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A<br />
CANNES<br />
ADRIANA CHIESA<br />
ENTERPRISES<br />
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, Via Barnaba<br />
Oriani 24/A - 00197 Rome, Italy. Tel:<br />
39.0680.86052. Fax: 39.0680.86052.<br />
At Cannes: Adriana Chiesa Di Palma<br />
(President), Rossella Gori (Sales<br />
manager), Céline Dalix (Assistant)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Hotel Carlton / Salon du Bridge<br />
1st floor, Tel: 0493064100<br />
THE LEGEND OF AL, JOHN AND<br />
JACK (LA LEGGENDA DI AL JOHN<br />
& JACK)<br />
Comedy<br />
Directed by: Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo<br />
and Massimo Venier<br />
Production Company: Paolo Guerra for<br />
A.Gi.Di. and Medusa <strong>Film</strong><br />
Cast: Aldo Baglio-Giovanni Storti-<br />
Giacomo Poretti<br />
BETWEEN LAND AND SKY (NE’<br />
TERRA NE’ CIELO)<br />
Drama<br />
Language: Italian with English Subtitles<br />
Directed By: Giuseppe Ferlito<br />
Production Company: Immagina<br />
Cinematografica Productions - Arbash<br />
<strong>Film</strong><br />
Cast: Antonnella D’arcangelo - Davide<br />
Gemmani<br />
Country of origin: Italy<br />
Status: market screening<br />
A betrayed husband threatens to plunge<br />
to his death and becomes a mistaken hero<br />
trapped in a grotesque web of power and<br />
interest.<br />
BLACK ANGEL (SENSO ‘45)<br />
Erotic Drama (108 min)<br />
Language: Italian with English Subtitles<br />
Directed By: Tinto Brass<br />
Cast: Anna Galiena - Gabriel Garko<br />
Production Company: CINE 2000<br />
Country of Origin: Italy<br />
In a languid Venice the devastating<br />
passion between a sensuous woman and<br />
a young and handsome officer.<br />
GINGER AND CINNAMON (DILLO<br />
CON PAROLE MIE)<br />
Comedy<br />
Language: Italian with English Subtitles<br />
Directed By: Daniele Luchetti<br />
Cast: Stefania Montorsi, Giampaolo<br />
Morelli, Martina Merlino, Alberto Cucca<br />
Production Company: Conchita Airoldi<br />
for Studiocanal Urania<br />
Delivery Status: First Market Screening<br />
Country of Origin: Italy<br />
A comedy-of-errors filled with small<br />
talk, sun, sea and music, broken diets,<br />
antihistamines, camping stoves, tents,<br />
sleeping bags and nervous girls.<br />
EUGENIO I LOVE YOU (TI VOGLIO<br />
BENE EUGENIO)<br />
Genuine Touching Story (95 min)<br />
Language: Italian with English Subtitles<br />
Directed By: Francisco J. Fernandez<br />
Cast: Giancarlo Giannini - Jacques Perrin<br />
- Giuliana De Sio<br />
Production Company: Arcipelago<br />
Cinematografica<br />
Country of Origin: Italy<br />
Based on a true story, a moving tale of<br />
hope of a man whose disability has not<br />
prevented him from living a fulfilling<br />
life. Features an exceptional performance<br />
by Giancarlo Giannini.<br />
ADYTON<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
Adyton International, European office:<br />
ul. Woronicza 17, 00-999 Warszawa,<br />
Poland. Tel: 0048.22.844.22.96. Fax:<br />
0048.22.844.22.96. biuro@adyton.pl,<br />
www.adyton.pl<br />
Company Type: Producer, distributor<br />
At Cannes: Kamil Wilczyn´ski - Sales<br />
Coordinator<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice:<br />
A VERY CHRISTMAS STORY<br />
Family comedy (83 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Dariusz Zawislak<br />
Producer: Dariusz Zawislak<br />
Cast: Jan Englert, Pawel Burczyk,<br />
Bartosz Opania, Kasia Olasz<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2001 Country of<br />
Origin: USA/Poland<br />
Budget: $ 1,500,000<br />
Crazy adventures of an accountant with a<br />
briefcase full of defrauded money, a girl<br />
desperately looking for money for her<br />
orphanage and an Angel of Death, who<br />
doesn’t know anything about money and<br />
doesn’t need to.<br />
MAGIC STONE<br />
Comedy<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Jowita Gondek<br />
Producer: Dariusz Zawislak<br />
Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Olivier Shiflish<br />
Delivery Status: Post Production<br />
Year of Production: 2002 Country of<br />
Origin: USA/Poland<br />
Budget: $ 20,000,000<br />
Appealing as HARRY POTTER,<br />
CASPER or JUMANJI story of a little<br />
girl who finds a magic blue bead which<br />
can fulfill all her whishes and a witch<br />
who follows her trying to steal the bead<br />
and use it to make evil.<br />
MR VIRGIN<br />
Comedy, 90 min.<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Przemek Angerman<br />
Cast: Radoslaw Kaim, Krzysztof Pralat<br />
Delivery Status: Ready to Delivery<br />
Year of Production: 2002<br />
Comedy of ErROrS. Two boys face the<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>Of</strong> <strong>Film</strong><br />
Location for the<br />
23 RD year<br />
<strong>The</strong> Carlton Hotel<br />
Room 149<br />
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<strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>PRODUCT</strong><br />
<strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
problems of adolescence – their first<br />
sexual contacts with girls. On their way<br />
to discover the world of pleasures they<br />
meet many beautiful women ready to<br />
give them precious lessons.<br />
EGOISTS<br />
Drama, 103 min.<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Mariusz Trelinski<br />
Cast: Rafal Mohr, Magdalena Cielecka<br />
Delivery Status: Ready to Delivery<br />
Year of Production: 2001<br />
A story about young elites of a big city,<br />
alcohol, drugs, trans music and easy sex.<br />
On their run from one bar to another,<br />
from one lover to another they lose the<br />
most important things in their lives.<br />
Young people live on the edge – on the<br />
edge of their physical and psychical<br />
possibilities.<br />
BIG, BIGGER & BIGGEST<br />
Adventure<br />
Language: English<br />
Delivery Status: In Development<br />
Year of Production: 2003 Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Budget: $ 20,000,000<br />
Kate and Peter save the world against the<br />
aliens’ attack .<br />
ALAIN SIRITZKY<br />
<strong>PRODUCT</strong>IONS<br />
Alain Siritzky Productions, 23, Rue<br />
Raynouard, 75016 Paris, France. Tel:<br />
33.1.42.24.50.50. Fax: 33.1.42 24 66 42.<br />
Asproductions@usa.net.<br />
www.ClickStudiosHollywood.com.<br />
www.nakedshoppingnetwork.com<br />
Company Type: Producer, distributor<br />
At Cannes: Alain Siritzky, George Pilzer,<br />
Robby Amar<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice:<br />
EMMANUELLE: LUST IN SPACE<br />
(WORKING TITLE)<br />
Erotic/Sci Fi<br />
Emmanuelle is back and this time she is<br />
going to show us what happens behind<br />
her very own closed doors.<br />
JACQUELINE HYDE<br />
Erotic Horror<br />
It’s a terrifying and extremely sexy<br />
modern re-telling of the classic tale of<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Strange Case <strong>Of</strong> Dr. Jekyll and Mr.<br />
Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson.<br />
RING OF DESIRE<br />
Erotic<br />
It looks like an ordinary ring but it can<br />
yield complete control over others while<br />
corrupting the soul of the wearer. It’s an<br />
erotic variation of “Lord <strong>Of</strong> <strong>The</strong> Rings”<br />
where lust is eternal!<br />
IMAGES OF FEAR<br />
Horror<br />
When Steven Thomas buys a used video<br />
camera at a garage sale and takes it home<br />
to his wife and teen-age daughter, he<br />
quickly discovers he has just let evil into<br />
his life.<br />
ALSO OUR CATALOGUE:<br />
Emmanuelle 2000 7x90’, Emmanuelle,<br />
<strong>The</strong> New Adventures 7x90’, Justine<br />
7x90’, <strong>The</strong> Click 7x90’, Butterscotch<br />
7x90’, Passion & Romance 7x90’, <strong>The</strong><br />
Sex Files I & II 14x90’, Scandal 7x90’,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Emmanuelle TV Series 7x90’,<br />
Emmanuelle 5, 6 & 7 3x90’, Seducing<br />
Fina 90’ and Wages of Lust 90’<br />
ALLIANCE<br />
ATLANTIS<br />
Alliance Atlantis, Toronto: 121 Bloor<br />
Street East, Suite #1500, Toronto,<br />
Ontario, M4W 3M5, Canada. Tel:<br />
416.967.1174. Fax: 416.960.0971.<br />
Montreal: 5, Place Ville Marie, Suite<br />
#1435, Montreal, Quebec, H3B 2G2,<br />
Canada. Tel: 514.878.2282. Fax:<br />
514.878.2419. London: 184 - 192<br />
Drummond St., 2nd floor, London NW1<br />
3HP England. Tel: 44.207.391.6900.<br />
Fax: 44.207.383.0404. Australia: 401<br />
Darling Street, Suite 2, Balmain, Sydney<br />
NSW, 2041 Australia. Tel:<br />
612.9810.8922. Fax: 612.9810.8966.<br />
Shannon: Block 1, Unit C, Shannon<br />
<strong>Business</strong> Park, Shannon, Co. Clare,<br />
Ireland. Tel: 353.61.472.329. Fax:<br />
353.61.472.228. Los Angeles: 808<br />
Wilshire Blvd., 3rd Floor, Santa Monica,<br />
CA 90401 USA. Tel: 310.899.8000. Fax:<br />
310.899.8100, Edmonton: 3720-76<br />
Avenue Edmonton, Alberta, T6B 2N9<br />
Canada. Tel: 780.440.2022. Fax:<br />
780.440.3400. Dublin: 40 Westland Row,<br />
Dublin 2, Ireland, Tel: 353.1.449.8400.<br />
Fax: 353.1.449.8470. Halifax: 1668<br />
Barrington, Suite 500, Halifax, Nova<br />
Scotia, B3J 2G3, Canada. Tel:<br />
902.420.1577. Fax: 902.425.8260.<br />
At Cannes: Charlotte Mickie (Managing<br />
Director, International Motion Picture<br />
Sales, Entertainment Group), Irene Read<br />
(Managing Director, International<br />
Distribution, Asia & Australasia,<br />
Entertainment Group), Ariel Veneziano<br />
(Director, International Motion Picture<br />
Sales, Entertainment Group), Ted Riley<br />
(President, Distribution, Entertainment<br />
Group), Victor Loewy (CEO, Motion<br />
Picture Distribution Group), Patrice<br />
HOW MY MOTHER GAVE BIRTH TO ME<br />
DURING MENOPAUSE<br />
ALLIANCE ATLANTIS<br />
<strong>The</strong> unabridged version of this Product Guide is available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com<br />
MAY 2003 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Business</strong> of <strong>Film</strong> 71
CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong>roux (President, Motion Picture<br />
Distribution Group)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: 23, Rue Macé, 4th Floor, Cannes,<br />
Tel: 33.(0)4.93.43.85.10. Fax:<br />
33.(0)4.93.38.87.78<br />
THE STATION AGENT<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Tom McCarthy<br />
Producers: Mary Jane Skalski, Robert<br />
May, Kathryn Tucker<br />
Cast: Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson,<br />
Bobby Cannavale<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Origin: US<br />
A mismatched threesome forge an<br />
unlikely bond, which ultimately reveals<br />
that even isolation is better shared.<br />
COMMENT MA MERE ACCOUCHA<br />
DE MOI DURANT SA MÉNOPAUSE<br />
(HOW MY MOTHER GAVE BIRTH<br />
TO ME DURING MENOPAUSE)<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Sébastien Rose<br />
Producers: Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal<br />
Cast: Micheline Lanctôt, Paul Ahmarani<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Origin: Canada<br />
At thirty, Jean Charles still lives<br />
on...er...rather intimate terms with his<br />
mother and his sister, but his new<br />
girlfriend should change all that. Or<br />
maybe not.<br />
SERAPHIN: HEART OF STONE<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Charles Binamé<br />
Producers: Lorraine Richard<br />
Exec Producers: Vivianne Morin, Louis<br />
Laverdière, Guy Gagnon, Patrick Roy<br />
Cast: Pierre Lebeau, Karine Vanasse, Roy<br />
Dupuis<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Origin: Canada<br />
In a noble effort to save her father from<br />
ruin, a beautiful young woman marries a<br />
despicable miser despite her continuing,<br />
clandestine love for another man.<br />
FLOWER & GARNET<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Keith Behrman<br />
Producers: Trish Dolman<br />
Exec. Producers: Alexandra Raffé,<br />
Margueritte Pigott, Bryan Gliserman,<br />
Trish Dolman, Dean English, Jessica<br />
Fraser<br />
Cast: Callum Keith Rennie, Jane<br />
McGregor, Colin Roberts, Dov<br />
Tiefenbach, Kristin Thomson<br />
LOVE’S BROTHER<br />
ARCLIGHT FILMS<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Origin: Canada<br />
A portrait of love and loss, hope and<br />
heartbreak, FLOWER & GARNET is<br />
also a love poem forged between a sister<br />
and brother, both of whom are on the<br />
verge of life crisis.<br />
ALL THE REAL GIRLS<br />
Drama<br />
Director: David Gordon Green<br />
Producers: Jean Doumanian, Lisa Muskat<br />
Cast: Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel,<br />
Patricia Clarkson<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Eschewing love story clichés, ALL THE<br />
REAL GIRLS is a contemporary portrait<br />
of honesty and expectations in writerdirector<br />
David Gordon Green’s follow up<br />
film to his award winning debut, George<br />
Washington.<br />
ALLIED<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
GROUP, INC.<br />
Allied Entertainment Group, Inc., 8899<br />
Beverly Blvd, Suite 911, West Hollywood,<br />
CA 90048 USA. Tel: 310.271.0703. Fax:<br />
310.271.0706<br />
At Cannes: James R. Moder (Chairman),<br />
Janet Y. Liu (VP Sales Consultant, Asia)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: J7 / K8 (Riviera), Tel.: 310-271-<br />
0703, Fax: 310-271-0706,<br />
info@alliedentertainment.com<br />
LAS VEGAS WARRIOR<br />
Action (97 min<br />
Director/Producer: Nastasha Baron<br />
Starring: Laurie Hanley, Suk Woo Nam<br />
Year of Production: 2002<br />
When a martial arts fighter gets killed<br />
during a bare fisted kick-boxing fight, an<br />
investigative journalist (Laurie Hanley)<br />
decides to pursue this story.<br />
THROTTLE<br />
Action Thriller (92 min)<br />
Director: Atul Sharma, Producer: Atul<br />
Sharma & Cheryl Bedford<br />
Starring: Liam Watson, Jody Booth<br />
Year of Production: 2002<br />
Jon, a career criminal, gets out of prison<br />
determined to live it up in Baja with<br />
millions that he and his only friend,<br />
George, stole from a Drug Cartel.<br />
HORRORVISION<br />
Horror (85 min)<br />
Director: Danny Draven, Producer: J.R.<br />
Bookwalter and Scott Phillips<br />
Starring: Jake Leonard, James Black as<br />
“Bradbury” (“<strong>The</strong> Return”, “Out of<br />
Sight”), and Special Appearance by<br />
Scream Queen Brinke Stevens<br />
(“Sideshow”, “Victoria’s Shadow”)<br />
Year of Production: 2001<br />
Dez, a web master, mistakenly logs onto<br />
“horrorvision.com” - a website that kills<br />
all who come across it.<br />
HOME SWEET HOBOKEN<br />
Comedy (92 min)<br />
Director: Yoshifumi Hosoya, Producers:<br />
Yuko Yoshikawa & Daisuke Sekiguchi<br />
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Elizabeth Ashley,<br />
Richard Kind (“Spin City”), Aida<br />
Turturro (“<strong>The</strong> Sopranos”)<br />
Year of Production: 2000<br />
When an appraiser offers Beth cash for<br />
some old jewelry, she discovers that a<br />
ring she thought was worthless is<br />
actually a rare Louis XV diamond valued<br />
at $10 million!<br />
PUPS<br />
Action Drama (95 min) *Premiered on<br />
HBO*<br />
Director: Ash Producer: Daniel Berger<br />
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Mischa Barton<br />
(“Sixth Sense”, “Notting Hill”), Cameron<br />
Von Hoy<br />
Year of Production: 1999<br />
Chronicles the story of a rebellious<br />
“latch-key” teenager who finds his<br />
mother’s gun.<br />
ALPHA FILM GROUP,<br />
INC<br />
Alpha <strong>Film</strong> Group, Inc, 216 South Main<br />
Street Alpharetta, Georgia 30004 USA.<br />
Tel: 770.740.1962. Fax: 770.740.1046.<br />
afg@alphafilmgroup.com,<br />
www.alphafilmgroup.com<br />
Company Type: Distributor<br />
At Cannes: Ray Guthrie (CEO), Ace<br />
Cruz (Director)<br />
Acquisition Executive: Susan Harris<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Tel: 770.560.2277<br />
FATE<br />
Psychological Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Ace Cruz<br />
Producer: Ace Cruz<br />
Cast: Lee Majors, Philip Michael<br />
Thomas, Michael Pare<br />
Delivery Status: post production<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: United States<br />
Budget: $2.5 million<br />
Detective Cody Martin (Michael Pare)<br />
and Detective Ciprian Raines (Philip<br />
Michael Thomas) hunt a killer (Lee<br />
Majors) who is using his victims as<br />
characters in a demented story.<br />
AMAZING MOVIES<br />
Amazing Movies, 7471 Melrose Avenue,<br />
Suite 7, Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA.<br />
Tel: 323.852.1396. Fax: 323.658.7265.<br />
amazingmov@aol.com,<br />
www.amazingpix.com<br />
Company Type: Sales Agent<br />
At Cannes: Acquisition Executive<br />
Douglas Witkins (President), Koing<br />
Kuoch (Vice-President)<br />
THE LONG RIDE HOME<br />
Action Adventure (86 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Robert Macarelli<br />
Producer: Paul Tinder<br />
Cast: Eric Roberts, Randy Travis, Ernest<br />
Borgnine<br />
Delivery Status Complete<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Budget: 3.5 Million<br />
Passion, revenge and murder mark this<br />
action adventure set in the 1860’s Old<br />
West. Jack Fowler must fight the law and<br />
the lawless to clear his name and reunite<br />
with his wife and son.<br />
AMERICA VIDEO<br />
FILMS S A<br />
America Video <strong>Film</strong>s S A, Virrey Loreto<br />
2426, Capital Federal, 1426, Rep.<br />
Argentina. Tel: 54.11.4787.9098 / 9101<br />
Fax: 5411.4787.9094.<br />
america@americavideofilms.com<br />
At Cannes: Enrique Maya (President),<br />
Beba Maya (Public Relations), Freddie<br />
Hancock (Senior V.P. Acquisitions),<br />
Nicholas Bingham (Adviser)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Carlton suite 225, Tel:<br />
334.9306.4225. Fax: 334.9306.4226<br />
WEDDING NIGHT<br />
Comedy (92 min)<br />
Language: French w/English subtitles<br />
Director: Emile Caudreault<br />
Producer: Denise Robert Daniel Louis<br />
Principal Cast: Francois Morency ,<br />
Genevieve Brouillette<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of origin: Canada<br />
Florence and Nicolas are not as afraid of<br />
marriage as they are of uniting their own<br />
families into one big family!<br />
DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC<br />
Drama (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Donna Deitch<br />
Producer: Dustin Hoffman Mimi Rogers<br />
Principal Cast: Kirsten Dunst , Brittany<br />
Murphy<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of origin USA<br />
A young woman is magically transported<br />
into a WWII Nazi death camp.<br />
THE AGENCY<br />
Thriller (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Mikael Salomon<br />
Producer: Wolfgang Petersen<br />
Principal Cast: Will Patton Gil Bellows<br />
Gloria Reuben<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of origin USA<br />
Whether preventing terrorist attacks,<br />
nuclear threats or biological warfare, the<br />
agents of the CIA put their lives in peril<br />
at every moment.<br />
FIDEL<br />
Action (200 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: David Attwood<br />
Producer: David V. Picker<br />
Principal Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal ,<br />
Victor Hugo Martin<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of origin USA<br />
<strong>The</strong> explosive untold true story of Fidel<br />
Castro and Che Guevara´s rise to power.<br />
VARIAN´S WAR<br />
Drama (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Lionel Chetwynd<br />
Producer: Barbra Streisand Cis Corman<br />
and Edward Wessex<br />
Principal Cast: William Hurt , Julia<br />
Ormond<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of origin USA<br />
<strong>The</strong> untold true story of World War II<br />
and an ordinary man who saved those<br />
without hope from a fate no one could<br />
imagine.<br />
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thebusinessoffilm@sdi06.fr<br />
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72 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Business</strong> of <strong>Film</strong> CANNES MAY 2003
AMERICAN CINEMA<br />
GROUP, INC<br />
American Cinema Group, Inc, 2550 N.<br />
Hollywood Way, #204, Burbank , CA<br />
91505-1055 USA.<br />
At Cannes: Eric Karson (VP of<br />
marketing)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: c/o Chris Davis International,<br />
Riviera <strong>Of</strong>fice # G13, Tel:<br />
33.04.92.99.88.41. Mobile:<br />
33.06.08.52.79.40<br />
LIBRARY<br />
A library of feature films all of which<br />
have been released <strong>The</strong>atrically and now<br />
available for the ancillary rights<br />
exploitation.<br />
AMERICAN CINEMA<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
American Cinema International, 4640<br />
Lankershim Blvd Suite 500 N.<br />
Hollywood, CA 91602. Tel:<br />
818.985.8500. Fax: 818.985.4848.<br />
At Cannes: George Shamieh (CEO),<br />
Chevonne O’Shaughnessy (President)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera E-5., Tel:<br />
33.(0).4.92.99.32.39.<br />
TARGET<br />
Action (91 minutes)<br />
Director: William Web<br />
Cast: Stephen Baldwin, James Russo,<br />
Deborah Worthing, Yorgo Constantine<br />
and Debra Wilson<br />
Producer: William Webb<br />
Delivery Status: Trailering in the office<br />
When you become the “Target”, in a<br />
Army Sniper’s game.<br />
HATCHETMAN<br />
(93 minutes)<br />
Cast: Cheryle Burns, Nina Tapanin, Chris<br />
Moir, and Jon Briddell<br />
Director: Robert Tiffe<br />
Producer: George Shamieh<br />
As she and her friends try to stay alive,<br />
Claudia and her detective boyfriend,<br />
Sonny, try to figure out who the murderer<br />
is.<br />
WILDFIRE<br />
Family/Disaster (93 minutes)<br />
Director: Henri Charr<br />
Producer: Jess Mancilla<br />
Cast: Michael Preston, Jordan Seider,<br />
Claire Smithies, Bob Lauder and Jr. Brad<br />
Sergi<br />
An out of control “WildFire” becomes<br />
the biggest fire of the season threatening<br />
thousands of acres of land.<br />
LOCO LOVE<br />
Romantic Comedy (93 minutes)<br />
Director: Bryan Lewis<br />
Producer: Bryan Lewis<br />
Cast: Laura Elena Harring Roy Werner<br />
Gerardo Mejia Margaret Scarborough,<br />
Frank Gallegos<br />
Love moved in... and so did the rest of<br />
the family<br />
London Head <strong>Of</strong>fice Phone<br />
44 207 372 9992<br />
London <strong>Of</strong>fice FAX<br />
44 207 372 9993<br />
AMERICAN WORLD<br />
PICTURES<br />
American World Pictures, 6355 Topanga<br />
Canyon Blvd. # 428, Woodland Hills, CA<br />
91367 USA. Tel. 818.715.1480. Fax.<br />
818.715.1081.<br />
www.americanworldpictures.com<br />
At Cannes: Mark L. Lester (President),<br />
Gregory L. Stuart (Executive Vice<br />
President, Acquisitions & Worldwide<br />
Distribution)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera F6, Hotel Fax: Radisson<br />
Montfleury c/o Mark Lester<br />
33.(0)4.93.68.87.87, Gregory Stuart’s<br />
cel: 33.(0)6.2429.9417<br />
KNIGHT CLUB<br />
Action<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Russel Gannon<br />
Production Company: Global Pictures<br />
Producer(s): Jim Lotfi; Rob Nittolo &<br />
Tony Rosamillia<br />
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Lochlyn<br />
Munro, Glenn Plummer<br />
Status: Completed, screening at Cannes<br />
Year Produced: 2003, Production<br />
Country: USA<br />
A young man succumbs to the power of<br />
his job, forgetting about his friends and<br />
earning the wrath of his mentor.<br />
TULLY<br />
Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Hilary Birmingham<br />
Production Company: Small Planet<br />
Pictures in association with Telltale<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Producers: Anne Sundberg and Hilary<br />
Birmingham<br />
Cast: Anson Mount; Julianne Nicholson<br />
Status: Completed, screening at Cannes<br />
Year Produced: 2003, Production<br />
Country: USA<br />
Explores a legacy of love between a<br />
family of men, and the events of one<br />
summer that change their world forever.<br />
ISLAND OF THE MAPMAKER’S<br />
WIFE<br />
Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Michie Gleason<br />
Production Company: Labouchere<br />
Holland <strong>Film</strong>s CV in association with<br />
Virginia <strong>Film</strong>s & Sigma Pictures<br />
Producers: Matthijs Van Jeijningen;<br />
Charles Melniker & Michie Gleason<br />
Cast: Liam Cunningham; Natasha Little<br />
Status: Completed, screening at Cannes<br />
Year Produced: 2003, Production<br />
Country: USA<br />
Finley Descotes finds that desire,<br />
obsession and political intrigue will<br />
catapult her into a world she didn’t<br />
expect.<br />
MENACE<br />
Action<br />
Director: John Marino<br />
Production Company: Banned in<br />
America <strong>Film</strong>s, a California Corp.<br />
Producers: Spencer Thornton; Johhny<br />
Ciarcia; S. Woody Wagner<br />
Cast: Johnny Green; Alison Lohman<br />
(WHITE OLEANDER)<br />
Status: Completed, Screening at Cannes<br />
Year Produced: 2003<br />
From the Director of BAD<br />
LIEUTENANT, Abel Ferrara Presents<br />
MENACE. Brian Lovero, equal parts<br />
hustler and idealist, gets by as best he<br />
can by selling dope and running petty<br />
scams.<br />
WHITE RUSH<br />
Action / Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Mark L. Lester<br />
Production Company: American World<br />
Pictures<br />
Producers: Dana Dubovsky; Mark L.<br />
Lester<br />
Cast: Louis Mandylor (MY BIG FAT<br />
GREEK WEDDING); Judd Nelson<br />
Status: Completed, Screening in Cannes<br />
Year Produced: 2003, Production<br />
Country: USA<br />
Another chapter in traffic. A group of<br />
young tourist couples come across a drug<br />
deal gone bad while on vacation. One of<br />
them is a cop.<br />
AMSELL<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
INC<br />
AMSell Entertainment Inc, 12001<br />
Ventura Place, Suite #404, Studio City,<br />
CA 91602, USA. Tel: 818.766.8500. Fax:<br />
818.766.8737. amsellent@aol.com<br />
At Cannes: Alan Solomon (President),<br />
Joseph Beral (Director of International<br />
Sales and Marketing)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera, booth F9, Tel:<br />
06.07.25.82.31<br />
HALLOWEEN HOUSE PARTY<br />
Urban Horror<br />
Director: Leo J. Lawrence<br />
Cast: Mac 10, Joe Torry<br />
Producer: Giancarlo Gamboa<br />
Status: Post-production<br />
Derek and Shown are hired to tear down<br />
a dilapidated old house. Shown, a typical<br />
slacker, convinces Derek to throw a party<br />
over a party over Halloween weekend.<br />
BLOOD GNOME<br />
Horror<br />
Director: John Lechago<br />
Cast: Vincent Bilancio, Melisa Pursley,<br />
Ri Walton, Laurie Jameson, Charles<br />
Monsby<br />
Status: Ready for Delivery<br />
Strange little creatures are behind a<br />
series of bloody killings but are invisible<br />
to everyone except a crime scene<br />
photographer.<br />
WIND AND CLOUD: A MARTIAL<br />
ARTS SAGA<br />
Martial Arts / Fantasy / Sci-fi FX / 3D<br />
Animation TV Series (45 x 50 min)<br />
Part One: episodes 1-24, Part Two:<br />
episodes 24-45<br />
Director: Chin-Liang Hsu (“<strong>The</strong> Sword<br />
<strong>Of</strong> Great Silence” - Venice <strong>Film</strong> Festival<br />
Nomination)<br />
Stunt Director: YC MA (Jet Li’s “<strong>The</strong><br />
Scripture with No Words” and “Big<br />
Bullet”, “Jackie Chan’s First Strike” &<br />
“<strong>The</strong> East Is Red”<br />
Cast: Sonny Chiba (Immortal Combat”,<br />
“Aces: Iron Eagle III”), Chao Wen Cho<br />
(Jet Li’s “<strong>The</strong> Legend”), Annie Wu<br />
(“Jackie Chan’s First Strike”), Dialogue:<br />
Ali Clark (“Hidden Dragon, Crouching<br />
Tiger”)<br />
A martial arts saga adapted from the<br />
classic martial arts comic strip by MA<br />
YUENG CHEN.<br />
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LEECHES<br />
Horror<br />
Director: David DeCoteau<br />
Cast: Matthew Twining, Josh Henderson,<br />
Stacey Nelson, Tony Carroccio, Charity<br />
Rahmer, Mike Cole, Maya Parish,<br />
Stephen Sowan Michael Lutz, Greg<br />
Lyczkowski, Mark I. Miller, Trevor<br />
Harris, Alexandra Westmore, Julie<br />
Briggs, Tyler Sedustine<br />
Status: Ready for Delivery<br />
<strong>The</strong> swim team for a prestigious college<br />
swim in a lake containing LEECHES,<br />
which become infused with steroids and<br />
transmogrify into giant leaches which<br />
attack members of the swim team in a<br />
bloody and brutal manner.<br />
SPEED DEMON<br />
Horror Thriller (90 min)<br />
Director: David DeCoteau<br />
Cast: Collin Stark, Mark Ian Miller,<br />
Candace Moon, Trevor Harris, Amber<br />
Loy, M. T. Church, Mike, Nick Doss,<br />
Greg Carney, Robert Donavan, Jared<br />
Edwards<br />
Status: Ready for Delivery<br />
A young man returns from college to his<br />
hometown to attend his father’s funeral.<br />
<strong>The</strong> town is overrun by a gang of his old<br />
friends who are intent on living life fast<br />
and furious.<br />
ARCLIGHT FILMS<br />
Arclight <strong>Film</strong>s, 1201/39 McLaren Street,<br />
North Sydney, Australia 2060. Tel:<br />
61(0)2.9955.8825. Fax:<br />
61.(0)2.9955.8828<br />
At Cannes: Gary Hamilton (Managing<br />
Director), Nicolas Chartier (Vice<br />
President of World Wide Sales), Ian<br />
Gibbins (General Manager), John Kim<br />
(Development Manager)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera L7-L9, Tel:<br />
33.(0)4.92.99.33.15. Fax:<br />
33.(0)4.92.99.33.16<br />
A DIFFERENT LOYALTY<br />
Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Marek Kanievska<br />
Producer: Michael Cowan/Jason Piette<br />
Principal Cast: Sharon Stone, Rupert<br />
Everett<br />
Production Status: In Production<br />
Country of origin: UK<br />
IT COULD NEVER GET WORSE<br />
AURUM PRODUCCIONES S.A.<br />
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A spirited woman’s loyalty is put to the<br />
test when she discovers the man she<br />
loves is a Russian spy.<br />
BOLLYWOOD QUEEN<br />
Comedy<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Jeremy Wooding<br />
Producer: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette<br />
Principal Cast: Preeya Kalidas, Ian<br />
McShane<br />
Production Status: Completed<br />
Country of origin: UK<br />
West Side Story goes east in this<br />
heartwarming homage to Bollywood<br />
musicals about two star-crossed lovers<br />
crossing cultures, families and the law.<br />
HEAD IN THE CLOUDS<br />
Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: John Duigan<br />
Producer: Michael Cowan/Jason Piette<br />
and Julia Palau<br />
Principal Cast: Charlize <strong>The</strong>ron,<br />
Penelope Cruz Stuart Townsend<br />
Production Status: In Production<br />
Country of origin: UK<br />
An idealistic student and a hedonistic<br />
aristocrat love each other through war,<br />
separation and infidelity in spite of the<br />
seemingly irreconcilable differences.<br />
LOVE’S BROTHER<br />
Romance<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Jan Sardi<br />
Producer: Jane Scott, Sarah Radcliff<br />
Principal Cast: Adam Garcia, Giovanni<br />
Ribisi, Amelia Warner.<br />
Production Status: Postproduction<br />
Country of origin: Australia<br />
In despair of ever finding love, an ugly<br />
duckling uses a photo of his handsome<br />
brother to convince a beautiful girl across<br />
the sea to marry him.<br />
MOONLIGHT<br />
Romance/thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Paula van der Oest 2003<br />
Academy award nominee Zus and Zo<br />
Producer: JEmjay Rechsteiner, Jason<br />
Piette, Michael Cowan, Jimmy de<br />
Brabant, Michael Knobloch<br />
Principal Cast: Laurien van den Broek,<br />
Hunter Bussemaker, Andrew Howard<br />
Production Status: Completed<br />
Brutal, tender and redemptive, a<br />
controversial award winning coming of<br />
age about losing innocence and love.<br />
ARMADA PICTURES<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
Armada Pictures International, 9720<br />
Wilshire Boulevard, 5th Floor, Beverly<br />
Hills, CA 90212 USA. Tel. 310.205.9600.<br />
Fax 310.205.9610.<br />
At Cannes: Chris Sievernich (CEO),<br />
Yarek Danielak (VP, International<br />
Distribution), Matt Milich-(VP,<br />
Production)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Carlton Intercontinental - Suite<br />
233, Tel. 33.4.93.06.42.33. Fax.<br />
33.4.93.06.69.33<br />
FAMILY OF THE YEAR<br />
Comedy<br />
Producer: Chris Sievernich, Matt Milich<br />
Director: Joel Zwick (My Big Fat Geek<br />
Wedding)<br />
Cast: T.B.A.<br />
Status: Pre-production<br />
A hilarious comedy, Family of the Year<br />
follows the Miller family, who, after<br />
moving to a new town, have more trouble<br />
getting along with each other than their<br />
new neighbors.<br />
ONE POINT ZERO<br />
Thriller<br />
Exec. Producers:Matt Milich, Andreas<br />
Schmid, Andreas Grosch<br />
Producer: Chris Sievernich, Thomas Mai,<br />
RD Robb, Kyle Gates<br />
Directors: Jeff Renfroe, Martenn Steinar<br />
Thorsson<br />
Cast: Jeremy Sisto, Deborah Unger, Udo<br />
Kier, Rutger Hauer<br />
Status: Production<br />
A young programmer becomes a guinea<br />
pig in a major corporate advertising<br />
experiment<br />
DRUM<br />
Thriller<br />
Exec. Producers:Matt Milich, Andreas<br />
Schmid, Andreas Grosch<br />
Producer: Chris Sievernich, Rudolf<br />
Wichmann<br />
Director: Zola Maseko<br />
Cast: T.B.A.<br />
Status: Casting<br />
Set against the backdrop of exhilarating<br />
1950’s Sofiatown in South Africa,<br />
DRUM magazine gives birth to a popular<br />
movement against apartheid.<br />
DISTURBED (A.K.A. IDENTITY)<br />
Thriller<br />
Exec. Producer: Matt Milich<br />
GOOD-BYE, LENIN - BAVARIA FILM INTERNATIONAL<br />
Producer: Chris Sievernich, David<br />
Hoberman, Ashok Amritraj<br />
Director: Harold Becker<br />
Cast: T.B.A.<br />
Status: Development<br />
A well-known pop psychiatrist suddenly<br />
finds herself locked in a deadly struggle<br />
of wills when her family, career, and life<br />
are torn apart by a former patient.<br />
ARRI MEDIA<br />
WORLDSALES<br />
Arri Media Worldsales, Türkenstr. 89,<br />
80799 Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Tel:<br />
49.89.3809.1288. Fax: 49.89.3809.1619.<br />
www.arri-mediaworldsales.de<br />
Company Type: Worldsales Company<br />
At Cannes: Antonio Exacoustos (Head of<br />
Worldsales/Producer)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: c/o Export Union of German<br />
Cinema, German Pavilion, Festival de<br />
Cannes/Village International, Esplanade<br />
Georges Pompidou, Tel:<br />
0033.4.93.99.05.24. Fax:<br />
0033.4.93.99.05.25<br />
ARTEDIS<br />
Artedis, 12 Rue Raynouard, 75016 Paris.<br />
France. Tel: 331.5392.2929, Fax:<br />
331.5392.2920. artedisf@aol.com<br />
At Cannes: Pierre-Richard Muller<br />
(Director), Chantal Lam (President);<br />
Acquisition executives: Pierre-Richard<br />
Muller (Director), Chantal Lam<br />
(President)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Residence du Grand Hotel, Bldg.<br />
Le Cormoran II, 45 La Croisette, 06400<br />
CANNES. Tel/Fax: 04.93.99.56.67<br />
TRIGGERED (LES PERCUTES)<br />
Thriller<br />
Director: Gerard Cuq<br />
Producer: Denis Karvil<br />
Cast: Christophe Laubion, Bernard Farcy<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Country of Origin: France<br />
After celebrating a colleague’s birthday, a<br />
slightly drunk police detective goes into<br />
his bank to ask for his credit card that<br />
was just swallowed by the ATM machine.<br />
THE TARGET TO KILL(LA CIBLE)<br />
Comedy/thriller<br />
Director: Pierre Courege<br />
Cast: Daniel Russo, Hippolyte Girardot,<br />
Anemone<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Country of Origin: France<br />
Chris, a young navy serviceman<br />
desperate to find a lost love, tries to enlist<br />
the help of a TV show star to help him<br />
find his girlfriend.<br />
THE POACHER(LA BRACONNE)<br />
Comedy<br />
Director: Serge Penard<br />
Cast: Francis Perrin, Henri Guybet<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Country of Origin: France<br />
For young Jean, life in Normandy after<br />
World War II takes on a new beginning<br />
when he start living with his relatives.<br />
THE SETTING SUN<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Tomono Ro<br />
Soundtrack by Maurice Jarre with songs<br />
from Ella Fitzgerald<br />
Cast: Kato Masaya, Diane Lane, Donald<br />
Sutherland<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Country of Origin: Japan<br />
Set in the 1930’s during the opium wars<br />
between China and Japan, an idealistic<br />
Japanese soldier is forced to question<br />
alliances when he meets and falls in love<br />
with the leader (Diane Lane) of the rebel<br />
movement in Manchuria.<br />
ARTEDIS LIBRARY<br />
A collection of over 80 European Classic<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s including works by such Directors<br />
as Claude Chabrol, Andre Techine,<br />
Claude Sautet, Michel Deville, Just<br />
Jaeckin, and Henry Verneuil among<br />
others, offers a diverse selection of<br />
adventure, comedy, drama, and eroticism.<br />
ARTIST VIEW<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Artist View Entertainment, 12500<br />
Riverside Drive, Ste #201, N. Hollywood,<br />
CA 91607 USA. Tel: 818.752.2480. Fax:<br />
818.752.9339. artistview@earthlink.net,<br />
www.artistviewent.com<br />
At Cannes: Scott J. Jones (President), Jay<br />
E. Joyce (Vice President)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera Village J8, Tel:<br />
04.92.99.33.28<br />
UNSHACKLED<br />
Thriller (95 Minutes)<br />
Cast: Stacy Keach, Morgan Fairchild,<br />
James Black, Burgess Jenkins<br />
Year of Production: 2003<br />
Based on a true story of Harold Morris,<br />
Two prison inmates must push aside their<br />
indifferences towards each other if they<br />
are to survive the cruel and dangerous<br />
prison world.<br />
13TH CHILD: LEGEND OF THE<br />
JERSEY DEVIL<br />
Thriller (95 Minutes)<br />
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Lesley Anne<br />
Down, Christopher Atkins, and Robert<br />
Guillaume<br />
Year of Production: 2002<br />
For the first time, a 200 year-old legend<br />
known as the “Jersey Devil” is brought to<br />
life on the big screen. As Investigators<br />
follow up on a series of intense, unusual<br />
murders, they are pointed to the infamous<br />
legend.<br />
THE UNLIVING<br />
Horror / Thriller (90 Minutes)<br />
Cast: Paul Naschy, Jay Richardson,<br />
Michelle Bauer<br />
Year of Production: 2003<br />
A rabid werewolf preys on visitors<br />
searching a countryside estate for a<br />
legendary buried treasure while he awaits<br />
the day when the silver sword will be<br />
removed from his heart.<br />
UNSPEAKABLE<br />
Action Thriller (90 Minutes)<br />
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Dina Meyer, Lance<br />
Henrikson, Jeff Fahey, Pavan Grover<br />
Year of Production: 2002<br />
Set in one of the toughest prisons in the<br />
world, this chilling story tells of one<br />
woman’s battle with terror and the<br />
unspeakable evil that lurks within a<br />
bizarre, unexplainable inmate.<br />
BLACK CADILLAC<br />
Action Thriller (90 Minutes)<br />
Cast: Randy Quaid, Josh Hammond,<br />
Jason Dohring, Kiersten Warren<br />
Year of Production: 2002<br />
Through the darkness of a cold winter<br />
night, three young men face danger. head<br />
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THE ASYLUM<br />
<strong>The</strong> Asylum, 6671 Sunset Blvd., Bldg.<br />
1593, Hollywood, CA 90028 USA. Tel:<br />
323.463.6575. Fax: 323.463.6299.<br />
Asylum<strong>The</strong>@aol.com<br />
Company Type: Sales<br />
agent/producer/distributor<br />
At Cannes: Sherri Strain (International<br />
Sales), David Rimawi (Domestic Sales,<br />
Acquisitions)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Le Riviera E11/F12, Tel:<br />
04.92.99.32.05<br />
KING OF THE ANTS<br />
Thriller<br />
Directed by Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator,<br />
Fortress, Dagon)<br />
Starring: Daniel Baldwin (John<br />
Carpenter’s Vampires), George Wendt<br />
(Cheers), Kari Wuhrer (Eight Legged<br />
Freaks).<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
When Sean Crawley is hired to stalk a<br />
government official, little does he realize<br />
it will lead to murder, torture and a wild<br />
love affair with his victim’s widow.<br />
CROAK<br />
Creature horror<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-production<br />
When a deep space comet slams into a<br />
tanker truck with a radio-active load, a<br />
bucolic American town falls victim to a<br />
plague of mutant frogs who infect the<br />
townspeople, turning them into killer<br />
amphibians.<br />
CHAOS<br />
Action<br />
Starring Jason Barry (Titanic, Beyond<br />
Re-Animator), Phelim Drew (Angela’s<br />
Ashes, My Left Foot)<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
In a post-apocalyptic future, sports<br />
consist of gladiator battles with fire,<br />
motorcycles and chainsaws.<br />
DEMON SLAYER<br />
Horror<br />
Starring David Carradine (Quentin<br />
Tarantino’s Kill Bill), Michael Bowen<br />
(Magnolia, Jackie Brown), Darren<br />
Burrows (Northern Exposure), Bob<br />
Balaban (Gosford Park)<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
When two serial killers begin their reign<br />
of terror in the same small town, the FBI<br />
sends out their secret weapon against evil<br />
- an agent who can see into the soul to<br />
the demon beneath.<br />
KILLERS 2<br />
Thriller<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
<strong>The</strong> lone survivor of a gangland<br />
massacre is trapped in an insane asylum,<br />
convinced that killers are out to silence<br />
her forever.<br />
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Location for the<br />
23 RD year<br />
<strong>The</strong> Carlton Hotel<br />
Room 149<br />
Tel: 04 93 06 41 49<br />
Tel: 04 93 06 47 20<br />
ATLAS PICTURES<br />
Atlas Pictures, 919 N Alfred St. Suite<br />
101, Los Angeles CA 90069 USA. Tel:<br />
323.572.1590. Fax: 323.572.1594.<br />
info@atlaspictures.net<br />
At Cannes: Aziz Alaoui (President/CEO),<br />
David Hoffman (VP of Development),<br />
Sandra Galvagny (VP of Intl<br />
distribution), Wafae Alaoui director<br />
marketing<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Noga Hilton, Tel:<br />
33.06.21.20.90.21. Fax: 323.572.1594<br />
SPENCER STONE<br />
Action<br />
Language: English<br />
Producer: Atlas Pictures<br />
Production Status: Pre-production<br />
Country of Origin/co-production:<br />
(UK/Germany/French)<br />
A renegade CIA agent sets out to avenge<br />
the murder of his wife by teaming up<br />
with a French secret agent to thwart the<br />
plans of a power-hungry mad scientist.<br />
THE LISTINING GAME<br />
Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Producer: Atlas Pictures<br />
Production Status: Pre-production<br />
Country of Origin/co-production:<br />
(Canada/Germany/UK)<br />
A homicide detective tracks a serial killer<br />
and realizes it is someone from the past.<br />
AURA<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Aura Entertainment, LLC. 9350 Wilshire<br />
Blvd., Ste. 400, Beverly Hills, CA 90212<br />
USA. Tel 310.278.9991. Fax:<br />
310.278.9992. mail@auraent.com<br />
www.auraent.com<br />
At Cannes: Steve Bickel<br />
(President/Partner), Jeffrey Kramer<br />
(Partner), Brian Stearns (Creative<br />
Affairs)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: <strong>The</strong> Majestic Hotel, Suite<br />
759/760, Tel: 33.4.97.06.84.86. Fax:<br />
33.4.97.06.84.87<br />
THE BIG EMPTY<br />
Dark Comedy<br />
Directed by: Steve Anderson<br />
Produced by: Steve Kaplan , Gregg<br />
Daniel, Doug Mankoff, Andrew<br />
Spaulding<br />
Executive Producers: Steve Bickel,<br />
Jeffrey Kramer, Keith Resnick and Jon<br />
Favreau<br />
Production Company: Aura<br />
Entertainment, Echo Lake Productions,<br />
Rainstorm Entertainment<br />
Starring: Jon Favreau, Rachael Leigh<br />
Cook, Sean Bean, Adam Beach, Daryl<br />
Hannah, Kelsey Grammer and Joey<br />
Lauren Adams<br />
Tells the story of John Person, a budding<br />
actor who is faced with a stalled career<br />
as well as a mountain of debt.<br />
LOVE COMES TO THE<br />
EXECUTIONER<br />
Dark Comedy<br />
Directed by: Kyle Bergersen<br />
Produced by: Doug Draizin, Steve Bickel<br />
and Jeffrey Kramer<br />
Production Company: Aura<br />
Entertainment<br />
Status: Casting<br />
This insightful comedy is centered<br />
around a recent college graduate who is<br />
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offered the position of executioner at the<br />
local prison where his own brother is<br />
slated to die.<br />
AURUM<br />
PRODUCCIONES S.A.<br />
Aurum Producciones S.A., Avda. de<br />
Burgos, #12, Floor 10 / 28036 Madrid,<br />
Spain. Tel: 34.91.768.48.07. Fax:<br />
34.91.768.48.33,<br />
mochaaguilar@aurum.es, www.aurum.es<br />
Company Type: Sales agent, Producer,<br />
Distributor<br />
At Cannes: Ms. Mocha Aguilar (Dir.<br />
International Sales), Mr. Alberto<br />
Cañizares (Acquisitions Responsible),<br />
Mr. Javier Gracia (Managing Director),<br />
Ms. Teresa Moneo (Managing Director)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: A1/C2-C1 (Pavillion “Cinema<br />
From Spain”)<br />
Tel: 33.(0)4.92.99.88.27. Fax:<br />
33.(0)4.92.99.88.28, Cell<br />
34.625.15.95.05<br />
SLAM (SLAM)<br />
A Teen Comedy (96 min)<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Director: Miguel Martí<br />
Producer: Pedro Uriol<br />
Cast: Iván Hermes, Tomás Fonzi, Andreu<br />
Castro<br />
Prod: post production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Production: Spain<br />
<strong>The</strong>y scheme, deceive, use espionage,<br />
greed, just about any lactive in hopes of<br />
getting an interview with the legendary<br />
rock-n- roller SLAM<br />
NUDOS (LIFE TIDES)<br />
A Romantic Story (107 min)<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Director: Lluis Maria Güell<br />
Producer: Ovideo<br />
Cast: Charo López, Goya Toledo, Carlos<br />
Álvarez-Novoa<br />
Prod: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002 Country of<br />
Production: Spain<br />
A Barcelonan fishermen’s simple world,<br />
and unscrupulous big town lawyers<br />
insurance company, collide in the story<br />
of seaman’s mysterious death.<br />
Sophisticated lawyer Silvia probes into<br />
his world while changing her outlook on<br />
life.<br />
WHO IS WATCHING (MIL<br />
CÁMARAS)<br />
Teen Thriller (104 min)<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Director: David Alonso<br />
Producer: Lotus <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Cast: Antonio Hortelano, Eva Marciel,<br />
Fernando Andina<br />
Prod. Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002 Country of<br />
Production: Spain<br />
A series of apparently ordinary events<br />
involve a group of university students in<br />
a disturbing story of suspense.<br />
EL REY DE LA GRANJA (THE<br />
KING OF THE FARM)<br />
Children Comedy (95 min)<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Directors: Gregorio Muro, Carlos Zabala<br />
Producer: Bainet Zinema<br />
Cast: Karlos Arguiñano, Javi Martín, Mar<br />
Saura<br />
Prod. Status: completed.<br />
Year of Production: 2002 Country of<br />
Production: Spain<br />
After defeating RAMAKOR, asteroid<br />
SONDAK’s tyrant, who had been using a<br />
spherical artifact called NEURONIA to<br />
hold his people under his mental control,<br />
KIRIK flees the planet carrying<br />
NEURONIA with him and seeks refuge<br />
in our planet.<br />
PEOR IMPOSIBLE (IT COULD<br />
NEVER GET WORSE)<br />
Teen Comedy (100 min)<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Directors: José Semprún and David<br />
Blanco<br />
Producer: Morena <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Cast: Victor Clavijo, Guillermo Toledo,<br />
Elsa Pataki<br />
Prod. Status: completed.<br />
Year of Production: 2002 Country of<br />
Production: Spain<br />
Miguel is looking forward to a<br />
passionate, intimate birthday with his<br />
visiting girlfriend Fátima. When dubious<br />
brother Alex bursts into the house<br />
carrying a dead body, though, things get<br />
out of control.<br />
AV RELEASING<br />
CORPORATION<br />
AV Releasing Corporation, 10551 W.<br />
Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064, USA.<br />
Tel: 310.470.9295. Fax: 310.470.3785.<br />
filmseller.av@verizon.net,<br />
www.vreleasing.com<br />
Company Type: Distributor<br />
At Cannes: Andrew Van Slee (President),<br />
John McHugh (Head of Distribution) and<br />
Elke Kummerow (VP of <strong>Business</strong><br />
Affairs). Acquisitions Executive: John<br />
McHugh<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice at Cannes: Private Residence<br />
NET GAMES<br />
Thriller (100 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director/Producer: Andrew Van Slee<br />
Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Marina Sirtis &<br />
Ed Begley Jr.<br />
Delivery Status: Completed and ready for<br />
delivery<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Lust, Mayhem, blackmail & murder<br />
follow when Adam Vance(C. Thomas<br />
Howell) decides to enter the world of<br />
cyberchat.<br />
SOLO ALBUM<br />
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TOTALLY BLONDE<br />
Comedy (98 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director/Producer: Andrew Van Slee<br />
Cast: Krista Allen, Michael Buble and<br />
Maeve Quinlan<br />
Delivery Status: Completed/ Still<br />
available for some territories<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
A sexy brunette dyes her hair to answer<br />
the age old question...Do blondes really<br />
have more fun?<br />
TRANCERS 6<br />
Sci-Fi (79 mins, 57 seconds)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Jay Woelfel<br />
Producers: Maurice Smith and Charles<br />
Band<br />
Cast: Zette Sullivan, Jennifer Capo &<br />
Robert Donavan<br />
Delivery Status: Complete and Ready to<br />
deliver<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
In a return of the ground breaking<br />
original film’s premise, Jack Deth is back<br />
again to save the world from the most<br />
lethal Trancers yet.<br />
ADAM & EVIL<br />
Horror<br />
Language: English<br />
Director/Producer: Andrew Van Slee<br />
Delivery Status: In Production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
After luring her classmates to a secluded<br />
house, an evil & possessed Eve exacts<br />
her revenge for their childhood pranks.<br />
AVRIO FILMWORKS<br />
RELEASING INC.<br />
Avrio <strong>Film</strong>works Releasing Inc., 1726<br />
Tatlow Avenue, North Vancouver, BC V7P<br />
2Z9 Canada. Tel: 604.924.1976. Fax:<br />
604.924.1986. avriofilmworks@aol.com<br />
At Cannes: Alan Solomon (President),<br />
Joseph Beral (Director of International<br />
Sales and Marketing)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: c/o AMSell Entertainment Inc.,<br />
Riviera, booth Tel (914), Tel:<br />
06.07.25.83.31<br />
FALLEN ANGELS<br />
Thriller<br />
Director: Ian David Diaz<br />
Producer: Michael Derbas<br />
Cast: Michael Ironside, Jeff Fahey and<br />
Kai Wiesinger<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Four girls return to their abandoned high<br />
school to film a documentary about the<br />
tragic events that happened during their<br />
senior year.<br />
MOURNING GLORY<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Barrett Esposito<br />
Producer: Barrett Esposito and Amy<br />
Gossels<br />
Cast: Bill Sage and John Abrahams<br />
Status: Completed<br />
An eventful night forever changes the<br />
faith and lives of a man and the younger<br />
brother he is raising.<br />
MIRROR MIRROR 4:<br />
REFLECTIONS<br />
Horror<br />
Director: Paulette Victor-Lifton<br />
Producer: Jimmy Lifton<br />
Cast: Alice Amter and Grady Beard<br />
Status: Completed<br />
A costume party turns into a night of<br />
terror as a creature of the night stalks the<br />
partygoers.<br />
HOBBS END<br />
Thriller<br />
Director: Phillip David Segal<br />
Producer: Chris Dobbs<br />
Cast: Catarina Conti and Brennan Elliott<br />
Status: Completed<br />
A grieving widow leading a reclusive<br />
lifestyle is confronted with a serial killer<br />
who as escaped from a maximumsecurity<br />
prison.<br />
B<br />
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BAUER MARTINEZ<br />
STUDIOS<br />
Bauer Martinez Studios, 801 West Bay<br />
Drive, Suite 607, Largo, FL 33770-USA.<br />
Tel: 727.582.9939. Fax: 727.582.9709.<br />
BMStudios1@aol.com<br />
At Cannes: Philippe Martinez<br />
(Chairman/Chief Executive <strong>Of</strong>ficer),<br />
Karinne Martinez (Chief Operating<br />
<strong>Of</strong>ficer), Shirley Bester (International<br />
Distribution), Karen A. Hamilton<br />
(International Distribution)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Noga Hilton, office number 306,<br />
Tel: 33.4.92.99.70.00. Room 306<br />
AFTER DEATH<br />
Action<br />
Director: Ringo Lam<br />
Producer: Philippe Martinez, Alan<br />
Latham<br />
Executive Producer: Anthony Blakey,<br />
Juan Montilla Eslava<br />
Production Company: Lucky Ukfs<br />
Cast: Jean Claude Van Damme<br />
Status: Pre-production / SPP: July 2003<br />
Budget: $20million<br />
After his wife is brutally murdered, an<br />
ex-cop wages war against the Chinese<br />
triad, and becomes the protector of a very<br />
special little girl: the adopted daughter of<br />
the triad kingpin.<br />
COVER PLAY<br />
Action<br />
Producer: Philippe Martinez, Alan<br />
Latham<br />
Executive Producer: Anthony Blakey,<br />
Juan Montilla Eslava<br />
Production Company: Lucky UKFS<br />
Cast: Jean Claude Van Damme<br />
Status: Development / SPP: December<br />
2003<br />
Budget: $20 million<br />
When the Seven Wonders casino-hotel is<br />
taken over by Russian terrorists, the<br />
hostages’ only hope rests with a reformed<br />
thief accidentally trapped inside.<br />
CITIZEN VERDICT<br />
Political Thriller<br />
Director: Philippe Martinez<br />
Producer: Philippe Martinez, Helmut<br />
Breuer<br />
Co-Producer: Alan Latham, Stephanie<br />
Martinez, Luc Campeau.<br />
Executive Producer: Karinne Martinez,<br />
Juan Montilla Eslava, Karen A.<br />
Hamilton, Terrence S. Potter, Kim<br />
Leggat, Douglas Miller, Ian Burlingham<br />
Production Company: Aquarius <strong>Film</strong><br />
Company LLP in co-production with<br />
Lucky 7 Productions/Exactlord<br />
Productions, Lucky Select in association<br />
with Curzon Motion Pictures<br />
Cast: Armand Assante, Jerry Springer,<br />
Roy Scheider<br />
Status: In Post-Production/ Delivery July<br />
2003.<br />
Budget: $10million<br />
Escalating crime has led the Governor of<br />
Florida to allow a live trial & punishment<br />
television show: “Citizen Verdict”. But<br />
will justice be served, or are ratings the<br />
ultimate prize?<br />
DIGITAL JESUS<br />
Suspense<br />
Director: Howard Grenhalgh<br />
Producer: Philippe Martinez, Alan<br />
Latham<br />
Executive Producer: Anthony Blakey<br />
Production Company: Lucky UKFS<br />
Cast: Armand Assante<br />
Status: Pre-Production<br />
Budget: $6million<br />
A demented serial killer hijacks the<br />
internet to display his sick ‘campaign’.<br />
Facing a death sentence of his own, an<br />
embittered cop races to stop him before it<br />
is too late.<br />
MODIGLIANI<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Mick Davis<br />
Producer: Philippe Martinez, André<br />
Djaoui, Alan Latham<br />
Executive Producer: Anthony Blakey<br />
Production Company: Lucky UKFS<br />
Cast: Andy Garcia<br />
Status: Pre-Production<br />
Budget: $12million<br />
A passionate account of the last days of<br />
the great artist - and the untold story of<br />
his bitter rivalry with Picasso.<br />
BAVARIA FILM<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
Bavaria <strong>Film</strong> International,<br />
Bavariafilmplatz 8, 82031 Geiselgasteig,<br />
Germany. Tel: 49.89.6499.3274. Fax:<br />
49.89.6499.3720. http://www.bavariafilm-international.de<br />
At Cannes: Michael Weber (Managing<br />
Director), Thorsten Schaumann (Head of<br />
Sales), Stefanie Zeitler, Brigitte Suárez<br />
(Sales Manager), Thorsten Ritter (Head<br />
of Marketing), Giuseppe Proietti (Agent<br />
Italy)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Stand N9, Tel:<br />
33.(0)4.92.99.33.37. Fax:<br />
33.(0)4.92.99.33.39. E-Mail:<br />
cannes03@bavaria-media.org<br />
THEY´VE GOT KNUT (SIE HABEN<br />
KNUT)<br />
Drama (107 min)<br />
Language: German, Subtitled in: English<br />
Director: Stefan Krohmer<br />
Producer: Peter Rommel<br />
Production Company: Home Run<br />
Pictures, Allmedia<br />
Cast: Valerie Koch , Hans-Jochen<br />
Wagner, Ingo Haeb, Alexandra Neldel<br />
Production Status: Completed<br />
Production Year: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Germany<br />
Love and politics were inseparable in the<br />
80s, especially in West Germany, where<br />
friends, lovers and families would chant<br />
