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AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT<br />

AKA: LA CHISPA DE LA VIDA<br />

Comedy<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Alex de la Iglesia<br />

Writer: Alex de la Iglesia<br />

Key Cast: José Mota, Salma Hayek<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Spain<br />

In this hilarious comedy, Alex de la Iglesia<br />

makes fun of lack of today’s morals in<br />

media and depiction of financial crisis<br />

through the eyes of an unemployed advertising<br />

executive who decides to take advantage<br />

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DARK IMPULSE<br />

AKA: LO MEJOR DE EVA<br />

Thriller (95 min)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Mariano Barroso<br />

Co-Production Partners: Telecinco, Sentido<br />

Films, Malvarrosa Media<br />

Key Cast: Leonor Watling, Miguel Angel<br />

Silvestre<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Spain<br />

When Eva is assigned the investigation of a<br />

stripper’s murder her life as she knows it<br />

will take a tumble. A magistrate at only 35<br />

she has spent her life studying and lives a<br />

life of absolute dedication to fighting corruption.<br />

But when a handsome gigolo,<br />

Rocco, the boyfriend of the dead stripper<br />

offers himself to be the primary witness of<br />

her case her career will take a sharp turn.<br />

Eva, always in control and having forgotten<br />

what a sexual relationship feels like, will<br />

let go and give in to her primary sexual<br />

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GRAYSTONE<br />

AKA: SECRET STONE<br />

Supernatural Horror (83 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Sean Stone<br />

Writer: Sean Stone, Alexander Wraith<br />

Producer: Giulia Prenna, Kaila York<br />

Key Cast: Sean STONE, Alexander<br />

WRAITH, Antonella LENTINI, John<br />

SCHRAMM, Monique VAN VOOREN,<br />

Monique ZORDAN, Oliver STONE<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Three filmmaking friends venture into an<br />

abandoned asylum to test their own fundamental<br />

beliefs about the supernatural. Once<br />

locked and lost inside, they quickly discover<br />

that they are not alone; and now they are<br />

forced to confront their darkest fears. Based<br />

on Actual Events.<br />

MADRID, 1987<br />

AKA: MADRID, 1987<br />

Drama (104 min)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: David Trueba<br />

Writer: David Trueba<br />

Co-Production Partners: Buenavida<br />

Producciones<br />

Producer: Jessica Huppert Berman<br />

Key Cast: José sacristan, Miría Velverde<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Spain<br />

On a hot day in July 1987, in the vacant<br />

city, Miguel, a feared and respected senior<br />

newspaper writer, sets up a meeting in a<br />

café with Ángela, a young journalism student.<br />

From the first instant, there develops<br />

between them an unevenly matched duel<br />

that encircles desire, inspiration, talent and<br />

professional perspectives. Forced to remain<br />

together on a very particular day, both will<br />

try to survive the emotional friction.<br />

WRINKLES<br />

AKA: ARRUGAS<br />

Animation (80 min)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Ignacio ferreras<br />

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Writer: Ignacio Ferreras, Angel de la Cruz,<br />

Paco Roca, Rosanna Cecchini<br />

Producer: Manuel Cristobal, Oriol Ivern<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Spain<br />

An astonishing cocktail of friendship,<br />

resistance and life set among the unexpected<br />

landscape of an elderly care facility.<br />

MARIAH MUNDI<br />

Adventure<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jonathan Newman<br />

Co-Production Partners: E-Motion, Arcadia<br />

Motion Pictures<br />

Producer: Karl Richards, Peter Bevan, Ibon<br />

Cormenzana, Ignasi Estapé<br />

Key Cast: Jeremy Irons, Michael Sheen,<br />

Ioann gruffund<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Various<br />

15 year old Mariah Mundi’s world is torn<br />

apart when his parents suddenly disappear,<br />

leaving him to fend for himself and his<br />

brother Felix. When unknown assailants<br />

kidnap his younger sibling, he’s left with<br />

no choice but to unite with the strange<br />

adventurer ‘Captain Charity’ and take off in<br />

pursuit. The trail leads them away from the<br />

smog of Victorian London to the mysterious<br />

Prince Regent, a majestic hotel on a<br />

small Island at the furthest edge of the<br />

Empire. Inside it’s lavish exterior lays an<br />

amazing and unusual steam powered world,<br />

beyond Mariah’s wildest dreams. But<br />

beneath the many floors of the luxurious<br />

hotel lurks a secret and sinister underworld<br />

filled with Villains, Child catching creatures<br />

and an extraordinary box that turns<br />

everything to gold. Mariah, with the help of<br />

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secrets of the hotel to save his brother and<br />

unravel the truth behind his parents disappearance.<br />

CAPTAIN THUNDER<br />

AKA: CAPITAN TRUENO<br />

Action/Adventure<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Antonio Hernandez<br />

Writer: Victor Mora<br />

Co-Production Partners: Maltes producciones,<br />

Sorolla films<br />

Producer: Pau Vergara, Antonio Mansilla<br />

Key Cast: Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Natasha<br />

Yarovenko, Manuel Martinez, Adrian<br />

Lamana, Jennifer Rope, Gary Piquer, Asier<br />

Etxeandia, Ramon Langa<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Spain<br />

A 12th-century knight-errant wanders the<br />

world fighting injustice and is accompanied<br />

by his faithful friends Crispin and Goliath.<br />

JOSE AND PILAR<br />

AKA: JOSE Y PILAR<br />

Documentary (125 min)<br />

Language: Portuguese, spanish<br />

Director: Miguel Goncalves Mendes<br />

Writer: Miguel Goncalves Mendes<br />

Co-Production Partners: Jumpcut<br />

Producer: Miguel Goncalves Mendes<br />

Key Cast: Jose Saramago, Pilar del Rio<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Portugal, Spain, Brasil<br />

Who would have thought that a<br />

Documentary on the last years of Literature<br />

Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago s life<br />

and his much younger wife, would turn out<br />

to be the most heart warming love story<br />

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THE RUNWAY<br />

Comedy (100)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Ian Power<br />

Writer: Ian Power<br />

Co-Production Partners: Fastnet<br />

Films/Poderosa Pictures, in association<br />

with Film Fund Luxembourg, Lucil Film,<br />

Film I Vast, Quickfire Films and The Irish<br />

Film Board<br />

Producer: Macdara KELLEHER, Bernard<br />

MICHAUX, Brendan MACDONALD<br />

Key Cast: Demian Bichir, James Cosmo,<br />

Kerry Condon, Jamie Kierans, John<br />

Carpenter, Bruno Bichir<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Ireland, Luxembourg<br />

This is the story of Paco, an illegitimate<br />

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nine-year-old, who is convinced this his<br />

absent father is a Spanish astronaut who<br />

works for N.A.S.A. When Ernesto<br />

Sanchez, a charismatic Colombian pilot,<br />

crashes his cargo plane in the field, Paco<br />

manages to convince the locals to repair<br />

the plane, build a runway and get Ernesto<br />

home. In doing so, the people unwittingly<br />

put Kilpadder on the map again as their<br />

struggle captures the imagination of the<br />

nation.<br />

THE HAPPETS<br />

AKA: La tropa de trapo<br />

Animation (85 min)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Alex Colls<br />

Writer: Lola Beccaria<br />

Co-Production Partners: Abano Producions,<br />

Anera Films, Continental Producciones<br />

Producer: Chelo Loureiro, Pancho Casal,<br />

Alex Colls<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Spain<br />

Little cow MUMU will live through an<br />

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FUN. Her enormous desire to become a<br />

star leads her to an unbelievable situation,<br />

where she is freed thanks to the teamwork<br />

and genius of the friends that she had abandoned<br />

for not having the glamour that she<br />

seeked. Thanks to them, she also learns<br />

that we must love others for how they are<br />

deep down, and not for how much they<br />

glitter.<br />

BLACKTHORN<br />

Western (100 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Mateo Gil<br />

Writer: Miguel Barros<br />

Producer: Ibon Cormenzana, Andres<br />

Quintana<br />

Key Cast: Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega,<br />

Stephen Rea<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Spain<br />

The legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy supposedly<br />

died in 1908 in a shootout with the<br />

Bolivian army. The truth is that he?s been<br />

hiding in Bolivia for 20 years. And now he<br />

has decided to return back home.<br />

YOUNG ONES<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jake Paltrow<br />

Writer: Jake Paltrow<br />

Producer: ARCADIA, 982<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA, Spain<br />

In a world with no water, a 14 year old boy<br />

will be confronted with his primal instincts<br />

when he finds out his friendly brother-inlaw<br />

is his father’s assassin.<br />

MAGIC MAGIC<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Sebastian Silva<br />

Producer: Christine Vachon, Mark White<br />

Key Cast: Juno Temple, Michael Cera,<br />

Emily Browning<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

While visiting Chile with some friends,<br />

Alicia begins to lose her mind when she<br />

starts seeing disturbing images which seem<br />

to be visible only to her.<br />

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ADRIANA CHIESA<br />

ENTERPRISES<br />

Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, via Barnaba<br />

Oriani 24 /A, Rome, 00197 Italy, Tel:<br />

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IO SONO LI<br />

AKA: SHUN LI AND THE POET<br />

Romantic Drama (96 min.)<br />

Language: Italian and Chinese with English<br />

subtitles<br />

Director: Andrea Segre<br />

Writer: Marco Pettenello and Andrea Segre<br />

Co-Production Partners: in collaboration<br />

with Rai Cinema in coproduction with Arte<br />

France Cinma<br />

Producer: Jolefilm (Italy) in coproduction<br />

with Aeternam Films (France)<br />

Key Cast: Zhao Tao, Rade Sherbedgia,<br />

Marco Paolini, Roberto Citran, Giuseppe<br />

Battiston<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

A sensitive and moving love story that<br />

binds two solitudes on the fascinating and<br />

foggy Venetian lagoon, a love song to the<br />

bond between a young Chinese immigrant<br />

woman, Shun Li, and Bepi ‘the Poet’, an<br />

old and beautiful Slav fisherman. Their<br />

poetic universe is also a call between two<br />

cultures, very different, yet not so distant,<br />

and a rapturous odyssey into the deep heart<br />

of a lagoon, the womb of identities forever<br />

in movement. Yet, such beauty goes beyond<br />

convention, transcends age, cultural milieu,<br />

society. It breaks the rules of both the<br />

Chinese and local communities The film,<br />

starring internationally acclaimed Chinese<br />

actress Zhao Tao (Jia Zhang-ke leading<br />

roles include “Still Life”, Golden Lion,<br />

Venice), and Rade Sherbedgia (“In the<br />

Land of Blood and Money”, “Harry Potter<br />

and the Deathly Hallows”, Kubrick’s “Eyes<br />

Wide Shut”), is also recent winner of the<br />

“Eurimages Award” at Seville Film<br />

Festival.<br />

COSE DELL’ALTRO MONDO<br />

AKA: THINGS FROM ANOTHER<br />

WORLD<br />

Comedy (90 min.)<br />

Language: Italian with English subtitles<br />

Director: Francesco Patierno<br />

Writer: Diego De Silva, Giovanna Koch,<br />

Francesco Patierno<br />

Co-Production Partners: in collaboration<br />

with Medusa Film and with Sky Cinema<br />

Producer: Rodeo Drive<br />

Key Cast: Diego Abatantuono, Valerio<br />

Mastandrea, Valentina Lodovini<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

An ironic, bittersweet, grotesque comedy of<br />

great truth An entrepreneur, though as<br />

mediocre as he is racist, has a voluptuous<br />

African lover. This does not stop him from<br />

advocating non-stop on his daily TV show<br />

the wish for a world rid of all immigrants<br />

forever. One night, after a cataclysmic<br />

storm, the city awakens with a shock: all of<br />

the immigrants in town seem to have vanished<br />

without a trace. The city’s inhabitants<br />

are soon on the verge of a collective nervous<br />

breakdown. Not only because they find<br />

they are helpless without the know-how of<br />

an important part of its work force, but also<br />

because they sincerely miss this colorful<br />

mass of humanity. Indeed, they had rejected<br />

these people like foreign bodies, but now<br />

realize how much they were a part of the<br />

city and their lives.<br />

SOTTO IL VESTITO NIENTE - L’UL-<br />

TIMA SFILATA<br />

AKA: THE LAST FASHION SHOW<br />

Thriller (96 Min.)<br />

Language: Italian with English Subtitles<br />

Director: Carlo Vanzina<br />

Writer: Enrico Vanzina, Carlo Vanzina, and<br />

Franco Ferrini<br />

Producer: Medusa Film produced by<br />

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International Video<br />

Key Cast: Francesco Montanari, Vanessa<br />

Hessler, Richard E. Grant, Giselda Volodi<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

Sex, blood, transgression... a captivating<br />

thriller against a backdrop of luxury, beauty<br />

and crime, and the hidden lives of the<br />

famous of Milan’s fashion world. The sudden<br />

death of a stunning top model and the<br />

obscure passion of a famous designer trigger<br />

a chilling mystery that leads a young<br />

detective from Milan to Sweden, Rome,<br />

and Switzerland. In Stockholm, a fashion<br />

house assistant spots a beautiful unknown<br />

girl selling flowers in the town square. She<br />

would be the perfect double to replace the<br />

deceased top model. the girl is taken to the<br />

famous couture house in Milan to meet the<br />

designer, and he is absolutely spellbound.<br />

Now the new girl becomes the designer’s<br />

adored top model for each fashion show.<br />

She even moves into the former top<br />

model’s luxurious apartment. Yet, as the<br />

designer launches his new muse, the killing<br />

does not stop...<br />

LIONEL<br />

Children & Family Film (86 min.)<br />

Language: Italian with English subtitles<br />

Director: Mohammed Soudani<br />

Writer: Sara Beltrame, Mohammed<br />

Soudani, Francesco Niccolini<br />

Co-Production Partners: Rsi-<br />

Radiotelevisione Svizzera and Nykady’s<br />

Production (Ivory Coast)<br />

Producer: Amka Films Productions<br />

Key Cast: Max Tardioli, Lorenzo Tanzi,<br />

Aurora Andreaus, Amedeo Magnaghi, and<br />

“Tsar the Lion”<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

A great magnificent lion has been a part of<br />

the little boy Lionel’s life ever since he can<br />

remember. At times he only feels its presence,<br />

at others, the lion suddenly appears to<br />

him. Yet, who would ever believe Lionel if<br />

he told anyone - a lion in Switzerland? This<br />

magical African-Swiss tale for children and<br />

‘grown-up children’ is filled with all the<br />

enchantment and spiritual force of Lionel’s<br />

ancient African world. It is also rich with<br />

Lionel’s happy life in modern Switzerland<br />

with his loving African-born mother and<br />

Swiss step-father, and Federico, his inseparable<br />

best friend. Yet, the lion’s presence<br />

becomes more and more real to Lionel. One<br />

day during a school outing he is irresistibly<br />

drawn to a lion in its cage. The old lion<br />

appeals to the little boy to set him free.<br />

Then the two of them can return to mythical<br />

Africa and to their dream of the infinite<br />

savannah.<br />

GOLAKANI KIRKUK<br />

AKA: THE FLOWERS OF KIRKUK<br />

Romantic Drama (117 min.)<br />

Language: Arabic with English subtitles<br />

Director: Fariborz Kamkari<br />

Writer: Fariborz Kamkari, Naseh Kamkari<br />

Co-Production Partners: RSI/SRG/SSR Ide<br />

Suisse, Regione Lazio by FILAS Spa, with<br />

the support of Eurimages, the Italian<br />

Ministry of Culture MIBAC, Media<br />

Programme, the Autonomous Region of<br />

Kurdistan, Iraq.<br />

Producer: Far Out Films, T & C Films,<br />

Oskar<br />

Key Cast: Morjana Alaoui, Ertem Eser,<br />

Mohamed Zouaoui, Mohammed Bakri<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy, Switzerland, Iraq<br />

Deep red flowers bloom in an arid field<br />

near the town of Kirkuk in Iraq. They seem<br />

to be the keepers of a secret, a love story as<br />

universal and timeless as it is intimately<br />

bound to a place and to a time. The bond<br />

between Najla and Sherko is a profound<br />

story of impossible love. Impossible,<br />

because it is set during a moment in the<br />

history of the Kurdish people at the height<br />

of the genocide perpetrated against them by<br />

the regime of Saddam Hussein. Based on<br />

true lives and events, some of the darker<br />

moments of recent history must be evoked.<br />

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Yet, this is a story of the courage and the<br />

power of love. The power that can transform,<br />

at least for a time, hatred into compassion,<br />

cruelty into self-sacrifice, betrayal<br />

into an act of loyalty. And, against the tragic<br />

course of history, the courage that can<br />

unite a man and a woman forever.<br />

AMERICA<br />

VIDEO FILMS<br />

America Video Films, Coordination office:<br />

Virrey Loreto 2426, Buenos Aires, Buenos<br />

Aires 1426 Argentina, Tel: 5411 4787<br />

9098 Fax: 5411 4787 9094.<br />

www.americavideofilms.net,<br />

E-mail: america@americavideofilms.com<br />

Distributor<br />

At EFM: Enrique Maya (President - Sales),<br />

Brian Maya (Acquisitions)<br />

Office: MGB - stand 142<br />

ATACAMAS 33<br />

Drama (90 min)<br />

Director: Antonio Recio<br />

Producer: Antena 3 Films<br />

Key Cast: Christian Mercado, Alejandro<br />

Goic<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Spain<br />

Movie about the rescue of the 33 Chilean<br />

miners trapped 700 meters under the earth<br />

in the Atacama desert.<br />

LOVE & DISTRUST<br />

Romantic Drama (5 stories)<br />

Director: Various<br />

Key Cast: Sam Worthington, Robert<br />

Pattinson, James Franco, Amy Adams,<br />

Robert Downey Jr<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: US, UK, Australia<br />

When hope dares to carry on the love you<br />

have, distrust can tear it all apart. Comp. of<br />

five stories of passion, love, and hope.<br />

HEROES AND DEMONS<br />

Drama/Action<br />

Key Cast: Tom Hardy, Chris Hemsworth,<br />

Andrew Garfield<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: US/UK<br />

Six different tales involving villains, underdogs,<br />

heroes and the will to overcome<br />

adversity. Stories of intolerance, hopelessness,<br />

desperation, the unforeseen, and the<br />

beyond.<br />

AMERICAN CINEMA<br />

INTERNATIONAL<br />

American Cinema International, 15363<br />

Victory Blvd. Van Nuys, CA 91406 USA,<br />

Tel: 1.818.907.8700. Fax:1.818.907.8719.<br />

www.aci-americancinema.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: George Shamieh (CEO),<br />

Chevonne O’Shaughnessy (President),<br />

Laura Voros (VP of Foreign Sales and<br />

Marketing)<br />

Office: MGB, IFTA Pavilion #A2<br />

BATTLEFIELD AMERICA<br />

Musical<br />

Director: Chris Stokes<br />

Writer: Marques Houston<br />

Producer: Chris Stokes<br />

Key Cast: Lynn Whitfield, Marques<br />

Houston, Mekia Cox<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Battlefield America takes a steady look at<br />

the underbelly of the youth battle dance<br />

culture in Long Beach, California. Sean<br />

Lewis, a young, charismatic, successful<br />

businessman finds himself in the mix with<br />

a bunch of disheveled misfits “Bad Boys”,<br />

who have virtually no dance talent.<br />

Realizing his dilemma, Sean brings aboard<br />

a professional dance instructor to ease his<br />

responsibilities to these kids. Meanwhile,<br />

he finds himself falling for Sara, who runs<br />

the community center where the kids hangout<br />

and practice their moves. With Sean<br />

motivating them, The Bad Boys find the<br />

confidence to rise to the challenge and<br />

defeat their nemesis “The Bang Squad”, at<br />

the annual dance battle competition<br />

Battlefield America!<br />

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AMERICAN WORLD<br />

PICTURES<br />

American World Pictures, 21700 Oxnard<br />

St., Suite 1770, Woodland Hills, CA 91367<br />

USA, Tel: 1.818.340.9004. Fax:<br />

1.818.340.9011.<br />

www.americanworldpictures.com, E-mail:<br />

dee@americanworldpictures.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Mark Lester (President), Jeffrey<br />

Goldman (President of Worldwide<br />

Distribution), Dana Dubovsky (President of<br />

Production), Dee Camp (Vice President of<br />

Acquisitions )<br />

INFECTED<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jason Dudek<br />

Writer: Jason Dudek<br />

Executive Producer: Mark L. Lester<br />

Producer: Greg Strasburg, Jason Dudek<br />

Key Cast: Vinnie Jones, Danny Glover,<br />

Taylor Handley, Margo Harshman, Beverly<br />

Mitchell, Tiffany Hines, Ryan Pinkston,<br />

Leebo Freeman, CS Lee<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

When a corrupt pharmaceutical company<br />

unleashes a deadly virus on a remote farm,<br />

an ex-marine and his friends become its<br />

unwitting test subjects.<br />

A BIRD OF THE AIR<br />

Romantic Drama (102)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Margaret Whitton<br />

Writer: Roger Towne, Joe Coomer<br />

Producer: Margaret Whitton, Steven<br />

Tabakin<br />

Key Cast: Rachel Nichols, Jackson Hurst,<br />

Linda Emond<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A man searching for his past, and a woman<br />

living in the moment, come together when<br />

they pursue the origins of a stray parrot.<br />

ANSWER THIS!<br />

Comedy (113)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Christopher Farah<br />

Writer: Christopher Farah<br />

Producer: Mike Farah, Anna Wenger<br />

Key Cast: Christopher Gorham, Chris<br />

Parnell, Arielle Kebbel, Kip Pardue, Kali<br />

Hawk<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A group of frustrated academics finally get<br />

a shot at beer, women, and nerdy redemption<br />

when they enter a citywide trivia tournament.<br />

PIRANHACONDA<br />

Sci-Fi (86)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jim Wynorski<br />

Writer: Mike MacLean<br />

Executive Producer: Roger Corman<br />

Producer: Forest King<br />

Key Cast: Michael Madsen, Rachel Hunter,<br />

Shandi Finnessey, Teri Ivens, Rib Hillis,<br />

Christina DeRosa, Cindy Lucas<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Half Piranha. Half Anaconda. All terror.<br />

DRAGON WASPS<br />

Sci-Fi (86)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Joe Knee<br />

Writer: Rafael Jordan, Mark Atkins<br />

Executive Producer: Mark Lester<br />

Producer: Anthony Fankhauser, JJ Kim<br />

Key Cast: Corin Nemec, Dominika Wolski,<br />

Nikollete Noel<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The military must battle the harsh jungle<br />

environment, dangerous mercenaries and a<br />

new breed of giant, killer Dragon Wasps.<br />

MERCY<br />

Drama (87)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Patrick Hoelck<br />

Writer: Scott Caan<br />

Producer: Scott Caan, Vince Palomino, Phil<br />

Parmet<br />

Key Cast: Scott Caan, Erika Christiansen,<br />

Dylan McDermott, James Caan, Wendy<br />

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Glenn<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A young novelist tries to write about love,<br />

but realizes he first needs some real-life<br />

experience before taking on the subject.<br />

ARCHSTONE<br />

DISTRIBUTION<br />

Archstone Distribution, 1201 W. 5th St.<br />

Suite T530, Los Angeles, CA 90017 United<br />

States, Tel: 1.310. 622.8773 Fax:<br />

1.310.492.5369.<br />

www.archstonedistribution.com,<br />

E-mail: info@archstonedistribution.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Michael Lurie (Vice President of<br />

Sales & Distribution), Jeffrey Giles (Vice<br />

President of Sales & Distribution), Brady<br />

Bowen (CEO/ President)<br />

Office: IFTA Pavillion Stand Number 141,<br />

Tel: 49.30.889.14.422<br />

SUPERNATURAL ACTIVITY<br />

Comedy (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Derek Lee Nixon<br />

Writer: Andrew Pozza<br />

Executive Producer: Derek Lee Nixon<br />

Producer: Pat Cassidy, Philip Marlatt,<br />

Karina Medellin<br />

Key Cast: Andrew Pozza, Liddy Bisanz,<br />

Derek Lee Nixon<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The world’s most beloved illusionist, armed<br />

with his team, embark on the most adventurous<br />

paranormal investigation of all time.<br />

Terrorized at every turn, this witch-hunting,<br />

ghost busting, creature questing supernatural<br />

spooftacular is the funniest footage ever<br />

found!<br />

CASSADAGA<br />

Horror (122 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Anthony DiBlasi<br />

Writer: Bruce Wood, Scott Poiley<br />

Executive Producer: Bruce Wood<br />

Producer: Bruce Wood, Scott Poiley<br />

Key Cast: Louise Fletcher, Kevin<br />

Alejandro, Lucius Baston, Kelen Coleman<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Devastated by the death of her younger sister,<br />

Lily Morel seeks solace at the spiritualist<br />

community of Cassadaga. But instead of<br />

finding closure, she contacts something else<br />

- the vengeful ghost of a murdered young<br />

woman. With her life crumbling all-around<br />

her, Lily races to unravel the mysterious<br />

circumstances surrounding the woman’s<br />

death - a task that will bring her face-toface<br />

with a sadistic serial killer known only<br />

as “Geppetto”.<br />

NIGHT OF THE TEMPLAR<br />

Action/Adventure<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Paul Sampson<br />

Writer: Paul Sampson<br />

Executive Producer: Paul Sampson<br />

Producer: Paul Sampson<br />

Key Cast: Paul Sampson, David Carradine,<br />

Udo Kier, Norman Reedus<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A Medieval Knight resurrects to fulfill his<br />

vow and bestow a blood-thirst vengeance<br />

upon the kindred spirits of those who<br />

betrayed him long ago. In the course of one<br />

night, identities will be revealed, destinies<br />

met, and a poetic justice of the macabre<br />

maniacally served.<br />

THE DEVIL’S DOZEN<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jeremy London<br />

Writer: Patrick Durham, Judy Dinella<br />

Executive Producer: Jeremy London<br />

Producer: Jeremy London, Patrick Durham,<br />

Judy Dinella, Jonathan Sachar, Lucy Doty,<br />

Ralph Literas, David Bacon<br />

Key Cast: Roberts, C. Thomas Howell,<br />

Jeremy London,Erik Aude, Jake Busey,<br />

Dante Basco<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

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Origin: United States<br />

12 Men. One room. One Survivor. Who<br />

will it be? Eric Roberts, Erik Aude, Jake<br />

Busey, C. Thomas Howell, Dante Basco,<br />

Jeremy London, and Michael Madsen star<br />

in heart-racing thriller.<br />

FORTRESS<br />

Action (99 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Mike Phillips<br />

Writer: Adam Klein<br />

Executive Producer: Jason Newfield<br />

Producer: Jason Newfield, Mike Phillips,<br />

Jason McKinley, Lulian Moss<br />

Key Cast: Bug Hall, Don Jeffcoat, Sean<br />

McGowan<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

When the commander of a B-17 Flying<br />

Fortress bomber is killed in action, his<br />

replacement, a young, naive pilot struggles<br />

to be accepted by the plane’s already tightknit<br />

crew. Ordered into a suicide mission,<br />

their only chance for survival is to band<br />

together as brothers in battle. With unparalleled<br />

aerial action, Fortress pays homage to<br />

the sacrifices of an entire generation during<br />

the most important war in history.<br />

GIRLS GONE DEAD<br />

Comedy/ Horror<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Michael Hoffman Jr. Aaron T.<br />

Wells<br />

Writer: Michael Hoffman Jr., Ryan Dee,<br />

Meghan Jones<br />

Producer: Michel Hoffman Jr., Paul<br />

Tarnopol, Ryan Dee<br />

Key Cast: Ron Jeremy, Ryan Keely, Linnea<br />

Quigley<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A group of six ex-high school cheerleaders<br />

are stalked by a killer with a medieval war<br />

hammer and battle axe during their first<br />

Spring Break from college.<br />

MAFIA<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Ryan Combs<br />

Writer: Ryan Combs<br />

Producer: Phillip Glasser, Brian Hartman<br />

Key Cast: Ving Rhames, Pam Grier, Robert<br />

Patrick<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Criminal boss Renzo and his crew wreak<br />

havoc across the streets, leaving bodies<br />

wherever they go. Detective Womack will<br />

stop at nothing to bring these thugs to justice.<br />

MUNGER ROAD<br />

Thriller (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Nicholas Smith<br />

Writer: Nicholas Smith<br />

Producer: Kyle Heller<br />

Key Cast: Bruce Davison, Randall<br />

Batinkoff, Trevor Morgan<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

On the eve of the annual Scarecrow<br />

Festival, two St. Charles police officers<br />

search for a return killer the same night<br />

four teenagers go missing on Munger<br />

Road.<br />

AND THEY’RE OFF<br />

Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Rob Schiller<br />

Writer: Alan Grossbard<br />

Producer: Alan Grossbard, Howard Bolter,<br />

Pamela Fryman<br />

Key Cast: Sean Astin, Camilla Ball,<br />

Michael Blaiklock<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A comedy centered on a failed horse trainer<br />

who desperately wants to be back in the<br />

winner’s circle.<br />

THE HAMMER<br />

Drama (108 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Oren Kaplan<br />

Writer: Joseph McKelheer, Eben Kostbar<br />

Producer: Joseph McKelheer, Eben Kostbar<br />

Key Cast: Russell Harvard, Raymond J<br />

Barry, Shoshannah Stern<br />

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Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Based on the true story of wrestler and<br />

UFC icon Matt Hamill, who struggled<br />

every step of the way to become the greatest<br />

champion the sport has ever seen.<br />

HIDE AWAY<br />

AKA: A YEAR IN MOORING<br />

Drama (English)<br />

Director: Chris Eyre<br />

Writer: Peter Vanderwall<br />

Producer: Sally Jo Effenson, Josh Lucas,<br />

Kevin Reidy<br />

Key Cast: Josh Lucas, Ayelet Zurer, James<br />

Cromwell<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Hide away follows the story of The Young<br />

Mariner attempting to escape his past.<br />

Entering the idyllic harbor a broken man,<br />

he buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat.<br />

Haunted at night by unsettling dreams of a<br />

family, the Young Mariner begins the taks<br />

of fixing up his wreck of a boat, but the<br />

Hesperus’ state of affairs is just as dire as<br />

the Young Mariners.<br />

ARRI WORLDSALES<br />

ARRI Worldsales, Trkenstr. 89, 80799,<br />

Munich, Germany, Tel:<br />

0049.(0)89.3809.1288 Fax:<br />

0049.(0)89.3809.1619.<br />

www.arri-mediaworldsales.de, E-mail: aexacoustos@arri.de<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Antonio Exacoustos (Head of<br />

Worldsales), Sylvia Edelmann (Sales<br />

Executive), Wolfram Skowronnek-Schaer<br />

(Consultant)<br />

Office: ARRI Worldsales, Stand Number:<br />

11, Tel: ++49.30.889.14 - 453<br />

PORFIRIO<br />

Drama, Feature Film based on real events<br />

(106 minutes)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Alejandro Landes<br />

Writer: Alejandro Landes<br />

Co-Production Partners: Carmelita, Spain,<br />

Campo Cine, Argentine, Control Z Films,<br />

Uruguay, ATOPIC, France<br />

Executive Producer: Francisco Aljure,<br />

Jorge Manrique Behrens, Maja<br />

Zimmermann<br />

Producer: Francisco Aljure & Alejandro<br />

Landes<br />

Key Cast: Porfirio Ramirez Aldana,<br />

Jarlinsson Ramirez Reinoso, Yor Jasbleidy<br />

Santos Torres<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: Colombia<br />

Confined to a universe that stretches only<br />

from bed to wheelchair, Porfirio – a man in<br />

diapers who sells call time on his cell<br />

phone in a faraway city on the outskirts of<br />

the Colombian Amazon - dreams that he<br />

can fly.<br />

ARROW<br />

ENTERTAINMENT<br />

INC.<br />

Arrow Entertainment Inc., 7 Givins St.,<br />

Toronto, Ontario M6J 2X5 Canada, Tel:<br />

1.416.516.0815 Fax: 1.416.850.9973.<br />

http://www.arrow-entertainment.com, Email:<br />

info@arrow-entertainment.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Steve Arroyave (CEO), Tania<br />

Sarra (Director of Sales)<br />

Office: MGB 125 Canada Desk, Tel:<br />

Booth: +49.30.767.646 – 405, Mobile:<br />

+44(0)754.571.8868<br />

THE SURREALIST<br />

Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Philippe Mora<br />

Writer: Philippe Mora<br />

Producer: Frederick G. Bestall, Philippe<br />

Mora<br />

Key Cast: Alan Cumming, Judy Davis<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

Surrealist Dali explodes onto the world<br />

stage in drama and hilarity. The wildest<br />

ride yet in 3D. The unfilmable has become<br />

filmable in three dimensions.<br />

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LEAVE IT ON THE FLOOR<br />

Musical (109min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Sheldon Larry<br />

Writer: Glenn Gaylord<br />

Executive Producer: Sheldon Larry, Marc<br />

L. Bailin<br />

Producer: Sheldon Larry, Jeffrey Larry,<br />

Adam Larry, Glenn Gaylord<br />

Key Cast: Ephraim Sykes, Miss Barbie-Q,<br />

Phillip Evelyn, James Alsop, Andre Myers<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

From Beyonce’s musical team comes a<br />

dance musical extravaganza that follows a<br />

young man who enters the Los Angeles<br />

ballroom scene.<br />

SEANCE: THE SUMMONING<br />

Supernatural Horror<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Alex Wright<br />

Writer: Alex Wright<br />

Executive Producer: John Carbone, John G.<br />

Carbone, Mark Sanders<br />

Producer: Chris Webster, Alex Wright<br />

Key Cast: Bobby Campo, Nazneen<br />

Contractor, Chris Olivero, Devon Odgen<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

Four college kids video themselves holding<br />

a sance in the city morgue and summon a<br />

demon, unleashing a nightmare from which<br />

there is no escape.<br />

THE ATHLETE<br />

AKA: ATLETU<br />

Docu-drama (93min.)<br />

Language: English, Amharic<br />

Director: Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew<br />

Writer: Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew<br />

Producer: Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew,<br />

Darryn Welch<br />

Key Cast: Rasselas Lakew, Dag Malmberg,<br />

Ruta Gedmintas<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: U.S.A., Ethiopia, Germany<br />

The amazing true story of Ethiopian<br />

Olympic marathon champion Abebe Bikila.<br />

MAKE BELIEVE<br />

Documentary (91min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: J. Clay Tweel<br />

Co-Production Partners: Firefly Theatre &<br />

Films, Level 22<br />

Producer: Steven Klein<br />

Key Cast: Siphewe Fangase, Haroki Hara,<br />

Bill Koch, Krystyn Lambert, Derek McKee,<br />

Nkumbuzo Ngonyana, Lance Burton<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Six of the world?s best young magicians<br />

pursue the title of Teen World Champion<br />

and lead us on their personal journeys of<br />

transformation through magic.<br />

SUING THE DEVIL<br />

Drama (104min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Timothy A. Chey<br />

Writer: Timothy A. Chey<br />

Co-Production Partners: River Rain<br />

Productions, LLC<br />

Producer: David Turrell, Timothy A. Chey,<br />

Malcolm McDowell<br />

Key Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Shannen<br />

fields, Corbin Bernsen, Tom Sizemore<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Luke O?Brien decides to sue Satan for $8<br />

trillion dollars. On the last day before he<br />

files a default judgment, Satan appears to<br />

defend himself. With 10 of the country?s<br />

best trial lawyers, Satan presents his case as<br />

the world watches to see who will win the<br />

Trial of the Century.<br />

THE CALLING<br />

Drama (90min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jan Dunn<br />

Writer: Jan Dunn<br />

Producer: Elaine Wickham<br />

Key Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Emily Beecham,<br />

Susannah York<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: United Kingdom<br />

Joanna is about to graduate from University<br />

with her whole life set up for her, but she<br />

has decided to face up to a truth she has<br />

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been avoiding her whole life. Since she<br />

was small, she has had the desire to<br />

become a Nun.<br />

HUGH HEFNER: PLAYBOY,<br />

ACTIVIST AND REBEL<br />

Documentary (124min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Brigitte Berman<br />

Co-Production Partners: Metaphor Films<br />

Producer: Victor Solnicki, Brigitte Berman<br />

Key Cast: Hugh Hefner, Gene Simmons,<br />

Jenny McCarthy, Mike Wallce, Dick<br />

Gregory, Revered Jesse Jackson, Tony<br />

Bennett, James Caan, Joan Baez, George<br />

Lucas<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

A revealing look at the outspoken, flamboyant<br />

founder of the Playboy empire.<br />

Rare footage and compelling interviews<br />

present a brilliant and entertaining snapshot<br />

of the life of an extraordinary man and the<br />

controversies that surrounded him.<br />

1 A MINUTE<br />

Docu-drama (90min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Namrata Singh Gujral<br />

Writer: Namrata Singh Gujral<br />

Co-Production Partners: UniGlobe<br />

Entertainment<br />

Producer: Nayomi Cooper<br />

Key Cast: Olivia Newton-John, Manrata<br />

Singh Gujral, Melissa Etheridge, Jaclyn<br />

Smith, Diahann Carroll, Barbara Mori, Lisa<br />

Ray, Mumtaz, William Baldwin, Priya Butt,<br />

Deepak Chopra<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

In this powerful and inspirational docudrama,<br />

international celebrities come<br />

together to promote awareness and prevention,<br />

as well as support, survivors of<br />

women’s cancers.<br />

SNIFF: THE DOG MOVIE<br />

Docu-drama (85min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Barry Stone<br />

Writer: Barry Stone<br />

Producer: Kim Webster<br />

Key Cast: Neil Morrissey, Richard Huw,<br />

Amanda Plummer<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Two British actors, hired to be the dress-up<br />

concierges of a high-end San Francisco dog<br />

hotel, decide to take the opportunity of a<br />

year-long contract to make a documentary<br />

about dogs.<br />

ART PICTURES<br />

STUDIO<br />

Art Pictures Studio, Mosfilmovskaya street<br />

1, suite 2, office 203, Moscow, 119991<br />

Russsia, Tel: +7.495.933.3628.<br />

http://www.art-pictures.ru/en/about/<br />

E-mail: company@art-pictures.ru<br />

Producer<br />

At EFM: Dmitry Rudovskiy (CEO<br />

Producer), Natalia Voevodina (Head of<br />

Sales)<br />

Office: Stand No.:104 MGB, Tel:<br />

+49.30.889.14 - 449<br />

TWO DAYS<br />

Comedy<br />

Language: Russian<br />

Director: Avdotia Smirnova<br />

Writer: Avdotia Smirnova, Anna Parmas<br />

Producer: Central Partnership, Art Pictures<br />

Studio, 2011<br />

Key Cast: Fedor Bondarchuk, Ksenia<br />

Rapopport, Irina Rozanova, Boris<br />

Kamorzin, Gennady Smirnov, Evgeny<br />

Muravich<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Russia/England<br />

Peter Drozdov, a high-ranking official from<br />

Moscow, comes to a provincial museum of<br />

a half-forgotten classical writer of Russian<br />

literature. He was invited to the place by<br />

governor of the region, who wants to<br />

receive tenure on museum’s land and built<br />

there a new residence. At first, Drozdov<br />

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agrees with the governor and supports his<br />

idea, but everything changes when he<br />

meets young intelligent literature expert<br />

Masha, who work’s as museum’s deputy<br />

director. She changes Drozdov’s view not<br />

only on that issue, but on his whole life…<br />

STALINGRAD<br />

War-Drama<br />

Language: Russian<br />

Director: Fedor Bondarchuk<br />

Writer: Iliya Tilkin<br />

Co-Production Partners: Art Pictures<br />

Studio, Non-stop production, Stalingrad<br />

production, in participation with Twin<br />

Media<br />

Executive Producer: Natalya Gorina<br />

Producer: Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergei<br />

Melkumov, Dmitry Rudovsky<br />

Key Cast: Pyotr Fedorov<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2013 Country of<br />

Origin: Russia/England<br />

Stalingrad has become hell and paradise for<br />

those who were worthy of awards, but the<br />

only reward they managed to get was love.<br />

How they won, and how they were not<br />

defeated, who they were and who was on<br />

the other side of the street, what secret they<br />

have taken away with them - the movie<br />

will tell this story.<br />

THE WINTER QUEEN<br />

Action Adventure<br />

Language: Russian, English<br />

Director: Fedor Bondarchuk<br />

Writer: Gerard Soeteman, adapted from the<br />

best-selling novel by Boris Akunin<br />

Co-Production Partners: Art Pictures<br />

Studio, Seven Arts Pictures, TPA Film<br />

Producer: Thomas Hedman, Dmitry<br />

Rudovskiy<br />

Key Cast: Milla Jovovich, Anton Yelchin<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Country of Origin: Russia/England<br />

St. Petersburg. May 1886. What would<br />

cause a talented young student from a<br />

wealthy family to shoot himself in full<br />

view of the promenading public in the<br />

Alexander Gardens? Decadence and boredom,<br />

most likely, is what the commander<br />

of the Criminal Investigation Division of<br />

the Petersburg Police thinks, but he’s curi-<br />

ous enough to send out the newest member<br />

of the Division, Erast Fandorin, a young<br />

man of irresistible charm, to investigate.<br />

Fandorin - naïve and anxious to learn -<br />

vacillates between insanely bold bravery<br />

and full on fear as he throws himself<br />

whole-heartedly into this mystery. Murder<br />

and deception compete with duels and<br />

reckless gambling as Fandorin finds himself<br />

entangled in the web of the mysterious<br />

beauty, Amalia Bezhetskaya, a femme<br />

fatale who enjoys playing with the emotions<br />

of her many wealthy admirers.<br />

Fandorin pursues Amalia to foggy London<br />

and back, getting himself in and out of<br />

deadly escapades — he’s almost stabbed to<br />

death, finds himself forced into a game of<br />

Russian roulette, he’s bound in a burlap<br />

sack and thrown in the Thames to drown,<br />

his memory is in danger of being erased<br />

forever and Amalia’s ghost even returns<br />

from the dead to get her revenge. Is this all<br />

about money or are the murders and the<br />

attempts on Fandorin’s life part of an international<br />

terrorist plot? Is Amalia their<br />

sirenlike ambassador? Should we suspect<br />

the British aristocrat Lady Astair, founder<br />

of a string of orphanages which have greatly<br />

benefited from the wills of the murdered<br />

men? In this nightmarish world, who can<br />

Fandorin trust? Count Zurov, Amalia’s<br />

favorite lover, who challenges and kills<br />

every competitor in a duel? The overzealous<br />

Brilling, the special envoy to the Tsar<br />

who starts a brutally violent campaign<br />

against the terrorists? Are these “terrorists”<br />

even real? Or are they just a smoke screen<br />

to cover up something infinitely more ominous,<br />

a global conspiracy to dominate the<br />

world?<br />

THE MAGICIAN<br />

Romantic Comedy (81 minutes)<br />

Language: Russian, English<br />

Director: Andres Puustusmaa<br />

Writer: Alexei Sashin<br />

Producer: Sergei Melkumov, Dmitriy<br />

Meshiev<br />

Key Cast: Ivan Urgant, Nikolai Fomenko,<br />

Alexandra Kulikova<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

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Origin: Russia<br />

Love, - if it is the real love, - always comes<br />

unexpected and out of the blue. Anna who<br />

has the Captain rank notices the courtesies<br />

paid to her by a common solider, and realizes<br />

that she has fallen in love herself,<br />

despite the great age difference.<br />

ARTIST VIEW<br />

ENTERTAINMENT<br />

Artist View Entertainment, 4425 Irvine<br />

Ave., Studio City, California 91602<br />

USA.Tel: 1.818.752.2480 Fax:<br />

1.818.752.9339.<br />

http://www.artistviewent.com<br />

E-mail: info@artistviewent.com<br />

Distributor<br />

At EFM: Scott Jones (President), Jay Joyce<br />

(Vice President, Worldwide Sales), Jennifer<br />

Dillon (Director of Distribution)<br />

Office: Martin-Gropius-Bau - IFTA<br />

Pavilion Stand # 141, Tel:<br />

49.30.889.14.422<br />

FLIGHT OF THE SWAN<br />

Thriller (90min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Key Cast: James D’ Arcy, Alicia Witt,<br />

Colm Meaney, Linda Gray, Tom Frederic,<br />

Larry Hagman<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A young idealist is recruited by a US multinational<br />

company and as he climbs the corporate<br />

ladder he loses friends, his family,<br />

his values and gradually transforms into the<br />

person he has always despised. Completely<br />

caught up in a web of intrigue that tightens<br />

around him like a vice, his path evolves<br />

into a nerve-rending adventure of relentless<br />

conflicts and unexpected reversals.<br />

ROBO DOC<br />

Comedy (90 min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Stephen Maddocks<br />

Writer: Douglas Gordon, M.D. & Scott<br />

Gordon, M.D.<br />

Producer: Douglas Gordon & Donald<br />

Tynes<br />

Key Cast: Alan Thicke, David Faustino,<br />

Corin Nemec, David DeLuise<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

When an innovative health care company<br />

unveils RoboDoc, an android physician so<br />

carefully programmed it cannot make a<br />

medical mistake, a greedy medical malpractice<br />

lawyer sees a threat to his livelihood.<br />

He’ll stop at nothing to see RoboDoc<br />

reduced to a heap of wires and software.<br />

HUNTED BY NIGHT<br />

Action (90min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Key Cast: Jencarlos Canela, (Latin Pop<br />

star, TV’s “Mi Corazón Insiste”), Juan C.<br />

Bofill, Al Galvez, Sonya Smith<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011<br />

In the Florida Everglades, three men on a<br />

hunting trip find bails of drugs just dropped<br />

from an airplane. The men must decide<br />

whether to be law-abiding citizens and<br />

report the drugs or take the drugs and sell<br />

them for millions of dollars. Their decisions<br />

will take them on spine-tingling confrontations<br />

with drug dealers who both outnumber...<br />

and outgun them.<br />

SAMUEL BLEAK<br />

Drama/Suspense (90min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Key Cast: Deborah Kara Unger, David<br />

Zayas, Keith David, Jaime Murray, James<br />

Russo<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Sheriff Ruben Ramirez finds a mute boy<br />

living alone in the woods and takes a special<br />

interest to find out who he is. The<br />

investigation reveals the boy’s name is<br />

Samuel Bleak and uncovers the shocking<br />

secrets of his past, including the tragic<br />

death of his mother. One thing is certain...<br />

those who meet Samuel will never forget<br />

his story.<br />

TROPHY KIDS<br />

Comedy (90min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Key Cast: Ryan Eggold, David Gallagher,<br />

Tahyna Tozzi, Nathan Lee Graham, Tania<br />

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Raymonde<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A Manhattan playboy desires to have a film<br />

produced based on his party lifestyle and<br />

hires a self-destructive aspiring playwright<br />

to write the script. As the mismatched pair<br />

struggles to complete the script they also<br />

find themselves attracted to the same girl<br />

which leads to a comical yet tragic tale of<br />

three self-absorbed souls looking for fame<br />

and fortune in the Big Apple.<br />

COFFIN<br />

Thriller (90min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Key Cast: Bruce Davison, Kevin Sorbo<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A masked stranger reveals to Jack that his<br />

cheating wife and her lover are buried<br />

underground in a wooden box and their<br />

oxygen will run out in 75 minutes. Now<br />

Jack must engage in a deadly game with<br />

the masked stranger in order to save his<br />

wife...and himself.<br />

KINGS OF APPLETOWN<br />

Adventure (90min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Key Cast: Dylan Sprouse, Cole Sprouse,<br />

Victoria Justice<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Two boys witness a murder but decide to<br />

not tell anyone out of fear. Along with their<br />

friend Betsy, they go on a journey to find<br />

the real killer and at the same time redeem<br />

themselves.<br />

MISADVENTURES OF THE DUNDER-<br />

HEADS<br />

Adventure (90min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Key Cast: Olympia Dukakis, Haley Joel<br />

Osment , Alison Brie<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Meet the Dunderheads, an eccentric family<br />

that’s been in the mountains for far too<br />

long. Now one step ahead of the law,<br />

Grandma Ira flees to Canada with her two<br />

dysfunctional teenage grandkids across the<br />

American West into a comic collision with<br />

the mainstream world.<br />

RED ROSE OF NORMANDY<br />

Drama/War (90min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Key Cast: Damian Chapa, Jack Dimich,<br />

Claudia Crawford, Tino Struckmann<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Caught in the middle of the advancing<br />

Allies and the fanatical Gestapo during<br />

World War II, Klaus and Klaudia must<br />

fight their way out and away, only to make<br />

one last stand together surrounded in the<br />

middle of the biggest invasion in world history.<br />

SANTORINI BLUE<br />

Drama (90min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Key Cast: Deirdre Lorenz, Matthew D.<br />

Panepinto, Richard Belzer<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A married couple who’s relationship begins<br />

to unravel due to a sad betrayal travels on a<br />

rediscovery journey from New York City to<br />

Santorini, Greece while addressing the<br />

question: Can love really be rekindled?<br />

IMMIGRATION TANGO<br />

Romantic Comedy (90min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Key Cast: Carlos Leon, McCaleb Burnett,<br />

Ashley Wolfe, Elika Portnoy<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Two couples test the limits of friendship<br />

and love when they switch partners and get<br />

married for immigration purposes.<br />

CREEP VAN<br />

Horror (90min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Key Cast: Brian Kolodziej, Angelina<br />

Armani, Collin Bernsen<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

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Origin: USA<br />

When Campbell, a vehicle-less 20-something<br />

slacker, innocently makes the mistake<br />

of answering a FOR SALE sign placed on<br />

a dilapidated van, suspense and action take<br />

over as he is suddenly caught-up in a deadly<br />

game of cat and mouse that puts everyone<br />

close to him in mortal danger.<br />

MELANCHOLY FANTASTIC<br />

Psychological thriller (90min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Key Cast: Amy Crowdis, Robin Lord<br />

Taylor, Josh Caras, Shirley Knight<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A reclusive young girl Melanie, copes with<br />

the recent death of her mother by constructing<br />

a life-size doll to keep her company. At<br />

first the doll, called Mor, appears to be a<br />

harmless novelty—an imaginary friend,<br />

until Mor convinces Melanie that “someone<br />

must die” so that she may embrace life.<br />

Though dark in many ways, this is an alternative<br />

Christmas story with a shockingly<br />

happy ending.<br />

CODE 207<br />

Action Thriller (90min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Key Cast: Jack Dimich, Tino<br />

Struckmann,Caspar von Winterfeldt<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Mack, Army Ranger returning from the war<br />

is suddenly faced with a new war as his<br />

wife is kidnapped and he is lead through<br />

town and corrupt police officers to an abandoned<br />

prison where the slick dealer Savage<br />

have set up shot surrounded by henchmen.<br />

THE SELLING OF SCARRY MANOR<br />

Supernatural Comedy (90min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Key Cast: Gabriel Diani, Janet Varney,<br />

Jonathan Klein, Etta Devine, Nancy<br />

Lenehan, Barry Bostwick<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A too-honest-for-his-own-good real estate<br />

agent has to sell a haunted house before its<br />

ghostly inhabitants ruin his life.<br />

ASPECT FILM<br />

Aspect Film, 26 York Street, London, W1U<br />

6PZ, UK, Tel: 44.207.993.5877.<br />

www.aspectfilm.com,<br />

E-mail: aneta@aspectfilm.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Hugh Edwards (CEO)<br />

Office: Suite 508, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Tel:<br />

49.30.33.777.5608; cell: 44.740.88.66.417<br />

AMONG FRIENDS<br />

Horror / Comedy (1 x 90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Danielle Harris<br />

Writer: Alyssa Lobit<br />

Executive Producer: William Allison, Jay<br />

Lobit<br />

Producer: Jennifer Blanc, Athena Lobit<br />

Key Cast: Christopher Backus, Jennifer<br />

Blanc, AJ Bowen, Dana Daurey, Brianne<br />

Davis, Kane Hodder, Kamala Jones, Alyssa<br />

Lobit, Chris Meyer<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

AMONG FRIENDS, the directorial debut<br />

of Scream Queen Danielle Harris<br />

(Halloween, Hatchet, Blood Night: The<br />

Legend of Mary Hatchet) is a horror / comedy<br />

about a dinner party gone wrong. Set<br />

against an 80s backdrop, the good time<br />

takes a dark turn when one in the group<br />

hijacks the evening in an attempt to help<br />

the others come clean about their secret<br />

betrayals against one another–and is willing<br />

to cut through the bone in order to expose<br />

the truth.<br />

BROKEN PROMISE<br />

AKA: NEDODRZANY SLUB<br />

War / Biographical / Drama (1 x 129 min)<br />

Language: Slovak<br />

Director: Jiri Chlumsky<br />

Writer: Martin Friedmann-Petrasek, Jan<br />

Novak<br />

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Co-Production Partners: Slovenska<br />

Televizia, Ceska Televize<br />

Producer: Iveta Cerna Ivanova, Vlado<br />

Cerny<br />

Key Cast: Eva Kerekesova, Lubomir<br />

Bukovy, Onrej Vetchy<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: Slovakia<br />

The true story of Martin, a Jewish boy and<br />

talented soccer player, who has to make a<br />

risky lifetime decisions in order to survive<br />

in WWII. When he sees his family is taken<br />

to Poland, one by one, he voluntarily goes<br />

to “working camp”, where he finds out that<br />

he is not safe anywhere. By luck and his<br />

wits, he joins a band of partisans and<br />

somehow manages to survive.<br />

LOVE.NET<br />

Romance (1 x 90 min)<br />

Language: Bulgarian<br />

Director: Ilian Djevelekov<br />

Writer: Nelly Dimitrova, Matey<br />

Konstantinov, Ilian Djevelekov<br />

Executive Producer: Stefan Goranov<br />

Producer: Gergi Dimitrov, Ilian<br />

Djevelekov, Matey Konstantinov<br />

Key Cast: Hristo Shopov, Zahary Baharov,<br />

Lilia Maraviglia, Koyna Ruseva, Diana<br />

Dobreva, Diliana Popova<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Bulgaria<br />

LOVE.NET follows the parallel stories of a<br />

number of characters who are trying to<br />

change their lives via the Internet or are<br />

simply having fun online. This film is<br />

about love in all its forms - about the<br />

inevitable, mystic and inexplicable love,<br />

but also the superficial love of fast liquidity.<br />

Love at first virtual sight!<br />

MANIPULATION<br />

Political Thriller (1 x 90 min)<br />

Language: German<br />

Director: Pascal Verdosci<br />

Writer: Alex martin (screenplay), Marion<br />

Reichert (screenplay), Walter Matthias<br />

Digglemann (novel)<br />

Producer: Philipp Rapold<br />

Key Cast: Sebastian Koch, Klaus Maria<br />

Brandauer, Helmut Fornbacher, Urs Jucker<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Switzerland<br />

Zurich, 1956: During the Cold War, a compromising<br />

photograph exposes a Swiss star<br />

reporter as a Soviet spy. Unable to withstand<br />

the pressure, he commits suicide in<br />

the interrogation room. Special agent<br />

Rappold (Oscar Nominated Klaus Maria<br />

Brandauer - Out of Africa, Memphisto, The<br />

Russia House) from the counter-espionage<br />

department is plagued by doubt: Were the<br />

photographs really genuine? And why did<br />

the influential PR advisor, Dr. Harry Wind<br />

(Sebastian Koch - The Lives of Others,<br />

Unknown, Black Book), even have the<br />

photographs made? In a merciless cat and<br />

mouse game with Dr. Wind as a manipulative<br />

storyteller, Rappold realizes that he<br />

himself is part of a conspiracy.<br />

MEMPHIS HEAT<br />

AKA: MEMPHIS HEAT: THE TRUE<br />

STORY OF MEMPHIS WRASSLIN’<br />

Documentary Feature<br />

Director: Chad Schaffler<br />

Writer: Chad Schaffler<br />

Executive Producer: Ron Hall, Sherman<br />

Willmott<br />

Producer: Chad Schaffler, Billie Worley<br />

Key Cast: Bill “Superstar” Dundee, Jerry<br />

“The King” Lawler, Sputnik Monroe,<br />

Jimmy Hart<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Memphis Heat: The True Story of<br />

Memphis Wrasslin’ is the definitive documentary<br />

about the history of Memphis<br />

wrestling from the 1950’s with legendary<br />

battles between Sputnik Monroe and Billy<br />

DO YOUR PART TO<br />

COMBAT GLOBAL WARMING<br />

BERLIN AT YOUR FINGERTIPS<br />

THE PDA CULTURE IS COOL &<br />

HAPPENING<br />

CHOOSE ONLINE ACCESS<br />

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Wicks, the 1960’s with strutting Jackie<br />

Fargo, & the glory days of the ‘70s with<br />

Jerry “the King” Lawler, Tojo Yamamoto,<br />

“Superstar” Bill Dundee, & Jimmy Hart.<br />

NORMAL: THE DUSSELDORF<br />

RIPPER<br />

Thriller / True Story (1 x 100 min)<br />

Language: Czech<br />

Director: Julius Sevcik<br />

Writer: Julius Sevcik, Anthony Nielson<br />

Executive Producer: Roman Kasparovsky<br />

Producer: Karla Stojakova<br />

Key Cast: Milan Knazko, Dagmar<br />

Havlova, Jan Vlasak<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: Czech Republic<br />

Between February 1929 and October 1931,<br />

Peter Kurten brutally murdered eight people<br />

and attacked many others. He killed<br />

men, woman, children and animals, anything<br />

that crossed his path. He spread the<br />

same panic Jack the Ripper once did in<br />

London. Eventually this brutal sadist voluntarily<br />

gave himself up to the police. A<br />

young ambitious lawyer, Justus Wehner, is<br />

assigned to defend the killer. Wehner is<br />

certain that Kuerten suffers from a severe<br />

mental disorder and decides to prove Peter<br />

Kurten is insane. Wehner starts to study the<br />

killer’s mind, but the further he sinks into<br />

Kurten’s motivation and psyche; he gains<br />

less control over the case.<br />

RAGE: MIDSUMMER’S EVE<br />

Horror (1 x 90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Tii Ricks<br />

Writer: Tii Ricks<br />

Executive Producer: James Hartley, Andy<br />

Morgan, Tii Ricks<br />

Producer: Mikko Korhonen<br />

Key Cast: Mikko Vartiainen, Holly<br />

Georgia, Johnny Sachon, Christian<br />

Sandstrom, Greta Mandelin<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Finland<br />

A group of international friends living and<br />

studying in Finland decide to spend their<br />

summer holiday in the Finnish countryside<br />

near the Arctic Circle. The Midsummer’s<br />

Eve and the white nights, when the sun<br />

never sets, makes the summer holidays<br />

unforgettable and everyone seems to be<br />

having the time of their lives. But the<br />

noisy, partying group disrupts nature’s<br />

peace and attract the attention of something<br />

unknown. Our group of friends soon find<br />

out that there is nowhere to run and<br />

nowhere to hide in the isolated countryside<br />

under the Midnight Sun.<br />

ROCK AND ROLL FUCK ‘N ‘<br />

LOVELY<br />

Horror / Music (1 x 80 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Josh Bagnall<br />

Writer: Josh Bagnall<br />

Producer: Josh Bagnall, Robert Horwell,<br />

Spencer Leven, Yan Miles<br />

Key Cast: Pete Doherty, Joel Fry, Anton<br />

Saunders, Crispian Belfrage, lee Whitlock,<br />

Michael Starke<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

The film is a dark and fantastical touring<br />

tale with a little rock n’ roll on the side just<br />

for good measure. This is a road movie.<br />

this is a rock and roll drama, a tale that<br />

exposes the rumors surrounding a mythical<br />

festival tour (or is it just the drugs?). The<br />

cinematography is stunning, the drug taking<br />

shocking and the horror horrific, not<br />

for the faint hearted. It’s a unique film capturing<br />

the true essence of the festival spirit,<br />

unlike any British film to date. This movie<br />

is the essence of a rock and roll nightmare.<br />

It’s a must see for anyone who’s been on<br />

the road.. and if you’ve not gone on tour<br />

before... after this you never will.<br />

THE CLOTH<br />

Horror (1 x 90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Justin Price<br />

Writer: Justin Price<br />

Executive Producer: Harold Hardamon,<br />

Jennifer L. George, Charles Keys, Linda<br />

Khu, Justin Price<br />

Producer: Justin Price<br />

Key Cast: Danny Trejo, Eric Roberts,<br />

Rachele Brooke Smith, John Greer, Steven<br />

Brand<br />

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Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The Cloth is an action, horror story with<br />

sci-fi elements centered on a secret organization<br />

formed by the Catholic Church to<br />

counteract the rising cases of demonic possessions<br />

across the country. The story follows<br />

a young godless man who is being<br />

recruited into the cloth in order to prepare a<br />

new generation with the tools needed to<br />

stop the awakening of the ultimate evil;<br />

Beelzebub.<br />

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INTERNATIONAL<br />

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Atlas International Film GmbH,<br />

Candidplatz 11, Munich, 81543 Germany,<br />

Tel: +49.89.2109750. Fax:<br />

+49.89.21097581.<br />

http://www.atlasfilm.com,<br />

E-mail: mail@atlasfilm.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Stefan Menz (President), Philipp<br />

Menz (President), Michel J. Vandewalle<br />

(Development and Acquisitions), Susanne<br />

Groh (Program Sales), Glenn Kendrick<br />

Ackermann (Program Sales), Christian<br />

Halsey Solomon (atlas office Los Angeles)<br />

Office: no. 10, MGB, Tel:<br />

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SOFIA<br />

Thriller (90)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Isaac Florentine<br />

Producer: Elika Portnoy<br />

Key Cast: Christian Slater, Donald<br />

Sutherland, Timothy Spall<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Bulgaria<br />

Robert Diggs, a former FBI agent, finds<br />

himself back in the life of detective work<br />

when an unknown vigilante begins killing<br />

high-priority terrorists off America’s Most<br />

Wanted list in Sofia, Bulgaria. While tracking<br />

down the killer, Diggs comes across a<br />

sexy, belly-dancing redhead named Ursula.<br />

For once, Diggs is able to move beyond the<br />

painful memory of his wife’s tragic death<br />

as he falls for the mysterious woman. Little<br />

does he know that he is actually sleeping<br />

with the enemy! Having taken up a triple<br />

persona under the effects of Multiple<br />

Personality Disorder, his sexy vixen is actually<br />

an assassin that has been trained to kill<br />

since she was a child, thanks to a rogue<br />

government project. Reminiscent of the<br />

Manchurian Candidate, she is a brainwashed<br />

teacher named Vicki by day, a sexy<br />

belly dancer by night, and a ruthless killer<br />

when her handlers call.<br />

SWEETWATER<br />

Action/Western<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Logan and Noah Miller<br />

Writer: Andrew McKenzie<br />

Producer: Rick Benattar<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2013 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Set in Northern Arizona in the late 1880’s,<br />

Sweetwater is the story of a young woman<br />

Sarah who takes the law into her own<br />

hands to avenge the murder of her husband<br />

Luke at the hands of a murderous local<br />

rancher Cole. Sheriff Jackson must unravel<br />

the crimes commited but he is one step<br />

behind Sarah on her quest for revenge.<br />

YOU WILL BE CALLED<br />

AKA: ES WIRD DICH RUFEN<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: German<br />

Director: Erik Borner<br />

Producer: Blue Screen Entertainment,<br />

Bavaria Film, Atlas International<br />

Key Cast: Michael Mendl, Nora Arnezeder<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany<br />

A young journalist comes across mysterious<br />

ancient documents which lead him to a<br />

mountain village in France where he<br />

uncovers an age-old enigma, which in the<br />

wrong hands, could destroy the world as<br />

we know it.....<br />

SOPHIE<br />

Family (104)<br />

Language: English<br />

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Director: Leif Bristow<br />

Executive Producer: Mary Pantelides<br />

Producer: Mary Pantelides<br />

Key Cast: Brittany Bristow, John Rhys-<br />

Davies, Erica Durance, Thure Riefenstein,<br />

Debora Kara Unger<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

Growing up on the grounds of her parents’<br />

family-operated zoo, 17-year-old Sophie’s<br />

life is focused on two great loves: ballet<br />

and animals. To afford the high tuition fee<br />

of a ballet school, Sophie’s parents sell<br />

Sheba, a 5-ton elephant and Sophie’s life<br />

long friend, to a travelling circus without<br />

discussing this issue with their daughter.<br />

Abandoning her previous dance dreams,<br />

Sophie sets off to reclaim Sheba, charming<br />

her way into a summer job with the circus<br />

so she can keep an eye on the despiteful<br />

animal trainer. When Sophie falls in love<br />

with circus artist Blake, they both struggle<br />

to rescue Sheba from the cruel circus environment<br />

and repatriate the Elephant...<br />

NANGA PARBAT<br />

Action/Adventure (102)<br />

Language: German, English<br />

Director: Joseph Vilsmaier<br />

Producer: Joseph Vilsmaier, Armin<br />

Weltersbach, Joerg A.L. Schallehn<br />

Key Cast: Florian Stetter, Andreas Tobias,<br />

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Bazelevs, 6/1 Pudovkina str., Moscow,<br />

119285 Russia, Tel: +74952230400.<br />

www.bazelevs.ru, E-mail:<br />

mail@atlasfilm.com<br />

Producer, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Ruslan Tatarintsev (Head of<br />

Distribution and Marketing), Diana<br />

Yurinova (CSO)<br />

Office: Stand No.:104 MGB<br />

YOLKI 2012<br />

AKA: YOLKI 2012<br />

Comedy, romantic (106 min)<br />

Language: Russian<br />

Director: D.Kiseliov, L.Gabriadze,<br />

A.Baranov, A.Kott<br />

Writer: T.Bekmambetov, O.Kharina,<br />

Creative group<br />

Co-Production Partners: VGTRK<br />

Executive Producer: A.Remizova<br />

Producer: Timur Bekmambetov, Iva<br />

Stromilova<br />

Key Cast: Ivan Urgant, Sergey Svetlakov,<br />

Vera Brezhneva, Aleksey Petrenko,<br />

Vladimir Menshov, Sergey Bezrukov,<br />

Gosha Kutsenko<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Russia<br />

Sometimes it happens, when everything<br />

goes haywire. Worse things happen if today<br />

is December, 31. Our heroes should fix<br />

everything overnight, on the New Year eve.<br />

To find some money to rent an apartment,<br />

to win back 8-years-old daughter, to rally<br />

from the amnesia, to ride a cast iron bathtub,<br />

to ring in the New Year with a<br />

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boyfriend against dad’s clampdown, to<br />

climb the city X-tree in a fancy dragon<br />

costume, to evoke Vera Brezhneva’s heart,<br />

to save a plane from a crash and even to<br />

find its love 40 years later.<br />

ORPHAN<br />

AKA: Kamen<br />

thriller (90 min)<br />

Language: Russian<br />

Director: V.Kaminskiy<br />

Key Cast: Sergey Svetlakov,<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

BETA CINEMA<br />

Beta Cinema, Grnwalder Weg 28d,<br />

Oberhaching, 82041 Germany, Tel:<br />

49.89.673469.828 Fax: 49.89.673469.888.<br />

www.betacinema.com –Email:<br />

beta@betafilm.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Dirk Schrhoff (Managing<br />

Director), Andreas Rothbauer (Head of<br />

International Sales and Acquisitions),<br />

Tassilo Hallbauer (Sales Executive)<br />

Office: #30, Tel: 49.30. 889 14 - 404<br />

BLISS<br />

AKA: GLCK<br />

Drama (112 min.)<br />

Language: German<br />

Director: Doris Drrie<br />

Writer: Doris Drrie<br />

Co-Production Partners: Constantin<br />

Filmproduktion, Rainer Curdt<br />

Filmproduktion<br />

Producer: Oliver Berben, Rainer Curdt<br />

Key Cast: Alba Rohrwacher, Vinzenz<br />

Kiefer, Matthias Brandt, Oliver Ngele<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany<br />

The story of the unlikely union between<br />

Irina, a war refugee turned prostitute, and<br />

Kalle, a homeless Punk. Against all odds<br />

they manage to build a life together and<br />

will stop at nothing to defend the bliss they<br />

have found.<br />

SSKIND<br />

Drama (118 min)<br />

Language: Dutch, German<br />

Director: Rudolf van den Berg<br />

Writer: Chris W. Mitchell and Rudolf van<br />

den Berg<br />

Co-Production Partners: Fu Works and<br />

Cadenza Films<br />

Producer: San Fu Maltha, Jeroen<br />

Koolbergen and Reinier Selen<br />

Key Cast: Jeroen Spitzenberger, Karl<br />

Markovics, Nyncke Beekhuyzen, katja<br />

Herbers, Chava Voor in ‘t Holt<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

1942. In an attempt to keep a group of<br />

children from being sent to the death<br />

camps, the Jew Walter Sskind befriends SS<br />

man Aus der Fnten. When the latter finds<br />

out that Walter has been deceiving him and<br />

his affection was faked, the Nazi takes<br />

revenge on the Jew.<br />

IN DARKNESS<br />

AKA: IN DARKKNESS<br />

Drama (144 minutes)<br />

Language: Polish, Yiddish, German<br />

Director: Agnieszka Holland<br />

Writer: David F. Shamoon<br />

Co-Production Partners: Zebra Studio<br />

Filmowe, The Film Works<br />

Producer: Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv<br />

Key Cast: Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno<br />

Fí?rmann, Agnieszka Grochowska<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany, Poland<br />

Lvov, Poland, 1943. Hiding Jews from the<br />

Nazis in the city sewers, a petty thief must<br />

decide between saving himself or the Jews.<br />

HELL<br />

Thriller (86 minutes)<br />

Language: German<br />

Director: Tim Fehlbaum<br />

Writer: Tim Fehlbaum, Thomas Wíbke,<br />

Oliver Kahl<br />

Co-Production Partners: Vega Film, Seven<br />

Pictures<br />

Producer: Caligari Film- und<br />

Fernsehproduktions GmbH<br />

Key Cast: Hannah Herzsprung, Stipe<br />

Erceg, Lars Eidinger<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

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Origin: Germany<br />

It was once the source of life, light and<br />

warmth. But now the sun has turned the<br />

entire world into baked and barren wasteland.<br />

Forests are scorched. Animal carcasses<br />

line the roads. Even the nights are dazzling<br />

bright. Marie, her little sister Leonie<br />

and Phillip are heading for the mountains<br />

in a car with covered windows. Rumor has<br />

it there is still water there. Along the way<br />

they run into Tom, a first-rate mechanic<br />

that becomes indispensible. But can they<br />

trust him? Tension grows in the small<br />

group. As if things werent bad enough, they<br />

are lured into an ambush. Their real battle<br />

for survival begins.<br />

TOM SAWYER<br />

Family Entertainment (110 minutes)<br />

Language: German<br />

Director: Hermine Huntgeburth<br />

Writer: Sascha Arango<br />

Co-Production Partners: Filmaufbau<br />

Leipzig, Majestic Filmproduktion<br />

Producer: Neue Schínhauser<br />

Filmproduktion<br />

Key Cast: Louis Hofmann, Leon Seidel,<br />

Heike Makatsch<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany<br />

Mark Twain’s beloved, immortal character<br />

returns with his friend Huck to square off<br />

with the wicked Injun Joe on the banks of<br />

the Mississippi.<br />

MEN IN THE CITY II<br />

AKA: MÍNNERHERZEN...UND DIE<br />

GANZ, GANZ GROSSE LIEBE<br />

Comedy (112 minutes)<br />

Language: German<br />

Director: Simon Verhoeven<br />

Writer: Simon Verhoeven<br />

Producer: Wiedemann & Berg Film<br />

Key Cast: Florian David Fitz, Maxim<br />

Mehmet, Til Schweiger<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany<br />

While sorting out their chaotic relationships,<br />

the “men in the city” run into new,<br />

amusing and sometimes absurd obstacles<br />

on their rocky road to happiness.<br />

WESTWIND<br />

Romance, Drama (90 minutes)<br />

Language: German<br />

Director: Robert Thalheim<br />

Writer: Ilja Haller, Susann Schimk<br />

Co-Production Partners: Lakoonfilm<br />

Budapest<br />

Producer: credo: film<br />

Key Cast: Friederike Becht, Luise Heyer,<br />

Franz Dinda<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany, Hungary<br />

Hungary 1988 - The ‘Winds of Change’ are<br />

about to rise when the 17 year old twins<br />

Doreen and Isabel from Eastern Germany<br />

arrive in a summer training camp.<br />

SUMMER IN ORANGE<br />

AKA: SOMMER IN ORANGE<br />

Comedy (110 minutes)<br />

Language: German<br />

Director: Marcus H. Rosenmuller<br />

Writer: Ursula Gruber<br />

Co-Production Partners: Bayerischer<br />

Rundfunk in cooperation with arte<br />

Producer: Odeon Pictures, Roxy Film<br />

Key Cast: Amber Bongard, Petra Schmidt-<br />

Schaller, Bela Baumann<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany<br />

A culture clash comedy about a time when<br />

self-discovery was not yet mainstream...<br />

PRINCESS LILLIFEE AND THE LIT-<br />

TLE UNICORN<br />

AKA: PRINZESSIN LILLIFEE UND<br />

DAS KLEINE EINHORN<br />

Family Entertainment (72 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Ansgar Niebuhr<br />

Writer: Mark Slater, Rachel Murrell,<br />

Gabriele M. Walther<br />

Co-Production Partners: Beta Film,<br />

Universum Film, WDR<br />

Producer: Wunderwerk, Caligari Film<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

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Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany<br />

Together with her friends and the unicorns,<br />

Princess Lillifee must free the neighboring<br />

country Bluetopia from a cold spell, which<br />

has covered everything in ice and snow.<br />

MERCY<br />

AKA: GNADE<br />

Drama (132 min.)<br />

Language: Norwegian, English<br />

Director: Matthias Glasner<br />

Writer: Kim Fupz Aakeson<br />

Co-Production Partners: Schwarzweiss<br />

Filmproduktion, Knudsen & Streuber<br />

Medienmanufaktur, Ophir Film<br />

Producer: Kristine Knudsen, Matthias<br />

Glasner, Andreas Born<br />

Key Cast: Jürgen Vogel, Birgit<br />

Minichmayr, Henry Stange<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany, Norway<br />

An emigrant family wants to make a new<br />

start on the coast of the Arctic Sea. Instead,<br />

a terrible accident calls everything into<br />

question. What role does guilt play in our<br />

happiness?<br />

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SAINT DRACULA 3D<br />

3D Thriller Horror (120 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Rupesh Paul<br />

Writer: Rupesh Paul<br />

Executive Producer: Sohan Roy<br />

Producer: BizTV Network<br />

Key Cast: Mitch Powell, Patricia Duarte,<br />

Daniel Shayler<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: U.A.E<br />

synopsis Longing for vengeance, he waited<br />

in hunger and thirst for his long lost admirer.<br />

The night hid him in the dark, the earth<br />

and the woods were his haven. He is a fallen<br />

angel, a catastrophic lover, the trodden<br />

Prince of Wallachia, but a vampire in<br />

revenge. His partisans await his reprise<br />

with celebration. He turns lucky in love, if<br />

not for ever. Beautiful nights of love and<br />

lust entangle him with his lost love - Clara,<br />

a passionate young nun but still a mortal.<br />

The peaches and perfection takes a turn the<br />

day Clara gets spellbound by the Catholic<br />

Church. The Vatican plots the trap but will<br />

the plan thrive? Or will it be love?<br />

DAM999<br />

AKA: DAM999 3D<br />

3D Emotional Thriller (108 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Sohan Roy<br />

Writer: Sohan Roy<br />

Co-Production Partners: Prabhiraj N.<br />

Executive Producer: Abhini Sohan<br />

Producer: BizTV Network<br />

Key Cast: Linda Arsenio, Joshua Frederic<br />

Smith, Ashish Vidyarthi, Jaala Pickering,<br />

Rajit Kapur, Vinay Rai, Vimala<br />

Raman,Megha Burman, Jineeth Rath<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: U.A.E<br />

A corrupt mayor builds a new dam for<br />

political gains and personal glory endangering<br />

millions of innocent lives; A mariner<br />

desperate to save his sister from evil; Two<br />

not-so-young lovers challenging destiny in<br />

a bid to unite; A woman on a mission to<br />

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Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor<br />

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Office: Exhibitor without Office, Tel:<br />

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CITY OF GARDENS<br />

Drama (based on a true story) (98 mins)<br />

Language: English and Spanish with subtitles<br />

Director: Camilo Vila<br />

Writer: Monty Fischer and Camilo Vila<br />

Key Cast: John Robinson, Alex Meraz,<br />

Johnny Lewis, Grant Bowler, Debra Unger<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

City of Gardens is the true story of a blond<br />

Californian surfer, Wayne Montgomery<br />

(John Robinson), who has relocated to<br />

exotic Lima, Peru in the 1980’s to pursue<br />

surfing as he teaches English to well-to-do<br />

kids. Wayne’s carefree lifestyle and<br />

romance with his beautiful girlfriend,<br />

Maritza, (introducing Anahi De Cardenas),<br />

ends when he is framed for drug possession<br />

during the political chaos engulfing Lima.<br />

FIX: THE EXTREME MINISTRY<br />

MOVIE<br />

Documentary (89 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Douglas Freel<br />

Writer: Douglas Freel<br />

Key Cast: Al Jourgensen, Paul Barker,<br />

Trent Reznor, Lemmy Kilmister, Dave<br />

Navarro, Maynard James Keenan, Jonathan<br />

Davis, Timothy Leery<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

FIX - THE MINISTRY MOVIE gives a<br />

raw look as these possessed artists fight -<br />

and create - while attempting to reach, and<br />

achieve, infamous greatness. Ministry took<br />

the genre of industrial rock and made it<br />

mainstream, and along the way their music<br />

and take no prisoners lifestyle influenced<br />

the leaders of some of today’s most important<br />

rock bands, such as Nine Inch Nails,<br />

Tool, Korn, and The Dead Kennedys. With<br />

live performances by Ministry, in depth<br />

interviews with the band, and appearances<br />

by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails,<br />

Maynard Keenan of Tool, Lemmy<br />

Kilmister of Motorhead, Jonathan Davis of<br />

Korn, Dave Navarro of Red Hot Chili<br />

Peppers/Jane’s Addiction, Ogre Nivek of<br />

Skinny Puppy, Jello Biafra of The Dead<br />

Kennedys, Dr. Timothy Leary and William<br />

S. Burroughs - to name a few- FIX is a<br />

punch-in-the-stomach affair that dares to<br />

show beyond the boundaries of good taste<br />

and common decency.<br />

BURMA: A HUMAN TRAGEDY<br />

Documentary (85 mins)<br />

Language: English and Burmese with subtitles<br />

Director: Neil Hollander<br />

Key Cast: Anjelica Huston<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

In this harrowing documentary the brutal<br />

regime of the military Junta in Burma is<br />

fully exposed. Through interviews with<br />

refugees, survivors and Burma’s democratically<br />

elected president and Peace Nobel<br />

Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the terrifying<br />

landscape of an ongoing genocide of<br />

the ethnic minorities that flies in the face of<br />

international law comes horribly alive.<br />

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Filmed surreptitiously and under constant<br />

life threatening conditions, Burma - A<br />

Human Tragedy offers a rare glimpse into<br />

the systematic human extermination that<br />

has gone pretty much ignored.<br />

LEADING LADIES<br />

Gay/Lesbian Musical/Romance<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Erika Randall Beahm and Daniel<br />

Beahm<br />

Writer: Erika Randall Beahm and Daniel<br />

Beahm<br />

Key Cast: Melanie Lapatin, Benji<br />

Schwimmer, Laurel Vail, Shannon Lea<br />

Smith<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The Camparis are a family of women in<br />

which everyone knows her place. Sheri is<br />

the larger-than-life, overbearing stage<br />

mom. Once a young and beautiful ballroom<br />

champion, Sheri now lives vicariously<br />

through her youngest daughter Tasi, the<br />

darling of the local amateur ballroom circuit.<br />

Sheri’s oldest daughter, Toni, is Tasi’s<br />

practice partner, the wallflower who must<br />

quietly support them all. The only consistent<br />

man in the life of the Campari women<br />

is Cedric, Tasi’s dance partner and Toni’s<br />

best friend. Find out what happens to each<br />

as they reexamine their roles in modern life<br />

and on the dance floor and learn to “Let<br />

Love Lead.”<br />

APOCALYPSE (ACCORDING TO<br />

DORIS)<br />

Drama (92 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Victor Goss<br />

Writer: Victor Goss<br />

Key Cast: Jaime Gomez, Elise Robertson,<br />

Christian J Meoli<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A modern day Cinderella story of a woman<br />

coming to wisdom, Apocalypse (According<br />

to Doris) is an unusual New Age drama<br />

about Doris (Elise Robertson), a desert<br />

housewife cum medium/channeler who<br />

finds herself in the middle of chaos as the<br />

prophecies she’s made about the End of the<br />

World start coming true. Soon she has a<br />

following of “disciples” - all searching for<br />

their own truth. An unscrupulous reporter<br />

(Jaime Gomez) infiltrates the group in<br />

order to expose her, only to find himself<br />

drawn into the mystery that Doris is. Both<br />

funny and deeply emotional, this story is<br />

filled with compelling questions about the<br />

meaning of our existence and the dangers<br />

of predicting 2012 and the end of it all.<br />

ELITE<br />

Action (106 mins)<br />

Language: Spanish / English with subtitles<br />

Director: Andres Ramirez<br />

Writer: Jean-Paul Polo and Josean Rivera<br />

Varquer<br />

Key Cast: Denise Quiones, Jorge Alberti,<br />

Frank Perozo<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Puerto Rico<br />

After 20 years in federal prison, the most<br />

dangerous and powerful drug dealer of the<br />

Caribbean manages to escape. Unable to<br />

trust his own police force, the Governor<br />

creates a special tactics group called<br />

“Elite” - a group of incorruptible officers<br />

from different countries of Latin Americato<br />

hunt down the drug overlord. Matters get<br />

complicated quickly when both sides get<br />

played by the drug lord’s psychopath<br />

henchman, and they find themselves<br />

redrawing their loyalties as old blood feuds<br />

threaten the entire mission - and their lives.<br />

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BLUE GALAXY<br />

INTERNATIONAL, LLC<br />

Blue Galaxy International, LLC, 13412<br />

Ventura Blvd., Suite 250, Sherman Oaks,<br />

CA 91423 USA, Tel: 1.818.907.7226. Fax:<br />

1.818.907.7216. www.bluegalaxyinternational.com<br />

E-mail: info@bluegalaxyinternational.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Marcy Rubin (President)<br />

Office: Private, Tel: 1818 907 7226<br />

THE DOGFATER<br />

Family (88 min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Richard Boddington<br />

Writer: Russell Scalise and Michael<br />

Hamilton—Wright<br />

Producer: Russell Scalise<br />

Key Cast: Chris Parnell, William Cuddy<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

When a Mafia Don’s right-hand man, a<br />

bulldog named Sonny, swallows his heirloom<br />

ring, comedy ensues as two of the<br />

Don’s best soldiers try and retrieve the ring<br />

from Sonny, who has been adopted by a<br />

new family.<br />

THE VORTEX<br />

Action/Adventure, Science Fiction<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Peter Basler<br />

Producer: Danny Roth<br />

Key Cast: Ted Jonas, Jack Plotnick<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

When a convoy of America soldiers disappears<br />

in Afghanistan, a Special OPS team is<br />

deployed on a search and rescue mission.<br />

They encounter mega scorpions, giant spiders<br />

and oversized snakes which were created<br />

when a vortex into another dimension<br />

was opened by a former government scientist.<br />

The team has to figure out a way to<br />

close the wormhole. Can they close it in<br />

time?<br />

CINEMAVAULT<br />

Cinemavault, 175 Bloor Street East, South<br />

Tower, Suite 1011, Toronto, Ontario M4W<br />

3R8 Canada, Tel: 4163636060 Fax:<br />

4163632305.<br />

www.cinemavault.com E-mail: sales@cinemavault.com<br />

Sales Agent, Distributor, Agent<br />

At EFM: Racquel Mesina (EVP<br />

International Sales), Simon Howe (Director<br />

of Canadian & International Sales), Craig<br />

Morrow (VP Acquisitions), Jennie Chu<br />

(Director of Festivals & Acquisitions),<br />

Michael Masangkay (VP Marketing), John<br />

Dunstan (Managing Director)<br />

Office: Martin Gropius-Bau, Booth# 134<br />

CINDERELLA 3D<br />

AKA: CENDRILLON 3D<br />

Family Adventure (74 mins)<br />

Language: English & French<br />

Director: Pascal Herold<br />

Writer: Pascal Herold<br />

Co-Production Partners: Canal +<br />

Producer: Pascal Herold<br />

Key Cast: Yolande Moreau, Michel<br />

Boujenah, Alexandra Lamy<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

The classic fairy tale of Cinderella is reimagined<br />

in 3D and set against the backdrop<br />

of the wild-west with a cast of furry<br />

and feathered friends.<br />

LA RUN<br />

Crime Drama (103 mins)<br />

Language: French<br />

Director: Demian Fuica<br />

Writer: Demian Fuica<br />

Producer: Leonardo Fuica<br />

Key Cast: Jason Roy Léveillée, Marc<br />

Beaupré, Pierre-Luc Brillant<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

Assuming his father’s debt, Guillaume,<br />

honest and straight-forward, is drawn into<br />

the corrupt world of drug trafficking.<br />

LAWMAN<br />

AKA: THE MOUNTIE<br />

Western (83 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

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Director: Wyeth Clarkson<br />

Producer: Phillip Daniels<br />

Key Cast: Andrew Walker, Jessica Paré,<br />

Earl Pastko<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

A lone Lawman is surrounded by drugs and<br />

murder when bringing justice to an unsettled<br />

territory.<br />

STATE OF EMERGENCY<br />

Thriller (98 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Turner Clay<br />

Producer: Turner Clay, Jason Price<br />

Key Cast: Jay Hayden, Andy Stahl, Tori<br />

White<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Chaos consumes a small town when a<br />

chemical leak turns the town’s residents<br />

into flesh eating zombies.<br />

APART<br />

Psychological Thriller (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Aaron Rottinghaus<br />

Producer: Ryan Rettig<br />

Key Cast: Olesya Rulin, Josh Danziger,<br />

Joey Lauren Adams<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Drawn together by love, but torn apart by<br />

an unexplainable psychic connection, Noah<br />

and Emily must uncover the tragic mysteries<br />

of their past in order to stop them from<br />

reoccurring in their future.<br />

THE CORRIDOR<br />

Sci-Fi Thriller (99 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Evan Kelly<br />

Producer: Mike Masters, Craig Cameron<br />

Key Cast: Matthew Amyotte, Nigel<br />

Bennett, Stephen Chambers<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

A supernatural force turns a group of<br />

friends against each other during a secluded<br />

cabin vacation.<br />

ANDERSON SILVA: LIKE WATER<br />

AKA: LIKE WATER<br />

Documentary (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Pablo Croce<br />

Producer: Jared Freedman<br />

Key Cast: Anderson Silva, Dana White,<br />

Chael Sonnen<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

LIKE WATER follows the intensive mental<br />

and physical training of UFC Middle<br />

Weight Champion, Anderson Silva, in the<br />

months before his career-defining title<br />

defence against Chael Sonnen.<br />

SEX, DOGZ & ROCK’N’ROLL<br />

Action (90 mins)<br />

Language: English & German<br />

Director: Mark Fehse<br />

Producer: Timo Joh. Mayer, Benjamin<br />

Eicher<br />

Key Cast: Detlef Bierstedt, Thomas<br />

Danneberg, Mark Fehse<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany<br />

When the guidance chip for a nuclear warhead<br />

hits the black market, the fate of the<br />

world rests in the hands of a gun-toting,<br />

vigilante rock band.<br />

CINEPHIL<br />

Cinephil, 18 Levontin Street, Tel Aviv,<br />

65112 Israel, Tel: +97235664129 Fax:<br />

+97235601436. www.cinephil.co.il E-mail:<br />

info@cinephil.co.il<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Philippa Kowarsky (Mangeing<br />

Director)<br />

ONE DAY AFTER PEACE<br />

Documentary (88’)<br />

Language: English, Hebrew, Arabic with<br />

English subtitles<br />

Director: Erez Laufer and Miri Laufer<br />

Producer: Erez Laufer<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Israel<br />

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Robi Damelin, an Israeli of South African<br />

origin, lost her soldier son in the occupied<br />

territories. Robi tries to reconcile with her<br />

son’s Palestinian killer, however he refuses,<br />

stating that her son was part of the occupation<br />

army. Now Robi travels to South<br />

Africa, 15 years after the end of Apartheid<br />

to seek answers from the South African<br />

model of the Truth and Reconciliation<br />

Committees, can this model ever work in<br />

Israel? Robi returns home in order to broker<br />

a new kind of forgiveness in the<br />

Israeli/Palestinian communities and support<br />

of the release from jail of the guy who<br />

killed her son.<br />

RADIOMAN<br />

Documentary (80’)<br />

Director: Mary Kerr<br />

Producer: Paul Fischer<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

RADIOMAN is the story of an eccentric, a<br />

New York street bum of the same<br />

(nick)name who overcame homelessness<br />

and addiction to become an unlikely New<br />

York City movie legend with over 100<br />

small parts to his name. Featuring interviews<br />

with celebrities such as Tom Hanks,<br />

George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Helen<br />

Mirren, Tilda Swinton, Robin Williams,<br />

Whoopi Goldberg and more, the film is a<br />

funny, heart-warming, insightful look into a<br />

memorable character full of contradictions,<br />

of bitterness but also of hope.<br />

LOVE FREE OR DIE<br />

Documentary (90’)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Macky Alston<br />

Producer: Sandra Itkoff<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Love Free or Die is about a man whose two<br />

defining passions are in direct conflict: his<br />

love for God and for his partner Mark.<br />

Gene Robinson is the first openly gay bishop<br />

in Christendom. His consecration in<br />

2003, to which he wore a bullet-proof vest,<br />

caused an international stir, and he has<br />

lived with death threats every day since.<br />

Truth follows Robinson from small-town<br />

churches to Washington’s Lincoln<br />

Memorial to London’s Lambeth Palace, as<br />

he calls for all to stand for equality - inspiring<br />

bishops, priests and ordinary folk to<br />

come out from the shadows and change<br />

history.<br />

HITLER’S CHILDREN<br />

Documentary (78)<br />

Language: English, German, Hebrew with<br />

English subtitles<br />

Director: Chanoch Ze’evi<br />

Co-Production Partners: MDR, WDR,<br />

SWR, TSR, Reshet TV<br />

Producer: Chanoch Ze’evi (Maya<br />

Productions), Simone Bauman (Sazonia<br />

Entertainment)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Israel-Germany<br />

Descendants of the most powerful figures<br />

of the Nazi regime (Hoess, Goering,<br />

Himmler and Frank) were left a dark inheritance<br />

that associates them with one of the<br />

greatest abominations in history<br />

LOST BOHEMIA<br />

Documentary (78’)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Josef Birdman Astor<br />

Producer: Jody Shields, Jonathan<br />

Ferrantelli, Anne Carey<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

For over a century New York’s Carnegie<br />

Hall rented work-live studio spaces atop<br />

the famous music hall to artistic tenants<br />

such as Marlon Brando, Paddy Chayefsky<br />

and Isadora Duncan. “As a tenant with<br />

unlimited access into this little known<br />

world, I began to videotape my neighbors<br />

whose lives intersected with decades of<br />

artistic history. But the project took an<br />

abrupt turn when The Carnegie Hall<br />

Corporation terminated all our leases, and<br />

instigated a plan to eliminate the 115 year<br />

old artists colony put in place by Andrew<br />

Carnegie”. Lost Bohemia follows the protracted<br />

battle by the tenants to preserve<br />

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their community and the rich heritage of<br />

the studios<br />

HOOD TO COAST<br />

Documentary (90’)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Christoph Baaden<br />

Producer: Christoph Baaden<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Heartfelt, funny and inspiring, the documentary<br />

Hood to Coast follows four very<br />

different teams on an epic journey to conquer<br />

the world’s largest relay race. A 67<br />

year old heart attach survivor returns to<br />

conquer the race that nearly killed her, a<br />

family in mourning runs to honor the memory<br />

of their beloved, a group of film animators<br />

test the limits of their athleticism (or<br />

lack thereof), and a group of aging jocks<br />

show they still know how to have a good<br />

time. A celebration of personal determination<br />

and the power of family and friends,<br />

Hood to Coast proves that you’re never too<br />

old or too young to attempt the extraordinary.<br />

WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM<br />

Documentary (90’)<br />

Language: English with English subtitles<br />

Director: Heather Courtney<br />

Producer: Heather Courtney<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

From a snowy small town in Northern<br />

Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan<br />

and back, Where Soldiers Come From follows<br />

the four-year journey of childhood<br />

friends, forever changed by a faraway war.<br />

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN<br />

Documentary (93’)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Linda Goldstein Knowlton<br />

Producer: Linda Goldstein Knowlton<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The product of China’s 1979 one-child policy,<br />

four remarkable Chinese American<br />

teenage girls, adopted from orphanages in<br />

the 1990’s share their stories - the unbear-<br />

able clash of cultures, painful abandonment<br />

and the warmth and love of the new families<br />

CINEMA JENIN<br />

Documentary (95’)<br />

Language: Arabic, English, with English<br />

subtitles<br />

Director: Marcus Vetter<br />

Co-Production Partners: SWR, BR, ARTE,<br />

YES Docu, MFG Baden-Wurttemberg,<br />

Medienboard Berlin-Brandenberg, DFFF<br />

Deutscher Filmforderfons, Sundance<br />

Institute, The Rabinovich Foundation for<br />

the Arts: Cinema Project.<br />

Producer: Marcus Vetter, Uwe Dierks,<br />

Thomas Grube, Philippa Kowarsky<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Israel-Germany<br />

An ambitious initiative to re-open a previously<br />

abandoned cinema in the West Bank<br />

city of Janin offers a nuanced and textured<br />

view into the city and the dedicated, loyal,<br />

and often conflicted group of people who<br />

follow a dream.<br />

WHEN THE DRUM IS BEATING<br />

Documentary (88’)<br />

Language: English, Creole with English<br />

sutitles<br />

Director: Whitney Dow<br />

Co-Production Partners: ITVS, NBPC,<br />

Sundance Institute<br />

Producer: Whitney Dow, Jane Regan,<br />

Daniel Morel<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A journey through Haiti’s tortured history<br />

with the music and memories of the members<br />

of Septenrional, the country’s oldest<br />

and most celebrated big band<br />

SIX MILLION AND ONE<br />

Documentary (93’)<br />

Language: Hebrew, English, German with<br />

English subtitles<br />

Director: David Fisher<br />

Elspeth Tavares @ Berlin<br />

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Co-Production Partners: ZDF/Arte, Yes<br />

Docu<br />

Producer: David Fisher<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin:<br />

Israel<br />

Following his father’s memoir, the filmmaker<br />

‘drags’ his siblings across Austria and the<br />

US attempting to unravel his life’s mystery;<br />

funny and intimate, this isn’t a film about<br />

the holocaust.<br />

EPILOGUE<br />

Documentary (90’)<br />

Language: Dutch with English subtitles<br />

Director: Dutch with English subtitles<br />

Co-Production Partners: Mollywood, Noord<br />

Film and Lichtpunt<br />

Producer: Ellen de Waele (Serendipity<br />

Films)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin:<br />

Belgium<br />

Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Neel<br />

decides to orchestrate her own death.<br />

Epilogue offers a unique and extraordinary<br />

insight into her final months and her family’s<br />

heartbreaking acceptance and love.<br />

CINETEL FILMS, INC.<br />

CineTel Films, Inc., 8255 Sunset Blvd., Los<br />

Angeles, CA 90046 USA, Tel: +1<br />

323.654.4000 Fax: +1 323.650.6400.<br />

www.cinetelfilms.com E-mail:<br />

info@cinetelfilms.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Eric M. Bernstein (SVP,<br />

International Distribution)<br />

Office: Martin Gropius Bau, IFTA Pavilion,<br />

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THE 12 DISASTERS OF CHRISTMAS<br />

Action/Disaster<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: TBA<br />

Writer: TBA<br />

Executive Producer: TBA<br />

Producer: TBA<br />

Key Cast: TBA<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012<br />

When an ominous dark star appears on<br />

Christmas Eve, massive earthquakes shake<br />

the earth. Now a small band of heroes must<br />

come together to save the world!<br />

END OF THE WORLD<br />

Action/Disaster<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Steven R. Monroe<br />

Writer: TBA<br />

Executive Producer: TBA<br />

Producer: TBA<br />

Key Cast: Greg Grunberg Neil Grayston<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012<br />

Massive earthquakes tremble cities; mysterious<br />

plasma spheres pummel earth and<br />

cries of ‘Armageddon’ echo across the planet!<br />

It’s the beginning of the end!<br />

THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT<br />

Action/Disaster<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Paul Ziller<br />

Writer: TBA<br />

Executive Producer: TBA<br />

Producer: TBA<br />

Key Cast: Malcolm McDowell Michael<br />

Paré<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012<br />

When an attempt to recreate a decades-old<br />

government experiment goes horribly<br />

wrong, it rips a hole in the fabric of<br />

space/time, building enough critical mass to<br />

tear the world apart...<br />

SUPER STORM<br />

Action/Disaster<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Sheldon Wilson<br />

Writer: TBA<br />

Executive Producer: TBA<br />

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Producer: TBA<br />

Key Cast: David Sutcliffe Erica Cerra<br />

Mitch Pileggi<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012<br />

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has vanished! But<br />

when massive storms are reported in North<br />

America, it quickly becomes apparent that<br />

the Great Red Spot has landed on Earth!<br />

COLLISION EARTH<br />

Action/Disaster<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Paul Ziller<br />

Writer: TBA<br />

Executive Producer: TBA<br />

Producer: TBA<br />

Key Cast: Kirk Acevedo Diane Farr<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012<br />

When a massive comet collides with the<br />

Sun, the explosion jettisons the planet<br />

Mercury from its orbit and sends it on a<br />

fatal collision course with Earth.<br />

SNOWMAGEDDON<br />

Action/Disaster<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Sheldon Wilson<br />

Writer: TBA<br />

Executive Producer: TBA<br />

Producer: TBA<br />

Key Cast: David Cubitt Laura Harris<br />

Michael Hogan<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011<br />

When a young boy receives a mysterious<br />

snow globe as a gift, it soon appears that<br />

what happens in the snow globe happens in<br />

real life.<br />

EARTH’S FINAL HOURS<br />

Action/Disaster<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: David Hogan<br />

Writer: Rachelle Howie David Ray Robert<br />

Wescott<br />

Executive Producer: Lisa Hansen, Paul<br />

Hertzberg, Tom Berry<br />

Producer: John Prince<br />

Key Cast: Robert Knepper Cameron Bright<br />

Julia Benson<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011<br />

When a super-dense fragment of an interstellar<br />

mass punches through the Earth’s<br />

core, the impact slows down the globe’s<br />

rotation threatening the world with total<br />

destruction.<br />

SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION<br />

AKA: GARDEN OF EVIL<br />

Action/Disaster<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Paul Ziller<br />

Writer: Paul Ziller Mike Muldoon<br />

Executive Producer: Lisa Hansen, Paul<br />

Hertzberg, Tom Berry<br />

Producer: Raymond Massey<br />

Key Cast: Adrian Pasdar, Stefanie von<br />

Pfetten<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011<br />

When seeds from the original Garden of<br />

Eden are released, our current toxic climate<br />

transforms the seeds into a writhing mass<br />

of foliage that wreaks havoc over earth.<br />

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Sales Agent<br />

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Film division), Harry White (Head of<br />

Sales, Film division), Toby Melling (Head<br />

of TV & DVD Sales, Film division), Judith<br />

Baugin (International Head of Marketing),<br />

Rebecca Berry (Senior Marketing<br />

Manager), Libby D’Arcy (VP Business<br />

Affairs, Film division)<br />

Office: Office MGB - Stand #36, Tel:<br />

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THE NUMBERS STATION<br />

Action Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

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Director: Kasper Barfoed<br />

Writer: F. Scott Frazier<br />

Co-Production Partners: Furst Films<br />

Producer: Sean Furst, Bryan Furst<br />

Key Cast: Malin Akerman<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

From the Furst brothers, the Producers of<br />

‘Daybreakers’, ‘The Matador’ and ‘The<br />

Cooler’, comes THE NUMBERS STA-<br />

TION, a potent mix of ‘Bourne’-style<br />

action and ‘Assault on Precinct 13’ thrills...<br />

In order to stay alive, you must learn who<br />

to trust, who to protect and who to kill.<br />

NOTHING TO FEAR<br />

Classic Horror<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Anthony Leonardi III<br />

Writer: Jonathan W.C. Mills<br />

Co-Production Partners: Slasher Films<br />

Producer: Rob Eric, Michael Williams,<br />

Slash<br />

Delivery Status: In Development<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

In the first of a slate of horror films from<br />

production company Slasher Films (founded<br />

by rock legend Slash), Gore Verbinski’s<br />

protg and visionary director Anthony<br />

A Novel Romance - New Film International<br />

Leonardi, brings us NOTHING TO FEAR,<br />

a terrifying and bloodcurdling vintage horror<br />

film.<br />

SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Mike Figgis<br />

Writer: Mike Figgis<br />

Co-Production Partners: Red Mullet<br />

Producer: Vito Di Rosa<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Multi-award winning Writer/Director Mike<br />

Figgis brings us his mesmerizing new<br />

Film, Suspension of Disbelief - an intoxicating<br />

psycho-sexual murder-mystery reminiscent<br />

of modern classics Mulholland Dr.<br />

and Black Swan. Blurring the lines<br />

between reality and fiction, we watch as a<br />

world renowned screenwriter and literature<br />

professor becomes deeply implicated in the<br />

murder of a mysterious and beautiful<br />

young French woman...<br />

THE PACT<br />

Thriller/Ghost (91 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Nicholas McCarthy<br />

Writer: Nicholas McCarthy<br />

Co-Production Partners: Locked Door<br />

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Films LLC<br />

Producer: Ross M Dinerstein<br />

Key Cast: Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien,<br />

Haley Hudson<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Based on Nicholas McCarthy’s acclaimed<br />

spine-chilling Sundance 2011 short, and<br />

from the Producer of Xavier Gens’ SXSW<br />

sensation The Divide, comes a terrifying<br />

ghost story in the classic horror tradition of<br />

Hitchcock’s Psycho, Argento’s SUSPIRIA<br />

and Nakata’s Ringu...<br />

LOVELY MOLLY<br />

Horror (95 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Eduardo Sanchez<br />

Writer: Eduardo Sanchez<br />

Co-Production Partners: Possession<br />

Partners LLC<br />

Producer: Robin Cowie, Gregg Hale, Jane<br />

Fleming, Mark Ordesky<br />

Key Cast: Gretchen Lodge, Johnny Lewis,<br />

Alexandra Holden<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The groundbreaking director of The Blair<br />

Witch Project takes us beyond the edge<br />

once again with Lovely Molly, a petrifying<br />

and deeply disturbing haunted house possession<br />

story with an astonishing debut<br />

from Gretchen Lodge, that is already being<br />

tipped as the finest film of Eduardo<br />

Snchez’s career.<br />

THE DALLAS BUYERS CLUB<br />

Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jean-Marc Valle<br />

Writer: Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack<br />

Producer: Robbie Brenner, Rachel<br />

Rothman-Winter, Nathan Ross<br />

Key Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Hilary<br />

Swank<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

Following his blistering powerhouse performance<br />

in ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’,<br />

Matthew McConaughey hits the mark once<br />

again in the inspirational and extraordinary<br />

true story about one man’s fight for life and<br />

justice against the enormous power and<br />

unyielding corruption of the US government’s<br />

Food and Drug Administration.<br />

Also starring the incomparable, twice<br />

Oscar-winning Hilary Swank.<br />

ALL IS BY MY SIDE<br />

Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: John Ridley<br />

Writer: John Ridley<br />

Producer: Sean McKittrick, Danny<br />

Bramson<br />

Key Cast: Andr Benjanmin, Imogen Poots,<br />

Haylee Atwell<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

There’s rock music. Then there’s Jimi<br />

Hendrix. Portraying an icon of the music<br />

world, celebrated screenwriter John<br />

Ridley’s All Is By My Side effortlessly<br />

captures the energy, the charisma, the<br />

mind-boggling talent of a legend and global<br />

mega-star whose musical influence still<br />

resonates around the world today. The<br />

emotion of RAY meets the honest romance<br />

of Walk The Line with a rocking soundtrack<br />

that needs no introduction whatsoever,<br />

All Is By My Side is that rare movie<br />

that can truly be described as definitive.<br />

HICK<br />

Road Movie (95 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Derick Martini<br />

Writer: Andrea Portes & Derick Martini<br />

Co-Production Partners: Hick Production<br />

Company LLC<br />

Producer: Jonathan Cornick, Charles de<br />

Portes, Steven Siebert, Christian Taylor<br />

Key Cast: Chlo Grace Moretz, Blake<br />

Lively, Eddie Redmayne<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Equal measures of David Lynch and<br />

Terrence Malick, with nods to classics<br />

Giant and The Wizard of Oz, Martin<br />

Scorsese protg and award winning Director<br />

Derick Martini brings us an emotive, often<br />

funny but compelling story about 13 year<br />

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old Luli’s life on the road and the extraordinary<br />

experiences that will shape her life<br />

forever.<br />

THE DAY<br />

Thriller (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Doug Aarniokoski<br />

Writer: Luke Passmore<br />

Co-Production Partners: JR Television<br />

Holding Company & House in a Field LLC<br />

Producer: Guy A. Danella<br />

Key Cast: Shawn Ashmore, Ashley Bell,<br />

Cory Hardrict<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Robert Rodriguez’s prodigiously talented<br />

protege Douglas Aarniokoski directs THE<br />

DAY, an edge-of-your-seat war action horror,<br />

in the vein of Mad Max, Assault on<br />

Precinct 13, and From Dusk Till Dawn.<br />

96 MINUTES<br />

High Intensity Suspense Thriller (93 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Aimée Lagos<br />

Writer: Aimée Lagos<br />

Co-Production Partners: First Point<br />

Entertainment Productions<br />

Producer: Lee Clay, Paul Gilreath, Charlie<br />

Mason, Justin Moore-Lewy, Michael<br />

Fimognari<br />

Key Cast: Brittany Snow, Evan Ross,<br />

Christian Serratos, David Oyelowo<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Critically acclaimed SXSW Award Winner<br />

96 MINUTES is an intense, edge of your<br />

seat thriller about a day in the life of four<br />

young people caught up in a terrifying carjacking.<br />

HARD BOILED SWEETS<br />

Thriller (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: David L G Hughes<br />

Writer: David L G Hughes<br />

Co-Production Partners: Fatal Black LLC<br />

Executive Producer: Margaret Matheson<br />

Producer: David L G Hughes<br />

Key Cast: Scot Williams, Paul Freeman,<br />

Peter Wright<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Filled with twists, double-crosses, and murder,<br />

Hard Boiled Sweets is a crime Thriller<br />

inspired by the International Best-Selling<br />

short film, ‘A Girl and a Gun’.<br />

OUTPOST: BLACK SUN<br />

Action Horror<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Steve Barker<br />

Writer: Steve Barker, Rae Brunton<br />

Co-Production Partners: Black Camel<br />

Pictures<br />

Producer: Arabella Croft, Kieran Parker<br />

Key Cast: Catherine Steadman, Richard<br />

Coyle, Julian Wadham<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

An Action horror movie that brings the<br />

most evil force of the 20th Century screaming<br />

back to life.........again.<br />

OUTPOST: RISE OF THE SPETSNAZ<br />

Horror<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Kieran Parker<br />

Writer: Rae Brunton<br />

Co-Production Partners: Black Camel<br />

Pictures<br />

Producer: Arabella Croft, Kieran Parker<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

In the third installment of the hit Nazi<br />

Zombie action horror movie, Outpost: Rise<br />

Of The Spetsnaz, we discover the horrifying<br />

origins of these supernatural soldiers<br />

and see them in ferocious gladiatorial battle<br />

against the most ruthless and notorious of<br />

all military special forces: the Russian<br />

Spetsnaz. The Terminator meets, Cross Iron<br />

in Outpost: Rise Of The Spetsnaz<br />

THE DIVIDE<br />

Post Apocalyptic Action Thriller (106<br />

Minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Xavier Gens<br />

Writer: Karl Mueller, Eron Sheean<br />

Producer: Ross Dinerstein, Xavier Gens,<br />

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Darryn Welch<br />

Key Cast: Milo Ventimiglia, Lauren<br />

German, Rosanna Arquette, Ashton Holmes<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

An action packed psychological thriller that<br />

combines ‘Assault on Precinct 13’ with<br />

‘Lord of the Flies’.<br />

SARAH PALIN: YOU BETCHA!<br />

Documentary<br />

Director: Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill<br />

Producer: Marc Hoeferlin<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Nick Broomfield’s quest for the real Sarah<br />

