (supported by Sundance Institute, HBO EUROPE and
winner at Trieste Pitching) can confirm.
For a few years now, Marion has also been active in evangelizing new methods of
storytelling to national institutions, broadcasters, authors etc. She is working with
several funds in setting up an umbrella for these specific contents and helping the
growth of relationships between different national funds, such as Canada and Norway
did with Luxembourg recently. In the same line, Marion is also a cofounding member of
PXN (a French union of producers producing new types of storytelling contents, the
goal being to fight for their interests with the CNC and Ministry of Culture), and is in
charge of the New Storytelling cell within the ULPA (Luxembourg Union of Audiovisual
Producers). Marion also gives master-classes on themes like the challenges of writing
trans-media, or international co-production in this field for DOKFEST Munich or
DOCUDAYS in Kiev.
Marion is also implicated in the Consultative Commission for the Ministery of Culture,
with other representatives of the arts fields in Luxembourg (theater, danse, performing
arts...), to advise on cultural laws, attribute art grants and special artist status. Her
latest project is the creation and organization of FARR, the first international film
festival for virtual reality films. FARR is a celebration of diversity and innovation in
storytelling, a diversity and innovation we can find everywhere in her filmography.
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
Zero Impunity
completed
Is a finished screenplay available?

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
national film funds,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
(100 WORDS MAXIMUM )
in development x
Yes
No
Documentary - Animation Transmedia experience

Feature length + Web
Produced by a_BAHN
Coproduced by Camera Talk (FR) and Melusine Production (LU)
Supported by CNC (FR) and FilmFund Luxembourg
Selected for pitching at Crossvideo Days 2016 and Sheffield Alternate Realities Market
2016
Distributors, sales agent, TV
ZERO IMPUNITY is articulated around two tools: an animation documentary series that
will inform the audience on the taboo issue of sexual violence in conflict; second the
creation of an innovative media that will be generated in real-time, connected with
social networks, the first virtual street march which will show concretely the evolution
of this international citizen movement. ZERO IMPUNITY offers the audience to discover
the mechanics of a terror weapon, destructive and insidious, that undermines the
prospects for peace and casts a shadow over our collective humanity. By reconciling a
powerful narrative and technological innovation, we want to engage the audience in a
collective augmented action and so fight together against impunity.
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Project #2
Project Title
Project is
(N)Ostalgia
completed

Genre
in development x
Yes
No
Documentary
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
Supported by FilmFund Luxembourg

Selected for Sheffield UK Ukraine Program 2016
Financing partners
Sales agent
(N)OSTALGIA: The Pleasure of Ruins is an experimental documentary set in Pyramiden,

an abandoned Soviet mining town in the Norwegian Arctic. Taking a cine-novel Neige
Noire (1974) by Hubert Aquin as point of departure, the film combines three
interconnected stories to explore contemporary tourism and its relationship to cultural
memory, performance and identity. Treating the town as a ready-made film set and
working with actors and real characters, (N)OSTALGIA: The Pleasure of Ruins
juxtaposes scenes from Soviet cinematic memory with the reality of Pyramiden past
and present.
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AKAJAVA FILMS
Name
Brendan Culleton
Position
Producer/Director
Address
11 Eglinton Rd
Bray
Co Wicklow
Ireland
Telephone
Mobile
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
+353 12865626
++353 876791447
www.facebook.com/akajavafilms
akajava@gmail.com
DIRECTOR CREDITS
AR INTINN EILE (An Irish State of Mind) (3 X 50') History of the treatment of mental
illness in Ireland (TG4/BAI/S481). 2014 IFTA Nominated, Sky Road Film Festival official
competition Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-5QN8D1G3s
CONGO 1961 (2 X 52') Documentary series on the Irish Army In the Congo 1961 (TG4,
Irish Film Board, Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Media).
IFTA winner "Best TV Documentary" 2013. IFTA Nominated Best Irish Language
Programme 2013.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNxbMnkPmBU
"CONGO AN IRISH AFFAIR" (90') feature documentary on UN in Congo 1961 (TG4, Irish
Film Board, Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Media) premiered at Jameson Dublin
Film Festival 2011. Galway Film Fleadh 2011. Chicago Irish Film Festival 2013, Winner of
Access Cinema Michael Dwyer award 2012. Trailer: http://vimeo.com/23447111
"WOODKERNE " (6'29"') short drama. Premiered at Cork International Film Festival
2010. (Arts Council of Ireland). https://vimeo.com/9698501
"DIARMAIT & STRONGBOW 1X 50' min TV documentary on Norman invasion of Ireland.
(TG4/S4C). Ireland/UK Coproduction. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSt8Xq9QwA
"SHAMROCK & SWASTIKA" 52 min doc on IRA & Nazis. Funded by IFB/TG4/SBS
Australia. Official Selection Sao Paulo International Film Festival
PRODUCER CREDITS
"CEAUSESCU & I" feature documentary on growing up In Ceausescu's Romania
(Eurimages, TG4, IFB, Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, YLE, Arts Council of Ireland,
Media II, CINESTYRIA, TVR Romania) Irish/Austrian/Romanian coproduction .
Trailer: http://vimeo.com/9699822
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5jXMDQRbDY
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"SHELTER ON THE M50" 25' documentary on Roma Gypsies, shown in 10 EBU countries
incl. Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Ireland, Czech republic). Funded by TG4
and IFB. Premiered at Guth Gala International Documentary Festival 2010.
Trailer: http://vimeo.com/14768987
"BEGUMS" (Ebb Tide) 80' documentary on Latvian seashell workers in Ireland
(Latvia/Ireland).Official selection Dublin International Film festival, International Film
Festival Arsenals, Riga (Best Documentary).
Trailer: http://www.diena.lv/diena-tv/arhivs/video-filmas-begums-treileris-691797
"THE PATRIOT GAME" 52' doc on IRA revival in 1950's (TG4/lrish Film Board, History
Channel)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIUpFGU1k-c
"MEBOLLIX" 10'30" drama Film Board/RTE Short Cuts/ sold to SBS Australia, Galway
International Film Fleadh. Winner funniest short at HD FEST, US.
Link: http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/me_bollix
"EGGS" short drama for Irish Film Board, sold to Canal Plus, premiere Galway
International Film Fleadh.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SipHMR2pe-4
"TINTOWN" 52' on Irish WWII prison camps (TG4/IFB/History Channel,YLE) Nominated
best Irish language documentary Irish Film & TV Awards 2004
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LluTU9vKTbO
"ALIEN MISSION" Short drama for TG4, sold to RAI Sat (llaly),Galway International Film
Fleadh.
"E-MAG" 12 part series on Eastern Europe. TG4
Link: https://www.facebook.com/E-MAG-2016-632180333524792/
"AN BOTHAR FADA" (THE LONG ROAD) 52 min social doc on Irish immigration to the UK.
(IFB/TG4), premiered at Doclands Documentary Festival 1999. Festival lntercettique de
Lorient 2011.
"FERTILITY DANCE" 26 min arts doc on the last performance of a ballet troupe. (TG4/
Arts Council)
"Bridge" 26 min documentary on building of Millennial Footbridge. (RTE)
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Project #2
Project Title
Project is
Ceausescu and I The story of an American Dream

completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development
Yes
No
Documentary
DCP 2K
TG4 (Ireland),
Irish Film Board,
Arts Council of Ireland,
BAI,
Eurimages, Media
Buyers,
festivals,
distributors
Director Irina Maldea had a happy childhood in the magic environment of the Romanian
film studios at a time when 30 films per year were produced, a record never equalled
before or since. Romania was at its peak, friends with everybody and a greatly
improved living standard. Everybody had homes, jobs, free education, healthcare.
Nowadays Romania is remembered through the prism of the last years of the 80's
and early 90's, when austerity hit hard and a victorious West dismantled the
achievements of earlier decades. Irina tries to explain to her Irish-born daughter the gap
between her own memories and the narrative imposed by the West and tries to create
legacy of which she can be proud.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5jXMDQRbDY
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ANNE ZOHRA BARRACHED

Name
Anne Zohra Barrached
Position
Director
Address
Lehrter Strasse 57
D-10557
Berlin
Telephone
+49 (0) 303906630
Mobile
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
Anne Zohra Berrached was born in Erfurt. After receeiving her degree in Social
Education in Frankfurt, she worked as a theater pedagogue in London for two years.
She also worked as an assistant director in Berlin for the Hansatheater in the Theater
Ballhaus Ost and on the film MUST LOVE DEATH by Andreas Schaap. After an
internship as a production assistant for a television show, she shot her first short film,
COMIC RELIEF (DER PAUSENCLOWN). Since 2009, she has been studying Film Directing
at the Filmakademie Baden-Wrttemberg. Her films include: DOGS LIKE US (short,
2012), SAINT & WHORE (doc, 2012), TWO MOTHERS (2013), and 24 WEEKS (2016).
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Project #1
Project Title
24 Weeks
Project is
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
in development
Yes
No
Drama
Digital /DCP
zero one film in co-production with ZDF / Das kleine Fernsehspiel and Filmakademie
Baden-Wurttemberg, MDM Mitteldeutsche Medienforderung and Caligari Preis 2014
SALES AGENT & DISTRUBTORS
Synopsis
Cabaret performer Astrid is six months pregnant when she learns that her unborn child
will be severely disabled. She and her husband have little time to take a decision of
enormous significance.
The stage lights, the applause Astrid loves being a cabaret performer, and loves her
tolerant and supportive husband Markus. Every decision is taken together, and this one
is no different: what will they do with the child that Astrid is carrying, now, six months
into the pregnancy, that she learns it will be severely disabled? She and Marcus have a
choice, but little time
A strong nature with a witty answer to everything, Astrid now feels lost, on her own,
impossible to continue her comedy routine. Ultimately only she who is bearing the child
can take this weighty decision. What will she do? Who decides whether the child will
have a life worth living?
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ARTBOX
Name
Lina Luyt
Kstutis Drazdauskas
Position
Writer-Director
Producer
Address
Srovs str. 16,

Vilnius,
LT-01206,
Lithuania.
+37068713078
Telephone
Mobile
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
+37068397996
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5379662/ ; http://www.artbox.lt/
Lina.luzyte@gmail.com
kestas@artbox.lt
Lina Luyt
Professional experience
Since 2008 - Freelance Director and Casting Director for Film and video commercials
2011 - 2012 - Professor at Learning from film film workshop, Skalvija Film centre
2009 - 2011 - Professor of Film directing at Skalvija Film academy
2009 - Assistant Director at RCR Films, Barcelona
2005 - 2008 - Assistant Director, Casting Director at Artbox Production House,
Lithuania
Other Experience
- Nipkow programme, Script development workshop, Berlin, Germany, 2013
- Torino Film Lab, Script & Pitch, Script development workshop, Sweden, France, Italy,
2012
- Ex Oriente Film 2011, documentary film script development workshop, Czech Republic,
2011
- II Mezhdunarodnaja Kino Shkola, feature film production workshop, Russia, 2009
- Miroslav Janek documentary film seminar, Lithuania, 2009
- Collaborate 08, creative music workshop, Great Britain, 2008
- Aleksandr Mittas script writing workshop, Lithuania, 2007
- Interakcija 2006 documentary film creative workshop, Serbia, 2006
Filmography
- 199 Roads to School / 90 / documentary / Germany / Director, Camera Operator,
Editor of Cote dIvoire, Nepal, India episodes
- Together For Ever / 90 / feature / Script writer, Director
- igruki / 60 / documentary / Belarus, Lithuania / Director
- It would be splendid, yet / 28 / short / Lithuania / Script writer, Director
- Santa / 90 / feature / Lithuania, Finland / Casting Director
- Our Father/ 30 / Lithuania / Casting Director
- A Perfect Day for Bananafish / 10 / Lithuania / Adaptation author, Director
- Katutis / 10 / drama / Lithuania / Script writer, Directo
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Awards
Together forever - Film Fly Post-production award / Talinn Black Nights / 2015
Igruki
Best Film CineDoc Tbilisi / 2013
Theatrical distribution Berlin, Gemany / 2013
Official Selection American documentary film festival / 2013 / Palm Springs, USA
Official Selection Krakow documentary film festival / 2013 / Krakow, Poland
Official Selection - GoEast documentary film festival / 2013 / Wiesbaden, Germany
It would be splendid, yet / 28 / Lithuania
National premiere - European Film Forum Scanorama / 2009 / Special prize
International premiere - Baku IFF Start / 2009 Baku, Azerbaijan / Grand Prix
Lithuanian national film awards Silver Crane / 2010 / Best Director of
Photography
Monaco Charity film festival / 2010 / Grand Prix
Blue Sea film festival / 2010 / Finland / Second prize
Fifth student film festival Young Cinema Art 2010 / Poland / Main prize and
audience award
Landau IFF La. Meko / 2009 Germany / Best foreign film award
Kstutis Drazdauskas
Kstutis Drazdauskas, the founder of Artbox, has been producing since 1998 and is one
of the most active film producers in Lithuania. In the last few years Kstutis focuses on
international coproduction. He has coproduced with Finnish, British, Latvian, Polish and
Armenian producers.
In 2012 Kstutis was one of the 8 European producers in Transatlantic Partners a joint
EPI (Europe), IFP (USA) and Strategic Partners (Canada) initiative. In 2014 he
participated in SOFA project by Nikolaj Nikitin.
Kstutis is President of Lithuanian Independent Producers Association and a member of
the board of the National Association of Creative and Cultural Industries.
He was the mastermind behind the establishment of Vilnius Film Cluster, which at
present unites 22 companies of the Lithuanian audiovisual industry. The organization
took major part in lobbying through the establishment of Vilnius Film Office at the
Municipality of Vilnius in 2012, and the Lithuanian tax incentive for film production, in
effect from January 1, 2014.
Selected filmography (Producer):
"The Castle" - drama, feature, in development, Lithuania
"Habit and Armour" - documentary, in production, Poland, Lithuania, Germany
"Foam at the Mouth" - drama, feature, in post-production, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland
"The Last Inhabitant" - drama, feature, completed, Armenia, Lithuania, 2016
"2 Nights Till Morning" - drama, feature, completed, Finland, Lithuania, 2016
"Tevanik" - drama, feature, completed, Armenia, Lithuania, 2014
"Santa" - drama, feature, completed, Lithuania, Finland, 2014
"Mother, I Love You" - drama, feature, completed, Latvia, Lithuania, 2013
"Letters to Sofia" - drama, feature, completed, Lithuania, UK, Russia, 2012
"God's Got His Head In The Clouds" - drama/comedy, short, completed, Lithuania, Italy,
2012
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
The Castle
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development
Yes
No
Drama
Feature
Lithuanian Film Centre - development grant of 10 000 EUR
Co-producers
'Twice Shy' is a coming of age, romantic drama that centers around Andy and Maggie, a
young couple who embark on a road trip from Ireland to London as a result of an
unplanned pregnancy. While on the road they both reflect on their relationship and try
to come to terms with what their future will hold.
The film stars Shane Murray Corcoran, Iseult Casey, Ardal O' Hanlon and Pat Shortt. The
film was shot on location in Tipperary, Dublin and London.
It is now completed and we are seeking a sales agent, distributor and festival contacts
worldwide to try and get it out to as wide an audience as possible.
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BLUNT STUFF
Name
Position
Colette Delaney-Smith
Producer
Address
Telephone
+44 7833488766
Mobile
+44 7833488766
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
www.bluntstuff.co.uk
colette@bluntpictures.com
BLUNT PICTURES is a new dynamic production company seeking to make critically and
commercially successful independent British films. The company was set up by
Producer Colette Delaney-Smith and Director Simon Blake with the aim to make
innovative and original films.
STILL, the companys debut feature, has gained critical acclaim on the festival circuit
and won Best International First Feature at the prestigious Galway Film Fleadh (2014).
It was also nominated for The Roger Ebert award at The Chicago International Film
Festival (2014) where it was described as one of the most assured pieces of film
making I've seen in quite some time.....Keep an eye on this film maker as STILL promises
great things ahead" by THE CHICAGOIST.
STILL was released in the UK and the U.S in the spring of 2015 to an excellent critical
response.
It nails the uncertain atmosphere of a City in flux THE TIMES.
An impressively accomplished first feature, intensely controlled and notable for its fine
performances SIGHT & SOUND.
Phenomenal directingGripping performances..Compelling WE GOT THIS COVERED.
STILL is currently distributed in the UK by VERVE PICTURES and in the North America
by Film Movement.
Since completing STILL, Colette has executive-produced COUPLE IN A HOLE by Tom
Geens which was released earlier this year, also to great critical acclaim.
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
POP
completed

