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2929 ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 2425 Olympic Boulevard,
Suite 6040w, Santa Monica, CA, 90404,
U.S.A.
Phone: 310-309-5701
On Offer:
The Burning Plain (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Walter Parkes, Laurie Macdonald;
director: Guillermo Arriaga; cast: Charlize
Theron, Kim Basinger. A trailer explodes in the
desert killing lovers inside. And around this single
act of violence, backward and forward in
time, master storyteller Guillermo Arriaga
spins lives of passion and longing. (111 mins.;
screening; debuting)
The Girlfriend Experience (U.S.A.;
drama) Producers: Greg Jacobs, Steven Soderbergh;
director: Steven Soderbergh; cast:
Sasha Grey, Chris Santos. Five days in the life
of an ultra high-end Manhattan call girl who
thinks she has her life totally under control.
She runs her business her own way, makes
$2,000 an hour, and has a devoted boyfriend
who accepts her lifestyle. But when you’re in
the business of meeting people, you never
know who you’re going to meet next…
(screening; debuting)
What Just Happened (U.S.A.; comedy)
Producer: Art Linson; director: Barry Levinson;
cast: Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis. A sharp comedy
about two nail-biting, back-stabbing,
roller-coaster weeks in the world of a middleaged
Hollywood producer, trying to juggle an
actual life with an outrageous series of crises
in his day job. (104 mins.; debuting)
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Cannes 2009 Office: Résidences Du Grand
Hotel - 45 Croisette, Albatros 2nd Floor
Office Phone: -33-0-4-93-68-56-93
Attending: Marina Fuentes, partner; Mar
Abadin, head of sales (+34 666 517 281 cell)
Corporate Address: Alto De Las Cabanas, 5,
Las Rozas, Madrid, Madrid, 28231, Spain
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Flanders Audiovisual Fund’s
“My Queen Karo”
Phone: -34-91-781-7301
Fax: -34-91-781-7301
On Offer:
Cold Skin (Spain; horror) Producers: Denise
O’dell, Mark Albela; director: Tbc; cast: Tbd. On
the edge of the Antarctic Circle, a steamship
approaches a desolate island. On board is a
young man, poised to take the post of weather
observer, to live in solitude at the end of the
earth. But on shore he finds no trace of the
man whom he has been sent to replace, just a
deranged castaway who has witnessed a horror
he refuses to name. For the next twelve
months his entire world will consist of a
deserted cabin, trees, rocks, silence and the
surrounding sea. Then night begins to fall…
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(preproduction; presales; debuting)
ExTerminators (Spain; comedy) Producers:
Lokesh Dhar (exec Prod), Ronnie Screwvala,
Jay Michaelson Suzanne Weinert; director:
John Inwood; cast: Heather Graham,
Jennifer Coolidge. If you put a group of angry,
violent women in the same room, something
bad might happen. A dark comedy centering
on Alex (Graham), a lonely accountant whose
sole act of rage results in her being sentenced
to court mandated rage therapy. There she
meets Stella (Coolidge), owner of a small
extermination business who uses her car as a
weapon; and Nikki (Heard) a dental technician
with the face of an angel and the mind of
a sociopath. Together these unlikely friends
will form their own “revolution”. (92 mins.;
screening; debuting)
Moses Taite’s War (Spain; action-adventure)
Producers: Denise O’dell, Steve Lanning,
Cliff Lanning; director: Tbd; cast: Morgan Freeman.
Moses Taite’s American beeves are dying.
The solution: import Brahmin bulls into
Kansas to cross breed and strengthen his cattle.
Moses and his 2 cowhands, also former
Civil War soldiers, embark on a do or die mission
to India. They fought in the West and
must do it again in the East, on the burning
plains of the British Raj. A race against time to
save Moses’ herd and his land: the exotic world
they enter brings adventure, action and even
love into their lives but also life or death decisions.
(preproduction; presales; debuting)
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Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Sean Martin, louise milne
Corporate Address: Bm Mutus Liber, London,
London, WC1N 3XX, United Kindgom
Phone: -447939225787
9MM
Cannes 2009 Office: 9mm
Office Phone: 06-42-03-01-59
Attending: Mathieu Saliva, director; Jeanclaude
Flaccomio, producer - director
Corporate Address: 21 Rue Doudeauville,
Paris, Idf, 75018, France
Phone: 06-22-50-93-41
On Offer:
Magic Kisa (France; thriller) Producer: Flaccomio
Jean-claude; director: Saliva Mathieu;
cast: Laubion, Vernalde, Bettenfeld. Psychological
thriller on the topic of the gemellity,
Magic Kisa tells the meeting again of two twin
brothers after years of separation. One leaves
prison and the other lined up and founded a
family. Associated by long years of swindle
and chicaneries, their destinies rock in one
night. (30 mins.; premiere; debuting)
AB SVENSK FILMINDUSTRI
Cannes 2009 Office: The Scandinavian Terrace
- 55, La Croisette
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
TFI International “Micmacs”
Attending: Ann-kristin Westerberg, sr. vice
president head of int’l div; Karin Thun, international
sales manager; Robert Enmark, sr. vice
president head of acquisition
Corporate Address: Greta Garbosvag 11-13,
Stockholm, Stockholm, 16986, Sweden
Phone: 46-8-680-3500
Fax: 46-8-680-3500
On Offer:
Detour (Sweden; horror) Producer: Bjørn
Eivind Aarskog; director: Severin Eskeland;
cast: Marte Germaine, Christensen Sondre,
Krogtoft Larsen, Jens Hultèn, Malin King,
Jeppe Beck Laursen, Johan Hedenberg, Inga D.
Harrie, Knut Walle, Mikkel Gaup. Driving back
to Norway, Lina and Martin reach a roadblock
where a policeman tells them to take a detour
deep into the Swedish forest. But soon one
creepy incident after another leaves them
stranded in the dark woods and everything
seems much too bizarre to be accidental…
What Lina and Martin don’t know is that they
are under constant video surveillance and
have been cast in the leading roles of a live
Internet snuff movie with a definitive end.
(postproduction; product reel/trailer; debuting)
In Your Veins (Sweden; drama) Producer:
Anna Croneman; director: Beata Gårdeler;
cast: Malin Crépin And Joel Kinnaman. Eva
and Erik, two young people in Stockholm, fall
madly in love. Eva resists, a relationship is too
much of a risk. She’s a security officer who
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works nights. He’s a cop. Both are lonely. While
Erik isn’t alone by choice, Eva has something
to hide… (92 mins.; screening; debuting)
Starring Maja (Sweden; drama) Producer:
Sandra Harms; director: Teresa Fabik; cast:
Zandra Andersson, Moa Silén, Maria
Lundqvist, Anastasios Soulis. In a hopelessly
small town in long and narrow Sweden, lives
Maja, 18 years old. Her life’s dream is to
become an actress. She wants to be the centre
of attention, she wants everyone to see her,
wants them to see the beautiful human being
she is on the inside. Only it’s a little hard to see.
Heavily overweight, clumsy and socially inept,
she struggles on regardless, trying to find the
strength and the self-esteem necessary to
really take centre stage – on her own feet and
on her own terms. (postproduction; product
reel/trailer; debuting)
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COMPANY
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 16782 Redhill Ave Suite
B, Irvine, CA, 92606, U.S.A.
Phone: 1 949 250 8090
On Offer:
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
(U.S.A.; thriller) Producers: David Lynch, Eric
Bassett; director: Werner Herzog; cast: Michael
Shannon, Chloë Sevigny. A thriller-tinged mur-
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der drama based on the true story of a psychotic
young man who acts out a Sophocles
play in his mind and kills his mother with a
sword. (postproduction; product reel/trailer;
debuting)
Repo Chick (U.S.A.; action-adventure) Producer:
Eric Bassett; director: Alex Cox; cast:
Ben Guillory, Jaclyn Jonet. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; debuting)
ACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 1170 Camino Viejo, Santa
Barbara, CA, 93108, U.S.A.
Phone: 805-969-2151
On Offer:
Jaws of the Mississippi (U.S.A.; actionadventure)
Producers: Ken Badish, Leigh
Scott; director: Griff FurstA great white shark
mutates and adapts to freshwater when a US
Government bio-terrorism research facility
spills its radioactive chemicals into the ocean.
As the shark reeks havoc on Mississippi river
towns and threatens the freshwater system of
the country, an embattled local fisherman and
his hillbilly crew become destined to kill it.
(preproduction; presales; debuting)
Monsterwolf (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Producer: Ken Badish; director: TbaA massive
creature of ancient legend, brought forth to
protect the land by its ancestors, and killing
anyone that threatens it. This elusive
guardian has been both feared and celebrated
by the locals, but when a deadly curse affects
them all, they must unite and recapture the
Monsterwolf’s spirit or face their ultimate
doom. (preproduction; presales; debuting)
Stormbringer (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Producers: Ken Badish, Leigh Scott; director:
Nick EverhartA young scientist revels in his creation
of a supercomputer that can stop the
effects of climate change and catastrophic
weather. When the computer’s artificial intelligence
advances, it creates deadly storms to
stop the military from controlling it or shutting
it down. It’s up to the scientist to outsmart his
own creation, survive the disasters unleashed
upon him, and save the planet from devastation
(preproduction; presales; debuting)
ACTIVERS ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office: 123 Village International
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Peter Seo, president; Arthur Rho,
director; James Yoon, general manager
Corporate Address: 3rd F. Samnam B/d,
825-21 Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul,
135-934, Korea
Phone: 82-2-3442-5293
Fax: 82-2-3442-5293
On Offer:
26 YEARS DIARY (Korea; drama) Producer:
Junichi Mimura; director: Junji Hanado; cast:
Junko Hamguchi, Hideko Hara, Takatoshi
Kaneko. Overcomes the barrier of distrust and
animosity. Based on true story, “JR-Shino-kubo
subway accident, Yee Soohyun” A portrait of
young Korean man’s ordinary life, but greater
than life with unstoppable good samaritan
apirit and great love for people. (130 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; returning)
THE FRIENDS (Korea; family) Producer:
Doo-chan Kim; director: Young-jae Lee; cast:
Hyeon-gyeong Oh, Seung-do Baek, Jun-young
Jang. The heart touching story about friendship
between 3 boys who are curious about
death and an old man who would not go away
easily. A match between audacious kids’
absurd imagination and an unapproachable
old man is about to happen. (103 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; returning)
MT LOVE, YURIE (Korea; drama) Producers:
Ko Eun-ki, Stani Ryu, Oh Jun-sae; director:
Eun-ki Ko; cast: Kang Hee, Da-mee Ko. A sad
love story about a man bought his love from
devil for the coast of his soul for 10 years. (113
mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
ADYTON INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Village Int’l - Riviera
Pavilion 121 European Union
Office Phone: -33-4-93-99-86-8
Office Fax: -33-4-93-99-86-83
Attending: Dariusz Zawislak, ceo & producer;
Monika Blachnio, sales executive; Marta
D?browska, art director
Corporate Address: Ul.wittiga 5/16, Warsaw,
-, 03-188, Poland
Phone: -48-609-981429
Fax: -48-609-981429
On Offer:
BALLADYNA (Poland; thriller) Producers:
Dariusz Zawislak, Alina Szpak; director: Dariusz
Zawislak; cast: Faye Dunaway, Sonia
Bohosiewicz, Mirek Baka. A star New York City
detective is investigating the beating of a
young girl. Following the crime trail he finds
new victims. As the bodies start to pile up, so
does the list of possible suspects. This “Who
Done It” starts to look like a “Who Didn’t Do It”
with a surprising twist when love, romance,
envy and rage collide. (90 mins.; product
reel/trailer; debuting)
CAROLINE & THE MAGIC STONE
(Poland; family) Producers: Dariusz Zawislak,
Olivier Shiflis; director: Jowita Gondek; cast:
Faye Dunaway, Majka Jezowska, Pawel Delag.
The incredibly colorful world was created to
tell the breath-taking story about Caroline and
Peter and how their life changes when they
find a magic stone. Whatever they wish,
changes into reality. All the children’s dreams
may fulfill now, but like it usually happens in a
fairy tales, so is in “The Magic Stone”, the evil
character wants to steal the stone and use it
for its own purpose. Caroline and Peter will
have to face the evil witch Filomena. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; debuting)
GENERATON JOHN PAUL II (Poland;
documentary) Producers: Dariusz Zawislak,
Alina Szpak; director: Jowita GondekThis modern-made
film is based on the biography of
Karol Wojtyla, and tells stories of young people
born when the popular Polish priest
become a pope for the world. They matured
during his pontificate and their not always
easy lives crossed roads with the teachings
and pilgrimage of Pope John Paul II. Heroes
are of two sorts: famous personalities and the
unknown. (90 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
returning)
AKTIS FILM INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Village Int’l - German
Pavilion #126
Office Phone: -33-492-590212
Office Fax: -33-492-590213
Attending: Mr. Stelios Ziannis, managing
director
Corporate Address: Hauptmannstr. 10,
Leipzig, Saxony, 04109, Germany
Phone: -49-341-1496942
On Offer:
The Officer Factory (Germany; drama)
Producer: Mondada Film; director: Wolf Vollmar;
cast: Manfred Zapatka, , Thomas Holtzmann,
Rosel Zech. Anti-War film based on the
novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst (e.g. “08/15”, “The
Night of the Generals”) February 1944. At a
German military academy a young lieutenant
dies in an exercise. The trainers are not only
officers from the front and those without that
experience, but also fanatics loyal to the Nazi
party. General Modersohn does not believe in
an accident. He entrusts Lieutenant Colonel
Krafft, who survived Stalingrad with a secret
mission: “Find the murderer!”. A dangerous
game beginns... (115 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; returning)
PINK (Germany; romance) Producer: Moana
Film; director: Rudolf Thome; cast: Hannah
Herzsprung (four Minutes, The Reader), Florian
Panzner, Guntram Brattia, Cornelius
Schwalm. How to find Mr. Right? Pink is a
successful young poet. And she apparently
also has success with love. Three men have
hopes of marrying her. Pink decides systematically,
but wrongly, using her calculator. She
chooses quite the wrong man on two occasions.
It is only the third one to make her
happy. Three weddings. Three seasons. A
modern fairytale of a woman on a quest to
learn about love. (82 mins.; premiere; debuting)
ALFAMA FILMS PRODUCTION
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera - Booth D1d3/e2-e4
Office Phone: -33492993230
Office Fax: -33492993232
Attending: Paulo Branco, producer; Adeline
Colombier, international sales - france; Julita
Santos, international sales - portugal
Corporate Address: 176 Rue Du Temple,
Paris, France, 75003, France
Phone: -33-1-42-07-05
Fax: -33-1-42-07-05
On Offer:
Almayer’s folly (France; drama) Producer:
Paulo Branco - Alfama Films Production;
director: Chantal AkermanIn Malaisia, an occidental
merchant dreams of riches for his
beloved daughter. But everything collapses
under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.
(preproduction; presales; debuting)
Cendres et sang (France; drama) Producer:
Paulo Branco - Alfama Films Production;
director: Fanny Ardant; cast: Ronit Elkabetz,
Abraham Belaga, Olga Tudirache. Judith lives
in Marseille with her three children. After having
refused during 10 years to see her family
again and despite her fears and her secrets,
Judith lets herself bend by her children’s desire
and accepts the invitation at her cousin’s wedding.
She takes her children to spend a summer
back in the country, to discover their roots
and their history. But Judith’s return revives old
hatreds between rival clans. Unrelentingly, the
spiral of violence is started, blood calling
blood. (102 mins.; premiere; debuting)
Lisbon’s mysteries (France; drama) Producer:
Paulo Branco - Alfama Films Production;
director: Raoul RuizAdaptation of Camilo
Castelo Branco’s work (preproduction; presales;
debuting)
ALTADENA FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: 63 La Croisette (corner
Of Rue Pasteur), Lerina, 4th Floor
Office Phone: -04-93-94-00-09
Attending: Ildi Toth Davy,
Corporate Address: Linton House, 39/51
Highgate Road, London, England, NW5 1RS,
Uk
Phone: -44-0-207-424-7280
Fax: -44-0-207-424-7280
On Offer:
City Rats (Uk; comedy) Producers: William
Borthwick, Dean Fisher; director: Steve M.
Kelly; cast: Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Susan
Lynch. Eight people meet, fall apart, connections
made or missed and families brought
together for a moment of hope. Official selection
of Slamdance Film Festival. (96 mins.;
screening; debuting)
A Necessary Death (Uk; drama) Producers:
G.j. Echternkamp, Brian Udovich; director:
Daniel Stamm; cast: Gilbert John, Daniel
Stamm, Valerie Hurt, Michael Traynor. A Necessary
Death follows documentary filmmaker
Gilbert Toma who is seeking a suicidal individual
to follow as they make their preparations
for the final act. (101 mins.; screening; debuting)
Offspring (Uk; horror) Producers: Andrew
Van Den Houten, Robert Tonino, William M.
Miller; director: Andrew Van Den Houten; cast:
Art Hindle, Pollyanna Mcintosh, Tommy Nelson.
Adapted for the screen by acclaimed horror
novelist Jack Ketchum. A cave-dwelling
tribe of savages thought to have been killed
off terrorizes the coast of Maine. (80 mins.;
screening; debuting)
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AMERICA VIDEO FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: Carlton Hotel
Office Phone: 33493-064006
Attending: Enrique Maya, president; Brian
Maya, producer; Jose Skef, sales consultant
Corporate Address: Virrey Loreto 2426,
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 1426, Argentina
Phone: 54-11-4787-9098
Fax: 54-11-4787-9098
On Offer:
Earth From Above (Argentina; documentary)
Directors: Xavier Lefebvre, Pascal Plisson;
cast: Presented By Yann Arthus-bertrand..
Hosted by worldwide famous photographer
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, « Vu du Ciel » is an
extraordinary documentary series dedicated
to confront and explore the major issues currently
at stake for the planet. (; returning)
Haunted (Argentina; action-adventure)
Cast: Matthew Fox. After having a near-death
experience Frank Taylor can communicate
with ghosts of murdered people and help
solve their deaths. (; returning)
LITTLE ASHES (Limited territorries)
(Argentina; drama) Director: Paul Morrison;
cast: Robert Pattinson, Javier Beltrán. Pattinson
plays Dalí who moves to Madrid where he
begins experimenting with the cubist style
that launched his young career. Set in 1920s
Spain, the film focuses on poet Federico García
Lorca (Javier Beltrán) and the intense bond
he forms with Dalí (Robert Pattinson) while
attending art school in Madrid. Dali swore that
Lorca’s lust for him never became physical, but
screenwriter Philippa Goslett’s take on the
relationship is much steamier. (112 mins.;
debuting)
AMERICAN CINEMA INTER-
NATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 15363 Victory Blvd., Van
Nuys, CA, 91406, USA
Phone: 818-907-8700
Fax: 818-907-8700
On Offer:
Bigfoot (USA; family) Producers: Osama
Bastaki-producer, George Shamieh-producer,
Jess Mancilla; director: Kevin Tenney; cast:
Richard Tyson And Angie Everhart. A teenage
boy discovers and befriends a forest creature
Bigfoot, who is later captured by two high
school bullies and held to the highest bidder.
(90 mins.; screening; debuting)
Boogie Town (USA; action-adventure) Producers:
Chris Stokes, Marques Houston,
Jerome Jones, Doug Mchenry, A.j. Pavel,
Monique Scott, Cheryl Trimmer, Rodney Taylor;
director: Chris Stokes; cast: Marques Houston,
Dante Basco, Brenda Song. Boogie Town is a
futuristic version of Westside Story meets
Romeo & Juliet, with incredible dancing battling
scenes. In New York City 2015, an underground
city known as Boogie Town is swarmed
with two rival dance crews. One of the crews
(The Trojans) is lead by Marco (Marques Houston).
The rival crew (The Warriors) is lead by
(Dante Basco) and our muse is beautiful Brenda
Song. (production; presales; debuting)
The Search for The Golden Calendar
and The Quest for El Dorado (USA;
action-adventure) Producer: Osama Bastakiproducer
Frank R. Gardner-line Producer
George Shamieh- Executive Producer
Chevonne O’shaughnessy-executive Producer;
director: Terry Cunningham; cast: Shane West,
Natalie Martinez, Luke Goss And Elden Henson.
Jack Wilder (Shane West) embarks on an
expedition to find The Golden Calendar, which
leads him on a action-packed journey filled
with adventure to find The City of Gold. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; debuting)
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TURES
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera N° C6
Office Phone: 818-505-4497
Attending: Mark Lester, president; Dana
Dubovsky, president, production; Jeffrey Goldman,
vice president of worldwide sales
Corporate Address: 16027 Ventura Blvd.,
Encino, CA, 91436, US
Phone: 818-380-9100
Fax: 818-380-9100
On Offer:
The Beacon (US; thriller) Producers: Kathleen
Helppie-shipley, Sally Helppie; director:
Michael Stokes; cast: Terri Polo, David Rees
Snell. While trying to get their lives back on
track after the loss of their four year old son,
Bryn and Paul Shaw move to the charming old
Beacon Apartments. Bryn begins seeing a
ghostly little boy skulking around the building.
Bryn tries to uncover the details of the boy’s
death. She hopes that freeing the child will
allow him to carry a message to her son. Bryn
realizes a second malevolent stalks the halls
of the Beacon,one that doesn’t want the boy
to escape. (99 mins.; screening; debuting)
Just Peck (US; comedy) Producers: Alexander
Nevsky, Gregory Raskin; director: Michael A.
Nickles; cast: Keir Gilchrist, Brie Larson. At 104
pounds dripping wet, baby-faced sophomore
Michael Peck (age 15) is not exactly the
coolest guy at American High. But, when Peck
connects with Emily, the hottest senior in
school, things start looking up. Peck’s parents
force him to join the Science Club, a veritable
social disease. To get even with his parents
and stun his teachers Peck comes up with an
idea for a bold Science Fair project, the TSAT
3000 machine. Peck is unprepared for the
havoc caused by the unveiling of his creation.
(90 mins.; premiere; debuting)
Magic Man (US; thriller) Producers: Alexander
Nevsky, Gregory Raskin; cast: Billy Zane,
Alexander Nevsky. Tatiana and her beautiful
girlfriends are on holiday in Las Vegas. The
daughter of a magician’s assistant who is
killed tragically during an illusion gone wrong,
Tatiana is drawn to Krell Darius. Darius’ charm,
wit and magical talent prove difficult for
Tatiana to resist. As Tatiana becomes enraptured
by Darius, it becomes clear he may know
something about her mother’s death, and
that it was not an accident. As Tatiana digs
deeper events take a sinister turn. (93 mins.;
screening; debuting)
ARCLIGHT FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 8447 Wilshire Blvd.,
Suite 101, Beverly Hills, CA, 90211, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-777-8855
On Offer:
The Cake Eaters (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Allen Bain, Jesse Scolaro, Peter Masterson;
director: Mary Stuart Masterson; cast: Kristen
Stewart, Bruce Dern. In a small rural town, two
interconnected families rediscover love in the
face of loss. (95 mins.; screening; debuting)
The Courier (U.S.A.; action-adventure) Producers:
Dan Grodnik, Gary Hamilton, Mike
Gabrawy; director: Tba; cast: Adrien Brody. A
daredevil courier, the one man who’s never
missed a drop, takes on a delivery to the King
of the Underworld, the one man who’s never
been found. (preproduction; presales; debuting)
Stolen Lives (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers:
Anders Anderson, Al Corley, Josh Lucas; director:
Anders Anderson; cast: Josh Lucas, Jon
Hamm. A detective deals with the loss of his
own son while uncovering the identity of a boy
whose mummified remains are found in a box
buried for fifty years. (100 mins.; screening;
debuting)
ARRI MEDIA WORLDSALES
Cannes 2009 Office: Int’l Village, German
Pavilion, Stand Of German Films
Office Phone/Fax: -
Attending: Antonio Exacoustos, head of
worldsales
Corporate Address: Tuerkenstr. 89, Munich,
Bavaria, 80799, Germany
Phone: 0049-0-89-38091288
Fax: 0049-0-89-38091288
On Offer:
Der rote Punkt (The Red Spot) (Germany;
drama) Producers: Martin Blankemeyer,
Miyako Sonoki; director: Marie Miyayama; cast:
Yuki Inomata, Hans Kremer. The Japanese student
Aki Onodera travels in her family’s tracks
from Tokyo to Germany. In idyllic East Allgaeu
she meets the Webers, who take her in as their
guest. But soon, the situation of the family
becomes turbulent by her appearance. (82
mins.; screening; debuting)
Geliebte Clara (Clara) (Germany;
drama) Producers: Alfred Huermer, Helma
Sanders-brahms; director: Helma Sandersbrahms;
cast: Martina Gedeck, Pascal Greggory,
Malik Zidi. For Brahms and Schumann
she was the world ..... the true Queen of
Romantic Concert Halls. She is a woman to
remember. Her life, her love, her passion for
music. (109 mins.; screening; debuting)
Schlaeft ein Lied in allen Dingen
(Sleeping Songs) (Germany; drama) Producers:
Petra Hengge, Alexander Ris, Joerg
Rothe; director: Andreas Struck; cast: Stefan
Rudolf, Chulpan Khamatova. Martin, a nu-jazz
trumpet player, is fighting against convention
and mediocrity. When he gets the feeling, that
Kristina, the love of his life, only loves him for
his music talents, he is deeply hurt and bids
farewell to both her and his previous life. On
the edge of society, he meets an old woman
who bequeaths him her pain in the form of
poems. Martin is immediately fascinated. Can
they guide him back to himself, to Kristina, or
to his music? (86 mins.; screening; debuting)
ARROW ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera, G26
Office Phone: -33-0-4-92-99-32-4
Attending: Steve Arroyave, CEO; Lars Bjorck,
president
Corporate Address: 7 Givins St, 7 Givins St,
Toronto, Ontario, M6J 2X5, Canada
Phone: 416 516-0815
Fax: 416 516-0815
On Offer:
Cut Loose (Canada; comedy) Producers:
Peter Bouckaert, Erwin Provoost; director: Jan
Verheyen; cast: Pepijn Caudron, Koen De
Graeve, Sana Mouziane. Based on the best
selling novel by Tom Naegels, CUT LOOSE, is a
funny, heartfelt and emotional film about
racial integration and other serious issues (100
mins.; screening; debuting)
Evil Angel (Canada; horror) Producer/director:
Richard Dutcher; cast: Ving Rhames, Ava
Gaudet, Kristopher Sheppard. The ancient
myth of Lilith is brought into the 21st. century
with a murderously sexy and seductive villainess
as the world’s first serial killer. (123 mins.;
screening; debuting)
His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday
the 13th. (Canada; documentary) Producers:
Anthony Masi, Thommy Hutson; director:
Thommy Hutson; cast: Tom Savini Sean
Cunningham, Kane Hodder. The ultimate documentary
on JASON, everybody’s favorite
hockey-masked momma’s boy and his three
decades of cinematic carnage in the FRIDAY
THE 13TH. series of films. (90 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; debuting)
ARSENAL PICTURES
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera G1/h4
Office Phone: 330-492-9933
Attending: Yarek Danielak, managing director;
Arianne Fraser, vp of sales; Gabriela Alaniz,
contract manager
Corporate Address: 6363 Wilshire Blvd,
Suite 550, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, U.S.A.
Phone: 323-852-0011
Fax: 323-852-0011
On Offer:
Eclipse (U.S.A.; sci-fi) Producers: Michael
Cowan, Jason Piette, Eric MitchellAfter Earth’s
nuclear annihilation, mankind’s last hope rests
with a handful of scientists trapped on an
orbiting research vessel whose only chance to
survive is to defeat a radical military zealot set
on destroying the future of human existence.
(preproduction; presales; debuting)
Order of Redemption (U.S.A.; actionadventure)
Cast: Tom Berenger, Armand
Assante, Busta Rhymes. A disgraced lawyer
(Tom Berenger) seeks to redeem his past by
taking down the city’s drug kingpin (Busta
Rhymes) as well as the criminal world’s political
ally (Armand Assante). (premiere; debuting)
The Year of Getting to Know Us
(U.S.A.; comedy) Cast: Sharon Stone, Lucy Liu,
Jimmy Fallon, Tom Arnold. Christopher Rocket
reunites with his dysfunctional parents—a
smothering hippy mother (Sharon Stone) and
a narcissistic father (Tom Arnold)—to reexamine
his quirky childhood and decide on the
next step with his committed girlfriend (Lucy
Liu). (premiere; debuting)
ARTISTVIEW ENTERTAIN-
MENT
Cannes 2009 Office: D-10
Office Phone: 049-299-3241
Attending: Scott Jones, president; Jay Joyce,
vice president
Corporate Address: 4425 Irvine Ave., Studio
City, CA, 91602, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-752-2480
Fax: 818-752-2480
On Offer:
The Nail (U.S.A.; drama) Producers: Leo
Rossi, James Quattrochi; director: James Quattrochi;
cast: Tony Danza, William Forsythe,
Tony Luke Jr., Dayanara Torres, Leo Rossi. An
over-the-hill, overweight ex-boxer and an
abused young boy begin a relationship that
gives them both a new and inspired life with a
purpose: to only “fight for the right.” This
heartwarming story of two lost souls finding
each other on the streets and boxing arenas of
Philadelphia, will capture your heart. The Nail
is a story forgiveness, hope and second
chances. (90 mins.; premiere; debuting)
No Bad Days (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Producers: David Murphy, Declan Joyce; director:
David Murphy; cast: Michael Madsen, Keith
David. An unpredictable, rugged, ex-military
operative finds himself being chased through
jungles, spying in underground waterways, and
falling in love with an attractive, yet stubborn
American woman searching for her missing
mother, an archeologist who was in the wrong
place at the wrong time. These two heroes are
lead on a crusade against evil forces even
greater than they anticipated. (90 mins.; premiere;
debuting)
Super Capers (U.S.A.; family) Producers:
Ray Griggs, Rueben Lim; director: Ray Griggs;
cast: Justin Whalin, Michael Rooker, . Wouldbe
superhero, Ed Gruberman, who possesses
no super powers must join a team of misfit
heroes-in-training known as The Super
Capers. Having only faith, he must travel
through time to uncover an evil plot involving
some gold bullion, a fiery femme fatale, and a
criminal mastermind with a dark secret about
Ed’s past. (90 mins.; premiere; debuting)
ATLAS INTERNATIONAL FILM
GMBH
Cannes 2009 Office: G9/h12, Riviera
Office Phone: -33-4-92-99-32-38
Office Fax: -
Attending: Stefan Menz, president; Philipp
Menz, president; Dieter Menz, senior vice president
Corporate Address: Candidplatz 11, Munich,
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Bavaria, 81543, Germany
Phone: +49 89 210 9750
Fax: +49 89 210 9750
On Offer:
CHEEKY GIRLS (Germany; comedy) Producer:
Ulrich Limmer; director: Ute Wieland;
cast: Emilia Schuele, Selina Shirin Mueller.
Mila, Hanna and Kati are best friends - always
there for each other, be it stress at school or
boy trouble. And they have plenty of that:
Hanna wants to participate in a casting show,
which leads to an argument with her
boyfriend Branko; Kati develops a huge crush
on Brian, the coolest boy at school. Mila falls
head over heels for Pit Winter, a young trainee
teacher, who of all people happens to be the
new boyfriend of her mom...Talk about stress!
(93 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
HABERMANN’S MILL (Germany; drama)
Producers: Karel Dirka, Pavel Novy; director:
Juraj Herz; cast: Mark Waschke, Ben Becker.
1938, a small village in Sudetenland. The Saw
Mill owner August Habermann is the biggest
employer in his village and a respected and
rich man. He is married to Jana, a young, beautiful
Czech woman, who is half Jewish.
Although Habermann is not interested in politics
or ideology, he and his family will soon be
steamrolled by the insanity of war... (production;
presales; returning)
SOPHIE (Germany; family) Producers: Leif
Bristow, Michel Houdmont; director: Leif Bristow;
cast: Brittany Bristow, John Rhys-davies.
16-year-old Sophie’s life is focused on two
great loves: ballet and animals. To afford the
tuition fee of a ballet school, Sophie’s parents
sell Limba, a 5-ton elephant and Sophie’s lifelong
friend. Sophie sets off to reclaim Limba,
charming her way into a summer job with the
circus to keep an eye on the despiteful animal
trainer. When Sophie falls in love with artist
Blake, they both struggle to rescue Limba from
the cruel circus... (preproduction; presales;
returning)
ATRIX FILMS / SOLA MEDIA
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera C 18
Office Phone: -49-170-41-13-766
Attending: Beatrix Wesle, CEO; Solveig Langeland,
CEO; Bettina Kunde, acquisitions
Corporate Address: Aggensteinstrasse 13 A,
Munich, Bavaria, 81545, Germany
Phone: -49-89-642-82-611
Fax: -49-89-642-82-611
On Offer:
the bone man (Germany; thriller) Producers:
Danny Krauzs, Uli Ladenbauer; director:
Wolfgang Murnberger; cast: Josef Hader, Josef
Bierbichler, Birgit Minichmayr. Once again,
something has happened. A man by the name
of Horvath has vanished, and the only clue
leads to the Löschenkohl Restaurant, a wellknown
country inn which specialises in roast
chicken. And it would be most unlike Brenner if
the bone-grinding machine in the cellar of the
restaurant didn’t present him with a few additional
mysteries... (121 mins.; screening; debuting)
tengri - blue heaven (Germany; drama)
Producers: Emmanuel Schlumberger, Frank
Mueller; director: Marie Jaoul De Poncheville;
cast: Albina Imacheva, Ilimbek Kalmouratov. A
Nomadic Love Story Set On The Steppes Of
Kyrgyzstan. Amira and Temür
become lovers in a small village in the mountains.
When Amira´s husband returns from
war, the couple is forced to leave the village.
Between East and West they invent a universe
where life again becomes worth living. (96
mins.; screening; debuting)
Turtles: The Incredible Journey (Germany;
documentary) Producers: Sam Taylor,
Nick Stringer, Helmut Grasser; director: Nick
Stringer; cast: Animal Adventure Documentary.
TURTLES is a theatrical documentary
feature film and tells the story of a little loggerhead
turtle, who follows in the path of her
ancestors on one of the most extraordinary
journeys in the natural world. Born on a beach
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in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream all the
way to the frozen north and ultimately swims
around the entire North Atlantic to Africa and
back to the beach where she was born. But
the odds are stacked against her; just one in a
thousand turtles survive the journey. (89
mins.; screening; debuting)
AURORA DISTRIBUTION
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 55 - Z Horyva Street,
Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, 04071, Ukraine
Phone: -380-44-492-88-84
On Offer:
Illusion of fear (Ukraine; thriller) Director:
Sasha Kirienko; cast: Andrei Panin, Alexei
Petrenko. Igor becomes the victim of the high
profile gang attack – he is arrested for no reason,
and is forced by psychological pressure to
give in his profitable business center project.
When out of prison, Igor swears to return the
stolen property and take revenge. After
exhausting physical and psychological tortures
Korob starts having visions of parallel life as
legendary biblical King Solomon. The twists of
events make Igor doubt who is real in his life
and who is just a fantasy of his hurt mind (80
mins.; debuting)
Indy (Ukraine; drama) Producers: Sergey
Sobolev, Sergey Baranov; director: Sasha
Kirienko; cast: Alyona Babenko, Alexander
Domogarov. The car accident and fatal coincidence
of circumstances changes lives and
mercilessly breaks peaceful existence of two
couples. Arina, her husband Igor, Arseny and
his wife Elisabeth all get involved in the
whirlpool of deadly love intrigues. (92 mins.;
debuting)
The lights of the brothel (Ukraine; comedy)
Producer: Yelena Yatsura; director:
Alexander Gordon; cast: Oksana Fandera,
Eugeny Tsyganov. The events of this movie
take place in Odessa in 1958. This story with
truly Odessa heart and spirit revolves around
the main character – Mother Luba – the
owner of a small brothel-apartment and her
two subordinates – two “girls” – whose nicknames
are Zinka-Hitler and Zygota, who live in
perfect harmony of some sort of family. (postproduction;
debuting)
AURORA ENTERTAINMENT
CORPORATION
Cannes 2009 Office: Dda Business Center @
Majestic Hotel
Office Phone: 049-298-7700
Office Fax: 049-338-9790
Attending: Anatoly Fradis, president; Mikhail
Gugin, vice president; John Vulich, creative
consultant
Corporate Address: 9454 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite M-11, Beverly Hills, CA, 90212, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-858-1005
Fax: 310-858-1005
On Offer:
ANNA KARENINA (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Sergei Solovyov, Oleg Urushev, Konstantin
Ernst, Anatoly Fradis; director: Sergei
Solovyov; cast: Tatiana Drubich, Oleg Yankovski,
Alexander Abdulov. One of the world’s
greatest novels, ANNA KARENINA, is an
immortal drama of personal conflict and
social scandal, and a vivid, rich panorama of
19-th Century Russia (118 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
BABI YAR (U.S.A.; drama) Producers: Anatoly
Fradis, Barry Levinson; director: Barry
Levinson; cast: Tba. Story of a young Christian
boy, living in Ukraine during Nazi invasion and
witnessing Holocaust. (preproduction; presales;
debuting)
CHRONIC (U.S.A.; horror) Producers: Anatoly
Fradis, James Rosenthal; director: John
Vulich; cast: Tba. A busload of troubled teens
headed to a rehabilitation camp find themselves
slowly transforming into ultra-violent
murderers after they encounter a burning
plane wreck full of chemically tainted marijuana.
(preproduction; presales; returning)
AV PICTURES LTD.
Cannes 2009 Office: Résidence Du Grand
Hotel, 4th Floor - Entrée Flamant, Bell No. 42,
45 La Croisette
Office Phone: 04-93-99-28-43
Attending: Victor Bateman, managing director;
Gavin Braxton, chief executive officer; Jane
Carolan, head of marketing & distribution
Corporate Address: Caparo House, 103 Baker
Street, London, London, W1U 6LN, United
Kingdom
Phone: -44-0-20-7317-0140
Fax: -44-0-20-7317-0140
On Offer:
Freight (United Kingdom; action-adventure)
Producer: Martin Campbell & Luke Aikman;
director: Stuart St. Paul; cast: Billy Murray,
Craig Fairbrass, Danny Midwinter.. A
Russian gang operating in a UK city, with no
respect for the Laws of England, traffic Eastern
Europeans in containers then enslave
them - the women to sex, the men to illegal
fights. They cross local businessman, Gabe
Taylor and a war escalates, but when his
daughter is kidnapped to be sold into the sex
trade, Gabe fights back. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; debuting)
Gladiators V Werewolves (United Kingdom;
action-adventure) Producer: Angad Paul
& Lee Brazier; director: Rob Green; cast: T.b.a..
Gladiators and werewolves fight to the death
in the arena; the greatest fighters of ancient
Rome and a ferocious tribe of captured lupine
warriors clash in blood and thunder battles for
the entertainment of the crowds. (development;
presales; returning)
Lesbian Vampire Killers (United Kingdom;
comedy) Producer: Steve Clark-hall;
director: Phil Claydon; cast: James Corden,
Mathew Horne, Myanna Buring, Paul Mcgann.
Jimmy and Fletch unexpectedly find themselves
stuck in a remote village where all of
the women have been enslaved by a legendary
vampire curse. The boys have to put all
of their fears (and dreams!) behind them in
order to rise to the challenge of becoming Lesbian
Vampire Killers in a wildly hilarious collision
of outrageous laughs and comic gore. (87
mins.; screening; returning)
AVEX ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Cannes 2009 Office: Japan Booth / Palais
21.02 - 23.01
Office Phone: 0492998066
Attending: Asako Maki, international sales;
Hidemi Arasaki, executive director; Ken Umehara,
senior director
Corporate Address: 3-1-30 Minami-aoyama,,
Minato-ku, Tokyo, Tokyo, 107-0062, Japan
Phone: 81-3-5413-8785
On Offer:
Guardian Angel (Japan; comedy) Producer:
“guardian Angel” Production Committee;
director: Yuichi Sato; cast: Cunning Takeyama,
Kuranosuke Sasaki. Forcibly married to a
dreadful wife, Keiichi Suga was supposed to
lead an unnoticed life. Fixed up with an
allowance of 500yen/day and taking the jampacked
commuter train every morning, he
works at the super low salary, support center.One
day in the train, he accidentally bumps
into the girl of his destiny that changed his life.
“I have to protect her from this horrible world!”
Determined by himself, he voluntarily takes
the role of the savior; the beginning of a selfdeceived
one way love. (109 mins.; screening;
debuting)
KAFOO~Waiting for Happiness~
(Japan; romance) Producers: Yoshio Yanagisaki,
Shinzo Matsuhashi, Shingo Miyauchi; director:
Yu Nakai; cast: Tetsuji Tamayama, Maiko.
At the outlier of Okinawa, Akio leads an indulgent
life running a variety store with his
beloved dog KAFOO (means happy in Okinawa
dialect). One day, Akio receives a letter
from girl named Sachi. “Please let me be your
bride.” It was an answer to Akio’s wish written
on a wooden plaque that he wrote at a shrine
when he traveled, ”Would you be my
bride?“.One day, Akio half in doubt, a beautiful,
mysterious girl named Sachi comes to him.
(120 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
Things When I Was A Girl (Japan;
drama) Producers: Noriko Nishiguchi, Wakana
Kanno; director: Toshiyuki Morioka; cast: Eri
Fukatsu, Suzuka Ohgo. Natsumi is a hopeless
Manga writer who shows no sign to climb out
of the doldrums.Novice editor Zaizen finally
throws her a harsh word; “You don’t have any
friends, do you?” Those words made her hark
back to the days when she was a girl. Friends,
who she met in a desolate town, and those
imperfect and sweet days when you grow
from a girl to an adult….Even miserable happenings
were fun and shining. When she
realizes that she wasn’t walking the path
alone, she starts to change. (110 mins.; screening;
debuting)
BAC FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: Le Grand Hôtel 45, La
Croisette
Office Phone: 33684373703
Attending: Camille Neel, head of international
sales; Gilles Sousa, sales executive
Corporate Address: 88, Rue De La Folie
Méricourt, Paris, Paris, 75011, France
Phone: 33153535256
Fax: 33153535256
On Offer:
HE’S MY GIRL (France; romance) Producers:
Nicolas Blanc, Dominique Barneau; director:
Jean Jacques Zilbermann; cast: Antoine De
Caunes, Elsa Zylberstein, Mehdi Dehbi. Simon
Eskénazy, clarinetist, is unable to finish his
record. His mother is sick and wants Simon to
take her into his apartment. His ex-wife Rosalie
and their son have suddenly reappeared in
Simon’s life. There is his current lover Raphaël
with whom he dreams of conducting a great
love affair, and there is the amazing
Mohamed, a young arab who becomes Rose
by night, a waitress at the “Paradise” cabaret.
Mohamed is both fragile and violent, loving,
funny, proud, arrogant and provocative... (85
mins.; premiere; debuting)
HIDDEN DIARY (France; drama) Producer:
Alain Benguigui; director: Julia Lopes Curval;
cast: Catherine Deneuve, Marina Hands,
Marie-josée Croze. Audrey is an independant
and single woman who lives in Canada. She is
pregnant. Her parents still live in France in the
small town she grew up. While visiting her parents
for holidays, Audrey discovers her grandmother’s
hidden story, a woman who gave up
her home and family in the fifties and never
came back. Audrey will try to know more
about it and this investigation will force her
own mother to reveal a secret deeply buried.
(100 mins.; premiere; debuting)
ROUND DA WAY (France; animation) Producer:
Philippe Gompel And Roch Lener; director:
Albert P. Lazaro And Emmanuel Klotz;
cast: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Omar &
Fred. It’s summer in the hood. As every year,
there are those who stay, those who leave,
and... those who should have left. Some, like
Joe Piswater, work “under the table” in the rich
neighborhoods and fall head over heels for a
pretty girl. Some, like Tony Pepperoni, play
businessman and spend the summer fleeing a
local gang leader and a psychopathic girlfriend.
Some, like Sammy and Harvey, pretend
to have left. Tropics are far for the homies...
and summer promises to be very hot! (90
mins.; screening; debuting)
BACKSEAT CONCEPTIONS
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 1730 N 5th St #603,
Philadelphia, PA, 19122, U.S.A.
Phone: 215-235-5603
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On Offer:
Children of Torture (U.S.A.; horror) Producers:
Doug Sakmann, Adam Alhbrandt;
director: Adam Alhbrandt; cast: J.d. Brown,
Joanna Angel. A satanic cult driven by indoctrination
through agony and torture seeks new
disciples in torment. A group of friends headed
to a remote cabin in the rural wilderness of
Pennsylvania for a weekend vacation. There
are no words to describe the events that took
place and lent the name to those ill-fated
Children of Torture. The third film written and
directed by Adam Alhbrandt (Lionsgate’s
“Sight” and the upcoming “The Burnt House”).
(development; presales; debuting)
Hush, Little Baby (U.S.A.; horror) Producer:
Anthony Sparano Jr.; director: Adam Alhbrandt;
cast: Sal Mazzotta. Deep in the isolated
wilderness of Bucks County, Pennsylvania
the Taft family lives secluded away from the
prying eyes of civilization. Patrick Taft, a
deranged serial murderer, is carrying on a family
tradition with the help of a creature that
only a mother could love. The two are in the
business of selling scented fire wood. Bred of
violence and tragedy, Patrick is torn between
his compassion and anger in a volatile psychopathic
split. (preproduction; presales; debuting)
BAVARIA FILM INTERNA-
TIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera H 9
Office Phone: -33-0-4-92-99-32-4
Attending: Thorsten Ritter, head of bavaria
film international; Stefanie Zeitler, head of
sales; Sebastian Kiesmüller, head of marketing
Corporate Address: Bavariafilmplatz 7 / 71,
Geiselgasteig, D, 82031, Germany
Phone: -49-89-6499-2686
On Offer:
Deliver us from Evil (Germany; thriller)
Producer: Michael Obel; director: Ole Bornedal;
cast: Lasse Rimmer Lene Nystrom Rasted.
Violence erupts in a small town when a drunken
truck driver, Lars, runs over a local woman
and pins the blame on the town’s Bosnian
refugee. When Lars’ brother Johannes stands
up for the man and gives him shelter, Lars and
his friends head for Johannes’ secluded house,
armed with a shotgun and boundless, drunken
rage… (100 mins.; presales; debuting)
Henry of Navarre (Germany; drama) Producer:
Regina Ziegler; director: Jo BaierFrance
1563: Protestants and Catholics are fighting
for land and power. At the head of the Protestants
stands Henry of Navarre, leading his men
against Paris. Henry survives the St.
Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, but on his way
to the throne he will change religion five times
and he’ll lead many wars. (production; product
reel/trailer; debuting)
Phantom Pain (Germany; drama) Producers:
Sebastian Zühr, Henning Ferber, Marcus
Welke; director: Matthias Emcke; cast: Til
Schweiger Jana Pallaske. A passionate cyclist
and urban slacker who avoids work and
responsibility sees his life change from one
moment to the next when he loses his left leg.
He can wallow in self-pity – or tackle the
beast called life with the help of love, willpower
and his own two feet... Matthias Emcke
delivers a thought-provoking yet light and
upbeat look at an urban slacker who’s forced
to turn his life around. Starring international
star Til Schweiger. (92 mins.; premiere; debuting)
BIRCH TREE ENTERTAIN-
MENT
Cannes 2009 Office: Carlton Hotel #203
Office Phone: 33 4 93 06 40 06
Attending: Art Birzneck, president & ceo; Lorraine
Birzneck, director of operations
Corporate Address: 10620 Southern Highlands
Pkwy., #110-418, Las Vegas, NV, 89141,
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U.S.A.
Phone: +17028582782
On Offer:
HIGH KICK GIRL (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Producers: Fuyuhiko Nishi, Kenji Nakanishi,
Masaaki Mizuno; director: Fuyuhiko Nishi;
cast: Rina Takeda, Tatsuya Naka. A cute high
school girl who learns Karate must take on a
group of secret fighters with help from her
Karate master. From the Producer of SHAOLIN
GIRL! (82 mins.; premiere; debuting)
THE SANCTUARY (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Producers: Thanapon Maliwan, Russell
Wong; director: Thanapon Maliwan; cast: Mike
B, Russell Wong. A young Muay Thai warrior is
accused of stealing a holy emerald that his
master appointed him to protect. On the run
from the police, he must retrieve the emerald
from the mafia in order to prove his innocence
and return the emerald to it’s holy place. (88
mins.; premiere; debuting)
BLEIBERG ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera, D5
Office Phone: + 33 (0)4 9299 3229
Attending: Ehud Bleiberg, chairman & ceo;
Roman Kopelevich, vp, worldwide sales;
Nicholas Donnermeyer, acquisitions & development
Corporate Address: 9454 Wilshire Blvd.,
Suite 200, Beverly Hills, CA, 90212, U.S.A.
Phone: 1.310.273.0003
On Offer:
ADAM RESURRECTED (U.S.A.; drama)
Producers: Ehud Bleiberg, Werner Wirsing;
director: Paul Schrader; cast: Jeff Goldblum,
Willem Dafoe. A former cabaret performer is
the star patient at a 1960s metal hospital for
Holocaust survivors. (106 mins.; screening;
returning)
KIROT (U.S.A.; action-adventure) Producers:
Ehud Bleiberg, Yoav Ze’evi, Edouard Douek;
director: Danny Lerner; cast: Olga Kurylenko.
Two women, an assassin and a housewife,
band together to break free of their oppressive
environments. (postproduction; product
reel/trailer; debuting)
NECROMENTIA (U.S.A.; horror) Producers:
Stephanie Joyce, Nicholas Donnermeyer,
Shannon Banal; director: Pearry Teo; cast:
Chad Grimes, Layton Matthews. Three seemingly
unrelated men are brought together by
their connection to portal to the other side.
(83 mins.; screening; debuting)
BLUE STAR MOVIES
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone: -39-3358720172
Attending: Pete Maggi, c.e.o. & head of international
sales
Corporate Address: 175 - 185 Gray’s Inn
Road, Piazza Del Popolo 18, 00187 Rome, Italy,
London, United Kingdom, WC1X 8UE, United
Kingdom
Phone: -44-0-207-812-0700
Fax: -44-0-207-812-0700
On Offer:
EVILENKO (United Kingdom; thriller) Producer:
Mario Cotone – Pacific Pictures; director:
David Grieco; cast: Malcom Mcdowell;
Marton Csokas. Based on the true story of A. R.
Cikatilo, also known as the monster of Rostov.
A. R. Evilenko (Malcolm McDowell) is a serial
killer who killed and ate more than 50 children
in old Soviet Republic. V. T. Lesiev (Marton
Csokas) is the detective who tracks down and
catches him. (115 mins.; returning)
HERMANO (United Kingdom; drama) Producer:
Pete Maggi - Gherardo Pagliei; director:
Giovanni Robbiano; cast: Rade Serbedzija,
Ignazio Oliva, Emir Kusturica, Paolo Villaggio.
Antonio Sterni is a lonely young man without
any family roots who does small jobs for Don
Eugenio a mafia boss. Antonio must deliver a
car to a Russian mafia boss. During the drive,
Antonio meets an ex-champion boxer from
Argentina, Carlos Avileda. The two men start
their journey together. One on a mafia mission,
the other to find the man who destroyed his
boxing career. (95 mins.; returning)
LUMINAL (United Kingdom; sci-fi) Producer:
Alex Tate; director: Andrea Vecchiato; cast:
Denis Lavant, Jemeela Mustchin, Maria Papas.
Set in 2010, Luminal is the story of a friendship
between two young girls on the urban backdrop
of Paris and London night excesses. It
shows the inside view of a wild trip through
their psyche, as they try to make some sense
of their lives. (89 mins.; returning)
BOGEYDOM LICENSING
Cannes 2009 Office: Canadian Pavilion, Riviera
Beach 124
Office Phone: 06-25-86-97-64
Attending: George Ayoub, chief bogeyman;
Chabela Suarez-ayoub, bogey admin
Corporate Address: P.o. Box 523, St. Q.,
Toronto, ON, M4T2M5, Canada
Phone: -14166188748
On Offer:
BLOOD (Canada; thriller) Producer: Keiko
Kusakabe; director: Ten Shimoyama; cast: Aya
Sugimoto, Jun Kaname. To investigate a murder
case Detective Hoshino visits the murdered
maid’s employer Miyako who lives in an
old mansion with a deaf girl.The gorgeous,
seductive Miyako indicates the culprit is a man
by the name of Ukyo.Ukyo turns out to be the
swordsman Okita from the late shogunate
period who once shared both blood and body
with Miyako, beginning his undead life. Soon
Hoshino is converted, starting a battle over the
beautiful vampire Miyako, who has rekindled
their desires… (85 mins.; screening; debuting)
SAUNA (Canada; horror) Producers: Tero
Kaukomaa, Jesse Fryckman; director: Aj Annila;
cast: Ville Virtanen, Tommi Eronen, Viktor
Klimenko. 1595 the long war is finally over.
Brothers Knut and Erik are officers in a commission
marking the border between Finland
and Russia; they commit a terrible sin leaving
a young girl to die a horrible death. As the officers
cross an uncharted swamp the girl returns
to haunt. (85 mins.; screening; debuting)
YOROI Samurai Zombie (Canada; horror)
Producers: Motoi Hiraiwa, Akihiko Isogai,
Shinya Kawai; director: Tak Sakaguchi; cast:
Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Issei Ishida. In the mountains
rests a small mass grave – a sacred holy
land. TWO COPS discuss destiny. One suggests
that a person’s destiny is fixed and an
effort to escape that destiny is merely wasted
energy. The cop tells the other cop that he can
tell what his destiny is and how it will end. As
he utters the last word, a hand grabs his head
and a sword slices through his body. The camera
pulls out to reveal the cops head on a
tower adorned with human heads. (91 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; returning)
BOLD FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite
137
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Gary Michael Walters, co-president;
David Lancaster, co-president;
Stephanie Denton, president, worldwide distribution
Corporate Address: 6464 Sunset Boulevard,
Suite 800, Los Angeles, CA, 90028, U.S.A.
Phone: 323-936-8394
On Offer:
The Hole (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers: Producers:
Michel Litvak, David Lancaster Exec.
Producers: Gary Michael Walters, Chris Bender,
J.c. Spink; director: Joe Dante; cast: Chris Massoglia,
Haley Bennett, Nathan Gamble With
Bruce Dern And Teri Polo. After his mother
moves the family to a new neighborhood,
Dane Payton (Massoglia), stumbles upon a
mysterious hole in the basement of their new
house with neighbor Julie Campbell (Bennett)
and his younger brother Lucas (Gamble). The
discovery puts all of them face-to-face with
their worst nightmares and darkest fears.
(production; returning)
Jack (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers: Producers:
Michel Litvak, David Lancaster, Alexandra
Milchan, Marc Sternberg Exec. Producer: Gary
Michael Walters; director: Joseph RubenA doctor
rehabilitates and ultimately falls for an
amnesia-stricken victim unaware that he is
actually a serial killer. (preproduction; returning)
BOLL AG
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: Wormser Str. 173, Mainz,
Rheinland-pfalz, 55130, Germany
Phone: 0049-6131-9713580
Fax: 0049-6131-9713580
On Offer:
Janjaweed (Germany; drama) Producers:
Uwe Boll, Dan Clarke; director: Uwe Boll; cast:
Edward Furlong, Kristanna Loken, Billy Zane.
American journalists in Sudan are confronted
with the dilemma of whether to return home
to report on the atrocities, or to help the victims.
(postproduction; product reel/trailer;
debuting)
Rampage (Germany; action-adventure)
Producers: Uwe Boll, Dan Clarke; director: Uwe
Boll; cast: Michael Paré, Brendan Fletcher. A
man with a thirst for revenge builds a full body
armor and goes on a killing spree. (100 mins.;
screening; debuting)
The Storm (Germany; thriller) Producers:
Uwe Boll, Dan Clarke, Stephen Hegyes,
Andreas Olavarria, Shawn Williamson; director:
Uwe Boll; cast: Luke Perry, Lauren Holly.
Silias flees from a storm and finds refuge on a
farm. He helps to find the son of the owners
but there are dangerous forces. (85 mins.;
screening; debuting)
BOOMTOWN MEDIA
Cannes 2009 Office: Leave A Message At
German Pavillion (german Films)
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Uwe Dierks, ceo | producer
Corporate Address: Fuggerstr. 33, Berlin,
Berlin, 10777, Germany
Phone: -49-30-814-529-50
Fax: -49-30-814-529-50
On Offer:
Trip to Asia | The Quest for Harmony
(Germany; documentary) Producers: Uwe
Dierks, Thomas Grube, Andrea Thilo Of Boomtown
Media; director: Thomas Grube; cast: The
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle. TRIP
TO ASIA tells the story of the struggle
between individual and community, the timeless
search for harmony within oneself and
with one‘s neighbors: A unique musical excursion
into the overlapping spheres of melancholy,
enthusiasm, loneliness and yearning, an
adventure told through fascinating cinematic
imagery brought together with a dynamic
sound and musical experience that creates
this universal story of humankind and society
into a breathtaking motion picture experience.
(108 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
BREAKOUT ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 1438 N. Gower St. Box,70
Bldg 2, Hollywood, CA, 90028, U.s.a
Phone: 323-860-7103
On Offer:
Beer Pong (U.s.a; comedy) Producer: Sherri
Strain; director: Reza Reazi; cast: Michael Consiglio,
Max Amini. Dustin is a 27 year old
accounting whizz and lives with his parents.
Erik lives in a van outside Dustin’s house .They
are losers. But they decide to change all that
by pretending to be college students and win
the national beer pong championship .things
look good till Dustin’s nemesis enters the tournament,
determined to destroy him. (production;
premiere; debuting)
CANNES
product listings
Safehaven (U.s.a; thriller) Meteors are
headed towards the earth, and scientists have
predicted that only five places on the planet
will escape being hit.When the information,
downloaded onto a hard drive, is stolen, various
power try to regain it, each for their own
purpose. (development; premiere; debuting)
The Telling (U.s.a; horror) Producer: Produced
By Sherri Strain; directors: Harry Grigsby,
Nicholas Carpenter; cast: Holly Madison, Bridget
Marquardt. Three girls pledge the most
popular sorority on campus. they must tell the
scariest story they know ,one featuring a murderous
doll, one a has been actress and her
run in with a film crew of the undead, and
finally,a hunt-and-kill frightfest. and inspires
someone to at the sorority to commit their
own murders. (84 mins.; product reel/trailer;
debuting)
BRIDGE2LIFE, INC.
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 4838 Sunnyslope Ave C,
Sherman Oaks, CA, 91423, U.S.A.
Phone/Fax:
On Offer:
Dead Game Short Film (U.S.A.; horror)
Producers: Debi D. Hall, Richard Bluth; director:
Richard Bluth; cast: Michelle Luchese, Joe
Ochman. Shelby, an awkward 19 year old with
fantasies of being a hip and slick goth girl, simply
cannot measure up to Nina, a sexy trailer
blonde. One ordinary day, Shelby finds an
occult game, unaware that it is the incarnation
of evil. She steals the game from the
depraved Victor, not realizing that, without it,
he will die. Kahldir, the spectral host of the
game has plans for these two players and
Nina that will take them deeper into the realm
of a paranormal reality. Who will win? (15
mins.; premiere; debuting)
CAMELOT ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP, INC.
Cannes 2009 Office: Carlton Hotel
Office Phone: 049-306-4006
Office Fax: 049-306-4025
Attending: Robert P. Atwell, chairman
Corporate Address: 8001 Irvine Center Drive,
Suite 400, Irvine, CA, 92618, U.S.A.
