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9th EUROPEAN SHORT FILM CO-PRODUCTION FORUMTuesday 7th February, 9H30 - 15H30, Hotel Holiday Inn

Wednesday 8th February, 10H00 - 17H00, Short Film Market

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CLERMONT-FERRAND 201739th SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 32nd SHORT FILM MARKET

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PITCHED PROJECTS

Session 1 Péter fülöp The Inner Side - Dániel Reich fP films - Hungary 3 Delphine Schmit Craps - Tünde Deak Perspective films - France 4 Danielle Guirguis Circus Fondantini - Patrick Raats Smarthouse film - Netherlands 5 Jonas César The Cycle - josé Cavalheiro AIM Studios - Portugal 6

Session 2 Agnė Adomėnė The Juggler - Skirmanta jakaitė Art shot - Lithuania 7 Eleni kossyfidou The Silence of the Dying Fish - Vasilis Kekatos Blackbird Productions - Greece 8 Jiří konečný Room by the Lake - Olmo Omerzu Endorfilm - Czech Republic 9 Milivoj Popovic Cyclists - Veljko Popovic Lemonade3d - Croatia 10

Session 3 olivier Chabalier Sap - Clémence Marcadier Gasp - France 11 Artur Wyrzykowski Klingert’s Diving Suit - Artur Wyrzykowski Artcore - Poland 12 olga osorio Mouras - Olga Osorio Miss Movies - Spain 13 Jan Ijäs Las Hurdes - Land without People - jan Ijäs Visiokolmio ltd - Finland 14

Session 4 Abigail Addison I’m OK - Elizabeth Hobbs Animate Projects - United Kingdom 15 kalle Wettre The Musical Spider - Henry Moore Selder Malade - Sweden 16 fani Skartouli Postcards from the End - Konstantinos Antonopoulos Neda film - Greece 17

PRODUCERS FOCUS

Producers invited in collaboration with our European correspondents and partner film & media organizations:

Hristian Nochev Filmarc ltd Bulgaria 18Alexandra Matheou Master & Slave ltd Cyprus 19katharina Jakobs Film Boutique Germany 20Dhyaa Joda Hexatonic Films Germany 21Roland fischer Ocean Pictures Filmproduktion Germany 22Emanuela Ponzano Kaos Italy 23Angelo Rocco Troiano Mediterraneo Cinematografica Italy 24Pawel kosun Centrala Poland 25Mihai Mitrica Puls Digital Production Romania 26Viva Videnovic Strup Produkcija Slovenia 27Alvaro olalquiaga The Kitchen Coorp. Spain 28

INVITED COUNTRY Producers from Colombia 29

TIMETABLE 30EVENT SCHEDULE 31ACCESS MAP 32ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 33

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THE INNER SIDE l DANIEL REICHHUNGARY

Domi is a 33-year-old autistic boy who never speaks, and lives with his mother and father. They’ve tried everything to cure him, but to no avail. The mother cynically tells the story of their unlucky family. We learn that grandpa,

when he passed away, left only books as inheritance. This proved a disappointment for the parents again, but the books become the first things in Domi’s life to bring him happiness. He becomes obsessed with books. The family tries a new psychologist, Aliz, who soon realizes how important books are for Domi. Now Aliz starts to write a story for Domi. This book changes the world around Domi and we see the story becoming alive and driving the boy towards a solution. After the breakpoint we get back to the real world again. Domi is with his mother and for the first time in his life he starts to speak.

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Péter Fülöp (b.1980, Hungary) has been working on film productions for twelve years. He has got experience from no-budget music videos and shorts, through domestic commercials and feature films, to Hollywood blockbusters. As part of a production he prefers to be

involved in the creative process of the film as well. He worked as location manager in such movies like Wolrd War Z (116’, 2013), and Die Hard 5 (98’, 2013). In the last four years, he made two domestic and two European co-production feature as production manager. He has got over 50 commercials and a dozen shorts in his credit list.

Dániel Reich (b. 1986, Hungary) is an independent film director and cinematographer. He graduated in cinematography at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest. Starting his career with shorts during film school, Dániel soon became one of the most recognized of his

age. He won the Hungarian Cinematographers Goldeneye award 2 times in a row. His latest short Recall (19’, 2016) – produced by Péter Fülöp – was also honoured with the same award. He shot two features right after the Academy as Director of Photography. His creative hunger naturally led him towards direction. Recall the short film he made recently, proves that his sensitivity is not only for the image, but also for the story and the drama. His visual style and the cinematographic mind, offer him a great opportunity to create and deliver special films.

FP Films is a private company recently funded by producer Péter Fülöp. Its short credit list includes an animation short and some commercials. The aim of the company is to create valuable short films and to produce internationally distributed features.

FP Films is completing 29-minute narrative short Indian, by Balász Simonyi, in co-production with France.

Fiction – HD Digital – 15 minShooting dates: Spring 2017

Estimated total budget: 66,000 eurosSecured financing: 53,000 euros (80%)*

FP Films, Zrínyi u. 14, 2890 Tata, HungaryPéter Fülöp/ [email protected]/ +36 30 443 9893

* Including 25,000 euros granted by the Médiatanács Magyar Media Mecenatúra Programja.

13,000 euros granted by the Hungarian Film Incentive, and a 15,000 euros contribution from co-production partner KMH Film.

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CRAPS l TÜNDE DEAKFRANCE

Irenka, a woman of Polish origin, has built a life for herself in Paris. She returns to Warsaw, to attend her father’s funeral - a man she has lost touch with over the years. She gradually realises she remembers nothing of her

childhood. As she sorts through her dad’s belongings, she finds a pair of dice. Not knowing how to cope with the changes in her life, she decides to give herself up to chance. From now on, she will roll the dice each time she has a decision to make. She begins to drift through a city which has become alien to her, attempting to summon images from her past.

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Delphine Schmit studied biology and anthropology, conduc t ing research in epidemiology mainly in Africa. Around this time she also started writing film scripts. Her debut short film won the first price in Premiers Plans Angers. She integrated the

Script Workshop at La FEMIS. Soon after she founded with Isabelle Mathy and other European partners a production company, Perspective Films. Since then she has produced more than 10 short films (incl. an Oscar nomination in 2013), 6 documentaries (selected in more than 100 festivals) and 4 feature films (latest release on July 2015). She is a script reader for the CNC and other funding commissions, she is teaching film production at the Caen University and leads the «First step» program in Picardy.

Tünde Deak is a director and artistic contributor for performing arts, working mostly with Thierry Bedard, Marc Lainé and Mathieu Cruciani. She has directed two plays, mixing theatre and video: The Melancholy of Resistance and The Box Man. As a video artist, she

has directed a Moby Dick by Mathieu Cruciani, directed video installations for Marc Lainé, a short film series titled Portraits # for Madeleine Louarn. She has worked as editor for Zones, a video installation by Grégoire Strecker. Her first film Interior / Box (14’, 2015), produced by Perspective Films, premiered at the Weierstadt FilmFest in August 2016.

Perspective films was foun-ded in 2008, with the purpose of creating an auteur-driven cinema in collaboration with producing partners in Belgium

and Switzerland. In 2015, Gaëlle Jones joined Delphine Schmit. Together, they are are defining the editorial guideline of the structure in order to put in its center a certain way of reflecting on the world, a poetic rebellion, both politics and sensitive.2010).

Fiction – HD – 30 minShooting dates: October 2017


Perspective Films, 12 rue Calmels, 75018 Paris, FranceDelphine Schmit / [email protected] / +33.6 16 44 29 80

* Including 2,000 euros granted for scriptwriting by the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée, and 2,500 euros for music by the SACEM.

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CIRCUS FONDANTINI l PATRICK RAATS NETHERLANDS

Jack is a happy child born into a loving circus family. But there is something about Jack; his head is always turned to the camera. Despite its shortcomings he lives a happy circus life with the dream of one day being a human

cannonball. But fate takes a turn and several deaths in the family are forcing Jack to enter a “normal” life. With ups and a lot of downs he kind of succeeds as a banker. But the nostalgia of the Fondantini Circus makes him want to break free.