Genre
in development x
Yes
No
Comedy
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
Sales
Distribution
Finance
How far would you go to be famous? POP asks that very question of its three central
characters and explores the impact reality TV and celebrity has had on our culture. All
powerful agent Monty Braker, sets an eccentric music manager a Pygmalion style task;
should she make a star of an act of his choosing, within a month, she will gain entry to
the hallowed halls of the mighty Talent Plus agency. The catch? The act is the worst
Monty has ever come across. A hilarious journey ensues where one person will become
a star, one person will get what they want and one person will die!
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THE BUREAU FILM COMPANY

Name
Aleem Khan
Position
Writer-Director
Address
The Bureau Film Company

2nd Floor, 42 Glasshouse Street
London
W1B 5DW
UK
Telephone
Mobile
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
+44 2074398257 (Bureau Office)

+44 7737023321 (Personal)
www.thebureau.co.uk / www.aleem-khan.com
Aghaaleemkhan@gmail.com
Aleem is a writer-director of mixed English-Pakistani heritage, living in London. He
studied Film Direction at The University of Westminster before shooting his debut short
film, Diana, which went on to screen at over 30+ festivals internationally, winning Best
UK Short at the Iris Prize Festival and the Jury Award for Best Short Film at The Seattle
Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.
In 2012 Aleem shot his second short film, The Wayfaring Stranger, and was a
participant on the Locarno Film Festival Summer Academy, B3 Medias Talent Lab
Programme and the Bureau Film Companys SOS feature development scheme.
Aleems third short film, Three Brothers, was commissioned by the BFI and Film London
on their inaugural London Calling Plus initiative. The film premiered at The BFI London
Film Festival and was nominated for a BAFTA for Best British Short Film in 2015.
In 2015 Aleem was selected to take part on the first BFI Flare Development Scheme,
where he was mentored by Ben Roberts, Head of the BFI Film Fund. Later that year, he
was named one of Screen Internationals Stars of Tomorrow and has recently been
selected on to Guiding Lights, the UK film industrys leading mentoring programme.
Aleem is currently developing two feature projects. His debut feature, After Love, is in
official development with Creative England and is being produced by Matthieu de
Braconnier (London River, All Cats Are Grey) through The Bureau Film Company (45
Years, Weekend, The Warrior)
Aleem is represented by Matthew Bates at Sayle Screen
Credits:
Three Brothers (Short) 2014
The Wayfaring Stranger (Short) 2012
Diana (Short) 2009
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
AFTER LOVE
completed

Genre
DRAMA
Format
Feature
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
Producer (Matthieu de Braconnier The Bureau Film Company)

Development Funding (BFI / Creative England )
Co-producers (French)
Distributors
Sales Agents
Financiers (French)
Mary Hussain, a 60 year-old English Muslim convert, lives in Dover with Ahmed, her
husband of over forty years. When Ahmed dies suddenly of a heart attack, Marys sense
of identity begins to unravel, but her grief is further compounded by the discovery of a
secret mistress and teenage son living in Calais.
Mary tracks Genevive and Solomon down and embeds herself within the family by
becoming their house cleaner, but the more she learns of Ahmeds double life, the
deeper she is forced to delve into her own relationship with him and the faith she
converted to for lo
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THE CONTENT PROVIDERS/BRAVEHEART FILMS
Name
Rebecca Knapp
Position
Producer
Address
64 Pear Tree Close

South Ockendon
Essex
RM15 6PR
UK
Telephone
+44 7966-372-313
Mobile
+44 7966-372-313
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
www.braveheartfilms.co.uk
rebecca@thecontentproviders.com
Rebecca is an award-winning producer who has worked in film and television
production on programmes ranging from drama to documentary and entertainment
across Europe, Africa, Canada and the USA for over fifteen years. She has also worked
as a line producer/production manager of television drama, documentaries and multimilliondollar-budget feature films.
After graduating with an honours Law degree from Edinburgh University, she produced
her first short film Smashing. She then went on to produce a series of shorts for funders
such as UK Film Council, Film Four, BBC, Scottish Media Group and Carlton Television.
These shorts have garnered three BAFTA nominations, won thirty international film
awards, screened at over 100 international film festivals (including AFI, Palm Springs,
Edinburgh, London and Berlin) and feature such British talent as Kevin McKidd
(Trainspotting, Greys Anatomy, Rome), Laura Fraser (A Knights Tale, Breaking Bad),
Helen McCrory (The Queen, Harry Potter) and Tony Curran (Underworld 2, Red Road).
Whilst working at Framework Entertainment, Rebecca associate produced Rollin with
the Nines which was nominated for a BAFTA. She was also Head of Business and Legal
Affairs/Producer and involved in the setting up of three feature films, the horror films
Heartstoppers and Warriors of Terra and action/adventure Prisoners of the Sun,
directed by the Oscar-winning Roger Christian. Whilst at the company they entered into
a joint venture with sales agency Marie Vine International and she gained hands-on
experience of selling films at Cannes.
She was producer of the teen comedy Popcorn, written and directed by Darren Paul
Fisher, backed by Screen East and the UK Film Councils Lottery Fund, released
theatrically in the UK and sold to over ten countries worldwide. It was nominated as
Best Picture at the Creative East Awards. Rebecca has also run the UK film distribution
companies Spark Pictures and Route One Releasing where she structured and managed
the release of several films with over 0.5m worth of P&A, which included the feature
Clubbed that was in the top five at HMV (the UKs premier DVD retailer).
She was integral in launching the UK based youth entertainment channel, Rapture
Television PLC, as well as Director of Programming/Commercial Director for two years,
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executive producing over fifty hours of programming. These included the shows
G@mers, Groove TV and That Film Show; featuring interviews with the likes of 50 Cent,
Mark Ronson, Shaggy, Public Enemy, Tom Cruise, Sandra Bullock, Bruce Willis, Jessica
Alba, Jeffery Katzenberg and Keanu Reeves.
She has participated on the prestigious Inside Pictures course for production
executives, run by Qwerty Films/CASS Business School and ACE producers course.
Rebecca is a member of BAFTA, WFTV, the Production Guild, ACE, Royal Television
Society and EDN.
Rebecca is currently developing a slate of media projects with her companies The
Content Providers and Braveheart Films, which include: the psychological drama
Lemmings; the thriller Remember Remember (Director - Douglas Mackinnon) and the
psychological thriller At the Break of Day.
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
At the Break of Day

completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
Psychological Thriller
Digital
Private Equity - 1.25 million - attached
Finance
Sales Agent
Distribution
Co-producers
The Logline:
When his daughter is kidnapped, a teacher is forced to confront his past when he
discovers it is revenge for an alleged satanic abuse case that as a social worker he
investigated.
The Overview:
Edward Windus (screenwriter) was inspired by the the story of the false satanic abuse
cases in the UK, where about 50 children being removed from their families and taken
into care.
The project was shortlisted for two Creative Europe screenwriting courses, namely
Sources 2 and Mediterranean Film Institute; the team chose to go on MFI where they
worked with Susanna Styron (Columbia University).
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DAVID KINSELLA PRODUCTIONS
Name
David Kinsella
Position
Owner/Director
Address
Helga Viks vei 15

8657 Mosjen
Norway
Telephone
+47 90923325
Mobile
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
davidkinsella.com
david.ki@monet.no
David Kinsella is originally a stills-photographer. He is highly merited and has won many
of the most prestigious awards for his work worldwide. He was Documentary Press
Photographer of the Year several times since he won the price the first time at the age of
16 in 1981. He's also won both The Great Picture Contest in the USA and the Fuji Press
Photographer prize. He made his debut as a documentary filmmaker with the thoughtprovoking Love Leters from a Childrens Prison in 2005. His focus on the conditions for
children and youth in countries formerly part of the Soviet Union has since become a
staple of his efforts as a documentarist, as he explored this further in his two next
documentaries, A Beautiful Tragedy and Killing Girls (both 2008), as well. All films have
been well received at festivals around the world, and have won several awards.
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
The Wall
completed

Genre
Format
in development
Yes
No
Feature Documentary
Digital/DCP
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
Sales Agent/Distributors
The Wall is the story of a young female poet in North Korea. The director David
Kinsella wanted to make a real a documentary, but the government in North
Korea brought in over 1000 extras to make Kinsella produce what they wanted:
propaganda.
Under pressure from the North Korean censor, the documentary is filmed in
such a way that the animation could be overlaid onto the images when he
returned to Norway and used to tell the real story.
Understanding that in North Korea all foreigners are spies and evil, David
Kinsella realised that he had also been told this as a boy growing up in Northern
Ireland and so he made a comparison between his own childhood in Belfast,
and his North Korean adventure movie.
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DE WARRENNE PICTURES LIMITED

Name
Tom Waller
Position
Managing Director
Address
Rynskaheen,
Ballycommon,
Nenagh,
Co. Tipperary E45 N974
IRELAND
Telephone
Mobile
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
+353 67 24137
+353 85 710 8892
www.dewarrenne.net
tom@dewarrenne.com
Born to an Irish Catholic father and Thai Buddhist mother, Tom has been working
internationally in the film business for almost twenty years, starting his producton
company De Warrenne Pictures in London in 1996 and then subsequently in Ireland and
Bangkok, Thailand in 2004, returning to the city where he was born. Since then he has
produced over a dozen acclaimed and award-winning movies including titles which
premiered at Toronto and Cannes, as well as directing three prize-winning and critically
acclaimed feature films which have traveled the world at prestigious festivals including
Shanghai and Goteborg. All of his films have been theatrically released and he has
worked with renowned talent that include Academy Award winners Ellen Burstyn and
Tommy Lee Jones, Academy Award nominee Djimon Hounsou, Golden Globe winner
Kevin Bacon, Paul Bettany, Jason Statham, Jessica Alba, Michelle Yeoh and Cillian
Murphy.
Credits as producer/ line producer or co-producer:
Battle of Memories (2016) Wanda Media (China)
Mechanic Resurrection (2016) Lionsgate / Summit / Millennium Films Inc.
Secret Sharer (2014) UKFTV Plc.
Patong Girl (2014) ZDF / Hanfgarn & Ufer Filmproduktion (winner Grimme-Preis)
Ninja: Shadow of a Tear (2013) Millennium Films Inc.
Elephant White (2011) Millennium Films Inc.
The Prince & Me: The Elephant Adventure Millennium Films Inc.
Creation (2009) Hanway / Icon / Recorded Picture Company
Bitter/Sweet (2009) Angel & Bear Productions
Soi Cowboy (2008) Pullback Camera Ltd. (Un Certain Regard, Cannes)
The Elephant King (2006) Unison Films
Ghost of Mae Nak (2005) Box Office Entertaiment
Butterfly Man (2002) GMM Grammy
Credits as director:
The Last Executioner (2014) Best Director Dhaka, Best Actor Shanghai
Mindfulness and Murder (2011) (Nominated Best Director Thai National Film Awards)
Eviction (1999) (short)
Monk Dawson (1998)
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
Pirate Queen
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
Historical drama
Feature Film
Applied for Creative Europe funding
Irish Film Board

Broadcasters
Sales Agent
Co-Producers
Irish Pirate Queen Grace OMalley defies convention and the English to preserve her
lands, her freedom, and her right to plunder ships
Screenplay by Academy Award nominee Shane Connaughton (My Left Foot). Based on a
true story.
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DUCKLING DEVELOPMENT
Name
Samas McSwiney
Position
Writer-producer
Address
28 rue Lacepede 75005 Paris
Telephone
+ 33 1 45 87 12 38
Mobile
+ 33 6 76 12 23 96
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
smsparis@hotmail.com
Graduated from University College Cork in 1978 with a degree in Economics and
Accounting. Followed by two years in the USA working as a budget analyst for a large
restaurant corporation based in Springfield, Massachusetts. Has lived in Paris since
1981, at first teaching English and doing further Business Studies in French.
Since 1985, has worked exclusively in filmmaking, occupying a wide variety of positions
from assistant to journalist to screenwriter to technician, director and producer; and in
all types of filmmaking from corporate videos to documentaries, commercials and
feature films, totalling several hundred productions.
As a journalist has written on festivals and markets and on film policy, for Irish, UK,
Kenyan and EU media.
Has participated in conferences and Think Tanks on European Film Policy.
Is the author and producer of Casus Bellini, a Franco-Italian feature project (co-written
with Massimo Torre and Mano Siri). This project was developed to 4th draft script with
the aid of the European Script Fund (Media I) and the CNC (aide la rcriture de
lAvance sur Recettes).
Has produced, with Irish company Harvest Films, the documentary Abbas Kiarostami:
the Art of Living, co-produced with the French distributor MK2 and funded by the Irish
Film Board and Arts Council.
Duckling Development, based in Paris, initiates, writes and develops projects to a level
where they are sufficiently interesting for co-production partnerships with stronger
companies, especially in countries with richer audiovisual markets, larger audiences and
stronger production infrastructures, particularly France and other European countries
Duckling Development has six European fiction projects on its slate, at various stages of
writing.
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Project #1
Project Title
Casus Bellini
Project is
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development
Yes
No
Contemporary drama
Feature
Media Development (script funding)
CNC (rewriting grant aide la rcriture)
French and Italian producers and TV

Giacomo Bellini is a 12-year old Neapolitan boy at war with the city of light.
Separated from a group that came to Paris for a football match between PSG and
Napoli, he is arrested and reluctantly adopted by a young French cop of Italian
extraction who mistakenly thinks he has the answers to the boys problems but
Giacomo is tight lipped, he wont even say his name.
Casus Bellini is an Italian story that takes place over a weekend in Paris. The dilemma of
getting lost becomes a richly convoluted journey home for Giacomo.
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EUROART (MEDIA) LIMITED