anti-Imperialist slogans in endless protest<br />
marches.<br />
THE CHILD I NEVER WAS (EIN<br />
LEBEN LANG KURZE HOSEN<br />
TRAGEN)<br />
Drama (107 min)<br />
Language: German, Subtitled in: English<br />
Director: Kai S. Pieck<br />
Producer: Bettina Scheuren<br />
Production Company: MTM West<br />
Cast: Tobias Schenke, Sebastian<br />
Urzendowsky, Ulrike Bliefert, Walter<br />
Gontermann<br />
Production Status: Completed<br />
Production Year: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Germany<br />
Between 1962 and 1966, four schoolboys<br />
were abused, tortured and killed in<br />
Germany’s Ruhr District. <strong>The</strong>ir<br />
tormentor, Jürgen Bartsch, was 15 at the<br />
time of his first crime; 19 when he was<br />
caught.<br />
THE FLYING CLASSROOM (DAS<br />
FLIEGENDE KLASSENZIMMER)<br />
Drama (114 min)<br />
Language: German, Subtitled in: English<br />
Director: Tomy Wigand<br />
Production Company: Bavaria<br />
<strong>Film</strong>verleih und Produktions GmbH,<br />
Lunaris GmbH & Co KG<br />
Producer: Uschi Reich, Peter Zank<br />
Cast: Ulrich Noethen, Sebastian Koch,<br />
Piet Klocke, Anja Kling<br />
Production Status: Completed<br />
Production Year: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Germany<br />
Jonathan is only twelve, but he’s already<br />
gone through six boarding schools. His<br />
last chance is Leipzig’s St. Thomas<br />
School, home of the world-famous boys’<br />
choir.<br />
SOLINO<br />
Drama (120 min)<br />
Language: German, Subtitled in: English<br />
Director: Fatih Akin<br />
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Producer: Ralph Schwingel, Stefan<br />
Schubert, Hejo Emons<br />
Production Company: WÜSTE<br />
<strong>Film</strong>produktion und Wüste <strong>Film</strong><br />
Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Barnaby<br />
Metschurat, Gigi Savoia, Antonella Attili,<br />
Hermann Lause, Lucas Gregorowicz,<br />
Bastian Trost<br />
Production Status: Completed<br />
Production Year: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Germany<br />
Italy in the 1960s. One day Romano and<br />
Rosa, the parents of Gigi and Giancarlo,<br />
two young brothers, decide to leave their<br />
sun-drenched home in Apulia and move<br />
to Germany.<br />
NOWHERE IN AFRICA<br />
(NIRGENDWO IN AFRIKA)<br />
Drama (141 min)<br />
Language: German, Subtitled in: English<br />
Director: Caroline Link<br />
Producer: Peter Herrmann<br />
Production Company: MTM Medien &<br />
Television<br />
Cast: Merab Ninidze, Juliane Köhler, Lea<br />
Kurka, Sidede Onyulo<br />
Production Status: Completed<br />
Production Year: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: Germany<br />
<strong>The</strong> Jewish family Redlich emigrates to<br />
Kenya in 1938, where Walter Redlich<br />
(MERAB NINIDZE), a lawyer, works on<br />
a farm as a caretaker.<br />
BETA CINEMA<br />
Beta Cinema, Dept. of Beta <strong>Film</strong> GmbH,<br />
Robert-Bürkle-Str. 3, 85737<br />
Ismaning/Munich, Germany. Tel:<br />
49.89.9956.2719. Fax: 49.89.9956.2703.<br />
beta@betacinema.com.<br />
www.betacinema.com<br />
Company Type: World Sales Agent<br />
At Cannes: Andreas Rothbauer<br />
(<strong>The</strong>atrical Sales/Acquisitions), Robert<br />
Czajkowski (Co-Prod./Acquisitions),<br />
Isabelle Palluaud (Festival Coordinator)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: <strong>The</strong> Riviera, Booth Nr. F 14<br />
(Aisle F, booth 14), Andreas Rothbauer<br />
Cell: 49.160.90664357. Robert<br />
Czajkowski Cell: 49.170.6384689<br />
SCHERBENTANZ (SHATTERED<br />
GLASS)<br />
Drama (95 min)<br />
Language: German, subtitled in English<br />
Director: Chris Kraus<br />
Producer: Norbert W. Daldrop, Joseph<br />
Rau<br />
Produced by: avcommunication AG<br />
Co-production partner: SWR, arte, BR<br />
Cast: Jürgen Vogel, Andrea Sawatzki,<br />
Nadja Uhl, Margit Carstensen, Peter<br />
Davor<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
origin: Germany<br />
After many years of voluntary separation<br />
from his family, Jesko, the family’s<br />
“black sheep”, is lured back to the family<br />
villa for a celebration.<br />
SOLO ALBUM<br />
www.soloalbum-derfilm.de<br />
Romantic Comedy (87 min)<br />
Language: German, subtitled in English<br />
Director: Gregor Schnitzler<br />
Producer: Christoph Mueller<br />
Produced by: Goldkind <strong>Film</strong><br />
Co-production partner: Clasart <strong>Film</strong>,<br />
TV60<strong>Film</strong><br />
Cast: Thomas D, Leander Haussmann,<br />
Sandy Moelling, Christian Naethe,<br />
Matthias Schweighoefer, Nora Tschirner,<br />
Oliver Wnuk<br />
Delivery Status: Completed - First<br />
Market Screening <strong>Of</strong> Completed <strong>Film</strong><br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
origin: Germany<br />
Ben leads the kind of life that others can<br />
only dream of.<br />
DEVOT<br />
www.devot-film.de<br />
Psycho Thriller (92 min)<br />
Language: German, subtitled in English<br />
Director: Igor Zaritzky<br />
Producer: Patrick Knippel, Steffen<br />
Reuter, Igor Zaritzky<br />
Produced by: Reflex <strong>Film</strong><br />
Co-production partner: <strong>Film</strong>kollektiv<br />
<strong>Film</strong> & Medien<br />
Cast: Annett Renneberg, Simon Boeer<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
origin: Germany<br />
One rainy night, Harry takes home a<br />
young woman named Anja, who claims<br />
to be a prostitute.<br />
HERR LEHMANN (BERLIN BLUES)<br />
www.herr-lehmann.de<br />
Comedy (90 min)<br />
Language: German<br />
Director: Leander Haussmann<br />
Producer: Claus Boje<br />
Produced by: Boje Buck<br />
Co-production partner: Pandora <strong>Film</strong><br />
Cast: Christian Ulmen, Katja Danowski,<br />
Detlev Buck, Tim Fischer, Uwe-Dag<br />
Berlin<br />
Delivery Status: fine cut<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
origin: Germany<br />
If you thought that time passes, meet<br />
Frank Lehmann and you’ll realize that it<br />
doesn´t!<br />
COLDWATER<br />
Romantic drama (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Ruba Nadda<br />
Director of Photography: Derek Rogers<br />
Executive Producers: Atom Egoyan,<br />
Simone Urdl<br />
Producer: Tracey Boulton<br />
Produced by: Coldwater Productions, T.L<br />
Boulton Productions Ltd.<br />
Cast: Arsinée Khanjian, Michael Riley,<br />
Simon Abkarian<br />
Delivery Status: pre-production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
origin: Canada<br />
Coldwater is the story of a forty-year old<br />
Arab woman who, for the first time,<br />
learns to live her life on her own terms.<br />
During Cannes Only<br />
Tel: 04 93 06 41 49<br />
or<br />
Tel: 04 93 06 47 20<br />
&<br />
Fax 04 93 06 68 49<br />
BEYOND FILMS<br />
Beyond <strong>Film</strong>s, 53-55 Brisbane St., Surry<br />
Hills, NS 2010 Australia. Tel:<br />
61.2.8217.2000. Fax: 61.2.8217.2035.<br />
www.beyond.com.au,<br />
films@beyond.com.au<br />
At Cannes: Hilary Davis (Head of Sales<br />
and Acquisitions), Stephen Kelliher<br />
(Sales Executive), Isabel Rosenthal<br />
(Acquisitions and Development<br />
Manager)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: G5, Riviera, Tel: 33.4.9299.3227<br />
HORSEPLAY<br />
Black Comedy (92 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Stavros Kazantzidis<br />
Producer: Allanah Zitserman<br />
Key Cast: Marcus Graham, Bill Hunter,<br />
Jason Donovan<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Australia<br />
An unsuccessful small time horse trainer<br />
concocts a plan to rig the largest horse<br />
Race in Australia.<br />
CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE<br />
Drama (87 min)<br />
Language: Englishh<br />
Director : John Deery<br />
Producer: Davina Stanley<br />
Key Cast: Jonathan Forbes, Brenda<br />
Fricker, Hugh Bonneville<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Ireland<br />
Set in Ireland, this controversial film,<br />
challenges celibacy and it’s implications<br />
for the Catholic Church in the 21st<br />
century.<br />
TAKE AWAY<br />
Comedy (86 MIN)<br />
Director: English<br />
Language: Marc Gracie<br />
Producer: David Redman, Marc Gracie<br />
Key Cast: Vince Colosimo, Stephen<br />
Curry, Rose<br />
Byrne<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Australia<br />
<strong>The</strong> story of Tony and Trev, two rival<br />
small businessmen who are forced to<br />
unite to battle a huge multinational.<br />
VISITORS<br />
Thriller (96 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Richard Franklin<br />
Producer: Jennifer Hadden, Richard<br />
Franklin<br />
Key Cast: Radha Mitchell, Susannah<br />
York, Dominic Purcell<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Australia<br />
One woman’s extraordinary adventure to<br />
the edge of the world and the brink of<br />
her mind.<br />
CRACKERJACK<br />
Comedy (92 min)<br />
Language: English Director: Paul<br />
MoloneyProducer: Stephen Luby, Mick<br />
Molloy Key Cast: Mick Molloy, Bill<br />
Hunter, Samuel Johnson<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Australia<br />
Dwindling membership and increasing<br />
overheads make a local lawn bowls club<br />
a prime candidate for takeover.<br />
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BUSKIN FILM<br />
Buskin <strong>Film</strong>, Via P.L. Cattolica 3, 00195<br />
Italy. Tel: 39.06.39030435. Fax:<br />
39.06.39038231. info@buskinfilm.com.<br />
www.buskinfilm.com<br />
Company Type: Sales agent, producer,<br />
buyer<br />
At Cannes: Roberto Bessi (President),<br />
Antonio Guadalupi (CEO), Vanessa<br />
Capurso (International Sales),<br />
Acquisition Executive: Vito Matassino<br />
(President - Quality <strong>Film</strong> Distribuzione),<br />
Adriano Levantesi (Ceo - Quality <strong>Film</strong><br />
Distribuzione)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: “Focus Italy” booth - Espace<br />
Riviera C5-D4 D1-E8, Tel:<br />
33.4.92993312. Fax: 33.4.92993313;<br />
Hotel: Cannes residence<br />
FIGLI - HIJOS<br />
Drama (95 min)<br />
Language: italian with english subtitles<br />
Director: Marco Bechis<br />
Producers: Amedeo Pagani and Vittorio<br />
Cecchi Gori<br />
Production company (companies): Storie<br />
and Cecchi Gori Group<br />
Cast: Carlos Echevarria, Julia Sarano,<br />
Stefania Sandrelli, Enrique Piñeyro,<br />
Evita Ciri,<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: Italy<br />
<strong>The</strong> story of Javier and Rosa, children of<br />
desaparecidos, who think they are<br />
“brother & sister” .<br />
IT’S NOT ME (NON SONO IO)<br />
Thriller - psychological drama (92 min)<br />
Language: Italian, Subtitles: english<br />
Director: Gabriele Iacovone<br />
Production company: Carisma<br />
Cinematografica<br />
Producer: Carlo Broglio and Raimondo<br />
Crociani<br />
Key cast Antonio Berardinelli, Andrea<br />
Cambi,Agnieszka Duleba-Kasza<br />
Delivery Status: completed/screening<br />
Country of origin: Italy<br />
Trying to escape his shady past in Sicily,<br />
Matteo goes to Poland, but he finds out<br />
that it’s not the Promised Land.<br />
MISTER PERFECT<br />
CHINA STAR ENTERTAINMENT GROUP<br />
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THE COUNCIL OF EGYPT (IL<br />
CONSIGLIO D’EGITTO)<br />
Historical drama (132 min)<br />
Language: Italian, Subtitles: english<br />
Director: Emidio Greco<br />
Production company (companies):<br />
Factory, Rai Cinema (Italy) S D P <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
(France) Focus <strong>Film</strong> Production and<br />
Distribution (Hungary) - supported by<br />
Eurimages - Council of Europe<br />
Producer: Mariella Li Sacchi and<br />
Amedeo Letizia<br />
Key cast: Silvio Orlando, Tommaso<br />
Ragno, Marine Delterme,<br />
Country of origin: Italy<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Sicily 1872. An intense history of<br />
conspiracy interweaved by a monk to<br />
damage aristocracy privileges, thanks to<br />
the falsification of an Arab Codexes,<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Council of Egypt”.<br />
DAYS (GIORNI)<br />
Drama (80 min)<br />
Language: Italian, Subtitles: english<br />
Director: Laura Muscardin<br />
Production company (companies): Movie<br />
Factory with the participation of Telepiù<br />
Producer: Francesco Paolo Montini<br />
Key cast: Thomas Trabacchi, Riccardo<br />
Salerno, Davide Bechini<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Country of origin: Italy<br />
Days is a love story between two men;<br />
one of them is Hiv positive. One day he<br />
meets a past love and his equilibrium<br />
collapses.<br />
LIBRARY<br />
Various titles from new Italian auteurs<br />
and old masters.<br />
C<br />
CAPITOL FILMS<br />
Capitol <strong>Film</strong>s, 23 Queensdale Place,<br />
London W11 4SQ UK. Tel:<br />
44.20.7471.6000. Fax: 44.20.7471.6012.<br />
films@capitolfilms.com.<br />
www.capitolfilms.com<br />
At Cannes: Sharon Harel (Managing<br />
Director), Nicole Mackey (Head of<br />
International Sales), Eve Schoukroun<br />
(International Sales), Hannah Leader<br />
(Legal & <strong>Business</strong> Affairs)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: 2nd Floor, 4 La Croisette, Tel:<br />
00.33.(0).4.93.99.81.69. Fax:<br />
00.33.(0).4.93.99.81.70SYLVIA<br />
INSIDE - CINEMAVAULT RELEASING INC<br />
(PROVISIONAL TITLE)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Christine Jeffs<br />
Producer: Alison Owen<br />
Status: Post Production (Screening<br />
Promo Reel)<br />
Production Country: UK<br />
Leading Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel<br />
Craig, Michael Gambon, Blythe Danner,<br />
Jared Harris<br />
A passionate love story between two<br />
brilliant minds, the American poet Sylvia<br />
Plath and Ted Hughes, Britain’s Poet<br />
Laureate.<br />
THE COMPANY<br />
Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Robert Altman<br />
Leading Cast: Neve Campbell, James<br />
Franco, Malcolm McDowell<br />
Status: Post Production (Promo Reel<br />
Screening)<br />
Production Country: USA<br />
Robert Altman follows up the success of<br />
the Academy Award winning GOSFORD<br />
PARK with THE COMPANY, a look<br />
behind the scenes at the world of a ballet<br />
company as only Altman could envision<br />
it.<br />
I’M NOT SCARED (IO NON HO<br />
PAURA)<br />
Thriller<br />
Language: Italian<br />
Running Time: 108 mins<br />
Director: Gabriele Salvatores<br />
Leading Cast: Aitana Sanchez-Gijon,<br />
Diego Abatantuono<br />
Status: Screening<br />
Production Country: Italy<br />
During the hottest summer of the century,<br />
a nine year-old boy discovers a terrible<br />
secret: his village’s “grown-ups” have<br />
kidnapped a child and are keeping him in<br />
a hole beneath an abandoned house.<br />
ANYTHING ELSE<br />
Comedy<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Woody Allen<br />
Producer: Letty Aronson<br />
Leading Cast: Jason Biggs, Christina<br />
Ricci, Danny Devito, Stockard Channing,<br />
Woody Allen<br />
Status: Post Production<br />
Year Produced: 2003, Production<br />
Country: USA<br />
A serious comedy that takes place in<br />
New York City.<br />
CALLAS FOREVER<br />
Drama (111 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Franco Zeffirelli<br />
Leading Cast: Fanny Ardant, Jeremy<br />
Irons, Joan Plowright<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Year Produced: 2002, Production<br />
Country: Italy/UK<br />
Set in 1970’s Paris, this is an emotional<br />
and inspirational fictional account of a<br />
rock promoter who convinces the opera<br />
diva Maria Callas to revive her career<br />
through the aid of modern technology.<br />
CELESTIAL<br />
PICTURES LTD<br />
Celestial Pictures Ltd, Shaw<br />
Administration Building, Lot 220, Clear<br />
Water Bay Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong.<br />
Tel: 852.2927.1111. Fax: 852.2243.0008.<br />
enquiry@celestialpix.com.<br />
www.celestialpictures.com<br />
Company Type: Producer, distributor<br />
At Cannes: William Pfeiffer (CEO ),<br />
Gordon Cheung (Executive Vice<br />
President – Distribution)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Carlton Inter-Continental Hotel -<br />
Room 118, 58, La Croisetle BP 155. Tel:<br />
33.0.4.9306.6818, Fax: 33.0.4.9306.4118<br />
THE ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN<br />
Martial Arts ( 117 min)<br />
Language: Mandarin<br />
Director: Chang Cheh<br />
Producer: Runme Shaw<br />
Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Pan Yin-tzu,<br />
Chiao Chiao<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 1967, Country of<br />
Origin: Hong Kong<br />
A mysterious swordsman whose one arm<br />
is more powerful than his two-armed<br />
rivals, Wang and Chang Cheh<br />
revolutionized the Hong Kong kung-fu<br />
genre and broke box office records across<br />
Asia in this 1967 all time martial arts<br />
masterpiece.<br />
RETURN OF THE ONE-ARMED<br />
SWORDSMAN<br />
Martial Arts ( 108 min)<br />
Language: Mandarin<br />
Director: Chang Cheh<br />
Producer: Runme Shaw<br />
Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Chiao Chiao<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 1968, Country of<br />
Origin: Hong Kong<br />
Budget: $<br />
This fight-filled action packed sequel is<br />
even more accomplished and exciting<br />
than the original. Fang Kang (starring<br />
Jimmy Wang Yu), who just wants to lead<br />
a quiet life, was challenged by the Eight<br />
Demon Swordsmen.<br />
GOLDEN SWALLOW<br />
Martial Arts (108 min)<br />
Language: Mandarin<br />
Director: Chang Cheh<br />
Producer: Runme Shaw<br />
Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Cheng Pei-pei, Lo<br />
Lieh<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 1968, Country of<br />
Origin: Hong Kong<br />
Budget: $<br />
A swordplay epic of heartbreaking<br />
romance, intrigue and stunning action<br />
produced by the indomitable marital arts<br />
team of director Chang Cheh<br />
THE ASSASSIN<br />
Martial Arts (90 min)<br />
Language: Mandarin<br />
Director: Chang Cheh<br />
Producer: Run-run Shaw<br />
Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Chiao Chiao<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 1967, Country of<br />
Origin: Hong Kong<br />
Budget: $<br />
Set in the Six Kingdoms era in Chinese<br />
history, the hero is betrayed by a jealous<br />
rival. Only an accidental meeting with<br />
another master material artist sets the<br />
hero back on the road to vengeance.<br />
THE CHINESE BOXER<br />
Martial Arts (94 min)<br />
Language: Mandarin<br />
Director: Jimmy Wang Yu<br />
Producer: Runme Shaw<br />
Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Lo Lieh, Wang<br />
Ping<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 1970, Country of<br />
Origin: Hong Kong<br />
<strong>The</strong> Golden Age of kung-fu film’s first<br />
superstar (Jimmy Wang Yu) wrote,<br />
directed and starred in this classic<br />
favorite.<br />
CELLULOID<br />
DREAMS<br />
Celluloid Dreams, 2 Rue Turgot, 75009<br />
Paris, France. Tel: 33.1.4970.8320. Fax:<br />
33.1.4970.0371. Mob: 331.675.259.791.<br />
info@celluloid-dreams.com,<br />
www.celluloid-dreams.com<br />
Company Type: Sales agent, producer,<br />
distributor<br />
At Cannes: Hengameh Panahi (Director),<br />
Pierre Menahem (International Sales),<br />
Natalie Dana (International Sales),<br />
Acquisition Executive: Hengameh Panahi<br />
(Director)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Résidence du Grand Hotel,<br />
Appartement 7D Dauphin, 45, boulevard<br />
de La Croisette - 06400 Cannes, Tel:<br />
334.9399.8470. Fax: 334.9399.8471<br />
ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES<br />
Drama (90 min)<br />
Language: Mandarin<br />
Director: Yu Lik Wai<br />
Production Companies: Hu Tong<br />
Communication, Lumen <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Producers: Li Kitming, Hengameh<br />
Panahi<br />
Cast: Cho Yong Won (Xuelan) Diao<br />
Yinan (XiaoZhuai) Zhao Wei, Wei<br />
(Xiaomian) , Na Ren (Lanlan)<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Production<br />
Countries: China, Korea, France<br />
Sometime in the mid-21st Century, the<br />
ruling sect-like power comes crashing<br />
down. Before a similar regime takes<br />
control, two fun-loving brothers decide to<br />
take advantage of this chaotic gap in<br />
history.<br />
BELLEVILLE RENDEZ-VOUS (LES<br />
TRIPLETTES DE BELLEVILLE)<br />
Animation (75 minutes)<br />
Language: French<br />
Director: Sylvain Chomet<br />
Production Companies: Les Armateurs,<br />
Production Champion, Vivi <strong>Film</strong>s, RGP<br />
France, France 3<br />
Producer: Didier Brunner<br />
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Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Production<br />
Countries: France, Canada, Belgium<br />
When Madame Souza gave a racing bike<br />
to her orphaned nephew, little did she<br />
know that it would one day lead to the<br />
adventure of a lifetime. Laughter and<br />
tears abound in this burlesque thriller<br />
animation film.<br />
BRIGHT FUTURE<br />
Drama<br />
Language: Japanese<br />
Director: Kurosawa Kiyoshi<br />
Producer: Asai Takashi<br />
Production company: Uplink<br />
Co-producers OSHITA Harumi, IWASE<br />
Sadayuki<br />
Cast :ASANO Tadanobu, Odagiri Joe,<br />
FUJI Tatsuya, SASANO Takashi,<br />
SHIRAISHI Marumi<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Production<br />
country: Japan<br />
Enigmatic Mamoru lives alone with his<br />
poisonous but hauntingly luminous<br />
jellyfish. <strong>The</strong>se attractive loners sting<br />
whoever gets too close.<br />
FACING WINDOW (LA FINESTRA<br />
DI FRONTE)<br />
Drama (106 min)<br />
Language: Italian<br />
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek<br />
Producers: Tilde Corsi, Gianni Romoli<br />
Production company: R&C Produzioni<br />
Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo<br />
Girotti, Raoul Bova, Filippo Nigro, Serra<br />
Yilmaz<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Production countries: Italy, U.K, Turkey,<br />
Portugal<br />
Giovanna has been married to her lazy<br />
husband for 9 years. <strong>The</strong> only escape<br />
seems to be blossoming romantic interest<br />
with her neighbor, in the opposite<br />
apartment.<br />
FATHER AND SON<br />
Drama (83 min)<br />
Language: Russian<br />
Director: Alexander Sokurov<br />
Production Companies: Zero <strong>Film</strong>s,<br />
Lumen <strong>Film</strong>s, Isabella <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Producers: Thomas Kufus, Hengameh<br />
Panahi<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
THE BUSINESS<br />
OF FILM<br />
London Head <strong>Of</strong>fice<br />
41-42 Berners St.<br />
London WIT 3NB<br />
Los Angeles <strong>Of</strong>fice<br />
5150 Wilshire Blvd.<br />
Los Angeles<br />
California 90036<br />
Production Countries: Germany, France,<br />
Netherlands<br />
A Father and his Son have lived together<br />
for years in an old apartment in the<br />
center of Saint Petersburg in spartial<br />
fashion.<br />
CHINA STAR<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
GROUP<br />
China Star Entertainment Group, Unit<br />
503C, Miramar Tower, 132 Nathan Road,<br />
TST, Kowloon, HK. Tel: 852.2313.1873.<br />
Fax: 852.2191.9900.<br />
movie@chinastar.com.hk<br />
At Cannes: Charles Heung (Chairman),<br />
Tiffany Chen (Vice Chairman), Ann<br />
Hung (General Manager), Ada Lam<br />
(Manager), Mell Ngai (Distribution<br />
Executive)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera E6-01<br />
WHY ME, SWEETIE?!<br />
Romantic Comedy<br />
Director: Jingle Ma<br />
Producer: Cheung Chi Kwong<br />
Cast: Louis Koo, Cherry Yin<br />
Production status: Post - production<br />
It is tormenting to any couple when both<br />
of you are passionately in love, your<br />
lover suddenly treats you like a total<br />
stranger at the pinnacle of the<br />
relationship.<br />
LOOKING FOR MISTER PERFECT<br />
Romantic Comedy<br />
Director: Ringo Lam<br />
Producer: Johnnie To<br />
Cast: Shu Qi, Andy On<br />
Production status: Post - production<br />
Sometimes longed love relationship does<br />
not make a perfect ending...<br />
THE MUSCLE MAN<br />
Action Comedy<br />
Director: Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai<br />
Producer: Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai<br />
Cast: Andy Lau, Cecilia Cheung<br />
Production status: In-production<br />
How does a monk exert the advantage of<br />
haleness? By joining the police force?<br />
Or...by joining the haleness<br />
tournament???<br />
CHRIS DAVIS<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
Chris Davis International, 4612<br />
Cartwright Ave., Toluca Lake, CA 91602<br />
USA. Tel: 818.753.8950. Fax:<br />
818.753.8960. chris@cjdavis.org<br />
At Cannes: Chris Davis, Eris Karson<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera <strong>Of</strong>fice # G13, Tel:<br />
33.04.92.99.88.41, Mobile:<br />
33.06.08.52.79.40. LA: mobile:<br />
323.899.5465<br />
MULE<br />
Thriller<br />
Director: Geoffrey Wright<br />
Producer: Tone Ludwig & Alan Riche<br />
Cast: Stephen Dorf, Sean Astin, Noah<br />
Taylor<br />
Delivery Status: Principal photography<br />
commences June 2003<br />
BLACK SKY<br />
Thriller<br />
Director and cast will be announced at<br />
Cannes<br />
Delivery Status: Principal photography<br />
commences Summer 2003<br />
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CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
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of your favorite author or<br />
subject matter?<br />
Are you seeking a rare book<br />
as a special gift for a business<br />
colleague or a loved one?<br />
Paris-based antiquarian book dealer Olivier Krasker-Rosen<br />
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“A library of beautifully-bound, antique books<br />
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<strong>The</strong> gift of a rare book to a friend or<br />
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CINE EXCEL<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Cine Excel Entertainment, 1102 N.<br />
Screenland Dr., Burbank, CA 91505<br />
USA. Tel: 818.848.4478. Fax:<br />
818.848.1590. cineexcel@msn.com,<br />
www.cineexcel.com<br />
At Cannes: David Huey (President and<br />
CEO), Carribou Seto (V.P. of<br />
Production), Ed Tillman (V.P. of<br />
Marketing), Gennady Bochkovsky (V.P.<br />
International Servicing)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera J-7 and K-8<br />
MAGMA: EARTH’S MOLTEN<br />
CORE<br />
Action Adventure (90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Carribou Seto<br />
Production Company: Cine Excel<br />
Entertainment and Screenland Partners<br />
XIX<br />
Producer: David Huey<br />
Key Cast: J. Scott Johnson, Tina-Desiree<br />
Berg and Mel Novak<br />
Delivery Status: In Production<br />
Country of origin: USA<br />
Nuclear weapons are used to seal the<br />
deadliest volcano.<br />
VAMPIRE ASSASSIN<br />
Horror, Action (90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Ron Hall<br />
Production Company: Cine Excel<br />
Entertainment and Screenland Partners<br />
XVII<br />
Producer: David Huey<br />
Key Cast: Ron Hall and Mel Novak<br />
Delivery Status: Post Production<br />
Country of origin: USA<br />
In the tradition of Blade, to kill an army<br />
of vampires, a man must become one.<br />
GI-ANTS<br />
Sci-Fi (90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Carribou Seto<br />
Production Company: Cine Excel<br />
Entertainment and Screenland Partners<br />
XV<br />
Producer: David Huey & Milan<br />
Mrdjenovich<br />
Key Cast: Mel Novak<br />
Status: Post Production<br />
Country of origin: USA<br />
Giant killer ants invade earth.<br />
NEVER DIE ALONE<br />
CONTENT INTERNATIONAL<br />
POWER ELITE<br />
Action/adventure (94 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Carribou Seto<br />
Production Company: Cine Excel<br />
Entertainment and Screenland Partners<br />
XII<br />
Producer: David Huey & Milan<br />
Mrdjenovich<br />
Key Cast: Olivier Gruner, Rebecca<br />
Ferratti, Mel Novak<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of origin: USA<br />
Mercenaries kidnap the President of the<br />
United States days before an<br />
International Peace Treaty.<br />
S.W.A.T. WARHEAD ONE<br />
Action/adventure (90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Carribou Seto<br />
Production Company: Cine Excel<br />
Entertainment and Screenland Partners<br />
XIV<br />
Producer: David Huey<br />
Key Cast: Olivier Gruner, Rebecca<br />
Ferratti, Gerald Okamura<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country of origin: USA<br />
Los Angles’ elite police team must stop<br />
terrorists that have a nuclear warhead.<br />
CINE-<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
Cine-International, Leopoldstr. 18, D-<br />
80802 Munich, Germany. Tel:<br />
49.89.391025. Fax: 49.89.331089.<br />
email@cine-international.de, www.cineinternational.de<br />
Company type: Distributor<br />
At Cannes: Lilli Tyc-Holm (President),<br />
Susanne Groh (Head of Sales &<br />
Acquisitions)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: L 11 Riviera, Tel:<br />
33.4.92.99.32.06<br />
RED AND BLUE<br />
Drama (113 min)<br />
Language: German, English subtitles<br />
Director: Rudolf Thome<br />
Producer: Rudolf Thome, Moana-<strong>Film</strong><br />
GmbH, Berlin<br />
Cast: Hannelore Elsner, Serpil Turhan,<br />
Hanns Zischler<br />
Delivery status: complete<br />
Year of production: 2002, Country of<br />
origin: Germany<br />
Although she really wanted to become a<br />
racecar driver, Barbara is now an<br />
architect. <strong>The</strong> stability of her designs<br />
reflect the stability in her life, or so it<br />
seems.<br />
BOOMERANG<br />
Dark Comedy (88 min.)<br />
Language: Yugoslavian, English subtitles<br />
Director: Dragan Marinkovic<br />
Producers: <strong>Film</strong> Link, Vans, Zillion<br />
Cast: Lazar Ristovski, Paulina Manov,<br />
Nebojsa Glogovac<br />
Delivery status: complete<br />
Year of production: 2001, Country of<br />
origin: Yugoslavia - Canada coproduction<br />
A high-speed dark comedy and a slice of<br />
life served with plenty of laughs and a<br />
dash of bite.<br />
CROP CIRCLES - THE COSMIC<br />
CONNECTION<br />
Documentary (85 min.)<br />
Language: German, English<br />
Director: Peterjürgen Heppa<br />
Producer: CLIP, Munich, Germany<br />
Delivery status: complete<br />
Year of production: 1997, Country of<br />
Origin: Germany<br />
Documentary with scientific and<br />
journalistic explanations of<br />
electromagnetic, radioactive,<br />
morphogenetic resonance and<br />
polyembryotical aspects of the<br />
phenomenon of CROP CIRCLES as well<br />
as the genetic changes of the plants<br />
concerned.<br />
LES ENFANTS DE L’AMOUR<br />
Family Drama (87 min)<br />
Language: French with English subtitles<br />
Director: Geoffrey Enthoven<br />
Producer: Fobic <strong>Film</strong>s, Gent, Belgium<br />
Cast: Fauve De Loof, Michael Philpott,<br />
Winnifred Vigilante<br />
Delivery Status: complete<br />
Year of production: 2001, Country of<br />
origin: Belgium<br />
A family drama featuring a “patchwork<br />
family”, i.e. a husband and wife who<br />
both used to have other partners in life<br />
and their kids’ worries and problems.<br />
VIVA AFRICA (A FOUNTAIN FOR<br />
SUSAN)<br />
Comedy (105 min)<br />
Language: English, German<br />
Director: Dusan Rapos<br />
Producer: Jiri Fojtik A.S.K.<br />
Cast: Eva Vejmelkova, Alessandro Coari,<br />
Ibrahim Maiga<br />
Delivery status: complete<br />
Year of production:1999, Countries of<br />
Origin: Slovak Republic, Czech<br />
Republic, Zimbabwe<br />
A family film and a romantic musical<br />
comedy set against the background of the<br />
African wilderness and the beauty of<br />
Victoria Falls.<br />
CINECLICK ASIA<br />
Cineclick Asia (Interclick co., ltd.),<br />
Incline Bldg. 3F, 891-37 Daechi-dong,<br />
Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-280 Korea. Tel:<br />
822 538 0211. Fax: 822.538 0479,9299<br />
3245. http://www.cineclickasia.com,<br />
cineinfo@cineclickasia.com<br />
At Cannes: Youngjoo SUH (Managing<br />
Director), Sang-eun CHI (Manager),<br />
Yunjeong KIM (Assistant Manager),<br />
Rachel Y. KIM<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera K 11<br />
STEAL IT IF YOU CAN<br />
http://www.cineclickasia.com/movie/steal<br />
itifyoucan/index.asp<br />
Comedy (96 min)<br />
Language: Korean<br />
Director: Kyung-su LIM<br />
Producer: Jong-su CHOI<br />
Key Cast: Sang-myun PARK, Ji-sub<br />
SOH, Sun-mi SONG<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Budget: US$ 3 Million<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Korea<br />
An elite computer programmer who<br />
steals things for a hobby and a cowardly<br />
father who desperately tries to protect his<br />
family from the thief.<br />
H<br />
http://www.cineclickasia.com/movie/h/in<br />
dex.html<br />
Thriller (107 min)<br />
Language: Korean<br />
Director: Jong-hyuk LEE<br />
Co-Production Partners:<br />
Producer: Jung-wan OHh<br />
Key Cast : Jin-hee JI, Jung-ah YEOM,<br />
Seung-woo CHO<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Budget: US$3 million<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Korea<br />
One year after a genius killer was put<br />
into a jail, the same patterned murders<br />
start again.<br />
OGU : A HILARIOUS MOURNING<br />
Drama (96 min)<br />
Director: Korean<br />
Language: Yoon-taek LEE<br />
Producer: Du-young CHOI<br />
Key Cast: Jae-Eun LEE, Bu-Ja Kang,<br />
Kyoung-ik KIM<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Budget: US$ 1.7 million<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Korea<br />
Angels of the death get a mission : escort<br />
an old lady to her final resting place.<br />
A TALE OF TWO SISTERS<br />
Horror<br />
Language: Korean<br />
Director: Jee-woon KIM<br />
Producer: Kimin OH, Jung-wan OH<br />
Key Cast: Jeong-ah YEOM, Soo-jung<br />
LIM, Geun-young MOON<br />
Delivery Status: Post Production<br />
Budget: US$ 3.7 million<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Korea<br />
Two sisters’ hatred against their<br />
stepmother gets deadly when one of them<br />
gets missing.<br />
SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER<br />
AND SPRING<br />
Drama (101 min)<br />
Language: Korean<br />
Director: Ki-duk KIM<br />
Producer: Seung-jae LEE, Karl<br />
BAUMGARTNER<br />
Key Cast: Young-ho OH, Jae-kyoung<br />
SEO, Jong-ho KIM<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Budget: US$ 2 million<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Korea, Germany<br />
In a Utopian afloat hermitage, human life<br />
is portrayed to a monk’s life, from his<br />
childhood to death, in accordance with<br />
the change of four seasons.<br />
CINÉGROUPE<br />
CinéGroupe, 1010, Ste-Catherine Est, 6è,<br />
Montréal, QC H2L 2G3 Canada. Tel:<br />
514.849.5008. (3240). Fax:<br />
514.849.5001.<br />
At Cannes: Jacques Pettigrew (President<br />
and C.E.O. CinéGroupe), Isabelle Marin<br />
(VP Distribution CinéGroupe)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Horizon Québec/SODEC<br />
(Québec umbrella stand), Hotel: Splendid<br />
(T)<br />
P3K; PINOCCHIO 3000<br />
3D animated feature film<br />
Cast: voices of Malcolm MacDowell,<br />
Howie Mandel and Whoopi Goldberg.<br />
In an ingenious twist on one of the<br />
world’s favorite stories, P3K Pinocchio:<br />
3000 portrays the adventures of a little<br />
robot whose greatest wish is to become a<br />
real boy.<br />
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CINEMA ARTS<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Cinema Arts Entertainment, 9350<br />
Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 203, Beverly Hills,<br />
Ca 90212 USA. Tel: 310.550.1085. Fax:<br />
310.550.1182. Cinema Arts@aol.com<br />
At Cannes: Pierre-Richard Muller<br />
(Director), Chantal Lam (President);<br />
Acquisition executives: Pierre-Richard<br />
Muller (Director), Chantal Lam<br />
(President)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Residence du Grand Hotel, Bldg.<br />
Le Cormoran II, 45 La Croisette, 06400<br />
CANNES. Tel/Fax: 04.93.99.56.67<br />
LOOKING THROUGH LILLIAN<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Jake Torem<br />
Cast: Jade Henham, Sam Bottoms,<br />
Robert Glen Keith<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
An alluring but mixed-up L.A. girl flipflops<br />
between facing life’s uncertainty<br />
under her own direction or “the good<br />
life” provided by a wealthy, disturbing<br />
middle-aged benefactor.<br />
HERA PURPLE (DEVIL GODDESS)<br />
Erotic drama<br />
Director/writer: Chung Gil-Chae<br />
Cast: Kim Chung, Lee Se-Chang, Lee<br />
Ho-Sung<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Country of Origin: Korea<br />
It is a race against time as a group of<br />
detectives must unlock the secret behind<br />
a series of bizarre murders being<br />
committed by a beautiful woman who is<br />
possessed by the spirit of the mythical<br />
goddess, Hera.<br />
LULU<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Jean Henri Roger<br />
Cast: Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Elli Medeiros,<br />
Gerard Meylan, Bruno Putzulu<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Country of Origin: France<br />
Proprietress of “Chez Lulu”, the most<br />
popular bar in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer,<br />
Lulu is radiant. But at the age of<br />
seventeen, when her name was still<br />
“Lucien”, she ran away to live out her<br />
difference elsewhere.<br />
STORY OF O<br />
Erotic/drama<br />
Director: Philip Leirness<br />
Producer: Pierre-Richard Muller<br />
Cast: Danielle Ciardi, Neil Dickson, Max<br />
Parrish, Michelle Ruben<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Based on the international huge success<br />
novel by Pauline Reage, a 2003 new<br />
adaptation set in the USA.<br />
At CANNES<br />
CINEMAVAULT<br />
RELEASING INC.<br />
Cinemavault Releasing Inc., 434 Queen<br />
Street East, Toronto, ON, Canada M5A<br />
1T5. Tel: 416.363.6060. Fax:<br />
416.363.2305. admin@cinemavault.com.<br />
http://www.cinemavault.com<br />
Company Type: Sales Agent<br />
At Cannes: Nick Stiliadis (hief Executive<br />
<strong>Of</strong>ficer), Amy Beecroft (V.P.<br />
International Sales) market cellphone<br />
33.(0)6.0725.8357, Lars Bjork (L.A.<br />
Sales Executive), market cellphone<br />
33.(0)6.0725.8379, Steve Arroyave (V.P.<br />
Production) market cellphone<br />
33.(0)6.0725.8362, Irene Loewy (Senior<br />
V.P. Acquisitions and Marketing), Paco<br />
Alvarez (Production Executive) market<br />
cellphone 33.(0)6.0725.8463, Stephen<br />
Maynard (Director Acquisitions and<br />
Development) market cellphone<br />
33.(0)6.0725.8380, Icrus Murphy<br />
(Production Coordinator) market<br />
cellphone 33.(0)6.0725.8395<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera M7/N8, Tel:<br />
33.(0)4.92.99.33.29<br />
THE LIMIT<br />
Thriller (92 minutes)<br />
Director: Lewin Webb<br />
Producer: Gary Howsam, Jamie Brown<br />
Production Company: GFT<br />
Entertainment<br />
Cast: Lauren Bacall, Claire Forlani,<br />
Henry Czerny, Pete Postlethwaite<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Canada / UK<br />
PARIS<br />
Thriller (97 min)<br />
Director: Ramin Niami<br />
Production Company: Sideshow Digital<br />
Producer: Ramin Niami, Karen Robson<br />
Cast: Chad Allen, Bai Ling, James Russo<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: United States<br />
A rookie detective embarks on a<br />
disturbing journey through the shadowy<br />
underworld of Los Angeles and Las<br />
Vegas.<br />
INSIDE<br />
Thriller (112 min)<br />
Director: Michael Jette<br />
Production Company: Christal <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Producer: Michael Jette<br />
Cast: Emmanuel Auge, Dominic<br />
Darceuil, David Boutin<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Canada<br />
Sentenced to ten years in prison, Claude<br />
realizes that inside only the strong<br />
survive.<br />
Elspeth Tavares can be reached<br />
@ <strong>The</strong> Carlton Hotel<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice 149<br />
Tel: 04 93 06 41 49 or Tel: 04 93 06 47 20<br />
Fax: 04 93 06 68 49<br />
DANGEROUS PEOPLE<br />
Comedy (107 min)<br />
Director: Louis Saia<br />
Producer: Richard Goudreau<br />
Production Company: Melleny<br />
Production<br />
Cast: Stephane Rousseau, Veronique<br />
Cloutier, Marc Messier<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Canada<br />
A kidnapping and ransom plot out of<br />
control.<br />
LOST THINGS<br />
Thriller (83 min)<br />
Director: Martin Murphy<br />
Producer: Ian Iveson<br />
Production Company: ISM <strong>Film</strong>s Pty<br />
Ltd.<br />
Cast: Leon Ford, Lenka Kripac, Steve Le<br />
Marquand<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Australia<br />
A group of teens are terrorized during<br />
spring break.<br />
CINEPHIL<br />
Cinephil, 18 Levontin Street, Tel Aviv,<br />
65112 Israel. Tel: 972.3.5664129. Fax:<br />
972.3.5601436. www.cinephil.co.il,<br />
info@cinephil.co.il<br />
At Cannes: Philippa Kowarsky<br />
(Managing Director)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: <strong>The</strong> Israeli <strong>Film</strong> Promotion Fund<br />
Stand: Riviera, Stand F21, Tel:<br />
04.92.99.33.32, Philippa Kowarsky Cell:<br />
972.54.96.11.14<br />
CAFE TALES<br />
Drama/Black Comedy (90 min)<br />
Language: Hebrew<br />
Director: Amit Leor<br />
Co-Production Partners: JCS<br />
Productions, ICP<br />
Producer: Mosh Danon<br />
Key Cast: Moshe Ivgi, Elisheva<br />
Michaeli, Arye Moskuna<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Israel<br />
Café Tales unfolds a day in the life of<br />
Yutz, a frustrated poet in his fifties, and<br />
his aging bohemian friends, who have<br />
made the rickety `Café Braun` their<br />
home, and its elderly proprietor, Leah<br />
Braun their `mother`.<br />
MATCHING HEART<br />
Drama (85 min)<br />
Language: Hebrew<br />
Director: Eyal Shiray<br />
Co-Production Partners: h Cinema Post<br />
Production, ICP<br />
Producer: David Mandil<br />
Key Cast: Tinkerbell, Yoram Hatav, Orna<br />
Porat<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Israel<br />
A story of a religious girl, running away<br />
towards her destiny...<br />
TRUMPET IN THE WADI<br />
Drama (97 min)<br />
Language: Hebrew, Arabic, Russian<br />
Director: Lina & Slava Chaplin<br />
Co-Production Partners: Ricki Shelach<br />
Productions Ltd., ICP<br />
Producer: Ricki Shelach<br />
Key Cast: Alexander Senderovich,<br />
Khawlah Hag-Debsy, Raeda Adon<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: Israel<br />
An impossible love story between two<br />
outsiders in the Israeli society: Huda an<br />
Arab young woman and Alex, a new<br />
immigrant from Russia.<br />
MIKE BRANT-L’AISSE MOIS<br />
T’AIMER<br />
Documentary/Culture/Music (100 min)<br />
Language: Hebrew, French<br />
Director: Erez Laufer<br />
Co-Production Partners: Erez Laufer<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s, Cineteve, INA Entreprise<br />
Producer: Erez Laufer, Fabienne Servan<br />
Schreiber<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Israel, France<br />
<strong>The</strong> rise and fall of the Israeli pop star<br />
who shook the skies of France in the<br />
1970s.<br />
THE DARIEN DILEMMA<br />
Documentary/History (58 min)<br />
Director: Erez Laufer<br />
Co-Production Partners:<br />
Producer: Erez Laufer<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />
Budget: 182555<br />
Year of Production: 2003-4, Country of<br />
Origin: Israel<br />
At the beginning of World War II, a 1000<br />
refugee pioneers, intend to reach Israel<br />
on the Darien, a boat owned by the<br />
Mossad.<br />
CINETEL FILMS,<br />
INC.<br />
CineTel <strong>Film</strong>s, Inc., 8255 Sunset Blvd.,<br />
Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA. Tel:<br />
323.654.4000. Fax: 323.650.6400.<br />
At Cannes: Paul Hertzberg (President),<br />
Marcy Rubin (Sr. Vice President,<br />
International Distribution), Mary Judy<br />
(VP Distribution Services), Jason L.<br />
Tolbert (Director of Acquisitions)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera E2<br />
LOST TREASURE<br />
Directed by: Jay Andrews<br />
Starring: Stephen Baldwin, Nicolette<br />
Sheridan<br />
Status: Completed<br />
After finding an ancient treasure map, an<br />
International arms dealer kidnaps a<br />
police detective, and sets out to Central<br />
America in search of gold.<br />
MASKED & ANONYMOUS<br />
HANNIBAL PICTURES<br />
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CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
MOMENTUM<br />
Starring: Louis Gossett Jr., Teri Hatcher,<br />
Michael Massee<br />
Status: Completed<br />
A man with telekinetic abilities has lived<br />
in torment, afraid of exposing his<br />
“secret” powers, until he meets with a<br />
group of people with like powers, on the<br />
run from an FBI agent who is trying to<br />
destroy them.<br />
SHOCK WAVE<br />
Action/Disaster<br />
Status: Pre-Production<br />
A ground-splitting earthquake crumbles a<br />
dam the size of the Hoover sending<br />
millions of gallons of water barreling<br />
into a major US city and residents<br />
scrambling for their lives.<br />
LEGEND OF THE PIT FIGHTER<br />
Starring: Jamie Pressly, Casper Van Dien,<br />
Dominique Vandenberg, Fernando<br />
Carrillo<br />
Status: Production<br />
“Memento” meets “Bloodsport” when<br />
the past of an amnesiac living as a<br />
humble pit fighter comes back to haunt<br />
him, reminding him that some things are<br />
best left forgotten.<br />
SUB-ZERO<br />
Action/Disaster<br />
Status: Pre-Production<br />
After a satellite containing classified<br />
information crashes into a mountain<br />
peak, a team of experienced climbers and<br />
military personnel must race to retrieve<br />
the sensitive data despite the risk of an<br />
avalanche and impending blizzard.<br />
CJ ENTERTAINMENT<br />
CJ Entertainment, 11th Fl, CJ Bldg, 500,<br />
5 Ga, Namdaemoon-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul,<br />
100-802, South Korea. Tel:<br />
82.2.726.8564. Fax: 82.2.726.8291.<br />
infofilm@cj.net, www.cjent.co.kr<br />
At Cannes: Mark Soh (CFO/CSO),<br />
Edison Jeon (Senior VP of Int’l Sales and<br />
Acquisitions), June Lee (Director of Int’l<br />
Sales and Acquisitions), Jun Kim<br />
(Assistant Manager of Int’l Sales and<br />
Acquisitions)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera E21/F22, Tel:<br />
33.(0)4.92.99.88.21<br />
MEMORIES OF MURDER<br />
Crime Drama<br />
Director: Bong Joon-Ho<br />
THE EMPEROR’S WIFE<br />
HOLLAND FILMS<br />
Cast: Song Kang-Ho (Sympathy for Mr.<br />
Vengeance), Kim Sang-Kyung (Turning<br />
Gate)<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Budget: $3.5m<br />
Spanning six years, 10 young women are<br />
found brutally raped and murdered in a<br />
2km radius. In a country that has never<br />
known such crimes, the dark whispers<br />
about a serial killer grow louder.<br />
SAVE THE GREEN PLANET<br />
Dark Comedy<br />
Director: JANG Jun-hwan<br />
Cast: Shin Ha-kyun (Sympathy for Mr.<br />
Vengeance)<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Budget: $3.5m<br />
Byung-Gu believes that all of the earth’s<br />
social ills are the evil doings of aliens.<br />
Unless he can meet the prince from<br />
Andromeda before the total lunar eclipse,<br />
Planet Earth will be in grave danger.<br />
MY TUTOR FRIEND<br />
Comedy<br />
Director: KIM Kyung-hyung<br />
Cast: KWON Sang-woo (Volcano High),<br />
KIM Ha-neul (Ditto)<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Budget: $1.7m<br />
Soo-wan (Kim Ha-neul) and Ji-hoon<br />
(KWON Sang-woo) are both 21 years<br />
old.<br />
UNBORN BUT FORGOTTEN<br />
Horror<br />
Director: IM Chang-jae<br />
Cast: LEE Eun-ju (Bungee Jumping of<br />
their own), JEONG Joon-ho (Marrying<br />
the Mafia)<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Budget: $3m<br />
Between a lie that can be seen and the<br />
truth that is invisible, there is a small<br />
gap. This is the “White Room” where<br />
death gestates.<br />
THE ROMANTIC PRESIDENT<br />
Comedy<br />
Director: JEON Man-bae<br />
Cast: AHN Sung-ki (Nowhere To Hide),<br />
CHOI Ji-woo (Nowhere To Hide)<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Budget: $2m<br />
<strong>The</strong> youngest and the most talented<br />
president in the history of Korea, Minwook<br />
lives and breathes with the people<br />
by going undercover to see how they<br />
really live.<br />
CONTENT<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
Content International, 14/15 D’Arblay<br />
Street - W1F 8DZ London, UK. Tel:<br />
44.20.7851.9170. Fax: 44.20.7851.9171.<br />
At Cannes: Judith Baugin (Marketing<br />
Manager)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: 3rd floor, No 2 La Croisette, Tel:<br />
33.4.93.38.58.88. Fax: 33.4.93.99.46.55<br />
WICKED PRAYER<br />
Action Horror<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Lance Mungia<br />
Producer: Jeff Most - Edward R.<br />
Pressman<br />
Key Cast: “Edward Furlong”<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: US<br />
When Jimmy and his girlfriend are<br />
murdered by a rampaging satanic cult, he<br />
is reincarnated as ‘<strong>The</strong> Crow’, an<br />
immortal vigilante who must quickly<br />
learn of his powers and seek revenge.<br />
RICK<br />
Suspense - Black comedy<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Curtiss Clayton<br />
Producer: Ruth Charny, Jim Czarnecki<br />
Key Cast: “Bill Pullman”, “Aaron<br />
Stanford”, “Agnes Bruckner”<br />
Delivery Status: Post Production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: US<br />
Cursed by a humiliated interviewee, a<br />
bitter corporate vice-chairman bizarrely<br />
accepts an offer to have his obnoxious<br />
young boss murdered and finds himself<br />
unable to stop the contract when he<br />
develops a conscience…<br />
THE UNDERTOW<br />
Dramatic Thriller<br />
Director: English<br />
Language: David Gordon Green<br />
Producer: Lisa Muskat, Edward R.<br />
Pressman, Terrence Malick<br />
Key Cast: “Josh Lucas”, “Jamie Bell”,<br />
“Dermot Mulroney”<br />
Delivery Status: In Production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: US<br />
Two young brothers witness the murder<br />
of their father from the hands of their evil<br />
uncle, who then chases them trying to<br />
steal their inheritance and prevent them<br />
from telling the truth.<br />
NEVER DIE ALONE<br />
Action Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Ernest Dickerson<br />
Producer : DMX, Alessandro Camon<br />
Key Cast: “DMX”, “David Arquette”,<br />
“Michael Ealy”<br />
Delivery Status: Post Production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: US<br />
A young reporter witnesses the murder of<br />
a drug lord and is left with the victim’s<br />
car and diary. As he pieces together the<br />
man’s life and the events leading to the<br />
murder, he finds himself drawn into an<br />
ongoing cycle of violence.<br />
BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY<br />
Epic Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Hans Petter Moland<br />
Producer: Tomas Backstrom, Petter J<br />
Borgli, Terrence Malick<br />
Key Cast: “Nick Nolte”, “Tim Roth”,<br />
“Bai Ling”<br />
Delivery Status: Post Production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: US<br />
Binh, a young Vietnamese man makes an<br />
extraordinary six-month journey from his<br />
village south of Saigon to Texas in search<br />
of his long last GI father.<br />
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Controlled Chaos Movie, 10620<br />
Eastborne Ave. #201, Los Angeles, CA<br />
90024, USA. Tel: 310.475.3773. Fax:<br />
310.475.4043. controlledchaosmovie.com<br />
At Cannes: Azita Zendel (President)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Personal Residence, Tel:<br />
33.07.7367.7823<br />
CONTROLLED CHAOS<br />
Drama (93 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Azita Zendel (Oliver Stone’s<br />
former assistant)<br />
Producer: Azita Zendel Co-production<br />
partners: N/A<br />
Cast: Don Hughes, Amy Blomquist,<br />
Charley King<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Budget: $1 million<br />
Inspired by Azita Zendel’s four years as<br />
Oliver Stone’s assistant, this fictional<br />
dramedy’s about the Assistant to a<br />
famous <strong>Film</strong> Director that hides her boss’<br />
scandalous lifestyle from a Reporter.<br />
CREATIVE LIGHT<br />
WORLDWIDE<br />
Creative Light Worldwide, 8383 Wilshire<br />
Blvd. Suite #212, Beverly Hills CA 90211<br />
USA.Tel: 323.658.9166. Fax:<br />
323.866.3417. CLW@crlight.com.<br />
www.creativelightworldwide.com<br />
At Cannes: Ted Chalmers (Head of<br />
Worldwide Distribution), Ray Haboush<br />
(Head of International Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera L3/M4, Tel:<br />
33.6.793.66449<br />
AERO-TROOPERS<br />
Animation<br />
Language: English<br />
Cast: Mark Hamill (voice); Billy West<br />
(voice); Jess Harnell (voice);<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
In a distant world, a dark force attacks a<br />
floating society and only the Areo<br />
Troopers cans save them.<br />
EARWIGS<br />
Science Fiction<br />
Language: English<br />
Cast: BRUCE CAMPBELL (Evil Dead)<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-Sales<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Produced in association with Sci Fi<br />
Pictures a group of environmentalists<br />
must fight off an invading hive of ancient<br />
insects who serve as protectors of the<br />
Rain Forest.<br />
AVATAR<br />
Science-Fiction<br />
Language: English<br />
Cast: Joan Chen (Last Emperor), David<br />
Warner (Planet of <strong>The</strong> Apes);<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
In the tradition of BLADE RUNNER and<br />
THE MATRIX, in the year 2023, a<br />
female bounty hunter must battle an evil<br />
mega-corporation in virtual reality and in<br />
the real world.<br />
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MADE UP<br />
Romantic Comedy<br />
Language: English<br />
Cast: Tony Shalhoub (Galaxy Quest),<br />
Gary Sinise (Forest Gump), Brooke<br />
Adams (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
An older woman undergoes an elaborate<br />
makeover fooling her boyfriend into<br />
thinking she is two different<br />
women!TEQUILA EXPRESS<br />
Action Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Cast: Christopher Atkins (Blue Lagoon)<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
A deep cover DEA agent must rescue the<br />
daughter of the California Governor from<br />
drug terrorists.<br />
CURB<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
CORP.<br />
Curb Entertainment International Corp.,<br />
3907 West Alameda Ave., Burbank, CA<br />
91505 USA. Tel: 818.843.8580. Fax:<br />
818.566.1719.<br />
www.curbentertainment.com<br />
At Cannes: Carole Curb Nemoy<br />
(President), Wendy Reeds (Executive<br />
Director, Head of Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera N2, Tel: 33.4.92.99.32.29.<br />
Fax: 33.4.92.99.32.33<br />
TOUGH LUCK<br />
Thriller<br />
Director: Richard Shepard (Oxygen)<br />
Producer: Brian Etting, Josh Etting, Ram<br />
Bergman, Carole Curb Nemoy, Mike<br />
Curb<br />
Cast: Armand Assante, Norman Reedus,<br />
Dagmara Dominczyk<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
An intricate net of deceit and betrayal<br />
entangles a wandering grifter (Norman<br />
Reedus) who is hired by a traveling<br />
carnival owner (Armand Assante) to<br />
murder his beautiful wife (Dagmara<br />
Dominczyk). Premiere!<br />
100 MILE RULE<br />
Thriller<br />
Director: Brent Huff<br />
Producer: Eric Gustavson, John Nelson<br />
Cast: Jake Weber, Maria Bello, David<br />
Thornton, Michael McKean<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
After his one-night affair is caught on<br />
tape, a married salesman (Jake Weber)<br />
must outwit a beautifully dangerous<br />
woman (Maria Bello).<br />
MAN’S BEST FRIEND<br />
Romantic Comedy<br />
Director: Rob Lundsgaard<br />
Producers: Scott J. Sloan & Rob<br />
Lundsgaard<br />
Cast: Alexander Chaplin, Lindsay<br />
Sloane, Richard Kind<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Steven’s (Alexander Chaplin) new<br />
romantic relationship with Rebecca<br />
(Lindsay Sloane) is going great: they<br />
both like dogs, good books, and<br />
shopping.<br />
WATER’S EDGE<br />
Thriller<br />
Director: Harvey Kahn<br />
Producer: Harvey Kahn, Carole Curb<br />
Nemoy, Mike Curb<br />
Cast: Nathan Fillion, Daniel Baldwin,<br />
Chandra West, Emmanuelle Vaugier<br />
Country of Origin: Canada<br />
In this tense and riveting tale, a novelist<br />
and his wife uncover a vast web of sex,<br />
murder, and lies in their quiet hometown.<br />
COASTLINES<br />
Thriller<br />
Writer/Director: Victor Nunez<br />
Producers: Victor Nunez and Sam Gowan<br />
