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Cannes Product Guide 2013
Cannes Product Guide 2013
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He Who Dares - Arrow Entertainment
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a tabloid reporter. But in life, timing is everything, and Johnny Solo’s clock is ticking. Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
AMERICAN VIRGINS MMA fighter Evan Tanner died mysteriously in the desert of Clapp Springs,
Comedy (90 min.) California. He was searching for treasure but not of the material kind. This feature-
Language: English length biopic focuses on the people whose lives he forever changed as they try to
Director: jwl figure out who he really was and the reason behind his untimely death.
Writer: jwl STUNT SPORT
Key Cast: Josh Brennand, Andrew Phung, Cassidy Waring, Derek Losoncy, Joe Perry, Documentary (90 min.)
Joshua Murdoch, Thi Vo Language: English
Delivery Status: Completed Director: Ian and Samuel McKaig
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Canada Producer: Travis Wong, Samuel McKaig, Ian McKaig, King David
Joey Wald might be the most sexually frustrated 17 year old on the planet. Follow him Key Cast: Travis Wong (The LXD), King David (MTV’s Ultimate Parkour
and his two close friends as they set out on a crazy hormone driven adventure with only Challenge), Sammy Styles (Freak Dance)
one goal in mind....to get the woman of their dreams. Delivery Status: Completed
STITCH Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
Supernatual Thriller (95 min.) Welcome to the world of Tricking, Breaking, and Parkour! These three urban sports
Language: English have found their niche in Hollywood making these athletes the most sought after
Director: Ajai stuntmen in show business today.
Writer: Ajai AFTER KONY - STAGING HOPE
Key Cast: Edward Furlong, Shawna Waldron, Laurence Mason, Shirly Brener Documentary (90 min.)
Delivery Status: Completed Language: English
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA Director: Bil Yoelin
Grieving parents Marsden (Edward Furlong) and Serafina (Shawna Waldron) cope with Writer: Paul Freedman
the loss of their young daughter. At the height of their desperation, they turn to their Producer: Melissa Fitzgerald
best friends Pirino and Colline for healing advice. Their well-meaning friends take Key Cast: David Ackert, Benjamin Burdick, Monique Edwards, Melissa Fitzgerald,
them on a week-end retreat to perform a ritual to help them mourn. Unfortunately, the Winter Miller
amateur ritual goes awry and cosmic forces are unleashed. Delivery Status: Completed
EDGE OF SALVATION Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
Drama (90 min.) Uganda has seen over two decades of a brutal rebel war. 900,000 children have been
Language: English affected by this conflict. This documentary takes you on a journey with 14 of them.
Director: Luciano Saber ADDICTED TO FAME
Writer: Luciano Saber Documentary (90 min.)
Key Cast: Charlene Tilton, Jeremy London, Kelly Washington, Dragos Beldie and Language: English
Jonathan Lipnicki Director: David Giancola
Delivery Status: Completed Writer: David Giancola
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA Producer: Sy Devol
In this tale of inspiration and sacrifice, a wealthy family’s financial downturn finds Key Cast: Anna Nicole Smith, Joanie “Chyna” Laurer, David Giancola, John James
them on a rapid descent down the ladder of socio-economic status when they make an Delivery Status: Completed
awkward move from the shores of Malibu to a hostile, low income neighborhood in Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
LA’s San Fernando Valley. “ADDICTED TO FAME” is the hilarious, outrageous, and ultimately tragic true story
MAGIC: THE TALKING DOG of one filmmaker’s journey from obscurity to moral blindness in the seductive glare
Family (90 min.) of the media spotlight.
Language: English CONCRETE BLONDES
Director: Robert Davi and John Penney Action/Thriller (90)
Writer: John Penney Language: English
Producer: Valeria Mccaffrey Director: Nicholas Kalikow
Key Cast: Christopher Lloyd, Leo Grillo, Robert Davi, Lori Heuring, Elaine Hendrix, Writer: Nicholas Kalikow, Warren Thomas & Chris Wyatt
Greg Grunberg, Tanya Allen, Sammi Hanratty Producer: Sean C. Covel
Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Carly Pope, Samaire Armstrong, Diora Baird, John Rhys-Davies
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: US Delivery Status: Completed
Magic the dog (voiced by Christopher Lloyd) is an angel sent to heal a broken family. Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
THE TOURNAMENT Three girls discover $3 million in missing drug money and decide to steal it. All goes
Drama - Sitcom (Pilot 45 min. 15 X 23 min.) well until one of the girls boyfriend concocts a plan to steal the money from the girls
Language: English to pay off his debts to a vicious two-faced gangster.
Key Cast: Paula Boudreau, France Viens, Ryan Tilson and Emily Tilson FATAL CALL
Delivery Status: Completed Action/Thriller (90 min.)
Year of Production: 2006 Country of Origin: Canada Language: English
Hockey mean everything to certain people in Canada and in the small town of Director: Jack Snyder
Briarside, home to the Farqueson Funeral Home Warriors, hockey means more than Writer: Jack Snyder
“everything”! Follow this wacky, fun filled adventure with the underdog “Warriors” Producer: SRIKANT CHELLAPPA
whose young players are all heart and whose parents are all… well just big headaches. Key Cast: Jason London, Kevin Sorbo, Danielle Harris, Lochlyn Munro
CHANGING HEARTS Delivery Status: Completed
Romantic Adventure (90 min.) Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
Language: English Starting a new life in the big city, Mitch meets Amy while out with co-workers. Amy,
Director: Brian Brough a woman out of his league, draws him into an exciting romance. Soon, Mitch finds
Writer: Brittany Wiscombe himself accused of murder and on the run, relentlessly pursued by both the law and
Producer: Brian Brough, Anthony Straga, Brittany Wiscombe an unknown killer. Confronted by both his past and his present, Mitch must find an
Key Cast: Brad Johnson, Daphne Zuniga, Brian McNamara ultimate solution before time runs out!
Delivery Status: Completed SHE WANTS ME
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA Comedy (90 min)
James is enjoying his life in Los Angeles – great job, nice girlfriend…the whole Director: Rob Margolies
package, but after receiving an urgent call about his father’s health, James returns home Writer: Rob Margolies
to help with the family business. Now faced with the reality of his father’s situation, Producer: Rob Margolies, Danny Roth, Mark Holder, Christine Holder
James must make major sacrifices for his family—and finds he is more emotionally Key Cast: Josh Gad, Kristen Ruhlin, Hilary Duff, Charlie Sheen
attached to the area and the people than he had realized. Delivery Status: Completed
ONCE I WAS A CHAMPION Year of Production: 2012
Documentary (90 min.) An up and coming Hollywood screenplay writer finds himself in a tricky situation
Language: English when an A-list actress shows interest in the role he has already promised to his
Director: Gerard Roxburgh girlfriend.
Producer: Kirk Porter PROFILE OF A KILLER
Key Cast: Evan Tanner, Randy Couture, Chael Sonnen, Forrest Griffin, Dana White,Big Thriller (90 min.)
John McCarthy, Bas Rutten Director: Caspian Tredwell-Owen
Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Caspian Tredwell-Owen
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Producer: Bruce Stubblefield Tiffany Anne Hughes,
Key Cast: Olympia Dukakis, Haley Joel Osment, Alison Brie Delivery Status: Completed
Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2011
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA Mack, an Army Ranger returning from the war is suddenly faced with a new war
Meet the Dunderheads, an eccentric family that’s been in the mountains for far too long. as his wife is kidnapped and he is lead through town by corrupt police officers to
Now one step ahead of the law, Grandma Ira flees to Canada with her two dysfunctional an abandoned prison where the slick dealer Savage has set up shop surrounded by
teenage grandkids across the American West into a comic collision with the mainstream henchmen.
world. COFFIN
BOATHOUSE DETECTIVES Thriller
Family Director: Kipp Tribble & Derik Wingo
Director: Eric Hendershot Writer: Kipp Tribble
Writer: Eric Hendershot Producer: Spencer F. Johnson, Kipp Tribble, David Lanham, George Maraville, David
Producer: Arizona Taylor Stever, Derik Wingo
Key Cast: Ella Harris, Mason Johnson, Oscar Hoggan, Cameron Phelts, McKenzie Key Cast: Kevin Sorbo (SOUL SURFER, HAWAII 5-0, HERCULES), Bruce
Richards, Stacee Riekhoff, Darren Ewing Davison, Johnny Alonso, Sunny Doench
Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2010 Year of Production: 2011
From the director of CLUBHOUSE DETECTIVES comes BOATHOUSE A masked stranger reveals to Jack that his estranged wife and her lover are buried
DETECTIVES where four unlikely heroes go on an extraordinary mission with a underground in a wooden box and their oxygen will run out in 75 minutes. He must
ticking deadline, dead ends, false leads, mistaken identities, and near misses in this high engage in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the masked stranger in order to
octane, kid driven film the entire family will enjoy. save his wife...and himself.
CHICAGO OVERCOAT 31 NORTH 62 EAST
Action/Adventure Thriller
Director: Brian Caunter Director: Tristan Loraine
Writer: John W. Bosher, Brian Caunter, Andrew Alex Dowd, Josh Staman Writer: Tristan Loraine, Leofwine Loraine
Producer: John W. Bosher Producer: Tristan Loraine
Key Cast: Frank Vincent (Goodfellas), Katherine Narducci (The Sopranos), Mike Starr Key Cast: John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings), Marina Sirtis (Star Trek:
(The Black Dahlia), Stacy Keach (American History X), Armand Assante (Hoffa) Enterprise), Heather Peace (The Devil’s Tattoo), Craig Fairbass (The Bank Job)
Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2009 Year of Production: 2009
The fates of an aging hitman and a washed up detective become entwined when one last An elite SAS unit’s position is revealed by the British Prime Minister to ensure an
job leads to one last chance to settle an old score. arms deal goes ahead and to secure his re-election. All soldiers in the SAS unit are
ALIVE OR DEAD thought to have died, until 2 months later, when one of them (a female Captain in the
Horror (90) SAS) is found by Italian special forces and returns to the UK to investigate matters
Language: English ENDURE
Director: Stephen Goetsch Thriller
Writer: Stephen Goetsch Director: Joe O’Brien
Producer: Paul Koslo, Stephen Goetsch Writer: Joe O’Brien
Key Cast: Ann Henson, Angelica Magana, L. Flint Esquerra, Gretchen Busenitz, Diego Producer: Phillip Glasser, Rob Tritton
de Vargas, Masao Kitamura, Thomas Crnkovich Key Cast: Judd Nelson (TRANSFORMERS: ANIMATED, THE BREAKFAST
Delivery Status: Completed CLUB), Joey Lauren Adams (UNITED STATES OF TARA), Tom Arnold
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: US (ROSANNE), Devon Sawa (FINAL DESTINATION)
While traveling down a desolate road, Maria comes upon an apparently abandoned Delivery Status: Completed
school bus. A girl has written “Help Me” in one of the windows, and Maria quickly Year of Production: 2010
discovers the messy secrets that lie in the back of the bus. Maria soon finds herself After a shocking photo of a young woman is found inside the twisted metal of a fatal
hidden and trapped with the girl as the killer takes them on the ride of their lives. Their car crash, veteran detective Emory Lloyd must risk everything to identify and find the
journey leads to a bizarre medieval castle nestled in the desert, a location where they’ll woman before it’s too late.
quickly learn their enemy is not who they think. The girls must figure out whom to trust FATAL SECRETS
if they hope to make it home, Alive or Dead. Thriller
CHRISTMAS ANGEL Director: Meir Sharony
Family Writer: Meir Sharony, Kathryn Cotter
Director: Brian Brough Producer: Meir Sharony
Writer: Scott Champion, Brittany Wiscombe Key Cast: Dina Meyer (Starship Troopers), Vincent Spano (Texas Rangers), Lela
Producer: Brian Brough, Brittany Wiscombe Rochon (Any Given Sunday), Lea Thompson (Caroline in the City), Ernie Hudson
Key Cast: Academy Award® Nominee Bruce Davison (X-Men, Runaway Jury), KC (Oz), Ed Begley Jr. (St. Elsewhere), Tess Harper (No Country for Old Men)
Clyde (The Wild Stallion), Kari Hawker (Bonneville) Delivery Status: Completed
Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2009
Year of Production: 2009 An attractive woman enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a charming
Ashley (KARI HAWKER) feels alone this Christmas as she searches fruitlessly for a man with a secret background who has pushed her to the breaking point. The women
job. But her neighbor Nick (BRUCE DAVISON) knows exactly what to do. He offers underestimate the consequences when they take matters into their own hands as their
her a job to be his assistant in the best work of all: helping others. There?s only one opponent forces them into a desperate situation, and everyone pays a price.
catch: Ashley cannot tell anyone her new boss is a Secret Santa! Can she keep her big FATHER VS SON
secret from nosy reporter Will (KC CLYDE)? Comedy
CLOSED FOR THE SEASON Director: Joe Ballarini
Horror Writer: Joe Ballarini, Paul Wolfe
Director: Jay Woelfel Producer: Michael Huffington
Writer: Jay Woelfel Key Cast: Eric Stonestreet (ABC’s “Modern Family”, Bad Teacher), Josh Dean
Producer: Jay Ellison, Jon D. Wagner (Young People F*ng, Bag Boy), Heather Stephens (Lost Highway, Dante’s Peak),
Key Cast: Aimee Brooks (Shark), Damian Maffei, William Waters, Joe Unger (Cold Paul Wolff, Cameron Goodman (“90210”)
Ones) Delivery Status: Completed
Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2010
Year of Production: 2011 A young man trying to live a fairly normal life finds himself having to deal with his
Trapped in a forgotten amusement park, a young girl finds herself terrorized by the newly divorced father who wants to immerse himself in the singles scene.
living memories of the park. She must break free from the park’s grasp before she GENE FUSION
becomes its next victim. Family
CODE 207 Director: Francois Brisson
Thriller, Action Writer: Gabriel Benson, Jeff Amano
Director: Tino Struckman Producer: Shaun McLaughlin
Writer: Tino Struckmann Delivery Status: Completed
Producer: Michael Costanza, David Effler, Steven Effler, Mike Kobeck, Vito Lapiccola, Year of Production: 2010
Milo Popp, Read Ridley Gene-Fusion: Gladiators 2310 A.D. is the THE sporting event of the future! Futuristic
Key Cast: Jack Dimich, Tino Struckmann, Caspar von Winterfeldt, Jill Headrick, gladiators control massive genetically designed super-creatures created to do battle in
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Pfeiffer, Ed Lauter, Sally Kellerman fatale, and a criminal mastermind with a dark secret about Ed’s past.
Delivery Status: Completed YOU’RE SO CUPID
Year of Production: 2011 Comedy, Family
Eddie and Tom (Cole and Dylan Sprouse, TV’s ‘The Suite Life of Zack and Cody’) are Director: John Lyde
two 14-year-olds with one thing in common: they both look exactly alike. So when the Writer: Sally Meyer
boys accidentally meet on the set of Eddie’s new movie, they impulsively agree to trade Producer: Cynthia Coury Sally Meyer Brian Brough John Lyde
places for the afternoon. But when the production company abruptly leaves the city, Key Cast: Brian Krause (Charmed), Jeremy Sumpter (Peter Pan), Lauren Holly
Tom and Eddie soon find themselves in deep double trouble when no one believes who (NCIS)
they both really are in this fun-filled family adventure, based on a story by Mark Twain. Delivery Status: Completed
RED ROSE OF NORMANDY Year of Production: 2009
Thriller, War, New Releases Twin sisters with an insatiable desire to play matchmaker, find out that their skills
Director: Tino Struckmann are not just a gift from heaven, but rather that their father is actually Cupid. Life
Writer: Tino Struckmann gets complicated when the sisters fall for the same guy and now spend every waking
Producer: Michael Costanza, David Effler, Steven Effler, Mike Kobeck, Vito Lapiccola, moment plotting to sabotage each other.
Milo Popp
Key Cast: Damian Chapa, Jack Dimich, Claudia Crawford, Tino Struckmann
Delivery Status: Completed ASPECT FILM
Year of Production: 2011 Aspect Film, 26 York Street, London, W1U 6PZ, UK, Tel: 44.207.993.5877. www.
Caught in the middle of the advancing Allies and the fanatical Gestapo during World aspectfilm.com, aneta@aspectfilm.com
War II, Klaus and Klaudia must fight their way out and away, only to make one last Sales Agent
stand together surrounded in the middle of the biggest invasion in world history. At Cannes: Hugh Edwards (CEO)
RIVER WHY, THE Office: 9 Square Mérimée (opposite the Palais), Tel: +33 (0) 642 713 761
Drama AMONG FRIENDS
Director: Matthew Leutwyler Horror / Comedy (1 x 90 min)
Writer: Thomas A. Cohen, John Jay Osborn Jr. Language: English
Producer: Kristi Denton Cohen Director: Danielle Harris
Key Cast: Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights), Amber Heard (Zombieland), Kathleen Writer: Alyssa Lobit
Quinlan (Apollo 13), Dallas Roberts, William Devane, William Hurt (Academy Award Executive Producer: William Allison, Jay Lobit
Nominee, Best Supporting Actor - The History of Violence) Producer: Jennifer Blanc, Athena Lobit
Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Christopher Backus, Jennifer Blanc, AJ Bowen, Dana Daurey, Brianne
Year of Production: 2010 Davis, Kane Hodder, Kamala Jones, Alyssa Lobit, Chris Meyer
In this compelling romantic drama a rebellious 20 year old leaves home to live in Delivery Status: Post Production
seclusion along banks of a beautiful but wild river and what he finds is not only himself Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
but true love. AMONG FRIENDS, the directorial debut of Scream Queen Danielle Harris
SAFEHOUSE (Halloween, Hatchet, Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet) is a horror / comedy
Thriller, Action about a dinner party gone wrong. Set against an 80s backdrop, the good time takes a
Director: John Poague dark turn when one in the group hijacks the evening in an attempt to help the others
Writer: David Stever come clean about their secret betrayals against one another–and is willing to cut
Producer: Sheila Cutchlow and Spencer Johnson through the bone in order to expose the truth.
Key Cast: Johnny Alonso (One Tree Hill), Sheila Cutchlow (Step Up), Carolina Hoyos BROKEN PROMISE
(Lethal Force), Robert Miano (Fast & Furious), Thomas Calabro (Melrose Place) AKA: NEDODRZANY SLUB
Delivery Status: Completed War / Biographical / Drama (1 x 129 min)
Year of Production: 2009 Language: Slovak
To avenge the death of his ex-partner, a former FBI agent takes on a cunning criminal Director: Jiri Chlumsky
with a diabolical motive. Writer: Martin Friedmann-Petrasek, Jan Novak
SANTORINI BLUE Co-Production Partners: Slovenska Televizia, Ceska Televize
Drama Producer: Iveta Cerna Ivanova, Vlado Cerny
Director: Matthew D. Panepinto Key Cast: Eva Kerekesova, Lubomir Bukovy, Onrej Vetchy
Writer: Matthew D. Panepinto, Deirdre Lorenz Delivery Status: Completed
Producer: Deirdre Lorenz Year of Production: 2009 Country of Origin: Slovakia
Key Cast: Deirdre Lorenz (LAW & ORDER: SVU), Matthew D. Panepinto (LAW & The true story of Martin, a Jewish boy and talented soccer player, who has to make
ORDER: SVU), Ice-T (JOHNNY MNEMONIC, LAW & ORDER: SVU), Richard a risky lifetime decisions in order to survive in WWII. When he sees his family is
Belzer (LAW & ORDER: SVU, 30 ROCK), Dann Florek (LAW & ORDER: SVU, taken to Poland, one by one, he voluntarily goes to “working camp”, where he finds
LAW & ORDER) out that he is not safe anywhere. By luck and his wits, he joins a band of partisans and
Delivery Status: Completed somehow manages to survive.
Year of Production: 2011 LOVE.NET
A married couple whose relationship begins to unravel due to a sad betrayal travels on Romance (1 x 90 min)
a rediscovery journey from New York City to Santorini, Greece while addressing the Language: Bulgarian
question: Can love really be rekindled? Director: Ilian Djevelekov
SELLING OF SCARRY MANOR, THE Writer: Nelly Dimitrova, Matey Konstantinov, Ilian Djevelekov
Horror/Comedy, New Releases Executive Producer: Stefan Goranov
Director: Emily Lou Producer: Gergi Dimitrov, Ilian Djevelekov, Matey Konstantinov
Writer: Gabriel Diani Key Cast: Hristo Shopov, Zahary Baharov, Lilia Maraviglia, Koyna Ruseva, Diana
Producer: Gabriel Diani, Emily Lou Dobreva, Diliana Popova
Key Cast: Gabriel Diani, Janet Varney, Jonathan Klein, Etta Devine, Nancy Lenehan, Delivery Status: Completed
Barry Bostwick Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Bulgaria
Delivery Status: Completed LOVE.NET follows the parallel stories of a number of characters who are trying to
Year of Production: 2011 change their lives via the Internet or are simply having fun online. This film is about
A too-honest-for-his-own-good real estate agent has to sell a haunted house before its love in all its forms � about the inevitable, mystic and inexplicable love, but also
ghostly inhabitants ruin his life. the superficial love of fast liquidity. Love at first virtual sight!
SUPER CAPERS MANIPULATION
Family, Adventure Political Thriller (1 x 90 min)
Director: Ray Griggs Language: German
Writer: Ray Griggs Director: Pascal Verdosci
Producer: Ray Griggs, Ruben Lim Writer: Alex martin (screenplay), Marion Reichert (screenplay), Walter Matthias
Key Cast: Justin Whalin (Dungeons & Dragons), Michael Rooker (Jumper), Tom Digglemann (novel)
Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan), Tiny Lister (The Wash) Producer: Philipp Rapold
Delivery Status: Key Cast: Sebastian Koch, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Helmut Fornbacher, Urs Jucker
Year of Production: 2009 Delivery Status: Completed
Would-be superhero, Ed Gruberman, who possesses no super powers must join a team Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Switzerland
of misfit heroes-in-training known as The Super Capers. Having only faith, he must Zurich, 1956: During the Cold War, a compromising photograph exposes a Swiss
travel through time to uncover an evil plot involving some gold bullion, a fiery femme star reporter as a Soviet spy. Unable to withstand the pressure, he commits suicide
in the interrogation room. Special agent Rappold (Oscar Nominated Klaus Maria
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murderous rancher who rules the town of Sweetwater. in the midst of the core social institutions.
JUMP!
Period Drama (115)
Language: English, German
Director: Joshua Sinclair
Writer: Ryan James, Joshua Sinclair
Producer: Joshua Sinclair, Lilly Berger, Richard Johnson
Key Cast: Patrick Swazye, Patrick Silverstone, Martine McCutchen, Heinz Hoenig,
Anja Kruse, Sybil Danning
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008 Country of Origin: Austria
Photographer Philippe Halsman became one of the most sought-after celebrity portrait
artists of the 20th century. Halsman shot over 100 covers for LIFE Magazine, more than
any other photographer of his time. He is best known for his “Jump” series of pictures
in which he captured celebrities like Richard Nixon or Marilyn Monroe, jumping in mid
air. Before coming to the U.S., however, Halsman suffered a terrible fate: Austria 1928.
21 year old student Philippe Halsman is arrested and charged with killing his father.
BAZELEVS
Bazelevs, 6/1 Pudovkina str., Moscow, 119285 Russia, Tel: +74952230400. www.
bazelevs.ru, d.yurinova@bazelevs.ru
Producer, Distributor
At Cannes: Ruslan Tatarintsev (Head of Distribution and Marketing), Diana Yurinova
(CSO)
Office: Year Round Exhibitor on The Platform
YOLKI 2012
AKA: Yolki 2012
Comedy - romantic (106 minutes)
Language: Russian
Director: D.Kiseliov, L.Gabriadze, A.Baranov, A.Kott
Writer: T.Bekmambetov, O.Kharina, Creative group
Co-Production Partners: VGTRK
Executive Producer: A.Remizova
Producer: Timur Bekmambetov, Iva Stromilova
Key Cast: Ivan Urgant, Sergey Svetlakov, Vera Brezhneva, Aleksey Petrenko, Vladimir
Menshov, Sergey Bezrukov, Gosha Kutsenko
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Russia
Sometimes it happens, when everything goes haywire. Worse things happen if today
is December, 31. Our heroes should fix everything overnight, on the New Year eve.
To find some money to rent an apartment, to win back 8-years-old daughter, to rally
from the amnesia, to ride a cast iron bath-tub, to ring in the New Year with a boyfriend Child’s Pose - Beta Cinema GMBH
against dad’s clampdown, to climb the city X-tree in a fancy dragon costume, to evoke
Vera Brezhneva’s heart, to save a plane from a crash and even to find its love 40 years THE FAMOUS FIVE 2
later. AKA: Fünf Freunde 2
ORPHAN Adventure/Family Entertainment (92 min)
AKA: Kamen Language: German
Thriller (90 min) Director: Mike Marzuk
Language: Russian Writer: Peer Klehmet, Sebastian Wehlings
Director: V.Kaminskiy Co-Production Partners: Constantin Film Produktion GmbH
Key Cast: Sergey Svetlakov, Executive Producer: Clifford Werber, Karen Lawler
Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Andreas Ulmke-Smeaton, Ewa Karlström
Key Cast: Valeria Eisenbart (GEORGE), Quirin Oettl (JULIAN), Justus
BETA CINEMA GMBH Schlingensiepen (DICK), Neele Marie Nickel (ANNE)
Delivery Status: Screening
Beta Cinema GmbH, Grünwalder Weg 28d, Oberhaching, 82041 Germany, Tel:
49.89.673469.828 Fax: 49.89.673469.888. Year of Production: 2012/2013 Country of Origin: Germany
www.betacinema.com, beta@betacinema.com Summer holidays are finally here! The Famous Five, George, Julian, Dick, Anne and
Sales Agent their dog Timmy set out on their first journey by bike on their own – unaccompanied
At Cannes: Dirk Schürhoff (Managing Director), Thorsten Ritter (Executive Vice by parents. On camping the kids encounter a strange boy named Hardy. They try to
President), Tassilo Hallbauer (Sales Executive), Cosima Finkbeiner (Festival get rid of this annoying kid, but then Dick is kidnapped! He is a victim of confusion,
Coordinator) as our Famous Five discover promptly. The Hijackers have it rather in for Hardy,
Office: Grand Hotel Cannes Batiment le Goeland (ground floor), right hand side to the who s the son of business tycoon Kent. Do they want ransom? With their good deal
Grand Hotel entrance, Tel: +33 (0)4 9399 5580 of detective instinct the kids are able to find the place where Dick has been abducted
CHILD’S POSE to: a medieval castle, called “Owl Nest”. George, Julian, Anne and Timmy get
AKA: Pozitia Copilului support from Hardy who is gradually proving to be a real help. At “Owl Nest” the
Drama (112 mins) kids figure out, that the dastardly thugs are hunting for legendary “Green Eye” in
Language: Romanian fact, the most valuable jewel of the world. Without even knowing it, Hardy is bearing
Director: Calin Peter Netzer secret hints about the ultimate destination of the jewel. A wild chase for the smaragd
Writer: Razvan Radulescu and Calin Peter Netzer starts, leading our Famous Five to a mysterious travelling circus and deep into the
Co-Production Partners: HAI-HUI Entertainment adventurous caves at “Graffenstein” rock…
Executive Producer: PARADA FILM THE GIRL WITH NINE WIGS
Producer: Parada Film in co-production with Hai-Hui Entertainment AKA: Heute bin ich blond
Key Cast: Luminita Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Natasa Raab, Ilinca Goia, Florin emotional comedy (117 min)
Zamfirescu, Vlad Ivanov Language: German
Delivery Status: Screening Director: Marc Rothemund
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Romania Writer: Katharina Eyssen
CHILD’S POSE presents in a thrilling, emotional, yet humorous way, the relationship Co-Production Partners: Scope Pictures, ARD Degeto, Universum Film, Odeon Film,
between a dominant mother and her grown-up son. CHILD’S POSE is a touching film Arri Film & TV Services and Lunaris Film- und Fernsehproduktion
about parenting while suffocating our children with love and about the marks that Executive Producer: Goldkind Film GmbH & Co. KG
parents leave on their children’s personalities. On a different level, it is also a portrayal Producer: Andreas Bareiss, Sven Burgemeister
of contemporary high-class Romania, the low-level corruption and trading of influence Key Cast: Lisa Tomaschewsky, Karoline Teska, David Rott, Maike Bollow, Peter
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Writer: Wendy J.N. Lee Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: United States
Executive Producer: Michelle Yeoh When an IT guy meets a beautiful girl who dreams of being an actress, he pretends to
Producer: Wendy J.N. Lee be a big shot producer to win her over. With the insistence of her suspicious friends,
Key Cast: Daryl Hannah she continually tests to see if he is the real deal. This leaves him no choice but to
Delivery Status: Completed desperately keep up the illusion, because he finds himself falling in love with her.
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: US BUSH CHRISTMAS
Despite immeasurable danger, 700 people trek across the perilous Himalayan Mountain Family (88)
Range to save the planet’s “3rd Pole” from environmental devastation before it is too Language: English
late. Director: Henri Safran
MY FAIR LIDY Writer: Ted Roberts
Comedy (90 min) Producer: Gilda Baracchi and Paul D. Barron
Language: English Key Cast: Nicole Kidman, John Ewart, John Howard, and Mark Spain
Director: Ralph R. Clemente Delivery Status: Completed
Writer: R.P. Simms Country of Origin: Australia
Producer: Sandi Bell and Ralph R. Clemente In the Australian outback a family struggles to keep its farm from foreclosure. Their
Key Cast: Christopher Backus, Leigh Shannon and Rus Blackwell only hope is that their horse, Prince, will win money in a New Year’s race. But when
Delivery Status: Completed Prince is stolen the children embark on a dangerous and exciting adventure to get him
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA back.
Lidy is a blue collar worker who has fallen on hard times. After a chance meeting with SHE WOLF
Miss Sal, a successful Drag Performer he undertakes a strange journey of becoming a Horror/Fantasy (90 min)
Marlene Dietrich Impersonator. Language: English
BURMA: A HUMAN TRAGEDY Director: TBA
Documentary (85 mins) Writer: TBA
Language: English and Burmese with subtitles Co-Production Partners: Henwards
Director: Neil Hollander Executive Producer: Sabrina Chen Louie
Key Cast: Anjelica Huston Producer: Ana Clavell
Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: TBA
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA Delivery Status: Pre-Production
In this harrowing documentary the brutal regime of the military Junta in Burma is fully Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA
exposed. Through interviews with refugees, survivors and Burma’s democratically
elected president and Peace Nobel Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the terrifying
landscape of an ongoing genocide of the ethnic minorities that flies in the face of BLUE GALAXY INTERNATIONAL, LLC
international law comes horribly alive. Filmed surreptitiously and under constant Blue Galaxy International, LLC, 13412 Ventura Blvd., Suite 250, Sherman Oaks, CA
life threatening conditions, Burma - A Human Tragedy offers a rare glimpse into the 91423 USA, Tel: 818-907-7226 Fax: 818-907-7916.
systematic human extermination that has gone pretty much ignored. www.bluegalaxyinternational.com, info@bluegalaxyinternational.com
FIX: THE EXTREME MINISTRY MOVIE Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor
Documentary (89 minutes) At Cannes: Marcy Rubin (President), Fiorenza Cella (Chief Executive Officer)
Language: English Office: Lerins R15
Director: Douglas Freel ABNER THE INVISIBLE DOG
Writer: Douglas Freel Family Comedy (89:09)
Key Cast: Al Jourgensen, Paul Barker, Trent Reznor, Lemmy Kilmister, Dave Navarro, Language: English
Maynard James Keenan, Jonathan Davis, Timothy Leery Director: Fred Olen Ray
Delivery Status: In Production Writer: Pat Moran
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA Producer: Andrew Stevens and Fred Olen Ray
FIX - THE MINISTRY MOVIE gives a raw look as these possessed artists fight - and Key Cast: David DeLuise, David Chokachi, Nancy Sullivan
create - while attempting to reach, and achieve, infamous greatness. Ministry took the Delivery Status: Completed
genre of industrial rock and made it mainstream, and along the way their music and Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA
take no prisoners lifestyle influenced the leaders of some of today’s most important Bumbling thieves steal top secret Government formulas and hide them in a toy store
rock bands, such as Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Korn, and The Dead Kennedys. With live chemistry set, which is sold and given to a 12 year old boy for his birthday. The boy
performances by Ministry, in depth interviews with the band, and appearances by Trent experiments using the vials and when the family dog licks the concoctions, one makes
Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Maynard Keenan of Tool, Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead, it TALK and the other makes it invisible! When the parents are away and the boy and
Jonathan Davis of Korn, Dave Navarro of Red Hot Chili Peppers/Jane’s Addiction, dog are home alone, the thieves break in and get more than they bargained for.
Ogre Nivek of Skinny Puppy, Jello Biafra of The Dead Kennedys, Dr. Timothy Leary AGAINST THE WILD
and William S. Burroughs - to name a few- FIX is a punch-in-the-stomach affair that Family
dares to show beyond the boundaries of good taste and common decency. Language: English
APOCALYPSE (ACCORDING TO DORIS) Director: Richard Boddington
Drama (92 minutes) Writer: Richard Boddington
Language: English Producer: Richard Boddington
Director: Victor Goss Key Cast: TBD
Writer: Victor Goss Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Key Cast: Jaime Gomez, Elise Robertson, Christian J Meoli Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Canada
Delivery Status: Completed Two adolescents and their dog journey to visit their father. When the light plane they
Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: USA are aboard crashes in the woods, they must seek help for the unconscious pilot. As
A modern day Cinderella story of a woman coming to wisdom, Apocalypse (According they encounter a bear and a pack of wolves, their dog proves to be their protector and
to Doris) is an unusual New Age drama about Doris (Elise Robertson), a desert eventually leads them to safety.
housewife cum medium/channeler who finds herself in the middle of chaos as the THE VORTEX
prophecies she’s made about the End of the World start coming true. Soon she has a Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
following of “disciples” - all searching for their own truth. An unscrupulous reporter Language: English
(Jaime Gomez) infiltrates the group in order to expose her, only to find himself drawn Director: Peter Basler
into the mystery that Doris is. Both funny and deeply emotional, this story is filled with Producer: Danny Roth
compelling questions about the meaning of our existence and the dangers of predicting Key Cast: Ted Jonas, Jack Plotnick
2012 and the end of it all. Delivery Status: Post Production
SHE’S WITH ME Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA
Urban Comedy (90 min) When a convoy of America soldiers disappears in Afghanistan, a Special OPS
Language: English team is deployed on a search and rescue mission. They encounter mega scorpions,
Director: Stephan Langford giant spiders and oversized snakes which were created when a vortex into another
Writer: Stephan Langford dimension was opened by a former government scientist. The team has to figure out a
Co-Production Partners: Dream Factory way to close the wormhole. Can they close it in time?
Executive Producer: Robert Dudelson THE DOGFATHER
Producer: Sophia Monroe and Paul Rocha Family (88 min.)
Key Cast: Monti Washington, Taisha Monique Clark and Brandon Middleton Language: English
Delivery Status: Completed Director: Richard Boddington
Writer: Russell Scalise and Michael Hamilton--Wright
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Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA Distributor
During a heist in a pharmaceutical research facility in Boston, the leader of the crew At Cannes: Pierre Richard Muller (Chairman), Chantal Lam (President)
looses his memory and turns against his team. Office: Year Round Exhibitor on The Platform, Tel: 33 1 53 92 29 26; 33 6 60 90 25
BOOSTER 41
Crime/Drama (74 minutes) THE YELLOW FOX (LE RENARD JAUNE)
Language: English Drama
Director: Matt Ruskin Language: French
Writer: Matt Ruskin Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky
Co-Production Partners: Sam Carroll, Ari Issler, Benjamin Murray, Coll Anderson Writer: Léa Hibert
Executive Producer: Troy Johanson Producer: MDP
Producer: Andrea Roa, Matt Ruskin Key Cast: Béatrice Dalle, Frédéric Diefenthal, Michael Lonsdale
Key Cast: Nico Stone, Adam DuPaul, Seymour Cassel, Kristin Dougherty Delivery Status: Completed
Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: France
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA A writer is found dead. A policeman investigates in the pub “Le Renard Jaune” linked
When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of to the writer. He discovers that almost everybody was willing his death…
similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted. Caught between loyalty to his BICYCLE BRIDE
brother and his own will, Simon is forced to examine his life. Comedy (1 x 104 min)
Language: English
Director: Hassan Zee
CELSIUS ENTERTAINMENT LTD Writer: Hassan Zee
Celsius Entertainment Ltd, 29 Brook Mews North, Hyde Park, London, W2 3BW United Producer: Hassan Zee
Kingdom, Tel: 44 20 7193 1801 Key Cast: Melanie Kannokada, Andreas Wilson, Shruti Tewari
www.celsiusentertainment.com, info@celsiusentertainment.com Delivery Status: Completed
Sales Agent Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA
At Cannes: Thierry Wase-Bailey (Managing Director/Head of Sales), Henriette Bicycle Bride is a witty film about a rebellious young woman Beena, whose family
Wollmann (Legal & Acquisitions), Christine Berger (Sales Assistant) still clings to their old school beliefs about behavior and marriage for women.
Office: Residences Gray D’Albion 20 Bis Rue des Serbes, Entrance 7E, 3rd F, Tel:
+44-7710 119 163
ANY DAY NOW CINEPHIL
Period Drama (97 min) Cinephil, 18 Levontin Street, Tel Aviv, 65112 Israel, Tel: +97235664129 Fax:
Language: English +97235601436. www.cinephil.co.il, info@cinephil.co.il
Director: Travis Fine Sales Agent
Writer: George Arthur Bloom,Travis Fine At Cannes: Philippa Kowarsky (Mangaging Director)
Producer: Travis Fine Office: PALAIS 01 DOC CORNER - 19.04 / 21.03
Key Cast: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Issac Leyva THE GATEKEEPERS
Delivery Status: Completed Documentary (95)
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA Language: Hebrew
Inspired by a true story from the late 1970s and touching on legal and social issues that Director: Dror Moreh
are as relevant today as they were 35 years ago, ANY DAY NOW is a powerful tale of Co-Production Partners: Arte France, NDR, IBA, RTBF
love, acceptance and family. When a teenager with Down syndrome is abandoned by Producer: Estelle Fialon, Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky
his mother, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the loving family he’s never had. Delivery Status: Completed
But when their unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Israel-France-Germany-Belgium
are forced to fight a biased legal system to save the life of the child they have come to For the first time ever, six former heads of the Shin Bet, Israel’s secret service agency,
love as their own. agree to share their insights and reflect publicly on their actions and decisions.
COME OUT AND PLAY Intimately interviewed, they shed light on the controversy surrounding the Occupation
AKA: JUEGO DE NIÑOS in the aftermath of the Six Day War.
horror (95 min) THE ACT OF KILLING
Language: English & Spanish (with English Subtitles) Documentary (116’ / 156’)
Director: Makinov Language: Indonesian
Writer: Makinov Director: Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Lee, Annonymous
Co-Production Partners: Canana Co-Production Partners: Final Cut for Real ApS, Piraya Film AS, Novaya Zemlya
Key Cast: Vinessa Shaw, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Daniel Giménez Cacho Ltd, Spring Films Ltd.
Delivery Status: Completed Executive Producer: Errol Morris, Werner Herzog
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Mexico Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen, Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, Joram ten
Beth and Francis vacation before the birth of their child. Francis insists on venturing to Brink, Michael Uwemedimo, Anne Köhncke, Torstein Grude
a more serene island, Beth hesitantly agrees. They set out to a beautiful island, but soon Delivery Status: Completed
discover it’s mysteriously abandoned, and the only people on the island are children. Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Denmark-Norway-UK
Beth and Francis are left to uncover the mystery of the disappearances, and a day in In this chilling and inventive documentary, the unrepentant former members of
paradise quickly turns into a struggle for survival. Indonesian death squads are challenged to re-enact some of their many murders in the
THE FIRST TIME style of the American movies they love.
