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3DD ENTERTAINMENT
3DD Entertainment, 190 Camden High Street, London, NW1 8QP, UK. Tel: 44.0207.428.1800. Fax: 44.0207. 428.1818. www.3ddgroup.com,
e-mail: info@3ddgroup.com
Distributor
At Cannes: Dominic Saville (CEO)
Office: Tel: 44(0)207.428.1800
RFK MUST DIE – THE ASSASSINATION OF BOBBY KENNEDY
Documentary (1 x 60’ & 2 x 60’ plus 137’ feature)
Language: English
Director: Various
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: UK
An investigative documentary into one of America’s most enduring murder mysteries which calls for a reopening of the case in the lead up to
the 40th anniversary of his assassination in June 2008.
SUPERSTARS
Documentary (26 x 30’) mobile/web package (130 x 2.5’)
Language: English
Producer: Marilyn Higgins
Cast: A range of celebrities including Adam Sandler, Heath Ledger, Katie Holmes, Eva Longoria and Colin Farrell.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Australia
The second series featuring Hollywood’s most talked about film, music and television stars, including Mel Gibson, Tilda Swinton, Justin
Timberlake, Courtney Cox and Daniel Radcliffe; Superstars is the must-see collection of celebrity profiles.
BLING
Documentary (1 x 60’ & 1 x 90’)
Language: English
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
In this riveting, unforgettable film, a few of hip hop’s finest travel to war-torn Sierra Leone and come face to face with the real cost of bling.
SPIELBERG ON SPIELBERG
Documentary (1 x 60’ & 1 x 90’)
Director: Richard Schickel
Producer: Richard Schickel
Cast: Steven Spielberg
Delivery Status: In production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
An unparalleled insight into the most successful and admired director in Hollywood. The legendary filmmaker talks in extensive detail about
his fascinating life encircled by clips from his greatest films.
FAERIE TALE THEATRE
Fantasy drama series (26 x 60’)
Language: English
Director: Various, including Tim Burton, Eric Idle and Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Shelly Duvall
Cast: Hollywood stars such as Robin Williams, Helen Mirren, Susan Sarandon, Mick Jagger, Anjelica Huston, Jeff Bridges
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1982 – 1987, Country of Origin: USA
An alternative and captivating collection of the best loved children’s fairytales. These truly unforgettable films feature some of the best known
stars in Hollywood.
MEPHISTO
Drama (1 x 144’)
Language: German and Hungarian
Director: István Szabó
Cast: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda, Ildikó Bánsági, Rolf Hoppe
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1981, Country of Origin: Germany and Hungary
This film examines the seductiveness of power and corruption of politics in 1930s Germany when a left-wing actor begins to sell out friends
and colleagues in return for Nazi patronage.
COSMOS
Documentary (13 x 60’)
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Language: English
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1980
Seen by over 600 million viewers in 60 countries, this multi- Emmy Award winning series is arguably the most popular and stunningly
influential science programme ever produced.
SEX AND THE SILVER SCREEN
Documentary (6 x 60’)
Language: English
Director: Frank Martin
Producer: Rudy Poe and Frank Martin
Cast: Hollywood’s most compelling historical figures including Marilyn Monroe, Veronica Lake and Brigitte Bardot
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of Origin: USA
An insightful documentary series exploring the evolution of sex in the movies featuring clips from films including The Graduate, Bonnie and
Clyde and From Russia With Love and Basis Instinct.
JORDAN AND PETER: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION
Documentary (4 series)
Language: English
Cast: Britain’s favourite tabloid couple, glamour model Jordan (aka Katie Price) and 1990s pop star Peter Andre
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005 – 2007, Country of Origin: UK
Blending comedy with documentary, voyeurism and celebrity surveillance, we jump into the not-so-private lives of the headline grabbing
relationship between glamour girl Jordan Australian pop star Peter Andre.
THE OUTSIDER
Documentary (85’)
Language: English
Cast: James Toback, Woody Allen, Robert Downey Jr., Mike Tyson, Brooke Shields, Norman Mailer and more
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
Absurdly comic and at times quite emotional, The Outsider follows legendary writer / director / filmmaker James Toback (The Gambler, Two
Girls and A Guy, Bugsy) through the insane making of his recent thriller When Will I Be Loved starring Neve Campbell.
URBAN SOUL
Documentary (90’)
Language: English
Cast: Beyoncé Knowles, Mary J Blige, Wyclef Jean, Bobby Brown, TLC and Chaka Khan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of Origin: UK
Urban Soul is a groundbreaking journey through contemporary American music culture. It is the first documentary to tell the story of the most
glamorous pop music in the world today: R&B.
GOLDIE: WHEN SATURN RETURNZ
Documentary (50’)
Language: English
Cast: Musical heroes such as David Bowie, Noel Gallagher and former collaborator Rob Playford
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1998, Country of Origin: UK
The flamboyant figurehead of avant-garde dance music confronts his past in this moving and controversial documentary. As well as musical
success both sides of the Atlantic, Goldie is also an occasional actor (The World is Not Enough, Snatch).
THE LAST ANGEL OF HISTORY
Documentary (45’)
Language: English
Cast: Astronaut Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr., one of the first African-Americans in space and Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols amongst many
others
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1995, Country of Origin: UK
John Akomfrah, director of Seven Songs of Malcolm X, returns with an engaging and searing examination of the hitherto unexplored
relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and rapidly progressing computer technology.
STAN TRACEY: THE GODFATHER OF BRITISH JAZZ
Documentary (70’)
Language: English
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Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of Origin: UK
Stan Tracey’s career spans over 60 years and he is widely regarded as Britain’s greatest living pianist and arranger – this documentary is a
deeply moving portrait of one musician’s lifetime achievement.
A PERSONAL HISTORY OF BARRY SHEENE
Documentary (1 x 60’ & 1 x 90’)
Language: English
Director: Mark Tinkler
Cast: Narrated by Ewan McGregor
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
Barry Sheene remains a household name in Grand Prix racing. This fascinating documentary, filmed in HD all over the world, explores his
attitude, celebrity status and amazing medical triumphs.
JACKIE: BEYOND THE MYTH
Documentary (1 x 120’)
Language: English
Director: Suzanne Bauman
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of Origin: USA
An expansive and intimate look at one of America’s most fascinating First Ladies. Featuring insights into the most significant moments of her
life, including the assassination of JFK.
THE DOCTOR, THE TORNADO AND THE KENTUCKY KID
Documentary (1 x 105’)
Language: English
Director: Mark Neale
Cast: Nicky ‘Kentucky Kid’ Hayden, Colin ‘Texas Tornado’ Edwards, Valentino ‘The Doctor’ Rossi and narrated by Ewan McGregor
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
This highly anticipated sequel to the action-packed documentary Faster tells the story of the biggest weekend in US motorcycle racing history
and features on-track action and personal drama from Laguna Seca.
YUSUF ISLAM: A FEW GOOD SONGS
Documentary (1 x 60’)
Language: English
Director: Paul Bernays
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
An insightful documentary made for the BBC telling the story of the legendary singer/songwriter, formerly known as Cat Stevens. Celebrating
his return to the music industry after nearly 30 years.
ADRIANA CHIESA ENTERPRISES
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises, Via Barnaba Oriani, 24a, Rome, 00197 Italy. Tel: 39.06.808.60.52. Fax: 39.06.807.92.71. website:
www.adrianachiesaenterprises.com, e-mail: info@adrianachiesaenterprises.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Adriana Chiesa Di Palma (President), Rossella Gori (Head of International Sales)
Office: Hotel Carlton, Salon du Bridge, 1st Floor, Tel 33(0)4.93.06.41.00. Fax: 33(0)4.93.06.41.01, Mobile: 39.335.8265.984
TUTTA LA VITA DAVANTI (CALL CENTER)
Comedy (117 min)
Language: ITALIAN Subtitles ENGLISH
Director: Paolo Virzi
Scriptwriter: Francesco Bruni, Paolo Virzi
Production company: Medusa Film & Motorino Amaranto
Key cast: Isabella Ragonese, Massimo Ghini, Sabrina Ferilli
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Italy
One of the best Italian films of the decade…a young woman’s hallucinating experiences in a call center treated with the lucidity of an
investigative docu-fiction, it paints a fresco in grotesque hues.
SCUSA MA TI CHIAMO AMORE (SORRY IF I LOVE YOU)
Romantic Comedy (104 min)
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Language: ITALIAN Subtitles ENGLISH
Director: Federico Moccia
Scriptwriter: Federico Moccia
Production company: Medusa Film
Producer: Rita Rusic
Key cast: Raoul Bova, Michela Quattrociocche
Status: Completed
Country of origin: ITALY
A record Italian box office hit, this is a lighthearted moving love story for all who dream and believe in true love…
GIORNI E NUVOLE (DAYS AND CLOUDS)
Drama (116 min)
Language: ITALIAN Subtitles ENGLISH
Director: Silvio Soldini
Scriptwriter: Doriana Leondeff, Francesco Piccolo, Federica Pontremoli, Silvio Soldini
Production company: Lumière & Co, Amka Films And Rtsi-Televisione Svizzera Co-Production
Producer: Lionello Cerri
Key cast: Margherita Buy, Antonio Albanese
Status: Completed
Country of origin: ITALY
Other scenes from a marriage, other scenes from their love. A film that revolves around the strongest of all subjects: the power of love, the
emotional collapse of a couple combining drama and lightness
CORAZONES DE MUJER (WOMAN’S HEART)
Romantic Comedy (85 min)
Language: ITALIAN/ARABIC Subtitles ENGLISH
Director: Davide Sordella, Pablo Benedetti
Scriptwriter: Davide Sordella, Pablo Benedetti
Production company: 011 Films Production
Producer: Flavio Sordella
Key cast: Aziz Ahmeri, Ghiziane Waldi, Mohammed Wajid
Status: Completed
Country of origin: ITALY
A road movie, a Moroccan transvestite dressmaker, a bride-to-be who must recover her lost virginity..
RIPRENDIMI (GOOD MORNING HEARTACHE)
Drama (93 min)
Language: ITALIAN Subtitles ENGLISH
Director: Anna Negri
Scriptwriters: Anna Negri, Giovanna Mori
Production company: Bess Movie
Producer: Francesca Neri, Claudio Amendola
Key cast: Alba Rohrwacher
Status: Completed
Country of origin: ITALY
A great contemporary love story in a time of precarious existence: alternatively emotional and funny weaving together naturalistic dialogue and
close-up vérité style.
PIANO, SOLO (PIANO SOLO)
Drama (111 min)
Language: ITALIAN Subtitles ENGLISH
Director: Riccardo Milani
Scriptwriter: Ivan Cotroneo, Claudio Piersanti, Riccardo Milani
Production Company: Rai Cinema, Palomar, Hugo Films
Producer: Carlo Degli Esposti
Key Cast: Kim Rossi Stuart, Jamine Trinca, Michele Placido
Status: Completed
Country of origin: ITALY
The fragile and tormented life of an artist of genius. Based on a true story: from his childhood in Africa to his European success as a gifted jazz
musician, unable to love himself.
MARADONA THE HAND OF GOD (MARADONA LA MANO DE DIOS)
Drama, Feature Film (113 min)
Language: Spanish Subtitles English
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Production company: Elide Melli For Comedy Film And Ombú Producciones, In Collaboration With Rai Cinema
Producer: Elide Melli
Director: Marco Risi
Scriptwriter: Manuel Valdivia, Cesar Vidal, Manuel Rios
Key cast: Marco Leonardi, Juan Leyrado, Julieta Diaz
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Spain, Italy
The feature film on the life of Diego Maradona brings new understanding of the Argentinian idol: the champion, the genius, the excesses
FAMILY GAME
Drama (90 min)
Country of origin: ITALIAN
Language: ITALIAN Subtitles ENGLISH
Director: Alfredo Arciero
Production company: Videodrome Visual Productions s.r.l., Rai Cinema S.p.A., Iron Production s.r.l., I.D.F. Italian Dream Factory s.r.l.,
Gianfranco Morani
Scriptwriter: Alfredo Arciero, with the collaboration of Marina Polla De Luca
Key cast: Sandra Ceccarelli, Stefano Dionisi, Fabio Troiano
Status: Completed
The façade of a seemingly happy family cracks to reveal deep wounds and dark secrets caused by their refusal to truly communicate.
THE STORY OF LEO
Animation (81 min)
Language: ITALIAN Subtitles ENGLISH
Budget: Delivery date Completed
Production company: Dujass Film
Producer: Veronica Salvi, Marco Ambrosino
Director: Mario Cambi
Scriptwriter: Pierstefano Marangoni, Mario Cambi
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Italy
An animated feature film: a romantic, adventurous, tender and amusing story of a young vegetarian lion and the beautiful queen of a heard of
elephants.
MOTHERS
Documentary (90 min)
Language: Hebrew / Arabic Subtitles ENGLISH
Production company: Rai Cinema, Digital Studio
Producer: Alex Ponti
Director: Barbara Cupisti
Scriptwriter: Barbara Cupisti
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Italy
A moving documentary: in this rare and dramatic collection of testimonies, Israeli and Palestinian mothers join together to express one
universal sorrow: the loss of a son killed in this seemingly endless conflict.
ROULETTE
Drama (94 min)
Language: ITALIAN Subtitles ENGLISH
Director: Mohammed Soudani
Scriptwriter: Elvira Dones, Gianluca Bomprezzi
Production company: AMKA Films Productions SA, RTSI – Televisione Svizzera
Producer: Tiziana Soudani
Key cast: Pietro Sermonti, Genti Kame, Jacqueline Lustig
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Switzerland
A rare bond is formed between the tormented son of a wealthy Swiss family and a young Albanian immigrant with an inspiring and courageous
vision of life
IO, L’ALTRO (I, THE OTHER)
Drama (80 min)
Language: ITALIAN Subtitles ENGLISH
Director: Mohsen Melliti
Scriptwriter: Mohsen Melliti
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Production companies: Passworld, Pulp Video, Trees Pictures
Producer: Lorenzo Von Lorch, Maurizio Santarelli, Raoul Bova
Key cast: Raoul Bova, Giovanni Martorana, Mario Pupella
Status: Completed
Country of origin: ITALY
A story of friendship between two simple people who belong to two different worlds and who suddenly find themselves enemies
ROSSO MALPELO (LITTLE BOY RED)
Drama (90 min)
Language: ITALIAN Subtitles ENGLISH
Production company: Arbash Film
Producer: Pasquale Scimeca
Director: Pasquale Scimeca
Scriptwriter: Pasquale Scimeca, Nennella Buonaiuto
Key Cast: Marcello Mazzarella
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Italy
This story is based on a classic novel by Giovanni Verga. It takes place in Sicily in a mine. What is described here could have happened today,
anywhere in the world where there are children abandoned, exploited, mistreated.
IL DOLCE E L’AMARO (THE SWEET AND THE BITTER)
Drama (90 min)
Language: ITALIAN Subtitles ENGLISH
Director: Andrea Porporati
Scriptwriter: Andrea Porporati, Annio Giocchino Stasi
Production Company: Sciarló For Medusa Film
Producer: Francesco Tornatore
Key Cast: Luigi Lo Cascio, Donatella Finocchiaro
Status: Completed
Country of origin: Italy
The best mafia film to come along in years…tightly packaged, well-played, character-driven drama…with the bonus of a good sense of
humour…
GLORIOUS EXIT
Documentary (75 min)
Language: ITALIAN Subtitles ENGLISH
Director: Kevin Merz
Scriptwriter: Kevin Merz
Production company: AMKA Films Productions & RTSI – Televisione Svizzera
Producer: Tiziana Soudani, Luisella Realini
Key cast: Jarreth Merz
Status: Completed
Country of origin: SWITZERLAND
The death of a father he never really knew, makes a man come face to face with his African heritage. And so he begins his journey from Los
Angeles to Nigeria to confront his roots
ALLIED ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
Allied Entertainment, Inc., 8899 Beverly Blvd., Suite 911, West Hollywood, CA 90048 USA. Tel: 310.271.0703. Fax: 310.271.0706.
http://www.alliedentertainment.com, email: info@alliedentertainment.com
At Cannes: James Moder (Chairman), Janet Y. Liu (VP - Sales Consultant, Asia)
Office: C17, Riviera, Tel: 310.271.0703. Fax: 310.271.0706
SHUT UP AND SHOOT!
Action / Comedy (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Silvio Pollio
Producer: Bob Debrino
Key Cast: Joe Cortese, Daniel Baldwin, James Russo,Gary Busey, Tom
Sizemore, John Savage, Roddy Piper, Willie Gault, Silvio Pollio
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
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Spencer Spector has the number one hit movie for the weekend. Spencer and two young film-makers now terrorize Tinseltown in a clandestine
murderous rampage.
THE BARON AGAINST THE DEMONS
Action / Sci-Fi (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Ricardo Ribelles
Writer: Ricardo Ribelles
Producer: Ana Sánchez-Gijón
Key Cast: Juan Carlos Romeu, Helena Le Cumberri, Xavier Bertran
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Spain
In the final days of the 21st Century, the Earth is engaged in a devastating war with the forces of evil. An enigmatic SUPER HERO known as
the BARON begins a bloody war of vengeance in an attempt to save the Earth.
FALLEN ANGELS
Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Ian David Diaz
Producer: Michael Derbas & Julian Boote
Key Cast: Michael Ironside, Kai Wiesinger, Jeff Fahey
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: USA
Abandoned and filled with a mysterious past, Holy Angel School for Girls is about to reveal its secrets of betrayal, jealousy and vengeance.
FATE
Psychological Thriller (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Ace Cruz
Producer: Ray Guthrie
Key Cast: Michael Pare, Philip Michael Thomas, Lee Majors, Tom Savini
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of Origin: USA
This is the story of two detectives hunting a killer who is using his victims as characters in a demented story.
PUPS
Action / Drama (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Ash
Producer: Daniel Berger
Key Cast: Burt Reynolds, Mischa Barton, Cameron Von Hoy
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1999, Country of Origin: USA
As a post-modern response to the growing trend of senseless gunrelated violence amongst youngsters, "Pups" chronicles the story of a
rebellious "latch-key" teenager who finds his mother's gun.
SAW BLADE
Horror (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Dennis Devine
Producer: David Sterling, Exec. Producer: : Maurice Smith
Key Cast: Reggie Bannister, Justine Pea, Monty Hunter, Jed Rowen
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
One lucky local band will be given 24 hours to record their “breakthrough” song and music video to be released at the official opening of a
recording studio, converted from a dilapidated factory.
HIGHRISE OF BLOOD (TOWER OF BLOOD)
Horror (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Corbin Timbrook
Producer: David Sterling and Corbin Timbrook
Key Cast: Chris Todd, Desiré Varona and J.T. Thomas
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: USA
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Three couples are getting together for a party at an abandoned 30-story High Rise building not knowing that an escaped mental patient is on the
loose.
HORRORVISION
Horror (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Danny Draven
Producer: J.R. Bookwalter and Scott Phillips
Key Cast: Jake Leonard, James Black, Brinke Stevens
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2001, Country of Origin: USA
Dez, a web master, mistakenly logs onto "horrorvision.com"- a website that kills all who come across it.
TOTEM
Horror (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Martin Tate
Producer: Kirk Edward Hansen
Key Cast: Marissa Tait, Jason Faunt, Eric Edwards
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1999, Country of Origin: USA
Three TV-handsome teenage guys and their prom-queen wanabee friends find themselves mysteriously drawn against their will to a forgotten
cemetery in the middle of nowhere one stormy night.
GANGSTERZ?! (THE GRISTLE)
Comedy (93 min)
Language: English
Director: David Portlock
Producer: Eugene "Geno" Taylor & Mychal Wilson
Key Cast: Michael Dorn, Barry Corbin, Valente Rodriguez, Orson Bean, Richard Riehle, Michael McClafferty, Carsten
Norgaard
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2001, Country of Origin: USA
Two struggling medical assistants think they've hit pay dirt when they are hired to deliver some black-market human body parts to a wealthy
and needy U.S. Senator.
ALTADENA FILMS
Altadena Films, Linton House, 39/51 Highgate Road, London NW5 1RS UK. Tel: 44.20.7424.7280. Fax: 44.20.7428.8936.
http://www.altadenafilms.com, email: info@altadenafilms.com
At Cannes: Ildi Toth Davy (Sales and Acquisitions), Maja Zimmermann (Acquisitions), Neda Tancic (Sales and Marketing)
Office: Lerins R4, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.22
SEACHD: THE CRIMSON SNOWDROP
http://www.seachd.com
Family (100 min)
Language: English, Gaelic
Director: Simon Miller
Writer: Simon Miller
Producer: Christopher Young
Key Cast: Padruig Moireasdan, Aonghas Padraig Caimbeul, Colla Domhnallach, Dolina MacLennan, Winnie Brook Young
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: UK
When a young man, Angus, visits his dying Grandfather in hospital he cannot hold back his boyhood quest for the truth - the truth behind the
death of his parents.
BIGGA THAN BEN: A RUSSIAN'S GUIDE TO RIPPING OFF LONDON
http://www.biggathanben.com
Comedy (85 min)
Language: English, Russian
Director: S A Halewood
Writer: S A Halewood
Producer: Liz Holford
Key Cast: Ben Barnes, Andrei Chadov
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Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: UK
A dark comedy, based on the best-selling diaries of two young Russian immigrants who come to London to fleece the system. Music by Pete
Doherty, Joe Strummer and GEAR.
JACK KETCHUM'S THE GIRL NEXT DOOR
http://www.the girlnextdoorfilm.com
Thriller (91 min)
Language: English
Director: Gregory M. Wilson
Writer: Daniel Farrands
Producer: Andrew van den Houten
Key Cast: Blythe Auffarth, Daniel Manche, Blanche Baker
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Based on the novel by Jack Ketchum inspired by real events, THE GIRL NEXT DOOR provides an unflinching look at the dark side of 1950s
suburbia.
WISHBABY
http://www.wishbaby.com
Horror (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Stephen W. Parsons
Writer: Stephen W. Parsons
Producer: Simon Sprackling
Key Cast: Tiana Benjamin, Fenella Fielding, Doc Brown
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
A savage fairytale set in a contemporary urban landscape.
AMERICA VIDEO FILMS
America Video Films, Virrey Loreto 2426, Buenos Aires, 1426, Argentina. Tel: 5411.47879098. Fax: 5411.47879094.
www.americavideofilms.net, email: America@americavideofilms.com
Distributor
At Cannes: Enrique Maya (President), Claudio Braslavsky (VP Acquisitions and Marketing), Robery Sigman (Sales Executive), Maria
Fernanda Fernandez Vila (Business Affairs), Utako Niimi (Japanese Consultant)
Acquisition Executive: Claudio Braslasvky
Office: Carlton Hotel, Suite 225/226, Tel: 33.4.93.06.04.06
STORIES USA
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Various
Country of origin: USA
Key cast: Steve Carell, James Gandolfini, Josh Hartnettt
In the land of plenty no excess is too much.
EARTH FROM ABOVE
Documentary (8 x 45’)
Language: English
Key Cast: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Country of origin: France
An extraordinary documentary series dedicated to confront and explore the major issues currently at stake for the planet, hosted by famous
photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand and inspired by his best-seller book.
SWEENEY TODD
Horror (90’)
Language: English
Director: Dave Moore
Key cast: Ray Winstone
Country of origin: USA
Set in the harsh streets of 18th century London, Sweeney Todd tells the dark and enthralling tale of the notorious serial-killing baber.
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AMERICAN CINEMA INTERNATIONAL
American Cinema International, 15363 Victory Blvd., Van Nuys, CA 91406 USA. Tel: 1.818.907.8700. Fax: 1.818.907.8719. http://www.aciamericancinema.com, email: laura@aci-americancinema.com
At Cannes: George Shamieh (CEO), Chevonne O'Shaughnessy (President), Laura Voros (VP, Foreign Sales)
Office: B5, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.16
JACK HUNTER: THE LOST TREASURE OF UGARIT
Action/Adventure (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Terry Cunningham
Writer: Michael Palmieri, Kevin Moore
Producer: George Shamieh, Chevonne O'Shaughnessy, Osama Bastaki
Key Cast: Ivan Sergei, Joanne M. Kelly, Thure Riefenstein
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $15 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Turkey
Jack Hunter, an adventurous treasure seeker, goes to Ugarit, a town in Syria that existed during the Pharoah’s reign, seeking clues to a rumored
buried treasure.
JACK HUNTER: THE QUEST FOR AKHENATON'S TOMB
Action/Adventure (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Terry Cunningham
Producer: George Shamieh, Chevonne O'Shaughnessy, Osama Bastaki
Key Cast: Ivan Sergei, Joanne M. Kelly, Thure Riefenstein
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $15 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Turkey
Jack Hunter continues his quest to find the Ugarit treasure as an ancient obelisk with Ugarit symbols has been found revealing a link between
the pharaoh Akhenaten to the treasure.
THE BOXER
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Thomas Jahn
Writer: Thomas Jahn, Sabine Leipert
Producer: Rolant Hergert, Michael Souvignier, Ica Souvignier
Key Cast: Stacy Keach, Joshua Dallas, Kelly Adams
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $3-$5 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Germany
Upon his release from prison, Ben redeems himself with the help of his mentor Joe.
THE LOST SAMARITAN
Action (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Thomas Jahn
Writer: Thomas Jahn, Sabine Leipert
Producer: Rolant Hergert, Michael Souvignier, Ica Souvignier
Key Cast: Ian Somerhalder, Ruta Gedmintas, Oliver Debuschewitz
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $3-$5 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Germany
FATAL RESCUE
http://www.aci-americancinema.com
Action (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Thomas Jahn
Writer: Thomas Jahn, Sabine Leipert
Co-Production Partners: Zeitsprung
Producer: Rolant Hergert, Michael Souvignier, Ica Souvignier
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Key Cast: Steve Guttenberg, Aislinn Sands, Dominic Rickhards
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $3-$5 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Germany
A divorcing couple must come together when their son falls into a mysterious hidden well and must fight time, nature and a past secret to save
their son.
LAST CHANCE
Action/SciFi (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Ion Ionescu
Writer: Ion Ionescu
Co-Production Partners: Ion Ionescu Film
Producer: George Shamieh, Chevonne O'Shaughnessy, Ion Ionescu
Key Cast: Shawn Christian, Alison King, Gary Hudson
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $5 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Romania
In future world, a world on the brink of ecological ruin, mankind is about to be wiped out by mutations from industrial toxic waste.
80 MINUTES
Action (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Thomas Jahn
Writer: Thomas Jahn
Co-Production Partners: Zeitsprung
Producer: Rolant Hergert, Michael Souvignier, Ica Souvignier
Key Cast: Gabriel Mann, Joshua Dallas, Oliver Kieran-Jones, Natalia Avelon
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $3-$5 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Germany
Alex's "creditors" have injected him with poison and he now has 80 minutes to live or die; he must make the choice of remaining loyal to his
friends and family or do whatever it takes to survive and pay back his debt.
PERFECT HIDEOUT
Action (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Stephen Manuel
Writer: Andreas Brune, Sven Frauenhoff
Co-Production Partners: Zeitsprung
Producer: Rolant Hergert, Michael Souvignier, Ica Souvignier
Key Cast: Billy Zane, Cristian Solimeno, Melinda Cohen, Ken Bones
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $3-$5 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Germany
Get scared and entertained at the same time. A young couple, Nick and Celia, chased by the police, escapes into a family home and accidentally
witnesses a mass murder scene and the serial killer, who is still inside of the villa, now chases them.
KAMASUTRA NIGHTS
Drama (112 min)
Language: English
Director: Eric Manning
Writer: Jason Krieger, Randor Guy
Producer: Ram Kay
Key Cast: Zain Jamal, Tanit Phoenix, Sunny Malik
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $4 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: India
A disturbing and compelling tale of misplaced love, passion, sex, destiny, black magic and the power of free will. It is set in an exotic and
mysterious land that accentuates the danger and suspense. It is a story of true love lost, then found, as much as it is also a cautionary tale.
TEN COMMANDMENTS
Animation (90 min)
Language: English
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Director: Bill Boyce, John Stronach
Writer: Ed Naha
Co-Production Partners: Promenade Pictures, Ten Chimneys Entertainment
Producer: Cindy Bond
Key Cast: Ben Kingsley, Christian Slater, Alfred Molina, Elliott Gould
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $15 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
This is the story of the Hebrew Exodus out of Egyptian slavery told through the magical medium of animation.
AMERICAN WORLD PICTURES
American World Pictures, 16027 Ventura Blvd Encino CA, 91436 USA. Tel: 1.818.380.9100. Fax: 1.818.380.0050.
www.americanworldpictures.com
Worldwide Distribution
At Cannes: Mark L Lester (President), Dana Dubovsky (President, Production), Judy Gold (Exec. VP Worldwide Sales), Jeffrey Goldman (VP
Worldwide Sales)
Office: Riviera N° C6
SHOOT ON SIGHT
Political Thriller (112 min)
Director: Jag Mundhra
Writer: Carl Austin
Producer: Aron Govil
Cast: Brian Cox , Greta Scacchi, Om Puri , Naseeruddin Shah, Sadie Frost
Tariq Ali (Shah), a Muslim police officer of Scotland Yard, is asked to hunt-down suspected suicide-bombers against the backdrop of July 7
bombings in London.
THE LITTLE TRAITOR
Drama (88 min)
Writer: Amos Oz, Lynn Roth,
Director: Lynn Roth
Producers: Eithan Evan and Marilyn Hall
Cast: Alfred Molina, Ido Port, Theodore Bikel
Proffy Liebowitz, a militant yet sensitive eleven year old wants nothing more than for the occupying British to get the hell out of his land.
THE LENA BAKER STORY
Biography (108 min)
Director: Ralph Wilcox
Writer: Ralph Wilcox
Producers: Dennis Johnson, Barton Rice
Cast: Tichina Arnold, Michael Rooker, Peter Coyote, Jasmine Farmer.
A chronicle of the life of Lena Baker, the first woman to be sent to the electric chair in
Georgia for the murder of her employer, who forced her into sexual slavery.
KEITH
Drama (92 min)
Director: Todd Kessler
Writers: David Zabel, Todd Kessler
Producer: Todd Kessler
Cast: Jesse McCartney, Elizabeth Harnois
A 17-year-old thinks she's got it all figured out until she falls for a guy who has nothing to lose.
YETI
Sci Fi Thriller (90 min)
Director: Paul Ziller
Writer: Rafael Jordan
Producers: Mark Lester, Dana Dubovsky, Eric Gozlan, Daniel Grodnick
Cast: Peter DeLuise, Crystal Lowe, Kris Pope
An American Flight crashes in the Himalayas.
Most of the passengers die on impact but the survivors are not alone…a creature is stalking the crash site.
PRETTY LITTLE DEVILS
Comedy (90 min)
Director: Irving Rothberg
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Writer: Jason Dudeck
Producer: Greg Strasburg
Cast: Haylie Duff, Madeline Zima, Monica Lo
When a geeky, overweight rushee is found dead at the hottest sorority on the campus,
the three most popular girls of the house are prime suspects.
THE POET
Action/Drama (90 min)
Director: Damien Lee
Writer: Jack Crystal
Producer: Lowell Conn and Damian Lee
Cast: Daryl, Hannah, Roy Scheider, Kim Coates, Colm Feore, Jonathan Scarfe, Nina Dobrev
A Jewish woman and a German soldier with the gift of writing poetry, fall in love in the early days of WII.
THE CARETAKER
Horror (83 min)
Writers: Jackie Olson
Director: Brice Olson
Producers: Jackie Olson, Allison Wilke
Cast: Jennifer Tilly, Judd Nelson
A group of teenage boys out to give their girlfriends a good scare on Halloween/Homecoming night head to an abandoned house in an out-ofthe-way grapefruit orchard where the story of a real life urban legend “The Caretaker” is revealed.
SEPTEMBER DAWN
Action (110 min)
Director: Christopher Cain
Writer: Scott Duthie
Producer: Carole Whang Schutter
Cast: John Voight, Trent Ford, Tamara Hope, Terence Stamp
A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857.
GHOST WRITER
Thriller (90 min)
Director: Alan Cumming
Writer: Thomas Gallagher
Producer: Alan Cumming Ken Adelberg, David Mathews
Cast: Alan Cumming, David Boreanaz, Anne Heche, Carrie Fisher, Jane Lynch, Henry Thomas Karen Black
A failed composer turned music teacher takes a handsome hustler with an unpublished manuscript under his wing only to discover that his
charitable act has deadly consequences.
IN A DARK PLACE
Supernatural Thriller (95 min)
Director: Donato Rotunno
Writers: Henry James, Peter Waddington
Producers: Andreas Bajohra, Eddy Géradon-Luyckx
Cast: Leelee Sobieski
Anna Veigh takes a new job as a nanny and is forced to confront her dark secrets as she fights to cleanse the souls of the children she’s caring
for.
GRIZZLY PARK
Action Thriller (90 min)
Director: Tom skull
Writer: Tom Skull
Producer: Belle Avery
Cast: Glenn Morshower, Rance Howard
Eight troubled young adults are sentenced to community service in Grizzly Park and learn
they are being stalked by a serial killer and a nine foot tall Grizzly bear.
TRILOQUIST
Horror (90 min)
Director: Mark Jones
Writer: Mark Jones
Producer: Michael Levine, Marlon Parry, Jack Edwards Sawyer
Cast: Rocky Marqiette, Paydin LoPachin,
A ventriloquist dies of a drug overdose leaving her two kids on their own, except for her
grotesque dummy which seems to have a life of it’s own.
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LOST COLONY
Supernatural Horror (90 min)
Director: Matt Codd
Writer: Rafael Jordan
Producer: Mark Lester, Dana Dubovsky
Cast: Adrian Paul, Rhett Giles, Frida Farrell
Based on a true story of Roanoke Virginia, a group of English colonists fight for
their lives against a supernatural evil force.
CRAZY EIGHTS
Supernatural Thriller (90 min)
Director: James K. Jones
Writer: Dan DeLuca, James K. Jones
Producer: Dan DeLuca
Cast: Dina Meyer, Frank Whaley, Traci Lords, Gabrielle Anwar
Circumstances bring six childhood friends together to face their past, and a secret they share.
ARRAMIS FILMS, INC.
Arramis Films, Inc., 8619 - 17th NE, Seattle, WA 98115-3203 USA. Tel: 323.654.4965. Fax: 206.782.8351. http://www.arramisfilms.com,
email: rafael@arramisfilms.com
At Cannes: Rafael Primorac (President)
Office:
GIALLO (YELLOW)
Horror (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Dario Argento
Writer: James Agnew and Sean Keller
Co-Production Partners: Hannibal Pictures
Producer: Rafael Primorac and Richard Rionda del Castro
Key Cast: Adrien Brody; Emmanuelle Seigner; Elsa Pataky
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: $8 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: U.S./Italy
In Italy, an American woman fears her sister has been kidnapped. Inspector Enzo Lavia fears it’s worse. They team up to rescue her from a
killer known only as Yellow.
THE TOKAREV
Gangster/Drama (95 min)
Language: English
Writer: James Agnew and Sean Keller
Producer: Rafael Primorac; John Hicks
Status: In Development
A reformed gangster's past comes back to haunt him.
ARRI MEDIA WORLDSALES
ARRI Media Worldsales (Worldsales Company), Türkenstr. 89, 80799 Munich, Germany. Tel: 0049(0)89.38.09.1288. Fax:
0049(0)89.38.09.1619. www.arri-mediaworldsales.de
At Cannes: Antonio Exacoustos (Head of Worldsales)
Office: Int’l Village, German Pavilion, German Films, Tel: 0033.4.925.90.252. Fax: 0033.4.925.90.253
DER ROTE ELVIS (THE RED ELVIS)
Documentary (90 minutes)
Language: German/English/Spanish
Director: Leopold Grün
Producer: Thomas Janze
With: Isabelle Allende Bussi, Celino Bleiweiss, Peter Boyles, Egon Krenz, Maren Zeidler, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Wiebke Reed, Guenter Reisch
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007
Rockstar, Cowboy, Socialist: During Cold War times US American singer and actor Dean Reed is the superstar of the Soviet Union and
worshipped throughout the Eastern Bloc and South America.
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AUFTAUCHEN (AMOUR FOU / BREAKING THE SURFACE)
Erotic Drama
Language: German
Director: Felicitas Korn
Producer: Judith Erber, Bernhard Koch
Cast: Henriette Heinze, Golo Euler, Sabine Bach, Wolfgang Packhaeuser, Till Trenkel, Patrick Gueldenberg, Juergen Lehmann, Claire Oelkers
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006
Nadja utterly storms through life, without compromise. When she meets Darius, she is only interested in a one-night stand.
CLARA
Feature (110 minutes)
Language: German
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms
Producer: Alfred Hürmer, Helma Sanders-Brahms
Cast: Martina Gedeck, Pascal Gregory, Malik Zidi
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Year of Production: 2008
Music, love, jealousy, drama: The story of Clara Schumann offers all the components of great cinema.
ARROW ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Arrow Entertainment Inc., 7 Givins St., Toronto, On M6J 2X5 Canada. Tel: 1.416.516.0815. Fax: 1.416.880.9973. http://www.arrowentertainment.com, email: info@arrow-entertainment.com
At Cannes: Steve Arroyave (CEO), Nick Rotundo (Sales Executive)
Office: Riviera B19, Tel: 04 92 99 33 21
MYSTERIOUS
http://www.mysteriousthemovie.com
Supernatural Thriller
Language: English
Director: Stewart Raffil
Writer: Stewart Raffil
Producer: Diane Kirman
Key Cast: James Brolin, Antonio Sabato Jr., Annalynne McCord
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA/Bahamas
A mysterious and beautiful woman appears on the island of Eleuthera in the Caribbean, to avenge a murderous act, by deadly seduction.
HARVEST
http://www.psychokey.com/harvest
Musical Docu-drama
Patois
Director: Nicolas Jolliet
Writer: Nicolas Jolliet
Producer: Nicolas Jolliet
Key Cast: Azaniah, Joseph Sonson, Baril Pelage, Kyra Levy
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Canada/St. Lucia
The musical journey of a Ganja planter.
SAVING GOD
Drama
Language: English
Director: Duane Crichton
Writer: Michael Jackson
Co-Production Partners: Clear Entertainment, Cloud Ten Pictures
Producer: Dominic Serafino, Wayne Thompson, Philip Mellows, Andre van Heerden
Key Cast: Ving Rhames, Dean McDermott, Ricardo Chavira
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Canada
Ex-con, Armstrong Cane (Ving Rhames), becomes the pastor of the Church he grew up in and battles a neighborhood of drugs and violence to
save souls, one
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ARSENAL PICTURES
Arsenal Pictures, 6363 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 550, Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA. Tel: 1.323.852.0011. Fax: 1.323.852.0013. www.arsenalpictures.com, email: info@arsenal-pictures.com
Distributor
At Cannes: Yarek Danielak (Managing Director), Arianne Fraser (Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Thomas Speller
Office: Riviera G1/H4, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.42
THE SAINT
Action
Director: Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Sleepers)
Producer: William J. MacDonald (HBO’s Rome)
Cast: James Purefoy (Rome)
Status: In Production
An updated adventure following the exploits of sophisticated international thief Simon Templar, whose job it is to right the wrongs of the
modern world.
HAROLD
Family
Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire), Spencer Breslin (The Saunta Clause 2&3), Fred Willard (Best in Show)
Status: Ready for delivery
A teenager with an early onset of male-pattern baldness befriends his high school's janitor.
SARAH LANDON AND THE PARANORMAL HOUR
Family/Mystery
Cast: Rissa Walters, Brian Comrie
Status: Ready for delivery
A 17-year-old girl has mysterious encounters with paranormal activity in the small town of Pine Valley.
STAG NIGHT
Action/Thriller
Director: Peter A. Dowling (Flightplan)
Producers: Arnold Rifkin (Die Hard 4.0, Tears of the Sun), Christopher Eberts (Lord of War, Lucky Number Slevin)
Cast: Kip Pardue, Vinessa Shaw, Breckin Meyer
STATUS: Post-production
Boarding a train after celebrating a bachelor party at a strip club, four guys find themselves stranded in an abandoned subway in New York
City.
NIGHT TRAIN
Action/Thriller
Cast: Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon, Saw), Leelee Sobieski (Eyes Wide Shut, Deep Impact), Steve Zahn (Sahara, Rescue Dawn), Matthias
Schweighöfer (The Red Baron)
Producers: Arnold Rifkin (Die Hard 4.0, Tears of the Sun), Christopher Eberts (Lord of War, Lucky Number Slevin)
Status: Post-production
As a nearly empty passenger train plunges into the heart of a blizzard on Christmas Eve the lives of three characters are changed forever when
an eccentric passenger dies- leaving behind a mysterious wooden box.
THE GO-GETTER
Comedy/Drama
Cast: Zooey Deschanel (Assassination of Jesse James, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy), Jena Malone (Into the Wild, Saved!), Lou Taylor Pucci
(Thumbsucker), Maura Tierney (Liar Liar)
Status: Ready for delivery
When his mother dies, a teenager takes a road-trip in a stolen car to find his long-lost brother. Along the way he discovers a profound
connection with the car-owner and with himself as well.
TIMBER FALLS
Thriller
Director: Tony Giglio (Chaos)
Producers: Arnold Rifkin (Die Hard 4.0, Tears of the Sun), Christopher Eberts (Lord of War, Lucky Number Slevin)
Cast: Josh Randall, Brianna Brown, Nick Searcy, Beth Broderick
Status: Ready for delivery
The twisted story of a young couple camping in the mountains, who must fight for their lives when a deranged cult in need of a newborn child
hunts them down.
MIDNIGHT MOVIE
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Horror
Director: Jack Messitt
Cast: Daniel Bonjour, Rebekah Brandes, Mandell Maughan, Michael Swan
Status: Ready for delivery/screening
A midnight showing of an early 1970's horror movie turns to chaos when the Killer from the movie comes out of the film to attack those in the
theater.
THE PERFECT WITNESS
Psychological Thriller
Director: Thomas Dunn
Cast: Wes Bentley (American Beauty, Ghost Rider), Mark Borkowski
Status: Ready for delivery
When a young filmmaker blackmails a serial killer into becoming his documentary subject, what follows is an intense journey into the darkest
aspects of not only the serial killer’s nature but the filmmaker’s as well.
ARTEDIS - CINEMA ARTS
Artedis - Cinema Arts, 12 rue Raynouard, Paris 75016 France. Tel: 33.1.53.92.29.29. Fax: 33.1.53.92.29.20. http://www.artedisfilms.com,
http://www.cinemaartsent.com, email: artedisf@aol.com
At Cannes: Pierre-Richard Muller (Chairman), Chantal Lam (Vice-President)
Office: Grand Hotel, Building Cormoran II, Tel: 0493995667, Fax: 0493995667
DRILLER
http://www.drillermovie.com
Science-Fiction, Horror (85 min)
Language: English
Director: Jason Kartalian
Writer: Jason Kartalian
Co-Production Partners: Viewfinder Entertainment
Producer: Jason Kartalian
Key Cast: Tanya Dempsey, Ivy Gullickson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
An ordinary man is abducted by malevolent aliens and turned into a drilling and killing machine.
SHOOTING SILVIO
http://www.shootingsilvio.com
Drama (96 min)
Language: Italian
Director: Berardo Carboni
Writer: Berardo Carboni, Carlo Durante, Daniele Malvolta
Co-Production Partners: Mork & Berry, Kubla Khan
Producer: Umberto Massa
Key Cast: Federico Rosati, Sofia Vigliar
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Italy
A satirical drama about a young, rich, outlandish orphan who plots to kill Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in an attempt to make himself seem
more interesting.
CHARITON'S CHOIR
Comedy (100 min)
Language: Greek
Director: Grigoris Karantinakis
Writer: Grigoris Karantinakis, Yorgos Makris, Dimitris Vakis
Co-Production Partners: CL Productions, Graal, Nova
Producer: Elena Hatzialexandrou
Key Cast: Georges Corraface, Maria Nafpliotou, Akilas Karazisis
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: Greece
Chariton is schoolmaster in a tiny town on Corfu during a time of military occupation. His greatest passion is the school choir. His greatest love
affair is life!
SPIN CYCLE
Action, comedy (88 min)
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Language: English
Director: Scott Marshall
Writer: Paul Grace, Adam Lybbert
Co-Production Partners: Galilay Entertainment, Evolving Pictures
Producer: Jack Gilardi, jr.
Key Cast: Sarah Chalke, Lochlyn Munro, Maxin Bahns, Constance Zimmer, Esai Morales, Howie Mandel, Jeff Fahey
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: USA
Six young people are held hostage in a laundromat when a money exchange by low-level gangsters goes wrong. Sure to be a cult classic!
ARTIST VIEW ENTERTAINMENT
Artist View Entertainment, 4425 Irvine Avenue, Studio City, CA 91602 USA. Tel: 1.818.752.2480. Fax: 1.818.752.9339.
www.artistviewent.com, email: sales@artistviewent.com
At Cannes: Scott Jones (President), Jay Joyce (Vice President)
Office in Cannes: Riviera D10, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.41
MR. ART CRITIC
Comedy (90 minutes)
Cast: Bronson Pinchot, Toni Trucks, John Lepard
Status: Complete
Year: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
After a scolding from his boss, a high profile art critic known for his heartless commentaries, retreats to his cottage on the lake to clear his
head.
BILLY OWENS: THE SECRET OF THE RUNES
Family (90 minutes)
Cast: Dalton Mugridge, Ciara O’Hanlon,Christopher Fazio,Mikayla Ottonello
Status: Post Production
Year: 2008, Country of Origin: Canada
Billy, along with his two fellow students in magic, must find a way to free their teachers’ soul from an enchanted amulet before he is trapped
forever.
THE ELEVENTH HOUR
Action (90 minutes)
Cast: Matthew Reese, Kannika Coley, James Jamison, David Nibley
Status: Completed
Year: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
After years as a prisoner of war, a former navy SEAL, is trying to live a normal life.
HOUSE OF FEARS
Thriller (90 minutes)
Cast: Corrie English, Sandra McCoy Corey Sevier, Alice Greczyn, Eliot Benjamin Michael J. Pagan
Status: Completed
Year: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Six friends sneak into a haunted house the night before it opens for Halloween, only to find their evening of fun has turned into their worst
nightmare.
PANDEMIC
Thriller (90 minutes)
Cast: Ray Wise, Graham McTavish, Alesha Clarke, Peter Asle Holden
Status: Completed
Year: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A New Mexico veterinarian finds herself in the midst of a horrifying pandemic where humans and animals are stricken with a horrible
contagious disease.
SPIKER
Thriller / Horror (90 minutes)
Cast: Frank Zagarino, Lou Martini Jr.
Status: Completed
Year: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Spiker, a maniac killer, escapes from an asylum and returns to the small town he terrorized years before, where he slashed his victims to pieces
with railroad spikes and buried the bodies under the train tracks outside of town.
THE MYSTICAL ADVENTURES OF BILLY OWENS
Family (90 minutes)
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Cast: Dalton Mugridge, Christopher Fazio, Ciara O'Hanlon, Roddy Piper
Status: Completed
Year: 2007, Country of Origin: Canada
On his 11th birthday Billy is given a magical wand that will change his life forever.
DOUBTING THOMAS: LIES & SPIES
Family (90 minutes)
Cast: Forrest Landis, Annasophia Robb, Rider Strong, Roger Bart, Lea Thompson, D.L.Hughley
Status: Completed
Year: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Thomas Miller, a twelve year old boy known for telling tall tales, overhears a plot to kidnap the President’s daughter. When he goes public
with his story, no one believes him, and he is forced to save her on his own.
GHOST IMAGE
Thriller (90 minutes)
Cast: Elisabeth Rohm, Stacey Dash, Waylon Payne, Roma Maffia
Status: Completed
Year: 2007
When a young woman loses her boyfriend in a car crash, she finds solace in watching video of him taken the night before he died.
HIDE
Thriller (90 minutes)
Cast: Rachel Miner, Christian Kane, Polly Shannon, Beth Grant
Status: Completed
Year: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A modern day Bonnie and Clyde with a twist that follows two lovers down a path of destruction, mayhem, and murder as they live in a world
where it is acceptable to take whatever they want with murderous consequences.
CROSSROADS
Drama (90 minutes)
Cast: Alan Arkin, Jacob Pitts, Amy Acker, Frank Langella, Orson Bean
Status: Completed
Year: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
The life of a young Jesuit seminarian is turned upside down when he falls in love with a young woman while working as a volunteer at a soup
kitchen.
GRAYSON ARMS
Thriller (90 minutes)
Cast: Judd Nelson, Stacey Dash, Jennifer Carpenter Michael Bowen, Michael Learned
Status: Completed
Year: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Real estate investors purchase The Grayson Arms for a quick sale and an easy profit. As the new landlords, they must evict the tenants from the
building to follow through with their plans. It's a tenant’s nightmare where your eviction could mean death…
DARK SECRETS
Thriller (90 minutes)
Cast: Gary Daniels, Steven Elliot, Kate Thurlwell, Ben Shockley
Status: Completed
Year: 2007, Country of Origin: UK
When the daughter of a celebrity couple is kidnapped it appears to be the work of a serial killer who has struck twice before.
BLOOD WARS
Thriller (90 minutes)
Cast: Tony Todd, Jason Connery, C. Thomas Howell, A.J. Draven
Status: Completed
Year: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Will, a college student finds himself in the middle of a battle between Vampires and a group of warlocks called Sentries. Will is bitten by a
seductive vampire and must come to terms with his new state of being.
KISS OF THE VAMPIRE
Thriller (97 minutes)
Cast: Daniel Goddard, Gary Daniels, Costas Mandylor, Matthias Hues, Katherine Hawkes
Status: Completed
Year: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A sleepy town turns to a place of evil unrest when a covenant of vampires starts to feed there.
REVAMPED
Horror / Comedy (90 minutes)
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Cast: Jeff Rector, Christina Campbell, Fred Williamson
Status: Completed
Year: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A wealthy businessman is bitten by a beautiful vampire and is plunged into the dark world of the supernatural.
ASP ALAIN SIRITZKY PRODUCTION
ASP Alain Siritzky Production, 6399 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1007, Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA. Tel: 1.323.655.6845. Fax: 1.323.655.6849.
www.asproductions.net, email: asproductions@usa.net
Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor
At Cannes: Alain Siritzky (President), Michele Siritzky (Marketing), George Pilzer (Sales Agent), Gabriel Orgal (Sales)
Office: C13, Tel: 04.93.43.97.48. Tel: 06.08.58.16.01
EMMANUELLE PRIVATE COLLECTION
EMMANUELLE IN SPACE
EMMANUELLE IN RIO
EMMANULLE 5
EMMANUELLE 2000
EMMANUELLE 6
EMMANUELLE 7
EMMANUELLE THE TELEVISON SERIES
THE SEX FILES
THE SEX FILES II
THE SEX FILES III
JUSTINE
WAGES OF LUST
BUTTERSCOTCH
CLICK
PASSION AND ROMANCES
THE ASYLUM
The Asylum, 1012 N. Sycamore Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90038 USA. Tel: 323.850.1214. Fax: 323.850.1218. http://www.theasylum.cc, email:
theasylum@theasylum.cc
At Cannes: David Rimawi (CEO), Paul Bales (Chief Operating Officer), Keith Leopard (Consultant)
Office: Riviera A16, Tel: 323.497.1245
100 MILLION BC (PREHISTORIC)
http://www.theasylum.cc/product.php?id=138
Science Fiction (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Louis Myman
Writer: Paul Bales
Producer: David Michael Latt, David Rimawi, Paul Bales
Key Cast: Michael Gross, Greg Evigan, Christopher Atkins
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Scientists discover time travel with horrible consequences when they inadvertently bring a giant carnivorous dinosaur back to modern Los
Angeles.
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
http://www.theasylum.cc/product.php?id=145
Science Fiction (90 min)
lgEnglish
Director: Scott Wheeler and Davey Jones
Writer: Steve Bevilacqua and Scott Wheeler
Producer: David Michael Latt, David Rimawi, Paul Bales
Key Cast: Greg Evigan, Dedee Pfeiffer
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A hi-tech drilling rig must rescue a research team trapped deep below the Earth's surface. There they discover an exotic world -- rich with
spectacular flora and fantastical creatures.
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WAR OF THE WORLDS 2: THE NEXT WAVE
http://www.theasylum.cc/product.php?id=141
Science Fiction (90 min)
Language: English
Director: C. Thomas Howell
Writer: Steve Bevilacqua and Karen Forsberg
Producer: David Michael Latt, David Rimawi, Paul Bales
Key Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Christoper "Kid" Reid
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Two years after the Martian invasion, George Herbert's worst fears are realized: They have returned.
ALLAN QUATERMAIN AND THE TEMPLE OF SKULLS (KING SOLOMON'S MINES)
http://www.theasylum.cc/product.php?id=143
Action Adventure (90 min)
Language: English, Zulu
Director: Mark Atkins
Writer: Matthew Thornbury and David Michael Latt
Producer: David Michael Latt, David Rimawi, Paul Bales
Key Cast: Sean Cameron Michael, Natalie Stone, Christopher Adamson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A retelling of Haggard’s classic novel featuring adventurer Allan Quartermain, the inspiration for Indiana Jones.
STREET RACER
http://www.theasylum.cc/product.php?id=144
Action (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Teo Konuralp
Writer: Carey Van Dyke & Shane Van Dyke
Producer: David Michael Latt, David Rimawi, Paul Bales
Key Cast: Clint Browning, Dorothy Drury, Robert Pike Daniel
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
After serving time for a tragic accident, in which a young boy is crippled, an illegal street racer finds himself dragged back into the world of
high speed competition on the side streets and highways of Los Angeles.
DEATH RACERS
Action (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Roy Knyrim
Writer: Roy Knyrim & Pat Tantalo
Producer: David Michael Latt, David Rimawi, Paul Bales
Key Cast: Insane Clown Posse
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
In this grim vision of the future where brutality is a virtue and mercy will cost you your life, contestants participate in a cross-country death
race where killing is how you win the game.
THE NIGHT THE EARTH STOOD STILL
Science Fiction (90 min)
Language: English
Producer: David Michael Latt, David Rimawi, Paul Bales
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Hundreds of massive intergalactic robots appear in all of the major world capitals with an ultimatum: Prove the value of human civilization or
be destroyed.
MERLIN AND THE WAR OF THE DRAGONS
Fantasy (90 min)
Language: English
Writer: Jon Macy
Producer: David Michael Latt, David Rimawi, Paul Bales
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
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An army of dragons invade the crippled English countryside and the apprentice wizard Merlin must confront the fire-breathing beasts.
MEGA SHARK VS GIANT SQUID
Creature (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Jack Perez
Writer: Jack Perez
Producer: David Michael Latt, David Rimawi, Paul Bales
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
The California coast is terrorized by two enormous prehistoric sea creatures as they battle each other for supremacy of the ocean.
WOLF-MAN
Creature (90 min)
Language: English
Producer: David Michael Latt, David Rimawi, Paul Bales
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
In this modern adaptation of the horror classic, a young American college student studying abroad is cursed to become a beast when the moon
is full.
ATLAS INTERNATIONAL
Atlas International Film GmbH, Candidplatz 11, D - 81543 Munich, Germany. Tel: 49.89.210.975.0. Fax: 49.89.210.975.81.
http://www.atlasfilm.com, email: mail@atlasfilm.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Stefan Menz (President), Kai-Roger Grueneke (President), Philipp Menz (President/Sales & Acquisitions), Dieter Menz (Senior
Vice President), Michel Vandewalle (Head of Business Development), Susanne Groh (National & International Sales)
Office: G9/H12 Riviera and Office 18, quai St. Pierre, 1st floor, Vieux Port de Cannes, Tel: 49.172.8276.385 and 49.174.312.88.92
HABERMANN'S MILL
Drama
Language: German / Czech
Director: Georg Juraj Herz
Producer: Karel Dirka, ART OKO Filmproduktions KG and Pavel Novy, KN Filmcompany s.r.o.
Key Cast: Mark Waschke, Hannah Herzsprung, Ben Becker, Lukas Vaculik, Karel Roden, David Kross, Zuzana Kronerova
Delivery Status: in pre-production
Country of Origin: Germany/Czech Republic
Based on the novel by Josef Urban. Award winning director Georg Juraj Herz will direct this powerful drama set against the backdrop of a
Czech village during the Second World War.
DRAGON DALE
Family Fantasy
Language: English
Producer: Mediacontentfactory, Eva Finance GmbH
Delivery Status: in development
Country of Origin: Germany
A compelling story of Finn and Caitlin, whose parents decide to go on vacation to repair their broken family life But they wake up on the
holiday island, nothing is the same. They are in the 10th century.
MR KUKA'S ADVICE
Comedy (approx. 94 min)
Language: Polish/German/English
Director: Dariusz Gajewski
Producer: Mathias Forberg, Heinz Stussak / PRISMA FILM Vienna and Piotr
Dzieciol, Ewa Puszynska / OPUS FILM Lódz
Cast: Lukasz Garlicki, August Diehl, Nadia Cameron-Blakey
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Austria/Poland
Based on the best-seller by Radek Knapp. - To prepare for this first travel abroad, Polish youngster Waldemar has soaked up endless wisdom
by his neighbour, Mr. Kuka, whose recommendations are – well, weird.
ZONE OF SEPARATION
Action series (8 x 50 min)
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Language: English
Director: Mario Azzopardi
Delivery Status: in post-production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Canada
The life and death struggle to enforce a U.N. brokered ceasefire, as peacekeepers face the harsh reality of living in today's hot-spots in many
parts of the world.
GOLDEN POPS
Music Event (1 x 52/90 min)
Language: English /French
Delivery Status: in post-production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
A super-star showcase with the greatest hits of the last millennium: Spandau Ballet ("Gold", "True"), ABC ("Look of Love"), GoWest ("We
close our Eyes"), Visage ("Fade to Grey"), Bananarama ("Cruel Summer").
PSI-KIX
Animated Action (26 x 22 min)
Language: English
DIRECTOR: Walt Kubiak, Byoungsuk Lim, Kent Butterworth
Producer: Sunny Choi, Digital Tetra Inc.
Cast: animation
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Korea
Earth is under attack by alien robots and only an elite group of teens with psi-powers can save the planet!
WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN
Fantasy Action (Animated Series) (26 x 26 min)
Language: English
Director: Boyd Kirkland
Producer: Toonz Entertainment and First Serve International, in Association with
Co Production Partners: Liberation Entertainment Inc. and Eva Finance GmbH
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA, India, United Kingdom, Germany
Featuring all of the famous X-Men characters, including: Professor X, Beast, Iceman, Emma Frost, Cyclops, Shadowcat, Rogue. with special
guest appearances such as Nick Fury and the Incredible Hulk!
DEVIL'S GATEWAY
Horror (91 min)
Language: English
Director: Alexander Herget
Producer: Silver Bullet Films, Alexander Herget
Cast: Vanessa Gray, Michael Piccirilli, Jack Campbell, Rae Johnston
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Australia
In 1973, a prison warden goes on a murderous rampage in one of Australia's most notorious prisons. 30 years later a television producer will
find out what happened that night.
PORNORAMA
Comedy (90 min)
Language. German
Director: Marc Rothemund
Producer: Bernd Eichinger
Cast: Benno Führmann, Karoline Herfurth, Tom Schilling, Valentina Lodovini
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Germany
Germany, late 60's. The Sexual Revolution rules the globe. Bennie wants to shoot a sex movie - a popular genre of the time. He has no idea
what he's getting into.
VIVALDI
Drama (93 min)
Language: French
Director: Jean Louis Guillermou
Producer: Vivaldi Productions, EVA Finance GmbH
Cast: Michel Serrault, Stefano Dionisi, Christian Vadim, Annette Schreiber, Delphine Depardieu, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Michel Galabru
Delivery Status: completed
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Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: France/Germany
The life and death of the famous Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi. Known as the "Red Priest" and invited to all European courts, he died in
poverty.
MARLENE - AN ASTONISHING VISIT
Documentary (91 min)
Language: German
Director: Maximilian Schell
Producer: Karel Dirka/ART OKO Filmproduktions KG
Cast: Marlene Dietrich
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 1983, Country of Origin: Germany
Academy Award Nominated, Best Documentary - After years of public silence, the legendary Dietrich personally selected Maximilian Schell
to make an interview film about her.
THE TOP SECRET TRIAL OF THE III REICH - THE COURT CASE OF THE MEN OF OPERATION VALKYRIE
Documentary (110 min)
Language: German, English
Director: Jochen Bauer
Producer: Bengt von zur Muehlen/CHRONOS Film
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 1981, Country of Origin: Germany
The trial in which the "Men of 20th July 1944" made the last attempt on Hitler under Oberst Graf von Stauffenberg, were accused of high
treason.
ATRIX FILMS / SOLA MEDIA
Atrix Films / Sola Media, Aggensteinstrasse 13 a, 81545 München, Germany. Tel: 49.89.64282611. Fax: 49.89.64957349. www.atrixfilms.com, e-mail: info@atrix-films.com
Sales Agent, Film Financing, Distributor
At Cannes: Beatrix Wesle (CEO), Solveig Langeland (CEO), Thomas Woodward (Sales)
Office: Riviera C 18, Palais de Festival), Tel: 33.607.377.318 and 33.607.331377
BUY BORROW STEAL (MISS CONCEPTION)
Love Comedy (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Eric Style
Producer: Doris Kirch
Cast: Heather Graham, Mia Kirshner
Delivery Status: completed / Market Screenings
Budget: US $ 9,5 Mio.
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin:, UK, UK
An ambitious young London professional learns she has only one month left in which to conceive a child.
THE TWO HORSES OF DSCHINGIS KHAN
Theatrical Documentary
Director: Byambasuren Davaa
Producer: Byambasuren Davaa
Cast: Urna
Delivery Status: in pre-production
Year of Production: 2008/2009, Country of Origin:, Germany
Fascinating new music documentary by international acclaimed filmmaker Byambasuren Davaa starring famous singer URNA.
SUNSHINE BARRY AND THE DISCO WORMS
Animation / Family (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Thomas Borch Nielsen
Producer: Nina Crone, Solveig Langeland
Cast: Animation
Delivery Status: in production
Budget: $ 4,7 Mio.
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Denmark, Germany
The young earthworm Barry is fed up with being at the bottom of the food chain. All the other insects in the backyard consider earthworms to
be major losers: no arms – no backbone – no brain!
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THE TURTLE’S SONG
Documentary (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Nick Stringer
Writer: Nick Stringer
Producer: Mike Downey, Sam Taylor, Nick Stringer, Helmut Grasser
Cast: Animal Documentary
Delivery Status: in Post-Production
Budget: US $ 5
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK, Austria, Germany
Tells the story of a little loggerhead turtle, who follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural
world.
BEAUTIFUL BITCH
Drama (103 min)
Language: German with english subtitels
Director: Martin Theo Krieger
Writer: Martin Theo Krieger
Producer: Michael Eckelt
Cast: Katherina Derr, Patrick von Blume
Delivery Status: Market Premiere Screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Germany
A film about a young woman´s will to break free, and how friendship overcomes cultural differences.
BATHORY
www.bathorythefilm.com
Thriller (137 min)
Language: English
Director: Juraj Jakobisko
Writer: Juraj Jakobisko
Producer: Mike Downey, Deana Jakobikova, Sam Taylor
Cast: Anna Friel, Vincent Regan, Karel Roden
Delivery Status: completed
Budget: $ 14 Mio.
Contrary to popular belief, Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman, who fell victim to men’s aspirations for power and wealth.
HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE
Documentary (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Doris Doerrie
Writer: Doris Doerrie
Producer: Fidelis Mager, Franz Gernstel
Cast: Edward Brown
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Germany
Here comes Zen and the Art of a Good Meal!
LOTTE FROM GADGETVILLE
Animation (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Heiki Ernits, Janno Poldmar
Writer: Heiki Ernits, Janno Poldmar
Producer: Joonisfilms
Cast: Animation: Lotte the Dog, Albert the Rabitt
Delivery Status: complted
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Estonia, Latvia
Lotte is a fun-loving puppy who lives by the sea. Her village is very special - it's a place where everyone spends their time inventing new
machines and gadgets.
SHADOW OF THE SWORD
Thriller (114 min)
Language: English
Director: Simon Aeby
Writer: Simon Aeby
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Producer: Helmut Grasser, Mike Downey, Sam Taylor
Cast: Nicolay Coster Waldau, Stephen Bergkoff
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: UK, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary
A film of courage and faith in the violent times of the Inquisition, focusing on the reformation trends of the Church and Anababtists in the 16th
century Europe.
EL ULTIMO APPLAUSO
Documentary (95 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: German Kral
Writer: German Kral
Producer: Happinet Productions
Cast: Cristina de Los Angeles
Delivery Status: post-production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Argentina, Germany, Japan
After his success with MUSICA CUBANA, Argentinian director German Kral teams up with music producer Luis Borda and returns to his
home city Buenos Aires for his new Music Documentary THE LAST APPLAUSE.
BANANA FILMS
Banana Films, 83-85 Rue Philomene, Brussels 1030 Belgium. Tel: 322 219 9190. Fax: 322 219 9410. http://www.bananafilms.be, email:
info@bananafilms.be
At Cannes: Jean-Luc VAN DAMME (CEO - Producer)
Office: Tel: 0673830192
ANGELS' CHOICE
http://www.bananafilms.be/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=19
Drama (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Maria RIPOLL
Writer: Greg LATTER, Marie-Laure BERTHELIN, Louise LONGO
Co-Production Partners: Kwesi Dickson, Carlos Taillefer, Jan Fantl
Producer: Jean-Luc VAN DAMME
Key Cast: In negotiation
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: 11 M US$
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: Belgium
Both Kate's daughter and her husband died at sea and, as the lone survivor, she becomes a suspect in a possible murder investigation.
SCHMUCK !
http://www.bananafilms.be/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=43&Itemid=19
Dark comedy (100 min)
Language: English
Director: In negotiation
Writer: Greg LATTER
Co-Production Partners: Jan Fantl
Producer: Jean-Luc VAN DAMME
Key Cast: In negotiation
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: 10 MUS$
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Belgium
An elderly Jewish man goes to Berlin to make peace with his estranged daughter and is unwittingly lured into a terrorist bombing for which he
is blamed.
AWAITING CAPA
http://www.bananafilms.be/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=19
Romantic biopic (100 min)
Language: English
Director: In negotiation
Writer: Yaron Seelig
Co-Production Partners: Chaim Sharir, Jan Fantl
Producer: Jean-Luc Van Damme
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Key Cast: In negotiation
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: 11 MUS$
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: Israel
The story of a war photographer, the most famous one of the 20th century, who at the age of 35 finds himself at a midlife crossroads.
TASTE OF RAIN
http://www.bananafilms.be/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=170&Item id=19
Drama (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Richard Pakleppa
Writer: Richard Pakleppa
Co-Production Partners: Jan Fantl, Bridget Pickering, Tendeka Matatu
Producer: Jean-Luc Van Damme
Key Cast: Kierston Wareing, Eriq Ebouaney
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: 3 MUS$
Year of Production: 2008-2009, Country of Origin: Namibia
A woman living on a desert farm tries to cope with the loss of her daughter and the deadening of her feelings. As a drought rages a water
diviner comes to find water on the farm.
BANKSIDE FILMS
Bankside Films, Douglas House, 3 Richmond Buildings, London W1 3HE UK. Tel: 0044 20 7734 3566. http://www.bankside-films.com, email:
films@bankside-films.com
At Cannes: Hilary Davis (Co-Managing Director), Phil Hunt (Co-Managing Director), Stephen Kelliher (Director of Sales & Marketing), Maria
Carrion (Head of Acquisitions), Antonio Salas (Sales Executive)
Office: Apartment Louis II, 2nd Floor, 55 La Croisette, Tel: 33(0)4.93.39.40.69
IN SEARCH OF A MIDNIGHT KISS
http://www.insearchofamidnightkiss.com
Romantic Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Alex Holdridge
Writer: Alex Holdridge
Producer: Seth Caplan, Scoot McNairy
Key Cast: Scoot McNairy, Sara Simmonds, Brian Matthew McGuire, Katy Luong
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A rollicking comic ride and tender journey through love, sex and modern romance in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve.
ACCIDENTS HAPPEN
Black Comedy
Language: English
Director: Andrew Lancaster
Writer: Brian Carbee
Producer: Anthony Anderson
Key Cast: Geena Davis, Joel Tobeck, Harrison Gilbertson
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Australia
Accidents Happen is the surprising tale of how a good boy’s bad behaviour might just manage to save his very dysfunctional family.
BRAN NUE DAE
Musical Romance
Language: English
Director: Rachel Perkins
Producer: Robyn Kershaw
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Australia
When Willie, a teenage Aboriginal boy, runs away from his oppressively religious boarding school, he finds himself scared and alone facing an
epic journey across Australia in order to find his way home.
BLESSED
Drama
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Language: English
Director: Ana Kokkinos
Writer: Andrew Bovell
Producer: Al Clark
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Australia
"Blessed" is a film about the depth of love between mothers and children and the life force that connects us all, about love and beauty and
about being lost and finding your way home.
COFFIN ROCK
Psychological Thriller
Language: English
Director: Rupert Glasson
Producer: David Lightfoot, Ayisha Davies
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Australia
The story of Jess and Rob a happily married couple whose relationship is marred only by their inability to have children. When Jess meets
handsome Evan her worst nightmare becomes reality.
HOW ABOUT YOU
Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Anthony Byrne
Writer: Jean Pasley
Producer: Noel Pearson
Key Cast: Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Redgrave, Joss Ackland, Imelda Staunton, Brenda Fricker
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Ireland
Tells the story of Ellie, a young girl left in charge of a residential home over the Christmas period.
NORMAL
Drama (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Carl Bessai
Writer: Carl Bessai
Producer: Andrew Boutilier
Key Cast: Carrie Anne-Moss, Kevin Zegers
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Canada
The life of three people unfolds to discover that these three characters are all part of one story – linked by blood, coincidence and their need to
make atonement with the past.
SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL
Political Thriller (112 min)
Language: English
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Producer: Michael Donovan
Key Cast: Roy Dupuis, James Gallanders, Deborah Kara Unger
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Canada
The adaptation of Dallaire’s autobiography which details his personal journey during the genocide in Rwanda.
BAVARIA FILM INTERNATIONAL
Bavaria Film International, Bavariafilmplatz 7 / Bldg 71, Geiselgasteig, 82031 Germany. Tel: 49.89.6499.2686. Fax: 49.89.6499.3720.
www.bavaria-film-international.com, e-mail: cannes08@bfint.de
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Thorsten Ritter (Head of Bavaria Film International), Stefanie Zeitler (Head of Sales), Sebastian Kiesmüller (Head of Marketing),
Klaus Rasmussen (Sales Manager), Anegret Eckl (Sales Manager), Olaf Aichinger (Acquisitions Manager), Evelyn Holzendorf (Marketing
Manager)
Office: Riviera booth number H 9, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.34, Fax: 33(0)4.92.99.32.35
THE STRANGER IN ME
Drama (99 min)
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Language: German
Director: Emily Atef
Writer: Emily Atef, Esther Bernstorff
Producer: Nicole Gerhards
Co-production partners: ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel, DFFB in association with ARTE
Key Cast: Susanne Wolff, Johann von Buelow
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Germany
Rebecca and Julian are joyfully expecting their first child. But as soon as the baby is delivered, Rebecca falls into a deep darkness – to the point
that she realizes she is becoming a threat to her child.
CHERRY BLOSSOMS - HANAMI
www.kirschblueten-film.de
Drama (126 min)
Language: German, English, Japanese
Director: Doris Doerrie
Writer: Doris Doerrie
Producer: Molly von Fürstenberg, Harald Kügler
Co-production partners: Olga Film, BR, arte, ARD degeto
Key Cast: Elmar Wepper, Hannelore Elsner, Aya Irizuki
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Germany
The sudden death of his wife plunges a terminally ill man into profound grief. Realizing how little he knew her and how little he showed her
his affection, he devotes his last weeks to fulfilling her long-cherished dreams.
RESTLESS
http://www.bavaria-film-international.com
Drama (100 min)
Language: English, Hebrew
Director: Amos Kollek
Writer: Amos Kollek
Producer: Talia Kleinhendler, Michael Tapuach
Co-production partners: Pie Films LTD, Hamon Hafakot Ltd.
Key Cast: Moshe Ivgy, Ran Danker, Karen Young, Phyllis Sommerville
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Israel, Canada, Belgium, France, Germany
In this edgy and streetwise drama, Moshe, an Israeli small-timer living in New York has hit rock bottom when his son, who was left behind in
Israel, wants to see him for the first time.
BLACK ICE
www.mustajaa.fi
Thriller (100 min)
Language: Finnish
Director: Petri Kotwica
Writer: Petri Kotwica
Producer: Kai Nordberg, Kaarle Aho, Leander Carell, Patrick Knippel, Steffen Reuter
Co-production partners: Making Movies Oy, Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv
Key Cast: Outi Mäenää, Ria Kataja, Martti Suosalo
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Finland, Germany
Afraid of losing her husband to a younger woman, the gynecologist Saara makes friends with her rival Tuuli using a false identity. A dangerous
psychological game of life and death ensues.
LA RABIA
http://www.bavaria-film-international.com
Drama (83 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Albertina Carri
Writer: Albertina Carri
Producer: Pablo Trapero, Albertina Carri
Co-production partners: Matanza Cine
Key Cast: Analía Couceyro, Javier Lorenzo, Victor Hugo Carrizo
Delivery Status Completed
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Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Argentina
Argentina, pampas, 1980s. When Poldo feels that his fellow farmer Pichón has insulted his mute daughter Nati, Poldo breaks off all contact
with him, not suspecting that his wife and Pichón are carrying on a passionate relationship behind his back …
LISSI AND THE WILD EMPEROR
http://www.lissi.film.de/
Comedy / Animation (85 min)
Language: German
Director: Michael Bully Herbig
Writer: Michael Bully Herbig, Alfons Biedermann
Producer: Michael Bully Herbig
Co-production partners: herbX film
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Germany
Abducted by a rough-mannered but good-hearted yeti, Lissi befriends and humanizes her captor while her beloved, bumbling Franz sets out to
save her.
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
http://www.bavaria-film-international.com
Horror / Love Story (106 min)
Language: Swedish
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Writer: John Ajvide Lindqvist
Producer: John Nordling, Carl Molinder
Co-production partners: EFTI
Key Cast: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Sweden
Terrorized by bullies, lonely 12-year-old Oskar befriends a new neighbor, a mysterious young girl whose arrival coincides with a series of
gruesome deaths and attacks.
SHADOWS
http://www.bavaria-film-international.com
Drama (125 min)
Language: Macedonian
Director: Milcho Manchevski
Writer: Milcho Manchevski
Producer: Milcho Manchevski , Amedeo Pagani, Corinna Mehner, Nermin Gladers, Martin Husmann, Dimitar Gochev, Gerardo Herrero,
Mariela Besuievsky
Co-production partners: Senka DOOEL Film Production, Classic SRL, blue eyes Fiction GmbH & Co. KG, Camera Ltd, Tornasol Films SA
Key Cast: Borce Nacev, Vesna Stanojevska, Sabina Ajrula-Tozija
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Macedonia, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Spain
Sometimes the Dead Speak Louder Than the Living.
ENCARNACION
http://www.bavaria-film-international.com
Drama (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Anahí Berneri
Writer: Sergio Wolf, Gustavo Malajovich, Anahí Berneri, Mariana Dolores Espeja
Producer: Diego Dubcovsky, Daniel Burman
Co-production partners: BD Cine srl., Moviecity, INCAA, Wanda Vision
Key Cast: Silvia Pérez, Martina Juncadella, Luciano Caceres
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Argentina
An actress on the wrong side of 50, whose career is behind her, returns to her hometown for her niece's 15th birthday party.
RABBIT WITHOUT EARS
www.keinohrhasen.de
Comedy / Love Story (115 min)
Language: German
Director: Til Schweiger
Writer: Til Schweiger, Anika Decker
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Producers: Til Schweiger, Tom Zickler
Co-production partners: Bareoot Films GmbH, Seven Pictures Film, Warner Bros.
Key Cast: Til Schweiger, Nora Tschirner, Matthias Schweighöfer
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Germany
When yellow-press reporter Ludo gets into trouble, he's sentenced to 300 hours of social work in a nursery run by Anna, a long-forgotten
schoolmate. She's never forgotten him, however, nor how he used to make fun of her.
BETA CINEMA
Beta Cinema, Gruenwalder Weg 28d, Oberhaching, 82041 Germany. Tel: 49.89.6734.69.80. Fax: 49.89.6734.69.888.
http://www.betacinema.com, email: beta@betacinema.com
At Cannes: Dirk Schuerhoff (Managing Director), Andreas Rothbauer (Head of International Sales and Acquisitions), Dorothee Stoewahse
(Press & PR), Delphine Eon (Festival Coordinator)
Office: R17, Tel: 33.4.9299.3323, Fax: 33.4.9299.3324
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE - FROM JUNKIE TO IRONMAN (LAUF UM DEIN LEBEN - VOM JUNKIE ZUM IRONMAN)
Drama (102 min)
Language: German
Director: Adnan G. Koese
Writer: Adnan G. Koese, Fritjof Hohagen
Co-Production Partners: Enigma Film, Odeon Pictures, Neue Kinowelt Filmproduktion, Lunaris Film
Producer: Fritjof Hohagen, Clarens Grollmann
Key Cast: Max Riemelt, Jasmin Schwiers, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Axel Stein, Robert Gwisdek, Ismail Deniz,Udo Schenk, Ingo Naujoks
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Germany
Andreas and his gang of friends are troublemakers – they get stoned on grass, go on shoplifting excursions and are continually running from the
cops.
FALCO (QUIT LIVING ON DREAMS)
(FALCO - VERDAMMT WIR LEBEN NOCH)
Drama (109 min)
Language: German
Director: Thomas Roth
Writer: Thomas Roth
Co-Production Partners: MR Film, Eos Entertainment
Producer: Kurt J. Mrkwicka
Key Cast: Manuel Rubey,Christian Tramitz, Nicholas Ofczarek, Patricia Aulitzky, Susi Stach
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Austria
TV movie about the life and death of internationally successful Austrian singer Falco.
HEART OF FIRE (FEUERHERZ)
Drama (92 min)
Language: Tigrinya
Director: Luigi Falorni
Writer: Luigi Falorni, Gabriele Kister
Co-Production Partners: A Burkert Bareiss Production by TV60, Senator Film Produktion, Aichholzer Film, Beta Film
Producer: Andreas Bareiss, Sven Burgemeister, Gloria Burkert, Bernd Burgemeister
Key Cast: Letekidan Elias, Seble Tilahun, Salomie Elias, Daniel Seyoum
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Germany, Austria
Brought up in an orphanage, a 10-year- old Eritrean girl is reunited with her family, only to be delivered into the hands of the Eritrean
Liberation Front where, as a child soldier, her young but courageous heart refuses to let her kill.