Cast: Josh Brolin, Timothy Olyphant,<br />
Sarah Wynter and William Forsythe<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Sonny Mann (Timothy Olyphant), an excon<br />
returning home from prison, creates<br />
a new dynamic for both friends and<br />
enemies with his arrival.<br />
D<br />
DIMENSION FILMS<br />
Dimension <strong>Film</strong>s, 99 Hudson Street, 5th<br />
Floor, New York, NY 10013 USA. Tel:<br />
212.219.4100. Fax: 212.941.3836.<br />
At Cannes: Rick Sands (COO, Miramax<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s), Edward Noeltner (Senior Vice<br />
President, Distribution and Sales,<br />
Miramax International), Marc Bunag<br />
(Vice President, Creative Marketing,<br />
Miramax International), Mark Lindsay<br />
(Vice President, International<br />
Distribution, Miramax International), Jill<br />
Silfen (Vice President, <strong>Business</strong> and<br />
Legal Affairs, Miramax International),<br />
Lisa Lazure (Director, International<br />
Publicity, Miramax International)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Majestic Hotel, Salle Royan, 14,<br />
La Croisette, Cannes, France. Tel:<br />
4.97.06.85.00. Fax: 04.97.06.85.04<br />
CURSED<br />
Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Wes Craven<br />
Producers: Wes Craven, Marianne<br />
Maddelena<br />
Cast: Christina Ricci, Skeet Ulrich, Jesse<br />
Eisenberg, John McGinley, Scott Baio,<br />
Robert Forster, and Omar Epps<br />
Status: In Production<br />
County of Origin: USA<br />
Horror master Wes Craven and writer<br />
Kevin Williamson polish up their silver<br />
bullets for this frightening new take on a<br />
classic horror legend<br />
SPY KIDS 3D: GAME OVER<br />
Action Adventure<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Robert Rodriguez<br />
Producers: Elizabeth Avellan, Robert<br />
Rodriguez<br />
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino,<br />
Daryl Sabara, Alexa Vega, Ricardo<br />
Montalban, Holland Taylor, Danny Trejo,<br />
and Sylvester Stallone<br />
Status: In Production<br />
County of Origin: USA<br />
This time the Cortez family must come<br />
together to defeat their arch-nemesis <strong>The</strong><br />
Toymaker (Stallone), when young<br />
Carmen becomes trapped inside a virtual<br />
reality video game.<br />
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SCARY MOVIE 3<br />
Comedy/Horror Parody<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: David Zucker<br />
Producer: Robert K. Weiss<br />
Cast: Anna Faris, Camryn Manheim,<br />
Anthony Anderson, special appearance<br />
by Eddie Griffin, with Denise Richards,<br />
with Regina Hall and Charlie Sheen.<br />
Status: In Production<br />
County of Origin: USA<br />
David Zucker helms the 3rd installment<br />
of the blockbuster parody franchise that<br />
has grossed over $400 million.<br />
DISTANT HORIZON<br />
Distant Horizon, 8282 Sunset Boulevard,<br />
Suite A, Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA.<br />
Tel: 323.848.4140. Fax: 323.848.4144.<br />
la@distant-horizon.com. London: 61<br />
Villiers Avenue, Surbiton, Surrey KT5<br />
8BE London, UK. Tel: 020.8399.5126.<br />
Fax: 020.8390.5341. london@distanthorizon.com<br />
At Cannes: Anant Singh (Producer),<br />
Brian Cox (Producer), Sanjeev Singh<br />
(Acquisitions Director), Paul Janssen<br />
(Sales Executive)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Hotel Savoy, Tel: 04.92.99.72.00<br />
LONG WALK TO FREEDOM<br />
Director: Shekhar Kapur (Four Feathers,<br />
Elizabeth, Bandit Queen)<br />
Producer: Anant Singh<br />
Principal Cast: Morgan Freeman<br />
Status: In Development<br />
Long Walk To Freedom is the<br />
autobiography of Nelson Mandela, South<br />
Africa’s first democratically elected<br />
president.<br />
I CAPTURE THE CASTLE<br />
Director: Tim Flywell (Madame Bovary,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Woman In White)<br />
Producers: Anant Singh, David M.<br />
Thompson, David Parfitt (Shakespeare In<br />
Love)<br />
Principal Cast: Romola Garai, Rose<br />
Byrne (Star Wars: Episode II), Henry<br />
Thomas (Gangs <strong>Of</strong> New York), Marc<br />
Blucas (Sunshine State, View From <strong>The</strong><br />
Top, We Were Soldiers), Bill Nighy<br />
(Lucky Break), Tara Fitzgerald (Brassed<br />
<strong>Of</strong>f)<br />
Status: Complete<br />
I CAPTURE THE CASTLE is a<br />
classically romantic tale of a young girl’s<br />
emotional journey into adulthood, as she<br />
discovers the secrets of her own feelings<br />
and sexuality.<br />
MR BONES<br />
Director: Gray Hofmeyr<br />
Producers: Anant Singh, Helena Spring<br />
Principal Cast: Leon Schuster (Panic<br />
Mechanic, Yankee Zulu), David Ramsey<br />
(Pay It Forward, Three To Tango), Faizon<br />
Love (<strong>The</strong> Parenthood, Blue Crush)<br />
Status: Complete<br />
Mr Bones is the highest grossing South<br />
African film of all time. <strong>The</strong> king of the<br />
Kavuki tribe is ageing and does not have<br />
a male heir.<br />
VOLCANO HIGH<br />
Director: Kim Tae-Gyun<br />
Producers: Seoung-Jae Cha, Woo-Suk<br />
Kang<br />
Principal Cast: Hyuk Jang, Min-A Shin,<br />
Su-Ro Kim, Sang-Woo Kwon<br />
Status: Complete<br />
Volcano High tells the story of a young<br />
man with incredible fighting powers that<br />
he is forbidden to use.<br />
DREAM<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Dream Entertainment, 8489 W. Third<br />
Street, Suite 1038, Los Angeles, CA<br />
90048 USA. Tel: 323.655.5501. Fax:<br />
323.655.5603. DreamEnter@aol.com<br />
Company Type: Producer, Sales Agent<br />
At Cannes: Ehud Bleiberg (Chairman &<br />
CEO), Yitzhak Ginsberg (President),<br />
Nadine de Barros (Vice President, Sales<br />
& Acquisitions), Shannon Wilson<br />
(Coordinator)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera: J1/K2, Tel: 04.9299.3335<br />
DISASTER!<br />
Claymation /Action/Comedy<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Roy Wood<br />
Producers: Ehud Bleiberg, Yitzhak<br />
Ginsberg, John Glenn, Travis Wright,<br />
Evan Astrowsky<br />
Delivery Status: In Pre-Production<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
A hilarious spoof of big-budget action<br />
films, “Disaster!” is the ultimate disaster<br />
movie.<br />
MONSTER MEN<br />
Horror/Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Michael Davis<br />
Producers: Yitzhak Ginsberg, Ehud<br />
Bleiberg, Larry Rattner<br />
Cast: Eric Jungmann, Justin Urich, Aimee<br />
Brooks<br />
Delivery Status: In Post-Production<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
A monster man driving a monster truck<br />
terrorize a couple of college kids<br />
traveling cross-country.<br />
HER MAJESTY<br />
Family/Adventure<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Mark J. Gordon<br />
Producers: Walter Coblenz<br />
Cast: Sally Andrews, Vicky Haughton,<br />
Liddy Holloway, Mark Clare<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Set in 1953, Her Majesty is a widely<br />
appealing coming of age story about a<br />
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young girl who realizes her life-long<br />
dream when Queen Elizabeth comes to<br />
visit her small hometown.<br />
GACY<br />
Thriller/Horror<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Clive Saunders<br />
Producers: Larry Rattner, Tim Swain<br />
Cast: Mark Holton, Charlie Weber<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
From the same team that brought you<br />
“Dahmer”, a shocking story about the<br />
infamous American serial killer - John<br />
Wayne Gacy.<br />
WHITE GOLD<br />
Action<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Victor Ivanov<br />
Producers: Victor Ivanov, Feyodor Popov<br />
Cast: Josh Holland, Alexander<br />
Dyachenko, Yevgeniy Sidikhin<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
A rebellious California kid becomes heir<br />
to a map believed to lead to gold stolen<br />
in 1919 Russia and must fight the KGB,<br />
FBI, and Russian mafia for the treasure.<br />
DYNAMIC FILMS<br />
Dynamic <strong>Film</strong>s, 10612 McVine Ave.,<br />
Sunland, CA 91040 USA. Tel:<br />
818.352.7347. Fax: 818.352.7347.<br />
Dynamicfilms.us.<br />
Dynamicfilms@aol.com<br />
At Cannes: Armand Gazarian (CEO),<br />
Lindsay Norgard (VP Sales), Armine<br />
Weiss (<strong>Business</strong> Affairs)<br />
THE OSIRUS PROJECT (HIDDEN<br />
AGENDA)<br />
Action (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Scott McAboy<br />
Producer: Amy Sydorick and Scott<br />
Hohnbaum<br />
Key Cast: Brixton Karnes, Rebekah<br />
Carlton, Rick Cramer, William Zabka<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Elite American and British agents team<br />
up to hunt down an international terrorist<br />
in control of a nuclear satellite<br />
11:14 - MDP WORLDWIDE<br />
SHOW ME YOUR POTATOES<br />
Comedy (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Jeremiah Bosgang<br />
Producer: Wendy Perelman and Jeremiah<br />
Bosgangh<br />
Key Cast : Jerry Seinfeld, Jason<br />
Alexander, Conan O’brien, Dick Cavett,<br />
Michael Richards<br />
Delivery Status: In Development<br />
Country of Origin: US<br />
A struggling writer’s evolution from a<br />
custodian to a studio executive, based on<br />
a true story<br />
BIKINI MANSION (LUCKY ANGEL)<br />
Comedy (90 min)<br />
Director: English<br />
Language: Peter R. J. Deyell<br />
Producer: Armen Balian<br />
Key Cast: Robert Abrams, Ted Kurtz,<br />
Betsy Monroe<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: US<br />
A real estate agent inherits a mansion<br />
that serves as an underground brothel<br />
GAME OF SURVIVAL<br />
Sci-fi/action (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Armand Gazarian<br />
Producer: Lindsay Norgard<br />
Key Cast: Nikki Hill, Cindy Coatman<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: US<br />
Seven Prisoners from around the galaxy<br />
compete in a brutal game for a chance<br />
for freedom.<br />
TIMELESS LOVE (ORIUNDI)<br />
Drama (120 min)<br />
Language: Italian<br />
Director: Ricardo Bravo<br />
Producer: Elaine Ferreira, Telmo Maia<br />
Key Cast: Anthony Quinn, Leticia<br />
Spiller, Paulo Betti, Paulo Autran<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: Brazil<br />
A man tormented by lost love gets a<br />
second chance when he believes his<br />
beloved wife is reincarnated.<br />
E<br />
ECHELON<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Echelon Entertainment, 8831 Sunset<br />
Boulevard, Suite 300, West Hollywood,<br />
California, USA 90069. Tel:<br />
310.652.2893. Fax: 310.652.6237.<br />
mail@echelonent.com,<br />
www.echelonent.com<br />
Company Type: Sales Agent<br />
At Cannes: Eric Louzil (President & Co-<br />
CEO), Billy Blake (Co-CEO), Geoff<br />
Jarvis (VP <strong>Of</strong> International Sales), Stacey<br />
Parks (VP <strong>Of</strong> International Sales), Ellen<br />
Roongcharoen (Sales Assistant), John<br />
Howard (VP <strong>Of</strong> Press<br />
Relations/Marketing), Acquisition<br />
Executive: Gloria Morrison (President <strong>Of</strong><br />
Acquisitions/Development)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: E11/F12; Hotel “La Madrilene”,<br />
15, Bd Alexandre III, 06400 Cannes, Tel:<br />
33.0.4.97.06.37.37. Fax:<br />
33.0.4.93.94.38.78,<br />
BLUE FIRE<br />
Sexual Angst Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Chia Hui Gao<br />
Producer: Chia Hui Gao, Olivier Janin,<br />
Michael A. Wong<br />
Cast: Johnny Kwon, Victoria Linchon,<br />
Jackson Ning<br />
Year of Production: 2002 Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Jack can’t help but to be drawn to his<br />
lively, but ill-reputed, roommate, Lana<br />
Lin. After passing judgment on Lana’s<br />
loose lifestyle, Jack finds himself<br />
desiring her.<br />
DARK TOMORROW<br />
Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: JOHN GOINS<br />
Producer: JOHN GOINS<br />
Cast: Chris Moller, Jen Lester, Alex Safi<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002 Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
John celebrates going to college<br />
basketball’s Final Four, but the next<br />
morning, hears on TV that he stabbed his<br />
fiancé a year ago. What happened in that<br />
year?<br />
DETENTION<br />
Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Andy Anderson<br />
Producer: Robert J. Castaldo and<br />
Kirksten C. Irick<br />
Cast: John S. Davies, Marsha Dietlein,<br />
and Gail Cronauer<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 1999 Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
In this “Breakfast Club” meets<br />
“Hellraiser,” the frazzled high school<br />
teacher comes up with a truly unique<br />
plan to bring his wayward students into<br />
line.<br />
DONALD AND DOT CLOCK<br />
FOUND DEAD IN THEIR HOME<br />
Quirky Romantic Comedy (82 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Michael Kowalski<br />
Producer: J. Edmund Parcher<br />
Cast: John E. Parcher, Eugenie<br />
Bondurant, Joe Ochman<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
In this match made for the Afterlife, he’s<br />
a dancer who can’t keep a job while she’s<br />
a psychic hot-line counselor obsessed<br />
with the “Rodent Harmonic Balance.”<br />
ECHO OF BLUE<br />
Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Zach Sternheimer<br />
Producer: Katy Wallin & Zach<br />
Sternheimer<br />
Cast: Lisa Lamendola, Kevin West, Art<br />
Lafleur<br />
Delivery Status: (pre, post, in production<br />
or completed)<br />
Year of Production: 2002 Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
<strong>The</strong> Fillet Man slices up his prey and<br />
leads the corrupt city on a harrowing,<br />
wild goose chase led by a young lady<br />
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EJS INTERNATIONAL<br />
EJS International, 8130 Chase Avenue,<br />
Los Angeles, CA 90045 USA. Tel:<br />
323.641.6705. Fax: 323.641.6705.<br />
At Cannes: Ed Shields (Vice President,<br />
International Sales), Christopher Shaw<br />
(Director International Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Carlton Hotel Rm # 245, Tel:<br />
33.(0).493.06.40.06, Ext 245. Fax:<br />
33.(0).493.06.40.25<br />
SPECK<br />
Suspense/Horror<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Keith Walley<br />
Producer: Keith Walley, Tammi Sutton<br />
Cast: Doug Cole, Beverly Ann Sotelo,<br />
Stacy Cunningham<br />
Production Status: Completed<br />
Budget: Under: $1 million<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Based on the true story of serial killer<br />
Richard Speck; in July of 1966 Speck<br />
walked into a boarding house of eight<br />
nurses in a Chicago suburb and<br />
systematically terrorized and killed all<br />
but one......<br />
BLOODLETTING<br />
Horror<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Matthew Jason Walsh<br />
Producer: JR Bookwalter, Matthew Jason<br />
Walsh<br />
Cast: Ariauna Albright, James L.<br />
Edwards, <strong>The</strong>resa Constantine<br />
Production Status: Completed<br />
Budget: Under $1 million.<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Serena Stalin wanted to learn from the<br />
best. So she tracked down Butch Harlow,<br />
one of the world’s most notorious serial<br />
killers, and blackmailed him into<br />
teaching her the fine art of murder.<br />
GHOUL SCHOOL<br />
Horror<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Timothy O’rawe<br />
Producer: Timothy O’rawe<br />
Cast: William Friedman, Scott Gordon,<br />
Paul Venier, Nancy Sirianni<br />
Production Status: Completed<br />
Budget: Under $1 million.<br />
What started out as an innocent lab<br />
experiment by a few students has turned<br />
into the biggest case of mass slaughter<br />
ever!<br />
ENTERTAINMENT 7<br />
Entertainment 7, 15030 Ventura Blvd,<br />
Suite # 762, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403<br />
USA. Tel: 818.709.9595. Fax:<br />
818.709.9597. sales-ent@ent7.com<br />
Company Type: Sales Agent, Producer,<br />
Distributor<br />
At Cannes: Emilio Ferrari (Consultant),<br />
Kelsie Black (Director of Intl. Sales), Bill<br />
Wilder (Sales/Acquisitions)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Carlton Hotel 133<br />
WEST<br />
Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Rick Pagano<br />
Producers: A. Kitman Ho, Mark<br />
McGarry, Emilio Ferrari<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
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tradition of “American Beauty”, comes<br />
an intriguing story of a family that takes<br />
to the road and discovers the mixed<br />
blessing of traveling across America.<br />
HOUSE OF HORROR<br />
Horror<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Emilio Ferrari<br />
Producer: Emilio Ferrari<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-production<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Fictitious modern day story based on the<br />
famous Tales of Terror by Edgar Alan<br />
Poe. <strong>The</strong> young Poe is drawn into a<br />
psycho realm of a delusional nurse.<br />
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST<br />
WINTER<br />
Thriller (90 minutes )<br />
Language: English<br />
Director/Producer: Emilio Ferrari<br />
Cast: York Shackleton, Debbie Enton,<br />
Jennie Chester<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
In the tradition of “Scream,” five teenage<br />
friends enter the world’s biggest<br />
snowboarding contest at Big Bear<br />
Mountain.<br />
INSIDE TAKE<br />
Drama (300x 30 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Producer: Darla Artura<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Entertaining and exciting coverage of<br />
Hollywood’s biggest movies including<br />
“Tears in the Sun, Anger Management,<br />
Basic, Catch Me If You Can, Daredevil,<br />
XXX, Die Another Day, Emperor’s Club,<br />
Shanghai Knights, Sweet Home<br />
Alabama, <strong>The</strong> Hour.<br />
MADE IN L.A.<br />
Action Adventure<br />
Language: English<br />
Director/Producer: Emilio Ferrari<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-production<br />
An action adventure about the greed and<br />
deception that runs deep in the<br />
underworld in the City of Angels. A fine<br />
line that separates the good guys from<br />
the bad guys becomes increasingly<br />
obscured.<br />
ESSE&BI<br />
CINEMATOGRAFICA<br />
esse&bi cinematografica, Largo della<br />
Gancia, 5, 00195 Rome, Italy. Tel:<br />
39.06.37511274, 39.06.37358533. Fax:<br />
39.06.37511278.<br />
essebi@essebicinema.com,<br />
www.essebicinema.com<br />
Company Type: producer, distributor and<br />
world sales<br />
At Cannes: Veronica Salvi (President),<br />
Paolo Modugno (chair man), Renato<br />
Musillo (world sales), Acquisition<br />
Executive: Francesca Avalle, Renato<br />
Musillo<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice:<br />
THE SECRET GUEST<br />
Drama (82 min.)<br />
Language: Italian<br />
Director: Paolo Modugno<br />
Producer: Veronica Salvi Co-production<br />
partners: IPE, Italian Ministry for<br />
Cultural Assets and Artistic Heritage.<br />
Cast: Corso Salani; Romina Mondello;<br />
Ludgero Fortes Dos Santos; Spiros<br />
Focas; Gigi Angelillo and also featuring<br />
Ben Gazzara<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Italy<br />
Budget: 2.844.213,02<br />
A multiethnic group of musicians gives a<br />
concert in a refuge camp.<br />
LITTLE BEE JULIE AND LADY<br />
LIFE<br />
3D animation feature movie (75 min.)<br />
Language: Italian<br />
Director: Paolo Modugno<br />
Producer: Veronica Salvi Co-production<br />
partners: Italian Ministry for Cultural<br />
Assets and Artistic Heritage.<br />
Cast: whit the voice of: Irene Grandi,<br />
Ludovica Modugno, Raf, Michele<br />
Mirabella and special featuring Nino<br />
Manfredi.<br />
Delivery Status: post production<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Italy<br />
Budget: 4.445.144,43<br />
Little Bee is Mama Bee’s rebel daughter.<br />
She wants to have a name, like children<br />
do, and she chooses one herself: Julie.<br />
RATS’S PARADISE<br />
Drama<br />
Language: Italian<br />
Director: Paolo Modugno<br />
Producer: Veronica Salvi<br />
Cast: not definite/indefinite<br />
Delivery Status: pre production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Italy<br />
Budget: 2.617.949,73<br />
Bucarest. Ceausescu’s regime collapsed<br />
but it left behind itself an army of<br />
children. <strong>The</strong>y are nobody’s sons, they<br />
have no past and no future, they live in<br />
the drains, they are called “rats” and they<br />
are treated accordingly.<br />
RESPECT FOR INNOCENCE<br />
Comedy<br />
Language: Italian<br />
Director: Paolo Modugno<br />
Producer: Veronica Salvi<br />
Cast: Jean Rochefort, Greta Scacchi,<br />
Toni Servillo, Leo Gullotta, Selvaggia<br />
Quattrini, Ludovica Modugno, Jenny<br />
Alexander.<br />
Delivery Status: pre production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Italy<br />
Budget: 3.182.881,95<br />
Because of a snow storm seven<br />
characters, typical of the contemporary<br />
society, are obliged to spend the night in<br />
a remote motel. <strong>The</strong>ir paths have crossed<br />
in the past.<br />
LEO’S STORY<br />
3D animation feature movie (75 min.)<br />
Language: Italian<br />
Director: Mario Cambi<br />
Producer: Veronica Salvi Co-production<br />
partners: Dujass film, Italian Ministry for<br />
Cultural Assets and Artistic Heritage.<br />
Delivery Status: pre production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Italy<br />
It is the delicate story of Leo Sinkinghis-fangs,<br />
a lonely lion, that happens to<br />
help Mona Elisa, a widow female<br />
elephant, to give birth to two different<br />
baby elephants.<br />
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EUROCINE<br />
Eurocine, 33, Av. Des Champs Elysees,<br />
75008 Paris, France. Tel:<br />
33.1.42.25.64.92. Fax: 33.1.42.25.73.38.<br />
sales@eurocine.net<br />
At Cannes: Daniel LESOEUR<br />
(Chairman), Ilona KUNESOVA (Head of<br />
acquisition/development), Eric SERRA<br />
(Consultant), Michelle MAGNAN<br />
(Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Booth n° F3 at the RIVIERA,<br />
Tel: 33 (O) 4 92 99 88 18<br />
EL REY, THE MAN WHO<br />
CHANGED THE FATE OF A CITY<br />
Drama<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Director: Antonio Dorado<br />
Producer: Daniel Lesoeur<br />
Starring: Fernand Solorzano, Vanessa<br />
Simon, Olivier Pagès, Cristina Umana<br />
Status: Delivery Status: In production,<br />
shooting in Colombia<br />
<strong>The</strong> life of Pedro Rey, the first narco<br />
dealer who learned to kiss and kill in the<br />
movies, and who, together with a North<br />
American who worked in the Peace<br />
Corps, introduced the traffic of cocaine<br />
to Colombia in the 60’<br />
WILD BEES (DIVOKE VCELY)<br />
Black comedy<br />
Director: Bohdan Slama<br />
Producer: Viktor Schwarcz<br />
Starring: Zdenek Rauser, Tatiana<br />
Vilhelmova, Marek Daniel<br />
Status: Completed - screening in booth<br />
In a long forgotten village, somewhere in<br />
Northern Moravia, detached from the rest<br />
of the world and its revolutionary<br />
changes, the web of relationships, hidden<br />
loves and hidden aversions uncover a<br />
picture.<br />
NIGHTMARES COME AT NIGHT<br />
Horror (90’)<br />
Director: Jess Franco<br />
Starring: Soledad Miranda, Diana Lorrys,<br />
Paul Muller<br />
Co-producers: Prodif - Eurocine<br />
Music: Bruno Nicolaï<br />
Status: completed - screening in booth<br />
Obsessed with bloody nightly visions,<br />
Anne lives in anguish of schizophrenia.<br />
Is Anne gradually becoming mad, or is<br />
she really the author of these murders ?<br />
DE SADE’S DUET (SADE’S<br />
EUGENIA)<br />
Horror / Erotic (90 min)<br />
Director: Jess Franco<br />
Producers: EUROCINE / JK FILMS<br />
Principal Cast: Soledad Miranda, Paul<br />
Muller, André Montcall<br />
Country of Origin: France<br />
Language: English French Italian<br />
Production Status: Completed<br />
Videocassette<br />
From the novel ‘Eugénie de Franval’<br />
Eugenia and her father plan to commit<br />
together a perfect crime.<br />
JUSTINE DE SADE<br />
Erotic (90 min)<br />
Language: English, German<br />
Director: Claude Pierson<br />
Producer: PIERSON<br />
Productions/ICAR/CITEL<br />
Principal Cast: Alice Arno, Yves Arcanel,<br />
Georges Beauvillier<br />
Production Status: Completed<br />
From the novel ‘Les Infortunes de la<br />
vertu’. A young orphan, Justine, is<br />
maltreated.<br />
EUROPEAN FILM<br />
PROMOTION (EFP)<br />
European <strong>Film</strong> Promotion (EFP),<br />
Friedensallee 14 - 16, 22765 Hamburg,<br />
Germany. Tel: 49.40.3906252. Fax:<br />
49.40.3906249. info@efp-online.com,<br />
www.efp-online.com<br />
Company Type: European association of<br />
national marketing and promotion<br />
At Cannes: Renate Rose (Managing<br />
Director), Jo Muehlberger (Project<br />
Manager)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice:<br />
F<br />
FIJI AUDIO VISUAL<br />
COMMISSION<br />
Fiji Audio Visual Commission, Ground<br />
Floor, Civic House, New Town Hall<br />
Road, GPO Box 18080, Suva, Fiji. Tel:<br />
679.330.6662. Fax: 679.331.4662.<br />
fijiaudiovisual.org.fj.<br />
www.fijiaudiovisual.com<br />
Company Type: <strong>Film</strong> Commission -<br />
Government Statutory Organisation<br />
At Cannes: Taniela Bolea (Chief<br />
Executive <strong>Of</strong>ficer), Wayne Covell (Legal<br />
& Marketing<br />
Manager), Acquisition Executive: Rogers<br />
& Cowan<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Savoy Hotel, Salon B, 5 rue<br />
Francois Einesy, Cannes 06400. Tel:<br />
33.04.93.68.25.59 or 33.06.67.09.34.98<br />
(Mobile), Fax: 33.04.93.68.25.59<br />
FILM BRIDGE<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
<strong>Film</strong> Bridge International, 1316 Third<br />
Street Promenade, Suite 105, Santa<br />
Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel:<br />
310.656.8680, Fax: 310.656.8683.<br />
filmbridgeinternational.com<br />
At Cannes: Ellen Wander, Incoronata<br />
“Inc” Pagliuca, Lori Mathison<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice:<br />
DOLAN’S CADILLAC<br />
Director: Stacy Title (“Last Supper”)<br />
Producer: Jonathan Sanger (“Vanilla<br />
Sky,” “Mission Impossible 2”) and<br />
Trevor Macy (“Auto Focus”)<br />
SPRING SUBWAY - MEDIA ASIA GROUP<br />
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Delivery Status: Production: July 2003<br />
A story by Stephen King, about a young<br />
man who seeks revenge on the mobster<br />
who killed his wife after she accidentally<br />
witnesses a murder.<br />
THE FOUR SAINTS<br />
Written and directed by Jean-Pierre<br />
Isbouts (Disney feature, “Walt: <strong>The</strong> Man<br />
Behind the Myth”)<br />
Production: September 2003<br />
Based on the true story of four heroic<br />
nurses who set up a medical post near the<br />
front line during WWI; encountering<br />
many great dangers and finding romance.<br />
VANISHING ACTS<br />
Director: Will Frears<br />
Producer: Trevor Macy (“Auto Focus”)<br />
Delivery Status: Production, October<br />
2003<br />
A sexy and deadly femme fatale seduces<br />
a young doctor into a two million dollar<br />
insurance scam that could cost them both<br />
their lives.<br />
FILMAX<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
<strong>Film</strong>ax International, Miguel Hernández<br />
81-87, Districte Economic de<br />
L’Hospitalet, 08908 L’Hospitalet de<br />
Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain. Tel:<br />
34.93.336.85.55. Fax: 34.93.263.08.24.<br />
filmaxint@filmax.com.<br />
www.filmaxinternational.com<br />
At Cannes: Julio Fernández (Chairman),<br />
Carlos Fernández (CEO), Antonia Nava<br />
(Sr VP of Sales & Co-productions),<br />
Vicente Canales (Sales Manager), Jorge<br />
Tuca (Head of Acquisitions), Carlos<br />
Rojano (Sr VP of Marketing)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Hotel Carlton, 7th Floor, Tel:<br />
33.(0).493.99.80.42. Fax:<br />
33.(0).493.99.80.43<br />
THE MACHINIST<br />
Suspense Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Brad Anderson<br />
Producer: Julio Fernández<br />
Cast: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jasón<br />
Leigh<br />
Production Status: In-Production.<br />
<strong>The</strong> story of TREVOR REZNIK, a latheoperator<br />
who is dying of insomnia.<br />
THE GOLDFISH MEMORY<br />
NONSTOP SALES AB<br />
OBLIVION<br />
Supernatural Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Nacho Cerdá<br />
Producer: Julio Fernández<br />
Production Status: Pre-production<br />
In an isolated town, a doctor, John,<br />
happily lives with his wife and child until<br />
one day, a strange woman infiltrates their<br />
family fortress, claiming that everything<br />
John believes to be real is a fabricated<br />
lie.<br />
ROMASANTA<br />
Horror<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Paco Plaza<br />
Producer: Julio Fernández & Brian Yuzna<br />
Production Status: Pre-Production.<br />
1850, North of Spain. <strong>The</strong> woods are<br />
infested with wolves. Nobody dares go<br />
through them. <strong>The</strong> people of the villages<br />
are terrified.<br />
EL CID, THE LEGEND<br />
Animated Feature <strong>Film</strong> (80’)<br />
Language: English / Spanish<br />
Director: Josep Pozo<br />
Producer: Julio Fernández<br />
Status: In production<br />
A time of war, a time of love, a time<br />
when honour,...was life...<br />
NOCTURNA<br />
Animated Feature <strong>Film</strong><br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Adrian Garcia , Enrique<br />
Fernandez y Victor Maldonado<br />
Producer: Julio Fernandez<br />
Status: In Development<br />
What is it that turns the night into night,<br />
and fills it with such unexplainable<br />
mystery?<br />
FILMEXPORT<br />
GROUP<br />
<strong>Film</strong>Export Group, Via Polonia, 9 -<br />
00198 Rome, Italy. Tel:<br />
39.06.8554266/85354321. Fax:<br />
39.06.8550248. www.filmexport.com,<br />
info@filmexport.com<br />
At Cannes: Roberto Di Girolamo<br />
(President & CEO), Laura Maurano<br />
(Sales Manager), Andrea Di Girolamo<br />
(Marketing and Publicity)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Stand Riviera C5/D4 - D1/E8,<br />
Tel: 0033.04.92993346, Mobile:<br />
39.335.7025.654.<br />
WITCHERY DEAL (PACTO DE<br />
BRUJAS)<br />
Thriller-Horror<br />
Language: Italian / Spanish / English<br />
Directed By: Javier Elorrieta<br />
Produced By: Origen S.L. - Anem <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
S.A.<br />
Cast: Ramon Langa - Carlos Sobera -<br />
Barbara Elorrieta<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Prod. Year: 2002, Country <strong>Of</strong> Origin:<br />
Spain - Italy<br />
Doctor Degras is a skeptic psychiatrist<br />
who works for the police; one night he<br />
finds himself involved in the world of<br />
witchcraft, tarot and messages from the<br />
dead, revealing complex intrigues.<br />
DARK OBSESSION (UNINVITED)<br />
Thriller<br />
Language: Italian / English<br />
Directed By: Carlo Gabriel Nero<br />
Produced By: Barolo <strong>Film</strong>s - No Limit<br />
Int’l<br />
Cast: Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave,<br />
Adam Hann-Byrd, Kevin Isola, Eli<br />
Wallach<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Prod. Year: 1999, Country <strong>Of</strong> Origin:<br />
USA - Italy<br />
All four members of a wealthy family are<br />
found dead in their home and a young<br />
boy is accused of the murder....<br />
VENETIAN CAPRICE (CAPRICCIO<br />
VENEZIANO)<br />
Erotic<br />
Language: Italian / English<br />
Directed By: Vincent Dawn<br />
Produced By: La Perla Nera<br />
Cast: E. Crawford, G. Parmeggiani, J.<br />
Jerrugan<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Prod. Year: 2002, Country <strong>Of</strong> Origin:<br />
Italy<br />
<strong>The</strong> perverse and transgressing amourous<br />
encounters between a man and a woman,<br />
both having the same wish: to carry their<br />
relationship beyond the bonds of<br />
convention.<br />
THE LAND OF DEATH (LA TERRA<br />
DELLA MORTE)<br />
Horror<br />
Language: Italian / English<br />
Directed By: Martin Miller<br />
Produced By: Gianni Paolucci And<br />
Robert Parnwell<br />
Cast: Ydalia Suarez Alfaro, Claudio<br />
Morales, Silvio Jimenez Hernandez,<br />
Cindy J. Matic<br />
Delivery Status: Post-Production<br />
Country <strong>Of</strong> Origin: Italy<br />
Story of a group of researchers<br />
describing the horror life of cannibal<br />
tribes in New Zealand.<br />
SNUFF TRAP<br />
Erotic Thriller<br />
Language: Italian / English<br />
Directed By: Pierre Le Blanc<br />
Production: La Perla Nera<br />
Cast: Carla Dujany, Carlo Mucari,<br />
Gabriele Gori, Federica Garuti<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Country <strong>Of</strong> Origin: Italy<br />
<strong>The</strong> dramatic story of a girl involved in<br />
the terrible world of the “snuff movies”.<br />
FILMS<br />
DISTRIBUTION<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s Distribution, 6 rue de l’Ecole de<br />
Médecine 75006 Paris, France. Tel:<br />
33.153.103.398. Fax: 33.153.103.399.<br />
info@filmsdistribution.com.<br />
www.filmsfilmsdistribution.com<br />
Company Type: sales agent on the<br />
international market place as well as<br />
domestically for both library pictures and<br />
new feature films<br />
At Cannes: Nicolas BRIGAUD-ROBERT<br />
(Head of Sales), François YON (Head of<br />
Sales), Didar DOMEHRI (International<br />
Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera K5/L8, Tel:<br />
33.492.998.836. Fax: 33.492.998.839<br />
SANSA<br />
Adventures (115 min)<br />
Language: French<br />
Director: Siegfried<br />
Producer: Vagabondages, Arte France,<br />
Mate Production<br />
Co-production partners: Cofimage 12,<br />
Gimages 4, Centre National de la<br />
Cinématographie<br />
Cast: Roschdy ZEM, Ivry GITLIS,<br />
Emma SUAREZ, Rita DURAO<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: France<br />
Sansa’s incredible adventures through the<br />
world.<br />
LES PLUMES DANS LA TETE<br />
Drama (100 min)<br />
Language: French<br />
Director: Thomas de THIER<br />
Producer: Jacques BIDOU, Marianne<br />
DUMOULIN, Nicolas MEYER JBA<br />
Production, Magellan Production<br />
Co-production partners: Arte France<br />
Cinéma, R.T.B.F (Télévision belge),<br />
FMB 2 <strong>Film</strong>s, 47ème parallèle<br />
Cast: Sophie MUSEUR, Francis<br />
RENAUD, Ulysse de SWAEF, Alexis<br />
Den DONCKER<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: France, Belgium<br />
WHERE IS MADAME CATHERINE<br />
?<br />
Drama<br />
Language: French<br />
Director: MARC RECHA<br />
Producer: Jacques BIDOU, Luis<br />
MINARRO, Marianne DUMOULIN(JBA<br />
Production, Eddie Saeta)<br />
Co-production partners: Arte France<br />
Cinéma, FMB 2 <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Cast: Dominique Marcas, Jérémie<br />
Lippmann, Olivier Gourmet, Eduardo<br />
Noriega<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: France<br />
ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS<br />
Language: Flemish<br />
Director: Tom Barman<br />
Producer: Kaat Camerlynck & Alex<br />
Stockman, Christian Pierre<br />
Cast: Natali Broods, Jonas Boel, Diane<br />
De Belder, Titus De Voogdt, Eric Kloeck<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Netherlands<br />
Antwerp 2004. On a sweltering Friday<br />
afternoon, 8 characters dream of a<br />
different life.<br />
FOCUS FEATURES<br />
Focus Features, 417 Canal Street, 7th<br />
Floor, New York, NY 10013 USA. Tel:<br />
212.343.9230. Fax: 212.343.7412.<br />
At Cannes: David Linde (Co-President ),<br />
Amy Kaufman (Executive Vice<br />
President, Acquisitions & Co-<br />
Productions), Glen Basner (Executive<br />
Vice President, International Sales &<br />
Distribution), Heta Paarte (Vice<br />
President, International Marketing and<br />
Publicity), Tim Spencer (Vice President<br />
International Sales), Jason Resnick (Vice<br />
President, Acquisitions), Lee Magiday<br />
(Vice President, Acquisitions)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Palais d’Orsay, Penthouse, 62<br />
Boulevard de la Croisette, Tel:<br />
04.93.43.86.18. Fax: 04.93.43.84.79<br />
BAD EDUCATION<br />
Director: Pedro Almodóvar<br />
Producers: Agustín Almodóvar (El Deseo<br />
D.A., S.L.U.)<br />
Cast: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez,<br />
Javier Cámara, Daniel Giménez Cacho<br />
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VANITY FAIR<br />
Director: Mira Nair<br />
Producer: Janette Day, Donna Gigliotti,<br />
Lydia Pilcher<br />
Cast: Reese Witherspoon<br />
Status: In Pre-Production<br />
Year of Prod: 2003<br />
Born into the lower class, Becky Sharp<br />
(Reese Witherspoon), one of literature’s<br />
greatest female characters, can rely on<br />
her wit, guile, and sexuality as she makes<br />
her way up through London society circa<br />
1820.<br />
THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR<br />
Director: Tod Williams<br />
Producers: Ted Hope, Anne Carey,<br />
Michael Corrente<br />
Exec Producers: Roger Marino, Amy J.<br />
Kaufman<br />
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Jon<br />
Foster<br />
Status: In Production<br />
Year of Prod: 2003<br />
Alternately tragic and comic, Door in the<br />
Floor explores the complexities of love<br />
in both its brightest and darkest corners.<br />
LOST IN TRANSLATION<br />
Director: Sofia Coppola<br />
Producers: Ross Katz, Sofia Coppola<br />
Cast: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson,<br />
Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris<br />
Status: In Post-Production<br />
Year of Prod: 2002<br />
A Valentine to the city of Tokyo and the<br />
Americans who visit it.<br />
21 GRAMS<br />
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu<br />
Producer: Alejandro González Iñárritu,<br />
Ted Hope<br />
Cast: Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro,<br />
Naomi Watts<br />
Status: In Production<br />
Year of Prod: 2002 - 2003<br />
Life has a way of coming up with<br />
resonant metaphors, incredible ironies,<br />
and surprising coincidences.<br />
FORTISSIMO FILM<br />
SALES<br />
Fortissimo <strong>Film</strong> Sales, Veemarkt 77 – 79,<br />
Amsterdam 1019 DA, <strong>The</strong> Netherlands.<br />
Tel: 31.20.627.3215. Fax:<br />
31.20.626.1155.<br />
www.fortissimofilms.com.<br />
info@fortissimo.nl<br />
At Cannes: Wouter Barendrecht (Cochairman),<br />
Michael J. Werner (Cochairman),<br />
Esther Bannenberg (Director<br />
of International Sales, Servicing and<br />
Acquisitions), Winnie Lau (Director<br />
International Sales & Distribution),<br />
Nelleke Driessen (Director of<br />
International Distribution), Ashley Luke<br />
(Director of UK Acquisitions &<br />
Development)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Residence du Grand Hotel,<br />
Entrance Goeland, Apartment 5D, 5th<br />
floor, 06400 Cannes, Tel:<br />
33.(0)4.93.38.41.40<br />
16 YEARS OF ALCOHOL<br />
Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Richard Jobson<br />
Cast: Ewen Bremner, Kevin McKidd,<br />
Laura Fraer, Lena Heady<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: UK<br />
16 YEARS OF ALCOHOL is a<br />
meditation on a man’s search for the<br />
meaning of hope. <strong>The</strong> story follows<br />
Frankie Mac through three periods in his<br />
life as he looks for love, finds it and then<br />
destroys it.<br />
PARTY MONSTER<br />
Drama (97 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Randy Barbato & Fenton<br />
Bailey<br />
Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Chloe Sevigny,<br />
Seth Green<br />
Status: Completed/Screening<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
<strong>The</strong> real life story of Michel Alig, leader<br />
of the New York underground club kids<br />
scene of the early 1990’s, who rose all<br />
the way to the top only to see it crumble<br />
before his eyes.<br />
YOSSI & JAGGER<br />
Drama (65 min)<br />
Language: Hebrew<br />
Director: Eytan Fox<br />
Cast: Ohad Knoler, Yehuda Levi<br />
Status: Completed/screening<br />
Country of Origin: Israel<br />
Based on a true story, “Yossi & Jagger”<br />
portrays the love affair of two Israeli<br />
officers in a remote army base on the<br />
Israeli-Lebanese border.<br />
YES NURSE! NO NURSE! (JA<br />
ZUSTER! NEE ZUSTER!)<br />
Comedy (104 min)<br />
Language: Dutch<br />
Director: Pieter Kramer<br />
Cast: Loes Luca, Paul R. Kooij, Paul de<br />
Leeuw<br />
Status: Completed/screening<br />
Country of Origin: Netherlands<br />
When the wacky residents of Nurse<br />
Klivia’s Guesthouse foil attempts by their<br />
nasty neighbour to have them evicted, all<br />
kinds of fun and craziness ensue. An<br />
amazing, music and color-filled retro<br />
homage to the innocent days of the<br />
1960’s<br />
A CHINESE ODYSSEY (TIANXIA<br />
WUSHUANG)<br />
Drama (105 min)<br />
Language: Mandarin<br />
Director: Jeff Lau<br />
Cast: Tony Leung, Chang Chen, Faye<br />
Wong<br />
Status: Completed/screening<br />
Country of Origin: Hong Kong<br />
In Ming Dynasty China, two pairs of<br />
siblings are destined for each other. But<br />
fate throws countless obstacles in the<br />
path of their happiness.<br />
FRANCE<br />
TELEVISIONS<br />
DISTRIBUTION<br />
France Televisions Distribution,<br />
Immeuble “Le Barjac” - 1 Bd Victor<br />
Hugo, 75015 Paris, France. Tél:<br />
33.1.44.25.01.01. Fax: 33.1.44.25.01.95<br />
At Cannes: Michel Liberman (CEO),<br />
Jean-Paul Commin (Deputy CEO),<br />
Emmanuel Itier (US Acquisitions),<br />
Claudia Rae-Colombani (VP<br />
International Sales), Sébastien Chesneau<br />
(International Sales Manager), Joëlle<br />
Prigent (Marketing & Festivals Manager)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Stand Riviera N 1, Tel:<br />
33.(0).4.92.99.32.07. Fax:<br />
33.(0).4.92.99.32.12<br />
THE RED KNIGHT (RENCONTRE<br />
AVEC LE DRAGON)<br />
Adventure (112 min)<br />
Language: French<br />
Director: Hélène Angel<br />
Producer: Michel Saint-Jean / Diaphana<br />
Productions<br />
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Gilbert Melki,<br />
Sergi Lopez, Emmanuelle Devos<br />
Delivery Status: Post-production<br />
Country of Origin: France<br />
<strong>The</strong> 11th Century …Felix is fifteen and<br />
still a child, not fully a man yet. We find<br />
him drowsing under a tree, fighting to<br />
stay awake. If he falls asleep, the cold<br />
will kill him.<br />
THE MISSING HALF (L’AUTRE )<br />
Language: French<br />
Director: Benoit Mariage<br />
Producer: Dominique Janne/K. Star<br />
Cast: Laurent Khunen, Philipe<br />
Grand’Henri, Dominique Baeyens, Jan<br />
Decleir<br />
Delivery Status: Post-production<br />
Country of Origin: France<br />
Human beings have a flaw, a missing<br />
part, that they can happen to find<br />
unexpectedly within someone else.<br />
THE BUTTERFLY (LE PAPILLON)<br />
Dramatic Comedy<br />
Director: Philippe Muyl<br />
Producer: Patrick<br />
Godeau/A.L.I.C.E.L.E.O<br />
Main Cast: Michel Serrault, Claire<br />
Bouanich<br />
Delivery Status: Completed/screening<br />
Country of Origin: France<br />
CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
THE GREAT RAID - MIRAMAX INTERNATIONAL<br />
Julien is a butterfly collector. He sets off<br />
in search of Isabelle, a butterfly as<br />
beautiful as rare.<br />
THE BOY WHO WANTED TO BE A<br />
BEAR (L’ENFANT QUI VOULAIT<br />
ÊTRE UN OURS)<br />
Animation (78 min)<br />
Language: Danish-French<br />
Director: Jannik Hastrup<br />
Producer: Dansk Tegnefilm Produktion<br />
(Denmark) – Les Armateurs (France)<br />
Delivery Status: completed/screening<br />
Country of Origin: France<br />
A polar bear gives birth to a stillborn<br />
cub. In a cabin, a woman bears a strong<br />
healthy boy. <strong>The</strong> polar bear is so griefstricken<br />
at the loss of her cub that her<br />
mate steals the woman’s baby.<br />
FRENCH MEN (LE C*UR DES<br />
HOMMES)<br />
Romantic Comedy (100 min)<br />
Language: French<br />
Director: Marc Esposito<br />
Producer: Pierre Javaux, Pierre Javaux<br />
Productions<br />
Cast: Gérard Darmon, Jean-Pierre<br />
Daroussin, Bernard Campan, Marc<br />
Lavoine<br />
Delivery Status: Completed/screening<br />
Country of Origin: France<br />
Four modern guys, both stable and<br />
immature, at a turning point in their adult<br />
lives.<br />
FRANCHISE<br />
PICTURES<br />
Franchise Pictures, 8228 Sunset Blvd.<br />
L.A., CA 90046 USA. Tel: 323.848.3444.<br />
Fax: 323.822.2165<br />
At Cannes: Elie Samaha (Chairman,<br />
C.E.O.), Mimi Steinbauer (President,<br />
International Distribution), Nolan Pielak<br />
(Director, International Distribution),<br />
Karyn Isaacs (Vice President,<br />
International Administration)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Carlton - Suite 223, Tel:<br />
33.4.9306.4223<br />
MONKEYFACE<br />
Director: Stephen Frears<br />
Starring: Michael Douglas, Catherine<br />
Zeta-Jones<br />
Status: Pre-Production<br />
A con artist gets a taste of her own<br />
medicine when a team of con artists<br />
targets her.<br />
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THE WENDELL BAKER STORY<br />
Director: Luke Wilson<br />
Starring: Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson<br />
Status: Pre-Production<br />
An ex-con with a heart of gold is<br />
paroled. Once gainfully employed at a<br />
retirement home, he unveils an illicit<br />
elderly sweatshop amidst opening his<br />
eyes to the finer, more meaningful things<br />
in life along the way...<br />
LOVERBOY<br />
Director: Kevin Bacon<br />
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick<br />
Status: Pre-Production<br />
Going against the advice of those around<br />
her, an over-protective single mother<br />
keeps her six-year-old son out of school<br />
in an effort to ‘save’ him from ordinary<br />
life.<br />
BEGINNING OF WISDOM<br />
Director: William Dear<br />
Starring: Matthew Perry, John Bennett<br />
Perry<br />
Status: Pre-Production<br />
A funny, fish out of water romance<br />
between a die-hard hippie and a very oldfashioned<br />
Montana rancher.<br />
VOID MOON<br />
Based On A Novel By: Michael Connelly<br />
Director: TBA<br />
Starring: TBA<br />
Status: Pre-Production<br />
A female cat burglar intercepts $2<br />
Million in mob money and must use it as<br />
a means to save her child from a corrupt<br />
detective.<br />
CREDITS NOT CONTRACTUAL<br />
FREE SPIRITS FILM<br />
<strong>PRODUCT</strong>IONS<br />
Free Spirits <strong>Film</strong> Productions, 130<br />
Muswell Hill Road, London, UK. Tel:<br />
0208.444.2668. www.free-spiritsfilm.co.uk<br />
Company Type: production company.<br />
At Cannes: Jaap Mees<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice:<br />
RAINBOW DAYS<br />
(25” and 42 “ version)<br />
On a multi-cultural festival for children<br />
in Thamesmead (SE-London), set up<br />
after the tragic racial killings of black<br />
teenagers, Rolan Adams & Stephen<br />
Lawrence.<br />
JEEPERS CREEPERS 2 - MYRIAD PICTURES<br />
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK<br />
Documentary (42” and 50”)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Jaap Mees<br />
Producer: Jaap Mees Co-producer: Billy<br />
Barton (<strong>Of</strong>f <strong>The</strong> Beaten Track)<br />
Cast: <strong>The</strong> Dubliners, Finbar Furey<br />
(pipes) (Beaten Track)<br />
Delivery Status: completed.<br />
Year of Production: Rainbow Days (‘ 98)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>f <strong>The</strong> Beaten Track(2000), Country of<br />
origin: UK<br />
Budget: low-budget<br />
Three brothers, all traditional musicians,<br />
trace the footsteps of their father, Tommy<br />
Barton, a Dublin virtuoso banjo - player.<br />
Featuring <strong>The</strong> Dubliners and Uilleann<br />
piper Finbar Furey (Gangs of New York).<br />
FRIES FILM GROUP,<br />
INC.<br />
Fries <strong>Film</strong> Group, Inc., 22817 Ventura<br />
Blvd. #909, Woodland Hills, CA 91364<br />
USA. Tel: 818.888.3052. Fax:<br />
818.888.3042. Friesfilms@aol.com<br />
Company Type: Distributor<br />
At Cannes: Charles M. Fries (President),<br />
Jon Fries (VP Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera - Booth F-5<br />
MIDNIGHT BOOGIE<br />
Action Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Production Status: Pre-Production<br />
Country of Origin/Co-Production: USA<br />
Five young parachutists go on a<br />
competition jump over the Ivory Coast.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir dare devil escapade lands them in<br />
the middle of a bloody African civil war.<br />
ROAD<br />
Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Production Status: Pre-Production<br />
Country of Origin/CO-Production: USA<br />
While driving cross-country a young<br />
professional woman accidentally runs<br />
over and kills an innocent girl.<br />
Unfortunately for the young woman, the<br />
girl is related to a psychopathic killer<br />
who vows revenge.<br />
ALIEN AGENT<br />
Sci-Fi<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Sidney Furie<br />
Production Status: Pre-Production<br />
Country of Origin/CO-Production:<br />
UK/Canada<br />
A lawman from another Galaxy must<br />
stop an invading force from building a<br />
gateway between the two worlds.<br />
RAY BRADBURY’S FROST & FIRE<br />
Sci-Fi Action/Adventure<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Buz Alexander<br />
Principle Cast: Brad Renfro<br />
Production Status: Pre-Production<br />
Country of Origin/CO-Production:<br />
UK/Canada<br />
Space travelers crash land on a distant<br />
planet where days are consumed in a<br />
curtain of flame and the nights a frozen<br />
wasteland. Compounding their misery,<br />
radiation has compressed the human life<br />
span to only seven days.<br />
HUNT FOR THE DEVIL<br />
Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Allan Goldstein<br />
Principle Cast: Michael Madsen<br />
Production Status: Pre-Production<br />
Country of Origin/CO-Production:<br />
UK/Canada<br />
A New York City detective tracks<br />
Europe’s bloodiest serial killer after his<br />
fiancé becomes the latest victim.<br />
FULL MOON /<br />
SHADOW<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
INC.<br />
Full Moon / Shadow Entertainment Inc.,<br />
1626 N. Wilcox Ave, Suite 474,<br />
Hollywood, CA 90028 USA. Tel:<br />
323.822.2100. Fax: 323.822.1950.<br />
At Cannes: Ed Shields (Vice President,<br />
International Sales), Christopher Shaw<br />
(Director International Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Carlton Hotel Rm # 245, Tel:<br />
33.(0).493.06.40.06, Ext 245, Fax:<br />
33.(0).493.06.40.25<br />
VAMPIRE RESURRECTION<br />
Horror<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Denice Duff<br />
Producer: Carol and Cliff Wenger<br />
Cast: Denice Duff, James Horan, Jillian<br />
McWhirter, Juliie Michaels<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Production Status: Completed<br />
Budget: Under $1 million<br />
Buried deep beneath the earth, Jonathan<br />
has waited for 100 years to unite with his<br />
true love; Victoria. Jonathan sacrificed<br />
his soul and became a Vampire- will<br />
Victoria do the same for him?<br />
DELTA DELTA DIE<br />
Horror<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Devin Hamilton<br />
Producer: Keith Walley<br />
Cast: Julie Strain, Brinke Stevens, Joe<br />
Dain, Tiffany Shepis<br />
Production Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Budget: Under $1 million<br />
Mother Fitch and her Delta Delta Pi<br />
sorority college girls have an insatiable<br />
taste for men; their flesh that is.<br />
BIRTHRITE<br />
Horror<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Devin Hamilton<br />
Producer: Keith Walley<br />
Cast: Zette Sullivan, Jennifer Capo,<br />
Robert Donavan<br />
Production Status: Completed<br />
Budget: Under $1 million.<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
A young girl discovers her true parents<br />
were witches, and so is she.<br />
BLEED<br />
Horror<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Devin Hamilton<br />
Producer: Keith Walley<br />
Cast: Debbie Rochon, Danny Wolske,<br />
Allen Nabors, Laura Nativo<br />
Production Status: Completed<br />
Budget: Under $1 million.<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
<strong>The</strong> hot young members of the “Murder<br />
Club” are being killed off one by one.<br />
Who can be trusted? Can the killer be<br />
stopped? Or will they all bleed?<br />
JIGSAW<br />
Horror<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Harry James Picardi, Don<br />
Adams<br />
Producer: Charles band, Don Adams<br />
Cast: Mark Vollmers, Brinke Stevens<br />
Production Status: Completed<br />
Budget: Under $1 million.<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
A College art class tackles a bizarre<br />
project - the end result is an exquisite<br />
corpse they call Jigsaw. <strong>The</strong>ir darkest<br />
secrets come to haunt them when Jigsaw<br />
comes to life targeting each of the<br />
creators for a brutal death.<br />
G<br />
GAUMONT<br />
Gaumont, 30, avenue Charles de Gaulle,<br />
92 200 Neuilly Sur Seine, France. Tel:<br />
33.1.46.43.21.80. Fax: 33.1.46.43.20.33.<br />
www.gaumont.com<br />
At Cannes: Franck CHOROT (President,<br />
Worldwide Marketing and Distribution),<br />
Philippe ROSTAIN (President<br />
International Sales), Philippe de<br />
CHAISEMARTIN (Senior Vice-President<br />
International Sales Feature <strong>Film</strong>s), Loïc<br />
TROCMÉ (Director International Sales<br />
Feature <strong>Film</strong>s), Anne BERNSTEIN<br />
(French TV Sales), Virginie ROYER<br />
(Teledis, Sales Executive), Ariane<br />
TOSCAN DU PLANTIER (Junior Vice-<br />
President, International Marketing)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: 55 La Croisette, Tel:<br />
33.4.93.68.90.20. Fax: 33.4.93.68.79.49<br />
FUREUR (AKA RAGE)<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Karim Dridi<br />
Production: GAUMONT / ADR<br />
Casting: Samuel Le Bihan - Yu Nan<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Set in the Paris chinatown. Can love<br />
overcome rage?<br />
MAIS QUI A TUE PAMELA ROSE?<br />
(AKA BULLIT & RIPPER)<br />
Spoof Comedy<br />
Director: Eric Lartigau<br />
Production: GAUMONT / KL<br />
Casting: Kad, Olivier, Jean-Paul Rouve,<br />
Gerard Darmon, Benedicte Loyen<br />
Status: French Release June 04th 2003<br />
Who killed Pamela Rose? Bullit and<br />
Riper, two clumsy FBI agents,<br />
investigate... ZAZ and the Farelly<br />
Brothers french-style.<br />
PERE ET FILS (AKA FATHER AND<br />
SONS)<br />
Comedy<br />
Director: Michel Boujenah<br />
Production: GAUMONT / AJOZ /<br />
LITTLE BEAR: MAX FILMS<br />
Casting: Philippe Noiret, Charles<br />
Berling, Bruno Putzulu, Pascal Elbé<br />
Status: French Release August 20th 2003<br />
Leo fakes illness and organizes one “ last<br />
“ trip to Canada to recapture his three<br />
adult sons before he “dies”.<br />
LOVELY-RITA.COM<br />
Dark Comedy / Thriller<br />
Edgar wanted to see sexy Rita, met on<br />
the web, but the night of delights will<br />
turn into a nightmare...<br />
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Director: Stephane Clavier<br />
Production: GAUMONT / OUILLE<br />
<strong>PRODUCT</strong>IONS<br />
Casting: Christian Clavier, Julie Gayet,<br />
Eddy Mitchell, Arielle Dombasle<br />
Status: French Release September 2003<br />
LES RIPOUX 3 (AKA PART-TIME<br />
COPS)<br />
Detective Comedy<br />
Director: Claude Zidi<br />
Production: CPZ/GAUMONT/PLAZZA<br />
<strong>PRODUCT</strong>IONS INTERNATIONAL<br />
Casting: Philippe Noiret, Thierry<br />
Lhermitte, Lorant Deutsch<br />
Status: French Release December 2003<br />
Ten years after, our two scam artists from<br />
the crooked days as cops, meet again...<br />
but pitted against each other!<br />
GEMINI FILMS<br />
Gemini <strong>Film</strong>s, 34 boulevard Sebastopol,<br />
75004 – Paris, France.<br />
gemini@easynet.fr. www.geminifilms.com<br />
At Cannes: Paulo BRANCO (Producer),<br />
Laurent BAUDENS (Acquisitions &<br />
Sales Manager – 33.(0)6.70.79.05.17),<br />
Audrey HABER (Acquisitions & Sales –<br />
33.(0)6.30.60.19.02), Maria Gabriela<br />
PEREZ (Festival Coordinator –<br />
33.(0)6.76.70.65.00)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera J3/ K4, Tel:<br />
04.92.99.33.21, Fax: 04.92.99.33.22<br />
THAT DAY ( CE JOUR LA)<br />
Dramatic Comedy (105 min)<br />
Language: French<br />
Director: Raoul RUIZ<br />
Status Completed, Premiere screening<br />
Country of origin: France<br />
Cast: Bernard GIRAUDEAU-Elsa<br />
ZYLBERSTEIN -Michel PICCOLI<br />
Livia is the sole inheritor of the immense<br />
family fortune. But her father desperately<br />
needs money...<br />
A TALKING FILM<br />
Drama (95 min)<br />
Language: French, Italian, Greek,<br />
Portuguese, English<br />
Director: Manoel de OLIVEIRA<br />
Cast: Catherine DENEUVE - John<br />
MALKOVICH - Leonor SILVEIRA<br />
Status Completed, Premiere screening<br />
Country of origin: Portugal - France<br />
A cruise from Lisbon via Bombay,<br />