Phone: 949-754-3030
Fax: 949-754-3030
On Offer:
Girls Day Out (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Producer: Robert P. Atwell Daniel Reardon;
director: Daniel Reardon; cast: Tbd. (preproduction;
presales; debuting)
CAPITOL FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Glenn Kendrick Ackermann, head
of international; Kia Jam, producer
Corporate Address: 2121 Avenue Of The
Stars, Ste. 3000, Los Angeles, CA, 90067,
U.S.A.
Phone: + 1 310 286 7200
Fax: + 1 310 286 7200
On Offer:
Black Water Transit (U.S.A.; thriller)
Director: Tony Kaye; cast: Laurence Fishburne,
Brittany Snow, Karl Urban. Against the backdrop
of a post apocalyptic world descending
into chaos, Tony Kaye (director of critically
acclaimed AMERICAN HISTORY X) brings us a
hard hitting, pulse pounding thriller about violence,
betrayal, love, and the desire to do good
when everything conspires against you.
(screening; debuting)
Five Dollars A Day (U.S.A.; comedy)
Director: Nigel Cole; cast: Christopher Walken,
Sharon Stone, Amanda Peet, Alessandro
Nivola. Months spent in prison for your father’s
crime: 11 Years attempting to rid yourself of his
poor fatherly advice: 10 The time spent on the
run with this incorrigible man: Priceless.
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(screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
Love Ranch (U.S.A.; drama) Director: Taylor
Hackford; cast: Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci, Gina
Gershon, Bail Ling, Sergio Peris-mencheta.
Grace (Helen Mirren) is married to Charlie (Joe
Pesci), a violent gangster constantly trying to
hit the big time in Reno, Nevada. Throughout
their marriage she has always been the brains
to his brawn and together they are a force to
be reckoned with... But when Charlie dreams
up yet another money making enterprise and
brings Bruza, a world class boxer into their
realm everything will change. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; returning)
CAREY FILMS LTD
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 5 Henshaw Lane, Yeadon,
Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS19 7RW, United
Kingdom
Phone/Fax:
On Offer:
The Spell (United Kingdom; drama) Producers:
Owen Carey Jones, Neil Harrison,
Melinda Humphrey; director: Owen Carey
Jones; cast: Rebecca Pitkin, Pietro Herrera,
Amber Hodgkiss, Julia Curle, Laura O’donoughue.
A young girl, Jenny, finds herself
unwanted by either of her separated parents
and leaves home at the earliest opportunity.
However, live-in boyfriend Rick’s associations
with witchcraft and black magic soon take her
down a path which leads to the most horrific
experience of her young life. She seeks help
from friends, doctors, psychiatrists and religious
leaders but finds only scepticism and
disbelief. Finally, from within the confines of a
mental hospital, she finds the help she needs.
(85 mins.; screening; debuting)
CATALAN FILMS & TV
Cannes 2009 Office: Audiovisual From
Spain - Catalan Films & Tv
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Angela Bosch, Director, carme
puig, int’l department co-ordinator; Monica
Garcia Massague, Communications And Festivals,
laia marsal, co-production
Corporate Address: Mestre Nicolau, 23, Entl.,
Barcelona, Barcelona, 08021, Spain
Phone: 0034935524945
Fax: 0034935524945
On Offer:
Short-Cat program (Spain) (; debuting)
CELESTIAL PICTURES LIMIT-
ED
Cannes 2009 Office: Suite 118 At Carlton
Hotel
Office Phone: -33-4-93-06-4-118
Office Fax: -33-4-93-06-8-118
Attending: Gordon Cheung, executive vp,
acquisitions & distribution
Corporate Address: Haw Administration
Building, Lot 220 Clear Water Bay Road,,
Kowloon, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong,
852, Hong Kong
Phone: -85229271111
Fax: -85229271111
On Offer:
Let’s Make Laugh Again (Hong Kong;
romance) Producers: Gordon Cheung, Johnny
Lee; director: Yip Lim Sum; cast: Tbc. In a summer
camp, a handsome young man falls in
love with a peculiar beauty. After having met
once a year for seven years, the girl decides to
reveal her secret… (preproduction; debuting)
One-Armed Swordsman 2020 (Hong
Kong; action-adventure) Producers: Sung-jai
Tcha, Sang-oh Yoon; director: Sung-soo Kim;
cast: Tbc. In a rebellion against the dictator
Red Eye, Dokki lost his right arm and his girlfriend
is captured. To fight back for his loss,
Dokki decides to seek for revenge. (preproduction;
debuting)
Sell Out! (Hong Kong; comedy)
Producer/director: Joon-han Yeo; cast: Jerrica
Lai, Peter Davis, Kee Thuan Chye, Lim Teik
Leong. The hilariously unreasonable bosses of
a multinational conglomerate bully their creative
employees into selling out in this wildly
irreverent comedy many are calling “the most
entertaining film of the Venice Film Festival”.
(105 mins.; debuting)
CELLULOID DREAMS
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 2, Rue Turgot, Paris, Ile
De France, 75009, France
Phone: -33-1-4970-0370
On Offer:
Little Indi (France; drama) Producers: Marc
Recha, Jérôme Vidal; director: Marc Recha;
cast: Eduardo Noriega, Sergi López, Eulalia
Ramón. Arnau, has a passion for songbirds.
When his prize bird ‘Little Indi’ wins the local
championship he sees hope to free his mother
from prison… (postproduction; debuting)
The Prophet (France; thriller) Producer:
Why Not; director: Jacques Audiard; cast:
Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif,
Reda Kateb. (premiere; debuting)
Vincere (France; drama) Producer: Mario
Gianani; director: Marco Bellocchio; cast: Giovanna
Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Corrado Invernizzi.
The true story of Mussolini’s secret wife
and mother of his child, Ida Dalser. When the
Duce rises to become a powerful dictator, he
denies Ida’s existence, hiding her away insane
asylums. But Ida, with her courage and intelligence
will triumph… (premiere; debuting)
CELSIUS ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office: Entrance 7e, Apt 3e2,
3rd Floor, Residences Gray D’albion, 20 Bis Rue
Des Serbes
Office Phone: 44-20-7193-1801
Attending: Thierry Wase-bailey, managing
director / head of sales; Henriette Wollmann,
european co-productions / legal and business
affairs
Corporate Address: 249 Gray’s Inn Road,
London, London, WC1X 8QZ, Uk
Phone: 44-20-7193-1801
On Offer:
Freakonomics (Uk; documentary) Producers:
Chad Troutwine, Seth Gordon; directors:
Morgan Spurlock, Alex Gibney, Eugene Jarecki,
Heidi Ewing, Rachel GradyTake five of the
most successful documentary directors working
in Hollywood today, match them to the
most compelling chapters from a worldwide
best selling piece of non fiction and you have
Freakonomics the movie. Freakonomics is economic
detective work, social theory and investigative
journalism all at their most compelling
and it is deeply unorthodox in its
approach. (production; returning)
From Within (Uk; thriller) Producers: Adrian
Butchart, Chris Gibbin; director: Phedon
Papamichael; cast: Elizabeth Rice, Thomas
Dekker, Adam Goldberg, Kelly Blatz, Laura
Allen, Rumer Willis, Jared Harris. All hell
descends on the ultra religious Grovetown as a
plague of seeming suicides threatens to decimate
the population. As one by one her loved
ones fall, Lindsay (Elizabeth Rice) realises she
must get to the heart of the mystery or face
death herself. But is her only ally, the handsome,
brooding loner Aidan (Thomas Dekker)
all he claims to be and does the town harbour
an occult secret, giving the lie to it’s pristine
exterior? (90 mins.; returning)
Vivaldi (Uk; drama) Producers: Boris
Damast, Andrea Kikot, Michel Shane; director:
Boris Damast; cast: Joseph Fiennes, Alfred
Molina, Gerard Depardieu, Carice Van Houten,
Neve Campbell, Jacqueline Bisset, Elle Fanning.
A biography of Antonio Vivaldi’s early life,
when the young priest became the music
teacher at a school for the illegitimate daughters
of Venice’s courtesans. (preproduction;
returning)
CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP
Cannes 2009 Office: Lerins S15
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Armen Dishdishyan, evp international;
Irina Arvanova, head of sales; Zhanna
Shakhshaeva, international sales manager
Corporate Address: 15, 1st Zachatievskiy
Lane,, Moscow, Russia, 119034, Russia
Phone: -7-495-9818214
On Offer:
Hipsters (Russia; musical) Producers: Vadim
Goryainov, Valery Todorovsky, Leonid Yarmolnik,
Leonid Lebedev; director: Valery Todorovsky;
cast: Oksana Akinshina, Anton Shagin,
Evgenia Brik, Maksim Matveev. This is the story
from the fifties of the last century where the
group of young people has to fight for the
right to be different from all others, listen to
some other music, dress differently and, certainly,
love. Popular smash hits, the most difficult
choreographic items, a dashing plot with
many twists, a penetrating love story and luxurious
scenery will never leave audience indifferent.
(120 mins.; screening; debuting)
Taras Bulba (Russia; drama) Producer: Tv
Channel Russia; director: Vladimir Bortko; cast:
Bogdan Stupka, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Igor
Petrenko. From a Nikolai Gogol story. Middle of
the 16 century. The great Polish state
becomes to subjugate Ukrainian territory with
fire and sword establishing its order everywhere.
The refugees congregated in the region
named Zaporizhia Sech. The old Cossack Taras
Bulba had two sons who are the pride of the
Cossacks. But the younger brother put on Polish
armor for the sake of a beautiful Polish girl.
The elder brother was captured by the Poles
and is due to be executed. Taras has sworn to
be avenged. (135 mins.; screening; debuting)
CENTRE FILMS MEDIA SALES
Cannes 2009 Office: Media Pavilion (121)
International Village
Office Phone: 04-93-39-70-28
Office Fax: -44-7748-986-060
Attending: Eddie Leahy,
Corporate Address: 2 Langley Lane, Vauxhall,
London, N/a, SW8 1TJ, United Kingdom
Phone/Fax: 04-93-39-70-28
On Offer:
AN ACT OF TERROR (United Kingdom;
drama) Producer: Sarmed Mirza; director:
Shahid Nadeem; cast: Asim Bukhari, Jamil Jarral,
Ghizala Aran, Derek Mcewan, Bryan Larkin.
When a young Glaswegian is accused of being
a suspected terrorist the mere accusation
causes fear and trpidation amomg his family
and the wider Asian community in the city of
Glasgow and beyond. (postproduction; product
reel/trailer; debuting)
BAD DAY (United Kingdom; action-adventure)
Producer: Gena Helen Ashwell; director:
Ian David Diaz; cast: Claire Goose, Donna Air,
Anthony Ofoegbu, Sarah Harding, Robbie Gee.
Rebecca Ryan is an undercover cop whose
bosses suspect she has ‘gone dark’ (got too
close to her criminal marks). When her
teenage daughter gets killed Ryan suspects
everyone and seeks a bloody revenge. (98
mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
S.N.U.B! (United Kingdom; action-adventure)
Producer: John Adams; director:
Johnathan Glendening; cast: Gary Mavers,
Jonathan Moore, Harriet Thorpe, Clare Spence.
When a terrorist device threatens London a
number of ‘important’ and some self important
people gather in a government bunker (
Secret Nuclear Underground Bunker) for safety.
The device explodes and in the nuclear
aftermath they find that they are not alone.
(85 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
CHINA FILM PROMOTION
INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera E16
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
CANNES
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Attending: Tiedong Zhou, president; Chao
Gao, director, business management; Yue
Feng, director, europe & africa
Corporate Address: No.25 Xinwai St., Beijing,
Beijing, 100082, P.r.china
Phone: 86-10-62269144
Fax: 86-10-62269144
On Offer:
The Journey Away (P.r.china; family) Wei
Yi who leaves away to seek his real father,
because he hates his stepfather marrying
again. Wei Yi goes to Shan Xi by train alone,
but his new sister Mee follows him stealthily.
They meet different kinds of people in the trip,
who are very different, but have a common
character that is the goodness in the heart.
After a series of experiences, Wei Yi starts to
change his attitude (; debuting)
Mama, Don’t Cry (P.r.china; drama) Director:
Cao GuiqianOn 12th, May 2008, a disastrous
earthquake of 8 magnitude changed the
history of China. In Beichuan Middle School, a
girl named Linlin gave up her life in order to
save her classmate Yuanyuan. She was buried
by the collapsed teaching building. She made
us so touched when she was confronted with
death. (97 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
Waiting in Beijing (P.r.china; drama) The
Story line of the film is about love between a
youn Amereican guy and an Iraqi girl.George,
from USA came to Beijing to meet his Iraqi girlfriend
Nadia but she never showed up.At the
same time ,he came across a Chinese girl, Judy,
who decided to help George locate Nadia and
found herself in love with George deeply
before Nadia was about to appear. Together,
they went through the Iraqi war and the epidemic
disease called SARS In Beijing...... (;
debuting)
CINAMOUR ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera Hall, Stand #
B20
Office Phone: +1 310 994 9088
Attending: Glen Hartford, CEO; Cord Douglas,
president, distribution; Douglas Price, sr. vp,
finance
Corporate Address: 16130 Ventura Boulevard,
Suite 550, Encino, CA, 91436, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-788-0003
Fax: 818-788-0003
On Offer:
The Christmas Clause (U.S.A.; family)
Producer: Kirk Shaw; director: George
Erschbamer; cast: Lea Thompson, Andrew Airlie.
A working woman with a family jokingly
asks a department store Santa if she can be a
single working woman again for Christmas.
When she awakens on Christmas morning, she
finds herself alone – living the life of a highpowered
single executive. How can she get her
old life back when she misses her family? (90
mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
Nightfall (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers: Jeffrey
Schenck, John Schouweiler; director: David
Decoteau; cast: Dominique Swain, Brett
Novek. A modern, visual, and visceral Romeo
and Juliet story of the ultimate forbidden love
affair - between a vampire and the descendant
of vampire hunters. (postproduction;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
Silent Venom (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers:
Jeffrey Schenck, Kimberly A. Ray; director: Fred
Olen Ray; cast: Luke Perry, Tom Berenger. A
decommissioned submarine crew on a secret
mission finds itself trapped between the Chinese
military and crate loads of genetically
mutated snakes that have infiltrated every
nook and cranny of the sub. (87 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; debuting)
CINE EXCEL ENTERTAIN-
MENT
Cannes 2009 Office: 20.01
Office Phone: 818-679-2994
Office Fax: none
Attending: David Huey, president & ceo; Ed
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Tillman, vp marketing; Noel Lawrence, vp legal
affairs
Corporate Address: 1102 N. Screenland Dr.,
Burbank, CA, 91505, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-848-4478
On Offer:
Army of Wolves (U.S.A.; horror) Producers:
Mark Polonia, John Polonia, David Huey; directors:
Mark Polonia, John Polonia & Jon
Mcbride; cast: Brian Berry, Bob Dennis & Dave
Fire. Hilter experiments with Werewolves has
his new invincible soldiers. (90 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; debuting)
Legendary (U.S.A.; action-adventure) Producers:
Mongkon Wiwasuk, David Huey; director:
David Huey; cast: Malaipet Sasiprapa,
Yodsaenklai Fairtex, Gary Woods. The true
story of the first Muay Thai fighter to compete
in the Ring and the Octagon. (95 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
Werewolf Erotica (U.S.A.; horror) Producers:
Mark Polonia, John Polonia, David Huey;
directors: Mark Polonia, John Polonia; cast:
Leslie Culton, Nathan Miller & Rebecca Ferratti.
Female Werewolves must find suitable
mates or their species will be extinct. (90
mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
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Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera G7/h10
Office Phone: 062-867-1434
Attending: Cristian E. Bettler, philippe diaz;
Beth Portello, rick rosen esq.
Corporate Address: 8328 De Soto Ave.,
Canoga Park, CA, 91304, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-349-8822
Fax: 818-349-8822
On Offer:
The End of Poverty? (U.S.A.; documentary)
Producers: Clifford Cobb, Beth Portello;
director: Philippe Diaz; cast: Martin Sheen.
**Official Selection – Critics’ Week 2008 –
Special Documentary Screening** With So
Much Wealth in the World, Why is There Still
So Much Poverty? Looking beyond the popular
“solutions” for poverty, The End of Poverty?
asks if the true causes of poverty today stem
from a deliberate orchestration since colonial
times which has evolved into our modern system
whereby wealthy nations exploit the
poor. (108 mins.; product reel/trailer; debuting)
Mancora (U.S.A.; drama) Producers: Antonio
Gijon, Diego Ojeda; director: Ricardo De
Montreuil; cast: Elsa Pataky, Jason Day,
Enrique Murciano. This is the second feature
for Peruvian director Ricardo de Montreuil. His
first feature, LA MUJER DE MI HERMANO,
holds the record for the largest theatrical
release for a Latin film in US history. (100
mins.; product reel/trailer; returning)
Namibia - The Struggle for Liberation
(U.S.A.; drama) Producers: Uvsuva
Kaumbi, Edwin Kanguatjivi; director: Charles
Burnett; cast: Danny Glover And Carl Lumbly.
Critically acclaimed director Charles Burnett’s
latest film follows the legend of Samuel Nujoma
(Carl Lumbly), Namibia’s first president
and a prominent leader in the sixty year struggle
for independence from apartheid South
Africa. Also starring Danny Glover. (120 mins.;
product reel/trailer; returning)
CINEMA MANAGEMENT
GROUP
Cannes 2009 Office: Palais Des Festivals -
Lerins S.13
Office Phone: 310-402-7110
Attending: Edward Noeltner, manuela noble
Corporate Address: 9056 Santa Monica
Blvd, Suite 204, West Hollywood, CA, 90069,
U.S.A.
Phone: 310-300-9959
Fax: 310-300-9959
On Offer:
American Violet (U.S.A.; drama) Producer:
Bill Haney; director: Tim Disney; cast: Nicole
Behaire, Tim Blake Nelson, Will Matton,
Michael O’keefe, Xzibit, Charles Dutton And
Alfre Woodard. A single mother of four is
wrongfully swept up and arrested in a drug
raid along with 28 others. With her freedom
and the custody of her children at stake, she
chooses to fight the racist but all powerful district
attorney and the unyielding criminal justice
system he represents. (103 mins.; screening;
debuting)
Blood & Bone (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Producers: Nick Simunek, Matthew Binns,
Michael Mailer; director: Ben Ramsey; cast:
Michael Jai White, Julian Sands, Eamonn
Walker, Nona Gaye, Bob Sapp. After his release
from prison, Isaiah Bone arrives on the innercity
streets of Los Angeles and takes on several
of the meanest and toughest fighters from
the world of back-alley street fighting, all
organized by a vicious gang leader. But is Bone
in it just for the big money or does he have
another agenda? (93 mins.; screening; debuting)
Heaven & Earth (U.S.A.; drama) Producer:
David Pupkewitz; director: Marleen Gorris; cast:
Natasha Mcelhone, Timothy Spall, Miranda
Raisin. Based on the true story of Britain’s first
female surgeon, Dr. James Miranda Barry, who
disguised herself as man while at the South
African garrison and falls in love with the governor,
Lord Charles Somerset. (production;
presales; returning)
CINEMA POPULAR/ WE DIS-
TRIBUTION
Cannes 2009 Office: Res Du Grand, 5/f Cormoran
Ii, 45 La Croisette
Office Phone: 04-92-59-00-50
Office Fax: 04-92-59-00-14
Attending: Patricia Cheng, president; Katherine
Lee, executive vice president
Corporate Address: 8/f Hay Nien Building, 1
Tai Yip Street,, Kowloon, Hong Kong, SAR,
China
Phone: 85223661622
Fax: 85223661622
On Offer:
Bodyguards and Assassins (China;
action-adventure) Producers: Peter Ho Sun
Chan, Huang Jianxin; director: Teddy Chen;
cast: Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Wang Xueqi, Nicolas
Tse, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Hu Jun, Eric Tsang,
Simon Yam, Fan Bing Bing, Wang Po Chieh,
Zhou Yun. BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS -
October of 1905. Five ordinary men and
women with extraordinary martial arts skills
are transformed into heroes. They sacrificed
their lives in order to protect the life of a man
they did not know, the Father of Mordern
China, from the deadly assassins assigned by
the Qing Regime. Blood runs through the
streets of Victoria City. A little known story in
Hong Kong’s history. (production; product
reel/trailer; debuting)
CINEMAVAULT
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera G5/h8
Office Phone: -33-4-92-99-32-15
Attending: Nick Stiliadis, CEO; Caroline Stern,
vp, international distribution; Michael Paszt,
vp, acquisitions
Corporate Address: 175 Bloor Street East,
South Tower, Suite 1011, Toronto, Ontario, M4W
3R8, Canada
Phone: 416-363-6060
On Offer:
Lovely, Still (Canada; drama) Producers:
Dana Altman, Lars Knudsen, James Lawler, Jay
Van Hoy; director: Nicholas Fackler; cast: Martin
Landau, Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Banks,
Adam Scott. A holiday Fable that tells the
story of an elderly man discovering love for the
first time. (premiere; debuting)
Lymelife (Canada; drama) Producers:
Steven Martini, Barbara Defina, Jon Cornick,
Alec Baldwin, Michele Tayler, Angela Sommerville;
director: Derick Martini; cast: Alec
Baldwin, Rory Culkin, Kieran Culkin, Jill Hen-
nessy, Timothy Hutton, Cynthia Nixon, Emma
Roberts. From Martin Scorsese, a critically
acclaimed coming of age film. (screening;
returning)
Who Do You Love (Canada; drama) Producers:
Les Alexander, Jonathan Mitchell,
Andrea Baynes; director: Jerry Zaks; cast:
Alessandro Nivola, David Oyelowo, Jon Abrahams.
The life story of legendary record producer
Leonard Chess, founder of Chess
Records, the label that helped popularize
Blues music during the 1950’s and 60’s. (premiere;
debuting)
CINEPHIL
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera C 21
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 18 Levontin St., Tel Aviv,
Israel, 65112, Israel
Phone: 972-3-5664129
Fax: 972-3-5664129
On Offer:
Defamation (Israel; documentary) Producers:
Karoline Leth, Philippa Kowarsky, Knut
Ogris, Sandra Itkoff; director: Yoav Shamir-
What is anti-Semitism today, two generations
after the Holocaust? In his continuing exploration
of modern Israeli life, director Yoav
Shamir travels the world in search of the most
modern manifestations of the “oldest hatred”,
and comes up with some startling answers.
(93 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
My Neighbor My Killer (Israel; documentary)
Producer/director: Anne AghionCould
you ever forgive the people who slaughtered
your family? In 1994, Rwanda’s Hutu populace
was incited to wipe out the country’s Tutsi
minority massacring lifelong friends and family.
In 1999 the government began the Gacaca,
open-air hearings with citizen-judges meant
to try their neighbors and rebuild the nation.
Filming over a decade in a tiny rural hamlet,
Emmy Award winner Anne Aghion has charted
the impact of the emotional journey to coexistence.
(80 mins.; premiere; debuting)
Our City Dreams (Israel; documentary)
Producers: Chiara Clemente, Tanya Selvaratnam,
Bettina Sulser; director: Chiara Clemente;
cast: Nancy Spero, Marina Abramovic, Kiki
Smith, Ghada Amer And Swoon.. Filmed over
the course of two years, OUR CITY DREAMS is
an invitation to visit the creative spaces of five
women artists, each of whom possesses her
own energy, drive and passion. These women,
who span different decades and represent
diverse cultures, have one thing in common
beyond making art: the city to which they
have journeyed and now call home - New
York. (87 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
CINEPRO PICTURES INTER-
NATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Hotel Palais Stephanie
Office Phone: +33 (0)4 92 99 70 00
Office Fax: +33 (0)4 92 99 70 17
Attending: Philippe Martinez, ceo/president;
Stephanie Martinez-campeau, president of
international sales; Cindy Lafray, executive
assistant to ceo
Corporate Address: 601 Cleveland Street,
Suite 501-27, Clearwater, Florida, 33755, U.S.A.
Phone: 727-584-1909
Fax: 727-584-1909
On Offer:
*Tribes of October (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Producer/director: Philippe Martinez;
cast: T.b.a.. In a battle of biblical proportions
under an eternally crimson sky in post-apocalyptic
New York City, Detective Michael Hillburn
must cross the chaotic city on the most
dangerous night of the year to avenge the
death of a fellow officer and save May Kelly,
the girl he loves, from the clutches of the elusive
crime boss Lord Akuma. (preproduction;
product reel/trailer; debuting)
The Steam Experiment (U.S.A.; thriller)
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Kilmer, Armand Assante. CHAOS BEGINS HEN
THE HEAT RISES... (90 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
returning)
CINESAVVY
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 325 King St. W. Suite
202, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 1J5, Canada
Phone: 1-416-598-2525
Fax: 1-416-598-2525
On Offer:
Cell 213 (Canada; horror) Producer: Hassain
Zaidi; director: Stephen Kay; cast: Eric Balfour,
Bruce Greenwood. God and the Devil have
been fighting for souls since mankind first laid
foot on earth. Their battle continues in Cell 213
over cocky young attorney Michael Gray.
(postproduction; product reel/trailer; debuting)
Frankie & Alice (Canada; drama) Producers:
Halle Berry, Vince Cirrincione, Hassain
Zaidi; director: Geoffrey Sax; cast: Halle Berry,
Stellan Skarsgård. Based on a true story,
Frankie and Alice is a complex and disturbing
glimpse into a human psyche with Multiple
Personality Disorder. Halle Berry stars as
Frankie, and exotic dancer harbouring a dark
secret that she isn’t even aware of. Frankie is a
threat to society and works with Dr.Oswald to
seek help before someone gets hurt. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; debuting)
Phantom Punch (Canada; drama) Producers:
Hassain Zaidi, Marek Posival; director:
Robert Townsend; cast: Ving Rhames,
Nicholas Turturro. From discovery in a jail cell
to world heavyweight boxing champ, Phantom
Punch traces Sonny Liston’s life and loves,
ties to the mob and the circumstances surrounding
his mysterious death. (104 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; returning)
CINETEL FILMS, INC.
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera B2
Office Phone: 049-299-3239
Attending: Paul Hertzberg, president; Marcy
Rubin, senior vice president international distribution;
Eric Bernstein, vice president international
distribution
Corporate Address: 8255 Sunset Blvd., Los
Angeles, California, 90046, U.S.A.
Phone: 323-654-4000
Fax: 323-654-4000
On Offer:
Icarus (U.S.A.; action-adventure) Producers:
Lisa Hansen, Paul Hertzberg, Kirk Shaw; director:
Dolph Lundgren; cast: Dolph Lundgren.
Leading a double life as a family man and a
professional assassin, a career hit man finds
himself fighting for his like and struggling to
protect his family. (postproduction; presales;
returning)
Ice Twisters (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Producers: Lisa Hansen, Shannon Mca’nulty,
Kirk Shaw; director: Steven R. Monroe; cast:
Camille Sullivan, Kaj Eriksen, Mark Moses. A
cloud seeding experiment, Project Raindance,
goes horribly wrong and spawns unstoppable
tornadoes that that freeze everything in their
path and shoot razor sharp shards of ice. Now
it is up to one person, author Charlie Price, to
find a way to stop it before it is too late. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; returning)
Smile (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers: Gherardo
Pagliei, Francesco Gasperoni, Hamid Basket;
director: Francesco Gasperoni; cast: Robert
Capelli Jr., Elena Bouryka, Armand Assante. A
group of students on a school holiday discover
a mysterious camera, but after several of them
start showing up dead after having their picture
taken, they start to realize this camera is
much more than they bargained for. In looking
at the photos that have been taken of everyone,
they find that the deaths correlate to the
image. As time runs out, they must piece
together the puzzle before they become the
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next victims. (postproduction; presales;
debuting)
CINEVILLE INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera C 4
Office Phone: 330-492-9932
Attending: Rene Leda,
Corporate Address: 3400 Airport Ave. # 10,
Santa Monica, CA, 90405, U.S.A.
Phone: +1(310)397-7150
Fax: +1(310)397-7150
On Offer:
GHOST IN THE RING (U.S.A.; drama) Producer:
Jorge Berlanga; cast: Jay Hernandez,
Cuba Gooding Jr, Ana De La Reguera. The epic
story of a man born clinically dead. A warrior
that will defy all odds to rise to the top,
become a hero to millions and inspire 2
nations, but along the way, he will face his
greatest challenge… himself. (preproduction;
presales; debuting)
LAST HIGHWAY (U.S.A.; documentary)
Producers: Dub Cornet, Carl Colpaert; cast: Bob
Dylan, Nora Jones, Lucinda Williams. Hank
Williams left behind a legacy of music that is
still as moving and evocative today as it was
at his death, more than 50 years ago, 22 unfinished
compositions, all original Hank lyrics, but
with no musical score – until now. The concert
will take place at Nashville Tennessee’s,
Ryman Auditorium, the same stage that Hank
Williams originally broadcast his music to the
world (preproduction; presales; debuting)
PURE SHOOTER (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Greg Jones, Robert Rangel; cast: Cuba
Gooding Jr., Michael Rooker. Greg
“Basketball”Jones, fought to become the first
African-American basketball player hoping to
be an All-American. It’s about chasing one’s
dreams no matter how hard the challenges or
the consequences. And it is ultimately about
whether or not sports can transcend racism.
(preproduction; presales; debuting)
CINEXPORT
Cannes 2009 Office: European Media Pavilion
N 122
Office Phone: 06-07-54-33-33
Office Fax: 04-93-99-78-15
Attending: Rombourg-caraco Anne-marie,
president
Corporate Address: 78 Champs-elysees,
First Floor, Office 123, Paris, France, 75008
PARIS, France
Phone: 01-45-62-49-45
Fax: 01-45-62-49-45
On Offer:
MISBEHAVIOUR (France; drama) Producer:
Zgarka Films; director: Michel Zgarka; cast:
Cindel Chartrand, Andrew Avatis, Alexandra
Woodward. Perverted life in a highly secure
senior college for girls. A young student will
learn how awfukl life can be when she looses
her illusions. (97 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
NUMBER ONE (France; comedy) Producer:
Made In Morocco Zakia Tahiri; director: Zakia
Tahiri; cast: Aziz Saadallah, Nezha Rahil,
Khadija Assad. Aziz is the manager of a clothing
factory which employs some fifty women
whom Aziz terrrizes, just like he terrorizes his
wife and his daughter. One day his wife discovers
he may be a perfect gentleman. She
casts a spell on him so this moment never
ends. Aziz becomes a feminist... in spite of
himself. His life becomes a living hell... (86
mins.; screening; debuting)
SOUTH OF THE MOON (France; family)
Producer: Zgarka Films; director: Antonio
Diverdis; cast: John Ralston, Jake Mcleod,
Moya O’connell. A small boy loves his hard
drinking uncle and often dreams of a very
beautiful woman he does not know. He is not
happy with his parents. He is in love of a class
mate... (108 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
CJ ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Cannes 2009 Office: Reviera C 20
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 2nd Fl. 602 Sinsa-dong
Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Seoul, 135-893, South
Korea
Phone: 82-2-2017-1193
Fax: 82-2-2017-1193
On Offer:
Haeundae (South Korea; action-adventure)
Producer: Lee Ji-seung; director: Jk Youn;
cast: Sul Kyung-gu, Ha Ji-won. At a popular
vacation spot Haeunndae beach, Man-sik
leads a simple life and is preparing to propose
to his longtime girlfriend, Yeon-hee. Meanwhile,
a tsunami expert KIM Hwi discovers the
East Sea is showing signs of activity similar to
the Indian Ocean at the time of the 2004
tsunami. When he discovers a super tsunami is
headed straight for the Korea, he quickly
heads down to Haeundae. While the vacationers
are enjoying a peaceful summer day, a
super-tsunami is headed straight for Haeundae.
(postproduction; product reel/trailer;
debuting)
Mother (South Korea; drama) Producers:
Choi Jae-won, Seo Woo-sik; director: Bong
Joon-ho; cast: Kim Hye-ja, Won Bin. Widowed
for a long time, a mother lives alone with her
only son. He is a shy and quiet young man. In
the aftermath of a terrible murder, her helpless
son becomes the prime suspect. There is
no real evidence against him, but the police
throw suspicion at him. Eager to close the
case, the police arrest the boy. His defense
attorney turns out to be incompetent and
unreliable. Faced with no other choice, his
mother gets involved, determined to prove her
son’s innocence. (postproduction; premiere;
debuting)
Thirst (South Korea; drama) Producer: Ahn
Soo-hyun; director: Park Chan-wook; cast:
Song Kang-ho, Kim Ok-vin. Beloved and
devoted priest from a small town volunteers
for a medical experiment which fails and turns
him into a vampire. Physical and psychological
changes lead to his affair with a wife of his
childhood friend who is repressed and tired of
her mundane life. The one-time priest falls
deeper in despair and depravity. As things turn
for worse, he struggles to maintain what’s left
of his humanity. (postproduction; screening;
debuting)
COACH 14
Cannes 2009 Office: 17, Square Merimee
2nd Floor 06400 Cannes
Office Phone: -33-4-93-68-43-34
Office Fax: -33-4-93-68-45-36
Attending: Pape Boye, seller; Jaume
Domenech, seller; Caroline Nataf, acquisitions
Corporate Address: C Mandri, 36 Principal
2ª, Barcelona, Barcelona, 08022, Spain
Phone: -34-93-280-57-52
On Offer:
Carré Blanc (Spain; thriller) Producers:
Tarantula, Solair Films, Cjsc Ctc Network; director:
Jean Baptiste Leonetti; cast: Sami Bouajila,
Julie Gayet, Jean-pierre Andreani,
Dominique Paturel, Carlos Leal. A strong
drama settled in a dark and chilling future. A
world that looks pretty much like ours. Except
from one difference: society feeds on its weak.
Those who cannot afford a living, those whose
cannot stand competition, those who are
maverick, are killed and turned into meat.
They are the CARRE BLANC. A teenager,
Philippe, is brought to an orphanage after his
mother was turned into a CARRE BLANC.
(postproduction; debuting)
Les Herbes Folles (Spain; romance) Producer:
F Comme Film - Studio Canal - France 2
Cinéma - Bim Distribuzione; director: Alain
Resnais; cast: Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier,
Emmanuelle Devos, Anne Consigny, Mathieu
Amalric, Michel Vuillermoz, Edouard Baer. Marguerite
Muir could not anticipate that someone
would steal her bag at the exit of a shoes
store in Paris… and even less than the robber
would throw it contents in a parking lot on the
suburbs of the town. As for Georges Palet, if he
had been able to suspect anything, he would
never bend down to collect the wallet. (postproduction;
debuting)
Je suis hereux que ma mère soit
vivante (Spain; drama) Producer: F Comme
Film - Orly Films - Page 114 In Coproduction
With France 3 Cinéma With The Participation
Of Canal +; director: Claude & Nathan Miller;
cast: Christine Citti, Yves Verhoeven, Vincent
Rottiers, Sophie Cattani. Our identity is a piece
of cloth of which our childhood lined the contours.
The presence of those who brought us
up, our parents, created the basis of who we
are. But what happens when there is an
absence? It is one of the questions asked by
the story. Between 7 and 20 years old, Thomas
looked for Julie, his biological mother.
Unknown to his adoptive parents, he went
back to the woman who abandoned him
when he was 4 years old and started to lead a
secret life. (postproduction; debuting)
COLIFILMS DIFFUSION
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 17 Rue De Cheroy, Paris,
Paris, 75017, France
Phone: -33-1-4294-2543
Fax: -33-1-4294-2543
On Offer:
THE DARK ROOM (France; drama) Producers:
Todo Cine, Sophie Dulac Productions;
director: Maria Victoria Menis; cast: Mirtha
Bogdasarian, Patrick Del’isola, Fernado
Armani. In a colony of Jewish imigrants in
Entre Rios Province, Argentinaq, at the turn of
the last century, we discover the story of
Gertrudis, a woman who in the eyes of her
family was born an ugly baby, grew an ugly
child, developed into an ugly teenager and
finally became, in evereryone’s eyes, a woman
definitely ugly. (85 mins.; screening; debuting)
TRICHEUSE (France; comedy) Producer:
Les Productions Clef En Main; director: Jeanfrançois
Davy; cast: Hélène De Fougerolles,
Valérie Kaprisky, Patrick Bouchitey. She wants
to have a family at any price. (95 mins.;
screening; debuting)
VIVRE (France; comedy) Producer: Gradiva
Productions; director: Yvon Marciano; cast:
Aymeric Cormerais, Lydie Waï, Pamela Ravassard.
Life is beautiful when you are 25 years
old and in love. (103 mins.; screening; debuting)
COLLERY COMEDY VEN-
TURES
Cannes 2009 Office: Hong Kong Pavillon
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Arnaud Collery, founder and ceo;
Michael O’connor, partner; Janet Nakano,
movie director for the
Corporate Address: Suite 1601 Kinwick Centre,
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong
Kong
Phone: -13109805493
On Offer:
Klaus Pierre goes to South Africa
(Hong Kong; comedy) Producer: Arnaud
Collery; director: Confidential; cast: Klaus
Pierre. Klaus Pierre goes to Africa. Confidential
story. Improv-based comedy shot documentary
style. (development; presales; debuting)
Klaus Pierre, Diary of an emotionally
challenged action star (Hong Kong;
comedy) Producer/director: Arnaud Collery;
cast: Klaus Pierre- Matthias Hues. Improvbased
comedy shot documentary style around
the world. KP (based on a character created
on stage in LA) is an the ultimate looser. He
tries to become an action star in LA but falls in
love with a girl in the subway in Paris. To find
her, he will meet some 15 different personalities
(real people from Politics, Business,
Sports) in France, Japan, India. Then in China
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he will learned the language, the culture,.. (80
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A story of Champagne (Hong Kong)
Producer: Arnaud Collery; director: Janet
Nakano; cast: Arnaud Collery- Alain Collery.
Mondovino the documentary was centered on
the business side, this one is centered on the
culture of Champagne through the unique
story of “Champagne Collery” a once quite
famous brand that was owned by the Collery
family. Nowadays Arnaud Collery is a comedian
filmmaker in Los Angeles and Alain Collery
is a sex therapist. Road movie through the culture
and taste of Champagne house. (development;
presales; debuting)
CONNECTION III ENTERTAIN-
MENT CORP.
Cannes 2009 Office: C9, Riviera Hall
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Dr Tan Chin Nam, chairman; Dr
Christopher Chia, chief executive officer; Kenneth
Tan, chief operating officer and director
of singapore film commission
Corporate Address: 5900 Wilshire Blvd.,
Suite 545, Los Angeles, CA, 90036, U.S.A.
Phone: 323-937-8700
On Offer:
Flooding in the Time of Drought
(U.S.A.; drama) Producer: Paddy Pictures;
director: Sherman Ong; cast: Agnes Christina,
Nathan Boenjamin, Xiao Jing, Pacheun
Maleipan. This fusion of documentary and fiction
narrative is split into two parts, namely
‘Drought’ and ‘Flood,’ to reflect the dichotomy
that exists between our relationship with this
vital element. (production; debuting)
Here (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Gsmprjct°média, Akanga Film Asia, Oak 3
Fillms; director: Ho Tzu Nyen; cast: John Low,
Beatrice Tan, Andy Hillyard. Here follows the
journey of He Zhiyuan, a middle-aged man
who struggles to make sense of his reality following
the sudden death of his wife. (86
mins.; debuting)
Love Matters (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers:
Neo Studios, Mmstudios And Grand Brilliance;
directors: Jack Neo, Gilbert Chan; cast: Henry
Thia, Yeo Yann Yann. Love Matters is a humorous
and entertaining look at love and happiness
in a straight-laced Asian society, through
the misadventures of three men as they
search for love and happiness (118 mins.;
debuting)
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TIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: 32 Rue Du Commandant
André (corner Croisette), 4th Floor
Office Phone: 33 4 93 99 19 50
Office Fax: -
Attending: Jamie Carmichael, president, cfi;
Harry White, head of sales; Kristian Brodie,
sales manager
Corporate Address: 19 Heddon Street, London,
London, W1B 4BG, Uk
Phone: 44-207-851-6500
Fax: 44-207-851-6500
On Offer:
Fish Tank (Uk; drama) Producer: Kees
Kasander; director: Andrea Arnold; cast:
Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing, . FISH
TANK is the story of Mia (KATIE JARVIS), a
volatile 15-year-old, who is always in trouble
and who has become excluded from school
and ostracized by her friends. One hot summer’s
day her mother (KIERSTON WAREING)
brings home a mysterious stranger called Connor
(MICHAEL FASSBENDER) who promises to
change everything and bring love into all their
lives. Touching on the themes of her Academy
Award®-winning short ‘WASP’, FISH TANK is
an original and unique modern tale of our
times. (122 mins.; debuting)
Last Ride (Uk; drama) Producers: Nicolas
Cole, Antonia Barnard; director: Glendyn Ivin;
cast: Hugo Weaving, Tom Russell. Shot on
location in the spectacular outback of Aus-
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tralia, LAST RIDE brings to mind Clint Eastwood’s
‘A Perfect World’ in its depiction of a
devastating and tender emotional journey,
seen through the eyes of an innocent young
boy and his father on the run from the law…
(100 mins.; returning)
The Technician (Uk; thriller) Producers:
Harry Ufland, Mary Jane Ufland, Chris Ufland;
director: Jon Cassar; cast: Tbc. From the lead
director of ‘24’, one of the most successful TV
series of all time, comes the explosive action
thriller THE TECHNICIAN. Relentless from
the opening scene, THE TECHNICIAN is a
smart, slick action thriller which combines the
non-stop tension of ‘Speed’ and ‘Die Hard with
a Vengeance’ with the explosive action of
‘Crank’ and ‘Wanted’. (preproduction; presales;
debuting)
CORRINO ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: Van Slinglandtplein 11,
Amsterdam, NH, 1051 DD, Netherlands
Phone: -31204233002
On Offer:
Riparian Zone/Uiterwaarden (Netherlands;
drama) Producers: Ivo Noorlander, Atilla
Meijs, Michael John Fedun; director: Hanro
Smitsman; cast: Matthijs Van De Sande
Bakhuyzen, Robert De Hoog. (preproduction;
presales; debuting)
CORSANWORLDSALES
Cannes 2009 Office: Lerins R1
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Paul Breuls, CEO; Catherine Vandeleene,
head of sales; Emelie Vervecken,
sales
Corporate Address: Brouwersvliet 21,
Antwerp, Antwerp, 2000, Belgium
Phone: -3232342518
On Offer:
The Devil’s Double (Belgium; thriller)
Producers: Paul Breuls, Michael John Fedun,
Emjay Rechsteiner; director: Lee TamahoriLatif
Yahia, an Iraqi Army lieutenant stationed on
the Iranian border, bears an uncanny resemblance
to the devil’s incarnate, Uday Hussein.
Latof is summoned to Saddam’s inner sanctum
where he is given a choice: become the
body double of his son Uday ..... or die. (preproduction;
presales; debuting)
The Hessen Affair (Belgium; thriller) Producer/director:
Paul Breuls; cast: Billy Zane,
Lyne Renee, Michael Bowen. 1945. Colonel
Jack Durant and the dazzling beautiful Lieutenant
Kathleen Nash uncover the crown jewels
of Germany. Nash and Durant manage to
get the gems to New York, where they must
deal with gangsters to fence the loot. With
double-crossing gangland figures trying to
control the gems and the army closing in on
them, will Kathy Nash and Jack Durant stay
true to one other and their plan? Or will one
sell the other out? (108 mins.; screening;
debuting)
Meant to be (Belgium; romance) Producers:
Paul Breuls, John Smallcombe, Michael
John Fedun; director: Paul Breuls; cast: Kelly
Reilly, Julian Rhind-tutt. Will and Amanda are
an unlikely couple. For starters, Amanda doesn’t
even know Will exists. Literally. Because
Will is Amanda’s guardian angel. Fortunately,
where there’s a Will, there’s a way, and with
the help of his best friend Archie (Kris Marshall),
Will is given the chance to become
human for seven days to win Amanda’s heart.
But being human isn’t as easy as it looks, and
Will soon discovers that gravity is a pain and
love is trouble. (postproduction; debuting)
COUNTRY INN, DEAD &
BREAKFAST SERIES
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: Floralwood Dr., Boca
Raton, FL, 33433, U.S.A.
Phone: 561-482-3213
On Offer:
Country Inn, Dead & Breakfast mystery/comedy
(U.S.A.; comedy) Producer:
Tina Czarnota; cast: David Soul As Tim Versay.
Into the 1st day of operation at The Tudor
Grove Inn, a guest is murdered. Leery of everyone,
Trina & her sassy niece, Kim begin searching
for clues & entertain that the intended victim
was Trina’s ornery future dad-in-law, Tim.
Between dodging Tim’s barbs, matching wits
with a relentless, sexy reporter who wishes to
destroy the inn for her own purposes & playing
hostess, Trina & Kim try to assist the no nonsense
Lt. Klonski in solving the mystery
unaware that they are his prime suspects.
(development; presales; debuting)
Deadly Act -mystery/comedy (U.S.A.;
comedy) Producer: Tina CzarnotaLottie Chotski,
Trina & her sassy niece, Kim are hustled off
by Lottie to The Thrice Strikes Casino for some
lounge action, nightlife & strife. Soon, Trina,
Kim & Lottie eye-ball the casino carpet as
they dodge bullets meant for celebrity crooner,
J. Tones’. While trying to win Lottie free of suspicion
of murder, Trina & Kim arrive in dastardly
dealings as they follow Lottie through a
maze of clues & cloak & dagger. Is three a
charm or will one of her family be the thrice to
be striked? (development; presales; debuting)
Deadwaiter - mystery/comedy
(U.S.A.; comedy) Producer: Tina Czarnota;
cast: David Soul As Tim Versay. Katrina discovers
her inn’s dumbwaiter is really the tomb of
someone who died years ago. Soon, she learns
of several other mysteries surrounding her—
like the lovely Alexandra who keeps waiting at
the inn for her husband, the sexy Rhiannon
who meets a strange man late at night & the
chanteuse who becomes upset at the sight of
Lt. Klonski. Throughout the story Trina tries to
solve all of these puzzles, soon realizing that
there’s a greater mystery in the dumbwaiter
than merely an old skeleton. (development;
presales; debuting)
CROATIAN AUDIOVISUAL
CENTRE
Cannes 2009 Office: Croatia, Pavilion 112,
Village Riviera
Office Phone: -33-0492-590-222
Attending: Martina Petrovic, acting director
cavc / head of media desk croatia; Ivana Ivisic,
head of int. co-operation and promotion; Jadranka
Hrga, head of programming department
Corporate Address: Kralja Zvonimira 20,
Zagreb, Croatia, 10 000, Croatia
Phone: -385-1-4655-439
Fax: -385-1-4655-439
On Offer:
THE BLACKS (Croatia; drama) Producer:
Ankica Juri? Tili?; directors: Goran Devi?, Zvonimir
Juri?; cast: Ivo Gregurevi?, Franjo Dijak.
War. A city under siege. The truce has been
signed, and the squad known as the ‘Blacks’,
who used to do the dirty jobs, needs to be disbanded.
The squad commander who has lost
three of his soldiers, prepares the action to
retrieve their dead bodies from the forest and,
despite the ceasefire, blows up the dam, thus
causing a great damage to the enemy: The
survived members of the squad move into
action. On the battlefield, they find that the
enemy they have been searching for is inside
themselves. (75 mins.; debuting)
Croatian Short Fiction and Animated
Films (Croatia) Directors: Dalibor
Matani?, Petar Ore?kovi?, Ivan Livakovi?,
Nikolina Bari?, Sa?a Ban, Nevio Marasovi?,
Darko Koki?, Nedjeljko Dragi?, Borivoj
Dovnikovi?, Darko Vida?kovi?; SHORT FIC-
TION: Party, Refuse, Dirty little bubbles, Ma?a,
Int-apartment-night SHORT ANIMATED
FILMS: Nightmare, Run, Silence, Mobitel manija,
Rudi’s Lexicon - Love, Rudi’s lexicon - Glory
(screening; debuting)
Metastases (Croatia; drama) Producer:
Stanislav Babic; director: Branko Schmidt;
cast: Rene Bitorajac, Franjo Dijak. (85 mins.;
screening; debuting)
CRYSTAL SKY WORLDWIDE
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Steven Paul - Ceo & Chairman,
Corporate Address: 10203 Santa Monica
Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90067, U.S.A.
Phone: +1.310.843.0223
On Offer:
Opposite Day (U.S.A.; family) Producers:
Steven Paul, Jamee Natella; director: Michael
R Givens; cast: French Stewart, Billy Unger,
Ariel Winter, George Wendt, Pauly Shore. (;
returning)
Robosapien (U.S.A.; family) Producers:
Steven Paul, Avi Arad; director: Sean Mcnamara;
cast: Bobby Coleman, David Eigenberg,
Penelope Ann Miller. (postproduction; returning)
Tekken (U.S.A.; action-adventure) Producers:
Steven Paul, Benedict Carver; director:
Dwight Little; cast: Jon Foo, Cary Tagawa, Kelly
Overton, Ian Anthony Dale. (postproduction;
returning)
CURB ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera H2
Office Phone: +33 (0)4 92 99 32 25
Attending: Carole Curb, president; Conor Barrett,
marketing and assistant sales
Corporate Address: 3907 West Alameda
Avenue, Burbank, CA, 91505, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-843-8580
Fax: 818-843-8580
On Offer:
Bare Knuckles (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Producers: Eric Etebari, Moe Grunberg, Alison
Richards; director: Eric Etebari; cast: Jeanette
Roxborough, Martin Kove, Chris Mulkey, Louis
Mandylor, Bridgett “babydoll” Riley, Taylor
Roxborough. When Sam uses her skills to
avoid a bar fight between two drunk women,
down and out fight promoter Sonny Cool
(Karate kid’s Martin Kove) sees an opportunity
to get back into “The Show” a high class, but
highly illegal all female Bare Knuckle fight
tournament, where brutality and elegance mix
with high stakes and deception. To provide for
her family, Samantha is forced into taking
Sonny’s offer. (98 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; debuting)
Greener Mountains (U.S.A.; family) Producer:
Adam Selkowitz; director: Lee Shallat
Chemel; cast: Chris Heuisler, Kimberly Mccullough,
Brad Raider, Kevin Durand. JP Barton is
an adopted boy raised on a Vermont family
resort. JP has essentially never left the resort
grounds since being found. The arrival of a
young, free spirited artist, Alice Flynn, pits
brother against brother and propels JP on an
explosive course vying for her love. Desire collides
with betrayal in this passionate romance.
(89 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
The Video Guys (U.S.A.; family) Producer:
Jeanne Brennan; director: Dan Brennan; cast:
Dan Brennan, Russ Camarda, Chris Douros,
Tom Doran, Johnny Ferro, Allison Lane, Sabrina
Brennan. Your wedding day can be the most
stressful day of your life. The Video Guys have
seen it all, from cheating grooms to sexy
brides. They know how to be discreet and how
to deal with any problems thrown at them.
Now they face their greatest challenge: to
shoot one of their ex-wife’s wedding. (95
mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
DARCLIGHT FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 8447 Wilshire Blvd.,
Suite 101, Beverly Hills, CA, 90211, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-777-8855
On Offer:
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Altitude (U.S.A.; thriller) Producer: Ian Birkett;
director: Kaare Andrews; cast: Kristin
Kreuk. When a rookie pilot and her friends lose
control of their plane as a result of freak
mechanical failure, they discover themselves
plummeting through the sky besieged by a
mysterious, malevolent force. (production;
debuting)
Edgar Allan Poe’s Ligeia (U.S.A.; thriller)
Producer: Jeff Most; director: Michael Staininger;
cast: Wes Bentley, Kaitlin Doubleday. A
young professor falls under the spell of a mysterious
woman who’s discovered the secret of
immortality. (screening; debuting)
Lake Mungo (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers: Bill
Coleman, Gilbert George, Robert George; director:
Joel Anderson; cast: Rosie Traynor, David
Pledger. A family of a drowned girl experience
visitations from her ghost, and upon investigating
discover the terrifying truth of her
secret life. (89 mins.; screening; debuting)
DEAPLANETA
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera A5 ( Cinema
From Spain )
Office Phone: 0034638090287
Attending: Ignacio Segura, general director;
Yolanda Del Val, head of acquisitions & sales;
Laia Medina, sales manager
Corporate Address: Diagonal 662-664,
barcelona, Barcelona, 08034, Spain
Phone: +34 93 492 88 73
On Offer:
The Frost (Spain; drama) Producer: Raül
Perales; director: Ferran Audí; cast: Trond
Espen Seim, Aitana Sánchez Gijón, Bibi Andersson.
Based on a play by Henrik Ibsen. A
haunting psychological drama which harshly
exposes the workings and meanders of love
relationships. (107 mins.; screening; returning)
Prime Time (Spain; thriller) Producer: Kino
Pc And The Night Of The Cats; director: Luis
Calvo Ramos; cast: Leticia Dolera, Alberto
Amarilla. You didn’t want to be here, you’ll
fight to escape. (93 mins.; premiere; debuting)
Road to Santiago (Spain; comedy) Producers:
Antena 3 Films, Lazona, Zircozine;
director: Roberto Santiago; cast: Fernando
Tejero, Malena Alterio. Nacho’s a photographer.
Pilar, a journalist. They hate each other.
But when they’re sent to cover the story of
Olmo, a guru who solves relationship crises of
couples doing the pilgrimage to Santiago de
Compostela, they’re forced to pretend to be a
couple. In their 6-day adventure across Galicia,
our two antagonists get mixed up in all kinds
of ridiculous, hilarious and even romantic situations.
Everyone knows that until you reach
Santiago, anything can happen. (100 mins.;
premiere; debuting)
DEBUT PICTURES
Cannes 2009 Office: Palais 01 - 20.04a
Office Phone: +33 0 4 92 99 80 65
Attending: Juan Vista Neis, CEO
Corporate Address: 143 S. Hayworth Ave.
#103, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, U.S.A.
Phone: 1 310 614 7107
Fax: 1 310 614 7107
On Offer:
The Five (U.S.A.; family) Producers: Nancy
Larned, Michael Larned; director: Dave Yasuda;
cast: Madisen Beaty, Dan Lauria. Five children
from two broken families wake up one morning
to find themselves in a mysterious adventure
resembling that of a character in their
favorite mythological book series. They soon
discover that they must all fight an invisible
dark force that is powered by their own anger
and confusion within. They learn that
although they can’t change the unhappy
events of the past, they can determine their
future by how they deal with these sad memories
in the present. (postproduction; product
reel/trailer; debuting)
DISTANT HORIZON
Cannes 2009 Office: Grand Hotel, Cannes
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(cannes@distant-horizon.com)
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Anant Singh, producer; Sanjeev
Singh, director of acquisitions
Corporate Address: 8282 Sunset Boulevard,
Suite A, Los Angeles, California, CA 90046,
U.S.A.
Phone: 323-848-4140
Fax: 323-848-4140
On Offer:
Don’t Look Up (U.S.A.; horror) Producer:
Anant Singh Brian Cox Yoko Asakura; director:
Fruit Chan; cast: Henry Thomas (i Capture The
Castle) Kevin Corrigan (departed, American
Gangster) Lothaire Bluteau (black Robe, Jesus
Of Montreal) Carmen Chaplin (all About The
Benjamins) Reshad Strik (hills Have Eyes 2).
Set in and around an abandoned film studio
from another era, “Don’t Look Up” charts the
unravelling sanity of a director and his crew
when spirits from that era invade the film
stock of the contemporary production and, in
a few stark frames, open a horrifying window
on a terrible curse from the past. (98 mins.;
product reel/trailer; debuting)
More Than Just A Game (U.S.A.; documentary)
Producer: Anant Singh Helena
Spring; director: Junaid Ahmed; cast: Presley
Chweneyagae (tsotsi) Wright Ngubeni Tshepo
Maseko Az Abrahams Merlin Balie. In the
style of Touching The Void, More Than Just A
Game, is told through the stories of
five former political prisoners. It follows political
activists sent in the 1960s to the infamous
Robben Island prison where Mandela was
imprisoned and tells the inspiring story of how
these prisoners rise above their incarceration
by creating a football league and finding an
outlet for their passion and commitment to
discipline through soccer. (90 mins.; product
reel/trailer; debuting)
Mr Bones 2: Back From The Past
(U.S.A.; comedy) Producer: Anant Singh Helena
Spring; directors: Gray Hofmeyr (mr. Bones,
Mama Jack); cast: Leon Schuster Leeanda
Reddy Tongayi Chirisa Kaseran Pillay Meren
Reddy. The follow-up to the most successful
South African film of all-time, MR. BONES 2:
BACK FROM THE PAST, is the story of Hekule,
the King of Kuvukiland who is given a gemstone
by the dying Kunji Balanadin. The stone
is cursed and causes Hekule to become possessed
by the spirit of the mischievous Kunji. It
is up Mr. Bones, the royal witch doctor to cure
his King and get rid of this cursed stone by
returning the gem to its home in an Indian
fishing village. (101 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
DISTRIBUTION WORKSHOP
Cannes 2009 Office: #71 , Grand Residences
Office Phone: 33-4-93-68-59-45
Attending: Nansun Shi, chairman; Jeffrey
Chan, CEO; Virginia Leung, head of sales
Corporate Address: Unit 215, 2/f, Inno Centre,
72 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, -, -,
Hong Kong
Phone: 852-2768-8678
On Offer:
Big Soldier (Hong Kong; action-adventure)
Producer: Jackie Chan; director: Sheng Ding;
cast: Jackie Chan, Lee-hom Wang. A foot soldier
and a general from rival states became
the sole survivors of a war. As they’re pursued
by the general’s brother who would kill anyone
for the throne, the soldier also struggled if he
should betray the general for the ticket home.
(production; presales; debuting)
Overheard (Hong Kong; thriller) Producers:
Derek Yee, Henry Fong; directors: Alan Mak,
Felix Chong; cast: Louis Koo, Lau Ching-wan.
Three Cops become increasingly thrilled by the
secrets they heard while conducting surveillance
on a listed company, without knowing
that it is the path of no return. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; returning)
Rain Fall (Hong Kong; thriller) Producers:
Megumi Fukasawa, Satoru Iseki, Tsutomu
Sakurai; director: Max Mannix; cast: Kippei Shi-
ina, Gary Oldman. The story centers on John
Rain(by Kippei Shiina), a half breed assassin
who has been used by William Holtzer(by Gary
Oldman), the Chief Officer of the CIA Tokyo
Bureau, to orchestrate a conspiracy in order to
manipulate the Japanese Government. In
Japan, the film has been scheduled for a
nationwide release by Sony Pictures Entertainment
during the Golden Week holiday in
May 2009. (111 mins.; screening; returning)
DUBINMEDIA
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Kristina Dubin, buyer; Angela Wgilbert,
buyer
Corporate Address: 1158 26th Street #539,
Santa Monica, CA, 90403, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-586-9600
E1 ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office: S9
Office Phone: -33-0-4-92-99-33-08
Attending: Charlotte Mickie, evp international
sales; Anick Poirier, vp international sales;
Natalie Kampelmacher, sales executive
Corporate Address: 175 Bloor Street East,
Suite 1400, North Tower, Toronto, Ontario,
M4W 3R8, Canada
Phone: 416-646-2400
Fax: 416-646-2400
On Offer:
Amreeka (Canada; drama) Producers: Paul
Barkin, Christina Piovesan; director: Cherien
Dabis; cast: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem,
Hiam Abbass. An ever-optimistic Palestinian
single mom and her teenage son arrive in
small town Illinois, intent on starting a new
life. Do they have what it takes to successfully
survive the heartland? (96 mins.; screening;
debuting)
Cold Souls (Canada; drama) Producers:
Paul S. Mezey, Andrij Parekh, Jeremy Kipp
Walker; director: Sophie Barthes; cast: Paul
Giamatti, Emily Watson, David Strathairn,
Katheryn Winnick. In the midst of an existential
crisis, a New York actor stumbles upon
Soul Storage, a private lab offering New Yorkers
relief from the burden of their souls... (100
mins.; debuting)
Shock Doctrine (Canada; documentary)
Producer: Andrew Eaton; directors: Mat Whitecross,
Michael Winterbottom; cast: Naomi
Klein. Based on the book by Naomi Klein, THE
SHOCK DOCTRINE seeks to explain the rise of
“disaster capitalism”: the exploitation of
moments of crisis by governments and big
business in order to ransack the economies of
vulnerable countries. (debuting)
EALING STUDIOS INTERNA-
TIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Apt C41/c42 Relais De
La Reine, 42-43 La Croisette
Office Phone: -33-93-06-70-03-4
Office Fax: -33-93-06-70-23-4
Attending: Natalie Brenner, head of sales;
Will Machin, head of distribution; James
Spring, managing director
Corporate Address: Ealing Green, Ealing,
London, W5 5EP, Uk
Phone: -44-2085676655
Fax: -44-2085676655
On Offer:
Dorian Gray (Uk; thriller) Producer: Barnaby
Thomopson; director: Oliver Parker; cast: Ben
Barnes, Colin Firth, Ben Chaplin. Inconceivably
beautiful Dorian Gray embraces a sinister life
of debauchery and self-indulgence that eventually
results in murder. His beauty seems
eternal but his portrait reveals the truth.