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Daniëlle Guirguis worked on serveral Dutch blockbusters before she founded Smarthouse Films in 2011. Every piece of content – whether it is branded or not – is created with a heart of film. Every piece of content has charisma, so to speak. After working for films as

Black Book (145’, 2006) by Paul Verhoeven, Stricken (113’, 2009) by Reinout Oerlemans and The Happy Housewife (100’, 2010) by Antoinette Beumer, she produced 3 films at the production company Shooting Star before she founded Smarthouse Films.

After his graduation in graphic design, Patrick Raats started his career as an animator at Holland’s most notorious animation studio. At the Toonder Studio he specialised in the field of stop-motion while working on animated puppet Loeki de Leeuw. Besides the craft of

animating he is skilled as an animation director and worked for many brands like Heineken, Lipton, NS, Uitmarkt, Cote D’or, Hema and Sesame Street. After directing serveral successful pre-school tv series, like as Nijntje (Miffy) and The Tumblies (2013), he directed his first feature Woezel & Pip Op zoek naar de Sloddervos (70’, 2016) which was a great success with over 200.000 admissions in the Netherlands.

Smarthouse Films produces feature films, documentaries and commercials. The experimental art film The Common Sense (2014) was commissioned

and shown at Holland’s leading art institutes De Appel, De Hallen, and Casco. The short films Onderstroom (11’, 2012, official competition NFF) and Nog 10 Minuten (7’, 2014, winner Cannes Short Film Festival) were both released in cinemas. The 6 short films produced as part of the program This is where Reconstruction Starts, commissioned by the IFFR, premiered at last year’s festival edition. The latest short, Route du Soleil (13’, 2016), premiered at this year’s NFF. Smarthouse’s first documentary Sea Gypsies is in post-production and the first feature film La Holandesa is now in production.

Animation – HD Stop Motion – 7 minShooting dates: to be defined

Estimated total budget: 140,000 eurosSecured financing: 2,400 euros (1,7%)*

Smarthouse Films, Nieuwe Achtergracht 17, 1018XV Amsterdam, Netherlands Danielle Guirguis/ [email protected] / +31 6 212 43 731

* Script development grant from the Dutch Film Fund.

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THE CYCLE l jOSE CAVALHEIRO PORTUGAL

A biologist, an engineer and a horticulturist work in a research station for the protection of biodiversity in a remote forest outpost, where they foster species differentiation. The three characters complement each other: A, the heavy

sleeper, takes care of the plant nursery; B, the philosopher, is in charge of the machinery; C, the workaholic, studies living forms. But artificial biodiversification precipitates an ominous reaction of Nature. One night the course of the stars shifts: all living forms begin to uniformize fast. At the peak of standardization, they turn aggressive.

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Jonas César (b. 1987 in Chaves) holds of a post-graduate degree in Economics from the University of Porto, where he was member of the Pedagogical Board and of the monitoring committee for the Master in Economics (2009-2011). Co-founder and executive director of FESTIMAGE

– International Image Festival (2007-2010). Member of Portuguese Animation House (since 2011). Executive producer at HUSMA Production Company (2010-2013). Insurance consultant at Ernst & Young (2010-2014), currently, economist at the Bank of Portugal. Co-founder and executive director at AIM – Animation Studios. Projects under his supervision include various multi-location productions, from 2D/3D animation and VFX to video filming and interactive development. These projects comprise independent productions and commercial projects for major brands in over 10 different countries.

Zepe (b. 1956 in Porto). Degree in Animation Cinematography at LaCambre (Belgium); Doctorate cum laude in Fine Arts at the Universidad Polytecnica de Valencia (Spain). Assistant-Professor and Member of the Scientific Board at the Fine Arts School of the University of Lisbon.

Researcher and Pedagogic Coordinator at the Centre for Investigation and Studies in Art and Multimedia. General Assembly President and Spokesman of the Animation Cinema Directors’ Association at the Specialized Consulting Section for Cinema and Audiovisual of the Ministry of Culture. Former Pedagogic Coordinator of the Center for Image and Narrative Techniques at the Modern Art Center of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Author of three short films and an animation series, awarded both nationally and internationally. A special mention to Stuart (11’, 2006) and Candide (11’, 2007), both nominated for the Cartoon D’Or.

AIM is an animation driven production company creating contents for Cinema, TV, Gaming and multi-platform communication. Relying on the multidisciplinary talent of its creative teams, it comprises a collective of artist specialized in 2D/3D animation and

illustration, special effects and post-production; composers, musicians and sound designers working with several European production houses; an engineering team specialized in the development and programming of interactive content, with several published and award winning productions.

Animation – Digital 2D and 3D Animation – 14 minShooting dates: May 2017 - May 2019


AIM Studios - Animation Studios, Rua de Stª Catarina, 536, 3º, 4000-445 Porto, Portugal Jonas Silva César / [email protected] /+351.933 767 733

* Including 120,000 euros granted by ICA Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual.

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Founded in 2012, ART SHOT is an independent production company, focused on developing and producing short artistic animated films. The founder and producer of the company, Agnė Adomėnė aims to produce visually engaging animations with the potential

for international co-production and distribution. In 2016, the first completed production, a puppet animation film Ragnarok (8’, directed by Urtė Oettinger and Johan Oettinger, Lithuanian - Denmark co-production) was awarded by Lithuanian Film Academy as The Best Lithuanian Animation Film of the year.

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THE JUGGLER l SKIRMANTA jAKAITE LITHUANIA

We live in the same house, but with different apartments, jobs, situations, beliefs, visions. Each in our own compartment, we fool ourselves that the world is one and that it exists. Sometimes it seems that an incomprehensible

thread becomes visible and I am on a verge of understanding… This film is about the other side of life - the scary, unknown side we never fully grasp, but we know is there, somewhere near, so close.

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A founder and producer of production company ART SHOT, Agnė Adomėnė, has educational background in culture management (The Master of Management, Department of UNESCO Cultural Management and Cultural Policy, Vilnius Academy of Arts) and has

worked in the film business since 2009, with experience in film distribution and exhibition (Art house cinema theatre PASAKA). Founded in 2012, independent production company ART SHOT focuses on developing, producing and co-producing short artistic animated films. Since 2014 Agnė joined the team of European Film Forum SCANORAMA as a film industry event coordinator. In 2015 she became one of the founders and board members of the Lithuanian Animation Association, that was established to unite animation related companies, to provide network, to create and promote an attractive image of Lithuanian animation.

Skirmanta Jakaitė (b. 1969) is a director and animator with a BA in Animation from the Vilnius Academy of Art and experience in animation production since 1989. The Juggler will be her third directed short animated film. Her previous films were also made

using the technique of 2D drawn animation. We May Meet, We May Not (8’, 2011) was screened at many acclaimed international film festivals including Ottawa International Animation Festival, Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, Melbourne International Animation Festival. Non-euclidean Geometry (11’, 2014, co-directed with Solveiga Masteikaitė) was awarded the Ecumenical Jury Prize at 6oth Short Film Festival Oberhausen and received Special International Jury Prize at Hiroshima International Animation Festival as well as The Lithuanian Film Academy award for The Best Lithuanian Animation Film of the year.

Animation – 2D Animation – 10 minShooting dates: July 2017


Art Shot, J.Savickio st. 21-3B, 01108 Vilnius, LithuaniaAgnė Adomėnė/ [email protected] / +370.620 88522

* Including 11,200 euros from the Lithuanian Film Center.Project is also a winner of the Baltic Pitching Forum 2016.

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THE SILENCE OF THE DYING FISH l VASILIS KEKATOS GREECE

Makis is a fish farm worker. On his way to work one morning, he is informed that he has died the day before. In his social circle, everyone treats him as though he were still alive; all the while knowing that he is deceased. After

failed attempts to prove that he is alive, he accepts his fate with indifference and he spends his last day trying to secure shelter and caretakers for his beloved canaries, up until the time of his funeral.

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Eleni Kossyfidou entered the field of feature films firstly as production manager for Real Life, by P. H. Koutras (111’, 2004, Toronto IFF). She founded her company in 2001, which became Blackbird production in 2006, and produced / co-produced Strella (111’, 2009) by

Panos H. Koutras (Berlinale Panorama), XENiA (134’, 2014) by Panos H. Koutras (Un Certain Regard Cannes and Toronto IFF 2014). She also produced short films Two Times Now (10’, 2007) by Michalis Konstantatos, Show Time (16’, 2006), by Theophilos. Papastylianos, Hot Dogs (19’, 2001) by Dimitris Pantelias in co-production with ERT and Greek Film Center.