Pompeii.... leads to a reflection on the<br />
western civilization.<br />
IT’S EASIER FOR A CAMEL...(IL<br />
EST PLUS FACILE POUR UN<br />
CHAMEAU...)<br />
Dramatic comedy (105 min)<br />
Language: French, Italian<br />
Director: Valéria BRUNI TEDESCHI<br />
Cast: Valéria BRUNI TEDESCHI -<br />
Chiara MASTROIANNI - Jean Hugues<br />
ANGLADE<br />
Status Completed, Premiere screening.<br />
Country of origin: France<br />
Federica is rich, too rich. Overwhelmed,<br />
she seeks comfort in the imaginary<br />
where everything becomes perfect.<br />
CLEAR SKIES AFTER RAIN<br />
(WORKING TITLE) (APRES LA<br />
PLUIE LE BEAU TEMPS)<br />
Musical comedy (94 min)<br />
Language: French<br />
Director: Nathalie SCHMIDT<br />
Cast: Julie GAYET - Clovis<br />
CORNILLAC - Marc BARBE<br />
Status Completed, Premiere screening<br />
Country of origin: France<br />
A seductive impresario hires Rose for his<br />
show, destined to be a hit...very far from<br />
Broadway.<br />
COME AND GO<br />
Comedy (179 min)<br />
Language: Portuguese<br />
Director: João César MONTEIRO<br />
Cast: João César MONTEIRO - Rita<br />
PEREIRA MARQUES - Joaquina<br />
CHICHAU<br />
Status Completed, Premiere screening<br />
Country of origin: Portugal<br />
<strong>The</strong> philosophico-erotic adventures of<br />
João Vuvu.<br />
GIANTS<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
DISTRIBUTION INC.<br />
Giants Entertainment Distribution Inc.,<br />
10600 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 501, Los<br />
Angeles, CA 90024 USA. Tel:<br />
310.652.5400. Fax: 310.659.4000.<br />
www.giantsfilms.com<br />
At Cannes: David Dadon (Chairman),<br />
Zee Batal (Executive Producer) Jacob<br />
Dadon (Executive Producer), Coleen<br />
Smith (Producer)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Hotel Carlton, Suite 119, Tel:<br />
33.4.93.06.40.06, Fax: 33.4.93.06.40.25<br />
JUNGLE JUICE<br />
Comedy (97 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Tony Vitale<br />
Producer: David Dadon, Anthony J.<br />
Cataldo, Richard Abramson<br />
Key Cast: Christopher Walken, Morgan<br />
Fairchild, Rutger Hauer, Robert Wagner,<br />
David Deblinger, Darren Geare, R.J.<br />
Knoll<br />
Delivery Status: Post Production<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Darren is about to be married but his<br />
bride leaves him at the alter. Darren and<br />
his buddy RJ go on the honeymoon<br />
together instead. Craziness ensues!<br />
VERY MEAN MEN<br />
Action/Comedy (92 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Tony Vitaleh<br />
Producer: David Dadon, Steven Baio,<br />
Neil P. White<br />
Key Cast: Matthew Modine, Ben<br />
Gazzara, Charles Durning, Burt Young,<br />
Scott Baio, Louise Fletcher and Martin<br />
Landau<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
A bartender tries to frighten a tip out of a<br />
cheap drunk by spinning a tale about two<br />
notorious crime bosses who go to war<br />
over a waitress being stiffed.<br />
FACE TO FACE<br />
Action/comedy (95 min)<br />
Director: English<br />
Language: Ellie Kanner<br />
Producer: David Dadon, Neil P. White,<br />
Steven Baio<br />
Key Cast: Dean Stockwell, Scott Baio,<br />
Joe Viterelli, Alex Rocco, Thomas<br />
Calabro, Madchen Amick, Ellen<br />
Travolta, and Meat Loaf<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
For cousins Rich , Al and Philly, seeing<br />
their fathers cry is a long shot. A funeral<br />
changes everything, and the cousins<br />
make it their mission to reconnect with<br />
their dads.<br />
BAD GUYS<br />
Action (95 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Bryan Genesse<br />
Producer: David Dadon<br />
Key Cast: Michael Madsen, Bryan<br />
Genesse, James Russo, Claudia<br />
Christian, Damon Whitaker, Marty Kove,<br />
Sasha Barrese and John Phillip Law<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
DEA agents join a small town sheriff in<br />
the fight of their lives to remove a major<br />
drug dealer from the area. An all out war<br />
erupts and no one is safe.<br />
IDES OF MARCH<br />
Action (95 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Darren Doane<br />
Producer: David Dadon<br />
Key Cast: Michael Madsen, Gary<br />
Daniels, George Cheung<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Thomas Cane is an Ex-S.A.S. Agent. His<br />
family is unaware that he is now a<br />
professional killer who collects from<br />
both sides, putting everyone in danger.<br />
GMG<br />
<strong>PRODUCT</strong>IONS&DIS<br />
TRIBUTIONS SRL<br />
GMG Productions&Distributions SRL,<br />
Via Ripa di Porta Ticinese, 33 - 20143<br />
Milano, Italy. Tel and Fax:<br />
39.02.89403721. Mobile: 39.348<br />
8819843. garbelli@hotmail.com.<br />
giannamariagarbelli.com<br />
At Cannes: GIanna Maria Garbelli<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: I.C.E./ANICA, Tel: (mobile)<br />
39.348.8819843<br />
TENTAZIONI METROPOLITANE<br />
Drama (111 min)<br />
Language: Italian English subtitles<br />
Director: Gianna Maria Garbelli<br />
Producer: Gianna Maria Garbelli<br />
Cast: Gianna Maria Garbelli, Annie<br />
Girardot, Maurizio Donadoni.<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 1997, Country of<br />
Origin: Italy<br />
Budget: $ 1.000.000<br />
A girl’s struggle for freedom is hindered<br />
by fears, betrayals, mistrust and<br />
CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
temptations.<br />
GOLDCREST FILMS<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
Goldcrest <strong>Film</strong>s International, 65-66<br />
Dean Street, London W1D 4PL, United<br />
Kingdom. Tel: 44.(0).20.7437.8696. Fax:<br />
44.(0).20.7437.4448<br />
At Cannes: John Quested (Chairman,<br />
N.Y. <strong>Of</strong>fice), Stephen Johnston<br />
(President L.A. <strong>Of</strong>fice), Peter McRae<br />
(SVP of Co-Productions), Abigail Walsh<br />
(Sales Executive)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: 1st floor, 57 LA CROISETTE,<br />
Centre Croisette, le Rose-Marie, Tel:<br />
04.93.99.80.79. Fax: 04.93.99.80.76<br />
GOLDCREST FILMS<br />
INTERNATIONAL’S LIBRARY<br />
Over 80 titles available to license<br />
worldwide for Television and DVD<br />
rights, including many award winning<br />
features:<br />
THE KILLING FIELDS<br />
John Malkovich, Sam Waterston, Haing<br />
Hgor, Julian Sands<br />
THE MISSION<br />
Robert DeNiro, Jeremy Irons, Liam<br />
Neeson<br />
THE NAME OF THE ROSE<br />
(TV rights only)<br />
Sean Connery, Christian Slater<br />
A ROOM WITH A VIEW<br />
Helena Bonham Carter, Daniel Day<br />
Lewis, Judi Dench<br />
GOLDEN NETWORK<br />
ASIA LIMITED<br />
Golden Network Asia Limited, Unit<br />
1803A, Nanyang Plaza, 57 Hung To<br />
Road Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.<br />
Tel: 852.2751.1886. Fax: 852.2750.4862.<br />
Cell: 33.(0).6.17.61.30.44.<br />
goldnet@netvigator.com<br />
Company Type: Sales Agent / Producer/<br />
Distributor<br />
At Cannes: Carrie WONG (Managing<br />
Director), Clarence TANG (Head of<br />
Sales and Acquisitions), Joanne CHAN<br />
(Sales and Distribution Executive),<br />
Lammy LI (Marketing Assistant);<br />
Acquisition Executive: Clarence TANG<br />
(Head of Sales & Acquisitions)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Rivera H3, Tel:<br />
33.(0).4.92.99.33.36. Fax:<br />
33.(0).4.92.99.33.36<br />
ONG BAK<br />
Action (107 min)<br />
Language: Thai<br />
Director: Prachya Pinkaew<br />
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert<br />
Production Partners: Sahamongkol <strong>Film</strong><br />
International Co., Ltd / Baa-Ram-Ewe<br />
GIRL IN CARABOUTTO - OVERSEAS FILMGROUP<br />
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Production<br />
Cast: Tony Jaa, Mun Jokmok, Pumwaree<br />
Yodkamol<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Thailand<br />
<strong>The</strong> first ever Thai film showing real<br />
Muay Thai martial arts! An action<br />
comedy starring Tony Jaa, the new action<br />
star from Asia.<br />
CHEERLEADER QUEENS<br />
Comedy (120 min)<br />
Language: Thai<br />
Director: Poj Arnon<br />
Producer: Chareon Iamphungporn<br />
Production Partners: Five Star Production<br />
Cast: Montonn Pariwat, Wongteap<br />
Kunarattanawat, Sumet Saelee<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Thailand<br />
A hilarious romp about a group of socalled<br />
Thai ladyboys who try their best to<br />
be accepted through their love of<br />
cheerleading.<br />
THE UNBORN<br />
Horror (108 min)<br />
Language: Thai<br />
Director: Bhandit Thongdee<br />
Producer: Prachya Pinkeaw<br />
Production Partners: Sahamongkol <strong>Film</strong><br />
International Co., Ltd / Baa-Ram-Ewe<br />
Production<br />
Cast: Inthira (Sine) Jareonpura, Prangng<br />
Chandtham, Aranya Namwong<br />
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Thailand<br />
Based on a story that became the talk of<br />
the town in Thailand in the year 2000.<br />
<strong>The</strong> story begins when Por wakes up in<br />
hospital, after being brutally beaten by a<br />
drug dealer named Odd, about to give<br />
birth.<br />
ANGULIMALA<br />
Action (93 min)<br />
Language: Thai<br />
Director: Suthep Tannitratana (Script<br />
Advisor of “Bangkok: Dangerous”,<br />
“Bang Rajan”)<br />
Producer: Adirek Uncle Watleela<br />
Production Partners: <strong>Film</strong> Bangkok<br />
Cast: Stella Malucchi “Tears of the Black<br />
Tiger”, Noppachai Chaiyanam, John<br />
Rattanaveroj<br />
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening<br />
UNDER THE RADAR<br />
PICTURES IN PARADISE<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Thailand<br />
Angulimala is a cruel mass murderer in<br />
the time of Buddha. His mission is to<br />
destroy a thousand human lives.<br />
However, he casts aside his sword, after<br />
he realized the Buddha’s words of<br />
wisdom...<br />
NOTHING TO LOSE<br />
Action / Drama (93 min)<br />
Language: Thai<br />
Director: Danny PANG “Bangkok:<br />
Dangerous”, “<strong>The</strong> Eye”<br />
Producer: Somsak<br />
SONGTHAMMAKUL, Daniel YUN<br />
Production Partners: Pang Brothers<br />
Production<br />
Cast: Pierre PNG “Chicken Rice War”<br />
“Forever Fever”, Fresh, Yvonne LIM<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Thailand<br />
A game plan with death.<br />
GOLDEN SUN FILM<br />
CO., LTD.<br />
Golden Sun <strong>Film</strong> Co., Ltd., 4 Floor, 7B<br />
Dragon House, 7-7B Cameron Road,<br />
Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.<br />
Tel.:852.2385.5939. Fax: 852.2368.3873.<br />
goldensu@netvigator.com<br />
Company Type: Sales agent, producer,<br />
distributor<br />
At Cannes: Lan Tien Hong (President),<br />
Ketsarinh Lan (Kathy Lan) (Vice<br />
president), Labourel Phouang Phet (Sales<br />
Executive), Catherine Lin (Sales<br />
Assistant), Acquisition Executive: James<br />
Chung (Acquisition Manager), Agus<br />
Wasita (Acquisition Manager)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera F4, Tel:<br />
33.(0)4.92.99.88.20<br />
PRA-A-PAIMANEE<br />
Drama/Fantasy (92 min)<br />
Language: Thai<br />
Director: Chalart Sriwanna<br />
Producer: Jirun Rattanaviriyachai<br />
Cast: Julaluck Kittiyarat, Surachi<br />
Sankarkat, Psassakorn Psamornbut<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Thailand<br />
A king sent his two sons to two different<br />
cities where they were kidnapped and<br />
fight for their survial...<br />
HIGH VOLTAGE<br />
Action/Adventure (92 Min)<br />
Language: Chinese<br />
Director: Kam Yeung Wah<br />
Producer: Movie Master International<br />
<strong>Film</strong> Co-production partners:<br />
Cast: Donnie Yen, Roy Cheung<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 1994, Country of<br />
Origin: Hong Kong (China), Philippine<br />
Since Chiang’s wife was murdered by a<br />
drug dealing maniac name Meed, Chiang<br />
has become the most lethal weapon of<br />
the Hong Kong Police force.<br />
IRON SISTER<br />
Drama (92 Min)<br />
Language: Chinese<br />
Director: Yeh Hung Wei<br />
Producer: Yang Su Mei Co-production<br />
partners:<br />
Cast: Shu Qi, Jackson Lou, Ada Yeung,<br />
Allan Lan<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 1996, Country of<br />
Origin: Hong Kong (China)<br />
<strong>The</strong> story is set in the period during the<br />
Japanese in invasion of China in the<br />
1930’s. A Chinese traitor Tung’s wife is<br />
saved by Iron Sister, a member of<br />
guerrillas.<br />
HERO AMONG HEROES<br />
Martial Arts<br />
Language: Chinese<br />
Director: Yuen Woo Ping, Chan Chin<br />
Chung<br />
Producer: Chan Chin Chung Coproduction<br />
partners:<br />
Cast: Donnie Yen, Yuen Kit Ying<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 1994, Country of<br />
Origin: Hong Kong (China)<br />
During the reign of Emperor Tao Kwang,<br />
Ching Dynasty, opium does harm to our<br />
folk. Tao Kwang appoints Lin Shih Tsui<br />
to get rid of opium in South China...<br />
TWO SHAOLIN KIDS IN HONG<br />
KONG<br />
Action/Adventure (92 min)<br />
Language: Chinese<br />
Director: Stephan Yip<br />
Producer: Stephan Yip<br />
Cast: Lau Kar Fai, Anita Lee, BoBo Ho<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 1994, Country of<br />
Origin: Hong Kong (China)<br />
Two Shaolin Kids ran away from their<br />
master HUNG CHEE and came to Hong<br />
Kong. <strong>The</strong>y met MONEY, a young<br />
woman who was a pickpocket...<br />
LAW OFFICES OF<br />
GREG S. BERNSTEIN<br />
Law <strong>Of</strong>fices of Greg S. Bernstein, 9601<br />
Wilshire Blvd., Suite 300A, Beverly Hills,<br />
California, USA. Tel: 310.247.2790. Fax:<br />
310.247.2791. greg@thefilmlaw.com,<br />
www.thefilmlaw.com<br />
Company Type: Entertainment and<br />
Finance Law, Producer Representative<br />
At Cannes: Greg S. Bernstein<br />
(Entertainment Attorney, Producer<br />
Representative)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Radisson Montfleury Cannes,<br />
Local Tel: 011.33.4.93.68.86.86. Local<br />
GRUPO NOVO DE<br />
CINEMA E TV<br />
Grupo Novo de Cinema e TV, Rua<br />
Capitão Salomão, 42, Humaitá - Rio de<br />
Janeiro, Cep:22271-040, Brasil. Tel:<br />
5521.2539.1538. Fax: 5521.2266.3637<br />
At Cannes: Alfredo Calvino, Alessandra<br />
Durso, Daniela Ribeiro<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: B3C6 - Riviera<br />
A LOVE MOVIE (FILME DE AMOR)<br />
by Julio Bressane<br />
Romance (90 min) New<br />
Year of Production: 2003<br />
Three friends, Hilda, Matilda and Gaspar,<br />
ordinary folk from the suburbs, meet up<br />
on a weekend in a tiny, not exactly chic,<br />
apartment downtown to gossip, drink and<br />
have a general good time.<br />
London Head <strong>Of</strong>fice Phone<br />
44 207 372 9992<br />
London Head <strong>Of</strong>fice FAX<br />
44 207 372 9993<br />
THE MAN OF THE YEAR (O<br />
HOMEM DO ANO)<br />
by José Henrique Fonseca<br />
Thriller (115 minutes) New<br />
Year of Production: 2003<br />
An innocent bet among buddies turns<br />
Michael, a common guy, into a murderer<br />
and the hero of a whole town.<br />
MANGO YELLOW (AMARELO<br />
MANGA)<br />
by Cláudio Assis<br />
Drama (100 minutes) New<br />
Year of Production: 2002<br />
<strong>The</strong> feature debut of the multi-awarded<br />
short film director Claudio Assis. Based<br />
on his previous short “Texas Hotel”, the<br />
film is a story of love encounters and<br />
mismatchings, held in a 24-hour gap.<br />
THE STORYTELLERS<br />
(NARRADORES DE JAVÉ)<br />
by Eliane Caffé<br />
Comedy (100 minutes) New<br />
Year of Production: 2003<br />
Javé’s daily monotomy would never<br />
change except for the fact of its imminent<br />
extinction. A huge power plant project<br />
might take the small village under water.<br />
BREAKING UP (SEPARAÇÕES)<br />
by Domingos de Oliveira<br />
Comedy (116 minutes) New<br />
Year of Production: 2002<br />
After his 97 domestic hit “Amores”, de<br />
Oliveira films another romantic comedy,<br />
now dealing with what he calls the four<br />
stages of a separation: DENIAL,<br />
NEGOTIATION, REVOLT and<br />
ACCEPTANCE.<br />
GRUPO PI<br />
Grupo Pi, C/ Lanzarote, 2 – San<br />
Sebastián De Los Reyes, Madrid 28700,<br />
Spain. Tel: 34.91.6592032. Fax:<br />
34.91.6592865. info@grupopi.tv.<br />
www.grupopi.tv<br />
Company Type: Distributor<br />
At Cannes: Geraldine Gonard (Sales<br />
Director), Álvaro Escribano (Sales<br />
Manager), Isabel Moya (Sales Assistant)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Stand number A1/C2-C1, Tel:<br />
00.34.686.95.95.21<br />
ARO TOLBUKHIN IN THE MIND<br />
OF A KILLER (ARO TOLBUKHIN<br />
EN LA MENTE DEL ASESINO)<br />
Drama (94’)<br />
Language: Spanish – English Subtitled<br />
Director: Agustí De Villaronga, Lydia<br />
Zimmermann, Isaac P. Racine<br />
Producer: Oberón Cinematográfica<br />
Co-Production Partners: Altavista <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Cast: Daniel Jiménez Cacho, Carmen<br />
Beato, Zóltán Józan<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year <strong>Of</strong> Production: 2002, Country <strong>Of</strong><br />
Orig: Spain - Mexico<br />
A false documentary about a true killer.<br />
YOU´LL BE BACK (VOLVERÁS)<br />
Drama (106’)<br />
Language: Spanish – English Subtitled<br />
Director: Antonio Chavarrías<br />
Producer: Oberón Cinematográfica<br />
Co-Production Partners: Altavista <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Cast: Unax Ugalde, Tristán Ulloa, Joana<br />
Rañe, Elizabeth Cervantes<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Spain<br />
Two antagonistic brothers, a gambler and<br />
an architect, run into each other after<br />
years.<br />
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MY MOTHER LIKES WOMEN (A<br />
MI MADRE LE GUSTAN LAS<br />
MUJERES)<br />
Comedy (96’)<br />
Language: Spanish – English Subtitled<br />
Director: Inés París, Daniela Fejerman<br />
Producer: Fernando Colomo P.C.<br />
Cast: Leonor Watling, Rosa María Sardá,<br />
María Pujalte, Silvia Abascal, Álex<br />
Angulo<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: Spain<br />
Sofia, a famous pianist, announces her<br />
daughters that she is in love again... but<br />
this time with a woman.<br />
BULGARIAN LOVERS (LOS<br />
NOVIOS BÚLGAROS)<br />
Drama (90’)<br />
Language: Spanish – English Subtitled<br />
Director: Eloy De La Iglesia<br />
Producer: Cartel Producciones<br />
Co-Production Partners: Altube <strong>Film</strong>eak,<br />
Cuervo <strong>Film</strong>s, Conexión Sur<br />
Cast: Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Pepón<br />
Nieto, Ditrán Biba, Roger Pera, Anita<br />
Sinkovic<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Spain<br />
Daniel, madly in love with a Bulgarian<br />
immigrant, will risk his dignity and<br />
social position to make his lover happy.<br />
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OF FILM<br />
London Head <strong>Of</strong>fice<br />
41-42 Berners St.<br />
London WIT 3NB<br />
Los Angeles <strong>Of</strong>fice<br />
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Los Angeles<br />
California 90036<br />
Los Angeles<br />
11222 La Cienega Blvd.<br />
Suite 100<br />
Inglewood, CA 90304<br />
Tel. 310-348-3777<br />
Fax. 310-641-6093<br />
H<br />
H3O FILMED<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
H 3 O <strong>Film</strong>ed Entertainment, 1415 West<br />
Georgia Street, Suite 1804, Vancouver<br />
V6G-3C8, Canada. Tel: 604.662.3345.<br />
Fax: 604.662.7720.<br />
production@h3ofilm.com.<br />
www.h3ofilm.com<br />
At Cannes: John Curtis (President /<br />
CEO), Rod Akizuki (Senior Manager),<br />
Sam Esteves (Sales Associate), Isabelle<br />
Angot (Assistant)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: 6 La Croisette, 7th Floor, res.Le<br />
Borgne, Tel: 04.93.38.46.35. Fax:<br />
04.93.38.46.35. Mobile: 06.18.50.67.66<br />
RIPPER II<br />
Thriller/Horror<br />
Director: Jonas Quastel<br />
Producer: John Curtis, Evan Tylor<br />
Delivery Status: Screening trailer/ Post-<br />
Production<br />
Country of Origin: Canada / UK / Czech<br />
Recreating the fear...<br />
THE BARBER<br />
Thriller (94:00)<br />
Director: Michael Bafaro<br />
Producer: Evan Tylor<br />
Cast: Malcolm McDowell<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: Canada/UK<br />
As seen through the eyes of a killer.<br />
RIPPER: LETTER FROM HELL<br />
Thriller / Horror (113:53)<br />
Director: John Eyres<br />
Producer: John Curtis, Evan Tylor<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: Canada/UK<br />
Repeat the history.<br />
GRENDEL<br />
Action/Adventure<br />
Director: TBA<br />
Producer: Evan Tylor, John Curtis<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-production<br />
Country of Origin: Canada/U.K.<br />
<strong>The</strong> horrific result of genetic engineering<br />
gone wrong terrorizes small-town<br />
America.<br />
TRIGGER JUNKIE<br />
Thriller<br />
Director: TBA<br />
Producer: Evan Tylor, John Curtis<br />
Delivery Status: Development<br />
INTERNATIONAL, INC.<br />
San Diego<br />
7920 Airway Road Suite<br />
A10<br />
San Diego, CA 92154<br />
Tel. 619-661-8880<br />
Fax. 619-661-8885<br />
New York<br />
181 South Franklin Ave.<br />
Valley Stream,<br />
NY 11581<br />
Tel. 516-394-0400<br />
Fax. 516-394-0499<br />
Country of Origin: Canada/U.K.<br />
Hacking in is easy. Getting away with it<br />
can be murder.<br />
CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
HAN<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
LTD.<br />
Han Entertainment Ltd., 29/F, 148<br />
Electric Road, North Point, Hong Kong.<br />
Tel 852.2284.0600. Fax 852.2164.4880.<br />
www.han-entertainment.com<br />
At Cannes: Thomas CHUNG (Managing<br />
Director), Sabrina CHEN (General<br />
Manager – Distribution), Philip<br />
HEMNELL (General Manager -<br />
<strong>Business</strong> Development), Anna LEUNG<br />
(Executive Assistant)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: 2nd Floor, 55, La Croisette, Tel:<br />
04.93.99.80.01. Fax: 04.93.39.01.71<br />
SILVER HAWK<br />
Action<br />
Director: Jingle MA<br />
Producers: Michelle YEOH, Thomas<br />
CHUNG<br />
Cast: Michelle YEOH, Richie JEN, Luke<br />
GOSS, BOA, Michael Jai WHITE<br />
Status: In production<br />
Budget: USD15 million<br />
Country of origin: Hong Kong<br />
A ruthless villain is on the brink of<br />
subverting the world - and only one<br />
woman stands in his way.<br />
JIANG SHI<br />
Horror<br />
Director: LAW Chi Leung<br />
Producers: Michelle YEOH, Thomas<br />
CHUNG<br />
Cast: Anthony WONG, Brandon<br />
CHANG<br />
Status: Pre-production<br />
Budget: USD 5 million<br />
Country of origin: Hong Kong<br />
An Asian horror comes alive to terrorize<br />
the modern world.<br />
HUA MULAN<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Peter PAU<br />
Producers: Michelle YEOH, Thomas<br />
CHUNG<br />
Cast: Michelle YEOH<br />
Status: Pre-production<br />
Budget: USD35 million<br />
Country of origin: Hong Kong<br />
A sweeping tale of a woman warrior with<br />
her courage to fight for love, family and<br />
country.<br />
Newark<br />
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Newark,<br />
N.J. 07114<br />
Tel. 973-639-1000<br />
Fax. 973-639-0361<br />
THE TOUCH<br />
Action Adventure (104 mins)<br />
Director: Peter PAU<br />
Producers: Michelle YEOH, Thomas<br />
CHUNG<br />
Cast: Michelle YEOH, Ben CHAPLIN,<br />
Richard ROXBURGH<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Budget: USD 20million<br />
Country of origin: Hong Kong<br />
An action adventure of the greatest<br />
treasure where no ordinary human being<br />
could ever reach.<br />
HANNIBAL<br />
PICTURES<br />
Hannibal Pictures, 8265 Sunset Blvd.<br />
Suite # 107, West Hollywood, CA 90046<br />
USA. Tel: 323.848.2945. Fax:<br />
323.848.2946.<br />
contactus@hannibalpictures.com.<br />
www.hannibalpictures.com<br />
Company Type: Sales, Distribution<br />
At Cannes: Richard Rionda Del Castro<br />
(Chairman of the Board & CEO),<br />
Patricia Rionda Del Castro (President)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Noga Hilton, Tel: 04.92.99.70.00.<br />
Fax: 04.92.99.70.11. Cell: 06.87.70.94.67<br />
MASKED AND ANONYMOUS<br />
Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Larry Charles<br />
Producer: Nigel Sinclair and Larry<br />
Charles<br />
Cast: Bob Dylan, Penelope Cruz, Jeff<br />
Bridges, Jessica Lange, John Goodman,<br />
Jeff Bridges, Mickey Rourke, Giovanni<br />
Ribisi, Cheech Marin, Luke Wilson, Ed<br />
Harris, Bruce Dern, Val Kilmer, Chris<br />
Penn, Christian Slater, Richard Sarafian<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Budget: $10 million USD<br />
In a city wracked by severe civil unrest,<br />
Jack Fate (Dylan), is forced to make a<br />
comeback to the performance stage as he<br />
wrestles with his personal demons on the<br />
eve of a benefit concert.<br />
OLD SOLDIERS<br />
Action<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Andrzej Sekula<br />
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro,<br />
Gary Howsam<br />
Cast: TBA<br />
Miami<br />
6176 NW 74th Ave.<br />
Miami,<br />
FL. 33122<br />
Tel. 305-477-8112<br />
Fax. 305-477-8601<br />
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Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />
Year <strong>Of</strong> Production: 2003, Country <strong>Of</strong><br />
Origin: UK-Spain-Canada<br />
Budget: $14million USD<br />
When the unsuspecting Christian<br />
Gregson receives a mysterious package,<br />
he is forced to team up with exmercenary<br />
Victor Conti as he is thrust<br />
into a storm of death, violence, and<br />
revenge.<br />
ESCOBAR<br />
Action<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Andrzej Sekula<br />
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro<br />
Cast: TBA<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />
Year <strong>Of</strong> Production: 2003, Country <strong>Of</strong><br />
Origin: Mexico-Spain-UK<br />
Budget: $20million USD<br />
<strong>The</strong> corruption, scandal, millions, and<br />
political involvement surrounding the life<br />
of infamous drug lord, Pablo Escobar.<br />
YAKUZA<br />
Action<br />
Language: English<br />
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />
Year <strong>Of</strong> Production: 2003, Country <strong>Of</strong><br />
Origin: Canada-UK-China<br />
Budget: $20 million USD<br />
Two powerful defenders of opposing<br />
crime families hopelessly fall in love as<br />
they fight against each other in a<br />
malicious mafia war.<br />
BALLAD TO THE END OF THE<br />
WORLD<br />
Action-Adventure<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Tba<br />
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />
Year <strong>Of</strong> Production: 2003, Country <strong>Of</strong><br />
Origin: France-UK-Spain<br />
Budget: $40 million USD<br />
In a lost enchanted world, a professional<br />
football player of modern times fights his<br />
way through a magical Conquistador<br />
kingdom in search of his missing wife.<br />
JISM - THE DARK SIDE OF DESIRE<br />
WEG INDIA<br />
HBO FILMS LONDON<br />
HBO <strong>Film</strong>s London, Warner House, 98<br />
<strong>The</strong>obald’s Road, London, WC1X 8WB,<br />
United Kingdom. Tel: 44.207.984.5051.<br />
Fax: 44.207.984.5052<br />
Company Type: Distributor<br />
At Cannes: Rosa Bosch, (Co-Managing<br />
Director), Penny Wolf, (Co-Managing<br />
Director)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Majestic Hotel Suite #134, Tel:<br />
04.97.06.85.34, Fax: 04.97.06.85.36<br />
ELEPHANT<br />
Drama (84 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Gus Van Sant<br />
Executive Producers: Diane Keaton, Bill<br />
Robinson<br />
Producer: Dany Wolf<br />
Cast: Alex Frost, John Robinson, Elias<br />
McConnell<br />
Delivery Status: Completed (screening)<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
One beautiful fall day at an American<br />
high school, filled with football, gossip,<br />
schoolwork: an ordinary day until it is<br />
unexpectedly shattered... A film by Gus<br />
Van Sant.<br />
AMERICAN SPLENDOR<br />
Drama (100 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert<br />
Pulcini<br />
Producer: Ted Hope<br />
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, James<br />
Urbaniak<br />
Delivery Status: Completed (screening)<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
For everyman Harvey Pekar, ordinary life<br />
is pretty complex stuff. 2003 Sundance<br />
Grand Jury Prize Winner.<br />
MY HOUSE IN UMBRIA<br />
Drama (102 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Richard Loncraine<br />
Executive Producer: Frank Doelger<br />
Producer: Ann Wingate, Co-Producer-<br />
Marco Valerio Pugini<br />
Cast: Maggie Smith, Ronnie Barker,<br />
Chris Cooper, Benno Fürµmann,<br />
Giancarlo Giannini, Timothy Spall and<br />
Emmy Clarke<br />
Delivery Status: Completed (screening)<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
A poignant look at an unlikely group of<br />
characters who find solace and friendship<br />
after being thrown together in the wake<br />
of a terrorist attack.<br />
NORMAL<br />
Drama (109 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Jane Anderson<br />
Executive Producers: Cary Brokaw,<br />
Lydia Dean Pilcher<br />
Cast: Jessica Lange, Tom Wilkinson<br />
Delivery Status: Completed (screening)<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson star in<br />
this moving and humorous story of love<br />
and acceptance when a Midwestern<br />
husband announces his plan to have a sex<br />
change.<br />
HIGH POINT FILMS<br />
High Point <strong>Film</strong>s, 25 Elizabeth Mews,<br />
London NW3 4UH, UK. Tel:<br />
44.20.7586.3686. Fax: 44.20.7586.3117.<br />
sales@highpointfilms.co.uk.<br />
www.highpointfilms.co.uk<br />
Company Type: independent feature film<br />
and TV movie sales company<br />
At Cannes: Carey Fitzgerald (Managing<br />
Director), Ronald de Neef (CEO), Julie<br />
Murphy-Delaney (Director), Sital Haria<br />
(Head <strong>Of</strong> Sales), Piers Nightingale<br />
(Development Executive)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Suite 501 Hotel Cristal, Tel:<br />
33.06.85.67.27.32, Fax:<br />
33.04.93.38.64.66<br />
REBELLION<br />
Romantic drama (1 x 93 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: John Strickland<br />
Producers: Malcolm Craddock & Robert<br />
Cooper<br />
Production companies: Picture Palace,<br />
October Productions & BBC<br />
Starring: James D’Arcy, Paloma Baeza,<br />
Vincent Regan, Bill Paterson<br />
Delivery Status: Complete<br />
Country of Origin: UK<br />
A powerful and moving tale of love and<br />
passion set against the sweeping<br />
backdrop of the Irish Rebellion.<br />
THE DEBT<br />
Thriller (1 x 100’ approx)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Jon Jones<br />
Producer: Pier Wilkie<br />
Production Companies: Strand<br />
Productions & BBC<br />
Starring: Warren Clarke, Hugo Speer,<br />
Lee Williams<br />
Delivery Status: Complete<br />
Country of Origin: UK<br />
For cracking safes, Geoff Dresner is the<br />
best, only now he wants to go straight.<br />
But first he has to finish one last job...<br />
BOOTLEG<br />
Family (100’ approx.)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Ian Gilmour<br />
Producers: Diana Kyle & Ewan Burnett<br />
Production Companies: Strand<br />
Productions & BBC<br />
Starring: Martin Jarvis, Steven Geller,<br />
Anthony Hammer.<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: UK<br />
It’s the near future, and chocolate is<br />
illegal! Can Smudger and Huntley stand<br />
up to the system?<br />
FACE AT THE WINDOW<br />
Family (1 x 100’ approx. or 6 x 25’)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Graeme Harper<br />
Producer: Josephine Ward<br />
Production Companies: Strand<br />
Productions & BBC<br />
Starring: Angelo Andreou, Andrew<br />
Lancel, Angela Downs.<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: UK<br />
Afraid for his life, 10 year old refugee,<br />
Erri, has fled to England. His only hope<br />
now lies with three schoolchildren.<br />
TWIN SISTERS (DE TWEELING)<br />
Epic drama (1 x 129 min)<br />
Language: Dutch/German<br />
Director Ben Sombogaart<br />
Producers: Anton Smit, Hanneke Niens<br />
Production companies: IdtV <strong>Film</strong><br />
Starring: <strong>The</strong>kla Reuten, Nadja Uhl,<br />
Jeroen Spitzenberger, Roman Knizka<br />
Delivery Status: Complete<br />
Country of Origin: Holland<br />
Two sisters long to reunite after being<br />
cruelly separated before the war. But<br />
when one marries an SS soldier and the<br />
other a Jew, can their worlds ever be<br />
reconciled?<br />
HIGHLAND CREST<br />
PICTURES<br />
Highland Crest Pictures, 7471 Melrose<br />
Avenue, Suite 7, Los Angeles, CA 90046<br />
USA. Tel: 323.852.9484. Fax:<br />
323.658.7265.<br />
highlandcrestpix@aol.com,<br />
www.highlandcrestpix.com<br />
Company Type: Sales Agent<br />
At Cannes: Acquisition Executive<br />
Douglas Witkins (President), Koing<br />
Kuoch (Vice-President)<br />
SIX WAYS TO SUNDAY<br />
Action (97 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Adam Bernstein<br />
Producer: Adam Bernstein<br />
Cast: Adrien Brody, Norman Reedus,<br />
Isaac Hayes, Deborah Harry<br />
Delivery Status Complete<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Budget: 3.5 Million<br />
An eighteen year-old mama’s boy joins<br />
the mob with unexpected results.<br />
HOLLAND FILM<br />
Holland <strong>Film</strong>, Jan Luykenstraat 2, 1071<br />
CM Amsterdam, <strong>The</strong> Netherlands. Tel:<br />
31.20.5707575. Fax: 31.20.5707570.<br />
hf@hollandfilm.nl Website:<br />
www.hollandfilm.nl<br />
Company Type: Promotion & Marketing<br />
At Cannes: Claudia Landsberger<br />
(Managing Director)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Holland <strong>Film</strong> Stand , La Riviera<br />
A3, Tel: 33.(0)4.92.99.32.48<br />
MOONLIGHT<br />
Drama (90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Paula van der Oest<br />
Producer: Emjay Rechsteiner-Staccato<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s Co-production partners: Spice<br />
Factory, Delux Studios, Peppermint<br />
Cast: Laurien van den Broeck, Hunter<br />
Bussemaker, Andrew Howard<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: <strong>The</strong> Netherlands<br />
Claire leads an idyllic suburban life. One<br />
day a mysterious young man enters her<br />
world. She’s looking for adventure. He’s<br />
looking for an escape.<br />
YES NURSE! NO NURSE!<br />
Musical (104 minutes)<br />
Language: Dutch<br />
Director: Pieter Kramer<br />
Producer: Bos Bros <strong>Film</strong> & TV<br />
Productions Co-production partners:<br />
Cast: Loes Luca, Paul de Leeuw, Paul R.<br />
Kooij<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: <strong>The</strong> Netherlands<br />
A fantasy musical recounting the<br />
adventures of the residents of Nurse<br />
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Klivia’s Rest Home as they combat the<br />
efforts of their nasty landlord and<br />
neighbour to have them evicted.<br />
ADRENALINE<br />
Drama (97 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Roel Reiné<br />
Producer: Roel Reiné Co-production<br />
partners:<br />
Cast: Georgina Verbaan, Jason Fijal<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002/2003, Country<br />
of Origin: <strong>The</strong> Netherlands<br />
When Jason’s girlfriend disappears, he<br />
learns things are not always what they<br />
seem. His search for who she really was<br />
leads him to an illegal gang of thrill<br />
seekers.<br />
THE EMPEROR’S WIFE<br />
Drama (95 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Julien Vrebos<br />
Producer: Fu Works-San Fu Maltha and<br />
Staccato <strong>Film</strong>s-Emjay Rechsteiner Coproduction<br />
partners: Spice Factory,<br />
Delux <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Max<br />
Beesley, Johnny de Mol<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002/2003, Country<br />
of Origin: <strong>The</strong> Netherlands<br />
After six happy years of marriage, the<br />
beloved Empress hasn’t given birth to an<br />
heir. In a secret wing of the Imperial<br />
Palace, an innocent virgin is being<br />
prepared to replace her.<br />
GODFORSAKEN<br />
Drama (87 min)<br />
Language: Dutch<br />
Director: Pieter Kuijpers<br />
Producer: IdtV <strong>Film</strong> BV Co-production<br />
partners:<br />
Cast: Egbert Jan Weeber, Tygo Gernandt,<br />
Angela Schijf<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: <strong>The</strong> Netherlands<br />
Stan’s life changes when he meets up<br />
with a young criminal Maikel and his<br />
girlfriend Anna and takes up the path of<br />
crime with him.<br />
HOLLYWOOD<br />
CLASSICS<br />
Hollywood Classics, 8 Cleveland<br />
Gardens, London W2 6HA UK. Tel:<br />
44.20.7262.4646. Fax: 44.20.7262.3242.<br />
info@hollywoodclassics.com.<br />
www.hollywoodclassics.com<br />
Company Type: Sales agent<br />
At Cannes: Joe Dreier (Director),<br />
Melanie Tebb (Sales), John Flynn<br />
(Director)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: 63 la Croisette, Le Lerina, 4 th<br />
floor, Tel: 04.93.94.00.09<br />
BRIDE OF THE WIND<br />
Historial bio-pic (99 mins)<br />
English language<br />
Director: Bruce Beresford<br />
Producer: Lawrence Levy, Evzen Kolar<br />
Cast: Sarah Wynter, Jonathan Pryce,<br />
Vincent Perez<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
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Origin: UK/Germany/Austria<br />
Bio-pic of Alma Schindler who married<br />
Gustav Mahler and had affairs with<br />
Oskar Kokoshka and Walter Gropius<br />
amongst others.<br />
STEALING TIME<br />
Black comedy (98 mins)<br />
English language<br />
Director: Marc Fusco<br />
Producer: Michael Garrity, Mike M<br />
Gabrawy<br />
Cast: Peter Facinelli, Scott Foley, Ethan<br />
Embry<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Four college friends attempt to pull off<br />
one of the largest bank robberies in LA<br />
history.<br />
CARLO’S WAKE<br />
Black comedy (90 mins)<br />
English language<br />
Director: Mike Valerio<br />
Producer: James Alex<br />
Cast: Martin Landau, Rita Moreno,<br />
Michael Chiklis<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
A colourful dysfunctional family gathers<br />
to pay its last respects.<br />
THE AMATI GIRLS<br />
Romantic comedy (91 mins)<br />
English language<br />
Director: Anne De Salvo<br />
Producer: James Alex<br />
Cast: Cloris Leachman, Mercedes Ruehl,<br />
Sean Young<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Four sisters who disagree about<br />
everything except what matters most.<br />
Family.<br />
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTMARE<br />
Sci-fi horror (99 mins)<br />
English language<br />
Director: Charles Wallace<br />
Delivery Status: In development<br />
You’ll never let your imagination run<br />
away with you again.<br />
HORIZON<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Horizon Entertainment, Suite 205, 1040<br />
Hamilton Street, Vancouver BC Canada<br />
V6B 2R9. Tel: 604 632 1707 Fax: 604<br />
632 1607. www.filmhorizon.com<br />
At Cannes: Rob Straight (President –<br />
Cell: 336.74.154.619), Michael Taverna<br />
(Sales and Acquisitions Executive / Head<br />
of Production – Cell 39.349.444.5160),<br />
Caroline Stern (Distribution Manager –<br />
Cell 336.74.154.618)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Booth G4<br />
JU-ON: THE GRUDGE 2<br />
Horror (92 min)<br />
Language: Japanese<br />
Directed by Takashi Shimzu<br />
Produced by Taka Ichise<br />
Delivery Status: Completed 2003 /<br />
Premiere, Screening<br />
Budget: $US 3.5 million<br />
<strong>The</strong> second theatrical sequel in a series<br />
of four horrors about a lethal and<br />
contagious curse originating from a<br />
wrongful death.<br />
HALLOW’S END<br />
Horror<br />
Language: English (USA)<br />
Directed by Jon Keeyes<br />
Produced by Brandon Baker, Richard T.<br />
Carey, Jon Keeyes, and Faras Rabadi<br />
Executive Producers Robert Straight and<br />
Michael Taverna<br />
Starring Stephen Cloud, Brandy Little,<br />
Amy Morris, Amy Jo Hearron, Matt<br />
Moore<br />
Delivery Status: Post-production /<br />
Premiere<br />
Budget: $US 1.2 million<br />
Trapped inside the haunted house,<br />
students are murdered one by one, only<br />
to come back as the creatures whose<br />
costumes they were wearing. By<br />
evening’s end, a handful of survivors<br />
must take one last stand against a<br />
houseful of ghouls, ghosts, zombies and<br />
vampires.<br />
JU-ON: THE GRUDGE<br />
Horror (92 min)<br />
Language: Japanese<br />
Directed by Takashi Shimzu<br />
Produced by Taka Ichise<br />
Starring Okina Magumi, Misaki Ito,<br />
Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa<br />
Delivery Status: Completed 2002<br />
Budget: $US 3.5 million<br />
A series of people die from a violent<br />
curse that is re-born every time someone<br />
is killed.<br />
JULY RHAPSODY<br />
Drama (103 minutes)<br />
Language: Chinese (Hong Kong)<br />
Directed by Ann Hui<br />
Produced by Derek Yee, Ann Hui<br />
Starring Jacky Cheung, Anita Mui,<br />
Karena Lam, Shaun Tam<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
2002/Screening<br />
A high school teacher finds himself in an<br />
emotional tailspin when the return of his<br />
wife’s ex-lover coincides with a student<br />
falling in love with him.<br />
INNER SENSES<br />
Thriller (96 minutes)<br />
Language: Chinese (Hong Kong)<br />
Directed by Lo Chi Leung<br />
Produced by Derek Yee<br />
Starring Leslie Cheung, Karena Lam,<br />
Maggie Poon, Lee Chi Hung<br />
Delivery Status: Completed 2002<br />
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FOOL PROOF - ALLIANCE ATLANTIS<br />
Budget: $US 4 million<br />
A psychologist treating a patient who<br />
claims to see dead people begins acting<br />
in strange ways himself.<br />
I<br />
ICON<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
Icon Entertainment International, <strong>The</strong><br />
Quadrangle, 180 Wardour Street, London<br />
W1F 8FX UK. Tel: 44.(0)20.7494.8100.<br />
Fax: 44.(0)20.7494.8101<br />
At Cannes: Bruce Davey (Chairman),<br />
Nick Hill (Chief Executive <strong>Of</strong>ficer UK<br />
Icon Group), Simon Crowe (Head of<br />
Sales), James Norrie (Sales Manager),<br />
Caroline Johnson (Head of International<br />
Marketing), Isabelle Lherondel<br />
(International Marketing Manager)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Les Jardins De La Croisette,<br />
Block B, 6th Floor, 19 Rue Du Canada,<br />
Tel: 33.(0).4.92.18.88.90. Fax:<br />
33.(0).4.92.18.88.99<br />
PAPARAZZI<br />
Thriller<br />
Director: Paul Abascal<br />
Producers: Bruce Davey, Stephen<br />
McEveety<br />
Cast: Cole Hauser, Dennis Farina, Robin<br />
Tunney<br />
Status: In Production<br />
Delivery: Spring 2004<br />
PAPARAZZI is a fast paced revenge<br />
thriller. When action movie star Bo<br />
Laramie and his family fall prey to the<br />
PAPARAZZI, his instinct is to fight<br />
back... How far would you go?<br />
THE SINGING DETECTIVE<br />
Musical Drama<br />
Director: Keith Gordon<br />
Producers: Mel Gibson, Steven Haft,<br />
Bruce Davey<br />
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright<br />
Penn, Jeremy Northam, Katie Holmes,<br />
Adrien Brody and Mel Gibson<br />
Status: Completed, screening in Cannes<br />
Delivery: Immediate<br />
Based on the award winning television<br />
series, Robert Downey Jr. stars as Dan<br />
Dark, a writer of pulp detective novels.<br />
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BLACKBALL<br />
Comedy<br />
Director: Mel Smith<br />
Producers: James Gay-Rees<br />
Cast: Paul Kaye, James Cromwell,<br />
Johnny Vegas, Alice Evans, Bernard<br />
Cribbins, Imelda Staunton, James Fleet<br />
and Vince Vaughan<br />
Status: Completed, Screening TBA<br />
A classic tale of triumph over adversity<br />
that will quite literally bowl you over -<br />
BLACKBALL!!<br />
GLADIATRESS<br />
Comedy<br />
Director: Brian Grant<br />
Producers: Damian Jones, Graham<br />
Broadbent, Bruce Davey<br />
Cast: Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan,<br />
Sally Phillips (“Smack <strong>The</strong> Pony”)<br />
Status: Post Production<br />
Delivery: Summer 2003<br />
In this hilarious new British comedy the<br />
Romans are beating a bloody swathe<br />
across the European Continent. Three<br />
sisters - Smirgut, Dwyfach and<br />
Worthaboutapig are all that stands<br />
between Britain and the mighty Roman<br />
Empire.<br />
AMERICAN COUSINS<br />
Director: Donald Coutts<br />
Producer: Margaret Matheson<br />
Cast: Danny Nucci, Shirley Henderson,<br />
Gerald Lepkowski with Vincent Pastore<br />
and Dan Hedaya<br />
Status: Completed, Screening in Cannes<br />
A feel good comedy about life, love, fish<br />
and chips, guns and gangsters. <strong>The</strong> Cosa<br />
Nostra have just moved to Scotland!<br />
IFDC, INC.<br />
IFDC, Inc. (International <strong>Film</strong><br />
Distribution Consultants), <strong>The</strong> Water<br />
Garden, 1601 Cloverfield Blvd., Suite<br />
200, South Tower, Santa Monica, CA<br />
90404 USA. Tel:310.460.3537. Fax:<br />
310.460.3445<br />
At Cannes: Jerome Bliah (President),<br />
Thorsten Schumacher (Acquisitions)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Private Residence, Tel:<br />
06.13.80.78.90 (Jerome Bliah’s mobile),<br />
Fax: 04.93.99.45.34<br />
ONE MAN’S WAR<br />
Drama (91 Minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Sergio Toledo<br />
Producer: Graham Benson, Colin<br />
Callender<br />
MOONLIGHT - ARCLIGHT FILMS<br />
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Norma<br />
Aleandro, And Fernanda Torres<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country Origin: USA<br />
Based on a shocking true story, a South<br />
American family resists a brutal<br />
dictatorship and fights for what they<br />
believe in.<br />
VOYAGE<br />
Thriller (90 Minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: John Mackenzie<br />
Producer: John Davis, Tarak Ben Ammar,<br />
Peby Guisez, Merril Karpf<br />
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Eric Roberts, And<br />
Karen Allen<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country Origin: USA<br />
A couple embarks on a high seas<br />
adventure across the Mediterranean to<br />
save their troubled marriage.<br />
YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A<br />
SANTA CLAUS<br />
Family (90 Minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Charles Jarrot<br />
Producer: Duke Fenady<br />
Cast: Charles Bronson<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country Origin: USA<br />
Virginia is a little girl who lives in New<br />
York City at the turn of the century,<br />
whose faith in Christmas rekindles the<br />
faith and hope of those around her.<br />
IFM WORLD<br />
RELEASING, INC.<br />
IFM World Releasing, Inc., 1328 East<br />
Palmer Avenue, Glendale, California<br />
91205,USA. Tel: 818.243.4976. Fax:<br />
818.550.9728. ifmfilm@aol.com. In<br />
Australia: IFM World Releasing Inc.<br />
2/25 Second Street, Clayton, Victoria<br />
3169, Australia. Tel: 61.3.9515.9249.<br />
Fax: 61.3.9515.9248.<br />
ifmfilm@optushome.com.au.<br />
www.ifmfilm.com<br />
At Cannes: Antony I. Ginnane<br />
(President), Anthony J. Lyons (VP<br />
International), David Makhlout (Director<br />
International Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Palais des Festivals, Stand F. 19,<br />
Tel: 33.04.92.99.32.04. Fax:<br />
818.550.9728<br />
GRIM WEEKEND - MARKET<br />
PREMIERE<br />
Thriller (90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Cast: Ken Hebert, Amanda Watson<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
5 people. 1 weekend. 12 miles from<br />
nowhere. <strong>The</strong> killing has begun.<br />
THE RISEN<br />
Psychological Thriller (94 minutes )<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Jeff Beesley<br />
Producer: Gail Tilson<br />
Cast: Alberta Watson, Eugene Lipinski,<br />
Daniel Maslany, Peter Outerbridge,<br />
Helen Shaver<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: Canada<br />
Haunted by the image of a boy after<br />
recovering from emergency surgery that<br />
saved her life, Amanda searches for the<br />
answers to the nightmares that have<br />
invaded her mind. THE TURNER<br />
AFFAIR<br />
Mystery Thriller (89 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Geoff Cox<br />
Producer: Pascale Cox, Geoff Cox<br />
Cast Rachel Blakely, David Paterson,<br />
David Orth, Peter Kent<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: Australia<br />
Deceit and seduction turn to murder<br />
when a scheming couple commits one<br />
scam too many.<br />
HUNTING HUMANS<br />
Thriller (90 minutes)<br />
Director: Kevin Kangas<br />
Producers: Rick Ganz, Kevin Kangas<br />
Cast: Rick Ganz, Bubby Lewis, Lisa<br />
Michele Trent<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
A serial killer stalks his victims, deciding<br />
the best way to kill them by studying<br />
their patterns.<br />
IN THE RED<br />
Action (87 minutes)<br />
Director: Glenn Ruehland<br />
Producers: Glenn Ruehland, Rina Reiss<br />
Cast: Steve Bisley, Damien Bradford,<br />
Terry Serrio, Allison Cratchley<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: Australia<br />
It’s a turbo charged action drama about a<br />
modern day gang with a passion for fast<br />
women and even faster cars. <strong>The</strong>ir highoctane<br />
passion is supported through<br />
wheeling and dealing in a big city’s<br />
brutal, opportunist underworld.<br />
IMAGEWORKS<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
INTERNATIONAL,<br />
INC.<br />
Imageworks Entertainment International,<br />
Inc., Warner Center, 6140 Variel Avenue,<br />
Woodland Hills, CA 91367 USA. Tel:<br />
818.716.1670. Fax: 818.716.8004.<br />
ImageworksEntInt@aol.com.<br />
www.ImageworksEntertainment.com<br />
Company Type: International<br />
Distribution, International Production<br />
At Cannes: David Shoshan (President,<br />
Sales), Richard Pepin (President,<br />
Production); Acquisition Executive:<br />
David Shoshan<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera L10, Tel:<br />
33.(0)4.92.99.33.14. Fax: 818.716.8004<br />
THE 4TH TENOR<br />
Comedy (90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Harry Basil<br />
Producer: Joseph Merhi<br />
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Robert Davi,<br />
Charles Fleischer<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year <strong>Of</strong> Production: 2002, Country <strong>Of</strong><br />
Origin: USA<br />
A restaurant owner(Dangerfield) falls in<br />
love with an opera singer and, desperate<br />
to impress her, travels to Italy to learn<br />
how to sing.<br />
THE BOX<br />
Thriller (90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Richard Pepin<br />
Producer: David Shoshan, Richard Pepin<br />
Cast: James Russo, <strong>The</strong>resa Russell,<br />
Brad Dourif, Steve Railsback, Jon Polito,<br />
Michael Rooker<br />
Delivery Status: Complete<br />
Year <strong>Of</strong> Production: 2002, Country <strong>Of</strong><br />
Origin: USA<br />
A reformed prisoner falls in love with a<br />
woman upon his release; together they<br />
find THE BOX which leads to a web of<br />
suspense and terror that takes them on a<br />
dangerous journey.<br />
KISS THE BRIDE<br />
Drama (90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Vanessa Parise<br />
Producer: David Shoshan, Richard Pepin<br />
Co-Production Partners: Jordan Gertner<br />
Cast: Amanda Detmer, Sean Patrick<br />
Flanery, Alyssa Milano, Brooke Langton,<br />
Monet Mazur, Johnathon Schaech,<br />
Vanessa Parise, Talia Shire, Burt Young,<br />
Johnny Whitworth.<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year <strong>Of</strong> Production: 2002, Country <strong>Of</strong><br />
Origin: USA<br />
Three radically different sisters return<br />
home for the wedding of their traditional<br />
sister, to find themselves in constant<br />
struggle for love and validation.<br />
MINDSTORM<br />
Action/Sci-Fi (90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Richard Pepin<br />
Producer: Richard Pepin, Michael Derbas<br />
Cast: Eric Roberts, Antonio Sabato, Jr.,<br />
Michael Ironside, Michael Moriarty,<br />
Emmanuelle Vaugier, Ed O’Ross,<br />
William B. Davis, Clarence Williams III<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year <strong>Of</strong> Production: 2001, Country <strong>Of</strong><br />
Origin: USA<br />
A psychic’s investigation into the<br />
disappearance of a Senator’s daughter<br />
leads her to a dangerous cult and the<br />
truth about her mysterious past.<br />
WARRIOR<br />
Action-Adventure (90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: William Harper<br />
Producer: David Shoshan, Bruce<br />
Singman<br />
Cast: Vincent Klyn, Yukmouth <strong>Of</strong> <strong>The</strong><br />
Luniz, Ron Joseph<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year <strong>Of</strong> Production: 2002, Country <strong>Of</strong><br />
Origin: USA<br />
A part man, part deity must use his<br />
supernatural powers to battle evil and<br />
save his adopted homeland.<br />
INDIGO<br />
Indigo, 116 Great Portland Street,<br />
London W1W 6PJ UK. Tel:<br />
44.207.612.1700. Fax: 44.207.612.1705.<br />
info@indigofilm.com.<br />
www.indigofilm.com<br />
Company Type: distributor<br />
At Cannes: David Lawley (Managing<br />
Director)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Tel: 44.20.7612.1700<br />
FLYFISHING<br />
Romantic comedy (82 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: David Williams<br />
Producer: David Williams/Helen<br />
Baxendale<br />
Cast: Kate Ashfield, Adam Croasdell,<br />
Helen Baxendale<br />
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Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: UK<br />
Two men become gigolos to earn some<br />
much-needed cash, however while their<br />
debts diminish, their problems soon<br />
mount up especially when one escort<br />
falls in love with his best client?s<br />
daughter!<br />
INITIAL<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
GROUP<br />
Initial Entertainment Group, 3000 W.<br />
Olympic Blvd., Ste 1550, Santa Monica,<br />
CA 90404 USA. Tel: 310.315.1722. Fax:<br />
310.315.1723<br />
At Cannes: Graham King (President),<br />
Pamela Pickering (President, Sales &<br />
Distribution), Schuyler Ha (Vice-<br />
President, Marketing)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Carlton Hotel, Suite 238<br />
(reception), 237, Tel: 33.04.93.06.42.38,<br />
Fax: 33.04.93.06.40.55<br />
THE ROSE AND THE SNAKE<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Rebecca Miller<br />
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Catherine<br />
Keener<br />
Status: Pre-production<br />
When her father’s new love and her two<br />
teenage boys come to live with them,<br />
Rose undergoes a sexual awakening with<br />
both liberating and devastating<br />
consequences.<br />
AVIATOR<br />
Bio-pic<br />
Director: Martin Scorsese<br />
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio<br />
Status: Pre-production<br />
Buoyed by vision, driven by imagination,<br />
one man became an icon of the 20th<br />
century: Howard Hughes. Visionary.<br />
Daredevil. Mogul. Madman.<br />
IN-MOTION<br />
PICTURES<br />
IN-motion Pictures, London <strong>Of</strong>fice<br />
address: 5 Percy Street, London, W1T<br />
1DG UK. Tel: 44.(0)20.7467.6880. Fax:<br />
44.(0)20.7467.6890. info@inmotionpictures.com.www.inmotionpictures.com<br />
At Cannes: Hilmar Siebert (Chairman),<br />
Nigel Bremner (Managing Director),<br />
Alex Walton (VP International Sales),<br />
Sandra Keser (Head of Acquisitions),<br />
Marcus Tustin (Snr VP, <strong>Business</strong><br />
Affairs), Hannah Rothman (Marketing<br />
Manager )<br />
THE BUSINESS<br />
OF FILM<br />
<strong>The</strong> ‘Independent’ choice<br />
Published Daily during the<br />
Cannes International<br />
<strong>Film</strong> Festival 2003<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: 6th Floor, 4 La Croisette, Cannes,<br />
Tel: 33.(0)4.93.99.84.88. Fax:<br />
33.(0)4.93.99.84.87. info@inmotionpictures.com<br />
INTERACTIVE FILM<br />
SALES<br />
INTERNATIONAL,<br />
INC.<br />
Interactive <strong>Film</strong> Sales International, Inc.<br />
(IFSI), 4240 Promenade Way, # 334,<br />
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 USA. Tel:<br />
310.823.7778. Fax: 310.868.2723.<br />
Germany <strong>Of</strong>fice: Boll KG, Fullsichel 7,<br />
51399 Burscheid, Germany. Tel:<br />
49.611.531300. Fax: 49.611.531301.<br />
www.boll-kg.de. www.house-of-thedead.com<br />
Company Type: specializes in feature<br />
films based on video games and other<br />
branded properties.<br />
At Cannes: Daniel Sales (President, IFSI,<br />
Mobile in Cannes: 06.72.82.64.21),<br />
Frédéric Demey (Consultant, Mobile in<br />
Cannes: 06.88.83.13.35)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Cannes 2003 - Carlton Hotel,<br />
Suite # 163 - Tel: 04.93.06.40.06 - Fax:<br />
04.93.06.40.29<br />
HOUSE OF THE DEAD<br />
Horror (2003)<br />
Directed by Uwe Boll<br />
Produced by Uwe Boll and Shawn<br />