Name
Trisha Clarke
Position
Producer
Address
3 Bridge Lock Mews

Bath
BA2 4DG
UK
Telephone
+44 1225462701
Mobile
+44 7768876874
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
euroart1@btinternet.com
Qualifications
M.A. Media Production University of Strathclyde, Central College of Commerce.
B.A. Fine Art Central St Martins School of Art, London.
BBC/RCA News Packaging Course in TV Journalism.
Script Editing Course Scottish Screen, Glasgow.
Script Mentor Training at FAMU, Prague.
Diploma Studio 68 of Theatre Arts, London.
Skills
Producer, Director, Script Editor, Language Translator, Journalist, Computer Literate,
Artist, Actress,
Dancer (Royal Ballet Company).
Career
2016 - Producer I Shall Be Feature Film,
Director Keith Farrell. Script Writer Valeria Appel. In development.
2016 - Script Editor, translation from Portuguese, Minecraft Video game,
Two Episodes.
2015-2016 - Producer Hilde Documentary , Director Waris Hussein.
Executive Producer Primavera Boman.
2015-2016 - Producer Teddy Tales Childrens TV. Editor Paddy Payne.
2015-2016 - Producer TV Mini-series The impotence Of Power Author Anthony
Rawston, Script writer Keith Lindsay.
2013 - Artist. Collaboration on installation project with Susanna Lacey for the Tate
Modern, London.
2006-7 - Producer Markus Wolf - In From the Cold. English / German Language
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Documentary featuring Markus Wolf and Andrew Sachs. Distributor Electricsky.
2005 - Director and Producer Daniel Libeskind- Perspectives. Distributor Electricsky.
1997-2004 - Producer City Lives. Documentary series (RTE) distributor Electricsky.
Nominated for Huw Wheldon prize, BAFTA (2004). Awarded E.C. Development grant.
Sales distribution: Sweden, Spain, Hong Kong, and USA. Directors include: Veit Helmer
and Andras Der.
2002-2004 Producer. Laura. Script selected by MEDIA Sources 2.
Executive Producer Kenneth Trodd.
1994-1997 - City of Westminster Arts Assessor. Remit included I.C.A, Serpentine, and
other London Galleries in receipt of financial support.
1992-1994 - Account Manager for VISA assigned to Russia to research and promote
artists for sponsorship at the Olympics. Coordination with Russian multimedia: TV, radio
and newspapers.
1991-1992 - Director The Vital Link. Interpretation and translation in the modern world
for F. I .T, funded by UNESCO, Childsplay Productions. Director Celebration of Poetry.
Documentary for La Fdration Internationale des Traducteurs (FIT) and BBC TV.
1990-1991 - Director Responses for Artline Films. Documentary cross cultural relations
between Japan and the West, part funded by the GLA. Shown at the Japan Festival,
Channel 9, Japan and BBC TV.
1990 - Director London on 50 pounds a Day. Promotional video and package for the
London Tourist Board. Awarded Presidents Award for Marketing.
Featured News items. Research and filming for national broadcasters including anchor
for lunchtime news Thames TV, and also corporate client film work.
Script editing. A Celtic Dream feature written by Michael Mutton. A Copyright for
Love feature film written by Vali Florescu, translated from Romanian. Various
television scripts for British Broadcasters.
Commercials. Actor .Tissot Watches, Mothercare, Norwegian Telecom, Ikea, HSBC Bank.
Theatre and Opera. Royal Opera House Manon ( Rosalind) , Prince of Wales Theatre
Harvey, National Tours of Man most likely to and Crown Matrimonial. Edinburgh
Festival, Mickery Theatre, Amsterdam - Macbeth.
Journalism. Magazine and newspaper articles incl. Daily Mail and Flash Art. Press
releases for TV and Film.
English Revision Work for authors, screen writers and translators. Radio Broadcasting
BBC and worldwide.
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
Hilde
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development
Yes
No
Documentary
Various
Director: Waris Hussein
Yes
I'm a degenerate, I'm a Jew, I'm a refugee, I'm a cripple. I am a dancer."

The most influential and innovative dancer of the C20, Hilde Holger transformed
modern dance forever.
Carlos Acosta, an expressive dancer will perform three of Hildes iconoclastic dances.
For both, dance has been a means of escape, an act of defiance, a way of healing, and of
change.
We explore Hildes extraordinary life using interviews, journal extracts and letters, and
intimate, dramatized moments-furtive glimpses of clandestine rehearsal rooms in Nazi
occupied Vienna, of unauthorised and scandalous dances on Mumbais Juhu beach;
and finally an insight into her London dance school for all ages and abilities, involving
Royston Maldoom OBE, Carl Campbell and Wolfgang Strange, director of AMICI. Hilde
was an inspiration to Lindsay Kemp, David Bowie, Kate Bush, and Asha Puthli.
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FAMILY AFFAIR FILMS
Name
Floor Onrust
Position
Owner/Producer
Address
Entrepotdok 77a
1018 AD Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Telephone
Mobile
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
+35 (0)20 707 17 13

+31 (0) 6 22661612
www.familyaffairfilms.nl
floor@familyaffairsfilm.nl
Family Affair Films is an Amsterdam based production company founded by Floor
Onrust. We produce urgent and contemporary television drama, short and feature films
of high artistic quality with a strong author driven vision. We develop projects with new
talent, video artists and we continue our relationship with established filmmakers. We
co-produced the multi-award winning feature film NOTHING PERSONAL (2009) BY
Urszula Antoniak in co-production with Rinkel Film (NL) and Fastnet Films (IRE. CODE
BLUE (2011) by Urszula Antoniak co-produced with IDTV Film (NL) and Zentropa (DK)
was selected for Cannes Directors Fortnight 2011. Turkish feature film THE BLUE WAVE
(2013) by Zeynap Dadak & Merve Kayan, co-produced with Bulut Film (TR) and with
Riva Film (DE) had its world premiere at Bernilae 2014. Belgian youth film THE
LABYRINTH (2014) written by Pierre de Clerq, director Douglas Boswell co-produced
with Savage Film (BE) was selected for Toronto 2014 and won Best International Film at
the 30th edition of the Sao Paulo Film Festival. Our family film LIFE ACCORDING TO
NINO (2014) written written by Urszula Antoniak , director Simone van Dusseldorp , in
co-production with Waterland Film (NL), Savage Film (BE) won Best International;
Children Film at Cinekid 2014 and at BUFF 2015.
The Swedish feature film UNDER THE PYRAMID (2015) is the debut feature by artist
Fiona Tan, a co-production with Antithesis Films, ROH Film and Vico Films and was
released in the Netherlands in 2015.
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
Historys Future
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development
Yes
No
Drama
Digital/DCP
MEDIA
Bord Scannn na hireann/the Irish Film Board
Netherlands Film Fund, Mondriaan Fonds.
Mitteldeutsche Medienforderung
Sales Agent and Distributors
Losing his memory after a mugging, a man known only as 'MP' (Missing Person) leaves
his home and sets out on a journey - in search not only for his memory but perhaps also
for a new identity. MP finds himself confronted by a world in which there are no longer
any certainties; an era of crisis on many levels. On his travels from country to country,
portrayed via an associative image montage and through a series of strange,
illuminating, sometimes comic encounters, MP attempts to gain insight into the
complexity of life in the 21st-century West - into what commentators have called an age
of 'rolling catastrophe'.
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FANTASTIC FILMS
Name
Brendan McCarthy
Position
Producer
Address
28 Vernon Avenue,
Clontarf,
Dublin 3
Ireland
Telephone
+353 86 677 4862/ +353 86 865 2659
Mobile
+353 86 677 4862/ +353 86 865 2659
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
www.fantasticfilms.ie
brendan@fantasticfilms.ie
Taking its name from the great tradition of European Cinema Fantastique, Fantastic
Films is an OSCAR winning film production company based in Dublin, Ireland. Focusing
on high quality genre and niche films, the company directors, John McDonnell and
Brendan McCarthy are at the forefront of producing varied and groundbreaking films of
the highest quality.
Due in 2016/ 2017 are the eagerly anticipated P.O.V, directed by Dennis Bartok and
starring Shauna Macdonald (The Descent) and IM NOT A SERIAL KILLER, directed by
Billy OBrien, which recently premiered at SXSW, 2016.
Previous titles include CHERRY TREE, which opened the UKs leading genre festival
FrightFest, 2015, THE HALLOW, directed by Corin Hardy, which screened at Sundance
(2015) and the multi award-winning critical hit LET US PREY, directed by Brian OMalley.
Previous productions -THE LAST DAYS ON MARS, the debut feature film from Oscarnominated Irish director Ruair Robinson, which screened at Directors Fortnight at
Cannes Film Festival, 2013; the award-winning comedy-horror STITCHES (2012) directed
by Conor McMahon and starring Ross Noble, the Bollywood hit EK THA TIGER (2012)
directed by Kabir Khan and starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif; the critically
acclaimed and multi award-winning HAMMER horror WAKE WOOD (2011) directed by
David Keating and starring Timothy Spall, Aidan Gillen and Eva Birthistle and OUTCAST
(2010) directed by Colm McCarthy and starring James Nesbitt, Kate Dickie.
For more information visit
https://www.facebook.com/FantasticFilmsLtd
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Project #1
Project Title
Significance
Project is
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
Sci-fi
Feature film
TBC
We are looking for co-producers, sales agents & distributors.
Astronomer Rebecca Morrison arrives at a remote mountain Observatory to upgrade its

ageing telescope. Emotionally fragile from a recent nervous breakdown, Rebecca soon
begins to find the solitude oppressive. As winter deepens, Rebeccas fragile state of
mind only deteriorates. The longer she stays, the more she doubts her hold on reality as
she begins to experience disturbing events that defy rational explanation. When at last
the new telescope goes on stream, Rebecca realises that far from being paranoid, her
worst fears are all-too-real: trapped at the mercy of the stars, a hostile alien intelligence
is using telepathic powers of control to colonise her mind through the new ultrasensitive telescope- and theres no escape...
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FILM ROAD PRODUCTIONS
Name
Milena Dzambasovic
Position
Producer
Address
Velbuska 4/19
11000 Belgrade
Serbia
Telephone
+381 64 576 40 74
Mobile
+381 64 576 40 74
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
milenadz@gmail.com
Milena Dzambasovic / Producer / Born 1983.
Milena has studied Film Academy in Belgrade, focusing on radio, TV, theatre and film
production work while studying, she worked in production of various events, festivals,
reality shows, commercials, advertising companies, theatre. Since 2007 she is actively
involved in film production in various positions including domestic movies, working in
abroad and service companies. After Sarajevo Talent Campus she was selected to take
part in Sarajevo City of Film 2012. In Sarajevo she produced two short films with
international film crew. She was developing the project at the Sarajevo Film Festival coproduction market Cinelink 2013, where she got the award for the EAVE scholarship.
She is EAVE graduate 2014. In 2016 she started her own production company, Film
Road Production, with intention to develop and fully dedicate to the interesting stories
with strong cinematic potential.
Selected Filmography:
Producer or executive producer:
NEBASKA TEMA Director: Mladen Maticevic
SOTTO VOCE Director: Marko Sopic
A GOOD WIFE Director: Mirjana Karanovic
SOMETHING SWEET Director: Jelena Gavrilovic
ROUNDABOUT Director: Orsi Nagypal
Dusan Lazarevic (www.dusanlazarevic.com) / Director / Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
He Graduated from The London Film School. His graduation film, THE HOTTEST DAY OF
THE YEAR, was sent as a British entry to AMPAS student Oscars, as well as to a number
of festivals throughout the world. He now lives in London, UK.
His first mainstream break was an offer to create challenging television drama for
young audience, one of which was a childrens animated series, LIVING WITH LIONEL, a
worldwide hit on the Fox Kids Channel.
Subsequently, Dusan has built an extensive track record as a director of British prime
time television drama.
During his career, he has had the opportunity to work with very accomplished actors of
all ages, some of which are household names in global cinema and TV.
Currently, he has several of his own projects in development, mostly with production
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companies in the UK. The most ambitious one is FASTFORWARD, SLOWLY, a triptych of
eerie stories exploring the human condition stripped to its stories fundamentals in the
pseudo futuristic vortex we are living, at this time in history.
GAMERS comes as curious, and very welcome, revisiting of the start of his professional
life.
Ljubinka Stojanovic / Skriptwriter
She graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, where she remained in the
department, transferring knowledge as well as experience to the students. She writes
for the theatre, film, radio and television. She was involved in adapting script for the
series Bitter fruits (Gorki plodovi), directed by Sinia Kovacevis, and broadcasted on
the RTS. She was signed as the scriptwriter oft he numerous programs within the
editorial office concerning the programs for children, educational as well as the school
programs of RTS (Radio Television of Serbia).
Her script projects A stone in a shoe and Gamers got sript development support
from the Film Centre Serbia.
She has been working at numerous workshops and also led one of the creative
workshops at the University of Fine Arts in Mostar. She took place in different
workshops concerning screenwriting together with the most eminent dramatists and
screenwriters in Serbia.
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
GAMERS (original title: Gejmeri)

completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
Adventure, Childrens film

Digital
Film Centre Serbia / National film fund / script development support
Cinenord Kidstory / LOI / Norwegian Co-Producer
Serbian co-producer / rental company
Another European Co-Producer

Sales Agents
TV
ELVIRA, a twelve year old shit-hot gamer, and a small group of her friends, get sucked
into a plot to save a mountain from being destroyed by a mining conglomerate.
She kidnapped by a retired online crime inspector and recruited to hack past the
firewall of the GLOB corporation.
Born and brought up in the big city, nature has profoundly transformational effect on
her. The old legends of the valley and the mythical lake transport her into their own
world and arm her with the necessary resolve.
ELVIRA detonates the eplosives, GLOB explodes, the mountain is saved.
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FILM-ART FILM INSTITUTION
Name
Maciej Szwarc
Position
General Director
Address
Bugarska Street 19
60-320 Pozna
Poland
Telephone
+48 606876662
Mobile
+48 606876662
Website
www.film-art.pl
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
maciej.szwarc@film-art.pl
BIOFILMOGRAPHY
I was born in Cracow in 1978, at the time when Poland had one of the best football team
in the world, Edward Gierek was the head of the communist party and Miroslaw
Hermaszewski as the only one Pole in the whole history was taking a part in a space
odyssey.
Directly after birth I begun learning, I was only learning, learning, learning... Finally in
2006 I came to Lodz to study at the directing department in famous Polish National
Film School (but not finished! I had been thrown away in 2014!).
But earlier, before they had thrown me away, I managed to make my master degree
diploma film: a full-length movie entitled Jaskolka [eng. The Caged Swallow], which is
the second full length diploma film in the Lodz Film School history after Jerzy
Skolimowski's Rysopis [eng.Identification Marks: None] from 1964.
My films have been screened on numerous international festivals including Berlin,
Bilbao, Paris, Chicago, London, Dresden, Monterrey, San Francisco, Shanghai,
Mannheim-Heidelberg and Rio de Janeiro (awarded in Germany, Spain, Italy,
Taiwan, USA, Canada, Mexico and of course in Poland).
In 2016 I was an alumni of Berlinale Talents and also I received a grant from the
Nipkow Programm in Berlin, whose aim is to develop a film project Through the
Woods.
2007 Triathlon (doc.) 8'
2008 Syjamoza [en. Siamesis] (fic.) 14'
2009 Koluszki blues [en. Nowhere blues] (doc.) 19'
2010 MC. Czowiek z winylu [en. MC. Man of vinyl] (fic.) 20'
2010 Mruczanka na 4 rakietki [en. Black cat's ping-pong tale] (fic.) 18'
2011 Protokoy Mdrcw Syjonu [en. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion] (fic.) 7'
2011 Hegel i Motyl [en. Hegel and the Butterfly] (doc.) 5'
2012 Dzie oszusta [en. The Cheater Day] (fic.) 33'
2013 Jaskka [en. The Caged swallow] (fic.) 73'
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
Through the Woods

completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
Drama
1:2:35
Project has already received 20.000 euro from Pomeranian Film Fund. We apply for
funds (625.000 euro) to Polish Film Institute, final decision will be known in June 2016.
After Berlinale Talent 2016 Bartosz Warwas, future director of Through the Woods,
received scholarship from Nipkow Programm for project development. French
distributor and international sales agent Outplay is interested in cooperation. We have
also german distributor interested in our project: BoxeeMedia and Dirk Simon.
We are looking for international co-producers.
Through The Woods is a modern story inspired by Antigone. Just like the play, our film
focuses on the clash of two view points that cannot coexist and a resulting tragedy. A
young footbal hooligan grows aware of his fascination with his sisters new boyfriend.
The fascination turns to desire - something that goes against the core of his beliefs.
Unable to cope with his new discoveries, he falls into a sort of madness.
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FIVE KNIGHT FILMS