Vasilis Kekatos was born in 1991 in Kefalonia, Greece. He completed his degree in Film Studies in Brunel University of London. He has worked as a director on several short documentaries and music videos. His first short film, Retrograde (14’, 2015), was selected by Drama

ISFF and Athens Premiere Nights IFF. His second short Zero Star Hotel (6’, 2016) won the Sundance Ignite “What’s Next?” Short Film Challenge. His next project, The Silence of the Dying Fish has been selected to participate to the next Nisi Masa’s European Short Pitch 2017. He is also the artistic director of SeaNema Open Air Film Festival, a film festival in which the film projections are not hosted in cinema halls but in specially formed areas by the sea. He lives and works in Athens.

Fiction – HD – 20 minShooting dates: November 2017


Blackbird production, 3, Digeni Akrita str., 11471 Athens, Greece Eleni Kossyfidou / [email protected] / +30.6946127354

* Including 20,000 euros granted by ERT National TV Channel.

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Blackbird production was founded in 2006. The company produced the feature film The Enemy Within (107, 2013) by Yorgos Tsemberopoulos (Montreal IFF, BFI IFF). It also produced 25 TV episodes (of 50’) on contemporary art The Era of Images by Dimitris Pantelias and 14 TV documentaries Mikropoleis / Small Towns (of 30’) by G.

Gaitanidis, P. Miliou, Th. Kiaos for ERT/National Channel. It produced the short film Young Fish (19’, 2016) by Chrisanthos Margonis (Cinemed Montpellier 2016). The documentary Kostis Papagiorgis (The Sweetest Misanthropist) by E. Alexandrakis is in production. The feature film In This Land No One Knew How To Cry, by acclaimed Greek director G. Panoussopoulos, is in preproduction. In development are feature film Fantasia by A. Kardaras, and short films The Silence of the Dying Fish by V. Kekatos and The Woods by L. Tsalta.

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Jiří Konečný graduated from VŠE in Prague (University of Econo-mics) – department of international business (2001) and FAMU, Film Academy in Prague – department of production (2004). He founded his own independent production company Endorfilm. In 2008 he

was selected for Producers on the Move at the Cannes Film Market. In 2007 he participated in the EAVE international training programme.

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ROOM BY THE LAKE l OLMO OMERZU CZECH REPUBLIC

This night will most likely be his last and he knows it. He is 75 years old and he’s a doctor. His name is Ivo. Behind the doors of the hospital room, his family members and friends are waiting. Ivo’s grandson also comes to

the hospital with his young new girlfriend who got pregnant recently. When he introduces her to the old man, Ivo asks tiredly if he could see her breasts. In the hallway, the old physician’s wish becomes a public affair. Everyone realizes this might be his last wish but at the same time, they try to stay more or less considerate towards the young woman. How will the family solve such a delicate situation? And is this truly Ivo’s last wish?

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Olmo Omerzu was born in 1984 in Ljubljana. During his studies at FAMU in Prague he directed several short films and his 40-minute fiction The Second Act (43’, 2008) was hugely successful with festival juries throughout Europe. In 2011, Omerzu

graduated from FAMU with his feature debut A Night too Young (65’), a Czech-Slovenian co-production film that was distributed in Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia and Slovenia. After a successful premiere in the in the Berlinale’s Forum section in 2012, the film was invited to numerous international festivals, winning several awards, including the Czech Film Critics’ Award for the Discovery of the Year. In 2015, he finished his second feature Family Film (95’), a co-production between five countries with the support of Media and Eurimages. The film premiered at San Sebastian IFF in New Directors Competition. It received the Award for Best Artistic Contribution at Tokyo IFF and other awards.

Endorfilm is an independent production company mainly focused on quality arthouse films for cinema. Endorfilm is one of the most active Czech production companies, specializing in international co-productions. Their films

were screened at many major film festivals, including five times attendance at Berlinale: Matchmaking Mayor (80’) by Erika Hníková in 2011 (Best Film in Forum), A Night Too Young (65’) by Olmo Omerzu in 2012, Aferim! (108’) by Radu Jude in 2015 in the Main competition (received a Silver Bear for the Best Director), Koza (75’, 2015) by Ivan Ostrochovský in the Forum section (nominated for Best Debut award), and Little Harbour (90’, 2017) by Iveta Grofova for Generation section. Their films were also selected four times as national candidates for the Academy Awards.

Fiction – Arri Alexa 2K – 25-30 minShooting dates: September 2017


Endorfilm, Prímetická 1187/4, 140 00 Prague 4, Czech RepublicJiří Konečný / [email protected] / + 420.602 358 373

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CYCLISTS l VELjKO POPOVIC CROATIA

Cycling season is in full swing. Two obvious leaders in the tour so far are the cyclists the film follows. We see them not struggling only for the tour cup but more importantly for the love of the Laidy. While the last leg of the

tour has started, in the small village where the race is being held comes Wilhelm Gustloff, the largest passenger boat of its time.

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Animation – Full HD – 5 minShooting dates: June 2017


Lemonade3d, gotovčeva 4, 21000 Split, CroatiaMilivoj Popovic / [email protected] / + 385.95 806 5744

* Granted by the Croatian Audio-visual Centre.

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Milivoj Popovic has a Masters Degree in Sculpting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Split and a BA in Computer Programming. He co-founded lemonade3d in 2005. He’s worked in the studio as one of the producers on various commissioned work and on 4 short animated films.

He also worked as the main CG sculptor on many of those projects. In 2015 he produced the short animated film Planemo (14’) which was screened in Animafest, Annecy, Ottawa etc. He is an ongoing visiting professor at the TV Academy in Split.

Veljko Popovic graduated from the Art Academy in Zagreb, painting department in 2003. The following year he became an associate at the Art Academy as an assistant to the professor Simon B. Narath (computer graphics and animation). In 2005 he co-founded

lemonade3d, a 2d/3d computer graphics studio. In 2012 he became a tenured professor at the Art Academy, and in 2012/14 Head of the Department of Film and Video. Since 2008 he has directed 5 short animated films winning over 50 international awards including Fipresci award in Annecy 2008, Oscar qualifying Animated Eye in Aspen 2008, Cartoon East award at Animafest 2010, Golden Dove at DOK Leipzig 2012... In 2014 he was nominated for membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscar).

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Lemonade3d is a Croatian based studio specialized in 2d/3d computer graphics for computer games, TV, print and film founded in 2005. We have

produced a number of computer titles, five award winning short animated movies, and a truck load of commercial content for clients world wide. Work done by the studio members received over 50 international awards, including the Oscar qualifying Animated Eye award at Aspen and the Fipresci international film critics society award at Annecy.

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1916, Great War. Ernest, 18 years old, a sapper, must dig a tunnel underground, at ten meters deep, to place dynamite at a strategic position. But the enemy is also digging and is so close that one can hear their voices. Ernest

must act to stop their progress.

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SAP l CLEMENCE MARCADIERFRANCE

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Fiction – HD – 20 minShooting dates: September 2017


GASP !, 8 rue Edouard Robert, 75012 Paris, France

Olivier Chabalier/ [email protected] /+33.6 18 54 75 02

* Including 10,000 euros Development support fromthe Région Île-de-France Film Fund.

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After graduating with a B.A. in Cinema, Olivier Chabalier started as production and distribution assistant for the company Autour de Minuit. He then launched the short film festival «Pris de court», in Paris, that he programmed for 4 years before turning to production in 2010

by creating the company GASP! with Clémence Marcadier.

A graduate with a Master in Cinema from the Paris 8 University, Clémence Marcadier began as assistant director and production assistant before making her first short fiction, Tom (20’, 2012). Her second film, A Summer (12’, 2014), got selected in many

festivals, including BFI, FICFA, Off-court. Sap, her third short, won a scriptwriting grant from the Île de France region and is currently in funding. At the same time, Clémence has been producing fiction and animation films at GASP! since 2010.

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GASP! is a production company created in 2010 by Olivier Chabalier and Clémence Marcadier to carry out audacious projects with a strong and distinctive perspective. We support

films using new technologies or whose visual and narrative concept tends towards experimentation and/or genre. Our last two shorts were selected in many festivals (Ottawa, Odense, Interfilm). While continuing the production of short films, the company is currently developing an animation series and a feature length fiction.