Romance, Comedy, Drama STATE 194
Language: English Documentary (98)
Director: Jonathan Kasdan Language: English, Arabic
Writer: Jonathan Kasdan Director: Dan Setton
Co-Production Partners: Castle Rock Entertainment Co-Production Partners: Participant Media, Set Productions
Producer: Martin Shafer, Liz Glotzer Executive Producer: Diane Weyermann, Jeff Skoll
Key Cast: Britt Robertson, Dylan O’brien, Victoria Justice, Craig Roberts, James Producer: Dan Setton, Elise Pearlstein
Frecheville, Lamarcus Tinker, Joshua Malina, Christine Taylor, Maggie Jones, Halston Delivery Status: Completed
Sage Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA, Israel
Delivery Status: Completed Filmmaker Dan Setton gained unprecedented access to the highest circles of the
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA Palestinian leadership as he chronicles Prime Minister Salam Fayaad’s quest to have
THE FIRST TIME is a high school romance that follows two teenagers over the course Palestine recognized by the United Nations as an independent state.
of one weekend. Dave, a senior about to graduate, and Aubrey, a junior from a different SING ME THE SONGS THAT SAY I LOVE YOU
school, meet one night at a party. What begins as a casual conversation soon turns into Documentary (109’)
something more intimate, more romantic, and more complicated than either of them Language: English
are ready for. It could be the beginning of a serious relationship or the worst mistake of Director: Lian Lunson
their lives. Producer: Lian Lunson, Teddy Wainwright
Key Cast: Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Anna McGarrigle, Jane
McGarrigle, Emmylou Harris, Norah Jones
CINEMA ARTS ENTERTAINMENT (ARTEDIS) Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA-Canada
Cinema Arts Entertainment (Artedis), 12, rue Raynouard, Paris, 75016 France, Tel: This rousing tribute to Canadian singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle was recorded at
00-331-53-92-29-29 Fax: 00-339-81-38-21-79. New York City’s Town Hall in May 2011 and features her famously musical family
www.cinemaartsent.com, prmuller@aol.com - children Rufus and Martha Wainwright, older sisters Anna and Jane - and equally
CANNES 2013 T h e B u s i n e s s O f F i l m 25
From a snowy small town in Northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan and Delivery Status: Completed
back, Where Soldiers Come From follows the four-year journey of childhood friends, Year of Production: 2012
forever changed by a faraway war. Kate Mason uncovers family secrets and lies when she reluctantly returns home after
HOOD TO COAST her father’s second wife is found dead under mysterious circumstances.
Documentary (90’) 12 DISASTERS
Language: English AKA: The 12 Disasters of Christmas
Director: Christoph Baaden Action/Disaster
Producer: Christoph Baaden Director: Steven R. Monroe
Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Ed Quinn
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA Delivery Status: Completed
Heartfelt, funny and inspiring, the documentary Hood to Coast follows four very Year of Production: 2012
different teams on an epic journey to conquer the world’s largest relay race. A 67 year Strange things begin to happen on Jacey’s 18th birthday: water turns red, massive ice
old heart attach survivor returns to conquer the race that nearly killed her, a family in spears shoot out of the sky. Could it be that Jacey is the chosen one who can stop the
mourning runs to honor the memory of their beloved, a group of film animators test the impending doom?
limits of their athleticism (or lack thereof), and a group of aging jocks show they still THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT
know how to have a good time. A celebration of personal determination and the power Action/Disaster
of family and friends, Hood to Coast proves that you’re never too old or too young to Director: Paul Ziller
attempt the extraordinary. Key Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Michael Pare
LOST BOHEMIA Delivery Status: Completed
Documentary (78’) Year of Production: 2012
Language: English When an attempt to recreate a decades-old government experiment goes horribly
Director: Josef Birdman Astor wrong, it rips a hole in the fabric of space and time, causing the USS Eldridge to
Producer: Jody Shields, Jonathan Ferrantelli, Anne Carey reappear causing massive destruction.
Delivery Status: Completed END OF THE WORLD
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA Action/Disaster
For over a century New York’s Carnegie Hall rented work-live studio spaces atop the Director: Steven R. Monroe
famous music hall to artistic tenants such as Marlon Brando, Paddy Chayefsky and Key Cast: Greg Grunberg, Neil Grayston
Isadora Duncan. “As a tenant with unlimited access into this little known world, I began Delivery Status: Completed
to videotape my neighbors whose lives intersected with decades of artistic history. But Year of Production: 2013
the project took an abrupt turn when The Carnegie Hall Corporation terminated all our When massive earthquakes violently shake cities and mysterious plasma spheres
leases, and instigated a plan to eliminate the 115 year old artists colony put in place by pummel the earth’s surface, cries of ‘Armageddon’ echoes across the world...
Andrew Carnegie”. Lost Bohemia follows the protracted battle by the tenants to preserve ZODIAC: SIGN OF DESTRUCTION
their community and the rich heritage of the studios Action/Disaster
MAORI BOY GENIUS Director: TBA
Lifestyle (85mins) Key Cast: TBA
Language: English/Maori with English subtitles Delivery Status: In Development
Director: Peitra Brettkelly As curator of her university’s collection of antiquities, Elizabeth is thrilled when a new
Producer: Peitra Brettkelly artifact arrives; a 2,000-year-old ivory carved astrology board. But little does she know
Delivery Status: Completed that the fate of all humanity will soon be decided by the deadly forces this mystical
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: New Zealand ivory board is about to unleash on mankind...
At 4, Maori boy, Ngaa Rauuira, learnt English, at 12 he began his first university degree,
at 14 he googled international polities and came up with Yale University and at 16, he
went. “He’s been chosen. He’s a tohunga, a wiseman. But really he’s just a child”. COHEN MEDIA GROUP
Cohen Media Group, 8687 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, California 90069 USA,
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CineTel Films, Inc., 8255 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA, Tel: +1 Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor
323.654.4000 Fax: +1 323.650.6400. At Cannes: Gary Rubin (Executive Vice President), Liz Mackiewicz (SVP,
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Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor Office: Year Round Exhibitor on the Platform
At Cannes: Paul Hertzberg (President), Eric M. Bernstein (Sr. Vice President, THE THIEF OF BAGDAD
International Distribution) Classic B&W Thriller
Office: RIVIERA B2, Tel: +1.323.243.8207 Language: English
FIRE TWISTER Delivery Status: Completed
Delivery Status: Pre-Production Country of Origin: USA
When a mysterious orb of light strikes a deep water oil rig, the massive explosion erupts Douglas Fairbanks stars in this epic tale of bravery and adventure. Raoul Walsh’s 1924
into a ball of flames creating a swirling mass of clouds and fire. As the oil rig continues classic film has been meticulously restored by the Cohen Film Collection.
to burn, the roiling clouds spin faster and faster, pulling the flames into a fiery vortex.
As the twister begins to move towards land, its power swells in size and fury! Anything
but natural, it appears the fiery twister is being controlled and manipulated by men who CONTENT MEDIA CORPORATION
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terrifying nightmare that’s so real, even daylight brings no relief. Language: English
Director: Sean McNamara
THE MACHINE Writer: Ron Bass
Sci-Fi Action Thriller (90 mins) Co-Production Partners: tbc
Language: English Executive Producer: tbc
Director: Caradog James Producer: Jason Netter
Writer: Caradog James Key Cast: Thomas Horn, Mira Sorvino, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Lucas
Co-Production Partners: TBC Delivery Status: Screening
Executive Producer: TBC Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: U.S.A
Producer: John Giwa-Amu ‘The Goonie’s’ meets ‘Apollo 13’ in SPACE WARRIORS, a fun, thrilling, family
Key Cast: Toby Stephens, Caity Lotz, Denis Lawson adventure with an all-star cast from the director of ‘Soul Surfer’ and the producer of
Delivery Status: Screening
‘Wanted’.
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: UK NOTHING LEFT
TO FEAR
An edge of your seat thrill ride from start to finish with killer state-of-the-art effects, Classic Horror
THE MACHINE combines
the psychological intensity of ‘Alien’ with the action and Language: English
heart of’ Blade Runner’. Director: Anthony Leonardi III
THE PACT 2 Writer: Jonathan W.C. Mills
Horror (tbc) Co-Production Partners: Slasher Films
Language: English Executive Producer: TBC
Director: Dallas Hallam, Patrick Horvath Producer: Rob Eric, Michael Williams, Slash
Writer: tbc Key Cast: Clancy Brown, Anne Heche, Rebekah Brandes
Producer: Ross M. Dinnerstein Delivery Status: Screening
Key Cast: tbc Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
In the first of a slate of horror films from production company Slasher Films (founded
Country of Origin: USA by rock legend Slash), Gore Verbinski’s protégé and visionary director Anthony
THE PACT 2 is a truly terrifying new horror film from the producers of ‘The Pact’. The Leonardi, brings us NOTHING LEFT TO FEAR, a terrifying and bloodcurdling
life of a woman in Los Angeles begins to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they vintage horror film.
disturb her waking life. THE NUMBERS STATION
CONCUSSION Action/Thriller (94 mins)
Drama (96 mins) Language: English
Language: English Director: Kasper Barfoed
Director: Stacie Passon Writer: F. Scott Frazier
Writer: Stacie Passon Co-Production Partners: Furst Films, Matador Pictures
Producer: Rose Troche Producer: Sean Furst, Bryan Furst, Nigel Thomas
Key Cast: Robin Werigert, Maggie Siff, Jonathan Tchaikovsky Key Cast: John Cusack, Malin Akerman, Liam Cunningham
Delivery Status: Completed
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: UK
CONCUSSION, a modern day twist on ‘Belle de Jour’, is a sexy, provocative and For decades, secret agents have received assignments from number stations around
passionate film that explores the consequences of a weoman turning her fantasy life into the world. Denied by governments, these untraceable
broadcasts can still be heard
reality. today. The code has never been broken. Until now..
CRYSTAL FAIRY OUTPOST III: RISE OF THE SPETSNAZ
Road trip comedy Action Horror (tbc)
Language: English/ Spanish Language: English
Director: Sebastian Silva Director: Kieran Parker
Writer: Sebastian Silva Writer: tbc
Producer: Juan de Dios Larrain, Pablo Larrain Co-Production Partners: tbc
Key Cast: Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffman, Agustin Silva Executive Producer: tbc
Delivery Status: Screening
Producer: Arabella Croft, Kieran Parker
Country of Origin: Chile Key Cast: Bryan Larkin, James “the colossus” Thompson
A road trip to Mexico to experience the shamanistic halluconigen called the San Pedro Delivery Status: Screening
cactus, takes an unexpected turn as a radical spirit named Crystal Fairy joins thr group Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: UK
of twenty somethings. In the third installment of the hit Nazi Zombie action horror movie, OUTPOST III:
BOUNTY KILLER RISE OF THE SPETSNAZ, we discover the horrifying origins of these supernatural
Post-apocalyptic action thriller soldiers and see them in ferocious gladiatorial battle against the
most ruthless and
Language: English notorious of all military special forces: the Russian Spetsnaz.
Director: Henry Saine SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF
Writer: Jason Dodson, Henry Saine, Colin Ebeling Psychological Thriller (111 minutes)
Co-Production Partners: TBC Language: English
Executive Producer: TBC Director: Mike Figgis
Producer: Jason Netter, Colin Ebeling Writer: Mike Figgis
Key Cast: Matthew Marsden, Christian Pitre, Kristianna Loken, Eve, Gary Busey, Co-Production Partners: Suspension Ltd
Kevin McNally, Beverly D’Angelo, Alexa Vega Producer: Vito Di Rosa
Delivery Status: Completed
Key Cast: Sebastian Koch, Lotte Verbeek, Rebecca Night
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA Delivery Status: Completed
‘Mad Max’ meet ‘Death Proof’ in BOUNTY KILLER –a grindhouse-style, post- Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: UK
apocalyptic action thriller that chronicles the violent, sexy, and hard-core lifestyle of a Multi-award winning Writer/Director Mike Figgis brings us his mesmerizing new
new kind of hero. Film, SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF - an intoxicating psycho-sexual murder-
IRONCLAD: BATTLE FOR BLOOD mystery reminiscent of modern classics ‘Mulholland Drive’ and ‘Black Swan’.
Ultra-violent medieval action Blurring the lines between reality and fiction, we watch as a world renowned
Language: English screenwriter and literature professor becomes deeply
implicated in the murder of a
Director: Jonathan English mysterious and beautiful young French woman…
Writer: Joanthan English, Steven Mcdool RETURN TO NIM’S
ISLAND
Co-Production Partners: tbc Family Adventure
Executive Producer: tbc Language: English
Key Cast: tba Director: Brendan Maher
Delivery Status: Post Production
Writer: Cathy Randall
Year of Production: 2012-2013 Country of Origin: UK Co-Production Partners: tbc
IRONCLAD: BATTLE FOR BLOOD will take you on a hellacious ride featuring Executive Producer: tbc
crashing swords, gruesome hand to hand combat, and plenty more of the ultra-violent Producer: Paula Mazur, Chris Brown
medieval action that has distinguished this epic series. Key Cast: Bindi Irwin, Matthew Lillard
SPACE WARRIORS Delivery Status: Completed
Family Adventure Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Australia
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Executive Producer: John Schmidt, Edward R Pressman, Sofia Sondervan Language: English - Format 35mm
Producer: Milo Addica, James Wilson Director: Duncan Tucker
Key Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, William Hurt, Laura Harring, Pell James, Paul Dano Writer: Duncan Tucker
Delivery Status: Completed
Executive Producer: William H. Macy
Year of Production: 2005 Country of Origin: USA Producer: Linda Moran, Rene Bastian, Sebastian Dungan
In this powerful and dramatic thriller about betrayal and bitter revenge, a handsome Key Cast: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan, Elizabeth Peña,
young US Marine called Elvis (Gael Garcia Bernal - The Motorcycle Diaries, Y Tu Graham Greene
Mama Tambien, Amores Perros) returns to his Preacher father’s sleepy hometown Delivery Status: Completed
dreaming
for some kind of reconciliation - having been abandoned by the man as a Year of Production: 2005 Country of Origin: USA
child. Following its spectacular reception at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, this
IRONCLAD
extraordinary road-trip-comedy tells the story of Bree (Felicity Huffman), a prim,
Violent Medieval Action
Thriller prudish and persnickety male-to-female transsexual, who, after years of saving
Language: English money, is only a week away from her final Sexual -Reassignment Surgery.
Director: Jonathan English SARAH PALIN:
YOU BETCHA!
Producer: Rick Benattar, Jonathan English, Andrew Curtis Documentary
Key Cast: James Purefoy, Paul Giamatti, Kate Mara, Brian Cox, Jason Flemyng, Derek Director: Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill
Jacobi, Charles Dance, Aneurin Barnard, Rhys Parry Jones, Jamie Foreman Producer: Marc Hoeferlin
Delivery Status: Completed
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2009 Country of Origin: UK Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: UK
A Medieval ‘Magnificent Seven’, that combines the visceral, stylized action of ‘300’ Nick Broomfield’s quest for the real Sarah Palin. This involves battling the icy snows
with the impassioned heroism and romance of ‘Braveheart’, Ironclad is an ultra-violent of Alaska in mid winter, the school friends, family, and Republican colleagues that
action thriller that tells the true story of a motley crew of tough, battle hardened in previous days gave their heart, soul and belief, to the charismatic, charming,
warriors, who withstood several brutal and bloody months under siege, in a desperate intoxicating ex hockey mum.
bid to defend their country’s freedom… THE DIVIDE
KILLING ROOM,
THE Post Apocalyptic Action Thriller (106 Minutes)
Suspense Thriller Language: English
Language: English Director: Xavier Gens
Director: Jonathan Liebesman Writer: Karl Mueller, Eron Sheean
Writer: Gus Krieger; Ann Peacock Producer: Ross Dinerstein, Xavier Gens, Darryn Welch
Producer: Ross M. Dinerstein, Bobby Schwartz, Guymon Casady, Ben Forkner Key Cast: Milo Ventimiglia, Lauren German, Rosanna Arquette, Ashton Holmes
Key Cast: Chloe Sevigny, Tim Hutton, Peter Stormare, Nick Cannon, Clea Duvall, Shea Delivery Status: Completed
Whigham Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: USA
Delivery Status: Completed
An action packed psychological thriller that combines ‘Assault on Precinct 13’ with
Year of Production: 2007 Country of Origin: USA ‘Lord of the Flies’.
From the Director of the hit prequel ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning’ OUTPOST II: BLACK SUN
and the writer of ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’, The Killing Room blends the thrilling Horror (87 Mins)
mental edge of ‘Panic Room’ and ‘The Game’ with the intensity of ‘Memento’. Fast- Language: English
paced, claustrophobic and full of twists and turns, this unrelenting psychological thriller Director: Steve Barker
will keep you pinned to you seat Writer: Steve Barker, Rae Brunton
THE DAY Co-Production Partners: Black Camel Pictures
Thriller (90 minutes) Producer: Arabella Croft, Kieran Parker
Language: English Key Cast: Catherine Steadman, Richard Coyle, Julian Wadham
Director: Doug Aarniokoski Delivery Status: Completed
Writer: Luke Passmore Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: UK
Co-Production Partners: JR Television Holding Company & House in a Field LLC In the sequel to the hit Nazi Zombie action horror movie, OUTPOST, we return
Producer: Guy A. Danella to the aftermath of the reanimated mayhem. Packing an even bigger punch,
Key Cast: Shawn Ashmore, Ashley Bell, Cory Hardrict OUTPOST:BLACK SUN delivers more action and even more fights and frights, as
Delivery Status: Completed
the un-dead legion breaks out in its ruthless quest for power. ‘28 Weeks Later’ meets
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA ‘Cloverfield’ meets ‘Aliens’ in OUTPOST: BLACK SUN, an action horror movie that
Robert Rodriguez’s prodigiously talented protégé Douglas Aarniokoski directs THE brings the most evil force of the 20th century screaming back to life…again.
DAY, an edge-of-your-seat war action horror, in the vein of MAD MAX, ASSAULT MOGULS, THE
ON PRECINCT 13 and FROM DUSK TIL DAWN. Comedy Drama (96 minutes)
LOVELY MOLLY Language: English
Horror (95 minutes) Director: Michael Traeger
Language: English Writer: Michael Traeger
Director: Eduardo Sanchez Producer: Aaron Ryder
Writer: Eduardo Sanchez Key Cast: Jeff Bridges, Ted Danson, William Fichtner, Patrick Fugit, Lauren Graham,
Co-Production Partners: Possession Partners LLC Glenne Headly, Tim Blake Nelson, Joe Pantoliano, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Producer: Robin Cowie, Gregg Hale, Jane Fleming, Mark Ordesky Delivery Status: Completed
Key Cast: Gretchen Lodge, Johnny Lewis, Alexandra Holden Year of Production: 2005 Country of Origin: USA
Delivery Status: Completed
Featuring an all-star cast headed by Jeff Bridges at his ‘Big Lebowski’ best, The
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA Moguls is a both hilarious and extremely touching story about bettering yourself
The groundbreaking director of The Blair Witch Project takes us beyond the edge against all odds - in the most unconventional of ways!
once again with LOVELY MOLLY, a petrifying and deeply disturbing haunted house MAN WHO SUED GOD, THE
possession story with an astonishing debut from Gretchen Lodge, that is already being Comedy (97 minutes)
tipped as the finest film of Eduardo Sánchez’s career. Language: English
HEARTLESS Director: Mark Joffe
Horror Thriller
Key Cast: Billy Connelly, Judy Davis
Language: English Delivery Status: Completed
Director: Philip Ridley Year of Production: 2001
Writer: Philip Ridley The Man Who Sued God is a boisterous romantic comedy about a man who decides
Producer: Pippa Cross; Richard Raymond to sue God after his fishing boat is destroyed by lightning and his insurance company
Key Cast: Jim Sturgess, Timothy Spall, Clémence Poésy, Eddie Marsan, Noel Clarke refuses to pay out, declaring it an act of God.
Delivery Status: Completed
MEE-SHEE: THE
WATER GIANT
Year of Production: 2009 Country of Origin: UK Family Adventure
After a 14 year hiatus, cult writer/director Philip Ridley is back with a vengeance Language: English - Format 35mm
with the visually stunning horror/thriller Heartless- a fiercely shocking and intelligent Director: John Henderson
spine-chiller that reinvents the horror genre. Jim Sturgess delivers a career defining Producer: Rainer Mockert, Barry Authors
performance in this twisted story which is equal parts psychological thriller, desperate Key Cast: Bruce Greenwood, Daniel Magder, Rena Owen, Phyllida Law, Luanne
romance and terrifying Faustian horror Gordon, Tom Jackson, Jacinta Wawatai
TRANSAMERICA Delivery Status: Completed
Comedy/Drama (103 minutes) Year of Production: 2004 Country of Origin: UK/Germany
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starring the downright hilarious Jason Bateman, comes a comedy about sexual Executive Producer: Carlo Dusi
frustration, litigation, con-artistry and castration… Extract is a riotous story that Producer: Kees Kasander and Nick Laws
combines Judge’s unmistakable style with modern comedy classics ‘Forgetting Sarah Key Cast: Martin Freeman, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May, Emily Holmes, Nathalie
Marshall’ and ‘Knocked Up’. Press, Chris Britton, Toby Jones
BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY Delivery Status: Completed
Epic Drama (126 minutes) Year of Production:
2007 Country of Origin: Canada, United Kingdom, Poland,
Language: English - Format 35mm Netherlands
Director: Hans Petter Moland (Aberdeen) Extravagant, suspenseful and sensuously beautiful, the mystery behind
Writer: Sabina Murray, Larry Gross Rembrandt’s extraordinary infamous painting is perfectly explored by one of the
Executive Producer: Sam Nazarian most iconic Directors of our time - Peter Greenaway.
Producer: Edward R. Pressman, Terrence Malick, Tomas Backström, Petter J. Borgli FISH TANK
Key Cast: Nick Nolte, Tim Roth, Temuera Morrison, Bai Ling, Damien Nguyen Drama (124 minutes)
Delivery Status: Completed
Language: English - Format 35mm
Year of Production: 2003 Country of Origin: Norway Director: Andrea Arnold
The Beautiful Country is an epic, highly emotional and ultimately uplifting story of one Executive Producer: Paul Trijbits, Christine Langan and David M. Thompson
young man’s seemingly impossible search for his lost father. Producer: Kees Kasander and Nick Laws
LOVE OBJECT Key Cast: Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing, Rebecca Griffiths
Thriller (84 minutes) and Harry Treadaway
Language: English - Format Super 16 Delivery Status: Completed
Director: Robert Parigi Year of Production: 2009 Country of Origin: UK
Writer: Robert Parigi Fifteen year old Mia’s life is turned on its head when her Mum brings home a new
Executive Producer: Edward R. Pressman, Alessandro Camon boyfriend. Touching on the themes of her Academy Award®-winning short Wasp,
Producer: Lawrence Levy, Kathleen Haase Fish Tank is an original and unique modern tale of our times
Key Cast: Desmond Harrington, Melissa Sagemiller, Rip Torn, Udo Kier BLACK BOOK
Delivery Status: Completed
Epic WW2 Thriller (145 minutes)
Year of Production: 2003 Country of Origin: USA Language: Dutch, German, English, Hebrew
Kenneth has never been lucky with women. He is attracted to his assistant, Lisa, Director: Paul Verhoeven
but is too shy and awkward to approach her. When he comes across a company that Writer: Gerard Soeteman, Paul Verhoeven
manufactures lifelike, custom-designed sex dolls, a momentary impulse leads him to Producer: San Fu Maltha, Jos van der Linden, Jeroen Beker, Frans van Gestel
purchase one designed to look just like Lisa. He projects his feelings for Lisa onto the Key Cast: Carice van Houten, Sebastien Koch, Halina Reyn, Thorm Hoffman
doll, with whom he starts carrying on an imaginary affair, complete with dinners and Delivery Status: Completed
kinky sex Year of Production: 2005 Country of Origin: Netherlands
BALIBO Barely escaping a Nazi massacre in the fall of 1944, young and beautiful Rachel
Thriller based on a True Story (111 minutes) Steinn - Jewish, former revue star - joins the resistance. But this group is soon
Language: English - Format 35mm shattered by betrayal with Rachel falsely accused as the traitor. Once Holland is
Director: Robert Connolly liberated in May 1945, Rachel reveals the real traitor and takes her revenge. But
Writer: Robert Connolly, David Willliamson will revenge be sweet?
Executive Producer: Anthony LaPaglia BAD LIEUTENANT
Producer: John Maynard; Rebecca Williamson Crime Thriller/Action (98 mins)
Key Cast: Anthony LaPaglia, Oscar Isaac, Damon Gameau, Gyton Grantley, Nathan Language: English - Format 35mm
Phillips, Mark Winter, Thomas Wright Director: Abel Ferrara
Delivery Status: Completed
Writer: Abel Ferrara, Zoe Lund
Year of Production: 2009 Country of Origin: Australia Executive Producer: Patrick Wachsberger, Ronna B. Wallace
Based on a remarkable true story, The Balibo Conspiracy is a tense piece of bravado Producer: Patrick Wachsberger, Ronna B. Wallace
film-making, an engaging thriller in the vein of Costa Gavras’s ‘Missing’ and ‘The Key Cast: Harvey Keitel, Peggy Gormley
Constant Gardener’. Delivery Status: Completed
CLOSING THE RING Year of Production: 1992 Country of Origin: USA
Epic Romance (119 minutes) While investigating a young nun’s rape, a corrupt cop tries to change his ways and
Language: English - Format 35mm find forgiveness. He has survived on the streets for twenty years. He’s a gambler,
Director: Richard Attenborough a thief, a junkie, a killer — and a cop. Now he’s investigating the most shocking
Writer: Peter Woodward case of his life, and as he moves closer to the truth his self-destructive past is
Co-Production Partners: Martin Katz closing in.
Producer: Jo Gilbert, Richard Attenborough BOOK OF REVELATION, THE
Key Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Stephen Amell, Controversial Erotic Thriller (120 minutes)
Neve Campbell, Pete Postlethwaite, Brenda Fricker, Gregory Smith, Ian McElhinney, Language: English - Format 35mm
Martin McCann Director: Ana Kokkinos
Delivery Status: Completed
Executive Producer: Jamie Carmichael, Graham Begg
Year of Production: 2007 Country of Origin: UK & Canada Producer: Al Clark
Oscar winning Director Richard Attenborough helms a deeply moving love story, Key Cast: Tom Long, Greta Scacchi, Colin Friels
beautifully interwoven between present day and World War 2, about how an American Delivery Status: Completed
woman honored a wartime promise, with a lifetime of denial - and how the discovery of Year of Production: 2006 Country of Origin: Australia
a gold ring on a distant Irish hillside brought her back to life... The Book of Revelation is a confrontational and provocative film about love,
OPEN RANGE power and sexuality…In this erotically charged and powerfully haunting thriller,
Western/Drama (139 minutes) we follow the story of a charismatic and physically beautiful dancer, Daniel (Tom
Language: English Long - The Dish, Two Hands), at the height of his career, who’s world is turned
Director: Kevin Costner upside down when he is abducted by three hooded women - who sexually seduce,
Producer: David Valdes, Kevin Costner, Craig Storper abuse and exploit him over the course of twelve extraordinary days.
Key Cast: Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Annette Bening BLOODY SUNDAY
Delivery Status: Completed
Historical Drama (110
minutes)
Year of Production: 2003 Country of Origin: USA Language: English
Boss, Charley, Mose, and Button freegraze cattle in the Old West. It is a lonley Director: Paul Greengrass
existence, lived outside the boundaries of civilisation, their camaraderie is it’s one Executive Producer: Pippa Cross; Arthur Lappin; Jim Sheridan; Rod Stoneman;
consolation. Each of these men has an unspoken reason for choosing such a life. The Paul Trijbits; Tristan Whalley
crew runs into trouble in Harmonville, a nowhere town run by a big rancher, Baxter, Producer: Mark Redhead
and his henchmen, one of whom is the sheriff. When Mose is brutally murdered and Key Cast: James Nesbitt; Tim Pigott-Smith; Nicholas Farrell; Gerard McSorley;
Button is left for dead, Boss and Charley know it’s time to take a stand, aware that their Kathy Kiera Clarke
principles are likely to cost them their lives. Delivery Status: Completed
NIGHTWATCHING Year of Production: 2002 Country of Origin: UK
Mystery/Drama (134 minutes) On 30th January 1972, British soldiers shot dead 13 unarmed civilians taking part
Language: English - Format 35mm in an anti-internment civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland. This event,
Director: Peter Greenaway Bloody Sunday, was a major turning point in the history of the modern Irish
Writer: Peter Greenaway troubles, catapulting the conflict into a civil war, driving many young men into the
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Dylan and Jez are two orphans who are over qualified and under employed. Tired of the At Cannes: Pascal Borno (President of Sales), Gillissen Alain (Head of Sales &
“rich get richer” syndrome, they decide to make a million pounds each in London. They Marketing)
use every scam possible to achieve this, until Georgie comes into their lives. She needs Office: Azure Rhapsody’ yacht ( Jetée Edouard Albert at Vieux Port), Tel: +32 473 89
lots of money and Dylan and Jez are the ones to get it for her. 55 91
WHEN YOU’RE STRANGE
- A FILM ABOUT THE DOORS KILLING SEASON
Rock n’ Roll Documentary
action/adventure
Language: English Language: English
Director: Tom DiCillo Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Writer: Tom DiCillo Writer: Evan Daugherty
Producer: Peter Jankowski, John Beug, Dick Wolf, Jeff Jampol Co-Production Partners: Corsan/ Millenium
Key Cast: Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger Executive Producer: Paul Breuls
Delivery Status: Completed
Key Cast: Robert De Niro, John Travolta
Year of Production: 2008 Country of Origin: USA Delivery Status: Post Production
Synopsis by Geoffrey Gilmore - Director, Sundance Film Festival: “The Doors are Country of Origin: Belgium/US
probably my favorite band. Maybe that’s because they emerged at such a troubled point THIRD PERSON
in American history and so captured the zeitgeist of that era, the late 1960s and early drama
‘70s. And yet I don’t mythologize them. But Tom DiCillo’s feature documentary is Language: English
such an inspired portrait of not only the band and its iconic singer, Jim Morrison, and Director: Paul Haggis
also that time period and its contradictions, its optimism and fury, its co-optation and Writer: Paul Haggis
transformation, that it instantly carried me back to those days. Co-Production Partners: Corsan
SPLINTER Producer: Paul Breuls
Horror/Thriller Key Cast: Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, Adrien Brody, Olivia Wilde, Kim Basinger,
Language: English - Format 35mm James Franco
Director: Toby Wilkins Delivery Status: Post Production
Writer: Ian Shorr, Kai Barry Country of Origin: Belgium
Producer: Ted Kroeber, Kai Barry SINGULARITY
Key Cast: Paulo Costanzo, Jill Wagner, Shea Whigham action/adventure
Delivery Status: Completed
Language: English
Year of Production: 2008 Country of Origin: USA Director: Roland Joffe
From director Toby Wilkins, hand-picked by ‘Evil Dead’ director Sam Raimi to helm Writer: Roland Joffe
Horror shorts to promote The Grudge 2 (‘Tales From the Grudge’, his directing talent Co-Production Partners: Corsan
speaks for itself. With Wilkins’ design and effects credits including Spiderman 3, The Producer: Paul Breuls
Lord of the Rings and Grindhouse, Splinter is about to bring to life one of cinema’s Key Cast: Josh Hartnett, Bipasha Basu, Tamsin Eggerton
most gruesome creations… Delivery Status: Post Production
MESSENGER, THE Country of Origin: Belgium
Road-Trip Drama (113
minutes) EMPEROR
Language: English AKA: Charles V
Director: Oren Moverman action/adventure
Writer: Alessandro Camon; Oren Moverman Language: English
Executive Producer: The Collective Director: Lee Tamahori
Producer: Mark Gordon, Lawrence Inglee, Zach Miller Writer: Michael Thomas
Key Cast: Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton Jena Malone, Eamonn Co-Production Partners: Corsan
Walker Producer: Paul Breuls
Delivery Status: Completed
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2008 Country of Origin: USA
From the producer of “Saving Private Ryan” and “The Day After Tomorrow” comes
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Language: English - Format 35mmn Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor, Financier
Director: Jake West At Cannes: Steven Paul (Chairman & CEO), Monica Mal (Director, Development &
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Delivery Status: Completed Action/Adventure
Year of Production: 2005 Country of Origin: UK & Ireland
Language: English
Scalleum is a remote farming island off the north coast of Wales, only accessible at low Director: Vic Armstrong
tide via a causeway known as the “Devils Spine”. The island is also home to an ancient Producer: Steven Paul
stone circle known as the “Devils Teeth”. This provides the sinister setting for the Delivery Status: Pre-Production
terrifying Alien abduction of local farm girl Cat Williams and her Hitchhiker boyfriend A wild, illegal and popular cross-worldwide car, plane & motorcycle race is organized
Angelo Jones. with beautiful women, good guys, bad guys, jetsetters, fast and eccentric drivers who
DAISY CHAIN, THE will do anything to win!
Supernatural Thriller (90 minutes) THE DARK PRINCE
Language: English - Format 35mm Action/Adventure
Director: Aisling Walsh Language: English
Writer: Lauren MacKenzie Director: Pearry Teo
Producer: Tristan Orpen Lynch, Dominic Wright Writer: Pearry Teo & Nicole Jones
Key Cast: Samantha Morton, Steven Mackintosh Executive Producer: Scott Karol
Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Steven Paul
Year of Production: 2007 Country of Origin: UK & Ireland
Key Cast: Luke Roberts, Richard Ashton, Jon Voight, Kelly Wenham, Stephan Hogan,
From the critically acclaimed director of ‘Song For A Raggy Boy’, and starring double Holly Earl, Ben Robson
Oscar-nominee Samantha Morton, THE DAISY CHAIN is a chilling supernatural Delivery Status: Screening
thriller of obsession, superstition and fear. Blending the unsettling atmosphere of ‘The Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: UK
Wicker Man’ with the terrifying scenario of ‘Rosemary’s Baby’, The Daisy Chain Young Prince Dracula falls for a beautiful crusader out to destroy him, who also bears
explores the dark side of the heart in a way that will devastate audiences everywhere… a striking resemblance to his beloved, murdered wife.
RISE OF THE TOURNAMENT
Action
CORSAN Language: English
Corsan, Brouwersvliet 21, Antwerp, Antwerp 2000 Belgium, Tel: +3232342518 Fax: Director: Pearry Teo
+3232262158. www.corsanworldsales.com, info@corsanworldsales.com Writer: Pearry Teo & Nicole Jones
Sales Agent, Producer, Financier Executive Producer: Scott Karol
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Writer: Bernard Koppleman members and some elements of his community.
Producer: Daniel Cleaver, John Madara
Key Cast: Jacqueline Biels, Burt Klein, Barry Corbin
Delivery Status: Completed DISTRIBUTION WORKSHOP (HK) LIMITED
Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: United States Distribution Workshop (HK) Limited, Unit 215, 2/F, Innocentre, 72 Tat Chee Ave,
Three musical acts and three filmmakers are paired up in a battle to see who can create Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Tel: 852-27688678
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At Cannes: Nansun SHI (Chairman), Jeffrey CHAN (CEO), Virginia LEUNG (Head
DISTANT HORIZON of Sales), Christy CHOI (Senior Distribution Manager)
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Producer, Distributor, Agent, Financier BENDS
At Cannes: Anant Singh (CEO / Producer), Sanjeev Singh (Director of Acquisitions), Drama
Brian Cox (Producer) Language: Cantonese
Office:, Tel: 04 97 06 99 00 Director: Flora LAU
MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM Writer: Flora LAU
Biopic Executive Producer: Nansun SHI
Language: English Key Cast: Carina LAU, CHEN Kun
Director: Justin Chadwick Delivery Status: Post Production
Writer: William Nicholson Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Co-Production Partners: Videovision Entertainment, Distant Horizon, Pathe Films, BENDS tells the story of Anna (CArina LAU), an affluent housewife and FAI
Origin Pictures, Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Limited, National (CHEN Kun), her chauffeur, and their unexpected friendship as they each negotiate
Empowerment Fund the pressure of Hong Kong life and the city’s increasingly complex relationship to
Executive Producer: Francois Ivernel, Cameron McCracken, Sudhir Pragjee, Sanjeev mainland China.
Singh, Geoffrey Qhena, Basil Ford, Philisiwe Buthelezi, Hlengiwe Makhathini OVERHEARD 3
Producer: Anant Singh; David Thompson (for Origin Pictures) Crime Thriller
Key Cast: Idris Elba, Naomie Harris,Terry Pheto, Tony Kgoroge, Riaad Moosa, Zolani Language: Cantonese
Mkiva, Simo Magwaza, Fana Mokoena and Thapelo Mokoena, Lindiwe Matshikiza, Director: Alan MAK, Felix CHONG
Deon Lotz, Jamie Bartlett, Atandwe Kani Key Cast: LAU Ching Wan, Louis KOO, Daniel WU
Delivery Status: Post Production Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: South Africa Country of Origin: Hong Kong
The epic motion picture spans Nelson Mandela’s extraordinary life journey from his UNBEATABLE
childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically Action Drama
elected President of South Africa. Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom is the thrilling Director: Dante LAM
story of an ordinary man who rose to the challenge of his times and triumphed - an Key Cast: Nick CHEUNG, Eddie PENG, Andy ON
intimate portrait of the making of a modern icon. Delivery Status: Post Production
KITE Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Action FAI (Nick CHEUNG), once a world champion in boxing, escapes to Macau from
Language: English the loan sharks and unexpectedly encounters QI (Eddie PENG), a young chap who
Director: Ralph Ziman is determined to win a boxing match. FAI becomes QI’s mentor and rediscovers his
Writer: Sibongile Shiwola passion to fight not only in the ring but for his life and the ones he cares.
Co-Production Partners: Videovision Entertainment, Distant Horizon, Detalle Films, WHITE HAIRED WITCH
Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Limited Period Action
Producer: Anant Singh, Brian Cox, Moises Cosio, Alberto Muffelmann Director: Jacob CHEUNG Chi-Leung
Key Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, India Eisley, Callan McAuliffe, Deon Lotz, Carl Beukes Key Cast: FAN Bing Bing, HUANG Xiaoming, Vincent ZHAO
Delivery Status: Post Production Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: South Africa CHRISTMAS ROSE
Kite, the live action remake of Yasuomi Umetsu’s hit Japanese anime movie, is a Suspense/Drama
character-driven action film that charts the story of Sawa, a young woman living in Language: Cantonese / Mandarin
a failed state, post-financial collapse, where the corrupt security force profits on the Director: Charlie YOUNG
trafficking of young women. When her father, a cop, is killed, Sawa vows to track the Writer: Charlie YOUNG
murderer down with the help of her father’s ex-partner, Karl Aker. Executive Producer: TSUI Hark, Jacob CHEUNG
SLEEPER’S WAKE Key Cast: Aaron KWOK, GWEI Lun-mei, CHANG Chen
Suspense Thriller (94 minutes) Delivery Status: Post Production
Language: English Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Director: Barry Berk Tim (Aaron KWOK), a prosecutor with a heart of gold, takes on a sexual harassment
Writer: Barry Berk case between a renowned doctor and his patient. With the media frenzy surrounding
Co-Production Partners: Bioskope Pictures, Liquid Crayon, Videovision Entertainment this case, he realizes this turns out to be the toughest case in his career.
Executive Producer: Ronnie Apteker, Barry Berk, Richard Cohen, Robert Naidoo, MY LUCKY STAR
Sudhir Pragjee, Anant Singh, Sanjeev Singh Romantic Comedy
Producer: Ken Kaplan Director: Dennie GORDON
Key Cast: Lionel Newton, Jay Anstey, Deon Lotz Key Cast: ZHANG ZiYi, Leehom WANG
Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: South Africa Sophie is back and going nowhere in love and stuck in life as a lowly travel agent, she
SLEEPER’S WAKE is a suspenseful drama which follows a recently widowed man finds escape in her own comic book creations. Winning the office contest for a prize
who takes refuge in a small coastal town to heal his grief only to get caught up in a trip to Singapore suddenly turns her life upside in the best way possible...
dangerous relationship with a beautiful young woman. THE LAST TYCOON
MATERIAL Gangster Thriller (118 mins)
Comedy (94 minutes) Language: Cantonese, Mandarin
Language: English Director: WONG Jing
Director: Craig Freimond Executive Producer: Andrew LAU
Writer: www.materialmovie.com Key Cast: CHOW Yun Fat, HUANG Xiaoming, Sammo HUNG
Executive Producer: Tendeka Matatu, Ivan Epstein, Stephen Cohen, Anant Singh Delivery Status: Completed
Producer: Robbie Thorpe, Ronnie Apteker Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Hong Kong, PRC
Key Cast: Riaad Moosa, Vincent Ebrahim, Joey Rasdien Inspired by a real-life story, a legendary crime boss who built his empire in pre-war
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: South Africa Shanghai before the World War II made a mess out of everything.