Name
Richard Bolger
Position
Producer
Address
Unit 9, Apex Building,

Greenmount Industrial Estate,
Harolds Cross,
Dublin 12
Ireland
Telephone
+353 85 713 80 32
Mobile
+353 85 713 80 32
Website
www.fiveknightfilms.com
Email
rich@fiveknightfilms.com
Personal bio and

credits to date
Biography:
Richard has a Masters Degree from the University of Staffordshire in the UK for Digital
Feature Film Production. He has produced numerous short films with an array of
talented young directors. Richard has produced music videos for artists such as Sinead
O'Connor, Hometown, Keith Hanley and the Beach.
Having both line produced and produced in his brief time working in the film industry,
Richard at the end of 2014 set up Five Knight Films. Five Knight Films being a company
that strives to bring the best in creative talent in front of and behind the camera. His
company have recieved funding from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, the Irish
Film Board, Sony Music, Filmbase, Film Offaly and TV3 since then.
Through Five Knight Films, Richard is now gearing towards solely producing feature
films. The company has a slate of feature films currently in different stages of
development that he is working on.
Credits:
Here Are The Young Men Producer Feature Film 2017
Cardboard Gangsters Producer Feature Film 2016
Filleadh an Athair Producer Short Film 2015
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
Cardboard Gangsters
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development
Yes
No
Coming of Age, Gangster, Drama

Digital
Funding: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, TV3
Distributor: Wildcard Distribution
Sales Agent
UK Distributor
European Distributor
US Distributor
A group of young wannabe gangsters attempt to gain control of the drug trade in one of
the toughest areas in Dublin chasing the glorified lifestyle of money, power and sex.
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Project #2
Project Title
Project is
Here Are The Young Men

completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
Coming of Age, Teen, Drama, Book Adaptation

Digital
Funding: Magnolia Entertainment (US)
Sales Agent willing to Pre-Sell

UK Distributor
European Distributor
US Distributor
Four teenage best friends leave school and spend one final summer together filled with
excessive drinking and drug taking before they become young men.
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ISABELLE STEVER
Name
Isabelle Stever
Position
Director
Address
Lutzowufer 12
10785 Berlin
Germany
Telephone
+9(0) 212 3470220
Mobile
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
Isabelle Stever was born in 1963 in Munich. In 1984 she started to work on feature and
television films and to exhibit her paintings in Berlin. Stever graduated from the TU
Berlin in 1994 with a degree in mathematics. In the same year she began a course in film
direction at the DFFB (German Film and Television Academy Berlin). In 2002 her final
year film PORTRAIT OF A MARRIED COUPLE was awarded, et al, the First Steps prize
for new directing talent as best feature film. Her debut film GISELA had its world
premiere at the 2005 Locarno Int. Film Festival and won Austrias Crossing Europe
Award, among others. In 2009 Stever contributed a short film to an omnibus film that
brought together what the news magazine Der Spiegel described as Germanys
directorial elite the film GERMANY 09 premiered in competition at the Berlin Film
Festival. In 2010 followed the feature film BLESSED EVENTS, which had its world
premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Isabelle Stever lives in Berlin. In
addition to her work as a film director and screenwriter she also teaches film at the
German Film and Television Academy Berlin and the Filmakademie BadenWuerttemberg.
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
The Weather Inside

completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
in development
Yes
No
Drama
Digital /DCP
Sutor Kolonko Filmproduktion in co-production with cine plus Filmproduktion, WDR, BR
and NDR
Synopsis
Dorothea, an aid worker with a humanitarian organization, has launched a project to

help the people escaping a neighboring land menaced by civil war.
The luxury of her wealthy world finds a cynical reflection in the poverty evident all
around. She embarks upon an affair with the much younger Alec, who seems to be
simply an attractive Arab drifter.
Their two worlds collide, impelled by their mutual lust for adventure. What appears to
be reality becomes unbalanced, raising the question of having and being. Who exactly is
helping whom? As her passion increases, Dorothea loses control, jeopardizing not only
the project but also her life.
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JULIA STOVELL

Name
Julia Stovell
Position
Director
Address
32 Collington Park Crescent

Bexhill-on-Sea
East Sussex
TN39 3RF
UK
Telephone
Mobile
+44 7975 604 804

+353 87 2273060
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
juliastovell@icloud.com
Julia Stovell is a filmmaker with a fine art background. Her first film MILK & HONEY was
nominated for Best Short Fiction Film Karlovy Vary Festival. Her documentaries
RUNAWAY & THE BOY WITH THE PROTEUS SYNDROME have broadcast on prime time
television & have been sold worldwide. In 2006 she was nominated for the BAFTA HBO
New Talent Award.
Current projects include ZERO HOUR, the story of Sean Flynn which is produced by
Academy Award winning documentarian Alex Gibney (GOING CLEAR) and A GOD
AMONGST MEN, a story that charts the incredible life of PJ Proby and is executive
produced by Academy Award wining producer James Gay-Rees (AMY, SENNA).
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
Zero Hour
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
War / Buddy Movie

Theatrical and TV Hour
Developed with BFI & Creative England (Screen South)
Sales company Content Media
In Association with Jigsaw Productions
Post Production with Molinare
Broadcast Partners
Rejecting his life in Hollywood and all that his father stood for, Sean Flynn, son of Errol
Flynn, seeks an authentic life as a photographer in the Vietnam war. He discovers a
pack of photographers & journalists, who include Tim Page, John Steinbeck & Mike Herr;
who teach him what it takes to be a photographer in the war zone and what it means to
be a family. Together they come of age as they change the world. This band of brothers
redefine how war is reported as they expose the true face of war, knowing that their
own lives maybe sacrificed.
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KINOMIND FILMS

Name
Inesa Ivanova & Gabija Budreckyte
Position
Producer & Co-founder
Address
Mindaugo str. 12-36,

LT-03225,
Vilnius,
Lithuania
Telephone
+37062219180
Mobile
+37062219180
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
www.kinomindffilms.com
kinomindfilms@gmail.com
INESA IVANOVA
BIOGRAPHY
Inesa is an award-wining producer and founder of production company Kinomind Films.
With extensive experience producing fiction films, she has recently extended her
activity to distribution and the development of cross-media projects.
Inesa won a Creative Europe grant in 2015 for development of a single project for a TV
series called Happy Go Hopscotch (aka Happy Horse). Inesa secured the funding in
collaboration with a long term Lithuanian partner production company KETVIRTA
VERSIJA. Inesas projects have also been funded by Arts Council of England, Lithuanian
Film Centre and WorldView.
Kinomind Films projects have been selected for renowned development labs, such as
Eave Best, Eave Marketing, Eric Pommer Institute, DPC II Lab by Focal, Birds Eye View
Filmonomics (observer) and BeCre8ative Lab. Inesa has been supported with bursaries
from Creative Skillset, Lithuanian Ministry of Culture and the Nordic Council.
Within the past six years, Inesa has produced diverse body of work from award-winning
shorts to feature documentaries. She has developed relationships with several talented
writers and directors.
Two of Inesas short films were supported by Arts Council of England, and were
presented at La Biennale di Venezia the 55th International Art Exhibition and Geneva
Museum of Contemporary Art.
Inesa graduated from the National Film and Television School in 2012 with an MA in
Film and TV Producing. Andrea Calderwood, Slate Films, mentored Inesa through the
NFTS scheme.
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FILMOGRAPHY
The Green Musketeers Associated Producer, feature documentary 84, director Jonas
Ohman; Lithuanian premiere at Vilnius Film Festival 2015, film due to be selected for the
European premier; Cerberus Co-producer, short film 15, director Remy Bazerque;
won Best Thriller award at Limelight Film Awards, London 2015; London Short Film
Festival 2016;
Lida, Vanda, Liusia Ecexutive Producer, documentary 60, director Julia Zubaviciene,
Lithuanian premiere at Vilnius Film Festival 2015, film due to be selected for the
European premier; One Day in Whitechapel main producer, short film 11, director
Seemab Gul; completed 2015; Towards a Militant Conceptualism main producer, 2013,
short film 13, director Seemab Gul; premiered in November 2013 at La Biennale di
Venezia the 55th International Art Exhibition, Oberhausen IFFO 2014; film was awarded
a prize for Best Film at The Gothenburg Independent Film Festival;
Il Conte main producer, 2012, short film 23, director Adel Oberto, 2012; won the
Audience Award at the 11th ISFVF Beijing Film Academy Festival, 2012;
Left Kick main producer, 2012, short animated film, 8, director Jonathan Topf;
nominated for McLaren Award main competition at the Edinburgh International Film
Festival in 2012;
Have You Seen Napoleon? main producer, 2011, short film 16, director Remy
Bazerque; won the Creativity Award at the Froster Film Festival in Australia in 2013;
nominated for best student film at London Short Film Festival 2014; won Best Actor and
Best Student Film Award at LA Comedy Film Festival 2014.
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
The Broken Steps

completed
in development x
Yes
No
Genre
Drama. Its a universal story that intelligently explores the effects of trauma and how
the past affects the present. Despite its micro budget, the film has cinematic scale being
set in the beautiful landscape of the tidal creeks of southern Cornwall, UK.
Format
THE BROKEN STEPS is the first feature film project (90min; English language) by writer
and director Ashley Pegg, and is targeted for theatrical and digital release on on-line
platforms.
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
Wostok, UK; Ketvirta Versija, Lithuania;
Irish or some other European partners for co-production and co-financing.

Relations have always been strained between John, a not-very-successful but charming
36-year-old, and his successful brother, Ralph, 27. When John requires a life-saving liver
transplant that only his brother can provide, their mutual animosity comes to a head.
Caught in the middle is Johns wife, Emma, an unwitting mirror to their emotional
confusion. Shes unaware of the secret that binds the brothers as much as it divides.
The drama plays out over two days in the tense atmosphere of a Cornish house. Will
Ralph save his brothers life or exact the ultimate revenge?
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Project #2
Project Title
Project is
Happy go Hopscotch
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
Comedy animation, preschool & family

TV series 7min. x 52
Creative Europe development fund secured in Octeober 2015, letters of interest from
broadcasters
Co-producers, Broadcasters, Financiers

Happy Go Hopscotch is a funny, comic animated TV series that helps to develop
emotional intelligence in preschool children with the assistance of Science of Happiness.
Hopscotch is a happy horse who lives in a big city. Shes part of an animal community friends and neighbours, there are six members of ensemble cast that helps to
understand each emotion and deal with it. Each episode, one of the characters faces a
happiness crisis they might be grumpy, anxious or embarrassed whatever it is, it
interferes with their happiness and happy horse - Hopscotch is there to sort it out.
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KWASSA FILMS
Name
Annabella Nezri
Position
Founder / Producer
Address
Rue Antoine Breart 98

1060 Brussels
Belgium
Telephone
+32 491 95 40 32
Mobile
+32 473 68 26 07
Website
www.kwassa.be
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
annabella@kwassa.be
I graduated in Political Science and in Law in 2002 (University of Brussels Belgium),
and began my career as a journalist. I quickly found that audiovisual production was my
vocation.
I have worked on both short and feature-length fiction (The Possibility of an Island by
Michel Houellebecq, Timgad by Fabrice Benchaouche, TV Series and documentaries
(Red Star Line by Daniel Cattier and Fabio Wuytack, Into Battle by Eve Duchemin)
In 2014, I founded Kwassa Films with Clment Manuel, based in Brussels. The company
is specialized in fiction and documentary. Its main aim is to promote creative and
innovative projects accessible to a large audience. Therefore, Kwassa Films wishes to
contribute to the emergence of young Belgian talents on the international scene.
Kwassa Films also develops and offers executive production for Belgian and foreign
projects.
I was selected for EAVE 2016 with the project THE HIGHEST STEP IN THE WORLD, we
plan to shoot in Ireland.
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
THE HIGHEST STEP IN THE WORLD

completed

Genre
Poetic Drama
Format
Feature lengh
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
With the support of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels for writing
Co-producer, distributors, sales agent
England, 1986.
Idealist and gifted 11-years-old Jim lives with his dad Graham who is about to become
the first English scientist to go in space. But when Graham loses his job and decides to
move up north, Jim loses all his references.
Jim enrolls to his new schools young scientist competition and, inspired by his idol
Joseph Kittinger (the first man to reach the frontier of space in 1960), secretly plans to
build his own air balloon. Between the many risks of his project, competitiveness
between the contestants and his own obsessions, Jim struggles with his dad who
is still coping with his dead past. He is intent on proving to his dad that he should not
have given up.
Jim can count on the support of his new classmate Emma. Increasingly, he discovers her
extreme courage before her disease and her parents oppressive education. In spite of
their many differences, they will challenge themselves together even if it means losing
touch with reality.
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Project #2
Project Title
Project is
NO PLACE LIKE HOME

completed

Genre
in development x
Yes
No
Documentary
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
with the support of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels for development
Broadcasters, Sales Agents
In the hearth of Dakar, Amala, a radio show host, installed his media shop. This cultural
centre is a discussion laboratory in which people from every horizons debate. Words
bounce from the sidewalk to the mike they call to a reflection, and never make a
concession.
Amala is the pillar around which we will meet other characters. They all live or have
lived immigration one way or another. And theyre all tied to Amala, to his voice, and to
the reggae beats he plays.
His voice says things that most wouldnt even dare think. His words push around the
main beliefs and popular opinions through the Senegalese radio waves: everything is
still to be done in Africa Us Senegalese, we dont have any future in Europe, this is a
dangerous illusion!
The documentary will dance with the rhythms of an Africa believing in its own future,
and messages of rsistance against the desire for immigration will sweat through.
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LACIMA PRODUCCIONES, S.L.
Name
Luis Ferrn
Position
Director
Address
Calle Puerto Rico,

