Radim Procházka Czech Republic
selected by Czech Film Center
Produkce Radim Procházka Prague, Czech Republic cell +420 603 862 161
nfo@radimprochazka.com www.radimprochazka.com
Radim prefers to create films which marketing experts claim will be incomprehensible to the audience. Although graduating from FAMU in 2006 as a director of documentaries, he became the producer of Karel Vachek and Robert Sedláček and is currently developing Vachek‘s Play Brecht! and Sedláček’s historical film FAGUS. Radim‘s latest own directorial effort has such a long film title that the TV buyers prefer not to even view it!
What kind of films and genres are you interested in? I prefer to create films which marketing experts claim will be incomprehensible to the audience and won‘t appeal to them. Immodestly, I call it Film Art. No matter which genres, more important are the personalities of the directors. It can be a comedy, thriller or historical film, but it should always be “auteur“ filmmaking.
What do you want to get out of PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE and Cannes this year? My participation in PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE offers me a ray of light in being able to reach similarly tuned colleagues from other countries with whom I could co-operate. The fact is that my expensive historical film project FAGUS cannot be financed solely from domestic financial sources.
What do you think are the main challenges facing the European film industry over the next five years - and how can we meet them? In the era of domination from marketing experts, we have to fight the field for Film Art to survive. I don‘t really know how to meet it, but I think that co- operation or networking is the first step ahead.
Jesper Morthorst Denmark
selected by Danish Film Institute
Alphaville Pictures Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark cell +45 27 151 721
morthorst@alphavillepictures.com,
www.alphavillepictures.com
Jesper is a producer at Alphaville Pictures Copenhagen, the production company co-owned by director Christoffer Boe, after having previously worked at Nimbus Film from 2003 to 2008. He has produced a series of films through the Danish Film Institute‘s funding scheme New Danish Screen and received two Danish Academy Awards in 2010 for Birgitte Stærmose‘s short documentary Out of Love. His feature production Room 304 by Stærmose will be released this year.
What kind of films and genres are you interested in? I am partial to European arthouse cinema, particularly the works of directors like Michael Haneke, Lars von Trier, Andrea Arnold and Michel Gondry as well as the Iranian film wave of the past 20 years.
What do you want to get out of PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE and Cannes this year? A good network with my own generation of young European film producers. I have already co-produced with Croatia and Hungary and my next feature is a Danish-Swedish co- production, so I am very interested in European collaborations and finding new ways to finance and produce European arthouse films.
What do you think are the main challenges facing the European film industry over the next five years - and how can we meet them? I think we have to think more in European terms when we are developing and financing our films. How can we think out of the box and in new European – instead of national – ways? And how do we find stories to tell with not only a national, but also a European appeal?
Attila Csáky Hungary
selected by Magyar Filmunió
Cameofilm Budapest, Hungary cell +36 30 979 4399
csaky@cameofilm.hu www.cameofilm.hu
Attila founded the film production and distribution company, Cameofilm, in 2003, handling such productions as Márta Mészáros‘ The Unburied Man and Peter Sparrow‘s 1. His most recent productions are András B. Vágvölgyi‘s Kolorado Kid and Academy Award- winner Ferenc Rofusz‘s Ticket. Attila‘s newest project, Hier by Bálint Kenyeres, is participating in the L‘Atelier in Cannes this year.
What kind of films and genres are you interested in? I am interested in independent and arthouse films, mainly with social subjects. I would like to produce films following the tradition of important Hungarian cinema which influenced the international cinema from such filmmakers as Miklós Jancsó and Béla Tarr.
What do you want to get out of PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE and Cannes this year? As one of my projects, Hier directed by Bálint Kenyeres, has been selected for L‘Atelier, my main aim is attract partners for an international co-production and find a strong international distributor. I also think I will be able to make use of the new connections gained in Cannes in my future work.
What do you think are the main challenges facing the European film industry over the next five years - and how can we meet them? The main challenge is to find how our films can get to the consumers. Given new habits of consumption, new distribution and marketing strategies require a new film financing and production system.
further profiles of Producers on the Move:
part I May 14 Mimmi Spång
Lukasz Dzieciol Samm Haillay Ada Solomon Michal Kollár Borja Pena
part II May 15 Maria Ekerhovd
David Grumbach Dritan Huqi
Marta Donzelli Darko Popov
Michael John Fedun
part IV May 17 João Trabulo
Rebecca O‘Flanagan Justin Taurand
Gian-Piero Ringel Maria Hatzakou Joonas Berghäll
EFP contact in Cannes:
+49 160 440 9595 E u r o p e a n F i l m P r o m o t i o n
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