Palin. This involves battling the icy snows<br />

of Alaska in mid winter, the school friends,<br />

family, and Republican colleagues that in<br />

previous days gave their heart, soul and<br />

belief, to the charismatic, charming, intoxicating<br />

ex hockey mum.<br />

POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS: THE<br />

GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD<br />

Docbuster (87 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Morgan Spurlock<br />

Writer: Jeremy Chilnick, Morgan Spurlock<br />

Co-Production Partners: Snoot<br />

Entertainment And Warrior Poets<br />

Producer: Keith Calder Jeremy Chilnick<br />

Abbie Hurewtiz Morgan Spurlock Jessica<br />

Wu<br />

Key Cast: Morgan Spurlock<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Acclaimed filmmaker and master provocateur<br />

Morgan Spurlock returns to a cinema<br />

near you with tongue-in-cheek perfection<br />

as he examines the world of product placement,<br />

marketing, and advertising by making<br />

a film financed entirely by product<br />

placement, marketing, and advertising.<br />

KNUCKLE<br />

Documentary (93 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Ian Palmer<br />

Co-Production Partners: Rise Film Ltd and<br />

Seafield Films Ltd<br />

Producer: Teddy Leifer<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Filmed over 12 years, Sundance favorite<br />

Knuckle is a no-holds-barred and extraordinarily<br />

brutal glimpse into the world of Irish<br />

bare knuckle fighting.<br />

EXTRACT<br />

Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Mike Judge<br />

Writer: Mike Judge<br />

Executive Producer: Tom Lassally, Dave<br />

Krinsky<br />

Producer: John Altschuler, Michael<br />

Rotenberg<br />

Key Cast: Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Ben<br />

Affleck,Clifton Collins Jr., TJ Miller,<br />

Kristen Wiig, Dustin Milligan, JK<br />

Simmons, Dave Koechner<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

From the director of ‘Office Space’, and<br />

‘Beavis and Butthead do America’, and<br />

starring the downright hilarious Jason<br />

Bateman, comes a comedy about sexual<br />

frustration, litigation, con-artistry and castration…<br />

Extract is a riotous story that<br />

combines Judge’s unmistakable style with<br />

modern comedy classics ‘Forgetting Sarah<br />

Marshall’ and ‘Knocked Up’.<br />

LANTANA<br />

Drama / Suspense Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Ray Lawrence<br />

Key Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Barbara<br />

Hershey, Anthony La Paglia<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2001 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

Psychiatrist Valerie Somers disappears one<br />

night; detective Leon Zat is called to investigate;<br />

his wife has been getting advice<br />

from Somers because she suspects Zat of<br />

cheating on her, and thus follows a web of<br />

deceit lies and intrigue.<br />

WORLD’S GREATEST DAD<br />

Comedy (100 minutes)<br />

Director: Bobcat Goldthwait<br />

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Producer: Tim Perell, Howard Gertler, Sean<br />

McKittrick, Richard Kelly<br />

Key Cast: Robin Williams, Alexie Gilmore,<br />

Daryl Sabara, Geoff Pierson, Henry<br />

Simmons<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Starring the inimitable Robin Williams at<br />

his comedic best, World’s Greatest Dad is a<br />

highly original, crowd-pleasing comedy<br />

which will have you both falling off your<br />

seat in fits of laughter and hiding behind it<br />

in uncomfortable, uncontrollable giggles.<br />

But regardless of your vantage point,<br />

Screen International describes the Film as<br />

‘hilarious’ and ‘outrageously entertaining’…<br />

and they’re absolutely right!<br />

BOOK OF REVELATION, THE<br />

Controversial Erotic Thriller (120 minutes)<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: Ana Kokkinos<br />

Executive Producer: Jamie Carmichael,<br />

Graham Begg<br />

Producer: Al Clark<br />

Key Cast: Tom Long, Greta Scacchi, Colin<br />

Friels<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2006 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

The Book of Revelation is a confrontational<br />

and provocative film about love, power<br />

and sexuality…In this erotically charged<br />

and powerfully haunting thriller, we follow<br />

the story of a charismatic and physically<br />

beautiful dancer, Daniel (Tom Long - The<br />

Dish, Two Hands), at the height of his<br />

career, who’s world is turned upside down<br />

when he is abducted by three hooded<br />

women - who sexually seduce, abuse and<br />

exploit him over the course of twelve<br />

extraordinary days.<br />

SHOOTING DOGS<br />

Drama (108 minutes)<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: Michael Caton-Jones<br />

Producer: David Belton; Pippa Cross<br />

Key Cast: John Hurt, Hugh Dancy,<br />

Dominique Horwitz<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2005 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Starring John Hurt and Hugh Dancy, this<br />

deeply moving and critically acclaimed<br />

drama from director Michael Caton-Jones<br />

is an emotional retelling of the tragic<br />

events that took place at l’Ecole Technique<br />

Officielle during the Rwandan genocide of<br />

1994.<br />

MOGULS, THE<br />

Comedy Drama (96 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Michael Traeger<br />

Writer: Michael Traeger<br />

Producer: Aaron Ryder<br />

Key Cast: Jeff Bridges, Ted Danson,<br />

William Fichtner, Patrick Fugit, Lauren<br />

Graham, Glenne Headly, Tim Blake<br />

Nelson, Joe Pantoliano, Jeanne Tripplehorn<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2005 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Featuring an all-star cast headed by Jeff<br />

Bridges at his ‘Big Lebowski’ best, The<br />

Moguls is a both hilarious and extremely<br />

touching story about bettering yourself<br />

against all odds - in the most unconventional<br />

of ways!<br />

UNDERTOW<br />

Dramatic Thriller<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: David Gordon Green<br />

Writer: Joe Conway, David Gordon Green<br />

Executive Producer: Alessandro Camon,<br />

John Schmidt, Saar Klein<br />

Producer: Lisa Muskat, Terrence Malick,<br />

Edward R. Pressman<br />

Key Cast: Jamie Bell, Josh Lucas, Dermott<br />

Mulroney, Devon Alan, Shiri Appleby,<br />

Michael Bacall<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2003 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Two young brothers, Chris (Jamie Bell )<br />

and Tim, go on the run through the southern<br />

states of the US when their uncle, Deel<br />

(Josh Lucas- Stealth, Wonderland, Sweet<br />

Home Alabama, The Hulk, A Beautiful<br />

Mind) returns from years in jail and mur-<br />

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ders their father (Dermot Mulroney- About<br />

Schmidt, My Best Friends Wedding) for<br />

keeping from him a fortune in old Mexican<br />

coins they had inherited.<br />

HEARTLESS<br />

Horror Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Philip Ridley<br />

Writer: Philip Ridley<br />

Producer: Pippa Cross; Richard Raymond<br />

Key Cast: Jim Sturgess, Timothy Spall,<br />

Clémence Poésy, Eddie Marsan, Noel<br />

Clarke<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

After a 14 year hiatus, cult writer/director<br />

Philip Ridley is back with a vengeance<br />

with the visually stunning horror/thriller<br />

Heartless- a fiercely shocking and intelligent<br />

spine-chiller that reinvents the horror<br />

genre. Jim Sturgess delivers a career defining<br />

performance in this twisted story which<br />

is equal parts psychological thriller, desperate<br />

romance and terrifying Faustian horror<br />

KILLING ROOM, THE<br />

Suspense Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jonathan Liebesman<br />

Writer: Gus Krieger; Ann Peacock<br />

Producer: Ross M. Dinerstein, Bobby<br />

Schwartz, Guymon Casady, Ben Forkner<br />

Key Cast: Chloe Sevigny, Tim Hutton,<br />

Peter Stormare, Nick Cannon, Clea Duvall,<br />

Shea Whigham<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

From the Director of the hit prequel ‘The<br />

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning’<br />

and the writer of ‘The Chronicles of<br />

Narnia’, The Killing Room blends the<br />

thrilling mental edge of ‘Panic Room’ and<br />

‘The Game’ with the intensity of<br />

‘Memento’. Fast-paced, claustrophobic and<br />

full of twists and turns, this unrelenting<br />

psychological thriller will keep you pinned<br />

to you seat<br />

IRONCLAD<br />

Violent Medieval Action Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jonathan English<br />

Producer: Rick Benattar, Jonathan English,<br />

Andrew Curtis<br />

Key Cast: James Purefoy, Paul Giamatti,<br />

Kate Mara, Brian Cox, Jason Flemyng,<br />

Derek Jacobi, Charles Dance, Aneurin<br />

Barnard, Rhys Parry Jones, Jamie Foreman<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

A Medieval ‘Magnificent Seven’, that combines<br />

the visceral, stylized action of ‘300’<br />

with the impassioned heroism and romance<br />

of ‘Braveheart’, Ironclad is an ultra-violent<br />

action thriller that tells the true story of a<br />

motley crew of tough, battle hardened warriors,<br />

who withstood several brutal and<br />

bloody months under siege, in a desperate<br />

bid to defend their country’s freedom…<br />

KING,THE<br />

Drama / Suspense Thriller<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: James Marsh<br />

Writer: Milo Addica, James Marsh<br />

Executive Producer: John Schmidt, Edward<br />

R Pressman, Sofia Sondervan<br />

Producer: Milo Addica, James Wilson<br />

Key Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, William<br />

Hurt, Laura Harring, Pell James, Paul Dano<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2005 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

In this powerful and dramatic thriller about<br />

betrayal and bitter revenge, a handsome<br />

young US Marine called Elvis (Gael Garcia<br />

Bernal - The Motorcycle Diaries, Y Tu<br />

Mama Tambien, Amores Perros) returns to<br />

his Preacher father’s sleepy hometown<br />

dreaming for some kind of reconciliation -<br />

having been abandoned by the man as a<br />

child.<br />

BLACK BOOK<br />

Epic WW2 Thriller (145 minutes)<br />

Language: Dutch, German, English,<br />

Hebrew Format - 35mm<br />

Director: Paul Verhoeven<br />

Writer: Gerard Soeteman, Paul Verhoeven<br />

Producer: San Fu Maltha, Jos van der<br />

Linden, Jeroen Beker, Frans van Gestel<br />

Key Cast: Carice van Houten, Sebastien<br />

Koch, Halina Reyn, Thorm Hoffman<br />

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Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2005 Country of<br />

Origin: Netherlands<br />

Barely escaping a Nazi massacre in the fall<br />

of 1944, young and beautiful Rachel Steinn<br />

- Jewish, former revue star - joins the<br />

resistance. But this group is soon shattered<br />

by betrayal with Rachel falsely accused as<br />

the traitor. Once Holland is liberated in<br />

May 1945, Rachel reveals the real traitor<br />

and takes her revenge. But will revenge be<br />

sweet?<br />

<strong>BUSINESS</strong>, THE<br />

Action<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: Nick Love<br />

Executive Producer: Rupert Preston<br />

Producer: Allan Niblo, James Richardson<br />

Key Cast: Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan,<br />

Georgina Chapman, Roland Manookian,<br />

Geoff Bell<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2005 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

From the award winning team that brought<br />

you TThe Football Factory and played out<br />

against the classicly cool sounds of the<br />

80’s, The Business is Goodfellas meets<br />

Sexy Beast in Spain’s sun drenched costa<br />

del crime... Back in the money hungry<br />

1980’s, Spain became a new home for<br />

London’s most notorious gangsters looking<br />

to escape the long arm of British law...<br />

DEPARTURES<br />

Drama<br />

Language: Japanese with English subtitles<br />

Director: Yojiro Takita<br />

Writer: Kundo Koyama<br />

Executive Producer: Yashiro Mase<br />

Producer: Toshiaki Nakazawa, Toshihisa<br />

Watai<br />

Key Cast: Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu<br />

Yamazaki, Ryoko Hirosue, Kimiko Yo<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

Academy Award ® Winner for Best<br />

Foreign Language Film, Departures is an<br />

emotional, inspiring and often amusing<br />

story that has all the ingredients of the next<br />

‘Life is Beautiful’.<br />

ELVIRA’S HAUNTED HILLS<br />

Gothic Horror Comedy (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Sam Irwin<br />

Writer: Cassandra Peterson, John Paragon<br />

Producer: Mark Pierson<br />

Key Cast: Elvira, Richard O’Brien, Mary<br />

Scheer, Scott Atkinson<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2002 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Lovers of camp have reason to rejoice with<br />

this film. Yes, Elvira’s back and she’s fabulous!<br />

With her voluptuous milky-white<br />

cleavage, voluminous black hair and hilarious<br />

one-liners, the essence of camp oozes<br />

from her pores. Elvira’s Haunted Hills culls<br />

its outrageousness from the classic Vincent<br />

Price/Edgar Allen Poe/Roger Corman films<br />

of the early 60’s along with a little Rocky<br />

Horror Picture Show and Fearless Vampire<br />

Killers.<br />

STEEP<br />

Extreme Skiing Documentary (92 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Mark Obenhaus<br />

Executive Producer: Jordan Kronick,<br />

Gabrielle Tenenbaum<br />

Producer: Jordan Kronick, Gabrielle<br />

Tenenbaum<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Steep is an extreme, adrenaline-fueled feature<br />

documentary about adventure, athleticism<br />

and the pursuit of perfection. This is<br />

the story of ‘big mountain skiing’, and the<br />

fearless athletes who have made this<br />

extreme sport their own…<br />

LOVE OBJECT<br />

Thriller (84 minutes)<br />

Language: English - Format Super 16<br />

Director: Robert Parigi<br />

Writer: Robert Parigi<br />

Executive Producer: Edward R. Pressman,<br />

Alessandro Camon<br />

Producer: Lawrence Levy, Kathleen Haase<br />

Key Cast: Desmond Harrington, Melissa<br />

Sagemiller, Rip Torn, Udo Kier<br />

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Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2003 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Kenneth has never been lucky with<br />

women. He is attracted to his assistant,<br />

Lisa, but is too shy and awkward to<br />

approach her. When he comes across a<br />

company that manufactures lifelike, custom-designed<br />

sex dolls, a momentary<br />

impulse leads him to purchase one<br />

designed to look just like Lisa. He projects<br />

his feelings for Lisa onto the doll, with<br />

whom he starts carrying on an imaginary<br />

affair, complete with dinners and kinky sex<br />

I’M REED FISH<br />

Coming-of-age Comedy Drama<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: Director(s): Zachary Adler<br />

Writer: Reed Fish<br />

Producer: Bader Alwazzan, Michael<br />

Mihalke, Kerry Foster<br />

Key Cast: Jay Baruchel, Alexis Bledel,<br />

Schuyler Fisk, Victor Rasuk, DJ Qualls, A.<br />

J. Cook, Katey Sagal, Shiri Appleby<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2005 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Starring a fantastic hot young cast, this<br />

hilarious, charming and sweetly emotional<br />

coming-of-age comedy, follows the laidback,<br />

cool (if a little goofy!) Reed Fish, as<br />

he learns, through his many mistakes, how<br />

to step out of his fathers shadow and discover<br />

who he really is...<br />

HEARTBREAKERS<br />

Comedy (123 minutes)<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: David Mirkin<br />

Writer: Peter Mattei<br />

Producer: John Davis, Irving Ong<br />

Key Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer<br />

Love Hewitt, Gene Hackman, Ray Liotta<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2002 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Max (Sigourney Weaver) and Page<br />

(Jennifer Love Hewitt) are a brilliant mother<br />

and daughter con team who have their<br />

gift down to a fine art.<br />

FISH TANK<br />

Drama (124 minutes)<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: Andrea Arnold<br />

Executive Producer: Paul Trijbits, Christine<br />

Langan and David M. Thompson<br />

Producer: Kees Kasander and Nick Laws<br />

Key Cast: Katie Jarvis, Michael<br />

Fassbender, Kierston Wareing, Rebecca<br />

Griffiths and Harry Treadaway<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Fifteen year old Mia’s life is turned on its<br />

head when her Mum brings home a new<br />

boyfriend. Touching on the themes of her<br />

Academy Award®-winning short Wasp,<br />

Fish Tank is an original and unique modern<br />

tale of our times<br />

MAN WHO SUED GOD, THE<br />

Comedy (97 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Mark Joffe<br />

Key Cast: Billy Connelly, Judy Davis<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2001<br />

The Man Who Sued God is a boisterous<br />

romantic comedy about a man who decides<br />

to sue God after his fishing boat is<br />

destroyed by lightning and his insurance<br />

company refuses to pay out, declaring it an<br />

act of God.<br />

MEE-SHEE: THE WATER GIANT<br />

Family Adventure<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: John Henderson<br />

Producer: Rainer Mockert , Barry Authors<br />

Key Cast: Bruce Greenwood, Daniel<br />

Magder, Rena Owen, Phyllida Law,<br />

Luanne Gordon, Tom Jackson, Jacinta<br />

Wawatai<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2004 Country of<br />

Origin: UK/Germany<br />

With extraordinary special effects and animatronics<br />

from Jim Henson’s Creature<br />

Shop (Lara Croft 2, Harry Potter and the<br />

Sorceror’s Stone, Doctor Doolittle, 101<br />

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Dalmations), and in the tradition of E.T the<br />

Extra-Terrestrial and Free Willy, Mee-Shee:<br />

The Water Giant is the ultimate family<br />

adventure movie<br />

NIGHT WE CALLED IT A DAY, THE<br />

Drama / Suspense Thriller (91 minutes)<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: Paul Goldman<br />

Writer: Peter Clifton<br />

Producer: Nik Powell, Emile Sherman,<br />

Peter Clifton<br />

Key Cast: Dennis Hopper, Melanie<br />

Griffith, Portia de Rossi, Joel Edgerton,<br />

Rose Byrne, David Hemmings<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2003 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

A wonderfully crafted comedy drama based<br />

on the true story of Frank Sinatra’s uproarious<br />

visit to Sydney in 1974.<br />

SONG FOR A RAGGY BOY<br />

Drama (94 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Aisling Walsh<br />

Producer: Dominic Wright<br />

Key Cast: Aidan Quinn, lain Glen, Dudley<br />

Sutton<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2003 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Against the wishes of the Bishop, Father<br />

Damian (Alan Devlin), the principal of St.<br />

Jude’s Reformatory School, appoints<br />

William Franklin (Aidan Quinn) the only<br />

lay teacher among a staff of Catholic<br />

Brothers.<br />

TRANSAMERICA<br />

Comedy/Drama (103 minutes)<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: Duncan Tucker<br />

Writer: Duncan Tucker<br />

Executive Producer: William H. Macy<br />

Producer: Linda Moran, Rene Bastian,<br />

Sebastian Dungan<br />

Key Cast: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers,<br />

Fionnula Flanagan, Elizabeth Peña,<br />

Graham Greene<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2005 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Following its spectacular reception at the<br />

2005 Tribeca Film Festival, this extraordinary<br />

road-trip-comedy tells the story of<br />

Bree (Felicity Huffman), a prim, prudish<br />

and persnickety male-to-female transsexual,<br />

who, after years of saving money, is<br />

only a week away from her final Sexual -<br />

Reassignment Surgery.<br />

ONEGIN<br />

Romantic Drama (105 minutes)<br />

Director: Martha Fiennes<br />

Writer: Michael Ignatieff, Peter Ettedgui<br />

Executive Producer: Ralph Fiennes<br />

Producer: Ileen Maisel, Simon Bosanquet<br />

Key Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Liv Tyler, Martin<br />

Donovan, Toby Stephens, Lena Headey<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 1998<br />

Eugene Onegin is a jaded and disaffected<br />

young man who leaves St. Petersburg<br />

unexpectedly when he inherits an estate<br />

from a wealthy uncle. In the country, he is<br />

a city sophisticate out of place, with little<br />

affinity for the countryside or its people.<br />

Nevertheless he strikes up a warm friendship<br />

with a neighbour, Vladimir Lensky<br />

and, despite his natural cynicism, is<br />

charmed by Lensky’s love for his fiance<br />

Olga. He is intrigued by Olga’s sister,<br />

Tatyana, a beauty who surprises him with a<br />

declaration of love. Onegin is disturbed by<br />

her directness but unable to respond and,<br />

coolly and politely, rejects her love.<br />

MATCHING JACK<br />

Heartwarming Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Nadia Tass<br />

Writer: Lynne Renew, David Parker<br />

Producer: David Parker, Richard Keddie;<br />

Nadia Tass<br />

Key Cast: James Nesbitt, Jacinda Barrett,<br />

Richard Roxburgh, Tom Russell, Kodi<br />

Smit-McPhee, Yvonne Strahovski<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

From award winning director Nadia Tass,<br />

Matching Jack is a powerful, emotional<br />

and ultimately joyful story about a woman<br />

who chances on a new love as she wrestles<br />

with her son’s illness and her husband’s<br />

infidelity.<br />

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LAST RIDE<br />

Road-Trip Drama (98 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Glendyn Ivin<br />

Writer: Mac Gudgeon, from the novel The<br />

Last Ride by Denise Young<br />

Executive Producer: Ricci Swart<br />

Producer: Nicholas Cole, Antonia Barnard<br />

Key Cast: Hugo Weaving, Tom Russell<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

From the award-winning director Glendyn<br />

Ivin (Palme D’Or for Short Film, ‘Cracker<br />

Bag’) comes a heartbreakingly tender coming-of-age<br />

road movie.<br />

BALIBO<br />

Thriller based on a True Story (111 minutes)<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: Robert Connolly<br />

Writer: Robert Connolly, David<br />

Willliamson<br />

Executive Producer: Anthony LaPaglia<br />

Producer: John Maynard; Rebecca<br />

Williamson<br />

Key Cast: Anthony LaPaglia, Oscar Isaac,<br />

Damon Gameau, Gyton Grantley, Nathan<br />

Phillips, Mark Winter, Thomas Wright<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

Based on a remarkable true story, The<br />

Balibo Conspiracy is a tense piece of<br />

bravado film-making, an engaging thriller<br />

in the vein of Costa Gavras’s ‘Missing’ and<br />

‘The Constant Gardener’.<br />

AUGUST<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: Austin Chick<br />

Writer: Howard A. Rodman<br />

Producer: Charlie Corwin, Josh Hartnett,<br />

Elisa Pugliese, David Guy Levy, Clara<br />

Markowicz<br />

Key Cast: Josh Hartnett, Naomie Harris,<br />

Rip Torn, Adam Scott, Robin Tunney,<br />

Emmanuelle Chriqui, David Bowie<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

‘Wall Street’, ‘Boiler Room’ and ‘Shattered<br />

Glass’ come crashing into the Internet Age<br />

in this intense, edge-of-your-seat and emotional<br />

tale about one man’s fight to keep<br />

his dreams alive during the dot-com collapse<br />

of 2001.<br />

CLOSING THE RING<br />

Epic Romance (119 minutes)<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: Richard Attenborough<br />

Writer: Peter Woodward<br />

Co-Production Partners: Martin Katz<br />

Producer: Jo Gilbert, Richard Attenborough<br />

Key Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Christopher<br />

Plummer, Mischa Barton, Stephen Amell,<br />

Neve Campbell, Pete Postlethwaite, Brenda<br />

Fricker, Gregory Smith, Ian McElhinney,<br />

Martin McCann<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

Origin: UK & Canada<br />

Oscar winning Director Richard<br />

Attenborough helms a deeply moving love<br />

story, beautifully interwoven between present<br />

day and World War 2, about how an<br />

American woman honored a wartime<br />

promise, with a lifetime of denial - and<br />

how the discovery of a gold ring on a distant<br />

Irish hillside brought her back to life...<br />

NIGHTWATCHING<br />

Mystery/Drama (134 minutes)<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: Peter Greenaway<br />

Writer: Peter Greenaway<br />

Executive Producer: Carlo Dusi<br />

Producer: Kees Kasander and Nick Laws<br />

Key Cast: Martin Freeman, Eva Birthistle,<br />

Jodhi May, Emily Holmes, Nathalie Press,<br />

Chris Britton, Toby Jones<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada, United Kingdom, Poland,<br />

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Netherlands<br />

Extravagant, suspenseful and sensuously<br />

beautiful, the mystery behind Rembrandt’s<br />

extraordinary infamous painting is perfectly<br />

explored by one of the most iconic<br />

Directors of our time - Peter Greenaway.<br />

BAD LIEUTENANT<br />

Crime Thriller/Action (98 mins)<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: Abel Ferrara<br />

Writer: Abel Ferrara, Zoe Lund<br />

Executive Producer: Patrick Wachsberger,<br />

Ronna B. Wallace<br />

Producer: Patrick Wachsberger, Ronna B.<br />

Wallace<br />

Key Cast: Harvey Keitel, Peggy Gormley<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 1992 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

While investigating a young nun’s rape, a<br />

corrupt cop tries to change his ways and<br />

find forgiveness. He has survived on the<br />

streets for twenty years. He’s a gambler, a<br />

thief, a junkie, a killer — and a cop. Now<br />

he’s investigating the most shocking case<br />

of his life, and as he moves closer to the<br />

truth his self-destructive past is closing in.<br />

CROW: WICKED PRAYER , THE<br />

Romantic / Action - Horror (92 minutes)<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: Lance Mungia<br />

Writer: Jeff Most, Lance Mungia, Sean<br />

Hood<br />

Executive Producer: Daymond John<br />

Producer: Edward R. Pressman, Jeff Most<br />

Key Cast: Edward Furlong, Tara Reid,<br />

David Boreanaz, Dennis Hopper,<br />

Emmanuelle Chriqui, Marcus Chong,<br />

Danny Trejo, Macy Gray<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2003 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

When Jimmy and his half Native American<br />

girlfriend Lily are murdered by a rampaging<br />

satanic cult led by Luc Crash and his<br />

demonic bride, he is traumatised to find<br />

himself reincarnated as ‘The Crow’, an<br />

immortal being of Native American folk<br />

law and the ‘killer of killers’.<br />

BLOODY SUNDAY<br />

Historical Drama (110 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Paul Greengrass<br />

Executive Producer: Pippa Cross; Arthur<br />

Lappin; Jim Sheridan; Rod Stoneman; Paul<br />

Trijbits; Tristan Whalley<br />

Producer: Mark Redhead<br />

Key Cast: James Nesbitt; Tim Pigott-<br />

Smith; Nicholas Farrell; Gerard McSorley;<br />

Kathy Kiera Clarke<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2002 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

On 30th January 1972, British soldiers shot<br />

dead 13 unarmed civilians taking part in an<br />

anti-internment civil rights march in Derry,<br />

Northern Ireland. This event, Bloody<br />

Sunday, was a major turning point in the<br />

history of the modern Irish troubles, catapulting<br />

the conflict into a civil war, driving<br />

many young men into the ranks of the IRA<br />

and fuelling a 25-year cycle of violence.<br />

RICK<br />

Suspense/Black Comedy (100 minutes)<br />

Language: English - Format HD24P<br />

Director: Curtiss Clayton<br />

Writer: Daniel Handler<br />

Executive Producer: Edward R. Pressman,<br />

John Schmidt<br />

Producer: Ruth Charny, Jim Czarnecki,<br />

Sofia Sondervan<br />

Key Cast: Bill Pullman, Aaron Stanford,<br />

Agnes Bruckner<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2003 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Once a decent guy, Rick (Bill Pullman)<br />

now finds himself a widower faced with an<br />

arrogant boss (Aaron Stanford) who is half<br />

his age, a distant daughter (Agnes<br />

Bruckner), and a corporate job that forces<br />

him to act like the brash and sarcastic jerk<br />

he suspects he’s becoming. Its no wonder a<br />

cocktail waitress has placed him under a<br />

curse. When an old business school buddy<br />

offers to end Rick’s woes with what seems<br />

to be a perfect plan, Rick is left to make an<br />

unconventional decision. The perfect plan<br />

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is not what it seems and threatens to<br />

destroy the only decent thing in his life,<br />

leaving him alone in a hostile world. Will<br />

Rick become a victim of his own temptation?<br />

OPEN RANGE<br />

Western/Drama (139 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Kevin Costner<br />

Producer: David Valdes, Kevin Costner,<br />

Craig Storper<br />

Key Cast: Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall,<br />

Annette Bening<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2003 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Boss, Charley, Mose, and Button freegraze<br />

cattle in the Old West. It is a lonley existence,<br />

lived outside the boundaries of civilisation,<br />

their camaraderie is it’s one consolation.<br />

Each of these men has an unspoken<br />

reason for choosing such a life. The crew<br />

runs into trouble in Harmonville, a<br />

nowhere town run by a big rancher, Baxter,<br />

and his henchmen, one of whom is the<br />

sheriff. When Mose is brutally murdered<br />

and Button is left for dead, Boss and<br />

Charley know it’s time to take a stand,<br />

aware that their principles are likely to cost<br />

them their lives.<br />

COOLER, THE<br />

Classic Romantic Noir (102 minutes)<br />

Language: English - Format Super 35mm<br />

Director: Wayne Kramer<br />

Writer: Frank Hannah, Wayne Kramer<br />

Executive Producer: Edward R. Pressman,<br />

Alessandro Camon<br />

Producer: Sean Furst, Michael J Pierce<br />

Key Cast: William H. Macy, Maria Bello,<br />

Alec Baldwin, Shawn Hatosy, Ron<br />

Livingston, Estella Warren, Paul Sorvino<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2002 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A black comedy about Bernie Lootz<br />

(William H. Macy), a man with such devastatingly<br />

bad luck that it’s infectious —<br />

just by bumping into a hot hand he can<br />

instantaneously turn it cold. And so he does<br />

by acting as a “cooler” at the gritty<br />

Shangri-la Hotel and Casino in downtown<br />

Las Vegas, a job forced upon him by the<br />

slippery Shelly Kaplow (Alec Baldwin),<br />

the casino’s director of operations, in order<br />

to pay off an outstanding debt<br />

SHADE<br />

Thriller (99 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Damian Nieman<br />

Producer: Chris Hammond, Ted Hartley<br />

(Mighty Joe Young), David Schnepp<br />

Key Cast: Stuart Townsend, Gabriel Byrne,<br />

Thandie Newton, Jamie Foxx, Melanie<br />

Griffith, Sylvester Stallone<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2003 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

In L.A’s legal gambling clubs, three hustlers<br />

make a living from conning people.<br />

When Tiffany, Vernon and Miller walk<br />

away from a fixed game with a cool<br />

$100K, they have enough to take on The<br />

Dean, a legendary “card mechanic”. But<br />

nothing is clear cut when you’re shooting<br />

for the big con. Who exactly is hustling<br />

whom? Who holds the winning hand? And<br />

who has been in league with The Dean all<br />

along?<br />

LOVE IN THE TIME OF MONEY<br />

Comedy Drama (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Peter Mattei<br />

Writer: Peter Mattei<br />

Executive Producer: Redford Redford,<br />

Michael Kafka, Michael Nozik, John<br />

Orlando, Charles J. Rusbasn<br />

Producer: Lisa Bellomo, Jason Kliot,<br />

Gretchen McGowan, Joana Vicente<br />

Key Cast: Steve Buschemi, Rosario<br />

Dawson, Vera Farmiga, Malcolm Gets,<br />

Adrian Grenier, Jill Hennessy, Michael<br />

Imperioli<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2002<br />

New York serves as a backdrop for a cast<br />

of characters in search of love, lust or lucre<br />

including a woman who makes awkward<br />

moves on the man renovating her SoHo<br />

loft, an embezzler, a sleazy artist and a<br />

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phone psychic. Based loosely on Arthur<br />

Schnitzler’s book.<br />

AGE OF HEROES<br />

World War II Action<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Adrian Vitoria<br />

Writer: Adrian Vitoria, Ed Scates<br />

Co-Production Partners: Neon Park and<br />

Giant Films Production<br />

Producer: Lex Lutzus, Nick O’Hagan<br />

Key Cast: Sean Bean, Danny Dyer, Izabella<br />

Miko, James D’Arcy, Aksel Hennie, Rosie<br />

Fellner, Guy Burnet, Stephen Walters,<br />

William Houston, John Dagleish<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Based on the true story of the formation of<br />

the 30 Commando, one of the most<br />

respected, secretive and exclusive special<br />

forces regiments formed during the Second<br />

World War, from which the now legendary<br />

SAS was born. An action-packed adrenalin<br />

shot - ‘The Dirty Dozen’ meets ‘Tigerland’<br />

in AGE OF HEROES.<br />

I AM SLAVE<br />

Thriller inspired by real life events (83<br />

minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Gabriel Range<br />

Writer: Jeremy Brock<br />

Executive Producer: Gail Egan, Liza<br />

Marshall, Katherine Butler, Gabriel Range<br />

Producer: Andrea Calderwood<br />

Key Cast: Wunmi Mosaku, Isaach De<br />

Bankolé, Lubna Azabal, Igal Naor, Hiam<br />

Abbass, Nonso Anozie, Selva Rasalingam,<br />

Nasser Memarzia<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

From the award winning team behind<br />

‘Death of a President’ and ‘The Last King<br />

of Scotland’, and inspired by real life<br />

events I Am Slave is a controversial thriller<br />

about London’s shocking slave trade, and<br />

one woman’s fight for freedom…<br />

DRIVING LESSONS<br />

Comedy Drama (94 minutes)<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: Jeremy Brock<br />

Writer: Jeremy Brock<br />

Co-Production Partners: ContentFilm<br />

Executive Producer: Robert Jones, Edward<br />

R. Pressman, Alessandro Camon<br />

Producer: Julia Chasman<br />

Key Cast: Julie Walters, Rupert Grint,<br />

Laura Linney<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2005 Country of<br />

Origin: United Kingdom<br />

The Graduate meets Harold And Maude in<br />

this rites of passage comedy with yet<br />

another dreary school holiday coming<br />

around for the shy and downtrodden Ben<br />

(Rupert Grint).<br />

BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY<br />

Epic Drama (126 minutes)<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: Hans Petter Moland (Aberdeen)<br />

Writer: Sabina Murray, Larry Gross<br />

Executive Producer: Sam Nazarian<br />

Producer: Edward R. Pressman, Terrence<br />

Malick, Tomas Backström, Petter J. Borgli<br />

Key Cast: Nick Nolte, Tim Roth, Temuera<br />

Morrison, Bai Ling, Damien Nguyen<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2003 Country of<br />

Origin: Norway<br />

The Beautiful Country is an epic, highly<br />

emotional and ultimately uplifting story of<br />

one young man’s seemingly impossible<br />

search for his lost father.<br />

STEALING BESS<br />

Musical Comedy (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Luke Cresswell, Steve<br />

McNicholas<br />

Producer: Verna Harrah, Joel Simon<br />

Key Cast: Kip Pardue, Rose McGowan,<br />

Lee Evans, Cast of “Stomp,” Chevy Chase<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2001<br />

It should have been an easy job for corporate<br />

spy Jack Bentley: steal the prototype<br />

of the Harmonia vacuum cleaner, the Holy<br />

Grail of Hoovers. Production ceased in the<br />

fifties after a tragic accident. But Jack hadn’t<br />

bargained on becoming quite so<br />

embroiled in the vacuum wars, which are<br />

the small town’s life and blood, nor on<br />

falling in love with one of the factory girls.<br />

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A tale of rhythm, comedy and romance<br />

from the creators of global dance smash<br />

Stomp.<br />

LOVE THE BEAST<br />

Documentary (92 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Eric Bana<br />

Key Cast: Eric Bana, Jay Leno, Jeremy<br />

Clarkson, and Dr Phil<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

Eric Bana casts himself in his perfect role:<br />

exploring the meaning of a 25-year-long<br />

relationship with his first car, “The Beast”,<br />

and ultimately the importance of the bonds<br />

that form through a common passion.<br />

Filmed over 2 years, we follow Eric on an -<br />

unexpectedly - emotional journey from<br />

inside the race car to the surreal world of<br />

the red carpet as Eric considers the importance<br />

of family, friends and what it means<br />

to keep your dreams alive.<br />

SHOOTING FISH<br />

Romantic Comedy (109 minutes )<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Stefen Schwartz<br />

Producer: Richard Holmes and Glynis<br />

Murray<br />

Key Cast: Dan Flutterman, Staurt<br />

Townsend, Kate Beckinsale<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 1997 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Dylan and Jez are two orphans who are<br />

over qualified and under employed. Tired<br />

of the “rich get richer” syndrome, they<br />

decide to make a million pounds each in<br />

London. They use every scam possible to<br />

achieve this, until Georgie comes into their<br />

lives. She needs lots of money and Dylan<br />

and Jez are the ones to get it for her.<br />

WHEN YOU’RE STRANGE - A FILM<br />

ABOUT THE DOORS<br />

Rock n’ Roll Documentary<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Tom DiCillo<br />

Writer: Tom DiCillo<br />

Producer: Peter Jankowski, John Beug,<br />

Dick Wolf, Jeff Jampol<br />

Key Cast: Jim Morrison, John Densmore,<br />

Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Synopsis by Geoffrey Gilmore - Director,<br />

Sundance Film Festival: “The Doors are<br />

probably my favorite band. Maybe that’s<br />

because they emerged at such a troubled<br />

point in American history and so captured<br />

the zeitgeist of that era, the late 1960s and<br />

early ‘70s. And yet I don’t mythologize<br />

them. But Tom DiCillo’s feature documentary<br />

is such an inspired portrait of not only<br />

the band and its iconic singer, Jim<br />

Morrison, and also that time period and its<br />

contradictions, its optimism and fury, its<br />

co-optation and transformation, that it<br />

instantly carried me back to those days.<br />

SPLINTER<br />

Horror/Thriller<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: Toby Wilkins<br />

Writer: Ian Shorr, Kai Barry<br />

Producer: Ted Kroeber, Kai Barry<br />

Key Cast: Paulo Costanzo, Jill Wagner,<br />

Shea Whigham<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

From director Toby Wilkins, hand-picked<br />

by ‘Evil Dead’ director Sam Raimi to helm<br />

Horror shorts to promote The Grudge 2<br />

(‘Tales From the Grudge’ , his directing talent<br />

speaks for itself. With Wilkins’ design<br />

and effects credits including Spiderman 3,<br />

The Lord of the Rings and Grindhouse,<br />

Splinter is about to bring to life one of cinema’s<br />

most gruesome creations…<br />

MESSENGER, THE<br />

Road-Trip Drama (113 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Oren Moverman<br />

Writer: Alessandro Camon; Oren<br />

Moverman<br />

Executive Producer: The Collective<br />

Producer: Mark Gordon, Lawrence Inglee,<br />

Zach Miller<br />

Key Cast: Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson,<br />

Samantha Morton Jena Malone, Eamonn<br />

Walker<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

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Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

From the producer of “Saving Private<br />

Ryan” and “The Day After Tomorrow”<br />

comes a beautifully written, and emotional<br />

buddy movie - which combines the sentiment<br />

of ‘Good Will Hunting’ with the razor<br />

sharp wit of ‘Thank You For Smoking’.<br />

EVIL ALIENS<br />

Sci-Fi Horror<br />

Language: English - Format 35mmn<br />

Director: Jake West<br />

Executive Producer: Quentin Reynolds<br />

Producer: Tim Dennison<br />

Key Cast: Emily Booth, Samuel Butler,<br />

Jennifer Evans, Jamie Honeybourne, Peter<br />

McNeil O’Connor, Nick Smithers, Jodie<br />

Shaw, Chris Adamson, Norman Lovett<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2005 Country of<br />

Origin: UK & Ireland<br />

Scalleum is a remote farming island off the<br />

north coast of Wales, only accessible at low<br />

tide via a causeway known as the “Devils<br />

Spine”. The island is also home to an<br />

ancient stone circle known as the “Devils<br />

Teeth”. This provides the sinister setting<br />

for the terrifying Alien abduction of local<br />

farm girl Cat Williams and her Hitchhiker<br />

boyfriend Angelo Jones.<br />

DAISY CHAIN, THE<br />

Supernatural Thriller (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English - Format 35mm<br />

Director: Aisling Walsh<br />

Writer: Lauren MacKenzie<br />

Producer: Tristan Orpen Lynch, Dominic<br />

Wright<br />

Key Cast: Samantha Morton, Steven<br />

Mackintosh<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

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synopsisandtrailers.com<br />

makes it easy for you to<br />

read-watch-connect-buy<br />

like never before.<br />

An end to site hopping.<br />

Origin: UK & Ireland<br />

From the critically acclaimed director of<br />

‘Song For A Raggy Boy’, and starring double<br />

Oscar-nominee Samantha Morton, THE<br />

DAISY CHAIN is a chilling supernatural<br />

thriller of obsession, superstition and fear.<br />

Blending the unsettling atmosphere of ‘The<br />

Wicker Man’ with the terrifying scenario of<br />

‘Rosemary’s Baby’, The Daisy Chain<br />

explores the dark side of the heart in a way<br />

that will devastate audiences everywhere…<br />

SEPARADO<br />

Documentary (84 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Dylan Goch & Gruff Rhys<br />

Producer: Catryn Ramasut<br />

Key Cast: Gruff Rhys<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: UK/Germany<br />

Star Trek meets Buena Vista Social Club in<br />

this psychedelic western musical as Welsh<br />

pop legend Gruff Rhys (Super Furry<br />

Animals) takes us on a pan continental<br />

road trip in search of his long lost<br />

Patagonian uncle, the poncho wearing guitarist<br />

Rene Griffiths.<br />

DISTRIBUTION<br />

WORKSHOP (HK)<br />

LIMITED<br />

Distribution Workshop (HK) Limited, Unit<br />

215, 2/F, Innocentre, 72 Tat Chee Ave,<br />

Kowloon Tong, Kowloon , Hong Kong,<br />

Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Tel:<br />

852.27688678. Fax: 852.27128200. Email:<br />

dw@distributionworkshop.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Nansun SHI (Chairman), Jeffrey<br />

CHAN (CEO), Virginia LEUNG (Head of<br />

Sales), Christy CHOI (Senior Distribution<br />

Manager)<br />

Office: Marriott Hotel, Room 246, Tel:<br />

+49.30.22000 -1109<br />

FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON<br />

GATE<br />

3D Martial Arts (122)<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: TSUI Hark<br />

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Writer: TSUI Hark<br />

Producer: Nansun SHI, TSUI Hark, YU<br />

Dong<br />

Key Cast: Jet LI, ZHOU Xun, CHEN Kun<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: China<br />

The first 3D martial arts film to be produced<br />

and directed by TSUI Hark. The<br />

hunt for an escaped concubine quickly<br />

truned into a game of cat & mouse, as the<br />

infamous Dragon Inn was once again the<br />

centre stage for fortune, romance and<br />

vengeance<br />

A SIMPLE LIFE<br />

Drama (119 mins)<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: Ann HUI<br />

Writer: Susan CHAN, Roger LEE<br />

Producer: Ann HUI, Roger LEE, Pui Wah<br />

CHAN<br />

Key Cast: Andy LAU, Deanie IP<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong<br />

A heartwarming tale between a film producer<br />

and his old family maid. The masterservant<br />

relationship takes a sentimental<br />

turn when the maid enters the elderly<br />

home.<br />

THE SORCERER AND THE WHITE<br />

SNAKE<br />

Period Action Fantasy (94)<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: Tony CHING Siu Tung<br />

Producer: YANG Zi<br />

Key Cast: Jet LI, Eva HUANG, Raymond<br />

LAM, Charlene CHOI<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Country of Origin: China<br />

Based on the legendary folklore in China,<br />

the White Snake spirit falls for a mortal<br />

scholar, but romance soon draws a relentless<br />

sorcerer hot on her trails.<br />

THE FLYING MACHINE<br />

Live Action/3D Animation<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Martin CLAPP, Geoff LINDSEY<br />

Producer: Hugh WELCHMAN<br />

Key Cast: Heather GRAHAM, Lang Lang<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

From the Academy Award winning team<br />

behind ‘Peter and the Wolf’, this is a fantastic<br />

family adventure film using cutting<br />

edge live action, stop motion animation<br />

and 3D. The soundtrack is composed by<br />

Frederic Chopin and performed by superstar<br />

pianist Lang Lang, who also co-stars.<br />

WORLD OF FLYING MACHINE<br />

3D Animation (64)<br />

Director: Various Directors<br />

Producer: Hugh WELCHMAN<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

World of Flying Machine, is the pure animation<br />

spin-off, of the live action/animation<br />

feature film. All films in World of<br />

Flying Machine are set to Chopin’s varied<br />

and timelessly beautiful Etudes, performed<br />

by Lang Lang.<br />

LET’S GO<br />

Action Thriller (95)<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: WONG Ching Po<br />

Producer: Willie CHAN<br />

Key Cast: Juno MAK, Stephy TANG<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: Hong Kong<br />

Let’s go, friend! “You’ve got to be awesome<br />

once in a lifetime”. A fantastical<br />

homage to the Japanese anime, as an<br />

orphan teams up with the local rascals to<br />

seek vengeance on the archrival who severs<br />

his arm.<br />

OVERHEARD II<br />

Action Thriller (119mins)<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: Alan MAK, Felix CHONG<br />

Producer: Derek YEE<br />

Key Cast: LAU Ching Wan, Louis KOO,<br />

Daniel WU<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong<br />

The creative team of ??Infernal Affairs??<br />

presents a nail-biting cat-and-mouse game<br />

between a stock broker with a shady past, a<br />

street-smart cop, and a surveillance expert<br />

with a hidden agenda.<br />

CATCHING MONKEY<br />

3D Thriller<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: TSUI Hark<br />

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Key Cast: Charlie YOUNG, YU Nan,<br />

Daniel CHAN<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

The term “catching monkey” is the<br />

Taiwanese phrase for “catching an affair<br />

red-handed”. It is also the name of a hacker-for-hire<br />

group that specializes in gathering<br />

info from people’s online accounts.<br />

EAST MEETS WEST 2011<br />

Comedy (99)<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: Jeff LAU<br />

Key Cast: Eason CHAN, Ekin CHENG,<br />

Karen MOK<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Once upon a time in the Heavens, there<br />

lived eight deities who were constantly at<br />

loggerheads with one another. The<br />

Heavenly Emperor couldn’t take their bickering<br />

any longer, and banished all of them<br />

to the mortal world, until they had learnt<br />

the meaning of unity.<br />

TREASURE INN<br />

Period Action Comedy (97)<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: Jing WONG<br />

Writer: Jing WONG<br />

Producer: YU Dong , Jeffrey CHAN<br />

Key Cast: Nicholas TSE, Nick CHEUNG,<br />

Charlene CHOI, HUANG Yi<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: China, Hong Kong<br />

Once upon a time in China, two street<br />

inspectors named Gong and Ba were on the<br />

mysterious murder case in town. However,<br />

when the real murderer was finally<br />

revealed, Gong realized the danger was<br />

much closer to home than he could ever<br />

imagine.<br />

WHAT WOMEN WANT<br />

Romantic Drama (116mins)<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: CHEN Daming<br />

Producer: Dede Nickerson, CHEN Daming,<br />

Jeffrey CHAN<br />

Key Cast: Andy LAU, GONG Li<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: China, Hong Kong<br />

The Chinese remake of Mel Gibson’s<br />

‘What Women Want”<br />

JUST CALL ME NOBODY<br />

Martial Arts comedy (91 mins)<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: CHU Yen Ping<br />

Key Cast: Xiao Shen Yang, ZHAO Ben<br />

Shan, Kelly LIN<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: China<br />

A shoemaker in ancient<br />

China became a superb<br />

martial artist by accident,<br />

but his skills were put to<br />

the test when he fell for<br />

the Emperor’s fiancée.<br />

THE FRIGHTENING NIGHT<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: XU Bin<br />

Key Cast: TANG Yi Fei, ZHU Hong Jia<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Country of Origin: China<br />

An aspiring actress is harassed by a mysterious<br />

stalker. When she is on location for a<br />

new horror film, a series of haunting is<br />

driving her sanity to the edge.<br />

LOVER’S DISCOURSE<br />

Romantic Drama (118 mins)<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: Derek TSANG , Jimmy WAN<br />

Key Cast: Eason CHAN, Karena LAM,<br />

Kay TSE<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong<br />

Four relationships intersects in Hong Kong<br />

as the citizens of the crowded cosmopolitan<br />

city discovers lovers and loved ones ?V<br />

who is our most beloved in this city that<br />

never sleeps?<br />

ONCE UPON A TIME IN TIBET<br />

Drama/Romantic<br />

Director: DAI Wei<br />

Key Cast: SONG Jia, Peter HO<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

In the beginning of the World War II,<br />

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American pilot Robert Smith is taking part<br />

in the effort to help China fighting against<br />

the Japanese forces. During a liaison cargo<br />

mission from India to China, his cargo<br />

plane crashes somewhere in Tibet.<br />

DOUBLE DUTCH<br />

INTERNATIONAL<br />

Double Dutch International, , Toronto, ON<br />

Canada, Tel: 877.914.3847 Fax:<br />

866.839.3244. www.doubledutchmedia.ca<br />

E-mail: info@doubledutchmedia.ca<br />

Sales Agent, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Jason Moring (President - Films),<br />

Ron Moring (President - International)<br />

Office: Tel: Tel: 1.416.994.8373<br />

UNION SQUARE<br />

Drama (81 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Nancy Savoca<br />

Executive Producer: Rich Guay<br />

Key Cast: Mira Sorvino, Tammy<br />

Blanchard, Mike Doyle, Michael Rispoli<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A reluctant reunion of two estranged sisters.<br />

One is on the verge of marriage; the<br />

other is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.<br />

Both struggle with truths they’re<br />

hiding from each other - and from themselves.<br />

Lucy and Jenny’s combustible<br />

reunion brings both of them to unforeseen<br />

places, shattering and reconstructing the<br />

worlds they have both carefully constructed.<br />

LUCKY<br />

Drama (100 min)<br />

Language: Zulu, Hindi, English<br />

Director: Avie Luthra<br />

Writer: Avie Luthre<br />

Co-Production Partners: How Town Films -<br />

Out of Africa<br />

Executive Producer: Christopher Wilmot<br />

Producer: Lance Samuels<br />

Key Cast: Jayashree Basavaraj, Shile<br />

Dlamini<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: South Africa<br />

LUCKY is a South African feature length<br />

film about a ten-year-old orphan who<br />

leaves his Zulu village, following the death<br />

of his mother, to make his own life in the<br />

city...only to find no one will help him,<br />

except a formidable Indian woman with a<br />

inherent fear of Africans. Together, unable<br />

to speak each other’s language, they develop<br />

an unlikely bond. Through an odyssey<br />

marked by greed, violence, and ultimately,<br />

belonging, LUCKY shows how a child’s<br />

spirit can bring out decency, humility and<br />

even love in adults struggling to survive in<br />

the new South Africa.<br />

VIERNES DE ANIMAS<br />

Thriller (90 mins)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Perez Gamez Raul<br />

Producer: Isi Sarfati<br />

Key Cast: Iran Castillo, Magda Guzman<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Mexico<br />

Andy and Hugo are childhood friends,<br />

however, Ande has a secret that is manifested<br />

by an incident at a bar an unprecedented<br />

event. Hugo realizes what happened<br />

and asks his friend. Andy hides a gift,<br />

which lets you see the other side of life to<br />

which embodied souls, your gift or curse<br />

(as he calls it) gives the story the nuance<br />

necessary to trigger a series of events that<br />

shake our character. At each corner, at<br />

every moment the plot of this film, we<br />

descend into the depths of darkness and we<br />

also rise to the top of the sky. A Tale of<br />

Souls, beyond good and evil.<br />

BANG BANG<br />

Crime (101)<br />

Language: English, Vietnamese<br />

Director: Byron Q<br />

Key Cast: Thai Ngo, David Huynh, Jessika<br />

Van, Walter Wong<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Justin (Thai Ngo) is a troubled teenage<br />

gang member who runs away from home<br />

after a fight with his mother. Despite a real<br />

desire to pursue a career in music, gang life<br />

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has trapped Justin in a world he cannot<br />

escape. Conversely, his best friend Charlie<br />

(David Huynh), despite his wealthy<br />

upbringing, has become completely infatuated<br />

with the gangster lifestyle and seeks a<br />

way in. When the murder of a fellow gang<br />

member ignites a violent street war, both<br />

Justin and Charlie become embroiled in a<br />

conflict that will change both of their lives<br />

forever. In this astonishing feature film<br />

debut, director Byron Q has crafted a tale<br />

that deftly balances gritty realism with stylized<br />

visuals in a manner that transcends the<br />

“gangsta movie” genre. Featuring outstanding<br />

performances from hip hop artist Thai<br />

Ngo in the lead role, David Huynh (Baby),<br />

Jessika Van (Foreign Exchange) as Justin’s<br />

love interest and Walter Wong (Street<br />

Kings, TV’s Sons of Anarchy)<br />

NOTORIOUS GUYS<br />

AKA: LES FAMEUX GARS<br />

Comedy (85)<br />

Language: French<br />

Director: Ady El Assal<br />

Key Cast: Godié, Nytt, Last ‘Ar, Taipan,<br />

Caty Baccega<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Luxembourg<br />

The Notorious Guys follows Steven, a slow<br />

minded daydreamer and his band of misfit<br />

friends, Guy, Armand and Henri. While<br />

attending a special education school in<br />

Luxembourg, Steven and his friends are<br />

surprised to find out that they have been<br />

selected to go to Portugal on a student<br />

exchange program. Being half-Portuguese,<br />

Steven is elated at the chance to see his<br />

homeland and he constructs a plan for him<br />

and his friends to enjoy Portugal their own<br />

way, with a suitcase full of counterfeit<br />

money. When a spy passes himself off as a<br />

tour guide to convince Steven to give him<br />

the suitcase and is arrested by Police for<br />

illegal counterfeiting, Steven and his<br />

friends become Police enemy number one.<br />

With their faces all over local news, they<br />

must figure a way home and avoid being<br />

arrested by Police. Notorious Guys is a<br />

comedic trip filled with sex, money<br />

and....uh... air balloons!<br />

EALING METRO<br />

INTERNATIONAL<br />

Ealing Metro International, Ealing Studios,<br />

Ealing Green, London, W5 5EP UK, Tel:<br />

+44.208.584.6708. Fax:<br />

+44.208.758.8658. www.ealingmetro.com<br />

E-mail: sales@ealingmetro.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Will Machin (Head of<br />

International Sales and Distribution),<br />

Natalie Brenner (EVP, International Sales),<br />

Roy Smith (Director, International Sales),<br />

JoJo Dye (Press and Marketing Director)<br />

Office: Hotel Ritz-Carlton, Room 544/ 546,<br />

Tel: +49.30.33.77.77 (Hotel Switchboard)<br />

LAST CALL AT THE OASIS<br />

Documentary<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jessica Yu<br />

Writer: Jessica Yu, Inspired by the book by<br />

Alex Prud’homme<br />

Producer: Elise Pearlstein, Jessica Yu<br />

Key Cast: Erin Brockovich, Jack Black<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The global water shortage is the biggest<br />

social issue facing the world today. This<br />

powerful and stimulating film shatters<br />

myths and provides solutions whilst being<br />

entertaining, shocking and funny in equal<br />

measures.<br />

TRAP FOR CINDERELLA<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Iain Softley<br />

Writer: Iain Softley<br />

Producer: Robert Jones, Dixie Linder, Iain<br />

Softley<br />

Key Cast: Tuppence Middleton, Alexandra<br />

Roach, Kerry Fox<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011<br />

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A beach house at a French resort is gutted<br />

by fire. Trapped inside are two women -<br />

one rich and the other poor. Only one of<br />

them survives, burnt beyond recognition<br />

and in a state of total amnesia. Who is she,<br />

the heiress or her penniless friend? A killer,<br />

or an intended victim?<br />

FAST GIRLS<br />

Sports Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Regan Hall<br />

Writer: Noel Clarke, Jay Basu, Roy<br />

Williams<br />

Producer: Damian Jones<br />

Key Cast: Lenora Crichlow, Lily James,<br />

Noel Clarke, Rupert Graves, Phil Davies,<br />

Bradley James<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Country of Origin: UK<br />

Two worlds collide on the athletics track<br />

when sassy streetwise Shania meets ambitious<br />

middle-class Lisa with explosive consequences.<br />

As their rivalry reaches breaking<br />

point, they realise they have more in<br />

common than they think and pull together<br />

to achieve their ultimate dream. For audiences<br />

that loved “Bend it Like Beckham”<br />

and “Streetdance”, “Fast Girls” will be a<br />

sexy, feisty, frenetic and fast-paced drama<br />

with romance, conflict and the thrill of a<br />

championship final.<br />

THIS IS LONDON<br />

Music Documentary<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Julien Temple<br />

Writer: Julien Temple<br />

Producer: Rosa Bosch<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011<br />

This is London will be the first theatrical<br />

movie in a unique series of music documentaries<br />

stretching around the world.<br />

London’s music has transmitted the soul of<br />

the city to all corners of the earth. This is<br />

the story of a metropolis that no longer<br />

exists and the new London that has taken<br />

its place.<br />

GODDESS<br />

Musical rom-com<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Mark Lamprell<br />

Writer: Mark Lamprell, Joanna Weinberg<br />

Producer: Richard Keddie, Andrena Finlay<br />

Key Cast: Laura Michelle Kelly, Ronan<br />

Keating, Magda Szubanski<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

In this musical romantic comedy, stir-crazy<br />

Elspeth Dickens has to choose between<br />

fame and family when a glittering opportunity<br />

for international stardom beckons.<br />

HALF OF A YELLOW SUN<br />

Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Biyi Bandele<br />

Writer: Biyi Bandele<br />

Producer: Andrea Calderwood, Gail Egan<br />

Key Cast: Dominic Cooper, Thandie<br />

Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Based on the best-selling novel by<br />

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a<br />

Yellow Sun is an epic love story weaving<br />

together the lives of four people swept up<br />

in the turbulence of war.<br />

BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEM-<br />

ISTRY<br />

Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: David Posamentier, Geoff Moore<br />

Writer: David Posamentier, Geoff Moore<br />

Producer: Felipe Marino, Joe Neurauter,<br />

Keith Calder<br />

Key Cast: Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde,<br />

Michelle Monaghan, Judi Dench<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012<br />

A straight-laced pharmacist’s uneventful<br />

life spirals out of control when he starts an<br />

affair with a dangerously seductive customer<br />

who takes him on a joyride with<br />

explosive consequenses involving sex,<br />

drugs and possibly murder.<br />

VERY GOOD GIRLS<br />

Coming of Age<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Naomi Foner<br />

Writer: Naomi Foner<br />

Producer: Michael London, Jonathan<br />

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Fisher<br />

Key Cast: Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth<br />

Olsen, Dustin Hoffman<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012<br />

Very Good Girls follows two girls during a<br />

NYC summer after they graduate high<br />

school and decide to lose their virgnity.<br />

They fall for the same guy which tests their<br />

friendship as they find their way through<br />

the tangles of lies and good intentions to<br />

discover what real love is.<br />

BAILOUT<br />

Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Michael Winterbottom<br />

Writer: Jess Walter<br />

Producer: Michael Besman, Melissa<br />

Parmenter<br />

Key Cast: Jack Black<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

One morning Matt Prior wakes up to find<br />

himself jobless, crippled with debt, convinced<br />

his wife is having an affair and six<br />

days away from losing his home. Bailout is<br />

a hysterical, heartfelt tale of how we can<br />

reach the edge of ruin and begin to make<br />

our way back.<br />

EASTWEST<br />

FILMDISTRIBUTION<br />

EastWest Filmdistribution,<br />

Schottenfeldgasse 14, Wien, 1070 Austria.<br />

www.eastwest-distribution.com, E-mail:<br />

office@eastwest-distribution.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Olivier Van Bockstael (Sales<br />

Executive)<br />

Office: MGB, Stand #117, Tel:<br />

+43.664.510.41.66<br />

GYPSY SPIRIT<br />

Music Documentary (90)<br />

Language: German, English<br />

Director: Klaus Hundsbichler<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Austria<br />

A journey to the roots of gypsy music in<br />

India<br />

HAROLD’S GOING STIFF<br />

Horror, Comedy (90)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Keith Wright<br />

Executive Producer: Richard Guy<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

The nicest Zombie you’ll ever meet<br />

THE MAGIC OF HOPE<br />

AKA: EL VUELO DEL TREN<br />

Drama (90)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Paco Torres<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Spain<br />

A mother’s love can heal anything<br />

ECHO BRIDGE<br />

ENTERTAINMENT<br />

Echo Bridge Entertainment, 8383 Wilshire<br />

Blvd., Suite 530, Beverly Hills, CA 90211<br />

USA, Tel: 1.323.658.7900 Fax:<br />

1.323.658.7922. www.echobridgeentertainment.com,<br />

E-mail: info@ebellc.com<br />

Sales Agent, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Daniel March (President,<br />

International), Sonia Mehandjiyska (VP<br />

International Sales, Europe)<br />

Office: Berlin Marriott, Suite 220, Tel:<br />

+49(0)30.22000 - 1110<br />

GOATS<br />

Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Christopher Neil<br />

Writer: Mark Jude Poirier<br />

Producer: Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Eric<br />

Kopeloff, Shannon Lail<br />

Key Cast: David Duchovny, Vera Farmiga,<br />

Keri Russell, Minnie Driver, Ty Burrell,<br />

Graham Phillips<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Ellis prepares to leave his luxurious home<br />

in Tucson for an East Coast prep school,<br />

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leaving behind his new age mother and the<br />

only real father he has ever known, Goat<br />

Man.<br />

HIROKIN<br />

Action<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Alejo Mo-Sun<br />

Writer: Alejo Mo-Sun<br />

Co-Production Partners: Will Clay<br />

Producer: John Caliendo, Braxton Pope,<br />

Gregory Welteroth, Alejo Mo-Sun<br />

Key Cast: Wes Bentley, Jessica Szohr,<br />

Angus Macfadyen, Laura Ramsey, Julian<br />

Sands<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Hirokin, a reluctant warrior with a dark<br />

past, must fulfill his destiny when forced to<br />

choose between avenging the murder of his<br />

family and fighting for the freedom of a<br />

people long abused.<br />

BOOT TRACKS<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: David Jacobson<br />

Writer: Matthew F. Jones<br />

Producer: Larry Rattner, Holly Wiersma<br />

Key Cast: Michelle Monaghan, Stephen<br />

Dorff, Willem Dafoe<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

An ex-con sets out to take revenge against<br />

the people who have hurt him in the past.<br />

PEARL JAM TWENTY<br />

AKA: PJ20<br />

Documentary (120 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Cameron Crowe<br />

Writer: Cameron Crowe<br />

Producer: Kelly Curtis, Morgan Neville<br />

Key Cast: Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard,<br />

Mike McCready, Jeff Ament, Matt<br />

Cameron<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A documentary from Academy Award winning<br />

director Cameron Crowe on the band<br />

Pearl Jam marking their 20th anniversary.<br />

TASMANIAN DEVILS<br />

Sci-Fi Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Key Cast: Apolo Ohno, Danica McKellar,<br />

Kenneth Mitchell<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A group of extreme sports enthusiasts set<br />

out on an adventure and are attacked by a<br />

pack of Tasmanian devils who escaped<br />

from a team of researchers after their plane<br />

crashes in the forest.<br />

ARACHNOQUAKE<br />

Sci-Fi Disaster<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: G.E. Furst<br />

Key Cast: Tracey Gold, Ethan Phillips, Bug<br />

Hall, Edward Furlong<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

After earthquakes ravage a small town,<br />

dozens of locals fall victim to a previously<br />

unknown species of deadly albino spiders.<br />

Despite their best efforts, spiders swarm<br />

out of the earthquake opened fissures and<br />

infest the town.<br />

ICE COMETS<br />

Sci Fi Disaster<br />

Language: English<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A mysterious explosion in space sends ice<br />

comets plummeting toward Earth and<br />

according to mythology will bring about<br />

the end of the world.<br />

GHOSTQUAKE<br />

AKA: HAUNTED HIGH SCHOOL<br />

Sci-Fi Disaster<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jeffrey Scott Lando<br />

Writer: Anthony C. Ferrante, Paul A.<br />

Birkett<br />

Producer: Kenneth M. Badish<br />

Key Cast: Danny Trejo, M.C. Gainey,<br />

Charisma Carpenter, Jonathan Baron<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

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When an earthquake opens a time capsule,<br />

the spirits of five vengeful ghosts are<br />

unleashed and it takes the ultimate sacrifice<br />

to make them disappear for good.<br />

MESSAGES DELETED<br />

Thriller (92 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Rob Cowan<br />

Writer: Larry Cohen<br />

Producer: Stephen Jackson<br />

Key Cast: Matthew Lillard, Deborah Kara<br />

Unger, Gina Holden<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

A screenwriting teacher is forced to live<br />

out the plot of a screenplay idea he stole<br />

from a student, who now seeks revenge.<br />

FEAR ISLAND<br />

AKA: DEEP COVE<br />

Horror (95 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Michael Storey<br />

Writer: Jeff Martel<br />

Producer: David Doerksen, Jim O’Grady<br />

Key Cast: Lucy Hale, Haylie Duff, Aaron<br />

Ashmore<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

Trapped on a secluded island, five friends<br />

become prey to a mysterious killer seeking<br />

revenge.<br />

BATTLE OF THE BULBS<br />

Holiday, Family (120 min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Harvey Frost<br />

Writer: W. Paul Thompson<br />

Producer: Dan Paulson, Shawn Williamson<br />

Key Cast: Daniel Stern, Matt Frewer<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Bob Wallace declares war on his neighbor<br />

in a fight to win the best Christmas decoration<br />

display in the neighborhood.<br />

MISTLETOE OVER MANHATTAN<br />

Holiday, Family (87 min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: John Bradshaw<br />

Writer: Hilary Hinkle, Linda Engelsiepen,<br />

Rickie Castaneda<br />

Producer: Lewis Chesler, David Perlmutter,<br />

Robert Vaughn, Marek Posival<br />

Key Cast: Tricia Helfer, Greg Bryk, Tedde<br />

Moore<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

After sensing her husband is losing his<br />

Christmas spirit, Mrs. Claus travels to a<br />

place where she knows the spirit of<br />

Christmas still exists: New York City.<br />

THE CASE FOR CHRISTMAS<br />

Holiday, Family (88 min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Timothy Bond<br />

Writer: Tom Amudsen, Rickie Castaneda,<br />

Kevin Commins<br />

Producer: Lewis Chesler, David Perlmutter,<br />

Robert Vaughn, Marek Posival<br />

Key Cast: Dean Cain, Rachel Blanchard,<br />

George Buza<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A lawyer finds himself defending Santa<br />

Claus in the biggest trial in history.<br />

EDKO FILMS LTD.<br />

EDKO Films Ltd., 1212, Tower II,<br />

Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, Hong<br />

Kong, 040 Hong Kong, Tel:<br />

+852.2529.3898. Fax: +852.2529.5339. Email:<br />

info@edkofilm.com.hk<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: June Wu (Head of International<br />

Sales and Distribution), Catherine Shao<br />

(Assistant Manager, International Sales and<br />

Distribution)<br />

COLD WAR<br />

AKA: HAN ZHAN<br />

Action<br />

Language: Cantonese<br />

Director: Longman LEUNG, Sunny LUK<br />

Writer: Longman LEUNG, Sunny LUK<br />

Producer: Bill KONG, Matthew TANG,<br />

Ivy HO<br />

Key Cast: (alphabetical order) Aaron<br />

KWOK, Andy LAU, Tony LEUNG Ka-fai,<br />

Eddie PENG, Aarif RAHMAN, Charlie<br />

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YEUNG<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong<br />

Asia’s safest city is about to be tested.<br />

NIGHTFALL<br />

AKA: DA ZHUI BU<br />

Crime Suspense Thriller (NA)<br />

Language: Cantonese, Mandarin<br />

Director: CHOW Hin Yeung<br />

Writer: Christine TO, CHOW Hin Yeung<br />

Producer: Bill KONG, Ivy HO<br />

Key Cast: Nick CHEUNG, Simon YAM,<br />

Janice MAN, Kay TSE<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong<br />

The brutal murder of a celebrity musician<br />

will cause a hardheaded detective to pursue<br />

a killer from the past, only to discover that<br />

in revenge, there’s a fine line between love<br />

and hate.<br />

LOVE IS NOT BLIND<br />

AKA: SHI LIAN 33 TIAN<br />

Romantic Comedy (110 minutes)<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: TENG Huatao<br />

Writer: BAO Jingjing<br />

Executive Producer: Chen Rong, Cao<br />

Huayi<br />

Producer: Michael Yufeng Chi, Teng<br />

Huatao, Wang Ziwen, Chen Xingming<br />

Key Cast: WEN Zhang, BAI Baihe<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: China<br />

Suddenly dumped by her boyfriend of 7<br />

years, Xiaoxian doesn’t think she can go on<br />

until her sassy, but jaded, co-worker forces<br />

her to realize how little she understands<br />

about love.<br />

FIRST TIME<br />

AKA: DI YI CI<br />

Romance, Drama<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: Han Yan<br />

Writer: Han Yan<br />

Key Cast: Angelababy, Mark ZHAO, WEN<br />

Zhang, TIAN Yuan<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong, China<br />

Shi never thought she would have a chance<br />

at love so when an old crush mysteriously<br />

appears, their new romance brings joy into<br />

her lonely life. But as the relationship<br />

intensifies, Shi senses that he’s keeping<br />

something from her and begins to wonder:<br />

Is this love too good to be true?<br />

LOVE FOR LIFE<br />

AKA: ZUI AI<br />

Drama (Romance) (100 minutes)<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: GU Changwei<br />

Writer: YAN Laoshi, YANG Weiwei, GU<br />

Changwei<br />

Producer: GU Changwei, CHEN Xiaodong<br />

Key Cast: ZHANG Ziyi, Aaron KWOK<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: China<br />

Set in a small Chinese village where an<br />

illicit blood trade has spread AIDS to the<br />

community, LOVE FOR LIFE is the story<br />

of De Yi and Qin Qin, two victims faced<br />

with the grim reality of impending death,<br />

who unexpectedly find love and risk everything<br />

to pursue a last chance at happiness<br />

before it?s too late.<br />

TOGETHER<br />

AKA: ZAI YI QI<br />

Documentary (83 minutes)<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: ZHAO Liang<br />

Producer: GU Changwei<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: China<br />

(This film is a companion piece to LOVE<br />

FOR LIFE) AIDS patients participate in the<br />

filming of acclaimed director GU<br />

Changwei’s new feature film, set against<br />

the backdrop of a village grappling with<br />

the disease, and put a real and personal<br />

face to the situation in China, forcing us to<br />

consider what happens to them after the<br />

crews leave<br />

STRAWBERRY CLIFF<br />

AKA: SHU MING<br />

Suspense/Thriller (105 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Chris CHOW<br />

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Writer: Chris CHOW<br />

Producer: LU Cien Hioe, LEE Chi Ngai,<br />

Mathew TANG<br />

Key Cast: Eason CHAN, Leslie-Anne<br />

HUFF<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong/USA/France<br />

Kate has a gift: she can tell when people<br />

will die just by looking at them. A phone<br />

call from “the Afterlife” sets her off on a<br />

journey to Hong Kong, where she encounters<br />

Darren, a bartender who suffers from<br />

an “incomplete soul”. Together, they<br />

embark on an adventure that leads to the<br />

most unexpected truth about life, death and<br />

love.<br />

REST ON YOUR SHOULDER<br />

AKA: JIAN SHANG DIE<br />

Drama (Romantic, Fantasy) (120 minutes)<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: Jacob CHEUNG<br />

Writer: Polly YEUNG, Jacob CHEUNG<br />

Producer: Jacob CHEUNG, LIU Zheng<br />

Ping, ZHANG Zhe Yuan<br />

Key Cast: Aloys CHEN, Gigi LEUNG,<br />

GUEY Lun Mei, JIANG Yi Yan<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: China<br />

Bao sacrifices herself to become a butterfly<br />

in order to save her sick fianc?e Guo and<br />

finds out in the process how true is their<br />

love.<br />

ELEPHANT EYE<br />

FILMS<br />

Elephant Eye Films, 89 5th Ave. Suite 306,<br />

New York, NY 10003 USA, Tel:<br />

1.212.488.8877. Fax: 1.212.488.8878.<br />

www.elephanteyefilms.com E-mail:<br />

info@elephanteyefilms.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Demetri Makoulis (Head of Sales<br />

and Distribution), Kim Jose (Partner),<br />

Cecile Ragot (Acquisition/Sales<br />

Executive), David Robinson (Partner)<br />

Office: Stand # 13 MGB<br />

BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW<br />

Sci-Fi (110 min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Panos Cosmatos<br />

Writer: Panos Cosmatos<br />

Producer: Oliver Linlsey, Christya<br />

Nordstokke<br />

Key Cast: Eva Allan, Marilyn Norry,<br />

Michael Rogers, Rondel Reynoldson, Scott<br />

Hylands<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

Set in a futuristic 1983, Elena finds herself<br />

held against her will in a mysterious facility<br />

under the watchful eye of the sinister Dr.<br />

Barry Nyle. Pushed to her limits, Elena is<br />

left with no choice but to navigate an<br />

escape from her labyrinthine prison, in the<br />

process revealing its hidden secrets.<br />

THE OTHER F WORD<br />

Documentary<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Andrea Blaugrund Nevins<br />

Writer: Andrea Blaugrund Nevins<br />

Executive Producer: Morgan Spurlock,<br />

Jeremy Chilnik<br />

Producer: Cristan Reilly<br />

Key Cast: Tony Adolescent, Art Alexakis,<br />

Rob Chaos<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

What happens when a generation’s ultimate<br />

anti-authoritarians — punk rockers—<br />

become society’s ultimate authorities —<br />

dad’s? With a large chorus of Punk Rock’s<br />

leading men - Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus,<br />

Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, Rise Against’s<br />

Tim McIlrath- The Other F Word follows,<br />

Jim Lindberg, 20-year veteran of skate<br />

punk band,Pennywise, on his hysterical and<br />

moving journey from belting his band’s<br />

anthem, ‘Fuck Authority’, to embracing his<br />

ultimately pivotal authoritarian role in midlife,<br />

fatherhood.<br />

THE SWELL SEASON<br />

Feature Documentary (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Nick August-Perna, Chris<br />

Dapkins, Carlo Mirabella-Davis<br />

Producer: Carlo Mirabella-Davis<br />

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Key Cast: Glen Hansard and Marketa<br />

Irglova<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The Swell Season chronicles Glen Hansard<br />

and Marketa Irglova as their on-screen<br />

romance that was portrayed in the Oscarwinning<br />

film ONCE, blossoms into reality<br />

and threatens to fracture during their world<br />

tour.<br />

WASTED YOUTH<br />

Drama<br />

Language: Greek<br />

Director: Argyris Papadimitropoulos and<br />

Jan Vogel<br />

Writer: Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Jan<br />

Vogel<br />

Co-Production Partners: Oxymoron Films,<br />

Stefi Films<br />

Executive Producer: Konstantinos<br />

Kontovrakis<br />

Producer: Giorgos Karnavas, Argyris<br />

Papadimitropoulos<br />

Key Cast: Harris Markou, Ieronimos<br />

Kaletsanos, Artour Kiviliov<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Greece<br />

Wasted Youth is set during a hot summer<br />

day in Athens. A sixteen-year-old skater<br />

and his friends are amusing themselves in<br />

the big city. A middle-aged man struggles<br />

to take care of his family, though work that<br />

he hates and mounting stress. Their lives<br />

intersect in this contemporary portrait of<br />

the city of Athens. A society in crisis.<br />

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Office: Stand 26 KWA desk, Tel:<br />

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ACT OF GRACE<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Noreen Kershaw<br />

Key Cast: Leo Gregory, Jody Latham<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: United Kingdom<br />

Dezzie befriends and protects new boy<br />

Yasin at school who suffers from perpetual<br />

racist taunts. Then Yasin’s Godfather takes<br />

him back to Hong Kong. Ten years pass<br />

until Yasin returns to Manchester to run the<br />

family firm and Dezzie becomes his lieutenant.<br />

Dezzie is the only white man to do<br />

so this side of the Atlantic. He becomes a<br />

Triad member and runs the family business<br />

in Manchester, Liverpool and the rest of<br />

the UK.<br />

THE PERFECT HOUSE<br />

Horror (96 minutes)<br />

Language: Indonesian<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Indonesia<br />

Julie is a private school tutor for children<br />

with special needs. After being done tutoring<br />

Angie, a mild autistic student, Julie<br />

wants to take a break from work to clear<br />

her mind an deal with the trauma she has<br />

had with the accident that happened to her<br />

parents. Howevver a certain Madam Rita,<br />

offered Julie to give private tutoring lessons<br />

to her grandson, Januar. His prevous<br />

tutor had gone missing. When Julie found<br />

out that Januar’s parents were also killed in<br />

an accident, she felt empathy and agreed to<br />

accept the offer and therefore, withhold her<br />

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leave. But what Julie experienced in the<br />

house is far beyond her expectations. A<br />

very dark secret is hidden inside the house.<br />

Julie’s life is now threatened forever.<br />

VAMPIRE WARRIORS<br />

Action<br />

Language: Cantonese<br />

Director: Dennis SY Law<br />

Key Cast: Pinky Cheung, Luxia Jiang<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong<br />

‘Vampire Warriors’ creates an all new vampire<br />

world; a romantic love story of young<br />

vampires with the all-time-favorite Chinese<br />

vampire martial-art action sequences. With<br />

young Chinese Martial Arts Champion Lu-<br />

Xia JIANG as the vampire hunter at war<br />

with the veteran Kung Fu Master Wah<br />

YUEN as the evil vampire lord, a non-stop<br />

Kung Fu action adventure filled with love<br />

and hatred begins.<br />

DO ELEPHANTS PRAY?<br />

Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Paul Hills<br />

Key Cast: Jonnie Hurn, Julie Dray<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: United Kingdom<br />

Frustrated by the soulless routine world he<br />

is tied to and troubled by the need to find<br />

meaning in everything, the life of advertising<br />

executive Calllum Cutter is thrown into<br />

poetic chaos when he meets the free-spirited<br />

French seductress Malika, who promises<br />

to change his life forever... providing he<br />

keeps her identity a secret.<br />

24 HOURS OF ANGER<br />

Drama<br />

Language: Tamil<br />

Director: T.T. Dhavamann<br />

Key Cast: Vishnu Andhakrishnan, Prakash<br />

Arasu<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Singapore<br />

The first Tamil movie ever produced outside<br />

India or Sri Lanka. This thriller is set<br />

in a working class Singaporean Tamil family.<br />

With gangsters at his doorstep and drug<br />

addicts for parents, 17-year old Prakash<br />

struggles to hold his family together and<br />

protect his mentally-challenged brother<br />

from dangers in and outside the family.<br />

When his family is implicated in a crime<br />

gone sour, Prakash’s resolve and courage<br />

are put to the ultimate test.<br />

MACABRE<br />

AKA: DARAH<br />

Horror<br />

Director: The MO Brothers<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: Indonesia-Singapore<br />

‘To die for’ production values cannot distract<br />

from the sheer breathless gore of this<br />

slash fest extravaganza! The matriarch of a<br />

back-woods residence, to which unsuspecting<br />

‘do-gooders’ have wandered, offers<br />

them a perverse welcome as she proceeds<br />

to rule with an iron rod of a (meat) cleaver!<br />

Her wrath can only be overcome - ‘Alien’<br />

style - by a canny female rival. The outcome<br />

is an unusual one and a half survivors!<br />

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Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor<br />

At EFM: May Yip (General Manager, Sales<br />

& Distribution)<br />

Office: Suite 218, Marriott Hotel, Tel:<br />

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THE VIRAL FACTOR<br />

Action (122mins)<br />

Language: Mandarin, Cantonese, English<br />

Director: Dante Lam<br />

Writer: Dante Lam, Jack Ng (Story by:<br />

Candy Leung)<br />

Executive Producer: Albert Yeung, Solon<br />

So, Wang Zhongjun<br />

Producer: Candy Leung, Albert Lee, Solon<br />

So, Wang Zhonglei<br />

Key Cast: Jay Chou, Nicholas Tse, Lin<br />

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Peng, Bai Bing, Andy Tien<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong/China<br />

IDC Agent Jon (Jay Chou) sustains grave<br />

injuries on a mission and decides to spend<br />

his final days with his mother. She tells<br />

him a long-held secret. To fulfill her wishes,<br />

Jon goes to Southeast Asia. He<br />

befriends medical specialist Rachel ( Lin<br />

Peng). When she is forced into the schemes<br />

of a criminal organization, Jon attempts<br />

rescue and becomes the target of the organization<br />

that includes his estranged brother<br />

Yang (Nicholas Tse)! When the organization<br />

betrays Yang and kidnaps his daughter<br />

Sheng, the brothers join forces to rescue<br />

Rachel and Sheng.<br />

THE GREAT MAGICIAN<br />

Mystery / Romance / Action (126mins)<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: Derek Yee<br />

Writer: Derek Yee, Lau Ho-leung<br />

Executive Producer: Albert Yeung, Yu<br />

Dong, Jeffrey Chan<br />

Producer: Peggy Lee, Mandy Law<br />

Key Cast: Tony Leung, Lau Ching-wan,<br />

Zhou Xun<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong/China<br />

In the early 1920’s, on the streets of<br />

Beijing, the nation’s most talented performers<br />

have gathered to show off their most<br />

spectacular skills. One day, a challenge is<br />

set: 50 silver dollars to whoever can reproduce<br />

the incredible magic trick “Eight<br />

Immortals’ Treat”. Zhang Xian appears<br />

amidst the waiting crowd and decides to try<br />

his hand at it. And so begins a legend that<br />

is pure magic.<br />

DIVA<br />

Romance<br />

Language: Cantonese<br />

Director: Heiward Mak<br />

Producer: Chapman To<br />

Key Cast: Joey Yung<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong/China<br />

When an accident temporarily robs her of<br />

her voice, Diva J flees to a small village to<br />

heal both her mental and physical wounds.<br />

Her life changes when she meets and falls<br />

in love with the blind Hu Ming, who<br />

inspires her to make a comeback. But, in<br />

her absence, a new diva has risen. R has<br />

become an overnight sensation that everyone<br />

sees as the main contender for J’s<br />

crown. Yet, their successes have come at a<br />

high price. J is secretly pining for a forbidden<br />

love that seems destined to wither, and<br />

R has found that the road to stardom is littered<br />

with estranged friends and painful<br />

break-ups. But in the midst of this, both<br />

divas rise to find their own voice.<br />

THE LAST SUPPER<br />

War Epic<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: Lu Chuan<br />

Key Cast: Liu Ye, Daniel Wu, Chang Chen<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong/China<br />

The early history of a nation unfolds<br />

through the actions of three heroes - Liu<br />

Bang, Xiang Yu and Han Xin - who chased<br />

their dreams of uniting a warring nation<br />

and fought through major milestones of the<br />

Chu-Han Contention years in the third century.<br />

From the Julu War to the Hongmen<br />

Banquet, the Gaixia War to the death of<br />

Han Xin, the narration of Liu Bang - who<br />

would be the founding emperor of the new<br />

Han Dynasty - sets the stage for a tale of<br />

betrayal and brothers at war, where the last<br />

man standing inherits a nation.<br />

SHAOLIN<br />

Martial Arts (131 mins)<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: Benny Chan<br />

Writer: Alan Yuen, Cheung Chi-kwong,<br />

Wang Qiuyu, Chan Kam-cheong, Zhang<br />

Tan<br />

Producer: Shi Yongxin, Albert Lee, Benny<br />

Chan<br />

Key Cast: Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse, Fan<br />

Bingbing, Jackie Chan (special appearance)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong/China<br />

China is plunged into strife as feuding war-<br />

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lords try to expand their power by warring<br />

over neighboring lands. Shaolin masters<br />

are forced to take a fiery stand against the<br />

evil warlords. They launch a daring plan of<br />

rescue and escape.<br />

LET THE BULLETS FLY<br />

Action Comedy (132 mins)<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: Jiang Wen<br />

Writer: Zhu Sujin, Shu Ping, Jiang Wen,<br />

Guo Junli, Wei Xiao, Li Bukong<br />

Producer: Ma Ke, Albert Lee, Yin Homber,<br />

Barbie Tung, Zhao Haicheng<br />

Key Cast: Chow Yun-fat, Jiang Wen, Ge<br />

You<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: China/Hong Kong<br />

Set in China during the warring 1920s,<br />

notorious bandit chief Zhang descends<br />

upon a remote provincial town posing as its<br />

new mayor, an identity that he had hijacked<br />

from the former mayor, himself a smalltime<br />

imposter. Hell-bent on making a fast<br />

buck, Zhang soon meets his match in the<br />

tyrannical local gentry Huang who seems<br />

to have more than the goodwill of the<br />

townspeople on his mind. The bullets fly as<br />

a deadly battle of wit and brutality ensues<br />

with each trying to dislodge the other from<br />

his seat of power. Acclaimed director Jiang<br />

Wen (Devils on the Doorstep, The Sun<br />

Also Rises) brings his own brand of dark<br />

humor to this blazing Chinese western<br />

which unites for the first time three of the<br />

top names in Chinese cinema.<br />

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Honoré , Paris, 75008 France, Tel:<br />

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www.europacorp.com E-mail:<br />

contact@europacorp.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Marie-Laure Montironi (Chief<br />

Sales Officer), Cécile Fouché (International<br />

Sales Manager), Andrei Von Kamarowsky<br />

(International Sales Manager)<br />

Office: Mariott Hotel 273, Tel:<br />

+49.30.22000 - 1113 Fax: +49.30.22000 - 1134<br />

THE LADY<br />

Drama (132 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Luc Besson<br />

Writer: Rebecca Frayn<br />

Co-Production Partners: Left Bank Pictures<br />

- France 2 Cinéma<br />

Producer: Europacorp<br />

Key Cast: Michelle Yeoh,David Thewlis<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

The Lady, is an epic love story about how<br />

an extraordinary couple and family sacrifice<br />

their happiness at great human cost for<br />

a higher cause. This is the story of Aung<br />

San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael<br />

Aris. Despite distance, long separations,<br />

and a dangerously hostile regime, their<br />

love endures until the very end. A story of<br />

devotion and human understanding set<br />

against a background of political turmoil<br />

which continues today. The Lady also is<br />

the story of the peaceful quest of the<br />

woman who is at the core of Burma’s<br />

democracy movement. The Lady was written<br />

over a period of three years by Rebecca<br />

Frayn. Interviews with key figures in Aung<br />

San Suu Kyi’s entourage enabled her to<br />

reconstruct for the first time the true story<br />

of Burma’s national heroine.<br />

TAKEN 2<br />

Action<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Olivier Megaton<br />

Writer: Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen<br />

Producer: EUROPACORP<br />

Key Cast: Liam Neeson,Maggie Grace,<br />

Framke Janssen<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

In the sequel to massive worldwide hit,<br />

Taken ($226 million worldwide), Liam<br />

Neeson and Maggie Grace run into trouble<br />

in Istanbul. When Bryan Mills finds out<br />

that his ex-wife Lenore is getting a divorce,<br />

he invites her and their daughter Kim to<br />

join him in Istanbul on the perfect weekend<br />

break with the aim of winning back<br />

Lenore’s heart. But Bryan killed to save his<br />

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daughter, in the original film, and now he<br />

and his family must pay. Bryan and Lenore<br />

are abducted, but Kim manages to escape..<br />

M.S.ONE MAXIMUM SECURITY<br />

Action/Adventure (96’)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Stephen St. Leger & James<br />

Mather<br />

Writer: Luc Besson,Stephen St. Leger &<br />

James Mather<br />

Producer: Europacorp<br />

Key Cast: Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace,<br />

Peter Stormare<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: FRANCE<br />

An all-action sci-fi thriller by award-winning<br />

directors Saint Leger & Mather, from<br />

an original idea by Luc Besson. MS One is<br />

an experimental prison in space where 500<br />

of the most dangerous criminals on Earth<br />

are kept in artificial sleep. Leading a<br />

humanitarian mission, the US president’s<br />

daughter, Emilie Warnock (Maggie Grace)<br />

arrives on board the station, just as an<br />

incredibly violent mutiny breaks out.<br />

Emilie and the MS One crew are taken<br />

hostage by the inmates. President Warnock<br />

decides to send Agent Snow (Guy Pierce)<br />

to the out-of-control space prison, with the<br />

sole mission of saving Emilie and nobody<br />

else...<br />

THE SOURCE<br />

Drama (122’)<br />

Language: Arabic<br />

Director: Radu Mihaileanu<br />

Writer: Radu Mihaileanu, Alain-Michel<br />

Blanc & with the collaboration of<br />

Catherine Ramberg<br />

Co-Production Partners: Elzevir Films, Oï<br />

Oï Oï Productions, Europacorp, France 3<br />

Cinema, CCE, Bim Distribuzione, I Ndigo<br />

FIlms, AgoraFilms<br />

Executive Producer: Elzevir Films, Oï Oï<br />

Oï Productions<br />

Producer: Denis Carot, Marie<br />

Masmonteil,Radu Mihaileanu<br />

Key Cast: Leila Bekhti, Hafsia Herzi, Afsia<br />

Herzi, Saleh Bakri, Biyouna, Youna,<br />

Sabrina Ouazzani, Hiam Annass, &<br />

Mohamed Majd<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: FRANCE / MOROCCO<br />

/ BELGIUM / ITALY<br />

After the international success of The<br />

Concert ($42 Million), the new movie by<br />

acclaimed director Radu Mihaileanu. The<br />

women of a remote village have to trek up<br />

a steep hill to fetch water from the source.<br />

With the support of her husband, Sami,<br />

beautiful young Leila suggests they all go<br />

on strike. No more hugs! No more sex! A<br />

love strike until the men pipe water to the<br />

village. The men’s amused disdain turns to<br />

dismay then despair as the women’s apparently<br />

hopeless cause gathers support, making<br />

the village a laughing stock. When<br />

national newspaper journalist Sofiane<br />

arrives, the men of the village fear even<br />

greater humiliation. But Sofiane hasn’t<br />

come to report on the strike. He wants to<br />

win back his first love, Leila... With a fine<br />

eye for offbeat comedy and small but<br />

essential details, Radu Mihaileanu locks<br />

onto the poetry of human existence to show<br />

little people making a big impact. After<br />

Train of Life, Live and Become and most<br />

recently The Concert, Radu’s new movie is<br />

a beautifully observed allegory about fundamental<br />

issues, such as equality, enlightenment,<br />

religion and respect. As sources of<br />

water and tolerance dry up around the<br />

world, the film depicts a modern-day battle<br />

of the sexes with immediate relevance and<br />

mainstream appeal. The cast will be made<br />

up of local people alongside established<br />

actors, such as César Award-winner Hafsia<br />

Herzi (The Secret of the Grain), Leïla<br />

Bekhti (A Prophet) and Saleh Bakri (The<br />

Band’s Visit).<br />

THE BLIND MAN<br />

Thriller (90’)<br />

Language: French<br />

Director: Xavier Palud<br />

Writer: Luc Besson & Eric Besnard<br />

Co-Production Partners: Europacorp –<br />

France 2 Cinema<br />

Key Cast: Lambert Wilson, & Jacques<br />

Gamblin<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: France / Morocco / Belgium / Italy<br />

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A cynical detective stumbles on intrigue in<br />

the corridors of power in this suspenseful<br />

crime thriller by Xavier Palud, director of<br />

The Eye, based on an original idea by Luc<br />

Besson. A beautiful young woman is<br />

escorted home late at night by her bodyguard.<br />

When she’s alone, a shadowy figure<br />

emerges from the darkness and strangles<br />

her. A superbly planned and executed murder.<br />

The investigation is led by veteran<br />

detective Lassalle, a loner who is intrigued<br />

by the blind piano tuner whose prints are<br />

all over the apartment. But his alibi checks<br />

out and his disability makes him an unlikely<br />

murderer. Soon, as the victims pile up<br />

with no obvious link between them except<br />

the ingenious and elaborately staged circumstances<br />

of their deaths, Lassalle finds<br />

himself hunting a serial killer. When he<br />

gets too close to some shady business in<br />

the corridors of power, his superiors take<br />

him off the case, but Lassalle continues his<br />

investigation with the support of his young<br />

partner Héloïse. The murderer is playing<br />

with him, drawing him into a high-risk<br />

game of cat and mouse, in which Lassalle<br />

has everything to lose.<br />

IF YOU DIE, I’LL KILL YOU<br />

Drama (95’)<br />

Language: French - Krudish<br />

Director: Hiner Saleem<br />

Writer: Hiner Saleem<br />

Co-Production Partners: Mact Prodcutions<br />

Producer: Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre<br />

Key Cast: Jonathan Zaccai, Golshifteh<br />

Farahani, Billey Demirtas<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

The new film of the director of internationally<br />

acclaimed « Vodka Lemon » and «<br />

Kilometre Zero » is a romantic comedy in<br />

the vein of “Just a kiss”. In Paris’ cosmopolitan<br />

and colorful 10th arrondissement,<br />

Philippe, who’s fresh out of prison, crosses<br />

paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to<br />

track down an Iraqi war criminal. Avdal,<br />

who dreams of staying in France, plans to<br />

bring his fiancée Siba to Paris. She’s due to<br />

arrive in the next few days. The two men<br />

strike up a friendship and when Avdal dies<br />

suddenly and unexpectedly, Philippe finds<br />

himself left to organize the funeral arrangements.<br />

What should he do with the body?<br />

Siba arrives in Paris, and soon learns that<br />

Avdal has died. She is taken in by a group<br />

of Kurdish men and before long she also<br />

meets Philippe – all of whom are quite<br />

smitten by her beauty. Meanwhile, Avdal’s<br />

father Cheto, a devout muslim, comes to<br />

Paris to grieve for his son. He intends to<br />

force Siba to return to her homeland, but<br />

the young woman has now had a taste of<br />

freedom.<br />

A MONSTER IN PARIS<br />

Animation (89’)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Bibo Bergeron<br />

Writer: Bibo Bergeron & Stephane<br />

Kazandjian<br />

Co-Production Partners: Europacorp – Bibo<br />

Films – France 3 Cinema – Walking The<br />

Dog<br />

Key Cast: Adam Goldberg, Jay Harrington,<br />

Danny Huston, Bob Balaban,Sean Lennon,<br />

Vanessa Paradis, Madeline Zima &<br />

Catherine O’Hara<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

From the director of Shark Tale, A Monster<br />

In Paris combines suspense, romance and<br />

adventure with superb animation in a<br />

movie with universal appeal. Paris, 1910.<br />

Panic sweeps the city. Floodwaters are rising<br />

and a monster is on the loose!<br />

Formidable Commissioner Maynott and his<br />

men hunt it down day and night. With no<br />

luck. It could be that in the limelight at The<br />

Rare Bird, a Montmartre cabaret where<br />

feisty Lucille is the star attraction, isn’t a<br />

bad place to hide at all!<br />

THE MAN WHO LAUGHS<br />

Drama<br />

Language: French<br />

Director: Jean -Pierre Ameris<br />

Writer: Guillaume Laurant<br />

Co-Production Partners: Incognita Films<br />

Key Cast: Marc-Andre Grondin, Gerard<br />

Depardieu, Christa Theret, Emmanuelle<br />

Seigner, & Ulrich Matthes<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

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Country of Origin: France<br />

Academy Award-nominated Gérard<br />

Depardieu (Cyrano de Bergerac) stars with<br />

César Award winner Marc-André Grondin<br />

(The First Day of the Rest of My Life) and<br />

Emmanuelle Seigner (La Vie en Rose) in<br />

Jean-Pierre Améris’s (Romantics<br />

Anonymous) adaptation of Victor Hugo’s<br />

classic novel, which was the direct inspiration<br />

for the character of the Joker in<br />

Batman. Abducted and mutilated as a child<br />

by the sinister Comprachicos, Gwynplaine<br />

is abandoned and raised by traveling showman<br />

Ursus. The diabolical smile etched on<br />

his face by the Comprachicos provokes fascination<br />

and hilarity, and “The Man Who<br />

Laughs” is soon a popular fairground<br />

attraction in towns up and down the country.<br />

Audiences are enthralled by the tender<br />

romance of Gwynplaine and Dea, the<br />

young blind woman he saved from a snowstorm.<br />

When he discovers that he is in fact<br />

the heir to titles and riches, Gwynplaine<br />

resolves to use his position to plead the<br />

cause of the poor. But he is confronted by<br />

the cynicism and seduction of the rich and<br />

powerful. Nobody listens. They just keep<br />

on laughing at him.<br />

A BOTTLE IN THE GAZA SEA<br />

Drama/Romantic (90’)<br />

Language: French - Hebrew - Arabic -<br />

English<br />

Director: Thierry Binisti<br />

Writer: Valerie Zenatti, Thierry Binisti<br />

Co-Production Partners: TS Productions -<br />

EMA Films- LAMA Films<br />

Key Cast: Agathe Bonitzer, Mahmud<br />

Shalaby, Haim Abbass<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

Based on the novel by Valérie Zenatti. Tal<br />

is 17 years old. Naïm is 20. She’s Israeli.<br />

He’s Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem.<br />

He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land<br />

of scorched earth, where fathers bury their<br />

children. They must endure an explosive<br />

situation that is not of their choosing at an<br />

age where young people are falling in love<br />

and taking their place in adult life. A bottle<br />

thrown in the sea and a correspondence by<br />

email nurture the slender hope that their<br />

relationship might give them the strength to<br />

confront this harsh reality – to grapple with<br />

it, and thereby ever so slightly change it.<br />

Only 60 miles separate them but how many<br />

bombings, check-points, sleepless nights<br />

and bloodstained days stand between them?<br />

LOVE LASTS THREE YEARS<br />

Romantic comedy (90’)<br />

Language: French<br />

Director: Frederic Beigbeder<br />

Writer: Frederic Beigbeder, Christophe<br />

Turpin and Gilles Verdiani<br />

Co-Production Partners: The Film -AKN-<br />

Europacorp-France 2 Cinema- Scope<br />

Pictures<br />

Key Cast: Gaspard Proust,Louise<br />

Bourgoin, Joey Starr, Jonathan Lambert,<br />

Frederique Bel, Elisa Sednaoui & Valerie<br />

Lemercier<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

Adapted from Frédéric Beigbeder’s bestseller,<br />

a scintillating romantic comedy starring<br />

Louise Bourgoin and Gaspard Proust.<br />

When his wife Anne leaves him for a successful<br />

writer, Marc Marronnier, a highprofile<br />

literary critic, is rocked by her accusations<br />

that he is immature and fickle. In<br />

despair or maybe defiance, Marc starts<br />

writing a cynical pamphlet denouncing<br />

love. At the same time, his life is turned on<br />

its head by his encounter with Alice, an<br />

irresistible and inaccessible young woman,<br />

who forces Marc to reconsider everything<br />

he believes in...<br />

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At EFM: Guy East (Co-Chairman), Alex<br />

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RUSH<br />

Action/Drama<br />

Director: Ron Howard<br />

Writer: Peter Morgan<br />

Executive Producer: Exclusive Media,<br />

Cross Creek, Todd Hallowell<br />

Producer: Ron Howard, Brian Oliver, Brian<br />

Grazer, Eric Fellner, Peter Morgan and<br />

Andrew Eaton<br />

Key Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel<br />

Brühl,Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Laria<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Set against the sexy, glamorous and spectacular<br />

1970’s golden age of Formula 1<br />

racing, RUSH portrays the exhilarating true<br />

story of two of the greatest rivals the world<br />

has ever witnessed – handsome English<br />

playboy James Hunt (Hemsworth) and his<br />

methodical, brilliant opponent Niki Lauda<br />

(Brühl). Following their personal lives on<br />

and off the track, the two drivers push<br />

themselves to the breaking point of physical<br />

and psychological endurance, where<br />

there were no short cuts to victory and no<br />

margin for error – if you make a mistake,<br />

you die.<br />

DISCONNECT<br />

Drama (TBD)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Henry Alex-Rubin<br />

Writer: Andrew Stern<br />

Executive Producer: Brad Simpson<br />

Producer: William Horberg, Mickey<br />

Liddell, Jennifer Hilton, Marc Forster<br />

Key Cast: Jason Bateman, Hope Davis,<br />

Frank Grillo, Michael Nyqvist, Paula<br />

Patton, Andrea Riseborough, Alexander<br />

Skarsgård, Max Thieriot, Colin Ford, Jonah<br />

Bobo<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Interweaving multiple emotional storylines<br />

about people searching for human connec-<br />

tion in today’s wired world of the internet,<br />

DISCONNECT explores the consequences<br />

of living life everywhere but right here.<br />

OUTRUN<br />

Action/Romantic comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Dax Shepard, David Palmer<br />

Writer: Dax Shepard<br />

Executive Producer: Exclusive Media, Jim<br />

Casey<br />

Producer: Andrew Panay, Nate Tuck, Kim<br />

Waltrip<br />

Key Cast: Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell,<br />

Bradley Cooper, Tom Arnold<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Living under an assumed identity, ex-getaway<br />

driver “Charlie Bronson” agrees to<br />

break the rules of witness protection to<br />

drive his sexy girlfriend to California so<br />

she can land her dream job. When the<br />

authorities and his former crew learn he is<br />

back behind the wheel, they hit the road to<br />

chase him down.<br />

SNITCH<br />

Action/Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Ric Roman Waugh<br />

Writer: Justin Haythe, Ric Roman Waugh<br />

Executive Producer: Justin Haythe, Becki<br />

Trujillo, Participant Media<br />

Producer: Dany Garcia, Dwayne Johnson,<br />

David Fanning, Exclusive Media<br />

Key Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Susan<br />

Sarandon, Benjamin Bratt, Jon Bernthal,<br />

Barry Pepper<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Dwayne Johnson stars as a father whose<br />

teenage son is wrongly accused of a crime<br />

and is sentenced to 10 years in jail. In order<br />

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to clear his son’s name, he dangerously<br />

goes undercover and risks everything,<br />

including his own life, to reduce his son’s<br />

sentence.<br />

END OF WATCH<br />

Action/Thriller/Crime<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: David Ayer<br />

Writer: David Ayer<br />

Executive Producer: Randall Emmett,<br />

George Furla, Adam Kassan, Chrisann<br />

Verges<br />

Producer: John Lesher, David Ayer,<br />

Exclusive Media<br />

Key Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña,<br />

Anna Kendrick, America Ferrera<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A powerful story of family, friendship,<br />

love, honor and courage, END OF WATCH<br />

follows young Los Angeles police officers<br />

Taylor (Gyllenhaal) and Zavala (Peña) as<br />

they patrol the meanest streets of south<br />

central Los Angeles. Unfolding through an<br />

astonishingly unique point of view, captured<br />

by the cameras of those caught in the<br />

line of fire, we experience a riveting portrait<br />

of the city’s darkest and most violent<br />

corners, the cops who risk their lives there<br />

every day, and the price they and their families<br />

are forced to pay.<br />

UNDEFEATED<br />

Documentary Feature Film (113)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin<br />

Executive Producer: Ralph Zipper, Chris<br />

Miller, Paolo Coppola, Michele Farinola,<br />

Neeraj Kohli, Exclusive Media<br />

Producer: Ed Cunningham, Seth Gordon,<br />

Dan Lindsay, Rich Middlemas, Exclusive<br />

Media<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Set against the backdrop of an American<br />

football season, UNDEFEATED is a coming-of-age<br />

vérité documentary film centering<br />

on three underprivileged student-athletes<br />

from inner-city Memphis and an<br />

unexpected volunteer coach who struggles<br />

to provide them with the discipline,<br />

resources and inspiration they’ll need to<br />

not only overcome their bleak surroundings,<br />

but also to win the first playoff game<br />

in their high school’s 110-year history.<br />

GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN<br />

THE MATERIAL WORLD<br />

Documentary Feature Film Music (208)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Martin Scorsese<br />

Executive Producer: Margaret Bodde<br />

Producer: Olivia Harrison, Nigel Sinclair,<br />

Martin Scorsese<br />

Key Cast: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr,<br />

Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton, Ravi Shankar,<br />

Phil Spector, Terry Gilliam, Jackie Stewart,<br />

Eric Idle, George Martin<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Academy Award®-winning director Martin<br />

Scorsese traces the lines of George<br />

Harrison’s journey from Liverpool to<br />

become one of the most talented and celebrated<br />

guitarists and songwriters in the<br />

world.<br />

SO UNDERCOVER<br />

Action/Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Tom Vaughan<br />

Writer: Allan Loeb, Steven Pearl<br />

Executive Producer: Rob Cowan, Harvey<br />

Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Jodi Zuckerman<br />

Weine, Ari Pinchot, Matthew Salloway,<br />

Randy Manis, Guy East, Chris Miller,<br />

Andy Mason<br />

Producer: Allan Loeb, Steven Pearl, Tish<br />

Cyrus, Nigel Sinclair, Tobin Armbrust<br />

Key Cast: Miley Cyrus, Jeremy Piven,<br />

Kelly Osbourne<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The world’s #1 pop star, Miley Cyrus, stars<br />

as a young private investigator who must<br />

transform herself from a tough, street wise<br />

private investigator to a refined, sophisticated<br />

university girl to help protect the<br />

daughter of a one-time mobster.<br />

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+ 31.20.7582.370.<br />

www.international.eyefilm.nl E-mail:<br />

national@eyefilm.nl<br />

At EFM: Sandra den Hamer (CEO),<br />

Claudia Landsberger (Head EYE<br />

International), Ido Abram (Director of<br />

Presentation & Communications)<br />

Office: Stand #09 Martin Gropius Bau, Tel:<br />

+49.30.767646-408<br />

HEMEL<br />

Drama (80 min)<br />

Language: Dutch<br />

Director: Sacha Polak<br />

Writer: Helena van der Meulen<br />

Producer: Circe Films<br />

Key Cast: Hannah Hoekstra, Hans Dagelet,<br />

Rifka Lodeizen<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

Hemel has lived closely with her father<br />

Gijs since the early death of her mother.<br />

Gijs has an endless string of young women<br />

attached to him, but Hemel feels that none<br />

of them constitute a threat to their exclusive<br />

relationship. This changes, however,<br />

when Gijs meets Sophie, a talented young<br />

auctioneer.<br />

KAUWBOY<br />

Family (87 min)<br />

Language: Dutch<br />

Director: Boudewijn Koole<br />

Writer: Jolein Laarman, Boudewijn Koole<br />

Producer: Waterland Film<br />

Key Cast: Rick Lens, Loek Peters, Cahit<br />

Olmez, Susan Radder<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

Jojo (10) lives with his father, whom he<br />

adores, even though he can be sometimes<br />

difficult and aggressive. One day Jojo finds<br />

a jackdaw that he names Jack, and decides<br />

to take care of it even though his father dis-<br />

approves. When his father finds out that<br />

Jojo has lied to him they have a huge argument<br />

and Jack flies away. Jojo is sad and<br />

runs away too, but in the end it is not Jack<br />

who comforts Jojo, but his father.<br />

SNACKBAR<br />

Drama (80 min)<br />

Language: Dutch<br />

Director: Meral Uslu<br />

Writer: Stan Lapinski<br />

Producer: Lemming Film<br />

Key Cast: Ali Cifteci, Nazmye Oral,<br />

Dilleria Horuz, Esra Horuz.<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

The snackbar, owned by Abi and located in<br />

a suburb of Amsterdam, is a refuge for the<br />

local Moroccan youth. They are wild, violent<br />

and criminal but to them Abi is like an<br />

old, trustworthy Turkish uncle - understanding,<br />

funny but also strict. But what if<br />

Abi, with his addiction to backgammon,<br />

jeopardises this state of harmony?<br />

TAKING CHANCES<br />

AKA: PATATJE OORLOG<br />

Youth (87 min)<br />

Language: Dutch<br />

Director: Nicole van Kilsdonk<br />

Writer: Lotte Tabbers<br />

Producer: Lemming Film<br />

Key Cast: Pippa Allen, Johnny de Mol,<br />

Rifka Lodeizen<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

Kiek is worried as her father works in a<br />

war zone. To lengthen the odds of her<br />

father getting hurt, she comes up with a<br />

strange and unique idea: she needs a dead<br />

dog and a dead mouse, because Kiek doesn’t<br />

know one person who has a dead<br />

mouse, a dead dog and a dead father.<br />

Surely the odds against that are enormous?<br />

ANTON CORBIJN INSIDE OUT<br />

Documentary (90 min)<br />

Language: Dutch/English<br />

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Director: Klaartje Quirijns<br />

Writer: Klaartje Quirijns, Thomas den<br />

Drijver<br />

Co-Production Partners: CTM, Production<br />

Value, Savage Film, Fastnet<br />

Producer: LEV Pictures<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

An intimate portrait of Corbijn as he travels<br />

the world as photographer, filmmaker<br />

and video-artist. A unique look at the<br />

drama and conflict inherent within the man<br />

himself: the sacrifice of his private life for<br />

a meteoric career, his commercial success<br />

against his desire for artistic recognition,<br />

and how audience adulation contrasts with<br />

his personal loneliness. Director Quirijns’<br />

close personal relationship with Anton has,<br />

over two years, allowed her unprecedented<br />

access to both the man and his work.<br />

THE GANG OF OSS<br />

AKA: DE BENDE VAN OSS<br />

historical crime drama (111 min)<br />

Language: Dutch<br />

Director: André van Duren<br />

Writer: André van Duren, Paul Jan<br />

Nelissen<br />

Producer: Sigma Pictures Productions<br />

Key Cast: Sylvia Hoeks, Frank Lammers,<br />

Marcel Musters, Matthias Schoenaerts<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