10 Bajo 1
28016 Madrid
Spain
Telephone
+34 91 415 38 84
Mobile
+34 676 192 807
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
www.lacimaproducciones.com
luisferron@lacimaproducciones.com
Executive Producer
LACIMA PRODUCCIONES
General Manager
ECAM
As Producer
SUEAS LOS ANDRIODES (2014)
Directed by Ion de Sosa
Berlinale 2015, BAFICI
EL FUTURO (2013)
Directed by Luis Lpez Carrasco
Locarno Film Festival, BAFICI, Rotterdam Film Festival
Luis has produced more than 15 shortfilms, and he has participated in more than 100
festivals.
At the moment, he is a Partner and Executive Producer of LACIMA PRODUCCIONES.
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
POCHINOK
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
Thriller
HD 4K
Dynamita Productions (USA)
Co-Producer,
Distributor
Sales-Agent
Tony and Peter, two Americans immigrated to Russia, discover a money laundering
facility conducted by the local mafia.
They decide to steal all the money and flee the country but in a car chase the gangsters
take them off the road, forcing them to look for shelter in an isolated house.
There lives Aleksei and Ekaterina with their sons. Everything seems fine until they find
Elrik, one of the gangsters, wounded in the forest and bring him home.
Our heroes feel lost but finally they must join forces to escape from the peculiar eating
habits of a Russian cannibal family.
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LIRITHE RNDA PRODUCTIONS
Name
Cathal Cuaig
Position
Director
Address
ill na Brn,
Cill Chiarin,
Conamara,
Co. na Gaillimhe
Ireland
Telephone
+353 87 9377568
Mobile
+353 87 9377568
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
www.cathalocuaig.com
cathalocuaig@gmail.com
Graduating with a Masters degree in Arts & Modern Language in 2007, Cathal O Cuaig
began working as a writer & producer with Sonta Films. He produced the documentary
Home in India (Sa mBaile san Ind) in 2008, in which two sisters from the west of
Ireland make their first visit to their ancestral home in India. In 2009 he produced the
TV documentary series "Che, filming in Argentina, Chile, Per, Bolivia and Cuba. In the
series, the Irish socialist politician Joe Higgins follows La ruta del Che to understand
politics in Latin America.
In 2010 he was awarded a place on the European Commissions Erasmus for Young
Entrepreneurs Programme, a cross-border exchange for new entrepreneurs. He spent
six months working with Full Emotions Films in Barcelona, a production company
specialising in documentaries and fiction films. In 2012 he was awarded an Artists
Bursary from Screen Training Ireland to attend Archidoc, a training program for
documentary film directors run by La Fmis, Paris (The National French Film School).
His directorial debut was the short drama "An Cluiche" (2012). It tells the story of a man
who loves his football team more than his girlfriend and features an international cast
from Ireland and Spain. The film has screened at various festivals in Ireland, the UK and
the United States. He has directed two television dramas for TG4. The first was Sle
(2013), the story of a young girl who yearns for her mother who has passed away.
When she discovers her father is getting married her world is torn asunder. In 2014 he
wrote and directed Gr Mo Chro, the story of a young musician struggling to cope
with the death of her husband when she meets a charming stranger.
More recently he directed a four part documentary series for RTE entitled Sisters of
Science (2014) which explores the stories of four pioneering Irish women who helped
shape the world of science. Recently, he was selected to take part in the prestigious
Talent Campus training programme of the 2013 Berlinale Festival.
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
Farewell to Music
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
Documentary / Visual Art

70 min / 4K
RT - (Committed)
Windrose Distrubtion France/ UK (Interested)
BAI (To Apply)
Co-producers outside Ireland/

Foreign Broadcaster/
Sales Agent
Filmed in India and Ireland, this intimate and revealing film documents the life of Tony
MacMahon, one of Ireland's most remarkable traditional musicians. A lyrical portrait of
a brilliant but tormented artist, Farewell to Music explores the complexities of an
extremely talented and philosophical man, laying bare deep-seated troubles that lie just
beneath the surface. Now nearing his 79th birthday, his music failing him, his family
having deserted him, he faces death. Yearning for atonement for the life he has lived, he
hopes to earn the respect of his estranged sons before he dies.
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LIFE TO LIVE FILMS

Name
Ohna Falby
Position
Producer
Address
61 Oakfield Road
N4 4LD
London
UK
Telephone
+44 7768 512689
Mobile
+44 7768 512689
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
www.lifetolivefilms.com
ohnafalby@gmail.com
Ohna Falby is a London based producer who set up Life to Live Films in 2011 to produce
her slate of independent short, art and feature films with directors who have a strong
personal voice and vision. She has been producing commercials for over 20 years and
has a great track record of producing award-winning short films (awards inc BAFTA,
UIP, EIFF, Prix Canal+). Now more focused on feature projects, Ohna is still a regular
guest of European Short Film incentives where she seeks out emerging talent to
nurture. She is always looking for ways to collaborate internationally including through
producing shorts and art films. Her current projects include an original story by UKbased French director Galle Denis called La Fille De LEstuaire | The Girl from the
Estuary. This project, which was selected for Cinemart, was also accompanied through
the Torino Film Labs Framework and has now entered its financing stage with support
from The BFIs First feature fund. She is also developing an original dark comedy project
written by Scottish Artist Rachel Maclean and writer and stand-up comedian Joseph
Morpurgo, and an original female road-movie comedy co-written by Serbian writer
Gorana Jovanovic and UK writer-director Kyla Bruce.
Ohna is currently in production on artists Jane and Louise Wilsons Undead Sun2, in
collaboration with Film and Video Umbrella, with funding from the Wellcome Trust and
the Arts Council. This follows on from the success of Undead Sun, which premiered at
IFFR 2015 and was exhibited at the Imperial War Museum in London in 2014-2015. Most
recently she collaborated with Key Films (NL) to produce Voices of Finance, written and
directed by Clara Van Gool, a short docudance film based on the Joris Luyendijk
Banking Blog in the Guardian. It premiered on TV in the Netherlands at the end of
December 2015. Ohna also produced feature length art film Feed Me, written, directed
and interpreted by Rachel Maclean, a brash and provocative exploration of the
commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood, and a corresponding infantilism in
adult behaviour.
Filmography / Credits:
Co-Produced VOICES OF FINANCE directed by Clara Van Gool 2015
Produced FEED ME directed by Rachel Maclean 2015
Part Produced ME and MINE directed by Lucy Beech 2015
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Exec Produced ROXANNE directed by Paul Frankl 2014
Produced THE UNDEAD SUN directed by Jane and Louise Wilson 2014
Produced CROCODILE written by Robin French and directed by Galle Denis 2014
Produced BOMBAY SAPPHIREs IMAGINATION SERIES: ROOM 8, THE MRS, ALGO
CONCRETO, CRAB & WATER SONG 2013
Produced TOXIC CAMERA directed by Jane and Louise Wilson 2012 (FLAMIN)
Produced LONG DISTANCE INFORMATION directed by Douglas Hart 2011
Produced BABY written and directed by Daniel Mulloy 2010 1st AD SONGS FOR MY
MOTHER directed by Jane and Louise Wilson (CINEMA EXTREME) 2009
Produced THE POND written and directed by Sonja Phillips 2008 Produced SON
written and directed by Daniel Mulloy 2007
Post Production Supervised FINKLEs ODYSSEY by Barney Clay 2006
Exec produced DAD written and directed by Daniel Mulloy 2006
Produced SISTER written and directed by Daniel Mulloy completed 2004
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
The Girl from the Estuary

completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
Coming of age drama with magical realism

Feature
La Voie Lacte (French co-producer) / BFI
Irish Co-producer for IFB funds / French Canadian Co-producer for FR Canadian
broadcaster or funds
UK Distributor
Equity
Sales
Small town Brittany at the peak of summer. Misfit MARNIE (10) is teased constantly by
the GIRLS at ballet summer school. Her overstretched mother CHRISTINE has had
enough of her chaos and gives her short shrift, but when Marnie catches Christine with
the local mechanic, Christine snaps. She takes off, leaving Marnie in the dubious care of
her teenage brother DANIEL (16) and her beloved but brain damaged father FRANK.
Marnie takes refuge in her imagination. She rescues a glamorous female gangster
NATHALIE from a car crash, and a great friendship-adventure blossoms. Nathalie is cool
and totally gets Marnie. Marnies confidence grows and life improves tremendously. But
as Nathalie recovers she becomes increasingly dangerous, dragging Marnie into
mischief, desperate to hatch a plan of escape. In the unfurling unruly summer days
Marnie pushes the limits and revels in stepping out of line.
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LUGH FILMS

Name
Loc Jourdain
Position
Director and Producer
Address
The Yard,
Falcarragh,
CO.Donegal
Ireland
Telephone
+353 87277676
Mobile
+353 87277676
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
www.lughfilm.com
lughfilms@gmail.com
FILMOGRAPHY
2016 A turning tide in the lives of man , 1 06 , TG4, France 5, France3, Irish Film
Board, Region Rhone Alpes, CNC. Coproduction between L Films, Ide Originale and
South Wind Blows.
Award Best Documentary, CIRCOM 2016
Jury Award Best Documentary, Rural Film Festival Festivache
Best Documentary nomination, Oireachtas na Gaeilge Media A
Award Best Documentary, FIFIG 2015
Special Jury's mention, Films Festival Traces de vies 2015
Special Jury's mention, Derry Foyle Film Festival 2015
2014 Big Fish, small Fish , 52, T G4, France 5, France3, Irish Film Board, Region Rhone
Alpes, CNC.
2012 Mary from Dungloe, the impossiblelove , 42, TG4 Lugh Films
2011 An Bhab Feiritar, the Queen of stories , 26, TG4 a Lugh Films
2011 Sighle Humphreys , 26, TG4 and Lugh Films
2010 Denis Hempsons Legacy , 52, BBC, TG4, ILBF, Arts Council.
Coproduction between Lugh Films and Gallan Films (Northern of Ireland)
2010 Queen of Music , 52, BBC, TG4, ILBF, BAI, Arts Council Coproduction between
Lugh Films and Gallan Films (Northern of Ireland)
Belfast International Film Festival, Galway International Film Festival.
2008 Lmh Chuidigh , 26, TG4 and Lugh Films
2007 obairta , 26, TG4 and Lugh Films, International Film Festival of Groix 2008
2006 Man of the Isles , 52 / 2 006, T G4, BAI and Lugh Films
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Gold Torc Award, Celtic Media Festival 2007
Public award, International Film Festival of Groix 2008
Best documentary, Radharc Foundation Award 2008
Competition : Derry Film Festival 2007, Galway Film Fleadh 2007,
Mois du Documentaire, rgion Bretagne 2008, Guth Gafa Film Festival 2007, Small
Islands Film Festival Scotland 2007
2005 Tory Island, after the Prophecy , 57, TV Breiz, TG4
Coproduction between Vivement Lundi ! (France) and Vinegar Hill (Ireland)
International Film Festival International of Groix 2005, Douarnenez Minority Film
Festival
2002 Cluny, la Jrusalem celeste , 52, France 3 and AMC Films
2001 Bibracte , 52 / 2001, France 3 and AMC Films
2000 Histoires de Thtre , 13x10, France 5 and MK2
2000 Histoires dEcrivains , 6x13, France5 and MK2 - Forum des images de Paris
1999 Histoires de Profs , 10x13, France5 and MK2
1998 LAbcdaire du Polar , 10x13, France 5 and MK2
Festival du Film Policier, Forum des images de Paris
1997 LAtelier du temps , 32, Vivement Lundi ! Douarnenez Minority Film Festival,
Festival du Documentaire de la Cinmathque de Paris
Short Films
2001 Frontiers 16, 35mm/Cinmascope.
Produced by NADA & VIVEMENT LUNDI ! & CANAL+ Conseil general du Finistre,
Conseil Rgional de Bretagne, CNC
Worldwide Distribution : MK2 and Unifrance Film
International. Festivals selection : Brest (France), Douarnenez(France), Lille(France),
Paris(France), Nevers(France), Clermont Ferrand (France), Montral (Canada).
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
Our Secret
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
Hybrid/Fiction/Documentary
90 and 52
Tag and Traum (Germany)
Coproducers
Distributor
Sale Agent
Funds
In 1933 renowned medievalist, Harvard Professor and millionaire Arthur Kingsley Porter
disappears from a tiny Irish island without a trace. The mystery remains unsolved to
this day. Personal film footage, letters and diaries found recently, reveal a unique love
story, beyond conventions, between a gay husband and his wife. They reveal the secret
of a man who one day decided to make a new life under an assumed identity.
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MAGIC BEAR PRODUCTIONS

Name
Manon Ardisson
Position
Producer
Address
12A Corinne Road

N19 5EY
London
UK
Telephone
+44 7964743538
Mobile
+44 7964743538
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
manon.L.ardisson@gmail.com
Manon Ardisson is an independent producer based in London. She is currently in postproduction on Francis Lees first feature GODS OWN COUNTRY, starring new talents
Josh OConnor and Alec Secareanu alongside Gemma Jones and Ian Hart.
The film is financed by the BFI and Creative England, who previously supported its
development through the iFeatures programme. Manon also co-produced the
Venezuelan feature LA SOLEDAD, written and directed by Jorge Thielen Armand. The
film was developed and financed by the Venice Biennale Cinema College, and will
premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September 2016. She is now financing her third
feature TREADING WATER, written by Lee Mattinson and directed by her long-time
collaborator Samuel de Ceccatty. The film was developed through Film Londons
Microwave scheme, with the support of mentors John Yorke, Tracy ORiordan and
Lynne Ramsay, reaching the final round of considerations.
Manon comes from a production background, and also worked as Creative Assistant at
Paul Websters Shoebox Films before setting up her own company Magic Bear
Productions, as well as Ardimages UK, the British arm of the eponymous French
production company.
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
God's Own Country

completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development
Yes
No
Romance
Feature film
Jack Tarling (co-producer), Anna Duffield (exec producer), Diarmid Scrimshaw (exec
producer), BFI Film Fund (financier), Creative England Production Fund (financier), Met
Sales (financier), PW Pictures (financier)
Sales Agents, Distributors
GODS OWN COUNTRY is the story of farmers lad Johnny Saxby (Josh OConnor) who
has shut down emotionally to ensure the survival of his familys struggling farm. When
migrant labourer Gheorghe Ionescu (Alec Secareanu) arrives to help with lambing
time, an intense emotional relationship erupts between the two men, forcing Johnny to
confront what it feels like to love and be loved for the first time.
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Project #2
Project Title
La Soledad
JELLYFISH FILMS LIMITED