A young man who works in his father’s fabric shop in Johannesburg is expected, in PAPER MOON
the family tradition, to take over the business from his father as he is the only son. Intrigue Romance
One night, through a series of coincidences, he discovers a hidden talent for stand Language: Mandarin
up comedy. A passion is sparked within him like nothing previously in his life, but Director: Stanley LAW
following this path brings him into conflict, with not only his father but other family Key Cast: Gordon LAM, Chrissie CHAU, Tedd CHAN
Delivery Status: Completed
his partner found dead beside him. Now the criminal is not only facing charges Warhouse is a gripping, brutal, psychological drama with a supernatural edge that
related to theft, but murder as well. Unfortunately for the two, Cordero’s boss has charts one man’s fight to preserve his humanity and sanity over years of terrible
arrived at the hospital with some cohorts and plans to retrieve the diamonds and imprisonment. Royal Marine A.J Budd (Joseph Morgan) awakens in a mysterious
liquidate Cordero if need be to prevent him from testifying against the gang. Frances house and is forced to fight for his life every day against grotesque, inhuman
and Cordero have to form an uneasy alliance if they are to make it out of alive. opponents. Trapped alone in an unchanging prison of unbreakable routines, he must
LOCKED IN A GARAGE BAND kill every day, or die himself. As days stretch into years, the isolation and unceasing
Comedy (86) violence threaten his very soul. The only note of hope lies in the journals of a former
Language: English prisoner of the Warhouse, WWI officer Lieutenant Edward Sterling (Matt Ryan).
Director: Jennifer Westcott Discovered behind a secret wall, Sterling’s journals serve as a mentor to the young
Writer: Jennifer Westcott marine and help to keep him alive, but what dark fate befell their author? The stories
Executive Producer: Victoria Westcott of these two men from different times interweave as their desperation to escape the
Key Cast: Scott Lyster Brittney Wilson Ellie Harvie Andrew Jenkins house and the endless killing leads them both into taking terrible measures.
Producer: Stephanie Sherring In the vein of movies such as BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY, MY BIG FAT GREEK
Key Cast: Julie Bowen Connie Britton Sarah Hyland Alan Tudyk Jonathan WEDDING, MURIEL’S WEDDING and MOONSTRUCK, DORFMAN is an antic,
Silverman Moon Bloodgood Greg Smith romantic comedy about twenty-seven year old Deb Dorfman, a lovable doormat,
Delivery Status: Completed who is uprooted from the beige comfort of the suburban San Fernando Valley and
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA caught up in the kaleidoscopic whirlwind of a newly revitalized downtown L.A. In
Conception is a clever, romantic comedy that proves it takes more than sex to make the course of one week, while hoping to win the heart of her unrequited love interest,
a baby.From a couple fighting the odds of fertility to young teenagers losing their Deb changes in ways she never thought possible. In discovering the renaissance
virginity, the film follows nine very different couples on the night they conceive,
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downtown, Deb ignites a renaissance of her own and profoundly transforms both A Tale of Souls, beyond good and evil.
herself and those around her. BANG BANG
GENERAL EDUCATION Crime (101)
Comedy (85) Language: English, Vietnamese
Language: English Director: Byron Q
Director: Tom Morris Key Cast: Thai Ngo, David Huynh, Jessika Van, Walter Wong
Writer: Elliot Feld, Jaz Kalkat, Tom Morris Delivery Status: Completed
Executive Producer: Elliot Feld, Jaz Kalkat, Tom Morris Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA
Key Cast: Chris Sheffield, Maiara Walsh, Elaine Hendrix, Bobby Campo, Mercedes Justin (Thai Ngo) is a troubled teenage gang member who runs away from home after
Masohn, Janeane Garofalo, Larry Miller a fight with his mother. Despite a real desire to pursue a career in music, gang life has
Delivery Status: Completed
trapped Justin in a world he cannot escape. Conversely, his best friend Charlie (David
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA Huynh), despite his wealthy upbringing, has become completely infatuated with the
Levi Collins is set to go to the local University on a tennis scholarship, but he forgot to gangster lifestyle and seeks a way in. When the murder of a fellow gang member
tell his parents one thing - he didn’t graduate. As a result, he must take summer school ignites a violent street war, both Justin and Charlie become embroiled in a conflict
before his mom and dad discover he’s failed senior science. At school, Levi falls in love that will change both of their lives forever. In this astonishing feature film debut,
with his classmate, Katie, and learns that he has to make the choice between playing director Byron Q has crafted a tale that deftly balances gritty realism with stylized
tennis and receiving a proper education. GENERAL EDUCATION is a quirky comedy visuals in a manner that transcends the “gangsta movie” genre. Featuring outstanding
about a family learning to grow together. performances from hip hop artist Thai Ngo in the lead role, David Huynh (Baby),
UNION SQUARE Jessika Van (Foreign Exchange)
as Justin’s love interest and Walter Wong (Street
Drama (81 mins) Kings, TV’s Sons of Anarchy)
Language: English
Director: Nancy Savoca
Executive Producer: Rich Guay EALING METRO INTERNATIONAL
Key Cast: Mira Sorvino, Tammy Blanchard, Mike Doyle, Michael Rispoli Ealing Metro International, Ealing Studios, Ealing Green, London, W5 5EP UK, Tel:
Delivery Status: Completed +44 208 584 6708 Fax: +44 208 758 8658.
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA www.ealingmetro.com, sales@ealingmetro.com
A reluctant reunion of two estranged sisters. One is on the verge of marriage; the other Sales Agent
is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Both struggle with truths they’re hiding from At Cannes: Will Machin (Head of International Sales and Distribution), Natalie
each other - and from themselves. Lucy and Jenny’s combustible reunion brings both Brenner (EVP, International Sales), Sam Parker (Sales and Acquisitions Manager),
of them to unforeseen places, shattering and reconstructing the worlds they have both Asif Ali (Sales and Marketing Co-ordinator), Jemma Sands (Festival and Marketing
carefully constructed. Director), Linda Deacy (Head of International Servicing)
LUCKY Office: Apt. C21 Relais de la Reine 42/43 la Croisette
Drama (100) LAST MAN OUT
Language: Zulu, Hindi, English Revenge Thriller
Director: Avie Luthra Language: English
Writer: Avie Luthre Director: Terry Loane
Co-Production Partners: How Town Films - Out of Africa Writer: Craig Ferguson
Executive Producer: Christopher Wilmot Producer: Steve Clark-Hall, Beau St. Clair
Producer: Lance Samuels Key Cast: Pierce Brosnan
Key Cast: Jayashree Basavaraj, Shile Dlamini Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: South Africa A former IRA hit-man is released from Prison after serving 20 years for murder. Once
LUCKY is a South African feature length film about a ten-year-old orphan who leaves out, he is haunted by the ghosts of his past victims who won’t leave him in peace until
his Zulu village, following the death of his mother, to make his own life in the city... he takes revenge on their behalf.
only to find no one will help him, except a formidable Indian woman with a inherent BAILOUT
fear of Africans. Together, unable to speak each other’s language, they develop Comedy
an unlikely bond. Through an odyssey marked by greed, violence, and ultimately, Language: English
belonging, LUCKY shows how a child’s spirit can bring out decency, humility and even Writer: Jess Walter
love in adults struggling to survive in the new South Africa. Producer: Michael Besman, Melissa Parmenter, Jack Black
NOTORIOUS GUYS Key Cast: Jack Black
AKA: Les Fameux Gars Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Comedy (85) Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA
Language: French One morning Matt Prior wakes up to find himself jobless, crippled with debt,
Director: Ady El Assal convinced his wife is having an affair and six day away from losing his home. Bailout
Key Cast: Godié, Nytt, Last ‘Ar, Taipan, Caty Baccega is a hysterical, heartfelt tale of how we can reach the edge of ruin and begin to make
Delivery Status: Post Production our way back.
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Luxembourg DESTROYER
The Notorious Guys follows Steven, a slow minded daydreamer and his band of Action drama
misfit friends, Guy, Armand and Henri. While attending a special education school Language: English
in Luxembourg, Steven and his friends are surprised to find out that they have been Director: Tom Shankland
selected to go to Portugal on a student exchange program. Being half-Portuguese, Writer: Tom Shankland
Steven is elated at the chance to see his homeland and he constructs a plan for him Producer: Robin Gutch (Warp Film) Angus Lamont (Crab Apple Films)
and his friends to enjoy Portugal their own way, with a suitcase full of counterfeit Key Cast: Paul Bettany Matthew Goode Luke Evans
money. When a spy passes himself off as a tour guide to convince Steven to give him Delivery Status: Pre-Production
the suitcase and is arrested by Police for illegal counterfeiting, Steven and his friends Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: UK
become Police enemy number one. With their faces all over local news, they must Set on a Battleship, this is the riveting, action packed and inspirational true story of a
figure a way home and avoid being arrested by Police. Notorious Guys is a comedic trip Naval Captain and the extraordinary courage of his crew.
filled with sex, money and....uh... air balloons! NINA
VIERNES DE ANIMAS Biopic
Thriller (90 mins) Language: English
Language: Spanish
Director: Cynthia Mort
Director: Perez Gamez Raul Writer: Cynthia Mort
Producer: Isi Sarfati Producer: JIMMY IOVINE, PAUL ROSENBERG, STUART PARR, BARNABY
Key Cast: Iran Castillo, Magda Guzman THOMPSON
Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Zoe Saldana David Oyelowo
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Mexico Delivery Status: Post Production
Andy and Hugo are childhood friends, however, Ande has a secret that is manifested by Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: UK
an incident at a bar an unprecedented event. Hugo realizes what happened and asks his A rare and poignant love story about tormented genius Nina Simone who eventually
friend. Andy hides a gift, which lets you see the other side of life to which embodied finds love and peace
souls, your gift or curse (as he calls it) gives the story the nuance necessary to trigger BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY
a series of events that shake our character. At each corner, at every moment the plot of Comedy
this film, we descend into the depths of darkness and we also rise to the top of the sky. Language: English
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Writer: Chris James Thompson, Andrew Swant, Joe Riepenhoff Co-Production Partners: Buck Productions
Producer: Chris James Thompson, Chris Smith, Barry Poltermann, Jack Turner Producer: Sean Buckley, Jim Kiriakakas
Key Cast: Andrew Swant Delivery Status: Completed
Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2006-2011 Country of Origin: Canada
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA In season 6, Rich Bride Poor Bride explores the human drama of what it takes to pull
The documentary explores the impact Jeffrey Dahmer had on his community by off the “perfect” wedding.
meeting those closest to him during and after his hidden spree.
BRUTAL BEAUTY: TALES OF THE ROSE CITY ROLLERS
Documentary (60 min. and 80 min. versions available) EDKO FILMS LTD.
Language: English EDKO Films Ltd., 1212, Tower II, Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road,, Hong Kong,
Director: Chip Mabry Tel: +852 2529 3898 Fax: +852 2529 5339.
Producer: Chip Mabry, Brett Johnson, Kim Stegeman info@edkofilm.com.hk
Delivery Status: Completed Sales Agent
Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: USA At Cannes: Julian Chiu (Senior Manager, International Sales & Distribution), Bella
Brutal Beauty tells the story of the Rose City Rollers and their high-contact, and Liu (Assistant Manager, International Sales & Distribution)
sometimes dangerous, sport. Office: RIVIERA C14-03, Tel: +852 97398628
I’M CAROLYN PARKER: THE GOOD, THE MAD, AND THE BEAUTIFUL WOLF TOTEM
Documentary (90 min.) Adventure
Language: English Director: Jean-Jacques ANNAUD (Seven Years in Tibet, Enemy at the Gates, The
Director: Jonathan Demme Lover)
Producer: Jonathan Demme, Stephen Apkon, Lindsay Jaeger, Daniel Wolff Key Cast: FENG Shaofeng (Painted Skin: The Resurrection, White Vengeance); DOU
Delivery Status: Completed Xiao (Dangerous Liaisons, Under the Hawthorn Tree)
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA MARKET DEBUT: During Cultural Revolution, a student is sent to Inner Mongolia
The portrait of an extraordinary woman as she returns home to New Orleans after the for re-education, where he develops a deep respect for nature and is obsessed with the
devastation of Hurricane Katrina. most feared creature of the steppes – the wolf. But the growing relationship between
PARANORMAL INITIATION man and animal – as well as the tribe’s ancient way of life – is threatened when a
Sci-Fi (87 min.) ruthless government officer decides to eliminate all wolves from the region at all cost.
Language: English FINDING MR. RIGHT
Director: Darin Scott AKA: Bei Jing Yu Shang Xi Ya Tu
Writer: Anthony C. Ferrante Romantic Comedy
Producer: Kenneth Badish, Griff Furst Language: Mandarin
Key Cast: Alessandra Torresani, Morgan Fairchild Director: XUE Xiaolu (Ocean Heaven)
Delivery Status: Completed Writer: XUE Xiaolu
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA Producer: Bill KONG, Mathew TANG
Three sorority sisters uncover the paranormal past of their house and must find a way to Key Cast: TANG Wei (Lust Caution, Wu Xia, Late Autumn)
escape before it’s too late. Delivery Status: Completed
GHOSTQUAKE Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: China
Sci-Fi (87 min.) A spoiled city girl travels from Beijing to Seattle to give birth to her rich, married
Language: English boyfriend’s son, only happens to fall for her driver, who’s the opposite of everything
Director: Jeffery Scott Lando she wanted in a man.
Writer: Anthony C. Ferrante, Paul A. Birkett A COMPLICATED STORY
Producer: Kenneth Badish, Griff Furst Drama (108 minutes)
Key Cast: Danny Trejo, M.C. Gainey, Charisma Carpenter, Jonathan Baron Language: Cantonese
Delivery Status: Completed Director: Kiwi CHOW
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA Writer: SHU Kei, Kiwi CHOW
When an earthquake opens a time capsule, the spirits of five vengeful ghosts are Executive Producer: Johnnie TO, Bill KONG
unleashed upon a school and the students trapped inside. Producer: SHU Kei, DING Yuin-shan
L.A. COMPLEX, THE Key Cast: Jacky CHEUNG (Bullet in the Head, Perhaps Love); ZHU Zhiying (Lust,
Drama Series (19 x 60) Caution)
Language: English Delivery Status: Completed
Key Cast: Jewel Staite, Cassie Steele, Jonathan Patrick Moore, Joe Dinicol Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Delivery Status: Completed College student Liu receives a sizable sum to become a surrogate mother of a rich
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Canada couple, but when the wife cancels the deal 2 months into pregnancy, Liu wants to
The L.A. Complex is a sexy new drama that follows a group of aspiring performers keep the baby and goes into hiding. To complicate things, she is pursued by the
newly arrived in Los Angeles to pursue their dreams of stardom. husband, her ex-boyfriend and the lawyer who arranged the deal.
DEGRASSI: SEASON 13 FIRESTORM
Drama Series (40 x 30 new, 358 x 30 total) Action
Language: English Language: Cantonese
Director: Chris Deacon, Graeme Campbell, Paul Fox Director: Director Alan YUEN (scriptwriter of Shaolin, Connected, Rob-B-Hood)
Writer: Yan Moore, Linda Schuyler Writer: Alan YUEN
Co-Production Partners: Epitome Pictures Producer: Bill KONG, Andy LAU
Executive Producer: Linda Schuyler, Stephen Stohn Key Cast: Andy LAU (Infernal Affairs, Detective Dee); LAM Ka Tung (Election, Ip
Key Cast: Annie Clark, Alicia Josipovic, Munro Chambers, Aislinn Paul, Jordan Man); HU Jun (Red Cliff, Bodyguards & Assassins)
Todosey Delivery Status: Post Production
Delivery Status: In Production Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Year of Production: 2001-2013 Country of Origin: Canada A hardboiled police inspector, hot on the trails of a notorious criminal crew,
In season 13 of the Emmy nominated teen series new friendships are formed, old determines to put an end to this madness, even if it means crossing his moral line.
relationships are tested and rivalries among students reaches new levels. Promo reel available.
AT THE END OF MY LEASH: SEASON 6 TALES FROM THE DARK
AKA: In the Dog House Horror
Lifestyle (13 x 60 new, 78 x 60 total) Language: Cantonese
Language: English Director: Gordon CHAN (Painted Skin, Beast Cops), Fruit CHAN (Made in HK,
Key Cast: Brad Pattison (Host) Dumplings), Simon YAM (in his Directorial debut), LEE Chi Ngai (Dance Subaru),
Delivery Status: Completed Teddy ROBIN (All the Wrong Spies), Lawrence LAU (Besieged City)
Year of Production: 2005-2010 Country of Origin: Canada Producer: Bill KONG, Mathew TANG
In season 6, dog advocate Brad Pattison uses his unique tough-love training skills to fix Key Cast: Kelly CHEN (Infernal Affairs, Breaking News), Tony LEUNG Ka Fai
both bad pet behavior and bad owner behavior. (Cold War, Bodyguards & Assassins), Simon YAM (The Thieves, Nightfall, Ip Man
RICH BRIDE, POOR BRIDE: SEASON 6 I & II)
Reality TV (26 x 60 plus 65 x 60) Delivery Status: Post Production
Language: English Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Director: Sean Buckley 6 remarkable filmmakers, each with different craftsmanship and style, deliver 6 horror
Writer: Mark Peacock stories that will crush your sanity.
COLD WAR
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‘To die for’ production values cannot distract from the sheer breathless gore of Delivery Status: Post Production
this slash fest extravaganza! The matriarch of a back-woods residence, to which Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Hong Kong, China
unsuspecting ‘do-gooders’ have wandered, offers them a perverse welcome as she The bond of brotherhood is always stronger when you can be pitched into a life and
proceeds to rule with an iron rod of a (meat) cleaver! Her wrath can only be overcome death situation at any time and the only thing that gets you through the inferno is the
- ‘Alien’ style - by a canny female rival. The outcome is an unusual one and a half trust that your brother will have your back. The firefighters of Hong Kong¡¦s Pillar
survivors! Point division who are expecting a quiet night to see off their retiring chief find their
VAMPIRE WARRIORS faith in each other stretched to the limits when a small fire at a liquor warehouse
Action threatens to plunge the whole of Hong Kong into darkness if it spreads to a nearby
Language: Cantonese power plant supplying natural gas. Politics, rivalry, and suspicion all come into play
Director: Dennis SY Law when dubious decisions are made, warnings are ignored and colleagues start to fall.
Key Cast: Pinky Cheung, Luxia Jiang Can the Pillar Point brotherhood survive the night, if not the fire, with their trust in
Delivery Status: Screening each other intact?
Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: Hong Kong THAT DEMON WITHIN
‘Vampire Warriors’ creates an all new vampire world; a romantic love story of young Thriller
vampires with the all-time-favorite Chinese vampire martial-art action sequences. With Language: Cantonese
young Chinese Martial Arts Champion Lu-Xia JIANG as the vampire hunter at war Director: Dante Lam
with the veteran Kung Fu Master Wah YUEN as the evil vampire lord, a non-stop Kung Key Cast: Nick Cheung, Daniel Wu
Fu action adventure filled with love and hatred begins. Delivery Status: Post Production
ACT OF GRACE Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Hong Kong, China
Thriller By a strange twist of fate, dutiful Hong Kong policeman Dan saves the life of the
Language: English leader of a violent gang of armed robbers. When they commit another crime, Dan is
Director: Noreen Kershaw determined to put an end to their activities. He works with the leader, whom the gang
Key Cast: Leo Gregory, Jody Latham had betrayed, to engineer a plan to wreak havoc within the gang and let the gangsters
Delivery Status: Screening kill one another. But it becomes increasingly obvious to Dan and to his colleagues
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: United Kingdom that Dan is suffering from a severe mental disorder, and Dan finds that instead of
Dezzie befriends and protects new boy Yasin at school who suffers from perpetual upholding the law as a righteous police officer, he has now become a fugitive wanted
racist taunts. Then Yasin’s Godfather takes him back to Hong Kong. Ten years pass for murder. Dan changes his plan and executes one final move that is certain to wipe
until Yasin returns to Manchester to run the family firm and Dezzie becomes his out all traces of the gang and restore his reputation as a good police officer.
lieutenant. Dezzie is the only white man to do so this side of the Atlantic. He becomes THE MIDAS TOUCH
a Triad member and runs the family business in Manchester, Liverpool and the rest of Comedy
the UK. Language: Cantonese
DO ELEPHANTS PRAY? Director: Fung Chih-chiang
Drama Key Cast: Chapman To, Charlene Choi
Language: English Delivery Status: Post Production
Director: Paul Hills Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Hong Kong, China
Key Cast: Jonnie Hurn, Julie Dray Successful debt collector Chiu takes pity on a group of wannabe pop starlets when
Delivery Status: Screening he goes to collect from the agency they are signed with. Naively thinking that he
Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: United Kingdom can do a better job in launching their careers, Chiu takes over the company in lieu
Frustrated by the soulless routine world he is tied to and troubled by the need to find of the debt but starts to realize that he may have bitten off more than he can chew.
meaning in everything, the life of advertising executive Calllum Cutter is thrown into Hoping that things might change with a more strategic approach, he hires experienced
poetic chaos when he meets the free-spirited French seductress Malika, who promises talent manager Suen but with money running low and the company on the brink of
to change his life forever... providing he keeps her identity a secret. bankruptcy, a dejected Chiu is soon ready to admit that his Midas touch has run out
24 HOURS OF ANGER until a Korean showbiz entity expresses interest in the girls. Now Chiu has to decide
Drama whether he is willing to say goodbye to his investment and, more importantly, to a
Language: Tamil dream he has come so close to achieving.
Director: T.T. Dhavamann THE BULLET VANISHES
Key Cast: Vishnu Andhakrishnan, Prakash Arasu Suspense (103)
Delivery Status: Screening Language: Cantonese
Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: Singapore Director: Lo Chi-leung
The first Tamil movie ever produced outside India or Sri Lanka. This thriller is set in Writer: Lo Chi-leung, Yeung Sin-ling
a working class Singaporean Tamil family. With gangsters at his doorstep and drug Producer: Derek Yee, Mandy Law
addicts for parents, 17-year old Prakash struggles to hold his family together and Key Cast: Nicholas Tse, Lau Ching-wan, Yang Mi
protect his mentally-challenged brother from dangers in and outside the family. When Delivery Status: Completed
his family is implicated in a crime gone sour, Prakash’s resolve and courage are put to Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Hong Kong, China
the ultimate test. In an arsenal during the warlord era in China, a girl, accused of stealing bullets, is
shot to death by the Boss. Six months later, a series of murders occur. Policemen
Bao and Guo investigate the case. But all the clues point to the dead girl! They then
EMPEROR MOTION PICTURES discover that ¡§stealing bullets¡¨ is a cover-up for a conspiracy between the Boss and
Emperor Motion Pictures, 28/F, Emperor Group Centre, 288 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, the Police Chief. The latter tries to have Bao and Guo killed, but that increases their
040 Hong Kong, Tel: +852 2835 6688 Fax: +852 2893 4309. www.emp.hk, enquiry. determination to solve the mystery. Finally, they find the real murderer¡K
emp@emperorgroup.com DIVA
Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor Drama (102mins)
At Cannes: Albert Lee (CEO), May Yip (General Manager, Sales & Distribution), Language: Cantonese
Catherine Chau (Manager, Sales & Distribution) Director: Heiward Mak
Office: Relais de la Reine, Apartment C-41, 4th floor, Block C, 42/43 La Croisette, Tel: Writer: Heiward Mak
+ 33 04 93 06 70 07 Fax: + 33 04 93 06 70 27 Producer: Chapman To, Albert Lee, Zhao Jun
IP MAN - THE FINAL FIGHT Key Cast: Joey Yung, Chapman To, Hu Ge, Mag Lam,Carlos Chan
Martial Arts (100) Delivery Status: Completed
Language: Chinese Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Hong Kong, China
Director: Herman Yau When an accident temporarily robs her of her voice, Diva J flees to a small deserted
Producer: Sin Kwok-lam village to heal both her mental and physical wounds. Her life changes when she meets
Key Cast: Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang,Gillian Chung, Marvel Chow, Anita Yuen and falls in love with the blind Hu Ming, who inspires her to make a comeback.
Delivery Status: Screening But, in her absence, a new diva has risen. R has become an overnight sensation that
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Hong Kong, China everyone sees as the main contender for J¡¦s crown. Yet, their successes have come
In postwar Hong Kong, legendary Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man is reluctantly called at a high price. J is secretly pining for a forbidden love that seems destined to wither,
into action once more, when what begin as simple challenges from rival kung fu styles and R has found that the road to stardom is littered with estranged friends and painful
soon draw him into the dark and dangerous underworld of the Triads. Now, to defend break-ups. But in the midst of this, both divas rise to find their own voice.
life and honor, he has no choice but to fight one last time¡K TRIAD
AS THE LIGHT GOES OUT Action Drama (90 mins)
Action Drama Language: Cantonese
Language: Cantonese Director: Daniel Chan
Director: Derek Kwok Producer: Ng Kin-hung
Key Cast: Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue, Simon Yam,Hu Jun, William Chan
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Delivery Status: Post Production Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: France
Country of Origin: USA A big-issue comedy set in the high-octane environment of France’s national sport:
A secret service agent agreed to return from retirement for one last mission - in petank
exchange for access to an experimental drug that could save his life.
BRICK MANSIONS
Action/adventure EXCLUSIVE MEDIA
Language: English Exclusive Media, 9100 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 401 East, Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Director: Camille DELAMARRE USA, Tel: 310.300.9000 Fax: 310.300.9001.
Writer: Luc BESSON, Bibi NACERI www.exclusivemedia.com, info@exclusivemedia.com
Co-Production Partners: EuropaCorp - Brick Mansions Productions Inc Sales Agent, Producer, Financier
Key Cast: Paul WALKER, David BELLE At Cannes: Nigel Sinclair (Co-Chairman and CEO), Guy East (Co-Chairman), Alex
Delivery Status: Pre-Production Walton (President of International Sales and Distribution), Paul Davidge (COO
Year of Production: 2014 Country of Origin: France International), Matt Brodlie (Head of Acquisitions, Exclusive Releasing), Don
The Ghettos of Detroit called Brick Mansions is controlled by a ruthless warlord with Hardison (EVP, International Legal & Business Affairs), Peter Naish (Senior Vice
access to a neutron bomb. A Righteous cop and an undercover cop team up to take him President, Digital & Library Distribution), Gabrielle Stewart (Senior Vice President,
down. International Sales & Distribution), Lisa Perkins (Vice President of International
ANGELIQUE Marketing & Publicity), Cynthia Kim (Vice President of International Sales &
Period drama Distribution), Julia Benaroya (Director of Publicity), Angus Sutherland (Director,
Language: French International Sales & Acquisitions), Akshay Mehta (Manager, International Sales and
Director: Ariel ZEITOUN Distribution), Amanda Dettrow (International Marketing Manager), Janelle Geaber
Writer: Nadia GOLON, Philippe BLASBAND & Ariel ZEITOUN (International Sales Assistant)
Co-Production Partners: Ajoz Films, EuropaCorp France 3 Cinema, Climax Films, Office: 63 La Croisette 1st Floor, Tel: 33 4 93 46 40 22
Mona Film BLACK MASS
Producer: Ariel ZEITOUN Crime Thriller
Key Cast: Nora Arnezeder, Gérard Lanvin, Tomer Sisley, Simon Abkarian, David Language: English
Kross, Mathieu Kassovitz, Miguel Herz-Kestranek, Julian Weigend, Florence Coste, Director: Barry Levinson
Mathieu Boujenah. Writer: Mark Mallouck, with revisions by Jez Butterworth based on the book Black
Delivery Status: Completed Mass: Whitey Bulger, The FBI and a Devil’s Deal by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: France Producer: Brian Oliver, Tyler Thompson, Nigel Sinclair, Tobin Armbrust, John
Stripped of her title and wealth, Angélique fights for her two children and justice at the Lesher, and Christi Dembrowski
head of a band of beggars, thieves and prostitutes. Key Cast: Johnny Depp
FOR A WOMAN Delivery Status: Pre-Production
AKA: POUR UNE FEMME Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA
Drama BLACK MASS tells the true story of Whitey Bulger (Depp), one of the most
Language: French notorious and violent crime bosses in the history of the United States. The leader of
Director: Diane KURYS an Irish mob ring that controls South Boston, Bulger becomes an FBI informant to
Writer: Diane KURYS help take down the Italian Mafia invading his turf. While the government turns a blind
Co-Production Partners: Alexandre Films, Rise Films, France 3 Cinema, Rhone-Alpes eye to Bulger’s activities, he successfully manipulates the FBI during the 1970’s and
Cinema & New Light Films 80’s to expand his criminal empire, even dragging his own government handler into a
Key Cast: Benoit Magimel, Mélanie Thierry, Nicolas Duvauchelle,Sylvie Testud, Denis life of corruption. But after the FBI closes in on their Mafia targets, they double cross
Podalydes, Julie Ferrier, Clotilde Hesme, Clément Sibony Bulger and ultimately nail him, his partner and the FBI agent working with them.
Delivery Status: Completed DARK PLACES
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: France Thriller
Anne - a writer who has been often written about her own life - and her father, are Language: English
destined to move side by side all tangled up into one story. Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
JACK AND THE CUCKOO-CLOCK HEART Writer: Gilles Paquet-Brenner, based on Gillian Flynn’s best-selling novel Dark
AKA: JACK ET LA MECANIQUE DU COEUR Places
Animation Producer: Charlize Theron, Beth Kono, AJ Dix, Stephane Marsil, Matthew Rhodes,
Language: French Exclusive Media, Cathy Schulman
Director: Mathias MALZIEU, Stéphane BERLA Key Cast: Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Chloë Moretz
Writer: Mathias MALZIEU Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Co-Production Partners: EuropaCorp, Duran & France 3 Cinéma Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA
Key Cast: Mathias Malzieu, Olivia Ruiz, Grand Corps Malade, Jean Rochefort, Marie Based on the gripping New York Times bestselling novel by Gillian Flynn, DARK
Vincent, Rossy de Palma, Babet, Arthur H.,Dani PLACES will star ACADEMY AWARD® Winner Charlize Theron with writer/
Delivery Status: In Production director Gilles Paquet-Brenner (SARAH’S KEY) at the helm. The sole survivor of
Year of Production: 2014 Country of Origin: France a home invasion where she famously witnessed the death of her mother and sisters,
Jack and The Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a magnificently original love story set in Libby Day (Theron) lives with the knowledge that her testimony as a 7-year-old
an exciting period full of fabulous inventions, eccentric characters and fantastic sentenced her brother to life in prison for the horrific crime. When a group of true-
adventures. crime enthusiasts find Libby twenty-five years later and convince her to re-examine
THE PRINCE AND THE 108 DEMONS the events of the night, new memories and old suspects suddenly flood back into her
AKA: LE PRINCE ET LES 108 DEMONS life. As shocking information comes to light, Libby begins to question her own key
Animation testimony and sets out to discover the truth of her tragic past.
Language: English 1
Director: Pascal MORELLI Action Documentary
Writer: Pascal MORELLI and Jean PÊCHEUX Language: English
Co-Production Partners: Fundamental & Same Player Director: Paul Crowder
Delivery Status: In Production Writer: Mark Monroe
Year of Production: 2014 Country of Origin: France / China Producer: Nigel Sinclair, Michael Shevloff
Imperial China in the 11th century Prince aged ten, a monk out of age, a young beggar Key Cast: Narrated By: Michael Fassbender
very greedy, and a dozen outlaw very scary, hope defeat the armies of imperial tyranny Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
Regent Gao-le Bel. They did not know it was impossible. So they did! A thrilling and visually spectacular action documentary, ‘1’ chronicles a generation
WORLD PETANK TOUR of charismatic drivers who raced on the edge, risking their lives during Formula
AKA: LES BOULISTES 1’s™ deadliest era for the chance at ultimate glory. The men who managed to survive
Comedy became leaders, and alongside Formula 1™ officials stood up to save lives in a sport
Language: French that was claiming fellow drivers at an alarming rate. Using rare archival footage and
Director: Frédéric BERTHE the greatest list of interviews ever assembled, from Bernie Ecclestone, Max Mosley,
Writer: Atmen KELIF, Frédéric BERTHE, Laurent ABITBOL, Martin & Céline and Dr. Sid Watkins to 12 world champions past and present, ‘1’ is the sensational
GUYOT, Jean-Pierre SINAPI story about the greatest show on earth — Formula 1™.
Co-Production Partners: Chic Films, Europacorp, Scarlett & Compagnie, Studio 37 THE WOMAN IN BLACK: ANGEL OF DEATH
Key Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Edouard Baer, Virginie Efira, Daniel Prevost, Atmen Supernatural Thriller
Kelif, Bruno lochet Language: English
Delivery Status: Post Production Director: Tom Harper
Writer: Jon Croker, based on orignal story by Susan Hill and Barbara Machin
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outfoxing the FBI, CIA and a dangerous ring of underground crime lords - in time to Writer: Amat Escalante, Gabriel Reyes
make it home for dinner. Co-Production Partners: Mantarraya Producciones (MX), Lemming Film (NL), Una
THERESE Film (DE), La pActe (FR)
Romantic Thriller Key Cast: Andrea VERGARA, Armando ESPITIA, Linda GONZALEZ
Language: English Delivery Status: Screening
Director: Charles Stratton Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Mexico, the Netherlands
Writer: Charles Stratton Estela is a 12 year old girl who has just fallen crazy in love with a young police cadet
Producer: Mickey Liddell, William Horberg who wants to run away with her and get married. Trying to achieve this dream, her
Key Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac, Tom Felton and Jessica Lange family will have to live the violence that is devastating the region.
Delivery Status: Post Production RAW HERRING
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA AKA: Hollandse Nieuwe
A romantic thriller set in the lower depths of 1860’s Paris, THERESE is a tale of Documentary (90 mins)
obsessive love, adultery, murder and revenge based on Emile Zola’s scandalous novel Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
THERESE RAQUIN. A sexually repressed beautiful young woman, Therese, is trapped Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich, Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich
into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille (Felton), by her domineering Writer: Ester Gould, Leonard Retel Helmrich
aunt, Madame Raquin (Lange). Therese spends her days confined behind the counter of Co-Production Partners: In-Soo Productions, First Hand Films
a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with an eclectic group. Producer: In-Soo Radstake (In-Soo Productions), Esther van Messel (First Hand
After she meets her husband’s alluring friend, Laurent (Isaac), she embarks on an illicit Films)
affair that leads to tragic consequences. Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: the Netherlands
PROJECT BLUE BOOK Fished for over a thousand years, the Hollandse Nieuwe (Dutch New Herring) is
Found Footage / Sci-Fi a phenomenon that has become a national cultural icon. More recently, the Dutch
Language: English herring fleet has lost a great deal of its importance as only two vessels are now fishing
Director: Matty Beckerman for herring under the Dutch flag.
Writer: Robert Alvin Lewis APP
Producer: Lawrence Bender, Mike Fleiss Thriller (83 min)
Delivery Status: Post Production Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA Director: Bobby Boermans
A terrifying sci-fi story inspired by dramatic found footage, PROJECT BLUE BOOK Writer: Robert A. Jansen
preys on our fear of the unknown as we follow an average American family who find Co-Production Partners: 2CFILM, Just Film
themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. While driving to a campsite in the Producer: 2CFILM: Edvard van ‘t Wout, Kees Abrahams, Robin de Levita
Brown Mountains of North Carolina, the Morris family’s GPS malfunctions and they Key Cast: Hannah Hoekstra, Robert de Hoog, Jeroen Spitzenberger, Matthijs van de
are lead to a remote tunnel surrounded by abandoned vehicles. The father, Peter Morris, Sande Bakhuyzen, Isis Cabolet
is abducted leaving his traumatized wife and children to flee and seek refuge in a nearby Delivery Status: Screening
cabin. There they are horrified to learn that strange lights in the nearby mountains have Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: the Netherlands
been linked to alien abduction and human sacrifice for centuries. When their attempts 21 year old psychology student, Anna, wakes up after a wild party unable to
to alert the authorities are intercepted by the deadly extraterrestrial threat, the surviving remember anything. Trying to put the pieces of the previous night together, she
members of the family find themselves under siege. A brutal and bloody attack unfolds notices a mysterious App called IRIS downloaded on to her smartphone. The
as we witness the horrors through the lens of the youngest child’s video camera. ingenious App answers every question you ask it. But this is more than just an
RUSH innocent study aid. It seems to know every intimate detail of Anna’s personal life,
Epic/Action/Thriller and the lives of all her friends. As Anna is drawn further and further into its web,
Language: English the sinister App gradually escalates its campaign of terror, distributing more and
Director: Ron Howard more compromising photographs, videos and text messages via her contacts list. All
Writer: Peter Morgan attempts to delete it result in fatal, unexplained incidents. Powerless and afraid, Anna
Executive Producer: Exclusive Media, Cross Creek, Todd Hallowell finally decides to take a stand against the evil App, but her bravery unwittingly sets
Producer: Andrew Eaton, Eric Fellner, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Brian Oliver, Peter off a chain of horrifying events.
Morgan DIE WELT
Key Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara Drama (80 mins)
Delivery Status: Post Production Language: Arabic/English/Dutch (English subtitles)
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: UK/Germany Director: Alex Pitstra
Set against the sexy and glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing, Rush portrays Writer: Alex Pitstra, Thijs Gloger, Abdallah Rezgui
the exhilarating true story of two of the greatest rivals the world has ever witnessed— Producer: Alex Pitstra
handsome English playboy Hunt and his methodical, brilliant opponent, Lauda. Taking Key Cast: Abdelhamid Nawara, Mohsen Ben Hassen, Rahma Ben Hassen, Ilse Heus.
us into their personal lives on and off the track, Rush follows the two drivers as they Delivery Status: Screening
push themselves to the breaking point of physical and psychological endurance, where Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: the Netherlands
there is no shortcut to victory and no margin for error. If you make one mistake, you DIE WELT is a moral drama about a society caught in the vacuum between
die. dictatorship and democracy. We follow in the footsteps of a young DVD salesman
Abdallah, who is becoming increasingly frustrated by his inability to create a fulfilling
existence for himself. He is faced with the choice to stay or leave his country. But
EYE INTERNATIONAL (EYE FILM INSTITUTE is life really better on the other side of the Mediterranean? This feature debut shows
NETHERLANDS) contemporary Tunisia with renewed cinematic audacity.
EYE International (EYE Film Institute Netherlands), PO Box 37767, Amsterdam, 1030 FRANKENSTEIN’S ARMY
BJ The Netherlands, Tel: + 31 20 7582 375 Horror (84 mins)
www.international.eyefilm.nl, international@eyefilm.nl Language: English
At Cannes: Claudia Landsberger (Head EYE International) Director: Richard Raaphorst
Office: Dutch Pavilion, Village International #109 Writer: Chris W. Mitchell, Miguel Tejada-Flores
BORGMAN Co-Production Partners: Dark Sky Film (USA), Pellicola (NL), XYZ (USA), Sirena
Drama (118 min) (CZ)
Language: Dutch (English subtitles) Producer: Nick Jongerius, Daniel Koeford, Todd Brown
Director: Alex van Warmerdam Key Cast: Karel Roden, Joshua Sasse, Robert Gwilyn
Writer: Alex van Warmerdam Delivery Status: Screening
Producer: Graniet Film: Marc van Warmerdam Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA, the Netherlands
Key Cast: Hadewych Minis,Annet Malherbe, Eva van de Wijdeven, Jan Bijvoet, Alex A battalion of soldiers is lured into the secret lab of a deranged scientist, and they are
van Warmerdam forced to face off against an army of horrific war machines created from flesh and
Delivery Status: Screening metal.