ABSURDISTAN
Romantic comedy (88 min)
Language: Russian
Director: Veit Helmer
Writer: Veit Helmer, Zaza Buadze, Gordan Mihic, Ahmet Golbol
Co-Production Partners: Veit Helmer Filmproduktion, SWR, ARTE, BR
Producer: Veit Helmer, Linda Kornemann
Key Cast: Kristyna Malerova, Maximilian Mauff
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Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007
Country of Origin: Germany / Azerbaijan
In a bizarre little village, the dripping of water is more important than the gushing of love.
BIRCH TREE ENTERTAINMENT
Birch Tree Entertainment, 10620 Southern Highlands Pkwy., #110-418, Las Vegas, NV 89141 USA. Tel: 1.310.383.2782. Fax: 1.323.843.9650.
http://www.birchtreefilms.com, email: cannes2008@birchtreefilms.com
At Cannes: Art Birzneck (President)
Office: Carlton Hotel #163, Tel: 04.93.06.40,06
BRAVE
http://www.bravethemovie.com
Martial Arts Action (88 min)
Thai w/ English subs
Director: Thanapon Maliwan, Afdlin Shauki
Writer: Nut Nuapang
Co-Production Partners: Film Frame Productions
Producer: Thanapon Maliwan
Key Cast: Mike B, Afdlin Shauki, Sahatchai Chumrun, Supaksorn Chaimongkol
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $3,000,000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Thailand
A young man is forced by the mafia to steal a bank's client data in exchange for his brother's life and discovers he and his brother have been set
up.
CONTRACT KILLERS
http://www.tritannorthstar.com
Action Thriller (86 min)
Language: English
Director: Justin Rhodes
Writer: Justin Rhodes
Producer: G. Anthony Joseph
Key Cast: Frida Farrell, Nick Mancuso, Rhett Giles, Wolf Muser
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $3,000,000
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA, Trinidad & Tobago
A CIA assassin must uncover the truth behind a government conspiracy to destroy the U.S. economy before she's killed for what she knows.
HANDS OF THE DRAGON
Martial Arts Action Thriller
Language: English, Cantonese, Indian
Co-Production Partners: Birch Tree Entertainment, Infinity Filmed Entertainment
Producer: Aanand Mahendroo, Art Birzneck
Key Cast: Philip Ng
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: $8,000,000
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA, India
After a young member of an elite police force in Hong Kong is left for dead in a secretive sting operation, Jack Lee reappears in India with a
masked identity.
THE SANCTUARY
Martial Arts Action
Language: English, Thai
Director: Thanapon Maliwan
Writer: Thanapon Maliwan
Co-Production Partners: Film Frame Productions
Producer: Thanapon Maliwan, Chokchai Pechpanna
Key Cast: Mike B, Gary Daniels, Rapeepan Bootthong, Dean Alexandrou
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: $4,000,000
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Thailand
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A young Muay Thai warrior is accused of stealing a holy emerald that his master appointed him to protect.
HONOR
http://www.honorthemovie.com
Martial Arts Action (88 min)
Language: English, Japanese
Director: David Worth
Writer: Larry Felix, Jr.
Co-Production Partners: Hologram Entertainment
Producer: Patrick Kligel, Austin Moody
Key Cast: Russell Wong, Roddy Piper, Jason Barry, Remy Bonjasky, Joana Pacula
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $2,500,000
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
In a world where street gangs collide with the law, neighborhood friends Raymond and Gabriel must decide which side of the battle to join.
BLUE STAR MOVIES LTD
Blue Star Movies Ltd, 175 – 185 Gray’s Inn Road - London WC1X 8UE U.K. Tel: 0044.0.207.812 0700. Fax: 0044.0.207.812.0650.
www.bluestarmovies.com, email: info@bluestarmovies.com
Producer
At Cannes: Pete Maggi (Chairman & Head of Intl. Sales), Barbara Martins (Head of Acquisitions)
Acquisition Executive: Barbara Martins
Office: Agarttha Yacht, Jetée Albert-Edouard, Cannes, Tel: 001.310.721.1060
CITY OF DRAGONS (CITY OF NINE DRAGONS)
Martial Arts/Biopic
Language: Cantonese
Director: Fruit Chan
Writers: Paul Brown, Marc Brown and Fruit Chan
Producers: Terence Chang & John Woo, Lion Rock Productions; Wendy Winks, A Wink and A Nod Productions; Pete Maggi, Blue Star
Movies.
Delivery Status: Preproduction
Budget: $10M
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: USA
City Of Dragons is the as-yet-untold story of how a young Bruce Lee and his friend Ah Hing came of age in the British-ruled Hong Kong in the
1950s, and learned Kung Fu from Yip Man.
STAND BY LOVE
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Writer: Vincent Angell
Producers: Pete Maggi, Blue Star Movies/ Essence Entertainment; Wendy Winks, A Wink and A Nod Productions; Mark Kaplan & Harriet
Greenspan, Atypical Entertaiment.
Delivery Status: Preproduction
Budget: $12M
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Love takes off again for ex-lovers unexpectedly seated next to each other in first class on a red-eye flight from LA to London.
THE BLUM GROUP INC.
The Blum Group Inc., 10501 Tabor St., Los Angeles, CA 90034 USA. Tel: 1.310.259.8557. Fax: 1.310.302.0021.
http://www.theblumgroup.net, email: office@theblumgroup.net
At Cannes: D. Eagle (President), Wendy Braun (Vice President, Acquisitions, Marketing & Sales), Danielle Ortega (Director of Operations),
Suzanne Blum (Consultant)
Office: Tel: 321.259.8557, Fax: 310.302.0021
FAT ROSE AND SQUEAKY
http://theblumgroup.net/fat_rose_and_squeaky.php
Drama (105 min)
Language: English
Director: Sam Irvin
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Writer: Virland Harris, Jon Fitzgerald
Producer: Virland Harris
Key Cast: Louise Fletcher, Cicely Tyson, Julie Brown, Lea DeLaria, Jo Anderson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: United States of America
An unusual movie that deals with the dignity, battles, and friendships of aging. In life, wealth is sometimes measured in friends, freedoms, and
the simple pleasures of a tofu casserole!
BEYOND TREASON
http://theblumgroup.net/beyond.php
Documentary (89 min)
Language: English
Director: William Lewis
Writer: William Lewis
Co-Production Partners: Joyce Riley
Producer: William Lewis
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of Origin: United States of America
While Gulf War Heroes from all 27 countries slowly die of "unknown causes," this compelling documentary explores the mystery that is Gulf
War Illness.
THE LAST BUTTERFLY
http://theblumgroup.net/the-last-butterfly.php
Drama (106 min)
Language: English
Director: Karel Kachyna
Writer: Ota Hofman
Producer: Steven North
Key Cast: Tom Courtenay, Brigitte Fossey, Freddie Jones
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1990, Country of Origin: Czechoslovakia / France / UK
Riveting drama that touches everyone! Great French mime is forced by Germans to perform with children in "Free State" of Terezin to show
their humane treatment to influence international opinion.
LIVIN' THE BLUES
http://theblumgroup.net/Livin'%20The%20Blues.php
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Alan Gorg
Writer: Alan Gorg, Gwyn Gorg
Producer: Alan Gorg
Key Cast: Galyn Gorg, Michael Kerr, Martin Raymond, Fred Nelson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1989, Country of Origin: United States of America
The humor, tragedy and frustration of ghetto youths as they pursue the inner city's variation of the American Dream. This day to day fight for
survival in the urban jungle is driven by the music.blues music.
DIAMONDS
http://theblumgroup.net/diamond.php
Action Adventure (108 min)
Language: English
Director: Menahem Golan
Writer: Menahem Golan, David Paulsen
Producer: Harry Blum
Key Cast: Robert Shaw, Richard Roundtree , Barbara Hershey , & Shelley Winters
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1975, Country of Origin: Israel / USA
A suave London merchant, an ex-con, a beautiful girl, and a kooky U.S. housewife join together to pull off a heist of the world's biggest
diamond exchange.
GUERNICA
http://theblumgroup.net/guernica.php
Art (97 min)
Language: Italian
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Director: Fernando Arrabal
Writer: Fernando Arrabal
Co-Production Partners: Ken Legargeant, Gerard Wolf
Producer: Francesco Cinieri,
Key Cast: Mariangela Melato, Ron Faber, Cosimo Cinieri
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1975, Country of Origin: France / Italy
Renowned avant-garde Director: Fernando Arrabal's remarkable vision of the Spanish Civil War.
THE RIVER CHAO PHRAYA
http://theblumgroup.net/the-river-chao-phraya.php
Family Adventure (109 min)
Language: Thai W/English Subs
Director: Sampson Williams
Writer: Sampson Williams
Producer: Pongthorm Bejrajati
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1993, Country of Origin: Thailand
When mother falls ill, two brothers construct a makeshift raft, venturing from their rural home on a daring journey down the river Chao Phraya
into Bangkok, hoping to make money for their ailing mother.
MAHALIA JACKSON: GIVE GOD THE GLORY
http://theblumgroup.net/mahalia.php
Music/Biographical Documentary (86 min)
Language: English
Director: Jeff Scheftel
Writer: Jeff Scheftel, Michael Singh
Co-Production Partners: Grazka Taylor
Producer: Jeff Scheftel
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1971, Country of Origin: United States of America
Touching documentary about the Gospel legend's final tour through Europe. A portrait of a gifted artist, and a warm, sincere woman.
BOLD FILMS
Bold Films, 6464 Sunset Blvd., Suite 800, Los Angeles, CA 90028 USA. Tel: 1.323.769.8900. Fax: 1.323.769.8954.
At Cannes: David Lancaster (Co-President), Gary Michael Walters (Co-President), Stephanie Denton (President, Worldwide Sales), Jim
Harvey (SVP, International Sales), Jill Montgomery (Director of Operations, Worldwide Distribution)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Ste. 138
LEGION
Action/Thriller
Language: English
Director: Scott Charles Stewart
Producer: David Lancaster
Key Cast: Lucas Black, Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Adrianne Palicki, Kate Walsh, Tyrese Gibson, Charles S. Dutton
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
STARSHIP TROOPERS 3
Sci-Fi - Action
Language: English
Director: Edward Neumeier
Writer: Edward Neumeier
Producer: David Lancaster
Key Cast: Casper Van Dien, Jolene Blalock
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
COME EARLY MORNING
Drama (97 min )
Language: English
Director: Joey Lauren Adams
Writer: Joey Lauren Adams
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Key Cast: Ashley Judd
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
BOBBY
Drama (112 mins)
Language: English
Director: Emilio Estevez
Writer: Emilio Estevez
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
MINI'S FIRST TIME
Drama (91 mins)
Language: English
Director: Nick Guthe
Key Cast: Alec Baldwin, Nikki Reed, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jeff Goldblum, Luke Wilson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of Origin: USA
BOOMTOWN MEDIA
Boomtown Media, Fuggerstr. 33, Berlin, 10777, Germany. Tel: 49.30.814.529.50. Fax: 49.30.814.529.55. http://www.boomtownmedia.de,
email: info@boomtownmedia.de
Production, World Sales
At Cannes: Uwe Dierks (Producer), Norbert Maass (World Sales Agent)
Acquisition Executive: Uwe Dierks (CEO)
Office: MEDIA Umbrella or German Focus (International village), Tel: Uwe Dierks 49.163.855.65.00, Norbert Maass 49.171.125.81.91
TRIP TO ASIA
http://www.triptoasia.de
Documentary (108 min)
Language: English, German
Director: Thomas Grube
Writer: Thomas Grube
Producer: Uwe Dierks, Andrea Thilo, Thomas Grube
Key Cast: Sir Simon Rattle, Berliner Philharmoniker
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $2.03 Million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Germany
TRIP TO ASIA, the first film about the mysterious inside life of the Berliner Philharmoniker is an inspiring film about the power of music, the
challenge of finding harmony and the art of living – together.
RHYTHM IS IT!
http://www.rhythmisit.com
Documentary (100 min.)
Language: German, English
Director: Thomas Grube, Enrique Sánchez Lansch
Writer: Thomas Grube
Producer: Uwe Dierks, Andrea Thilo, Thomas Grube
Co-production partners: RBB/arte, Cine Plus, Germany
Key Cast: Sir Simon Rattle, Berliner Philharmoniker, Royston Maldoom, Marie Theinert, Martin Eisentraut, Olayinka Shitu
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1.1 Million
Year of Production: 2004, Country of Origin: Germany
A stirring film about empowerment through dance and music, records the first big educational project of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
under Sir Simon Rattle.
BREAKOUT ENTERTAINMENT
Breakout Entertainment, 1438 N. Gower St., Box 70, Bldg. 70, Ste. 226, Los Angeles, CA 90028. Tel: 323.860.7101. Fax: 323.468.4665.
http://www.breakoutent.com, email: breakout@breakoutent.com
At Cannes: Sherri Strain (President), Christina Rosenberg (Vice President of Development)
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Office: Riviera Stand G19, Tel: 33.0.4.92.99.33.07
TALES FROM THE BORDELLO
Musical/Mystery (60 min)
Language: English
Directors: Craig Bernard & Shawn Foster
Writers: Craig Bernard & Shawn Foster
Producer: Sherri Strain
Key Cast: Brittney Powell, Christina Rosenberg, Eliza Bane
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007
Depicts a young woman living out her fantasies, immersed in different burlesque styles.
TREASURE HUNT – THE ADVENTURES OF A PORN STAR
Sexy comedy
Language: English
Producer: Sherri Strain
Key Cast: Rebekah Kochan
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008
Grace returns to her hometown for her estranged father’s funeral; and learns she must discover who her father’s one true love was in order to
receive her rather large inheritance.
MEDUSA
Thriller
Language: English
Producer: Sherri Strain
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008
An assassin, hired to kill a philanthropist who is using a devious weapon to overthrow a media empire; realizes the weapon is a woman whose
glare turns victims into stone.
BEER PONG: THE MOVIE
Comedy
Language: English
Producer: Sherri Strain
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2008
Two twenty-something friends in dead end jobs decide to return to their college frat to compete in the beer pong tournament in order to turn
their lives around.
LINGERIE LEAGUE
Sexy comedy
Language: English
Producer: Sherri Strain
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2008
Claire has no idea how she’s going to afford grad school, until tryouts for the Lingerie League are announced. She knows she’ll be MVP, but
not if her stepsister joins.
VALKYRIE
Thriller
Language: English
Producer: Sherri Strain
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A series of ritualistic murders leads a police detective on the hunt, not only for the murderer, but for the “glowing blue women” seen at each of
the crime scenes.
FISHING TRIP
Gangster drama
Language: English
Writer: John Fasano
Producer: Sherri Strain
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
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A bank employee embezzles millions from a mob boss and attempts to flee to Mexico; his boat is soon pirated by the boss’s henchmen
becoming a stand off. Who survives?
SPRING BREAK: ALL EXPENSES PAID
Sexy comedy
Language: English
Producer: Sherri Strain
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Spring Break, Lake Havasu, friends, partying, sex…and a bet between locals and visitors for an all-out extreme sports competition. Winner
gets bragging rights – loser gets the bill.
SHADOW PLAY
Thriller (85 min)
Language: English
Director: Derek Osedach
Writer: Eric Myers & Nicholas Pallos
Producer: Reza Riazi
Key Cast: Elly Jaresko, A.J. Castro, Brian Allen
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Three people awake in a room with no memory of who, why, or where they are. Slowly they realize they are all murders and in the midst of a
judicial experiment.
CAPITOL FILMS
Capitol Films, Bridge House, 2nd Floor, 63-65 North Wharf Road, London W2 1LA, UK. Tel: 44.207.298.6200. Fax: 44.207.298.6201.
www.capitolfilms.com, email: films@capitolfilms.com
At Cannes: Peter Naish (Managing Director), James Norrie (Head of Sales), Jessica Malik (Sales Executive), Hannah leader (General Counsel)
Office: 63 La Croisette, 1st Floor, Cannes, 06400. Tel: 04.93.43.8257. Fax: 04.93.43.9050
LOVE RANCH
Romantic Drama
Language: English
Director: Taylor Hackford
Writer: Mark Jacobson
Producers: Taylor Hackford
Leading Cast: Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci, Sergio Peris- Mencheta, Gina Gershon, Bai Ling
Status: Post Production
Production Country: USA
Grace (Helen Mirren) is married to Charlie (Joe Pesci), a violent gangster constantly trying to hit the big time. When Charlie dreams up yet
another money making enterprise, Grace’s unexpected betrayal unleashes his fury and he exacts his terrible revenge
THE EDGE OF LOVE
Romantic Drama
Language: English
Director: John Maybury
Writer: Sharman Macdonald
Producers: Rebekah Gilbertson, Sarah Radclyffe
Leading Cast: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys
Status: Screening
Production Country: UK
Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. A passionate, sexy true story about a
remarkable, turbulent friendship.
BLACK WATER TRANSIT
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Tony Kaye
Writer: Matthew Chapman
Leading Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Karl Urban, Brittany Snow
Status: Post-Production
Production Country: USA
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A heart-stopping, pulse-pounding, nerve-rattling action thriller about violence, betrayal, love and the desire to do good when everything
conspires against you.
INCENDIARY
Drama
Language: English
Director: Sharon Maguire
Writer: Sharon Maguire
Producers: Andy Paterson, Anand Tucker, Adrienne Maguire
Leading Cast: Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor, Matthew Macfadyen
Status: Screening
Production Country: UK
From the director of Bridget Jones’s Diary, and the producers of Girl With A Pearl Earring comes a powerfully intimate, shocking and
ultimately life-affirming emotional drama set in the heart of contemporary London.
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
Epic Drama
Language: English
Director: Phillip Noyce
Writers: Jimmy McGovern, Pip Karmel
Producers: Alexandra Milchan, Melanie Johansson
Leading Cast: Scarlett Johansson
Status: Pre-Production
Production Country: UK
A powerful and sweeping epic, the beautiful Queen battles political enemies, scheming allies, and affairs of the heart in her quest to reunite the
warring tribes of her native Scotland.
CELSIUS ENTERTAINMENT LTD.
Celsius Entertainment Ltd., 32 Maple Street, London W1T 6HB United Kingdom. Tel: 44.20.7193.1801. http://www.celsiusentertainment.com,
email: info@celsiusentertainment.com
At Cannes: Thierry Wase-Bailey (Managing Director and Head of Sales), Henriette Wollmann (Head of European Co-production, Legal and
Business Affairs)
Office: Entrance 7E, Apt 3E2, 3rd Floor, Residences Gray D’Albion, 20 Bis rue des Serbes, Tel: 44.20.7193.1801
FREAKONOMICS
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Various
Producer: Chad Troutwine, Seth Gordon
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Based on the publishing phenomenon Freakonomics, some of the world's most innovative documentary filmmakers will explore the hidden side
of everything.
VIVALDI
Period drama
Language: English
Director: Boris Damast
Writer: Jeffrey Freedman, Boris Damast
Co-Production Partners: Mechaniks, Hand Picked Films, Future Films
Producer: Andrea Kikot, Anthony Romano, Michel Shane
Key Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Gerard Depardieu, Alfred Molina
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA, UK
Based on a true account in the life of Antonio Vivaldi, a young idealistic priest, who defies overwhelming odds to transform a school of
orphaned girls into an orchestra that plays Europe's greatest concert halls and, ultimately, for the pope.
MANDA BALA (SEND A BULLET)
Documentary (85 min)
Language: English, Portuguese
Director: Jason Kohn
Co-Production Partners: Kilo Films, Whitest Pouring Films
Producer: Joey Frank, Jared Ian Goldman
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Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA, Brazil
MANDA BALA explores the cycles of violence that plague Brazil’s upper and lower economic classes in fits of rampant corruption and
violent kidnappings.
CRUSADE: A MARCH THROUGH TIME
Adventure (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Ben Sombogaart
Writer: Bill Haney
Co-Production Partners: Kasander Film Company, Uncommon Productions
Producer: Bill Haney, Kees Kasander
Key Cast: Joe Flynn, Stephanie Leonidas, Emily Watson, Michael Culkin
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: USD 16 M
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, UK
A mixed-up 21st century teenager is stranded in the Great Children's Crusade of the 13th century. He must draw on all his strength, cunning
and bravery, to save 8000 children from a sinister plot to enslave them.
CINE EXCEL ENTERTAINMENT, INC
Cine Excel Entertainment, Inc, 1219 W. El Segundo Blvd. Gardena, CA 90247 USA. Tel: 001.323.754.5500. Fax: 001.818.848.4478.
www.cineexcel.com, email: cineexcel@msn.com
Sales Agent, Distributor
At Cannes: David Huey (President), Ed Tillman (VP International Marketing), Yoko Suenega (VP International Servicing)
Acquisition Executive: David Huey (President)
Office: Private Residence Office, Tel: 001.818.679.2994
CARNIVAL EVIL
Suspense / Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Director: David Huey
Writer: David Huey
Producer: Ray Guthrie
Co-production partners: Alpha Film Group
Key Cast: Amanda Earl, Matt Felton, "Barefoot" Bill Pacer
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1.8 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A sadistic killer binds, tortures and kills his captives in his secret Carnival.
REPTILICANT
Sci-fi / Action
Language: English
Director: Desi Singh
Writer: David Huey / Desi Singh
Producer: David Huey
Key Cast: Gary Daniels, Tina-Desiree Berg, Paul Darrigo
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $2.3 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Hidden on Alcatraz, a shape-shifting creature attacks an elite group of thieves.
THE ABOMINABLE
Sci-fi / Action
Language: English
Director: Patrick Donahue
Writer: Sean Donahue
Producer: David Huey
Key Cast: Heather DeVan, Jason DeVan, Nick Orafice
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1.7 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
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The captured 60' abominable snowman is unleashed in San Francisco.
DEAD KNIGHT
Suspense / Horror
Language: English
Director: Mark & John Polonia
Writer: Mark & John Polonia
Producer: David Huey
Co-production partners: Polonia Brothers Entertainment
Key Cast: Brian Berry, Bob Dennis, Dave Fife
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1.3 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
In World War 2, the Knights Templar is sent forward to protect the Holy Grail.
MAGMA: EARTH'S MOLTEN CORE
Disaster / Thriller
Language: English
Director: Dom Magwili
Writer: Noel Lawrence
Producer: David Huey
Key Cast: J. Scott Johnson, Tina-Desiree Berg, Steve Spry
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $2.1 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A deadly volcano eruptions and the only chance of saving the city is to divert the lava flow.
CINEMAVAULT
Cinemavault, 175 Bloor Street East, South Tower, Suite 1011, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3R8, Canada. Tel: 1.416.363.6060. Fax:
1.416.363.2305. www.cinemavault.com, e-mail: sales@cinemavault.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Nick Stiliadis (CEO), Caroline Stern (VP, International Distribution), Racquel Mesina (Director of International Sales), Cathy Hare
(International Sales Associate), Ruby Rondina (Festivals & Publicity Manager), Vanessa Sacco (Markets and Festivals Coordinator)
Acquisition Executive: Michael Paszt
Office: Riviera G5/H8, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.33.27
BLIND DATE
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Art-36
Drama
Language: English
Director: Stanley Tucci
Writer: David Schechter, Stanley Tucci
Producer: Bruce Weiss, Gijs van de Westelaken
Key Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Stanley Tucci, Thijs Romer
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening,
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA/The Netherlands
The story of two parents who talk, flirt, and fight with each other to try and cope with the loss of their young daughter. A remake of Theo van
Gogh’s 1996 Dutch Academy Award winner.
KINTA
http://www.kinta1881.com/
Martial Arts
Language: Cantonese
Director: CL Hor
Writer: Chow Kam Leong
Producer: Jean Liang, Andy Lee, Andrew Lee
Key Cast: Ho Ro Bin, Shawn Lee, Kuan Jun Fei, Michael Chin, David Bao
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening, 1st Market screening
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Malaysia
In this high-energy fight for freedom, poor Chinese miners battle against a tyrannical secret society bent on murder. Malaysia's first ever
martial arts movie.
I.O.U.S.A.
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Documentary
Language: English
Director: Patrick Creadon
Producer: Christine O’Malley, Sarah Gibson and Open Sky Entertainment
Key Cast: David M. Walker, Robert Bixby, Diane Rehm, Alice Rivlin, William Bonner, Harry Zeeve, Robert Rudin, Ron Paul
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening, 1st market screening
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A well-studied, timely and thorough investigation of America’s debt crisis.
ARTEFACTS
http://www.artefactsmovie.com/
Horror
Language: English
Director: Giles Daoust, Emmanuel Jespers
Writer: Giles Daoust, Emmanuel Jespers
Producer: Giles Daoust, Emmanuel Jespers
Key Cast: Mary Stockley, Felix Scott, Max Digby, Jason Morell, Peter Warnock, Veronique Van De Ven, Martin George Swabey, Cecile
Boland
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening, First Market screening of completed film.
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Belgium
All your friends are being murdered – by people they know – themselves!
SKILLS LIKE THIS
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Rom-355
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Monty Miranda
Writer: Spencer Berger
Producer: Donna Dewey, Tim Gray, Brian D. Phelan, Paul Aaron, Rock Obenchain
Key Cast Spencer Berger, Gabriel Tigerman, Brian D. Phelan, Kerry Knuppe, Ned Bellamy
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
In this inventive comedy, three friends have their lives turned upside down when one of them realizes that larceny might be his best skill.
AFRICA UNITE
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Spe-352
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Stephanie Black
Producer: Stephanie Black
Key Cast: Danny Glover, Lauryn Hill, Ziggy Marley, Ky-Mani Marley, Damian Marley, Rita Marley
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A masterfully executed film that is all at once a Bob Marley concert tribute, Marley family travelogue, and humanitarian documentary.
USED PARTS
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Art-365
Drama
Language: Spanish with English Subtitles
Director: Aaron Fernandez
Writer: Aaron Fernandez
Producer: Aaron Fernandez, Morteza Mohammadi
Key Cast: Eduardo Granados, Alan Chavez, Carlos Ceja, Damayanti Quintanar
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Mexico, France, Spain
A 14-year-old boy is seduced by the underworld of stolen car parts
DUSKA
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Com-344
Dark Comedy
Language: Dutch, Russian, English with English subtitles
Director: Jos Stelling
Writer: Jos Stelling, Hans Heesen
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Producer: Hans de Weers, Reinout Oerlemans, Hans de Wolf
Key Cast: Gene Bervoets, Sergei Makovetsky, Sylvia Hoeks
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: The Netherlands, Russia, Ukraine
This dark comedy tells the story of an aging film critic, a beautiful cinema cashier and a Russian scrounger who comes to visit and is not likely
to ever leave.
ROCKAWAY
AKA or FKA (also known as or formerly known as):
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Act-319
Action
Language: English, Spanish, Russian with English subtitles
Director: Joshua & Jeffrey Crook
Writer: Joshua & Jeffrey Crook
Producer: Mark L. Pederson, Aldey Sanchez
Key Cast: Nicholas Gonzalez, Mario Cimarro, Manny Perez, Ricardo Chavira
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A returning Afghanistan war hero seeks retribution for the brutal murder of his wife & child.
THE GOLDEN BOYS
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Rom-347
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Daniel Adams
Writer: Daniel Adams
Producer: Daniel Adams, Matt Janes, Howard Katz, Michael Mailer
Key Cast: David Carradine, Rip Torn, Bruce Dern, Mariel Hemingway, Charles Durning, John Savage, Julie Harris
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Three retired sea captains, a beautiful woman and a tossed coin. It all comes together in The Golden Boys.
HOPE AND A LITTLE SUGAR
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Art-363
Drama
Language: English
Director: Tanuja Chandra
Writer: Tanuja Chandra, Glenn Russow
Producer: Scott Pardo, Glenn Russow
Key Cast: Anupam Kher, Mahima Chaudhry, Amit Sial
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A tale of love set against the forces of hate.
1-900
Drama
Language: English
Director: John Turturro
Writer: David Schechter
Producer: Bruce Weiss, Gijs Van De Westelaken
Key Cast: John Turturro
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Two people meet on a phone sex line and go through an entire relationship without ever meeting in person.
STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME
http://www.stealapencil.com/
Documentary
Language: English, Dutch
Director: Michèle Ohayon
Writer: Michèle Ohayon
Producer: Michèle Ohayon, Theo Van de Sande
Key Cast: Jack Polak, Ina Soep, Ellen Ten Damme, Jeroen Krabbe, Marieke Oudejans, Jean Pierre Gillain
Delivery Status: Completed
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A passionate and vibrant film by Academy Award® nominee Michèle Ohayon about the power of love and the ability of humankind to rise
above unimaginable suffering.
CONFESSIONS OF A SUPERHERO
http://www.therealsuperhero.com/
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Matt Ogens
Producer: Jamie Patricof, Charlie Gruet, Matt Ogens
Key Cast: Christopher Lloyd Dennis, Joe McQueen, Jennifer Gehrt, Maxwell Allen
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Morgan Spurlock presents this fascinating film that chronicles the lives of three mortal men and one woman who make their living working as
superhero characters on the sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard.
WIND MAN
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Art-358
Drama
Language: Russian
Director: Khuat Akhmetov
Writer: Odelsha Agishev, Khuat Akhmetov
Producer: Rauf Atamalibekov, Stanislav Ershov
Key Cast: Igor Yasulovich, Kuandyk Kystykbaev, Ayanat Esmagambetova
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Russia
During a thunderstorm, a strange being falls from the sky into a tiny village on a forgotten stretch of the Kazakh steppe.
BLUE BLOOD
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Thr-351
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Benjamin Cummings, Orson Cummings
Writer: Benjamin Cummings, Orson Cummings
Producer: Benjamin Cummings, Orson Cummings
Key Cast: Bill Sage, Roy Scheider, Susie Misner, Noelle Beck
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A trophy husband conspires to kill his wife.
MIDNIGHT CLEAR
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Art-356
Drama
Language: English
Director: Dallas Jenkins
Writer: Wes Halula
Producer: Kevin Downes, Dallas Jenkins
Key Cast: Stephen Baldwin, Kirk B.R. Woller, Mary Thornton
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
The lives of 5 people are changed forever after they cross paths and experience random and minor acts of kindness.
THE FIRST SATURDAY IN MAY
http://www.thefirstsaturdayinmay.com/
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Brad Hennegan, John Hennegan
Producer: Ellen Dux, The Hennegan Brothers
Key Cast: Frank Amonte, Dan Hendricks, Bob Holthus, Michael Matz, Kiaran McLaughlin, Dale Romans
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
An engrossing film that follows six diverse trainers as they jockey for position along the Kentucky Derby trail- the Holy Grail of horseracing
and "the most exciting two minutes in sports."
FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO
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Documentary
Language: English
Director: Daniel Karslake
Producer: Daniel Karslake
Key Cast: Chrissy Gephardt, Mary Lou Wallner, Tonia Poteat
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A provocative and entertaining film that reconciles homosexuality and the literal interpretation of Biblical scripture.
QUANTUM HOOPS
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Spe-374
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Rick Greenwald
Producer: Rick Greenwald
Key Cast: David Duchovny, Roy Dow, Jordan Carlson, Travis Haussler, Day Ivy, Scott Davies
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A basketball team of valedictorians, engineers and physicists from one of the country’s top academic institutions battle to win at least one
basketball game.
FAT HEAD
http://www.fathead-movie.com/
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Tom Naughton
Writer: Tom Naughton
Producer: Middle Road Pictures
Key Cast: Tom Naughton
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A hilarious response to “Super Size Me” that exposes the myths behind modern diets, the obesity epidemic and the government's role in
keeping you happy and healthy.
SPINNING INTO BUTTER
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Art-34
Drama
Language: English
Director: Mark Brokaw
Writer: Rebecca Gilman, Doug Atchison
Producer: Norman Twain, Lou Pitt, Ryan Howe
Key Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Mykelti Williamson, Beau Bridges, Miranda Richardson, James Rebhorn, Victor Rasuk
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Sarah Jessica Parker plays a college Dean whose attitude is under fire after a racial crime is committed on campus.
OUTSOURCED
http://www.outsourcedthemovie.com/
Comedy
Language: English
Director: John Jeffcoat
Writer: George Wing, John Jeffcoat
Producer: Tom Gorai, David Skinner
Key Cast: Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker, Larry Pine, Asif Basra, Matt Smith
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to train his replacement.
CANVAS
http://www.canvasthefilm.com/
Drama
Language: English
Director: Joseph Greco
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Writer: Joseph Greco
Producer: Sharon Lane, Adam Hammel, Lucy Hammel, Joe Pantoliano, Bill Erfurth
Key Cast: Joe Pantoliano, Marcia Gay Harden, Devon Gearhart
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
One family’s struggle to overcome adversity.
SCAR 3D
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Hor-341
Horror
Language: English
Director: Jed Weintrob
Writer: Zack Ford
Producer: Norman Twain, Courtney Potts, Jamie Gordon
Key Cast: Angela Bettis, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Christopher Titus, Ben Cotton, Devon Graye
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Brace yourself for an entirely new dimension in larger-than-life horror shot entirely in 3D
INTERVIEW
www.sonyclassics.com/interview
Language: English
Director: Steve Buscemi
Writer: David Schechter, Steve Buscemi
Producer: Bruce Weiss, Gijs van de Westelaken
Key Cast: Sienna Miller, Steve Buscemi
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA, and The Netherlands
A fading journalist is forced to interview America’s most famous TV soap star.
MADE IN JAMAICA
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Spe-26
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Jerome Laperrousaz
Writer: Jerome Laperrousaz
Producer: Pascal Herold
Key Cast: Bunny Wailer, Elephant Man, Lady Saw, Toots
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA/France
A powerful portrait of the leaders of the reggae music movement.
THIS FILTHY WORLD
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Spe-27
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Jeff Garlin
Writer: John Waters
Producer: Jeff Garlin, Michele Armour
Key Cast: John Waters
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Legendary filmmaker and pop culture icon John Waters takes us on an outrageous and eye popping journey celebrating his illustrious film
career.
STRANGE CULTURE
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Spe-343
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Writer: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Producer: Lise Swenson, Steven C. Beer, Lynn Hershman Leeson
Key Cast: Tilda Swinton, Thomas Jay Ryan, Peter Coyote, Steve Kurtz, Josh Kornbluth, Shoresh Alaudini, Cassie Powell
Delivery Status: Completed
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Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
An urgently topical story of Steve Kurtz, a critic of the US food & drug administration who stands accused of bioterrorism by the US
government.
THE LISTENING
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Thr-304
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Giacomo Martelli
Writer: Giacomo Martelli, Inigo Dominguez, Riccardo Brun
Producer: Giacomo Martelli, Inigo Dominguez, Riccardo Brun
Key Cast: Michael Parks, Maya Sansa, Andrea Tidona, James Parks
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Italy
An aging US intelligence officer defects and mounts a clandestine counter-listening station high in the Italian Alps.
THE PUFFY CHAIR
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Rom-345
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Jay Duplass
Writer: Mark Duplass
Producer: Mark Duplass
Key Cast: Mark Duplass, Kathryn Aselton, Rhett Wilkins, Julie Fischer, Bari Hyman
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Josh Sagers drives cross-country on a mission to deliver his father’s birthday gift – a giant purple LazyBoy
THREADS
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Com-52
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Michele Maher
Writer: Michele Maher
Producer: Michele Maher
Key Cast: Katie MacNichol, David Thornton, Juan Carlos Hernandez, Jerry Grayson, Saundra Santiago
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
In the vein of “The Devil Wears Prada,” Threads is a sinfully hilarious movie from writer/director Michele Maher, who based the film on her
own real life experience working in the insane New York fashion industry.
HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS SPENT THEIR SUMMER
http://www.cinemavault.com/detail.php?film_id=Rom-13
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Georgina Garcia Riedel
Writer: Georgina Garcia Riedel
Producer: Olga Arana, Georgina Garcia Riedel
Key Cast: America Ferrera, Elizabeth Peña, Lucy Gallardo, Steven Bauer, Jorge Cervera, Jr., Rick Najera
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
The entertaining story of three generations of women and their summer of bonding.
CINEPHIL
Cinephil, 18 Levontin Street, Tel-Aviv 65112 Israel. Tel: 972.3.566.4129. Fax: 972.3.560.1236. http://www.cinephil.co.il, email:
info@cinephil.co.il
At Cannes: Philippa Kowarsky (General Manager), Ori Bader (Sales Manager)
Office:
COCALERO
Documentary (78 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Alejandro Landes
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Producer: Julia Solomonoff
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Argentina-Boloivia
Cocalero follows Evo Morales for over a year thorough his seemingly impossible bid to become Bolivia’s first indigenous president up to his
win by an unprecedented majority.
JERUSALEM IS PROUD TO PRESENT (YERUSHALAIM GEA LEHATSIG)
Documentary (80/58 min)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Nitzan Gilady
Producer: Galia Bador, Nitzan Gilady
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Israel
Jewish, Muslim and Christian religious leaders band together in a battle against the World Pride events which were scheduled to take place in
Jerusalem. On the other side the activists of Jerusalem’s LGBT community center, who planned the events.
FLIPPING OUT (FLIP)
Documentary (83 min)
Hebrew, English
Director: Yoav Shamir
Co-Production Partners: NFB, ITVS, Sundance Channel, Keshet Broadcasting, New Israeli Foundation for Film, BBC, ARTE, SBS, VPRO,
DR T
Producer: Michael Sharfstein, Kent Martin, Philippa Kowrsky
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Israel/Canada
Yoav Shamir (Checkpoint) offers an insight into the widespread phenomenon of young Israelis “flipping out” due to excessive drug use during
their grand trip to India after completing their mandatory military service.
STALAGS: HOLOCAUST AND PORNOGRAPHY IN ISRAEL
Documentary (60 min)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Ari Libsker
Producer: Barak Hayman, Ari Libsker
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Israel
Pornographic pocket books from the 60’s in Israel mixing Nazism, sex and violence, are emerging back into the public eye rekindling the
debate on the cultural representation of Nazism and the Holocaust.
ICE PEOPLE
http://www.icepeople.com
Documentary (77/54 min)
Language: English
Director: Anne Aghion
Co-Production Partners: ITVS, Sundance Channel
Producer: Benoit Gryspreerdt
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA/France
Ice People takes you on one of the earth’s most seductive journeys—Antarctica. Following dedicated researchers who left the world behind in
pursuit of science, the film captures the true experience of living and working in this extreme environment.
MISS GULAG
http://www.missgulag.com
Documentary (60 min)
Language: Russian
Director: Maria Yatskova
Producer: Irina Vodar, Raphaela Neihausen
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Miss Gulag follows three female prisoners in a Siberian prison preparing to compete in a beauty pageant.
CINEPRO PICTURES
Cinepro Pictures, 801 west bay Dr Suite 800, Largo, FL 33770 USA. Tel: 1.727.584.1909. Fax: 1.727.584.1992.
http://www.cinepropictures.com
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Office: Noga -Palais Stephanie Suite 202
MEXICAN SUNRISE
http://www.redjfilms.com
Suspense Thriller (92 min)
Language: english
Director: Rowdy Stovall
Writer: Rowdy Stovall
Key Cast: Armand Assante; Jordan Belfi;
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: US
5 friends cross the Texas Border to celebrate a Bachelor party in Mexico, only 4 will return home.
STEAM
http://www.cinepropcitures.com
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Philippe Martinez
Producer: Philippe Martinez
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: US
EX-GAMES
http://www.cinepropictures.com
Comedy
Language: English
Producer: Philippe Martinez
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: US
4 divorced friends come up with a plan to marry off their ex-wives to stop paying alimony
DEAD STOP
http://www.cinepropictures.com
Action
Language: English
Producer: Philippe Martinez
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: US
CINESAVVY, INC.
Cinesavvy, Inc., 325 King St W, Suite 202, Toronto ON, Canada M5V 1J5. Tel: 1.416.598.2525. Fax: 1.416.599.2223. www.cinesavvyinc.com
Sales agent
At Cannes: Hassain Zaidi (CEO), Jean Breau (Creative Director)
Acquisition Executive: Abhi Rastogi (Managing Director) Erin Rypstra (Marketing Director)
Office: Riviera G11/H14, Tel: 1.416.832.8841
PHANTOM PUNCH
Drama (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Robert Townsend
Writer: Ryan Combs
Producer: Hassain Zaidi
Key Cast: Ving Rhames, Nick Turturro, Bridget
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Canada
From jail to world heavyweight boxing champ, ‘Phantom Punch’ traces Sonny Liston’s life and loves, ties to the mob and mysterious death.
FRANKIE AND ALICE
Thriller/Drama
Language: English
Producer: Hassain Zaidi
Key Cast: Halle Berry
Delivery Status: pre-production
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A young black woman, struggling with multiple personality disorder, is torn between who she is and the racist Caucasian alter-personality that
preys upon her mind.
BOLLYWOOD ZOMBIE
Horror
Language: English
Producer: Hassain Zaidi
Delivery Status: pre-production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Canada
What seems like to be a match made in heaven turns into a nightmare in this Indian wedding when the bride and her guests are transformed into
a horde of zombies.
CELL 213
Horror
Language: English
Producer: Hassain Zaidi
Delivery Status: pre-production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Canada
How does an inmate escape a haunted prison?
GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
Horror
Language: English
Producer: Hassain Zaidi
Delivery Status: pre-production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Canada
An American family travels to Romania to inherit a house on the eve of the apocalypse.
CINETEL FILMS, INC.
CineTel Films, Inc., 8255 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046 USA. Tel: 1.323.654.4000. Fax:1. 323.650.6400. http://www.cinetelfilms.com,
email: info@cinetelfilms.com
At Cannes: Paul Hertzberg (President), Marcy Rubin (Sr. VP, International Distribution), Eric Bernstein (VP, International Distribution)
Office: Riviera, B2
HALLOWED GROUND
Horror
Language: English
Director: David Benullo
Writer: David Benullo
Producer: Daniel Grodnik, Timothy J. Warenz
Key Cast: Jaimie Alexander
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
After becoming stranded in a small, middle-American town while driving cross-country, a young woman discovers that her arrival there was
foretold a century before by the town's founding preacher.
AUSSIE AND TED
Family
Language: English
Director: Shuki Levy
Writer: Shuki Levy and Tori Avey
Producer: Ronnie Hadar, Herb Linsey
Key Cast: Dean Cain, Beverly D'Angelo
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A family dog goes on an journey to recover his little girl's special teddy bear.
FIRE FROM BELOW
Action/Adventure
Language: English
Director: J.R. Mandish
Writer: William Langlois and Jim Wynorski
Producer: Andrew Stevens
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Key Cast: Kevin Sorbo, Glen Morshower
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
When an industrialist hits a vein of pure lithium while digging he unleashes a disaster of epic proportions.
BA'AL
Action
Language: English
Director: Paul Ziller
Writer: Andrew Black
Producer: Lindsey Mcadam
Key Cast: Jeremy London
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Canada
The storm god, Ba'al, in unleashed on earth and an archeologist must find a way to stop it.
SECRET LIVES OF SECOND WIVES
Thriller
Language: English
Director: George Mendeluk
Writer: Kelli Pryor
Producer: Kirk Shaw
Key Cast: Andrea Roth, Brian McNamara
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Canada
A successful woman must deal with her scandalous behavior.
POLAR SHIFT
Action/disaster
Language: English
Director: Paul Ziller
Writer: Paul Zilelr
Producer: TBD
Key Cast: Jack Coleman
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Canada
When a comet impacts the Earth it causes the poles to shift creating massive disasters.
CINEXPORT
Cinexport, 78 avenue des Champs-Elysées, 75008 Paris, France. Tel: 33.1.45.62.49.45. Fax: 33.1.45.63.85.26. tvfrance-intl.com and
unifrance.org, email: cinexport@wanadoo.fr
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Anne-Marie ROMBOURG-CARACO (President), Ingrid LOISE (Assistant)
Acquisition Executive: Anne-Marie ROMBOURG-CARACO
Office: Village Int'l - Riviera European Pavillion N 121, Tel: 06.07.54.33.33
LINO
Feature-film (92 min)
Language: French with English subtitles
Delivery Status: Completed
After the death of the young woman he has been lodging, a fifty years old man finds himself alone with a two years old little boy, Lino.
GANGLAMEDO
Feature-film (96 min)
Language: Chinese with English subtitles
Director: Dai Wei
Key Cast: Jung Shichen, Zinchen Denchu, Zheng Hao, Yadong Suolangwangmu
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: China
The first musical film about life in modern Tibet, combining the mystery of Tibetan, traditions, an legendary story and elements of modern
popular culture.
SUICIDE DESIGNERS (MISE A NU AND THE RIGHT TO RAVAGE MYSELF)
Feature-film (93 min)
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Language: Korean with English subtitles and French subtitles
Director: Jeon Soo IL
Key Cast: Soo Ah, Jung Bo-Seok, Choo Sang-Mee, Kim Young-Min
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of Origin: France
A barmaid kills herself and her boyfriend comes to suspect a writer who assists people in committing suicide aesthetically.
MORITURI
Feature-film (116 min)
Language: Algerian with French subtitles
Director: Okacha Touita
Key Cast: Miloud Khetib, Azzedine Bouraghda, Boualem Benani, Ahmed Benaissa
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: France and Algeria
During the 90’s Algerian civil war, a Police Chief hunts down the Islamists, thus becoming their favourite target.
VIVRE (ALIVE !)
Feature-film (98 min)
Language: French with English subtitles
Director: Alain Carville
Key Cast: Paul Belmondo, Xavier Deluc, Laura Weissbecker, Arthur Dupont
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: France
Love, hate, violence, tenderness are in this film, relating the story of a young Russian student coming to Paris. Her life will turn into a
nightmare.
TANNA LA LEGENDE VIVANTE DU PACIFIQUE (TANNA THE THUNDERING LEGEND OF THE PACIFIC)
Documentary (52 min)
Language: French and English version
Director: Regis Ghezelbash
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: France
We discover the protected world of the tribes of Tanna Island, their habitat, their fineries and tattoos, their sorcery rituals and cult of the dead.
CASTRO, 50 ANS DE REVOLUTION, LE BILAN
Documentary (52 minutes in High Definition)
Language: French and English
Director: Jacques VICHET
Producer: BLUE BIRD PRODUCTIONS
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
No political figure has imprinted his mark on a country as dramatically as Castro, charismatic leader and dictator.
VENISE, LA SERENISSIME
Documentary (52 minutes in High Definition)
Language: French and English
Director: Jacques VICHET
Producer: BLUE BIRD PRODUCTIONS
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
Venice is built across numerous small islands in the middle of a lagoon. Centuries of history, conquests, international commercial and cultural
exchanges.
60 ANS DE RESISTANCE DANS LE MONDE
Documentary (26 min)
Language: French
Director: Laurent GALMOT
Producer: BRUT PRODUCTIONS
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
Sixty years after the end of the heroic struggles that took place at the Vercors plateau, the resistance spirit has not disappeared.
LES SEYCHELLES, PERLE DE L’OCEAN INDIEN
Documentary (52 minutes in High Definition)
Language: French and English
Director: Jacques VICHET
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Producer: BLUE BIRD PRODUCTIONS
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
Sandy beaches, azure seas and lush forests. Seychelles fires the imagination. With its 115 granite islands and coral
CJ ENTERTAINMENT INC.
CJ Entertainment Inc., 2nd Fl., Sinsa-dong, Kangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-893 Korea. Tel: 82.2.2017.1114. Fax: 82.2.2017.1240.
www.cjent.co.kr/eng
At Cannes: Katharine Kim (EVP of Int’l Division & Distribution), Kini Kim (VP of Int’l Sales), Josh Lee (VP of Int’l Sales), Kwan Lee
(Director, Int’l Sales), Michelle Chae (Director, Int’l Sales), Hee-jeon Kim (Director, Int’l Festivals)
FATE
Action (123 min)
Language: Korean, Subtitles English
Director: KIM Hae-gon
Scriptwriter: KIM Hae-gon
Production company: MKDK Producer JO Won-jang
Key cast: SONG Seung-heon, KWON Sang-woo, JI Sung
Status: Completed
Budget: 4.5M Delivery date March 20, 2008
Country of origin: Korea
Four friends plot to steal money meant for the rival gang leader with hope of starting new lives.
THE DIVINE WEAPON
Period drama
Language: Korean Subtitles English
Director: KIM Yoo-jin
Scriptwriter: LEE Man-hee
Production company: K&J Entertainment
Producer KANG Woo-suk
Key cast: JUNG Jae-young/HAN Eun-jung/HUH Joon-ho
Status: Post-production
Budget: 10M Delivery date Summer, 2008
Country of origin: Korea
Joseon Dynasty (Korea) in 15th Century secretly plans a development of the world’s first explosive arrow launcher to hold off Ming Dynasty’s
territorial expansion plan.
THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD
Language: Korean Subtitles English
Director: KIM Jee-woon
Scriptwriter: KIM Jee-woon, KIM Min-suk
Production company: Barunson Co., Ltd.
Producer: CHOI Jae-won, SEO Woo-sik
Key cast: SONG Kang-ho, LEE Byung-hun, JUNG Woo-sung
Status: Post-production
Budget: 20M Delivery date Summer, 2008
Country of origin: Korea
While the Weird, a notorious train robber, is stealing from a Japanese train crossing the Manchurian plains, he discovers a treasure map.
COACH 14
Coach 14, 21 rue Jean Pierre Timbaud, Paris 75011. Tel: 33.1.40.21.72.79. Fax: 33.1.47.00.10.02. http://www.coach14.com, email:
info@coach14.com
At Cannes: Pape BOYE (Managing Director Buyer), Jaume DOMÉNECH (Managing Director), Caroline NATAF (Acquisitions Manager
Buyer), Anna NOGUÉ (Marketing Manager, Festivals Coordinator)
Office: Square Mérimé, 17 2nd floor, Tel: 33.4.93.39.10.09. Fax: 33.4.93.39.22.75
LA SANGRE BROTA (BLOOD APPEARS)
Drama (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Pablo FENDRIK
Writer: Pablo FENDRIK
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Co-Production Partners: Juan Pablo GUGLIOTTA (Magma Cine), Claire LAJOUMARD (Acrobates Films), Ole LANDSJÖAASEN (Neue
Cameo
Key Cast: Arturo GOETZ, Nahuel P. BISCAYART, Guillermo ARENGO, Ailin SALAS, Stella GALAZZI, Guadalupe DOCAMPO
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: ARGENTINA, FRANCE, GERMANY
Arturo is a cab driver who has to obtain two thousand dollars within twenty-four hours: his older son, Ramiro, who left home four years ago,
has just phoned from Houston asking for urgent help.
GALANTUOMINI
Action/Adventure, Drama, Thriller (90 min)
Language: Italian
Director: Edoardo WINSPEARE
Writer: Edoardo Winspeare, Andrea Piva, Alessandro Valenti
Producer: Fabrizio MOSCA (Acaba Produzioni)
Key Cast: Donatella FINOCCHIARO, Fabrizio GIFUNI, Beppe FIORELLO, Giorgio COLANGELI
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: ITALY
A well known judge comes back in his native region, Salentino, in the South of Italy to find out that his old friend is dead and the woman he
loved is working now for a crime organization. In such context, the triggering of the tragedy is almost inevitable.
UN HOMME ET SON CHIEN
Drama
Language: French
Director: Francis HUSTER
Producer: Alain VANNIER (Orly Films), Jean-Louis LIVI (F Comme Film)
Key Cast: Jean Paul BELMONDO, Hafsia HERZI, Julika JENKINS, Francis HUSTER, Jean DUJARDIN
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
JE SUIS HEUREUX QUE MA MÈRE SOIT VIVANTE
Drama
Language: French
Director: Claude MILLER, Nathan MILLER
Producer: Alain VANNIER (Orly Films), Jean-Louis LIVI (F Comme Film)
Key Cast: Sophie CATTANI, Christine CITTI, Vincent ROTTIERS, Yves VERHOEVEN
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
CONTENTFILM INTERNATIONAL
ContentFilm International, 19 Heddon Street, London, W1B 4BG, UK. Tel: 44.20.7851.6500. Fax: 44.20.7851.6506. www.contentfilm.com, email London@contentfilm.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Jamie Carmichael (President, CFI), Harry White (Head of Sales), Kristian Brodie (Sales Executive), Graham Begg (Head of Film &
Television Finance), Judith Baugin (Head of International Marketing), Rebecca Berry (Marketing Manager)
Acquisitions Manager: Beatrice Neumann
Office 3rd floor, 2 La Croisette, Tel: 04.93.38.58.88, Fax: 04.93.99.46.55
THE MESSENGER
Emotional Road-Trip Drama
Language: English
Director: Oren Moverman
Writers: Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman
Producers: Mark Gordon, Benjamin Goldhirsh
Key Cast: Ben Foster
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A poignant, yet ultimately life affirming road movie about one of the toughest jobs around…
RELEASE
Violent action-packed comedy-horror
Language: English
Director: Stephen Leslie
Writers: Stephen Leslie
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Producers: Damian Jones
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
An original and hilariously brutal satire, and a gloriously twisted evocation of the American dream…
PRINCESS KA’IULANI
Breathtaking romance/ Drama
Language: English
Director: Marc Forby
Writers: Marc Forby
Producers: Nigel Thomas, Lauri Apelian, Ric Galindez, Roy Tjioe
Key Cast: Q’orianka Kilcher, Shaun Evans, Barry Pepper, Will Patton
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A breathtaking romance about an unlikely heroine and her unwavering fight to defend the independence of her people.
HORSE
Fast-paced action thriller
Language: English
Director: Laurence Malkin
Writers: Chad Thumann, Laurence Malkin
Producers: Paul Schiff. Tai Duncan, Rosanne Korenberg, Laurence Malkin
Key Cast: Diego Luna, Luis Guzmán, Adriana Barraza, Benito Martinez
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Year of Production:2008, Country of Origin: USA
A raw, fast-paced action thriller, TRAFFIC meets TRAINING DAY - with a ‘BOURNE’ edge.
THE DAISY CHAIN
Supernatural Thriller
Language: English
Director: Aisling Walsh
Writer: Lauren MacKenzie
Producers: Tristan Orpen Lynch, Dominic Wright
Key Cast: Samantha Morton, Steven Mackintosh, Eva Birthistle
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: UK
A chilling supernatural thriller of obsession, superstition and fear.
THE KILLING ROOM
Suspense Thriller
Language: English
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Writers: Gus Krieger, Ann Peacock
Producers: Ross M. Dinerstein, Bobby Schwartz, Guymon Casady, Ben Forkner
Key Cast: Nick Cannon, Clea Duvall, Tim Hutton, Chloe Sevigny, Peter Stormare, Shea Whigham
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Fast-paced, claustrophobic and full of twists and turns, this unrelenting psychological thriller will keep you pinned to you seat.
BALIBO
Thriller – based on true events
Language: English
Director: Robert Connolly
Writers: David Williamson, Robert Connolly
Producers: John Maynard, Rebecca Williamson
Key Cast: Anthony LaPaglia
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Australia
Based on a remarkable true story, BALIBO is a tense piece of bravado film-making, an engaging thriller in the vein of Costa Gavras’s
‘Missing’ and ‘The Constant Gardener’.
SPLINTER
Horror Thriller
Language: English
Director: Toby Wilkins
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Writers: Ian Shorr, Kai Barry
Producers: Ted Kroeber, Kai Barry
Key Cast: Shea Whigham, Paulo Costanzo, Jill Wagner,
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
There is something in the woods so hideous, whose predatory method is so horrifying, that it will strike a new kind of fear into the very core of
all who see it.
AUGUST
Language: English
Director: Austin Chick
Writer: Howard A. Rodman
Producers: Charlie Corwin, Josh Hartnett, Elisa Pugliese, David Guy Levy, Clara Markowicz
Key Cast: Josh Hartnett, Naomie Harris, Rip Torn, Adam Scott, Robin Tunney, Emmanuelle Chriqui, David Bowie
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production:2007, Country of Origin: USA
‘Wall Street’, ‘Boiler Room’ and ‘Shattered Glass’ come crashing into the internet age in this intense edge-of-your-seat and emotional tale
about one man’s fight to keep his dreams alive during the dot.com collapse of 2001.
LAST MAN
War Epic
Language: English
Director: Fred Schepisi
Writers: Graham Brammer, Christopher Wheeler, Ian Barry
Producers: Martin Brown, George Mannix, Warwick Young
Key Cast: Guy Pearce, David Wenham, Simon Baker, Martin Henderson, Joel Edgerton, Sam Worthington, Aden Young, Vince Colosimo
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Australia
The story of a five man team of Australian special forces stuck behind enemy lines in the waning days of the Vietnam war.
TRUMBO
Documentary (99 min)
Language: English
Director: Peter Askin
Writer: Christopher Trumbo
Producers: Will Battersby, Tory Tunnell, Alan Klingenstein, David Viola
Key Cast: Joan Allen, Michael Douglas, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane, Josh Lucas, Liam Neeson, David Strathairn, Donald Sutherland
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Legendary Hollywood writer Dalton Trumbo’s extraordinary story is brought to life through emotionally stirring and downright hilarious
performances of his letters by an all-star cast, including Michael Douglas, Liam Neeson and Donald Sutherland.
STEEP
Extreme Skiing Documentary (91 min)
Language: English
Director: Mark Obenhaus
Writer: Mark Obenhaus
Producers: Jordan Kronick, Gabrielle Tenenbaum
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
An adrenaline-fuelled feature documentary about danger, adventure, athleticism and the pursuit of perfection. This is the story of ‘big mountain
skiing’, and the fearless athletes who have made this extreme sport their own.
KEEP COMING BACK
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: William H. Macy
Writer: Will Aldis
Producers: Rachel Rothman, Tucker Tooley, Dan Keston
Key Cast: William H. Macy, Mos Def, Steve Buscemi, Victor Rasuk
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
KEEP COMING BACK is a charming and touching allegory of the struggles of growing up, and about finally overcoming the fear of
becoming an adult.
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ELEPHANTS OF THE OKAVANGO
Wildlife Documentary Narrative Feature
Language: English
Director: David Allen
Producers: Madelaine Westwood, Richard Waterstone
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
An intensely emotional narrative documentary feature film about a single heard of elephants and their incredible trek 300 miles across the
scorching temperatures of the Kalari desert, to the lush paradise of the Okavango delta.
NIGHTWATCHING
Drama (134 min)
Language: English
Director: Peter Greenaway
Writer: Peter Greenaway
Producer: Kees Kasander
Key Cast: Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Jodhi May, Eva Birthistle, Toby Jones, Natalie Press
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006/7, Country of Origin: Canada/UK/Poland/Netherlands
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt’s romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a
murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
CLOSING THE RING
Romantic Epic (118 min)
Language: English
Director: Richard Attenborough
Writer: Peter Woodward
Producer: Jo Gilbert, Richard Attenborough
Key Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: UK/Canada
Between present day and WWII, about how an American woman honoured a wartime promise, with a lifetime of denial - and how the
discovery of a gold ring on a distant Irish hillside brought her back to life.
COPRODUCTION OFFICE
Coproduction Office, 24 rue Lamartine 75009 Paris, France. Tel: 331.35602.6000. Fax: 331.5602.6001. www.coproductionoffice.eu,
email: info@coproductionoffice.eu
Producer and Sales Agent
At Cannes: Florence Schapiro (Sales), Sarah Calderon (Sales), Philippe Bober (CEO), Isabell Wiegand (Administration and Production),
Susanne Marian (Producer)
Acquisition Executive: Philippe Bober
Office: Riviera Booth stand G3/ H6, Tel: 334.9299.3226, Fax: 334.9299.3233
DELTA
Drama (90min)
Language: Hungarian
Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Writer: Kornél Mundruczó, Yvette Biro
Producer: Viktoria Petranyi, Susanne Marian, Philippe Bober
Co-production partners: Proton Cinema, Essential Filmproduktion
Key Cast: Orsi Tóth, Felix Lajko, Lili Monori
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1,5 M US $
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Hungary
A young man returns to the wild, labyrinthine landscape of the Delta after having been away since early childhood. There he meets a sister he
never knew he had. Together they build a house. But the locals will not accept this “unnatural” relationship.
PANIQUE AU VILLAGE
Animation
Language: French
Director: Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar
Writer: Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Guillaume Malandrin, Vincent Tavier
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Producer: La Parti
Key Cast: Benoit Poelvorde, Frederic Janin
Delivery Status: in production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Belgium
The misadventures of Horse, Indian and Cowboy, quiet inhabitants of a village, who set out in search of their enemies, the Atlantans, traitorous
underwater sea creatures.
MEMORY HOTEL
Animation
Language: German
Director: Heinrich Sabl
Writer: Heinrich Sabl
Producer: Heinrich Sabl Film Produktion
Co-production partners: Parisienne de Production
Delivery Status: Production
Year of Production: 1999-2009, Country of Origin: German
IMPORT EXPORT
Drama (135 min)
Language: Austrian
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Writer: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz
Producer: Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion GmbH
Co-production partners: Parisienne de Production
Key Cast: Ekaterina Rak, Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Austria
Import: Olga, a young nurse in the Ukraine, dreams of a better life in the west. Export: Paul, a young Austrian security guard in search of a
reason to get up in the morning, heads east with his stepfather to try his luck.
YOU THE LIVING
Drama, Comedy (95 min)
Language: Swedish
Director: Roy Andersson
Writer: Roy Andersson
Producer: Pernilla SANDSTRÖM, Susanne Marian , Philippe Bober, Carsten Brandt
Co-production partners: Roy Andersson Filmprodukttion AB, Parisienne de production, Thermidor Filmproduktion, Posthus Teatret
Key Cast: Jessica LUNDBERG, Elisabet HELANDER, Björn ENGLUND, Leif LARSSON, Ollie OLSON
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 4.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Sweden, France, Germany, Denmark
YOU, THE LIVING is about the human being, about her greatness and her miserableness, her joy and sorrow, her self-confidence and anxiety.
CRYSTAL SKY WORLDWIDE
Crystal Sky Worldwide, 10203 Santa Monica Blvd., 5th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA. Tel: 1.310.843.0223. Fax:1. 310.553.9895.
www.crystalsky.com, email: reception@crystalsky.com
At Cannes: Steven Paul (CEO & Chairman), Daniel Diamond (President, Crystal Sky Worldwide), Scott Karol (EVP of Strategic Planning,
Business Affairs, and Production)
Office: Intercontinental Carlton, Tel: 33.4.93.06.42.23
TEKKEN
Action/Adventure
Language: English
Director: Dwight Little
Writer: Alan McElroy
Producer: Steven Paul & Benedict Carver
Key Cast: Jon Foo, Cary Tagawa, Ian Anthony Dale, Kelly Overton
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A Parkoor style action movie based on the video game sensation of the same name.
ROBOSAPIEN
Family
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Language: English
Director: Sean McNamara
Writer: Max Botkin
Producer: Avi arad & Steven Paul
Key Cast: Penelope Ann Miller, David Eigenberg, Bobby Coleman, Holliston Coleman
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A boy and an escaped military robot find each other and transform one another's lives.
OPPOSITE DAY
Family
Language: English
Director: R. Michael Givens
Writer: Max Botkin
Producer: Steven Paul & Jamee Natella
Key Cast: French Stewart, George Wendt, Colleen Crabtree, and Pauly Shore
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
An experiment goes wrong – and when the mist clears everything has changed. Becoming completely opposite, the adults become children and
the children become adults.
CURB ENTERTAINMENT
Curb Entertainment, 3907 West Alameda Avenue, Burbank, CA, 91505, United States. Tel: 1.818.843.8580. Fax:1. 818.566.1719.
www.curbentertainment.com, email: info@curbentertainment.com
Producer, Distributor
At Cannes: Carole Curb (President), Conor Barrett (Marketing and Assistant Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Christy Peterson
Office: Riviera H2
WAR WOLVES
Language: English
Director: Michael Worth
Writer: Michael Worth
Producer: Carole Curb
Key Cast: John Saxon, Michael Worth, Tim Thomerson, Adrienne Barbeau
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: United States
A band of she-wolves and a special forces unit are pitted against each other in the race to hunt for a fellow soldier infected with the Werewolf
virus in the United States.
CONJURER
Horror (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Clint Hutchison
Writer: Clint Hutchison, David Yarbough
Producer: Richard Mix
Key Cast: Andrew Bowen, Maxine Bahns, John Schneider
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: United States
Recovering from a miscarriage, an art photographer and his wife move to a rural farm that may be haunted by a presence that threatens their
relationship.
SHORT TRACK
www.shorttrack.com
Family (103 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Marie Hopkins
Writer: Marie Hopkins
Producer: Chris McGuinness, Marie Hopkins
Key Cast: Pepper Sweeney, Barbara Niven, Joshua Snyder, Ann Bratton, Patrick Gorman
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: United States
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Blake longs to race in a top series and struggles to find a way to allow his deaf son to follow his footsteps and survive his daughter falling for a
young California racer.
FOR THE LOVE OF A DOG
(90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Sheree Le Mon
Writer: Sheree Le Mon
Producer: Sheree Le Mon
Key Cast: Sherman Hemsley, Phil Vassar, Jules Mayes, Maggie Edwards, Tina Witherby, Gary Donald
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: United States
This is a heartwarming story of a family who binds together with their neighbors and community to save the life of a loveable German Shepard.
HEAVY PETTING
(95 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Marcel Sarmiento
Writer: Marcel Sarmiento
Producer: Peter Glatzer
Key Cast: Malin Akerman, Brendan Hines
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: United States
When Charlie meets Daphne, he never expects he will have to battle past her pet dog “Babydoll” to win her heart.
THE NEIGHBOR
(97 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Eddie O’Flaherty
Writer: Eddie O’Flaherty and J.P. Davis
Producer: Susan Jackson
Key Cast: Michele Laroque and Matthew Modine
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: United States
A businessman (Modine) watches as his life begins to unravel after learning his ex-wife is going to marry his best friend.
FORFEIT
(84 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Andrew Shea
Writer: John Rafter Lee
Producer: Sherri James
Key Cast: Billy Burke, Sherry Stringfield, Wayne Knight, Gregory Itzin
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: United States
Frank carefully fakes his own murder and his former girlfriend takes the wrap. Now she must show he’s still alive to prove her innocence.
NANNY INSANITY
(102 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Kevin Connor
Writer: Andrea Malamut
Producer: Jay Malamut
Key Cast: Cynthia Preston, Larry Dorf, Alla Korot
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: United States
Based on a true story, some hilarious things happen to a Philadelphia couple after they hire a Ukrainian nanny.
L.A. BLUES
(95 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Ian Gurvitz
Writer: Ian Gurvitz
Producer: Randy Carter
Key Cast: Kevin Rahm, Anthony Michael Hall, Dave Foley
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Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: United States
A year in the lives of six guys who hang out in a blues bar in Hollywood.
JUNCTURE
(90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: James Seale
Writer: Robert Gosnell
Producer: Kevin V. Duncan
Key Cast: Kristine Blackport, Elizabeth Rose, John Hutton
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: United States
An ordinary woman turned vigilante embarks on a personal quest to dispense her own style of retribution.
DISORDER
(103 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jack Thomas Smith
Writer: Jack Thomas Smith
Producer: Judi Carman
Key Cast: Darren Kendrick, Lauren Seikaly
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: United States
When David was sent away for a brutal murder, his claims of innocence went ignored. Now he is on a quest to prove his innocence.
EBS WORLD ENTERTAINMENT
EBS World Entertainment, 3000 W. Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90404 USA. Tel: 1.310.449.4065. Fax: 1.310.449.4061.
http://www.ebsla.com, email: acquisitions@ebsla.com
At Cannes: Richard Cooper (CEO), Wayne Wong (President), Rick Jordan (VP of Production), Josh Plaza (Acquisitions Assistant Manager),
Adam Nelson (Acquisitions Assistant)
Office: B18
HEIST
Crime thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Rick Jordan, Richard Cooper
Writer: Rick Jordan, Lee Denny
Producer: Wayne Wong, Richard Cooper, Rick Jordan
Key Cast: Rick Jordan, Erik David, Christian Mendez
Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: USA
K is an accomplished bank robber. But his world is turned upside down when his brother needs help to pay off a debt to a vicious drug kingpin.
Will the heist pay off?
A CONSPIRACY
Thriller (91 min)
Language: English
Director: Rick Jordan
Writer: Matt Jordan
Producer: Wayne Wong, Richard Cooper, Rick Jordan
Key Cast: Rick Jordan, Athena Maria Bitzis, Rob Pralgo, Ray Lloyd
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Chad Udall is a young attorney on the skids. Things only get worse when he is the only witness to a murder that puts him in the middle of a
conspiracy involving a prestigious law firm, the FBI, and his best friend.
BALCANCAN
Dark comedy (89 min)
Director: Darko Mitrevski
Writer: Darko Mitrevski
Producer: Darko Mitrevski
Key Cast: Vlado Jovanoski, Adolfo Margiotta, Branko Djuric
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Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Macedonia
A Macedonian military deserter and his Italian blood-brother are searching for a dead grandmother, wrapped up in a stolen carpet, all over the
Balkan's criminal underworld.
THE FUN PARK
Horror (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Rick Walker
Writer: Rick Walker, Jeff Craig, Roisin Crowe
Producer: Randy Colton, Luke Curley, Ramsey Drake, Richard Geren, Bob Hoover
Key Cast: Jillian Murray, Randy Wayne, Jessi Albright
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Six teens discover that the ghost of "Bobo the Clown" living in an abandoned fun park is more than an urban legend.
THE REMNANT
Supernatural thriller (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Rick Jordan
Writer: Matt Jordan
Producer: Wayne Wong, Richard Cooper, Rick Jordan
Key Cast: Rick Jordan, Joe Estevez, Jeff Goldman
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Multiple murders creates havoc in a small town. But when the culprit seems to be a man who died thirty years ago, the police find themselves
believing in the impossible and battling the unthinkable.
STAGE FRIGHT
Supernatural thriller (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Rick Jordan
Writer: John Loughlin, Kurtis Rintala
Producer: Wayne Wong, Richard Cooper, Rick Jordan
Key Cast: Omayra Borrero, Rudi Frenner, Rick Jordan, Clive Kennedy, Jessica Landon, Barry McLaughlin, Michaell Parlak, JT Pryor, Craig
Saslow
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
A touring acting company finds itself trapped in an old theater. They must fight for survival against an unseen killer who is methodically
eliminating them one by one.
THE MOST UNROMANTIC MAN IN THE WORLD
Comedy (81 min)
Language: English
Director: Gratian Dimech, James Heath
Writer: Gratian Dimech, James Heath
Producer: Lee Mason, David Lumby, Nick Heath, Gratian Dimech, James Heath
Key Cast: David Lumby, Yvonne Tansley, James Heath, Chizzy Akudolu, John Evans
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: UK
A world-wide search for The Most Unromantic Man In The World turns up David Lumby, an utterly charmless and insensitive porn addict in
London.
BROKEN GLASS
Arthouse (94 min)
Language: English, spanish, german, french
Director: Gustavo Camelot
Writer: Gustavo Camelot
Producer: Gustavo Camelot
Key Cast: Gustavo Camelot, Danielle James, Mariela Santos
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Through seven bottles of magical wine we follow Valentina, who is torn between her own desires and the wishes of her overbearing parents.
But when Valentina catches her boyfriend with another man, her repressed male alter-ego emerges.
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NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH (DEADLY END)
Horror (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Graeme Whifler
Writer: Graeme Whifler
Producer: Jeff Kirshbaum, Michael J. Brody
Key Cast: Jack Huston, Pell James, Nick Searcy
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
It seemed like a perfect neighborhood. At least that's what Bob and Wendi Paterson thought before they met their new neighbor Adrien.
YOU ARE ALONE
Drama (84 min)
Language: English
Director: Gorman Bechard
Writer: Gorman Bechard
Producer: Gorman Bechard, Frank Loftus
Key Cast: Jessica Bohl, Richard Brundage
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Daphne is a Yale-bound high school senior. She is also a prostitute.
RUIDO
Thriller drama (101 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: César Rodríguez
Writer: César Rodríguez
Producer: César Rodríguez, Ruben Chevres, Carolina Arango
KeyCast: Maria Coral Otero Soto, Rafael Alvarez
Completed: Completed
Country of Origin: USA/Puerto Rico
Teenaged girl Franchi has her world turned upside down when her parents go through an unexpected divorce. To make matters worse, her
mom's new boyfriend has moved in with eyes for both mother and daughter.
ECHELON STUDIOS
Echelon Studios, 1725 Victory Blvd., Glendale, CA 91201 USA. Tel: 1.818.500.1640. Fax: 1.818.500.1644. http://www.echelonstudios.us/ ,
email: corporate@echelonstudios.us
At Cannes: Sandro Gohoho (Vice President of International Sales), Eric Louzil (President & CEO), Michael Mondini (International Film
Consultant), Craig Minor (Vice President of International Sales), Tim Kelly (Vice President of Domestic & International Sales)
Office: Tel: 33.4.93.38.62.91, Fax: 33.4.93.39.49.71
MY PINK SHIRT
http://www.mypinkshirt.com/
Drama (75 min)
Language: English
Director: Charles Kassatly
Writer: Charles Kassatly
Co-Production Partners: No One To Blame Productions, Mouska Media
Producer: Charles Kassatly
Key Cast: Peter Bloch-Hansen, Badih Bou Chakra, Milly Crnogorac, Craig Cyr, Giancarlo Brun Del Re, Audrey Demers, Margit Gmainer,
Athena Guy, Jennifer Kalinowski, Aida Memisevic,
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Canada / USA
After her mother contracts the AIDS virus, Regency must learn to survive on her own.
CHRONICLES OF AN EXORCISM
Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Nick G. Miller
Writer: Nick G. Miller, Matthew Ashford, David Michael Ross
Co-Production Partners: NGM Enterprises
Producer: Matthew Ashford, Ray W. Keziah, John Mullis, David Michael Ross
Key Cast: Matthew Ashford, Rob G. Kahn, Nick G. Miller, Heather Harvey, David Michael Ross, Dara Wedel, Ray W. Keziah, Sara Howell
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Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Based on what appears to be a true exorcism, and shot documentary style, the story of two amateur filmmakers who, at the request of the
Church, document the exorcism of young Tina Miller over a three day period.
MICHTAVIM LE AMERICA (DEAR MR. WALDMAN)
http://www.dearmrwaldman.com/
Drama (90 min)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Hanan Peled
Writer: Hanan Peled
Co-Production Partners: Israeli Film Fund, Open Doors Films
Producer: Yoav Halevy, Hanan Peled
Key Cast: Rami Heuberger, Jenya Dodina, Ido Port, Roy Mayer, Ela Armoni, Evelyn Kaplun, Doval'e Glickman, Gadi Poor, Esti Svidenski, Eli
Gorenstein
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Israel
Hilik chooses to test his father's love to him, while accepting the risk of loosing him.
FUTILE ATTRACTION
http://www.makemarksmovie.com/
Comedy (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Mark Prebble
Writer: Mark Prebble, Benedict Reid
Co-Production Partners: Twilight Productions Ltd.
Producer: Lisa Cook, Natalie Crane, Mark Prebble
Key Cast: Michelle Ang, Danielle Mason, Peter Rutherford, Christopher Brougham, Alistair Browning, Jemaine Clement, Desiree Rose Cheer
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of Origin: New Zealand
A film crew are making a Reality TV show about a couple brought together by a dating agency. However, the couple are so incompatible that
the crew must manipulate the relationship to get the footage they need.
CRAP SHOOT: THE DOCUMENTARY
Documentary (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Kenneth R. Close
Writer: Kenneth R. Close
Co-Production Partners: K.C. Films, Low Fidelity Productions
Producer: Kenneth R. Close
Key Cast: Kenneth R. Close, James E. Horton, Joey Medina, Amaris Dupree, Rhoda Jordan, Jason Childress, Michael Close, Michael Condro,
Brian J. Murphy, Michael Hauge
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
When a scientist and his narrator visit L.A. to research Hollywood filmmaking, their engrossing documentary about movies becomes an
outlandish movie about documentaries
POOL PARTY
http://www.poolparty-themovie.com/
Comedy (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Timothy M. Snell
Writer: Timothy M. Snell, Justin T. Bowler, Michael DiGaudio, Jonathan Gunning
Co-Production Partners: Farmview Films, Circe's World Films
Producer: Justin T. Bowler, Timothy M. Snell, Patricia Steffy
Key Cast: Justin T. Bowler, Sarah Horvath, Kenzo Lee, Meredith Giangrande, Rebecca Morris, Ryan Ewing, David Lawrence, Mikki Padilla,
Dave Secor, Michael Hampton
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
It's your standard guy-fails-bar-exam-loses-girlfriend-works-for-a-lunatic-and-is-stalked-by-a-monkey-clown story .with a twist.
POINT OF FEAR
http://www.pointoffear.com/
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller (96 min)
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Language: English
Director: Brooks Benjamin
Writer: Brooks Benjamin
Co-Production Partners: Lycan Entertainment
Producer: Brooks Benjamin
Key Cast: Austin Musick, Jason Benjamin, Casey Payne, Linds Edwards, Erica Bundy, Steve Miller, Tina Jenkins, Zachary Redden, Kelle
Miller, Roger Caldwell
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
When Mark, Parker, Melissa, and Karen decide to go camping in the small town of Pleasant Point, they find the town has much to offer.
including a string of brutal murders.
WAIT UP HARRIET
http://www.waitupharriet.com/about/
Drama (86 min)
Language: English
Director: Angus Benfield, Hanna Eichler
Writer: Hanna Eichler
Co-Production Partners: Limelight Motion Picture Company
Producer: Nick Hitchins, Jonathan Warner
Key Cast: Angus Benfield, Melanie Cannan, Javier Jarquin, Lynda Milligan, Mitch Potts, Nick Prince, Ashleigh Southam, Jonathan Steel, Roni
Taylor
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA / New Zealand
When fire fighter Jack loses his beautiful wife, Harriet, he feels there is nothing worth living for. That is until his wife's friend and 'spiritual
mentor', Marty, pays him a visit and they strike up an unusual friendship.
THE FALLING
http://www.mirrorimagesltd.com/productions/the_falling/
Action / Drama (114 min)
Language: English
Director: Nicholas Gyeney
Writer: Nicholas Gyeney
Co-Production Partners: Mirror Images
Producer: Scott Gabelein, Michelle Gyeney, Nicholas Gyeney, Holland Smith
Key Cast: Scott Gabelein, Michael Ayden, Rory Colin Fretland, Donovan Marley, Tellier Killaby, Andrew Dickert, Edi Zanidache, Garth
Herrick, Rob Veatch III, Ayanna Jingles
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
Amidst his broken life, Police Officer Grayson Reed is about to be thrown into the middle of a feud between the five angels of Heaven and the
leader of Hell.