In the 1930s, the city of Oss in southern<br />

Holland was caught up in a vicious crime<br />

wave. The military police was sent from<br />

the north to free the city from the terrifying<br />

‘Gang of Oss’. When the police discovers<br />

sex crimes and fraud even among the local<br />

clerks and prominent city folk, the conflict<br />

escalates between the Catholic south and<br />

Protestant north, which finally leads to the<br />

fall of the government – the last one operating<br />

before the war.<br />

SÜSKIND<br />

Drama (117 min)<br />

Language: Dutch<br />

Director: Rudolf van den Berg<br />

Writer: Rudolf van den Berg, Chris W.<br />

Mitchell<br />

Producer: Fu Works, Cadenza Films<br />

Key Cast: Jeroen Spitzenbergen, Karl<br />

Markovics, Nyncke Beekhuyzen, Nasrdin<br />

Dchar<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

1942. In an attempt to save a group of<br />

Jewish children from deportation, Walter<br />

Süskind befriends the SS officer Ferdinand<br />

Aus der Fünten. When the latter discovers<br />

that Süskind has been using him, and that<br />

their friendship is nothing but a lie, the<br />

Nazi exacts a ruthless revenge upon the<br />

Jew.<br />

ALFIE THE LITTLE WEREWOLF<br />

AKA: DOLFJE WEERWOLFJE<br />

Family (90 min)<br />

Language: Dutch<br />

Director: Joram Lürsen<br />

Writer: Tamara Bos<br />

Producer: BosBros<br />

Key Cast: Ole Kroes, Maas Bronkhuyzen,<br />

Remko Vrijdag, Kim van Kooten<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

Alfie has no idea what is happening to him<br />

when he turns into a little werewolf on his<br />

7th birthday, so he jumps from his bedroom<br />

window and runs through the park, chasing<br />

ducks and chickens. When daylight comes,<br />

he returns home, and wakes up as Alfie<br />

again. His foster brother Timmie thinks it’s<br />

awesome, but Alfie doesn’t want to be a<br />

werewolf. He’s afraid his foster parents<br />

won’t want him anymore. Alfie wants to<br />

keep his secret whatever it takes…<br />

TONY 10<br />

Comedy (85 min)<br />

Language: Dutch<br />

Director: Mischa Kamp<br />

Writer: Mieke de Jong<br />

Producer: Lemming Film<br />

Key Cast: Jeroen Spitzenberger, Rifka<br />

Lodeizen, Annet Malherbe<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

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A family film which tells the unlikely and<br />

timeless story of ten year old Tony, whose<br />

father becomes Secretary of State, having<br />

once been a humble crane driver. As a<br />

result Tony’s parents get divorced and he<br />

does everything he can to bring them back<br />

together. He even asks the Dutch Queen to<br />

help him out…<br />

PENNY’S SHADOW<br />

Family (100 min)<br />

Language: English (dubbed), original version<br />

Dutch<br />

Director: Steven de Jong<br />

Writer: Lars Boom<br />

Producer: Two Young Rights<br />

Key Cast: Rick Engelkes, Tanja Jess, Levi<br />

van Kempen, Liza Sips<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

The story of Shadow, the descendant of a<br />

horse killed during a catastrophic rescue<br />

operation, is depicted in a comic book<br />

drawn by Kai’s mother. The book is also<br />

about her, her partner Erik, and about Kai’s<br />

birth. But following a terrible argument,<br />

Kai witnesses his mother’s accidental<br />

death, an event that for years fills him with<br />

remorse. Years later Erik runs a farm where<br />

young people come for riding holidays. For<br />

Kai, the arrival of Lisa will change everything.<br />

THE HEINEKEN KIDNAPPING<br />

AKA: DE HEINEKEN ONTVOERING<br />

Crime, thriller (100 min)<br />

Language: Dutch<br />

Director: Maarten Treurniet<br />

Writer: Kees van Beijnum, Maarten<br />

Treurniet<br />

Producer: IDTV Film/Topkapi Films<br />

Key Cast: Rutger Hauer, Reinout Scholten<br />

van Aschat, Gijs Naber, Sallie Harmsen<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

THE HEINEKEN KIDNAPPING is based<br />

on the capture of beer tycoon Alfred<br />

Heineken that hit the headlines in the<br />

1980s, both in the Netherlands and across<br />

the world. The film goes beyond the wellknown<br />

story of the kidnap itself to tell of<br />

Heineken’s revenge, which culminates in<br />

the pursuit of the kidnappers across the<br />

world. The prime focus is on the psychological<br />

power struggle between the successful<br />

businessman and a ruthless young<br />

criminal bearing a grudge.<br />

SONNY BOY<br />

Drama (131 min)<br />

Language: Dutch/German<br />

Director: Maria Peters<br />

Writer: Maria Peters, Pieter van der<br />

Waterbeemd<br />

Producer: Shooting Star Filmcompany<br />

Key Cast: Ricky Koole, Sergio Hasselbank,<br />

Marcel Hensema, Micha Hulshof<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

SONNY BOY is the true, exceptional love<br />

story between two apparently ordinary people:<br />

Rika, a typical Dutch mother of four<br />

children, and Waldemar, a Surinam man<br />

seventeen years her junior. Their love can<br />

survive all the presumptions and obstructions<br />

of the cruel world outside, but is<br />

finally unable to cope with the brutal and<br />

devastating power of war.<br />

MEET THE FOKKENS<br />

AKA: OUWEHOEREN<br />

Documentary (76 min)<br />

Language: Dutch<br />

Director: Rob Schröder, Gabriëlle Provaas<br />

Writer: Rob Schröder, Gabriëlle Provaas<br />

Producer: Submarine<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

Louise and Martine Fokkens are identical<br />

twins. For over fifty years they have been<br />

working as prostitutes. They freed themselves<br />

from the control of their pimps, ran<br />

their own brothel, and set up the first informal<br />

trade union for prostitutes. They are<br />

familiar faces in Amsterdam’s Red Light<br />

District, but soon they will bid their<br />

farewells. A portrait of two remarkable<br />

women, as well as a history of the Red<br />

Light District over the past fifty years.<br />

WATER CHILDREN<br />

Documentary (75 min)<br />

Language: Japanese/Dutch<br />

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Director: Aliona van der Horst<br />

Writer: Aliona van der Horst<br />

Producer: Zeppers Film & TV<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

The internationally acclaimed pianist and<br />

artist Tomoko Mukaiyama asks Japanese<br />

women to participate in her art project,<br />

exploring their bodies’ monthly rhythms.<br />

For the first time in their lives these<br />

women give words to this experience,<br />

resulting in powerful testimonies about<br />

womanhood, loss and the power of life.<br />

Gradually this film evolves into a visual<br />

and musical conversation between the filmmaker<br />

and pianist, that encompasses Bach,<br />

a labyrinth, Japanese nature and a unique<br />

Buddhist ritual for unborn children.<br />

FANTASTIC FILMS<br />

INTERNATIONAL,<br />

LLC<br />

Fantastic Films International, LLC, 3854<br />

Clayton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027<br />

USA, Tel: 1.323.661.7088 Fax:<br />

1.323.661.7188. www.fantasticfilmsinternational.com<br />

E-mail: roxane@ffimail.com<br />

At EFM: Roxane Barbat (President), Fred<br />

deWysocki (Partner)<br />

Office: MGB Stand #119, Tel:<br />

310.560.9577<br />

DELHI SAFARI<br />

3D Animation<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Nikhil Advani<br />

Co-Production Partners: Krayon Pictures<br />

Pvt. Ltd.<br />

Key Cast: Vanessa Williams, Jason<br />

Alexander, Cary Elwes, Christopher Lloyd,<br />

Brad Garrett<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Country of Origin: India<br />

A fun, motley crew of animals embark on a<br />

journey across the mountains and rivers of<br />

India, hitching rides in trains and trucks to<br />

take their petition to the leader of the<br />

humans in Delhi. Along the way they discover<br />

that not only are their homes in jeop-<br />

ardy, but the homes and lives of thousands<br />

of other animals as well. Their exciting<br />

journey becomes one where enemies<br />

become friends and an unlikely family<br />

comes together to fight for what rightfully<br />

belongs to them - A HOME.<br />

Z-BAW<br />

3D Animation<br />

Language: English / Spanish<br />

Director: Ricardo Gomez<br />

Co-Production Partners: Imagination Films<br />

/ Fantastic Films<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: Mexico<br />

In a far off galaxy, in order to bring balance<br />

to the universe, the gods forged five<br />

trophies honoring 5 virtues: Love, Strength,<br />

Wisdom, Leadership and Friendship. One<br />

of these trophies can only be earned once<br />

every 50 years by winning the Great<br />

Intergalactic Tournament of a hockey/soccer-like<br />

sport called “Z-BAW”. ZAX and<br />

his evil Niurax Corporation plan to seize<br />

control of planet Mantar by stealing four of<br />

the trophies and then winning the Great Z-<br />

BAW Tournament to get the fifth trophy.<br />

Only young KIBIT and his inexperienced<br />

team of: MARA, PLUNK and BERDI will<br />

have the opportunity to save the planet.<br />

But, Kibit’s team doesn’t stand a chance<br />

unless they first locate RAH “The<br />

Legend”, a former great Z-BAW player,<br />

who is the only person able to coach this<br />

underdog team to victory. The action is<br />

even more amazing when viewed in the<br />

native stereoscopic 3D.<br />

RAPTURE<br />

Sci Fi/ Horror<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Richard Lowry<br />

Co-Production Partners: Royal 11 Films<br />

Producer: Kimber Eastwood<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

It happens without warning. All electrical<br />

devices are abruptly shut down. Dark,<br />

unearthly clouds form over cities and<br />

towns from which lightning strikes and<br />

vaporizes its victims. Food and water is<br />

suddenly contaminated, causing bacterial<br />

infection that kills within the hour,<br />

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Ominous robed figures sweep the cities and<br />

landscapes, vaporizing everyone in sight.<br />

Caught on the outside of civilization are<br />

four people, confronted with the unexplainable<br />

dangers surrounding them at every<br />

turn. In their perilous journey to find<br />

refuge, the burning questions arise: is this<br />

an alien attack on mankind? God’s biblical<br />

wrath? Biological warfare from an earthbound<br />

enemy? As the nightmarish events<br />

continue to unfold, the grim reality<br />

becomes clear to them, that by day’s end<br />

mankind will be extinct. With over 150<br />

state-of-the-art visual effects shots, this is a<br />

must have apocalypse thriller.<br />

SHE WOLF RISING<br />

Horror<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Marc Leland<br />

Co-Production Partners: Triboro<br />

Pictures/Cat Productions<br />

Key Cast: Tiffany Shepis, Debbie Rochon,<br />

Tina Krause<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

A nonstop supernatural thriller that<br />

explores the dark side of underground filmmaking.<br />

Gina Skylar (Tiffany Shepis), the<br />

reigning queen of horror lures one of her<br />

passionate fans, Jake Bubar (Tim Mandala)<br />

into her decadent world of illusions and<br />

myths. Jake’s desire for Gina is challenged<br />

when he discovers that she is a descendent<br />

of the She Wolf, Lupa, who protected<br />

Romulus and Remus, the founders of<br />

Rome. The She Wolf guards and nurtures<br />

the helpless while in human form, but once<br />

she transforms, she is bestial and dangerous.<br />

Is this real or just another scene from<br />

one of Gina’s movies? The twists continue<br />

as demons, beasts and a mentally unstable<br />

movie producer try to stop their forbidden<br />

desire.<br />

THE WINTER PRINCE AND THE<br />

FLAME ETERNIUM<br />

Sci Fi / Family<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Tom Whitus<br />

Co-Production Partners: Fantastic Films<br />

International / Silver Hills Pictures<br />

Key Cast: celebrity cast to be announced<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

Prince Frederick, a young warrior of mysterious<br />

royal lineage, and the sorcerer<br />

Thomas travel in search of adventure. Their<br />

quest leads them to the Kingdom of<br />

Paradiso a former Shangri-la now stuck in<br />

an eternal winter, because a dark wizard<br />

has extinguished The Flame Eternium to<br />

force the beautiful Princess Roxana into an<br />

unwanted marriage. When Frederick -<br />

dubbed The Winter Prince by the locals -<br />

falls in love with Princess Roxana, it is up<br />

to he and Thomas to re-ignite the Flame<br />

Eternium and bring warmth back to the<br />

frozen Kingdom. Thomas can’t defeat the<br />

dark wizard, but he does have a plan - find<br />

the last dragon hidden an the icy mountain<br />

cave and trick it into re-lighting the flame<br />

with its hellish breath - before Frederick’s<br />

love is lost forever.<br />

LAST KUNG FU MONK<br />

Martial Arts<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Li Peng Zhang<br />

Co-Production Partners: Shaolin Film<br />

Productions Inc.<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

A Kung-Fu Monk comes to the States to<br />

take care of his deceased brother’s son.<br />

While setting up a school and learning<br />

about life in the US, he becomes embroiled<br />

in an underground fighting club in order to<br />

save the lives of his friends.<br />

SAM STEELE AND THE CRYSTAL<br />

CHALICE<br />

Family / Children<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Tom Whitus<br />

Producer: Silver Hills Pictures<br />

Key Cast: Kevin Sorbo, Dee Wallace,<br />

Jacob Hays, Katherine McNamara<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

Sam and the junior detective agency go on<br />

a treasure hunt to find the crystal chalice<br />

enlisting the help of a Russian operative<br />

with a mysterious past and murky motives.<br />

EL DORADO - IN 3D (LIVE ACTION)<br />

Horror / Comedy / Musical<br />

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Language: English<br />

Director: Richard Driscoll<br />

Producer: House of Fear<br />

Key Cast: Daryl Hannah, David Carradine,<br />

Patrick Bergin, Michael Madsen, Brigitte<br />

Nielsen, Steve Guttenberg, Jeff Fahey,<br />

Oliver Tobias, David Soul<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Country of Origin: UK<br />

This is a live action 3D<br />

comedy/horror/musical/road movie and is<br />

the first ever British movie to be shot in<br />

3D. As they arrive at El Dorado’s 200th<br />

Anniversary Celebration the townsfolk are<br />

hungry to celebrate their beloved town -<br />

which does prove to be unfortunate to the<br />

tourists who come to visit. What ensues is<br />

murder, mayhem, cannibalism, an appreciation<br />

of blue grass, oh and a severed ear.<br />

AGENT C.R.U.S.H.<br />

Animation, Action<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Sean Robinson<br />

Co-Production Partners: Crush Productions<br />

Ltd.<br />

Producer: Tony Ludwig, Barrie Robinson,<br />

Fred deWysocki, Roxane Barbat<br />

Key Cast: (voice overs) Ioan Gruffudd<br />

(Fantastic 4), Neve Campbell, Roger<br />

Moore, Brian Cox, Brian Blessed, (also<br />

just added: Danny Glover)<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Country of Origin: UK<br />

The setting for the movie is two hundred<br />

years into the future, much has changed but<br />

one thing remains a constant, crime and it’s<br />

getting a little bizarre.<br />

A FOX’S TALE<br />

Animation - comic adventure<br />

Key Cast: (voice-overs) Freddie Highmore,<br />

Miranda Richardson, Bill Nighy and<br />

Sienna Miller<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: Hungary / UK<br />

“Little Jack” (Freddie Highmore) is an<br />

adorable young fox who is busy enjoying a<br />

blissful life, chasing frogs, butterflies and<br />

playing in the forest with his loving family.<br />

Until one night when his perfect world is<br />

turned upside down.<br />

SAM STEELE AND THE JUNIOR<br />

DETECTIVE AGENCY<br />

Family / Children<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Tom Whitus<br />

Producer: Silver Hills Pictures<br />

Key Cast: Luke Perry, M. Emmett Walsh,<br />

Jacob Hays, Katherine McNamara<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

13-year-old Sam Steele Jr. forms his own<br />

private detective agency to emulate his<br />

father, Des Moines detective Sam Steele,<br />

and helps track down a jewel thief.<br />

MAX MAGICIAN AND THE LEGEND<br />

OF THE RINGS<br />

Family, live action<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Kevin Summerfield<br />

Co-Production Partners: Scorpio Studios<br />

Producer: Kimberly Gough<br />

Key Cast: Timothy Stultz, Ken Mitzkowitz,<br />

Erika Ann, Steven Barry Prince<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

A young boy receives an ancient magical<br />

book that opens a mystical door into an<br />

enchanted kingdom where an adventure<br />

filled with warriors, elves, queens and sorcerers<br />

awaits.<br />

DOGS OF CHINATOWN<br />

Martial Arts Action<br />

Key Cast: Eric Jacobus & Ray Carbonel<br />

(The Stunt People), Huyen Thi (Fall Down<br />

Dead), Bill Oberst Jr (Sherman’s March,<br />

The Secret Life Of Bees), Patrick Keenan<br />

(Dark Remains), Christy Johnson (Tobe<br />

Hooper’s Mortuary)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

Dogs Of Chinatown combines a hyper-reality<br />

“Sin City” look with amazing martial<br />

arts action by cult superstars The Stunt<br />

People, all set in a world filled with gangsters,<br />

strippers and assassins.<br />

MATCHMAKER MARY<br />

Family / Children<br />

Language: English<br />

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Director: Tom Whitus<br />

Producer: Silver Hills Pictures<br />

Key Cast: Jeff Fahey, Jillane Klaus,<br />

Katherine McNamara<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

Seen thru the eyes of a young girl on the<br />

verge of womanhood, who enjoys meddling<br />

into adult lives with the help of animal<br />

adoption, the story emphasizes the<br />

connection between people’s need for<br />

“unconditional love” and illustrates how<br />

the lives of six people can be changed with<br />

a little help from a pre-teen matchmaker<br />

and three adorable puppies.<br />

FILM ASIA<br />

ENTERTAIMENT<br />

GROUP CO., LTD.<br />

Film Asia Entertaiment Group Co., Ltd.,<br />

302, 3/F, Block A, East Sun Industrial<br />

Centre, 16 Shing Yip Street, Kwun Tong,<br />

Kowloon, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong<br />

Kong, Tel: +852.36221282. Fax:<br />

+852.36221248.<br />

http://www.filmasiaent.com.hk E-mail:<br />

info@filmasiaent.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor, Agent<br />

At EFM: Kenneth Yeung (President-<br />

Distribution), Angus Chan (President-<br />

Production), Lammy Li (Distribution<br />

Manager ), Daisy Wong (Administrative<br />

Executive)<br />

Office: Exhibitor without a Stand<br />

ZOMBIE 108<br />

Horror/Action/Adventure (90)<br />

Director: Joe CHIEN<br />

Writer: Joe CHIEN<br />

Producer: Morris RONG<br />

Key Cast: Yvonne YAO, Morris RONG,<br />

Tai Bo, Jack KAO, Dennis TO, CHU Muyen<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Taiwan<br />

After a virus event, the government orders<br />

to quarantine the sick and evacuate all residents<br />

in the vicinity. However, the survivors<br />

suddenly become zombies to attack<br />

the living. In no time, the whole city is<br />

with such huge bloodshed. People from all<br />

walks, including gangsters, policemen,<br />

SWAT teams and the civilians, are willing<br />

to work together to escape seemingly, but<br />

in fact they have hidden schemes to compete<br />

with and even kill each others. The<br />

biggest test in a doomsday is human’s<br />

mind.<br />

DARK WEDDING 3D<br />

Horror/Thriller (90)<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: Bosco LAM<br />

Writer: Albert LAI, Bosco LAM<br />

Producer: Sam LAU<br />

Key Cast: Jordan CHAN, Theresa FU,<br />

Miki LEE, Ban Jiajia, Julia JIANG, Tavani<br />

HU<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: China<br />

A car accident has taken the life of Li<br />

Xianer, the fiance of Ling Zhijie, 5 years<br />

ago. Zhijie can’t help regarding himself as<br />

an inauspicious guy, for 2 girlfriends that<br />

he knew since that accident successively<br />

ended up in great misfortune. A college girl<br />

named He Xiaoling comes back from the<br />

U.S. to do research on the ancient custom<br />

called Marriage with the Dead?. But<br />

strange things befall in succession, which<br />

seems as if someone is attempting He<br />

Xiaoling’s life. Meanwhile, He Xiaoling<br />

starts to suspect that Zhijie’s fiance Li<br />

Xianer isn’t dead at all. A dangerous<br />

scheme is about to breaks loose. The final<br />

destination for Ling Zhijie is a well plotted<br />

and vicious dark wedding.<br />

ARAVT<br />

War/Epic (91 mins)<br />

Language: Mongolian<br />

Director: Shagdarsuren.U and Jolbayar.D<br />

Writer: Erdene.O<br />

Key Cast: Baacanjab, Cocorbaram.D,<br />

Jambal, Jargalsaihan.B, Gurse.D, Onon.N<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Mongolia<br />

A little known fact is that Chinggis Khaan,<br />

better known as Genghis Khan, would collect<br />

orphans from his bloody battlefields<br />

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and have his own mother raise them. These<br />

adopted brothers grew up to become his<br />

most loyal officials and advisers. A 10-person<br />

“aravt” military unit is ordered by<br />

Khaan to locate a skilled doctor who lives<br />

in a forest. En route, they discover an abandoned<br />

baby. He is in fact the child of an<br />

enemy warrior who gives pursuit, even<br />

though they have saved the child’s life.<br />

Whilst protecting the child from attacks<br />

from enemy soldiers, the members of the<br />

“aravt” must also complete their mission.<br />

Through their actions, they demonstrate the<br />

benevolence and bravery of Mongol warriors<br />

as the final battle closes in.<br />

THE CASES<br />

Horror/Thriller (90)<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: Wai Kin<br />

Producer: Roy KWAN<br />

Key Cast: Edmond POON, Wylie CHIU,<br />

Brandy Akiko, Khloe CHU<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong<br />

There are numerous weird cases in the<br />

world, and the Orient is where psychic<br />

phenomena are packed. Every country or<br />

nation has its own psychic culture, custom<br />

and even parapsychology system. Some<br />

people even think the accumulation of<br />

resentful spirit will affect the rise and fall<br />

of a country. Edmond Poon, a Hong Kong<br />

renowned DJ who hosts psychic programs,<br />

supported by the metapsychology masters<br />

and warlocks from Southeast Asia who acts<br />

as advisors, leads a psychic exploring team<br />

to scout for little-known mysterious and<br />

supernatural cases or strange customs<br />

including Soul-grabbing Tame Head<br />

Magic, Menses Tame Head Magic<br />

(Indonesia), Headless Horseman in Prince<br />

Hotel, Suicide Curse in Aokigahara Forest<br />

(Japan), and MTR Dead Omen, Lone<br />

Ghost in Regal Hotel and Secret<br />

Organization ¡§Shadow Team¡¨ (Hong<br />

Kong), just to name a few. Many precious<br />

clips are uncovered for the first time providing<br />

gruesome viewing experience.<br />

HIGH KICKERS<br />

Martial Arts (90)<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: XIE Yi<br />

Writer: XIE Yi<br />

Producer: ZHANG Jun, WU Hongwu,<br />

NEE David Kai<br />

Key Cast: Eva HUANG, Daniel CHAN,<br />

Mark CHENG, Gordon LIU, Waise LEE<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: China<br />

The Taekwondo club founder Zhao Yumin<br />

(by Gordon Liu Kill Bill) was beaten down<br />

by the death of his favorite disciple Han<br />

Xufeng who was killed in an illegal gambling<br />

boxing match. His club gradually<br />

goes into poor operation and loses most of<br />

the disciples. One day, a girl called<br />

Lingling (by Eva Huang °Kung Fu Hustle,<br />

The Sorcerer and the White Snake) comes<br />

to his club and pledges him to train her for<br />

the national championship of Taekwondo.<br />

Her persistence and sincerity starts to<br />

restart his yearning for the honor.<br />

CHOY LEE FUT<br />

Martial Arts (93)<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: Tommy LOR<br />

Writer: Albert LAI<br />

Producer: Angus CHAN<br />

Key Cast: Sammo HUNG, YUEN Wah,<br />

Sammy HUNG, Dennis TO<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong<br />

Having taken his father Chen Tianlai (by<br />

Sammo Hung, Kill Zone, Ip Man 2)’s<br />

advice, a bewildered graduate named<br />

Yingjie decides to return to homeland<br />

China to try a new start, together with his<br />

Japanese good friend Ken. At the very<br />

beginning when the two boys start practicing<br />

Choy Lee Fut kung fu from Master<br />

Chen Tianhong (by Yuen Wah, Kung Fu<br />

Hustle), brother of Tianlai, they learn that<br />

Tianlai consented to sell the martial club to<br />

Pan-America International Investment<br />

Group. Pan-America challenges to a fight<br />

which requires the Chens to hand over the<br />

martial club if they can’t prove their value<br />

of being.<br />

THE HUNTER (3D)<br />

Horror/Thriller (3D) (90)<br />

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Language: Chinese, English<br />

Director: Bjarne WONG<br />

Key Cast: Sharifah Amani, Carmen SOO,<br />

SOO Wincci, LOU Qi, Cindy CHEN,<br />

Tavani HU, Harisu<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Malaysia<br />

A film crew from China is tasked to shoot<br />

exotic flora and fauna of the world’s mysterious<br />

3rd largest island, Borneo.<br />

Historical treasures and hundred year old<br />

human skulls still hang in the almost<br />

untouched equatorial virgin rainforests<br />

native homes, in this the notorious tribal<br />

land of the Head-hunters. The journey<br />

began happily on Borneo Island, little did<br />

they expect that some would find love, passion<br />

and laughter while almost all will taste<br />

the stealthy killing power of the warriors<br />

enchanted blade around their necks.<br />

GNOST<br />

Horror/Thriller<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan,<br />

Thailand<br />

It’s another international thriller movie on<br />

4 different horror stories from four different<br />

oriental countries, told by a kindly but<br />

a little creepy granny who knows all the<br />

origins of those seemingly haunted items<br />

which are for sale in a mysterious bargain<br />

shop.<br />

SHADOW FIGHTER<br />

Martial Arts/Comedy<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Key Cast: Jolin TSAI<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: China<br />

Zuo Yang is secretly a crime-cracker in<br />

black taking actions at night, and he calls<br />

himself Knight-errant Zuo, except for the<br />

fact that he isn’t a good fighter.<br />

Nonetheless, every time he is in hard times<br />

against criminals, there is always a shadow<br />

fighter that turns up and saves his life. The<br />

techniques and strength of this kung fu<br />

master are rather remarkable. On the eve of<br />

the dance competition, Zuo Yang and Zhou<br />

Haibo are suddenly held up by an Interpol<br />

detective. Hence they learn that Zuo Yang<br />

has long been mistaken by some international<br />

drug cartel as a high-profile buyer<br />

coming from New York<br />

SECOND TO NONE<br />

Martial Arts<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Delivery Status: In Development<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: China<br />

As the last witness of the last climax of<br />

Chinese martial arts era, descended from<br />

an official’s family in the Republican<br />

Period of China, Li Zhongxuan a.k.a. Mr.<br />

Er, is obsessed in practicing Chinese martial<br />

arts’ theories, especially Form-Mind<br />

Boxing, which, among the three major<br />

Internal Kung Fu styles, was the oldest<br />

ancient style created by Yue Fei, the heroic<br />

general in the Song Dynasty about 900<br />

years ago, which makes it mysterious and<br />

unpredictable, extensively including Nei<br />

Kung, Footwork, Acupoint Attack, Light<br />

Body Skill and more. Second to None is a<br />

great work with the passion for the nation<br />

and the master.<br />

FINDING SAYUN<br />

Family (99 mins)<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: CHEN Jie-Yao<br />

Key Cast: CAO Shi-hui, Yu Lao Yu Gan,<br />

LIN Ching-tai, Beatrice FANG, ZHENG<br />

Peng-fei, MU Zhong-hua, Yukihiko<br />

KAGEYAMA<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Taiwan<br />

A TV crew was attracted by an old story<br />

about a Taiyan girl who was trapped in<br />

Heipi Tribe as early as the ages of Sino-<br />

Japanese War. The crew members intend to<br />

develop a historical TV drama out of the<br />

story. You Gan, a Taiyan hunter boy, still<br />

doesn’t understand the reason behind these<br />

out-of-town people spending their time<br />

doing research here, whereas his uncle You<br />

Ming is hospitable and willing to tell<br />

everything he learns. With his help, the<br />

leading team of the crew collects all kinds<br />

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of info for searching the relevant legends<br />

and figures. But it is still thrilling journey,<br />

a crew girl named Xiao Ru even insists on<br />

climbing a 3,000-meter-high mountain, following<br />

You Gan’s grandpa Ha Yong to visit<br />

their old tribe, but the trip is so dangerous<br />

that she almost gets killed on the way?<br />

I’M HERE FOR YOU<br />

Romance<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: CHU Yu-ning<br />

Producer: Eric LIANG<br />

Key Cast: Cherry Hsia, ZHENG Kai, HUO<br />

Ni-fang, Johnny LIN<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Taiwan<br />

A Taiwanese girl Xie Yijia comes to a city<br />

named Ningzhou on the west bank of the<br />

Straits, for the purpose of seeking dreams<br />

and fulfilling wishes for her old family. She<br />

meets a local photographer called Lin Da<br />

and invites him to join her journey. At first,<br />

they feel incompatible for one another and<br />

even quarrel because of the difference of<br />

background, education and habits etc<br />

between them. But later they are gradually<br />

impressed by each other and they develop<br />

into intimate friends with the ongoing journey,<br />

which, unfortunately, comes to an end<br />

for the sudden and serious disease of Xie<br />

Yijia. For fulfilling their promise of love,<br />

Xie Yijia, though dying, revisits the place<br />

where they met. And Lin De also creates a<br />

miracle with love and becomes a man with<br />

unprompted responsibility.<br />

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DRACULA 3D<br />

Horror - Stereoscopic 3D<br />

Language: English, Italian<br />

Director: Dario Argento<br />

Writer: Dario Argento, Stefano Piani,<br />

Antonio Tentori, Enrique Cerezo<br />

Producer: Multimedia Film Production,<br />

Enrique Cerezo P.C.<br />

Key Cast: Thomas Kretschmann, Marta<br />

Gastini, Asia Argento, Rutger Hauer, Unax<br />

Ugalde, Miriam Giovanelli<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

Based on the original novel by Bram<br />

Stroker, about the vampire Dracula, an icon<br />

of twentieth century culture.<br />

APARTMENT IN ATHENS<br />

AKA: APPARTAMENTO AD ATENE<br />

Drama (95 min)<br />

Language: Greek, German, English<br />

Director: Ruggero Dipaola<br />

Producer: LOcchio e la Luna<br />

Key Cast: Laura Morante, Richard<br />

Sammel, Gerasimos Skiadaresis<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

Based on the novel APARTMENT IN<br />

ATHENS by Glenway Wescott, the film<br />

deals with topics such as drama, history<br />

and war during the German occupation of<br />

Athens in 1943.<br />

DEEP WITHIN<br />

AKA: TAGLIONETTO<br />

Horror / Thriller (90 min)<br />

Language: Italian, English<br />

Director: Federico Rizzo<br />

Producer: Margherita Film<br />

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Key Cast: Dorotea Mercuri, Giulio Forges<br />

Davanzati, Nino Frassica, Giacomo<br />

Gonnella,Antonio Barbero, Carmelo Galati<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

Anna Benanzio an affirmed psychiatrist, is<br />

being asked to run a psychiatric examination<br />

on a guy who killed his mother and<br />

sister. After many difficulties she finds a<br />

way to his heart but she also discovers that<br />

she hides the same evil.<br />

THE NEW MONSTERS TODAY<br />

AKA: I MOSTRI OGGI<br />

Comedy (100’)<br />

Language: Italian, English subtitles<br />

Director: Enrico Oldoini<br />

Writer: Enrico Oldoini, Giacomo Scarpelli,<br />

SILVIA Scola, Marco Tiberi, Franco<br />

Ferrini<br />

Producer: Dean Film, Colorado Film,<br />

Warner Pictures<br />

Key Cast: Diego Abatantuono, Sabrina<br />

Ferilli, Giogo Panariello, Claudio Bisio,<br />

Angela Finocchiaro, Carlo Buccirosso<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

This picture is to be considered the third<br />

chapter of the “trilogy” of the episodefilms<br />

THE MONSTERS by Dino Risi<br />

(1963) and THE NEW MONSTERS<br />

(1977) by Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli and<br />

Ettore Scola, the masters of comedy. Once<br />

again, all the contemporary vices and fears<br />

are ironically described, because time pass<br />

by but all our defects are always the same/<br />

DIRTY WAR<br />

AKA: LE ULTIME 56 ORE<br />

Action - Drama (106’)<br />

Language: Italian, English<br />

Director: Claudio Fragasso<br />

Writer: Rossella Drudi<br />

Producer: Heles Film Production<br />

Key Cast: Gianmarco Tognazzi, Luca<br />

Lionello, Barbora Bobulova, Simona<br />

Borioni, Primo Reggiani<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

The film highlights how Army personnel of<br />

the “peace keeping” missions have died<br />

and are still dying, killed by cancer caused<br />

by radioactivity of “depleted uranium” contained<br />

in weapons and bullets.<br />

FANNY HILL<br />

Erotic (91’)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: May Chio Dimao<br />

Producer: Moonlight International Film<br />

Key Cast: Zoe Simpson, James Kavaz,<br />

James Donnelly<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

The erotic adaptation of John Cleland’s<br />

18th century novel FANNY HILL, tells the<br />

story of an innocent northern country girl<br />

travelling to London to seek her fortune<br />

and ending up in a brothel.<br />

MY LAI FOUR<br />

Action- Drama (100’)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Paolo Bertola<br />

Writer: Gianni Paolucci, Stefano Pomilia<br />

Producer: Gianni Paolucci<br />

Key Cast: Beau Ballinger, Yvette Yzon,<br />

Riccardo Flammini<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

Based on real events that took place on the<br />

16th of March 1968 at My Lai, South<br />

Vietnam and written in the book “My Lai”<br />

by Seymour M. Hersh winner of the<br />

Pulitzer Prize.<br />

THE LEGEND OF MELITA<br />

AKA: LA LEGGENDA DI MELITA<br />

Fantasy - 3D Animated Film (84’)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Paolo Bertola<br />

Producer: Diamonds International Film,<br />

PH-ITA Digital Graphics Studios<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

When the earth was populated by strange<br />

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creatures, the arrival of the ice age seemed<br />

to mark its end, but the intervention of an<br />

alien community will raise its fate bringing<br />

with them a new mysterious force...<br />

BETTER THAN EVER<br />

AKA: MEJOR QUE NUNCA FKA:<br />

LIKE IT HOT?<br />

Comedy (90’)<br />

Language: Spanish, Italian, English<br />

Director: Dolores Payas<br />

Producer: Zahori Media, Production Group,<br />

J.L.A<br />

Key Cast: Victoria Abril, Enrique Rocha,<br />

Gabriella Pession, Pep Ferrer, Anna<br />

Galiena, Rocco Papaleo<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: Spain, Italy, France<br />

Abandoned by her husband after years of<br />

marriage, Isabel thought her sexual life was<br />

over... but she had still a lot to learn...<br />

DESTINY RIDE<br />

AKA: SANS ETAT D’AME - LA<br />

DONNA DI NESSUNO<br />

Thriller (96’)<br />

Language: French, Italian, English<br />

Director: Vincenzo Marano<br />

Producer: Les Films de l’Astre, Filmexport<br />

Group<br />

Key Cast: Laurent Lucas, Helene de<br />

Fougerolles, Candice Hugo<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: France, Italy<br />

A high-profile prostitute, a dreaded judge,<br />

an idealistic journalist: the love that they<br />

feel for each other will at once become<br />

deadly..<br />

THE MOLE<br />

AKA: LA TAUPE<br />

Thriller (2 x 52 min or 1 x 100’ TV movie)<br />

Language: French, English<br />

Director: Vincenzo Marano<br />

Writer: Sergio Gobbi, Victor Arnold and<br />

Laurent Scalese<br />

Producer: Les Films de l’Astre / TF1 Films<br />

Production / AT-Production / R.T.B.F.<br />

Key Cast: Ingrid Chauvin, Linda Hardy,<br />

Yannis Baraban<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

A heroin cache vanishes from a customs<br />

depot. Commandant Sandra Longo is dispatched<br />

from Paris. There is a mole and<br />

she has to find it.<br />

THE MOLE 2<br />

AKA: LA TAUPE 2<br />

Thriller (2 x 52 min or 1 x 104’ TV movie)<br />

Language: French, English<br />

Director: Vincenzo Marano<br />

Writer: Sergio Gobbi, Laurent Scalese<br />

Producer: Les Films de l’Astre / TF1 Films<br />

Production / AT-Production / R.T.B.F<br />

Key Cast: Ingrid Chauvin, Linda Hardy,<br />

Ma? Anh L?, Cathy Min Jung<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

Paris nowadays... when two corpses are<br />

found in a car boot, for Sandra Longo it is<br />

clear that those homicides have been<br />

ordered by the boss of the local Chinese<br />

mafia.<br />

NOAH’S ARK<br />

AKA: EL ARCA<br />

Animation (87’)<br />

Language: Spanish, Italian, English<br />

Director: Juan Pablo Buscarini<br />

Producer: Production Group, Patagonik<br />

Film Group<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

Origin: Argentina, Italy<br />

A classic animated film that tackles an<br />

absolutely universal subject, in a context of<br />

adventures and humour, in which the animals<br />

are the main characters.<br />

MILAN PALERMO, THE RETURN<br />

AKA: MILANO PALERMO, IL<br />

RITORNO<br />

Action (95’)<br />

Language: Italian, English<br />

Director: Claudio Fragasso<br />

Executive Producer: Pietro Innocenzi<br />

Producer: Sanmarco Film - Globe Films<br />

Key Cast: Giancarlo Giannini, Raoul Bova,<br />

Ricky Memphis, Gabriella Pession, Enrico<br />

Lo Verso<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

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Sequel to DARING YOUNG (Palermo<br />

Milan, One Way). Turi Arcangelo<br />

Leofonte, the mafia’s bookkeeper, after<br />

accepting to cooperate with the Law causing<br />

the arrest of almost the whole Scalia<br />

clan, and after serving his 11 years sentence,<br />

is being released...<br />

ZOMBIES, THE BEGINNING<br />

Horror (90’)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Vincent Dawn<br />

Producer: Diamonds International Film<br />

Key Cast: Y. Yzon, A. Anson, P. Holme<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

An expedition team sent to rescue a scientific<br />

crew on an island will encounter a<br />

new generation of zombies....<br />

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KUMA - A FILM BY UMUT DAG<br />

Drama (93 min.)<br />

Language: Turkish / German<br />

Key Cast: Nihal Koldas, Begüm Akkaya,<br />

Vedat Erincin, Dilara Karabayir, Murathan<br />

Muslu, Alev Irmak, Merve Cevik,<br />

Abdulkadir Gümüs<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Austria<br />

Fatma lives with her husband and six children<br />

in Vienna, trying to preserve the traditional<br />

values and the social prestige of her<br />

family. When Ayse, a 19-year-old girl from<br />

the Turkish countryside, is chosen to be<br />

married to Fatma’s son, a special friendship<br />

evolves between the two women. But soon<br />

this relationship is put to the test as the<br />

family has to face a difficult stroke of fate.<br />

KEEP THE LIGHTS ON<br />

Drama (101 min.)<br />

Key Cast: Thure Lindhardt, Zachary Booth<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

“Keep The Lights On” chronicles the emotionally<br />

and sexually charged journey of<br />

two men. New York in the Nineties.<br />

Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted<br />

lawyer Paul meet through a casual<br />

encounter and soon become a couple. They<br />

are risk takers—compulsive and fueled by<br />

sex. In an almost decade-long relationship<br />

defined by highs, lows and dysfunctional<br />

patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his<br />

own boundaries and dignity and to be true<br />

to himself.<br />

EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY<br />

Drama (107 min.)<br />

Key Cast: Gabriel Spahiu, Mihaela Sirbu,<br />

Serban Pavlu, Sofia Nicolaescu, Tamara<br />

Buciuceanu Botez<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Romania<br />

Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties.<br />

His five year-old daughter Sofia lives<br />

with her mother, which causes Marius a<br />

deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives<br />

to take his daughter on their annual holiday,<br />

he is not allowed to take her with him.<br />

The situation soon gets out of control with<br />

all the family taking part in a web of<br />

humor, violence, childish songs, police<br />

interventions and love statements.<br />

KING CURLING<br />

Comedy (75 min.)<br />

Key Cast: Atle Antonsen, Jan Sælid, Kåre<br />

Conradi, Linn Skåber<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Norway<br />

Once a great curling star, Truls Paulsen is<br />

diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder<br />

and banned from competing. When<br />

he learns that his coach Gordon is on his<br />

deathbed, Truls decides to compete again.<br />

His goal is to win the championship cash<br />

prize to pay for Gordon’s needed operation.<br />

He leaves his wife, starts gathering his old<br />

teammates and stops taking his medica-<br />

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tions. Will Truls lead his team to victory<br />

and save his old friend?<br />

FOUR SUNS<br />

Drama (102 min.)<br />

Key Cast: Jaroslav Plesl, Anna Geislerová,<br />

Marek Sácha, Karel Roden, Jirí Mádl,<br />

Klára Melísková, Igor Chmela<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Czech Republic<br />

Jara has lost his job, his family is falling<br />

apart and his only companion and friend is<br />

Karel, a lonely weirdo who feels very<br />

closely bound to nature. Unemployed and<br />

immature, he tries to keep his family<br />

together, to make his wife stay with him, to<br />

protect his teenage son from drug abuse<br />

and to protect Karel from himself - but<br />

who will protect Jara?<br />

COME AS YOU ARE<br />

Tragi-Comedy (115 min.)<br />

Language: Flemish/French<br />

Key Cast: Gilles De Schryver, Robrecht<br />

Vanden Thoren, Tom Audenaert, Isabelle<br />

De Hertogh<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Belgium<br />

Three guys in their early twenties love<br />

wine and women but they are still virgins.<br />

Under the guise of a wine tour they embark<br />

on a journey to Spain hoping to have their<br />

first sexual experience. Nothing will stop<br />

them. Not even their handicaps: one is<br />

blind, the other is confined to a wheelchair<br />

and the third one is completely paralyzed.<br />

UNFAIR WORLD<br />

Drama (107 min.)<br />

Key Cast: Antonis Kafetzopoulos,<br />

Theodora Tzimou, Christos Stergioglou<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Greece<br />

It’s hard to be honest in a dishonest world.<br />

Sotiris has almost given up. Luckily he still<br />

has his job as a cop, which provides a modest<br />

opportunity to fight the system.<br />

FAUST<br />

Drama (134 min.)<br />

Language: German<br />

Key Cast: Johannes Zeiler, Anton<br />

Adasinskiy, Georg Friedrich, Isolda<br />

Dychauk, Hanna Schygulla<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Russia<br />

Freely inspired by Goethe’s story,<br />

Alexander Sokurov radically reinterprets<br />

the myth. Faust is a thinker, a rebel and a<br />

pioneer, but also an anonymous human<br />

made of flesh and blood driven by inner<br />

impulses, greed and lust. After “Moloch”<br />

(Hitler), “Taurus” (Lenin) and “The Sun”<br />

(Hirohito), “Faust” is the last part of<br />

Sokurov’s tetralogy.<br />

BEST INTENTIONS<br />

Black Comedy / Drama (102 min.)<br />

Key Cast: Bogdan Dumitrache, Natasa<br />

Raab, Marian Ralea, Alina Grigore<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Romania<br />

Alex, in his mid-thirties, is a quite neurotic<br />

character. When his mother is hospitalized<br />

with a stroke, the caring son’s life gets out<br />

of track. At the hospital he finds himself in<br />

a burlesque kind of human zoo full of<br />

unexpected characters and surprising<br />

events. Trying to manage the situation in<br />

between everybody’s advice, he’s becoming<br />

hypochondriac. While his mother<br />

seems to feel perfectly fine Alex is making<br />

his own set of mistakes – throughout with<br />

best intentions.<br />

HOLIDAYS BY THE SEA<br />

Comedy (77 min.)<br />

Key Cast: Jacques Gamblin, Marie De<br />

Medeiros, François Damiens, Dominique<br />

Pinon, Marie Kremer, Gustave Kervern,<br />

François Morel<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

Finally it’s weekend and everybody is<br />

heading to the coast. Two retirees in a snail<br />

paced vehicle and a beach house as large as<br />

a stamp cross a couple of punks in love living<br />

in a house drawn on the sand. Two<br />

impostors play golf next to a funeral procession,<br />

an umbrella representative meets<br />

his mistress in a hotel and the life of two<br />

unhappy couples is turned upside down by<br />

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a lost kite. Many bizarre and funny<br />

encounters happen during holidays by the<br />

sea. The film is a tribute to Jacques Tati’s<br />

classic “Mr. Hulot’s Holiday”.<br />

IRIS IN BLOOM<br />

Drama (75 min.)<br />

Key Cast: Lola Créton, Stanislas Merhar,<br />

Valérie Donzelli, Adèle Haenel<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

Iris is 16 and she lives the end of her<br />

teenage years in a small province town<br />

when she meets Jean, a 40 year old<br />

Parisian photographer. Over the course of<br />

their meetings, their relationship evolves to<br />

a loving friendship that will turn their lives<br />

upside down.<br />

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UNBOWED<br />

Drama (101 min.)<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: Chung Jiyoung<br />

Writer: Han Hyunkeun<br />

Co-Production Partners: a Chung Jiyoung<br />

Film<br />

Executive Producer: Lee Eun, Chung<br />

Jiyoung<br />

Producer: Chung Jiyoung<br />

Key Cast: Ahn Sungki, Park Wonsang, Na<br />

Younghee, Kim Jiho<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Korea<br />

After refusing to cover up the affiliated<br />

University’s error regarding the national<br />

university entrance exam, Professor KIM<br />

Kyoung-ho is unfairly dismissed. He loses<br />

his lawsuit for reinstatement and his appeal<br />

is overruled without reason. So he threatens<br />

the judge with a crossbow demanding a<br />

fair trial and the two wrestle ending up<br />

with the judge claiming a blood wound.<br />

However, KIM argues that he didn’t shoot<br />

the judge and the trial proceeds with difficulty:<br />

a battle at court without concessions,<br />

confronting statements, crucial evidences<br />

missing. Lawyers give up on KIM due to<br />

his uncompromising character. But when<br />

he meets an unorthodox lawyer PARK, the<br />

trials start to get lively.<br />

LOVE FICTION<br />

Romantic comedy (117 min.)<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: Jeon Gye-soo<br />

Writer: Jeon Gye-soo<br />

Co-Production Partners: a Samgeori<br />

Pictures Co. Ltd., Fantagio production<br />

Producer: Shin Young-il<br />

Key Cast: Ha Jung-woo, Kong Hyo-jin<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Korea<br />

Joo-wol is a novelist suffering from<br />

writer’s block. One day, he goes to<br />

Germany and meets Heejin, a film distributor,<br />

and falls in love. Back in Seoul, he<br />

convinces her out on a date. Joo-wol finds<br />

out Heejin had lived in Alaska, loves photography,<br />

and does not shave. He gets<br />

shocked by the thick hair growing under<br />

her armpits, but it strangely inspires him to<br />

write again; a mystery suspense detective<br />

series about a woman with hairy armpits. It<br />

becomes an immediate sensation. Then,<br />

Joo-wol discovers more about Heejin,<br />

including her complicated pasts with<br />

numerous men.<br />

IN ANOTHER COUNTRY<br />

Drama<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: Hong Sangsoo<br />

Writer: Hong Sangsoo<br />

Co-Production Partners: Jeonwaonsa Film<br />

Co.<br />

Producer: Kim Kyounghee<br />

Key Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Yu Junsang,<br />

Jung Yumi<br />

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Trophy - New Film International<br />

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Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Korea<br />

A young woman and her mother run away<br />

to the seaside town of Mohang to escape<br />

their mounting debt. The young woman<br />

begins writing a script for a short film in<br />

order to calm her nerves: There are three<br />

women named Anne, and each woman consecutively<br />

visits the seaside town of<br />

Mohang. A young woman tends to the<br />

small hotel by the Mohang foreshore<br />

owned by her parents. A certain lifeguard<br />

can be seen restlessly wandering up and<br />

down the beach that lies nearby. Each Anne<br />

stays at this small hotel, receives some<br />

assistance from the owner’s daughter, and<br />

ventures onto the beach where they meet<br />

the lifeguard.<br />

THE GRAND HEIST (TENTATIVE<br />

TITLE)<br />

Period action adventure<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: Kim Joo-ho<br />

Writer: Kim Min-sung<br />

Co-Production Partners: a Dhuta Co.Ltd.<br />

Producer: Ahn Dong-gyu, Cha Ji-hyun,<br />

Kim Min-sung, Oh Jeong-hyun<br />

Key Cast: Cha Tae-hyun, Oh Ji-ho, Min<br />

Hyo-lin<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Korea<br />

About 250 years ago in Korea, people<br />

struggle under the tyranny of the first vicepremier<br />

CHO who has taken possessions of<br />

power and commercial supremacy over<br />

‘ice’, the most valuable commodity in that<br />

time. Unable to stand CHO’s tyranny, LEE,<br />

an ingenious young man whose father was<br />

eliminated by CHO, gathers a group of<br />

experts in various fields; tactics, weapons,<br />

explosives, underwater diving, camouflage,<br />

etc. With their help, Lee executes his plans<br />

to rob the entire storage of ice that will be<br />

used for the crown prince’s birthday party<br />

which will initiate CHO’s downfall.<br />

GHOST SWEEPERS<br />

Horror, Comedy<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: Shin Jung-won<br />

Writer: Kwon Sung-hui<br />

Co-Production Partners: Dasepo Club co.<br />

Ltd.<br />

Producer: Kim Hyun-suk, Billy Acuman,<br />

MC Kang, Park Kyung-won<br />

Key Cast: Kim Soo-ro, Kang Ye-won, Lee<br />

Jae-hoon<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Korea<br />

Chan-young, a young journalist, is sent to<br />

cover a story when all the top shamans<br />

from nationwide gather up for a grand<br />

exorcism at a small village notorious for<br />

dark rumors about an evil spirit. They barely<br />

manage to even enter the village for this<br />

evil spirit is unlike anything anyone has<br />

seen so far. The group of shamans begins<br />

their grand ritual, but with the strange eerie<br />

force that dominates the entire village and<br />

repeated attacks by the spirit, most of the<br />

shamans run for their lives. Only five best<br />

shamans remain along with Chan-young.<br />

So the six begin to explore the dark secrets<br />

of the village while preparing for the<br />

biggest battle against the evil forces.<br />

BLIND<br />

Thriller (111 min)<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: Ahn Sang-hoon<br />

Writer: Choi Min-suk, Andy Yoon, Ahn<br />

Sang-hoon<br />

Co-Production Partners: a MoonWatcher<br />

production, Next Entertainment World Inc.<br />

Executive Producer: Andy Yoon, Woody<br />

Kim<br />

Producer: Andy Yoon<br />

Key Cast: Kim Ha-neul, Yoo Seung-ho<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Korea<br />

Soo-ah, a young blind woman who was in<br />

police academy before she lost her sight,<br />

experiences a very strange and frightful<br />

taxi ride one rainy night. Suspicious of the<br />

taxi driver, she reports this to the police,<br />

but they ignore her. The next day, the<br />

police visit her about a missing college<br />

girl. Despite concerns, Soo-ah testifies<br />

information that is more reliable than any<br />

account from an eye witness. Collaborating<br />

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with another eye witness, she helps the<br />

police in finding the suspect. And now the<br />

serial killer is on a hunt to get rid of the<br />

witnesses.<br />

LEAFIE<br />

Animation, Drama (91 min.)<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: Oh Seongyun<br />

Writer: Kim Eunjung, Na Hyun<br />

Co-Production Partners: a Myung Films,<br />

Odoltogi production<br />

Executive Producer: Lee Eun, Shim<br />

Jaemyung, Son Kwangik<br />

Producer: Lee Eun, Shim Jaemyung, Kim<br />

Sunku<br />

Key Cast: Moon Sori, Yoo Seungho, Choi<br />

Minsik<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Korea<br />

On a chicken farm among hundreds of hens<br />

is Leafie, one amazing hen who dreams of<br />

a life outside her cage. She manages to<br />

escape from captivity using her wit only to<br />

find herself being hunted down by the<br />

weasel One Eye. But she is saved by<br />

Wanderer, the brave guardian duck. When<br />

One Eye kills Wanderer and his mate,<br />

Leafie takes in the orphaned duckling as<br />

her own baby despite their differences.<br />

THE CAT<br />

Horror (106 min.)<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: Byun Seungwook<br />

Writer: Jang Yeunmi<br />

Co-Production Partners: a Pinehouse Film<br />

production, Next Entertainment World Inc.<br />

Producer: Lee Joondong<br />

Key Cast: Park Minyoung, Kim Donguk,<br />

Kim Yeron<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Korea<br />

So-yeon is an animal groomer who works<br />

in a pet shop. One day, she gets stuck with<br />

a Persian cat named Silky when its owner<br />

suddenly dies. From then on, So-yeon is<br />

constantly haunted by a bobbed hair girl<br />

with green cat-like eyes who turns her life<br />

into turmoil. The presence of the girl and<br />

the sound of Silky’s cries start to choke in<br />

around her life more and more as series of<br />

mysterious deaths occur around her.<br />

THE MIRACLE<br />

Family, Drama (100 min)<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: KIM Young-ro<br />

Writer: Kim Young-ho, Kim Young-ro<br />

Co-Production Partners: Filma pictures,<br />

Dal Ent production<br />

Executive Producer: Tony Mantaeg Han,<br />

Kim Young-ho, Han Hee<br />

Producer: Kim In-dae<br />

Key Cast: Lee Mun-sik, Park Ji-bin, Lee<br />

Seul-gi<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Korea<br />

Living in a small rural village, 13-year-old<br />

Chul and his sister Euna are on their own<br />

when their grandmother passes away. His<br />

6-year-old sister’s wish is to see the biggest<br />

creature in the world, the whale, so she<br />

pesters him to take her to see one. When<br />

Euna’s eyesight deteriorates to a point<br />

where she could lose her sight completely,<br />

adults tell him to send her off to an institution.<br />

But afraid of losing his sister, he cannot<br />

let her go. And instead he sets off with<br />

his sister on a bicycle to grant her wish; in<br />

search for a whale.<br />

POONGSAN<br />

Drama (121 min)<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: Juhn Jaihong<br />

Writer: Kim Ki-duk<br />

Co-Production Partners: a Kim Ki-duk<br />

Film production<br />

Executive Producer: Kim Ki-duk,<br />

POONGSAN Staff<br />

Producer: Jeon Youn-chan<br />

Key Cast: Yoon Kye-sang, Kim Gyu-ri<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Korea<br />

Poongsan, a young man with the eyes of an<br />

innocent child, crosses over North and<br />

South Korea to deliver the pain and longings<br />

of separated families. Even though<br />

this can cause him get shot, he takes the<br />

risk without any fear. One day, by a secret<br />

request by South Korean government<br />

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agents he sneaks into North to bring over<br />

In-oak, the lover of a high-ranking North<br />

Korean defector. On their way to South<br />

Korea, they fall for each other while experiencing<br />

life-and-death situations together<br />

several times. However upon their arrival,<br />

they’re welcomed by agents who capture<br />

and torture Poongsan while In-oak gets disappointed<br />

with her old lover who has<br />

changed so much over the past years<br />

(117/150)<br />

UNSTOPPABLE FAMILY<br />

Comedy (103 min.)<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: Chung Tae-won<br />

Writer: Kim Young-chan<br />

Co-Production Partners: a Taewon<br />

Entertainment Co., Ltd. production<br />

Producer: Back Jin-dong<br />

Key Cast: Kim Soo-mi, Shin Hyun-joon,<br />

Tak Jae-hoon<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Korea<br />

After leaving the ruthless mobster world,<br />

the HONG family leads a life of ease running<br />

a successful food company. Until one<br />

day when they are informed that the government<br />

has now lifted the ban that had<br />

them against leaving the country. Now at<br />

the liberty to travel, Madame HONG, head<br />

of the family, decides that it’s time that<br />

they take a vacation overseas. So the infamous<br />

ex-mob Madame HONG starts on her<br />

first trip ever, taking her three sons along:<br />

the excellent housekeeper eldest who used<br />

to be her first man, the divorced playboy<br />

second, and third who desperately needs<br />

anger management. With a series of unexpected<br />

events heading their way, the<br />

HONG family set on their journey of<br />

ordeal.<br />

FIRST HAND FILMS<br />

First Hand Films, Fritz Heeb-Weg 5, 8050<br />

Zurich, Switzerland , Tel:<br />

+41.44.312.20.60 Fax: +41.44.312.20.80.<br />

www.firsthandfilms.com E-mail:<br />

info@firsthandfilms.com<br />

Distributor<br />

At EFM: Esther van Messel (CEO), Gitte<br />

Hansen (Deputy Director)<br />

Office: MGB - Media Stand 27, Tel:<br />

+41.44.312.20.60 Fax: +41.44.312.20.80<br />

AMERICA IN PRIMETIME<br />

Documentary (4x52’)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Lloyd Kramer<br />

Producer: The Documentary Group<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

In the 60 years since it began, scripted<br />

entertainment television has brought<br />

extraordinary drama and comedy, tragedy<br />

and triumph into homes across the globe. It<br />

chronicles who Americans are, how they<br />

see themselves and how they experience<br />

the world - and it reflects how the world<br />

sees them. Let the creators and characters<br />

that have defined TV entertainment in the<br />

past and populate it today take you on journey<br />

through 60 years of TV entertainment.<br />

To name but a few: Roseanne Barr, Sarah<br />

Jessica Parker, Michael C. Hall, David<br />

Lynch, Danny DeVito and many more.<br />

GENERATION SMS<br />

Documentary (1x 52’/75’)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Bill Couturié<br />

Producer: Gary Cohen & Mike Tollin,<br />

Triple Threat TV<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

In the triumphant spirit of films focusing<br />

on tournaments you never knew existed<br />

comes this portrait of six teens in their<br />

quest for the US National Texting<br />

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Red Lights - Parlay Films<br />

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Championship. So who are these teens who<br />

spend their lives text messaging, and why<br />

do they have to do it so obsessively?<br />

BEER IS CHEAPER THAN THERAPY<br />

Documentary (1x 55’/78’)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Simone de Vries<br />

Co-Production Partners: VPRO<br />

Producer: Frank van den Engel, Zeppers<br />

Film & TV<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

‘I’m 22 years old and I must have killed 30<br />

people. The same thing that you were given<br />

badges for, over in Irak, you would be considered<br />

a serial killer over here. That’s a<br />

very weird thought to have running around<br />

in your head when it’s dark, going to sleep<br />

or late at night.’ There is no place for<br />

doubt, sadness and fear in the American<br />

army. Back home, many soldiers struggle<br />

with these feelings. Beer is Cheaper than<br />

Therapy portrays what goes on behind the<br />

facade of heroism and the ‘John Wayne<br />

mentality’.<br />

WHEN I WAS DEAD<br />

Documentary (1x 51’/59’)<br />

Language: Dutch with English STs<br />

Director: Maasja Ooms & Ingrid Wender<br />

Co-Production Partners: Ikon<br />

Producer: Frank van den Engel, Zeppers<br />

Film & TV<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

Getting a complete overview of your your<br />

life; leaving your body; being welcomed by<br />

the deceased you loved in your life: Near<br />

Death Experiences. Meet three very different<br />

people and their experiences in the<br />

moment between life and death<br />

MOUNTAIN LOVE STORY<br />

Documentary (1x 52’ (new TV version)/63’)<br />

Language: Polish with English STs<br />

Director: Eliza Kubarska<br />

Producer: Eliza Kubarska, Vertical Vision<br />

Film Studio<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Poland<br />

A TV launch of the extraordinary romance<br />

where Polish alpinists Eliza Kubarska and<br />

David Kaszlikowski take a journey inside<br />

the fjords of southern Greenland to reach<br />

the world’s highest sea cliff. Trust and passion<br />

in one of the most beautiful landscapes<br />

you have ever seen.<br />

THE JOURNEY (WT)<br />

Documentary (1x52’/90’)<br />

Language: English, Dutch, Dolpo Tibetan,<br />

Nepalese, English subtitles<br />

Director: Simonka de Jong<br />

Producer: IDTV Docs<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

Pema, now 19, was raised in Kathmandu,<br />

Nepal, in a children’s home. The parents,<br />

Karma and Dolma, live in extreme poverty<br />

in a Nepali Himalayan village at an altitude<br />

of 13,000 feet. Poverty and illness forced<br />

them to give most of their 6 children away.<br />

Today, the unusual family is scattered<br />

around the globe. This film tells the coming<br />

of age story of Pema, a Tibetan teenager,<br />

who is pressured by his parents to marry<br />

a local girl.<br />

HERE COMES UNCLE JOE<br />

Documentary (1x52’/72’)<br />

Language: Korean, English subtitles<br />

Director: Wooyoung Choi, Sinae Ha<br />

Co-Production Partners: NHK (Japan)<br />

Producer: Boda Media Group<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Korea<br />

He is not their uncle, and his name is not<br />

Joe. But to the old ladies of An-dong, a<br />

rural community in southeastern Korea,<br />

Uncle Joe is almost the only contact they<br />

have to the modern world. Uncle Joe’s<br />

delivery service is extraordinary. He reaches<br />

15 isolated villages that have neither<br />

markets nor public transport and he delivers<br />

to the clients’ door - or even into their<br />

refrigerator - whatever they order. The film<br />

follows Uncle Joe’s delivery road from<br />

spring to winter, with smiles, sweat and<br />

tears between one delivery man and 800<br />

elderly.<br />

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AUNG SAN SUU KYI - LADY OF NO<br />

FEAR<br />

Documentary (1x 58’)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Anne Gyrithe Bonne<br />

Co-Production Partners: BOS (The<br />

Netherlands), RDI/Radio Canada (Canada)<br />

RSI (Switzerland), SF (Switzerland), RT<br />

(Ireland)<br />

Producer: Kamoli Films Helle Ulsteenn<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Denmark<br />

We know Aung San Suu Kyi as “a golden<br />

bird in a cage “; she is a valuable icon representing<br />

freedom and democracy of which<br />

the suppressed population of Burma much<br />

hopes for. In the West she stands out as a<br />

symbol of peace and reconciliation, she has<br />

been awarded countless prizes for her<br />

effort, among them the Nobel Peace Prize.<br />

But who is the person and woman behind it<br />

all? In this film her close family, friends<br />

and close colleagues tell about a daughter,<br />

a wife, a friend, a mother, a rebel - that<br />

early in life met deep grief and deprivation.<br />

DOLPHIN BOY<br />

Documentary (1x56’/72’)<br />

Language: Hebrew, Arabic, English subtitles<br />

Director: Dani Menkin, Yonatan Nir<br />

Producer: Menkin Prod., Yonatan Nir Films<br />

& Micha<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Israel<br />

The story of a young man who disconnects<br />

himself from reality following a severe<br />

trauma, and comes back to life with the<br />

help of Dolphins, detached from his past.<br />

This rehabilitation process has been documented<br />

over the past three years.<br />

LOVE HATE LOVE<br />

Documentary (1x 52’/82’)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Dana Nachman, Don Hardy<br />

Producer: KTF Films<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

9/11, London and a car bomb in Bali: a<br />

film chronicling the transformation of three<br />

families whose worlds are torn apart by terrorism.<br />

Can love triumph over pain and<br />

prove that terrorists don’t win? Executive<br />

produced by Sean Penn and with music<br />

from U2, Bruce Springsteen and<br />

Radiohead.<br />

THE GUANTANAMO TRAP<br />

Documentary (1x 56’/92’)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Thomas Wallner<br />

Co-Production Partners: Xenophile<br />

Media/Amythos Media (Canada), T&C<br />

Film (Switzerland), Pumpernickel Films<br />

(France)<br />

Producer: Zero One, Xenophile / Amythos,<br />

T&C Film, Pumpernickel<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: DE, CA, CH, FR<br />

No one escapes Guantanamo unscathed.<br />

Not the law, neither morale - and certainly<br />

not the people. The film tells the story of<br />

these people and depicts their search for a<br />

life after Guantanamo.<br />

PLEASE REMOVE YOUR SHOES<br />

Documentary (1x 54’/94’)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Rocco Giuliano, Rob DelGaudio<br />

Co-Production Partners: Black Pearl<br />

Productions<br />

Producer: Boston Aviation Services, Inc.<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A current documentary that explores the<br />

background of aviation security before and<br />

after 9/11 disaster, posing the question;<br />

“Have we really learned anything?”. A critical<br />

view on a multi-billion dollar industry<br />

with a questionable result.<br />

PRISON ISLAND BASTOY<br />

Documentary (1x 55’/74’)<br />

Language: Norwegian, English subtitles<br />

Director: Michel Kapteijns<br />

Co-Production Partners: DALA Film (The<br />

Netherlands), VPRO (The Netherlands)<br />

Producer: DNU Film<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

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The island lies in Oslofjord, Norway. 115<br />

men are imprisoned there: bank robbers,<br />

drug dealers, sex criminals, Hell’s Angels,<br />

frauds, gang leaders and murderers. Mostly<br />

serving long terms. On the island there are<br />

no cells, no cameras, no fences. The guards<br />

don’t carry weapons while the prisoners<br />

work with chainsaws and kitchen knives.<br />

It’s only a two-hour swim to the mainland<br />

and yet no one goes for it.<br />

THE HANGMAN<br />

Documentary (1x 58’)<br />

Language: Hebrew<br />

Director: Netalie Braun<br />

Co-Production Partners: Sigal Yehuda,<br />

Israel<br />

Producer: Pardes<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Israel<br />

The administrator of the mass deportation<br />

of Jews to the Nazi death camps Adolf<br />

Eichmann, was hanged in Israel’s first and<br />

only execution. Shalom Nagar, a religious<br />

Jewish ritual slaughterer and street philosopher<br />

who believes in charity, was the hangman.<br />

BOUTON<br />

(1x 52’/78’)<br />

Language: French, German, English subtitles<br />

Director: Res Balzli<br />

Producer: Balzli & Fahrer<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Switzerland<br />

Johana is a beautiful young artist working<br />

as a ventriloquist with her self-made puppet<br />

Bouton. The film’s story tells of crying<br />

and laughter, this life and afterlife, documented<br />

reality and poetic fiction.<br />

RUTH DAYAN - MY LIFE<br />

Documentary (1x 43’)<br />

Language: German, English, Hebrew,<br />

Arabic, English subtitles<br />

Director: Elke Sasse<br />

Producer: Berlin Producers<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany<br />

At 92, the divorced ex-wife of the leg-<br />

endary military hero and defence minister<br />

Moshe Dayan, has not gone into retirement<br />

yet. She calls herself a Palestinian Jew,<br />

having lived door-to-door with Arabs when<br />

she was young. Today the situation seems<br />

hopeless in that respect. But Ruth Dayan is<br />

tireless in her attempts to create ties that<br />

might link Arabs and Jews.<br />

ORCHIDS - MY INTERSEX ADVEN-<br />

TURE<br />

Documentary (1x 56’/60’)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Phoebe Hart<br />

Co-Production Partners: ABC (Australia)<br />

Producer: Hartflicker Moving Pictures<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

‘Hermaphrodite’ is a word used to describe<br />

Phoebe, a woman with a men’s chromosomes.<br />

Wherever possible, Phoebe actively<br />

seeks to disrupt the cataloging with as<br />

much honesty and humour as she can. In<br />

her film ‘Orchids’ she comes clean on her<br />

journey of self-discovery to embrace her<br />

future and reconcile the past shame and<br />

family secrecy surrounding her intersex<br />

condition. Despite her mother’s refusal to<br />

be in the film, Phoebe hits the road...<br />

RULES OF SINGLE LIFE<br />

Documentary (1x 56’/79’)<br />

Language: Bulgarian, English, Finnish,<br />

English subtitles<br />

Director: Tonislav Hristov<br />

Co-Production Partners: YLE1 (Finnland),<br />

NRK (Norway), Agitrop (Bulgaria)<br />

Producer: Making Movies Oy<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Finland, Bulgaria<br />

A romantic documentary about love in a<br />

foreign city. Disillusioned by love, four<br />

Bulgarian guys who emigrated to Helsinki<br />

decide to give themselves a task: they need<br />

to find new girlfriends in Helsinki in 12<br />

months. Otherwise - they figure - they<br />

won’t cope with Nordic ladies ever again.<br />

QADAFFI’S FEMALE BODYGUARDS<br />

Documentary (1x 59’)<br />

Language: English, Arabic, English subtitles<br />

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Director: Rania Ajami<br />

Producer: Rania Ajami, Brigitte Valentine<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2004 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

This documentary investigates the phenomenon<br />

of Qaddafi’s elite female bodyguard<br />

corps and the tensions these women<br />

embody: tensions between Islam, modernization<br />

in a nomadic society, militarist feminism<br />

and an urban dictatorship. What sort<br />

of life do these women lead, what is their<br />

political position, and how has it evolved?<br />

VOICES FROM EL SAYED<br />

Documentary (1x 52’/74’)<br />

Underground - Tri Coast<br />

Language: Arabic, Hebrew and Sign<br />

Language, English subtitles<br />

Director: Oded Adomi Leshem<br />

Co-Production Partners: The Israeli Second<br />

Authority for TV & Radio<br />

Producer: Belfilms<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: Israel<br />

In the picturesque Israeli Negev desert lays<br />

the Bedouin Village of El-Sayed that has<br />

the largest percentage of deaf people in the<br />

world. Through generations a unique sign<br />

language has evolved making it the most<br />

popular language in this rare society that<br />

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accepts deafness as natural as life itself.<br />

The village’s tranquility is interrupted by<br />

Salim’s decision to change his deaf son’s<br />

fate and make him a hearing person using<br />

the Cochlear Implant Operation.<br />

RITZ<br />

Documentary (1x52’)<br />

Language: French, German, English,<br />

English subtitles<br />

Director: Frank Garbely<br />

Co-Production Partners: Olivier Talpain for<br />

Ae Productions, Geneva, Switzerland.<br />

Broadcasters involved: TSR (French CH),<br />

TSI (Italian CH), SF (German CH), SRG<br />

SSR idd suisse, ARTE (DE/FR)<br />

Producer: R-Film & Ae Productions<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: Switzerland<br />

The rise and fall of a peasant boy from the<br />

Swiss mountains who revolutionizes the<br />

world’s hotel business: Cesar Ritz is the<br />

notorious dishwasher who becomes emperor<br />

of the most famous hotel of the world -<br />

with amazing speed and grace, only to collapse<br />

when his most ambitious goal, the<br />

coronation buffet for King Edward VI, cannot<br />

take place. This is the first and only<br />

filmed biography about Cesar Ritz, inventor<br />

of modern hotel business.<br />

FORTISSIMO FILMS<br />

Fortissimo Films, Van Diemenstraat 100,<br />

Amsterdam, CN 1013 The Netherlands,<br />

Tel: +31.20.627.3215 Fax:<br />

+31.20.626.1155. www.fortissimofilms.com<br />

E-mail: info@fortissimo.nl<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Michael J. Werner (Chairman),<br />

Nelleke Driessen (Managing Director),<br />

Nicole Mackey (Executive Vice President -<br />

Sales and Acquisitions), Winnie Lau (SVP<br />

Sales & Acquisitions), Courtney Noble<br />

(Director - Festivals & Markets), Niloufar<br />

Siassi (Director TV & Ancillary Sales)<br />

Office: Stand 2,Martin-Gropius-Bau , Tel:<br />

49.30.767.646 - 452<br />

MARLEY<br />

Documentary<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Kevin Macdonald<br />

Producer: Steve Bing, Charles Steel, Ziggy<br />

Marley<br />

Key Cast: Bob Marley<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

MARLEY is the definitive film about a<br />

true international icon of the 20th Century.<br />

His music and message of love and<br />

redemption are known throughout the<br />

world and his story has finally been<br />

brought to life in this definitive work by<br />

the acclaimed talent of Kevin Macdonald.<br />

Filming took place as far afield as Ghana,<br />

Japan and the UK, in addition to Bob’s<br />

beloved Jamaica and the USA and marks<br />

the first time ever his family has authorized<br />

the use of their own private archives.<br />

Macdonald joined with the Marley family,<br />

Chris Blackwell and Steve Bing to direct<br />

the ultimate, authorized documentary film<br />

on the life, legacy and global impact of a<br />

legend, one of the most influential singers,<br />

songwriters, musicians and activists in history.<br />

Only a handful of musicians have ever<br />

achieved such an impact and Bob Marley,<br />

though his life was far too short, stands<br />

among them.<br />

LOST IN PARADISE<br />

Drama, Gay (103 min)<br />

Language: Vietnamese<br />

Director: VU Ngoc Dang<br />

Writer: VU Ngoc Dang, LUONG Manh<br />

Hai<br />

Producer: NGUYEN Phan Quang Binh,<br />

NGO Thi Bich Hien<br />

Key Cast: LUONG Manh Hai, HO Vinh<br />

Khoa, Hieu Hien<br />

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Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Vietnam<br />

LOST IN PARADISE takes a provocative<br />

yet compassionate look at a group of people<br />

who live, love and exist on the fringes<br />

in modern Vietnam. Khoa, a naive, innocent<br />

20 year old guy from the countryside<br />

arrives in Saigon to begin a new life. He is<br />

soon befriended by Dong, a handsome<br />

smooth talker who offers him a place to<br />

stay. But he discovers that there is another<br />

guy, Lam, living there too. The two guys<br />

who turn out to be boyfriends, steal all his<br />

cash and belongings and run away. Lam,<br />

who then in turn is abandoned by Dong,<br />

returns to the street as a prostitute, while<br />

Khoa, disillusioned and left penniless,<br />

takes on menial jobs to survive. Realizing<br />

that both are lonely, they begin a loving yet<br />

delicate relationship.<br />

BUGIS STREET REDUX<br />

Drama (98 min)<br />

Language: English & Mandarin<br />

Director: Yonfan<br />

Writer: Yonfan, Fruit Chan<br />

Producer: Yonfan & Katy Yew<br />

Key Cast: HIEP Thi Le, Michael LAM,<br />

Greg-O<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Vietnam<br />

In revisiting and reworking his earlier cult<br />

classic, Director Yonfan had all the contemporary<br />

film restoration tools and toys at<br />

his disposal. BUGIS STREET REDUX is<br />

the outcome of that effort. When it first hit<br />

the film and festival circuit BUGIS<br />

STREET was a groundbreaking film for<br />

the director and for Asia. Shot on location<br />

in Singapore, the actual spot (then called<br />

Bugis Junction/Bugis Street) was long<br />

known to locals as the center of the real<br />

nightlife there. It was where one could find<br />

local transvestites, prostitutes, and transsexuals<br />

mixing it up with both Singapore’s<br />

high society and underground gay culture<br />

together with US sailors and soldiers on<br />

military leave. The film features actress<br />

Hiep Thi Le in her first role right after her<br />

film debut in Oliver Stone’s HEAVEN<br />

AND EARTH. The film also featured and<br />

co-starred many of the real locals from<br />

Bugis Street. The film marked Yonfan’s<br />

first collaboration with Fruit Chan who<br />

served as screen writer and later went on to<br />

become a renowned director in his own<br />

right.<br />

WHAT MAISIE KNEW<br />

Drama/ Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Scott McGehee and David Siegel<br />

Writer: Nancy Doyne & Carroll Cartwright<br />

Producer: William Teitler, Chuck<br />

Weinstock, Daniela Taplin Lundberg<br />

Key Cast: Julianne Moore, Steve Coogan,<br />

Alexander Skarsgrd<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Darkly comic and emotionally compelling,<br />

WHAT MAISIE KNEW is an evocative<br />

portrayal of the chaos and complexity of a<br />

modern marriage.<br />

WHITE FROG<br />

Coming of Age/Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Quentin Lee<br />

Writer: Fabienne Wen, Ellie Wen<br />

Producer: Chris Lee, Joel Soisson, Ellie<br />

Wen<br />

Key Cast: Joan Chen, BD Wong, Booboo<br />

Stewart<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

WHITE FROG is an emotional story of the<br />

universal power of family, friendship and<br />

love positioned to appeal to a broad audience<br />

in vein of ORDINARY PEOPLE<br />

meets STAND BY ME.<br />

DJINN<br />

Supernatural Horror Thriller<br />

Language: Arabic / English<br />

Director: Tobe Hooper<br />

Producer: Daniela Tully, Tim Symthe<br />

Key Cast: Khalid Laith, Razane Jammal,<br />

Aiysha Hart<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UAE<br />

A young Emirati couple move into a new<br />

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luxury high-rise apartment, only to find<br />

they have entered the nightmarish world of<br />

djinn, supernatural beings from Arabic lore.<br />

EL GUSTO<br />

Documentary (93 min)<br />

Language: French/Arabic<br />

Director: Safinez Bousbia<br />

Writer: Safinez Bousbia<br />

Producer: Safinez Bousbia, Heidi Egger<br />

Key Cast: Mamad Hader Benchaouch,<br />

Rachid Berkani, Ahmed Bernaoui<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: France / UAE / Ireland / Algeria<br />

The Buena Vista Social Club of the<br />

Maghreb. Safinez Bousbia’s ambitious and<br />

moving documentary tells the amazing<br />

story of the reunion and reconciliation of a<br />

group of Muslim and Jewish musicians<br />

fifty years after their separation during the<br />

Algerian Civil War. The documentary follows<br />

their story as they are brought back<br />

together to form a new orchestra, “El<br />

Gusto,” and perform at an extraordinary<br />

concert in France.<br />

TORMENTED<br />

3D Thriller (84 min)<br />

Language: Japanese<br />

Director: Takashi Shimizu<br />

Writer: Sotaro Hayashi<br />

Producer: Satoru Ogura, Masayuki<br />

Tanishima<br />

Key Cast: Hikari Mitsushima, Teruyuki<br />

Kagawa, Takeru Shibuya<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

Director Takashi Shimizu’s new film centers<br />

on a young boy whose family seems to<br />

be falling apart around him. The situation<br />

gets worse when he manifests a growing<br />

and dangerous friendship and reliance on a<br />

stuffed rabbit that comes to life. Is he<br />

crazy; is his sister alive or dead; is their<br />

illustrating father going insane or are they<br />

all delusional? Shimizu ventures once more<br />

into the terrifying corners of the mind.<br />

WARRIORS OF THE RAINBOW:<br />

SEEDIQ BALE?<br />

Action Epic (150 min)<br />

Language: Seediq Language and Japanese<br />

Director: WEI Te-Sheng<br />

Writer: WEI Te-Sheng<br />

Producer: John WOO, Terence CHANG,<br />

Jimmy HUANG<br />

Key Cast: LIN Ching-Tai, Umin Boya,<br />

ANDO Masanobu<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Taiwan<br />

Set in 1930’s Formosa - now Taiwan,<br />

WARRIORS OF THE RAINBOW tells the<br />

true story of the Wushe Incident in which<br />

aboriginal Seediq tribe warrior Mouna<br />

Rudo led his people to rebel against Japan<br />

then occupying the island. Rudo, assembling<br />

a Seediq force of 300 men and fighting<br />

with ancient guns, spears and minimal<br />

weaponry sought to reclaim their land,<br />

their dignity and their honor by taking on<br />

the incredible might of the Japanese army.<br />

WETLANDS<br />

Drama (111 min)<br />

Language: French<br />

Director: Guy Édoin<br />

Writer: Guy Édoin<br />

Producer: Luc Vandal, Flize Frappier,<br />

Roger Frappier<br />

Key Cast: Pascale Bussires, Gabriel Maill,<br />

Luc Picard<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

Tragedy strikes a family in rural Canada<br />

struggling to keep their dairy farm from<br />

going under. The man of the family is<br />

killed in a freak accident leaving his wife<br />

as the sole provider and caregiver looking<br />

after their rebellious teenage son who is<br />

dealing with his emerging sexuality. The<br />

father’s sudden death is not the first time<br />

this family suffers a loss. Now the bonds of<br />

family are being tested when the relationship<br />

between mother and son becomes<br />

strained as she seeks comfort in the arms of<br />

a stranger who arrives at the farm with<br />

questionable intent.<br />

ISZTAMBUL<br />

Drama (99 min)<br />

Language: Hungarian/English/Turkish<br />

Director: Ferenc Trk<br />

Writer: Ferenc Trk<br />

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Producer: Lszlo Kntor<br />

Key Cast: Johanna ter Steege, Lukts Andor,<br />

Yavuz Bingl<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Hungary<br />

When JANOS, a popular 55 year old professor<br />

leaves home to have an affair with<br />

one of his students, nobody really bats an<br />

eye. But when his wife, KATALIN, first<br />

goes off the deep end and then hitchhikes<br />

out of the country to “find herself”, her<br />

family hits the roof and switches into high<br />

gear. First they call the police and file a<br />

missing person’s report, and then when she<br />

is found to be in Istanbul, teenage son<br />

(ZOLI) is sent to bring her back.<br />

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Meanwhile his sister ZSOFI is fully occupied<br />

giving birth to the family’s first grandchild.<br />

It doesn’t occur to all of them that<br />

KATALIN may actually be doing very well<br />

without them in the exciting new environment<br />

of Istanbul. In this exotic city,<br />

KATALIN meets HAMIL, staying in the<br />

same hotel, from the Turkish provinces and<br />

also away from his family. Both having<br />

something to share, they find an uneasy but<br />

touching relationship. When ZOLI finally<br />

catches up with his Mom, he discovers that<br />

she is a changed person. She has no inter-<br />

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est to return home with him. Ultimately he<br />

comes to see her as someone who may be<br />

happier to start a new life.<br />

SEA SHADOW<br />

Coming of Age (98 min)<br />

Language: Arabic<br />

Director: Nawaf Al-Janahi<br />

Writer: Mohammed Hassan Ahmed<br />

Producer: Rami Yasin, Daniela Tully<br />

Key Cast: Omar Al Mulla, Neven Madi,<br />

Abrar Al Hamad<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UAE<br />

Set in a small seaside neighborhood in the<br />

United Arab Emirates, SEA SHADOW follows<br />

teenagers Mansoor and Kaltham as<br />

they struggle with tradition and convention<br />

in their journey towards adulthood. Bound<br />

by family and deeply-rooted values, the<br />

pair must find the courage to forge their<br />

own paths.<br />

MICHAEL<br />

Drama (98 min)<br />

Language: Bengali/Hindi<br />

Director: Ribhu Dasgupta<br />

Writer: Debaloy Bhattacharya, Neel Guha<br />

Producer: Anurag Kashyap, Guneet Monga,<br />

Sunil Bohra<br />

Key Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Mahie Gill,<br />

Purav Bhandare<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: India<br />

Set in Kolkata, this is a character-driven<br />

psychological drama in which MICHAEL<br />

(Naseeruddin Shah), a loyal, hard working<br />

police officer is ordered by his superiors to<br />

open fire on a peaceful crowd of protesters.<br />

He shoots away from the crowd but a bullet<br />

accidentally ricochets and kills a 12year-old<br />

boy. Michael’s career, and whole<br />

life start to fall apart especially when he is<br />

fired from the force and he begins to<br />

receive threatening phone calls suggesting<br />

retribution on his own son as soon as his<br />

12th birthday arrives. The clock starts tick-<br />

ing and as he struggles to protect his son,<br />

his eyesight starts to fail. Taking on odd<br />

jobs to survive he works in a local cinema<br />

and starts making extra money by pirating<br />

movies. The story of a good man falling off<br />

the path and his struggle to hold his life<br />

and family together.<br />

FRIES FILMS, INC<br />

Fries Films, Inc, 22817 Ventura Blvd.<br />

#909, Woodland Hills, CA 91364 USA,<br />

Tel: 1.213.220.9636 Fax:1.818.449.4873.<br />

www.friesfilms.com E-mail: info@friesfilms.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Charles M. Fries (President,<br />

CEO), Alice Fries (Vice President), Phillip<br />

Braunstein<br />

Office: Stand 106, Tel: 818.635.0512<br />

THE DRAGON PEARL<br />

Family Adventure<br />

Director: Mario Andreacchio<br />

Writer: John Armstrong<br />

Co-Production Partners: AMPCO Films,<br />

Zhehang Hengdian Films<br />

Executive Producer: Charles M. Fries,<br />

Jeffrey Sneller<br />

Producer: Mark Patterson<br />

Key Cast: Sam Neill<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Country of Origin: Australia and China<br />

Young Josh and Ling meet when Josh<br />

comes to visit China where his father and<br />

Ling’s mother are on an archeological dig<br />

searching for The Lost Dragon Pearl that<br />

was buried in General Zhuangzi’s Tomb<br />

thousands of years ago.<br />

MEETING SPENCER<br />

Comedy<br />

Director: Malcolm Mowbray<br />

Writer: Andrew Kole, Andrew Delaplaine<br />

and Scott Kasdin<br />

Executive Producer: Chein Ya and Natalie<br />

Chin<br />

Producer: George Braunstein<br />

Key Cast: Jeffrey Tambor, Melinda<br />

McGraw, Jesse Plemons<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

“On a night nothing could go wrong,<br />

everything does!”<br />

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A MILLION COLOURS<br />

Drama<br />

Director: Peter Bishai<br />

Writer: Peter Bishai and Andre Pieterse<br />

Co-Production Partners: Clover Leaf Film -<br />

South Africa, Equinoxe Films - Canada<br />

Executive Producer: Charles M. Fries<br />

Producer: Andre Pieterse, Michael Mosca<br />

Key Cast: Wandile Molebatsi and Jason<br />

Hartman<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

In the early 1970’s, apartheid divided<br />

South Africa, a film was released that<br />

brought hope and light to a despairing<br />

nation. The two young stars, Muntu<br />

Ndebele and Norman Knox, would become<br />

friends just like their characters. But they<br />

would also face struggles dealing with<br />

apartheid. Inspired by a true story full of<br />

action, daring escapes, romantic longing,<br />

moving personal struggles, and humor in<br />

unexpected places.<br />

NO BETTER PLACE TO DIE<br />

Action / War Film<br />

Director: Dale Dye<br />

Writer: Dale Dye<br />

Producer: Charles M. Fries, Frederick R.<br />

Ulrich<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

The monumental and extraordinary story of<br />

the Allied Invasion of Europe during World<br />

War II and the brutal fight for the La Fiere<br />

Bridge over the Merderet River in<br />

Normandy.<br />

AMERICAN FLAG<br />

Action<br />

Director: Malcolm Mowbray<br />

Writer: Elmore Leonard<br />

Executive Producer: Charles M. Fries,<br />

Chuck Fries<br />

Producer: George Braunstein<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

The story begins with Bob Miller’s return<br />

to the American Flag Corporation’s gold<br />

mining operation at a small town. Having<br />

been prospecting for eight months, Miller<br />

returns with gold ore, signaling a wealthy<br />

claim that he staked in the mountain side,<br />

overshadowing the mill at the American<br />

Flag mine. Frank McCall, manager of the<br />

American Flag mine, is bitter about his<br />

previous co-worker’s success, and tries to<br />

force Miller out by burying Miller’s claim<br />

with a landslide in order to take possession<br />

of it under the American Flag Corporation.<br />

A bloody and bitter feud erupts between<br />

the two men over the gold mine. Further<br />

provoking their vengeful battle over the<br />

mine is a sly young girl, Lelia, who used to<br />

be Miller’s girl, but now works and is with<br />

McCall. Pivotal for the drama, her affection<br />

is just as alluring as the gold mine<br />

itself. Passion, greed, envy, sympathy, loyalty,<br />

and courage permeate this classic<br />

western tale that takes place in the closing<br />

days of the Wild West.<br />

THE DARK<br />

Thriller - Horror<br />

Director: Antonello de Leo<br />

Writer: Antonello de Leo, Flora Aprea and<br />

Giovanni Cardillo<br />

Executive Producer: Charles M. Fries<br />

Producer: Chuck Smiley & Paul Painter,<br />

Enzo Giulioli, Enrico Colleti & Giuseppe<br />

Pedersoli<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

A woman and her daughter are locked<br />

inside the trunk of a car by a mysterious<br />

torturer. Their only hope is a young girl<br />

who has decided to kill herself.<br />

RUGAROO<br />

Suspense - Thriller<br />

Director: Minor Mustain<br />

Writer: Minor Mustain<br />

Executive Producer: Charles M. Fries<br />

Producer: Chuck Smiley & Paul Painter<br />

Key Cast: Adam Beach, August<br />

Schellenberg, Tantoo Cardinal, Graham<br />

Greene<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Bad spirits don’t make a good man evil,<br />

but they make a good man seek an evil<br />

way. A psychologist descends into insanity<br />

on an American Indian reservation while<br />

investigating native spirits that seemingly<br />

inhabit the village in which he lives.<br />

PICKTON<br />

Serial Killer<br />

Director: George Mihalka<br />

Writer: Mark Zimmer<br />

Executive Producer: Charles M. Fries<br />

Producer: Paul Painter & Chuck Smiley<br />

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Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Based on the true story which led to the<br />

discovery of the worst serial killer ever to<br />

prey on women on the North American<br />

continent. ‘PICKTON’ tells the true tale of<br />

the strange sadistic pig farmer who murdered<br />

and dismembered his victims and<br />

used them as feedstock.<br />

CALL OF THE WILD<br />

Family Adventure (13 x 1hr)<br />

Writer: David Fallon<br />

Co-Production Partners: CINEVU Films<br />

Production<br />

Executive Producer: Charles M. Fries<br />

Producer: Jeffrey Barmash, Michael Sloan<br />

Key Cast: Nick Mancuso, Shane Meier<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Television Series (13 x 1hr.) inspired by the<br />

classic novel by Jack London novel and<br />

award-winning film. Miles Challenger is a<br />

15-year-old boy living in an Alaskan mining<br />

town at the turn of the century, whose<br />

life changes forever when he encounters a<br />

heroic and powerful dog named Buck.<br />

SURVIVING EVIL<br />

Thriller<br />

Director: Terence Daw<br />

Writer: Terence Daw<br />

Executive Producer: Charles M. Fries<br />

Producer: Anton Ersnt, Malcolm Kohll,<br />

David Pupkewitz, Mike Downie<br />

Key Cast: Billy Zane, Nathalie Mendoza,<br />

Joel Torre<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

When a British documentary crew arrives<br />

on an uncharted island in the Philippines,<br />

they discover an abandoned village, with<br />

huts covered in blood. As they investigate,<br />

the crew discovers stories of evil beasts<br />

that prowl the island, feasting on human<br />

flesh.<br />

ALL SHE WANTS FOR CHRISTMAS<br />

Family<br />

Key Cast: Monica Keena, Tobias Mehler,<br />

Steve Bacic<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

When the owner of a small town’s<br />

Christmas ornament factory dies, the financial<br />

troubles of the beloved company<br />

threaten many jobs. Now Noel, the efficiency<br />

expert, who once believed in shut-<br />

ting down any business viable, wishes to<br />

save the jobs of her friends and family by<br />

saving the town’s factory from forever<br />

closing down.<br />

COMFORT HOUSE<br />

Thriller<br />

Key Cast: Sheryl Lee, Yannick Bisson,<br />

John Novak<br />

A founder of a women’s shelter is suspected<br />

of killing the husbands of the women<br />

residents. In the process of proving her<br />

innocence, she unravels a town secret that<br />

has been buried for years.<br />

HARD HAT<br />

Horror<br />

Director: John Travers<br />

Executive Producer: Charles M. Fries<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Equipped with tools and a buzz saw HARD<br />

HAT cuts down anything in his sight with<br />

blood spurting, bone crushing gore you’ve<br />

never seen before.<br />

HALLOW POINTE<br />

Horror<br />

Director: Thomas Churchill<br />

Writer: Joe Netter<br />

Executive Producer: Charles M. Fries,<br />

Alice Fries, Steve Tymon<br />

Producer: Bobby Ray Akers, Jr., Thomas<br />

Churchill, Laurence P. Pereira<br />

Key Cast: Kane Hodder, Ashley Williams,<br />

Leslie Easterbrook, Andrew Bryniarski,<br />

Tiffany Shepis, Allison Kyler, Brad Loree,<br />

Cody Deal, Lar Park-Lincoln, Belinda<br />

Balaski, Eileen Dietz, Sarah French, Cody<br />

Matthew Blymire, Stacey Dixon, Steven<br />

Barton, Niki Sabet, Mike Marino.<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Henry and Jane are hoping a weekend there<br />

will help rekindle their love for each other.<br />

Everything seems to be going as<br />

planned...until the sun sets and the full<br />

moon lights up the sky.<br />

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G-Machine, Inc., 11693 San Vicente Blvd.<br />

No. 248, Los Angeles, CA 90049 USA,<br />

Tel: 1.310.713.7486 Fax: 1.818.501.2780.<br />

www.thegmachineinc.com E-mail: sellfilms@yahoo.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Ron Gell (President & CEO),<br />

Cynthia Marquoit (Chairman)<br />

Office: Martin Gropious Bau<br />

PETER & VANDY<br />

Feature (95 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jay DiPietro<br />

Writer: Jay DiPietro<br />

Producer: Peter Sterling, Austin Stark Benji<br />

Kohn<br />

Key Cast: Jason Ritter, Jess Weixler<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Lionel - Adriena Chiesa Enterprises<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

‘Peter and Vandy’ is a love story told out of<br />

order. Set in Manhattan, the story shifts<br />

back and forth in time, juxtaposing Peter<br />

and Vandy’s romantic beginnings with the<br />

twisted, manipulative, regular couple they<br />

become. The film explores the question<br />

most couples ask themselves... ‘How the<br />

hell did we get this way?’<br />

P.V.C. - 1<br />

Thriller (85 min)<br />

Language: Spanish w/ Subtitles English<br />

Director: Spiros Stathoulopoulos<br />

Writer: Dwight Istanbulian & Spiros<br />

Stathoulopoulos<br />

Producer: Jace Hall, Spiros<br />

Stathoulopoulos<br />

Key Cast: Merida Urquia, Daniel Paez,<br />

Alberto Sornoza<br />

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Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA/Columbia<br />

Shot in real time and one continuous take,<br />

PVC-1 is based on the true story of a<br />

woman who is turned into a human time<br />

bomb in an act of terrorism.<br />

PALO ALTO<br />

Comedy, Drama (100 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Brad Leong<br />

Writer: Brad Leong, Tony Vallone<br />

Producer: Daniel Engelhardt<br />

Key Cast: Tom Arnold, Aaron Ashmore,<br />

Eve Brent, Hailey Bright, Shoshana Bush,<br />

Christina DeRosa, Ryan Hansen, Robin<br />

Hines<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

On their last night of Thanksgiving break,<br />

four old friends, now all college freshmen,<br />

realize their small town has more meaning<br />

than they ever imagined.<br />

LORD, SAVE US FROM YOUR FOL-<br />

LOWERS<br />

Feature Documentary (100 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Dan Merchant<br />

Writer: Dan Merchant<br />

Producer: Jeff Martin, Jon Manning, Dan<br />

Merchant<br />

Key Cast: Bill Maher, Bono, George W.<br />

Bush, Tony Campolo, Stephen Colbert,<br />

Ann Coulter<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

The humorous, provocative and moving<br />

examination of the Culture Wars and faith<br />

in America. Featuring interviews from all<br />

sides of the issues, the film is a balanced,<br />

challenging and entertaining foray into the<br />

most divisive and difficult topics in our<br />

culture.<br />

ROMAN<br />

Horror (92 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Angela Bettis<br />

Writer: Lucky McKee<br />

Producer: Chris Wayne, Steve Copeland,<br />

Jonathan Serota<br />

Key Cast: Kristen Bell, Lucky McKee,<br />

Nectar Rose<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

Roman (Lucky McKee) is a lonely young<br />

man who yearns to find love, happiness<br />

and companionship. Tormented by his<br />

ungrateful co-workers and trapped in a life<br />

of tedium as a welder in a local factory,<br />

Roman’s one pleasure is his obsession with<br />

the elusive beauty (Kristen Bell) who lives<br />

in the apartment in his building complex.<br />

When a chance encounter with the young<br />

woman goes horribly wrong, a moment of<br />

frenzied desperation triggers a chilling turn<br />

of events leading to murder. As he teeters<br />

between deranged fantasy and cold reality,<br />

Roman’s struggle to hide his grisly secret is<br />

further complicated by an eccentric neighbor<br />

(Nectar Rose) who develops an unlikely<br />

attraction to Roman and forces herself<br />

into his dark and tortured world.<br />

OBSESSION: RADICAL ISLAM’S<br />

WAR AGAINST THE WEST<br />

Documentary (95 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Wayne Kopping<br />

Writer: Raphael Shore, Wayne Kopping<br />

Producer: Peter Mier, Raphael Shore<br />

Key Cast: Alan Dershowitz, Brigitte<br />

Gabriel, Martin Gilbert<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

Obsession is a film about the threat of<br />

Radical Islam to Western civilization.<br />

Using unique footage from Arab television,<br />

it reveals an ‘insider’s view’ of the hatred<br />

the Radicals are teaching, their incitement<br />

of global jihad, and their goal of world<br />

domination. The film also traces the parallels<br />

between the Nazi movement of World<br />

War II, the Radicals of today, and the<br />

Western world’s response to both threats.<br />

Featuring interviews with Daniel Pipes,<br />

Steve Emerson, Alan Dershowitz, a former<br />

PLO terrorist, and a former Hitler Youth<br />

Commander<br />

STEALING MARTIN LANE<br />

Dramatic Comedy (95 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: James Furino<br />

Writer: James Furino<br />

Producer: Larry Mitchell<br />

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Key Cast: Dylan Baker, Isiah Whitlock, Jr.<br />

James Furino<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

Inspired by true events, Stealing Martin<br />

Lane offers a window into the life of a disarmingly<br />

insightful homeless man, Harold<br />

“Chopper” Jones, who is trying to turn his<br />

life around. This dramatic comedy, set<br />

against the gritty backdrop of the streets of<br />

New York City, tells a poignant tale of<br />

friendship, hope, and making a difference<br />

in another person’s life.<br />

HOMELAND<br />

Romantic Drama (93 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Michael Eldridge<br />

Writer: Brad Rothschild<br />

Producer: Brad Rothschild, Michael<br />

Eldridge, Steven Moskovic<br />

Key Cast: Max Rhyser, Yifat Sharabi<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

The amazing love story of an young couple<br />

in New York City, an Israeli young man<br />

and a Palestinian girl and the history that<br />

tries to keep them apart.<br />

AFTERTHOUGHT<br />

Horror (85 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Douglas Elford-Argent<br />

Writer: Douglas Elford-Argent<br />

Producer: Douglas Elford-Argent, Tedd<br />

Willet<br />

Key Cast: Gwendolyn Garver, Kristian<br />

Capalik, Cal Thomas<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

Seven years after Christy Dawson loses her<br />

father, she begins having dreams about<br />

him. What she doesn’t know is that she is<br />

beginning her future as a Dreamer. When<br />

her dreams begin to become reality, Christy<br />

seeks the help of Kyle Walker, but soon<br />

loses her trust for him when he can’t<br />

explain why he was found at two crime<br />

scenes. The Police arrest Kyle and hold<br />

him at the jail. Forced to learn more alone,<br />

she soon discovers the truth and goes back<br />

to the only person who will listen to her.<br />

GAUMONT<br />

Gaumont, 30, Avenue Charles de Gaulle,<br />

Neuilly-Sur-Seine, 92200 France, Tel:<br />

33.1.46.43.21.80 Fax: 33.1.46.43.20.33.<br />

www.gaumont.net E-mail: abuhl@gaumont.fr<br />

At EFM: Cécile GAGET (Head of<br />

International Sales), Yohann COMTE<br />

(Deputy Head of Sales), Virginie ROYER<br />

(International Sales Manager)<br />

Office: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Booth #18,<br />

Tel: +49.30.767.646- 414<br />

THE CHEF<br />

AKA: COMME UN CHEF<br />

Comedy<br />

Director: Daniel Cohen<br />

Producer: GAUMONT<br />

Key Cast: Jean Reno, Michael Youn<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Jacky is an aficionado of haute cuisine,<br />

self-taught and very talented. Star chef<br />

Alexandre Lagarde is in serious conflict<br />

with Stanislas Matter, the new CEO of the<br />

group that owns his restaurant, “Cargo<br />

Lagarde”. Worse yet, Lagarde has run out<br />

of ideas for future creations for his new<br />

menu which the Guide’s critics will soon<br />

be coming to taste and judge... He is desperately<br />

looking for an assistant to help<br />

him manage the restaurant’s two daily sittings.<br />

Then one day, as luck would have it,<br />

he meets Jacky.<br />

PUSHER<br />

Thriller<br />

Director: Luis Prieto<br />

Co-Production Partners: Embargo Films,<br />

Vertigo Films<br />

Key Cast: Richard Coyle, Agyness Deyn<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

As edgy and explosive as Nicolas Winding<br />

Refn’s 1996 cult classic, this English language<br />

remake sees a small time London<br />

drug dealer descend into debt hell following<br />

a spot of bad luck and a series of bad<br />

choices. The more desperate his behaviour<br />

gets the more isolated he becomes until<br />

there is nothing left standing between him<br />

and the nine millimetre bullet his debtors<br />

intend to put through his skull.<br />

SOMEDAY MY DAD WILL COME<br />

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AKA: UN JOUR MON PERE VIEN-<br />

DRA<br />

Comedy<br />

Director: Martin Valente<br />

Co-Production Partners: GAUMONT /<br />

KARE PRODUCTIONS<br />

Key Cast: Olivia Ruiz, Franois Berland,<br />

Grard Jugnot<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Bernard is rich, cold, and suffers from<br />

OCD. Gus is poor, generous, and partial to<br />

alcohol. Each is convinced he’s Chlo’s<br />

father and they set off together in search of<br />

her. But it is the day before Chlo’s wedding<br />

and she’s already found a third substitute<br />

father...<br />

ANNE FONTAINE’S PROJECT<br />

AKA: THE GRANDMOTHERS<br />

Romance<br />

Director: Anne Fontaine<br />

Co-Production Partners: CINE@, MON<br />

VOISIN PRODUCTION<br />

Key Cast: Naomi Watts, Robin Wright,<br />

Xavier Samuel, James Frecheville<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

A gripping tale of love, lust and the power<br />

of friendship, that charts the unconventional<br />

and passionate affairs embarked on by<br />

two lifelong friends, LIL and ROZ, who<br />

fall in love with each other’s sons. Afraid<br />

of facing the ire and judgment of their<br />

insular seaside community, the two affairs<br />

continue over the years in secret, until their<br />

discovery threatens to tear apart the two<br />

lives and families of the young men, who<br />

must eventually choose between a wellworn<br />

path, or following their true desires.<br />

ONLY GOD FORGIVES<br />

Thriller<br />

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn<br />

Co-Production Partners: GAUMONT,<br />

WILD BUNCH<br />

Key Cast: Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott-<br />

Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm, Yaya Ying<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Julian, an Englishman living in Bangkok, is<br />

a respected figure in the criminal underworld.<br />

He and his brother Billy run a Thai<br />

boxing club which is in fact a front for<br />

smuggling drugs to London. When Billy is<br />

murdered, their mother Jenna arrives from<br />

London to bring back the body. Jenna is<br />

herself the head of a powerful criminal<br />

organization and is used to getting exactly<br />

what she wants. She sets out to settle the<br />

score along a bloody path of rage, betrayal<br />

and vengeance, hurtling toward an ultimate<br />

confrontation and the possibility of<br />

redemption.<br />

GLOBAL<br />

CINEMA GROUP<br />

Global Cinema Group, 6399 Wilshire<br />

Blvd., # 1008, Los Angeles, CA 90048<br />

USA, Tel: 1.310.443.7788 Fax:<br />

1.310.443.7739. E-mail: pelson@globalcinemagroup.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Peter Elson (President)<br />

Office: Exhibitor without office Based at<br />

Ritz Carlton Hotel., Tel: 1.310.710.4232<br />

FOODFIGHT!<br />

Animated feature comedy (91 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Larry Kasanoff<br />

Key Cast: Charlie Sheen, Hilary Duff, Eva<br />

Longoria, Christopher Lloyd, Chris Kattan,<br />

Cloris Leachman, Wayne Brady<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

FOODFIGHT! takes place in a supermarket<br />

at night when the lights go out after all<br />

the people leave. Then, magically, the grocery<br />

transforms into a city: the boxes<br />

become buildings and the aisles become<br />

city streets. Then from every door of this<br />

‘marketropolis’ comes characters of every<br />

kind and these include the star of the film,<br />

Dex Dogtective (Charlie Sheen), who goes<br />

in search of his missing girlfriend, the<br />

sweet and lovable Sunshine Goodness<br />

(Hilary Duff). It turns out there is opposition<br />

in the form of the villainous and<br />

seductive Lady X (Eva Langoria). All is<br />

well in the marketropolis until Lady X and<br />

her minions try to take over and make it a<br />

Brand X world. Then. . .the only way to<br />

stop them is a FOODFIGHT!<br />

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GOLDCREST FILMS<br />

INTERNATIONAL<br />

Goldcrest Films International, 65-66 Dean<br />

St, London, W1D 4PL UK, Tel:<br />

+44.207.437.8696. Fax:<br />

+44.207.437.4448.<br />

www.goldcrestfilms.com E-mail: slefevre@goldcrestfilms.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Nick Quested (Director), Marcia<br />

Nunes (Sales & Acq. Manager)<br />

Office: Ritz Carlton - Suite 834, Tel:<br />

+1.917.903.0642<br />

DARK HORSE<br />

Black Comedy (85 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Todd Solondz (Life During<br />

Wartime, Welcome to the Dollhouse,<br />

Happiness, Storytelling)<br />

Writer: Todd Solondz (Life During<br />

Wartime, Welcome to the Dollhouse,<br />

Happiness, Storytelling)<br />

Producer: Ted Hope (Martha Marcy May<br />

Marlene, Super), Derrick Tseng<br />

Key Cast: Justin Bartha (The Hangover),<br />

Selma Blair (Hellboy), Mia Farrow<br />

(Rosemary’s Baby), Jordan Gelber<br />

(Boardwalk Empire), Donna Murphy<br />

(Spiderman 2), Christopher Walken (The<br />

Deer Hunter)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Abe is a 30-something who lives with his<br />

parents, works for his father, and collects<br />

toys. When he isn’t playing backgammon<br />

with his mother, he’s trying to romance<br />

Miranda, a 30-something who has moved<br />

back in with her parents after her<br />

literary/academic career crashed. Out of<br />

desperation, Miranda reluctantly agrees to<br />

marry Abe, and the two begin to plan their<br />

life together. But, just when it looks like<br />

things are starting to go right for Abe,<br />

everything goes horribly wrong.<br />

A THOUSAND KISSES DEEP<br />

Psychological Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Dana Lustig<br />

Writer: Alex Kustanovich, Vadim<br />

Moldovan<br />

Producer: Ofir Kedar<br />

Key Cast: Dougray Scott, Jodie Whittaker,<br />

Emilia Fox & David Warner<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Returning home from work, Mia (Jodie<br />

Whittaker) witnesses an aged woman leap<br />

from a window. Scattered around the old<br />

woman’s broken, lifeless body Mia discovers<br />

shredded pieces from a beloved photograph<br />

of herself and her former lover<br />

Ludwig (Dougray Scott). Highly unnerved,<br />

Mia begs Max (David Warner), the buildings’<br />

all knowing custodian, to let her into<br />

the deceased woman’s flat. While inside<br />

this strangely familiar place, Mia recognizes<br />

the contents as her own. Confused<br />

and disturbed by what lies before her, she<br />

bolts back and forth in time where she is<br />

forced to realize it was her very own life<br />

that ended before her. Now, the only way<br />

to safeguard her future is to go back to her<br />

past and confront the man she loves deeply<br />

but dreads most.<br />

NATURAL SELECTION<br />

Black Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Robbie Pickering (Award-winning<br />

short Prom Night)<br />

Writer: Robbie Pickering (Award-winning<br />

short Prom Night)<br />

Producer: Brion Hambel, Paul Jensen<br />

Key Cast: Rachael Harris (The Hangover),<br />

Matt O’Leary (Die Hard 4.0, Brick), John<br />

Diehl (Jurassic Park III, Stargate), Jon<br />

Gries (Taken, Napoleon Dynamite)<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: US<br />

Linda White, a barren Christian housewife,<br />

leads a sheltered existence in suburban<br />

Texas. Her world is turned upside-down<br />

when she discovers that her dying husband,<br />

Abe, has a 23-year old illegitimate son<br />

named Raymond living in Florida.<br />

Somewhere on the edge of guilt and loneliness,<br />

Linda grants Abe’s final wish and sets<br />

off on a quixotic journey to find Raymond<br />

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and bring him back before her husband<br />

passes away. Along the way, Linda’s wonderfully<br />

bizarre relationship with Raymond<br />

will teach her more about herself than she<br />

ever imagined possible and force her to<br />

come to terms with her troubled past.<br />

PRIVATE PEACEFUL<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Pat O’Connor (Dancing at<br />