Williamson<br />
Cast: Jürgen Prochnow, Jonathan Cherry,<br />
Tyron Leitso, Will Sanderson<br />
Delivery Status: Ready for Delivery -<br />
Screening in Cannes<br />
Budget: $12 Million.<br />
Based on Sega’s Best Selling video<br />
game. A band of college students go to a<br />
rave on a mysterious island and get more<br />
than they bargained for.<br />
THE HEART OF AMERICA<br />
Drama (2002)<br />
Directed by Uwe Boll<br />
Produced by Uwe Boll and Shawn<br />
Williamson<br />
Cast: Maria Conchita Alonso, Jürgen<br />
Prochnow, Michael Paré, Patrick<br />
Muldoon<br />
Delivery Status: Ready for Delivery -<br />
Screening in Cannes<br />
Budget: $2.5 Million.<br />
In this increasingly violent culture, THE<br />
HEART OF AMERICA takes a hard look<br />
at the issues and pressures faced by<br />
teenagers in suburban high schools<br />
everywhere, by following them through<br />
their last day of school.<br />
ALONE IN THE DARK<br />
Action/Thriller (2004)<br />
Produced and directed by Uwe Boll<br />
Cast: TBA.<br />
Delivery Status: In development<br />
Budget: $35 Million.<br />
Based on Infogrames best selling video<br />
game property. Something is waiting in<br />
the dark...It’s angry...It’s hungry...It’s<br />
coming.<br />
EXTREME LEADERS OF THE 20TH<br />
CENTURY: FIDEL CASTRO<br />
Documentary (2004)<br />
Directed by Philip Selkirk<br />
Produced by Uwe Boll<br />
Delivery Status: In Production<br />
First Episode of a new 5x60min.<br />
documentary serie entitled: “Extreme<br />
Leaders of the 20th Century”. (Fidel<br />
CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
Castro, Aga Kahn, Muamar Al-Khadafi,<br />
Augusto Pinochet, Mustafa Kemal<br />
Atatürk)<br />
INTERMEDIA FILM<br />
Intermedia <strong>Film</strong>, 9350 Civic Center<br />
Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA. Tel:<br />
310.309.8400. Fax: 310.828.4132.<br />
At Cannes: Moritz Borman (Chairman &<br />
CEO), Jon Gumpert (Vice Chairman &<br />
Head of Motion Picture Operations),<br />
Bahman Naraghi (COO), Andreas Konle<br />
Vorstand (CFO), Basil Iwanyk President<br />
(Worldwide Production), Michael<br />
Dragotto (President, Worldwide Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: 2, la Croisette, Cannes, Tel:<br />
334.93.99.80.83. Fax: 334.93.99.80.93<br />
ALEXANDER<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Oliver Stone<br />
Producers: Jon Kilik, Moritz Borman,<br />
Thomas Schuely<br />
Cast: Colin Farrell<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-production<br />
Epic adventure tale about the life of<br />
Alexander the Great.<br />
BASIC<br />
Drama<br />
Director: John McTiernan<br />
Producers: Mike Medavoy, Arnie Messer,<br />
James Vanderbilt, Michael Tadross<br />
Cast: John Travolta, Connie Nielsen and<br />
Samuel L. Jackson<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
When a military training exercise goes<br />
severely awry, a maverick DEA agent<br />
and a tough female JAG officer must<br />
investigate the disappearance of a highly<br />
decorated drill instructor and several of<br />
his cadets.<br />
IF ONLY<br />
Romance<br />
Director: Gil Junger<br />
Producers: Bobby Newmyer, Jeffrey<br />
Silver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jill Gilbert<br />
Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Paul Nicholls<br />
Delivery Status: Post-production<br />
After he fights with his girlfriend and she<br />
dies in an accident, a man gets a second<br />
chance to make her last day her best, not<br />
realizing he cheated fate and it’s now<br />
returned for him.<br />
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA<br />
PRESENTS: THE LEGEND OF<br />
SURIYOTHAI<br />
Action-Adventure<br />
Language: Thai<br />
Director: Chatrichalerm Yukol<br />
Producers: Francis Ford Coppola, Kim<br />
Aubry, Kamla Yukol<br />
Cast: M.L. Piyapas Bhirombhakdi,<br />
Sarunyoo Wongkrchang<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
A story of intrigue, romance and war<br />
based on actual events in 16th century<br />
Siam, this Cecil B. DeMille sized epic is<br />
the most expensive and highest grossing<br />
Thai production in history.<br />
ME AGAIN<br />
Thriller<br />
Director: Dean Parisot<br />
Producer: Beryl Vertue, David Willis<br />
Cast: Diane Lane<br />
Delivery Status: In production<br />
A man with no memory must figure out<br />
if he’s a hired assassin or an undercover<br />
FBI agent, while trying to stay alive with<br />
the help of a woman who may be his<br />
partner - or his potential victim.<br />
INTRAMOVIES<br />
Intramovies, Via E. Manfredi 15, 00197<br />
Rome, Italy. Tel: 00.39.06.807.61.57.-<br />
06.807.64.28. Fax: 0039.06.807.61.56.<br />
mail@intramovies.com,<br />
www.intramovies.com<br />
At Cannes: Paola Corvino (President –<br />
39.348.540.13.97), Jef Nuyts (Dir. of<br />
Int.l Sales – 39.335.841.01.49), Micaela<br />
Fusco (Dir. of TV Sales –<br />
39.335.604.39.15), Federica Mei (Sales<br />
Executive – 39.333.75.44.926)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera C5- D4 / D1-E8, Stand<br />
Focus Italy, Tel: 33.4.92.99.88.11, Villa<br />
Royale, Rue Commandant Andrè 29, 1st<br />
floor, Tel / Fax: 33.4.93.68.42.53<br />
PATER FAMILIAS<br />
Drama (99 min)<br />
Language: italian with english subtitles<br />
Director Francesco Patierno<br />
Producer: Umberto Massa for KUBLA<br />
KHAN<br />
Cast: Luigi Iacuzio, Federica<br />
Bonvolonta, Francesco Pirozzi,<br />
Francesco Di Leva<br />
Country of Origin: Berlin, Year of<br />
Production: 2003<br />
After ten years in prison, MATTEO, has<br />
a day of leave to return to his home<br />
town. In 24 hours he has to settle an<br />
account with his past and with himself.<br />
EL ALAMEIN<br />
War / adventure (99 min)<br />
Language: italian with english subtitles<br />
Director Enzo Monteleone<br />
Producer: Cattleya<br />
Cast: Paolo Briguglia, Pierfrancesco<br />
Favino, Silvio Orlando<br />
At El Alamein the Italo-German army is<br />
blocked and forced to retreat.<br />
FAST SOULS (ANIME VELOCI)<br />
Drama (90 min)<br />
Language: italian with english subtitles<br />
Director Pasquale Marrazzo<br />
Producer: Maurizio Tini<br />
Cast: Giovanni Brignola, Tatjana Blacher<br />
Francesco, a young man from Naples ,<br />
who prefers to be called Francesca,<br />
shares with the italian girl Giada an<br />
apartment in Berlin. Together they dive<br />
into the world of prostitution.<br />
I AM EMMA (EMMA SONO IO)<br />
Comedy (90 min)<br />
Language: italian with english subtitles<br />
Director Francesco Falaschi<br />
Producer Bernadette Carranza, Paola<br />
LES ENFANT<br />
CINE - INTERNATIONAL<br />
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CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
Lucisano<br />
Cast Cecilia Dazzi, Pier Francesco<br />
Favino, Elda Avignini<br />
Due to a chance mistake, Emma is forced<br />
to interrupts treatment for her mood<br />
instability.<br />
LOVE, LIES, KIDS...& DOGS<br />
(UOMINI, DONNE, BAMBINI<br />
E..CANI)<br />
Comedy (93 min)<br />
Language: italian with english subtitles<br />
Director Eleonora Giorgi<br />
Producer Massimo Ciavarro for Dharma<br />
Cast Ornella Muti, Paolo Giommarelli,<br />
Shasa Vitale<br />
At 20 they marry for love and with a<br />
child in the way.<br />
ITALIA CINEMA<br />
Italia Cinema, Via Aureliana, 63 - 00187<br />
Roma, Italy. Tel: 3906.42012539. Fax:<br />
42003530. info@italiacinema.net.<br />
www.tamtamcinema.com<br />
At Cannes: Marina Cicogna (President),<br />
Giorgio Gosetti (Director), Carla Cattani<br />
(Project Manager), Andrea Paris (Project<br />
Manager), Giovanni Marco Piemontese<br />
(Communication Manager)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Village Intìl, Italian Pavilion, Tel:<br />
33(0)4.92590200. Fax: 92590199.<br />
ITN DISTRIBUTION<br />
ITN Distribution, 163 Third Ave., Suite<br />
231, New York, NY 10003 USA. Tel:<br />
212.777.7100 x 15. Fax: 212.387.0873.<br />
http://www.itndistribution.com<br />
At Cannes: Stuart Alson (President),<br />
Anoo Cottoor (Vice President), Jack<br />
Campbell (Director of Sales &<br />
Acquisitions), Renata Lorenc (Director of<br />
Marketing)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera F-11, Tel:<br />
33.(0).6.0852.7459<br />
HIGH TIMES’ POTLUCK<br />
http://www.potluckmovie.com<br />
Comedy/Action (93 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Alison Thompson<br />
Co-Production Partners: Bernard/Scura<br />
Productions<br />
Producer: Jeri Carroll<br />
Key Cast: Jason Mewes, Jason Isaacs,<br />
Jackie “the jokeman” Martling, Sylvia<br />
Miles, Victor Colicchio, Frank Adonis<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Budget: 1.8million<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
A suitcase filled with marijuana travels<br />
the streets of Manhattan and passes<br />
through the hands of musicians, mobsters<br />
& drag queens, as it is sold, stolen, resold<br />
and re-stolen over and over again.<br />
DROP DEAD ROSES<br />
Dark Comedy (93 mins)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Jessica Hudsonh<br />
CoProductionPartners : Danforth<br />
Studios<br />
Producer: Daniel D’or, G. Philip Jackson<br />
Key Cast: Brian C. O’Halloran, Barbi<br />
Castelvi, Diana Devlin, Chris<br />
Diamantopoulos, Eddie McGee<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Budget: 1million<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
A romantically perverse story of two<br />
regular guys who run an irregular<br />
business and find themselves caught in a<br />
twisted love story.<br />
BIG APPLE<br />
Romantic Comedy (82 min)<br />
Director: English<br />
Language: Danny Lerner<br />
Co-Production Partners: Chantal Ughi<br />
Producer: Danny Lerner, Mario Chioldi<br />
Key Cast: Danny Lerner, Chantal Ughi,<br />
Jaid Barrymore, Carlos Leon<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Budget: 1million<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Angel McGee knows everything about<br />
women...Max Rosenberg has never had a<br />
woman...and Jackie is still looking for<br />
the man of her dreams. A bizarre murder<br />
mystery unfolds.<br />
JACK’S OR BETTER<br />
Dark Comedy (82 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Robert Sydney Mellette<br />
Co-Production Partners: Ken Meyer<br />
Producer: Hilton H. Smith<br />
Key Cast: Jack Wallace, Nathan<br />
Anderson, Matt Landers, Mesach Taylor<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Budget: $1million<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
A man kills his wife in the kitchen so<br />
that he can play poker in the living room.<br />
J<br />
AKINDO - FRANCHISE PICTURES.<br />
JAFFA<br />
<strong>PRODUCT</strong>IONS LTD<br />
Jaffaproductions Ltd, 9 Israeli`s St., Tel-<br />
Aviv 64382 Israel. Tel:<br />
972.(0)3.527.11.59. Fax:<br />
972.(0)3.522.74.24. yafoprod@inter.net.il<br />
At Cannes: Riviera Hall, No. E-15 / F-<br />
16. Tel: 33(0).4.92.99.32.26<br />
Menahem Golan (Chairman)<br />
THE RETURN FROM INDIA<br />
Drama-Love Story (98 min)<br />
Language: English.<br />
Director: Menahem Golan.<br />
Starring: Aki Avni, Riki Gal, Assi Dayan<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country of origin: Israel<br />
A strange and maybe impossible love<br />
story between a young man (26) and an<br />
older woman (50).<br />
FINAL COMBAT<br />
Family-Action-adventure (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Menahem Golan<br />
Starring: Tonny White, Sonia Couling,<br />
Richard Lynch<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country of origin: U.S.A.<br />
<strong>The</strong> story of the journey of a father and<br />
son, Tonni and Ben, to find meaning in<br />
their lives.<br />
SUPER NINJA<br />
Action, Martial Arts (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Menahem Golan<br />
Starring: Kely McClung, Gregory<br />
Levayov, Richard Lynch<br />
Status: Pre-production<br />
Country of origin: U.S.A.<br />
Tells the story of the going on behind the<br />
scenes of the electronic industry.<br />
Z A Y A<br />
Adventure- Love Story (100 min)<br />
Language: English.<br />
Director: Jonathan Paz.<br />
Starring: Maayan Keret, Sami Hori, Dan<br />
Tourgeman.<br />
Status: Completed.<br />
Country of origin: Israel<br />
Based on a true story that happened in<br />
Morocco at the end of the 30`s. Zaya is a<br />
young beautiful Jewish girl living in the<br />
Atlas Mountains who is drawn to a<br />
freedom that it not available in the<br />
primitive Berber village.<br />
THE VALLEY TRAIN<br />
Drama- youth sex (90 min)<br />
Language: Hebrew (Subtitles in English).<br />
Director: Jonathan Paz.<br />
Starring: Neta Moran, Ami Ushpitz, Dan<br />
Tourgeman.<br />
Status: Completed.<br />
Country of origin: Israel<br />
<strong>The</strong> legendary `VALLEY TRAIN` from<br />
Haifa to Damascus was abruptly halted<br />
during the war of independence in 1948.<br />
But the vivid memory of that train<br />
remains.<br />
K<br />
KANGJEGYU FILMS<br />
KangJeGyu <strong>Film</strong>s, 2F Olympia Center<br />
828-10 Yoksamdong Kangnamgu Seoul<br />
135-100 Korea. Tel: 82.2.2193.2001.<br />
Fax: 82.2.2193.2199.<br />
paragon@kjgfilm.com. www.kjgfilm.com<br />
Company Type: Production/ Distribution<br />
Company<br />
At Cannes: Bill Hwang (Manager,<br />
Overseas Marketing and Distribution),<br />
Cody Kim (Assistant Manager, Overseas<br />
Marketing and Distribution)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Stand D5, Tel:<br />
33.(0)4.92.99.88.29<br />
OVER THE RAINBOW<br />
Romantic Comedy (109 min)<br />
Language: Korean (English Subtititles)<br />
Director: AHN JinWoo<br />
Producer: Kim KyungKyu<br />
Cast: LEE JungJae, JANG JinYoung<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Korea<br />
Budget: US$3.5 Million<br />
JinSoo tries to retrace the fragments of<br />
his memories that he lost during a car<br />
accident about his lover with a help of<br />
his old college friend YeonHee.<br />
WET DREAMS<br />
Comedy (94 min)<br />
Language: Korean (English Subtititles)<br />
Director: Chosin Zeong<br />
Producer: Rommie B. Meng<br />
Cast: LEE BumSoo, KIM SunAh<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Korea<br />
Budget: US$3 Million<br />
4 adolescent high school boys fall in love<br />
with a beautiful new teacher and begins<br />
to take her as an object of desire.<br />
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BLUE<br />
Action/ Drama (106 min)<br />
Language: Korean (English Subtititles)<br />
Director: LEE JungGook<br />
Producer: CHOI HyunMook<br />
Cast: SHIN HyunJoon, SHIN EunKyung,<br />
KIM YoungHo<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Korea<br />
Budget: US$5 Million<br />
Jun and TaeHyun, the two best SSU<br />
officers, have to dive 185m underwater in<br />
order to save a sunken submarine and<br />
other officers trapped in it.<br />
KATHY MORGAN<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
Kathy Morgan International, 12250 Sky<br />
Lane, Los Angeles, CA 90049 USA. Tel:<br />
310.472.6300. Fax: 310.472.6304.<br />
Company Type: Sales Agent<br />
At Cannes: Kathy Morgan (President),<br />
Kimberly Fox (Director of International<br />
Sales), Carrie Kommers (Director of<br />
Marketing and Acquisitions)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Le Grand Hotel, 45 La Croisette,<br />
Cormoran II, Tel: 04.92.59.00.50. Fax:<br />
04.92.59.00.14<br />
THE INCREDIBLE MRS. RITCHIE<br />
Family, Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Directed by: Paul Johansson<br />
Producers: Chad Oakes, Mike Frislev<br />
Executive Producers: Nick Cassavetes,<br />
Walter Josten, Jim Reeve, Steve Robbins,<br />
Phil Alberstat, Jana Edelbaum<br />
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Kevin Zegers,<br />
Leslie Hope, David Schofield and James<br />
Caan<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Year Produced: 2003, Production<br />
Countries: UK / Canada<br />
A troubled teen trying to break free from<br />
a school gang is given the chance to<br />
redeem his criminal debt by working in<br />
the garden of an eccentric woman.<br />
VALENTIN<br />
Family Comedy<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Producer: Laurens Geels<br />
Executive Producer: Eddy de Kroes<br />
Directed by: Alejandro Agresti<br />
Cast: Carmen Maura, Rodrigo Noya,<br />
Julieta Cardinali, Jean Pierre Noher<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Year Produced: 2002<br />
<strong>The</strong> world is not always what it seems<br />
when viewed through the eyes of an 8year-old<br />
boy- especially when those eyes<br />
are crossed.<br />
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT<br />
Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Directed by: Eric Bress and J. Mackye<br />
Gruber<br />
Producers: Chris Bender, AJ Dix,<br />
Anthony Rhulen and JC Spink<br />
Executive Producers: David Krintzman<br />
and William Shively<br />
Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart<br />
Status: Post-Production<br />
Year Produced: 2003, Production<br />
Country: US<br />
A gripping, supernatural thriller that taps<br />
into the turbulent nature of past, present<br />
and future.<br />
THE RUM DIARY<br />
Thriller / Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Status: Pre-Production<br />
Production Country: USA<br />
Producers: Robert S. Kravis, Anthony<br />
Rhulen, Greg Shapiro<br />
Executive Producers: Hunter S.<br />
Thompson, Nick Nolte, Johnny Depp,<br />
William Shively<br />
Cast: Johnny Depp, Nick Nolte, Josh<br />
Hartnett, Benicio Del Toro<br />
Based on Hunter S. Thompson’s best<br />
selling first novel, “<strong>The</strong> Rum Diary” is a<br />
tangled story of love, jealousy, treachery,<br />
and lust set in the 1950’s boomtown of<br />
San Juan, Puerto Rico.<br />
KEYSTONE<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
INC.<br />
Keystone Entertainment Inc., 23410<br />
Civic Center Way, Suite E-9, Malibu, CA<br />
90265 USA. Tel: 310.317.4883. Fax:<br />
310.317.4903. films@keypics.com.<br />
www.keypics.com<br />
At Cannes: Romana Danicova (VP<br />
Worldwide Distribution), Michael<br />
Strange (President)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera Stand L5-M6, Tel:<br />
Romana Danicova Cell: 310.980.2027,<br />
Michael Strange Cell: 310.980.2019<br />
AIR BUD 6<br />
Family<br />
Language: English<br />
Producers: Robert Vince & Anna<br />
McRoberts<br />
Delivery Status: Development<br />
Country of Origin: Canada<br />
Buddy’s eager to try his paw at Rugby!<br />
BMXP<br />
Family<br />
Language: English<br />
Producers: Robert Vince & Anna<br />
McRoberts<br />
Delivery Status: Development<br />
Country of Origin: Canada<br />
Jack’s back on two wheels - as a BMX<br />
racer!<br />
AIR BUD: SPIKES BACK<br />
Family (90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Robert Vince<br />
Producers: Robert Vince & Anna<br />
McRoberts<br />
Cast: Katija Pevec, Jake Smith, Tyler<br />
Boissonnault, Cynthia Stevenson, Edie<br />
McClurg<br />
Delivery Status: International Release<br />
Date - July 2003<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Canada<br />
<strong>The</strong> fifth in this highly successful<br />
franchise! Buddy and Andrea hit the<br />
beach for some volleyball!<br />
MXP: MOST EXTREME PRIMATE<br />
Family (90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Robert Vince<br />
Producers: Robert Vince & Anna<br />
McRoberts<br />
Cast: Devin Drewitz, Gwynth Walsh,<br />
Rob Tinkler, Ian Bagg<br />
Delivery Status: International Release<br />
Date - July 2003<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Canada<br />
He was the Most Valuable Primate on the<br />
ice in MVP1. He brought skateboarding<br />
to new heights as the Most Vertical<br />
Primate in MVP2 and now Jack’s off to<br />
the slopes in Utah for his most eXtreme<br />
adventure yet!<br />
ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR<br />
Comedy/Drama (90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Don Scardino<br />
Producers: Jana Edelbaum, Edgar<br />
Lansbury<br />
Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Andy Dick, Jon<br />
Tenney, Timothy Olyphant<br />
Delivery Status: Available for Delivery<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Can a Soho video artist find happiness<br />
with a bisexual Harley riding actor from<br />
New Jersey? Only in New York!<br />
CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
KM CULTURE CO.,<br />
LTD.<br />
KM Culture Co., Ltd., 3rd Floor, Bojun<br />
Bldg., 70-13 Nonhyun-dong, Kangnamku,<br />
Seoul 135-010 Korea. Tel:<br />
82.2.3438.3842. Fax: 82.2.3438.3848.<br />
www.kmculture.com<br />
Company Type: Producer<br />
At Cannes: Moo-seung PARK<br />
(President), David B. LEE (VP), Judy<br />
AHN (Head of Int’l <strong>Business</strong>), Sonya<br />
KIM (Int’l <strong>Business</strong>); Acquisition<br />
Executive: Moo-seung PARK<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera Stand H6, Tel:<br />
33.4.9299.3342 (office), 6.7580.1607<br />
(mobile)<br />
ADDICTED<br />
Drama (114 min)<br />
Language: Korean<br />
Director: Young-hoon PARK<br />
Producer: Choon-yeon LEE<br />
Cast: Byung-hun LEE, Mi-yeon LEE<br />
Delivery Status: Immediate<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Korea<br />
Budget: U$ 3.3M<br />
Two brothers, Ho-jin and Dae-jin, get<br />
caught in a sudden accident and both of<br />
them falls into a coma at the same time.<br />
CONDUCT ZERO<br />
Comedy (98 min)<br />
Language: Korean<br />
Director: Keun-sik CHO<br />
Producer: Choo-seong BANG, Younghoon<br />
PARK<br />
Cast: Seung-bum RYU, Eun-kyung IM<br />
Delivery Status: Immediate<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Korea<br />
Budget: U$ 3.6M<br />
A gangly high school student whose<br />
easygoing life becomes complex when he<br />
falls in love and a new boy in town<br />
challenges his fighting skills.<br />
DOUBLE AGENT<br />
Intelligence Drama (120 min)<br />
Language: Korean/English/Russian<br />
Director: Hyun-jung KIM<br />
Producer: Bon-han KOO, Min-hee PARK<br />
Cast: Suk-kyu HAN, So-young KOH<br />
Delivery Status: Immediate<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Korea<br />
Budget: U$ 5.5M<br />
<strong>The</strong> solemn cold war times of 1980. A<br />
North Korean espionage agent Lim<br />
Byung-ho defects to South Korea.<br />
ICE RAIN<br />
Adventure, Drama<br />
Language: Korean/Japanese<br />
Director: Eun-sook KIM<br />
Producer: Bon-han KOO, Kui-duk CHOI<br />
Cast: Sung-jae LEE, Seung-hun SONG,<br />
Ha-neul KIM<br />
Delivery Status: November 2003<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Korea<br />
Budget: U$ 5.5M<br />
Joong-hyun, a man who hoards the pains<br />
of a broken heart, his new love Kyungmin,<br />
and Woo-sung, who likes Kyungmin<br />
in vain, are driven by the fate of<br />
love, and go on a journey to reach the top<br />
of the Alps.<br />
OH! BROTHERS<br />
Comedy, Drama<br />
Language: Korean<br />
Director: Yong-hwa KIM<br />
Producer: Choo-seung BANG, Youngwoon<br />
KIM<br />
Cast: Jung-jae LEE, Bum-soo LEE<br />
Delivery Status: September 2003<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Korea<br />
Budget: U$ 3M<br />
One day, Sang-woo receives unexpected<br />
news that his father has passed away and<br />
that he inherited all of his father’s debt.<br />
KEVIN WILLIAMS &<br />
ASSOCIATES, S.A.<br />
Kevin Williams & Associates, S.A., c)<br />
Galeón 32, Bajo A, 28042 – Madrid,<br />
Spain. Tel: 34.91.747.31.00. Fax:<br />
34.91.747.70.00. kevin@kevinwa.com,<br />
www.kevinwa.com<br />
Company Type: Sales agent<br />
At Cannes: Kevin Williams (President),<br />
Fátima Urosa (Administrator)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: KWA stand Riviera F1, Tel:<br />
33.06.82.72.91.37<br />
CIUDADES OSCURAS (DARK<br />
CITIES)<br />
Drama (113 min)<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Director: Fernando Sariñara<br />
Producer: Fernando Sariñara<br />
Co-production partners: IMCINE,<br />
FOPROCINE, Veneno producciones and<br />
Altavista films.<br />
Cast: Jesús Ochoa, Bruno Bichir, Alonso<br />
SHATTERED GLASS - BETA CINEMA<br />
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CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
Echanove.<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Mexico<br />
Budget: $ 2 m.<br />
Carousel of cavorting low-lives from best<br />
coppers to prostitutes, wife beaters to the<br />
drug addict father who kills his own child<br />
in a fit of pique while baby sitting.<br />
CARLOS CONTRA EL MUNDO<br />
(CARLOS AGAINST THE WORLD)<br />
Drama (90 min)<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Director: Chiqui Carabante<br />
Producer: Antonio Lobo<br />
Co-production partners: Jaleo <strong>Film</strong>s,<br />
Letra M<br />
Cast: Julián Villagrán, Victoria Mora,<br />
Juanma Lara.<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Spain<br />
Budget: $ 1,5 m.<br />
Picaresque lowlife dramatic comedy on<br />
self-deception and how living in a<br />
fantasy worlf affects others.<br />
EL ALQUIMISTA IMPACIENTE<br />
(THE IMPATIENT ALCHEMIST)<br />
Drama (110 min)<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Director: Patricia Ferreira<br />
Producer: Gerardo Herrero, Eduardo<br />
Campoy<br />
Co-production partners: Tornasol,<br />
Continental producciones, Cartel,<br />
Televisión de Galicia, S.A.<br />
Cast: Ingrid rubio, Roberto Enríquez,<br />
Chete Lera<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Spain<br />
Budget: $ 1,5 m.<br />
Guy and girl detective team investigate<br />
the murder of a nuclear powerplant<br />
worker and a prostitute.<br />
VIVA SAPATO! (SEX CHANGES<br />
EVERYTHING!)<br />
Comedy - (90 min)<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Director: Luis Carlos Lacerda<br />
Producer: Iafa Britz, Walkiria Barbosa<br />
Co-production partners: Total <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
(Brazil) and Euroficción (Spain)<br />
Cast: Jorge Sanz, Laura Ramos, María<br />
Galiana<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
WHY ME, SWEETIE?<br />
CHINA STAR ENTERTAINMENT GROUP<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Brazil /Spain<br />
Budget: $ 2 m.<br />
A pair of dance shoes go missing from<br />
the Tropicana club with $5000 hidden in<br />
the heels, setting off a chain of events.<br />
NO DEBES ESTAR AQUÍ (DON’T<br />
GO THERE AKA KEEP CLEAR)<br />
Thriller<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Director: Jacobo Rispa<br />
Producer: Francisco Ramos<br />
Co-production partners: Alquimia<br />
Cinema, S.A.<br />
Cast: Tristán Ulloa, Pablo Echarri<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Spain<br />
Budget: $ 1,5 m.<br />
A gang of web surfing kids are looking<br />
for extreme kicks some of which are<br />
suicidal. It turns out they have been<br />
victims of an evil manipulator.<br />
L<br />
LAKESHORE<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
Lakeshore International, 5555 Melrose<br />
Avenue, Gloria Swanson Bldg. 4th Floor,<br />
Hollywood, CA 90038, USA. Tel:<br />
323.956.4222. Fax: 323.862.1456.<br />
info@lakeshoreentertainment.com.<br />
www.lakeshoreentertainment.com<br />
At Cannes: Peter Rogers (President),<br />
Virginia Longmuir (Senior Vice<br />
President, International <strong>Business</strong> & Legal<br />
Affairs and Operations), Robert Burke<br />
(Vice President Worldwide Marketing),<br />
Julie McLaughlin (Vice President<br />
Worldwide Television), Elisabeth Costa<br />
de Beauregard (Director, International<br />
Sales), Bonnie X. Brocatto (Coordinator,<br />
International Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Residence du Grand Hotel,<br />
Cormoran II, 7th Floor, 45 Bvd de la<br />
Croisette, 06400 Cannes. Tel:<br />
04.93.99.85.04. Fax: 04.93.99.85.03<br />
WICKER PARK<br />
Psychological Drama<br />
Director: Paul McGuigan<br />
Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary<br />
Lucchesi<br />
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Matthew Lillard,<br />
Rose Byrne, Diane Kruger<br />
Status: Post Production<br />
Country of Origin: U.S.A.<br />
A psychological drama about a young<br />
advertising executive (Hartnett) and his<br />
obsessive search for a lost love.<br />
UNDERWORLD<br />
Action / Horror<br />
Director: Len Wiseman<br />
Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary<br />
Lucchesi,<br />
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman,<br />
Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen, Shane Brolly<br />
Status: Post Production<br />
Country of Origin: U.S.A.<br />
Romeo and Juliet if the Capulets were<br />
vampires and the Montagues were<br />
werewolves, UNDERWORLD is a<br />
modern-day tale of forbidden love, set<br />
against the ravages of an ancient and<br />
bloodthirsty war between vampires and<br />
werewolves.<br />
THE HUMAN STAIN<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Robert Benton<br />
Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary<br />
Lucchesi, Scott Steindorff<br />
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman,<br />
Ed Harris, Gary Sinise.<br />
Status: Post Production<br />
Country of Origin: U.S.A.<br />
A thought provoking drama about a<br />
disgraced classics professor whose<br />
defiant attitudes and affair with a<br />
younger woman ultimately result in his<br />
sudden death.<br />
BULLETPROOF MONK<br />
Action<br />
Director: Paul Hunter<br />
Producers: Charles Roven and Terence<br />
Chang & John Woo<br />
Executives Producers: Douglas Segal,<br />
Kelley Smith-Wait, Michael Yanover,<br />
Gotham Chopra, Caroline Macaulay<br />
Cast: Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William<br />
Scott, Jaime King, Karel Roden, Victoria<br />
Smurfit<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: U.S.A.<br />
For 60 years a mysterious monk with no<br />
name has zigzagged the globe to protect<br />
an ancient scroll - a scroll that holds the<br />
key to unlimited power.<br />
JUST A KISS<br />
Romantic Comedy<br />
Director: Fisher Stevens<br />
Producers: Matthew Roland<br />
Cast: Marisa Tomei, Kyra Sedgewick,<br />
Ron Eldard, Marley Shelton, Taye Diggs<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
An innocent kiss is more than best<br />
friends can handle when infidelity<br />
becomes a comic adventure into the dark<br />
side of modern relationships.<br />
LIGHTNING<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Lightning Entertainment, 1801 Avenue of<br />
the Stars, Suite 1035, Los Angeles, CA<br />
90067, USA Tel: 310.201.0980. Fax:<br />
310.201.0852.<br />
Company Type: Sales Agent<br />
At Cannes: Richard S. Guardian<br />
(President), Rich Goldberg (Co-<br />
President)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: E4, Riviera T: +33 (0)4 92 99 32<br />
15<br />
THE EVENT<br />
Drama (112 mins)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Thom Fitzgerald<br />
Producer: Thom Fitzgerald, Bryan<br />
Hofbauer<br />
Cast: Parker Posey, Olympia Dukakis,<br />
Sarah Polley, Don McKellar, Jane Leeves<br />
and Brent Carver<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Canada / US<br />
THE EVENT is a bittersweet drama of<br />
love, loss, and the amazing capacity we<br />
have to prevail in the face of tragedy.<br />
LUGARES COMUNES<br />
Drama (110 mins)<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Director: Adolfo Aristarain<br />
Producer: Gerardo Herrero, Adolfo<br />
Aristarain, Javier Lopez Blanco, Mariela<br />
Besuievsky Cast: Federico Luppi,<br />
Mercedes Sampietro, Arturo Puig<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Spain<br />
When Fernando is unexpectedly forced<br />
into early retirement, this life changing<br />
event shakes his calm and thoughtful<br />
world.<br />
ASHES & SAND<br />
Drama (108 mins)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Bob Blagden<br />
Producer: Andrew Holmes, Peter Watson-<br />
Wood, Liam Badger, Nigel Thomas<br />
Cast: Nick Moran, Lara Belmont,<br />
Victoria Scarborough<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: UK<br />
An ambitious and handsome detective<br />
sergeant (Nick Moran) takes on the tough<br />
contemporary world of teenage girl<br />
gangs in Brighton.<br />
AMANDLA!: A REVOLUTION IN<br />
FOUR-PART HARMONY<br />
www.amandla.com<br />
Documentary (108 mins Language:<br />
English)<br />
Director: Lee Hirsch<br />
Producer: Sherry Simpson, Desireé<br />
Markgraaff, Lee Hirsch<br />
Cast: Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela,<br />
Abdullah Ibrahim<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: US<br />
A soul stirring documentary that uses<br />
exclusive interviews and rare, neverbefore-seen<br />
footage to document the vital<br />
role that music played in the nearly halfcentury<br />
struggle against apartheid in<br />
South Africa.<br />
LAST PARTY 2000<br />
Documentary (85 mins)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Rebecca Chaiklin, Donovan<br />
Leitch<br />
Producer: Rebecca Chaiklin, Stanley<br />
Buchthal, Henri M. Kessler<br />
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Susan<br />
Sarandon, Robert Downey Jr.<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: US<br />
With a fresh irreverent style, Last Party<br />
2000 explores the state of democracy in<br />
America, while chronicling the 2000 US<br />
Presidential Election.<br />
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Lions Gate <strong>Film</strong>s International, Head<br />
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Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA. Tel:<br />
310.314.2000. Fax: 310.452.2670.<br />
www.lionsgatefilms.com.<br />
At Cannes: Nicolas Meyer (Co-President,<br />
Lions Gate International), Sergei Yershov<br />
(Co-President, Lions Gate International),<br />
Peter Block President (Home<br />
Entertainment, Acquisitions and New<br />
Media), Tom Ortenberg (President,<br />
Releasing), Ron Schwartz (Executive<br />
Vice President, Home Video), Adam<br />
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<strong>Business</strong> and Legal Affairs)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera Booth # M1, Tel:<br />
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GODSEND<br />
Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Nick Hamm<br />
Executive Producers: Todd Wagner, Mark<br />
Canton, Mark Cuban & Eric Kopeloff<br />
Producers: Sean O’Keefe, Michael<br />
Paseornek, Cathy Schulman & Marc<br />
Butan<br />
Cast: Robert DeNiro, Rebecca Romijn-<br />
Stamos & Greg Kinnear<br />
Status: Production<br />
Country of Origin: US<br />
A taut and gripping thriller about devoted<br />
parents who turn to human cloning to<br />
resurrect their murdered son. A doctor on<br />
the forefront of genetic research leads the<br />
couple into in the dangerous and deadly<br />
experiment.<br />
WONDERLAND<br />
Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: James Cox<br />
Executive Producers: Michael Paseornek,<br />
Marc Butan, Tom Ortenberg & Peter<br />
Block<br />
Producer: Holly Wiersma<br />
Cast: Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth, Lisa<br />
Kudrow, Josh Lucas & Carrie Fisher<br />
Status: Production<br />
Country of Origin: US<br />
<strong>The</strong> story of the drug related, 1981<br />
Wonderland Avenue murders and the<br />
primary suspect, porn king John Holmes.<br />
SHATTERED GLASS<br />
Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Written and Directed by: Billy Ray<br />
Executive Producers: Tom Cruise, Paula<br />
Wagner & Michael Paseornek<br />
Producers: Craig Baumgarten, Adam<br />
Merims, Gaye Hirsch & Tove<br />
Christensen<br />
Cast: Hayden Christensen, Rosario<br />
Dawson, Steve Zahn, Peter Sarsgaard,<br />
Hank Azaria & Chloe Sevigny<br />
Status: Post-Production<br />
Country of Origin: US<br />
Based on an article in Vanity Fair,<br />
Shattered Glass is the story of the rise<br />
and fall of controversial political<br />
journalist Steven Glass.<br />
CONFIDENCE<br />
Crime Thriller (98 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: James Foley<br />
Executive Producers: Eberhard Kayser,<br />
Eric Kopeloff & Mario Ohoven<br />
Producers: Marc Butan, Michael<br />
Paseornek & Michael Ohoven<br />
Cast: Edward Burns, Dustin Hoffman,<br />
Andy Garcia, Rachel Weisz, Donal<br />
Logue, Luis Guzman, Paul Giamatt &<br />
Brian Van Holt<br />
Status: Screening<br />
Country of Origin: US<br />
Grifter Jake Vig and his team attempt the<br />
con of a lifetime against a raging and<br />
ruthless crime boss known as “<strong>The</strong><br />
King”.<br />
CABIN FEVER<br />
Horror (94 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Eli Roth<br />
Executive Producers: Susan Jackson &<br />
David Lynch<br />
Producers: Evan Atrowsky, Sam Froelich,<br />
Lauren Moews & Eli Roth<br />
Cast: Jordan Ladd, Cerina Vincent, Rider<br />
Strong & James DeBello<br />
Status: Screening<br />
Country of Origin: US<br />
A group of people are trapped in the<br />
woods and methodically killed off by a<br />
horrifying flesh eating disease.<br />
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Company Type: Production & Sales<br />
Company<br />
At Cannes: Marina Fuentes, Will Machin<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: 54 La Croisette, 2nd Floor, Tel:<br />
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Cell: 34.630.011.329. Will Machin Cell:<br />
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SONG FOR A RAGGY BOY<br />
Drama (93 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Aisling Walsh<br />
Producer: Subotica Entertainment<br />
Cast: Aidan Quinn, Iain Glen, Marc<br />
Warren<br />
Deliver Status: Completed - screening<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
origin: Ireland<br />
Franklin (Aidan Quinn) returns to Ireland<br />
after seeing his lover and best friend<br />
murdered in the Spanish Civil war<br />
against the fascist forces of General<br />
Franco.<br />
SALAMINA SOLDIERS (LOS<br />
SOLDADOS DE SALAMINA)<br />
Drama (120 minutes)<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Director: David Trueba<br />
Producer: Andres Vicente Gomez,<br />
Cristina Huete<br />
Cast: Ariadna Gil, Diego Luna, María<br />
Botto<br />
Delivery Status: Completed - Screening<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
origin: Spain<br />
An unmotivated young writer finds her<br />
inspiration whilst investigating the story<br />
of an uncommon war hero. With the help<br />
of an eccentric girlfriend, her voyage of<br />
discovery uncovers forgotten memories<br />
and unlocks her lost passion.<br />
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STORMY WHEATHER (TIEMPO<br />
DE TORMENTA)<br />
Drama (87 minutes)<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Director: Pedro Olea<br />
Producer: Andres Vicente Gomez<br />
Cast: Maribel Verdu, Jorge Sanz, Dario<br />
Grandinetti, Maria Barranco<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
origin: Spain<br />
Two couples with one destiny. Misplaced<br />
hope leads to passion and betrayal in this<br />
story of self-destruction. <strong>The</strong>ir search for<br />
resolution brings both hope and sadness<br />
with stormy weather on the horizon.<br />
OFF KEY (DIRECTOR´S CUT)<br />
Comedy (100 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Manuel Gomez Pereira<br />
Producer: Andrés Vicente Gomez<br />
Cast: Joe Mantegna, Danny Aiello,<br />
George Hamilton<br />
Deliver Status: Completed - cassettes<br />
available<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
origin: Spain<br />
Ten years after their acrimonious split,<br />
the world-famous three tenors are<br />
reunited for what promises to be the<br />
messiest wedding of the year. As old<br />
hatreds surface, the world press gathers<br />
to witness the chaos.<br />
THE GREATEST ROBBERY EVER<br />
(EL ROBO MÁS GRANDE JAMÁS<br />
CONTADO)<br />
Comedy (113 minutes)<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Director: Daniel Monzón<br />
Producer: Andres Vicente Gomez<br />
Cast: Antonio Resines, Neus Asensi,<br />
Manuel Manquiña, Javier Aller, Jaime<br />
Barnatán<br />
Delivery Status: Completed - cassettes<br />
available<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
origin: Spain<br />
Five of the world´s “finest” criminal<br />
minds team up to plan the greatest, most<br />
daring and most ridiculous robbery of all<br />
time.<br />
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www.m6da.com<br />
Company Type: Distributor<br />
At Cannes: Laetitia de la Gravière<br />
(Directrice Adjointe), Isabelle Drouart<br />
(Directrice des ventes cinema)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera, <strong>Of</strong>fice K6<br />
ASTERIX AND THE VIKINGS<br />
BASED ON THE WORK OF RENÉ<br />
GOSCINNY AND ALBERT<br />
UDERZO<br />
Animated feature film adaptated from<br />
“Asterix and the Normans” (about 75’)<br />
Language: French and English<br />
Director: Stefan Fjeldmark<br />
Producer: M6 Studio<br />
Delivery Status: In development<br />
Asterix and Obelix’s mission is to free<br />
Goudurix before it is too late.<br />
NOT FOR OR AGAINST QUITE<br />
THE CONTRARY / NI POUR NI<br />
CONTRE BIEN AU CONTRAIRE<br />
Thriller (112’)<br />
Language: French<br />
Director: Cédric Klapisch<br />
Producer: Aïssa Djabri, Farid Lahouassa,<br />
Manuel Munz<br />
Cast: Marie Gillain, Vincent Elbaz<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002 Country of<br />
Origin: France<br />
A gang of young hoodlums have an easy<br />
life pulling small time armed robberies.<br />
One day, for the needs of a customer,<br />
they enlist the services of a camera<br />
operator, Caty, to film their<br />
achievements. But does the gang really<br />
trust her?<br />
ANYTHING YOU SAY / MON<br />
IDOLE<br />
Thriller (112’)<br />
Language: French<br />
Director: Guillaume Canet<br />
Producer: Alain Attal<br />
Cast: Guillaume Canet, François<br />
Berléand, Diane Kruger, Jean Rochefort<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: France<br />
A TV show entitled “It is tissue time”<br />
has a big success. Jean-Louis Broustal is<br />
the idol of Bastien, 28.<br />
IRENE<br />
Comedy (98’)<br />
Language: French<br />
Director: Ivan Calbérac<br />
Producer: Thierry de Navacelle<br />
Cast: Cécile de France, Bruno Putzulu,<br />
Olivier Sitruk, Patrick Chesnais<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: France<br />
Rather pretty, Irene has everything to be<br />
happy. But every time she meets<br />
someone, it’s a real disaster... Which<br />
means that aged thirty, Irene is still<br />
unmarried...It’s time things changed!<br />
MAGIC MEDIA INC.<br />
Magic Media Inc., Róna u. 174.<br />
Budapest, H-1145, Hungary. Tel:<br />
36.1.422.3150. Fax: 36.1.252.8942.<br />
office@magicmedia.hu<br />
At Cannes: Peter Barbalics (CEO -<br />
Producer), Csaba Tör? (Executive<br />
Producer), Erika Tarr (Line Producer),<br />
Krisztina Holló (Associate Producer)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: H4 Riviera<br />
FATELESS<br />
www.fateless.com<br />
Drama (120 min)<br />
Language: Hungarian<br />
Director: Lajos Koltai<br />
Co-Production Partners: Kasander <strong>Film</strong><br />
Producer: Peter Barbalics<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />
Budget: 10 million Euro<br />
Year of Production: 2003-2004, Country<br />
of Origin: Hungary<br />
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At Cannes: Rich Goldberg (President),<br />
Tannaz Anisi (Vice President,<br />
International Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: E4, Tel: 011.33.4.92.99.32.15<br />
SIMPLE REVENGE<br />
Thriller (90 mins)<br />
Director: Brain Averill<br />
Producer: Josh Eggleston<br />
Cast: Frank Avoleita, Mellissa Picarello,<br />
Holly Perkins, Anne Hawthorne, Andrew<br />
Garman<br />
Delivery Status: New & Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003<br />
A psychological thriller where nothing is<br />
as it appears. A woman denied a<br />
promotion kills her boss, frames the<br />
husband and all the while turning the<br />
tables on the police.<br />
JACK THE DOG<br />
Comedy/Drama (90 mins)<br />
Director: Bobby Roth<br />
Producer: Bobby Roth, Jeff White<br />
Cast: Nestor Carbonell, Barbara<br />
Williams, Andrew F. Ferchland, Peter<br />
Coyote, Anthony Paglia, Jurgen<br />
Prochnow<br />
Delivery Status: New & Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002<br />
A love story about a womanizer who<br />
discovers true love. Unfortunately, that<br />
often ends in pain, but the child of that<br />
union can sometimes be the most perfect<br />
love of all.<br />
CHOOSING MATTHIAS<br />
Family/Drama (90 mins)<br />
Director: Caia Coley<br />
Producer: Michael Feifer, Tamara<br />
Seymour<br />
Cast: Jeff Fahey, Caia Coley, Dylan<br />
Kasch, Bo Hopkins<br />
Delivery Status: New & Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002<br />
A young couple struggle to keep their<br />
lives intact after tragically losing their<br />
son. <strong>The</strong>y find the sorrow impossible<br />
until they meet a young boy, Matthias,<br />
who has also tragically lost his family.<br />
DESCENDANT<br />
Thriller (90 mins)<br />
Director: Kermit Christman; Del Tenney<br />
Producer: Del Tenney, Kermit Christman,<br />
Joyce North<br />
Cast: Katherine Heigl (Valentine,<br />
Roswell), Jeremy London (Gods And<br />
Generals, Party <strong>Of</strong> Five)<br />
Year of Production: 2002<br />
<strong>The</strong> curse of Edgar Allen Poe is haunting<br />
and deadly as his young descendant,<br />
Ethan Poe, tries to survive his nightmares<br />
and live a modern, normal life as a bestselling<br />
novelist.<br />
ISLAND PREY<br />
Romantic Thriller (90 mins)<br />
Director: William Riead<br />
Producer: Lorey Barton, Lisa Riead, Jack<br />
Green, William Riead<br />
Cast: Olivia Hussey (Saving Grace,<br />
Tortilla Heaven), Don Murray (Mr.<br />
Headmistress, Hearts Adrift), Anthony<br />
Dennison (Rocket’s Red Glare, Skelton<br />
Woman), Ed Asner<br />
Year of Production: 2002<br />
A momentary indiscretion results in a<br />
nightmarish obsession as a woman fights<br />
for her marriage and her life.<br />
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MDP WORLDWIDE<br />
MDP Worldwide, 1875 Century Park<br />
East, Suite 2000, Los Angeles CA 90067<br />
USA. Tel: 310.226.8300. Fax:<br />
310.226.8350.<br />
At Cannes: Mark Damon (Chairman and<br />
CEO), Sammy Lee (Vice Chairman),<br />
Stewart Hall (Board Member), Richard<br />
Kiratsoulis (President and COO), Reiko<br />
Bradley (Exec. Vice President<br />
Distribution), Tatyana Joffe (Vice<br />
President, Administrative Affairs)<br />
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BEYOND THE SEA<br />
Musical Drama<br />
Director: Kevin Spacey<br />
Producer: Kevin Spacey, Arthur E.<br />
Friedman, Mark Damon, Sammy Lee<br />
Exec. Producer: Stewart Hall, Joanne<br />
Horowitz<br />
Cast: Kevin Spacey<br />
Status: Pre-production<br />
<strong>The</strong> story of singer Bobby Darin, who<br />
was told that he would not live past his<br />
late teens due to a severe heart condition.<br />
10 AGAIN<br />
Romantic Comedy<br />
Director: Blake Edwards<br />
Producer: Jeffrey Edwards, John<br />
Michaels, Mark Damon, Sammy Lee<br />
Exec. Producer: Stewart Hall, Jeffrey<br />
Tinnell<br />
Status: Pre-production<br />
While waiting at a stop sign George<br />
Webber sees an incredibly beautiful<br />
woman on her way to be married. Rating<br />
her the ultimate “10” which he’s never<br />
done before, George becomes obsessed<br />
with her perfection and the dream of<br />
happiness she represents.<br />
MONSTER<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Patty Jenkins<br />
Producers: Charlize <strong>The</strong>ron, Donald<br />
Kushner, Brad Wyman, Sammy Lee,<br />
Mark Damon<br />
Exec. Producer: Stewart Hall, Andreas<br />
Schmid, Andreas Grosch<br />
Cast: Charlize <strong>The</strong>ron, Christina Ricci,<br />
Bruce Dern, Pruitt Taylor Vince<br />
Status: Post Production, Promo screening<br />
in Cannes<br />
Based on the true story of serial murderer<br />
Aileen Wournos.<br />
11:14<br />
Black Comedy<br />
Director: Greg Marcks<br />
Producers: Beau Flynn, John Morrissey<br />
Exec. Producer: Hilary Swank, Mark<br />
Damon, Sammy Lee, Tripp Vinson, Raju<br />
Patel, David Scott Rubin<br />
Cast: Hilary Swank, Rachael Leigh<br />
Cook, Patrick Swayze, Barbara Hershey,<br />
Colin Hanks, Henry Thomas, Ben Foster.<br />
status: screening in Cannes<br />
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11:14 tells the seemingly random yet<br />
vitally connected story of a set of<br />
incidents that all converge one evening at<br />
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GEORGE AND THE DRAGON<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Tom Reeve<br />
Producers: Romain Schroeder, Todd<br />
Moyer<br />
Exec. Producer: Michael Burks, Frank<br />
Huebner, Jeremy Saunders<br />
Co-Producer: Jan Fantl<br />
Cast: James Purefoy, Piper Perabo,<br />
Patrick Swayze, Michael Clarke Duncan<br />
Status: Post Production<br />
George, a handsome English knight<br />
desires to hang up his sword and settle<br />
down to a quiet, peaceful life. On<br />
returning to England, George finds King<br />
Edgaar in a terrible state.<br />
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Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Tel:<br />
852.2314.4288. Fax: 852.2314.4248.<br />
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At Cannes: Jeffrey Chan (Head of<br />
Distribution (Distribution/Sales – Tel:<br />
852.2302.3894. Mobile: 852.9278.8888.<br />
Fax: 852.2314.4247), Ricky Tse<br />
(Assistant General Manager,<br />
Distribution/Sales, Tel: 852.2302.3819.<br />
Mobile: 852.9018.6578. Fax:<br />
852.2314.4247), Frederick Tsui (Coproduction<br />
& Distribution – Tel:<br />
852.2302.3810. Mobile: 852.9463.3446.<br />
Fax: 852.2314.4248)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice:<br />
INFERNAL AFFAIRS 2<br />
Action Drama<br />
Directors: Andrew LAU, Alan MAK<br />
Producers: TBC<br />
Main cast: Edison CHEN, Shawn YUE<br />
and Anthony WONG<br />
Delivery Status: In development<br />
Country of origin: Hong Kong<br />
A prequel to Hong Kong’s hottest cop<br />
thriller Infernal Affairs about a Triad’s<br />
mole in the police vying with an<br />
undercover cop in the Triads.<br />
INFERNAL AFFAIRS 3<br />
Action Drama<br />
Directors: Andrew LAU, Alan MAK<br />
Producers: TBC<br />
Main cast: Andy LAU, Tony LEUNG,<br />
Leon LAI, Kelly CHEN<br />
Status In development<br />
Country of origin: Hong Kong<br />
TIME BREAKER (WORKING<br />
TITLE)<br />
Action Comedy<br />
Director: Stanley TONG<br />
Producer: TBC<br />
Main cast: Jackie CHAN<br />
Status: In development<br />
Country of origin: Hong Kong<br />
Jackie Chan fights across India and<br />
China tracing a mythical gem, and<br />
crosses path with his previous life in this<br />
Stanley Tong-helmed actioner.<br />
SILVER HAWK<br />
Action<br />
Director: Jingle MA<br />
Producer: Thomas CHUNG, Michelle<br />
YEOH<br />
Main cast: Michelle YEOH, Richie JEN,<br />
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Brandon CHANG<br />
Status: In development<br />
Country of origin: Hong Kong<br />
Set in the near future, Michelle Yeoh<br />
(<strong>The</strong> Touch) is a philanthropist fighting<br />
for justice with a Zorro alter ego.<br />
NO LONELY ANGELS<br />
Drama (92 min)<br />
Director: ZHANG Fanfan<br />
Producer: YU Jiaen<br />
Main cast: XIE Xiaodong, TAO Hong,<br />
GUO Tao, LI Xiaoran<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country of origin: China<br />
<strong>The</strong> stories of a business man, his<br />
girlfriend, a college student, and a<br />
policeman entangle in the most<br />
unexpected ways in modern Beijing.<br />
MEDIA LUNA<br />
Media Luna Entertainment GmbH & Co.<br />
KG, Hochstadenstrasse 1-3, 50674<br />
Cologne, Germany. info@medialunaentertainment.de.<br />
Tel: 49.221.139.22.22.<br />
Fax: 49.221.139.22.24<br />
At Cannes: Ida Martins (CEO), Andrea<br />
Breitkreuz (Sales Manager), Andrew<br />
Chang (Sales Manager), Heike Krieg<br />
(Sales & Marketing Manager)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: J 10, Tel: 33.4.92.99.82.02. Cell:<br />
49.172.261.74.61<br />
KILL ME TENDER<br />
(89’)<br />
by Ramón de España<br />
Original Language: Spanish<br />
Cast: Ingrid Rubio, Alberto San Juan,<br />
Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Manuel<br />
Manquiña<br />
Country of Origin: Spain, Year of<br />
Production: 2003<br />
Recently widowed, Nestor has become<br />
infatuated with Maribel, his cleaning<br />
lady’s daughter and wants to legalize<br />
their relationship at the earliest<br />
opportunity.<br />
JAGODA IN THE SUPERMARKET<br />
(82’)<br />
by Dusan Milic<br />
Cast: Branka Katic, Srdjan Todorovic,<br />
Dubravka Mijatovic, Danilo Lazovic,<br />
Goran Radakovic, Mirjana Karanovic<br />
Country of Origin: Serbia-Germany-Italy,<br />
Year of Production: 2003<br />
Branka Katic plays Jagoda<br />
(“Strawberry”) a checkout girl at the<br />
BLIND HORIZON - NUIMAGE<br />
brand-new “Yugo-American”<br />
supermarket in some unnamed Serbian<br />
town.<br />
THREE AND A HALF<br />
(87’)<br />
by Boris Mojsovski<br />
Original Language: English<br />
Cast: Kim Huffman, Don Allison,<br />
Barbara Gordon, Walter Alza, Santino<br />
Buda<br />
Country of Origin: Canada, Year of<br />
Production: 2002<br />
Three artists, a writer, a director, and a<br />
painter, imagine three separate stories of<br />
yearning and loneliness that feature a<br />
group of subway passengers with<br />
different roles in each artist’s saga.<br />
THREE DAYS OF RAIN<br />
(98’)<br />
by Michael Meredith<br />
Original Language: English<br />
Cast: Don Meredith, Michael Santoro,<br />
Joey Bilow, Peter Falk, Merle Kennedy,<br />
Erick Avari, Lile Lovett<br />
Country of Origin: USA, Year of<br />
Production: 2002<br />
Three wet days in Cleveland, Ohio.<br />
Michael Meredith’s debut as a director is<br />
a film inspired by six short stories by<br />
Anton Chekov, portraying everyday<br />
conflicts in the lives of ordinary people.<br />
THE TENTH SUMMER<br />
Family Feature <strong>Film</strong> (90 min)<br />
by Jörg Grünler<br />
Starring Martin Stührk, Michelle Barthel,<br />
Kai Wiesinger, Katharina Böhm<br />
Country of Origin: Germany, Year of<br />
Production: 2003<br />
An entertaining family film about love,<br />
moral and friendship seen trough the<br />
eyes of the 9-years-old boy Kalli.<br />
MEI AH FILM<br />
<strong>PRODUCT</strong>ION CO.,<br />
LTD.<br />
Mei Ah <strong>Film</strong> Production Co., Ltd., Mei<br />
Ah Centre, 28, Chun Choi Street, Tseung<br />
Kwan O Industrial Estate, Kowloon,<br />
Hong Kong. Tel: 852.2751.3388. Fax:<br />
852.2623.9880. www.meiah.com<br />
Company Type: Sales agent, producer,<br />
distributor<br />
At Cannes: Kenny Chau (Executive<br />
Director), Sara Law (Assistant<br />
Distribution Manager), Celia Wong<br />
(Assistant Programme Manager),<br />
Acquisition Executive: Kenny Chau<br />
(Executive Director), Celia Wong<br />
(Assistant Programme Manager)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice:<br />
PTU<br />
Character Drama (90 min)<br />
Language: Cantonese<br />
Director: Johnnie To<br />
Producer: Johnnie To Co-production<br />
partners:<br />
Cast: Simon Yam, Lam Suet, Ruby<br />
Wong, Maggie Shiu<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: HK<br />
<strong>The</strong> elite PTU ( Police Tactical Unit)<br />
patrols a derelict harbor area, as<br />
gangsters and punks roam the night.<br />
MERCURE<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
Mercure International, 6 rue de l’Ecole<br />
de Médecine 75006 Paris, France. Tel:<br />
33.153.103.398. Fax: 33.153.103.399.<br />
info@mercureinternational.com<br />
Company Type: sales company<br />
specialized in European author movies.<br />
At Cannes: Nicolas BRIGAUD-ROBERT<br />
(Head of Sales), François YON (Head of<br />
Sales), Didar DOMEHRI (International<br />
Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera K5/L8, Tel:<br />
33.492.998.836. Fax: 33.492.998.839<br />
VIRGIN OF LUST<br />
Drama (140 min)<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Director: Arturo RIPSTEIN<br />
Producer: Alvaro Garnica, Mate Cantero,<br />
Mate Production, Tusitala, Iberautor,<br />
Producciones Amaranta, Fado <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Cast: Felipe TOVAR, Ariadna GIL, Juan<br />
DIEGO<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Spain<br />
<strong>The</strong> 40’s, Mexico. Ignacio Jurado, “ El<br />
Mikado” is a waiter, rather reserved and<br />
lonely. Nevertheless, everything changes<br />
when Lola (Ariadna Gil), a Spanish<br />
prostitute of a certain self-destructive and<br />
unpredictable tenderness bursts in his<br />
life.<br />
A NATION WITHOUT WOMEN<br />
Drama (94 min)<br />
Language: Indian<br />
Director: Manish Jhâ<br />
Producer: Ex Nihilo / SMG Production,<br />
Patrick SOBELMAN (Ex Nihilo),<br />
Nicolas BLANC (Ex Nihilo), Punkej<br />
KHARABANDA (SMG Production)<br />
Co-production partners: Gimages <strong>Film</strong>s /<br />