FODOR'S HAMLET
http://www.hamletmovie.co.uk/
Thriller (131 min)
Language: English
Director: Alexander Fodor
Writer: Alexander Fodor, William Shakespeare
Co-Production Partners: Zed Resistor Company
Producer: Paul Allan-Slade
Key Cast: Wilson Belchambers, Max Davis, James Frail, Alan Hanson, Lydia Piechowiak, Katie Reddin-Clancy, Tallulah Sheffield, Di
Sherlock, Jason Wing, Thomas Matthews
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: UK
Set in a surrealistic, nightmarish, Kafkaesque no man's land, this version of the famous Shakespeare play centres on the ghostly, supernatural
aspects of the play.
ECHO BRIDGE ENTERTAINMENT
Echo Bridge Entertainment, 8383 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 530, Los Angeles, CA 90211 USA. Tel: 1.323.658.7913. Fax: 1.323.658.7922.
www.echobridgeentertainment.com, email: info@ebellc.com
Distributor
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At Cannes: Michael Rosenblatt (President & CEO), Dan March (Executive Vice President), Patti Rose (Director - International Sales)
Office: Riviera R19, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.14
RUN FOR HER LIFE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Balthazar Kormakur
Producer: 26 Films
Key Cast: Dermot Mulroney
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
In a desperate attempt to save his daughter from a rare disease, a father jeopardizes his career, family and life when he finds himself involved in
the middle of a criminal underworld medical ring.
MY LIFE IN RUINS
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Donald Petrie
Writer: Mike Reiss
Producer: Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Michelle Chydzik, Nathalie Marciano
Key Cast: Nia Vardalos, Richard Dreyfuss, Rita Wilson
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A romantic comedy set amongst the ruins of Ancient Greece, in which a Greek-American tour guide finds unexpected adventure and romance.
JUST ADD WATER
Comedy (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Hart Bochner
Writer: Hart Bochner
Producer: Robin Bissell, Clifford Werber
Key Cast: Danny DeVito, Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Dylan Walsh
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A hysterical film of human predicament and resolve about a man who dares to dream--and in the process gains the courage to pursue his
childhood love and confront his hometown thugs.
THE BIG BAD SWIM
Comedy (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Ishai Setton
Writer: Daniel Schechter
Producer: Chandra Simon, Ishai Setton
Key Cast: Paget Brewster, Jeff Branson, Ricky Ullman
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
An adult swim class sets the stage for this charming comedy about love, loss and second chances.
ELEVEN ARTS, INC
Eleven Arts, Inc, 2932 Wilshire Blvd., #204, Santa Monica, CA 90403 USA. Tel: 1.310.264.0818. Fax: 1.310.264.0868.
http://www.elevenarts.net, email: contact@elevenarts.net
At Cannes: Ko Mori (President), Kana Aida (Executive Manager)
Office: Riviera H11
BLOODY SNAKE UNDER THE SUN
Drama (124 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Yu Ni
Writer: Kiyot Inagaki
Producer: Thiro Yamashita
Key Cast: Aoi Miyazaki, Shogen
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Japan
Glaring but delicate. Warm and yet brutal. Scent of people living in Okinawa in 60’s.
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WHERE ARE WE GOING?
Gay (100 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Yoshihiko Matsui
Writer: Yoshihiko Matsui
Producer: Atsuko Ohno
Key Cast: Shuju Kashiwabara, Anzu
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Japan
ULTIMATE LOVE STORY (PERFECT WITNESS)
Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Thomas C. Dunn
Writer: Mark Borkowski, Thoman C. Dunn
Producer: Yan Fisher Romanovsky
Key Cast: Wes Bentley
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA/Spain
This unsetting psychological thriller explores the dark side of the human psyche and the depths to which one man will sink to make his mark.
HARIMAYA BRIDGE
Drama (115 min)
Language: Japanese, English
Director: Aaron Woolkfolk
Writer: Aaron Woolkfolk
Producer: Ko Mori
Key Cast: Danny Glover, Bennet Guillory
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA, Japan
An African-American man travels to rural Japan to resolve some issues involving his late son, from whom he was estranged. While there, he
discovers some secrets his son left behind.
MAN, WOMAN & THE WALL
Erotic (84 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Masashi Yamamoto
Writer: Masashi Yamamoto
Producer: Eiten Ishige
Key Cast: Sola Aoi
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Japan
The wall sits between his fantasy and her reality.
SISTERHOOD
Drama (118 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Eiji Uchida
Writer: Eiji Uchida
Producer: Hirot Asano
Key Cast: Moeki Tsuruoka, Mizuki Tsuruka
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Japan
Two innocent sisters. A down-and-out mafia. There is nothing to lose, but each other.
TWILIGHT PHANTOM
Horror (90 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Tsukasa Kishimoto
Writer: Tsukasa Kishimoto
Producer: Kenro Tsushima
Key Cast: Shogen, Maki Tamaru
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Japan
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A young group is haunted by the eerie spirit after the accident.
ENLIGHTENMENT FILMS
Enlightenment Films, 87a Pimlico Rd, Chelsea, London SW1 W8PH United Kingdom. Tel: 44.207.824.8755. www.enlightenmentfilms.com,
email: info@enlightenmentfilms.com
At Cannes: Hanan Kattan (Producer, Head of Sales), Shamim Sarif (Writer, Director), Jana Kralikova (International Marketing Consultant)
Office: Cannes Port, Yacht ‘African Cat’, Bureau Du Port, Gare Maritime 06400 CANNES. Tel: 33.645.063.998, 33(0)645.063.982
I CAN’T THINK STRAIGHT
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Shamim Sarif
Writer: Shamim Sarif
Producer: Hanan Kattan
Production Company: Enlightenment Productions
Leading Cast: Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth
Status: Completed (Market screening premiere)
Production Country: United Kingdom
Tala, a London-based Palestinian, prepares for her elaborate wedding in Jordan when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who
turns her world upside down.
THE WORLD UNSEEN
Drama
Language: English
Director: Shamim Sarif
Writer: Shamim Sarif
Producer: Hanan Kattan
Production Company: Enlightenment Productions
Leading Cast: Lisa Ray, Parvin Dabas, Sheetal Sheth
Status: Completed
Production Country: United Kingdom, South Africa
In 1950’s South Africa ruled by apartheid, free-spirited owner of café Amina meets introverted wife Miriam and their unexpected attraction
pushes them to question the rules that binds them.
ESSENTIAL ENTERTAINMENT
Essential Entertainment, 9000 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 600, Los Angeles, CA 90069 USA. Tel: 1.310.550.9100. Fax: 1.310.550.9101.
At Cannes: Jere Hausfater (CEO), John Fremes (President, International), Mark Padilla (Director, Sales and Distribution), Randy Hermann
(CFO/COO), Neil Kaplan (Chief Business Development Officer), Sunil Bhuta (VP, Legal and Business Affairs)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite 133, 14, La Crosiette, Cannes, France 06400. Tel: 33(0)4.97.06.85.01, Fax: 33(0)4.97.06.85.12
MY ONE AND ONLY
Starring Renee Zellweger
Directed by Richard Loncraine (The Gathering Storm, My House in Umbria, The Gathering Storm, Band of Brothers – TV series)
Written by Charlie Peters (My Father the Hero, 3 Men and a Little Lady, Blame it on Rio).
Produced by Aaron Ryder (The Prestige, The Mexican, Memento)
Delivery Status: In Pre Production
In this bitter sweet romantic comedy, a freewheeling mother drives across the country in search of true love – and drags her two teenage sons
along for the ride.
STAN HELSING
Written and to be Directed by Bo Zenga (Executive Producer - Scary Movie)
Produced by Stone Village Pictures (Love in the Time of Cholera, Turistas)
Delivery Status: In Pre Production
On Halloween night reluctant hero and video-store clerk STAN HELSING must save a town from the 6 most feared monsters in cinematic
history.
SOLOMON KANE
Written and Directed by Michael J. Bassett
Produced by Samuel Hadida (Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Brotherhood of the Wolf)
Starring James Purefoy (Vanity Fair, Rome – HBO Series, Resident Evil), Pete Postlethwaite (Closing the Ring, The Omen, The Usual
Suspects), Rachel Hurd-Wood (Perfume, Peter Pan), Max Von Sydow (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Rush Hour 3), Mackenzie Crook
(Pirates of the Caribbean, The Brothers Grimm), Alice Krige (Lonely Hearts, Silent Hill).
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Delivery Status: In Production
A mercenary who owes his soul to the devil redeems himself by fighting evil.
CLIVE BARKER’S BOOK OF BLOOD
Produced by Clive Barker and Matador Pictures
Starring Sophie Ward, Jonas Armstrong, Paul Blair
Written and Directed by John Harrison (Tales From the Darkside: The Move, Dune – TV series)
Delivery Status: Post Production
While investigating a gruesome slaying, a paranormal expert finds a house that is at the intersection of “highways” transporting the souls in the
afterlife.
THE INFORMERS
Directed by Gregor Jordan (Ned Kelly, Buffalo Soldiers)
Scripted by Bret Easton Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki
Produced by Marco Weber
Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder, Mickey Rourke, Amber Heard, Brad Renfro, Rhys Ifans, Chris Isaak, Jon Foster,
Austin Nichols
Delivery Status: Post Production
Set in Los Angeles during the early 1980’s THE INFORMERS focuses on young, wealthy Angeleno's, consumed by a decadent lifestyle, who
remain detached and isolated from the real world.
DEFIANCE
Directed, Produced and Written by Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai)
Starring Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, Tomas Arana.
Delivery Status: Post Production
Set during World War II, four brothers take refuge in the Belarus forest of Poland when their village is invaded by the Nazis.
FIREFLIES IN THE GARDEN
Written and Directed by Dennis Lee
Produced by Marco Weber
Starring Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hayden Panettiere, Ioan Gruffudd and Julia Roberts.
Delivery Status: completed
An unexpected tragedy threatens to rip an emotionally fragile family apart.
ONIMUSHA
Directed by: Christophe Gans
Written by: Lesley Krueger, revisions by John Collee
Produced by: Samuel Hadida
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
A noble samurai warrior joins forces with a bookish adventurer and a wild bunch of mercenaries in order to rescue Imperial Princess Yuki and
the beautiful Britta Jensen from the Demon Lord before all hell breaks loose on earth.
EUROCINE
Eurocine 33, Av. Des Champs Elysees, 75008 Paris, France. Tel: 33.1.42.25.64.92. Fax: 33.1.42.25.73.38. www.eurocine.net, E-Mail:
sales@eurocine.net
At Cannes: Daniel LESOEUR (Chairman), Ilona KUNESOVA (Head of acquisition/development), Thomas LESOEUR
(Acquisitions/Development)
Office: n° C 3 at the Riviera
IN THE ATTIC
Animation
Director: Jiri BARTA
Producer: M. Smidmajer
Status: Pre production
Courageous toys undertake a dangerous journey through a forsaken attic to rescue their friend a beautiful doll from the ruler of the Empire of
Evil.
DON QUIJOTE
Director: 0rson Welles
Producer: Paxi Irrigoyen
Starring: Orson Welles, Akim Tamiroff, F Feiguera
Status: Completed - screening in booth
Actual transposition of Cervantes’s master piece shot over 20 years by Orson Welles and edited by Jess Franco.
EL REY
Drama
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selected/nominated Oscar & Goyas
Director: Antonio Dorado
Producer: Daniel Lesoeur
Starring: Fernand Solorzano, Vanessa Simon, Olivier Pagès, Cristina Umana
Status: completed
Master of ESCOBAR, the life of Pedro Rey, the first narco dealer who learned to kiss and kill in the movies.
SADE'S EUGENIA
Horror / Erotic (90 min)
Language: English French Italian
Director: Jess Franco
Producers: EUROCINE / JK FILMS
Principal Cast: Soledad Miranda, Paul Muller, André Montcall
Production Status: Completed, Videocassette
Country of Origin: France
From the novel ‘Eugénie de Franval’ Eugenia and her father plan to commit together a perfect crime.
JUSTINE DE SADE
Erotic (90 min)
Director: Claude Pierson
Producer: PIERSON Productions/ICAR/CITEL
Principal Cast: Alice Arno, Yves Arcanel, Georges Beauvillier
Language: English, German
Production Status: Completed
From the novel ‘Les Infortunes de la vertu’ A young orphan, Justine, is maltreated along all the meetings in her life, opposite to her sister
Juliette.
THE DEVIL COLLECTION
12 feature films: horror
French, english, spanish, german, italian – Completed
A package of 12 cult horror movies, digitally remastered, with bonus materials for All Media.
THE FAMILY COLLECTION
12 feature films: family
A package of 12 films warranting a steady audience for all the family.
LIBRARY OF FAMILY, ACTION, HORROR, CLASSIC
A collection of 100 feature films made of action/adventure, horror, soft erotic, family, animation and black & white oldies
EUROPEAN FILM PROMOTION
European Film Promotion, Friedensallee 14-16, Hamburg, 22765, Germany. Tel: 49.49.3906252. Fax: 49.49.3906249. www.efp-online.com,
email: info@efp-online.com
Promotion
At Cannes: Renate Rose (Managing Director), Jo Mühlberger (Project Manager), Susanne Davis (Project Manager), Sabine Rolinski (PR)
Office: Tel: 49.160.440 9595
PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE
European Film Promotion (EFP) is uniquely positioned to promote and market European cinema throughout the world. In Cannes EFP is
present with PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE, a project designed to spotlight European production talent.
FABRICATION FILMS
Fabrication Films, 8701 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035 USA. Tel: 1.310.289.1232. Fax: 1.310.289.1292.
http://www.fabricationfilms.com, email: chris@fabricationfilms.com
At Cannes: Chris Perry (Executive Vice President)
Office:
STILETTO
http://www.
Thriller/Action (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Nick Vallelonga
Writer: Paul Sloan
Producer: Warren Ostregard
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Key Cast: Tom Berenger, Michael Biehn, Stana Katic, William Forsythe, James Russo, Tom Sizemore, Dominique Swain
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $4 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her lover.
FROM A PLACE OF DARKNESS
Thriller/Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Douglas Raine
Writer: Douglas Raine, Scott Kenyon Baker
Producer: Phyllis Boyd, Jeffrey Chernov, Catherine Conklin
Key Cast: Tracis Schuldt, John Savage, Bronson Pinchot
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Miles, a documentary filmmaker living off old success, finds his "second" break in the seedy world of snuff films.
DEEP WINTER
Action/Adventure (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Mikey Hilb
Writer: John Protass, Micah Abrams
Producer: Glenn Zoller
Key Cast: Eric Lively, Kellan Lutz, Michael Madsen, Luke Gross, Robert Carradine
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $3 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Best friends set out to be the first people to ski a dangerous Alaskan peak.
NIGH WATCHER (SUICIDE TAPES)
Thriller/Horror (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Will Gordh
Delivery Status: Completed
FANTASTIC FILMS INTERNATIONAL, LLC
Fantastic Films International, LLC., 3854 Clayton Avenue, Los Angeles, 90027 CA, USA. Tel: 1.323.661.7088. Fax: 1.323.661.7188.
www.fantasticfilmsinternational.com
At Cannes: Roxane Barbat (President), Fred Dewysocki III (Partner), Lina Naujokaite (Sales Assistant)
Office: Carlton International Hotel, Suite #134, Mobile 1.310.560.9577
SPIRIT OF THE FOREST
Animation (78 mins)
Language: English
Director: David Rubin
Production Company: Dygra Films
Producer: Manolo Gomez
Executive Producer: Fred deWysocki
Key Cast: Sean Astin, Ron Perlman, Giovanni Ribisi, Anjelica Huston
Status: Completed, Screening
Country of origin: Spain
A powerful businessman wants to build a highway through the forest.
AGENT C.R.U.S.H.
Animation
Language: English
Director: Sean Robinson
Production Company: Crush Productions Ltd.
Producer: Tony Ludwig, Barrie Robinson, Fred deWysocki, Roxane Barbat
Key Cast: Roger Moore, Neve Campbell, Brian Cox
Status: Completed, Screening
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Two hundred years into the future, will AGENT C.R.U.S.H., the future of law enforcement, save the world?
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SIDE EFFX
Sci-Fi (93 min)
Language: English
Production Company: Pagomas Entertainment
Producer: Johnathan Brown
Key Cast: Eloise Joseph, Dave Judge
Status: Completed, Screening
Country of origin: UK/ Italy
A bloody roller coaster that will test everyone’s nerves, especially after discovering that searching for eternal youth, the scientists have instead
uncovered the after life.
COWBOY SMOKE
Western (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Will Moore
Production Company: Bandwagon Films
Producer: Will Moore
Key Cast: Matthew T. Johnston, Chad Matthews, Estella Perez
Status: Completed, Screening
Country of origin: USA
A modern take on the spaghetti westerns of the 1960’s that breaks down the mythic Cowboy one bullet at a time.
THE LAST BAD NEIGHBORHOOD
Action/ Martial Arts (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Mark Duncan
Producer: Mark Duncan
Key Cast: Paul Logan (Days of our Lives, Friends), Tara Platt, Zena Leigh, Robert Nyman
Status: Completed, Screening
Country of origin: USA
In the near apocalyptic future, The Silverstone Corporation is trying to take over Dockland, the valuable waterfront property under the firm rule
of Bishop, but the takeover won't be easy – who will win this battle???
THY KINGDOM COME
Horror (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Ilmar Taska
Production Company: Redark Pictures
Producer: Lorenzo von Lorch
Key Cast: Julian Berlin, Marian Zapico, Tiya Sircar
Status: Completed, Screening
Country of origin: Italy
On a quiet summer night, in an isolated mansion, Peter is plagued by terrifying visions in which Heaven and Hell mingle into one dark
landscape, inhabited by creatures hell-bent on precipitating the end of the world.
FILM ARTISTS NETWORK
Film Artists Network, P.O. Box 323, Canoga Park, CA 91305 USA. Tel: 1.818.344.0569. Fax: 1.818.344.0569.
www.filmartistsnetworkdistribution.com, email: fand@filmartistsnetwork.com
At Cannes: Chris Pilliczar (EVP), Gisela Berk (Sales)
Office: 22.07 In the Palais 01, Tel: 33.492.998.107
EAMONS ROAD
www.mistyhazeproductions.com
Horror (75 min)
Language: English
Director: Janelle Morrissey
Writer: Janelle Morrissey
Producer: Janelle Morrissey
Key Cast: Bernice Tremblay, Josh Hamilton, Rich Caron
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Tormented and disfigured by neighbourhood bullies, a maniac turns unpredictably lethal, seeking horrifying revenge.
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RAGE
www.ragemovie.com
Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Chris Cones & Jason Crabtree
Writer: Chris Cones & Achilles Gacis
Producer: Chris Cones & Sean Eichenberg
Key Cast: Chris Cones, Sean Eichenberg, Achilles Gacis
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Disturbing flashbacks add insight into the mind of a killer, RAGE… IT’S IN ALL OF US
THE HORROR WITHIN (EVIL REMAINS)
Horror (81 min)
Language: English
Director: Tom Sanders
Writer: Edward Gross and Tom San
Producer: Ron Rothstein
Key Cast: Jesse Biltz, Lynne Jacobellis, David Roers
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of Origin: USA
Film students go to the Hollywood Hills to make a horror film and come face to “FANG” with terrifying vampires and other demons
JEALOUS GOD
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Steve Gillilan
Writer: Steve Gillilan
Producer: Steve Gillilan and Stuart B. Cooper
Key Cast: Kevin Crawford, Antony Michael Jones, Shoshana Ami
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: USA
It’s gay vs. straight when two lovers are merely pawns in a jealous murder game perpetrated by a delightfully sarcastic gay restaurant manager
CAGE FIGHTING
Reality Action Martial Arts (75 min)
Language: English
Director: Phil Yunker
Writer: Chris Cones, Sean Eichenberg, Phil Yunker
Producer: Chris Cones, Sean Eichenberg, Phil Yunker
Key Cast: Carlos Cabrera, Eugene Farmer, Daniel Head, Others
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
See the raw brutal action of cage fighting up-close and personal as our cameras bring you every angle from a ringside perspective.
MY BEST ENEMY (MI MEJOR ENEMIGO)
Drama (91 min)
Language: Spanish /English Subs
Director: Alex Bowen
Writer: Alex Bowen
Producer: Alex Bowen and Pablo Trapero
Key Cast: Nicolas Saavedra, Erto Pantoja, Miguel Dedovich
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: Chile/Argentina/Spain
Two platoons from Chile and Argentina prepare for battle at the border awaiting the war signal; tension mounts and then a miracle: friendship
develops among enemies.
LITTLE ANGELS
Drama (98 min)
Language: English
Director: Dave A. Adams
Writer: Dave A. Adams
Producer: Dave A. Adams
Key Cast: Amy Dowell, Evan Jones, Connie Carpenter
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Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1999, Country of Origin: USA
12 children that run away from an orphanage to Myrtle Beach face danger and conflict on the streets as they learn the importance of love,
friendship and trust.
IN THE SHADOW OF BIN LADEN
Political Documentary (35 min)
Language: English
Director: Marlin Darrah
Writer: Einar Rustad, Marlin Darrah, Rodney Vance
Producer: Einar Rustad
Key Cast: General Ayaz, Ishtiag Khan, Cynthia Khan, others
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of Origin: Pakistan
A fascinating documentary of the Pashtun peoples living in the lawless borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan, who struggle to survive “In the
Shadow of Bin Laden"
ROD KNOCK (REALITY STREET RACING)
(63 min)
English
Director: Mark Lanza
Writer: Mark Lanza
Producer: Mark Lanza, Michael Kunyavsky, Jason Lacky
Key Cast: Mark Lanza, Michael Kunyavsky, Jason Lacky
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: USA
Can three ex-street racers buy any ordinary car and turn it into a high-speed street machine with only a few thousand dollars?
THE MAGICAL CALL OF ORYANTAL
Documentary / Travel
Language: English
Director: Umut T. Egitimci
Producer: Umut T. Egitimci
Delivery Status: Completed
THE FILM CONSULTANCY PARTNERS
The Film Consultancy Partners, 5-11 Mortimer Street, London W1T3JB UK. Tel: 44.207.467.9804. Fax: 44.207.299.3391
At Cannes: Penny Wolf (Partner)
Office: Mobile: 44.777.592.3750
INCONCEIVABLE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Mary McGuckian
Writer: Mary McGuckian
Producer: Jeff Abberley, Martin Katz, Mary McGuckian
Production Company: Pembridge Pictures
Leading Cast: Jennifer Tilly, Andie MacDowell, Geraldine Chaplin
Status: Completed
Production Country: United Kingdom
Singles, lesbians infertile couples, a pair of gay men (and the odd widow who needs the inheritance) - all desperate for that one thing that will
change their lives forever - a child.
THE FILM DEPARTMENT
The Film Department, 8439 Sunset Blvd., 2nd Floor West Hollywood, CA 90069, U.S.A. Tel: 1.323.785.3700. Fax: 1.323.785.3799.
www.filmdept.com
Production Company; Sales Agent
At Cannes: Mark Gill (CEO), Neil Sacker (COO/President), Steve Bickel (President, International), Kristen Figeroid (VP, International Sales),
Robert Katz (President, Production)
Office: Gray d’Albion, 12 La Croisette, 3rd floor, Tel: 33.0.4.93.45.11.17
THE REBOUND
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Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Bart Freundlich
Writer: Bart Freundlich
Producer: Mark Gill, Robert Katz, Tim Perell
Key Cast: Catherine Zeta Jones; Justin Bartha
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: U.S.A
A romantic comedy set in New York City about a 25-year-old man and his new neighbor, a 40-year-old, sexy single mother who catches more
than his eye.
LAW ABIDING CITIZEN
Thriller
Language: English
Writer: Kurt Wimmer
Producer: Lucas Foster, Mark Gill, Gerard Butler, Alan Siegel
Key Cast: Gerard Butler
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: U.S.A
A psychopathic mastermind orchestrates gruesome murders across the city, all from inside his prison cell. The prosecutor responsible for his
sentence is the only one who can stop him.
BROTHERS IN ARMS
Action
Language: English
Director: Marcel Langenegger
Writer: Noah Lukeman, Jordan Roberts
Producer: Mark Gill, Robert Katz, Kip Konwiser
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: U.S.A
A true story set at the end of World War II.
THE PEAK 3-D
Supernatural Thriller
Language: English
Writer: Neil Marshall Stevens, Hanna Weg
Producer: David Greathouse, Mark Gill, Robert Katz
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: U.S.A
Odds of survival are getting slimmer by the hour for a family whose small plane horrifically crash lands at 26,000 feet in the Himalayas, on the
dreaded peak of Nanga Parabat.
THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE
Romance
Language: English
Writer: Hanna Weg
Producer: Mark Gill, Robert Katz, Lance & Devin Sloane
Key Cast: Natalie Portman
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: U.S.A
THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE is the untold story of Zelda Fitzgerald, who along with her famous husband F. Scott, became the Jazz Age
icons known for living large, soaring high, and crashing hard.
EARTHBOUND
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Writer: Gren Wells
Producer: John Davis, Robbie Brenner, Mark Gill, Robert Katz
Delivery Status: Development
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: U.S.A
Marley Corbett is young, beautiful, and wildly funny, but afraid of opening herself up to true love and commitment.
FILMEXPORT GROUP
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info@filmexport.com
Sales agent
At Cannes: Roberto Di Girolamo (President), Laura Maurano (Sales Manager), Elisa D'Amico (Sales Manager)
Office: Hotel Palais Stéphanie, Brougham Room, 1st Floor, Tel: 0033.4.92.99.52.90
DESTINY RIDE (SANS ETAT D'AME - LA DONNA DI NESSUNO)
www.sansetatdame-lefilm.com
Thriller (96')
Language: French, Italian, English
Director: Vincenzo Marano
Producer: Les Films de l'Astre, Filmexport Group
Key Cast: Laurent Lucas, Hélène de Fougerolles, Candice Hugo
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France, Italy
A high-profile prostitute, a dreaded judge, an idealistic journalist: the love that they feel for each other will at once become deadly.
MILAN PALERMO, THE RETURN (MILANO PALERMO, IL RITORNO)
www.milanopalermoilritorno.it
Action (95')
Language: Italian, English
Director: Claudio Fragasso
Producer: SANMARCO FILM - GLOBE FILMS
Executive Producer: Pietro Innocenzi
Key Cast: Giancarlo Giannini, Raoul Bova, Ricky Memphis, Gabriella Pession, Enrico Lo Verso
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Italy
Turi Arcangelo Leofonte, the mafia's bookkeeper, after accepting to cooperate with the Law causing the arrest of almost the whole Scalia clan,
and after serving his 11 years sentence, is being released.
BETTER THAN EVER (MEJOR QUE NUNCA FKA: LIKE IT HOT?)
Comedy (90')
Language: Spanish, Italian, English
Director: Dolores Payas
Producer: Zahori Media, Production Group, J.L.A
Key Cast: Victoria Abril, Enrique Rocha, Gabriella Pession, Pep Ferrer, Anna Galiena, Rocco Papaleo
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Spain, Italy, France
Abandoned by her husband after years of marriage, Isabel thought her sexual life was over. but she had still a lot to learn.
NOAH'S ARK (EL ARCA)
http://www.el-arca.com/
Animation (87')
Language: Spanish, Italian, English
Director: Juan Pablo Buscarini
Producer: Production Group, Patagonik Film Group
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Argentina, Italy
A classic animated film that tackles an absolutely universal subject, in a context of adventures and humour, in which the animals are the main
characters.
B-MINE, THE DEVIL'S 7 NOTES (B-MINE, LE SETTE NOTE DEL DIAVOLO)
Thriller (105')
Language: English
Director: Marco Tornese
Producer: Macromajora Films
Key Cast: Ixie Darkonn, Orson Maria Guerrini, Roberto Madison
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Italy
When misfortune seemed to overwhelm Viola, a beautiful girl in the prime of her career, a sudden dark event changed her life completely.
MELITA THE LAST GUARDIAN (MELITA L'ULTIMO GUARDIANO)
Fantasy - 3D Animated Film
Language: English
Director: Paolo Bertola
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Producer: Diamonds International Film
Delivery Status: in production
Country of Origin: Italy
When the earth was populated by strange creatures, the arrival of the ice age seemed to mark its end, but the intervention of an alien
community will raise its fate bringing with them a new mysterious force.
ZOMBIES, THE BEGINNING
Horror (90')
Language: English
Director: Vincent Dawn
Producer: Diamonds International Film
Key Cast: Y. Yzon, A. Anson, P. Holme
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Italy
An expedition team sent to rescue a scientific crew on an island will encounter a new generation of zombies.
THE NIGHT BEFORE FINALS (NOTTE PRIMA DEGLI ESAMI)
www.notteprimadegliesami.it
Comedy (100')
Language: Italian, English
Director: Fausto Brizzi
Producer: Rai Cinema, Italian International Film, Aurora Film
Key Cast: Giorgio Faletti, Cristiana Capotondi, Nicolas Vaporidis
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Italy
This film is a multifaceted generational comedy: the young characters fall in love, become desperate and have a good time. and they grow up.
THE BALL (LISCIO)
Family (80')
Language: Italian, English
Director: Claudio Antonini
Producer: ASP
Co-production partners: Dodici Dicembre
Key Cast: Laura Morante, Umberto Morelli, Antonio Catania
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Italy
Monica, an Italian folk singer, wants to start her own career while her son would like to help her choosing the right man and the right music for
her.
PSYCHO GAME (ROJO INTENSO)
Thriller (110')
Language: Spanish, English
Director: Javier Elorrieta
Producer: Chiricull - Origen (U.T.E.)
Key Cast: Maria Elena Swett, Fabian Mazzei, Javier Martin
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Chile, Spain
During a holiday, Javier and Laura, a young couple, meet with an apparently friendly man. The friendship turns out in a dramatic event for
Laura.
ISLAND OF THE LIVING DEAD (L'ISOLA DEI MORTI VIVENTI)
Horror (91')
Language: English
Director: Vincent Dawn
Producer: La Perla Nera
Key Cast: Yvette Yzon, Alvin Anson, Ronald Russo
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Italy
A crew are shipwrecked on an island that isn't marked out on a map. It would seem to be a desert island but they are not alone.
THE JAIL, A WOMEN'S HELL
Horror (95')
Language: English,
Director: Vincent Dawn
Producer: La Perla Nera
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Key Cast: Yvette Yzon, Dyane Craystan, Jim Gaines
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Italy
Three women are convicted of serious crimes, being taken to a prison nicknamed "home of the lost souls". They spend their days in this prison
surrounded by violence, abuses and horror until they plan to escape.
YO-RHAD AND THE ASTROMAVERICKS (UN AMICO DALLO SPAZIO)
Animation (88')
Language: Italian, with English subtitles
Director: Camillo Teti - Victor Rambaldi
Producer: Effeci
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: Italy
The lost inhabitants of Klat-uh, a planet that was destroyed, travel aboard the asteroid Glend-arh, in search of a new home in space.
STORMS ON THE PLANET EARTH (CATASTROFI SUL PIANETA TERRA)
Documentary (4 x 60' and 1 special 90')
Language: English
Director: David Hunt
Producer: Diamonds International Film
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Italy
Shocking videos showing many natural disasters: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, typhoons, tornados, until the sadly known
Tsunami. Natural disasters can happen without warning. Can we predict them?.
CANNIBALS: LEGEND OR REALITY? (CANNIBALI LEGGENDA O REALTA')
Documentary (4 x 60' and 1 special 90')
Language: English
Director: David Hunt
Producer: Diamonds International Film
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Italy
A fascinating journey through the cruel rituals practiced by the tribes still dedicated to cannibalism.
JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF EROS (VIAGGIO AI CONFINI DELL'EROS)
Documentary (4 x 60' and 1 special 90')
Language: English
Director: Pierre Le Blanc
Producer: Diamonds International Film
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Italy
A vast panorama on the sexual way of life, with habits, customs and transgressions that spread throughout different continents.
FILMS DISTRIBUTION
Films Distribution, 34 rue du Louvre, 75001 Paris, France. Tel: 33.1.53.10.33.99. Fax: 33.1.53.10.33.98. www.filmsdistribution.com, email:
info@filmsdistribution.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes, Nicolas BRIGAUD-ROBERT (Partner), Sébastien BEFFA (Partner), François YON (Partner), Didar DOMEHRI (International
Sales Director), Paméla LEU (TV Sales Manager), Martin CARAUX (Marketing & Festivals Manager)
Office: Stand E5/F8 (Riviera)
SEA WALL (THE) (UN BARRAGE CONTRE LE PACIFIQUE)
Drama
Language: French
Director: Rithy Panh
Producer: Catherine Dussart
Key Cast: Isabelle Huppert; Gaspard Ulliel; Astrid Berges-Frisbey
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
In French Indochina, the tragic story of a mother and her two children, living in a total destitution.
A L’AVENTURE
Director: Jean-Claude BRISSEAU
Producer: Frédéric NIEDERMAYER
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Key Cast: Carole Brana, Nadine Chibani, Arnaud Binard
Delivery Status: Post - Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
A young woman, bored with her lifestyle, decides to leave everything behind. Her meetings and encounters will lead her to new pleasures, but
also to the borders of fantastique.
ON WAR (DE LA GUERRE)
Drama
Language: French
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Producer: Kristina Larsen
Key Cast: Mathieu Amalric; Asia Argento, Guillaume Depardieu.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
Bertrand, a film-maker approaching forty, decides to follow a man to an isolated part of the world, The Kingdom, ruled by a mysterious and
charismatic woman, Uma.
ELDORADO
Language: French
Director: Bouli Lanners
Producer: Jacques-Henri Bronckart
Key Cast: Fabrice Adde, Bouli Lanners
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Belgium
MELODRAMA HABIBI (UNE CHANSON DANS LA TÊTE)
Comedy/Drama
Language: French
Director: Hany Tamba
Producer: Emmanuel Agneray, Jérome Bleitrach
Key Cast: Patrick Chesnais
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
In the 1970’s, Bruno Caprice was briefly successful with his first and only hit single. Unexpectedly, a Lebanese businessman wants him to sing
in Beirut, where people remember his song.
PARC
Drama
Language: French
Director: Arnaud Des Pallières
Producer: Serge Lalou
Key Cast: Sergi Lopez; Jean-Marc Barr
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
Paul Hammer, rich, good looking and smart, sees in suburban Georges Nail the perfect image of the happy western man he wishes to crucify.
Nail will be Hammer’s perfect victim.
FRONTIER OF DAWN (LA FRONTIÈRE DE L’AUBE)
Drama
Language: French
Director: Philippe Garrel
Producer: Edouard Weil
Key Cast: Louis Garrel; Laura Smet
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
Carole falls for François, her lover, but they have to end their relationship. Carole commits suicide. One year later, François has a vision:
Carole, calling him from the other world…
BABY LOVE (COMME LES AUTRES)
Comedy
Language: French
Director: Vincent Garenq
Producer: Christophe Rossignon
Key Cast: Lambert Wilson; Pascal Elbé; Pilar López de Ayala
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
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They were the perfect loving couple… But how do you make a child when both parents are boys?
THIRD PART OF THE WORLD (THE) (LA TROISIÈME PARTIE DU MONDE)
Drama
Language: French
Director: Eric Forestier
Writer: Eric Forestier
Producer: Cédric Walter
Key Cast: Clémence Poesy; Gaspard Ulliel, Eric Ruf
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
François meets Emma in an airport, and falls in love with her. But François suddenly vanishes. With the help of François’ brother, Emma tries
to solve this disappearance’s mystery.
3 MONKEYS (AFFAIRE DE FAMILLE)
Thriller
Language: French
Director: Claus Drexl
Key Cast: André Dussollier, Miou-Miou
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
“3 Monkeys” stars Andre Dussollier and Miou-Miou, turning on the violent consequences for a middle-class family, seen from the point-ofview of three of its members.
ELÈVE LIBRE
Language: French
Director: Joachim Lafosse
Key Cast: Jonas Bloquet, Jonathan Zaccai
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Year of Production: 2008
The new film from the director of “Private Property”
THE HORDE ( La Horde)
Director: Yannick Dahan and Raphaël Rocher
Delivery Status: In Development
An end-of-the-world scenario with a face-off between gangsters and vengeful cops, who unite to slug it out with marauding zombies.
HUMANS (HUMAINS)
Director: Jacques-Oliver Molon et Pierre-Olivier Thévenin
Delivery Status: In Development
Young scientists exploring a Swiss valley and stumbling on the last surviving Neanderthals — who are desperate to prolong their species.
RUIFLEC
Director: Fouad Benhammou
Key Cast: Sara Forestier and Louise Monot
A story of youths trapped in a sinister hamlet, as history repeats itself.
MODERN LIFE (LA VIE MODERNE)
Documentary
Director: Raymond Depardon
Country of Origin: France
The latest Raymond Depardon documentary on rural life. He is as close as possible to the characters, capturing their authenticity and roughness
like rarely seen in theatres.
FILMSHARKS INT'L
Filmsharks Int'l, Av. Diaz Velez 4323, Buenos Aires, BsAs 1425 Argentina. Tel: 0054.11.4774.5044. Fax: 0054.11.4774.5044.
www.filmsharks.com, email: alpha@filmsharks.com
Sales Agent, Producer
At Cannes: Guido Rud (CEO)
Acquisition Executive: Guido Rud (CEO)
Office: Tel: 33.6.1460.7471
LLAMANDO A UN ANGEL (CALLING AN ANGEL)
http://www.llamandoaunangel.com
Black Comedy (90 min)
Language: Spanish
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Director: Pancho Rodríguez, Héctor Rodríguez & Rodolfo Guzmán
Writer: Pancho Rodríguez, Héctor Rodríguez & Rodolfo Guzmán
Key Cast: Luis Felipe Tovar; Patricia Llaca; Mónica Dionne; Julio Bracho; Pablo Abitia; Sherlyn; Eduardo España; Marco Treviño; Andres
Montiel; Alberto Estrella; Manuel Ojeda; Flor Payan; Julio Cesar Fido & Angel Cervantes
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: MEXICO
Three men share nothing but the same name: Angel Flores Fuentes.
CHICHA TU MADRE
Dramatic Comedy (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Gianfranco Quattrini
Writer: Gianfranco Quattrini
Co-Production Partners: BD Cine, Primi Quattrini and Cinema Digital
Key Cast: Jesus Aranda, Tula Rodriguez, Pablo Brichta, Jean Pierre Reguerraz
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: PERU, ARGENTINA
When he learns that his teenage daughter has become pregnant, Julio Cesar understands the time has come for him to change his destiny, stop
driving a taxi and assume his vocation as a Tarot reader.
DESIERTO SUR
Road Movie / Drama (100 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Shawn GARRY
Writer: Trinidad Jimenez
Producer: Mauricio ARRAIGADA
Key Cast: Marta ETURA, Carolina VARLETA, Héctor NOGUERA, Alejandro BOTTO, Ernesto MALBRÁN, Héctor MORALES.
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Chile
Sofia is a young Spanish girl who loses her mother to an illness. An enigmatic letter falls into her hands, one that her mother sent to Chile when
she was alive.
REGRESADOS (D-GRADUATED)
http://www.regresadosfilm.com.ar
Black Comedy (95 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Cristian Bernard & Flavio Nardini
Writer: Cristian Bernard & Flavio Nardini
Producer: Cristian Bernard & Flavio Nardini
Key Cast: Diego Capusotto, Roberto Carnaghi, Carlos Issa, Diego Leske, Coni Marino, Luis Sabatini, Marcelo Sein, Francisco Nepomuceno &
Luciano Cazaux
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Argentina
"D-Graduated" takes place on just one night, beginning with an alumni meeting.
EL DESTINO (DESTINY)
Drama (102 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Miguel Pereira
Writer: Miguel Pereira
Key Cast: Carolina ROMAN, Mimi ARDU, Tristan ULLOA
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 2.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Argentina-Spain
A foreign man on the run wearing a priest’s cassock seeks refuge in a God forsaken village in the north of Argentina.
DIMPLES
http://www.dimplesthemovie.com
Horror (87 min)
Language: English
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Director: Dusty DePree
Key Cast: Ashley PELDON, Gabrielle CARTERIS, Madeline ZIMA, Michael BISCOTTI, Michael MCMILLIAN, Randy SPELLING, Reggie
LEE, Tasha TAYLOR
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
On a Saturday morning, Frances jolts awake from a frightening dream about a blood thirsty monster. That afternoon, while on a road trip with
four friends, a bizarre chain of events leads Frances to a secluded house.
EL SEGUNDO
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Hank Jacobs
Key Cast: Pedro Armendariz Jr., Alana de la Garza, Carlos Guzman & Hank Jacobs
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
El Segundo is known as an ancient jewel which brings eternal life to the possessor.
ALL INCLUSIVE
Drama (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Key Cast: Ana SERRADILLA, Edgar VIVAR, Jaime CAMIL, Jesús OCHOA, Leonor VARELA, Martha HIGAREDA, Maya ZAPATA,
Valentina VARGAS
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Chile
A family visits an idyllic five-star resort in the Mayan Riviera in order to spend some quality time together for the first time in many years. A
series of events will affect each member of the family that will change them forever.
FOUL GESTURE
http://www.foulgesture.com
Revenge Drama (95 min)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Tzahi Grad
Producer: Tzahi Grad
Key Cast: Ania BUKSTEIN, Asher TSARFATI, Gal ZAID, Keren MOR, Mina KLIENHOUSE, Rivka MICHAELI, Tal GRUSHKA,
Ya'ackov AYALI
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Israel
Michael must deal with the harsh and corrupt reality that endangers his life and liberty.
HALIM
Musical Drama (155 min)
Language: Arabic
Director: Sherif ARAFA
Key Cast: Ahmed ZAKI, Gamal SOLEIMAN, Haitham Ahmed ZAKI, Mona ZAKI, Solaf FAWAKHERGY
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Egypt
The film delves into the life and times of legendary Arab male singer Abdel "Halim" Hafez who has known more success then any Arab singer
over the past century.
LA SEÑAL (THE SIGN)
http://www.lasenalfilm.com/
Dramatic Thriller (95 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Ricardo Darín & Martion Hodara
Writer: Eduardo Mignona
Producer: Pampa Films
Co-production partners: Wanda Vision & Patagonik
Key Cast: Ricardo Darín, Diego Peretti, Julieta Díaz & Andrea Pietra.
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 2.0m U$S
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Argentina-Spain
It is 1952. While Eva Perón is lying on her deathbed, Corvalán (Ricardo Darín), a small-time private detective, finds himself entangled in a
story of betrayal and greed.
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PATORUZITO 2: LA GRAN AVENTURA (PATORUZITO 2: THE GREAT ADVENTURE)
Animation (87 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Jose Luis Massa
Producer: Jose Luis Massa
Key Cast: Norma Aleandro, Florencia Otero, Alfredo Sánchez, Julián Weich, Lionel Campoy
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Argentina
Patoruzito must leave his love in its town to travel to the capital, where fairies are in extinction, to represent its race in a special date for the
country.
FUTURO PERFECTO (PERFECT FUTURE)
Thriller (85 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Mariano Galperin
Writer: Mariano Galperin
Producer: Mariano Galperin
Co-production partners: Sebastian Perillo
Key Cast: Guillermo Pfening, Pablo Ini, Sebastian Borensztein & Lucrecia Oviedo
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Argentina
Gaston must leave Daniela, his pregnant wife, in order to travel for the weekend to the glamorous summer-city of Punta del Este (Uruguay)
during winter to sell the old family flat in the city's biggest building.
SHATTERED SOUL
Psycho Thriller (120 min)
Language: Turkish
Director: Mustafa Altioklar
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 5.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Turkey
A number of mutilated legs found around Istanbul push the city into the terror of a serial murderer.
SOUL CARRIAGE
Dramatic Road Movie (88 min)
Language: Chinese
Director: Conrad Clark
Writer: Conrad Clark
Producer: Wendy Kuan
Key Cast: Yang Feng Jun, Jia Hong & Chen Jiao Ying
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: China-UK
A young building company employee has no money even to celebrate his birthday with a few beers. Asking his boss for a loan, the only thing
he gets is the corpse of another employee dead on the job.
TEO: THE INTERGALACTIC HUNTER (TEO: CAZADOR INTERGALÁCTICO)
Animation (80 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Sergio Bayo
Key Cast: Roberto Carnaghi, Mac Phantom, Guillermo Gravino & Fernando Chine
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Argentina - Spain
Teo is boy ET from planet Suaracia who lives with his grandpa Oldux.
THE PHOTOGRAPH
http://www.thephotographmovie.com/
Drama (94 min)
Language: Indonesian
Director: Nan T. Achnas
Writer: Nan. T. Achnas
Producer: Shanty HARMAYN
Key Cast: LIM KAY TONG, SHANTY, LUKMAN SARDI and INDY BARENDS.
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Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Indonesia-FR-NL-Swiss-Sweden
Sita, a stunning prostitute who sings at a Karaoke bar, works very hard to send money to her daughter in her hometown.
URANYA
www.uranya.gr
Dramatic Comedy (98 min)
Language: Greek
Director: Costas Kapakas
Producer: CINEGRAM
Key Cast: Maria Gracia Cucinotta, Aris Tsapis, Andreas Kyriakakis, Nikos Vassilikiotis, Yorgos Liatis, Michalis Tsirakis, Dimitris Piatas,
Taxiarchis Chanos, Fontini, Baxevani, Dina Michailidou, Tassos Palatzidis & Manolis Mavromatakis.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Greece - Italy
1969 Greek summer village, five teenagers are eager to discover love and the whole world.
WHEN SHE JUMPED (CUANDO ELLA SALTÓ)
Dramatic Comedy (97 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Sabrina Farji
Writer: Sabrina Farji
Key Cast: Ivan de Pineda , Andrea Galante & Boy Olmi
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Argentina
Young Ramiro would probably have continued aimlessly contemplating his future if he hadn't witnessed the suicide of a young girl.
PAPELUCHO AND THE MARTIAN (PAPELUCHO Y EL MARCIANO)
Animation (77 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Alejandro Rojas Tellez
Key Cast: Marina Huerta, Leyla Rangel, Cecilia Gómez, Mario Castañeda,
Maggie Vera, Nayeli Solis, Carlos Del Campo & Adrián Fogarty.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Chile
Papelucho wants to trap a Martian and in order to achieve it he builds a trap, but when he befriends a Martian who magically bonds with him he
must face new problems as this upsets his normal life.
FINANCIERS:
GOLDCREST FILM FINANCE LLP.
Goldcrest Film Finance LLP., 65- 66 Dean Street, London W1D 4PL UK. Tel: 44.207.437.8696. Fax: 44.207.437.4448.
http://www.goldcrestfilms.com, email: info@goldcrestfilms.com
At Cannes: Adam Kulick (Partner), Anthony Walters (Manager), Samantha Holcroft (Executive Coordinator)
Office: 7th Floor, 25 La Bagatelle, La Croisette
ICB ENTERTAINMENT FINANCE
ICB Entertainment Finance, 500 North Brand Blvd., Suite 1650, Los Angeles, CA 91203 USA. Tel: 1.818.254.2242. Fax: 1.818.459.7082.
www.icbef.com, email: info@icbef.com
Financier
At Cannes: David Hutkin (Deputy Managing Director), Lisa Stoute (VP), Vivian Tarn (Fin. Analyst)
Office: cell: 1.916.768.2144
FINECUT CO., LTD / CINECLICK ASIA
Finecut Co., Ltd / Cineclick Asia, Suite #636, Daewoo I-ville Myungmoonga, 891-23 Daechi-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-280, Korea. Tel:
822.569.8777. Fax: 822.569.8577, www.finecut.co.kr, email: cineinfo@finecut.co.kr
Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor
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At Cannes: Ms. Young-joo SUH (Managing Director), Ms. Luna KIM (Senior Manager, Finance & Co-production), Ms. EJ CHO (Senior
Manager, Sales & Marketing), Ms. Yun-jeong KIM (Senior Manager, Sales & Marketing), Ms. Rachel KIM (Assistant Manager, Festival &
Marketing)
Office:
LION’S DEN (LEONERA)
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Drama (105 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Pablo TRAPERO
Writer: Santiago MITRE, Martín MAUREGUI, Alejandro FADEL, Pablo TRAPERO
Producer: Pablo TRAPERO (P), SUH Young-joo (P) Walter SALLES (Co-P)
Key Cast: Martina GUSMAN, Elli MEDEIROS, Rodrigo SANTORO
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.2 million Euro
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Argentina
Convicted for the murder of one man and attempted murder for another, Julia waits in prison for her verdict. To make matters worse, Julia
discovers she is pregnant by one of the men.
OPIUM WAR
Company: CINECLICK ASIA (Fantom Co., Ltd)
www.cineclickasia.com
Drama (100 min)
Language: English and Dari
Director: Siddiq BARMAK
Writer: Siddiq BARMAK
Producer: Siddiq BARMAK(P), Shohreh GOLPARIAN (P), Michio SUZUKI(Co-P), Carole SCOTTA (Co-P), Youngjoo SUH (Co-P)
Key Cast: Joy SUBA, Peter BUSSIAN
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 0.8 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Afghanistan
After a U.S. chopper crashes in an Afghan desert, a white officer and a black soldier encounter a local family living in deserted Russian tanks.
CROSSING
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Drama (107 min)
Language: Korean
Director: KIM Tae-kyun
Writer: LEE Yoo-jin
Producer: CHEONG Eui-seok(EP), KIM Sun-yong(EP), CHIN Hee-moon(EP), JUNG Suk-young(EP), HONG Jee-yong(P), Patrick CHEH(P),
KIM Tae-kyun(P)
Key Cast: CHA In-pyo, SHIN Myeong-cheol
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Budget: US$ 7.0 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
When his mother dies, Joon, a young North Korean boy sets out to find his father by crossing the border to China, not knowing his father had
become a North Korean refugee in South Korea against his will.
IRI
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Drama (107 min)
Language: Korean
Director: ZHANG Lu
Writer: ZHANG Lu
Producer: KIM Han-seob(EP), CHO Eun-un(EP), YUN Byung-ki(P), David CHO(P)
Key Cast: YOON Jin-seo, EUM Tae-woong
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 0.3 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
In 1977, a train station explosion swept away Iri, a southern city in Korea. The city has changed its name, rebuilt itself, but the people still carry
the scars. Jin-seo is one of them.
BEASTIE BOYS
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Drama
Language: Korean
Director: YOON Jong-bin
Writer: YOON Jong-bin
Producer: KIM Young(P), YOO Jae-hyuk(P)
Key Cast: HA Jung-woo, YOON Kye-sang, YOON Jin-seo
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 1.9 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
Two young men rake money at a discreet private women's club in Seoul as ‘hosts’ or male escorts. The more they try to become rich, the more
their lives become tangled.
THE CHASER
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Action, Thriller (123 min)
Language: Korean
Director: NA Hong-jin
Writer: NA Hong-jin
Producer: CHEONG Eui-seok(EP), KIM Sun-yong(EP), JHUNG Seung-koo(EP), KIM Su-jin(P), YOON In-beom(P)
Key Cast: KIM Yoon-suk, HA Jung-woo, SEO Young-hee
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 4.0 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
With only 12 hours left for the police to detain a serial killer, an ex-detective pimp searches for the 12th victim before it’s too late.
EYE FOR AN EYE
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Action, Thriller (100 min)
Language: Korean
Director: K.T. KWAK, AHN Gwon-tae
Producer: LEE Sang-zik, KIM Jae-joong
Key Cast: CHA Seung-won, HAN Seok-gyu
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 5.7 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
A brain game between a notorious special police agent against an ingenious thief planning a heist over 600kg of smuggled gold.
HANSEL AND GRETEL
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Fantasy Thriller (116 min)
Language: Korean
Director: YIM Phil-sung
Writer: KIM Min-sook, YIM Phil-sung
Producer: Miky LEE(EP), CHOI Jae-won(Co-EP), CHOI Jae-won(P), SEO Woo-sik(P)
Key Cast: CHUN Jeong-myoung, EUN Won-jae, SHIM Eun-kyoung
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 4.5 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
Eun-soo is led to a fairytale-like house by a mysterious girl where he discovers a fairytale book which tells a cruel death of none other than
himself!
GO GO 70S
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Drama, Musical
Language: Korean
Director: CHOI Ho
Writer: CHOI Ho
Producer: KIM Woo-taek (EP), LEE Tae-hun (EP), SHIM Bo-kyoung (EP, P), YI Jong-ho (P), PARK Jae-hyun (P)
Key Cast: CHO Seung-woo, SHIN Mina, CHA Seung-woo
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget: US$ 4.5 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
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In the revolutionary upheaval of Korean pop culture in the 70s, ‘Devils,’ a rustic rock group, Rock and Rolls with young people who sneak into
underground clubs at night.
MY DEAR ENEMY
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Romance, Drama
Language: Korean
Director: LEE Yoon-ki
Writer: PARK Eun-young, LEE Yoon-ki
Producer: CHO Eun-un (EP), Michel CHO (EP), David CHO (P), OH Jung-wan (P), LEE Dong-ho (Co-p)
Key Cast: JEON Do-youn, HA Jung-woo
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Budget: US$ 1.9 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
Jobless, single and miserable, Hee-soo sets out to find her ex-boyfriend whom she had lent $1,000 to a year ago. They go on a one day journey
to collect money, and memory.
ANTIQUE (WORKING TITLE)
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Drama
Language: Korean
Director: MIN Kyu-dong
Writer: MIN Kyu-dong
Producer: MIN Jin-soo, LEE Eugene
Key Cast: JU Ji-hun, KIM Jae-wook, YU Ain
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Budget: US$ 3.4 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
Four unique and handsome men stir up a quiet neighborhood when they show up at the cake shop, Antique.
FIVE STAR PRODUCTION THAILAND
Five Star Production Thailand, 61/1 Soi Thaweemitr 2, Rama 9 Road, Huaykwang, Bangkok, 10320 Thailand. Tel: 662.246.9025. Fax:
662.246.2105. www.fivestarent.com, email: info@fivestarent.com
Production and Distribution
At Cannes: Ms. Aphiradee Iamphungphorn (International Sales Executive), Mr. Tian Ponvanit (Senior Executive Director), Mrs. Somjai
Lertsethtakarn (Senior Executive Director)
Office: Riviera G23, Tel: 6681.934.8190
ART OF THE DEVIL 3 (LONG KHONG 2)
www.longkhong2.com
Horror (85 minutes)
Language: Thai
Director: Ronin Team
Writer: Kongkiat Komesiri
Key Cast: Napakpapah Nakprasit / Suppakorn Kitsuwan / Namo Tonggumnerd
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Thailand
Panor (Napakpapah Nakprasit), a seductive rural teacher, longs to live a normal, peaceful life like everyone else in her village. But her beauty
becomes her biggest curse.
THE RED EAGLE
Action
Language: Thai
Director: Wisit Sasanatieng
Writer: Wisit Sasanatieng
Key Cast: Ananda Everingham
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Thailand
THE SCREEN AT KAMCHANOD
www.thescreenthemovie.com
Horror (98 minutes)
Language: Thai
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Director: Songsak Mongkolthong
Writer: Songsak Mongkolthong
Key Cast: Achita Pramoj Na Ayudha / Pakkaramai Potranan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Thailand
Based on a true story, “The Screen at Kamchanod” is set in 2007, a modern world still haunted by past mystery.
SOUL’S CODE
Horror
Language: Thai
Director: Adsajun Sattagovit
Writer: Adsajun Sattagovit
Key Cast: M.L.Nattakorn Devakula / Premsinee Ratanasopar
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Thailand
MUAY THAI CHAIYA
www.muaythaichaiya.com
Action Martial Arts (117 minutes)
Language: Thai
Director: Kongkiat Komesiri
Writer: Kongkiat Komesiri / Yossapong Pholsup
Key Cast: Akara Amarttayakul / Thawatchai Penpakdee
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Thailand
Three men confront their destinies and uphold the martial arts legacy of their ancestors. From humble origins they conquer Bangkok’s bloody
boxing ring and proclaim the might of ‘Muay-Thai Chaiya’.
HAUNTING ME
www.hortaewtak.com
Horror (90 minutes)
Language: Thai
Director: Poj Arnon
Writer: Poj Arnon
Key Cast: Jaturong Pholboon / Eakachai Srivichai
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Thailand
3 cheery transvestites have joined up to open a dormitory in hopes of becoming rich. The business was going well until all hell breaks loose in
this horror comedy tale.
THE UNSEEABLE
www.penchookubpee.com
Horror (97 minutes)
Language: Thai
Director: Wisit Sasanatieng
Writer: Kongkiat Komesiri
Key Cast: Siraphun Wattanajinda
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Thailand
A tale of love and horror that brings together two unsuspecting ladies.
BLACK NIGHT
Horror (90 minutes)
Language: Thai / Japanese / Chinese
Director: Patrick Leung/ Thanit Jitnukul/ Takahiko Akiyama
Co-production partners: Movie Eye Entertaiment / FilmKo
Key Cast: Dylan Guo/ Annie Liu/ Pichanart Sakhakorn/ Kajonsak Ratananisai/ Takashi Kashiwabara/ Asaka Seto
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Thailand
NEXT DOOR (HONG KONG)
Horrific incidents take place one after another. One fateful night when a Taiwanese girl, returned to look for her policeman boyfriend, only to
discover that he has already started a new affair with his beautiful neighbor from mainland China.
DARK HOLE (JAPAN)
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Bride-to-be has fallen prey to her nightmares. One day, she encounters “a boy in a yellow outfit”, a boy that she usually sees in her dark
dreams. As her fiancé suggests she receives psychiatric treatment from Dr. Kawai.
THE LOST MEMORY (THAILAND)
Prang is a single mother who lives with her young son. They would have enjoyed a happy existence, if not for a mysterious man who seems to
shadow Prang everywhere she goes.
ART OF THE DEVIL 2 (LONG KHONG)
www.longkhong.com
Horror (97 minutes)
Language: Thai
Director: Ronin Team
Writer: Ronin Team
Key Cast: Napakpapah Nakprasit / Namo Tonggumnerd
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: Thailand
Six childhood friends, Ta, Por, Kim, Tae, Nuch and Ko, return to their home village during a university break.
FORTUNE FEATURES, INC.
Fortune Features, Inc., 127 Broadway, Suite 221, Santa Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel: 310.601.8346. Fax: 435.604.8346.
www.fortunefeatures.com, email: info@fortunefeatures.net
Worldwide Sales, Production and Financing of Motion Pictures.
At Cannes: Kourosh Esmailzadeh (CEO)
THE METHOD
www.TheMethod.tv
Documentary (100 min)
Author/Cast: Srikumar S. Rao, Ph.D
Director/Producer: Kourosh Esmailzadeh (“Living Luminaries”(Executive Producer), “Venus in Furs” by Stephen Jeffreys)
Status: In production.
A feature length documentary manifesting, in an instructional and highly engaging manner, a revolutionary results-oriented mental process that
anyone can use to achieve success and lasting fulfillment.
DALAI LAMA RENAISSANCE
Documentary / Inspirational
Producer/Director: Khashyar Darvish (“Black Hawk Waltz”)
Co-Producer: David Mueller
Delivery Status: Completed
Narrated By: Harrison Ford
Status: Completed / Screeners Available.
Narrated by Harrison Ford, Dalai Lama invites a group of leading thinkers to his Himalayan residence to discuss solutions for some of the
world’s major problems.
Awards: Winner of 10 awards and counting…
LIVING LUMINARIES
Docudrama / Inspirational
Director: Larry Kurnarsky
Writers: Larry Kurnarsky and S. A. Mulvihill
Producer: Michael J. Lasky
Exec. Producers: - Kourosh Esmailzadeh (“Venus in Furs”, “The Method”), Dawn Olmstead, Gene Sloan, Bo Linten
Status: Completed / Screeners Available.
Our young seeker’s journey reaches some of the most inspirational individuals of our day.
For further information, please contact:
VENUS IN FURS
Romantic Drama
Writer: Stephen Jeffreys (Johnny Depp’s “The Libertine”, “Lost Lands”)
Director: Oleg Harencar (“Bloodlines”, “Poison”)
Producers: Kourosh Esmailzadeh (“Living Luminaries”(Executive Producer), “The Method”), Oleg Harencar (“Bloodlines”)
Cast: A-list members – To Be Advised Upon Request.
Delivery Status: In Pre-Production
Based on a true story, VENUS IN FURS is the twisted love story of famous Austrian author, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and his beautiful
wife, Wanda, a former washerwoman.
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FORTUNE STAR ENTERTAINMENT (HK) LIMITED
Fortune Star Entertainment (HK) Limited, 8/F, One Harbourfront, 18 Tak Fung Street, Hunghom, Kowloon, HK. Tel: 852 2621 8888. Fax:
852 2621 7771. www.fortunestarentertainment.com, email: fortunestar@startv.com
Distributor
At Cannes: Ms Yvonne Chuang (Vice President, Program Syndication and Distribution), Ms Esther Hau (Associate Vice President), Ms Elyse
Leong (Assistant Manager)
Office: TBC
RULE #1
Thriller (92.88 min)
Language: Cantonese
Director: Kelvin Tong
Writer: Kelvin Tong
Producer: Candy Leung
Key Cast: Ekin Cheng, Shawn Yue, Fiona Xie and Stephanie Che
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$2M
Year of production: 2008, Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Every day, the Police Force receives about 185 phone calls. 180 are about fights, rapes, murders and robberies. The other 5 begin with "There's
something strange in my house."
FORWARD MOTION ENTERTAINMENT
Forward Motion Entertainment, 24 Doddington Drive, Toronto On M8Y 1S4 Canada. Tel: 1.416.503.4089. http://www.forwardmotionent.com,
email: info@forwardmotionent.com
At Cannes: Paco Alvarez (President)
Office: Canada Pavilion No. 124, Int'l Villiage - Riviera, Tel: 33.(0).6.0717.7253
THE LISTENING PROJECT
http://www.thelisteningprojectfilm.com
Documentary (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Dominic Howes, Joel Weber
Producer: Jim Pohlad
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A global journey in search of what the world thinks of America.
RED GOLD
www.Redgoldthemovie.com
Drama-Romance
Language: English
Director: John Irvin
Writer: Alessandro di Gaetano
Producers: Kim Todd, Roberto Bessi, Alessandro deGaetano
Status: Pre-Production / Presales
Budget: $10 million
Year of Production: Aug. 2008, Countries: Canada / Italy
A young American girl falls in love with an Italian prisoner-of-war, tearing her small Indiana town apart.
RISE OF THE DEAD
Horror
Language: English
Director: William Wedig
Written by: Joshua and Jeffrey Crook, Kris Scotto
Original Music: Evan Wilson
Producers: Drew Oppelt, Barbara Burch, Matt Regney, Patrick Pope
Cast: Erin Wilk, Stephen Seidel, Chris Ferry
Status: Complete
Year: 2007, Country: US
THE COLD FLAME
http://www.infotainmentchina.com
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Wartime Drama (90 min)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Yang Shupeng
Writer: Yang Shupeng
Producer: Amber Wong, Cindy Mi Lin
Key Cast: Michell Gong, Zhang Hanyu
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: China
China, 1944, W.W.II: A teenage orphan girl falls in love with an older, wounded officer whom she is entrusted to care for - a love that can
never happen.
SIX REASONS WHY
http://www.sixreasonswhy.com/
Western (90 min)
Language: English
Director: The Campagna Brothers
Writer: The Campagna Brothers
Producer: The Campagna Brothers
Key Cast: Colm Feore, Dan Wooster, Christopher Harrison, Mads Koudal
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Canada
In the style of "El Mariachi", one man stands up against the bloodthirsty gunslingers of the lawless west.
FRIES FILM GROUP, INC.
Fries Film Group, Inc., 22817 Ventura Blvd. Suite 909, Woodland Hills, CA 91364 USA. Tel: 1.818.888.3052. Fax: 1.818.888.3042.
Distributor
At Cannes: Charles M. Fries (President), Adam Welles (VP of Worldwide Sales)
Office: Rivera F5
ALIEN AGENT
Action (2007)
Cast: Mark Dacascos, Billy Zane, and Amelia Cooke
Status: Completed and Ready for Delivery
A lawman from another Galaxy must stop an invading force from building a gateway to our world.
NUMB
Romantic Comedy (2007)
Director: Harris Goldberg
Cast: Mathew Perry, Lynn Collins, Kevin Pollak and Mary Steenburgen
Status: Completed and Ready for Delivery
When a writer falls in love with his soul mate, her love cures him of his neurotic personality.
WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD: TAKE 2
Comedy (2008)
Director: Tony Markes
Cast: Adam Rifkin, and Norby Greenberry, Special Appearances by George Lucas, Tom Hanks, and Will Smith.
Status: Post Production
A mockumentary that shows you the REAL Hollywood. Filmmaker Alan Rifkin takes an unknown, wannabe Actor under his wing and aims to
make him a star.
A MILLION COLOURS
Drama (2008)
Cast: Barry Pepper
Status: Pre-Production
In the early 1970’s, apartheid divided South Africa, a film was released that brought hope and light to a despairing nation. The two young stars,
Muntu Ndebele and Norman Knox, would become friends just like their characters.
SURVIVING EVIL
Horror (2009)
Cast: Billy Zane, Natalie Mendoza, and Christina Cole
Status: Filming
When a British documentary crew arrives on an uncharted island in the Philippines, they discover an abandoned village, with huts covered in
blood.
CALL OF THE WILD – THE SERIES
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Family Drama (2007)
Cast: Nick Mancuso, Shane Meier, and Crystal Buble
Status: Completed and Ready for delivery
In this 13 part one-hour action/adventure series based on JACK LONDON'S classic tale in the Klondike Gold Rush, the magnificent dog
BUCK becomes the property of 15 year old MILES CHALLENGER.
GAUMONT
30, Avenue Charles de Gaulle, 92200 Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France. Tel: 33.1.46.43.21.80. Fax: 33.1.46.43.20.33. www.gaumont.net
At Cannes: Christophe RIANDÉE (C.E.O.), Loïc TROCMÉ (Head of Sales and Acquisitions), Yves CHEVALIER (Acquisitions Consultant),
Cécile GAGET (Sales & Acquisitions), Dorothée GROSJEAN (Sales), Virginie ROYER (Sales)
Office: 2, rue Bivouac Napoleon, 4th Floor, Tel: 33.4.93.68.90.20. Fax: 33.4.92.18.38.18
JCVD
Comedy
Director: Mabrouk el Mechri
Production: GAUMONT
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Karim Belkhadra, Zinedine Soualem, François Damiens
Status: Private Screening (on invitation only)
When the life of Jean-Claude Van Damme collides with the reality of a hold-up in Brussels, Belgium, suddenly the huge movie star turns into
an ordinary guy, filled with fears, contradictions and hopes.
A FRENCH GIGOLO (CLIENTE)
Drama
Director: Josiane Balasko
Production: GAUMONT / LGM Cinéma
Cast: Nathalie Baye, Eric Caravaca, Isabelle Carré
Status: Completed / Screening
Judith is level-headed woman in her fifties. She lives alone and regularly treats herself to the sexual services of young men selected on Internet
escort sites. That's how she meets Patrick, whose kindness and simplicity win her over.
DADDY COOL (15 ANS ET DEMI)
Comedy
Director: François Desagnat & Thomas Sorriaux
Production: GAUMONT
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Lamboley
Status: Completed / Screening
Philippe Le Tallec, a scientist living in the USA, has to come back to France to look after his young girl Eglantine, whose he hasn't seen in
many years.
MR 73
Thriller
Director: Olivier Marchal
Production: GAUMONT / LGM Cinéma
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Olivia Bonamy
Status: Completed / Screening
Schneider, an incorruptible cop, goes against the opinion of his superiors and begins an investigation which leads him to the gates of hell.
SPLICE
Creature movie
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Production: GAUMONT / COPPERHEART Entertainment
Cast: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley
Status: Post-production
Clive and Elsa are young, brilliant and ambitious. The new animal species they engineered have made them rebel superstars of the scientific
world. In secret, they introduce human DNA into the experiment.
THE LAST FLIGHT (LE DERNIER VOL DE LANCASTER)
Adventure / Romance
Director: Karim Dridi
Production: GAUMONT
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Guillaume Canet
Status: In production
Out in the vast Sahara, where nothing can survive, Love alone rises from its ashes.
OSS 117, LOST IN RIO (OSS 117, RIO NE REPOND PLUS)
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Adventure comedy
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Production: GAUMONT / MANDARIN Films
Cast: Jean Dujardin
Status: Shooting
GK FILMS / INITIAL ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
GK Films / Initial Entertainment Group, 1411 5th St. Suite 200, Santa Monica, CA 90401USA. Tel: 310.315.1722. Fax: 310.315.1723. email:
info@gk-films.com
At Cannes: Maxine Leonard (SVP, Marketing and Publicity)
Office: 24 La Croisette (at La Bris), 3rd Floor, Cannes 06400, Tel: 33.4.93.39.89.87
THE YOUNG VICTORIA
Drama
Language: English
Director: Jean Marc Vallee
Producer: Graham King, Martin Scrosese, Tim Headington, Sarah Ferguson
Key Cast: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent
Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: UK
Chronicles Victoria's rise to power, focusing on the early turbulent years of her reign and her legendary romance and marriage to Prince Albert.
BANGKOK DANGEROUS
Action-Adventure
Language: English
Director: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
Producer: William Sherak, Jason Shuman, Norm Golightly
Key Cast: Nicolas Cage
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
An anonymous assassin travels to Bangkok to handle four kills for an underworld crime boss, but his conscience becomes his enemy in the city
that never sleeps.
GARDENER OF EDEN
Dark Comedy
Language: English
Director: Kevin Connolly
Producer: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Simpson, Allen Bain
Key Cast: Lukas Haas, Erika Christensen, Giovanni Ribisi
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
A 25 year old slacker discovers his purpose in life after accidentally apprehending a local rapist – to protect the good people of his small
town… by any means necessary.
GLOBAL CINEMA GROUP LLC
Global Cinema Group LLC, 9229 Sunset Blvd. Suite #400 Los Angeles CA 90069 USA. Tel: 1.310.443.7788. Fax: 1.310.443.7739
e-mail: info@globalcinemagroup.com
Company Type: Distributor
At Cannes: Peter Elson (President)
Office: Residences of The Grand Hotel
JUST BURIED (PUSHING UP DAISIES)
Black Comedy (93 mins)
Language: English
Director: Chaz Thorne
Writer: Chaz Thorne
Producer: John Watson, Pen Densham, Bill Niven, Chaz Thorne
Cast: Rose Byrne, Jay Baruchel, Graham Greene
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: CANADA
Oliver just inherited a funeral home in a town where nobody is dying ….yet.
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FOODFIGHT!
Animation
Language: English
Director: Lawrence Kasanoff
Writer: Sean Derek
Producer: Lawrence Kasanoff, George Johnsen, Joshua Wexler
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Eva Longoria, Hilary Duff
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2007-2008, Country of Origin: USA
In the supermarket at night when the lights go out, the grocery store transforms.
RESTRAINT (RAVENSWOOD)
Drama/Thriller/ Suspense (92 mins)
Language: English
Director: David Denneen
Writer: Dave Warner
Producer: Anna Fawcett, Mark Lazarus, Todd Fellman, Dan Halsted
Cast: Travis Fimmel, Stephen Moyer, Teresa Palmer
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Australia
A young couple on the run hole up in a country estate with a hostage in tow who’s got a dark past of his own. The three of them play out a
dangerous game of seduction, power and fear.
NEARING GRACE
Drama (105 mins)
Language: English
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Writer: Jacob Aaron Estes
Producer: Rick Rosenthal, Susan Johnson, Tracy Underwood
Cast: Gregory Smith, Jordana Brewster, Ashley Johnson, David Morse
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
In New Jersey Suburbia circa 1979, one high school senior loses and finds grace in the dreamlike world of teenage longing.
YOU’RE SO DEAD
Horror Comedy (100 mins)
Language: English
Director: Norman T. Vane
Writer: Norman T. Vane
Producer: Sean Javid, Norman T. Vane
Cast: Robert Parks-Valletta, Lindsey Kelley, Jamie Perez Sorrentini
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A group of dead people hang out at a cemetery at night and take over the bodies of the living who enter.
THE G-MACHINE, INC.
The G-Machine, Inc., 11685 Gorham Ave., Suite 5, Los Angeles, CA 90049 USA. Tel: 1.310.713.7486. Fax: 1.310.207.1936.
http://www.thegmachineinc.com, email: sellfilms@yahoo.com
At Cannes: Ron Gell (President & CEO), Cynthia Marquoit (Chairman)
Office: LERINS Stand R21, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.43
ON THE DOLL
http://www.onthedoll.com/
Teen/Coming of Age (102 min)
Language: English
Director: Thomas Mignone
Writer: Thomas Mignone
Co-Production Partners: Doom Incorporated, Jeff Most Productions, Your Half Media Group
Producer: Jeff Most, Ryan Harper, John Saviano
Key Cast: Brittany SNOW, James RUSSO, Josh JANOWICZ, Stephen SOWAN, Theresa RUSSELL
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
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Highly Provocative, On The Doll is a story of the victims of child abuse, and the pain it visits upon their later lives. With interweaving stories
following victims and victimizers, the film depicts the variety of experiences of abuse.
PVC-1
http://www.pvc-1themovie.com/cast.html
Thriller (85 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Spiros STATHOULOPOULOS
Writer: Dwight ISTANBULIAN, Spiros STATHOULOPOULOS
Producer: Jace HALL, Spiros STATHOULOPOULOS
Key Cast: Alberto SORNOZA, Andres MAHECHA, Daniel PAEZ, Hugo PEREIRA, Merida URQUIA
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA, COLOMBIA, GREECE
Shot in real time and one continuous take, PVC-1 is based on the true story of a woman who is turned into a human time bomb in an act of
terrorism.
ROMAN
Thriller/Horror (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Angela BETTIS
Writer: Lucky MCKEE
Producer: Chris WAYNE, Jonathan SEROTA, Steve COPELAND
Key Cast: Kristen BELL, Lucky MCKEE, Nectar ROSE
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
A companion film to LionsGate’s MAY. Roman (Lucky McKee) is a lonely young man who yearns to find love, happiness and
companionship.
OBSESSION: RADICAL ISLAM'S WAR AGAINST THE WEST
http://www.obsessionthemovie.com/
Documentary (77 min)
Language: English
Director: Wayne KOPPING
Writer: Raphael SHORE, Raphael SHORE, Wayne KOPPING, Wayne KOPPING
Producer: Peter MIER, Peter MIER, Raphael SHORE, Raphael SHORE
Key Cast: Alan DERSHOWITZ, Alan DERSHOWITZ, Brigitte GABRIEL, Brigitte GABRIEL, Martin GILBERT, Martin GILBERT, Nonie
DARWISH, Nonie DARWISH, Steven EMERSON, Steven EMERSON
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: USA
Obsession is a film about the threat of Radical Islam to Western civilization.
AFTERTHOUGHT
http://www.afterthoughtmovie.com/
Horror/Thriller (85 min)
Language: English
Director: Douglas ELFORD-ARGENT
Writer: Douglas ELFORD-ARGENT
Producer: Douglas ELFORD-ARGENT, Tedd WILLET
Key Cast: Bobbi Jean BASCHE, Cal THOMAS, Gwendolyn GARVER, James SYMINGTON, Kristian CAPALIK
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Seven years after Christy Dawson loses her father, she begins having dreams about him. What she doesn't know is that she is beginning her
future as a Dreamer.
STEALING MARTIN LANE
http://www.stealingmartinlane.com/
Drama (98 min)
Language: English
Director: James FURINO
Writer: James FURINO
Producer: Larry MITCHELL
Key Cast: Dylan BAKER, Isiah WHITLOCK, Larry MITCHELL, Jennifer VAN DYCK, James FURINO
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
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Inspired by true events, Stealing Martin Lane offers a window into the life of a disarmingly insightful homeless man, Harold "Chopper" Jones,
who is trying to turn his life around.
HOMELAND
Drama (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael ELDRIDGE
Writer: Brad ROTHSCHILD
Producer: Brad ROTHSCHILD, Michael ELDRIDGE, Steven MOSKOVIC
Key Cast: Max RHYSER, Yifat SHARABI
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
The amazing love story of an young couple in New York City, an Israeli young man and a Palestinian girl and the history that tries to keep
them apart.
GOALPOST FILM LIMITED
Goalpost Film Limited, 3rd Floor, 258-260 Lavender Hill, London SW11 1LJ, UK. Tel: 0207.585.3222. Fax: 0207.585.3230.
http://www.goalpostfilm.com
At Cannes: Tristan Whalley (Managing Director), Nicki Parfitt (Co-managing Director)
Office: Résidences du Grand Hôtel, 45 Croisette, 06400 Cannes, entrance: Flamant, 4th floor
THE ESCAPIST
Thriller (106 min)
Language: English
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Writer: Rupert Wyatt and Daniel Hardy
Co-Production Partners: Parallel Films and Picture Farm
Producer: Alan Moloney and Adrian Sturges
Key Cast: Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Liam Cunningham, Seu Jorge, Dominic
Cooper, Steven Mackintosh and Damian Lewis
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Ireland/UK
Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence. When his daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her
before it is too late.
ELISE
Drama
Language: English
Director: James Bogle
Writer: James Bogle
Producer: Ben Grant
Key Cast: Natalie Imbruglia
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Australia
How can you understand one day without understanding the day before?
CLUBLAND (INTRODUCING THE DWIGHTS)
http://www.clublandthefilm.com
Drama (108min)
Language: English
Director: Cherie Nowlan
Writer: Keith Thompson
Producer: Rosemary Blight
Key Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Khan Chittenden, Emma Booth
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Australia
Tim has a new girlfriend. It should be the perfect romance but something is holding him back. He has a dark secret.
THE CLIMB
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Matt Lipsey
Writer: Cris Cole
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Producer: Steve Ackhurst
Key Cast: Damian Lewis
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: UK
An epic account of heroism, determination and high-altitude.
GOLDCREST FILMS INTERNATIONAL LTD.
Goldcrest Films International Ltd., 65- 66 Dean Street, London W1D 4PL, UK. Tel: 44.207.437.8696. Fax: 44.207.437.4448,
http://www.goldcrestfilms.com, email: info@goldcrestfilms.com
At Cannes: John Quested (Chairman), Stephen Johnston (President), Nick Quested (Director), Laura Murphy (Sales And Marketing)
Office: 7th Floor, 25 La Bagatelle, La Croisette
ELVIS & ANABELLE
http://www.elvisandanabelle.com
Romance/ Drama
Language: English
Director: Will Geiger
Writer: Will Geiger
Key Cast: Max Minghella, Blake Lively, Mary Steenburgen, Joe Mantegna, Keith Carradine
Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
When a young mortician revives a suicidal beauty queen with an innocent kiss, love blossoms in the strangest way.
GOLDCREST INDEPENDENT
Goldcrest Independent, 65-66 Dean Street, London W1D 4PL UK. Tel: 44.207.437.8696. Fax: 44.207.437.4448.
http://www.goldcrestfilms.com, email: info@goldcrestfilms.com
At Cannes: Pierre Weisbein (SVP Sales)
Office: 7th Floor, 25 La Bagatelle, La Croisette
THE CHOSEN ONE
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Rob Schneider
Writer: Rob Schneider, Boon Collins
Producer: John Schneider
Key Cast: Rob Schneider, Steve Buscemi, Holland Taylor
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Like the Dalai Lama with a drinking problem.