Project is
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development
Yes
No
Drama
Feature Film, hybrid documentary
Adriana Herrera (producer), Venice Biennale Cinema College (Financier)
Sales Agents, Distributors
The film is set in Caracas and tells the story of a young father who discovers that the
decrepit mansion he squats in will soon be demolished. Hoping to save his family from
homelessness, he then embarks on a mystical search for a cache of gold that is
rumoured to be buried in the walls of the house Set in the beautiful if derelict
eponymous mansion and played by the real inhabitants, La Soledad poetically depicts
Venezuelas socio-economic crisis through Joss real-life hardships.
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MAMMOTH FILMS LIMITED
Name
Jane Doolan
Position
Producer/ Owner
Address
Las Covas 14
Poglina
Alghero 07041
Sardinia
Telephone
+3318070502
Mobile
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
www.mammothfilms.com
mammothfilms@gmail.com
Jane Doolan is a producer with over 30 years experience in feature film production,
distribution and acquisitions. She also served for a time as Film Advisor to the Arts
Council of Ireland.
Credits as producer and executive producer include:
Into The West dir Mike Newell
The Brother dir Declan Lowney
In The Border Country dir Thaddeus O Sullivan
Moondance dir Dagmar Hirtz
Spin The Bottle dir Ian Fitzgibbon
Happy Ever Afters. dir Stephen Burke
Most recent credits as producer:
L'Accabadora director Enrico Pau screening at The Galway Fleadh 2016
International sales RAI COM
MAZE : director Stephen Burke in post production
International sales Visit films
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
THE GOOD ITALIAN

completed

Genre
in development x
Yes
No
DRAMA
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
Developed with the assistance of The Irish Film Board
International sales and co-producer
The Good Italian is based on the critically acclaimed book of the same title written by
Stephen Burke
ENZO, a lonely Italian civil servant works in 1930's colonial Eritrea, running the port at
Massawa on the Red Sea. Seeing other Italian men taking Eritrean mistresses, Enzo is
encouraged to do the same. Enzo advertises for a housekeeper, and hires Aatifa, a
tough and sharp tongued woman she has a complicated family life, and only takes the
job as a last resort. What neither of them count on is falling in love.
But its 1935 and Fascism is on the march. Thousands of Italian soldiers and black-shirt
militia flood into the territory and with them come new race laws banning relationships
between Italian men and local women. Love becomes a crime.
Some reviews of the book:
'Powerful .. satisfyingly gritty .. excellent storytelling and rounded characters to really
care about' - Irish Times
'Profound and moving' - RED magazine
'Superb story .. gripping .. compulsive reading' - Irish Independent
'Sublimely beautiful ... the love story is a joy' - The Book Bag
'Affecting tale of ordinary people trapped in the coils of history' - Sunday Times
'Evocative, engaging .. a director's eye for detail' - Sunday Business Post
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MARCIN OSTASZ
Name
Marcin Ostasz
Position
Writer
Address
C/La Forca 6/4-2,

17004 Girona,
Catalunya
Spain
Telephone
Mobile
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
+34 681 260940

www.wodathefilm.com (the website of the WODA project)
marcin.ostasz@gmail.com
Film-making - Projects
2007 Hula-Looper, a 526 short produced at the end of a course at the Irish Film
Academy (Temple Bar, Dublin); shown at the following festivals: Tuam Arts Festival
(2007), Wee Adventure Film Festival, Dublin (2008), Catalyst Arts Festival, Belfast
(2008), Fastnet Short Film Festival, Schull, co. Cork, (2009 nomination)
2010 to date Working on a feature script based on my own story (WODA/Water).
2016 - to date - Working on a feature script titled 'Kamchatka'
Acting - Projects
2007-2008 Blood of the Irish, Crossing the Line Films (for RTE), television
documentary directed by Brian Hayes (2009 IFTA Award), main character the first
Irishman
2007 An Teanga, ROSG, short film directed by Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhrde, character:
doctor
2007 Hula-Looper, Marcin Ostasz/The Irish Film Academy, short film, main character
2007 An Artist Gets Hammered, Oisn Breatnach/The Irish Film Academy, short film,
main character
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
Kamchatka
completed

Genre
Format
in development x
Yes
No
Comedy
Feature film
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
An Irish production company and director
It is 2020 and Oisn lives on Inis Orr. He has a passion for Irish. The Gaeltacht is
supposed to be closed down because there are only a few speakers left. Oisn is unable
to stop this process. He loses his job as an Irish primary school teacher and gets a job on
a fishing vessel near Kamchatka. After a conflict with the ship management, he gets
dumped on the mainland. There, he is found by a local nomadic tribe, who want Oisn to
teach them English. Oisn becomes their English teacher, but is it English he is
teaching?
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Project #2
Project Title
Project is
My Father was a God (WODA)

completed

Genre
Format
in development x
Yes
No
Drama
Feature film
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
Director/Producer - while a number of reputable producers/directors are interested in

this project, WODA is looking to take advantage of this event to raise further interest in
this story.
Poland, 1981. Cactus (9) idolises his father, Adam, a devoted communist and police
officer. When martial law is introduced, Adam imprisons and brainwashes Cactus: there
is a war. As Private Cactus, the boy fights his own war and nearly kills one of his friends.
Adam realises his mistake, tries to redeem himself, but it is too late. Summer riots
begin. Adam returns in a water cannon truck. They fight their way out of the rioting city.
They arrive into the summer camp. Cactus thinks that his father is going to kill
everyone, but Adam fills up a make-shift swimming pool.
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MARTINA BABISOVA

Name
Martina Babisova
Position
Producer
Address
Cajkovskeho 6
Prague
1300
Czech Republic
Telephone
Mobile
Website
www.operationliberland.com
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
Martina Babisova is a producer from Czech Republic. She has written and produced
several short films, music videos and documentaries in Finland and the Czech Republic.
Martina is concentrating on international co-productions, her current project is feature
documentary Operation Liberland involving several European countries.
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
Operation Liberland
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development
Yes
No
Documentary
Feature film (75 min)
Co-producers: Midas Productions, D4 Films, Raygun Post Production
Festival Programmers,
Sales Agents,
Distributors,
Broadcasters.
Operation Liberland is about a disparate group of dreamers, who joined forces one
summer and tried to start a new country.
In April 2015, Czech Libertarian Vit Jedlicka set a flag on a no-mans-land between
Croatia and Serbia, and declared a new country called Liberland. When more than
300,000 people applied for citizenship, Jedlicka became a President and an
international celebrity over night.
The road to sovereignty however, would not be a smooth one. Operation Liberland
builds from the story of a dream, into an absurd game of cat and mouse between
Croatian police and the Liberland pioneers.
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MOJO RAISER PRODUCTION, SIA KMVKP

Name
Guna Stahovska
Position
Producer
Address
5, Muzas Street,
Langstini,
Garkalnes distr.,
Latvia,
LV 2137
Telephone
Mobile
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
+371 29473007
www.mojoraiserproduction.com
guna@mojoraiserproduction.com
Before establishing of own company, Guna has worked as the film development
producer at Platforma Studio since 2004, participating in the creation of films such as
Defenders of Riga (2007) and Rudolfs Gold (2010). She produced director Rolands
Kalni feature Bitter Wine (2007), which won a Lielais Kristaps award for best
supporting actress at the 2008 Latvian national film awards. She is producer on the
feature in development The Apartments, for which scriptwriter Mrti Slins won the
2012 Krzysztof Kieslowski Award at Cannes Film Festival for best screenplay from
Eastern and Central Europe.
Guna has also worked at other Latvian film studios since 2006, producing Egils Mednis
animated short The Ship (Sveas Tehnoloijas, 2006, best animation in the Machinima
category at the Lbeck Nordic Film Days). She produced director Roberts Rubns
documentary How Are You Doing, Rudolf Ming? (2010, Juris Podnieks Studio), which
won the Grand Prix at the 21st St. Petersburg International Film Festival Message to
Man (Russia). The film was also awarded the UNICEF award at the 8th EBS International
Documentary Festival (Seoul, Korea, 2011), the Lielais Kristaps award for best
documentary under 65 min. at the Latvian national film awards etc awards. The film
was screened at the Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival (Toronto,
Canada, 2011).
The Mojo Raiser Production was established by producer Guna Stahovska in end of
2011. The main activities film and TV project development and production,
development of stories, co-production. The directors Andris Gauja feature debut The
Lesson (co-produced with Riverbed, 2014) was premiered in Montreal Intenational Film
Festival in first film competition and after screened in many international festivals
around the Europe.
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
KNUTIFICATION
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
In production
Documentary
2K, HD
National funds: National Film Centre, State Culture Capital Foundation, Salaspils City
Council, Kekava City Council, Jekabpils City Council;
Co-producers: Luks Film (Serbia), Artbox (Lithuania)
Co-producers, investors, distributors

It is about Niina (transgender women in late thertees), who returns to her familys farm
in a rural village in Estonia after her fathers death. She plans on selling the house
quickly and returning to her life in London, where shes a part of a travelling cabaret
troupe. Local villagers have no idea who she is, they think she is Pauls wife. Paul ran
away when he was 13 and no one has heard from him since.
Only after a tragic accident, the villagers find out that Niina and Paul are the same
person. The film, both tragic and comic, shows Niinas adventurous and rocky journey of
becoming herself.
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Project #2
Project Title
Project is
Candy with Chees

completed

Genre
Drama
Format
2K, HD
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
Bible
National funds: State Culture Capital Foundation
Co-producers, Broadcasters, Financiers
The film is about the beginning and end of a love relationship of Latvian girl, Gundega
and Polish guy Darek, both trying to become actors and told after 3 years of breaking
up.
There are five scenes in different seasons of the year, tracking their five-year
relationship from the end to the beginning. The story is built on the development of a
strong female character.
It is a story about how two people cannot take responsibility to do what they truly want
and need therefore they almost destroy themselves. But these relationships also prove
to be a lesson for future relationships both with themselves and others.
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MONAMI AGENCY

Name
Juho Harjula
Position
Producer
Address
Vilhonvuorenkatu 11 D 5,
00500 Helsinki,
Finland
Telephone
Mobile
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
+358500190421
http://www.monamiagency.com
juho.harjula@monamiagency.com
Juho Harjula (born 1980) started his producing career with music videos in 2006. The
music videos that he has produced have won several awards both nationally and
internationally, e.g. Magyar Posses The Whirlpool of Terror and Tension, which won
both the Golden Muuvi award in Finland and the main award and the audience award at
Oulu Music Video Festival.
Between the years 2006 and 2011, Harjula worked as a freelancer for several featurelength film productions and television series, mainly as a production manager or
production coordinator. In 2012, Harjula joined the production company Flatlight Films,
where he worked as a producer and chief executive officer, and produced not only
commercial films but also a documentary called Jalkapallomaa (directed by Teppo
Airaksinen, 2013).
In late 2013, Harjula became a co-founder of Monami Agency, which has since employed
him as a producer for numerous different productions.
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Project #1
Project Title
Battle Arena
Project is
completed

Genre
Format
in development x
Yes
No
Documentary
Feature
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
Co-producers, national film funds
Battle Arena is a feature length documentary, which explores the world of ice hockey
through the professional ice hockey players' perspective. During an ice hockey game
the distance between players and spectators is so far that the viewers are not able to
experience the game close enough, whereupon they miss the true beauty of the game.
At its best, ice hockey is like a modern day gladiator battle with great physical as well as
psychological struggle in the aim for victory.
The project will show this great sport closer than any film or television broadcast has
ever managed before and revealing the unique brotherhood among the players. At
heart the film is an insight on the concept of ambition - what are we willing to sacrifice
for achieving greatness?
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PATCHWORK PRODUCTIONS

Name
Christine Hartland
Position
Producer
Address
24 Hazelbourne Road
SW12 9NS
London
UK
Telephone
+44 7889894508
Mobile
+44 7889894508
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
www.patchwork-productions.co.uk
christine@patchwork-productions.co.uk
Christine has over fifteen years of experience in corporate film and event production.
Corporate clients included BT, Nokia, Barclays, GSK, Sanofi-Aventis, Volvo (3D film),
BlackBerry, Ford, Human Rights Watch and Wired amongst many. She also worked on
projects such as the World Expo 2000 and the NATO Summit in 2014.
In 2008 she produced her first feature film, the political thriller WMD by David Holroyd.
It was represented by Independent Film Company and had simultaneous UK Theatrical
and iTunes release in Autumn 2009. WMD was one of the first British films to follow a
reverse distribution strategy. Since producing WMD, she has executive produced two
features films, VERITYS SUMMER by Palme dOr Nominee Ben Crowe and LIFE JUST IS
by Alex Barrett. She also produced with Bright Cold Day & Bandoola Productions the
debut feature CONTAINMENT released in the US and UK in 2015 due for a DVD release
in June 2016. She received development funding from MEDIA in 2013 for the feature
NITRATE by Gavin Boyter and Guy Ducker and BFI Net.Work in 2014 for the feature THE
TENTMASTERS DAUGHTER by Isabel Anderton. Christine was part of the 2008/09
Guiding Lights mentoring scheme with producer mentor Damian Jones (Oscar winner
THE IRON LADY, THE LADY IN THE VAN, DADS ARMY ). She teaches occasionally at the
London Film Academy (London) and mentors short and micro-budget filmmakers. She
is a member of Women in Film & TV and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
Nitrate
completed

Genre
Thriller
Format
Fiction
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
Supported by MEDIA / CREATIVE EUROPE for development

Co-writers/Co-directors Gavin Boyter and Guy Ducker
Co-producer, sales agent, distributor, financiers
A hotshot director, George Lewis, uncovers the truth behind the murder of his
filmmaking idol when he attempts to reconstruct the dead man's lost, unfinished
masterpiece. But along the way, George gets swept into the all-consuming mystery and
web of madness that he uncovers. Can it be untangled before history starts to repeat
itself?
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PINBALL FILMS LIMITED
Name
Ashley Horner
Position
Producer
Address
5 Charlotte Square
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 4XF
UK
Telephone
+44 7971243909
Mobile
+44 7971243909
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
www.pinballfilms.com
ashley@pinballfilms.com
Ashley Horner (Producer/Director) founded Pinball Films Ltd in 1999 and works with
maverick outsider filmmakers attempting to push the form of cinema forward by taking
risks and pushing boundaries. Ashleys last feature film BRILLIANTLOVE premiered at
Tribeca Film Festival in 2010 and went on to screen at over 25 festivals, was released by
IFC in the US and The Sundance Channel world-wide. Ashley is a member of both the
ACE producers network and joined EAVE in 2015. He is currently in pre-production on
the Matt Hulse documentary THE HIPPIES: PUNK ROCKED MY CRADLE for BBC
STORYVILLE and recently became a member of the European Film Academy.
2016
THE HIPPIES: PUNK ROCKED MY CRADLE - DIR. MATT HULSE

PUNKUMENTARY - BBC STORYVILLE/CREATIVE ENGLAND
2016
HIDDEN FOLK (In Financing) DIR. ASHLEY HORNER

SUPERNATURAL HORROR FEATURE FILM
2013
OBJECTS ATTACK! (CO-PRODUCER) - DIR. RONA MARK

WINNER BEST EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE HARLEM IFF 2014
2011
THE CONUNDRUM - (CO-PRODUCER) - DIR. MARTIN RADICH

Screened Cork IFF 2012
2009
BRILLIANTLOVE - DIR. ASHLEY HORNER

Screened Tribeca 2010, Edinburgh IFF, Gala 2010.
2007
THE OTHER POSSIBILITY - DIR. ASHLEY HORNER

Screened Galway Film Festival 2007 World Sales, Centre Media.
2001
ROB OF THE ROVERS - DIR. ASHLEY HORNER - SHORT FILM