Lughnasa, Circle of Friends, A Month in<br />

the Country)<br />

Writer: Simon Reade, based on the highlyacclaimed,<br />

award-winning novel of the<br />

same name by Michael Morpurgo (internationally<br />

renowned writer of the multiaward<br />

winning WAR HORSE)<br />

Producer: Guy De Beaujeu, Simon Reade<br />

Key Cast: George Mackay (The Boys are<br />

Back, Birdsong), Jack O’Connell (This is<br />

England, Skins), Alexandra Roach (The<br />

Iron Lady), Richard Griffiths (The History<br />

Boys, Harry Potter), Frances de la Tour<br />

(Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:<br />

Part 1), Maxine Peake (Shameless, Red<br />

Riding, Silk)<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

The innocence of youth is lost in the years<br />

leading up to WWI when Charlie and<br />

Tommo Peaceful’s father is killed in a<br />

freak accident, tragically complicating their<br />

simple but lovingly rich existence.<br />

THE GIRL<br />

Drama<br />

Language: English - Spanish<br />

Director: David Riker (Writer/ Director of<br />

the award winning La Ciudad)<br />

Writer: David Riker<br />

Co-Production Partners: Christian Val<br />

Delievre (Sex, Shame & Tears), Tania Zara<br />

Producer: Paul Mezey (Maria Full of<br />

Grace, Half Nelson)<br />

Key Cast: Abbie Cornish (Sicker Punch,<br />

Limitless, W.E.), Will Patton (A Mighty<br />

Heart, Remember the Titans, Entrapment)<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA/Mexico<br />

A desperate young mother tries unsuccessfully<br />

to turn her life around by smuggling<br />

immigrants across the dangerous border<br />

between Texas and Mexico. When this<br />

quick money scheme fails, she unwillingly<br />

ends up traveling across Mexico with a<br />

newly orphaned eight-year-old girl from<br />

Oaxaca—embarking on a journey that will<br />

change her life forever.<br />

CHEERFUL WEATHER FOR THE<br />

WEDDING<br />

Romantic Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Donald Rice<br />

Writer: Donald Rice & Mary Henely<br />

Magill, adapted from the acclaimed novel<br />

by Julia Strachey<br />

Producer: Teun Hilte<br />

Key Cast: Felicity Jones (Chalet Girl, Like<br />

Crazy), Luke Treadaway (Attack the Block,<br />

Clash of the Titans), Elizabeth McGovern<br />

(Emmy Award-winning series Downton<br />

Abbey)<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Today is Dolly’s wedding, and her family<br />

is arriving at the manor house with all the<br />

cheerfulness, chaos and petty grievances<br />

that bubble to the surface at such gatherings.<br />

However, when the time comes for<br />

the beautiful but secretive bride to make<br />

her grand entrance, the appearance of<br />

Dolly’s lover from a previous summer cuts<br />

short her desire to join in the festivities and<br />

embark on her new life with her new husband<br />

in South America.<br />

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At EFM: Carrie Wong (Managing<br />

Director), Clarence Tang (Head of Sales<br />

and Acquisitions), Andree Sham (Senior<br />

Sales and Marketing Executive), Candy<br />

Chik (Sales and Marketing Assistant)<br />

Office: #113, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Tel:<br />

+852.6848.3887 / +852.9424.5010<br />

THE KICK<br />

Action / Comedy (94 min)<br />

Language: Korean, Thai<br />

Director: Prachya Pinkaew<br />

Writer: Lee Jong-suk<br />

Co-Production Partners: The Kick<br />

Company, Inc. & Bangkok Filmstudio<br />

Producer: Kang Sung-Kyu, Sangar<br />

Chatchairungruang<br />

Key Cast: Taejoo, K Kim, Jija Yanin<br />

Mitananda<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: S. Korea, Thailand<br />

Moon’s family are masters in different<br />

styles of Taekwondo: Yoon in cooking<br />

style, Taeyang in dancing style, Taemi in<br />

soccer style and youngest Typhoon can<br />

break anything with his steely forehead.<br />

When Typhoon is kidnapped, his whole<br />

family of martial artists must steal a Thai<br />

national treasure to secure his freedom.<br />

MURAL<br />

AKA: HUA BI<br />

Epic / Fantasy / Romance (125 min)<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: Gordon Chan<br />

Writer: Gordon Chan, Lau Ho-leung, Maria<br />

Wong<br />

Co-Production Partners: Beijing Enlight<br />

Picutres Ltd. & Top Gun Creative<br />

Company<br />

Producer: Abe Kwong, Gordon Chan<br />

Key Cast: Deng Chao, Sun Li, Yan Ni,<br />

Collin Chou<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: China / Hong Kong<br />

On their way to the imperial examinations,<br />

scholar Zhu and his servant stop at an<br />

ancient temple together with a bandit.<br />

Inside, Zhu is enamored by a mural of fairy<br />

maidens. And when one comes to life, he is<br />

transported into the fantastical world of the<br />

mural. Within, Zhu is torn between two<br />

women: Mudan, the youthful fairy he first<br />

encountered, and Shaoyao, the right-handwoman<br />

of the all-powerful Fairy Queen<br />

whose magical kingdom is in fact a trap for<br />

men’s souls. To prove that love is illusory,<br />

the Queen destroys the realm and every<br />

soul within it...<br />

YUGO AND LALA<br />

AKA: QI YI JIA ZU<br />

CGI-Animation (90 min)<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: Wang Yun-fei<br />

Writer: Wang Yun-fei<br />

Co-Production Partners: Beijing Cheerland<br />

Film & TV Cultural Communication Co.,<br />

Ltd<br />

Producer: Yuan Mei<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: China / Hong Kong<br />

Yugo meets a white “liger” - half lion, half<br />

tiger - who introduces itself as Lala.<br />

Shocked that she can understand the animal’s<br />

language, Yugo chases Lala up a<br />

mountain where a giant Cloud Whale swallows<br />

them whole. Inside its stomach there<br />

are many different creatures, all excitedly<br />

being transported to Animal Paradise where<br />

only 99 chosen ones are admitted every ten<br />

years. But humans beings are forbidden in<br />

the kingdom; any that stay for more than 3<br />

days will be transformed into an animal.<br />

Yugo seeks help from Uncle Bear to find<br />

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the way home. As time is about to run out,<br />

Yugo and Lala uncover Tiger General’s<br />

plot to open a magical portal and turn<br />

every human being in the world into an<br />

animal. As Yugo’s friends are transformed<br />

into animals, she desperately finds a way to<br />

destroy the gateway only to discover that<br />

her friend Lala is the portal...<br />

THE SWORD IDENTITY<br />

AKA: WO KOU DE ZONG JI<br />

Martial arts (110 min)<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: Xu Hao-feng<br />

Writer: Xu Hao-feng<br />

Co-Production Partners: Gootime Cultural<br />

Communication Co., Ltd.<br />

Producer: Li Rui<br />

Key Cast: Yu Cheng-hui, Song Yang, Zhao<br />

Yuan-yuan<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: China<br />

Two swordsmen challenge the four families<br />

who guard the secrets of martial arts in a<br />

southern Chinese town. But their strange<br />

new weapons are mistaken for Japanese<br />

swords and therefore forbidden by purist<br />

Chinese masters as a foreign fighting<br />

device. They are accused of being Japanese<br />

pirates by the masters of the martial arts<br />

schools. Facing arrest, they prove their<br />

unique swordsmanship by defeating a living<br />

legend who returns from his exile in<br />

the mountains.<br />

BANGKOK KUNG FU<br />

Action (107 min)<br />

Language: Thai<br />

Director: Yuthlert Sippapak<br />

Writer: Yuthlert Sippapak<br />

Co-Production Partners: RS Public Co.,<br />

Ltd.<br />

Producer: Yuthlert Sippapak<br />

Key Cast: Mario Maurer, Arak<br />

Amornsupasiri, Sucharat Manaying<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Thailand<br />

Four young boys are stolen from their families.<br />

Handicapped by their kidnappers,<br />

they are forced to become beggars on the<br />

street. However, they manage to escape and<br />

are taught Shaolin Kung Fu by a master<br />

together with a young girl. When the five<br />

children have grown up, they must reunite<br />

again to fight for justice and stop the man<br />

who has killed their master.<br />

A CHERRY ON A POMEGRANATE<br />

TREE<br />

AKA: SHI LIU SHU SHANG JIE YING<br />

TAO<br />

Drama (86 min)<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: Chen Li<br />

Writer: Gootime Motion Picture Studios<br />

Co-Production Partners: Gootime Cultural<br />

Communication Co., Ltd.<br />

Producer: Li Rui<br />

Key Cast: Shi Chun-ling, Ning Li, Miao<br />

Ting-ru, Zhang Gang, Zhou Yu-qin, Dang<br />

Chen, Guo Chong-lian<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: China<br />

Guanzhuang Village’s Kong Fanhua will<br />

stop at nothing to maintain her position as<br />

village head. First she orders her husband<br />

back from his job in a coastal city to visibly<br />

support her in the upcoming elections.<br />

Then she visits the village’s power brokers<br />

and young upstarts one-by-one so as to<br />

keep them under her control by fair means<br />

or foul. But when a villager goes missing -<br />

a woman who broke the family planning<br />

policy when she became pregnant with a<br />

third child - the chaos that ensues transforms<br />

the power dynamics in the village<br />

and creates the opportunity for a new candidate<br />

to emerge. Kong meets her greatest<br />

challenge yet in the form of Meng<br />

Xiaohong, the young woman whom Kong<br />

trained up and once considered her successor.<br />

Meng proves herself a worthy competitor<br />

by coming up with innovative solutions<br />

to the many complex issues facing the village.<br />

Adapted from Li Er’s celebrated and<br />

controversial novel.<br />

SEEFOOD<br />

CGI-Animation (92 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Goh Aun-hoe<br />

Writer: Jeffrey Chiang<br />

Co-Production Partners: Silver Ant Sdn<br />

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Bhd & Al Jazeera Children’s Channel<br />

Producer: Mahmoud Orfali<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Malaysia<br />

When poachers steal dozens of egg sacks<br />

from his reef, bamboo shark Pup makes it<br />

his personal mission to save his unhatched<br />

brothers and sisters. His rescue mission<br />

takes him above water into the world of<br />

man, a landscape fraught with both great<br />

beauty and great danger. Afraid for Pup’s<br />

safety, whitetip shark Julius embarks on his<br />

own mission to protect his best pal... sporting<br />

an outlandish fish suit!<br />

THE PIANO IN A FACTORY<br />

AKA: GANG DE QIN<br />

Drama (105 min)<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: Zhang Meng<br />

Writer: Zhang Meng<br />

Co-Production Partners: Perfect World<br />

(Beijing) Pictures Co., Ltd., Dalian Hong<br />

Yuan Film & TV Co., Ltd. & Liao Ning<br />

Film Studio<br />

Producer: Jessica Kam, Choi Gwang-suk<br />

Key Cast: Wang Qian-yuan, Qin Hai-lu,<br />

Jang Shing-yeong<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: China<br />

Chen’s estranged wife suddenly reappears,<br />

demanding a divorce and custody of their<br />

daughter. Unable to choose between her<br />

mother and her father, the music-loving<br />

daughter decides to live with whichever<br />

parent that can secure her a piano.<br />

Desperate to keep his daughter, Chen tries<br />

borrowing money and even attempts to<br />

steal a school’s piano. Finally, he decides<br />

to build the piano from scratch, persuading<br />

his friends to help him forge the instrument<br />

out of scrap metal in an abandoned steel<br />

factory. Meanwhile, Chen’s wife fights for<br />

legal custody of their daughter in the<br />

courts.<br />

MERANTAU<br />

Action (107 min)<br />

Language: Indonesian<br />

Director: Gareth H. Evans<br />

Writer: Gareth H. Evans<br />

Co-Production Partners: Pt. Merantau<br />

Films<br />

Producer: Ario Sagantoro<br />

Key Cast: Iko Uwais, Sisca Jessica, Yusuf<br />

Aulia, Yayan Ruhian, Alex Abbad<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: Indonesia<br />

In Minangkabau, West Sumatra, Yuda a<br />

student of Silat Harimau is in the final<br />

preparations to begin his “Merantau” a<br />

time honoured tradition that will see him<br />

leave the comforts of his village behind to<br />

make a name for himself in the bustling<br />

city of Jakarta. Arriving in the city alone<br />

and homeless within his first night, a<br />

chance encounter leads to Yuda defending<br />

the orphaned Astri from becoming the latest<br />

victim of a European human trafficking<br />

ring led by the wildly psychotic Ratger.<br />

Forced to go on the run with Astri and her<br />

younger brother Adit, Yuda’s introduction<br />

to the city is a baptism of fire as all the<br />

pimps and gangsters that inhabit the night<br />

hound the streets chasing their every step.<br />

THE GALLENTS<br />

AKA: DA LEI TAI<br />

Martial arts / Comedy (98 min)<br />

Language: Cantonese<br />

Director: Derek Kwok, Clement Cheng<br />

Writer: Derek Kwok, Clement Cheng,<br />

Frankie Tam<br />

Co-Production Partners: Focus Films<br />

Limited, Sil-Metropole Organisation<br />

Limited, Zhejiang Bona Film and TV<br />

Production Company Limited<br />

Producer: Lam Ka-Tung<br />

Key Cast: Leung Siu-Lung, Chan Koon-<br />

Tai, Teddy Robin, Wong You- Nam, Jia<br />

Xiao-Chen, Au Yeung Jin<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong<br />

Weedy office worker Cheung is sent to a<br />

remote village to secure property rights for<br />

his real estate company. Two martial artists<br />

run the village’s teahouse, which was once<br />

the kung-fu school of their teacher Master<br />

Law. Law is in fact lying unconscious<br />

upstairs in a three decades-long coma, but<br />

he awakes when gym boss and local land-<br />

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lord Pong attempts to secure the teahouse<br />

for redevelopment. Law mistakes Cheung<br />

for a former student and starts training him<br />

in preparation for a martial-arts tournament<br />

at Pong’s gym that will decide all their<br />

fates.<br />

GOLDEN SUN FILM<br />

DISTRIBUTION LTD<br />

Golden Sun Film Distribution Ltd, 11/f,<br />

room 477, Hong Lok house, Nathan Road,<br />

Kowloon, Hong Kong PRC, Tel:<br />

852.2385.5939. Fax: 852.2368.3873.<br />

http://www.goldensunfilm.com E-mail:<br />

admin@goldensunfilm.com<br />

Producer, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Mrs lan Ketsarinh<br />

A CHINESE GHOST STORY<br />

AKA: QIN NU YOU HN<br />

(101 mins)<br />

Language: Cantonese/Mandarin version<br />

with traditional simplified Chinese/ English<br />

subtitles<br />

Director: Wilson Yip<br />

Writer: Charcoal Tan<br />

Executive Producer: Mrs lan Ketsarinh<br />

Producer: Mrs lan Ketsarinh, Lai Tsun Kei<br />

Key Cast: Louis Koo, Liu Yi Fei<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: China , Hong Kong<br />

PRINTED SKIN<br />

AKA: HUA PI<br />

(118 mins)<br />

Language: Cantonese/Mandarin version<br />

with traditional simplified Chinese/ English<br />

subtitles<br />

Director: Gordon Chan<br />

Writer: Gordon Chan, Lau Ho Leung, Abe<br />

kwong<br />

Co-Production Partners: Golden Sun Film<br />

Co., Ltd.,Golden Sun Films Holdings Ltd.,<br />

MediaCorp Raintree Pictures, Shanghai<br />

Film Group, Ning Xia Film Studio,<br />

Dinglongda (Beijing) International Culture<br />

Media Co., Ltd., Eastern Mordor Film Co.,<br />

Ltd<br />

Executive Producer: Pang hung<br />

Producer: Lan Ketsarinh<br />

Key Cast: Donnie Yen, Chen kun, Zhou<br />

Xun<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: China , Hong Kong<br />

THE SWODMAN DREAM<br />

AKA: XI YOU JI<br />

(98 mins)<br />

Language: Cantonese, Mandarin (With Eng<br />

Subtitles)<br />

Director: Billy Chung<br />

Writer: Li Ho Shu, Huang Yan Wei<br />

Co-Production Partners: Golden Sun<br />

Century (Beijing) Multimedia Co Ltd,<br />

Fantawild Film<br />

Key Cast: Suen Hing, Cherrie Ying, Xie Na<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: China, Hong Kong<br />

HANNIBAL CLASSICS<br />

Hannibal Classics, 8265 Sunset Blvd. Suite<br />

107, West Hollywood, CA 90046 USA,<br />

Tel: 1.323.848.2945. Fax: 1.323.848.2946.<br />

http://www.hannibalpictures.com, E-mail:<br />

chad@hannibalpictures.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Richard Rionda Del Castro<br />

(Chairman & CEO), Patricia Rionda Del<br />

Castro (President)<br />

Office: Martin-Gropius-Bau<br />

THE STORM<br />

Action<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: TBA<br />

Executive Producer: Patricia Eberle, Daniel<br />

Petrie, Jr.<br />

Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro,<br />

Peter Toumasis, Rick Dugdale<br />

Key Cast: TBA<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Country of Origin: US<br />

As a horrendous storm batters a small<br />

Texas town, a deputy sheriff is forced to<br />

defend the town against three vicious<br />

escaped convicts who have a personal connection<br />

to the town’s sheriff.<br />

ESCOBAR<br />

Action<br />

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SetUp - Hannibal Classics<br />

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Language: English<br />

Director: TBA<br />

Executive Producer: Patricia Eberle,<br />

Douglas W. Miller, Jeff Andrick, Anthony<br />

Gudas<br />

Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro<br />

Key Cast: TBA<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Country of Origin: US<br />

Pablo Escobar’s political aspirations lead<br />

him into a full-fledged war against his own<br />

country and the United States.<br />

USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF<br />

COURAGE<br />

Action/Adventure<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: TBA<br />

Executive Producer: Patricia Eberle, Martin<br />

Barab, Tim Cavanaugh<br />

Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro<br />

Key Cast: TBA<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Country of Origin: US<br />

After delivering the atomic bomb that will<br />

end WWII, the USS INDIANAPOLIS is<br />

sunk, leaving eight hundred men stranded<br />

for days in the ocean where they battle<br />

thirst, hunger, extreme heat and cold and<br />

vicious man-eating sharks.<br />

RED SQUAD<br />

Action<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Michael Katleman<br />

Executive Producer: Patricia Eberle,<br />

Yasmine Brito, Jorge Suarez<br />

Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro<br />

Key Cast: TBA<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Country of Origin: US<br />

The director of the DEA secretly hires a<br />

team of mercenaries to battle the Giraldo<br />

Cartel, which has seized control of a small<br />

town in Mexico that shares a border with<br />

Texas.<br />

SLEIGHT OF HAND<br />

Action<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Brad Mirman<br />

Executive Producer: Patricia Eberle<br />

Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro,<br />

Richard Salvatore<br />

Key Cast: TBA<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Country of Origin: US<br />

A crew of small time crooks in New<br />

Orleans end up in possession of a rare gold<br />

coin that belongs to a notorious gangster.<br />

When they lose the coin, he gives them six<br />

days to find it or pay him what it’s worth.<br />

TOUCHBACK<br />

Family<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Don Handfield<br />

Executive Producer: Richard Rionda Del<br />

Castro, Patricia Eberle, George Furla,<br />

Randall Emmett, Alexandria Klipstein,<br />

Michael Corso, Anthony Gudas, Shannon<br />

Gardner, Derek Beumer, Paul Ross, Tony<br />

Stacy<br />

Producer: Brian Presley, Carissa Buffel,<br />

Kevin Matusow<br />

Key Cast: Brian Presley, Kurt Russell,<br />

Melanie Lynskey, Christine Lahti<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: US<br />

After an unfortunate event, a young man’s<br />

life is completely changed leaving him<br />

unable to pursue his dreams, until fifteen<br />

years later, when he is given a chance to go<br />

back and change history.<br />

SETUP<br />

Action<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Mike Gunther<br />

Executive Producer: Richard Rionda Del<br />

Castro, Patricia Eberle, Barry Brooker,<br />

Stan Wertlieb, Peter Benz, Martin<br />

Blencowe, Ted Fox, Richard Jackson,<br />

Fredrik Malmberg, Mike Rapp, Daniel<br />

Wagner, Anthony Gudas, Michael Corso,<br />

Brandt Anderson<br />

Producer: Randall Emmett, Curtis Jackson,<br />

George Furla<br />

Key Cast: Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Bruce<br />

Willis, Ryan Phillippe, Randy Couture<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: US<br />

Longtime friends Sonny, Vincent, and<br />

Dave grew up on the mean streets of<br />

Detroit, destined for a life of crime. After a<br />

successful but bloody diamond robbery,<br />

Vincent turns on his friends, shooting them<br />

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and leaving them for dead. But Sonny isn’t<br />

dead, and when he recovers, he scours the<br />

criminal underworld, hell bent on revenge.<br />

HANNIBAL PICTURES<br />

Hannibal Pictures, 8265 Sunset Boulevard,<br />

Suite 107, West Hollywood, CA 90046<br />

USA, Tel: 1.323.848.2945 Fax:<br />

1.323.848.2946.<br />

www.hannibalpictures.com, E-mail:<br />

chad@hannibalpictures.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Richard Rionda Del Castro<br />

(Chairman & CEO), Hayley Magouirk<br />

(Vice President), Cam Cannon (Director of<br />

Development), Pamela Popp (Director of<br />

Business Affairs), Chad Hanson (Sales)<br />

Office: Martin-Gropius-Bau<br />

REPEATER<br />

Action<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: R. Ellis Frazier<br />

Executive Producer: Patricia Eberle<br />

Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro,<br />

Geoffrey Ross, R. Ellis Frazier<br />

Key Cast: Michael Jai White<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Country of Origin: US - Mexico<br />

An assassin is hired to kill a man who has<br />

leaked corporate and government secrets<br />

onto the internet and finds himself trapped<br />

in a hostile city.<br />

BENEATH THE DEEP<br />

Action/Adventure<br />

Language: English<br />

Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro,<br />

Armand Speca<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Country of Origin: US<br />

A storm capsizes a diving vessel, trapping<br />

the crew and a group of divers in a cove<br />

where a saltwater crocodile will stop at<br />

nothing to protect its young.<br />

HIGHLAND<br />

FILM GROUP<br />

Highland Film Group, 9200 Sunset Blvd,<br />

Suite 600, West Hollywood, CA 90069<br />

USA, Tel: 1.310.271.8400. www.highlandfilmgroup.com<br />

E-mail: info@highlandfilmgroup.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Arianne Fraser (CEO), Maria<br />

Rogers (Sales Associate)<br />

Office: Highland Film Group , Tel:<br />

1.310.271.8400<br />

SOMEDAY THIS PAIN WILL BE USE-<br />

FUL TO YOU<br />

Comedy/Drama (105 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Roberto Faenza<br />

Writer: Dahila Heyman<br />

Producer: Elda Ferri<br />

Key Cast: Marcia Gay Harden, Peter<br />

Gallagher, Lucy Liu<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

A vulnerable teenager with a deep perception<br />

of the world and no idea how to live in<br />

it.<br />

THE STUPIDEST ANGEL<br />

Holiday/Action/Comedy/Zombie-Horror<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Carl Goldstein<br />

Writer: Christopher Moore<br />

Producer: Joseph Hines<br />

Key Cast: To be announced<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A small coastal town inhabited by misfits<br />

and lunatics has to come together on<br />

Christmas Eve to save the town and themselves<br />

from their dead friends and relatives<br />

who have been mistakenly resurrected by<br />

Heaven’s Stupidest Angel.<br />

LIZZIE<br />

Horror/Thriller (82 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: David Dunn Jr.<br />

Writer: Leif Holt<br />

Producer: Leif Holt, Matthew Mosher<br />

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Key Cast: Gary Busey, Corbin Bernsen,<br />

Don Swayze<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Lizzie Borden took an axe Gave her mother<br />

forty whacks. When she saw what she<br />

had done she Gave her father forty-one!<br />

OSOMBIE<br />

Action<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: John Lyde<br />

Writer: John Lyde<br />

Producer: John Lyde<br />

Key Cast: Corey Sevier, Eve Mauro, Jasen<br />

Wade<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Osama bin Laden returns from his watery<br />

grave and creates an army of zombie insurgents.<br />

PALADIN 2: CROWN OF THE DRAG-<br />

ONSLAYER<br />

Adventure Fantasy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Anne K. Black<br />

Writer: Anne K. Black, Kynan Griffin,<br />

Justin Partridge<br />

Producer: Brad Johnson, Jennifer Kirkham,<br />

Justin Partridge, Jessie Mandujano<br />

Key Cast: Ava Hunt, Vidal San<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Ireland<br />

In a country ruled by an occupying foreign<br />

empire, Elenn, an arrogant young noblewoman,<br />

accompanies her aunt on a mission<br />

to bring an ancient relic to the secret coronation<br />

of the rightful king of their people.<br />

When her aunt is murdered on the road by<br />

passing soldiers, Elenn hires a smuggler<br />

and criminal, Aedin, to escort her across<br />

the dangerous country so she can take her<br />

aunt’s place at the coronation. But when<br />

Corvus, a rogue magister of the empire,<br />

employs a dark magic to retrieve the<br />

ancient relicfor his own evil designs, Elenn<br />

must find the humility and strength within<br />

herself to fulfill her aunt’s calling to unite<br />

her people before the power of the relic<br />

falls into the hands of the empire.<br />

IN/SIGHT<br />

Thriller (92 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Richard Gabai<br />

Writer: Aaron Ginsburg, Wade McIntyre<br />

Producer: John Constantine, Richard<br />

Gabai, Larissa Michel<br />

Key Cast: Sean Patrick Flanery, Natalie<br />

Zea, Christopher Lloyd, Adam Baldwin<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Kaitlyn, an ER nurse is electrocuted while<br />

trying to save a young woman’s life. After<br />

recovering, she begins to see images of the<br />

brutal murder of the young girl. In order to<br />

save her sanity, Kaitlyn begins to investigate<br />

the murder in order to uncover the<br />

truth.<br />

A HOLIDAY HEIST<br />

Comedy/Family/Romance (87 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Christie Will<br />

Writer: Christie Will, Serge Kushnier,<br />

Jarret Golding<br />

Producer: Justin L. Levine<br />

Key Cast: Lacey Chabert, Rick Malambri,<br />

Vivica A. Fox<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A group of college students stay at school<br />

over Christmas to work at a special exhibit<br />

in the college’s fine art gallery. The students<br />

have little in common other. When<br />

they decide to hold an unplanned<br />

Christmas Eve dinner in the gallery, they<br />

stumble into a trio of bumbling thugs planning<br />

a Holiday Heist of the exhibit. As the<br />

students are held hostage, they are forced<br />

to learn about themselves and each other,<br />

the spirit of Christmas, and get the courage<br />

to work together and fight back to foil the<br />

thieves. With heartfelt talks, wild escapes,<br />

and Christmas romance — the night ends<br />

up being a Christmas Eve these new<br />

friends will never forget!<br />

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BOY TOY<br />

Comedy (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Christie Will<br />

Writer: Christie Will, Jef Campagna, Jarret<br />

Golding, Justin L. Levine<br />

Producer: Justin L. Levine<br />

Key Cast: Mircea Monroe, Elizabeth Daily,<br />

Morgan Fairchild<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Jake, an unsuccessful - yet well endowed -<br />

underwear model in L.A, who finds a<br />

lucrative new line of work as a platonic<br />

escort for women of a certain age. But, just<br />

as he finds himself a deep-pocketed “sugar<br />

mama” in Barbra, he meets Norah: a stunning<br />

and laid back Yoga instructor. As<br />

Jake’s success blooms, so does his love<br />

life; leading him to a crossroad that will<br />

change everything.<br />

GOOD FOR NOTHING<br />

Western/Romance (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Mike Wallis<br />

Producer: Jamie Selkirk, Brett Gamble<br />

Key Cast: Cohen Holloway, Inge<br />

Rademeyer<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: New Zealand<br />

An English lady is immigrating out West<br />

but is kidnapped by a rugged outlaw who<br />

attempts to have his way with her but suffers<br />

from an unfortunate case of erectile<br />

dysfunction. Action and adventure unfold<br />

in this original take on the classic Western.<br />

PARANORMAL INCIDENT<br />

Horror/Mystery (85 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Matthew Bolton<br />

Writer: Matthew Bolton and Chris W.<br />

Freeman<br />

Producer: Matthew Bolton, Chris W.<br />

Freeman, Rob Filson, Justin Jones, Lincoln<br />

Lewis<br />

Key Cast: Chelsea Vincent, Brett Edwards,<br />

Derrick Scott<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The infamous Odenbrook Sanitarium<br />

closed after a mass suicide occurred within<br />

its walls sixty years ago. Now, six college<br />

students armed with cameras and recording<br />

equipment venture into the asylum to prove<br />

the existence of the paranormal.<br />

LOST ISLAND<br />

AKA: L’Lile<br />

Adventure/Fantasy/Mystery (90 min)<br />

Language: French<br />

Director: Olivier Boillot<br />

Writer: Olivier Boillot<br />

Producer: Olivier Boillot<br />

Key Cast: Michel Beatrix, Cyrielle<br />

Debreuil, Kaddor Dorgham<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

Its 1942 and three men have just crashed<br />

into the ocean in the middle of nowhere.<br />

The stranded men find shelter on a nearby<br />

deserted island. As they slowly discover,<br />

they are not alone.<br />

STAY COOL<br />

Romantic Comedy (95 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Ted Smith<br />

Writer: Mark Polish<br />

Producer: Janet DuBois, Ken Johnson,<br />

Nick Byassee<br />

Key Cast: Winona Ryder, Hilary Duff,<br />

Mark Polish, Sean Austin<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010<br />

The film centers on a successful author<br />

who is forced to confront an unrequited<br />

high school crush when he returns home to<br />

deliver a commencement address to graduating<br />

seniors. Shasta O’Neil, a sexy high<br />

school senior flirts with the visiting author<br />

and invites him to the prom. The film is<br />

described as a “knowing-your-age comedy”.<br />

SON OF MORNING<br />

Comedy/Drama (81 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Yaniv Raz<br />

Writer: Yaniv Raz<br />

Producer: Joseph Cross, Zack Schiller<br />

Key Cast: Danny Glover, Lorraine Bracoo,<br />

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Heather Graham, Joseph Cross<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

As an environmental catastrophe threatens<br />

the world; Phillip Katz, a stressed-out,<br />

lowly copywriter, experiences an episode<br />

of stigmata in church and is positioned as<br />

the next MESSIAH by an ambitious<br />

reporter, Josephine Tuttle. Phillip is<br />

whisked away to a lavish hotel suite as<br />

politicians, reporters, and devout fans<br />

descend upon him, each hoping to exploit<br />

Phillip for their own purposes. After<br />

becoming the most famous man on the<br />

planet in less than a day, Phillip must<br />

decide how to use his newfound celebrity...<br />

THE SMELL OF SUCCESS<br />

Comedy (92 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Larry Smith<br />

Writer: Mark Polish, Michael Polish<br />

Producer: Janet DuBois, Ken Johnson,<br />

Jonathan Sheldon, Nick Byassee<br />

Key Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Tea Leoni,<br />

Ed Helms<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

When a tragic accident ends the life of Mr.<br />

Rose, the genius behind Rose’s Manure<br />

Company, the livelihood of its loyal fleet of<br />

salesmen threatens to go, as they say, into<br />

the toilet.<br />

THE PLANTATION<br />

Horror/Thriller<br />

Director: Adam Marcus<br />

Writer: Adam Marcus<br />

Producer: Mark Burg, Oren Koules,<br />

Vanessa Coifman<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of Origin: USA<br />

When a young school teacher moves to a<br />

picture-perfect modern plantation to tutor<br />

the children of the wealthy owner, she<br />

becomes entangled in the deadly secrets of<br />

the plantation’s past, and soon discovers<br />

her wards are in terrible danger as their<br />

10th birthdays approach. Seeped in Voodoo<br />

Magic, she struggles to help them break<br />

free from their father, and the black spells<br />

he has cast to keep them bound to the land.<br />

HOLLYWOOD<br />

CLASSICS<br />

Hollywood Classics, Linton House, 39/51<br />

Highgate Road, London, NW5 1RT UK ,<br />

Tel: +44.(0)207.424.7280 Fax:<br />

+44.(0)207.428.8936.<br />

www.hollywoodclassics.com E-mail:<br />

info@Hollywoodclassics.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Peter Urie (CEO), Melanie Tebb<br />

(Head of Sales DVD & Theatrical), Ben<br />

Urie (Sales Manager Digital Cinema),<br />

Petra Sumser (German Sales Rep, DVD &<br />

TV/VOD)<br />

Office: Martin-Gropius-Bau, First Floor,<br />

Stand No. 112, Tel: + 44(0)774.774.3615<br />

THE WHALES OF AUGUST<br />

Drama (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Lindsay Anderson<br />

Key Cast: Bette Davis, Lillian Gish,<br />

Vincent Price<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 1987 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Two elderly widowed sisters spend a summer<br />

at their vacation house recalling their<br />

relationship, loves and lives as young<br />

women. This moving and well-written film<br />

features an outstanding ensemble cast in<br />

one of Anderson’s last films.<br />

THE FUGITIVE KIND<br />

Drama (119 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Sidney Lumet<br />

Key Cast: Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani,<br />

Joanne Woodward<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 1959 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Adaptation of Tennessee Williams’<br />

“Orpheus Descending” featuring Brando as<br />

a drifter who arrives in a sleepy southern<br />

town and romances Magnani and<br />

Woodward.<br />

LICENSE TO DRIVE<br />

Comedy (88 mins)<br />

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Language: English<br />

Key Cast: Corey Haim, Corey Feldman,<br />

Heather Graham<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 1988 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Fun 80s coming-of-age comedy in which a<br />

teenager “borrows” his grandfather’s mintcondition<br />

Cadillac for a late-night dream<br />

date, despite the fact that he cannot drive.<br />

HOLLYWOOD<br />

STUDIOS<br />

INTERNATIONAL<br />

Hollywood Studios International, 9107<br />

Wilshire Blvd., Suite 600, Beverly Hills, CA<br />

90210 USA, Tel: 310-358-9007. www.hsifilms.com<br />

E-mail: sales@hsifilms.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Eric Christenson (President of<br />

HSI Films)<br />

Office: Ritz Carlton 520, Tel:<br />

+49.30.33.77.77<br />

LUV<br />

Thriller, Drama<br />

Director: Sheldon Candis<br />

Writer: Sheldon Candis, Justin Wilson<br />

Key Cast: Common, Dennis Haysbert,<br />

Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Meagan<br />

Good, Michael K. Williams and Michael<br />

Rainey, Jr.,<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Woody, an adorable 11-year-old boy awaiting<br />

the return of his missing mother, lives<br />

with his grandmother and Uncle Vincent,<br />

who is fresh off an eight-year prison stint.<br />

For Woody, the confident, charismatic<br />

Vincent is a titan among men. When<br />

Vincent notices that Woody could learn a<br />

thing or two about becoming a man, he<br />

brings him along as he ventures forth to<br />

open his own business. But when legit life<br />

fails to support Vincent’s vision, and his<br />

old Baltimore crime boss, Mr. Fish, haunts<br />

him, the pace of little Woody’s manhood<br />

lesson accelerates.<br />

THE BROOKLYN BROTHERS BEAT<br />

THE BEST<br />

Romantic comedy (96 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Ryan O’Nan<br />

Writer: Ryan O’Nan<br />

Producer: Jason Michael Berman<br />

Key Cast: Ryan O’Nan, Michael Weston,<br />

Arielle Kebbel<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

Rejected by his girlfriend and band, a<br />

young musician embarks on a cross-country<br />

musical tour with a potentially psychotic<br />

stranger who plays Fischer-Price children’s<br />

instruments.<br />

JUNCTION<br />

Thriller (92 min)<br />

Director: Tony Glazer<br />

Writer: Tony Glazer<br />

Key Cast: Neal Bledsoe, Harris Doran,<br />

Summer Crockett Moore and Tom<br />

Pelphrey.<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011<br />

Junction is a thriller set In the idyllic<br />

upscale neighborhood of Verterra Hills, a<br />

privatized community full of manicured<br />

lawns and sprawling colonials, four<br />

strangers make a choice that sets in motion<br />

a series of events that will change their<br />

lives, the lives of some not-so-innocent<br />

homeowners and a troubled police force<br />

forever. On a road full of twists and turns<br />

each group will be forced to make a decision<br />

that will send them all careening headlong<br />

into a deadly confrontation. In a place<br />

where nothing is what it seems and no one<br />

is who they appear to be, only one thing is<br />

certain: all choices come with a price.<br />

CARNAVAL<br />

Comedy<br />

Director: Joshua Michael Stern<br />

Key Cast: John Cusack and Johnny<br />

Knoxville<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Cusack will play a sports scout who is sent<br />

to Rio de Janeiro during Carnaval. His mission<br />

is to recruit the world’s best soccer<br />

player. If he signs the star, he will inherit<br />

the agency. Johnny Knoxville plays his best<br />

friend, a musician who joins the scout and<br />

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has an affair with a woman who turns out<br />

to be the player’s girlfriend, which throws<br />

a major complication into the plan.<br />

ANSWERS TO NOTHING<br />

Drama (120 minutes)<br />

Director: Matthew Leutwyler<br />

Key Cast: Dane Cook, Julie Benz,<br />

Elizabeth Mitchell, Barbara Hershey, Zach<br />

Gilford and Erik Palladino.<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011<br />

Set against the backdrop of a child abduction<br />

case we follow five days in the life of<br />

the detective assigned to the case, her best<br />

friend whose determination to get pregnant<br />

keeps her from confronting her husband’s<br />

infidelity, a school teacher and his obsession<br />

with the missing child that pushes him<br />

to the edge of vigilantism, a beat cop grieving<br />

over the violent death of his wife, a<br />

recovering addict and her wheel chair<br />

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bound brother preparing for the LA<br />

marathon, and a self-loathing African<br />

American TV writer’s search for love.<br />

THE ZERO HOUR<br />

Thriller (103)<br />

Language: Spanish (with English Subtitles)<br />

Director: Diego Velasco<br />

Writer: Diego Velasco<br />

Producer: Carolina Paiz<br />

Key Cast: Zapata 666, Amanda Key,<br />

Laureano Olivarez<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Venezuela<br />

Set in Caracas during a 24-hour medical<br />

strike, Parca, a tattooed hit-man, takes an<br />

elite hospital hostage in order to save his<br />

pregnant girlfriend.<br />

THE ELEMENTALS<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

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Director: Jorge Olguín<br />

Writer: Jorge Olguín<br />

Producer: Dave Brown<br />

Key Cast: Cristian Campos, Loreto<br />

Aradena, Sofia Kaufmann<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

When a girl meets the ethereal creatures of<br />

a forest, they convince her and her father, a<br />

dam-building company executive, not to<br />

destroy their ecosystem.<br />

HOUSE OF FILM<br />

House of Film, 427 N. Canon Dr. Suite<br />

#201, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA, Tel:<br />

+1 818.647.0118 Fax: +1 818.647.0118.<br />

www.houseoffilm.com E-mail:<br />

sales@houseoffilm.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: AvaB (CEO/President), Andrew<br />

Gallagher (Head of Sales), Elliott Mazzola<br />

(Sales Executive)<br />

Office: Berlin Marriott Lobby, Tel:<br />

+33.669.95.77.68<br />

MOOMINS AND THE COMET CHASE<br />

Family (77 mins)<br />

Language: Finnish/ English dub<br />

Director: Maria Lindberg<br />

Writer: Joel Backström, Iivo Baric, Anders<br />

Larsson, Minna Karvonen<br />

Co-Production Partners: Oy Filmkompaniet<br />

Alpha Ab<br />

Producer: Tom Carpelan<br />

Key Cast: Max von Sydow, Alexander<br />

Skarsgård and Stellan Skarsgård<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Finland<br />

One day Moomintroll notices that something<br />

strange has happened in the Moomin<br />

Valley - everything is grey; not just the sky<br />

and the river, but the trees, the ground, the<br />

Moominhouse, too! Moomintroll runs to<br />

ask the well-read Muskrat if he knows<br />

what is happening. Muskrat declares that<br />

this is the way things tend to look like<br />

before the earth faces an awful fate coming<br />

from the sky... With the help of his father,<br />

Moominpappa, Moomintroll and his worried<br />

friends build the best raft ever and<br />

start on a challenging journey to the obser-<br />

vatory. The wise professors there must<br />

know what the threat from space is all<br />

about! The trek is not easy. The brave<br />

entourage, Moomintroll, Sniff and Snufkin<br />

face many obstacles, yet also meet new and<br />

old friends. But they make it to the observatory:<br />

the professor calculates that a ferocious<br />

comet will reach the Earth in four<br />

days, four hours, four minutes and 44 seconds...<br />

SEAMONSTERS<br />

Drama (97 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Julian Kerridge<br />

Writer: Martin Sadofski, Julian Kerridge<br />

Co-Production Partners: Orange Trousers<br />

Producer: Angela Gordon<br />

Key Cast: Rita Tushingham, Georgia<br />

Henshaw, Andrew Knott<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Seamonsters tells the story of two shiftless<br />

young friends, Sam (Jack McMullen) and<br />

Kieran (Reece Noi), who are whiling away<br />

their time during the off-season in<br />

Worthing. The pair are stuck in a kind of<br />

limbo: too old to be kids any more, vaguely<br />

aware that it’s time to act grown-up.<br />

When they meet Lori (Leila Mimmack), a<br />

melancholy, mysterious girl, Sam is drawn<br />

to her even though she doesn’t offer him<br />

any encouragement. When Sam is called<br />

out of town to attend a funeral, Lori and<br />

Kieran end up spending the day together<br />

doing stupid things, getting drunk, and collapsing<br />

by sea, despite the fact that they<br />

despise each other. By the time Sam<br />

returns, everything has changed.<br />

WHEN THE DRAGON SWALLOWED<br />

THE SUN: THE HISTORY OF TIBET<br />

TOLD BY RICHARD GERE<br />

Documentary (115 mins)<br />

Language: English/Tibetan<br />

Director: Dirk Simon<br />

Writer: Dirk Simon, Kristen Riordan<br />

Co-Production Partners: Free Motion Films<br />

Producer: Vanessa Philippe, Dennis<br />

Haysbert, Dirk Simon<br />

Key Cast: Dalai Lama, Lhasang Tsering,<br />

Samdhong Rinpoche<br />

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Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Unfortunately, the 14th Dalai Lama and the<br />

Tibetan people receive little political support<br />

in their drive to put an end to the<br />

Chinese brutal regime, as international<br />

governments are seemingly motivated by<br />

economic interests in China. The lack of<br />

progress toward a free, or even a truly<br />

autonomous Tibet, urges more and more<br />

young Tibetans to consider alternatives to<br />

the Dalai Lama’s Middle Way Policy, a<br />

compromise on Tibet’s Independence. The<br />

controversial discussion about the right<br />

strategy for achieving a free Tibet - nonviolent<br />

or violent, autonomy or complete<br />

independence - is becoming more emotionally<br />

charged day by day. Monks have been<br />

leading Tibet and Tibetans for generations,<br />

not only in religious, but also in worldly<br />

matters. But monks have vows that bind<br />

them. And often those vows conflict with<br />

the needs of politics. The Tibetan movement<br />

today is divided and weakened by an<br />

ongoing argument whether the Dalai<br />

Lama”s Middle Way Policy is the right<br />

strategy or not...<br />

THE PHANTOM FATHER<br />

AKA: TATAL FANTOMA<br />

Road Movie/Comedy (90 mins)<br />

Language: English | Romanian<br />

Director: Lucian Georgescu<br />

Writer: Barry Gifford (based on a story<br />

by), Lucian Georgescu<br />

Co-Production Partners: GAV<br />

Producer: Lucian Georgescu, Joachim von<br />

Vietinghoff<br />

Key Cast: Marcel Iures, Barry Gifford,<br />

Mihaela Sirbu<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Romania<br />

American Professor Robert Traum takes a<br />

sabbatical and turns his back on a present<br />

without surprise, to live an adventure from<br />

the past. Back in the Old World, he<br />

researches the origins of his father and<br />

uncle, the famous Traum brothers: Rudolf,<br />

a famous novelist, and Samuel - once a<br />

notorious gangster in Chicago. While trav-<br />

eling through Transylvania and Bucovina<br />

(former Austro Hungarian Empire<br />

provinces) Robert meets Tanya, a<br />

Government archivist. Together they find<br />

Sami, the last surviving family friend, a<br />

cinema projectionist who was chased out of<br />

his old movie theatre by a greedy local<br />

politician. While Robert helps Sami win his<br />

theatre, Sami gives Robert his identity<br />

back.<br />

ONE LAST GAME<br />

AKA: GELLERT - GAME OVER<br />

Thriller (82 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Stefan<br />

Writer: Michael Wallner, Elisabeth Kübler-<br />

Ross<br />

Co-Production Partners: Grand Hotel<br />

Pictures<br />

Producer: Norbert Kneibl, Ken Duken<br />

Key Cast: Ken Duken, Regina Lund, Dan<br />

van Husen<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany<br />

Gellert is addicted – he plays poker. Poker<br />

is his passion, his addiction, he’s obsessed<br />

with it. Like back in the days together with<br />

his companions Obonya and Rul he sits on<br />

his seat in the bar 667. One last game as he<br />

always said. He wants to pay back Tonia<br />

and put everything in order again. He<br />

needs this last chance. He plays his cards<br />

like he always does, he is very cheerful to<br />

win this game when suddenly Obonya pulls<br />

a knife out of his pocket. Glistening light,<br />

he opens his eyes wide.<br />

RU-486: THE LAST OPTION<br />

Drama ( Social) (89 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Irene Maffei<br />

Writer: Eliot Webster, Andrew Nicholas<br />

Co-Production Partners: Xylomancy Films<br />

Producer: Eliot Webster<br />

Key Cast: Zina Badran, Richard Holt,<br />

Tyrone Lopez<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

The dilemma faced by one woman over<br />

whether or not to abort the baby she carries<br />

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inside while the world around falls apart.<br />

Meena Patel (Zina Badran) leaves her<br />

home and boyfriend, spending the week<br />

preceding her abortion with a student<br />

whom used to be besotted with her. She<br />

hopes he still is, for he is only one left to<br />

turn to. The only one who could help her<br />

keep the baby.<br />

NOTHING SPECIAL<br />

Comedy (99 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Angela Garcia Combs<br />

Writer: Angela Garcia Combs<br />

Co-Production Partners: Yellow Wallpaper<br />

Productions<br />

Producer: Sascha Schneider<br />

Key Cast: Karen Black, Barbara Bain, Julia<br />

Garcia Combs<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

In her debut feature film, writer/director<br />

Angela Garcia Combs spins a dark and<br />

funny tale of an ambitious young woman at<br />

a crucial turning point in her career and her<br />

relationship with her bi-polar mother.<br />

Louise (Julia Garcia Combs) is an insurance<br />

underwriter living in Los Angeles<br />

with her mother, May (Karen Black), who<br />

has recently been evicted from her Section<br />

8 apartment after the building was condemned.<br />

May’s shaky grip on reality<br />

begins to loosen when she becomes aware<br />

of the close relationship between Louise<br />

and her trailblazing boss, Catherine<br />

(Barbara Bain), whom Louise admires and<br />

adores. Catherine is secretly fighting cancer<br />

and has an estranged relationship with<br />

her own daughter, and reaches out to<br />

Louise as a surrogate. At the same time,<br />

Catherine is pushing Louise to accept a big<br />

promotion, which will compel Louise to<br />

relocate to New York. Things heat up when<br />

May and Catherine meet by chance on<br />

Mother’s Day and an alarming confrontation<br />

ensues...<br />

SMOKING | NON SMOKING<br />

AKA: THE PACK<br />

Courtroom Drama (120 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Alyssa Rallo Bennett<br />

Writer: Alyssa Rallo Bennett, Gary Bennett<br />

Co-Production Partners: Electric Movies<br />

Producer: Alyssa Rallo Bennett, Josselyne<br />

Herman-Saccio<br />

Key Cast: Lucie Arnaz, Elisabeth Moss,<br />

Roger Robinson<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The Pack brings to the forefront the complexities<br />

and anguish of how any of us can<br />

get caught in the cultural and legal shift of<br />

our nation. The question The Pack catches<br />

us all with is: “What if your behavior was<br />

legally accepted for dozens of years and all<br />

of a sudden it came into question?” In a<br />

hand-picked case, an ambitious Assistant<br />

District Attorney (Carlos Leon) prosecutes<br />

a wife and mother (Lucie Arnaz) for three<br />

counts of murder after her forty-seven year<br />

old husband (Scott Bryce) dies of lung cancer<br />

from allegedly breathing her secondhand<br />

smoke for thirty years. Mourning the<br />

loss of his father, their twenty-four year old<br />

son (Ryan Homchick) decides to testify<br />

against his mother. At first, the jury struggles<br />

with what appears to be a ridiculous<br />

case, but one juror’s doubts forces the jury<br />

into an intriguing, emotional and complicated<br />

choice regarding addiction, loyalty<br />

and individual responsibility.<br />

ICAP MEDIA LLC<br />

ICAP Media LLC, 1800 Century Park East<br />

#600, Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA, Tel:<br />

+1.310.407.510. www.icap-media.com Email:<br />

scott.kirkpatrick@us.icap.com<br />

Distributor<br />

At EFM: Scott Kirkpatrick (VP,<br />

International Sales & Media Brokerage),<br />

Adam Welles (VP, International Sales &<br />

Media Brokerage), Lara Sumera (VP,<br />

International Sales & Media Brokerage)<br />

Office: IFTA Pavilion, #141<br />

FROZEN IN TIME<br />

AKA: GOD DON’T MAKE THE LAWS<br />

Drama (100 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: David Sabbath<br />

Writer: David Sabbath<br />

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Co-Production Partners: Three Dog Films,<br />

LLC<br />

Producer: Alex Esber<br />

Key Cast: Paul Sorvino, Ella Rae Peck, and<br />

Bruce Davison.<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The residents of a small town have stopped<br />

aging for nearly two decades, following a<br />

tragic accident... Until a stranger arrives in<br />

town.<br />

LUCKY<br />

Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Gil Cates, Jr.<br />

Writer: Gil Cates, Jr.<br />

Co-Production Partners: Ten/Four Pictures<br />

Producer: Gil Cates, Jr., Caitlin Murney<br />

Key Cast: Colin Hanks, Ari Graynor,<br />

Blowfish - Media Luna New Films<br />

Jeffery Tambor<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A serial killer’s recent victim just happened<br />

to be carrying a winning lottery ticket.<br />

THE GREAT FIGHT<br />

Drama (100 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Sherri Kauk<br />

Writer: Ken Del Vechio<br />

Producer: Ken Del Vecchio<br />

Key Cast: Robert Loggia, Charles Durning<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

An autistic youth developes a strong talent<br />

for mixed martial arts.<br />

FAKE<br />

Drama (100 mins)<br />

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Language: English<br />

Director: Greg Friedle<br />

Writer: Greg Friedle<br />

Producer: Ken Del Vecchio<br />

Key Cast: Robert Loggia, Fisher Stevens,<br />

Blanche Barker.<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A failed artist turns to copying famous<br />

paintings for the artworlds black market.<br />

ABSENTIA<br />

Horror (95 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Mike Flanagan<br />

Writer: Mike Flanagan<br />

Co-Production Partners: Fallback Plan<br />

Productions<br />

Producer: Mike Flanagan, Justin Gordon<br />

Key Cast: Katie Parker, Courtney Bell,<br />

Dave Levine.<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A woman and her sister begin to link a<br />

mysterious tunnel to a series of dissapearances.<br />

IM GLOBAL<br />

IM Global, 8322 Beverly Blvd, Los<br />

Angeles, CA 90048 USA, Tel:<br />

1.310.777.3590 Fax: 1.323.657.5354.<br />

www.imglobalfilm.com E-mail:<br />

info@imglobalfilm.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Stuart Ford (CEO), Jonathan<br />

Deckter (President, International Sales &<br />

Distribution), Tim Grohne (EVP, European<br />

Operations), Tatyana Joffe (EVP,<br />

International Sales), David Jourdan (SVP,<br />

International Sales), Bonnie Voland (Head<br />

of International Marketing & Publicity)<br />

Office: Ritz Carlton Presidential Suite<br />

#1111, Tel: +49.3033.777.5618<br />

DEAD MAN DOWN<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Niels Arden Oplev<br />

Writer: J.H. Wyman<br />

Co-Production Partners: Original Films,<br />

Frequency Films, IM Global, Automatik<br />

Entertainment<br />

Producer: Neal Moritz, J.H. Wyman<br />

Key Cast: Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

In NYC, a crime lord’s right-hand man<br />

(Colin Farrell) is seduced by one of his<br />

boss’s victims, a woman seeking retribution<br />

(Noomi Rapace).<br />

HUMMINGBIRD<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Steven Knight<br />

Writer: Steven Knight<br />

Co-Production Partners: Shoebox Films,<br />

IM Global<br />

Producer: Guy Heeley, Paul Webster<br />

Key Cast: Jason Statham<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Country of Origin: UK<br />

An elevated thriller from screenwriter<br />

Steven Knight (Eastern Promises) about a<br />

broken man (Jason Statham) fighting to do<br />

what’s right, even if that means breaking<br />

his own rules.<br />

THE BABYMAKERS<br />

Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jay Chandrasekhar<br />

Writer: Peter Gaulke, Gerry Swallow<br />

Co-Production Partners: Broken Lizard<br />

Industries, Alliance Films, Automatik<br />

Entertainment, IM Global<br />

Producer: Jason Blum, Brian Kavanaugh-<br />

Jones, Jay Chandrasekhar<br />

Key Cast: Paul Schneider, Olivia Munn,<br />

Jay Chandrasekhar<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

From famed comedy troupe Broken Lizard,<br />

a hilarious comedy about a man unable to<br />

impregnate his wife who devises a crazy<br />

plan to rob a sperm bank.<br />

DON 2<br />

Action (160)<br />

Language: Hindi<br />

Director: Farhan Akhtar<br />

Writer: Farhan Akhtar<br />

Co-Production Partners: Excel<br />

Entertainment, Film Base Berlin,<br />

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Landmark Production, Red Chillies<br />

Entertainment<br />

Producer: Farhan Akhtar<br />

Key Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka<br />

Chopra<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: India<br />

Shah Rukh Khan returns as charismatic<br />

crimelord Don who, having conquered the<br />

Asian underworld, goes into action in<br />

Berlin, where he must avoid assassination<br />

or capture in order to succeed.<br />

JAVA HEAT<br />

Action<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Conor Allyn<br />

Writer: Conor Allyn, Rob Allyn<br />

Co-Production Partners: Margate House<br />

Producer: Rob Allyn<br />

Key Cast: Mickey Rourke, Kellan Lutz<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Pulse-pounding thriller JAVA HEAT dives<br />

into the world of espionage where nobody -<br />

not undercover agent Jake (Kellan Lutz) or<br />

mysterious hitman Malik (Mickey Rourke)<br />

- can be trusted.<br />

BLOOD<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Nick Murphy<br />

Writer: Bill Gallagher<br />

Co-Production Partners: Neal Street<br />

Productions, Red Production Company, IM<br />

Global, BBC Films, Quickfire Films<br />

Producer: Pippa Harris, Nicola Schindler<br />

Key Cast: Paul Bettany, Mark Strong,<br />

Brian Cox<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Country of Origin: UK<br />

Unspoken secrets and suspicions drive this<br />

ominous thriller as a police family (Paul<br />

Bettany, Brian Cox) confronts their own<br />

past and current crimes.<br />

IMAGEWORKS<br />

ENTERTAINMENT<br />

INTERNATIONAL<br />

Imageworks Entertainment International,<br />

21910 Plummer Street, Chatsworth, CA<br />

91311 USA, Tel: 1.818.349.5777 Fax:<br />

1.818.349.6777. www.imageworksentertainment.com<br />

E-mail:<br />

info@imglobalfilm.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor<br />

At EFM: David Shoshan (President /<br />

CEO), Ingrid Raines (Acquisitions)<br />

Office: Meritim Hotel Suite #9002, Tel:<br />

49(0)176.173.68.626<br />

APARTMENT 1303 3D<br />

AKA: APARTMENT 1303<br />

Horror<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Daniel Fridell<br />

Writer: Jim Steele, Michele Taverna<br />

Co-Production Partners: Fullum Films<br />

Executive Producer: Cindy Nelson-Mullen,<br />

Jim Steele, David Shoshan<br />

Producer: Michael Taverna, Eric Mantion,<br />

David-Alexander Coiteux<br />

Key Cast: Mischa Barton, Rebecca De<br />

Mornay, Julianne Michelle, Corey Sevier,<br />

and John Diehl<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A modern ghost story which turns a<br />

love/hate relationship between mother and<br />

daughter into a tale of horror. Some rentals<br />

are too good to be true.<br />

STOLEN IDENTITY<br />

Period Piece, Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Writer: David Shoshan, Rick Swirkal,<br />

Eddie O?Flaherty<br />

Producer: David Shoshan<br />

Key Cast: TBA<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Right after World War II, a Jew who survived<br />

the Holocaust steals the identity of<br />

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another man to survive in Soviet controlled<br />

Poland and lives well until his past comes<br />

back to haunt him.<br />

APOCALYPSE, CA.<br />

Sci Fi Fantasy (90 mins. )<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Chad Peter<br />

Writer: Chad Peter<br />

Co-Production Partners: Alexander<br />

Cardinale, Nick Mathis, Eric Branco<br />

Producer: Chad Peter<br />

Key Cast: Nick Mathis, Erin Bodine, Anne<br />

McDaniels<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The story of friends as they prepare for certain<br />

death at the hands of a massive asteroid,<br />

sex-inducing drugs, a three-hundred<br />

foot giant, and a horde of other absurd<br />

problems.<br />

BUTCHERED<br />

Horror (77 minutes)<br />

Language: Enlgish<br />

Director: Charles Stewart Jr.<br />

Writer: Sheila Brothers and Roxanne<br />

Marchano<br />

Co-Production Partners: Anthem Pictures<br />

and Eleven Bravo Productions<br />

Producer: Phillip Troy Linger<br />

Key Cast: Timothy Woodward Jr., Nikki<br />

Beall, Corey Broadwater<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: United States<br />

A group of teens decide to spend the weekend<br />

on a local island to say their final<br />

goodbyes before heading off to college.<br />

Little do they know, a convicted serial<br />

killer escapes from the authorities while on<br />

death row at a maximum security prison.<br />

Touted in the headlines of the local papers<br />

as “The Butcher” due to the manner he<br />

hacked up his victims in the local town<br />

deli, he takes cover on the very same<br />

island. It become a battle for survival as the<br />

teens attempt o fight back against this<br />

unimaginable foe.<br />

SHADOW WITHIN, THE<br />

Thriller-Horror (90 mins. )<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Silvana Zancolo<br />

Writer: Daniel Aarons, Giovanni Eccher<br />

Co-Production Partners: Pier Luigi Corvi<br />

Mora, Anna Maria Murro<br />

Producer: Paolo Lato<br />

Key Cast: Hayley J. Williams, Beth<br />

Winslet, Laurence Belcher, Bonny<br />

Ambrose, Rod Hallett.<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

A grieving mother convinces her child to<br />

contact her dead son only to discover that<br />

the dead child has surprising plans for her.<br />

SIGNIFICANT OTHER, THE<br />

Romantic Comedy (90 mins. )<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Shalene Portman<br />

Writer: Shalene Portman<br />

Producer: Shalene Portman<br />

Key Cast: Brittany Joyner, Danny Boaz,<br />

Stephanie Young, Morgana Shaw.<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A beautiful woman pretends to be married<br />

while running a bed-and-breakfast business<br />

but falls in love with a handsome guest and<br />

can?t tell him the truth.<br />

LOVE AND DEBATE<br />

Romantic Comedy (96 mins.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jessica Kavana<br />

Writer: Jessica Kavana<br />

Producer: Gina Philips, Amy Greenspun<br />

Key Cast: Adam Rodriguez, Gina Philips,<br />

Sean Astin.<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2006 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A beautiful, ambitious Miami woman finds<br />

unexpected love while pursuing her dreams<br />

of independence and high stakes debating.<br />

POKER CLUB, THE<br />

Thriller (89 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Tim McCann<br />

Writer: Richard Chizmar<br />

Co-Production Partners: Bruce Devan,<br />

Jordan Gertner<br />

Producer: Richard Chizmar<br />

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Key Cast: Jonathan Schaech, Jana Kramer<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Four friends discover and accidentally kill<br />

a burglar — who may not be alone — in<br />

the kitchen during their weekly poker<br />

night.<br />

RAY OF SUNSHINE<br />

Drama (86 mins.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Norbert Meisel<br />

Writer: Rae Rodgers<br />

Co-Production Partners: Nancy Kwan<br />

Producer: Norbert Meisel<br />

Key Cast: Matthew Carroll, Seymour<br />

Cassell, Nancy Kwan<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2006 Country of<br />

Petunia - New Films International<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A young girl disguises herself as a boy and<br />

searches for her father, a free-wheeling<br />

musician who abandoned her when she was<br />

a child.<br />

THIRD NAIL, THE<br />

Thriller -Drama (90 mins. )<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Kevin Lewis<br />

Writer: Huntley Ritter, Kevin Lewis<br />

Co-Production Partners: Ann Luly, Huntley<br />

Ritter<br />

Producer: Jonathan Bross<br />

Key Cast: Huntley Ritter, Krista Allen,<br />

Charles S. Dutton,<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A man wrongfully accused for murder is<br />

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release from prison then must struggle with<br />

revenge and redemption while trying to<br />

save his kidnapped daughter.<br />

KICKING THE DOG<br />

Comedy (91 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Randy Scooter Lammey<br />

Writer: Randy Scooter Lammey<br />

Co-Production Partners: Malachi McGlone<br />

Producer: Randy Scooter Lammey<br />

Key Cast: Elizabeth Schmidt, Carl T.<br />

Evans, Vidette Lim<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

12 young, sexy friends gather in a summer<br />

cabin for one last wild party before they all<br />

make life changing decisions.<br />

THE DESCENDANT<br />

Horror (95 mins.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Philippe Spurrell<br />

Writer: Philippe Spurrell, Joel Asa Miller<br />

Co-Production Partners: David Rigby<br />

Producer: Philippe Spurrell<br />

Key Cast: Rob Diloreto, Ilona Garcen,<br />

Tadhg MacMahon<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

A young man visits an old family home in<br />

a small town and discovers a secret that<br />

shocks the entire town.<br />

TOUCH, THE<br />

Drama (90 mins. )<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jimmy Huckaby<br />

Writer: Art Ayris<br />

Co-Production Partners: Rick Traum, Rick<br />

Silanskas<br />

Producer: Joseph T. Lyons<br />

Key Cast: Kristia Knowles, Shauna Bartel,<br />

Brooke Newton, Bruce Borgan, Cree Ivy<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2005 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A former stripper and alcoholic woman<br />

joins a church to seek redemption causes<br />

them to fight over whether she belongs<br />

there or not.<br />

IMAGINATION<br />

WORLDWIDE LLC<br />

Imagination Worldwide LLC, 9107 Wilshire<br />

Boulevard, Suite #625, Beverly Hills, CA<br />

90210 USA, Tel: 1.310.888.3494.<br />

www.imagination-llc.com E-mail:<br />

wyarbrough@imagination-llc.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Pierre David (Chairman and<br />

CEO), Tom Berry (Co-Chairman),<br />

Lawrence Goebel (President), Trina Searcy<br />

(VP of Sales and Business Affairs)<br />

Office: The Ritz Carlton, Suite #549, Tel:<br />

49.30.33.777.5607<br />

THE PREACHER’S DAUGHTER<br />

Dramatic Thriller (107 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Michelle Mower<br />

Writer: Michelle Mower<br />

Producer: Adam Donaghey, Susan Elkins,<br />

Michelle Mower<br />

Key Cast: Andrea Bowen, Adam Mayfield,<br />

Ron Jackson<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: US<br />

They thought she was the perfect daughter...<br />

DEVIL SEED<br />

Horror (96:30)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Greg A. Sager<br />

Writer: Greg A. Sager<br />

Producer: Dwight Coughlan, Gary Elmer,<br />

Geoff Hart, Greg. A. Sager<br />

Key Cast: Vanessa Boze, Michelle Argyris,<br />

Shantelle Canzanese<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

Evil grows within...<br />

WAKE UP AND DIE<br />

Thriller (84 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Miguel Urrutia<br />

Writer: Miguel Urrutia<br />

Producer: Liliana Tavera, Miguel Urrutia<br />

Key Cast: Luis Fernando Bohorquez,<br />

Andrea Montenegro<br />

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Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Colombia<br />

Sleeping with him was her first mistake.<br />

ALL ALONE<br />

Mystery-Thriller (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jon Cellini<br />

Writer: Jon Cellini<br />

Producer: Jon Cellini, Suzy Cote, Mandy<br />

Levin, Beth Navarro, Brice Williams<br />

Key Cast: Many Levin, Suzy Cote, Brice<br />

Williams, David Haydn-Jones<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: US<br />

It was the perfect murder...until they turned<br />

on each other!<br />

THE LIST<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Klaus Huttman<br />

Writer: Klaus Huttman<br />

Producer: Patrick Fisher, Michael Knowles<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Being number one was the kiss of death...<br />

THE WIFE HE MET ONLINE<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: english<br />

Director: Curtis Crawford<br />

Writer: Christine Conradt<br />

Executive Producer: Pierre David, Tom<br />

Berry<br />

Key Cast: Sydney Penny, Cameron<br />

Mathison, Cynthia Preston, Barbara Niven<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

They met online...After a whirlwind<br />

romance, they are getting married! If he<br />

only knew...<br />

STATIC<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Todd Levin<br />

Writer: Todd Levin, Gabriel Cowan, John<br />

Suits, Andrew Orci<br />

Producer: Gabriel Cowan, John Suits<br />

Key Cast: Milo Ventimiglia, Sarah Shahi,<br />

William Mapother, Sara Paxton<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: US<br />

When you hear them coming, you’re<br />

already dead!<br />

GANGSTERS, GUNS AND ZOMBIES<br />

Horror<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Matt Mitchell<br />

Writer: Matt Mitchell<br />

Producer: Clare Pearce, Mark Evans<br />

Key Cast: Vincent Jerome, Huggy Lever,<br />

Fabrizio Santino<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

They owned the streets..until now!<br />

GABE: THE CUPID DOG<br />

Family Film (90:32)<br />

Language: english<br />

Director: mike feifer<br />

Writer: mike feifer<br />

Producer: Mike Feifer, David DeCrane,<br />

Noel Zantisch<br />

Key Cast: Boti Bliss, Brian Krause, Linden<br />

Ashby, Michael Woods, Barbara Niven,<br />

Ashley Jones and Ralph Waite<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A mischievous dog plays matchmaker!<br />

THE THOMPSONS: THE HAMIL-<br />

TONS 2<br />

Vampire Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: The Butcher Brothers<br />

Writer: The Butcher Brothers , Cory Knauf<br />

Executive Producer: Pierre David , Nicola<br />

Pearcey<br />

Producer: Rob Weston, Joseph McKelheer,<br />

Travis Stevens.<br />

Key Cast: Cory Knauf, Samuel Child,<br />

Joseph McKelheer<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK/US<br />

The Hamiltons have snuck into a new town<br />

under a new name...but they’re not the<br />

most bloodthirsty people living there!<br />

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EXTRACTED<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Nir Paniry<br />

Writer: Nir Paniry<br />

Producer: Gabriel Cowan, John Suits<br />

Key Cast: Sasha Roiz, Jenny Mollen, Nick<br />

Jameson<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: US<br />

Thomas Jackson has invented a device that<br />

allows him to enter people’s minds...Little<br />

does he know that he’s about to get trapped<br />

in the mind of a murderer.<br />

AXED<br />

Thriller (88 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Ryan Lee Driscoll<br />

Writer: Ryan Lee Driscoll<br />

Producer: Ryan Lee Driscoll<br />

Key Cast: Jonathan Hansler, Andrea<br />

Gordon, Nicola Posener<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

His job kept him sane...now he’s just lost<br />

it!<br />

MY MOTHER’S SECRET<br />

Thriller (87:48)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Curtis Crawford<br />

Writer: John Serge<br />

Executive Producer: Pierre David, Tom<br />

Berry<br />

Key Cast: Nicole deBoer, Barbara Niven,<br />

Thea Gill<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

Is uncovering the truth about her past<br />

worth risking her life?<br />

BETRAYED AT 17<br />

Thriller (90:48)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Doug Campbell<br />

Writer: Christine Conradt<br />

Executive Producer: Pierre David<br />

Producer: Ken Sanders, Robert Ballo<br />

Key Cast: Alexandra Paul, Paula Trickey,<br />

Derek Phillips<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: US<br />

She couldn’t save her daughter...Now she<br />

must save her son.<br />

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INTRAMOVIES<br />

Intramovies, Via E. Manfredi, 15, Rome,<br />

Rome, 00197 Italy, Tel: +39.06.8076157<br />

Fax: +39.06.8076156.<br />

www.intramovies.com E-mail:<br />

mail@intramovies.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Paola Corvino (CEO), Jef Nuyts<br />

(Director of International Sales), Marco<br />

Valerio Fusco (International Sales<br />

Executive)<br />

Office: Martin Gropius Bau, Italian<br />

Pavilion, Stand N 101<br />

THE LEGEND OF KASPAR HAUSER<br />

AKA: LA LEGGENDA DI KASPAR<br />

HAUSER<br />

Drama (95min)<br />

Language: Italian and English<br />

Director: Davide Manuli<br />

Writer: Davide Manuli<br />

Co-Production Partners: Blue film,<br />

Shooting Hope Productions with the contribution<br />

of MiBAC - Ministero per i Beni e<br />

le Attivit Culturali and Regione Autonoma<br />

della Sardegna<br />

Producer: Bruno Tribbioli, Alessandro<br />

Bonifazi, Davide Manuli<br />

Key Cast: Vincent Gallo, Claudia Gerini,<br />

Elisa Sednaoui, Silvia Calderoni, Fabrizio Gifuni<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

We are on a deserted and abandoned island,<br />

in a dimension without either place or<br />

time.A body, floating in the sea, strands on<br />

a beach: it is Kaspar Hauser, the heir to the<br />

throne of the island, who disappeared for<br />

obscure reasons when he was still a small<br />

boy. It was Hauser’s destiny to come back<br />

alive, but his mind is apparently disturbed<br />

or lacking in clarity. The boy is cared for<br />

by the Sheriff of the island, who gives him<br />

a place to stay in the old jail. Since his<br />

arrival is the only novelty in the routine of Arbitrage - Parlay Films<br />

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the small community he will soon find out<br />

who are his friends (the Sheriff and the<br />

Clairvoyant) and who his enemies (the<br />

Pusher and the Duchess).Unfortunately his<br />

stay will not last long, as he will soon be<br />

dead and will return to the place where he<br />

came from: the sea/<br />

THE FIRST ON THE LIST<br />

AKA: I PRIMI DELLA LISTA<br />

Comedy (85 min)<br />

Language: Italian<br />

Director: Roan Johnson<br />

Writer: Davide Lantieri, Roan Johnson<br />

with the collaboration of Renzo Lulli, and<br />

the friendly supervision of Francesco Bruni<br />

Co-Production Partners: Palomar, Urania<br />

Pictures with Rai Cinema<br />

Executive Producer: Patrizia Massa<br />

Producer: Carlo Degli Esposti, Nora<br />

Barbieri, Conchita Airoldi, Patrizia Massa<br />

Key Cast: Claudio Santamaria, Francesco<br />

Turbanti, Paolo Cioni, Sergio Pierattini,<br />

Daniela Morozzi, Fabrizio Brandi,<br />

Capovilla<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

Set in 1970 when Italy was roiled by terrorism,<br />

the true life comic and absurd story<br />

of 3 feckless lefties who fled to Austria<br />

thinking a military coup was imminent<br />

seeking political asylum and wind up in<br />

jail, looking very stupid.<br />

SEVEN ACTS OF MERCY<br />

AKA: SETTE OPERE DI MISERICOR-<br />

DIA<br />

Drama (103 min)<br />

Language: Italian and Romanian<br />

Director: Gianluca and Massimiliano De<br />

Serio<br />

Writer: Gianluca and Massimiliano De<br />

Serio<br />

Co-Production Partners: La Sarraz Pictures<br />

srl , Elefant Films<br />

Producer: Alessandro Borrelli<br />

Key Cast: Roberto Herlitzka, Olimpia<br />

Melinte, Ignazio Oliva, Stefano Cassetti,<br />

Cosmin Corniciuc<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

Luminita, a young illegal immigrant living<br />

on the edge of a shanty town, has hatched a<br />

plan to get herself out of her predicament.<br />

To carry it through she bumps into<br />

Antonio, a sick and mysterious old man.<br />

The clash between the two of them is<br />

unavoidable and harsh, and leads to unforeseeable<br />

consequences<br />

ROUGH HANDS<br />

AKA: AYADIN KHACHINA<br />

Drama (97 min)<br />

Language: Arabic<br />

Director: Mohamed Asli<br />

Writer: Mohamed Asli<br />

Co-Production Partners: Dagham Film<br />

Producer: Mohamed Asli<br />

Key Cast: Mohamed Bastaoui, Houda<br />

Rihani, Abdessamad Miftah Lkheir<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Morocco<br />

Mustapha is an illiterate hairdresser runs an<br />

underground trade as a middleman facilitating<br />

favors in exchange for money. His<br />

neighbor Zakia, a schoolteacher, asks for<br />

his help to get emigration papers to join her<br />

fianc in Spain.<br />

ITN DISTRIBUTION<br />

ITN Distribution, 9663 Santa Monica Blvd.<br />

#859, West Hollywood, CA 90048 USA,<br />

Tel: 1.702.882-6926.<br />

www.itndistribution.com E-mail:<br />

stuart@itndistribution.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Stuart Alson (President)<br />

Office: Exhibitor without a Stand , Tel:<br />

1.702.882.6926<br />

BRUTAL<br />

Action (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Kamal Ahmed<br />

Writer: Kamal Ahmed<br />

Producer: Kamal Ahmed, Stuart Alson,<br />

David Coppa, Brent Stuart, Nicholas<br />

Malinosky<br />

Key Cast: Peter Greene, Kevin Corrigan<br />

(The Black Donnellys, The Departed),<br />

Frederico Castelluccio (Sopranos), Arthur<br />

J. Nascarella (Sopranos)<br />

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Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

BRUTAL stars Peter Greene (Pulp Fiction)<br />

in a story that follows the plight of four<br />

friends who pay the ultimate price when<br />

they seek revenge against a low-level gangster.<br />

BANGKOK BOUND<br />

Action (93 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Todd Bellanca<br />

Writer: Todd Bellanca, Sasha Levinson<br />

Producer: Todd Bellanca, Sarote Tabcum Jr<br />

Key Cast: Bai Ling, Tom Arnold, Casey<br />

Evans<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A former American boxer now exiled in<br />

Bangkok, is forced to confront his violent<br />

past after meeting a mysterious fight fan<br />

from his hometown.<br />

CITIZEN JANE<br />

Thriller (89 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Armand Mastroianni<br />

Writer: James Dalessandro<br />

Producer: Eric Mitchell, Sonny Grosso<br />

Key Cast: Ally Sheedy, Meat Loaf, Sean<br />

Patrick Flanery, Patty McCormack, Nia<br />

Peeples<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Jane’s idyllic life is shattered when her<br />

beloved Aunt Gertrude McCabe is brutally<br />

murdered in San Jose. Jane’s heartbreak<br />

turns to horror when a brilliant police<br />

detective, Jack Morris, finally convinces<br />

her that the killer is none other than her<br />

beloved boyfriend, Tom O’Donnell.<br />

MYSTERIA<br />

Thriller (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Lucius Kuert<br />

Writer: Lucius Kuert<br />

Producer: Rafael Primorac, Stuart Alson,<br />

Robert Miano, Gerald Kessler<br />

Key Cast: Danny Glover, Billy Zane,<br />

Martin Landau, Michael Rooker, Robert<br />

Miano, Peter Mark Richman, Meadow<br />

Williams<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A once famous and now a washed-up<br />

Hollywood screenwriter fights to finish his<br />

latest script with an unrealistic deadline.<br />

He finds himself in the center of a murder<br />

investigation involving a prominent politician’s<br />

wife.<br />

THE BRAZEN BULL<br />

Thriller (85 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Douglas Elford-Argent<br />

Writer: Thomas Bilyeu, Douglas Elford-<br />

Argent<br />

Producer: David Frank Fletcher Jr., Gregg<br />

Luckman<br />

Key Cast: Michael Madsen, Rachel Hunter,<br />

Jennifer Tisdale<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

An ice cold tale of misguided ambition and<br />

savage revenge. Set in the bowels of an<br />

iconic derelict Los Angeles high-rise,<br />

Lauren and her real-estate investing fianc<br />

discover first hand what happens when a<br />

madman leads not with emotion, but rather<br />

chilling rationality.<br />

DEFCON 2012<br />

Sci-Fi (92 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: R. Christian Anderson<br />

Writer: Brian Neil<br />

Producer: Brian Neil, John Wessmann,<br />

Carolina Liechtenstein<br />

Key Cast: Ryken Zane, Shy Pilgreen, Xu<br />

Razer<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

In 2012, a devastating war between<br />

humans and aliens left the earth a nuclear<br />

wasteland. 200 years later the descendants<br />

of both civilizations have returned in<br />

search of treasure and lost artifacts. After<br />

landing their ship on the abandoned planet,<br />

Kaynin, Rune, and Archer descend into an<br />

underground city.<br />

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INTERSTATE<br />

Thriller (80 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Marc-Andre Samson<br />

Writer: Marc-Andre Samson<br />

Producer: Marc-Andre Samson<br />

Key Cast: Shiloh Fernandez<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A Montreal DJ, following his girlfriend to<br />

Los Angeles, falls into a deadly relationship<br />

with a couple of female hitchhikers.<br />

BOSTON GIRLS<br />

Thriller (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Gabriel Bologna<br />

Writer: Camille Solari<br />

Producer: Camille Solari, Jon Saphire<br />

Key Cast: Danny Trejo, Renee Taylor,<br />

Camille Solari<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Tired of their boyfriends’ infidelities, two<br />

girls from Boston make a New Year’s pact<br />

to wipe out everyone who has ever mistreated<br />

them - and they soon embark on a<br />

murderous revenge spree in this thriller.<br />

WARRIORS OF THE APOCALYPSE<br />

Action (89 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Len Kabasinski<br />

Writer: Len Kabasinski<br />

Producer: Len Kabasinski<br />

Key Cast: Darian Caine, Pamela Sutch,<br />

Debbie D, Blue Meanie<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

After WWIII has devastated America, a<br />

small band of female warriors attempt to<br />

survive long enough to make it to the last<br />

city left standing.<br />

THE FARM<br />

Horror (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Hank Bausch, Andrew Jackson<br />

Writer: Paul Farrell<br />

Producer: Hank Bausch, Andrew Jackson,<br />

Paul Farrell<br />

Key Cast: Michael Hotop, Ashley Salazar,<br />

Freddie Meyer<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Charlie and his little brother Simon are the<br />

last ones left on Earth. They must fight to<br />

survive and battle zombies along the way.<br />

JINGA FILMS<br />

Jinga Films, 22 Carnaby Street, London,<br />

W1F7DB United Kingdom, Tel:<br />

44.20.7287.0050. Fax: 44.20.7494.9492.<br />

www.jingafilms.com E-mail: info@jingafilms.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Rosana Coutinho (Head of Sales<br />

& Acquisition ), Julian Richards (Head of<br />

Production)<br />

Office: UK Film Centre / Stand 40, Tel:<br />

49.30.889.14.439<br />

BLACK FOREST: HANSEL AND GRE-<br />

TEL & THE 420 WITCH<br />

Fantasy Horror (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Duane Journey<br />

Writer: David Tilman<br />

Co-Production Partners: Kerry Kimmel &<br />

Pollac and Dark Highway Films (II)<br />

Executive Producer: William S Beasley,<br />

Jonathan Heine, Michael Pollack<br />

Producer: Mark Morgan, Brett Hudson,<br />

James Cotten<br />

Key Cast: Lara Flynn Boyle, Molly C.<br />

Quinn, Michael Welsh, Cary Elwes, Eddy<br />

Martin, Andrew James Allen, Reynaldo<br />

Gallegos, Bianca Saad.<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

From the producer of TWILIGHT - a<br />

brother and sister battle a witch who uses a<br />

special blend of marijuana to lure teenagers<br />

into her suburban home where she kills and<br />

eats them to maintain her youth and beauty.<br />

RITES OF SPRING<br />

Horror / Thriller (83 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Padraig Reynolds<br />

Writer: Padraig Reynolds<br />

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Co-Production Partners: Vigilante<br />

Entertainment, Red Planet<br />

Executive Producer: Bobby Benton, John<br />

Norris,<br />

Producer: Eric Thompson, Wes Benton<br />

Key Cast: A.J Bowen, Katherine Randolph,<br />

Anessa Ramsey, Marco St. John, shanna<br />

Forestall, Sonny Marinelli, Sarah Rachelli,<br />

James Bertz, Andrew Breland, Hannah<br />

Bryan.<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

After kidnapping the nine-year-old daughter<br />

of a wealthy socialite and hiding out in<br />

an abandoned school, the kidnappers fall<br />

prey to a recurring terror - a bloodlust that<br />

comes every first day of Spring.<br />

MIDNIGHT SON<br />

Horror (86m)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Scott Leberecht<br />

Writer: Scott Leberecht<br />

Co-Production Partners: John Mattingly,<br />

Standing Ovation - Tri Coast<br />

Adam Simpson<br />

Executive Producer: Lisa A. Campbell,<br />

Eduardo Sanchez, Reed Frerichs, Kevin<br />

McCorkie, Maya Rarish.<br />

Producer: Matthew Compton,<br />

Key Cast: Arlen Escarpeta, Tracey Walter,<br />

Larry Cedar, Kevin MacCorkle, ZaK<br />

Kiberg, Maya Parish, Billy Lauviere<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Jacob is a young man confined to a life of<br />

isolation, due to a rare skin disorder that<br />

prevents him from being exposed to sunlight.<br />

His world opens up when he meets<br />

Mary, a local bartender, and falls in love.<br />

Tragically, Jacob’s actions become increasingly<br />

bizarre as he struggles to cope with<br />

the effects of his worsening condition.<br />

Forced by the disease to drink human<br />

blood for sustenance, he must control his<br />

increasingly violent tendencies as local law<br />

enforcement narrow their focus on him as a<br />

suspect in a series of grisly murders.<br />

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FACE TO FACE<br />

Drama (90)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Michael Rymer<br />

Writer: David Williamson<br />

Producer: Gabreille Christopher & Leanne<br />

Hanley<br />

Key Cast: Vince Colosimo, Luke Ford,<br />

Matthew Newton, Sigrid Thomton, Chris<br />

Connely, Greg Baldoni, Laura Gordon.<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

A young construction worker rams into the<br />

back of his boss’s Jaguar in a fit of anger at<br />

being sacked. Rather than fronting court,<br />

he’s given the chance to explain his actions<br />

in a community conference. This face-toface<br />

confrontation between the young man,<br />

his boss, his boss’s wife, co-workers, best<br />

mate and mother lifts the lid not only on<br />

his dysfunctional life but on their workplace<br />

dirty laundry, turning all of their lives<br />

upside down.<br />

BAD MEAT<br />

Horror (96)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Lulu Jarmen<br />

Writer: Paul Gerstenburger<br />

Executive Producer: Aramid Capital<br />

Producer: Lucinda Englehart<br />

Key Cast: Mark Pelegrino, Dave Franco,<br />

Elizabeth Hanois, Jessica Parker Kennedy,<br />

Tahj Mowry<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Ordered to a delinquent camp by their<br />

exasperated parents, a group of wayward<br />

teens fall foul of a deadly virus that infects<br />

the guards and turns them into flesh-eating<br />

monsters! Gristle and gore are on the<br />

menu-as are the kids in this Brat Camp<br />

slaughterhouse massacre.<br />

SAVAGES CROSSING<br />

Thriller (85 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Kevin J. Dobson<br />

Writer: Cody Jarratt, Johnny Jarrart<br />

Producer: Irene Dobson<br />

Key Cast: John Jarratt, Angela Macgregor,<br />

Chris Haywood.<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

A group of strangers are forced to take<br />

shelter in an outback roadhouse while a<br />

flood rages around them. But the danger<br />

lurking within the four walls is far greater<br />

than the threat from outside. As the water<br />

level rises, so does the tension, as the line<br />

between the hunter and the hunted starts to<br />

blur. But how do you choose sides? Taking<br />

the wrong one could be deadly.<br />

RABIES<br />

AKA: KALEVET<br />

Horror (90 Min)<br />

Language: Hebrew<br />

Director: Aharon Keshales and Novat<br />

Papushado<br />

Writer: Aharon Keshales and Novat<br />

Papushado<br />

Co-Production Partners: UCM<br />

Executive Producer: Tami Leon, Avraham<br />

Pirchi, Julia<br />

Producer: Chilik Michaeli, Julia Schifter<br />

Key Cast: Ania BUKSTEIN, Danny<br />

GEVA, Henry DAVID, Liat HARLEV, Lior<br />

ASHKENAZI, Menashe NOY, Ofer<br />

SHECHTER, Ran DANKER<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: ISRAEL<br />

A brother and sister who run away from<br />

home find sanctuary in a deserted nature<br />

reserve. When the sister falls into the trap<br />

of a psychopathic killer, the brother sets<br />

out on a race against time to find help. In a<br />

twist of fate the rescue of the sister<br />

becomes inadvertently intertwined with the<br />

lives of a group of young tennis players, a<br />

ranger and his dog, as well as a team of<br />

policemen.<br />

CHERRY<br />

Drama / Erotic (92 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Quinn Saunders<br />

Writer: David Crane and Quinn Saunders<br />

Producer: Brett Henenberg, John Lutz,<br />

John Nargiso<br />

Key Cast: Rey VALENTIN, Lili BOR-<br />

DAN, David CRANE, Benjamin RILEY,<br />

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Ben DIGREGORIO, Brent FALCO,<br />

Jeremy RADIN, Keith ROENKE<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

When Brian Cherry, a sweet, sensitive<br />

young Los Angelino, falls for the beautiful,<br />

electric, and damaged Jules, she turns his<br />

ideas about women and sex upside-down.<br />

Slowly, he is drawn into a twisted love-triangle<br />

that includes Jules and his best<br />

friend, Sam. When Jules eventually leaves<br />

him for Sam, Cherry decides on a shocking<br />

course of action that will destroy the lives<br />

of all three<br />

GANDU<br />

AKA: ASSHOLE<br />

Drama (85 m)<br />

Language: Hindi<br />

Director: Kaushik Mukherjee<br />

Writer: Kaushik Mukherjee<br />

Co-Production Partners: Overdose Art<br />

Producer: Dipankar Chaki<br />

Key Cast: Anubrata Basy, Joyrai<br />

Bhattacharjee<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: India<br />

A kinetic, style-hopping musical about a<br />

friendship between two disaffected youth;<br />

Gandu, a rapper who picks the pocket of<br />

the man to whom his mother sells sex, and<br />

Ricksha, a cycle driver and Bruce Lee fan.<br />

As Gandu exorcises his rage in explicit<br />

rhymes, the two desperado’s escape into a<br />

world of drugs and porn until they are discovered<br />

by Q an enigmatic documentary<br />

film-maker.<br />

GHETT’A LIFE<br />

Thriller (103 m)<br />

Language: english<br />

Director: Chris Browne<br />

Writer: Chris Browne<br />

Co-Production Partners: Jamrock Films<br />

Executive Producer: Lennox Lewis<br />

Producer: Peter Asher, Justine Hanzall,<br />

Chris Browne<br />

Key Cast: Chris MCFARLANE, Etana ,<br />

Kadeem WILSON, Karen ROBINSON,<br />

Kevoy BURTON, Lisa WILLIAMS,<br />

O’Daine CLARKE, Winston BELL<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Jamaica<br />

Derrick, a ghetto teenager, dreams of being<br />

Jamaica’s next world boxing champion, but<br />

it’s election year and politics and tribal violence<br />

divide the country. His father, a loyal<br />

party supporter, forbids him from going to<br />

the boxing gym situated in a rival part of<br />

town. Derrick defiantly follows his heart<br />

but is confronted by the local “don” who<br />

threatens his family. Derrick refuses to give<br />

up and the ignorance of divisiveness soon<br />

give way to the triumph of unity.<br />

THE BUNNY GAME<br />

Horror / Erotic (77 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Adam Rehmeier<br />

Writer: Adam REHMIER, Rodleen GET-<br />

SIC<br />

Producer: Adam REHMIER (Death<br />

Mountain<br />

Key Cast: Jeff RENFR, Rodleen GETSIC<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A prostitute looking for her next meal<br />

hitches a ride with a trucker who mentally<br />

and physically breaks her down before selling<br />

her into white slavery. “While last year<br />

A Serbian Film raised the bar, bringing yet<br />

another foreign country into the fold,<br />

Americans, while quick to embrace these<br />

films, have been slow to produce anything<br />

that can stand amongst them. Until now”. -<br />

Marc Patterson, Brutal As Hell<br />

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JOKER FILMS INC.<br />

Joker Films Inc., 3-130 555 Brooksbank<br />

Ave., North Vancouver, BC V7J 3S5<br />

Canada, Tel: 1.604.983.5436. www.jokerfilms.com<br />

E-mail: info@jokerfilms.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Nolan Pielak (President,<br />

International Distribution)<br />

Office: MGB - Stand 125, Office 3, Tel:<br />

1.778.829.8424<br />

VAMPIRE DOG<br />

Family (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Geoff Anderson<br />

Writer: Tracy McMenemy<br />

Producer: Tim Brown<br />

Key Cast: Norm MacDonald (voice) Colin<br />

MacKechnie, Julia Sarah Stone, Amy<br />

Matysio<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

A boy unwittingly adopts a 600 year old<br />

“talking” vampire dog and soon discovers<br />

that when they face their fears they can do<br />

anything.<br />

THE COTTAGE<br />

Thriller (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Chris Jaymes<br />

Writer: Nick Antosca<br />

Co-Production Partners: Joker Films<br />

Producer: Bettina O’Mara, Kristen Dalton<br />

Key Cast: David Arquette, Kristen Dalton,<br />

Victor Browne<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

After renting her guest house to a stranger<br />

(Arquette), Bree (Dalton) soon discovers<br />

he is not the perfect tenant she thought he<br />

would be.<br />

MACHINE HEAD<br />

Thriller (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jim Valdez<br />

Writer: Joel Souza<br />

Producer: Bettina O’Mara, Jim Valdez<br />

Key Cast: Sharon Hinnendael, Nicole<br />

Zeoli, Cristina Corigliano<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

When three beautiful college students meet<br />

for Spring Break their dream vacation<br />

quickly turns into a nightmare when a<br />

masked man begins to terrorize them.<br />

SPACE MILKSHAKE<br />

Scifi/Comedy (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Armen Evrensel<br />

Writer: Armen Evrensel<br />

Producer: Rob Merilees, Holly Baird,<br />

Shayne Putzlocher<br />

Key Cast: Robin Dunne, Kristin Kreuk,<br />

Amanda Tapping, Billy Boyd<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

Jimmy, a bottom of the barrel “spacewaste”<br />

technician finds himself playing the<br />

role of the hero as his spaceship inadvertently<br />

leaps back and forth between dimensions.<br />

HARDCORE LOGO II<br />

Rockumentary (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Bruce McDonald<br />

Writer: David Griffith<br />

Producer: Rob Merilees<br />

Key Cast: Care Failure, Julian Richings,<br />

Bruce McDonald<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

The female singer of a punk band channels<br />

the spirit of a notorious musician, creating<br />

chaos on their upcoming tour.<br />

SKEW<br />

Thriller (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Seve Schelenz<br />

Writer: Seve Schelenz<br />

Producer: Seve Schelenz<br />

Key Cast: Amber Lewis, Richard Olak,<br />

Robert Scattergood<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

On July 19th, 2005, three friends went on a<br />

road trip. They never came back.<br />

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BEWARE<br />

Horror (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jason Daly<br />

Writer: Shawn Copenhaver, Jason Daly<br />

Producer: Shawn Copenhaver<br />

Key Cast: Lorena King, Victor Gonzalez,<br />

Cecilia Huete<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A resort town haunted by a serial killer<br />

soon holds the fate of five unsuspecting<br />

visitors.<br />

THE MONTANA KID<br />

AKA: GUNLESS<br />

Western/Comedy (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: William Phillips<br />

Writer: William Phillips<br />

Producer: Stephen Hegyes<br />

Key Cast: Paul Gross, Sienna Guillory,<br />

Dustin Milligan<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

When notorious American gunslinger, The<br />

Montana Kid, staggers over the border into<br />

the tiny Canadian hamlet of Barclay’s<br />

Brush, life for the town’s 29 inhabitants is<br />

about to get exciting.<br />

DAYDREAM NATION<br />

Drama (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Michael Goldbach<br />

Writer: Michael Goldbach<br />

Producer: Christine Haebler<br />

Key Cast: Kat Dennings, Josh Lucas,<br />

Andie MacDowell<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

Being the new girl in school, Caroline<br />

reveals haunting town secrets while starting<br />

a secret love triangle between her teacher<br />

and a student.<br />

A NIGHT FOR DYING TIGERS<br />

Drama (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Terry Miles<br />

Writer: Terry Miles<br />

Producer: Sidney Chui, Terry Miles<br />

Key Cast: Gil Bellows, Jennifer Beals,<br />

Lauren Lee Smith<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

On the evening before he goes to jail, Jack<br />

and his family unite for one last time<br />

revealing secrets that will change everyone<br />

forever.<br />

RUNNING MATES<br />

Comedy (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Thomas Michael<br />

Writer: Paolo Mancini<br />

Producer: Sean Buckley<br />

Key Cast: D.J. Qualls, Henry Winkler,<br />

Graham Greene<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

“Election” meets “Jackass” as the hilarity<br />

and hijinx of small-town politics run wild<br />

when two former best friends run against<br />

each other for Mayor.<br />

HANNA’S GOLD<br />

Family (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Joul Souza<br />

Writer: Joel Souza<br />

Producer: Jim Valdez<br />

Key Cast: Luke Perry, Morissa O’Mara,<br />

Alana O’Mara<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A long lost treasure map found by two sisters<br />

lead them on an adventure of a lifetime.<br />

UNRIVALED<br />

Action (90 mins)<br />

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Language: English<br />

Director: Warren P. Sonoda<br />

Writer: Brade Bode, Hector Echavarria,<br />

Warren P. Sonoma<br />

Producer: Sean Buckley<br />

Key Cast: Keith Jardine, Rashad Evans,<br />

Forrest Griffin<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A washed up fighter is persuaded to get<br />

back into the ring for one final shot at<br />

glory.<br />

DEATH WARRIOR<br />

Action (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Bill Corcoran<br />

Writer: Hector Echavarria, Eamon Glennon<br />

Producer: Sean Buckley<br />

Key Cast: Keith Jardine, Quinton Jackson,<br />

Georges St. Pierre<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Five of the best mixed martial arts champions<br />

from around the world are forced to<br />

play a deadly game to the death.<br />

SUCK<br />

Vampire/Comedy (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Rob Stefaniuk<br />

Writer: Rob Stefaniuk<br />

Producer: Gabriella Martinelli, Robin<br />

Crumley<br />

Key Cast: Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper,<br />

Malcolm MacDowell<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

A vampire comedy about a rock ‘n’ roll<br />

band that may have just gone too far to<br />

become famous.<br />

COOPER’S CHRISTMAS<br />

Comedy (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Warren P. Sonoda<br />

Writer: Mike Beaver, Jason Jones<br />

Producer: Sean Buckley<br />

Key Cast: Jason Jones, Samantha Bee,<br />

David Foley<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

The hilarious exploits of a dysfunctional<br />

family’s Christmas are captured on a VHS<br />

camera and re-discovered 25 years later.<br />

DEVOLVED<br />

Teen Comedy (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: John Cregan<br />

Writer: John Cregan<br />

Producer: Jim Valdez, Bettina O’mara<br />

Key Cast: Gary Entin, Lindsay Shaw, Chris<br />

Kattan<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A school trip goes wrong and forces the<br />

Jocks and Nerds to battle it out on a deserted<br />

island.<br />

K5 INTERNATIONAL -<br />

A DIVISION OF K5<br />

MEDIA GROUP GMBH<br />

K5 International - a division of K5 Media<br />

Group GmbH, Konradinstraße 5, Munich,<br />

Bavaria 81543 Germany, Tel:<br />

+49(0)89.3750559-0. Fax:<br />

+49(0)89.3750559-05. www.k5international.com<br />

E-mail: info@k5mediagroup.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Oliver Simon (Partner - Sales &<br />

Production), Daniel Baur (Partner - Sales<br />

& Finance), Carl Clifton (Partner - Sales &<br />

Marketing), Sara Boss (Sales &<br />

Marketing), Erica Motley (Head of<br />

Acquisitions), Oda Schfer (Head of<br />

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ELVIS&NIXON<br />

Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Cary Elwes<br />

Writer: Cary Elwes, Hanala Sagal, Joey<br />

Sagal<br />

Producer: Michael Benaroya, Holly<br />

Wiersma<br />

Key Cast: Eric Bana, Danny Huston<br />

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Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2013 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

In 1970, two of the world’s greatest recording<br />

artists met for the first time..<br />

NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON<br />

Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Bille August<br />

Writer: Greg Latter, Ulrich Herrmann<br />

(Screenplay), Pascal Mercier (Novel)<br />

Producer: Andreas Knoblauch, Michael<br />

Lehmann, Kerstin Ramcke, Peter<br />

Reichenbach, Gnther Russ<br />

Key Cast: Jeremy Irons, Melanie Laurent,<br />

Jack Huston<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2013 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Raimund Gregorius, a Swiss Professor<br />

abandons his lectures and buttoned-down,<br />

life to embark on a thrilling adventure that<br />

will take him on a journey to the very heart<br />

of himself. .<br />

VEHICLE 19<br />

Action (120 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Makunda Michael Dewil<br />

Writer: Makunda Michael Dewil<br />

(Screenplay)<br />

Producer: Ryan Haiadrian, Peter Safran<br />

Key Cast: Paul Walker<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A recently paroled man is framed and must<br />

circumvent an entire police force in a city<br />

he doesn’t know, if he is to clear his name.<br />

PHANTOM<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Todd Robinson<br />

Writer: Todd Robinson<br />

Key Cast: Ed Harris, William Fichtner,<br />

David Duchovny<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

When Soviet submarine B756 goes missing<br />

in the Pacific Ocean during a major US<br />

Navy exercise even Soviet Naval<br />

Headquarters isn’t certain whether the sub<br />

is embarked on a mission so secret that<br />

they don’t know about it or whether it has<br />

gone rogue.<br />

HIGH SCHOOL<br />

Comedy (102 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: John Stalberg Jr.<br />

Writer: John Erik Linthorst, Stalberg Jr &<br />

Stephen Susco<br />

Producer: Arcadiy Golubovich, Raymond J.<br />

Markovich, Warren Zide<br />

Key Cast: Adrien Brody, Michael Chiklis,<br />

Sean Marquette<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A high school valedictorian who gets baked<br />

with the local stoner finds himself the subject<br />

of a drug test. The situation causes him<br />

to concoct an ambitious plan to get his<br />

entire graduating class to face the same<br />

fate, and fail.<br />

BUCK<br />

Documentary (88 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Cindy Meehl<br />

Producer: Julie Goldman<br />

Key Cast: Buck Brannaman (Himself),<br />

Robert Redford (Himself)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

“The Horse Whisperer” may be the stuff of<br />

Hollywood legend but the cowboy who<br />

inspired the novel and film is very real.<br />

Buck Brannaman - master horseman,<br />

raconteur and philosopher - is a no-excuses<br />

cowboy who travels the world sharing a<br />

hard-won wisdom that’s often more about<br />

human relationships than about horses.<br />

SING YOUR SONG<br />

Documentary (104 Min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Susanne Rostock<br />

Producer: Michael Cohl, Gina Belafonte,<br />

Jim Brown, William Eigen, Julius R. Nasso<br />

Key Cast: Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier,<br />

Huddie W. Ledbette (Ledbelly)<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

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Wonderfully archived, and told with a<br />

remarkable sense of intimacy, visual style,<br />

and musical panache, Susanne Rostock’s<br />

inspiring biographical documentary, Sing<br />

Your Song, surveys the life and times of<br />

singer/actor/activist Harry Belafonte. From<br />

his rise to fame as a singer, inspired by<br />

Paul Robeson, and his experiences touring<br />

a segregated country, to his provocative<br />

crossover into Hollywood, Belafonte’s<br />

groundbreaking career personifies the<br />

American civil rights movement and<br />

impacted many other social-justice movements.<br />

Rostock reveals Belafonte as a tenacious<br />

hands-on activist, who worked intimately<br />

with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,<br />

mobilized celebrities for social justice, participated<br />

in the struggle against apartheid in<br />

South Africa, and took action to counter<br />

gang violence, prisons, and the incarceration<br />

of youth. Told with a remarkable sense<br />

of intimacy, visual style, and musical<br />

panache, Susanne Rostock’s inspiring biographical<br />

documentary, SING YOUR<br />

SONG, surveys the life and times of<br />

singer/actor/activist Harry Belafonte.<br />

LIBRARY State library size, predominant<br />

type of film and age (e.g. 250 titles from<br />

European auteurs of the 1970s).<br />

HIGHWAY GOSPEL<br />

Documentary (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jaret Belliveau<br />

Writer: Craig Jackson, Jaret Belliveau<br />

Executive Producer: Sean Buckley<br />

Producer: Craig Jackson<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A coward dies a thousand deaths, a brave<br />

man dies but once. B.C. renegades race<br />

down mountain highways on customized<br />

longboards....<br />

SILVER TONGUES<br />

Drama (87min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Simon Arthur<br />

Writer: Simon Arthur<br />

Producer: Jared Moshe, Leda Nornang<br />

Key Cast: Lee Tergensen, Enid Graham,<br />

Emily Meade<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Two lovers travel from town to town, playing<br />

a dark game of deceit that soon spirals<br />

out of control.<br />

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY<br />

MAKES<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: German<br />

Director: Peter Payer<br />

Writer: Kai Hensel<br />

Producer: Mathias Forberg, Viktoria<br />

Salcher<br />

Key Cast: Simon Schwarz, Anna<br />

Unterberger, Nicholas Ofczarek<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Austria<br />

In this psycho-thriller that owes much to<br />

the likes of Hitchcock and Haneke, a weekend<br />

trip to the Tyrolian Alps turns into a<br />

deadly cat-and-mouse chase when the past<br />

catches up with, and comes literally crashing<br />

into, politician Robert Janacek.<br />

HERE<br />

Action/Adventure (126min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Braden King<br />

Writer: Braden King<br />

Producer: Lars Knudsen, Jay van Hoy<br />

Key Cast: Ben Foster, Lubna Azabal<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

When an American satellite-mapping engineer<br />

and an expatriate Armenian photographer<br />

impulsively decide to travel together<br />

through Armenia, a brief but intense<br />

romantic connection deepens, and their<br />

sense of themselves - and their world -<br />

expands LIBRARY State library size, predominant<br />

type of film and age (e.g. 250<br />

titles from European auteurs of the 1970s).<br />

THE KEY MAN<br />

Thriller (81min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Peter Himmelstein<br />

Writer: Peter Himmelstein<br />

Producer: Joe Neurauter, Felipe Marino,<br />

Keith Calder<br />

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Key Cast: Hugo Weaving, Brian Cox, Jack<br />

Davenport<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A struggling insurance salesman fights for<br />

his life after being conned into writing a<br />

fraudulent life-insurance policy by a pair of<br />

charismatic businessmen.<br />

GHOSTED<br />

Thriller (102min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Craig Viveiros<br />

Writer: Craig Viveiros<br />

Producer: Craig Viveiros, Rupert Bryan,<br />

James Friend<br />

Key Cast: John Lynch, Martin Compston,<br />

Craig Parkinson<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

A brutal, yet beautiful tale of loss, survival<br />

and salvation, told within the four walls of<br />

a British prison. Two men uncover a<br />

friendship that rewards them both unexpectedly.<br />

GET LOW<br />

Comedy (101 Min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Aaron Schneider<br />

Writer: Chris Provenzano, C. Gaby<br />

Mitchell<br />

Producer: Dean Zanuck<br />

Key Cast: Robert Duvall, Bill Murray,<br />

Sissy Spacek<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A magical and moving blend of folk tale,<br />

fable and real-life legend, GET LOW is a<br />

movie spun in the Southern storytelling tradition<br />

about the mysterious 1930s<br />

Tennessee hermit who famously threw his<br />

own funral party . . . while he was still<br />

alive.<br />

TOAST<br />

Coming of Age (120min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: SJ Clarkson<br />

Writer: Lee Hall<br />

Producer: Faye Ward<br />

Key Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Ken<br />

Stott, Freddie Highmore<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

TOAST is the ultimate nostalgia trip<br />

through the foodstuffs of the 60ties and the<br />

stuff food is about. Based on the bittersweet<br />

story of food writer Nigel Slater’s<br />

childhood, TOAST is a delicious recollection<br />

of the tastes and smells that a young<br />

boy associates with his journey into adulthood.<br />

LIBRARY State library size, predominant<br />

type of film and age (e.g. 250<br />

titles from European auteurs of the 1970s).<br />

KALEIDOSCOPE<br />

FILM DISTRIBUTION<br />

Kaleidoscope Film Distribution, 104-108,<br />

Oxford Street, 4th Floor, London, W1D<br />

1LP UK, Tel: +44(0)20.339. 4410.<br />

www.kaleidoscopefilmdistribution.com, Email:<br />

sales@kaleidoscopefilmdistribution.com<br />

Sales Agent, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Caroline Stern (Director of<br />

International Sales & Acquisitions),<br />

Spencer Pollard (CEO)<br />

Office: MGB, stand 40 (UK Centre), Tel:<br />

+49.30.889.14.439<br />

VICTIM<br />

Thriller (80 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Alex Pillai<br />

Writer: Ashley Chin, Michael Maris<br />

Producer: Danny Donnelly, Jason Maza<br />

Key Cast: Ashley Chin, Jason Maza, Adam<br />

Deacon, Michael Maris, Leititia Wright,<br />

Shanika Warren-Markland<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

A career criminal breaks free from his<br />

gangland life only to find himself the target<br />

of retaliation.<br />

ELFIE HOPKINS<br />

Thriller (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Ryan Andrews<br />

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Writer: Ryan Andrews & Riyad Barmania<br />

Producer: Michael Wiggs & Jonathan<br />

Sothcott<br />

Key Cast: Jaime Winstone (Made in<br />

Dagenham), Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast, 44<br />

Inch Chest), Aneurin Barnard (Ironclad),<br />

Kimberley Nixon (Angus, Thongs and Full<br />

Frontal Snogging), Will Payne, Kate<br />

Magowan (Stardust)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

When a cannibal family moves into a quiet<br />

village, Elfie Hopkins and her best friend<br />

find themselves in a race against time to<br />

expose their secret and save their disappearing<br />

neighbours.<br />

WILLIAM & KATE: A FIRST<br />

ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION<br />

Documentary (45” & 90”)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Tracy Manners<br />

Executive Producer: Emma Read<br />

Producer: Tracy Manners<br />

Key Cast: Prince William, Duke of<br />

Cambridge & Catherine, Duchess of<br />

Cambridge<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: England<br />

It was a fairy tale wedding watched by<br />

more than 2 billion people around the<br />

globe. But what has happened to the happy<br />

couple since the world stopped to watch<br />

this amazing spectacle?<br />

ELIZABETH II: A DIAMOND<br />

JUBILEE CELEBRATION<br />

Documentary (3x45” or 1x45”)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Tracy Manners<br />

Executive Producer: Emma Read<br />

Producer: Tracy Manners<br />

Key Cast: Queen Elizabeth II, Dame Helen<br />

Mirren, Dame Julie Andrews<br />

Elspeth Tavares @ Berlin<br />

Relaxa-Hotel Stuttgarter Hof<br />

49 (0) 30 26483-0<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

On her Diamond Jubilee, ITN explores the<br />

ups and downs or Queen Elizabeth II’s 60<br />

year reign.<br />

INTERVIEW WITH A HITMAN<br />

Thriller (95 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Perry Bhandal<br />