CASS
Drama
Language: English
Director: Jon S. Baird
Writer: Jon S. Baird
Producer: Stefan Haller
Key Cast: Nonso Anozie, Natalie Press, Linda Bassett
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
Cass Pennant: media sensation and head of the UK’S most feared football gang. The incredible true story of one man’s struggle for IDENTITY
AND REDEMPTION.
GOLDEN NETWORK ASIA LIMITED
Golden Network Asia Limited, Unit 1508, Nanyang Plaza, 57 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong. Tel: 852.2751.1886. Fax:
852.2750.4862. email: info@goldnetasia.com
Sales agent
At Cannes: Carrie WONG (Managing Director); Clarence TANG (Head of Sales and Acquisitions); Lammy LI (Sales and Marketing
Manager); Melanie YIP (Sales and Marketing Executive); Elise WONG (Senior Sales and Marketing Assistant)
Acquisition Executive: Clarence TANG (Head of Sales and Acquisitions)
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Office: LERINS STAND P1, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.88.08
AN EMPRESS AND THE WARRIORS
http://www.anempressandthewarriors.com
Epic / Martial Arts (95 min)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Tony Ching Siu-tung
Writer: James Yuen, Cheung Tan, Chun Tin-nam
Producer: Claudia Chung, Eric Tsang
Key Cast: Donnie Yen, Guo Xiaodong, Kelly Chen, Leon Lai
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 15 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Hong Kong
The king’s assassin will inherit the throve unless a princess can learn the art of war and protect her kingdom from invaders and enemies within.
THE TRUCK
Thriller
Language: Korean
Director: Kwon Hyung-jin
Writer: Jang Hyung-mo
Producer: Tcha Sung-jai, Kim Mi-hee
Key Cast: Yu Hae-jin, Jin Ku
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 3.25 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
A truck driver in desperate need of money for his daughter’s operation, transports a cargo of corpses, but when he picks up a witch hiking serial
killer his nightmare really begins.
WUSHU
Martial Arts (101 min)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Antony Szeto, Dennis Chan
Writer: Lau Ho-leung, Dennis Chan
Producer: Jackie Chan, John Sham, Colette Koo
Key Cast: Sammo Hung, Wang Wenjie, Liu Fengchao, Wang Fei, Liu Yongchen, Wang Yachao
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: US$ 4 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: China
At a school for martial arts, a small group of students form a close friendship that is put to the test when they each train in a different form of
competitive fighting.
KISS ME, KILL ME
Action / Romantic Comedy
Language: Korean
Director: Yang Jong-hyun
Writer: Yang Jong-hyun
Producer: Tcha Sung-jai, Kim Mi-hee
Key Cast: Shin Hyun-joon, Kang Hae-jung
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget: US$5.33 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
Veteran hit man Tae-joon has his toughest assignment yet in Jin-young, a woman who has been dumped by her boyfriend and wants to end it
all.
DISTURBANCE IN HER BARROOM
Action Comedy / Period
Language: Korean
Director: Yeo Kyun-dong
Writer: Yeo Kyun-dong
Producer: Tcha Sung-jai, Kim Mi-hee
Key Cast: LeeJung-jae, Kim Ok-vin, Kim Suk-hoon
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget: US$ 4.54 Million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
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In 18th century Korea, Chun-doong falls in love with escort Seol-ji; when he unexpectedly becomes an underworld boss, he steals her from
rival gangsters, leading to all out war.
FIREBALL
Muay Thai / Action
Language: Thai
Director: Thanakorn Pongsuwan
Writer: Thanakorn Pongsuwan
Producer: Uncle Adirek Watleela, Sangar Chatchairungruang
Key Cast: Theeradanai Suwannahom, Supakorn Kitsuwan
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget: US$ 2 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Thailand
In modern Bangkok, a brother seeks bloody revenge in the murderous sport of full-contact basketball where you only score points
for surviving.
THE SCOUT
Kids/ Fantasy
Language: Thai
Director: Pleo Sirisuwan
Writer: Pleo Sirisuwan
Producer: Monnasich Tadaamnuaychai
Key Cast: Kazuki Yano
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget: US$ 2 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Thailand
A boys-own adventure story in which scouts enter a parallel universe to find a legendary treasure that is only revealed on the night of a lunar
eclipse.
YONA YONA PENGUIN
3D CGI Animation (90 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Rintaro
Writer: Tomoko Konparu
Producer: Hiroshi Hirokawa, Iwao Yamaki, Dennis Friedman
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget: US$13 million
Year of Production: Delivery 2009, Country of Origin: Japan / France / Singapore
A heart-warming tale of fantasy and adventure, as three children left on their own, find friendship and courage for the first time in their lives.
NASU - A MIGRATORY BIRD WITH SUITCASE
Animation (54 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Kitaro Kosaka
Writer: Kitaro Kosaka
Producer: Manabu Tamura
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Japan
In their final competitive race, France’s hottest cycling team face their toughest challenge yet as they contend with personal demons.
SHIGURUI
Animation (12 episodes x 30 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Hiroshi Hamasaki
Writer: Seishi Minakami
Producer: Hiroyuki Kitaura
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Japan
A master swordsman and his two top apprentices turn on each other, and must duel to the death for revenge and honor when betrayal enters
their lives.
PERFECT BLUE
Animation / Psycho-Suspense (82 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Satoshi Kon
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Writer: Sadayuki Murai
Producer: Masao Maruyama
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1997,2008, Country of Origin: Japan
Remastered edition of animation cult classic about a pop star whose world falls apart when she debuts as an actress in a sexually-charged
murder mystery.
FOREVER THE MOMENT
Drama / Sports (124 min)
Language: Korean
Director: Yim Soon-rye
Writer: Na Hyun
Producer: Shim Jae-myung, Kim Hyun-chul
Key Cast: Moon So-ri, Kim Jung-eun, Uhm Tae-woong, Kim Ji-young
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$3.6 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
South Korea’s all–woman national handball team aim for Olympics gold against all the odds with a male coach and a team of retired players
made up of ordinary housewives and mothers.
MISS GOLD DIGGER
www.missshin.co.kr
Romantic Comedy (108 min)
Language: Korean
Director: Park Yong-jip
Writer: Park Eun-young
Producer: Tcha Sung-jae
Key Cast: Han Ye-seul, Lee Jong-hyuk, Kwon Oh-joong
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 2.9 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Korea
With her good looks, Miss Shin believes she has the right to any man of her choosing among Korea's elite, but nobody has told her annoying
next door neighbor Dong-min…
RADIO DAYZ
Comedy / Drama (111 min)
Language: Korean
Director: Ha Ki-ho
Writer: Kim Hyun-jung
Producer: Tcha Sung-jae
Key Cast: Ryoo Seung-bum, Kim Sa-rang, Lee Jong-hyuk
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US $ 4.2 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
Under the Japanese occupation, a bunch of losers at Korea's first radio station become unlikely heroes when their radio play is an overnight
success and they unexpectedly become a force for resistance.
IRIS CHANG – THE RAPE OF NANKING
Docudrama (100 min)
Language: English/ Mandarin
Director: Anne Pick, Bill Spahic
Writer: Michael Betcherman
Producer: Anne Pick
Key Cast: Olivia Cheng
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 1.5 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Canada / Hong Kong
She brought the darkest moments of human's history to light. Some memories should never be forgotten.
WILD HORSE FROM SHANGRI-LA
Drama
Language: Mandarin / Tibetan
Director: Gigo Lee
Writer: Gan Ye, Gigo Lee, Dennis Chan
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Producer: Dennis Chan, Ning Lee
Key Cast: Gendun Hodsad
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget: US$ 1 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: China
The inspirational story of a boy from Tibet, the fastest runner of his generation, who travels to Beijing to compete in a race to save his sister’s
life.
GORILLA PICTURES
Gorilla Pictures, 2000 West Olive Avenue, Burbank, CA 91506 United States. Tel: 1.818.848.2198. Fax: 1.818.848.2232.
http://www.gorillapictures.net, email: info@gorillapictures.net
At Cannes: Bill Gottlieb (CEO), Don Wilson (Executive VP)
Office: H16/G11-H14, Tel: 1.818.419.9814
THE LEGEND OF SASQUATCH
http://www.bigfootmovie.net
Family/ Animation (73 min)
Language: English
Director: Thomas Callicoat
Producer: Bill J. Gottlieb
Key Cast: William Hurt, John Rhys-Davies
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: United States
"Legends never leave us, as long as we believe."
THE LAST SENTINEL
http://www.gorillapictures.net
Sci-Fi / Action
Language: English
Director: Jesse Johnson
Writer: Jesse Johnson
Producer: Bill J. Gottlieb
Key Cast: Don Wilson, Katee Sackhoff, Bokeem Woodbine, Keith David
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: United States
"The last of the warriors could now be our last hope."
SOFT TARGET (CROOKED)
http://www.gorillapictures.net
Action / Thriller
Language: English
Director: Art Camacho
Writer: William C. Martell
Producer: Bill J. Gottlieb
Key Cast: Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Olivier Gruner, Gary Busey
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: United States
"The only thing more lethal than the lawless – is the law itself.”
LOST WARRIOR: LEFT BEHIND
www.Gorillapictures.Net
Action
Language: English
Key Cast: Olivier Gruner, Costas Mandylor
Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: United States
"A reality show so real . it will kill you."
BLIZHNIY BOY: THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER
http://www.gorillapictures.net
Action
Language: English
Key Cast: David Carradine, Eric Roberts, Cung Le
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Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: United States
"Survival at any cost is Rule #1."
XTREME FIGHTER (SCI-FIGHTER)
http://www.gorillapictures.net
Sci-Fi/ Action
Language: English
Director: Art Camacho
Writer: Thomas Callicoat
Producer: Bill J. Gottlieb
Key Cast: Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock, Lorenzo Lamas
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: United States
"They thought it was only a video game – now they're fighting for their lives."
RED SUN RISING
http://www.gorillapicures.net
Martial Arts / Action
Language: English
Key Cast: Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Terry Farrell, Michael Ironside
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: United States
"Japan's toughest cop is after the Yakuza's deadliest killer."
SWORN TO JUSTICE
http://www.gorillapictures.net
Action / Thriller
Language: English
Key Cast: Cynthia Rothrock, Tony Lo Bianco, Brad Dourif
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: United States
"Revenge has never been so sweet."
GREEK FILM CENTRE
Greek Film Centre, 10 Panepistimiou Av, Athens 10674 Greece. Tel: 00.30.210.36.48.007. Fax: 00.30.210.36.14.336. http://www.gfc.gr,
email: info@gfc.gr
At Cannes: George Papalios (President), Demetrios Sofianopoulos (Vice President), Evi Lazari (Head of Sales and Promotion), Iliana
Zakopoulou (Head of Festivals and International Cultural Events), Stavroula Geronimaki (Sales and Promotion Coordinator)
Office: Village International Greek Pavilion 126
EL GRECO
Drama (117 min)
Languages: English, Spain, Greek
Director: Iannis Smaragdis
Writer: Iannis Smaragdis
Producer: Alexandros Films
Key Cast: Nick Ashdon, Juan Diego Botto, Laia Marull
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Greek
An epic tale of un uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotocopoulos, known to the world as "EL GRECO".
CORRECTION
Drama (83 min)
Languages: Greek, Albanian
Director: Thanos Anastopoulos
Writer: Thanos Anastopoulos, Vasilis Raisis
Key Cast: Yiorgos Symeonidis, Ornela Kapetani, Savina Alimani
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin:
A man gets out of prison and undertakes a homeless journey into the contemporary Athens. On his way he will meet a woman and a little girl.
VALSE SENTIMENTALE
Drama (109 min)
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Language: Greek
Director: Constantina Voulgaris
Writer: Constantina Voulgaris
Key Cast: Alexandros Voulgaris, Andreas Kontopoulos, Loukia Michalopoulou
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Greece
A love story where nothing happens, where they say nothing and where change.means nothing.
THREE MOMENTS
Drama (80 min)
Language: Greek
Director: Petros Sevastikoglou
Writer: Petros Sevastikoglou, Petros Lambroulis
Key Cast: Evgenia Dimitropoulou, Christos Nikolaou, Roula Pateraki
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Greece
Every twenty years, a comet passes by and carves a fiery footpath over a lake. Those who love can cross it walking over the waters. Love at
three ages, at three moments, will face the challenge
ATHANASIA
Drama (95 min)
Language: Greek
Director: Panos Karkanevatos
Writer: Panos Karkanevatos
Key Cast: Robert Thomson, Stavroula Logotheti, Marina Kalogirou
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Greece
A young American woman returns to her Greek roots in search of her real father. Accompanied by her stepfather, she shatters the very myths
designed to protect her.
LAW OFFICES OF GREG S. BERNSTEIN
Law Offices of Greg S. Bernstein, 9601 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 240, Beverly Hills, California, USA. Tel: 1.310.247.2790. Fax: 1.310.247.2791.
www.thefilmlaw.com
Entertainment and Film Finance Law, Producer Representative
At Cannes: Greg S. Bernstein (Entertainment Attorney, Producer Representative)
Office: Novotel Montfleury Cannes, Local Tel: 1.310.266.5365
HANNIBAL PICTURES
Hannibal Pictures, 8265 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 107, West Hollywood, CA 90046 USA. Tel: 1.323.848.2945. Fax: 1.323.848.2946.
www.hannibalpictures.com, e-mail: contactus@hannibalpictures.com
Producer, Distributor and Sales agent
At Cannes: Richard Rionda Del Castro (Chairman & CEO), Patricia Rionda Del Castro (President), Jonathan Collins (Director of Production
and Sales)
Office: Intercontinental Carlton Office 132, Tel: 33(0)4.93.06.40.06 – Office 132, Jonathan Collins Cell: 33(0)6.74.59.62.57
GIALLO
Thriller/Action
Language: English
Director: Dario Argento
Producer: Rafael Primorac, Richard Rionda Del Castro
Executive Producer: Adrien Brody, Oscar Generale, Claudio Argento, Luis De Val, David Milner, Billy Dietrich, Patricia Eberle
Cast: Adrien Brody, Emmanuelle Seigner, Elsa Pataky
Delivery Status: Pre-Production (Start Production: May 12, 2008)
Budget: $14 million
Country of Origin: Italy, UK
In Italy, an American woman fears her sister may have been kidnapped. Inspector Enzo Lavia fears it’s worse. They team up to rescue her from
a sadistic killer known only as Yellow.
CHASING THE DRAGON
Action
Language: English
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Director: Chris Nahon
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro, Wallis Nicita, W. Peter Iliff, Gilles Thompson
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Bob Sapp
Delivery Status: Pre-Production (Start Production: June 30, 2008)
Budget: $17 million
Country of Origin: UK, France
A ruthless Asian drug lord kills several FBI Agents and flees back home to Asia. But the Agent he left alive comes after him, hungry for
revenge and justice.
THE LAST WARRIOR
Post-Apocalyptic Action
Language: English
Director: John Eyres
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro, BJ Rack, Gilles Thompson
Cast: Vincent Perez, Laurence Fishburne
Delivery Status: Pre-Production (Start Production: August 4, 2008)
Budget: $17 million
Country of Origin: Hungary, Canada, France
In a war-ravaged and disease-ridden future, a soldier genetically altered killing machine escapes impending destruction and goes on the run,
leaving a trail of destruction in his wake.
CUBA AND THE NIGHT
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Joseph Ruben
Producer: Wallis Nicita, Peter Barsocchini, Richard Rionda Del Castro
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: $28 million
Country of Origin: US
In post-Castro Cuba, an American journalist meets a mysterious and sexy lounge singer whose dangerous political ties lead him to uncover an
assassination plot. But with Castro dead… who is the target?
ADRIFT IN MANHATTAN
Drama
Language: English
Director: Alfredo De Villa
Producer: Steven J. Brown
Cast: Heather Graham, Billy Baldwin, Victor Rasuk
Delivery Status: Immediate
Country of Origin: US
The complicated and sometimes tragic lives of four New Yorkers intersect in miraculous ways.
GIVE ‘EM HELL MALONE
Action
Language: English
Producer: Richard Salvatore, Johnny Martin, Richard Rionda Del Castro
Cast: Thomas Jane, Ving Rhames
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: $12 Million
Country of Origin: US
A tough as nails private eye takes a simple job from an enigmatic and unseen Frenchman, and the job turns violent, escalating into one
shootout, knife-fight and fistfight after another.
HANWAY FILMS
Hanway Films, 24 Hanway Street, London, W1T 1UH, UK. Tel: 44(0)207.290.0750. Fax: 44(0)207.290.0751. www.hanwayfilms.com, e-mail:
info@hanwayfilms.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Tim Haslam (CEO), Thorsten Schumacher (Dir. Sales & Distribution, General Manager), Sofia Neves (Director, Sales), Jonathan
Lynch-Staunton (Director, Marketing & Distribution), Stephan Mallmann (COO), Jan Spielhoff (Director, Business Affairs)
Office: Residence Gray d’Albion, 1st floor Right, 27 La Croisette / 4 rue des Serbes, 06400 Cannes, Tel: 33(0)4.9368.3423, Fax:
33(0)4.9368.3756
FRANKLYN
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Thriller
Director: Gerald McMorrow
Writer: Gerald McMorrow
Producer: Jeremy Thomas
Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Sam Riley & Eva Green
Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
Four lost souls are on a mission; two worlds divide them; one single bullet will decide their fate.
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
Period drama
Director: Julian Jarrold
Writer: Andrew Davies & Jeremy Brock
Producers: Douglas Rae, Robert Bernstein, Kevin Loader
Cast: Emma Thompson, Ben Whishaw, Matthew Goode, Michael Gambon, Hayley Atwell
Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
Adapted from one of the truly great works of fiction of the 20th century, Brideshead Revisited is a gorgeously evocative romantic epic
portraying a story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence.
SUNSHINE CLEANING
Drama
Director: Christine Jeffs
Writer: Megan Holley
Producers: Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub, Glenn Williamson, Jeb Brody
Cast: Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Steve Zahn, Alan Arkin
Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: US
A poignant and bittersweet family film, about respect, love and clearing up body parts.
THE RED BARON
Historic drama
Director: Nikolai Müllerschön
Writer: Nikolai Müllerschön
Producers: Dan Maag, Thomas Reisser
Cast: Matthias Schweighöfer, Joseph Fiennes, Til Schweiger, Lena Headey
Delivery status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: German, Czech Republic
From the carnage and chaos of WW1 arose one man whose name would pass into legend. Gentleman? Warrior? Adventurer? Manfred Von
Richthofen is forever known as….The Red Baron
GENOVA
Drama
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Writer: Michael Winterbottom
Producer: Andrew Eaton
Cast: Colin Firth, Catherine Keener, Willa Holland, PERLA HANEY-JARDINE and Hope Davies
Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK, Italy
The exotic Italian town of Genova provides a fresh start for Joe and his two young daughters - a family seeking new lives after the sudden
death of their mother.
TRIAGE
Drama
Director: Danis Tanovic
Writer: Danis Tanovic
Producer: Cedomir Kolar, Alan Moloney
Cast: Colin Farrell, Paz Vega, Christopher Lee
Status: Pre Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK, Spain
A war photographer returns home having lost his best buddy. A journey of personal discovery celebrating the healing power of family union.
PALERMO SHOOTING
Director: Wim Wenders
Writer: Wim Wenders
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Producer: Gian-Piero Ringel
Cast: Campino, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Dennis Hopper, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Milla Jovovich
Status: Post-Production
Countries of Origin: Italy, Germany
A hip German photographer, traveling to Sicily for a shoot, encounters mystery, love and the Devil on the road to Palermo.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Period drama
Director: John Maybury
Writer: Olivia Hetreed
Producers: Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae
Cast: Natalie Portman
Status: Pre Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
Master director John Maybury revolutionizes the immortal story of Heathcliff and Cathy, whose tragic love drives them into a storm of
vengeance, and redemption.
EDDIE THE EAGLE
Comedy
Director: Declan Lowney
Writer: Sean Macaulay
Producer: John Heyman
Cast: Steve Coogan
Status: Pre Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK and Canada
An inspiring comedy and hilarious true life story of a unique antihero, Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards, is brought to the screen in a British “Cool
Runnings.”
BLACK DEATH
Thriller
Director: Geoff Sax
Writer: Dario Poloni
Producer: Robert Bernstein
Cast: Sean Bean, Lena Headey, Rupert Friend
Status: Pre Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK, Germany
“Black Death” – a supernatural chiller in the vein of “Jacob’s Ladder” and “Angel Heart.”
HIGH POINT MEDIA GROUP
High Point Media Group, Suite 16, Deane House Studios, Greenwood Place, London, NW5 1LB, UK. Tel: 0044(0)207.424.6870. Fax:
0044(0)207.485.3281. www.highpointfilms.co.uk, email: sales@highpointfilms.co.uk
Sales Agent, Producer
At Cannes: Ronald de Neef (Co-Founder), Carey Fitzgerald (Managing Director), Elisar Cabrera (Director of Sales & Marketing, Theatrical),
Piers Nightingale (Head of Development), Lisa Gifford (Territory Manager), Carl Simons (Head of Production and Acquisitions)
Acquisition Executive: Piers Nightingale / Carl Simons
Office: Residences du Grand Hotel, Cormoran II Entrance, 3rd Floor, ring bell: no. 33, 47 Croisette, 06400 Cannes. Tel: 0033(0)4.93.38.05.87
SKIN
Drama (85 minutes)
Director: Hanro Smitsman
Producers: Marc Bary
Production Company: IJswater Film
Cast: Robert de Hoog,
John Buijsman, Sylvia Poorta
Delivery Status: complete
Country: The Netherlands
Based on true events, in 1979 a seventeen year old boy, in trying to break free from a father traumatized by the Holocaust, is led into the
emerging skinhead youth culture and Neo Nazi movement.
NOTHING TO LOSE
Thriller (90 minutes)
Director: Pieter Kuijpers
Producers: Sander van Meurs, Andre Teelen
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Production Company: Pupkin Films
Cast: Theo Maassen, Lisa Smit
Delivery Status: complete
Country: The Netherlands
A convicted killer goes on the run from a psychiatric prison, taking a 13 year old girl
hostage on the way.
STORM BOUND
Family, Adventure (135 minutes)
Director: Steven de Jong
Producers: Klaas de Jong
Production Company: Bridge Entertainment
Cast: Pim Wessels, Martijn Hendrickx, Billy Zomerdijk
Delivery Status: complete
Country: The Netherlands
A high seas adventure for all the family, as 14 year old Hajo and his friends join the crew on Captain Bontekoe's ship bound for East India.
TWISTS OF FATE
Drama (90 minutes)
Director: Jerzy Stuhr
Producers: Juliusz Machulski
Production Company: Zebra Films
Cast: Kamil Mackowiak, Karolina Gorczyca, Katarzyna Maciag.
Delivery Status: complete
Country: Poland
Opportunist and all round cheat, Bartek, finds his curiosity aroused when a mysterious man appears to stage his own disappearance.
THE SEA CHANGE
Drama (90 minutes approx.)
Directors: Brek Taylor, Elizabeth Mitchell
Producer: Charlotte Wontner
Production Companies: Nikky Black Films, Hopscotch Films
Cast: Anne-Marie Duff
Delivery Status: in production
Country: UK
A woman abandoned as a baby resolves to track down the mother she blames for a life of ills and kill her.
ASHES
Thriller (90 minutes approx.)
Directors: Alan Coulson
Producer: Maria Ellis
Production Companies: Bradgate Films
Cast: Art Malik, Billy Boyd
Delivery Status: pre-production
Country: UK
A man who lost his wife in a fire swears revenge on the arsonist when he is let out of
prison early.
KINGS
Drama (88 minutes)
Writer/Director: Tom Collins
Producer: Jackie Larkin
Production Company: Newgrange Pictures
Cast: Colm Meaney, Donal
O'Kelly, Brendan Conroy, Donncha Crowley, Barry Barnes and Sean O Tarpaigh
Delivery Status: complete
Country: Ireland/UK
Six men reunite for a friend's funeral, 30 years after emigrating from Ireland to London in search of a better life.
EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION
Thriller (77 min)
Director: Jim Threapleton
Writer: Jim Threapleton
Producer: Andrew Noble
Production Company: Ultrafilm Ltd.
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Cast: Omar Berdouni, Andy Serkis, Ania Sowinski
Delivery Status: complete
Country: UK
A man is abducted from the streets of London and transported via secret flights to an unknown country where he is tortured and interrogated
without trial for a crime he didn't commit.
THE PLAGUE
Drama (104 min)
Director: Greg Hall
Writer: Greg Hall
Producer: Rebecca Finlay-Hall
Production Company: WYSIWYG
Cast: Samuel Anoyka, Brett Harris, Sanjiv Jayre
Delivery Status: complete
Country: United Kingdom
A story seen through the eyes of four young friends from different cultural backgrounds. One City. One weekend.
ZOO RANGERS IN SOUTH AMERICA
Adventure (90 min)
Director: Johan Nijenhuis
Writer: Wijo Koek and Anya Koek
Producer: Alain de Levita
Production Company: NL Film
Cast: Juliette van Ardenne, Vivienne van Assem, Ewout Genemans
Delivery Status: complete
Country: The Netherlands
More adventures for the intrepid Zoo Rangers team as they hit South America in their third
big screen outing this time to save a rare butterfly from extinction.
INCONCEIVABLE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Mary McGuckian
Writer: Mary McGuckian
Cast: Andie MacDowell, Colm Feore, Jennifer Tilly, Elizabeth McGovern, Geraldine Chapman, Jordi Molla, John Sessions, Kerry Fox
Producers: Jeff Abberley, Martin Katz, Mary McGuckian
Sold in conjunction with Penny Wolf.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country: Canada, United Kingdom
Infertile Couples, singles, lesbians and gay men (and the odd widow who needs the inheritance!) - all desperate for that one thing that will
change their lives forever - a child.
HOLLAND FILM
Holland Film, Jan Luykenstraat 2, 1071 CM Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Tel: 31.20.570.7575. Fax: 31.20.570.7570. www.hollandfilm.nl, Email: hf@hollandfilm.nl
Holland Film is the official marketing & promotion agency for Dutch film worldwide.
At Cannes: Claudia Landsberger (Managing Director) cell: 31.6.5073.7681
Office: 106, Holland Film Pavilion, Village International, Tel: 33(0)493 t.b.c.
CALIMUCHO
Docu-drama (90’)
Language, subtitles: Dutch/German/French/Rumanian, English subtitles
Director: Eugenie Jansen (Sleeping Rough)
Producer/Sales: Circe Films
Co-production: The Netherlands
Cast: Dicky Kilian, Willy Soeurt, Tarek Hannoudi, Peter Verberk
Delivery status: Post-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of origin/Int’l
A docu-drama chronicling a complex relationship within a small circus on the verge of breakdown.
CAN GO THROUGH SKIN
Psychological drama (100’)
Language, subtitles: Dutch, English subtitles
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Director: Esther Rots (debut feature film)
Producer/Sales: Rots Filmwerk, NFI Producties
Co-production: The Netherlands
Cast: Rifka Lodeizen (Simon), Wim Opbrouck (Sea of Silence)
Delivery status: Post-Production
Year: 2008, Country of origin/Int’l
Logline: The silent aftermath that follows a young woman's tragedy is broken by her discovery of nature's ancient rhythms.
KATIA’S LITTLE SISTER
Drama (90’)
Language, subtitles: Dutch/Russian, English subtitles
Director: Mijke de Jong (Stages)
Producer/Sales: KeyFilm
Co-production: The Netherlands
Cast: Betty Qizmolli, Julia Seykens, Olga Louzgina
Delivery status: post-production
Year: 2008, Country of origin/Int’l
A thirteen-year old girl adapts to survive the grim world of her mother and older sister.
LEFT
Tragicomedy (80’)
Language, subtitles: Dutch, English subtitles
Director: Froukje Tan (debut feature film)
Producer/Sales: Fighting Windmills
Co-production: The Netherlands
Cast: Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Lotte Verbeek
Delivery status: completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of origin/Int’l
Dexter cannot communicate with people, but when he learns that he has a brain deficiency he discovers another side within himself.
THE SEVEN OF DARAN, THE BATTLE OF PAREO ROCK
Family film (86’)
Language, subtitles: English
Director: Lourens Blok
Producer/Sales: AAA Pictures
Co-production: The Netherlands
Cast: Johan Harmse, Ketrice Maitisa, Caroline Goodall
Delivery status: completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of origin/Int’l
The first in a series of seven international family films based on the ancient myth of ‘The Seven of Daran’.
SUMMER HEAT
Romantic drama (97’)
Language, subtitles: Dutch, English subtitles
Director: Monique van de Ven
Producer/Sales: Mulholland Pictures
Co-production: The Netherlands
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Cast: Sophie Hilbrand, Waldemar Torenstra, Jeroen Willems
Delivery status: completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of origin/Int’l
Bob doesn’t trust Kathleen, and she doesn’t trust him. But together they must flee a remote, drugs-infested island.
FAR FROM FAMILY
Drama (100’)
Language, subtitles: Dutch/English, English subtitles
Director: Marion Bloem
Producer/Sales: Rocketta Film
Co-production: The Netherlands
Cast: Terence Schreurs, Anneke Grönloh, Camilla Siegertz
Delivery status: Post-Production
Country of origin/Int’l
A young Indonesian woman, brought up in America, has a special reason to visit her dying grandmother in the Netherlands.
2KM2 – A SQUARE VIEW
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Documentary (78’)
Language, subtitles: Dutch, English subtitles
Director: Carel van Hees, André van der Hout
Producer/Sales: De Aanpak, andre@aanpakfilm.nl
Co-production: The Netherlands
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of origin/Int’l
Filmic registration of the seasons on 2 square kilometres of the Rotterdam Kop van Zuid district, where one can find all big city contradictions
and developments.
DUNYA & DESIE
Feel good drama (96’)
Language, subtitles: Dutch/Arabic, English subtitles
Director: Dana Nechushtan (Nightrun)
Producer: Lemming Film (NL)
Co-production: The Netherlands, NL/BE co-production, Co-prod. partner: A Private View (BE)
Cast: Maryam Hassouni (Kicks), Eva van de Wijdeven (Dunya & Desie tv series), Theo Maassen (Minoes)
Delivery Status: completed, 2008
Two inseparable friends are forced to make an important choice during a journey through Morocco.
WHERE IS WINKY’S HORSE?
Family (83’)
Language, subtitles: Dutch, English subtitles
Director: Mischa Kamp
Producer: BosBros Film-TV Productions (NL)
Co-production: The Netherlands, NL/BE co-production, Co-prod. partner: MMG Film & TV Production (BE)
Cast: Ebbie Tam (Winky’s Horse), Aaron Wan, Jan Decleir (Character)
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of origin, Int’l
For Winky, the task of looking after St Nicholas’ horse is not as easy as it should be…
BLOOD BROTHERS
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Psychological drama (115’)
Language, subtitles: Dutch, English subtitles
Director: Arno Dierickx
Producer: Rinkel Film & TV Productions
Co-prod. partner: Zoo Pictures, Co-production: The Netherlands
Cast: Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Sander van Amsterdam, Derk Stenvers, Erik van Heijningen
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of origin/Int’l
Based on a true story, three teenagers hide a 14-year-old runaway in an attic before finally killing him.
SKIN
Psychological drama (85’)
Language, subtitles: Dutch, English subtitles
Director: Hanro Smitsman
Producer: IJswater Films
co-production: The Netherlands
Cast: Robert de Hoog, John Buijsman, Sylvia Poorta
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of origin/Int’l
Based on true events, Skin is the story of a boy who comes to embody his father’s painful wartime history.
NOTHING TO LOSE
Thriller (87’)
Language, subtitles: Dutch, English subtitles
Director: Pieter Kuijpers (Godforsaken)
Producer: Pupkin Film
Co-production: The Netherlands
Cast: Theo Maassen, Lisa Smit
Delivery Status: completed, 2008
Country of origin/Int’l
Convinced of his innocence, a man accused of murdering his father and sister escapes a high security mental hospital.
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HORIZON MOTION PICTURES
Horizon Motion Pictures, 1271 Howe Street, suite 111, Vancouver BC V6Z 1R3 Canada. Tel: 1.604.632.1707. Fax: 1.604.632.1711..
http://www.horizonmotionpictures.com, email: news@horizonmotionpictures.com
At Cannes: Rob Straight (President), Anna Manheimer (Sales & Acquisitions Manager)
Office: G20, Riviera, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.33.22.
RED AWN, THE (HONGSE KANGBAIYIN)
http://www.horizonmotionpictures.com/theredawn.asp
Drama (101 min)
Language: Mandarin with English subs
Director: Cai Shangjun
Writer: Gu Xiaobai, Cai Shangjun, Chen Weidong
Producer: Li Xudong
Key Cast: Yao Anlian, Lu Yulai, Shi Junhui, Wang Hong, Fan Jiang
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: China
A father returns to the family he abandoned, only to discover his wife has died and his son doesn’t want him back.
DEAD WOOD
http://www.horizonmotionpictures.com/deadwood.asp
Horror (85 min)
Language: English
Director: David Bryant, Sebastian Smith
Writer: David Bryant, Sebastian Smith, Richard Stiles
Producer: David Bryant, Sebastian Smith, Richard Stiles
Key Cast: Fergus March, Emily Juniper, John Samuel Worsey, Rebecca Craven
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Deep in the woods of Britain, four friends fight for their lives against a supernatural monster.
PUCKHEADS
http://www.horizonmotionpictures.com/puckheads.asp
Documentary (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Simon Dekker
Writer: Linda Jennifer Neilson, Simon Dekker
Producer: Linda Jennifer Neilson, Simon Dekker
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Canada
A journey into the hearts and minds of sports fans and the mayhem of the Stanley Cup ice hockey playoffs.
CHAIR, THE
http://www.horizonmotionpictures.com/thechair.asp
Horror (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Brett Sullivan
Writer: Michael Capellupo
Producer: Douglas Patterson
Key Cast: Alanna Chisholm, Nick Abraham, Paul Soren, Nickolas Tortolano, Adam Seybold, David Kim
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Canada
A young woman awakens the soul of a child killer who possesses her body to commit murder.
KNOCK KNOCK
http://www.horizonmotionpictures.com/knockknock.asp
Horror (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Joseph Ariola
Writer: Joseph Ariola
Producer: Joseph Ariola
Key Cast: Nicole Abisinio, Chris Bashinelli, Kat Castaneda, John Cipriano Jr
Delivery Status: Completed
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Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A beautiful detective and a grizzled cop must stop a killer who always knocks first.
KETTLE OF FISH
http://www.horizonmotionpictures.com/kettleoffish.asp
Romantic Comedy (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Claudia Myers
Writer: Claudia Myers
Producer: Agathe David-Weill, Blythe Frank
Key Cast: Matthew Modine, Gina Gershon, Christy Scott Cashman, Fisher Stevens
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
When a commitment-avoiding musician falls in love, it sparks the jealousy of his uptight roommate.
BAD BIOLOGY
http://www.horizonmotionpictures.com/badbiology.asp
Fantasy / Horror / Comedy (85 min)
Language: English
Director: Frank Henenlotter
Writer: Frank Henenlotter and R.A. Thorburn
Producer: Shane Kessler, Vinnie Paz and R.A. Thorburn
Key Cast: Charlee Danielson, Anthony Sneed, Jelena Jensen, Krista Ayne, Rachael Robbins, Prince Paul
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Driven by biological excess, a young man and woman search for sexual fulfillment, unaware of each other's existence.
LIGHT AND THE SUFFERER
http://www.horizonmotionpictures.com/LightandtheSufferer.asp
Drama/Sci-Fi (75 min)
Language: English
Director: Christopher Peditto
Writer: Christopher Peditto after a short story by Jonathan Lethem
Co-Production Partners: Julie Gonthier, Fredrik Carlstrom, David Marks
Producer: Christopher Peditto
Key Cast: aul Dano, Michael Esper, Paz de la Huerta, Michael Wright, Eugene Byrd, Angelica Torn
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
Two estranged brothers plot to defraud their drug dealer while being stalked by a mysterious alien.
ALL BAR LOVE
http://www.horizonmotionpictures.com/allbarlove.asp
Romantic Comedy (85 min)
Language: English
Director: James Derbyshire
Writer: Julia Boggio
Producer: Aubs Tredget, James Derbyshire
Key Cast: Jeremy Hancock, Cloudia Swann, Jacqueline Wilder, Ben Joiner, Joanne Farrell
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: United Kingdom
If divorcee Martin doesn’t find a date, his ex-wife will sell his beloved bar.
SHARKWATER
http://www.horizonmotionpictures.com/sharkwater.asp
Documentary (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Rob Stewart
Producer: Rob Stewart
Key Cast: Patrick Moore, Erich Ritter, Rob Stewart, Paul Watson, Boris Worm
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Canada
For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey
into the balance of life on earth.
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HYDE PARK INTERNATIONAL
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At Cannes: Lisa Wilson (President), Ashok Amritraj (CEO)
Office: Carlton Hotel, 140/141, Tel: 818.516.4746
THE OTHER END OF THE LINE
Romantic Comedy
Director: James Dodson
Writer: Tracey Jackson
Producer: Ashok Amritraj
Key Cast: Jesse Metcalfe, Shriya, Sara Foster, Larry Miller
Delivery Status: Post Production
A beautiful young Indian woman and an American businessman cross cultural barriers in this uplifting romantic comedy in the vein of
PRETTY WOMAN.
THE GIFT
Thriller
Director: Greg Marcks
Writer: Mikhail Nitsberg and Kevin Elders
Producer: Steve Richards
Key Cast: Shane West, Ed Burns, Ving Rhames, Martin Sheen
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007
A young computer engineer receives mysterious SMS messages that dramatically change his life and cause him to be investigated by the FBI.
THE CITY OF YOUR FINAL DESTINATION
Drama
Director: james Ivory
Writer: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Producer: Richard Hawley, Ashok Amritra
Key Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, Hiro Sanada, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Omar Metwally, Norma Aleandro, Kate Burton
Delivery Status: Post Production
Doctoral student Omar Razaghi must get authorization to write an autobiography of Latin American author Jules Gund from the late Writer: 's
brother, widow, and mistress.
TELL TALE
Thriller
Director: Michael Cuesta
Writer: David Callaham
Producer: Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Michael Costigan, Christopher Tuffin, Martin Shore
Key Cast: Josh Lucas, Brian Cox, Lena Headey
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008
A riveting psychological thriller that sets Edgar Allen Poe's haunting story, "The Tell Tale Heart", against the backdrop of modern science.
STREET FIGHTER
http://streetfightermovie.net/
Action
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Writer: Justin Marks
Producer: Ashok Amritraj
Key Cast: Kristin Kreuk, Michael Clarke Duncan, Taboo, Chris Klein, Robin Shou, Neil McDonough
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008
A major live action motion picture based on Capcom's most popular videogame franchise featuring Chun Li's heroic journey for justice.
SECRET REALM
Animation
Director: Thomas G. Murphy
Key Cast: Brian Cox, James Cosmo, Sylvester McCoy
Delivery Status: In Production
A roller coaster animated film in which a boy, his dog, and a fairy unite to stop an evil lord who controls a mysterious monster.
DEAD OF NIGHT
Thriller
Director: Kevin Munroe
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Writer: Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer
Producer: Scott Rosenberg, Ashok Amritraj
Key Cast: Brandon Routh
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: Canada
Paranormal investigator Dylan Dogretti must save the undead among us from the evil descendants of the monster hunter Van Helsing.
VANILLA GORILLA
Family Adventure
Director: Terry Loane
Writer: Craig Gardner and Terry Loane
Producer: Mark Huffam, Danny Stepper, Lawrence Snapp, Richard Green
Key Cast: Pierce Brosnan
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Inspired by a true story, VANILLA GORILLA is the heartwarming tale of an unlikely friendship between a twelve year old girl and an albino
gorilla who communicate with sign
THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI
http://www.childrenofhuangshi.com/
Drama
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Writer: Jane Hawksley
Producer: Arthur Cohn, Wieland Schulz-Keil
Key Cast: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007
An Englishman leads 60 orphans on an extraordinary journey of almost a thousand perilous miles through war ravaged China to safety in
Mongolia.
BATTLE IN SEATTLE
Political Drama
Director: Stuart Townsend
Writer: Stuart Townsend
Producer: Kirk Shaw, Mary Aloe, Ashok Amritraj
Key Cast: Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Martin Henderson, Michelle Rodriguez, Ray Liotta, Channing Tatum, Connie Nielson, Andre
Benjamin, Isaach de Benkole
Delivery Status: Completed
Based on one of the most incendiary political uprisings in a generation, BATTLE IN SEATTLE takes an in-depth look at the protests of the
WTO in 1999.
FLAWLESS
Heist Drama
Director: Michael Radford
Writer: Edward Anderson
Producer: Michael Pierce, Mark Williams
Key Cast: Michael Caine, Demi Moore, Lambert Wilson
Delivery Status: Completed
A female executive for the world's largest diamond cartel finds herself embroiled in a disaster that could ruin the free world's economy when
someone cleans out the company's vault.
TRADE (WELCOME TO AMERICA)
Drama
Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner
Writer: Jose Rivera
Producer: Roland Emmerich, Ashok Amritraj, Lars Sylvest
Key Cast: Kevin Kline, Alicia Bachleda-Curus
Delivery Status: Completed
A pair of girls are kidnapped and forced into the sex slave trade. A burnt out cop and brother set out to enter the network and find their family
members.
ICON ENTERTAINMENT INTERNATIONAL
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Fax: 44.208.492.6301. www.iconmovies.net, email: icon-admin@icon-entertainment.co.uk
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Film sales, finance & production company
At Cannes: Mark Gooder (Chief Executive Officer, Icon Group), Ariel Veneziano (President, Icon Entertainment International), Anthony
Buckner (Senior International Sales Manager), Abby Kadell (International Sales Manager), Jonathan Page (Manager), Steve Bestwick (Sales
Administration Manager)
Acquisition Executives: Hugo Grumbar (President, Icon Film Distribution Ltd, UK), Toby Hill (Head of Acquisitions, Icon Film Distribution
Ltd, UK), Ian Dawson (Head of UK Home Entertainment), Greg Hughes (General Manager, Icon Home Entertainment, Australia)
Office: Residence Le Grand Hotel, 45 La Croisette, Flamant Entrance, 4th Floor, 06400 Cannes. Tel: 33.4.92.28.33.40, Fax: 33.4.92.28.33.41
TRIANGLE
Psychological Thriller
Director: Christopher Smith
Producer: Jason Newmark
Cast: Melissa George
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
From the Director of Creep and Severance, comes TRIANGLE, a unique concept horror-thriller that turns the genre on its head.
PUSH
Sci Fi thriller
Director: Paul McGuigan
Producers: Bruce Davey, William Vince
Screenplay: David Bourla
Cast: Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle, Djimon Hounsou
Delivery Status: In post-production
Country of Origin: USA
A sci-fi thriller that takes us into the secret world of psychic espionage.
HUNGER
Drama
Director: Steve McQueen
Producers: Laura Hastings-Smith, Robin Gutch
Screenplay: Enda Walsh, Steve McQueen
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham
Delivery Status: Completed
A challenging and unforgettable feature film by the multi award winning creative team of British artist film-maker Steve McQueen and Irish
writer Enda Walsh.
MARY & MAX
Animated feature
Director: Adam Elliot
Producers: Melanie Coombs
Screenplay: Adam Elliot
Cast: Toni Collette, Eric Bana, Barry Humphries
Delivery Status: Production
The claymation tale of the lifelong pen-friendship between Mary Dinkle, living in suburban Melbourne, Australia and New Yorker Max
Horovitz.
BIRDS OF AMERICA
Comedy
Director: Craig Lucas
Producers: Daniela Taplin, Celine Rattray, Jana Edelbaum, Hilary Swank, Galt Niederhoffer
Screenplay: Elyse Friedman
Cast: Matthew Perry, Hilary Swank, Ben Foster, Ginnifer Goodwin
Delivery Status Completed
This heartfelt comedy, in the vein of LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE and SIDEWAYS, follows three adult siblings: a straight-edge professor, his
sexually promiscuous sister and hippie kid brother.
BARRY MUNDAY
Romantic Comedy
Director: Chris D’Arienzo
Producers: Matt Weaver, Eric Kopeloff, Stone Douglass, Mickey Barold
Screenplay: Chris D’Arienzo
Cast: Patrick Wilson, Judy Greer, Chloe Sevigny, Cybill Shepherd, Billy Dee Williams
Delivery Status: Production
Barry Munday, an irrepressible skirt-chaser, wakes up in a hospital to find out he has become permanently sterile.
INFESTATION
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Horror
Language: English
Director: Kyle Rankin
Producer: Bruce Davey, Rhoades Rader, Jeff Balis, TJ Sakasegawa
Cast: Christopher Marquette
Delivery Status: In post-production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Our hero, Cooper, awakes to find himself nauseous, weak and covered in webbing, hanging from the ceiling of an office where, just minutes
ago, he started his new job.
IDREAM INDEPENDENT PICTURES
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Sales Agent
At Cannes: Rohit Sharma (President-International Sales), Kanika Vasudeva (Asst. Vice President-Sales)
Office: Booth No. 22.02 (A) Palais, Tel: 33.(0).492.998.065
TAHAAN (A BOY WITH A GRENADE)
www.tahaanthefilm.com
Drama (105 mins)
Language: Hindi (With Subtitles)
Director: Santosh Sivan
Writer: Santosh Sivan, Ritesh Menon, Paul Hardart
Producer: IDream Production and Santosh Sivan Films
Key Cast: Anupam Kher, Rahul Bose, Victor Banergee, Rahul Khanna & Purav Bhandare.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: India
A fable- like journey of an 8yr old boy Tahaan. Having lost his best friend, his donkey Birbal, to a business man as part of debt re-payment he
sets off on a long struggle to bring the donkey back home.
FROZEN
www.frozen.co.in
Drama (110 mins)
Language: Hindi/Ladakhi (With Subtitles)
Director: Shivajee Chandrabhushan
Writer: Shankar Raman
Producer: Sea Gull Media Productions
Co-production partners: Alan McAlex, Shankar Raman
Key Cast: Danny Denzongpa, Gauri, Skalzang Angchuk Gultuk, Yashpal Sharma
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: India
The film depicts the life of this family whose dream like existence is interrupted by inevitable odds, one after the other after the army settles a
hundred yards across their doorstep.
OCEAN OF PEARLS
oceanofpearls.com
Drama (94 mins)
Language: English
Director: Sarab Neelam
Writer: V Prasad
Producer: Jim Burnstein
Co-production partners: Jeff Dowd, Curtis Hall
Key Cast: Omid Abtahi, Todd Babcock, Ron Canada, Heather McComb, Ajay Mehta
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: U.S.A
When his compromises result in the death of a patient, Amrit begins to reexamine the value of the religious traditions he'd turned his back to.
VANAJA
vanajathefilm.com
Drama (111 mins)
Language: Telugu (With Subtitles)
Director: Rajnesh Domalpalli
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Writer: Rajnesh Domalpalli
Producer: Latha R. Domalapalli
Key Cast: Mamatha Bhukya, Urmila Dammannagari, Ramachandriah Marikanti
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: India/ U.S.A
The film explores the chasm that divides classes as a young girl struggles to come of age.
THE VOYEURS
Drama (102 mins)
Language: Bengali (With Subtitles)
Director: Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Writer: Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Producer: B.A.G Films
Key Cast: Prosenjit Chaterjee, Sameera Reddy, Amitav Bhattacharya
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: India
When a young man falls in love, he cannot imagine that his innocence will turn to guilt and lead to him and his friend being chased by the
police.
THE UNFORGETTABLE
www.theunforgettablethefilm.com
Drama (105 mins)
Language: English
Director: Arsala Qureishi and Sabrina Louis
Writer: Arsala Qureishi
Producer: Vandal Films
Key Cast: Raji James, Sofia Hayat, Chook Sibtain, Salman Qureishi
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: India
"The Unforgettable" depicts the stark contrast in individualistic beliefs interwoven in a web of romance, mystery, travesty and triumph.
HOPE
www.themoviehope.com
Drama (105 mins)
Language: English
Director: Rich Ambler
Writer: Shelley Chawla, M.D. Dianne Wilson, Christopher Ryan
Producer: Brian Cutler, Rich Ambler, Joseph Sankoorikal Akhila Challa, Jasu Kusum Lakhani, Shelley Chawla M.D.
Key Cast: Bob Paisley, Jan Chapman, David Bianco, Ranjit Arab, Shelley Chawla, Miranda Moore
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: U.S.A/India
Hope is an enthralling medical drama with the ultimate mission of challenging viewers to examine their own attitudes towards embryonic stem
cell research.
TELLING LIES
Thriller (90 mins)
Language: English
Director: Antara Bharadwaj
Writer: Carl Austin, Mike Kramer
Producer: Ashwini Chopra, Sunanda Murali Manohar
Key Cast: Melanie Brown (Mel B from the Spice Girls), Jason Flemyng, Jenna Harrison, Kelly Stables
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: U.K
Faith gets arrested for the murder of Vincent. He is the fake boyfriend that is created by Faith and her friend Eve. How is Faith connected to
this heinous crime?
AMERICANIZING SHELLEY
www.AmericanizingShelleyTheMovie.com
Comedy/Romance (94 mins)
Language: English
Director: Lorraine Senna
Writer: Namrata Singh Gujral
Producer: American Pride Films Group
Key Cast: Namrata Singh Gujral, Beau Bridges, Brad Raider, RonReaco Lee, Phillip Rhys, Wil Wheaton
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Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: U.S.A
Set in LA, an American country boy and a Himalayan village belle are thrown together in this “Middle America” meets “Middle East”
charmer.
SACRED SITES OF THE DALAI LAMAS
Documentary (76 mins)
Language: English
Director: Michael Wiese
Writer: Michael Wiese
Producer: Michael Wiese Productions
Key Cast: Steve Dancz, Glenn H. Mullin and Khenpo Tashi
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: U.S.A
THE LAST MONK
www.thelastmonk.com
Drama (112 mins)
Language: English
Director: Sudipto Sen
Writer: Sudipto Sen
Producer: Plexus Films
Key Cast: Rachna Shah, Sonam Stobgias Gorky, Jimeesh Gandhi
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: India
ON LIFE AND ENLIGHTMENT: THE DALAI LAMA
Documentary (150 mins)
Language: English
Director: Kaushikgupta Ray
Writer: Nandu Rao
Producer: Neil Prashad, Jon Talarico, Atul Sanghani
Key Cast: Vivienne Pocha
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: India
Explores Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism in all its various manifestations.
APNA ASMAAN (MY OWN SKY)
Documentary (150 mins)
Language: Hindi
Director: Kaushik Roy
Writer: Kaushik Roy
Producer: Imagination Works
Key Cast: Irfan Khan, Anupam Kher, Rajat Kapoor,Shobana, Dhruv Piyush Panjuani, Naseer Abdullah, Utkarsha Naik, Barkha Singh
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: India
An accidental meeting with Dr Satya leads the father of an autistic child to an experimental “Brain Booster” that can make him a genius.
IFM WORLD RELEASING
IFM World Releasing, 1328 East Palmer Avenue, Glendale, CA 91205 USA. Tel: 1.818.243.4976. Fax: 1.818.550.9728.
2/25 Second Street, Clayton Victoria 3169, Australia. Mob: .61.412.982.770. http://www.ifmfilm.com, email: contact@ifmfilm.com
At Cannes: Antony I. Ginnane (President), Anthony J. Lyons (VP International)
Office: Palais Riviera #C19
MR. HELL
http://www.ifmfilm.com/titles/mrhell1.htm
Horror (102 min)
Language: English
Director: Rob McKinnon
Writer: ack Rhodes, David Carren
Producer: David Carren, Jolene McMaster
Key Cast: Larry Cashion, Tracy Scoggins, Amy Morris, Alan Martin, Tina Cohen
Delivery Status: Completed
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Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
Dr. Matthews had been working on secret biological weapons when he was slain by the brutal psychopath Mr. HELL. Fourteen years later,
Tyler is grown and working at the same lab where her father met his grisly fate.
TEN DEAD MEN
http://www.http://www.ifmfilm.com/titles/10deadmen1.htm
Action (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Ross Boyask
Writer: Chris Regan
Producer: Phil Hobden
Key Cast: Brendan Carr, Terry Stone, John Rackham
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
Ryan thought he had left past behind him, but a blood-debt owed to an old friend means he unwittingly crosses the ruthless crime boss Hart the
one man he can never escape.
LITTLE ERIN MERRYWEATHER
http://www.ifmfilm.com/titles/littleerinmerry1.htm
Thriller (84 min)
Director: David Morwick & Michael Civille
Producer: Jason Miller, David Morwick & James Shay
Writer: David Morwick
Principal Cast: Vigdis Anholt, David Morwick, Elizabeth Callahan & Frank Ridley
Murders hit a college campus. Is a ‘little red riding hood’ look-alike responsible?
THE ODD ANGRY SHOT
http://www.ifmfilm.com/titles/oddangry1.htm
Drama (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Tom Jeffrey
Writer: Tom Jeffrey & William L. Nagle
Producer: Tom Jeffrey & Sue Milliken
Key Cast: Graham Kennedy, John Hargreaves
John Jarratt, Bryan Brown, Graeme Blundell
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1979, Country of Origin: Australia
Set during the Vietnam War, The Odd Angry Shot depicts life in Australia as it was before, during and following the war. Times and lifestyles
were much simpler and societal roles were more defined.
RUNNING ON EMPTY
http://www.ifmfilm.com/titles/runningempty1.htm
Action / Adventure (82min)
Language: English
Director: John Clark
Writer: Barry Tomblin
Producer: Pom Oliver
Key Cast: Terry Serio, Deborah Conway, Max Cullen, Richard Moir, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Vangelis Mourikis
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1982, Country of Origin: Australia
Living dangerously, living fast and winning at any cost is their obsession. They don't turn back, they don't give in.and they don't ask for help!
21 EYES
http://www.ifmfilm.com/titles/21eyes1.htm.
Mystery (88 min)
Language: English
Director: Lee Bonner
Writer: Lee Bonner & Sean Paul Murphy
Producer: David H. Butler
Key Cast: Fisher Stevens, Michael Buscemi, Rebecca Mader, Nestor Serrano & Chance Kelly
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
21 Hidden Cameras. 3 Dead Gunmen. 1 Inside Man. 6 Suspects. Can You Solve It?
LEFT FOR DEAD
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Action (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Ross Boyask
Writer: Adrian Foiadelli
Producer: Phil Hobden
Key Cast: Glenn Salvage, Andy Prior, Adam Chapman, Adrian Foiadelli, Vicky Vilas
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: UK
After working for Kincaid for two years, Williams tries to leave but is double crossed and is Left For Dead. Now its time for revenge.
MALCOLM
http://www.ifmfilm.com/titles/malcolm1.htm
Children / Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Nadia Tass
Writer: David Parker
Producer: David Parker, Nadia Tass
Key Cast: Colin Friels, Lindy Davies, Chris Haywood, John Hargreaves
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1986, Country of Origin: Australia
Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius who has just been fired for building his own tram.
CATERPILLAR WISH
http://www.ifmfilm.com/titles/catwish1.htm
Drama (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Sandra Sciberras
Writer: Sandra Sciberras
Producer: Sandra Sciberras
Key Cast: Susie Porter, Phillip Quast, Wendy Hughes, Robert Mammone, Victoria Thaine, Khan Chittenden
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Australia
The Caterpillar Wish is about ordinary people finding the courage to believe they have the power to transform their own lives.
EM 4 JAY
http://www.ifmfilm.com/titles/em4jay1.htm
Drama (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Alkinos Tsilimidos
Writer: Daniel Keene, Alkinos Tsilimidos
Producer: Paul Walton, Alkinos Tsilimidos
Key Cast: Laura Gordon, Nick Barkla, Chloe Armstrong, Jeremy Taylor
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Australia
Doomed lovers Emma and Jay descend into a criminal rampage to support their heroin habits. Despite being madly in love ultimately nothing
can save them from themselves.
CELIA
http://www.ifmfilm.com/titles/celia1.htm
Children (103 min)
Language: English
Director: Ann Turner
Writer: Ann Turner
Producer: Timothy White, Gordon Glenn
Key Cast: Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie, Maryanne Fahey
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1988, Country of Origin: Australia
Celia – an imaginative and slightly disturbed 9 year old fantasizes about evil creatures and other oddities to hide her insecurities while growing
up in rural Australia.
IM GLOBAL
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email: info@imglobalfilm.com
Sales Agent/Distributor
At Cannes: Stuart Ford (CEO), Ruzanna Kegeyan (Senior VP Intl. Sales and Distribution), Tim Grohne (VP Intl. Sales and Distribution, UK
office), Bonnie Voland (Intl. Marketing and Publicity), Catherine Quantschnigg (VP, Sales and Distribution), Amal ElWardi (Director, Intl.
Distribution and Development)
Acquisition Executive: Amal ElWardi
Office: Riviera stand H7, Fax: 1.323.657.5354
BUNRAKU
Action/Adventure
Director: Guy Moshe
Writer: Guy Moshe
Producer: Keith Calder, Nava Levin, Ram Bergman
Key Cast: Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore, Ron Perlman, Woody Harrelson
Delivery Status: in production
Year of Production: 2008
A mysterious drifter and a Japanese warrior join forces to bring down the corrupt “woodcutter” Nicola. Fantasy and reality and Samurai and
Western myths come together in the totally fresh world of BUNRAKU.
NAILED
Comedy
Director: David O. Russell
Writer: David O. Russell, Kristin Gore
Producer: David Bergstein, Lucy Fisher, Kia Jam, Judd Payne, Matthew Rhodes
Co-production partners: Jeff G. Waxman
Key Cast: Jake Gyllenhaall, Jessica Biel, James Marsden, Catherine Keener
Delivery Status: in production
Year of Production: 2008
Sweet, socially challenged small-town receptionist Sammy Joyce (Jessica Biel) improbably rises to national prominence when a clumsy
workman accidentally implants a huge nail in her brain.
RELIGULOUS
Documentary/Comedy
Director: Larry Charles
Producer: Palmer West, Jonah Smith
Key Cast: Bill Maher
Delivery Status: post-production
Year of Production: 2008
Flush from the success of Borat, 2006’s most successful and outrageous comedy, Larry Charles brings us a satirical, insightful, and
controversial look at the role of institutional religion around the world.
SHELTER
Horror/Thriller
Director: Bjorn Stein, Mans Marlind
Writer: Michael Cooney
Producer: Darlene Caamano, Emilio Diez Barroso, Neal Edelstein, Mike Macari
Co-production partners: Bill Bannerman
Key Cast: Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Delivery Status: in production
Year of Production: 2008
Single mother and dedicated psychiatrist Cara Jessup (Julianne Moore) centers her professional reputation on debunking the idea of “multiple
personality syndrome”, until she encounters a criminal mental patient whose powers defy rational explanation.
THE LOSS OF A TEARDROP DIAMOND
Drama
Director: Jodie Markell
Writer: Tennessee Williams
Producer: Brad Michael Gilbert
Co-production partners: Robbie Kass
Key Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Evans, Ellen Burstyn, Ann Margret, Mamie Gummer
Delivery Status: post production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: U.S.A.
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A rebellious socialite, Fisher Willow (Bryce Dallas Howard), is caught up in a world of social conventions, glittering society balls, and her
father’s greed that she desperately wants to escape.
44 INCH CHEST
Drama
Director: Malcolm Venville
Writer: David Scinto, Louis Mellis
Producer: Steve Golin
Key Cast: Ian McShane, John Hurt, Ray Winstone, Tim Roth
Delivery Status: in production
Year of Production: 2008
Provocative, outrageously profane and surprisingly tender amidst an explosion of unbridled testosterone, 44 INCH CHEST is a visceral
exploration of the masculine ego at breaking point, testing whether fear is stronger than love.
IMAGEWORKS ENTERTAINMENT INT'L INC.
Imageworks Entertainment Int'l Inc., 21910 Plummer Street, Chatsworth, CA 91311 USA. Tel: 1.818.349.5777. Fax: 1.818.349.6777.
http://www.imageworksentertainment.com, email: info@imageworksentertainment.com
At Cannes: David Shoshan (President/CEO), Ingrid Raines (Director of Sales/Acquisitions)
Office: Booth#: B11/C12, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.25
THE THIRD NAIL
http://www.thethirdnail.com
Action, Drama (90 mins)
Language: English
Director: Kevin Lewis
Writer: Huntley Ritter, Kevin Lewis
Producer: Jonathan Bross, Ann Luly, Huntley Ritter
Key Cast: Huntley Ritter,Krista Allen, Charlse S. Dutton, Chloe Moretz, Jake Muxworthy, Lissette Bross,Kirsty Hinchcliffe
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A young man is wrongfully sentenced to life in prison for killing two children. When DNA evidence sets him free, his daughter gets kidnapped.
How far will he go to get revenge?
KICKING THE DOG
http://www.kickingthedog.com
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Scoot Lammey
Writer: Scoot Lammey
Co-Production Partners: Malachi McGlone
Producer: Scoot Lammey
Key Cast: Jarrod Pistilli, Carl T. Evans, Scott Laska, Elizabeth Schmidt, Simone Stout
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A group of young kids gather for the summer to figure out life changing decisions. As they struggle with their decisions, they stay busy with
sex drinking and remember the good times.
THE DESCENDANT
http://www.thedescendant.com
Supernatural, family drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Philippe Spurrell
Writer: Philippe Spurrell, Joel Asa Miller
Co-Production Partners: David Rigby
Producer: Philippe Spurrell
Key Cast: Rob Diloreto,Ilona Garcen, Tadhg MacMahon, Jim Reid, Rose Ryan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Canada
A young man visits a family home in a small town and discovers a secret that rattles the foundation of the town.
LANGUAGE OF THE ENEMY
Drama, Family
Director: Mitch Davis
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Writer: Mitch Davis
Co-Production Partners: Jim Abrams
Producer: Mitch Davis
Key Cast: Eion Bailey, F. Murray Abraham, Linda Hardy, Tovah Feldshuh
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007
An American Jewish businessman travels to Israel for the funeral of his father. While there, the government covinces him to go on a secret
mission behind enemy lines. When he gets trapped, he finds himself drawn to mysterious Palestinian woman.
BLACK CLOUD
Drama
Director: Rick Schroder
Writer: Rick Schroder
Co-Production Partners: Karen Beninati
Producer: David D. Moore
Key Cast: Eddie Spears, Russell Means, Julia Jones, Tim McGraw, Rick Schroder
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004
A Native American boxer, struggles to overcomes personal challenges as he comes to terms with his heritage, while fighting his way for a spot
on the US Olympic boxing team.
GUARDING EDDY
Drama (90mins)
Language: English
Director: Scott McKinsey
Writer: Paul Davidson
Co-Production Partners: Rosemary Marks
Producer: Brian Presley
Key Cast: Brian Presley, Kiko Ellsworth, Anna Maria Horsford, Lee Garlington, John Homa
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004
A developmentally handicapped young man comes to L.A. to pursue his dream of playing professional basketball for the Clippers
TRUCE
Western, Drama
Language: English
Director: Matthew Marconi
Writer: Matthew Marconi
Co-Production Partners: Matthew Marconi, Dennis Trombly
Producer: Keri Bruno
Key Cast: Buck Taylor, Samantha Droke, Michaela Lange,
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: USA
Modern western detailing the drama of a man struggling to hold on to his ranch and struggling to raise a granddaughter he never knew.
IMAGINATION WORLDWIDE
Imagination Worldwide, 9107 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 625, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA. Tel: 1.310.888.3494. Fax: 1.310.859.7173.
www.imagination-llc.com
At Cannes: Pierre David (Chairman), Tom Berry (Co-Chairman), Lawrence Goebel (President), Travis Stevens (Director of Acquisitions &
Marketing), Trina Searcy (Manager, Contract Administration), Wendy Wolverton (Technical Deliveries)
Office: Suite 221, Tel: 33(0)4.93.06.42.21. Fax: 33(0)4.93.06.42.20
A SISTER'S SECRET
Thriller
From Pierre David's Lance Entertainment
Directed by: Anthony Lefresne
Starring Alexandra Paul and Cynthia Preston
Delivery Status: In Production
After losing her twin brother to suicide, a woman blames her brother's ex-girlfriend and plans to take her revenge.
SMASH CUT (WORKING TITLE)
Horror
From Zed Filmworks and Executive Producer Pierre David
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Director: Lee Demarbre
Writer: Ian Driscoll
Starring David Hess (Last House on the Left), Sasha Gray (AVN 2008 Performer of the Year), With Martin Kove, Michael Berryman,
Herschell Gordon Lewis & Ray Sager
Delivery Status: In Production
All hell breaks loose when a cinemaniac psychopath goes on a rampage.
CANNIBALS
Horror
From Ruggero Deodato and Andre Koob and Executive Producer Pierre David
Writer: Christine Conradt
Delivery Status: In Preparation
28 years after Cannibal Holocaust shocked the world, horror master Ruggero Deodato unleashes his new vision.This time, they're no longer in
the jungle.
DIM SUM FUNERAL
Family Dramedy
From Tom Berry and Reel One Entertainment
Directed by Anna Chi
Cast: Kelly Hu, Bai Ling, Steph Song, Russell Wong and Talia Shire
Delivery Status: In Post-Production
After discovering that their inheritance depends on providing a traditional Chinese funeral, the various members of Mrs. Lu's family are pitted
against each other in a comedic and moving tale of siblings at war.
YOUNG, SINGLE & ANGRY
Romantic Comedy
Directed by Richard Waterhouse
From YSA Productions LLC
Starring: Sarah Blevins, Jamie Anderson, Heather Stewart, Jesse Burch
Delivery Status: Completed
Three girls in their mid 30's.Life would be so much better.if they could only find the man of their dreams.
THE BOSTON STRANGLER:THE UNTOLD STORY
True Crime / Horror
From Barnholtz Entertainment
Directed by Michael Feifer
Starring: David Faustino, Andrew Divoff, Costas Sommer and Corin Nemec
Delivery Status: Completed
Between June 14, 1962 and January 4, 1964, thirteen single women were murdered in the Boston area and one man confessed. But was he the
real killer?
DEAD AT 17
Thriller
From Pierre David's Lance Entertainment
Directed by Douglas Jackson
Starring: Barbara Niven, Linden Ashby, Catherine Mary Stewart, Ashley Jones, Cynthia Preston, John Bregar and Danielle Kind
Delivery Status: Completed
When Alyssa finds out that her son Jason has killed himself, she's stunned. Deciding to launch her own investigation she slowly begins to
unravel the truth—a truth that no one else wants exposed.
ZALMAN KING'S BODY LANGUAGE
Dramatic Television Series / 13x30-minute episodes
From Tom Berry, David Saunders and Pierre David
Directed by Zalman King
Delivery Status: Completed
Adventures in the world of exotic dancing.a daring new series by the master of the genre, Zalman King.
A TEACHER'S CRIME
Thriller
From Pierre David and Tom Berry
Directed by Rob Malenfant
Starring: Ashley Jones, Eric Knudsen and Chris Mulkey
Delivery Status: Completed
Carrie is an attractive high school teacher who can attest that teaching is no easy task. And it's about to get more complicated than she ever
imagined when she becomes close to one of her male students and blackmailed by his shady uncle.
THE VANGUARD
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Action/Horror
From Propaganda Pictures LTD.
Directed by Matthew Hope
Starring: Ray Bullock Jnr, Shiv Grewal, Emma Choy and Steve Weston
Delivery Status: Completed
In the war between the army and the mutants, only one man can determine the outcome.
B.T.K
Horror
From Barnholtz Entertainment
Directed by Michael Feifer
Starring: Kane Hodder
Delivery Status: Completed
"Inspired by the true story of America's most deranged Serial Killer."
All trailers for our completed films can be found on our website at www.imagination-llc.com
INDEPENDENT
Independent, 32 Tavistock Street, London WC2E 7PB, United Kingdom. Tel: 44.207.257.8734. Fax: 44.207.240.9029.
www.independentfilmcompany.com, email: mail@independentfilmcompany.com
Sales Agent, Production Company
At Cannes: Luc Roeg (CEO), Michael Robinson (CFO ), Andrew Orr (MD), Abigail Walsh (Head of Sales), Sarah Townsend (Head of
Marketing), Sarah Lebutsch (Sales and Marketing Executive), Philip Herd (Production Assistant)
Office: Independent, 2nd floor, 23 rue Macé, Cannes 06400, Tel: 33.4.9338.2910
NEW TOWN KILLERS
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Thriller
Language: English
Director: Richard Jobson
Writer: Richard Jobson
Producer: Luc Roeg, Richard Jobson
Co-production partners: Independent, Str8jacket Creations, Scottish Screen & The Screen East Content Investment Fund in association with
LipSync & The Glasgow Film Office
Key Cast: Dougray Scott, Alastair Mackenzie, James Pearson, Charles Mnene
Delivery Status: in production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
Two disenchanted private bankers, with the world at their feet get their kicks from playing a 12 hour game of man hunt with people from the
margins of society…
MOON
http://www.independentfilmcompany.com/sales/index.cfm?go=film,29
Sci Fi Thriller
Language: English
Director: Duncan Jones
Writer: Nathan Parker
Producer: Stuart Fenegan, Nicky Moss, Trudie Styler
Co-production partners: Liberty Films & Xingu Films
Key Cast: Sam Rockwell, Kaya Scoledario, Matt Berry, Benedict Wong
Delivery Status: in production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
Sam Bell, who works in solitude on a moon base called Selene, discovers that his contract may be set to expire and that there are plans for
replacing him… and the new recruit is eerily familiar.
ADULTHOOD
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Urban drama
Language: English
Director: Noel Clarke
Writer: Noel Clarke
Producer: Damian Jones, George Isaac
Co-production partners: Cipher Films, DJ Films
Key Cast: Noel Clarke, Adam Deacon, Scarlett Alice Johnson, Femi Oyeniran, Red Madrell, Cornell John, Ben Drew
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Delivery Status: post production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
After Kidulthood comes Adulthood…
After six years in prison for killing Trife, Sam Peel’s first day of freedom will be one he never forgets.
THE KREUTZER SONATA
http://www.independentfilmcompany.com/sales/index.cfm?go=film,28
Drama
Language: English
Director: Bernard Rose
Writer: Bernard Rose, based on a novel by Leo Tolstoy
Producer: Naomi Despres, Lisa Enos, Lisa Henson
Co-production partners: Animandala, Giant Door Productions
Key Cast: Danny Huston, Elisabeth Röhm, Anjelica Huston, Matthew Yang King
Delivery Status: post production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA/UK
Based on the novel by Tolstoy with music by Beethoven. A man is driven into a state of morbid jealousy when he becomes convinced his wife
is having an affair, where his uncontrollable rage can only lead to tragedy.
NIGHT TRAIN
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Thriller
Language: English
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Writer: Nicolas Roeg and Michael Allin, based on the novel by Martin Amis
Producer: Luc Roeg, Ann Carli, Pier Francesco Aiello; executive producer Steven Soderbergh
Co-production partners: Independent and PFA Films
Key Cast: Elisabeth Shue, Nick Nolte, Michael, Madsen, Raoul Bova, Toby Jones
Delivery Status: pre production
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: UK/US
Female police officer Mike investigates the death of the flawlessly beautiful Jennifer, her close friend and daughter of the Police Chief, thereby
discovering that we never truly know those we are closest to.
THE INDIAN FILM COMPANY-STUDIO 18
The Indian Film Company-Studio 18, 402, Turf Estate, Off. Dr. E Moses Road, Mahalakshmi, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400011 India. Tel:
91.22.6629.1818. Fax: 91.22.2491.1418. http://www.theindianfilmcompany.com / www.studio18india.com,
email: overseas@studio18india.com
At Cannes: Hemant Bhardwaj (Senior Vice President, Intl Operations), Tanuj Garg (Head, UK & Europe), Gayathiri Batra (Head, UAE & Rest
of the World)
Office: Booth No. 25.05, Palais 01, Tel: 33.6.8221.4336
JAB WE MET
Romantic Comedy (142 min)
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Writer: Imtiaz Ali
Producer: Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd
Key Cast: Shahid Kapur, Kareena Kapoor, Dara Singh, Tarun Arora, Kiran Juneja, Pavan Malhotra, Saumya Tandon
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: India
JAB WE MET was one of the most loved films of 2007. Audience polls across the world hailed it as the sweetest and finest love-story to come
out of Bollywood.
WELCOME
Comedy (152 min)
Language: Hindi
Director: Anees Bazmee
Writer: Anees Bazmee and Abbas Tyrewala
Producer: Base Industries
Key Cast: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar, Feroz Khan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: India
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From the creators of "Hera Pheri, Phir Hera Pheri" and "No Entry", some of Bollywood’s biggest blockbusters, WELCOME boasts of lavish
locales, chartbusting music and major star power; making it the biggest knockabout comic caper of 2007.
SINGH IS KINNG
Action Comedy
Language: Hindi
Director: Anees Bazmee
Writer: Anees Bazmee
Producer: Adlabs and Blockbuster Movie Entertainers
Key Cast: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Kirron Kher, Javed Jafri
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: India
Shot extensively in Australia and the cultural North-Indian state of Punjab, the film revolves around a gang of dreaded criminals who are
transformed by a good-hearted man and his selfless love for a pretty girl.
GOLMAAL RETURNS
Comedy
Language: Hindi
Director: Rohit Shetty
Producer: Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd.
Key Cast: Ajay Devgan, Tusshar Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Arshad Warsi, Celina Jaitly
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: India
This much-awaited sequel of the uproariously comic smash-hit "Golmaal" arrives as GOLMAAL RETURNS with renewed star power,
chartbusting music, punch and vigour!
ROAD, MOVIE
Adventure Comedy
Language: Hindi
Director: Dev Benegal
Producer: Indian Films and August Entertainment
Key Cast: Abhay Deol
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: India
From Dev Benegal, the maker of "English August" and "Split Wide Open", ROAD, MOVIE boasts of a script that was the only official Indian
selection at L’Atelier Du Cannes at the Cannes Film Festival, 2006.
KIDNAP
Action Thriller
Language: Hindi
Director: Sanjay Gadhvi
Producer: Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd.
Key Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Imraan Khan, Minissha Lamba, Vidya Malavade
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: India
From the master-maker of "Dhoom" and "Dhoom 2", Bollywood's biggest franchise, KIDNAP is a stylized, high-octane emotional thriller
about a power tussle between a young boy and the father of the girl he loves.
SHORTKUT
Romantic Comedy
Language: Hindi
Director: Neeraj Vohra
Producer: Anil Kapoor Productions
Key Cast: Akshaye Khanna, Amrita Rao, Arshad Warsi
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: India
SHORTKUT is a young and heart-warming slice-of-life comedy about the trials and tribulations of two con artists, a struggling Director: and
actor, and the zany situations they face in the pursuit of their tinsel-town dreams!
LOOT
Comedy
Language: Hindi
Director: Rajnish Thakur
Producer: Indian Films & Popcorn Motion Pictures Pvt Ltd
Key Cast: Govinda, Suniel Shetty, Javed Jafri, Mimoh Chakraborty
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Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: India
LOOT is a hilarious cat-and-mouse game about four incorrigible crooks on the run from local mafia, a dirty RAW Agent and double-dealing
friends.
LITTLE ZIZOU
Satire
Language: English
Director: Sooni Taraporevala
Writer: Sooni Taraporevala
Producer: Studio 18 and Jigri Dost Productions
Key Cast: Boman Irani, Zenobia Shroff, Shenaz Patel, Cyrus Broacha, Kamal Sidhu, John Abraham
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: India
LITTLE ZIZOU, part comedy, part fable, is about the folly of adult conflicts and the mad dreams of youth; about the necessity of love and the
possibility of grace.
STRIKER
Action Drama
Language: Hindi
Director: Chandan Arora
Producer: Studio 18 and Make Films
Key Cast: Siddharth Narayan, Padma Priya, Vidya Malavade
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008. Country of Origin: India
Based on real dark incidents in the 80’s, STRIKER embodies the triumph of human spirit over indomitable odds.
INDUSTRYWORKS ENTERTAINMENT INC.
IndustryWorks Entertainment Inc., 325 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V5Y 1M2 Canada. Tel: 1.604.876.0547. Fax: 1.604.876.0541.
www.industry-works.com, email: sales@industry-works.com
Sales Agent, Producer
At Cannes: Evan Tylor (President), Craig Adlard (VP Sales), John Curtis (Finance & Business Affairs)
Office: Riviera G20, Tel: 33.0607358426
THE CYCLE
www.cyclethemovie.com
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Micheal Bafaro
Writer: Micheal Bafaro
Producer: Evan Tylor, John Curtis, Liza Deyrmenjian
Co-production partners: Czech Republic, North American Pictures
Key Cast: Daryl Hannah
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Canada
While driving down a country road, Carrie (Daryl Hannah) rescues Amy, the lone survivor of a terrible massacre in the woods.
WALK ALL OVER ME
www.industry-works.com
Thriller (92 mins)
Language: English
Director: Robert Cuffley
Writer: Robert Cuffley, Jason Long
Producer: Carolyn McMaster, Colin Neale, Kyle Irving
Key Cast: Leelee Sobieski, Tricia Helfer, Lothaire Bluteau
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Canada
A girl on the run joins forces with a Dominatrix, when they become a target of the mob's search for a missing million dollars.
45 RPM
www.industry-works.com
Family
Language: English
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Director: David Schultz
Producer: Chad Oakes, Mike Frislev
Key Cast: Micheal Madsen, Amanda Plummer, Kim Coates, August Schellenberg
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Canada
In the spring of 1958, a reclusive teenager discovers love, loss, and rock 'n' roll.
THE CROSS ROADS
www.industry-works.com
Action/War
Language: French
Director: David Aboucaya
Producer: David Aboucaya
Key Cast: Manuel Goncalves, Christian Perrette, Lucas Pedroni
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: France
In 1944, a small group of American soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines due to the incompetent orders of their commanding
officer.
PORTAL
www.industry-works.com
Thriller (88 min)
Language: English
Director: Geoff Schaaf
Writer: George Blumetti, Maurice Kelly
Producer: Suzanne Lyons, Kate Robbins
Key Cast: Chris Conrad, Alexander Martin, Kevin Dobson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
Soon after finding their way into the shelter of the mysterious, fog engulfed town of Mercy, two friends plan to rest up for a night, only to
realize, as nights turn into nights, that time doesn't exist.
INFERNO ENTERTAINMENT
Inferno Entertainment, 1888 Century Park East, Suite 1180, Los Angeles CA 90067 USA. Tel: 1.310.598.2550. Fax: 1.310.598.2551.
http://www.inferno-entertainment.com, email: info@inferno-entertainment.com
At Cannes: Bill Johnson (Partner), Jim Seibel (Partner), James MacLean (VP Intl Sales), Pamela Pickering (Intl Sales), Jana Toepfer (Intl
Sales)
Office: Majestic 115 and 116
AN UNFINISHED COUNTRY
Drama/Thriller
Language: English
Writer: Mark Wheaton
Producer: Inferno, Blue Star Pictures
Key Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Jim Sturgess (both interested)
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: US
A whip-smart med student plans to land his dream job after cracking the world’s toughest residency at a hospital, located in the most violent
sector of a city that is ready to explode.