Diaphana <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Cast: Tulip Joshi, Sudhir Pandey, Piyush<br />
Mishra<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: India<br />
In the land where women are worshipped<br />
as goddesses, thousands of cases of<br />
female infanticide go unreported every<br />
year. A practise which has led to an<br />
alarming fall in the ratio of men to<br />
women.<br />
STORMY WEATHER<br />
Drama (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Solveig ANSPACH<br />
Producer: Patrick SOBELMAN (Ex<br />
Nihilo)<br />
Co-production partners: Jean-Pierre et<br />
Luc DARDENNE (<strong>Film</strong>s du fleuve),<br />
Baltasar KORMAKUR (Blue Eyes)<br />
Cast: Elodie BOUCHEZ, Sigurlaug<br />
JONSDOTTIR, Christophe SERMET<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Iceland, France<br />
MEXICAN FILM<br />
INSTITUTE<br />
Mexican <strong>Film</strong> Institute, Insurgentes Sur<br />
674 Del Valle, Mexico City, 03100,<br />
Mexico. Tel: 5255. 54.48.53.39<br />
Fax: 5255. 54.48.53.80.<br />
promint@imcine.gob.mx,<br />
www.imcine.gob.mx<br />
Company Type: Government Institute<br />
At Cannes: Mr. Alfredo Joskowicz.<br />
(General Director IMCINE), Mrs. Susana<br />
López Aranda (Managing Director<br />
International Promotion & Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: STAND MECLA C-4, Tel :<br />
04.92993341<br />
LA PASIÓN DE MARÍA ELENA<br />
(THE PASSION OF MARÍA ELENA)<br />
Documentary (76 min)<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Director: Mercedes Moncada<br />
Producer: Mercedes Moncada, Javier<br />
Moron<br />
Co-production partners: Chango films,<br />
CONACULTA, IMCINE, U de G<br />
Delivery Status: (completed)<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Mexico<br />
About a Raramuri woman from Mexico’s<br />
Tarahumara mountain and her struggle<br />
for justice when her son is killed when<br />
he is run over by a white woman.<br />
MIL NUBES DE PAZ CERCAN EL<br />
CIELO (A THOUSAND CLOUDS OF<br />
PEACE FENCE THE SKY)<br />
Drama (80 min)<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Director: Julián Hernández<br />
Producer: Roberto Fiesco<br />
Co-production partners: Mil nubes-Ciney<br />
Cooperativa Cinematográfica Morelos;<br />
with the support of CONACULTA,<br />
IMCINE, FONCA, Dirección General de<br />
Actividades Cinematográficas de la<br />
UNAM, Fundaciones MacArthur<br />
Rockefeller, Technikos Post, Titán<br />
Producciones.<br />
Cast: Juan Carlos Ortuño, Juan Carlos<br />
Torres, Perla de la Rosa<br />
Delivery Status: (completed)<br />
Year of production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Mexico<br />
For seven days, Gerardo, a teenage<br />
homosexual roams the streets of Mexico<br />
City in search of someone able to reveal<br />
the secret hidden between the lines of a<br />
goodbye letter.<br />
LA CANCIÓN DEL PULQUE<br />
(PULQUE SONG)<br />
Documentary (60 min)<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Director: Everardo González<br />
Producer: Ángeles Castro, Hugo<br />
Rodríguez<br />
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Co-production partners: CCC, IMCINE,<br />
FONCA, PADID<br />
Cast: Delivery Status: (completed)<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Mexico<br />
A portrait of daily life in La Pirata, a<br />
pulque bar. A Portrait of its parishioners.<br />
A tribute to pulque, to the people who<br />
drink pulque, to ranchero music and the<br />
barrio.<br />
RECUERDOS (REMEMBRANCE)<br />
Documentary (86 min)<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Director: Marcela Arteaga<br />
Producer: Ángeles Castro, Hugo<br />
Rodríguez, Gustavo Montiel<br />
Co-production partners: CONACULTA,<br />
IMCINE, CCC, ECHASA<br />
Delivery Status: (completed)<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Mexico<br />
A documentary story of people whose<br />
lives are linked by ruptures such as the<br />
Spanish Civil War, the Second World<br />
War; people who have traveled around<br />
the world in search of a place they can<br />
belong.<br />
MIFF-FILM<br />
FESTIVAL<br />
INTERNAZIONALE<br />
DI MILANO<br />
MIFF-<strong>Film</strong> Festival Internazionale Di<br />
Milano, V.le Famagosta, 19, 20142 –<br />
Milano, Italy. Tel: 39.02.8918.1179 /<br />
02.5740.3738. Fax: 39.02.8912.5683.<br />
USA: 2014 N Sycamore Avenue, 2nd flr<br />
Hollywood, CA 90068-3736. Tel:<br />
323.512.4450. Fax. 323.512.4484.<br />
www.miffmilanofestival.com<br />
Company Type: <strong>Film</strong> Festival<br />
At Cannes: Andrea Galante (Director)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Tel: 39.335.442.332 /<br />
310.266.4252<br />
MIRAMAX<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
Miramax International, 99 Hudson<br />
Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10013<br />
USA. Tel: 212.219.4100. Fax:<br />
212.941.3836.<br />
At Cannes: Rick Sands (COO, Miramax<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s), Edward Noeltner (Senior Vice<br />
President, Distribution and Sales,<br />
Miramax International), Marc Bunag<br />
(Vice President, Creative Marketing,<br />
Miramax International), Mark Lindsay<br />
(Vice President, International<br />
Distribution, Miramax International), Jill<br />
Silfen (Vice President, <strong>Business</strong> and<br />
Legal Affairs, Miramax International),<br />
Lisa Lazure (Director, International<br />
Publicity, Miramax International)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Majestic Hotel, Salle Royan, 14,<br />
La Croisette, Cannes, France. Tel:<br />
04.97.06.85.00. Fax: 04.97.06.85.04<br />
THE BATTLE OF SHAKER<br />
HEIGHTS<br />
Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Efram Potelle, Kyle Rankin<br />
Producers: Chris Moore, Jeff Balis<br />
Cast: Shia Laboeuf, Amy Smart, Elden<br />
Henson, Anson Mount, Shiri Appleby<br />
with Kathleen Quinlan and William<br />
Sadler<br />
Status: In Production<br />
County of Origin: USA<br />
<strong>The</strong> second Project Greenlight winner<br />
from producers Matt Damon and Ben<br />
Affleck. In many ways, Kelly Ernswiler<br />
is your average shy 18 year old looking<br />
to fit in and meet girls.<br />
JERSEY GIRL<br />
Comedy/Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Kevin Smith<br />
Producer: Scott Mosier<br />
Cast: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Liv<br />
Tyler, George Carlin, and Jason Biggs,<br />
introducing Raquel Castro.<br />
Status: In Post-Production<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Oscar winner Ben Affleck and Jennifer<br />
Lopez star in this new romantic comedy<br />
from writer/director Kevin Smith about a<br />
smooth-talking public relations executive<br />
who meets his match in an intelligent<br />
and sexy young woman.<br />
ELLA ENCHANTED<br />
Fantasy<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Tommy O’Haver<br />
Producer: Jane Startz<br />
Exec. Producer: Su Armstrong<br />
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, Cary<br />
Elwes, Vivica A. Fox, Joanna Lumley,<br />
with Minnie Driver and Eric Idle<br />
Status: In Post-Production<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
In this thoroughly modern fairytale, a<br />
young and beautiful girl finds herself the<br />
victim of an evil spell where she must<br />
obey every command of those around<br />
her.<br />
THE GREAT RAID<br />
Action Adventure/War Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: John Dahl<br />
Producers: Marty Katz, Lawrence Bender<br />
Cast: Benjamin Bratt, James Franco,<br />
Connie Nielsen, and Joseph Fiennes<br />
Status: In Post-Production<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
From acclaimed director John Dahl (<strong>The</strong><br />
Last Seduction and Rounders) comes this<br />
true story of a determined nurse, the man<br />
who loved her, and the war that kept<br />
them apart.<br />
MODERN<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Modern Entertainment, 16255 Ventura<br />
Blvd., Suite 1100, Encino, California<br />
91436, USA. Tel: 818.386.0444. Fax:<br />
818.728.8294.<br />
Company Type: Distributor<br />
At Cannes: Michael Weiser (President &<br />
CEO), Ken DuBow (Sr. VP, Worldwide<br />
Sales), Allyson Hall (VP, International<br />
Sales), Leah Marks (Director,<br />
International Sales), Andy Schreiber<br />
(Consultant); Acquisition Executive: Ken<br />
DuBow (Senior Vice President,<br />
Worldwide Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Stand M8 (Riviera), Tel:<br />
33(0)4.92.99.32.17<br />
LIQUID BRIDGE<br />
Action/Adventure (100 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Phil Avalon<br />
Producer: Phil Avalon<br />
Cast: Ryan Kwanten, Simone Kessell,<br />
Jeremy Sims, Jarrod Dean<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Australia<br />
Budget: $3 million<br />
A young man attempting to become a<br />
professional surfer faces drug-smugglers<br />
and his own fears.<br />
FEAR OF SPEED<br />
Thriller (96 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Jeff Centauri<br />
Producer: Jeff Centauri<br />
Cast: Dale Rutter, Ada Mae Johnson,<br />
Alex Torre<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Budget: $750,000<br />
Fast Cars, Furious Fights, Explosive<br />
Action and Hot Girls!<br />
RAQUEL BITTON SINGS EDITH<br />
PIAF, HER STORY...HER SONGS<br />
Documentary (97 minutes)<br />
Language: English/French<br />
Director: George Elder<br />
Producer: George Elder<br />
Cast: Raquel Bitton<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: USA/France<br />
Budget: $1 million<br />
A tribute to Edith Piaf through the<br />
power, passion & awe-inspiring voice of<br />
Raquel Bitton.<br />
THE PACT<br />
Thriller (100 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Strath Hamilton<br />
Producer: Phil Avalon<br />
Cast: Robert Mammone, Sigrid<br />
Thornton, Peter O’Brien<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Australia<br />
Budget: $3 million<br />
Fifteen years ago they made a<br />
promise...that now may kill them all.<br />
CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES<br />
Drama (88 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Eric Byler<br />
Producer: Eric Byler<br />
Cast: Michael Idemoto, Jacqueline Kim,<br />
Eugenia Yuan<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
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Origin: USA<br />
Budget: $500,000<br />
A triangle of friendship, love and<br />
deception tangles the lives of an auto<br />
mechanic and the two women in his life.<br />
MOONSTONE<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Moonstone Entertainment, P.O. Box<br />
7400, Studio City, CA 91614 USA. Tel:<br />
818.985.3003. Fax: 818.985.3009.<br />
At Cannes: Mr. Ernst “Etchie” Stroh<br />
(CEO) Mrs. Yael Stroh (President)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: <strong>The</strong> Carlton Intercontinental,<br />
Suite 120/121, Tel: 04.93.06.41.21 or<br />
04.93.06.68.21.<br />
THE PROMISE<br />
Director: Chen Kaige<br />
Producers: Chen Hong, Chen Kaige, Han<br />
San Ping, Etchie Stroh<br />
Status: Start Principal Photography Fall<br />
2003<br />
Cntry of Origin: China<br />
What is Destiny? Is it war, love or a<br />
dream? A General, a Princess and a slave<br />
entangled in a story about War, Love, and<br />
Dream.<br />
TOGETHER<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Chen Kaige<br />
Producers: Ton Gang, Chen Hong<br />
Cntry of Origin: China<br />
Principal Cast: Tang Yun, Liu Peiqi,<br />
Chen Hong, Wang Zhiwen, Chen Kaige,<br />
Cheng Qian, Zhang Qing, Kim Hairi, Liu<br />
Bing<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Thirteen-year-old Xiaochun goes with his<br />
father to Beijing to study the violin.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re he meets Lili his first love, first<br />
source of heartbreak and first true friend.<br />
IN THE COMPANY OF HEROES<br />
Action<br />
Director: Allan A. Goldstein<br />
Producers: Allan A. Goldstein, Etchie<br />
Stroh, Martin Myers, Luciano Lisi<br />
Principal Cast: N/A<br />
Cntry of Origin: Canada/UK<br />
Status: pre-production, shooting summer<br />
2003 in Hong Kong<br />
A double agent walks a tightrope<br />
between villain and hero, set against<br />
intrigue and espionage in Hong Kong<br />
and the jungles of South East Asia.<br />
THE TOOLBOX MURDERS<br />
Thriller<br />
Director: Tobe Hooper<br />
Producers: Tony DiDio<br />
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Status: In Production<br />
Cntry of Origin: U.S.<br />
Evil lurks inside the Lusman Building: a<br />
ruthless madman who uses drills, saws<br />
and claw hammers to murder his victims.<br />
EXTREME CLOSE UP<br />
Thriller<br />
Director: Sean S. Cunningham<br />
Producers: Geoff Garrett, Sean S.<br />
Cunningham<br />
Principal Cast: Sarah Chalke, C. Thomas<br />
Howell, Jay Michael Ferguson<br />
Status: completed<br />
Cntry of Origin: U.S.A.<br />
A reality TV show gets a boost in ratings<br />
when a mysterious “accident” claims one<br />
of the cast. As one member after another<br />
is murdered, the show takes reality to an<br />
EXTREME.<br />
MORGAN CREEK<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
Morgan Creek International, 4000<br />
Warner Boulevard, Building 76, Burbank,<br />
CA 91522 USA. Tel: 818.954.4800. Fax:<br />
818.954.4990. www.Morgancreek.com<br />
At Cannes: James G. Robinson<br />
(Chairman/CEO), Howard Kaplan<br />
(CFO), Jonathan Deckter (VP<br />
International)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Martinez Hotel - Suite 620, Tel:<br />
33.4.92.98.73.00. Tel: 33.4.93.39.67.82.<br />
MOTION PICTURE<br />
CORPORATION OF<br />
AMERICA<br />
Motion Picture Corporation of America,<br />
1401 Ocean Avenue Suite # 301 Santa<br />
Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel:<br />
310.319.9500. Fax: 310-319-9501.<br />
info@mpcafilm.com. www.mpcafilm.com<br />
Company Type: Producer, Distributor<br />
At Cannes: Brad Krevoy(Chairman &<br />
CEO), Sigrid Ann Davison (President of<br />
International – mobile: 06.22.67.17.08),<br />
Victoria Nevinny (Sr. VP Marketing –<br />
mobile: 06.22.67.17.12), Francisco<br />
Gonzalez (Manager, International Sales<br />
and Marketing – mobile: 06.22.67.17.09)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Majestic Hotel Suite 114, Tel:<br />
04.97.06.85.33. Fax: 04.97.06.85.89<br />
LIFE TIDES - AURUM<br />
BLAST<br />
Action<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Anthony Hickox<br />
Producer: Brad Krevoy, David Lancaster,<br />
Klaus Rettig, Gerhard Schmidt.<br />
Cast: Eddie Griffin, Beckin Meyer,<br />
Vinnie Jones, Vivica A. Fox, Soup,<br />
Shaggy<br />
Delivery Status: Post-production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Budget: US$20,000,000<br />
A terrorist posing as environmentalist<br />
hijacks an oilrig off the coast of<br />
California with the intent of detonating<br />
an electromagnetic bomb over the US.<br />
BOOKIES<br />
Dramatic Thriller (92 min.)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Mark Illsley<br />
Producer: Alan Greenstone, Sabine<br />
Mueller, Paul Greenstone, Gerhard<br />
Schmidt, Andrea Kreuzhage, Brad<br />
Krevoy.<br />
Cast: Nick Stahl, Rachel Leigh Cook,<br />
Lukas Haas, Johnny Galecki<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country: USA<br />
Budget: US$15,000,000<br />
A dramatic thriller about friendship and<br />
loyalty set against the backdrop of two of<br />
the most lucrative illegal activities around<br />
the world- sports gambling on college<br />
campuses and student run booking<br />
making operations.<br />
BARELY LEGAL<br />
Comedy (93 min.)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: David Mickey Evans<br />
Producer: Brad Krevoy, Klaus Rettig,<br />
David Kirkpatrick.<br />
Cast: Erik Von Detten, Tom Arnold, Amy<br />
Smart, Horacio Sanz, Sarah Jane Potts.<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country: USA<br />
Budget: 15,000,000<br />
A raucous teen comedy about a group of<br />
teen-agers who cook up a misguided<br />
scheme to meet girls and make moneyproduce<br />
an adult film.<br />
DRACULA 3000<br />
Sci-fi/ Horror<br />
Language: English<br />
Director/ Writer: Darell James Roodt<br />
Producer: Brad Krevoy, David Lancaster,<br />
David Wicht<br />
Delivery Status: Production<br />
Country: USA<br />
Budget: US$4,000,000<br />
Dracula returns in the year 3000 to<br />
terrorize the crew of an intergalactic<br />
spaceship in this new twist on the classic<br />
horror legend.<br />
BOAT TRIP<br />
Comedy (95 min.)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director/ Writer: Mort Nathan<br />
Producer: Brad Krevoy, Gerhard<br />
Schmidt, Frank Huebner, Sabine Mueller<br />
Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Horatio Sanz,<br />
Vivica A. Fox, Roselyn Sanchez.<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country: USA<br />
Budget: US$25,000,000<br />
Hilarious comedy about two guys who<br />
find fun, romance and adventure on a<br />
Mediterranean vacation boat cruise.<br />
MOVIEHOUSE<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Moviehouse Entertainment, 9 Grafton<br />
Mews, London, W1T 5HZ, UK. Tel:<br />
44.20.7380.3999. Fax: 44.20.7380.3998.<br />
info@moviehouseent.com.<br />
www.moviehouseent.com<br />
Company Type: Sales Agent<br />
At Cannes: Gary Phillips (Managing<br />
Director), Mark Vennis (Managing<br />
Director), Claire Battersby (Director of<br />
Marketing & Publicity); Acquisition<br />
Executive: Mark Vennis<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: 55 la Croisette, 4th Floor, Tel:<br />
04.93.43.80.65<br />
AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A<br />
SERIAL KILLER<br />
Documentary (89 mins)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Nick Broomfield & Joan<br />
Churchill<br />
Producer: Jo Human<br />
Cast: Aileen Wuornos<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: UK<br />
Claimed to be the first female serial<br />
killer, Wuornos grants documentary<br />
filmmaker Nick Broomfield her final<br />
interview.<br />
THE RAGE IN PLACID LAKE<br />
Comedy (90 mins)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Tony McNamara<br />
Producer: Marian Macgowan<br />
Cast: Ben Lee, Rose Byrne, Miranda<br />
Richardson<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Australia<br />
For anyone who ever felt different... your<br />
hero has arrived.<br />
FEAR X<br />
Drama (91 mins)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn<br />
Producer: Henrik Danstrup<br />
Cast: John Turturro, James Remar,<br />
Deborah Kara Unger<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Denmark/UK<br />
Murder. Obsession. Search. Truth.<br />
LIVE FOREVER<br />
Documentary (82 mins)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: John Dower<br />
Producer: John Battsek<br />
Cast: Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher,<br />
Jarvis Cocker, Damon Albarn<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: UK<br />
A life-affirming celebration of the<br />
Britpop scene.<br />
BLIND FLIGHT<br />
Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: John Furse<br />
Producer: Sally Hibbin<br />
Cast: Ian Hart, Linus Roache<br />
Delivery Status: post-production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: UK<br />
From darkness to light. From despair to<br />
hope. From solitude to the greatest<br />
friendship of their lives. An epic true<br />
story.<br />
MOVIEVENTURES<br />
LTD.<br />
MovieVentures Ltd., Hill House, 1 Little<br />
New Street, London, EC4A 3TR, UK. Tel:<br />
44.207.493.7920. Fax: 44.207.493.8088.<br />
sales@movieventures.com<br />
Company Type: Distributor<br />
At Cannes: Martin Katz, Karen Cuccaro,<br />
Andrew Luff; Acquisition Executive:<br />
Martin Katz<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera K-1, Tel: 04.92.99.88.42<br />
ANIMAL FARM<br />
Animation (74 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Directors: John Halas and Joy Batchelor<br />
Producers: John Halas and Joy Batchelor<br />
for De Rochemont <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 1954 (classic, fully<br />
restored)<br />
Country of Origin: UK<br />
Captures the spirit of Orwell’s timeless<br />
political allegory in classic animation;<br />
fully restored in superb colour and detail<br />
from its original negative.<br />
FREE ZONE<br />
Drama<br />
Language: English, French<br />
Director: Connie Kaiserman<br />
Producers: Merchant Ivory, Black Swan,<br />
MovieVentures<br />
Delivery Status: In Development<br />
Country of Origin: UK, France<br />
True story of an English banker jailed by<br />
French customs for transporting Nazi<br />
gold that is linked to the most heinous<br />
crime in WWII France.<br />
WRECK OF THE EDMUND<br />
FITZGERALD<br />
Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Producer: Martin J. Katz<br />
Delivery Status: In Development<br />
Country of Origin: US, Canada, UK<br />
Based on the actual events of the<br />
devastating and deadly sinking of the<br />
Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew in a<br />
brutal storm on Lake Superior.<br />
L.A. <strong>Of</strong>fice Phone<br />
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ROCK N’ ROLL SUSHI<br />
Music<br />
Language: English, Japanese<br />
Producer: MovieVentures<br />
Delivery Status: In Development<br />
Country of Origin: UK, Japan<br />
Rockumentary on the merging of<br />
Japanese and American cultures from<br />
WWII to the present.<br />
MR INTERNATIONAL<br />
FILM SALES<br />
MR International <strong>Film</strong> Sales, 1 Westland<br />
Square, Pearse Street, Dublin 2. Ireland.<br />
Tel: 353.1.8814010. Fax: 353.1.8814011.<br />
info@mrfilms.ie<br />
Company Type: Sales agent, Producer<br />
At Cannes: Michael Ryan(Managing<br />
Director), Gareth Jones (Sales<br />
Consultant), Mary Clare Curran (Sales<br />
Executive), Emma Scott (Producer),<br />
Patrick O’Neill (Sales Assistant)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: 23 Criossette/23 rue Macet, Top<br />
Floor, 06400 Cannes, Tel:<br />
353.87.924.8880<br />
MYSTICS<br />
Comedy (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: David Blair<br />
Producer: Mark O’Sullivan, Nigel<br />
Warren Green<br />
Co-production partners: MR <strong>Film</strong>s &<br />
Murphia Pictures<br />
Cast: David Kelly, Milo O’Shea, Maria<br />
Doyle Kennedy, Liam Cunningham<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Ireland<br />
David Kelly and Milo O’Shea scam a<br />
living by assisting the widows of Dublin<br />
in communing with their departed.<br />
Unexpectedly our heroes make contact<br />
with a dead gangster and reluctantly<br />
become his earthly accomplices.<br />
TIMBUKTU<br />
Road Movie<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Alan Gilsenan<br />
Producer: John McDonnell, Martin<br />
Mahon, Emma Scott<br />
Co-production partners: Yellow Asylum,<br />
Fantastic <strong>Film</strong>s, MR <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Cast: Eva Birthistle, Karl Geary, George<br />
Papadjackos<br />
Delivery Status: In production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Ireland<br />
Budget: $1 million<br />
Eva Birthistle (SALTWATER,<br />
BORSTAL BOY) and Karl Geary (SEX<br />
AND THE CITY) are Isobel and Deecy,<br />
two childhood friends tightly bonded by<br />
their childhood near death experience in<br />
Ireland.<br />
London Head <strong>Of</strong>fice<br />
41-42 Berners St.<br />
London WIT 3NB<br />
Los Angeles <strong>Of</strong>fice<br />
5150 Wilshire Blvd.<br />
Los Angeles<br />
California 90036<br />
MULTIMEDIA<br />
CORPORATION<br />
INTERNATIONAL,<br />
INC<br />
Multimedia Corporation International,<br />
Inc, (Production <strong>Of</strong>fice): 19360 Rinaldi<br />
St. #342, Porter Ranch, CA 91326 USA.<br />
Tel: 818.368.0817. Fax: 818.368.1817.<br />
multimedia@socal.rr.com.<br />
mcmultimedia.de<br />
At Cannes: Karin Thome (President),<br />
Joseph G. Geissler (Director), Ricardo<br />
Gaona (Vice President Acquistions)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Tel: 0049.171.273.9070<br />
JAGUAR<br />
Producer : Karin Thome, MMC<br />
Inc.,USA, Joseph Geissler MCM,<br />
Germany<br />
A beautiful treasure hunter and a drug<br />
lord fight for their lives when they<br />
encounter the mystical Jaguar people<br />
deep inside the heart of the Amazon.<br />
TWIN SOUL<br />
Director: Karin Thome<br />
Producer: Karin Thome, MMC Inc.,<br />
USA, Joseph Geissler MCM Germany<br />
A voodoo curse threatens the life of a<br />
woman who is alerted by her son; Her<br />
son who has been dead for 3 years.<br />
PSYCHOSPHERE<br />
Producer: Karin Thome, MMC Inc.,<br />
USA,Joseph Geissler MCM Germany<br />
Two kids must face their greatest fears<br />
when their parents fall into the hands of<br />
the evil ruler of ‘<strong>The</strong> Psychosphere’.<br />
EMPIRE OF ASHES<br />
Director: Ricky Gaona<br />
Producer: Karin Thome,MMC Inc., USA,<br />
Joseph Geissler, MCM Germany<br />
A Punk Rock love story for those left<br />
burning inside the margins.<br />
TACOS AL CARBON<br />
Producer: Karin Thome, MMC Inc.,<br />
USA, Joseph Geissler, MCM Germany<br />
An unexpected romance between a<br />
Senate candidate and a Mexican<br />
bullfighter.<br />
MYRIAD PICTURES<br />
Myriad Pictures, 405 S. Beverly Drive,<br />
5th Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 USA.<br />
Tel: 310.279.4000. Fax: 310.279.4001<br />
At Cannes: Kirk D’Amico (President),<br />
Eric Christenson (Executive Vice<br />
President, Sales & Distribution), Sam<br />
Horley (Senior Vice President,<br />
International Distribution), Alice Weston<br />
(Sales Executive), Lucas Foster<br />
(President of Production), Marion<br />
Pilowsky (Head of International<br />
Production)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Imperial Suite, Carlton Hotel, 58<br />
La Croisette BP 155, 06400 Cannes<br />
Cedex. Tel: 33.(0).4.93.43.6692. Fax:<br />
33.(0).4.93.43.8281<br />
TRAUMA<br />
Supernatural Thriller<br />
Director: Marc Evans<br />
Producers: Jonathan Cavendish, Nicky<br />
Kentish Barnes<br />
Cast: Colin Firth, Mena Suvari<br />
Status: Pre-production<br />
A man visits a spiritualist after his wife’s<br />
tragic death, only to be given the chilling<br />
news that she might still be alive.<br />
BEING JULIA<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Istvan Szabo<br />
Producers: Robert Lantos<br />
Cast: Annette Bening<br />
Status: Pre-production<br />
A celebrated actress embarks on a secret<br />
and passionate affair with her son’s best<br />
friend, until she realizes he has an<br />
ulterior motive.<br />
EULOGY<br />
Comedy<br />
Director: Michael Clancy<br />
Executive Producers: Lucas Foster, Rory<br />
Rosegarten, Shelly Glasser, Jonas<br />
McCord, Kendall Morgan, Bo Hyde<br />
Producers: Steven Haft, Kirk D’Amico,<br />
Richard Lewis<br />
Cast: Hank Azaria, Jesse Bradford,<br />
Zooey Deschanel, Famke Janssen, Kelly<br />
Preston, Ray Romano, Debra Winger<br />
Status: Post-production<br />
A young girl finds herself amidst a<br />
comical frenzy when three generations of<br />
a dysfunctional family reunite for her<br />
grandfather’s funeral.<br />
KINSEY<br />
Biopic<br />
Director: Bill Condon<br />
Executive Producers: Francis Ford<br />
Coppola, Bobby Rock, Kirk D’Amico,<br />
Lucas Foster<br />
Producers: Gail Mutrux<br />
Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney<br />
Status: Pre-production<br />
In 1953, the Kinsey Report exposed the<br />
sexual habits and fantasies of everyday<br />
Americans, creating controversy that<br />
forever changed the life of Dr. Alfred<br />
Kinsey, his wife and the world’s<br />
perception of human sexuality.<br />
A FOREIGN AFFAIR<br />
Romantic Comedy<br />
Director: Helmut Schleppi<br />
Executive Producers: Dirk-Jan Bijker,<br />
Tonneke Bijker, David J. Bijker, Esli<br />
Bijker, David Arquette, Tim Blake<br />
Nelson, Geert Heetebrij, Helmut<br />
Schleppi<br />
Cast: David Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson,<br />
Emily Mortimer<br />
Status: Completed<br />
When their doting mother passes away,<br />
two small-town American vegetable<br />
farmers join a “romance tour” to Russia<br />
in search of a wife to take care of them<br />
both.<br />
N<br />
NATIONAL FILM<br />
DEVELOPMENT<br />
CORPORATION LTD.<br />
National <strong>Film</strong> Development Corporation<br />
Ltd., Discovery of India Bldg, Nehru<br />
Centre, Dr. A.B. Road, Worli, Mumbai<br />
400 018, India. Tel: 91.22.24.973.364/<br />
24.951.413 /24.960.694. Fax:<br />
91.22.24.973.364. nfdcindia.com.<br />
nfdc@nfdcnet.co.in<br />
Company Type : Producer, Distributor &<br />
Exporter<br />
At Cannes: D. Mukhopadhyay<br />
(Managing Director), P. Parameswaran<br />
(Director, Finance), V.P.S. Menon (Dy<br />
General Manager, Export)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: B8 Riviera<br />
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AAMAAR BHUVAN (THIS, MY<br />
LAND)<br />
Drama (105 mins)<br />
Director: Mrinal Sen<br />
Producer: P.D. Gupta;<br />
Cast: Nandita Das, Koushik Sen.<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: India<br />
Human compassion helps two people<br />
sort out life.<br />
ARIMPARA (WART)<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Murali Nair<br />
Producers: National <strong>Film</strong> Development<br />
Corp. and Murali Nair<br />
Cast: Nedumudi Venu, M.R. Gopakumar.<br />
Delivery Status: In production<br />
Country of Origin: India<br />
A rich Orthodox man has a black mole<br />
under his lip that alienates him from his<br />
surroundings.<br />
DATTAK (THE ADOPTED)<br />
Drama (120 mins)<br />
Director: Gul Bahar Singh<br />
Producer: National <strong>Film</strong> Development<br />
Corp.<br />
Cast: A.K. Hangal, Rajit Kapur.<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: India<br />
A man comes to reconcile with his<br />
father, but it is too late.<br />
DANCE LIKE A MAN<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Pamela Rooks; cast: Arif<br />
Zakaria, Shobana.<br />
Producer: National <strong>Film</strong> Development<br />
Corp.<br />
Delivery Status: In production<br />
Country of Origin: India<br />
A young aspiring dancer takes to her<br />
parent’s profession.<br />
DEVI AHILYA BAI<br />
Drama<br />
Directors: Nachiket and Jayoo<br />
Patwardhan<br />
Producer: NFDC, Government of India,<br />
Government of Maharashtra<br />
Cast: Shabana Azmi, Sadashiv<br />
Amrapurkar<br />
Delivery Status: In production<br />
Country of Origin: India<br />
An 18th-century woman wants to commit<br />
suicide at her husband’s funeral pyre but<br />
lives to create history.<br />
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NEW CONCORDE<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
New Concorde International, 11600 San<br />
Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049<br />
USA. Tel: 310.820.6733. Fax:<br />
310.207.6816. www.concordenewhorizons.com<br />
At Cannes: Andrea Miller (Vice<br />
President International Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera L-10, Tel:<br />
33.04.92.99.33.14<br />
FIREFIGHT<br />
Action (93’)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Paul Ziller<br />
Producer: Elizabeth Sanchez, Paul Ziller<br />
Key Cast: Stephen Baldwin, Nick<br />
Mancuso, Steve Bacic<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Budget: 1.5 M<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Criminals rob an armored truck in the<br />
midst of a raging forest fire, the situation<br />
gets even hotter when a gang of thugs<br />
decide they want the money!<br />
THE KILLER WITHIN ME<br />
Thriller (95’)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Jesse Vint<br />
Producer: Jesse Vint, Alan Vint<br />
Key Cast: Corbin Timbrook, William<br />
Benton<br />
Delivery Status: In Development<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
A deceptively charismatic young exconvict<br />
is welcomed into the home of a<br />
wealthy businessman as a houseguest.<br />
<strong>The</strong> ex-con terrorizes the family who<br />
understands too late that some people<br />
can’t or won’t change.<br />
FIRE OVER AFGHANISTAN<br />
Action (92’)<br />
Director: English<br />
Language: Terrance Winkless<br />
Producer: New Concorde and L & P<br />
Productions<br />
Key Cast: Fred Dryer, Jeff Stearns,<br />
Jordan Bayne<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
A Blackhawk helicopter pilot and his<br />
passenger, a beautiful journalist, are shot<br />
down by rebels in the middle of a civil<br />
war. He must fight his way out of the<br />
world’s deadliest terrain to save both of<br />
them.<br />
NEW LINE CINEMA<br />
New Line Cinema, 116 N. Robertson<br />
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA. Tel:<br />
310.854.5811. Fax 310.659.4712. New<br />
York: 888 7th Avenue, 20th Floor, New<br />
York NY 10106 USA. Tel: 212.649.4900.<br />
Fax: 212.659.4966<br />
Company Type: independent producer<br />
and distributor of theatrical motion<br />
pictures.<br />
At Cannes: Rolf Mittweg (President and<br />
Chief Operating <strong>Of</strong>ficer of Worldwide<br />
Distribution and Marketing), Camela<br />
Galano (President, New Line<br />
International), Nestor Nieves (Executive<br />
Vice President - New Line International),<br />
Robert Remley (Senior Vice President,<br />
International Marketing), Tracy Lorie<br />
(Senior Vice President, International<br />
Publicity), Elena Cahalan (Vice<br />
President, International Contracts)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Residence Croisette Miramar, 67<br />
rue la Croisette, 9th Floor<br />
ELF<br />
Comedy<br />
Director: Jon Favreau<br />
Producers: Jon Berg, Todd Komarniki,<br />
Shauna Robertson<br />
Cast: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Zooey<br />
Deschanel, Mary Steenburgen with<br />
Edward Asner and Bob Newhart<br />
Production Status: Post - Production<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Buddy, a human raised on the North Pole<br />
by elves finds out he really comes from<br />
New York City and sets out to find his<br />
biological father.<br />
BIRTH<br />
Psychological Mystery<br />
Director: Jonathan Glazer<br />
Producers: Jean-Louis Piel, Nick Morris,<br />
Lizie Gower and Wang Wei<br />
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall,<br />
Cameron Bright, Arliss Howard, Danny<br />
Huston, Ted Levine and Anne Heche<br />
Production Status: In - Production<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
A 35-year old woman encounters a 10-<br />
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year old boy who is in love with her.<br />
Circumstances and actions lead her to<br />
believe that he is the reincarnation of her<br />
dead husband.<br />
CELLULAR<br />
Action-Thriller<br />
Director: David Ellis<br />
Producers: Dean Devlin, Lauren Lloyd<br />
Production Status: Pre-Production<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
A man is thrust into a world or murder<br />
and deception when he receives a<br />
random, desperate call from a woman<br />
who has been kidnapped.<br />
AFTER THE SUNSET<br />
Heist-Comedy<br />
Producer: Beau Flynn<br />
Cast: Pierce Brosnan<br />
Production Status: Pre-production<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Picking up where most heists movies<br />
end, a retired master thief finds himself<br />
in a game of suspicion, robbery and<br />
friendship with his life long nemesis.<br />
NEW ZEALAND FILM<br />
New Zealand <strong>Film</strong>, PO Box 11-546,<br />
Wellington, New Zealand. Tel:<br />
64.4.382.7680. Fax: 64.4.384.9719.<br />
marketing@nzfilm.co.nz<br />
At Cannes: Barrie Everard (Chairman),<br />
Ruth Harley (Chief Executive), Kathleen<br />
Drumm (Marketing & Sales), Richard<br />
Fletcher (<strong>Business</strong> Affairs), Michael<br />
Wrenn (Creative & Marketing)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: 1st floor, Gray D’Albion, 17 la<br />
Croisette/4 Rue des Serbes, Tel:<br />
33.4.93.99.81.14, Fax: 33.4.93.99.81.15<br />
NIKKATSU<br />
CORPORATION<br />
Nikkatsu Corporation, 3-28-12 Hongo,<br />
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 Japan. Tel:<br />
81.3.5689.1026. Fax: 81.3.5689.1044<br />
Company Type: producer, distributor<br />
At Cannes: Yasue Nobusawa (Manager),<br />
Kiyoyuki Ishihara (Executive Director),<br />
Kiyohiko Shoji (General Manager)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera K-7, Tel: 04.92.99.88.46<br />
BLUES HARP<br />
Drama (106min.)<br />
Language: Japanese<br />
Director: Takashi MIIKE<br />
Producer: Naoya NARITA<br />
Cast: Seiichi TANABE, Hiroyuki<br />
IKEUCHI<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Friendship and affection between a<br />
young ambitious Yakuza and a half-blood<br />
Blues Harp player.<br />
JYU-SHI-REI, (CURSE, DEATH AND<br />
SPRIT)<br />
Horror (Omnibus/TV 65min.)<br />
Language: Japanese<br />
Director: Hideo NAKATA<br />
Producer: Takahiro KOHASHI, Akira<br />
OZEKI<br />
Cast: Mitsuko OKA, Michiko HATA,<br />
Yasuyo SHIRATORI<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Three horror stories based on<br />
televiewers’ experiences.<br />
KOKKURI<br />
Mysterious Horror (87min.)<br />
Language: Japanese<br />
Director: Takahisa ZEZE<br />
Producer: Kazuyuki KOBAYASHI,<br />
Minoru YOKOTE, Shigehiro ARAKE<br />
Cast: Ayumi YAMATSU, Hiroko<br />
SHIMADA, Moe ISHIKAWA<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Spiritism play, Kokkuri bring three<br />
unstable the lives of three unstable high<br />
school girls to the edge of death.<br />
AIKI<br />
Martial Arts Drama (119min.)<br />
Language: Japanese<br />
Director: Daisuke TENGAN<br />
Producer: Hisa IINO, Yasushi<br />
MATSUDA, Shunsuke KOGA<br />
Cast: Haruhiko KATO, Rie<br />
TOMOSAKA, Ryo ISHIBASHI<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
AIKI-jujutsu helps a young man starts<br />
his new live in a wheel chair.<br />
HARMFUL INSECT<br />
Drama (92min.)<br />
Language: Japanese<br />
Director: Akihiko SHIOTA<br />
Producer: Hiroyuki NEGISHI, Takashi<br />
HIRANO<br />
Cast: Aoi MIYAZAKI, Seiichi TANABE,<br />
RYO<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Sachiko, a 13 years old girl, struggles<br />
looking for love in a complicated society<br />
and makes herself spin out of control.<br />
NONSTOP SALES AB<br />
Nonstop Sales AB, Döbelnsgatan 24, SE-<br />
113 52 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel:<br />
46.8.673.99.99. Fax: 46.8.673.99.88.<br />
info@nonstopsales.net.<br />
www.nonstopsales.net<br />
Company Type: International sales agent,<br />
seller<br />
At Cannes: CG Anderson (CEO – Tel:<br />
46.8.673.9999), Michael Werner (Sales<br />
Director –Tel/mobile: 46.70.733 28 55),<br />
Karin Thun (Sales Assistant –<br />
Tel/mobile: 46.70.416.99.89)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Scandinavian Terrace, 55 La<br />
Croisette, Cannes<br />
THE SLAUGHTER RULE<br />
Drama (112 )<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Alex Smith and Andrew Smith<br />
Producer: Michael Robinson and<br />
Gregory O’Connor<br />
Prod. Comp: SOLARIS<br />
Cast: Ryan Gosling, David Morse, Kelly<br />
Lynch and Clea Duvall<br />
Status: Completed/screening<br />
Country: USA, Year: 2001<br />
Shortly after his father’s death, Roy gets<br />
cut from his high school football team.<br />
He meets Gideon, who wants to recruit<br />
him to his six-man football squad.<br />
HAYFLOWER & QUILTSHOE<br />
(HEINÄHATTU JA VILTTITOSSU)<br />
Children (80 min)<br />
Language: Finnish<br />
Director: Kaisa Rastimo<br />
Producer: Marko Rauhala<br />
Prod. Comp: Kinotaurus<br />
Cast: Katriina Tavi, Tilda Kiianlehto,<br />
Minna Suuronen, Antti Virmavirta, Merja<br />
Larivaara, Päivi Akonpelto, Robert<br />
Enkell, Heikki Sankari<br />
Status: Completed/stand screenings only<br />
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Country: Finland, Year: 2002<br />
Hayflower and Quiltshoe are sisters and<br />
spend all their time together. A change is<br />
about to happen: In a week, Hayflower is<br />
going to start school. 2 Finnish National<br />
Awards.<br />
FALLING SKY (HIMMELFALL)<br />
Drama (83 min)<br />
Language: Norway<br />
Director: Gunnar Vikene<br />
Producer: Sigve Endresen<br />
Prod. Comp: Motlys, Alligator<br />
Cast: Kim Bodnia, Maria Bonnevie and<br />
Kristoffer Joner<br />
Status: Completed/screening<br />
Country: Norway, Year: 2002<br />
It’s three days before Christmas at the<br />
Sollihøgda psychiatric hospital. Reidar<br />
expects to get hit in the head by a<br />
meteor. He wants to save the whole<br />
world from catastrophe, but most of all<br />
he wants to save Juni. Winner of the<br />
Canal+ Award in Gothenburg, 2002.<br />
ONE-WAY TICKET TO MOMBASA<br />
(MEMOLIPPU MOMBAASAN)<br />
Teenage Drama (88 min)<br />
Language: Finnish<br />
Director: Hannu Tuomainen<br />
Producer: Hannu Tuomainen<br />
Prod. Comp: Cinemaker<br />
Cast: Antti Tarvainen, Joonas Saartamo,<br />
Johanna Rönnlöf<br />
Status: completed/screening<br />
Country: Finland, Year: 2002<br />
A road movie about two young men who<br />
travel through Finland to try to realize<br />
their dreams before dying, “One-Way<br />
Ticket to Mombasa” is a low-key, mostly<br />
captivating drama.<br />
THE GOLDFISH MEMORY<br />
Romantic Comedy (85 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Liz Gill<br />
Producer: Breda Walsh<br />
Prod. Comp: Goldfish <strong>Film</strong><br />
Cast: Sean Campion, Flora Montgomery,<br />
Stuart Graham, Jean Butler, Keith<br />
McErlean, Fiona O’Shaughnessy, Justine<br />
Mitchell, Aisling O’Neill, Peter Gaynor,<br />
Demian McAdam and Lisa Hearns<br />
Status: Completed/screening<br />
Country: Ireland, Year: 2002<br />
Goldfish Memory is a light-hearted look<br />
at the dangers and delights of dating in<br />
contemporary Dublin.<br />
THE BUSINESS<br />
OF FILM<br />
London Head <strong>Of</strong>fice<br />
41-42 Berners St.<br />
London WIT 3NB<br />
Los Angeles <strong>Of</strong>fice<br />
5150 Wilshire Blvd.<br />
Los Angeles<br />
California 90036<br />
NORDISK FILM<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
SALES<br />
Nordisk <strong>Film</strong> International Sales,<br />
Halmtorvet 29, Copenhagen, 1700<br />
Denmark. Tel: 45.33266880. Fax:<br />
45.33266889.<br />
www.sales.nordiskfilm.com,<br />
contact@nordiskfilm.com<br />
At Cannes: Sanne Arloe (Sales<br />
executive), Susan Wendt (Sales<br />
executive), Klaus Rasmussen (Sales<br />
executive), Kenneth Wiberg (General<br />
Manager), Casper Hald (Sales Manager)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: <strong>The</strong> Scandinavian Stand, La<br />
Croisette 55<br />
STEALING REMBRANDT (AKA:<br />
REMBRANDT)<br />
Drama comedy<br />
Language: Danish<br />
Director: Jannik Johansen<br />
Producer: Thomas Gammeltoft<br />
Key Cast: Lars Brygmann, Jakob<br />
Cedergren, Nikolaj Coster Waldau,<br />
Nicolas Bro, Sonja Richter, Sören<br />
Pilmark, Gordon Kennedy<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002-2003, Country<br />
of Origin: Denmark<br />
Mick and Tom have been hired to steal a<br />
painting from a museum. By accident,<br />
they steal the wrong painting –<br />
Denmark’s only original Rembrandt<br />
masterpiece worth millions.<br />
EVIL (ONDSKAN)<br />
Drama<br />
Language: Swedish<br />
Director: Mikael Håfström<br />
Producer: Hans Lönnerheden & Ingemar<br />
Leijonborg<br />
Key Cast: Andreas Wilson, Linda<br />
Zilliacus, Henrik Lundström, Marie<br />
Richardson, Johan Rabeus, Kjell<br />
Bergqvist, Gustaf Skarsgard, Magnus<br />
Roosman, Ulf Friberg<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Sweden<br />
16-year-old Erik lives a life with<br />
violence and evil both at home and at<br />
school. He is expelled from school due to<br />
his violent behaviour and gets a final<br />
chance to break with his past at a<br />
boarding school.<br />
NU IMAGE /<br />
MILLENNIUM FILMS<br />
Nu Image / Millennium <strong>Film</strong>s, 6423<br />
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles,<br />
California 90048 USA. Tel:<br />
310.388.6900. Fax: 310.388.6901.<br />
nimage@msn.com.<br />
At Cannes: Avi Lerner (Co-Chairman &<br />
CEO), Danny Dimbort (Co-Chairman &<br />
CEO), Carole Delossantos (Vice<br />
President, International)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Booth G9, Tel: 33.(0)4.92.88.02.<br />
Fax: 33.(0)4.92.88.04<br />
NINE LIVES<br />
Starring: Wesley Snipes<br />
Status: Production<br />
Mistaken for a government agent, Dean<br />
Klein is injected with a hallucinogenic<br />
truth serum that gives his captors the<br />
ability to alter his reality.<br />
BLIND HORIZON<br />
Starring: Val Kilmer, Neve Campbell,<br />
Sam Shepard, Faye Dunaway, and Amy<br />
Smart<br />
Status: Post Production<br />
A man’s mysterious identity unravels as<br />
he struggles to uncover a plot to<br />
assassinate the president.<br />
DEN OF LIONS<br />
Starring Stephen Dorff, Bob Hoskins<br />
Status: Ready<br />
A Hungarian gypsy working for a<br />
Russian mobster jeopardizes his position<br />
when he becomes a double agent for the<br />
FBI - who are trying to help Hungary<br />
nail the Russian.<br />
NATURAL DISASTERS<br />
AVALANCHE<br />
Status: Production<br />
In the peaks high above Alaska’s Eagle<br />
Ridge, the ice groans and rumbles under<br />
the heavy blanket of fresh snow.<br />
Status: Pre Production<br />
EARTHQUAKE<br />
Status: Pre Production<br />
A respected engineer must avert a<br />
disaster as a massive earthquake damages<br />
a nuclear power plant causing a reactor<br />
melt down.<br />
O<br />
OASIS<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
Oasis International, 6 Pardee Ave, Suite<br />
103, Toronto, Canada. M6K 3H5. Tel:<br />
416.588.6821. Fax: 416.588.7276.<br />
info@oasisinternational.com.<br />
www.oasisinternational.com<br />
Company Type: International and<br />
Domestic Distribution Company<br />
At Cannes: Peter Emerson (President),<br />
Valerie Cabrera (Executive VP), Steve<br />
Murphy (VP, Sales), Prentiss Holman<br />
(Sales Executive)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice:<br />
LONG LIFE, HAPPINESS AND<br />
PROSPERITY<br />
Drama (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Producer: Shaftesbury <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Starring: SANDRA OH (ARLI$$,<br />
Judging Amy, Bliss, Princess Diaries),<br />
Introducing Valerie Tian, Chang Tseng<br />
(Shang Hai noon, Romeo must Die),<br />
CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
Colin Foo (Josie and the Pussycats,<br />
Saving Silverman) and from the award<br />
winning director Mina Shum.<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
In hopes of finding fortune and romance<br />
for her mother, Mindy’s sets on a<br />
magical adventure and learns the<br />
importance of keeping faith in this<br />
sometimes difficult world.<br />
SAMHAIN<br />
Horror (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Producer: Warehouse <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Cast: Richard Greico (Wounded,<br />
Manhattan Midnight), Jenna Jameson<br />
(Porn n’ Chicken, Playboy’s Sizzling Sex<br />
Stars), Chasey Lain (Playboy Sizzling<br />
Sex Stars), Ginger Lynn Allen (Sunset<br />
Stripped, <strong>The</strong> A-List) and Bobbie<br />
Phillips (Weed Man, Showgirls, “Murder<br />
One”)<br />
Delivery Status: In Post Production<br />
A disfigured mutant who comes from a<br />
long line of incestuous cannibals hunts a<br />
group of University students on a class<br />
trip.<br />
HEMINGWAY VS. CALLAGHAN<br />
Mini-series (2 x 90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Producer: Shaftesbury Productions<br />
Cast: Vincent Walsh (Random Passage)<br />
Robin Dunne (American Psycho 2)<br />
Gordon Pinsent (Shipping News) Maury<br />
Chaykin (Nero Wolfe) and Ada Turturro<br />
(<strong>The</strong> Sopranos)<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Based on “That Summer in Paris” this<br />
exciting new mini-series explores the<br />
early career of Ernest Hemingway from<br />
his first job as a writer in the backwater<br />
of Toronto to his now famous life in<br />
Paris in the early 30s.<br />
HAVE MERCY<br />
Feature Drama (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Producer: Have Mercy Pictues<br />
Cast: Alisa Wiegers (<strong>The</strong> Chippendalles<br />
Murder) Clark Johnson (Love Come<br />
Down) and Jacki Burroughs (Willard)<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Have Mercy is the story of one woman’s<br />
journey out of madness and into<br />
craziness and a group of women who<br />
journey in search of beauty and<br />
wonderment in a world devoid of it.<br />
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT - CINEMAVAULT RELEASING INC.<br />
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CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
INERTIA<br />
Feature (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Producer: Indian Snack Box<br />
Cast: Jonas Chernick (“<strong>The</strong> Eleventh<br />
Hour”, <strong>The</strong> Pentagon Papers) and Sarah<br />
Constable (<strong>The</strong> many Trials of Jane Doe.<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
<strong>The</strong> lives of four characters are<br />
sidetracked by desire deception and<br />
adultery.<br />
ODYSSEY<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
LTD<br />
Odyssey Entertainment Ltd, 1 Berkeley<br />
Street, London, W1J 8 DJ UK. Tel:<br />
44.(0).207.016.8847. Fax:<br />
44.(0).207.016.9134. sales@odysseyentertainment.co.uk<br />
Company Type: Sales Agent, Finance<br />
At Cannes: Ralph Kamp (Chairman and<br />
CEO), Louise Goodsill (President and<br />
COO), Amanda Evans (Vice President<br />
Worldwide TV Sales), Matthew Hampton<br />
(Vice President Marketing), Rachel<br />
Woodeson (Vice President Legal &<br />
<strong>Business</strong> Affairs), Pascal Degove (Sales<br />
Executive); Acquisition Executive: Sarah<br />
Arnott (Vice President Acquisitions)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Vieux Port - Bay View Motor<br />
Yacht, Tel: 33.(0)4.92.98.71.72, Fax:<br />
33.(0)4.92.98.71.72<br />
VEGGIETALES<br />
Kids Animation (22 x 30 minutes. Kids<br />
feature 1 x 82 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 1993-2004, Country<br />
of Origin: USA<br />
One of the most popular kids video<br />
series, VeggieTales has sold over 30<br />
million units in the US alone. 22<br />
hilarious episodes reinforce timeless<br />
values and feature top-quality computer<br />
animation.<br />
BOMBO SPORTS<br />
Documentary features<br />
Language: English<br />
Delivery Status: 5 completed, 1 in<br />
production.<br />
Year of Production: Country of Origin:<br />
USA<br />
Six gripping behind-the-scenes<br />
documentaries take a uniquely human<br />
look at the top teams and athletes in the<br />
differing worlds of Soccer, NASCAR,<br />
Rugby and Rodeo.<br />
THE CROOKED MAN<br />
Crime Thriller (1 x 90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: David Drury<br />
Producer: Elli Jason Co-production<br />
partners:<br />
Cast: Ross Kemp, Liam Cunningham,<br />
Natasha Little<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: UK<br />
A pulsating action thriller that takes us<br />
into a world of violence, betrayal,<br />
kidnap, blackmail and surprisingly...love.<br />
A television film premiere for the ITV<br />
Network in the UK.<br />
DEATHWATCH<br />
Horror (92 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Michael J Bassett<br />
Producer: Mike Downey, Sam Taylor,<br />
Frank Hubner Co-production partners:<br />
Cast: Jamie Bell, Hugo Speer, Andy<br />
Serkis<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: UK / Germany<br />
In the chaos of WW1, a small company<br />
of British soldiers seek refuge in a<br />
complex network of haunted trenches.<br />
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA<br />
Musical Feature <strong>Film</strong><br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Joel Schumacher<br />
Producer: Andrew Lloyd Webber<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-production<br />
Year of Production: 2003/04, Country of<br />
THE VIRGIN OF LIVERPOOL - SENATOR INNTERNATIONAL<br />
Origin: UK<br />
<strong>The</strong> world’s biggest musical tells the<br />
classic and highly emotive story of the<br />
love triangle between a beautiful young<br />
opera singer, her childhood sweetheart<br />
and a tormented, disfigured musical<br />
genius.<br />
OPEN SESAME CO.,<br />
LTD.<br />
Open Sesame Co., Ltd., 1-14-6 Ginza,<br />
Chuo-ku, To 104-0061 Japan. Tel:<br />
81.3.5159.0871. Fax: 81.3.3561.6262.<br />
At Cannes: Ritsuko Abe (President),<br />
Kaho Nakane (Executive Vice President)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Apt. Roussel, Residence Victoria<br />
ANTENNA<br />
Drama (117 minutes)<br />
Language: Japanese w/English Subtitles<br />
Director: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri<br />
Producer: Hiroko Matsuda<br />
Key Cast: Ryo Kase, Akemi Kobayashi<br />
Delivery Status: Post Production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Japan<br />
A heart-wrenching drama of a young<br />
man and his family who gets over the<br />
tragic death of his little sister.<br />
HOTEL HIBISCUS<br />
Drama (92 minutes)<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Japan<br />
Language: Japanese w/English subtitles<br />
Director: Yuji Nakae<br />
Producer: Hotel Hibiscus Parth ners<br />
Key Cast: Honami Kurashita, Kimiko Yo<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
A coming-of-age story of a cheeky little<br />
girl who goes into the adventure to<br />
search the mythtic elfin in the exotic,<br />
southern lsland of Japan.<br />
A LAUGHING FROG<br />
Erotic Comedy (96 minutes)<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: Japan<br />
Director: Japanese w/English subtitles<br />
Language: Hideyuki Hirayama<br />
Producer: A Laughing Frog Partners<br />
Key Cast: Kyozo Nagatsuka, Nene<br />
Otsuka<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Once a high profile banker, now a<br />
fugitive hides himself in a storage room<br />
and peeps into love affair of his wife<br />
with her new boyfriend.<br />
DRIVE<br />
Action Comedy (102 minutes)<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: Japan<br />
Language: Japanese w/English subtitles<br />
Director: SABU<br />
Producer: Drive <strong>Film</strong> Partners<br />
Key Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi, Kou<br />
Shibasaki, Ren Osugi<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
About a hiper-square jitterbug<br />
businessman who is happened to travel<br />
with bank robbers on the run.<br />
GOMEN<br />
Drama (103 minutes)<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Japan<br />
Language: Japanese w/English subtitles<br />
Director: Shin Togashi<br />
Producer: GOMEN <strong>Film</strong> Partners<br />
L.A. <strong>Of</strong>fice Phone<br />
(323) 935-8228<br />
Key Cast: Masahiro Hisano, Yukika<br />
Sakuratani<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
A coming-of-age story about a boy in<br />
sixth grader who falls in love with a girl<br />
in junior high school, who is “too old”<br />
for him.<br />
OVERSEAS<br />
FILMGROUP/ FIRST<br />
LOOK MEDIA<br />
Overseas <strong>Film</strong>group/ First Look Media,<br />
8000 Sunset Blvd., East Penthouse, Los<br />
Angeles, CA 90046 USA. Tel:<br />
323.337.1000. fax: 323.337.1078.<br />
International Sales office: Via E. Jenner,<br />
45 00151 Rome, Italy. Tel/Fax:<br />
39.06.5327.5511.<br />
info@firstlookmedia.com.<br />
www.firstlookmedia.com<br />
At Cannes: Chris Cooney (CEO, Co-<br />
Chairman, First Look Media), Robbie<br />
Little (President, Co-Chairman, First<br />
Look Media), William Lischak (COO,<br />
CFO, First Look Media), MJ Peckos<br />
(President, First Look Pictures), Liz<br />
Mackiewicz (Sr. VP, Worldwide Sales &<br />
Distrib, Overseas <strong>Film</strong>group), Brian<br />
Oshea (Sr. VP, Worldwide Sales &<br />
Distrib, Overseas <strong>Film</strong>group), Gina<br />
Nahum (VP, International Sales (Rome),<br />
Overseas <strong>Film</strong>group), Steven Demille<br />
(Sr. VP, marketing, First Look Home<br />
Entertainment), Jd Beaufils (Director,<br />
Sales & Library Licensing, Overseas<br />
<strong>Film</strong>group), Giovanna Trischitta<br />
(Executive Coordinator), Ellen Little<br />
(President, <strong>The</strong> Little <strong>Film</strong> Company)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Majestic Hotel, Suite# 753, Tel:<br />
04.97.06.84.76. Fax: 04.97.06.84.78<br />
THE BOYS FROM COUNTY CLARE<br />
Comedy<br />
Director: John Irvin<br />
Producer: Evzen Kolar, Wolfgang<br />
Esenwein, Ellen Little<br />
Principal Cast: Colm Meaney, Bernard<br />
Hill, Andrea Corr, Philip Barantini,<br />
Charlotte Bradley, Shaun Evans, Patrick<br />
Bergin<br />
This heartwarming comedy centers<br />
around two brothers, John Joe and<br />
Jimmy, who haven’t seen each other in<br />
twenty years.<br />
INTO THE WILDERNESS<br />
Romantic Adventure<br />
Director: Charles Martin Smith<br />
Producer: William Vince, Rob Merilees<br />
Principal Cast: Barry Pepper, Annabella<br />