(postproduction; debuting)
From Time to Time (Uk; family) Producers:
Julian Fellowes, Liz Trubridge And Paul
Kingsey; director: Julian Fellowes; cast: Maggie
Smith, Timothy Spall, Anne Reid. Tolly is sent
to stay with his estranged Grandmother in
their ancestral home, where he solves an age-
old mystery that will safeguard their future
and reunite the family. (postproduction;
debuting)
St Trinians 2> The Legend of Fritton’s
Gold (Uk; comedy) Producer: Barnaby
Thompson; director: Barnaby Thompson And
Oliver Parker; cast: Rupert Everett Colin Firth
Russell Brand. The Goonies meets The Da
Vinci Code in this St Trinian’s sequel, with the
anarchic school girls on the hunt for Fritton’s
legendary lost treasure. (preproduction; presales;
debuting)
EASTERN MORDOR FILM
COMPANY LIMITED
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 11/f., Hong Lok House,,
No. 477, Nathan Road, Kowloon, Kowloon,
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Phone: -852-2385-5939
Fax: -852-2385-5939
On Offer:
Painted Skin (Hong Kong; action-adventure)
Producers: Ketsarinh Lan (kathy), Pang
Hong; director: Gordon Chan; cast: Donnie Yen,
Zhou Xun, Zhao Wei, Chen Kun, Qi Yuwu, Sun
Li. General Wang (Chen Kun) saved a gorgeous
girl, Mei-ling( Zhou Xun), from a village bandits
while on the way back to his hometown,
JiangDu. He decided to bring her along to his
hometown. Yet, after her arrival to the town,
numerous be-hearted murder keeps on happening.
Wang’s wife, Pei-rong (Zhao Wei) is
worried that it could be Mei-ling and she has
called for Er-long (Donnie Yen) along with an
Exorcist (Sun Li), to help her fight against Meiling.
(118 mins.; debuting)
Painted Skin (Hong Kong; action-adventure)
Producers: Ketsarinh Lan (kathy), Pang
Hong; director: Gordon Chan; cast: Donnie Yen,
Zhou Xun, Zhao Wei, Chen Kun, Qi Yuwu, Sun
Li. General Wang (Chen Kun) saved a gorgeous
girl, Mei-ling( Zhou Xun), from a village bandits
while on the way back to his hometown,
JiangDu. He decided to bring her along to his
hometown. Yet, after her arrival to the town,
numerous be-hearted murder keeps on happening.
Wang’s wife, Pei-rong (Zhao Wei) is
worried that it could be Mei-ling and she has
called for Er-long (Donnie Yen) along with an
Exorcist (Sun Li), to help her fight against Meiling.
(118 mins.; debuting)
EASTERNLIGHT FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 8447 Wilshire Blvd.,
Suite 101, Beverly Hills, CA, 90211, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-777-8855
On Offer:
Coweb (U.S.A.; action-adventure) Producers:
Joe Ma Wai Ho, Chan Shu Chi; director: Xiong
Xin Xin; cast: Jaing Lu Xia, Eddie Siu Fai. A gifted
martial artist becomes embroiled in an
underground gambling operation that pits
fighters against each other to the death.
(postproduction; product reel/trailer; debuting)
Legendary Assassins (U.S.A.; actionadventure)
Producer: Paco Wong; directors: Li
Chung Chi, Jing Wu; cast: Alex Fong, Jung Wu.
When a murder victim is discovered on an
island, a local cop teams up with a mysterious
traveler to take on gangsters who come looking
for the victim’s killer. (production; presales;
debuting)
Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of
the Dragon (U.S.A.; action-adventure) Producers:
Taewon Chung, Susanna Tsang; director:
Daniel Lee; cast: Andy Lau, Maggie Q. A
sweeping action adventure which brings to life
the greatest classical novel of Chinese literature
in all its staggering scale and splendor.
(postproduction; presales; debuting)
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EBS WORLD ENTERTAIN-
MENT
Cannes 2009 Office: B18
Office Phone: +33 (0)4 92 99 33 0
Attending: Richard Cooper, CEO; Wayne
Wong, president; Adam Nelson, acquisitions
manager
Corporate Address: 3000 Olympic Blvd,
Santa Monica, CA, 90404, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-449-4065
On Offer:
Balcancan (U.S.A.; comedy) Producer:
Darko Mitrevski Gianluca Curti Carlo Duci
Alessandro Verdecchi; director: Darko Mitrevski;
cast: Vlado Jovanovski Adolfo Margiotta
Branko Djuric. When Trendafil attempts an
escape from war ravaged Macedonia, his
mother-n-law dies from heat exhaustion. He
calls upon Santino, a lovable lowlife linked to
him by their past, and the two must take the
grandmother back in an adventure mixed with
the danger and terror of civil war and the
absurdity of transporting a dead woman
across countries in a rolled up carpet. (89
mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
A Conspiracy (U.S.A.; thriller) Producer:
Wayne Wong Rick Jordan Richard Cooper;
director: Rick Jordan; cast: Rick Jordan Athena
Maria Bitzis Rob Pralgo. A young attorney is
the only witness to a murder that places him
in the middle of a major conspiracy, sending
him on the run to prove his innocence. What
he knows might save him ... what he learns
could get him killed. (95 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
returning)
Heist (U.S.A.; action-adventure) Producer:
Rick Jordan Wayne Wong; director: Rick Jordan
Richard Cooper; cast: Rick Jordan Christian
Mendez Erik David. Some mistakes are not
forgiven – especially when they jeopardize a
Columbian drug cartel. Working against the
clock, a crew of unpredictable outlaws gathers
to pull off the robbery of an armored truck in
an attempt to pay off a debt – and save a
young man’s life. (92 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
ECHELON STUDIOS
Cannes 2009 Office: Hotel Brimer
Office Phone: 00.334.93.38.62.91
Office Fax: 00.334.93.39.49.71
Attending: Eric Louzil, president & ceo; Sandro
Goho, vice president of international sales;
Time Kelly, vice president of domestic & international
sales
Corporate Address: 1440 Flower St, Glendale,
CA, 91201, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-500-1640
Fax: 818-500-1640
On Offer:
Cycle of Fear (U.S.A.; horror) Producers:
John Crossman Sr. Diane Dasilva-bowles,
Mauel H. Da Silva.; director: Manuel H. Da
Silva; cast: Valerie Morrissey, Rachel Ancheril,
Sean Kaufmann, Diane Dasilva-bowles, Tony
Porfilio, Emily Andrews.. What do you fear?
One year ago, 14 teenagers went missing.
Tabetha is the only known survivor of the
group. Found by the side of the road with no
memory of who she is and the secret she
holds, must find out what’s in store for her
through clues in her own sketches. (92 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
The Life Coach (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers:
Jennifer Jostyn, Leila Leigh; director: Josh
Stolberg; cast: Greg Baker, Connie Britton, Lauren
Graham, Carla Gugino, Ron Livingston,
George Wendt, Rainn Wilson. A mockumentary
about the rise and fall of Hollywood’s life
coach to the stars. (90 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
Spooks, Hoods, and The Hidden
Elite (U.S.A.; documentary) Producers:
Anthony Davi, J.w. August; director: Anthony
Davi; cast: Chauncy Marvin Holt, Mike
Ambrose. CIA Operative and MOB associate,
Chauncey Holt, reveals his role the JFK assassi-
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nation. This is the never before interview
recorded eight days before his death. (120
mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
ECHO BRIDGE
Cannes 2009 Office: Lerins, R19
Office Phone: +33 (0)4 9299 3214
Attending: Michael Rosenblatt, President &
Ceo, daniel march, executive vice president;
Patti Rose, International Sales Department,
Corporate Address: 8383 Wilshire Blvd., Ste.
530, Los Angeles, CA, 90211, U.S.A.
Phone: 323-658-7900
Fax: 323-658-7900
On Offer:
Inhale (U.S.A.; thriller) Producer: Michelle
Chydzik And Nathalie Marciano; director: Baltasar
Kormakur; cast: Dermot Mulroney, Diane
Kruger, Sam Shepard, Rosanna Arquette, Vincent
Perez And Jordi Molla. In a desperate
attempt to save his daughter from a rare disease,
a father jeopardizes his career, family
and life when he finds himself involved in the
middle of a criminal underworld medical ring.
(postproduction; screening; debuting)
My Life in Ruins (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers:
Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Michelle Chydzik,
Nathalie Marciano; director: Donald
Petrie; cast: Nia Vardalos, Richard Dreyfuss,
Rita Wilson. A romantic comedy set amongst
the ruins of Ancient Greece, in which a Greek-
American tour guide finds unexpected adventure
and romance. (98 mins.; screening;
returning)
Virgin on Bourbon St (U.S.A.; comedy)
Producer: Kirsten Smith; director: Clare Kilner;
cast: Rob Schneider, Jenna Dewan. At college
on a sponsorship from a sexual abstinence
before marriage group, one “pure as snow”
student stands to lose it all after innocently
consuming alcohol and getting filmed performing
wild sexual antics! (postproduction;
screening; debuting)
ECHO BRIDGE ENTERTAIN-
MENT
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 8383 Wilshire Blvd,
Suite 530, Los Angeles, California, 90211, U.S.A.
Phone: 323-658-7913
On Offer:
Inhale (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers: Michelle
Chydzik, Nathalie Marciano; director: Baltasar
Kormakur; cast: Dermot Mulroney, Diane
Kruger. In a desperate attempt to save his
daughter from a rare disease, a father jeopardizes
his career, family and life when he finds
himself involved in the middle of a criminal
underworld medical ring. (postproduction;
debuting)
My Life in Ruins (U.S.A.; romance) Producers:
Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Michelle Chydzik;
director: Donald Petrie; cast: Nia Vardalos,
Richard Dreyfuss. A romantic comedy set
amongst the ruins of Ancient Greece, in which
a Greek-American tour guide finds unexpected
adventure and romance. (98 mins.; debuting)
Virgin on Bourbon Street (U.S.A.; comedy)
Producer: Kirsten Smith; director: Clare Kilner;
cast: Rob Schneider, Jenna Dewan. At college
on a sponsorship from a sexual
abstinence before marriage group, one “pure
as snow” student stands to lose it all after
innocently consuming alcohol and getting
filmed performing wild sexual antics! (postproduction;
debuting)
ELEPHANT EYE FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: Carlton Room 202
Office Phone: +33 (0)4 93 06 45 77
Office Fax: +33 (0)4 93 06 40 29
Attending: Kim Jose, ; David Robinson, ; Doug
Keller,
Corporate Address: 27 West 20th St Suite
607, New York, New York, 10011, U.S.A.
Phone: 212-488-8877
On Offer:
Fidel’s Last Dance (U.S.A.; documentary)
Producers: Cynthia Newport, Curb Gardner;
director: Cynthia Newport; cast: Alicia Alonso,
Carlos Acosta, Lorna Feijoo. The personal and
political stories of dance and culture in Cuba
that includes exile and return, loss and
redemption and tradition and innovation. (94
mins.; screening; debuting)
Frat Girl (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers: Elephant
Eye Films, Derrick Tseng; director: Nate
Meyer; cast: Jess Weixler. A socially awkward
drama geek decides to do the unexpected and
pledge for a sorority at her university. However,
when she is mistaken for a boy and offered
a bid to join a fraternity as well, she decides to
take on the ultimate acting assignment and
immerse herself in every aspect of Greek life.
(preproduction; presales; debuting)
Precious (U.S.A.; drama) Producers: Lee
Daniels, Sarah Siegel-magness, Gary Magness;
director: Lee Daniels; cast: Mariah Carey,
Mo’nique. In 1980’s Harlem, an overweight,
illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second
child is invited to enroll in an alternative school
in the hope that her life can head in a new
direction. (109 mins.; screening; debuting)
ELEVEN ARTS, INC
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera G18
Office Phone: 1-310-953-3059
Attending: Ko Mori, ceo/president; Kana
Aida,
Corporate Address: 2932 Wilshire Blvd.,
#204, Santa Monica, CA, 90403, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-264-0818
On Offer:
Cobalt Blue (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Hidehisa Yamada, Akito Yamashita; director:
Yosuke Nakagawa; cast: Masami Nagasawa,
Kuranosuke Sasaki. Set in Okinawa, the southern
island of Japan, “Cobult Blue” is an epic
story about purity and bitterness of love. (121
mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
The Harimaya Bridge (U.S.A.; drama)
Producers: Ko Mori, Aaron Woolfolk; director:
Aaron Woolfolk; cast: Ben Guillory, Danny
Glover. An African-American man must travel
to rural Japan to resolve some issues involving
his late son, from whom he was estranged.
While there, he discovers some secrets his son
left behind. (121 mins.; premiere; debuting)
Vacation (U.S.A.; drama) Producer: Koike
Kazuhiro; director: Hajime Kadoi; cast: Kaoru
Kobayashi, Nishijima Hidetoshi. A man who
has idled his days away finds himself facing a
huge obstacle that he must overcome in order
to reevaluate his life. (115 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
EMPEROR MOTION PIC-
TURES
Cannes 2009 Office: C-42, 4th Floor, Relais
De La Reine, 42/43 La Croisette, 06400
Cannes, France
Office Phone: 33-04-93-06-70-08
Attending: May Yip, general manager, sales &
distribution; Raymond Liu, assistant general
manager, sales & distribution; Catherine Chau,
manager, sales & distribution
Corporate Address: 28/f Emperor Group
Centre, 288 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, -, 0000,
Hong Kong
Phone: 852-2835-6688
Fax: 852-2835-6688
On Offer:
The Beast Stalker (Hong Kong; actionadventure)
Producers: Albert Lee, Cheung
Hong-tat, Candy Leung; director: Dante Lam;
cast: Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheung. One traffic
brought together the lives of a wanted criminal,
a police sergeant, a public prosecutor and
her daughter in a dramatic action adventure
about friendship, duty, love and hate. (109
mins.; screening; debuting)
Connected (Hong Kong; action-adventure)
Producers: Albert Lee, Jiang Tao, Kevin Yung;
director: Benny Chan; cast: Louis Koo, Barbie
Hsu. Debt collector Bob is having a hard
enough time keeping his own life from falling
apart when he receives a call from a stranger
who begs him to save her and her family. (110
mins.; screening; returning)
Shinjuku Incident (Hong Kong; actionadventure)
Producers: Willie Chan, Solon So;
director: Derek Yee; cast: Jackie Chan, Naoto
Takenaka. Illegal immigrant Steelhead is
forced to commit crimes against his conscience
in order to survive in the brutal Japanese
underworld. (119 mins.; screening; debuting)
ENTERTAINMENT 7
Cannes 2009 Office: C-11
Office Phone: 310-867-3440
Attending: Emilio Ferrari, president; Tara
Wood, senior sales executive; Priscilla Ross,
sales & aquisitions
Corporate Address: 15030 Ventura Blvd. Ste.
762, Sherman Oaks, CA, 91403, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-709-9595
On Offer:
Baby on Board (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers:
Emilio Ferrari, Russell Scalise; director:
Brian Herzlinger; cast: Heather Graham, John
Corbett. In the tradition of “Knocked Up” and
“40 year old Virgin” comes a hilarious comedy
about Angela, a beautiful career-oriented
woman, her loving husband, Curtis, and the
unexpected pregnancy during the peak of
Angela’s professional path and her over
demanding boss. (90 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
Spy (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers: James
Macpherson, Elana Pianko, Alex Klymko; director:
Alex Klymko; cast: Vincent Pastore, Frank
Vincent. A surveillance expert hired to track a
woman gets attracted to his target, only to
find out that now he is the target himself.
But...who is spying on whom? (90 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
Waco (U.S.A.; action-adventure) Producers:
Emilio Ferrari, Rupert Wainwright, Lee Nelson;
director: Rupert WainwrightBased on the
events surrounding the 1993 government siege
and massacre of David Koresh’s cult in Texas,
two different men, one on the inside and one
outside, who fight to expose both government
and religious injustice. (preproduction; presales;
debuting)
ENTERTAINMENT VALUE
ASSOCIATES GMBH
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera Booth G9 / H12
Office Phone: -49-0-170-330-1101
Attending: Kai-roger Grueneke, CEO; Michel
Vandewalle, head of business development;
Marianne Schwab, junior producer
Corporate Address: Candidplatz 11, Munich,
Bavaria, 81543, Germany
Phone: -49-89-21-09-75-0
Fax: -49-89-21-09-75-0
On Offer:
Habermann’s Mill (Germany; drama)
Producers: Karel Dirka, Kai-roger Grueneke;
director: Georg Juraj Herz; cast: Karel Roden,
Mark Waschke. 1938, a small village in Sudetenland.
The Saw Mill owner August Habermann
is the biggest employer in his village and
a respected and rich man. He is married to
Jana, a young and beautiful Czech woman,
who is half Jewish. Although Habermann is
not interested in politics or ideology, he and his
family will be steamrolled by the insanity of
war... (production; presales; debuting)
QUICK, SLIP ME A BRIDE (Germany;
comedy) Producers: Shabeena Ayub, Paul
Munn; director: Raza Mallal; cast: Bipasha
Basu, Robert Hardy. Jack is looking forward to
getting married. But when he is dumped at
the altar, loses his job and his twin brother Ian
disappeared in Peru, Donald insists that Jack
should take Ian’s place as his successor and
forget about marriage. He desperately undertakes
a whole range of (un-)conventional and
pretty crazy methods to find the right woman
CANNES
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to be his wife by the end of the month... (preproduction;
presales; debuting)
Sophie - The Story of a BIG Friendship
(Germany; family) Producers: Leif Bristow,
Michel Houdmont; director: Leif Bristow;
cast: John Rhys-davies, Thure Riefenstein.
Growing up on the grounds of her parents’
family-operated zoo, Sophie’s life is focused
on two great loves: ballet and animals. To
afford the high tuition fee of a ballet school,
Sophie’s parents sell elephant Limba, Sophie’s
life long friend, to a circus without discussing
this issue with their daughter. Abandoning her
previous dance dreams, Sophie sets off to
reclaim Limba... (production; presales; debuting)
EPIC PICTURES
Cannes 2009 Office: R11/s12 Lerins
Office Phone: 065-983-5850
Attending: Patrick Ewald, CEO; Shaked
Berenson, COO; Tannaz Anisi, head of international
sales
Corporate Address: 9107 Wilshire Blvd, Suite
450, Beverly Hills, CA, 90028, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-461-1941
On Offer:
Deadline (U.S.A.; thriller) Producer: Roger
Betterton; director: Sean Mcconville; cast: Brittany
Murphy, Thora Birch. A screenwriter (Brittany
Murphy) who travels to an abandoned
house to finish a script on time, but a series of
strange events lead her to a psychological
breakdown. (89 mins.; screening; returning)
Housebroken (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers:
Richard Heller, Wayne Rice; director: Sam
Harper; cast: Donny Devito, Katey Segal, Brie
Lawson. In order to enjoy his retirement with
his wife (Katey Segal), a father (Danny DeVito)
takes extreme measures to kick his grown
up sons out of the house. (91 mins.; screening;
debuting)
Zone of the Dead (U.S.A.; horror) Producers:
Loris Curci, Milan Konjevic, Vukota Brajevic;
directors: Milan Todorovic, Milan Konjevic; cast:
Ken Foree, Kristina Klebe. When a biochemical
toxin infects the industrial town of Pancevo,
Interpol agents Mortimer Reyes and Mina Milius
have no choice but to turn to the help of a
dangerous criminal if they want to survive.
(postproduction; screening; debuting)
EROS INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: Unit 23, Sovereign Park,
Coronation Road, London, London, NW10 7QP,
Uk
Phone: -44-208-963-8700
On Offer:
ALADIN (Uk; drama) Producer: Eros International;
director: Sujoy Ghosh; cast: Amitabh
Bachchan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Sanjay Dutt,
Jackie Fernandes (miss Srilanka). It’s a modern
day adaptation of an age old story. Set in
India and about a boy whose name happens
to be Aladin. And one day to his utmost surprise
and horror he finds that what he thought
was only a story is coming alive… The character
whose name he was given by his parents
was fast becoming him… (postproduction;
debuting)
Kambakkht Ishq (Uk; romance) Producer:
Sajid Nadiadwala. Co-producer - Sunil A. Lulla;
director: Sabbir Khan; cast: Askhay Kumar,
Kareena Kapoor, Sylevester Stallone, Denise
Richards. Kambakkth Ishq explores the relationship
between two individuals so chalkand-cheesely
different from each other that
no matter how many times they are pushed
together, there’s just fireworks, no fire. Fate
binds them in a way that they couldn’t have
dreamt of. Their friction takes on a fevered
pitch;this battle of sexual aggression brings
crackling passion. If there ever was a marriage
between the east & the west, a romantic comedy
and Action, Hollywood & Bollywood, this
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would be it. (postproduction; debuting)
LOVE AAJKAL (Uk; romance) Producer:
Illuminati Film & Co - Producer - Eros International;
director: Imtiaz Ali; cast: Saif Ali Khan,
Deepika Padukone. It used to be from A to Z. A
love relationship would begin then messages
would be passed, then secret meetings, then
obstacle, then revolution, then marriage, then
sex. It is Z to A now. Reverse routes – but the
journey remains the same. Love Aajkal is the
story of modern day couple Meera & Jai and
also of an older generation couple, Harleen &
Veer. The film is based on the fact that the
process of relationship may be different in different
eras, but the experience of love remains
the same. (postproduction; debuting)
ESSENTIAL ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite
134, 14 La Croisette
Office Phone: +33 (0)4 97 06 85 01
Office Fax: +33 (0)4 97 06 85 12
Attending: Jere Hausfater, CEO; John Fremes,
president, international sales; Mark Padilla,
director, sales and distribution
Corporate Address: 9000 Sunset Boulevard,
Suite 600, Los Angeles, CA, 90069, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-550-9100
Fax: 310-550-9100
On Offer:
Clive Barker’s Dread (U.S.A.; horror) Producers:
Clive Barker, Matador Pictures, Midnight
Picture Show; director: Anthony Diblasi;
cast: Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Evans. Three
college students work on a documentary
about what others dread in life, with two of
the students unaware that their partner is
haunted by having seen his parents murdered
and wants to learn more about dread in real
life scenarios. Based on the short story by
Clive Barker, the best selling author of contemporary
horror/fantasies (Hellraiser, Candyman).
(108 mins.; screening; returning)
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
(U.S.A.; comedy) Producer: Marc E. Platt;
director: Don Roos; cast: Natalie Portman, Lisa
Kudrow. A comedy/drama that tells the story
of a young woman who finds the key to recovering
her marriage in her relationship with her
precocious stepson. Based on the bestselling
novel by Ayelet Waldman. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; returning)
Stan Helsing (U.S.A.; comedy) Producer:
Scott Steindorff And Stone Village Pictures;
director: Bo Zenga; cast: Steve Howey, Kenan
Thompson, Diora Baird. On Halloween night
reluctant hero and video-store clerk STAN
HELSING must save a town from the 6 most
feared monsters in cinematic history. (108
mins.; screening; returning)
EUROCINE
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera C 3
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Lesoeur Daniel, gérant; Kunesova
Ilona, development acquisition; Lesoeur
Thomas, acxquisition technical director
Corporate Address: 33 Aveue Des Champs
Elysees, Paris, France, 75008, France
Phone: -33-1-42-25-64-92
On Offer:
DEVIL HUNTER (France; action-adventure)
Producers: J. Esteban, M.lesoeur; director:
Jess Franco; cast: Al Cliver, Ursula Buchfellner,
Yul Sanders, Muriel Montossé, Aline Mess.
Vietnam-vet-turned-mercenary Peter Weston
is hired to rescue Laura Crawford, a beautiful
young actress who’s been kidnapped by gangsters
and carried off to the remote island of
Puerto Santo. She escapes under her own
steam only to fall into the hands of the cannibalistic
natives. (90 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; debuting)
IN THE ATTIC (France; animation) (debuting)
IN THE ATTIC (France; animation) Producer:
M Smidmajer; director: Jiri BartaIn the great
tradition of the Czech animation, A grand tale
of bravery, of friendship more powerful than
the snares of evil : Courageous toys undertake
a dangerous journey through a forsaken attic
to rescue their friend a beautiful doll from the
ruler of the Empire of Evil. (product reel/trailer;
debuting)
EUROPACORP
Cannes 2009 Office: 55 La Croisette - 1st
Floor
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Marie-laure Montironi, vp head of
international; Pascal Degove, vp head of international;
Cécile Fouché, international sales
Corporate Address: 137, Rue Du Faubourg St
Honoré, Paris, Idf, 75008, France
Phone: -33-1-53-83-03-03
On Offer:
Arthur And The Revenge Of Maltazard
(France; animation) Producer:
Europacorp; director: Luc Besson; cast: Freddie
Highmore, Mia Farrow. (production; product
reel/trailer; debuting)
In The Beginning (A l’Origine) (France;
drama) Producer: Europacorp; director: Xavier
Giannoli; cast: François Cluzet, Emmanuelle
Devos. (premiere; debuting)
L’Immortel (France; drama) Director:
Richard Berry; cast: Jean Reno, Kad Merad,
Marina Fois, . (production; product reel/trailer;
debuting)
EUROPEAN FILM PROMO-
TION (EFP)
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone: -49-160-440-9595
Attending: Renate Rose, managing director;
Jo Mühlberger, project director; Sabine Rolinski,
pr & project assistant
Corporate Address: Friedensallee 14-16,
Hamburg, Germany, 22765, Germany
Phone: -49-40-390-6252
Fax: -49-40-390-6252
On Offer:
Producers on the Move (Germany) Producer:
Up-and-coming European Producers
Will Be Presented To The Press And
Industry.European Film Promotion (EFP) is
promoting European Cinema worldwide; in
Cannes EFP is present with the project PRO-
DUCERS ON THE MOVE for the 10th time. 200
producers took part in the project since it’s
inception in 2000. (returning)
FABRICATION FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: 13 Square Merimee,
4th Floor
Office Phone: 33 (0) 49 36 82549
Attending: Kjehl Rasmussen, c.e.o.; Jodie
Skalla, executive vice president; Miriam
Elchanan, s.v.p.
Corporate Address: 8701 West Olympic
Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90035, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-289-1232
Fax: 310-289-1232
On Offer:
The Collective (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers/directors:
Judson Pearce Morgan, Kelly
Overton; cast: Kelly Overton, Laura Allen,
Shane Mcrae, Donnie Keshawarz, Wynn
Everett. Tyler received a cryptic voice-mail
from her sister Jessica. She was asking for help
but she didn’t say why. And now that Tyler has
come to New York city to help her, Jessica is
nowhere to be found. In order to find out what
has happened, Tyler must delve into a world
of darkness and lies. (; returning)
The Seamstress (U.S.A.; horror) Producer:
Andrew Bronstein; director: Jesse James Miller;
cast: Lance Henrikson, Kailin See, Sarah
Mutch, Kevin Mcnulty. The Seamstress was
brought into being by the desperate curse of
an innocent woman being tortured to death
by a vigilante mob. Voracious for blood, the
hideously-mutilated specter hunts a small
group of friends who become trapped on the
island where she died (; returning)
Waking Madison (U.S.A.; drama) Produc-
ers: Megan Ellison, Jonah Hirsch, Ted Schipper;
director: Katherine Brooks; cast: Elisabeth
Shue, Sarah Roemer, Frances Conroy, Taryn
Manning. A Psychiatrist must navigate
through the dark undercurrents of a young
woman’s mind. (premiere; debuting)
FACT
Cannes 2009 Office: Le Normandy, 16 Rue
Du 14 Juillet, Cannes
Office Phone: +33 (0)9 70 46 83 26
Attending: Eugene Mandelcorn, managing
member; Gisela Berk, project development
Corporate Address: 4251 Lombardy St.,
Chino, CA, 91710, U.S.A.
Phone: 323-786-6692
On Offer:
In The Name Of Love (U.S.A.; drama) An
adopted son envied by his new siblings is
framed for the murder of his step father, and
after spending 11 years in jail he sets out to
prove his innocence in a life transforming journey
where he discovers that things aren’t what
they seem to be. (development; debuting)
Snow Falling On Red Square (U.S.A.;
action-adventure) A reluctant assassin hired
to kill a priest finds his life changed forever
when his attempt at murder is thwarted by
seemingly divine intervention. (development;
debuting)
Stray Hearts (U.S.A.; drama) Do you compromise
in life, or do you hold out for what you
really want? On Thanksgiving, a middle-class
couple invites over a few of their quirky, nonconformist
friends who never gave up on their
dreams, as the couple has. A storm closes the
road and cuts off power. They all stay
overnight. Romantic entanglements and disentanglements
test the marriage. (development;
debuting)
FANTASTIC FILMS INT’L, LLC
Cannes 2009 Office: Carlton Intercontinental
Hotel, Suite #134
Office Phone: 310-560-9577
Attending: Roxane Barbat, president; Fred
Dewysocki, partner
Corporate Address: 3854 Clayton Avenue,
Los Angeles, CA, 90027, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-560-9577
On Offer:
AGENT CRUSH (U.S.A.; animation) Producers:
Fred Dewysocki, Barrie Robinson;
director: Sean Robinson; cast: Ioan Gruffud,
Neve Campbell, Sir Roger Moore, Danny Glover.
Agent Crush is a second prototype cyborg, and
is trying to prove himself as a secret agent.
Crush has been furnished with all types of
superhero gadgets but he is prone to bumbling
accidents and causes havoc wherever he goes.
His latest mission is to stop Goudphater from
exploding a nuclear device in the center of the
Earth’s magma core and causing every volcano
to erupt, destroying the Earth. Can Crush
prove to the world that he is the man for the
job and save the Earth in time? (92 mins.;
screening; returning)
A FOX’S TALE (U.S.A.; animation) Producer:
Bill Chamberlain; director: Gyorgy Gat; cast:
Freddie Highmore, Sienna Miller, Bill Nighy.
Jack, an adorable young fox enlists the help of
several furry and human friends to free his
father, who has been captured by the circus.
(84 mins.; screening; debuting)
SPIRIT OF THE FOREST (U.S.A.; animation)
Producer: Manolo Gomez; director: David
Rubin; cast: Anjelica Huston, Giovanni Ribisi,
Sean Astin, Ron Perlman. A powerful businessman
intends to build a highway and the
ever-evil Mrs. D’Abondo sees her chance to get
rid of the forest. A gang of determined furry
creatures then hatch a plan to keep the forest
as their home and devise scheme to bring The
Spirit of the Forest to life. (84 mins.; screening;
returning)
FARABI CINEMA FOUNDA-
TION
CANNES
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Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera F11-g10
Office Phone: -33-4-92993227
Attending: Majid Shah Hosseini, managing
director; Amir Esfandiari, director of international
affairs; Mohammad Esfandiari, marketing&acquisitions
executive
Corporate Address: 1st Floor, No.19, Delbar
Alley, Toos St., Vallye-asr Ave Tehran 19617,
Iran, Tehran, Tehran, 19617, Iran
Phone: -98-21-22741253-98-21-22734939
Fax: -98-21-22741253-98-21-22734939
On Offer:
THE KINGDOM OF SOLOMON (Iran;
drama) Producer: Mojtaba Faravardeh; director:
Shahriar Bahrani; cast: Amin Zendegani,
Mahmoud Pak Niyat, Medhi Faghih. Story of
life and times of King Solomon (120 mins.;
screening; debuting)
MIZAK (Iran; drama) Producers: Jahangir
Kosari, Hossein Ali Lealestani; director: Hossein
Ali Lealestani; cast: Baran Kosari, Mohammad
Reza Foroutan, Fatemeh Motamed Aria. A the
time of delivery, Mizak an unborn child in the
embryo of Titi, becomes hesitant to come into
the world.... (97 mins.; screening; debuting)
THE PENALTY (Iran; drama) Producer:
Seyyed Saeed Seyyedzadeh; director: Ensieh
Shah Husseini; cast: Ghasem Zare, Reza Nouri,
Sadegh Hatefi. After the end of the Iran-Iraq
war in a southern Iranian border town several
poor families live in a desolate oil refinery but
they are forced after a while to evacuate the
premises. Lacking the funds to rent houses
they run into problems and their only chance
rests with their soccer player sons who will be
competing in a game with the rich and powerful
team of the National Oil Company. (90
mins.; screening; debuting)
FIGA FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 3925 Cazador St., Los
Angeles, CA, 90065, U.S.A.
Phone: 323-258-5241
On Offer:
Beyond Ipanema (U.S.A.; documentary)
Producers: Guto Barra, Béco Dranoff.; director:
Guto Barra; cast: David Byrne, Caetano Veloso,
Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes, Devendra Banhart,
Bebel Gilberto, Seu Jorge, M.i.a., Thievery Corporation,
Milton Nascimento, Tom Zé, Diplo,
Css, Etc.. For many years Brazilian music has
been sweeping America, Europe and Asia off
their feet. Artists and audiences around the
world got struck by it like a lightning and never
recovered. What is it about Brazilian music
that translates into such a powerful force?
How could Samba take over a public school in
Harlem in 2009? BEYOND IPANEMA explores
these and many other questions about the
Brazilian music experience outside of Brazil.
(postproduction; presales; debuting)
Camila JAM (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Flávio Frederico, Suzana Villas Boas, Lionel
Combecau.; director: Murilo Salles; cast: Leandra
Leal - Camila Juliano Cazarré - Felipe
Rosane Mulholland – Paula Alex Disdier -.
Camila JAM tells the story of a young woman
struggling to become a writer. Her life is her
narrative. Camila is intense and brave. She
wants her literature to be an act of revelation.
Based on Clarah Averbuck’s book “The Pinball
Machine”, it is a film about Camila’s passion
and her effort to support it. It’s about how her
character faces the abyss, and what she gets
from it is her strength to exist. (120 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
Proper Eyes (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Paula Grandio, Cristina Fasulino, Sol Martorell.;
director: Liliana Paolinelli; cast: Ana Carabajal
- Alicia Luisa Núñez - Elsa Maximiliano Gallo -
Luis Mara Santucho – Virginia. For her college
thesis, film student Alicia (Ana Carabajal),
along with her classmate Virginia (Mara Santucho),
is making a documentary about the
women in the lives of prisoners at a local jail.
The only problem is no one is willing to be
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interviewed on camera. Shot on location at
the Bouwer and San Martín Penitentiary in
Córdoba, Argentina, the picture is filled with
subtle social criticism, fear, fantasy, and reality.
(80 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
FILM BRIDGE INTERNATION-
AL
Cannes 2009 Office: Residences Du Grand
Hotel - Use Entrance - Cormoran 2
Office Phone: 33.4.9339.3775
Attending: Ellen Wander, ; Lori Mathison, ;
Amanda Seward,
Corporate Address: 1316 Third Street Promenade,
Suite 105, Santa Monica, CA, 90401, USA
Phone: 310.656.8680
Fax: 310.656.8680
On Offer:
BUTTERFLY EFFECT 3: REVELATION
(USA; thriller) Producer: Benderspink; director:
Seth Grossman; cast: Chris Carmack, Rachel
Miner. From the Producer of “Butterfly Effect I
& II,” Benderspink (“Just Friends,” “The Ring,”
“A History of Violence”).The third installment
of the Cult Classic. (90 mins.; screening;
returning)
DOLAN’S CADILLAC (USA; thriller) Producers:
Ellen Wander, Kevin Dewalt, ; director:
Jeff Beesley; cast: Christine Slater, Wes Bentley.
A revenge thriller based on a terrifying
short story by Stephen King. (90 mins.; screening;
returning)
WHAT’S WRONG WITH VIRGINIA
(USA; drama) Producers: Christine Vachon,
Gus Van Sant; director: Dustin Lance Black;
cast: Liam Neeson, Jennifer Connelly. Dark
Comedy / Drama – A teenage boy attempts
robbery to help his dying mother. (preproduction;
presales; debuting)
THE FILM DEPARTMENT
Cannes 2009 Office: Residence Du Gray
D’albion, 3rd Floor, 12 La Croisette
Office Phone: +33 4 93 39 69 92
Office Fax: +33 4 93 39 69 25
Attending: Mark Gill, CEO; Steve Bickel, president
of international; Kristen Figeroid, vp,
international sales
Corporate Address: 8439 Sunset Blvd., 2nd
Floor, West Hollywood, CA, 90069, U.S.A.
Phone: 323-785-3700
THE FILM LIBRARY
Cannes 2009 Office: Grand Hotel
Office Phone: -33-6-75356634
Attending: Alexandra Sun, managing director
Corporate Address: Suite 3208, Central
Plaza, 18 Harbour Road, Wanchai, 0, 0, Hong
Kong
Phone: -852-2860-0033
Fax: -852-2860-0033
On Offer:
Blind Mountain (Hong Kong; drama) Producers:
Li Yang, Alexandra Sun, Li Hua, Li Shan;
director: Li Yang; cast: Huang Lu, Yang Youan,
Zhang Yuling. Young student Bai Xuemei is
cheated and sold as a ‘wife’ by human traffickers
to a remote village. Raped and beaten,
she leads the life of a sex slave and child-bearer
with no hope of escape because of the villagers’
apathy and selfishness. When help
finally arrives it is only the beginning of another
tragedy… (102 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
returning)
Help (Hong Kong; drama) Producers: Li Ying,
Zhang Yunhui, Alexandra Sun; director: Li Ying;
cast: Tba. A relief station for homeless and
delinquent kids, a ‘Mother of Love’, an
unwanted boy abandoned at birth. Entangled
between reality and lies, family and society, is
another kind of ‘love story’ in the new order of
Chinese society... (development; presales;
debuting)
Yasukuni (Hong Kong; documentary) Producers:
Li Ying, Zhang Yunhui, Zhang Huijun;
director: Li Ying; cast: Naoji Kariya, Ryuken
Sugawara, Sumei Gaojin. Already the highest
grossing Japanese documentary ever released
in Japan, ‘Yasukuni’ is probably the most controversial
and influential as well. It is a powerful
study of the Yasukuni Shrine - Japan’s altar
to its war dead and religious centre of imperial
militarism in WWII - and its disturbing contemporary
significance today. Ten years in the
making, the film looks at layers of history, militarism,
legacies of WWII and the emperor
while confronting human dilemmas of war,
death and memory. (123 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
returning)
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Village And # B9, C10 At Riviera
Office Phone: 04-92-59-02-18
Office Fax: 04-92-59-02-20
Attending: Mr Michel Jourdan, marketing
manager; Ms Jessica Lau, assistant manager,
service promotion; Ms Clare Chap, assistant
manager, service promotion
Corporate Address: 38/f Office Tower, Convention
Plaza, 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai,
Hong Kong, Wah Chai, Hong Kong, 852, Hong
Kong
Phone: -852-1830-668
Fax: -852-1830-668
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FILMAX INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: Miguel Hernandez, 81-
87, L’Hospitalet, Barcelona, 08908, Spain
Phone: +34933368555
Fax: +34933368555
On Offer:
Circus (Spain; horror) Producer: Julio Fernández;
director: Daniel CalparsoroAn American
family driving accross the Nevada desert suffer
a car accident. They are rescued by a bizarre
welcoming commitee of circus people. The
desert becomes a death trap for this family
who unexpectedly become the main attraction
at the circus... (preproduction; presales;
debuting)
Exorcismus (Spain; horror) Producer: Julio
Fernández; director: Luís De La MadridFear is
taking over the residents of High Cross. Ominous
things are taking place... and there are
rumours. The Hawkins are desperate, medical
tests have rules out illness but 15 year old Suzy
is getting worse by the day. Something is consuming
her. Father Ellis visits the Hawkins’
every day to see Suzy. Despite his discretion he
cannot hide that he too is scared. What goes
on in his sessions? In order to find out, Suzy
sets up a hidden camera. There are somethings
better kept secret. (preproduction; presales;
debuting)
Tranquility Valley (Spain; horror) Producer:
Julio Fernández; director: Xavier Giménez-
Tranquility Valley is an educational centre with
a difference. The intern’s reintegration into
society is guaranteed by the management. It is
the last resort for the difficult children of desperate
parents. Fran is fast asleep when he is
abruptly awakened. Two men are grabbing
him tightly. He cries for help and strruggles
until he sees his father standing in the room.
‘It’s for your own sake’ he says. Fran is dragged
out side and into a waiting car. (preproduction;
presales; debuting)
FILMEXPORT GROUP
Cannes 2009 Office: Stand Unefa G25 At
Riviera
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Roberto Di Girolamo, president;
Laura Maurano, sales manager; Elisa D’amico,
sales manager
Corporate Address: Via Del Pianeta Urano
60, Rome, Rome, 00144, Italy
Phone: +39 06 52207432
Fax: +39 06 52207432
On Offer:
The Mole 2 (Italy; thriller) Producers: Les
Films De L’astre, Tf1 Films Production, At-production,
R.t.b.f.; director: Vincenzo Marano;
cast: Ingrid Chauvin, Linda Hardy. Paris nowadays…
when two corpses are found in a car
boot, for Sandra Longo it is clear that those
homicides have been ordered by the boss of
the local Chinese mafia. (106 mins.; screening;
debuting)
The Mole (Italy; thriller) Producers: Les
Films De L’astre, Tf1 Films Production, At-production,
R.t.b.f; director: Vincenzo Marano;
cast: Ingrid Chauvin, Linda Hardy, Yannis Baraban.
A heroin cache vanishes from a customs
depot. Commandant Sandra Longo is dispatched
from Paris. There is a mole and she
has to find it. (104 mins.; screening; debuting)
QUIET FLOWS THE DON (Italy; drama)
Producer: Madison Motion Pictures Ltd - London;
director: Serghey Bondarchuk; cast:
Rupert Everett, Murray Abraham, Delphine
Forest. Based on the famous novel “... And
Quiet Flows The Don” by Mikhail A. Sholokhov,
Nobel Prize for Literature, this epic story tells
about war and revolution and the progress of
Grigory from youthful lover to Red Army soldier
and finally to Cossack nationalist. (187
mins.; screening; debuting)
LES FILMS DE LA BUTTE
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 112 Bd Rochechouart,
Paris, France, 75018, France
Phone: -33-676702265
On Offer:
Alpha Predator (France; horror) Producers:
Christophe Bruncher, Dan BurlacA Parisian
talent scout is chasing new models in Romania,
when he becomes himself, the prey of a
new race of predators, threatening a remote
village in the Carpathians. (development; presales;
debuting)
Et Si On Vivait Tous Ensemble?
(France; comedy) Producers: Christophe
Bruncher, Philippe Gompel, Peter Rommel;
director: Stéphane Robelin; cast: Jeanne Moreau,
Geraldine Chaplin, Pierre Richard. Five old
friends, about 70 years old each, decide to
move in all together, to avoid finishing their
days in a retirement home. Living as a community
isn’t that easy, but friendship is stronger
than anything and even at their age, life is still
full of surprises… I (preproduction; presales;
debuting)
LES FILMS DU LOSANGE
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera F7
Office Phone: 336-89-85-96-95
Attending: Agathe Valentin, international
sales manager; Lize Zipci, international sales
manager
Corporate Address: 22 Avenue Pierre 1er De
Serbie, Paris, Ile De France, 75116, France
Phone: -33-1-44-43-87-28
Fax: -33-1-44-43-87-28
On Offer:
FATHER OF MY CHILDREN (France;
drama) Producers: David Thion, Philippe Martin
(les Films Pelléas), Oliver Damian (27
Films); director: Mia Hansen-løve; cast: Louisdo
De Lencquesaing, Chiara Casselli, Alice De
Lencquesaing. Grégoire Canvel has everything.
A woman he loves, three delightful daughters,
a job that he adores and to which he devotes
all his energy. He produces films. The artistic
prestige of his catalogue, along with his
unique charm blending sensitivity, humour
and elegance, make Grégoire Canvel one of
the most admired French producers of his
time. Grégoire is admired but he is heavily in
debt. In order to produce his films, Grégoire
keeps taking huge financial risks. (110 mins.;
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premiere; debuting)
KING OF ESCAPE (France; drama) Producer:
Sylvie Pialat (les Films Du Worso);
director: Alain Guiraudie; cast: Ludovic
Berthillot, Hafsia Herzi, Luc Palun. ARMAND
LACOURTADE, 43, is an agricultural equipment
salesman. Recently, he’s been going through
tough times and no longer puts much effort
into his work or his friends. He’s even fed up
with his lifestyle as a gay single man. One
night, Armand rescues a young woman,
CURLY, who instantly fall in love with him.
Armand is not impervious to her charm too.
They finally run away together turning this
love escapade into a full-blown manhunt. (97
mins.; premiere; debuting)
THE WHITE RIBBON (France; drama)
Producers: Stefan Arndt (x-filme – Germany),
Margaret Menegoz (les Films Du Losange –
France), Michael Katz, Dr. Veit Heiduschka
(wega Films – Austria), Andrea Occhipinti &
Stefano Massenzi (lucky Red – Italy); director:
Michael Haneke; cast: Christian Friedel,
Burkhart Klaussner, Ulrich Tukur. A village in
Protestant northern Germany. 1913-1914. On
the eve of World War I. The story of the children
and teenagers of a choir run by the village
schoolteacher, and their families: the baron,
the steward, the pastor, the doctor, the midwife,
the tenant farmers. Strange accidents
occur and gradually take on the character of a
punishment ritual. Who is behind it all? (142
mins.; premiere; debuting)
FILMS SANS FRONTIERES
Cannes 2009 Office: Palais Miramar #415 -
65 La Croisette
Office Phone: 33-6-0949-25-09
Attending: Galeshka Moravioff, general director;
Christophe Calmels, head of sales; Laurent
Maupas, dvd label manager
Corporate Address: 70 Bd Sébastopol, Paris,
Ile De France, 75003, Paris
Phone: 33-1-42-77-21-84
On Offer:
20 CLASSICS OF ITALIAN NEOREAL-
ISM (IN HD FOR BLU-RAY) (Paris;
drama) Directors: Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio
De Sica, Giuseppe De Santis, Luchino Visconti
(; debuting)
THE BLUE ANGEL (MUSICAL
REMAKE) (Paris; musical) Producer:
Galeshka MoravioffA stuffy professor falls
blindly in love with cabaret entertainer Lola-
Lola , who ruins his life. (development; debuting)
THE DRAGON WITH SAD EYES (Paris;
animation) Producers: Films Sans Frontieres,
Kecskemetfilm; directors: Katia Even, Hoël
CaouissinHiccup and Bigshot, on their hunt of
Butterflies, met the Flower Queen in tears. She
names them Knights of the Kingdom of Flowers
and off they go on a crusade to find Flowers
stolen by THE DRAGON WITH THE SAD
EYES. (development; debuting)
FILMSHARKS INT’L
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera Stand B19
Office Phone: -33-4-93-99-85-93
Attending: Guido Rud, ceo & founder; Valeria
Fanego, it’l sales
Corporate Address: Av.diaz Velez 4323,
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 1200, Argentina
Phone/Fax: -33-4-93-99-85-93
On Offer:
A Boyfriend for My Wife (Argentina;
comedy) Producers: Juan Pablo Galli, Alejandro
Cacetta & Juan Vera; director: Juan Taratuto;
cast: Adrian Suar, Valeria Bertuccelli &
Gabriel Goity. “El tenso” doesn’t know how to
deal with his wife, “La Tana”, to say that he
wants to divorce. She lives constantly cranky
and protesting about everything. “El Tenso”
gets “The Raven Flores” , an old fashioned latino
irresistible seducer to seduce his wife until
she falls in love with him, and therefore she
leaves “El Tenso”… (96 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
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La Milagrosa (Argentina; drama) Producer:
Rafael Lara & Julio Bove; director: Rafael Lara;
cast: Antonio Merlano; Guillermo Iván; Mónica
Gómez; Hernán Méndez; Álvaro García Trujillo,
Germán Quintero; Ana María Kamper;
Montserrat Espadalé; Carlos Duplat; Santiago
Reyes.. Based on true events. (Much like Ingrid
Betancourt’s horrific tale of abduction) Eduardo,
the son of very powerful Colombian business
man , is on a road trip with a friend and
his friend bodyguard when they are sudenly
kidnapped by a Colombian guerilla and held
for ransom. The film deeply narrates the loneliness
and trauma suffered by the victims , the
armed clashes and dangerous ventures from
camp to camp in the jungle in the Guerrilla
Lifestyle as never shown before . (106 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
Tear This Heart Out (Argentina; drama)
Producer: Monica Lozano; director: Roberto
Sneider; cast: Ana Claudia Talancón, Daniel
Giménez Cacho, José María De Tavira. An Epic
Drama by Roberto Sneider . MEXICAN entry for
the Oscars 2009 inside the list of 9. A FOX
LATAM box office hit in LATAM with over 2M
adm . This PEARL will take your breath away
and it will tear your heart out .Based on a perfect
book that turned into a filmed Masterpiece.
(107 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
FINECUT CO., LTD.
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera Stand# E9/f12
Office Phone: 33-4-92-99-33-32
Office Fax: -
Attending: Youngjoo Suh, CEO; Yunjeong
Kim, head of sales; Jiyoon Lim, senior manager,
festival & marketing
Corporate Address: 4th Fl., Incline Bd, 891-
37, Daechi-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, N/a,
135-280, Korea
Phone: 822-569-8777
On Offer:
A BRAND NEW LIFE (Korea; drama) Producers:
Lee Chang-dong, Laurent Lavole, Lee
Joon-dong; director: Ounie Lecomte; cast: Kim
Saeron, Park Doyeon. An emotional story of a
9-year-old girl experiencing two extraordinary
events: abandonment and adoption. (93
mins.; premiere; debuting)
CHAW (Korea; action-adventure) Producers:
Kim Sun-yong, Son Kwang-ik, Park Kyungduk;
director: Shin Jung-won; cast: Eum Taewoong,
Jung Yu-mi. In a peaceful village, a terrible
accident happened by a man-eating
boar, Chaw. People head to the deep mountain
to grab it with different purposes and face
the deadly fight. (postproduction; product
reel/trailer; returning)
LIKE YOU KNOW IT ALL (Korea; drama)
Producers: Hong Sangsoo, Kim Kyoung-hee;
director: Hong Sangsoo; cast: Kim Tae-woo, Ko
Hyun-jung. Director KU attends a film festival
as a jury and meets a weird programmer.
Sometime later, he is invited to Jeju Island and
gets to meet his senior whose wife was his ex
10 years ago. (126 mins.; premiere; returning)
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TION
Cannes 2009 Office: Scandinavian Terrace,
55 La Croisette
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Irina Krohn, managing director;
Petri Kemppinen, head of international affairs
and development; Jaana Puskala, head of feature
film promotion
Corporate Address: Kanavakatu 12, Helsinki,
Finland, 00160, Finland
Phone: -358-9-6220-300
Fax: -358-9-6220-300
FINTAGE HOUSE B.V.
Cannes 2009 Office: Residences Du Grand
Hotel, Apt. 3c, 45 La Croisette
Office Phone: -33-4-9339-7202
Attending: Robbert Aarts, co-ceo; Peter
Kostense, executive vice president business
development; Said Boudarga, managing
director fintage magyar
Corporate Address: Stationsweg 32, Leiden,
ZH, 2312 AV, The Netherlands
Phone: -31-71-565-9999
Fax: -31-71-565-9999
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FIVE STAR PRODUCTION
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera C13
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Aphiradee Iamphungphorn, international
sales executive; Tian Ponvanit, senior
executive director
Corporate Address: 61/1 Soi Thaweemitr 2,
Rama 9 Road, Huaykwang, Bangkok, 10320,
Thailand
Phone: -662-246-9025
Fax: -662-246-9025
On Offer:
The Red Eagle (Thailand; action-adventure)
Producer: Five Star Production; director:
Wisit Sasanatiieng; cast: Ananda Everingham.
Thailand year 2013, introduced two phenomenons.
The first was the baffling case of politicians
gone mad and causing havoc all over the
city. Eventually they died of unknown causes.
The other puzzling event was the appearance
of a mysterious man who is seen and recognized
by his disguise under a dark black suit
who strikes without mercy. (preproduction;
presales; debuting)
Slice (Thailand; thriller) Producer: Five Star
Production; director: Kongkiat Komesiri; cast:
Arak Amornsupasiri. After the police are baffled
for clues as to male victims turning up
sliced and dead, they are hard pressed for
results as the latest victim happens to be a
son of a politician. Their last resort is to confront
an ex hitman named Tai, for his expertise
in the field of hunting down a killer. The chase
is on before a new victim turns up SLICED.
(production; presales; debuting)
Soul’s Code (Thailand; horror) Producer:
Benjaporn Panyaying; director: Adsajun
Sattagovit; cast: M.l. Nattakorn Devakula
Patiwat Ruangsri. This story is dedicated to all
the lost souls who await the day of justice, for
their death will not be in vain. The story
starts off with the police in the Prae province
of Thailand and the gruesome discovery of a
body. The body was identified as a young
female high school student who was horrifically
dismembered and stuffed into a box. (111
mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
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Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: Bischoffsheimlaan 38,
Brussels, Brussels, 1000, Belgium
Phone: -32-2-226-06-30
Fax: -32-2-226-06-30
On Offer:
Altiplano (Belgium; drama) Producer: Peter
Brosens; director: Brosens & Woodworth; cast:
Magaly Solier, Olivier Gourmet. A war photographer
loses her soul in Iraq. An Andean bride
sacrifices herself in protest against the mining
industry. Their destinies cross on the Altiplano.
(109 mins.; screening; debuting)
Lost Persons Area (Belgium; drama) Producer:
Tomas Leyers; director: Caroline
Strubbe; cast: Zotan Miklos Hajdu, Kimke
Desart. A story about people lost in their fear
of rejection. (110 mins.; screening; debuting)
My Queen Karo (Belgium; drama) Producers:
Frank Van Passel, Bert Hamelinck, Kato
Maes; director: Dorothée Van Den Berghe;
cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Déborah François.
Ten-year-old Karo grows up with her parents
in an Amsterdam commune in the early Seventies,
where she leads carefree existence in
this utopia-for-adults. Caught in the crossfire
of the internal conflicts that start to divide the
group, Karo slowly realises that nothing can
stay the same forever... (102 mins.; screening;
debuting)
FOCUS FEATURES INTERNA-
TIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Résidence Du Gray
D’albion - 12, La Croisette, 2nd Floor
Office Phone: 33-4-93-39-76-46
Office Fax: 33-4-93-68-71-92
Attending: James Schamus, CEO; Andrew
Karpen, president, focus features / president,
focus features international; Alison Thompson,
president, int’l sales & distribution
Corporate Address: 76 Oxford Street, Fourth
Floor, London, London, W1D 1BS, United Kingdom
Phone: 00442073071330
On Offer:
Agora (United Kingdom; drama) Producer:
Fernando Bovaira; director: Alejandro
Amenábar; cast: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella,
Oscar Isaac. (postproduction; returning)
Eagle of the Ninth (United Kingdom)
Producer: Duncan Kenworthy; director: Kevin
Macdonald (preproduction; debuting)
Greenberg (United Kingdom) Producers:
Scott Rudin, Jennifer Jason Leigh; director:
Noah Baumbach; cast: Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig,
Rhys Ifans. (production; debuting)
FORESIGHT UNLTD.
Cannes 2009 Office: 3 La Croisette, 3rd
Floor
Office Phone: 049-368-8061
Attending: Mark Damon, chief executive officer;
Tamara Stuparich De La Barra, senior vice
president
Corporate Address: 2934 1/2 Beverly Glen
Circle, Ste. 900, Bel Air, CA, 90077, U.S.A.
Phone: +1 310-275-5222
Fax: +1 310-275-5222
On Offer:
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt (U.S.A.;
thriller) Producers: Moshe Diamant, Mark
Damon, Ted Hartley; director: Peter Hyams;
cast: Jesse Metcalfe, Michael Douglas.
“Beyond A Reasonable Doubt” is a remake of
the RKO classic from 1956, the last American
film directed by the great Fritz Lang. In this
suspenseful and clever thriller a journalist
seeks to expose a corrupt District Attorney by
setting himself up as the suspect in a murder
he didn’t commit. His plan backfires when the
D.A. discovers the set up and gets rid of all the
evidence the journalist has amassed to prove
his innocence. (2 mins.; product reel/trailer;
returning)
Shi (U.S.A.; action-adventure) Director: Tbd;
cast: Tbd. Based on the popular comic book
SHI, which has a worldwide fan base. Born to a
Japanese father and American missionary
mother, Ana Ishikawa witnesses her family’s
brutal murder at the hands of a Yakuza thug,
and undergoes righteous martial arts-warrior
training to transform herself into SHI and
avenge her family’s death. (development; presales;
debuting)
Universal Soldier: New Beginning
(U.S.A.; action-adventure) Producer: Moshe
Diamant; director: John Hyams; cast: Jeanclaude
Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren. When a
team of former Soviet radicals seizes Chernobyl
and threatens to unleash a lethal cloud
of radioactive gas one hundred times deadlier
than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, the
US military brings in a bio-mechanically
enhanced super soldier, Luc Deveraux (JEAN-
CLAUDE VAN DAMME), to foil the plot. As Deveraux
fights his way into the plant, he faces off
with his now revived former nemesis, Andrew
Scott (DOLPH LUNDGREN), in a battle of battles,
and must save the day. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; debuting)
FORTISSIMO FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: Résidence Du Grand
Hotel, Entrance Goeland, 7d, 45 La Croisette,
06400 Cannes
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Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Michael J. Werner, co-chairman;
Nelleke Driessen, managing director; Nicole
Mackey, executive vice president, international
sales
Corporate Address: Van Diemenstraat 100,
Amsterdam, CN, 1013 CN, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 627 3215
Fax: +31 20 627 3215
On Offer:
AIR DOLL (The Netherlands; romance) Producers:
Toshiro Uratani, Hirokazu Kore-eda;
director: Hirokazu Kore-eda; cast: Bae Doo-na,
Arata. A romantic fantasy about an inflatable
sex doll (Bae) who develops a soul and falls in
love with a video store clerk. (120 mins.; product
reel/trailer; debuting)
DANIEL AND ANA (The Netherlands;
drama) Producer: Daniel Birman Ripstein;
director: Michel Franco; cast: Dario Yazbek
Bernal, Marimar Vega. The harmony of Daniel
and Ana, brother and sister, is instantly shattered
when they are kidnapped and something
shocking happens which forces them to
confront their desires and fears. (90 mins.;
premiere; debuting)
NYMPH (The Netherlands; horror) Producers:
Saksiri Chantarangsri, Wouter Barendrecht,
Michael J. Werner; director: Pen-ek
Ratanaruang; cast: Wanida Termthanaporn,
Nopachai Jayanama. The story follows a photographer
who takes his wife on an assignment
into the jungle and then disappears.