HACHIKO (A DOG'S STORY)
Family Drama
Language: English
Director: Lasse Hallström
Writer: Stephen P. LINDSEY
Co-Production Partners: Dean Schnider
Producer: Richard Gere, Bill Johnson, Vicki Shigekuni Wong, Paul Mason
Key Cast: Richard Gere, Joan Allen, Sarah Roemer
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: $17M US$
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
This heartwarming true story is an American adaptation of a Japanese tale about a loyal dog Hachiko.
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THE WOMEN
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Diane English
Writer: Diane English
Producer: Victoria Pearman, Diane English, Bill Johnson, Mick Jagger
Key Cast: Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes, Annette Bening, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Candice Bergen, Bette Midler, Debra Messing, Carrie Fisher
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: 20.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Based on the iconic George Cukor 1939 Classic: A hip New York comedy about a tight-knit group of female friends dealing with friendship,
divorce and betrayal.
THE HEAVEN PROJECT
Psychological Thriller, Mystery (110 min)
Language: English
Director: John Glenn
Writer: John Glenn
Producer: David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Bill Johnson, Matt Milich
Key Cast: Paul Walker, Piper Perabo, Lambert Wilson, Linda Cardellini, Bob Gunton, Tony Curran
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 15.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
The Heaven Project is a slick psychological thriller that keeps you on your toes until the very last frame.
MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
Drama, Romance, Comedy (106 min)
Language: English
Director: John Stockwell
Producer: Michel Litvak, David Lancaster, John Stockwell, Nicole Rocklin
Key Cast: Susan Sarandon, Eva Amurri, Anton Yelchin, Justin Chatwin and Willa Holland
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $10 M US$
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Sent to live with his uncle for the summer, a rebellious teen forges an unlikely bond of friendship with two sisters who have virtually nothing in
common.
PRETTY BIRD
Comedy (123 min)
Language: English
Director: Paul Schneider
Writer: Paul Schneider
Producer: Doug Bernheim, Daniel Carey, Elizabeth Giamatti, Paul Giamatti
Key Cast: Billy Crudup, Paul Giamatti, David Hornsby, Kristen Wiig
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $10 M US$
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Inspired by real events, PRETTY BIRD tells the story of Curt Prentiss, Rick Honeycutt and Kenny Owenby, three mismatched men who come
together to build a rocket belt.
THE YEAR OF GETTING TO KNOW US (ELIOT ROCKETT)
Drama, Comedy (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Patrick Sisam
Producer: Holly Wiersma
Key Cast: Sharon Stone, Jimmy Fallon, Lucy Liu
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 7.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
In this comedy of sexual politics and dysfunctional families, Eliot Rockett’s road to happiness takes him down a bumpy path.
SMOTHER
Comedy (133 min)
Language: English
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Director: Vince Di Meglio
Writer: Vince Di Meglio, Tim Rasmussen
Producer: Jay Roach, Bill Johnson, Matt Berenson, Johnson Chan, Tim Rasmussen
Key Cast: Diane Keaton, Liv Tyler and Dax Shepard
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 15.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
What would you do if your mother moved in with you and just wouldn't leave?
BELLA
Drama, Romance (91 min)
Language: English
Director: Alejandro Gomez Monteverde
Producer: Sean Wolfington, Eduardo Verastegui, Leo Severino, Alejandro Monteverde, Denise Pinckley
Key Cast: Eduardo Verástegui
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
A man who has it all is being confronted with an unforeseen event that brings his career to an abrupt end.
INTANDEM FILMS
Intandem Films, 22 Soho Square, London, W1D 4NS, UK. Tel: 44 207.851.3800. Fax: 44 207.851.3830. www.intandemfilms.com, email:
info@intandemfilms.com
Sales Company and Executive Producers
At Cannes: Gary Smith (CEO), Andrew Brown (Director), Billy Hurman (Director), Sasha Fugazzola (Acquisitions and Film Finance
Manager), Justine Stanley (Assistant to CEO, Communications Manager).
Acquisition Executive: Sasha Fugazzola
Office: Relais de la Reine (between the Carlton and the Majestic) 42/43 La Croisette. Apartments C-21 & C-22 (Block C), Tel: C-21 is:
33.4.93.06.70.03 and C-22: 33.4.93.06.70.04
HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS & ALIENATE PEOPLE
Comedy (100mins)
Language: English
Director: Robert Weide
Writer: Peter Straughan
Producer: Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen
Key Cast: Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox, Jeff Bridges, Danny
Huston, Gillian Anderson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: UK
An adaptation of Toby Young's hilarious memoir. Sidney Young an oddball, celebrity-obsessed misfit desperately tries to establish himself in
the glamourous world of a prestigious New York magazine.
JOLENE
Drama (100mins)
Language: English
Director: Dan Ireland
Writer: Dennis Yares
Producer: Riva Yares and Zachary Matz
Key Cast: Jessica Chastain, Dermot Mulroney, Denise Richards, Chazz Palminteri, Rupert Friend, Michael Vartan
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Based on E.L. Doctorow's story: "Jolene: A Life" Jolene at 15 flees her abusive past to begin a journey of love, heartbreak and redemption.
BLOWN
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Martha Fiennes
Writer: George Tiffin
Producer: Shani Hinton, Martha Fiennes, George Tiffin
Key Cast: Thandie Newton, Guy Pearce
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
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Tasked with the most crucial mission of his career, a British secret service agent must decide if his duty is to his country or the truth.
LET IT RIDE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Simon West
Writer: David Harris
Producer: Mace Neufeld and David Kennaway
Delivery Status: Pre production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
An ingenious heist thriller in the great tradition of Get Shorty and Out of Sight involving a beautiful blackmailer, and a cool $5Million.
TATUA
Thriller/action
Language: English
Director: Paul Jenkins and Rob Prior
Writer: Paul Jenkins and Rob Prior
Producer: Rick Schwartz, Kari Hollend, Todd Breau.
Delivery Status: Pre production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
In the action thriller Tatua, killing becomes an artform when Danny black uses his supernatural tattoos to avenge his wife and sons murder!
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM
Drama, Action
Language: English
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Writer: Tommy Lee Jones and Bill Wittliff
Producer: Tommy Lee Jones and Eric Williams
Key Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan Freeman, John Goodman.
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A thrilling, heart-rending story from the Ernest Hemingway novel. To be directed by Tommy Lee Jones and starring Tommy Lee Jones,
Morgan Freeman and John Goldman.
INTRAMOVIES SRL
Intramovies Srl, Via E. Manfredi 15, Rome 00197 Italy. Tel: 39.06.807.7252. Fax: 39.06.807.6156. http://www.intramovies.com, email:
mail@intramovies.com
At Cannes: Paola Corvino (CEO), Micaela Fusco (VP Interrnational Sales), Jeff Nuyts (Head of International Sales), Federica Mei (Director of
TV Sales), Marco Valerio Fusco (Sales Coordinator)
Office: Palais Stephanie - Brougham Room - 1st Floor
AT A GLANCE (COLPO D'OCCHIO)
Thriller (117 min)
Language: Italian with English Subs
Director: Sergio RUBINI
Writer: Angelo PASQUINI, Carla CAVALLUZZI, Sergio RUBINI
Producer: Riccardo TOZZI (CATTLEYA), Giovanni STABILINI (CATTLEYA), Marco CHIMENZ (CATTLEYA)
Key Cast: Sergio RUBINI, Riccardo SCAMARCIO, Vittoria PUCCINI
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: ITALY
Lulli, a famous art critic, has a relationship with the young Gloria. Gloria falls for Adrian, a tormented artist still looking for his big break.
Instantly Lulli finds himself with a single thought: to ruin Adrian.
TELL ME ABOUT LOVE (PARLAMI D'AMORE)
Romance (109 min)
Language: Italian with English Subs
Director: Silvio MUCCINO
Writer: Silvio MUCCINO, Carla VANGELISTA
Producer: Riccardo TOZZI (CATTLEYA), Giovanni STABILINI (CATTLEYA), Marco CHIMENZ (CATTLEYA)
Key Cast: Aitana SANCHEZ-GIJAN, Silvio MUCCINO, Carolina CRESCENTINI, Geraldine CHAPLIN
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: ITALY
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Nicole, married and a teacher, Sasha, almost twenty years her junior meet during a car accident. A casual encounter will change them,
reintroducing them to the joy of living and loving.
BLACK AND WHITE (BIANCO E NERO)
Comedy, Romance (100 min)
Language: Italian with English Subs
Director: Cristina COMENCINI
Writer: Cristina COMENCINI, Giulia CALENDA, Maddalena RAVAGLI
Producer: Riccardo TOZZI (CATTLEYA), Giovanni STABILINI (CATTLEYA), Marco CHIMENZ (CATTLEYA)
Key Cast: Fabio VOLO, Ambra ANGIOLINI, Aïssa MAÕGA
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: ITALY
Racial integration is Elena’s profession and passion. All too often her husband Carlo must attend evening charity events where he feels
distinctly out of place. During one of these evenings, Carlo meets Nadine, a beautiful black woman.
LESSONS IN CHOCOLATE (LEZIONI DI CIOCCOLATO)
Comedy (98 min)
Language: Italian with English Subs
Director: Claudio CUPELLINI
Writer: Fabio BONIFACCI, Christian POLI
Producer: Riccardo TOZZI (CATTLEYA), Giovanni STABILINI (CATTLEYA), Marco CHIMENZ (CATTLEYA)
Key Cast: Luca ARGENTERO, Violante PLACIDO, Neri MARCORÃ^
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: ITALY
Mattia is about to close the biggest deal of his professional life, when his illegally-hired worker Kamal falls off some scaffolding.
THE GIRL BY THE LAKE (LA RAGAZZA DEL LAGO)
Thriller (95 min)
Language: Italian with English Subs
Director: Andrea MOLAIOLI
Writer: Sandro PETRAGLIA
Producer: Nicola GIULIANO (INDIGO FILM), Francesca CIMA (INDIGO FILM)
Key Cast: Toni SERVILLO, Valeria GOLINO, Marco BALLIANI,
Fabrizio GIFUNI
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: ITALY
An idyllic village is shocked by the murder of young woman, found nude by a lake.
CARDIOFITNESS
Comedy, Romance (82 min)
Language: Italian with English Subs
Director: Fabio TAGLIAVIA
Writer: Barbara FRANDINO, Lucia MOISIO, Marco PONTI
Producer: Carlo DEGLI ESPOSTI (PALOMAR)
Key Cast: Nicoletta ROMANOFF, Federico COSTANTINI, Giulia BEVILACQUA
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: ITALY
An irrepressible passion blossoms between 27 year-old Stefania and Stefano, a 15 year-old high school student. Their unusual relationship
obviously baffles their friends and relatives. Can their feelings withstand their own fears and the pressure of society?
SLEEPING AROUND
Drama (90 min)
Language: Italian with English subs
Director: Marco CARNITI
Writer: Marco CARNITI, Carmen GIARDINA
Producer: Antonio GUADALUPI (BUSKIN FILM), Roberto BESSI (BUSKIN FILM)
Key Cast: Anna GALIENA, Dario GRANDINETTI, Marco FOSCHI
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: ITALY
A contemporary fresco on the decadence of sexuality. A merry-go-round of meetings, sex, disease, drugs, loneliness and pain. Ten characters
that live in a metropolis, in search of a meaning for their own existence.
MY WAY
Drama (105 min)
Language: Spanish with English Subs
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Director: J.a. SALGOT
Writer: Angels DIEMAND, Luis VEGA, J.a. SALGOT
Producer: Alguienvolo, Zip Vision, Televisio de Catalunya
Key Cast: Ariel CASAS, Silvia MARSO', Joan DALMAU
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: SPAIN
Marco a drug dealer wants to quit the “profession” and lead a normal life with his family including his father suffering from Alzheimer.
BLISS (MUTLULUK)
http://www.mutlulukfilm.com
Drama (105 min)
Language: Turkish with English Subs
Director: Abdullah OGUZ
Writer: Abdullah OGUZ, Elif AYAN, Kubila TUNÃ?ER
Producer: Abdullah OGUZ (ANS)
Key Cast: Murat HAN, Ozgu NAMAL, Talat BULUT
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: TURKEY
17-year-old Meryem is found unconscious by a lake. Deeming that she willingly had her chastity corrupted her family decides she must die as
ancient custom dictates. The task is given to her close friend Cemalâ.
BIUTIFUL CAUNTRI
Documentary (73 min)
Language: Italian with English subs
Director: Esmeralda CALABRIA, Andrea D'ANBROSIO, Peppe RUGGIERO
Writer: Esmeralda CALABRIA, Andrea D'ANBROSIO, Peppe RUGGIERO
Producer: Lionello CERRI (LUMIERE & CO.)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: ITALY
The scandal of wastes poisoning one of the most beautiful and renowned corners of Italy (Naples and its province) has been, and is, constantly
on the headlines world news.
ISTITUTO LUCE
Istituto Luce, via Tuscolana 1055 Rome 00173 Italy.
At Cannes: Cassano Cristina (Int’l Sales Executive), Luciano Sovena (Managing Director), Maria Carolina Terzi (Dir. of Communication
Dept.), Claudia Bedogni (Buyer)
Office: Palais Stephanie Salon Brougham 1st Floor -Italian Pavillion, Tel (mobile): 39.320.7678693
BLANCA - POLVERE
Drama (82’)
Directed by: Danilo Proietti and Massimiliano D’Epiro
Cast: Primo Reggiani Gaia Bermani Amaral Gianmarco Tognazzi
Year of Production: 2007
Domini and Giona are best friends. They are both very different from each other. Domini dreams of being a director.
C O V E RBOY LOVE AND ANGER OF A “PRECARIOUS GENERATION”
Drama (97’)
Directed by: Carmine Amoroso – 2007
Cast: Eduard Gabia, Luca Lionello, Chiara Caselli, Francesco Dominerò, Gabriel Spahiou, Razvan Cacoveanu
Special guest: Luciana Littizzetto
Tells the story of shared experiences on the fringes of a prosperous city and it illustrates how the savagery of a daily dog-eat-dog struggle for
survival can be opposed by the bonds of genuine friendship.
L’ABBUFFATA
Comedy (100’)
Year of Production: 2007
Directed by: Mimmo Calopresti – (“Volevo solo vivere” / “I only wanted to live” – Cannes Film Festival 2006 – International Competition /
“La seconda volta” / “The second time” Cannes Film Festival 1995 – International Competition)
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Diego Abatantuono (I’m not scared by Gabriele Salvatores), Paolo Briguglia (The Hundred Steps, El Alamein),
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, (A Good Year by Ridley Scott, Munich by Steven Spielberg), Donatella Finocchiaro (The Wedding Director by Marco
Bellocchio).
Diamante, a small town in Calabria, southern Italy. Hardly an exciting place. Gabriele, Marco and Nicola are three youngsters, who would like
to shoot a movie.
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CIVICO ZERO (THE BUM’S NAME)
Drama (80’)
Versions available: Italian and Italian with English subtitles
Directed by: Citto Maselli
Cast: Ornella Muti, Massimo Ranieri and Letizia Sedrick
Year of Production: 2007
Based on Federico Bonadonna’s book. Three stories of real-life people living on the fringe of society.
LETTERS FROM THE SAHARA
Social-drama (125’)
Available version: Italian, Italian with English subtitles, Italian with French subtitles
Directed by: Vittorio De Seta
Cast: Djibril Kebe, Ajmone Rondo, Stefano Saccottelli
Year of Production: 2006
Assane, a young Senegalese Muslim, interrupts his studies and emigrates to Italy following the death of his father. During his clandestine
journey in Italy, Assane has to face with the problem of racism, religion, drogue and work.
APNEA
Drama (93’)
Available version: Italian, Italian with English subtitles, Italian with French subtitles, Italian with German subtitles.
Directed by: Roberto Dordit
Cast: Claudio Santamaria, Fabrizia Sacchi, Michela Noonan, Diego Ribon
Year of Production: 2005
After a brilliant career as a fencer, Paolo works as a sports journalist for a small newspaper. A friend, Franz, dies of a heart attack.
ITN DISTRIBUTION
ITN Distribution, 505 E. Windmill Lane, Suite 1B-102, Las Vegas, NV 89123 USA. Tel: 1.702.361.1430. Fax: 1.702.361.6309.
http://www.itndistribution.com
At Cannes: Stuart Alson (President), Nicole Holland (Vice President), Annalisa San Juan (Vice President of International Sales)
Office: Riviera C-11, Tel: 1.702.361.1430, Fax: 1.702.361.6309
LIGHT OF OLYMPIA
3D Animation (90 min)
Language: English
Director: San Wei Chan
Writer: Sarah Kinney
Producer: Santoon Productions
Key Cast: Phyllis Diller, Debbie Reynolds
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
3D Feature Animation. What do a bronze donkey, a witch doctor, demi-gods, a princess and a torch all have in common? They're all going to
the Olympic games!
VALLEY OF ANGELS
Action (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Jon Rosten
Writer: Jon Rosten
Producer: Spenser Winslow
Key Cast: Danny Trejo, George Katt
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A young drug dealer living the wild life in upscale West LA searches for enlightenment and a path out of his very dangerous world.
LIME SALTED LOVE
Art house,Thriller, Drama (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Danielle Agnello, Joe Hall
Writer: Danielle Agnello
Producer: Danielle Agnello, Joe Hall, Kristanna Loken
Key Cast: Kristanna Loken, Kate del Castillo, Danielle Agnello, Joe Hall, David J. O'Donnell, George Castaneda.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
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Lime Salted Love is a minimalist, surreal examination of abandonment, guilt, abuse and psychic pain set in this minute's hipster enclaves of
Los Angeles.
FIGHTING WITH ANGER
Action, Martial Arts (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Sam Um
Writer: Sam Um
Producer: Willie Nelson
Key Cast: Willie Nelson, Kelli Fleming
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Stories intertwine through the mysterious antique trade of the Korean government and the assassin world of a paid job.
ANATEMA
War, Drama (99 min)
Language: Albanian
Director: Agim Sopi
Producer: Agim Sopi, Sali Limani
Key Cast: Lumnie SOPI, Doug BARRON, Çun LAJÇI, Blerim GJOCI, Blerta SYLA, Enver PETROVCI
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Albania
Upon returning to Prishtina, Kosova journalist Emma Berisha finds the Serbian forces are ousting the population to refugee camps.
THE LAST GATEWAY
Horror (100 min)
Language: English, Spanish
Director: Demian RUGNA
Producer: Jackie KRUGUER
Key Cast: Hugo HALBRICH , Patricio SCHWARTZ, Rodrigo ARAGON, Salome BOUSTANI
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
What if you had the power to create a Gateway to hell?
MY SOUL TO TAKE
Horror (101 min)
Language: English
Director: Spencer Jay KIM
Writer: Laners JORDAN, Liz DUCHEZ
Key Cast: Nick MANCUSO, Chris LEABU, John Taylor PHILLIPS, Kristina MORALES, Liz DUCHEZ, Robin GRIGGS, Shannon
HARRELL
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A group of young couples get together for a weekend vacation when their RV mysteriously breaks down.
DEATH BY ENGAGEMENT
Horror, Thriller (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Philip CREAGER
Producer: Pennie ORCUTT
Key Cast: Christa CAMPBELL, Iyari LIMON, P.j. SOLES, Ryan HANSEN, Sascha KNOPF
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: USA
Ditched at the alter, Spencer goes on a brutal killing spree to retrieve his beloved mother’s heirloom ring.
RAPTURIOUS
Horror (98 min)
Language: English
Director: Kamal Ahmed
Writer: Kamal Ahmed
Key Cast: Cinque LEE, Debbie ROCHON, Robert OPPLE
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Self-destructive rapper believes demonic entities are after him. The follow-up to God Has A Rap Sheet by award-winning Director: and former
Jerky Boy Kamal Ahmed.
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MEDICINAL 101
Documentary (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Dan Frank
Writer: Dan Frank
Producer: Dan Frank
Key Cast: Dennis PERON, Don DUNKIN, Ed ROSENTHAL, Joe ELFORD, Jon GETTMAN, Michael TEAGUE
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Medicinal 101 teaches people about medical marijuana, and Medicinal is the drama that is going on today.
GHOSTS OF GOLDFIELD
Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Ed WINFIELD
Writer: Brian MCMAHON, Dominic BIONDI
Key Cast: Roddy Piper, Mandy Amano, Marnette Patterson (Charmed),Kellan Lutz, Scott Whyte, Ashly Rae, Richie Chance
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Five college kids set out to document ghosts on video in real, haunted Goldfield, Nevada, never imagining what horrors await.
JOINT ENTERTAINMENT
Joint Entertainment, 421-6F, Guangfu South Rd., Taipei 11074 Taiwan. Tel: 886.2.2720.6007. Fax: 886.2.2758.8516. http://www.j-ent.com.tw,
email: info@j-ent.com.tw
At Cannes: James LIU (President), Andrew CHANG (Manager, International Affairs)
Office: UniTaiwan
THE MOST DISTANT COURSE
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Drama (114 min)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Jing-Jei LIN
Writer: Jing-Jei LIN
Key Cast: KWAI Lun-Mei, MO Zi-Yi, JIA Xiao-Guo
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Taiwan
Three heartbroken individuals go on different journeys to search for the meaning of love.
KEEPING WATCH
http://www.j-ent.com.tw/keepingwatch/
Drama (92 min)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Fen Fen CHENG
Writer: Fen Fen CHENG
Producer: James LIU
Key Cast: Joseph Chang, Haden Kuo
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Taiwan
A young girl’s mundane life takes a swift turn as she falls for a handsome boy with mysterious identities.
CAFE ASTORIA
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Drama
Language: Mandarin
Director: Chihyen YEE
Writer: Chihyen YEE, James LIU
Co-Production Partners: Tara Contents, Joint Entertainment
Producer: Satoru ISEKI, James LIU
Delivery Status: In Development
Country of Origin: Taiwan
It is a story about a Russian restaurant, Café Astoria, first opens in Shanghai in 1935 by a Russian Jewish exile and a Chinese lawyer. Together,
they and their customers witness a world in turmoil.
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Drama
Language: Mandarin
Director: Yu-Hsien Lin
Writer: Yu-Hsien Lin
Producer: Roger HUANG, Yu-Hsien Lin
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Taiwan
A Japanese actress and a Taiwanese young man fall in love because of movies. But reality is not a scripted film. Can their relationship survive
beyond the movie's ending?
KATAPULT FILM SALES
Katapult Film Sales, 8490 Santa Monica Blvd. #5, West Hollywood, CA 90069 USA. Tel: 1.310.358.0303. Fax: 1.310.358.0333.
www.katapultfilms.com, email: anna@katapultfilms.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Joni Sighvatsson (Partner), David Jourdan (Managing Director), Christine D'Souza (Sales Coordinator), Anna Kvorning (Office
Manager)
Office: G3, Tel: 33(0)6.27.67.56.46, Fax: 1.310.358.0333
DEATH IN LOVE
www.DeathinLovethefilm.com
Drama (97:14min)
Language: English, German
Director: Boaz Yakin
Writer: Boaz Yakin
Producer: Boaz Yakin, Joseph N. Zolfo
Key Cast: Josh Lucas, Jaqueline Bisset, Lucas Haas, Adam Brody
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
"Death in Love" depicts the effects of a Jewish woman's love affair with the doctor in charge of human experiments in a Nazi concentration
camp on the lives of her sons many years later.
HEIMA
www.heima.co.uk
Documentary (97 min)
Language: English/Icelandic
Director: Dean DeBlois
Producer: John Best, Dean O'Connor
Key Cast: Sigur Ros
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Iceland
This film documents their legendary tour with intimate reflections from the band and a handful of new acoustic performances.
JOY DIVISION
Documentary (96min)
Language: English
Director: Grant Gee
Producer: Tom Atencio, Tom Astor, Jacqui Edenbrow
Key Cast: Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Bernard Summer, Tony Wilson, Anton Corbijn, and many more
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: UK/US
Featuring the unprecedented participation of the surviving band members, this film tells their story of beauty and loss in the city.
LITTLE ASHES
Drama
Language: English
Director: Paul Morrison
Writer: Philippa Goslett
Producer: Carlo Dusi, Jaume Vilalta, Jonny Persey
Key Cast: Robert Pattinson, Javier Beltran, Mathew McNulty
Delivery Status: Postproduction
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Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
BOMB IT
www.bombit-themovie.com
Documentary (93 min)
Language: English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch Japanese
Director: John Reiss
Producer: Jeff Levy-Hinte, Antidote Films
Key Cast: Cornbread, Shepard Fairey, Cope 2, etc.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Tells the story of contemporary graffiti around the globe, tracing its roots in ancient rock paintings through Picasso to its place in hip-hop
culture in 1970's New York City.
JC CHAVEZ
Documentary (78min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Diego Luna
Producer: Pablo Cruz, Canana Films
Key Cast: JC CHavez, Oscar De La Hoya, Don King, Mike Tyson, and many more
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007
A documentary about the life and career Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez.
KATHY MORGAN INTERNATIONAL
Kathy Morgan International, 12250 Sky Lane, Los Angeles, CA 90049 USA. Tel: 1.310.472.6300. Fax: 1.310.472.6304. www.kmifilms.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Kathy Morgan (President) Veronica Hool (Head of Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Zach Luna (Head of Acquisitions)
Office: Le Grand Hotel Residences, 45 La Croisette, Cormoran II 5th Floor, Tel: 04.92.59.00.50, Fax: 04.92.59.00.14
SWING VOTE
Family Comedy
Language: English
Director: Joshua Michael Stern
Writer: Joshua Michael Stern and Jason Richman
Producers: Jim Wilson and Kevin Costner
Key Cast: Kevin Costner, Paula Patton, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, Stanley Tucci, George Lopez, Judge Reinhold, Mare
Winningham, Richard Petty, Willie Nelson and introducing Madeline Carroll.
Delivery Status: Post Production - Screening in Cannes
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A comical look at the journey of one father and daughter, who discover that everyone has the power to change the world.
LAUNDRY WARRIOR
www.laundrywarrior.net
Action Adventure
Language: English
Director: Sngmoo Lee
Writer: Sngmoo Lee
Co-production partners: Barrie Osborne, Michael Peyser, Jooick Lee
Key Cast: Jang Dong-kun, Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush, Danny Huston
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: New Zealand
A visually stunning, non-stop action adventure, where East meets West in a genre bending hero¹s tale of love and redemption.
CAMILLE
Romance (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Gregory MacKenzie
Writer: Nick Pustay
Producer: Albert S. Ruddy
Co-production partners: A Mark Entertainment
Key Cast: Sienna Miller, James Franco, David Carradine
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Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A heartfelt tale of two lost souls who learn the meaning of true love in this dark romantic comedy about a wedding gone awry.
BLIND DATING (BLIND GUY DRIVING)
Comedy
Language: English
Director: James Keach
Writer: Christopher Theo
Co-production partners: James Keach, Joy Mellins, David Shanks, Costa Theo
Key Cast: Chris Pine, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Jane Seymour, Anjali Jay
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
Being blind never stopped Danny from getting anything he wanted, but when it comes to the girl of his dreams, being blind is the least of his
troubles.
KEYSTONE ENTERTAINMENT
Keystone Entertainment, 3rd Floor, 2339 Columbia St, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 3Y3, Canada. Tel: 1.604.873.9739. Fax: 1.604.873.5919.
www.keypics.com, email: films@keypics.com
Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor
At Cannes: Nolan Pielak (VP Worldwide Distribution), Rebekah Burgess-Smith (Manager Worldwide Distribution)
Acquisition Executive: Nolan Pielak
Office: Booth G6, Tel: 33.675.462.512
MURPH
Family Feature Film
Language: English
Director: Anna McRoberts
Writer: Anna Mc Roberts
Producer: Anna McRoberts
Delivery Status: In Development,
Budget: $5mil
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Canada
A runt thoroughbred d Murph takes the racing world by storm when he meets Ty, a small 9 year old who always dreamed of having a race
horse.
ANNIE THE MAGICAL NANNIE
Family Feature Film
Language: English
Director: Anna McRoberts
Writer: Anna Mc Roberts
Producer: Anna McRoberts
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget: $5mil
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Canada
The creators of Disney's Air Buddies presents the all new story of Annie, the adorable chimpanzee from the magic show, who mistakenly ends
up on the Governor's doorstep just as his mischievous children have driven their last nanny out.
AIR BUDDIES
Family Feature Film (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Robert Vince
Writer: Robert Vince
Producer: Anna McRoberts
Key Cast: Abigail Breslin, Slade Pearce, Michael Clarke Duncan
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $10mil
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Canada
The Next Generation in the famous Air Bud franchise is here!! This time its Air Bud's five adorable puppies (The Buddies) and they're off on a
daring rescue mission to save their parents.
CHESTNUT
Family Feature Film (87 min)
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Language: English
Director: Robert Vince
Writer: Steph Sherwood, Sara Sutton
Producer: Anna McRoberts
Key Cast: Abigail Breslin, Makenzie Vega, Barry Botswick
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $5mil
Year of Production 2006, Country of Origin: Canada
When orphaned sisters Sal (Makenzie Vega) and Rae (Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine) find a puppy to love and a family that wants to
adopt them both, it seems like the perfect beginning to the rest of their lives.
KIMMEL INTERNATIONAL
Kimmel International, 250 Hudson Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10013 USA. Tel: 1.212.431.5550. Fax: 212.431.5822.
At Cannes: Mark Lindsay President (Kimmel International), Jill Silfen (EVP, Business Affairs), Marcello Paolillo (VP, Sales and Acquisitions,
Kimmel International), Joann Andres (Manager, Sales and Administration, Kimmel International)
Office: Residence du Grand Hotel, Le Dauphin, Apt 11D, 45 Boulevard de La Croisette, Cannes, France 06400. Tel: 04.97.06.33.72. Fax:
04.97.06.34.28
MOTHERHOOD
Comedy
Directed by: Katherine Dieckmann
Written by: Katherine Dieckmann
Produced by: Rachel Cohen, Jana Edelbaum, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon
Cast: Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards, Minnie Driver
Status: In Production
Eliza Welch (Thurman) is like any other mom with two kids, a loving but absent-minded husband (Edwards), and a strong desire to find time
for herself - yet she’s about to have a day that would challenge even the toughest maternal multi-tasker.
QUEEN OF THE SOUTH
Action / Thriller
Directed by: Jonathan Jakubowicz
Written by: Jonathan Jakubowicz and Albert Torres
Produced by: Elizabeth Avellan, Sergio Aguero, and Sandra Condito
Cast: Eva Mendes
Status: Pre-Production
Teresa Mendoza (Eva Mendes) flees Mexico after witnessing the brutal murder of her lover, a drug smuggler, killed by his ruthless boss who is
now after her.
MANAGEMENT
Romantic Comedy
Directed by: Stephen Belber
Written by: Stephen Belber
Produced by: Sidney Kimmel, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson, with Fred Ward
Executive Producers: William Horberg, Bruce Toll, Jim Tauber, Nan Morales, Jennifer Aniston
Status: Post-Production
The sweet and funny story of Sue, an uptight, overworked traveling saleswoman of hotel art (Aniston), who ends up in a roadside motel
managed by Mike (Steve Zahn), an underachieving, lonely man who still lives with his parents.
SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK
Comedy
Directed by: Charlie Kaufman
Written by: Charlie Kaufman
Produced by: Anthony Bregman, Charlie Kaufman, Spike Jonze, Sidney Kimmel
Executive Producers: William Horberg, Bruce Toll, Ray Angelic
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Hope Davis
Status: Post-Production
From Charlie Kaufman, perhaps the most distinctive screenwriting voice in film history, comes a visual and philosophic adventure of epic
proportions.
UNTHINKABLE
Thriller
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Directed by: David Slade
Written by: Peter Woodward and Oren Moverman
Produced by: Caldecot Chubb
Cast: TBA
Status: Pre-Production
Somewhere in the United States, three nuclear weapons are about to detonate. One man knows where they are. How far will authorities go to
make him talk?
YE OLDE TIMES
Comedy
Directed by: Robert A. White
Written by: Robert A. White
Produced by: Michael Mendelsohn, Ron Singer, Scott Reed
Executive Producer: Michael Mendelsohn
Cast: Amanda Bynes, Michael Stahl-David, Cary Elwes, David Arquette, Matthew Lillard, Joss Stone, Ann-Margret, Orlando Jones, and Jack
Black
Status: Pre-Production
Set in the world of a Renaissance Faire, YE OLDE TIMES is a light-hearted romp, a romantic camp comedy, falling somewhere between
Shakespeare In Love and Meatballs.
BOOT CAMP
Action Thriller
Directed by: Christian Duguay
Written by: Agatha Dominik and John Cox
Produced by: Christian Duguay, Mike Frislev, Chad Oakes
Executive Producers: Craig Baumgarten, Robert D. Geringer
Cast: Mila Kunis, Gregory Smith, Peter Stormare
Status: Completed
A psychological thriller about a group of troubled teens sent to a rehabilitation program housed in a remote camp on the island of Fiji.
ALL GOD’S CHILDREN CAN DANCE
Drama
Directed by: Robert Logevall
Screenplay by: Scott Coffey
Based on the short story by Haruki Murakami
Produced by: Steve Golin, Sidney Kimmel, John Benet, Thoranna Sigurdardottir
Executive Producers: Paul Green, Bruce Toll, Matt DeRoss
Cast: Joan Chen, Jason Lew, Sonja Kinski, John Fleck, and Tzi Ma
Status: Completed
Based on the short story of the same title by world-renowned Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Robert Logevall's stylish interpretation is as
deceptively simple as his source material, and equally rich with mystery.
MARRIED LIFE
Suspense Drama
Directed by: Ira Sachs
Screenplay by: Ira Sachs & Oren Moverman
Based on the book “Five Roundabouts to Heaven” by John Bingham
Produced by: Sidney Kimmel, Jawal Nga, Steve Golin, Ira Sachs
Executive Producers: William Horberg, David Nicksay, Geoff Stier, Adam Shulman, Matt Littin, Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Bruce Toll
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and Rachel McAdams
Status: Completed
MARRIED LIFE is an unconventional human drama about the irresistible power and utter madness of love.
KINOWELT INTERNATIONAL GMBH
Kinowelt International GmbH, Karl-Tauchnitz-Str. 10, 04107 Leipzig, Germany. Tel: 0049.341.355.960. Fax: 0049.341.355.96.419.
www.kinowelt-international.de, email: Kinowelt International GmbH
Sales Agent, Distributor
At Cannes: Daniel Guckau (Managing Director, Buyer), Stelios Ziannis (Head of World Sales, Buyer), Dr. Michael Koelmel (Buyer), Bertil le
Claire (Managing Director, Buyer), (Barbara Knabe (Director TV Sales GSE), Anne Kerstan (Assistant World Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Daniel Guckau
Office: Rivèra, Stand F15, Tel: 0033.(0) 492.993.310, Fax: 0033.(0) 492.993.311
REVERSE SHOT – REBELLION OF THE FILMMAKERS (GEGENSCHUSS – AUFBRUCH DER FILMEMACHER)
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Documentary (118 min)
Language: German
Director: Dominik Wessely Co-Director: Laurens Straub
Writer: Rainer Koelmel, Laurens Straub, Dominik Wessely
Producer: Rainer Koelmel, Kinowelt Filmproduktion GmbH
Co-production partners: Filmverlag der Autoren, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Arte
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1 Mill. Euro
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Germany
A documentary motion picture that tells the story of the exceptional author collective known as Filmverlag der Autoren. With interviews from
Wim Wenders, Hark Bohm, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and others.
THE LOVES OF PHARAOH (DAS WEIB DES PHARAO)
Drama/ silent movie (120 min)
Language: silent movie, German
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Writer: Norbert Falk, Hanns Kräly
Producer: Ernst Lubitsch Film; restoration: Alpha Omega digital GmbH
Co-production partners: restoration: Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv, Filmmuseum München in cooperation with George Eastman House
Key Cast: Emil Jannings, Dagny Servaes, Lyda Salmonova, Harry Liedtke, Paul Biensfeldt, Friedrich Kühne, Paul Wegener, Albert
Bassermann
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1922, restoration: 2005, Country of Origin: Germany
A full digital film restoration of Ernst Lubitsch’s same-named monumental silent movie from 1922. The “lost film” has not been seen in this
restored version since more than 80 years.
G8 – FENCED OFF (DER ZAUN)
Documentary (70 min)
Language: German
Director: Andreas Horn, Armin Marewski
Writer: Andreas Horn, Armin Marewski
Produktion Company: Kinowelt Filmproduktion GmbH
Co-Production Partners: ZDF, 3sat
Producer: Rainer Koelmel
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 500.000 Euro
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Germany
Addresses last year’s G8 summit and the state of democracy in the zone along the 13-kilometer-long fence at Heiligendamm.
TWO MOTHERS – THE SEARCH BEGAN IN RIGA (MEINE MUETTER – SPURENSUCHE IN RIGA)
Documentary (87 min)
Language: German
Director: Rosa von Praunheim
Writer: Rosa von Praunheim
Produktion Company: Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion
Co-Production Partners: Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Hessischer Rundfunk
Producer: Rosa von Praunheim
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 500.000 Euro
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Germany
An emotional documentary by Rosa von Praunheim who decides to search for his true mother in Riga, after 63 years.
THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE (DAS SICHTBARE UND DAS UNSICHTBARE)
Drama (118 min)
Language: German
Director: Rudolf Thome
Writer: Rudolf Thome
Production Company: Moana-Film GmbH
Producer: Rudolf Thome
Key Cast: Hannelore Elsner, Guntram Brattia, Anna Kubin, Hansa Czypionka
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 2 Mill. Euro
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Germany
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A film by Rudolf Thome about two painters and their chaotic life involving money, alcohol and forbidden love affairs.
20 CIGARETTES
Action (90 min)
Language: Russian
Director: Alexander Gornovsky
Writer: Dmitry Sobolev
Produktion Company: Danais Film
Producer: Irina Smolko, Maxim Suhanov, Ruslan Vitryanyuk
Key Cast: Ilya Lubimov, Anna Slynko, Oskar Kuchera, Galina Tyunina, Maxim Suhanov
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 2 Mill. Euro
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Russia
Andrey, a Moscow yuppie, smokes out an entire pack of cigarettes. With each cigarette the storm of events and conflicts Andrey is involved in
becomes more and more violent.
HEAD UNDER WATER (FREISCHWIMMER)
Thriller (110 min)
Language: German
Director: Andreas Kleinert
Writer: Thomas Wendrich
Production Company: Typhoon Films
Co-Production Partners: Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Producer: Kathrin Bullemer
Key Cast: Frederick Lau, August Diehl, Fritzi Haberlandt, Alice Dwyer, Dagmar Manzel, Devid Striesow, Traute Hoess, Jürgen Tarrach
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 3 Mill. Euro
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Germany
An absorbing thriller by Andreas Kleinert about two outsiders who come together to make the unbelievable become reality.
THE ONLY ONE (VIDANGE PERDUE)
Dramedy (88 min)
Language: Dutch
Director: Geoffrey Enthoven
Writer: Jacques Boon, Geoffrey Enthoven
Production Company: Fobic Films
Producer: Mariano Vanhoof
Key Cast: Nand Buyl, Viviane De Muynck, Marijke Pinoy, Leo Achten, Misée Wyns, Liesje Patteet
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 2 Mill. Euro
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Belgium
"The Only One" is a Belgian expression which is best translated as "empties are not refunded". This movie is the story of an old man who can't
accept that he's growing older and who revolts against the absurdity of life.
SHOESLAPPING IN AFRICA (PLATTLN IN UMTATA)
Documentary (93 min)
Language: German
Director: Peter Heller
Writer: Peter Heller
Produktion Company: Filmkraft Filmproduktion
Co-Production Partners: Bayerischer Rundfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Goethe Institute Johannesburg
Producer: Peter Heller
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 500.000 Euro
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Germany
The documentary follows the Biermösl Blosn, a Bavarian folklore band, to Africa.
WARCHILD
Drama (103 min)
Language: German
Director: Christian Wagner
Writer: Edin Hadžimahovi?
Produktion Company: Christian Wagner Film
Co-Production Partners: Studio MAJ, Südwestrundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Arte, Viba Film
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Producer: Christian Wagner
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Germany, Slovenia
During the War, Senada has to give a way her baby. Years later she starts looking for her daughter in Germany. She is torn apart when she sees
how happy the young woman is…
I BROKE MY FUTURE – PARADISE EUROPE
Documentary (80 min)
Language: German, English
Director: Carla Gunnesch
Writer: Carla Gunnesch
Produktion Company: Cardo Film
Co-Production Partners: Kohlmann Media, Digital Images
Producer: Carla Gunnesch
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 500.000 Euro
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Germany
This documentary film begins there, where the daily reports about the tragic stories of Africans who flee their country in order to reach Europe
end.
KOAN
Koan, P.O. Box 982557, Park City, UT 84098 USA. Tel: 1.435.645.7244. Fax: 1.435.645.8644. http://www.koaninc.com
At Cannes: Gil Aglaure (President), Tamara Bell (Vice President), Devin Carter (Director of Sales), Paul Madsen (Acquisitions)
Office: Tel: 011.336.2182.7036
THE LODGE
Horror/Thriller (85 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Brad Helmink, John Rauschelback
Writer: Deb Havener
Co-Production Partners: John Brandt
Producer: Brad Halmink, Jason Rauschelbach, John Rauschelbach
Key Cast: Kevin McClatchy, Mandi Kreisher, Elizabeth Kell, Owen Szabo
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A young couple's weekend getaway at a secluded mountain ranch becomes an unfathomable nightmare when they discover the truth about the
caretaker.
BERKELEY
Drama (88 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Bobby Roth
Writer: Bobby Roth
Producer: Bobby Roth, Jeffrey White
Key Cast: Hinry Winkler, Nick Roth, Laura Jordan, Sarah Carter
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005 released 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Berkeley is the story of Ben Sweet (Nick Roth), an eighteen year old boy who comes to UC Berkeley in 1968 to study accounting and avoid the
draft.
IMPRINT
Thriller/Suspense (85 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Michael Linn
Writer: Keith Davenport, Michael Linn
Co-Production Partners: Larry T Pourier
Producer: Chris Eyre, Carolyn Linn
Key Cast: Tonantzin Carmelo, Carla-Rae Holland,Michael spears, Cory Brusseau, Charlie White Buffalo
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Shayla Stonefeather, a native American attorney prosecuting a Lakota teen in a controversial murder trail.
DARK MIND (INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY)
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Drama/Thriller/Suspense (81 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Nicholas Peterson
Writer: Nicholas Peterson, Hansen Smith
Co-Production Partners: Jim Peterson
Producer: Martin Berneman, Jenny Hinkey, Christopher Masterson, Nicholas Peterson
Key Cast: Christopher Masterson, Lyndsy Fonseca, David Deluise,Richard Richle,Clayton Landey
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
An inventor (Masterson) must protect his inventions from becoming casualties of the cold war.
SECOND COMING
Thriller/Suspense/Action (85 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jose Zambrano Cassella
Writer: Jose Zambrano Cassella
Co-Production Partners: Melissa Gruver
Producer: Ralph Harden
Key Cast: Annie Maleski, Marnee McClellan, Doc Korby, Haley boyle, Alyssa Kelly, Michael Ray Davies, Kevin James O'Neill
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A young women must find the murderer of her twin sister, following clues that her dead sister leaves from beyond the grave.
CHURCH BALL
Comedy/Sport (91 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Kurt Hale
Writer: Paul Eagleston, Kurt Hale
Co-Production Partners: Dave Hunter
Producer: George Dayton, Kurt Hale
Key Cast: Fred Willard, Andrew Wilson, Clint Howard, Gary Coleman, Steve Anderson, Amy Stewart, Larry Bagby
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
Dennis Buckstead has the hardest calling in his church. Not only has he been asked to coach a group of non-basketball players. He is to lead
them to the championship
SUITS ON THE LOOSE
Comedy (93 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Rodney Henson
Writer: Rodney Henson
Co-Production Partners: Kelly Moran-Brown
Producer: Dave Hunter, George Dayton, Kurt Hale Rodney Henson
Key Cast: Robert Prosky, Charles Napier, Regihald Val Hohnson, Orlando Brown, Fred Dryer+
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: USA
Suits on the loose is the story of two rebellious teens, Jusin and Ty, and their breadout from a desert survival camp.
THE WAY BACK HOME
Family (93 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Michael Houston King
Co-Production Partners: Alan Lilly
Producer: Michael Houston King, Paul Sirmons
Key Cast: Michael Houston King, Julie Harris, Tessie Santiago, Ruby Dee, Danny Nucci, Deezer D Amy Lander, Mina Badie
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
Life affirming spiritual drama about love and loss set in the lush surroundings of central Florida.
THROUGH YOUR EYES
Documentary (85 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Donny Hall, Cory Hudson, James Paul
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Writer: Donny Hall, Cory Hudson, James Paul
Producer: Cory Hudson, James Paul
Key Cast: Michael Madsen, David Carradine, Phil McGraw, James Paul Cory Hudson, Vicki Roberts, Chase Masterson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Sophie, Emma and Zoe dunn are the only know deafblind triplets in the world, they are 6 years old and live in Spring Texas with their parents.
OUT LAW TRAIL
Adventure / Family (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Ryan Little
Writer: David Pliler
Producer: Adam Abel, Ryan Little
Key Cast: Brian Wimmer, Michael VanWagener, Brock Ricardos, Ryan Kelley, James Hardy, Arielle Kebbel, Brent Weber, Rick Macy,
Shauna Thompson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
1951. Circlville, Utah Indian grave robbers unearth a leather pouch, and the legend of Butch Cassidy's Vast Cache of stolen treasure whispers
to be more fact than fiction.
THAT BEAUTIFUL SOMEWHERE
Mystery (93 minutes)
Language: English/French
Director: Robert Budreau
Writer: Robert Budreau
Producer: Bobert Budreau, Ian Murray , Gordon Tootoosis
Key Cast: Roy Dupis, Jane McGregor, David Fox, Lindsey Cote
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Canada
A weathered detective teams up with a young female archaeologist to unravel the mysterious death of a "bog body" found in a native swamp
rumored to have curative powers
PASSAGE TO ZARAHEMLA
Adventure (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Chris Heimerdinger
Writer: Chris Heimerdinger
Producer: Brian Brough, Chris Heimerdinger
Key Cast: Summer Naomi, Moronai Kanekoa, Brian Kary, D.L. Walker
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Passage to Zarahemla is a tale of daring rescues, breathtaking adventure, and constand dange from forces both ancient and modern.
BILL'S GUN SHOP
Drama (98 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Dean Hyers
Writer: Dean Hyers, Rob Nilsson
Key Cast: Jesse Abbott, Rith Afton, M. Cochise Aderson, Albert Arnet Jr. John Ashton, chaz Bernick, Tom Bower, Charlie Brauer
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005-2006, Country of Origin: USA
A job at Bill's Gun shop, a permit to carry, and a chance to ride "shotgun" on a bounty-hunt seems like 23 year-old Dillon McCarthy's dream
comes true.
SAINTS AND SOLDIERS
War/Action/Drama/Adventure (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Ryan Little
Writer: Geoffrey Panos, Matt Whitaker
Producer: Adam Abel, Ryan Little
Key Cast: Corbin Allred, Alexander Polinsky, Kirby Heyborne, Larry Bagby, Peter Asle Holden,
Eathan Vincent, Melinda Renee, Ruby chase O'Neil
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of Origin: USA
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Five American soldiers fighting in Europe durning World War ll struggle to return to allied territory after being separated from us forces during
the historic Malmedy Massacre.
THE FALLEN
Action/War/Drama (110 minutes)
Language: English/German/Italian
Director: Ari Taub
Writer: Nick Day, Caio Ribeiro
Producer: Curtis Mattikow
Key Cast: Daniel Asher, Matthew Black, David Borella, Justin Brett, Bob Brown, Hans-Dieter Bruckner, Achim Buchner
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: USA/Germany/Italy
World War 11 drama, set after the tide had turned on the Axis powers in 1944.
KWA
KWA, Galeon 32, Bajo A ; 28042 Madrid; Spain. Tel: 0034.91.747.3100. Fax: 0034.91.747.7000. www.kevinwa.com, email:
kwa@kevinwa.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Kevin Williams (President), Beatriz Adán (Sales Assistant)
Acquisition Executive: Kevin Williams
Office: Riviera C1, Tel: 0034.667.540.547
PRETEXTS (PRETEXTOS)
Drama (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Silvia Munt
Writer: Silvia Munt and Eva Baeza
Producer: Ovideo TV
Key Cast: Silvia Munt, Laia Marul, Manuel Aleixandre
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Spain
Contrasting lives of 2 women. One a succesful theatre director with marriage problems. The other a nurse for the elderly who lives alone.
HAFNER’S PARADISE (EL PARAISO DE HAFNER)
www.hafnersparadise.com
Documentary (74 min)
Language: German - Spanish
Director: Günter Schwaiger
Writer: Günter Schwaiger
Producer: Günter Schwaiger P.C.
Key Cast: Günter Schwaiger, Paul Maria Hafner
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Austria
The story of an octagenerian exgestapo officer living his contented last days in Madrid, proud of his past and in denial of the Holocaust.
THE KING OF FOOLS (EL REY DE LOS HUEVONES)
Comedy (100 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: Boris Quercia
Writer: Boris Quercia
Producer: Chile Chitá
Key Cast: Boris Quercia, Angie Jibaga, Tamara Acosta
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006
Country of Origin: Chile
Rich and sweet comedy about a man who finds love where he least expects it. The latino "Something Wild"
BUTTERFLY (BOLBORETA, MARIPOSA, PAPALLONA)
Docu-Fiction (90 minutes)
Language: Catalan - Galician
Director: Pablo García
Writer: Pablo García
Producer: Doble Banda
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Co-production partners: Eddie Saeta
Key Cast: Fele Martínez, Tzeitel Rodríguez
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Spain
Victor and Laura travel to a small town on the coast of Galicia to carry out an ambitious movie project endeavouring to capture the love and
beauty of everyday things, but they don’t succeed in finishing it.
ENLIGHTENED BLOOD (LA SANGRE ILUMINADA)
www.lasangreiluminada.com
Drama (94 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: Iván Avila
Writer: Jose Ignacio Valenzuela
Producer: 13 Lunas
Key Cast: Enoc Leaño, Flor Payan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Mexico
At the crossing of two roads, a strange transmutation.
EL BRASSIER DE EMMA (EMMA’S BRASSIER)
Comedy - Drama (100 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Maryse Systach
Producer: Tragaluz Producciones
Cast: Sofía Espinosa, Arcelia Ramírez, Marco Treviño
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Mexico
It was 1962 when I become 12 years old and my breasts began to grow!
HAVE A NICE DAY (UN BUEN DÍA LO TIENE CUALQUIERA)
Comedy (85 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: Santiago Lorenzo
Writer: Santiago Lorenzo
Producer: TELESPAN 2000
Key Cast: Diego Martín, María Ruiz, Juan Antonio Quintana
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Spain
When thirty-something Arturo´s company folds he gets a job looking after the aged. This involves living-in with the octagenarian hyperactive,
lying, manipulative, Jekyll and Hyde character. That is Onofre!.
BERLIN-BUENOS AIRES - THE TEARS OF MY MOTHER (BERLIN-BUENOS AIRES LAS LÁGRIMAS DE MI MADRE)
Drama (89 min)
Language: Spanish, German
Director: Alejandro Cárdenas
Writer: Alejandro Cárdenas ,Christoph Silber
Producer: Filmworker, Creado Film & ZDF
Key Cast: Joachim Paul Assbock, kristianKiehling, Erica Rivas, Fabian Busch, VolkmarKleinert, Alice Dwyer, Adrian Goessel, Rafael Ferro,
Roman Russo, Loan Gyuri Pascu.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Germany
A young boy is the observer in a game played out by his Argentine immigrant parents in a loft in Berlin, where they live a communal existence.
His father constantly between jobs cannot accept the success of his mother.
LAKESHORE ENTERTAINMENT
Lakeshore Entertainment, 9268 W Third St., Beverly Hills, CA, 90210, USA. Tel: 1.310.867.8000. Fax: 1.310.300.3015.
www.lakeshoreentertainment.com, email: sales@lakeshoreentertainment.com
Producer / Distributor
At Cannes: Eric Reid (COO), David Dinerstein (President, Worldwide Marketing and Distribution), Robert Burke (EVP, Worldwide
Marketing), Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard Rose (SVP, International Sales), Jonathan Deckter (SVP, International Sales), Stephanie Klein (VP,
International Business & Legal Affairs
Office: Residence Centre Croisette, First Floor, 56/57 La Croisette, Tel: 04.93.45.11.85, Fax: 04.93.45.13.35
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FAME
Drama
Language: English
Director: Kevin Tancharoen
Writer: Allison Burnett
Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A dynamic reinvention of the Oscar®-winning film and globally successful TV series, FAME captures the visceral excitement and explosive
energy of young artists and performers struggling to prove their talent and find their own voice.
VENETIAN AFFAIR
Romantic Drama
Language: English
Director: Marco Ponti
Writer: Allison Burnett
Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A delightful celebration of passion, artful wickedness, and sexual intrigue, A VENETIAN AFFAIR is a seductive true story of impassioned
young lovers who struggle to sustain – against all odds – their forbidden love affair.
GAME
Action
Language: English
Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Writer: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Skip Williamson, Richard Wright, Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Key Cast: Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Kyra Sedgwick, Amber Valletta, John Leguizamo
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
In GAME, a non-stop action thriller set in the near future, death row inmate Kable (Gerard Butler) emerges as a cult hero of an ultra-violent
multi-player online game, in which wealthy gamers control the actions of bloodthirsty convicts.
ELEGY
Drama (106 min)
Language: English
Director: Isabel Coixet
Writer: Nicholas Meyer
Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Andre Lamal
Key Cast: Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper, Peter Sarsgaard, Patricia Clarkson, Deborah Harry
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A sophisticated graduate student (Penélope Cruz) gets tangled up in an erotic, all-consuming affair with her professor (Ben Kingsley), a
cultural critic obsessed with female beauty.
CRANK 2: HIGH VOLTAGE
Action
Language: English
Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Writer: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Skip Williamson, Richard Wright
Key Cast: Jason Statham
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
In the new, high-octane sequel, a Chinese mobster steals Chev’s nearly indestructible heart and replaces it with a battery-powered artificial
ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
LATIDO FILMS
Latido Films, C/ Veneras 9, 6th floor, Madrid 28013 Spain. Tel: 34.91.548.88.77. Fax: 34.91.548.88.78. http://www.LatidoFilms.com, email:
Latido@LatidoFilms.com
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At Cannes: Massimo Saidel (Head of International Sales), Malte Ollroge (International Sales), Silvia Iturbe (General Manager), Oscar Alonso
(Festivals & Subsidies Coordinator)
Office: A5 (Spanish Cinema / ICEX) Riviera Hall, Tel: 34.635.431.270
14 KILOMETERS (14 KILOMETROS)
Drama (95 min)
Language: Bambara, Hausa, Tamashek, Arabic, French
Director: Gerardo Olivares
Writer: Gerardo Olivares
Producer: Wanda Vision
Key Cast: Adoum Moussa, Aminata Kanta
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Spain
14 kilometers is the short distance between North Africa and Spain. For immigrants, it is an incredibly long journey.
WHO'S NEXT (TODOS ESTAMOS INVITADOS)
Thriller (95 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Manuel Gutierrez Aragon
Writer: Manuel Gutierrez Aragon, Angeles Gonzales-Sinde
Producer: C.I.P.I. Cinematografica
Key Cast: Oscar Jaenada, Jose Coronado, Vanessa Incontrada, Inaki Miramon, Adolfo Fernandez, Kike Diaz De Rada, Leire Ucha, Inaki Font,
Paul Zubillaga, Inaki Iratorza
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: SPAIN
Jon a Basque gunman has Memory loss after a bloody attack, and is released early from Prison. Other organization members want to enlist him
again, to kill a university Professor.
MANUELA & MANUEL (MANUELA Y MANUEL)
Comedy (94 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Raul Marchand Sanchez
Writer: Jose Iganacio Valenzuela
Producer: Sonia Fritz, Frances Lause
Key Cast: Humberto Busto, Elena Iguina, Sunshine Logrono
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Puerto Rico
Friends can be such a drag. Hidden identities, misunderstandings, and the tension between friends pretending to be what they are not.
THE CHICKEN, THE FISH AND THE KING CRAB (EL POLLO, EL PEZ Y EL CANGREJO REAL)
Documentary (86 min)
Spanish, English
Director: Jose Luis Lopez Linares
Producer: ZEBRA PRODUCCIONES, Lopez-Li Films
Key Cast: Jesus Almagro, Serge Vieira, Sven Erik Reena, Pedro Larombe, Alberto Chicote
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Spain
Jesus Almagro was a happy man when awarded Spain's National Award as Best Cook 2007. His next challenge was to compete for the World
Championship, the Bocuse d'Or.
CASUAL DAY
Black Comedy (94 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Max Lemcke
Writer: Pablo Remon, Daniel Remon
Co-Production Partners: Telecinco Cinema, Videntia Frames Producciones
Producer: Monfort Producciones
Key Cast: Juan Diego, Javier Rios, Luis Tosar, Estibaliz Gabilondo, Arturo Valls
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: SPAIN
Rodrigo has always made what he wanted, but now he is in a commitment: his father-in-law just gave him the most important position in his
company: become his successor.
PAISITO
Coming of Age (88 min)
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Language: Spanish
Director: Ana Diez
Writer: Ricardo Fernandez Blanco
Producer: TORNASOL FILMS
Key Cast: Emilio Gutierrez Caba, Maria Botto, Nicolas Pauls, Viviana Saccone, Mauricio Dayub
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Spain, Argentina, Uruguay
Montevideo 1973; to be 12, different and in love, a week before the bloodiest military coup of South America s smallest country: Uruguay.
ANIMAL CRISIS (LA CRISIS CARNIVORA)
http://www.LatidoFilms.com
Animation (80 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Pedro Rivero
Writer: Pedro Rivero, Egoitz Moreno
Producer: Abrm Estudio, Bitart, Continental Animacion
Key Cast: Enrique San Francisco, Pablo Carbonell, Pedro Reyes, Alex Angulo, Jose Coronado
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Spain
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF ANIMALS INHERITED THE EARTH? Well, ok, the Lion would still be the king. But, who would be his
ministers? And his army? And would the educational system work?
O PAI O
Drama, Comedy, Musical (98 min)
Portuguese
Director: Monique Gardenberg
Writer: Monique Gardenberg
Producer: Augusto Case, Sara Silveira, Paula Lavigne
Key Cast: Lazaro Ramos, Wagner Moura, Stenio Garcia
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Brazil
WRAP UP (ABRIGATE)
Romantic drama (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Ramon Costafreda
Writer: Fernando Castets, Ramon Costafreda
Producer: CONTINENTAL PRODUCCIONES
Key Cast: Manuela Pal, Felix Gomez, Maria Bouzas, Javier Lombardo, Celso Bugallo, Pablo Tamayo
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Spain, Argentina
A beautiful story about the universal desire of finding the own identity, decode the collective one and live through love in a land that is every
bit as good as Paris boulevards.
LIES (ESTO HUELE MAL)
Sex Comedy (89 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Jorge Ali Triana
Writer: Jorge Ali Triana, Jorg Hiller
Producer: CMO PRODUCCIONES
Key Cast: Diego Bertie, Diego Cadavid, Victor Hugo Morant, Valerie Dominguez, Naty Botero, Maria Eugenia Davila, Sandra Reyes, Cristina
Campuzano
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Colombia
Based in true facts, LIES is a passionate story of seduction, lies and betrayal.
LIGHTNING ENTERTAINMENT
Lightning Entertainment, 301 Arizona Avenue, Suite 400, Santa Monica, CA 90401. Tel: 1.310.255.7999. Fax: 1.310.255.7998. www.lightningent.com
MAINLINE RELEASING
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Mainline Releasing, 301 Arizona Avenue, Suite 400, Santa Monica, CA 90401. Tel: 1.310.255.1200. Fax: 1.310.255.1201.
www.mainlinereleasing.com
At Cannes: Rich Goldberg (Co-President – Mainline Releasing/Lightning Entertainment), Marc Greenberg (Co-President – Mainline
Releasing/Lightning Entertainment), Paul Gardner (Co-President – Lightning Media), Richard Guardian (Co-President – Lightning
Entertainment), Joseph Dickstein (SVP – Lightning Entertainment), Sonia Mehandjiyska (Director – Lightning Entertainment/Mainline
Releasing), Mathilde Aupetit (Director – Lightning Entertainment/Mainline Releasing)
Office: R7/S8 Lerins, Mobile: Mathilde Aupetit: 1.310.266.9987, Sonia Mehandjiyska: 1.818.448.1451
THE HUMAN CONTRACT
Drama/Thriller
Writer/Director: Jada Pinkett Smith
Cast: Jason Clarke (Death Race, Brotherhood), Paz Vega (The Six Wives Of Henry Lafay, Spanglish, Sex And Lucia), Jada Pinkett Smith
(Reign Over Me, Madagascar), Ted Danson (Mad Money, Saving Private Ryan, Three Men And A Baby)
Delivery Status: In Post Production
Year of Production: 2008
The Human Contract is the provocative journey of a successful but repressed advertising executive in full control of his life and career.
HEY HEY IT’S ESTHER BLUEBERGER
Drama/Comedy (115 min)
Writer/Director: Cathy Randall
Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes (The Vinter’s Luck, Whale Rider), Danielle Catanzariti, Toni Collette (The Black Balloon, Little Miss Sunshine)
Year of Production: 2008
A smart, rueful and dead-on portrait of life’s unending quest to fit in. . . and the girl who solves it by completely breaking out - introduces a
feisty outsider hero unlike any other seen on screen.
FROZEN KISS
Drama/Thriller
Director: Harry Bromley Davenport
Cast: Mimi Rogers (Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery, Lost In Space), Cameron Goodman, Jamie Martz
Delivery Status: In Post Production
Year of Production: 2008
Based on true events that made national headlines, Frozen Kiss is a story of rescue and survival set against a raging blizzard.
KEMPER, THE CO-ED KILLER
Horror (90 min)
Director: Rick Bitzelberger
Cast: Christopher Stapleton, Stephanie Skewes
Year of Production: 2008
Inspired by the events surrounding Ed Kemper, the Santa Cruz serial killer Commonly referred to as the co-ed Killer.
DIARY OF A SERIAL KILLER
Horror (90 min)
Director: Andy Hurst
Cast: Chloe Snyder, Mark Hengst
Year of Production: 2008
Tormented by the serial killer who took her Mother’s life, Journalist LAURA NELSON investigates the only clue he ever leaves behind at his
crime scenes; his diary pages.
ANAMORPH
Psychological Thriller/Drama (103 min)
Director: H.S. Miller
Cast: Willem Dafoe (Fireflies In The Garden, Daybreakers, Spiderman), Scott Speedman (The Strangers, Weirdsville, Underworld), Clea
Duvall (Passengers, The Grudge, Identity), Peter Stormare (The Horsemen, Premonition, Constantine)
Delivery Status: US Theatrical release April 2008
Year of Production: 2007
Detective Stan Aubray is brought back into investigative work to solve a series of murders similar in style to those of a serial killer he thought
he put away 5 years earlier.
BLACK IRISH
Drama (95 min)
Director: Brad Gann
Cast: Brendan Gleeson (Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, The Kingdom, Cold Mountain),
Michael Anganaro (Sky High, Lords Of Dogtown), Tom Guiry (Mystic River), Melissa Leo (Mr. Woodcock), Emily VanCamp (Everwood),
Michael Rispoli, Finn Curtin
Year of Production: 2007
Sixteen-year-old Cole McKay’s struggle for independence is put to the test as his South Boston Irish-Catholic family implodes around him.
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BONNEVILLE
Drama (90 min)
Director: Christopher N. Rowley
Cast: Jessica Lange (Big Fish, Prozac Nation, Blue Sky), Kathy Bates (Misery, About Schmidt), Joan Allen (The Upside Of Anger, The
Bourne Ultimatum), Tom Skerritt (Tears Of The Sun, Steel Magnolias), Christine Baranski (Chicago, How The Grinch Stole Christmas)
Delivery Status: US Theatrical release February 2008
Year of Production: 2006
When the life she knows turns upside down, Arvilla Holden hijacks her two best friends and sets off on a road of personal discovery in a
vintage ’66 Bonneville convertible.
THE REBEL
Action (104 min)
Director: Charlie Nguyen
Cast: Johnny Tri Nguyen, Ngo Thanh Van, Dustin Tri Nguyen, Nguyen Chanh Tin, Nguyen Thang
Year of Production: 2007
In 1920’s Vietnam, the long-standing French occupation of the occupation of the country has inflamed anti-French sentiments, triggering
guerilla forces to battle the foreign invaders.
LONGTALE INTERNATIONAL
LongTale International, 3699 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 850, Los Angeles, CA 90010 USA. Tel: 1.323.733.1000. http://www.longtale.com. email:
sales@longtale.com
At Cannes: Omar Kaczmarczyk (Managing Director), Lars Bjorck (VP Sales), Ava B. (VP Acquisitions), David Holbert (General Manager),
Lisa Lutz (Director of Sales)
Office: LERINS Stand R10, Tel: 33(0)6.21.88.45.57
PRINCE OF THE HIMALAYAS
Drama (108 min)
Language: Tibetan
Director: Sherwood Hu
Writer: Sherwood Hu, Tsering Dorje
Co-Production Partners: Hus Entertainment and Shanghai Film Studio
Producer: Sherwood Hu
Key Cast: Purba Rgyal, Zomskyid, Dobrgyal, Trashi Sonamdolgar
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Tibet
It's Hamlet set in ancient Tibet. Prince Lhamoklodan learns of his father’s mysterious death and returns home to find his uncle has taken the
throne--and the widowed queen.
LOOKING FOR PALLADIN
Drama-comedy (115 min)
Language: English
Director: Andrzej Krakowski
Writer: Andrzej Krakowski
Co-Production Partners: Pine Hill Productions and Tousi Productions
Producer: Mahyad Tousi
Key Cast: Ben Gazzara, Talia Shire, David Moscow, Vincent Pastore, Pedro Armendariz, Jr.
Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Guatamala
Young, arrogant Hollywood talent agent, Josh Ross (Moscow) is sent to Guatemala to find two-time Oscar winner and retired actor Jack
Palladin (Gazzara), propels him on an unexpected journey.
MILAREPA: MAGICIAN, MURDERER, SAINT
http://www.milarepamovie.com/
Action Adventure (90 min)
Language: Tibetan
Director: Neten Chokling
Writer: Neten Chokling
Producer: Gregory Kruglak, Neten Chokling,
Key Cast: Gimyan Lodro, Jamyang Lodro, Lakpa Tsamchoe, Orgyen Tobgyal
Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Bhutan
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The story of the real-life 11th century Tibetan mystic, one path to enlightenment begins with revenge, a stolen inheritance, black magic, and a
soul in peril.
ON THE LINE
http://www.OnTheLineFilm.com
Documentary (55 min)
Language: English
Director: Peter Glenn and Jason A. Schmidt
Writer: Peter Glenn
Producer: Ron Schmidt and Peter Glenn
Key Cast: Martin Sheen and Susan Sarandon
Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A bold new look at the movement to shut down the School of the Americas and U.S. foreign policy in Latin America. Winner of the 2008
Silver Telly Award.
THE BLUE HOUR
http://www.thebluehourmovie.com
Drama (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Eric Nazarian
Writer: Eric Nazarian
Producer: Lynnette Ramirez and Brian Knappmiller
Key Cast: Clarence Williams III, Alyssa Milano, Yorik Van Wageningen, Emily Rios, Derrick O'Connor, Paul Dillon, Sarah Jones
Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A graffiti muralist, a camera repairman, a blues guitarist, and an elderly pensioner, all linked to the Los Angeles River, strangers that rarely
communicate yet share brief moments of connection
OIL ON WATER
http://www.oilonwater-movie.com
Psychological drama (109 min)
Language: English
Director: Peter Matthews
Writer: Ellie Matthews
Co-Production Partners: Tidal Wave Productions
Producer: Ellie Matthews
Key Cast: St.John Alexander, Tyler Bizzell, Bianca Lishansky
Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: South Africa
Anna is a journalist living with Max, an artist. Their relationship begins to collapse when Max starts hearing voices and having visions. Anna
discovers it may be too late.
A CALL TO ARMS
http://www.acalltoarmsmovie.com
Documentary (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Scott Miller
Writer: Scott Miller
Co-Production Partners: Scott Miller and Company
Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
The incendiary story of US soldiers ordered to receive anthrax vaccine, a story of abuse of power, betrayal of trust, and personal gain at the cost
of lives.
OUT OF BALANCE: EXXONMOBIL'S IMPACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE
http://www.worldoutofbalance.org
Documentary (65 min)
Language: English
Director: Tom Jackson
Co-Production Partners: Joe Public Films
Producer: Tom Jackson
Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
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A quest to find out more about climate change and the huge forces that are blocking imperative change. Winner of three film festivals.
TWISTED ROOTS (RAICES TORCIDAS)
Comedy (82 min)
Spanish (English subs)
Director: Javier Ortis
Co-Production Partners: Toma Dos Films
Key Cast: Ronnie Alvarez, Mauricio Quintana, Paola Ochoa
Status: completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Mexico
A road trip in which Rigo goes to Mexico in search of his grandparents with his best friend Fer, not knowing what he’s really getting into.
TEACHINGS ON MILAREPA
http://www.milarepamovie.com/
Documentary (175 min)
Language: English
Director: Sasha Meyerowitz
Co-Production Partners: Shining Moon Productions
Key Cast: Sogyal Rinpoche, Pema Chodron, Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche, Neten Chokling, His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa
Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Bhutan
Companion to Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint features contemporary Buddhist masters illuminating the life and teachings of Tibet’s
greatest yogi and spiritual warrior.
MAGNOLIA PICTURES
Magnolia Pictures, 49 W 27th Street, 7th FL, New York, NY 10001, USA. Tel: 1.212.924.6701. Fax: 1.212.481.3964. www.magpictures.com
Sales Agent, Distributor
At Cannes: Laird Adamson (Head of International Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Tom Quinn (Head of Acquisitions)
Office: 25 La Croisette, 4th Fl, Le Bagatelle, Cannes 0640, Tel: 1.917.601.4771
BIGGER STRONGER FASTER
www.biggerstrongerfastermovie.com
Documentary (106mn)
Language: English
Director: Christopher Bell
Writer: Christopher Bell
Producer: Alex Buono
Co-production partners: Tamsin Rawady; Jim Czarnecki
Key Cast: Christopher Bell, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Lewis
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
From the producers of Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 comes a new film that unflinchingly explores the win-at-all-cost culture
through the lens of a personal journey.
UNTITLED KIRBY DICK PROJECT
Documentary (TBD)
Language: English
Director: Kirby Dick
Producer: Amy Ziering
Delivery Status: In production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Sex, Lies and HDCam. Kirby Dick casts a keen investigative eye on the recent spate of DC sex scandals uncovering the high costs of political
hypocrisy and America's tortured prurience.
NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD
http://www.smartartists.com.au/not-quite-hollywood/
Documentary (90mn)
Language: English
Director: Mark Hartley
Writer: Mark Hartley
Producer: Craig Griffin
Co-production partners: Michael Lynch
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Key Cast: Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Lee Curtis, Henry Thomas
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Australia
The first detailed examination and celebration of the Australian genre films of the 70's and early 80's and the undervalued auteurs and actors
who brought them to life.
COCAINE COWBOYS II: HUSTLIN’ WITH THE GODMOTHER
http: //www.cocainecowboys.com/
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Billy Corben
Writer: Billy Corben
Producer: Alfred Spellman
Co-production partners: Billy Corben
Key Cast: Griselda Blanco, Charles Cosby
Delivery Status: Post production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
The Godmother, Griselda Blanco, returns with her longtime companion and co conspirator, Charles Cosby, in this true life story.
QUID PRO QUO
http://www.hdnetfilms.com/quidproquo/index.html
Drama (81mn)
Language: English
Director: Carlos Brooks
Writer: Carlos Brooks
Producer: Sarah Pillsburry, Midge Sanford, Jason Kliot
Key Cast: Nick Stahl, Vera Farmiga, Kate Burton
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A journalist is drawn into a dark and bizarre subculture as he investigates a story that ultimately leads him to the shocking truth about himself.
GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON
http://www.magpictures.com/films.aspx
Documentary (120 mn)
Language: English
Director: Alex Gibney
Writer: Alex Gibney
Producer: Alex Gibney, Graydon Carter, Alison Ellwood & Eva Orner, Jason Kliot
Key Cast: Johnny Depp, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Buffett
Delivery Status: Completed, screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
The story of the life and death of maverick journalist Thompson, from his letters, articles, manuscripts and books.
TIMECRIMES (LOS CRONOCRIMENES)
http://www.loscronocrimenes.com/
Horror (89 min)
Language: Spanish (English subtitles)
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Writer: Nacho Vigalondo
Producer: Eduardo Carneros, Javier Ibarretxe
Key Cast: Karra Elejalde, Barbara Goenada, Candela Fernandez
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Spain
A man accidentally travels back in time and meets himself one hour earlier, setting off an unpredictable jigsaw puzzle where terror, drama and
suspense lead to an unthinkable crime.
MR. UNTOUCHABLE
http://www.mruntouchablemovie.com/
Documentary (92mn)
Language: English
Director: Marc Levin
Writer: Marc Levin
Producer: Mary-Jane Robinson, Alex Gibney
Key Cast: Nicky Barnes, Thelma Grant, Joseph Hayden
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Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
The rise and fall of Nicky Barnes, a kid from Harlem who went on to become the biggest heroin distributor in the country.
SURFWISE
http://www.surfwisefilm.com/
Documentary (93mn)
Language: English
Director: Doug Pray
Writer: Doug Pray
Producer: Graydon Carter, Matt Weaver, Tommy Means, Jonathan Paskowitz
Key Cast: Doc Paskowitz, Juliette Paskowitz
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A lively documentary that delves into the life of legendary Malibu surfer Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz.
REDACTED
http://redactedmovie.com/
Drama (90mn)
Language English / French (English subtitles over French narration)
Director Brian De Palma
Scriptwriter Brian De Palma
Producer Jason Kliot, Jennifer Weiss, Simone Urdl, Joana Vicente
Key cast Patrick Carroll, Rob Devaney, Kel O'Neil, Izzy Diaz
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of origin Canada / USA
Through a video collage of stories, REDACTED tells the horrific story of a group of American soldiers deployed in Iraq.
BROKEN ENGLISH
http://www.brokenenglishfilm.com/
Romantic Drama (93mn)
Language English
Director Zoe Cassavetes
Scriptwriter Zoe Cassavetes
Producer Andrew Fierberg, Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente
Key cast Parker Posey, Gena Rowlands, Melvil Poupaud
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of origin USA
After a series of disastrous first dates, a thirty-something Manhattanite, cynical about love and relationships, meets a seemingly devil-may-care
Frenchman with a passion for living.
COCAINE COWBOYS
http://www.magpictures.com/archive.aspx
Documentary (118)
Language English
Director Billy Corben
Scriptwriter Billy Corben
Producer Alfred Spellman, Billy Corben
Key cast Griselda Blanco, Charles Cosby
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of origin USA
The true story of how Miami became the drug, murder and cash capital of the United States, told by the people who made it all happen.
FAY GRIM
http://www.faygrimfilm.com/
Drama (118)
Language English
Director Hal Hartley
Scriptwriter Hal Hartley
Producer Hal Hartley, Martin Hagemann, Mike S Ryan, Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente
Key cast (up to 3 only) Parker Posey, Jeff Goldblum, Saffron Burrows
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of origin USA
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Years after her husband's apparent death, Fay Grim discovers that several intelligence agencies and a couple of terrorist organizations are
looking for Henry Fool’s infamous Confessions.
THE SEAT FILLER
Comedy (90mn)
Language: English
Director: Nick Castle
Writer: Mark Brown, Duane Martin
Producer: Duane Martin, D’Angela P.Steed, Nia T.Hill
Co-production partners: Robi Reed
Key Cast: Duane Martin, Kelly Rowland, Curtis Armstrong
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: USA
Romance and drama occur after a pop superstar falls for an audience member -- a seat filler posing as an attorney -- at a music awards show
AMERICAN SWING
http://www.hdnetfilms.com/americanswing/index.html
Documentary (83mn)
Language: English
Director: Jon Hart, Matthew Kaufman
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat
ONE LAST THING
www.onelastmovie.com
Comedy (93mn)
Language: English
Director: Alex Steyermark
Writer: Barry Stringfellow
Producer: Joana Vicente, Jason Kliot, Susan A. Stover
Co-production partners: Will Batersby
Key Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Ethan Hawke, Michael Aragano
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
ONE LAST THING … is a hilarious and poignant story about Dylan, a 16 year-old kid who is living his life as fast as he can since he has
terminal cancer.
MANDARIN FILMS DISTRIBUTION CO. LTD.
Mandarin Films Distribution Co. Ltd., Room 1801-2, Westlands Centre, 20 Westlands Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong. Tel: 852.2579.1718.
Fax: 852.2579.1712. http://www.mandarinfilms.com, email: mfdcl@nevigator.com
At Cannes: Raymond Wong (Chairman), Nansun Shi (Producer), Virginia Leung (Head of Distribution), Christy Choi (Asst. Distribution
Manager), Jennifer Yip (Distribution Executive)
Office: Riviera C10-02
IP MAN
Martial Arts
Language: Chinese
Director: Yip Wai-shun
Writer: Edmond Wong
Producer: Raymond Wong
Key Cast: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: 10M
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Based on the true story of Ip Man - the celebrated kung fu master of Bruce Lee
MISSING
http://www.missingthemovie.com/index_march2008.html
Thriller
Language: Chinese
Director: Tsui Hark
Writer: Tsui Hark
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Producer: Tsui Hark
Key Cast: Sin-je Lee, Isabella, Chen Chang
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: 8M
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Hong Kong
A romantic engagement in an underwater city leads to a series of mysterious encounters
FLASH POINT
http://www.flashpointthemovie.com
Martial Arts (87mins)
Language: Chinese
Director: Yip Wai-shun
Writer: Szeto Kam-yuen, Nicholl Tang
Producer: Nansun Shi, Donnie Yen
Key Cast: Donnie Yen, Louis Koo, Collin Chou
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 10M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Pre-1997, a hero's story about a detective sergeant who truly believes that the only way to fight crime is "The Road of No Return"
DRAGON TIGER GATE
Action/adventure (95mins)
Language: Chinese
Director: Yip Wai-shun
Writer: Edmond Wong
Producer: Raymond Wong, Nansun Shi, Yu Dong
Key Cast: Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 10M
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Adapted from popular Hong Kong manga, the movie features three young heroes in their quest of justice
WONDER WOMEN
Drama (108mins)
Language: Chinese
Director: Barbara Wong
Writer: Michelle Yao
Producer: Raymond Wong
Key Cast: Gigi Leung, Fiona Sit, George Lam
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.3M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Hong Kong
The survival handbook for career women-from those who experienced the ups and downs in past 10 years in HK history
MANDATE INTERNATIONAL
Mandate International, 2700 Colorado Blvd, 2nd Floor, Santa Monica, CA 90404 USA. Tel: 1.310.255.3700. Fax: 1.310.255.3770.
www.lionsgatefilms.com
At Cannes: Helen Lee Kim (President, International), Anne-Marie Boysen (Vice President, International Sales), Crystal Bourbeau (Manager,
International Sales), Wendy Reeds (Home Entertainment Sales), John Feltheimer (CEO - Lionsgate), Joe Drake (CO-COO & President –
Lionsgate), Steve Beeks (CO-COO & President – Lionsgate)
Office: Villa d’Estelle, 12-14 Rue des Belges, Tel: 33(0)4.9298.3335, Fax: 33(0)4.9368.8454
WHIP IT!