Writer: Perry Bhandal<br />

Producer: Dean Fisher<br />

Key Cast: Luke Goss (Blood Out, Blade<br />

II), Caroline Tillette, Stephen Marcus,<br />

Dermot Keaney, Rene Zagger, Ray<br />

Panthaki<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

In his final mission, an elite hitman, returns<br />

to erase his past, only to find that somebody<br />

has messed with his future.<br />

THE MAN INSIDE<br />

Thriller (95 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Dan Turner<br />

Writer: Dan Turner<br />

Producer: Dean Fisher<br />

Key Cast: Ashley Bashy Thomas, Peter<br />

Mullan, Michelle Ryan<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Desperate not to be like his father, a young<br />

boxer must fight everything he knows to<br />

stop history repeating.<br />

HOOLIGAN<br />

Documentary (90 mins (approx))<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Donal MacIntyre (A Very British<br />

Gangster)<br />

Writer: David Malone<br />

Producer: Duncan Napier-Bell<br />

Key Cast: Donal MacIntyre, Ray Winstone<br />

(Narrator)<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

From the director of “A Very British<br />

Gangster”, Hooligan is a shocking exposé<br />

that tackles the dark side of football from<br />

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England to Germany, Italy, Turkey, Brazil,<br />

Argentina, and the United States.<br />

STRIPPERS VS. WEREWOLVES<br />

Horror/Fantasy/Action (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jonathan Glendening<br />

Writer: Pat Higgins<br />

Producer: Jonathan Sothcott<br />

Key Cast: Barbara Nedeljakova (Hostel,<br />

Hostel II), Sarah Douglas (Superman),<br />

Robert Englund (Freddie vs. Jason,<br />

Nightmare on Elm Street), Lucy Pinder,<br />

Martin Kemp, Ali Bastian<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

A turf war breaks out after a strip-club<br />

murder in this kick-ass revenge saga full of<br />

immense action and sharp one-liners.<br />

MERCENAIRES<br />

Action (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Paris Leonti<br />

Writer: Paris Leonti<br />

Producer: Luc Chaudhary<br />

Key Cast: Robert Fucilla (The Big I Am),<br />

Billy Zane (Titanic, Dead Calm), Vas<br />

Blackwood (Lock Stock & two Smoking<br />

Barrels), Rob James Collier (Downtown<br />

Abbey), Geoff Bell (Rock N Rolla,<br />

Solomon Kane)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

When the Serbian Prime Minister is assassinated,<br />

A military dictator threatens to<br />

seize power. With Europe on the brink of<br />

war, an elite special ops team are the final<br />

hope.<br />

REUNITING THE RUBINS<br />

Comedy (95 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Yoav Factor<br />

Writer: Yoav Factor<br />

Producer: Yoav Factor & Jonathan Weissler<br />

Key Cast: Timothy Spall (Harry Potter,<br />

Sweeney Todd), Rhona Mitra (Underworld,<br />

Ali G In Da House), James Callis (Bridget<br />

Jones’ Diary), Honor Blackman<br />

(Goldfinger, The Avengers),<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

A father’s dream vacation is ruined by his<br />

aged mother who is hell-bent on seeing her<br />

dysfunctional adult grandchildren together<br />

one last time before she dies.<br />

I, SUPERBIKER<br />

Documentary (100 & 60 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Mark Sloper (The Final Cut &<br />

Small Time Obsession)<br />

Producer: Mark Sloper<br />

Key Cast: Tommy Hill, James Ellison,<br />

Gary Mason, Josh ‘Bad Boy’ Brookes<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Four superbike riders risk life and limb to<br />

become the next British super bike champion.<br />

MIDNIGHT TANGO<br />

Live Event (85)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Colin Fay (Katherine Jenkins,<br />

Viva La Diva)<br />

Producer: Arlene Phillips, Adam Spiegel<br />

Key Cast: Vincent Simone, Flavia Cacace<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Tango world champions, Vincent Simone<br />

and Flavia Cacace, dazzle in this brand<br />

new live theatre event, deliverable in all<br />

formats.<br />

KEVIN WILLIAMS<br />

ASSOCIATES<br />

Kevin Williams Associates, Mesena 128,<br />

Madrid, Madrid 28033 Spain, Tel:<br />

+34.91.747.3100. Fax: +34.91.747.7000.<br />

www.kevinwa.com, E-mail: kwa@kevinwa.com<br />

At EFM: Kevin Williams (Sales Director)<br />

Office: Stand 26 : Cinema From Spain, Tel:<br />

+34.667.540.547<br />

ABALLAY<br />

Western (101 minutes)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Fernando Spiner<br />

Writer: Fernando SPINER, Javier<br />

DIMENT, Santiago HADIDA<br />

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Executive Producer: Fernando Spiner<br />

Producer: Pablo Salomon<br />

Key Cast: Pablo CEDRON, Nazareno<br />

CASERO, Moro ANGELELLI<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Argentina<br />

Aballay was a bad tempered gaucho. But<br />

sometimes the image reflected by a mirror<br />

makes a man reconsider his whole life.<br />

After killing a man, the terrified look of the<br />

victim’s son raised Aballay’s consciousness<br />

about his savagery. Years go by, Aballay<br />

makes a promise and keeps it: he doesn’t<br />

kill or steal again.<br />

LA HIJA NATURAL<br />

AKA: LOVE CHILD<br />

Drama (90 minutes)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Leticia Tonos<br />

Writer: Leticia Tonos<br />

Executive Producer: Leticia tonos<br />

Key Cast: Julieta RODRIGUEZ, Victor<br />

CHECO, Andres Velcro RAMOS<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Dominican Republic<br />

After her mother dies in an accident, 18<br />

year old Maria decides to look for the<br />

father she has never met, father and daughter<br />

will have to face the ghosts of the past<br />

that haunt them in a picturesque and superstitious<br />

Dominican town.<br />

FAKE ORGASM<br />

Documentary (81 minutes)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Jo Sol<br />

Writer: Jo Sol<br />

Executive Producer: Zip Films<br />

Key Cast: Lazlo Pearlman, Verónika<br />

Arauzo, Lydia Lunch, Jango Edwards,<br />

Judith Butler, Beatriz Preciado, Nina<br />

Braunsteiner,Maria Llopis<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Spain<br />

azlo Pearlman is a conceptual artist, a reputation<br />

of clichés, an activist that can blow<br />

up our prejudices and dogmas about sex<br />

and identity. What appears to be a reflection<br />

on the fun lies in our sexual life suddenly<br />

becomes a poignant speech about<br />

gender theory and the constant construction<br />

of our identity.<br />

LATIDO CONSORCIO<br />

DE EXPORTACION<br />

DEL CINE ESPANOL<br />

S.L<br />

Latido Consorcio de Exportacion Del Cine<br />

Espanol S.L, Veneras, 9, Madrid, Madrid<br />

28013 Spain, Tel: +34.91.548.88 77. Fax:<br />

+34.91.548.88.78. www.latidofilms.com, Email:<br />

latido@latidofilms.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Miren Zamora (International<br />

Sales), Juan Torres (Sales & Acquisitions ),<br />

Oscar Alonso (Festivals & Subsidies),<br />

Silvia Iturbe (Managing Director)<br />

Office: 26 CINEMA FROM SPAIN<br />

THE SEX OF THE ANGELS<br />

AKA: EL SEXO DE LOS ANGELES<br />

Drama-erotic (90)<br />

Language: Spanish - Catalan<br />

Director: Xavier Villaverde<br />

Writer: Ana Maroto<br />

Co-Production Partners: Continental<br />

Producciones<br />

Producer: Pancho Casal, Jordi Mendieta,<br />

Xavier Villaverde, Bob Costa.<br />

Key Cast: Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Alvaro<br />

Cervantes, Llorenc Gonzalez.<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Spain<br />

The story of a group of youngsters who<br />

learn how to live following their emotions,<br />

forgetting stereotypes and striking social<br />

rules. Who is in love with whom?<br />

CHINESE TAKE-AWAY<br />

AKA: UN CUENTO CHINO<br />

Comedy (100 min.)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Sebastian Borensztein<br />

Writer: Sebastian Borensztein<br />

Co-Production Partners: Castafiore Films,<br />

Tornasol Films, Pampa Films, Alywood<br />

Mediterraneo<br />

Producer: Gerardo Herrero, Pablo Bossi,<br />

Juan Pablo Buscarini, Benjamin Odell<br />

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Key Cast: Ricardo Darin, Huang Sheng<br />

Huang, Muriel Santa Ana, Ivan Romanelli,<br />

Enric Rodriguez<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Argentina, Spain<br />

A comedy about the strange coexistence<br />

which Roberto, a cranky loner, and Jun, a<br />

Chinese man who is lost in Buenos Aires<br />

and speaks no Spanish, are forced into.<br />

VIOLETA WENT TO HEAVEN<br />

AKA: VIOLETA SE FUE A LOS<br />

CIELOS<br />

Drama<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Andres Wood<br />

Writer: Andres Wood, Elisea Altunaga,<br />

Guillermo Calderon, Rodrigo Bazaes.<br />

Co-Production Partners: Wood<br />

Producciones, Maiz Producciones.<br />

Producer: Patricio Pereira, Pablo Rovito.<br />

Key Cast: Francisca Gavilan, Cristian<br />

Quevedo, Patricio Ossa.<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Brasil – Chile - Argentina<br />

Violeta Went to Heaven tells the path of<br />

Chilean Violeta Parra, mother of the Latin<br />

American Folk, tracing her evolution from<br />

impoverished child to international sensation<br />

and pop culture icon, while capturing<br />

the swirling intensity of her life.<br />

FROZEN SILENCE<br />

AKA: SILENCIO EN LA NIEVE<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Gerardo Herrero<br />

Writer: Nicolas Saad<br />

Co-Production Partners: Tornasol films,<br />

Lietuvos Kino Studija<br />

Producer: Gerardo Herrero, Carlos<br />

Rodriguez, Jose Velasco, Javier Lopez<br />

Blanco<br />

Key Cast: Juan Diego Botto, Carmelo<br />

Gomez.<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Spain - Lithuania<br />

Winter 1943. The Russian front. A<br />

Battalion of the Spanish ‘Blue Division’<br />

runs into a desolated landscape where a<br />

corpse lies on the ice; his throat slit.<br />

Engraved in blood on his shoulder it reads<br />

‘Watch out, God is Watching You’.<br />

FREE BIRDS<br />

AKA: PLUMIFEROS<br />

Animation (83 minutes)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Daniel De Felippo , Gustavo<br />

Giannini<br />

Writer: Daniel De Felippo<br />

Co-Production Partners: Manos Digitales<br />

Executive Producer: Gustavo Giannini<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: ARGENTINA<br />

Juan, a city sparrow who feels inferior for<br />

being common and ordinary, accidentally<br />

becomes an exotic bird, and starts feeling<br />

confident and full of himself. Meanwhile,<br />

he meets Feifi, a canary born in captivity<br />

who escapes from her cage to see the outside<br />

world and be free. They, joined by<br />

their friends Livia, Clarita and Pipo, go on<br />

crazy adventures that will make them discover<br />

just how valuable friendship, freedom<br />

and being yourself is<br />

YEAR OF GRACE<br />

AKA: ANO DE GRACIA<br />

comedy<br />

Language: Catalan<br />

Director: Ventura Pons.<br />

Writer: Carme Morell, Jaume Cuspinera,<br />

Ventura Pons.<br />

Co-Production Partners: Els Films de la<br />

Rambla<br />

Producer: Ventura Pons.<br />

Key Cast: Rosa Maria Sarda, Oriol Pla,<br />

Santi Millan.<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Spain<br />

David is 20 years old and newly arrived in<br />

Barcelona. Gràcia, a bitter old hag in her<br />

late sixties, offers him free room in<br />

exchange for his companionship. They will<br />

soon realize that they have more in common<br />

than they thought.<br />

E.S.O<br />

AKA: E.S.O<br />

Thriller (84 Minutes)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Santiago Lapeira<br />

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Writer: Santiago Lapeira<br />

Producer: Mamen Boue, Jorge Daura,<br />

Jaime Comas,Jose Berlanga,Luis<br />

Rodriguez<br />

Key Cast: Cadhla Kennedy, Oriol Puig,<br />

Paula Jimenez, Merce LLorens, Clara<br />

Lapeira<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: SPAIN<br />

Some high school students discover that<br />

underneath the school where they study,<br />

there could be some tunnels that served as<br />

a bomb shelter during the war. Nobody<br />

remembers their existence, so they decide<br />

to try and find them. They find out that<br />

some children were buried there when part<br />

of the tunnels collapsed., and one of the<br />

girls, Aixa, beings to sense a threat she can<br />

not explain.<br />

NO RETURN<br />

AKA: SIN RETORNO<br />

Thriller (106 Minutes)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Miguel Cohen<br />

Writer: Ana Cohen, Miguel Cohen<br />

Producer: Vanessa Ragone, Gerado<br />

Herrero, Mariela Besuievsky<br />

Key Cast: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Federico<br />

Luppi, Barbara Goenaga,Martin Slipak,<br />

Ana, Celentano<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: ARGENTINA SPAIN<br />

A young boy is killed in a hit and run accident.<br />

The driver leaves no trail but the victim’s<br />

father, helped by the media, won’t<br />

rest until he is found and brought to justice.<br />

However, a series of unfortunate events<br />

and a justice system contaminated by public<br />

opinion, lead an innocent man to be<br />

accused. Caught in a web spun by fate and<br />

desperate decisions, these men must face<br />

guilt, responsibility and a deep need for<br />

redemption, in a spiral with no return.<br />

IVAN’S DREAM<br />

AKA: EL SUENO DE IVAN<br />

Family<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Roberto Santiago<br />

Writer: Roberto Santiago, Pablo Fernandez<br />

Co-Production Partners: Castafiore Films,<br />

Tornasol Films, Cacerola Films<br />

Producer: Gerardo Herrero, Mariela<br />

Besuievsky, Laura Imperiale<br />

Key Cast: Oscar Casas, Demian Bichir,<br />

Ana Claudia Talancon, Antonio Resines,<br />

Antonio Tejero, Ernesto Alterio<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Spain, Mexico<br />

Ivan is an eleven-year-old boy who is<br />

going to play against the World’s best football<br />

players, besides living his first great<br />

love story. This is an adventure that you’ll<br />

never forget. A story full of adventures and<br />

football for the whole family.<br />

THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT<br />

AKA: EL QUINTO MANDAMIENTO<br />

Thriller - Serial Killer (90 min.)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Rafael Lara<br />

Writer: Rafael Lara<br />

Co-Production Partners: Cyclus<br />

Producer: Jorge Aguirre<br />

Key Cast: Guillermo Ivan, Luis Felipe<br />

Tovar, Angelica Aragon, Ernesto Gomez<br />

Cruz, Ilean Almaguer<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Mexico<br />

In México City, Victor, a lonely and schizophrenic<br />

young man, has become into a<br />

serial killer, after being sexually abused by<br />

a priest on his hometown when he was a<br />

child. While the police follows his steps, he<br />

struggles among continuing his crimes justified<br />

by a bizarre interpretation of the<br />

Catholicism or to confront his past.<br />

WIDOWS ON THURSDAYS<br />

AKA: LS VIUDAS DE LOS JUEVES<br />

Thriller (90 min)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Marcelo Plieyro<br />

Writer: Marcelo Figueras, Marcelo Plieyro<br />

Co-Production Partners: Tornaslo Films<br />

Key Cast: Pablo Echarri, Leonardo<br />

Sbaraglia,Juan Diego Botto<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: ARGENTINA SPAIN<br />

Life is idyllic in exclusive country club of<br />

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Los Altos: a perfect bubble in a land on the<br />

verge of bankruptcy. Trophy wives, success<br />

and four best friends... perfect façade but<br />

soon three bodies will be found floating in<br />

one of the pools. In this perfect world, convictions<br />

now begin to falter and there is a<br />

growing sensation that the worst is yet to<br />

come...<br />

RED LIPS<br />

AKA: LABIOS ROJOS<br />

Romatic-comedy (93 minutes)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Rafa Lara<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Mexico<br />

Ricardo a brilliant publicist is married to<br />

Bianca, a young and beautiful housewife.<br />

Their love will be tested due to a sudden<br />

sexual dysfunction.<br />

LAW OFFICES OF<br />

GREG S. BERNSTEIN<br />

Law Offices of Greg S. Bernstein, 301 N.<br />

Canon Dr., Suite 318, Beverly Hills,<br />

California 90210 United States, Tel:<br />

1,310.247.2790. Fax: 1.310.247.2791.<br />

www.thefilmlaw.com E-mail: greg@thefilmlaw.com<br />

At EFM: Greg S. Bernstein<br />

(Attorney/Producer Rep.)<br />

LEVELK APS<br />

LevelK ApS, Gammel Kongevej 137B, 3rd<br />

floor, Frederiksberg C, 1850 Denmark,<br />

Tel: +45.4844.3072. www.levelk.dk E-mail:<br />

tine.klint@levelk.dk<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Tine Klint (Managing Director),<br />

Natja Rosner (Sales Director), Alexandra<br />

Burke (Junior Sales Manager)<br />

Office: MEDIA Umbrella Stand (Stand<br />

number 27 in the Martin-Gropius-Bau),<br />

Tel: +45.3048.3912 (Natja Rosner)<br />

WISH YOU WERE HERE<br />

Psychological drama (92 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Kieran Darcy-Smith<br />

Writer: Felicity Price and Kieran Darcy-<br />

Smith<br />

Executive Producer: Aquarius Films<br />

Producer: Angie Fielder<br />

Key Cast: Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer,<br />

Felicity Price<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

Four friends lose themselves in the fun of a<br />

carefree South East Asian holiday. Only<br />

three return home. Dave and Alice come<br />

back to their young family desperate for<br />

answers about Jeremys mysterious disappearance.<br />

When Alices sister, Steph,<br />

returns not long after, a nasty secret is<br />

revealed about the night her boyfriend went<br />

missing. But it is only the first of many.<br />

Who amongst them knows what happened<br />

on that fateful night when they were dancing<br />

under a full moon in Cambodia?<br />

1/2 REVOLUTION<br />

Documentary (72 min.)<br />

Language: English, Arabic, Danish, French<br />

Director: Omar Shargawi & Karim El<br />

Hakim<br />

Writer: N/a<br />

Executive Producer: Globus ApS<br />

Producer: Carsten Holst<br />

Key Cast: N/a<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Denmark<br />

Arriving in Cairo on assignment, 24th of<br />

January 2011, Omar Shargawi, couldn’t<br />

have predicted that a day later the streets<br />

would erupt in one of the most important<br />

revolutions of this century. Alongside fellow<br />

filmmaker Karim El Hakim, Shargawi<br />

captured the reality of the revolution that<br />

occurred out of view from the world’s<br />

media, away from the square, in the alleyways<br />

and streets. In committing themselves<br />

to capturing footage the military wanted<br />

destroyed, they risked their Freedom and<br />

were arrested by the secret police. Inside<br />

they were beaten and only released when<br />

the police discovered their International<br />

passports. They fled Egypt with the film<br />

material hidden in a pram. Others were not<br />

so lucky...<br />

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MY DAD IS BARYSHNIKOV<br />

AKA: MOI PAPA BARYSHNIKOV<br />

Family (88 min.)<br />

Language: Russian<br />

Director: Dmitry Povolotsky, Mark Drugoi<br />

Writer: Dmitry Povolotsky<br />

Executive Producer: New People Film<br />

Company<br />

Producer: Mila Rozanova<br />

Key Cast: Dmitry Vyskubenko, Anna<br />

Mikhakova, Anatoly Kot<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Russia<br />

Russia in the time of Perestroika the borders<br />

are opening up and rock music is hitting<br />

the alleyways of Moscow. Its 1986 and<br />

blackmarket jeans are the quickest way to<br />

get you into the cool crowd. For Borya, the<br />

clumsiest pupil at the infamous Bolshoi<br />

theater Ballet Academy, supplying these<br />

jeans to his classmates is his ticket into<br />

popularity, along with his claim to son of<br />

Russia’s most famous ballet dancer,<br />

Mikhail Baryshnikov, an idea fed to him by<br />

his mother. It is only a matter of time<br />

before these claims catch-up to Borya. In a<br />

place where decorum and conformity rule,<br />

Borya’s dreams are met head on in a hilarious<br />

and heart-warming way, that takes us<br />

back to the 80s when the world was starting<br />

to rumble under the headphones of the<br />

portable walkman.<br />

COMING HOME<br />

AKA: TIL SISTE HINDER<br />

Family (82 min.)<br />

Language: Norwegian<br />

Director: Anders Oevergaard<br />

Writer: Kathrine Haugen<br />

Executive Producer: Filimo Film, Atomfilm<br />

Producer: Kathrine Haugen & Odd G.<br />

Iversen<br />

Key Cast: Julie Nordhuus, Elise S. Maerlie,<br />

Marthe Vonheim<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Norway<br />

15-year old Ida is a fashionblogger and a<br />

city girl, and definitely unhappy about her<br />

mother’s decision to move to a small farm<br />

in Northern Norway. She is hating her new<br />

life from the first moment on arrival, and<br />

the locals are just dirty, filthy hillbillies<br />

with no sense of class or fashion, and<br />

apparently they prefer horses to clothes and<br />

make-up. Ida decides to run away, but a<br />

dramatic meeting with a horse named<br />

Kehilan changes everything.<br />

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Comedy<br />

Director: Paul Angunawela<br />

Writer: Leigh Francis, Paul Angunawela<br />

Producer: Mark Huffam, Simon Bosanquet,<br />

Aidan Elliott<br />

Key Cast: Leigh Francis, Verne Troyer,<br />

David Hasselhoff<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

A comedy about Keith Lemon following<br />

his dreams of becoming a successful entrepreneur,<br />

just like his hero Richard Branson.<br />

He comes to London from Leeds, becomes<br />

an overnight billionaire then an over day<br />

failure before finding the road to redemption.<br />

TYLER PERRY’S THE MARRIAGE<br />

COUNSELOR<br />

Drama<br />

Director: Tyler Perry<br />

Writer: Tyler Perry<br />

Producer: Tyler Perry, Paul Hall, Ozzie<br />

Areu<br />

Key Cast: Jurnee Smollett, Lance Gross,<br />

Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Williams, Robbie<br />

Jones, Rene Taylor, Ella Joyce and Brandy Garbage Prince - Media Luna New Films<br />

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Norwood<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

An Ivy League educated relationship expert<br />

gives marital advice for a living, yet can’t<br />

seem to follow that advice in her own marriage.<br />

Bored with her life, she breaks her<br />

professional code and begins an affair with<br />

a smooth talking client. After the initial<br />

excitement of their torrid relationship<br />

wears off, she realizes that she’s made a<br />

grave mistake. It will take every ounce of<br />

courage and forgiveness for her to escape<br />

the dangerous situation she finds herself in.<br />

THE RAILWAY MAN<br />

Drama<br />

Director: Jonathan Teplitzky<br />

Writer: (screenplay) Frank Cottrell Boyce<br />

and Andy Paterson; based upon the book<br />

by Eric Lomax<br />

Producer: Andy Paterson, Chris Brown,<br />

Bill Curbishley<br />

Key Cast: Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz,<br />

Jeremy Irvine<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

What if all your life, all you had ever wanted<br />

was a chance at revenge? If the moment<br />

came - would you take it? What if love<br />

gave you a different choice? From the<br />

international best-seller THE RAILWAY<br />

MAN comes the story of a war hero and<br />

the woman who matched his courage to<br />

reclaim the man she loved.<br />

2:22<br />

Thriller/Romance<br />

Director: Paul Currie<br />

Writer: Todd Stein, Nathan Parker, Paul<br />

Currie, Paul Brooks<br />

Producer: Jackie O’Sullivan, Lawrence<br />

Inglee, Garrett Kelleher<br />

Key Cast: Armie Hammer<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Air traffic controller Dylan Boyd’s<br />

(Hammer) life is permanently derailed<br />

when an ominous pattern of events begins<br />

to permeate his life, funneling him into<br />

Grand Central Station every day at<br />

2:22PM. When he falls for a beautiful<br />

woman whose life is threatened by these<br />

strange events, Dylan must solve the mystery<br />

of 2:22 to preserve a love whose second<br />

chance has finally come.<br />

UNTITLED DIABLO CODY PROJECT<br />

Comedy<br />

Director: Diablo Cody<br />

Writer: Diablo Cody<br />

Producer: Mason Novick<br />

Key Cast: Julianne Hough, Russell Brand,<br />

Holly Hunter, Octavia Spencer<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

The comedy follows a sheltered young<br />

woman (Hough) who loses her faith after a<br />

plane crash and decides to go to Las Vegas<br />

to experience the wild side of life. On her<br />

journey, she meets unlikely companions<br />

(Brand and Spencer) who inadvertently<br />

help her find her true self.<br />

7500<br />

Supernatural Thriller<br />

Director: Takashi Shimizu<br />

Writer: Craig Rosenberg<br />

Producer: Taka Ichise, Roy Lee<br />

Key Cast: Leslie Bibb, Jamie Chung, Jerry<br />

Ferrara, Ryan Kwanten, Jonathan Schaech,<br />

Amy Smart<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012<br />

7500 follows a group of passengers who<br />

encounter what appears to be a supernatural<br />

force while on a transpacific flight.<br />

PENTHOUSE NORTH<br />

Suspense Thriller<br />

Director: Joseph Ruben<br />

Writer: David Loughery<br />

Producer: Jeff Sackman, Michael Baker,<br />

Robert Menzies<br />

Key Cast: Michelle Monaghan, Michael<br />

Keaton<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Haunted by a tragic event in her past, photojournalist<br />

Sara Frost (Monaghan) escapes<br />

the world in an upscale New York penthouse.<br />

But the world comes after her with<br />

a vengeance in the form of Hollander<br />

(Keaton), a smooth but sadistic criminal<br />

looking for a fortune in stolen diamonds<br />

hidden in the apartment. Trapped and cut<br />

off from the rest of the world, Sara must<br />

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find the inner strength to survive an endless<br />

night of physical and psychological torture<br />

at the hands of an increasingly desperate<br />

Hollander, building to an explosive climax<br />

that will have the audience on the edge of<br />

its seat.<br />

MURDER OF A CAT<br />

Dark Comedy<br />

Director: Gillian Greene Raimi<br />

Writer: Christian Magalhaes & Robert<br />

Snow<br />

Producer: Sam Raimi<br />

Key Cast: Jay Baruchel, Alison Pill,<br />

Dianne Wiest, Rob Lowe, JK Simmons<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

A hapless 28-year-old eccentric vows justice<br />

when he finds his beloved cat shot<br />

dead with a crossbow arrow. After some<br />

sleuthing, he is shocked to discover that his<br />

cat was living a double life with a mysterious<br />

young woman. Forced into an awkward<br />

partnership, the two cat owners must<br />

embark on an epic suburban murder mystery<br />

that leads them to a conspiracy far<br />

greater than they ever imagined.<br />

GAY DUDE<br />

Comedy<br />

Director: Chris Nelson<br />

Writer: Alan Yang<br />

Producer: Laurence Mark, David<br />

Blackman, Jai Stefan<br />

Key Cast: Nicholas Braun, Hunter Cope,<br />

Dakota Johnson, Nick Offerman, Gary<br />

Cole, Megan Mullally, Sarah Hyland, Brian<br />

Geraghty, Larry Wilmore<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Best friends Matty and Michael decide to<br />

lose their virginity before graduating from<br />

high school, but their quest takes an unexpected<br />

turn when Matty tells Michael he’s<br />

gay.<br />

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE<br />

EXPECTING<br />

Romantic Comedy<br />

Director: Kirk Jones<br />

Writer: Shauna Cross and Heather Hach;<br />

Inspired by the book by Heidi Murkoff<br />

Producer: Mike Medavoy, Arnold W.<br />

Messer, David Thwaites<br />

Key Cast: Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez,<br />

Elizabeth Banks, Chace Crawford,<br />

Brooklyn Decker, Anna Kendrick, Matthew<br />

Morrison, Dennis Quaid, Chris Rock,<br />

Rodrigo Santoro<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Based on Heidi Murkoff’s 16 million copy<br />

best-selling book, What to Expect When<br />

You’re Expecting is an ensemble romantic<br />

comedy in the vein of Love Actually and<br />

Valentine’s Day. The film is a modern look<br />

at love through the eyes of five interconnected<br />

couples experiencing the thrills and<br />

surprises of having a baby, and ultimately<br />

coming to understand the universal truth<br />

that no matter what you plan for, life doesn’t<br />

always deliver what’s expected.<br />

GREAT HOPE SPRINGS<br />

Comedy<br />

Director: David Frankel<br />

Writer: Vanessa Taylor<br />

Producer: Todd Black, Guymon Casady<br />

Key Cast: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee<br />

Jones, Steve Carell<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Many years of marriage have left Maeve<br />

(Streep) wanting to spice things up and<br />

reconnect with her husband (Jones). When<br />

she hears of a famed relationship guru<br />

(Carell) in the town of Great Hope Springs,<br />

she must persuade her skeptical husband to<br />

get on a plane for an intense week of marriage<br />

and sex therapy. Getting there was<br />

hard enough...now shedding their bedroom<br />

hang ups, learning some new moves and<br />

rediscovering their youthful spark is when<br />

the real adventure begins.<br />

THE CABIN IN THE WOODS<br />

Horror/Thriller<br />

Director: Drew Goddard<br />

Writer: Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard<br />

Producer: Joss Whedon<br />

Key Cast: Kristen Connolly, Chris<br />

Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz,<br />

Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins, Bradley<br />

Whitford<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

A group of friends travel to a quaint cabin<br />

in the woods and end up scratching the surface<br />

of something so massive and horrific<br />

that they can only begin to fathom it as<br />

time quickly runs out.<br />

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SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END<br />

OF THE WORLD<br />

Romantic Comedy<br />

Director: Lorene Scafaria<br />

Writer: Lorene Scafaria<br />

Producer: Steve Golin, Joy Gorman<br />

Wettels, Steven Rales, Mark Roybal<br />

Key Cast: Keira Knightley, Steve Carell<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Keira Knightley and Steve Carell find<br />

unlikely love at the worst possible time in<br />

SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF<br />

THE WORLD. Set in a too-near future, the<br />

movie explores what people will do when<br />

humanity’s last days are at hand. As the<br />

respective journeys of Dodge (Carell) and<br />

Penny (Knightley) converge, the two spark<br />

to each other and their outlooks - if not the<br />

world’s - brighten.<br />

NURSE 3D<br />

Thriller/Horror<br />

Director: Douglas Aarniokoski<br />

Writer: David Loughery and Doug<br />

Aarniokoski (screenplay)<br />

Key Cast: Paz de la Huerta, Katrina<br />

Bowden, Corbin Bleu, Judd Nelson, Boris<br />

Kodjoe, Niecy Nash, Martin Donovan,<br />

Adam Herschman<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

By day Abby Russell is a dedicated nurse,<br />

someone you wouldn’t hesitate to trust<br />

with your life. But by night, her real work<br />

begins using her smoldering sexuality she<br />

lures cheating men to their brutal deaths<br />

and exposes them for who they really are.<br />

When a younger nurse starts to suspect<br />

Abby’s actions and compromises her master<br />

plan, Abby must find a way to outsmart<br />

her long enough to bring the cheater you’d<br />

least expect to justice.<br />

RAPTURE-PALOOZA<br />

Comedy<br />

Director: Paul Middleditch<br />

Writer: Chris Matheson<br />

Producer: Jimmy Miller, David<br />

Householter, Ed Solomon<br />

Key Cast: Craig Robinson, Anna Kendrick,<br />

John Francis Daley, Rob Corddry, Ana<br />

Gasteyer<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

After a bleak but comical apocalypse, the<br />

world has fallen under control of “The<br />

Beast” (Robinson), an omnipotent ruler<br />

with a childish temper and major selfesteem<br />

issues who just wants the people of<br />

Earth to like him. When he decides to take<br />

an unsuspecting virgin, Lindsey<br />

(Kendrick), as his bride, her boyfriend<br />

(Daley) devises a clever plan to get her<br />

back, slay “The Beast” and save the world.<br />

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Floor, New York, NY 10001 USA, Tel:<br />

1.212.924.6701 Fax: 1.212.924.6742.<br />

http://www.magpictures.com E-mail: international@magpictures.com<br />

Sales Agent, Distributor<br />

At EFM: John Von Thaden (Manager-<br />

Acquisitions), Eamonn Bowles (President),<br />

Dori Begley (SVP Acquisitions), Peter Van<br />

Steemburg (Director Acquisitions), Laird<br />

Adamson (Head of International Sales),<br />

Natsu Furuichi (Manager-International<br />

Sales), Randy Wells (Home Entertainment)<br />

CONAN O’BRIEN CAN’T STOP<br />

Documentary (88)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Rodman Flender<br />

Producer: Gavin Polone, Rachel Griffin,<br />

Kat Landsberg<br />

Key Cast: Conan O’Brien, Andy Richter,<br />

Stephen Colbert<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of Origin: USA<br />

A documentary on Conan O’Brien’s comedy<br />

tour of the U.S. and Canada after leaving<br />

his post at “The Tonight Show” and<br />

severing his relationship with NBC.<br />

GOD BLESS AMERICA<br />

Dark Comedy (104)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Bobcat Goldthwait<br />

Writer: Bobcat Goldthwait<br />

Co-Production Partners: Jerkschool<br />

Productions<br />

Executive Producer: Edward H. Hamm, Jr.,<br />

Richard Kelly<br />

Producer: Sean McKittrick, Jeff Culotta<br />

Key Cast: Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr<br />

Delivery Status: Completed Saving Grace - New Films International


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Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: U.S.A.<br />

A comedic and subversive social commentary<br />

on post-9/11 America about a<br />

depressed man who starts killing society’s<br />

meanest and cruelest people.<br />

THE GOOD DOCTOR<br />

Thriller (91)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Lance Daly<br />

Writer: John Enbom<br />

Co-Production Partners: Viddywell<br />

Executive Producer: Leonid Lebedev,<br />

Sharon Miller<br />

Producer: Jonathan King, Dan Etheridge,<br />

Orlando Bloom<br />

Key Cast: Orlando Bloom, Riley Keough,<br />

Rob Morrow<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: U.S.A.<br />

A first year medical resident struggling<br />

with loneliness and self-doubt becomes<br />

obsessed with an attractive young patient<br />

who shows him attention and kindness.<br />

TROLLHUNTER<br />

Thriller (103)<br />

Language: Norwegian<br />

Director: Andre Ovredal<br />

Producer: John M. Jacobsen, Sveinung<br />

Golimo<br />

Key Cast: Otto Jespersen, Robert<br />

Stoltenberg, Knut Naerum<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Norway<br />

A documentary about a group of film students<br />

who discover what they believe is a<br />

government conspiracy to keep the existence<br />

of trolls in the North of Norway hidden<br />

from the general public.<br />

GODFATHERS OF GANJA: SQUARE<br />

GROUPER<br />

Documentary (103 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Billy Corben<br />

Producer: Billy Corben, Alfred Spellman<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010<br />

From the filmmakers of the hit cult series<br />

COCAINE COWBOYS comes a documentary<br />

that chronicles marijuana smuggling in<br />

South Florida during the 1970s and ‘80s.<br />

TIM & ERIC’S BILLION DOLLAR<br />

MOVIE<br />

Comedy (92)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim<br />

Writer: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim<br />

Co-Production Partners: Funny or Die<br />

Producer: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim,<br />

Jon Mugar, Ben Cosgrove, Dave<br />

Kneebone, Adam McKay, Will Ferrell,<br />

Chris Henchy, Todd Wagner<br />

Key Cast: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim,<br />

Jeff Goldblum<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Two guys get a billion dollars to make a<br />

movie, only to watch their dream run off<br />

course.<br />

LIMELIGHT<br />

Documentary<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Billy Corben<br />

Producer: Billy Corben, Alfred Spellman,<br />

Jen Gatien<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2010<br />

The filmmakers of the famed COCAINE<br />

COWBOYS series tell tales of the New<br />

York City night scene and ecstasy trade in<br />

the 1990s against the backdrop of the rise<br />

and fall of Peter Gatien and his notorious<br />

night clubs.<br />

JACK AND DIANE<br />

Romance<br />

DO YOUR PART TO COMBAT GLOBAL WARMING<br />

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Language: English<br />

Director: Bradley Rust Gray<br />

Writer: Bradley Rust Gray<br />

Producer: Jen Gatien, Karin Chien, So &<br />

Brad<br />

Key Cast: Juno Temple, Riley Keough<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011<br />

Two teenagers, Jack and Diane fall madly<br />

in love with each other and start to manifest<br />

their newly awakened sexual desires in<br />

werewolf-like ways.<br />

I’M STILL HERE<br />

Documentary (107 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Casey Affleck<br />

Writer: Casey Affleck, Joaquin Phoenix<br />

Producer: Casey Affleck, Joaquin Phoenix<br />

Key Cast: Joaquin Phoenix<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

I’M STILL HERE follows the Oscar-nominated<br />

Joaquin Phoenix as he announces his<br />

retirement from a successful film career in<br />

the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent<br />

himself as a hip hop musician.<br />

SMASH HIS CAMERA<br />

Documentary (89 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Leon Gast<br />

Producer: Adam Schlesinger, Linda Saffire<br />

Key Cast: Ron Galella<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis sued him, and<br />

Marlon Brando broke his jaw. The story of<br />

notorious, reviled paparazzo Ron Galella<br />

opens a Pandora’s Box of issues from right<br />

to privacy, freedom of the press and the<br />

ever-growing vortex of celebrity worship.<br />

MANDRILL<br />

Action (90 min)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Ernesto Diaz Espinoza<br />

Writer: Ernesto Diaz Espinoza<br />

Producer: Derek Rundell, Marko Zaror<br />

Key Cast: Marko Zaror, Celine Reymond,<br />

Alejandro Castillo<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: Chile<br />

Mandrill, Chile’s top assassin, went into<br />

the murder business hoping to get revenge<br />

on the one-eyed man who killed his parents.<br />

Now Mandrill’s time has finally<br />

come, complicated by the fact that he finds<br />

the target’s daughter, Dominik, irresistible.<br />

AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE<br />

Documentary (89 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Steven Soderbergh<br />

Producer: Kathie Russo, Amy Hobby,<br />

Joshua Blum<br />

Key Cast: Spalding Gray<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Spalding Gray’s shows were vibrant, hilarious<br />

and moving, drawing unstintingly on<br />

the most intimate aspects of his own life.<br />

His death came tragically early, in 2004;<br />

this compilation of interview and performance<br />

footage nails his idiosyncratic and<br />

irreplaceable brilliance.<br />

180 DEGREES SOUTH<br />

Documentary (85 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Chris Malloy<br />

Producer: Tim Lynch, Rick Ridgeway,<br />

Emmett Malloy<br />

Key Cast: Yvon Chouinard, Doug<br />

Tompkins, Jeff Johnson<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The film follows adventurer Jeff Johnson<br />

as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of his<br />

heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug<br />

Tompkins to Patagonia.<br />

CASINO JACK AND THE UNITED<br />

STATES OF MONEY<br />

Documentary (118 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Alex Gibney<br />

Writer: Alex Gibney<br />

Producer: Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood,<br />

Zena Barakat<br />

Key Cast: Jack Abramoff, Tom Delay,<br />

Stanley Tucci, Paul Rudd<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

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Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A probing investigation into the lies, greed<br />

and corruption surrounding D.C. super-lobbyist<br />

Jack Abramoff and his cronies.<br />

DOWN TERRACE<br />

Dark Comedy (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Ben Wheatley<br />

Writer: Ben Wheatley, Robin Hill<br />

Producer: Conor McPherson<br />

Key Cast: Julia Deakin, Robert Hill, Robin<br />

Hill<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Bill and Karl have just got out of jail free<br />

but all is not well at Down Terrace. The<br />

family business just isn’t working out and<br />

Karl’s had more than he can take of his old<br />

man’s philosophising and preaching. Karl’s<br />

girlfriend is pregnant - by him? Who<br />

knows... Either way?a little information<br />

goes a long way and its definitely time for<br />

a spring clean.<br />

REJOICE AND SHOUT<br />

Documentary (115 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Don McGlynn<br />

Producer: Joe Lauro<br />

Key Cast: J Smokey Robinson, Andrae<br />

Crouch, Mavis Staples, Ira Tucker, Marie<br />

Knight, Willa Ward, Ira Tucker Jr.<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Packed with evocative photos, rare audio<br />

recordings, stirring film appearances and<br />

TV programs, REJOICE AND SHOUT<br />

covers the 200 year history of African<br />

American Christianity. Literally hundreds<br />

of hours of music have been reviewed, and<br />

the creme de la creme was chosen.<br />

COCAINE COWBOYS: THE REMIX<br />

Documentary<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Billy Corben<br />

Producer: Billy Corben, Alfred Spellman<br />

Key Cast: Griselda Blanco, Charles Cosby<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

The latest film in the incredibly successful<br />

COCAINE COWBOYS series. THE<br />

REMIX takes us back to crime-ridden<br />

Miami, featuring old favorite drug lords<br />

and dazzling new characters who tell their<br />

stories on camera for the very first time.<br />

MAGUS<br />

ENTERTAINMENT<br />

Magus Entertainment, Bramenberg 1,<br />

Eemnes, 3755 BT Eemnes, Tel:<br />

+31654768797 Fax: +31356949407. Email:<br />

info@magusent.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

Office: Marriott Office # 124, 1st floor<br />

(Terra Mater / RBMH), Tel: +<br />

31.6.54.768.797<br />

DESSERT CROSSING<br />

Thriller (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Mohydeen Quandour<br />

Writer: Mohydeen Quandour<br />

Co-Production Partners: TCF Film &<br />

Sindika Productions<br />

Executive Producer: Maurice Engelen<br />

Producer: Mohydeen Quandour<br />

Key Cast: Ellen Ten Damme, Hanna<br />

Verboom, Nasrdin Dchar, Gary Busey,<br />

Omar Sharif, Christopher Plummer,<br />

Mohamed Karim, William Sutton, Rik<br />

Sinkeldam, credit not contractual<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands, Jordan<br />

An action packed thriller during the theft of<br />

the Iraq National Museum. American soldiers<br />

on a routine desert surveillance operation,<br />

accidentally unravel hitherto untold<br />

secrets.<br />

CHER AMI<br />

AKA: FLYING HEROES<br />

Animation (85 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Miquel Pujol<br />

Writer: Miquel Pujol Iban Roca<br />

Co-Production Partners: Accio, AAMPS,<br />

Digital Dreams Films<br />

Executive Producer: Jordi Castelltort<br />

Producer: Benat Beitia<br />

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Key Cast: Phil Austin, Cyrille Autin, Yann<br />

Bean<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: Spain<br />

Based on true events. Flying Heroes is the<br />

story of a group of farmyard carrier<br />

pigeons that are enlisted into the Allied<br />

Homing Pigeon Corps.<br />

LITTLE BIG PANDA 2D & 3D<br />

Animation (82 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Greg Manwaring, Michael<br />

Schoemann<br />

Writer: Jorg Tensing<br />

Co-Production Partners: Benchmark<br />

Entertainment, ORB Filproduktion,<br />

Executive Producer: Frank Hubner, Armin<br />

Timmermann, Gilles Waterkeyn, Hua Shen<br />

Producer: Michael Schoemann<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany<br />

Somewhere in the majestic Chinese highlands<br />

of our days: the Panda’s survival is<br />

several endangered as the bamboo is<br />

becoming scarce, and humans continuously<br />

expand into their habitat.<br />

MAISON NOIR<br />

Maison Noir, 427 N. Canon Dr. Suite #201,<br />

Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA, Tel: +1<br />

818.647.0118 Fax: +1 818.647.0118.<br />

maisonnoir.net E-mail: sales@houseoffilm.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: AvaB (CEO/President)<br />

Office: Berlin Marriott Lobby | Inge-<br />

Beisheim-Platz 1, Tel: +33.669.95.77.68<br />

KNIFEPOINT<br />

Horror (83 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jed Strahm<br />

Writer: Jed Strahm<br />

Co-Production Partners: Knifepoint<br />

Key Cast: Krista Braun, Katherine<br />

Randolph, Kym Jackson<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

On Christmas Eve, Abbie and her wheelchair-bound<br />

sister Michele are forced to<br />

put aside their personal differences in order<br />

to survive an all-night onslaught of violence<br />

when they discover their Venice loft<br />

complex is the target of a group of vicious<br />

home invaders led by Jess and his sadistic<br />

sister Lorraine.<br />

VAMPIRES<br />

Black Comedy (89 mins)<br />

Language: French / English subtitles<br />

Director: Vincent Lannoo<br />

Writer: Vincent Lannoo, Frédérique Broos<br />

Co-Production Partners: Left Field<br />

Ventures<br />

Producer: John Engel<br />

Key Cast: Carlo Ferrante, Vera Van<br />

Dooren, Pierre Lognay<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Belgium<br />

They did it! They made a documentary on<br />

a bunch of vampires! A family of vampires,<br />

bored with immortality, lives in Belgium,<br />

eats illegal immigrants, children, handicapped<br />

folk, and takes every advantage<br />

they can suck out of the country’s social<br />

system. Samson, a seventies throwback,<br />

lives his 55th year like he’s forever 20.<br />

Grace, an eternal teenager bent on being<br />

human again, keeps committing suicide.<br />

George, the patriarch, manages as best he<br />

can, heading the eccentric family and its<br />

on-going squabbles with the neighboring<br />

vampires. It turns out vampires must keep<br />

to a strict code. They are, for example, prohibited<br />

from sleeping with their leader’s<br />

wife. That’s where Samson went too far…<br />

Now he and his whole family are exiled to<br />

Quebec, where even vampires have to<br />

work for a living! A fresh, biting comedy<br />

from Vincent Lannoo!<br />

SEARCHING FOR ANGELS<br />

Thriler (89 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Nadeem Soumah<br />

Writer: Nadeem Soumah<br />

Co-Production Partners: Rendition Films<br />

Producer: Nadeem Soumah & Kegan Sant<br />

Key Cast: Vivica Fox, Veronika London,<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

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Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

Who is Jane Doe? That’s the question<br />

everybody wants an answer to, including<br />

herself. Jane Doe, played by Veronika<br />

London (Body Language, HBO series<br />

“Lingerie”) is a young prostitute and heroin<br />

addict found by paramedics laying on the<br />

street in a pool of blood. She is the victim<br />

of a violent altercation which leaves her<br />

with a severe head injury. Stricken by<br />

amnesia and struggling with her heroin<br />

addiction, she is on a quest to discover her<br />

identity but most importantly who did this<br />

to her and why. She is taken in by a nurse<br />

played by Vivica A. Fox (Kill Bill,<br />

Independence Day) who is a motherly figure<br />

to her. Along her quest she comes<br />

along several characters from her past and<br />

the clues to the answers she seeks slowly<br />

come to light, revealing many horrible<br />

truths. With this information, feelings of<br />

curiosity quickly turn to a thirst for retribution.<br />

DELIVERED<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Michael Madison<br />

Writer: Brandon Manbeck<br />

Co-Production Partners: Nelson Madison<br />

Films<br />

Key Cast: Robert Rusier, Alana Stewart,<br />

Toshi Toda<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Driven by a promise, fueled by revenge.<br />

True Romance and Vanishing point, the<br />

Mojave desert is the backdrop for this<br />

heartfelt story of betrayal and redemption.<br />

An eclectic collection of unique characters<br />

that include Japanese gangsters, an Italian<br />

proctologist, an Armenian art dealer and a<br />

hero with a very cool car set the stage for<br />

this modern crime thriller.<br />

TERMITE: THE WALLS HAVE EYES<br />

Suspense (75 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: John Walcutt<br />

Writer: John Walcutt, Jennie Marie Pacelli<br />

Co-Production Partners: Too Nice Guys,<br />

Pete Galaxie Productions<br />

Producer: John Walcutt Anthony Gutierrez<br />

and Michael Roth<br />

Key Cast: Herb Astrow, Irene Carol,<br />

Reichel Caviteno<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A troubled young girl gets a job at a modeling<br />

school where she is tortured by the<br />

voices in her head and the sounds in the<br />

walls. Roman Polanski meets Roger<br />

Corman in this micro-budget masterpiece<br />

made by a group of students under the<br />

leadership of veteran actor John Walcutt<br />

SLEEPER<br />

Action<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Dru Brown<br />

Writer: Michael Skelton, Dru Brown<br />

Co-Production Partners: Seven8 Media<br />

Key Cast: Scott “Raven” Levy, Ty<br />

Hungerford, Brue Hopkins<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Enigmatically silent, and driven by love,<br />

the man known as Resnik was imprisoned<br />

for butchering another man and kidnapping<br />

the young girl at the heart of his obsession,<br />

Kelly. For the safety of his fellow inmates,<br />

Resnik was only ever allowed to wake, eat<br />

and exercise alone, after dark, he learned to<br />

like it. Now having escaped during a midnight<br />

transfer, Resnik is headed back to<br />

Moonlight Bay, and Detectives Raynor and<br />

Molloy have only 12 hours to stop him<br />

before the sun goes down, and the carnage<br />

begins, again.<br />

THE CONFESSIONAL<br />

Horror (117 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: JAMES ANTHONY COTTON<br />

Writer: JAMES ANTHONY COTTON<br />

Co-Production Partners: Cornerstone<br />

Consulting Services, Lionfish Group,<br />

Producer: JAMES ANTHONY COTTON<br />

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& MARTHA V. HOLDER<br />

Key Cast: Victor Browne, Peter Quartaroli,<br />

Patrick Kilpatrick<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A disturbed sculptor assumes the identity<br />

of a small town priest and designs a game<br />

of divine madness for a unsuspecting town.<br />

MANITOBA<br />

FILM & MUSIC<br />

Manitoba Film & Music, 410-93 Lombard<br />

Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3B<br />

3B1. Tel: 1.204.947.2040, Fax:<br />

1.204.956.5261. www.mbfilmmusic.ca, Email:<br />

info@mbfilmmusic.ca<br />

Funding Organization / Film Commission<br />

At EFM: Carole Vivier (CEO, Film<br />

Commissioner)<br />

Tel: 1.204.291.4114<br />

MAYA<br />

ENTERTAINMENT<br />

Maya Entertainment, 1201 West 5th Street,<br />

Suite T210, Los Angeles, CA 90026 USA,<br />

Tel: 1.213.542.4420. Fax: 1.213.534.3846.<br />

www.maya-entertainment.com E-mail: dianar@maya-entertainment.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor,<br />

Financier<br />

At EFM: Elias Axume (President,<br />

International Distribution), Jack Campbell<br />

(VP, International Distribution)<br />

Office: Marriott Suite 264/268, Tel:<br />

+49(0)30.22000.1107<br />

BETWEEN US<br />

Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Dan Mirvish<br />

Writer: Dan Mirvish<br />

Producer: Joe Hortua<br />

Key Cast: Julia Stiles, Melissa George,<br />

Taye Diggs, David Harbour<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Based on the Off-Broadway play,<br />

BETWEEN US is a film about two couples<br />

who meet as old friends and discover their<br />

lives are tainted by money, success, sex<br />

and children.<br />

IT’S A DISASTER<br />

Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Todd Berger<br />

Writer: Todd Berger<br />

Producer: Kevin Brennan, Jeff Grace<br />

Key Cast: Julia Stiles, David Cross,<br />

America Ferrera<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

In this doomsday comedy, four couples<br />

who meet for Sunday brunch find themselves<br />

stranded in a house together as the<br />

world may be about to end. When Tracy<br />

Scott (Julia Stiles) decides to introduce her<br />

new beau Glenn (David Cross) to her three<br />

friends Hedy (America Ferrera), Emma,<br />

and Lexi and their significant others, her<br />

biggest fear is whether or not her friends<br />

will approve of her new relationship, little<br />

does she realize that’s the least of her worries.<br />

Before long the couples find themselves<br />

in the midst of an apocalyptic disaster,<br />

catching them all off guard. One thing<br />

is clear; these four couples aren’t going to<br />

let the potential end of the world get in the<br />

way of the relationship issues they all need<br />

to work out.<br />

ASS BACKWARDS<br />

Adventure/Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Chris Nelson<br />

Writer: June Diane Raphael, Molly<br />

Conners<br />

Executive Producer: Erix Arocha, Chad<br />

Burris, Paull Cho, Russell Friedenberg,<br />

Elysa Koplovitz, Paul L. Woodring Jr.,<br />

Christopher Woodrow<br />

Producer: Amanda Bowers, Molly Conners,<br />

Nina Foxx, Philip Larmon, Laura<br />

Mehlhaff, Jeff Pies, Heather Rae, Michael<br />

romero<br />

Key Cast: Casey Wilson, June Diane<br />

Raphael, Alicia Silverstone, Jon Cryer<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

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Origin: USA<br />

Two best friends (Kate and Chloe) embark<br />

on a cross country trip back to their hometown<br />

to attempt to win a pageant that eluded<br />

them as children.<br />

MOSQUITA Y MARI<br />

Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Aurora Guerrero<br />

Writer: Aurora Guerrero<br />

Producer: Chad Burris<br />

Key Cast: Fenessa Pineda, Venecia<br />

Troncoso, Joaquín Garrido<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Two Chicanas must choose between their<br />

obligations to both school and family and<br />

staying true to their unusual, yet deep relationship.<br />

THE LAST RITES OF JOE MAY<br />

Drama (107 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Joe Maggio<br />

Writer: Joe Maggio<br />

Executive Producer: Tim Evans<br />

Producer: Larry Fessenden, Carrie Holt de<br />

Lama, Terry Kinney, Bill Straus, Stephanie<br />

Striegel<br />

Key Cast: Farina, Jamie Anne Allman, Ian<br />

Barford<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

THE LAST RITES OF JOE MAY chronicles<br />

the last days in the life of Joe May, an<br />

aging, short money hustler who, despite a<br />

life of loss and failure, has always believed<br />

that a glorious destiny awaited him. Now<br />

in his sixties, his health failing and<br />

resources dwindling, Joe is presented with<br />

one last shot at greatness...<br />

REPEATERS<br />

Thriller (89 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Carl Bessai<br />

Writer: Arne Olsen<br />

Executive Producer: Melanie De Klerk,<br />

Andrew Herwitz<br />

Producer: Carl Bessai, Richard De Klerk,<br />

Irene Nelson, Jason James<br />

Key Cast: Dusting Milligan, Amanda Crew,<br />

Richard De Klerk<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A gritty mind-bending thriller about three<br />

twenty-somethings who find themselves in<br />

an impossible time labyrinth, where each<br />

day they awaken to the same terrifying day<br />

as the preceding one.<br />

A BAG OF HAMMERS<br />

Comedy (85 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Brian Crano<br />

Writer: Brian Crano, Jake Sandvig<br />

Producer: Peter Friedlander, Lucy Barzun<br />

Donnelly, Jennifer Barrons, Brian Crano<br />

Key Cast: Jason Ritter, Jake Sandvig,<br />

Rebecca Hall<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A comedy about two misfit best friends<br />

incapable of growing up, whose direction<br />

is tested by an abandoned child, worn<br />

beyond his years; together they invent the<br />

family they’ve always needed.<br />

ALL SHE CAN<br />

Drama (94 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Amy Wendel<br />

Writer: Amy Wendel & Daniel Meisel<br />

Executive Producer: Hall Wendel, Todd<br />

Barnes<br />

Producer: Daniel Meisel, Susan Kirr<br />

Key Cast: Corina Calderon, Jeremy Ray<br />

Valdez<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

In a small Texas town, there aren’t many<br />

career options for young people besides oil<br />

rigs, the military, or fast food restaurants.<br />

Luz Garcia, a fiery high school athlete, is<br />

determined to forge a different future: she’s<br />

gained admission to the University of<br />

Texas at Austin. The problem is she can’t<br />

afford to go. With her one shot at a scholarship<br />

riding on the state power lifting championship,<br />

she sees no choice but to bend<br />

the rules to ensure her victory. Although<br />

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Luz’s rashness and frustration land her in<br />

increasingly hotter water, they also fuel her<br />

with courage and empowerment.<br />

CAFE<br />

Romantic Comedy (95 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Marc Erlbaum<br />

Writer: Marc Erlbaum<br />

Executive Producer: David Magerman,<br />

Torrey Loomis<br />

Producer: Sean Covel, Wendy Cox, Marc<br />

Erlbaum, J. Andrew Greenblatt, Chris<br />

Wyatt<br />

Key Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jamie<br />

Kennedy, Daniel Eric Gold<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

For the up-and-comers on Philadelphia’s<br />

west side, West Philly Grounds is the place<br />

to be. There, Claire (Jennifer Love Hewitt)<br />

serves wisdom along with coffee and<br />

scones. The clientele comes to her with<br />

advice in love, life and careers. But even<br />

the neighborhood’s favorite gathering place<br />

has a dark side. Jamie Kennedy, Alexa<br />

Vega and Daniel Eric Gold co-star in<br />

writer-director Marc Erlbaum’s slice-of-life<br />

drama.<br />

WITHOUT MEN<br />

Comedy (83 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Gabriela Tagliavini<br />

Writer: Gabriela Tagliavini<br />

Executive Producer: Moctesuma Esparza,<br />

Tonantzin Esparza, Bonnie Kanner, Sheila<br />

M. McCarthy, Andrew Nagel, James<br />

Ordonez, Vance Owen, Daniel Santefort,<br />

Gabriela Tagliavini, Jeff Valdez<br />

Producer: Nadja Atwal, Ilko Drozdoski,<br />

Nathan Folks, Lucas Jarach, Kurt Kelly,<br />

Anthony Moody, Jason Price, Daniel<br />

Sollinger, Kim Taddeo, Andrés Tagliavini,<br />

Straw Weisman<br />

Key Cast: Eva Longoria, Christian Slater,<br />

Kate del Castillo, Maria Conchita Alonso<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Without Men is a comedy about the women<br />

of a small and remote Latin American<br />

mountain village that’s forever altered the<br />

day all of its men are recruited to go fight<br />

in the country’s civil war. Left to fend for<br />

themselves, the women of the town, led by<br />

Rosalba (Eva Longoria), slowly emerge<br />

from their supporting roles as wives and<br />

daughters to become unwitting founders of<br />

a remarkable new society: an all female<br />

utopia. When the men, led by an American<br />

reporter (Christian Slater) return to try to<br />

reclaim their power, a clash of sexes ensues<br />

with unsuspected consequences. A sexy,<br />

fun, irreverent exploration of the age-old<br />

question: What would the world be like if<br />

it were run by women?<br />

MEDIA ASIA GROUP<br />

HOLDINGS LIMITED<br />

Media Asia Group Holdings Limited, 24/F<br />

Causeway Bay Plaza II, 463 - 483<br />

Lockhart Road, Causeway Bay, Hong<br />

Kong, Tel: +852.2314.4288 Fax:<br />

+852.2314.4248.<br />

http://www.mediaasia.com E-mail:<br />

wwdist@mediaasia.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Ricky Tse (Head of Distribution /<br />

Sales), Fred Tsui (Assistant General<br />

Manager), Vanessa Lo (Manager)<br />

Office: Private, Tel: +852.2314.4288<br />

ROMANCING IN THIN AIR<br />

Romantic Drama (111 min)<br />

Language: Cantonese / Mandarin<br />

Director: Johnnie TO<br />

Writer: WAI Ka Fai, YAU Nai Hoi, Ryker<br />

CHAN, Jevons AU<br />

Producer: Johnnie TO, WAI Ka Fai<br />

Key Cast: Louis KOO, Sammi CHENG<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong<br />

A Hong Kong movie megastar jilted at the<br />

altar by his actress bride finds true love in<br />

a neurotic fan while licking his wound in<br />

high-altitude Yunnan in China.<br />

LOVE IN THE BUFF<br />

Romantic Comedy (111 min)<br />

Language: Cantonese / Mandarin<br />

Director: PANG Ho-cheung<br />

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Writer: PANG Ho-cheung, LUK Yee Sum<br />

Producer: PANG Ho-cheung, Subi LIANG<br />

Key Cast: Miriam YEUNG, Shawn YUE<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong<br />

When two ex-lovers from Hong Kong<br />

cross paths in Beijing, they realize they<br />

still have feelings for each other and start<br />

orchestrating trysts and assignations behind<br />

their partners’ back.<br />

LACUNA<br />

Drama (95 min)<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: Derek TSANG, Jimmy WAN<br />

Writer: Derek TSANG, Jimmy WAN,<br />

ZHANG You-you, Yoyo<br />

Producer: PANG Ho-cheung, Subi LIANG<br />

Key Cast: Shawn YUE, ZHANG Jingchu<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong<br />

Two strangers who wake up in bed together<br />

oblivious to how it happened must work<br />

together to find out what they have done<br />

and what led them to this state.<br />

LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE<br />

Suspense (107 min)<br />

Language: Cantonese<br />

Director: Johnnie TO<br />

Writer: YAU Nai Hoi, WONG King Fai,<br />

Jeff CHEUNG<br />

Producer: Johnnie TO<br />

Key Cast: LAU Ching Wan, Richie JEN,<br />

Denise HO<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong<br />

A bag of stolen money worth $5m forces<br />

three ordinary people to make soul searching<br />

decisions about right and wrong and<br />

everything in between on the morality<br />

scale.<br />

PUNISHED<br />

Suspense Thriller (96 min)<br />

Language: Cantonese<br />

Director: LAW Wing Cheong<br />

Writer: FUNG Chih Chiang, LAM Fung<br />

Producer: Johnnie TO<br />

Key Cast: Anthony WONG, Richie JEN,<br />

Janice MAN<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong<br />

A tycoon whose daughter is found dead<br />

while being abducted has sworn to avenge<br />

her at all cost.<br />

DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART<br />

Romantic Comedy (115 min)<br />

Language: Cantonese & Mandarin<br />

Director: Johnnie TO<br />

Writer: WAI Ka Fai, YAU Nai Hoi, Ryker<br />

CHAN, Jevons AU<br />

Co-Production Partners: China Film Media<br />

Asia Audio Video Distribution Co., Ltd.<br />

Producer: WAI Ka Fai, Johnnie TO<br />

Key Cast: Louis KOO, Daniel WU, GAO<br />

Yuanyuan<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong<br />

An original twist on the eternal triangle,<br />

where secret crush and unrequited love<br />

take on altogether newfangled meanings of<br />

their own.<br />

MOTORWAY<br />

Action / Crime<br />

Language: Cantonese<br />

Director: Soi CHEANG<br />

Writer: Joey O’BRYAN, FUNG Yat Chun<br />

Producer: Johnnie TO<br />

Key Cast: Anthony WONG, Shawn YUE,<br />

GUO Xiaodong<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong<br />

Relentlessly tense and violent action<br />

thriller plunges into the violent and dangerous<br />

world of speed.<br />

THE GUILLOTINES<br />

Action<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: Andrew LAU<br />

Writer: Aubrey LAM<br />

Producer: Peter Ho-Sun CHAN, Jojo HUI<br />

Key Cast: HUANG Xiaoming, Ethan<br />

JUAN, Shawn YUE, Boran JING<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong, China<br />

An elite squad of young imperial bodyguards,<br />

trained to use the deadly guil-<br />

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MEDIA LUNA<br />

NEW FILMS<br />

Media Luna New Films, Aachener Strasse<br />

24, Cologne, 50674 Germany, Tel:<br />

+49.221.51091891. Fax:<br />

+49.221.51091899. www.medialuna.biz Email:<br />

info@medialuna.biz<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Ida Martins (Managing Director),<br />

Alessandro Lombardo (Acquisitions &<br />

Sales)<br />

Office: MGB booth #34, Tel:<br />

+49.170.9667900<br />

BEAT DOWN<br />

Comedy (93 min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Deanne Foley<br />

Writer: Deanne Foley, Iain Macleod<br />

Producer: Paul Pope<br />

Key Cast: Robb Wells, Marthe Bernard,<br />

Tony Nappo, Janet Kidder, Daniel Beirne,<br />

Mark O’Brien<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

Sweet 18-years-old Fran White is prevented<br />

from wrestling by her father, a former<br />

pro. She runs away to join the tour of his<br />

one time rival Dark Thunder, meets her<br />

mother, a sexy ex-wrestler, and starts to<br />

wrestle for her dreams!<br />

BIG MAMMA’S BOY<br />

Comedy / Romance (98 min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Franco Di Chiera<br />

Writer: Frank Lotito, Matteo Bruno<br />

Producer: Matteo Bruni<br />

Key Cast: Frank Lotito, Holly Valance,<br />

Carmelina di Guglielmo, Osvaldo<br />

Mainone, George Kapiniaris, Maria Venuti<br />

Elspeth Tavares @ Berlin<br />

Relaxa-Hotel Stuttgarter Hof<br />

49 (0) 30 26483-0<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

Rocco has it all: a great job in real estate, a<br />

hot car and a woman who will do anything<br />

for him and loves him unconditionally—his<br />

mum. But when he meets the gorgeous<br />

Katie, Rocco realises that he needs to make<br />

some changes. Enlisting the help of his<br />

zany neighbour Mrs. Cotoletta, Rocco<br />

attempts to counteract his image as a big<br />

mamma’s boy, and to discover the key to<br />

Katie’s heart.<br />

TANGUERO<br />

Docu-Drama/Romance (78 min.)<br />

Language: Spanish with English subtitles<br />

Director: Emanuele Persico<br />

Writer: Silvia Gilardi, Emanuele Persico<br />

Producer: Emanuele Persico<br />

Key Cast: Omar Quiroga, Veronica<br />

Palacios, Jorge Juanatey, Alberto Alfredo<br />

Dassieu, Tito Roca, Maria Cecilia Cervini,<br />

Mario Gabriel Florentin, Ricardo “Tito”<br />

Franquelo<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Argentina/Italy<br />

Omar, a Tango teacher, is forced, after<br />

years, to return to Buenos Aires, a changed<br />

city. He meets friends, family and Veronica<br />

sharing a difficult challenge. That’s how<br />

Omar finds himself in Tango.<br />

MILONGUEROS<br />

Documentary (49 min,)<br />

Language: Spanish with English subtitles<br />

Director: Andrea Zambelli and Andrea<br />

Zanoli<br />

Writer: Andrea Zambelli and Andrea Zanoli<br />

Executive Producer: Emanuele Persico<br />

Producer: Pesca Production and Lab80 film<br />

Key Cast: Alberto Dassieu, Flaco Dani,<br />

Eduardo “Nene” Masci, Hector<br />

“Cachirulo” Pellozo, Julio Duplaa<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

Each night, in the most historical and<br />

important Milongas of Buenos Aires, the<br />

most famous Milongueros tell and explain,<br />

not only how Tango is a wonderful and<br />

sensual dance, but how it is a “way of life”.<br />

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IMPLOSION<br />

Drama (88 min.)<br />

Language: German with English subtitles<br />

Director: Sören Voigt<br />

Writer: Sören Voigt<br />

Producer: Hans Eddy Schreiber, Kai<br />

Kuennemann, Jordi Rediu, Norber Llarras<br />

Key Cast: Sven Gielnik, Eye Haidara,<br />

Carolina Clemente, Hans-Jochen Wagner,<br />

Eriq Ebouaney<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany/Spain<br />

Thomas’ holidays with his father in Spain<br />

takes a turn when a boat with African<br />

refugees sinks close to their hotel. One of<br />

them is Djamile. Thomas decides to hide<br />

her from the Spanish authorities and, even<br />

worse, the African smugglers…<br />

KADA KIEN SU KARMA<br />

Comedy/Romance (97 min.)<br />

Language: Spanish with English subtitles<br />

Director: León Serment<br />

Writer: León Serment<br />

Executive Producer: Adriana Rosique<br />

Key Cast: Blanca Guerra, José Alonso,<br />

Rocío Verdejo<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: Mexico<br />

Every abandoned woman dreams of<br />

revenge on her husband. Karma gives Eva<br />

that possibility, when Joaquin, who left her<br />

for a younger woman, has to return to the<br />

family home temporarily invalid…<br />

BEAUTIFUL CRAZY<br />

AKA: LUAN QING CHUN<br />

Drama/Romance (98 min.)<br />

Language: Mandarin with English subtitles<br />

Director: Chi Yuarn Lee<br />

Writer: Chi Yuarn LEE, Fu-Hsing HSU<br />

Producer: Li-Fen Chien<br />

Key Cast: Angel YAO, Amiya LEE, Chien-<br />

Hui LIAO<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: Taiwan<br />

Xiao-Bu finds herself in a cat fight with<br />

Angel, Amy sleeps with Xiao-Bu’s boxer<br />

boyfriend, and Angel kisses Xiao-Bu...<br />

Three young girls fall in love, feel hurt,<br />

forget and have experiences which decide<br />

their future.<br />

BEFORE TOMORROW<br />

AKA: GEGEN MORGEN<br />

Drama (83 min.)<br />

Language: German with English subtitles<br />

Director: Joachim Schoenfeld<br />

Writer: Oliver Schmaering<br />

Co-Production Partners: Matthias Kress<br />

Producer: Martin Muser, Justin Stauber,<br />

Joachim Schönfeld<br />

Key Cast: Axel Buchholz, Regine<br />

Zimmermann, Axel Sichrovsky, Christoph<br />

Grunert<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany<br />

Wagner is a cop, a man who doesn’t talk<br />

much, unlike Zippolt, the guy he has to sit<br />

in the car with. Both men are ordered to<br />

give close protection to Siegfried, a suspected<br />

murderer. Wagner lives in an old<br />

fashioned apartment, counts birds, listens<br />

to operas, sees a lot and does little. When<br />

he meets a woman and gets entangled in<br />

the murder… he loses his countenance.<br />

HEMEL<br />

Drama (80)<br />

Language: Dutch with English subtitles<br />

Director: Sacha Polak<br />

Writer: Helena van der Meulen<br />

Co-Production Partners: VPRO Television,<br />

Bella Cohen Films<br />

Producer: Stienette Bosklopper<br />

Key Cast: Hannah Hoekstra, Hans Dagelet,<br />

Rifka Lodeizen<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands / Spain<br />

Hemel has lived closely with her father<br />

Gijs since the death of her mother. Gijs has<br />

an endless string of women attached to<br />

him, but Hemel feels that none of them is a<br />

threat to their exclusive relationship. This<br />

changes when Gijs falls in love with the<br />

young auctioneer Sophie. Hemel fights a<br />

guerrilla war with every man in town,<br />

looking for the difference between sex and<br />

love.<br />

BLOWFISH<br />

Romance/Drama (90 min.)<br />

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Language: Mandarin with English subtitles<br />

Director: Chi Yuarn Lee<br />

Writer: Chi Yuarn Lee, Vicci Pan<br />

Producer: Li-Fen Chien<br />

Key Cast: Vicci Pan, Kang Jen Wu, Yi<br />

Ching Lu, Angel Yao, Hong Xiu Wu,<br />

Fernando Hsieh, Yi-Ping Cheng, Chien<br />

Cheng Chen, Chu Lin, Hsin Pei Wu<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Taiwan<br />

Xiao-Zhun, a shy girl, decides to find a<br />

better home for her pet blowfish. A lonely<br />

baseball coach purchases the blowfish at an<br />

internet auction. When she takes it to his<br />

trashed home, they make passionate love in<br />

the surreal blue light of his aquarium. But<br />

their love staggers like a blowfish...<br />

GARBAGE PRINCE<br />

AKA: ROSKISPRINSSI<br />

Youth/Love-Story (100 min.)<br />

Language: Finish with english subtitles<br />

Director: Raimo O. Niemi<br />

Writer: Juuli Niemi (based on the novel<br />

ROSKISPRINSSI by Tuja Lethinen)<br />

Co-Production Partners: Flimmer Film,<br />

Filmfondet FUZZ<br />

Producer: Markku Fink<br />

Key Cast: Jon-Jon Geitel, Pihla<br />

Maalismaa!, Heikki Silvennoinen, Kristiina<br />

Elstelí€, Milla Kaitalahti, Antti Virmavirta,<br />

Marjaana Maijala, Katariina Kaitue, Kari<br />

Heiskanen<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Finland/Norway<br />

19-year old Jed’s life is perfect, almost too<br />

perfect. Successful parents, lots of friends<br />

and success at school promise him a rosy<br />

future. However...Jed doesn’t know what<br />

he wants in life. Fed up by his parents’<br />

career directions, Jed decides to leave it all<br />

behind. Without a plan, he gets on a train<br />

and ends up in a small town in Finland,<br />

where he meets Lulu...<br />

AMERICA<br />

AKA: AMÉRICA<br />

Drama/Thriller (90 min.)<br />

Language: Spanish & English with English<br />

subtitles<br />

Director: Sonia Fritz<br />

Writer: Sonia Fritz, Miguel Machalski,<br />

Lymari Nadal<br />

Executive Producer: Edward James Olmos,<br />

Sonia Fritz, Lymari Nadal, Nadia<br />

Barbarossa<br />

Producer: Frances Lausell<br />

Key Cast: Lymari Nadal, Yancey Arias,<br />

Edward James Olmos, Rachel Ticotin, Luz<br />

María Rondón, Michael Stuart, Frank<br />

Peroro, Tony Plana, Teresa Herní¡ndez,<br />

James Callis<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Puerto Rico<br />

América, a young beautiful mother who<br />

lives in a remote Caribbean village, suffers<br />

the hardest hit when her abusive lover<br />

takes their daughter from her. Fury and fear<br />

push her to run away. In her new life as a<br />

nanny in New York City, with support from<br />

relatives and other Latinas, America finds<br />

comfort and hope. When she dares to<br />

dream of a life without violence, reality<br />

hunts her down. Will she survive to tell her<br />

story?<br />

THE TEQUILA EFFECT<br />

AKA: EL EFECTO TEQUILA<br />

Drama (100 )<br />

Language: Spanish with English Subtitles<br />

Director: León Serment<br />

Writer: León Serment Writer: León<br />

Serment, Reyes Bercini, Patricio Saiz<br />

Co-Production Partners: Taller de Luz,<br />

Producciones S.A. de C.V.<br />

Producer: Adriana Rosique Manjarrez<br />

Key Cast: Eduardo Victoria, Karla Souza,<br />

José María Torres, Julio Casado, Juan<br />

Carlos Colombo, José Alonso, Víctor<br />

Civeira, Julií¡n Pastor, Héctor Kotsifakis<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Mexico<br />

Ambitious young stockbroker Jose Fierro is<br />

tempted by investing in his own pockets.<br />

Caught by his boss, he gets involved much<br />

deeper in illicit financial dealings. He must<br />

fight against powerful political and economic<br />

issues, not only for his carrier, but<br />

also for his family’s fate. While the whole<br />

nation’s future is heading for a disaster...<br />

(Sao Paulo IFF (in competition),<br />

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BEHOLD THE LAMB<br />

Drama (95 min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: John McIlduff<br />

Writer: John McIlduff<br />

Executive Producer: Katherine Butler,<br />

Cathie McKimm, Andrew Reid<br />

Producer: Kevin Jackson<br />

Key Cast: Aoife Duffin, Nigel O’Neill,<br />

Michael Mason, Marta McIlduff, Barry<br />

Etherson, Sandra Ni Bhrion, Rose<br />

Henderson, Paddy Rocks, Oisin Murray,<br />

Shaun Paul McGrath<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

In order to save the neck of his junkie son,<br />

Eddie, a depressed accountant agrees to a<br />

mysterious pick up accompanied by Liz,<br />

his son’s girlfriend. In between moments of<br />

unexpected heroism and sporadic bird<br />

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watching, Eddie’s dysfunctional humanity<br />

connects with Liz’s tortured past and a kind<br />

of healing begins.<br />

SNEAKERS<br />

AKA: KETCOVE<br />

Drama/Youth (105 min.)<br />

Language: Bulgarien with English subtitles<br />

Director: Valery Yordanov<br />

Writer: Valery Yordanov<br />

Producer: Galina Toneva, Kiril Kirilov<br />

Key Cast: Ina Nikolova, Ivan Barnev, Ivo<br />

Arakov, Philip Avramov, Vasil Draganov,<br />

Valeri Yordanov<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Bulgaria<br />

Six young people escape from their failures<br />

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- in families, love, money, ambitions. They<br />

escape from the aggression of the City to<br />

East of Hell - to the point farthest away, the<br />

seacoast. The clean beach brings them<br />

together to reopen hope in them all. But is<br />

such an escape at all possible?<br />

MESH (WALKING)<br />

AKA: MES<br />

Drama (90 min.)<br />

Language: Turkish and Kurdish with<br />

English subtitles<br />

Director: Shiar Abdi<br />

Writer: Shiar Abdi, Selamo<br />

Co-Production Partners: Sim Produktion &<br />

SoundVision<br />

Producer: Selamo<br />

Key Cast: Selamo, Abdullah Ado,<br />

Nují®yan Kí?lgí?, M. Salí®h Kilgi, Filiz<br />

Abeí?, Naí®f Elmas, Bí?nyamin Keyik,<br />

Hí?seyin Akgí?ndí?z, Tí?lay Musiki<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Turkey/Germany<br />

Xelilo, a disturbed man, walks endlessly<br />

through the streets of the Kurdish village in<br />

the south east of Turkey. He is curiously<br />

being noticed by Cengo, a 12 year old boy,<br />

selling chewing gum. Their poor but carefree<br />

lives take a sudden turn, when the<br />

Turkish military takes power in 1980. The<br />

curfew and the resistance of the people<br />

become the centre of their lives with dramatic<br />

consequences<br />

LOVE ACTUALLY... SUCKS<br />

Love-Stories/Drama<br />

Language: Cantonese with English subtitles<br />

Director: Scud<br />

Writer: Scud<br />

Co-Production Partners: Artwalker<br />

Producer: Scud<br />

Key Cast: Osman Hung, Linda So , Winnie<br />

Leung, John Tai, Jacky Chow, Tang Wei,<br />

Sherry Li, Christepher Wee, Celia Chan ,<br />

Loraine Xu, Alice Chen, Ryo van Kooten,<br />

Haze Leung, Betty Owen<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011/2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong<br />

Love is life, life as it is. Not every love<br />

story is a fairy tale. After a dramatic wedding<br />

feast, unusual love stories unfold<br />

towards unexpected endings. Inspired by<br />

real life cases, LOVE ACUTALLY...<br />

SUCKS is about love that gone bad: a<br />

brother and sister in love but caught by the<br />

mother, a married painter falls for his<br />

young life drawing model of same sex, an<br />

intimacy between a dance school teacher<br />

and his rich but senior student, a lesbian<br />

couple one of which has role-play paranoid,<br />

a dreadful love triangle ending with<br />

the girl being beheaded...LOVE ACUTAL-<br />

LY... SUCKS celebrates love that no one<br />

care but actual life is love, love as it is.<br />

TICKET TO PARADISE<br />

AKA: BOLETO AL PARAÍSO<br />

Drama (84)<br />

Language: Spanish with English Subtitles<br />

Director: Gerardo Chijona<br />

Writer: Gerardo Chijona, Francisco García,<br />

Maykel Rodríguez<br />

Co-Production Partners: ICAIC Productora<br />

Cinematogrí¡fica (Cuba), Malas<br />

Compaí±ías P.C., S.L. (Spain)<br />

Producer: Camilo Vives, Antonio Hens<br />

Key Cast: Miriel Cejas, Héctor Medina,<br />

Luís Alberto García , Jorge Perugorría,<br />

Alberto Pujols, Enrique Molina<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Cuba/Spain/Venezuela<br />

Three teenage Cuban runaways meet at a<br />

crossroad. They have no family. They have<br />

no money. But they have a plan: to buy a<br />

ticket which may lead them to a promising<br />

place, their paradise on earth: the sanatorium!<br />

Will the ticket be their salvation or<br />

will they be forever lost? (Sundance 2011 -<br />

in competition!)<br />

ROMEOS<br />

Love-Story (94)<br />

Language: German with English Subtitles<br />

Director: Sabine Bernardi<br />

Writer: Sabine Bernardi<br />

Co-Production Partners: Boogiefilm in coproduction<br />

with ZDF - Das Kleine<br />

Fernsehspiel<br />

Producer: Kristina Líbbert & Janna Velber<br />

Key Cast: Lukas: Rick Okon Fabio:<br />

Maximilian Befort Ine: Liv Lisa Fries<br />

Sven: Felix Brocke Annette: Silke Geertz<br />

Mr. Boeken: Gilles Tschuli Luka’s mother:<br />

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Schwab Leila: Tessa Lukat<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany<br />

Handsome 20-years-old Lukas moves to<br />

the big city. Full of the zest for life, he<br />

meets the macho-driven Fabio, who seems<br />

to personify everything he wants to be. The<br />

attraction between both gradually develops,<br />

but how much are they up to risk for their<br />

feelings, when Lucas has to reveal his<br />

identity? (Berlin Intl. Film Festival -<br />

Panorama Section)<br />

THE EDUCATION<br />

AKA: DIE AUSBILDUNG<br />

Drama (85)<br />

Language: German with English Subtitles<br />

Director: Dirk Lí?tter<br />

Writer: Dirk Lí?tter<br />

Co-Production Partners: unafilm in co-production<br />

with WDR, supportd by<br />

Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen<br />

Producer: Titus Kreyenberg<br />

Key Cast: Jan: Joseph K. Bundschuh<br />

Jenny: Anke Retzlaff Tobias: Stefan Rudolf<br />

Susanne: Dagmar Sachse Mother: Anja<br />

Beatrice Kaul Father: Frank Voß<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany<br />

Jan is currently completing his last year of<br />

job training. He wants to please everybody.<br />

But that becomes increasingly hard. The<br />

pressure on Jan and his colleagues is constantly<br />

growing, due to the restructuring of<br />

the company. Frustrated and stressed, Jan<br />

seeks solace in fast cars and retail therapy.<br />

When Jenny joins the company as a temporary<br />

employee, a fresh love blooms. But<br />

Jenny’s stay is short. Jan is caught in his<br />

inability to make decisions, in his fear to<br />

loose his job, his love and his status ...<br />

(Berlin Intl. Film Festival (winner of DIA-<br />

LOGUE EN PERSPECTIVE PRIZE))<br />

PATANG (THE KITE)<br />

AKA: THE KITE<br />

Family (93 (New Director’s Cut))<br />

Language: Hindi & English<br />

Director: Prashant Bhargava<br />

Writer: Prashant Bhargava<br />

Producer: Vijay Bhargava, Jaideep Punjabi<br />

Key Cast: Seema Biswas, Nawazuddin<br />

Siddiqui, Sugandha Garg, Mukund Shukla,<br />

Aakash Maherya, Hamid Shaikh<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA/India<br />

A poetic journey to the old city of<br />

Ahmedabad, THE KITE weaves together<br />

the stories of six people transformed by the<br />

energy of India’s largest kite festival. Every<br />

year a million kites fill the skies above<br />

Ahmedabad-dueling, soaring, tumbling and<br />

flying high. When a successful Delhi businessman<br />

takes his daughter on a surprise<br />

trip back to his childhood home for the festival,<br />

an entire family has to confront its<br />

own fractured past and fragile dreams.<br />

Music and fireworks, food and laughter, a<br />

kaleidoscope of color and light, the magic<br />

of the kite flying high - a traditional recipe<br />

of healing and renewal. With naturalistic<br />

performances from actors and non-actors<br />

alike, bold, lyrical editing, vibrant cinematography<br />

and a kinetic score, THE KITE<br />

delights the senses and nourishes the spirit.<br />

(Berlin IFF, Tribeca FF (WORLD NAR-<br />

RATIVE COMPETITION))<br />

MALU ON A BICYCLE<br />

AKA: MALU DE BICICLETA<br />

Romance/Drama (90)<br />

Language: Portuguese with English subtitles<br />

Director: Flí¡vio Ramos Tambellini<br />

Writer: Marcello Rubens Paiva, Joao<br />

Avelino<br />

Co-Production Partners: Tambellini Filmes<br />

Producer: Flí¡vio Ramos Tambellini<br />

Key Cast: Marcelo Serrado, Fernanda de<br />

Freitas, Marjorie Estiano, Otí¡vio Martins,<br />

Daniela Galli, Maria Manoella, Marcos<br />

Cesana<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Brazil<br />

Womanizer Luiz Mario, a nightclub owner,<br />

lives a frenetic life. Everything changes<br />

when beautiful Malu runs into him with her<br />

bicycle in Copacabana. Head-over-heels he<br />

falls in love. But their passionate romance<br />

is abruptly thrown into disarray when an<br />

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enigmatic love letter is discovered... (Rio<br />

de Janeiro Intl. Film Festival 2010 (in competition))<br />

THE LIVING WAKE<br />

Comedy (92)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Sol Tryon<br />

Writer: Peter Kline<br />

Co-Production Partners: Mangusta<br />

Productions<br />

Producer: Sigrid Ami Ankin, Chadwick<br />

Clough, Peter Kline, Mike O-Connell, Sol<br />

Tryon<br />

Key Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mike<br />

O’Connell, Jim Gaffigan, Ann Dowd,<br />

Eddie Pepitone, Jill Larson, Clay Allen,<br />

Ami Ankin, Harlan Baker, Byron Brown,<br />

Rebecca Comerford<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Jesse Eisenberg, 2011 Academy Award<br />

nominee for THE SOCIAL NETWORK,<br />

starring in a comedy set in a timeless storybook<br />

universe. Self-proclaimed artist and<br />

genius, K. Roth Binew has one day to live.<br />

He has enlisted his best and only friend,<br />

Mills Joquin, to help him in a final attempt<br />

to probe life’s deepest mysteries. Binew<br />

endures one ridiculous trial after the next.<br />

He concludes his last day by gathering<br />

friends and enemies for a final performance,<br />

his living wake.<br />

2012 - TIME FOR CHANGE<br />

Documentary (Music) (85)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Joí£o Amorim<br />

Co-Production Partners: angusta<br />

Productions in co-production with Curious<br />

Pictures and Postmodern Times<br />

Producer: Giancarlo Canavesio, Sol Tryon<br />

Key Cast: David Lynch, Sting, Ellen Page,<br />

Gilberto Gil, uckminster Fuller, Maharishi<br />

Mahatma Yogi , Terrence Mckenna, Dean<br />

Radin, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Maude<br />

Barlow, John Tod, Paul Stamets<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

An optimistic alternative to apocalyptic<br />

doom and gloom views on our environ-<br />

ment. This documentary of Emmy Award<br />

nominee Joí£o Amorim presents ways to<br />

rapidly transform our unsustainable society<br />

into a regenerative planetary culture<br />

through a change of consciousness and the<br />

systemic implementation of ecological<br />

design. Featuring among others Sting,<br />

David Lynch, Ellen Page and Gilberto Gil.<br />

BEING IN THE WORLD<br />

Documentary (Music) (80)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Tao Ruspoli<br />

Writer: Tao Ruspoli<br />

Co-Production Partners: Mangusta<br />

Producer: Giancarlo Canavesio, Sol Tryon<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A celebration of human beings and our<br />

ability, through the mastery of physical,<br />

intellectual and creative skills, to find<br />

meaning in the world around us. Some of<br />

our most renowned philosophers take us on<br />

a gripping journey to meet modern day<br />

masters, in fields like sports, music, craft<br />

and cooking, and show us how our technological<br />

age threatens to make skills and<br />

expertise obsolete. (Audience Award<br />

Brooklyn IFF, Best Documentary Vail FF)<br />

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MEI AH<br />

ENTERTAINMENT<br />

GROUP LTD.<br />

Mei Ah Entertainment Group Ltd., Mei Ah<br />

Centre, 28 Chun Choi Street, Tseung Kwan<br />

O Industrial Estate, Kowloon, Hong Kong,<br />

Hong Kong, Hong kong, Tel:<br />

(852)2751.3388. Fax: (852)2799.3643.<br />

http://www.meiah.com E-mail: webmaster@meiah.com<br />

Producer, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Sara Law (VP - Distribution),<br />

Winnie Chan (Distribution Executive)<br />

Office: Marriott 262, Tel: +49.30.22000 -<br />

1132<br />

WINDSEEKER<br />

Action Drama<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: Alan Mak Score a Hockey Musical - New Films International<br />

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Writer: Felix Chong<br />

Key Cast: Tony LEUNG, Xun ZHOU,<br />

Mini YANG<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: HONG KONG<br />

Things don’t always go as your eyes see<br />

while truth’s always hidden underneath. In<br />

1950s, the China Republic Government is<br />

newly established. Revolutionists in different<br />

parts of China seek chances to revolt.<br />

Everywhere is restless and chaotic. 701<br />

Headquarter, consists of Inspection,<br />

Interpretation and Operation, is set up to<br />

spy conspiracy through telegraph. But one<br />

day in October, all of a sudden, the enemy<br />

shut down 126 military channels for 30<br />

hours. After these long hours, when they<br />

tune back the channels, only daily news is<br />

being broadcasted. Without concrete information,<br />

operators at the frontline are at<br />

risk. Chang Xue-ning is of Operation’s.<br />

She is sent back to the Headquarter as her<br />

identity has been disclosed in Hong Kong.<br />

Reporting in 701, she is astonished by her<br />

supervisor, Guo Zhong-xing, who used to<br />

woo her. Their relation is still a mystery.<br />

Xue-ning’s new mission is to seek for worthy<br />

who gets superb aural comprehension.<br />

She targets Luo San-er, the piano tuner of<br />

Song Qing Ling but it turns out she brings<br />

Luo’s personal assistant, He Bing to report<br />

duty. Bing is uncivilized and blind but his<br />

hearing is splendid - can even hear the<br />

wind. Is he strong enough to be the saviour<br />

in this silent war?<br />

WU DANG<br />

Martial Arts<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: Patrick LEUNG<br />

Key Cast: Vincent CHIU, Dennis TO,<br />

Louis Fan, Mini Yang<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

In early Republican China, rumors were<br />

going around about the treasure in Wudang<br />

Mountain. An American conspirator took<br />

his well-trained kung fu daughter to<br />

Wudang by sponsoring a Taoist martial arts<br />

competition, to steal the treasure. Out of<br />

expectation, a disciple represented Wudang<br />

to compete with other martial arts masters<br />

for the championship. During the competition,<br />

resentment incurred against different<br />

parties, the relationship became complicated,<br />

a Korean female Tai Chi descendant<br />

fell in love with the American conspirator<br />

and the secret of the treasure had been<br />

revealed. The treasure is the key of the<br />

magnetic field of Wudang, if it’s stolen,<br />

Wudang would be devastated. To protect<br />

Wudang, a group of young heroes rallied<br />

around to defeat grant masters. It’s the time<br />

the long-lost Wudang martial arts<br />

returned...<br />

THE WOMAN KNIGHT OF MIRROR<br />

LAKE<br />

Martial Arts (115)<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: Herman YAU<br />

Key Cast: Crystal Huang, Dennis TO,<br />

Anthony Wong, Xin Xin XIONG<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: HONG KONG/CHINA<br />

Qiu Jin - the first female revolutionist in<br />

Chinese history. Based on real Chinese history<br />

during the period around 1900 and is<br />

about the famous female revolutionist QIU<br />

JIN, who was also a kung fu master. The<br />

movie depicts how she was influenced by<br />

another revolutionist starred by Dennis To<br />

and became a brave woman with the ultimate<br />

aim to transform China. The revolution<br />

was failed at the end and QIU JIN was<br />

executed at the age of 31.<br />

THE GRANDMASTERS<br />

Martial Arts<br />

Language: Chinese<br />

Director: Kar-wai WONG<br />

Producer: Kar-wai WONG, Jacky PANG<br />

Key Cast: Tony LEUNG Chiu-wai,<br />

ZHANG Zi-yi, ZHANG Zhen , SONG<br />

Hye-kyo, ZHAO Ben-shan, WANG Xingchang<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

With martial arts becoming more popular<br />

in the Thirties, more people seek to learn<br />

them via the professionals at Foshan in<br />

Southern China. Some of the experienced<br />

masters like to challenge their counterparts<br />

and undergoing battles. To have their<br />

whole concentration, it is their practice to<br />

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lock up the venues and no one is allowed<br />

to leave during battles. No food and no rest<br />

before reaching any results. Ip Man is a<br />

young rich man extremely talented in martial<br />

arts, but he chooses to keep a low profile.<br />

Yet this doesn’t keep him out of these<br />

troubles ahead. One day he is trapped in<br />

this battleground so he has to use every<br />

means in order to get out of there. The<br />

masters are amazed by his abilities. Master<br />

Kung and his daughter Kung Yi are<br />

amongst, and the latter is attracted to this<br />

newcomer. A high warlord originally from<br />

the North comes to Foshan. He has brought<br />

many masters with him in order to hide his<br />

true agenda. At the same battleground<br />

where Ip Man is trapped, he is suddenly<br />

assassinated by his own guard Yi Xian<br />

Tian. No one has a clue of why this happened.<br />

But Yi Xian Tian has already disappeared.<br />

Because of loyalty, the masters<br />

there vow to take revenge for the high warlord<br />

no matter what; Ip Man and Kung Yi<br />

start their journey to hunt down Yi Xian<br />

Tian...<br />

LADY KUNG FU<br />

Martial Arts<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: Joe CHEUNG<br />

Writer: Man Lung HO<br />

Executive Producer: Si Yuan WU<br />

Key Cast: Jing BAI, Zhi Hua DONG, Kara<br />

HUI, Shao Qun YU, Collin CHOU<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: China<br />

The charming and pretty Wing Chun(Bai<br />

Jing) met a former Shaolin master, Ng Mui<br />

(Wai Ying Hung), who offers to train her in<br />

a unique form of close range combat.<br />

Javing trained for the requisite three<br />

months, she 0easily defeats Gao who<br />

forces her to marry with. Leung Bao Chou<br />

(Yu Shao Qun) is a handsome young scholar<br />

who has also been trained in martial arts<br />

by his parents (Yuen Wah and Yuen Chau,<br />

‘Kung Fu Hustle’). Intially, Bao Chou is<br />

put off by Wing Chun’s rambunctious<br />

ways, but a genuine romance soon develops<br />

between them. Imperial officer Lau<br />

Yam (Wai Tin Chee) leads his master, Kam<br />

Ying (Collin Chou), to Guangdong in pursuit<br />

of Ng Mui and the other Shaolin<br />

rebels. Though Kam Ying was once in love<br />

with Ng Mui, this doesn’t stop him from<br />

killing her comrades, and finally threatening<br />

Yim Wing Chun and her family. In a<br />

final showdown, Ng Mui proves no match<br />

for Kam Ying, and it is left to Wing Chun,<br />

helped by Bao Chou, to finally defeat this<br />

apparently invincible foe. Yim Wing Chun<br />

promises her master that she will disseminate<br />

the art to which she has given the<br />

name.<br />

LAN KWAI FONG<br />

Realistic (95)<br />

Language: Cantonese<br />

Director: Wilson CHIN<br />

Producer: Kin Hung NG<br />

Key Cast: Z.O. CHEN, Shiga LIN, Bonnie<br />

XIAN<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: HONG KONG<br />

Lan Kwai Fong (LKF), a well-known party<br />

location in Hong Kong with loads of nightclubs<br />

and bars. Everyone likes to go LKF<br />

for fun, one night stand or even true love.<br />

LKF had captured joys and sorrows of<br />

many... Steven and Jennifer had one night<br />

stand but they both could feel true love<br />

comes along. Unfortunately, misunderstanding<br />

tore them apart and Jennifer<br />

decided to disappear from LKF. After eight<br />

months, Steven was promoted to work at<br />

head office in Australia. He reunited with<br />

Jennifer again at his farewell party but<br />

Jennifer had already engaged with his boss.<br />

Can true love be found in this place? Or<br />

only sex is the way out of this place?<br />

LIVES IN FLAMES<br />

Musical Drama/ Coming-of-age<br />

Language: Catonese<br />

Director: Jacky Lee<br />

Writer: Lam Fung, Mark Wu<br />

Executive Producer: LI Kuo Hsing/NG Kin<br />

Hung<br />

Producer: NG Kin Hung<br />

Key Cast: (Mr. – Alan PO, Dash TAM, MJ<br />

TAM, Ronny LAI, Tom TO), Mag<br />

LAM,Michelle WAI, Jeana HO, Bonnie<br />

XIAN, CHAN Wai Man, Eva LAI,<br />

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Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong<br />

Alan is a job hopper who just got fired at<br />

his fifth job in two years. His father has<br />

been hoping that he could take over the<br />

family business, but he insisted to create<br />

his own path even though he has no passion<br />

for everything. He ran into his high<br />

school bandmate – Dash. Dash has been<br />

working at a music store after graduation.<br />

Although Dash’s girlfriend Jeana doesn’t<br />

like what he’s doing, he’s still very happy<br />

as long as he’s surrounded by music. Dash<br />

invited Alan to join his band, but Alan has<br />

been dragging on this because he’s not<br />

enthusiastic about music. Until he saw<br />

Meg, the lead singer whom he loves at first<br />

sight, he decided to join the band…<br />

INFINITE DIMENSION (WORKING<br />

TITLE)<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: Cantonese<br />

Director: Leung-Tim CHEUNG, Jonathan<br />

LI, Danny WONG<br />

Producer: Wilson YIP, Alan MAK, Soi<br />

CHEANG<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Country of Origin: HONG KONG<br />

Produced by three renowned directors<br />

Wilson Yip (“Ip man 1 & 2”, “Flash<br />

Point”), Alan MAK (“Overheard”,<br />

“Infernal Affairs - Trilogy”) Soi Cheang<br />

(“Accident”, “Love Battlefield”), thrust<br />

you into three mysterious world for an<br />

extraordinary thriller journey. A girl lives in<br />

psychiatric hospital has the ability to see<br />

devil. One day, she finally met a guy who<br />

understands and believe in her ability, but it<br />

turns out this man is not actually a human<br />

being... A man debtor died from accident<br />

came back to life from coffin, to look for<br />

his creditor who has taken away one thing<br />

that matter the most to him... Since heart<br />

transplantation from a serial killer, the<br />

desire to kill has been eroding a man’s<br />

mind. One night, he finally loses control of<br />

the desire and attempt to murder a girl with<br />

scar on her face....<br />

MISSION PICTURES<br />

INTERNATIONAL<br />

Mission Pictures International, 15363<br />

Victory Blvd., Van Nuys, CA 91406 USA,<br />

Tel:1.818.907.8700. Fax: 1.818.907.8719.<br />

www.missionpicsintl.com E-mail:<br />

laura@missionpicsintl.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Chevonne O’Shaughnessy<br />

(President), Cindy Bond (President), Laura<br />

Voros (VP of Foreign Sales)<br />

Office: MGB, IFTA Pavilion #A2<br />

CRISTIADA<br />

Drama/History/War (150 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Dean Wright<br />

Writer: Michael Love<br />

Producer: Pablo Jose Barroso<br />

Key Cast: Oscar Isaac, Eva Longoria, Andy<br />

Garcia, Peter O’Toole<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Mexico<br />

A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-<br />

1929), which was touched off by a rebellion<br />

against the Mexican government’s<br />

attempt to secularize the country.<br />

HARDFLIP<br />

Action / Drama (100 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Johnny Remo<br />

Writer: Johnny Remo<br />

Producer: Johnny Remo<br />

Key Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Matthew Ziff,<br />

John Schneider<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

It is a story of what can happen when we<br />

let go of our anger and pain and willingness<br />

to forgive those whove hurt us most,<br />

just as God forgives us.<br />

THE LEGEND OF THE TREASURE<br />

Adventure / Family (90 min)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Hugo Rodríguez<br />

Writer: Michael Love<br />

Producer: Pablo Jose Barroso<br />

Key Cast: Adrian Alonso, Mauricio Kuri,<br />

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John Rhys-Davies<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Mexico<br />

Erik is a twelve year old boy whose passion<br />

revolves between his lovely friend,<br />

Andrea and a master’s skill for skateboarding.<br />

His family has financial troubles and is<br />

about to loose the family business. Erik,<br />

himself has his share of problems when the<br />

local gang tries to make him a part of their<br />

deals. Erik can take care of himself, but not<br />

Omar, Andrea’s kid brother, who becomes<br />

the target of the day for the gang... Erik<br />

can’t help but save the day to impress<br />

Andrea, but while at it ends up with Deik,<br />

the leader following them into a dark warehouse.<br />

In it, the kids have a curious<br />

encounter of sorts when they come upon a<br />

murder. Nathan, a sacred art dealer, has just<br />

killed Cliserio, a historian, in order to rob a<br />

map that promises to lead him to Hidalgo’s<br />

lost treasure. But before Cliserio expires,<br />

he manages to rip the map and his half end<br />

up in Erik’s backpack. Nathan has seen the<br />

kids and he knows that they have his other<br />

half of the map<br />

THE GREATEST MIRACLE<br />

Animation (70 min)<br />

Language: Spanish / English<br />

Director: Bruce Morris<br />

Writer: Luis De Velasco<br />

Producer: Pablo Jose Barroso<br />

Key Cast: JB Blanc, Bryan Brems, Mari<br />

Devon<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Mexico<br />

A constant struggle between good and evil<br />

ending in a triumphant victory of Faith.<br />

GUADALUPE<br />

Drama (94 min)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Santiago Parra<br />

Writer: Tesse Gutierrez de Picazo<br />

Executive Producer: Laia Coll<br />

Producer: Pablo Jose Barroso<br />

Key Cast: José Carlos Ruiz Pedro<br />

Armendáriz Jr. Angélica Aragón<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2006 Country of<br />

Origin: Mexico<br />

The power of Guadalupe’s image is as<br />

powerful today as it was 500 years ago.<br />

MONTECRISTO<br />

INTERNATIONAL<br />

ENTERTAINMENT<br />

MonteCristo International Entertainment,<br />

459 Columbus Avenue - Suite 334 , New<br />

York City, New York 10024 USA, Tel:<br />

+1.917.647.7587. Fax: +1.917.677.8300.<br />

www.MonteCristoEntertainment.com Email:<br />

Sales@MonteCristoEntertainment.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer<br />

At EFM: Cindy Nelson-Mullen (Co-CEO,<br />

Sales & Acquisitions Executive), Michael<br />

Taverna (Co-CEO/Production)<br />

Office: Martin Gropius Bau - Stand #15,<br />

Tel: 1.917.647.7587 Fax: 1.917.677.8300<br />

APARTMENT 1303 3-D<br />

Horror (90m)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Michael Taverna<br />

Writer: Michael Taverna, Jim Steele<br />

Executive Producer: Cindy Nelson-Mullen,<br />

Jim Steele, Scott Rosenfelt, David<br />

Shoshan,<br />

Producer: The MonteCristo Fund<br />

Key Cast: Mischa Barton, Rebecca De<br />

Mornay, Julianne Michelle, John Diehl &<br />

Corey Sevier<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A love/hate relationship between and mother<br />

and daughter turns into a tale of horror.<br />

OCCUPANT<br />

Thriller (84 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Henry Miller<br />

Writer: Jonathan Brett<br />

Executive Producer: Susan Siedelman<br />

Producer: Michelle Kalsi, Susan Dickey<br />

MacArthur, Ed Martin, Blair Rosenfeld,<br />

Jonathan Brett<br />

Key Cast: Van Hansis, Cody Horn &<br />

Thorsten Kaye<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

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Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Danyy Hill’s grandmother just died giving<br />

the 25-year-old the chance to move into her<br />

enormous rent controlled apartment in<br />

Manhattan. Danny must lock himself in for<br />

twelve days before he can take over the<br />

lease. There’s just one problem - he may<br />

not be the only occupant.<br />

EL MEDICO: THE CUBATON STORY<br />

Documentary (85 min)<br />

Language: English & Spanish<br />

Director: Daniel Fridell<br />

Producer: Thomas Allercrantz<br />

Key Cast: Raynier Casamayor Grinan,<br />

Michel Miglis<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Cuba, Sweden, Finland, Estonia<br />

EL MEDICO is the story of a young doctor<br />

in Cuba who would like to bring healing to<br />

his people with his music. His dream of<br />

being an artist seem to come true when he<br />

meets Michel, an unscrupulous European<br />

producer who sees El Medico as a potential<br />

star. However, after their first hit, the<br />

Cuban doctor’s dreams clash with his<br />

ideals and those of the Revolution.<br />

PETER: A PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL<br />

KILLER<br />

Drama (85 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Skip Kite<br />

Writer: Skip Kite<br />

Producer: Sanjay Kumar<br />

Key Cast: Walt Kissack, Nicholas Ball, Lee<br />

Nicholas Harris<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

A unique journey into the mind of Peter<br />

Sutcliffe “The Yorkshire Ripper.”<br />

THE DUEL<br />

AKA: GAME TIME<br />

Action/Sports (105 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Diago Hallivis<br />

Writer: Alberto Veloso<br />

Producer: Julio Hallivis<br />

Key Cast: Phil Haus, Jason Hurt, Noelle<br />

Mihalinec<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

With a fresh start, trying to escape an abusive<br />

past, Vance and his mother have just<br />

moved to a new city. Searching for a way<br />

to support his family while continuing his<br />

education he joins forces with Jules, who is<br />

looking for a highly skilled, basketball duel<br />

partner. With their impressive talent these<br />

two start cleaning the streets, winning<br />

every duel in town. Once word spreads<br />

they’re invited to enter the ultra-violent,<br />

competitive duel championship. With high<br />

hopes for the win they’ll do whatever it<br />

takes to walk off the court the new champions.<br />

MOONSTONE<br />

ENTERTAINMENT<br />

Moonstone Entertainment, P.O. Box 7400,<br />

Studio City, CA 91614 USA, Tel:<br />

1.818.985.3003 Fax: 1.818.985.3009.<br />

www.moonstonefilms.com E-mail:<br />

etchie@moonstonefilms.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Mr. Etchie Stroh (CEO), Mrs.<br />

Yael Stroh (President), Mr. Michael Grant<br />

(Director Production & Marketing), Mr.<br />

Shahar Stroh (Director Development &<br />

Acquisitions)<br />

Office: Maritim Hotel, Suite 8002, Tel:<br />

+49.30.2065.0<br />

RECALL<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Harold Becker<br />

Writer: Paul Schrader<br />

Producer: Etchie Stroh, Robert Katz<br />

Key Cast: Clive Owen<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA / Bulgaria<br />

A mission gone wrong, a crime covered up<br />

nightmare or reality?<br />

FRENCH IMMERSION<br />

Comedy (98)<br />

Language: English, French<br />

Director: Kevin Tierney<br />

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Writer: Jefferson Lewis, Kevin Tierney<br />

Producer: Claude Bonin, Kevin Tierney<br />

Key Cast: Karine Vanasse, Olunike<br />

Adeliyi, Martha Burns<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

Five Anglo-Canadians find themselves in a<br />

two week total immersion French program<br />

in a remote town in Northern Quebec.<br />

FAVELA<br />

Action / Thriller<br />

Director: Isaac Florentine<br />

Writer: Yan T. Parazi<br />

Producer: Etchie Stroh<br />

Key Cast: Scott Adkins<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Brazil<br />

Meet Chapman - an ex-marine in Brazil’s<br />

slums, battling the yakuza outfit who murdered<br />

his sister.<br />

MOUNTAINROAD<br />

ENTERTAINMENT<br />

GROUP<br />

MountainRoad Entertainment Group,<br />

Bergweg 12, Hilversum, 1221 SE The<br />

Netherlands, Tel: 0031(0)653.948.986.<br />

www.mountainroad.nl E-mail: sjef@mountainroad.nl<br />

Sales Agent, Producer<br />

At EFM: Sjef Scholte (CEO), Danielle<br />

Raaphorst on behalf of Incredible Film<br />

Office: MGB: Eye Film Institute Stand<br />

number: 09, Tel: 0031(0)653.948.986<br />

PENNY’S SHADOW<br />

Family (104)<br />

Language: Dutch<br />

Director: Steven de Jong<br />

Writer: Lars Boom<br />

Producer: Klaas de Jong<br />

Key Cast: Levi van Kempen Lisa Sips<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

The black stallion Shadow survived an<br />

accident years ago in which his rider, Kai’s<br />

mother, died. Kai, now a boy of 18, has no<br />

relationship with this heavily traumatized<br />

and unreliable horse. When Lisa (17) stays<br />

on his fathers farm camp during the summer<br />

holidays she is convinced that she can<br />

help Kai to train Shadow. But Kai sees<br />

nothing in her plans…<br />

BENNIE BRAT<br />

AKA: BENNIE STOUT<br />

Family (88)<br />

Language: Dutch<br />

Director: Johan Nijenhuis<br />

Writer: Wijo Koek<br />

Producer: Klaas de Jong, Johan Nijenhuis<br />

& Bernard Tulp<br />

Key Cast: Koen Dobbelaer (BENNIE)<br />

Hanna Verboom Koert-Jan de Bruijn<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