Sold to BBC4. Screened in competition at Rotterdam IFF
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
HIDDEN FOLK
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
SUPERNATURAL HORROR
4K - DCP
Kindergarten Media AS Norway Co Producer, Tailored Films - Irish Co Producer (TBC)
Sales Agent and Equity, National Film Funds.
A mountain demon needs one thing to rise again, the blood of your teenage daughter.
Teenager Helga has been betrayed. Her domineering father, Jack, fuelled by fears of
adolescent boys taking her virtue, has duped Helga into swapping suburban Detroit
for a new beginning at a remote Norwegian Farmhouse. Their arrival awakens
mischievous creatures descended from fairy tales, the HIDDEN FOLK. Helga falls for
the seductive charms of uninvited house guest, Brynjar, a handsome man of the
woods. Jack learns from the Hidden Folk that Brynjar is the fabled Mountain Demon.
Jacks sacrifice results in the continuation of the familys line, as guardians of the
mountain.
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PLAYS2PLACE PRODUCTIONS
Name
Vasilis Chrysanthopoulos
Position
Producer
Address
36 Kallidromiou street,
11473,
Athens,
Greece
Telephone
Mobile
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
+302112261105
+306974000959
www.plays2place.com
vasilis@plays2place.gr , plays2place@gmail.com
VASILIS CHRYSANTHOPOULOS was born in 1983 in Athens.
He is the co-founder, CEO and head producer of the Greek production company
plays2place productions and a member of EAVE (European Audiovisuals Enterpreneurs)
and EDN (European Documentary Network). He also works as a news producer for
Associated Press Television Network.
He started his career as a producer for various companies in the Greek film and
television industry, until he co-founded plays2place productions, for which he had
produced all its projects. His recent credits include the film ''Miss Violence" (Silver Lion
for Best Director and Coppa Volpi for Best Actor in Venice IFF 2013).
Miss Violence. 2013. Feature. Drama. 99
Producer.
Directed by: Alexandros Avranas.
Production: Faliro House Productions, plays2place productions, Greek Film Center
World Sales: Elle Driver
Festivals:
Venice IFF(Competition), Toronto IFF (City to City Programme), Vancouver IFF
(Competition), Reykjavik IFF(Competition),Busan IFF, Festival du nouveau cinema
Montreal, Zagreb IFF,Stockholm IFF, Istanbul IFF, Los Angeles Greek Film Festival,
Sydney IFF,Hong Kong IFF, Jerusalem IFF, Dubai IFF, Kustendorf International Film and
Music Festival, IKFC, Edinburgh IFF
Awards:
Silver Lion for Best Director - Venice IFF, Coppa Volpi for Best Actor - Venice IFF, Arca
Cinema Giovanni Award for Best Film of Venice IFF, FEDEORA Prize for Best European
Film of Venice IFF, Best Script Award - Stockholm IFF, Special Mention of the Jury Reykjavik IFF, Daniel Langlois Innovation Award - Festival du nouveau cinema
Territories sold:
Italy, Greece, UK, Russia, South Korea, Sweden, Serbia, Brazil, Latin American HBO
Iceberg. 2012. Short. Drama. 19
Producer.
Directed by: Kostas Gerampinis
Production: London Film School, plays2place productions, Kostas Gerampinis
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Festivals:
Drama ISFF, Athens IFF, ISFF of Cyprus, Thessaloniki ISFF, Munich IF of Film Schools,
Peace & Love FF, International Crime & Punishment FF, Other Movie Lugano FF,
Sindh IFF, San Fransisco Greek FF
Awards:
Tonia Marketaki Award for Best Film with Social Context Drama ISFF, Award for
Best Screenplay - Athens IFF, International Special Mention for Best Script ISFF of
Cyprus, Cinematic Achievement Award - Thessaloniki ISFF
Beatitudes. 2012. Short. Drama. 17
Producer.
Directed by: Aristotelis Maragkos
Production: Aristotelis Maragkos, London Film School
Festivals:
Locarno IFF (Academy Screenings), Leeds IFF, Drama ISFF, Athens FF, Thessaloniki IFF,
Munich IF of Film Schools, Tel Aviv International Student FF, Festival de Finos Filmes
Curtos, FEST New Directors/New Films Festival, Fresh Wave ISFF, Freshly
Squeezed FF, Learning on Screen Award
Awards:
Best Costumes Award - Drama ISFF
Buyout. 2012. Short. Drama. 18
Producer.
Directed by: Carmen Zografou
Production: Carmen Zografou, plays2place productions, Kingston University London
Festivals:
Drama ISFF, Tangier Mediterranean SFF
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
The Forest In Me
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
(treatment, storyboard, pilot)
Documentary
HD/DCP
Co-Producers: Cassiopeia Pictures (UK), Electric Palace Cinema (UK), 2|35 Inc. (GR)
Distributors: November Films (UK), Feelgood Entertainment (GR)
Co-producers, Sales agent, Distributors
Agafya Lykova, a 70-year-old woman, has spent her life surviving in isolation in the vast
Siberian forest, 150km from the nearest town.
From this snowbound timeless dreamscape, cut off from the world of mass
communication and modern technology, The Forest In Me looks back at the outside
world to explore our sense of time, interweaving three visually stunning threads from
around the world:
We time-travel with the crew of a simulated manned mission to Mars in Hawaii, we leap
through years of a life documented on film in the UK and we return back to the isolated
Siberian homestead, where the existence of this singular woman is witnessed by the
vast forest that surrounds her.
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Project #2
Project Title
Project is
The Land of No One

completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
Fiction (Drama)
35mm (filming), DCP (delivery)
La Voie Lacte (French co-producer) / BFI
Irish Co-producer for IFB funds / French Canadian Co-producer for FR Canadian
broadcaster or funds
UK Distributor
Equity
Sales
Small town Brittany at the peak of summer. Misfit MARNIE (10) is teased constantly by
the GIRLS at ballet summer school. Her overstretched mother CHRISTINE has had
enough of her chaos and gives her short shrift, but when Marnie catches Christine with
the local mechanic, Christine snaps. She takes off, leaving Marnie in the dubious care of
her teenage brother DANIEL (16) and her beloved but brain damaged father FRANK.
Marnie takes refuge in her imagination. She rescues a glamorous female gangster
NATHALIE from a car crash, and a great friendship-adventure blossoms. Nathalie is cool
and totally gets Marnie. Marnies confidence grows and life improves tremendously. But
as Nathalie recovers she becomes increasingly dangerous, dragging Marnie into
mischief, desperate to hatch a plan of escape. In the unfurling unruly summer days
Marnie pushes the limits and revels in stepping out of line.
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ROADS ENTERTAINMENT
Name
Alan Maher
Position
Producer
Address
1st Floor,
19-22 Dame Street,
Dublin 2
Ireland
Telephone
Mobile
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
+353 87277676
+353 86 855 4393
www.roads.co/film
Alan.maher@roads.co; j
ROADS Entertainment specialises in delivering high-calibre, commercial arthouse
featrues and documentaries. Current releases included the major feature documentary
BEING AP, directed by Anthony Wonke and made in partnership with Moneyglass Films
for BBC Films, the Irish Film Board and Northern Ireland Screen. BEING AP premiered at
the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and was released by eOne in the UK and
Ireland in November.
In 2016, ROADS Entertainment premiered their latest documentary WE ARE MOVING;
MEMORIES OF MISS MORIARTY, directed by Claire Dix (Broken Song), at the Audi
Dublin International Film Festival, SONG OF GRANITE, the next feature form awardwinning director Pat Collins (SILENCE) shooting between Ireland and Canada is
going into production in the spring, while FOREVER PURE, a documentary directed by
Maya Zinshtein and co-produced with Duckin & Divin Films, is due to premiere in
autumn 2016.
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
Trade
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
Psychological Drama
Feature Narrative
Irish Film Board
Financiers, Funders, Distributors.
TRADE is a sparse and intence contemporary Irish drama tht revolves around
protagonist COLM (54), an ordinary Dublin man who is married with two children. Colm
is struggling to come to terms with the recent death of his fater, while the forced
redundancy from his lifelong job at a cargo company in the north docks makes him feel
even more lost and disconnected from the life he knew so well. However, a brief and
surprising sexual encounter with a young rent-boy called JAY affects him deeply and
brings with it sexual, moral and emotional awakening that threaten to pull his life apart.
As COLM begins to grow close to JAY, his own sense of identity is thrown into disarray
and his relationship with both his wife and son become more strained. Haunted by his
fathers secret past and the questions he left behind, Colm is consumed with figuring
out his own identity and wanting to make the right choices. COLMs desire for Jay
overwhelms him as he struggles with questions of morality and ultimately tries to find
both peace of mind and closure. Screenplay by Mark OHalloran (VIVA!, ADAM&PAUL,
GARAGE) to be directed by Hong Khaou (LITING).
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SARAH BROCKLEHURST PRODUCTIONS
Name
Sarah Brocklehurst
Position
Producer
Address
32 Ridgeway Gardens
London
N6 5XR
UK
Telephone
Mobile
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
+44 7980609314
www.sarahbrocklehurst.com
sarah@sarahbrocklehurst.com
Sarah Brocklehurst is a BAFTA-nominated producer and Screen International Star of
Tomorrow.
Her background is originally in theatre: she worked in the Producers' Department of the
Royal Shakespeare Company and then as Apprentice Producer to Sonia Friedman,
working on award-winning West End and Broadway productions.
Her first feature film BLACK POND, directed by Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley, was
nominated for the BAFTA for outstanding debut by British writer/director/producer,
and also received nominations at the British Independent Film Awards, Guardian First
Film Award and Raindance Festival. The film won the London Comedy Festival
Discovery Award as well as the Evening Standard Award for Best Newcomers.
Sarahs slate of films in development include the dark teen comedy WEIRD with BAFTAwinning director Tim Kirkby and Stars of Tomorrow & Brit List writers Henrietta and
Jessica Ashworth which is supported by the BFI, and the adaptation of Emma Jane
Unsworths hit novel ANIMALS (chosen as one of Lena Dunhams favourite books of
2015) which has been supported by the BFI Net.Work and will be directed by Sophie
Hyde (who won best director at Sundance for 52 TUESDAYS) and is set to star Holliday
Grainger and Alia Shawkat.
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
Animals
completed

Genre
Comedy
Format
Feature
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
Developed by Creative England through the BFI Net.Work
Sales Agent
UK distributor
Equity financier
ANIMALS is the adaptation of Emma Jane Unsworths hit novel, which was championed
by Lena Dunham as one of her favourite books of 2015 and described by Caitlin Moran
as Withnail with Girls.
Its an anarchic comedy about female friendship set in Manchester.
Sophie Hyde is directing, her first film since 52 Tuesdays (2014) for which she won Best
Director at Sundance and the Crystal Bear at Berlin.
Holliday Grainger (The Riot Club, Cinderella) and Alia Shawkwat (Arrested Development,
Green Room) will star as the best friends whose hedonistic existence is tested when one
gets engaged to a teetotal pianist.
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SEAHOUND FILMS LIMITED
Name
Neil Murphy
Position
Producer/Writer
Address
59 Beechwood Avenue Upper,

Ranelagh,
Dublin 6
Ireland
Telephone
Mobile
+353 1 535 6516

+353 852 109 446
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
neilmurphyemail@gmail.com
Neil Murphy Bio
Neil produced and wrote critically acclaimed feature film The Disappeared. 'The
Disappeared' was theatrically released through the ICA and picked up by Film4 and
Soda (UK), HBO (Central Europe) and IFC Films (US) amongst the other global territories.
Ain't It Cool News declared it "A stunningly atmospheric and intelligent thriller"; Film4
said Its a solid, thoughtful drama and an atmospheric, well-made feature; while
according to The Guardian its Well acted, with interesting ideas a top-notch cast and
his story delivers more than a few shivers. It stars established British actors and upand-coming talent: Harry Treadaway (Fish Tank, Control, City of Ember), Tom Felton
(Harry Potter Films 1-8), Georgia Groom (London to Brighton, Angus, Thongs & Perfect
Snogging), Alex Jennings (The Queen, The Lady in the Van) and Greg Wise (Sense And
Sensibility, Effie Gray).
Prior to the feature the short films he produced garnered praise and publicity on the
festival circuit. Neil production managed a number of theatrically released, British
independent feature films while his commercials production management experience
was gained at Ridley Scott Associates Films.
Neil has also producer/directed a number of short documentaries on social issues and in
2012 was awarded a Channel 4/Britdoc Puma Creative Catalyst Award. Neil has
recently been working with Passport, an innovative alternative education programme
for disadvantaged students to work with industry professionals to gain experience for
the media sector with industry outreach support from organisations such as the BFI.
Matchmaker, Matchmaker is co-written with Patricia Murphy. Patricia is an award
winning documentary Producer/Director with BBC and Channel 4 and author of Irish
Times No.1 Bestseller Mollys Diary.
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
Matchmaker, Matchmaker
completed

Genre
Format
in development x
Yes
No
Romantic Comedy
S16 & DI
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
Sales agents, distributors & co-producers.
Cormac uses a best man speech to propose to his girlfriend. She dumps him and farce
turns to tragedy as his on-looking mother collapses with a stroke. Lapsing into a coma
she makes his brother Gavin and sister Grainne promise to find Cormac a match. But
given their sibling rivalry the promise snowballs into a bet. As Gavin and Grainne are
increasingly consumed by their romantic arms race, will their matchmaking scheming
succeed? What hope is there when they cant sort out their own love lives? And as
Cupids arrows rain down on Cormac, which one will be The One?
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SPIER FILMS
Name
Heather Millard
Position
Producer
Address
Fiskislod 75
101 Reykjavik
Iceland
Telephone
+354 693 5698
Mobile
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
www.spierfilms.com
moc.smlifreips@rehtaeh
Heather Millard joined Spier Films in 2007 to set up a London-based sales office and relocated to Iceland in 2009, becoming one of the founding partners of Compass Films
Iceland and Spier Films Iceland. She produced the award-winning OF GOOD REPORT
and the feature documentary TREND BEACONS, and is in postproduction on David
Kinsella's hybrid feature THE WALL. Heather is currently shooting Kristin Olafsdottir
and Hrund Gunnsteinsdottir's documentary INNSI and developing Miikka Leskinen's
international co-production DEAR DARKNESS.
SELECTED FILMS
Dear Darkness, in development
by Miikka Leskinen
(Iceland, UK, Finland, Canada)
InnSi,2016
by Kristin Olafsdottir & Hrund Gunnsteinsdottir
(Iceland) documentary
The Wall, in postproduction
by David Kinsella
(Norway/Iceland, Northern Ireland) documentary
Trend Beacons, 2014
by Thorkell Hardarson & Orn Marino Arnarson
(Iceland, Netherlands) documentary
Of Good Report, 2013
by Jahmil X.T.Qubeka
(South Africa, Iceland)
ASH, 2013
by Herbert Sveinbjornsson
(Iceland) documentary
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
Yarn
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development
Yes
No
Featutre Documentary
Digital /DCP
Icelandic Film Centre, Creative Europe, RUV-Icelandic National Television, TVP, RTV
Slovenia, TG4, Sveriges Television.
The traditional crafts of crochet and knitting have become one of the hottest
movements in modern art. We follow a few International artists and knitters as they
bring yarn to the streets and into our lives in new ways. Starting in Iceland, this quirky
and thought-provoking film takes us on a colourful and global journey as we discover
how yarn connects us all.
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TREASURE ENTERTAINMENT
Name
Claire McCaughley
Position
Production Executive
Address
The Copper House