Comedy
Director: Drew Barrymore
Writer: Shauna Cross
Producer: Barry Mendel
Cast: Ellen Page
Status: Pre-Production
Whip It! follows the exploits of Bliss, a rebellious teenage girl who is always being pushed into beauty pageants by her overbearing mother.
ALPHA AND OMEGA
Animation/Adventure
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Directors: Rick Rich, Anthony Bell, Ben Gluck
Cast: Justin Long, Hayden Panettiere, Christina Ricci, Dennis Hopper and Danny Glover
Status: In Production
U.S. Release: Lionsgate
Determined to rejoin their pack, two mismatched wolves begin a dangerous trek across unfamiliar terrain, battling the odds, the elements, the
bears and one another - - and finding love along the way.
SAW V
Horror
Director: David Hackl
Writers: Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan
Producers: Mark Burg and Oren Koules
Cast: Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson
Status: In Production
U.S. Release: Lionsgate – Fall 2008
In the fifth installment of the SAW franchise, Hoffman is seemingly the last person alive to carry on the Jigsaw legacy. But when his secret is
threatened, Hoffman must go on the hunt to eliminate all loose ends.
THE 4TH KIND
Sci-Fi Thriller
Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi
Screenplay by: Olatunde Osunsanmi
Story by: Dr. Abigail Tyler, Olatunde Osunsanmi & Terry Lee Robbins
Producers: Paul Brooks, Joe Carnahan, Terry Lee Robins
Cast: Milla Jovovich
Status: Pre-Production
Close Encounter of the 1st Kind – Sighting of a UFO. Close Encounter of the 2nd Kind – Physical Evidence. Close Encounter of the 3rd Kind
– Contact. The only thing more frightening…the 4th Kind.
PEACOCK
Psychological Thriller
Director: Michael Lander
Writers: Michael Lander and Ryan Roy
Producer: Barry Mendel
Production Designer: Jeannine Oppewall
Cast: Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy
Status: Pre-Production
John Skillpa is a man who keeps to himself. Unbeknownst to the quiet town of Peacock, John suffers from dissociative identity disorder (“split
personality”) and lives as both man and woman, Emma, within the walls of his own home.
MY BLOODY VALENTINE: 3D
Horror
Director: Patrick Lussier
Writer: Zane Smith
Executive Producers: John Dunning, Andre Link, Jack Murray
Cast: Jaime King
Status: Pre-Production
U.S. Release: Lionsgate – 2009
On Valentine’s Day 1998, five miners leave their colleague for dead at the bottom of a collapsed mine shaft. That night, each of the miners is
pick-axed to death and their hearts are delivered to police - - each boxed like sick Valentine gifts.
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
Fantasy Adventure
Director: Terry Gilliam
Writers: Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown
Producers: William Vince, Amy Gilliam, Samuel Hadida
Cast: Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law, Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, Lily Cole, Andrew Garfield, Verne Troyer
Status: In Production
In this modern day fantasy adventure, 1,000-year-old Dr. Parnassus travels the world with his theater troupe offering audience members the
chance to transcend mundane reality by passing through a magical mirror into a universe of boundless imagination.
DRAG ME TO HELL
Supernatural Thriller
Director: Sam Raimi
Writers: Sam Raimi & Ivan Raimi
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Producers: Rob Tapert, Grant Curtis, Josh Donen
Cast: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Jessica Lucas, Lorna Raver, David Paymer
Status: In Production
Drag Me To Hell is a horrifying morality tale about the unwitting recipient of a supernatural curse.
MY BEST FRIEND’S GIRL
Comedy
Director: Howard Deutch
Writer: Jordon Cahan
Producers: Adam Herz, Greg Lessans, Josh Shader, Guymon Casady, Doug Johnson, Barry Katz, Brian Volk Weiss
Cast: Dane Cook, Kate Hudson, Jason Biggs, Lizzy Caplan and Alec Baldwin
Status: Post-Production
U.S. Release: Lionsgate – Fall 2008
In this outrageous and sexy romantic-comedy, Tank earns his living by taking women out on the worst dates of their lives just so they will run
back to their ex-boyfriends.
CHILLED IN MIAMI
Romantic Comedy
Director: Jonas Elmer
Writers: Kenneth J. Rance, C. Jay Cox
Producers: Paul Brooks, Peter Safran, Darryl Taja, Tracey Edmonds
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr.
Status: Post-Production
Monica Scott is an ambitious, up-and-coming executive living in Miami who takes a job assignment where she discovers greater meaning in
her life and most unexpectedly, the man of her dreams.
THE NEW DAUGHTER
Thriller
Director: Luis Alejandro Berdejo
Screenplay: John Travis
Short Story by: John Connolly
Cast: Kevin Costner, Ivana Baquero
Status: In Production
When increasingly disturbing events start to plague the James family home, John James investigates his property and discovers that he must
save his daughter from an oppressive, centuries-old phenomenon.
THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT
Horror/Thriller
Director: Peter Cornwell
Writers: Adam Simon & Tim Metcalfe
Producers: Paul Brooks, Andy Trapani, Daniel Farrands, Wendy Rhoads
Cast: Virginia Madsen, Elias Koteas, Martin Donovan, Kyle Gallner
Status: Post-Production
U.S. Release: Lionsgate
Inspired by a true story, one family experiences disturbing paranormal activity in their new Connecticut home, eventually discovering that the
house masks a dark past that is threatening their lives.
THE CHRISTMAS COTTAGE
Drama
Director: Michael Campus
Writer: Ken LaZebnik
Producers: Thomas Kinkade, Nanette Kinkade, Julie Yorn, Michael Campus, Arla Dietz Campus
Cast: Jared Padalecki, Marcia Gay Harden, Peter O’Toole
U.S. Release: Lionsgate
Destined to become a seasonal classic, The Christmas Cottage is based on the true story of the beloved painter who was inspired by the home
town values of his childhood to become the most successful artist of our time.
GHOST HOUSE (THE GRUDGE III)
Horror
Director: Toby Wilkins
Writer: Brad Keene
Producer: Andrew Pfeffer
In the third installment of the $188 million worldwide box office smash The Grudge, a young Japanese woman holds the secret to ending the
curse of the Grudge.
THE MESSENGERS II
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Horror
Director: Martin Barnewitz
Writer: Todd Farmer
Producer: Andrew Pfeffer
When John Rollins places a mysterious scarecrow in his field his luck changes for the better – but it may be at the cost of his sanity.
BOOGEYMAN III
Horror
Director: Gary Jones
Writer: Brian Sieve
Producer: Andrew Pfeffer
The follow-up to the successful hit Boogeyman is the story of an evil that every culture has tried to define by giving it a name and a face.
RISE II
Horror
Writer: Ben Ketai
Producer: Andrew Pfeffer
While searching for the truth about their parents’ disappearance, sexy 23-year-old Lexi Stone and her younger brother are taken captive by a
cult of vampires.
THE MARVEL COLLECTION 1-4
ULTIMATE AVENGERS
Animation/Adventure
U.S. Release: Lionsgate – February 21, 2006
Status: Complete
In this first installment of the Marvel Collection, a mighty team is recruited and Earth's ultimate hero, Captain America, is sought to lead. This
is the extraordinary story of six very independent heroes who, like it or not, must fight as one to save the world.
ULTIMATE AVENGERS II
Animation/Adventure
U.S. Release: Lionsgate – August 8, 2006
Status: Complete
In this sequel to the hit release Ultimate Avengers, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Giant Man, Wasp and the Incredible Hulk return to battle
an army of brutal aliens who seek to destroy the planet Earth.
THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN
Animation/Adventure
U.S. Release: Lionsgate – January 23, 2007
Status: Complete
While raising the ruins of a long buried Chinese kingdom, billionaire inventor Tony Stark unleashes the Mandarin, the emperor of China's most
violent dynasty. To stop the evil, Tony must become his greatest invention ever - Iron Man.
DOCTOR STRANGE
Animation/Adventure
U.S. Release: Lionsgate – August 14, 2007
Status: Complete
In this fourth picture in the Marvel Collection, Dr. Stephen Strange embarks on a wondrous journey to the heights of a Tibetan mountain where
he seeks healing at the feet of the mysterious Ancient One.
THE MARVEL COLLECTION 5-8:
THE NEXT AVENGERS: HEROES OF TOMORROW
Animation/Adventure
U.S. Release: Lionsgate
Status: In Production
The time has come for the kids to now rise as the new heroes of tomorrow. When they must become the Next Avengers!
HULK VS.
Animation/Adventure
U.S. Release: Lionsgate
Status: In Production
In this double feature, Hulk battles two classic foes.
THOR SON OF ASGARD
Animation/Adventure
U.S. Release: Lionsgate
Status: In Production
Thor secretly embarks on the journey of a lifetime, joined by his loyal brother Loki, whose budding sorcery equips him with just enough magic
to conjure up trouble.
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PLANET HULK (WORKING TITLE)
Animation/Adventure
U.S. Release: Lionsgate
Status: In Production
The Incredible Hulk crash lands on the distant planet Sakaar, ruled by the tyrannical Red King.
CABIN FEVER 2: SPRING FEVER
Horror
Director: Ti West
Screenplay by: Joshua Malkin
Story by: Ti West
Producers: Lauren Moews, Jonathan Sachar, Patrick Durham
Cast: Rider Strong, Noah Segan, Alexi Wasser and Giuseppe Andrews
Status: Complete
U.S. Release: Lionsgate
The sequel to the cult hit Cabin Fever. A high school prom faces a deadly threat: a flesh-eating virus that spreads via a popular brand of bottled
water.
HAPPILY N’EVER AFTER: SNOW WHITE
Animation/Adventure
Directors: Boyd Kirkland & Steve Gordon
Screenplay: Christopher Denk
Producers: Jason Netter/Loris Kramer Lunsford/Susan Norkin (Line Producer)
Status: In Production
U.S. Release: Lionsgate
In this fractured comedic fairy tale, Snow White discovers through the seven dwarves’ boot camp that being a princess, versus acting like one,
are two different things.
SPEED RACER: THE NEXT GENERATION
Animated Series (26 x 30 min)
U.S. Release: Lionsgate
Status: Complete
Speed Racer: The Next Generation takes place at an elite racing school for the fastest kids on the planet.
SPEED RACER CLASSIC
Animated Series (52 x 30 min)
U.S. Release: Lionsgate
Status: Complete
Speed Racer made its original debut in 1967 in Japan and was dubbed into English and syndicated nationally on television. After 40 years, it is
one of entertainment’s most recognizable animated cultural icons.
STILL WAITING (WAITING II)
Comedy
Director: Jeff Balis
Writer: Rob McKittrick
Cast: Luis Guzman, Alanna Ubach, Daneel Harris, Vanessa Lengies, Tania Raymonde, Steve Howey, John Michael Higgins, Andy Milonakis,
K.D. Aubert, Adam Carolla
Status: Post-Production
U.S. Release: Lionsgate
This outrageous sequel to Waiting follows the continuing adventures of the wait staff at Shenaniganz restaurant.
STIR OF ECHOES 2: THE HOMECOMING
Horror
Director/Writer: Ernie Barbarash
Producers: Philip Stilman, Claire Welland
Cast: Rob Lowe, Marnie McPhail, Vik Sahay, Katya Gardner, Ben Lewis, Tatiana Maslany, Shawn Roberts, Zachery Bennett, Neil Crone,
Krista Sutton, Grace Lynn Kung
Status: Complete
U.S. Release: Lionsgate – November 20, 2007
While fighting in Iraq, Patrol Captain Ted Cogan witnesses the killing of a group of civilians. When Cogan returns home from war he
continues to be haunted with terrifying visions of the dead.
WITLESS PROTECTION
Comedy
Director: Charles Robert Carner
Screenplay: Charles Robert Carner
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Story by: Charles Robert Carner & Alan Blomquist
Producers: Alan Blomquist, JP Williams
Cast: Larry the Cable Guy, Ivana Milicevic, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare, Eric Roberts, Joe Mantegna, Jenny McCarthy
U.S. Release: Lionsgate – February 22nd, 2008
An overeager sheriff mistakenly stops what appears to be the abduction of a beautiful woman only to discover that she is actually a key witness
in a high-stakes criminal case and her captors are FBI agents assigned to protect her.
MAVERICK GLOBAL
Maverick Global, 1191 East Newport Center Dr, Deerfield Beach, FL 33442 USA. Tel: 954.422.8811. Fax: 954.429.0565. Website:
www.maverickglobal.com
Distributor
At Cannes: Doug Schwab (President), Tim Warren (VP of Sales), Jack Campbell (Director, International Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Doug Schwab
Office: Riviera, Booth G-8, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.15
CURSE OF THE WEEPING WOMAN: J-OK’EL
Thriller (88 min)
Language: English
Director: Benjamin Williams
Writer: Jeremy Svenson, Andy Whitaker & Peter Theis
Producer: Andres Rodriguez Franco, Benjamin Williams, Paola Madrazo del Rio, Juan Carlos Arizmendi
Key Cast: Tom Parker, Ana Patricia Rojo, Dee Wallace
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1 million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
The haunting spirit of a woman who drowned her babies centuries ago has returned to claim more children as her own!
KUSH
Action (90 min)
Language: English
Director: York Shackleton
Writer: York Shackleton
Producer: Lenny Shapiro, Jonathan Serota, Christopher Wayne, William Phelps
Key Cast: Bret Roberts, Nicole Marie Lenz, Mike Erwin
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 500,000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A group of young drug dealers make the biggest mistake of their lives when they front a 10-pack of Kush to a risky crack-head.
ARMY OF THE DEAD
Action/Adventure (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Joseph Contegiacomo
Writer: Tom Woosley
Producer: Joseph Conti, Paul Conti, Fred Tepper
Key Cast: Ross Kelly, Stephanie Marchese, Miguel Martinez
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1 million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
A professor and his students unleash a long dormant curse and soon find themselves in a battle with skeletal warriors. The adventure of a
lifetime just might turn into the last adventure of their lives.
JUAREZ MEXICO
Latino Thriller (81 min)
Language: English
Director: James Cahill
Writer: James Cahill
Producer: Raul Arrelanes
Key Cast: James Cahill, Carmen Perez, Roberto Shanchez
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 500,000
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
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Over 400 girls have been killed in Juarez, Mexico. No one knows who is responsible. A private investigator searches to learn the truth behind
the murders.
MEXICAN WEREWOLF IN TEXAS
Horror (88 min)
Language: English
Director: Scott Maginnis
Writer: Scott Maginnis
Producer: Randy Mermell
Key Cast: Erika Fay, Gabriel Butierrez, Martine Hughes
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 750,000
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: USA
The town of Furlough, Texas has fallen prey to a savage attacker that might be the legendary Latin American myth “El Chupacabra” or
Mexican Werewolf!
QUICK PICK
Comedy (86 min)
Language: English
Director: Williams Vázquez
Writer: Williams Vázquez
Producer: Williams Vázquez
Key Cast: John Bryant, Anna Moreno-Nava, Angelina Assereto
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $450,000
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
No luck Eddie might be the sole winner of the $135 million lottery jackpot, now if he could just remember where he put the ticket!
MAX FILMS INTERNATIONAL INC.
Max Films International Inc., 1751, rue Richardson, Suite 2.102, Montréal, Québec H3K 1G6 Canada. Tel: 1.514.282.8444. Fax:
1.514.282.9222. www.maxfilms.ca, info@maxfilms.ca / international@maxfilms.ca
At Cannes: Roger Frappier (President & Producer), Alexandra Wermester (Director, Int’l Sales & Marketing), Félize Frappier (Sales)
Office: Québec Pavillion, Stand 129
A NO-HIT NO-RUN SUMMER (UN ÉTÉ SANS POINT NI COUP SÛR)
Dramatic Comedy
Director: Francis Leclerc
Writer: Marc Robitaille
Producer: Barbara Shrier
Production: Palomar
Cast: Patrice Robitaille, Pier-Luc Funk, Jacynthe Laguë, Roy Dupuis
Status: Completed/screening
Origin: Canada
Martin is 12 years old and dreams of making the neighbourhood baseball team. When he gets cut, his father steps in and together they spend a
summer full of hope and disappointment, line drives and foul balls.
BORDERLINE
Erotic Drama
Producers: Roger Frappier and Luc Vandal
Director: Lyne Charlebois
Writer: Marie-Sissi Labrèche and Lyne Charlebois
Cast: Isabelle Blais, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Status: Completed/screening
Origin: Canada
An erotic drama about a woman facing her 30th birthday who looks back at her life growing-up with her grandmother, crazy mother and her
over-indulgence with men, sex and alcohol.
MAXIM MEDIA INTERNATIONAL
Maxim Media International, 5025 South Ash Ave. Bldg. B-2, Tempe, AZ 85282 United States. Tel: 1.480.966.4070. Fax: 1.480.966.4570.
http://www.emaximmedia.com
At Cannes: Sean Argo (International Sales)
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SECRETS OF THE CLOWN
http://www.secretsoftheclown.com
Horror (90 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Ryan Badalementi
Writer: Ryan Badalementi
Producer: Ryan Badalementi
Key Cast: Kelli Clevenger, Dusty Mitchell, Paul Pierro
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: United States
After the murder of his best friend, Bobbie is haunted by nightmares which will guide him to unlock the “Secrets of the Clown”.
DEATH OF A GHOST HUNTER
http://www.emaximmedia.com/inat/bigpicture.php?id=7229
Horror (105 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Sean Tretta
Writer: Sean Tretta
Key Cast: Patti Tindall, Mike Marsh, Davina Joy, Lindsay Page
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: United States
Carter Simms was offered to conduct a paranormal investigation. What transpired is the most frightening and tragic paranormal investigation in
the history of modern "Ghost Hunting".
ZOMBIES ANONYMOUS
http://www.emaximmedia.com/inat/bigpicture.php?id=7230
Horror (109 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Marc Fratto
Writer: Marc Fratto
Producer: Andrew Dantonio
Key Cast: Gina Ramsden, Joshua Nelson, Christa Mce
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: United States
Meet Angela. She is the perfect neighbor. She is quiet, young, pretty and keeps to herself. But Angela is different. Very different. She is dead.
FIST OF THE VAMPIRE
http://www.emaximmedia.com/inat/bigpicture.php?id=7245
Horror/Martial Arts (95 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Leonard Kabasinski
Writer: Leonard Kabasinski
Producer: Lisa McQuiston
Key Cast: Brian Anthony, Darian Caine, Brian Heffron, Cheyenne King
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: United States
Detective Lee Southward is sent on assignment to infiltrate an illegal underground fighting tournament and bring in the organizers. There is a
problem: They are undead and crave human blood!
MEDIA ASIA DISTRIBUTION
Media Asia Distribution, 24/F Causeway Bay Plaza II, 463-483 Lockhart Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Tel: 852.2314.4248. Fax:
852.2314.4248. www.mediaasia.com, Email: wwdist@mediaasia.com
At Cannes: Ricky Tse (Head of Distribution/Sales) Tel: 852.2302.3819, Mobile: 852.9018.6578, Fax: 852.2314.4247; Frederick Tsui (Senior
Manager - Distribution & Production) Tel: 852.2302.3810, Mobile: 852.9463.3446, Fax: 852.2314.4248; Vanessa Lo (Manager Distribution/Sales) Tel: 852.2302.3835, Mobile: 852.9488.1759, Fax: 852.2314.4247
Office: 15 Square Mérimée (3rd floor) 06400 Cannes.
THE SNIPER
Action
Director: Dante LAM
Producer: Candy LEUNG
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Scriptwriter: NG Wai Lun, Dante LAM
Main cast: Richie JEN, HUANG Xiaoming and Edison CHEN
Status: Market screening
Country of origin: Hong Kong
Expelled from the force in the wake of a mission gone tragically wrong, a police sniper determines to take revenge by changing over to the
other side of the law.
THE ASSASSINS
Action Thriller
Director: Soi CHEANG
Main cast: Louis KOO and Richie JEN
Status: In production
Country of origin: Hong Kong
Several lone assassins who never met before decide to join forces to rescue the facilitator of their operation.
NANKING! NANKING!
Drama
Director: LU Chuan
Main cast: LIU Ye, GAO Yuanyuan
Status: In production
Country of origin: China
A tragic love story unfolds during the darkest period of Chinese history: the Nanking Massacre in 1937.
LADY COP & PAPA CROOK
Drama
Director: Alan MAK and Felix CHONG
Main cast: Sammi CHENG and Eason CHAN
Status: Post-production
Country of origin: Hong Kong
A kidnap leads to the most unlikely partnership of a voguish detective and a rogue kingpin who must work against time together to find the
culprits and save the child.
THE WARLORDS
Epic (127’)
Director: Peter Ho-Sun CHAN
Producer: Andre MORGAN, Peter Ho-Sun CHAN, HUANG Jian Xin
Scriptwriter: XU Lan, CHUN Tin-Nam and Aubrey LAM
Main cast: Jet LI, Andy LAU, Takeshi KANESHIRO and XU Jinglei
Status: Completed, Market screening
Country of origin: Hong Kong
The rise of three sworn brothers from highwaymen to legit military luminaries ultimately leads to dissension, treachery, and assassination.
MARRIAGE TRAP
Drama (98’)
Director: ZHANG Cheng
Producer: Manfred WONG
Scriptwriter: ZHANG Cheng, ZHOU Zhiyong, YUE Xiaojun
Main cast: GUO Tao, TAO Hong
Status: Completed
Country of origin: China
A con woman meets her match as she falls for a man whose heart and fortune she tries to steal.
MEDIA CREATIV CONSULT GMBH
Media Creativ Consult GmbH, Türkenschanzplatz 7, Wien, 1170, Austria. Tel: 43.1.876.88.88. Fax: 43.1.876.8888. www.rossacher.com,
email: office@rossacher.com
Film- and TV production
At Cannes: Katharina Amport
MEDIA MARKET CONSULTANTS S.A.
Media Market Consultants S.A., 216 Chemin de Bergier, Qrt. Condamine, Chateauneuf de Grasse, 06740 France. Tel: 33.4.93.42.48.82. Fax:
33.4.93.42.44.61. http://www.mediamarketconsultants.com, email: info@mediamarketconsultants.com
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At Cannes: Frances Willington (Senior Executive Consultant), Robert Willington (Executive Consultant), Christophe Dalloz (VP. Consultant),
Arnaud Morisque (Technical Consultant), Fred Canal (Assistant to Frances Willington)
Office: Hotel Majestic Office 704, Tel: 33.4.92.98.77.00, Fax: 33.4.93.38.97.90
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIOS INC. (MGM)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), 10250 Constellation Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90067-6241, USA. Tel: 1.310.449.3000. Fax:
1.310.586.8750. www.mgm.com
Producer, Distributor
At Cannes: Harry Sloan (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer), Mary Parent (Chairperson, Worldwide Motion Picture Group), Erik Lomis
(Executive Vice President, International Theatrical and Home Entertainment), Jeff Pryor (Executive Vice President, Corporate
Communications)
Office: Tel: Erik Lomis - 1.310.449.3315
MK2
mk2, 55 rue traversière, Paris, 75012 France. Tel: 331.446.730.30. Fax: 331.430.729.63. http://www.mk2-catalogue.com, email:
intlsales@mk2.com
At Cannes: Mathilde Henrot (Director of Sales), Matthieu Giblin (Intl Sales Executive), Juliette Schrameck (Intl Sales Executive), Dorothée
Pfistner (Sales & Marketing Executive), Nathanaël Karmitz (Managing Director)
Office: Res. Du Grand Hotel 47, la Croisette, Entrance Dauphin, 8th Floor, Tel: 04.93.68.83.21, Fax: 04.93.68.31.72
SUMMER HOURS (L'HEURE D'ÉTÉ)
http://www.summerhours-movie.mk2.com/
Drama (102 minutes)
Language: French
Director: Olivier Assayas
Writer: Olivier Assayas
Co-Production Partners: mk2
Producer: Marin Karmitz, Nathanaël Karmitz, Charles Gillibert
Key Cast: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Rénier
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 6.3 M$
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
The divergent paths of three forty something siblings collide when their mother, heiress to her uncle's exceptional 19th century art collection,
dies suddenly.
RUMBA
www.rumba-film.com
Comedy (85 Minutes)
Language: French
Director: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy
Writer: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy
Co-Production Partners: MK2, Courage mon amour
Producer: Marin Karmitz, Nathanaël Karmitz, Charles Gillibert, Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Key Cast: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy, Philippe Martz
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 2.7 M$
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France, Belgium
Teachers in a rural school, happy couple Fiona and Dom have a common passion: Latin Dancing.
DIAMOND 13 (DIAMANT 13)
Thriller
Language: French
Director: Gilles Béat
Writer: Gilles Béat, Hugues Pagan, Olivier Marchal
Co-Production Partners: MK2, ARTEMIS PRODUCTION, SAMSA FILM
Producer: Marin Karmitz, Nathanaël Karmitz, Charles Gillibert, Patrick
Quinet, Jani Thiltges
Key Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Olivier Marchal, Aïssa Maïga, Asia Argento
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: 10.3 M$
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Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
The story centres around Mat, a night cop in the criminal division of Paris' police force.
ZION AND HIS BROTHER (ZION ET SON FRÈRE)
http://www.zion-and-his-brother-movie.com/
Drama
Language: Hebrew
Director: Eran Merav
Writer: Eran Merav
Co-Production Partners: MK2, Norma Production
Producer: Assaf AMIR, Marin Karmitz, Nathanaël KARMITZ, Charles GILLIBERT
Key Cast: Reuven BADALOV, Ronit ELKABETZ, Tzachi GRAD
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Budget: 3 M$
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Israël
Zion, aged 14 and his brother Meir, 17, are facing a crisis in their relationship after a terrible accident.
THE TRUE STORY OF PUSS'N BOOTS (LA VÉRITABLE HISTOIRE DU CHAT BOTTÉ)
Animation
Language: French
Director: Jérôme Deschamps, Pascal Hérold
Writer: Jérôme Deschamps, Pascal Hérold
Co-Production Partners: HEROLD Family, MK2, Saga Production, Nexus Factory
Producer: Pascal HEROLD, Marin KARMITZ, Nathanaël KARMITZ, Charles GILLIBERT
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget: 25 M$
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
A free adaptation of Charles Perrault's famous Puss'n Boots, "The True Story of Puss'n Boots" is a story for young and old for the first time on
cinema screens.
LEBANON
www.lebanon-movie.com
Drama
Language: Hebrew, Arabian, English
Director: Samuel Maoz
Writer: Samuel Maoz
Co-Production Partners: Paralite Productions, Ariel Films, Arsam International
Producer: Ilann Girard
Key Cast: Itay Tiran, Yoav Donat, Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: 2.5 M$
Year Of Production: 2008, Country Of Origin: France, Israel
"I had just turned 19 this May 1982. Life was beautiful. I was in love. Then I was requested to go to a military base.:
CERTIFIED COPY (COPIE CONFORME)
Drama
Language: French
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Writer: Abbas Kiarostami
Co-Production Partners: MK2, BIBI Films
Producer: Marin Karmitz, Nathanaël Karmitz, Charles Gillibert
Key Cast: Juliette Binoche
Delivery Status: Pre Production
Budget: 4.2 M$
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France, Italy
A story about love but not a love story.
MONO FILM CO., LTD.
Mono Film Co., Ltd., 200 Jasmine International Tower 31st Fl. Moo 4 Chaengwattana Road, Pakkred, Nonthaburi 11120 Thailand. Tel:
66.2.502.0731. Fax: 66.2.584.5314. www.mono-film.com
Production company
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At Cannes: Rachel P. Jamawatr (Asst. to MD & International Relations Supervisor); Ornanong (Meemie) Athadthawaree (Int’l Relations
Officer)
Office: G29 Riviera
THE FOLLOWER
Horror
Language: Thai
Director: Pleo Sirisuwan
Producer: Jirun Ratthanviriyachai
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget: $ 1.5 – 2.0 million USD
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Thailand
Is wreck-less driving the ONLY cause of a “freak” car accident? Who really is in control behind the wheel of your second-hand car?.solve the
mystery in the horror film…THE FOLLOWER.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Drama
Language: Thai
Director: Pongpat Wachirabunjong
Writer: Kongdej Jaturanrasmee
Producer: Thanya Wachirabunjong
Key Cast: Ananda Everingham, Chayanan Manomaisantiphap
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Budget: $ 1.0 million USD
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Thailand
What is the most important birthday gift you’ve ever received? .For him, it was “Her”.A young man and a young woman are brought together
by destiny because of a small travel pocketbook as a means of their unique connection.
MISS YOU TWO (TUR + RAOW + RUK) (YOU + US + LOVE)
Young Adult Romance
Language: Thai
Director: Piti Chataruphat
Writer: Idea Engineering
Producer: Jirun Ratthanviriyachai
Key Cast: Antoine Ramyanandana, Nuttanun Juntarawet, Mudhthanitar Sawedwithtayatadakul
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: $500,000-800,000 USD
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Thailand
When love becomes a reality and not just another tug-of-war, THREE young hearts intertwined with ONE love are compelled to resolve each
of their own newfound awareness on what LOVE truly is.
SIYAMA: VILLAGE OF WARRIORS
www.siyamamovie.com
Epic Adventure (107 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Preecha Songsakul
Writer: Preecha Songsakul
Producer: Jirun Ratthanviriyachai
Key Cast: Than Thanakorn, Thitima Maliwan, Nuttanan Juntarwet, Boriboon Chanruang, Sompob Benjatikul, Manop Assawadeb, Hassapon
Kongsib
Delivery Status: Complete- Ready for delivery
Budget: $2.0 million USD
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Thailand
A tale rich in Thai history that touches on issues of patriotism, ancient beliefs, and loyalty towards each other and of one’s origin, connecting
values and points of view from the past and of the present.
PAHUYUT: FIGHTING BEAT (OK SAAM SOK SONG KUM PUN)
www.fightingbeat.com
Martial-arts/Action (86 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Piti Chataruphat
Writer: Idea Engineering / Long / Nong
Producer: Jirun Ratthanviriyachai
Key Cast: Than Thanakorn, Sura Teerakul, Nuttanan Juntarwet, Nahatai Lekbumrung, Sura Sankum, Kittanet Gestsalo, Amorkrit Phamaon
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Delivery Status: Complete- Ready for delivery
Budget: $1.0 million USD
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Thailand
“Victory does not mean a fight to the death of your opponent, but true victory is achieved when your opponent willingly accepts defeat.”
Inspired from a true story emerges PAHUYUT - Fighting Beat.
MONTECRISTO INTERNATIONAL
MonteCristo International, 459 Columbus Avenue #334 NYC, NY 10024 USA. Tel: 1.917.647.7587. Fax: 1.917.677.8300.
www.MonteCristoEntertainment.com, email Sales@MonteCristoEntertainment.com
Sales Agent, Producer
At Cannes: Michael Taverna (CEO/President), Cindy Nelson-Mullen (Sales & Acquisitions Executive), Kathryn Arnold (US Productions),
Irene Masiello (EU Productions).
Acquisition Executive: Cindy Nelson-Mullen
Office: Riviera Stand #A3, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.50, Fax: 1.917.677.8300
END CALL
(90 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Kiyoshi Yamamoto
Writer: Kiyoshi Yamamoto
Producer: T. O Entertainment
Co-production partners: The MonteCristo Fund
Key Cast: Yuji Tomomi, Eri Takada, Tetsu Watanabe
Delivery Status: Post-Production, Delivery July 1st, 2008
Budget: $1.0 m
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Japan
A group of high school girls call the Devil to have a wish granted and cannot end the call until they are dead.
HUTONG DAYS
Drama/Family (90 minutes)
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Director: Zhanjun An
Writer: Zhifu Niu
Producer: Bruce Feirstein, Ted Perkins
Co-production partners: China Film Group, IDG China Media, China Film Group
Key Cast: Bai Qing Xin, Jiaoqian Dai, Yan Danchen and Ruofeng Jiang
Delivery Status: Completed, Ready for delivery
Budget: $3.0 m
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: China
A touching contemporary drama about the emerging Chinese middle class.
ALL THE DAYS BEFORE TOMORROW
Comedy/Drama/Romance (100 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Francois Dompierre
Writer: Francois Dompierre
Producer: Francois Dompierre, Kevin Leydon
Co-production partners: Kangoo Films
Key Cast: Alexandra Holden, Joey Kern & Richard Roundtree
Delivery Status: Completed & Ready for delivery
Budget: $1.5 m
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Canada
In this quirky episodic tale about a friendship that's almost something more, Joey Kern and Alexandra Holden play pals who ought to be lovers,
but their timing has never been right.
KILTRO
Martial Arts/Romance (90 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: Ernesto Diaz Espinoza
Writer: Ernesto Diaz Espinoza
Producer: Derek Rundell
Key Cast: Marko Zaror. Caterina Jadresic
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Delivery Status: Completed & Ready for delivery
Budget: $1.0 m
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Chile
Kim considers Zamir a simple neighborhood thug but everything changes when a terrible villain appears and endangers the martial arts school
run by her father.
SOMEONE ELSE
Romantic Comedy (78 min)
Language: English
Director: Col Spector
Writer: Col Spector, Radha Chakraborty
Producer: Radha Chakraborty
Key Cast: Stephen Mangan, Susan Lynch, Lara Belmont, Chris Coghill and Shaun Dingwall
Delivery Status: Completed & Ready for delivery
Budget: $2.0 m
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: UK
A thirty-something David is torn between his too agreeable girlfriend and the exciting but tricky Nina.
UNDERNEATH
Erotic/Thriller (75 min)
Language: Polish
Director: Marek Gajczak
Writer: Marek Gajczak, Aneta Zagorska
Producer: Grzegorz Hajdarowicz, Justyna Pawlak
Key Cast: Tomasz Karolak, Magdalena Boczarska, Zbigniew Kaleta
Delivery Status: Completed & Ready for delivery
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Poland
Never lust after another man’s woman!
SIMPLE THINGS
Comedy/Drama (108 min)
Language: Russian
Director: Aleksei Popogrebsky
Writer: Aleksei Popogrebsky
Producer: Roman Borisevich
Co-production partners: Koktebel Film Company
Key Cast: Sergei Puskepalis, Leonid Bronevoy
Delivery Status: Completed & Ready for delivery
Budget: $1.5 m
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Russia
Sergei is a low-paid hospital anesthesiologist who is pressed on the work and home front. He needs to make more money and an aging Sovietera actor offers a solution…with a price!
TRUTH BE TOLD
Thriller (84 min)
Language: English, Mandarin Chinese
Director: Eng Tiong TEO
Writer: Jen Nee LIM
Producer: Jen Nee LIM, Eng Tiong TEO
Key Cast: Yvonne Lim, Bernard Tan, Liang Tian, Steven Woon, Louis Lim
Delivery Status: Completed & Ready for delivery
Budget: $1.5 m
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Singapore
An assignment takes TV producer Renee back to the neighborhood she ran away from 10 years ago. Only old Teo recognizes her and at every
turn he threatens to reveal her secrets.
PUNK LOVE
Drama (102 min)
Language: English
Director: Nick Lyon
Writer: Nick Lyon
Producer: Luca Callori, Egidio Veronesi, Aleksander Zobec, Nick Lyion
Co-production partners: Blondie Productions
Key Cast: Chad Lindberg, Emma Bing, Max Perlich, Robert Blanche
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Delivery Status: Completed & Ready for delivery
Budget: $1.0 m
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: US/Italy
APARTMENT 1303
Horror (94 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Ataru Oikawa
Writer: Ataru Oikawa, Kei Oishi
Producer: The MonteCristo Fund
Co-production partners: T.O Entertainment & Amuse
Key Cast: Noriko Nakagoshi, Arata Furuta
Delivery Status: Completed & Ready for delivery
Budget: $1.0 m
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Japan
A modern ghost story which turns a love/hate relationship between a mother and daughter into a tale of horror.
MOONSTONE ENTERTAINMENT
Moonstone Entertainment, P.O. Box 7400, Studio City, CA 91614 USA. Tel: 1.818.985.3003. Fax: 1.818.985.3009. www.moonstonefilms.com
At Cannes: Mr. Ernst “Etchie” Stroh (CEO), Mrs. Yael Stroh (President), Mr. Michael Grant (Director Production & Marketing)
Office: The Carlton Intercontinental, Suite 120/121, Tel: 04.93.06.41.20
FROM A BUICK 8
Sci-Fi / Horror
Director: Tobe Hooper
Writers: Richard Chizmar, Johnathon Schaech
Producers: Robert Katz, Etchie Stroh, Mick Garris
Status: Pre-Production
When a state trooper is killed on the side of the road, the boy discovers his father's dark secret in the barracks' back shed. Based on the Stephen
King novel.
THE FALLS (RAPE - A LOVE STORY)
Drama
based on the Novel by: Joyce Carol Oates
Director: Harold Becker
Writer: John Mankiewicz
Producer: Robert Katz, Harold Becker, Etchie Stroh
Status: Pre-Production
Teena Maguire should not have tried to shortcut her way home with her daughter that Fourth of July evening … Not after midnight … Not
through Rocky Point Park.
HOLY ROAD
Western
Director: Simon Wincer
Writer: Michael Blake
Producers: Robert Katz, Etchie Stroh
Status: Development
Cntry of Origin: USA
The long awaited sequel to the Academy Award-winning Dances with Wolves.
ENDGAME
Action
Director: Jeno Hodi
Writer: Tibor Fonyodi, Jeno Hodi
Producers: Etchie Stroh, Jeno Hodi, Norbert Blecha
Status: Development
From a post apocalyptic New York, to modern day Death Valley to the underworld of Greek mythology, a game has been played down through
the centuries. This is Endgame, where fearless heroes and heroines are pitted against the demon armies of Hades.
MORGAN CREEK INTERNATIONAL
Morgan Creek International, 10351 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90025 USA. Tel: 1.310.432.4848. Fax: 1.310.432.4844.
http://www.morgancreek.com
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At Cannes: James G. Robinson (Chairman/CEO), Howard Kaplan (Chief Operating Officer), Brian Robinson (SVP, Worldwide Marketing),
David Robinson (SVP, Production), Greg Mielcarz (VP, Worldwide Publicity)
Office: Hotel Martinez, Suite 619
ACE VENTURA JR.
Comedy
Language: English
Director: David M. Evans
Writer: Jason Heimberg, Justin Heimberg, Jeff Sank
Producer: James G. Robinson, David Robinson
Key Cast: Josh Flitter, Emma Lockhart, Austin Rogers
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
The son of Ace Ventura begins his own journey as a pet detective in a case involving his mom, rare pandas and the most popular kid in school.
GREGORY BURNS
Drama
Language: English
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Writer: Rand Ravich
Producer: James G. Robinson, David Robinson
Delivery Status: In Development
Country of Origin: USA
An Arizona cop who grew up in the witness protection program discovers he is a member of a ruthless Russian Mafia crime family which he
must infiltrate as an operative for the US Marshals.
THE VIKINGS
Drama
Language: English
Writer: Sean O'Keefe, Will Staples
Producer: James G. Robinson, David Robinson
Delivery Status: In Development
Country of Origin: USA
A historical epic about two Viking brothers, heirs to their clan's throne, who fall in love with a kidnapped English princess. With war on the
horizon, their rivalry threatens the future of the Viking age.
MOTION PICTURE CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Motion Picture Corporation of America, 10635 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 180, Los Angeles, CA 90025 USA. Tel: 1.310.319.9500. Fax:
1.310.319.9501. http://www.mpcafilm.com
At Cannes: Brad Krevoy (CEO/Chairman), Francisco González (VP, International Sales & Marketing)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite 109, Tel: 04.97.06.85.33, Fax: 04.97.06.85.89
KILLER MOVIE
http://www.seekillermovie.com
Horror/Thriller/Comedy (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Jeff Fisher
Writer: Jeff Fisher
Key Cast: Leighton Meester, Paul Wesley, Nestor Carbonell, Kaley Cuoco, Robert Buckley, Jason London, Al Santos, Torrey DeVitto
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A reality TV show shoot goes terrifyingly awry when its crew becomes stranded on a remote town. A killer is on the loose, stalking cast and
crew one by one.
MOONDANCE ALEXANDER
http://www.moondancealexander.com
Family/Adventure (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael Damian
Writer: Michael Damina, Janeen Damian
Producer: Brad Krevoy
Key Cast: Kay Panabaker, Don Johnson, Lori Loughlin, Sasha Cohen
Delivery Status: Completed
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A young girl inspires her mother and a down-and-out trainer with her passion and determination to win a horse riding competition.
MOVIE AVENUE INTERNATIONAL CORP.
Movie Avenue International Corp., c/o 1675 Broadway 17N-34, New York, NY 10022 USA. Tel: 1.646.557.4320. Fax: 1.212.265.9371.
www.movie-avenue.com, e-mail: contact@movie-avenue.com
At Cannes: Lydia Y. Segundo (Officer, Producer, Sales Agent)
Office: 67 Docteur Picaud, Cannes, Tel: 1.917.669.1870
BROS AND ARROWS
Comedy (95 min)
Language: English Subtitles
Director: K. Snyder
Scriptwriter: K. Snyder
Producer: L.Y. Segundo, D. Jellerette
Production company: Movie Avenue International
Key cast: Nadine Ellis, Dave Chapelle (proposed, non contractual)
Status: In development
Country of origin: USA
Budget: $4.5 M Delivery date TBD
Urban Comedy with Hip Hop and action.
THE UNDERTAKERS
Black Comedy (95 min)
Language: English Subtitles
Director: K. Snyder
Scriptwriter: K. Snyder, Y. Braxton
Producer: L.Y. Segundo, D. Jellerette
Production company: Movie Avenue International
Key cast: (non contractual) Nya Long, Wayne Brady, Harry Lennox
Budget: $4 M
Status: Pre-production
Country of origin: USA
Maybe an old story we all know. Two brothers, two rivals in love with the same woman, but the twist …the brothers run a funeral empire and
the femme fatale is just that, fatally killer.
EL HOMBRE DE ARENA (THE SANDMAN)
Drama (102 min)
Language: Spanish Subtitles English
Director: José Manuel González-Berbel
Scriptwriter: José Manuel González-Berbel
Producer: Harold Sánchez
Production company: Iroko Films, Las Siete Sillas
Key cast: María Valverde, Hugo Silva, Samuel LeBihan, Alberto Jiménez
Status: Completed
Budget: $4M
Country of origin: Spain/France
Two love birds fly out of the cuckoo’s nest in a stirring Spanish romance of mad love and doomed passion.
QUIÉREME (LOVE ME)
Dramedy (95 min)
Language: Spanish Subtitles English
Director: Beda Docampo Feijoó
Scriptwriter: Beda Docampo Feijoó
Producer: Harold Sánchez
Production company: Nada Music, Infinity Films, Quiereme Prod., Abaco Movie, P.K. & Exponencial ADA, Iroko Films
Key cast: Dario Gradinetti, Ariadna Gil, Juan Echanove
Status: Completed, Screening on video cassette
Budget: $4M Delivery date
Country of origin: Spain/Argentina
One fine day a sudden twist changed everything for Pancho when Amparo, a 7 year-old girl claims to being his granddaughter.
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MOVIEHOUSE ENTERTAINMENT
Moviehouse Entertainment, 11 Denmark Street, 4th Floor, London WC2H 8LA, UK. Tel: 44.20.7836.5536. Fax: 44.560.2052.002.
http://www.moviehouseent.com, email: info@moviehouseent.com
At Cannes: Gary Phillips (Managing Director/Head of Sales), Mark Vennis (Managing Director/Head of Acquisitions)
Office: Residence Du Grand Hotel, 47 La Croisette, 6th Floor (Entrance Flamant), Tel: 04.93.38.65.93
JERUSALEMA
http://www.jerusalementjha.com
Thriller (120 min)
Language: English
Director: Ralph Ziman
Writer: Ralph Ziman
Producer: Tendeka Matatu
Key Cast: Rapulana Sepheimo, Ronnie Nyle, Shelly Meskin, Jeffrey Sekele, Robert Hobbs
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: South Africa
If you're going to steal. steal big and hope like hell you get away with it!
EL CANTANTE
http://www.elcantantemovie.com
Drama (116 mins)
Language: English
Director: Leon Ichaso
Writer: David Darmstaedter, Leon Ichaso, Todd Anthony Bello
Producer: Julio Caro
Key Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
El Cantante celebrates the life and music of the legendary Puerto Rican salsa singer Hector Lavoe, a pioneer of the sound and sensibility that
redefined Latin music in the 1960s and 70s.
ABRAHAM'S POINT
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Wyndham Price
Writer: Wyndham Price
Producer: Anthony Purves
Key Cast: MacKenzie Crook
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
Mackenzie Crook (Pirates of the Caribbean 1/2/3) plays 'Comet Snape' a man with a mysterious past who embarks on a journey to uncover the
truth behind his past.
MAD, SAD & BAD
http://www.moxiemakers.com/films_mad_sad_bad.html
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Avie Luthra
Producer: Christine Alderson, Ben Hopkins
Key Cast: Meera Syal, Nitin Ganatra
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
A comedy about Hardeep, Rashmi and Atul, brothers/sisters who they think they can say
anything they like to each other, no matter how honest! If only they could keep their mouths shut.
WHO KILLED NANCY?
http://www.moxiemakers.com/films_who_killed_nancy.html
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Alan G Parker
Producer: Ben Timlett, Allison Dore, Christine Alderson
Key Cast: Nancy Spungen, Sid Vicious
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Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
Alan G Parker, Director, with 17 published books including the best selling "Vicious: Too Fast to Live" goes on a journey to discover the truth
behind WHO KILLED NANCY?
THE DIRTY THREE
Documentary (104 min)
Language: English
Director: Darcy Maine
Key Cast: Nick Cave, Steve Albini, Ed Kuepper, Bobby Gillespe
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Australia
The rough and ready jewels of Australian rock. Featuring ick Cave, Steve Albini, Ed Kuepper, Bobby Gillespie, Mick Harvey and Catpower.
BROTHEL
Drama (96 min)
Language: English
Director: Amy Waddell
Writer: Amy Waddell
Producer: Wade W Danielson, Amy Waddell
Key Cast: Serena Scott Thomas, Brett Cullen
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Julianne buys an abandoned brothel and sets to work escaping the present by restoring
the past, but strange things start to happen.
MOVING PICTURES FILM & TV
Moving Pictures Film & TV, 7330 N. 16th Street, Suite A314, Phoenix, AZ 85020 United States. Tel: 1.602.283.0099. Fax: 1.602.283.0098.
http://www.movingpicturesfilmandtv.com
At Cannes: Ted Chalmers, Margaret Tritch
Office: Riviera D-4. Mobile 1.623.476.9150.
4 WEEKS OF SUNSHINE
http://www.silentroadcinema.com
Drama (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Steven Kiefer
Writer: Steven Kiefer
Co-Production Partners: Silent Road Cinema
Producer: Brian Gamble, Michael McBay, Beat Muller
Key Cast: Steven Kiefer, Christine Iobst, Marco Aguilar, Juce Peterson
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.2 Million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A Championship boxer is blinded during a prize fight, but later is given a brief window of sight which he keeps to himself to observe those
around him.
MATTIE FRESNO AND THE HOLOFLUX UNIVERSE
http://www.mattiefresno.com/
Comedy/Drama/Fantasy (92) Minutes
Language: English
Director: Phil Gallo
Writer: Steve Bretschneider & Phil Gallo
Co-Production Partners: Mattie Fresno Film Partners LLC
Producer: Steve Bretschneider, Donna Miller
Key Cast: Angela Pierce, Carol Alt, Ellen Cleghorne, Orson Bean
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.2 Million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
Mattie Fresno lands in jail for murder and discovers an unexpected solution to her problems as her freedom awaits in the holoflux universe.
DO IT FOR JOHNNY
http://www.doitforjohnny.com/
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Documentary (105 min)
Language: English
Director: Hayler Garcia
Writer: Hayler Garcia
Co-Production Partners: Tao Engine Philms
Producer: Scott Baxendale, Haylar Garcia
Key Cast: Johnny Depp (Appearance)
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.2 Million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Johnny Depp is featured in this documentary, as three unknowns filmmakers from Colorado pursue the Box Office Superstar with sometimes
hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking results.
GREEN RIVER
Thriller (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Sam Taybi
Writer: Justin Beaupre, Andrew Cappelletti, Tim Durr, James Fields, Sam
Taybi
Co-Production Partners: Mayon Films
Producer: Roy C. Granada
Key Cast: Kristina Hughes, Danielle Franke, Bruce Peterson, Robert N. Lee
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.2 Million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A woman, haunted by her sister's mysterious disappearance, journeys deep into the wilderness to find the man that possibly killed her.
THE HAPPY CRICKET (EL GRILLO FELIZ)
www.thehappycricketmovie.com
Animation (83) Minutes
Language: English, Spanish, Portuguese
Director: Walbercy Ribas
Writer: Walbercy Ribas
Co-Production Partners: Clever Image
Producer: Cleber Redondo
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.2 Million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
Christopher, the Cricket, lives happily in the forest playing and singing for his friends until Wartlord, the terrible lizard, arrives and prohibits
music and kidnaps Linda, the Night Star.
LITTLE BIG TOP
http://www.littlebigtopthemovie.com
Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Ward Roberts
Writer: Ward Roberts
Producer: Christina Mauro, Jessica Petelle
Key Cast: Sid Haig, Hollis Resnick, Mel England, Richard Reihle
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.2 Million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
In the tradition of SHAKES THE CLOWN and OFFICE SPACE, a clown returns home to spend his days as a drunk, until his passion is
reawakened by an amatuer circus.
THE MEMSAHIB
http://www.thememsahibmovie.com
Drama (101 min)
Language: English
Director: Kruti Majmudar
Writer: Kruti Majmudar
Co-Production Partners: Red Letter Pictures
Producer: Red Letter Pictures
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Key Cast: Emily Hamilton, Parvin Dabas, Glenn Fitzgerald, Sweta Keswani, Aarti Majmudar
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 2.4 Million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
British schoolteacher in 1850 finds love with the king of Begampur, India, but their love is cut short and their reincarnated spirits are reunited
in Modern Day India.
SHADOW PEOPLE
Drama (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Keith Coulouris
Writer: Keith Coulouris
Producer: Keith Coulouris
Key Cast: Keith Coulouris, Lesli Kay, Kaela Dobkin, Lee Spencer
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.2 Million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A sadistic couple with a failing relationship discovers common ground while renting a guest house and causing misery to their wealthy
landlords.
ROOM 314
http://www.room314.org
Drama (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael Knowles
Writer: Michael Knowles
Co-Production Partners: Ostrow and Company
Producer: Laura Knight and Michael Knowles
Key Cast: Joelle Carter, Matthew Del Negro, Sarah Bennett, Michael Knowles,
Michael Laurence, Jennifer Marlowe, Michael Mosley
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.2 Million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
Five situations take place at different times in Room 314 of a hotel as five couples in various stages of their relationships search for deeper
meaning.
ONE NIGHT
http://www.onenightthemovie.org
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael Knowles
Writer: Michael Knowles
Co-Production Partners: 7A Productions
Producer: John Ramos
Key Cast: Jordan Bayne, Laurence Blum, Christian Campbell, Robert
Clohessy, Bill Dawes, Lisa Ebersole, Holley Fain, Michael Knowles
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.2 Million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A young woman is stalked by her ex-lover and seeks refuge in a New York nightclub full of fascinating personalities.
MULTIVISIONNAIRE
Multivisionnaire, 3080 W. Valley Blvd., Suite B, Alhambra, CA 91803 USA. Tel: 1.626.737.8357. Fax: 1.626.407.4197.
www.multivisionnaire.com, email: distribution@multivisionnaire.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Sean T, Haley (Managing Partner), Erika Kao-Haley (Managing Partner)
Acquisition Executive: Sean T, Haley (Managing Partner), Erika Kao-Haley (Managing Partner)
Office: Palais 20.04a, Tel: 33 6.34.49.32.42, Fax: 1.626.407.4197
THE DARK LURKING
www.multivisionnaire.com
Sci Fi (114 min)
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Language: English
Director: Greg Connors
Writer: Greg Connors
Producer: Stuart Wall
Key Cast: Tonia Renee, Bret Kennedy, and Ozzie Devrish
Delivery Status: completed
Budget: $2 Million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Australia
Mutant creatures are unleashed when researchers made the wrong discovery. Eight survivors must be rescued from outpost beneath the earth.
One survivor has a deadly surprise.
BODY/ANTIBODY
http://www.leisuresuit.net/bodyantibody/
Thriller (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Kerry Douglas Dye
Producer: Jordan Hoffman
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1.0 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A shut-in clean-freak gets involved with the a dysfunctional girl. Their relationship blossoms until her crazy ex-boyfriend appears, and they
plot to kill him.
5 UP 2 DOWN
http://www.5up2down.com/
Drama (98 min)
Language: English
Director: Steven Kessler
Writer: Steven Kessler
Producer: Reuben Cobia
Key Cast: Isaac de Bankole, Kirk Acevedo, and Paz de la Huerta
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1.5 million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
Struggling with addiction in modern-day New York City, two artists take a spiritual journey of new discovery. Only to discover their reality has
consequences
AMERICAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE & YOU
http://militaryintelligenceandyou.com/
Comedy-Satire (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Dale Kutzera
Writer: Dale Kutzera
Producer: James Keitel
Key Cast: Patrick Muldoon, Mackenzie Astin.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
A satirical look at the USA's current war on terrorism, meshing together American WWII archival footage with newly shot scenes. Limited US
Theatrical Release
HOLDING TREVOR
Drama - Gay (86 min)
Language: English
Director: Rosser Goodman
Writer: Brent Gorski
Producer: Brent Gorski
Key Cast: Brent Gorski, Jay Brannan, Melissa Searing, Eli Kranski,
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $550,000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A coming-of-age story about the 20-something generation; and how they cope with unhealthy relationships, drug addiction, friendship, and
HIV. Stars: Jay Brannan (Shortbus) and an original soundtrack.
THE LAST ONE
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Thriller (104 min)
Language: English
Director: Marc Rezvani
Writer: Marc Rezvani, Nick Favorite
Producer: Diane Uwnawich
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1.5 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A doctor leaves her tragic past to visit her dying grandfather. She immediately discovers a series of deadly events, and now it's a race against
evil.
SUSPENSION
Sci Fi (95 min)
Director: Alex Joler, Ethan Shaftel
Writer: Aris Blevins, Ethan Shaftel
Producer: Aris Blevins, Ethan Shaftel
Key Cast: Scott Cordes, Annie Tedesco
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1.0 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Father loses family in an accident. His only connection to the event is a broken video camera that now STOPS TIME. His new power to stop
time can only do one thing — Corrupt Him.
BLOOD CAR
http://www.bloodcar.com/
Thriller-Black Comedy (74 min)
Language: English
Director: Alex Orr
Writer: Alex Orr
Producer: Alex Orr
Key Cast: Mike Brune, Anna Chlumsky, Katie Rowlett
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $750,000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Gas is $35 per gallon, nobody drives, and the government has a new conspiracy. One man dares to create an alternative fuel — Human Blood.
BLACK PEARL
Action- Fantasy (84 min.)
Language: English (and Native)
Director: Giovanna Messner / Raul Gasteazoro
Producer: Giovanna Messner / Raul Gasteazoro
Key Cast: Raul Gasteazoro
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1.0 Million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
With the look of this years hit '10,000 BC, 'Black Pearl' shares the story of a world ending and an evolution of two human species.
LADRONES Y MENTIROSOS
Drama (112 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Ricardo Méndez Matta
Writer: Poli Marichal, Ricardo Méndez Matta
Producer: Poli Marichal, Ricardo Méndez Matta
Key Cast: Steven Bauer, Lymari Nadal), and Daniel Lugo.
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1.2 million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Puerto Rico - USA
Three families struggle to survive in government corruption, drug smuggling, and crime. Three parallel stories reveal the true corruption of
Puerto Rico.
THE 4TH DIMENSION
Sci-Fi - Drama (82 min)
Country of Origin: USA
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After finding Albert Einstein's journal on his unsolved Unified Field Theory, Jack, an introverted genius, becomes obsessive in solving the
complexity of time that connects with his supernatural experiences.
SOUVENIR
Drama (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Natasa Prosenc
Writer: Natasa Prosenc, Wallace Zane
Producer: Wallace Zane
Key Cast: Joel Bryant, K. Carter, Gregory Daniels
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $750,000
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
A gallery owner inherits ancient African artifacts that are both stolen and cursed. Struggling with a moral dilemma, she embarks on an
emotional roller coaster of obsession, jealousy, and rage.
THE SCRATCH
Action (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Jorge Suarez
Writer: Jorge Suarez
Producer: Jorge Suarez
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $750,000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Private-eye rookie learns the ropes, but soon learns he's part of an electronic bank heist with a hidden agenda. Lots of shooting action!
THE PINK CONSPIRACY
Comedy (98 min)
Language: English
Director: Brian Scott Miller & Marc Clebanoff
Writer: Brian Scott Miller & Marc Clebanoff
Key Cast: James Russo, Sarah Thompson, Mercedes McNab, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, and others.
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1.2 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Unlucky in love Dave uncovers a conspiracy by all the women in his life to drive him to insanity. He has to tumble through a series of
adventures to get his life back.
KILL ME BEFORE VALENTINES, PLEASE!
Comedy (98 min)
Language: English
Director: Ron Oda, Kris Chen
Writer: Ron Oda
Producer: Kris Chen
Key Cast: James Kyson Lee, Kathy Uyen.
Delivery Status: completed
Budget: $1.2 million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
When Jim is jilted by his bride-to-be, he convinces his best friend, Alex, an ex-hitman, to kill him before Valentines Day and put him out of his
lonely misery.
MYRIAD PICTURES
Myriad Pictures, 3015 Main Street, Suite 400, Santa Monica CA 90405 USA. Tel: 1.310.279.4000. Fax: 1.310.279.4001.
www.myriadpictures.com, email: info@myriadpictures.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Kirk D’Amico (President and CEO), Pamela Rodi (EVP Marketing and Publicity), Elias Axume (VP Distribution and Operations),
Lisa Gutberlet (Director, Sales), Patrick Murray (Production and Finance)
Office: Villa Royale, 41 Croisette/29 Rue Commandant Andre, 4th Floor Suite, Cannes 06400. Tel: 1.310.279.4000. Fax: 1.310.279.4001
174
Drama
Language: Portuguese
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Director: Bruno Barreto
Writer: Bruno Barreto, Braulio Mantovani
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Year of Production: 2007
Based on a true event, 174 tells the gritty story of young Sandro, who lives in the slums of Rio de Janiero.
CRY OF THE OWL
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Jamie Thraves
Producer: BBC Films, Studio Hamburg, MACT Productions and Sienna Films
Key Cast: Julia Stiles and Paddy Considine
Delivery Status: Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, a troubled young women becomes irresistibly drawn to a man she discovers has been stalking her.
NOT FORGOTTEN
Supernatural Thriller
Language: English
Director: Dror Soref
Producer: Donald Zuckerman
Key Cast: Simon Baker, Paz Vega, Richardo Chavira, Claire Forlani
Delivery Status: Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
When his daughter is kidnapped, Jack Bishop discovers that the only way he can get her back is to enlist the help of the cult La Santa Muerte,
the worshippers of the dead.
DIMINISHED CAPACITY
Comedy (1hr. 32min.)
Language: English
Director: Terry Kinney
Key Cast: Matthew Broderick, Virginia Madsen, Alan Alda and Dylan Baker
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A man suffering from memory loss travels to a memorabilia expo with his Alzheimer's-impaired relative and his high school flame, where the
trio plan to finalize their scheme to sell a rare baseball card.
RAIN FALLS
Drama
Language: English
Director: Marlene King
Writer: Marlene King
Key Cast: Eva Mendes
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A look at the underbelly of picture-perfect suburban life, as three couples are plunged into a warm nightmare of sexuality, deceit and betrayal.
A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Bruce Beresford
Writer: Howard Himelstein, adapted from the play by Oscar Wilde
Producer: Donald Zuckerman, Howard Himelstein, David Lightfoot
Key Cast: Annette Bening, Sean Bean
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Based on Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy, a woman’s past comes back to haunt her when the man who left her with a child becomes the potential
employer of their illegitimate son.
THE OTHER SIDE
Fantasy Adventure
Language: English
Director: David Michaels
Key Cast: Katie Holmes, Woody Harrelson, Jason Lee and Giovanni Ribisi
Delivery Status: In Development
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Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A young student is mysteriously required to spend several months after her graduation on a remote island in the North Atlantic. There she
discovers an eccentric community of characters, all hiding a tragedy that took place years before.
THE MOTHER OF TEARS
Horror (1hr. 36min.)
Language: English
Director: Dario Argento
Producer: Medusa Films, Opera Films
Key Cast: Asia Argento, Udo Kier
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Italy
When a young art student opens an ancient urn and unwittingly releases the demonic force of the world’s most powerful witch, she discovers to
her horror that she is the only one who can stop the mayhem.
DEATH DEFYING ACTS
Romantic Mystery (1hr. 36min.)
Language: English
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Key Cast: Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall and Soairse Ronan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A mysterious and beautiful psychic attempts to outwit the famous Harry Houdini with her magic, but a passionate love affair evolves instead.
THE EDUCATION OF CHARLIE BANKS
Drama (1hr. 40min.)
Language: English
Director: Fred Durst
Key Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Ritter and Eva Amurri
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A young college student must face his worst fears when a bully from his past shows up on campus.
NIKKATSU CORPORATION
NIKKATSU Corporation, 3-28-12, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 Japan. Tel: 81.3.5689.1018. Fax: 81.3.5689.1044.
http://www.nikkatsu.com
At Cannes: Keizo Yuri (Director, Film Business Division), Kiyoshi Banba (Director, Film Business Strategies Division), Kenjiro Toba (Senior
Manager, Licensing/Videogram Business Department), Koichi Shibuya (Senior Manager, Film Business Strategies Office)
Office: G17
ONE MILLION YEN GIRL
http://www.nigamushi.com
Drama (121min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Yuki Tanada
Writer: Yuki Tanada
Producer: Kumi Kobata, Tadashi Tan
Key Cast: Yu Aoi,Mirai Moriyama, Pierre Taki,Terunosuke Takezai, Ryusei Saito,Sumie Sasaki
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Japan
Suzuko is already tired of people. She begins a journey and promises herself to stick with one rule: once she saves up a million yen, she must
leave for another town.
SING, SALMON, SING!
http://www.utatama.com
Comedy, drama (120min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Makoto Tan
Writer: Hiromitsu Kurihara, Makoto Tan
Producer: Yoichi Arishige, Kiyoe Noma, Ryusei Kawmi
Key Cast: Kaho, Gori, Hideo Ishiguro, Eri Tokunaga, Akiko, Hiroko Yakushimaru
Delivery Status: Completed
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Kasumi is a soprano part-leader of Chorus Club. One day, she is said“you look like spawning salmon”. Shocked by unexpected words, she
decides to quit club
NAOKO~WINNING RUNNERS
http://www.naoko-movie.com
Drama, sports (120min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Tomoyuki Furumaya
Writer: Tamio Hayashi, Tomoyuki Furumaya, Yohei Nagao
Producer: Hirohisa Mukuju, Osamu Kubota, Yoichi Arishige
Key Cast: Juri Ueno, Haruma Miura, Tsurube Shofukutei
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Japan
Naoko falls into the sea by accident. Yusuke’s father saves her life at the sacrifices of his life. A few years later, Naoko meets Yusuke who
becomes a famous runner.
NONSTOP SALES AB
NonStop Sales AB, Dobelnsgatan 24, Stockholm, 11352 Sweden. Tel: 00.46.8.673.99.80. Fax: 00.46.8.673.99.33.
http://www.nonstopsales.com, email: info@nonstopsales.net
At Cannes: CG Anderson (CEO), Michael Werner (Sales Manager), Judith Toth (Sales Executive), Cathrin Wentzel (Marketing Coordinator)
Office: Scandinavian Terrace (55 La Croisette), Tel: 0046.707.33.28.55
GNOMES AND TROLLS
http://www.gnomesandtrolls.com
Children Family (74 min + 5 x 15 min TV)
Language: English
Director: Robert Rhodin
Writer: Robert Rhodin, Salvatore Cardoni
Producer: White Shark Film
Key Cast: EG Daily (HAPPY FEET), Greg Berg (CHICKEN LITTLE, THE WILD AND TOY STORY), James Arnold Taylor (TMNT),
André Sogliuzzo (THE POLAR EXPRESS)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Sweden
GNOMES AND TROLLS tells the story about Junior, a teenage gnome who embarks on a heroic journey together with his best friend Sneaky,
a paranoid neurotic crow.
MANHUNT (ROVDYR)
http://www.rovdyrfilm.no
Horror (76 min)
Language: Norwegian
Director: Patrik Syversen
Writer: Patrik Syversen and Nini Bull Robsahm
Co-Production Partners: Norsk Filmstudio, Euforia Film
Producer: Fender Film AS
Key Cast: Henriette Bruusgaard, Jorn-Bjorn Fulller-Gee, Lasse Valdal,
Nini Bull Robsahm
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Norway
The Summer of 1974. Four youths on a hiking trip are abducted and dropped off in the woods. Someone is out hunting and they're the prey.
THE MAN WHO LOVED YNGVE (MANNEN SOM ELSKET YNGVE)
http://www.mannensomelsketyngve.no
Drama (98 min)
Language: Norwegian
Director: Stian Kristiansen
Writer: Tore Renberg
Producer: Motlys
Key Cast: Rolf Kristian Larsen, Ida Elise Broch, Arthur Berning, Ole
Christoffer Ertvaag
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Norway
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Jarle Klepp got everything; the best girlfriend and the coolest buddy, with whom he will launch punk band, Mathias Rust Band. But then
Yngve, the new boy in class appears.
THE KAUTOKEINO REBELLION (KAUTOKEINO-OPPRORET)
http://www.kautokeino-opproret.no
Drama (96 min)
Language: Norwegian
Director: Nils Gaup
Writer: Nils Gaup, Nils Isak Eira
Producer: Filmlance International, Rubicon TV AS
Key Cast: Mikael Persbrandt, Peter Andersson, Anni-Kristiina Juuso,
Mikkel Gaup, Asle Mathis Gaup, Nils Peder Isaksen Gaup, Mikael Nyqvist,
Bjorn Sundquist
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Norway
A historical saga set in 1852, modernisation is about to enter the desolate village of Kautokeino where authority is held by a ruthless liquor
dealer.
SWITCH
http://www.switchfilm.no
Drama (89 min)
Language: Norwegian
Director: Ole Martin Hafsmo
Writer: Peder Fuglerud
Producer: Rubicon Film AS
Key Cast: Sebastian Stigar, Peter Stormare, Ida Elise Broch, Espen Klouman Hoiner, Hilde Lyran
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Norway
When Mikkel falls in love with the girlfriend of the local snowboard champion, a fearful journey towards the big tournament begins.
BLOOD BROTHERS (BLOED BROEDERS)
http://www.bloedbroedersdefilm.com
Drama Thriller (95 min)
Language: Dutch
Director: Arno Dierickx
Writer: Jan Bernard Bussemaker, Bert Bouma
Producer: Rinkel Film & TV Productions BV
Key Cast: Erik van Heijningen, Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Sander van Amsterdam, Derk Stenvers, Pierre Bokma
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: The Netherlands
Inspired by an infamous murder case in the early sixties, Blood Brothers tells the story of sixteen year-old Simon trying to get popular, which
leads to a fatal outcome.
THE KING OF PING PONG (PING PONG KINGEN)
http://www.pingpongkingen.se
Drama (107 min)
Language: Swedish
Director: Jens Jonsson
Writer: Jens Jonsson, Hans Gunnarsson
Producer: Bob Film Sweden
Key Cast: Jerry Johansson, Hampus Johansson, Georgi Staykov, Ann-Sofie Nurmi, Frederik Nilsson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Sweden
Rille, who only excels in the ping pong room, descends into a life-and-death struggle with his younger, popular brother when the truth about
their father surfaces during their spring break.
NO NETWORK (DUGGHOLUFOLKID)
Children Family (82 min)
Language: Icelandic
Director: Ari Kristinsson
Writer: Ari Kristinsson
Producer: T Film Production
Key Cast: Bergdor Borvaldsson, Bordis Hulda Arnadottir, Arni Beinteinn Arnason, Brynhildur Gudjonsdottir
Delivery Status: Completed
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Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Iceland
When Kalli spends Christmas with his father new family at an isolated farm, he has to learn how to fight real life challenges while encountering
imaginary and fictional creatures.
NOTRO FILMS
Notro Films, Balmes 243 Ático, Barcelona, 08006 Spain. Tel: 34.93.238.4030. Fax: 34.93.238.4031. http://www.notrofilms.com
At Cannes: Alex Lafuente (Head of International Sales)
Office:
LOW QUALITY PEOPLE (GENTE DE MALA CALIDAD)
Comedy (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Juan Cavestany
Writer: Juan Cavestany
Co-Production Partners: Telespan 2000 & Telecinco Cinema
Producer: Tomas Cimadevilla & David Serrano
Key Cast: Alberto San Juan, Maribel Verdú, Fernando Tejero
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Spain
An ensemble cast comedy that narrates with brutal humour how sometimes we make terrible choices without really wanting it and how life can
transform us into low quality people with those we need the most.
DESPERATE WOMEN (ENLOQUECIDAS)
Comedy (96 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Juan Luis Iborra
Writer: Juan Luis Iborra & Antonio Albert
Co-Production Partners: Cuarteto PC, El Paso PC & Notro Films
Producer: Óscar del Caz, Marc Cases, Sergio Castellote, Beatriz Navarrete & Carlos Ibáñez
Key Cast: Silvia Abascal, Verónica Forqué, Concha Velasco, Iván Sánchez
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Spain
Blanca meets the man of his dreams, falls in love and loses him all in one week.
FERMAT'S ROOM (LA HABITACIÓN DE FERMAT)
Thriller (88 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Luis Piedrahita & Rodrigo Sopeña
Writer: Luis Piedrahita & Rodrigo Sopeña
Co-Production Partners: Notro Films & Boca a Boca
Producer: José María Irisarri, Adolfo Blanco, César Benítez
Key Cast: Lluis Homar, Alejo Sauras, Elena Ballesteros, Santi Millán & Federico Luppi
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Spain
Four mathematicians, who do not know each other, are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving the greatest enigma. The room
in which they find themselves turns out to be a death-trap.
THE FIELD OF STARS (EL PRADO DE LAS ESTRELLAS)
Drama (114 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Mario Camus
Writer: Mario Camus
Producer: Rodolfo Montero de Palacio, Nano Montero
Key Cast: Álvaro de Luna, Antonio de la Torre, Manuel Alexandre
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Spain
"The Field of Stars", a magically still place far out from the city where time seems to have stopped, holds several tales of love, friendship and
nostalgia of better times.
UNDER THE STARS (BAJO LAS ESTRELLAS)
Drama (108 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Félix Viscarret
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Writer: Félix Viscarret
Co-Production Partners: Fernando Trueba PC
Producer: Cristina Huete
Key Cast: Alberto San Juan, Emma Suárez, Julián Villagrán and Violeta Rodríguez
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Spain
Benito, a less-than-stellar musician, returns to his hometown when his father dies. Once there, he unexpectedly runs into Ainara, a rebellious
and introverted little girl who Benito forges a one-of-a-kind friendship with.
JENNIFER CAN
Drama
Language: Spanish
Director: Luis Alejandro Berdejo
Writer: Luis Alejandro Berdejo
Co-Production Partners: Notro Films, Versus Entertainment & Monfort Producciones
Key Cast: José Luis García Pérez
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: Spain
A strong connection develops that will change two lives forever.
WEDDING IN REYKJAVIK (UNA BODA EN REYKJAVIK)
Drama/Comedy
Language: Spanish
Director: Oriol Ferrer
Writer: Oriol Ferrer & Mireia Vidal
Co-Production Partners: Notro Films, Enunai Produccions & Pegasus Pictures
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: Spain
Enrique, an Argentinean living now in Reykjavik, returns to his old friends in Barcelona to invite them to his wedding. There is only one
condition: they must come with a mate.
EXTREMO
Action
Language: Spanish
Co-Production Partners: Notro Films & Telespan 2000
Key Cast: Teo García, Nacho Vidal
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: Spain
A fast-paced high-Budget: ed martial arts flick in the line of Sin City, EXTREMO is set in the modern streets of Barcelona.
PAGAFANTAS
Comedy
Language: Spanish
Director: Borja Cobeaga
Writer: Borja Cobeaga
Co-Production Partners: Telspan 2000
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Spain
For the gorgeous Argentinean Claudia, there have always been two kinds of guys: the ones you desire and the ones who buy you drinks.
A CERTAIN TRUTH (UNA CIERTA VERDAD)
Documentary (140 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Abel García Roure
Writer: Abel García Roure
Co-Production Partners: Notro Films & Evohé Films
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Spain
This groundbreaking documentary follows, for one year, six people whose lives all intersect in the same Mental Health Center in the outskirts
of Barcelona. All suffer from the same illness: acute schizophrenia.
NU IMAGE/MILLENNIUM FILMS
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Nu Image/Millennium Films, 6423 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA. Tel: 1.310.388.6900. Fax: 1.310.388.6901.
www.nuimage.net, Sales@nuimage.net
At Cannes: Avi Lerner (Co Chairman), Danny Dimbort (Co Chairman), Christian Mercuri (President International Distribution), Dimiter
Nikolov (VP, International Business and Legal Affairs), Adele Yoshioka (VP, International Distribution), Jeffrey Giles (International
Coordinator)
Office: Riviera, F1, Tel: 334.92.99.32.38
BROOKLYN¹S FINEST
Director: Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, Shooter)
Writer: Michael Martin
Cast: Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes
Status: Pre Production
Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths.
CONAN
COMING SOON!
More details on the adventure based on the mythical conqueror, Conan the Barbarian.
NINJA
Director: Isaac Florentine
Cast: TBD
Status: Pre Production
A ninja hiding in New York is forced to confront his past when a brutal gang of Yakuza assassins uncover his identity
LIES AND ILLUSIONS
Director: Tibor Takacs
Cast: Christian Slater and Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Status: In Production
A school teacher is trapped in the high tech world of espionage when his two lovers, both spies, fight to recover stolen gems while being
tracked by ruthless villains.
STREETS OF BLOOD
Director: Charles Winkler
Cast: Val Kilmer, Curtis “50Cent” Jackson, Sharon Stone
Status: Pre Production
Two city cops fight corruption on the streets and in their own force.
THE CODE
Director: Mimi Leder
Cast: Morgan Freeman and Antonio Banderas
Status: Post Production
A veteran thief recruits a young crook to help him pull off one final job in order to repay his debt to the Russian mob.
RIGHTEOUS KILL
Director: Jon Avnet
Writer: Russell Gewirtz (Inside Man)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson
Status: Post Production
Two New York cops find themselves in pursuit of a serial killer who leaves poems about the crime he just committed.
NZ FILM
NZ Film, Level 3, 119 Ghuznee Street, Wellington 6011 New Zealand. Tel: 64.4.382.7682. Fax: 64.4.384.9719. http://www.nzfilm.co.nz, email:
marketing@nzfilm.co.nz
At Cannes: Ruth Harley (CEO), Kathleen Drumm (Head of Sales and Marketing), Marilyn Milgrom (Head of Development), Sarah Cull (Head
of Business Affairs)
Office: 1st Floor, Residence Gray d'Albion, 17 La Croisette/4 Rue des Serbes (entrance via Rue des Serbes)
SECOND-HAND WEDDING
Drama
Language: English
Director: Paul Murphy
Writer: Nick Ward with Linda Niccol
Producer: Nigel Stanford, Paul Murphy, Kerry Robins
Key Cast: Geraldine Brophy, Holly Shanahan, Ryan O'Kane
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: New Zealand
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Cheryl is planning her big day, but there's only one problem - her mother.
THE TATTOOIST
http://www.thetattooistmovie.co.nz
Horror
Language: English
Director: Peter Burger
Writer: Matthew Grainger and Jonathan King
Co-Production Partners: Eyeworks Touchdown and MediaCorp Raintree Pictures
Producer: Robin Scholes
Key Cast: Jason Behr, Mia Blake
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: New Zealand
A tattoo artist must stop an angry spirit who is tattooing his clients to death.
A SONG OF GOOD
http://www.asongofgood.com
Psychological Drama
Language: English
Director: Gregory King
Writer: Gregory King
Producer: Mark Foster
Key Cast: Gareth Reeves, Matthew Sunderland, Danielle Cormack
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: New Zealand
After committing a shocking crime, Gary secretly decides to change his life and become a good person. But deciding is one thing, changing is
another.
DEAN SPANLEY
A droll tale
Language: English
Director: Toa Fraser
Writer: Alan Sharp
Co-Production Partners: General Film Corporation/Atlantic Films
Producer: Matthew Metcalfe and Alan Harris
Key Cast: Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Peter O'Toole, Bryan Brown
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK/NZ
The whimsical tale of a father and son and their encounters with the eccentric Dean Spanley.
APRON STRINGS
Drama
Language: English
Director: Sima Urale
Writer: Dianne Taylor and Shuchi Kothari
Producer: Rachel Gardner
Key Cast: Laila Rouass, Scott Wills
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: New Zealand
Food and love are intertwined in this tale of two mothers who must find the courage to confront the secrets and misunderstandings of the past,
in order to set their sons free.
RUBBINGS FROM A LIVE MAN
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Florian Habicht
Writer: Florian Habicht
Producer: Philippa Campbell
Key Cast: Warwick Broadhead
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: NZ
An extraordinary artist bares his soul for the camera and reveals a life full of tragedy and triumph.