Bennie Brat is called a naughty boy.<br />

Bennie is just playing but he sure creates<br />

havoc in his neighborhood, because things<br />

always seem to go wrong… His teacher,<br />

his mother, even his big brother Steven<br />

find that all he does is cause trouble. It’s<br />

winter during The Great Depression of the<br />

1930’s. Bennie lives in a tiny house with<br />

his mom and his brother. Bennie’s father, a<br />

fisherman, is at work far away in a Spanish<br />

port. He wishes for his dad to come home<br />

soon, that would make life better. But when<br />

the fishing ships from Spain are finally<br />

docking in the village harbor his dad is not<br />

there... Bennie has to be without his father<br />

during the whole of the winter and dad<br />

won’t be there for the Saint Nicolas celebrations,<br />

the best time of the year! Unless<br />

Bennie comes up with a really good plan.<br />

It has been a long tradition, that the good<br />

Saint Nicolas brings presents to all the well<br />

behaved children in the world, but the<br />

naughty children have to be disciplined and<br />

are taken in old dusty bags by Saint<br />

Nicolas helpers, all the way to Spain… So<br />

all Bennie has to do now is to be the<br />

naughtiest boy the town has ever seen.<br />

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The World of Flying Machine - Distribution Workshop<br />

MULTIVISIONNAIRE<br />

PICTURES<br />

MultiVisionnaire Pictures, 3080 W. Valley<br />

Blvd., Suite B, Alhambra, CA 91803 USA,<br />

Tel: 1.626.737.8357 Fax: 1.626.737.8642.<br />

www.multivisionnaire.com E-mail: distribution@multivisionnaire.com<br />

Sales Agent, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Sean T, Haley (Managing<br />

Partner), Erika Kao-Haley (Managing<br />

Partner)<br />

Office: Martin-Gropius-Bau Stand#109,<br />

Tel: +49(0)157.7778.6381<br />

PIRATE BROTHERS<br />

Action/Adventure/Martial Art (96 min)<br />

Language: English, Indonesian<br />

Director: Asun Mawardi<br />

Writer: Matthew Ryan Fischer, Douglas<br />

Galt, Asun Mawardi<br />

Producer: Asun Mawardi, Jimmy Djulianto,<br />

Gina Maria, Keith Brinksman<br />

Key Cast: Robin Shou, Imd Verdy<br />

Bhawanta, Marcio Fernando<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Indonesia<br />

Sunny and Verdy are orphan brothers, not<br />

by blood but by will. Life takes them down<br />

two completely different paths. Verdy is<br />

adopted by a wealthy family and inherits a<br />

powerful enterprise, and Sunny enters the<br />

pirate underworld. Years later Sunny and<br />

Verdy come face to face when Verdy’s<br />

fiancée is kidnapped by pirates. Reunited,<br />

they fight to save her and stop the international<br />

criminal scheme of the entire pirate<br />

operation.<br />

I AM BAD<br />

Thriller (83)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: David Rackoff<br />

Writer: David Rackoff<br />

Producer: Louise Runge, Samantha<br />

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Housman, Darren Brady<br />

Key Cast: Pauley Perrette, Taylor Dayne,<br />

Caprice Crawford, Wilson Heredia, Jaime<br />

Gomez<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: United States<br />

I am Bad is a voyeuristic rollercoaster<br />

experience of the life of a serial killer—<br />

seen through the eyes of the killer himself.<br />

He is forced to reconcile his romantic feelings<br />

for the woman he loves with his<br />

unstoppable bloodlust. The first person<br />

point of view gives us an intimate yet<br />

inescapable closeness to the bizarre and<br />

twisted world as he sees it.<br />

POWDER<br />

Music Drama (100 min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Mark Elliott<br />

Writer: Kevin Sampson<br />

Producer: David A. Hughes<br />

Key Cast: Liam Boyle, Alfie Allan, Al<br />

Weaver<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: United Kingdom<br />

Powder is an authentic rock ‘n’ roll story<br />

based on the best-selling novel by Kevin<br />

Sampson. It captures all the energy and<br />

excitement of a band breaking through, following<br />

Liverpool band The Grams on an<br />

unflinching journey through the machinations<br />

of the music industry. Produced by<br />

the makers of AWAYDAYS, Powder will<br />

delight youthful audiences worldwide.<br />

THE ADORED<br />

Thriller/LGBT (93 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Carl Medland<br />

Writer: Jody Medland<br />

Producer: Carl Medland, Amarjeet Sadel<br />

Key Cast: Laura Martin Smith, Ione Butler,<br />

Jake Maskell, Caroline Burns Cooke<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: U.K.<br />

A struggling model thrown into depression<br />

by marital troubles and a major loss, Maia<br />

hopes that a session with prolific photographer<br />

Francesca Allman will rejuvenate her<br />

career. During the session, Francesca builds<br />

confidence in Maia but has to control her<br />

own obsessive desires. As they spend more<br />

time together, Maia becomes an object of<br />

Francesca’s obsession and things slowly<br />

spiral out of control. Maia also feels threatened<br />

by another presence in the house<br />

which Francesca cannot comprehend.<br />

Could this be their past coming back to<br />

haunt them?<br />

CASSEROLE CLUB<br />

Period Drama/Erotic/LGBT (95 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Steve Balderson<br />

Writer: Frankie Kranz<br />

Producer: Steve Balderson<br />

Key Cast: Kevin Scott Richardson, Susan<br />

Traylor, Daniela Sea<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: United States<br />

1960’s era in Palm Springs, a group of<br />

close-knit and neighborly suburban housewives<br />

are bent on one-upping each other,<br />

trying to prove that each is “the hostess<br />

with the mostess.” They begin a recipe club<br />

and hold dinner parties to test out their new<br />

casseroles. The gatherings become increasingly<br />

focused on boozy flirtation, and more<br />

than recipes start getting swapped.<br />

JESSE<br />

Action (120 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Fred Carpenter<br />

Writer: Fred Carpenter, Joanne Tamburro<br />

Producer: Fred Carpenter, Joanne<br />

Tamburro, Dave Lipsky, MaryAnn<br />

Giannino<br />

Key Cast: Stephanie Finochio, William<br />

Forsythe, Eric Roberts, Armand Assante,<br />

Michael Wright, Anthony Trentecosta, Paul<br />

Vario, Mitchell Walters, Tamara Markowitz<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: United States<br />

Jesse Weinstein, a female police detective,<br />

has to deal with much more than her job.<br />

Jesse is a recovering alcoholic dealing with<br />

her ex-husband, her whacky mother, and a<br />

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derelict brother - who all add to her stress,<br />

and give Jesse more than enough reason to<br />

escape with a bottle. Her brother, involved<br />

with a seedy bunch of characters, some<br />

who are well connected in the organized<br />

crime scene, suddenly disappears and is<br />

assumed murdered. When the heat was on,<br />

he was backed into a corner by the mob<br />

leader and his henchman to pay up his<br />

gambling debt or else. His sudden disappearance<br />

leaves Jesse with a tangled mystery<br />

because she’s in the middle of investigating<br />

some cases that involve the same<br />

mob. With the Police Chief and the head of<br />

Internal Affairs breathing down Jesse’s<br />

neck, she starts to feel the pressure of having<br />

to stay on the right side of the law,<br />

while her instincts tell her otherwise. Jesse<br />

wrestles with turning vigilante, as she<br />

investigates her brother’s murder and<br />

enters a world of crime, corruption, and<br />

shocking deception.<br />

Big Mammas Boy - Media Luna New Films<br />

BIRTH OF A WARRIOR<br />

Action (80 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Gordon Waddell<br />

Writer: Ross Parini, Russell Cunningham,<br />

Frank Parini<br />

Co-Production Partners: Russell<br />

Cunningham, Anthony Salamon<br />

Producer: Russell Cunningham, Anthony<br />

Salamon<br />

Key Cast: Tonny White, Kee Chan, Patrick<br />

Thompson, Kate Ryerson, Chan Griffin,<br />

Rob Flanagan, Steve Morris, Matt Rudduck<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

A baby is abandoned by a shrouded woman<br />

on the steps of a temple. Under the careful<br />

eye of Master Tenzin the child, called<br />

White, is taught to live a disciple’s life.<br />

When a girl, Sierra, is taken in by the<br />

Master, the two orphans become close.<br />

Years later, thieves break into the Temple,<br />

stealing a powerful statue and kidnapping<br />

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Sierra. White must face the outside world<br />

for the first time, using his mastery of<br />

Kung Fu to retrieve the statue and rescue<br />

Sierra.<br />

SWEATY BEARDS<br />

Adventure/Comedy/Fantasy (84 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Joakim Jardeby<br />

Writer: Joakim Jardeby<br />

Producer: Christian Sundqvist, Joakim Jard<br />

Key Cast: Tobias Lunqvist, Isabella<br />

Alveborg, Per Andersson, Marika<br />

Lagercrantz<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Sweden<br />

Scandinavia in the year 968. Osvald, the<br />

cowardly Viking, and his brave but not too<br />

bright brother Sigtrygg, set out to avenge<br />

the murder of their father. As much as<br />

Osvald loves to be a hero, he detests putting<br />

himself at risk of any kind, and fears<br />

Perset Olale, the evil fin who murdered his<br />

father, even more. During a bar brawl,<br />

Osvald recklessly challenges the fiercest<br />

fighters in the known world, among them<br />

the murderer Perset, to a fight. It is decided<br />

the matter will be settled a tournament in<br />

the old Viking style; single combat to death<br />

on a small island. Whoever returns, wins.<br />

The next day Osvald wakes ridden with<br />

anxiety and questions: Will he become a<br />

Berserker? Will he survive this eight fighter-one<br />

survivor tournament? Will he win<br />

the heart of Hildegun, the love of his life?<br />

ZENITRAM<br />

Sci-Fi/Adventure (105 min)<br />

Language: Spanish with English Subtitles<br />

Director: Luis Barone<br />

Writer: Juan Sasturain, Liliana Escliarr,<br />

Jesus de la Vega, Luis Barone<br />

Producer: Alvaro Augustin, Tomas Cimade<br />

Key Cast: Jordi Molla, Juan Minujín,<br />

Steven Bauer, Daniel Fanego<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Argentina<br />

It’s 2025 and water is scarce and monopolized<br />

around the world by corporations.<br />

One day, a poor government worker named<br />

Martinez meets a mysterious stranger, and<br />

in an instant the stranger gives him superhero<br />

powers — powers to fly and create<br />

water for the masses. Martinez becomes<br />

the superhero Zenitram and is hailed by the<br />

citizens of the nation. But his new found<br />

power comes with troubles and powerful<br />

people that want to get rid of him. The<br />

pressure of becoming a superhero<br />

overnight could get to anyone. Zenitram<br />

has to conquer his own demons and rescue<br />

the world!<br />

NO SAINTS FOR SINNERS<br />

Action (84 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Nathan Frankowski<br />

Writer: Chris Benzoni, Rick Crawford,<br />

Nathan Frankowski, Kevin Miller<br />

Producer: Paul Geffre, Scott Byrns<br />

Key Cast: Rick Crawford, Keith David,<br />

James Cosmo<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

IRA operative must escape Ireland to start<br />

a new life in America. But, he gets<br />

involved with the wrong friends and finds<br />

himself fighting for survival.<br />

FLESH AIR: SEXY GALS & HOT<br />

CARS<br />

Reality / Series (13 x 26 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Scott Richardson<br />

Co-Production Partners: Faulconbridge,<br />

Vision TV<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

Hot cars and sexy girls this series brings<br />

your fantasy to life. Scott Richardson of<br />

Faulconbridge (Australia)-based production<br />

company Vision TV teams up with worldrenowned<br />

airbrush artist Wayne Harrison<br />

and celebrity photographer Dave Anderson<br />

to create a reality series about painted cars,<br />

painted bikes and painted girls. The master<br />

of airbrush transforms automobiles into<br />

masterpieces with his “fantasy murals.” He<br />

turns it up 10 notches and airbrushes beautiful<br />

fully-nude models to match the cars.<br />

David captures the beauty and the machine<br />

work of art with a photoshoot. You’ll see<br />

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Wayne and David struggle with deadlines,<br />

design elements, staff and family; but most<br />

importantly you’ll see gorgeous nude models<br />

tastefully and breathtakingly turned into<br />

snakes, robots, zombies and even have<br />

clothes painted on to match the sexy sports<br />

cars, custom hot rods, vintage automobiles,<br />

and motorcycles. This amazing new series<br />

is available for worldwide broadcasters in<br />

HD.<br />

2033<br />

Sci-Fi / Action /Feature (93 min)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Francisco Laresgoti<br />

Writer: Jordi Mariscal<br />

Producer: Jordi Mariscal<br />

Key Cast: Claudio Lafarga, Sandra<br />

Echeverria, Raul Mendez, Marco Trevino,<br />

Arianne Pellicer<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Mexico<br />

In 2033, Mexico City, society is controlled<br />

by a military regime. A young elitist joins<br />

the uprising to take it down.<br />

THE FOUR-FACED LIAR<br />

Romantic / Comedy - Feature (89 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jacob Chase<br />

Writer: Marja-Lewis Ryan<br />

Producer: Samantha Houseman<br />

Key Cast: Marja-Lewis Ryan, Emily Peck,<br />

Todd Kubrak, Liz Osborn<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A romantic comedy about love, lies, friendships<br />

and heartbreaks for the twenty-somethings.<br />

KICKOFF<br />

Comedy/LGBT (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Rikki Beadle- Blair<br />

Writer: Rikki Beadle- Blair<br />

Producer: Carleen Beadle<br />

Key Cast: Ian Sharp, Craig Storrod, Nathan<br />

Clough, Stephen Hoo<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

What happens when the hardest team in the<br />

Sunday Soccer league comes up against a<br />

gay team and finds they’ve finally met<br />

their match?<br />

HAPPINESS RUNS<br />

Drama/Political/Reality (88 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Adam Sherman<br />

Writer: Adam Sherman<br />

Producer: Steven Israel<br />

Key Cast: Andie MacDowell, Hanna Hall,<br />

Rutger Hauer<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A teenager living on a hippie commune<br />

overflowing with sex and drugs, tries to<br />

save himself.<br />

LITTLE BLUE PILL<br />

Comedy (93 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Aaron Godfred<br />

Writer: Aaron Godfred<br />

Producer: Dave Szamet, Alex Ginno<br />

Key Cast: Aaron Kuban, Adam Carr, Rosie<br />

Tisch, Gerold Wunstel, Trevor Coppola,<br />

Jonathan Ahdout<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: U.S.A.<br />

Steven is about to have the hardest day of<br />

his life. After one too many Keg stands,<br />

Steven’s hangover won’t go away. His<br />

beautiful girlfriend tries to help, but things<br />

get worse when he accidentally takes two<br />

Little Blue Pills instead of painkillers. At<br />

the most important job interview of his life,<br />

he can’t shake his hard-on for the boss’s<br />

daughter. His doctor’s visit doesn’t help<br />

him go limp either. Meanwhile, the evil<br />

scientists at Phalitech, the sinister pharmaceutical<br />

giant, realize their creation the<br />

Erecta 2.0 formula comes with disastrous<br />

side effects. Stopping at nothing to cover<br />

up their heinous mistake, they must locate<br />

Steven and neutralize the problem before<br />

he can discredit their company. But that<br />

means Steven could lose his Manhood!<br />

GREEN GUYS<br />

Action/Drama - Feature (96 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Cole Mueller<br />

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Writer: Cole Mueller<br />

Producer: Sean Meier<br />

Key Cast: Kris Lemche, Christopher<br />

Redman, William Ross, David J. Phillips<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Four young and fabulous Wall-Street hotshots<br />

create a Ponzi scheme to steal hundreds<br />

of millions from the Mexican mob.<br />

FAR AWAY EYES<br />

Action/Thriller (88 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Stanley J. Orzel<br />

Writer: Stanley J. Orzel<br />

Producer: Maria Lo Orzel<br />

Key Cast: Will Yun Lee, Miguel Ferrer,<br />

Mercedes Renard, Hiro Hayama<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA-Hong Kong<br />

Four hitmen meet in Hong Kong to resolve<br />

some unfinished business. Over an elaborate<br />

meal, each of the highly skilled assassins<br />

brags and reminisces about their best<br />

hit in full detail. As the mood intensifies,<br />

lines are crossed and secrets are revealed.<br />

The evening’s course draws closer and<br />

closer to an end for one. Accusations fly,<br />

guns are drawn, and love reveals itself<br />

against a violent and brutal backdrop —<br />

while we exam the ultimate question, ‘what<br />

is the price of love?’<br />

LIZARD BOY<br />

Creature - Feature (98 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Paul Della Pelle<br />

Writer: Bruce Brown, Paul Della Pelle<br />

Producer: Adonis Cruz<br />

Key Cast: Miranda Allgood, Domiziano<br />

Arcangeli<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A geneticist creates his own son by combining<br />

lizard DNA with human DNA, but<br />

discovers fatherhood is now an extraordinary<br />

challenge.<br />

DEAD MATTER<br />

Fantasy/Horror/Sci-Fi/Thriller (89 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Edward Douglas<br />

Writer: Tony Demci, Edward Douglas<br />

Producer: Edward Douglas, Gary Jones,<br />

Robert Kutzman<br />

Key Cast: Andrew Divoff, Jason Carter,<br />

Tom Savini<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Vampire hunters fight to block a supernatural<br />

power from an evil villain and his control<br />

over the dead.<br />

DEAD AIR<br />

Action / Thriller (93 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Corbin Bernsen<br />

Writer: Kenneth Yakkel<br />

Producer: Chris Aronoff, Jesse Lawler,<br />

Corbin Bernsen<br />

Key Cast: Bill Moseley, Patricia Tallman<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A popular radio talk show host at the<br />

ground zero of a terrorist bio-attack goes<br />

from reporting the devastating event live to<br />

participating in live combat.<br />

COST OF LOVE<br />

Drama/LGBT (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Carl Medland<br />

Writer: Carl Medland<br />

Producer: Amarjeet Signh<br />

Key Cast: Christopher Kelham, Michael<br />

Joyce, Frank Jakeman, Valmike Rampersad<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Dale is a male escort from London. Sexy,<br />

confident, full of attitude and imagination,<br />

he is the king of his domain. Some loathe<br />

him because they secretly want to be him;<br />

others secretly hire him. On the surface<br />

Dale seems to lead a very full life, but one<br />

major component is missing: love. He is<br />

secretly in love with his best friend Raj, a<br />

handsome and compassionate doctor who<br />

announces that he is getting married. Dale,<br />

shocked and despaired, turns to his friend<br />

Sean for answers, not knowing that Sean<br />

has strong feelings for him. Underneath the<br />

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glitz and fabulous makeup of his drag artist<br />

persona, Sean yearns for self-discovery and<br />

acceptance. They are all connected by their<br />

feelings which vary from friendship to love<br />

and lust, but at what cost?<br />

RESPIRE<br />

Horror / Thriller (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: David A. Cross<br />

Writer: David A. Cross<br />

Producer: David A. Cross<br />

Key Cast: Mat Wright, Tracy Teague,<br />

Vince Eustace, Ellie Torrez<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The ancient Romans believed that a person’s<br />

last breath held the power to grant<br />

everlasting life. In the mid 1930’s, a scientist<br />

named Dr. Randolph Kaminsky supposedly<br />

discovered a way to harness that<br />

power. But before he could share his findings<br />

with the world, he was murdered and<br />

his research was thought to be lost forever.<br />

Flash forward to today, the box once<br />

owned by Dr. Kaminsky is discovered in<br />

an antique store. It captures the interest of<br />

two men: Raif Collins, who hopes that<br />

Kaminsky’s research can cure his dying<br />

sister, and Alex Poe, whose own motives<br />

are much more heinous. After learning<br />

about her own terminal cancer, antique<br />

shop owner Susan Jordan quickly becomes<br />

entangled in a violent, suspenseful struggle<br />

to obtain Kaminsky’s secret to eternal life.<br />

Hold your breath!<br />

AFFIRMATIVE ACT<br />

Drama - Feature (95 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jana Mattioli<br />

Writer: Kenneth Del Vecchio<br />

Producer: Kenneth Del Vecchio<br />

Key Cast: Eric Etebari, Charles Durning,<br />

Blanche Baker, Candice Holdorf, Elissa<br />

Goldstein, Justin Deas<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Terry and Samantha Succi are happily married<br />

and raising a child—until they’re<br />

charged with fraud. Their ostensible crime?<br />

They are women posing as a heterosexual<br />

couple, and therefore are in violation of the<br />

state law that discriminates against gay<br />

partners and prohibits them from receiving<br />

the same rights and benefits accorded their<br />

straight counterparts. To make matters<br />

worse, the governor (six-time Emmy-winner<br />

Justin Deas) secretly arranges the trial<br />

to ensure they plead guilty in order to protect<br />

his politically expedient anti-gay marriage<br />

bill. But the women decide to fight<br />

and hire self-absorbed but top-notch attorney<br />

John DeMire (Eric Etebari, 2 Fast 2<br />

Furious, Witchblade, CSI Miami) to take<br />

the case to trial. What ensues is a riveting<br />

courtroom drama guaranteed to inflame the<br />

passions of the masses concerned with the<br />

most talked about social issue — the legalization<br />

of gay marriage. Also features twotime<br />

Academy Award nominee Charles<br />

Durning.<br />

P.U.P.<br />

AKA: Pretty Ugly People<br />

Comedy (99 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Tate Taylor<br />

Writer: Tate Taylor<br />

Producer: Brunson Green, Sonya Lunsford,<br />

Josh Smith<br />

Key Cast: Missi Pyle, Jack Noseworthy,<br />

Melissa McCarthy, Allison Janney, Josh<br />

Hopkins, Octavia Spencer, Larry Sullivan,<br />

Phill Lewis, William Sander<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: U.S.A.<br />

Lucy (Missi Pyle) has battled obesity her<br />

entire life and with the ‘little time she has<br />

left,” she wants to spend a final weekend<br />

together with her best college friends like<br />

once remembered. Upon arriving, Lucy’s<br />

friends soon discover that, Lucy isn’t actually<br />

dying. On the flip side, Lucy soon<br />

realizes her friends are now a far cry from<br />

the “Pretty and Perfect” friends whom she<br />

had remembered and that her final wish<br />

wasn’t the best of ideas after all. The group<br />

soon finds themselves on a four-day hike<br />

stripped of modern conveniences and with<br />

no place to hide. The winding uphill trail<br />

brings to surface everyone’s inner demons<br />

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and fears, with each member of the group<br />

taking something away from the adventure<br />

that they could never have imagined.<br />

BOLD NATIVE<br />

Drama/Adventure (104 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Denis Henry Hennelly<br />

Writer: Denis Henery Hennelly<br />

Producer: Casey Suchan, Mary Pat Bentel<br />

Key Cast: Randy Mantooth, Joaquin<br />

Pastor, Sheila Vand, Jessica Hagan, Dianna<br />

Agron<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: U.S.A.<br />

Charlie Cranehill, an animal liberator wanted<br />

by the United States government for<br />

domestic terrorism, emerges from the<br />

underground to coordinate a nationwide<br />

action as his estranged CEO father tries to<br />

find him before the FBI does. The film<br />

simultaneously follows a young woman<br />

who works for an animal welfare organization<br />

fighting within the system to establish<br />

more humane treatment of farmed animals.<br />

From abolitionists to welfarists, Bold<br />

Native takes on the issue of modern animal<br />

use and exploitation from several angles<br />

within the context of an adventure story.<br />

GUTTER KING<br />

Action (100 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Keith Alan Morris<br />

Writer: Keith Alan Morris<br />

Producer: Keith Alan Morris, Brian Herzig,<br />

Eric Pugh, Kendra Jones, Melissa Conrad,<br />

Nicole Abisinio<br />

Key Cast: Zeb Crown, Casey Clark, Erica<br />

Ramirez, Blake Logan<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: U.S.A.<br />

True to life, bare-knuckles street fighting<br />

action. A troubled kid from juvenile hall<br />

gets a second chance to have a normal<br />

home with a new family — but his foster<br />

father and brother show him the way to the<br />

underground world of fight clubs to earn<br />

his keep. Having lived his whole life on the<br />

street, Will is a natural-born fighter and<br />

he’s the best, but his fantasy of a new nor-<br />

mal life begins to cave in when he discovers<br />

the dark side of competition - on the<br />

street and in his home. This is a story about<br />

love and betrayal.<br />

PLAYBACK<br />

Erotic Thriller (98 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: James Avallone<br />

Writer: James Avallone<br />

Producer: James Avallone, Gregory<br />

Hatanka<br />

Key Cast: Tiffany Bowyer, James Duval,<br />

Marcus Jean Pirae<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A detective / father investigates the murder<br />

of his estranged daughter, and finds a closet<br />

full of sex tapes and secrets.<br />

IMURDERS<br />

Suspense / Thriller - Feature (98 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Robbie Bryan<br />

Writer: Robbie Bryan and Ken Del Vecchio<br />

Producer: Ken Del Vecchio<br />

Key Cast: William Forsythe, Gabrielle<br />

Anwar, Tony Todd, Charles Durning<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Members of an online social networking<br />

site soon discover they are involved in a<br />

deadly game of revenge.<br />

MYRIAD PICTURES<br />

Myriad Pictures, 3015 Main St. Suite 400,<br />

Santa Monica, CA 90405 U.S., Tel:<br />

1.310.279.4000. Fax: 1.310.279.4001.<br />

www.myriadpictures.com E-mail:<br />

info@myriadpictures.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer<br />

At EFM: Kirk D’Amico (President and<br />

Chief Executive Officer), Lisa Gutberlet<br />

(Vice President, Worldwide Distribution),<br />

Jeffrey Engelen (Senior Vice President,<br />

Distribution), Katie Irwin (Manager,<br />

Distribution), Amanda Dettrow (Manager,<br />

Marketing & Publicity)<br />

Office: Martin Groupius Bau Suite #37,<br />

Tel: +49.30.889.14 - 426<br />

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SECONDS OF PLEASURE<br />

Sexy Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Mike Figgis<br />

Writer: Neil LaBute<br />

Key Cast: Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser,<br />

Julia Stiles, Kristin Scott Thomas,<br />

Christina Hendricks<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

A flight from Chicago to London brings<br />

five strangers together. As their secrets<br />

come to light the cracks running through<br />

their marriages and relationships are<br />

exposed, and new passions are ignited.<br />

CHAINED<br />

Psychological Thriller (98 min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jennifer Lynch<br />

Key Cast: Vincent D’Onofrio, Julia<br />

Ormond, Eamon Farren, Gina Phillips<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Locked up as a servant for most of his life<br />

and forced to bury the bodies of his mentor’s<br />

victims, it is only in Tim’s late teens<br />

that he realizes he must learn to become a<br />

killer himself or never know freedom<br />

again.<br />

BREAKING THE GIRLS<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jamie Babbit<br />

Key Cast: Madeline Zima, Agnes Bruckner,<br />

Shawn Ashmore<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Alex and Sara commiserate over their enemies,<br />

and Alex suggests that they should<br />

kill off each other’s nemeses. Sara shrugs it<br />

off as a morbid joke until someone turns up<br />

dead.<br />

KNIFE FIGHT<br />

Political Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Bill Guttentag<br />

Key Cast: Rob Lowe, Julie Bowen, Carrie-<br />

Anne Moss, Jamie Chung, Eric<br />

McCormack, Amanda Crew<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Popular crisis manager, Paul Turner is the<br />

most sought after man in high scale corporations<br />

and politics. When a governor’s<br />

affair is about to lose him the next election<br />

and a senators masseuse threatens to<br />

expose the sexy nature of their sessions<br />

both turn to Paul for a spin on the story<br />

that will keep them in office.<br />

A COMMON MAN<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Chandran Rutnam<br />

Key Cast: Sir Ben Kingsley, Ben Cross<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: India<br />

When General Morris De Silva receives a<br />

threatening demand - to free five terrorist<br />

prisoners, or face bomb retribution - he<br />

makes the easy decision not to negotiate.<br />

But when the first bomb detonates, the<br />

decision to keep the prisoners captive must<br />

be readdressed, and his search for the man<br />

behind the treat begins.<br />

FREELOADERS<br />

Freeloaders (80 min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Dan Rosen<br />

Key Cast: Jane Seymour, Olivia Munn,<br />

Dave Foley, Clifton Collins, Jr., Brit<br />

Morgan, Kevin Sussman, Nat Faxon<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The story follows a group of slackers who<br />

are living for free in rock star, Adam<br />

Durwitz, mansion. But their cherished<br />

lifestyle is threatened when the musician<br />

decides to sell his pad.<br />

INESCAPABLE<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English/Arabic<br />

Director: Ruba Nadda<br />

Key Cast: Marisa Tomei, Alexander Siddig,<br />

Joshua Jackson<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

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When Adib discovers his daughter is missing<br />

he returns to Syria in the hopes of finding<br />

her.<br />

RESPONSIBLE ADULTS<br />

Romantic Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jon Poll<br />

Key Cast: Katie Holmes, Chace Crawford<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Liz, a 30 year old med student meets a<br />

charming 22 year old. Their chemistry is<br />

electric until she realizes they met 15 years<br />

earlier when she was his babysitter.<br />

GOON<br />

Comedy (91 min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Michael Dowse<br />

Writer: Evan Goldberg, Jay Baruchel<br />

Key Cast: Seann William Scott, Jay<br />

Baruchel, Liev Schreiber, Eugene Levy,<br />

Alison Pill<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A slacker who discovers a talent for brawling<br />

joins the local hockey team as the<br />

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“muscle.”<br />

CITIZEN GANGSTER<br />

Crime Thriller (105 min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Nathan Morlando<br />

Writer: Nathan Morlando<br />

Key Cast: Scott Speedman, Brian Cox,<br />

Kelly Reilly, Kevin Durand<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

The true story of the most notorious bank<br />

robber in Canadian history.<br />

THE CUP<br />

Adventure (97 min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Simon Wincer<br />

Writer: Eric O’Keefe, Simon Wincer<br />

Producer: Jan Bladier, David Lee and<br />

Simon Wincer<br />

Key Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Stephen Curry<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

A grieving jockey overcomes the odds with<br />

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the help of a veteran horse trainer and goes<br />

on to win the Melbourne Cup.<br />

SISTERS&BROTHERS<br />

Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Carl Bessai<br />

Key Cast: Cory Monteith, Amanda Crew,<br />

Camille Sullivan, Dustin Milligan<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

The unique and often hilarious bond<br />

between brothers and sisters is explored in<br />

this new comedy about four very different<br />

sets of siblings.<br />

NEW FILMS<br />

INTERNATIONAL<br />

New Films International, 14320 Ventura<br />

Blvd.# 619, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423<br />

USA, Tel: 1.818.501.2720 Fax:<br />

1.818.501.2780. www.NewFilmsint.com Email:<br />

info@NewFilmsint.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Nesim Hason (President), Duygu<br />

Eroglu (Assistant to President), Radu<br />

Nicolau (VP of Sales, Eastern European<br />

Territories)<br />

Office: IFTA Pavillion MGB 141, Tel:<br />

+49.30.889.14 - 422<br />

THE LEVENGER TAPES<br />

Horror/ Thriller (93 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Mark Edwin Robinson<br />

Writer: Mark Edwin Robinson<br />

Producer: Danny Roth, David C. Robinson<br />

Key Cast: Johanna Braddy, Lili Mirojnick,<br />

Morgan Krantz, Chris Mulkey<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Detectives in a remote town pore through<br />

every frame of a troubling tape to find the<br />

whereabouts of three missing college students.<br />

The chilling footage becomes more<br />

and more disturbing when the students<br />

come upon the bloody dress of an 8-yearold<br />

girl in the secluded wilderness and take<br />

it upon themselves to find her. Linking the<br />

case of the missing girl and the missing<br />

students together, the detectives race to<br />

piece enough information together to find<br />

them alive.<br />

LIVING DARK: THE STORY OF TED<br />

THE CAVER<br />

Horror/ Thriller (112 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: David Hunt<br />

Writer: David Hunt Kevin Brown<br />

Producer: Joseph Armour, Marc Crandall,<br />

David Hunt, Thomas Olaimey<br />

Key Cast: Chris Cleveland, Matthew Alan,<br />

Circus Szalewski, Mark Hayter<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Two brothers, reunited for their father’s<br />

funeral, stumble upon the entrance to a<br />

nearby cave, where they are slowly forced<br />

to confront the true, nightmarish cause of<br />

their father’s death. Based on the popular<br />

Ted the Caver Internet legend.<br />

LEGEND OF THE RED REAPER<br />

Action/adventure, Romance, Fantasy (110<br />

min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Kristen Stewart<br />

Writer: Kristen Stewart<br />

Producer: Tara Cardinal, Dana Schroeder<br />

Key Cast: Tara Cardinal, David Mackey,<br />

Ray Eddy<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

For a thousand years, the Reapers guarded<br />

mankind from the demons that wait in the<br />

dark. Now, at the beginning of a new age,<br />

the Reapers are betrayed and slaughtered.<br />

Only one Reaper remains - Red, and she’s<br />

out to exact revenge.<br />

DON’T GO INTO THE WOODS<br />

Horror, Musical (83 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Vincent D’Onofrio<br />

Writer: Sam Bisbee, Vincent D’Onofrio,<br />

Joe Vinciguerra<br />

Producer: Erika Hampson, Ken Christmas<br />

Key Cast: Bo Boddie, Eric Bogosian,<br />

Gwynn Galitzer, Jorgen Jorgensen, Tim<br />

Lajcik, Soomin Lee<br />

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Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A young band heads to the woods in order<br />

to focus on writing new songs. Hoping to<br />

emerge with new music that will score<br />

them their big break, they instead find<br />

themselves in the middle of a nightmare<br />

beyond comprehension.<br />

PETUNIA<br />

Comedy/ Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Ash Christian<br />

Writer: Ash Christian, Theresa Bennett<br />

Producer: Thora Birch, Ash Christian,<br />

Jordan Yale Levine<br />

Key Cast: Thora Birch, Brittany Snow,<br />

Eddie Kaye Thomas, Christine Lahti<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

An off beat family of New Yorkers must<br />

come to terms with their own misgivings<br />

about life, relationships and the sheer<br />

unpredictability of love itself. Petunia<br />

weaves together the lives of brothers<br />

Charlie (Tobias Segal), Adrian and Michael<br />

(Eddie Kaye Thomas) as they unlearn<br />

everything their psychoanalyst parents have<br />

taught them. While Michael’s cynical wife<br />

Vivian (Thora Birch) discovers she is pregnant,<br />

the family is also changing. Charlie’s<br />

would be boyfriend George (Michael Urie)<br />

is in a polyamorous relationship with fitness<br />

fanatic Robin (Brittany Snow) and<br />

Adrian has developed a unrelenting sex<br />

addiction. Meddling parents Felicia<br />

(Christine Lahti) and Percy (David Rasche)<br />

must decide whether to reignite the spark<br />

in their relationship or start all over again.<br />

Petunia is a film about a dysfunctional<br />

family unit on the verge of a nervous<br />

breakdown. This is the story of how they<br />

pick up the pieces.<br />

TROPHY<br />

Crime/ Action<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Daniel J. Gillin<br />

Writer: Daniel J. Gillin<br />

Producer: Daniel J. Gillin<br />

Key Cast: Michael Madsen, Robert Miano,<br />

Tiny Lister, Michael Masini, Ya Boy, Ali<br />

Costello, Trisha Lurie, Ben Maccabee<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

TROPHY tells the story of man’s obsession<br />

for POWER and how far they will go<br />

sometimes to claim the “PRIZE”. “Trophy”<br />

adds a new twist to the stereotypical MOB<br />

MOVIES in that the TROPHY WOMAN<br />

in this case gets more than the normal<br />

ABUSE and monetary benefits of rolling<br />

with the Bad Boys, she gets Mr. Right. The<br />

film has twists and turns, Action, humor,<br />

the power of the Mafia, showdowns, seduction<br />

and the reality that DREAMS do come<br />

true even when it all seems impossible.<br />

A NOVEL ROMANCE<br />

Romance<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Allie Dvorin<br />

Writer: Allie Dvorin<br />

Producer: Morris S. Levy<br />

Key Cast: Shannon Elizabeth, Steve<br />

Guttenberg and Natalya Rudakova<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Two New York singles move in together<br />

after one gets fired and the other loses her<br />

boyfriend tragically. They move in as<br />

friends and think nothing will change as<br />

friends, but everything does.<br />

SCORE: A HOCKEY MUSICAL<br />

Comedy/ Drama/ Musical (92 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Michael McGowan<br />

Writer: Michael McGowan<br />

Producer: Avi Federgreen, Michael<br />

McGowan<br />

Key Cast: John McDonald, Noah Reid,<br />

Allie MacDonald, Olivia Newton-John,<br />

Nelly Furtado<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

Seventeen-year-old Farley has led a sheltered<br />

life, raised on a diet of home schooling,<br />

organic living and trips to the art<br />

gallery. To his parents’ dismay, Farley<br />

loves to play shinny with the local rink<br />

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rats. To their even greater dismay, Farley is<br />

scouted and signed by the owner (Stephen<br />

McHattie) of a junior league team, where<br />

he becomes an instant star. But Farley discovers<br />

that stardom comes with a priceincluding<br />

the expectation to fight on the<br />

ice. Throw in a changing relationship with<br />

his best friend (Allie MacDonald), and<br />

Farley finds himself losing his way.<br />

BURNING PALMS<br />

Comedy/ Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Christopher B. Landon<br />

Writer: Christopher B. Landon<br />

Producer: Jason Hewitt, Oren Segal, Steven<br />

Chester Prince<br />

Key Cast: Zoe Saldana, Rosamund Pike,<br />

Shannen Doherty, Lake Bell, Dylan<br />

McDermott, Paz Vega<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A subversive tale that interlaces five stories<br />

set in Los Angeles, where no taboo is left<br />

unexplored as each character careens<br />

toward a dark and often comic fate.<br />

FLYING LESSONS<br />

Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Derek Magyar<br />

Writer: Thomas Kuehl<br />

Producer: Jenny Hinkey, Derek Magyar<br />

Key Cast: Maggie Grace, Hal Holbrook,<br />

Jonathan Tucker, Christine Lahti, Cary<br />

Elwes<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

With her life at a crossroads, 25 year old<br />

Sophie Conway returns home to the small<br />

town she always wanted to forget. Once<br />

home, she is faced with the friends and<br />

lovers she left behind, a tangled relationship<br />

with her Mother, and Harry Pleasant,<br />

an Alzheimer’s Disease patient who, in an<br />

opposing way, shares Sophie’s struggle to<br />

remember.<br />

SAVING GRACE B. JONES<br />

Drama, Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Connie Stevens<br />

Writer: Connie Stevens<br />

Producer: Ralph S. Singleton, Connie<br />

Stevens<br />

Key Cast: Tatum O’Neal, Michael Biehn,<br />

Penelope Ann Miller, Evie Thompson<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

In a 1950s-era Missouri town the life of a<br />

couple is thrown into chaos when the husband’s<br />

sister is released from the local asylum<br />

and comes to live with the family.<br />

SATIN<br />

Comedy, Drama, Romance<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Christopher Olness<br />

Writer: Christopher Olness, Hamilton von<br />

Watts<br />

Producer: Chip Bent, Christopher Olness,<br />

Hamilton von Watts<br />

Key Cast: Hamilton von Watts, Melissa<br />

Joan Hart, Robert Guillaume, Alley Mills<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A washed up Vegas lounge singer, Jack<br />

Satin (Hamilton von Watts), has no money,<br />

no job, and delusional aspirations of fame.<br />

When Jack is forced to leave Vegas, he<br />

packs up his old Cadillac and hits the road<br />

for Atlantic City. But his car dies in the<br />

desert and Jack is left stranded in the small<br />

town of Lost Springs. There, Jack meets<br />

jazz legend turned mechanic, Doc Bishop<br />

(Robert Guillaume), who helps him with<br />

his car trouble. Although Jack is far from<br />

the stage, he begins to find himself feeling<br />

at home in the small town. When he meets<br />

local bar owner, Lauren Wells (Melissa<br />

Joan Hart), Jack starts to see there is more<br />

to life than chasing fame and fortune. Doc<br />

encourages Jack to explore his true love of<br />

music, while Lauren provides the audience<br />

he has always wanted. But as Jack realizes<br />

this town has more to offer him than the<br />

bright lights of the big city, his Vegas past<br />

catches up with him — what unfolds is<br />

comedy at the crossroads of life.<br />

HIT LIST<br />

Comedy, Romance (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

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Director: Minh Collins<br />

Writer: Thompson Evans<br />

Producer: Elmer Ventura, Minh Collins<br />

Key Cast: Shirly Brener, Joseph Lawrence<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Charlotte is a woman with anger management<br />

issues whose therapist suggests she<br />

write a journal to keep her emotions in<br />

check. Unlucky in love, she ventures online<br />

to find a boyfriend. Just as she reaches her<br />

limit of unsuccessful dates, Charlotte meets<br />

her soul mate Lyle. Everything is perfect<br />

until Lyle finds Charlottes journal and sets<br />

out to prove just how deeply he loves her.<br />

NONSTOP SALES AB<br />

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+46840010003.<br />

http://www.nonstopsales.com E-mail:<br />

info@nonstopsales.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Michael Werner (Sales Manager),<br />

Peter Torkelsson (Senior Sales Executive),<br />

Rachel Keith Bodros (Sales Coordinator)<br />

Office: Scandinavian Films, MGB # 28 ,<br />

Tel: +46.734.39.99.88. Fax:<br />

+46.8.400.100.03<br />

SIMON AND THE OAKS<br />

Drama (120 min)<br />

Language: Swedish and German<br />

Director: Lisa Ohlin<br />

Writer: Marnie Blok<br />

Executive Producer: Per Holst, John M<br />

Jacobsen, Sveinung Golimo, Steffen<br />

Reuter, Patrick Knippel, Marc-Daniel<br />

Dichant, Leander Carell<br />

Producer: Christer Nilsson<br />

Key Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Helen Sjíholm,<br />

Jan Josef Liiefers, Stefan Gídicke<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Sweden<br />

Simon has had a loving childhood, but still<br />

feels alien in the working class neighbourhoods<br />

of 1940’s Gothenburg. Against his<br />

parents’ will he, being intellectually gifted,<br />

turns to an education otherwise reserved<br />

for young men of academic heritage. There<br />

he meets Isak, the son of a wealthy Jewish<br />

bookseller who has flead the German persecutions.<br />

The boys and their families’<br />

lives will interconnect in unexpected ways<br />

as the war rages all over Europe. Marianne<br />

Fredriksson is one of Sweden’s internationally<br />

most read authors, her books have<br />

been translated into more than 40 languages<br />

and have sold over 17 million<br />

copies. SIMON AND THE OAKS is based<br />

on her critically acclaimed novel with the<br />

same name. It’s also the first feature film<br />

adaptation based on her books. SIMON<br />

AND THE OAKS stars Sweden’s rising<br />

star Bill Skarsgård (Simple Simon, Arn -<br />

The Knight Templar) as Simon.<br />

MAGIC SILVER 2 - THE QUEST FOR<br />

THE MYSTIC HORN<br />

Family (85 min)<br />

Language: Norwegian (English dub is<br />

available)<br />

Director: Arne Lindtner Naess<br />

Writer: Gudny Ingebjorg Hagen & Thomas<br />

Moldestad<br />

Producer: Jorgen Storm Rosenberg, Lasse<br />

Greve Alsos<br />

Key Cast: Ane Viola Andreassen Semb,<br />

Johan Tinus Austad Lindgren, Toralf<br />

Maurstad, Per Christian Ellefsen, Elsa<br />

Lystad, Hilde Lyrån<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Norway<br />

The anticipated 3D sequel to the successful<br />

children’s action adventure feature “Magic<br />

Silver” which became a big success after<br />

its domestic premiere in Norway with over<br />

350 000 admissions. Magic Silver has been<br />

sold world-wide to more than 50 countries.<br />

The story of Magic Silver 2 is set high up<br />

in the Blue Mountain, where young queen<br />

Blureose finds it more and more difficult to<br />

live within the boundaries of the Blue<br />

Gnome community. When she becomes<br />

aware that a dangerous glacier is threatening<br />

the Blue Mountain valley and the Red<br />

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Gnomes living there, she sets out on a journey<br />

to find the Blue Horn, a magical<br />

instrument that can change the weather.<br />

With this instrument she might be able to<br />

save the Red Gnomes.<br />

COMPANY ORHEIM<br />

AKA: KOMPANI ORHEIM<br />

Drama (100)<br />

Language: Norwegian<br />

Director: Arild Andresen<br />

Writer: Lars Gudmestad, Arild Andresen<br />

Producer: Yngve Saether, Sigve Endresen<br />

Key Cast: Kristoffer Joner, Cecilie Mosli,<br />

Rolf Kristian Larsen<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Norway<br />

A strong, human tale about growing up<br />

with an alcoholic father, but also an energetic<br />

story about teenage lust and pain –<br />

about liberation and redemption.<br />

BODY OF WATER<br />

Psycological thriller (105)<br />

Language: Finnish<br />

Director: Joona Tena<br />

Writer: Pekka Lehtosaari, Joona Tena,<br />

Mikko Tenhunen<br />

Producer: Marko Röhr<br />

Key Cast: Krista Kosonen, Kai Lehtinen<br />

and Viljami Nojonen<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Finlnad<br />

Julia, a busy big city lawyer, travels to a<br />

remote lakeside town to help the town’s<br />

people resist a planned hydro plant reservoir.<br />

There she becomes the target of disturbing<br />

attacks by a supernatural spirit. To<br />

fight the spirit she must uncover a dark<br />

secret in her own family history.<br />

LOFT<br />

Thriller (110 min)<br />

Language: Dutch<br />

Director: Antoinette Beumer<br />

Writer: Bart De Pauw, adaptation by Saskia<br />

Noort<br />

Executive Producer: Hilde De Laere,<br />

Rachel van Bommel, Sander Meurs<br />

Producer: Woestijnvis, Millstreet Films,<br />

Pupkin Film<br />

Key Cast: Fedja van Huíªt, Barry Atsma,<br />

Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Gijs Naber,<br />

Chico Kenzari<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: The Netherlands<br />

Five friends have a secret pact where they<br />

share a trendy loft apartment in which they<br />

can discreetly entertain their mistresses and<br />

conquests. It seems like a great arrangement<br />

until, one winter morning, they discover<br />

the naked body of a young woman.<br />

No one knows who she is or how she got<br />

there. The group turns in on itself as they<br />

start to suspect each other. It soon becomes<br />

clear that they know far less about each<br />

other than they had initially thought.<br />

BRIGHT SIDE OF THE MOON, THE<br />

Drama (120)<br />

Language: Russian (partly English)<br />

Director: Massimo Guglielmi<br />

Writer: Massimo Guglielmi, Cinzia Tani,<br />

Alessandro Leone<br />

Producer: Maria Christina Marolla<br />

Key Cast: Branko Djuric, Lyanka Gruy,<br />

Tanja Ribic<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy/Russia<br />

Tonja has a dream, to walk on the moon.<br />

Tonja will become a cosmonaut just like<br />

her uncle Vladimir.<br />

ITALIAN KEY, THE<br />

Romantic Drama (100 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Rosa Karo<br />

Writer: Rosa Karo<br />

Producer: Tuomas Kantelinen, Peter O.<br />

Almond, Seppo Toivonen<br />

Key Cast: Gwendolyn Anslow, Joana<br />

Cartocci, Elsa Cartocci, Leo Vertunni,<br />

Andreas Wilson, Richard Ulfster, Joeanna<br />

Sayler<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Finland/Italy/US<br />

The Italian Key is a romantic fairy tale<br />

about a 19-year-old orphan who gets, as<br />

her sole inheritance, an antique key that<br />

unlocks both an old villa in Italy and the<br />

mysteries of her family history.<br />

5 - CINQUE<br />

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Crime (99 min)<br />

Language: Italian<br />

Director: Francesco Dominedí?<br />

Writer: Francesco Dominedí?, Riccardo<br />

Papa<br />

Producer: Walter D’Errico<br />

Key Cast: Francesco Arca, Massimo<br />

Bonetti, Alessandro Borghi, Matteo<br />

Branciamore, Walter D’Errico, Giada De<br />

Blank, Cristian Marazziti, Angelo Orlando,<br />

Rolando Ravello, Stefano Sammarco<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

Confidential information revealed.<br />

Revenge carried out. The life line of the<br />

palm of a hand, slashed in the name of<br />

friendship. Five guys, grown up on the<br />

streets of Rome and friends since their first<br />

teenage encounter, suddenly move up from<br />

minor crimes to successfully pulling of a<br />

professional robbery. They find themselves<br />

in a new world of easy money and beautiful<br />

women but will they hold their own in<br />

the more aggressive, evil and ruthless environment<br />

that follows?<br />

BEYOND THE BORDER<br />

War/Drama (120)<br />

Language: Swedish<br />

Director: Richard Holm<br />

Writer: Johnny Steen, Andr? Sj?berg<br />

Producer: Johnny Steen, Andr? Sj?berg<br />

Key Cast: Andr? Sj?berg, Antti Reini,<br />

Bj?rn Sundquist<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Sweden<br />

December 1942, Sweden is on the verge of<br />

being invaded. Two young soldiers leave<br />

their roadblock post to get to the<br />

Norwegian border to catch a glimpse of the<br />

occupying Nazis. Their adventure ends in a<br />

disaster, and the day after, Lieutenant<br />

Stenstr?m finds out that one of the missing<br />

soldiers is his brother. Now he has to lead a<br />

rescue team behind enemy lines in a secret<br />

mission to retrieve his brother. Deep in the<br />

dark Norwegian woods Stenstr?m realizes<br />

that completely other borders needs to be<br />

crossed if they are to get out of there<br />

alive...<br />

LIVERPOOL GOALIE, THE<br />

Children/Comedy (85 minutes)<br />

Language: Norwegian<br />

Director: Arild Andresen<br />

Writer: Lars Gudmestad<br />

Producer: H?kon ?ver?s, Karin Julsrud<br />

Key Cast: Ask von der Hagen, Susanne<br />

Boucher, Andrine Saether, K?re Conradi<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Norge<br />

In THE LIVERPOOL GOALIE both girls<br />

and boys play football, worship their idols,<br />

and are frustrated by complicated friendships,<br />

young love, anxious mothers and<br />

overambitious football coaches. At the<br />

heart of the events, we find twelve year old<br />

Jo. Jo tries to avoid both potential girlfriends,<br />

mothers and football coaches, as he<br />

is hunting desperately for a rare football<br />

card which he believes will solve all his<br />

problems. Jo has a smart head, but a weak<br />

body. Even so, he gets by relatively well -<br />

until Mari throws him a glance, and he<br />

acquires The Liverpool Goalie.<br />

I TRAVEL ALONE<br />

Drama (94 minutes)<br />

Language: Norwegian<br />

Director: Stian Kristiansen<br />

Writer: Tore Renberg<br />

Producer: Yngve Saether<br />

Key Cast: Rolf Kristian Larsen, Ingrid<br />

Bols? Berdal, Amina Elonora Bergrem, P?l<br />

Sverre Valheim Hagen, Gustaf Hammarsten<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Norway<br />

Jarle Klepp is a 25-year-old student of literature<br />

with a passion for Adorno, Proust<br />

and grown-up women - and definitively not<br />

Tamagochi’s, Lady Di and small kids. The<br />

news that he is the father of a seven year<br />

old girl - and that she will come visiting<br />

next week - enters his life like a nuclear<br />

bomb. Jarle Klepp has to become an adult.<br />

Is he able to grow up? Does he want to<br />

grow up?<br />

WHO?<br />

Pre school (2 x 30 or 16 x 4)<br />

Language: Swedish<br />

Director: Jessica Laurén<br />

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Writer: Stina Wirsén<br />

Producer: Linda Hamback<br />

Key Cast: Gunnar Bohlin<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010-2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Sweden<br />

Endearing big stories for the small. Little<br />

Teddie-Piggy and her friends have fun,<br />

play games, tussle and cuddle with each<br />

other in stories with happy endings about<br />

getting lost, winning games, hitting yourself<br />

on the beak and being different<br />

because you are yellow for our littlest children.<br />

The films are based on the popular<br />

books with the same titles and are produced<br />

in close collaboration with Stina<br />

Wirsén, a children book author, widely<br />

known for her illustrations. Each short<br />

episode is based on a book, portraying real<br />

issues and everyday questions faced by our<br />

little ones: Who’s lonely and who doesn’t<br />

sleep? And whose grandma is it really, why<br />

does cousin call her that as well?<br />

LITTLE GREY FERGIE AND HIS<br />

NEW FRIEND CLUNKY<br />

Children/Family (89)<br />

Language: Norwegian<br />

Director: Trond Jacobsen<br />

Writer: Morten Myklebust<br />

Producer: Anne Amalie THOWSEN<br />

Key Cast: Joachim BERG, Tiril HEIDE-<br />

STEEN, Ole-Kristian LIMA, Dan Robert<br />

THORSEN<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Norway<br />

Little Grey Fergie feels lontely on the farm<br />

and gets Goggen to build the fully automatic,<br />

electric, self-propelled scarecrow, but<br />

things don’t go the way Fergie expected<br />

them too.<br />

THE FOREST PEOPLE<br />

Children/Family (3 X 25)<br />

Language: Norwegian<br />

Director: Trond Jacobsen<br />

Writer: Morten Myklebust<br />

Key Cast: Eivind Lundby, Linn Olssen,<br />

Kalle Øby<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Norway<br />

The forest people live deep in the woods.<br />

Even though they live next to humans, they<br />

avoid all contact with us, beacause as they<br />

say: the humans have forgotten how to live<br />

in harmony with nature. The Forest People<br />

is a great adventure series for the entire<br />

family.<br />

SOUTH OF NEW YORK<br />

Comedy (85 minutes)<br />

Language: Italian (partly English)<br />

Director: Elena Bonelli<br />

Writer: Elena Bonelli<br />

Producer: Claudio Lido Orlandini<br />

Key Cast: Elena Bonelli, Francesco<br />

Paolantoni, Franco Neri, Gianfranco Gallo,<br />

Luca Napolitano, Carmen Napolitano,<br />

Fioretta Mari<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Italian<br />

A former Broadway star, Jenny, tries to<br />

reach for the stars one last time by teaming<br />

up with the up and coming talent<br />

Carmelina. Together they search for love,<br />

happiness and success in this highly original<br />

Italian-American musical comedy.<br />

PSALM 21<br />

Horror (94)<br />

Language: Swedish<br />

Director: Fredrik Hiller<br />

Writer: Fredrik Hiller<br />

Producer: Fredrik Hiller & Thabo Malmén<br />

Key Cast: Jonas Malmsjö, Per Ragnar,<br />

Görel Crona, Josefin Ljungman, Julia<br />

Dufvenius<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Sweden<br />

PSALM 21 is the story of a beloved young<br />

Stockholm priest, Henrik Horneus, who<br />

suffers from horrific nightmares about his<br />

dead mother. One day, he receives word<br />

from the coroner in the remote village of<br />

Borgvattnet that his father, also a priest,<br />

has drowned under circumstances<br />

unknown. Henrik travels through the dark<br />

forests of Northern Sweden all the way up<br />

to Borgvattnet to find out what really happened.<br />

His inquires about his father’s death<br />

seems to set clandestine forces into motion.<br />

Shadows from the other side emerge - and<br />

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cross the threshold to our world. With one<br />

purpose - revenge.<br />

DEAR ALICE<br />

Drama (97 min)<br />

Language: Swedish/English<br />

Director: Ortman Karim<br />

Writer: Othman Karim & Grace Maharaj-<br />

Ericsson<br />

Executive Producer: Nordisk Film AB,<br />

Film i Skåne, Nordisk Film Post<br />

Production, Europa Sound Production AB,<br />

Blixt Kamera ApS, FilmGEAR ApS<br />

Producer: Malin Holmberg-Karim & Hans<br />

Línnerheden<br />

Key Cast: Danny Glover, Tuva Novotny,<br />

Peter Gardiner, Ulf Brunnberg, Stefan Sauk<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Sweden<br />

Directed by the previously awarded<br />

Othman Karim from Sweden. The film<br />

stars international star Danny Glover and<br />

some of Sweden’s top actors, Tuva<br />

Novotny (Eat Pray Love) Stefan Sauk and<br />

Regina Lund. The critically acclaimed,<br />

partly English spoken drama, tells the story<br />

of four very different lives and how their<br />

paths, by a series of circumstances, come<br />

to cross. During what seems to be just an<br />

ordinary day, these four people are making<br />

everyday decisions that at the moment<br />

seem to be trivial but that ultimately lead to<br />

a life changing and violently destructive<br />

end for all involved.<br />

PIGGIES<br />

Drama (94)<br />

Language: Polish<br />

Director: Robert Glinski<br />

Writer: Joanna Didik and Robert Glinski<br />

Producer: Witold Iwaszkiewicz, Eike<br />

Goreczka, Thomas Jeschner, Mario<br />

Schneider<br />

Key Cast: Filip Garbacz, Anna Kuley,<br />

Daniel Furmaniak, Heiko Raulin und Rolf<br />

Hoppe<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Poland<br />

Tomek is a sixteen-year-old boy living with<br />

his parents close to the Polish-German border.<br />

One day he discovers the secret of a<br />

school friend Ciemny, who together with<br />

other teenage boys, sell themselves to<br />

German paedophiles. It seems to be the<br />

only sure way to earn money in their small<br />

town, and so Tomek decides not only to<br />

join the boys, but to become the star of<br />

their nightly excursions to Germany.<br />

LENINGRAD<br />

Drama (110 min)<br />

Language: Russian/English/German<br />

Director: Alexander Buravsky<br />

Writer: Alexander Buravsky<br />

Executive Producer: Anna Sobinevsky,<br />

Olga Maksimova, Natalia Gorina<br />

Producer: Sergei Melkumov, Alexander<br />

Buravsky, Marina Shmidt, Peter Doyle,<br />

David Gamburg, Chris Curling<br />

Key Cast: Mira Sorvino, Gabriel Byrne,<br />

Elena Kovalyova, Julia Sobolevskaya,<br />

Patrcia Roze<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: Russia/England<br />

“Leningrad” is a World War II epic that<br />

tracks the heroics and sacrifices of a young<br />

British journalist, Kate Davis, during the<br />

Nazi siege of Leningrad in the winter of<br />

1941.In the midst of this horrific siege, she<br />

becomes isolated within the famished city<br />

and separated from her lover, an American<br />

journalist named Philip Parker. Kate is able<br />

to befriend Nina Tsvetkova, a Leningrad<br />

militia woman, and two Russian children.<br />

She stays with them, and together they<br />

fight for their lives, surrounded by death,<br />

starvation, and the bullets of war. This epic<br />

story is inspired by true events. The siege<br />

of Leningrad was one of the longest and<br />

most destructive sieges in history. It lasted<br />

872 days.<br />

FRAMILY<br />

Drama (96 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Joachim Hedén<br />

Writer: Joachim Hedén<br />

Executive Producer: Joachim Hedén, Julia<br />

Gebauer, Jonas Sírensson<br />

Producer: Julia Gebauer<br />

Key Cast: Richard Gunn, Jennifer O´Kain,<br />

Jennifer Christopher, Benny Harris, Kelly<br />

Pendygraft, Scott Peat, Reanna Nicole<br />

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Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Sweden / USA<br />

In an effort to quick-fix their respective<br />

relationship troubles, six 30-something<br />

friends decide to form a “Framily”. After<br />

Ethan inherits his Fathers big old house<br />

outside San Francisco the friends all move<br />

in together and try another way of living.<br />

Life in the house is easy - and not. As<br />

friendships and family merge, each member<br />

of the Framily comes to question what<br />

it is they want beyond the quick-fix.<br />

NORTH BY<br />

NORTHWEST<br />

ENTERTAINMENT<br />

North by Northwest Entertainment, 903<br />

West Broadway, Spokane, Washington<br />

99201 USA, Tel: 1.509.324.2949. Fax:<br />

1.509.324.2959. www.nxnwmoviesales.net<br />

E-mail: moviesales@nxnw.net<br />

Sales Agent, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Claudia Roesler (Manager<br />

International Sales)<br />

Office: IFTA Pavilion, Stand number: 141,<br />

Tel: +49.30.889.14 – 422<br />

THE TRIAL<br />

Drama (98 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Gary Wheeler<br />

Writer: Mark Freiburger, Gary Wheeler,<br />

Robert Whitlow<br />

Co-Production Partners: Whitlow Films,<br />

Level Path Productions<br />

Executive Producer: Robert Whitlow &<br />

Kathy Whitlow<br />

Producer: Mark Freiburger & Matthew<br />

Modine<br />

Key Cast: Matthew Modine Bob Gunton<br />

Robert Forster<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: United States<br />

Elspeth Tavares @ Berlin<br />

Relaxa-Hotel Stuttgarter Hof<br />

49 (0) 30 26483-0<br />

An emotional crippled attorney who has<br />

lost his faith decides to take one last case:<br />

A young man facing the death penalty for<br />

first-degree murder. But nothing can prepare<br />

him for the startling twists and turns<br />

of the ensuing trial, as the determined<br />

lawyer fights for justice and seeks a path to<br />

his own redemption<br />

THE RIVER MURDERS<br />

AKA: THE RIVER SORROW<br />

Thriller (96 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Rich Cowan<br />

Writer: Steve Anderson<br />

Co-Production Partners: Stowaway Ent.,<br />

Howieco Inc., March On Productions,<br />

Northby Northwest Entertainment<br />

Executive Producer: Richard Salvatore<br />

Howard Kerbel Brad Harland<br />

Producer: Daniel Toll Steve Anderson<br />

Sarah Ann Schultz Tay Voye<br />

Key Cast: Ray Liotta Ving Rhames<br />

Christian Slater<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: United States<br />

A Homicide detective past comes back to<br />

haunt him with a series of gruesome murders.<br />

NU IMAGE/<br />

MILLENNIUM FILMS<br />

Nu Image/Millennium Films, 6423 Wilshire<br />

Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA, Tel:<br />

1.310.388.6900 Fax: 1.310.388.6901.<br />

www.nuimage.net E-mail:<br />

info@nuimage.net<br />

Sales Agent, Producer<br />

Sales Team attending EFM: John Fremes,<br />

Roy Matalon, Jeffrey Greenstein<br />

Office: Maritim Hotel Berlin, Presidential<br />

Suite #10001, Tel: +49(0)30.2065.29004<br />

KILLING SEASON<br />

Director: Mark Steven Johnson (Daredevil,<br />

Ghost Rider)<br />

Key Cast: Robert De Niro, John Travolta<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Two former wartime adversaries battle one<br />

another in the wilderness.<br />

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LOVELACE<br />

Director: AAcademy Award® Winners,<br />

Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman<br />

Key Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Peter<br />

Sarsgaard, James Franco, Sharon Stone,<br />

Chris Noth, Hank Azaria, Eric Roberts,<br />

Wes Bentley, Adam Brody, Chloe Sevigny<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

The life of Linda Lovelace told through the<br />

production of Deep Throat, her abusive<br />

relationship with Chuck Traynor and eventual<br />

spearheading of the feminist antipornography<br />

movement.<br />

THE ICEMAN<br />

Director: Ariel Vroman<br />

Key Cast: Michael Shannon (Boardwalk<br />

Empire, Man of Steel), James Franco<br />

(Riseof the Planet of the Apes, 127 Hours,<br />

Spider-Man)<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

The epic story of Richard Kuklinski, who<br />

led an amazing double-life as a devoted<br />

family man and a ruthless mafia hitman.<br />

He earned his nick-name, ‘the Iceman’, by<br />

storing his victims’ corpses in deep freezes,<br />

often discarding them months later, thus<br />

disguising the time of their death.<br />

NZ FILM<br />

COMMISSION<br />

NZ Film Commission, Level 3, 119<br />

Ghuznee Street, Wellington, 6011 New<br />

Zealand , Tel: +64.4.3827680. Fax:<br />

+64.4.3849719. www.nzfilm.co.nz E-mail:<br />

sales@nzfilm.co.nz<br />

Sales Agent, Financier<br />

At EFM: James Thompson (Head of Sales<br />

and Marketing)<br />

Office: , Tel: +64.21.911.757<br />

TWO LITTLE BOYS<br />

Comedy (108)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Robert Sarkies<br />

Writer: Duncan Sarkies, Robert Sarkies<br />

Producer: Vicky Pope, Tim White<br />

Key Cast: Bret McKenzie Hamish Blake<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: New Zealand<br />

An irreverent comedy about Nige, his best<br />

mate Deano and their riotous misadventures<br />

as they struggle with their imploding<br />

long term friendship which has been put<br />

under pressure by an unfortunate incident<br />

involving a hot meat pie, a ginger cat and<br />

the untimely death of a Scandinavian football<br />

star.<br />

THE MOST FUN YOU CAN HAVE<br />

DYING<br />

Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Kirstin Marcon<br />

Writer: Kirstin Marcon<br />

Executive Producer: Tim White<br />

Producer: Alex Cole-Baker<br />

Key Cast: Matt Whelan Roxane Mesquida<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: New Zealand<br />

Michael’s in a race against time after learning<br />

he has only months to live. Stealing his<br />

own treatment money, he leaves his loved<br />

ones behind and heads to London. Intent<br />

on going out in a blur of sex, drugs and<br />

mayhem, eerything changes when he falls<br />

for a mysterious French girl named Sylvie.<br />

THE LAST DOGS OF WINTER<br />

Documentary<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Costa Botes<br />

Writer: Costa Botes<br />

Producer: Costa Botes<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: New Zealand<br />

Since 1976 Brian Ladoon has fought to<br />

keep the Canadian Eskimo Dog from<br />

extinction by keeping them in harsh natural<br />

conditions which maintain the extreme<br />

stamina of the breed. The twist is they<br />

share their environment with itinerant polar<br />

bears. As global warming and eco-tourism<br />

provoke growing pressure on his activities,<br />

Brian and his beloved dogs are facing an<br />

even more uncertain future.<br />

THE ORATOR<br />

AKA: O LE TULAFALE<br />

Drama<br />

Language: Samoan<br />

Director: Tauti Tusi Tamasese<br />

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Writer: Tauri Tusi Tamasese<br />

Producer: Catherine Fitzgerald<br />

Key Cast: Fiaula Sanote Tausili Pushparaj<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: New Zealand<br />

A beautiful tale of ritual, tradition, courage<br />

and love. Saili, a small man with a big<br />

heart, must find the courage to speak up for<br />

those whom he loves.<br />

SHIHAD - BEAUTIFUL MACHINE<br />

Documentary<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Sam Peacocke<br />

Producer: Grant Roa, Laurence Alexander<br />

Key Cast: Featuring Jon Toogood, Tom<br />

Larkin, Phil Knight and Karl Kippenberger<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: New Zealand<br />

NZ’s most successful rock band took their<br />

dreams all the way to the giddy heights of<br />

the US music scene. A terrorist attack, illadvised<br />

name-change and swift-talking<br />

managers saw those dreams fall apart at the<br />

seams in one fated moment in LA’s notorious<br />

‘Viper Room’. After multiple best-selling<br />

albums and a bond that has endured for<br />

over 23 years this documentary examines<br />

the notions of family, loyalty and success<br />

for four friends that almost took the biggest<br />

music industry in the world by storm...<br />

FRESH MEAT<br />

Comedy Horror<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Danny Mulheron<br />

Writer: Briar Grace-Smith, Brad Abraham,<br />

Joseph O’Brien<br />

Producer: Dave Gibson<br />

Key Cast: Temuera Morrison Hanna Tevita<br />

Kate Elliot<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: New Zealand<br />

A gang of criminals take a middle class<br />

Maori family hostage and discover too late<br />

that they’re a family of cannibals.<br />

ONE MEDIA GROUP<br />

One Media Group, 1415 Camden Ave.,<br />

Ste., 201, Los Angeles, CA 90025 USA,<br />

Tel: 1.310.980.9979 Fax: 1.310.268.2220.<br />

www.onemediagroup.net E-mail:<br />

amiller@onemediagroup.net<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Andrea Miller (President)<br />

Office: Exhibitor without a Stand , Tel:<br />

1.310.980.9979<br />

ALMOST KINGS<br />

AKA: THE WHEELER BOYS<br />

Drama (93 Min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Philip Flores<br />

Writer: Max Doty<br />

Producer: Chase Kenney, Peter Foldy<br />

Key Cast: Alex Frost, Lorenzo James<br />

Henrie, Portia Doubleday, Haley Ramm,<br />

Olivia Crocicchia, Alex Russell, Billy<br />

Campbell<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Directed by Philip G. Flores the 2010<br />

NETFLIX, Find Your Voice Winner,<br />

Almost Kings, is an edgy, coming-of-age<br />

tale in which smart, high school freshman,<br />

Ted, (Lorenzo James Henrie, Star Trek)<br />

lives with his abusive father Ron, (Billy<br />

Campbell, Ghost Town, The Rocketeer)<br />

and his older brother Truck, (Alex Frost,<br />

Gus Van Sant’s ELEPHANT next seen in<br />

Academy Award winner Dustin Lance<br />

Black’s, What’s Wrong with Virginia?). To<br />

earn his respect Ted begins hanging out<br />

with Truck’s gang, The Kings, and among<br />

other things, learns about their secret contest<br />

to have sex with as many freshman<br />

girls as possible. Trying to impress them,<br />

Ted tells them he wants to play too. Also<br />

starring, Portia Doubleday (Youth in<br />

Revolt) and Haley Ramm (X-Men: The<br />

Last Stand, Into the Wild, Skateland, Red<br />

State).<br />

ETHAN BORTNICK AND HIS MUSI-<br />

CAL TIME MACHINE<br />

Family Concert (60 Min. and 40 Min<br />

Versions)<br />

Language: English<br />

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Director: Mark Lucas<br />

Writer: Kellie Henika<br />

Producer: Mind: Fox Productions, AEG<br />

Live<br />

Key Cast: Ethan Bortnick, Gloria Gaynor,<br />

Arturo Sandoval, Extras with Quincy Jones<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Ethan Bortnick, child prodigy, is a pianist,<br />

composer, entertainer and one of the<br />

youngest philanthropists in the world and<br />

his concert takes you on a musical journey<br />

through time. Guest starring renowned<br />

artists such as The Canadian Tenors, Gloria<br />

Gaynor and Arturo Sandoval performing<br />

some of their most famous songs and<br />

music, Ethan travels through time using the<br />

piano as the doorway to past decades of<br />

music and performs the most popular<br />

music and songs from the past from artists<br />

like The Beatles to classic composers such<br />

as Mozart. ETHAN BORTNICK AND HIS<br />

MUSICAL TIME MACHINE is upbeat<br />

and fun for children and adults alike. DVD<br />

Available with Special Features including<br />

an interview with the one and only QUIN-<br />

CY JONES.<br />

OPUS DISTRIBUTION<br />

Opus Distribution, 4132 Greenbrier Lane,<br />

Tarzana, CA 91356 USA, Tel:<br />

+1.818.708.8278. Fax: +1.818.708.8278.<br />

www.opusdistribution.com E-mail:<br />

kdubow@opusdistribution.com<br />

Distributor<br />

At EFM: Ken DuBow (President), Suzanne<br />

Barron (VP International Sales)<br />

Office: MGB Stand #135<br />

PELOTON<br />

Romantic Drama (90)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: J.J. Gerber<br />

Writer: J.J. Berber<br />

Executive Producer: John Lawrence, Jeff<br />

Johnson<br />

Producer: Jeff Johnson, Kelly L. King,<br />

Geno Salvatori<br />

Key Cast: KC Clyde, Jennifer Klekas<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

While bike messenger Phillipe Nash<br />

dreams of racing bikes,he also has a hard<br />

time committing to anything in his life, let<br />

alone a sport that demands pain,suffering<br />

and hours of training. When Nash loses his<br />

job and his apartment on the same day that<br />

he unexpectedly confronts his ex-girlfriend,<br />

he turns to his childhood friend,Jack. Jack<br />

and the ex-?girlfriend, Kate, both challenge<br />

Nash to commit to bikeracing. As Nash<br />

pulls his life together with his friend’s support,a<br />

tragic turn of events challenges his<br />

ability toremain committed and he instead<br />

runs away from everyone. He unwittingly<br />

starts a painful and often humorous journey<br />

towards growing up. Despite isolating himself<br />

in the high desert,Nash becomes surrounded<br />

by an eccentric group of tourists<br />

that provide the unconventional support he<br />

needs to return home fueled with the desire<br />

to race and to win back the woman he<br />

loves in this inspirational story set on the<br />

exciting backdrop of amateur cycling.<br />

PEAKVIEWING TRANSTLANTIC<br />

FILM LIBRARY<br />

Fantasy and Family (Various)<br />

Language: English<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

19 library titles from on the UK’s best producers<br />

of family and fantasy films with all<br />

star casts available again.<br />

DEADLY SIBLING RIVALRY<br />

Female Thriller (90)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Hanalee Culpepper<br />

Writer: Steve Peterson<br />

Co-Production Partners: Seven Palms in<br />

association with Maple Island Films<br />

Executive Producer: J. Vincent Reppert and<br />

Kevin Goetz<br />

Producer: Johnson Chan and John<br />

Murlowski<br />

Key Cast: Charisma Carpenter, Kyle<br />

Richards, Christa B. Allen, Ben Milliken<br />

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Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Two sisters, identical twins and fierce<br />

rivals play a deadly game of switching<br />

identities. When one sister falls into a<br />

coma, the other sister steps into her life.<br />

PARASTOO FILM<br />

Parastoo Film, 49 Highland Park Blvd.,<br />

Thornhill, Ontario L3T 1B4 Canada, Tel:<br />

1.416.873.9816. www.parastoofilm.com Email:<br />

info@parastoofilm.com<br />

Distributor<br />

At EFM: Hessam Ghorbanian (Founder &<br />

Managing Director)<br />

HEIRAN<br />

Feature, Drama (88 min.)<br />

Language: Persian with English Subtitle<br />

Director: Shalizeh Arefpour<br />

Writer: Shalizeh Arefpour, Naghmeh<br />

Samini<br />

Producer: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Jahangir<br />

Kosari<br />

Key Cast: Baran Kosari, Mehrdad<br />

Sedighian, Khosro Shakibaei, Farhad<br />

Aslani, Zhaleh Sameti, Fouzhan Arefpour,<br />

Mohsen Mokari<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: Iran<br />

During the rule of Taliban in Afghanistan,<br />

about 3 million illegal Afghani immigrants<br />

fled to Iran, causing numerous problems<br />

for the Iranian society in accepting them.<br />

This film depicts the story of a 17 year old<br />

rural girl by the name of Mahi (Fish), who<br />

comes from a war-stricken family in southern<br />

Iran. Mahi falls in love with Heiran, an<br />

Afghan student, who has come to their village<br />

to work. However, Mahi’s family<br />

being strictly against her marriage to an<br />

Afghan, forces her to choose one between<br />

her family and an Afghan boy.<br />

LOOSE ROPE<br />

Feature, Drama (82 min.)<br />

Language: Persian with English Subtitle<br />

Director: Mehrshad Karkhani<br />

Writer: Mehrshad Karkhani, Babak Panahi<br />

Co-Production Partners: Documentary and<br />

Experimental Film Center (DEFC<br />

Producer: Habibollah Kaseh Saz<br />

Key Cast: Pejman Bazeghi, Babak<br />

Hamidian, Keramat Roudsaz, Narges<br />

Mohammadi<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: Iran<br />

Two young rural men who work at the animals’<br />

market in Tehran have only 24 hours<br />

to take a large cow from downtown to<br />

uptown, with their jobs and futures at<br />

stake. The spectators follow their obligatory<br />

journey with the rope which is tied<br />

around the cow. Karkhani very cinematically<br />

describes the contrast which exists<br />

between the south and the north of a<br />

metropolis.<br />

NOSE, IRANIAN STYLE<br />

Documentary, Drama (52 min.)<br />

Language: Persian with English Subtitle<br />

Director: Mehrdad Oskouei<br />

Writer: Mehrdad Oskouei, Alireza<br />

Bahrami, Mandana Karimi<br />

Co-Production Partners: Sheherazad Media<br />

International (SMI), Katayoon Shahabi<br />

Producer: Mehrdad Oskouei<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2005 Country of<br />

Origin: Iran<br />

Why does Iran have the highest statistics<br />

for nose jobs in the world?! This documentary<br />

is about nose jobs in Iran. The filmmaker<br />

researches the reason that the young<br />

Iranian generation is so interested in changing<br />

their appearances. Through nose jobs,<br />

the film surveys and analyzes the urban<br />

society and today’s youth of Iran, especially<br />

in social, psychological, cultural, and<br />

political fields.<br />

PERSIAN CATWALK<br />

Documentary, Drama (53 min.)<br />

Language: Persian with English & French<br />

Subtitles<br />

Director: Marjan Alizadeh<br />

Writer: Marjan Alizadeh<br />

Producer: Life Media International<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: Iran<br />

Mahdis is a 20 year old girl who wishes to<br />

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be a model in Iran, despite the negative<br />

views of the country towards the subject.<br />

Mahdis’ father is also a highly religious<br />

man who does not make the situation any<br />

better for her. However, Mahdis tries to<br />

pursue her dream and battles with the<br />

obstacles facing her every day. Through the<br />

story of Mahdis, this documentary delves<br />

into the institute of fashion and its history<br />

in Iran, which is of much significance.<br />

PERSIAN RUG<br />

Documentary, Drama (49 min. & 35min.)<br />

Language: Persian with English Subtitle<br />

Director: Massoud Bakhshi<br />

Writer: Massoud Bakhshi<br />

Co-Production Partners: VPRO Netherland<br />

Producer: Massoud Bakhshi<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Iran<br />

Our Persian Rug depicts the perplexing<br />

memories of a young man who can’t forget<br />

his past. At the center of this family history<br />

is a Persian rug that the man’s grandmother<br />

once wove. Staring at this rug, he obsessively<br />

scans through photo albums to see<br />

which of his family members are lying and<br />

which ones are telling the truth.<br />

IT IS ALWAYS LATE FOR FREEDOM<br />

Documentary, Drama (53 min.)<br />

Language: Persian with English Subtitle<br />

Director: Mehrdad Oskouei<br />

Writer: Mehrdad Oskouei<br />

Producer: Mehrdad Oskouei<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

Origin: Iran<br />

Have you ever thought there are kids who<br />

dream of freedom? Three teenage boys in<br />

Tehran House of Correction are the innocent<br />

victims of serious social problems<br />

which the Iranian society is faced with,<br />

such as addiction, poverty, and divorce.<br />

UNFINISHED STORIES<br />

Feature, Drama (76 min.)<br />

Language: Persian with English Subtitle<br />

Director: Pourya Azarbayjani<br />

Writer: Pourya Azarbayjani<br />

Producer: Pourya Azarbayjani and Jalil<br />

Shabani<br />

Key Cast: Setareh Pesyani, Hengameh<br />

Ghaziani and Saiideh Amir Saii<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

Origin: Iran<br />

This film is the story of 3 young women,<br />

Setareh, Hengameh and Saiideh. Each<br />

woman has a different story. They are<br />

abandoned by their men and they are in the<br />

streets of Tehran because they have<br />

nowhere else to go. Setareh is a young girl,<br />

out of her house, because her parents are<br />

against her marriage with the boy she<br />

loves... Hengameh is a pregnant woman<br />

who left the house after a fight with her<br />

husband... And Saiideh must leave the hospital<br />

with her new born baby because she<br />

does not have money and her husband is in<br />

prison...<br />

BEAUTIFUL CITY<br />

Feature, Drama (102 min.)<br />

Language: Persian with English Subtitle<br />

Director: Asghar Farhadi<br />

Writer: Asghar Farhadi<br />

Producer: Iraj Taghipour<br />

Key Cast: Faramarz Gharibian, Taraneh<br />

Alidoosti, Babak Ansari, Ahoo<br />

Kheradmand<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2004 Country of<br />

Origin: Iran<br />

Akbar has been held in a rehabilitation center<br />

for committing murder at the age of sixteen<br />

when he was sentenced to death.<br />

Legally speaking, he had to reach the age<br />

of eighteen so that the sentence could be<br />

carried out. Now, the day after his 18th<br />

birthday, Akbar is transferred to prison to<br />

await the day of his execution. Akbar’s sister<br />

and his friend, Ala, are his only hope to<br />

convince his plaintiff to stop the execution...<br />

GOODBYE, LIFE<br />

Feature, Drama (93 min.)<br />

Language: Persian with English Subtitle<br />

Director: Ensieh Shah-Hosseini<br />

Writer: Ensieh Shah-Hosseini<br />

Producer: Seyyed Saeid Seyyedzadeh<br />

Key Cast: Ladan Mostofi, Mohammad<br />

Mokhtari, Esmat Reza-Pour<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2006 Country of<br />

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Origin: Iran<br />

During the Iran - Iraq war (1980-1988)<br />

Maryam, a young divorced woman, wants<br />

to commit suicide. As she doesn’t want to<br />

have an ordinary death, Maryam decides to<br />

go to war as a reporter and to die as a hero.<br />

”Goodbye, Life” is the story of a woman<br />

who by saying goodbye to her previous life<br />

finds a new way to live.<br />

GRADUALLY<br />

Feature, Drama (74 min.)<br />

Language: Persian with English Subtitle<br />

Director: Maziar Miri<br />

Writer: Parviz Shahbazi<br />

Producer: Jahangir Kosari<br />

Key Cast: Mohammad-Reza Foroutan,<br />

Niloofar Khoshkholgh, Hassan Poorshirazi,<br />

Maryam Boobani, Shahrokh Frootanian<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2005 Country of<br />

Origin: Iran<br />

Mahmoud who works in the Railroad<br />

Company outside Tehran learns of the disappearance<br />

of his wife who has a record of<br />

mental illness. When he returns to Tehran<br />

to look for her, the neighbors start to make<br />

his life impossible with their gossip.<br />

PARK<br />

ENTERTAINMENT<br />

Park Entertainment, 54 Broadwick Stree,<br />

London, W1F 7AH UK, Tel:<br />

+44(0)207.434.4176. Fax:<br />

+44(0)207.434.7251. www.parkentertainment.com<br />

E-mail: mail@parkentertainment.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Jim Howell (CEO), Paul Howell<br />

(Sales Executive)<br />

Office: MGB - UK Film Centre , Stand 40,<br />

Tel: +44(0)7775.612.651<br />

MANILA BAY<br />

Action<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Terence Daw<br />

Writer: Terence Daw<br />

Co-Production Partners: Audience Films<br />

Ltd, Philippine Film Studios<br />

Producer: Terence Daw<br />

Key Cast: Luke Goss, Chris De Leon<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

London Flying Squad Detective Ray<br />

Denham welcome s a trip to the exotic<br />

Phillipines to see his best mate marry a<br />

local girl. Whilst at the wedding Ray<br />

comes across an old criminal rival, who’s<br />

hiding out in Manila. Unable to rest until<br />

he brings his rival to justice, he uncovers a<br />

sinister criminal underworld involving his<br />

best mate, his new wife and her rich father.<br />

Battling gun runners, drug dealers, corrupt<br />

police and politicians it’s a non-stop action,<br />

one man war, across the exotic and bustling<br />

Manila Bay<br />

THE LAST OF THE GREAT APES<br />

Documentary, 3D<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jeremy Hogarth<br />

Writer: Jeremy Hogarth, Norm Wilkinson,<br />

Peta Ayers<br />

Co-Production Partners: Vision Quest<br />

Entertainment, Screen Australia<br />

Producer: Norm Wilkinson<br />

Key Cast: Holly Carroll<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

The worlds’ great apes are dangerously<br />

close to extinction. Holly Carroll is an<br />

attractive, feisty and passionate young scientist<br />

who has made it her life’s mission to<br />

protect these primates. Confronting poachers,<br />

loggers and animal smugglers in her<br />

quest, she will travel from The Congo to<br />

Sumatra engaging with these animals<br />

BITE CLUB<br />

Action, Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Rob Green<br />

Writer: Chris Nyst<br />

Co-Production Partners: Nyst<br />

Entertainment, Park Entertainment, Screen<br />

Australia<br />

Producer: Scott Corfield<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK / Australia<br />

Nicky Picolo works as a doorman and min-<br />

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der for shifty strip club operator Billy<br />

Turquoise. Desperate to be his own boss,<br />

he sees his opportunity in an old abandoned<br />

warehouse, where he hopes to set up<br />

his own club. Soon the police turn up,<br />

investigating a spate of murders where the<br />

victims have had their bodies drained of<br />

blood. Nicky soon realises the building is<br />

not uninhabited as first thought, and that<br />

resident in the basement are vampires<br />

responsible for the murders. Not being<br />

bothered by some pesky vampires, Nicky,<br />

along with his motley assortment of villains<br />

sets about evicting his blood-sucking<br />

residents.<br />

PARLAY FILMS<br />

Parlay Films, 8391 Beverly Blvd., #436,<br />

Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA.<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Lisa Wilson (President of<br />

International Distribution)<br />

Office: The Ritz-Carlton, Tel: Office tel: 49<br />

30 33 77 77, Lisa Wilson’s mobile:<br />

818.516.4746<br />

THE WORDS<br />

Drama (96 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal<br />

Writer: Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal<br />

Executive Producer: Laura Rister, Cassian<br />

Elwes<br />

Producer: Michael Benaroya, Tatiana Kelly,<br />

Jim Young<br />

Key Cast: Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons,<br />

Zo Saldana, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde,<br />

Ben Barnes, Nora Arnezeder<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

THE WORDS follows a writer who, at the<br />

peak of his literary success, discovers the<br />

price he must pay for stealing another<br />

man’s work.<br />

ARBITRAGE<br />

Thriller (100 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Nicholas Jarecki<br />

Writer: Nicholas Jarecki<br />

Producer: Laura Bickford, Kevin Turen,<br />

Justin Nappi, Robert Salerno<br />

Key Cast: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon,<br />

Tim Roth, Brit Marling, Laeticia Casta,<br />

Nate Parker<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Arbitrage tells the story of hedge-fund<br />

magnate Robert Miller (Gere). In over his<br />

head, Miller is desperately trying to complete<br />

the sale of his trading empire to a<br />

major bank before the depths of his fraud<br />

are revealed. An unexpected, bloody error<br />

forces him to turn to the most unlikely corner<br />

for help.<br />

RED LIGHTS<br />

Paranormal Thriller (119 minutes )<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Rodrigo Cort<br />

Writer: Rodrigo Cort<br />

Producer: Adrian Guerra, Rodrigo Corts<br />

Key Cast: Robert De Niro, Sigourney<br />

Weaver, Cillian Murphy, Elizabeth Olsen<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Spain<br />

When a psychologist’s investigation into<br />

paranormal activity focuses on whether or<br />

not a world-renowned psychic is actually a<br />

fraud, her results are far from expected.<br />

PICTURES DEPT.<br />

CO. LTD.<br />

pictures dept. co. ltd., 1003-3-H, Horiuchi,<br />

Hayama, Miura, Kanagawa, 240-0112<br />

Japan, Tel: +81.46.876.7531 Fax:<br />

+81.3.6369.3250. http://picturesdept.com<br />

E-mail: picturesdept@picturesdept.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor, Agent<br />

At EFM: Yuko Shiomaki (President),<br />

Mizue Kunizane (President)<br />

Office: Marriott<br />

TOKYO PLAYBOY CLUB<br />

AKA: TOKYO PLAYBOY CLUB<br />

Action Drama<br />

Language: Japanese<br />

Director: Yosuke Okuda<br />

Writer: Yosuke Okuda<br />

Producer: Naoki Kai<br />

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Key Cast: Nao Omori, Ken Mitsuishi,<br />

Asami Usuta<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

Katsutoshi (35 years old) leaves his small<br />

town when he gets into trouble at work and<br />

moves to Tokyo. He goes to live under and<br />

work at his old friend Seikichi’s sex club,<br />

called the “Tokyo Playboy Club”. 21 year<br />

old Eriko, who is the girlfriend of Tokyo<br />

Playboy Club waiter Takahiro, begins to<br />

have doubts about her interminable life.<br />

One day Katsutoshi gets into a fight with a<br />

local hoodlum, and they find themselves<br />

caught up in unheard of trouble that leads<br />

to an unexpected denouement?c.<br />

SION SONO EARLY WORKS:<br />

BEFORE SUICIDE<br />

Drama, Erotic<br />

Language: Japanese<br />

Director: Sion Sono<br />

Writer: Sion Sono<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

World acclaimed award winning director<br />

SION SONO’s early works, the package of<br />

films before SUICIDE CLUB(‘02) are now<br />

available as SION SONO Early Works:<br />

BEFORE SUISIDE package. All rights are<br />

available for world-wide. Best DVD/VOD<br />

package of one of the top Japanese directors.<br />

THE FUGITIVE OF ROADSIDE<br />

Drama<br />

Language: Japanese<br />

Director: Yu Irie<br />

Writer: Yu Irie<br />

Producer: Hitoshi Endo, Yu Irie<br />

Key Cast: Eita Okuno, Ryusuke Komakine,<br />

Shinsuke Mizusawa<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

LEMON, FOR EXAMPLE<br />

AKA: TATOEBA LEMON<br />

Drama (139 min)<br />

Language: Japanese<br />

Director: Ikki Katashima<br />

Writer: Jiro Yoshikawa<br />

Producer: Kazuyuki Kitaki, Naoto Monma<br />

Key Cast: Hanae Kan, Narimi Arimori,<br />

Tsuyoshi Ihara, Go Ayano, Shigeru Muroi<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

Lemon could be a symbol of love. It could<br />

save you or destroy you.<br />

CONTROL TOWER<br />

AKA: KANSEITO<br />

Romance (68 min)<br />

Language: Japanese<br />

Director: Takahiro Miki<br />

Writer: Yukiko Mochiji<br />

Producer: Toshimi Fukuda, Tetsuya Take,<br />

Tomiji Kajiwara<br />

Key Cast: Kento Yamasaki, Ai Hashimoto<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

The story of youth. Kakeru, a 15 year old<br />

boy, and Mii (Little My) , a female transfer<br />

student. They are two lonely teens who<br />

cannot find their place in life, but who<br />

gradually learn to relate to each other<br />

through the power of music.<br />

BETWEEN TODAY AND TOMOR-<br />

ROW<br />

AKA: KYO TO ASHITA NO AIDA DE<br />

Documentary<br />

Language: Japanese<br />

Director: Junko Kobayashi<br />

Writer: N/A<br />

Producer: Naoki kai<br />

Key Cast: Yasuyuki Shuto, Megumi<br />

Nakamura<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

This art documentary has to rise to the new<br />

challenges facing the art of dance, and has<br />

to encompass two areas. The first is the<br />

creative processes behind the world premiere<br />

of the dance “The Garden of Time”,<br />

(from 7th January 2010). The second is to<br />

document the challenges that Yasuyuki<br />

Shutô faced enthusiastically in the topical<br />

performance of “Man Fell into a Blank”<br />

and “Apocifu”, during the 365 days of<br />

2010. Furthermore, it shows the spectacular<br />

solo dance performance in the last scene<br />

that caps a new piece of ballet music, written<br />

by Ringo Shiina and choreographed by<br />

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Megumi Nakamura. World -renowned<br />

dancers Yasuyuki Shutô and Megumi<br />

Nakamura perform all over the world to the<br />

great honour of Japan. Their performances<br />

grab the attention of audiences worldwide<br />

with their ability to call to mind humanity’s<br />

roots. How do they do this?<br />

BE A MAN! SAMURAI SCHOOL<br />

AKA: SAKIGAKE OTOKOJUKU<br />

Action (110 min)<br />

Language: Japanese<br />

Director: Tak Sakaguchi<br />

Writer: Tak Sakaguchi<br />

Producer: Keiko Kusakabe, Koichi<br />

Kusakabe, Toshiki Kimura<br />

Key Cast: Tak Sakaguchi, Shouei, Hiroyuki<br />

Onoue<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

The Samurai school is a private boarding<br />

school, where students are encouraged to<br />

evoke the Samurai spirit and so become<br />

true men.New students enter the school<br />

from all over the country. These include<br />

Momotarou Tsurugi (Tak Sakaguchi), a<br />

good warrior with a taciturn nature.<br />

PLANETA INFORM<br />

Planeta Inform, 5/10 Nizhniy Susalniy lane,<br />

Moscow, 105064 Russia, Tel:<br />

007.495.783.76.57 Fax:<br />

007.495.783.76.57. sales.planetainform.com<br />

E-mail: sales@planetainform.com<br />

Distributor<br />

At EFM: Dmitry Litvinov (CEO of group<br />

of companies), Natalia Myshkina (CEO of<br />

film distribution), Anastasia Bankovskaya<br />

(Head of International Sales), Tatiana<br />

Savtsova (Brand manager)<br />

Office: The Marriott Hotel, stand number<br />

107, Tel: 007.916.782.02.35<br />

THE FIREHEART: THE LEGEND OF<br />

TADAS BLINDA<br />

AKA: TADAS BLINDA. PRADZIA<br />

Action, Adventure, Historic (110 min)<br />

Language: lithuanian with english subtitles<br />

Director: Donatas Ulvydas<br />

Writer: Jonas Banys<br />

Executive Producer: Zilvinas Naujokas<br />

Key Cast: Mantas Jankavicius, Agnija<br />

Ditkovskite, Tatyana Lyutaeva, Vidas<br />

Patkavicius, Antanas Shurna<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Lithuania<br />

Set in the restless outskirts of the Russian<br />

Empire in the 19th century, “Fireheart: The<br />

legend of Tadas Blinda” is a historical<br />

adventure in which a story of honor, freedom<br />

and love unfold. Born as a serf, Tadas<br />

has always felt that there is something<br />

important in store for him. But when political<br />

events and intrigue turn his peaceful<br />

world upside down, he must summon all<br />

his strength and courage to meet the<br />

responsibilities that have befallen him. An<br />

unforgettable cast, a riveting plot, and a<br />

wonderful mix of adventure, and passion<br />

are brought together to create a truly legendary<br />

tale reminiscent of Robin Hood - a<br />

source of inspiration for young and old<br />

alike.<br />

PYRAMMMID<br />

AKA: PYRAMMMIDA<br />

Action, Thriller, Biography (105 min)<br />

Language: russian with english subtitles<br />

Director: Eldar Salavatov<br />

Writer: Maxim Vasilenko, Sergey Kraynev,<br />

Sergey Mavrodi<br />

Producer: Sergey Livnev, Georgiy Malkov,<br />

Mikhail Liyash<br />

Key Cast: Alexey Serebryakov, Fedor<br />

Bondarchuk, Peter Fedorov, Ekaterina<br />

Vilkova, Nikita Salopin<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Russia<br />

15 years before Bernard Madoff, there was<br />

Sergey Mavrodi and his MMM - a financial<br />

pyramid which at its peak in summer<br />

of 1994 involved more than 15 million<br />

investors from all over Russia. Mavrodi<br />

was in command of 50 billion dollars.<br />

There was not enough time or manpower to<br />

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count cash: it was measured approximately,<br />

in carloads. At the height of his power,<br />

Mavrodi had the support of almost half the<br />

population of Russia. His next goals were<br />

the toppling of the government and the<br />

international expansion of his business.<br />

LEGATEE<br />

AKA: BRIGADA: NASLEDNIK.<br />

Action (120 min)<br />

Language: russian with english subtitles<br />

Director: Denis Alexeev<br />

Key Cast: Ivan Makarevich, Ekaterina<br />

Guseva, Cyrill Nagiev<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Russia<br />

In an attempt to shake off the perils of the<br />

past, the family of a notorious criminal<br />

escapes to the United States, changes<br />

names and starts living a simple and peaceful<br />

life. When the son Ivan grows up, he<br />

heads back to Russia on a dubious agenda<br />

that gives a start to a maelstrom of betrayals,<br />

pursuits, family secrets and their disclosures<br />

which involve both the mob and<br />

the Russian secret services. Ivan has to go<br />

through deaths of his comrades, escapes<br />

from deadly traps, meetings with new<br />

friends and a decisive rescue of his mother<br />

to find his path in life.<br />

PRINCE YAROSLAV<br />

AKA: YAROSLAV. TYSIACHY LET<br />

NAZAD<br />

Historic, Action (99 min)<br />

Language: russian with english subtitles<br />

Director: Dmitry Korobkin<br />

Writer: Marina Koshkina, Natalia Nazarova<br />

Producer: Oleg Syrkov, Vadim Byrkin<br />

Key Cast: Alexander Ivashkevich, Alexey<br />

Kravchenko, Svetlana Chuikina, Victor<br />

Verzhbitsky, Valery Zolotukhin, Elena<br />

Plaksina<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Russia<br />

The 11th century sees the tribal wars devastate<br />

the ancient lands of Russia. The<br />

woods, roads and rivers are invaded by<br />

brigands who live on a slave trade. They<br />

sell their prey to fierce Khazar tribes.<br />

Young prince Yaroslav decides to put an<br />

end to raids and barbarism, to stop hostility<br />

between the tribes and unite the lands<br />

under his reign.<br />

CUCARACHA 3D<br />

Animation (71 min)<br />

Language: russian with english subtitles<br />

Director: Armen Adilkhanyan<br />

Writer: Amet Magometov<br />

Producer: Gevorg Nersisyan, Armen<br />

Manasaryan, Armen Adilhanyan<br />

Key Cast: (Voices): Yuryi Stoyanov, Alena<br />

Babenko, Sergey Rychenkov, Velimir<br />

Rusakov, Olga Orlova, Lyanka Gryu<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Russia<br />

Flame of love in the heart of ... a cockroach?<br />

Always cheerful and merry little<br />

cockroach named Bite, who lives inside of<br />

the computer processor, is sad today. He<br />

falls in love with a girl-cockroach Lika,<br />

who is madly in love with theater and<br />

Chuck, the beetle. Bite is to win Lika’s<br />

heart and to survive in the street wars<br />

against beetles and pigeons.<br />

HOOKED<br />

AKA: NA IGRE<br />

Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller (130 min)<br />

Language: russian with english subtitles<br />

Director: Pavel Sanaev<br />

Writer: Pavel Sanaev, Alexandr Chubaryan<br />

Producer: Leonid Ogorodnikov, Oleg<br />

Andreev, Alexey Ryazantsev<br />

Key Cast: lexey Bardukov, Agnija<br />

Ditkovskite, Sergey Chirkov, Pavel<br />

Priluchnyj, Evgenie Harlanov<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Russia<br />

A brand new videogame contains a virus<br />

transforming gamer’s virtual skills into real<br />

ones. Five friends win this game for<br />

extraordinary results at the cyber tournament.<br />

Now the creators of the game, the<br />

government forces and many others are<br />

after the superfighters.<br />

THE APOCALYPSE CODE<br />

AKA: KOD APOKALYPSISA<br />

Action, Sci-Fi (105 min)<br />

Language: russian with english subtitles<br />

Director: Vadim Shmelev<br />

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Writer: Denis Karishev, Vadim Shmelev<br />

Producer: Sergey Gribkov, Sergey<br />

Bazhenov, Marianna Balashova<br />

Key Cast: Anastasia Zavorotniyk, Vensan<br />

Peres, Vladimir Menshov, Alexey<br />

Serebryakov<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

Origin: Russia<br />

Terrorist Jaffad Ben Zayidi steals four<br />

nuclear bombs from a sunken American<br />

submarine and hides them in four major<br />

cities throughout the world. The charges<br />

can be activated by an 11-digit code.<br />

Zayidi dies and his accomplice, nicknamed<br />

“The Executioner,” is about to blow up the<br />

bombs. The Executioner is chased by FSB,<br />

whose agent Marie has previously infiltrated<br />

Zayidi’s team.<br />

THE FIFTH CENTURIA. IN QUEST<br />

OF ENCHANTED TREASURE<br />

AKA: PIATAYA CENTURIA. V<br />

POISKAH SOKROVISH.<br />

Adventure (100 min)<br />

Language: russian with english subtitles<br />

Director: Ruslan Baltser<br />

Writer: Ruslan Baltser<br />

Producer: Andrey Kim<br />

Key Cast: Denis Nikiforov, Inna Gomes,<br />

Evklid Kyurdzidis, Natalya Rudova, Oleg<br />

Dolin<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Russia<br />

A German baron addresses an adventurous<br />

young man with a proposal to find five<br />

ancient artifacts stolen from the baron’s<br />

ancestor back in 1945, and offers him a<br />

reward of 1 000 000 EUR. The young man<br />

accepts the proposal gladly unaware of the<br />

danger which would threaten the world<br />

should he succeed.<br />

RORRIM BO & THE MAGIC GOB-<br />

LET 3D<br />

AKA: VOLSHEBNIY KYBOK<br />

RORRIMA BO 3D<br />

Fantasy, Family (100 min)<br />

Language: russian with english subtitles<br />

Director: Katya Grohovskaja<br />

Writer: Katya Grohovskaja, Fedor<br />

Letynovskiy, Alexey Sheglov<br />

Producer: Vladimir Polyakov, Igor Zadorin,<br />

Alexandr Revva<br />

Key Cast: Andrey Leonov, Alexey<br />

Alekseev, Renata Litvinova<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Russia<br />

Long ago the inhabitants of a fairytale<br />

world imprisoned the evil spirit of witch<br />

Vergilda in a goblet and hid it on our planet.<br />

Nowadays the goblet is found and the<br />

enchantments are broken. Vergilda is free<br />

and she seeks revenge. Nobody knows that<br />

she gets stronger with children’s fears. But<br />

there appears a good-natured creature<br />

Rorrim Bo who is deliberate to help the<br />

kids fight the witch. All Rorrim lacks is a<br />

little bravery.<br />

PROTAGONIST<br />

PICTURES<br />

Protagonist Pictures, 4th floor, Waverley<br />

House, 7-12 Noel Street,, London, W1F<br />

8GQ UK, Tel: +44.207.7349.000.<br />

www.protagonistpictures.com E-mail:<br />

info@protagonistpictures.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Ben Roberts (CEO), Nada<br />

Cirjanic (Head of Library Sales), Jeremy<br />

Baxter (Head of Acquisitions), Bridget<br />

Pedgrift (head of marketing), Simon<br />

Osborn (head of legal and business affairs),<br />

David Bartholomew (Sales and Festivals<br />

Co-ordinator)<br />

Office: 128 MGB, Tel: +49.30.889.14 - 428<br />

THE IMPOSTER<br />

Drama documentary (91 mins)<br />

Language: english<br />

Director: Bart Layton<br />

Writer: n/a<br />

Co-Production Partners: A+E Ent, Film 4<br />

Executive Producer: Simon Chinn, John<br />

Battsek<br />

Producer: Dimitri Doganis, RAW<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

This is the incredible true story of one of<br />

the greatest deceptions of all time, in which<br />

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a 23 year old Frenchman convinces the<br />

authorities and a grieving family that he is<br />

their lost child.<br />

STREETDANCE 2<br />

Family (85 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Max and Dania<br />

Writer: Jane English<br />

Co-Production Partners: BFI / BBC Films<br />

Producer: James Richardson, Allan Niblo -<br />

Vertigo Films<br />

Key Cast: Sofia Boutella, Falk Hentschel,<br />

George Sampson<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

When a top street dancer is humiliated and<br />

challenged by the best American crew, he<br />

sets off to gather the best dancers from<br />

around the world to take them on - with a<br />

dance style they weren’t expecting. With<br />

landmark locations, a spectacular fusion of<br />

dance styles and an unparalleled vibrancy,<br />

the sequel to StreetDance sees our hero fall<br />

in love with a beautiful salsa dancer as he<br />

discovers the magic, power and passion of<br />

dancing streetdance / latin for the ultimate<br />

global dance off.<br />

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN<br />

Documentary (83 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Malik Bendjelloul<br />

Writer: n/a<br />

Executive Producer: John Battsek<br />

Producer: Simon Chinn<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK/Sweden<br />

Rodriguez was the greatest ‘70s US rock<br />

icon who never was. Momentarily hailed as<br />

the finest recording artist of his generation,<br />

he disappeared into oblivion – rising again<br />

from the ashes in a completely different<br />

context a continent away. SEARCHING<br />

FOR SUGAR MAN is a film about hope,<br />

inspiration and the resonating power of<br />

music.<br />

YOUR SISTER’S SISTER<br />

Comedy (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Lynn Shelton<br />

Writer: Lynn Shelton<br />

Executive Producer: Vallejo Gantner,<br />

Jennifer Roth, Mark Duplass and Lynn<br />

Shelton.<br />

Producer: Steven Schardt<br />

Key Cast: Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt,<br />

Mark Duplass<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: US<br />

While still mourning the recent death of his<br />

brother, a bereft and confused man finds<br />

love and direction in a most unexpected<br />

place<br />

THE DEEP BLUE SEA<br />

Drama (98 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Terence Davies<br />

Writer: Terence Davies (from the play by<br />

Terence Rattigan)<br />

Co-Production Partners: Film4 / BFI Film<br />

Fund /<br />

Executive Producer: Katherine Butler, Lisa<br />

Marie Russo, Peter Hampden, Norman<br />

Merry<br />

Producer: Sean O’Connor and Kate Ogborn<br />

Key Cast: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston,<br />

Simon Russell Beale<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

A married woman is torn between her<br />

desire for a younger man and the conventions<br />

of the time in this 1950s love-triangle<br />

RECREATION<br />

Recreation, 712 Seward Street, Los<br />

Angeles, California 90038 USA, Tel:<br />

1.310.305.1285 Fax: 1.310.305.1223.<br />

www.recreation-media.com E-mail:<br />

info@recreation-media.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Ariel Veneziano (President),<br />

Perrine Bakhshay (Consultant)<br />

Office: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Stand #143,<br />

Niederkirchnerstrae 7, Stresemannstr. 110,<br />

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Director: Joe Dante<br />

Writer: Ronnie Christensen<br />

Co-Production Partners: Magnet<br />

Producer: Jeanette Buerling, Michele<br />

Ohayon<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2013 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

An ambitious scientist avenges her father<br />

and attempts restoring the world’s atmosphere.<br />

5 DAYS OF WAR<br />

Action-War-Thriller (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Renny Harlin<br />

Writer: David Battle, Mikko Alanne<br />

Co-Production Partners: Rex Media,<br />

Midnight Sun, Iron Lion<br />

Producer: Mirza Davitai, George Lascu,<br />

Koba Nakopia, Renny Harlin<br />

Key Cast: Andy Garcia, Rupert Friend, Val<br />

Kilmer<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

An American journalist, his cameraman,<br />

and a Georgian native get caught in the<br />

crossfire of the war between Russia and<br />

Georgia. Based on a true story.<br />

JASON AND THE NECRONAUTS<br />

Action/ Adventure (90 mins (estimated))<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Kevin Van Hook<br />

Writer: Kevin Van Hook<br />

Co-Production Partners: Recreation<br />

Producer: Kevin Van Hook, Fred Kuehnert,<br />

Michael Hamilton-Wright<br />

Key Cast: Casper Van Dien<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

With the help of a powerful immortal and<br />

an army of the dead, a hero wages an epic<br />

war that will determine the fate of the<br />

world.<br />

WE WERE HERE<br />

Documentary (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: David Weissman<br />

Writer: David Weissman<br />

Producer: David Weissman<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A deep, reflective look back at the arrival<br />

and impact of AIDS in San Francisco.<br />

WEEKEND<br />

Drama (96 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Andrew Haigh<br />

Writer: Andrew Haigh<br />

Co-Production Partners: Glendale<br />

Producer: Tristan Goligher<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

Russell meets Glen, and so begins a weekend<br />

- in bars and bedrooms, getting drunk<br />

and taking drugs, telling stories and having<br />

sex - that will resonate throughout the<br />

lives.<br />

TWO GATES OF SLEEP<br />

Drama (72 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Alistair Banks Griffin<br />

Writer: Alistair Banks Griffin<br />

Co-Production Partners: Borderline<br />

Producer: Andrew Renzi, Josh Mond,<br />

Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin<br />

Key Cast: Brady Corbet, David Call, Karen<br />

Young<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

Two brothers go on an arduous upriver<br />

journey to honor their mother’s final<br />

request.<br />

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RED BULL MEDIA<br />

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+43662224028641. sales.redbullmediahouse.com,<br />

E-mail: distribution@at.redbullmediahouse.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer<br />

At EFM: Berend Dreier (Sales Manager),<br />

Rick van den Heuvel (Sales Agent for Red<br />

Bull Media)<br />

Office: Marriott - Office #124 1st Flr.<br />

MOUNT ST. ELIAS<br />

Documentary/Adventure (102)<br />

Language: English, German<br />

Director: Gerald Salmina<br />

Writer: Gerald Salmina<br />

Executive Producer: Gerald Salmina,<br />

Philipp Manderla<br />

Producer: Gerald Salmina<br />

Key Cast: Axel Naglich, Peter Ressmann,<br />

Jon Johnston, Paul Claus, Steven Siig,<br />

Günther Göberl, Beat Kammerlander,<br />

Volker Holzner<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: Austria<br />

A dramatic and awe-inspiring feature documentary<br />

following three of the world’s<br />

greatest ski mountaineers to Mount St.<br />

Elias in their attempt to realize the longest<br />

ski descent of the world.<br />

THE ART OF FLIGHT 3D<br />

Action (80)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Curt Morgan<br />