(105 mins.; premiere; debuting)
FOUNDATION FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: Nicomar, Pontoon
400, Vieux Port, Cannes
Office Phone: 44-7941-020-531
Attending: Stephen Salter, company director;
Ian Brady, company director
Corporate Address: 7 Portland Place, London,
London, W1B 1PP, United Kingdom
Phone: 44-20-3049-3459
On Offer:
The Crew (United Kingdom; thriller) Producers:
Ian Brady, Stephen Salter; director:
Adrian Vitoria; cast: Scot Williams, Kenney
Doughty, Stephen Graham. A crime/ gangster
thriller about a respected crime boss fighting
for survival as he faces betrayal in the build up
to a major heist. (117 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
FUTURIKON
Cannes 2009 Office: B3
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Madouni Fazia, intl sales exec.;
Delarue Philippe, CEO; Blin Caroline, head of
marketing
Corporate Address: 12, Rue De Turenne,
Paris, —, 75004, France
Phone: -33144619469
On Offer:
Dragon Hunters (France; animation) Producers:
Futurikon Films, Trixter, Luxanimation,
France 3 Cinema, Rtl-tvi, Mac Guff Ligne; directors:
Guillaume Ivernel, Arthur Qwak; cast: Forest
Whitaker. Zoe is a little girl who believes in
fairy tales. Not because she is naive, but
because she likes fairy tales. So in order to
help her uncle Lord Arnold get rid of a terrible
dragon, Zoe decides she has to find some
heroes. And when she meets Gwizdo and
Lian-Chu – a couple of two-bit, fly-by-night
dragon hunters – well what the heck, she
decides that she’s going to believe in them
anyway! (82 mins.; returning)
Minuscule (France; animation) Producer:
Futurikon Films; directors: Helene Giraud,
Thomas SzaboIn a peaceful little clearing, the
remains of a picnic hastily abandoned after a
summer storm, are going to ignite a war
between two tribes of ants. At stake is a box
of sugar. A young and bold ladybug finds herself
caught in the middle of the battle. She
becomes friends with one of the black ants
and helps him to save his anthill from the terri-
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le red ant warriors. (preproduction; presales;
debuting)
G-MACHINE, INC.
Cannes 2009 Office: Riveria F 15 C/o New
Films International
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Ron Gell, cynthia marquoit
Corporate Address: C/o New Films International,
14320 Ventura Blvd. #619, Sherman
Oaks, CA, 91423, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-501-2720
On Offer:
PALO ALTO (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers:
Daniel Engelhardt, Rachel Morrison; director:
Brad Leong; cast: Tom Arnold, Aaron Ashmore,
Johnny Lewis, Justin Mentell, Autumn Reeser
Ben Savage. On their last night of Thanksgiving
break, four old friends, now all college
freshmen, realize their small town has more
meaning than they ever imagined. (90 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; returning)
PVC-1 (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers: Jace Hall,
Spiros Stathoulopoulos; director: Spiros
Stathoulopoulos; cast: Merida Urquia, Daniel
Paez, Alberto Sornoza. Directors Fortnight
Cannes 2007; Thessaloniki International Film
Festival (Nov 2007) Winner of the Silver
Alexander (Special Jury Prize); Director Spiros
Stathoulopoulos Shot in real time and one
continuous take, PVC-1 is based on the true
story of a woman who is turned into a human
time bomb in an act of terrorism. (85 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; returning)
Witch Hunt (U.S.A.; documentary) Producers:
Sean Penn (executive Producer) Don
Hardy, Jr. Dana Nachman; director: Don Hardy
Jr. & Dana Nachman; cast: Sean Penn (narrator),
Jackie Cummings, Jack Cummings, Brenda
Kniffen, Scott Kniffen. Executive Producer
Sean Penn presents “Witch Hunt,” a gripping
indictment of the American justice system told
through the lens of one small town. This story
on a micro level mirrors what the US has experienced
over the last eight years. When power
is allowed to exist without oversight civil rights
are in jeopardy. (91 mins.; screening; returning)
GAGA COMMUNICATIONS,
INC.
Cannes 2009 Office: Palais 21.02 (japan
Booth)
Office Phone: 04-9299-8066
Attending: Kei Ishikawa, international marketing;
Haruko Watanabe, international marketing
Corporate Address: Midtown Tower, 9-7-1
Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 107-6233, Japan
Phone: 81-3-6823-7574
On Offer:
Be Sure To Share (Japan; drama) Producer:
Yasushi Umemura; director: Sion Sono;
cast: Akira, Eiji Okuda, Ayumi Ito. The canceraffected
body does not show the past glory of
Shiro’s father any longer. Facing the death of
his respected but fearful father, the son starts
to realize what his old man really meant in his
life for the first time. One day, however, Shiro
learns he himself is also a cancer patient,
worse than the father. Keeping his secret on
his own, on the contrary, he even starts to wish
the father to die earlier. What would Shiro
choose to share with his loved ones in his
remaining time? (postproduction; product
reel/trailer; debuting)
DumBeast (Japan; comedy) Producers:
Sachiko Sone, Naota Sugawara, Iwao Takase;
director: Hideaki Hosono; cast: Tadanobu
Asano, Kazuki Kitamura, Yusuke Santamaria.
An editor arrives at a village to find the missing
award-nominated writer Deko (Asano).
Awaiting here are Deko’s weird friends: the
boss of gigolo club, his yes-man cop friend,
boss’ mistress and a bunny girl. There, the editor
learns Deko was back in town a year back;
moreover, the friends have been desperately
trying to kill him because of this award book
Deko wrote... Despite of their countless trials
of murder, Deko’s dumbness keeps him from
even noticing his friends’ intentions... (106
mins.; premiere; debuting)
halfway (Japan; romance) Producers: Shunji
Iwai, Takeshi Kobayashi; director: Eriko Kitagawa;
cast: Kie Kitano, Masaki Okada. From
the filmmaker Shunji Iwai (“Love Letter,”
“Swallowtail”) comes another beautiful love
story, introducing the first-time director Eriko
Kitagawa. It is a bitter-sweet love story of high
school couple who cares for each other but
struggles for their relationship as the graduation
comes closer. (85 mins.; screening; returning)
GAUMONT
Cannes 2009 Office: 2 Rue Bivouac
Napoleon
Office Phone: -33-4-93-68-90-20
Office Fax: -33-4-92-28-27-55
Attending: Loïc Trocme, head of sales and
acquisitions; Cécile Gaget, sales & acquisitions;
Dorothée Grosjean, sales
Corporate Address: 30 Avenue Charles De
Gaulle, Neuilly Sur Seine, .., 92 200, France
Phone: -33-1-46-43-20-00
Fax: -33-1-46-43-20-00
On Offer:
HIGH LANE (France; horror) Director: Abel
Ferry; cast: Fanny Valette, Nicolas Giraud,
Johan Libéreau, Raphael Lenglet, Maud Wyler.
A group of friends on vacation decide to venture
onto a trail high up in the mountains that
has been closed for repairs. The climb proves
more perilous than planned, especially as they
soon realize that they’re not alone. The adventure
turns into a nightmare… (screening;
debuting)
OSS 117, LOST IN RIO (aka OSS 117,
RIO NE REPOND PLUS) (France; comedy)
Director: Michel Hazanavicius; cast: Jean
Dujardin, Louise Monot. OSS 117 is still a very
French spy. He is now in Rio, dealing with the
70s, hippies, ex nazis and ... chinese girls...
(screening; debuting)
SPLICE (France; sci-fi) Director: Vincenzo
Natali; cast: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley. Clive
and Elsa are young, brilliant and ambitious.
The new animal species they engineered have
made them rebel superstars of the scientific
world. In secret, they introduce human DNA
into the experiment. The result is something
that is greater than the sum of its parts: a
female animal-human hybrid that may be a
step up on the evolutionary ladder. (postproduction;
debuting)
GENERATION P LLC
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 10 19th Avenue, Venice,
CA, 90291, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-933-5708
On Offer:
GENERATION “P” (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Victor Ginzburg, Stas Yershov, Aleksey
Ryazantsev, Djina Ginzburg; director: Victor
Ginzburg; cast: Vladimir Yepifantsev, Mikhail
Yefremov, Oleg Takhtarov, Andrei Panin, Renata
Litvinova, Amaliya Goldanskaya, Andrei
Vasiliev, Leonid Parfyonov, Andrei Fomin.
Imagine Vonnegut meeting Gogol. Imagine a
wonderful, sardonic, rueful, I’ve-been-there
belly laugh. Now imagine that you take a
magical mystery tour through Babylonian,
recent Soviet/Russian and Madison Avenue
histories. Put it all in the same movie, spice
with LSD, lots of vodka and hallucinogenic
mushrooms and you might come close to film
based on Victor Pelevin’s internationally
acclaimed novel Generation “P” (published as
“Homo Zapiens” (US); Babylon (UK) (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; debuting)
GHENT INTERNATIONAL FILM
FESTIVAL
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: Leeuwstraat 40b, Gent,
-, B-9000, Belgium
Phone: -32-9-242-80-60
On Offer:
For The Record - Angelo Badalamenti
(CD) (Belgium; musical) Producer: Ghent
International Film FestivalCD recording of concert
Angelo Badalamenti at 2008 Ghent International
Film Festival (postproduction; presales;
debuting)
For The Record - Craig Armstrong
(CD) (Belgium; musical) Producer: Ghent
International Film FestivalCD recording of
2006 Craig Armstrong concert at the Ghent
International Film Festival (; returning)
For The Record - Michael Danna
(CD) (Belgium; musical) Producer: Ghent
International Film FestivalCD recording of
2007 Michael Danna concert at the Ghent
International Film Festival (; returning)
GK FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: The Penthouse, Riviera
Palace, Square Duboys D’angers, 06400cannes
Office Phone: 049-368-8551
Attending: Lisa Wilson, president of international
distribution; Bahman Naraghi, chief
operating officer; Alex Van Fleet, coordinator
of international distribution
Corporate Address: 1411 5th St., Suite 200,
Santa Monica, CA, 90404, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-315-1722
Fax: 310-315-1722
On Offer:
Edge of Darkness (U.S.A.) Producers: Graham
King, Michael Wearing; director: Martin
Campbell; cast: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone,
Danny Huston, Bojana Novakovic, Shawn
Roberts. A veteran homicide detective investigates
his daughter’s murder which leads into a
dangerous looking-glass world of corporate
cover-ups, government collusion and murder.
(postproduction; returning)
London Boulevard (U.S.A.) Producers:
Graham King, William Monahan, Quentin Curtis;
director: William Monahan; cast: Colin Farrell,
Keira Knightley, Ray Winstone, David
Thewlis, Anna Friel. “London Boulevard” is the
story of a South London criminal, newly
released from prison, who becomes involved
with a reclusive young actress. (preproduction;
debuting)
The Rum Diary (U.S.A.) Producers: Johnny
Depp, Christi Dembrowski, Anthony Rhulen,
Robert Kravis, And Graham King; director:
Bruce Robinson; cast: Johnny Depp, Aaron
Eckhart, Amber Heard, Michael Rispoli,
Richard Jenkins, And Giovanni Ribisi. “The Rum
Diary” tells the story of itinerant journalist Paul
Kemp who travels to Puerto Rico to work for a
local newspaper and soon becomes obsessed
with the wildly attractive fiancée of a shady
businessman. (production; debuting)
GOALPOST FILM
Cannes 2009 Office: The Grand Hotel,
(entrance Flamant, 4th Floor)
Office Phone: -44-7771-966-190
Attending: Tristan Whalley, co-managing
director; Nicki Parfitt, co-managing director;
Jessie Mangum, sales co-ordinator
Corporate Address: 258-260 Lavender Hill,
London, England, SW11 1LJ, Uk
Phone/Fax: -44-7771-966-190
On Offer:
Closed For Winter (Uk; drama) Producers:
Ben Grant, Kent Smith; director: James Bogle;
cast: Natalie Imbruglia. How can you understand
one day without understanding the day
before? At the beach one summer day a little
girl goes missing. Twenty years on her sister
finds the courage to rearrange the pieces of
her broken life ... and invent a new beginning.
(85 mins.; screening; debuting)
Jean Charles (Uk; drama) Producers: Luke
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Schiller, Carlos Nader, Henrique Goldman;
director: Henrique Goldman; cast: Selton
Mello. The tragic true story of Jean Charles de
Menezes, the innocent Brazilian shot dead by
British police in 2005 at the height of the London
terrorist alerts. (postproduction; product
reel/trailer; debuting)
Three Miles North of Molkom (Uk;
documentary) Producers/directors: Robert
Cannan, Corinna Villari-mcfarlaneThree miles
north of Molkom, hidden deep in the lakeside
forests of Sweden, lies Angsbacka; a 21st Century
playground for adults. Once a year, their
gates open to a thousand international participants,
placed in ‘Sharing Groups’ at random. A
Swedish celebrity, a Californian hippy, a
Finnish grandmother and a back-packing Australian
rugby coach, who stumbled on the
wrong party, are amongst the group that take
us on an unforgettably quirky, two-week emotional
roller-coaster. (102 mins.; screening;
debuting)
GOLD VIEW CO., LTD.
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: Entopia-ogikubo #1201,
Asagaya-minami, Suginami-ku, Tokyo, None,
166-0004, Japan
Phone: -81-3-5347-2501
Fax: -81-3-5347-2501
On Offer:
The Clone Returns Home (Japan; sci-fi)
Producers: Kiyoshi Inoue, Rie Yamamoto,
Yoshiaki Tago; director: Kanji Nakajima; cast:
Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Eri Ishida, Hiromi Nagasaku,
Kyusaku Shimada, Toru Shinagawa. Kohei
TAKAHARA, an astronaut who dies in the line
of duty, is legally resurrected as a clone; however,
contrary to the scientists’ expectations,
he reverts to his childhood memories when his
twin brother drowned sacrificing his life for
Kohei. Kohei’s clone discovers the body of his
former self mistakenly believing that it is his
deceased twin. Relieving his tragic past, he
sets off carrying his corpse on a journey to the
beautiful hometown where he lived twin his
now dead mother... (110 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
returning)
MIyoko [working title] (Japan; drama)
Producers: Kazuhiro Shirao, Noboru Miyashita;
director: Yoshifumi Tsubota; cast: Kenji
Mizuhashi, Marie Machida. (86 mins.; returning)
The portrait series: saekingdom +
utakata (Japan; documentary) Director:
Bun Nakata; cast: Saekingdom [kenzo Saeki]
Utakata [usagi Nakamura]. [saekingdom]
Kenzo Saeki was born on July 28th, 1958. He is
not just a musician and his work as a lyricist,
essayist, and producer have earned him
respect as a major charismatic figure and
commentator on subculture and all aspects of
Japanese culture. This film follows Kenzo
Saeki before and after the 2006 Pearl Brothers
[his Electro-pop band]’ come-back gig.
(120 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
GOLDCREST INDEPENDENT
Cannes 2009 Office: La Bagatelle, 7th Floor,
25 La Croisette
Office Phone: -33-4-93-39-63-48
Attending: Pierre Weisbein, executive vice
president of sales; Pietro Greppi, marketing &
sales
Corporate Address: 65/66 Dean Street, London,
London, W1D 4PL, United Kingdom
Phone: -44-20-7437-8696
Fax: -44-20-7437-8696
On Offer:
Amalia - The Movie (United Kingdom;
drama) Producer: Manuel Fonseca; director:
Carlos Coelho Da Silva; cast: Sandra Barata
Belo, Ricardo Pereira, Ana Padrão. The extraordinary
tale of love and glory of Amalia, the
greatest Portuguese Fado singer, unveiling her
secret stories and the most memorable
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moments of her career. The biography of a
diva who found fame across the world with
her phenomenal singing talent and whose life
was wrapped in passion and grief. (127 mins.;
screening; debuting)
Cartagena (United Kingdom; drama) Producers:
Pierre Forrette, Thierry Wong, Christine
Gozlan; director: Alain Monne; cast: Christopher
Lambert, Sophie Marceau. Cartagena,
Colombia. Leo, a one-time boxer, works for
Muriel, a tetraplegic woman. Slowly, a passionate
romance brings them together and
leads them toward horizons they’ve never
dared to explore before. (90 mins.; premiere;
debuting)
Cass (United Kingdom; drama) Producer:
Stefan Haller; director: Jon S. Baird; cast:
Nonso Anozie, Nathalie Press, Leo Gregory,
Gavin Brocke. Football hooligan, gang leader,
media sensation. Cass charts the provocative
true story of the leader of England’s most
feared football gang. (108 mins.; screening;
debuting)
GOLDEN NETWORK ASIA
LIMITED
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera Stand E15/17
Office Phone: 33-0-4-9299-3330
Office Fax: 852-2750-4862
Attending: Carrie Wong, managing director;
Clarence Tang, head of sales and acquisitions;
Lammy Li, sales and marketing manager
Corporate Address: Unit 1508, Nanyang
Plaza,, 57 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, Hong
Kong, N/a, N/A, Hong Kong, China
Phone: -852-2751-1886
Fax: -852-2751-1886
On Offer:
First Squad The Moment of Truth
(Hong Kong, China; animation) Producers:
Misha Shprits, Aljosha Klimov, Eiko Tanaka;
director: Ashino YoshiharuFirst Squad: Only
The Dead Can Fight The Dead. Fourteen year
old Nadya must cross the border into the
underworld and summon the souls of her
dead friends to battle Nazi forces advancing
on Moscow. When Hitler summons the souls
of dead warriors Russia’s only hope for survival
lies on one fourteen year old girl and the spirits
of her dead friends. (75 mins.; debuting)
McDull Kung Fu Kindergarten (Hong
Kong, China; animation) Producer/director:
Brian TseMcDull has been abandoned in
Wudang for the summer vacations to prepare
for the International Kindergarten Martial Arts
Competition. Meanwhile, archaeologists have
excavated a very, very slow cuckoo clock.
When it falls into the trotters of our clumsy
pig, it give him extraordinary dexterity on the
day of the competition... (postproduction;
debuting)
Merantau (Hong Kong, China; actionadventure)
Producer: Ario Sagantoro; director:
Gareth Evans; cast: Iko Uwais, Sisca Jessica,
Yusuf Aulia, Mads Koudal, Alex Abbad, Yayan
Ruhian. Introducing to the world Indonesia’s
martial art of Pencak Silat, rising action star
Iko Uwais plays Yuda, a student of silat harimau
as he journeys to the bustling city of
Jakarta to fullfill the traditional rites-of-passage
known as Merantau. Upon arrival, he is
thrust into the world of human trafficking as
he defends an abandoned brother and sister
from becoming the latest victims in an adrenaline
charged, jaw-dropping finale. (postproduction;
debuting)
GOLDEN SCENE COMPANY
LIMITED
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Winnie Tsang,
Corporate Address: 15b Astoria Building, 34
Ashley Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong
Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
Phone: -852-2265-9999
Fax: -852-2265-9999
On Offer:
Permanent Residence (Hong Kong;
drama) Producer/director: Scud; cast: Sean Li,
Osman Hung. A young man pursues an impossible
love with his straight boyfriend and contemplates
on the mortality of his loved ones.
(115 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
Soundless Wind Chime (Hong Kong;
drama) Producers: Jacqueline Liu, Kit Hung;
director: Kit Hung; cast: Lu Yulai, Bernhard
Bulling. A Chinese boy embarks on a fairy-tale
journey in Switzerland to search for the soul of
his deceased gay Swiss lover. (100 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; returning)
Trivial Matters (Hong Kong; comedy) Producers:
Pang Ho-cheung, Chapman To; director:
Pang Ho-cheung; cast: Eason Chan, Gillian
Chung, Shawn Yue. Seven absurd and comical
situations, adapted from Pang Ho-cheung’s
published collection of short stories, starring
Hong Kong’s top teen idols. (90 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; returning)
GOLDEN SUN FILMS DISTRIB-
UTION LTD
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 11/f., Hong Lok House,,
No. 477, Nathan Road, Kowloon, Kowloon,
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Phone: -852-2385-5939
Fax: -852-2385-5939
On Offer:
A Chinese Ghost Story (Hong Kong;
action-adventure) (preproduction; debuting)
Painted Skin (Hong Kong; action-adventure)
Producers: Ketsarinh Lan (kathy), Pang
Hong; director: Gordon Chan; cast: Donnie Yen,
Zhou Xun, Zhao Wei, Chen Kun, Sun Li, Qi
Yuwu. General Wang (Chen Kun) saved a gorgeous
girl, Mei-ling( Zhou Xun), from a village
bandits while on the way back to his hometown,
JiangDu. He decided to bring her along
to his hometown. Yet, after her arrival to the
town, numerous be-hearted murder keeps on
happening. Wang’s wife, Pei-rong (Zhao Wei)
is worried that it could be Mei-ling and she has
called for Er-long (Donnie Yen) along with an
Exorcist (Sun Li), to help her fight against Meiling.
(118 mins.; debuting)
GORILLA PICTURES
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 2000 West Olive Ave.,
Burbank, CA, 91506, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-848-2198
Fax: 818-848-2198
On Offer:
Charlie Valentine (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Edward Robin, Bill J. Gottlieb, Ray Cavaleri,
Ted Warren; director: Jesse V. Johnson; cast:
Raymond J. Barry, Michael Weatherly, Tom
Berenger. A rich and gritty film noir with
intense action and drama. The film chronicles
the exploits of Charlie Valentine, a career
criminal intent on going for one last hurrah
before retiring. When his final “caper” goes
bad, Charlie heads to Los Angeles to hide out
with his estranged son, Danny. Charlie and
Danny form a bond that surprises them both
and leads them to a teacher/student relationship.
They pull a job together and what
ensues reveals the true nature of the unsavory
characters. (95 mins.; premiere; debuting)
The Legend of Sasquatch (U.S.A.; children/teen)
Producer: Bill J. Gottlieb; director:
Thomas Callicoat; cast: William Hurt, John
Rhys-davies, . The Davis Family - John
(William Hurt), Khristy (Jewel Restaneo) and
Maggie (Blaire Restaneo) - move in to a
secluded log cabin in the mountains above
Seattle. They soon discover a family of Bigfoot
hiding nearby. When the Bigfoot and Ranger
Steve (John Rhys-Davies) ask the Davis family
for help the adventure of a lifetime begins.
Summary written by Thomas Callicoat (73
mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
Shadows in Paradise (U.S.A.; actionadventure)
Producers: Erken Ialgashev, Ken
Schwenker; director: Bill Corcoran; cast: Mark
Dacascos, Armand Assante, Sofya Skya, Bruce
Boxleitner, Danny Trejo, Steven Bauer. Two
years after disappearing during a rescue operation
in the middle-east, Max Forester’s
fiancé and former squad-mate, Sasha, suddenly
reappears moving freely among the
company of Al-Qaeda members. Max’s ex-
Captain informs him the Special Ops are sending
in his former unit Shadow Company to
bring her back and charge her with treason or
worse. Max sets off to find her before they do
and learns there is much more at stake than
his relationship. Summary written by Ivan-
Abate (86 mins.; premiere; debuting)
GORKY FILM STUDIO
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 8, Eizenshteina Street,
Moscow, Russia, 129108, Russia
Phone: -74991814103
On Offer:
The best of times (Russia; drama) Producer:
Stanislav Ershov; director: Svetlana
Proskurina; cast: Viktor Suhorukov, Danna Agisheva.
www.bestoftimes-film.com (87 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; returning)
Woman’s chorus (Russia; drama) Producer:
Stanislav Ershov; director: Svetlana Proskurina
(development; presales; returning)
H2O MOTION PICTURES
Cannes 2009 Office: Residence Grand
Hotel, Entre Goeland Apt. #3a
Office Phone: 44-7509-255-303
Attending: Mark Horowitz, partner; Andras
Hamori, partner
Corporate Address: 23 Denmark Street, 3rd
Floor, London, England, WC2H 8NH, United
Kingdom
Phone: 44-207-240-5656
On Offer:
Charlie & Boots (United Kingdom; comedy)
Producers: David Redman, Dale Murphy,
Shana Levine; director: Dale Murphy; cast:
Paul Hogan, Shane Jacobson, Morgan Griffin.
When Charlie’s his wife of 45 years suddenly
dies, the once feisty old curmudgeon is left
alone and depressed. His estranged son Boots
decides to help him get back into life, and
before Charlie realizes what is happening,
Boots has his very reluctant father in the car
on a fishing trip. But not just any fishing trip;
they are headed to Cape York, the northern
most point in Australia and some 3,000 miles
away. (94 mins.; premiere; debuting)
The Gate 3-D (United Kingdom;
children/teen) Producer: Andras Hamori;
director: Alex Winter; cast: Tba. When best
friends Glen and Terry stumble across a mysterious
crystalline rock in Glen’s back yard, they
quickly dig up the lawn searching for more.
Instead, they unearth the Gate—an underground
chamber containing terrifying evil.
With supernatural fiends invading suburbia,
it’s now up to the kids to discover the secret
that can lock the Gate forever. (preproduction;
presales; returning)
Running Wild (United Kingdom; thriller)
Producer: Andras Hamori; director: Kevin Kerslake;
cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Kristin Scottthomas.
Based on the novella by J.G. Ballard
(Crash, Empire of the Sun) Samuel L Jackson
is an ex-forensic psychiatrist brought back f by
the FBI to help them solve one the most baffling
and heinous crimes ever uncovered. In
the exclusive gated community of Homeland,
every adult has been killed and all the children
of Homeland have vanished without a clue or
ransom demand. (preproduction; presales;
returning)
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Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 2620 S. Maryland Parkway,
#970, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89109, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-388-6087
On Offer:
ALIEN UPRISING (U.S.A.; sci-fi) Producer:
Laura Schlachtmeyer; director: Andrew Bellware;
cast: Rebecca Kush, Steve Deighan,
Amelia Randolph Campbell, Jeffrey Plunkett.
In the future. Marines land on the prison planet
Rove 12 in order to put down a suspected
prisoner uprising. When the Marines arrive,
they find most of the prisoners and all of the
guards dead. Any survivors are hiding from a
ruthless, blood thirsty creature. Now the prisoners
and the Marines have to band together
to get off the planet - ALIVE. (90 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; returning)
HUMANITY’S END (U.S.A.; sci-fi) Producer/director:
Neil Johnson; cast: Jay Laisne,
Rochelle Vallese, Cynthia Ickes. The year is
3313. Mankind is being systematically massacred
throughout the galaxy by an invading
species. All hope is lost until the last strand of
pure human DNA is found on a remote planet
in the far reaches of the galaxy. Now, an epic
battle will be waged across time and space to
save and protect the last of the human race.
(90 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
STARQUEST: THE ODYSSEY (U.S.A.;
sci-fi) Producers: Jon Bonnell, Kevin R Phipps;
director: Jon Bonnell; cast: Shane Stevens,
Adam Rini, Katherine Stewart. After being at
war for over 100 years, sworn enemies must
fight together to save the universe from
destruction. (90 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
returning)
HANDMADE FILMS INTERNA-
TIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 38 Albemarle Street,
London, London, W1S 4JG, United Kingdom
Phone: 442075188230
Fax: 442075188230
On Offer:
Eloise in Paris (United Kingdom; family)
Producers: Thomas D. Adelman, Patrick Meehan,
Charles Shyer; director: Charles Shyer;
cast: Uma Thurman. Energetic, mischevious
but loveable Eloise and her beloved Nanny
travel to Paris. Join them as they encounter a
host of delectable characters and take the
fashion world by storm. (preproduction; presales;
returning)
FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING (United
Kingdom; thriller) Producers: Stephen Heyges,
Peter La Terriere, Shawn Williamson, Kari
Skogland; director: Kari Skogland; cast: Ben
Kingsley, Jim Sturgess, Natalie Press, Kevin
Zegers, Rose Mcgowan. Fifty Dead Men Walking
is a fast-paced action thriller set in the
treacherous world that was Northern Ireland
in the 1980s. Starring Jim Sturgess and Ben
Kingsley. (110 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
returning)
PLANET 51 (United Kingdom; animation)
Producer: Ignacio Perez Dolset; director: Jorge
Blanco; cast: Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel,
Justin Long, Sean William Scott, Gary Oldman,
Johnn Cleese. Production is nearly complete
on this comic alien invasion movie. Written by
Shrek and Shrek 2 writer, Joe Stillman. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; returning)
HANNIBAL PICTURES
Cannes 2009 Office: Lerins Riviera Upper
Floor No. S11
Office Phone: 33 (0)4 92 99 32 49
Attending: Richard Rionda Del Castro, chairman
& ceo; Patricia Rionda Del Castro, president;
Jonathan Collins, director of sales
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Corporate Address: 8265 Sunset Blvd., Suite
107, West Hollywood, CA, 90046, U.S.A.
Phone: 323-848-2945
Fax: 323-848-2945
On Offer:
Bagman a/k/a Casino Jack (U.S.A.;
thriller) Producers: George Vitetzakis, Bill
Marks; director: George Hickenlooper; cast:
Kevin Spacey, Hayden Christensen. A hot shot
Washington DC lobbyist and his protege go
down hard as their schemes to peddle influence
lead to corruption and murder. Based on
a true story. (production; presales; debuting)
Giallo (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers: Richard
Rionda Del Castro, Rafael Primorac, Adrien
Brody; director: Dario Argento; cast: Adrien
Brody, Emmanuelle Seigner, Elsa Pataky. In
Italy, a woman fears her sister may have been
kidnapped. Inspector Enzo Avolfi fears it’s
worse. They team up to rescue her from a
sadistic killer known only as Yellow. (92 mins.;
screening; returning)
Give ‘Em Hell Malone (U.S.A.; actionadventure)
Producers: Richard Rionda Del
Castro, Richard Salvatore, Johnny Martin;
director: Russell Mulcahy; cast: Thomas Jane,
Ving Rhames, Elsa Pataky. A tough private eye
takes a job retrieving a case containing a mysterious
secret. Bullets, fists, and blood fly as he
fights through an army of thugs to protect the
secret. (; returning)
HANWAY FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: Residence Du Gray
D’albion
Office Phone: -33-0-493399970
Office Fax: -33-0-493397728
Attending: Tim Haslam, CEO; Thorsten Schumacher,
director, worldwide sales & distribution
- general manager; Sofia Neves, director,
sales & distribution
Corporate Address: 24 Hanway Street, London,
London, W1T 1UH, Uk
Phone: -44-207-290-0750
On Offer:
Creation (Uk; drama) Producer: Jeremy
Thomas; director: Jon Amiel; cast: Paul Bettany,
Jennifer Connelly. Darwin’s great, still
controversial, book The Origin of Species
depicts nature as a battleground. In CREATION
the battleground is a man’s heart. Torn
between his love for his deeply religious wife
and his own growing belief in a world where
God has no place, Darwin finds himself caught
in a struggle between faith and reason, love
and truth. (postproduction; product reel/trailer;
returning)
It’s a Wonderful Afterlife (Uk; comedy)
Producers: Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder
Chadha; director: Gurinder Chadha; cast: Shabana
Azmi, Sally Hawkins. Finding the perfect
son-in-law can be murder. MY BIG FAT GREEK
WEDDING and SHAUN OF THE DEAD meet in
this comedy romp about an Indian mother
taking her obsession with marriage into frighteningly
funny territory. (production; returning)
Nowhere Boy (Uk; drama) Producers:
Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Kevin Loader;
director: Sam Taylor-wood; cast: Aaron Johnson,
Kristin Scott-thomas. John Lennon grew
up in a family full of secrets. Raised by his Aunt
Mimi, he is suddenly reacquainted with his
mother, Julia. Their reconciliation catapults
him toward finding out the truth behind the
war that has raged between two very different
sisters. Now coming of age, John must bring
this war to an end. A fragile peace breaks out,
marred by tragedy. But his mother gives him
one great gift - music. A wayward boy finds his
voice. (production; returning)
HEADLINE PICTURES LTD.
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone: -447966543772
Attending: Stewart Mackinnon, CEO; Adrian
Gifford, chairman; Stephan Trockle, producer’s
assistant
Corporate Address: 5 Charlotte Square,
Newcastle-upon-tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE1 4XF,
United Kingdom
Phone: 44-191-261-8808
On Offer:
INVISIBLE WOMAN, THE (United Kingdom;
drama) (development; debuting)
PETER PAN IN SCARLET (United Kingdom;
family) (development; debuting)
QUARTET (United Kingdom; drama)
(development; debuting)
HIGH POINT MEDIA GROUP
Cannes 2009 Office: Residences Du Grand
Hotel, Cormoran Ii Entrance, 3rd Floor, Apt. 33,
47 Croisette, 06400 Cannes
Office Phone: -33-493-38-05-87
Attending: Carey Fitzgerald, managing director;
Julie Murphy Delaney, director; Elisar Cabrera,
director of sales & marketing, theatrical
Corporate Address: Suite 16, Deane House
Studios, Greenwood Place, London, London,
NW5 1LB, United Kingdom
Phone: 0044-2074246870
Fax: 0044-2074246870
On Offer:
Lemo (United Kingdom; family) Producer:
Marc Punt; director: Guy Goossens; cast: Anouk
Van Schie, Meike Hurts, Monique De Waal,
Fleur Minjon, Jan Decleir. Four girls discover a
hidden village where there are no children and
all the inhabitants seem to be under a sleeping
spell. (96 mins.; screening; debuting)
The Race (United Kingdom; family) Producers:
Michael Garland, Paul Donovan; director:
André F. Nebe; cast: Colm Meaney, Susan
Lynch, Niamh Mcgirr. Growing up in a poor
farming family, eleven year old Mary dreams of
being a racing driver, so when the chance arises
to enter a local go-cart race, she can’t resist
the chance. (83 mins.; screening; debuting)
Winter in Wartime (United Kingdom;
drama) Producers: Els Vandevorst, San Fu
Maltha; director: Martin Koolhoven; cast: Martijn
Lakemeier, Yorick Van Wageningen, Jamie
Campbell Bower. In the last winter of World
War II, 14 year old Michiel helps a wounded
British pilot hiding out in Nazi occupied Holland.
(103 mins.; screening; debuting)
HOLLAND FILM
Cannes 2009 Office: Holland Film Pavilion
Nr 106
Office Phone: -31-6-5073-7681
Office Fax: -
Attending: Claudia Landsberger, managing
director; Baukje Stamm, project coordinator
Corporate Address: Jan Luykenstraat 2,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1071 CM, The
Netherlands
Phone: -31-20-570-7575
Fax: -31-20-570-7575
On Offer:
The Aviatrix of Kazbek (The Netherlands;
drama) Producers: Els Vandevorst For
Isabella Films, San Fu Maltha For Fu Works;
director: Ineke Smits; cast: Madelief Blanken,
Zura Zhghenti. On the island of Texel, Marie
dreams of mountains. She loves dancing, but
the village community expects her to behave.
She wants to be an independent woman, but
is the only girl in a large family. Only when she
meets the Georgian Goga and Irakli can she
break away from the suffocating reality by
learning to trust her fantasies. (105 mins.;
debuting)
The last days of Emma Blank (The
Netherlands; comedy) Producer: Marc Van
Warmerdam For Graniet Film; director: Alex
Van Warmerdam; cast: Marlies Heuer, Annet
Malherbe. In a large country home, the sick
Emma Blank is cared for by her personnel:
Haneveld the head housekeeper, Bella the
cook, Gonnie the maid and Meier the man-servant.
But despite her desperate need for loving
care, Emma is a steely, avaricious dictator
whose demands become ever more absurd.
When the staff discovers that they stand to
inherit nothing, however, they drop their mask
of pretence and plan revenge. (95 mins.;
debuting)
Winter in Wartime (The Netherlands;
action-adventure) Producers: Els Vandevorst
For Isabella Films, San Fu Maltha For Fu
Works; director: Martin Koolhoven; cast: Martijn
Lakemeier, Yorick Van Wageningen. When
Michiel (13) becomes involved in the Resistance
in the last winter of the Second World
War, he learns that good and evil are close
together, he grows up and loses his innocence.
(103 mins.; debuting)
HOLLYWOOD CLASSICS
Cannes 2009 Office: 63 La Croisette, 4th
Floor Le Lerina, Cannes 06400
Office Phone: 04-93-94-00-09
Attending: Mr Joe Dreier, director; Ms Melanie
Tebb, theatrical and dvd sales; Mr David
Llewellyn-jones, tv and dvd sales
Corporate Address: Linton House, 39/51
Highgate Road, London, England, NW5 1RS,
Uk
Phone: -44-0-20-7424-7280
Fax: -44-0-20-7424-7280
On Offer:
Aria (1987) (Uk; drama) Producer: Don
Boyd; directors: Ken Russell, Jean-luc Goddard,
Robert Altman; cast: Tilda Swinton, Elizabeth
Hurley, John Hurt. Ten short pieces from ten
directors, each interpreting an aria in their own
unique way. (90 mins.; presales; debuting)
Butterfly Kiss (1995) (Uk; thriller) Producer:
Julie Baines And Sarah Daniel; director:
Michael Winterbottom; cast: Amanda Plummer,
Saskia Reeves. Set on the bleak highways
of Lancashire in England, this is the story of a
nomadic serial killer and a naive and lonely
young girl who falls under her spell. (88 mins.;
presales; debuting)
Silent Touch (1992) (Uk; drama) Producer:
Mark Forstater; director: Krzysztof Zanussi;
cast: Max Von Sydow, Lothaire Bluteau, Sarah
Miles. The sexual and creative urges of a composer
and Holocaust survivor are awakened
when a young music student coaxes him out
of retirement. (92 mins.; presales; debuting)
HOLLYWOOD WIZARD
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera C4
Office Phone: +33 (0)4 92 99 32 4
Attending: Tony Kandah, president & ceo;
Mirna Kandah, COO
Corporate Address: 8918 Amestoy Ave,
Northridge, CA, 91325, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-734-7261
Fax: 818-734-7261
On Offer:
BALLISTICA (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Producer: Tony Kandah; director: Gary Jones;
cast: Martin Kove, Paul Logan, Robert Davi,
Andrew Divoff. DAMIAN has been trained in
“BALLISTICA;” a deadly form of hand-to-hand
combat using ballistics and firearms. He is one
of the few Americans who has perfected it,
which makes him the CIA’s best weapon
against International Terrorism. (postproduction;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
ESCAPE FROM DARWIN (U.S.A.; actionadventure)
Director: Istvan Criste; cast: Robert
Smith, Cecilie Bull, Rich Knight. After a stranded
bank robber is murdered for cash on a
desert highway, his partner sets out to track
down the stolen cash and avenge his friend.
(90 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
WAR MACHINE (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Director: Rene Perez; cast: Robert Amstler. A
terrorist threat rises from the third world, and
its target is the United States of America. A
fanatical would-be dictator devises a plan to
overthrow the American government. The U.S
immediately forms an elite strike force to
engage the new terrorist regime before it can
and on U.S. soil. (87 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; debuting)
HORIZON MOTION PICTURES
Cannes 2009 Office: G20 Located On The
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Office Phone: 06-37-67-21-18
Attending: Rob Straight, president; Emily
Chan, sales assistant
Corporate Address: Suite 407-1250 Homer
St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B2R9,
Canada
Phone: 604-632-1707
Fax: 604-632-1707
On Offer:
Crude (Canada; documentary) Producer:
Michael Bonfiglio; director: Joe BerlingerThe
inside story of the infamous “Amazon Chernobyl”
case, Crude is a real-life high stakes
legal drama, set against a backdrop of the
environmental movement, global politics,
celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the
media, multinational corporate power, and
rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. (101
mins.; screening; debuting)
Embodiment of Evil (Canada; horror)
Producers: Caio Gullane, Fabiano Gullane,
Debora Ivanov; director: Jose Mojica Marins;
cast: Jose Mojica Marins, Luis Melo. After serving
a 40 year prison term, Coffin Joe is finally
released. Back on the streets, the sadistic
undertaker is set upon fulfilling the goal which
sent him to jail in the first place: find a woman
who can give him the perfect child. During his
search throughout the city of Sao Paulo he
leaves behind a trail of horror, coming up
against supernatural laws and folk superstitions.
(90 mins.; screening; debuting)
Pirate for the Sea (Canada; documentary)
Producers: Ron Colby, Patricia Van Ryker;
director: Ron Colby; cast: Paul Watson, Robert
Hunter. A biographical documentary on Captain
Paul Watson, a founding member of
Greenpeace Canada. Greenpeace ejected him
for being an overzealous activist with purported
militaristic tactics. Starting his own organization,
the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society,
Watson has sunk illegal whaling ships,
stopped Canadian seal hunts for ten years,
and permanently halted sealing in the British
Isles and the killing of dolphins on Iki Island,
Japan. (100 mins.; screening; debuting)
HUAYI BROTHERS MEDIA
CORPORATION
Cannes 2009 Office: Lerins R9
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Felice Bee, director, int’l sales &
co-productions; Kelly Pang, manager, int’l
sales & distributions; Lana Peng, assistant
manager, int’l sales & distributions.
Corporate Address: Lou Tai Duan Wenyu
River, Tian Zhu, Shunyi, Beijing, Beijing, 101312,
China
Phone: -86-10-64579338
Fax: -86-10-64579338
On Offer:
THE MESSAGE (China; thriller) Producers:
Wang Zhongjun, Wang Zhonglei; directors:
Chen Kuo-fu, Gao Qunshu; cast: Zhou Xun, Li
Bingbing, Huang Xiaoming. In order to determine
who’s behind a failed assassination
attempt, fire intelligence officers are brought
in for interrogation. The only way for them to
survive is to turn on each other. (postproduction;
presales; debuting)
TRACING SHADOW (China; actionadventure)
Producers: Wang Zhongjun, Wang
Zhonglei; directors: Francis Ng, Marco Mak;
cast: Francis Ng, Jaycee Chan. From the producers
of ‘The Forbidden Kingdom’ and ‘Kung
fu Hustle’ , comes a brand new martial arts
adventures. (postproduction; presales; debuting)
HUNGARICOM LTD.
Cannes 2009 Office: R5
Office Phone: -33-0-492-993-204
Attending: Zsuzsanna Kálomista, mrs.; Viktor
Dudás, mr.; Tünde Albert, ms.
Corporate Address: Mesterházi U.10.,
Budapest, -, 1116, Hungary
Phone: -36-1-365-1750
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Fax: -36-1-365-1750
On Offer:
Chameleon (Hungary; drama) Producer:
Gábor Kálomista; director: Krisztina Goda;
cast: Ervin Nagy, Gabriella Hámori, Sándor
Csányi, János Kulka, Zsolt Trill. Gabor is an
office cleaner. Nobody suspects that in fact he
is a con man who carefully chooses his victims.
His targets ar lonely women. In a few months
he takes all their savings. Gabor is an artist in
manipulation. He gets a job at a psychologist’s
office and meets Hanna, an injured dancer
and the daughter of a millionaire. She seems
to be the perfect victim. He pretends to be a
doctor offering her what she desperately
needs. Everything goes well until Gabor falls in
love with her. (104 mins.; screening; debuting)
Immigrants - L.A. Dolce Vita (Hungary;
animation) Producer: Arlene Klasky Gabor
Csupo Gabor Kálomista Tamás Rákosi; director:
Gabor CsupoMore people immigrate to
America than to all other countries in the
whole world combined. Why? Is it because
they love hot dogs and hamburgers? Or
because they want to meet Snoop Dogg or
have a close encounter with Pamela Anderson?
Maybe. But the real reason is – immigrants
go to the U.S. to chase the American
dream. (87 mins.; screening; debuting)
Made in Hungaria (Hungary; musical)
Producer: Ádám Neményi; director: Gergely
Fonyó; cast: Tamás Szabó Kimmel, Iván Feny?,
Tünde Kiss, Titánia Valentin. At a time when
everybody else would like to escape to the
West an adolescent boy returns home from
America to spread rock’n’roll. (109 mins.;
screening; debuting)
HYDE PARK INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Carlton 141
Office Phone: +33 (0)4.93.06.40.06
Office Fax: +33 (0)4.93.06.40.25
Attending: Mimi Steinbauer, president;
Ashok Amritraj, CEO; Aska Yamaguchi, sales
coordinator
Corporate Address: 14958 Ventura Blvd.,
Suite 100, Sherman Oaks, CA, 91403, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-783-6060
On Offer:
Blue Valentine (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Lynette Howell, Jamie Patricof And Alex
Orlovsky; director: Derek Cianfrance; cast: Ryan
Gosling, Michelle Williams. A heart rending tale
of lost love and missed opportunities, BLUE
VALENTINE is an intimate portrait of the last
desperate days of a relationship offset by the
anticipation, optimism and overwhelming
affection of love. (preproduction; returning)
The City of Your Final Destination
(U.S.A.; drama) Producers: Richard Hawley,
Pierre Proner, And Ashok Amritraj; director:
James Ivory; cast: Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney.
28-year-old Kansas University doctoral
student Omar Razaghi, has won a grant to
write a biography of Latin American writer
Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three
people who were close to Gund - his brother,
widow, and younger mistress - so he can get
authorization to write the biography. (118
mins.; screening; returning)
Dead of Night (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Producers: Ashok Amritraj, Scott Rosenberg;
director: Kevin Munroe; cast: Brandon Routh,
Anita Briem. Based on a highly successful
European comic book “DYLAN DOG”, DEAD OF
NIGHT is a paranormal whodunit with a hip,
modern style – think MEN IN BLACK with
werewolves, vampires, and zombies! (production;
returning)
ICELANDIC FILM CENTRE
Cannes 2009 Office: Scandinavian Terrace
Office Phone: -33-0-676083719
Attending: Christof Wehmeier, festival manager
at the icelandic film centre; Laufey Gudjonsdottir,
director of the icelandic film centre;
Sigurros Hilmarsdottir, head of production &
finance at the icelandic film centre.
Corporate Address: Túngata 14, Reykjavik,
Iceland, 101, Iceland
Phone: 003545623580
Fax: 003545623580
On Offer:
Reykjavik Rotterdam (Iceland; thriller)
Producers: Agnes Johansen, Baltasar Kormákur;
director: Oskar Jonasson; cast: Baltasar
Kormákur, Ingvar E. Sigurdsson. Christopher
(Baltasar Kormákur) is like a fish on dry land
after being fired from a freight liner. He doesn’t
really stand a chance of being rehired, having
been busted for illegal alcohol trafficking.
Because of the high price of alcohol, Christopher
and his mates couldn’t resist earning an
extra buck by smuggling some vodka each
time they sailed in. Faced with serious money
problems, Christopher manages, with the help
of a friend, to get his job back. (85 mins.;
screening; debuting)
ICON ENTERTAINMENT INTL.
Cannes 2009 Office: Le Lerina, 63 La
Croisette
Office Phone: 33-4-92-59-43-90
Office Fax: 33-4-92-59-43-99
Attending: Mark Gooder, chief executive officer,
icon group; Anthony Buckner, senior international
sales manager; Abby Kadell, international
sales manager
Corporate Address: Solar House, 1st Floor,
915 High Road, North Finchley, London, London,
N12 8QJ, U.k.
Phone: 44-208-492-6300
Fax: 44-208-492-6300
On Offer:
Coriolanus (U.k.; thriller) Producers: Julia
Taylor-stanley, Gabrielle Tana, Ralph Fiennes,
John Logan; director: Ralph Fiennes; cast:
Ralph Fiennes. A contemporary version of
Shakespeare’s dangerous political thriller.
Coriolanus, a brave soldier of inflexible self
belief despises the citizens of Rome who seek
to prevent him from taking political office.
Bloody riots engulf the city. Coriolanus vows
to destroy Rome but finally yields to his mother’s
will and is brutally murdered by his sworn
enemy Tullus Aufidius. (preproduction; presales;
debuting)
The Tempest (U.k.; drama) Producers: Julia
Taylor-stanley, Bob Chartoff, Lynn Hendee;
director: Julie Taymor; cast: Helen Mirren, Tom
Conti, David Strathairn, Ben Whishaw, Russell
Brand, Alfred Molina, Djimon Hounsou, Felicity
Jones, Reeve Carney, Alan Cumming. In Shakespeare’s
fantastical thriller the magician Prospero
orchestrates spirits, monsters, a griefstricken
king, a wise old councillor, two
treacherous brothers and a storm at sea into a
fantastical conspiracy bringing banishment,
sorcery and shipwreck into the lives of two
hapless lovers to stir and seal their fate. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; returning)
Triangle (U.k.; thriller) Producers: Jason
Newmark, Julie Baines, Chris Brown; director:
Christopher Smith; cast: Melissa George,
Michael Dorman, Rachael Carpani, Henry
Nixon. When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a
group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling
that there is something wrong. Her suspicions
are realised when the yacht hits a storm and
the group is forced to board a passing ocean
liner to get to safety, a ship Jess is convinced
she’s been on before. The ship appears deserted,
the clock on board has stopped, but they
are not alone... Someone is intent on hunting
them down, one by one. And Jess unknowingly
holds the key to end the terror. (screening;
returning)
IDREAM INDEPENDENT PIC-
TURES
Cannes 2009 Office: 22.02 Palais Des Festivals
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Rohit Sharma, president - international
sales; Kanika Vasudeva, asst. vice
president
Corporate Address: 99 Kenton Road, Har-
row. Middlesex,, London, United Kingdom, HA3
OAN, United Kingdom
Phone: -919820189556
On Offer:
Bombay Summer (United Kingdom;
drama) Producers: Joseph Mathew Varghese,
Sanjay Bhattacharjee; director: Joseph Mathew
Varghese; cast: Tannishtha Chatterjee,
Samrat Chakrabarti. Bombay Summer
explores the fleeting and delicate friendship
between three young people and its eventual
disintegration in the face of betrayal and personal
loss. Set in contemporary India, the film
subtly mirrors the turmoil within tradition
bound Indian society as it copes with change
and rapid modernization. (105 mins.; premiere;
debuting)
Karma Calling (United Kingdom; comedy)
Producers: Rita Parikh, Sarthak Das, Andy Carmone;
director: Sarba Das; cast: Samrat
Chakrabarti, Barnali Das, Kavi Ladnier. What
happens when a bunch of hapless Hindus
from Hoboken get mixed up with an underworld
don with connections to an Indian call
center? And what happens when a good Jersey
girl falls for a smooth operator thousands
of miles away? For one thing, the phone
keeps ringing. Narrated by award-winning
actor Tony Sirico Karma Calling is a snapshot
of our hyper-globalized world through the
eyes of a Garden state family just trying to get
by. (90 mins.; premiere; debuting)
Thanks Maa (United Kingdom; drama)
Producer: Quantum Films Ltd.; director: Irfan
Kamal; cast: Shams, Salman, Fayyaz. In the
vein of Danny Boyle’s ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
and Mira Nair’s ‘Salaam Bombay’ Thanks Maa
is poignant tale of a 12 year old street kid
named Municipality. While on the run from the
reformatory, he finds & saves a two day old
abandoned baby from becoming the prey to a
ferocious street dog. Failing to find any takers
among the people whom he deemed responsible
and respectable, Municipality takes up
the onus of finding the mother of that abandoned
baby himself. (110 mins.; premiere;
debuting)
IFD FILMS AND ARTS LTD
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: Flat 4, 3/f, Block B, Vigor
Ind. Bldg, 14-20 Cheung Tat Road, Tsing Yi,, Nt,
-, -, Hong Kong
Phone: 852-27300048
Fax: 852-27300048
On Offer:
BigBossUntouchable (Hong Kong;
action-adventure) Producers: Joseph Lai,
Ricky Wong; director: Kant Leung; cast: Dragon
Sek, Karen Cheung, Ben Ng, Lawrence Wang,
Paul See, Yannie Chen, Ford Lek, Willy Kong.
TANG is a warlord at Big River where he operates
gambling dens, prostitution and loan
sharking. LIONEL arrives Big River witnessing
the gangs extorting money from the local
merchants. When the gangs kidnap his
finance, he wastes no time to fight back. (90
mins.; debuting)
DragonTheMaster (Hong Kong; actionadventure)
Producers: Joseph Lai, Ricky Wong;
director: Ray Woo; cast: Dragon Sek, Karen
Cheung, Roy Cheung, Edward So, Billy Chow,
Lily Chung, Huang Yang. SHALLY, a newly hired
junior computer game programmer, has just
unveiled her latest computer game “Tiger
Storm”. Her new project “Jeek Kune Do – the
Way of Intercepting Fist” confronts a sharp
competition with COLEWAY’S “Drunken Fist”
and NICK’S “Thai Boxing”. (90 mins.; debuting)
Hero TheGreat (Hong Kong; actionadventure)
Producer: Joseph Lai; director:
George Lai; cast: Dragon Sek, Carter Hwang,
Philip Oh, Karen Cheung. CHAO is a powerful
man who controls many martial arts societies.
After a long battle that lasts a whole day and
night, the SHAOLIN abbot MERCY defeats
CANNES
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him. MOON comes to Shaolin to invite
Mercy to her father’s 50th birthday ceremony.
Moon often visits Shaolin with her father so
she knows DRAGON and PRIDE very well.
Pride begs to go with Dragon and Mercy finally
agrees but on condition that Pride must pass
the Shaolin test. (90 mins.; debuting)
IFDC INC.
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Jerome Bliah, president; Natalie
Sakai, manager, worldwide acquisitions and
operations
Corporate Address: 1901 Avenue Of The
Stars, Suite 930, Los Angeles, CA, 90067,
U.S.A.
Phone: 310-788-2803
Fax: 310-788-2803
On Offer:
Untitled Duane Adler Dance Project
2009 (U.S.A.; romance) Producers: Jerome
Bliah, Linda Chiu, Robert Cort; director: Duane
Adler; cast: Tba. A modern-day cross-cultural
dance romance set against the contemporary
Japanese club culture in New York City. (development;
presales; debuting)
The Wifeguard (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers:
Kirsten Smith, Seth Jaret, Jerome Bliah,
Linda Chiu; director: Tba; cast: Tba. A trophy
wife loses everything, but finds true happiness
coaching a diving team of misfit kids. (development;
presales; debuting)
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
(U.S.A.; comedy) Producer: Duke Fenday;
director: Charles Jarrot; cast: Charles Bronson,
Richard Thomas, Edward Asner. While newspaper
writer Bronson struggles with the death
of his wife, he receives a “special” assignment.
He must answer a little girl’s question about
whether Santa Claus really exists. Based on a
true story. (90 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
IFM WORLD RELEASING
Cannes 2009 Office: Carlton Hotel
Office Phone: 33 04 93 06 42 21
Attending: Antony I. Ginnane,
Corporate Address: 1328 East Palmer
Avenue, Glendale, CA, 91205, USA
Phone: 818 243 4976
Fax: 818 243 4976
On Offer:
Hobby Farm (USA; thriller) Producers: Paul
Murphy, Brad Diebert& Glen Whitely; director:
Brad Diebert; cast: Paul Murphy, Travis Mcmahon,
Vince Sorrenti & Gerard Kennedy. HOBBY
FARM is an action-packed gangster film set in
the outskirts of Sydney in the late 1970s. Out
of jail after 5 years, Julian is rewarded by his
crime bosses for keeping quiet and is put in
charge of a gentlemen’s pleasure house (the
Hobby Farm). But when faced with the horrific
treatment of one of the kidnapped girls newly
brought to the farm, Julian must turn against
the only life he has ever known, to save the
girls, and himself. (92 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
Jack Says (USA; action-adventure) Producers:
Simon Phillips, Mark Davey, Aaron Sayers;
director: Bob Phillips; cast: Simon Phillips,
Aurelie Amblard, Mike Reid, Rula Lenska, Sari
Sheehan, Eric Cantona. Contemporary film
noir comparable in style to Sin City with elements
of Pulp Fiction, Layer Cake and Lock
Stock. Waking up in London with amnesia
next to a dead body, Jack has just enough time
and sense to disappear before the police
arrive. In an attempt to lay low, he heads to
Paris to visit the ex he can’t remember. But a
guy like Jack attracts trouble, and an
encounter with the mysterious Girl X draws
him and the woman he loves back into a world
he’s trying hard to avoid … and to remember.
(90 mins.; premiere; debuting)
Vigilante (USA; action-adventure) Producer:
Robert Diaz; director: Aash Aaron; cast:
Robert Diaz, Kazuya Wright, Lexie Symon,
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Margot Robbie. Luke Evans had everything...A
highly successful business, extravagant cars
and the girl of his dreams. But in one tragic
night Luke lost everything. Brutally attacked,
Luke wakes from a coma to discover that his
fiancée has been murdered. Fuelled by rage,
Luke pledges to use every last financial
resource he has in his lust for vengeance.
After a heart stopping ride of murder and
betrayal, Luke finds himself face to face with
his attackers in a fight to the death. (95 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
IMAGEWORKS ENTERTAIN-
MENT INT’L
Cannes 2009 Office: B11/c12
Office Phone: 33 (0)4 92 99 32 06
Attending: David Shoshan, president / ceo;
Ingrid Raines, acquisitions
Corporate Address: 21910 Plummer Street,
Chatsworth, Ca., 91311, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-349-5777
Fax: 818-349-5777
On Offer:
Love and Debate (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers:
Gina Philips, Amy Greenspun; director:
Jessica Kavana; cast: Gina Philips, Adam
Rodriguez. Jordan Landa is not your average
Latin girl. She has dreams, big ones. As a rising
star in the debate world, her allusive dreams
seem finally within her grasp. But when the
“perfect guy” from her past reappears, so do
her desires for a life she thought she didn’t
want. With beautiful Miami as a backdrop, a
cutting edge soundtrack, and a hot sexy young
cast, it is the perfect setting for a girl to choose
between LOVE AND DEBATE. (96 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
The Poker Club (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Richard Chizmar, Bruce Devan, Jordan Gertner;
director: Tim Mccann; cast: Johnathon
Schaech Judy Reyes. Four friends discover and
accidentally kill a burglar — who may not be
alone — in the kitchen during their weekly
poker night. (88 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
The Shadow Within (U.S.A.; horror) Producers:
Paolo Lato, Anna Maria Murro, Pier
Luigi Corvi Mora; director: Silvana Zancolo;
cast: Hayley J Williams, Beth Winslet. Propelled
by grief over the death of Maurice’s twin
brother Jacques at birth, his mother Marie falls
under the influence of Madame Armand, who
convinces Marie to force her son to act as a
medium to the next world. As Jacques asserts
himself through Maurice, he comes to the realization
that they both desire the same thing:
their parents’ love, only Jacques does not want
to return to the living: he wants his parents to
join him in the afterlife (90 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; debuting)
IMAGINA INTERNATIONAL
SALES
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera A5
Office Phone: -34-610230554
Attending: Beatriz Setuain, head of film
sales; Rodolphe Sanze, film sales executive
Corporate Address: Ctra. De Fuencarral -
Alcobendas Km. 12,450, Madrid, Madrid,
28049, Spain
Phone: -34-91-728-57-42
Fax: -34-91-728-57-42
On Offer:
25 Karats / 25 Kilates (Spain; thriller)
Producers: José Nolla, Quique Camín; director:
Patxi Amezcua; cast: Aida Folch, Francesc Garrido.