TOPP TWINS: UNTOUCHABLE GIRLS
Documentary feature
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Language: English
Director: Leanne Pooley
Writer: Leanne Pooley with Jools and Linda Topp
Producer: Arani Cuthbert
Key Cast: Jools and Linda Topp
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: New Zealand
A profile of the world's only comedic, singing, dancing, lesbian, twin sisters.
THE STRENGTH OF WATER
Drama
Language: English
Director: Armagan Ballantyne
Writer: Briar Grace-Smith
Co-Production Partners: Pandora Film/Filmwork
Producer: Fiona Copland, Karl Baumgartner
Key Cast: Jim Moriarty, Nancy Brunning, Hato Paparoa
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: New Zealand
A young boy finds his own way of dealing with an unexpected tragedy.
THE VINTNER'S LUCK
Vintage love story
Language: English
Director: Niki Caro
Writer: Niki Caro with Joan Scheckel
Co-Production Partners: France/NZ
Producer: Laurie Parker, Robin Laing, Pascal Judelewicz, Niki Caro, Ludi Boeken
Key Cast: Jeremie Renier, Gaspard Ulliel, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Vera Farmiga
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: NZ/France
The tale of a peasant wine-maker in 19th century France and his life-long relationship with an angel, as they grapple with the sensual, the
sacred and the profane in search of the perfect vintage.
SHOW OF HANDS
Drama
Language: English
Director: Anthony McCarten
Writer: Anthony McCarten
Producer: Angela Littlejohn
Key Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Craig Hall
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: NZ
Jess and Tom enter a gruelling marathon to win a car - but what price will they pay to win? A touching love story.
OASIS INTERNATIONAL
Oasis International, 6 Pardee Ave, Suite 101, Toronto On M5K 3H5 Canada. Tel: 1.416.588.6821. Fax: 1.416.588.7276.
www.oasisinternational.com, email: info@oasisinternational.com
At Cannes: Peter Emerson (President), Valerie Cabrera (Sr. VP), Prentiss Holman (Dir. of International Sales), Ben Bishop (Sales and
Acquisitions Executive)
Office: Canada Pavillion
FINN ON THE FLY
Family comedy (110 min)
Language: English
Director: Mark Jean
Writer: Teza Lawrence, Michael Souther, Kellie Benz and Mark Jean
Co-Production Partners: Amaze Film and Stephen Onda Productions
Producer: Suzanne L. Berger, Teza Lawrence, Stephan Onda and Michael Souther
Key Cast: Ana Gasteyer, Ryan Bellville, Brandon Firla, Matthew Knight
Delivery Status: Post Production
Delivery Status: Completed
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Ben’s life is changed forever when his best friend Finn, his dog, is transformed into a human and helps him find his own pack.
ODD LOT INTERNATIONAL
Odd Lot International, 9601 Jefferson Blvd., Suite A, Culver City, CA 90232 USA. www.oddlotentertainment.com, e-mail: info@oddlotent.com
At Cannes: Gigi Pritzker (Co-CEO), Bill Lischak (COO), Brian O'Shea (EVP Worldwide Distribution), Andrew Boyd (Director, Marketing &
Publicity), Bernardo Da Fonseca (Director, International Distribution), Shirley Kim (Manager, International Business Affairs)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite 759/760. 10, La Croisette, BP 163 06407, Cannes, France. Tel: 33(0)4.97.06.84.93, Fax: 33(0)4.97.06.84.94
BOTTLE SHOCK
Drama
Language: English
Director: Randall Miller
Screenplay: Jody Savin & Randall Miller, Ross Schwartz
Producers: J. Todd Harris, Jody Savin, Randall Miller, Brenda Lhormer, Marc Lhormer, Marc Toberhoff
Cast: Bill Pullman, Alan Rickman, Rachael Taylor, Chris Pine, Freddy Rodriguez, Dennis Farina
Status: Screening
Country of Origin: USA
The charming true story of father and son winemakers in Napa Valley and the British Wineshop owner who organized the famous Paris
Tastings of 1976 that put California wines on the map and changed viticulture forever.
THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
Action
Language: English
Director: Jesse Johnson
Writer: Rick Yune
Producers: Andrew Zarrow, Patrick Cole, Rick Yune
Cast: Rick Yune, Keith David, Bokeem Woodbine
Status: Complete
Country of Origin: USA
An infant boy is orphaned by a gang of killers only to be saved and adopted by an unlikely Samaritan and his son.
THE OPEN ROAD
Drama
Language: English
Director: Michael Meredith
Writer: Michael Meredith
Producers: Charlie Mason, Justin Moore-Lewy, Michael Meredith, Jordan Foley, Laurie Foxx, David Schiff
Exec Producer & Visual Consultant: Wim Wenders
Cast: Justin Timberlake, Jeff Bridges, Kate Mara, Mary Steenburgen,
Harry Dean Stanton, Lyle Lovett
Status: Post-Production
Country of Origin: USA
A young man tries to reconnect with his famous father as he struggles to get him home to his ailing mother's bedside.
THE GREAT GHOST RESCUE
Adventure Fantasy
Language: English
Director: Yann Samuell
Writer: David Solomons (From the book by Eva Ibbotson)
Producers: Miriam Segal, Martin Katz
Status: In Prep
Country of Origin: UK
21st century fantasy adventure movie for audiences of all ages, it's the story of Humphrey, a small ghost with a big problem -- his family has
lost their home, and they're off to find a new haunting ground.
GOOD
Drama
Language: English
Director: Vicente Amorim
Writers: John Wrathall
Producers: Miriam Segal, Sarah Boote, Kevin Loader, Dan Lupovitz, Billy Dietrich
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker
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Status: Post-Production
Country of Origin: UK
A literary professor and decent family man, John Halder (Mortensen) explores his personal circumstances in a novel advocating compassionate
euthanasia.
ARMAGEDDAGAIN: THE DAY BEFORE TOMORROW
Parody/Comedy
Language: English
Director: Rob Moniot
Writers: Rob Moniot and Travis Oates
Producers: Hadeel Reda, Noah Emmerich
Status: In Prep
Country of Origin: USA
Spoofs several of the biggest box office hits of all time including Independence Day and The Bourne Ultimatum.
SENSE & SENSIBILIDAD
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Fina Torres
Writers: Fina Torres, Luis Alfaro
Producers: Gary Gilbert, Deborah Del Prete, Gigi Pritzker
Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: USA
A contemporary Latina version of Jane Austen's classic
novel set in Los Angeles.
THE SPIRIT
Action/Adventure/Romance
Language: English
Director: Frank Miller
Writers: Frank Miller
Producers: Deborah Del Prete, Gigi Pritzker, Michael Uslan
Co-Producers: Linda McDonough, F.J. DeSanto
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, Gabriel Macht, Sarah Paulson, Dan Lauria
Status: Post-Production
Country of Origin: USA
Based on Will Eisner's The Spirit, the action-adventure-romance tells the tale of a rookie cop who returns from the dead to fight crime from the
shadows of Central City.
ODYSSEY ENTERTAINMENT
Odyssey Entertainment, 10A James Street, London, WC2E 8BT UK. Tel: 44.20.7520.5610. Fax: 44.20.7520.5611. email: sales@odysseyentertainment.co.uk
Sales agent
At Cannes: Ralph Kamp (Chairman & CEO) (Sales), James Scott (VP International Sales), Libby D’Arcy (Head of Business Affairs), Louise
Goodsill (President & COO)
Office: Vieux Port Bateaux Bayview, Tel: 33.492.98.71.72, Fax: 33.492.98.71.72
DAYDREAM NATION
Teenage Drama
Language: English
Director: Mike Goldbach
Writer: Mike Goldbach
Producer: Michael Bessman, Cameron Lamb
Key Cast: Hayden Panettiere, Keiran Culkin
Delivery Status: Pre-Production, Delivery 2009
Year of Production: 2008
A seventeen year old girl moves to a small town haunted by the presence of a serial killer and begins an affair with the one person she connects
with: her teacher.
IMPY’S WONDERLAND
Animation
Language: English
Director: Reinhard Klooss, Holger Tappe
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Producer: Reinhard Klooss, Holger Tappe
Delivery Status: Completed and screening
Year of Production: 2008
Impy, a clever little dinosaur, leaves his island in search of adventure, falls in with the shrewd amusement park owner, Barnaby and must be
reached by his adorable sister and animal friends.
NUTCRAKER: THE TRUE STORY
Family
Language: English
Director: Andrew Konchalovsky
Producer: Paul Lowin, Andrei Konchalovsky
Key Cast: Elle Flanning, Nathan Lane, John Turturro, Richard E. Grant
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008
Set in 1920’s Vienna, Mary’s magical nutcracker doll comes to life on Christmas night taking her on a whirlwind adventure she’ll never forget.
EASY VIRTUE
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Stephen Elliot
Writer: Stephen Elliot, Sheridan Jobbins
Producer: Barnaby Thompson, Joseph Abrams
Key Cast: Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Kristen Scott Thomas
Delivery Status: Post production
Year of Production: 2008
An English Aristocrat falls impetuously marries a glamorous American woman. But…his mother has an instant allergic reaction to her new
daughter in law.
IS THERE ANYBODY THERE
Drama
Language: English
Director: John Crowley
Writer: Peter Harness
Producer: David Heyman, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub
Key Cast: Michael Caine, Bill Milner, David Morrissey, Anne-Marie Duff
Delivery Status: Post production
Year of Production: 2008
Young Edward meets retired magician Clarence with a liberating streak of anarchy. Is There Anybody There, the touching story of learning to
accept your destiny.
A BUNCH OF AMATEURS
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Andy Cadiff
Writer: Ian Hislop, Nick Newman
Producer: David Parfitt
Key Cast: Burt Reynolds, Imelda Staunton, Samantha Bond
Delivery Status: Post production
Year of Production: 2008
Aging Hollywood action hero Jefferson Steel accepts the prestigious invitation to play King Lear at Stratford…only it’s the sleepy Suffolk
village of Stratford St John…
AN EDUCATION
Period Drama
Language: English
Director: Lone Scherfig
Writer: Nick Hornby
Producer: Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
Key Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, Emma Thompson , Alfred Molina, Dominic Cooper, Rosamund Pike, Olivia Williams
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008
An Education is the story of a teenage girl’s coming of age with a twist in its tail, told with Hornby’s trademark humor and insight.
SPACE CHIMPS
Animation
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Language: English
Director: Kirk De Micco
Writer: Kirk De Micco, Rob Moreland
Producer: John H Williams, Barry Sonnenfeld
Key Cast: Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Jeff Daniels, Stanley Tucci, Kenan Thompson, Patrick Warburton
Delivery Status: Completed and screening
Year of Production: 2007
Nasa recruits space chimp Ham III for their next big mission – will they succeed or will they be trapped on the alien planet forever…?
OSCILLOSCOPE PICTURES
Oscilloscope Pictures, 511 Canal St., 5E, New York, NY 10013 United States. Tel: 1.212.219.4029. Fax: 1.212.219.9538.
http://www.oscilloscopepictures.com
David Fenkel (Sales)
Office:
GUNNIN' FOR THAT #1 SPOT
http://www.gunninmovie.com
Documentary (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Adam Yauch
Producer: Adam Yauch & Jon Doran
Key Cast: Michael Beasley, Kevin Love, Jerryd Bayless, Donte Greene, Kyle Singler, Brandon Jennings, Tyreke Evans, and Lance Stephenson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: United States
A look at eight of the nation’s top high school basketball players as they are groomed for the limelight.
OSTROW AND COMPANY
Ostrow and Company, 100 South Doheny Drive Suite 210, Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA. Tel: 1.310.276.5007.
http://www.ostrowandcompany.com
At Cannes: Page Ostrow (President), Mark Belasco (Sales Associate), Mark Horowitz (Sales Associate)
Office: Tel: 1.310.276.5007
FAT HEAD
Documentary (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Tom Naughton
Producer: Page Ostrow, Tom Naughton
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: Under 1 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A parody on Spurlock's Supersize Me that exposes the lies the U.S. government feeds us about our diets.
JUVIES
Documentary (66 min)
Language: English
Director: Leslie Neale
Producer: Page Ostrow, Mark Wahlberg, Leslie Neale, John Densmore
Key Cast: Mark Wahlberg
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 500,000
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
Expose on kids behind bars in US prisons
QUEENS OF HEART
http://www.ostrowandcompany.com
Documentary (80 min)
Language: English
Producer: Page Ostrow, Jan Haakin
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 500,000
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
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A therapist drag queen takes on the woes of the hetero-community bringing humanity, enlightenment and lots of laughs.
SPRAWLING FROM GRACE DRIVEN TO MADNESS
Documentary (91 min)
Language: English
Director: Dave Edwards
Producer: Page Ostrow, Dave Edwards
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: under 1 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
– Featuring Michael Dukakis and Bill Clinton. This relevant documentary proves the inconvenient truth that fossil fuels are the tip of the
iceberg. America must change the way it builds its cities or they will collapse.
KILLING MACHINES
Thriller/black comedy (91min)
Language: English
Director: Steve Braverman
Producer: Page Ostrow, Steve Braverman
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: under 1 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A Gulf War hero mourns his wife’s killing by becoming a Hitman for the mob and training his 9 and 11 year old daughters to follow in his
violent footsteps.
12
Art house/Drama (180 min)
Language: English
Director: Larry B
Writer: Larry B
Producer: Page Ostrow, Larry B
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 2 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
The Greek Gods are alive and well and living in Los Angeles where they remain a quarrelsome, arrogant, and mischievous family.
PATHÉ INTERNATIONAL
Pathé International, Paris Office: 2 rue Lamennais, 75008 Paris, France. Tel: 33.1.71.72.33.05. Fax: 33.1.71.72.33.10. E-mail:
sales@patheinternational.com. London Office: Kent House, 14-17 Market Place, London, W1W 8AR, UK. Tel: 44.207.462.4427. Fax:
44.207.436.7891
At Cannes: Muriel Sauzay (EXVP Pathé International) Cell # 33.6.16.59.83.13, Mike Runagall (SVP Pathé International) Cell #
44.7949.074.552, Saya Huddleston (VP Pathé International) Cell # 33.6.21.71.09.98, Mayalen de Croisoeuil (Sales Executive) Cell #
33.6.60.53.10.09), Agathe Theodore (Sales Executive) Cell # 33.6.70.72.37.32
Office: Résidences du Grand Hotel, 45 La Croisette, Ibis Block, 4th Floor, Apt. 4A, Tel: 33(0)4.93.46.09.27, Fax: 33(0)4.93.68.98.67
CHÉRI
Drama
Language: English
Director: Stephen Frears
Screenplay: Christopher Hampton
Producers: Bill Kenwright, Tracey Seaward
Production: Alan MacDonald
Key Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend, Felicity Jones
Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
OCEANS
Feature Documentary
Language: French
Director: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud
Producers: Jacques Perrin, Nicolas Mauvernay
Original Music by Bruno Coulais and Paul McCartney
Produced by Galatée Films in association with Pathé
Status: In Production
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Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: France
The film Oceans is a hymn to the sea, exploring the last uncharted territories on this planet.
THE ILLUSIONIST (WORKING TITLE)
Feature Animation
Director: Sylvain Chomet
Based on an Orignal Story by Jacques Tati
Producers: Bob Last, Sally Chomet
Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK/France
BRIGHT STAR
Period Drama
Language: English
Director: Jane Campion
Screenplay: Jane Campion
Producers: Jan Chapman, Caroline Hewitt
Cast: Kerry Fox, Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Paul Schneider
Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: A UK/Australian Co-Production
BRIGHT STAR is a tale of passionate young love, tracing the intense love affair between the great Romantic poet John Keats and the beautiful
Fanny Brawne in the months leading up to Keats’ tragic death at the age of 25.
THE DESCENT 2
Horror
Language: English
Director: Jon Harris
Screenplay: James Watkins
Producers: Neil Marshall, Christian Colson
Cast: Shauna MacDonald, Natalie Mendoza
Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
The sequel to one of this decades most thrilling and intense horror films, THE DESCENT 2 plunges back into the depths of the caves as the
search begins to unravel the fate of Sarah’s missing friends.
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Danny Boyle
Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy
Producer Christian Colson
Co-Producer Paul Ritchie
Key Cast: Dev Patel, Irrfan Khan, Anil Kapoor
Status: In Post-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
A 17 year-old street-kid hits the jackpot on India’s ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ Raised in the slums of Mumbai, he’s been nowhere and
knows nothing. So how did he do it…and why?
THE DUCHESS
Language: English
Period Drama
Director: Saul Dibb
Producers: Michael Kuhn, Gabrielle Tana
Screenplay: Jeffrey Hatcher, Anders Thomas Jensen, Saul Dibb
Cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling
Status: In Post-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
Like Princess Diana -her direct descendent, Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire was beautiful, glamorous and adored by the public. But while
her beauty and charisma made her a household name, one thing always seemed to escape her: love.
FAUBOURG 36 (PARIS 36)
Period Drama
Language: French
Director: Christophe Barratier
Screenplay: Christophe Barratier, Julien Rappeneau
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Producers: Jacques Perrin, Nicolas Mauvernay
Cast: Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Mérad
Status: In Post-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
In a 1930's Paris suburb, three unemployed stage workers occupy the local music hall where they had worked until a few months ago.
AGATHE CLÉRY
Comedy
Language: French
Director: Étienne Chatiliez
Screenplay: Laurent Chouchan, Étienne Chatiliez
Producer Charles Gassot
Cast: Valérie Lemercier, Anthony Kavanagh, Jean Rochefort
Status: In Post-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
Successful businesswoman Agathe Cléry awakens one morning to find her skin has radically changed colour.
LES ENFANTS DE TIMPELBACH (TROUBLE AT TIMPETILL)
Fantastic Tale
Language: French
Director: Nicolas Bary
Screenplay: Nicolas Peufaillit, Fabrice Roger-Lacan, Nicolas Bary
Producer: Dimitri Rassam
Cast: Raphael Katz, Adele Exarchopoulos, Leo Legrand
Status: In Post-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
The children of Timpetill are constantly up to no good. So when one child’s prank creates total mayhem in this quaint little town, the grownups decide it's time to teach their offspring a lesson…
EL PATIO DE MI CÁRCEL (THE PRISON YARD)
Drama
Language: Spanish
Director: Belén Macías
Screenplay: Belén Macías, Arancha Cuesta, Elena Canovas
Producers: Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García
Status: In Post-Production
Cast: Candela Peña, Verónica Echegui, Ana Wagener, Violeta Pérez, Natalia Mateo, Maria de la Pau Pigem, Tatiana Astengo, Ledicia Sola.
With Special Appearances From: Blanca Portillo, Patricia Reyes Spíndola
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Spain
Fighting against the strict rules and regulations by which they are forced to live, the inmates of Yesarias women’s prison have lost the ability to
function in a normal society.
LOL
Romantic Comedy
Language: French
Director: Liza Azuelos
Screenplay: Nans Delgado
Producers: Romain Le Grand, Esther Garcia
Cast: Sophie Marceau, Christa Theret
Status: In Post-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
At an age when emotions are volatile and feelings can only be expressed through text messages and msn, 15 year old Lola and her mother
haphazardly struggle to fill the ever increasing communications gap between teenagers and adults and overcome life’s heartaches.
THE SQUARE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Nash Edgerton
Screenplay: Joel Edgerton, Matthew Dabner
From an original story by Joel Edgerton
Producer Louise Smith
Cast: David Roberts, Claire Van Der Boom, Joel Edgerton
Status: In Post-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Australia
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When the plan to steal a briefcase of cash goes horribly wrong, Carla Smith and Raymond Yale find themselves wrapped in an increasing
world or paranoia and deceit.
LINHA DE PASSE
Drama
Language: Portugese
Directors Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas
Screenplay: Walter Salles, Bráulio Mantovani, Daniela Thomas
Producers: Mauricio Ramos, Rebecca Yeldham
Cast: João Baldasserine, Vinícius De Oliveira, Caique Jesus Santos
Status: In Post-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Brazil
Set against the backdrop of Sao Paulo’s sprawling urban jungle; family, identity, religion and dreams collide as four brothers go on an
emotional and redemptive journey that will define their futures.
HUSH
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Mark Tonderai
Screenplay: Mark Tonderai
Producer Zoe Stewart, Mark Herbert, Robin Gutch, Colin Pons
Cast: William Ash, Christine Bottomley, Andreas Wisniewski
Status: In Post-Production
Year of Production: 2008
Country of Origin: UK
Driving home after a long days work, Zakes' Abbott carelessly cuts up a white truck as he speeds to make his motorway exit. As the truck
violently overtakes, the tailgate momentarily flips up revealing a woman bound and bloodied in the back.
MES AMIS, MES AMOURS (MY FRIENDS, MY LOVES)
Romantic Comedy
Language: French
Director: Lorraine Levy
Screenplay: Lorraine Levy, based on the novel by Marc Levy
Producer Dominique Farrugia
Key Cast: Vincent Lindon, Pascal Elbé, Virginie Ledoyen
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007
Country of Origin: France
At the heart of London's French community, two life-long friends work together to re-invent their lives and overcome the trials of being single
fathers. There are only two rules: no babysitters and no women!
EDEN LAKE
Horror
Language: English
Director: James Watkins
Screenplay: James Watkins
Producer Christian Colson, Richard Holmes
Key Cast: Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Thomas Turgoose
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
Refusing to let anything spoil their romantic weekend break, a young couple confront a gang of loutish youths with terrifyingly brutal
consequences.
TABARLY
Feature Documentary
Language: French
Director: Pierre Marcel
Producer Jacques Perrin, Nicolas Dumont
Original Music Yann Tiersen
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
TABARLY is the fascinating account of Eric Tabarly, the gifted yachtsman and exceptional human being who went missing in the Irish Sea
while sailing to Scotland.
SKATE OR DIE
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Action
Language: French
Director: Miguel Courtois
Screenplay: Chris Nahon, Clelhio Favretto
Producers: Sebastian Fechner, Nicolas Vannier
Key Cast: Mickey Mahut, Idriss Diop, Elsa Pataky
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008
Country of Origin: France
Finding themselves at the scene of a murder, teenager skateboard enthusiasts, Jerome and Benjamin, need all their skills to escape unharmed.
BIENVENUE CHEZ LES CH’TIS (WELCOME TO THE STICKS)
Comedy
Language: French
Director: Dany Boon
Screenplay: Dany Boon, Alexandre Charlot, Franck Magnier
Producer Claude Berri
Cast: Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoe Felix
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008
Country of Origin: France
Tired-and-true Southerner Philippe Abram is transferred by his work to a small northern town. All is well…at least until his wife decides to
join him!
CAFÉ DE LOS MAESTROS
Language: Spanish
Feature Documentary
Director: Miguel Kohan
Producers: Gustavo Santaolalla, Lita Stantic
Executive Producer Walter Salles
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Argentina
With the return to democracy, Argentina is experiencing an extraordinary rebirth of its main national musical tradition, the Tango.
THE COTTAGE
Comedy Horror
Language: English
Director: Paul Andrew Williams
Screenplay: Paul Andrew Williams
Producer Ken Marshall
Key Cast: Andy Serkis, Jennifer Ellison, Reece Shearsmith
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008
Country of Origin: UK
Set in a remote part of the countryside, a bungled kidnapping goes horribly awry when three inept kidnappers and their hostage take refuge in a
desolate farmhouse and cross paths with a monstrous psychopathic farmer.
LA GRAINE ET LE MULET (THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN)
Drama
Language: French
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Writer Abdellatif Kechiche
Producer Claude Berri
Cast: Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Faridah Benkhetache
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005
Country of Origin: France
An inspiring story of a sixty-year-old man’s struggle to overcome life’s hardships and realize his life-long dream.
WHATEVER LOLA WANTS
Romantic Drama
Language: English
Director: Nabil Ayouch
Screenplay: Nabil Ayouch, Nathalie Saugeon, Jane Hawksley
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Cast: Laura Ramsey, Carmen Lebbos, Assaad Bouab
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: A French/Canadian Co-Production
At 25, Lola's ambition to be a professional dancer seems almost impossible. But the tale of Ismahan, a famous Egyptian dancer who struggled
against all the odds to succeed, inspires in her a new resolve.
PEACE ARCH ENTERTAINMENT
Peace Arch Entertainment, 4640 Admiralty Way, Suite 710, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292, USA. Tel: 1.310.776.7208. Fax: 1.310.823.7147.
www.peacearch.com, e-mail: sales@peacearch.com
Peace Arch Entertainment acquires and produces theatrical, home entertainment, and television content for distribution to worldwide markets
At Cannes: John Flock (President and COO), Mary Herne (EVP, International Television/Home Entertainment), Suzanne Barron (SVP,
International Television/Home Entertainment), Caroline Dubourg (SVP, Business Affairs), Roy Bodner (SVP – Film and Television Marketing
and Communications)
Acqusition Executives: Berry Meyerowitz (President, Peace Arch Home Entertainment), Larry Greenberg (SVP, Acquisitions)
Office: Riviera, Lerins, S9, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.45, Fax: 33(0)4.92.99.32.46
WINGED CREATURES
Drama (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Rowan Woods
Writer: Roy Freirich
Producer: Robert Salerno
Key Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Forest Whitaker, Dakota Fanning
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Linked together by a life-changing tragedy, the survivors of a multiple murder are each left to comprehend their mortality and redefine their
place in society.
THE DEAL
Romantic Comedy (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Steven Schachter
Writer: William H. Macy, Steven Schachter
Producer: Irene Litinsky, Michael Prupas
Key Cast: William H. Macy, Meg Ryan, LL Cool J
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
When a struggling producer’s lead actor is kidnapped from the set, he hatches a scheme with an executive to save the star and the movie.
GOAL 3
Sport Drama
Language: English
Director: Andrew Morahan
Writer: Mike Jefferies, Piers Ashworth
Producer: Matt Barrelle, Peter Heslop, Mike Jeffereis
Co-production partners: Piers Ashworth
Key Cast: JJ Field, Leo Gregory, Kuno Becker, Anna Friel
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
The final installment in the action-packed fast-paced soccer trilogy, Goal 3 features international stars like Kuno Becker, David Beckham and
Alessandro Nivola.
THE BABYSITTERS
Dark Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: David Ross
Writer: David Ross
Producer: Jason Dubin, Jennifer Dubin, Kathy DeMarco, John Leguizamo, Cora Olson
Key Cast: Katherine Waterston, John Leguizamo, Cynthia Nixon
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A teenage girl turns her babysitting service into a call-girl ring for married men after a tryst with one of her customers.
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Drama (85 min)
Language: English
Director: J. P. Schaefer
Writer: J. P. Schaefer
Producer: Robert Salerno, Naomi Despres and Alexandra Milchan
Key Cast: Jared Leto, Lindsay Lohan, Judah Friedlander
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
Torn between jealousy and awe for John Lennon, Mark David Chapman’s footsteps are retraced as his mental collapse leads him to murder
Lennon in 1980.
DELIRIOUS
Romantic Comedy (107 min)
Language: English
Director: Tom DiCillo
Writer: Tom DiCillo
Producer: Robert Salerno
Key Cast: Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Alison Lohman, Gina Gershon
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
A bottom-feeding paparazzo befriends a young homeless man whose chance meeting with a celebutante creates a wedge between the two
unlikely friends.
WATCHING THE DETECTIVES
Romantic Comedy (91 min)
Language: English
Director: Paul Soter
Writer: Paul Soter
Producer: Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Galt Niederhoffer, Celine Rattray
Key Cast: Lucy Liu, Cillian Murphy
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
The line between film and reality is blurred when a film noir geek meets a real-life femme fatale with a big adventure in mind.
GUANTANAMERO
Drama (86 min)
Language: English
Director: Vicente Penarrocha
Writer: Vicente Penarrocha, Philip Palmer
Producer: Michiyo Yoshizaki
Key Cast: Rupert Evans, Sir Derek Jacobi
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Spain
A chilling yet sensitive insight into the mind of a captive at Guantanamo Bay prison, as he struggles to separate fantasy from reality.
SHRED
Comedy (98 min)
Language: English
Director: David Mitchell
Writer: David Mitchell, Francis Mitchell, John Mitchell
Producer: Randy Cheveldave
Co-production partners: Jeff Wilson
Key Cast: Tom Green, David England
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Before they are banned from the snowboarding circuit, two “shredders” must transform snowboard wannabes into pros.
DEVIL’S MERCY
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Melanie Orr
Writer: James A. McLean
Producer: Peace Arch Entertainment
Key Cast: Stephen Rea
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Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2008
A couple and their six-year-old son move into an old Connecticut house where the boy soon becomes distraught with thoughts of monsters
dwelling in the attic.
NEVER CRY WEREWOLF
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Brenton Spencer
Writer: John Sheppard
Producer: Aaron Barnett
Key Cast: Nina Dobrev, Kevin Sorbo
Delivery Status: Post-production
A teenage tomboy meets handsome moody stranger that moves in next door who turns out to be a werewolf.
GUNS (MINI-SERIES)
Crime Drama (4x60min)
Language: English
Director: David Sutherland
Writer: Jen Holness, David Sutherland
Producer: Jen Holness, High Caliber Productions, Hungry Eyes Productions
Key Cast: Elisha Cuthbert, Colm Feore, Shawn Doyle, Gregory Smith
Delivery Status: post-production
Year of Production: 2007/08, Country of Origin: USA
A gritty and explosive episodic drama that explores the sometimes unexpected, but frequently violent paths that connect guns with their
owners.
THE LAST HIT MAN
Crime Drama (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Christopher Warre Smets
Writer: Christopher Warre Smets
Producer: Peace Arch Entertainment and Red Duck Films
Key Cast: Joe Mantegna and Victoria Snow
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
An aging assassin (Joe Mantegna) has to come clean with his daughter, also his business partner, when a younger hit man is sent to clean up his
mess.
ALL THE GOOD ONES ARE MARRIED
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Terry Ingram
Writer: Maria Nation, Edith Swensen
Producer: Jonathan Dueck
Key Cast: Daryl Hannah, Matthew Knight, Deborah Odell
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Overworked and in denial of her failing marriage, Alex (Daryl Hannah) brings home a troubled young woman who ends up having an affair
with her husband
ÜBERGUIDE
Reality/Lifestyle Programming (5 x 60min)
Language: English
Director: Stan Feingold
Producer: The Eyes Television Production
Delivery Status: In production
Year of Production: 2005-2008, Country of Origin: Canada
Five programs featuring the world's top ten most expensive, most exotic and Über-exclusive travel phenomena.
PFG ENTERTAINMENT
PFG Entertainment, 429 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 600, Santa Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel: 310.393.5788. Fax: 310.393.0882.
http://www.pfgentertainment.com, email: mail@pfgentertainment.com
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At Cannes: Ted Rosenblatt (President)
Office: Carlton InterContinental Hotel Suite 201, Tel: 04.93.06.4.201, Fax: 04.93.38.31.10
A WAY WITH MURDER
Crime Thriller
Language: English
Director: Dan Neira
Producer: Medhat Faltas, Sam Faltas, Tony DiDio
Key Cast: Michael Madsen, Kim Morgan Greene
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
An apparent victim’s hidden criminal past is ultimately uncovered by the same detective hired to protect her.
CHUCK BERRY AND BO DIDDLEY'S ROCK N' ROLL ALL-STAR JAM
Music, Documentary (60 min)
Language: English
Director: Ron Terry
Producer: Ron Terry
Key Cast: Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Mick Fleetwood, Ron Wood, Carl Wilson, John Mayall
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1985, Country of Origin: USA
In 1985, Bo Diddley put together a band, cooked them all a barbecue dinner, and then they put on a show. It's an R&B jamfest. Available for
the first time for international DVD distribution.
TOOLBOX MURDERS… THE RETURN
Dir: Dean Jones
Prod.: Tony DiDio
Writer: Jeffrey Reddick
Status: Preproduction
Logline: The Toolbox Murders are beginning… again.
DEEPAK CHOPRA'S THE SEVEN SPRITUAL LAWS OF SUCCESS
Drama (70 min)
Language: English
Director: Ron Frank
Producer: Mallika Chopra, Gotham Chopra, Ron Frank
Key Cast: Deepak Chopra, Olivia Newton-John, Bill Duke
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
Based on his best-selling book, author Deepak Chopra offers a life-altering perspective on the attainment of success through seven simple, yet
profound principles.
DEEPAK CHOPRA'S HOW TO KNOW GOD
Drama (84 min)
Language: English
Director: Ron Frank
Producer: Mallika Chopra, Gotham Chopra, Ron Frank
Key Cast: Deepak Chopra
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
Author Deepak Chopra embarks on an exciting, insightful journey towards a better understanding of one of life’s great mysteries.
COME AS YOU ARE
Comedy, Romance (84 min)
Language: English
Director: Chuck Rose
Writer: Chuck Rose
Producer: Echo Gaffney, Chuck Rose
Key Cast: Michelle Harrison, Bobbi Sue Luther, James Russo, Maury Sterling
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: USA
After going from class nerd to dot.com millionaire in a few short years, Craig Dowd tries desperately to keep his college friends from finding
out what kind of on-line business he really runs.
ATLANTIC MEDIA HOLDINGS
Delivery Status: Completed
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This comprehensive library of s for DVD, VOD, IPTV and Television distribution includes over 200 features, as well as Television Series,
Special Programs and Documentaries.
PORCHLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT
Porchlight Entertainment, 11050 Santa Monica Blvd., 3rd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90025 USA. Tel: 1.310.477.8400. Fax: 1.310.477.5555.
www.porchlight.com, email: info@porchlight.com
Distributor
At Cannes: William Baumann (President & COO), Ken DuBow (President Worldwide Distribution), JD Beaufils (VP, Worldwide Sales),
Katherine Kaufman (VP, Worldwide Sales), Jeffrey Engelen (VP, Worldwide Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Ken DuBow
Offices: R8, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.33.15
GOOBY
www.coneybearestories.ca
Family (94 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Wilson Coneybeare
Writer: Wilson Coneybeare
Producer: Wilson Coneybeare
Co-production partners: Coneybeare Stories
Key Cast: Robbie Coltrane, Eugene Levy, David James Elliott, Matthew Knight
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Canada
Eleven year old Willy’s childhood toy, Gooby, comes to life as a real life six-foot tall monster who helps Willy through rough times, with hairraising and hilarious adventures ensuing.
RUNNING THE SAHARA
www.runningthesahara.com
Documentary (114 minutes)
Language: English
Director: James Moll
Producer: Rick Eldridge, Marc Joubert, Larry Tanz
Co-production partners: LivePlanet, Independent Producers Alliance
Key Cast: Charlie Engle, Ray Zahab, Kevin Lin
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: US
In 2006, an international expedition team of three men undertook a quest that no human being has ever fulfilled….they will run across the
Sahara Desert.
THE NOTE
Family (87 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Douglas Barr
Writer: Paul W. Cooper
Producer: Steve Solomos
Co-production partners: Wildrice, Lightworks Pictures, Doone City Pictures
Key Cast: Genie Francis, Ted McGinley, Katie Boland
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: US
After a tragic plane crash, a local journalist discovers a note that she believes was written by one of the passengers. As she seeks the note’s
intended receiver, she unexpectedly confronts her own personal demons in the process.
WAR CHILD
www.warchildmovie.com
Documentary (94 minutes)
Language: English
Director: C. Karim Chrobog
Producer: C.Karim Chrobog, Afshin Molavi
Co-production partners: 18th Street Films Production
Key Cast: Emmanuel Jal
Delivery Status: Completed
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Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: US
WAR CHILD chronicles the life of Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier of Sudan’s brutal civil war and emerging international hip-hop star
with a message of peace for his war-torn land and his beloved Africa.
THE LIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
www.candlemanfilms.com
Animated (30 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Nathan Smith, Christopher Robin Miller
Writer: Bryan Allen
Producer: Cliff Miles, Michael Todd
Co-production partners: Halloween Partners, LLC, Evergreen Holiday Classics
Key Cast: Brock Holman, Ruby Chase O’Neill, Ken Sansom
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: US
The Candleman teaches Katie and Makean that Christmas is more than just presents.
SPOOKY BATS & SCAREDY CATS
www.candlemanfilms.com
Animated (30 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Nathan Smith, Christopher Robin Miller
Writer: Bryan Allen
Producer: Cliff Miles, Michael Todd
Co-production partners: Halloween Partners, LLC, Evergreen Holiday Classics
Key Cast: Brock Holman, Ruby Chase O’Neill, Ken Sansom
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: US
Join Katie and Makean as they embark on a thrilling quest delivering mysterious Halloween invitations for their old friend, The Candleman.
PRESTIGE
Prestige, P.O. Box 7400, Studio City, CA 91614 USA. Tel: 1.818.985.3003. Fax: 1.818.985.3009.
At Cannes: Mr. Jay Firestone (Partner), Mr. Etchie Stroh (Partner), Mrs. Yael Stroh (Partner), Mr. Ron Gell (International Sales), Mr. Michael
Grant (Marketing)
Office: LERINS, Stand R21, Tel.: 04.92.99.32.43
THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP
Thriller/Horror
Director: Stuart Gordon
Writer: Dennis Paoli
Producers: Robert Katz, Etchie Stroh
Status: Pre-Production
Cntry of Origin: USA
A psychiatrist is seduced by an other worldly spirit in this film adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft story.
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL NANNY
Comedy Feature
Director: Dana Lustig
Writer: Dana Lustig
Producers: Dana Lustig, Etchie Stroh
Status: Pre-Production
Cntry of Origin: U.S.A.
The story of a has-been rocker who ends up as the nanny in the home of one of his ex-groupies.
QED INTERNATIONAL
QED International, 9595 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 800, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 USA. Tel: 310.273.3004. Fax: 310.273.3006.
At Cannes: Kimberly Fox, EVP (International Distribution), Tatyana Joffe (VP, International Distribution), Heather Montgomery (Worldwide
Sales Coordinator), Rachel Korn (Market Assistant)
Office: 67 la Croisette, 7th floor, Tel: 33(0)4.93.46.02.33, Heather Montgomery mobile: 1.310.922.7821
W (BUSH)
Language: English
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Director: Oliver Stone
Writer: Stanley Weiser
Producers: Moritz Borman, John Kilik, Bill Block
Cast: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, James Cromwell, Ellen Burstyn
Production Status: Pre Production
Love him or hate him, George W. Bush is one of the most controversial men in recent memory. Prepare yourself to find out the truth about a
man who changed this world forever.
DISTRICT 9
Language: English
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Producer: Peter Jackson
Writer: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
Production Status: Pre Production
A PERFECT GETAWAY
Language: English
Director: David Twohy
Writer: David Twohy
Executive Producers: John Davis, Bill Block, Kimberly Fox
Producers: Ryan Kavanaugh, Tucker Tooley, Robbie Brener
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Timothy Olyphant, Steve Zahn, Kiele Sanchez
US Distribution: MGM
Production Status: Pre Production
A newlywed couple’s excitement turns to fear when they receive news of a series of gruesome murders that have been taking place on the
islands where they are honeymooning.
NEW YORK I LOVE YOU
Language: English
Producers: Emmanuel Benbihy, Marina Grasic
Production Status: Production
Following the box office smash feature film 'Paris, je t'aime', twelve filmmakers will direct short films illustrating the universal theme of
encountering love within the five boroughs of New York City.
THE LUCKY ONES
Language: English
Director: Neil Burger
Writers: Neil Burger & Dirk Wittenborn
Producers: Neil Burger, Brian Koppelman, David Levien, and Rick Schwartz
Executive Producers: Bill Block, Paul Hanson, Marina Grasic, Jan Korbelin and Adam Merims
US Distribution: Lions Gate
Production Status: Completed – Screening in Cannes
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins, and Michael Peña
Three strangers take an unexpected cross-country road trip to Las Vegas.
WALLED IN
Language: English
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Gomez vs. Tavares, UV)
Writers: Rudolphe Tissot, Oliver Volpi and Gilles Paquet-Brenner, based on the best selling novel Les Emmeures
Production Status: Post Production
Producers: Ingo Volkammer, Clement Miserez, Jean-Charles Levy, Kevin DeWalt, Stephane Marsil
Cast: Mischa Barton, Cameron Bright and Deborah Unger
A beautiful young woman from a wealthy construction family attempts to prove herself to her father and competitive brothers by taking on a
difficult demolition assignment in a remote park.
POWDER BLUE
Language: English
Director: Timothy Linh Bui Writer: Timothy Linh Bui
Producers: Forest Whitaker, Bobby Schwartz, Ross M. Dinerstein, Tracee Stanley-Newell, Timothy Linh Bui
Executive Producers: Shaun Redick, Bill Block, Kimberly Fox
Story by: Timothy Linh Bui & Stephane Gauger
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Jessica Biel, Patrick Swayze, Ray Liotta Production: Post Production
On Christmas Eve, four lives collide by chance, tragedy and divine intervention.
THE ECHO
Language: English
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Director: Yam Laranas Production Status: Completed – Screening in Cannes
Writer: Eric Bernt, based on the award-winning film SIGAW
Producers: Roy Lee, Doug Davison, Shintaro Shimosawa, Tyler Mitchell, Will Wright
Executive Producers: Bob Hoff, Elliot Ferwerda, Kimberly Fox, Eric Bernt
Cast: Jesse Bradford
Recently paroled Bobby Reynolds attempts to make a new life for himself by getting a job, reconnecting with a former girlfriend and moving
into his mother’s apartment, vacant since her untimely death.
SMART PEOPLE
Language: English
Director: Noam Murro
Writer: Mark Poirier
Production Status: Completed
Producers: Bridget Johnston, Michael Costigan, Michael London, Bruna Papandrea
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church and Ellen Page
US Distribution: Miramax
A witty and poignant tale about uptight, pompous Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid), who in the years following his wife’s death,
has become a scourge to his students and an emotionally absent father to his rebellious son and his perfect preppy daughter.
THE GIRL IN THE PARK
Language: English
Director: David Auburn
Writer: David Auburn
Production Status: Completed
Producers: Sean Furst, Bryan Furst, Chip Rosenbloom, Devesh Chetty, Robyn Gardiner
Cast: Kate Bosworth, Sigourney Weaver, Keri Russell and Alessandro Nivola
Fifteen years after her daughter is kidnapped in Central Park, a lonely woman (Sigourney Weaver) encounters a troubled young girl (Kate
Bosworth) and is slowly convinced she has finally found her missing child.
THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH
Language: English
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber Production Status: Completed – Screening in Cannes
Producers: Michael London, Jason Mercer, Thor Benander, Rawson Marshall Thurber
Cast: Jon Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sienna Miller, Menu Suvari, Omid Abtahi, Nick Nolte
A coming-of-age story set against the faded glory of early 1980's era Pittsburgh.
QUANTUM RELEASING
Quantum Releasing, 209 East Alameda #203, Burbank, CA 91502 USA. Tel: 1.818.255.9900 . Fax: 1.818.255.9903.
www.quantumreleasing.com, email: sales@quantumreleasing.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Jamie Thompson (President of Distribution), Michael Lurie (Director of Sales)
Acquisition Executive: Jamie Thompson (VP Sales and Acquisitions)
Office: Riviera B20, Tel: 1.310.929.7494
BABY
www.babythemovie.com
(100min)
Language: English
Director: Juan Chung
Writer: Juan Chung
Producer: Jason Serrato
Key Cast: Tzi Ma, Ron Yuan, Feodor Chin, Dana Lee, Kenneth Choi, Kenzo Lee
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
STRIKE
Comedy (94min)
Language: English
Director: Tommy Reid
Writer: Ross Paterson
Producer: Patrick Durham, Tara Reid, David E Ornston, Tommy Reid, Jonathan Sacher
Key Cast: Ross Paterson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
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Ross rules the lanes and becomes a national icon for a new breed of bowler but loses his friends to fame and fortune.
FINAL ENGAGEMENT
Thriller (96min)
Language: English
Director: Ari Novak
Writer: Jessica Tuffley
Producer: Jessica Tuffley
Key Cast: Peter Green, Arlene Tur
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Jacqueline is used as a pawn by her Miami crime boss father in order to expand his empire. Now a journey down he aisle may turn deadly.
WITCHES¹ NIGHT
Horror, Thriller
Language: English
Director: Paul Traynor
Writer: Paul Traynor
Producer: Sean Bradley, Michael Lent
Key Cast: Gil McKinney, Betsy Baker, Elizabeth Oas
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
When a jilted groom and his buddies stumble upon four beautiful women deep in the woods, death and spell begin to follow them.
STALKING SANTA
Family, Comedy (82min)
Language: English
Director: Greg Kiefer
Writer: Matt Davis, Matt Henderson, Daryn Tufts
Producer: Rick McFarland
Key Cast: Chris Clark, Daryn Tufts, William Shatner
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Self-proclaimed "Santologist" Dr. Lloyd Darrow will stop at nothing to take on government conspiracy, corporate suppression and phony mall
Santas--all in pursuit of the world's oldest yuletide enigma.
THE AMERICAN POOP MOVIE
Comedy (95min)
Language: English
Director: Joe Kingsley
Writer: Joe Kinsley
Producer: Mark Burton Grzesiuk, Chuck Kaiton
Key Cast: Ross Kidder, Randy Tobin, Jason Sarayba
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
Russ, a recent college graduate, is forced to make a decision: start a new life by leaving home, or accept becoming a townie like so many of his
friends.
PINK LEMONADE
Comedy
Language: English
Director: David Edmundson, Randy Van Dyke
Writer: David Edmundson, Randy Van Dyke
Producer: Charles Myers, Robert Shulevitz
Key Cast: Kurt Finney, Angela Trimbur, Brett Lawrence
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
Welcome to food-service hell. The waitstaff has no morals and willing to serve anything to the trash-talkers and some inept thieves.
BEACH BUMS
www.pincheburro.com
Comedy (88min)
Language: English
Director: Patrick Healy
Writer: Patrick Healy
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Producer: Jim Stimpson
Key Cast: Kansas Carradine, Rini Bell
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Five friends take an annual trip to Baja, Mexico to catch some waves. This year, they are accompanied by cocky dot-commer whose life has
fallen a part.
SIDE SHO
Horror (89min)
Language: English
Director: Michael D¹Anna
Writer: Frank and Paula Fox
Producer: Paula Fox
Key Cast: John David Hart, Toni Robider, Dana Poulson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A suburban family on vacation in the backwoods of Florida venture off the main highway in search of historic roadside attractions, but find
much more than they bargained for.
LAST OF THE LIVING
http://gorillapictures.co.nz/lotl.html
Horror/ Comedy
Language: English
Director: Logan McMillian
Writer: Logan McMillian
Producer: Logan McMillian
Key Cast: Wuckud MC, Ashleigh Southam, Robert Faith, Emily Paddon-Brown
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: New Zealand
When a virus turns the world into brain
hungry zombies, three friends band together to survive the outbreak.
BUNNY WHIPPED
lovefearandrabbits.com
Comedy (91min)
Language: English
Director: Rafael Riera
Writer: Rafael Riera
Producer: Ty Donaldson
Co-production partners: Julian Sanchez
Key Cast: Joey Lauren Adams, Esteban Powell, Laz Alonso, Brande Roderick
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Bob decides to take matters into his own hands to find Cracker Jack¹s killer by becoming “The Whip”, a vigilante super-hero – albeit without
any real superhero powers.
BURNING MUSSOLINI
Crime/ Action (117min)
Language: English
Director: Conrad Pla
Writer: Conrad Pla
Producer: Tommy Groszman
Key Cast: Conrad Pla, Chelah Horsdal, Richard Chevolieau, Johnson Peter Outerbridge,
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Canada
Ex-boxer Paul Choquino decides to finance his upcoming wedding by robbing reputed drug lord Benito Mussolini Bonacci. But everything that
can go wrong in the burn does.
NEVERMORE
www.nevermorethemovie.com
Thriller (95min)
Language: English
Director: Thomas Zambeck
Writer: Thomas Zambeck
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Producer: Angela Barakat
Key Cast: Judd Nelson, Vincent Spano, Jennifer O¹Dell
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Now a recluse going insane, Jonathan becomes suspicious of his wife creating this insanity atmosphere to steal his fortune.
BACHLORMAN
Comedy (98min)
Language: English
Director: John Putch
Writer: Rodney Lee Conover
Producer: Rodney Lee Conover
Key Cast: David DeLuise, Missi Pyle
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
In a world of sensitive, caring and wimpy men, Ted Davis is a scoring machine with the ladies.
PICCADILLY COWBOY
Romantic Comedy (100min)
Language: English
Director: Tyler Ford
Writer: Scott Brown, Tyler Ford
Producer: Tyler Ford
Key Cast: Jaelan Petrie, Gwyneth Powell, James Green, Tom Butcher
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: England
Carson Well, a Montana Cowboy, finds himself looking for love in London, to only fall in love with the wrong woman.
RAI TRADE
Rai Trade, Via Umberto Novaro 18, Rome, 00195 Italy. Tel: 39.06.374.981. Fax: 39.06.370.1343. http://www.raitrade.it, email:
info@raitrade.it
At Cannes: Renato Parascandolo (President), Alba Calia (Vice President), Carlo Nardello (CEO), Sesto Cifola (Head of Cinema and TV Sales),
Alessandra Sottile (Docs, Factual, Fashion and Lifestyle International Senior Sales Executive)
Office: Palais Stephanie, Salon Brougham 1st Floor
THE VICEROYS
Historical Drama (120 min)
Language: Italian with English subs
Director: Roberto Faenza
Co-Production Partners: Jean Vigo Italia, Rai Cinema
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Italy
A rich historical drama. A Sicilian family with a father who is a tyrant and who even deprives his daughter of the right to love.
HIGH SCHOOL LOSERS
Comedy (90 min)
Language: Italian with English subs
Director: Luca Biglione
Co-Production Partners: Devon Cinematografica, Dania Film, Surf Film
Delivery Status: Completed
Michele’s failing grades convince his parents to pull him out of school and hire a private teacher. The boy is further humiliated when his virtual
life as a Latin lover on internet is unmasked.
WALTZ
Drama (87 min)
Language: Italian with English subs
Director: Salvatore Maira
Producer: Home Production
Delivery Status: Completed
The lives of two people are drastically changed in the space of one and a half hours.
MS. F
Drama (94 min)
Language: Italian with English subs
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Director: Wilma Labate
Co-Production Partners: Rai Cinema, Bianca Film
Delivery Status: Completed
The Martanos, a Southern working-class family who live in Turin, have the fortune to have their daughter Emma. In a few days, Emma is
subjected to the most important experience of her life.
MAYBE GOD IS ILL
Doc-film (90 min)
Language: Italian with English subs
Director: Franco Brogi Taviani
Producer: AGER 3
Delivery Status: Completed
The film follows the main stories of Walter Veltroni's book of the same. In "Maybe God is ill" the Writer: describes a trip he makes through
tormented Africa where wars, hunger and Aids generate everyday disasters.
REACH UP HIGH ENTERTAINMENT LTD
Reach Up High Entertainment Ltd, 86 Seymour Grove, Manchester, United Kingdom, M16 0LW. Tel: 44.161.876.4169. Fax:
44.0845.330.5156. www.reachuphigh.com, email@reachuphigh.com
Production Company
At Cannes: Demetris Kyriacou (Managing Director)
Office: European Pavilion, Tel: 44.770.105.7443
THE KITCHEN GAMES
Animation/Family/Comedy (100 minutes)
Language: English
Directors: Andrew Bishop, Dirk Maggs
Writers: Dirk Maggs, Andrew Bishop, Keith Reeves
Producers: Andrew Bishop, Keith Reeves, Demetris Kyriacou, Keith Evans
Delivery Status: Preproduction
Budget: $ 18 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: United Kingdom
The most imaginative re-telling of the famous Romeo & Juliette story, which includes Adventure, Romance, Extreme Sports. .and the Kitchen
Sink!
DRAGON DALE
Action/Adventure/Fantasy (110 minutes)
Language: English
Writer: David Howard
Producers: Peter Kuhn, Gertain Rooijakkers
Demetris Kyriacou, Kai Roger Gruneke
Delivery Status: Preproduction
Budget: $ 40 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Germany
To Finn (13) and his sister Caitlin (15), it feels like their family has been fighting forever, but it's really only been for the last thousand years.
TAINTED LOVE
Thriller (100 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Raj Dani
Writer: Raj Dani
Producers: Raj Dani, Andy Birmingham, Demetris Kyriacou
Key Cast: Thora Birch, Danny Dyer, John Rhys Davies & Dennis Hopper
Delivery Status: Preproduction
Budget: $ 4 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Late one night, Charlie and Mia hitch a lift of Underwood. The couple proceed to kidnap and torture the driver. Underwood manages to escape
as the deadly pursuit continues.
COPY & PASTE
Animation/Family/Comedy (100 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Ovidiu Halmagean
Writers: Steve Parks, Christian Balmos, Ovidiu Halmagean
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Producers: Demetris Kyriacou, Ovidiu Halmagean, Ralph Guggenheim, Jeremy Zimmerman, Manuel Puro
Delivery Status: Preproduction
Budget: $ 14 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Romania
Copy & Paste, roguish twins and their friends decide to embark on an adventurous quest to save both the humans and their own kind from the
worlds latest threat.
BRING ME TO LIFE
Horror/Romance (120 minutes)
Language: English
Writer: Adam Mackey
Producers: Demetris Kyriacou, Adam Mackey, Raphael Benoleil
Delivery Status: Development
Budget: $ 22 million
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: Australia
Set in the cosmopolitan city of Geneva, this story reveals a sinister empire of ghosts and vampires who exist in an ethereal Netherworld created
from a corruption of ancient alchemy.
SAFE HOUSE
Horror/Thriller (100 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Mark Ezra
Writer: Mark Ezra
Producers: Mark Ezra, Demetris Kyriacou
Delivery Status: Development
Budget: $ 4 million
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: United Kingdom
A family that's testifying against the Mafia enters the witness protection are trapped in a house that is haunted only to find out that the Mafia
has tracked them down.
REGENT WORLDWIDE SALES
Regent Worldwide Sales, 10990 Wilshire Blvd., Penthouse Los Angeles, California 90024 USA. Tel: 1.310.806.4288. Fax: 1.310.806.4271.
www.regententertainment.com
Producer and Distributor
At Cannes: Meggan Kimberley (Co-President), Adam Wright (Co-President)
Office: Riviera Stand # D10, Meggan Kimberley Mobile: 1.818.451.8298. Adam Wright Mobile: 1.818.331.0990
Distributor on all titles: Regent Entertainment; Rights on all titles: All Rights
LAVA STORM
Action/Disaster (90 minutes)
Directed by: Sean Dwyer
Starring: Ian Ziering (“Beverly Hills 90210”), Valerie Valois
Delivery Status: Completed
When a routine mine inspection goes horribly wrong, Lori Pratt suddenly finds herself in the middle of a massive volcanic eruption.
SOLAR DESTRUCTION
Action/Disaster (90 minutes)
Directed by: Fred Olen Ray
Cast: Tracy Gold (“Growing Pains”), Michelle Clunie (“Queer As Folks”)
Delivery Status: Completed
Fifteen-year-old math genius Riley has just developed a groundbreaking new way to accurately predict deadly solar flares. He soon discovers
the earth has only 18 hours to prepare for a solar flare powerful enough to cause a global electrical meltdown.
GROUND ZERO: THE DEADLY SHIFT
Action/Disaster (90 minutes)
Directed by: Fred Olen Ray
Cast: Tracy Nelson (“Melrose Place”, “Down and Out in Beverly Hills”), Charles Shaughnessy (“Saint & Sinners"), Ken Barnett
Delivery Status: Completed
Maverick scientist David Terran leads a lonely life, shunned by his colleagues because of his radical theories about magnetic poles. But when
Iran sets off a chain of explosive nuclear events, David's far fetched ideas become all too real.
NUCLEAR HURRICANE
Action/Disaster (90 minutes)
Delivery Status: Completed
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Directed by: Fred Olen Ray
Cast: Jamie Luner (“Melrose Place”, “Profiler”), Jack Scalia (“All my Children”, “Red Eye”), David Millbern
At a nuclear power plant, the cooling system becomes a problem when the “mother of all storms” is headed straight towards it.
A DATE WITH MURDER
Thriller (90 minutes)
Directed by: Rex Piano
Cast: Alexandra Paul (“Baywatch”, “Melrose Place”), David Chokachi (“Baywatch”), Robyn Lively (“Nip/Tuck”, “CSI:NY”)
Delivery Status: Post-Production
When Miami executive Stacy learns that her estranged sister Kate has been murdered in nearby Sarasota, she’s devastated. Traveling to her
sister’s house to make arrangements, Stacy finds an online dating profile that leads her to discover her churchgoing sister led a life Stacy knew
nothing about.
THE DELPHI EFFECT
Action/ Thriller (90 minutes)
Directed by: Ron Oliver
Cast: Shannen Doherty (“Beverly Hills 90210”, “Mallrats”), Robert Gant (“Queer As Folks”, “Teaching Mrs. Tingle”), John Rhys-Davies
(“Lord of the Rings”, “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”)
Delivery Status: Completed
After years of working as a covert government agent, a brush with death causes operative Jacob Keane to make career change.
URGENCY
Action/ Thriller
Directed by: Kantz
Cast: Brian Austin Green (“Beverly Hills 90210”) , Jeffrey Combs, Luciana Carro, Scott William Winters
Delivery Status: Post-Production, Delivery June 2008
Tony West is a successful pharmaceutical executive living in LA with his loving wife. But after a day of tense negotiations with potential
buyers, Tony comes home to find his wife kidnapped and the kidnappers demand he bring $50,000 to them within 90 minutes or she's dead.
STOLEN LIFE: CAUGHT ON TAPE
Thriller (90 minutes)
Directed by: Donald Wrye
Cast: Antonio Sabato Jr. (“Melrose Place”), Odette Yustman
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: Lifetime
A young school teacher engaged to a handsome firefighter has the seemingly perfect life until she accompanies some girlfriends on a spring
break trip.
7 THINGS TO DO BEFORE I’M 30
Romantic/Comedy (90 minutes)
Directed by: Paul Kaufman
Cast: Amber Benson (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), Julia Duffy
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: Lifetime
After losing her job, apartment and boyfriend in one day, Lori Madison, a sweet but easily distracted 29 year old woman, moves home with her
mother Vivian and discovers a list she made as a child: "7 Things To Do Before I'm 30."
KISS THE BRIDE
Romantic / Comedy (90 minutes)
Directed by: C. Jay Cox
Cast: Tori Spelling (“Beverly Hills 90210”), James O'Shea, Philipp Karner, Amber Benson (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), Joanna Cassidy
Delivery Status: Completed
In high school, Matt and Ryan were best friends. But in the ensuing ten years, they've lost contact. So when Matt receives an invitation to
Ryan's wedding he's surprised!
CHRISTMAS CAPER
Family/Holiday (90 minutes)
Directed by: David Winkler
Cast: Shannen Doherty (“Beverly Hills 90210”, “Mallrats”), Ty Olsson (“Aliens vs. Predator”, “X2”), and Conrad Coates (“Saw II ”,“ Kyle
XY
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: ABC Family
When professional thief Dove ends up caring for her niece and nephew over the Christmas holidays, she begins to rethink her priorities and
realizes that a crime-free Christmas might be just what she needs this year.
AN ACCIDENTAL CHRISTMAS
Family/Holiday (90 minutes)
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Directed by: Fred Olen Ray
Cast: Cynthia Gibb (“Gypsy”, “Young Blood”), David Millbern, James Hong (“Balls of Fury”, “Blade Runner”)
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: Lifetime
Separated after 15 years of marriage, Vicki and Jason are set up by their two teenage children to spend a Christmas vacation together on the
beach. But their family vacation is further complicated when Vicki’s boss and Jason’s gorgeous assistant show up.
HOME BY CHRISTMAS
Family (90 minutes)
Directed by: Gail Harvey
Cast: Linda Hamilton (“The Terminator”), Rob Stewart
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: Lifetime
Julie lives a comfortable life with two children and her husband of 21 years. But when her husband leaves her for a younger woman, she
reluctantly accustoms herself to a more modest lifestyle. Things are going well until Julie learns her daughter is coming to visit her for
Christmas!
SHOW BUSINESS: THE ROAD TO BROADWAY
Documentary (102 minutes)
Directed by: Dori Borinstein
Cast: Harrison Chad, Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Boy George, Jeff Marx, Idina Menzel, Rosie O'Donnell
Delivery Status: Completed
"ShowBusiness" follows the four high-profile productions that would eventually become Tony nominees for Best Musical.
RIGEL ENTERTAINMENT
Rigel Entertainment, 4201 Wilshire Blvd. #555, Los Angeles, CA 90010 USA. Tel: 1.323.954.8555. Fax: 1.323.954.8592.
http://www.rigelentertainment.com, email: info@rigel.tv
At Cannes: John Laing (CEO), Laura Hoffman (VP Sales), Bryan Hambleton (Sales), Robert Halvorsen (International Marketing Coordinator),
Elizabeth Leister (International Sales Coordinator)
Office: Riviera D8, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.88.06, Fax: 1.323.954.8592
FREE STYLE
http://www.movieset.com/freestyle
Children/Teen, Drama, Family, Sports (93 min)
Language: English
Director: William Dear
Producer: John F.S. Laing
Key Cast: Corbin Bleu, Madison Pettis, Penelope Ann Miller, Sandra Echeverria
Delivery Status: Post Production
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007
In this riveting coming-of-age story, Cale’s guts and determination to compete, and his compassion and loyalty to those he loves, lead him to
triumph in the face of adversity.
STUCK
http://www.rigelentertainment.com
Thriller (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Stuart Gordon
Key Cast: Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007
BLONDE AND BLONDER
http://www.rigelentertainment.com
Comedy (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Dean Hamilton
Key Cast: Pamela Anderson, Denise Richards
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007
WHEN A MAN FALLS IN THE FOREST
http://www.rigelentertainment.com
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Drama (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Ryan Eslinger
Key Cast: Sharon Stone, Timothy Hutton, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007
RIVE GAUCHE FILMS
Rive Gauche Films, 15442 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 101, Sherman Oaks, CA, 91403, U.S. Tel: 1.818.386.1035. Fax: 1.818.784.9916.
www.rgitv.com/films, email: sales@rivegauchefilms.net
Distributor
At Cannes: Jon Kramer (Chairman & CEO)
Office: #E20
BLACK POINT
Action 90:00
Language: English
Director: David Mackay
Key Cast: David Caruso, Susan Haskell
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2001, Country of Origin: USA
A reclusive ex-Navy officer befriends a woman and tries to save her from an abusive relationship with her gangster lover.
CONTAMINATED MAN
Action/Thriller (90:00)
Language: English
Director: Anthony Hickox
Key Cast: William Hurt, Peter Weller, Natascha McElhone
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2000, Country of Origin: USA
A virus that kills on contact is set free after a disgruntled employee breaks into a top-secret laboratory and is accidentally infected.
I WITNESS
Action (90:00)
Language: English
Director: Rowdy Herrington
Key Cast: James Spader, Jeff Daniels, Portia De Rossi
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002, Country of Origin: USA
Twenty-seven bodies are discovered in a collapsed tunnel in Tijuana.
ONE WAY OUT
Action (90:00)
Language: English
Director: Allen Goldstein
Key Cast: Jason Bateman, Jim Belushi
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2001, Country of Origin: USA
A veteran homicide police officer that has developed a lifestyle far beyond his means masterminds the murder of a gorgeous and wealthy
socialite.
STICK UP
Action (90:00)
Language: English
Director: Rowdy Herrington
Key Cast: James Spader
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2001, Country of Origin: USA
In a quiet rural town up in the Sierras, a bank has just been robbed of a half million dollars. It seems pretty clear to the authorities that John
Parker, an L.A. police detective, has pulled off the heist.
ROISSY FILMS
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Roissy Films, 58, rue Pierre Charron, Paris, 75008 France. Tel: 33.1.53.53.50.50. Fax: 33.1.42.89.26.93. www.roissyfilms.com, email:
contact@roissyfilms.com
At Cannes: Raphaël Berdugo (Managing Director), Yohann Comte (International Sales - New feature films), Marie-Anne Pujol (Sales
Manager, catalogues)
Office: Riviera B1/C2, Tel: 33.4.92.99.32.20, Fax: 33.4.92.99.32.21
SERAPHINE
Biopic (100 min)
Language: French
Director: Martin Provost
Writer: Martin Provost
Producer: Gilles Sacuto & Milena Poylo - TS Productions
Key Cast: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 6000000 US$
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
As Séraphine paints her most inspired canvas, the grace of her work leads her into the realms of madness
STORY OF JEN
Drama (90 min)
French & English
Director: François Rotger
Writer: François Rotger
Co-Production Partners: Christal Films
Producer: Tom Dercourt / Cinema Defacto
Key Cast: Marina Hands,Laurence Leboeuf, Tony Ward
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: US $ 3000000
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
Jen, sixteen, lives with her mother in a small isolated town in Canada. Ian enters into their lives.
ONE DAY YOU'LL UNDERSTAND (PLUS TARD TU COMPRENDRAS)
Drama (89 min)
Language: French
Director: Amos Gitai
Writer: Based on Jérôme Clément's book
Producer: Nicole Collet / Image et Compagnie - Laurent Truchot / Agav Films
Key Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Hippolyte Girardot, Emmanuelle Devos, Dominique Blanc
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 4500000
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
Successful lawyer Victor realizes that his mother Rivka has never told him anything about the deportation of her Russian Jewish parents.
THE SICILIAN GIRL (LA SICILIENNE)
Drama (90 min)
Language: French
Director: Marco Amenta
Writer: Sergio Donati - Marco Amenta
Co-Production Partners: Roissy Films - Studio 37
Producer: Tilde Corsi / R&C Produzioni - Simonetta Amenta / Eurofilm
Key Cast: Gérard Jugnot,Véronica d'Agostino, Francesco Casisa
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: US$ 4000000
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Italy
Based on the true story of Rita Atria and the Judge Paolo Borsellino
THE BEACHES OF AGNES (LES PLAGES D'AGNES)
Documentary feature (100 min)
Language: French
Director: Agnès Varda
Writer: Agnès Varda
Producer: Ciné Tamaris
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: 2200000
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Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
A filmmaker's journey: Agnes Varda returns to the beaches which have been parts of her life.
PERFECT MATCH. (SI C'ETAIT LUI.)
Romantic comedy (89 min)
Language: French
Director: Anne-Marie Etienne
Writer: Anne-Marie Etienne
Producer: Christine Gozlan / Thelma Films
Key Cast: Carole Bouquet, Marc Lavoine, Florence Foresti
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 5500000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: France
No girlfriend, no job, no home…Valentin has lost everything, except his dark sense of humour. The young man is squatting in his uncle’s
empty apartment in a chic district of Paris.
THE RED INN (L'AUBERGE ROUGE)
Comedy (105 min)
Language: French
Director: Gerard Krawczyk
Writer: Gérard Krawczyk
Producer: Christian Fechner / Les Films Christian Fechner
Key Cast: Josiane Balasko,Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot,Jean-Baptiste Maunier
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 30000000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: France
The presence of a priest will disturb sinister plans.
TOWARDS ZERO (L'HEURE ZERO)
Thriller (100 min)
Language: French
Director: Pascal Thomas
Writer: Based on Agatha Christie's novel
Producer: Nathalie Lafaurie / Les Films Français
Key Cast: Melvil Poupaud, Laura Smet, Chiara Mastroianni, François Morel,Danielle Darrieux, Alessandra Martines
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 12000000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: France
What an odd idea Guillaume Neuville has for summer's end - bringing together his former wife Aude and his present wife Caroline at his rich
aunt Camilla Tressilian's country house in Gull's Point.
CROSSED TRACKS (ROMAN DE GARE)
Thriller (103 min)
Language: French
Director: Claude Lelouch
Writer: Claude Lelouch
Producer: Les Films 13
Key Cast: Dominique Pinon, Fanny Ardant, Audrey Dana,Zinedine Soualem, Myriam Boyer, Michèle Bernier
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 6000000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: France
Judith Ralitzer, femme fatale and popular writer, is seeking characters for her next best seller.
CARAMEL
Comedy drama (96 min)
Language: French
Director: Nadine Labaki
Writer: Nadine Labaki - Jihad Hojeily - Rodney Al Haddad
Co-Production Partners: Roissy Films - Les Films de Beyrouth - Sunnyland
Producer: Anne-Dominique Toussaint / Les Films des Tournelles
Key Cast: Nadine Labaki,Yasmine Al Masri,Joanna Moukarzel,Gisele Aouad,Sihame Haddad
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$ 3000000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Lebanon
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The lives of five Lebanese women intertwine in a Beirut beauty salon which becomes a colorful microcosm of several generations of women
confronting the hypocrisy of a constraining social system.
SAHAMONGKOLFILM INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
Sahamongkolfilm International Co., Ltd., 388 S.P. Building 9th Floor Zone B Phaholyothin Road Samsen nai Phayathai Bangkok 10400
Thailand. Tel: 662.273.0930. Fax: 662.271.0620. www.sahamongkolfilm.com
Film Production and Distribution.
At Cannes: Mr. Gilbert Lim (Executive Vice President), Mr. Pitaya Sithi – Amnuai (Director of International Sales), Ms. Rapeepat Jumnongjit
(Sales Executive), Mr. Gerald Lim (Director of Acquisitions), Mr. Panu Aree (Director of Acquisitions)
Office: 23.02/25.01 (PALAIS 01), Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.80.16, 33(0)688.449.039
QUEENS OF PATTANI
Action-Adventure.
Language: Thai with English Sub.
Director: Nonzee Nimibutr.
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert.
Cast: Dan Chupong, Ananda Everingham, Sorapong Chatree, Anna Sesumun, Caroline Jarunee Desneiges, Sano Hirokazu, Jarunee Suksawas
Status: First market screening of completed film
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Thailand.
The Queens of Pattani is Thailand’s biggest ever cinematographic adventure. An epic tale of Queen Hijau of Pattani is based on a true story of
passion, subterfuge, sorcery and conspiracy.
NAK
Animation-Comedy
Language: Thai with English Sub.
Director: Pakapong SANTANAPHANICH
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert.
Cast: Sasikarn APICHARTWORASIN, Tongchai PRASONGSANTI
Status: First market screening of completed film
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Thailand.
The story of Nak begins 200 years after she and her ghoul like friends decide to leave the hustle and bustle of Bangkok and retire to the peace
and quiet of the countryside.
SOM TUM
Action
Language: Thai with English Sub.
Director: Nontakorn Taweesook
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Cast: Nawarat Techaratanaprasert, Nathan Jones, Choopong Changproong
Status: First market screening of completed film
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Thailand.
The first time on screen together of the junior dynamic duo – “Grace Nawarat” and “Kat” from “Born to Fight.” The two teamed up an ultimate
fighting with “Nathan Jones” from Troy, Tom Yum Goong.
ONG BAK2
Martial Art Action
Language: Thai with English Sub.
Director: Tony Jaa, Panna Rittikrai
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Cast: Tony Jaa
Delivery Status: In production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Thailand.
The long awaited next project of action-super star, Tony Jaa. Ong Bak2 promises to push the boundaries of martial arts with fast paced action
and superb fight sequences.
CHOCOLATE.
Action
Language: Thai with English Sub.
Director: Prachya Pinkraew.
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Cast: Yanin Vismitananda, Amara Siripong, and Sakda Patthasima.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Thailand.
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Zen is a teenage girl with phenomenal fighting skills hidden beneath a vale of autism. Her world is about to change when her mother falls ill
and the secret is being unfold.
LOVE OF SIAM
http://www.theloveofsiam.com/
Drama
Language: Thai with English Sub.
Director: Chookiat Sakveerakul
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Cast: Sinjai Plengpanich, Trongsit Roongnoppakunsri, Cheman Boonyasak, Mario Maurer
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Thailand
Love of Siam is composed of 4 sub stories which weaved into one story under the concept “All wounds can be healed by love".
SALT.
Salt., 3rd Floor, 1A Adpar Street, London W2 1DE United Kingdom. Tel: 207.535.6714. Fax: 207.563.7283. http://www.salt-co.com, email:
info@salt-co.com
At Cannes: Samantha Horley (Managing Director), Nina Kolokouri (Sales Director), Susan Wrubel (US Productions and Acquisitions), Cleo
Hector (Sales and Distribution Assistant)
Office: Grand Hotel, 45bd La Croistette, Tel: 486.687.081. Fax: 493.685.029
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Rebecca Miller
Writer: Rebecca Miller
Co-Production Partners: Elevation Filmworks, Plan B Entertainment
Producer: Lemore Syvan, Dede Gardner
Key Cast: Robin Wright Penn, Alan Arkin, Monica Bellucci, Maria Bello, Blake Lively, Julianne Moore, Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
Rebecca Miller writes and directs this drama-comedy with an extraordinary cast headed up by Robin Wright Penn, Keanu Reeves and Maria
Bello.
WHITE LIGHTNIN': THE JESCO WHITE MURDERS
Drama (84 min)
Language: English
Director: Dominic Murphy
Writer: Shane Smith, Eddy Moretti
Co-Production Partners: Vice Films, Film & Music Entertainment
Producer: Mike Downey, Sam Taylor
Key Cast: Carrie Fisher, Muse Watson, Ed Hogg
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Vice presents the outrageous cult story of Jesco White, the dancing outlaw. Starring Carrie Fisher, Muse Watson and introducing Ed Hogg.
DONKEY PUNCH
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Olly Blackburn
Writer: David Bloom, Olly Blackburn
Co-Production Partners: Warp X
Producer: Angus Lamont, Robin Gutch, Mark Herbert
Key Cast: Robert Boulter, Sian Breckin, Tom Burke, Nichola Burley, Julian Morris, Jay Taylor, Jaime Winstone
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: United Kingdom
A freak accident during a party on a yacht escalates into a ruthless fight for survival in this horror thriller. A Sundance favourite.
CITY OF MEN
Drama (106 min)
Language: Portuguese
Director: Paulo Morelli
Writer: Elena Soarez
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Co-Production Partners: O2 Filmes, Globo Filmes, Fox Film
Producer: Fernando Meirelles
Key Cast: Douglas Silva, Darlan Cunha
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Brazil
A childhood friendship is shattered as two men discover a devastating secret, propelling them into a drugs war in a Rio slum. From the Oscar
nominated team behind City of God.
HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD
http://www.heavymetalinbaghdad.com/
Documentary (84 min)
Language: English, Arabic
Director: Eddi Moretti, Suroosh Alvi
Co-Production Partners: Vice Films, VBS.TV
Producer: Eddi Moretti, Suroosh Alvi, Monica Hampton
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Heavy metal band Acrassicauda (Black Scorpion) live in danger for playing American music in an increasingly fundamentalist Iraq. From Vice
Films and VBS.TV. Documentary.
BIG RIVER MAN
Documentary
Language: English
Director: John Maringouin
Producer: Molly Hassel, Molly Lynch, John Maringouin
Key Cast: Martin Strel
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Martin Strel, an overweight wine-swilling Slovenian, attempts to swim the world's most dangerous river, the mighty Amazon. Documentary.
MALDEAMORES (LOVE SICKNESS)
Drama (83 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Carlitos Ruiz Ruiz, Mariem Perez
Writer: Jorges Gonzalez, Carlitos Ruiz Ruiz
Co-Production Partners: Pajaritis Prenaos Filmes, Buena Onda
Producer: Luillo Ruiz
Key Cast: Luis Guzman, Teresa Hernandez, Luis Gonzaga
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Puerto Rico
From executive Producer: Benicio Del Toro comes a film about love of all kinds and all that ages in the backyards of Puerto Rico.
SCREEN MEDIA VENTURES
Screen Media Ventures, 757 Third Ave. Floor 3, New York, NY, 10017, USA. Tel: 1.212.308.1790. Fax: 1.212.308.1791. www.screenmedia.net
OR www.screenmediafilms.net, email: info@screenmedia.net OR info@screenmediafilms.net
Distributor
At Cannes: Almira Malyshev (Senior VP, International Sales), Michael Dwyer (Vice President of International Sales and Acquisitions), Robert
Baruc (President of Screen Media Films), Suzanne Blech (Senior VP of Sales and Acquisitions Screen Media Films)
Acquisition Executive: Michael Dwyer, Suzanne Blech
Office: Riviera - Stand E21, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.18
TURN THE RIVER
http://www.turntheriver.com/
Thriller/Drama (92 mins)
Language: English
Director: Chris Eigeman
Writer: Chris Eigeman
Producer: Chris Eigeman and Ami Armstrong
Key Cast: Famke Jannsen, Rip Torn, Matt Ross
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 500,000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
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Kailey Sullivan sets up a high-stakes pool match that, if she wins, will give her enough money to start a new life with her son.
WHO’S YOUR MONKEY? (THROWING STARS)
Comedy (86 mins)
Language: English
Director: Todd Breau
Writer: Ryan Steckloff
Producer: Todd Breau
Key Cast: Scott Grimes, Jason London, Kevin Durand, David DeLuise
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 625,000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Over the course of a single night, four childhood friends kill a drug dealer, rescue animals, dispose of a dead body and discover the unbreakable
bonds of friendship.
CHRISTMAS IS HERE AGAIN!
http://www.christmasishereagain.com/
Family/Animation (74 mins)
Language: English
Director: Robert Zappia
Writer: Robert Zappia and Marco Zappia
Producer: Robert Zappia and Jim Praytor
Key Cast: Kathy Bates, Brad Garrett, Edward Asner, Shirley Jones
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 7.5 Million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A star-studded, award winning musical animated tale that follows the exciting journey of an orphan and her unlikely band of adventures as they
set out to recover Santa’s toy sack.
THE RAGE
http://www.theragefilm.com/
Horror (99 mins)
Language: English
Director: Robert Kurtzman
Writer: Robert Kurtzman and John Bisson
Producer: Robert Kurtzman, John Bisson, Matt Jerrams, Anne Kurtzman
Key Cast: Andrew Divoff, Erin Brown, Christopher Allen Nelson
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 2 Million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
When victims injected with the rage virus escape the experimentation of a mad scientist and his secrets are uncovered— all hell breaks loose.
COUNTRY REMEDY (SIMPLE THINGS)
http://www.simplethingsthemovie.com/
Drama (95 mins)
Language: English
Director: Andrew C. Erin
Writer: Andrew C. Erin and Peter Ferland
Producer: Tosca Musk
Key Cast: Bellamy Young, Amber Benson, Cameron Bancroft
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A young, highly accomplished, pediatrician agrees to spend a summer setting up a clinic in a small town in the North Carolina Mountains.
TRIGGER MAN
http://www.triggermanmovie.com/
Drama/Thriller (80 mins)
Language: English
Director: Ti West
Writer: Ti West
Producer: Ti West and Peter Phok
Key Cast: Larry Fessenden, Reggie Cunningham, Heather Robb
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
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Inspired by true events.The story of three hunters who mysteriously became the hunted.
WALKER PAYNE
Drama (117 mins)
Language: English
Director: Matt Williams
Writer: Matt Williams and Alex Paraskevas
Producer: Judd Payne
Key Cast: Jason Patric, Drea de Matteo, Sam Shepard, Bruce Dern
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: USA
A period drama where a small-town father is forced to make difficult, heartbreaking decisions in order to save his two daughters.