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: the Netherlands SILENT ONES
Borgman’s arrival in the tree-lined avenues of an exclusive residential area is the AKA: A csendesek
beginning of a series of unsettling events around the carefully constructed facade of a Drama (97)
wealthy couple, their three children and their nanny. Language: Hungarian (English subtitles)
HELI Director: Ricky Rijneke
Drama (105 min) Writer: Ricky Rijneke
Language: Spanish Producer: Rotterdam Films: Dick Rijneke, Mildred van Leeuwarden
Director: Amat Escalante Key Cast: Orsi Tóth, Roland Rába, Fatih Dervisoglu.
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Executive Producer: John Mondelli Language: English
Producer: John Mondelli, Will Philips, Brendan Rogers Director: Kenneth Chamitoff, Adam Boster
Key Cast: Andrew Ramos, Will Philips, Alexa Cappiello Writer: Kenneth Chamitoff
Delivery Status: Completed Executive Producer: Les Connard
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA Producer: Kenneth Chamitoff, Adam Boster
Science fiction adventure meets Hollywood satire in this action-packed CGI comedy. Key Cast: Ving Rhames, Ernie Reyes, Jr., John Savage
Our heroes Jack and Tiffany use a time machine for travel to and from the future to Delivery Status: Completed
escape the clutches of greedy studio executives, gun-toting bad guys, and an army of Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA
angry futuristic robots! Set in fight capital of the world, Las Vegas, Submission is a high-action mixed-martial
TURKLES arts film featuring an all-start cast. The “Rocky” for the cage generation, Submission
Family Adventure (88 Minutes) is the tale of a young man’s attempt to overcome his past mistakes to become a world
Language: English champion fighter.
Director: Frank Eberling ISLAND OF THE DEAD
Writer: Frank Eberling AKA: Immortal Island
Executive Producer: Chel Tassey, Robert Tassey, Raymond Eberling Horror Thriller (90 minutes)
Producer: Chel Tassey, Robert Tassey, Kim Stryker Language: English
Key Cast: Haley Jane Sicard, Noah Centineo, Taylor Blackwell Director: Joe Knee
Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Darrin Cummings, Joe Knee
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA Executive Producer: Buddy Winsett
A group of environmentally conscious teenagers spend their summer at Camp Producer: Robert Sterrett, Adrian Brunori, Paul Silver
Loggerhead monitoring sea turtle nests along the local beaches. When precious turtle Key Cast: Christian Campbell, Brian Drolet, Eric Scott Woods, Somali Rose
eggs mysteriously begin disappearing, the heroic kids go undercover to stop a band of Delivery Status: Completed
bumbling bad guys from selling the eggs for profit on the black market. Turkles is a fun Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: USA
comedic adventure for the entire family. A group of college students travel to an island with a charismatic, greedy ship captain.
NINJA ZOMBIES When the kids learn of an ancient curse and a mysterious powder that can bring the
Horror Comedy (82 minutes) dead back to life, very bad things begin to happen. Sex, drugs and voodoo!
Language: English READY OR NOT
Director: Noah Cooper Action (90 minutes)
Writer: Noah Cooper, Mike Castro Language: English
Producer: Mike Castro Director: Sean Doyle
Key Cast: Mike Lee, Mike Castro, Arun Storrs Writer: Christian Oliver, Sean Doyle
Delivery Status: Completed Executive Producer: Shannon Wilcox
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA Producer: Minor Childers, Norman Reiss, Sean Doyle
A college slacker geek begins having nightmares, flashes from the life of a samurai Key Cast: Christian Oliver, Seamus Dever, Evan Helmuth, Fernanda Romero
and an ancient sword that can raise the dead. When undead ninjas begin attacking his Delivery Status: Completed
friends, he discovers that the samurai was actually his ancestor and he is the only one Year of Production: 2009 Country of Origin: USA
who can save the world from a ninja zombie apocalypse! Blood, guts, comedy, ninjas, Four former college buddies find themselves on the adventure of their lives, when on
zombies, and a ton of fun! the morning after a Las Vegas bachelor party, they end up stranded deep in Mexico
DAY OF REDEMPTION penniless, being chased, falling in love, and fighting to make it back across the border
AKA: Absolute Assassin in time for the wedding.
Action (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Emilio Roso FANTASTIC FILMS INTERNATIONAL, LLC
Writer: Kris Kardash, Emilio Roso Fantastic Films International, LLC, 3854 Clayton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Executive Producer: Nicki Ben USA, Tel: 1.323.661.7088 Fax: 1.323.661.7188.
Producer: Emilio Roso, Orna Rachovitsky www.fantasticfilmsinternational.com, roxane@ffimail.com
Key Cast: Steven Bauer, Vincent Pastore, Michael Madsen, Emilio Roso Sales Agent
Delivery Status: Completed At Cannes: Roxane Barbat (President), Fred deWysocki (Partner)
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA Office: LERINS - Level 1 Stand R22, Tel: US Mobile # 310-560-9577
A thrilling action adventure journey into the underworld of a professional killer. Ray DELHI SAFARI
has lost everything, his girl and the son he never knew he had. Hired by his old mob 3D Animation
friend Lou (Michael Madsen), Ray must settle the score with the Russian mob while Language: English
battling his dark past. When the bullets stop, there will be only one assassin standing. Director: Nikhil Advani
ANGEL DOG Co-Production Partners: Krayon Pictures Pvt. Ltd.
Family / Dog (90 minutes) Key Cast: Govinda, Sunil Shetty, Boman Irani
Language: English Delivery Status: Completed
Director: Robin Nations Country of Origin: India
Writer: Robin Nations A fun, motley crew of animals embark on a journey across the mountains and rivers
Executive Producer: Kevin Nations of India, hitching rides in trains and trucks to take their petition to the leader of
Producer: Kevin Nations the humans in Delhi. Along the way they discover that not only are their homes
Key Cast: Jon Michael Davis, Farrah White in jeopardy, but the homes and lives of thousands of other animals as well. Their
Delivery Status: Completed exciting journey becomes one where enemies become friends and an unlikely family
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA comes together to fight for what rightfully belongs to them - A HOME.
This heartwarming film is about a dog named Cooper who is the lone survivor of WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ
a terrible car accident. Jake, a family patriarch, loses his wife and children in the AKA: L. FRANK BAUM’S WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ
accident. With the help from this angel dog, Jake puts his life together and even finds Fantasy
love again. An inspirational story for the entire family! Language: English
EMULATION Director: Clayton Spinney III
Action Adventure (90 minutes) Executive Producer: Frederick deWysocki III
Language: English Producer: Sean Gates
Director: Tom Getty Delivery Status: Post Production
Writer: Tom Getty Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA
Producer: Tom Getty It is the last days of the old west; the nineteenth century nears its end, and Dorothy
Key Cast: Tom Getty, Jeff Howanek, Jocelyn Meehan Gale is ten years old, living in a one-room cabin she shares with her Uncle Henry and
Delivery Status: Completed Aunt Em. They are poor farmers in a time of drought. Just when it seems that things
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA can’t get any worse for the Gales, a tornado carries Dorothy away to the undiscovered
A non-stop action thriller. Framed for murder and forced to go on the run to save his country of Oz, a land populated by short, rugged people who live under the rule of
own life, a young man finds himself the target of a nation-wide manhunt after joining sorcerers. The Good Witch of the North lacks the power to send Dorothy home, so the
an on-line reality service where the applicants become real-life human targets that are girl sets off for the City of Emeralds in the hope that the mysterious wizard who lives
marked for death. there can help her. But the Wizard of Oz has a secret to protect, and to do so he will
SUBMISSION send Dorothy and her friends to kill the Witch of the West, or die trying. Don’t call it
Action (95 minutes) a remake, or a reimagining: this is Oz as L. Frank Baum envisioned it, brought to life
in live action for the very first time.
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Director: Tom Whitus Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: UK
Producer: Silver Hills Pictures An armed response team must team up with the criminals they were tasked to bring
Key Cast: Jeff Fahey, Jillane Klaus, Katherine McNamara down, against an unimaginable horror, if they hope to survive!
Delivery Status: Completed THE EXECUTIONER
Country of Origin: USA Action (90 mins)
Seen thru the eyes of a young girl on the verge of womanhood, who enjoys meddling Language: English
into adult lives with the help of animal adoption, the story emphasizes the connection Director: Ross Boyask
between people’s need for “unconditional love” and illustrates how the lives of six Writer: Ross Boyask
people can be changed with a little help from a pre-teen matchmaker and three adorable Key Cast: Glenn Salvage, Brendan Carr
puppies. Delivery Status: In Development
THE UNLEASHED Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: UK
Sci Fi / Horror An ex-soldier returns home to avenge the murder of his best friends by a special-
Language: English forces team gone rogue.
Director: Manuel H. DaSilva
Writer: Diane DaSilva, L.A. Lopes
Producer: Dark House Films FILM ASIA ENTERTAINMENT GROUP CO.,
Key Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Trisha Echevarria, Jessica Salgueiro LTD.
Delivery Status: Completed Film Asia Entertainment Group Co., Ltd., 302, 3/F, Block A, East Sun Industrial
Country of Origin: Canada Centre, 16 Shing Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong
Madison Kennard, a troubled woman dealing with her dark past, must venture home Kong, Tel: +852-36221282 Fax: +852-36221248. www.filmasiaent.com.hk, info@
after an 8 year absence following her mothers death. Almost instantly after her return, filmasiaent.com
Madison must cope with the haunting memories of a childhood best forgotten. Lindsay, Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor
a childhood friend of Madisons with an adventurous nature, hears of Madison’s At Cannes: Kenneth Yeung (President-Distribution), Angus Chan (President-
arrival and has every intention of reconnecting a friendship once had. Bizarre and Production), Lammy Li (Distribution Manager), Daisy Wong (Administrative
unexplainable events occur within the house after old friends come together and Executive)
dabble with the infamous Ouija board. Lindsay, being all too curious of the board and Office: Year Round Exhibitor on The Platform
its undeniable power, gives into the persuasion of an unknown entity and allows it FINDING SAYUN
to possess her. Madison must overpower her deepest fears and find a way to release Family (99 mins)
Lindsay and abolish the presence that haunts her. Language: Chinese
A FOX’S TALE Director: CHEN Jie-Yao
Animated comic adventure Key Cast: CAO Shi-hui, Yu Lao Yu Gan, LIN Ching-tai, Beatrice FANG, ZHENG
Key Cast: (voice-overs) Freddie Highmore, Miranda Richardson, Bill Nighy and Sienna Peng-fei, MU Zhong-hua, Yukihiko KAGEYAMA
Miller Delivery Status: Completed
Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Taiwan
Country of Origin: Hungary / UK A TV crew was attracted by an old story about a Taiyan girl who was trapped in Heipi
“Little Jack” (Freddie Highmore) is an adorable young fox who is busy enjoying a Tribe as early as the ages of Sino-Japanese War. The crew members intend to develop
blissful life, chasing frogs, butterflies and playing in the forest with his loving family. a historical TV drama out of the story. You Gan, a Taiyan hunter boy, still doesn’t
Until one night when his perfect world is turned upside down. understand the reason behind these out-of-town people spending their time doing
MAX MAGICIAN AND THE LEGEND OF THE RINGS research here, whereas his uncle You Ming is hospitable and willing to tell everything
Family, Live Action he learns. With his help, the leading team of the crew collects all kinds of info for
Language: English searching the relevant legends and figures. But it is still thrilling journey, a crew girl
Director: Kevin Summerfield named Xiao Ru even insists on climbing a 3,000-meter-high mountain, following You
Co-Production Partners: Scorpio Studios Gan’s grandpa Ha Yong to visit their old tribe, but the trip is so dangerous that she
Producer: Kimberly Gough almost gets killed on the way�
Key Cast: Timothy Stultz, Ken Mitzkowitz, Erika Ann, Steven Barry Prince I’M HERE FOR YOU
Delivery Status: Completed Romance
Country of Origin: USA Language: Chinese
A young boy receives an ancient magical book that opens a mystical door into an Director: CHU Yu-ning
enchanted kingdom where an adventure filled with warriors, elves, queens and sorcerers Producer: Eric LIANG
awaits. Key Cast: Cherry Hsia, ZHENG Kai, HUO Ni-fang, Johnny LIN
THE WINTER PRINCE AND THE FLAME ETERNIUM Delivery Status: Post Production
Sci-Fi / Family Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Taiwan
Language: English A Taiwanese girl Xie Yijia comes to a city named Ningzhou on the west bank of the
Director: Tom Whitus Straits, for the purpose of seeking dreams and fulfilling wishes for her old family.
Co-Production Partners: Fantastic Films International / Silver Hills Pictures She meets a local photographer called Lin Da and invites him to join her journey. At
Key Cast: celebrity cast to be announced first, they feel incompatible for one another and even quarrel because of the difference
Delivery Status: Pre-Production of background, education and habits etc between them. But later they are gradually
Country of Origin: USA impressed by each other and they develop into intimate friends with the ongoing
Prince Frederick, a young warrior of mysterious royal lineage, and the sorcerer journey, which, unfortunately, comes to an end for the sudden and serious disease of
Thomas travel in search of adventure. Their quest leads them to the Kingdom of Xie Yijia. For fulfilling their promise of love, Xie Yijia, though dying, revisits the
Paradiso a former Shangri-la now stuck in an eternal winter, because a dark wizard place where they met. And Lin De also creates a miracle with love and becomes a
has extinguished The Flame Eternium to force the beautiful Princess Roxana into an man with unprompted responsibility.
unwanted marriage. When Frederick - dubbed The Winter Prince by the locals - falls in ARAVT
love with Princess Roxana, it is up to he and Thomas to re-ignite the Flame Eternium Epic - War (91 minutes)
and bring warmth back to the frozen Kingdom. Thomas can’t defeat the dark wizard, Language: Mongolian
but he does have a plan - find the last dragon hidden an the icy mountain cave and Director: Shagdarsuren.U and Jolbayar.D
trick it into re-lighting the flame with its hellish breath - before Frederick’s love is lost Writer: Erdene.O
forever. Key Cast: Baacanjab, Cocorbaram.D, Jambal, Jargalsaihan.B, Gurse.D, Onon.N
Delivery Status: Completed
FIGHTING SPIRIT FILMS Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Mongolia
Fighting Spirit Films, 135 New Church Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 4BE England, A little known fact is that Chinggis Khaan, better known as Genghis Khan, would
Tel: +44 7896 722 778. rossboyask@gmail.com collect orphans from his bloody battlefields and have his own mother raise them.
Producer These adopted brothers grew up to become his most loyal officials and advisers. A
At Cannes: Ross Boyask (Director) 10-person “aravt” military unit is ordered by Khaan to locate a skilled doctor who
Office: Year Round Exhibitor on The Platform lives in a forest. En route, they discover an abandoned baby. He is in fact the child
TOWER OF THE DEAD of an enemy warrior who gives pursuit, even though they have saved the child’s life.
Action Horror (90 mins) Whilst protecting the child from attacks from enemy soldiers, the members of the
Language: English “aravt” must also complete their mission. Through their actions, they demonstrate the
Director: Ross Boyask benevolence and bravery of Mongol warriors as the final battle closes in.
Writer: Ross Boyask, Chris Regan DARK WEDDING 3D
Key Cast: Christian Howard, Cecily Fay, Glenn Salvage Horror/Thriller (90 minutes)
Delivery Status: Pre-Production Language: Chinese
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WINNIE A 17 year old high school student becomes pregnant. Her parents, whilst upset
Love Story initially, eventually stand by her and support her. The major theme portrayed in
Language: English this story is giving people a second chance and support so that they can improve
Director: Darrell Roodt themselves and learn from their mistakes to better the lives.
Key Cast: Jennifer Hudson Terrence Howard Elias Koteas Wendy Crewson BEYOND THE WEB
Delivery Status: Completed Thriller (5 mins.)
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: South Africa Language: English
WINNIE Is the powerful love story that changed the world. Winnie and Nelson Director: Rodney Antonio
Mandela endured more than twenty years of separation and political turmoil ultimately Writer: Rodney Antonio
tearing them apart. Cast: Jennifer Hudson (“Dreamgirls,” “Sex & the City”), Terrence Producer: Samuela Tunabua. School: Lautoka Muslim College
Howard (“Iron Man,” “Hustle & Flow,” “Crash”). Director: Darrell Roodt (“Sarafina,” Key Cast: Niko Naituku, Milika Kuruilaba, Ana Maria, Eparama Sauvakatoga and
“Cry, the Beloved Country. Fully completed film with new edit, new orchestration and Filimoni Tevita and Samuela Rodney
theme song written by Diane Warren & sung by Jennifer Hudson. U.S. Distributor to be Delivery Status: Completed
announced. Country of Origin: Fiji
BEAUTIFUL LIES The film is about young girls making friends on the internet. A young meets up with
Language: English her internet friend and is found murdered.
Director: John Deery THE REAL VICTIM
Writer: Caleb Ranson | Andrew T. Sessions Drama (5 mins.)
Producer: Ellen Wander, Michael Fister, John Deery Language: English
Delivery Status: Pre-Production Director: Marshanell Leong
Year of Production: 2014 Writer: Marshanell Leong
Edgy psychological thriller in the vein of classics such as Fatal Attraction & Jagged Producer: Monish Sharma. School: Natabua High School
Edge. Big-city detective moves back to her hometown, where she entangles herself in a Key Cast: Rosa Murikanaka, Aaron Wong, Alanieta Tagituimua, Nathan Ross,
web of deceit, adultery, murder. BEAUTIFUL LIES will leave audiences asking: when Makelesi Maugulevu and Bhawish Patel
it comes to passion.. just how far is too far? Delivery Status: Completed
DEFENDING THE ENEMY Country of Origin: Fiji
War Crime Drama Alienated by bickering parents and propelled by teen troubles, Grace finds solace in
Language: English her boyfriend, Ryan. Grace’s naive trust blinds her from seeing Ryan’s true intentions
Director: James Moll until it is too late.
Executive Producer: Ellen Wander KANIA NA YALO BULA (EAT THE SOUL OF LIFE)
Producer: Jonathan Sanger Thriller/Horror (10 mins.)
Delivery Status: Pre-Production Language: English
Based on the true war trials of General Masaharu Homma (“The Beast of Bataan”). Director: Clarence Dass
HOOKING UP Writer: Clarence Dass
Crime Thriller Producer: Mell Tuqota Jr.
Language: English Key Cast: Albert Rolls, Danl Whiteside and Dane Morllng
Director: Steven Feder Delivery Status: Completed
Writer: Steven Feder Country of Origin: Fiji
Producer: Roger Pugliese, Christina Ramirez, Steven Feder, Michael Taylor A young couple arrives at a secluded camp site to meet up with friends. What they
Delivery Status: Pre-Production get is an experience in grueling terror, when they find out that their friends have be
Crime-thriller - three cops investigate the brutal attack at a teenage Rave Club. overcome by a sinister evil.
CLAUSTROPHOBIC
Sci-Fi Thriller
Director: Matthew Gratzner FILM TRUST PRODUCTIONS
Writer: Matthew Gratzner Film Trust Productions
Executive Producer: Ellen Wander Producer
Producer: Jonathan Sanger At Cannes: Christian Halsey Solomon (Producer - Owner)
Key Cast: Rebecca Romijn Office: Year Round Exhibitor on The Platform
Delivery Status: Pre-Production ICE SCREAM
Sci-Fi Thriller from New Deal Studios whose award winning special effects have been Delivery Status: In Production
seen in more than 20 films including “Inception,” “Shutter Island,” The Dark Knight”
& “Iron Man.” - Set 200 Years in the Future: In an attempt to escape her past, Officer FILMEXPORT GROUP
Karen Dante, boards a cargo airship headed for deep outer space. Filmexport Group, Largo Guglielmo La Pegna 18, Rome, 00128 Italy, Tel:
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Film Fiji, Ground Floor, Civic House, New Town Hall Road, GPO Box 18080,, Suva Sales Agent
Fiji, Tel: Telephone (679) 330 6662 Fax: Fax (679) 331 4662. www.film-fiji.com, info@ At Cannes: Roberto Di Girolamo (President), Laura Maurano (Sales Manager)
film-fiji.com.fj Office: Boulevard de la Republique, 4 – Cannes, Tel: +33 6 21238379/
At Cannes: Florence Swamy (Acting Chief Executive Officer), Jone Tikoca (Account) +39.335.7025654
Office: Year Round Exhibitor on The Platform, Tel: Tel: (679) 330 6662 DRACULA 3D
THE SILENT CRY Stereoscopic 3D - Horror (106’)
Drama (5 mins.) Language: English, Italian
Language: English Director: Dario Argento
Director: Shilpa Lal Writer: Dario Argento, Stefano Piani, Antonio Tentori
Writer: Shilpa Lal Producer: Multimedia Film Production, Enrique Cerezo P.C.
Producer: Vyas Singh, Shivneel Mudaliar and Ashal Mishra. School: Labasa SKM Key Cast: Thomas Kretschmann, Marta Gastini, Rutger Hauer, Asia Argento, Unax
Sangam College Ugalde, Miriam Giovanelli
Key Cast: Aqelea Ratumuda, Eseta Cokanasica, Dipshika, Milika Dimataneca Delivery Status: Completed
Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Italy
Country of Origin: Fiji Based on the original novel by Bram Stroker, about the vampire Dracula, an icon of
The film tells the story of Selina, a form 7 student who is constantly under pressure twentieth century culture.
from her mother to score good marks in school exams. As the film unravels we learn EVIL THINGS
what really happens to Selina. AKA: COSE CATTIVE
SECOND CHANCE Thriller (’90)
Drama/Family (5 mins.) Language: English
Language: English Director: Simone Gandolfo
Director: Avishkar Naicker Writer: Simone Gandolfo, Debora Alessi
Writer: Manisha Nandani Mudliar, Rahit Rohitesh Ali, Payal Pallavi Producer: Inside Productions
Producer: Upesh and Nikil. School: Nadi SKM Sangam College Key Cast: Marta Gastini, Pietro Ragusa, Aaron Jorge Reg Moss
Key Cast: Shirani, Chang, Manisha, Waisake, Payal and Rajeshneel Delivery Status: Completed
Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Italy
Country of Origin: Fiji A contemporary horror movie. A metaphor on voyeurism and on the meaning of
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Writer: Tommaso Avati, Claudio Piersanti, Pupi Avati Key Cast: Guillaume Gouix, Matila Malliarakis, David Salles, Mélissa Désormeaux-
Co-Production Partners: RAI FICTION Poulin
Producer: Antonio Avati for DUEA FILM Delivery Status: Completed
Key Cast: Micaela Ramazzotti, Flavio Parenti, Andrea Roncato, Valeria Fabrizi, Country of Origin: Belgium/France/Canada
Maximilian Dirr, Katia Ricciarelli, Alessandro Sperduti, Christian De Sica When Paulo, a young pianist, and Ilir, a bass player meet by chance it is love at first
Delivery Status: Completed sight. Shortly after their first night Paulo moves in with Ilir but soon their harmonious
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: ITALY relationship becomes a turbulent roller coaster ride between love, addiction and
A love story lasting more than 50 years. From the first encounter to the golden wedding passion which will change their lives forever.
anniversary in 2005. Running through the background of the story are a number of the SOFIA’S LAST AMBULANCE
newsworthy events that took place in Italy in the late 20th century, recreated thanks to Documentary (76 min)
the stock footage from the Rai “Teche” archives, Director: Ilian Metev
Key Cast: Krassimir Yordanov, Mila Mikhailova, Plamen Slavkov
Delivery Status: Completed
FILMS BOUTIQUE Year of Production: Bulgaria/Croatia/Germany Country of Origin: 2012
Films Boutique, Köpenicker Str. 184, Berlin, Germany, Tel: 49 30 69 53 78 50 Fax: 49 Sofia, Bulgaria. In a city where only 13 ambulances struggle to serve several million
30 69 53 78 51. www.filmsboutique.com, info@filmsboutique.com people, three paramedics face Kafkaesque situations. Fighting against an avalanche of
At Cannes: Jean-Christophe Simon (Sales), Cristina Cavaliere (Sales), Valeska Neu absurdities in a crumbling medical system, they do what they do best: save lives.
(Festivals), Marine Rechard (Legal), Gabor Greiner (Acquisitions) DOM - A RUSSIAN FAMILY
Office: Booth E10-12 @ Riviera, Tel: +33 4 92 99 32 20 Drama / Action (109 min)
LA JAULA DE ORO Director: Oleg Pogodin
Drama (102 min) Key Cast: Sergei Garmash, Bogdan Stupka, Vladimir Yepifantsev
Director: Diego Quemada-Diez Delivery Status: Completed
Key Cast: Brandon Lopez, Rodolfo Dominguez, Karen Martinez, Carlos Chajon Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Russia
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Mexico/Spain In a large house in the middle of the steppes, the Shamanovs meet for a family
OFFICIAL SELECTION - UN CERTAIN REGARD. Juan, Sara and Samuel, three gathering. When suddenly the eldest brother Victor appears after a 25 year absence,
teenagers from the slums of Guatemala, travel to the US in search of a better life. On unspoken family conflicts come to light. Nobody suspects that Victor is escaping his
their journey through Mexico, they meet Chauk, an Indian from Chiapas who doesn’t dark past and that killers are looking for his hiding place.
speak Spanish. Traveling together in cargo trains, walking on the railroad tracks, they MORE THAN HONEY
soon have to face a harsh reality. Documentary (90 min)
YOU AND THE NIGHT Director: Markus Imhoof
Drama (100 min) Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Germany/Austria/Switzerland
Director: Yann Gonzalez Einstein once said: “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would
Key Cast: Eric Cantona, Alain Fabien Delon, Beatrice Dalle, Kate Moran, Niels have no more than four years to live.” In the past five years, billions of honeybees
Schneider, Nicolas Maury simply vanished for reasons still obscure. If the bees keep dying, it will have drastic
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: France effects for humans as well: more than one third of our food production depends on
Around midnight, a young couple and their maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will pollination by honeybees and their life and death are linked to ours. A 2M euro budget
be The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen. documentary by Oscar nominated director Markus Imhoof and by the creators of
FLOATING SKYSCRAPERS “LET’S MAKE MONEY” & “WE FEED THE WORLD”.
Drama (93 min) KUMA
Director: Tomasz Wasilewski Drama (93 minutes)
Key Cast: Mateusz Banasiuk, Bartosz Gelner, Marta Nieradkiewicz Language: Turkish / German
When Kuba, a young man in a stable relationship with Sylwia, meets Michal, the life of Director: Umut Dag
the three teenagers soon gets upside down. In a rollercoaster of emotions and confusion Key Cast: Nihal Koldas, Begüm Akkaya, Vedat Erincin, Dilara Karabayir
all three have to find their own way in life. Delivery Status: Completed
MICHAEL H.PROFESSION:DIRECTOR Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Austria
Documentary (90 min) Fatma lives with her husband and family in Vienna. When Ayse, a 19-year-old girl
Director: Yves Montmayeur from the Turkish countryside, is chosen to get married to Fatma’s son, a special
Key Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche, Emmanuelle Riva, etc. friendship evolves between the two women. But soon this relationship is put to the
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Austria/France test as the family has to face a difficult stroke of fate.
In 25 years, Michael Haneke established himself as one of the most important directors KEEP THE LIGHTS ON
in cinema history. From his early works to AMOUR, he created a unique universe, Drama (101 minutes)
revealing like no other the dregs of our society, our existential fears and emotional Director: Ira Sachs
outbursts. Through the vision of his actors and previously unseen footages, MICHAEL Key Cast: Thure Lindhardt, Zachary Booth, Paprika Steen
H. depicts the work of a rare artist. Delivery Status: Completed
A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
Drama (77 min) Keep The Lights On chronicles the emotionally and sexually charged journey of
Director: Boris Khlebnikov two men. New York in the Nineties. Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Russia lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter and soon become a couple. They are
VIC + FLO SAW A BEAR risk takers—compulsive and fueled by sex. In an almost decade-long relationship
Drama (95 min) defined by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own
Director: Denis Cote boundaries and dignity and to be true to himself.
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Canada EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY
LIFELONG Drama (107 minutes)
Drama (102 min) Director: Radu Jude
Director: Asli Ozge Producer: Ada Solomon - HI FILM
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Turkey/Germany/Netherlands Key Cast: Gabriel Spahiu, Mihaela Sirbu, Serban Pavlu, Sofia Nicolaescu, Tamara
ROCK THE CASBAH Buciuceanu Botez
Drama (93 min) Delivery Status: Completed
Director: Yariv Horowitz Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Romania
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Israel/France Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His five year-old daughter Sofia lives
BECOMING TRAVIATA with her mother, which causes Marius a deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives to
Documentary (113 min) take his daughter on their annual holiday, he is not allowed to take her with him. The
Director: Philippe Beziat situation soon gets out of control with all the family taking part in a web of humor,
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: France violence, childish songs, police interventions and love statements.
THE PASSION OF MICHELANGELO FOUR SUNS
Drama (97 min) Drama (102 min)
Director: Esteban Larrain Director: BOHDAN SLÁMA
Writer: Esteban Larrain Key Cast: Jaroslav Plesl, Anna Geislerová, Marek Sácha, Karel Roden, Jirí Mádl,
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Chile/France Klára Melísková, Igor Chmela
BEYOND THE WALLS Delivery Status: Completed
Drama (98 min) Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Czech Republic
Language: French Jára has lost his job, his family is falling apart and his only companion and friend
Director: David Lambert
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LOW COST HOUSE OF TOLERANCE
Comedy (86’) AKA: L’APOLLONIDE, SOUVENIRS DE MAISON CLOSE
Language: French Drama (126 min)
Director: Maurice Barthelemy Language: French
Writer: Maurice Barthelemy, Hector Cabello Reyes Director: Bertrand Bonello
Producer: Francois Kraus Writer: Bertrand Bonello
Key Cast: Gerard Darmon, Judith Godreche, Jean-Paul Rouve Producer: Kristina Larsen, Bertrand Bonello
Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Nomeie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi
Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: France Delivery Status: Completed
Exhausted after an 8 hours wait on a plane without ventilation, the passengers of the Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: France
low cost flight Djerba-Paris are ready to take action to go back home... even to fly off At the dawn of the XXth century, in a brothel in Paris, a man disfigures a prostitute
without the pilot! for life. She is marked with a scar that draws a tragic smile on her face. Around the
TOMBOY woman who laughs, the life of other girls, their rivalry, their fears, their joy, their
Drama/Child (81’) pain...From the external world, nothing is known. Their world is closed.
Language: French THE SNOWS OF KILIMANDJARO
Director: Celine Sciamma AKA: LES NEIGES DU KILIMANDJARO
Writer: Celine Sciamma Drama (107’)
Producer: Benedicte Couvreur Language: French
Key Cast: Zoe Heran, Malonn Levana, Jeanne Disson Director: Robert Guediguian
Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Robert Guediguian, Jean Loup Milesi
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: France Producer: Robert Guediguian
Laure is 10 years old. Laure is a tomboy. On her arrival in a new neighborhood, she Key Cast: Ariane Ascaride, Jean Pierre Darroussin, Gerard Meylan
lets Lisa and her crowd believe that she is a boy. Truth or dare? Dare.Summer becomes Delivery Status: Completed
a big playground and Laure pretends to be Michael, a boy like the others... different Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: France
enough to get the attention of Lisa who falls in love with him. Laure takes advantage of Despite losing his job, Michel lives happily with Marie-Claire his wife and their
her new identity as if the end of the summer would never reveal her unsettling secret. loving children and grandchildren, surrounded by their friends. In love for more than
A CAT IN PARIS thirty years, they are proud of their union and political struggles, for their conscience
AKA: UNE VIE DE CHAT is as clear as their view of life. This happiness will be shattered when two young
Animation (65 min) armed and masked men beat them up, tie them up, and snatch their wedding rings and
Language: French their lifetime savings. The shock will be even more violent when they discover that
Director: Jean Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol this brutal attack was organized by one of the young workers laid off at the same time
Writer: Alain Gagnol, Jacques Remy Girerd as Michel, by one of their own people.
Producer: Jacques Remy Girerd BREATHING
Key Cast: Dominique Blanc, Bruno Salomone AKA: ATMEN
Delivery Status: Completed Drama (90’)
Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: France Language: German
Dino is a cat that leads a double life. By day, he lives with Zoe, a little girl whose Director: Karl Marcovics
mother, Jeanne, is a police officer. By night, he works with Nico, a burglar with a Writer: Karl Marcovics
big heart.One day, Dino the cat brings Zoe a very valuable bracelet. Lucas, Jeanne’s Producer: Dieter Pochlatko, Nikolaus Wisiak
second-in-command, notices this bracelet is part of a jewellery collection that has Key Cast: Thomas Schubert, Karin Lischka
been stolen.One night, Zoe decides to follow Dino. On the way, she overhears some Delivery Status: Completed
gangsters and discovers that her nanny is part of the gangsters’ team... Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Austria
JEANNE CAPTIVE Roman Kogler, 18, is serving time in a juvenile detention center. He has already
Biography (92 min) served half of his sentence, and could be released on probation, but his chances are
Language: French poor: he doesn’t have family, and seems incapable of coping with society. After many
Director: Philippe Ramos failed attempts, Roman finds a probation job at the municipal morgue in Vienna. One
Writer: Philippe Ramos day, Roman is faced with a dead woman who bears his family name. Even though it
Producer: Sophie Dulac, Michel Zana soon turns out that she is not his mother, Roman wonders about his past for the first
Key Cast: Clemence Poesy, Mathieu Amalric, Thierry Fremont time and starts looking for his mother.
Delivery Status: Completed GOODBYE FIRST LOVE
Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: France AKA: UN AMOUR DE JEUNESSE
1430. After a year of victorious battles, Joan of Arc is taken prisoner. Handed over Drama (115’)
to the English by King Charles VII, she lets herself fall from the keep where she is Language: French
imprisoned. The young woman miraculously survives, but she no longer hears the Director: Mia Hansen-Love
divine voices that guided and protected her all these years. Why has God abandoned her Writer: Mia Hansen-Love
at such a difficult time? Joan is left alone to face her grim fate. Producer: David Thion, Philippe Martin
THE SLUT Key Cast: Lola Creton, Sebastien Urzedowsky
Language: Hebrew Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: France
Director: Hagar Ben Asher Spring 1999. Camille 15, Sullivan 19, love each other passionately, but Sullivan wants
Writer: Hagar Ben Asher to go to South America for a year and this project drives Camille to despair. In fall
Producer: Mark Rozenbaum, Benny Drechsel he leaves and slowly stops writing to her. After a suicide attempt, Camille ends up in
Key Cast: Hagar Ben Asher, Ishai Golan, Icho Avital hospital. 2003, four years have passed. Camille works, studies architecture and lives
Delivery Status: Completed on her own.She meets a famous architect, Lorenz, who restores her self-confidence.
Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: Israel 2007, Camille and Lorenz have a strong relationship. Camille is his assistant but she
Tamar cannot restrain her sexual desires. Once Shai, her new kind and gentle boyfriend feels capable of founding her own agency soon. After 7 years she sees Sullivan again,
has settled into her life, she hopes to be able to control her animalistic behavior. But the all seems to go well after their first encounter, but few months later their feelings are
rounds of raw sex continues as Tamar cannot escape what men want from her. back and Camille’s heart is torn apart.
A BURNING DESIRE 11 FLOWERS
AKA: UNE FOLLE ENVIE Drama (120’)
Comedy (80?) Language: Chinese
Language: French Director: Xiaoshuai Wang
Director: Bernard Jeanjean Writer: Wang Xiaoshuai, Lihong Kong
Writer: Bernard Jeanjean, Martine Fontaine Key Cast: Liu Wenqing, WANG Jinchun, YEN Ni
Producer: Fran?ois Kraus, Denis Pineau-Valencienne Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: China
Key Cast: Clovis Cornillac, Olivia Bonamy Wang Han, 11 year old boy in the province of Ghizhou is confronted with a runaway
Delivery Status: Completed murderer. Hiding in the woods, the wounded man takes Wang Han drying shirt and
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: France persuades him to help him out. Frightened and fascinated at once, Wang Han and his
Rose and Yann, thirty somethings, have been together for two years and now want a friends accept to keep it secret from the police. Strange things are happening at school
baby. A piece of cake! A man and a woman, a cabbage and a rose, it’s as old as the hills, and the police is everywhere...
that’s nature! To become three all it takes is two. Or at least, when nature cooperates... CAPTURED
because when it doesn’t, when you want to be three too hard, isn’t there a risk of going Drama
from two to one? Why is it so complicated?! All Rose and Yann want is just: a baby. Language: Philipinnes
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meets Heejin, a film distributor, and falls in love. Back in Seoul, he convinces her out Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Hong Kong
on a date. Joo-wol finds out Heejin had lived in Alaska, loves photography, and does RIGOR MORTIS is an eerie and chilling, contemporary, action/special effects laden
not shave. He gets shocked by the thick hair growing under her armpits, but it strangely homage to the classic Chinese vampire movies of the 1980’s.
inspires him to write again; a mystery suspense detective series about a woman with SCATTER MY ASHES AT BERGDORF’S
hairy armpits. It becomes an immediate sensation. Then, Joo-wol discovers more about Documentary (89)
Heejin, including her complicated pasts with numerous men. Language: English
DANGEROUSLY EXCITED Director: Matthew Miele
Drama (101 min.) Writer: Matthew Miele
Language: Korean Producer: Mallory Andrews, Barbara Ragghianti
Director: Koo Ja-hong Key Cast: Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, Betty Halbreich, David
Writer: Koo Ja-hong Hoey, Diane von Furstenberg, Dolce and Gabbana, Giorgio Armani, Karl Lagerfeld,
Co-Production Partners: Mapo film Linda Fargo
Executive Producer: Koo Ja-hong Delivery Status: Screening
Producer: Jung Hyeyoung Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
Key Cast: Yoon Je-moon A compelling story of the legendary Fifth Avenue store that continues to be the
Delivery Status: Post Production aspiration of every designer around the world.
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Korea DJINN
HAN is a man who is all about pursuing a stable, solid, sound, and safe life. He has Supernatural Horror Thriller
been working as a public officer for the past 10 years, with utmost satisfaction in his Language: Arabic / English
steadfast life and work. Living up to his motto “You lose when you get excited over Director: Tobe Hooper
things, he is respected for his superior ability in dealing with angry civil complaints Writer: Tobe Hooper
without losing his self-control and is anticipated to be on a fast track at work. But, one Co-Production Partners: Image Nation Abu Dhabi
day an indie rock band moves in the basement of his house, and they turn his life upside Producer: Daniela Tully, Tim Symthe
down far from stability. Will he get his peaceful life back? Key Cast: Khalid Laith, Razane Jammal, Aiysha Hart
Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: UAE
FORTISSIMO FILMS A young Emirati couple move into a new luxury high-rise apartment, only to find they
Fortissimo Films, Van Diemenstraat 100, Amsterdam, CN 1013 The Netherlands, Tel: have entered the nightmarish world of djinn, supernatural beings from Arabic lore.
+31.20.627.3215 Fax: +31.20.626.1155. FINAL RECIPE
www.fortissimofilms.com, info@fortissimo.nl Family Drama
Sales Agent Language: English
At Cannes: Michael J. Werner (Chairman), Nelleke Driessen (Managing Director), Director: Gina Kim
Nicole Mackey (Executive Vice President - Sales and Acquisitions), Winnie Lau Executive Producer: Tae-sung Jeong, Mike Suh, Jonathan Kim, Keiko Bang, Michael
(SVP - Sales & Acquisitions), Niloufar Siassi (Director of TV & Ancillary Sales), Ellis Werner, Michelle Yeoh
Driessen (Acquisition Consultant - Europe and Middle East), Laura Talsma (Festival Producer: Steven Nam, Gina Nam
Services Manager), Charlotte Henskens (Management Assistant & Manager Special Key Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Henry Lau, Chin Han
Projects), Daniela Bendall (Director - International Servicing) Delivery Status: Post Production
Office: Apt. Zanzi (1st Floor), 5 Square Mérimée, Tel: +33 4 93 39 87 31 Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: South Korea
BORGMAN When you enter the world of cooking you enter a universe of passion, talent, egos,
Drama energy, and style. Family is the secret ingredient.