Barcelona is the witness of the dangerous
love story between two petty thieves, Abel
and Kay. They’ll have to cope with corrupt
policemen, thugs and swindlers for a bag full
of jewels, their ticket to freedom. (86 mins.;
premiere; debuting)
Carlitos and the Chance of a Lifetime
/ Carlitos y el campo de los
sueños (Spain; family) Producers: Emilio
Aragón, Tedy Villalba, Santiago De La Rica;
director: Jesús Del Cerro; cast: Gustavo
Salmerón, Guillermo Campra. Carlitos, 12 years
old, has 2 dreams in life. As an orphan he
would love to find a welcoming family and
become a football player. His friends from the
orphanage and his teachers will help him in
making both dreams come true, working a
plan against the cruel headmaster of the
orphanage. (107 mins.; premiere; debuting)
Under the Snow / Nevando voy
(Spain; drama) Producers/directors: Candela
Figueira, Maitena Muruzabal; cast: Laura De
Pedro, Gabriel Latorre. In the snow chain packing
section of a factory, Angela starts breaking
the rules and little by little, the work becomes
a game. Nobody can imagine what is going on
behind that iron gate. It is a secret shared just
for the four of them. A world that survives
thanks to the continuous snow. (98 mins.; premiere;
debuting)
IMAGINATION WORLDWIDE,
LLC
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 9107 Wilshire Blvd.,
Suite 625, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210, U.S.
Phone: 310.888.3494
Fax: 310.888.3494
On Offer:
Countdown to Annihilation: Imagination’s
Sci-Fi Disaster Movies (U.S.;
sci-fi) Producers: Pierre David, Tom Berry, Tony
Ginnane; director: Tba; cast: Tba. Accomplished
producers Pierre David, Tom Berry, and
Tony Ginnane are proud to announce the production
of their Sci-Fi Disaster movie trilogy.
Brace yourself...the rush is about to begin!
(preproduction; debuting)
A Neighbor’s Secret (U.S.; thriller) Producer:
Pierre David; director: Leslie Hope; cast:
Nicholas Brendon, Chandra West, Catherine
Mary Stewart. Danger lives next door... (preproduction;
debuting)
Stripped Naked (U.S.; thriller) Producer:
Pierre David; director: Lee Demarbre; cast:
Sarah Allen, Jon Cor, Mark Slacke. Cassie’s
done stripping...now she’s about to blow you
away! (production; debuting)
INCAA
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: Moreno 1199, Buenos
Aires, Buenos Aires, 1091, Argentina
Phone: -541143838429
On Offer:
El boxeador (Argentina; drama) Producers:
Maria Marta Antin, Fuc; director: Juan Pollio;
cast: ......... Day after day Hector trains young
boxers as a sparring partner in the neighourhood
gym. He awaits the moment for a revelation
to come and deliver him from the burden
of his guilt, from the inescapable routine, from
the pain he is causing to the person that loves
him most. (9 mins.; premiere; debuting)
Los Viajes del Viento (Argentina; drama)
Producers: Ciudad Lunar, Cine Ojo, Primer
Plano, Razor Film Y Volya Films; director: Ciro
Guerra (preproduction; premiere; debuting)
INDEPENDENT
Cannes 2009 Office: Residence La Brise, 24
La Croisette, 5th Floor
Office Phone: -33-4-9368-6948
Attending: Abigail Walsh, head of sales;
Sarah Lebutsch, sales and marketing executive;
Sarah Townsend, head of marketing
Corporate Address: 32 Tavistock Street,
London, London, WC2E 7PB, Uk
Phone: 44-207-257-8734
Fax: 44-207-257-8734
On Offer:
MOON (Uk; sci-fi) Producers: Stuart Fenegan,
Trudie Styler; director: Duncan Jones;
cast: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique
Mcelligot, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry, Kaya
Scodelario. Astronaut Sam Bell, who works in
solitude on a moon base, discovers that his
employers have plans for replacing him… and
the new recruit is eerily familiar. (97 mins.;
screening; debuting)
Mr. Nice (Uk; comedy) Producers: Luc Roeg,
Michael Robinson, Andrew Orr, Daniel Shepherd,
James Perkins, Tim Smith, Paul Brett,
Steve Robbins, Linda James, Norman Merry;
director: Bernard Rose; cast: Rhys Ifans, Chloe
Sevigny, David Thewlis, Omid Djalili, Luis Tosar,
Elsa Pataky, Crispin Glover, Jamie Harris, Christian
Mckay. Following the sophisticated drug
baron’s rise and fall, this is the frequently hilarious,
occasionally sad, and often surreal story
of Howard Mark’s life so far. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; returning)
NEW TOWN KILLERS (Uk; thriller) Producers:
Luc Roeg, Richard Jobson; director:
Richard Jobson; cast: Dougray Scott, Alastair
Mackenzie, James Pearson, Charles Mnene, Liz
White. Two disenchanted private bankers get
their kicks from playing a 12 hour game of man
hunt with people from the margins of society.
(99 mins.; returning)
THE INDIAN FILM COMPANY-
STUDIO 18
Cannes 2009 Office: Stand 18.02 - Level 01,
Palais
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Hemant Bhardwaj, senior vice
president – international operations; Tanuj
Garg, head - international syndication sales;
Behram Shahparast, head - north america &
canada
Corporate Address: 402, Turf Estate, Off. Dr.
E Moses Road, Mahalakshmi, Mumbai, Maharashtra,
400011, India
Phone: -91-22-6629-1818
Fax: -91-22-6629-1818
On Offer:
Ghajini (India; action-adventure) Producers:
Tagore Madhu, Madhu Mantena; director: A.r.
Murugadoss; cast: Aamir Khan, Asin Thottumkal.
A saga of love, loss and revenge, it’s a
connoisseur’s favorite. About a short-term
memory loss patient and his quest for
redemption, the lead actor (superstar Aamir
Khan) transforms into an 8-pack abs baring
hunk. Clocking in a historic $43 million in just 3
weeks at the worldwide box office, it is the
biggest industry grosser of all time. (185 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na (India; romance)
Producer: Aamir Khan Productions; director:
Abbas Tyrewala; cast: Imran Khan, Genelia
D’souza. Marking the debut of teen sensation,
Imran Khan (nephew of Bollywood heavyweight,
Aamir Khan), the breezy and innocent
campus caper is about young people growing
up, growing apart, and then growing in love.
Charming the hearts of millions, it became the
biggest sleeper hit of 2008. Its lilting soundtrack,
by the Golden Globe and Academy
Award® winner, A.R. Rahman, was a chartbuster
of epic proportions. (145 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; debuting)
Sarkar Raj (India; drama) Producers: Ram
Gopal Varma, Praveen Nishol; director: Ram
Gopal Varma; cast: Amitabh Bachchan,
Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai-bachchan.
It marks the screen debut of the most powerful
and loved film family of India - The
Bachchans, featuring the legendary Amitabh
Bachchan, his superstar son, Abhishek
Bachchan, and former Miss World, international
star and daughter-in-law, Aishwarya Rai-
Bachchan. (124 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
INFERNO INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: 4 Boulevard De La
Croisette, 4th Floor
Office Phone: +33 (0)493 39 1645
Attending: Bill Johnson, partner; Jim Seibel,
partner; Jana Toepfer, international sales and
co-productions
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Corporate Address: 1888 Century Park East
#1180, Century City, CA, 90067, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-598-2550
On Offer:
THE EXPERIMENT (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers:
Bill Johnson, Marty Adelstein, Scott
Nemes; director: Paul T. ScheuringA remake of
the German thriller, “Das Experiment”, in which
26 men are chosen to participate in the roles
of guards and prisoners in a psychological
study that ultimately spirals out of control.
(preproduction; presales; debuting)
KING OF FIGHTERS (U.S.A.; actionadventure)
Producers: Bobby Sheng, Tim
Kwok, Steve Chicorel; director: Gordon Chan;
cast: Sean Faris, Maggie Q, Sean Faris. A stylish,
high-octane, live action feature based on
the highly successful video game franchise, in
which the last surviving descendants of three
legendary clans are continuously transported
to other dimensions to test their martial arts
skills against an evil force that seeks to invade
and infect the real world. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; returning)
INSTIGATOR FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 51, Castleknock Way,,
Castleknock,, Dublin, Dublin, D15, Ireland
Phone: -353-1-8217934
On Offer:
8.5 Hours (Ireland; drama) Producers: Brian
Lally, Liam Moran, Richard Callaghan; director:
Brian Lally; cast: Jonathan Byrne, Geraldine
Plunkett. “8.5 Hours” is a sexually charged
drama about one extraordinary working day in
the lives of four office workers during the final
stages of Ireland’s boom years. On one Monday
in Dublin, between the hours of 9 to 5.30,
each of the four characters’ lives descends into
turmoil. (110 mins.; screening; debuting)
INTANDEM FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: Apartments C11 & C12,
Relais De La Reine, 42/43 La Croisette, 06400
Cannes
Office Phone: -33-04-93-06-70-01
Office Fax: -33-04-93-06-70-21
Attending: Gary Smith, CEO; Andrew Brown,
director; Billy Hurman, director
Corporate Address: 22 Soho Square, London,
London, W1D 4NS, Uk
Phone: -44-0-207-851-3800
On Offer:
Blown (Uk; thriller) Producers: George Tiffin,
Martha Fiennes; director: Martha Fiennes;
cast: Samuel L Jackson, Guy Pearce, Franka
Potente. Tasked with the most crucial mission
of his career, a British Secret Service agent
must decide whether his duty is to his country
or the truth. (preproduction; returning)
Islands in the Stream (Uk; actionadventure)
Producers: Tommy Lee Jones, Eric
Williams; director: Tommy Lee Jones; cast:
Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan Freeman, John
Goodman. A THRILLING, HEART-RENDING
STORY FROM THE ERNEST HEMINGWAY
NOVEL. TO BE DIRECTED BY TOMMY LEE
JONES AND STARRING TOMMY LEE JONES,
MORGAN FREEMAN AND JOHN GOODMAN.
(development; returning)
Who is Doris Payne? (Uk; thriller) Producers:
Jason Felts, Ann Carli; cast: Halle Berry.
17 countries, 22 identities, 50 years on the run...
This is the thrilling true story of one of the
world’s most prolific jewellery thieves. (development;
presales; debuting)
INTERNATIONAL ROME FILM
FESTIVAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Italian Pavillon- Village
Int’l Riviera
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: Viale Pietro De Coubertin
10, Rome, Rome, 00196, Italy
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Phone: -39-06-40401900
Fax: -39-06-40401900
INTRAMOVIES S.R.L.
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera, Booth G25
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Paola Corvino, c.e.o.; Micaela
Fusco, vp; Jef Nuyts, director of tv sales
Corporate Address: Via E. Manfredi, Roma,
RM, 00197, Italy
Phone: -39-06-8076157
Fax: -39-06-8076157
On Offer:
Bollywood hero (Italy; drama) Producer:
Idtv Film; director: Diederik Van Rooijen; cast:
Egbert-jan Weeber, Ishwari Bose-bhattacharya.
A young dutch actor sets off to India
to play a part in a Bollywood film. Confronted
by the misery of the homeless in Bombay and
after an accident he decides to no longer be a
passive eyewitness to all the misery around
him. This decision will be more far-reaching
than he could imagine... (85 mins.; screening;
debuting)
The case of Unfaithful Klara (Italy;
drama) Producers: Jean Vigo Italia, Medusa
Film; director: Roberto Faenza; cast: Laura Chiatti,
Claudo Santamaria. In contemporary
Prague a young musician is obsessed by jealousy
for his beautiful girlfriend Klara. He
engages a private detective to spy on Klara
but this starts an uncontrollable series of accidents,
misunderstandings and traps culminating
in an unusual Venice… (100 mins.; screening;
debuting)
Giulia doesn’t date at night (Italy;
drama) Producers: Lumeière & Co., Raicinema;
director: Giuseppe Piccioni; cast: Valeria Golino,
Valerio Mastrandrea, . A successful and married
writer grappling with feelings of futility
about his profession, meets in a swimming
pool a fascinating woman, which hides a
secret and a mysterious past... (105 mins.;
screening; debuting)
ITN DISTRIBUTION
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera C-11
Office Phone: 917-690-1539
Office Fax: 702-361-6309
Attending: Stuart Alson, president; Nicole
Holland, vice president
Corporate Address: 505 E. Windmill Lane,
Suite 1B-102, Las Vegas, NV, 89123, USA
Phone: 917-690-1539
Fax: 917-690-1539
On Offer:
Frankie D (USA; family) Producers: Rosemary
Edelman, James Bridges Jr., Shashawnee
Hall, Ken Nowling, Brian Gary, Todd Bridges,
Ron Lee; director: Rosemary Edelman; cast:
Todd Bridges, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Aaron Meeks.
Frankie D is the story of an upscale carpenter
who gets ripped off by two street kids, and
instead of throwing them in jail, when he realizes
how horrific their life is, he takes them as
his, because he was these kids. (96 mins.;
screening; debuting)
Prey (USA; horror) Producers: Elizabeth
Howatt-jackman, Robert Lewis-galinsky;
director: George Miller; cast: Natalie Bassingthwaighte,
Jesse Johnson. Dreamtime can
be a nightmare. The story is inspired by the
disappearance in the late 80’s of a North
American couple who disappeared in the West
Australian desert on a 4WD holiday. (100
mins.; premiere; debuting)
Text (USA; horror) Producer: Jennifer Maskrey;
director: Brian Mcculley; cast: Hanna Hall, Reggie
Bannister, Daisy De La Hoya, Jonathan
Trent. Text follows four teenagers as they track
down a series of mysterious deaths at their
high school connected to text messages
received by the victims.They quickly learn that
the deaths are connected to their school’s
Valentine’s dance and if they aren’t able to
stop it in time, everyone there may die. (85
mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
JAM ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone: -49-172-4441353
Office Fax: -49-89-69393181
Attending: Martin Brunnett, managing director;
Konstantin Krisch, acquistions assistant
Corporate Address: Untersbergstr. 73,
Muenchen, Bavaria, 81539, Germany
Phone: -49-89-69393166
Fax: -49-89-69393166
On Offer:
Car Napping (Germany; action-adventure)
Producer: Lothar H. Krischer (terra Filmkunst);
director: Wigbert Wicker; cast: Adolfo Celi,
Eddie Constantine, Ivan Desny, Bernd Stephan,
Anny Duperey, Michel Galabru, Adrian Hoven.
German cult-classic in the tradition of “Gone In
60 Seconds”. Shot on location in Cannes, Paris
and Vienna. (85 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
returning)
The Girls From Atlantis (Germany;
adult/erotic) Producer/director: Eckhart
Schmidt; cast: Isi Ter Jung, Horst Letten, Arthur
Brauss. The Girls From Atlantis have come to
earth to shrink as many men as possible to
bring the back home. Trashy cult erotic from
acclaimed German director Eckhart Schmidt.
(87 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
Loft - The New Seed Of Violence (Germany;
thriller) Producers: Sam Waynberg,
Wolfgang Odenthal; director: Eckhart
Schmidt; cast: Andreas Sportelli, Max Tidof,
Sibylle Rauch, Rebecca Winter. Erotic Neo-
Noir-Thriller by acclaimed German director
Eckhart Schmidt. (82 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
returning)
JINGA FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: Stand E-7 Riviera
Palaos
Office Phone: 06-27-87-46-48
Attending: Rosana Coutinho, head of sales;
Julian Richards, head of production
Corporate Address: 22 Carnaby Street, London,
London, W1F 7DB, U.k.
Phone: -44-0-207-287-0050
Fax: -44-0-207-287-0050
On Offer:
The Disappeared (U.k.; thriller) Producer:
Neil Murphy & Johnny Kevorkian; director:
Johnny Kevorkian; cast: Harry Treadaway (city
Of Ember) Tom Felton (harry Potter 1-7 As
Draco Malfoy) Greg Wise (sense And Sensibility)
Alex Jennings (bridget Jones) Georgia
Groome (angus, Thongs And Full Frontal
Snogging). In the tradition of The Omen and
Sixth Sense comes a superbly acted and
thrilling supernatural shocker. When Matthew
hears chilling voices on the recording of a news
conference about his brother‘s disappearance,
he begins to question his sanity. When a
friend’s sister is also abducted, the ghostly
voices guide him to an underground labyrinth
and a terrifying confrontation with the killer.
(96 mins.; returning)
Exodus (U.k.; sci-fi) Producer: Ruth Kenleyletts;
director: Penny Woolcock; cast: Bernard
Hill (the Lord Of The Rings) Claire-hope
Ashitey (children Of Men) Daniel Percival
(synchronicity). In this nightmare vision of the
future, neo-fascist politician (Bernard Hill)
clears the streets of immigrants confining
them in a ghetto called Dreamland. But when
his adopted son (Daniel Percival) discovers
that his real parents are imprisoned refugees,
his attempts to help them escape result in a
catastrophic war in which the brutally
oppressed resort to brutal means to win their
freedom. (110 mins.; debuting)
Salvage (U.k.; horror) Producer: Julie Lau;
director: Lawrence Gough; cast: Shaun Dooley
(eden Lake) Linzey Cocker (wild Child) Dean
Andrew (my Summer Of Love)shahid Ahmed
(28 Weeks Later) Neve Mcintosh & Ben Batt
(the Edge Of Love). When a container washes
ashore the residents of a sleepy cul-de-sac are
plunged into violence, terror and paranoia.
Ring fenced by the military a single mother
must overcome all the odds to save her
daughter. (80 mins.; debuting)
JOINT ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL INC.
Cannes 2009 Office: Palais 01 Stand 26.02
Office Phone: 886-922-611-535
Attending: James Liu, president; Andrew
Chang, manager, international affairs
Corporate Address: 421-6f, Guangfu South
Road, Taipei, Taiwan, 11074, Taiwan
Phone: 886-2-2720-6007
Fax: 886-2-2720-6007
On Offer:
Attitude (Taiwan; documentary) Producer:
Blackie Chen; directors: Leo Liao, Jia-wei
LinATTITUDE is a documentary on Taiwan
Beer Basketball Team. By holding the spirit of
“attitude”, the players have been trying their
very best, and finally won the championship.
The film documented the good and bad time
of what the players have been through
together, depicts their sincere fraternity, and
reveals the background stories of the basketball
players. (80 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
The Days (Taiwan; drama) Producers: Boi
Kwong, April Tong, Randy Ang; director: Boi
Kwong; cast: Justin Chan, Ivan Lim. Based on a
true story – THE DAYS tells a cautionary tale
between two brothers. A wrongful decision
has thrown them both into a tumultuous and
violent world. (100 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; debuting)
Su mi ma sen, Love (Taiwan; drama) Producers:
Roger Huang, James Liu; director: Yuhsien
Lin; cast: Chie Tanaka, Huai-jhong Wu. A
young Taiwanese projectionist believes his
encounter with a Japanese actress is pre-destined.
But, how can he convince this Japanese
girl that their fates are really crossed? It will
take his wits, humors and most importantly
his heart to do the magic. (75 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; debuting)
JRD ENTERTAINMENT PVT.
LTD.
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 27-moti Cinema Compound,
Chandni Chowk, Delhi, Delhi, 110006,
India
Phone: -911123873535
Fax: -911123873535
K5 INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Les Jardins Du Grand
Hotel (shops)
Office Phone: -33-0-6-21-42-44
Attending: Bill Stephens, partner-sales marketing;
Daniel Baur, partner-business affairs;
Oliver Simon, partner-production
Corporate Address: Konradinstr. 5, München,
Bayern, 81543, Germany
Phone: -49-89-37505590
Fax: -49-89-37505590
On Offer:
A Matter of Size (Germany; comedy) Producers:
Chilik Michaeli, Tami Leon, Avraham
Pirchi, Daniel Baur, Oliver Simon; directors:
Sharon Maymon, Erez Tadmor; cast: Itzik
Cohen, Togo Igawa, Levana Finkelstein, Alon
Dahan, Dvir Benedek, Shmulik Cohen. “A MAT-
TER OF SIZE” is a comedy about a ‘coming
out’ of a different kind - overweight people
learning to accept themselves. Four overweight
friends from the Israeli city of Ramle
are fed up of dieting and the dieting club they
belong to. (90 mins.; screening; debuting)
Separation City (Germany; comedy) Producers:
Mark Overett, Angela Littlejohn, Tom
Scott; director: Paul Middleditch; cast: Rhona
Mitra, Thomas Kretschmann. A painful tale
about marriage, bad sex and requited love (90
mins.; debuting)
Wonderful World (Germany; drama) Producers:
Miranda Bailey, Matthew Leutwyler,
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Glenn Williamson; director: Joshua Goldin;
cast: Matthew Broderick, Sanaa Lathan. A
comic fable about the most negative man in
the world. (95 mins.; screening; debuting)
KADOKAWA PICTURES, INC.
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 9f, 3-6 Kioi-cho,, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo, 102-8302, Japan
Phone: 81-0-3-5213-0693
Fax: 81-0-3-5213-0693
On Offer:
Drop (Japan; drama) Producers: Taiichi
Inoue, Seiji Mizugami; director: Hiroshi Shinagawa;
cast: Hiroki Narimiya, Hiro Mizushima, .
Angst-ridden teen, Hiroshi, aspiring to the
exciting life of a teen hood, transfers to a public
school where he immediately gets in trouble
with the school’s tough gang leader, Tatsuya.
Though Hiroshi is pummeled, his
never-say-die attitude earns him entry into
the gang where he sinks into a daily rhythm of
rumbles, truancy and hard-earned friendships.
But despite all his rebellious energy and
youthful zeal, Hiroshi finds his manhood most
tested in matters of the heart. (122 mins.;
screening; returning)
Good Bye, My Secret Friend (Japan;
drama) Producer: Taiichi Inoue; director: Toshihiko
Oooka; cast: Yu Aoi, Arashi Fukazawa.
Your life’s experience will bring tears to you at
the bittersweet last scene. A story of mature
love now unfolds… We have all at least once
wished to “take a glimpse of the life of one’s
love before meeting him/her,” “what one’s
love was like as a child,” “watch over the entire
life of one’s love,” or “meet again as adults.”
The days of Ike-chan and Yoshio tell a story
about life, death, family ties and immense
love, better understood as one matures,
knowing what childhood was like. (107 mins.;
screening; debuting)
Instant Swamp (Japan; comedy) Producers:
Takeshi Kato, Mikiya Kurihashi; director:
Satoshi Miki; cast: Kumiko Aso, Morio Kazama.
Frustrated magazine editor, Haname, can’t
help but feel her life gradually sinking in quicksand.
So she goes in search of her long-lost
father only to disappointedly find him as “Mr.
Light Bulb,” an eccentric junk antique dealer
with a proclivity to pulling pranks and dispensing
odd advice. But when Haname complies
with his cryptic suggestion to “turn the water
faucet on full blast when down,” her life suddenly
begins to take on a new rhythm full of
ceaseless wonder and surprise. (120 mins.;
screening; debuting)
KARLIN-GREEN MEDIA INC.
Cannes 2009 Office: The Grand Hotel
Office Phone: 818-915-2880
Office Fax: 33 493 68 97 45
Attending: Penny Karlin, co-president; Kelly
Green, co-president
Corporate Address: 23480 Park Sorrento,
Suite 117a, Calabasas, CA, 91302, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-224-3888
Fax: 818-224-3888
KATHY MORGAN INTERNA-
TIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Relais De La Reine, 42-
43-la Croisette, Apartment C-62
Office Phone: 33.4.93.06.70.12
Office Fax: 33.4.93.06.70.32
Attending: Kathy Morgan, president; Zach
Luna, head of acquisitions
Corporate Address: 12250 Sky Lane, Los
Angleles, CA, 90049, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-472-6300
Fax: 310-472-6300
Also On Offer:
TBA
KEYSTONE ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
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Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera G6
Office Phone: 778-829-8424
Attending: Nolan Pielak, executive vice president,
worldwide distribution; Eric Vince, sales
assistant/distribution coordinator
Corporate Address: 3rd Floor, 2339 Columbia
St., Vancouver, BC, V5Y 3Y3, Canada
Phone: -604-873-9739
Fax: -604-873-9739
On Offer:
Furry Bandits (Canada; family)
Producer/director: Anna Mcroberts; cast: Tba.
When the city park is threatened by developers,
a raccoon bandit assembles a team of
furry thieves to pull off the biggest heist of
their little lives. (development; presales;
debuting)
Murph (Canada; family) Producer/director:
Anna Mcroberts; cast: Tba. A young boy
befriends an abandoned miniature horse and
proves the heart of a champion can be found
in the most unlikely of places when they team
up to take the racing world by storm. (development;
presales; returning)
KHAN ENTERTAINMENT CO.,
LTD
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 6f, No.6, Alley 8, Lane
210,, Sec 3, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei, Taiwan, 100,
Taiwan
Phone: 886-2-23660202
Fax: 886-2-23660202
On Offer:
Yang Yang (Taiwan; drama) Producer:
Khan Lee; director: Cheng Yu-chieh; cast: Sandrine
Pinna;chang Ruei-jia. “Do you speak
French?” Eurasian Yang-Yang cannot hear
that question anymore. Having a French
father whom she never met, she is an outsider
in Taiwan. Yang Yang is searching for love,
identity and a real family. There is hope since
her mother remarries. But things get complicated
and Yang Yang decides to leave the
family and her struggle for love and acceptance
continues in the superficial world of commercials.
But still there is hope… World Sales
Agent: M-Appeal (112 mins.; screening; debuting)
KIMMEL INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Res Du Grand Hotel, Le
Dauphin, Apt 11d, 45 Bd La Croisette
Office Phone: +33 4 97 06 30 62
Office Fax: +33 4 93 38 55 50
Attending: Mark Lindsay, president, kimmel
international; Marcello Paolillo, vice president,
sales and acquisitions, kimmel international;
Jill Silfen, evp, business affairs
Corporate Address: 250 Hudson Street, 10th
Floor, New York, NY, 10013, U.S.A.
Phone: 212-431-5550
Fax: 212-431-5550
On Offer:
Hesher (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers: Matt
Weaver, Scott Prisand, Natalie Portman; director:
Spencer Susser; cast: Natalie Portman,
Joseph Gordon-levitt. HESHER is the story of a
family struggling to deal with a loss and the
anarchist head banger who helps them do it.
(preproduction; presales; debuting)
Sympathy for Delicious (U.S.A.; drama)
Producers: Andrea Sperling, Scott Prisand,
Matt Weaver; director: Mark Ruffalo; cast:
Christopher Thornton, Mark Ruffalo. SYMPA-
THY FOR DELICIOUS is a wholly original story,
filled with humor and pathos as well as a realistic,
yet vivid, character study exploring the
lasting effects of tragedy, the search for
meaning, and the ultimate redemptive power
of compassion. (postproduction; product
reel/trailer; debuting)
Trust (U.S.A.; thriller) Producer: Greg Shapiro;
director: Robert Edwards; cast: Kiefer Sutherland,
Billy Crudup. Two FBI counter-intelligence
agents in Los Angeles 1969 find their
partnership—and their whole world—shaken
when a fellow American walks in and confesses
that he has been spying for the Soviets, and
volunteers to turn double agent. The slippery
nature of truth gets a workout as they cross
paths not only with the KGB, but also Hollywood
execs, undercover cops, suspicious
wives, and shady private eyes. When deception
is your business, is it really possible to
leave your work at the office? (preproduction;
presales; debuting)
LAKESHORE ENTERTAIN-
MENT
Cannes 2009 Office: Residence Centre
Croisette, First Floor, 56/57 La Croisette
Office Phone: 049-368-2371
Attending: David Dinerstein, president,
worldwide marketing and distribution; Elisabeth
Costa De Beauregard Rose, sr. vice president,
international sales; Jonathan Deckter, sr.
vice president, international sales
Corporate Address: 9268 West Third Street,
Beverly Hills, CA, 90210, USA
Phone: (310) 867-8000
Fax: (310) 867-8000
LATIDO FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: A5 Riviera Hall (spanish
Cinema / Icex)
Office Phone: -34-635-431-270
Office Fax: -34-915-488-878
Attending: Massimo Saidel, international
sales partner; Malte Ollroge, international
sales; Silvia Iturbe, managing director
Corporate Address: C/ Veneras 9,6, Madrid,
Madrid, 28013, Spain
Phone: -34-915-488-877
Fax: -34-915-488-877
On Offer:
ANDER (Spain; drama) Producers: José
María Gonzalo, Fernando Díez, Pau G. Guillén,
Roberto Castón; director: Roberto Castón;
cast: Josean Bengoetxea, Christian Esquivel,
Mamen Rivera. Ander, a 40 year old Farmer in
the Lush Basque countryside, lives alone with
his mother and sister. When he breakes his leg
in the fields, they hire José a young Peruvian
Helper. Ander who never experienced love
before is suddenly moved by feelings
unknown... (123 mins.; screening; debuting)
BEJART, THE SHOW MUST GO ON
(Spain; documentary) Producer: José Luis
López-linares (lopez-li Films); director: Arantxa
AguirreThe death of the brillant Maurice
BEJART in 2007 is an irreparable loss for the
art of dance, but above all, it means a cataclysm
for his own company. Forty dancers
from all five continents are now orphans and
they’ll have to work hard for the survival of the
company. From the team of “THE CHICKEN,
THE FISH AND THE KING CRAB” (80 mins.;
screening; debuting)
GUTS (Spain; thriller) Producer: Pancho
Casal (continental Producciones) Antonio
Saura (zebra Producciones); directors: Samuel
Martín Mateos, Andrés Luque; cast: Carmelo
Gómez, Hugo Silva. A triller of Narcos in Galician
rias. A land in which nothing is what it
seems and where scales are more important
than guts. (90 mins.; screening; debuting)
LATINOFUSION
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera A9
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Alfredo Calvino, CEO; Estrella
Araiza, aquisitions & sales exec.
Corporate Address: Parque De Las Estrellas
2755, Guadalajara, Jalisco, 45510, México
Phone: 00523336473705
On Offer:
5 dias sin Nora / Nora’s Will (México;
drama) Producer: Laura Imperiale; director:
Mariana Chenillo (90 mins.; screening; debuting)
Corazón del Tiempo/ Heart of time
(México; drama) Producer: Ana Solares; director:
Alberto Cortés (90 mins.; screening;
returning)
Crónicas Chilangas / Chilango
Chronicles (México; comedy) Producer: Luis
Diaz; director: Carlos EnderleThree stories in
the largest city of the world Mexico city. (90
mins.; screening; debuting)
LAU FILM INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: Pilotystr. 4, Munich,
Bavaria, 80538, Germany
Phone: -49-89-38377798
Fax: -49-89-38377798
On Offer:
Dancing With Strangers (Germany;
romance) Producer/director: Ankie Lau; cast:
Chow Yun Fat, Ankie Beilke, Bill Campbell.
Broadway Dancer Justin looking for his roots.
He is travelling to Europe and China, discover
valuable experiences of the life. This helped
him turn to a secure person. (preproduction;
debuting)
LEFT
Cannes 2009 Office: Media Pavilion 122
Office Phone: -44-0-7802-299182
Attending: Helen Grace,
Corporate Address: Saint Line House, Mount
Stuart Square, Cardiff Bay, Wales, CF10 5LR,
United Kingdom
Phone: -44-0-2920-444-777
On Offer:
COLIN (United Kingdom; horror) Producers:
Justin Hayles, Marc Price; director: Marc Price;
cast: Alastair Kirton, Daisy Aitkens, Leanne
Pammen, Kerry Owen. Colin has been bitten
by a zombie. He dies and returns from the
dead, and begins his journey into an apocalyptic
suburban London. He wanders amongst
the other undead, encounters others of his
kind, and the reactions of the desperate surviving
humans in this gory, savage new world.
His journey gives clues to his past life, and the
tragic revelation of why he was bitten. One of
the first films of this genre to tell the story
from the point of view of a zombie. (97 mins.;
premiere; debuting)
MINDFLESH (United Kingdom; horror) Producer/director:
Robert Pratten; cast: Christopher
Fairbank, Lucy Liemann, Peter Bramhill.
Chris is being used by supernatural evil forces
to channel their horrors into the real world.
They are feeding off his denial over a traumatic
childhood incident, and unless he can face
up to his past, he will be powerless to prevent
horrific fates for his loved ones. (76 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
THUNDERCHILD (United Kingdom; horror)
Producers: Helen Grace, Marc Price, Illtud
Dunsford; director: Marc Price; cast: Alastair
Kirton. A group of British airmen returning
from a WWII bombing mission have to cope
with a new enemy when they encounter a
flesh-eating creature on-board their plane.
(development; presales; debuting)
LIGHTNING ENTERTAINMENT
/ MAINLINE RELEASING
Cannes 2009 Office: Lerins R7 / S8
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Marc Greenberg, president; Rich
Goldberg, president; Richard Guardian, vp,
international sales
Corporate Address: 301 Arizona Avenue, 4th
Floor, Santa Monica, CA, 90401, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-255-1200
Fax: 310-255-1200
On Offer:
The Merry Gentleman (U.S.A.; thriller)
Producer: Paul J. Duggan; director: Michael
Keaton; cast: Michael Keaton, Kelly Macdonald.
A truly original Christmas story, The Merry
Gentleman is a heady mix of suspense, gentle
romance and quiet humor — a riveting,
uniquely entertaining tale of forgiveness and
redemption that blends a hopeful spirit with a
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suprisingly dark heart. (98 mins.; screening;
debuting)
No-Do: The Beckoning (U.S.A.; horror)
Producer/director: Elio Quiroga; cast: Ana Torrent,
Francisco Boira. There is a belief that
when something horrible happens in a house,
something evil, the souls of the victims remain
behind, unable to move on, reaching out to the
living, seeking justice for the horrors they have
suffered... (95 mins.; screening; debuting)
Taking Chances (U.S.A.; comedy) Director:
Talmage Cooley; cast: Justin Long,
Emmanuelle Chriqui, Rob Corddry. When he
discovers that an Indian casino is about to be
built over the town’s historic battlefield, Chase
Revere, the self-appointed protector of a
small town’s rather meager place in American
history, joins forces with sexy but dangerous
town siren Lucy Shanks to launch an all-out
offensive against the project - earning the
wrath of the entire town, who believe that the
casino will save their decaying local community.
(100 mins.; screening; debuting)
THE LITTLE FILM COMPANY
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera R1 Lerins Floor
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Robbie Little, co-president; Clay
Epstein, vp, sales and acquisitions
Corporate Address: 12930 Ventura Boulevard
#822, Studio City, CA, 91604, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-762-6999
Fax: 818-762-6999
On Offer:
Helen (U.S.A.; romance) Director: Sandra
Nettelbeck; cast: Ashley Judd, Goran Visnjic.
Amid the desperate battle for her life, her love
and her sanity, a woman finds herself pulling
away from her family and seeking comfort in
the company of a fierce yet fragile, enigmatic
and troubled young woman – whose extraordinary
spirit and devotion shines a flickering
light into Helen’s darkness. (97 mins.; screening;
debuting)
It Might Get Loud (U.S.A.; documentary)
Director: Davis Guggenheim; cast: Jimmy Page
(from Led Zeppelin), The Edge (from U2) And
Jack White (from The White Stripes). From
director, Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient
Truth) comes this pivotal film on the electric
guitar from the point of view of three significant
rock musicians: the Edge, Jimmy Page
and Jack White. (97 mins.; screening; debuting)
The Last Station (U.S.A.; romance) Director:
Michael Hoffman; cast: Helen Mirren,
James Mcavoy. Valentin, (James McAvoy) is
hired by Russian author Leo Tolstoy to help
him with his struggle to balance fame and
wealth with his commitment to a life devoid
of material things. Innocent and in awe of Tolstoy,
Valentin finds himself in a world of confusion,
love and power. Tempted by lust and
distracted by politics, he is forced to decide
which kind of life he must chose for himself.
(postproduction; debuting)
LOLAFILMS INTERNACIONAL
S.L.
Cannes 2009 Office: Cinema From Spain
Office Phone: -33-0-4-92-99-32-4
Attending: Andrésvicente Gómez, marta artica
zurano
Corporate Address: General Pardiñas 9 1ºd,
Madrid, Madrid, 28001, Spain
Phone: -34-91-436-74-00
Fax: -34-91-436-74-00
On Offer:
The Consul Of Sodom (Spain; drama)
Producers: Andrés Vicente Gómez, Ximo Pérez,
Julia Steinweg; director: Sigfrid Monleón; cast:
Jordi Mollá, Bimba Bosé, Alex Brandemühl.
Fascinating tour of the life of Jaime Gil de
Biedma (1929-1990), one of the most influential
poets of the second half of the 20th Century.
His life is the story of a contradiction: on
one hand, he belongs to the upper Catalonian
bourgeoisie and is an executive at a major
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Spanish multinational company; on the other,
he is homosexual and rebels against his family
and historic background. (postproduction;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
GENIES (Spain; animation) Producer:
Andrés Vicente Gómez; directors: ‘gonzo’
Suárez, Santiago SeguraLooking for his missing
father, KASIM and his dog AMIGO will end
up in GENIELAND, the magical home of the
genies, a place where nothing is as it seems
and everything is possible. (development; presales;
debuting)
Vurdalak (Spain; horror) Producer: Andrés
Vicente Gómez; director: Jaume Collet-serra;
cast: Tbd. Baron Neish and his family fall victim
to a cruel massacre by Prince Verjik, who
longs to conquer the Valley. However, his firstborn,
SAFET, does not die. The blood in his
veins is transformed by hate, turning him into
a “living dead”, into a VURDALAK. His eternal
curse will be to quench his thirst for vengeance
and blood (development; presales; debuting)
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Cannes 2009 Office: 22.01
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Hammad Zaidi, principal, ceo;
Grant Raynham, vp sales and acquisitions;
Edward Stencel, partner
Corporate Address: 1617 Cosmo Street # 212,
Los Angeles, CA, 90028, U.S.A.
Phone: 323-465-7325
Fax: 323-465-7325
On Offer:
House of Numbers (U.S.A.; documentary)
Producers: Bob Frisco, David Law, Brent Leung;
director: Brent Leung; cast: Luc Montagnier,
Anthony Fauci. In ‘House of Numbers,’ an AIDS
film like no other, the HIV/AIDS story is being
rewritten. This is the first film to present the
uncensored POVs of virtually all the major
players; in their own settings, in their own
words. It rocks the foundation upon which all
conventional wisdom regarding HIV/AIDS is
based. ‘House of Numbers’ could well be the
opening volley in a battle to bring sanity and
clarity to an epidemic gone awry. (90 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
Jam (U.S.A.; drama) Producers: Dianne Burnett,
Marianne Jean-baptiste, Harmon
Kaslow; director: Craig Serling; cast: Christopher
Amitrano, William Forsythe. A traffic accident
on a rural mountain road becomes a life
changing experience for fifteen diverse travelers.
(91 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
Taiketsu (U.S.A.; sci-fi) Producers: Justus
Beckmann, Sven Knuppel, Nico Sentner; director:
Sven Knuppel; cast: Fabian Monasterios,
Cecile Decker. An action-story set in the ruins
of future Babylon. In this war torn megalopolis
a group of people struggles for survival.
Inspired by movies like The Fifth Element or
Akira, Gula Mons Filmsyndikat in association
with Generation X Group GmbH, made a classical
science-fiction thriller with a philosophical
touch. (100 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
LONGTALE INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: R14 Lerins
Office Phone: +1-323-733-1000
Attending: Omar Kaczmarczyk, managing
director; Ava B., vp acquisitions and sales; Sam
Nada, sales manager
Corporate Address: 3699 Wilshire Boulevard,
Los Angeles, CA, 90010, U.S.A.
Phone: 323-733-1000
On Offer:
Sensation of Sight (U.S.A.; drama) Producer:
Buzz Mclaughlin; director: Aaron J.
Wiederspahn; cast: David Strathairn, Ian
Somerhalder, Jane Adams, Ann Cusak, Elisabeth
Waterston, Joe Mazzello, Scott Wilson. A
man’s search for meaning amid the ache of
despair, The Sensation of Sight intertwines
lives of loneliness and disconnection, fatefully
leading Finn toward an unexpected and sub-
lime awakening. “An instant American classic”—Durban
International Film Festival.
“David Strathairn pulls off another Oscar-worthy
performance”—Moving Pictures magazine.
“The most compelling Indie in years”—Seattle’s
The Warren Report. Best Cinematography,
Durban International FF; Best Feature
Film, New Hampshire FF. (134 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; debuting)
Seven Servants (U.S.A.; drama) Producer:
Bahman Maghsoudlou And Stefan Jonas;
director: Daryush Shokof; cast: Anthony Quinn,
David Warner, Sonja Kirchberger, Alexandra
Steward, Audra Mcdonald. Daryush Shokof’s
fabled surreal film starring Anthony Quinn (his
final performance) and David Warner kept
from public view for years is at long last available.
A wealthy, elderly man (Quinn) attempts
to avert death by hiring four young men of different
races and backgrounds to reinvigorate
him. They become a nucleus of a single, living
organism with ten arms and ten legs that
moves, eats, dances, and laughs together
until…. (90 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
Soldiers of Peace (U.S.A.; documentary)
Producer: Steve Killelea; director: Tim Wise;
cast: Narrated By Michael Douglas, United
Nations Messenger For Peace And Hollywood
Actor, Featuring Desmond Tutu, Sir Richard
Branson (virgin Group), Sir Bob Geldof, Hh
Prince Hassan Of Jordan, Gareth Evans, And
Scilla Elworthy.. Welcome to the new world
order. Soldiers of Peace is stories from 14 countries
around the world, The astonishing littleknown
fact is that the number of wars around
the world is dropping dramatically. We are
actually in the grip of an outbreak of peace.
Away from the cameras, ordinary people
everywhere are taking amazing steps to force
peace out of trouble and violence (85 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
M!NT ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera B4
Office Phone: +33.492. 993.316
Attending: Wil Master, president; Stefania
Vitali, vice president, sales; Dirk Reimann, distribution
Corporate Address: 9663 Santa Monica
Boulevard, Suite 292, Beverly Hills, California,
90210, U.S.A.
Phone: +1.310.597.2454
On Offer:
Blind Ambition (U.S.A.; comedy) Producer:
Bala Rajasekharuni Executive Producer:
Yatrik Mehta; director: Bala Rajasekharuni;
cast: Christopher Atkins, Vanessa Angel, Gulshan
Grover, Michelle Massey. Blind Ambition
is the story of Sapna, an intelligent, fun-loving
teenager who is all about celebrating life
despite one major “shortcoming.” She aspires
to run a marathon as a tribute to the memory
of her late mother. Her quirky brother along
with sidekick Wild Bill (Christopher Atkins -
The Blue Lagoon) convince Autumn (Vanessa
Angel - Baywatch, Weird Science), an exmarathon
coach and reclusive school teacher
to train Sapna to run the marathon. By the
way, Sapna is blind! (97 mins.; premiere;
debuting)
The Last Resort (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers:
Nick Vetere, Brandon Nutt, Chase Hudson,
Forest Robin, Nathan Oliver, Ryan Reels; director:
Brandon Nutt; cast: America Olivo, Paulie
Rojas, Marissa Tait, Sita Young, Arianne Zuker,
Nick Ballard, Jeremy Glazer, Jamil Mena, Sandro
Del Casale, Ian Patrick Williams, Dereck
Rizk. A sexy Bachelorette weekend goes awry
when the girls are robbed, stranded and forced
to take shelter in a deserted Mexican resort
that is haunted by the unspeakable atrocities
of the past. Featuring a cast of hot up-andcoming
stars. (75 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; debuting)
The Whisperers (U.S.A.; thriller) Director:
Rajeev Virani; cast: Rahul Bose, Manoj Bajpai,
Tara Sharma, Kim Sharma, Reef Karim. Sunny,
a poor boy from the slums of India rises to the
top to become the King of Mumbai, but at
what cost? In a chance accident, Sunny is
aided by Sid, a seemingly suspect character,
who happens to know all the answers and
intimate secrets that gave rise to Sunny’s
power and eventual downfall. From deal
making with the mob and corporate fraud to
murder, can Sunny save his marriage, his business
and even his soul OR will Sid reveal his
devil inside… (95 mins.; premiere; debuting)
M-APPEAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Booth N°9 Rivièra
Cannes Market
Office Phone: 0033492993283
Attending: Maren Kroymann, ms; Birgit
Haugg, ms; Laura Inoka, ms
Corporate Address: Prinzessinnenstraße 16,
Berlin, Berlin, 10969, Germany
Phone: 00493061507505
Fax: 00493061507505
On Offer:
Retribution (Germany; drama)
Producer/director: Paulo Pons; cast: Bárbara
Borges, Erom Cordeiro, Branca Messina. In a
small country town in the south of Brazil, the
daughter of a wealthy farmer is brutally raped
and left near a river. A mysterious young man
arrives in Rio de Janeiro and starts to follow an
attractive woman, with whom he stars a
strange relationship. Brought together by
unexplained circumstances these characters
seem to be heading to the same fate. (102
mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
The world is big and salvation lurks
around the corner (Germany; drama)
Producers: Stefan Kitanov Karl Baumgartner,
Thanassis Krathanos András Muhi, Danijel
Hocevar; director: Stephan Komandarev; cast:
Miki Manojlovic. After a car crash in which his
parents have died, Alex can’t even remember
his name. In an attempt to cure him from
amnesia, his grandfather Bai Dan drags Alex
out of hospital and they set off on the road
with tandem bicycle. On this journey back to
Bulgaria, Alex gets his memory back, and with
it, the will to live again. (105 mins.; screening;
debuting)
Yang Yang (Germany; drama) Producer:
Khan Lee; director: Cheng Yu-chieh; cast: Sandrine
Pinna, Chang Ruei-jia, Huang Chien-wei.
Eurasian Yang-Yang doesn’t speak any French
because she has never met her French birth
father. She always quests for love, yet nothing
can ease her loneliness. She later enters show
business. Against her wishes, she is often cast
as French. Trapped in the struggles among
family, friendship and love, how will Yang-
Yang face her inner traumas? (112 mins.;
screening; debuting)
M-LINE DISTRIBUTION
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera B13/c14
Office Phone: 33-0-4-92-99-33-14
Attending: Michelle Son, managing director;
Nahie J.y. Kim, manager; Katie Kim, assistant
manager
Corporate Address: C-203 Richensia, 72-1,
Hannam 1-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Seoul,
140-779, Korea
Phone: 822-796-2425
Fax: 822-796-2425
On Offer:
HANDPHONE (Korea; thriller) Producer:
Chung Hae-young; director: Kim Han-min;
cast: Park Yong-woo, Uhm Tae-woong. Entertainment
manager Seung-min sees Jin-a as
his one last hope to turn his life around. Just as
Jin-a is on the path to stardom, he receives a
threat, claiming that her former lover has her
sex clip. He receives the clip on his phone, only
to lose it in the process of tracking down the
perpetrator. Lee-gyu, who found the phone,
has a list of demands before returning the
phone. Seung-min does everything Lee-gyu
desires but Lee-gyu’s demands are escalating
to the point of no return. (126 mins.; screening;
debuting)
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MY GIRLFRIEND IS AN AGENT (Korea;
comedy) Producer: Kang Min-kyu; director:
Shin Tae-ra; cast: Kim Ha-neul, Kang Ji-hwan.
A Russian crime group is set out to steal a
chemical weapon from Korea and two agents
are out to stop them; Soo-ji is a veteran agent
and Jae-hoon is a rookie who’s never been out
on the field. The two agents don’t know each
other’s secret identity but they were once passionate
lovers until he couldn’t take her lies
anymore. Nonetheless, the two went on their
separate ways and by coincidence bump into
each other years later while out on the job.
(108 mins.; screening; debuting)
NORWEGIAN WOODS (Korea; horror)
Producer: Kim Myoung-eun; director: No Zinsoo;
cast: Jung Kyung-ho, Park In-soo, Ji Suhyoon.
Joong-rae and Chang-wook come to the
forest to bury a body. When they almost finished
digging a pit, they find out the body vanished.
Myung-sook and Kyung-soo are having
an affair. Suddenly she sees something outside
the car and asks Kyung-soo to find out
but he never returns. 3 high school students
sniff on gas and glue. The boys become dazed
and try to rape her but she finally escapes.
These 8 people run after another in the forest
until they meet a mystery killer and end in a
blood bath. (postproduction; screening;
debuting)
MAGNET MEDIA GROUP
Cannes 2009 Office: Magnet Media Group
— Clara One Yacht, Justee Albert, Cannes Harbor
Office Phone: 064-506-5235
Attending: Jeanette Buerling, president;
Maggie Monteith, president; John Michaels,
president of production
Corporate Address: 468 N. Camden Dr.
#200, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-860-5157
Fax: 310-860-5157
On Offer:
2012-ish: The Day the Earth Bent
Over (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers: Jeanette
Buerling, Maggie Monteith, Hadeel Reda;
director: Robert MoniotA brilliant young scientist
named Tom Mahoney fights to save the
planet from a multitude of catastrophes that
threaten mankind — in spite of the idiots that
keep getting in his way. (preproduction; presales;
debuting)
The Experiment (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers:
Marty Adelstein, Jim Seibel, Jeanette Buerling;
director: Paul ScheuringIn an effort to
make quick money, Travis signs up for a seemingly
simple social experiment to be conducted
in a mock prison. The experiment turns into
a nightmare of human control that puts the
lives of all the subjects at stake. Remake of
the German film (“Das Experiment”). (preproduction;
presales; debuting)
Spy Vs. Stu (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers:
Maggie Monteith, Jeanette Buerling, Bill JohnsonStu,
a regular guy with commitment problems,
whisks his girlfriend away on an island
vacation, where he plans on popping the
question. Also on the island is a spy who sets
his eye on Stu’s woman, and becomes her
tough-to-beat suitor. (preproduction; presales;
debuting)
MAGNOLIA PICTURES
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 49 West 27th Street, 7th
Floor, New York, NY, 10001, U.S.A.
Phone: 212-924-6701
On Offer:
Humpday (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers: Lynn
Shelton, Jennifer Maas, Steven Schardt; director:
Lynn Shelton; cast: Mark Duplass, Joshua
Leonard. In a backwards attempt to prove
their non-conventionality, two heterosexual
college buddies plan to make a gay sex tape.
As their lives have diverted since graduation-
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one is a take-life-as-it-comes “Kerouac” type,
and one has a wife and a white picket fencethis
porno plan spurs a reexamination not only
of one another and of themselves, but more
deeply of the idea of conventionality altogether.
(94 mins.; screening; debuting)
Outrage (U.S.A.; documentary) Producers:
Amy Ziering, Tanner Barklow; director: Kirby
Dick”Outrage” boldly reveals the hidden lives
of some of our nation’s most powerful policymakers,
details the harm they’ve inflicted on
millions of Americans, and examines the
media’s complicity in keeping their secrets.
Featuring interviews with high ranking politicians,
Washington insiders, psychologists &
cultural critics, it poses the question: How
have sexuality and homophobia influenced
government agenda and the ethics of leadership?
(89 mins.; screening; debuting)
The Road (U.S.A.; drama) Producers: Nick
Wechsler, Steve Shwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz;
director: John Hillcoat; cast: Viggo Mortenson,
Charlize Theron. A post-apocalyptic story of a
father and son trekking alone through burned
America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape
save the ash on the wind. The sky is
foreboding and dark. It is cold enough to crack
stones, and when the snow falls it is gray.
Although they don’t know what- if anythingawaits
them there, their destination is the
coast. (postproduction; debuting)
MANDARIN FILMS DISTRIBU-
TION CO. LTD.
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera C10-02
Office Phone/Fax: -
Attending: Ms. Peggy Lai, chairman; Ms. Alice
Law, CEO; Ms. Christy Choi, assistant distribution
manager
Corporate Address: Room 1801-2, Westlands
Centre, 20 Westlands Road, Quarry Bay, Hong
Kong, -, -, Hong Kong
Phone: 852-25791718
Fax: 852-25791718
On Offer:
Ip Man (Hong Kong; action-adventure) Producer:
Raymond Wong; director: Yip Wai-shun;
cast: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam. Based on the
true story of Ip Man - the celebrated Kung Fu
master of Bruce Lee (107 mins.; screening;
debuting)
Ip Man 2 (Hong Kong; action-adventure)
Producer: Raymond Wong; director: Yip Waishun;
cast: Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung. The
squeal of “IP MAN”, continue preserving the
spirit of Wing Chun, and narrating Ip Man’s
new life in Hong Kong. (preproduction; presales;
debuting)
Missing (Hong Kong; thriller)
Producer/director: Tsui Hark; cast: Sin-je Lee,
Isabella. A romantic engagement in an underwater
city leads to a series of mysterious
encounters. (117 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
returning)
MANDATE INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 2700 Colorado Ave,
Suite 200, Santa Monica, CA, 90404, U.S.A.
Phone: 323-936-8394
On Offer:
The Baster (U.S.A.; comedy) Producer:
Albert Berger And Ron Yerxa; director: Will
Speck And Josh Gordon; cast: Jennifer Aniston,
Jason Bateman, Patrick Wilson, Jeff Goldblum.
Kassie is looking for the perfect man...to
impregnate her. Her best friend Wally is secretly
in love with her and when Kassie reveals she
is going to get pregnant via artificial insemination,
he is crushed that his sperm is not in the
running. When Wally makes a fateful decision
to replace her donor’s sperm with his own, he
sets off a chain of hilarious events and heartfelt
moments that could give Wally and Kassie
a chance at love. (preproduction; debuting)
Five Killers (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers:
Scott Aversano, Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg,
Mike Karz; director: Robert Luketic; cast:
Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl. Ashton
Kutcher stars as an untouchable assassin who
has quit the business after marrying the girl of
his dreams. His trusting wife, Katherine Heigl,
has no idea about his past until they discover
that a hit has been put on him…and that the
hired killers may actually be their closest
friends and neighbors. Their seemingly perfect
lives flipped upside down and their marriage
put to the test, they discover a new level of
excitement together as they team up to find
and fight the killers. (production; returning)
Warrior (U.S.A.; action-adventure) Producer:
Gavin O’connor And Cliff Dorfman; director:
Gavin O’connor; cast: Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton,
Nikc Nolte, Jennifer Morrison. Set in the
sensational world of mixed martial arts, Warrior
is a story of two estranged brothers competing
for the love of their father, the respect
of their peers and the survival of their families.
A decade after a painful decision to go separate
ways, the brothers are united when they
discover each is training for “Sparta,” the
crown in ultimate fighting. Buried emotions
erupt in a heart-breaking championship battle
that offers one last chance at redemption.
(preproduction; returning)
MARATHON, A ZODIAK
ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 8, Boulevard Des
Capucines, Paris, -, 75009, France
Phone: -33153109100
Fax: -33153109100
On Offer:
Millennium - The Men Who Hate
Women (France; thriller) Producers: Sören
Staermose, Mikael Wallén, Ole Söndberg;
director: Niels Arden Oplev; cast: Michael
Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Peter Haber, Lena
Endre, Markia Lagencrantz. Octogenarian
industrialist Henrik Vanger wants to find out
what happened 40 years ago to his beloved
great-niece before he dies. He hires disgraced
financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist, freshly
sentenced to jail for libelling a shady businessman,
who pairs up with the young multipierced
and tattooed Lisbeth Salander, a feral
but vulnerable world class hacker with a definitive
social behaviour problem. The duo gradually
uncovers a festering morass of familial
corruption and dark little secrets. (150 mins.;
debuting)
Totally Spies! The Movie (France; animation)
Producers: Vincent Chalvon-demersay,
David Michel; director: Pascal Jardin; cast:
-. When Sam, Clover and Alex, three clueless
Beverly Hills teens, are recruited to become
international spies for the WOOHP - the World
Organization Of Human Protection - they are
totally shocked! After some way serious training,
the girls are sent on their first assignments
by Jerry, their new mentor. Juggling between
their regular, high-school-girl lives and their
new secret identities, with some clever thinking
and girly gadgets, will the girls be able to
save Beverly Hills and the world? (production;
debuting)
THE MATCH FACTORY
Cannes 2009 Office: Résidence ‘la
Bagatelle’, 4th Floor, 25 Boulevard De La
Croisette
Office Phone: -33-0-4-936-853-90
Office Fax: -33-0-4-936-854-18
Attending: Michael Weber, managing director;
Brigitte Suárez, sales; Gabor Greiner, acquisitions
Corporate Address: Balthasarstrasse 79 - 81,
Cologne, North Rhine-westphalia, 50670, Germany
Phone: -492215397090
Fax: -492215397090
On Offer:
Ajami (working title) (Germany; drama)
Producers: Mosh Danon, Thanassis
Karathanos, Talia Kleinhendler; directors:
Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani; cast: Shahir Kabaha,
Fouad Habash, Ibrahim Frege, Scandar
Copti. The Protagonists in AJAMI live in a violent
reality where enemies live as neighbors. It
is a meeting of conflicting views – Jews and
Arabs, Christians and Moslems, fathers and
sons, cops and robbers. As the film jolts from
one point of view to another, shuttling back
and forth through time, we witness the events
through the eyes of the different characters,
giving us the sense of how different realities
can be, and how impossible the situation
actually is. (120 mins.; presales; debuting)
Contact High (Germany; comedy) Producers:
Erich Lackner, Claus Boje, Marianna
Rowinska, Nicholas Steil; director: Michael
Glawogger; cast: Michael Ostrowski, Raimund
Wallisch, Detlev Buck, Georg Friedrich, Pia
Hierzegger, Hilde Dahlik. Hans Wurst and Max
Durst dream of getting rich as hot dog stand
tycoons while the small-time crook Georgie
just wants to sit around watching car racing all
day. Mao would be able to do just that if she
didn’t have to babysit her girlfriend’s daughter
all the time. And Harry would absolutely die
for a roll in the hay with his blond mechanics.
But when Woytila’s bag enters the scene, all
their dreams and wishful thinking suddenly
turn to dust. “Next stop: Drogomysel!” (95
mins.; presales; debuting)
Rational Solution (Germany; drama)
Producers: Helena Danielson, Karl Baumgartner,
Raimond Goebel, Andrea Occhipinti, Tero
Kaukomaa; director: Jörgen Bergmark; cast:
Rolf Lassgard, Stina Ekblad, Pernilla August,
Claes Ljungmark. tba (98 mins.; presales;
debuting)
MAVERICK GLOBAL
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 1191 East Newport Center
Dr, Suite 210, Deerfield Beach, FL, 33442,
U.S.A.
Phone: 954-422-8811
On Offer:
13 Hours in a Warehouse (U.S.A.; horror)
Director: D?v Kaufman; cast: Carson Lee, Chars
Bonin, Danny Salmen, Cody Lyman, Paul
Cram, Meisha Johnson. After five guys pull off
the perfect heist they end up in an abandoned
warehouse waiting for their buyer to show up.
But, it isn’t the 13 hour wait that is upsetting;
it’s the strange numbers that keep appearing
everywhere and the feeling like they are being
watched. When they finally figure out that
they are not alone, it’s too late to get out alive.
(92 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
The Casino Job (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Director: Christopher Robin Hood; cast: Amylia
Joiner, Jay Anthony Franke, Irina Voronina,
Dean Mauro, Ilsa Mariel, Deanna Minerva, Julia
Beatty. Sexy Vegas strippers thought they
came up all aces after successfully pulling off
a plan to rob a casino, but one member of the
team is holding a card no one sees coming. (81
mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
Going Down Under (U.S.A.; comedy)
Director: Garnet Mae; cast: Austen Tayshus,
Johnny Boxer, Hyland Kavalee, Paul W. He, Jo
Aston, Gabby Millgate. Coming of age is difficult
for any young boy, but it is a little harder
for Jono Smith. His secret fetish for kitchen
appliances has caused him to lose his manhood
in a flight of passion. Fortunately the
recent death of a porn star makes a transplant
possible and with the help of his crazy friends
Jono just might get “it” again. (86 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
MAX FILMS INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Quebec Pavilion -
Sodec / Stand 130
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
CANNES
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Attending: Roger Frappier, president & producer;
Félize Frappier, director, int’l sales & festivals
Corporate Address: 1751 Richardson Street,
Suite 2.102, Montreal, Quebec, H3K 1G6, Canada
Phone: 1-514-282-8444
Fax: 1-514-282-8444
On Offer:
Borderline (Canada; adult/erotic) Producers:
Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal; director: Lyne
Charlebois; cast: Isabelle Blais, Jean-hugues
Anglade. An erotic drama about a woman facing
her 30th birthday who looks back at her
life growing-up with her grandmother, crazy
mother and her over-indulgence with men, sex
and alcohol. (110 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; returning)
Dédé (Dédé, à travers les brumes)
(Canada; musical) Producers: Roger Frappier,
Luc Vandal, Vincent Leduc; director: Jeanphilippe
Duval; cast: Sébastien Ricard, Joseph
Mesiano. May 2000. André “Dédé” Fortin, lead
singer of the wildly popular Quebec Rock band
“Les Colocs”, commits hara-kiri to everyone’s
shock. Intertwining the singer’s rise and spiralling
descent, this lively musical biopic
depicts his passions, his loves and the creation
of his last album. (140 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
A no-hit no-run summer (Un été
sans point ni coup sûr) (Canada; children/teen)
Producer: Barbara Shrier; director:
Francis Leclerc; cast: Patrice Robitaille, Pier-luc
Funk. Martin is 12 years old and dreams of
making the neighbourhood baseball team.