Piugattuk, James Cromwell<br />
Stranded by a plane crash a thousand<br />
miles from civilization, pilot Charlie<br />
Lavery sets out across the endless tundra<br />
for the nearest outpost.<br />
LUTHER<br />
Epic Drama<br />
Director: Eric Till<br />
Producer: Brigitte Rochow, Christian P.<br />
Stehr, Alexander Thies<br />
Principal Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Alfred<br />
Molina, Clair Cox, Sir Peter Ustinov,<br />
Bruno Ganz<br />
Delivery Status: Screening, INVITE<br />
ONLY<br />
Overcoming his own inner demons,<br />
Martin Luther, a German monk,<br />
challenges the political and religious<br />
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authorities of his time and starts a<br />
revolution of the mind and spirit, which<br />
continues today the world over.<br />
THE TESSERACT<br />
Suspense thriller<br />
Director: Oxide Pang<br />
Producer: Takashi Kusube, Naoki Kai,<br />
So-Jun Bee, Jun Hara, Koichi Shibuya<br />
Principal Cast: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers,<br />
Saskia Reeves<br />
Delivery Status: Screening<br />
In the belly of Bangkok’s underworld,<br />
four strangers lives are about to<br />
change...forever.<br />
LETHAL DOSE (LD50)<br />
Psychological Horror<br />
Director: Simon de Selva<br />
Producer: Alistair Maclean-Clark, Basil<br />
Stephens<br />
Principal Cast: Katharine Towne,<br />
Melanie Brown, Tom Hardy<br />
Delivery Status: Screening<br />
A group of young activists get more than<br />
they bargained for when they break into<br />
an animal research lab, only to find that<br />
they have become the subjects of a grisly<br />
experiment.<br />
P<br />
PARAGON FILM<br />
GROUP<br />
Paragon <strong>Film</strong> Group, 209 East Alameda<br />
Avenue, Burbank, CA 91502 USA. Tel:<br />
818.845.7148.<br />
www.paragonfilmgroup.com,<br />
info@paragonfilmgroup.com<br />
At Cannes: Scott Bedno (Vice President,<br />
Sales & Acquisitions), Matthew<br />
McCombs (President)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera C9, Fax: 818.566.6639<br />
HELLBORN<br />
Horror (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Philip Jones<br />
Producer: Philip Jones, Matthew<br />
McCombs<br />
Key Cast: Bruce Payne, Tiny Lister Jr.,<br />
Tracy Scoggins<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
A young doctor uncovers a demonic cult<br />
and must escape before becoming the<br />
next victim of “<strong>The</strong> Harvester”<br />
BACKFLASH<br />
Thriller (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Philip Jones<br />
Producer: Philip Jones, Matthew<br />
McCombsh<br />
Key Cast: Robert Patrick, Jennifer<br />
Esposito, Melissa Joan Hart, Colm<br />
Meaney<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
<strong>The</strong>re’s nothing real in this...but the<br />
money.<br />
<strong>The</strong> usual<br />
Location for the<br />
23 RD year<br />
<strong>The</strong> Carlton Hotel<br />
Room 149<br />
PARK<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
LTD<br />
Park Entertainment Ltd, 4th Floor, 50-51<br />
Conduit Street, London W1S 2YT UK.<br />
Tel: 44(0).20.7434.4176. Fax:<br />
44.(0).20.7434.4179.<br />
sales@parkentertainment.com.<br />
www.parkentertainment.com<br />
Company Type: Sales agent/distributor<br />
At Cannes: Jim Howell (CEO), Simon<br />
Barnes (Head <strong>Of</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Sales), Linda<br />
Vezzoli (Marketing and Sales Executive)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Room 143 Carlton<br />
Intercontinental, 58 La Croisette, Tel:<br />
33.(0).4.93.06.41.43. Fax:<br />
33.(0).4.93.06.40.25 (Room 143)<br />
THE GREAT GOOSE CAPER<br />
Family Comedy (85 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Nicholas Kendall<br />
Producer: Wendy Hill-Tout, Alex Brown<br />
Cast: Chevy Chase, Joan Plowright,<br />
James Purefoy, Kari Matchett, Max<br />
Morrow<br />
Delivery Status: post production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Canada/UK<br />
Budget: $6.5 million<br />
A talking Goose brings the sparkle back<br />
to a little boy’s life but it’s a race against<br />
time to save the bird from the Christmas<br />
cooking pot.<br />
THE PURIFIERS<br />
Martial Arts<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Richard Jobson<br />
Producer: Richard Jobson, Chris Atkins<br />
Cast: Kevin McKidd, Troy Titus-Adams<br />
Delivery Status: in production<br />
Country of Origin: UK<br />
Budget: $1.8 million<br />
A modern day gang movie set against a<br />
martial arts backdrop in a Britain of the<br />
near future.<br />
ALIEN SOUP<br />
Family Comedy<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Stephen Cookson<br />
Producer: Stephen Cookson, David Ball<br />
Delivery Status: pre-production<br />
Country of Origin: UK<br />
Budget: $9 million<br />
Strange aliens arrive on earth to taste the<br />
best tomato soup in the galaxy.<br />
NINE DEAD GAY GUYS<br />
Comedy (83 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Lab Ky Mo<br />
Producer: Lamia Nayeb St-Hilaire<br />
Cast: Steven Berkoff, Michael Praed, Vas<br />
Blackwood<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: UK<br />
Two ordinary Irish lads’ outrageous<br />
journey through London’s underground<br />
gay scene.<br />
TWO MEN WENT TO WAR<br />
Comedy Drama (108 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: John Henderson<br />
Producer: Ira Trattner, Pat Harding<br />
Cast: Kenneth Cranham, Leo Bill, Derek<br />
Jacobi<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production:2001, Country of<br />
Origin: UK<br />
A comedy drama based on the true story<br />
of two British army dentists who, in<br />
1942, decide to take the war into their<br />
own hands and invade France.<br />
CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
PATHE<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
Pathe International, 10, rue Lincoln,<br />
75008 Paris, France. Tel:<br />
331.40.76.94.38. Fax: 331.40.76.91.23.<br />
sales@patheinternational.fr.<br />
www.patheinternational.fr<br />
Company Type: Sales agent<br />
At Cannes: Olivier GRANIER (CEO)<br />
Pascal DIOT (Director of sales) Christine<br />
HAYET (Director of sales); Acquisition<br />
Executive: Olivier GRANIER (CEO)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: 331.40.76.94.38, Tel:<br />
334.92.99.33.03, Fax: 334.92.99.33.06<br />
LE BISON<br />
Comedy (96 min)<br />
Language: french<br />
Director: Isabelle NANTY<br />
Producer: Claude BERRI Co-production<br />
partners:<br />
Cast: Isabelle NANTY, Edouard BAER,<br />
Pierre François MARTIN LAVAL<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: France<br />
LA BEUZE<br />
(95 min)<br />
Language: french<br />
Director: Francois DESAGNAT &<br />
Thomas SORRIAUX<br />
Producer: Abel NAHMIAS<br />
Cast: Michael YOUN, Vincent<br />
DESAGNAT<br />
Delivery Status: (completed)<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: France<br />
Alphonse Brown, illegitimate son of<br />
James Brown, has been friends with<br />
Scotch since childhood. <strong>The</strong>y live in Le<br />
Havre, making a living from seedy scams<br />
and deals until the day Alphonse gets<br />
himself arrested.<br />
PAS SI GRAVE<br />
Romantic Comedy (98 min)<br />
Language: french<br />
Director: Bernard RAPP<br />
Producer: Didier CRESTE Coproduction<br />
partners:<br />
Cast: Sami BOUAJILA, Romain DURIS,<br />
Jean Michel PORTAL<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: France<br />
Three feuding foster brothers, Leo, Max<br />
and Charlie, are suddenly sent from<br />
foggy Liège in Belgium to sunny<br />
Valencia in southern Spain on a mission<br />
to fulfill the dying wish of their foster<br />
father.<br />
MALEFIQUE<br />
Horror (90 min)<br />
Language: french<br />
Director: Eric VALETTE<br />
Producer: Marc Missonnier & Olivier<br />
DELBOSC Co-production partners:<br />
Cast: Gérald LAROCHE, Philippe<br />
LAUDENBACH, Clovis CORNILLAC,<br />
Dimitri RATAUD<br />
Delivery Status: (pre, post, in production<br />
or completed)<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: France<br />
A prison cell. Four prisoners. Carrère,<br />
young company director accused of<br />
fraud. Marcus, 35 year-old transsexual in<br />
the process of transformation. Daisy, 20<br />
year-old, mentally retarded. Lassalle, 60<br />
year-old intellectual who murdered his<br />
wife.<br />
JE RESTE<br />
Comedy<br />
Language: french<br />
Director: Diane KURYS<br />
Producer: Alain TERZIAN Coproduction<br />
partners:<br />
Cast: Sophie MARCEAU, Vincent<br />
PEREZ, Charles BERLING<br />
Delivery Status: post production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: France<br />
Marie-Dominique and Bertrand form a<br />
close-knit couple, but only on the<br />
surface.<br />
PATHÉ<br />
INTERNATIONAL-UK<br />
Pathé International-UK, London office:<br />
Kent House, Market Place, London W1W<br />
8AR UK. Tel: 44.207.462.4427. Fax:<br />
44.20.7436.7891. e:<br />
international.sales@pathe-uk.com. Web:<br />
http://www.pathe.co.uk/<br />
At Cannes: Alison Thompson (ead of<br />
Sales), Moyra Lock (Marketing<br />
Manager), Stephen Murphy (<strong>Business</strong><br />
Affairs Manager), Mike Runagall<br />
(International Sales Co-ordinator)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: c/o <strong>The</strong> Riviera, Stand N7, Tel:<br />
33(0).4.92.99.33.03. Fax:<br />
33(0).4.92.99.33.06<br />
BODYSONG<br />
Feature Documentary (83 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Simon Pummell<br />
Producer: Janine Marmot (I Could Read<br />
the Sky, Institute Benjamenta)<br />
Production Company: Hot Property<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening<br />
Year Produced: 2002, Production<br />
Country: UK<br />
<strong>The</strong> epic story of love, sex, violence,<br />
death and dreams. <strong>The</strong> story of our lives,<br />
told through moving images from around<br />
the world.<br />
SAVE THE GREEN PLANET<br />
CJ ENTERTAINMENT<br />
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BROKEN WINGS (K’NAFAYIM<br />
SHVUROT)<br />
Drama (87 minutes)<br />
Language: Hebrew (English-subtitled)<br />
Director: Nir Bergman<br />
Producer: Assaf Amir<br />
Production Company: Norma<br />
Productions<br />
Cast: Orly Zilberschatz Banai, Maya<br />
Maron, Nitai Gvirtz<br />
Year Produced: 2002, Production<br />
Country: Israel<br />
An uplifting and optimistic tale,<br />
BROKEN WINGS portrays a family,<br />
which despite a series of crises, manages<br />
to come back from the brink of disaster.<br />
THE PRINCIPLES OF LUST<br />
Drama (108 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Penny Woolcock (<strong>The</strong> Death of<br />
Klinghoffer, Tina Goes Shopping)<br />
Producer: Madonna Baptiste<br />
Production Company: Blast! <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Cast: Alec Newman (Long Time Dead;<br />
Greenwich Mean Time), Marc Warren<br />
(Men Only; Dad Savage; Band of<br />
Brothers), Sienna Guillory (Late Night<br />
Shopping; Take a Girl Like You)<br />
Status Completed/Screening<br />
Year Produced: 2002, Production<br />
Country: UK<br />
Paul is suffering from writer’s block and<br />
a growing languidness, until he meets<br />
two people: Billy, a charismatic and<br />
dangerous risk-taker who exposes Paul to<br />
the darker side of life; and Juliette with<br />
whom he falls passionately in love.<br />
WONDROUS OBLIVION<br />
Drama (104 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Paul Morrison (Oscar<br />
nominated for Solomon and Gaenor)<br />
Producer: Jonny Persey<br />
Co-Producer: Lesley Stewart (<strong>The</strong> Full<br />
Monty, Trainspotting)<br />
Executive Producer: Michael Kuhn<br />
Production Company: APT <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Cast: Delroy Lindo (Malcolm X, Get<br />
Shorty, <strong>The</strong> Cider House Rules), Emily<br />
Woof (Pandemonium, <strong>The</strong> Full Monty,<br />
This Year’s Love), Stanley Townsend (In<br />
the Name of the Father, <strong>The</strong> Snapper,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Miracle), Sam Smith (Oliver Twist -<br />
TV Mini Series)Year Produced: 2003,<br />
Status Screening/World Premiere<br />
Production Country: UK<br />
PEACHES<br />
CINEMAVAULT RELEASING INC.<br />
Eleven year-old David Wiseman is mad<br />
about cricket but no good at it. He has all<br />
the kit but none of the skill, and he’s a<br />
laughing stock at school.<br />
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING<br />
Romantic Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Peter Webber<br />
Producer: Andy Paterson, Anand Tucker<br />
Production Company: Archer Street<br />
Cast: Colin Firth (Bridget Jones’ Diary,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Importance of Being Earnest),<br />
Scarlett Johansson (Eight Legged Freaks,<br />
Ghost World, <strong>The</strong> Man Who Wasn’t<br />
<strong>The</strong>re), Tom Wilkinson (In the Bedroom,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Importance of Being Earnest, <strong>The</strong><br />
Full Monty)<br />
Status In Post-Production<br />
Year Produced: 2003, Production<br />
Country: UK<br />
Set in 17th century Holland, GIRL<br />
WITH A PEARL EARRING tells the<br />
imagined and highly seductive story<br />
behind one of Vermeer’s greatest and<br />
most enigmatic paintings.<br />
PFG<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
PFG Entertainment, Inc., 429 Santa<br />
Monica Boulevard, Suite 600, Santa<br />
Monica, California 90401 USA. Tel:<br />
310.393.5788. Fax: 310.393.0882.<br />
www.pfgentertainment.com.<br />
mail@pfgentertainment.com<br />
At Cannes: Ted Rosenblatt, Daniel Gerst<br />
and Tamar Chafets<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Carlton Inter Continental Hotel,<br />
Suite 201, Tel: 33.493.064.201. Fax:<br />
33.493.066.901.<br />
A SLIPPING-DOWN LIFE<br />
Romantic Drama<br />
Director: Guy Pearce (Memento, <strong>The</strong><br />
Count of Monte Cristo, Time Machine),<br />
Lili Taylor (Live From Bagdad, High<br />
Fidelity, <strong>The</strong> Haunting),<br />
Producer: Richard Raddon<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Guy Pearce gives another amazing<br />
performance, here as a seductive<br />
musician whose newfound success<br />
becomes dependent on the obsessive<br />
infatuation of a devoted fan (Lili Taylor).<br />
WOOLY BOYS<br />
Adventure Comedy<br />
Director: Leszek Burzynski<br />
Producers: Robert Schwartz<br />
Principle Cast: Peter Fonda (Ulee’s Gold)<br />
,Kris Kristofferson (Blade II, Planet <strong>Of</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> Apes), Keith Carradine (Wild Bill),<br />
Joseph Mazzello (Jurassic Park I & II)<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
It’s family friendly fun when a city-bred<br />
teenager gets caught up in a series of<br />
misadventures after being “kidnapped”<br />
by his sheep rancher grandfather.<br />
SHOOTERS<br />
Crime Drama<br />
Director: Colin Teague, Glenn Durfort<br />
Producers: Margery Bone<br />
Principle Cast: Adrian Dunbar (<strong>The</strong><br />
General, <strong>The</strong> Crying Game), Andrew<br />
Howard (Band of Brothers), Louis<br />
Dempsey (Stones In <strong>The</strong>ir Pockets),<br />
Melanie Lynskey (Heavenly Creatures,<br />
Coyote Ugly).<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: UK<br />
This Universal Pictures UK release<br />
depicts a stylized London underworld<br />
where deception and intimidation are<br />
24/7 and betrayal is the only way out.<br />
SEVEN GIRLFRIENDS<br />
Romantic Comedy<br />
Director: Paul Lazarus<br />
Producers: Paul Lazarus, J. Todd Harris,<br />
Barry Opper<br />
Principle Cast: Tim Daly (TV’s <strong>The</strong><br />
Fugitive, Object of My Affection), Mimi<br />
Rogers, Olivia D’Abo, Jami Gertz,<br />
Elizabeth Pena<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
It’s hard to be “Mr. Right”; just ask his<br />
seven girlfriends!<br />
PICTURE THIS!<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Picture This! Entertainment, 7471<br />
Melrose Avenue, Suite 7, Los Angeles,<br />
CA 90046 USA. Tel: 323.852.1398. Fax:<br />
323.658.7265. picturethisvideo@aol.com,<br />
www.picturethisent.com<br />
Company Type: Sales Agent, Distributor<br />
At Cannes: Acquisition Executive:<br />
Douglas Witkins (President), Koing<br />
Kuoch (Vice-President)<br />
EBAN AND CHARLEY<br />
Drama (89 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: James Bolton<br />
Producer: Chris Monlux<br />
Cast: Giovani Andrade, Brent Fellows<br />
Delivery Status Complete<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Budget: 1 Million<br />
When a fifteen year old boy’s friendship<br />
with a young school teacher begins to<br />
deepen, controversy erupts.<br />
PICTURES IN<br />
PARADISE<br />
Pictures In Paradise, Ocean Studios, 1<br />
John Lund Drive, Hope Harbour 4212,<br />
Australia. Tel: 61.7.55108466. Fax:<br />
61.7.55108522.<br />
www.picturesinparadise.com.au<br />
Company Type: producer, distributor<br />
At Cannes: Chris Brown (Producer),<br />
Defrim Isai (Co-producer <strong>Business</strong><br />
Affairs)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: c/- Australian <strong>Film</strong> Commission,<br />
Level 8, 52 La Croisette, Tel:<br />
33.4.93998507. Fax: 33.4.93998504<br />
BLURRED<br />
Teen Comedy (92 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Evan Clarry<br />
Producer: Chris Brown, Chris Fitchett<br />
Co-production partners: Claymoss,<br />
Portman <strong>Film</strong>s, Becker Ent, FFC, PFTC.<br />
Cast: Mathew Newton (Looking for<br />
Alibrandi), Kristian Schmid<br />
(Neighbours), Jessica Gower (Secret Life<br />
of Us), Petra Yared (MDA)<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Australia<br />
School’s Out...and it’s only 200 miles to<br />
the party of a lifetime! Every year more<br />
than 70,000 Australian school leavers<br />
head for the beaches of Australia’s Gold<br />
Coast to celebrate with a wild mixture of<br />
sun, surf and sex.<br />
UNDER THE RADAR<br />
Comedy Thriller (95 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Evan Clarry<br />
Producer: Chris Brown, Chris Fitchett<br />
Co-production partners: Macquarie <strong>Film</strong><br />
Investments, Nine <strong>Film</strong>s, Hoyts,<br />
FFC, PFTC.<br />
Cast: Clayton Watson (Matrix Reloaded),<br />
Nathan Phillips (Australian<br />
Rules), Chloe Maxwell, Steady Eddy.<br />
Delivery Status: post<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Australia<br />
Four twenty-somethings travel to the<br />
coast together, each with their own<br />
agenda. Chaos ensues as they unwittingly<br />
find themselves caught up in the midst of<br />
a deadly crossfire between two rival<br />
gangs.<br />
THE LOCALS<br />
Horror (95 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Greg Page<br />
Producer: Steve Sachs<br />
Co-production partners: New Zealand<br />
<strong>Film</strong> Commission<br />
Cast: John Barker (Mercy Peak), Dwayne<br />
Cameron (<strong>The</strong> Tribe, Street Legal), Kate<br />
Elliott (Toy Love, Street Legal), Aidee<br />
Walker<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: New Zealand<br />
Two best friends Grant and Paul hit the<br />
road for a weekend of surfing, booze and<br />
hopefully . . . girls.<br />
LAB RATS<br />
Romantic Comedy (95 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Producer: Chris Brown, Chris Fitchett<br />
Country of Origin: Australia<br />
Five Backpackers find themselves down<br />
and out in London. Desperate for money<br />
they’ll do anything including becoming<br />
guinea pigs at a drug research facility.<br />
CLASS<br />
Black Comedy Thriller (95 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: John Ruane (Death in<br />
Brunswick, That Eye <strong>The</strong> Sky)<br />
Producer: Chris Brown, Chris Fitchett<br />
Country of Origin: Australia<br />
When American student Julian Mitchell<br />
enrolls at the exclusive Darworth<br />
Grammar he doesn’t expect to be<br />
persecuted by the elitist teacher nicknamed<br />
‘Spider’.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>Of</strong> <strong>Film</strong> Location<br />
for the 23 RD year<br />
<strong>The</strong> Carlton Hotel<br />
Room 149<br />
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PM<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
PM Entertainment, Corporate <strong>Of</strong>fice:<br />
11835 West Olympic Blvd., Suite #550,<br />
Los Angeles, CA 90064 USA. Tel:<br />
310.444.4113. Fax: 310.444.4102.<br />
At Cannes: Lenny Shapiro, Dan March<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera, booth Tel (914), Tel:<br />
06.73.68.09.41<br />
FIRETRAP<br />
Action / Adventure<br />
Director: Harris Done<br />
Producers: Vince Ravine, John Kelly<br />
Cast: Dean Cain, Richard Tyson, Mel<br />
Harris<br />
Status: Completed<br />
When the robbery of a classified<br />
computer chip goes awry, the burglar<br />
must elude the police, secret agents and a<br />
deadly fire.<br />
LAYOVER<br />
Thriller<br />
Director: Alan McElrory<br />
Producers: Vince Ravine, John Kelly<br />
Cast: David Hasselhoff, Gregg Henry,<br />
Yvonne Scio<br />
Status: Completed<br />
A steamy airport affair becomes one<br />
man’s nightmare, as the woman he made<br />
love to turns out to be the wife of a<br />
dangerous jewelry dealer.<br />
EPICENTER<br />
Action / Adventure<br />
Director: Richard Pepin<br />
Producer: Michael Derbas<br />
Cast: Traci Elizabeth Lords, Gary<br />
Daniels, Jeff Fahey<br />
Status: Completed<br />
A female cop must escort a notorious<br />
criminal across Los Angeles to jail<br />
during an earthquake crisis.<br />
PORTMAN FILM<br />
Portman <strong>Film</strong>, 21-25 St Anne’s Court,<br />
London, W1F OBJ UK. Tel:<br />
44.20.7494.8024. Fax: 44.20.7494.8046.<br />
sales@portmanfilm.com.<br />
www.portmanfilm.com<br />
Company Type: Sales agent<br />
At Cannes: Tristan Whalley, Tim Buxton,<br />
Jane Baker, Jenifer Landor, Mia Walker,<br />
Louise Matthews<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Grand Hotel Residences,<br />
Entrance Flamant, 6th Floor, Bell 60CH,<br />
Tel: 04.93.99.81.41. Fax: 04.93.99.81.60<br />
INTERMISSION<br />
Black Comedy (100 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: John Crowley<br />
Producer: Stephen Woolley, Neil Jordan,<br />
Alan Moloney<br />
Cast: Colin Farrell, Kelly Macdonald,<br />
Shirley Henderson<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Republic of Ireland/ United<br />
Kingdom<br />
A couple break up briefly (the<br />
“intermission” of the title), sending<br />
ripples through the lives of everyone<br />
around them.<br />
THE ACTORS<br />
Comedy (96 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Conor McPherson<br />
Producer: Stephen Woolley, Neil Jordan,<br />
Redmond Morris<br />
Cast: Michael Caine, Dylan Moran,<br />
Miranda Richardson<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production:2002, Country of<br />
Origin: United Kingdom<br />
Two struggling, eccentric actors Tom<br />
(Dylan Moran) and O’Malley (Michael<br />
Caine) prove the little known adage that<br />
bad actors make great crooks.<br />
A.K.A<br />
Drama (118 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Duncan Roy<br />
Producer: Richard West<br />
Cast: Matthew Leitch, Lindsey Coulson,<br />
Diana Quick<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production:2002, Country of<br />
Origin: United Kingdom<br />
Audaciously split into three simultaneous<br />
frames, AKA tells the story of Dean,<br />
young, disaffected and trapped. With<br />
cunning and deceit, he adopts a fantasy<br />
life among the upper echelons of British<br />
and European society.<br />
BLURRED<br />
Comedy/ Road Movie (92 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Evan Clarry<br />
Producer: Chris Brown, Chris Fitchett<br />
Cast: Matthew Newton, Jess Gower,<br />
Kristian Schmid<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Australia<br />
Every year more than 70,000 school<br />
leavers head for the sun-drenched<br />
beaches of the Gold Coast to celebrate<br />
their release from school.<br />
ANITA & ME<br />
Comedy (92 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Metin Huseyin<br />
Producer: Paul Raphael<br />
Cast: Kathy Burke, Lynn Redgrave,<br />
Mark Williams<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: United Kingdom<br />
Meena (Chandeep Uppal) is 12 years old<br />
and lives in the village of Tollington,<br />
“the jewel of the Black Country” - in<br />
1972. She is the daughter of Indian<br />
parents who have come to England to<br />
give her a better life.<br />
PROMARK<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
GROUP<br />
Promark Entertainment Group, 3599<br />
Cahuenga Blvd. West, Los Angeles, CA<br />
90068 USA. Tel: 323.878.0404. Fax:<br />
323.878.0486. sales@promarkgroup.com<br />
Website:<br />
At Cannes: Mr. Jonathan Kramer<br />
(President), Mr. Eric Bernstein (Vice<br />
President of International Sales), Ms.<br />
Annouchka Lesoeur (Vice President<br />
International Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera Both M9/N10<br />
I WITNESS<br />
Action-Adventure<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Rowdy Herrington<br />
Producer: David Bixler, Shelly Strong<br />
Cast: Jeff Daniels, James Spader, Portia<br />
de Rossi<br />
Delivery Status: Completed (96:00)<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
James Rhodes (Jeff Daniels) knows that<br />
there is a corporate cover up to the<br />
bodies that were found in Tijuana.<br />
GRAVELAND<br />
Action-Adventure<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Robert Stadd<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-production<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
A spaceship headed by ambitious<br />
Captain Kyle Baskin of XYCOR<br />
Corporation is en route to Mars to<br />
investigate a mysterious energy source<br />
which could save the earth.<br />
GHOST MONKEY<br />
Action-Adventure<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Paul Andersen<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-production<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
A simian-like serial killer moves in the<br />
shadows and strikes with vicious force,<br />
ripping out the hearts of its victims.<br />
BACKTRACK<br />
Action-Adventure<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Tim Bogart<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-production<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
When a mysterious man with no identity<br />
and no memory of his past saves the life<br />
of a homeless woman, the FBI must<br />
track him down before he realizes who<br />
he truly is.<br />
R<br />
RAI TRADE<br />
Rai Trade (Sales), Via Umberto Novaro<br />
18, 00195 Rome, Italy. Tel: 39.06.374<br />
98469. Fax: 39.06. 37516222.<br />
info@raitrade.it, www.raitrade.it<br />
At Cannes: Roberto Di Russo (President<br />
and Ceo), Andrea Portante (Sales and<br />
Marketing Director), Sesto Cifola (Head<br />
of Cinema and Fiction International<br />
Sales), Giulia Filippelli (Cinema and<br />
Fiction International Sales Executive),<br />
Susanna Gianandrea (Promotion,<br />
Corporate Image and International<br />
Festivals)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: M 10- Riviera Palais Des Festival<br />
IL CUORE ALTROVE (A HEART<br />
ELSEWHERE)<br />
(103 min)<br />
Language: Original version with English<br />
subtitles<br />
Director: Pupi Avati<br />
Production: Rai Cinema, Antonio Avati<br />
for Duea <strong>Film</strong><br />
Cast: Neri Marcorè, Giancarlo Giannini,<br />
Vanessa Incontrada, Sandra Milo, Guilio<br />
Bosetti, Nino D?Angelo.<br />
<strong>The</strong> film is set in the 1920s. Nello , a shy<br />
academic type lives with his family in<br />
Rome where his father is tailor to the<br />
Pope.<br />
PERLASCA (THE COURAGE OF A<br />
JUST MAN)<br />
(131 min)<br />
Language: Original version with English<br />
subtitles<br />
Director: Alberto Negrin<br />
Co-production with Rai Fiction, Palomar<br />
- Endemol, Focus <strong>Film</strong>- Budapest,<br />
France 2/Hamster Productions- Paris,<br />
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SVT- Sveriges Television- Stockholm<br />
Cast: Luca Zingaretti, Amanda Sandrelli,<br />
Mathilda May<br />
Set in Budapest towards the end of the<br />
Second World War, this is based on the<br />
true story of Giorgio Perlasca, the Italian<br />
“Schindler” who risked everything to<br />
save thousands of Jews from being<br />
killed.<br />
A SECOND CHANCE<br />
(119 min)<br />
Language: Original version with English<br />
subtitles<br />
Director: Pasquale Squitieri<br />
Production: Rai Cinema, Cosmopoli<br />
Corporation<br />
Cast: Giorgio Albertazzi,<br />
Naples is a city of a thousand intrigues<br />
and contrasts. De Gregorio is a cynical,<br />
disillusioned and eccentric lawyer who<br />
hates the squalor and meanness of the<br />
city.<br />
ANTONIA’S RECIPES<br />
(96 min)<br />
Language: Original version with English<br />
subtitles<br />
Director: Tonino Cervi<br />
Production: Rai Cinema, Splendida<br />
Produzioni<br />
Cast: Emanuela Muni, Gabriele Lavia,<br />
Domiziana Giordano, Laura Betti, Andy<br />
Luotto<br />
<strong>The</strong> story, set in the 1900s, revolves<br />
around a writer called Augusto and a<br />
rather special cook.<br />
TI DISPIACE SE BACIO MAMMA<br />
(120 min)<br />
Language: Original version with English<br />
subtitles<br />
Director: Alessandro Benvenuti<br />
Production: Rai Cinema, Massimo<br />
Ferrero for Blu Cinematgografica<br />
Cast: Alessandro Benvenuti, Natasha<br />
Stefanenko<br />
Sandro finds it difficult to get<br />
romantically involved when he’s got<br />
three over-curious sisters and a father<br />
who is still chasing after every woman he<br />
sees.<br />
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RAMOJI FILMS USA<br />
Ramoji <strong>Film</strong>s USA, 7726 Laurel Canyon<br />
Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91605 USA.<br />
Tel: 818.255.5333. Fax: 818.255.5666.<br />
www.ramojifilmcity.com<br />
Company Type: Worldwide distribution,<br />
production, co-production, financing, and<br />
facilities available.<br />
At Cannes: Ramoji Rao (Ramoji <strong>Film</strong><br />
City Chairman), Sridhar Sreekakula<br />
Worldwide Sales & Marketing – cell:<br />
001.646.258.8519), Chandra Pandula<br />
(Acquisition & Development), Arun<br />
Kumar (General Manager, International<br />
<strong>Film</strong> Division)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Palais 01- Stand 22.02<br />
HOME INVADERS<br />
Action/Drama<br />
Delivery Status: New, Completed<br />
Executive Produced by Spike Lee<br />
Starring: Yancey Arias (from lead from<br />
Kingpin), Keith David, Luis Guzmán)<br />
Year of Production: 2003<br />
A street punk is forced to join a<br />
dangerous criminal ring. Great action,<br />
gritty, and similar in style to Sopranos.<br />
SEA OF RAGE<br />
Thriller<br />
Delivery Status: Development<br />
A killer is loose. Thriller and suspense<br />
action that takes place on board a<br />
catamaran in the middle of the ocean, it<br />
will leave you on the edge of your seat!<br />
SEX AND THE TEENAGE MIND<br />
Comedy (96 min)<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Cast: Michael Ray Bower, Dinica<br />
McKeller, Richard Karn, Dee Wallace<br />
Stone<br />
Country of Origin: filmed completely in<br />
USA<br />
An “American Pie” style of comedy that<br />
shows us all strange and funny thoughts<br />
that happen inside the mind of a teenage<br />
boy.<br />
MERCY OF THE SEA<br />
Drama (112 min)<br />
Cast: Martin Sheen, Renee Estavez, Mike<br />
Bernardo<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: filmed completely in<br />
Europe<br />
A touching story about children who are<br />
separated from their family during a war,<br />
and the mother who gives up everything<br />
in order to search for them.<br />
MY TUTOR FRIEND - CJ ENTERTAINMENT<br />
TUJHE MERI KASAM<br />
Language: Hindi language<br />
Cast: Ritesh Deshmukh, Genelia<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
A heartwarming romantic comedy about<br />
two friends who grow up as neighbors<br />
and their misadventures in romance, only<br />
to find out that the ideal mate is really<br />
living across the street!<br />
REGENT<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Regent Entertainment, 1401 Ocean<br />
Avenue, Suite 300, Santa Monica,<br />
California 90401 USA. Tel:<br />
310.260.3333. Fax: 310.260.3343.<br />
Company type: Producer and distributor<br />
Web: www.regententertainment.com<br />
At Cannes: Gene George (President,<br />
Regent Entertainment), Mark Reinhart<br />
(Senior V.P., Sales/Acquisitions), Jeff<br />
Schenck (COO)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Mobile: USA 310-804-9360<br />
A GOOD NIGHT TO DIE<br />
Crime Drama (90 Minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Craig Singer<br />
Executive Producers: Jeffrey Schenck,<br />
Gary Stretch, Mark R. Harris<br />
Producers: Chris Williams, Paul<br />
Colichman, Stephen P. Jarchow, Jeffrey<br />
Schenck<br />
Cast: Michael Rapaport, Gary Stretch,<br />
Seymour Cassel, Robin Givens, Deborah<br />
Harry, Ralph Macchio, James Russo,<br />
Ally Sheedy, Lainie Kazan<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Two screwed-up hit men trying to get out<br />
of the mob business discover that one is<br />
hired to kill the other.<br />
FRIENDS AND FAMILY<br />
Comedy (90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Producers: Linda Moran, Kristen Coury,<br />
Joseph Triebwasser<br />
Director: Kristen Coury<br />
Cast: Tony Lo Bianco, Anna Maria<br />
Alberghetti, Greg Lauren, Christopher<br />
Gartin<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Stephen and Danny are a gay couple in<br />
Manhattan who have it all, until a<br />
surprise visit from Stephen’s parents<br />
threatens to blow the boys’ big secret.<br />
CAVE IN<br />
Action Disaster (90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Producers: Stephen P. Jarchow, Paul<br />
Colichman, Jeffrey Schenck<br />
Director: Rex Piano<br />
Cast: Mimi Rogers, Ted Shackleford<br />
Delivery Status: In production<br />
A tough woman in charge of a large<br />
mining operation learns that a massive<br />
cave-in has trapped her husband and son<br />
miles underground....in a tunnel that is<br />
rapidly filling with water.<br />
PARADISE VIRUS<br />
Action Disaster (90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Producers: Stephen P. Jarchow, Paul<br />
Colichman, Jeffrey Schenck, Brian<br />
Trenchard-Smith<br />
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith<br />
Cast: Lorenzo Lamas, Ralf Moeller,<br />
Melody Thomas-Scott<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
A virologist and her son, vacationing on<br />
an island, race against time to prevent a<br />
deadly virus from reaching the mainland.<br />
TERROR PEAK<br />
Action Disaster .(90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Executive Producers: Stephen P. Jarchow,<br />
Paul Colichman, Jeffrey Schenck<br />
Producers: Grant Bradley, Jozsef Fityus<br />
Director: Dale G. Bradley<br />
Cast: Parker Stevenson, Lynda Carter,<br />
Antony Starr<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
While on tour in New Zealand, a thrillseeking<br />
family confronts the forces of<br />
nature when the volcano they are<br />
exploring becomes active.<br />
RENAISSANCE<br />
FILMS<br />
Renaissance <strong>Film</strong>s, 34-35 Berwick Street,<br />
London W1F 8RP, UK. Tel:<br />
44.20.7287.5190. Fax: 44.20.7478.5100.<br />
info@renaissance-films.com.<br />
www.renaissance-films.com<br />
At Cannes: Angus Finney (Managing<br />
Director), Claire Taylor (Head of<br />
International Sales), Michaela Piper<br />
(Head of Marketing & Publicity), Sophie<br />
Janson (Head of Development &<br />
Acquisitions)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Villa Antoine, 3 rue Jean Baptiste<br />
Dumas, Tel: 04.93.68.92.67 or<br />
04.93.68.84.23, Fax: 04 93 99 81 90<br />
THE MOTHER<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Roger Michell<br />
Producer: Kevin Loader<br />
Cast: Anne Reid, Daniel Craig<br />
Delivery Status: Delivery June 2003<br />
Country of Origin: UK<br />
From the acid pen of Hanif Kureishi<br />
comes another brilliant and shocking<br />
slice of modern metropolitan life.<br />
REX MEDIA<br />
Rex Media, 17351 Sunset Blvd., Suite<br />
304, Pacific Palisades, CA, 90272, USA.<br />
Tel: 310.230.8420. Fax: 310.230.8520.<br />
info@rexfilms.com, rexfilms.com<br />
Company Type: Sales agent, producer,<br />
distributor<br />
At Cannes: George Lascu (President),<br />
Cyndy Kuipers (VP); Acquisition<br />
Executive: George Lascu<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Carlton Suite 145, Tel:<br />
310.435.7383. Fax: 310.230.8520<br />
RED SERPENT<br />
Action/Adventure (93 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Eugen Tanasescu<br />
Producer: Oleg Kapanets, George Lascu<br />
Cast: Roy Scheider, Michael Paré, Oleg<br />
Taktarov<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
L.A. <strong>Of</strong>fice Phone<br />
(323) 935-8228<br />
L.A. <strong>Of</strong>fice FAX<br />
(323) 935-8229<br />
An American businessman caught in the<br />
middle of a drug deal gone bad, must<br />
race against time to survive a powerful<br />
Russian Mafia Drug Lord.<br />
ANTI-KILLER<br />
Action Adventure (111 min)<br />
Language: Russian<br />
Director: Yegor Mikhalkov-<br />
Konchalovsky<br />
Producer: Vladimir Kilburg, Yusup<br />
Bakshhiev<br />
Cast: Gosa Kytenko, Mikhail Ulyanov<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Russia<br />
Budget: 4 million $<br />
#1 Box <strong>Of</strong>fice in Russia 2002. Criminal<br />
investigator, Fox is released from prison<br />
only to find that hit men are after him in<br />
a tale of violence and redemption.<br />
ANTI-KILLER 2<br />
Action Adventure (95 min.)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Yegor Mikhalkov-<br />
Konchalovsky<br />
Producer: Vladimir Kilburg, Yusup<br />
Bakshhiev<br />
Cast: Gosa Kytenko, Mikhail Ulyanov<br />
Delivery Status: In-Production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Russia<br />
Budget: 5 million $<br />
Sequel to the successful Anti-Killer 1<br />
BASE<br />
Action Adventure (95 min.)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: TBA<br />
Producer: George Lascu, Cyndy Kuipers<br />
Cast: TBA<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Budget: 7 million $<br />
DARKNESS FALLING<br />
Thriller (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Dominic Shiach<br />
Producer: Peter Simpson<br />
Co-production partners:<br />
Cast: Jason Priestley, Patsy Kensit, Paul<br />
Johansson<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Canada<br />
Budget: 2 million $<br />
A lawyer investigating the suicide of her<br />
sister uncovers a sinister plot.<br />
RIKI SHELACH<br />
<strong>PRODUCT</strong>IONS LTD.<br />
Riki Shelach Productions Ltd., 14 Beit<br />
Zuri st.Tel-Aviv, 69122 Israel. Tel:<br />
972.3.6429783 / 972.3.7329954. Fax:<br />
972.3.6412648 / 972.3. 5739808.<br />
shel@inter.net.il<br />
Company Type: Sales agent / Production<br />
At Cannes: Riki Shelach<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: F 21 ( Israeli Pavilion), Tel:<br />
972.52.508133<br />
A TRUMPET IN THE WADI<br />
Drama (97 min)<br />
Language: Hebrew-Arabic<br />
Director: Lina and Slava Chaplin<br />
Producer: Riki Shelach<br />
Cast: Alexander Senderovich, Khawlah<br />
Debsy<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
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Origin: Israel<br />
Budget: $ 500,000<br />
An impossible love story between two<br />
outsiders in Israeli society; Alex is a new<br />
immigrant from Russia, and Huda is an<br />
Arab young woman from Haifa.<br />
ROAD SALES USA<br />
Road Sales USA, 3599 Cahuenga Blvd.<br />
West, Los Angeles, CA 90068 USA. Tel:<br />
323.878.0404. Fax: 323.878.0486.<br />
sales@promarkgroup.com<br />
At Cannes: Mr. Jonathan Kramer<br />
(President), Ms. Annouchka Lesoeur<br />
(Vice President International Sales), Mr.<br />
Eric Bernstein (Vice President of<br />
International Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera Both M9/N10<br />
THE BLUES<br />
Documentary (7X 90 min.)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Charles Burnett, Clint<br />
Eastwood, Martin Scorsese<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Under the guiding hand of Executive<br />
Producer Martin Scorsese, THE BLUES<br />
is a series of impressionistic and<br />
iconoclastic films- each director<br />
exploring the music through his own<br />
personal connections.<br />
TEN MINUTES OLDER: THE<br />
TRUMPET AND THE CELLO<br />
Compilation <strong>Film</strong> (2X 85 min.)<br />
Language: Various<br />
Director: Victor Erice, Spike Lee,<br />
Bernardo Bertolucci<br />
Producer: Ulrich Felsberg, Nicolas<br />
McClintock, Nigel Thomas<br />
Delivery Status: Completed (2X 85 min.)<br />
Country of Origin: Germany<br />
Each of the distinguished directors has<br />
been given ten minutes to present their<br />
vision of the theme TIME.<br />
S<br />
SENATOR<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
Senator International, 8666 Wilshire<br />
Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90211<br />
USA. Tel: 310 360 1441. Fax: 310 360<br />
1447.<br />
At Cannes: Hanno Huth (CEO), Joe<br />
Drake (President), Brian Goldsmith<br />
(CFO and EVP of Operations), Pierre<br />
Weisbein (EVP, Sales & Distribution),<br />
Brent Jack (VP International Marketing),<br />
Mali Kinberg (ales Coordinator),<br />
Delphine Perrier (Manager, <strong>Business</strong> and<br />
Legal Affairs, Contract Administration)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Majestic Hotel, Suite 142, Tel:<br />
33(0)4.97.06.86.00. Fax:<br />
33(0)4.97.06.86.03<br />
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY<br />
Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Writer/Director: Mary McGuckian<br />
Producers: Michael Lionello Cowan,<br />
Samuel Hadida, Garrett McGuckian,<br />
Mary McGuckian, Denise O’Dell<br />
Co-Producers: Jason Piette<br />
Executive Producers: Jeff Abberley,<br />
Craig Darian, Victor Hadida, Peter<br />
James, Howard Kanzanjian, James<br />
Simpson<br />
Cast: Robert DeNiro, Kathy Bates,<br />
Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray<br />
Abraham, Pilar Lopez de Ayala,<br />
Geraldine Chaplin<br />
Status: Pre-Production<br />
Set in the 18th century, is about a quest<br />
for the reason behind the deaths of five<br />
people caused by “the finest bridge in all<br />
of Peru” mysteriously collapsing.<br />
THE GRUDGE<br />
Horror<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Takashi Shimizu<br />
Producers: Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Taka<br />
Ichise<br />
Status: Pre-Production<br />
Centers on a murderous supernatural<br />
curse, born from a grudge held by<br />
someone who dies in the grip of<br />
powerful anger.<br />
HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO<br />
WHITE CASTLE (WORKING<br />
TITLE)<br />
Comedy<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Danny Leiner<br />
Producer: Greg Shapiro<br />
Status: Pre-Production<br />
<strong>The</strong> ultimate comedy for the<br />
disenfranchised. One night, two very<br />
likeable underdogs determine that they<br />
absolutely must have White Castle<br />
hamburgers and set off on an<br />
unbelievable quest to obtain them.<br />
THE VIRGIN OF LIVERPOOL<br />
Comedy<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Lee Donaldson<br />
Producers: Andrew Boswell, Vadim Jean<br />
Cast: Ricky Tomlinson, Johnny Vegas,<br />
Imelda Staunton, Paul Barber, Claire<br />
Hackett, Tom Georgeson, Jake Abraham,<br />
Ashley McKechnie, Katie Ellen Jones,<br />
Reece Noi<br />
Status: Screening<br />
Country of Origin: UK/Germany<br />
A dysfunctional family is turned upside<br />
down when a precocious 12 year-old girl<br />
brings home a Madonna effigy to save<br />
her from demolition - only to discover<br />
that miracles can happen when you least<br />
expect them.<br />
SHOCHIKU CO., LTD.<br />
Shochiku Co., Ltd. 4-1-1 Tukiji, Togeki<br />
Blg. 12th floor, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8422<br />
Japan. Tel: 81.3.5550.1623. Fax:<br />
81.3.5550.1654. ibd@shochiku.co.jp.<br />
Website: http://www.shochiku.com/film<br />
(English), http://www.shochiku.co.jp<br />
Company Type: sales, acquisition,<br />
producer, distributor, exhibitor<br />
At Cannes: Takeo Hisamatsu (Director),<br />
Masahiko Seki (Director), Masaki Koga<br />
(Manager, Sales, International <strong>Business</strong><br />
Division), Shinobu Suzuki (Manager,<br />
THE BUSINESS OF<br />
FILM<br />
Los Angeles <strong>Of</strong>fice<br />
5150 Wilshire Blvd.<br />
Los Angeles<br />
California 90036<br />
Acquisition, International <strong>Business</strong><br />
Division)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Res. Grand Hotel - Albatros 1C,<br />
Tel: 04.93.68.59.80<br />
THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI<br />
Drama, Samurai (129 min.)<br />
Language: Japanese<br />
Director: Yoji Yamada<br />
Producer: Shigehiro Nakagawa, Hiroshi<br />
Fukazawa, Ichiro Yamamoto<br />
Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa,<br />
Min Tanaka<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Japan<br />
Budget: $5,000,000<br />
Competition film at Berlin 2003. Seibei<br />
is a reserved low-ranking samurai, but he<br />
gets involved in a dispute within the clan<br />
and must take order of his lord to kill<br />
WHEN THE LAST SWORD IS<br />
DRAWN<br />
Drama, Samurai (137 min.)<br />
Language: Japanese<br />
Director: Yojiro Takita<br />
Producer: Hideshi Miayajima<br />
Cast: Kiichi Nakai, Koichi Sato, Miki<br />
Nakatani<br />
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening at<br />
Cannes<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Japan<br />
Budget: $4,000,000<br />
Closing film at Tokyo Internatinal <strong>Film</strong><br />
Festival 2002. Inside “Shinsen-gumi,”<br />
group of patriotic samurai, was<br />
Yoshimura, the best swordsman among<br />
its members, but also, anything but a<br />
usual image of a samurai.<br />
MOON CHILD<br />
Action, Drama, Sci-Fi (119 min.)<br />
Language: Japanese<br />
Director: Takahisa Zeze<br />
Producer: Takashi Hirano<br />
Cast: Hyde, Gackt, Lee-Hom Wang,<br />
Zeny Kwok<br />
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening at<br />
Cannes<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Japan<br />
Budget: US$3,000,000<br />
Friends struggle to live facing trust, love<br />
and betrayal, but what they do not know<br />
is that one has hidden powers.<br />
LOVE COLLAGE (TENTATIVE<br />
TITLE)<br />
Romantic drama (115 min.)<br />
Language: Japanese<br />
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi<br />
Producer: Hiroki Ueda<br />
Cast: Ryoko Hirosue, Ryuhei Matsuda<br />
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening at<br />
Cannes<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Japan<br />
Budget: US$2,000,000<br />
A letter arrives from ex-girlfriend who<br />
ought to be dead. It is an invitation for<br />
her exhibition held in New York, where<br />
she left to become a photographer.<br />
TO DANCE WITH THE WHITE<br />
DOG<br />
Drama (99 min.)<br />
Language: Japanese<br />
Director: Takashi Tukinoki<br />
Producer: Naotaka Yoshida<br />
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Shiho Fujimura,<br />
Kaho Minami<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
Origin: Japan<br />
Budget: US$2,000,000<br />
<strong>The</strong> old man after losing his wife is<br />
surprised when a white dog suddenly<br />
comes into his life and gives him reason<br />
to live.<br />
SHORELINE<br />
ENTERTAINMENT,<br />
INC.<br />
Shoreline Entertainment, Inc., 1875<br />
Century Park East, Suite 600, Los<br />
Angeles, 90067 California USA. Tel:<br />
310.551.2060. Fax: 310.201.0729.<br />
Mobile phone: 310.985.2152.<br />
chic@shorelineentertainment.com.<br />
www.shorelineentertainment.com<br />
At Cannes: Morris Ruskin (President),<br />
Steve Chicorel (Exec. VP Sales &<br />
Marketing)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Carlton Hotel, Room 147, Tel:<br />
04.93.06.41.47<br />
MOVING ALAN<br />
Road movie/Comedy (85 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Christopher Shelton<br />
Production Company: Roadkill<br />
Productions<br />
Producer: Ray Donohue & Andrew<br />
Berman<br />
Key Cast: : Marely Shelton, Samantha<br />
Shelton, Misha Collins<br />
Status: First market screening of<br />
completed film<br />
Country of origin: USA<br />
A ditsy young widow and her estranged<br />
sister go on the road to get rid of Alan’s<br />
body<br />
A KIND OF AMERICA<br />
Comedy (115 min)<br />
Language: Hungarian, Subtitles English<br />
Director: Gabor Herendi<br />
Production Company: Skyfilm Studio<br />
Producer: Gabor Herendi<br />
Key Cast: Tibor Szervet, Csaba Pindroch,<br />
Gyozo Szabo<br />
Status: First market screening of<br />
completed film<br />
Country of origin: Hungary<br />
Three Hungarian Brothers will do<br />
anything get an American film Producer:<br />
to buy their script<br />
THE ONLY HOTEL<br />
Thriller (93 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
THE RED KNIGHT<br />
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CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
Production Company: Globocine<br />
International Pictures<br />
Producer: Ivan Francis ClementsDirector:<br />
Stuart Collinge Collinge<br />
Key Cast: :Haidee Augusta, Danielle<br />
Budlong, Eric Redman<br />
Status: First market screening of<br />
completed film<br />
Country of origin: UK<br />
Escaping from muggers, a penniless<br />
young woman barters work for shelter in<br />
a gangster infested hotel.<br />
PARASITE<br />
Horror (95 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Production Company: Fearnot and<br />
Shoreline<br />
Producer: Jason and Chris Kingsley<br />
Director: Andrew Prendergast<br />
Key Cast: : Saskia Gould, Conrad<br />
Whitaker<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country of origin: USA<br />
A mutated Parasite feeds on the crew of<br />
an oil rig.<br />
CENTIPEDE<br />
Horror (95 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Gregory Gieras<br />
Production Company: San Diego <strong>Film</strong>s,<br />
Ushakiron and Shoreline<br />
Producer: Eileen Craft<br />
Key Cast: Margaret Cash, Larry Casey<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country of origin: USA<br />
Giant Centipedes attack a group of<br />
adventure enthusiasts as they are<br />
exploring a deep cave.<br />
SHOWCASE<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Showcase Entertainment, Warner Center,<br />
21800 Oxnard Street, Suite 150,<br />
Woodland Hills, California 91367 USA.<br />
Tel 818.715.7005. Fax 818.715.7009.<br />
www.showcaseentertainment.com<br />
At Cannes: David A. Jackson (President),<br />
Bruce Livingston (Chief Financial<br />
<strong>Of</strong>ficer), Monica Vespe (Vice President,<br />
International Sales), Shauna Shapiro<br />
Jackson (Executive Vice President),<br />
Leslee Jones-Allmon (Director<br />
Worldwide Distribution Services), Cara<br />
Shapiro (Vice President, Acquisitions),<br />
Linda Paolucci (Sales Administration)<br />
CROCKED LINE<br />
CINEMAVAULT RELEASING INC.<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Carlton Hotel, Suites 241 & 242<br />
– Phone 011.04.93.06.42.40<br />
SUPER SUCKER<br />
Comedy<br />
Directed by Jeff Daniels<br />
Produced by Tom Spiroff<br />
Cast: Jeff Daniels (“Gods and Generals,”<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Hours”), Matt Letscher (“Gods and<br />
Generals,” “Good Morning Miami”),<br />
Harve Presnell (“Legally Blonde,” “Mr.<br />
Deeds,” “Patch Adams”) and Dawn Wells<br />
(“Gilligan’s Island”)<br />
A couple of door-to-door vacuum cleaner<br />
salesmen compete for territory, when one<br />
of them discovers new uses for his<br />
vacuum cleaner attachments, thrilling<br />
housewives beyond their wildest<br />
imaginations!<br />
SHELTER ISLAND<br />
Erotic thriller<br />
Directed by Geoffrey Schaaf<br />
Produced by Paul Corvino, Allen Bain,<br />
David Michaels III, Jesse Scolaro<br />
Stars Patsy Kensit (“Twenty One,”<br />
“Lethal Weapon 2”), Ally Sheedy<br />
(Independent Spirit Award winner for<br />
“High Art,” “<strong>The</strong> Breakfast Club,” “St.<br />
Elmo’s Fire”), Stephen Baldwin (“Sex<br />
Monster,” “Table One,” “Friends &<br />
Lovers,” “<strong>The</strong> Usual Suspects”), Chris<br />
Penn (Award winner for “<strong>The</strong> Funeral,”<br />
“Stealing Harvard,” “Murder by<br />
Numbers,” “Reservoir Dogs”).<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
After being mugged, a wealthy New York<br />
woman retreats to her country estate with<br />
her girlfriend. Everything goes terribly<br />
wrong when they let a stranger into their<br />
home during a storm.<br />
LEFT BEHIND 2: TRIBULATION<br />
FORCE<br />
Action Thriller<br />
Directed by Bill Corcoran<br />
Produced by Nicholas D. Tabarrok and<br />
Cloud Ten Pictures<br />
Stars Kirk Cameron (“Left Behind,”<br />
“Growing Pains”), Brad Johnson (“Left<br />
Behind,” “Always,” “Nam Angeles,”<br />
“Flight <strong>Of</strong> <strong>The</strong> Intruder”), Clarence<br />
Gilyard ((“Left Behind,”<br />
“Die Hard,” “Top Gun,” “Earthquake”),<br />
Chelsea Noble (“Left Behind,” “Growing<br />
Pains”), Gordon Currie, Janaya Stephens.<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Sequel to the international sleeper hit<br />
LEFT BEHIND, based on the best selling<br />
book series that has sold copies<br />
worldwide in numbers comparable to<br />
Harry Potter.<br />
AMY’S ORGASM<br />
Romantic comedy<br />
Directed by Julie Davis<br />
Produced by Julie Davis and Fred<br />
Kramer<br />
Stars Julie Davis (“I Love You, Don’t<br />
Touch Me”), Nick Chinlund (“Con Air,”<br />
“Eraser, “ Disney’s “Te Kid”), Caroline<br />
Aaron (“Deconstructing Harry,”<br />
“Sleepless In Seattle,” “Primary Colors”),<br />
Mitchell Whitfield (“Sgt. Bilko,” “My<br />
Cousin Vinny”).<br />
A 29 year old Ivy League educated selfhelp<br />
author grudgingly falls in love with<br />
the ultimate womanizer, a radio shockjock<br />
who has a reputation for hitting on<br />
his bimbo guests.<br />
GIVING IT UP<br />
Romantic Comedy<br />
Directed by Christopher Kublan<br />
Produced by Daniel Bigel & Michael<br />
Mailer<br />
Stars Mark Feurstein (“Two Weeks<br />
Notice,” “What Women Want,” “Rules <strong>Of</strong><br />
Engagement” And <strong>The</strong> Lead In Tv’s New<br />
Hit “Good Morning, Miami”), Ali Larter<br />
(“Final Destination,” “Final Destination<br />
2,” “Legally Blonde”), Dabney Coleman,<br />
Amy Redford (Daughter <strong>Of</strong> Robert<br />
Redford, “Maid In Manhatten”)<br />
A handsome New York ad executive with<br />
a harmless addition to the opposite sex<br />
meets his match in a smart and beautiful<br />
woman who wants nothing to do with<br />
him.<br />
SOFI FILM<br />
<strong>PRODUCT</strong>ION GMBH<br />
Sofi <strong>Film</strong> Production GMBH,<br />
Panoramaweg 7A, 41334 Nettetal,<br />
Germany N.R.W.. Tel:<br />
49(0)2153.40.25.40. Fax:<br />
49(0)2153.40.25.41. mark5@t-online.de<br />
At Cannes: Mark Tachalov (Producer)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera Hall, No. E-15 / F-16.<br />
Tel: 33(0).4.92.99.32.26<br />
THE RETURN FROM INDIA<br />
Drama-Love Story (98 min)<br />
Language: English.<br />
Director: Menahem Golan.<br />
Starring: Aki Avni, Riki Gal, Assi Dayan<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country of origin: Israel<br />
A strange and maybe impossible love<br />
story between a young man (26) and an<br />
older woman (50).<br />
FINAL COMBAT<br />
Family-Action-adventure (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Menahem Golan<br />
Starring: Tonny White, Sonia Couling,<br />
Richard Lynch<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country of origin: U.S.A.<br />
<strong>The</strong> story of the journey of a father and<br />
son, Tonni and Ben, to find meaning in<br />
their lives.<br />
SUPER NINJA<br />
Action, Martial Arts (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Menahem Golan<br />
Starring: Kely McClung, Gregory<br />
Levayov, Richard Lynch<br />
Status: Pre-production<br />
Country of origin: U.S.A.<br />
Tells the story of the going on behind the<br />
scenes of the electronic industry.<br />
Z A Y A<br />
Adventure- Love Story (100 min)<br />
Language: English.<br />
Director: Jonathan Paz.<br />
Starring: Maayan Keret, Sami Hori, Dan<br />
Tourgeman.<br />
Status: Completed.<br />
Country of origin: Israel<br />
Based on a true story that happened in<br />
Morocco at the end of the 30`s. Zaya is a<br />
young beautiful Jewish girl living in the<br />
Atlas Mountains who is drawn to a<br />
freedom that it not available in the<br />
primitive Berber village.<br />
THE VALLEY TRAIN<br />