St. Kevin's Cottages
Synge Street
Dublin 8
Ireland
Telephone
+353 - 1-4758820
Mobile
+353-86-0616532
Website
www.treasure.ie
Email
claire@treasure.ie
Personal bio and

credits to date
Claire McCaughley
Short Bio
Claire is a graduate of The National Film School, IADT. She joined Treasure
Entertainment in 2007. As Production Executive she oversees the companies film and
television slate from development, through production, post-production to distribution.
Her credits include; The Flag (2016), Handsome Devil (2016), Viva (2015), Dare to be Wild
(2014), The Canal (2014), The Stag (2013), Good Vibrations (2012), The Good Man (2012),
My Brothers (2010), The Eclipse (2009).
As producer, Claire's credits include the IFTA award winning comedy sketch show series
Your Bad Self, Green is the Colour, a 4 part documentary series on the history of Irish
soccer for RTE Sport, Trial of the Century a three-part docu-drama on the would-be trial
of Padraig Pearse for TV3 and several award-winning short films.
Filmography
Producer Trial of the Century
Three part docu-drama co-produced with Loose Horse Films for TV3 and directed by
Maurice Sweeney
Production Executive The Flag (2016)
Feature film directed by Declan Recks and written by Eugene OBrien
Production Executive | Co-Producer Handsome Devil (2016)
Feature film written and directed by John Butler
Production Executive | Co-Producer VIVA (2015)
Feature film directed by Paddy Breathnach, written by Mark OHalloran.
Production Executive | Ethiopia Line Producer DARE TO BE WILD (2014)
Feature film directed by Vivienne DeCourcy
Production Executive | Co-Producer THE STAG (2013)
Feature film directed by John Butler, written by John Butler and Peter McDonald.
Producer GREEN IS THE COLOUR (2012)
4 part documentary series on the history of Irish soccer for RTE Sport with BAI.
Production Executive GOOD VIBRATIONS (2012)
Feature film directed by Lisa Barros DSa & Glenn Leyburn
Production Executive THE GOOD MAN (2012)
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Feature film directed by Phil Harrison
Producer - CROSSWORD (short) (2010)
RTE/Filmbase awarded short film directed by Vincent Gallagher.
Producer SPECIAL ED (short) (2010)
IFB Virtual Cinema short film directed by Hugh Travers.
Producer | Production Manager YOUR BAD SELF (2009)
6 part comedy sketch series for RTE2.
Production Executive THE ECLIPSE (2009) Feature film directed by Conor
McPherson.
Producer AN COSC (short) (2009)
LASAIR TG4/Filmbase awarded Irish language short fil
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
Bolt
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
in development x
Yes
No
Romantic Comedy
Feature Film
In development with Irish Film Board and MEDIA
Partners sought
Synopsis
Bolt is a comedy-drama about the struggle between the idea of romantic love versus
the messy reality of relationships. Grace is a struggling store stylist who is finding it
increasingly difficult to engage with the demands of her erratic clientele. Their
unglamorous ways lay in stark contrast to her fantastical dream world of old Hollywood
glamour and pzazz, their faults a stark reminder of her own mother's flaws. More and
more distressed with the pressure to start a family of her own, she decides to leave her
loving husband Robbie before he becomes a victim of the person she most fears she will
turn out to be.
She finds a job with Verity, an eccentric but charismatic woman in her 80s who worked
as a dresser in the heyday of Hollywood's most glamorous era. Plunged into her fantasy
world of glamour and style, Grace feels that she has found her perfect outlet but she
begins to learn that style is dependent on understanding the substance and success is
dependent on the ability to engage and communicate on an intimate level.
By way of a messy new relationship with Veritys handsome nephew, George, and by
opening herself up to allow Verity to guide her professional life, Grace begins to
discover a new perspective on the world: that life in all its messiness may be worth the
living. But will Robbie still be waiting for her...?
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TUFFI FILMS
Name
Venla Hellstedt / Elli Toivoniemi
Position
Producer / Head-Producer
Address
Vanha talvitie 2 A 12
00580 Helsinki,
Finland
Telephone
Mobile
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
+358 40 9309905 / +358 40 1721 778

+34 681 260940
www.tuffifilms.com
venla@tuffifilms.com / elli@tuffifilms.com
Producer Venla Hellstedt studied literature, film and anthropology in London. She has
worked in documentary, drama, VOD and news productions for BBC, ITV, Discovery
Channel and YLE since 1999. Venla returned to work in her native Helsinki in 2009, after
nearly 14 years in the UK, and has since worked as a Producer of many award-winning
films and international co-productions. She is a graduate of EAVE Producers Workshop
from 2012.
Selected filmography as a Producer:
Seamstress (Dir. Ville Suhonen, 2015, documentary, winner: Best Documentary at the
Jussi national film awards)
Monsterman (Dir. Antti Haase, 2014, documentary, co-production Finland, Norway and
Sweden, winner: Best Documentary Feature at Austin Festival),
Ecopolis China (Dir. Anna-Karin Grnroos, 2013, documentary, premiered at IDFA midlength documentary competition),
Dance of Outlaws (Dir. Mohamed El Aboudi, 2012, documentary, co-production FinlandNorway, winner: Premio Zonta Club Locarno at the Locarno Film Festival, Main Prize in
Human Rights films category at DOKU Fest, Main Prize at PriMed, Jurys special
mention at Tampere Film Festival).
Elli Toivoniemi is the co-founder and the Head Producer of the Helsinki-based
production company Tuffi Films. She has worked in fiction and documentaries for over
ten years, and produced the 2014 Academy Award -nominated short fiction Do I Have
to Take Care of Everything?. Her films have been awarded and recognized at festivals
such as Sundance Film Festival and Berlinale. Her first short fiction, Role (2014, directed
with Jenni Kangasniemi), was invited to screen at Locarno International Film Festival.
Her debut feature length documentary Once I Was a Dragonfly is now in production,
scheduled to deliver in 2016.
Selected filmography as a Producer:
Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? (Short film, Dir. Selma Vilhunen, Best Comedy,
Aspen Short Film Festival 2013, Academy Award Nomination 2014)
Korso (Feature film Dir. Akseli Tuomivaara, premiered in Edinburgh Film Festival 2014)
The Date (Short film, Dir. Jenni Toivoniemi, Jury Award in the International Short Film
Competition in Sundance Film Festival, Special Mention from the Youth Jury in Berlinale
2013)
The Good Son (Feature film, Dir. Zaida Bergroth, Gold Hugo award, Chicago Film Festival
2011)
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
Stupid Young Heart

completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
Feature Film
DCP
YLE (LOI)
The Finnish Film Foundation (development)
The Church Media Foundation Finland
New Europe Film Sales (LOI)
Windmill Film (co-producer, The Netherlands)
Nordisk Film (LOI for the Nordic territory)
Distribution,
Sales,
Co-producer Nordics,
Public funding (The Netherlands, Nordics)
A first love story of skinny LENNI (15) and gorgeous KIIRA (16), who unexpectedly
discover that they are expecting a baby, and decide to keep it partly as a statement to
their mothers with whom they cannot connect. Lenni, who grew up without a father,
has to become a man. He receives longed for fatherly advice from JANNE (40), a right
wing activist. After a scrambled attack on a local Mosque, while Kiira is in labour, Lenni
realises that he can be a man in his own way, even though he didnt have a chance to be
a child himself.
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Project #2
Project Title
Social Game
Project is
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development x
Yes
No
Feature Film
DCP
Nordisk Film (LOI for the Nordic territory)
Bautafilm AB (co-producer Sweden)
National film funds,

Sales agents,
Distribution
A group of 30-something friends from high school reunite in a summer villa celebrating
a surprise birthday party for MITZI (34). The old group dynamics crumble, when Mitzis
best friend turns up at the party with a new boyfriend, a Swedish Hollywood film star.
Trapped in dystopia, they yarn for the time before, when technology didnt intervene
social relationships. It drives them to severe the connection to the world beyond the
beautiful horizon. When disconnected, they begin joking that perhaps the World ceased
to exist too, and the group are the last people on Earth, whose purpose is to establish a
new society.
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VICO FILMS
Name
Peter Foott
Position
Director
Address
Unit D,
Glencormack Business Park,
Kilmacanogue,
Co. Wicklow
Ireland
Telephone
Mobile
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
+353-86-8574247
http://www.vicofilms.com
peter@vicofilms.com
Irish filmmaker with 17 awards including an Irish Film and television award (IFTA) for
the best TV moment of the year.
Creator writer and director of RTE's hit comedy show "The Fear" which is on it's fourth
season. Previous to this I was producer, writer and director on RTE's hugely successful
"Republic of Telly" and recently directed "The Centre", RTE's six part comedy drama.
AWARDS
Irish Film & Telvision Awads (IFTA) Best TV Moment of the Year
Venice Film Festival Special Mention Award
LA International Film Festival Best Comedy
Cork International Film Festival Audience Award for Best Irish Film
Scrittura e Immagine Short Film Festival Grand Jury Prize
Worldfest Houston Winner, Gold Remi
Mallorca Film Festival Awarded 2nd Place
Cleveland Film Festival Honorable Mention, Best Student Short
Night of the Living Shorts 2nd Place Jury Award
Night of the Living Shorts 2nd Place Audience Award
Montecatini Terme Film Festival Awarded FEDIC plaque
Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival- Nominated for the Melies d'OR Award
CURRENT PROJECTS:
The Young Offenders
Joyrider
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
The Young Offenders

completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
in development
Yes
No
Comedy
Feature Film
Irish Film Board, Wildcard Distribution
Broadcasters, Distributors, Sales Agents
Inspired by the true story of Irelands biggest cocaine seizure in 2007, The Young
Offenders is a comedy road movie about best friends Conor and Jock, two inner-city
teenagers from Cork who dress the same, act the same, and even have the same bumfluff moustaches. Jock is a legendary bike thief who plays a daily game of cat-andmouse with the bike-theft-obsessed Garda Sergeant Healy.
When a drug-trafficking boat capsizes off the coast of West Cork and 61 bales of
cocaine, each worth 7m, are seized, word gets out that there is a bale missing. The
boys steal two bikes and go on a road trip hoping to find the missing bale which they
can sell so as to escape their troubled home lives.... But Sergeant Healy is in hot pursuit.
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ZANZIBAR FILMS
Name
Edwina Forkin
Position
CEO/Producer
Address
Springdale,
Lehaunstown
Cabinteely
Dublin 18
Ireland
Telephone
Mobile
Website
Email
Personal bio and
credits to date
+353 1 4446466
+353 862602082
www.zanzibarfilms.net
edwina@zanzibarfilms.net
Producer Edwina Forkin Zanzibar Films
After graduating from Trinity College where she was also Entertainments Officer,
Edwina lived in San Francisco for five years working in the Music business. Returning
with a new ambition to work in film she quickly graduated from the EAVE, Media
Business School and subsequently from the ACE producers program. She set up
Zanzibar Films in 2002.
Edwinas debut Feature HEADRUSH (2003) has four international awards to its credit.
Her second feature SUGAR premiered in Sundance 2005 and screened in competition at
Edinburgh & Thessaloniki film festivals. SWANSONG the story of Occi Byrne (2010) six
IFTA nominations - Winner of Best Actor - IFTA 2011, 2 GRAVES director Yvonne
McDevitt, (2011)
She is also involved as co-producer on feature films DOT.COM (2006) & JOHNNY WAS
(2005) and associate producer on SOUL BOY (2009) NOWHERE IN PARTICULAR (2012)
and on film THE YANK (2013) SAOL (2014) GAELIC CURSE (2015), RED MOON RISING
(2015) and SANCTUARY (2016).
Her feature length documentaries are AIDAN WALSH - MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE
(2002) and BREAKING BOUNDARIES the Irish Cricket teams world cup (2008) Shimmy Marcuss feature documentary GOOD CAKE BAD CAKE (2011) and Patrick
Jolleys feature documentary - A DOOR A JAR (2011) THE CAUSE OF PROGRESS (2016) a
feature documentary of Chris Kelly.
Edwina Forkin also recently produced for Taylormade Films - JACK TAYLOR TV films for
the series PRIEST (2012), THE SORROWS. (2012) and SHOT DOWN. (2013)
She is working on numerous features PENANCE & JOHANNA AND THE WHALE and
LESS THAN HUMAN feature documentary director Chris Kelly - due for production
2016
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Project #1
Project Title
Project is
SANCTUARY
completed

Genre
Format
Partners in place
i.e. Co-producers,
sales agents,
distributors, etc.
Partners sought
Synopsis
x
Yes
in development
No
Drama
Digital /DCP
Irish Film Board, BCI and RTE
Larry and Sophie have been waiting for this moment for weeks the chance to steal
away from a trip to the cinema organised by their training centre. Larry knows he may
never get another chance: the training centre is finishing up its last contract and so his
destiny is unclear.
Tom, their care-worker and conspirator, smuggles Larry and Sophie across the road to a
hotel, where they can be alone together at last. But when Larry asks Tom if he can
borrow a condom, Toms return to the cinema is delayed and the others seize their
moment.
Matthew and William flee the pictures for the pub. Andrew and Alice go shopping. And
Sandy and Peter find themselves alone in the cinema a situation which delights her,
but dismays him. And then there is Rita, who longs to go to the park, but not because
she wants fresh air.
While Tom searches frantically for his missing group, they each embark on their own
adventure, relishing freedom, booze, cheap costume jewellery and possibly sex and
romance.
But will Larry be able to make the most of his moment or will the pressure be too
much? And will Tom be able to keep their whereabouts secret from the others and from
the Big Boss, who would fire him in a heartbeat if she knew he was helping two people
with intellectual disabilities break the law?
Set in the world of people with intellectual disabilities, Sanctuary is a touching and
funny love story about Larry and Sophie, two people who long to be together in a world
that does everything to keep them apart.
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(100 WORDS MAXIMUM )

Documentary - Animation Transmedia experience

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(100 WORDS MAXIMUM )

Supported by FilmFund Luxembourg

(N)OSTALGIA: The Pleasure of Ruins is an experimental documentary set in Pyramiden,

Ceausescu and I The story of an American Dream

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(100 WORDS MAXIMUM )

ANNE ZOHRA BARRACHED

Anne Zohra Barrached

+49 (0) 303906630

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SALES AGENT & DISTRUBTORS

(100 WORDS MAXIMUM )

Srovs str. 16,

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(100 WORDS MAXIMUM )

Is a finished screenplay available?

(100 WORDS MAXIMUM )

The Bureau Film Company

+44 2074398257 (Bureau Office)

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(100 WORDS MAXIMUM )

Producer (Matthieu de Braconnier The Bureau Film Company)

64 Pear Tree Close

At the Break of Day

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(100 WORDS MAXIMUM )

Helga Viks vei 15

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(100 WORDS MAXIMUM )

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(100 WORDS MAXIMUM )

Irish Film Board

28 rue Lacepede 75005 Paris

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(100 WORDS MAXIMUM )

French and Italian producers and TV

EUROART (MEDIA) LIMITED

3 Bridge Lock Mews

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(100 WORDS MAXIMUM )

I'm a degenerate, I'm a Jew, I'm a refugee, I'm a cripple. I am a dancer."

+35 (0)20 707 17 13

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(100 WORDS MAXIMUM )

+353 86 677 4862/ +353 86 865 2659

+353 86 677 4862/ +353 86 865 2659

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We are looking for co-producers, sales agents & distributors.

Astronomer Rebecca Morrison arrives at a remote mountain Observatory to upgrade its

GAMERS (original title: Gejmeri)

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(100 WORDS MAXIMUM )

Adventure, Childrens film

Another European Co-Producer

Through the Woods