Language: Dutch HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES
Director: Alex van Warmerdam Romance/Sci-Fi/Drama
Writer: Alex van Warmerdam Language: English
Producer: Marc van Warmerdam Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Key Cast: Jan Bijvoet, Hadewich Minis, Jeroen Perceval, Alex van Warmerdam, Tom Writer: Philippa Goslett
Dewispelaere, Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Dirkje van der Pijl, Annet Malherbe, Eva van de Producer: Howard Gertler
Wijdeven, Pieter-Bas de Waard Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Delivery Status: Screening Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: The Netherlands / Belgium / Denmark Based on a science fiction short story by Neil Gaiman, HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS
BORGMAN is the central character in Alex van Warmerdam’s dark, malevolent fable. AT PARTIES is about a couple of British 1970s teen-aged boys, Enn and Vic, who
Is he a dream or a demon, a twisted allegory or an all-too-real embodiment of our head to a party to meet girls, only to find that the girls there are much different than
fears? BORGMAN is a sinister arrival in the sealed-off streets of modern suburbia. they imagined.
His presence unleashes a crowing gallery of distortion around the careful façade SUNSET SONG
constructed by an arrogant, comfortable couple, their three children and nanny. Language: English
MONSOON SHOOTOUT Director: Terence Davies
Action/Thriller (96) Co-Production Partners: Hurricane Films
Language: Hindi Key Cast: Peter Mullan, Agyness Deyn
Director: Amit Kumar Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Writer: Amit Kumar Country of Origin: UK
Co-Production Partners: Yaffle Films Set in the early 20th century Scotland, SUNSET SONG begins with a suicide attempt:
Producer: Trevor Ingman, Anurag Kashyap, Guneet Monga that of a poverty stricken woman, broken by repeated childbirths, who kills herself
Key Cast: Vijay Varma, Nawazuddin Siddiqi and Tannishtha Chatterjee and poisons her baby twins. The story follows one of the woman’s daughters, Chris
Delivery Status: Screening Guthrie, who must manage the farm in her mother’s absence and after her father, who
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: India has a stroke, becomes bedridden (though also eager for an incestuous relationship
Set against the monsoon-lashed gritty urban landscape of Mumbai, MONSOON with her). But when love comes to Chris she must send her man off to the Great War
SHOOTOUT is an existential thriller that explores the impact of our choices on the and manage the farm in a land about to be changed forever by the onset of technology
lives of others and ourselves. Adi, a rookie cop, has Shiva, a suspected gangster, in and war. How can we bear time or subdue nature? We cannot. We can only endure...
his line of fire. Adi has a moment of reckoning. Should he shoot a man whose guilt he CAMERA
is uncertain of? The film presents three scenarios, all resulting from the decision that Suspense/Thriller (95)
Adi makes. Each decision takes Adi on a journey that pits him against a system that Language: Cantonese/Mandarin
demands a compromise on his morals. Finally, however, he learns that every choice has Director: James Leong
its price. Writer: James Leong/Ben Slater
RIGOR MORTIS Producer: Lynn Lee, Jacqueline Liu
Horror (100) Key Cast: Sean Li, Venus Wong, Calvin Poon Yuen Leung
Language: Cantonese Delivery Status: Post Production
Director: Juno Mak Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Singapore, Hong Kong
Writer: Philip Yung, Jill Leung, Juno Mak A surveillance expert installs a camera in his eye, so he can record everything he sees.
Co-Production Partners: Kudos Films Limited, Great Sound Creation Limited AN END TO KILLING
Executive Producer: Steven Lo, Bernard Lai, Epic Action/Drama (100)
Producer: Takashi Shimizu, Juno Mak Language: Mandarin
Key Cast: Chin Siu-Ho, Kara Wai, Nina Paw, Antony “Friend” Chan, Lo Hoi Pang, Director: Wang Ping
Richard Ng, Chung Fat Writer: Ran Ping
Delivery Status: Post Production
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investigate a missing paramilitary formation. Director: Safinez Bousbia
SHIP OF THESEUS Writer: Safinez Bousbia
Drama (139 mins) Producer: Safinez Bousbia, Heidi Egger
Language: Hindi Key Cast: Mamad Hader Benchaouch, Rachid Berkani, Ahmed Bernaoui
Director: Anand Gandhi Delivery Status: Completed
Writer: Anand Gandhi Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: France / UAE / Ireland / Algeria
Producer: Mukesh Shah, Sohum Shah The Buena Vista Social Club of the Maghreb. Safinez Bousbia’s ambitious and
Key Cast: Aida El-Kashef, Soham Shah, Neeraj Kabi moving documentary tells the amazing story of the reunion and reconciliation of a
Delivery Status: Screening group of Muslim and Jewish musicians fifty years after their separation during the
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: India Algerian Civil War. The documentary follows their story as they are brought back
SHIP OF THESEUS explores the moral dilemmas faced by three disparate individuals together to form a new orchestra, “El Gusto,” and perform at an extraordinary concert
– an experimental photographer, an ailing monk and a young stockbroker – who in France.
unknowingly have a connection. ISZTAMBUL
BUGIS STREET REDUX Drama (99 minutes)
Drama (98 min) Language: Hungarian/English/Turkish
Language: English & Mandarin Director: Ferenc Trk
Director: Yonfan Writer: Ferenc Trk
Writer: Yonfan, Fruit Chan Producer: Lszlo Kntor
Producer: Yonfan & Katy Yew Key Cast: Johanna ter Steege, Lukts Andor, Yavuz Bingl
Key Cast: HIEP Thi Le, Michael LAM, Greg-O Delivery Status: Completed
Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Hungary
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Vietnam When JANOS, a popular 55 year old professor leaves home to have an affair with one
In revisiting and reworking his earlier cult classic, Director Yonfan had all the of his students, nobody really bats an eye. But when his wife, KATALIN, first goes
contemporary film restoration tools and toys at his disposal. BUGIS STREET REDUX off the deep end and then hitchhikes out of the country to “find herself”, her family
is the outcome of that effort. When it first hit the film and festival circuit BUGIS hits the roof and switches into high gear. First they call the police and file a missing
STREET was a groundbreaking film for the director and for Asia. Shot on location in person’s report, and then when she is found to be in Istanbul, teenage son (ZOLI)
Singapore, the actual spot (then called Bugis Junction/Bugis Street) was long known is sent to bring her back. Meanwhile his sister ZSOFI is fully occupied giving birth
to locals as the center of the real nightlife there. It was where one could find local to the family’s first grandchild. It doesn’t occur to all of them that KATALIN may
transvestites, prostitutes, and transsexuals mixing it up with both Singapore’s high actually be doing very well without them in the exciting new environment of Istanbul.
society and underground gay culture together with US sailors and soldiers on military In this exotic city, KATALIN meets HAMIL, staying in the same hotel, from the
leave. The film features actress Hiep Thi Le in her first role right after her film debut Turkish provinces and also away from his family. Both having something to share,
in Oliver Stone’s HEAVEN AND EARTH. The film also featured and co-starred many they find an uneasy but touching relationship. When ZOLI finally catches up with his
of the real locals from Bugis Street. The film marked Yonfan’s first collaboration Mom, he discovers that she is a changed person. She has no interest to return home
with Fruit Chan who served as screen writer and later went on to become a renowned with him. Ultimately he comes to see her as someone who may be happier to start a
director in his own right. new life.
MARLEY MICHAEL
Documentary Drama (98 minutes)
Language: English Language: Bengali/Hindi
Director: Kevin Macdonald Director: Ribhu Dasgupta
Producer: Steve Bing, Charles Steel, Ziggy Marley Writer: Debaloy Bhattacharya, Neel Guha
Key Cast: Bob Marley Producer: Anurag Kashyap, Guneet Monga, Sunil Bohra
Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Mahie Gill, Purav Bhandare
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA Delivery Status: Completed
MARLEY is the definitive film about a true international icon of the 20th Century. Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: India
His music and message of love and redemption are known throughout the world and Set in Kolkata, this is a character-driven psychological drama in which MICHAEL
his story has finally been brought to life in this definitive work by the acclaimed talent (Naseeruddin Shah), a loyal, hard working police officer is ordered by his superiors
of Kevin Macdonald. Filming took place as far afield as Ghana, Japan and the UK, in to open fire on a peaceful crowd of protesters. He shoots away from the crowd but a
addition to Bob’s beloved Jamaica and the USA and marks the first time ever his family bullet accidentally ricochets and kills a 12-year-old boy. Michael’s career, and whole
has authorized the use of their own private archives. Macdonald joined with the Marley life start to fall apart especially when he is fired from the force and he begins to
family, Chris Blackwell and Steve Bing to direct the ultimate, authorized documentary receive threatening phone calls suggesting retribution on his own son as soon as his
film on the life, legacy and global impact of a legend, one of the most influential 12th birthday arrives. The clock starts ticking and as he struggles to protect his son,
singers, songwriters, musicians and activists in history. Only a handful of musicians his eyesight starts to fail. Taking on odd jobs to survive he works in a local cinema
have ever achieved such an impact and Bob Marley, though his life was far too short, and starts making extra money by pirating movies. The story of a good man falling
stands among them. off the path and his struggle to hold his life and family together.
SEA SHADOW WETLANDS
Coming of Age (98 min) Drama (111 minutes)
Language: Arabic Language: French
Director: Nawaf Al-Janahi Director: Guy Édoin
Writer: Mohammed Hassan Ahmed Writer: Guy Édoin
Producer: Rami Yasin, Daniela Tully Producer: Luc Vandal, Flize Frappier, Roger Frappier
Key Cast: Omar Al Mulla, Neven Madi, Abrar Al Hamad Key Cast: Pascale Bussires, Gabriel Maill, Luc Picard
Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: UAE Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Canada
Set in a small seaside neighborhood in the United Arab Emirates, SEA SHADOW Tragedy strikes a family in rural Canada struggling to keep their dairy farm from
follows teenagers Mansoor and Kaltham as they struggle with tradition and convention going under. The man of the family is killed in a freak accident leaving his wife as
in their journey towards adulthood. Bound by family and deeply-rooted values, the pair the sole provider and caregiver looking after their rebellious teenage son who is
must find the courage to forge their own paths. dealing with his emerging sexuality. The father’s sudden death is not the first time this
MISS LOVELY family suffers a loss. Now the bonds of family are being tested when the relationship
Drama (115) between mother and son becomes strained as she seeks comfort in the arms of a
Language: Hindi stranger who arrives at the farm with questionable intent.
Director: Ashim Ahluwalia TORMENTED
Writer: Ashim Ahluwalia, Uttam Sirur 3D Thriller (84 min)
Producer: Shumona Goel, Sanjay Shah, Pinaki Chatterjee Language: Japanese
Key Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Niharika Singh, Anil George Director: Takashi Shimizu
Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Sotaro Hayashi
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: India Producer: Satoru Ogura, Masayuki Tanishima
The film gets under the skin of the Bollywood underground, an audacious cinema with Key Cast: Hikari Mitsushima, Teruyuki Kagawa, Takeru Shibuya
wild cinemascope compositions, lurid art direction, rollicking background soundtracks, Delivery Status: Completed
and gut-wrenching melodrama. Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Japan
EL GUSTO Director Takashi Shimizu’s new film centers on a young boy whose family seems to
Documentary (93 min) be falling apart around him. The situation gets worse when he manifests a growing
Language: French/Arabic and dangerous friendship and reliance on a stuffed rabbit that comes to life. Is he
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Country of Origin: USA his life around. This dramatic comedy, set against the gritty backdrop of the streets of
‘Peter and Vandy’ is a love story told out of order. Set in Manhattan, the story shifts New York City, tells a poignant tale of friendship, hope, and making a difference in
back and forth in time, juxtaposing Peter and Vandy’s romantic beginnings with the another person’s life.
twisted, manipulative, regular couple they become. The film explores the question most OBSESSION: RADICAL ISLAM’S WAR AGAINST THE WEST
couples ask themselves... ‘How the hell did we get this way?’ Documentary (95 minutes)
P.V.C. - 1 Language: English
Thriller (85 min) Director: Wayne Kopping
Language: Spanish w/ Subtitles English Writer: Raphael Shore, Wayne Kopping
Director: Spiros Stathoulopoulos Producer: Peter Mier, Raphael Shore
Writer: Dwight Istanbulian & Spiros Stathoulopoulos Key Cast: Alan Dershowitz, Brigitte Gabriel, Martin Gilbert
Producer: Jace Hall, Spiros Stathoulopoulos Delivery Status: Completed
Key Cast: Merida Urquia, Daniel Paez, Alberto Sornoza Country of Origin: USA
Delivery Status: Completed Obsession is a film about the threat of Radical Islam to Western civilization. Using
Country of Origin: USA/Columbia unique footage from Arab television, it reveals an ‘insider’s view’ of the hatred
Shot in real time and one continuous take, PVC-1 is based on the true story of a woman the Radicals are teaching, their incitement of global jihad, and their goal of world
who is turned into a human time bomb in an act of terrorism. domination. The film also traces the parallels between the Nazi movement of World
PALO ALTO War II, the Radicals of today, and the Western world’s response to both threats.
Comedy, Drama (100 min) Featuring interviews with Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson, Alan Dershowitz, a former
Language: English PLO terrorist, and a former Hitler Youth Commander
Director: Brad Leong AFTERTHOUGHT
Writer: Brad Leong, Tony Vallone Horror (85 min)
Producer: Daniel Engelhardt Language: English
Key Cast: Tom Arnold, Aaron Ashmore, Eve Brent, Hailey Bright, Shoshana Bush, Director: Douglas Elford-Argent
Christina DeRosa, Ryan Hansen, Robin Hines Writer: Douglas Elford-Argent
Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Douglas Elford-Argent, Tedd Willet
Country of Origin: USA Key Cast: Gwendolyn Garver, Kristian Capalik, Cal Thomas
On their last night of Thanksgiving break, four old friends, now all college freshmen, Delivery Status: Completed
realize their small town has more meaning than they ever imagined. Country of Origin: USA
LORD, SAVE US FROM YOUR FOLLOWERS Seven years after Christy Dawson loses her father, she begins having dreams about
Documentary Feature (100 min) him. What she doesn’t know is that she is beginning her future as a Dreamer. When
Language: English her dreams begin to become reality, Christy seeks the help of Kyle Walker, but soon
Director: Dan Merchant loses her trust for him when he can’t explain why he was found at two crime scenes.
Writer: Dan Merchant The Police arrest Kyle and hold him at the jail. Forced to learn more alone, she soon
Producer: Jeff Martin, Jon Manning, Dan Merchant discovers the truth and goes back to the only person who will listen to her.
Key Cast: Bill Maher, Bono, George W. Bush, Tony Campolo, Stephen Colbert, Ann
Coulter
Delivery Status: Completed GAUMONT
Country of Origin: USA Gaumont, 30, Avenue Charles de Gaulle, 92200 Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France, Tel:
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challenging and entertaining foray into the most divisive and difficult topics in our At Cannes: Cecile GAGET (Head of International Sales), Yohann COMTE (Deputy
culture. Head of Sales), Adeline FALAMPIN (International Sales Manager)
ROMAN Office: 2 rue Bivouac Napoleon, 4th Floor, Tel: +33 4 93 68 90 20
Horror (92 min) MEA CULPA
Language: English Thriller, Action
Director: Angela Bettis Director: Fred Cavaye
Writer: Lucky McKee Co-Production Partners: GAUMONT, LGM CINEMA, TF1 FILMS PRODUCTION,
Producer: Chris Wayne, Steve Copeland, Jonathan Serota NEXUS FACTORY, UFILM
Key Cast: Kristen Bell, Lucky McKee, Nectar Rose Key Cast: Vincent Lindon, Gilles Lellouche, Nadine Labaki
Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: USA LOVE IS THE PERFECT CRIME
Roman (Lucky McKee) is a lonely young man who yearns to find love, happiness AKA: AMOUR CRIME PARFAIT
and companionship. Tormented by his ungrateful co-workers and trapped in a life Film noir
of tedium as a welder in a local factory, Roman’s one pleasure is his obsession with Director: Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu
the elusive beauty (Kristen Bell) who lives in the apartment in his building complex. Co-Production Partners: GAUMONT, ARENA PRODUCTIONS
When a chance encounter with the young woman goes horribly wrong, a moment of Key Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Karin Viard, Maïwenn, Denis Podalydès, Sara Forestier
frenzied desperation triggers a chilling turn of events leading to murder. As he teeters Delivery Status: Post Production
between deranged fantasy and cold reality, Roman’s struggle to hide his grisly secret is PARIS OR PERISH
further complicated by an eccentric neighbor (Nectar Rose) who develops an unlikely AKA: PARIS A TOUT PRIX
attraction to Roman and forces herself into his dark and tortured world. Comedy
HOMELAND Director: Reem Kherici
Romantic Drama (93 minutes) Co-Production Partners: GAUMONT, MANDARIN CINEMA
Language: English Key Cast: Reem Kherici, Cecile Cassel, Stephane Rousseau, François-Xavier
Director: Michael Eldridge Demaison, Florence Foresti
Writer: Brad Rothschild Maya, an up and coming young Moroccan stylist, is about to get her first fulltime job
Producer: Brad Rothschild, Michael Eldridge, Steven Moskovic in a famous fashion house. Childhood in a working class suburb and her family in
Key Cast: Max Rhyser, Yifat Sharabi Morocco are behind her now, she is now officially an ’it girl’ in the world of fashion
Delivery Status: Completed and Saint Germain-des-Pres. As bad luck would have it, a simple police check reveals
Country of Origin: USA that her green card has expired and in less than 24 hours she is on a direct flight to
The amazing love story of an young couple in New York City, an Israeli young man and Morocco, back to the country and family she had wanted to forget, for a shock of
a Palestinian girl and the history that tries to keep them apart. cultures and a shock of prejudices. Maya will do everything she can, in fact anything
STEALING MARTIN LANE she can, to get back to France.
Drama - Comedy (95 min) THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS SPIVET
Language: English Emotional journey
Director: James Furino Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Writer: James Furino Producer: GAUMONT, EPITHETE FILMS, TAPIOCA FILMS, FRANCE 2
Producer: Larry Mitchell CINEMA, FILMARTO INC.
Key Cast: Dylan Baker, Isiah Whitlock, Jr. James Furino Key Cast: Kyle Catlett, Helena Bonham-Carter, Callum Keith Rennie, Judy Davis
Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: USA T.S. Spivet lives on a ranch in Montana with his mother, who is obsessed with beetle
Inspired by true events, Stealing Martin Lane offers a window into the life of a morphology, his cowboy father, who was born 100 years too late, and his 14 year old
disarmingly insightful homeless man, Harold “Chopper” Jones, who is trying to turn sister, who dreams of being Miss America. T.S. is a 12 year old child prodigy with a
passion for cartography and scientific inventions. One day he receives an unexpected
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missing. Writer: Alex Kustanovich, Vadim Moldovan
Producer: Ofir Kedar
Key Cast: Dougray Scott, Jodie Whittaker, Emilia Fox & David Warner
GOLDCREST FILMS INTERNATIONAL Delivery Status: Completed
Goldcrest Films International, 65-66 Dean St, London, W1D 4PL UK, Tel: +44 207 Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: UK
437 8696 Fax: +44 207 437 4448. Returning home from work, Mia (Jodie Whittaker) witnesses an aged woman
www.goldcrestfilms.com, sales@goldcrestfilms.com leap from a window. Scattered around the old woman’s broken, lifeless body Mia
Sales Agent discovers shredded pieces from a beloved photograph of herself and her former
At Cannes: Nick Quested (Director), Pascal Degove (Managing Director), Sam lover Ludwig (Dougray Scott). Highly unnerved, Mia begs Max (David Warner), the
Lefevre (TV Sales & Marketing Executive), Elisabeth Perlie (Sales Consultant), Alexei buildings’ all knowing custodian, to let her into the deceased woman’s flat. While
Witkowski (Sales & Marketing Coordinator) inside this strangely familiar place, Mia recognizes the contents as her own. Confused
Office: Year Round Exhibitor on The Platform and disturbed by what lies before her, she bolts back and forth in time where she is
PUSSY RIOT - A PUNK PRAYER forced to realize it was her very own life that ended before her. Now, the only way to
Documentary (90) safeguard her future is to go back to her past and confront the man she loves deeply
Language: Russian (English Subtitles) but dreads most.
Director: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin THE LIST
Delivery Status: Completed Documentary (83 minutes)
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Russia Language: English
Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in Director: Beth Murphy
a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial in a case that has gripped the world, the Producer: Beth Murphy, Sean Flynn
young artists or the society they live in? Delivery Status: Completed
DARK HORSE Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
Black Comedy (85 mins) The List is a modern-day Oskar Schindler story that focuses on Kirk Johnson, a
Language: English young American fighting to save thousands of Iraqis whose lives are in danger
Director: Todd Solondz (Life During Wartime, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, because they worked for the U.S. to help rebuild Iraq. After leading reconstruction
Storytelling) teams in Baghdad and Fallujah, Kirk returns home only to discover that many of his
Writer: Todd Solondz (Life During Wartime, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, former Iraqi colleagues are being killed, kidnapped or forced into exile by radical
Storytelling) militias. Frustrated by a stagnating government bureaucracy in the U.S. that has failed
Producer: Ted Hope (Martha Marcy May Marlene, Super), Derrick Tseng to protect its ‘Iraqi allies,’ Kirk begins compiling a list of their names and helps them
Key Cast: Justin Bartha (The Hangover), Selma Blair (Hellboy), Mia Farrow find refuge and a new life in America.
(Rosemary’s Baby), Jordan Gelber (Boardwalk Empire), Donna Murphy (Spiderman THE TSUNAMI AND THE CHERRY BLOSSOM
2), Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter) Documentary - Short Film (40 & 52mins)
Delivery Status: Completed Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA Director: Lucy Walker
Abe is a 30-something who lives with his parents, works for his father, and collects Producer: Kira Carstensen, Lucy Walker
toys. When he isn’t playing backgammon with his mother, he’s trying to romance Delivery Status: Completed
Miranda, a 30-something who has moved back in with her parents after her literary/ Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Japan
academic career crashed. Out of desperation, Miranda reluctantly agrees to marry Abe, Survivors in the areas hardest hit by Japans recent tsunami find the courage to
and the two begin to plan their life together. But, just when it looks like things are revive and rebuild as cherry blossom season begins. A stunning visual poem about
starting to go right for Abe, everything goes horribly wrong. the ephemeral nature of life and the healing power of Japans most beloved flower.
THE SQUARE Featuring photography by Aaron Phillips and music by Moby.
Documentary (90) THE HUMAN TOWER
Language: Arabic / English Documentary (75 minutes)
Director: Jehane Noujaim Language: English, Spanish
Delivery Status: Completed Director: RAM DEVINENI, CANO ROJAS
What does it mean to risk your life for your ideals? How far will five revolutionaries go Producer: RAM DEVINENI, CANO ROJAS
in defending their beliefs in the fight for their nation? Delivery Status: Completed
NATURAL SELECTION Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA, Spain, India
Black Comedy Set in three countries, the film is a global story of fearless skills and heart-bounding
Language: English suspense. In the slums of Mumbai, India, Sandeep, a coach with high dreams and
Director: Robbie Pickering (Award-winning short Prom Night) a debilitating case of malaria leads his team to break the record and build India’s
Writer: Robbie Pickering (Award-winning short Prom Night) biggest human tower at the one-day Dahi Handi Festival. While in Vilafranca de
Producer: Brion Hambel, Paul Jensen Penedes, Spain, a legendary coach, Melilla, takes his dreams to Santiago, Chile,
Key Cast: Rachael Harris (The Hangover), Matt O’Leary (Die Hard 4.0, Brick), John hoping to share the castellers’ tradition that goes back 400 years. Pressed for time,
Diehl (Jurassic Park III, Stargate), Jon Gries (Taken, Napoleon Dynamite) Melilla needs to prepare the Chilean team for the Universal Forum of Cultures where
Delivery Status: Completed they will attempt the first seven-level tower in Chile. Helped by Luis, a scholar, they
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: US develop a model to unify Chilean society from the bottom up through the human
Linda White, a barren Christian housewife, leads a sheltered existence in suburban towers. But all it takes is one shaky foot to send hundreds of bodies tumbling into the
Texas. Her world is turned upside-down when she discovers that her dying husband, mud or onto the crumbling pavement. A passion beyond race, borders, and ages.
Abe, has a 23-year old illegitimate son named Raymond living in Florida. Somewhere STOLEN SEAS
on the edge of guilt and loneliness, Linda grants Abe’s final wish and sets off on a Documentary (84 mins)
quixotic journey to find Raymond and bring him back before her husband passes away. Language: English
Along the way, Linda’s wonderfully bizarre relationship with Raymond will teach her Director: Thymaya Payne (Apparent Horizon, Let’s Not and Say We Did,Coup de
more about herself than she ever imagined possible and force her to come to terms with Grace)
her troubled past. Writer: Mark Monroe (The Tillman Story, Academy Award® winning The Cove,
ON THE ICE Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who)
Drama (96) Producer: Andrew Walker, Heather Phenix
Language: English Year of Production: 2011
Director: Andrew Okpeaha Maclean It’s November 8th, 2008 and the CEC Future, a Danish-owned merchant ship, is on
Writer: Andrew Okpeaha Maclean high alert. Sailing inside the Gulf of Aden, a pirate-infested swath of sea between
Producer: Cara Marcous, Lynette Howell, Marco Londoner, Zhana Londoner Somalia and Yemen, the ship’s captain, Andrey Nozhkin, knows there have been over
Key Cast: Josiah Patkotak Frank Qutuq Irelan Teddy Kyle Smith Adamina Kerr Sierra 100 pirate attacks on these waters since January. Machine gun bullets - tac tac tac on
Jade Sampson the hull, startle the sailors. This is it, Nozhkin thinks and he’s right: for two months,
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA the 12-man crew will be held at the mercy of Somali pirates, helpless, as million-
two teenage boys who have grown up like brothers go about their lives in the dollar hostage negociations threaten their heads.
comfortable claustrophobia of an isolated Alaskan town. Early one morning, on a seal RESTREPO
hunt with another teenager, an argument escalates into a tragic accident. Bonded by Documentary (93 mins)
their dark secret, the two best friends are forced to create one fabrication after another Language: English
and must explore the limits of friendship and honor in order to survive. Director: Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger (Writer of the highly-acclaimed
A THOUSAND KISSES DEEP international best-sellers War and The Perfect Storm)
Psychological Thriller Writer: Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
Language: English Producer: Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
Director: Dana Lustig
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Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Malaysia Producer: Auchara KIJKANJANAS
Princess Amanda from the video game “Kingdom Hill” is magically transported into Delivery Status: Completed
the real world to locate the legendary “Solar Warrior” who can save her citizens. She Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Thailand
arrives in Gong Lechar village where she makes friends with soccer-obsessed Iwan, Jorpe is a gifted child able to communicate with nature; his elder sister Norva is an
computer game champion Sabok and scientist Kumar. Kumar discovers that the expert of local herbs and her tribe’s martial arts. Together they encounter Sam, son of
computer game has been suffering a furious viral assault which would explain the crisis the President of Capital State, when he becomes lost in their jungle. Excessive global
in the virtual kingdom. Meanwhile, learning that the princess has left the virtual world, warming has attracted B.U.C.T. heat devils that are reproducing at an alarming rate,
Lord Vilus sends his own troops across the digital divide to bring her back in chains. devouring the world’s energy. World leaders come together and unanimously decide
They bring Amanda and her new friends into the virtual world where they must all the to use a new weapon called the “Cool Bomb”. Only Jorpe, Norva and Sam know
complete levels to save her kingdom and return back home. Inside the game, Sabok’s that there is a better solution to save the planet. The flawed “Cool Bomb” will in fact
skills are useless: he has been cheat codes to complete levels. Instead they must all destroy the ozone layer, upsetting the balance of nature and potentially ending all
work together to overcome the challenges in the virtual world. When they eventually human life...
reach the final stage of the game, they must compete against the giant robots of Lord JUDGE ARCHER
Vilus in a soccer match¡K AKA: Jian Shi Liu Bai Yuan
THE ADVENTURES OF JINBAO Martial arts (94)
AKA: Da Bing Jin Bao Li Xian Ji Language: Mandarin
Animation, Fantasy (78) Director: XU Haofeng
Language: Chinese Writer: XU Haofeng
Director: Leo Lo Producer: XIE Run
Writer: LAM Fung Key Cast: SONG Yang, YU Chenghui, LI Chengyuan
Producer: CHEUNG Wing Yiu, Peter Delivery Status: Completed
Key Cast: N/A Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: China
Delivery Status: Completed After witnessing his sister being raped by a nobleman, Shuangxi flees into the
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: China mountains. There, he meets a legendary old man named Judge Archer who presides
Soldier Jinbao, who dreams of a world without war, is accidentally transported into a over disputes between various martial arts schools. Before his death, the old man
parallel dimension called Merryland. But he arrives in the body of a panda! By chance trains Shuangxi in the art of archery for three years and passes on his esteemed
he meets Pig Skywalker, a flying farm animal, who mistakes him for the legendary title. The new Judge Archer soon comes to the attention of the martial arts world
Panda Warrior who had once saved the land. Jinbao learns that the kingdom is now and is hired by the half-Russian Erdong to avenge the death of her father. He
under the command of the Evil Master who has imprisoned the Dragon Princess. disguises himself as a fruit vendor opposite the house of his target, an exiled general.
He teams up with Skywalker’s friends to rescue the princess and free the land from Suspicious, the general’s chief security guard Kuang Yimin sends his wife, Yue
tyranny. But first, he must train to be the kingdom’s most courageous warrior. Yahong, to visit every day. Judge Archer falls in love and decides to elope with
QUEEN AHNO ¡V SPIRIT OF A WARRIOR Yahong, only to be captured by Kuang. The plot thickens when he is rescued by
AKA: АНУ ХАТАН Erdong who had hired him under false pretences.
Period Drama THE BLACK SQUARE
Language: Mongolian AKA: 黒い¥|¨¤
Director: Shuudertsetseg Baatarsuren Fantasy, Romance (144)
Writer: Shuudertsetseg Baatarsuren Language: Mandarin
Producer: Shuudertsetseg Baatarsuren, Boldkhuyag Damdinsuren Director: OKUHARA Hiroshi
Key Cast: Otgonjargal Davaasuren, Myagmar Mondoon, Bayarmagnai Yeguzer Writer: OKUHARA Hiroshi
Delivery Status: Post Production Producer: LI Rui, OKUHARA Tomoko
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Mongolia Key Cast: NAKAIZUMI Hideo, Dan Hong, CHEN Xixu
In 17th century Dzungaria, a young warrior princess skilled in archery falls in love with Delivery Status: Completed
the Tibetan monk Galdan despite being betrothed to his brother Senge in a political Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: China
union. When Senge is murdered, Galdan renounces his life of peace to take his bloody In an artists’ village on the outskirts of Beijing, struggling artist Zhaoping sees a
revenge. Under the support of the politically powerful 5th Dalai Lama, he is given the strange square object hovering in the sky. Intrigued, he follows the shape, which
title Boshughtu Khan, under which he unites the Western Mongolian Army. When the leads him to a man who has lost his memory. Zhaoping has the sense that he has met
Manchurian Army invades Dzungaria, Ahno stands beside Galdan with her bow in the man before even if he cannot quite place him. Zhaoping¡¦s sister, Lihua, has the
battle, sacrificing her own life to save her husband and forever changing the history of same feeling about the stranger and is strangely attracted to him. She walks hand-in-
Mongolia. hand with him through the uncertainty of the past into a world of illusion, where they
JUST ANOTHER WATER MARGIN encounter a Japanese soldier in a Beijing alleyway.
AKA: Da Hua Tian Xian THE MISSING
Action, Romance, Comedy AKA: Qi Ye Zhui Hun
Language: Chinese Thriller (100)
Director: Jeffrey Lau Language: Mandarin
Writer: Jeffrey Lau Director: Billy Chan, HO Widing, ZHENG Lei
Producer: Julia Chu Writer: NIU Xingan and ZHENG Lei
Key Cast: Ekin CHENG, SUN Li, Ronald CHENG Producer: Peggy Lu
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: China Key Cast: CHANG Juichia, SIK Siulung, Eunice An
Jin Ling is a beautiful young maid in the house of Madam Zhao. Zhao is envious of Delivery Status: In Production
the girl’s beauty and - in a fit of jealousy - has her engaged to the poorest and ugliest Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: China
man in the kingdom, Da Long. But Da Long’s brother Song and Jin Ling are already Nie buys a suburban mansion at a bargain price, moving in with his fiancee, Jiajia,
besotted with each other. Jin Ling is convinced that Song is the courageous husband and his estranged mother. Jiajia is soon plagued by nightmares whilst Nie becomes
that the gods have promised her. Lacking the confidence to run away with Jin Ling, obsessed with a portrait of Zhenzhen, the mansion’s previous owner. Psychologist
Song schools Da Long in the art of romance so that he can woo his new fiancee. Song Chung’s investigation of missing millionaire Zhou leads him to their home - and with
consoles himself with the knowledge that, as Jin Ling’s brother-in-law, he will at least Nie’s help - to an asylum where Zhenzhen is hospitalized. Zhou’s killer is captured.
be able to watch over her and listen to her entrancing lute-playing that is said to reveal Nie begins to experience disorientating hallucinations, resulting in a fatal car crash.
the true hearts of all men. Song is not the last man to fall for Jin Ling’s beauty. When Chung investigates with the trail leading to Nie’s mother and a bloody family secret.
Madam Zhao’s cousin, the rich merchant’s son Wen Sheng, casts his gaze upon her, he Meanwhile, the real killer is still on the loose.
has her abducted and Da Long imprisoned on false charges. In despair, Song decides YUGO AND LALA
that the only way out of his misery is suicide. But, just then, a UFO crash-lands and AKA: Shen Mi Shi Jie Li Xian Ji
the two aliens on board agree to help him devise a plan to rescue Da Long and Jin Ling CGI-Animation (80 min)
employing their other-worldly technologies. Furious at losing Da Long and Jin Ling, Language: Mandarin
Wen and Madam Zhao hire the infamous and deadly 108 bandits to chase after them Director: WANG Yun-fei
and the newly courageous Song. Writer: WANG Yun-fei
ECHO PLANET Co-Production Partners: It¡¦s Cartoon Animations Studio
AKA: ECHO-JEW-KONG-LOK Executive Producer: JING Zhi-gang
Stereoscopic 3D / CGI Animation (81 min) Producer: YUAN Mei, DIAO Ren-yong
Language: English Key Cast: N/A
Director: Kompin KEMGUMNIRD Delivery Status: Completed
Writer: Warunyu UDOMKANJANANON, Kongdej JATURANRASMEE, Pornsawan Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: China
SCRIBOONWONG, Charoonporn PARAPAKPRALAI Yugo meets a white “liger” - half lion, half tiger - who introduces itself as Lala.
Executive Producer: Auchara KIJKANJANAS Shocked that she can understand the animal’s language, Yugo chases Lala up a
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that Kristiina finds the life she has been dreaming of. Russian mob. He rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice.
LESS RED SQUAD
Drama (77 Min) Action
Language: English Language: English
Director: Gabriel Diamond Director: Michael Katleman
Writer: Gabriel Diamond. Zak Barnett Writer: Jorge Suarez
Producer: Zak Barnett, Gabriel Diamond. Gabriel Goldstein. Executive Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro
Key Cast: Dave Amiott, Zak Barnett, David Crane and Rebecca Noon. Producer: Patricia Eberle
Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: USA Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA
Less tells the story of Finn Norman, a renegade artist who has severed all ties with The director of the DEA secretly hires a team of mercenaries to battle the Giraldo
his past to make his home on the streets. Living off what others throw away, Finn’s Cartel, which has seized control of a small town in Mexico that shares a border with
quest for a life free from attachment is threatened by his growing connections with Texas.
a painfully shy cafe girl and a grizzled street performer. Less asks the questions: SLEIGHT OF HAND
does true happiness come from having everything you want, or simply not wanting Action
anything? Can we live in the moment if we’re not at peace with our past? Is spiritual Language: English
bypass possible? Shot on the streets of San Francisco’s Tenderloin District in a gritty Director: Brad Mirman
documentary style, this portrait of three outsiders shows a world both decaying and Writer: Brad Mirman
beautiful, where city streets become rivers, sidewalks are bedrooms, and passersby Co-Production Partners: N/A
audience to the blurry line between genius and madness, an unlikely romance and the Executive Producer: Patricia Eberle, Cam Cannon, Hayley Magouirk
magic simplicity of a city witnessed anew. Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro
Key Cast: Ray Liotta,Til Schweiger, Ving Rhames, Thomas Jane, Anthony Anderson,
Peter Stormare, Jon Lovitz
HALF MOON FILMS, LLC Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Half Moon Films, LLC, 50 N. Sierra St. #1004, Reno, NV 89501 United States, Tel: Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA
775 622-8565 Fax: 925 258-5013. A trio of blue collar working stiffs end up in possession of a rare gold coin that
www.WeeklyScare.Me, gklyon@halfmoonfilms.biz belongs to a notorious gangster. When they lose the coin, the gangster gives them six
Producer days to find it or pay him what it’s worth.
At Cannes: Greg Lyon (Executive Producer), Kyle Kernan (Producer) USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE
Office: Year Round Exhibitor on The Platform, Tel: 1.925.998.1116 Action, Adventure, War
WEEKLYSCARE.ME FIRST SEASON Language: English
Horror/thriller (94.5 minutes) Director: TBA
Language: English Executive Producer: Patricia Eberle, Mario Van Peebles, Tim Cavanaugh
Director: Various Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro
Writer: Various Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Co-Production Partners: None Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA
Executive Producer: Greg Lyon After delivering the atomic bomb that will end WWII, the USS INDIANAPOLIS
Producer: Kyle Kernan is sunk, leaving eight hundred men stranded for days in the ocean where they battle
Key Cast: Douglas Olsson, Natalie Stevens, Shelby Lyon thirst, hunger, extreme heat and cold, and vicious man-eating sharks.
Delivery Status: Completed ESCOBAR
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA Action
The WebTV horror channel - WeeklyScare.Me featured ten short horror films produced Language: English
by aspiring producers and directors. Oubreak, Dead Aim, The Diner, Lizzie Borden, Director: Alexander Witt
The Ballerina, The Oath, NightWatch, Lust Overnighter, and The Other Friend. The Writer: Cam Cannon
films are introduced by Kera Valkyrie our angel of the night. Co-Production Partners: N/A
Executive Producer: Patricia Eberle, Cam Cannon, Hayley Magouirk
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro
HANNIBAL CLASSICS Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Hannibal Classics, 8265 Sunset Blvd., Suite 106, West Hollywood, CA 90046 USA,
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA
Tel: 323-848-2945 Fax: 323-848-2946.
Pablo Escobar’s political aspirations lead him into a full-fledged war against his own
www.hannibalclassics.com, contactus@hannibalclassics.com
country and the United States.
Sales Agent
TOUCHBACK
At Cannes: Richard Rionda Del Castro (Chairman & CEO), Patricia Rionda Del
Family (122 Minutes)
Castro (President), Hayley Magouirk (Vice President), Kristy Eberle (Project
Language: English
Manager)
Director: Don Handfield
Office: Lerins S11, Tel: 337-278-4874
Writer: Don Handfield
RATCHET & CLANK: THE MOVIE
Co-Production Partners: Freedom Films Independent, LLC
3D Family Animated Action-Adventure
Executive Producer: George Furla, Randall Emmett, Alexandria Klipstein, Patricia
Language: English
Eberle, Richard Rionda Del Castro, Shannon Gardner, Derek Beumer, Michael Corso,
Director: Jericca Cleland
Anthony Gudas, Paul Ross, Tony Stacy
Co-Production Partners: Ratchet Productions LLC, Sony Computer Entertainment,
Producer: Brian Presley, Carissa Buffel, Kevin Matusow
Blockade Entertainment, Rainmaker Entertainment, The Dalian Wanda Group, CNHK
Key Cast: Brian Presley, Kurt Russell, Melanie Lynskey, Christine Lahti
Media China
Delivery Status: Completed
Executive Producer: Patricia Eberle, Richard Rionda Del Castro, Christopher S.
Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: USA
Williams, Chad Stewart, Tim Cavanaugh, David Sheldon, Kevin Munroe, Michael
After an unfortunate event, a young man’s life is completely changed leaving him
Hefferon
unable to pursue his dreams, until fifteen years later, when he is given a chance to go
Producer: Brad Foxhoven, David Wohl
back and change history.
Delivery Status: In Production
SETUP
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA/Canada
Action (85 Minutes)
Ratchet is a mischievous mechanic whose craving for action gets quenched when he
Language: English
drags his trusty robot sidekick Clank into am interplanetary mission to rid the universe
Director: Mike Gunther
of an evil madman named Drek.
Writer: Mike Gunther, Mike Behrman
TOKAREV
Co-Production Partners: Cheetah Vision Films, Emmett Furla Films
Action
Executive Producer: Rick Jackson, Fredrik Malmberg, Daniel Wagner, Anthony
Language: English
Gudas, Michael Corso, Brandt Andersen, Martin Blencowe, Ted Fox, Peter Benz,
Director: Paco Cabezas
Mike Rapp, Richard Rionda Del Castro, Patricia Eberle, Barry Brooker, Stan Wertlieb
Writer: Jim Agnew & Sean Keller
Producer: Randall Emmett, Curtis Jackson, George Furla
Executive Producer: Patricia Eberle, Jim Agnew, Sean Keller, Bill Bromiley
Key Cast: Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Bruce Willis, Ryan Phillippe, Randy Couture
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro, Michael Mendelsohn
Delivery Status: Completed
Key Cast: Nicolas Cage, Danny Glover
Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: USA
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Longtime friends Sonny, Vincent, and Dave grew up on the mean streets of Detroit,
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA
destined for a life of crime. After a successful but bloody diamond robbery, Vincent
A reformed criminal comes home to find that his daughter has been kidnapped by the
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love affair with the Mona Lisa.To be filmed in 3D. ordinary high school student.
CONTINUITY THE CULLING
Comedy thriller (100 minutes) Supernatural Thriller
Language: English Language: English
Director: Philippe Mora Director: Rustam Branaman
Writer: Philippe Mora Writer: Rustam Branaman
Producer: Philippe Mora Producer: Colin Bates
Key Cast: Paul Clemens, Hoyt Richards, Victoria Bullock, Rena Riffel,Philippe Mora Key Cast: Jeremy Sumpter, Jonathon Schaech, Virginia Williams
Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA
A rogue intelligence group send remote viewers back to 33AD to try and prove that A group of college friends reunite for a road trip. They are interrupted by a lost
God exists. little girl on the side of the road, leading them to a night of unsuspected horrors and
GERMAN SONS supernatural activity.
Documentary POKER NIGHT
Language: English Action
Director: Philippe Mora Language: English
Writer: Philippe Mora & Harald Grosskopf Director: Greg Francis
Producer: Philippe Mora & Harald Grosskopf Writer: Greg Francis
Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Corey Large
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Germany/Australia/United States Key Cast: Beau Mirchoff, Ron Perlman, Giancarlo Esposito, Titus Welliver
The documentary about artists Harald Grosskopf and Philippe Mora, and how their Delivery Status: Post Production
friendship reconciled their opposite German family histories. Grosskopf’s father was Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA
a Nazi Party member in the Wehrmacht and Mora’s father was a Jewish Resistance In this twisted thriller, a young detective becomes an unwilling participant in a
fighter. sadistic game of cat and mouse when he is kidnapped by a calculating serial killer.
ABSOLUTELY MODERN The detective must use the wisdom and hindsight imparted to him from senior
Mockumentary (90 minutes) detectives on their regular poker night if he is going to survive.
Language: English
Director: Philippe Mora
Writer: Philippe Mora HOLLYWOOD CLASSICS
Producer: Philippe Mora, Pamela Mora Hollywood Classics, Garfield House, 2nd Floor, 86-88 Edgware Road, London, W2
Key Cast: Mario Melchiot, Rena Riffel, Philippe Mora, Austen Tayshus, Brad Wilson, 2EA UK, Tel: 44 (0)20 7535 7260 Fax: 44 (0)20 7535 7235. www.hollywoodclassics.
Tiriel Mora, Anni Blackhurst com, info@Hollywoodclassics.com
Delivery Status: Completed Sales Agent
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA At Cannes: Peter Urie (CEO), John Ramchandani (Managing Director), Melanie Tebb
Bohemians and artists in Melbourne, Australia in the Forties absorb the Modernist (Head of Sales, DVD and Theatrical), Ben Urie (Digital Cinema Sales Manager),
explosion in Europe and create their own explosive art and life style. Love becomes Petra Sumser (Germany - DVD & TV/VOD Sales Rep)
an inspiration and a casualty. Office: 63 la Croisette – cnr. rue Pasteur, oppos. Miramar Hotel Le Lerina, 4th floor,
THE GERTRUDE STEIN MYSTERY OR SOME LIKE IT ART Tel: Melanie Tebb: +44 (0) 774 774 3615
Comedy docufiction LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN
Language: English Romance (86)
Director: Philippe Mora Language: English
Writer: Philippe Mora Director: Max Ophuls
Producer: Philippe Mora Key Cast: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan and Mady Christians
Key Cast: Jonathan Ball, Rena Riffel, Hoyt Richards, Bob Seideman, D.M Thomas, Delivery Status: Completed
Sandy Lieberson, Lutz Becker Country of Origin: 1948
Delivery Status: Completed A pianist arrives home to find a suicide note from a woman with whom he had a brief
Year of Production: 2011 liaison. In flashback her story unfolds; her unfaltering love for him and the truth about
News break: Gertrude Stein lived on into the 21st Century, changing events his philandering nature. This haunting tale is perhaps cinema’s greatest unrequited
throughout her life on incredible secret missions. This film blows the lid off the real love story and is considered to be Ophuls’ masterpiece.
history of the 20th century. Fascinating art historian Lord Steinway leads you through LA LUNA
the odyessy. Drama (142)
THE SOUND OF SPYING Language: English
Musical (90 mins) Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Language: English Key Cast: Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Laura Betti
Director: Philippe Mora Delivery Status: Completed
Writer: Philippe Mora Year of Production: 1979 Country of Origin: Italy
Producer: Philippe Mora Bertolucci creates a multi-layered and hypnotic Oedipal-parable, which is ravishing to
Delivery Status: Pre-Production look at. A young junkie falls in love with his opera singer mother.
Year of Production: 2014 Country of Origin: USA ROLLING THUNDER
A musical about the Cold War with Noel Coward, Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and other Thriller (95 mins)
spies on both sides. Language: English
Director: John Flynn
Writer: Paul Schrader
HIGHLAND FILM GROUP Key Cast: William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones
Highland Film Group, 9200 Sunset Blvd. Suite 600, West Hollywood, CA 90069 USA, Delivery Status: Completed
Tel: (310) 271-8400 Fax: (310) 278-7500. Quentin Tarantino named his production company Rolling Thunder in homage to this
www.highlandfilmgroup.com, sales@highlandfilmgroup.com film. Quintessential 70s violent revenge film written by Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver).
Sales Agent A war hero returns home from Vietnam and when his family is killed by jealous thugs,
At Cannes: Joseph Lanius (Head of Business and Legal Affairs), Delphine Perrier he rounds up a former buddy and they enact prolonged brutal and bloody revenge.
(Head of International Sales), Tyler Stout (Director of Marketing), Arianne Fraser
(CEO), Maria Rogers (Director of International Sales)
Office: S-16 Lerins, Tel: +33 07 87 72 10 15 HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS INTERNATIONAL
BARELY LETHAL Hollywood Studios International, 9107 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 600, Beverly Hills, CA
Action 90210 USA, Tel: 310-358-9007
Language: English www.hsifilms.com, sales@hsifilms.com
Director: Kyle Newman Sales Agent
Writer: John D’Arco At Cannes: Eric Christenson (President of HSI Films)
Producer: Vanessa Coifman, Brett Ratner Office: Year Round Exhibitor on S&T, Tel: +49 30 33 77 77
Key Cast: Hailee Steinfeld LUV
Delivery Status: Pre-Production Thriller, Drama
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA Director: Sheldon Candis
In this high-octane teen action comedy, MEAN GIRLS meets JAMES BOND when Writer: Sheldon Candis, Justin Wilson
16-year-old professional assassin Megan fakes her own death in order to become an Key Cast: Common, Dennis Haysbert, Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Meagan
CANNES 2013 T h e B u s i n e s s O f F i l m 71
Language: English irritations and sensuality reach the boiling point just as a hurricane approaches.
Director: Jeff Lipsky ZOOMAN
Producer: Nick Huston, Paul Jarrett Documentary (91 mins)
Key Cast: Palminteri, Drea de Matteo, Linda Fiorentino Language: English
Year of Production: 2009 Country of Origin: USA Director: Rolf Winters
Sixty is the new Forty and Frank Gregorio and his daughter Lana are having Co-Production Partners: Purple Wolf Productions
simultaneous mid-life crises. Key Cast: Carrie Cramer, Bud DeYoung
STAINED Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
Thriller (90 minutes) As real as it gets. ZOOMAN is a unique Dogme-style ‘reality feature film’ about
Language: English a man living his dream. As a little boy born and raised in Indiana, Buddy always
Director: Karen Lam dreamed of having a Zoo in his own backyard. When his father died on his 18th
Writer: Karen Lam birthday, Buddy moved to Upper Michigan to find his destiny. 36 years later, we
Producer: Karen Lam follow Buddy (now 54) through four seasons pursuing his dream against the odds.
Key Cast: Sonja Bennett, Tinsel Kory We witness the struggle and sacrifices he and his fiancee Carrie (27) make to live
Delivery Status: Completed that dream unconditionally, their fight for conservation and survival. ZOOMAN is no
Year of Production: 2009 Country of Origin: Canada fairytale. Rather a raw, authentic account of a raw, authentic man living his life with
A booksellers obsession with a former lover threatens to unravel her relationship with pure vigor and determination.
her adopted sister and expose the deadly secret of their past. RANDY RHOADS: THE QUIET RIOT YEARS
GHOSTS DON’T EXIST Documentary (91 mins)
Horror (90 minutes) Language: English
Language: English Director: Ron Sobol
Director: Eric Espejo Writer: Andrew Klein & Ron Sobol
Producer: Eric Espejo, Tanner Cooley, Richard Friend, Aaron Goodmiller Co-Production Partners: Red Match Productions
Key Cast: Chris Cooley, Phillip Roebuck Executive Producer: Peter Margolis
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA Producer: Andrew Klein
A booksellers obsession with a former lover threatens to unravel her relationship with Key Cast: Rudy Sarzo, Drew Forsyth, Stan Lee
her adopted sister and expose the deadly secret of their past. Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA
“Randy Rhoads, The Quiet Riot Years” is a coming of age story that chronicles the
HOUSE OF FILM ascension of an iconic Los Angeles. based band, Quiet Riot, through their internal
House of Film, 427 N. Canon Dr. Suite #201, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA, Tel: +1 struggles, hardships, and eventual triumphs during the ever changing musical climate
818.647.0118 Fax: +1 818.647.0118. of the 70’s. The documentary sheds light on an important but little known part of
www.houseoffilm.com, sales@houseoffilm.com Randy Rhoads’ life and growth as a guitar player. After Randy Rhoads and Kevin
Sales Agent DuBrow parted ways, each had newfound success with their new bands, each selling
At Cannes: Ava B. (CEO/President), Andrew Gallagher (Head of Sales), Carol-Jeanette over 10 million records. At the film’s center, we take a closer look at the friendship
Jorgensen (Partner), Elliott Mazzola (Sales & Acquisitions Executive) that Randy and Kevin shared. This is a story that needed to be told. Kevin was
Office: Palais Level 01 - Stand Number: 21.01, Tel: +33 644 842 282 planning on telling it himself. Sadly, he never got the chance before his passing
JAIL CAESAR ROMEO AND JULIET
Drama (84 mins) Family (94 mins)
Language: English Language: English
Director: Paul Schoolman Director: Brian Cass
Writer: Paul Schoolman Producer: Edgard Cass and Alexander Rybalov
Co-Production Partners: Caesar Productions Key Cast: Andrew Dionese; Sarah Lynne Wright; Sarah Lynne Wright
Key Cast: Derek Jacobi, John Kani, Alice Krige Delivery Status: Completed
Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Argentina
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: UK BYE
A feature film that tells the timeless story of an adolescence shaped by social and Performance Dance (22 mins)
political events. It charts a young man’s impassioned quest for power, for the meaning Language: N/A
of freedom and to know himself, to live his dreams, to achieve his ambitions. The film Director: Mats Ek
explores his struggle to survive by becoming a power broker, a manipulator and then Key Cast: Sylvie Guillem
a dictator --the genesis of a powerful man, with roots in politics, violence, and gang Delivery Status: Completed
warfare. Year of Production: 2012
REMNANTS The original stage production of BYE (Ajö) was produced by and took place at the
Action (93 mins) Sadler’s Wells in London. Sadler’s Wells is the leading dance theatre of the UK and
Language: English one of most prestigious dance institutions of the world, representing the highest
Director: Tim Szczesniak, Matthew Young, Jared Young quality and standards, with a history of over 300 years.
Writer: Paul Hillburger, Adam Minarovich IN A SMALL WORLD
Co-Production Partners: Afterlight Pictures, LLC Drama (106 mins)
Producer: Zeke Flatten, Travis Fox, Tom Sizemore Language: English, Thai, Tamil, Japanese, German
Key Cast: Tom Sizemore, Wilbur Fitzgerald, Alex Van Director: Samy Pavel
Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Samy Pavel and Rishan Seraphim
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA Co-Production Partners: Harsha Navaratne, Crosscurrent Productions PVT LTD.
A rare astronomical event causes a permanent worldwide black out, forcing residents Producer: Harsha Navaratne
of a middle-class suburb to get by with no modern conveniences. The community pulls Key Cast: Srisanoy Jiraporn, Hiroki Kurohashi, Rev. Jegatheesh Kurukkal
together and adapts to a simpler way of life, but their success draws the attention of the Delivery Status: Completed
less resourceful residents in the area and soon results in a war between subdivisions. Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Sri Lanka
GIRAFFES Through our actions, we create the world we live in. East or west, rich or poor, young
AKA: Jirafas or old, single or married, we all share the same human qualities. Within each of
Drama (94 mins) us there are good emotions and bad emotions. Within each of us is the potential to
Language: Spanish create peace and happiness and the potential to create sorrow and suffering. Standing
Director: Kiki Álvarez in between, we are pulled in different directions. Which way to go? Which way to
Writer: Claudia Muñiz happiness? The only thing that is certain is that the choice is UP TO YOU.
Co-Production Partners: Galaxia 311 S.A.S. WHEN THE DRAGON SWALLOWED THE SUN: THE HISTORY OF TIBET
Producer: Ivonne Cotorruelo, Nicolás Ordoñez, Kiki Álvarez, Gina Villafañe TOLD BY RICHARD GERE
Key Cast: Claudia Muñiz; Olivia Manrufo; Yasmani Guerrero Documentary (115 minutes)
Delivery Status: Completed Language: English/Tibetan
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Cuba Director: Dirk Simon
They are young flatmates seeking their footing in today’s Cuba, where they must fight Writer: Dirk Simon, Kristen Riordan
for a home of their own. Filled with sensual tension, Manuel, Lia and Tania join forces Co-Production Partners: Free Motion Films
to survive. Giraffes takes us along in this silent war largely set indoors. Today’s Havana Producer: Vanessa Philippe, Dennis Haysbert, Dirk Simon
is represented in the waitress Lia, who seems more interested in the good life than Key Cast: Dalai Lama, Lhasang Tsering, Samdhong Rinpoche
her boyfriend Manuel does. Three beautiful twenty-somethings in a house inevitably Delivery Status: Completed
leads to more tension than just the question of who owns the property. All the pent-up
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An American True Story Documentary Film About Life After Sex-Slavery and Abuse. Key Cast: Karen Black, Barbara Bain, Julia Garcia Combs
The search for freedom from a devastating act of destruction to the ultimate ‘triumph Delivery Status: Completed
of the human spirit’ that will help others with similar secrets of abuse to heal. Actress Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: USA
Brook Bello took such a journey when she went from her familiar life to Florida, In her debut feature film, writer/director Angela Garcia Combs spins a dark and
Dubai, the Kingdom of Bahrain and other Middle Eastern Countries. The baggage funny tale of an ambitious young woman at a crucial turning point in her career
carried was heavy with repressed memories and secrets of a crime most foul - rape-the and her relationship with her bi-polar mother. Louise (Julia Garcia Combs) is an
worst kind of outrage when her innocence, was taken by an adult when a child and insurance underwriter living in Los Angeles with her mother, May (Karen Black),
virgin. She became a runaway to escape the pain only to find that the horror escalated who has recently been evicted from her Section 8 apartment after the building was
when she became the victim of human-trafficking-sex-slavery. Forced by pimps into condemned. May’s shaky grip on reality begins to loosen when she becomes aware
sexual slavery and drug use her life seemed hopeless until she was able to break free of the close relationship between Louise and her trailblazing boss, Catherine (Barbara
not only physically but emtionally. Bain), whom Louise admires and adores. Catherine is secretly fighting cancer and
REGGAETON/LA CLAVE has an estranged relationship with her own daughter, and reaches out to Louise as a
World Music Documentary (80 mins) surrogate. At the same time, Catherine is pushing Louise to accept a big promotion,
Language: Spanish, with English subtitles which will compel Louise to relocate to New York. Things heat up when May and
Director: Mariella Sosa Catherine meet by chance on Mother’s Day and an alarming confrontation ensues...
Co-Production Partners: MS Films (II) SMOKING | NON SMOKING
Delivery Status: Completed AKA: The Pack
Year of Production: 2008 Country of Origin: USA Drama Courtroom (120 minutes)
Reggaeton-La Clave is a fascinating musical documentary film about the similarities Language: English
between two types of music genres known today as Salsa and Reggaeton. We were Director: Alyssa Rallo Bennett
fortunate enough to have gathered the hottest stars of reggaeton as well as the old Writer: Alyssa Rallo Bennett, Gary Bennett
school greats of salsa. We have interviewed salsa icons such as Ruben Blades, Johnny Co-Production Partners: Electric Movies
Pacheco, Willie Colon, Ismael Miranda, Gilberto SantaRosa and on the reggaeton side Producer: Alyssa Rallo Bennett, Josselyne Herman-Saccio
we interviewed billboard chart - topping artists such as Julio Voltio, Tego Calderón, Key Cast: Lucie Arnaz, Elisabeth Moss, Roger Robinson
Hector “El Father” just to name a few.These artists all came together with the same Delivery Status: Completed
purpose to discuss how two different styles of music can have so much in common and Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: USA
how their music is all composed under “La Clave,” the five-note two-bar rhythm pattern The Pack brings to the forefront the complexities and anguish of how any of us can
which generates rhythmic measurement and is the foundation and backbone of Salsa get caught in the cultural and legal shift of our nation. The question The Pack catches
(and all Afro-Cuban based music). They also take you on an extraordinary journey us all with is: “What if your behavior was legally accepted for dozens of years and
back in time to the roots that influenced all of these different types of music, which is all of a sudden it came into question?” In a hand-picked case, an ambitious Assistant
AFRICA and its rhythm of “drums and percussion.” District Attorney (Carlos Leon) prosecutes a wife and mother (Lucie Arnaz) for three
PICTURES, COMING TO EAT YOU counts of murder after her forty-seven year old husband (Scott Bryce) dies of lung
AKA: Mondomanila cancer from allegedly breathing her second-hand smoke for thirty years. Mourning
Mondo (69 mins) the loss of his father, their twenty-four year old son (Ryan Homchick) decides to
Language: Filipino/English subtitled in English testify against his mother. At first, the jury struggles with what appears to be a
Director: Khavn De La Cruz ridiculous case, but one juror’s doubts forces the jury into an intriguing, emotional
Writer: Khavn, Norman Wilwayco and complicated choice regarding addiction, loyalty and individual responsibility.
Co-Production Partners: Filmless Films, Kamias Road RU-486: THE LAST OPTION
Key Cast: Timothy Mabalot, Marife Necesito, Palito Drama (Social) (89 minutes)
Delivery Status: Completed Language: English
Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: Philippines/Germany Director: Irene Maffei
Beyond tragedy, planted firmly in the territories of madness, “Mondomanila” is not Writer: Eliot Webster, Andrew Nicholas
about a celebration of self-destruction, but simply a backyard full of lovable fuckers. Co-Production Partners: Xylomancy Films
ELECTRONIC AWAKENING Producer: Eliot Webster
Spiritual Documentary (90 mins) Key Cast: Zina Badran, Richard Holt, Tyrone Lopez
Language: English Delivery Status: Completed
Director: Andrew Johner Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: UK
Writer: Drew Martinez The dilemma faced by one woman over whether or not to abort the baby she carries
Co-Production Partners: Keyframe-Entertainment inside while the world around falls apart. Meena Patel (Zina Badran) leaves her home
Key Cast: Erik Davis, Goa Gil, Alex Grey and boyfriend, spending the week preceding her abortion with a student whom used to
Delivery Status: Completed be besotted with her. She hopes he still is, for he is only one left to turn to. The only
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA one who could help her keep the baby.
In Electronic Awakening, director Andrew Johner lifts the veil on an underground
spiritual movement that has developed within electronic music cultures worldwide. This
close encounter with the mysticism of rave questions the origin of religion, and offers IFDC
insight into the future of man’s spirituality. It investigates this culture’s significance to IFDC, 1901 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 930, Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA, Tel: 310-
the prophecies of 2012, and how this bizarre and sacral relationship to electronic music 788-2803 Fax: 310-788-2823.
has evolved the group overtime, and where it seems to be leading them. www.ifdcinc.com, general@ifdcinc.com
ONE LAST GAME At Cannes: Jerome Bliah (President), Victoria Romley (Executive Assistant)
AKA: Gellert - Game Over Office: Year Round Exhibitor on The Platform, Tel: 310-788-2803 Fax: 310-788-2823
Thriller (82 minutes) FORGET ME NOT
Language: English Horror (90 minutes)
Director: Stefan Language: English
Writer: Michael Wallner, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Director: Tyler Oliver
Co-Production Partners: Grand Hotel Pictures Writer: Tyler Oliver, Jamieson Stern
Producer: Norbert Kneibl, Ken Duken Producer: Vindicated Pictures
Key Cast: Ken Duken, Regina Lund, Dan van Husen Key Cast: Carly Schroeder, Cody Linley, Brie Gabrielle
Delivery Status: Completed Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Germany Year of Production: 2009 Country of Origin: USA
Gellert is addicted – he plays poker. Poker is his passion, his addiction, he’s obsessed When Sandy Channing’s friends start disappearing, she discovers that they have
with it. Like back in the days together with his companions Obonya and Rul he sits on awakened the spirit of a girl they wronged long ago.
his seat in the bar 667. One last game as he always said. He wants to pay back Tonia WSW
and put everything in order again. He needs this last chance. He plays his cards like he Drama, Television (60 minutes)
always does, he is very cheerful to win this game when suddenly Obonya pulls a knife Language: English
out of his pocket. Glistening light, he opens his eyes wide. Delivery Status: In Development
NOTHING SPECIAL Country of Origin: USA
Comedy (99 minutes) Hour television drama about business women
Language: English
Director: Angela Garcia Combs
Writer: Angela Garcia Combs
IFM WORLD RELEASING
IFM World Releasing, 1328 East Palmer Avenue, Glendale, CA 91205 USA, Tel:
Co-Production Partners: Yellow Wallpaper Productions
1.818.243.4976 Fax: 1.818.550.9728.
Producer: Sascha Schneider
http://www.ifmfilm.com, contact@ifmfilm.com
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Right after World War II, a Jew who survived the Holocaust steals the identity of Four friends discover and accidentally kill a burglar -- who may not be alone -- in the
another man to survive in Soviet controlled Poland and lives well until his past comes kitchen during their weekly poker night.
back to haunt him. THIRD NAIL, THE
THE GREAT CHAMELEON Thriller -Drama (90 mins.)
Comedy (97 minutes) Language: English
Language: English Director: Kevin Lewis
Director: Goran Kalezic Writer: Huntley Ritter, Kevin Lewis
Writer: Victor Altomare, Goran Kalezic Co-Production Partners: Ann Luly, Huntley Ritter
Executive Producer: Joseph Bernaudo Producer: Jonathan Bross
Producer: Victor Altomare Key Cast: Huntley Ritter, Krista Allen, Charles S. Dutton,
Key Cast: Victor Altomare, Stacy Keach, and Robert Davi Delivery Status: Completed
Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2008 Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Canada A man wrongfully accused for murder is release from prison then must struggle with
The Great Chameleon is a dark comedy about Joe, a lovable ex-con who has just been revenge and redemption while trying to save his kidnapped daughter.
released from prison. Officer Curry and Katy Sim are intent on finding the stolen SIGNIFICANT OTHER, THE
money he stashed before his incarceration. Joe proves equally determined to locate his Romantic Comedy (90 mins.)
missing niece, Shawna. With the clock counting down, he looks for answers about her Language: English
disappearance before it’s too late. Why did Detective Pendell stop looking for Shawna? Director: Shalene Portman
Who has been following him since he left prison and. . . what costume should he wear Writer: Shalene Portman
next? With the help of his friend Max and myriad disguises, Joe delves deep into an Producer: Shalene Portman
underworld of corruption to uncover the truth Key Cast: Brittany Joyner, Danny Boaz, Stephanie Young, Morgana Shaw.
APARTMENT 1303 3D Delivery Status: Completed
AKA: Apartment 1303 Year of Production: 2009 Country of Origin: USA
Horror (TBA) A beautiful woman pretends to be married while running a bed-and-breakfast business
Language: English but falls in love with a handsome guest and can?t tell him the truth.
Director: Daniel Fridell RAY OF SUNSHINE
Writer: Jim Steele, Michele Taverna Drama (86 mins.)
Co-Production Partners: Fullum Films Language: English
Executive Producer: Cindy Nelson-Mullen, Jim Steele, David Shoshan Director: Norbert Meisel
Producer: Michael Taverna, Eric Mantion, David-Alexander Coiteux Writer: Rae Rodgers
Key Cast: Mischa Barton, Rebecca De Mornay, Julianne Michelle, Corey Sevier, and Co-Production Partners: Nancy Kwan
John Diehl Producer: Norbert Meisel
Delivery Status: Post Production Key Cast: Matthew Carroll, Seymour Cassell, Nancy Kwan
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA Delivery Status: Completed
A modern ghost story which turns a love/hate relationship between mother and daughter Year of Production: 2006 Country of Origin: USA
into a tale of horror. Some rentals are too good to be true. A young girl disguises herself as a boy and searches for her father, a free-wheeling
APOCALYPSE, CA musician who abandoned her when she was a child.
Sci Fi Fantasy (90 mins.) FINAL MOVE
Language: English Thriller (91 Minutes)
Director: Chad Peter Language: English
Writer: Chad Peter Director: Joey Travolta
Co-Production Partners: Alexander Cardinale, Nick Mathis, Eric Branco Writer: Richard Preston Jr., David Shoshan
Producer: Chad Peter Executive Producer: David Shoshan
Key Cast: Nick Mathis, Erin Bodine, Anne McDaniels Producer: David Ornston, David Shoshan, Richard Salvatore
Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Matt Schulze, Lochlyn Munro, David Carradine, Daniel Baldwin, Rachel
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA Hunter, Amanda Detmer, Paul Sampson
The story of friends as they prepare for certain death at the hands of a massive asteroid, Delivery Status: Completed
sex-inducing drugs, a three-hundred foot giant, and a horde of other absurd problems. Year of Production: 2005 Country of Origin: USA
SHADOW WITHIN, THE Former police detective Dan Marlowe (Matt Schulze) has a knack for seeing things
Thriller-Horror (90 mins.) no one else can; his psychic ability makes him good at solving crimes and a whiz
Language: English at chess. Recovering in a psychiatric center, Marlowe’s former partner asks him to
Director: Silvana Zancolo come back to reality when a copycat serial murderer stalks the city using an executed
Writer: Daniel Aarons, Giovanni Eccher killer’s methods. Now, he must decide whether to risk his sanity by stepping back into
Co-Production Partners: Pier Luigi Corvi Mora, Anna Maria Murro his job and taking on the deadly case of the “chess piece murders.”
Producer: Paolo Lato FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
Key Cast: Hayley J. Williams, Beth Winslet, Laurence Belcher, Bonny Ambrose, Rod AKA: Plane Dead
Hallett. Action - Horror (94 Minutes)
Delivery Status: Completed Language: English
Year of Production: 2007 Country of Origin: Italy Director: Scott Thomas
A grieving mother convinces her child to contact her dead son only to discover that the Writer: Sidney Iwanter, Mark Onspaugh, Scott Thomas
dead child has surprising plans for her. Executive Producer: David Shoshan
LOVE AND DEBATE Producer: Scott Thomas
Romantic Comedy (96 mins.) Key Cast: David Chisum, Kristen Kerr, Kevin J. O’Connor, Derek Webster, Raymond
Language: English Barry, Erick Avari, Richard Tyson
Director: Jessica Kavana Delivery Status: Completed
Writer: Jessica Kavana Year of Production: 2007, Burbank, CA Country of Origin: USA
Producer: Gina Philips, Amy Greenspun A life and death struggle erupts on a routine flight after ominous thunderstorms trigger
Key Cast: Adam Rodriguez, Gina Philips, Sean Astin. the release of an undead, flesh hungry scientist who was secretly smuggled into the
Delivery Status: Completed cargo-hold of 747 Jetliner. With no airport giving permission to land, what ensues is a
Year of Production: 2006 Country of Origin: USA bone chilling thrill-ride through the unfriendly skies.
A beautiful, ambitious Miami woman finds unexpected love while pursuing her dreams
of independence and high stakes debating.
POKER CLUB, THE IMAGINATION WORLDWIDE LLC
Thriller (89 minutes) Imagination Worldwide LLC, 9107 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite #625, Beverly Hills, CA
Language: English 90210 USA, Tel: 310-888-3494
Director: Tim McCann www.imagination-llc.com, hwixson@imagination-llc.com
Writer: Richard Chizmar Sales Agent
Co-Production Partners: Bruce Devan, Jordan Gertner At Cannes: Lawrence Goebel (President and CEO), Trina Searcy (Vice President of
Producer: Richard Chizmar Sales and Business Affairs)
Key Cast: Jonathan Schaech, Jana Kramer Office: 23 Rue Mace, 4th Floor, Tel: +1 310 691 4843
Delivery Status: Completed THE SCRIBBLER
Year of Production: 2008 Country of Origin: USA Thriller
Language: English
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Delivery Status: Completed Director: Marc Evans
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: US Writer: Laurence Coriat
One man’s past is another man’s prison... Producer: Jon Finn, Dan Lupovitz
DEVIL SEED Key Cast: Minnie Driver Aneurin Barnard
Horror (96 minutes) Delivery Status: Completed
Language: English Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: UK
Director: Greg A. Sager From the producers of Billy Elliot comes this funny, life-affirming and nostalgic film
Writer: Greg A. Sager, Geoff Hart featuring music from artists as diverse as David Bowie, Lou Reed, The Beach Boys,
Executive Producer: Thomas Cully, Geoff Hart, Gary Elmer, Dwight Coughlan, Robbin Simon and Garfunkel, Dusty Springfield and Electric Light Orchestra.
McDonnell SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED
Key Cast: Michelle Argyris, Shantelle Canzanese, Vanessa Broze Sci-fi Romantic Comedy (84 min)
Delivery Status: Completed Language: English
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Canada Director: Colin Trevorrow
Evil grows within... Writer: Derek Connolly
WAKE UP AND DIE Producer: Marc Turtletaub, Peter Saraf, Stephanie Langhoff, Colin Trevorrow and
Thriller (84 minutes) Derek Connolly
Language: English Key Cast: Aubrey Plaza Mark Duplass Jake Johnson Kristen Bell
Director: Miguel Urrutia Delivery Status: Completed
Writer: Miguel Urrutia Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
Executive Producer: Nicolas Veinberg, Rob Weston Three employees of Seattle Magazine head to the scenic, seaside community of Ocean
Key Cast: Luis Fernando Bohorquez, Andrea Montenegro View, WA to find and profile the man behind a bizarre and hilarious classified ad
Delivery Status: Completed looking for a partner to travel through time. Darius (Aubrey Plaza), a live—at—home
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Colombia college grad with a chip on her shoulder, interns at the magazine. Along with her
Sleeping with him was her first mistake. fellow intern Arnau (Karan Soni), a studious Biology major working at the magazine
THE PREACHER’S DAUGHTER to build his resume, and their hard partying boss, Jeff (Jake Johnson), the threesome
Drama (88 minutes) set out to profile the lunatic behind the preposterous ad.
Language: English STORAGE 24
Director: Michelle Mower Creature Feature
Writer: Michelle Mower Language: English
Producer: Michelle Mower, Adam Donaghey, Susan Elkins Director: Johannes Roberts
Key Cast: Andrea Bowen, Adam Mayfield, Ron Jackson Writer: Noel Clarke
Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Noel Clarke, Manu Kumaran
Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: US Key Cast: Laura Haddock, Noel Clarke, Colin O’Donoghue, Antonia Campbell-
They thought she was the perfect daughter... Hughes, Jamie Thomas King
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2011/12 Country of Origin: UK
INDEPENDENT London is in chaos. A military cargo plane has crashed leaving its highly classified
Independent, 32 Tavistock Street, London, WC2E 7PB UK, Tel: +44.207.257.8734 contents strewn across the city. Completely unaware London is in lockdown, Charlie
Fax: +44.207.240.9029. (Noel Clarke) and Shelley (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), accompanied by best friends
www.independentfilmcompany.com, mail@independentfilmcompany.com Mark (Colin O’Donoghue) and Nikki (Laura Haddock) are at Storage 24 dividing up
Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor their possessions after a recent break-up. Suddenly, the power goes off. Trapped in a
At Cannes: Andrew Orr (Managing Director), Abigail Walsh (Head of Sales), Sarah dark maze of endless corridors, a mystery predator is hunting them one by one. In a
Lebutsch (Sales and Marketing Executive), Calum Gray (Sales and Marketing place designed to keep things in, how do you get out?
Executive), Karina Gechtman (Marketing Manager) UWANTME2KILLHIM?
Office: 23 Rue Mace Thriller
A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III Language: English
Comedy (tbc) Director: Andrew Douglas
Language: English Writer: Mike Walden
Director: Roman Coppola Producer: Steve Golin (Anonymous Content), Bryan Singer
Writer: Roman Coppola Key Cast: Jack O’Connell, Olly Alexander, Jaimie Winstone, Anna Maxwell Martin,
Producer: Roman Coppola & Youree Henley Ruth Wilson
Key Cast: Charlie Sheen, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Patricia Arquette Delivery Status: Post Production
Delivery Status: Screening Year of Production: 2011/12 Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA A thriller detailing the true story of a teenage boys’ descent into the dangerous world
Charles Swann III, a successful graphic designer and a charmer with the ladies, gets of the internet and the harrowing consequences of his actions. When 16 year old Mark
dumped by the love of his life, forcing him into a delirious state of self evaluation. meets local girl Rachel on the internet and begins an intense online relationship, he
METRO MANILA quickly finds that he’s besotted and that he’ll do anything for her. Even befriend her
Language: Philipino awkward, loner brother John. When Rachel, who is trapped within the grips of an
Director: Sean Ellis abusive boyfriend, is murdered, Mark and John develop violent desires to avenge
Writer: Sean Ellis and Frank E. Flowers her death. The actions draw the attention of a secret government department, as they
Producer: Mathilde Charpentier unwittingly stumble upon an ongoing operation. Soon Mark is recruited to commit a
Key Cast: Jake Macapagal, John Arcilla, Althea Vega devastating, harrowing crime, one that made British legal history.
Delivery Status: Screening EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Philipino Documentary (86 mins)
Seeking a better life, Oscar Ramirez and his family move from the poverty stricken rice Language: English
fields of the Northern Philippine to the capital Metro Manila. Upon arriving, it isn’t Producer: Jaimie d’Cruz
long before they fall foul to various inhabitants whose manipulative ways are a daily Key Cast: featuring Banksy, Thierry Guetta, Shepard Fairey
part of city survival. Delivery Status: Completed
AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: UK
Documentary (91 min) This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens
Language: Mandarin and English when fame, money and vandalism collide. Oscar nominated.
Director: Alison Klayman WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN
Writer: Alison Klayman Drama (111 min)
Producer: Adam Schlesinger Language: English
Key Cast: Ai Weiwei Director: Lynne Ramsay
Delivery Status: Screening Writer: Lynne Ramsay and Rory Kinnear, based on the novel by Lionel Shriver
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA Co-Production Partners: Independent, Jennifer Fox Productions, BBC Films and
The inside story of internationally acclaimed Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei, a dissident Steven Soderbergh
for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and Producer: Luc Roeg
politics. Key Cast: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller
HUNKY DORY Delivery Status: Completed
Musical drama Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: UK
Language: English
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Face and Axe. Ghost Face and Axe commits murder by order of their boss and become a book entitled “Bye Kitty, and Thank You”. Commercial film director, I stumbled
wanted criminals. The two hide out at an illegal gambling house in Kangwon province across the poet’s book and became interested in stray cats. There are a lot of stray cats
run by the boss. Committing all sorts of crimes all their life, the two have no where left in my neighborhood. I capture their lives on film and giving them food and water, I
to run away. felt a change in myself.
THE KING OF PIGS INVASION OF ALIEN BIKINI
Thriller Animation (97 min) Horror, Science Fiction, Action, Martial Arts, Comedy (75 min)
Language: Korean Language: Korean
Director: YEUN Sang-ho Director: OH Young-doo
Writer: YEUN Sang-ho Writer: OH Young-doo
Co-Production Partners: “The King of Pigs’ Production Committee, Studio Dadashow Executive Producer: JANG Yoon-jung
Executive Producer: PARK Jeong-hwan, LEE Eung-chul Producer: JANG Yoon-jung
Producer: CHO Young-kag Key Cast: HA Eun-jung as Monica, HONG Young-geun as Young-gun, father
Key Cast: YANG Ik-june as JUNG Jong-suk, OH Jeong-se as HWANG Kyung-min, Delivery Status: Completed
KIM Hye-na as KIM Chul, PARK Hee-von as young HWANG Kyung-min, KIM Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Korea
Kkobbi as young JUNG Jong-suk A city hero, Young-gun saves a young lady from unidentified assailants and brings her
Delivery Status: Completed into his house. She is an alien which needs sperms to breed and seduces Young-gun
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Korea to get his sperms. However, Young-gun has taken a vow of chastity and wants to keep
Kyung-min, a businessman, and Jong-suk, a failed writer, are former schoolmates. his virginity until his marriage. She exhausts every means of gaining his sperms but it
During a reunion dinner they look back on their school days, when a particularly cruel does not come up to her expectation.
group of students, “the dogs”, exercised a reign of terror by hazing and bullying part of A TIME TO LOVE
the other students, the “pigs”. One day, Kim Chul, one of their mates, stood up to the Romance, Drama, Comedy (80 min)
“dogs”, becoming the only hope of ending their tyranny. Fifteen years on, he remains a Language: Korean
hero. But behind this figure, the two men recall the murky story of their bond. Director: BOO Ji-young, YANG Ik-june
MOTHER Co-Production Partners: BOO Ji-young, YANG Ik-june
Documentary (102 min) Producer: SONG Jae-young(1st episode), PARK Na-mi(2nd episode)
Language: Korean Key Cast: (1st episode) SEO Ju-hee as Soon-im, KIM Sun-bin as Jun-young (2nd
Director: TAE Jun-seek episode) HEO Jun-seok as Jin-cheol, RYU Hae-young as Min-jeong
Writer: TAE Jun-seek Delivery Status: Completed
Executive Producer: KIM Hwa-beom Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Korea
Producer: KIM Hwa-beom Romance film by two talented Korean filmmakers-BOO Ji-young (Sisters on the
Key Cast: LEE So-sun as LEE So-sun (Mother) Road) and YANG Ik-june (Breathless) Under theme of “love”, two directors, BOO
Delivery Status: Completed Ji-young and YANG Ik-june put together two shorts to create one feature omnibus
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Korea film. “Moonwalk” by BOO portraits the middle aged woman’s love that cannot come
On narrow streets of Changsin-dong are people living along. And there is a true and “Immature” by YANG is about a man with a broken heart who coincidentally
grandmother, Madame Lee So-seon. After the death of her son, Martyr Chun Tae-il, she meets a young innocent girl and begins new love that heals him.
stood by those who were living painful, harsh lives. She was always upright and honest.