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Wrocław, 18th century. Six-year-old Bi is looking for her little brother Oscar, who was taken by the flood. Her father Karl Klingert after this loss completely devoted himself to making the world’s first diving suit.

The first presentation of the suit is coming. If it goes well, the family will move to England. Bi says they should stay and wait for Oscar. When she discovers her father’s biggest invention, in darkness and lightings, she takes it for a monster. She thinks the monster possessed her father and decides to destroy it before she loses her brother forever.

KLINGERT’S DIVING SUIT l ARTUR WYRZYKOWSKIPOLAND

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Artur Wyrzykowski studied directing, production managing and scriptwriting. He participated in Midpoint - Training The Trainers program, Ekran developing program, New Horizons Studio and Maia Workshops. Since 2007 he has run his production company that produces commercials and

offers postproduction and animation services. He produced and directed the short film Everything (15’, 2008), that was distributed in cinemas in Poland. He directed some episodes of a very popular daily TV series Presbitery and several commercials which he also produced. Currently he’s working on two short animations as a director/producer and one Swiss-Polish feature as a producer.

Artcore is a Warsaw-based production and post-production studio, established in 2007 by Artur Wyrzykowski. It creates, produces and post-produces commercials as well as short and feature films. It’s a member of Polish Audiovisual Producers Chamber of Commerce (KIPA) and Polish Animation

Producers Association (SPPA). Its goal is to produce features and TV series, but most importantly to tell good stories.

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Artcore, Żegiestowska 18, 02-924 Warsaw, Poland Artur Wyrzykowski / [email protected] / +48.504 288 855

* Including Development support from the Polish Film Institute, support as co-producer from CETA Audiovisual Technology Center

in Wroclaw and Studio Nice Berlin.

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MOURAS l OLGA OSORIO SPAIN

‘Mouras’ are figures in Galician mythology that came originally from Celtic tradition. They are similar to fairies. It is not difficult to believe in ‘mouras’ when you are 6 years old, especially in the middle of a magic forest where

your mom just wants to feed your fantasies.

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Producer and editor of Mouras, cofounder (with Olga Osorio) of the production company Miss Movies and also its legal representative, Juan Galiñanes was twice nominated to the Goya Awards and won the Mestre Mateo Award four times. Today, Galiñanes directs the

animated series Tutu” for Clan TVE while he works on his first long-term real image project with the production company Vaca Films. As a producer, he has been responsible for the short films 3-1=0, reStart, Einstein-Rosen and for the video clips Garden’s Road and Buscando a Superfama.

Director, producer and writer of Mouras, Olga Osorio teaches filmmaking at the Escola de Imaxe e Son in A Coruña, where she also teaches cinematography at the Faculty of Media Sciences. Her first short fiction film, reStart (15’, 2015), was in the official selection

of the Sitges Film Festival and in numerous international film festivals, including Fantasia, PIFFF, Les Utopiales in Nantes or BIFFF in Brussels. The film won best script at Etheria in Los Ángeles and made Olga the recipient of the Best Galician director at the 43 Curtas Film Fest. She is also the co-director of Garden’s Road (2014), which was awarded the Mestre Mateo Award from the Galician Academy in 2015. She received again the Mestre Mateo Award 2016 for her video clip Buscando a Superfama (2015), which also won the Jury Award at the Cans Film Festival. She recently finished her second short film as director, Einstein-Rosen (9’, 2016), which she also wrote. Einstein-Rosen premiered nationaly in the official section of the 49th Sitges Fantasy Film Festival and internationaly at the Leuven International Short Film Festival and her script was one of the finalists at the Vértigo screenplay contest, at La Mano Festival (Madrid).

Miss Movies is a small production company from A Coruña that was created at the end of 2013 by Olga Osorio and Juan Galiñanes, primarily aimed at pulling off personal projects from both filmmakers, although they have also taken on work on request for third parties, essentially advertising work. Miss Movies’ productions to date are: Short Films: 3-1=0 (25’, 2014), reStart (15’, 2015), Einstein-

Rosen (9’, 2016); Music videos: Garden’s Road (2014), Buscando a Superfama (2015); Advertising: Así eres, así somos (2015), Galicia sabe (2016).

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Miss Movies, C/José Vázquez Rozas, 1, 3º C, 15008 A Coruña, SpainOlga Osorio / [email protected] / +34.610230810

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LAS HURDES, LAND WITHOUT PEOPLE l jAN IjÄSFINLAND

The movie takes place in las Hurdes in Spain, 70 years after Luis Buñuel made his famous documentary Tierra sin Pan in the same location. Today that same “cursed” province has been deserted even though the EU has tried to

keep it alive. The villages from Buñuel’s movies have been abandoned. In many villages there is only one resident left and for that one resident the EU has built a basketball court and a playground. In the poor province of Hurdes, Buñuel is considered a satyr and a gormandizer.

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Visiokolmio ltd, Kalevankatu 44 A15, 00180 Helsinki, FinlandJan Ijäs / [email protected]/ +358.40 701 641

* Including 10,000 euros from the Finnish Film Foundationand 8,000 euros from AVEK (Promotion Centre for Audio Visual Culture).

Visiokolmio Ltd (founded 1988) is a Helsinki-based production company focusing today on ambitious film art, documentaries and fiction. Today the company

mainly focuses on Jan Ijäs’ film productions. The company has produced several short films and its first feature length documentary film Waste will be ready in 2017.

COMPANY Jan Ijäs (b. 1975) lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. He studied documentary film directing at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki and has worked with documentary, fiction and alternative film. The films of Ijäs deal with serious social themes. Ijäs’s films have been shown very

widely abroad film festivals and as installations in museums and galleries. Ijäs directed and produced several short documentaries and his first feature length documentary called Waste is in production and will be ready in 2017.

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I’M OK l ELIZABETH HOBBSUNITED KINGDOM

It is 1917 and Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka is in hospital, injured and shell-shocked from World War One, and heartbroken from the end of his famous love affair with Alma Mahler. Whilst recovering, he writes a brilliant play.

The absurd visual metaphors from the play will be woven through the film to throw light upon Kokoschka’s real life experiences in love and war. The film will be animated and will combine a mixture of drawing, paper puppets and archive footage.

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Abigail Addison has been producing artists’ animation for the past 7 years. These films have screened at many international festivals, with Apocalypse Rhyme winning a British Animation Award in 2014. In 2016, Abigail produced Silent Signal, bringing

together animators and scientists to produce six animations for exhibition at UK galleries and festivals worldwide, and she produced Chris Shepherd’s Johnno’s Dead (8’, 2016, selected in Clermont-Ferrand) in collaboration with Autour de Minuit. Abigail is currently producing animated short I’m OK with Director Elizabeth Hobbs, having produced her short Imperial Provisor Frombald (4’) for Channel 4 in 2013. She is Associate Producer on Richard Squires’ experimental documentary, Claude: The Hysterical Laughter of the Cartoon Villain.

Animation – Digital – 5 minShooting dates: May/October 2017Estimated total budget: 58,000 euros

Secured financing: 35,500 euros (61%)*

Animate Projects, 45 Empress Road, Derby DE23 6TD, United KingdomAbigail Addison/ [email protected] / + 44.7789 686903

* Including grants from the Arts Council England and the Elephant Trust.

Elizabeth Hobbs is an animator based in London. She has been making films for 16 years. Her films are driven by a strong narrative, experimental in form and often based on curious overlooked stories from history. Her films often employ methods from her printmaking

background, but always explore and stretch the material possibilities of the medium. Her films have won many awards and travelled widely to international film festivals. They include The Emperor (4’, 2001), The True Story of Sawney Beane (11’, 2005), The Old, Old, Very Old Man (7’, 2007) and Imperial Provisor Frombald (4’, 2013). Elizabeth’s newest film G-AAAH (1’ ,2016) is a short created with a typewriter, has won 2 awards since it premiered and received a Vimeo Staff Pick.

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international reputation for producing high quality, experimental films for exhibition across broadcast, festival, gallery, public and digital platforms. It has supported talent to make ambitious moving image projects, and has worked with more than 90 filmmakers.

