Raf Reyntjens Marie van Innis Aims at the NPP To find a co-producer who could bring in 200K - 300K€. The story would take place partly in the co producer’s country and we would shoot and spend part of the budget there. Director Raf Reyntjens Producer Marie van Innis Screenwriter Raf Reyntjens Based on an original story Language Dutch, Spanish Genre Tragicomedy Running time 100 mins Target audience 16 - 99 Budget €1,600,000 Contact Marie van Innis Caviar <strong>Film</strong>s Havenlaan 75 1000 Brussels Belgium Tel: +32 2 423 23 00 Email: marie.van.innis@caviarcontent.com www.caviarcontent.com 2012 NPP 21
Parisienne Seansas <strong>Film</strong> / Fralita <strong>Film</strong>s, Lithuania Early 1991. Vilnius. Lithuania is passing through ‘the singing revolution’. A young Frenchman meets a Lithuanian woman. A fateful encounter at the barricades turns into passion and love... Synopsis Vilnius. The beginning of 1991. Lithuania, like other countries on the Baltic coast, is passing through ‘the singing revolution,’ seeking to restore its independence. Through the collapsing Iron Curtain a young Frenchman, a postgraduate in archeology and history, arrives in the city, hoping to witness the revolution with his own eyes. He meets a young Lithuanian woman who studies French language. A fateful meeting at the barricades instantly turns into mutual passion and love. However, it will unexpectedly tear them apart... They meet each other again after twenty years. What binds them together now? Do they still need each other? True events are the basis for a story about love - born within the barricades of ‘the singing revolution’ - and the dramatic efforts to save it. Director’s statement We all are children of revolution: big or small. I’m no exception. This story is partly about me and my own background, although it is not related to me personally. I was also part of the revolution, which was called ‘singing’. This is a unique phenomenon, when you can win through singing, and not dying. The song as a weapon - against it brute force did not know what to do. It’s impossible to shoot the song, to imprison it, to impose handcuffs on it, or to exile it to Siberia. A non-violent resistance. Mahatma Gandhi spoke about this method of resistance in India in the middle of the 20th century. It was repeated on the Baltic coast, 50 years later, at the beginning of the 1990s. With the same content, just in another form. Nonviolent civil disobedience was transformed into singing songs in front of tanks and weapons. The inhabitants of three small nations - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - were singing to pass through the Iron Curtain. Director’s filmography Reflection of Being (short/fiction) 35 mm, 17 min - 1992.
Only Love… (short/fiction) 35 mm, 15 min - 1992.
Saxman from Cafe Versailles (doc) Betacam TV, b/w 20 min - 1996
(for Kanal4, Köln, Germany, broadcasting on SAT-1 program “European Pilgrims). Producer’s profile Zivile Gallego has received an MA degree in European Affaires Management at South Bank University, London and Leonardo da Vinci University, Paris. She took filmmaking course at New York <strong>Film</strong> Academy branch in Los Angeles. After her graduation Zivile Gallego made an internship at Canal+ channel in Paris. She was employed after by the Swedish Company MTG (Modern Times Group) at Viasat Broadcasting Center in London. In 2011she graduated from EAVE. Production companies Seansas, established in 1992, is one of the first independent film companies in Lithuania after the country regained its independence in 1990. Seansas <strong>Film</strong> is a creative team that produces feature film, documentaries and TV productions. The primary output of the company is artistic productions (arthouse) for theatrical release and TV. Fralita <strong>Film</strong>s was established in 2009 by producer Zivile Gallego, where she is currently working with documentary and feature films production. Currently in production: Name in the Dark, a feature film based on a novel written by Renata Serelyte, directed by Agne Marcinkeviciute, in co-production with Braidmade <strong>Film</strong>s (UK/Poland). Currently in development: Emilia, a feature film written by Jonas Banys, to be directed by Donatas Ulvydas, project has participated in EAVE 2011, and Sangaile, a feature film written and to be directed by Alante Kavaite, in co-production with Les <strong>Film</strong>s d’Antoine (France). 22 NPP 2012
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