This is the story of her last 2 years to the eternal sleep. The film, “Mother”, is the last
laugh, the last cry, and the last message she left for the world through the camera. INTERNATIONAL FILM TRUST
U.F.O. International Film Trust, 8383 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 335, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Fantasy Drama (91 min 50 sec) USA, Tel: 323-883-0056
Language: Korean http://www.iftsales.com
Director: KONG Quee-hyun Sales Agent
Executive Producer: SONG Ko-eun, KANG Hoon, PARK Young-sook, KONG Kyung- At Cannes: Ariel Veneziano (President), Christian De Gallegos (President of Sales),
hyun, SEO Young-joon D. Todd Shepherd (Founder and Principal), George Waud (Founder and Principal),
Producer: KONG Quee-hyun Michael Benaroya (Founder and Principal)
Key Cast: LEE Ju-seung, JUNG Young-ki, PARK Sang-hyuk Office: Residence du Grand Hotel, 6E Dauphin, 6th Floor 45 La Croisette
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Korea INTRAMOVIES
Soon-kyu, a high school student, caught sight of a UFO by chance with his classmates. Intramovies, Via E.Manfredi 15, Rome, 00197 Italy, Tel: 0039 06 80 76 157 Fax:
To find the UFO, they leave for a so-called “UFO mountain”. When they arrive there, 0039 06 80 76 156. www.intramovies.com, mail@intramovies.com
they meet a girl named Ji-hyun who tells them to leave. But they don’t turn back and Sales Agent
keep their steps towards the mountain. 3 days later, they come back and insist they’ve At Cannes: Paola Corvino (CEO), Micaela Fusco (VP International Sales), Jef Nuyts
contacted aliens the last night except Soon-kyu who blacked out due to overdrinking. (Director Int’l Sales), Federica Mei (International Sales Manager), Marco Valerio
After hearing that Ji-hyun’s missing, he leaves for the mountain again to answer his Fusco (International Sales Manager), Manuela Tambascia (Sales Coordinator)
own questions- UFOs, aliens and Ji-hyun. Office: Relais de la Reine, 43 de la Croisette, 2nd floor, apt. C22
JESUS HOSPITAL IN THE NAME OF THE SON
Family Drama (91 min) AKA: Au nom du fils
Language: Korean Black comedy (80’)
Director: SHIN A-ga, LEE Sang-cheol Language: French
Writer: SHIN A-ga Director: Vincent Lannoo
Executive Producer: LEE Hyun-woo, CHOI Yoo-soon Writer: Vincent Lannoo, Philippe Falardeau, Albert Charles
Producer: LEE Sang-cheol Co-Production Partners: YONI PRODUCTIONS, HANDS UP (France)
Key Cast: HWANG Jung-min as Hyun-soon, KIM Mi-hyang as Myung-soon, HAN Producer: Lionel Jadot
Song-hee as Su-jin Key Cast: Astrid Whettnall, Achille Ridolfi, Philippe Nahon, Zacharie Chasseriaud,
Delivery Status: Completed Albert Chassagne, Jacky Nercessian
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Korea Delivery Status: Screening
A middle-aged woman, Hyun-soon has a secret that she doesn’t want to reveal to Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Belgium
others. Her unconscious old mother in a hospital and her pregnant daughter in her Elisabeth is brilliant, radiant and sunny on the day Father Achille arrives at her home.
20’s only know Hyun-soon’s secret. Hyun-soon stands at the cross roads of religious He is going to become part of her family. A perfect family that admires Elisabeth so
conviction and cold reality. Should she leave her mother attached to a life support much for her chat show on “Christian Hope Radio”, for the time that she devotes to
machine indefinitely or should she disconnect it? others, her family and housework. But neither her faith, nor “Christian Hope Radio”,
DANCING CAT nor love will prevent Elisabeth from facing the harsh reality. The lies of her husband,
Documentary, Animal (76 min 16 sec) the silence of the church and the denial of those closest to her will cause her to
Language: Korean embark upon a violent crusade.
Director: YUN Ki-hyoung OUT OF THE BLUE
Writer: LEE Yong-han, YUN Ki-hyoung AKA: Buongiorno papà
Producer: KANG Young-mee Comedy (109)
Key Cast: Narration: LEE Yong-han, YUN Ki-hyoung Language: Italian
Delivery Status: Completed Director: Edoardo Leo
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Korea Writer: HERBERT SIMONE PARAGNANI, MASSIMILIANO BRUNO,
Poet LEE became enthralled by stray cats living in his neighborhood. He recorded their EDOARDO LEO
daily lives in pictures and gave them names. The pictures by him were published in Producer: FULVIO LUCISANO, FEDERICA LUCISANO
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dream one race one cause. Year of Production: 2010
BRASIL ANIMADO 3D The Best of the West is excited to bring you the ultimate in western big game hunting
Animation (78 mins) action. Our pro-staff specialize in hunting and shooting skills that energize,
Language: Portuguese educate and amaze our audience. Each episode demonstrates the reality of
Director: Mariana Caltabiano extreme distance shooting while using the proper equipment and techniques
Writer: Suzana Liuzzi that are necessary for making ethical kills at any range.
Co-Production Partners: Mariana Caltabiano, Globo Filmes and Teleimage MYSTERIA
Producer: Mariana Caltabiano Thriller (90 minutes)
Key Cast: Eduardo Jardim, Fernando Meirelles Language: English
Delivery Status: Completed Director: Lucius Kuert
Year of Production: 2011 Writer: Lucius Kuert
Produced by Mariana Caltabiano, Globo Filmes and Teleimage, “Brazil 3-D” is the Producer: Rafael Primorac, Stuart Alson, Robert Miano, Gerald Kessler
first Brazilian stereoscopic 3-D feature. It’s a mix of animation and live action. The Key Cast: Danny Glover, Billy Zane, Martin Landau, Michael Rooker, Robert
main characters are “Stress” and “Relax”. Stress is a money oriented businessman, Miano, Peter Mark Richman, Meadow Williams
who is always stressed. Relax is a film director and also a dreamer. Relax talks Stress Delivery Status: Completed
into looking for the oldest tree in the world. Stress gets excited with the possibility of Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA
making money with this “treasure”. There is only one little problem, they don’t have a A once famous and now a washed-up Hollywood screenwriter fights to finish
clue in which Brazilian state the tree is. Stress and Relax go after a rare tree and end up his latest script with an unrealistic deadline. He finds himself in the center of a
discovering something much bigger: Brazil. murder investigation involving a prominent politician’s wife.
KNOCKDOWN THE BRAZEN BULL
Action (93 minutes) AKA: NICTOPHOBIA
Language: English Thriller (85 minutes)
Director: Todd Bellanca Language: English
Writer: Todd Bellanca, Sasha Levinson Director: Douglas Elford-Argent
Producer: Todd Bellanca, Sarote Tabcum Jr Writer: Thomas Bilyeu, Douglas Elford-Argent
Key Cast: Bai Ling, Tom Arnold, Casey Evans Producer: David Frank Fletcher Jr., Gregg Luckman
Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Michael Madsen, Rachel Hunter, Jennifer Tisdale
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA Delivery Status: Completed
A former American boxer now exiled in Bangkok, is forced to confront his violent past Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: USA
after meeting a mysterious fight fan from his hometown. A man pushed to the edge by a bank foreclosure decides to get even.
420 HIGH DESERT WAY CITIZEN JANE
Action/Adventure (98 mins) Thriller (89 minutes)
Language: English Language: English
Director: Tom Breedlove Director: Armand Mastroianni
Producer: Waterfront Entertainment, Tom Breedlove Writer: James Dalessandro
Key Cast: Tristan Ott, Trey Alley Producer: Eric Mitchell, Sonny Grosso
Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Ally Sheedy, Meat Loaf, Sean Patrick Flanery, Patty McCormack,
Year of Production: 2010 Nia Peeples
With the F.B.I. threatening to take over the drug problem in the high desert, Capt. Delivery Status: Completed
Abernathy’s hand is forced by the Sheriff to expedite his investigation and solve the Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: USA
problem in a more expedient manner. He decides to find an uniform officer that would Jane’s idyllic life is shattered when her beloved Aunt Gertrude McCabe
fit in better than the cover already working the case amongst the illusive group that is is brutally murdered in San Jose. Jane’s heartbreak turns to horror when a
causing the most statistics. brilliant police detective, Jack Morris, finally convinces her that the killer is
BENEATH THE MISSISSIPPI none other than her beloved boyfriend, Tom O’Donnell.
Thriller (113 mins) DEFCON 2012
Language: English Sci-Fi (92 min)
Director: Lonnie Schuyler Language: English
Writer: Jon Hazell Director: R. Christian Anderson
Producer: Tim Anderson Writer: Brian Neil
Key Cast: Jon Hazell, Tim Anderson, Ariadne Shaffer, Sonja Soriano Producer: Brian Neil, John Wessmann, Carolina Liechtenstein
Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Ryken Zane, Shy Pilgreen, Xu Razer
Year of Production: 2008 Delivery Status: Completed
A documentary filmmaker and her crew fight the elements and try to cope with their Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: USA
fears as they seek to understand the strange mystery of a flooded island where hundreds In 2012, a devastating war between humans and aliens left the earth a
have died. nuclear wasteland. 200 years later the descendants of both civilizations have
SECRET AT ARROW LAKE returned in search of treasure and lost artifacts. After landing their ship on the
Family (83 min.) abandoned planet, Kaynin, Rune, and Archer descend into an underground
Language: English city.
Director: Brad Keller THE BILL COLLECTOR
Writer: Bonnie Orr Drama
Producer: Brad Keller Language: English
Key Cast: Dedee Pfeiffer (Cybill, Up Close & Personal), C. Thomas Howell (E.T., The Director: Cristobal Krusen
Outsiders, The Hitcher), Ali Faulkner (Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn), Gary Teague Writer: Cristobal Krusen
(Friday Night Lights), Jay Johnston (The Sarah Silverman Program) Producer: Cristobal Krusen
Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Danny Trejo (Disney’s Spy Kids, Machete), Gary Moore, Brandon
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA Hardesty
Mia Williams, raised on the family Bed & Breakfast by Sara, a loving single mom Delivery Status: Completed
grows up believing her father was lost, M.I.A., in the Gulf War. A tragic accident results Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA
in the sudden death of Sara and Mia finds herself alone to care for the B&B while While working at a bill collection agency in Norfolk, VA an old debt of
attending college. Daniel Williams, a hard-edged businessman from New York, arrives Lorenzo Adam’s own suddenly comes due when Frankie Gutierrez, an L.A.
at the B&B and Mia suspects he may be her lost father. The townsfolk believe he may loan shark, shows up at his door.
be responsible for Sara’s death. As events unfold, Daniel clears his name and finds BRUTAL
acceptance from the community and Mia finds a father at last. Action (90 minutes)
THE BEST OF THE WEST 2009 SEASON Language: English
True Story (27 mins) Director: Kamal Ahmed
Language: English Writer: Kamal Ahmed
Director: Nathan Robertson Producer: Kamal Ahmed, Stuart Alson, David Coppa, Brent Stuart, Nicholas
Writer: Nathan Robertson Malinosky
Producer: Jack Peterson Key Cast: Peter Greene, Kevin Corrigan (The Black Donnellys, The
Key Cast: Dan Miller, John Porter, Jeremy Winters, Shorty Gorham, Aaron Davidson, Departed), Frederico Castelluccio (Sopranos), Arthur J. Nascarella (Sopranos)
Mike Davidson Delivery Status: Completed
Delivery Status: Completed Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA
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ensues. Delivery Status: Completed
THE BONEYARD COLLECTION Year of Production: 2011
Horror, Comedy “Chasing the Green” tells the true story of two young brothers, Adam and Ross, who
Language: English become millionaires. Their drive leads them into conflict with FTC officials trying to
Director: Edward Plumb, LJ Dopp destroy them. Adam tries to reconcile this with his personal life, ultimately wondering
Writer: Edward Plumb, LJ Dopp what his true passion is.
Producer: Edward Plumb, LJ Dopp, Kim Waltrip CHEKHOV AND MARIA
Key Cast: Barbara Steele, Candy Clarke, Tippi Hedren, Ron Moss, George Kennedy, Drama (85 mins)
Brad Dourif, Ken Foree, Susan Tyrrell Language: English
Delivery Status: Completed Director: Eric Till
Year of Production: 2009 Writer: Jovanka Bach
Two beautiful ghosts and a vampire host a black comedy / horror anthology that pokes Producer: John Stark
fun of the entertainment industry. In one of the faux trailers, an all girl rock band is Key Cast: Gillian Brashear, Ron Bottitta
booked to play a gig in a town overrun by flesh-eating zombies. In the other trailer, a Delivery Status: Completed
coven of beautiful witches conjure up Brad Dourif (as the Devil) and endure the inept Year of Production: 2007
attacks of witch-killer Ken Foree. In the first long segment, “Her Morbid Desires”, a Russian playwright, Anton Chekhov is ill with tuberculosis and is cared for by his
young actress gets the lead role in a vampire movie (opposite Ronn Moss as Dracula sister Maria with whom he lives in Yalta . He is desperately struggling to complete
and Kevin McCarthy as a Monk), only to discover starlets are being murdered on the his play, “The Cherry Orchard.” With Maria’s help he is able to continue writing, but
set. Robert Loggia and William Smith play directors, Tippi Hedren is a good witch, and when Maria discovers that he has secretly married the Moscow Art Theatre actress,
British horror goddess Barbara Steele plays the author of the romance novel-turned- Olga Knipper, she feels betrayed and schemes to prevent him from returning to
cinematic bloodbath. The other long segment, “Cry Of The Mummy”, has the mummy Moscow . When Chekhov discovers how manipulative Maria has been, they have a
tired of acting, and now trying to find work as a Hollywood director. major confrontation. Eventually there is a reconciliation. Chekhov finally completes
SINS EXPIATION his play and leaves for Moscow.
Action/Crime (90 min.) CHILL
Language: English Horror (90 mins)
Director: Carlo Fusco Language: English
Writer: Christian Repici Director: Serge Rodnunsky
Key Cast: Danny Glover, Steven Bauer, John Savage, Anne Jeffreys, Cassandra Gava, Writer: Serge Rodnunsky
Hal Yamanouchi, Giovanni Martorana, Ervin Bejleri, Elisabetta Rocchetti. Producer: Serge Ronunsky, Shaun Kurtz, David Hoffman
Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: James Russo, Thomas Calabro, Ashley Laurence
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Italy Delivery Status: Completed
Two ex-gangsters meet on a high speed train to Sicily. Year of Production: 2006
BRIGHT DAY! Horror goes Retro. He just wants your skin.
Comedy, Action/Adventure, Documentary (86 mins) DARK RAGE
Language: English Horror, Psycho-Drama (86 mins)
Director: Maggie Rowe Language: English
Writer: Andersen Gabrych Director: Lee Akehurst
Producer: Nicholas Batchelder Producer: Lee Akehurst, Sarah Akehurst, Lance Patrick
Key Cast: Michael Cera, Elaine Hendrix Key Cast: Christopher Dunne, Christopher Dane, Sarah Akehurst, Helen Millar, Brett
Delivery Status: Completed Findlay
Year of Production: 2010 Delivery Status: Completed
A satirical ‘documentary’ that pokes a sharp and goofy finger at new-age religions, Year of Production: 2009
modern self-help movements (ala The Secret, Oprah, etc.) and their seductive ‘you can Ned Harris is a fifty-something everyman. Doting father. Loyal colleague.
have everything you’ve ever wanted’ message. Tripp Bailey, a washed-up journalist and Compassionate landlord. Serial killer. Beneath the seemingly normal surface resides
wanna-be documentarian, as he tries to infiltrate and debunk Pyrasphere, ‘Hollywood’s a web of warped sensibilities, spontaneous brutality and cold-blooded murder. A
Fastest-growing New Religion.’ Along the way, Tripp encounters a colorful collection psychiatrist would probably blame Ned’s peculiar childhood, but what’s Paul’s
of cultists (including his ex-wife) and their glamorous guru, Gossamyrhh, whose fame- excuse? Paul James is Ned’s long-standing tenant - callous and calculating, with
hungry philosophies lead him down a path where he must choose between his own voyeuristic tendencies and a bizarre sense of humour. So when Kate and Jason, a
selfish ambitions and his ‘journalistic integrity.’ young couple with problems of their own, move into Ned’s building, they prove to be
BURIED ALIVE the catalyst for a shocking turn of events. It’s not long before Ned’s rapidly unraveling
Thriller, Horror, Action/Adventure (80 mins) life spirals completely out of control, as we race towards a deadly conclusion. The
Language: English story culminates in a final showdown between Ned and Paul, where they are forced to
Director: Kevin Clark confront their demons and reveal their darkest secret. Dark Rage is a twisted journey
Writer: Kevin Clark into a deeply disturbed mind. Not for the faint-hearted!
Producer: Marzie Jones DARK SPIRITS
Key Cast: Natasha Blask, Marzie Jones Horror, Suspense (99 mins)
Delivery Status: Completed Language: English
Year of Production: 2011 Director: Huck Keppler
Three college friends move into a small rental house in the middle of a cold and dark Writer: Huck Keppler
Alaskan winter. During a house warming party, a psychic medium calls forth a ghostly Producer: Tim Van Rellim, Huck Keppler
presence that increasingly becomes hostile toward the three. With very few options on Key Cast: Milena Minichova, Daniel Brown, Jan Budar, Marko Igondo, Lucia
the table, they must decide to confront the hostile presence, or die. Sipisova
CELLMATES Delivery Status: Completed
Comedy, Drama (85 mins) Year of Production: 2009
Language: English When Eva sees her sister’s murder in a dream she tries to warn her. But it’s not
Director: Jesse Baget enough and her sister, Tereza, is brutally and mysteriously murdered. Wracked by
Writer: Jesse Baget guilt over the death Eva has visions of Tereza. After moving to Prague with her
Producer: Jesse Baget boyfriend Jan, the visions become more intense until another presence is felt, the
Key Cast: Stacy Keach, Tom Sizemore, Héctor Jiménez Dark Spirit responsible for Tereza’s death has come for Eva.
Delivery Status: Completed DISCREET
Year of Production: 2011 Drama (82 mins)
Worlds collide when hardened Ku Klux Klansman Leroy Lowe (Tom Sizemore) and Language: English
Mexican field laborer Emilio (Hector Jimenez) are forced to share a prison cell. The Director: Joshua Rous
unlikely relationship takes an unexpected turn when the chatty Emilio slowly chips Writer: Joshua Rous
away at Leroy’s gruff exterior in writer/director Jesse Baget’s offbeat buddy comedy. Producer: Joshua Rous
CHASING THE GREEN Key Cast: James Alexander, Anel Alexander
Drama, Romance (102 mins) Delivery Status: Completed
Language: English Year of Production: 2008
Director: Russ Emanuel Young geek, socially out of depth in the ‘man’s world’ of his job where he is
Writer: Emilio Lasiello successful, seeks to put his sheltered religious upbringing behind him by belatedly
Producer: Howard Nash losing his virginity using a ‘discreet’ prostitute. His sexual naivety, and immature
Key Cast: Ryan Hurst, William Devane questioning, turn the cynical beautiful prostitute round to breaking her rule (no
CANNES 2013 T h e B u s i n e s s O f F i l m 85
his increasingly violent tendencies as local law enforcement narrow their focus on him Writer: Armen Evrensel
as a suspect in a series of grisly murders. Producer: Rob Merilees, Holly Baird, Shayne Putzlocher
CLOSED CIRCUIT EXTREME Key Cast: Robin Dunne, Kristin Kreuk, Amanda Tapping, Billy Boyd & George Takei
AKA: CIRCUITO CHIUSO EXTREME Delivery Status: Completed
Horror (86 min) Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Canada
Language: English Jimmy, a bottom of the barrel “space-waste” technician finds himself playing the role
Director: Giorgio Amato of the hero as his spaceship inadvertently leaps back and forth between dimensions.
Writer: Giorgio Amato THE COTTAGE
Producer: Antonio Manetti and Marco Manetti Thriller (90 minutes)
Key Cast: Stefano Fregni Francesca Cuttica Guclielmo Favilla Language: English
Delivery Status: Completed Director: Chris Jaymes
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Italy Writer: Nick Antosca
A young couple break into the house of a suspected serial killer and plant hidden Co-Production Partners: Joker Films
cameras to record his crimes, but when they attempt to retrieve the evidence they are Producer: Bettina O’Mara, Kristen Dalton
trapped by the killer and forced to fight for their lives. Key Cast: David Arquette, Kristen Dalton, Victor Browne
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
JOKER FILMS INC. After renting her guest house to a stranger (Arquette), Bree (Dalton) soon discovers
Joker Films Inc., 3-130 555 Brooksbank Ave., North Vancouver, BC V7J 3S5 Canada, he is not the perfect tenant she thought he would be.
Tel: 1.604.983.5436. www.jokerfilms.com, info@jokerfilms.com MACHINE HEAD
Sales Agent Thriller (90 minutes)
At Cannes: Nolan Pielak (President, International Distribution) Language: English
Office: LERINS Stand R6 Director: Jim Valdez
THE LIFEGUARD Writer: Joel Souza
Drama (90 minutes) Producer: Bettina O’Mara, Jim Valdez
Language: English Key Cast: Sharon Hinnendael, Nicole Zeoli, Cristina Corigliano
Director: Liz W. Garcia Delivery Status: Completed
Writer: Liz W. Garcia Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
Producer: Mike Landry When three beautiful college students meet for Spring Break their dream vacation
Key Cast: Kristen Bell, Martin Starr, Mammie Gummer quickly turns into a nightmare when a masked man begins to terrorize them.
Delivery Status: Completed VAMPIRE DOG
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA Family (90 minutes)
On the verge of turning 30, a beautiful young woman (Bell) abandons her big city Language: English
career and escapes to her childhood hometown, only to find herself in a scandalous Director: Geoff Anderson
affair with a teenager. Writer: Tracy McMenemy
419 Producer: Tim Brown
Thriller (90 minutes) Key Cast: Norm MacDonald (voice) Colin MacKechnie, Julia Sarah Stone, Amy
Language: English Matysio
Director: Ned Thorne Delivery Status: Completed
Writer: Ned Thorne & Stephen Hays Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Canada
Producer: Stephen Hays, Anthony Moody A boy unwittingly adopts a 600 year old “talking” vampire dog and soon discovers
Key Cast: Mike Ivers, Scott Kerns, Ned Thorne that when they face their fears they can do anything.
Delivery Status: Completed SKEW
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA Thriller (90 mins)
After losing their life savings to an on-line scam, three young Americans fly to Africa Language: English
and hunt down the thieves that betrayed them. Director: Seve Schelenz
THAT BURNING FEELING Writer: Seve Schelenz
Comedy Key Cast: Amber Lewis, Richard Olak, Robert Scattergood
Language: English Delivery Status: Completed
Director: Jason James Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Canada
Writer: Nick Citton On July 19th, 2005, three friends went on a road trip. They never came back.
Producer: Jason James, Marc Stephenson, Mary Anne Waterhouse
Key Cast: John Cho, Tyler Labine, Paulo Costanzo
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Canada
K5 INTERNATIONAL - A DIVISION OF
When Adam finds himself faced with a burning Sexually Transmitted Disease, he must K5 MEDIA GROUP GMBH
do the right thing and search out all his previous lovers. K5 International - a division of K5 Media Group GmbH, Konradinstr. 5, Munich,
STEP DOGS 81543 Germany, Tel: +49 (0) 89 3750559-0 Fax: +49 (0) 89 3750559-05.www.
Family (90 min) k5international.com, info@k5mediagroup.com
Language: English Sales Agent
Director: Geoff Anderson At Cannes: Sara Boss (Sales & Marketing)
Writer: Willem Wennekers Office: Les Jardins du Grand Hotel (Shops), 45 Boulevard de la Croisette, Tel: +33
Producer: Tim J. Brown, Holly Baird, Shayne Putzlocher 643 863 786
Key Cast: Dylan Schmid, Eliana Jones, Joris Jarsky VENUS AND SERENA
Delivery Status: Post Production Documentary (99)
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Canada Language: English
When a pampered Hollywood pooch is sent up North to live with a wise cracking farm- Director: Maiken Baird, Michelle Major
mutt, all leashes are off! Executive Producer: Alex Gibney
MY LUCKY ELEPHANT Producer: Maiken Baird, Michelle Major
Family (90 min) Delivery Status: Completed
Language: English Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
Director: Eric Schwab Ever since Venus and Serena Williams started playing in tennis tournaments, they’ve
Writer: Eric Schwab provoked strong reactions - from awe and admiration to suspicion and resentment.
Producer: Carey Westberg They’ve been winning championships for over a decade, pushing the limits of
Key Cast: First Khunchan, Somboon (The Elephant) longevity in such a demanding sport. How long can they last? In VENUS and
Delivery Status: Completed SERENA, we gain unprecedented access into their lives during the most intimidating
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: USA year of their career. Over the course of 2011, Venus grappled with an energy-sapping
A young boy and an elephant form a unique bond through their courageous journey of autoimmune disease while Serena battled back from a life-threatening pulmonary
friendship and freedom. embolism. Neither Venus nor Serena let their adversities hold them back. They drew
SPACE MILKSHAKE their greatest strength from each other.
Sci-Fi - Comedy (90 minutes) BEWARE OF MR. BAKER
Language: English Documentary (92)
Director: Armen Evrensel
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blood, fed pills, tagged, color-coded and have their every movement scrutinized. Billy Writer: Tom McCarthy
starts a relationship with a beautiful but distant “Normal” and tries to solve the mystery Producer: Michael London, Mary Jane Skalski, John Woldenberg
behind the disappearance of his roommate. As the world around him succumbs to Key Cast: Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman, Danal Gurira
the power of antipsychotic medication, Billy takes a leap of faith to prove that life is Delivery Status: Completed
actually worth something. Year of Production: 2007 Country of Origin: USA
HERE In THE VISITOR Richard Jenkins, who was Oscar nominated for this role, is sixty-
Romance (120 min) two-year-old Walter Vale, sleepwalking through his life. Having lost his passion
Language: English for teaching and writing, he fills the void by unsuccessfully trying to learn to play
Director: Braden King classical piano. When his college sends him to Manhattan to attend a conference,
Writer: Braden King, Dani Valent Walter is surprised to find a young couple has taken up residence in his apartment.
Producer: Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy A MATTER OF SIZE
Key Cast: Ben Foster, Lubna Azabal Comedy (90 min)
Delivery Status: Completed Language: Hebrew
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA Director: Sharon Maymon, Erez Tadmor
Braden King’s festival hit (Sundance FF, Berlinale Panorama, London BFI) HERE is Writer: Sharon Maymon, Danny Cohen Solal
the first American film produced in the country of Armenia. The film is a landscape- Producer: Chilik Michaeli, Avraham Pirchi, Tami Leon, Misha Shagrir
obsessed road movie that chronicles a brief but intense romantic relationship between Key Cast: Itzik Cohen, Dvit benedek, Alon Dahan, Shmulik Cohen
an American satellite-mapping engineer (Ben Foster) and an expatriate Armenian Delivery Status: Completed
photographer (Lubna Azabal), who impulsively decide to travel together into Year of Production: 2009 Country of Origin: Israel
uncharted territory. Will’s Shepard’s solitary work. “A Matter of Size” is a comedy about a ‘coming out’ of a different kind -
THE KEY MAN overweight people learning to accept themselves.
Thriller (82 min) WASTING AWAY
Language: English Comedy, Horror (96 Min)
Director: Peter Himmelstein Language: English
Writer: Peter Himmelstein Director: Matthew
Producer: Joe Neurauter, Felipe Marino, Keith Calder; Co-Producer: Brian Udovich Writer: Matthew and Sean Kohnen
Key Cast: Hugo Weaving, Brian Cox, Jack Davenport Producer: Sean Kohnen
Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Matthew Davis, Julianna Robinson, Michael Grant Terry, Betsy Beutler,
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA Joel McCrary
It’s 1975 in New England, and BOBBY SCHEINMAN is an insurance salesman Delivery Status: Completed
whose career is on the slide. With his position at his company in jeopardy and his Year of Production: 2007 Country of Origin: USA
wife yearning for a better life, Bobby is looking for a shortcut to the American Turning the zombie film on its head, this film is an oddball comedy from the
dream. It looks like that just might happen when IRVING and VINCENT, two perspective of the brain munching monsters themselves.
apparently wealthy businessmen, introduce themselves to him expressing interest KING KELLY
in a ‘Key Man policy,’ an agreement to insure his business should either he or his Comedy (87 min)
business partner Charles Hawthorne die. Language: English
TOAST Director: Andrew Neel
Coming of age (96 min) Writer: Andrew Neel, Mike Roberts
Language: English Producer: Tom Davis, Luke Meyer, Ethan Palmer
Director: S. J. Clarkson Key Cast: Louisa Krause, Libby Woodbridge, Roderick Hill
Writer: Lee Hall (based on the novel by Nigel Slater) Delivery Status: Completed
Producer: Faye Ward Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
Key Cast: Helena Bonham, Ken Stott, Victoria Hamilton, Freddie Highmore Made entirely from camera-phone footage, King Kelly is a sensational journey into
Delivery Status: Completed hedonistic American youth culture and the YouTube generation.
Year of Production: 2010 Country of Origin: UK GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
One of the highlights of Berlinale 2011 and based on the award-winning book by Thriller (92 min)
Nigel Slater, TOAST tells the story of how the young Nigel falls in love with food Language: English
as a little boy. Growing up in a home when everything tinned is best Nigel craves Director: Austin Chick
real food. He loves cookbooks and gazes longingly at the delights on display in the Writer: Austin Chick
village shop. When his mother dies he and his father are heartbroken but time heals Producer: Clay Floren, Aimee Shieh
and the ample charms and lemon meringue pies of the new cleaner. Key Cast: Danielle Panabaker, Nicole LaLiberte, Andrew Howard, Liam Aiken
GET LOW Delivery Status: Completed
Comedy (103 min) Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
Language: English GIRLS AGAINST BOYS is a provocative and superbly entertaining psycho-sexual
Director: Aaron Schneider thriller about two bartenders who, after one of them is brutally assaulted, team up
Writer: Chris Provenzano, Aaron Schneider (screenplay revision), C. Gaby Mitchell on a killing spree in New York - and take revenge on the men who have mistreated
(screenplay revision) them.
Producer: Dean Zanuck, Harrison Zanuck, Richard D. Zanuck WONDERFUL WORLD
Key Cast: Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek Romantic Comedy (89 min)
Delivery Status: Completed Language: English
Year of Production: 2009 Country of Origin: USA Director: Joshua Goldin
For decades a legend has haunted the foothills of the East Tennessee Appalachians. Writer: Joshua Goldin
The stories about the shotgun- wielding recluse are legion. Some say Felix Bush Producer: Miranda Bailey, Joanna Colbert, Iddo Lampton Enochs Jr., Matthew
(Duvall) has killed men with his fists and at 70 years old he still looks as if he could Leutwyler, Glenn Williamson
and would. When he comes down from the hills, people treat him like something Key Cast: Matthew Broderick
wild until he disappears again into the mountain mist. Delivery Status: Completed
SEPARATION CITY Year of Production: 2008 Country of Origin: USA
Romantic Comedy (106 min) Could fish really fall from the sky? Ben Singer, the world’s most negative man,
Language: English refuses to believe even the tiniest miracle is possible. He spends all his time
Director: Paul Middleditch fighting a corporate super organism, otherwise known as “The Man”, whose
Key Cast: Joel Edgerton, Rhona Mitra, Thomas Kretschmann appearances haunt him even in his small one bedroom apartment. Barricaded
Delivery Status: Completed behind a worldview of cynicism, Ben is not expecting anything from anybody
Year of Production: 2009 Country of Origin: New Zealand anymore.
Simon and Pam were once a golden couple but two small children, two cracked PING PONG PLAYA
nipples and one waning libido has snuffed out their fire. Simon is enormously Comedy (96 min)
flattered when another woman focuses her attention on him but will he take it any Language: English
further? Or will Simon find that some men are not wired for adultery, that some men Director: Jessica Yu
are just too nice? Writer: Jimmy Tsai
THE VISITOR Producer: Anne Clements, Joan Huang
Drama (99 min) Key Cast: Jimmy Tsai, Andrew Vo, Khary Payton, Jim Lau
Language: English Delivery Status: Completed
Director: Tom McCarthy Year of Production: 2007 Country of Origin: USA
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Producer: Dean Fisher It started with a picture. It was a picture of a pretty, ambitious, self-dependent young
Key Cast: Ashley Bashy Thomas, Peter Mullan, Michelle Ryan woman sitting in a coffee shop, in-between college classes. In it, she was minding
Delivery Status: Completed her own business, occupied with schoolwork and distracted by a boyfriend she loved
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: UK very much. Her name was Jennifer Taylor and she didn’t know the picture had been
Desperate not to be like his father, a young boxer must fight everything he knows to taken. She also didn’t know the person who took it. The same person who would
stop history repeating take her too. The picture first surfaced on Twitter and every day afterwards, there
I LOVE ONE DIRECTION was a new photo of Jennifer, each one getting closer and closer to her, shedding
Documentary (70 minutes) more light on her very quiet, self-contained life. The pictures were soon followed by
Language: English videos that followed her. From a distance, twitter followers watched Jennifer leave
Delivery Status: Completed her house each morning, grab a coffee, go to school, study hard and return home
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: US alone at night. Eventually, they would watch Jennifer get those same pictures sent to
One Direction are the biggest boy band on the planet. This seemingly unassuming her anonymously on her own phone. Based on an actual Twitter account, iKllr is the
group of lads from the UK have done what other artists can only dream of – they’ve story that started as an internet rumor and was quickly shared by twitter followers and
reached the top and they have every intention of staying there. But what makes Harry, facebook friends alike before making headlines in the spring of 2010 when Jennifer
Liam, Niall, Zayn and Louis so special, gaining the admiration of millions of fans the was reported missing. No one who followed the iKllr twitter account reported
world over? This programme features unique, personal interviews and gets up close anything. No one wanted to admit they had been watching. No one wanted to admit
and personal with each of the boys. We also discover the most dedicated One Direction that it was true and no one wanted to believe that it was that easy to do.
fans from all corners of the globe - From the UK to USA, JAPAN, to AUSTRALIA, INTERVIEW WITH A HITMAN
CANADA, and the rest of EUROPE. Feature Film/Action (90min)
COASTLINE - WONDERS OF THE SEA Language: English
Nature Documentary (90 minutes) Director: Perry Bhandal
Language: English Writer: Perry Bhandal
Director: Klaus Muller Producer: Dean Fisher
Producer: Britta Kiesewetter Key Cast: Luke Goss (Blood Out, Blade II), Caroline Tillette, Stephen Marcus,
Delivery Status: Completed Dermot Keaney, Rene Zagger, Ray Panthaki
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Germany Delivery Status: Completed
The coastline is ever changing; fighting against ferocious seas and human development Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: UK
in awe-inspiring clashes, but within its incredible life it has never lost the beauty and In his final mission, an elite hitman, returns to erase his past, only to find that
wonder of Mother Nature. Battling against the seasons, the coastline is a constant somebody has messed with his future.
witness to a vast array of breathtaking creatures that choose it as their home. The ELFIE HOPKINS
inquisitive seal plays along the stunning shore whilst the gannet lives en masse in all its Feature Film/Thriller (91min)
noisy glory along its impressive cliff front; in its waters, shoals of fish swarm and hide Language: English
from deadly predators. ‘Coastline: Wonders of the Sea’ brings to life the hidden world Director: Ryan Andrews
that lives above, below and around us, in this Studio-Hamburg production, the team Writer: Ryan Andrews & Riyad Barmania
behind the award-winning ‘The Green Planet’. Producer: Michael Wiggs & Jonathan Sothcott
THE GREEN PLANET Key Cast: Jaime Winstone (Made in Dagenham), Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast, 44
Nature Documentary (93 minutes) Inch Chest), Aneurin Barnard (Ironclad), Kimberley Nixon (Angus, Thongs and Full
Language: English Frontal Snogging), Will Payne, Kate Magowan (Stardust)
Director: Jan Haft Delivery Status: Completed
Producer: Jorn Rover, Melanie Haft, Jan Haft Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: UK
Delivery Status: Completed When a cannibal family moves into a quiet village, Elfie Hopkins and her best
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Germany friend find themselves in a race against time to expose their secret and save their
It covers thirty percent of the Earth’s land mass and yet, most of us barely scratch the disappearing neighbours.
surface. Now, discover what few people have seen, as The Green Planet follows the PANIC BUTTON
stories of forest inhabitants, from graceful red deer to cunning foxes and impressive Horror (95)
wild boar. With cutting edge technology, we also explore some of the more bizarre and Language: English
wonderful forest dwellers: the purple emperor, liverworts, stag beetles and corydalis. Director: Chris CROW
See flowers bloom and blades of grass cut through the snow; Spend time in a foxes Writer: Frazer LEE, John SHACKLETON, David SHILLITOE
den with her new born cubs and follow tiny insects and creatures with microscopic Producer: John SHACKLETON
detail. Be a part of a journey that takes you through the seasons and be prepared to be Key Cast: Scarlett Alice JOHNSON, Jack GORDON, Michael JIBSON, Elen RHYS
amazed by the natural wonder of creation, destruction and rebirth in this incomparable Delivery Status: Completed
landscape. Produced by Studio Hamburg’s renowned Doclights division, whose nature Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: UK
films have won multiple awards and dozens of international prizes, including ‘Best Four young people win a competition of a lifetime; Jo (Scarlett Alice Johnson –
Picture’, ‘Best Photography’, ‘Best Cinematography’ and ‘Best Editing’ Adulthood), Max (Jack Gordon – Heartless) Gwen (Elen Rhys – Season Of The
MINE GAMES Witch) and Dave (Michael Jibson – The Bank Job) head off on an all expenses paid
Supernatural Thriller (92 minutes) trip to New York, courtesy of social network All2gethr.com. As they board the private
Language: English jet, they are asked to relinquish their mobile phones and take part in the in-flight
Director: Richard Gray entertainment – a new online gaming experience. Once airborne, it soon becomes
Key Cast: Brianna Evigan, Julianna Guill, Alex Meraz, Ethan Peck, Joseph Cross evident after some provocative and disturbing challenges, that their mystery host
Delivery Status: Completed knows far more about them than they’d ever dared imagine. Trapped at 30,000 feet
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: US with everything at stake, they must play for the lives of their loved ones, as a series
Just out of college for the summer, a group of seven friends head up into the mountains of twists lead the game toward its gruesome and shocking finale. Panic Button is a
for a weekend of sun and fun. Their destination: a remote, luxury cabin hidden down a breathless psychological horror for the 21st century, which carries the stark warning
single track road, deep in the forest and miles from the nearest town. Whilst exploring to us all… When you live your life online, there is no Esc…
the cabin’s surrounds, they stumble across an abandoned mine, and as a dare, they I AGAINST I
decide to explore the dark and claustrophobic tunnels. They are amazed by how deep Thriller (80)
and far the tunnels stretch, but when they enter a room that has been locked from the Language: English
outside, they make a shocking and inexplicable discovery that turns their excitement to Director: Mark CRIPPS, David ELLISON
pure fear. Disorientated, confused and shaken to the bone, they are faced with a stark Producer: James MARQUAND, Krystian KOZLOWSKI, Matthew WHYTE
choice: work out what is happening in the mine, or let the mysterious force claim their Key Cast: Kenny DOUGHTY, Ingvar EGGERT SIGURÐSSON, Mark WOMACK,
lives. Is a killer on the loose, are they suffering a psychosis, or is it something even Sónia BALACÓ, John CASTLE
worse? Little do they know an unstoppable chain of events has already been set in Delivery Status: Completed
motion. The more they try to change their future, the more they seal their fates…. Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: UK
#IKLLR A story of jealousy, murder and betrayal, I Against I is set over 12 hours, using
Thriller (90 minutes) different timelines to reveal a dark, edge of your seat thriller that takes numerous
Language: English twists and turns en-route to an explosive finale. Set in a nocturnal underworld, two
Director: Jeffrey Coghlan men are un-wittingly set up to kill each other by a third as part of a sinister trap. They
Writer: Jeffrey Coghlan have to learn to trust each other in order to stay alive but the clock is ticking and their
Producer: Jeffrey Coghlan pursuer is always one step ahead of them. Starring Kenny Doughty (City Rats, The
Key Cast: Katelynn Tonguis, Jeremy Schuetze, Emily Lawrence, Eli Cross Crew)
Delivery Status: Post Production KILL ZOMBIE!