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THE MUSICAL SPIDER l HENRY MOORE SELDER SWEDEN

The phone rings in the office of private detective Bellytail. As the caller, Plattenberg, tells the PI his story, the images unfold. Plattenberg lives with his wife and their deformed kid, Runt, who is only a living head. Mrs Plattenberg is

driving him crazy with playing piano to a dancing spider. Drunk one night, Plattenberg kills the spider, sending his wife into a catatonic state. But secretly, Runt is plotting his revenge. Based on the story «The Music-Loving Spider» by Belgian comic book artist Philippe Foerester.

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Kalle Wettre (b. 1976) grew up in Uddevalla, a small village on the Swedish west coast, as the second youngest in a family of 4 kids. After spending 10 years in Gothenburg where he studied at film school and played music he moved to Stockholm where he still lives. Today Kalle

produces commercial film through his production company The Producers (est. in 2006) and features, shorts and docs through production company Malade (est. 2009). Kalle also does freelance work for other production companies. His latest short film, a stop-motion film called Bath House (15’, 2014, dir. Niki Lindroth von Bahr) has been screened all over the world and won Grand Prix at Anima in 2015. His feature length documentary In the Country (51’, 2014, dir. Anders Jedenfors) was nominated best Swedish Documentary at Guldbaggen (Swedish Academy Awards) in 2015.

Coming from a background in the Swedish alternative music scene, Henry Moore Selder turned early to film and studied film theory at the Stockholm University and practical filmmaking at the Stockholm Film School. Henry’s films often deal with topics such as alienation and

estrangement, often with a keen eye for life’s absurdities. While working as a director of commercials and music videos, he has created a body of short film work. The result is several award winning short films like the musicals Deadly Boring (9’, 2001) and She Is Dead (14’, 2002), and the dramatic sci-fi novella film A Living Soul (30’, 2014), which was in competition at the Clermont-Ferrand film festival in 2014, as was She Is Dead in 2004. Henry has also worked with several renowned visual artists and written and developed several in development feature film and TV scripts both for Scandinavian and international production companies and broadcasters.

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Malade, Skeppsbron 38, 11130 Stockholm, SwedenKalle Wettre / [email protected] / +46.707 147727

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Malade was started in 2009 as an artist collective within the visual medium. Malade believes in creativity within the collective group and has a strong sense of collaboration between borders. Nothing is impossible as long as everybody works together. As

a film company Malade works in many shapes, from the artistic to the commercial, the most important factor being passion and determination in every project. No compromises, the heart must speak.

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POST-CARDS FROM THE END l KONSTANTINOS ANTONOPOULOS GREECE

DIMITRA (40) and DIMITRIS (40) are trapped in their dysfunctional marriage. They try to endure the rest of their vacation with their two little daughters, on a remote beach of a Greek island. Their routine breaks when they notice

that their phones, TV and internet have stopped working. Trying to deal with the crisis, the couple discovers that the phenomenon is widespread and alarming. Dimitra and Dimitris will have to overcome their internal antagonisms and unresolved issues in order to find a way to safely escape the island. Postcards From The End is a relationship comedy about rediscovering communication in an increasingly absurd, modern world.

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Fani Skartouli is a film producer and a lawyer. Following her legal studies in Paris, she worked with law firms in Brussels, Paris and Athens in the fields of Intellectual Property rights and Employment law. She regularly advises production companies in the course of their filmmaking process.

She was part of the production team of Symptom (87’, 2015), Virus (2017), a co-production between Greece, France and Latvia and Pity, a co-production between Greece and Poland, supported by Eurimages and currently in production. She was the post-production co-coordinator of the documentary series Insider’s Guide (2016), Greeks Gone West (2015), the associate producer of short film Flowers and Bottoms (6’, 2016) and the executive producer of the short film Our Lead Guitarist (11’, 2012), by Konstantinos Antonopoulos. She frequently collaborates with various Athens-based film producers.

Konstantinos Antonopoulos (b. 1984, in Athens) studied film directing at Columbia University, NY, and received his Master of Fine Arts with Honors. In the US he worked as an editor in narrative films, documentaries and advertisements. He directed six short films, of which

Lea (14’, 2013) won the Honorary Distinction at Athens International Film Festival and Without Glasses (9’, 2009) won the Special Award at Drama Film Festival. He returned to Greece, where he directed the documentary series Beyond Silicon Valley (2014), Greeks Gone West (2015) and Insider’s Guide (2016). He also directed commercials and music videos. He was the editor of the US feature film My First Kiss And The People Involved (81’, 2016), directed by Luigi Campi, and co-wrote the screenplay of the feature film Symptom (87’, 2015), directed by Angelos Frantzis. He teaches filmmaking at the Onassis Cultural Center.

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Neda Film, 5 Karytsi Square, 10561 Athens, GreeceFani Skartouli / [email protected] / +30.6945525017

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Neda Film was established in Athens in 2014 by producer Amanda Livanou as a vehicle for the production of feature and documentary films as well as for international co-productions filmed in or with Greece. In addition Neda produces

commercials and corporate videos for selected clients. Neda is the producer of feature film Park (100’, 2016) by Sofia Exarchou, in collaboration with Madants Films (Poland). The film won the New Directors award in San Sebastian International Film Festival. Currently in editing are the new documentaries from Panagiotis Evangelidis and Eva Stefani. Currently in production is feature film Pity, directed by Babis Makridis and co-written by Babis Makridis and Efthymis Filippou.

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BULGARIA

FILMARC Ltd. was founded in July 2011 by Tsvetodar Markov and Hristian Nochev, who have been writing, directing and producing for film and television during the last twenty years or so.

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Hristian Nochev graduated in Film and TV Directing at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (Sofia, Bulgaria). Since 1990 he has been writing, directing and producing for film and TV. His selected filmography includes Border (1994), Christmas

Possible (2001), Hunting Down Small Predators (2010), While Aya Was Sleeping (2016), as well as a great number of TV shows – including Music Idol, The Voice of Bulgaria, Survivor, Bulgaria’s Got Talent, etc.

• Hunting down Small Predators (fiction, 93’, 2010), directed by Tsvetodar Markov

• Vocation: Actress (documentary, 57’, 2014), directed by Olga Markova

• While Aya Was Sleeping (fiction, 87’, 2016), directed byTsvetodar Markov

• Insomnia (fiction, 29’, 2016), directed by Radoslav Kamburov

• French Cinema, directed by Galina Georgieva – in pre-production

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CYPRUS

Master and Slave is an independent film production company founded in 2015 and dedicated to making motion pictures that span a range of genres. By championing new talent in Cyprus and forging relationships

with a wide range of collaborators across Europe and the world, we are looking to tell our stories with passion and conviction. Master and Slave also offers sound design and audio post-production services run by company co-founder Christos Kyriacoullis.

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Alexandra Matheou is a Cypriot filmmaker and writer. She studied Law at King’s College London and holds an LLM Master’s in Commercial and Financial Law. In 2009, she completed an MA in Film at University College London (UCL). In the same year she wrote and directed

her first short film A Winter Sonnet for the Golden Clouds. The film opened at the Cambridge Film Festival (Official Selection) and also won the Best Work of Fiction Award at the Crashfest International Film Festival in Thessaloniki. In 2011, she was commissioned by the Cyprus Ministry of Labour to produce and direct The Road towards Equality, a documentary on Gender Equality in the workplace. Since 2012, Alexandra has worked as an Assistant for Production Company Matador Pictures (The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Ten Minutes Older: The Cello). She also spent a year working as a Junior Assistant and Script Reader for UK Distribution and International Sales Agent The Works Film Group. In 2014, Alexandra joined The Discovery Channel as Programming Coordinator for West Europe and later, the Nordic regions. Her second short film Anorak premiered in competition at the Athens International Film Festival 2015 and won two awards (Best Editing and Best Actress) in the International Short Film Festival Cyprus (ISFFC) 2015.

• Anorak (fiction, 12’, 2014), by Alexandra Matheou

• Ashes to Ashes, by Alexandra Matheou – pre production• Crossing Death, by Christos Kyriacoullis, Kika Georgiou –

pre production

Master & SlaveKerkionos 8A, Pallouriotissa

1036 Nicosia Cyprus

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GERMANY

Katharina Jakobs and Markéta Polednová, two production graduates of the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy with years of experience in their field, founded Film Boutique GbR in Cologne in January 2007. Their business

focuses on the creation of documentary, short and feature films for cinema and television. Additionally, the company offers such services as line producing and production management during the development period, project coordination and post-production. Film Boutique’s vision is that of creating powerful films of an individual character. Film Boutique received company-foundation subsidies from North Rhine-Westphalia’s Mediengründerzentrum [Audio-visual foundation centre] and also benefited from the centre’s encompassing range of seminars and advisory tutorials.

