NEWS
CinemaChile touts R
Lorena, Hijo Constanza Arena, the new executive director of Chilean promotional body CinemaChile, has revealed details of two projects coming to market. Production house Forastero,
the outfit behind Sundance winner La Nana and Rotterdam selection Thursday Till Sunday, is presenting R Lorena, from writer- director Isidora Marras. Gregorio Gonzalez will be the executive producer. The second film, from director
Alan Fischer and production company Ant Fire, is Hijo De Trauco — a magical realist fable/ coming-of-age story set on a remote Chilean island. Here in Cannes tomorrow, the
Chilean delegation will be holding a tribute to Raul Ruiz, the great Chilean auteur and regular Cannes attendee, who died last summer. Ruiz’s widow, Valeria Sarmiento, is expected to attend. Geoffrey Macnab
Wenders to make Every Thing in 3D
BY MARTIN BLANEY After the international success of the Oscar-nominated dance docu- mentary Pina, director Wim Wenders will continue with the 3D format for his next feature film project, Every Thing Will Be Fine, based on an original story by Nor- wegian screenwriter Bjorn Olaf Johannessen. “I have always developed my
own material, but this script was love at first sight,” Wenders told Screen. “The film is a family drama,
in the middle of the casting process and only has Sarah Polley con- firmed so far. “The film will be a German-
Wim Wenders
and will be shot in Montréal and Quebec. It might not resemble any of my previous films, except for The American Friend maybe.” He pointed out the production is
Canadian co-production and world sales, as always with me in the past, will be handled by HanWay. We start shooting this year and will finish in 2013, as the film needs several seasons.” Wenders’ Berlin-based produc-
tion company, Neue Road Movies has already received backing from Medienboard Berlin-Branden-
burg and the German Federal Film Board (FFA). Speaking about the 3D format,
Wenders noted: “We have thought of 3D while working on the script, and I’m certain the story and the characters lend themselves per- fectly to the medium. I was so focused on 3D after Pina, and so keen to see where the new language could lead us that it was hard to imagine for me to ‘go back’. Which doesn’t mean I’ll necessarily shoot everything in the future on 3D.”
Verhoeven brainstorms Tricked plot with audiences
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Basic Instinct and Robocop director Paul Verhoeven is back in Cannes, with what he has been calling his “14th and a half” feature. Tricked, handled in the market
Paul Verhoeven
by Amsterdam-based FCCE, is a steamy 50-minute thriller full of business skulduggery, sex and deception. It stars Peter Blok (Black Book) and Ricky Koole. The difference from Verhoeven’s other
South Africa and Ireland seal deal
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB The long-awaited co-production treaty between South Africa and Ireland will be signed in Cannes today. “It is something that has been a
long time coming. We’re all very excited by it,” said Thandeka Zwana, production and develop- ment executive at the Johannes- burg-based National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF). This will mark the eighth co-
production treaty the South Afri- cans have signed. Why Ireland?
“Shared passions, shared strug- gles. We’ve both been through struggles. We’ve both been through hardships,” Zwana said. The Irish have their Section 481
scheme while the South Africans have recently revised their own film tax rebate, which is now uncapped. Both soft-money schemes should be able to work together. Zwaka said that, once the treaty is signed, there is expected to be an immediate boom in South Africa-Ireland co-productions. He also pointed to a shift in the
type of films being made in South Africa: “South African film-mak- ing is beginning to get a lot more adventurous with genres. For a long time, we’ve been associated with political films. Now, there’s a whole host of exciting new films.” The NFVF will be showcasing
11 films here, including John Bark- er’s heist drama 31 Million Rea- sons, action comedy The Adventures Of Supermama and romantic com- edy My Zulu Promise. A South African co-production forum will be held tomorrow.
Sydney-based sales agent Odin’s Eye Entertainment has secured exclusive rights to writer-director Rick Alverson’s The Comedy in all territories outside North America. Tribeca Enterprises acquired the film, which stars Tim Heidecker, prior to Cannes. Liz Shackleton
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features is that the film’s storyline was partially created by the gen- eral public. The new film came into being
through Entertainment Experience, a TV show FCCE producers René Mioch and Justus Verkerk hatched last year. The public wrote script sugges-
tions and submitted their own three-minute movies. Verhoeven drew on this user-generated mate-
rial to create his own movie. This was written by leading Dutch scriptwriter Kim van Kooten. Now, with cinemas and festivals
eager to show Tricked, FCCE is at work on a 35-minute doc about Verhoeven that can show along- side the director’s movie, thus cre- ating a feature-length experience. Verhoeven is also planning
feature The Hidden Force (De Stille Kracht).
n 14 Screen International at Cannes May 20, 2012
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