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: US AKA: Zombibi
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Language: English Executive Producer: Fernando Spiner
Director: Tom Gustaffson Producer: Pablo Salomon
Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Pablo CEDRON, Nazareno CASERO, Moro ANGELELLI
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Mexico Delivery Status: Completed
A stifled, small-town man stuck in a dead end life, runs away to Mexico to be a Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Argentina
mariachi singer. MARIACHI GRINGO is a musical tour-de-force exploring the Aballay was a bad tempered gaucho. But sometimes the image reflected by a mirror
reality of ‘following your dreams’ across cultural, personal, social and geographical makes a man reconsider his whole life. After killing a man, the terrified look of the
borders. victim’s son raised Aballay’s consciousness about his savagery. Years go by, Aballay
EL CIELO EN TU MIRADA makes a promise and keeps it: he doesn’t kill or steal again.
Romantic Comedy (90 min) OCASO
Language: Spanish AKA: Sundown
Director: Pedro Pablo Ibarra Horror (90 min)
Key Cast: Mané De La Parra, Aislinn Derbez and Jaime Camil Language: Spanish
Delivery Status: Completed Director: Luis Cerezo
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Mexico Delivery Status: Completed
Top of the range romantic – comedy when suitably handsome young man meets the Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Spain
girl of his dreams for state of the art boyfriend-girlfriend interaction! This throughly Part doc, part reality TV, part suspense thriller. New title on how the horror genre
modern fresh take on the perennial theme is set off with event rousing music as our has taken over cinema verite. In the school of Blair Witch project and Paranormal
hero battles to win not just the lady but also a TV talent contest! USD 3million plus at Activity. Roving TV reporters research a mysterious true story about a village
Mexican B.O.! submerged under a lake. Their curiosity knows no bounds when nobody from the
JARDIN DE AMAPOLAS neighbouring village wants to discuss what happened there 70 years before!
Drama (95 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Juan Carlos Melo Guevara KOAN INC.
Delivery Status: Post Production Koan Inc., P.O. Box 982557, Park City, UT 84098 USA, Tel: 1.435.645.7244 Fax:
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Colombia 1.435.645.8644. www.koaninc.com, sales@koaninc.com
A small boy and girl steal the neighbour’s dog in the day time play with it returning Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor
it at night. Their village is a battleground between the FARC terrorists and the At Cannes: Gil Aglaure (President), Devin Carter (VP of Sales), Tamara Bell
government forces. The boy’s father works in a military protected heroin making (Acquisition Executive)
factory. Effectively combines magical realism of children fantasy world with the Office: Stand: Riviera A3
brutal reality of life in a country decimated by war. SILENT NIGHT
VULNERABLE Family/Drama/Christmas (95 minutes)
AKA: VULNERABLE Language: English
Psycho - thriller (95 min) Director: Christian Vuissa
Language: Spanish Writer: Christian Vuissa
Director: Miguel Cruz Producer: Christian Vuissa
Writer: Miguel Cruz Key Cast: Carsten Clemens, Markus Van Lingen, Clemens Aaplindenberg
Executive Producer: Fastforward - La Soga Delivery Status: Completed
Key Cast: Paula Echevarria, Joaquin Perles Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
Delivery Status: Completed The powerful true story behind the most popular Christmas carol of all time. In
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Spain 1818, when Joseph Mohr (Carsten Clemens) is assigned to be the new assistant
Carla decides to have her first child as a single mother. After giving birth prematurely priest in Oberndorf, a small Austrian town near Salzburg, the young man is full
and because of the delicate health of her daughter, she is forced to move with her of ideas and ideals. His passion to bring the church closer to the common people
child looking for a cleaner atmosphere, into an abandoned family country house that sets him on a collision course with his new superior, Father Nöstler (Clemens Aap
she inherited from her parents. Characters fro the past shall stand in her way, but Lindenberg). When Mohr organizes a church choir that includes outcasts from the
something much more menacing and unexpected will take her into a limit situation, local tavern and performs in German instead of Latin, Nöstler threatens him with
far beyond the imaginable... disciplinary action. Their relationship further deteriorates when Maria (Janina
BESTEZUELAS Elkin), a regular tavern patron, surprisingly joins the performance of the all-male
AKA: Greyhound to the Ground church choir. As Mohr’s initial successes start to crumble and his efforts backfire
Thriller (95 min) on him, he loses all hope and faces a trial of faith. The night before Christmas,
Language: Spanish Mohr has to decide if he will accept defeat and leave Oberndorf or embrace the true
Director: Carlos Pastor significance of the Holy Night
Writer: Carlos Pastor THE LETTER WRITER
Executive Producer: Carles Pastor Family (86 minutes)
Key Cast: Gustavo Salmeron, Marian Alvarez Language: English
Delivery Status: Completed Director: Christian Vuissa
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Spain Writer: Christian Vuissa
The boss of an illegal greyhound track decides to make a gift to a convent that had Producer: Christian Vuissa
given him shelter and hires a notorious small time crook to make the delivery. Events Key Cast: Aley Underwood, Bernie Diamond, Pam Eichner, Kylee Thurman and
start to spiral out of control, when other characters of dubious intent get wind of the Stella McComas
job. A series of deceptions and double crosses lead to the money never starting its Delivery Status: Completed
journey though it changes hands several times at a cost of several lives. Huelva FF, Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
Mostra de Valencia. When Maggy Fuller (Aley Underwood), a rebellious and troubled teenager, receives
FAKE ORGASM an old-fashioned letter in the mail from an unknown source, she can’t imagine
Documentary (81 minutes) who could have so many wonderful things to say about her. After all, she is all
Language: Spanish but invisible to her father and a disappointment to her mom. Her search for the
Director: Jo Sol mysterious author of the letter leads her to Sam Worthington (Bernie Diamond),
Writer: Jo Sol an aging man in a rest home she has never met—but who seems to know her better
Executive Producer: Zip Films than anyone else in her life. An award-winning film from Christian Vuissa, this
Key Cast: Lazlo Pearlman, Verónika Arauzo, Lydia Lunch, Jango Edwards, Judith heartwarming movie could very well change your life.
Butler, Beatriz Preciado, Nina Braunsteiner,Maria Llopis CHRISTMAS ORANGES
Delivery Status: Completed Drama/Family/Christmas (100 minutes)
Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: Spain Language: English
azlo Pearlman is a conceptual artist, a reputation of clichés, an activist that can blow Director: John Lyde
up our prejudices and dogmas about sex and identity. What appears to be a reflection Writer: Sally Meyer
on the fun lies in our sexual life suddenly becomes a poignant speech about gender Executive Producer: Ron Brough, and Barry Evans
theory and the constant construction of our identity. Producer: Paul Hunt and John Lyde
ABALLAY Key Cast: Edward Herrmann, Nancy Stafford and Bailee Johnson
Western (101 minutes) Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: United States
Language: Spanish In a town not so far away and a time not so long ago, baby Rose was left at
Director: Fernando Spiner Greenwoods Orphanage, where Mrs. Hartley (Nancy Stafford) and the children
Writer: Fernando SPINER, Javier DIMENT, Santiago HADIDA under her care became the young child’s family. But when tragedy strikes, Rose
(Bailee Johnson) loses the only home she has ever known and is abruptly shipped
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Director: Lane Nishikawa Year of Production: 2006
Writer: Lane Nishikawa Dennis Buckstead has the hardest calling in his church. Not only has he been asked
Co-Production Partners: Sal Baldomar to coach a group of non-basketball players, he is to lead them to the championship.
Producer: Karen Criswell, Eric Hayashi, Jay Koiwai, Lane Nishikawa, and Harriet SUITS ON THE LOOSE
Cheng Comedy (93 min)
Key Cast: Tamlyn Tomita, Pat Morita, Jason Scott Lee, and Mark Decascos Language: English
Delivery Status: Completed Director: Rodney Henson
Year of Production: 2006 Country of Origin: USA Writer: Rodney Henson
Being greatly outnumbered, the Nisei (2nd generation Japanese-American) Co-Production Partners: Kelly Moran-Brown
100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team broke through German lines and suffered 800 Producer: Dave Hunter, George Dayton, Kurt Hale, Rodney Henson
casualties to save 211 soldiers of the “Lost Battalion” during WWII. Key Cast: Robert Prosky, Charles Napier, Val Johnson, Orlando Brown, Fred Dryer
SHADOWHEART Delivery Status: Completed
Western (100 minutes) Year of Production: 2005 Country of Origin: USA
Language: English Suits on the Loose is the story of two rebellious teens, Justin and Ty, and their
Director: Dean Alioto breakout from a desert survival camp.
Writer: Dean Alioto, Peter Vanderwall, Brad Goodman, with story by Justin Ament FOOTPRINTS
Producer: Justin Ament, Rick August Goeckel, Matt Silver, and Patrick Stapleton; Drama/Family (100 minutes)
Executive Producers: Bruce Ament, Jeremy Danial Boreing, and Joel Moore Language: English
Key Cast: Angus Macfayden, Daniel Baldwin, William Sadler, and Justin Ament Director: Jim Huggins
Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Russ Dougherty, Jim Huggins
Year of Production: 2009 Country of Origin: USA Producer: Russ Dougherty, Jim Huggins
James Conners returns to his hometown in 1865 to avenge his father’s death against Key Cast: Chris Faherty, Carole Geagon, Doug Stricklin, Rocket
the ruthless Will Tunney and must choose between revenge and redemption. Delivery Status: Completed
DRAGON HUNTER Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA
Action/Adventure/Fantasy/thriller (90 minutes) FOOTPRINTS is based on the true story of a man who finds the healing power of
Language: English love only after he lost everything he had valued and given up, a story of a dog who
Director: Steve Shimek learned to trust and serve only after she’d been abused and discarded as worthless, a
Writer: Steve Shimek journey the two of them took that neither knew would bring them together, and heal
Producer: Maclain Nelson them
Key Cast: Isaac C. Singleton Jr., Kelly Stables, Orlando Seale, Maclain Nelson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008 Country of Origin: USA LAKESHORE ENTERTAINMENT
Orphaned, when Orc’s killed his parents, Kendrick was raised by his brother, Darius. Lakeshore Entertainment, 9268 West Third Street, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA, Tel:
Remembering his mother’s prophesies of a Dragon Hunter, Darius and Kendrick 1.310.867.8000 Fax: 1.310.300.3015.
journey to the castle of Ocard -the Dragon Hunter training grounds. http://www.lakeshoreentertainment.com, sales@lakeshoreentertainment.com
THE LODGE Sales Agent, Producer
Horror/Thriller (85 minutes) At Cannes: Todd Olsson (Senior Vice President, International), Jason Buckley
Language: English (Director, International Sales)
Director: Brad Helmink and John Rauschelbach Office: RES. DU GRAY D’ALBION 3rd Floor - 12, La Croisette
Writer: Deb Havener UNDERWORLD
Co-Production Partners: John Brandt Sci-fi (1x121)
Producer: Brad Helmink, John Rauschelbach, and Jason Rauschelbach Language: English
Key Cast: Elizabeth Kell, Mandi Kreisher, Kevin McClatchy, and Owen Szabo Director: Len Wiseman
Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Len Wiseman, Kevin Grevioux, Danny McBride
Year of Production: 2008 Country of Origin: USA Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Richard Wright
A young couple’s romantic weekend getaway at a secluded mountain ranch becomes Key Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman
an unfathomable nightmare when they discover the truth about the caretaker and Delivery Status: Completed
area. Year of Production: 2003 Country of Origin: USA
EVERYMAN’S WAR A war has been raging between the Vampires and Lycan for centuries, Selene
Action/Adventure/Drama/History (104 minutes) (Beckinsale) is a death dealer, assigned to hunt down and eradicate the last of the
Language: English Lycan. When she comes across Michael Corvin (Speedman)who holds the key to end
Director: Thad Smith the war she must decide where her alliances will lie.
Writer: Craig Smith MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Producer: Jay Lance and James WilderHancock; Executive Producer: Thad Smith Drama
Key Cast: Cole Carson, Lauren Bair, Michael J. Prosser, and Sean McGrath Director: Clint Eastwood
Delivery Status: Completed Writer: Paul Haggis, F.X. Toole
Year of Production: 2009 Country of Origin: USA Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Albert Ruddy, Clint Eastwood, Paul Haggis
“Everyman’s War” is the true story of Don Smith’s heroic experience at the Battle of Key Cast: Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman
the Bulge with the 94th Infantry, when he risked his life to save a town. Delivery Status: Completed
BUCKAROO: THE MOVIE Year of Production: 2004 Country of Origin: USA
Family/Western (95 minutes) A hardened trainer/manager works with a determined woman in her attempt to
Language: English establish herself as a boxer.
Director: James A. Brooks RUNAWAY BRIDE
Writer: Bob Holland Romantic Comedy (1x126)
Co-Production Partners: Farah Ibrahimi, Jim Kilber, Lori Kilber, David Skrock, and Language: English
Paul Towel Director: Garry Marshall
Producer: Robert S. Brock, Dee Dee Brooks, Rose Lindsay, and Greg Shelton Writer: Josann McGibbon, Sara Parriott
Key Cast: Simon R. Baker, Gary Busey, Lindsay Wagner, and George Gerdes Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Ted Field, Robert W. Cort, Scot Kroopf
Delivery Status: Completed Key Cast: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere
Year of Production: 2008 Country of Origin: USA Year of Production: 1999 Country of Origin: USA
Jerome, a troubled gang member, is sent from the streets to work on a farm. While A reporter is assigned to write a story about a woman who has left a string of fiances
there, he discovers more about himself and obtains a new outlook on life. at the altar.
CHURCH BALL HEATHERS
Comedy/Sport (91 min) Drama (1x103)
Language: English Language: English
Director: Kurt Hale Director: Michael Lehmann
Writer: Paul Eagleston, Kurt Hale Writer: Daniel Waters
Co-Production Partners: Dave Hunter Producer: Denise Di Novi
Producer: George Dayton, Kurt Hale Key Cast: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty
Key Cast: Fred Willard, Andrew Wilson, Clint Howard, Gary Coleman, Steve Delivery Status: Completed
Anderson, Amy Stewart, Larry Bagby Year of Production: 1989 Country of Origin: USA
Delivery Status: Completed A clique of popular girls, all named “”Heather,”” reign supreme at Westerberg
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Delivery Status: Screening Selkirk, an unruly, selfish pirate, is the sailing master of an English galley sailing
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Belgium, Switzerland, France, the South Seas in search of treasure. After Captain Bullock abandons him on an
Luxembourg uninhabited island, he changes his outlook on the world and learns to survive alone.
At 14, Diane is an enigmatic teenager. She is busy bringing up her little brother, Marc, His story became Daniel Defoe’s inspiration for the novel ROBINSON CRUSOE.
and has an intense relationship with her father, Christian. The appearance of Julia, a 15 YEARS + 1 DAY
young charismatic and emancipated English girl, in her neighbourhood turns Diane’s AKA: 15 años y un día
everyday life upside down. Diane wants to break the bounds of childhood at any cost. Drama (96 min)
Getting closer to Julia, she turns her back on morality and pays no attention to the Language: Spanish
consequences or limits of her desires. Director: Gracia Querejeta
BLACK DIAMONDS Writer: Gracia Querejeta and Antonio Mercero Santos
AKA: Diamantes Negros Co-Production Partners: Tornasol Films, Castafiore Films
Drama (110 min) Producer: Gerardo Herrero, Mariela Besuievsky,
Language: Spanish, French, Bambara Key Cast: Maribel Verdú, Tito Valverde
Director: Miguel Alcantud Delivery Status: Completed
Writer: Miguel Alcantud Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Spain
Co-Production Partners: Potenza Producciones, Fado Filmes After Jon is expelled from school, his mother sends him away to live with his
Producer: Carlo D’Ursi, Luís Galvao grandfather in a small village. Both characters, the troubled teenager and the retired
Key Cast: Carlos Bardem, Willy Toledo,Hamidou Samake military man, will have to confront their fears and limitations.
Delivery Status: Screening GRAZING THE SKY
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Spain, Portugal AKA: A ras del cielo
Two African boys are brought into Europe to play football. They will get into a dark Documentary (80 min)
world of agents, money, interests, and some kind of football that will take them into a Language: English, French
different reality that they have dreamt of. Director: Horacio Alcalá
JUNGLE Writer: Horacio Alcalá
Comedy (83 min) Co-Production Partners: Cámara Boreal
Language: Russian Producer: Carlos Batres
Director: Alexander Voytinsky Delivery Status: Post Production
Writer: Alexsey Fedorov, Oleg Malovichko, Creative Group “Sugar 1KG”, Roman Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Canada, Spain, Netherlands
Nepomnyaschy Grazing the sky is a magical documentary, an exciting perspective for trapeze and
Co-Production Partners: CTB Film Company, Molnia Pictures circus lovers, in which viewers will share the efforts of 5 artists in their quest to
Producer: Sergei Selyanov, Alexander Voytinsky, Mikhail Vrubel, Alexander achieve perfection and reach their goals.
Andryuschenko, INSIDE LOVE
Key Cast: Sergei Svetlakov, Vera Brezhneva AKA: Presentimientos
Delivery Status: Screening Drama
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Russia Language: Spanish
After suffering a relationship crisis, Sergey and Marina decide to go on an exotic Director: Santiago Tabernero
holiday to fix things. However, during the trip they get into another argument and end Writer: Santiago Tabernero, Eduardo Noriega
up stranded on an uncharted island inhabited by cannibals. Instead of struggling for Co-Production Partners: Tornasol Films, Castafiore Films
survival, the couple continue with their bickering which turns into open fighting. Executive Producer: Mariela Besuievsky
THESIS ON A HOMICIDE Producer: Gerardo Herrero
AKA: Tesis sobre un homicidio Key Cast: Marta Etura, Eduardo Noriega
Thriller (102 min) Delivery Status: Post Production
Language: Spanish Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Spain
Director: Hernán Goldfrid Felix and Julia are a young couple, but she is going through a life crisis. An accident
Writer: Patricio Vega shows up her secrets, forcing her to make a decision to recover her marriage, and her
Co-Production Partners: Tornasol Films, Castafiore Films, BD Cine, Haddock Films, life…
Telefe AWAY FROM THE WORLD
Executive Producer: Jimena Blanco and Daniel Burman AKA: Lejos del Mundo
Producer: Gerardo Herrero, Diego Dubkovsky and Mariela Besuievsky Thriller
Key Cast: Ricardo Darín,Alberto Ammann,Calu Rivero Language: Spanish
Delivery Status: Screening Director: Gerardo Herrero
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Argentina, Spain Writer: Nicolas Saad
Roberto Bermudez is a specialist in Criminal Law whose life is thrown into chaos when Co-Production Partners: Tornasol Films, Foresta Films, Ennovva Films
he becomes convinced that Gonzalo, one of his best students, has committed a brutal Producer: Gerardo Herrero, Carlos Rodríguez, Julián Giraldo.
murder right in front of the Faculty of Law. Determined to uncover the truth he begins a Key Cast: Carmelo Gómez, Ursula Corberó, Silma López.
personal investigation that will soon become an obsession. Delivery Status: Post Production
RED PRINCESSES Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Spain, Colombia
AKA: Princesas Rojas 2 FRANCOS, 40 PESETAS
Drama (100 min) Comedy
Language: Spanish Language: Spanish, German, French
Director: Laura Astorga Carrera Director: Carlos Iglesias
Writer: Laura Astorga Carrera, Daniela Goggi Writer: Carlos Iglesias
Co-Production Partners: Sue Cinema, La Feria Producciones Co-Production Partners: Gona Films, DV
Producer: Amaya Izquierdo, Aldrina Valenzuela, Marcela Esquivel Executive Producer: Jaime Gona, Jöel Lous Jent
Key Cast: Valeria Conejo, Aura Dinarte, Fernado Bolaños Producer: Juan Gona, Karin Koch
Delivery Status: Screening Key Cast: Carlos Iglesias,Javier Gutiérrez,Isabelle Stofell, Isabel Blanco
Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Costa Rica, Venezuela Delivery Status: Post Production
Claudia is eleven years old and has always played the game of being a revolutionary. Year of Production: 2013 Country of Origin: Spain
When her family moves from Nicaragua to Costa Rica, in the middle of the Sandinist
Revolution, politics turn out not to be such a funny game.
SELKIRK, THE REAL ROBINSON CRUSOE LAW OFFICES OF GREG S. BERNSTEIN
AKA: Selkirk, el verdadero Robinson Crusoe Law Offices of Greg S. Bernstein, 301 N. Canon Dr., Suite 318, Beverly Hills,
Animation (80 min) California 90210 USA, Tel: 1.310.247.2790 Fax: 1.310.247.2791.www.thefilmlaw.
Language: Spanish com, greg@thefilmlaw.com
Director: Walter Tournier Sales Agent
Writer: Walter Tournier, Mario Jacob, Enrique Cortés At Cannes: Greg S. Bernstein (Entertainment Attorney, Producer Representative)
Co-Production Partners: La Suma Producciones, Patagonik and Maíz Producciones Office: Novotel Montfleury Cannes, Tel: Mobile: 1-310-266-5365
Executive Producer: Esteban Schroeder, Pablo Rovito, Juan Diego Garretón
Producer: Walter Tournier, Esteban Schroeder LBYL FILMS
Key Cast: Ariel Cister, Mariano Chiesa, Karim Zabala LBYL Films, NYC Offices: 894-896 Manhattan Avenue, Unit 24, Brooklyn, New York
Delivery Status: Completed 11222 USA, Tel: 1.516.532.6538 Fax: 1.718.522.0346.
Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: Uruguay, Argentina, Chile www.lbylfilms.net, contactus@lbylfilms.net
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However, after an intense struggle, Warrior kills Garcia instead. Five years later Director: Dave Fleischer
revenge is on the agenda and Garcia’s brother hatches a plot to kill the hero Key Cast: Sam Parker, Jessica Dragonette, Pinto Colvig, Lanny Ross, Jack Mercer,
Warrior. Warrior, a fierce combatant, and can strike with venom like a Cobra. A Ted Price
must-see for Aficionados of Action Films. A legendary classic of all ages, see the outstanding story in this Classic 1939
SURVIVOR II ANIMAL Animated Film in 3D anaglyph. Produced by Max Fleischer and Directed by Dave
Action, Thriller (70 Minutes) Fleischer. Based on Jonathan Swift’s classic novel of the heroic traveling sailor
Director: Frederic Andre Dupre stranded on a remote island. Gulliver is soon discovered on the beach by a thumb
Key Cast: Frederic A Dupre, Cyril Alasseur, Samir Riah and Jonathan Titile size town crier from the land of Lilliput and tied down by ropes by the tiny villagers.
Country of Origin: France Gabby (the crier) runs to tell the King. But the King is planning the impending
A continuation of Part One, SURVIVOR II combines Secrets, Lies, revenge, guns, wedding of his daughter, princess Gloria to handsome Prince David from the nearby
drugs and money fuel a frenzy of action and suspense in Part Two of the Survivor series Kingdom. When the two Kings can’t agree on which song to play at the wedding,
‘Animal.” A murder takes place in the deep woods of France and from there spins a Gulliver finds himself in the middle of a war. Using his common sense, Gulliver
swirl of action/adventure that will keep viewers on the edge of their seats. becomes a hero to the villagers by helping the two sides resolve their dispute.
SURVIVOR I THE CHASE STRINGS
Action, Thriller (50 minutes) Drama - Thriller (98 minutes)
Director: Frederic Andre Dupre Language: English
Key Cast: Frederic A Dupre, Garry Pumont, Cyril Alasseur, and Yannick Dela- Director: Mark Dennis & Ben Foster
Cuvellerie Writer: Mark Dennis
Country of Origin: France Co-Production Partners: Ben Foster, Spencer Greenwood, D.J. Castillo .
Survivor, “Chase” is Part one of this exciting action/adventure trilogy by diector Producer: Mark Dennis & Ben Foster
Frederic Andre Dupre. The dark woods deep within France’s borders are a haven for Key Cast: Billy Harvey & Elle LaMont
murderers who are bent on dispensing their own sense of morality. No one is safe from Delivery Status: Completed
the powerful forces of angry justice that is dished out by this gang of violent men who Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA
will do anything and everything to see that revenge is given. In the wake of his daughter’s death, a troubled musician seeks out an experimental
GENIUS OF BEAUTY therapist to turn his life around. When the therapist calls for him to leave everything
Romance (103 minutes) behind and take on a new identity, the musician realizes his new life isn’t what it
Director: Aarin Mehta seems and his therapist is using patients to commit vigilante crimes. After eight years
Producer: Prabhuraj Naidu & Ravi Vedant as a criminal, he sneaks back to visit the life he left behind.
Delivery Status: Completed DESPERATE ENDEAVORS
Country of Origin: Singapore Comedy, Drama, Romance (110 minutes)
An unhinged, loony plastic surgeon from Europe evades malpractice prosecution by Language: English
fleeing to India and seeking his fortune. He transforms facially disfigured females into Director: SALIM KHASSA
beautiful women and becomes a sensation. “ The Doc” successfully treats a wealthy Writer: SALIM KHASSA
Bombay family’s ugly duckling daughter so she can win a series of beauty pageants in Co-Production Partners: JAY PATEL
India. However, the past nips at his heels as he still must outwit and play keep-away Executive Producer: JAY PATEL / Jayesh Patel , Pankaj Patel
from his pursuers. A hilarious cultural mix and international cast keeps the flow of Producer: Salim Khassa
outrageous humor brimming over with laughter. Key Cast: Michael Madsen, Gulshan Grover, Paul Ben-Victor, Joseph .R. Gannascoli,
ART=LOVE2 Ismail Bashey, Ismail Khassa
Romance (90 min) Delivery Status: Completed
Director: Mumtaz Hussain Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA
Writer: Mumtaz Hussain Monica Mehta A 1970s New York City setting finds Indian-born immigrant Ram Patel trying to
Producer: Mevlut Akkaya establish himself in the turbulent city-life where he encounters various hurdles that
Year of Production: 2012 prevent him from obtaining his goals of becoming successful and wealthy. The pursuit
Art = (love)2 relates the tale of a struggling painter named Dean who’s passionate love of the American dream becomes littered with pot-holes for the earnest protagonist
for a student named Isabella fuels his artwork canvases. Following her mysterious Ram Patel.
death, his internal crisis turns him obsessive in finding out how & why she died. PER SOFIA
Circumventing police authorities and avoiding concerned friends, he enters a creative Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller (104 Minutes)
madness where his paintings reflect a bizarre edge of genius which further transcends Director: Alan Brown
his mind from art beyond scientific borders into the realm of the unknown…a spirit Delivery Status: Completed
world that leads him onto a psychic precipice of obsession for an Isabella he believes is Country of Origin: United kingdom
controlling his artwork and his life. A journey of spirit and inspiration leads the protagonist Isaac, a violinist, to Sardinia,
THREE STOOGES Italy to both fill a void in his life and fulfill his dream of composing beautiful
Slapstick Comedy (16:37 Minutes) music. He takes residence in an abandoned house last occupied in the1940’s by a
Director: 3D Director: Jack White young piano player named Sophia. Isaac absorbs her story which helps him become
Key Cast: Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard motivated to enlarge his gift of music. Per Sofia is a story of both love and happiness,
Country of Origin: USA DVD of suffering and pain, but most of all, hope… the unending Hope of finding soulful
(First Short) The Stooges become star witnesses at a trial where their close friend, synchronicity after having lost sight of another close relation, of regaining trust,
a dancer at a nightclub where they are musicians is accused of murder. The Stooges of resuming where one left off for reasons unclear. The most important goal is to
manage to disrupt the proceedings as only they-know-how, but save the day when they recognize the signals that life sends you to lead you on the proper, balanced life that
discover the real murderer’s identity. The zany trio provide more laughs than a viewer is meant for all of us. It can start with a random encounter in one’s busy daily life, or
can count. (Second Short) In order to inherit money, voice coach Shemp must marry be obtained by simply listening to nature’s silence, or in Isaac’s case, be filled with a
a woman before 6 PM. The only problem is, no girl will accept his proposal. Finally, mystical impulse when viewing a young woman dressed in white beckoning him to
a repulsive student with a horrendous voice agrees to marry him. But when the rest of create while on the seaside Italian cliffs.
the prospective brides hear about the inheritance, they all show up at the ceremony and LIQUOR DAY SAINTS
a free for all ensures. Shem marries before the deadline, but wishes he was still a free Drama - Thriller (120 minutes)
man. Language: ENGLISH
HAPPINESS AND TEARS Director: Tyler Cole
AKA: Qabil Khushry Qabil Igam Producer: Tyler Cole, Katie Dorow, Paul Carganilla
Family, Drama (125 Minutes) Delivery Status: Completed
Director: Zaili Sulan Year of Production: 2010
Key Cast: Erra Fazira, Hans Issac, Rahim Razali, Rusdi Ramli, Ziana Zain Pep Foster is having a crappy day. He was just demoted, his girlfriend kicked him out,
Country of Origin: Malaysia and his identity was stolen)rendering him broke). Luckily, he’s got Mitch; his cooky,
Happiness & Tears (Qabil Khushry Qabil Igam) is a family saga from Malaysia about yet loyal, best friend. The days only get worse when he is forced to work under Virgil
twin brothers Khushry (Hans Issac) and Igam (Rusdi Ramli). The two loving brothers (the boss’ son) and Amelia (his ditsy former secretary). One good salvation, however,
are dedicated to each other, sharing secrets, joys and also their sad moments together. is the new receptionist, Caura… From the bottom, Pep will far further down, but it is
However, a destructive indulgence by Igam wreaks chaos and havoc upon their family in his ascent that greatness will be achieved. Until then, he steps up to the bar, waiting
the day before their joint weddings to young women who are sisters. Khushry’s for life to give him a second shot
wedding goes on as planned but Igam’s fiancee, Karisma, has to spend the night alone THE CUSTOM MARY
locked in her home, as Igam’s self-indulgence leads him into rehabilitation, and his Drama - Thriller (81 minutes)
bride-to-be must decide whether or not to stand by him. Language: English
GULLIVERS TRAVELS 3D Director: Matt Dunnerstick
Animation, Children, Comedy (76 minutes) Producer: Becky Wang
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are bought and sold for a few bucks and nobody is loyal to anyone else. Christina, a the rest of his family he’s been called to New York on important business. She pays
young Mexican girl fights for her life as she is hunted and chased by Corrupt Border a surprise visit to Ireland and her late husband’s family castle, Castle Haloran to
Patrollers. Upon entering Arizona from Mexico, Christina’s parents are killed and she meet the family and look for a way to ensure a cut of the loot. Seven years earlier,
escapes. But someone unbeknown to her intervenes for her benefit. Who is the ysterious John’s sister Kathleen was drowned in the pond, and the Halorans enact a morbid
stranger that saves her life? As the dark curtain is revealed, see the surprise in the form ritual in remembrance. Secrets shroud the sister’s demise as family & guests begin
of the a savior to whom she will owe her life. experiencing an attrition problem disappearing. Louise’s plans become permanently
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS 3D interrupted by an axe-wielding lunatic who begins to stalk and murderously hack
Black Comedy, Horror, Drama & Science Fiction – 3D (70 minutes) away at embers of the family. Watch to see what happens in this horror classic!
Director: Roger Corman CIRCLE OF FEAR
Key Cast: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller, Jack Nicholson Feature - Documentary (55 Minutes)
Delivery Status: Completed Director: Salim Khassa
Little Shop of Horrors is the classic1960 American comedy/farce film directed by Producer: Salim Khassa
Roger Corman. A goofy young florist’s assistant, Seymour who works at a Skid-Row Delivery Status: Completed
flower shop of Mr. Mushnick (Mel Welles). Experimenting in his spare time, Seymour This compelling One-hour documentary highlights the fears and changed dreams of
cultivates a plant that feeds on human flesh & blood that Seymour hopes will lead New York City citizens in a post “9/11” world. People from allwalks- of-life deliver
him to fame & fortune. The hideous plant commands: “Feeed Me! Feeed Me please!” their problematic concerns about Safety, Media Bias and improper government
Before long, the luckless Seymour has fed his plant the bodies of a detective, a sadistic manipulation in a now-changed decade after our nation and it’s largest city were
dentist, and a flashy trollop. Magically, when the plant blooms, the faces of its various attacked by terrorists. Share their perspectives and insights as a pattern emerges of
victims are reproduced in its flowers. The film’s concept is based loosely on a 1932 determination, wisdom and perseverance from a well- informed group of citizens who
story called “Green Thoughts” by John Collier, about a man-eating plant. Ignored on “See the Big Picture.”
its initial release, the film slowly gained a cult status through repeated black-and-white BAD LUCK BREEDING
TV exposure in the early 60’s. The presence of a young Jack Nicholson attracts many Key Cast: Gulshan Grover
viewers, who see the “acting rookie” like never before. Delivery Status: In Production
AMBIGUITY Year of Production: 2012
(90 Minutes) Based on a true story. Running on empty ... growing up comes fast ...
Director: Salim Khassa TELL ME THE TRUTH
Delivery Status: Completed Action - Drama (69 mins)
Country of Origin: USA Language: French (English subtitles)
“Ambiguity” is the tragic story of suffering young girl Julie (Sherena Rupan) who Director: Christophe Previte
lives with her stepfather, an evil, nasty old man played by Mark Henry Samuel. He Producer: Laurence Pullinger
makes Julie’s life miserable by his emotional mistreatment & jealousy. Her real father Key Cast: Anne Jacq, Dorothee Girot, David Eguren
still exists & she doesn’t know it ...so to find happiness she must escape and meet her Delivery Status: Completed
destiny, finding the right people who can save her. Elodie is a 24 yr.-old Frenchwoman living in the South who seeks the truth about the
CABLE CAR assassination of her parents. The local police give little assistance to her, accusing
Documentary (55 Minutes) a vagrant homeless man, but this does not convince Elodie. With the support of her
Delivery Status: Completed boyfriend, she meets the person who holds clues to the mystery from the beginning, a
Country of Origin: USA single mother named Beatrice, who lives with her baby. The late husband of Beatrice
This One-Hour documentary takes you on a ride from the past-to-the present in San was linked to the death of Elodie’s parents and this gives way to a path for Elodie
Francisco aboard a truly iconic marvel, the city’s renowned Cable Car. Created prior to and her boyfriend to follow for answers. As the plot deepens, a rift develops between
the nation’s Civil War, this unique engineering transport still takes citizens through the Elodie & Beatricd and the life of Beatrice’s baby is threatened. Lies and the truth
inner core of “The City by-the-Bay.” Inspect the system’s operational headquarters, find become commingled and the mystery unfolds in a thick fog of decei
out its history and reflect upon the inventiveness and sheer delight through insightful DAY IN THE LIFE OF DOE
interviews with riders that highlight one of our national treasures. Drama (75 Minutes)
THE BOOKIE Language: ENGLISH
Action, Adventure, Drama, Comedy (112 Minutes) Director: Sean Adair
Director: Mickey Cevallos, Gibby Cevallos Producer: Sean Adair
Key Cast: Douglas Spain, Mike Starr Delivery Status: Completed
Delivery Status: Completed See the world through the eyes of Doe as he follows his friend Charlie (Chris Moss)
Until death do us part, especially if the mob doesn’t get paid! Freddy Vegas is a to an audition, meets a beautiful actress (Maya Tremblay) and with the help of a
gambler who is always looking for the big score to take him to the top. In a second mysterious woman (Sharon Jordan) battles two demons (David Ghilardi and Vic D.
more stable life he has a job, a beautiful fiancée, a big house & nice car...but for this Vine) who are intent on destroying the world!
small-timer with big plans, it’s never going to be enough for him. Watch his plans UNDER THE BOARDWALK: A UKULELE LOVE STORY
unravel from riches-to-rags in a Sin City thriller. Romance -Drama (74:30 mins)
CHAOS IN GOTHAM PART I UNINVITED GUEST Director: Nina Koocher
Delivery Status: Completed Producer: Nina Koocher
Two bumbling, clownish Middle-Eastern brothers-as-would-be terrorists arrive in Delivery Status: Completed
NYC to wreak havoc and set-up shop in the apartment of their cousin, a law- abiding Under the Boardwalk: A Ukulele Love Story tells the story of how a small house party
U.S. citizen who lives with hi girlfriend, Brittany. Things turn strange & chaotic in an out of the way town in Santa Cruz, California grows into the biggest ukulele
when the two angry brothers initiate their illconceived plan and a nosy landlord starts club in the world. It is also the story of how a small instrument makes a long journey
complaining. An underground network of spies surfaces which has more on its mind from Portugal to Hawaii to the mainland, lands in people’s hearts, and creates a
than just subduing “piggish American imperialists.” “ New-Millennium” environment uniquely Hawaiian-American musical tradition that is currently experiencing a world
and how that uncertainty plays on the minds of ordinary citizens ( viewers). These wide revival. The Ukulele Club of Santa Cruz and the ukulele instrument itself are the
concerns have become ever-present in the daily lives of New Yorkers where the show two main characters of the film. Their stories are inter-cut, as both overcome humble
is set. beginnings to meet with unlikely success.
CHAOS IN GOTHAM PART II THE INITIATION OF JANA KENBE LA - HOLD ON
Delivery Status: Completed (82 minutes)
The web of nefarious-minded radicals who are bent on destruction becomes strained, Language: ENGLISH
and a power-grab ensues as the network seeks to expand. But misfires and idiocy Director: Stephen Anunson and Carolyn Armstrong
make for strange bedfellows, as the network grooms a young beautiful woman by Producer: Stephen Anunson and Carolyn Armstrong
brainwashing her to blow herself up. Gunfights, lust, kidnapping, violation of homeland Delivery Status: Completed
security and more...all knit together to for the crazy quilt of....CHAOS IN GOTHAM! Year of Production: 2011
DEMENTIA13 - 3D Haiti is often portrayed as a country full of poor people waiting for help. Kenbe La~
Horror, Thriller – 3D (75 Minutes) Hold On follows Haitian leaders who believe in the importance of arts education
Director: Francis Ford Coppola and outlets for creative expression. Filmed before and after the January 12th, 2010
Key Cast: William Campbell, Luana Anders, Patrick Magee and Ronald Stein, Eithne earthquake, Kenbe La chronicles the work of musicians and teachers of the Holy
Dunne, Bart Patton, Mary Mitchel, Peter Read, Karl Schanzer, Ron Perry, Derry Trinity Music School in Port-au-Prince and the Dessaix Baptiste Music School in
O’Donavan, Barbara Dowling Jacmel. Their experiences illustrate the ways in which music education builds strong
Delivery Status: Completed character and supportive communities to help combat the intense needs that exist
Year of Production: USA throughout the country. These stories reveal music’s ability to heal and unite even
A scheming young woman named Louise causes a heart attack death of her husband, amidst the most challenging circumstances Festival Awards Official Selection: Seattle
John, then attempts to have herself written into the will of her rich mother-in-law, but is True Independent Film Festival Official Selection: Weyauwega Film Festival
denied. She covers-up the tragedy by forging a letter from “pretend John” to convince THE SOBBING STONE