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Katharina Jakobs studied film production at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy and completed her studies in 2005, having specialised in International & Creative Producing. Before her studies, she worked as an intern and production assistant in the TV

and film industry between 1995 and 2001. From 2005 to 2007 she was junior producer at Coin Film, production company in Cologne, focusing on European art-house feature films and documentaries. Besides producing films with Film Boutique, she also works as a line producer for films like feature documentary Cahier africain (118’, 2016) by Heidi Specogna about the Central African Republic, produced by Filmpunkt, Cologne and PS FILM, Zürich, which premiered in Locarno in 2016 or Leaning into the Wind (93’, 2016) by Thomas Riedelsheimer about the artist Andy Goldsworthy, produced by Skyline Productions Ltd, Edinburgh, UK.

• Worst Case Scenario (fiction, 82’, 2014) by Franz Müller• Happy Hour (fiction, 95’, 2015) by Franz Müller – co-

production with Ireland• United Interest (animation, 9’, 2016) by Tim Weimann

– selected at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2017, Labo Competition

• The Housewife by Alisa Berger - feature film, in development

• Dance me to the End of Love by Ulrike Molsen – feature film, in development

• Sommerschool by Freya Stewart and Jovan Arsenic – feature film, in development

Film BoutiqueWerderstrasse 26

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Hexatonic Films is a collaboration between brothers Osama Rasheed and Muha Nad Rasheed. After working as director of photography and cinematographer for nine years, Osama Rasheed made his directorial debut with

The Society, a short film which premiered at the 40th Toronto Film Festival in 2015. Osama Rasheed wants to continue working with the topics addressed in The Society, contemporary social and political issues as they relate to the Arab diaspora.

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Dhyaa Joda, director & film producer, was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1979. He studied cinema at the University of Fine Arts in Baghdad, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 2004. Up until 2005 he worked as a cameraman and filmmaker for several Arabic

and Iraqi TV channels such as AlArabiya, and Alhurra Iraq in Baghdad. Joda left Baghdad for Brussels, Belgium in 2005 and has lived there ever since. In 2009 he directed the film Message for Dar alSalam, which was screened at Antwerp’s Monty theatre in Belgium. He completed a professional photography program at the Brussels Art Academy’s Agnes Varda School in 2012. His photographs have been exhibited in galleries around Belgium. He is currently editing his first feature length documentary, Dance with a Bullet, and shooting several short films.

• The Society (fiction, 14’, 2015) by Osama Racheed

• Sabeya, by Dhyaa Joda - pre-production • Sameblood, by Oday Sadoon - post-production • Supercluster, by Muha Nad Rasheed - post-production

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OCEAN PICTURES Filmproduktion develops and produces ambitious German and international films in close cooperation with filmmakers and partners. CEO & Producer Roland Fischer is responsible for Andersartig (Den-

nis Stein-Schomburg, 2011), which won the FFA-Short Tiger Award, the critically acclaimed short Sechster Sinn, Drittes Auge, Zweites Gesicht (Jan Riesenbeck, 2012/2013), which was nominated for the German Short Film Award. He also produced the Berlinale 2015 selected The Old Man And The Bird (Dennis Stein-Schomburg, 2015) and the price-winning coproduction Schwerelos, by Jannis Lenz. Latest projects are the Swiss-German coproduction Greater Than (Kate Haase & Sebastian Hühnel) and the Austrian-German coproduction Wannabe (Jannis Lenz), in competition at Clermont-Ferrand 2017. OCEAN PICTURES is currently developing several short and feature films.

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Born in the south of Germany. A trained banker with the expertise of funding startup companies. Studied from 2002 to 2007 at the University of Applied Sciences Ansbach - multimedia & communication (Film- and TV-Produktion). As the assistant of the line producer at Hofmann

& Voges Entertainment working on several Cinema- and TV-Projects (f.e. Wo ist Fred and Türkisch für Anfänger). In addition to that working as an assistant for funding at the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern.Since 2007 developing, funding and producing films and TV-projects with his own company OCEAN PICTURES Filmproduktion.

• Different (Andersartig) (5’, 2011, animation), by Dennis Stein-Schomburg

• Sixth Sense, Third Eye, Second Face (14’, 2012/2013, exp.-fiction), by Jan Riesenbeck

• The Old Man and the Bird (7’, 2015’, animation), by Dennis Stein-Schomburg

• Own Drum (15’, 2015, animation), by Kai Stänicke• Schwerelos (10’, 2016, exp.-documentary),

by Jannis Lenz• Greater Than (9’, 2017, exp.-animation), by Kate Haase

& Sebastian Hühnel• Wannabe (30’, 2017, crossmedia-fiction),

by Jannis Lenz – Int’l Competition Clermont-Ferrand 2017

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OCEAN PICTURES FilmproduktionWespachweg 5

87700 MemmingenGermany

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ITALY

Kaos is a cultural association whose purpose is the dissemination of cultural activities, theater, cinema, art in ge-neral, both at national and international levels with specific interest in the theater and film industry, and the desire

to produce mainly short & feature films on social issues or concerning matters of great importance in the international debate.

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Emanuela Ponzano was born in Brussels, of Italian nationality. She graduated in Political Science at the University Libre de Bruxelles in 1995 and the National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Liege in Belgium in 2000. In 2009 after the experimental

in B & W Bagnasciuga (2008), she directed her first short fiction, Reflections (21’, 2009) selected in more than 30 international festivals, which won the 3rd edition of the festival Cortovisione IFF for best short film. In 2015 she made her latest fiction short film The Sled (19’), still in distribution after 70 official international selections and a score of awards. As an actress she plays, among others, in The Investigation (112’, 2006) by Giulio Base, The Moon and the Stars (102’, 2007) by John Irvin and Jealousy (77’, 2013) by Philippe Garrel presented at the 70th Venice Film Festival. Currently she is writing her first feature film.

• Bagnasciuga (fiction, 3’45, 2008), by Emanuela Ponzano

• Riflessi (fiction, 21’, 2009), by Emanuela Ponzano• Reminder (spot, 2’, 2010), by Michela Alessia Marcato• La Slitta (fiction, 19’, 2016), by Emanuela Ponzano

• A New Perspective, by Emanuela Ponzano- in co-production

• Fin de Siècle, by Emanuela Ponzano – feature film in development (Italy, Hungary, France, Poland co-production)

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Italy

Mediterraneo Cinematografica is an Italian independent audio-visual production company, created in November 2014 with the intent to make quality authorial products and with the ambition to become a leading

company in the sector over time. Today’s corporate structure is the natural continuation of the cultural association Basiliciak that was founded in 2008 with the mission to produce and promote the Lucan cinema. Authorial works of different genres and themes ranging from integration to social issues at work, or the future of the younger generation. Personal and collective successes have led the Basiliciak’s two founding members, Giuseppe Marco Albano and Angelo Troiano, to create Mediterraneo Cinematografica. The pair has worked with all regional and local institutions, making documentary, commercial, or corporate films.

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Angelo Rocco Troiano has a background in politics, which started with the Sinistra Giovanile (Left Youth) and culminated as Secretary of the Democratic Party. Since May 2014 he’s been a councillor for the borough of his hometown of Bernalda. He studied

law and is a trained assistant director and script supervisor. He is a founder of the Basiliciak cultural association, which was missioned to develop regional cinema. In 2013 he jumped in as production coordinator on short film AnnA, by Giuseppe Marco Albano, with whom he also developed and made Thriller, which won the David di Donatello for Best Italian Short Film in 2015. Together, they founded Mediterraneo Cinematografica. In 2014 Angelo Troiano also won the Gold Elephant Award for Best Producer at the Catania Film Festival.

• AnnA (drama, 15’, 2013), by Giuseppe Marco Albano • Thriller (drama / comedy, 15’, 2014), by Giuseppe

Marco Albano – winner of David di Donatello 2015 for best Italian short film.

