ROTTERDAM 2012 Take your partners
The 2012 edition of CineMart (Jan 29-Feb 1) showcases 36 new projects from 31 countries. Leon Forde profiles a selection of titles
Athina Rachel Tsangari
DUNCHARON (Greece-Fr-Ger) From Attenberg director Athina Rachel Tsangari, Duncharon is the futuristic story of marooned astronauts. The English-language fi lm will shoot in Greece, Iceland, France, Germany, Scandinavia and the UK. Budgeted at $5.1m (¤4m), $1.3m (¤1m) is in place from backers including Haos Film, Faliro House Productions, Maharaja Films and The Match Factory, which is handling sales. The project seeks co-producers and pre-sales. Contact Haos Film maria@haosfi
lm.com, Faliro House Productions
christos@falirohouse.com
LITTLE DOG BOY (UK) The fi rst feature from artist Henry Coombes, Little Dog Boy explores the characters of his Bafta Scot- land-nominated 2009 short The Bedfords and the affair between Victorian painter Sir Edwin Land- seer and the Duchess of Bedford. Produced by Brocken Spectre, the budget is $1.8m (¤1.4m), with Creative Scotland investing $432,330 (¤338,490). The project seeks development, production and broadcast partners, a sales agent and distributors. Contact Brocken Spectre
ciara@brocken-spectre.com
screened at Rotterdam last year. Night Moves fol- lows three environmentalists who come together to execute a spectacular direct action. The project is budgeted at $2.9m (¤2.3m). The project, pro- duced by filmscience, is looking for financing partners and co-producers. Contact fi lmscience anish@fi
lmscience.com
Urszula Antoniak Adrian Biniez Argyris Papadimitropoulos
HUNGRY MOUTH (Peinasmeno Stoma) (Greece) Wasted Youth, directed by Argyris Papadimitro- poulos and Jan Vogel, was the opening fi lm at Rot- terdam last year. Papadimitropoulos is attending CineMart with his third feature, Hungry Mouth, a thriller about a law student who uses the princi- ples of dog training to lead an upper-class couple into a cliffhanger situation. Produced by Stefi Pro- ductions, the project plans to shoot in Athens and one other European capital with a budget of $1.4m (¤1.1m). The project is looking to build a European co-production with two more countries. Contact Stefi Productions
g.karnavas@stefi .gr Kelly Reichardt Henry Coombes
NIGHT MOVES (US) Night Moves is an ecological thriller addressing political extremism from writer-director Kelly Reichardt, whose previous work includes Old Joy, which won a Tiger award at Rotterdam in 2006, Wendy And Lucy and Meek’s Cutoff, which
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THE MIDFIELDER (El 5 De Talleres) (Arg-Urug-Ger-Neth) The Midfi elder is the story of the captain of a minor Argentinian football team whose career is coming to an end. It is the second feature from Adrian Biniez, whose Gigante was the co-winner of the Jury Grand Prix at the Berlinale in 2009. The Span- ish-language film is budgeted at $934,500 (¤733,000), with $305,000 (¤239,217) in place. It will be produced by Mutante Cine and co-pro- duced by Morocha Films, Pandora Film Produk- tion and Topkapi Films. Partners attached include HD Argentina, Film und Medienstiftung NRW, the MEDIA Programme and the Hubert Bals Fund. Contact Mutante Cine
fernandoepstein@gmail.com
NUDE AREA (Naaktgebied) (Neth-Ger) Nude Area tells the story of Naomi, a 16-year-old Dutch girl who experiences a lesbian crush on a young Moroccan girl of the same age. Director Urszula Antoniak’s previous work includes Code Blue, selected for Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes last year. Nude Area is looking for a sales agent and an international co-production partner. The $1.2m (¤925,000) project is produced by Topkapi Films and co-produced by Pandora Film Produk- tion. The Netherlands Film Fund is investing $670,000 (¤526,000). Contact Topkapi Films
info@topkapifi
lms.nl
Quentin Dupieux
REALITY (Réalité) (Fr) French director Quentin Dupieux drew acclaim for Rubber, his film about a killer tyre that pre- miered in Critics’ Week at Cannes. His latest fi lm, Wrong, premieres at Sundance. Reality combines characters including an eight-year-old girl, a talk- show host suffering a loss of confi dence and a has- been director trying to make a horror fi lm. Set to shoot in 2012, the $3.8m (¤3m) French-language project has $2.8m (¤2.2m) in place. It is produced by Realitism Films, which is hoping to fi nd foreign investors and distributors. Contact Realitism Films
info@realitism.com www.screendaily.com
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