Writer: Curt Morgan<br />

Co-Production Partners: Brain Farm Digital<br />

Cinema, Venture 3D, Dolby<br />

Executive Producer: Travis Rice, Scott<br />

Bradfield, Ryan Runke, Greg Jacobs,<br />

Charlie Rosene, Circe Wallace<br />

Producer: Curt Morgan, Chad Jackson<br />

Key Cast: Travis Rice, Pat Moore, Scotty<br />

Lago, DCP, Jake Blauvelt, Jeremy Jackson<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A new breed of action sports film comes to<br />

life with “The Art of FLIGHT 3D,” a Curt<br />

Morgan film. Equal parts action and adventure<br />

mix with the inevitable drama encountered<br />

along the way. Two years in the making,<br />

“The Art of FLIGHT” gives iconic<br />

snowboarder Travis Rice and friends the<br />

opportunity to redefine what is possible in<br />

the mountains. Immerse yourself in the cinematic<br />

experience as Brain Farm and their<br />

ever-expanding arsenal of filmmaking technology<br />

capture the dramatic beauty of the<br />

culture, wildlife and scenic landscapes the<br />

riders take in along the way.<br />

STORM SURFERS 3D<br />

Documentary/Action/Expedition (90)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Justin McMillan, Chris Nelius<br />

Writer: Chris Nelius<br />

Co-Production Partners: Red Bull Media<br />

House, Sixty Foot Films, Firelight, Screen<br />

Australia, Fulcrum Media Finance, Deluxe<br />

Australia, Madman, E-Film, NSW Digital<br />

Media<br />

Executive Producer: Marcus Gillezau,<br />

Ellenor Cox, Philipp Manderla<br />

Producer: Marcus Gillezeau, Ellenor Cox<br />

Key Cast: Ross Clarke-Jones, Tom Carroll,<br />

Ben Matson, Maya Gabeira, Kelly Slater,<br />

Ian Walsh<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

Epic. Extraordinary. Insane. A wild adventure<br />

set in the world of big wave surfing.<br />

Bringing together accessible, cutting-edge<br />

science with real life drama and the most<br />

spectacular surf images ever captured on<br />

film, Storm Surfers is a classic story of<br />

friendship, adventure and courage.<br />

SMOKE ON (WT)<br />

DOCUMENTARY (110)<br />

Language: German<br />

Director: Thomas Rilk<br />

Writer: Andreas Laschober, Thomas Rilk<br />

Co-Production Partners: Rilk Film, Red<br />

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Bull Media House<br />

Executive Producer: Thomas Rilk, Philipp<br />

Manderla<br />

Producer: Thomas Rilk<br />

Key Cast: Hannes Arch, Paul Bonhomme,<br />

Vito Wyprächtiger<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Austria<br />

“Heaven is home of the birds, we are merely<br />

guests”. Daredevil pilots battle it out at<br />

Air Races around the globe, flying only<br />

meters above the ground, all at 400 km/h.<br />

THE LAZARUS PROTOCOL<br />

Thriller (96)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Paul Finelli<br />

Writer: Paul Finelli<br />

Co-Production Partners: Terra Mater<br />

Factual Studios, Tomcat Productions,<br />

Finger Films<br />

Executive Producer: Peter Fonda<br />

Producer: Walter Köhler, Thomas<br />

Feldkircher<br />

Key Cast: Peter Fonda, Michael Desante,<br />

Travis Fimmel<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Austria<br />

Lazarus Fell (TRAVIS FIMMEL), former<br />

Navy SEAL and expert for covert operations,<br />

lost his father, Solomon Fell (PETER<br />

FONDA), a high ranking secret service<br />

officer during the 9/11 attacks, now he<br />

seeks personal revenge.<br />

AMONG WOLVES<br />

AKA: ENTRELOBOS<br />

Drama (118 min.)<br />

Language: Spanish with English subtitles<br />

Director: Gerardo Olivares<br />

Writer: Gerardo Olivares<br />

Co-Production Partners: Wanda Films<br />

Executive Producer: José María Morales,<br />

Miguel Morales<br />

Producer: José María Morales, Sophokles<br />

Tasioulis<br />

Key Cast: Carlos Bardem, Sancho Gracia,<br />

Juan José Ballesta<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Spain<br />

At the tender age of 7, Marcos is sold by<br />

his father to a goatherd and taken to live to<br />

the Valley of Silence, a remote area of the<br />

Sierra Morena Mountains, in Spain. There,<br />

Marcos will discover the secrets of the<br />

wild. However, once the old goatherd dies,<br />

the young boy will have to survive alone in<br />

the woods for 12 years, becoming the<br />

leader of a pack of wolves.<br />

THE CRY OF THE EAGLE<br />

Drama (90)<br />

Language: German<br />

Director: Otmar Penker, Gerald Salmina<br />

Writer: Gerald Salmina et al.<br />

Co-Production Partners: Terra Mater<br />

Factual Studios<br />

Executive Producer: Walter Koehler,<br />

Sophokles Tasioulis<br />

Producer: Walter Koehler, Sophokles<br />

Tasioulis<br />

Key Cast: tba<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2014 Country of<br />

Origin: Austria/France<br />

The tale of two golden eagle brothers. One<br />

wild, one growing up in captivity. The<br />

breathtaking beauty of the Alps bears a<br />

dark secret. A lonely shepherd overcoming<br />

his deepest fears. Jean-Jacque Annaud’s<br />

“The Bear” on Eagles!<br />

BRAZIL – CARNIVAL OF LIFE<br />

Documentary (90)<br />

Language: English, German<br />

Director: Christian Baumeister<br />

Writer: tba<br />

Co-Production Partners: Terra Mater<br />

Factual Studios<br />

Executive Producer: Walter Köhler,<br />

Sophokles Tasioulis<br />

Producer: Walter Köhler, Sophokles<br />

Tasioulis<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2014 Country of<br />

Origin: Austria<br />

South America’s largest country serves as<br />

the backdrop of an powerful, emotional<br />

nature documentary. In the tradition of<br />

“Deep Blue”, “March of the Penguins” and<br />

“Earth”, Brazil will give audiences an emotional<br />

roller coaster ride through the emerald<br />

forest and its inhabitants.<br />

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REEL SUSPECTS<br />

Reel Suspects, 42, rue René Boulanger,<br />

Paris, Paris 75010 France, Tel:<br />

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E-mail: info@reelsuspects.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Matteo Lovadina (CEO),<br />

Emmanuelle Courtois (Sales Executive &<br />

Festivals)<br />

Office: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Booth 149,<br />

1st Floor, La Rotunda<br />

Q<br />

Erotic drama (104)<br />

Language: FRENCH<br />

Director: LAURENT BOUHNIK<br />

Writer: LAURENT BOUHNIK<br />

Producer: ACAJOU FILMS<br />

Key Cast: Déborah Révy, Hélène Zimmer,<br />

Gowan Didi<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: FRANCE<br />

Sex is the outcome of all the most beautiful<br />

love stories.<br />

THE YEAR DOLLY PARTON WAS MY<br />

MOM<br />

Family Drama (95)<br />

Language: ENGLISH<br />

Director: TARA JOHNS<br />

Writer: TARA JOHNS<br />

Co-Production Partners: Palomar<br />

Producer: Barbara Schrier<br />

Key Cast: Macha Grenon, Gil Bellows,<br />

Julia Stone<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: CANADA<br />

It’s 1976, and Elizabeth is your average<br />

suburban 11-year-old girl when she discovers<br />

she has been adopted. As she runs away<br />

searching for her true identity, she ends up<br />

leading her adoptive mother into a cathartic<br />

crosscountry trek only to find themselves<br />

in the end.<br />

MAGMA<br />

Thriller (98)<br />

Language: FRENCH<br />

Director: Pierre Vinour<br />

Writer: Pascal Mieszala & Pierre Vinour<br />

Co-Production Partners: LES ENRAGES<br />

Producer: Aurélie Bordier & Pierre Vinour<br />

Key Cast: Mehdi Nebbou , Natacha<br />

Régnier, Arly Jover,<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: FRANCE<br />

An engineer gets involved in an affair with<br />

a mysterious woman staying in the next<br />

room. But on the day that the lovers decide<br />

to leave everything, the young woman disappears…<br />

VANISHING WAVES<br />

Sci-Fi Drama<br />

Language: Lithuanian<br />

Director: Kristina Buožyt?<br />

Writer: Kristina Buožyt? & Bruno Samper<br />

Co-Production Partners: TREMORA &<br />

ACAJOU FILMS<br />

Producer: IEVA NORVILIENE<br />

Key Cast: Marius Jampolskis, Jurga Jutait?,<br />

Martina Jablonskyt?<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: LITHUANIA<br />

Have you ever dreamed of being inside the<br />

head of another person? Have you ever<br />

wished to experience the ideal relationship,<br />

where two minds come into total fusion?<br />

THE SECOND DEATH<br />

Thriller (91)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Santiago Fernández Calvete<br />

Writer: Santiago Fernández Calvete<br />

Co-Production Partners: MAGMA CINE<br />

Producer: Juan Pablo Gugliotta<br />

Key Cast: Agustina Lecouna, Mauricio<br />

Dayub, Guillermo Arengo<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: ARGENTINA<br />

Clueless on a gruesome case, a skeptical<br />

and lonely policewoman in a small village,<br />

is guided by a newly arrived clairvoyance<br />

gifted boy, who claims that the murderer is<br />

the Virgin Mary.<br />

HATED<br />

Drama (91)<br />

Language: ENGLISH<br />

Director: LEE MADSEN<br />

Writer: LEE MADSEN<br />

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Co-Production Partners: THE ROYAL WE<br />

FILMS<br />

Producer: KIRSTEN WAGNER<br />

Key Cast: Matthew Hutchingson,<br />

Genevieve Cortese, Ellen Woglom,<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A tale of the rise and fall of an unknown<br />

rock band and the girl who made it all happen...<br />

DR KETEL<br />

Thriller (80)<br />

Language: GERMAN<br />

Director: Linus de Paoli<br />

Writer: Linus de Paoli<br />

Co-Production Partners: DFFB/<br />

Schattenkante<br />

Producer: Anna de Paoli<br />

Key Cast: KETEL WEBER, AMANDA<br />

PLUMMER, LOU CASTEL<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: GERMANY<br />

Berlin in the very near future. The public<br />

health system has broken down and a flourishing<br />

black market for prescription drugs<br />

has emerged. Dr. Ketel is working as an<br />

underground doctor on the streets and in<br />

the backyards. The drugs he needs for his<br />

work he steals from the few remaining<br />

pharmacies. The American security guard<br />

Louise has made it her priority to bring<br />

Ketel down. The renegade doctor now<br />

faces a life-altering decision: is his work<br />

philanthropic or is he a resistance fighter.<br />

He can convince Louise to join his cause,<br />

but other security guards pick up where she<br />

left and the hunt continues.<br />

LIVE EAST DIE YOUNG<br />

AKA: LIVE EAST DIE YOUNG<br />

Drama (92)<br />

Language: ENGLISH<br />

Director: Laura Hypponen<br />

Writer: Laura Hypponen<br />

Co-Production Partners: ELECTRIC BLUE<br />

FILMS<br />

Producer: Laura Hypponen<br />

Key Cast: Zoe Grisedale, James Jeanette<br />

Main, Lewis Grolle<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UNITED KINGDOM<br />

A voyeuristic, dogma-esque look into the<br />

substance-fuelled lifestyle and aspirations<br />

of the fashion-forward London’s East End<br />

set.<br />

CLUB ZEUS<br />

AKA: CLUB ZEUS<br />

Drama (75)<br />

Language: CHINESE<br />

Director: DAVID VERBEEK<br />

Writer: DAVID VERBEEK<br />

Co-Production Partners: Revolver Media –<br />

Les petites Lumieres<br />

Producer: Raymond van der Kaaij<br />

Key Cast: Ray Zhao, Zheng Qi, Yan Li<br />

Ping<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: THE NETHERLANDS<br />

Host boys, like host girls, fulfill the need of<br />

attention, friendship and love...<br />

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Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Stephen P. Jarchow (Chairman),<br />

Mark Reinhart (President)<br />

Office: Loews Hotel, Ste. 609, Tel:<br />

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PAST OBESSIONS<br />

Female thriller<br />

Director: Raul Sanchez Inglis<br />

Key Cast: Josie Davis, Lochlyn Munro,<br />

David Millbern<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011<br />

To the outsider, it would appear Shane<br />

Walsh has it all: a loving husband, a wonderful<br />

home...But appearances can be<br />

deceiving; behind closed doors Shane’s<br />

loving husband is violent. Knowing the<br />

abuse will never end, she does the only<br />

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thing she feels will set her free - she fakes<br />

her own death.<br />

UNDERTOW<br />

Female thriller<br />

Director: Dale G. Bradley<br />

Key Cast: Dina Meyer, Victor Parascos<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011<br />

Toby French is a bright, young attorney<br />

following her father into the world of law.<br />

But when she meets with a prospective<br />

client, she soon finds herself hostage to a<br />

man whose law is revenge. Tied up and<br />

beaten, Toby must find a way to survive....<br />

AN ACCIDENTAL CHRISTMAS<br />

Holiday<br />

Director: Fred Olen Ray<br />

Key Cast: Cynthia Gibb, David Millbern<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007<br />

Separated after 15 years of marriage, Vicki<br />

and Jason are set up by their two teenage<br />

children to spend a Christmas vacation<br />

together on the beach. But their family<br />

vacation is further complicated when<br />

Vicki’s boss and Jason’s gorgeous assistant<br />

show up. It will take a lot of luck, plenty of<br />

love and a little dose of magic to bring this<br />

family back together again.<br />

THE ASCENT<br />

Female thriller<br />

Director: Steven James Creazzo<br />

Key Cast: Josie Davis, William McNamara,<br />

Martin Kove, David Chokachi<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010<br />

Emily, an experienced mountaineering<br />

guide coping with the death of her fiancee,<br />

agrees to lead a group of hikers up a<br />

treacherous slope on Devil’s Peak.<br />

Discovering the groups real intent to hunt<br />

for a rumored treasure worth millions,<br />

Emily must use her skills to stay alive<br />

before her secret is revealed.<br />

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Sales Agent, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Mr. Gilbert Lim (Executive Vice<br />

President), Mr. Pitaya Sithi - Amnuai<br />

(Director of International Sales), Mr.<br />

Gerald Lim (Director of Acquisitions), Mr.<br />

Panu Aree (Director of Acquisitions), Ms.<br />

Rapeepat Jumnongjit (Manager of<br />

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TOM YUM GOONG 2<br />

Martial arts action<br />

Language: Thai<br />

Director: Prachya Pinkaew<br />

Writer: Prachya Pinkaew<br />

Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert<br />

Key Cast: Tony Ja, Jija Yanin<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Thailand<br />

The most await project. From the creators<br />

of OngBak & Tom Yum Goong (The<br />

Protector). Shot in Digital 3D. Directed by<br />

PRACHYA PINKAEW. Action<br />

Choreography by PANNA RITTIKRAI.<br />

YAAK<br />

Animation<br />

Language: English<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Thailand<br />

Inspired by characters from major Asia<br />

epic, Ramayana, Yaak, is an action comedy<br />

animation that opens with the excitement<br />

of war, keeps up the beat with adventures<br />

and a variety of events of the three unlikely<br />

friends, and ends with laughter and friend-<br />

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ships beyond difference.<br />

THIS GIRL IS BAD ASS<br />

Action-Comedy<br />

Language: Thai<br />

Director: Pettai Wongkamlao<br />

Writer: Pettai Wongkamlao<br />

Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert<br />

Key Cast: Jija Yanin, Mum Jokmok<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Thailand<br />

A messenger girl whom mistakenly hunted<br />

down by the gangster. It’s time for her<br />

fixed gear ‘bike-as-weapon’ skills to bail<br />

themselves out of the situation.<br />

THE OUTRAGE<br />

Drama<br />

Language: Thai<br />

Director: M.L. Pantewanop Tewakun<br />

Writer: M.L. Pantewanop Tewakun<br />

Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert<br />

Key Cast: Ananda Everingham, Cherman<br />

Boonyasak, Mario Maurer<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Thailand<br />

The Outrage tells a story of the crime mystery<br />

about a Warrior, a Bandit and the Lady<br />

wife of the Warrior told through the conversation<br />

between a young monk, a woodcutter<br />

and the undertaker. The audiences<br />

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REMAINS<br />

AKA: STEVE NILES’ REMAINS<br />

Horror (88)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Colin Theys<br />

Writer: John Doolan<br />

Producer: Andrew Gernhard, Zach O’Brien<br />

Key Cast: Grant Bowler, Lance Reddick,<br />

Miko Hughes, Tawny Cypress<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Based on the best-selling graphic novel<br />

written by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night),<br />

Remains is set in a chilling post-apocalyptic<br />

Reno, Nevada, and follows the survivors<br />

of a bizarre accident that reduced<br />

most of the world’s population to zombies.<br />

The group takes refuge in a vacant casino<br />

and fights a losing battle against an undead<br />

army which grows steadily stronger,<br />

smarter and more aggressive by the minute.<br />

COLD SWEAT<br />

AKA: SUDOR FRIO<br />

Thriller (90)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Adrián García Bogliano<br />

Writer: Adrián García Bogliano, Ramiro<br />

García Bogliano, Hernán Moyano<br />

Executive Producer: Pablo Bossi, Juan<br />

Pablo Buscarini<br />

Producer: Juan Pablo Buscarini<br />

Key Cast: Facundo Espinosa, Marina<br />

Glezer, Camila Velasco, Omar Gioiosa<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Argentina<br />

When Roman’s girlfriend disappears, he<br />

expects to find her in the arms of another<br />

man. And find her he does but there is no<br />

lover on the scene, only a pair of crazy old<br />

men keeping her locked away in the basement<br />

of their crumbling mansion. Armed<br />

with wild-eyed political ideals and case<br />

after case of decades-old and highly unstable<br />

dynamite, the villainous duo are conducting<br />

illicit experiments on a string of<br />

young women lured to their home via the<br />

internet. If Roman cannot free his young<br />

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love, she is likely to end up in pieces,<br />

thanks in part to a generous slathering of<br />

nitroglycerine.<br />

AKUMA<br />

AKA: THE ENTITY<br />

Horror<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Deon Taylor<br />

Writer: Deon Taylor, Joe Bockol, Blayne<br />

Weaver<br />

Producer: Deon Taylor, Roxanne Avent<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: US<br />

Akira Tanaka, a young & attractive but<br />

emotionally damaged Japanese woman<br />

moves to the United States to escape a past<br />

marked by tragedy. She moves in with her<br />

sister Hana and her new husband Adam,<br />

hoping to leave her demons behind and<br />

start a new life. But as Akira’s behavior<br />

grows increasingly erratic and strange disturbances<br />

mark the night, Akira is forced to<br />

reveal her real reason for coming: to flee<br />

the malevolent spirit that has been tormenting<br />

her since childhood… and which<br />

appears to have followed her here.<br />

MEMORIAL DAY<br />

AKA: SOUVENIRS<br />

Action/Adventure (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Sam Fischer<br />

Writer: Marc Conklin<br />

Producer: Craig Christainsen<br />

Key Cast: James Cromwell, Jonathan<br />

Bennett, Jackson Bond<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: US<br />

Two generations. Two wars. One story. On<br />

Memorial Day in 1993, 13 year old Kyle<br />

finds his grandfather Bud’s WWII footlocker.<br />

Bud has not spoken of the war since<br />

its end, but when presented with the souvenirs<br />

within, he tells Kyle the story<br />

behind each one. As Bud recounts his harrowing<br />

tales, we see not only his traumatic<br />

experiences in combat, but also how they<br />

mirror Kyle’s future in war-torn Iraq. After<br />

suffering a devastating injury, Kyle returns<br />

for one final mission before his unit is due<br />

to be sent home. Presented with a moral<br />

dilemma of leadership similar to one faced<br />

by Bud—whether to spare an individual<br />

life or let one person die to potentially save<br />

many others—Kyle finally understands<br />

why his grandfather was so reluctant to<br />

share his past.<br />

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 3D:<br />

RE-ANIMATION<br />

Horror (90)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jeff Broadstreet<br />

Writer: Jeff Broadstreet<br />

Producer: Thomas S. Byrnes, Lawrence<br />

Greenstein<br />

Key Cast: Andrew Divoff, Jeffrey Combs,<br />

Sarah Lieving<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: US<br />

After inheriting the family mortuary, a<br />

pyrophobic mortician accidentally exposes<br />

hundreds of uncremated bodies to toxic<br />

medical waste. As the corpses re-animate,<br />

the mortician’s inheritance-seeking younger<br />

brother unexpectedly shows up, stumbling<br />

upon a full zombie outbreak!<br />

BAD KARMA<br />

Action/Adventure<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Suri Krishnamma<br />

Writer: Steve Allrich<br />

Producer: Christine Holder, Danny Roth,<br />

Mark Holder<br />

Key Cast: Ray Liotta, Dominic Purcell,<br />

Andy McPhee<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: US<br />

After surviving a horrific car wreck en<br />

route to a robbery, career criminal Jack<br />

Molloy turns over a new leaf: honest<br />

employment and the love of a great girl.<br />

But when Yale- fresh out of prison and<br />

bent on vengeance, starts stalking Molloy<br />

and frames him for a brutal robbery/homicide,<br />

Molloy finds his new life quickly<br />

falling apart, as all he loves and cares for is<br />

targeted for destruction by his psychopathic<br />

former partner-in-crime.<br />

ADVENTURES OF A TEENAGE<br />

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DRAGON SLAYER<br />

Family (93 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Andrew Lauer<br />

Writer: Jamie Nash<br />

Producer: Ryil Adamson, Gavin Gillette<br />

Key Cast: Lea Thompson, Wendie Malick,<br />

Hunter Allan<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

On the outside, 12-year-old Arthur looks<br />

like your typical nerd, but a blue-skinned<br />

troll with magic powers knows that Arthur<br />

is the key to saving civilization. Now,<br />

Arthur has to convince his mom that he<br />

isn’t making up stories about his school’s<br />

evil vice principal and a powerful dragon.<br />

MASK MAKER<br />

Horror (93 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Griff Furst<br />

Writer: Griff Furst, Eric Miller<br />

Producer: Kenneth M. Badish, Daniel<br />

Lewis<br />

Key Cast: Nikki Deloach, Stephen Colletti,<br />

Anabella Casanova<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A young couple purchases a 19th century<br />

plantation home and invites friends up for<br />

the weekend to celebrate. When they accidentally<br />

release a long-buried evil, their<br />

dream home is transformed into a house of<br />

horror as the original owner returns to<br />

exact bloody revenge.<br />

FORGET ME NOT<br />

Horror (90min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Tyler Oliver<br />

Writer: Tyler Oliver, Jamieson Stern<br />

Producer: Tyler Oliver, Jamieson Stern<br />

Key Cast: Carly Schroeder, Cody Lineley,<br />

Brie Gabrielle, Chloe Bridges<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A party-filled graduation weekend turns<br />

into a nightmare for popular class president<br />

Sandy Channing when her friends begin to<br />

vanish one by one and a vengeful spirit is<br />

to blame.<br />

ASSASSINS’ CODE<br />

AKA: SERPENT RISING<br />

Action/Thriller (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Lawrence Riggins<br />

Writer: Lawrence Riggins, David W. Smith<br />

Producer: Karen Kaing<br />

Key Cast: Min Su Choi, Tiffany Yee, John<br />

Savage<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

To hide from his past sins as a government<br />

assassin, former agent Paul Thorn withdrew<br />

to an anonymous identity and a quiet<br />

life of normalcy. When a former partner<br />

delivers blueprints for a lethal technological<br />

secret and dies on Paul’s floor, Paul is<br />

forced back into the deadly world of international<br />

espionage where nothing is as it<br />

seems, betrayal is the standard, and lives<br />

are expendable.<br />

COUGAR HUNTING<br />

Teen Comedy (90min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Robin Blazak<br />

Writer: Robin Blazak<br />

Producer: Robin Blazak, Matt Sinnreich<br />

Key Cast: Lara Flynn Boyle, Vanessa<br />

Angel, Matt Prokop, Randy Wayne, Jillian<br />

Murray, Robin Blazak<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Frustrated with their romantic prospects,<br />

three twenty-something buddies head out to<br />

the slopes of Aspen Colorado to hunt<br />

Cougars: hot older women with a taste for<br />

younger men. Their quest for mature<br />

women turns into one hilarious disaster<br />

after another.<br />

DESCENDENTS<br />

Horror (74 min)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

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Director: Jorge Olguin<br />

Writer: Jorge Olguin, Carolina Garcia<br />

Producer: Jorge Olguin, Ana Maria Aguilar,<br />

Cristian Aguilar, David Brown<br />

Key Cast: Karina Pizarro, Camille Lynch<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: Chile<br />

A mysterious contagion spreads turning<br />

humans into zombies. A handful of children<br />

are born with immunity to the disease.<br />

One of the immune, Camille, wanders the<br />

desolate wastelands, evading zombies and<br />

armed soldiers, who are equally indiscriminate<br />

in their destruction. Camille finds<br />

other immune children and, with them,<br />

searches for an escape from their living<br />

hell.<br />

DEEP WINTER<br />

Action (96 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Mikey Hilb<br />

Writer: John Protass, Mikey Hilb, Glenn<br />

Zoller<br />

Producer: Glenn Zoller<br />

Key Cast: Kellan Lutz, Michael Madsen,<br />

Eric Lively<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2008 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Pals since childhood, downhill skier Tyler<br />

Crowe and snowboarder Mark Rider seek<br />

out the ultimate downhill snow sport experience<br />

in the Alaskan wilderness.<br />

LAST RITES OF RANSOM PRIDE<br />

Western (96 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Tiller Russell<br />

Writer: Tiller Russell, Ray Wylie Hubbard<br />

Producer: Michael Frislev, Duncan<br />

Montgomery, Chad Oakes<br />

Key Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Peter<br />

Dinklage, Dwight Yoakam, Jason Priestley,<br />

Lizzy Caplan, Cote de Pablo, Jon Foster<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

When Juliette (Lizzy Caplan) sets out to<br />

bring her slain lover — outlaw Ransom<br />

Pride — home to Texas to be buried, she<br />

knows the journey won’t be easy, but she<br />

has little idea of the dangers that lie ahead<br />

in this dark Western drama. The film’s cast<br />

includes Scott Speedman as the murdered<br />

bad boy, Dwight Yoakam as a homicidal<br />

reverend, Kris Kristofferson as a rival outlaw,<br />

and Jason Priestley and W. Earl Brown<br />

as a pair of bounty hunters.<br />

FORMOSA BETRAYED<br />

Thriller (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Adam Kane<br />

Writer: Will Tiao, Katie Swain, Charlie<br />

Stratton, Brian Askew, Nathaniel<br />

Goodman, Yann Samuel<br />

Producer: David Allen Cluck, Adam Kane,<br />

Will Tiao<br />

Key Cast: James Van der Beek, Wendy<br />

Crewson, Will Tiao<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

In the early 1980s, an FBI Agent is<br />

assigned to investigate the murder of a<br />

respected professor. Through his investigation,<br />

he unearths a spider web of international<br />

secrets that has been thriving within<br />

college campuses across America for<br />

decades. His investigation takes him across<br />

the Pacific to the island nation of Taiwan,<br />

where with the help of the outspoken<br />

widow and an unlikely spy, he learns that<br />

the Professor’s killing was not a random<br />

act, but a desperate move by a scandalous<br />

government intent on keeping its nefarious<br />

activities under wraps. Our detective soon<br />

finds himself on a collision course against<br />

the U.S. State Department, the Chinese<br />

Mafia, and the Nationalist Chinese<br />

Government - in a land where the truth is<br />

not what it seems and the only people he<br />

can trust, cannot be trusted at all. Inspired<br />

by actual events.<br />

VISIONEERS<br />

Comedy (95 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jared Drake<br />

Writer: Brandon Drake<br />

Producer: Henry Capanna, James Henney,<br />

Jory Weitz<br />

Key Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Judy Greer,<br />

Missi Pyle, Mia Maestro, D.W. Moffett,<br />

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James LeGros<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

Origin: US<br />

Visioneer George Washington<br />

Winsterhammerman (Zach Galifianakis)<br />

lives a comfortable but monotonous life in<br />

this slightly futuristic black comedy. But<br />

when people start exploding from stress<br />

and George is showing early symptoms,<br />

he’s forced to examine his life. Taking a<br />

look at his prestigious job, his sexless marriage<br />

and his resistance to life coaching,<br />

George reconsiders the philosophy of happiness<br />

through mindless activity.<br />

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WELCOME HOME, HAYABUSA<br />

Drama (123min)<br />

Language: Japanese with English subtitles<br />

Director: Katsuhide MOTOKI<br />

Key Cast: Tatsuya FUJIWARA, Anne,<br />

Tomokazu MIURA<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

Launched successfully on May 09, 2003.<br />

At that time, none of us could have imagined<br />

that this tiny space probe could give<br />

such courage to all of Japan. Let’s travel<br />

on this perilous voyage of HAYABUSA.<br />

We’ll go with Kento OHASHI, a rather<br />

cool JAXA Engineering Assistant, Naoko<br />

NOMURA, a Doctor of Science enchanted<br />

by the romance of the cosmos, and Futa, a<br />

boy who dreams of space. Also along for<br />

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CHRONICLE OF MY MOTHER<br />

Drama (118min)<br />

Language: Japanese with English subtitles<br />

Director: Masato Harada<br />

Writer: Masato Harada<br />

Key Cast: Koji Yakusho, Kiki Kilin, Aoi<br />

Miyazaki<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

“The man who was always writing something<br />

over there seemed to have died.” my<br />

mother muttered. ‘Mother, I am still here...’<br />

I want to say, but words do not come out.<br />

Mother could not tell who I was any<br />

longer. The “Author” (Koji YAKUSHO)<br />

tells his experience with his “Mother”<br />

(Kiki KIRIN) who has became senile. He<br />

senses that the aging mother will not live<br />

for long, but as she tries to embrace and<br />

hold on to the fading memories of her son,<br />

they reconcile the past of a very complex<br />

family history. A true story filled with love<br />

and humor, and the “joy and happiness of<br />

life” which Yasushi Inoue, one of Japan∞fs<br />

most profound author, has wrote about<br />

himself and his mother.<br />

LOVE MASAO-KUN GA IKU! (ORIGI-<br />

NAL JAPANESE TITLE)<br />

Drama/Family<br />

Language: Japanese with English subtitles<br />

Director: Kentaro Otani<br />

Key Cast: Shingo Katori, Ryoko Hirosue<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

A film based on the real adventures of a<br />

comedian and a Labrador Retriever now<br />

delivers laughter and heartfelt emotion! A<br />

male Labrador retriever called Masao and a<br />

young comedian named Matsumoto traveled<br />

throughout Japan. The combination of<br />

the naturally foolish behavior of Masao and<br />

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the humorous exchanges of the expressive<br />

Matsumoto gained a nation-wide popularity.<br />

That story of a human and a dog will<br />

now move beyond the confines of the TV<br />

screen and becomes a full-fledged movie!<br />

Lots of hilarious actual episodes involving<br />

Matsumoto’s struggle in career, love and<br />

life itself, and Masao’s marriage to a black<br />

Labrador retriever, the birth of their puppies,<br />

will be interwoven in the film. You’ll<br />

laugh and cry with the the story of this Lab<br />

full of Luv!<br />

KEN AND MARY(WORKING TITLE)<br />

Drama/Road Movie<br />

Language: Japanese / English<br />

Director: Kenta Fukasaku<br />

Producer: Toshiaki Nakazawa<br />

Key Cast: Naoto Takenaka, HuBing, Kie<br />

Kitano<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012<br />

“Where am I?” Ken Katakura has been in<br />

charge of pantyhose for 25 years as a trading<br />

company employee. He has landed at a<br />

tiny airport in a remote part of Malaysia,<br />

where not even one other airplane is in<br />

sight. The airplane he was taking to Kuala<br />

Lumpur had to make an emergency landing<br />

here because of a storm. However, there is<br />

something that he must accomplish no matter<br />

what. It is to break off the engagement<br />

of his daughter, whose marriage ceremony<br />

is scheduled to take place in just two days.<br />

Then, by some freak coincidence, he<br />

becomes acquainted with a Chinese truck<br />

driver Mary who is strangely partial to<br />

Japan and speaks nonsensical Japanese.<br />

They set out together towards Kuala<br />

Lumpur, where his daughter is, but... They<br />

are a rough pair, whose nationality and culture<br />

and character are different. In spite of<br />

everything, will they arrive there before the<br />

wedding ceremony?!<br />

TENCHI MEISATSU<br />

Drama / Samurai<br />

Language: Japanese with Engish subtitles<br />

Director: Yojiro Takita<br />

Key Cast: Junichi Okada, Aoi Miyazaki<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

From the Academy Award® winning director<br />

Yojiro TAKITA comes a samurai epic<br />

who created the Japanese lunar calendar<br />

which changed the Japanese culture and<br />

lifestyle. The time is the Edo period when<br />

Tokugawa ruled Japan. Santetsu YASUI<br />

(Junichi OKADA) was suddenly appointed<br />

to create the Japanese lunar calendar. Not<br />

knowing much about astronomy, he<br />

worked closely with En MURASE (Aoi<br />

MIYAZAKI) to create the calendar which<br />

changed not only Japanese lifestyles, but<br />

many lives.<br />

TOKYO KAZOKU (ORIGINAL<br />

JAPANESE TITLE)<br />

Drama<br />

Language: Japanese with English subtitles<br />

Director: Yoji Yamada<br />

Writer: Yoji Yamada, Emiko Hiramatsu<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Country of Origin: Japan<br />

Yoji YAMADA’s next film will be a<br />

Homage to “Tokyo Story” by Yasujiro<br />

OZU. The film also celebrates Yamada∞fs<br />

50th anniversary as a director. Yamada’s<br />

82nd film “Tokyo Kazoku” (Japanese original<br />

title, meaning “Tokyo Family”) will be<br />

created as homage to “Tokyo Story”, the<br />

most widely known film by Yasujiro Ozu,<br />

Yamada’s mentor at Shochiku’s legendary<br />

Ofuna Studio. Filming will start from<br />

March 2012 for a Japanese domestic<br />

release aimed for early 2013. Set in the<br />

present-day, the film will offer Yamada∞fs<br />

updated take on this story of Japanese family<br />

life. The casts are yet to be announced.<br />

LIFE BACK THEN<br />

Drama (131)<br />

Language: Japanese with English subtitles<br />

Director: Takahisa Zeze<br />

Key Cast: Masaki Okada, Nana Eikura<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

Based on a novel by Masashi SADA,<br />

Berlinale prize winning director Takahisa<br />

ZEZE sets out to picturaize the big hit<br />

novel “Antoki No Inochi” starring Masaki<br />

OKADA and Nana EIKURA. The story<br />

starts when Kyohei Nagashima who has<br />

closed his mind after an event at high<br />

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school happens to start working as a house<br />

cleaner for people who passed away alone.<br />

Despite his indifference about the job, society,<br />

or even life itself at the beginning, he<br />

gradually learns the meaning of life<br />

through facing life and death while cleaning<br />

houses where the dead used to live and<br />

where tons of belongings from their lives<br />

are left.<br />

SECOND VIRGINITY<br />

AKA: SECOND VIRGIN<br />

Drama (98)<br />

Language: Japanese, English<br />

Director: Second Virgin<br />

Key Cast: Kyoka SUZUKI, Hiroki<br />

HASEGAWA, Kyoko FUKADA<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

Based on the screenplay by Shizuka<br />

OISHI, Second Virginity became a sensational<br />

social phenomenon is now a film.<br />

Rui Nakamura (Kyoka SUZUKI), wellknown<br />

throughout the publishing industry<br />

as a shrewd producer, falls madly in love<br />

with Koh Suzuki (Hiroki HASEGAWA),<br />

the head of an internet securities company.<br />

Despite that Koh is 17 years younger than<br />

her and already married to another woman,<br />

they had managed to overcome various<br />

obstacles and the two of them had started<br />

living together, but then one day Koh just<br />

suddenly disappears from Rui’s life...<br />

CROSSROADS<br />

AKA: RAILWAYS: AI WO<br />

TSUTAERARE NAI OTONA TACHIE<br />

Drama (123min)<br />

Language: Japanese<br />

Director: Masatoshi KURAKATA<br />

Key Cast: Tomokazu MIURA, Kimiko YO<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

With whom do you want to share the years<br />

after retirement? This emotionally inspiring<br />

film is for all those standing at that crossroads<br />

of life. Toru Takishima is a railway<br />

driver who has devoted his whole life to<br />

his job, then realizes that he has reached<br />

the age of 59. His wife Sawako had always<br />

been supportive of him in her role as<br />

housewife, and is now 55. Toru will reach<br />

mandatory retirement after only one month,<br />

and the couple is looking forward to their<br />

retirement years. Then one day, Sawako<br />

proclaims that she will return to the nursing<br />

career that her role as housewife denied<br />

her, but Toru is unwilling and unable to<br />

understand the depth of her conviction. The<br />

two of them have a serious quarrel, and<br />

Sawako suddenly moves out of their home.<br />

The rift between them reaches the point<br />

where Sawako gives official divorce registration<br />

documents to Toru...<br />

QUARTET!<br />

Drama (118min)<br />

Language: Japanese<br />

Director: Junichi MIMURA<br />

Key Cast: Mahiro TAKASUGI, Ayama<br />

GOURIKI<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

A high school boy who wants to become a<br />

violinist, forms a family quartet to try to<br />

connect the family back together. Shot during<br />

the Great East Japan Earthquake, civilian<br />

volunteers supported the completion of<br />

the film.<br />

SENGOKU BASARA-SAMURAI<br />

KINGS:THE MOVIE<br />

Animation (90min)<br />

Language: Japanese<br />

Director: Kazuya NOMURA<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011<br />

The theatrical version of a popular animation<br />

series, based on the video game series<br />

produced by CAPCOM (Resident Evil,<br />

Devil May Cry). Along with the 1st & 2nd<br />

series, Production I.G will be producing<br />

this high quality animation. Set on the<br />

stage of Sengoku / Warring States Period<br />

(around 1467-1573) where great military<br />

commanders all have one goal of conquering<br />

Japan and stand as the head of the united<br />

kingdom.<br />

MILOCRORZE - A LOVE STORY<br />

Fantasy, Samurai, Drama (90min)<br />

Language: Japanese with English subtitles<br />

Director: Yoshimasa ISHIBASHI<br />

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Writer: Yoshimasa ISHIBASHI<br />

Key Cast: Takayuki YAMADa<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Experience the crazy world of multidimensioned<br />

Love Story!! A childlike man<br />

tossed about by a mysterious woman who<br />

showed up all of a sudden before him. An<br />

amative counselor with a sexist attitude<br />

who sharply solves young men’s troubles.<br />

A one-eyed ronin who reaches a red light<br />

district while searching for a woman he fell<br />

in love at first sight. Three stories exist<br />

independently, and at the same time, connect<br />

to each other in the same time space.<br />

Each story is told in different tastes in contents<br />

and visual expression styles, such as<br />

picture-book-like fantastic visual, fashionable<br />

musical style, and artistic samurai<br />

drama. It also unfolds swiftly in high tension,<br />

with full of humour. It’s a film with a<br />

new feel, constructed as a feature film<br />

based on a single theme, whereas it looks<br />

like an omnibus film.<br />

NINJA KIDS!!!<br />

Samurai, Family, Action (97min)<br />

Language: Japanese with English subtitles<br />

Director: Takashi Miike<br />

Key Cast: Seishiro KATO<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

Based on the popular newspaper comic<br />

“Ninja Rantaro Flunks Again” by Sobei<br />

Amako and TV anime series comes a live<br />

action directed by Takashi MIIKE. The<br />

story revolves around the adventures (and<br />

misadventures!) of the Ninja Eggs gang,<br />

Rantaro, Kirimaru, and Shinbei. They are<br />

the first grade students of the Ninja<br />

Academy, who aspire to be elite ninjas,<br />

along with their unusual group of Class Ha<br />

classmates. Their teachers and senior grade<br />

ninjas also take part in their adventures as<br />

do their mortal enemies from the rival<br />

Ninja group of Dokutake - Poison<br />

Mushroom Castle. This very first liveaction<br />

feature film of the Ninja Kids follows<br />

Rantaro as he enters the Academy and<br />

how he meets his best friends, Kirimaru<br />

and Shinbei as they study and train hard to<br />

become elite ninjas!<br />

DENDERA<br />

Drama (119min)<br />

Language: Japanese with English subtitles<br />

Director: Daisuke TENGAN<br />

Executive Producer: Toshiaki NAKAZA-<br />

WA<br />

Key Cast: Ruriko ASAOKA, Mitsuko<br />

KUSABUE, Mitsuko BAISHO<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

28 years after Shohei Imamura’s Palm<br />

D’Or winner “The Ballad of Narayama”<br />

his son Daisuke Tengan’s new ‘Legend of<br />

Old Lady Mountain’ is born. 50 elderly<br />

women, abandoned to die on ‘Old Lady<br />

Mountain.’ They form a village called<br />

“Dendera” with hope to live through. Some<br />

wants to finish their lives peacefully, where<br />

others vow revenge to the village and the<br />

family that had left them to die in the snow<br />

covered mountain. Living is so hard... but<br />

still you live. Why do you struggle?<br />

REBIRTH<br />

Drama (147min)<br />

Language: Japanese with English subtitles<br />

Director: Izuru NARUSHIMA<br />

Key Cast: Mao INOUE, Hiromi<br />

NAGASAKU<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

From the top actresses of Japan comes a<br />

drama of women revealing their love and<br />

the strength to survive. Kiwako sneaks into<br />

the home of Takehiro whom she is having<br />

an affair with, and kidnaps his new born<br />

baby, Erina. Kiwako endlessly moves<br />

throughout Japan while raising Erina as if<br />

she was her own daughter for the next four<br />

years. They truly lead happy life until<br />

Kiwako is finally arrested. Erina is also<br />

havingan affair with a married man and<br />

finds that she is pregnant with his baby.<br />

She decides to travel to the footsteps of the<br />

past to find herself.<br />

SOMEDAY<br />

Drama (93min)<br />

Language: Japanese with English subtitles<br />

Director: Junji SAKAMOTO<br />

Writer: Junji SAKAMOTO<br />

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Key Cast: Yoshio HARADA, Michiyo<br />

OKUSU, Ittoku KISHIBE<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: JAPAN<br />

Junji SAKAMOTO, the award-winning<br />

Japanese film director, together with one of<br />

Japan’s most charismatic actor Yoshio<br />

Harada and a great ensemble casts, creates<br />

a picturesque story set in one of the most<br />

beautiful villages of Japan. In this rural<br />

mountain village, they have the tradition of<br />

acting an amateur Kabuki performance. All<br />

troubles come out as the villagers try to<br />

make success with the performance...<br />

Tears, laughter, and rage all unfold against<br />

the backdrop of Japan’s magnificent natural<br />

beauty. As the film progresses, Harada’s<br />

performance as an amateur Kabuki actor<br />

begins to merge with his own immensely<br />

fruitful life as an actor, instilling a unique<br />

resonance to this bittersweet comedy.<br />

THE GREAT ADVENTURE OF<br />

HUTCH THE HONEYBEE<br />

Animation, Family, Adventure (101min)<br />

Language: Japanese with English subtiles<br />

Director: Tetsuro AMINO<br />

Writer: Kundo KOYAMA<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

Let’s get set for a spectacular adventure of<br />

love and courage! A loving and moving<br />

adventure animation that revolves around<br />

Hutch the Honey Bee and his friends, as he<br />

searches for his missing Queen Bee Mother<br />

whom he parted with through the surprise<br />

attack by the group of cruel Hornets.<br />

Through his travels and adventures, Hutch<br />

encounters other creatures which befriends<br />

him (even those regarded as enemies,<br />

including human beings) and starts to grow<br />

up. He discovers the wonders of nature and<br />

the true meaning of courage.<br />

SHORELINE<br />

ENTERTAINMENT<br />

Shoreline Entertainment, 1875 Century<br />

Park East, Suite 600 , Los Angeles, CA<br />

90067 USA , Tel: 1.310.551.2060. Fax:<br />

1.310.201.0729. www.slefilms.com E-mail:<br />

info@slefilms.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Sam Eigen (EVP), Brian Sweet<br />

(VP of Sales)<br />

Office: Ritz Carlton suite #437., Tel:<br />

1.916.848.5519 Fax: 1.702.974.0707<br />

A SECRET WORLD<br />

AKA: UN MUNDO SECRETO<br />

Drama (93 minutes)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Gabriel Marino<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Mexico<br />

Maria’s last day of class marks the start of<br />

a journey: she’ll cross Mexico but doesn’t<br />

really know why. What she does know is<br />

that this isn’t a fun trip; she knows it’s not<br />

something to write home about, it’s something<br />

else, it’s a journey that began in the<br />

depth of her dreams and in her broken<br />

heart.<br />

FATHER’S CHAIR<br />

AKA: A CADEIRA DO PAI<br />

Drama/Thriller (93 minutes)<br />

Director: Luciano Moura<br />

Key Cast: Wagner MOURA, Lima<br />

DUARTE, Mariana LIMA, Brás<br />

ANTUNES<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012<br />

Theo is living the good life in an upscale<br />

Brazilian neighborhood. He’s a hardworking<br />

doctor, husband, and father. However,<br />

Theo has chosen his career over his family<br />

and his wife announces that she wants a<br />

divorce. Yet nothing prepares him for the<br />

day when he comes home to discover that<br />

his 15-year-old son, Pedro, has disappeared.<br />

Theo takes to the road in search of<br />

his son. In a journey that leads him<br />

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throughout Brazil, Theo discovers what<br />

really matters to him. Searching for his<br />

missing son, Theo finds himself.<br />

YAKEL<br />

(70 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Rachael Wilson<br />

Writer: Rachael Wilson<br />

Executive Producer: Rachael Wilson<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011<br />

In the shadow of a fiery volcano, shrouded<br />

in mystery and magic, the Yakel tribe from<br />

Vanuatu, follow their age-old rituals and<br />

keep the outside world at bay. 100-year-old<br />

Chief Kowia has glimpsed life away from<br />

Yakel but still lives like his ancestors, - in<br />

peace, without money, clothes or technology.<br />

The jungle provides all they need to<br />

survive.<br />

BLACK COBRA<br />

Action/Martial Arts (89 minutes)<br />

Director: Scott Donovan & Lily Melgar<br />

Key Cast: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Tekken,<br />

Mortal Kombat, Pearl Harbor, Twins), T.J.<br />

Storm (Punisher: War Zone, Resident Evil<br />

5), Jeff Wolfe (Drive, Green Lantern)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011<br />

Sizwe Biko, an ordinary man with extraordinary<br />

skills as a martial artist. He wants<br />

nothing more than to live a simple life, but<br />

is thrust into a fight for his father’s freedom,<br />

a leftover casualty of South Africa’s<br />

former Apartheid mandates.<br />

ROMAN’S CIRCUIT<br />

AKA: EL CIRCUITO DE ROMAN<br />

Drama (85 minutes)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Sebastian Brahm<br />

Executive Producer: Gregorio Gonzalez<br />

Key Cast: Cristian Carvajal<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Chile<br />

In El Circuito de Román (“Roman’s<br />

Circuit”), a prominent researcher in the<br />

field of human memory returns home<br />

where he stumbles upon the fact that a<br />

man’s past, as he remembers and tells it, is<br />

often nothing but fiction.<br />

TRANSCENDENT MAN<br />

Documentary (83 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Robert Ptolemy<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: US<br />

TRANSCENDENT MAN chronicles the<br />

life and ideas of Ray Kurzweil, an inventor<br />

and futurist that presents his bold vision of<br />

the Singularity, a point in the near future<br />

when technology will be changing so rapidly,<br />

that we will have to enhance ourselves<br />

with artificial intelligence to keep up. Ray<br />

predicts this will be the dawning of a new<br />

civilization in which we will no longer be<br />

dependent on our physical bodies, we will<br />

be trillions of times more intelligent and<br />

there will be no clear distinction between<br />

human and machine, real reality and virtual<br />

reality. Human aging and illness will be<br />

reversed; world hunger and poverty will be<br />

solved and we will ultimately cure death.<br />

Critics accuse Ray of being too optimistic<br />

and argue that the dangers of the<br />

Singularity far outweigh the benefits,<br />

pointing out the apocalyptic implications<br />

that once machines achieve consciousness,<br />

we may not be able to control them.<br />

Whether Rays controversial ideas incite<br />

excitement or fear, dogma or disbelief this<br />

ambitious documentary will forever change<br />

the way you look at life, death, and your<br />

own future.<br />

SHOWBOX/<br />

MEDIAPLEX, INC.<br />

Showbox/Mediaplex, Inc., 3F, 174-15,<br />

Dogok-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea,<br />

Tel: 82.2.3218.5649 Fax: 82.2.3444.6688.<br />

www.showbox.co.kr/english E-mail:<br />

sales@showbox.co.kr<br />

Sales Agent, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Judy AHN (Head of Int’l<br />

Business / Sales & Acquisitions), Soojin<br />

JUNG (General Manager / Sales), Sonya<br />

KIM (General Manager / Sales & Festival),<br />

June LEE (Manager / Acquisitions)<br />

Office: Marriott - Suite 230, Tel:<br />

49(0)30.220.001.126<br />

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FROM SEOUL TO VARANASI<br />

AKA: VARANASI<br />

Drama (98)<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: JEON Kyu-hwan<br />

Writer: JEON Kyu-hwan<br />

Producer: CHOI Mi-ae<br />

Key Cast: YOON Dong-hwan CHOI Wonjung<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: South Korea<br />

Young-wu who has led a stable but dull<br />

marriage life with Ji-young for 10 year is<br />

in a affair with Su-yeon, a writer contracted<br />

with his own publishing company. On the<br />

way back home from the yoga class, Jiyoung<br />

gets in an accident and meets<br />

Kerim, a young Muslim illegally living in<br />

Seoul, which leads them on another dangerous<br />

relationship. After Kerim gets<br />

deported and leaves for Varanasi without<br />

any notice, Ji-young desperately looks for<br />

his tracks. A few days after his wife left<br />

home, Young-wu happens to see Ji-young<br />

on the TV news, coming out of a restaurant<br />

that has been bombed by terrorists in<br />

Varanasi. Being in a shock, Young-wu<br />

starts to investigate his wife’s whereabouts<br />

and sets off to look for her in Varanasi.<br />

NAMELESS GANGSTER: RULES OF<br />

THE TIME<br />

Crime, Drama (133)<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: YOON Jong-bin<br />

Writer: YOON Jong-bin<br />

Executive Producer: YOU Jeong-hun<br />

Producer: PARK Shin-kyu<br />

Key Cast: CHOI Min-sik, HA Jung-woo<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: South Korea<br />

Ik-hyeon who gets involved in drug dealing<br />

while carrying out his duty as a customs<br />

officer meets a mob boss, Hyeong-bae, and<br />

learns that they are distantly related.<br />

Together they expand the mob business<br />

doing each other’s favors but when the<br />

government declares a war on crime and<br />

the two partners get entangled in the web<br />

of conspiracy and betrayal.<br />

LIVE ON-AIR<br />

AKA: WONDERFUL RADIO<br />

Romance (120)<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: KWON Chil-in<br />

Executive Producer: YOU Jeong-hun<br />

Producer: JEUN Ho-jin<br />

Key Cast: LEE Min-jung, LEE Jung-jin<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: South Korea<br />

Gina, a former member of idol group,<br />

works as the DJ for a radio show called<br />

“Wonderful Radio” now but the rating of<br />

the show has hit the bottom. One day, its<br />

producer is replaced by Jae-ik, a notorious<br />

name in the station with his cold-hearted<br />

aspiration. Fighting like cats and dogs, the<br />

two struggle to reform the program.<br />

However, as they learn about each other’s<br />

weakness and wounds, they start opening<br />

up their hearts and come up with a plan to<br />

reshape their show.<br />

RED VACANCE BLACK WEDDING<br />

Erotic Drama (90)<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: PARK Chul-soo,KIM Tai-sik<br />

Key Cast: JO Seon-mookAHN Ji-hye,OH<br />

In-hye<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: South Korea<br />

The Red Vacance – Hee-rae gets excited<br />

about going on a long overdue vacation<br />

with her long-time lover. But on the very<br />

day they are supposed to leave, he does not<br />

show up without saying anything. Now,<br />

Searching for him becomes her vacation.<br />

The Black Wedding - He is on his way<br />

from his lover and favorite student’s wedding.<br />

He was there as her wedding officiant.<br />

Her body was his power, desire, and<br />

something that gave him a glimpse of hope<br />

to live when he felt he didn’t have any connections<br />

with the world anymore. At the<br />

moment he thinks he lost everything, she<br />

comes see him again on her way to honeymoon.<br />

CHAMP<br />

Drama (133)<br />

Language: Korean<br />

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Director: LEE Hwan-kyung<br />

Writer: LEE Hwan-kyung, KIM Youngseok,<br />

KIM Hwang-sung<br />

Producer: KIM Min-ki, LEE Myung-suk<br />

Key Cast: CHA Tae-hyun, KIM Su-jeoong<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: South Korea<br />

Horse jockey Seung-ho lost his wife and<br />

his sight in a fatal car accident. He leads an<br />

aimless life with his little daughter but<br />

looses all his savings when he tried to<br />

cheat at the horse track and flees to a<br />

remote ranch in Jeju Island. There he meets<br />

a violent and limping horse Woo-bak and<br />

he trains the horse ready for race. Against<br />

all odds, Seung-ho and Woo-bak finishes<br />

first in the preliminaries but when Seungho’s<br />

blindness is discovered by the officials,<br />

they’re disqualified from the finals.<br />

Woo-bak rejects all other jockeys and direly<br />

awaits Seung-ho to come back. The<br />

limping horse and his blind jockey bet<br />

everything to race one last time.<br />

THE SCENT (W/T)<br />

Thriller, Drama<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: KIM Hyung-jun<br />

Key Cast: PARK Hee-soon,PARK Si-yeon<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Country of Origin: South Korea<br />

Seon-wu is a private investigator who is<br />

specialized in the adultery cases using his<br />

olfactory sense. While investigating on an<br />

affair, his client, a mysterious woman<br />

named Soo-jin, turns up murdered and<br />

Seon-wu becomes a suspect for being at<br />

the crime scene. As he tries to cover up the<br />

tracks of murder, the evidences confirming<br />

his presence at the scene start turning up<br />

and he gets framed as a murderer.<br />

DON’T CLICK<br />

Horror<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: KIM Tae-kyung<br />

Key Cast: PARK Bo-young, JOO Won,<br />

KANG Byul<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: South Korea<br />

Jung-mi, who’s been living alone with her<br />

elder sister after their parents left for the<br />

US, uploads UCC often in hopes of being<br />

famous. She believes that it’s the easy way<br />

to make her dream come true: being an<br />

anchorwoman. Jung-mi’s sister, Se-hi<br />

thinks this is useless and same time dangerous<br />

but cannot stop her sister. When Jungmi<br />

finds that the video so called “forbidden<br />

video” is in the center of the attention, she<br />

asks Se-hi’s boyfriend, Joon-hyuk working<br />

at special investigation team for cyber<br />

crimes to get her the file. Even though it’s<br />

already forbidden, Joon-hyuk illegally<br />

downloads the video file from the closed<br />

internet site for Jung-mi. She clicks the file<br />

only to find out it contains one high school<br />

girl’s wicked necromantic ritual. After<br />

watching the video, there happen series of<br />

strange incidents to Jung-mi. Now, Se-hi<br />

has to find the way to save her only sister<br />

from the curse of the video.<br />

THE THIEVES<br />

Crime, Action<br />

Language: Korean, Chinese<br />

Director: CHOI Dong-hoon<br />

Writer: CHOI Dong-hoon<br />

Executive Producer: YOU Jeong-hun<br />

Key Cast: KIM Yun-seok,Gianna JUN,<br />

KIM Hye-su, LEE Jung-jae, OH Dal-soo,<br />

KIM Hae-sook, KIM Soo-hyun<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: South Korea<br />

Infamous thief Macao Park brings together<br />

best thieves from Korea and Hong Kong<br />

for his latest job: $20 million diamond<br />

known as “Tear of the Sun,” kept safely<br />

away in a Macao casino. But his plan takes<br />

an unexpected turn when Korean leader<br />

Popeye brings Pepsi, an old flame. While<br />

working together to steal this fabled diamond,<br />

they all have their own agendas to<br />

derail the plan and keep the diamond for<br />

themselves. Unbeknownst to them, Macao<br />

Park, too, has plans for everyone in the<br />

team. Who end up with the diamond and<br />

live to see another day?<br />

A COMPANY MAN<br />

Action, Thriller<br />

Language: Korean<br />

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Director: LIM Sang-yoon<br />

Writer: LIM Sang-yoon<br />

Executive Producer: YOU Jeong-hun<br />

Key Cast: SO Ji-sub, LEE Mi-youn, KIM<br />

Dong-joon<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: South Korea<br />

A contract killing organization is managed<br />

like a normal company. Hyung-do who<br />

regards killing as nothing more than repetitious<br />

routine is working for this company.<br />

A man loyal to his company and accepted<br />

as the firm’s best killer, Hyung-do one day<br />

starts feeling doubts about his job and<br />

decides to quit his job for a woman he is in<br />

love with. Instantly, he is under the threat<br />

of being hunted down by his former colleagues.<br />

CONFESSION OF MURDER<br />

Action, Drama<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: JUNG Byung-gil<br />

Key Cast: JUNG Jae-young,PARK Si-hoo<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Country of Origin: South Korea<br />

The statute of limitations on a high profile<br />

serial murder case, in which 10 women<br />

have been murdered, a member of the victim<br />

family throws himself off the building<br />

in front of the detective CHOI who is in<br />

charge of the case. 2 years later, a man<br />

called LEE Du-seok publishes a book titled<br />

“Confession of Murder” claiming his<br />

responsibility for the murders that took<br />

place 17 years ago. His book becomes a<br />

huge success but, “J”, who appears suddenly,<br />

claiming he is the real perpetrator. What<br />

is the truth behind and identity of the<br />

author?<br />

THE FRONT LINE<br />

War Drama (133)<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: JANG Hun<br />

Writer: PARK Sang-yeon<br />

Executive Producer: YOU Jeong-hun<br />

Producer: Robert Lee,KIM Hyun-chol<br />

Key Cast: SHIN Ha-kyun, KO Soo, KIM<br />

Ok-vin<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: South Korea<br />

Towards the end of the Korean War, a<br />

South Korean battalion is fiercely battling<br />

over a hill on the front line border against<br />

the North in order to capture a strategic<br />

point that would determine the new border<br />

between two nations. The ownership of this<br />

small patch of land would swap multiple<br />

times each day. Kang is dispatched to the<br />

front line in order to investigate the tacit<br />

case that’s been happening there. But he<br />

gets spiraled into the war that’s more terrifying<br />

than death itself when he meets his<br />

friend Kim, who has transformed into a<br />

war machine, and his unit. As the countdown<br />

for ceasefire begins, both sides<br />

become more vicious, resulting in deaths of<br />

countless lives until the last man could<br />

claim the land.<br />

MR. IDOL<br />

Music Drama (113)<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: LA Hee-chan<br />

Writer: LA Hee-chan<br />

Executive Producer: William KIM<br />

Key Cast: JI Hyun-woo, Jay PARK, PARK<br />

Ye-jin, KIM Su-ro<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: South Korea<br />

Guju is once a famous producer who left<br />

the music industry after one of her idol<br />

group members died of accident. One day,<br />

she encounters Yujin who was kicked out<br />

of an agency called ‘Star Music’ after years<br />

of training to be a singer. Guju believes<br />

Yujin could be a star and produces an idol<br />

group called ‘Mr. Children’. The talented<br />

group, Mr. Children, attracts public attention<br />

and their fans increase exponentially.<br />

Seeing this Star Music uploads the video of<br />

Yujin when he was a trainee in order to<br />

slander Yujin. As a result, Guju, Yujin, and<br />

the members of Mr. Children face a hard<br />

time.<br />

ALWAYS<br />

Romance (110)<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: SONG lI-gon<br />

Writer: SONG lI-gon, NO Hong-jin<br />

Executive Producer: YOU Jeong-hun<br />

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Producer: MOON Bo-mi, KIM Jung-hee,<br />

LEE Sung-hun<br />

Key Cast: SO Ji-sub, HAN Hyo-joo<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: South Korea<br />

Chul-min is a lowlife who makes his living<br />

as a loan shark muscle and a parking lot<br />

attendant. But his life is turned sideways<br />

when he meets a strange, cheerful blind<br />

woman named Jung-hwa. Soon they<br />

become close and he trains himself to be an<br />

MMA fighter. But when he finds out that<br />

she requires eye transplant before too late,<br />

and how he was responsible for her loss of<br />

sight several years ago, he takes a trip<br />

abroad to participate in a prize fight to give<br />

her the transplant she needs.<br />

THE CLIENT<br />

Thriller (123)<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: SOHN Young-sung<br />

Writer: LEE Choon-hyung, SOHN Youngsung<br />

Executive Producer: YOU Jeong-hun<br />

Producer: KIM Jho-kwang-soo, SHIN<br />

Chang-kil<br />

Key Cast: HA Jung-woo, PARK Hee-soon,<br />

JANG Hyuk<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: South Korea<br />

Defense attorney Kang receives a notorious<br />

case to defend Han, who is accused of<br />

killing his wife. Even though her body is<br />

not discovered, the general public is quick<br />

to label him as the devil-reincarnate and<br />

begs for a shift guilty verdict. It’s a difficult<br />

case but Kang is confident that he will<br />

prevail. The defendant is an enigmatic<br />

character with OCD who can’t express his<br />

thoughts clearly. Fortunately for him, there<br />

is no murder weapon but he doesn’t have<br />

an alibi either. The prosecutor handling<br />

Han’s case is also Kang’s archrival, and is<br />

determined to bring down Han for the murder<br />

and his lawyer along with him. Kang<br />

digs into Han’s case in order to uncover<br />

evidences to clear his client’s name.<br />

MOBY DICK<br />

Thriller, Crime (112)<br />

Language: Korean<br />

Director: PARK In-jae<br />

Executive Producer: YOU Jeong-hun<br />

Producer: PARK Shin-kyu<br />

Key Cast: HWANG Jung-min, JIN Goo,<br />

KIM Min-hee<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: South Korea<br />

LEE Bang-u, a journalist who would do<br />

anything to get a scoop, sees a mysterious<br />

explosion in the Balam Bridge and senses<br />

there is a major story behind it. Suddenly, a<br />

man named Yoon-hyeok appears and, without<br />

a word, leaves a tennis bag filled with<br />

surveillance reports of civilians and a<br />

locked floppy disk. Later, Bang-u finds out<br />

that Yoon-hyeok is being chased by some<br />

strangers. Bang-u forms a special investigation<br />

team with other journalists, SON<br />

Jin-gi and SONG Hyo-gwan who were also<br />

working on the case. One day, some<br />

strangers break into their office, Moby<br />

Dick, and leave a terrible mess. The<br />

strangers even impose a threat to the investigation<br />

team and Yoon-hyeok who is holding<br />

the key to the case.<br />

SHOWCASE<br />

ENTERTAINMENT, INC.<br />

Showcase Entertainment, Inc., 23679<br />

Calabasas Road - Suite 807, Calabasas,<br />

CA 91302 USA, Tel: 1.818.876.9617. Fax:<br />

1.818.876.8501. http://www.showcaseentertainment.com<br />

E-mail: linda@showcaseentertainment.com<br />

Distributor<br />

At EFM: David A. Jackson (President),<br />

Shauna Shapiro-Jackson (Executive Vice<br />

President), Cara Shapiro (VP of<br />

Acquisitions), Leslee Allmon (VP-<br />

Worldwide Distribution Services), Linda<br />

Paolucci (Director Sales Administration<br />

and Market Coordinator)<br />

Office: Berlin Marriott, Tel:<br />

+1.818.400.0324<br />

YOU MAY NOT KISS THE BRIDE<br />

Action/Romantic Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

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Director: Rob Hedden<br />

Writer: Rob Hedden<br />

Key Cast: Katharine McPhee, Rob<br />

Schneider, Mena Suvari, Kathy Bates,<br />

Dave Annable, Ken Davitian, Vinnie Jones,<br />

Tia Carrere, Kevin Dunn<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

In the spirit of Romancing The Stone, an<br />

unassuming pet photographer is thrown<br />

into serious action, adventure and romance<br />

when he is forced to marry a Croatian bride<br />

and then must rescue her after she is kidnapped<br />

while on their honeymoon at a<br />

remote tropical resort.<br />

IRA FINKELSTEIN’S CHRISTMAS<br />

Adventure/Comedy/Family<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Sue Corcoran<br />

Writer: Sue Corcoran<br />

Producer: Sue Corcoran<br />

Key Cast: David DeLuise, Elliott Gould,<br />

Elijah Nelson<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Ira J. Finkelstein is obsessed with<br />

Christmas. He’s seen every Christmas<br />

movie ever made and his dreams are filled<br />

with reindeer, sleigh rides and SNOW. The<br />

problem? Ira’s Jewish - and at 11 years old,<br />

Christmas is passing him by. When Ira’s<br />

hopes for a holiday vacation in Aspen are<br />

dashed, he hatches a plan to finally get the<br />

Christmas of his dreams. Flying unaccompanied<br />

to visit his grandparents in Florida,<br />

he swaps tickets with Mikey, another 11year-old<br />

on his way to Christmastown, WA<br />

. Ira gets more than he bargained for when<br />

he experiences his first “White Christmas”.<br />

MONIKA<br />

Action/Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Steven Monroe<br />

Writer: Steven Monroe<br />

Key Cast: Jason Wiles, Cerina Vincent, C.<br />

Thomas Howell<br />

Year of Production: 2011<br />

A man who is troubled by visions and premonitions<br />

is ultimately led to Las Vegas.<br />

It’s there that he meets the beautiful and<br />

mysterious MoniKa, a young woman who<br />

turns out to have been killed the night<br />

before he even met her. He is then forced<br />

to put the puzzle together of what happened,<br />

how she is still present and help<br />

MoniKa with her revenge on the killers of<br />

her younger sister.<br />

THE WANNABES<br />

Teen Comedy<br />

Director: Eric Dean Seaton<br />

Writer: Doreen Spicer<br />

Producer: Ron Stern, Christine LeMaire<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Live-action comedy/music series featuring<br />

Savvy, a multicultural sing-and-dance<br />

troupe who has been played on Radio<br />

Disney, as a group of kids attending an arts<br />

prep school who attempt to achieve their<br />

pop star dream. THE WANNABES is now<br />

HBO Family Latin America’s NUMBER<br />

ONE show and will be premiering in the<br />

U.S. on Starz next month!!<br />

ANNABELLE & BEAR<br />

Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Key Cast: Curt Massof, Olivia Walby,<br />

Ruby Harris<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

The story of Bear – a burly, bald, tattooed<br />

biker who is suddenly thrust into fatherhood<br />

when his ex is no longer capable of<br />

caring the 2 year old child he never knew.<br />

Annabelle & Bear takes us on an unexpected<br />

journey that leads Bear to discover the<br />

life-altering love found in the heart of his<br />

little girl. This multiple award-winning<br />

audience favorite stars the YOUNGEST<br />

LEADING ACTRESS EVER IN A FEA-<br />

TURE FILM – 2 YEAR OLD OLIVIA<br />

WALBY! Walby will steal your heart and,<br />

as stated in many reviews, this film is a<br />

must-see!<br />

EDGAR ALLAN POE’S ‘ANNABEL<br />

LEE’<br />

Thriller<br />

Key Cast: Kristen Hagen, Jon Woodward-<br />

Kirby<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

the story of Jack Blythe, an artist who rents<br />

a summer house in a quiet beach town to<br />

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find creative inspiration. He gets more than<br />

he bargained for when he meets a beautiful<br />

but hauntingly mysterious woman who<br />

offers to be his subject for a painting.<br />

When Jack discovers that his seductive<br />

stranger resembles a woman presumed<br />

dead for 18 years, he becomes obsessed<br />

with uncovering the truth. Soon, Jack is<br />

caught up in a terrifying struggle that will<br />

unravel an unsolvable mystery and reveal a<br />

horrific secret.<br />

EXTINCTION<br />

Thriller/Horror<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Niki Drozdowski<br />

Producer: Daniel Buder<br />

Key Cast: Daniel Buder, Luise Bahr, Klaus<br />

Ebert<br />

Country of Origin: Germany<br />

In the vein of “28 Days Later” and “I Am<br />

Legend,” a retrovirus has entered into the<br />

world, killing almost everyone, turning the<br />

dead into flesh-eating zombies, and the few<br />

survivors have to fight for survival. The<br />

future of mankind is at stake in this postapocalyptic<br />

thriller! This English-language<br />

movie was shot entirely in Germany by a<br />

young and talented group of filmmakers<br />

with a very strong visual style.<br />

JOE DANTE PRESENTS TRAIL OF<br />

BLOOD<br />

Action, Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Joseph Guerrieri, Justin Guerrieri<br />

Writer: Joseph Guerrieri, Justin Guerrieri<br />

Executive Producer: Joe Dante<br />

Producer: Matthew Hsu, Vero Shamo-<br />

Garcia<br />

Key Cast: Robert Picardo, Trevor Torseth,<br />

Tim Barraco, Kandis Erickson<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

On a weekend camping trip deep in the forest,<br />

a young U.S. Marine recruit and his six<br />

friends stumble upon the murdered bodies<br />

of a vacationing couple. They are mistaken<br />

for the killers by a deeply-disturbed war<br />

veteran who calls himself the “Angel of<br />

Death.” The veteran is determined to teach<br />

them the horrors of war through a series of<br />

tortuous mind games that leaves Jim and<br />

his friends struggling for their lives.<br />

GEORGE A. ROMERO PRESENTS<br />

DEADTIME STORIES,VOLUMES I &<br />

II<br />

Horror/Thriller<br />

Director: Matt Walsh, Jeff Monahan,<br />

Michael Fischa<br />

Writer: Jeff Monahan<br />

Producer: Matt Walsh, Jeff Monahan,<br />

Michael Fischa<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

In the tradition of “Creepshow” and “Tales<br />

From the Crypt,” legendary horror director<br />

George A. Romero brings you two volumes<br />

of horror tales that will chill you to the<br />

bone! Each volume has three scary tales<br />

and, as a bonus to his millions of fans,<br />

George Romero, himself, introduces each<br />

story and acts as a guide on this scary ride.<br />

FRAT PARTY<br />

Sexy Teen Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Key Cast: Randy Wayne, Caroline<br />

D’Amore<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

In the tradition of “Bachelor Party,” a campus<br />

stud attempts to make it through his<br />

bachelor party without giving in to many<br />

female temptations in his path.<br />

WHITE LION<br />

Family Adventure<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Michael Swan<br />

Producer: Kevin Richardson<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

In Africa, according to legend of the<br />

Shangaan people, the White Lion is considered<br />

a messenger of the gods. However,<br />

within his own pride, the White Lion is a<br />

danger as his white coat makes him stand<br />

out in the dangerous African wilderness.<br />

When Letsatsi, an adorable White Lion is<br />

born, he is cast from his pride and is forced<br />

upon a perilous journey of survival.<br />

Letsatsi not only survives his journey but,<br />

with the help of an older lion Nkulu and a<br />

young Shangaan warrior, Letsatsi grows up<br />

to be an adult lion and creates a pride of<br />

his own, thus becoming the REAL Lion<br />

King!<br />

ANGEL CAMOUFLAGED<br />

Language: English<br />

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Director: R. Michael Givens<br />

Producer: Ken Dalton and Aaron Steele-<br />

Nicolson<br />

Key Cast: James Brolin Carlos Bernard<br />

Dilana Robichaux Warrick Grier Tessie<br />

Santiago<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

Angel Camouflaged stars rock star<br />

‘Dilana,’ finalist in the hit show “Rock Star<br />

Supernova,” rock legend Patty Smyth, the<br />

Marshall Tucker Band, Kurtis Blow and<br />

James Brolin. “Angel Camouflaged” is<br />

empowering film with attitude, that appeals<br />

to women and to anyone reaching for a<br />

dream. It features an up-and-coming<br />

female singer who has everything she<br />

needs to make it to the top—the looks, the<br />

voice, the attitude but hides her skills<br />

behind a whisky bottle. She wants to get<br />

away from everything including her hard<br />

living lifestyle. When she finds that she<br />

and her brother have inherited a dilapidated,<br />

abandoned bar, they decide to reopen it.<br />

In the process of rebuilding the bar, she<br />

discovers she has been able to rebuild herself.<br />

LOCAL COLOR<br />

Drama<br />

Director: George Gallo<br />

Writer: George Gallo<br />

Producer: James W. Evangelatos, David<br />

Permut, Mark Sennet, Julie Lott Gallo<br />

Key Cast: Amrin Mueller-Stahl, Trevor<br />

Morgan, Ray Liotta, Charles Durning,<br />

Samantha Mathis, Ron Perlman, Diana<br />

Scarwid<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

“Local Color” is inspired by the true story<br />

of a renowned artist who looks back on the<br />

summer of his defining year, when he<br />

befriended an elderly genius painter who<br />

turned his his back not only on art, but life.<br />

Over the course of the summer, the student’s<br />

enthusiasm and innocence rekindles<br />

the master’s passion. Together, they give<br />

one another a priceless gift. The student<br />

learns to see the world through the eyes of<br />

an artist, while the master remembers to<br />

see and embrace life and its beauty.<br />

THE LITTLE MATCH MAKERS<br />

Family<br />

Director: Agustin Castaneda, Mario Ortiz<br />

Writer: Agustin Castaneda<br />

Producer: Agustin Castaneda, Mario Ortiz<br />

Key Cast: Hannash Frantz, Julian Ortiz,<br />

Jacleen Haber, Agustin Castaneda<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

In the tradition of “The Parent Trap,” a tenyear<br />

old girl and ten-year old boy conspire<br />

to get their divorced parents to meet, fall in<br />

love, and get married. Easy, right? Not so<br />

fast! When the parents first meet, they hate<br />

each other, so the kids have to take extreme<br />

measure to make their plan work. As they<br />

say, games are for kids, even the most popular<br />

game of all - the game of love!<br />

CATALINA ISLAND<br />

Family (2 X 90’)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Todd Turner, John Schneider<br />

Producer: Scott LeGrand<br />

Key Cast: John Schneider, Jessica Tuck,<br />

Kimberly Caldwell, George Segal, Billy<br />

Dee Williams, Jeffrey Tambor, Eric Lange<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

2 X 90’ mini-series We like to describe the<br />

series as’Northern Exposure’ on an island,<br />

as it’s full of fun and interesting characters<br />

and the scenery is breathtaking. Twenty-six<br />

miles to a new life.<br />

GUARDIANS OF THE POWER<br />

MASKS<br />

Animation/Kids/Tweens<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Bob Jacques, Rann Watumull<br />

Producer: Rann Watumull, David A.<br />

Jackson, Heung Soo Park, Yan Xiao Qun<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

A 10-year-old American girl, Annie, is<br />

forced to spend the summer with her<br />

grandmother, Nainai & younger cousin,<br />

Yong in China. One day a local construction<br />

project opens up a once sealed portal<br />

to the twilight realm releasing evil forces!<br />

Annie discovers she & Yong come from a<br />

long line of warriors who must defeat these<br />

evil forces. Under Nainai’s guidance, Annie<br />

& Yong learn to fight these evil forces as<br />

well as get along themselves. By wearing<br />

Power Masks, which increase their abilities<br />

tenfold, they transform into mighty war-<br />

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riors! A clash of cultures & villains leads to<br />

many exciting adventures for these two<br />

young warriors.<br />

SPACE DOG<br />

Animation<br />

Language: English<br />

Delivery Status: In Development<br />

A super-smart dog from a distant planet,<br />

Sirius (aka Dog Star), crash lands on earth!<br />

12-year-old Jimmy Patterson convinces<br />

Space Dog he has to stay undercover until<br />

they are able to repair his ship and get him<br />

back home. And what’s the best way to disguise<br />

a super-smart dog? Pretend to be an<br />

earthling dog, of course! Space Dog is<br />

completely offended that he has to “dumb<br />

down,” but in order to get back home he<br />

has no other choice. And thus begins the<br />

journey of Space Dog and his new family,<br />

the Pattersons. Along the way, Space Dog<br />

discovers that while these humans may not<br />

be particularly smart, they are, dare I say<br />

it...loveable?<br />

SPOTLIGHT<br />

PICTURES<br />

Spotlight Pictures, 6671 W. Sunset Blvd.<br />

#1591, Hollywood, CA 90028 USA, Tel:<br />

+1.323.871.2551 Fax: +1.323.446.7349.<br />

www.spotlight-pictures.com E-mail:<br />

info@spotlight-pictures.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Scott Bedno (President of<br />

International), Ryan McCombs (VP of<br />

Acquisitions), Matthew McCombs (CEO)<br />

Office: IFTA stand # 141, Tel:<br />

+49.30.889.14 – 422<br />

BEAUTY & THE LEAST<br />

Romantic Comedy (89)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Bryce Clark<br />

Writer: Bryce Clark<br />

Producer: Justin Lyon<br />

Key Cast: Mischa Barton, Melora Hardin<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Ben Banks is the Forrest Gump of the<br />

slacker generation. He’s a young man with-<br />

out much drive or ambition, who stumbles<br />

into a series of strange and fascinating<br />

(mis)adventures. When he falls in love with<br />

a beautiful girl (Mischa Barton) with a<br />

mysterious past, he begins a journey that<br />

makes him discover being a grown-up isn’t<br />

so bad after all.<br />

STEALTH<br />

MEDIA GROUP<br />

Stealth Media Group, 14 Regent Hill,<br />

Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 3ED ENG-<br />

LAND, Tel: +44.1273.739182 Fax:<br />

+44.1273.749122. www.stealthmediagroup.com<br />

E-mail: info@stealthmediagroup.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor,<br />

Financier<br />

At EFM: Sean O’Kelly (Joint C.E.O.), Juan<br />

Vista Neis (Head of International Sales),<br />

David Braithwaite (Head of Acquisitions)<br />

Office: Marriott Hotel, Suite #252, Tel:<br />

+49.30.22000 - 1152<br />

FANGS OF WAR<br />

Horror<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jim Donovan<br />

Writer: Geoffrey Gunn<br />

Producer: Ken Nakamura<br />

Key Cast: Dominic Purcell, Tom Felton,<br />

Celina Jade<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

1944 The Greatest Evil Wants Immortality.<br />

History is at Stake.<br />

MARBLE CITY<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Ryuhei Kitamura<br />

Writer: Ryuhei Kitamura<br />

Delivery Status: In Development<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Rune enters Marble City after serving ten<br />

years for armed robbery; with an eye patch<br />

covering a mangled eye; he’s full of hate<br />

and vengeance.<br />

THE ANATOMIST<br />

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Romantic Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Gabriela Tagliavini<br />

Writer: Gabriela Tagliavini<br />

Producer: Enrica de Biasi, Giulia Marletta,<br />

Donald Ranvaud<br />

Key Cast: Ray Stevenson, Amaia<br />

Salamanca, Jordi Molla<br />

Delivery Status: In Development<br />

Year of Production: 2013 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Adaptation of a controversial comic novel<br />

based on the true story of the 16th century<br />

surgeon who discovered the clitoris.<br />

EMOTIONAL RESCUE<br />

Romantic comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Beth Lauren<br />

Writer: Beth Lauren<br />

Producer: Beth Lauren, Sarah Miller, Mark<br />

Thomas<br />

Key Cast: David Alan Basche, Heather<br />

Graham, David Tennant<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Three best friends make a solemn pact as<br />

pre-teen to protect each other from the bad<br />

boys they seem to attract like files.<br />

SPARKS AND EMBERS<br />

Romantic drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Gavin Boyter<br />

Writer: Gavin Boyter<br />

Producer: Alan Latham, Benjamin Craig<br />

Key Cast: Kris Marshall, Annelise Hesme<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Old flames are hard to extinguish.<br />

THE KNIFE THAT KILLED ME<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Marcus Romer, Kit Monkman<br />

Writer: Marcus Romer, Kit Monkman<br />

Producer: Alan Latham, Thomas Mattinson<br />

Key Cast: Jack McMullen<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Adaptation of the bestselling book THE<br />

KNIFE THAT KILLED ME by Anthony<br />

McGowan.<br />

SHOEDOG<br />

Action<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: John McNaughton<br />

Writer: George Pelecanos<br />

Producer: Michael Delfay<br />

Key Cast: Ethan Hawke, Heather Graham<br />

and Sam Shepard<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

After a seventeen year absence, a drifter<br />

named Constantine returns to his hometown<br />

of Washington, D.C. and becomes a<br />

driver in a dual liquor store robbery.<br />

THE BLIND BASTARD CLUB<br />

Action/Adventure<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Ash Baron-Cohen<br />

Writer: Ash Baron-Cohen<br />

Producer: Ash Baron-Cohen, Frank<br />

Desmarais, Andrew Mysko, Cory Neal,<br />

Julia Verdin<br />

Key Cast: Mickey Rourke, Rosario<br />

Dawson, Robin Williams<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A story centered around a group of blind<br />

people who live on the edge.<br />

IRON SKY<br />

Sci-Fi Comedy (105 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Timo Vuorensola<br />

Writer: Johanna Sinisalo and Michael<br />

Kalasniko<br />

Co-Production Partners: Blind Spot<br />

Pictures, Film And Music<br />

Producer: Tero Kaukomaa<br />

Key Cast: Udo Kier, Gotz Otto, Julia<br />

Dietze<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Finland<br />

In 1945 The Nazis Went To The Moon. In<br />

2018 They Are Coming Back.<br />

BELLE DU SEIGNEUR<br />

Romance (120 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

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Director: Glenio Bonder<br />

Writer: Vincenzo Cerami, James Dearden,<br />

Glenio Bonder<br />

Producer: Jimmy De Brabant, Thierry de<br />

Navacelle, Jean-Luc Van Damme<br />

Key Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Natalia<br />

Vodianova, Marianne Faithfull<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

Adapted from Novelist Albert Cohen’s<br />

Masterpiece. This tortuous love story<br />

revolves around an adulterous affair<br />

between the ostentatious son of the Chief<br />

Rabbi of Cephalonia and a beautiful<br />

Protestant aristocrat.<br />

THE GIANT MECHANICAL MAN<br />

Romantic Comedy, Fantasy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Lee Kirk<br />

Writer: Lee Kirk<br />

Key Cast: Jenna Fischer, Chris Messina,<br />

Topher Grace, Malin Ackerman<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011<br />

Modern-day Clark Kent Tim falls in love<br />

with Janice, and he must decide whether or<br />

not he can open his heart and reveal himself<br />

to her as The Giant Mechanical Man.<br />

FOREVERLAND<br />

Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Max McGuire<br />

Writer: Max McGuire, Shawn Riopelle<br />

Producer: Aaron Gilbert, Christine Haebler,<br />

Trish Dolman<br />

Key Cast: Max Thieriot, Laurence<br />

Leboeuf, Juliette Lewis<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

A young man with cystic fibrosis, along<br />

with the sister of a fallen friend, goes in<br />

search of a legendary healing shrine in<br />

Mexico.<br />

THE MAGNIFICENT ELEVEN<br />

Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jeremy Wooding<br />

Writer: John Adams, Peter Adams, Irvine<br />

Welsh<br />

Producer: Peter Adams<br />

Key Cast: Gary Mavers, Jenna Harrison,<br />

Philip Rhys<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

11 United Can Never Be Defeated.<br />

A VERY BRITISH GANGSTER II<br />

Documentary (90 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Donal MacIntyre<br />

Key Cast: Dominic Noonan, Bugsy<br />

Noonan<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

A VERY BRITISH GANGSTER is an all<br />

access film inside one of Britain’s most<br />

dangerous crime families.<br />

THE PADDY LINCOLN GANG<br />

Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Ben Jagger<br />

Writer: Alistair Audsley<br />

Producer: Alistair Audsley, Ben Jagger,<br />

Dean S. Jagger<br />

Key Cast: Dean Jagger, Amy Lawhorn<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Life in a rock and roll band. It can turn on<br />

a knife edge.<br />

REARVIEW<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Avil E. Russell<br />

Writer: Avil E. Russell<br />

Producer: Stella Nwimo<br />

Key Cast: Antonia Thomas, Jamie Sives,<br />

Jay Simpson<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

The Terror Starts The Moment She Stops.<br />

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STS MEDIA LTD<br />

STS Media Ltd, Watergate, Haseley Rd.,<br />

Little Milton, Oxfordshire, OX44 7QE UK,<br />

Tel: 44.7977067948. Email:<br />

simonb1863@live.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Simon Barnes (Sales Executive),<br />

Sam Tromans (Sales Executive)<br />

Office: Tel: 44.7977067948<br />

WILD BILL<br />

Drama (97 mins)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Dexter Fletcher<br />

Writer: Danny King/Dexter Fletcher<br />

Executive Producer: Alan Jones, Vicky<br />

Deigman<br />

Producer: Sam Tromans, Tim Cole<br />

Key Cast: Charlie Creed-Miles, Will<br />

Poulter, Andy Serkis, Leo Gregory, Jaime<br />

Winstone, Jason Flemyng, Olivia Williams<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

An inept ex con struggles to become a<br />

father to his two teenage sons.<br />

SUMMIT<br />

ENTERTAINMENT<br />

Summit Entertainment, 1630 Stewart<br />

Street, Suite 120 , Santa Monica,, CA USA,<br />

Tel: +1.310.309.8400. Fax:<br />

+1.310.828.4132. http://summit-ent.com Email:<br />

markets@summit-ent.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer<br />

At EFM: Patrick Wachsberger (President &<br />

Co-Chair, Summit Entertainment; CEO,<br />

Summit International), David Garrett<br />

(President, Summit International), Ralpho<br />

Borgos Senior Vice President, International<br />

Sales (Senior Vice President, International<br />

Sales), Michael Schaefer (Senior Vice<br />

President, Acquisitions & Co-Productions),<br />

Jill Jones (Senior Vice President,<br />

International Marketing & Publicity )<br />

Office: Grand Hyatt Hotel , Tel:<br />

+49.30.2553.1234 Fax: +49.30.2553.1235<br />

BEAUTIFUL CREATURES<br />

Drama - Romance<br />

Director: Richard LaGravenese<br />

Writer: Richard LaGravenese<br />

Producer: Erwin Stoff, Andrew A. Kosove,<br />

Broderick Johnson, Molly Smith<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

After falling for the mysterious new girl in<br />

town, a young man discovers she bears a<br />

terrible secret that will either join them forever<br />

or tear them apart.<br />

THE TOMB<br />

Action<br />

Director: Mikael Håfström<br />

Writer: Miles Chapman<br />

Producer: Mark Canton, Robbie Brenner,<br />

Randall Emmett, George Furla, Kevin King<br />

Key Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Arnold<br />

Schwarzenegger<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

When a prison expert agrees to test a maximum<br />

security facility by engineering a<br />

breakout, he becomes trapped in a deadly<br />

design of his own.<br />

NOW YOU SEE ME<br />

Thriller<br />

Director: Louis Leterrier<br />

Writer: Boaz Yakin & Edward Ricourt and<br />

Josh Appelbaum & André Nemec and Ed<br />

Solomon<br />

Producer: Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci,<br />

Bobby Cohen<br />

Key Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo,<br />

Woody Harrelson, Mélanie Laurent, Isla<br />

Fisher, Dave Franco, Common, Michael<br />

Kelly, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

Four of the world’s greatest illusionists pull<br />

off a series of daring, seemingly impossible<br />

heists, as a pair of law-enforcement agents<br />

tries to stop them.<br />

12 YEARS A SLAVE<br />

Drama<br />

Director: Steve McQueen<br />

Writer: John Ridley and Steve McQueen<br />

Producer: Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy<br />

Kleiner, Bill Pohlad<br />

Key Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael<br />

Fassbender, Brad Pitt<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

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A free man living in New York during the<br />

mid-1800s is kidnapped and sold into slavery<br />

in the deep south.<br />

WARM BODIES<br />

Romance – Comedy-Drama<br />

Director: Jonathan Levine<br />

Executive Producer: Bruna Papandrea,<br />

David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman<br />

Key Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer,<br />

Rob Corddry, Dave Franco, Analeigh<br />

Tipton and John Malkovich<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

An existentially tormented zombie begins<br />

an unlikely friendship with the girlfriend of<br />

one of his victims, which starts a chain<br />

reaction that changes everything.<br />

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALL-<br />

FLOWER<br />

Drama<br />

Director: Stephen Chbosky<br />

Writer: Stephen Chbosky<br />

Producer: Lianne Halfon, Russell Smith,<br />

John Malkovich, Stephen Chbosky<br />

Key Cast: Logan Lerman, Emma Watson,<br />

Ezra Miller, Mae Whitman, Kate Walsh,<br />

Nina Dobrev, Dylan McDermott<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower is a<br />

modern classic about a shy, sensitive<br />

teenager caught between trying to live his<br />

life and escape it.<br />

TANDEM<br />

COMMUNICATIONS<br />

Tandem Communications, Sonnenstraße<br />

14, München, Bavaria 80331 Germany,<br />

Tel: +498996228300 Fax:<br />

+498996228310. www.tandemcom.de Email:<br />

info@tandemcom.de<br />

Sales Agent, Producer<br />

WORLD WITHOUT END<br />

EPIC Thriller (8 x approx. 45 minutes / 4 x<br />

approx. 90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Michael Caton-Jones<br />

Writer: John Pielmeier (teleplay), Ken<br />

Follett (novel)<br />

Co-Production Partners: Tandem<br />

Communications, Scott Free Films, Take 5<br />

productions, Mid Atlantic Films, Galafilm<br />

Inc.<br />

Executive Producer: Ridley Scott, Tony<br />

Scott, Rola Bauer, David W. Zucker, Tim<br />

Halkin, Jonas Bauer, John Weber<br />

Producer: John Ryan<br />

Key Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Ben Chaplin,<br />

Peter Firth<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011/2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany/Canada<br />

Conspirancies, passion and murder unfold<br />

from the heart of a troubled England<br />

impacting the Europe of 14th century.<br />

KEN FOLLETT’S JOURNEY INTO<br />

THE DARK AGES<br />

Documentary (2x45 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jann Turner<br />

Writer: Jann Turner<br />

Co-Production Partners: Tandem<br />

Communications , Story House<br />

Productions<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

LABYRINTH<br />

EPIC Thriller (4x 60 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Chris Smith<br />

Writer: Adrian Hodges (teleplay), Kate<br />

Mosse (novel)<br />

Co-Production Partners: Tandem<br />

Communications , Scott Free Films, Film<br />

Africa Worldwide<br />

Executive Producer: Ridley Scott, Tony<br />

Scott, Liza Marshall, Rola Bauer, Tim<br />

Halkin, Jonas Bauer, Adrian Hodges<br />

Producer: Moritz Polter, Christopher Hall<br />

Key Cast: John Hurt, Sebastian Stan,<br />

Jessica Brown-Findlay<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011/2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany/ Canada<br />

Two very different heroines living in different<br />

times must sacrifice everything in order<br />

to protect the true secret of the Holy Grail<br />

TITANIC: BLOOD AND STEEL<br />

Epic Drama (12x 60 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Ciaran Donnelly<br />

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Writer: Mark Skeet, Matthew Faulk, Alan<br />

Whiting<br />

Co-Production Partners: De Angelis Group<br />

Executive Producer: Guido de Angelis<br />

Producer: Paul Myler, Andrea Zoso, Justin<br />

Thomson-Glover, Pascal Breton<br />

Key Cast: Chris Noth, Kevin Zegers, Derek<br />

Jacobi<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011<br />

This is the story of the men and women<br />

who built, ran and owned The Titanic...<br />

their loves, their lives and their losses.<br />

THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH<br />

EPIC Thriller (4x 90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Sergio Mimica-Gezzan<br />

Writer: John Pielmeier (teleplay), Ken<br />

Follett (novel)<br />

Co-Production Partners: Tandem<br />

Communications, Muse Entertainment,<br />

Scott Free Films<br />

Executive Producer: Ridley Scott, Tony<br />

Scott, Rola Bauer, David Zucker, David<br />

Rosemont, Tim Halkin, Jonas Bauer,<br />

Michael Prupas<br />

Producer: John Ryan<br />

Key Cast: Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell,<br />

Matthew Macfadyen, Eddie Redmayne,<br />

Hayley Atwell, Sarah Parish<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009/2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany/Canada<br />

A sweeping tale of good and evil, treachery<br />

and intrigue, based on Ken Follett’s masterpiece<br />

worldwide bestseller.<br />

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Salzburg, 5071 Austria, Tel: +<br />

43.662.2240.0. Fax: + 43.662.2240.28550.<br />

www.terramater.at E-mail:<br />

rick@magusent.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer<br />

At EFM: Rick van den Heuvel (Sales<br />

Agent), Berend Dreier (Sales Manager)<br />

Office: Marriott Office # 124, 1st floor,<br />

Tel: + 31.6.54.768.797<br />

THE LAZARUS PROTOCOL<br />

Thriller (96 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Paul Finelli<br />

Writer: Paul Finelli<br />

Co-Production Partners: Terra Mater<br />

Factual Studios, Tomcat Productions,<br />

Finger Films<br />

Executive Producer: Peter Fonda<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Austria<br />

Lazarus Fell (Travis Fimmel), former Navy<br />

SEAL and expert for covert operations, lost<br />

his father, Solomon Fell (Peter Fonda), a<br />

high ranking secret service officer during<br />

the 9/11 attacks, now he seeks personal<br />

revenge.<br />

THE ART OF FLIGHT 3D<br />

Documentary<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Curt Morgan<br />

Producer: Curt Morgan, Scott Bradfield,<br />

Travis Rice, Chad Jackson<br />

Key Cast: Travis Rice, MArk Landvik,<br />

Scotty Lago, Nicolas Muller, John Jackson<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011/2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Austria<br />

A new breed of action sports film comes to<br />

life as Red Bull Media House, in associa-<br />

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tion with Brain Farm Digital Cinema, present<br />

“The Art of FLIGHT”, a Curt Morgan<br />

Film. Equal parts action and adventure mix<br />

with the inevitable drama encountered<br />

along the way. Two years in the making,<br />

“The Art of FLIGHT” gives iconic snowboarder<br />

Travis Rice and friends the opportunity<br />

to redefine what is possible in the<br />

mountains. Experience the highs, as new<br />

tricks are landed and new zones opened,<br />

alongside the lows, where avalanches, accidents,<br />

and wrong-turns strike. Immerse<br />

yourself in the cinematic experience as<br />

Brain Farm and their ever-expanding arsenal<br />

of filmmaking technology capture the<br />

dramatic beauty of the culture, wildlife,<br />

and scenic landscapes the riders take in<br />

along the way. Join in the ride as the creators<br />

of “That’s It, That’s All” completely<br />

rewrite the formula for action sports cinema<br />

with “The Art of FLIGHT”.<br />

TF1 INTERNATIONAL<br />

TF1 International, 1 Quai du Point du Jour<br />

, Boulogne Billancourt, 92100 France,<br />

Tel: 00.33.1.41.41.21.68. Fax:<br />

00.33.1.41.41.21.33. www.tf1international.com<br />

E-mail: sales@tf1.fr<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Nicolas ESCHBACH (EVP<br />

International Distribution), Cristina<br />

BATLLE (VP International Sales &<br />

Acquisitions), Adeline FALAMPIN (VP<br />

International Sales and Acquisitions),<br />

Gregory CHAMBET (VP International<br />

Sales & Acquisitions), Thierry DECOUR-<br />

CELLE (SVP Acquisitions), Géraldine<br />

LEPICARD (International Sales Manager)<br />

Office: Martin Gropius Bau 132, Tel:<br />

00.49.30.767.646.432. Fax:<br />

00.49.30.767.646.433<br />

NOW IS GOOD<br />

Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Ol Parker<br />

Writer: Ol Parker<br />

Producer: Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin<br />

Key Cast: Dakota Fanning, Jeremy Irvine,<br />

Paddy Considine<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Country of Origin: UK<br />

THERESE DESQUEYROUX<br />

Romantic Drama<br />

Language: French<br />

Director: Claude Miller<br />

Producer: Yves Marmion - Ugc -Les Films<br />

du 24<br />

Key Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gilles<br />

Lellouche, Anais Demoustier<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

The heartbreaking torment of an astonishing<br />

and superb character, played by French<br />

star Audrey Tautou.<br />

TAKE THIS WALTZ<br />

Romance - Comedy (116 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Sarah Polley<br />

Producer: Susan Cavan & Sarah Polley -<br />

Joe’s daughter Inc<br />

Key Cast: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen,<br />

Luke Kirby<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

A funny, bittersweet and heart-wrenching<br />

story about a woman struggling to choose<br />

between two different types of love.<br />

PIRATE TV<br />

AKA: TÉLÉGAUCHO<br />

Comedy<br />

Language: French<br />

Director: Michel Leclerc<br />

Writer: Michel Leclerc<br />

Producer: Agnes Vallée - Emmanuel<br />

Barraux - 31 juin Films<br />

Key Cast: Sara Forestier, Felix Moati, Eric<br />

Elmosnino<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

The new cleverly offbeat and sexy comedy<br />

by the director of THE NAMES OF<br />

LOVE.<br />

LITTLE COOKIE<br />

AKA: COOKIE<br />

Romantic Drama<br />

Language: French<br />

Director: Lea Fazer<br />

Writer: Lea Fazer, Benoit Graffin<br />

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Producer: Pauline Duhault, Assaf Amir,<br />

Elie Meirovitz<br />

Key Cast: Alice Taglioni, Virginie Efira,<br />

Medhi Nebbou<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

A deeply moving film about the bonds<br />

between a young woman and a little boy as<br />

foreign to each other as Paris and Beijing.<br />

PARIS BY NIGHT<br />

AKA: UNE NUIT<br />

Thriller (100)<br />

Language: French<br />

Director: Philippe Lefebvre<br />

Producer: Manuel Munz - Les Films<br />

Manuel Munz<br />

Key Cast: Roschdy Zem, Sara Forestier,<br />

Samuel Le Bihan<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

The underbelly of Paris, revealed by a Vice<br />

Squad cop on his nightly rounds.<br />

THE GLOBAL<br />

ASYLUM<br />

The Global Asylum, 72 E. Palm Ave,<br />

Burbank, CA 91502 USA, Tel:<br />

1.323.850.1215 Fax: 1.818.260.9811.<br />

http://www.theasylum.cc E-mail:<br />

bales@theasylum.cc<br />

Producer<br />

At EFM: Paul Bales/Administration &<br />

Operations (Partner), David Rimawi<br />

(Partner/Sales & Distribution), David<br />

Michael Latt (Partner/Production)<br />

Office: IFTA Pavillion-C1, Tel:<br />

323.633.8454<br />

BLACK HILLS<br />

AKA: BIGFOOT<br />

Creature (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: TBD<br />

Writer: Micho Rutare & Brian Brinkman<br />

Executive Producer: David Michael Latt,<br />

David Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Producer: David Michael Latt, David<br />

Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Key Cast: Danny Bonaduce, Barry<br />

Williams<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

When Bigfoot attacks an 80’s-themed<br />

music festival, concert promoter Harley<br />

Henderson sets out to capture the beast-but<br />

hippie burnout Simon Quinn will do anything<br />

to protect the “endangered species.”<br />

AMERICAN BATTLESHIPS<br />

Action (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Thunder Levin<br />

Writer: Thunder Levin<br />

Executive Producer: David michael Latt,<br />

David Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Producer: David michael Latt, David<br />

Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Key Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Johanna<br />

Watts, Carl Weathers<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A fleet of mysterious war ships, more<br />

deadly than anything on the seas, has<br />

waged war against Earth. Only the crew of<br />

the U.S.S. Iowa-the last American battleship-can<br />

prevent Armageddon.<br />

JACK THE GIANT KILLER<br />

Action Horror (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: TBD<br />

Writer: TBD<br />

Executive Producer: David Michael Latt,<br />

David Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Producer: David Michael Latt, David<br />

Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Key Cast: TBD<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

When England is attacked by demon<br />

sphinx-giants of the east, the Knights of the<br />

Round Table, led by Jack the Small, must<br />

defeat the menace.<br />

GOLDEN WINTER<br />

Family (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: TBD<br />

Writer: TBD<br />

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Executive Producer: David Michael Latt,<br />

David Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Producer: David Michael Latt, David<br />

Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Key Cast: TBD<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Jack, a runaway boy, befriends a pack of<br />

homeless puppies. Together, they help stop<br />

a bank robbery, while Jack tries to convince<br />

his family to adopt them just in time<br />

for Christmas.<br />

SUPER CYCLONE<br />

Disaster (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: TBD<br />

Writer: TBD<br />

Executive Producer: David Michael Latt,<br />

David Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Producer: David Michael Latt, David<br />

Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Key Cast: TBD<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

300 mile-an-hour winds toss freighters and<br />

aircraft carriers like bath toys as a SUPER-<br />

CYCLONE threatens the entire American<br />

eastern seaboard. A lone meteorologist<br />

must battle the elements to stop the threat.<br />

GRIMM’S SNOW WHITE<br />

Action Fantasy (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Rachel Goldenberg<br />

Writer: Naomi Selfman<br />

Executive Producer: David Michael Latt,<br />

David Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Producer: David Michael Latt, David<br />

Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Key Cast: Jane March, Eliza Bennett,<br />

Jamie Thomas King<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

When the King is killed by ferocious reptile<br />

beasts, his Queen takes control of the<br />

kingdom. She tries to kill her beautiful<br />

stepdaughter, SNOW, but she escapes into<br />

the enchanted forest....<br />

ADOPTING TERROR<br />

Thriller (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: TBD<br />

Writer: Paul Bales<br />

Executive Producer: David Michael Latt,<br />

David Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Producer: David Michael Latt, David<br />

Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Key Cast: TBD<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Tim and Cheryl Broadbent are excited to<br />

finally adopt Mona, a beautiful baby girl.<br />

But when the baby’s biological father starts<br />

stalking them, Tim and Cheryl’s life<br />

becomes a nightmare.<br />

SHARK WEEK<br />

Creature (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: TBD<br />

Writer: TBD<br />

Executive Producer: David Michael Latt,<br />

David Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Producer: David Michael Latt, David<br />

Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Key Cast: TBD<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A group of resort workers find themselves<br />

isolated by a power outage only to discover<br />

they are being picked off each day by a<br />

new species of shark. Only a pitched battle<br />

with a giant prehistoric monster will save<br />

them – and the Florida coast.<br />

DEAD WALKING<br />

Horror (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: TBD<br />

Writer: TBD<br />

Executive Producer: David Michael Latt,<br />

David Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Producer: David Michael Latt, David<br />

Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Key Cast: TBD<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

When zombies overrun San Francisco, a<br />

desperate group survives by locking them-<br />

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selves inside Alcatraz Prison. Forced to<br />

flee the island, they take up arms against<br />

their former friends turned zombie. After<br />

hopes of ‘official’ help turn up empty, they<br />

gamble everything on a dangerous experimental<br />

vaccine.<br />

AGE OF HOBBITS<br />

Fantasy, Action (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: TBD<br />

Writer: TBD<br />

Executive Producer: David Michael Latt,<br />

David Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Producer: David Michael Latt, David<br />

Rimawi, Paul Bales<br />

Key Cast: TBD<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

In an ancient age, an unlikely hero must<br />

claim a sacred artifact from the depths of<br />

hell to save the world.<br />

THE LITTLE<br />

FILM COMPANY<br />

The Little Film Company, 12930 Ventura<br />

Blvd. Suite 822, Studio City, CA 91604<br />

USA, Tel: 1.818.762.6999 Fax:<br />

1.818.301.2186. www.thelittlefilmcompany.com<br />

E-mail: info@thelittlefilmcompany.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer, Financier<br />

At EFM: Robbie Little (President & CEO),<br />

Clay Epstein (VP Sales &Acquisitions),<br />

Elie Mechoulam (Director Sales &<br />

Marketing)<br />

Office: MGB - Booth #141, Tel:<br />

+49(0)1622.533.924<br />

AMERIQUA<br />

Romantic Comedy<br />

Language: English, Italian<br />

Director: Marco Bellone, Giovanni<br />

Cosonni<br />

Key Cast: Bobby Kennedy III, Giancarlo<br />

Giannini, Alec Bladwin<br />

Country of Origin: Italy/UK<br />

A lazy graduate’s rich parents cut him off<br />

with a $5000 check and an ultimatum to<br />

start a life of independence and responsibil-<br />

ity. Instead, he buys a plane ticket to Italy,<br />

gets robbed upon arrival and winds up in.<br />

What chance does a timid American kid,<br />

who doesn’t speak Italian and hangs out<br />

with sloppy Italian party hounds, have<br />

against the dark forces of organized crime<br />

in Italy?<br />

BENEATH THE DARKNESS<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Martin Guigui<br />

Key Cast: Dennis Quaid, Aimee Teegarden,<br />

TonyOller<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

After the mysterious death of his best<br />

friend, a 16 year-old struggles to expose<br />

the grim secrets surrounding a suspicious<br />

neighbour an his apparently haunted house.<br />

DRACULA 3D<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Dario Argento<br />

Key Cast: Thomas Kretschmann, Asia<br />

Argento, Rutger Hauer<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

A deluxe 3D redux of Bram Stocker’s masterpiece<br />

that defines the limitless parameters<br />

of what I horror film can be.<br />

THE EYE OF THE STORM<br />

Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Fred Schepisi<br />

Key Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis,<br />

Charlotte Rampling<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: Australia<br />

Elizabeth Hunter controls all in her life -<br />

society, her staff, her children; but now the<br />

aging great beauty will determine her most<br />

defiant act. Will she be able to choose<br />

when and how shedies?<br />

LIPSTIKKA<br />

Romantic drama<br />

Language: English (with Hebrew and<br />

Arabic)<br />

Director: Jonathan Sagall<br />

Key Cast: Clara Khoury, Nataly Attiya,<br />

DanielCaltagirone<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: Israel/UK<br />

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Two Palestinian teenagegirls sneak into the<br />

Jewish part of Jerusalem for a night on the<br />

town, but their youthful prank suddenly<br />

goes all wrong and follows them through<br />

time.Will they be able to piece together a<br />

broken past in order to make sense oftoday?<br />

If so, who’s story is the one that actually<br />

happened?<br />

LITTLE GLORY<br />

Family<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Victor Lannoo<br />

Key Cast: Cameron Bright, Isabella Blake<br />

Thomas, Hannah Murray<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

Against all odds and everyone’s advice, a<br />

selfish twenty-year-old drop-out connected<br />

to the wrong crowd tries to take care of his<br />

little sister.<br />

THE SOLUTION<br />

ENTERTAINMENT<br />

GROUP<br />

The Solution Entertainment Group, 8391<br />

Beverly Blvd., #436, Los Angeles, CA<br />

90048 USA. E-mail:<br />

lisa@thesolutionent.com<br />

At EFM: Lisa Wilson, Myles Nestel<br />

Office: The Ritz-Carlton, Tel:<br />

49.30.33.77.77, Lisa Wilson’s mobile:<br />

818.516.4746<br />

WRITERS<br />

Drama/Comedy<br />

Director: Joshua Boone<br />

Writer: Joshua Boone<br />

Executive Producer: Michael A. Simpson,<br />

Eric Brenner<br />

Producer: Judy Cairo<br />

Key Cast: TBD<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

An acclaimed novelist’s relationship with<br />

his ex-wife, collegiate daughter, and<br />

teenage son are examined in this funny,<br />

tough, and touching drama/comedy that<br />

spans a single, tumultuous year in their<br />

lives.<br />

HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR<br />

HAPPINESS<br />

Drama<br />

Director: Peter Chelsom<br />

Writer: Peter Chelsom, Tinker Lindsay<br />

Producer: Judy Tossell, Jens Meurer, Wild<br />

Bunch<br />

Key Cast: TBD<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: German/South African Co-<br />

Production<br />

Based on the novel, Hector and the Search<br />

for Happiness, by Franois Lelord. HEC-<br />

TOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPI-<br />

NESS tells the story of a charming but confused<br />

young psychiatrist’s global adventures<br />

in search of happiness. His quest<br />

takes him from Paris to China, Africa and<br />

California where he encounters kindly drug<br />

barons, doctors without borders, depressed<br />

psychics, and lovelorn academics.<br />

CITIES<br />

Thriller<br />

Director: Roger Donaldson<br />

Writer: Roger Donaldson, Ken Friedman<br />

Producer: Matthew Metcalfe, Chris Curling<br />

Key Cast: Anil Kapoor, Kirsten Dunst,<br />

Orlando Bloom<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK/NZ Co-Production<br />

Three interwoven stories will dramatically<br />

collide around the globe in this cautionary<br />

tale about greed and ambition that takes<br />

place in the exuberant months leading up to<br />

the Dow Jones all-time stock market high.<br />

SOMETHING FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY<br />

Romantic Comedy<br />

Director: TBA<br />

Writer: Susan Walter<br />

Producer: Steve Golin, Alix Madigan-Yorkin<br />

Key Cast: Malin Akerman, Matthew<br />

Bomer<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A wise and witty look at modern relationships<br />

when a fashion designer (Akerman)<br />

struggles to find love and success after<br />

turning 30.<br />

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THE WEINSTEIN<br />

COMPANY<br />

The Weinstein Company, 99 Hudson Street,<br />

New York, Ny 10013, New York, New York<br />

10013 USA, Tel: 1.212.941.3800. Fax:<br />

1.212.941.3949. www.weinsteinco.com Email:<br />

international@weinsteinco.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Harvey Weinstein (Co-<br />