When he gets cut, his father steps in and
together they spend a summer full of hope
and disappointment, line drives and foul balls.
(104 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
MAYA ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP
Cannes 2009 Office: R.8 Lerins Hall - The
Palais
Office Phone: 33 (0)4 92 99 33 01
Attending: Jose Martinez, head of sales and
acquisitions and general counsel; Tonantzin
Esparze, director of acquisitions; Katherine
Kaufman, vice president, international sales
Corporate Address: 1201 W. 5th Street, Suite
T-210, Los Angeles, CA, 90291, U.S.A.
Phone: 213-542-4420
Fax: 213-542-4420
On Offer:
American Tragic (working title)
(U.S.A.; drama) Producer: Heather Rae; director:
Ryan Piers Williams; cast: America Ferrera,
Melissa Leo. A young man returning home
from war struggles to relate to the small town
life he left in Texas. After setting out on road
trip with a buddy he comes to realize that the
peace of mind he is searching for are with
young wife, family and friends. (preproduction;
presales; debuting)
Fast Lane (U.S.A.; action-adventure) Producers:
Sevier Crespo, Steven Bauer; director:
David Betances; cast: Steven Bauer, Olivia
Brown, Melina Lizette. A high-speed accident
on the freeways of Los Angeles reveals a turf
war between two competing car theft rings of
sexy all-girl crews. Brandy Martinez, a young
streetwise cop is assigned by Lieutenant
Baynes (Stephen Bauer) to go undercover and
infiltrate one of the crews. When Brandy falls
for Carlo, an undercover cop also investigating
the gangs, the two find themselves in the middle
of a treacherous game of survival with
everything exploding around them. (screener
cassette/DVD; debuting)
One More Round (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Producers: Jonathan Blake Huer, Roberto
Estrella Froment, Gianvito Panico; director:
Roberto Estrella Froment; cast: Carlos Valencia,
Fernando Soluco Di Pierro. A down and out
streetfighter gets a golden opportunity when
he rescues a high level sports agent from
street thugs. Royce Gracie appears as the
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coach who will teach him how to fight his way
out of poverty and into the high stakes circuit
of mixed martial arts fighting. (postproduction;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
MEDIA 8 ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office: S7, Lerins (2nd Floor
Of Riviera)
Office Phone: +33 (0)4 92 99 32 50
Attending: Lawrence Meyers, stewart hall;
Audrey Delaney, victoria kopelevich
Corporate Address: 15260 Ventura Blvd,
Suite 710, Sherman Oaks, CA, 91403, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-826-8000
On Offer:
Brief Interviews With Hidieous Men
(U.S.A.; drama) Producers: James Suskin, Yael
Melamede, Eva Kolodner; director: John
Krasinski; cast: Julianne Nicholson, Timothy
Hutton. Based on the best-selling novel by
David Foster Wallace, when Sara Quinn’s
boyfriend leaves her with little explanation,
she is left looking for answers. She thinks she
can remedy both her heartache and her academic
challenges with a new research project
and begins conducting a series of interviews
with men. As she records the astonishing and
disquieting experiences of various subjects,
Sara discovers much more about men—and
herself—than she bargained for. (screening;
debuting)
Cash (U.S.A.; action-adventure) Producers:
Stephen Milburn Anderson, Naveen Chathappuram;
director: Stephen Milburn Anderson;
cast: Sean Bean, Chris Hemsworth. A financially
struggling couple, Sam (Chris
Hemsworth) and Leslie (Victoria Profeta)
think their luck has taken a turn for the better
when they find a briefcase full of money.
Their good fortune quickly turns into a deadly
game when the strange and sinister criminal
Pyke Kubic (Sean Bean) appears at their
doorstep looking to collect what they found.
(screening; debuting)
The Horseman (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers:
Rebecca Dakin, Steven Kastrissios; director:
Steven Kastrissios; cast: Peter Marshall, Caroline
Marohasy. An action-packed, multi-award
winning Australian thriller by writer and director
Steve Kastrissios, THE HORSEMAN features
a range of powerhouse performances in
an unflinching depiction of grief and retribution
in the vein of TAKEN and MAD MAX.
(screening; debuting)
MEDIA ASIA GROUP
Cannes 2009 Office: 15 Square Mérimée,
(3rd Floor), 06400 Cannes
Office Phone: -33-0-4-93-99-44-01
Attending: Ricky Tse, head of
distribution/sales; Frederick Tsui, senior manager
- distribution & production; Vanessa Lo,
manager - distribution/sales
Corporate Address: 24/F Causeway Bay
Plaza 2, 463-483 Lockhart Road, Causeway
Bay, Hong Kong, 00000, Hong Kong
Phone: +852 2314 4288
On Offer:
Accident (Hong Kong; thriller) Producer:
Johnnie To; director: Soi Cheang; cast: Louis
Koo And Richie Jen. When a hitman suspects
he is being targeted for termination, he must
find and kill his predator against all odds.
(postproduction; presales; debuting)
The Sniper (Hong Kong; action-adventure)
Producers: Dante Lam, Candy Leung; director:
Dante Lam; cast: Richie Jen, Huang Xiaoming
And Edison Chen. Expelled from the force in
the wake of a mission gone tragically wrong, a
police sniper determines to take revenge by
changing over to the other side of the law. (87
mins.; returning)
Vengeance (Hong Kong; thriller) Producers:
Johnnie To & Wai Ka Fai, Michele & Laurent
Petin, Peter Lam & John Chong; director: Johnnie
To; cast: Johnny Hallyday, Simon Yam,
Anthony Wong, Sylvie Testud. After his daughter
and her family are massacred in Hong
Kong, a retired French gangster travels to
Hong Kong for revenge. (premiere; debuting)
MEDIA DEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Leon Lim, sme, singapore film
commission; Daphne Boey, business development,
distribution & media services; Tan Chee
Wee, head, singapore film commission
Corporate Address: 3 Fusionopolis Way #16-
22, Symbiosis, Singapore, Singapore, 138633,
Singapore
Phone: -65-6377-3800
Fax: -65-6377-3800
On Offer:
Amphibious (Singapore; thriller) Producer:
Komodo Films; director: Brian YuznaA ‘creature
feature’ about the attack of a giant sea
scorpion, with generous doses of exciting visual
effects and Asian exoticism, AMPHIBIOUS
brings together an unprecedented international
combination of creativity and talent,
and promises more of the inventively
macabre, ingeniously malevolent, immensely
entertaining horror-fantasy blend that has
won Yuzna a worldwide legion of ardent fans.
(development; debuting)
Kallang Roar (Singapore; drama) Producer:
Tay Hoo Wee; director: Cheng Ding An; cast:
Lim Kay Siu, Randall Tan. This Film’s milieu
was set in the late seventies. The heydays
when Singapore football was molded to perform
at its peak. The story line is centered on
the persona of then National Coach, known
affectionally as Uncle Choo. Battling the
onslaught of life threatened by chronic sufferings
of diabetes, Uncle Choo defies the odds,
defiantly returns to the Singapore football
scene in 1977 for one last hurrah at restoring
Nationalistic pride by winning back the
Malaysia Cup across the causeway. (88 mins.;
debuting)
Love Matters (Singapore; comedy) Producers:
Neo Studios, Mm Studios, Grand Brilliance;
directors: Jack Neo, Gilbert Chan; cast:
Henry Thia, Yeo Yann Yann. “Love Matters” is a
humorous and entertaining look at love and
happiness in a straight-laced Asian society,
through the misadventures of three men as
they search for love and happiness. Old-fashioned
52 year-old Tan Bo Seng blunders
through attempts to revive sleeping passions
between him and his wife, while his younger
Casanova brother Jeremy suddenly comes
face to face with commitment. Meanwhile Bo
Seng’s teenage son Benny struggles with his
feelings for a classmate’s girlfriend. (118 mins.;
debuting)
MEDIA LUNA ENTERTAIN-
MENT
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera Booth# D12
Office Phone: -49-172-261-7461
Attending: Ida Martins, managing director,
sales & acquisitions; Patra Spanou, festivals &
marketing, acquisitions
Corporate Address: Aachener Str.26,
Cologne, Nordrhein Westfalen, 50674, Germany
Phone: +49 221 801 498 0
Fax: +49 221 801 498 0
On Offer:
LowLights (Germany) Producers: Ieva
Norviliené, Dagmar Niehage; director: Ignas
Mi?kinis; cast: Dainius Gavenonis, Julia Maria
Köhler, Jonas Antanélis. Two men and one
woman united for one night by a quaint ritual
- night driving through the city streets. They
discover new experiences, get close, find hope,
love. (92 mins.; screening; debuting)
Memory (Germany; drama) Producers:
Christian Drewing, Milena Maitz; director:
Matthias Luthardt; cast: Franziska Petri,
Pasquale Aleardi, Harry Blank. Helene can not
believe that her husband is drowned. In a
tightrope walk between reality and illusion
she sees him right in front of her at a concert.
(82 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
Tandoori Love (Germany; comedy) Producer:
Valerie Fischer; director: Oliver Paulus;
cast: Lavinia Wilson, Martin Schick, Vijay Raaz.
A spicy comedy with romance and a homage
to Bollywood and Indian cuisine. (92 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
MEDIA MARKET CONSUL-
TANTS
Cannes 2009 Office: Majestic #704
Office Phone: -33-4-92-98-77-00
Office Fax: -33-4-93-38-97-90
Attending: Frances Willington, senior executive
consultant; Robert Willington, executive
consultant; Chris Dalloz, consultant - france
Corporate Address: 216 Chemin Du Bergier,
Chateauneuf, -, 06740, France
Phone: -33-4-93-42-44-82
Fax: -33-4-93-42-44-82
MEMENTO FILMS INTERNA-
TIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: E8 Riviera
Office Phone: 04-92-99-33-07
Attending: Emilie Georges, managing director;
Tanja Meissner, head of sales and acquisitions;
Nicholas Kaiser, tv & video sales - acquisitions
Corporate Address: 6 Cité Paradis, Paris,
Paris, 75010, France
Phone: -33-1-53-34-90-20
On Offer:
Eastern Plays (France; drama) Producers:
Waterfront Productions, Chimney; director:
Kamen Kalev; cast: Hristo Hristov, Ovanes
Torosian, Saadet Isil Aksoy. Two brothers
who’ve lost all contact are suddenly brought
together when they have opposite roles in a
racist beating.One starts to question his implication
in the racist gang and the other wonders
if the beautiful Turkish girl he saved could
be his ticket to escape from his dull life in
Sofia. Only by reuniting will the two brothers
be able to assess what they really want from
life. (premiere; debuting)
North (France; comedy) Producer: Motlys;
director: Rune Denstad Langlo; cast: Anders
Baasmon Christiansen, Kyrre Helum, Marte
Aunemo. Following a nervous breakdown, ski
athlete Jomar has isolated himself in a lonely
existence as the guard of a ski park. When he
learns that he might be the father of a child
way up north, he sets on a strange and poetic
journey through Norway on a snowmobile,
with 5 liters of alcohol as sole provisions. (78
mins.; screening; debuting)
This is the end (France; drama) Producer:
Bruno Pésery; directors: Arnaud Larrieu, Jeanmarie
Larrieu; cast: Mathieu Amalric, Catherine
Frot, Karin Viard. It’s the last days on Earth.
A man (Robinson) sets on a journey searching
for the woman he once madly loved (Laetitia).
But as the world is turning upside down,
Robinson’s odyssey takes un unexpected turn:
most people have decided to simply enjoy
their last days on the planet. Still, Robinson is
determined to reunite one last time with
Laetitia, even if this means heading back to
the high danger zone Paris. (postproduction;
premiere; debuting)
MINERVA PICTURES GROUP
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera G25
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Gianluca Curti, president & ceo;
Valentina Mandozzi, sales manager; Francesca
Manno, business & legal affairs
Corporate Address: VIA EMILIO BIANCHI 54,
ROME, RM, 00142, ITALY
Phone: 0039 06 85358648
Fax: 0039 06 85358648
On Offer:
Beket (ITALY; comedy) Director: Davide
Manuli; cast: Luciano Curreli, Jerome Duranteau,
Fabrizio Gifuni, Roberto “freak” Antoni.
Freak and Jajà live in a no-man’s land, outside
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time and dates. Mankind no longer inhabits
the planet. Only a few strange characters, survivors,
make rare appearances. The two meet
at a bus-stop in the middle of no-where, they
have never met before. The bus arrives, but it
doesn’t stop. It’s the bus which brings to
GODOT, the God who makes his presence felt
beyond the mountain in the shape of a musical
sound. Having lost the bus, Freak and Jajà
decide to look for it on foot. (80 mins.; premiere;
debuting)
Life Sentence - Fine Pena Mai (ITALY;
drama) Producer: Classic Film; directors:
Lorenzo Conte, Davide Barletti; cast: Claudio
Santamaria, Valentina Cervi. A gloomy journey,
never told before, of a different kind of
Mafia: the Sacra Corona Unita (United Sacred
Crown). A story of a boy who, in the late 80’s
chasing his dream of living life to the limit, is
caught up in an unstoppable race which will
make a true mafia boss of this young university
student. Based on the autobiographical
novel Vista d’Interni, written by Antonio Perrone.
(90 mins.; screening; returning)
Red Sunrise - Il Sol Dell’Avvenire
(ITALY; documentary) Director: Gianfranco
PannoneReggio Emilia,1969. Thirty young militant
communists leave the Communist Party
and form ‘l’Appartamento’, a commune where
revolutionary dreams are bandied around and
where the most dangerous terrorists of the
future Red Brigades will come from. In 2007,
five former militants from those Red Brigades
of 1969 meet again in a restaurant:it’s the
beginning of the first exploration of the ideological
and political roots of the far-left’s terrorism.
(78 mins.; screening; debuting)
MIROVISION INC.
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera G22
Office Phone: -33-0-4-9299-3317
Office Fax: -
Attending: Su-seok Bae, CEO; Jason Chae,
president; Daniel Kim, sales manager
Corporate Address: 4fl. Shinyoung Bldg. 1-
128 Sinmunno2-g, Jongno-gu, Seoul, ., 110062,
South Korea
Phone: -82-2-3443-2553
Fax: -82-2-3443-2553
On Offer:
The Boat (South Korea; drama) Producers:
Kubota Osamu, Lee Juno; director: Kim Youngnam;
cast: Ha Jung-woo, Tsumabuki Satoshi.
Hyung-gu, a young Korean, visits Japan by
boat to help with middle-aged Bo-gyung’s
smuggling business. It is always Touru, a young
Japanese man, who welcomes him there.
Hyung-gu and Touru sacrifice themselves for
the sake of their families, money, and friendship.
One day, Bo-gyung ordered them to kidnap
a woman named Jisu and take her to
Japan, and this changes their future in an
unexpected way. (115 mins.; product reel/trailer;
debuting)
The Executor (working title) (South
Korea; drama) Producers: Cho Seon-mook, Oh
Seok-geun; director: Choi Jin-ho; cast: Cho Jaehyun,
Yoon Kye-sang. The story about the
guards on death row and their agony (production;
presales; debuting)
The Phone (South Korea; thriller) Producers:
Mark Morgan, Jason Chae; director: An
Byung-ki; cast: Tba. A US remake of same
director’s Korean legendary horror film. (preproduction;
presales; debuting)
MK2
Cannes 2009 Office: 84 Ru D’antibes
Office Phone/Fax: -
Attending: Mathilde Henrot, director of sales;
Matthieu Giblin, sales executive; Juliette
Schrameck, sales executive
Corporate Address: 55 Rue Traversière, Paris,
Paris, 75012, France
Phone: -33-1-44-67-30-00
On Offer:
Inferno (France; documentary) Producer:
Marianne Lère; director: Serge Bromberg; cast:
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Henri-georges Clouzot, Romy Schneider. Never
before seen images from director Henri-
Georges Clouzot’s unfinished film INFERNO
combined with behind the scenes footage
from the notoriously troubled production.
(screening; debuting)
Nothing Personal (France; drama) Producers:
Fabrice Goldstein, Antoine Rein; director:
Mathias Gokalp; cast: Jean-pierre Darroussin,
Denis Podalydès. In order to launch its
top secret new product, the Muller pharmaceutical
company throws an extravagant party
where directors, managers and employees are
all invited. During the course of the evening,
the guests are asked to participate in a roleplaying
game which, it turns out, is actually a
massive training simulation for the management
team. Rumors soon circulate that the
company is up for sale, and the panic has
everyone trying to save their own skin. (90
mins.; screening; returning)
Rwanda - The Day God Walked Away
(France; drama) Producer: Patrick Quinet;
director: Phillip Van Leeuw; cast: Ruth Keza
Nirere, Afazari Dewaele. Set in Rwanda in the
spring of 1994, at the outbreak of the genocide.
Jacqueline, a young Tutsi woman, is a
maid in a Belgian family. When she finds her
children brutally murdered by the Hutus, she
runs away and hides in the woods. There, she
meets a man who has also escaped from the
slaughter. Together, they will try to survive
with the fear of being discovered at any
moment. Terror and madness wait for them at
every turn. (97 mins.; screening; returning)
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Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera Stand #a3
Office Phone: 1.917.647.7587
Office Fax: 1.917.677.8300
Attending: Michael Taverna, ceo/president;
Ciny Nelson-mullen, sales & aquisitions exec.;
Wandie Kabule, head of development
Corporate Address: 328 N. Orange Drive, Los
Angeles, CA, 90036, U.S.A.
Phone: 1.917.647.7587
Fax: 1.917.647.7587
On Offer:
The Coffin (U.S.A.; horror) Producer: Memotion
Company Ltd.; director: Ekachai Uekrongtham;
cast: Ananda Everingham, Karen
Mok. A man and a woman are confronted by a
series of paranormal and terrifying incidents
after going through the bizarre death-beforedying
ritual. (81 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
returning)
Sex and the USA (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Esther Goodstein, Alain Siritzky, Pierre Kalfon;
director: Jan Wellmann; cast: Shayla
Beesley, Jaime Perkins. A scripted drama
about teenage girls torn between American
popular culture, where breast implants are a
Sweet Sixteen gift, and the Evangelical Right
prizes virginity. (91 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; debuting)
La Ultima Y Nos Vamos (U.S.A.; drama)
Producers: López Sánchez, Alfredo Mier Y
Terán, Manuel Hernández Esparza; director:
Eva López Sánchez; cast: Juan Pablo Campa,
Manuel Garcia-rulfo. 20-year-olds, Juan,
Rodrigo and Christian live after-hour adventures
of friendship, love, and respect in a city
marked by social differences. (87 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
MONTECRISTO PICTURES
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera Stand #a3
Office Phone: 1.917.647.7587
Office Fax: 1.917.677.8300
Attending: Michael Taverna, ceo/president
Corporate Address: 328 N. Orange Drive, Los
Angeles, CA, 90036, U.S.A.
Phone: 1.917.647.7587
Fax: 1.917.647.7587
On Offer:
King Of The North (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers:
Lavelle, Jamie Brown, Alan Latham;
director: Myles Thomas; cast: Angus Macfadyen.
Gangland murder in 1964 Northern
England. (preproduction; presales; debuting)
Land Of Canaan (U.S.A.; horror) Producer:
Jefferson Richard; director: Reginald Lafrance;
cast: Tara Reid, Juliet Landau. Based on the
murders at the Goldfield Hotel in Nevada.
(preproduction; presales; debuting)
Montedidio (a,k.a. God’s Mountain)
(U.S.A.; drama) Producers: Francesco Pamphili,
David Silber, Michael Taverna; director:
Michael Taverna; cast: Tba. A boy comes of
age in 1963 Naples. (development; presales;
debuting)
MOONSTONE ENTERTAIN-
MENT
Cannes 2009 Office: Lehrins, Stand R21
Office Phone: 049-299-3243
Attending: Etchie Stroh, CEO; Yael Stroh,
president; Shahar Stroh, director development
& acquisitions
Corporate Address: P.o. Box 7400, Studio
City, CA, 91614, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-985-3003
Fax: 818-985-3003
On Offer:
2:22 (U.S.A.; drama) Producer: Lenny Bitondo;
director: Phillip Guzman; cast: Mick Rossi,
Robert Miano, Aaron Gallagher, Jorge A.
Jimenez, Peter Dobson, Bruce Kirby, Val Kilmer.
The perfect heist: the plan was simple … the
events that followed were not. (104 mins.;
screening; debuting)
From A Buick 8 (U.S.A.; sci-fi) Producers:
Robert Katz, Etchie Stroh, Mick Garris; director:
Tobe Hooper; cast: Tba. When a state trooper
is killed on the side of the road, the boy discovers
his father’s dark secret in the barracks’
back shed. Based on the Stephen King novel.
(preproduction; presales; returning)
House of Boys (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Bob Bellion, Jimmy De Brabant; director: Jeanclaude
Schlim; cast: Layke Anderson, Stephen
Fry, Udo Kier. Set against the exciting world of
sex, dance and music in 1984, “House of Boys”
is the colorful coming-of-age story of a
teenage boy at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.
(postproduction; product reel/trailer;
returning)
MORGAN CREEK PRODUC-
TIONS
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 10351 Santa Monica
Blvd., Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA, 90025,
U.S.A.
Phone: 310-432-4848
Fax: 310-432-4848
On Offer:
Dream House (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers:
James G. Robinson, Daniel Bobker & Ehren
Krueger; director: Jim Sheridan; cast: Tba. A
successful editor quits his job in New York City
to relocate his wife and two daughters to a
beautiful house in small town Connecticut.
However, their idyllic existence is shattered
when they learn their home was once the
murder scene of a mother and her two young
children. The killings were believed to be at the
hands of the husband, who survived and may
now be a threat to the new residents. (development;
presales; debuting)
Passengers (U.S.A.; sci-fi) Producers:
James G. Robinson, Keanu Reeves & Stephen
Hamel; director: Tba; cast: Keanu Reeves. In
the future, a luxurious U.S. spacecraft is transporting
colonists to a distant planet. Because
of a malfunction, a single passenger is awakened
from suspended animation 90 years
before anyone else. Faced with the prospect
of growing old and dying alone, he awakens a
beautiful woman. They become lovers until
she finds out what he did to her… (development;
presales; debuting)
Scarpa (U.S.A.; drama) Producers: James G.
Robinson, Irwin Winkler; director: Antoine
Fuqua; cast: Tba. The true story of Greg Scarpa
Sr, a capo in Brooklyn’s Columbo crime family
who was also the highest-level mob informant
ever developed by the FBI. The film tracks
the 25-year high-risk relationship between
Scarpa and his FBI handler. (development;
presales; debuting)
MOTION PICTURE CORPORA-
TION OF AMERICA
Cannes 2009 Office: Majestic Hotel - Suite
109
Office Phone: 049-706-8533
Office Fax: 049-706-8589
Attending: Brad Krevoy, chairman/ceo; Francisco
González, vp, worldwide sales & marketing
Corporate Address: 10635 Santa Monica
Blvd., Suite 180, Los Angeles, CA, 90025, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-319-9500
Fax: 310-319-9500
On Offer:
Life in Hot in Cracktown (U.S.A.) Producers:
Larry Rattner, William Fisch; director:
Buddy Giovinazzo; cast: Brandon Routh, Shannyn
Sossamon, Kerry Washington. Four lives
intertwine as time runs out to break free from
a neighborhood corrupted by violence, drugs
and crime. (92 mins.; screening; debuting)
MOVIEHOUSE ENTERTAIN-
MENT
Cannes 2009 Office: Grand Hotel Residence,
6th Floor (entrance Flamant)
Office Phone: 04-93-38-65-93
Attending: Gary Phillips, managing director /
head of sales; Mark Vennis, managing director
/ head of acquisitions
Corporate Address: 11 Denmark Street, 4th
Floor, London, London, WC2H 8LS, Uk
Phone: -44-0-20-7836-5536
Fax: -44-0-20-7836-5536
On Offer:
Flat 7 (Uk; horror) Producer: Janice De La
Mare; director: Brad Watson; cast: Kelly
Adams, Jonathan Rhodes, David Horton, Lucy
Evans, Calita Rainford. This is Flat 7, nothing
strange could happen here. When two girls
turn up to visit their college tutor at his home
they come embroiled in a dangerous operation
involving the Bible, the Vatican and the most
secure mainframes in the world. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; debuting)
Hunter Prey (Uk; sci-fi) Producers: Nick
Damon, Daren Hicks, Simon Tams; director:
Sandy Collora; cast: Isaac C Singleton Jr, Clark
Bartram, Damion Poitier, Simon Potter. IN A
TIME OF GALACTIC WAR... ONE MAN. ONE
ALIEN. ONE CHOICE. From cult director Sandy
Collora whose first (short) film, Batman: Dead
End, became an internet sensation, comes his
first feature, Hunter Prey...With orders to catch
their Alien prisoner alive, the surviving crew of
the Prometheus pursue a dangerous game of
cat-and-mouse with their escapee. But, who is
the Hunter and who is the Prey? (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; debuting)
Souled Out (Uk; drama) Producers: Christine
Alderson, Natasha Carlish; director: Shimmy
Marcus; cast: Martin Compston, Alfie Allen,
Pat Short. Middle-England, 1974. Joe McCain,
17 is restless and bored with his life which is
going nowhere. Enter Jane at the Wigan Casino
Dance Hall - the home of ‘Northern Soul’,
moving to the beat of a sound Joe’s never
experienced. She’s a vision of loveliness and
the object of his desire. Swept along on this
tide of emotion, Joe discovers an incredible
and exciting new world... (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; debuting)
MOVING PICTURES FILM AND
TELEVISION
Cannes 2009 Office: Moving Pictures Film
And Television - Riviera D4
Office Phone: +33 (0)4 92 99 33 0
Attending: Ted Chalmers, vp, worldwide
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european sales; Paul Rich, international sales
executive
Corporate Address: 7220 North 16th Street,
Suite C, Phoenix, Arizona, 85020, U.S.A.
Phone: 602-944-0046
Fax: 602-944-0046
On Offer:
The Fifth Mind (U.S.A.; drama) Producer:
Shamir Allibhai; director: Naoko Tajima; cast:
Jack Diamond, Julia Duvall. The Fifth Mind is a
harrowing portrait of two siblings torn apart
by a shared childhood experience. One sibling
has completely blocked abuse, incest and
madness. The other has created 5 minds to
deal with the pain. (74 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
Intergalactic (U.S.A.; sci-fi) Producers:
Robbie Moffat, Mairi Fraser Sutherland; director:
Robbie Moffat; cast: Suzanne Harbison,
Rachael Rath, Paul Cassidy. A four person
crew, sent to bring back a mothballed ship
parked at the back of Pluto, find themselves
on their way to the edge of the universe.
Unable to turn the ship around, they resign
themselves to spending the rest of their lives
together. They soon find themselves at odds
with one another. (screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
Noble Things (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Brett Moses, Ruben Neubauer; directors: Dan
Mcmellen, Brett Moses; cast: Brett Moses, Lee
Ann Womack, Michael Parks. Jimmy Wayne
Collins finds himself adrift in Memphis, Tennessee.
Forced to return home to the piney
woods of Southeast Texas, Jimmy will face his
imprisoned brother, his dying father and the
demons he left behind. (96 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; debuting)
MPI MEDIA GROUP
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone: 1 708 373 0391
Attending: Nicola Goelzhaeuser, vp, film
library & program sales; Greg Newman, svp,
marketing & acquisitions
Corporate Address: 16101 S 108th Ave,
Orland Park, IL, 60467, U.S.A.
Phone: 1 708 460 0555
Fax: 1 708 460 0555
On Offer:
The House of the Devil (U.S.A.; horror)
Producers: Roger Kass, Josh Braun, Larry Fessenden,
Peter Phok, Derek Curl; director: Ti
West; cast: Jocelin Donahue, Greta Gerwig,
Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Dee Wallace, Aj
Bowen. College student Samantha Hughes
takes on a babysitting job in a remote mansion.
The pay is good, but Samantha quickly
realizes that she is trapped. As a lunar eclipse
darkens the night sky, her employers carry out
a horrific ritual with Samantha at the center.
From the director of The Roost and Cabin
Fever 2. (89 mins.; screening; returning)
MULHOLLAND PICTURES
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: Keizersgracht 649, Amsterdam,
Holland, 1017DT, Netherlands
Phone: -31-20-6274339
On Offer:
Discovery of Heaven (Netherlands;
drama) Producer: Ate De Jong; director: Jeroen
Krabbe; cast: Stephen Fry, Greg Wise. God
does not like what happens on earth. He
wants his contract back. Someone has to find
the Ten Commandments and return the
tablets. It’s not easy, but the detective angels
know how to manipulate people on earth.
(125 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
Fogbound (Netherlands; thriller) Producer/director:
Ate De Jong; cast: Luke Perry, Ben
Daniels, Orla Brady. Three friends, two men
and a women, get stuck on a mountain ridge
in a very dense fog. They can’t drive on anymore.
But perhaps it would have been less
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dangerous to face the fog. (97 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; returning)
Summer Heat (Netherlands; romance)
Producer: Ate De Jong; director: Monique Van
De Ven; cast: Sophie Hilbrand, Waldemar
Torenstra, Johan Leysen. Bob, a war photographer,
seeks comfort in shooting nature pictures
on an island and hopes to forget his traumatic
experiences. On the island he meets a
great woman, Kathleen. She’s a photographers
dream. They fall in love. But she works
for ruthless criminals. Bob tries to save her. But
does Kathleen want to be saved? Is she really
in love with him, or just using him (98 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
MULTIVISIONNAIRE MEDIA
Cannes 2009 Office: Palais 20.04a
Office Phone: +33-(0)6-34-49-32-42
Office Fax: +1-626-737-8642
Attending: Sean T. Haley, managing partner;
Erika Kao-haley, managing partner
Corporate Address: Po Box 1477, Alhambra,
CA, 91802, U.S.A.
Phone: 626-737-8357 x102
Fax: 626-737-8357 x102
On Offer:
Born Of Earth (U.S.A.; horror) Producers:
Todd Brunswick, Tommy Brunswick; director:
Tommy Brunswick; cast: Daniel Baldwin, Brad
Dourif, James Russo. One night, Danny’s wife is
killed as creatures from hell come to snatch his
children. 5-years later Danny remains haunted
and criminalized by a community that never
believed his story. Soon they discover his story
of monsters is true, but now the creatures
have returned to snatch more children. But
this time, Danny is determined to stop the evil
creatures once and for all! (84 mins.; premiere;
debuting)
Evilution (U.S.A.; sci-fi) Producers: Brian
Patrick O’toole, Eric Peter-kaiser; director: Chris
Conlee; cast: Eric Peter-kaiser, James Duval.
US Army has discovered a microscopic alien
form in order to resurrect dead soldiers on the
battlefield. The scientist stole the last specimen
for experiments and the alien life form is
set loose and turns the residence into the
walking dead. (92 mins.; premiere; returning)
Terror Inside (U.S.A.; sci-fi) Producers:
Ralph Clemente, Corey Feldman, Joe G.
Lenders; director: Joe G. Lenders; cast: Corey
Feldman, Tanya Memme, Susie Sprague (feldman).
A perfect town with beautiful people is
transformed into a masochistic wonderland
when a virus is unearthed. Allen (Corey Feldman)
comes into town to propose to his long
time love to only discover she too is infected.
His love for her does not stop him as he discovers
a cure before the world is infected. Terror
Inside is an infectious thriller like no other. (90
mins.; premiere; debuting)
MYRIAD PICTURES
Cannes 2009 Office: Villa Royale - 4th Floor
- 41 Croisette/29 Rue Commandant Andre
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Kirk D’amico, president and ceo;
Pamela Rodi, executive vp marketing; Elias
Axume, vp, distribution & operations
Corporate Address: 3015 Main St., Suite
400, Santa Monica, CA, 90405, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-279-4000
Fax: 310-279-4000
On Offer:
Dino Mom (U.S.A.; animation) Producer:
David Lovegren Jae Woo Park; director: John
Kafka Yoon S. ChoiThree curious kids trip a
time machine into operation and suddenly
find themselves face to face with a smiling T-
Rex. They’re not food, they’re family (production;
product reel/trailer; debuting)
The Electric Slide (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Producer: Christine Vachon Brad Simpson;
director: Tristan Patterson; cast: Ewan
Mcgregor Carey Mulligan. In the 1980s, Eddie
Dodson owned a high-end boutique furniture
store on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. He
lived the Hollywood lifestyle, partying and
hanging out with celebrity friends when he fell
in love and took the biggest risk of his life to
impress his new girlfriend – he robbed a bank.
(preproduction; presales; debuting)
Uncertainty (U.S.A.; drama)
Producer/director: David Siegel Scott Mcgehee;
cast: Joseph Gordon-levitt Lynn Collins. A
young couple discovers how a small decision
can make a huge impact. (105 mins.; screening;
debuting)
NATIONAL FILM DEVELOP-
MENT CORPORATION LIMIT-
ED
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: “discovery Of India”
Building, 6th Floor, Nehru Centre, Dr. Annie
Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai, Maharashtra,
400018, India
Phone: -91-22-66288288
On Offer:
Maya Bazaar (India; drama) Producer:
Mrs.nina Lath Gupta Mr.raja Chhinal; director:
Mr.joydeep Ghosh; cast: Roopa Ganguly Krishna
Kishor. Maya Bazaar is a combination of
three films namely SMRITI (Memories), SATVA
(Soul), and BHABHISHAT ( Future). All these
films are based on logical realities. First film
SMRITI (Memories) tells you the story of
young widow’s loneliness and obsession
memories of her dead husband. The obsession
is so strong that when ever she takes in a lover
, the lover slowly converts into the dead husband.
As the year goes by the practice goes on.
(120 mins.; premiere; debuting)
Paltadacho Munis (India; drama) Producer:
Ms. Nina Lath Gupta Mr. Raja Chhinal;
director: Mr. Laxmikant Shetgaonkar; cast: Mr.
Vasanth Josalkar Ms. Veena Jomkar. A lonely
man finds a companion in an insane woman in
the dense forest in the western ghats of India.
THE MAN BEYOND THE BRIDGE revolves
around this beautiful relationship only to discover
construction of a temple on the hilltop
forming a threat to this story of love. (110
mins.; premiere; debuting)
The White Elephant (India; drama) Producer:
Mrs. Nina Lath Gupta Mr. Raja Chhinal;
director: Mr. Aijaz Khan; cast: Mr. Prroshanth
Narayanan Ms. Tannishtha Chatterjee. The
story of Shabri’s resolve to safeguard the village’s
honor, changing fortunes, the envious
eyes, the power of spells and connive……..
above all a story of strength of faith and the
impact of believing – The White Elephant. A
poor man has to pay a high price for finding
himself. As he goes through a variety of
changes, so does the world around him - and
all this because an elephant walked into his
life one day. (110 mins.; premiere; debuting)
NEOCLASSICS FILMS LTD.
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 3710 S. Robertson Blvd.,
Suite 230, Culver City, CA, 90232, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-559-9200
Fax: 310-559-9200
On Offer:
Gypsy Love (U.S.A.; romance) Producer:
Irwin Olian; director: Amin MatalqaThis lighthearted
romantic comedy tells the story of a
dying woman who has the chance to reconnect
with her long lost love after a mysterious
spell turns her back into her twenty-year-old
self. (development; debuting)
Surviving Crooked Lake (U.S.A.; drama)
Producers: Nicholas Tabarrok, Matthew Miller,
Jaty Tam; directors: Sascha Drews, Ezra Krybus,
Matthew Miller; cast: Alysha Aubin, Candice
Mausner, Morgan Mccunn, Stephannie
Richardson, Guy Yarkoni. Surviving Crooked
Lake tells the story of four girls stranded in the
wilderness and forced to make a grueling jour-
ney back to civilization. To celebrate their summer
at camp a group of teenage girls take a
trip into the Canadian wilderness. An accident
leaves them abandoned in the forest and they
must navigate back to camp on their own.
Combining elemental force with the complex
psyches of its young protagonists Surviving
Crooked Lake is an affecting tale of selfpreservation.
(89 mins.; debuting)
NEW FILMS INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera F# 15
Office Phone: 310-498-6934
Attending: Nesim Hason, president; Ron Gell,
chief content officer; Rita Baghdadi, manager
of operations& development
Corporate Address: 14320 Ventura Blvd.#
619, Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, CA, 91423,
U.S.A.
Phone: 818-501-2720
Fax: 818-501-2720
On Offer:
CAMP HOPE (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers:
David Newman, George Vanbuskirk; director:
George Vanbuskirk; cast: Jesse Eisenberg,
Dana Delany, Andrew Mccarthy, Spencer Treat
Clark, Connor Paolo. At the end of every summer,
the children of a Christian community
from a suburb of New Jersey attend Camp
Hope. Here, the children are taught the ways
of the Lord, the perils of the flesh, and the horror
of the Devil. A charismatic priest leads
them in their training. But, he unknowingly has
brought something with him, something evil.
What was supposed to be a safe place, a spiritual
retreat has now turned into nightmare
that not even faith can end. (postproduction;
premiere; debuting)
CIRCLE (U.S.A.; horror) Producers: James
Allen Bradley, Joe Dain, Luke Daniels, Sharon
Nixon Kelly, Brian Ransom, Brad Tiemann;
director: Michael W. Watkins; cast: Gail
O’grady, Silas Weir Mitchell, Jason Thompson,
Michael Deluise. Circle is a clue driven race
against time that takes us on a labyrinth ride
of knowledge into the unraveling motives of a
serial killer. In this thriller, the FBI teams up
with the U.S. Marshals in a hunt for escaped
sociopath James Bennett, after he commits a
series of meticulously planned murders. Time
is running out, for everyone. (87 mins.; premiere;
debuting)
DARK MOON RISING (U.S.A.; horror) Producers:
Richard Cueto, Dana Mennie, Julie
Snider Mennie; director: Dana Mennie; cast:
Max Ryan, Maria Conchita Alonso, Chris
Mulkey, Sid Haig, Ginny Weirick, Chris Divecchio,
Billy Drago. Real love and fate collide in a
small-town girl’s life as Amy falls in love with
Dan a mysterious drifter who brings with him a
family curse and the unimaginable horror that
follows. Bender, who shares the curse with his
son, brings hell to Amy’s small town. (postproduction;
premiere; debuting)
NEW VENTURE ENTERTAIN-
MENT
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Monica Han, head of international
sales; Manse Moon, general manager
Corporate Address: 1f, 1463-2, Seocho-dong,
Seocho-gu, Seoul, Seoul, 137-070, Korea
Phone: 82-2-3471-8957
Fax: 82-2-3471-8957
NIPPON TELEVISION NET-
WORK CORPORATION
Cannes 2009 Office: Palais 01 21.02-23.01
Office Phone: 04-92-99-80-66
Attending: Nobuyuki Iinuma, producer;
Fumiko Nagata, sales; Asuka Kimura, sales
Corporate Address: 1-6-1 Higashi Shimbashi,,
Minato-ku,, Tokyo, 105-7444, Japan
Phone: -81-3-6215-3028
Fax: -81-3-6215-3028
On Offer:
GOKUSEN!!! THE MOVIE (Japan;
CANNES
product listings
drama) Producer: Masatoshi Kato; director:
Toya Sato; cast: Yukie Nakama. The story of
the series is about a young woman, Kumiko
“Yankumi” Yamaguchi (Yukie Nakama) living
in the world of Yakuzas as the 4th generation
heir of the Oedo Family. She is self-sacrificing
to protect the weak, tough at fighting and
firmly believes in the importance of friendship,
dreams and family as she teaches and advises
punks as a hot-blooded high school teacher.
(production; product reel/trailer; debuting)
MW (Japan; thriller) Producer: Shinzo Matsuhashi;
director: Hitoshi Iwamoto; cast:
Hiroshi Tamaki, Takayuki Yamada. 16 years
ago, all inhabitants on an island were killed by
an accident. The accident was covered up
overnight by the authorities. However, two
boys survive by a twist of fate… One boy, Yuki,
became an incredibly beautiful and clever person
who plots revenge on the government.
The other boy, Garai became a priest who pursues
peace. Yuki finds about “MW”; the horrible
chemical-weapon which caused the accident,
and finally obtains it. With “MW”, he tries
to terminate all mankind with himself… (129
mins.; screening; debuting)
SUMMER WARS (Japan; animation) Producers:
Nozomu Takahashi, Takashi Watanabe,
Yuichiro Saito; director: Mamoru Hosoda;
cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba. In
the near future, the virtual city OZ has been
created, and people do their daily interaction
through OZ. Kenji spends his summer maintaining
OZ, but happens to go to his dreamgirl,
Natsuki’s hometown with her. There,
Kenji receives a hard question in math by email
from someone. Kenji, a math whiz, tries
to solve it, and when he finally finds the
answer, the world has been totally changed.
Kenji is set up as an OZ outlaw, and with Natsuki’s
family, he tries to fix OZ to save the
world! (production; product reel/trailer;
debuting)
NONSTOP SALES
Cannes 2009 Office: Scandinavian Stand,
55, La Croisette
Office Phone: -46-707-33-28-55
Attending: Carl Göran Anderson, CEO;
Michael Werner, sales manager; Miira Paasilinna,
sales executive
Corporate Address: Döbelnsgatan 24,
Stockholm, Stockholm, SE 113 52, Sweden
Phone: +46 8 673 99 80
On Offer:
The Forest (Sweden; thriller) Director:
Ashvin Kumar (110 mins.; screening; debuting)
Jack in the Box (Sweden; horror) Director:
Frank KerrJunior’s desperate “guests” struggles
with themselves, and each other, for survival.
Seven begin the game, only one will end
it. Who will it be? Grab a chair and find out.
(88 mins.; screening; debuting)
Shooting the Sun (Sweden; drama)
Director: Pål Jackman (93 mins.; screening;
debuting)
NOT A NUMBER
Cannes 2009 Office: Media Pavilion
Office Phone: 044-0-7861376154
Attending: Simeon Halligan, director; Rachel
Richarson-jones, producer
Corporate Address: The Pie Factory, Media
City, Salford, Manchester, Greater Manchester,
M50 2EQ, Uk
Phone: 0044-0-161-872-2227
Fax: 0044-0-161-872-2227
On Offer:
BLUE BULL (Uk; thriller) Producers: Clive
Parsons, Rachel Richardson-jones; director:
Rick Griffith; cast: Na. On his release from
prison, Mr Black has a plan. While his dead
friends hidden fortune is a temptation, the
clues to it’s whereabouts are complex. Black’s
mind fixes on revenge and leads him on a collision
course with Lou Crossmoor, the former
crime boss turned property tycoon who sold
Scotty, Black and their cohorts down the river.
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Getting under Crossmoor’s skin and working a
blackmail plot is Black’s Big Idea. But will
either of them find the hidden fortune?
Think GET CARTER and LAYER CAKE (development;
presales; debuting)
Cherub House (Uk; thriller) Producers:
Rachel Richadson Jones, Clive Parsons; director:
Simeon Halligan; cast: Na. Mary takes a
job at ramshackle mansion, the Cherub House,
caring for the bed ridden ex movie star Lady
Hof, who delights in subtly tormenting her, like
she did her previous employees. Mary soon
discovers that Hof is the least of her worries as
each night becomes an exercise in terror as the
old house awakens with the presence of horrific
apparitions. The past is forcing itself into
the present. Can Mary survive the powerful
supernatural threat? (development; presales;
debuting)
SPLINTERED (Uk; horror) Producers: Clive
Parsons, Rachel Richardson-jones; director:
Simeon Halligan; cast: Holly Weston, Stephen
Martin Walters. Something has been killing
live stock in a remote part of north Wales and
now it’s started attacking humans. SOPHIE, a
teenager with a troubled past, puts herself
and her friends in danger, when her obsession
with the unexplained leads them deep into
the Welsh countryside. Sophie witnesses a viscious
attack on her friend and then finds herself
incarcerated in a locked room, her only
hope is that her friends manage to find her
before her captor makes them it’s latest victim.
(90 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
NOTRO FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera A5 Cinema
From Spain
Office Phone: -33-492-993305
Attending: Angela Del Valle Acedo, co head
of international sales; Manuel Monzón, head
of international co productions; David Mitjans,
head of acquisitions
Corporate Address: Balmes 243, Atico,
Barcelona, Barcelona, 08006, Spain
Phone: -34-93-238-4030
On Offer:
EL GRECO (Spain; drama) Producer: Helen
Smaragdis; director: Iannis Smaragdis; cast:
Nick Ashdon-juan Diego Botto- Lakis
Lazopoulos Laia Marull - Dimitra Matsouka -
Sotiris Moustakas. An epic tale of an uncompromising
artist and fighter for freedom,
Domenicos Theotocopoulos, known to the
world as «El Greco».This story is one of unusual
heroism, betrayal, love, and the power of
one man and his creative consciousness to
stand out and overcome barbarity and ignorance.
An inspiration that lives on to this day.
(117 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
INSIGNIFICANT THINGS (Spain; drama)
Producer: Tequila Gang; director: Andrea
Martínez Crowther; cast: Bárbara Mori, Fernando
Luján, Carmelo Gómez, Lucía Jiménez,
Paulina Gaitán. Esmeralda is a teenager with
an unusual obsession: she collects objects lost,
forgotten or discarded by people she doesn’t
know and keeps them in a box beneath her
bed. This is the tale of three objects in the box
and the people behind them, all in some way
incapable of relating to the person they love
most. It is also a tale of the box itself, and of
how Esmeralda learns to open it, to feel and to
hoard the most valuable thing of all: human
relations. (96 mins.; screening; debuting)
MISSION IN MOCLAND A SUPER-
SPACE ADVENTURE (Spain; animation)
Producer: Enrique F. Guzmán; director: Juanma
Suárez; cast: Na. Planet Moc and its inhabitants
are in danger. Their vital energy, Limbar,
is disappearing. Dreadful General Neflin has
stolen it and has now dethroned Queen Pola.
Determined to bring back peace to her Planet,
Pola will send an expedition in the search of
Aloma, a mineral, according to the Ancient
Legend, capable of generating the stolen
energy. Lalo, Mina, Gobi and Lilium will be in
charge of the galactic mission. But: Will they
succeed? Could Aloma be more than just a
Legend? (84 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
NU IMAGE/MILLENNIUM
FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera Stand F1
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Danny Dimbort, partner; Avi Lerner,
partner; Christian Mercuri, president intl.
sales and distribution
Corporate Address: 6423 Wilshire Blvd, Los
Angeles, CA, 90048, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-388-6900
Fax: 310-388-6900
On Offer:
Inventory (U.S.A.; action-adventure) Director:
Wayne Kramer; cast: Bruce Willis. A detective
hunts down a suspect to obtain enough
evidence to put him away for a vicious murder.
(preproduction; presales; debuting)
The Mechanic (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Director: Simon West; cast: Jason Statham. A
reinvention of the 1972 Charles Bronson action
classic. A hitman, famed for his efficient and
unfeeling contract executions, befriends a
young man and trains him as a professional
assassin. (preproduction; presales; debuting)
Stone (U.S.A.; thriller) Director: John Curran;
cast: Robert Deniro, Edward Norton, Sienna
Miller. A ruthless convict engages in a series of
disturbing mental games with his corrections
officer in an attempt to gain parole. When the
officer begins an affair with the convict’s wife,
it soon becomes clear that both the convict
and officer’s motivations are suspect, provoking
a dangerous ordeal. (preproduction;
debuting)
NZ FILM
Cannes 2009 Office: Nz Film Commission
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Graeme Mason, CEO; Kathleen
Drumm, head of sales & marketing; Sarah Cull,
head of business affairs
Corporate Address: Level 3, 119 Ghuznee
Street, Wellington, Wellington, 6011, New
Zealand
Phone: -64-4-382-7682
Fax: -64-4-382-7682
On Offer:
The Strength of Water (New Zealand;
drama) Producers: Fiona Copland, Karl Baumgartner
And Raimond Goebel; director: Armagan
Ballantyne; cast: Jim Moriarty, Nancy
Brunning, Hato Paparoa. When a mysterious
stranger arrives in their isolated coastal town,
10 year-old twins, Kimi and Melody are forced
apart. Kimi must find the strength to let go of
what he loves the most. (screening; returning)
Under the Mountain (New Zealand;
drama) Producers: Richard Fletcher, Jonathan
King, Matthew Grainger; director: Jonathan
King; cast: Sam Neill, Oliver Driver. Guided by
the mysterious Mr Jones, teenage twins must
rekindle their unique powers to destroy an
ancient evil lurking beneath a volcano –
before it destroys them. (screening; debuting)
The Vintner’s Luck (New Zealand;
drama) Producers: Robin Laing, Laurie Parker,
Pascal Judelewicz, Niki Caro And Ludi Boeken;
director: Niki Caro; cast: Jeremie Renier, Gaspard
Ulliel, Vera Farmiga, Keisha Castle-hughes.
A peasant wine-maker in 19th century
France grapples with the sacred, the sensual
and the profane, in search of the perfect vintage.
(postproduction; debuting)
OBERON CINEMATOGRÀFICA
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: C/ Aragó, 217 5º 2º,
Barcelona, Barcelona, 08007, Spain
Phone: -34-93-451-25-60
Fax: -34-93-451-25-60
On Offer:
Dictation (Spain; thriller) Producer/director:
Antonio Chavarrías; cast: To Be Confirmed. A
childhood friend desperately seeking Mario’s
help tells him that his nine-year-old daughter
wants to kill him. Mario doesn’t believe it but,
a few days later when his friend dies in mysterious
circumstances, Mario cannot resist the
temptation of meeting his dead friend’s
daughter and widow. (preproduction; presales;
returning)
Elisa K (Spain; drama) Producer: Antonio
Chavarrías; directors: Judith Colell, Jordi Cadena;
cast: To Be Confirmed. Elisa will turn
eleven this summer. She likes her new white
dress with blue ribbons. But soon everything
will lose its importance. Her father’s friend has
made her cry and afterwards has told her: “If
you stop crying I will give you a silver bracelet”.
Nobody realizes what’s happened. Elisa
behaves a bit strangely but that’s it. Until she
grows up and, one day, calls her mum and,
scared, asks her: “Help me, I’ve just remembered
something horrible”. (preproduction;
presales; debuting)
The milk of sorrow (Spain; drama) Producers:
Antonio Chavarrías, José María
Morales, Claudia Llosa; director: Claudia Llosa;
cast: Magaly Solier, Susi Sánchez. Fausta is
suffering from “LA TETA ASUSTADA”, an illness
transmitted through the breast milk of
women who were raped or mistreated during
the war of terror in Peru. War has ended but
Fausta lives on, haunted by it, because the “illness
of fear” has taken away her soul. Now
the sudden death of her mother forces her to
face her fears and the secret she’s been hiding
inside: she has inserted a potato into her vagina,
like a protection shield, so that nobody will
dare to touch her. (84 mins.; screening; returning)
ODD LOT INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: 7th Floor Ibis, Residence
Du Grand Hotel 45 La Croisette, 06400
Cannes
Office Phone: 33 (0) 4 93 38 34 63
Attending: Gigi Pritzker, CEO; Bill Lischak,
COO; Brian O’shea, evp, worldwide distribution
Corporate Address: 9601 Jefferson Blvd,
Suite A, Culver City, CA, 90232, U.S.A.
Phone: 323-936-8394
On Offer:
The Great Ghost Rescue (U.S.A.; actionadventure)
Producers: Miriam Segal, Martin
Katz, Norman Merry, Kornel Sipos; director:
Yann SamuellBased on the popular children’s
book by Eva Ibboston, the story features
Humphrey, a small ghost with a big problem.
His family has lost their home, and they’re off
to find a new haunting ground but ghosts all
over the country are being turned out as castles
are converted to cheerful tourist hotels,
condos and track houses. Humphrey knows
something must be done and when the time
comes he “rises” to the occasion with “frightening”
success. (preproduction; returning)
The Open Road (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Charlie Mason, Justin Moore-lewy, Michael
Meredith, Jordan Foley, Laurie Foxx, David
Schiff; director: Michael Meredith; cast: Justin
Timberlake, Jeff Bridges, Kate Mara, Mary
Steenburgen, Harry Dean Stanton, Lyle Lovett.
Upon learning of his mother’s heart condition,
Carlton is faced with the challenge of fulfilling
her wish to bring his estranged father to the
hospital before the operation. Carlton and his
friend set off to find his legendary professional
athlete father, Kyle. After much convincing,
chasing and missed flights, they head for
Houston in a rented car. As they drive down
south, both father and son are obliged to reexamine
their pasts and shed the protective layers
of their individual personalities. (screening;
returning)
Rabbit Hole (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Nicole Kidman, Per Saari, Leslie Urdang, Dean
Vanech, Gigi Pritzker; director: John Cameron
Mitchell; cast: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart.
RABBIT HOLE is a love story between a husband
and wife as their marriage evolves in the
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ODIN’S EYE ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office: Palais 20.03
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sales & acquisitoins
Corporate Address: Fsa #24, Fox Studios
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On Offer:
DOWN FOR LIFE (Australia; drama) Producer:
Scott William Alvarez; director: Alan
Jacobs; cast: Danny Glover, Kate Del Castillo, .
Based on a true story. When 15 year old Rascal,
leader of an all-girl gang steals the car of a
rival gang, it sets of a chain of events that will
change her life forever. (postproduction; product
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GNOMES & TROLLS: 2 - The Forest
Trial (Australia; animation) Producer: Carl
Johan Merner; director: Robert Rhodin; cast:
Peter Stormare, Roger Moore, Elizabeth Daily.
GNOMES & TROLLS is an inspired 3-D animation
franchise following the adventures of
Junior, a young gnome who wants nothing
more than to invent gizmos and gadgets in his
tree-house laboratory. In this second film in
the series Junior travels to the Gnome community
for a trial, which determines whether he
will be in charge of his own forest. However, his
candidacy is soon in jeopardy when a competitor
appears, the whip-smart Storm. (production;
product reel/trailer; returning)
LAST CUP: Road to the World Series
of Beer Pong (Australia; comedy) Producers:
Josh Otten, Nicholas Kalikow, Andy Greenblatt,
; director: Daniel Lindsay; cast: Billy
Gaines, Scott “iceman” Reck, Jamie “the
Champ” Clouser. It’s SPELLBOUND meets
BEERFEST in this hilarous and engaging documentary.
LAST CUP follows competitors, all
over North America, for whom beer pong is
more than a simple pastime—it’s a way of life.
“The film is disarmingly smart without becoming
interllectual...” - Indiewire “Crowds will eat
it up!” FOUR STARS - Film Threat (85 mins.;
screening; debuting)
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Cannes 2009 Office: The Bayview In The
Old Port By The Palais
Office Phone/Fax: 0033-0-492987172
Attending: Ralph Kamp, chairman & ceo;
James Scott, vp international sales; Libby
D’arcy, head of legal & business affairs
Corporate Address: 10a James Street, London,
London, WC2E 8BT, Uk
Phone: 207-520-5621
Fax: 207-520-5621
On Offer:
Is Anybody There? (Uk; drama) Producers:
David Heyman, Peter Saraf Marc Turtletaub;
director: John Crowley; cast: Michael
Caine, Bill Milner, David Morrissey, Anne-marie
Duff, Elizabeth Spriggs, Leslie Philips, Peter
Vaughan. The unlikely friendship of a retired
magician and a 10 year old boy. A surprising
and touching story of this odd couple facing
life together. (product reel/trailer; returning)
sex & drugs & rock & roll (Uk; drama)
Producer: Damian Jones; director: Mat Whitecross;
cast: Andy Serkis, Naomie Harris Ray
Winstone. The story of legendary English Rock
‘n’ Roll singer and performer, Ian Dury of Ian
Dury and the Blockheads. (production; product
reel/trailer; returning)
WICKIE THE MIGHTY VIKING (Uk;
family) Producer: Christian Becker; director:
Michael ‘bully’ Herbig; cast: Jonas Hämmerle,
Waldemar Kobus. Join Wickie the Viking and
his friends on their wild adventures as they
battle their arch-nemesis Scary Sven. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; returning)
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OPEN SESAME CO., LTD.
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 1-14-6, Ginza, Chuo-ku,
Tokyo, 104-0061, Japan
Phone: 81-3-5159-0871
Fax: 81-3-5159-0871
On Offer:
The Blood of Rebirth (Japan; drama)
Producer: Koji Chiba; director: Toshiaki Toyoda;
cast: Tatsuya Nakamura, Mayuu Kusakari. Set
in the Middle Ages, Oguri, a renowned
masseur, is summoned to the fortress of the
ruler of the dark world, the Lord. After encouraging
Terute, a captive princess to escape,
Oguri is poisoned to death by the Lord. At a
fork in the road between heaven and hell,
Oguri is sent back to the land of the living in
the form of a Hungry Ghost, in a state of
apparent death. Meanwhile, Terute manages
to flee from the Lord and reunites with Oguri.
But the Lord is hot on their heels to punish
Terute. (83 mins.; premiere; debuting)
Crime or Punishment?!? (Japan; comedy)
Producer: Norio Enomoto; director: Keralino
Sandorovich; cast: Riko Narumi, Kento
Nagayama. A celebrity, Ayame, happens to
take on the PR role of “police chief for a day”. It
is a job of a campaign girl to smile and act as a
police chief. However, the police station staff
treat her as if she were the real police chief
and look her for instructions. In addition, the
detective assigned to her as her subordinate
turns out to be her ex-boyfriend, Haruki, who
holds a dreadful secret. Then a major event
takes place…. (110 mins.; premiere; debuting)
The Two in Tracksuits (Japan; drama)
Producers: Yasushi Udagawa, Keigo Tanabe;
director: Yoshihiro Nakamura; cast: Makoto
Ayukawa, Masato Sakai. A son (32) quits his
job and is persuaded by his father (54), to
head off to a cottage in the remote mountains.
The son’s wife is involved with another
man. The father’s third marriage is on the
rocks... Together, the two of them somehow
manage to get through their days while idling
away the time in old jerseys left by a deceased
grandmother. (93 mins.; premiere; debuting)
OVC MEDIA LTD
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 88 Berkeley Court, Baker
Street, London, London, NW1 5ND, UNITED
KINGDOM
Phone: 020-7402-9111
Fax: 020-7402-9111
On Offer:
AFRICAN ODYSSEY (UNITED KINGDOM;
documentary) Producer: Eliot M Cohen; director:
Joanne Goldring-cohenBlazing sunsets,
vast landscapes, scorching deserts, great
rivers, waterfalls and mountains; lush deltas,
huge dunes, palm fringed beaches, and shimmering
salt pans. Follow Robin Taylor on his
African Odyssey to discover the beauty and
variety of African wildlife while also visiting
some of Africa’s most exclusive travel lodges.