Drama- youth sex (90 min)<br />
Language: Hebrew (Subtitles in English).<br />
Director: Jonathan Paz.<br />
Starring: Neta Moran, Ami Ushpitz, Dan<br />
Tourgeman.<br />
Status: Completed.<br />
Country of origin: Israel<br />
<strong>The</strong> legendary `VALLEY TRAIN` from<br />
Haifa to Damascus was abruptly halted<br />
during the war of independence in 1948.<br />
But the vivid memory of that train<br />
remains.<br />
SOLO<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
GROUP<br />
Solo Entertainment Group, 9350 Wilshire<br />
Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90275 USA. Tel:<br />
310.205.6262. Fax: 310.205.6264.<br />
www.solo-ent.com<br />
Company Type: International Sales<br />
At Cannes: Christian Halsey Solomon<br />
(Partner), Lee Solomon (Partner), Glenn<br />
Kendrick Ackermann (SVP, International<br />
Sales and Distribution)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Gray D’Albion, 3rd Fl., 17<br />
Croisette, Tel: 04.93.99.80.51<br />
NINE MILES DOWN<br />
Psychological Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Anthony Waller<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />
Year of Production: 2003<br />
SPICE FACTORY (UK)<br />
LTD<br />
Spice Factory (UK) Ltd, 81 <strong>The</strong><br />
Promenade, Peacehaven, Brighton, BN10<br />
8LS, UK. Tel: 01273.585.275. Fax:<br />
01273.585.304. info@spicefactory.co.uk<br />
Company Type: <strong>Film</strong> Production<br />
At Cannes: Michael Cowan (Joint<br />
Managing Director), Jason Piette (Joint<br />
Managing Director), Alex Marshall<br />
(Head of <strong>Business</strong> Affairs, Lucy<br />
Shuttleworth (Head of Development)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Arclight <strong>Film</strong>s / Vine<br />
International Pictures<br />
BOLLYWOOD QUEEN<br />
Romantic Comedy (100 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Jeremy Wooding<br />
Production company/s: Spice Factory<br />
(UK) Ltd, Stretch Limo Productions,<br />
Great British <strong>Film</strong>s / Enterprise <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Producer: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette,<br />
Jeremy Wooding<br />
Cast: Preeya Kalidas, James McEvoy, Ian<br />
McShane<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
West Side Story set in East London with<br />
bindis.<br />
HONOUR THY FATHER<br />
Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Jacob Berger<br />
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Guillaume<br />
Depardieu<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002<br />
ONE PERFECT DAY<br />
Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Paul Currie<br />
Producers Charles Morton (Lightstream<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s) Australia, Michael Cowan Jason<br />
Piette (Spice Factory) UK<br />
Cast: Andrew Howard, Daniel Spielman,<br />
Leeanna Walsman, Kerry Armstrong,<br />
Abbie Cornish<br />
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Delivery Status: Post Production<br />
Year <strong>Of</strong> Production: 2002 Country of<br />
Origin: UK, Australian<br />
EMPEROR’S WIFE<br />
Drama<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Julien Vrebos<br />
Producers: Emjay Rechsteiner (Staccato<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s) Dutch, San Fu Maltha (Fu Works)<br />
Dutch, Jimmy De Brabant (Delux<br />
Productions) Luxembourg, Michael<br />
Cowan Jason Piette (Spice Factory) UK<br />
Cast: Rosana Pastor, Jonathan Rhys<br />
Meyers, Max Beesley<br />
Delivery status: Post Production<br />
Year <strong>Of</strong> Production: 2002<br />
In the land of 1001 nights the law<br />
dictates that the Emperor must take a<br />
new wife if his current Empress does not<br />
bear a son within seven years of<br />
marriage.<br />
JERICHO MANSIONS<br />
Thriller<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Alberto Sciamma<br />
Production company/s: Spice Factory<br />
(UK) Ltd, Milagro <strong>Film</strong>s, Snowfall<br />
<strong>Film</strong>s, Transfilm Inc.<br />
Producer: Jason Piette, Michael Cowan,<br />
Jean-Marc Felio, Suzanne Lyons<br />
Cast: James Caan, Jennifer Tilly,<br />
Genevieve Bujold, Maribel Verdu<br />
Delivery Status: Post Production<br />
A murder in a NYC apartment building<br />
leads its agoraphobic superintendent to<br />
suspect himself of the killing.<br />
STORM<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Storm Entertainment, 127 Broadway,<br />
Suite 200, Santa Monica, CA. 90401<br />
USA. Tel: 310.656.2500. Fax:<br />
310.656.2510. Storment95@aol.com<br />
Company Description: independent film<br />
finance, production and worldwide<br />
distribution company<br />
At Cannes: H. Michael Heuser (President<br />
& CEO), Asadeh Khanedani (Manager,<br />
International Distribution)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Carlton Intercontinental Hotel<br />
Cannes, <strong>Of</strong>fice # 234, 58, La Croisette -<br />
B.P. 155, 06414 Cannes Cedex, France.<br />
Tel: 33.04.93.06.42.34. Fax:<br />
33.04.93.06.69.34<br />
CRUSADE IN JEANS<br />
Action/Adventure<br />
Director: Ben Sombogaart<br />
Producer: Kees Kasander<br />
Executive Producer: H. Michael Heuser<br />
Cast: To be announced<br />
Delivery Status: Pre-Production<br />
Brilliant scientists Jan and Joanne<br />
Hefting have invented the Displacement<br />
Chamber: a time machine. When their<br />
16-year old son Dolf secretly<br />
experiments with the time machine in the<br />
lab of his parents, he is “shot” back in<br />
time...<br />
PREACHER<br />
Action<br />
Director: Rachel Talalay<br />
Producer: Rupert Harvey<br />
Executive Producers: H. Michael Heuser,<br />
Tom Astor, Jim Reeve, Steve Robbins<br />
Cast: To be announced<br />
Status: Start of Principal Photography:<br />
June 2003<br />
When a rupture in Heaven unleashes the<br />
full power of God on a hapless<br />
congregation, a small town minister with<br />
a troubled past and an epic destiny finds<br />
himself facing Demons, Angels, rednecks<br />
and the Saint of Killers himself.<br />
Credits not contractual<br />
EMMA THOMPSON PRESENTS<br />
JOHNNY HIT AND RUN PAULINE<br />
Drama<br />
Writer/Director: Fay Lellios Efrosini<br />
Producer: H. Michael Heuser, Kees<br />
Kasander<br />
Executive Producer: Emma Thompson<br />
Cast: To be announced<br />
Status: Start of Principal Photography:<br />
August 2003<br />
Young and beautiful Pauline meets the<br />
handsome and suave Johnny at the<br />
beach; her life is changed- Mansions,<br />
Grand Hotels and...Abuse.<br />
Credits not contractual<br />
OUTLANDERS<br />
Action/Thriller<br />
Director: Dominic Lees<br />
Producers Producers: Michael Riley,<br />
Angus Lamont<br />
Executive Producer: H. Michael Heuser<br />
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Douglas Henshall,<br />
James McAvoy, Dagmara Dominczyk<br />
A series of murders are being committed<br />
in Berlin amid the migrant worker<br />
community.<br />
Credits not contractual<br />
SHINER<br />
Action<br />
Director: John Irvin<br />
Producer: Geoffrey Reeve, Jim Reeve<br />
Executive Producer: Laura Townsley,<br />
Barry Townsley<br />
Cast: Michael Caine, Martin Landau,<br />
Frances Barber, Frank Harper, Andy<br />
Serkis, Matthew Marsden, Claire<br />
Rushbrook<br />
Status: Completed. Cassettes available<br />
Michael Caine stars as Billy SHINER<br />
Simpson, a small time boxing promoter<br />
with big ideas.<br />
STUDIOCANAL<br />
Studiocanal, Espace Lumière, 5-13 Bd de<br />
la République, 92514 Boulogne-<br />
Billancourt, France. Tel:<br />
33.1.71.75.99.99. Fax: 33.1.71.75.89.86.<br />
www.studiocanal.com<br />
At Cannes: Muriel Sauzay, Christine<br />
Ghazarian, John Kochman, Marie<br />
Boudier, Saya Huddleston, Mylene<br />
Cayol-Cythere<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Pavillon Riviera, Stand N5, Tel:<br />
33.4.92.59.02.95. Fax: 33.4.92.59.02.73<br />
COMME UNE IMAGE (LOOK AT<br />
ME)<br />
Language: French<br />
Director: Agnès Jaoui<br />
Production companies: Les <strong>Film</strong>s A4<br />
Production country: France<br />
Lolita Cassard is unhappy and<br />
overweight, and all she wants is her<br />
father’s approval.<br />
CONFIDENCES TROP INTIMES<br />
(TOO MUCH INFORMATION)<br />
Drama<br />
Language: French<br />
Director: Patrice Leconte<br />
Producers: Alain Sarde<br />
Production companies: Studiocanal<br />
Leading Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire,<br />
Fabrice Luchini<br />
Production country: France<br />
She goes to see a therapist and tells him<br />
her problems in intimate detail. He<br />
listens and she trusts him. But he’s not a<br />
shrink, he’s a tax adviser. LE<br />
CONVOYEUR (CASH TRUCK)<br />
Comedy<br />
Production companies: Eskwad<br />
Producers: Richard Grandpierre<br />
Production companies: Eskwad<br />
Leading Cast: Albert Dupontel, Jean<br />
Dujardin, François Berléand, Aure Atika<br />
Production country: France<br />
Vigilant, a small cash transportation<br />
company, is in crisis. Three of its<br />
armored trucks have been robbed in the<br />
last year.<br />
GENESIS<br />
Documentary<br />
Director: Claude Nuridsany and Marie<br />
Pérénnou<br />
Producers: Alain Sarde<br />
An African storyteller recounts the world<br />
‘s creation. A tall story like every tale.<br />
But this is a real story since it relates our<br />
past.<br />
LA PROPHETIE DES<br />
GRENOUILLES (RAINING CATS<br />
AND FROGS)<br />
Animation<br />
Director: Jacques-Rémy Girerd<br />
Production companies: Folimage,<br />
Studiocanal, France 2 Cinéma, Rhône-<br />
Alpes Cinéma<br />
Production country: France<br />
<strong>The</strong> frogs’ grim prophecy has become a<br />
reality. Forty days and nights of rain see<br />
Tom and Lili, heroes in short trousers,<br />
stranded on a modern-day Noah’s ark.<br />
CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
SUMMIT<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Summit Entertainment, 1630 Stewart<br />
Street, Suite 120, Santa Monica, CA<br />
90404 USA. Tel: 310.309.8400. Fax:<br />
310.828.4132.<br />
At Cannes: Patrick Wachsberger<br />
(President & CEO), Bob Hayward<br />
(COO), David Garrett (Executive Vice<br />
President), Erik Feig (President,<br />
Production & Acquisitions), Harold van<br />
Lier (Vice President, International Sales),<br />
I.S. <strong>Film</strong> Distribution Executives<br />
attending: Paula Endara (Vice President,<br />
Marketing & Publicity ), Maitreya<br />
Yasuda (Vice President,<br />
Contracts/<strong>Business</strong> Affairs)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: 2, la Croisette, Tel:<br />
33.4.93.99.80.83. Fax: 33.4.93.99.80.93<br />
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS<br />
Action-Adventure<br />
Director: Frank Coraci<br />
Producer: Hal Lieberman, Ed Saxon<br />
Cast: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Cecile<br />
de France<br />
Delivery Status: In Production<br />
Jackie Chan takes an epic turn in this<br />
extravagant adventure tale, based on the<br />
Jules Verne classic.<br />
BLACKOUT<br />
Thriller<br />
Director: Phillip Kaufman<br />
Producers: Arnold Kopelson, Anne<br />
Kopelson, Barry Baeres<br />
Cast: Ashley Judd, Andy Garcia, Samuel<br />
L. Jackson<br />
Delivery Status: Post-production<br />
A San Francisco homicide detective’s<br />
dark personal life comes back to haunt<br />
her as she investigates a string of grisly<br />
murders.<br />
DOT THE I<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Matthew Parkhill<br />
Producers: George Duffield, Meg<br />
Thomson<br />
Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Natalia<br />
Verbeke, James D’Arcy<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
<strong>The</strong> classic tale of a woman choosing<br />
between passion and safety is seen<br />
through multiple perspectives, and keeps<br />
you guessing until the final twist.<br />
GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS<br />
Documentary<br />
Director: James Cameron<br />
Producers: Chuck Comski, Ed Marsh,<br />
Gig Rackauskas<br />
Cast: James Cameron, Bill Paxton<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
James Cameron’s deep sea adventure to<br />
the final resting place of the Titanic<br />
comes to life in this ground-breaking<br />
documentary film.<br />
I AM DAVID<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Paul Feig<br />
Producers: Clive Parsons, Lauren Levine,<br />
Davina Belling<br />
Cast: Joan Plowright, Jim Caviezel, Ben<br />
Tibber<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Based on the best selling book, I AM<br />
DAVID is an exhilarating tale of a<br />
courageous young boy, who in 1951<br />
escapes from a Stalinist prison camp to<br />
walk across Europe and find freedom.<br />
SURF FILM S.R.L.<br />
Surf <strong>Film</strong> S.r.l., Via Padre G. A. Filippini<br />
130 - 00144 Rome, Italy. Tel:<br />
39.06.52.62.101. Fax: 39.06.52.93.816.<br />
surf@surf<strong>Film</strong>.com. www.surf<strong>Film</strong>.com<br />
At Cannes: Mr. Massimo Vigliar<br />
(President); Mrs. Stefania Carnevale<br />
(foreign sales manager); Mrs. Agnès<br />
Trincal (foreign sales executive); Mrs.<br />
Elena Francot (Italian sales manager).<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Focus Italy - Anica (Riviera) C5 /<br />
D4 - D1 /E8, Tel: 33.(0).4.92.99.88.15<br />
THE END OF A MYSTERY (LA LUZ<br />
PRODIGIOSA)<br />
Art movie (102’)<br />
Language: Spanish, Italian, Subtitles:<br />
English<br />
Director: Miguel Hermoso<br />
Producer: Azalea Producciones<br />
Cinematografica S.A. - Surf <strong>Film</strong> S.r.l.<br />
Key Cast: Nino Manfredi, Alfredo<br />
BUDDY - NONSTOP SALES AB<br />
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CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
Landa, Kiti Manver<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Federico Garcia Lorca did not die after<br />
an execution by Franco’s troops in<br />
August 1936. Disfigured from the shot<br />
which also made him amnesiac and<br />
mentally disturbed, he lived many long<br />
years without knowing who he really<br />
was.....<br />
NOWHERE<br />
Art movie (110’)<br />
Language: Italian, Spanish, English,<br />
Subtitles: English, French<br />
Director: Luis Sepúlveda<br />
Producer: Surf <strong>Film</strong> (Italy) - Patagonik<br />
<strong>Film</strong> Group (Argentina)- Castelao<br />
Productions S.A. (Spain)<br />
Key Cast: Harvey Keitel, Angela Molina,<br />
Jorge Perugorria, Luigi Maria Burruano<br />
Status: Completed<br />
<strong>The</strong> secret services of a 1980s Latin<br />
American dictatorship round up a group<br />
of opponents. <strong>The</strong> prisoners are taken to<br />
an old abandoned railway station in the<br />
desert, called “Nowhere”.<br />
A NIGHT WITH SABRINA LOVE<br />
Art movie (99’)<br />
Language: Spanish, Italian, subtitles:<br />
English<br />
Director: Alejandro Agresti<br />
Producer: Patagonik <strong>Film</strong> Group<br />
(Argentina) - Surf <strong>Film</strong> (Italy) - P.H.F<br />
<strong>Film</strong> (Spain)<br />
Key Cast: Cecilia Roth, Giancarlo<br />
Giannini, Tomas Fonzi, Julietta Cardinali<br />
Status: Completed<br />
A young and bored seventeen years old<br />
boy from a very small village in<br />
Argentina, wins a night of love with the<br />
porno star Sabrina.<br />
THE PROTAGONISTS”<br />
Art movie / drama (90’)<br />
Language: English, Italian<br />
Director: Luca Guadagnino<br />
Producer: Surf <strong>Film</strong> in collaboration with<br />
Medusa<br />
Key Cast: Tilda Swinton, Andrew<br />
Tiernan, Michelle Hunziker, Fabrizia<br />
Sacchi<br />
Status: Completed<br />
London. One night in January 1994 two<br />
students decided to commit the perfect<br />
crime. <strong>The</strong>y stop a stranger and brutally<br />
murder him, then they return to normal<br />
college life.<br />
ORDER OVER JUSTICE - BAJO<br />
BANDERA<br />
Drama (106’)<br />
Language: Spanish, Italian<br />
ALEX & EMMA - FRANCHISE PICTURES<br />
Director: Juan Josè Jusid<br />
Producer: Prisma <strong>Film</strong> (Argentina) - Surf<br />
<strong>Film</strong> (Italy)<br />
Key Cast: Miguel Angel Solà, Federico<br />
Luppi, Daniele Liotti , Omero Antonutti<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Argentina 1969. Major Molina is sent to<br />
a remote garrison in south Patagonia to<br />
investigate the brutal murder of a soldier,<br />
Lito.<br />
T<br />
TANDEM<br />
COMMUNICATIONS<br />
GMBH<br />
Tandem Communications GmbH,<br />
Josephspitalstrasse 15, 80331<br />
Munich/Bavaria, Germany. Tel:<br />
49.89.96.22.83.00. Fax:<br />
49.89.96.22.83.10. info@tandemcom.de.<br />
www.tandemcom.de<br />
Company Type: Production &<br />
Distribution<br />
At Cannes: Rola Bauer (Managing<br />
Director), Irina Ignatiew (Head of Intl.<br />
Sales), Stefan Brunner (<strong>Business</strong> and<br />
Financial Affairs); Acquisition Executive:<br />
Irina Ignatiew<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: “La Brise”; 25, La Croisette, 5th<br />
floor, Tel: 33.04.92.98.95.09<br />
SUMURU<br />
Sci-Fi (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Darrell James Roodt<br />
Producer: Stefan Jonas, Rola Bauer, Tim<br />
Halkin<br />
Co-production partners: 1. Towers of<br />
London for RTL<br />
Cast: Alexandra Kamp, Michael Shanks<br />
Delivery Status: Post Production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Germany & South Africa<br />
Budget: 4,000,000 $ US<br />
Two astronauts land on far away planet,<br />
that was colonized centuries ago finding<br />
out that women are the ruling class.<br />
POST IMPACT<br />
Action-Adventure (110 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Christopher Schrewe<br />
Producer: Phil Roth, Rola Bauer, Tim<br />
Halkin<br />
Co-production partners: (German<br />
Network) UFO <strong>Film</strong>s & RTL Television<br />
for RTL (German Network)<br />
Cast: Bettina Zimmermann, Dean Cain;<br />
Delivery Status: in Production<br />
Year of Production: 2003. Country of<br />
Origin: Germany & Bulgaria & UK &<br />
Spain;<br />
Budget: 5,000,000 $ US<br />
After the strike of a meteor, the European<br />
Continent is ice-covered; few survivors<br />
travel to the cold zone to locate a device<br />
that could give mankind new hope.<br />
A LIGHT IN DARK PLACES<br />
Action-Drama (2x2 hrs. Mini Series)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Kaspar Heidelbach<br />
Producer: Michael Souvignier, Sam<br />
Davis, Martin Zimmermann<br />
Co-production partners: Produced by<br />
Zeitsprung Production for SAT 1<br />
(German Network) Worldwide<br />
Distribution by Tandem Communications<br />
GmbH<br />
Cast: Heino Ferch, Jan Josef Liefers,<br />
Heike Makatsch<br />
Delivery Status: in Production<br />
Year of Production: 3. 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Germany<br />
Budget: 6,500,000 $US;<br />
<strong>The</strong> story of two miners, who happen to<br />
be trapped 180 ft underground fighting to<br />
stay alive as the world watches and<br />
prays.<br />
JOHANNA THE POPE<br />
Historical Drama (2x2 hrs. Mini Series)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: TBC<br />
Producer: Rola Bauer, Tim Halkin<br />
Co-production partners: Towers of<br />
London & Telepool for ARD (German<br />
Network)<br />
Delivery Status: in Development<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Germany & UK<br />
Budget: 20,000,000 $ US<br />
<strong>The</strong> story of a young girl raised in 9th<br />
century Saxony, whose one day’s destiny<br />
is to become the first and only female<br />
pope.<br />
THE RING (WORKING TITLE)<br />
Historical Drama (2 x 96 min Mini-<br />
Series and 1 x 120 min theatrical feature)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Uli Edel (TBC)<br />
Producer: Rola Bauer, Tim Halkin<br />
Delivery Status: in Development<br />
Year of Production: 2003<br />
Country of Origin: Germany & South<br />
Africa<br />
Budget: 18,000,000 $ US<br />
Invincible by a powerful sword,<br />
invulnerable by a dragon’s blood,<br />
invisible by a magic helmet: Siegfried<br />
might win all the world’s gold an glory.<br />
If he hadn’t taken THE RING<br />
TELEPOOL<br />
Telepool, Sonnenstrasse 21, Munich,<br />
80331 Germany. Tel: 49.89.558.76.0.<br />
Fax: 49.89.558.76.188. www.telepool.de.<br />
telepool@telepool.de<br />
At Cannes: Dr. Thomas Weymar<br />
(General Managing Director), Marc<br />
Gabizon (Deputy Managing Director),<br />
Dr. Cathy Rohnke (Deputy Managing<br />
Director), Wolfram Skowronnek (Sales<br />
Executive), Silke Wilfinger (Acquisition<br />
Executive)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Palais Riviera L1/M2, Tel: 04,92<br />
993307<br />
ANGST (DER ALTER AFFE ANGST)<br />
Drama (95 min)<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Germany<br />
Language: German<br />
Director: Oskar Roehler<br />
Co-Production Partners: TV 60 <strong>Film</strong><br />
Producer: Neue Bioskop <strong>Film</strong><br />
Key Cast: Marie Bauemer, André<br />
Hennicke,Vadim Glowna<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
A modern lovestory, as unusual as life<br />
itself.<br />
KISS AND RUN<br />
www.kissandrun.de<br />
Romantic Comedy (88 min)<br />
Language: German<br />
Director: Annette Ernst<br />
Producer: Stoked <strong>Film</strong><br />
Key Cast: Ken Duken, Maggie Peren,<br />
Anja Herden, Hinnerk Schoenemann<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: Germany<br />
An actress, a drifter and their love for<br />
movies<br />
MY LAST FILM (MEIN LETZTER<br />
FILM)<br />
Drama (90 min)<br />
Director: German<br />
Language: Oliver Hirschbiegel<br />
Co-Production Partners: Multimedia<br />
GmbH<br />
Producer: Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt<br />
Key Cast: Hannelore Elsner, Wanja Mues<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Germany<br />
This is Marie’s last film; the last solo<br />
performance of a grand actress.<br />
THE WORKS<br />
<strong>The</strong> Works, 4 Great Portland Street,<br />
London W1W 8QJ UK. Tel:<br />
44.20.7612.1080. Fax: 44.20.7612.1081.<br />
At Cannes: Aline Perry (CEO ), Joy<br />
Wong (Head of International Sales),<br />
Rebecca Kearey (Head of Marketing and<br />
Distribution), Clare Crean (Senior Sales<br />
Executive)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: 4th Floor, Residence du Grand<br />
Hotel (entrance ‘Flamant’), 45 La<br />
Croisette Tel: 04.93.39.49.41<br />
REMEMBER ME<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Gabriele Muccino<br />
Producer: Domenico Procacci<br />
Cast Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura<br />
Morante, Monica Bellucci, Nicoletta<br />
Romanoff & Silvio Muccino<br />
Delivery Status: Market Screening<br />
<strong>The</strong> study of a seemingly content middleclass<br />
household whose individual crises<br />
tug at the seams of their fragile family<br />
unit.<br />
IN THIS WORLD<br />
Drama<br />
Director: Michael Winterbottom<br />
Producers: Andrew Eaton & Anita<br />
Overland<br />
Cast: Jamal Udin Torabi & Enayatullah<br />
Delivery Status: Market Screening<br />
A road movie documenting the journey<br />
of two Afghanis travelling from<br />
Peshawar, Pakistan to London.<br />
COUNTRY OF MY SKULL<br />
Drama<br />
Director: John Boorman<br />
Producers Robert Chartoff, Mike<br />
Medavoy, Lynn Hendee & Kieran<br />
Corrigan<br />
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette<br />
Binoche & Brendan Gleeson<br />
Delivery Status: In Production<br />
Country <strong>Of</strong> My Skull is a story charting<br />
the unfathomable depths of human<br />
cruelty and the redeeming power of<br />
forgiveness and love.<br />
CODE 46<br />
Futuristic Drama<br />
Director: Michael Winterbottom<br />
Producer: Andrew Eaton<br />
Cast: Tim Robbins & Samantha Morton<br />
Delivery Status: Post-Production<br />
Set in the near future, Code 46 is a<br />
compelling tale of forbidden love.<br />
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BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS<br />
Comedy-Drama<br />
Director: Writer Stephen Fry<br />
Producers Gina Carter & Miranda Davis<br />
Cast: Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily<br />
Mortimer, Michael Sheen, Dan Aykroyd,<br />
Jim Broadbent, Stockard Channing, Peter<br />
O’Toole, Simon Callow, Jim Carter,<br />
Richard E Grant & David Tennant<br />
Delivery Status: In Post-Production<br />
Adapted from the Evelyn Waugh novel<br />
‘Vile Bodies’. Bright Young Things<br />
revolves around a set of friends whose<br />
wild and shocking antics cause them to<br />
crash and burn in their search for newer<br />
and faster sensations.<br />
THOMPSON STARR<br />
ORGANIZATION<br />
Thompson Starr Organization, 20211<br />
Sherman Way, Ste. 1705, Beverly Hills,<br />
CA 90210 USA. Tel: 8l8.998. 8l26. Fax:<br />
8l8.773.8962. TSORG@webtv.net<br />
Company Type: Distributor & Sales<br />
Agents<br />
At Cannes: Joey Thompson (President),<br />
Jen Starr (Sales), Chaya Finton<br />
(Marketing), George Thompson<br />
(Acquisitions)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Hotel Bleu Rivage - 6l La<br />
Croisette, 06400 Cannes. Tel:<br />
4.93.94.24.25 – at Palais: 93.39.0l.0l,<br />
Fax: 4.93.43.74.92<br />
BLITZKRIEG BOP<br />
Family (62 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Cast: Blondie, <strong>The</strong> Dead Boys, <strong>The</strong><br />
Ramones<br />
Delivery Status: completed/screening<br />
Budget: High end<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
<strong>The</strong> glory days of Punk Rock explosion<br />
with Blondie.<br />
NASHVILLE SOUND<br />
Family (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Cast: Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Loretta<br />
Lyn<br />
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening<br />
Budget: High End<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Back to best days of country music on<br />
44th anniversary of Grand Old Opry.<br />
SCRUGGS AND FRIENDS<br />
Family (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Producer: David Hoffman<br />
Cast: Earl Scruggs, <strong>The</strong> Byrds, Bob<br />
Dylan<br />
Delivery Status: screening<br />
Budget: High end<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Scruggs performs fusion of country and<br />
rock with Charlie Daniels and friends.<br />
WEEKEND REBELLION<br />
Family (85 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Cast: Grand Funk Railroad, <strong>The</strong> Tams,<br />
Swinging Medallions<br />
Delivery Status: completed/screening<br />
Budget: High End<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
LIBRARY<br />
125 Titles. Predominantly English<br />
speaking, with great classic feature films<br />
and rare titles.<br />
TRANSIT FILM<br />
GMBH<br />
Transit <strong>Film</strong> GmbH, Dachauer Str. 35,<br />
80335 Munich, Germany. Tel:<br />
49.89.599885.0. Fax: 49.89.599885.20.<br />
transitfilm@compuserve.com.<br />
www.transitfilm.de<br />
Company Type: Worldsales, Distribution,<br />
Production company<br />
At Cannes: Loy W. ARNOLD (Managing<br />
Director), Acquisition Executives: Mark<br />
GRUENTHAL (Head of Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Tel.: Mr. Arnold:<br />
49.171.85.36.361<br />
FASSBINDER IN HOLLYWOOD<br />
Documentary (60 min)<br />
Language: English, German<br />
Director: Robert FISCHER<br />
Producer: Fiction Factory, Munich<br />
Co-production partners: Crossed Arrows<br />
& Bayerischer Rundfunk<br />
Cast: Ulli Lommel, Michael Ballhaus,<br />
Hanna Schygulla, Wim Wenders<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, County of<br />
Origin: Germany<br />
Fassbinder was influenced greatly by<br />
American Studio films of the 1950s. Ulli<br />
Lommel and Documentary <strong>Film</strong>maker R.<br />
Fischer conducts a tour of Hollywood.<br />
Fassbinder´s influence on Hollywood is<br />
still being felt today.<br />
METROPOLIS<br />
by Fritz Lang<br />
Silent Feature <strong>Film</strong> (118 min)<br />
Language: Intertitles in English, German,<br />
French, Spanish and Italian (DVD)<br />
Director: Fritz Lang<br />
Producer: Original Version: Universum-<br />
<strong>Film</strong> AG (Ufa), 1925/26<br />
Restored and Reconstructed Version on<br />
DVD 2001: Transit <strong>Film</strong>, Munich and<br />
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation,<br />
Wiesbaden<br />
Distribution Partners: USA: Kino<br />
International/New York Great Britain:<br />
Eureka/London<br />
Germany: Transit Classics, distributed by<br />
Universum <strong>Film</strong>/Munich and Blackhill<br />
Pictures/Hamburg<br />
Spain: Divisa Red/ Madrid<br />
Australia: Potential <strong>Film</strong>s/Sydney<br />
Cast: Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf<br />
Klein-Rogge, Gustav Fröhlich, Fritz<br />
Rasp<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: Original Version:<br />
1925/26, Restored and Reconstructed<br />
Version with Original Music Score by<br />
Gottfried Huppertz: 2001, County of<br />
Origin: Germany<br />
Fritz Lang´s METROPOLIS out on<br />
DVD. This 2 DVD Set includes 43<br />
Minute documentary on the making of;<br />
Feature: <strong>The</strong> Digital Restoration; Photo<br />
galleries; Biographies; Surround sound<br />
of new orchestral score; Audio<br />
Commentary<br />
TRANS-PACIFIC<br />
MEDIA<br />
Trans-Pacific Media, 8491 Sunset<br />
Boulevard, Suite 800, Los Angeles, CA<br />
90069 United States. Tel: 323.654.4933.<br />
Fax: 323.654.4921.<br />
mail@transpacificmedia.com<br />
At Cannes: Laurie Woodrow (President),<br />
Dan Griffiths (Senior Vice-President)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: 47 La Croisette, Cormoran 2, 3rd<br />
Floor, Tel: 04.93.68.59.95<br />
TROMA<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Troma Entertainment, 733 Ninth Avenue,<br />
New York, NY 10019 USA. Tel:<br />
212.757.4555 ext.30. Fax: 212.399.9885.<br />
www.troma.com/sales. films@troma.com<br />
At Cannes: Lloyd Kaufman (President of<br />
Troma Entertainment), Jonathan Lees<br />
(Director of International Sales), Jamie<br />
Harvey (<strong>Film</strong> Buyer), Robert O’Dell<br />
(<strong>Film</strong> Buyer), Dan Martin (Sales<br />
Assistant)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: F-13 (Riviera), Tel:<br />
33.(0)4.92.99.33.10<br />
ALL THE LOVE YOU CANNES<br />
Documentary (108 min)<br />
Director: Sean McGrath, Gabriel<br />
Friedman, Lloyd Kaufman<br />
Cast: <strong>The</strong> Troma Team & Friends<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country of origin: USA<br />
CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
CABIN FEVER - LIONS GATE FILMS INTERNATIONAL<br />
A hilarious, thought provoking, and<br />
entertaining twist on marketing and<br />
promoting your truly independent vision<br />
at Cannes.<br />
APOCALYPSE SOON<br />
Documentary (135 min)<br />
Director: Gabriel Friedman<br />
Cast: Dave Mattey, Heidi Sjursen, Lloyd<br />
Kaufman<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country of origin: USA<br />
A no holds barred look at Lloyd<br />
Kaufman and the Troma Team’s<br />
misadventures during the filming of<br />
Citizen Toxie.<br />
TALES FROM THE CRAPPER<br />
Erotic-Comedy/Horror/Sci-Fi/Action<br />
(100 min)<br />
Director: India Allen, Lloyd Kaufman,<br />
Dave Paiko, Doug Sakmann, Brian Spitz<br />
Cast: Julie Strain, Arban Ornelas, Lloyd<br />
Kaufman<br />
Status: Completed<br />
Country of origin: USA<br />
An anthology featuring sinister vampire<br />
strippers, a man-eating penis, and the<br />
largest amount of breasts ever in Troma’s<br />
thirty-years.<br />
TRUST FILM SALES<br />
Trust <strong>Film</strong> Sales, Avedoere Tvaevej 10,<br />
<strong>Film</strong>byen 12, Hvidovre, 2650 Denmark.<br />
Tel: 45.36.86.87.01. Fax: + 45 36 77 44<br />
48. www.trust-film.dk, tine@trust-film.dk<br />
At Cannes: Annakarin Ström (CEO),<br />
Tine Klint (Sales and Projekt Coordinator),<br />
Peter Aalbaek Jensen (Sales<br />
Assistant), Rikke Ennis (TV - Sales<br />
Executive), Lissy Bellaiche (Festival<br />
Consultant)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Tel: 45 25 39 84 94, Fax:<br />
45.22.22.80.60<br />
DOGVILLE<br />
Drama (177 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Lars von Trier<br />
Co-Production Partners: Danish <strong>Film</strong><br />
Institute, DR, Slot Machine, Arte France<br />
Cinema, France 3 Cinema, Canal+,<br />
Euroimages, Is<br />
Producer: Vibeke Windeløv<br />
Key Cast: Nicole Kidman and more<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
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Budget: 10 mill. USD<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Danish<br />
Set in an American town in the Rocky<br />
Mountains in the 1930s. Lars von Trier<br />
re-explores the concept of goodness.<br />
INHERITENCE (ARVEN)<br />
Drama (106 min)<br />
Language: Danish<br />
Director: Per Fly<br />
Co-Production Partners: Danish <strong>Film</strong><br />
Instituth e, Norwegian <strong>Film</strong> Institute,<br />
Nordisk <strong>Film</strong> & TV Fond, TV2 Denmark<br />
and Egmont Ente<br />
Producer: Ib Tardini<br />
Key Cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Lisa<br />
Werlinder, Ulf Pilgaard, Ghita<br />
Nørby,Lars Brygmann,<br />
Karina Skands,Peter Steen, Diana<br />
Axelsen, Jesper Christensen, Dick Kaysø<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Budget: 18,6 mill. DK Kr.<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Danish<br />
INHERITANCE is the second film in Per<br />
Fly’s trilogy depicting three layers of<br />
Danish society; this story deals with the<br />
wealthy elite.<br />
DOGS AND DEER: DOGVILLE<br />
CONFESSIONS<br />
Documentary (52 min)<br />
Director: Danish / English<br />
Language: Sami Sarif<br />
Producer: Carsten Holst<br />
Key Cast: Lars von Trier, Nicole<br />
Kidman, Lauren Bacall<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Budget: 365.000 Euro<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Danish<br />
Behind the scene, of the intense drama<br />
during the making of “Dogville”<br />
U<br />
UNIFIED FILM<br />
ORGANIZATION<br />
Unified <strong>Film</strong> Organization, 100 E. Cedar<br />
Avenue, Building 16, Burbank, CA 91502<br />
USA. Tel: 818.846.0465. Fax:<br />
818.846.0256.<br />
At Cannes: Jeffery Beach (President),<br />
Phillip Roth (C.E.O.), TJ Sakasegawa<br />
(VP Production and Distribution)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Palais des Festival, Riviera Stand<br />
No. J8<br />
PHANTOM FORCE<br />
1868 - OVERSEAS FILM GROUP<br />
Action Adventure<br />
Delivery Status: in production<br />
A portal to the underworld is opened and<br />
a special team of operatives must save<br />
the world from supernatural forces.<br />
DRAGON STORM<br />
Action Adventure<br />
Cast: Maxwell Caulfield, John Rhys-<br />
Davies<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
A brood of dragons attack a kingdom and<br />
a group of mismatched but talented<br />
villagers is formed to destroy them.<br />
TORUS<br />
Action Adventure<br />
Cast: David Keith, Billy Dee Williams<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Is it God? A machine? Weapon?<br />
Questions fly after a rocky, towering<br />
structure known as a ‘torus’ bursts up<br />
from the ground in Russia.<br />
V<br />
VISION FILMS<br />
Vision <strong>Film</strong>s, 4626 Lemona Avenue,<br />
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA. Tel:<br />
818.784.1702. Fax: 818.788.3715.<br />
visionfilms@earthlink.net<br />
At Cannes: Lise Romanoff (Managing<br />
Director Worldwide Sales), Andre Relis<br />
(Director of International Sales), Lauren<br />
Proctor (Distribution Coordinator)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Noga Hotel<br />
SPANISH JUDGES<br />
Action Thriller (90 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Oz Scott<br />
Producer: Prosperity Pictures<br />
Cast: Mathew Lillard, Vincent<br />
D’Onofrio, Valeria Golina<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Mayhem breaks loose when a young<br />
ruthless con man talks his way into a<br />
scam involving stolen antique guns. Only<br />
one person will walk out alive.<br />
BABERELLAS<br />
Sexy Sci-fi Spoof (87 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Chuck Cirino<br />
Producer: Alexia Cirino<br />
Cast: Shauna O’Brian, Julie K. Smith,<br />
Sasha Peralta, Julie Strain<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Four beautiful over-sexed girls save Earth<br />
from the axis of evil.<br />
THE EROTIC FILM COLLECTION<br />
OF JAG MUNDHRA<br />
Erotic Thriller (90 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Jag Mundhra<br />
Producers: Jag Mundhra and Victor<br />
Bhalla<br />
Cast: Lee Anne Beaman, Tahnee Welch,<br />
Steven Bauer, Richard Tyson, Jennifer<br />
McShane<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
6 feature films: MONSOON, SHADES<br />
OF GRAY, IRRESISTIBLE IMPULSE,<br />
TAINTED LOVE, IMPROPER<br />
CONDUCT.<br />
CRIME & PUNISHMENT<br />
Drama/ Thriller (90 min.)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Menahem Golan<br />
Producer: Evgeny Afineevsky &<br />
Menahem Golan<br />
Cast: Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Vanessa<br />
Redgrave, Margo Kidder<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
In this modern day adaptation of the<br />
Dostoyevsky novel, a struggling law<br />
student confesses a gruesome crime in an<br />
attempt to free his tormented soul.<br />
NIGHTMASTER<br />
Action Adventure (87 minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Mark Joffee<br />
Producer: Robert Sanders, Peter Ramster,<br />
Grahame Jennings<br />
Cast: Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge),<br />
Tom Jennings, Vince Martin<br />
Delivery Status: Complete<br />
Six select students from the leading<br />
karate school play private night games,<br />
sharpening their defense skills, until their<br />
games turn deadly.<br />
VITAGRAPH<br />
Vitagraph, Via Schiavonia 1, Bologna,<br />
40121, Italy. Tel: 39.051.267150. Fax:<br />
39.051.267310. vitagraph@libero.it -<br />
www.vitagraph.it<br />
Company Type: Sales agent, distributor<br />
At Cannes: Filippo D’Angelo (Managing<br />
Director), Acquisition Executive: Filippo<br />
D’Angelo (Managing Director)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Village INT’L - Media Program<br />
Pavilion, Tel: (reception desk)<br />
33.4.92590220<br />
THE LAST PISTOLERO<br />
Western Comedy (9 min)<br />
Language: original version English<br />
Subtitled<br />
Director: Alessandro Dominici<br />
Producer: CKS cinema e comunicazione<br />
& Ass. Culturale Celluloide Coproduction<br />
partners:<br />
Cast: Franco Nero<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Italy<br />
Budget: $ 30.000,00<br />
A man roves the open space of an<br />
abandoned industrial complex. Wearing a<br />
hat, boots and belt, the last pistolero is<br />
ready to face his final challenge...<br />
A BORDER OF MIRRORS<br />
Documentary (60 min)<br />
Language: original version English<br />
Subtitled<br />
Director: Stefano Savona<br />
Producer: Alessandro Arangio Ruiz<br />
(Tipota Movie Company) & Maat<br />
Produzioni<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Italy<br />
Budget: $ 100.000,00<br />
Sicilian emigrants in Tunisia and<br />
Tunisian emigrants in Sicily, exchanges<br />
and flows: the daily life of a precarious<br />
life on the borderline.<br />
SPECTRUM DIAMOND - THE<br />
MYTH AND THE LEGEND OF<br />
MATTHEW SMITH<br />
Documentary (54 min)<br />
Language: English and Finnish spoken<br />
with English subtitles<br />
Director: Opificio Ciclope<br />
Producer: Opificio Ciclope Coproduction<br />
partners: Tele+ (Italy); YLE<br />
(Finland)<br />
Delivery Status: completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Italy<br />
Budget: $ 70.000,00<br />
One day, at school, Mattew Smith fiddles<br />
with a Tandy, a nearly serious computer:<br />
he becomes the programmer of the bestselling<br />
videogame for ZX Spectrum, JET<br />
SET WILLY.<br />
VORTEX PICTURES<br />
Vortex Pictures, 9420 Wilshire Blvd.,<br />
Suite 250, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 USA.<br />
Tel: 310.278.1450. Fax: 310.278.0885.<br />
info@vortexpictures.com.<br />
www.vortexpictures.com<br />
At Cannes: Paul Brooks (President),<br />
Scott Niemeyer (CFO), Dean Shapiro<br />
(Sales Executive), Jennifer Cusentino<br />
(Int’l Marketing Mgr), Erica Motley,<br />
Suzanne Barron (Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Majestic Hotel, Suite 137 & 138,<br />
Tel: 33.04.97.06.85.45. Fax:<br />
33.04.97.06.85.89<br />
ROLLING KANSAS<br />
Comedy<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Thomas Haden Church<br />
Producer: Norm Waitt, Paul Brooks, Jeff<br />
Levine<br />
Cast: Rip Torn, James Roday, Charlie<br />
Finn<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Rolling Kansas is the story of the three<br />
brothers Murphy and their two best<br />
friends who set out on a hilarious journey<br />
in search of a mythical “Magical Forest<br />
of Marijuana”.<br />
DYSFUNKTIONAL FAMILY<br />
Comedy (95 Minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: George Gallo<br />
Producer: Paul Brooks, David Purmet,<br />
Eddie Griffin<br />
Cast: Eddie Griffin<br />
Delivery Status: Complete<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Eddie Griffin’s “DysFunKtional Family”<br />
is his hilarious comic stand-up routine<br />
intercut with cinéma vérité scenes of his<br />
actual family that lends insight into his<br />
impersonations and insights on society.<br />
POOLHALL JUNKIES<br />
Thriller (95 Minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Mars Callahan<br />
Producer: Karen Beninati, Vincent<br />
Newman, Tucker Tooley<br />
Cast: Christopher Walken, Chazz<br />
Palminteri, Rod Steiger, Rick Schroder<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: USAIn the violent world of high<br />
stakes pool, Johnny’s betting the bank on<br />
a clean break.<br />
THE MAN FROM ELYSIAN FIELDS<br />
Drama (105 Minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: George Hickenlooper<br />
Producer: Andy Garcia, Donald<br />
Zuckerman, Andrew Pfeffer<br />
Cast: Andy Garcia, Mick Jagger, Olivia<br />
Williams, James Coburn, Julianna<br />
Marguiles<br />
Delivery Status:<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Byron Tiller (Andy Garcia) could please<br />
any woman...except the one he loved.<br />
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EMMETT’S MARK<br />
Thriller (100 Minutes)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Keith Snyder<br />
Producer: Graham Taylor, Brad Fuller,<br />
Franny Baldwin Benullo<br />
Co-production partners: Taylor/Fuller<br />
Production, Genuine Article Pictures<br />
Cast: Scott Wolf, Gabriel Byrne, Tim<br />
Roth<br />
Delivery Status: Post Production<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Police Detective Emmett Young has three<br />
days to solve a brutal murder...his own.<br />
W<br />
WEG INDIA<br />
WEG India, 8 Palm Crest, Main Avenue,<br />
Santacruz (West), Mumbai 400-054,<br />
India. Tel: 9122.26051011 / 26051842.<br />
Fax: 9122.26052621. weg@vsnl.com.<br />
www.dvdworldwide.com<br />
At Cannes: Avinaash Jumani<br />
(International Sales & Acquisitions),<br />
Amit Jumani (International Sales &<br />
Acquisitions), Kavi Jumani (International<br />
Sales & Acquisitions), Ranchor Jumani<br />
(International Sales & Acquisitions)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera - Booth # J6, Tel:<br />
06.75710630<br />
JISM - THE DARK SIDE OF<br />
DESIRE<br />
www.jismthefilm.com<br />
Thriller / Romance (133 min)<br />
Director: Amit Saxena<br />
Producer: Pooja Bhatt<br />
Key Cast: John Abraham, Bipasha Basu<br />
& Gulshan Grover<br />
Delivery Status: Completed, Market<br />
Screenings<br />
Country of Origin: India, Year of<br />
Production: 2003<br />
Kabir Lal, a restless, reckless alcoholic<br />
lawyer, has a chance encounter with<br />
Soniya Khanna a young, sexy and<br />
dangerously ambitious wife of middleaged<br />
industrialist Rohit Khanna. <strong>The</strong><br />
sexual chemistry between the couple<br />
intensifies their relationship.<br />
SUPARI<br />
Action Drama (125 min)<br />
Director & Producer: Padam Kumar<br />
Key Cast: Uday Chopra, Nandita Das,<br />
Rahul Dev, Nauheed, Purab Kohli, Akash<br />
Saigal and Irfan Khan<br />
Delivery Status: Completed, Market<br />
Screenings<br />
Country of Origin: India, Year of<br />
Production: 2003<br />
Easy money was what a group of best<br />
friends Aryan, Papad, Chicken and<br />
Mushy wanted. And one person who<br />
showed them the easiest way to make all<br />
their dreams come true was the<br />
mysterious woman Mamta.<br />
YEH LAMHE JUDAAI KE<br />
Romance / Drama<br />
Director: B. Tiwari<br />
Producer: Vishva Light & Sound Ltd.<br />
Key Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Raveena<br />
Tandon, Amit Kumar, Divya, Mohnish<br />
Behl, Kiran Kumar & Anupam Kher<br />
Delivery Status: In Production<br />
Country of Origin: India, Year of<br />
Production: 2003<br />
Love, romance and memories have<br />
always played a special role in one’s life.<br />
A love story of an upcoming singer and<br />
his promoter. Success and confusion gets<br />
in between their romantic future as a<br />
couple.<br />
CHURA LIYAA HAI TUMNE<br />
www.clht.com<br />
Thriller / Romance (144 min)<br />
Director: Sangeeth Sivan<br />
Producer: PFH RAVE<br />
Key Cast: Zayed Khan, Esha Deol, Sahil<br />
Ankola, Rakhi Sawant, Vijay Raaz &<br />
Gulshan Grover<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: India, Year of<br />
Production: 2003<br />
Tina is urgently summoned to Bangkok,<br />
where she is told that her uncle has died<br />
in an accident. She is shocked to learn<br />
that her uncle was wanted in India for a<br />
massive gold heist.<br />
DHUND - THE FOG<br />
Thriller / Suspense (135 min)<br />
Director: Shyam Ramsay<br />
Producer: Yashovardhan Tyagi<br />
Key Cast: Amar Upadhya, Aditi<br />
Gowitrikar, Apoorva Agnhhotri, Divya<br />
Palat, Shweta Menon, Prem Chopra &<br />
Gulshan Grover<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: India, Year of<br />
Production: 2003<br />
A group of college friends become the<br />
target of an unknown serial killer who<br />
keeps a close eye on them to take<br />
revenge one by one.<br />
WILD BUNCH<br />
Wild Bunch, 99 rue de la Verrerie, 75004<br />
Paris, France. Tel: 33.1.53.01.50.24 /<br />
33.1.53.01.50.49<br />
At Cannes: World Sales: Vincent<br />
Maraval, Carole Baraton, Gaël Nouaille;<br />
Co production financing: Juliette Renaud<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Sales <strong>Of</strong>fice: 3 La Croisette, 2nd<br />
floor, Tel: 33.4.93.99.84.54. Fax:<br />
33.4.93.99.85.11. Marketing <strong>Of</strong>fice: 6 La<br />
Croisette, 4th floor, door on the right,<br />
Tel: 33.4.93.99.85.10. Fax:<br />
33.4.93.99.85.08<br />
ALEXANDRA’S PROJECT<br />
Directed by Rolf de Heer<br />
Cast: Gary Sweet, Helen Buday, Bodgan<br />
Koca<br />
Delivery Status: complete<br />
Steve arrives home on his birthday to<br />
find his family gone. His wife has left<br />
him a videotape. Alone in the house, he<br />
starts to watch...<br />
THE CAT RETURNS<br />
A Studio Ghibli <strong>Film</strong><br />
Directed by Hiroyuki Morita<br />
Produced by Toshio Suzuki and Nozomu<br />
Takahashi<br />
Delivery Status: complete<br />
A spellbinding animation fantasy from<br />
Studio Ghibli, a tale of enchantment and<br />
adventure from the producers of Hayao<br />
Miyazaki’s Academy Award-winning<br />
“Spirited Away”.DEAD END<br />
A horror film by Jean- Baptiste Andrea<br />
and Fabrice Canepa<br />
Producer: James Huth (Serial Lover, La<br />
Marque Jaune)<br />
Cast: Ray Wise (Twin Peaks), Alexandra<br />
Holden, Lin Shaye (<strong>The</strong>re’s Something<br />
About Mary), Mick Caine, Amber Smith,<br />
Billy Asher<br />
Delivery Status: complete<br />
A savagely funny, black-as-night<br />
supernatural thriller: Christmas becomes<br />
a living hell as the Harrington family is<br />
torn bloodily apart.<br />
DEVILS (LES DIABLES)<br />
Director: Christophe RUGGIA<br />
Cast: Adèle Haenel, Vincent Rottiers,<br />
Rochdy Labidi, Jacques Bonaffe, Aurélia<br />
Petit.<br />
Delivery Status: complete<br />
Chloé is 13 and mute, entirely dependent<br />
on her younger brother, Joseph. Driven<br />
by his limitless love for her, Joseph does<br />
whatever it takes to keep them together.<br />
PERSONA NON GRATA<br />
Director: Oliver Stone<br />
Production: Rule 8, Wild Bunch, Ixtlan<br />
Cast: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Ariel<br />
Sharon, Ehud Barak, Benjamin<br />
Netanyahu<br />
Delivery Status: complete<br />
March 2002. Israelis and Palestinians at<br />
war. Diplomacy deadlocked. Violence<br />
escalating. In search of first-hand<br />
perspectives, Oliver Stone leads a<br />
documentary crew into the very heart of<br />
the conflict.<br />
CANNES <strong>PRODUCT</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
WINCHESTER FILMS<br />
Winchester <strong>Film</strong>s, 19 Heddon St., W1B<br />
4BG, London, United Kingdom. Tel:<br />
0207.851.6500. Fax: 0207.851.6505.<br />
mail@winchesterent.co.uk.<br />
www.winchesterent.com<br />
Company Type: Sales agent, distributor,<br />
film finance<br />
At Cannes: Gary Smith (CEO), Hadeel<br />
Reda (CEO LA <strong>Of</strong>fice), Billy Hurman<br />
(snr VP sales and marketing), Andrew<br />
Brown (snr VP sales and marketing),<br />
Gareth Jones (Head of UK <strong>Film</strong><br />
Production and Finance); Acquisition<br />
Executive: Mick Southworth (CEO of<br />
Distribution)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Noga Hilton, Presidential Suite<br />
305, Tel: 33.4.92.99.75.66. Tel:<br />
33.4.92.99.75.67. Fax: 33.4.92.99.75.68<br />
THE NIGHT WE CALLED IT A DAY<br />
Drama (100 mins)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Paul Goldman<br />
Producer: Nik Powell, Emile Sherman,<br />
Peter Clifton<br />
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith,<br />
David Hemmings<br />
Delivery Status: Completed-World<br />
Premiere<br />
Year of Production: 2002-3, Country of<br />
Origin: Australia/UK<br />
Budget: $8 million.<br />
<strong>The</strong> true story of Frank Sinatra’s 1974<br />
Australian tour during which he managed<br />
to alienate a whole nation.<br />
HARV THE BARBARIAN<br />
Comedy<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: TBC<br />
Producer: Winchester <strong>Film</strong>s<br />
Cast: TBC<br />
Delivery Status: pre-production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: UK<br />
Budget: $16 million<br />
A Monty Pythonesque tale of a simpleminded<br />
barbarian who goes on an epic<br />
journey of self-discovery.<br />
RED DWARF<br />
Comedy (100 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Doug Naylor<br />
Producer: Charles Armitage<br />
Cast: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny<br />
John-Jules<br />
Delivery Status: pre-production<br />
Year of Production: 2003, Country of<br />
Origin: UK<br />
Budget: $ 15 million<br />
A comedy based on the globally<br />
successful sci-fi comedy TV adventure<br />
series.<br />
HOLLYWOOD NORTH<br />
Comedy (89 min)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Peter O’Brian<br />
Producer: John Gillespie<br />
Cast: Alan Bates, Mathew Modine,<br />
Jennifer Tilly<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2002, Country of<br />
Origin: Canada/UK<br />
Budget: $ 3.5 million<br />
A comedy drama about a smart,<br />
handsome and successful lawyer.<br />
Nothing had ever stood in his way...until<br />
he decided to make a movie!<br />
SCORCHED<br />
Comedy<br />
Language: English.<br />
Director: Gavin Grazer.<br />
Producer: Neverland <strong>Film</strong>s, Al Corly,<br />
Bart Rosenblatt.<br />
Cast: John Cleese, Woody Harrelson,<br />
Alicia Silverstone, Rachel Leigh Cook.<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Year of Production: 2001, Country of<br />
Origin: USA<br />
Budget: $15 million<br />
Three small town bank employees all<br />
unwittingly make plans to rob the bank<br />
during the same weekend.<br />
NINE LIVES - NUIMAGE<br />
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Y<br />
YORK<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
York Entertainment International,<br />
4565 Sherman Oaks Ave., Sherman Oaks,<br />
CA 91403 USA. Tel: 818.788.4050.<br />
Fax: 818.788.4011.<br />
www.yorkentertainment.com<br />
At Cannes: Gregg Ratinoff (Director of<br />
International Sales)<br />
<strong>Of</strong>fice: Noga Hilton, Room 303, Tel:<br />
33(0).492997000<br />
SCARECROW - SLAYER<br />
Action-Horror<br />
Starring Tony Todd (Candyman)<br />
Delivery Status: Completed, ready for<br />
delivery June 1, 2003<br />
A college freshman is killed during a<br />
fraternity prank and is resurrected as a<br />
demonic Scarecrow. Seeking twisted<br />
revenge, he terrorizes a small town next<br />
to a major university.<br />
EL CHUPACABRA<br />
Action-Horror<br />
Stars Naughty By Nature rapper Anthony<br />
“Treach” Criss (Love and A Bullet,<br />
Empire, Book of Love), Eric Alegria,<br />
Elina Madison<br />
Delivery Status: Completed post<br />
production - July, 2003 delivery<br />
After his capture in the wilderness, the<br />
legendary, bloodthirsty creature El<br />
Chupacabra escapes into the city creating<br />
mayhem and panic.<br />
13 DEAD MEN<br />
Action-Adventure<br />
Cast: Lorenzo Lamas, Mystikal, Ashley<br />
Tucker<br />
Delivery Status: Completed post<br />
production - July, 2003 delivery<br />
A master diamond thief, is framed and<br />
convicted for murder and imprisoned on<br />
death row in a high security facility.<br />
SCARECROW<br />
Action-Horror<br />
Delivery Status: ready for delivery<br />
Year of production 2002<br />
Scarecrow is the story of a small town<br />
teenage boy who was bullied by his<br />
classmates, his teacher, and his family.<br />
SCREAM BLOODY MURDER<br />
Teen-Adventure<br />
Delivery Status: completed 2003 ready<br />
for delivery<br />
A hilarious spoof of Halloween and <strong>The</strong><br />
Texas Chain Saw Massacre! Hot girls in<br />
tight school uniforms are trapped in the<br />
middle of nowhere with a psycho killer<br />
in hot pursuit.<br />
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ZENPIX<br />
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Angeles, CA 90068 USA. Tel:<br />
323.878.0404. Fax: 323.878.0486.<br />
sales@promarkgroup.com<br />
At Cannes: Mr. Jonathan Kramer<br />
(President), Ms. Susan Jackson (Co-<br />
President), Ms. Annouchka Lesoeur<br />
(Vice President International Sales), Mr.<br />
Eric Bernstein (Vice President of<br />
International Sales)<br />
HOUSE OF A 1000 CORPSES<br />
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<strong>Of</strong>fice: Riviera Both M9/N10<br />
BRIAR PATCH<br />
Thriller (102 min.)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Zev Berman<br />
Producer: Lauren Moews, Sam Froelich<br />
Cast: Dominique Swain, Henry Thomas,<br />
Arie Verveen<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Inez Macbeth is a beautiful young girl<br />
who plots a murder scheme to escape her<br />
abusive dead-beat husband.<br />
VENUS AND MARS<br />
Comedy (90 min.)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Harry Mastrogeorge<br />
Producer: Bernd F. Lunkewitz, Emmo<br />
Lepert, Uwe Scott<br />
Cast: Daniela Amavia, Julie Bowen,<br />
Lynn Redgrave<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: Germany<br />
Kay Vogel may only be 26 but she’s<br />
already given up on love, blaming it as a<br />
cause of her worst mistakes.<br />
NO TURNING BACK<br />
Drama (103 min.)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Jesus Nebot,<br />
Producer: Eduardo Campoy, Jesus Nebot<br />
Cast: Jesus Nebot, Chelsea Rendon,<br />
Vernee Watson-Johnson<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
An illegal immigrant in the United States<br />
hoping to build a better future for his<br />
five-year-old daughter but gets caught up<br />
in a tragic accident that may jeopardize<br />
everything.<br />
THE RISING PLACE<br />
Drama (93 min.)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Tom Rice<br />
Producer: Tom Rice, Tracy A. Ford,<br />
Marshall Peck<br />
Cast: Lauren Hollman, Elise Neal, Mark<br />
Webber<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Set in the picturesque landscape of the<br />
Mississippi Delta in the 1940’s, “<strong>The</strong><br />
Rising Place” follows the close<br />
friendship of two young women, one<br />
white and the other black as they face the<br />
discrimination of their time.<br />
GABRIELA<br />
Drama (103 min.)<br />
Language: English<br />
Director: Vincent Jay Miller<br />
Producer: Vincent Jay Miller, Vincent J.<br />
Francillon<br />
Cast: Jamie P. Gomez, Seidy Lopez,<br />
Zach Galligan<br />
Delivery Status: Completed<br />
Country of Origin: USA<br />
Mike dreams of finding his soul matewhen<br />
he thinks he has met her in<br />
Gabriela, a sensitive beautiful therapist,<br />
she turns out to be engaged.<br />
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