Chairman), David C. Glasser (COO &<br />

President, International), Michael Rothstein<br />

(EVP, Worldwide Distribution), Ennis<br />

Hensley (SVP, International Sales &<br />

Distribution), Dan Guando (SVP,<br />

Acquisitions), Negeen Yazdi (VP,<br />

Acquisitions and Co-Productions)<br />

Office: Grand Hyatt Berlin, Suite 342, Tel:<br />

+49.30.255.31234<br />

THE ARTIST<br />

Drama (100)<br />

Director: Michel Hazanavicius<br />

Writer: Michel Hazanavicius<br />

Producer: Thomas Langmann<br />

Key Cast: Jean Dujardin Berenice Bejo<br />

James Cromwell John Goodman Missy Pile<br />

Penelope Ann Miller<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

From Michel Hazanavicius, the director of<br />

the hit French series OSS-117, and featuring<br />

an all-star international cast, The Artist<br />

takes you back to a time in Hollywood<br />

when movie stars were seen...but not heard.<br />

A time when there was no bigger star than<br />

George Valentin (OSS star and acclaimed<br />

French comic, Jean Dujardin), and there<br />

was no bigger break for a beautiful young<br />

actress like Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo)<br />

than to find herself cast alongside him,<br />

even if only in bit parts! But eventually<br />

Peppy’s star is on the rise, and so is the<br />

popularity of “talking” pictures, both<br />

threatening to eclipse George’s own long<br />

career. Accustomed to getting everything<br />

he ever wanted, now George must struggle<br />

not only for the love of Peppy, but for his<br />

own livelihood as well. It is the role of the<br />

lifetime, and a comeback worthy of only<br />

the finest actor... one that must now fight to<br />

find his own voice. Ingenious, funny and<br />

moving, Hazanavicius’The Artist is one of<br />

those rare films that can remind us all why<br />

we fell in love with the movies in the first<br />

place.<br />

UNTITLED PAUL ANDERSON PRO-<br />

JECT<br />

Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson<br />

Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson<br />

Producer: Paul Thomas Anderson, JoAnne<br />

Sellar, Daniel Lupi, Megan Ellison<br />

Key Cast: Phillip Seymour Hoffman<br />

Joaquin Phoenix Amy Adams Laura Dern<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Written and directed by Academy Award<br />

nominee Paul Thomas Anderson (the<br />

acclaimed director of, There Will Be<br />

Blood, Magnolia and Boogie Nights, this<br />

story stars Academy Award winner Phillip<br />

Seymour Hoffman (Capote) and Academy<br />

Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix (Walk<br />

The Line). Set in America in the years following<br />

World War II, a charismatic intellectual<br />

(Hoffman) launches a faith-based<br />

organization and taps a young drifter<br />

(Phoenix) as his right-hand man. But as the<br />

faith begins to gain a fervent following, the<br />

onetime vagabond finds himself questioning<br />

the belief system he has embraced, and<br />

his mentor. A truly one-of-a-kind drama,<br />

which promises magnetic virtuoso performances,<br />

the film marks the fifth collaboration<br />

between Anderson and Hoffman, following<br />

Hard Eight, Boogie Nights,<br />

Magnolia and Punch Drunk Love.<br />

MY WEEK WITH MARILYN<br />

Drama/Comedy<br />

Language: 102<br />

Director: Simon Curtis<br />

Writer: Adrian Hodges based on the novel<br />

by Colin Clark<br />

Producer: David Parfitt<br />

Key Cast: Michelle Williams Kenneth<br />

Branagh Eddie Redmayne Dominic Cooper<br />

Julia Ormond Zoí« Wanamaker with Emma<br />

Watson and and Judi Dench<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010<br />

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In the early summer of 1956, 23 year old<br />

Colin Clarke (Eddie Redmayne), just down<br />

from Oxford and determined to make his<br />

way in the film business, worked as a<br />

lowly assistant on the set of ‘The Prince<br />

and The Showgirl’.The film that famously<br />

united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth<br />

Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle<br />

Williams), who was also on honeymoon<br />

with her new husband, the playwright<br />

Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott). Nearly 40<br />

years on, his diary account The Prince, The<br />

Showgirl and Me was published,but one<br />

week was missing and this was published<br />

some years later as My Week with Marilyn<br />

- this is the story of that week. When<br />

Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is<br />

clear for Colin to introduce Marilyn to<br />

some of the pleasures of British life; an<br />

idyllic week in which he escorted a<br />

Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue<br />

of Hollywood hangers-on and the<br />

pressures of work.<br />

THE SILVER LINING’S PLAYBOOK<br />

Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: David O. Russell<br />

Writer: David O. Russell based on a novel<br />

by Matthew Quick<br />

Producer: Donna Gigliotti, Michelle Raimo<br />

Key Cast: Bradley Cooper Jennifer<br />

Lawrence Jackie Weaver Julia Stiles Chris<br />

Tucker Robert De Niro<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Adapted from the best-selling novel by<br />

Matthew Quick, THE SILVER LININGS<br />

PLAYBOOK is a touching, one-of-a- kind<br />

comedy about love and second chances.<br />

Pat Peoples is a man always trying to look<br />

on the bright side of life - the title of the<br />

story takes it’s name from the expression<br />

that “every cloud has a silver lining.”<br />

Released from the hospital after losing his<br />

wife to another man, Pat believes this ageold<br />

adage is just the ticket to trying to win<br />

her back and get his life on track. Trying to<br />

remain resolutely undiscouraged, Pat<br />

moves back in with his parents and devotes<br />

himself entirely to becoming the man his<br />

wife always wanted him to be. But it’s an<br />

uphill battle. Until Pat meets Tiffany, a<br />

beautiful young woman whose life also has<br />

not turned out the way she wanted.<br />

Together, the couple will try and navigate<br />

through their lives and stay true to who<br />

they are, always just one adventure away<br />

from a unique friendship, and possibly<br />

even love.<br />

BUTTER<br />

Comedy<br />

Language: Englsih<br />

Director: Jim Field Smith<br />

Writer: Jason Micallef<br />

Producer: Michael De Luca, Jennifer<br />

Garner, Alissa Phillips<br />

Key Cast: Jennifer Garner, Olivia Wilde,<br />

Ty Burrell, Rob Corddry, Ashley Greene,<br />

Alicia Silverston, Hugh Jackman<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A tale of competition at it smost cut-throat,<br />

Butter surveys the raw ambition of Laura<br />

Pickler (Garner), the wife of Bob Pickler<br />

(Burrell), Iowa’s long-reigning champion<br />

butter carver. For 15 years Laura has relished<br />

her high-profile role as the beautiful,<br />

loyal helpmate to her affable, artistically<br />

gifted husband. But when Bob is pressured<br />

to retire and allow someone else a chance<br />

at glory, an indignant Laura decides to<br />

enter the competition herself. She is first in<br />

line on sign-up day, only to see her odds of<br />

victory fall below 100 with the arrival of<br />

an unlikely yet formidable contender: 10<br />

year-old Destiny (Shahidi), the African-<br />

American foster vhild of local couple Julie<br />

and Ethan (Silverstone and Corddry). And<br />

that’s not all. Bob’s would-be mistress,<br />

bad-girl stripper Brooke (Wilde) also<br />

declares her candidacy, as does his #1 fan,<br />

Carol-Ann (Schall). Facing three opponents,<br />

mocked by her stepdaughter Kaitlen<br />

(Greene) and furious with her husband,<br />

Laura resolvs to do whatever it takes to<br />

wind. And if that means resorting to sabotage<br />

- and recruiting her dim-witted former<br />

boyfriend Boyd (Jackman) as a co-conspirator<br />

- then so bit it. In the tradition of Best<br />

In Show and Election, Butter can be<br />

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enjoyed as a straightforward, albeit merrily<br />

twisted comedy about Amerian life and<br />

culture. but Laura Pickler probably wouldn’t<br />

be surprised if the liberal media views<br />

Butter as a veiled commentary on the larger<br />

world of politics.<br />

PIRANHA 3DD<br />

Horror<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: John Gulager<br />

Writer: Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan<br />

and Joel Soisson<br />

Producer: Mark Canton, Marc Toberoff,<br />

Joel Soisson<br />

Key Cast: Danielle Panabaker Katrina<br />

Bowden Paul Scheer Gary Busey<br />

Christopher Lloyd Ving Rhames David<br />

Hasselhoff<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Having awoken from their spring break<br />

extravaganza at Lake Victoria, the swarm<br />

heads upstream where they look to make a<br />

meal out of Big Wet, a local water park<br />

where when it comes to fun, nobody does<br />

it wetter! Though they came to get wet, get<br />

loaded and get some, the staff and patrons<br />

get more than they bargained for when they<br />

must face the fiercest, most bloodthirsty<br />

piranhas yet. Lead by the strong-willed,<br />

studious Maddy and her friends, Barry and<br />

Kyle, the trio must dive in and take on<br />

these man-eating creatures using every<br />

ounce of their being...but can they be<br />

stopped? Shot in 3-D and featuring Esquire<br />

Magazines “2011 Sexiest Woman Alive,”<br />

Katrina Bowden and the return of<br />

Christopher Lloyd, Paul Scheer and Ving<br />

Rhames alongside fresh bait Gary Busy<br />

and David Hasselhoff, the film that took an<br />

$80 million bite out of the box office is<br />

back for more...only this time it has double<br />

the terror and double the D!<br />

ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH<br />

Animation<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Cal Brunker<br />

Writer: Cal Brunker and Bob Barlen based<br />

on an original screenplay by Tony Leech<br />

and Cory Edwards<br />

Producer: Donna Gigliotti, Catherine<br />

Winder, Luke Carroll<br />

Key Cast: Jessica Alba Rob Corddry<br />

Brendan Fraser James Gandolfini Sarah<br />

Jessica Parker and Craig Robinson<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The 3D animated family comedy ESCAPE<br />

FROM PLANET EARTH catapults movie<br />

goers to planet Baab where admired astronaut<br />

Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser) is<br />

a national hero to the blue alien population.<br />

A master of daring rescues, Scorch pulls<br />

off astonishing feats with the quiet aid of<br />

his nerdy, by-the-rules brother, Gary (Rob<br />

Corddry), head of mission control at<br />

BASA. When BASA’s no-nonsense chief<br />

Lena (Jessica Alba) informs the brothers of<br />

an SOS from a notoriously dangerous planet,<br />

Scorch rejects Gary’s warnings and<br />

bounds off for yet another exciting mission.<br />

But when Scorch finds himself caught in a<br />

fiendish trap set by the evil Shanker (James<br />

Gandolfini), it’s up to scrawny,risk-adverse<br />

Gary to do the real rescuing.As the interplanetary<br />

stakes rise to new heights, Gary<br />

is left to save his brother, his planet, his<br />

beloved wife Kira (Sarah Jessica Parker)<br />

and their adventure hungry son Kip!<br />

THE WORKS<br />

The Works, 5th Floor, Fairgate House. 78<br />

New Oxford Street, London, WC1A 1HB<br />

UK, Tel: +44(0)207.612.0044. Fax:<br />

+44(0)207.612.1081. www.theworksmediagroup.com<br />

E-mail:<br />

sales.international@theworksfilmgroup.co<br />

m<br />

Sales Agent, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Laurence Gornall (Managing<br />

Director), Clare Crean (Head of Sales ),<br />

Julia Short (Head of Acquisitions), Naomi<br />

Weiner (Sales and Marketing Executive),<br />

Damian Spandley (Head of UK Theatrical<br />

Distribution), Beatrice Neumann<br />

(Acquisitions Manager)<br />

Office: 137, 1st Floor, Martin Gropius Bau,<br />

Tel: +49.30.767.646 - 436<br />

100 BLOODY ACRES<br />

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Comedy Horror<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes<br />

Writer: Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes<br />

Producer: Julie Ryan (Cyan Films), Kate<br />

Croser (Cyan Films), Chris Wyatt<br />

Key Cast: Angus Sampson, Anna<br />

McGahan, Oliver Ackland<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Australia<br />

They’re not psycho killers... they’re just<br />

small business operators.<br />

GOOD VIBRATIONS<br />

Comedy Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Glen Leybrun and Lisa Barros<br />

D’Sa<br />

Writer: Glenn Patterson and Colin Carberry<br />

Producer: Chris Martin and Andrew Eaton<br />

Key Cast: Richard Dormer Jodie Whittaker<br />

Dylan Moran<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

A shop...A record label...A Way of life!<br />

TIMELESS FILMS<br />

Timeless Films, 20A The Ridgeway, Cuffley,<br />

Hertfordshire EN6 4AR United Kingdom,<br />

Tel: 0044.1707.879723. www.timelessfilms.co.uk<br />

E-mail:<br />

info@timelessfilms.co.uk<br />

Sales Agent, Producer<br />

At EFM: Ralph Kamp (CEO & Chairman),<br />

Sarah Arnott (SVP Productions &<br />

Acquisition ), Rebecca Kamp (Marketing<br />

Manager), Gareth Kamp (Sales Executive)<br />

Office: The Mandala Hotel, Potsdammer<br />

Str., Tel: +44.77607.86625<br />

JUSTIN AND THE KNIGHTS OF VAL-<br />

OUR (3D)<br />

Animation<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Manuel Sicilia<br />

Writer: Manuel Sicilia & Matthew Jacobs<br />

Co-Production Partners: Kandor Graphics<br />

Producer: Kerry Fulton, Ralph Kamp &<br />

Antonio Banderas<br />

Key Cast: Freddie Highmore, Saoirse<br />

Ronan, Mark Strong, Rupert Everett,<br />

Charles Dance, Barry Humphries, James<br />

Cosmo, David Walliams, Julie Walters,<br />

Antonio Banderas<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011-2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Spain<br />

Set in a magical world that children still<br />

dream of, Justin and the Knights of Valour<br />

is a story about the determination of a kid<br />

to reach his dream. It is a tale about friendship,<br />

honour and courage. A heart-warming<br />

stroy filled with adventure, action and fun.<br />

POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE (3D)<br />

Animation<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Mike Disa<br />

Writer: Kim Fuller & Annika Bluhm<br />

Co-Production Partners: Classic Media &<br />

Rubicon<br />

Producer: Ceri Barnes, Annika Bluhm,<br />

Miles Horst, Robert Anich<br />

Key Cast: Stephen Mangan, Jim<br />

Broadbent, Rupert Grint, David Tennant<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011-2012 Country of<br />

Origin: United Kingdom<br />

Everyone’s favourite postie, Postman Pat,<br />

comes face-to-face with the dark side of<br />

fame when he enters a national TV talent<br />

show. This children?s TV icon hits the big<br />

screen for the first time and in 3D.<br />

WICKIE AND THE TREASURE OF<br />

THE GODS (3D)<br />

AKA: WICKIE AUF GROßER FAHRT<br />

(3D)<br />

Family (96mins)<br />

Language: German<br />

Director: Christian Ditter<br />

Writer: Christian Ditter<br />

Co-Production Partners: Constantin Film &<br />

RatPack Film<br />

Executive Producer: Martin Moszkowicz<br />

Producer: Christian Becker<br />

Key Cast: Jonas Hämmerle, Valeria<br />

Eisenbart, Waldermar Kobus, Miriam<br />

Tolkien, Nic Romm, Christian A. Koch,<br />

Olaf Krätke, Patrick Reichel, Günther<br />

Kaufmann, Christoph Maria Herbst<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

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Origin: Germany<br />

When will little Widkie finally become a<br />

real Viking? This question is giving his<br />

father Halvar sleepless nights. But when<br />

Sven the Terrible kidnaps the chief of<br />

Flake, Wickie unexpectedly gets his big<br />

chance. As deputy chief, he leads the<br />

Mighty Vikings Tjure, Snorre, Urobe,<br />

Gorm, Ulme and Faxe, thereby attracting<br />

the help of the fearless SVENJA. They set<br />

sail for the Cape of Fear and, after a whirlwind<br />

of adventures, reach Sven’s castle<br />

where Halvar is incarcerated. However, the<br />

greatest task still awaits the Viking troupe.<br />

They set off over raging oceans, tropical<br />

beaches and dangerous icy wastelands in<br />

pursuit of the legendary treasure of the<br />

Gods, pitting themselves against an equally<br />

determined Sven the Terrible – but Wickie<br />

wouldn’t be Wickie if he hadn’t a few<br />

tricks up his sleeve to prevent Sven getting<br />

there first.<br />

THE WEDDING VIDEO<br />

Romantic Comedy<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Nigel Cole<br />

Writer: Tim Firth<br />

Co-Production Partners: Squirrel Films<br />

Producer: James Gay-Rees<br />

Key Cast: Rufus Hound, Lucy Punch,<br />

Robert Webb, Harriet Walter, Miriam<br />

Margolyes<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

From the writer and director of ‘Calendar<br />

Girls’, ‘The Wedding Video’ is a romantic<br />

comedy set in the cut-throat world of<br />

English society weddings.<br />

TROLL: THE TALE OF A TAIL<br />

Animation<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: David Dulac & Kristian Kamp<br />

Writer: Jorn Kolsrud, Kristian Kamp,<br />

Johnny Carlsen, Jonny Westernes & Paul<br />

Gerstenberger<br />

Co-Production Partners: Great River<br />

Productions & Ervod & Timeless Films<br />

Producer: Rainer Soehnlein & Ralph Kamp<br />

Key Cast: TBC<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: United States/Norway<br />

Hidden deep in a dark forest lies the Troll<br />

Kingdom of Ervod, where a young troll<br />

prince named Trym must undertake the<br />

adventure of a lifetime to save his father,<br />

who has been turned into stone.<br />

TRICOAST<br />

WORLDWIDE<br />

TriCoast Worldwide, 11124 W. Washington<br />

Blvd., Culver City, California 90232 USA,<br />

Tel: 1.310.458.7707. www.tricoastworldwide.com<br />

E-mail: tricoast@tricoast.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Strath Hamilton (CEO), Marcy<br />

Levitas Hamilton (CEO), Priscilla Ross<br />

(VP International Sales)<br />

Office: Marriott 258, Tel: +1.818.917.7747<br />

TWO JACKS<br />

Romantic Drama (91 Mins.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Bernard Rose<br />

Writer: Bernard Rose<br />

Co-Production Partners: Rough Diamond<br />

Productions<br />

Producer: Julia Verdin<br />

Key Cast: Danny Huston, Sienna Miller,<br />

Jack Huston, Jacqueline Bisset, Izabella<br />

Miko<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The Story of legendary film director Jack<br />

Hussar, a notorious gambler and womanizer,<br />

returning to Los Angeles the scene of<br />

his glorious past. Juxtaposed with the story<br />

of his son years later returning to Los<br />

Angeles for his directorial debut and the<br />

struggles that come along with trying to<br />

step out of the shadow of his famous<br />

father.<br />

STANDING OVATION<br />

Family (105)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Stewart Raffill<br />

Writer: Stewart Raffill<br />

Co-Production Partners: Kenilworth Film<br />

Productions, West 8 Films<br />

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Executive Producer: James Brolin, Suzanne<br />

Nunez, William Lewis<br />

Producer: Diane Kirman<br />

Key Cast: The 5 Ovations, The Wiggles,<br />

Alana Palombo, Joel Decarlo<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

In the vein of Disney’s ‘High School<br />

Musical’, we follow a group of friends<br />

competing for a national tween music<br />

video contest.<br />

TREASURE OF THE BLACK<br />

JAGUAR<br />

Action/Adventure (102)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Mike Bruce<br />

Writer: Mike Bruce, Cameron Van Hoy<br />

Co-Production Partners: Ardor Pictures<br />

Executive Producer: Strath Hamilton,<br />

Marcy Levitas Hamilton, Priscilla Ross,<br />

Samir Srivastava<br />

Producer: Cameron Van Hoy<br />

Key Cast: Michael Drayer, Timothy V.<br />

Murphy, Cameron Van Hoy<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Two boys with a get rich quick scheme end<br />

up in prison, but when they meet a famed<br />

treasure hunter named Blake West with a<br />

plan to break out they agree to journey out<br />

into THE DEVIL’S DESERT to uncover a<br />

mysteriously cursed artifact. Blake West’s<br />

former employer, a japanese industrialist, is<br />

determined to beat our heroes to the treasure<br />

and stop the boys by any means necessary.<br />

SMITTY<br />

Family (93)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: David Mickey Evans<br />

Writer: Michael Baumgarten<br />

Co-Production Partners: TriCoast Studios<br />

Executive Producer: Ami Artzi, Strath<br />

Hamilton, Tory Weisz<br />

Producer: Marcy Levitas Hamilton,<br />

Michael Baumgarten<br />

Key Cast: Mira Sorvino, Peter Fonda,<br />

Louis Gossett Jr.,Jason London, Booboo<br />

Stewart, Lolita Davidovich, Brandon Tyler<br />

Russell<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A heartwarming family story about how a<br />

young boy’s life is turned around by the<br />

love of a dog.<br />

TANZANIA: A FRIENDSHIP JOUR-<br />

NEY<br />

Documentary (104)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Sylvia Caminer<br />

Writer: Sylvia Caminer<br />

Co-Production Partners: Dolger Films,<br />

IndiGenius Films<br />

Executive Producer: Doug DeLuca,<br />

Michael Hinds, Joseph Perez<br />

Producer: Sylvia Caminer<br />

Key Cast: Kristen Kenney, Venance<br />

Ndibalema<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The story follows Venance Ndibalema, a<br />

man who was born into poverty in Africa<br />

but found a way out through a college education<br />

in the United States, and Kristen<br />

Kenny an American raised by an<br />

upper/middle class family as they undertake<br />

a transformational trip to Venance’s<br />

homeland.<br />

THE DEAD<br />

Horror (105)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Howard J. Ford, Jonathan Ford<br />

Writer: Howard J. Ford, Jonathan Ford<br />

Co-Production Partners: Indelible<br />

Productions<br />

Executive Producer: Amir S. Moallemi<br />

Producer: Howard J. Ford, Amir S.<br />

Moallemi<br />

Key Cast: Rob Freeman, Prince David<br />

Oseia, David Dontoh<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: United Kingdom<br />

The Dead takes place in the near future,<br />

most of the world has succumbed to the<br />

virus of the living dead. After crashing off<br />

the coast of Africa Lt. Brian Murphy battles<br />

for survival across the terrible terrian<br />

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of Africa in search of a way to get back to<br />

his beloved family in the USA. Saved by a<br />

local military man, who is also searching<br />

for his son, both men join forces, all the<br />

while battling against the ever-present<br />

threat of the living dead.<br />

OPUS<br />

Horror (87)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Micah Levin<br />

Writer: Andrew Bird, Micah Levin<br />

Co-Production Partners: Movie Magic<br />

Media Productions, Megatrend Media<br />

Executive Producer: Brett Leonard, Micah<br />

Levin, Seth Levin<br />

Producer: Andrew Bird, Mark Cramer<br />

Key Cast: Kandice Melonakos, Demarkes<br />

Dogan, Carolyn Jania, Dylan Moore, Brian<br />

R. Norris, Arielle Ramos, Mikhail Roberts,<br />

Nate Scholz<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

In the vein of ‘Saw’, we follow eight actors<br />

who submit videos to be cast in a horror<br />

film, only to discover that the action is all<br />

too real. As they are picked off one by one,<br />

minds start to wonder if the elusive director<br />

is creating his greatest masterpiece yet.<br />

THE SPEAK<br />

Horror (85)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Anthony Pierce<br />

Writer: Brett Donowho, Lamont Magee,<br />

Anthony Pierce, Martin Wiley<br />

Co-Production Partners: Quorum<br />

Entertainment, Tony-Seven Films, The<br />

Speak Productions<br />

Executive Producer: Rick Dugdale, Paul<br />

Hudson, Arni Johannson, Tia Campbell<br />

Peterson<br />

Producer: Brett Donowho, Anthony Pierce,<br />

Martin Wiley<br />

Key Cast: Tom Sizemore, Kristina Anapau,<br />

Una Jo Blade, Tina Casciani, Brett<br />

Donowho, Michael Klinger, Steven Nelson<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

We follow a young film crew as they<br />

attempt to create a paranormal web series<br />

in the most haunted hotel in the U.S. After<br />

performing a ritual called THE SPEAK, the<br />

crew unleashes spirits that they are simply<br />

not prepared for.<br />

CINEMA IS EVERYWHERE<br />

Documentary (98)<br />

Language: English, Cantonese, French,<br />

Hindi, Arabic<br />

Director: Teal Greyhavens<br />

Writer: Teal Greyhavens<br />

Co-Production Partners: Spiral Pictures<br />

Producer: Jason E. Gordon<br />

Key Cast: Tilda Swinton, Javed Akhtar,<br />

Shyam Benegal, Nouri Bouzid, Mark<br />

Cousins, Stanley Kwan, Fruit Chan, Ryan<br />

Chan, Sudhir Mishra<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A documentary feature film that ties four<br />

narratives - from China, India, Scotland,<br />

and Tunisia- together with countless<br />

insights from venerable filmmakers and<br />

ordinary moviegoers. An aspiring actress in<br />

Mumbai battles to break into Bollywood;<br />

two friends in Scotland take a mobile film<br />

festival across the highlands; a young crew<br />

in Hong Kong embarks on the shooting of<br />

its first film; a Tunisian director anxiously<br />

anticipates the premiere of his controversial<br />

film at a major festival. These stories are<br />

woven together with scenes from video<br />

stores, projection booths, studios, cinemas,<br />

and slums into a vivid meditation on the<br />

power of cinema to shape our world<br />

AT THE SINATRA CLUB<br />

Drama (87)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: James Quattrochi<br />

Writer: Salvatore Polisi<br />

Co-Production Partners: Ubatz<br />

Productions, San Pietro Productions,<br />

United Pacific Studios<br />

Executive Producer: Mark Belasco,<br />

Roberta Mariani<br />

Producer: Brooke Lewis, Warren<br />

Ostergard, Debrah Polisi, Salvatore Polisi,<br />

James Quattrochi<br />

Key Cast: Jason Gedrick, Danny Nucci,<br />

Micheal Nouri<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

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Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

It’s 1972 and the mafia crime families are<br />

at war, but that isn’t enough to stop a<br />

young, unknown, John Gotti, who has big<br />

ideas and even bigger ambitions. Gotti<br />

pulls together an unlikely crew mad up of<br />

one member from each crime family to pull<br />

off a silver bullion heist. The Sinatra Club<br />

is where they plan the heist and John Gotti<br />

starts his rise to fame.<br />

HUMBLE PIE<br />

Comedy (84)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Chris Bowman<br />

Writer: Hubbel Palmer<br />

Co-Production Partners: Alkaline<br />

Industries, American Fork Productions,<br />

Bratt Studios, Framework Pictures, Jeremy<br />

Coon Productions<br />

Executive Producer: Derek Ferguson<br />

Producer: Derek Beumer, Maya Browne,<br />

Jeremy Coon, Shannon B. Gardner<br />

Key Cast: William Baldwin, Kathleen<br />

Quinlan, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Bruce<br />

McGill,Hubbel Palmer<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

At nearly 400 pounds, Tracy Orbison is a<br />

wide target. When he sets out to pursue his<br />

dream of acting, the grocery clerk finds an<br />

assortment of people waiting to dash his<br />

dreams: his acting coach, who has designs<br />

on his sister Peggy; his juvenile-delinquent<br />

friends, who suck him into their petty<br />

crimes; and his God-fearing, self-loathing<br />

mother. Through it all, Tracy remains irrepressibly<br />

upbeat, convinced he’s destined<br />

for something big.<br />

THE GRAND<br />

Comedy (104)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Zak Penn<br />

Writer: Zak Penn, Matt Bierman<br />

Co-Production Partners: Insomnia Media<br />

Group, Eleven Eleven Films, IMG Film 7<br />

Executive Producer: Matt Bierman,<br />

Kirkwood Drew, Ayman Kandeel, Ari<br />

Palitz, Jordan Udko<br />

Producer: Jeff Bowler, Ross M. Dinerstein,<br />

Gary Marcus, Zak Penn, Bret Saxon,<br />

Bobby Schwartz<br />

Key Cast: Woody Harrelson, Ray Romano,<br />

Werner Herzog, Cheryl Hines, David<br />

Cross, Chris Parnell, Jason Alexander,<br />

Mike Epps, Judy Greer, Dennis Farina<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Set in the world of professional poker we<br />

follow six players as they reach the final<br />

table of the Grand Championship. One of<br />

the players (Woody Harrelson) has a lot at<br />

stake, his plan is to buy back his dead<br />

grandfather’s hotel-casino from the real<br />

estate developer who stole it, by winning<br />

the world’s most famous high stakes poker<br />

tournament.<br />

THE CURSED<br />

Horror (88)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Joel Bender<br />

Writer: D. Martin Watson<br />

Co-Production Partners: Chain Gang Films,<br />

Proton Entertainment, Melfi &Associates,<br />

Krakatau Films<br />

Executive Producer: Ami Artzi, Strath<br />

Hamilton, Marcy Levitas Hamilton, Mark<br />

L. Harrison<br />

Producer: Louis Mandylor, Phil Melfi,<br />

Brad Thornton, Devin Watson<br />

Key Cast: Costas Mandylor, Louis<br />

Mandylor, Brad Thornton<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A supernatural thriller set in a cozy<br />

Tennessee town where Sheriff Jimmy<br />

Muldoon and younger brother, Deputy<br />

Lloyd Muldoon have a firm grasp of law<br />

and order until a handsome stranger, Denny<br />

White comes to town. As soon as White<br />

arrives, supernatural events begin to occur.<br />

APRIL SHOWERS<br />

Drama (94)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Andrew Robinson<br />

Writer: Andrew Robinson<br />

Co-Production Partners: April Showers<br />

Executive Producer: Ami Artzi, Strath<br />

Hamilton, Marcy Levitas Hamilton, Jerry<br />

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Del Colliano, Jol Eisenberg, Eugene<br />

Mandelcorn,Timothy Owens<br />

Producer: Jenna Edwards, April Wade<br />

Key Cast: Daryl Sabara, Tom Arnold,<br />

Kelly Blatz, Janel Parrish, Ellen Woglom,<br />

Illeana Douglas<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A dramatized retelling of what it was like<br />

to be a survivor in the midst of the nation’s<br />

largest school shooting.<br />

CORKED!<br />

Comedy (90)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Ross Clenenden, Paul Hawley<br />

Writer: Ross Clenenden, Paul Hawley<br />

Co-Production Partners: 28 Entertainment<br />

Executive Producer: Jay Hoffman<br />

Producer: Brian A. Hoffman<br />

Key Cast: Ross Clenenden, Martina Finch,<br />

Brian A. Hoffman<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

a hilarious tale told by documentary filmmakers<br />

of four distinctly different wineries<br />

and their intertwined fate in Northern<br />

California wine country. A prestigious<br />

celebrity wine critic is coming to the area<br />

and everyone is trying to make sure their<br />

wine ends up on his golden palate. A<br />

diverse group of characters inhabits this<br />

region, ranging from a fiercely independent<br />

“one man show” to an established ‘family’<br />

winery where the word family is a registered<br />

trademark. An eccentric “rich kid”<br />

attempts to make his mark in his fathers<br />

newly acquired vineyard and “two marketing”<br />

executives are determined to tap into<br />

new markets with an edgy high-concept<br />

label. We follow this group through the<br />

toils of harvest, and their quest for recognition<br />

leading to the Golden Harvest Gala!<br />

UNDERGROUND<br />

Sci-FI (87)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Rafael Eisenman<br />

Writer: Charles Morris Jr.<br />

Co-Production Partners: Tax Credit<br />

Finance<br />

Executive Producer: Van Burrows, Robert<br />

Folk<br />

Producer: Anthony Gudas<br />

Key Cast: Ross Thomas, Sofia Pernas,<br />

Adrian R’Mante<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A group of friends fight for their lives<br />

against the lethal and ravenous creatures<br />

lurking beneath the Earth’s surface. The<br />

group finds themselves at the mercy of<br />

creatures genetically engineered by the military<br />

to be expendable in battle. Though<br />

they fought countless battles in Iraq, these<br />

friends never knew real fear until they went<br />

underground.<br />

THE DEBT<br />

Thriller (100)<br />

Language: German/Hebrew<br />

Director: Assaf Bernstein<br />

Writer: Assaf Bernstein, Ido Rosenblum<br />

Co-Production Partners: Evanstone Films<br />

Ltd., Pronto Film<br />

Producer: Eitan Evan<br />

Key Cast: Gila Almagor, Yuriy Chepurnov,<br />

Oleg Drach<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

Origin: Israel<br />

In 1964, Rachel Brenner is one of three<br />

Mossad agents who capture “The Surgeon<br />

of Birkenau”, a Nazi war criminal. “The<br />

Surgeon” manages to escape so the agents<br />

fabricate “The Surgeon’s” death and return<br />

home as heroes. More than thirty years<br />

later, “The Surgeon” returns to confess his<br />

crimes. The three agenst now need to terminate<br />

him to protect the lie.<br />

MY BROTHER<br />

Drama (100)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Anthony Lover<br />

Writer: Anthony Lover<br />

Co-Production Partners: Angel Baby<br />

Entertainment, Liberty Artist, My Brother<br />

Productions LLC<br />

Executive Producer: Michael Malagiero,<br />

Steven Rock<br />

Producer: Gingi Rochelle, John Sawyer,<br />

Gregory Segal<br />

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Key Cast: Vanessa Williams, Tatum<br />

O’Neal, Nashawn Kearse<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2007 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

An inner city story of two impoverished<br />

boys, Isaiah and James. James is developmentally<br />

disabled. Their mother, L’Tisha,<br />

finds herself in a tragic situation. Dying of<br />

tuberculosis, she desperately tries to get her<br />

two boys, eight and eleven at the time,<br />

adopted together. Finding that only Isaiah<br />

can be adopted. L’Tisha makes the only<br />

choice she feels she can make; creating an<br />

unbreakable bond of love between the<br />

boys, and hoping that bond will get them<br />

through life. Her prayers are answered as<br />

the boys overcome impossible odds on<br />

their way to adulthood, staying as close as<br />

ever as young men dealing with life’s<br />

obstacles.<br />

ONE MORE NIGHT<br />

Comedy (95)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Sarah Kelly<br />

Writer: Sarah Kelly, Tim Talbott<br />

Co-Production Partners: Lather Films,<br />

Rachel Rothman Films, Tycoon<br />

Entertainment_<br />

Executive Producer: David Grasso<br />

Producer: Gary Bryman, Mike Jackson,<br />

Rachel Rothman<br />

Key Cast: Peter Facinelli, Connie Britton,<br />

Eric Stoltz<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2006 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

When Valinda’s parents decide to sell their<br />

Pacific Palisades home, she reunites with<br />

her high school friends for a wild and hilarious<br />

bash of bashes in one last effort to<br />

relive their carefree days at the site where<br />

so many of their fondest memories<br />

occurred<br />

TRUSTNORDISK<br />

TrustNordisk, Filmbyen 28, Hvidovre,<br />

Copenhagen 2650 Denmark, Tel:<br />

+45.36.86.87.77. Fax: +45.36.86.87.50.<br />

http://trustnordisk.com E-mail:<br />

tricoast@tricoast.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Rikke Ennis (CEO), Susan Wendt<br />

(Head of Sales)<br />

Office: MGB - Scandinavian Stand #23<br />

A ROYAL AFFAIR<br />

AKA: EN KONGELIG AFFÆRE<br />

Period drama (128 Minutes)<br />

Language: Danish, English<br />

Director: Nikolaj Arcel<br />

Writer: Nikolaj Arcel & Rasmus<br />

Heisterberg<br />

Co-Production Partners: Sirena Film, DR,<br />

Film i Väst, SVT, Zentropa Entertainments<br />

Berlin, Zentropa International Sweden<br />

Executive Producer: Lars von Trier, Peter<br />

Ålbæk Jensen, Peter Garde<br />

Producer: Louise Vesth, Sisse Graum<br />

Jørgensen & Meta Louise Foldager<br />

Key Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Alicia<br />

Vikander, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Trine<br />

Dyrholm, Cyron Melville, David Dencik<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Denmark<br />

A ROYAL AFFAIR is the true story of<br />

brave idealists and a forbidden romance<br />

that forever changed an entire nation.<br />

LOVE IS IN THE AIR<br />

AKA: MAGI I LUFTEN<br />

Musical (84 minutes)<br />

Language: Danish<br />

Director: Simon Staho<br />

Writer: Simon Staho and Peter Birro<br />

Co-Production Partners: Anagram<br />

Produktion<br />

Executive Producer: Peter Ålbæk Jensen<br />

Producer: Jonas Frederiksen<br />

Key Cast: EMMA SEHESTED HØEG,<br />

GUSTAV HINTZE, VICTORIA CARMEN<br />

SONNE, ANTON HONIK<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Denmark<br />

Anything can happen and WILL happen in<br />

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this spectacular, romantic musical where<br />

four teenagers risk their feelings and<br />

dreams in the space of a single, extraordinary<br />

night.<br />

THE CROWN JEWELS<br />

AKA: KRONJUVELERNA<br />

Drama (120 Minutes)<br />

Language: Swedish<br />

Director: Ella Lemhagen<br />

Writer: Ella Lemhagen and Carina Dahl<br />

Co-Production Partners: Sveriges<br />

Television, Film i Väst, Nordisk Film<br />

Distribution, Ljud och BildMedia,<br />

Filmgate, Nordisk Film Post Production,<br />

Europa Sound Production, Angel Films<br />

Executive Producer: Gunnar Carlsson,<br />

Christian Wikander, Jessica Ask, Lone<br />

Korslund<br />

Producer: Tomas Michaelsson, Lars<br />

Blomgren<br />

Key Cast: Alicia Vikander, Bill Skarsgård,<br />

Björn Gustafsson<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Sweden<br />

Fragancia is arrested for the attempted<br />

murder of Richard Persson, the son of a<br />

powerful factory owner. During the interrogation<br />

her amazing and remarkable life<br />

story is revealed.<br />

AVALON<br />

AKA: AVALON<br />

Drama (79 Minutes)<br />

Language: Swedish<br />

Director: Axel Petersèn<br />

Writer: Axel Petersèn<br />

Co-Production Partners: Film i Väst, SVT,<br />

Filmfyn<br />

Producer: ERIKA WASSERMAN, JESPER<br />

KURLANDSKY<br />

Key Cast: JOHANNES BROST, PETER<br />

CARLBERG, LÉONORE EKSTRAND<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Sweden<br />

After serving time with an ankle bracelet,<br />

Janne, a former party organizer, travels to<br />

Båstad to open an exclusive nightclub and<br />

get his life back on track.<br />

SUMMER WINDOW<br />

AKA: FENSTER ZUM SOMMER<br />

Drama (96 Minutes)<br />

Language: German<br />

Director: Hendrik Handloegten<br />

Writer: Hendrik Handloegten<br />

Co-Production Partners: Edith Film<br />

Executive Producer: Peter Aalbæk Jensen,<br />

Peter Garde<br />

Producer: Maria Köpf<br />

Key Cast: Nina Hoss, Mark Waschke,<br />

Fritzi Haberlandt<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany<br />

Juliane’s happiness seems perfect. One<br />

morning, however, she finds herself thrown<br />

back into her past to the time before she<br />

met her new love.<br />

BLACK’S GAME<br />

AKA: SVARTUR Á LEIK<br />

Thriller (100 Minutes)<br />

Language: Icelandic<br />

Director: Óskar Thór Axelsson<br />

Writer: Óskar Thór Axelsson<br />

Co-Production Partners: N/A<br />

Executive Producer: Nicolas Winding<br />

Refn, Chris Briggs<br />

Producer: Thor S. Sigurjonsson, Skuli Fr.<br />

Malmquist, Arnar Knutsson<br />

Key Cast: Thorvaldur David Kristjansson,<br />

Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Damon<br />

Younger, Egill Einarsson, Maria B.<br />

Bjarnardottir<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Iceland<br />

The last few years of the millennium<br />

marked a transformational period for the<br />

Icelandic underworld. What had been a relatively<br />

innocent playground for petty criminals<br />

and “hobby pushers” progressed into<br />

the organized and violent industry that prevails<br />

today.<br />

ID:A<br />

AKA: ID:A<br />

Thriller (100 Minutes)<br />

Language: Danish, French<br />

Director: Christian E. Christiansen<br />

Writer: Tine Krull Petersen<br />

Co-Production Partners: Holland Habour<br />

Executive Producer: Peter Aalbæk Jensen,<br />

Peter Garde<br />

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Producer: Louise Vesth, Ida Harder<br />

Key Cast: Tuva Novothy, Flemming<br />

Enevold, Carsten Bjørnlund<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Denmark<br />

A woman wakes up in a river. Wounded<br />

and without memory, then races to elude<br />

mysterious followers and recover from<br />

amnesia.<br />

INTO THE WHITE<br />

Drama (100 Minutes)<br />

Language: English, Norwegian, German<br />

Director: Petter Næss<br />

Writer: Ole Meldgaard, Petter Næss<br />

Co-Production Partners: Zentropa<br />

Entertainments Berlin, TROLLHÄTTAN<br />

FILM AB<br />

Executive Producer: Peter Aalbæk Jensen,<br />

Peter Garde<br />

Producer: Peter Aalbæk Jensen, Valerie<br />

Edwina Saunders<br />

Key Cast: Rupert Grint, David Kross,<br />

Florian Lukas, Lachlan Nieboer, Stig<br />

Henrik Hoff<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Norway<br />

War drama from director Petter Næss, starring<br />

David Kross and Rupert Grint.<br />

JACKPOT<br />

AKA: ARME RIDDERE<br />

Comedy (90 Minutes)<br />

Language: Norwegian<br />

Director: Magnus Martens<br />

Writer: Jo Nesbø and Magnus Martens<br />

Co-Production Partners: Tomas Eskilsson,<br />

Fredrik Wikström, Pontus Sjöman<br />

Executive Producer: TBA<br />

Producer: Martin Sundland, Are<br />

Heidenstrøm<br />

Key Cast: Kyrre Hellum, Mads Ousdal,<br />

Henrik Mestad, Andreas Cappelen, Arthur<br />

Berning, Fridtjof Såheim, Anne Marie<br />

Ottersen, Jan Grønli, Lena Kristin<br />

Ellingsen and Peter Andersson<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Norway<br />

A comedy with a memento to Tarantino’s<br />

absurd action universe. Based on an origi-<br />

nal story by best-selling author, Jo Nesbø<br />

and from the producers of COLD PREY.<br />

THE AMBASSADOR<br />

AKA: AMBASSADØREN<br />

Documentary (93 Minutes)<br />

Language: English, French, Danish, Sango<br />

Director: Mads Brügger<br />

Writer: Mads Brügger, Maja Jul Larsen<br />

Co-Production Partners: Zentropa<br />

International Sweden, Cine Works,<br />

Potemkino<br />

Executive Producer: Peter Aalbæk Jensen,<br />

Peter Garde<br />

Producer: Peter Engel, Carsten Holst<br />

Key Cast: Mads Brügger, Eva Jakobsen<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Denmark<br />

What happens when a white European man<br />

buys a diplomatic title which turns him into<br />

a diplomat overnight – right in the Central<br />

African Republic?<br />

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE<br />

AKA: DEN SKALDEDE FRISØR<br />

Romantic Comedy<br />

Language: English, Danish<br />

Director: Susanne Bier<br />

Writer: Anders Thomas Jensen, Susanne<br />

Bier<br />

Co-Production Partners: TBA<br />

Executive Producer: TBA<br />

Producer: Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Vibeke<br />

Windeløv<br />

Key Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm,<br />

Paprika Steen<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Denmark<br />

Romantic comedy from Academy Awardwinning<br />

director Susanne Bier, starring<br />

Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm<br />

EASY MONEY II<br />

AKA: SNABBA CASH II<br />

Thriller (120 Minutes)<br />

Language: Swedish<br />

Director: Babak Najafi<br />

Writer: Maria Karlsson & Peter Birro<br />

Co-Production Partners: Nordisk Film,<br />

Film i Väst, Sveriges Television, Nouvago<br />

Capital, Hobohm Brothers Film<br />

Executive Producer: Daniél Espinosa &<br />

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Michael Hjorth<br />

Producer: Fredrik Wikström<br />

Key Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela,<br />

Dragomir Mrsic, Fares Fares, Dejan Cukic<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Sweden<br />

Sequel to the Swedish box office smash<br />

EASY MONEY based on the international<br />

bestsellers by Jens Lapidus.<br />

THE FJÄLLBACKA MURDERS<br />

AKA: FJÄLLBACKA<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: Swedish<br />

Director: Various<br />

Writer: Camilla Läckberg<br />

Co-Production Partners: TBA<br />

Executive Producer: TBA<br />

Producer: Helen Ahlsson, Caisa Westling,<br />

Michael Hjort, Helena Danielsson<br />

Key Cast: Claudia Galli, Richard Ulfsäter<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Sweden<br />

Think a more modern, attractive MURDER<br />

SHE WROTE meeting MIDSOMER<br />

MURDERS - complete with the wellcrafted<br />

stories and characters that Scandinavian<br />

crime writing is known for.<br />

THE HUNT<br />

AKA: JAGTEN<br />

Drama<br />

Language: Danish<br />

Director: Thomas Vinterberg<br />

Writer: Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias<br />

Lindholm<br />

Co-Production Partners: TBA<br />

Executive Producer: TBA<br />

Producer: Sisse Graum Jørgensen<br />

Key Cast: Mads Mikkelsen Thomas Bo<br />

Larsen Lars Ranthe Susse Vold<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Denmark<br />

New film from director Thomas Vinterberg<br />

TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCE<br />

AKA: DOM ÖVER DÖD MAN<br />

Drama (110 Minutes)<br />

Language: Swedish<br />

Director: Jan Troell<br />

Writer: Klaus Rifbjerg, Jan Troell<br />

Co-Production Partners: Film i Väst,<br />

Filmpool Nord, SVT, Nordisk Film, Stena<br />

Sessan, NFPP, Dagsljus, Maipo & Jan<br />

Troell<br />

Executive Producer: Lars Blomgren<br />

Producer: Francy Suntinger<br />

Key Cast: Jesper Christensen, Pernilla<br />

August, Ulla Skoog<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Sweden<br />

TRUTH & CONSEQUENSE weaves<br />

together the story of a psychological love<br />

story with a portrayal of the political situation<br />

Sweden found itself in during the<br />

Second World War.<br />

CALL GIRL<br />

AKA: CALL GIRL<br />

Political thriller<br />

Language: Swedish<br />

Director: Mikael Marcimain<br />

Writer: Marietta von Hausswolff von<br />

Baumgarten<br />

Co-Production Partners: Sveriges<br />

Television, Film i Väst, The Chimney Pot<br />

AB, Nouvago Captial AB, Dagsljus AB,<br />

Yellow Film & TV Oy, Friland Produksjon<br />

AS<br />

Executive Producer: Maria Dahlin, Helena<br />

Danielsson<br />

Producer: Mimmi Spång<br />

Key Cast: Pernilla August, Simon J Berger,<br />

David Dencik, Sven Nordin, Kristoffer<br />

Joner<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Sweden<br />

CALL GIRL tells the story of how youth is<br />

seductive and recruited from the bottom<br />

rung of society into a ruthless world where<br />

power can get you anything.<br />

ESCAPE<br />

AKA: FLUKT<br />

Action (90 Minutes)<br />

Language: Norwegian<br />

Director: Roar Uthaug<br />

Writer: Thomas Moldestad<br />

Co-Production Partners: Filmfondet Fuzz,<br />

Filmkraft Rogaland<br />

Executive Producer: Are Heidenstrøm,<br />

Martin Sundland, Audun Lyngholm<br />

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Wittenberg, Hugo Hagemann Føsker, Elle-<br />

?Beth Lønnestad<br />

Producer: Are Heidenstrøm, Martin<br />

Sundland<br />

Key Cast: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Isabel<br />

Christine Andreasen, Milla Olin<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Norway<br />

Ten years after the Black Death ravaged<br />

Norway a family is attacked by a gang of<br />

ruthless outlaws. They only spare the life<br />

of the 19-year-old Signe.<br />

A HIJACKING (WORKING TITLE)<br />

AKA: KAPRINGEN<br />

Drama<br />

Language: Danish, English and Somali<br />

Director: Tobias Lindholm<br />

Writer: Tobias Lindholm<br />

Co-Production Partners: TBA<br />

Executive Producer: Henrik Zein, Lena<br />

Haugaard & Thomas Heinesen<br />

Producer: Tomas Radoor & René Ezra<br />

Key Cast: Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling,<br />

Dar Salim<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Denmark<br />

New film from the acclaimed director of<br />

“R”, Tobias Lindholm.<br />

PURGE<br />

AKA: PUHDISTUS<br />

Drama (110 Minutes)<br />

Language: Finnish<br />

Director: Antti Jokinen<br />

Writer: Marko Leino, Antti Jokinen<br />

Co-Production Partners: Taska Film<br />

Executive Producer: TBA<br />

Producer: Markus Selin, Jukka Helle<br />

Key Cast: Liisi Tandefelt, Laura Birn,<br />

Krista Kosonen, Peter Franzén, Tommi<br />

Korpela<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Finland<br />

PURGE is based on Sofi Oksanen’s bestselling<br />

and prizewinning novel about two<br />

women’s destiny.<br />

UBU PRODUCTIONS<br />

UBU Productions, P.O.Box 40 19 65,<br />

Munich, 80719 Germany, Tel:<br />

++49(0)160.928.150.21. E-mail:<br />

UBU.Productions@web.de<br />

Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor, Agent<br />

At EFM: Mr. Jean Uliczay (President,<br />

Producer, Exec.Producer, Director)<br />

Office: MEDIA Stand 27, Martin Gropius<br />

Bau, Central Hall<br />

WEB PIRATES<br />

Fantasy / Sci-Fi (90´min)<br />

Language: English, Rumanian<br />

Director: Jean Kail<br />

Co-Production Partners: UBU Productions<br />

/ Temesvar CinemaFilm Productions<br />

Executive Producer: Jean Uliczay<br />

Producer: Jean Uliczay<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Rumania / Germany<br />

Pirates search their victims in the cyber<br />

world...<br />

BELZEBUB<br />

Black Comedy (90´min)<br />

Language: English, French, Rumanian<br />

Director: Jean Uliczay<br />

Co-Production Partners: UBU Productions<br />

/ Transsylvania Film Productions<br />

Executive Producer: Jean Uliczay<br />

Producer: Jean Uliczay<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Rumania, France, Germany<br />

Belzebub, the son of vampires,is looking<br />

for a new place to stay...<br />

THE HEIRS OF DRACULA<br />

Doc / Feature (90´min)<br />

Language: English, Rumanian, German<br />

Director: Jean Kail<br />

Co-Production Partners: UBU Productions<br />

Executive Producer: Jean Uliczay<br />

Producer: Jean Uliczay<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: end2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Rumania / Germany<br />

The heirs of the vampire family DRACUL<br />

in the new cyber era...beginning from a<br />

bygone era...<br />

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VESUVIO<br />

INTERNATIONAL<br />

Vesuvio International, 600 S. Spring Street,<br />

Penthouse 5, Los Angeles, CA 90014<br />

United States, Tel: +1.310.954.9389 Fax:<br />

+1.310.494.0466. www.vesuvioent.com Email:<br />

info@vesuvioent.com<br />

Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor<br />

At EFM: Greg H. Sims (CEO), Peter<br />

Dominguez (Vice President of International<br />

Sales)<br />

Office: MGB, Stand #145, Tel:<br />

+1.310.954.9389. Fax: +1.310.494.0466<br />

ALL DARK PLACES<br />

Psychological Thriller (90)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Nicholas Reiner<br />

Writer: Nicholas Reiner<br />

Producer: Steve Loff<br />

Key Cast: Josh Burrow, Stephanie Fieger,<br />

Liam Seide, Dylan Mars Loff, Tim<br />

Douglas<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Jamie and Christian give their marriage one<br />

last shot for the sake of love and for their<br />

young son, Dylan. But when Christian<br />

proves unable to hold up his end, a malevolent<br />

force reveals itself as a haunting,<br />

murderous clown.<br />

BEHIND YOUR EYES<br />

Psychological Thriller (90)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Clint Lien<br />

Writer: Daniel Fanaberia<br />

Co-Production Partners: Vesuvio<br />

Entertainment<br />

Executive Producer: Greg H. Sims<br />

Producer: Christoper & Michael Ottinger<br />

Key Cast: Daniel Fanaberia, Frida Farrell,<br />

Tom Sandoval, Kristen Doute,<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Young, hopeful couple Erika and Steven<br />

embark on a weekend retreat to meet<br />

Steven’s parents. Things take a turn for the<br />

worst when they are unexpectedly kid-<br />

napped and held hostage. Now, it’s a fight<br />

for their lives against their mysterious<br />

abductor and the secrets he possesses. As<br />

he tortures and teases them, secrets from<br />

the past emerge and change everything.<br />

When Erika escapes, things only get worse,<br />

and the twists and turns take the viewer<br />

into uncharted territory and unyielding<br />

mayhem.<br />

TOUCH ME<br />

Romance/Drama (107 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: H. Gordon Boos<br />

Writer: Greg H. Sims, H. Gordon Boos<br />

Co-Production Partners: Iron Entertainment<br />

Executive Producer: Greg H. Sims<br />

Producer: David Rubin<br />

Key Cast: Amanda Peet, Michael Vartan,<br />

Peter Facinelli, Jane Lynch<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 1997 Country of<br />

Origin: USA/Canada<br />

Bridgette is an actress teaching aerobics,<br />

and she falls in love with idle playboy<br />

Adam, who runs his father’s gym. One day<br />

she finds out that one of her ex-lovers died<br />

of AIDS.<br />

RED SURF<br />

Action (104)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: H. Gordon Boos<br />

Writer: Vincent Robert<br />

Co-Production Partners: Iron Entertainment<br />

Executive Producer: Greg H. Sims<br />

Producer: Richard Weinman<br />

Key Cast: George Clooney, Doug Savant,<br />

Dedee Pfeiffer, Gene Simmons<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 1990 Country of<br />

Origin: USA/Canada<br />

Remar and Attila are a couple of surfers<br />

who also deal drugs to make a living. They<br />

are trying to set up a final deal with local<br />

drug lord, Calavera, when their friend True<br />

Blue is busted by the cops. Blue talks too<br />

much in the police station and Calavera is<br />

out for revenge because of the betrayal.<br />

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VISION FILMS<br />

Vision Films, 14945 Ventura Blvd., Suite<br />

306, Los Angeles, CA 91403 USA, Tel:<br />

1.818.784.1702 Fax: 1.818.788.3715.<br />

www.VisionFilms.net E-mail: sales@visionfilms.net<br />

Distributor<br />

At EFM: Lise Romanoff (CEO/ Managing<br />

Director, Worldwide Distribution), Adam<br />

Wright (Executive VP, International Sales<br />

& Acquisitions), Vincent Tola<br />

(International Sales and Acquisitions)<br />

Office: MGB - IFTA Stand # 141, Tel:<br />

+49.30889.14422<br />

SNOW WHITE: A DEADLY SUMMER<br />

Horror (80 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: David DeCoteau<br />

Writer: Barbara Kymlicka<br />

Producer: Barry Barnholtz, Jeffrey<br />

Schenck, David DeCoteau, John<br />

Schouweiler<br />

Key Cast: Shanley Caswell, Eric Roberts<br />

(Dark Knight), Maureen McCormick (The<br />

Brady Bunch)<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

After being sent to a discipline camp<br />

Snow’s seven fellow campers begin dying,<br />

leaving her to uncover the dark secret<br />

before she becomes the next victim.<br />

SEVEN BELOW<br />

Thriller/ Sci-Fi (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Kevin Carraway<br />

Writer: Kevin Carraway, Lawrence Sara<br />

Producer: Eric Fisher, Warren Ostergard,<br />

Terry Rindal<br />

Key Cast: Val Kilmer (Heat, Batman<br />

Forever), Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction),<br />

Luke Goss (Blade II)<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A group of strangers must ride out a storm<br />

when they are stranded in a foreboding<br />

house with a dark past, where they become<br />

targets of an evil force.<br />

THE PRESENCE<br />

Super Natural Thriller (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Tom Provost<br />

Producer: Tom Rice<br />

Key Cast: Academy Award Winner Mira<br />

Sorvino (Mighty Afrodite, Gods and<br />

Generals), Shane West (The League of<br />

Extraordinary Gentleman), Justin Kirk<br />

(Goats)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A woman travels to an isolated cabin where<br />

she finds herself stalked by an apparition.<br />

With the unexpected arrival of her<br />

boyfriend, the dark spirit’s haunting grows<br />

more obsessive. Soon she begins to exhibit<br />

irrational behavior and the thin line<br />

between sanity and possession begins to<br />

unravel.<br />

BLOOD MONEY<br />

Action/ Martial Arts (105 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Gregor McQualter<br />

Producer: Ian McDowell, Gregor<br />

McQualter, James McQualter<br />

Key Cast: Zheng Liu (Shaolin warrior,<br />

Action hero), Pitbull (Fast and Furious),<br />

Chai Hui “Gordon” Liu (Kill Bill)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012<br />

When a powerful warrior from the Shaolin<br />

Dynasty in China turns to crime after his<br />

parents are killed and his sister kidnapped,<br />

the drug cartels of America, Australia, and<br />

Hong Kong are about to feel the sting of<br />

the world’s most dangerous hitman!<br />

LAKE EFFECTS<br />

Family/ Drama (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Michael McKay<br />

Writer: Sara Elizabeth Timmins, Scott<br />

Winters<br />

Producer: Sara Elizabeth Timmins<br />

Key Cast: Scottie Thompson (Star Trek),<br />

Jane Seymour (Wedding Crashers),<br />

Madeline Zima (The Nanny), Sean Patrick<br />

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Flanery (The Boondock Saints)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

When her father unexpectedly dies, a highpowered<br />

attorney comes back to the magical<br />

lake house where she grew up to<br />

reevaluate her life and rediscover the values<br />

she left behind.<br />

BEAUTIFUL WAVE<br />

Family/ Drama (98 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: David Mueller<br />

Writer: Lynn Salt, David Mueller<br />

Producer: Stuart Cameron, Laura Shapiro<br />

Key Cast: Aimee Teegarden (Friday Night<br />

Lights), Lance Henriksen (Aliens), Patricia<br />

Richardson (Home Improvement)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

While on a road trip in search of the perfect<br />

surf spot, an introverted teen girl discovers<br />

an ancient family secret that unlocks<br />

the door to her own self discovery.<br />

UNSCRIPTED<br />

Series (175 x 30 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Producer: Tore Stautland<br />

Key Cast: Ron Perlman, Debi Mazar, Eric<br />

Roberts, Hugh Heffner<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Celebrities tell us their own compelling<br />

stories in their own words including: Dolph<br />

Lungren, Jane Seymour, Alan Arkin, Lou<br />

Diamond Phillips, Ron Perlman, Hugh<br />

Heffner and many more.<br />

HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH<br />

II: A DIAMOND CELEBRATION<br />

Documentary (85 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Producer: A2B/ Odeon Entertainment<br />

Key Cast: Interviews With: Robert Lacey,<br />

Camilla Tominey, Arthur Edward, Arthur<br />

Edward, Tim Heald and more<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

From the death of her father King George<br />

VI, to the marriage of Prince William and<br />

Kate Middleton, this is the true story of<br />

how the young Princess became a great<br />

Queen.<br />

INTO THE COLD: A JOURNEY OF<br />

THE SOUL<br />

Documentary (87 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Sebastian Copeland<br />

Producer: Sebastian Copeland<br />

Key Cast: Sebastian Copeland, Keith<br />

Heger<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Widely acclaimed environmental advocate,<br />

photographer, and polar explorer Sebastian<br />

Copeland’s dramatic expedition to the<br />

North Pole, treks 400+ miles on foot<br />

through a magnificent environment that is<br />

rapidly vanishing.<br />

AMY WINEHOUSE, QUEEN, LADY<br />

GAGA, & BEYONCE BIOGRAPHIES<br />

Documentary/ Music (70+ min each)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Tara Pirina<br />

Producer: Stax Entertainment<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Profiles of the most iconic up-and-coming<br />

young artists of the millennium, featuring<br />

musical performances, behind the scenes,<br />

and exclusive interviews shot in High<br />

Definition.<br />

THE LAST GAMBLE<br />

Thriller/ Drama (108 min)<br />

Director: Joe Goodavage<br />

Writer: Joe E. Goodavage<br />

Producer: Joe E. Goodavage, Phil<br />

Malandrino<br />

Key Cast: Steven Bauer (Scarface), John<br />

Savage (The Deer Hunter), Sally Kirkland<br />

(JFK), Nick Mancuso (Under Siege)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A gambler finds himself living on the edge<br />

owing money to everyone which leads him<br />

down a desperate path with no way out.<br />

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RESTITUTION<br />

Thriller (99 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Lance Kawas<br />

Writer: Mark Bierlein, Lance Kawas<br />

Producer: Mark Bierlein<br />

Key Cast: Mena Suvari (American<br />

Beauty), Mark Bierlein (Street Boss), C.<br />

Thomas Howell (Outsiders), William<br />

Sadler (Shawshank Redemption), Tom<br />

Arnold (True Lies)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A true crime writer investigating a murder<br />

spree uncovers the devastating truth that<br />

changes his life and the town forever.<br />

VOX TELEVISION<br />

GMBH<br />

Vox Television GmbH, Picassoplatz 1 , D-<br />

50 679 Kln, Germany. Tel: 0049.221.4568-<br />

0. www.vox.de, E-mail mail@vox.de<br />

Television<br />

At EFM: Sophia Dauber (Editor), Joachim<br />

Moczall (Editor), Patricia Marras (Junior<br />

Editor)<br />

W2 MEDIA INC.<br />

W2 Media Inc., 2951 28th Street, Suite<br />

2001, Santa Monica , CA 90405 USA, Tel:<br />

1.310.392.0088 Fax: 1.310.392.3226.<br />

W2Media.com E-mail:<br />

sales@w2media.com<br />

Sales Agent, Distributor, Financier<br />

At EFM: Warren Nimchuk (Co-Chairman),<br />

Warren Fergus (Co-Chairman), John Flock<br />

(CEO), Julie Sultan (President of<br />

International Sales & Distribution), Paul<br />

Gardner (President of North American<br />

Distribution), Terese Linden Kohn (Senior<br />

Vice President of International Sales &<br />

Distribution)<br />

Office: Ritz-Carlton 545/547, Tel:<br />

49.30.33.77.77. Fax: 49.30.33.777.5555<br />

THE KILLING HOUSE<br />

Action / Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Jonathan English<br />

Writer: Jonathan English, Stephen McDool<br />

Producer: Andrew Curtis, Jonathan<br />

English, Rick Benattar<br />

Key Cast: TBA<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany / UK<br />

An elite SAS soldier and an MI-6 intelligence<br />

agent team up to uncover a clandestine<br />

government murder conspiracy in this<br />

action-packed international spy thriller.<br />

ATTACHMENT<br />

Thriller<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Tony Kaye<br />

Writer: Christopher Denham<br />

Producer: Brad Epstein<br />

Key Cast: TBA<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A married woman’s one night stand with<br />

her student comes back to haunt her when<br />

the lover begins to stalk her family.<br />

THE DRUMMER<br />

Biopic<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Randall Miller<br />

Writer: Jody Savin<br />

Producer: Jody Savin, Randall Miller, Brad<br />

Rosenberger<br />

Key Cast: Aaron Eckhart<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

A biopic of the riveting last years of The<br />

Beach Boys’ brilliant, kinetic, and sexy<br />

rock star Dennis Wilson, whose life was<br />

both meteor and torpedo.<br />

VIEW TRAILERS AT<br />

synopsisandtrailers.com<br />

makes it easy<br />

for you to read-watchconnect-buy<br />

like never before.<br />

An end to site<br />

hopping.<br />

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WE DISTRIBUTION<br />

LIMITED<br />

We Distribution Limited, 8/F, Hay Nien<br />

Building, 1 Tai Yip Street, Kwun Tong,<br />

Hong Kong PRC, Tel: 852.2366.1622<br />

Fax: 852.2366.0661. www.wepictures.com<br />

E-mail: sales@wedistribution.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Katherine LEE (Executive VP),<br />

Julian CHIU (Distribution Manager)<br />

Office: MGB #131, Tel: 49.176.10407341<br />

THE GUILLOTINES<br />

Action<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: Andrew LAU<br />

Writer: Aubrey LAM, Joyce CHAN<br />

Co-Production Partners: We Pictures<br />

Limited, Media Asia Film Production<br />

Limited, Stellar Mega Films Limited<br />

Producer: Peter Ho-Sun CHAN, Jojo HUI<br />

Key Cast: HUANG Xiaoming, Ethan<br />

JUAN, Shawn YUE<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong, China<br />

An elite squad of young imperial bodyguards,<br />

trained to use the deadly guillotines,<br />

is the last line of defense to the<br />

Emperor’s Court. But little do they realize<br />

the conspiracy behind their mission.<br />

WU XIA<br />

Action (115 min)<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: Peter Ho-Sun CHAN<br />

Writer: Aubrey LAM<br />

Co-Production Partners: We Pictures<br />

Limited, Stellar Mega Films Limited<br />

Executive Producer: Peter Ho-Sun CHAN,<br />

QIN Hong<br />

Producer: Jojo HUI Yuet-chun, Peter Ho-<br />

Sun CHAN<br />

Key Cast: Donnie YEN, Takeshi<br />

KANESHIRO, TANG Wei, Jimmy WANG<br />

Yu, WAI Ying Hung<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong, China<br />

A sinful martial arts expert (Donnie YEN)<br />

wants to start a new tranquil life, only to be<br />

hunted by a determined detective (Takeshi<br />

KANESHIRO) and his former master<br />

(Jimmy WANG Yu).<br />

MR. AND MRS. INCREDIBLE<br />

Action (100 mins)<br />

Language: Cantonese<br />

Director: Vincent KOK<br />

Writer: Vincent KOK, FUNG Min-hang<br />

Co-Production Partners: We Pictures<br />

Limited, Stellar Mega Films Limited<br />

Executive Producer: Peter Ho-Sun CHAN,<br />

QIN Hong<br />

Producer: Peter Ho-Sun CHAN, David<br />

CHAN, Peter TSI, Jojo HUI<br />

Key Cast: Louis KOO, Sandra NG<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong, China<br />

Imagine what Mr. and Mrs. Smith would<br />

do if they possess the power of The<br />

Incredibles? In this hilarious action fantasy,<br />

a superhero couple decides to come out of<br />

retirement to save the world when a new<br />

villain threatens to destroy their peaceful<br />

hometown.<br />

BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS<br />

Action (138 mins)<br />

Language: Mandarin<br />

Director: Teddy CHEN<br />

Writer: GUO Junli, QIN Tiannan, Joyce<br />

CHAN<br />

Co-Production Partners: Cinema Popular<br />

Limited<br />

Executive Producer: YU Dong, HAN<br />

Sanping<br />

Producer: Peter Ho-Sun CHAN, HUANG<br />

Jianxin, Jojo HUI<br />

Key Cast: Donnie YEN, WANG Xueqi,<br />

Tony Ka-fai LEUNG, Nicholas TSE, HU<br />

Jun, Eric TSANG<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2009 Country of<br />

Origin: Hong Kong, China<br />

This award-winning blockbuster tells the<br />

story of a failed assassination attempt of a<br />

future leader and 8 bodyguards who would<br />

die to protect him.<br />

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WESTEND FILMS<br />

WestEnd Films, 15 Greek Street, 2nd Floor,<br />

London , W1D 4DP UK, Tel:<br />

+44(0)207.494.8300. Fax:<br />

+44(0)207.494.8301.<br />

www.westendfilms.com E-mail: info@westendfilms.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Eve Schoukroun (Managing<br />

Director), Maya Amsellem (Managing<br />

Director), Mercy Liao (Sales Executive)<br />

Office: Marriott Hotel, Room 240, Tel:<br />

+49.30.22000.1130<br />

BYZANTIUM<br />

Horror<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Neil Jordan<br />

Writer: Moira Buffini<br />

Producer: Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth<br />

Karlsen, Alan Moloney<br />

Key Cast: Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan,<br />

Sam Riley, Jonny Lee Miller, Daniel Mays<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

A smart, action-filled vampire story of two<br />

women, on the run from their past, hiding a<br />

terrible secret.<br />

SIBERIAN EDUCATION<br />

Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Gabriele Salvatores<br />

Writer: Stefano Rulli<br />

Producer: Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni<br />

Stabilini, Marco Chimenz<br />

Key Cast: John Malkovich, Peter Stormare,<br />

Eleanor Tomlinson<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

In a community of banished criminals, two<br />

best friends become fierce enemies when<br />

they find themselves on opposite sides of a<br />

strict code of honour.<br />

LOVE BITE<br />

Sex Comedy / Horror<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Andy de Emmony<br />

Writer: Cris Cole<br />

Producer: Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae,<br />

Paul Ritchie<br />

Key Cast: Jessica Szohr, Luke Pasqualino,<br />

Ed Speleers, Timothy Spall<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Four friends must lose their virginity or fall<br />

prey to a werewolf feasting on virgin flesh.<br />

Pretty soon, everyone’s dying to get laid!<br />

A LATE QUARTET<br />

Drama<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Yaron Zilberman<br />

Writer: Yaron Zilberman, Seth Grossman<br />

Producer: Tamar Sela<br />

Key Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman,<br />

Catherine Keener, Christopher Walken,<br />

Imogen Poots<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: US<br />

Four members of a world-renowned string<br />

quartet struggle to stay together in the face<br />

of death, competing egos and insuppressible<br />

lust.<br />

ALBERT NOBBS<br />

Drama (114 mins.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Rodrigo Garcia<br />

Writer: Glenn Close, John Banville<br />

Producer: Glenn Close, Julie Lynn, Bonnie<br />

Curtis, Alan Moloney<br />

Key Cast: Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska,<br />

Aaron Johnson, Janet McTeer, Brendan<br />

Gleeson<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011<br />

19th Century Ireland: for a woman to be<br />

independent and single, she must deceive<br />

everyone – by pretending to be a man. A<br />

poignant and sexy story of a lifelong<br />

secret.<br />

FOOTNOTE<br />

Drama (101 mins.)<br />

Language: Hebrew<br />

Director: Joseph Cedar<br />

Writer: Joseph Cedar<br />

Producer: David Mandil, Moshe Edery,<br />

Leon Edery<br />

Key Cast: Shlomo Bar Aba, Lior<br />

Ashkenazi<br />

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Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Israel<br />

Footnote is the story of insane competition,<br />

the admiration and envy for a role model<br />

and an accolade that brings father and son<br />

to a final, bitter confrontation.<br />

WIDE<br />

Wide, 40, rue Sainte Anne, Paris, 75002<br />

France, Tel: 0033.01.53.95.04.64 Fax:<br />

0033.01.53.95.04.65. www.widemanagement.com<br />

E-mail:<br />

lm@widemanagement.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Loic Magneron (General<br />

Manager), Clementine Hugot (Head of<br />

Sales & Acquisitions), Ilaria Gomarasca<br />

(Festivals Manager), Camille Rousselet<br />

(Head of Festivals & Acquisitions Eye on<br />

Films Coordinator), Nawid Sarem (Eye On<br />

film Coordinator)<br />

Office: MGB - # 38 (Unifrance), Tel:<br />

+49.30.767.646. Fax: +49.30.767.444<br />

TODAY (BERLIN COMPETITION)<br />

AKA: AUJOURD’HUI<br />

(86 min)<br />

Language: French, Wolof<br />

Director: Alains Gomis<br />

Writer: Alains Gomis<br />

Co-Production Partners: MAA CINEMA,<br />

CINEKAP, AGORA FILMS<br />

Executive Producer: Gilles Sandoz<br />

Producer: Granit Production<br />

Key Cast: Saul Williams, Assa Maga,<br />

Djolof Mbengue<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: France and Senegal<br />

It happens sometimes, everyone knew that.<br />

How? No one could say exactly, through<br />

experience perhaps. This is a place where<br />

Death still sometimes warns that it is coming.<br />

THE PARADE<br />

AKA: PARADA<br />

Comedy / Drama (116’)<br />

Language: Serbian-croatian<br />

Director: Srdjan Dragojevic<br />

Writer: Srdjan Dragojevic<br />

Co-Production Partners: Belgrad Biljana<br />

Prvanovic, Srdjan Dragojevic , TV Prva,<br />

Belgrade, Forum Ljubljana, Film & Music<br />

Entertainment<br />

Executive Producer: Srdjan Dragojevic<br />

Producer: Delirium Film<br />

Key Cast: Nikola Kojo (Lemon), Milos<br />

Samolov (Radmilo), Hristina Popovic<br />

(Perl)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Serbia, Croatia<br />

A homophobic, middle-aged, Serbian gangster<br />

ends up sacrificing himself to protect<br />

Gay freedom in his country.<br />

NOOR<br />

(79’)<br />

Language: Urdu<br />

Director: agla Zencirci, Guillaume<br />

Giovanetti<br />

Writer: agla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti<br />

Co-Production Partners: C’EST AU 4<br />

Cristine Asperti<br />

Executive Producer: Svetlana Novak<br />

Producer: C’EST AU 3<br />

Key Cast: Noor, Uzma Ali, Baba<br />

Muhammad, Gunga Saeen, Mithu Saeen<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: France, Pakistan<br />

Noor wants to be a man. He doesn’t belong<br />

anymore to the Khusras, Pakistan’s transgender<br />

community. And he is definitely<br />

done with the love story he had with one of<br />

them..<br />

SEXUAL CHRONICLES OF A<br />

FRENCH FAMILY<br />

AKA: CHRONIQUE SEXUELLES<br />

D’UNE FAMILLE D’AUJOURD’HUI<br />

(85’)<br />

Language: French<br />

Director: Jean-Marc Barr and Pascal<br />

Arnold<br />

Writer: ARNOLD Pascal<br />

Co-Production Partners: Mokey Pack<br />

Films, Supersonic<br />

Executive Producer: Toloda<br />

Producer: Jean-Marc Barr, Pascal Arnold<br />

Key Cast: Mathais Melloul, Valerie Maes,<br />

Stephan Hersoen<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

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Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

The daily life of a today’s family is suddenly<br />

shaken when the youngest child,<br />

Romain, is caught masturbating and filming<br />

himself with his mobile phone in his<br />

biology class at school..<br />

DEMAIN<br />

AKA: AMANH<br />

(105’)<br />

Language: French<br />

Director: Christine LAURENT<br />

Writer: ARNOLD Pascal<br />

Co-Production Partners: O SOM E A<br />

FRIA, Portugal<br />

Executive Producer: MACT Productions<br />

Producer: Martine de Clermont Tonnerre<br />

Key Cast: Laure de Clermont (Delmira),<br />

Marc Ruchmann, Teresa Madruga (Dona<br />

Maria)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: France & Portugal<br />

Based on true facts, the film tells the story<br />

of the young Uruguayan woman poet,<br />

Delmira Agustini, just before the outbreak<br />

of the First World War.<br />

BEAST PARADISE (EYE ON FILMS<br />

LABEL!)<br />

AKA: LE PARADIS DES BTES<br />

(1h43’)<br />

Language: French<br />

Director: Estelle Larrivaz<br />

Writer: Estelle Larrivaz/ Guillaume<br />

Daporta<br />

Co-Production Partners: Rhne Alpes<br />

Cinma, Upian<br />

Executive Producer: Mezzanine Films<br />

Producer: Matthieu Bompoint<br />

Key Cast: Stefano Cassetti (Dominique),<br />

Graldine Pailhas (Cathy), Muriel Robin<br />

(Stphane)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

Dominique is a domineering and possessive<br />

father who runs a pet store with his<br />

sister: Pet Paradise.<br />

NIGHT # 1 (EYE ON FILMS LABEL!)<br />

AKA: NUIT #1<br />

(91’)<br />

Language: French<br />

Director: Anne Mond<br />

Writer: Anne Mond<br />

Executive Producer: Nancy Grant,<br />

Metafilms, Sylvain Corbeil (Associate<br />

Producer)<br />

Producer: Nancy Grant, Metafilms, Sylvain<br />

Corbeil (Associate Producer<br />

Key Cast: Catherine De Lan (Clara),<br />

Dimitri Storoge (Nikola<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

Anne mond’s dazzling debut feature is a<br />

bold and intimate study of a one-night<br />

stand. Clara and Nikolai meet at a sweatsoaked<br />

rave and end their night at his<br />

apartment..<br />

POLICEMAN (EYE ON FILMS<br />

LABEL!)<br />

AKA: HASHOTER<br />

(105’)<br />

Language: Hebrew<br />

Director: Nadav Lapid<br />

Writer: Nadav Lapid<br />

Executive Producer: Laila Films<br />

Producer: Laila Films, Itai Tamir<br />

Key Cast: Yiftach Klein (Yaron), Yaara<br />

Pelzig (Shira), Michael Aloni (Natanel)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Israel<br />

The policeman, Yaron, stands in the center<br />

of a group of elite policeman, belonging to<br />

the Israeli Anti-Terrorist unit.<br />

MOURNING (EYE ON FILMS<br />

LABEL!)<br />

AKA: SOOG<br />

(85’)<br />

Language: Persian<br />

Director: Morteza Farshbaf<br />

Writer: Anahita Ghazvinizadeh<br />

Executive Producer: Behnaz Beski<br />

Producer: Behnaz Beski<br />

Key Cast: Kiomars Gity, Sharareh Pasha,<br />

Amirhossein Maleki<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

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Origin: Iran<br />

A violent quarrel breaks out between a couple<br />

at midnight. Being at a relative’s house<br />

in the north of Iran, they depart for Tehran<br />

during the night..<br />

THE MOLE (EYE ON FILMS LABEL!)<br />

AKA: KRET<br />

(108’)<br />

Language: Polish<br />

Director: Rafael LEWANDOWSKI<br />

Writer: Anahita Ghazvinizadeh<br />

Co-Production Partners: Mark Edwards,<br />

Kuiv Productions<br />

Executive Producer: Marcin<br />

Wierzchoslawski, Jacek Kucharski<br />

Producer: Marcin Wierzchoslawski, Jacek<br />

Kucharski Metro Films SP Z.O.O.<br />

Key Cast: Boryz Szyc (Pawel), Marian<br />

Dziedziel (Zygmunt), Magdalena<br />

Czerwinska (Ewa)<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Poland<br />

PAWEL, a Polish man in his early 30’s<br />

works with his father ZYGMUNT, by<br />

importing second-hand clothing from the<br />

North of France to Southern Poland..<br />

CRULIC, THE PATH TO BEYOND<br />

AKA: CRULIC - DRUMUL SPRE DIN-<br />

COLO<br />

Animated Documentary (73’)<br />

Language: Romanian & English<br />

Director: Anca Damian<br />

Writer: Anca Damian<br />

Co-Production Partners: Fundacja im.<br />

Ferdynanda Magellana<br />

Producer: Anca Damian (Aparte Film)<br />

Key Cast: Voices by: Vlad Ivanov & Jamie<br />

Sives<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Romania and Poland<br />

The animated documentary “Crulic – The<br />

Path to Beyond” tells the life’s story of<br />

Crulic, the 33 years old Romanian who<br />

died in a Polish prison while making<br />

hunger strike.<br />

WIDE HOUSE<br />

Wide House, 40, rue Sainte Anne, Paris,<br />

75002 France, Tel: 0033.01.53.95.04.64<br />

Fax: 0033.01.53.95.04.65. E-mail:<br />

ac@widemanagement.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Anais Clanet (General Manager)<br />

Office: MARTIN-GROPIUS-BAU # 38<br />

(Unifrance), Tel: +49.30.767.646. Fax:<br />

+49.30.767.444<br />

NUCLEAR NATION<br />

Documentary (145’)<br />

Language: Japanese<br />

Director: Atsushi Funahashi<br />

Writer: Atsushi Funahashi<br />

Co-Production Partners: Documentary<br />

Japan (Japan)<br />

Executive Producer: Big River Films<br />

(Japan)<br />

Producer: Yoshiko Hashimoto & Atsushi<br />

Funahashi<br />

Key Cast: Residents of Futaba, Fukushima:<br />

Susumu YANAI; Yuuichi NAKAI & Ichiro<br />

NAKAI; Shizuo SUZUKI & family;<br />

Katsutaka IDOGAWA (Mayor of Futaba);<br />

People of the greater Futaba area; Banri<br />

Kaieda (Japan’s Economy, Trade &<br />

Industry Minister); Goshi Hosono (Japan’s<br />

Nuclear Energy Minister); Emperor Akihito<br />

& Empress Michiko<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Japan<br />

A documentary about the exile of Futaba’s<br />

residents, the region housing the crippled<br />

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.<br />

BERGMAN AND MAGNANI: THE<br />

WAR OF VOLCANOES<br />

AKA: LA GUERRA DEI VULCANI<br />

Documentary (52’)<br />

Language: Italian<br />

Director: Francesco Patierno<br />

Writer: Chiara Laudani, Francesco Patierno<br />

Co-Production Partners: RAI Cinema,<br />

CInecitt Luce, WIDE House, Centro Studi<br />

Eoliano<br />

Executive Producer: Clara Del Monaco<br />

Producer: TODOS CONTENTOS Y YO<br />

TAMBIEN<br />

Delivery Status: Post Production<br />

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Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Italy<br />

The story of the biggest jet-set love scandal<br />

of all times. Starring Roberto Rossellini,<br />

Ingrid Bergman, Anna Magnani and the<br />

mythical and primitive nature of the<br />

Aeolian Islands.<br />

HABANA MUDA<br />

Documentary (61’)<br />

Language: Spanish<br />

Director: Eric Brach<br />

Writer: Eric Brach<br />

Co-Production Partners: PROFIDEV<br />

Executive Producer: Nicolas DUVAL<br />

ADASSOVSKY<br />

Producer: QUAD PRODUCTIONS<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: France<br />

This beautifully crafted and observed film<br />

follows Chino, a deaf working class husband<br />

and father trying to support his mute<br />

wife and two young children in Havana.<br />

Screener available.<br />

IN MY MOTHER’S ARMS<br />

Documentary (86’)<br />

Language: Arabic<br />

Director: Atia Jabarah Al-Daradji,<br />

Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji<br />

Writer: Atia Jabarah Al-Daradji, Mohamed<br />

Jabarah Al-Daradji<br />

Co-Production Partners: Iraq Al-Rafidain,<br />

Al-Jazeera English<br />

Executive Producer: Isabelle Stead<br />

Producer: HUMAN FILM<br />

Key Cast: Husham Al-Dhbe, Saif Salih<br />

Husham, Mohamed Wael Husham, Salah<br />

Abass Husham<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: UK, Iraq, The Netherlands<br />

Husham works tirelessly to build the<br />

hopes, dreams and prospects of the 32<br />

damaged children of war, under his care at<br />

a small orphanage in Baghdad’s most dangerous<br />

district.<br />

WONDERPHIL<br />

PRODUCTIONS<br />

Wonderphil Productions, 4712 Admiralty<br />

Way #324, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA,<br />

Tel: 1.310.482.1324 Fax: 1.925.755.0131.<br />

www.Wonderphil.biz E-mail:<br />

phil@Wonderphil.biz<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Phil Gorn (CEO), Sanders<br />

Robinson (President)<br />

Office: Private, Tel: 1.310.482.1324<br />

SOLID STATE<br />

Sci-fi (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Stefano Milla<br />

Co-Production Partners: Claang<br />

Entertainment & Wonderphil Productions<br />

Producer: Stefano Milla & Phil Gorn<br />

Delivery Status: In Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA/Italy<br />

A large meteor lands in a remote part of<br />

Europe and begins to effect the people in<br />

the area in strange ways. An up and coming<br />

American rock band is touring through<br />

Europe and arrive in the area. Gradually,<br />

they become infected as well as they try to<br />

figure out how to survive.<br />

STREET BROTHERS<br />

Action/Martial Arts (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Phil Gorn<br />

Co-Production Partners: Wonderphil<br />

Productions<br />

Producer: Phil Gorn, Sanders Robinson,<br />

Randi Acton<br />

Key Cast: Chandler Maness, Andy<br />

Macfarlane, Michelle Kiyono<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

During a championship match, JESSE, a<br />

mixed martial artist, throws the fight and<br />

must go on the run from the mafia. He<br />

hides out with his estranged brother. When<br />

the mafia learns of Jesse’s location, the two<br />

brothers must fend off the mafia - while<br />

trying not to kill each other in the process.<br />

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KINGDOM OF GLADIATORS<br />

Action/Adventure/Fantasy (82 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Stefano Milla<br />

Co-Production Partners: Claang<br />

Entertainment & Wonderphil Productions<br />

Producer: Stefano Milla, Riccardo De Palo,<br />

Phil Gorn<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA & Italy<br />

A king makes a pact with an ancient demon<br />

and after many years of ruling his kingdom<br />

in peace, the demon has come to collect.<br />

Now a group of rival gladiators must fight<br />

for the survival of the kingdom. And the<br />

duel they never expected is about to begin.<br />

THE HOUSE<br />

Drama (109 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Desiree Lim<br />

Key Cast: Natalie Sky, Zak Santiago, Alex<br />

Zahara, David Richmond-Peck, Olivia<br />

Cheng, Zahf Paroo<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: Canada<br />

Jean Kaneko temporarily moves into an<br />

empty home and discovers she’s not the<br />

only occupant in the house. A cynical college<br />

professor, his bitter sister, her devoted<br />

husband, a disgruntled cab driver and a<br />

washed-up drifter are all squatting. They<br />

are not supposed to be there because<br />

they’re actually dead. As Jean confronts<br />

these souls as tormented as herself, they<br />

inevitably end up in an entangled mass of<br />

secrets and lies.<br />

THE LAST ACT<br />

Action (89 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Ron Quigley<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Amidst the backdrop of the economic<br />

downturn, Mike Malone is suddenly laid<br />

off from his job of 16 years. In an act of<br />

desperation he gets involved in a drug<br />

scheme with a young boxer and a petty<br />

thief. They manage to pull off a heist and<br />

Mike makes a clean getaway. But things<br />

get complicated when Mike’s young<br />

cohorts deviate from the plan and don’t<br />

cover their tracks properly – bringing Mike<br />

back into the game.<br />

RANCID<br />

Sci-fi/Horror (92 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Alastair Orr<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: South Africa<br />

Four applicants, with their own hidden<br />

agendas, are accepted by a mysterious corporation<br />

to participate in a medical experiment<br />

at an isolated testing facility.<br />

MOUNTAIN BLOOD<br />

Drama (122)<br />

Language: German<br />

Director: Philipp J. Pamer<br />

Producer: Florian Reimann<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: Germany<br />

After an accidental death of a French soldier,<br />

Katharina and her husband must<br />

escape from Bavaria to Tyrol in the tumultuous<br />

times of 1809 - a historical adventure<br />

reviving the 200th anniversary of the<br />

Hofer-Revolt against Bavaria and<br />

Napoleon.<br />

BROADWAY’S FINEST<br />

Action/Comedy (87 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Stephen Morro<br />

Key Cast: Adam Storke, Nick Cornish,<br />

John Lavelle, Thomas G. Waites, Larry<br />

Pine<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Three struggling actors impersonate New<br />

York City undercover cops and chase down<br />

a notorious drug dealer in order to get the<br />

authentic material they need to create their<br />

own cutting edge police drama. Things are<br />

rarely what they seem in this gritty actioncomedy.<br />

EARTHLING<br />

Sci-fi (114 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Key Cast: Rebecca Spence, Peter Greene,<br />

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William Katt<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

On an orbital space platform, a three-man<br />

crew picks up a strange object. It appears<br />

to be a living seed of some sort. When the<br />

seed is touched, a strange pulse rings out,<br />

causing a global brown-out on Earth. To<br />

most, the brown-out is merely a momentary<br />

nuisance. However, JUDITH and a<br />

small group of strangers are drastically<br />

affected. They slowly realize they are perhaps<br />

not what they seem and begin to feel<br />

they are actually members of a stranded<br />

alien race, living on Earth disguised as<br />

humans. They band together to seek out the<br />

secret of the seed that may present a way<br />

back home.<br />

JACK FALLS<br />

Action (100 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Key Cast: Simon Phillips, Alan Ford,<br />

Dexter Fletcher, Jason Flemyng, Olivia<br />

Hallinan<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

In this film noir thriller, former undercover<br />

police officer, JACK ADLETH, survives a<br />

mafia murder attempt in Amsterdam and<br />

returns to London to seek revenge. “A fun<br />

and stylish thriller.” - Britfilms.tv<br />

RISEN<br />

Drama (100 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Neil Jones<br />

Key Cast: Stuart Brennan, John Noble,<br />

Shane Richie, Erik Morales<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: UK<br />

Based on a true story, Howard Winstone<br />

lost three fingers on his right hand at the<br />

age of 16 but despite only being able to<br />

make a fist with one hand, he went on to<br />

win every boxing title in his division and<br />

eventually be crowned the champion of the<br />

world.<br />

MOB RULES<br />

AKA: TIC<br />

Crime/Action (97 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Keith Parmer<br />

Key Cast: Lennie James, Gary McDonald,<br />

Treva Etienne, Daniele Favilli<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Fate meets fortune when small-time hoods<br />

shoot for the big score by holding a club<br />

owner hostage for ransom. But time is running<br />

out, as the past catches up with all of<br />

them and the clock tics slowly toward the<br />

moment of truth.<br />

WHITE KNUCKLES<br />

Drama (87 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2010 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

JULIE, a sweet, subdued career housewife<br />

seems perfectly content in her life with her<br />

record player, houseplants and cooking -<br />

despite her irritable husband, WILLIAM,<br />

of forty years whose hobbies consist of<br />

sleeping and watching TV. After being provoked<br />

one too many times, Julie is no<br />

longer content and begins a secret war.<br />

Hold on tight as what starts as a somewhat<br />

slow, quirky drama is about to get a bit<br />

twisted.<br />

LISL AND THE LORLOK<br />

Children’s drama (87 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

Lisl Pratt is ten years old. When her adventurer<br />

Granddad dies mysteriously, Lisl and<br />

her parents travel to the old family estate to<br />

take care of Grandma. Lisl soon encounters<br />

a frightening creature, but is certain the<br />

adults won’t believe her.<br />

SPARROW<br />

Horror (72 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: Poland<br />

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Six teenage friends set off on a camping<br />

trip in the woods. However, ‘Camp Happy<br />

Dreams’ turns out to be ‘Camp Nightmare’<br />

as legend states it’s the site of a murder.<br />

The teenagers’ disbelief in this urban legend<br />

is soon changed when strange happenings<br />

begin to occur to each of them.<br />

TERRITORY LEAGUE<br />

Series (23x60minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Country of Origin: USA<br />

F3 Entertainment started the first ever<br />

“TEAM” wrestling league. The best<br />

wrestlers from their cities compete as a<br />

team in: Heavyweight, Tag- Team,<br />

Cruiserweight and Luchadore divisions.<br />

HERCULES SAVES CHRISTMAS<br />

Family (90 minutes)<br />

Language: English<br />

Producer: Shorty Rossi, Derek Zemrek &<br />

Leonard Pirkle<br />

Key Cast: Shorty Rossi, Hercules,<br />

Mackenzie Phillips, Danny Arroyo, Mark<br />

McClure, Kathy Garver<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: US<br />

Santa has given Hercules the duty to try<br />

and save one child on the Naughty List.<br />

Hercules choses an orphan boy named Max<br />

Moogle, an adorable twelve-year-old boy<br />

with a knack for getting into mischief who<br />

dreams of being part of a loving family.<br />

RICHARD THE RED LION<br />

Action/Adventure/Fantasy (90 min)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Stefano Milla<br />

Co-Production Partners: Claang<br />

Entertainment & Wonderphil Productions<br />

Producer: Stefano Milla & Phil Gorn<br />

Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />

Year of Production: 2012 Country of<br />

Origin: USA & Italy<br />

Nearing the end of his life, King Henry II<br />

decides to test the loyalty and honor of his<br />

son in a tournament of brutal strength and<br />

courage in which Richard will acquire the<br />

surname of Lionheart.<br />

WORLDWIDE FILM<br />

ENTERTAINMENT<br />

Worldwide Film Entertainment, 6363 W.<br />

83rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90045 USA,<br />

Tel: 1.31. 641.5360. Fax: 1.310.641.5693.<br />

www.wfewfe.com E-mail: info@wfewfe.com<br />

Sales Agent<br />

At EFM: Barbara Mudge (President)<br />

Office: MGB - IFTA, Stand 141, Tel:<br />

+49.30.889.14 - 422 or 310.8491001 Cell<br />

Fax: +49(0)30.2065.1000<br />

TRADE OF INNOCENTS<br />

Crime, Drama (90 min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Christopher Bessette<br />

Writer: Christopher Bessette<br />

Co-Production Partners: Dean River<br />

Productions<br />

Producer: Bill Bolthouse, Laura Bolthouse,<br />

Jim Schmidt<br />

Key Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Mira Sorvino,<br />

John Billingsley, Trieu Tran<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA, Thailand<br />

Examining the heart-breaking reality of<br />

human trafficking, an American couple in<br />

Cambodia becomes the only hope to save a<br />

trusting young girl from the clutches of a<br />

sadistic and inhumane supplier to back<br />

alley brothels.<br />

VENOM<br />

Thriller (82 min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Gary Breslin<br />

Writer: Joan Canning Boris<br />

Producer: Wolf Schmidt<br />

Key Cast: Jessica Morris, Oliviah<br />

Crawford, Roberto ‘Sanz’ Sanchez<br />

Delivery Status: Screening<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

After a car breaks down in an isolated<br />

desert, a mother and young daughter are<br />

relentlessly pursued by deadly snakes.<br />

BREAKING THE PRESS<br />

Drama, Sports (92 min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Andrew Stevens<br />

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Writer: Andrew Stevens<br />

Key Cast: Drew Waters, Farah White<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

The arena of championship high school<br />

basketball finds sports prodigy brothers<br />

taking different paths in their careers.<br />

ALLEGED<br />

Drama, Romance (91 min.)<br />

Language: English<br />

Director: Tom Hines<br />

Writer: Fred Foote, Brian Godawa<br />

Producer: Fred Foote<br />

Key Cast: Colm Meaney, Brian Dennehy,<br />

Fred Thompson, Ashley Johnson, Nathan<br />

West<br />

Delivery Status: Completed<br />

Year of Production: 2011 Country of<br />

Origin: USA<br />

This romance based during true conflicts<br />

that boiled over in 1925 finds an ambitious<br />

newspaperman and a young woman facing<br />

dire family responsibilities trying to keep<br />

their relationship alive.<br />

Panorama - In the Shadow of a Man by Director Hannan Abdalla<br />

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Now is Good - TF1 International<br />

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GETTING TO KNOW THE CITY OF BERLIN<br />

THE <strong>BUSINESS</strong> OF FILM GUIDE<br />

For the many international film<br />

executives attending the Berlin<br />

Film Festival for the first time in<br />

many years The Business of Film has<br />

complied a synopsis of the history and<br />

background of Berlin together with<br />

selected places of interest, recommended<br />

restaurants, and Alternative Lifestyle<br />

clubs. Getting around Berlin is made<br />

easier by understanding the geography<br />

of Berlin’s distinct areas. Berlin is a city<br />

that never sleeps, (the Agenda for your<br />

appointments at the back of the Pocket<br />

Guide is on a 24hr clock) with a population<br />

nearing 3.5 million and an area<br />

eight times greater than Paris, it’s<br />

Germany’s largest city. Virtually<br />

destroyed during WWII; post-war it was<br />

divided by the Allied Powers. America,<br />

Britain, and France occupied West<br />

Berlin, and Russia controlled the East.<br />

The Berlin Wall (1961-89), was grim<br />

witness to the city’s division. In 1990<br />

followings the dismantling of the Wall<br />

Germany was reunited. Its history has<br />

left Berlin with Two city centers: On the<br />

east, the Alexanderplatz television tower<br />

at the city’s historical center, Berlin-<br />

Mitte, symbolizes ‘the capital of the<br />

German Democratic Republic’. On the<br />

west, the Mercedes Star atop the Europa<br />

Center marks the busy Kurfstendamm<br />

center. The Arkaden shopping, entertainment,<br />

residential, and office complex,<br />

has made chic Potsdamer Platz the center<br />

of Berlin. Alongside German retailers<br />

and restaurants, international companies<br />

include Eddie Bauer, Starbucks,<br />

McDonalds, Benetton, Swatch, Tony<br />

Roma’s, and Haagen Daz. Reflecting it’s<br />

strong musical and deep cultural roots<br />

Berlin boasts three professional opera<br />

houses, four semi-professional opera<br />

companies, eight symphony orchestras,<br />

ten chamber orchestras, hundreds of choruses,<br />

and copious amateur bands playing<br />

punk to jazz in the city’s 150 theaters. The<br />

annual February Filmfestspielen is testament<br />

to Berliners love of the cinema, the<br />

city is home to 265 movie theaters, the<br />

most in Germany. Berlin also offers<br />

accessible with one admission price<br />

access to 174 museums, including 17 state<br />

museums .Zoologischer Garten (Zoological<br />

Gardens) is one of the world’s largest zoos,<br />

nearly destroyed during WWII. It now<br />

houses 14,000 animals representing 1500<br />

species, Olympiastadion stadium constructed<br />

for the 1936 Olympic games, was intended<br />

to showcase Hitler’s ‘master race’athletes.<br />

African-American Jesse Owens made history<br />

by winning four gold medals and today,<br />

Berlin has a street named after him<br />

Olympiastadion is one of the few Nazi-built<br />

structures still intact and in use. The memorial<br />

to victims of the Nazi regime<br />

Gedenkstatte Plötzensee occupies the old<br />

execution chamber in Plötzensee prison<br />

where between 1933-45 over 2500 political<br />

prisoners were killed.<br />

PRENZLAUER BERG<br />

On Bernauer Strasse, separating Mitte<br />

(East) and Wedding (West) Berlin, one<br />

can view Berlin Wall remnants, complete<br />

with border defenses and ‘death strip’. In<br />

the former West, the Berlin Wall<br />

Documentation Center has extensive displays<br />

and information about the Wall’s<br />

history. At the Berlin Wall Memorial in<br />

the former East, a stretch of Wall forms<br />

part of a Kohlhoff and Kohlhoff artwork.<br />

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GETTING TO KNOW THE CITY OF BERLIN<br />

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KANTSTRASSE SQUARE<br />

Kantstrasse square has remained the hub of<br />

West Berlin culture even after the Wall<br />

came Down. The square dates from 1862<br />

when city planner James Hobrecht placed<br />

plazas at regular intervals throughout the<br />

city to ensure healthy airflow. In 1926-27,<br />

gardening director Erwin Barth added<br />

greenery, benches, and a playground. The<br />

square and its beautiful perennial borders<br />

were fully restored in 1987.<br />

A second similar center developed around<br />

the Hackescher Market, The best example<br />

is the famed architecture gallery AEDES,<br />

still standing in its original S-Bahn archway.<br />

SAVIGNYPASSAGE<br />

Savignypassage Berlin’s longest shopping<br />

row is in the inner city area. The tramway<br />

running east-west through the city, numerous<br />

viaduct arches (there are 757 on the 12<br />

km route) have been converted from warehouses<br />

and craft ateliers to shops, restaurants,<br />

and cafes, making Many restaurateurs<br />

and antique dealers previously located<br />

at Nollendorfplatz station’s flea market<br />

have moved to ritzy Bahnhof<br />

Friedrichstrasse.<br />

KREUZBERG<br />

ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLES<br />

PLACES OF INTEREST<br />

Germany is one of the few countries in<br />

Europe which has a very liberal open<br />

approach to alternative lifestyles,<br />

Kreuzberg is where free thinkers settled<br />

before the Wall fell. An island of unconventional<br />

attitudes ironically isolated in East<br />

Germany, pacifists came to avoid mandatory<br />

military service; punks squatted in aban-<br />

The Berlin Library<br />

doned houses; gays and lesbians appreciated<br />

the repression-free environment which<br />

is worth a visit. Mehringdam 61 houses<br />

three gay and lesbian venues. Melitta<br />

Sundström café offers a cornucopia of<br />

refreshments as well used gay books for<br />

sale (including a large English section).<br />

The Gay Museum and Schwuz nightclub<br />

are located behind Sundström.<br />

The Gay Museum has varying Exhibitions<br />

weekly. The English-speaking staff is helpful,<br />

and the museum and archive are good<br />

resources for gay cultural history and current<br />

happenings.With an archive and<br />

library upstairs, the large English fiction<br />

collection is free to read, but can’t be<br />

checked out. For those seeking night time<br />

entertainment Schwuz, Berlin’s oldest<br />

gay club, plays mainstream music more<br />

than techno. Nightly themes change from<br />

House to Oldies to Latin. Early evenings<br />

the crowd is mixed; by 2 AM, the clientele<br />

is predominantly male. On nearby<br />

Oranienstrasse, the landmark nightclub<br />

SO36 is very lively. Nightly themes<br />

range from Techno to Oriental, plus the<br />

Wednesday gay and lesbian Hungry<br />

Hearts singles party. Bingo night’s drag<br />

queen show is reported to be a blast.<br />

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BERLIN RESTAURANTS<br />

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The Berlin Restaurant Guide<br />

is organized by the various<br />

sections that characterize the City.<br />

Restaurants are classified in<br />

four price ranges based on a<br />

meal for two persons.<br />

(1): main course and drinks up<br />

to 30.<br />

(2): main course and drinks up<br />

to 50.<br />

(3): set menu or several à la<br />

carte courses and drinks up to<br />

130.<br />

(4): set menu or several à la<br />

carte courses and drinks more<br />

than130<br />

Top Restaurants:<br />

All price range (4)<br />

Alt Luxemburg:<br />

Windscheidstrasse 31,<br />

Charlottenburg,<br />

Tel. 3 23 87 30<br />

Tues-Sat 7pm-1am.<br />

Closed Sun/Mon. Excellent<br />

Ana e Bruno:<br />

Sophie-Charlotten strasse 101,<br />

Charlottenburg,<br />

Tel. 3 25 71 10<br />

Tues-Sat 6.30pm-midnight.<br />

Refined Italian cuisine.<br />

E.t.a. Hoffman:<br />

(in hotel Riehmers Hofgarten),<br />

Yorkstrasse 83, Kreuzberg,<br />

Tel. 78 09 88 09<br />

Tue-Sat from 6pm.<br />

Creative cuisine<br />

from Chef Tim Raue.<br />

Seasons:<br />

(in Hotel Four Seasons),<br />

Charlottenstrasse 49, Mitte<br />

Tel. 20 33 63 63<br />

Call for hours.<br />

Stylish dinner overlooking the<br />

Gendarmenmarkt.<br />

Gedachtniskirche<br />

Kurfurstendamm<br />

Café Krenzler (1-2):<br />

Kurfürstendamm 18,<br />

Tel. 88 28 20<br />

Daily 8am-midnight. Traditional<br />

café-restaurant with terrace.<br />

Café Leysieffer (2):<br />

Kurfürstendamm 218,<br />

Tel. 88 57 48-0<br />

Daily 9am-8pm,<br />

Sun 10am-8pm. Confectionery,<br />

café-bistro.<br />

Café Im<br />

Literaturhaus-Wintergarten (2):<br />

Fasanenstrasse 23,<br />

Tel. 8 82 54 14<br />

Daily 9.30am-1.30am.<br />

Attractive garden.<br />

Dressler (2-3): Kurfürstendamm<br />

207-208,<br />

Tel. 8 83 35 30<br />

Daily 8am-1am. New, up scale<br />

restaurant in nostalgic style.<br />

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restaurant in nostalgic style.<br />

Branch location: Unter den<br />

Linden 39,<br />

Tel. 2 04 44 22.<br />

Hardtke (2): Meinekestrasse 27,<br />

Tel. 8 81 98 27<br />

Daily 10am-midnight.<br />

Berlin cuisine (pig’s trotters).<br />

Butcher on premises.<br />

Marché (1): Kurfürstendamm 14<br />

Daily 8am-midnight. Self-service<br />

restaurant with extensive choice<br />

of freshly prepared dishes.<br />

(salad bar, hot buffet)<br />

Paris Bar (2-3):<br />

Kantstrasse 152, Tel. 3 13 80 52<br />

Daily 12am-2am. Bistro. A place<br />

for seeing/being seen. French<br />

cuisine.<br />

Spree Athen (2):<br />

Leibnizstrasse 60,<br />

Tel. 3 24 17 33<br />

Daily 6pm-midnight, closed<br />

Sundays and holidays. Old-Berlin<br />

style eatery with extensive menu<br />

card. Gourmet food and taped<br />

Berlin songs.<br />

Via Condotti Ristorante Italiano<br />

(2):<br />

Fasanenstrasse 73,<br />

Tel. 88 67 78 97<br />

Call for hours.<br />

Italian cuisine.<br />

Wellenstein (1):<br />

Kurfürstendamm 190,<br />

Tel. 8 81 78 Call for hours.<br />

Coffee house atmosphere.<br />

BERLIN RESTAURANTS<br />

THE <strong>BUSINESS</strong> OF FILM GUIDE 2012<br />

Berlin Bitte<br />

City Center<br />

Oren (1-2):<br />

Oranienburgerstrasse 28, Tel. 2<br />

82 82 28<br />

Mon-Fri from 12am,<br />

Sat/Sun from 10am.<br />

Jewish café-restaurant, kosher<br />

cuisine plus<br />

vegetarian dishes,<br />

Israeli wines.<br />

Reinhard’s (2-3):<br />

Nikolaiviertel, Mitte (Centre),<br />

Tel. 2 38 52 95<br />

Daily 9am-1am. Upgrade bistro,<br />

attractive art-filled rooms.<br />

Theodor Tucher (2-3): Pariser<br />

Platz 6a,<br />

Tel. 22 48 94 64<br />

Call for hours.<br />

Refined cuisine with book gallery<br />

and reading lounge. Excellent<br />

food and prime location near<br />

Brandenburger Tor. Regular lectures.<br />

Prenzlauer Berg:<br />

Offenbach Stuben (2):<br />

Stubbenkammerstrasse 8,<br />

Tel. 4 45 85 02<br />

Daily 6pm-2am. Cozy atmosphere<br />

and international cuisine<br />

Café am Wasserturm (1):<br />

Knaackstrasse 22, Prenzlauer<br />

Berg, Tel. 4 42 88 07<br />

Jewish cuisine. Breakfast till 4pm.<br />

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Café am Wasserturm (1):<br />

Knaackstrasse 22, Prenzlauer<br />

Berg, Tel. 4 42 88 07<br />

Jewish cuisine. Breakfast till<br />

4pm.<br />

Restauration 1900 (1-2):<br />

Husemannstrasse 1,<br />

Tel. 4 42 24 94<br />

Daily from 9am. Limited menu<br />

card, inexpensive prices.<br />

Popular.<br />

Mao Thai (3):<br />

Wörther Strasse 30, Tel. 4 41 92<br />

61<br />

Daily 12am-3pm and from 6pm.<br />

Open Sundays & holidays. Thai cuisine.<br />

Schöneberg<br />

Café Einstein (2):<br />

Kurfürstenstrasse 58,<br />

Tel. 2 61 50 96<br />

Daily 10am-2am.<br />

BERLIN RESTAURANTS<br />

Grand Viennese coffee house &<br />

cuisine. Attractive garden.<br />

Wilmersdorf<br />

Besenwirtschaft (1):<br />

Uhlandstrasse 159,<br />

Tel. 8 81 16 23<br />

Daily 6pm-2am. Würtemberger<br />

wines and freshly made onion<br />

pies and other snacks at all<br />

times. Friendly atmosphere.<br />

Tafelrunde Mittelalterliches<br />

Gasthaus (3): Nachodstrasse<br />

21, Tel. 2 11 21 41<br />

Daily from 6pm, Sunday also<br />

between 12am and 3pm.<br />

Zwiwwel (2): Bruchsaler Strasse<br />

6, Tel. 8 53 25 78<br />

Tue-Sun 6pm-2am. Wine bar<br />

with living room atmosphere.<br />

Elspeth Tavares @ Berlin<br />

Relaxa-Hotel Stuttgarter Hof<br />

49 (0) 30 26483-0<br />

The Gropius Mirror Restaurant<br />

Home of The Culinary Cinema Events<br />

Highly recommended!<br />

The Gropius Mirror Restaurant<br />

in the mirrored tent – is NOW<br />

located directly across from the<br />

main entrance to Martin-Gropius-<br />

Bau. During the day the Gropius<br />

Mirror Restaurant is open for<br />

Market visitors and those with<br />

Berlinale festival accreditation.<br />

The restaurant can also be rented<br />

out for film-related events during<br />

the EFM.<br />

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Culinary Cinema 2012: Trust in Taste<br />

Cinammon Director: Jordi Mariscal<br />

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