• Acquario (Aquarius, short film), by Lorenzo Puntoni - pre-production

• L’Avenir (short film) by Luigi Pane - pre-production• Vedi Napoli e poi muori (See Naples, Then Die, feature

film), by Giuseppe Marco Albano - development • Crabs (feature film), by Giuseppe Marco Albano –

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POLAND

Centrala Distribution focuses on producing documentaries and fictions by young filmmakers. The team consists of people coming from diverse work backgrounds. The core of the team are: Jacek Nagłowski, Agnieszka

Janowska, Paweł Kosuń - the founders, owners and producers in Centrala. Films produced in Centrala have been presented and successful at many international film festivals such as Cannes, Visions du Réel, Planete + Doc, Krakow Film Festival, Warsaw Film Festival, Hot Docs and other.

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Pawel Kosun is a journalist, film producer and member of the film production company Centrala. After graduating in Spanish Philology from the University of Wroclaw, he began working as a film producer and has worked on productions of both documentaries

and feature films (for example Czech Oscar Entry In the Shadow, 106’, 2012, by David Ondricek). He graduated from Andrzej Wajda’s Master’s School with a major in creative production, and is a winner of the MFG Film Foerderung Baden Wuertemberg scholarship. He attended Ludwigsburg-Paris Atelier and graduated from La Femis in France and NFTS in London with a specialisation in film production. He attended the Emerging Producer’s Program 2015 at Jihlava Film Festival. Founder of the Wroclaw Film Foundation.

• Deer Boy (15’, 2017), by Katarzyna Gondek, Poland/Belgium/Croatia ; producer

• Tower, bright day (90’, 2017), by Jagoda Szelc, co-producer

• Forest 4 a.m. (90’, 2016), by J.J.Kolski; co-producer• Monk of the sea (69’,2016, documentary), Poland/

Germany; producer• Gottland (6 x 25’; and 100’ version, 2014),

by Bohdan Bláhovec et al, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia; co-producer

• In the Shadow (102’, 2012’), by David Ondříček, Czech Republic/Poland, Slovakia; co-producer

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• Lipstick on the glass (fiction), by Kuba Czekaj• Safe & Quiet (fiction – Berlinale Script Station 2017),

by Justyna Tafel• Pardon (fiction), by Jan Jakub Kolski• Ordinary Acts of Bravery (fiction), by Filip Kasperaszek• Revolution Revisited (documentary), by Andreas Hoessli

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ROMANIA

Puls Digital Production is a production company specializing in production of animated films, SFX and very challenging live action films. It was founded in 2014 with the desire to share creativity and innovation in the

animation field. Puls Digital Production loves working with talented filmmakers, whether just beginners or established artists, and is open and passionate to discover their visions and develop their creativity at artistic standards. The studio works mostly in SFX and 3D animation, but is anxious to explore other techniques: 2D, rotoscoping, mixed media etc. The company is able to develop the needs of each specific project and carry it out from development, storyboarding, character design, modeling, animation to post-production, including compositing, visual effects, stereoscopic 3D and more.

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Mihai Mitrica holds a BS in Economics – Public/Cultural Ma-nagement from the Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest. Since June 2006 he has been Di-rector and Founder of Anim’est - in-ternational animation film festival in Bucharest.

• The Scream (2011), animation directed by Sebastian Cosor,

• World War Cup (2017), animation directed by Sebastian Cosor

• 8 minutes by Sebastian Cosor – pre-production• Ceva by Paul Muresan – production• Aievea by Anton Octavian – pre-production

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SLOVENIA

Strup is an independent production company based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, founded in 2004 to produce quality film, animation and multimedia projects. In 2008–2012, Strup realized several large-scale multimedia

installations with museums in Slovenia. In 2012 Strup re-focused on independent film production with international potential, including animation, documentary and fiction films. Strup is interested in strong, ambitious artistic projects with emerging and experienced filmmakers.

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Viva Videnović‘s formal education is in International Relations, she holds a masters’ degree at University of Ljubljana in 1997. As a self-employed producer she has worked in different cultural fields. Her productions include over 100 concerts and two music

festivals, a literary festival and many exhibitions. She has also worked as a book editor, a print journalist and in TV and radio media. She’s been active in film production since 2004. After her first film, a documentary Music is the Art of Time, LP Film Pankrti – Dolgcajt (47’, 2005), she moved to Oscar-winning company Studio Maj where she worked as production assistant. She joined Strup in 2012. She has variety of projects in production or in development, including documentary, animation, short and feature fiction films.

• Idyll (fiction, 89’, 2015), by Tomaž Gorkič• Every True Poet (documentary, 12’, 2014), by Nejc Saje

and Jeffrey Young• Meat Chain (short fiction, 15’, 2010), by Tomaž Gorkič• Vixen in Fox Language (animation, 8’, 2009), by Miha

Knific• Courtyard (animation, 24’, 2006), by Nejc Saje • Rudi Omota: Hidden Chapter of Slovenian

Cinematography (documentary ,60’, 2004), by Dražen Štader

• Apoptosis, by Tomaž Gorkič, short fiction – in post-production

• Freedom or Die, by Vladimir Blaževski, feature fiction – in post-production

• Martin Krpan by Nejc Saje, animation – in production• The Tunnel, by Gregor Andolšek, short fiction – in

production• Pumpkin on the Hot Roof of the World, by Nejc Saje &

Jeffrey Young, documentary – in production• Spuffies, by Jaka Ivanc, short animation – in pre-

production• Metod, by Tomaž Gorkič, feature fiction – in development

Strup ProdukcijaCelovška cesta 43

1000 LjubljanaSlovenia


[email protected] / +386.401 728 58

STRUP PRODUKCIJA l VIVA VIDENOVIĆ

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SPAIN

The Kitchen Corp. is an audiovisual and production company focused on advertising whose core aim is to meet the new and emerging audiovisual needs of both clients and agencies. The company’s foundation stones

are a professional team whose members bring together a wealth of experience and expertise. Being able to manage projects from start to finish, we have full control of all the stages involved in the process. The company has its own post-production service, including editing, colour correction, graphics animation, FX composition and CG.

COMPANY


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Álvaro Olalquiaga holds a degree in Advertising & Public Relations from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Álvaro has over 10 years experience in international advertising agencies, such as Tiempo BBDO, Bates and Sra.Rushmore. In 2007, he

founded The Kitchen Films, a production company focused on creating and developing top quality audiovisual projects for digital environments. At the end of 2012, he partnered with Fernando García-Ruiz (Director) Javier Sanjuan (Line Producer) and Andres Talegón (Postproduction) to found The Kitchen Corp. In the summer of 2015 the team shot Como yo te amo, its first comedy short film. The short film was finalized in February 2016. Since then it has won over 15 awards and 30 nominations.

• Como yo te amo (22’, 2016), by Fernando García-Ruiz, Clermont-Ferrand 2017 International Competition.

• At the moment, the team is preparing a film project with Diego San José, one of the most renowned screenwriters in Spain.

The Kitchen Corp General Arrando nº7

28010 MadridSpain

Creation date: October, 2012Number of staff: 5

[email protected] / +34.677450728

THE KITCHEN CORP. l ÁLVARO OLALQUIAGA

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INVITED COUNTRY PRODUCERS FROM COLOMBIA

CHICAMOCHA FILMS / John Chaparro

Created in 2014, Chicamocha Films is a young production company based in Bucaramanga and Bogota. The company’s filmography includes titles like Naranjas (Oranges, 14’, 2014), by Iván D. Gaona, which premiered in Clermont-Ferrand 2014, won Jury Prize in Palm Springs, was awarded Best Latin American Short in Mar del Plata, and was selected in some 40 festivals the world over. Fiction short El Embudo (The Mountain, 12’, 2014) premiered at the Krakow Film Festival 2015 and also played some 40 festivals, while documentary short Cien años más viejo (A Hundred Years Older, 18’, 2015) premiered at the Festival de Cine Latino de Chicago 2016. Both titles were directed by company founder John Chaparro. Currently Chicamocha Films is developing its first feature documentary Hijos de dios, completing the short El artista (The artist), and looking for funding for fiction short Carmen.

https://es-la.facebook.com/chicamochafilms / [email protected]