(390 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
History of The World Cup (UNITED
KINGDOM; documentary) Producer: Eliot M
Cohen; director: Joanne Goldring-cohen; cast:
Various Footballers From Around The World..
Football has been played for over 2000 years
in some form or another. Follow the progression
of the world’s greatest game from the
creation of the FA in 1863, FIFA in 1904 by
Frenchman Jules Rimet, through to the sporting
event that it is today. The programme features
Maradonna, Pele, Jurgen Klinsmann,
Bobby Robson and more, and includes highlights
from all the greatest games. (60 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; returning)
WORLD CUP SUPERSTARS 1 & 2
(UNITED KINGDOM; documentary) Producer:
Eliot M Cohen; director: Joanne Goldring-
cohenIn this first exciting Football programme
we present action and interviews from numerous
World Cup Superstars including Klinsmann,
Lineker, Gascoigne, Gullit, Van Basten,
Baggio and Vialli. (105 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
returning)
OVC MEDIA LTD
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 88 Berkeley Court, Baker
Street, London, London, NW8 8QE, UK
Phone: +44 (0) 207 9111
On Offer:
HEALTHY LIFESTYLE SERIES (UK;
documentary) Producer: Joanne Goldring
Cohen; director: Eliot M Cohen7 part series,
each episode focusing on a different aspect of
healthy lifestyle, providing a guide to living
healthly with help of alternative therapies,
Aromatherapy, Yoga, Acupressure, Stress
Relief, Reflexology, Feng-Shui & Shiatsu (315
mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
MOSCOW CITY BALLET (UK; musical)
Producer: Joanne Goldring-cohen & Eliot M
Cohen; director: Yoav PelegTHE SERIES
ENCOMPASSES CLASSIC WORKS SUCH AS
“DON QUIXOTE” AND ALSO MODERN PIECES
INCLUDING, “THE CARMEN SUITE” BASED
MERIMEE’S NOVELLA. THE SERIES FEATURES
PERFORMANCES BY NADZEDAH PAVLOVA......
(180 mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
SOCCER EXPLOSION (UK; documentary)
Producer: Joanne Goldring-cohen; director:
Eliot M CohenSoccer Explosion is a series of
great programmes which features many
famous European players circa 1996. Featured
players: Ronaldo, Shearer, Gullit, Vialli, Zola,
Gascoigne and many more..... (184 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
OXFORD GROUP PRODUC-
TIONS
Cannes 2009 Office: Majestic Barriere Hotel
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Attending: Heather Lowe, president; Cathy
Soref, CFO
Corporate Address: 269 South Beverly Drive,
Beverly Hills, CA, 90212, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-679-0995
Fax: 818-679-0995
On Offer:
H. BREAKDOWN (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Heather Lowe, Doug Stebleton, Randy
Levinson Written By : Andrew Prine; director:
Michael Schroeder; cast: To Be Announced.
Two men, on the road, one a man of simple
faith, the other whose guilt is driven by the
burden of someone’s death; and their relationship
which is barely held together by the
prospect of their next sandwich. (preproduction;
presales; debuting)
MEGA CON (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers:
Heather Lowe, Jason Connery, Doug Stebleton;
director: Jason Connery; cast: To Be
Announced. THE MISADVENTURES OF A HAP-
LESS GROUP OF ACTORS INVITED TO ATTEND
AN EVENT IN A LONG FORGOTTEN TOWN,
WHERE STRANGE OCCURANCES BEGIN TO
(preproduction; presales; debuting)
STANDING FOR WHAT IS RIGHT
(U.S.A.; documentary) Producers: Heather
Lowe, Doug Stebleton; director: Heather Lowe;
cast: The U.s. Justice Department And
Activists. THE NEVER SHOWN BEFORE
DETAILS AND ACTIONS TAKING PLACE THE
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS OF THE UNITED
STATES JUSTICE DEPARTMENTS DURING THE
CIVIL RIGHTS ERA- (production; presales;
debuting)
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Cannes 2009 Office: Lérins R15
Office Phone: -33-4-92-99-32-21
Office Fax: -33-4-92-99-33-22
Attending: Jean Labadie, president; Elisa-
beth Perlié, head of international sales;
Nathalie Jeung, international sales
Corporate Address: 5 Rue Darcet, Paris, Ile
De France, 75017, France
Phone: -33-1-44-69-59-55
Fax: -33-1-44-69-59-55
On Offer:
La Grande Vie (France; comedy) Producer:
Laetitia Gonzalez; director: Emmanuel
Salinger; cast: Laurent Capelluto, Michel Boujenah.
Grégoire, a humble philosophy teacher,
suddenly enters the life of Patrick, a famous
television show host. Unless it is actually happening
the other way around… (debuting)
Making Plans for Léna (France; drama)
Producer: Pascal Caucheteux; director:
Christophe Honoré; cast: Chiara Mastroianni,
Jean-marc Barr. Ever since she broke up with
Nigel, Léna soldiers on through life as best she
can with her two kids. She valiantly overcomes
the obstacles put in her way. But she has yet
to confront the worst of them: Her unstoppable
family of do-gooders who have decided
to make her happy. (debuting)
The Queen of Clubs (France; drama) Producers:
Laurent Lavolé, Isabelle Pragier; director:
Jérôme Bonnell; cast: Laurent Capelluto,
Michel Boujenah. Aurélien has always lived
with his sister. A strange cohabitation that
they both accept. By day, he is a florist; by
night, he receives stolen metal. Caught up in
this system, he will go one step too far…
(debuting)
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Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 1202 Lexington Avenue,
Suite #352, New York, NY, 10028, U.S.A.
Phone: +33 6 8510 0805
Fax: +33 6 8510 0805
On Offer:
His Majesty The Queen (U.S.A.; comedy)
Producers: David A. Lown, Patricia T. LownThis
is a story which gives quite another view of
contemporary American politics. From its
shock beginning, the story goes from one hilarious
revelation to another. There are lots of
sexual twists and turns and not a single shot is
fired. The ending is totally unexpected and
delightful. (development; presales; debuting)
Jennifer and The Swan Boat (U.S.A.;
family) Producers: Patricia T. Lown, David A.
Lown, Marie-therese Brunet; director: Michael
Beyer; cast: Peter O’toole, Geraldine Chaplin. A
homeless waif, who has lost the power of
speech, finds refuge in the deep cellars of the
Paris Opera House. There, she meets Michael,
a broken-down ex-ballet dancer, who teaches
her to dance. This is a story of survival, a close
and understanding relationship between a
child and an old man, brought together by
their pain and their mutual love of the dance.
It is irresistible in its touching humanity and its
ultimate triumph. (preproduction; presales;
debuting)
Suzanne Valadon (U.S.A.; romance) Producers:
David A. Lown, Patricia Twohill Lown-
Suzanne Valadon was a remarkable woman of
her time. Survival was the name of her game.
A true child of the streets of Pigalle and Montmartre,
Suzanne worked as a seamstress, a
trapeze artist and then as the favorite model
of the great Impressionist painters, from
whom she learned her craft, becoming the
first woman admitted to the French Academy
of Art. Her story is exciting, sexy, naughty: an
inspiration to her son, Maurice Utrillo. (development;
presales; debuting)
PALM TREE ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office:
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Attending:
Corporate Address: 630-632 Props Building
East, Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Bucking-
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On Offer:
Deep Lies (Uk; thriller) Producers: Phil
Stagg, Ken Ward, Robbie Moffat, Mairi Sutherland;
director: Phil Stagg; cast: Helena Martin,
Marnie Baxter, Suzanne Kendall. Three friends
go on a college reunion to a holiday hotel in
the English Lake District. They are to be brides
maids at their friends wedding at the hotel.
The groom turns out to cause the return of the
ghost of his violent past. (90 mins.; screening;
debuting)
Photoshoot (Uk; thriller) Producer: Robbie
Moffat Mairi Sutherland; director: Mairi
Sutherland; cast: John Altman, Debbie Arnold,
Paul Lavers, Niall Sutherland, Peter Bradleigh.
Wayne Wilson is a primo paparazzi who has
gained his reputation by stalking his celebrity
subjects. Challenged by his Magazine Editor
Wayne vows to get the best Photoshoot of the
year from reclusive actress May Hudson. All
goes wrong when May uncovers Wayne has
lied his way into her life. She kidnaps him and
chains him to her bed. Sunset Boulevard meet
Misery. (90 mins.; screening; debuting)
Sister ‘s Grimm (Uk; comedy) Producer:
Robbie Moffat Mairi Sutherland; director:
Robbie Moffat; cast: Charlotte Radford,
Suzanne Kendall, Tom Fox Davies, Nick
Bartlett, Jon Paul Gates, Joe Rainbow. Two sisters
return home to Grimm Castle to claim
their dubious inheritance. Forced to marry
within a month of their arrival to meet their
new relative, the sisters discover there are dark
secret in the village that they must uncover
first! Romantic Comedy. (90 mins.; screening;
debuting)
PARAMOUNT VANTAGE
INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: 42 La Croisette, Suite
A31
Office Phone: +33 (0) 493 68 85 61
Attending: Guy Stodel, evp acquisition & coproduction;
Matt Brodlie, svp acquisition & coproduction;
Alex Walton, svp international
sales
Corporate Address: 5555 Melrose Ave, Ball
Bldg, Los Angeles, CA, 90038, U.S.A.
Phone: 323-956-5000
Fax: 323-956-5000
On Offer:
13 (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers: Rick Schwartz,
Aaron Kaufman, Valerio Morabito; director:
Gela Babluani; cast: Mickey Rourke, Jason
Statham. 13 tells the story of a young man
who steals a mysterious package that promises
to pay out a fortune. He soon finds himself
in the middle of a deadly ring of clandestine
gamblers placing huge bets on the outcome of
a multi-player tournament of Russian roulette.
It is a story of luck, chance, the loss of innocence
and the relationship between power
and money. (postproduction; debuting)
The Crazies (U.S.A.; horror) Producers:
Michael Aguilar, Dean Georgaris, Rob Cowan;
director: Breck Eisner; cast: Timothy Olyphant,
Radha Mitchell. A reinvention of the George A.
Romero classic tells the story of inhabitants of
a small town beset by insanity from exposure
to a mysterious toxin. Quarantined by the government,
they soon realize no one is allowed in
or out. Has the government swooped in to
save them or are they part of a bigger conspiracy
that has sealed their fate? (production;
debuting)
Ondine (U.S.A.; drama) Producers: Ben
Browning, James Flynn, Neil Jordan; director:
Neil Jordan; cast: Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda.
ONDINE tells the story of Syracuse (Colin Farrell),
a local fisherman whose everyday life is
transformed by a beautiful and mysterious
woman (Alicja Bachleda) whom he fishes
from the sea and who his young daughter,
Annie (Alison Barry), believes is a mermaid.
But like all fairytales, enchantment and dark-
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ness go hand in hand. ONDINE, written and
directed by Neil Jordan, tells a story about
hope, love, and the value of believing in magic.
(postproduction; debuting)
PARK ENTERTAINMENT LTD
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: Suite 12, 3rd Floor, 54
Broadwick Street, London, Great Britain, W1F
7AH, Uk
Phone: 44-0-20-7434-4176
Fax: 44-0-20-7434-4176
On Offer:
The Combination (Uk; thriller) Producer:
John Pirrie; director: David Field; cast: George
Basha, Firass Dirani. John gets out of jail to discover
his younger brother Charlie is caught up
with drugs, gangs and crime. A feud spills into
the streets in a racial battle that turns bloody.
When John, a Lebanese-Australian falls for an
Australian girl he is painfully aware of the
choice he must make - family or love. (90
mins.; screening; debuting)
Dead Man Running (Uk; thriller) Producer:
Nicholas ‘pikki’ Fearon; director: Alex De
Rakoff; cast: Tamar Hassan, Danny Dyer. A
loan shark, Mr Thigo (Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson)
decides to make an example of his late payers.
Ex-con Nick (Tamar Hassan) is given 24 hours
to come up with £100,000. A frantic dash
against the clock begins with Nick’s mother
(Brenda Blethyn) held hostage at gunpoint.
(postproduction; product reel/trailer; debuting)
Hell’s Pavement (Uk; drama) Producers:
Sarah Boote, Alan Latham; director: Andy
Kemp; cast: Pauline Mclynn, Diveen Henry.
How is it that so many well-intentioned people
can do so much damage? A heart-breaking
and topical story of a young girl in the UK’s
social care system. (97 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
PATCHWORK PRODUCTIONS
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 24a Hazelbourne Road,
London, London, SW12 9NS, Uk
Phone: 02083781455
On Offer:
IF YOU SEE A CROCODILE (Uk; drama)
Producers: Christine Hartland, James Bolton;
director: Guy PittIF YOU SEE A CROCODILE is a
childhood road-movie about an eight year old
girl trying to get back to her Mum - her trip is
only across London but for her, it is the adventure
of a lifetime. (development; presales;
debuting)
NITRATE (Uk; thriller) Producer: Christine
Hartland; director: Guy Ducker And Gavin
BoyterA hotshot director uncovers the truth
behind the murder of his filmmaking idol
when he tries to reconstruct the dead man’s
lost, unfinished masterpiece. (development;
presales; debuting)
PATHE INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Residences Du Grand
Hotel, 45 La Croisette 4th Floor
Office Phone: -33-4-93-99-32-67
Office Fax: -33-4-93-68-02-53
Attending: Muriel Sauzay, executive vice
president; Mike Runagall, senior vice president;
Saya Huddleston, vice president
Corporate Address: Kent House, 14-17 Market
Place, London, London, W1W 8AR, Uk
Phone: -1-207-323-5151
On Offer:
Bright Star (Uk; drama) Producers: Jan
Chapman, Caroline Hewitt; director: Jane
Campion; cast: Abbie Cornish, ben Whishaw,
Paul Schneider. BRIGHT STAR is a tale of passionate
young love, tracing the intense love
affair between the great Romantic poet John
Keats and the beautiful Fanny Brawne in the
months leading up to Keats’ tragic death at
the age of 25. (118 mins.; debuting)
Centurion (Uk; action-adventure) Producers:
Christian Colson, Robert Jones; director:
Neil Marshall; cast: Michael Fassbender,
Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko. In AD 117, a
fearless Roman Legion heads into the dark
depths of Northern Britain to conquer land for
the Roman Empire. But to do this, they must
defeat an elusive enemy, the infamously savage
and terrifying tribesmen known as the
Picts. (production; debuting)
Farewell (Uk; drama) Producers: Christophe
Rossignon, Bertrand Faivre, Philip Boeffard;
director: Christian Carion; cast: Guillaume
Canet, Emir Kusturica, Alexandra Maria Lara.
Moscow, 1981… A KGB colonel, disgusted with
what Soviet policy has become, decides to
break with the system. With the help of a
French engineer he will play a part in one of
the key events in world history, the collapse of
the Soviet bloc. (100 mins.; debuting)
PATOU FILMS INTERNATION-
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Cannes 2009 Office: Res. Du Gray D’albion
Office Phone: -33682302984
Attending: Jean Roke Patoudem, producerdirector;
Am Ferrier, producer
Corporate Address: 47, Boulevard De Stalingrad,
Vitry-sur-seine, Paris, 94400, France
Phone: -33146723065
On Offer:
L’ENFANT DE RÊVE (France; actionadventure)
Producer/director: Jean Roke
Patoudem; cast: France Zobda, Emile Abossolo-mbo.
Djila, 10 years old,and his blind mother
live alone in an oasis of a huge desert. The sun
is drying away the sources and Djila must go
far away from home to fetch water. On his
way, he meets a wizard. This one, seduced by
the courage of the child initiates him to Life,
revealing to him the tests which will allow him
to give his mother her eyesight back, if he succeeds.
But the evil Moko, will get out of her
silence to make his task complicated. (preproduction;
presales; debuting)
SAFARI 7 (France; action-adventure) Producer/director:
Jean Roke PatoudemHis name
is Thomas Mills; Tom, for intimate friends.
Afro-American and Ex Marines, Tom’s behavior
was not always very orthodox during his
stay in Vietnam. Refugee since then in Marseilles(South
of France), he spends happy
days with his new partner. One day, his exhierarchy
gets hold of him and forces him to
leave for a safari mission in Africa, in the great
lakes area, for, the game was worth it. (development;
presales; debuting)
PEACE ARCH ENTERTAIN-
MENT
Cannes 2009 Office: 6d Goeland, Residence
Du Grand Hotel
Office Phone/Fax: TBD
Attending: Julie Sultan, president, international
sales & distribution; Caroline Dubourg,
vice president, international sales & distribution;
Nicole Jelovic, manager, international
sales & distribution
Corporate Address: 4640 Admiralty Way,
Suite 710, Marina Del Rey, CA, 90292, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-776-7200
Fax: 310-776-7200
On Offer:
explicit iLLs (U.S.A.; drama) Producers: Jim
Jarmusch, Elizabeth Destro, Sol Tryon; director:
Mark Webber; cast: Rosario Dawson, Paul
Dano. Young love, drugs and poverty collide in
the city of Philadelphia, creating a beautiful
tale of hope and humanity. (100 mins.; screening;
returning)
Oh My God (U.S.A.; documentary) Producers:
Horacio Altamirano, Metin Anter, Adam
Krentzman; director: Peter Rodger; cast: Hugh
Jackman, Ringo Starr. OH MY GOD traverses
the globe asking people from all walks of life
one question: What is God? (98 mins.; pre-
miere; debuting)
Winged Creatures (aka Fragments)
(U.S.A.; drama) Producer: Robert Salerno;
director: Rowan Woods; cast: Kate Beckinsale,
Dakota Fanning. Linked together by a lifechanging
tragedy, the survivors of a multiple
murder are each left to comprehend their mortality
and redefine their place in society. (94
mins.; screening; returning)
PFG ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office: Intercontinental Carleton,
Room #201
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Ted Rosenblatt, principal
Corporate Address: 429 Santa Monica Blvd.,
Ste. 600, Santa Monica, CA, 90401, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-393-5788
Fax: 310-393-5788
On Offer:
Shadowland 3D (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers:
Donald C. Archbold, Larry Leahy; director:
Tbd; cast: Tbd. Shadowland 3D is a fast
paced, compelling thriller based on the classic
best selling novel by Peter Straub. A cross
between “The Illusionist” and “The Shining”,
the story is a timeless, teenage Faustian tale
about a seventeen year old school boy who
has to decide whether or not to join the forces
evil to save the life of his best friend. (preproduction;
presales; debuting)
Toolbox Murders ...The Return (U.S.A.;
horror) Producer: Tony Didio (note To Listers:
Please Capitalize The Second D In Tony’s
Name); director: Dean Jones; cast: Brian
Krause, Tony Todd. The terrifying sequel to the
classic “The Toolbox Murders” takes place in
the 24 hours immediately following the original
film. Two detectives investigate a series of
gruesome murders. Beneath The Lusman
Arms Apartment complex, they find the twisted
lair of The Toolbox Killer. As the partners
sift through the bodies, they make another
horrifying discovery: a passage that leads to a
network of sewers crisscrossing Los Angeles.
They must race against time to catch this cunning
killer. (production; product reel/trailer;
returning)
A Way With Murder (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers:
Thomas S. Byrnes, Tony Didio (note To
Listers: Please Capitalize The Second “d” In
Tony’s Last Name); director: Dan Neira; cast:
Michael Madsen, Kim Morgan Greene. Ten
years ago, movie producer Alison Tripp was
swept up in a real life thriller when armed men
trapped her entire low-budget film crew in a
warehouse, killing everyone but her. Ever the
opportunist, she turned the nightmare to triumph
by becoming one of Hollywood’s
biggest moviemakers. But her success can’t
prevent the past from coming back to haunt
her. It turns out someone is coming after
her…again. And homicide detective Vick Donovan
is convinced it’s one of the killers from her
past. (86 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
returning)
PONY CANYON INC.
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera F2
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Shinji Sakoda, general manager,
international sales; Ryutaro Ueda, dept. head
acquisition, co-production and marketing
dept.; Izumi Yamaguchi, head of acquisition
Corporate Address: 2-5-10 Toranomon,
Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8487, Japan
Phone: -81-3-5521-8016
Fax: -81-3-5521-8016
On Offer:
Amalfi (Japan; drama) Producer: Chihiro
Kameyama; director: Hiroshi Nishitani; cast:
Yuji Oda Yuki Amami. It is the Christmas season
in Rome. A young woman from Japan has
suddenly gone missing – the victim of a kidnapping?
Or could it be the prelude to a terrorist
plot? The police have stepped up their cordon
on organized crime in the region, but to
little effect. A young Japanese diplomat by
the name of Kuroda (Yuji Oda) finds himself
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traveling to the picturesque town of Amalfi in
southwest Italy in hopes of unraveling the
mystery to a local incident. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; debuting)
honokaa boy (Japan; drama) Producer:
Chihiro Kameyama Yoshio Takada Shuji Abe;
director: Atsushi Sanada; cast: Masaki Okada
Chieko Baisho. Leo’s strange but tranquil days
begin when he starts working at a small theater
in Honokaa town, on the Hawaii island.
Bee, a local resident and master chef, adds
magic, mischief, and a touch of spice to Leo’s
life during his stay. Airy breeze, unique
encounters, bitter-sweet romance, unforgettable
food…Honokaa leaves a lasting impression
on Leo. (111 mins.; premiere; debuting)
Villon’s Wife (Japan; drama) Producer:
Chihiro Kameyama Michiyo Yamada
Shigemichi Sugita; director: Kichitaro Negishi;
cast: Takako Matsu Tadanobu Asano. She was
like a dandelion. A man who had chosen to
be a novelist. His darkness was profound, and
would not go away. But if he looked hard,
there was his wife, like a single small flower.
Based on the biographical short story by literary
legend, Osamu Dazai, the film adaptation
commemorates the hundredth anniversary of
his birth. (postproduction; presales; debuting)
PORCHLIGHT ENTERTAIN-
MENT
Cannes 2009 Office: R8 - Lerins Floor
Office Phone: +33 (0)4 92 99 33 01
Attending: Ken Dubow, president, worldwide
distribution; Jeffrey Engelen, vp, worldwide
sales; Jd Beaufils, vp, worldwide sales
Corporate Address: 11050 Santa Monica
Blvd., 3rd Floor, Los Angeles, CA, 90025, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-477-8400
Fax: 310-477-8400
On Offer:
Halo (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers: Bev Bliss,
Colin Neale; director: George Mihalka; cast: Not
Finalized As Yet. A rebellious teenage girl discovers
the true nature of miracles (and how
they can backfire) when she manipulates an
accidental stain into a hoax on the town.
(development; product reel/trailer; debuting)
Last Dragon (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Producers: Mario Andreacchio, John Wild, Ron
Saunders; director: Mario Andreacchio; cast:
Sam Neill, Vince Colosimo, Louis Corbett. In a
time of distant civilizations, there was a battle
where a dragon and an Emperor fought side
by side to protect China (development;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
Passchendaele (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Paul Gross, Niv Fichman, Frank Siracusa; director:
Paul Gross; cast: Paul Gross, Caroline
Dhavernas. Participation in the Battle Passchendaele
was a pivotal moment in Canadian
history that defined the nation. It is also a
story about love of country and one of love
discovered amid the strife of war. (114 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
PRESCIENCE
Cannes 2009 Office: Prescience, 18 Quai
Saint Pierre, 06400 Cannes
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Tim Smith, managing director;
Paul Brett, director; James Swarbrick, commercial
director
Corporate Address: Canon House, 27 London
End, Canon House, 27 London End, Beaconsfield,
Bucks, HP9 2HN, Gb
Phone/Fax:
On Offer:
Dorian Gray (Gb) Producer: Barnaby
Thompson; director: Oliver Parker; cast: Ben
Barnes, Colin Firth. A corrupt young man keeps
his youthful beauty eternally, but a special
painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to
all. (postproduction; debuting)
From Time to Time (Gb) Producers: Julian
Fellowes, Paul Kingsley, Liz Trubridge; director:
Julian Fellowes; cast: Dame Maggie Smith,
Timothy Spall. While staying at his gradmoth-
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er’s (Smith)house, a boy is magically transported
back in time to appear as a ghost to
solve an age-old mystery. (postproduction;
debuting)
Mr. Nice (Gb) Producer: Luc Roeg; director:
Bernard Rose; cast: Rhys Ifans, Chloë Sevigny.
The story of elite drug smuggler Howard
Mark’s (Ifans) prodigious rise—and fall in this
frequently hilarious, occasionally sad, and
often surreal tale of Howard’s life thus far.
(postproduction; debuting)
PRESTIGE FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: Lehrins, Stand R21
Office Phone: 049-299-3243
Attending: Etchie Stroh, partner; Jay Firestone,
partner; Michael Grant, director international
sales & distribution
Corporate Address: P.o. Box 7400, Studio
City, CA, 91614, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-985-3003
Fax: 818-985-3003
On Offer:
Cyrus (U.S.A.; horror) Producer: Joel Kastleberg;
director: Mark Anthony Vadik; cast:
Lance Henriksen, Brian Krause, Doug Jones,
Rae Dawn Chong, Daniel Harris. Inspired by a
true story of the most prolific serial killer in the
history of the United States. (96 mins.; screening;
debuting)
Sinners & Saints (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Producer: Mark Clark; director: William
Kaufman; cast: Patrick Flanery, Tom Berenger,
Costas Mandylor, Kim Coates, Jurgen
Prochnow, Jolene Blalock. A crime thriller set
on the mean streets of New Orleans. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; debuting)
Web Cam (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers: Loris
Curci, Danny Rossner, Antoni Sole’; director:
Antoni Sole’; cast: Robert Englund, Bo Derek,
Charlotte Sullivan, Rachelle Lefevre. Death,
on demand. Welcome to the ultimate reality
show. (preproduction; presales; debuting)
PRISTINE PICTURES
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone: 917-327-1536
Attending: Edward G. Norris, director/producer
Corporate Address: 105 Broad Street, 5th
Floor, New York, New York, 10004, U.S.A.
Phone: 917-327-1536
Fax: 917-327-1536
On Offer:
Coup de Grace (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Edward G. Norris, Bianca Giancoli; director:
Edward G. Norris; cast: Lucy Rayner, Bianca
Giancoli. “Coup de Grace” is about an aspiring
opera singer who is trapped in a loveless relationship.
The singer finds herself caught in a
web of lust and intrigue when she encounters
a femme fatale who unveils her suppressed
tendencies. The soprano’s Faustian wish of
getting into a prestigious European conservatory
is soon realized, but it comes at a severe
cost. She loses her mind. (85 mins.; product
reel/trailer; returning)
Go Straight To Hell (U.S.A.; horror) Producer/director:
Edward G. Norris; cast: Karen
Black, Laura Harring. Three recently deceased
characters are led to believe they are in Purgatory
awaiting a sin cleansing so they may enter
Heaven. In actuality, they have been gathered
to review and relive the ONE sin (which they
did not repent for while on earth) that is so
heinous it could send them straight to Hell.
This nihilistic horror film features a “spiritual
guide” who is not exactly who she is presenting
herself to be. (preproduction; presales;
debuting)
Hollywood Heroine (U.S.A.; drama) Producer/director:
Edward G. Norris; cast: Theresa
Russell. “Hollywood Heroine” reveals the troubled
life of the 1940’s screen goddess Veronica
Lake, one of Paramount Pictures greatest
stars, who fell from grace after having turned
her back on Hollywood and whose career and
life were subsequently destroyed. (develop-
ment; presales; debuting)
PRODUCTIONS LA FÊTE INC.
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 225 Roy St. East, Suite
200, Montreal, Quebec, H2W 1M5, Canada
Phone: 514-848-0417
Fax: 514-848-0417
On Offer:
Sogo Kuru ...Grand frère (Canada; family)
Producers: Rock Demers, Chantal Lafleur;
director: Roger Cantin; cast: Pierre Lebeau,
Julien Adam. Norbert has worked 40 years in
Africa. When he is forced to return to Canada
his country of origin, he only has one goal: to
go back to Africa. He plans to stow away on a
cargo ship. He must get rid of his pet monkey
abandoning it in a park hoping that someone
will pick him up. An annoying kid spoils his
plan by quickly bringing back the monkey.
What starts as a confrontation evolves to a
true companionship. The man and the boy
serve each other’s bridge over troubled waters.
(89 mins.; premiere; debuting)
PROTAGONIST PICTURES
Cannes 2009 Office: 2nd Floor, 23 Rue
Mace, Cannes
Office Phone: -33-6-333-48426
Attending: Ben Roberts, CEO; Charlotte Van
Weede, head of sales; Nada Cirjanic, head of
library sales
Corporate Address: Francis House, 11 Francis
Street, London, London, SW1P 1DE, Uk
Phone: -44-207-306-5155
Fax: -44-207-306-5155
On Offer:
The Firm (Uk; drama) Producers: Allan
Niblo, James Richardson; director: Nick Love;
cast: Paul Anderson, Calum Macnab. THE
FIRM is based on the Alan Clarke’s original
1989 classic which focused on UK football
hooligan culture, where gangs were known as
firms and members were described as casuals
due to their uniform of designer clothing. Dom
is an aspiring casual who gets drawn into the
charismatic but dangerous world of the firm’s
leader, Bex. (postproduction; product
reel/trailer; debuting)
Nativity (Uk; comedy) Producer: Nick Jones;
director: Debbie Isitt; cast: Martin Freeman,
Ashley Jensen. Jaded primary school teacher
Paul Maddens learns how a small lie can lead
to big problems when his plans for the school
Christmas nativity show get out of hand.
Nativity is a hilarious, heartwarming Christmas
comedy from BBC Films (premiere; debuting)
The Unloved (Uk; drama) Producer: Kate
Ogborn; director: Samantha Morton; cast:
Molly Windsor, Robert Carlyle. Lucy is eleven
years old. Neglected by her estranged mother
and father, she ends up being placed in a children’s
home. Through her eyes, we follow
Lucy’s struggle to cope with the system. Her
saving is her self-belief and her certainty that
she is being watched over and protected by
the holy spirit; hers is a heroic quest for love,
beauty and transcendence. (postproduction;
presales; debuting)
PYRAMIDE INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera F6
Office Phone: 04-92-99-32-07
Attending: Eric Lagesse, president; Yoann
Ubermulhin, head of sales; Lucero Garzon,
sales executive
Corporate Address: 5, Rue Du Chevalier De
Saint George, Paris, Paris, 75008, France
Phone: 33-1-42-96-02-20
Fax: 33-1-42-96-02-20
On Offer:
FAIS MOI PLAISIR (Please, Please
Me) (France; drama) Producer: Frédéric Niedermayer;
director: Emmanuel Mouret; cast:
Emmanuel Mouret, Judith Godrèche, Déborah
François. (debuting)
HADEWIJCH (France; drama) Producers:
Jean Bréhat, Rachid Bouchareb; director:
Bruno Dumont; cast: Julie Sokolowski, Karl
Sarafidis, Yassine Salime. (debuting)
PARTIR (Leaving) (France; drama) Producers:
Fabienne Vonnier, Michel Seydoux;
director: Catherine Corsini; cast: Kristin Scott
Thomas, Sergi Lopez, Yvan Attal. (debuting)
QED INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: 67 La Croisette, 7th
Floor
Office Phone: +33 (0) 4 93 69 82 2
Attending: Bill Block, CEO; Kimberly Fox, evp
of international distribution; Tatyana Joffe,
vice president of international distribution
Corporate Address: 1800 Highland Ave., 5th
Floor, Los Angeles, CA, 90028, U.S.A.
Phone: 323-785-7900
Fax: 323-785-7900
On Offer:
District 9 (U.S.A.; sci-fi) Producer: Peter
Jackson; director: Neill Blomkamp (postproduction;
returning)
New York I Love You (U.S.A.) Producers:
Emmanuel Benbihy, Marina Grasic; directors:
Brett Ratner, Joshua Marston, Albert And Allen
Hughes, Fatih Akin, Natalie Portman, Yvan
Attal, Shekhar Kapur, Shunji Iwai, Mira Nair,
Jiang Wen; cast: Robin Wright Penn, Shia
Labeouf, Natalie Portman, Christina Ricci,
Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson, Ethan
Hawke, Julie Christie, Drea De Matteo, Bradley
Cooper, Chris Cooper, Cloris Leachman, Maggie
Q, Irrfan Khan, Shu Qi, Olivia Thirlby. Following
the box office smash feature film ‘Paris, je
t’aime’ that opened the 2006 ‘Un Certain
Regard’ section of the Cannes Film Festival,
we are thrilled to present ‘New York, I Love
You’. Twelve filmmakers have directed short
films illustrating the universal theme of
encountering love within the five boroughs of
New York City. Internationally acclaimed
actors and directors have signed on and created
another truly enjoyable and inspiring project.
(102 mins.; screening; returning)
A Perfect Getaway (U.S.A.; actionadventure)
Producers: Robbie Brener, Ryan
Kavanaugh, Tucker Tooley; director: David
Twohy; cast: Milla Jovovich, Timothy
Olyphant, Steve Zahn, Kiele Sanchez. A beautiful
and successful newlywed couple spices
things up on their honeymoon in Hawaii by
embarking on a challenging hike to one of the
most exotic beaches in the world. Their excitement
turns to fear when they receive news of
a series of gruesome murders that have been
taking place on the islands. They soon
become convinced that they are with the
killers and as they plot their escape, the truth
is revealed leading to a violent and shocking
end. (postproduction; returning)
QUANTUM RELEASING
Cannes 2009 Office: Palais 22.01
Office Phone: 1.310.929.7494
Attending: Jamie Thompson, president;
Michael Lurie, executive director of sales; David
Suarez, director of sales
Corporate Address: 3201 West Olive Ave, Ste
B, Burbank, CA, 91506, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-255-9900
Fax: 818-255-9900
On Offer:
Beneath the Blue (U.S.A.; children/teen)
Producer: Susan Johnson; director: Michael D
Sellers; cast: Caitlin Wachs, David Keith, Paul
Wesley, Ivana Milicevic, George Harris, Michael
Ironside. When the US Navy abducts a scientific
research dolphin, a teenager and her
friends risk everything to set her free. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; debuting)
Knockouts (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers:
Robert Latham Brown, Robert ‘rock” Galotti,
Robert Brinkmann; director: Leah Sturgis; cast:
Cameron Richardson, Adam Gregory, Tia Carrere,
Alexis Arquette, Tom Arnold, Chris Kattan,
Lochlyn Munro, Sophie Monk, Sticky Fingaz. A
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comedy centered on two single girls working
the dating scene, determined to find sex, in
Los Angeles. (90 mins.; premiere; debuting)
Who is KK Downey? (U.S.A.; comedy)
Producers: Brandi-ann Milbradt, Kieran Crilly,
Darren Curtis, Pat Kiely; directors: Darren Curtis,
Pat Kiely; cast: Darreen Curtis, Kristin
Adams, Pat Kiely, Dan Haber, Matt Silver, Brent
Skagford, Paul Spence. Loosely based on a
true story, two perennial losers, who want
more than anything to be famous, finally gain
celebrity status after creating a fictional persona.
(90 mins.; premiere; debuting)
REGENT / HERE MEDIA
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Stephen P. Jarchow, chairman -
regent / here media; Mark Reinhart, evp, distribution
and acquisitions; Jonathon Aubry, vp,
marketing
Corporate Address: 10990 Wilshire Blvd.,
Penthouse, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-806-4288
Fax: 310-806-4288
On Offer:
Eleven Minutes (U.S.A.; documentary)
Producers/directors: Michael Selditch, Rob
Tate; cast: Jay Mccarroll, Nancy Kane, Kelly
Cutrone. A documentary following what happened
to the winner of the first season of
“Project Runway,” designer Jay McCarroll. (103
mins.; product reel/trailer; debuting)
Little Ashes (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Stephen P. Jarchow, Paul Colichman, Debra
Stasson And Luke Montagu; director: Paul
Morrison; cast: Javier Beltran, Robert Pattinson,
Matthew Mcnulty. Robert Pattinson as
renowned artist Salvador Dali finds his artistic
and sexual freedom during Pre-Civil War
Spain. (112 mins.; product reel/trailer; debuting)
Weather Girl (U.S.A.; romance) Producers:
Brandon Barrera, Steak House; director:
Blayne Weaver; cast: Tricia O’kelley, Patrick J.
Adams, Mark Harmon. Tricia O’Kelley, the
Weather Girl, freaks out on-air over Mark Harmon,
her cheating news anchor boyfriend.
Now 30-something, single and with no job,
she must find herself to find her love. (97
mins.; product reel/trailer; debuting)
REZO
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 29, Rue Du Faubourg
Poissonnière, Paris, Ile-de-france, 75009,
France
Phone: -33-1-4246-4630
Fax: -33-1-4246-4630
On Offer:
THE ADMIRAL (France; action-adventure)
Producers: Dzhanik Faiziyev, Anatoli Maksimov;
director: Andrei Kravchuk; cast: Konstantin
Khabenskiy, Elizaveta Boyarskaya. The
story of Admiral Alexander Koltchak who was
the commander of Russian Black See Fleet
and became a head of White Army against the
Bolshevik revolutionists. (118 mins.; screening;
returning)
JAFFA (France; drama) Producers: Jérôme
Bleitrach, Emmanuel Agneray, Marek Rozenbaum;
director: Keren Yedaya; cast: Dana Ivgy,
Moni Moshonov. The film explores the extraordinary
destinies of two lovers. Their secret
desire to escape and get married will be suddenly
annihilated by an event drawn by hatred
and jealousy. (postproduction; premiere;
debuting)
MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON (France;
drama) Producers: Gilles Sacuto, Milena Poylo;
director: Stéphane Brizé; cast: Vincent Lindon,
Sandrine Kiberlain. Antonio leads a pretty
ordinary life. One day, he stumbles upon
Mademoiselle Chambon, his son’s teacher.
This chance encounter will be a turning point
in his well-organized life. (postproduction; pre-
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miere; debuting)
RIVE GAUCHE FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 15442 Ventura Boulevard,
Suite 101, Sherman Oaks, CA, 91403, USA
Phone: (818) 784-9912
Fax: (818) 784-9912
On Offer:
Greenmail (USA; action-adventure) Director:
Jonathan Heap; cast: Stephen Baldwin,
Kelly Rowan, Tom Skerritt. A U.S. federal agent
seeks the assistance of a radical environmental
activist when the most prominent citizens
of Seattle are methodically blown up one by
one. The two are led on a cat and mouse
chase by the bomber who always seems to be
one step ahead of the game. (screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
Last Run (USA; action-adventure) Director:
Anthony Hickox; cast: Armand Assante, Jurgen
Prochnow, Ornella Muti, Aleksandra Vujcic.
Former Cold War spy Frank Banner recruits
some of his ex-colleagues to help him smuggle
a Russian spymaster to the West, with hopes
of getting to the KGB’s former ace assassin
responsible for the death of a friend. (screener
cassette/DVD; debuting)
One Way Out (USA; action-adventure)
Director: Allan Goldstein; cast: James Belushi,
Angela Featherstone, Jason Bateman. A veteran
homicide police officer that has developed
a lifestyle far beyond his means masterminds
the murder of a gorgeous and wealthy
socialite. The cop finds himself in a bind when
his protégé, assigned to the case, gets closer to
solving the murder, leaving him only one way
out. (screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
ROISSY FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 58, rue Pierre Charron,
Paris, -, 75008, France
Phone: 33.1.53.53.50.50
Fax: 33.1.53.53.50.50
On Offer:
the sicilian girl (France; drama) Producers:
Simonetta Amenta, Eurofilm Tilde Corsi And
Gianni Romili, R&c Produzioni Raphaël
Berdugo, Roissy Films; director: Marco Amenta;
cast: Veronica D’agostino - Gérard Jugnot -
Francesco Casisa. Based on the true story of a
young Sicilian girl who broke the law of silence,
after the murder of her father and brother by
the Mafia. (110 mins.; screening; debuting)
sister smile (France; drama) Producers: Eric
Heumann And Marc Syllam, Paradis Films
Christine Pireaux, Les Films De La Passerelle
Peter Bouckaert, Eyeworks; director: Stijn Coninx;
cast: Cécile De France - Sandrine Blancke -
Chris Lomme. The end of the 1950s, on the
outskirts of Brussels. Like the rest of the
young generation of the time, Jeannine Deckers
(Cécile de France) has a thirst for freedom
and adventure. The true story of Sister Smile,
also known as the Singing Nun. (120 mins.;
screening; debuting)
son of babylon (France; drama) Producers:
Dimitri De Clercq, Crm, 114 Isabelle Stead,
Human Film; director: Mohamed Al-daradji;
cast: Yasser Talib - Shazada Hussein. A young
boy and his grandmother venture through Iraq
on a quest to find his missing father. (90
mins.; screening; debuting)
SAHAMONGKOLFILM INTER-
NATIONAL CO.,LTD.
Cannes 2009 Office: Palais 23.02/25.01
Office Phone: 33-0-4-92-99-80-16
Attending: Mr. Gilbert Lim, evp sales and
acquisitions; Mr. Pitaya Sithi-amnuai, director
of sales; Mr. Panu Aree, director of acquisitions
Corporate Address: 388 S.p. Building 9th
Floor, Phaholyothia Road, Samsennai, Phay-
athai, Bangkok, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand
Phone: -662-273-0930
Fax: -662-273-0930
On Offer:
Power Kids (Thailand; action-adventure)
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert; director:
Krissanapong Rachata; cast: Nanthawith
Boonrabtrup, Navarat Techaratanaprasert.
Four children are forced to forget their differences
and bond together in this action-packed
drama to save a friend. (100 mins.; screening;
debuting)
Vanquisher (Thailand; action-adventure)
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert; director:
Manop Udomdej; cast: Pete Tong-jeur,
Saranyoo Wongkrachang, Sophita Sribanchean.
Ja, a beautiful secret agent for the
CIA, has just complete an undercover mission
when she is confronted by an assassin with
orders to “take her out at all costs. It would be
discovered later that the orders had originated
from the CIA itself (postproduction; product
reel/trailer; debuting)
THE SALT COMPANY
Cannes 2009 Office: Ground Floor Terrace,
Grand Hotel, 45 La Croisette
Office Phone: 33-671-410-989
Attending: Samantha Horley, managing
director; James Norrie, head of international;
Nina Kolokouri, sales director
Corporate Address: 3rd Floor, 1a Adpar
Street, London, London, W2 1DE, United Kingdom
Phone: -44-207-535-6714
Fax: -44-207-535-6714
On Offer:
Big River Man (United Kingdom; documentary)
Producers: Maria Florio, Molly Lynch,
John Maringouin, Kevin Ragsdale, Roger
M.mayer, Molly Hassell; director: John
Maringouin; cast: Martin Strel, Borut Strel.
Sundance winning doc follows overweight,
wine-swilling endurance swimmer Martin
Strel’s insane attempt to be the first to swim
the entire length of the world’s most dangerous
river, the mighty Amazon. (100 mins.;
returning)
White Lightnin’ (United Kingdom; drama)
Producers: Mike Downey, Sam Taylor; director:
Dominic Murphy; cast: Carrie Fisher, Muse Watson,
Edward Hogg. From international cult
magazine VICE, and fresh from Sundance and
Berlin festival acclaim, comes the tale of Jesco
“the dancing outlaw” White - part angel, part
devil, part Elvis. (90 mins.; returning)
SC FILMS INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: 3rd Fl., La Brise, 24 La
Croisette
Office Phone: -33-4-93-39-89-87
Attending: Simon Crowe, CEO; Fumie Suzuki,
sales & marketing executive; Mark Lane, sales
& contracts manager
Corporate Address: 3a Lower James Street,
London, London, W1F 9EH, United Kingdom
Phone: -44-207-287-1900
Fax: -44-207-287-1900
On Offer:
Awaydays (United Kingdom; drama) Producer:
David A. Hughes; director: Pat Holden;
cast: Stephen Graham, Nicky Bell. AWAYDAYS
is based on the bestselling novel by Kevin
Sampson set in the post-punk era in Liverpool
1979. A gang of young men called “The Pack”
seek to escape the 9 to 5 drudgery in search of
sex, drugs, rock n’ roll, fashion, football and
fighting. Awaydays won BEST FEATURE at the
Fringe Award in Edinburgh, Feb ’09. (105 mins.;
premiere; debuting)
Choose (United Kingdom; thriller) Producer:
The 7th Floor; director: Robert Legato; cast:
Katheryn Winnick, Bruce Dern. CHOOSE is an
action horror in the vein of “SAW” meets
“SEVEN”. A violent and derranged serial killer
stalks seemingly random victims in an American
town, forcing each victim to choose the
form of their violent demise. Are the victims as
innocent as they seem? YOU HAVE 60 SEC-
ONDS TO DECIDE - CHOOSE! (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; debuting)
Skellig (United Kingdom; family) Producer:
Feel Films; director: Annabel Jankel; cast: Tim
Roth, Bill Milner. SKELLIG is a life-affirming
story, based on an award-winning book by
writer David Almond. When a move to a new
house coincides with his baby sister’s illness,
Michael’s world suddenly seems lonely and
uncertain. Then, one afternoon, he stumbles
into the old shed and finds something magical.
A strange, wise being – part owl, part angel –
Skellig. Meeting Skellig will change Michael’s
world forever. (100 mins.; premiere; debuting)
SCREEN MEDIA VENTURES,
LLC
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 757 Third Ave 3rd floor,
New York, NY, 10017, USA
Phone: 212.308.1790
Fax: 212.308.1790
On Offer:
An American Affair (USA; drama) Producers:
William Olsson, Kevin Leydon; director:
William Olsson; cast: Gretchen Mol, Noah
Wyle. Set against the backdrop of the JFK
presidency, when a young boy becomes infatuated
with the beautiful neighbor that’s having
an affair with the President, he becomes a
pawn in a deadly game of deceit and betrayal.
(93 mins.; screening; debuting)
I Sell the Dead (USA; horror) Producer: Larry
Fessenden; director: Glenn Mcquaid; cast: Ron
Perlman, Dominic Monaghan. Body Snatchers
Arthur Blake and Willie Grimes have robbed
their last grave. With just five hours before
Arthur follows Willie to the chopping block, he
recounts his life story to Fr Francis Duffy. It soon
becomes clear that Blake and Grimes were no
ordinary grave robbers. And through his stories
the priest learns that not all corpses are equal.
(90 mins.; screening; debuting)
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
(USA; documentary) Producer: Joseph Maddrey;
director: Andrew Monument; cast: John
Carpenter, George A. Romero. Featuring exclusive
interviews with legendary directors such
as John Carpenter, George A. Romero, and Joe
Dante and illustrated with clips from over 150
films, Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
explores the timeless, universal appeal of horror
movies from Lon Chaney to Hannibal
Lecter and beyond. (96 mins.; screening;
debuting)
SERENDIPITY POINT FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: C/o Hotel Victoria -
Cherri Campbell
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Robert Lantos, producer; Cherri
Campbell, executive assistant to robert lantos
Corporate Address: 9 Price Street, Toronto,
Ontario, M4W 1Z1, Canada
Phone: 416-960-0300
Fax: 416-960-0300
SEVEN ARTS INTERNATION-
AL
Cannes 2009 Office: M.y. Hemilea (motored
Yacht - Quai Albert Edouard)
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Peter Hoffman, CEO; Kate Hoffman,
COO; Reiko Bradley, president
Corporate Address: 38 Hertford Street, London,
England, W1J7SG, Uk
Phone: -44-20-3006-8222
Fax: -44-20-3006-8222
On Offer:
Catwalk (Uk; thriller) Producer: Julia Verdin;
director: Anthony Hickox; cast: Tba. The
world’s most beautiful supermodel discovers
dark secrets about who - or what - she really
is. (preproduction; presales; returning)
The Dogfather (Uk; family) Producer:
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Michael Hamilton-wright; director: Richard
Boddington; cast: Tba. A dog, on the run from
the mob, seeks refuge with his new family.
(preproduction; presales; debuting)
Night of the Demons (Uk; horror) Producer:
Greg Mckay; director: Adam Gierasch;
cast: Shannon Elizabeth, Edward Furlong,
Monica Keena, Diora Baird, Michael Copon,
John F. Beach, Bobbi Sue Luther. A group of
kids go to a Halloween party, only to have to
face down a group of demons. (postproduction;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
SHEMAROO ENTERTAIN-
MENT PVT LTD
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera D8
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Mr Hiren U Gada, director; Mr Rajiv
S Jhaveri, manager-international sales & marketing
Corporate Address: Plot No 18,shemaroo
House Marol Co-op Indl Estate, Off Andherikurla
Road, Andheri (east), Mumbai, Maharashtra,
400059, India
Phone: -91-22-40319911
Fax: -91-22-40319911
On Offer:
Karma And Holi (India; drama) Producer:
Rapture Productions; director: Manish Gupta;
cast: Drena De Niro, Naomi Campbell, Susmita
Sen. karma aur holi is a story of human relationships,
it is about a truth which turns the
world of the people in it, upside down in a
moment. Meera (Sushmita Sen) and Dev
(Randeep Hooda) live in New York.After a few
years of marriage and togetherness, they
seem to have lost the magic in their relationship.
,The get-together party leaves behind
some questions seeking replies….. (120 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
Oh My God (India; comedy) Producer: Zee
Limelight; director: Saurabh Shrivastava; cast:
Vinay Pathak, Divya Dutta, Saurabh Shukla.
Oh, My God is a nice, quirky tale, It revolves
around the life of an ambitious yet idealist
middle class man Rajendra Dubey (Vinay
Pathak), who continues to fail in his various
money-making schemes, Suman pleads God
to help her husband. To which follows a series
of hilarious encounters. (120 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; debuting)
Pangaa Gang (India; animation) Producer:
Shemaroo Entertainment; director: Pankaj
SharmaThe story follows the adventures of
four kids with extraordinary powers as they set
out to defend their homeland from unwelcome
intruders. The movie exhibits friendship,
action, emotions and is a fun filled ride with
top of the line 3D CGI animation. The treatment
of the movie is done keeping in mind the
current trends that kids follow; complete with
catchy dialogues, fast paced action and great
humor. (90 mins.; product reel/trailer; debuting)
SHOCHIKU CO., LTD
Cannes 2009 Office: Res. Du Grand Hotel,
Albatros 1c
Office Phone: -33-0-4-93-39-72-38
Office Fax: -33-0-4-93-39-56-16
Attending: Kazunori Moriguchi, acquisition
executive; Meri Koyama, acquisition executive;
Satoko Ishida, sales executive
Corporate Address: Address: 4-1-1 Tsukiji,,
Togeki Bldg, 13th Floor,, Chou-ku,, Tokyo,
Tokyo, 104-8422, Japan
Phone: 81-3-5550-1623
On Offer:
HORUMO - Battle League in Kyoto
(Japan; action-adventure) Directors: Katsuhide
Motoki (kitoro, Kitaro And The Millennium
Curse, 10 Promises To My Dog); cast:
Takayuki Yamada (crows: Episode 0, Train
Man), Chiaki Kuriyama (the Sky Crawlers-
Voice, Battle Royale, Kill Bill Vol.1). A big hit
fantasy novel by Manabu Makime has finally
been adapted into a combat action comedy
film with VFX and animation by GONZO. (cre-
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ators of “Afro Samurai,” “Brave Story”) (113
mins.; screening; returning)
KAMUI (working title) (Japan; actionadventure)
Directors: Yoichi Sai (blood And
Bones, Quill); cast: Kenichi Matsuyama(death
Note Series, Detroit Metal City), Koyuki (the
Last Samurai). KAMUI is a Ninja on the run
from the world of Ninja in search for true freedom.
However, he is burdened with the fate,
where it is not allowed to take the secret outside
of the tribe — if you are born as Ninja, you
must die as Ninja. This brings him to constantly
fight for his life against other Ninjas who
tries to kill him and hide the secrets within. He
does not trust, and he does not love. Showing
weakness leads to immediate death.... (postproduction;
premiere; debuting)
MAI MAI MIRACLE (Japan; animation)
Directors: Sunao Katabuchi (”black Lagoon, ”
“princess Arete”, Kiki’s Delivery Service(assistant
Director)Shinko, a third grade elementary
school student loves to imagine and daydream
about the world of one thousand years
ago. Her fantasies travel far into the days of
the Heian Period (year 794-1185)... One day a
girl called Kiiko transfers from Tokyo and joins
Shinko’s class where they become good
friends. Before long, the two of them become
engulfed in a strange incident of one thousand
years ago... (postproduction; screening; returning)
SHORELINE ENTERTAIN-
MENT
Cannes 2009 Office: Majestic Suite 135
Office Phone: +1.702.524.3114
Office Fax: +1.702.974.0707
Attending: Morris Ruskin, ceo / producer;
Sam Eigen, director of distribution; Brian
Sweet, director of sales
Corporate Address: 1875 Century Park East,
Suite 600, Los Angeles, California, 90067,
U.S.A.
Phone: 1.310.551.2060
Fax: 1.310.551.2060
On Offer:
A Fork in the Road (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers:
James Scura, Paul F. Bernard; director:
Jim Kouf; cast: Jaime King, Josh Cooke.
Accused of a crime he didn’t commit, Will Carson
gets a sudden chance for freedom when
the police car he’s riding in hits a fork in the
road...literally. (105 mins.; screening; debuting)
High Life (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers: Robin
Cass, Morris Ruskin; director: Gary Yates; cast:
Timothy Olyphant, Joe Anderson. Dick and his
pals have been botching jobs and racking up
prison time for years, but enough is enough,
and Dick’s got the perfect plan for one last
heist. (78 mins.; screening; debuting)
The Queen & I (U.S.A.; documentary) Producer/director:
Nahid Persson Sarvestani; cast:
N, A. An Iranian exile who helped overthrow
the Shah’s regime in 1979 confronts her own
assumptions and complex truths about Iran
when she enters the life of the Shah’s widow.
(90 mins.; screening; debuting)
SHOWBOX/MEDIAPLEX
Cannes 2009 Office: Lerins R3/s2
Office Phone: 33-0-4-92-99-33-29
Attending: Judy Ahn, head of int’l business -
sales & acquisitions; Soojin Jung, senior manager
- sales & acquisitions; Sonya Kim, manager
- sales & festivals
Corporate Address: 2f, Mediaplex, 177-2,
Dogokdong, Gangnamgu, Seoul, Seoul, 135-
504, Korea
Phone: 822-3218-5649
On Offer:
Breathless (Korea; drama) Producer/director:
Yang Ik-june; cast: Yang Ik-june, Kim Kkobbi.
After witnessing the deaths of his mother
and sister as a child, Sang-hoon grew up with
rage and hatred towards his father who was
responsible for their deaths. The shadow of his
past overrules his present. He meets a high
school girl, Yeon-hee who is also having a
tough life after her mother’s death. Her violent
younger brother and the former Vietnam veteran
father harass her endlessly. Without realizing
how their lives may be connected, Sanghoon
and Yeon-hee share some moments of
relief. (130 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
returning)
A Million (Korea; thriller) Producers: Kim Jiyeon,
David Cho; director: Cho Min-ho; cast:
Park Hae-il, Park Hee-soon. Eight young people
are picked to participate in “Real Survival
Show”, which is taken in an isolated island of
Western Australia. They’re missioned to compete
with each other over the prize and each
game is recorded to be aired on time. Thousands
of viewers are watching their survival
game on-line but they are not aware where
the shot is happening. Losers are brutally eliminated
and survivors have to step forward to
save their own lives and plus winning the million.
(production; product reel/trailer; debuting)
Ski Jump(Working Title) (Korea;
drama) Producer: Park Moo-seung; director:
Kim Yong-hwa; cast: Ha Jung-woo, Kim Dongwook.
In 1996 a small Korean town is undergoing
a large-scale construction in preparation
for Winter Olympics bid. The local committee
receives a report that they do not have sufficient
athletes to compete. They conclude to
form a ski jump team in order to represent the
event. Former American Junior alpine athlete
Bob is an adoptee who came to Korea in
search of his mother. With 4 other non-experienced
athletes, he form the first Korean ski
jump team. There’s no turning back. (postproduction;
presales; debuting)
SHOWCASE ENTERTAIN-
MENT, INC.
Cannes 2009 Office: Lerins - Stand S-1
Office Phone: 33.(0) 4.92.99.32.37
Attending: David A. Jackson, president; Scott
Bedno, director of international sales; Bruce
Livingston, chief financial officer
Corporate Address: 21800 Oxnard Street,
Suite 150, Woodland Hills, CA, 91367, USA
Phone: 818-715-7005
Fax: 818-715-7005
On Offer:
Catalina Island (USA) Producer: Scott
Legrand; directors: Todd Turner, John Schneider;
cast: John Schneider, Jessica Tuck. Twenty-six
miles to a new life. (postproduction;
debuting)
George A. Romero presents Deadtime
Stories Volume 1 (USA; horror) Producers:
Jeff Monahan, Matt Walsh, Michael
Fischa; directors: Matt Walsh, Jeff Monahan,
Michael Fischa; cast: John Rimauldi, Sam Redford,
Patrick Jordan. From the evil mind of
George A. Romero, who unleasehed “Day of
the Dead,” “Diary of the Dead,” and, the horror
classic, “Night of the Living Dead,” comes three
bedtime tales that will dare you to fall asleep!
(postproduction; returning)
The Wannabes (USA) Director: Eric Dean
SeatonThe Wannabes is a 26-episode halfhour
live-action comedy series featuring
Savvy, a multicultural sing-and-dance troupe
who has been played on Radio Disney, as a
group of kids attending an arts prep school
trying to achieve their pop star dream. (postproduction;
debuting)
SIDUS FNH CORP.
Cannes 2009 Office: Village Int’l #123
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Juyoung Park, head of int’l investment
& distribution; Pyung Ho Choi, executive
vice president
Corporate Address: 6f. 82-1, Pil-dong 2-ga,
Jung-gu, Seoul, Seoul, 100-272, Korea
Phone: -82-2-3393-8607
On Offer:
The Lovestruck Shaman (Korea; comedy)
Producer: Lee Seo-yull; director: Kim Jinyoung
(preproduction; debuting)
SILVERLINE ENTERTAIN-
MENT
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Leman Cetiner, CEO; Robert Yap,
vice president
Corporate Address: 21550 Oxnard St., Ste.
300, Woodland Hills, CA, 91367, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-710-8899
On Offer:
ABUNDANT SUNSHINE (U.S.A.; thriller)
Producers: Ken Schwenker, Jeff Kussmann,
Gerard Collette; director: Gerard Collette; cast:
Nick Pasqual, Alisha Seaton, Sarah Barton.
The disturbing home video footage of a serial
killer documents his gruesome killings over a
ten year period. (postproduction; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
DEATH HUNTER: WEREWOLVES VS.
VAMPIRES (U.S.A.; horror) Producers: Sam
Mcconkey, Dustin Rikert; director: Dustin Rikert;
cast: Sam Mcconkey, Paulino Hemmer,
Mike Lawler. A man possessing the power of
the werewolf must rescue his wife from a
coven of vampires. (90 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
EXPIRATION DATE (U.S.A.; family) Producers:
John Forsen, Rick Stevenson; director:
Rick Stevenson; cast: Robert Guthrie, Sascha
Knopf, Dee Wallace. Charlie is cursed to die by
milk truck on his 25th birthday like his grandfather
and father before him. Just as he
accepts his fate with eight days remaining,
Charlie meets a girl who won’t let him die in
peace. (95 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
SNAPPER FILMS OY
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: Wtc Helsinki, Aleksanterinkatu
17, Helsinki, Helsinki, FI-00101, Finland
Phone: -358-9-6969-3560
Fax: -358-9-6969-3560
On Offer:
Christmas Story (Finland; family) Producer/director:
Juha Wuolijoki; cast: Hannu-pekka
Björkman, Kari Väänänen. The box office hit
CHRISTMAS STORY recounts the unique and
amazing journey of Santa Claus on his way to
becoming the Santa that the world knows
and loves. The top-grossing Finnish film of
2007 has been sold to 100 countries, with theatrical
releases in several countries including
Spain, China, Scandinavia etc. The English version
of CHRISTMAS STORY features the voices
of John Turturro and Noah Emmerich. (80
mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
Flight Attendant Academy (Finland;
comedy) Producer/director: Juha Wuolijoki;
cast: Tba. The airline industry is desperate.