CONTRAVIA FILMS / Oscar Ruiz Navia

Founded in 2006 Contravía Films offers a solid platform for independent auteur cinema in Colombia. It completed 10 short films by different directors, each bringing an intimate look into varied stories. The company’s feature films include: El Vuelco Del Cangrejo, by director-producer Oscar Ruiz Navia (FIPRESCI prize Berlinale Forum 2010), La Sirga, by William Vega (Director’s Fortnight Cannes 2012), Los Hongos, by Oscar Ruiz Navia (Special Jury Prize Locarno 2014), Siembra by Santiago Lozano and Ángela Osorio (Locarno 2015). Epifanía, by Oscar Ruiz Navia and Anna Eborn, premiered in Busan 2016. In 2017 the short film La muerte y el cabro, by Juan Pablo Caballero, will be released and shooting will start for La Virgen Negra by same director. Contravía coproduces Tormentero, by Rubén Imaz (in post- production), with Axolote Cine in Mexico and Aurora Dominicana in the Dominican Republic. Also in post-production is Sal, by William Vega, developed at the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence and the Torino Film Lab. The documentary features Fait Vivir, by Oscar Ruiz Navia, and Dopamina, by Natalia Imery Almario, are currently in development and funding stage.

contraviafilms.com.co / [email protected]

LA BANDA DEL CARRO ROJO / Diana Perez Mejia

La Banda del Carro Rojo Producciones S.A.S. is a Colombian film production company founded by executive producer Diana Perez Mejia and director Ivan D. Gaona. It produced the feature film Pariente (Guilty Men), by Ivan D. Gaona selected in Venice Days 2016 and Toronto 2016, and the feature Güepsa, Historias Cortas de Santander (Short Tales from the South) by same director to be released in 2017, with the support of the Colombian Film Fund. The latter brings together several short films by Ivan such as Los Retratos (Portraits, 14’, 2012 – Locarno, Clermont-Fd Colombian Promises) Completo (16’, 2014 – Clermont-Fd 2015) or Forastero (Outsider, 20’, 2015 – Clermont-Fd 2016), which together collected over 200 selections and awards. La Banda del Carro Rojo also takes short film titles in its catalogue for distribution and sales.

http://labandadelcarrorojo.com.co / [email protected]

MESTIZA FILMS / Isabel Cristina Vásquez

Mestiza Films is a cinema production company based in Colombia lead by Isabel Cristina Vásquez as executive producer and director Carlos Montoya. Isabel is a doctor, specialized in local and regional development with audio-visual production experience working with com-munities. Mestiza creates local stories with a universal background. They recently produced the short film Camino del agua (8’, 2014) which screened at Berlinale Generation 2015 and is playing in this year’s Clermont-Ferrand ‘Colombian Promises’ focus. Now they are working on their next short film A chair lost in the woods, that won a production incentive from the Colom-bian Film Fund in 2016.

www.mestizacine.com / [email protected]

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Tuesday 7th february, 9H30 - 15H30, Hotel Holiday Inn, 59 bd f.-Mitterrand, Groundfloor

9H30 Inauguration of Euro Connection 2017

9H45 - 10H40 Pitching Session 1 THE INNER SIDE, dir. Dániel Reich – fP films (HU)* CRAPS, dir. Tünde Deak – Perspective films (fR) CIRCUS FONDANTINI, dir. Patrick Raats – Smarthouse film (NL) THE CYCLE, dir. José Cavalheiro – AIM Studios (PT) Producers Focus – profiles of invited producers

10H40 Coffee break

11H00 - 11H50 Pitching Session 2 THE JUGGLER, dur. Skirmanta Jakaitė – Art shot (LT) THE SILENCE OF THE DYING FISH, dir. Vasilis kekatos – Blackbird Productions (GR) ROOM BY THE LAKE, dir. olmo omerzu – Endorfilm (CZ) CYCLISTS, dir. Veljko Popovic – Lemonade3d – (HR) Producers Focus – profiles of invited producers International Focus – co-produce with Colombia

12H00 Lunch break

13H45 - 14H35 Pitching Session 3 SAP, dir. Clémence Marcadier – Gasp (fR) KLINGERT’S DIVING SUIT, dir. Artur Wyrzykowski – Artcore (PL) MOURAS, dir. olga osorio – Miss Movies (ES) LAS HURDES – LAND WITHOUT PEOPLE, dir. Jan Ijäs – Visiokolmio ltd (fI) Producers Focus – profiles of invited producers

14H40 - 15H30 Pitching Session 4 I’M OK, dir. Elizabeth Hobbs – Animate Projects (GB) THE MUSICAL SPIDER, dir. Henry Moore Selder – Malade (SE) POSTCARDS FROM THE END, dir. konstantinos Antonopoulos – Neda film (GR) Producers Focus – profiles of invited producers

18H00 Closing cocktail offered by the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC)

Wednesday 8th february, 10H00 - 17H00,Short film Market, rue Abbé de l’Epée

10H00 - 17H00 Business Meetings at the MEDIA Rendez-Vous area, Short film Market

* country codes: standard ISO 3166-1

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Euro ConnectionHotel Holiday Inn59 bd F.-MitterrandGroundfloor

The Maison de la Culture

Kyriad Prestige25 av. de la Libération

Short Film Marketrue Abbé-de-l’Epée

Hints:

The Maison de la Culture hosts the Clermont-ferrand festival’s main venue, headquarters and delegate centre.

The Hotel Holiday Inn is easy to find; it is located on the same boulevard (f. Mitterrand) as the front entrance to the Maison de la Culture, just one block down the street, on the same sidewalk.

The Short Film Market is located right behind the Maison de la Culture, in the Gymnase Jean et Honoré fleury, which is accessible from the rue Abbé de l’épée.

The Kyriad Prestige is right outside the Short film Market’s main entrance.All locations are within a 5-minute walking distance.

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ContactLaurent Crouzeix (+33.677 10 51 68 / [email protected])Julie Rousson (+33.673 528 966 / [email protected])

ACCESS MAP

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We would like to express our gratitude to the following for their precious assistance as correspondent organisations in Europe:

Juhani Alanen, Jukka-Pekka Laakso, Tampere Short Film Festivalkamen Balkanski, MEDIA Desk BulgariaEugénie Bottereau, Jacopo Chessa, CNC - Centro Nazionale del CortometraggioZsuzsanna Brasher, DaazoJemma Desai, Will Masa, British Council FilmStella de Wijk, kirsten Ruber, Go ShortMiguel Dias, Festival Curtas Vila do CondeUna feely, IndieCork Film FestivalAndreas fock, Swedish Film InstituteStavroula Geronimaki, Greek Film Centrefranziska kache, AG Kurzfilm e.V. – German Short Film AssociationGeneviève kinet, Wallonie Bruxelles ImagesCarole kremer, Nobert Laporte, Film Fund LuxembourgIsmael Martin, Madrid En CortoMarija Milovanovic, Vienna Independent Shortsfrank Moens, Leuven International Short Film FestivalAngélique Muller, Film Grain Foundationkimonas Mylonas, Alexia Roider, International Short Film Festival of CyprusBarbara orlicz-Szczypula, Krakow Film FoundationMartina Petrovic, MEDIA Desk CroatiaIgor Prassel, Animateka International Animated Film FestivalEne katrine Rasmussen, MEDIA Desk DenmarkRamona Sarbu, Romanian Film PromotionMarketa Santrochova, Czech Film CenterMiguel Valverde, IndieLisboa

Euro Connection 2017 also wishes to thank the following partner organisations for their kind cooperation :

Relais Culture Europe - Europe Créative France, Laurence Barone, Pascal Brunet, Lilyane CrosnierCentre national du cinéma et de l’image animée – frédérique Bredin, Julien Neutres, Valentine Roulet, Morad kertobiBaltic Pitching Forum 2016 – Lithunian Shorts, Riga IFF, 2ANNAS Riga ISFF, Sleepwalkers ISFF, Shortest International Short Film CenterUnifrance, Benoît Blanchard, Christine Gendre

Sauve qui peut le court métrage would like to thank Harald Trettenbrein, Soon-Mi Peten, Elena Boggio, Géraldine Hayez, at the Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency, Idzard Van der Puyl, Catherine fadier, Séverine Thuet and the Commision Cinéma at the PROCIREP for their support to the 2017 edition of Euro Connection and the Clermont-ferrand Short film Market.

Euro Connection 2017 was organized by:Laurent Crouzeix, Julie Rousson, Sauve qui peut le court métrage

The pitch-training workshops were conducted by Gabriele Brunnenmeyer and Wim Vanacker

© Sauve qui peut le court métrage

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