Facing a shortage of classy and good-looking
flight attendants, the airlines decide to band
together and open Flight Attendant Academy,
a training facility for elite flight attendants.
FAA is a place where the best-of-the-best
receive expert training on important issues like
safety procedures, gourmet food service, and
the ideal way to deliver a hot towel. (Englishlanguage
comedy feature) (development;
presales; debuting)
The Poet (Hella W) (Finland; drama)
Producer/director: Juha Wuolijoki; cast: Tba.
The drama-thriller recounts the true story of
playwright Hella Wuolijoki. In the 1920s she
had already made millions, wrote several
politically hazardous plays and was under
observation of British Intelligence, the Soviet
Union and the Finnish secret service. As the
events of WWII started to unfold, she found
herself facing the same task as the Finnish
agent put on her tail: to find out what she is
hiding behind the multi-faceted mask of Hella
W, the celebrated writer and millionaire. (production;
presales; debuting)
SND GROUPE M6
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera E3
Office Phone: 04-92-99-32-20
Office Fax: 04-92-99-32-21
Attending: Lionel Uzan, director of acquisitions
and international sales; Caroline Mougey,
head of sales; Charlotte Boucon, sales executive
and international marketing
Corporate Address: 89 Avenue Charles De
Gaulle, Neuilly/seine, Cedex, 92575, France
Phone: -33-1-41-92-68-66
On Offer:
The Counsel (France; thriller) Producer:
Sunrise Films (thomas Klotz); director: Cédric
Anger; cast: Benoît Magimel, Eric Caravaca.
Leo a young, ambitious attorney, is
approached by Vanoni, a dubious businessman.
First reluctant and troubled by Vanoni’s
past, Leo eventually accepts. Passionate and
gifted in his work, he achieves success in working
for Vanoni. As he becomes more involved
with Vanoni, Leo must face the facts of his
client’s affairs: illegal dumpin of toxic waste,
murder, missing witnesses. It becomes obvious
that the police have their eye on Leo. The time
for him to choose has arrived. (preproduction;
presales; debuting)
Just the three of us (France; drama) Producer:
Babe Films; director: Renaud Bertrand;
cast: Emmanuelle Béart, Stefano Accorsi,
Jacques Gamblin, Audrey Dana. Sébastien, 10
years-old, worships his mother (E. Béart), in
his dreams, she is a queen. He pays little attention
to his father (J. Gamblin), a failed inventor
who is never around. When a new neighbour,
Philippe (S. Accorsi), moves in next door,
Sébastien is sure to have discovered his mother’s
prince charming. He now has a mission,
unite his mother with her prince. As the boy
gets closer to Philippe, so does his mother. His
dream may not be out of reach, but it will have
consequences. (production; product reel/trailer;
debuting)
Stranded (France; horror) Producer:
Delante Films & Kare Production; director:
Hugues Martin; cast: Thierry Fremont, Cyril
Raffaelli, Aurélien Wiik. The North African
desert of the Sahara - 1960. Soldiers are sent
in a rescue mission in the desert. Trapped in a
sand storm, isolated from their commander,
theh run into Algerian rebels. As they seek
shelter in an uncharted village another, invisible
threat comes out from the desert - The
Djinns. As their ranks are decimated, they’ll
face the longest night of their lives. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; debuting)
SOBINI
Cannes 2009 Office: Hotel Majestic- #107
Office Phone: 310-689-6826
Office Fax: 310-581-7399
Attending: Todd Olsson, vp, international
Corporate Address: 4553 Glencoe Ave, Suite
230, Marina Del Rey, CA, 90292, U.S.A.
Phone: 310-581-7305
On Offer:
Burning Bright (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers:
Mark Amin, David W. Higgins, Cami Winikoff;
director: Carlos Brooks; cast: Briana Evigan,
Garret Dillahunt. A young girl struggles to survive
when she is trapped in her house with her
autistic brother and a ravenous tiger during a
hurricane. (postproduction; screening; debuting)
Gardens of the Night (U.S.A.; drama)
Producers: R.d. Robb, Damian Harris, Mark
Amin; director: Damian Harris; cast: John
Malkovich, Tom Arnold. After being kidnapped
and raised in captivity since childhood, two
teens struggle to cope with their haunted past
after their release. With the help of a sympathetic
counselor, they begin to uncover the
nature of love. (110 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; returning)
SOLA MEDIA GMBH
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera C18
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Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Solveig Langeland, managing
director -sola media; Beatrix Wesle, managing
director - atrix films
Corporate Address: Ousmstr 17, Stuttgart,
Baden Wuerttemberg, 70599, Germany
Phone: -49-711-479-3666
Fax: -49-711-479-3666
On Offer:
The Bone Man (Germany; thriller) Producers:
Danny Krausz, Kurt Stocker; director: Wolfgang
Muernberger; cast: Josef Hader, Simon
Schwart, Josef Bierbichler. A man called Horvath
has vanished. The last leasing instalment
for his car has not been paid. Reluctantly,
Brenner agrees to a request from his old friend
Berti and sets off to perform the mundane
task of bringing back Horvath’s vehicle - which
entails him setting off on the long journey into
the depths of the provincial countryside. A forwarding
address left at the post office leads
him straight to the Löschenkohl, a country
restaurant with a fine reputation for roast
chicken. (121 mins.; screening; returning)
Sunshine Barry and the Disco
Worms (Germany; animation) Producers:
Nina Crone, Solveig Langeland; director:
Thomas Borch-nielsen; cast: Jason Grae, Frank
Lannart, Heather Carino. It’s not easy to be
Barry. An earthworm gets no respect. He lives
at the bottom of the foodchain. He has the
most boring job at the composting plant. He’s
all set for a dull life in the dark. But one day an
old disco-record turns his life upside down.
Suddenly he realizes his destiny: To be star of
the world’s greatest discoband: “Sunshine
Barry & The Disco Worms”! Okay, he’s got no
arms, no rythm and no band. But as Barry
says: We’ll do it anyway! (79 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; debuting)
Turtle: The Incredible Journey (Germany;
family) Producers: Sam Taylor, Mike
Downey, Sarah Cunliff; director: Nick Stinger;
cast: Miranda Richardson. TURTLE THE
INCREDIBLE JOURNEY is the story of a little
loggerhead turtle, who follows in the path of
her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary
journeys in the natural world. Born on a
beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream all
the way to the frozen north and ultimately
swims around the entire North Atlantic to
Africa and back to the beach where she was
born. But the odds are stacked against her;
just one in a thousand turtles survive the journey.
(80 mins.; screening; returning)
SPOTLIGHT PICTURES
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera A-12
Office Phone: +33.4.92.99.32.45
Attending: Jack Campbell, president of international;
Ryan Mccombs, vp of acquisitions
and sales; Matthew Mccombs, CEO
Corporate Address: 6671 W. Sunset Blvd.,
#1591, Hollywood, CA, 90028, U.S.A.
Phone: 323-871-2551
Fax: 323-871-2551
On Offer:
At the Edge of the Wordl (U.S.A.; documentary)
Producer: Craig Stone; director: Dan
StoneAt the Edge of the World chronicles the
controversial Sea Shepherd Antarctic Campaign
against a Japanese whaling fleet. (92
mins.; screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
Cornered! (U.S.A.; horror) Producers: Alan
Noel Vega, Daniel Maze, Saskia Boedt; director:
Daniel Maze; cast: James Duval, Steve
Guttenberg. During their nightly poker game a
group of lowlifes are terrorized in their own
convenience store by a masked killer. (86
mins.; screening; debuting)
Sherman’s Way (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers:
Craig M. Saavedra, Michael Shulman,
Thomas R. Nance; director: Craig M. Saavedra;
cast: James Legros, Lacey Chabert. Having followed
his girlfriend out to California’s Wine
Country for the summer, Yale law student
Sherman finds himself dumped, and cut off
from his high-society mother’s money. A
stranger stranded in a strange land, Sherman
finds himself hitching a ride with Palmer, a
washed-up, unapologetically eccentric
Olympic athlete. (87 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
STRATEGIC FILM PARTNERS
Cannes 2009 Office: Lerins S6
Office Phone: +1-310-467-1788
Attending: Lawrence Silverstein, managing
partner; Alex Barder, managing partner; Marc
Freitas, director, international sales
Corporate Address: 10 Universal City Plaza,
Suite 2000, Universal City, CA, 91608, U.S.A.
Phone: +1-818-487-8800
Fax: +1-818-487-8800
On Offer:
Cameron Romero’s: Staunton Hill
(U.S.A.; horror) Producer: Christofer Lombardo;
director: G. Cameron Romero; cast: Kathy
Lamkin, Kiko Ellsworth, Cristen Coppen. A
group of young travelers break down by a family
farm and quickly find out that something is
not quite right with the inhabitants. (90 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; debuting)
No Sit List (U.S.A.; family) Producer: Joe
Lorenzo; director: Douglas Horn; cast: Danny
Trejo, Trenton Rogers, Rico Rodriguez, Brittany
Finamore, Dee Wallace. Good kid tries to get
on the “No Sit List” so that no babysitter will
sit him and his parents will be forced to spend
more time with him. (75 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
Party House (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers:
Joel Reisig, Scott Voshel; director: Antonijs
Prizevoits; cast: Justin Isfeld, Johnny Lechner,
Joel Reisig. Two guys scheme for ways to stay
in college for another year while wild antics
ensue. (82 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office: 2 La Croisette, Penthouse,
4th Floor
Office Phone: +33 4 97 06 90 23
Attending: Patrick Wachsberger, president &
co-chair, summit entertainment; ceo, summit
international; David Garrett, president, summit
international; Ralpho Borgos, senior vice
president, international sales
Corporate Address: 1630 Stewart Street,
Suite 120, Santa Monica, CA, 90404, USA
Phone: +1 310 309 8400
Fax: +1 310 309 8400
On Offer:
Astro Boy (USA; animation) Producer:
Maryann Garger; director: David Bowers; cast:
Freddie Highmore, Kristen Bell. Coming to the
big screen for the first time, the iconic character
Astro Boy has found global popularity since
his creation in the early 1950s by the “god of
manga” and “father of anime”, Osamu Tezuka.
Set in the future, Astro Boy is a classic superhero
origin story about a young robot with
incredible powers and his adventure-filled
journey in search of his identity and destiny.
(postproduction; returning)
Baaria (USA; drama) Producer: Medusa
Film; director: Giuseppe Tornatore; cast: Margareth
Madè, Francesco Scianna. As history
and love unfold in this saga, Peppino is the
comic and dramatic observer of charming
family stories dealing with poverty and the
nobility of the soul, while also being witness to
important national events that determine the
fate of the world. (postproduction; returning)
Furry Vengeance (USA; family) Producer:
Robert Simonds; director: Roger Kumble; cast:
Brendan Fraser. In the Oregon wilderness, a
real estate developer’s new housing subdivision
faces a unique group of protesters, local
woodland creatures who don’t want their
homes disturbed. (preproduction; returning)
SUNSTONE ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office: 24.01 @palais
Office Phone: 0631819409
Office Fax: -9122-26040576
Attending: Mr. Sanjay Jumani,
Corporate Address: 8, Palm Crest, Main
Avenue, Santacruz (w), Mumbai, Maharashtra,
400 054, India
Phone: -91-9820186614
Fax: -91-9820186614
On Offer:
AASMA- Sky is the limit (India; drama)
Producer: Sunstone Entertainment; director:
Rohit Nayyar; cast: Hrishita Bhatt, Shubh,
Nauheed Cyrusi. “AASMA- SKY IS THE LIMIT”
IS FILM CLOSEST TO REALITY. ITS ABOUT
FRIENSHIP,COURAGE & HAVING FAITH IN
KNOWING THAT TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS,
SKY IS THE LIMIT. (158 mins.; debuting)
MEMSAHAB- Lost In Mirage (India;
romance) Producer: Sunstone Entertainment;
director: Arshad Siddiqui; cast: Yuktaa
Mookhey, Govind Namdev, Vijay Raaz. “MEM-
SAHAB” IS A STORY OF A PROSTITUTE. WHO
HAS VARIOUS ‘SAHAB’, WHO CHANGE EVERY
NIGHT PERHAPS AND SHE FALLS IN LOVE
WITH ONE MAN AND SHE WAS NAMED THIS “
MEMSAHAB” BY THIS PARTICULAR SAHAB.
SUDDENLY ENCOUNTER’S THE SCARY
TRUTH WHICH HAS BEEN A PART OF A LONG
LASTING, HAUNTING PAST. (140 mins.; debuting)
SWIPE FILM
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 79 Wardour St, London,
London, London, W1D6QB, Uk
Phone: 02078518602
On Offer:
Beyond The Fire (Uk; drama) Producer:
Helen Alexander; director: Maeve Murphy;
cast: Scot Alexander & Cara Seymour. A
provocative love story (82 mins.; screening;
debuting)
Love Live Long (Uk; drama) Producer:
Patrick Fischer; director: Mike Figgis; cast:
Sophie Winkleman & Daniel Lapaine. A twisted
love story set against the infamous Gumball
Car Rally (82 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; returning)
SYNDICATE FILMS INTERNA-
TIONAL, LLC
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Bob Yari, ; Peter Elson,
Corporate Address: 10850 Wilshire Blvd.,
6th Floor, Los Angeles, California, 90024,
U.S.A.
Phone: 310-689-1450
Fax: 310-689-1450
On Offer:
The Governess (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers:
Sidney Ganis & Alex Siskin, Simon Fields &
Jennifer Lopez, Bob Yari; director: Nigel Cole;
cast: Jennifer Lopez. Gloria, one of the best
thieves in the business, faces her toughest job
yet: posing as a nanny to a widower with three
unruly children in order to steal a bank’s security
code needed to pull off a major bank heist.
(preproduction; returning)
Hopeless Romantic (U.S.A.; comedy)
Producers: Bob Yari, Colin Jones; director: Tbd;
cast: Tbd. While trying to publish a book on
how true love doesn’t exist, an English academic
finds an unexpected match with the
university’s American gardener, turning her life
and work upside down. (preproduction;
returning)
One Train Later (U.S.A.; documentary)
Producers: Norman Golightly, Brett Morgen,
Bob Yari; director: Lauren Lazin; cast: Andy
Summers With Performance By The Police.
Documentary based on the memoir by Andy
Summers, including: Andy’s career, the creation
of The Police, and interviews and
footage during the 2007/2008 world tour.
(postproduction; returning)
TAURUS ENTERTAINMENT
CANNES
product listings
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 121 W Lexington Dr, Bldg.
401, Suite 258, Glendale, CA, 91203, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-935-5157
On Offer:
Creepshow 4 (U.S.A.; horror) Producer:
James Dudelson Robert Dudelson (preproduction;
debuting)
Day of the Dead - 3D (U.S.A.; horror) Producer:
James Dudelson Robert Dudelson (preproduction;
presales; debuting)
Go Kart Racer (U.S.A.; children/teen) Producer:
James Dudelson Robert Dudelson;
director: David Stoner; cast: Jerry Wilts, George
Ramirez, Valerie Chu, Sammy Levin, Jenny
Both. 5 kids must race against time to capture
the one prize they have dreamed about their
entire lives, the Go Kart Racing World Cup! In
this fun for the whole family adventure these
kids not only learn about racing but want it
means to be a winner and a good friend. (production;
debuting)
TBS (TOKYO BROADCASTING
SYSTEM TELEVISION, INC.)
Cannes 2009 Office: E-19
Office Phone/Fax: -
Attending:
Corporate Address: 5-3-6 Akasaka, Minatoku,
Tokyo, Tokyo, 107-8006, Japan
Phone: 81-3-5571-3085
Fax: 81-3-5571-3085
On Offer:
April Bride (Japan; drama) Producer:
Takashi Hirano; director: Ryuichi Hiroki; cast:
Nana Eikura, Eita. “It is a miracle that tomorrow
comes to everyone. Just knowing that fills
each day with happiness.”: April Bride is the
true story of Chie and her boyfriend Taro, and
the love between them that sustained Chie
through her battle with breast cancer. (129
mins.; product reel/trailer; debuting)
CROWS II (Japan; drama) Producer:
Mataichiro Yamamoto; director: Takashi Miike;
cast: Shun Oguri, Kyosuke Yabe And Others.
Japan’s Greatest Action Film has been bested!
Several months have passed since the end of
the first episode. Genji (Shun Oguri) and his
victorious G.P.S. alliance find themselves facing
down a new challenge by the students of
Hosen Academy, feared by everyone as “The
Army of Killers.” -It ain’t over till it’s over. (133
mins.; screening; debuting)
ROOKIES (Japan; drama) Producer: Kazuya
Hamana; director: Yuichiro Hira; cast: Ryuta
Sato, Hayato Ichihara And Others. The Record-
Breaking TV Series Comes to the Screen!: A
Fired-up high-school teacher who teaches his
baseball team the importance of having a
dream, and the students he leads, burning
with this dream of a national championship.
(137 mins.; presales; debuting)
TELEPOOL
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera F3 / G2
Office Phone: -33-0-4-92-99-32-34
Office Fax: -33-0-4-92-99-32-35
Attending: Dr. Thomas Weymar, managing
director; Irina Ignatiew, evp international; Anja
Uecker, head of feature film world sales
Corporate Address: Sonnenstrasse 21,
Munich, Bavaria, 80331, Germany
Phone: -49-89-55-876-0
Fax: -49-89-55-876-0
On Offer:
The Door (WT) (Germany; thriller) Producers:
Ralph Schwingel, Stefan Schubert,
Christoph Müller; director: Anno Saul; cast:
Mads Mikkelsen, Jessica Schwarz, Thomas
Thieme. The mystery thriller’s action centers
on the formerly successful painter David
(played by internationally famous Danish
actor Mads Mikkelsen) who has lost control
over his life after being responsible for the
death of his seven-year-old daughter Leonie
through a fatal decision. Five years later, he
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discovers a door which will give him the opportunity
to start all over again, but this turns out
to be a veritable horror scenario… (postproduction;
screener cassette/DVD; returning)
Lippel’s Dream (Germany; family) Producer:
Ulrich Limmer; director: Lars Büchel; cast:
Karl Alexander Seidel, Anke Engelke, Moritz
Bleibtreu. When 11-year-old Philipp is left in the
care of evil housekeeper Mrs. Jakob, he dreams
himself into an adventurous oriental dreamworld,
where he braves many challenges. LIP-
PEL’S DREAM is based on the German bestselling
book by children’s author Paul Maar and
is directed by Lars Büchel. The book was published
and sold in the following countries:
China, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Spain, Sweden,
Denmark, Hungary, Latvia, Macau and
Hong Kong. (100 mins.; screening; returning)
Within the Whirlwind (Germany; drama)
Producers: Christine Ruppert, Piotr Mularuk,
Hubert Toint; director: Marleen Gorris; cast:
Emily Watson, Ulrich Tukur, Ian Hart. The world
of Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor,
begins to close in around her as colleagues and
even her own husband succumb to the madness
of Stalin’s reign of terror. Because of her
refusal to falsely admit her own guilt, she is
accused of terrorism and sent to 10 years hard
labor in a gulag in Siberia. Halfway through her
sentence, having lost everything, and no longer
wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and
slowly begins to come back to life. (105 mins.;
screener cassette/DVD; returning)
TF1 INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera H3
Office Phone: 00-33-4-92-99-32-17
Office Fax: 00-33-4-92-99-32-18
Attending: Nicolas Eschbach, evp international
distribution; Sara May, evp acquisitions;
Thierry Decourcelle, svp acquisitions
Corporate Address: Immeuble Central Park,
9 Rue Maurice Mallet, Issy Les Moulineaux,
Paris, 92130, France
Phone: -33-1-41-41-21-68
Fax: -33-1-41-41-21-68
On Offer:
Micmacs (France; comedy) Producers:
Frédéric Brillion, Gilles Legrand, Jean-pierre
Jeunet; director: Jean-pierre Jeunet; cast: Dany
Boon, André Dussollier. An offbeat, hilarious
adventure full of twists and turns, by the
director of Amelie and his usual crew. A man
and his friends come up with an intricate and
original plan to destroy two big weapons
manufacturers. (postproduction; product
reel/trailer; debuting)
Rabbi’s cat (France; animation) Producer:
Autochenille Productions; directors: Joann
Sfar, Antoine DelesvauxA rabbi and his talking
cat set off on an incredible adventure across
Africa. A magnificient and colorful 2D animation
film based on the bestselling graphic novels
by Joann Sfar published in 17 countries.
(production; product reel/trailer; debuting)
Trader Games (France; action-adventure)
Producers: Pierre Forette, Thierry Wong; director:
Fabrice Genestal; cast: Michael Madsen,
Vahina Giocante. A hot young Wall Street
trader finds a formula based on climatology to
play the market and win big.. but at what cost
? (production; presales; debuting)
TIMELESS FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: Akun Tehdas,
Aurinkokuja 9, Tampere, Pirkanmaa, 33420,
Finland
Phone: -358341088089
Fax: -358341088089
On Offer:
Day of Reckoning (Finland; horror) Producer:
Ilkka Niemi; directors: Tommi Lepola,
Tero MolinDay of Reckoning! (development;
presales; debuting)
EverDark (Finland; horror) Producer: Ilkka
Niemi; directors: Tommi Lepola, Tero MolinIn
1885 a family´s home is invaded by an evil
entity. They have 16 days to banish the dark
forces before a little girl is lost forever. (development;
presales; returning)
Skeleton Crew (Finland; horror) Producer:
Ilkka Niemi; directors: Tommi Lepola, Tero
Molin; cast: Steve Porter, Rita Suomalainen. A
filmmaker who uncovers a collection of snuff
films containing raw footage of real murders
becomes inspired to create his own masterpiece
of terror. There´s No Sequel for You! (92
mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
TOHO CO., LTD.
Cannes 2009 Office: A14 Riviera
Office Phone: 04-92-99-32-48
Attending: Masaki Fujiwara, section chief;
Ryoichi Baba, sales manager; Takemasa Arita,
general manager toho film co. (hk)
Corporate Address: 1-2-2 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo, 100-8415, Japan
Phone: 81-3-3591-3530
Fax: 81-3-3591-3530
On Offer:
Battle Under Orion (Japan; action-adventure)
Producers: Keiji Kameyama, Shohei Kotaki;
director: Tetsuo Shinohara; cast: Hiroshi
Tamaki, Keiko Kitagawa, Yoshikuni Dochin. The
music to a song called Midsummer Orion,
hand-copied by a Japanese woman. Why, after
64 years, does it suddenly arrive from America?
The answer lies in a tale of love, of comradeship,
and of the bonds that join men throwing
all their skill and stamina into the final battle.
(120 mins.; screening; debuting)
The Vulture (Japan; drama) Producers: Kei
Kurube, Manabu Endo; director: Keishi Otomo;
cast: Nao Omori, Tetsuji Tamayama, Kyohei
Shibata. Riding the economic tidal wave
fueled by MONEY AND GREED, the two “vultures”
face off in the greatest battle of their
careers. (postproduction; presales; debuting)
Zero Focus (Working Title) (Japan;
drama) Producer: Yoshishige Shimatani; director:
Isshin Inudo; cast: Ryoko Hirosue, Miki
Nakatani, Tae Kimura. Kenichi and Teiko are
brought together by an arranged marriage. 10
days after their honeymoon, Kenichi leaves on
a business trip to Kanazawa where he used to
live and never returns back to Tokyo. Teiko
hardly knows Kenichi and has no idea why he
disappeared or where he might be. Who is this
man she married? (production; presales;
debuting)
TRICOAST WORLDWIDE
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera B4
Office Phone: 33 (0)4 92 99 33 16
Attending: Ami Artzi, president; Marcy Levitas
Hamilton, co-ceo; Strath Hamilton, co-ceo
Corporate Address: 1547 10th Street, Santa
Monica, CA, 90401, United States
Phone/Fax: 33 (0)4 92 99 33 16
On Offer:
April Showers (United States; drama) Producers:
Jenna Edwards, Yoshi Carroll; director:
Andrew Robinson; cast: Tom Arnold, Sean Durrie,
Rachel Lien. A look inside a tragedy through
the eyes of a survivor. Based on actual events,
April Showers is a suspense thriller about picking
up the pieces in the direct aftermath of
school violence. (90 mins.; screening; debuting)
THE CURSED (United States) Producers:
Brad Thornton, Louis Mandylor; director: Joel
Bender; cast: Brad Thornton, Costas Mandylor,
Louis Mandylor. When a stranger, Denny, comes
to town supernatural events begin. The Sheriff
and Denny join forces to fight the evil; learning
it is manifested from the past slave plantation
days. (90 mins.; screening; debuting)
Doc West (United States; family) Producers:
Guido De Angelis, Anselmo Parrinello; directors:
Giulio Base, Terence Hill; cast: Terence Hill,
Paul Sorvino, Ornella Muti. A TRUE LEGEND
OF THE AMERICAN WEST, TERENCE HILL IS
BACK AS DOC WEST. PART LOVER... PART
GUNSLINGER… ALL HERO in this international
western. WHEN GOOD MEN ARE TURNED BAD
IN THE BATTLE FOR THIS TOWN, THE DOC IS
FORCED TO FACE THE PROBLEMS IN HIS
PAST TO GET THE STRENGTH TO CLEAN THE
TOWN UP, IN THE PROCESS DOC WEST
REUTNS TO BEING A DOCTOR AND SAVING
LIVES INSTEAD OF TAKING THEM. (90 mins.;
screening; debuting)
TRUSTNORDISK
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: Filmbyen 12, Hvidovre,
Hvidovre, 2650, Denmark
Phone: -45-36868788
On Offer:
Antichrist (Denmark; thriller) Producer:
Meta Louise Foldager; director: Lars Von Trier;
cast: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg. A
grieving couple retreats to ’Eden’, their isolated
cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair
their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But
nature takes its course and things go from bad
to worse… (100 mins.; premiere; debuting)
Love at First Hiccup (Denmark; comedy)
Producers: Bob Engelman, Regner Grasten;
director: Barbara Rothenberg; cast: Devon
Werkheiser, Scout Taylor-compton. Highschool
freshman, Victor falls in love with senior, Anya.
Anya dates the rich smartass Peter. Can Victors
shy and goofy charm beat out Peters arrogance?
(85 mins.; premiere; debuting)
UFO INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera D10
Office Phone: +33 (0) 92 99 32 41
Attending: Jeffery Beach, CEO; Phillip Roth,
CEO
Corporate Address: 3400 W. Alameda Ave,
Suite 200, Burbank, CA, 91505, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-846-0465
On Offer:
LIGHTNING STRIKEDS (U.S.A.; actionadventure)
Producers: Jeffery Beach, Phillip
Roth; director: Gary Jones; cast: Kevin Sorbo. A
small town in North Carolina is surrounded by
an electrical storm and it won’t let anyone
leave. Because there is something in the lightning.
Something ancient. Something evil. A
creature who actually exists within the lightning
itself and controls it. One man, who has been
obsessed by this devil for his entire life, appears
to be the only one who can save this town and
everyone in it, and so he prepares for the final
showdown. (postproduction; returning)
Naga (U.S.A.; thriller) Producers: Jeffery
Beach, Phillip RothAs the People’s Army of
Vietnam captures the fallen city of Saigon,
thousands of South Vietnamese civilians are
airlifted to the Gulf of Thailand. As the last
group of American soldiers attempt to evacuate,
they find themselves not only shot down
behind enemy lines, but relentlessly hunted by
the Vietcong, embroiled in a Russian conspiracy
for global domination, and at the center of
an ancient Cambodian legend of prehistoric
multi-headed serpent Gods... the all-powerful
Naga. (production; debuting)
Temple of Kali (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Producers: Jeffery Beach, Phillip RothJAKE
ANDREWS journey through the jungles of
India, in search of one who disappeared on an
expedition to discover the Lost City of Kosala
and find the Tears of Kali, three priceless
rubies hidden there. ASHA, a beautiful dancer,
joins Jake in hopes of finding her father. Their
journey through the jungle leads them to the
cursed Palace of Ahangarh, where they relocate
the lost city and jewels, but unleash the
ferocious creature that guards the Tears of
Kali, a giant three-headed cobra… (production;
returning)
UGC INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: 4, La Croisette - 1st Fl -
Cannes
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
CANNES
product listings
Attending: Said Ben Said, president; Chloe
Cremont, sales; Adeline Falampin, sales executive
Corporate Address: 24 Avenue Charles De
Gaulle, Neuilly, DA, 92200, France
Phone: 33146404642
Fax: 33146404642
On Offer:
Dumas (France; drama) Producers: Film
Oblige, Ugc Images; director: Safy Nebbou;
cast: Gérard Depardieu, Benoit Poelvoord.
Alexandre Dumas, in the prime of his life,
sends Auguste Maquet, his literary co-writer
ten years his junior, to meet young unknown
admirer, Charlotte Desrives. The two men are
at the pinnacle of their artistic partnership, as
they have just published Le comte de Monte
Christo (The Count of Monte Cristo), La Reine
Margot (The Queen Margot) and les Trois
Mousquetaires (The Three Musketeers).
Althought Maquet is the one who wrote most
of the text, the accolades and fam go to
Dumas... (production; debuting)
Lucky Luke (France; comedy) Producer: Ugc
Ym; director: James Huth; cast: Jean Dujardin,
Mickael Youn. He “shoots faster than his shadow”.
LUCKY LUKE. The fearless gunslinger is
sent on a mission to Daisy Town. The city lives
under the terror of bandits, men like Pat Poker
and Billy the Kid. Will Luke, who has never killed
a man, let hate overtake him. Governor Maurice
Austin Cooper, Calamity Jane and Jesse James,
the bandit with a penchant for Shakespeare,
accompany Luke in duels, laughters and terrible
betrayals. Will the lonesome cowboy once
again ride off with Jolly Jumper into the sunset?
(postproduction; product reel/trailer; debuting)
You’ll miss me (France; drama) Producer:
Thomas Klotz; director: Amanda Sthers; cast:
Carole Bouquet, Melanie Doutey. Six destinies
which are going to, for the space of an instant,
in this airport teeming with life and intermingling,
jostle each, separate and meet again.
And what if these characters were living out
the most importants of their entire lives?
Olivier and Lola... Is he going to miss love or is
she going to miss the plane? Julia and Marcel...
Is she going to miss her death or is he
going to miss his life? Fanny and Max... is she
going to be lack courage or he is going to lack
luck? (screening; debuting)
UMEDIA
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera H1
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 14 Rue Du 18 Août, Montreuil,
Ile De France, 93100, France
Phone: -33-1-4870-7318
UNIFIED PICTURES
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 19773 Bahama St.,
Northridge, CA, 91324, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-576-1006
Fax: 818-576-1006
On Offer:
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
(U.S.A.; thriller) Producers: David Lynch, Eric
Bassett; director: Werner Herzog; cast: Michael
Shannon, Chloë Sevigny. A thriller-tinged murder
drama based on the true story of a psychotic
young man who acts out a Sophocles play in
his mind and kills his mother with a sword.
(postproduction; product reel/trailer; debuting)
Repo Chick (U.S.A.; action-adventure) Producer:
Eric Bassett; director: Alex Cox; cast:
Jaclyn Jonet, Miguel Sandoval. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; debuting)
UNITED PICTURES
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera B13/c14
Office Phone: -33-0-6-23-73-66-90
Attending: E J Cho, head of international
department
Corporate Address: 4f, 14-1, Nonhyundong,
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Gangnamgu, Seoul, Seoul, 135-010, Korea
Phone: -82-2-3443-4296
Fax: -82-2-3443-4296
On Offer:
A Flower Man (working title) (Korea;
romance) Producer: Lee Eugene; director: Park
Jin-pyo; cast: Kim Myung-min, Ha Ji-won. After
she has gone through two painful divorces, Jisoo
is asked to marry Jong-woo who suffers
from a Lou Gehrig’s disease. They start a
dream-like marriage without anyone’s
approval. The more they yearn for intimacy, the
more they taste the bitterness of reality. However,
their healing power of love enables them
to choose the possibility of hope over fear in
sickness. (production; presales; debuting)
JEON WOO CHI (working title) (Korea;
action-adventure) Producer: Lee Eugene;
director: Choi Dong-hoon; cast: Gang Dongwon,
Kim Yoon-suk. In Chosun Dynatsy, the
Master’s rascal student Jeon Woo Chi has been
pushed into a corner by suspected Master’s
murder and taking his pipe. Ultimately he gets
sealed into a painting along with his trust dog,
Chorangyi. In 2009, goblins begin to appear
and wreak havoc on the world. Jeon Woo Chi
and Chorangyi are offered freedom in return
for catching the goblins. (postproduction; presales;
debuting)
YOGA (Korea; horror) Producers: Lee Tae
Hun, Lee Jin-sook; director: Yoon Jae-yeon;
cast: Eugene, Cha Soo-yeon. Once taken her
job because of her appearance, an enthusiastic
woman, Hyo-jung visits a mysterious yoga
institute run by an ex-actress where her radically
changed friend told her to go. At the
intensive training course, a young yoga master,
Nani explains to Hyo-jung and four other girls
that only one person who masters the course
most successfully can get the secret of ultimate
and immortal beauty.As the training
goes on, Hyo-jung starts to sense there is
something scary about this institute... (production;
presales; debuting)
UNIVERSE FILMS DISTRIBU-
TION CO. LTD.
Cannes 2009 Office: Riviera B9-01 (hong
Kong Pavilion)
Office Phone: -852-8170-1448
Attending: Alvin Lam, chief operation officer;
Alice Leung, senior distribution manager; Mia
Sin, distribution executive
Corporate Address: 18/f, Wyler Center Phase
Ii, 192-200 Tai Lin Pai Road,, Kwai Chung, Hong
Kong, Hong Kong Sar, 000, China
Phone: -852-2416-3008
Fax: -852-2416-3008
On Offer:
The Child’s Eye in 3D (working title)
(China; horror) Producers/directors: Pang
Brothers (the Eye, Recycle); cast: Rainie Yang
(spider Lilies), Elanne Kwong(invisible Target).
A series of unfortunate events - a political crisis,
blockades of international airport and
roadblock totally interrupt the plan of Rainie
and friends in Thailand, they end up staying in
a bizarre Thai hotel- where a strange journey is
about to begin .... (preproduction; presales;
returning)
City On Alert (working title) (China;
action-adventure) Producers/directors: Benny
Chan (connected, New Police Story); cast:
Aaron Kwok (divergence, After This Our Exile),
Wu Jing(invisible Target, Fatal Contact), Shu
Qi(if You Are The One, The Transporter). This is
a story about “courage”. Shing, an ordinary
clown in a local circus, by chance is turned to a
mutant with extraordinary power in an accident.
He decides to declare a battle for goodwill
of the City with a troupe of circus performers
who embark on a crime spree after they
acquire superhuman skill in the same accident.
(preproduction; presales; returning)
The Storm Warriors (China; actionadventure)
Producers/directors: Pang Brothers
(re-cycle, The Messengers); cast: Aaron Kwok
(the Stormriders, After This Our Exile), Ekin
Cheng (the Stormriders, Running Out Of Time
2), Simon Yam (election, Eye In The Sky).
Sequel to the fantasy epic based on the most
popular martial arts comic, martial arts legends
Wind and Cloud must stop evil warlord
from invasion while they discovered an
ancient secret. The brothers eventually confronted
with each other as Wind took the evil
way to boost his skills. (postproduction; product
reel/trailer; returning)
VISION FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: 21.01 Palais
Office Phone: +33-6-2484-4836
Office Fax: 818-784-1702
Attending: Lise Romanoff, managing director,
worldwide sales; Andre Relis, managing
partner, international sales; Vincent Tola, sales
and acquisitions executive
Corporate Address: 14945 Ventura Blvd. Ste.
306, 14945 Ventura Blvd. Ste. 306, Sherman
Oaks, CA, 91403, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-784-1702
Fax: 818-784-1702
On Offer:
Bra Boys (U.S.A.; documentary) Producers:
Jason B. Bergh, Sunny Abberton; director:
Sunny Abberton; cast: Russell Crowe, Sunny
Abberton, Jai Abberton, Kelly Slater. The first
officially sanctioned and highest grossing documentary
feature about a notorious Australian
surf-gang, the Bra Boys. It’s a story
about brotherhood, survival in the hood, murder
and justice. Russell Crowe set to direct the
feature version of this doc in 2009. (84 mins.;
screening; debuting)
Dead Ahead: Zyzzyx Road to Vegas
(U.S.A.; thriller) Producer: Leo Grillo; director:
John Penney; cast: Katherine Heigl, Tom Sizemore,
Leo Grillo. While on a trip to Vegas, an
ordinary family man has a romantic fling with
a beautiful seductress named Marissa
(Katherine Heigl). Their tryst is interrupted
when her angry boyfriend (Tom Sizemore),
walks in on them. A fight ensues and in a blind
rage of self-defense, Grant kills Joey and is
now entangled in a web of lies and deception.
(87 mins.; screening; debuting)
THE DUKES (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers:
Christopher Corabi, Jim Cypherd; director:
Robert Davi; cast: Chazz Palminteri, Robert
Davi, Peter Bogdanovich. The story of The
Dukes, a once famous Doo Wop group now
desperate for work, tries to pull off a gold heist
only to find out that what’s most important in
life is not fame or money, but dignity. A heartfelt
cinematic ode to friendship, family ties,
determination and resilience. (96 mins.;
screening; debuting)
VISION MUSIC, INC.
Cannes 2009 Office: 21.01 Palais
Office Phone: +33-6-2484-4836
Office Fax: 818-784-1702
Attending: Lise Romanoff, managing director,
worldwide sales; Andre Relis, managing
partner, international sales; Vincent Tola, sales
and acquisitions executive
Corporate Address: 14945 Ventura Blvd. Ste.
306, 14945 Ventura Blvd. Ste. 306, Sherman
Oaks, CA, 91403, U.S.A.
Phone: 818-784-1702
Fax: 818-784-1702
On Offer:
The Harder They Come (U.S.A.; drama)
Producers: Perry Henzell, Justine Henzell;
director: Perry Henzell; cast: Jimmy Cliff, Janet
Bartley, Carl Bradshaw. The cult classic that
made Reggae a worldwide phenomenon. A
Reggae performer comes to the city for fame
(Jimmy Cliff), but is taken advantage of,
falling victim to drugs and crime. Newly
remastered to HD in 2008. (90 mins.; screener
cassette/DVD; debuting)
Sid! (U.S.A.; documentary) Producer: Odeon
Entertainment; director: Alan Byron; cast: Sid
Vicious, Nancy Spungen. Punk Rock’s most
notorious icon, sheds light on truths that have
been clouded by mystery for years. With inter-
views from Sid’s closest friends and previously
unseen footage and music from Sid’s 1978 live
shows. (90 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
debuting)
What We Do Is Secret (U.S.A.; drama)
Producer: Stephen Nemeth; directors: Rodger
Grossman, Matt Perniciaro, Kevin Mann; cast:
Shane West, Bijou Phillips, Rick Gonzoles. The
captivating story that captures the explosive
& tumultuous life of Darby Crash, the seminal
singer & songwriter of The Germs. Driven by
drugs, music & rebellion, The Germs became a
vehicle that launched Punk Rock in the United
States. (90 mins.; screener cassette/DVD;
returning)
VISIT FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: 19 Rue Notre Dame 3rd
Floor (corner Of Rue Des Serbes And Rue
Notre Dame),across From The Hotel Du Gray
D’albion
Office Phone: +1 718 312 8210
Office Fax: +1.718.362.4865
Attending: Ryan Kampe, partner; Sylvain
Tron, partner; Aida Lipera, manager, acquisitions
and festivals
Corporate Address: 89 5th Avenue, Suite
806, New York, NY, 10003, U.S.A.
Phone: +1 718 312 8210
On Offer:
Kimjongilia (U.S.A.; documentary) Producers:
Nc Heikin, Mike Figgis; director: Nc Heikin-
For 60 years, North Korea has been one of the
most isolated countries in the world, a totalitarian
nightmare from which almost no
images or stories escape to the Western world.
N.C. Heikin’s fascinating, formally inventive
film chronicles the experiences of a number of
defectors from the country, who tell harrowing
stories of concentration camps, mass famine,
and seemingly impossible escapes. (75 mins.;
screening; debuting)
The Missing Person (U.S.A.; drama) Producers:
Jesse Scolaro, Allen Bain, Lois Drabkin;
director: Noah Buschel; cast: Michael Shannon,
Amy Ryan, Frank Wood. John Rosow is a private
detective hired to tail a man, Harold Fullmer, on
a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow
gradually uncovers Harold’s identity as a missing
person; one of the thousands presumed dead
after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World
Trade Center. (95 mins.; screening; debuting)
Sorry, Thanks (U.S.A.; comedy) Producer:
Lauren Veloski; director: Dia Sokol; cast: Willey
Wiggins. Reeling from a brutal break-up, Kira
sleeps with Max, a charming but disheveled
wreck already committed to long-term girlfriend
Sara. Max (no emotional sophisticate)
becomes obsessed, mostly with Kira, but
vaguely with his curious lack of conscience as
well. (93 mins.; screening; debuting)
VOLTAGE PICTURES
Cannes 2009 Office: Relais De La Reine /
Apartment C-32
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Nicolas Chartier, ceo / president;
Nadine De Barros, vp of sales and acquisitions;
Christian De Gallegos, director of international
sales
Corporate Address: 6360 Deep Dell Pl, Los
Angeles, CA, 90068, U.S.A.
Phone: 323-464-8351
On Offer:
CALL OF THE WILD 3D (U.S.A.; actionadventure)
Producer/director: Richard Gabai;
cast: Christopher Walken. Based on the Jack
London classic, a young girl in Montana
attracts the attention of an evil stranger after
she rescues a hurt wolf. (screening; debuting)
THE COMPANY YOU KEEP (U.S.A.;
thriller) Producers: Robert Redford, Greg
Shapiro, Nicolas Chartier; director: Robert Redford;
cast: Robert Redford. A taut thriller in the
vein of Three Days of the Condor and Les Miserables.
When his real identity is discovered
after thirty years underground, a former political
activist must escape capture and go on the
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run to save his young daughter’s future by reconciling
his own checkered past… (preproduction;
presales; returning)
GAME OF DEATH (U.S.A.; action-adventure)
Producer: Billy Dietrich; cast: Wesley
Snipes. A diplomat’s bodyguard and co are
injured in a botched assassination attempt.
They’re all taken to the same hospital, where
the bodyguard teams up with a nurse to protect
the diplomat from a team of ruthless
assassins. The nurse soon learns that there is
more to this sticky situation than expected.
(preproduction; presales; debuting)
THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY
Cannes 2009 Office: Residence Du Gray D’
Albion, 4 Rue Des Serbes, Penthouse 7g2
Office Phone: +33 (0)4 93 68 13 09
Office Fax: +33 (0)4 93 99 59 44
Attending: David Glasser, president, international
distribution; Michael Rothstein, evp,
international sales and distribution; Jonathan
Kier, svp, international sales and distribution
Corporate Address: 345 Hudson Street, 13th
Floor, New York, NY, 10014, U.S.A.
Phone: 646-862-3400
Fax: 646-862-3400
On Offer:
H2 (U.S.A.; horror) Producers: Malek Akkad,
Andy Gould, Rob Zombie; director: Rob Zombie;
cast: Malcolm Mcdonell, Sheri Moon Zombie,
Scout Taylor-compton, Brad Dourif. (postproduction;
debuting)
Nerveracker (U.S.A.; sci-fi) Producer/director:
Robert Rodriguez (preproduction; debuting)
Nine (U.S.A.; musical) Producer: Marc E.
Platt; director: Rob Marshall; cast: Daniel Daylewis,
Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Judi
Dench, Stacy Ferguson, Kate Hudson, Nicole
Kidman, Sophia Loren. (postproduction;
returning)
WESTEND FILMS
Cannes 2009 Office: Residences De Gray
D’albion, 28 Bis Rue Des Serbes, Entrance C
Office Phone: -33-0-49-36-81-496
Attending: Eve Schoukroun, managing director;
Maya Amsellem, managing director; Ann
Phillips, acquisitions executive
Corporate Address: 15 Greek Street, Soho,
London, UK, W1D 4DP, Uk
Phone: -44-207-494-8300
On Offer:
Chatroom (Uk; thriller) Producers: Laura
Hastings Smith, Alison Owen; director: Hideo
Nakata; cast: Matthew Beard, Daniel Kaluuya,
Hannah Murray. Five teenagers meet online and
encourage each other’s destructive behaviour.
But things get out of hand when the charismatic
and manipulative William targets the unstable
Jim. CHATROOM is a high-concept thrillerdrama,
combining the mounting tension of
DISTURBIA with the razor-sharp observations
of a generation as seen in TRAINSPOTTING.
(preproduction; presales; returning)
The Disappearance of Alice Creed (Uk;
thriller) Producers: Adrian Sturges, Marc Samuelson;
director: J Blakeson; cast: Gemma Arterton,
Eddie Marsan, Martin Compston. Two men, an
empty apartment and a millionaire’s daughter:
when Alice Creed disappears from a quiet street
it seems like the perfect setup for ransom. But
things are not as they seem, and as the plan
heads towards its climax the three are caught up
in a tense power-play of greed and deception.
(postproduction; presales; debuting)
Mother and Child (Uk; drama) Producers:
Julie Lynn, Lisa Falcone, Alejandro Gonzalez
Inarritu; director: Rodrigo Garcia; cast: Naomi
Watts, Annette Bening, Samuel L Jackson. A
moving story about the choices we make, the
chances we miss, the opportunities we seize
and the unbreakable bond between a mother
and her child. Elizabeth never wanted to meet
the mother she never knew until an unplanned
pregnancy makes her see things differently.
Karen never came to terms with abandoning a
newborn child when she was a teenager, and
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Lucy is desperate to become a mother. The
three women’s lives are linked as their search
for motherhood brings them together. (postproduction;
product reel/trailer; returning)
WIDE MANAGEMENT
Cannes 2009 Office: Palais Des Festivals
Stand E6
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Loic Magneron, manager; Anais
Clanet, head of sales; Camille Rousselet, festivals
manager
Corporate Address: 40 Rue Sainte-anne,
Paris, Iles De France, 75002, France
Phone: -33-1-53-95-04-64
Fax: -33-1-53-95-04-64
On Offer:
ALBAKIARA (France; adult/erotic) Producers:
Mikado Film, Rai Cinema, Pixeldna; director:
Stefano Salvati; cast: Raz Degan, Davide
Rossi, Laura Gigante. Chiara is seventeen, she
has a baby face, appears to be the girl next
door and her mother believes she is a good
daughter…. but she isn’t! “Drug –friendly” and
keen practitioner of so-called “gangster
nights”, Chiara doesn’t love school but really
loves disco and free love (better say free sex!).
(93 mins.; screening; debuting)
Die Liebe der Kinder (France; drama) Producer:
2 Pilots; director: Franz Muller; cast:
Marie-lou Sellem, Alex Brendemühl, Katharina
Derr, Tim Hoffmann. Two single parents meet
in an Internet chat room and soon decide to
move in together. They don’t have a whole lot
in common, but the very fact that they are so
different gives the relationship its liberated,
“adult“ quality. (90 mins.; screening; debuting)
ORPAILLEUR (France; drama) Producer:
Thomas Jaubert (mat Film); director: Marc
BarratRod decides to return to Guiana, his
native country, accompanied by Gonz, his
childhood friend. In Cayenne, they begin an
investigation into Rod’s past. A quest that will
lead them right into the heart of the virgin forest,
into the camps of the illegal gold prospectors…
(73 mins.; screening; debuting)
WILD BUNCH
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 99 Rue De La Verrerie,
Paris, Ile De France, 75004, France
Phone: -331-53-01-50-20
Fax: -331-53-01-50-20
On Offer:
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
(France; drama) Producer: Claudie Ossard &
Chris Bolzli (eurowide Film Production); director:
Jan Koenen; cast: Anna Mouglalis, Mads
Mikkelsen. The movie tells the story of the
passionate, intense and sexual love affair
between Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky, two
creative giants (120 mins.; premiere; debuting)
Little Nicholas (France; family) Producer:
Olivier Delbosc & Marc Missonnier (fidelite
Films); director: Laurent Tirard; cast: Kad
Merad, Valérie Lemercier. A feature-length
adaptation of the bestselling book series, “Little
Nicholas”, about a mischievous little
schoolboy and his friends, set in an ideal
world, an idea of France in the late 50’s. (95
mins.; premiere; debuting)
Tales from the Golden Age (France;
drama) Producer: Oleg Mutu & Cristian Mungiu
(mobra Films); director: Cristian Mungiu -
Ioana Uricaru - Hanno Höfer - R?zvan
M?rculescu – Constantin Popescu. TALES
FROM THE GOLDEN AGE is composed of six
short stories - connected by mood, narrative
pattern and the details of the historical period.
The last 15 years of the Ceausescu regime were
the worst in Romania’s history. Nonetheless,
the propaganda machine of that time referred
without fail to that period as The Golden Age.
(155 mins.; premiere; debuting)
WONDERLAND
ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending:
Corporate Address: 30 Abigail Lane, Santa
Barbara, CA, 93108, U.S.A.
Phone: 805-452-0878
Fax: 805-452-0878
On Offer:
THE GODDESS (U.S.A.; documentary) Producer:
Emmanuel Itier Amanda Estremera;
director: Emmanuel Itier; cast: Karen Armstrong,
Marilyn Schlitz, Dr. Hedieh Mirahmadi,
Eliana Gilad, Dr. Lita Rawdin. An journey through
the wisdoms and visions of the most important
and influential women around the World. How
Women are helping shape a new healed planet.
(production; presales; debuting)
I COME IN PEACE (U.S.A.; documentary)
Producer/director: Emmanuel Itier; cast: Tba.
Politics are good! An exploration of the new
political world in the XXIst Century and
through the new relationship with countries
such as Iran, China, Venezuela, Cuba and Russia
(preproduction; presales; debuting)
THE INVOCATION (U.S.A.; documentary)
Producer: Emmanuel Itier Amanda Estremera;
director: Emmanuel Itier; cast: Deepak Chopra,
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Oliver Stone, Stewart
Copeland, His Holiness The Dalai Lama,
Dean Radin, Karen Armstrong. An exploration
of the notion of ‘God’ and Peace around the
world and through the wisdom of various leaders.
(90 mins.; screening; debuting)
THE WORKS INTERNATIONAL
Cannes 2009 Office: Apt 4d, 4th Floor,
Entrance ‘flamant’, Residence Du Grand Hotel
Office Phone: 04-93-38-42-05
Attending: Carl Clifton, md of the works
international; Joy Wong, head of international
sales; Clare Crean, sales manager
Corporate Address: 4th Floor, Portland
House, 4 Great Portland Street, London, London,
W1W8QJ, Uk
Phone: -44-0-20-7612-1080
Fax: -44-0-20-7612-1080
On Offer:
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Uk; documentary)
Producer: Rebecca Yeldham; director:
Sacha Gervasi; cast: Steve ‘lips’ Kudlow
Robb Reiner. Hilarious and heartwarming, this
tale of friendship charts the fortunes of two
rockers who refused to give up. Poised on the
brink of world stardom in 1982, metal band
Anvil’s career was to fade into obscurity. Now
in their fifties, Steve ‘Lips’ Kudlow and Robb
Reiner are back and have one last chance to
make good their pact to rock together forever…
(80 mins.; premiere; debuting)
The Cove (Uk; documentary) Producers:
Paula Dupré Pesmen, Fisher Stevens; director:
Louie Psihoyos; cast: Richard O’barry. THE COVE
tells the amazing true story of how an elite
team of activists, filmmakers and freedivers
embarked on a covert mission to penetrate a
hidden cove in Japan, shining light on a dark
and deadly secret. The shocking discoveries
they uncovered were only the tip of the iceberg.
Winner of Audience Award at 2009 Sundance
Film Festival. (90 mins.; premiere; debuting)
My Year Without Sex (Uk; comedy) Producer:
Bridget Ikin; director: Sarah Watt; cast:
Sacha Horler, Matt Day. My Year Without Sex is
a kind of a love story about all the big questions,
and even more of the small ones. Over
one messy year, Ross and Natalie navigate
their children, nits, housework, birthdays,
Christmas, faith, football, job insecurity, more
nits, and whether they will ever have sex
again. (97 mins.; premiere; debuting)
WORLDWIDE FILM
ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office: Lerins S5
Office Phone: 1 301 849 1001
Attending: Barbara Mudge, president;
Richard Delong, acquisitions/marketing
Corporate Address: 6363 West 83rd Street,
Los Angeles, CA, 90045, U.S.A.
Phone: 1 310 641 5360
Fax: 1 310 641 5360
On Offer:
The Gray Man (U.S.A.; thriller) Producer:
Aaron Osborne; director: Scott Flynn; cast:
Patrick Bauchau, Jack Conley. Notorious serial
killer Albert Fish, a grandfatherly handyman, is
profiled in a stunning and richly realistic depiction
of innocent 1920s New York City where he
preys on young victims via their unlocked
doors and trusting hearts to feed his depravity.
His obsession envelopes another when a
career detective is assigned the case of the
most recent missing child, 12 year old Grace
Budd. (96 mins.; screening; debuting)
Home Movie (U.S.A.; horror) Producers:
Andrew Van Den Houten, William M. Miller;
director: Christopher Denham; cast: Adrian
Pasdar, Cady Mcclain. Attempting to live a normal
suburban life in upstate New York, a minister
and his wife videotape their twin 10 yearolds
on holidays and birthdays – resulting in a
macabre timeline of a growing evil in their
home. What started as a happy family slowly
deteriorates into a living hell. (88 mins.;
screening; debuting)
Lonely Street (U.S.A.; comedy) Producers:
Patrick Newall, Jay Mohr, Chris Brinker; director:
Peter Ettinger; cast: Jay Mohr, Joe Mantegna.
Bubba Mabry, a hapless and gullible private
detective, becomes the prime suspect in
a tabloid reporter’s murder after being hired to
snoop on him by a mysterious – but long
dead? – celebrity. Based on the popular series
of mystery novels by Steve Brewer. (91 mins.;
screening; debuting)
THE WRITE STUFF
Cannes 2009 Office:
Office Phone: -32496626843
Attending: Michael Leahy, owner
Corporate Address: Rue De Haerne 192,
Brussels, Brussels, 1040, Belgium
Phone: -3226440230
On Offer:
Protag (Belgium; thriller) Producer: The
Write Stuff; director: Patrick Van Hautem”Protag”
is a dark coming-of-age thriller for the
YouTube generation. When wannabe photographer
and part-time DVD pirate Protag stumbles
across some violent webcams on the
server of a friend, he discovers that his own
father might in some way be involved in cyber
crime. But is it really him? And what should
Protag do? (development; presales; debuting)
WTP INTERNATIONAL GMBH
Cannes 2009 Office: German Pavillon, Int’l
Village
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Marina Anna Eich, head of acquisition
& sales, producer; Roland Reber, buyer,
producer; Antje Nikola Moenning, producer
Corporate Address: Bavariafilmplatz 7,
Geiselgasteig, Bavaria, 82031, Germany
Phone: 49-89-64981112
Fax: 49-89-64981112
On Offer:
24/7 The Passion of Life (Germany;
adult/erotic) Producers: Patricia Koch, Marina
Anna Eich; director: Roland Reber; cast: Mira
Gittner, Marina Anna Eich, Christoph Baumann,
Reinhard Wendt. 24/7 The Passion of Life is a
provocative and poetic film about obsession
and loneliness, about secret lust and public
double-moral: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The hotelier’s daughter Eve (Marina Anna Eich)
coincidently meets the sociologist Magdalena
(Mira Gittner) who works as the dominatrix
“Lady Maria” in an S&M-Studio - a journey to
the repressed landscapes of our soul. (115
mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
My Dream or Loneliness never walks
alone (Germany; drama) Producers: Patricia
Koch, Marina Anna Eich, Roland Reber; director:
Roland Reber; cast: Wolfgang Seidenberg,
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Mira Gitnner, Marina Anna Eich, Antonio Exacoustos.
MY DREAM or LONELINESS NEVER
WALKS ALONE is a phantasmagorical excursion
into the depth of the soul. In partly
oppressively real and partly enchantingly surreal
pictures, the MAN (Wolfgang Seidenberg)
is zapping through his thoughts like through a
television program – the show of life. (100
mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
The Room (Germany; thriller) Producer: Ute
Meisenheimer; director: Roland Reber; cast: Mira
Gittner, Marcus Grüsser, Marina Anna Eich. A film
about the secret chambers, we keep hermetically
and preciously closed in our subconscious. A
Journey to the hidden rooms of our soul. (90
mins.; screener cassette/DVD; returning)
YORK ENTERTAINMENT
Cannes 2009 Office: 20.01
Office Phone/Fax: N/A
Attending: Tanya York, ceo/president; Kerri
Videche, acquisitions; Jim Walker, vp marketing
Corporate Address: 4565 Sherman Oaks
Ave, Sherman Oaks, CA, 91403, USA
Phone: 8187884050
On Offer:
Bay City (USA; action-adventure)
Producer/director: Rodney DwiraTwo of the city’s
top detectives are caught in a web of betrayal
and back stabbing while criminals scramble to
get their hands on 100 million dollars of laundered
funds.Watch as these two detectives fight
to stabilize and give the city back to its innocents.With
its sexy, vibrant, sultry, energetic
scenery, and the heat of the music is sure to get
your pulse racing. (90 mins.; premiere; debuting)
Commute (USA; comedy) Producer/director:
Marc Wasserman; cast: Tom Sizemore. The
film follows the COMMUTER, as he embarks
on his daily drive from Orange County to
Downtown Los Angeles. During the commute,
he fields phone calls from his office, deals with
clients and the pains and aggravations of the
most horrific traffic on the West Coast. A satirical
look at coping with the ever growing problem
of too many cars and not enough road.
During his drive, the Commuter finds time to
worry, relax, fantasize and contemplate his life
while extending various philosophical views.
(90 mins.; premiere; debuting)
Diagnosis Superstar (USA; drama) A
group of mental patients in a London mental
hospital put together a space-aged play to try
and save theit hospital (and home) from
demolition. A heart warming and tragic tale of
the human spirit to preservere. (90 mins.; premiere;
debuting)
ZODIAC PICTURES LTD
Cannes 2009 Office: Swiss Films, Pavillon
Suisse, No. 124
Office Phone: 0033-0-4-92-59-0202
Office Fax: 0033-0-4-92-59-0203
Attending: Lukas Hobi, producer; Reto
Schaerli, producer
Corporate Address: Pilatusstrasse 24,
Lucerne, Lucerne, 6003, Switzerland
Phone: -41-41-211-22-02
Fax: -41-41-211-22-02
On Offer:
Papa Moll (Switzerland; comedy) Producers:
Lukas Hobi, Reto Schaerli; director: Manuel
Flurin HendryPapa Moll is a caring yet clumsy
father and husband. He likes to show his kids
how to do things properly but is usually failing
terribly doing so. Known all over Switzerland
from the famous Papa Moll comics, the character
is about to make his long awaited screen
debut. (development; returning)
Stationspiraten (Switzerland; drama)
Producers: Lukas Hobi, Reto Schaerli; director:
Mike SchaererA group of fifteen year olds
share a very peculiar neighbourhood: the cancer
ward in a hospital. Through their joy of living,
they succeed in making their lives worth
living and their uncertain future bearable to
face. (development; returning)
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