MURDER PARTY
http://www.murderpartymovie.com/
Horror/Comedy (90 mins)
Language: English
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Writer: Jeremy Saulnier
Producer: Skei Saulnier and Chris Sharp
Key Cast: Chris Sharp, Alex Barnett, William Lacey and Paul Goldblatt
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A random invitation to a Halloween party leads a man into the hands of a rogue collective intent on murdering him for the sake of their art.
DISAPPEARENCES
http://www.disappearancesmovie.com/
Action/Adventure (118 mins)
Language: English
Director: Jay Craven
Writer: Jay Craven
Producer: Jay Craven and Mark Donadio
Key Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Gary Farmer, Genevieve Bujold, Luis Guzman and William Sanderson
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 1.5 Million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Forced to smuggle whiskey in an attempt to save his family, Quebec Bill and his son embark on an unforgettable journey through the
wilderness.
SEVEN ARTS INTERNATIONAL
Seven Arts International, 38 Hertford Street, London W1J 7SG UK. Tel: 44.20.3006.8222. Fax: 1.323.372.3790. http://www.7artspictures.com
At Cannes: Peter Hoffman (Chairman), Kate Hoffman (Executive Vice President), Justin Kelly (Vice President, Business Affairs), Eric Min
(Vice President, Distribution), Sean O'Kelly (Head of Television Sales)
Office: M.Y. South Paw - Quai Albert Edouard, Tel: 44.7917.186.853, Fax: 1.323.372.3790
NEUROMANCER
Sci Fi/Action/Adventure
Language: English
Director: Joseph Kahn
Writer: William Gibson, Joseph Kahn
Producer: Julia Verdin
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget: 65M
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: Canada
William Gibson’s classic science fiction novel that coined the terms “cyberspace” and “virtual reality” is the harrowing tale of a world in which
technology has gone out of control.
MORTAL ARMOR: THE LEGEND OF GALAHAD
Action/Adventure
Language: English
Director: Mikael Salomon
Writer: Joel Gross
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
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Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: UK/Hungary
A coming-of-age take on Sir Galahad's quest for the Holy Grail.
CATWALK
Horror
Language: English
Director: Anthony Hickox
Writer: Peter Atkins, Anthony Hickox
Producer: Julia Verdin
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: UK/Hungary
A stunning young woman is drawn into a world of glamour and excess. As this whirlwind of fame and romance starts to threaten her sense of
identity, she moves closer to discovering far darker secrets about who - or what - she really is.
MAD
Action
Language: English
Director: Michael Jai White
Writer: Michael Jai White
Key Cast: Michael Jai White
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: USA
THE WINTER QUEEN (AZAZEL)
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Writer: Gerard Soeteman
Producer: Thomas Hedman, Alan Marshall
Key Cast: Milla Jovovich, Dan Stevens
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: UK/Russia
Based on the best-selling novel by Boris Akunin.
NINE MILES DOWN
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Anthony Waller
Writer: Anthony Waller, Everett DeRoche
Producer: Thomas Hedman
Key Cast: Adrian Paul, Kate Nauta, Nick Nolte
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: UK/Russia
In the sandstorms of the Sahara desert, Thomas "Jack" Jackman, a security patrolman, is sent to investigate an abandoned drilling station intent
on drilling deeper into the earth's crust than ever before
AMERICAN SUMMER (POOLBOYS)
Teen Comedy
Language: English
Director: JB Rogers
Writer: Julie O'Hora, Justin Ware
Producer: Warren Zide
Key Cast: Matthew Lillard, Brett Davern, Efren Ramirez, Rachelle Lefevre, Tom Arnold
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A Harvard-bound graduate, his pool boy cousin and their gardener colleague turn an empty mansion into a home for women who belong to the
world's oldest profession.
AUTOPSY (MERCY)
Horror
Language: English
Director: Adam Gierasch
Writer: Jace Anderson, Adam Gierasch, Evan Katz
Producer: Warren Zide, Jessica Horowitz
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Key Cast: Robert Patrick, Jessica Lowndes, Ashley Schneider, Michael Bowen, Ross Kohn, Jenette Goldstein, Robert Lasardo, Ross McCall
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A young woman tries to find her injured boyfriend in a bizzare and dangerous hospital.
A BROKEN LIFE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Neil Coombs
Writer: Neil Coombs, Anna Lee, Grace Kos
Producer: Grace Kos
Key Cast: Tom Sizemore, Corey Sevier, Ving Rhames, Grace Kos
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Tortured by his own mediocrity, Max decides to commit suicide and recruits his only friend Bud, a struggling filmmaker, to record his last day
on earth.
KNIFE EDGE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Anthony Hickox
Writer: Anthony Hickox, Fiona Combe, Robb Squire
Producer: Pippa Cross
Key Cast: Natalie Press, Matthieu Boujenah, Hugh Bonneville, Joan Plowright, Lorcan O'Toole, Tamsin Egerton
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: UK
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a
nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.
SHORELINE ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
Shoreline Entertainment, Inc., 1875 Century Park East, Ste. 600, Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA. Tel: 1.310.551.2060. Fax: 1.702.974.0707.
www.slefilms.com, e-mail: sales@slefilms.com
At Cannes: Morris Ruskin (CEO / Producer), Sam Eigen (Director of Distribution), Brian Sweet (Director of Sales), Brandon Paine (Director
of Acquisitions)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite 135, Mobile: 1.702.524.3114, Fax: 1.702.974.0707
THE ELDER SON
Comedy (85 min)
Language: English
Director: Marius Balchunas
Producer: Scott Sturgeon and Jon Veague
Key Cast: Shane West, Rade Serbedzija, and Leelee Sobieski
Status: Completed
Year Of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
The life of Max, a Russian clarinetist living in Los Angeles, changes when Bo, a local thief looking for a hideout after a botched car heist,
passes himself off as Max's long-lost son.
HIGH LIFE
Heist
Language: English
Director: Gary Yates
Producers: Robin Cass & Gary Yates
Executive Producers: Morris Ruskin & Elizabeth Jarvis
Key Cast: Timothy Olyphant and Joe Anderson
Status: Post-Production
Year Of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Canada/USA
A hilarious portrait of male-pattern stupidity.
WUSHU WARRIOR
Martial Arts
Language: English
Director: Alain Desrochers
Producer: Suzanne Girard
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Executive Producer: Morris Ruskin
Key Cast: Matt Frewer, and Tod Fennell
Status: Post Production
Year Of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Canada/China
China, 1862: Lord Lindsay rules the opium trade and the clandestine Red Lotus Society, a group of trained Wushu warriors, is the only force
fighting to restore justice to the people.
ON BROADWAY
Comedy/Drama (98 min)
Language: English
Director: Dave McLaughlin
Producer: Dave McLaughlin
Key Cast: Joseph McIntyre, Eliza Dushku, and Will Arnet
Status: Completed
Year Of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
After falling off of a roof, Jack O’Toole’s uncle dies in his arms. Over wrought with emotion, Jack decides to write a play about the funeral.
SHOW EAST
Show EAST, 6F New Seoul B/D, 618-3, Shinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-894, Korea. Tel: 82.2.3446.9590. Fax: 82.2.3446.9620.
www.showeast.co.kr/eng
Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor
At Cannes: DJ KIM (President), Michelle SON (Head of Int’l Business) , Luna CHOO (Manager of Int’l Business)
Office: Riviera E 15/17
HIMALAYA, WHERE THE WIND DWELLS
Drama (108min)
Language: Korean, English, Tibetan
Director: JEON Soo-il
Writer: JEON Soo-il
Producer: DJ KIM
Key Cast: CHOI Min-sik, Tsering Kiple, Tenjing Sherpa
Delivery Status: completed
Budget: US$ 1M
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
The vast lands of the Himalayas stand before him. There, he is finally able to discover his true self. Beyond the sudden snowstorms, he watches
the backside of himself headed somewhere.
LE GRAND CHEF
www.showeast.co.kr/eng
Drama (114min)
Language: Korean
Director: JEON Yun-su
Writer: SHIN Dong-ick, JEON Yun-su
Producer: DJ KIM
Co-production partners: LEE Sung-hun
Key Cast: KIM Kang-woo, LIM Won-hee, LEE Ha-na
Delivery Status: completed
Budget: US$ 4.5M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Korea
The secret of royal chef and his knife – and the one who deserves to be the best cook of the nation.
SHOWBOX / MEDIAPLEX, INC
Showbox / Mediaplex, Inc, 16F Hansol Bldg, 736-1 Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea 135-983. Tel: 82.2.3218.5649. Fax:
82.2.3444.6688. www.showbox.co.kr, Email: sales@showbox.co.kr
Sales Agent, Distributor, Financier
At Cannes: Judy AHN (Head of Sales), Soojin JUNG (Senior Manager), Sonya KIM (Manager), Tae JO (Assistant Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Chris Lee
Office: Lerins booth R3/S2, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.33.06
DREAM
Drama (93 min)
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Language: Korean, Japanese
Director: Kim Ki-duk
Writer: Kim Ki-duk
Producer: Kim Ki-duk, SONG Myung-chul
Key Cast: Odagiri Joe, LEE Na-young
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening
Budget: $1M
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
Jin wakes up from a nightmare of a traffic accident. It drives him to the very spot where a real accident took place.
THE GUARD POST (GP506)
Thriller (122 min)
Language: Korean
Director: KONG Su-chang
Writer: KONG Su-chang
Producer: KONG Su-chang, LIM Jung-ha
Key Cast: CHUN Ho-jin, CHO Hyun-jae
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening
Budget: $3M
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
At a guard post that overlooks the DMZ, an entire platoon has been wiped out. A soldier is discovered with a bloody ax in his hands, then falls
into a coma.
A TALE OF LEGENDARY LIBIDO
Erotic Period Comedy (120 min)
Language: Korean
Director: SHIN Han-sol
Writer: SHIN Han-sol
Producer: LEE Seo-yull
Key Cast: BONG Tae-kyu, KIM Sin-ah, OH Dal-soo
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening
Budget: $4.5M
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
Byun is a tragic character with a massive inferiority complex problem which stems from his seriously impaired libido. But he chance
encounters a monk and gains the ultimate male power of never-ending erection.
DACHIMAWA LEE
Action Adventure Comedy
Language: Korean
Director: RYOO Seung-wan
Writer: RYOO Seung-wan
Producer: KANG Hye-jeong
Key Cast: LIM Won-hee, PARK Si-yeon, KONG Hyo-jin, RYOO Seung-bum
Delivery Status: In-Production
Budget: $3.5M
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
Under Japanese imperialism, Korean national treasure Golden Buddha is stolen.
SUNNY
War Drama
Language: Korean, English, Vietnamese
Director: LEE Jun-ik
Writer: CHOI Suk-hwan
Producer: CHO Chul-hyun, JUNG Seung-hye
Key Cast: SU Ae, JUNG Jin-young, JUNG Kyung-ho
Delivery Status: Post-production
Budget: $7.5M
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Korea
Old-fashioned Soon-yi marries into a family in the country without love. But when her husband abandons her by enlisting into the Vietnam
war, she wants to show that she is capable of loving him.
SHOWCASE ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
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Showcase Entertainment, Inc., 21800 Oxnard Street, Suite 150, Woodland Hills, CA 91367 USA. Tel: 1.818.715.7005. Fax: 1.818.715.7009.
http://www.showcaseentertainment.com
At Cannes: David A. Jackson (President), Shauna Shapiro-Jackson (Executive Vice President), Bruce Livingston (Chief Financial Officer),
Scott Bedno (Director of International Sales), Linda Paolucci (Executive Assistant & Market Coordinator)
Office: Riviera-Lerins S-1
LABOU AND THE PIRATE TREASURE OF CAPTAIN LEROUGE
Family
Language: English
Director: Greg Aronowitz
Writer: Greg Aronowitz & Sheri Bryant
Producer: Sheri Bryant
Key Cast: Bryan James Kitto, Darnell J. Hamilton, Marissa Cuevas,
Earl J. Scioneaux, Jr., Chris Violette, Kelson Henderson
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Three kids team up in a search for missing pirate treasure! During their quest, they stumble across Labou, a legendary swamp creature who
helps the kids find the treasure.
DISMAL
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Raymond L. Brown
Producer: Dennis "Dink" Adams, Raymond L. Brown, W. Jeffrey Frizzell
Key Cast: William Gregory Lee, Richard Riehle, Mark Joy
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Two friends are looking forward to a weekend of drinking and fishing, but the Great Dismal Swamp has other plans.
PURPLE VIOLETS
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Edward Burns
Writer: Edward Burns
Producer: Margot Bridger, Edward Burns, Aaron Lubin
Key Cast: Selma Blair, Debra Messing, Patrick Wilson, Edward Burns
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A funny and touching story of a woman still searching for herself as she enters her thirties.
SEA OF DREAMS
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Jose Bojorquez, Nickolay Todorov
Writer: Jose Bojorquez and David Howard
Producer: Jose Bojorquez
Key Cast: Johnathon Schaech, Sendi Bar, Angelica Maria, Nicholas
Gonzalez, Seymour Cassel, Sonia Braga
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
In a seaside town, a beautiful girl is haunted by a curse, which has claimed the lives of her parents and her boyfriend.
CURSED: A TERRIFYING INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF URI GELLER
Horror
Language: English
Director: Jason Figgis
Writer: Jason Figgis
Producer: Jonathan Figgis
Key Cast: Uri Geller
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Uri Geller's first person account of his terrifying visit to a haunted 15th century Palazzo in Venice, Italy including a horrifying tape recording
of an apparent murder that was mysteriously found in his luggage.
HIP HOP HARRY
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Pre-school/kids series (26 x 30’)
Language: English
Producer: C to the B Productions
Delivery Status: Post Production
A preschool series using music and dance to both educate and entertain children. Starring the “world’s coolest bear,” Hip Hop Harry, it is a
major hit with kids.
A LIFE STRANGER THAN FICTON: URI GELLER
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Derek Jones
Writer: Derek Jones
Producer: Simon Cowell
Key Cast: Uri Geller
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007
This fascination theatrical documentary features never before seen footage from Geller’s private archives.
SIMPLY CINEMA
Simply Cinema, Barrandov Film Studios, Krizeneckeho nam. 322, 152 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic. Tel: 420.267.073.518. Fax:
420.267.073.516. www.simplycinema.cz, office@simplycinema.cz
At Cannes: Eliska Kaplicky Fuchsova (Director of International Sales)
Office: Village Int'l Riviera, Pavilion 103, Czech Film Centre, Tel: 420.724.257.833
VACLAV
Drama
Language: Czech, Subtitles: English
Director: Jiri Vejdelek
Writer: Marek Epstein
Producer: Jaroslav Boucek
Production Company: BUC-FILM
Leading Cast: Ivan Trojan, Emilia Vasaryova, Jan Budar
Status: Completed (Market screening)
Production Country: Czech Republic
An involving drama of a mother's love, a brother's hate and the secrets of a father. Semi-autistic Vaclav’s tragic journey from village fool to
jailed criminal. Based on a true story of one of President Havel’s vast amnesties.
DAFFODILS & TOUGH GUYS
Comedy
Language: Czech
Director: Viktor Taus
Writer: Radek John, Ivo Pelant
Producer: Jaroslav Nietsch
Production Company: Pragofilm, Esence Slovakia, TV Markiza, Czech Television
Leading Cast: Radek Brzobohaty, Veronika Freimanova
Status: In Production
Production Country: Czech Republic
A sequel to 1983 cult comedy Snowdrops and Aces about a misbehaved group of teenagers on a school ski trip.
LITTLE WITCH ON A BROOMSTICK
Fantasy
Language: Czech
Director: Vaclav Vorlicek
Writer: Vlastimil Mistrik, Vaclav Vorlicek
Producer: Jaroslav Nietsch, Jaroslav Kucera
Production Company: Pragofilm, DesignBros, Czech Television
Status: In Production
Production Country: Czech Republic
Leading Cast: Jirina Bohdalova, Jiri Labus, and introducing Helena Novackova
9-year old Saxana, spirited daughter of a mortal father and a run-away witch, discovers her mum’s book of magic and is transported to a
Fairyland just in time to save it from a dangerous villain from Cartoonland.
BESTIARIUM (AKA THE BITCH´S DIARY)
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Erotic comedy
Language: Czech, Subtitles: English
Director: Irena Pavlaskova
Writer: Barbara Nesvadbova, Irena Pavlaskova
Producer: Jaroslav Nietsch, Petr Keller, Petr Dvorak, Helena Uldrichova
Production Company: Starlite Films
Leading Cast: Danica Jurcova, Karel Roden, Marek Vasut
Status: Completed
Production Country: Czech Republic
The story about Karolina, a naive young woman full of passion whose life changes radically after being heartbroken by mysterious and elusive
Alex.
SOMEKINDAWONDERFUL PRODUCTIONS INC.
SomeKindaWonderful Productions Inc., 1699 West 69th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6P 2W7 Canada. Tel: 1.778.995.2786.
www.somekindawonderful.ca
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Jennifer Chow (President)
Office:
FALLING FOR GRACE
www.fallingforgrace.com
Romantic Comedy (104 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Fay Ann Lee
Writer: Fay Ann Lee with Karen Rousso
Producer: Fay Ann Lee, Carl Rumbaugh, Michelle Botticelli, Stephanie Wang, Susan Batson, Juan Carlos Zapata
Key Cast: Gale Harold, Fay Ann Lee, Christine Baranski, Ken Leung, Margaret Cho
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: United States
Mistaken at an opera soirée as the heiress of a famous fashion dynasty, Grace is suddenly swept into the inner circle of Manhattan’s elite and
ushered into the arms of New York’s most eligible bachelor.
SPI INTERNATIONAL POLAND
SPI International Poland, ul.Tyniecka 38a, 02-621 Warsaw, Poland. Tel: 48.22.854.03.37. 48.22.646.20.36. Fax: 48.22.848.45.70. www.spi.pl,
e-mail: spi@spi.pl
Distributor, producer & sales agent
At Cannes: Piotr Reisch (President), Marta Krutel (General Manager), Joanna Hanusiak ( PR & Marketing Manager), Rafa? Buks (Producer)
Acquisition Executive: Piotr Reisch
Office: Tel: 48 603.193.820
MIDNIGHT TALKS
Romantic comedy (95')
Language: Polish/English subtitles
Director: Maciej Żak
Producer: Piotr Reisch, Marcin Jaworski, Agata Janicka
Co-production partners: SPI International Polska, 50/50 Films, POLSAT TV
Cast: Marcin Dorociński, Magdalena Różczka, Weronika Książkiewicz
Delivery Status: completed
Budget: 800.000 USD
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Poland
SKYLIGHTS
Drama (100)
Language: Polish/English subtitles
Producer: Marcin T. Jaworski, Beata Kawka, Piotr Reisch
Co-production partners: SPI International Poland,
Cast: Beata Kawka, Joanna Brodzik
Delivery Status: completed
Budget 500.000 USD
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: Poland
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Beata and Sygita meet each other as teenagers in a smalltownish atmosphere of Poland of the 80-ies. Beata is dreaming of runaway for a big
city.
CHAOS
Drama (98')
Language: Polish/English subtitles
Director: Ksawery Zulawski
Producer: SPI International Poland
Co-production partners: Polish Production Agency, TVP, The Documentary and Feature Film Studio
Cast: Maria Strzelecka, Marcin Brzozowski, Bolec, Magdalena Cielecka
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of Origin: Poland
A manifesto of the generation of the 30 – somethings. Three step-brothers, three different personalities, three different worlds. Search for
freedom, antiglobalistic rebellion and above all - search for love.
IT’S ME NOW
Drama (90)
Language: Polish/English subtitles
Director: Anna Jadowska
Producer: SPI International Poland
Co-production partners: TVP
Cast: Agnieszka Warchulska, Ewa Szykulska, Marcin Marczewski
Delivery Status: completed
Budget 1 000 000 USD
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: Poland
Hanka dumps her partner and disappears without a word of explanation.
FUR
Comedy (105’)
Language: Polish /English subtitles
Director: Tomasz Drozdowicz
Producer: Piotr Reisch
Co-production partners: SPI International Polska, Studio Filmowe Autograf, Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion
Cast: Teresa Budzisz–Krzyżanowska, Roma Gąsiorowska , Leszek Piskorz
Delivery Status: completed
Budget 800.000 USD
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Poland
Black comedy about Polish upper middle-class.
ANGRY SNAKE’S FISTS
Comedy (70’)
Language: Polish /English subtitles
Director: Bartek Walaszek
Producer: GIT Produkcja
Cast: Bartosz Walaszek, Łukasz Walaszek, Krzysztof Żelazko
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Poland
Snake’s twin brother is brutally murdered. Snake’s plan is to take revenge on his brother murderers. But before that he will take revenge on
everyone around….
DEER HARVEST
Comedy (70’)
Language: Polish /English subtitles
Director: Bartek Walaszek
Producer: GIT Produkcja
Cast: Bartosz Walaszek, Łukasz Walaszek, Krzysztof Żelazko
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Poland
Mr. Andrew smuggles illegal cargo abroad. One day he receives a package with a strange statue. News about their secret powers quickly spread
around which leads to a conflict between leaders of 2 gangs, trying to get the statue for any price.
TEAH
Children (87’ )
Language: Slovenia, Polish dubbing
Director: Hanna Antonina Wójcik Slak
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Co-production partners: SPI International Polska, Gustav Film, Jadran Film Technika Zagreb, Studio Maj
Cast: Pina Bitenc, Nikolaj Burger, Manca Dorrer
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina
On Martin's tenth birthday strange things start happening in the ancient forest.
LORTS OF THE FLYS
Animation
Language: Polish /English subtitles
Co-production partners: SPI International Polska, RMG Polska
Cast: Bartek Kędzierski
Delivery Status: in production
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: Poland
FULL MOON
Drama
Language: Polish /English subtitles
Director: Tomasz Szafrański
Producer: Piotr Reisch, Rafał Buks
Co-production partners: SPI International Polska
Delivery Status: in production
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: Poland
CHRISTINE - WAR MY LOVE
War/drama/romance
Language: Polish /English subtitles
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Producer: Piotr Reisch, Rafał Buks
Co-production partners: SPI International Polska
Delivery Status: in pre-production
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: Poland
CASSANDRA
Sci-fi /adventure
Language: Polish /English subtitles
Director: Paweł Czarzasty
Producer: Piotr Reisch, Rafał Buks
Co-production partners: SPI International Polska
Delivery Status: in pre-production
Country of Origin: Poland
BROKEN FACE
Drama
Director: Gilles Adrien
Producer: Piotr Reisch, Rafał Buks
Co-production partners: SPI International Polska,
Delivery Status: in pre-production
Country of Origin: Poland
IT’S A FREE WORLD
Drama (96’)
Language: English
Director: Ken Loach
Producer: Ken Loach, Rebecca O'Brien, Piotr Reisch, Rafał Buks
Co-production partners: Sixteen Films, SPI International Polska
Cast: Kierston Wareing, Juliet Ellis, Lesław Żurek
Delivery Status: completed
Budget: 1 000 000 USD
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: United Kingdom
A recently unemployed single mother Angie aims to start up her own recruitment agency for stranded legal and illegal immigrants in London.
SPICE FACTORY
Spice Factory, 14 Regent Hill, Brighton BN1 3ED, UK. Tel: 44.1273.739182. www.spicefactory.co.uk, email: info@spicefactory.co.uk
Producer/Financier
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At Cannes: Michael L Cowan, Jason Piette, Mariah Sayer, Mel Hider, Taz Basunia
Acquisition Executive: Michael L Cowan
Office: Nouma Blanc Apartment, 23 La Croisette (2nd floor), Entrance on rue Macé above the Louis Vuitton store. Tel: Michael Cowan
33(0)6.77.44.78.73, Jason Piette 33.(0)6.77.44.80.27
ECLIPSE
(96 min)
Language: English
Director: Greg Mackenzie
Writer: Edgar Martin
Producer: Michael L Cowan, Jason Piette
Delivery Status: Late Stages Of Development
Budget: US$20
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: England
Sci-fi action film. ‘Dead Calm In Space’
SULLIVAN ENTERTAINMENT
Sullivan Entertainment, 110 Davenport Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5R 3R3, Canada. Tel: 1.416.921.7177 . Fax: 1.416.921.7538.
www.sullivanmovies.com, email inquire@sullivan-ent.com
Distributor
At Cannes: Trudy Grant (President), Kevin Sullivan (Executive Producer), Cameron Moffat (Sales and Acquisitions Manager), Taylor Sullivan
(Acquisitions), Doug Smith (Sales Consultant), Sandra Chwialkowska (Creative Affairs Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Cameron Moffat
Office:
MOZART’S MAGIC FLUTE
Drama (1 x 120min)
Language: English
Director: Kevin Sullivan
Writer: Kevin Sullivan
Producer: Trudy Grant, Ray Sager, Kevin Sullivan
Key Cast: Warren Christie, Rutger Hauer
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Canada
When Tom falls in love, he enters a world of intrigue and danger that is reflected in his onstage role in Mozart’s classic fairytale.
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES: A NEW BEGINNING
Drama (1 x 120min)
Language: English
Director: Kevin Sullivan
Writer: Kevin Sullivan
Producer: Trudy Grant, Kevin Sullivan
Key Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Blanchard
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Canada
When a long-hidden secret is discovered under the floorboards at Green Gables, Anne retreats into her memories to relive her troubled early
years prior to arriving as an orphan at Green Gables and being adopted by the Cuthberts.
LOVE IS WORK
Romantic Comedy (1 x 120min)
Language: English
Director: John Kalangis
Writer: Christopher Binney
Producer: John Kalangis
Key Cast: Fabrizio Filippo, Shauna MacDonald
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: Canada
The story of five couples in an innovative, honest, raw human drama that tells the true story about middle class life and love.
THE OVERLOOKERS
Drama/Comedy (1 x 120min)
Language: English
Director: Chris Smets
Writer: Chris Smets
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Producer: Damon Middleton
Key Cast: Hanna Dalton, Romano Orzari, Ophira Eisenberg
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of Origin: USA/Canada
A lonely web designer, a cynical photographer, a suave ladykiller, a restless young wife and an infatuated detective all come together in this
award-winning film.
RHINOCEROS EYES
Dark Comedy (1 x 120min)
Language: English
Director: Aaron Woodley
Writer: Aaron Woodley
Producer: Eva Kolodner
Key Cast: Michael Pitt, Page Turco, Gale Harold
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of Origin: USA
A coming-of-age story revolving around Chep, a young reclusive prop-house employee who falls in love with a detailed-obsessed production
designer Fran.
MALE FANTASY
Dark Comedy (1 x 120min)
Language: English
Director: Blaine Thurier
Writer: Blaine Thurier
Producer: Blaine Thurier
Key Cast: Robert Dayton, Cindy Wolfe, Steve Wood
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of Origin: Canada
Divorced from his wife and reality, deluded, eccentric Andrew applies a magical philosophy to his romantic life to become a successful lady's
man, rise from his depression and achieve godhood.
RUN ROBOT RUN
Romantic Comedy (1 x 120min)
Language: English
Director: Daniel O’Conner
Writer: Daniel O’Conner
Producer: Daniel O’Conner
Key Cast: Chris Gibb, Lara Kelly, Christian Potenza
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Canada
A comedy about life, love and robots!
SUPER RUPERT WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO
Family (1 x 120min)
Language: English
Director: Brooks Campbell
Writers: Brooks Campbell & Jeff Wright
Producer: Sullivan Entertainment
Key Cast: Chris Gibb, Lara Kelly, Christian Potenza
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1997, Country of Origin: USA
Twelve year old superhero Rupert Patterson strives to protect the world against his imagination’s ferocious bad guys – who somehow really do
come to life!
ANNE: JOURNEY TO GREEN GABLES
Animation/Children (1 x 120min)
Language: English
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of Origin: Canada
Anne’s imagination makes Avonlea an exciting place to live, but also creates havoc for Anne and her friends as she leapfrogs from one
adventure to another
MOZART DECODED
Documentary (1 x 60min)
Language: English
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Director: Kevin Sullivan
Writer: Dan Matthews
Producer: Kevin Sullivan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Canada
Mozart Decoded takes an in-depth look at Mozart’s tumultuous life from his beginnings as a musical ‘miracle’ child, through his rise to
stardom and ultimately to his mysterious death.
SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT
Summit Entertainment, 77 Dean Street, London W1D 3SH. Tel: 44(0)207.494.1724. Fax: 44(0)207.494.1725. In Los Angeles: 1630 Stewart
Street, Suite 120, Santa Monica CA, Tel: 1.310.309.8400. Fax: 1.310.828.4132
Summit Entertainment is a worldwide theatrical motion picture development, financing, production and distribution studio.
At Cannes: Patrick Wachsberger (President & Co-Chair, Summit Entertainment; CEO, Summit International), Bob Hayward (COO, Summit
Entertainment), David Garrett (President, Summit International), Ralpho Borgos (Senior Vice President, International Sales), Erik Feig
(President, Production & Acquisitions), Andrew Matosich (Executive Vice President, Business Affairs)
Office: 2, La Croisette, Penthouse, Tel: 33(0)4.86.68.80.75. Fax: 33(0)4.80.80.51.77
TREE OF LIFE
Drama
Director: Terrence Malick
Producers: William Pohlad, Sarah Green, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Grant Hill
Writer: Terrence Malick
Cast: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain
Production Status: In Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
The story of a family who must come to terms with a devastating loss. In doing so, they discover life’s most important lessons of unselfish love
and forgiveness.
THE GHOST
Political Thriller
Director: Roman Polanski
Producers: Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde
Writers: Robert Harris and Roman Polanski
Production Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: CEE
A ghostwriter is sent to write the memoirs of a former UK prime minister, and becomes embroiled in an explosive mystery.
STEP UP 3D
Drama/Music/Romance
Director: Jon M. Chu
Producers: Adam Shankman, Jennifer Gibgot, Patrick Wachsberger, Erik Feig
Production Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
POPE JOAN
Drama
Director: Sönke Wortmann
Writers: Heinrich Hadding & Sönke Wortmann
Producers: Martin Moszkowicz & Oliver Berben
Production Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
A 9th century woman disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.
KNOWING
Sci Fi/Thriller
Director: Alex Proyas
Writers: Stuart Hazeldine, Ryne Douglas Pearson, Juliet Snowden & Stiles White, Richard Kelly, Alex Proyas
Producers: Jason Blumenthal, Todd Black, Steve Tisch, Alex Proyas
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury
Production Status: In Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
A time capsule is unearthed fifty years after it's first buried in young Caleb's elementary school. One mysterious artifact: a sheet with a long
column of numbers.
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WILL/BANDSLAM
Comedy/Teen/Music
Director: Todd Graff
Writers: Josh A. Cagan and Todd Graff
Producer: Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas
Cast: Gaelan Connell, Vanessa Anne Hudgens, Aly Michalka, Lisa Kudrow and David Bowie
Production Status: Post-Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
Will Burton doesn’t make friends easily, so the quirky teenager and his mother KAREN are both shocked when cool and popular former
cheerleader Charlotte Banks starts inviting him to hang out with her.
TWILIGHT
Thriller/Romance
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Writer: Melissa Rosenberg
Producers: Mark Morgan & Greg Mooradian, Wyck Godfrey
Cast: Kristin Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke and Peter Facinelli
Production Status: Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
About an average teen girl who moves to a small town and falls in love with an extraordinary boy; her life is put in danger by igniting a
forbidden love affair between a vampire and a mortal.
CREDITS NOT CONTRACTUAL
SUNSTONE ENENTERTAINMENT
8, Palmcrest, Main Avenue Road, Santacruz (W), Mumbai 400 054 India, Tel: 9122.26051770.
At Cannes: Sanjay Jumani (Director), Shanti Jumani (Proprietor)
Office: 24.01 @ Palais, Tel: 0679319154
MOHABBAT HO GAYI HAI TUMSE
(140 min)
Language: Hindi
Director: Rishi Talwar
Producer: Sunstone Entertainment
Key Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Chandrachur Singh, Shamita Shetty,Puru Raj Kumar, Alok Nath, Shana, Tinu Anand, Vishwajeet Pradhan & Others
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.5 Million Dollar
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: India
It’s a story of a girl (Ria) a man (Tony) and a sharp shooter police inspector (Jai). Ria loves Tony but her father convince her to marry Jai.
MAINE PYAAR KYUN KIYA
Romantic Drama (135min)
Language: Hindi
Director: David Dhawan
Key Cast: Salmaan Khan, Katrina Kaif & Sushmita Sen .
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 25 Million Dollar
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: India
It’s a triangle story between one man and two girls.
MADHOSHIYAAN
Musical (120 min)
Language: Hindi
Director: Mahal
Writer: Mahal
Producer: Sunstone Entertainment
Key Cast: Mahal, Gaurav Datta, Nishant & Others
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.5 Million Dollar
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: India
The story of a successful film director of this world in search of a deep passionate subject of another world and a mysterious king of another
world in search of deep passion of this world.
LOVE & BETRAYAL (HUSN)
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Romantic & Thriller (125 Min)
Language: Hindi
Director: Imtiaaz J. Khan
Producer: Sunstone Entertainment
Key Cast: Sameer Dharmadhikari, Parmita Katkar, Nethra Raghuraman
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 2 Million Dollar
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: India
“Husn” is a story of love & betrayal between. Is a story two young man in love with the same girl. One loves the woman and the other loves
money.
SURF FILM
Surf Film, Via Padre Filippini, 130 00144 Rome Italy. Tel: 0039.06.52.62.101. Fax: 0039.06.52.93.816. www.surffilm.com, email:
surf@surffilm.com
Distributor, Producer
At Cannes: Massimo Vigliar (President), Stefania Carnevale (Head of International Sales), Elisabetta Volpe (International Sales Executive)
Office: I Club Palais Sthephanie by Sofitel First Floor. 50, Boulevard de la Corisette 06414 Cannes, Tel: 00.33.4.92.99.69.52
THE AFRICAN GAME
Thriller
Language: English - Italian
Director: Micheal E. Lemick
Writer: Michael E. Lemick
Producer: Massimo Vigliar (Surf Film), Luciano Martino (Dania Film)
Co-production partners: in association with Marco Vancini
Key Cast: Luca Ward, Bryony Afferson, Rachel Grant
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Italy
An action movie that takes place in the extraordinary African locations. The story of an international killer, nailed by the double game of his
own purchaser.
THE HUSH
Drama (105’)
Language: Italian English subtitles
Director: Stefano Incerti
Writer: Stefano Incerti Rocco Oppedisano
Producer: Massimo Vigliar (Surf Film)
Key Cast: Alessio Boni, Giuseppe Battiston, Florencia Raggi
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Italy
In 1978 an Italian sports journalist, sent to Buenos Aires for the football world cup, falls in love with a mysterious woman and for love he lets
himself get involved in the tragic reality of the regime.
TONINO GUERRA: CINEMA’S POET
Documentary
Language: Italian
Director: Nicola Tranquillino
Producer: Massimo Vigliar (Surf Film)
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Italy
His life, his films, the characters of another time narrated by the poetry of the biggest Italian scripwriter: Tonino Guerra.
SOPHIA YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW
Documentary Film (52’)
Language: Italian English subtitles
Director: Massimo Ferrari
Producer: Massimo Vigliar (Surf Film)
Co-production partners: Cinecittà Entertainment -in collaboration with Sky Cinema
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Italy
Through an exclusive interviews, with images provided by Istituto Luce and interviews whit famous names of International cinema, the
documentary presents a fascinating and moving cross-section of the life of Sophia Loren.
GILLO OF LADIES AND KNIGHTS, OF LOVES AND ARMS
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Drama (90’)
Language: Italian English subtitles
Director: Annarosa Morri, Mario Canale
Producer: Massimo Vigliar (Surf Film)
Co-production partners: Orme, La 7
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Italy
Gillo Pontecorvo and The battle of Algiers, the Golden Globe and his Oscar nomination: the documentary wants to tell the story of a man who
was a protagonist of the history of cinema.
MARCO FERRERI THE DIRECTOR WHO CAME FROM THE FUTURE
Documentary Film (90’)
Language: Italian. English French, Spanish subtitles
Director: Mario Canale
Producer: Massimo Vigliar (Surf Film)
Co-production partners: Orme, La7
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Italy
The documentary wants to recuperate, ten years after the death of Marco Ferreri, the memory of this filmmaker who was forgotten too soon and
of his extraordinary and magnificent talent.
TELEPOOL GMBH
Telepool GmbH, Sonnenstrasse 21, 80331 Munich, Germany. Tel: 49.89.55876.0. Fax: 49.89.55876.188. www.telepool.de, email:
telepool@telepool.de
At Cannes: Dr. Thomas Weymar (Managing Director), Marc Gabizon (Deputy Managing Director), Irina Ignatiew (EVP International), Anja
Uecker (Sales & Acquisition)
Acquisition Executive: Dr. Thomas Weymar, Marc Gabizon, Silke Wilfinger, Julia Müntefering
Office: Palais Riviera, Booth F3 / G2, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.11
LILLY THE WITCH – THE DRAGON AND THE MAGIC BOOK (HEXE LILLI)
Family Entertainment (90 min)
Language: German
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Writer: Armin Toerkell, Ralph Martin, Stefan Ruzowitzky
Producer: Corinna Mehner, Martin Husmann, Michael Coldewey
Co-production partners: Babelsberg Film GmbH, Germany, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Germany, Classic SRL, Italy, Dor Film
Produktionsgesellschaft GmbH, Austria, Steinweg Emotion Pictures S.L. Spain, Walt Disney Motion Pictures, Spain
Key Cast: Alina Freund, Anja Kling, Ingo Naujoks, Pilar Bardem, Sami Herzog, Yvonne Catterfeld, Michael Mittermeier
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Budget: $ 12 Mio
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain
Little Lilly is apprenticed to become the successor of Surulunda the Witch. Directed by OSCAR winner Stefan Ruzowitzky, this magical
US$12 million family fairy-tale combines Live Action and CGI. Released by DISNEY.
WITHIN THE WHIRLWIND
Drama (110 min)
Language: English
Director: Marleen Gorris
Writer: Nancy Larson
Producer: Christine Ruppert, Piotr Mularuk, Hubert Toint, Vincent Macheras
Co-production partners: Yeti Films Warsaw, Saga Film Brussels, Lorival, Paris
Key Cast: Emily Watson, Ulrich Tukur
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget: $ 9.7 Mio
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Germany, Poland, Belgium, France
Russian poet Evgenia Ginzbourg survived the Soviet Gulag only because of her faith in poetry. OSCAR™ winner Marleen Gorris directs
OSCAR™ nominee Emily Watson and award-winning Ulrich Tukur in this deeply moving drama.
SUMMER (SOMMER)
www.jetzt-ist-sommer.de
Teenage Romantic Comedy (103 min)
Language: German
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Director: Mike Marzuk
Writer: Sebastian Wehlings, Peer Klehmet
Producer: Ewa Karlström, Andreas Ulmke-Smeaton
Key Cast: Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht, Sonja Gerhardt, Jannis Niewoehner, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Tim Wilde, Eva Mannschott
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Germany
The path of true love never runs smooth, especially not for teenagers, as Tim discovers in SUMMER. German Released by Disney with 400
prints.
NIKO & THE WAY TO THE STARS
www.nikomovie.com
Language: Animation, Family Entertainment (approx. 78 min)
Director: Michael Hegner, Kari Juusonen
Writer: Hannu Tuomainen, Marteinn Thorisson
Producer: Petteri Pasanen, Hannu Tuomainen, Emely Christians (Exec.), Anders Mastrup (Exec.), Ralph Christians (Exec.)
Co-production partners: TV2 Denmark, Europool, Universum, YLE
Delivery Status: In Postproduction
Budget: $ 9.6 Mio
Year of Production: 2007 / 2008, Country of Origin: Finland, Germany, Ireland, Denmark
When reindeer Niko's dad - a member of the Santa Claus Flying Force - is threatened, Niko sets out to find him.
DR. ALEMÁN
Drama, Adventure (103 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Tom Schreiber
Writer: Oliver Keidel, Tom Schreiber
Producer: Harry Flöter, Jörg Siepmann, Arne Ludwig
Key Cast: August Diehl, Marleyda Soto, Hernán Méndez, Victor Villegas
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 2.720.000,Year of Production: 2007 / 2008, Country of Origin: Germany
What was supposed to be an internship at the Cali Hospital for German medical student Marc, suddenly becomes a life-threatening adventure.
Powerful drama starring award-winning acting phenomenon August Diehl.
THE WILD SOCCER BUNCH 5 (DWK5 - DIE WILDEN KERLE)
www.dwk5.de
Family Entertainment (107 min)
Language: German
Director: Joachim Masannek
Writer: Joachim Masannek
Producer: Ewa Karlström, Andreas Ulmke-Smeaton
Key Cast: Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht, Sarah Kim Gries, Marlon Wessel
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Germany
This time around, our team of teen heroes travels to the ShadowRealm, where their most dangerous opponent ever awaits – soccer-playing
vampires!. German Release by Disney, opening No. 1 Boxoffice with 1.6 Mio admissions after 6 weeks
MARCELLO, MARCELLO (MARCELLO'S DATE)
Romantic Comedy (approx. 95 min)
Language: Italian
Director: Denis Rabaglia
Writer: Denis Rabaglia, Luca De Benedittis, Mark David Hatwood
Producer: Anne Walser, Martin Hagemann
Co-production partners: ZERO Fiction Film GmbH
Key Cast: Francesco Mistichelli, Elena Cucci, Ivo Garrani, Renato Scarpa
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 4.2 Mio
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Switzerland, Germany
Enchanting love story about 18-year-old Marcello, who falls for beautiful Elena, even though she's way out of his league. Starring Italy´s top
newcomers and A-list actors.
RED ZORA (DIE ROTE ZORA)
Family Entertainment (99 min)
Language: German
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Director: Peter Kahane
Writer: Christian Zübert, Peter Kahane, Ronald Kruschak
Producer: Malte Grunert, Ronald Kruschak, Claudia Schröder, Sytze van der Laan (Exec.)
Co-production partners: Sonet Film AB, Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Key Cast: Mario Adorf, Linn Reusse, Jakob Knoblauch, Dominique Horwitz, Ben Becker
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 8.6 Mio
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Germany, Sweden
Based on the successful youth cult novel, the adventures of red-haired Zora and her gang of orphan outlaws feature top stars Mario Adorf, Ben
Becker and Dominique Horwitz. German Release by UNIVERSAL with 300 prints.
KNIFE EDGE
Mystery Thriller (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Anthony Hickox
Writer: Robin Squire, Fee Combe, Anthony Hickox
Producer: Fee Combe, Janette Day, Pippa Cross
Key Cast: Natalie Press, Hugh Bonneville, Matthieu Boujenah, Joan Plowright, Tamsin Egerton
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007 / 2008, Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Beautiful Emma´s life turns into a nightmare when she discovers a murderous secret in her country home. Mystery Thriller by the director of
Hellraiser III.
SUMMER OF THE FLYING SAUCER
Family Entertainment (86 min)
Language: English
Director: Martin Duffy
Writer: Marteinn Thorisson
Producer: Clodagh Freeman, Fredrik Zander, Ralph Christians (Exec.)
Key Cast: Robbie Sheehan, Dan Colley, Hugh O´Conner, Lorcan Cranitch, John Keogh, Joanne Kernan
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 3.1 Mio
Year of Production: 2007 / 2008, Country of Origin: Ireland
Ireland 1967: What’s a good Catholic Boy to do when he finds out that his first love is an alien girl?
ARN THE KNIGHT TEMPLAR (ARN – TEMPELRIDDAREN)
www.arnthemovie.com
Adventure / Drama
Language: English, Swedish
Director: Peter Flinth
Writer: Hans Gunnarsson
Producer: Waldemar Bergendahl, Johan Mardell (Exec.)
Co-production partners: Telepool GmbH, Film i Väst, TV4 AB, DR, Yle, TV2 Norge
Key Cast: Joakim Nätterqvist, Sofia Helin, Stellan Skarsgård, Simon Callow and Vincent Perez
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Budget: $ 31 Mio
Year of Production: 2007 / 2008, Country of Origin: Sweden
This spectacular Scandinavian production with a budget of €22 million depicts the Swedish unification saga centered on its hero, Arn
Magnusson.
SHARON
Documentary (90 min)
Language: Hebrew, English
Director: Dror Moreh
Writer: Moshe Zonder
Producer: Liora Landau, Dror Moreh, Thomas Kufus, Talia Kleinhendler
Co-production partners: Bayerischer Rundfunk, Südwestrundfunk
Key Cast: Ariel Sharon, Shimon Peres, Joschka Fischer, Condoleezza Rice
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Israel, Germany
Up close & very personal portrait of the controversial and larger-than-life Israeli leader Ariel Sharon, who is still lying in coma until today.
Officially selected by Berlinale 2008 for Panorama Section.
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TF1 INTERNATIONAL
TF1 International, Immeuble Central Park – 9 rue Maurice Mallet 92130 Issy les Moulineaux France. Tel: 33.1.41.41.21.68 Fax:
33.1.41.41.21.33. www.tf1international.com, email: sales@tf1.fr
Sales Agent, Producer, Distributor
At Cannes: Nicolas Eschbach (EVP International Distribution), Grégory Chambet (International Sales Manager), Coralie Chave (SVP
International Sales), Anna Marsh (International Sales Manager), Dimitri Stephanides (VP International Sales)
Office: Riviera H3
BELLAMY
Language: French
Director: Claude Chabrol
Writer: Claude Chabrol and Odile Barski
Producer: Aliceleo Cinema – Patrick Godeau
Key Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Clovis Cornillac, Jacques Gamblin, Marie Bunel
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
For the first time, after 50 years of movie making, Claude Chabrol joins forces with Gérard Depardieu in a suspenseful and original
psychological thriller.
INSIDE RING (PREMIER CERCLE)
Language: French
Director: Laurent Tuel
Producer: Christine Gozlan/ Thelma Films, Alain Terzian/ Alter Films
Key Cast: Jean Reno, Gaspard Ulliel, Vahina Giocante, Sami Bouajila
Delivery Status: In Preproduction
Year of Production : 2008, Country of Origin: France
A circle of violence surrounds a young man -Gaspard Ulliel- trying to break free from the gang headed by his fearsome father -Jean Reno.
BACK TO THE WILD, THE ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG BONOBO
Director: Alain Tixier
Writer: Alain Tixier, Philippe Calderon, Guillaume Vincent
Producer: Les Films du Reve – TF1 International
Delivery Status: In Production
A touching story of hope, love and courage of a young Bonobo ape, on his
journey back to Nature. Set in the beautiful Congo jungle.
THE STEEL COMPANY
The Steel Company, 9220 Sunset Blvd Ste 212, Los Angeles, CA 90069 USA. Tel: 1.310.274.7221. Fax: 1.310.274.7507. steel@thesteelco.com
Office: Palais Riviera, 7 Rond-Point Duboys d' Angers, 06400 Cannes
Tel: 334.9399.9954, Tel 334.8668.8824
THINKFILM INTERNATIONAL
THINKFilm International, Bridge House, 2nd Floor, 63-65 North Wharf Road, London, UK
W2 1LA. Tel: 44.207.298.6200. Fax: 44.207.298.6201. www.thinkfilmcompany.com, Email: films@capitolfilms.com
At Cannes: Peter Naish (Managing Director), Will Machin (Head of International), Aranka Matits (Sales Executive), Hannah Leader (General
Counsel)
Office: 63 La Croisette, 1st Floor, Cannes, 06400, Tel: 04.93.43.8257. Fax: 04.93.43.9050
UNDER THE MOUNTAIN
Fantasy Adventure
Language: English
Director: Jonathan King
Writers: Matthew Grainger, Jonathan King
Producers: Richard Fletcher, Matthew Grainger, Jonathan King
Leading Cast: Sam Neill, Bruce Spence
Status: In Production
Production Country: New Zealand
When an all-powerful, supernatural enemy stirs after centuries of imprisonment in the depths below Auckland’s volcanoes, teenage twins, Theo
and Rachel, must rediscover their telepathic bond to save mankind in this thrilling fantasy-adventure.
THE OXFORD MURDERS
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Mystery
Language: English
Director: Alex de la Iglesia
Writer: Guillermo Martinez
Producers: Gerardo Herrero, Mariela Besuievski, Alvaro Augustin, Elena Manrique
Leading Cast: John Hurt, Elijah Wood, Leonor Watling
Status: Screening
Production Country: Spain/UK
A new student and esteemed professor at Oxford University team up to solve a puzzling series of 'mathematically linked' murders.
FIVE DOLLARS A DAY
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Nigel Cole
Writer: Neal Dobrofsky, Tippi Dobrofsky
Producers: Carol Baum, Jane Goldenring, Kia Jam
Leading Cast: Christopher Walken, Alessandro Nivola, Amanda Peet, Sharon Stone, Peter Coyote, Dean Cain.
Status: Screening
Production Country: USA
On a riotous road trip across America, this is the last chance for the odd couple, Nat and his son, to disclose long-buried secrets and heal bitter
wounds.
BAD MEAT
Horror
Language: English
Directors: Rob Schmidt- Barracano
Writer: Paul Gerstenberger
Producers: Greg Brenman, Mat Chaplin, Phyllis Laing
Leading Cast: Dave Franco, Elisabeth Harnois
Status: In Production
Production Country: Canada
Ordered to a delinquent camp by their exasperated parents, a group of wayward teens fall foul of a deadly virus that infects the guards and turns
them into flesh-eating monsters!
BLUE VALENTINE
Romantic Drama
Language: English
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Writer: Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne, Joey Curtis
Leading Cast: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams
Status: Pre-Production
Production Country: USA
A heart rending tale of lost love and missed opportunities, BLUE VALENTINE is an intimate portrait of the last desperate days of a
relationship offset by the anticipation, optimism and overwhelming affection of new love.
THE AIR I BREATHE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Jieho Lee
Writers: Jieho Lee, Bob DeRosa
Producer: Darlene Caamano, Emilio Diez Barroso, Paul Schiff
Leading Cast: Kevin Bacon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Forest Whitaker, Andy Garcia, Brendan Fraser, Julie Delpy
Status: Completed
Production Country: USA
The well crafted emotional drama based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones: happiness,
pleasure, sorrow and love.
THE LAST WORD
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Geoffrey Haley
Writer: Geoffrey Haley
Producers: David Hillary, Timothy Wayne Peternel, Alexandra Milchan, Bonnie Timmermann, Jack Utsick
Leading Cast: Winona Ryder, Wes Bentley, Ray Romano
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Status: Screening
Production Country: USA
Evan writes suicide notes for a living. Charlotte is his latest client’s sister. When they meet at the funeral, they prove that love can flourish in
the most unusual circumstances.
APARECIDOS (THE APPEARED)
Supernatural Thriller
Language: Spanish
Director: Paco Cabezas
Writer: Paco Cabezas
Producers: Juan Gordon, Alvaro Alonso, Antonio Chavarrias, Miguel Rocca, Daniel Pensa
Leading Cast: Javier Pereira, Ruth Diaz
Status: Screening
Production Country: Spain
When brother and sister, Pablo and Malena, travel to Argentina to bury their father and unearth their past, the unexpected discovery of a
mysteries diary results in supernatural occurrences.
MIO FRATELLO E FIGLIO UNICO (MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD)
Comedy
Language: Italian
Director: Daniele Luchetti
Writer: Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli, Daniele Luchetti
Producer: Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni Stabilini, Marco Chimenz
Leading Cast: Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Diane Fleri
Status: Completed
Production Country: Italy
Two Italian brothers, coming of age in the politically charged 1960s and 70s, come to realize that despite their glaring differences, they are
much more alike than they ever imagined.
Y.P.F. (YOUNG PEOPLE FUCKING)
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Martin Gero
Writer: Martin Gero
Producers: Steve Hoban, Tracey Boulton
Leading Cast: Carly Pope, Diora Baird, Callum Blue
Status: Completed
Production Country: USA/Canada
A comedy about five young couples that are…well, fucking.
THOMPSON/STARR ORGANIZATION
Thompson/Starr Organization, l25 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 902l0 USA. Email address: tsorg@webtv.net
Distributor
At Cannes: Joey Thompson (President), Jen Starr (Sales), George Alain (Acquisition), Chaya Finton (Marketing)
Office: Hotel Mexicana 30 rue Dr. Dautheville, Juan Les Pins, 06160, Tel: 33.4.93.5l.3l.34, Fax: 33.4.67.56.34, Convention Tel: 33.4.93.0l.0l
ROD STEWART & FACES
Rock Music (80 min)
Cast: Rod Stewart, Kenny Jones, Keith Richards, etc.
Delivery Status: Completed
Enormously popular rock concert.
BLITZKRIEG BOP
Great Rock Concert (80 min)
Cast: Blondie, Dead Boys, Ramones
Delivery Status: Completed
One and only blitzkrieg sound.
THE NASHVILLE SOUND
Country music (79 min)
Cast Johnny Cast, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, etc.
Delivery Status: Completed
Giant country music STARS concert.
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TOEI COMPANY, LTD.
Toei Company, Ltd., 2-17, 3-chome, Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8108 Japan. Tel: 81.3.3535.7621. Fax: 81.3.3535.7622. http://www.toei.co.jp/
email: internationak@toei.co.jp
Sales Company
At Cannes: Mr. Tadayuki OKUBO (Manager, International Sales), Ms. Shiori TAKATA (Asst. Manager, International Sales), Mr. Gen
MIZOGUCHI (Asst. Manager, International Sales)
Office: Riviera Stand A11, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.33.40
OROCHI -BLOOD(107 minutes)
Language: Japanese, English subtitles
Director: Norio TSURUTA
Writer: Hiroshi TAKAHASHI
Producer: Gen SATO, Masatake KONDO, TsutomuYAMAMOTO2008TsutomuYAMAMOTO
Key Cast: Yoshino KIMURA, Noriko NAKAGOSHI, Mitsuki TANIMURA
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 3.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Japan
A horrifying tragedy of two beautiful sisters of a mysterious family with a deep, dark secret. Based on a legendary, bizzare comic by “The
Master” Kazuo UMEZU.
CHAMELEON
http://www.c-leon.jp/
(97 minutes)
Language: Japanese, English subtitles
Director: Junji SAKAMOTO
Writer: Shoichi MARUYAMA
Producer: Kazuhito AMANO, Tatsuya KUNIMATSU, Yukiko SHII
Key Cast: Tatsuya FUJIWARA, Asami MIZUKAWA, Shun SHIOYA
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 3.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Japan
The ultimate crime action about a young con man and his love.
GOD'S PUZZLE (KAMISAMA NO PUZZLE)
http://www.kami-puzzle.com/
(135 minutes)
Language: Japanese, English subtitles
Director: Takashi MIIKE
Writer: Masaru NAKAMURA
Producer: Haruki KADOKAWA
Key Cast: Hayato ICHIHARA, Mitsuki TANIMURA
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 5.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Japan
A sci-fi love fantasy about a college dunce and a female teenage physics genius who take on a “universal” theme in unlocking the secrets of the
universe to create their own cosmos!!
FLAVOR OF HAPPINESS (SHIAWASE NO KAORI)
(124 minutes)
Language: Japanese, English subtitles
Director: Mitsuhiro MIHARA
Writer: Mitsuhiro MIHARA
Producer: Kazushi MIKI, Toshiya NOMURA
Key Cast: Miki NAKATANI, Tatsuya FUJI, Kaoru YACHIGUSA
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.5 M US$
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Japan
A heart-warming story about the former office lady struggling to become a Chinese chef and her relationship with the old owner as close as
father and daughter.
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TOHOKUSHINSHA FILM CORPORATION
Tohokushinsha Film Corporation, 4-8-10 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8460 Japan. Tel: 81.3.5414.0297. Fax: 81.3.5414.0430.
http://www.tfc-rights.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Kentaro Yoshida (Manager, International Sales), Ena Ogawa (International Sales)
Office: Tel: 080.1029.4004
MY DARLING OF THE MOUNTAINS - TOKUICHI IN LOVE
http://yamano-anata.jp/
Drama (94min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Katsuhito Ishii
Writer: Hiroshi Shimizu
Producer: Chihiro Kameyama, Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Kaoru Matsuzaki, Kazutoshi Wadakura
Co-Production Partners: FUJI TELEVISION, J-dream, TOHOKUSHINSHA, TOHO
Key Cast:Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Ryo Kase, Maiko, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Tomokazu Miura
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Japan
REDLINE
Car Race Animation
Language: Japanese
Director: Takeshi Koike
Writer: Katsuhito Ishii, Yoji Enokido, Yoshiki Sakurai
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: Japan
The newest Animated feature from MADHOUSE (Papurika) about love, conspiracy, mass-destruction and a battle to survive –and all of this
revolves around the world’s deadliest super-sonic automobile race-REDLINE.
WALTZ IN STARLIGHT
http://www.hoshikage.jp/
Drama (97min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Shingo Wakagi
Writer: Shingo Wakagi
Producer: Hiroyuki Taniguchi
Key Cast: Koishi Kimi
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Japan
This unusual personal film, half-and-half mixture of documentary and fiction with taste of OZU’s family drama, successfully leaves a nostalgic
impression on the viewers and strangely its impact is more than a documentary and fiction.
ONE STEP ON MINE, IT'S ALL OVER (FIRST-TIME INTRODUCED TO INTERNATIONAL MARKET)
http://www.teamokuyama.com/taizo/jirai/
Drama (111min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Sho Igarashi
Writer: Sho Igarashi, Toshiharu Maruuchi
Producer: Kazuyoshi Okuyama
Co-Production Partners: TEAM OKUYAMA
Key Cast: Tadanobu Asano
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1999, Country of Origin: Japan
"I would die, if I could photograph Angkor Wat!" Feature-length dramatic film depicting the short but stunning life of the combat photographer, Taizo Ichinose, who has lost his life in the
battlefield of Indochina.
TAIZO (FIRST-TIME INTRODUCED TO INTERNATIONAL MARKET)
http://www.teamokuyama.com/taizo/
Documentary (96min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Takako Nakajima
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Producer: Kazuyoshi Okuyama
Co-Production Partners: TEAM OKUYAMA
Key Cast: Taizo Ichinose
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of Origin: Japan
Documentary film about a war photographer Taizo Ichinose, who left his footsteps throughout Indochina over the period of 1972 to 1973.
AQUARION OVA
http://aquarion.info/
Robot Animation (50min.×2eps.)
Language: Japanese
Director: Shoji Kawamori
Writer: Shoji Kawamori, Hiroshi Oonogi
Co-Production Partners: MEDIA FACTORY, BANDAI, Hakuhodo DY holdings
Key Cast: Takuya Terashima, Yumi Kakazu, Tomokazu Sugita
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Japan
AQUARION is coming back as a OVA series! Beyond 12,000 years, the time has come for AQUARION to revive. The story reveals the
mystery of “Mythology”
REIDEEN
http://www.reideen.jp/
Robot Animation (30min.× 26eps.)
Language: Japanese
Director: Mitsuru Hongo
Co-Production Partners: Production I.G
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Japan
The latest animated TV series produced by Production I.G., which is a remake of "Reideen the Brave."
LOVELY COMPLEX
http://www.lovecom-movie.com/
Comedy Drama (100min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Kitaji Ishikawa
Writer: Aya Nakahara
Co-Production Partners: SHOCHIKU, SHUEISHA, TV Asahi, WEBBURNING
Key Cast: Ema Fujisawa, Teppei Koike
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Japan
Too tall or too short .appearances won't matter in this high school love comedy.
TACHIGUI “THE AMAZING LIVES OF THE FAST FOOD"
http://www.tachiguishi.com/top.html
Feature (approx 100min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Mamoru Oshii
Co-Production Partners: Production I.G, BANDAI VISUAL, Hakuhodo DY holdings, Nippon Television
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of Origin: Japan
In this film, Oshii portrays a unique part of Japan’s culture of fast food, which has been embedded in their daily life.
TRAVELING WITH YOSHITOMO NARA
http://www.nara-movie.jp/
Documentary (approx 93min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Koji Sakabe
Producer: Ryuichi Tokuyama
Key Cast: Yoshitomo Nara, graf
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Japan
What was generated when the "solo" performer Yoshitomo Nara committed to "collaborative" work for the first time.
THE YIN-YANG MASTER?
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http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/onmyoji-2/
Drama (115min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Youjiro Takita
Writer: Itaru Era, Baku Yumemakura, Yojiro Takita
Producer: Tetsuji Hayashi, Kazuya Hamana, Nobuyuki Tohya
Co-Production Partners: KADOKAWA, DENTSU, TOHO, TBS, MBS
Key Cast: Mansai Nomura, Hideaki Ito, Kiichi Nakai, Kyoko Fukada
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2003, Country of Origin: Japan
The Heian period (794 to 1185AD). This was an era when people and apparitions lived in the same world.
SURVIVE STYLE5+
http://ss5.goo.ne.jp/index_f.html
Dorama (120min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Gen Sekiguchi
Writer: Taku Tada
Producer: Hiroyuki Taniguchi
Co-Production Partners: DENTSU, Nippon Television, TAGBOAT
Key Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Sonny Chiba, Vinny Jones
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of Origin: Japan
Visual world of "Survive Style5+" will continuously give you an impact which you have never experienced in the past Japanese films.
SHE, THE ULTIMATE WEAPON
http://www.saikano.net/
sci-fi/love story Animation (13x30min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Masayuki Sato
Writer: Shin Takahashi
Producer: Hiroyuki Yamane, Bunyu Mizutani
Co-Production Partners: TOEI VIDEO, SHOGAKUKAN, CHUBU-NIPPON
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2002, Country of Origin: Japan
A shy girl, Chise has been forced to be transformed into the ultimate weapon, but all that her boyfriend, Shuji can do is just watching. What
fate is waiting for them?
PATLABOR (TV SERIES)
sci-fi/drama Animation (30min×47eps)
Language: Japanese
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Kazunori Itoh Producer: N/A
Co-Production Partners: BANDAI VISUAL, headgear, YOMIKO
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1990, Country of Origin: Japan
Tokyo in the near future. Highly sophisticated construction “Labor” robots are used to commit crimes.
TRICOAST INTERNATIONAL
TriCoast International, 1547 10th Street- Santa Monica, CA 90401, USA. Tel: 1.310.458.7707. Fax: 1.310.458.7701.
www.TriCoastInternational.com, email: AmiArtzi@tricoast.com
Distributor
At Cannes: Ami Artzi (President), Strath Hamilton (CO-CEO), Marcy Levitas Hamilton (CO-CEO)
Office: Riviera B4
EASY + RIDER: THE SAGA CONTINUES
Action/ Adventure
Language: English
Director: Dustin Rikert
Writer: Phillip Pitzer, Dustin Rikert
Producer: Philip Pitzer, Sheree J Wilson, Dustin Rikert
Key Cast: Sheree J Wilson, Jeff Fahey, Michelle Borth
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Delivery Status: Post-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
THE CURSED
Sci-Fi Thriller
Language: English
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
MOVING MCALLISTER
Comedy (129 min)
Language: English
Director: Andrew Black
Writer: Ben Gourley
Producer: Ben Gourley
Key Cast: Ben Gourley, John Heder, Mila Kunis, Rutger Hauer
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Desperate to score points with his boss, he commits to a favor he can't afford. He ends up in a rundown truck headed to L.A. with his boss's
possessions, his Hollywood -bound niece, and her pet pig.
TWO GROOMS AND A WEDDING.MAY THE BEST MAN WIN!
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Martin Guigui
Writer: Martin Guigui
Producer: Steve Bartlett
Key Cast: Debora Gibson, Dom DeLouise
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Martin Guigui's classic comedy about the crazy things that happen at weddings – as seen through the eyes of the bride's ex-boyfriend, who's
playing in the wedding band.
ONE MORE NIGHT
Comedy (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Sarah Kelly
Writer: Sarah Kelly
Producer: Gary Bryman
Key Cast: Eric Stoltz, Ione Skye, Peter Facinelli
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
High school friends get back together for a wild reunion and to try and recapture their past glory.
MY BROTHER
Drama (102 min)
Language: English
Director: Anthony Lover
Writer: John Sawyer
Producer: John Sawyer
Key Cast: Vanessa Williams, Nashawn Kearse, Tatum O’Neal
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Dying of tuberculosis L'Tisha, desperately tries to get her two boys, eight and eleven at the time, adopted together.
THE CELLAR DOOR
Horror (88 min)
Language: English
Director: Matt Zettel
Writer: Christopher Nelson
Producer: Hilary Six
Key Cast: James DuMont, Michelle Tomlinson, Christina Reynolds
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Can she win the taut, hallucinatory game of cat and mouse and escape through THE CELLAR DOOR, or will she die trying?
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BROKEN PATH
Action (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Koichi Sakamoto
Writer: Michael Cooney
Producer: Liron Artzi and Tim Grace
Key Cast: Johnny Bosch, Dan Southworth, Pamela Walworth
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
One man must protect his wife from a secret past that he is now forced to confront.
XCORPS
Action
Language: English
Director: J.S. Edmondson
Writer: J.S. Edmondson
Producer: Ray Murphy Cole, John Keller
Key Cast: Roslyn Bradle, Jason Lazo, Eric Dacharme
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget:
Year of Production: 2007
Country of Origin: USA
24 new to TV episodes of the all time greatest crashes, wipeouts and bone crushing spills in extreme sports.
DESIGN EXPRESS
Craft, Special Interest
Language: English
Director: Marcy Levitas Hamilton
Writer: Various
Producer: Marcy Levitas Hamilton
Key Cast: Various
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
24 craft DVDS (knit, crochet, and sewing).
FREESTYLE
Dance/ Musical (88 min)
Language: English
Director: Martin Wiley
Writer: Martin Wiley
Producer: Strath Hamilton, Marcy Levitas Hamilton
Key Cast: Britney Spears, Hillary Duff, Brian Friedman
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
BRITNEY SPEARS, HILLARY DUFF, ASHANTI and more show all the right moves for superstar choreographer- Brian Friedman. He's
today's main go-to-guy to invent those hot new MTV dance moves.
TRUSTNORDISK
TrustNordisk, Filmbyen 12, 2650 Hvidovre, Denmark. Tel: 4536868714. Fax: 4536774448. www.trust-film.dk & www.sales.nordiskfilm.com,
email: trust@trust-film.dk
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Rikke Ennis (CEO), Susan Wendt (Head of sales), Nicolai Korsgaard (Sales Executive & Marketing Manager), Marie-Louise
Rasmussen (Junior Sales), Ditte Hollesen (PR), Thomas Mai (New business)
Office: Scandinavian Terrace, Terrace 55, La Croisette
UBU PRODUCTIONS
UBU Productions, P.O. Box 40 19 65, Munich, D-80719 Germany. Tel: 49.160.928.150.21. Fax: 49.89.478.231. Email:
UBU.Productions@web.de
At Cannes: Mr. Jean Uliczay (President, Producer, Exec. Prod.), Ms Alice Kanterian (Acquisitions), Ms Rita Collin-Gorenstein (Film
Marketing)
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DRACULA’S HELLS ANGELS
Horror Comedy (90 min)
Language: English, German, French
Director: Jean Kail
Co-Production Partners: Transsylvania Film Productions / UBU Productions
Producer: Jean Uliczay
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: 3,000,000.- US$
Year of Production: end 2008, Country of Origin: Romania, GB
The angels of hell supports Dracula in his daily work and business.
MAURICE GUEST
Romantic drama (90 min)
Language: English, German
Writer: Julia Britton
Co-Production Partners: Australian International. Pictures, UBU Productions
Producers: Wayne Groom, Jean Uliczay
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget: 10,000,000.- US$
Year of Production: 2009, Country of Origin: Australia, Germany
The story of the bohemian lives of talented music students attracted from all over the world to the Leipzig conservatorium in the 1890’s.
HANG HIM HIGHER
Action / adventure (100 min)
Language: English, French
Director: Jean Kail
Co-Production Partners: UBU Productions
Producer: Jean Uliczay
Budget: 3,000,000,-US$
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA; France, Germany
The hang man needs the hanging men to be satisfied.
UFO INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTIONS
UFO International Productions, 3400 W. Alameda Avenue, Suite 200, Burbank, CA 91505 USA. Tel: 1.818.846.0465. Fax: 1.818.846.0256.
At Cannes: Jeffery Beach (CEO), Phillip Roth (CEO)
Office: Riviera D10, Tel: 33(0)92.99.32.41
MAGMA: VOLCANIC DISASTER
Action Adventure
Cast: Xander Berkeley, Amy Jo Johnson, Reiko Aylesworth
Delivery Status: completed
From the frozen tundra of Iceland to the sweltering jungles of remotest South America, a series of long-dormant volcanoes begin to erupt
without warning.
LIGHTNING STRIKES
Action Adventure
Delivery Status: in production
A small town in North Carolina is surrounded by an electrical storm and it won’t let anyone leave. Because there is something in the lightning.
Something ancient. Something evil.
UGC INTERNATIONAL
UGC International, 24 avenue Charles de Gaulle, 92522 Neuilly sur Seine cedex, France. Tel: 331.46.40.46.42. Fax: 331.46.37.73.21
Sales agent
At Cannes: Saïd BEN SAID (President), Romain SETROUK (Head of Sales), Adeline FALAMPIN (Sales Executive)
Office: 4 la Croisette, 1st floor - Cannes
I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (IL Y A LONGTEMPS QUE JE T’AIME)
Drama (105 minutes)
Language: french
Director: Philippe Claudel
Writer: Philippe Claudel
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Producer: Yves Marmion
Key cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grevill
Delivery status: completed
Budget: 6 M euros
Year of production: 2008, Country of origin: France
Juliette, Lea. Two sisters whom life had once violently separated. Juliette returns after 15 years having long since burnt her bridges with her
family who had rejected her.
INJU, THE BEAST IN THE SHADOW (INJU, LA BETE DANS L’OMBRE)
Thriller
Language: french, japanese
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Writer: Barbet Schroeder, Jean-Armand Bougrelle, Frédérique Henri
Producer: Saïd Ben Saïd
Key cast: Benoit Magimel, Lika Minamoto, Ryo Ishibashi
Delivery status: post production
Budget: 12 M euros
Year of production: 2008, Country of origin: France
A crime writer travels to Tokyo to receive a prestigious Japanese literary prize. He finds himself at the center of a diabolical plot worthy of the
most terrifying thrillers.
SECRETS OF LUCKY LUKE (LUCKY LUKE)
Comedy
Language: French
Director: James Huth
Producer: Saïd Ben Saïd
Key cast: Jean Dujardin
Delivery status: pre production
Budget: 27 M euros
Year of production: 2008, Country of origin: France
He "shoots faster than his shadow". LUCKY LUKE. The one and only. The fearless gunslinger is sent on a mission by the President to bring
order to Daisy Town, where Luke grew up.
THE GREAT ALIBI (LE GRAND ALIBI)
Drama (93 minutes)
Language: French
Director: Pascal Bonitzer
Writer: Pascal Bonitzer
Producer: Saïd Ben Saïd
Co-production partners: Medusa Films
Key cast: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Lambert Wilson, Miou Miou, Pierre Arditi, Mathieu Demy, Anne Consigny
Delivery status: completed
Budget: 6 M euros
Year of production: 2008, Country of origin: France
Pierre Collier is dead. Murdered in the residence of Senator Henri Pages during a holiday resort weekend. His wife, Claire, is the designated
culprit.
AO, THE LAST NEANDERTHAL (AO)
Epic adventure fiction
Director: Jacques Malaterre
Writer: Jacques Malaterre, Michel Flesser
Producer: Yves Marmion
Delivery status: pre production
Budget: 13 M euros
Year of production: 2008, Country of origin: France
The story of the last Neanderthal in a film that calls on the latest scientific and historical research into how the species died out.
SECRETS OF STATE (SECRET DEFENSE)
Spy movie
Language: French
Director: Philippe Haim
Producer: Yves Marmion
Key cast: Gérard Lanvin, Vahina Giocante, Rachida Brakni, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Delivery status: post production
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Budget: 11 M euros
Year of production: 2008, Country of origin: France
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN (LA FILLE DU RER)
Drama
Language: french
Director: André Téchiné
Writer: André Téchiné, Odile Barski, Jean-Marie Besset
Producer: Saïd Ben Saïd
Key cast: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Blanc, Emilie Dequenne, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Ronit Elkabetz
Delivery status: production
Budget: 7 M euros
Year of production: 2008, Country of origin: France
One day when reading an ad on the internet, Louise believes that destiny has finally knocked at her door.
YOU’LL MISS ME (JE VAIS TE MANQUER)
Drama
Language: french
Director: Amanda Sthers
Writer: Amanda Sthers
Producer: Yves Marmion
Key cast: Patrick Bruel, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Ginette Reno, Dorothée Berryman
Delivery status: pre production
Budget: 6 M euros
Year of production: 2008, Country of origin: France
Six destinies which are going to, for the space of an instant, in this airport teeming with life and intermingling, jostle each, separate and meet
again. And what if these characters were living out the most important moments of their entire lives?
A VERY SIMPLE CRIME
Drama
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Writer: Nick Kazan, Terry Curtis Fox
Producer: Saïd Ben Saïd
Delivery status: development
Budget: 12 M euros
Country of origin: France
Despite their differences, the brothers have always protected each other. Except for one time, one single betrayal. The time to even the scores
has come.
ROMAINE 30° BELOW (ROMAINE PAR MOINS 30)
Comedy
Language: French
Director: Agnes Obadia
Producer: Nicolas Blanc/ Agat Films
Key cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Pascal Elbé
Delivery status: shooting
Budget: 4 M euros
Year of production: 2008, Country of origin: France
MALE DOMINATION (LA DOMINATION MASCULINE)
Documentary
Language: French
Director: Patrick Jean
Producer: Marie Masmonteil/Elzevir Films
Delivery status: development
Budget: 1M euros
Year of production: 2008, Country of origin: France
FREEDOM (LIBERTÉ)
Language: French
Director: Tony Gatlif
Producer: Prince Films
Delivery status: development
Budget: 6M euros
Year of production: 2008, Country of origin: France
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UNIFIED PICTURES
Unified Pictures, 19773 Bahama St., Northridge, CA 91324 USA. Tel: 1.818.576.1006. Fax: 1.818.534.3347.
Unified Pictures is a production company whose focus is on acquiring, developing and producing cutting-edge and artistically innovative films.
At Cannes: Keith Kjarval (President), Kurt Rauer (President), Ben Ruffman (Head of Production), Ann Dubinet (Head of Strategic Planning,
Acquisitions and Distribution), Mia Niebruegge (Production Coordinator)
Office: Hotel Majestic Cannes Barrière, 10 La Croisette, 6408 Cannes, France, Suite Room #: 139, Direct Phone in suite: 33(0)4.97.06.85.07.
Unified email while in Cannes: international@unifiedpictures.com
BOB FUNK
Comedy
Directed and Written by Craig Carlisle
Cast: Michael Leydon Campbell, Rachael Leigh Cook, Amy Ryan, Grace Zabriskie, Eddie Jemison, Stephen Root
Producer: Ben Ruffman, Keith Kjarval
Bob Funk revolves around the quick-witted and sardonic title character who is fired from his job by his mother.
XII
www.XIIthemovie.com
Horror
Directed by Michael A. Nickles
Written by Michael A. Nickles
Producers: Keith Kjarval
Cast: Mercedes McNab, Steven Brand, Nick Searcy, Emily Hardy
Five years ago, a jury decided the fate of one man.tonight, he decides theirs.
THE PERFECT SLEEP
www.ThePerfectSleep.com
Drama
Directed by Jeremy Alter
Writer: Anton Pardoe
Producers: Keith Kjarval
Cast: Roselyn Sanchez, Anton Pardoe, Patrick Bauchau
Against the backdrop of a noirish dreamscape, a tortured man returns to the city he swore he would never return to, in order to save the woman
he has always loved yet can never have.
VIETNAM MEDIA CORP. - BHD CO., LTD.
Vietnam Media Corp. - BHD Co., Ltd., 18th Floor, Prime Center, 53 Quang Trung, Hanoi, Vietnam. Tel: 844.943.4133. Fax: 844.943.4135.
http://www.vietnammediacorp.com
At Cannes: NGO Thi Bich Hanh (Vice President), NGUYEN Thi Bao Mai (Manager of Sales & Acquisition)
Office: G14, Tel: 33(0)618.700.782
THE LITTLE HEART
Drama (98 min)
Language: Vietse
Director: NGUYEN Thanh Van
Writer: NGUYEN Quang Lap
Co-Production Partners: Blue Productions; The Global Film Initiative
Producer: Vietnam Feature Film Studios
Key Cast: Nguyen Lan Ha; Hoang Kim Hanh; Hong Anh; Nguyen Xuan Thanh;
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Vietnam
The film follows the plight of a village girl, sold to a city brothel.
BI, DON'T BE AFRAID
Psychological drama (90 min)
Language: Vietse
Director: Phan Dang Di
Writer: Phan Dang Di
Co-Production Partners: VietnamMediaCorp; Chanh Phuong Film
Producer: Jimmy NGUYEN PHAM; NGUYEN Bao Mai
Key Cast: Thanh Minh PHAN; Hoa Thuy NGUYEN; Kieu Trinh NGUYEN; Viet Linh TRAN; Hong Van HA; Mai Chau NGUYEN
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
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Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Vietnam
A seven year-old boy, an irresponsible husband, a tolerant wife, a loyal old maid, a spinster and an old grandfather, each has different desire in
one family.
MUTE AFFAIRS
Drama (95 min)
Language: Vietse
Director: BUI Thac Chuyen
Writer: PHAN Dang Di
Producer: Vietnam Feature Film Studio No. 1
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Vietnam
Duyen, the main character, got married to Hai, a young man who is still very innocent.
I WANT TO BE AFAMOUS
Romantic Drama (100 min)
Language: Vietse
Director: NGUYEN Duc Viet
Writer: HA Anh Thu
Producer: NGUYEN Hong Ngat
Key Cast: Dan Le; Kim Hanh; Thah Van; Minh Tiep; Van Anh; Thanh Tung
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Vietnam
Nhung, a leading solo of the trio band, distinguishes herself in music talent.
THE HAUNTED HOUSE & THE STREAM OF MISFORTUNE SOULS
Horror drama (90min)
Language: Vietse
Director: NGUYEN Chanh Tin
Writer: BUI Chi Vinh
Producer: Chanh Tin Film
Key Cast: Ngo Thanh Van (Rebel); Hoang Son; Bui Chi Vinh
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Vietnam
Rumors about the pitiful death of a young girl in the desolate house encourage Truc, the young film director, to produce a horror film there.
VISION FILMS
Vision Films, 14945 Ventura Blvd., Suite 306, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA. Tel: 1.818.784.1702. Fax: 1.818.788.3715. www.visionfilms.net,
E-Mail: sales@visionfilms.net
At Cannes: Lise Romanoff (Managing Director), Andre Relis (VP of Int'l Sales), Brady Bowen (Sales Executive)
Office: R21.01
EXIT SPEED
Thriller
Directed By: Scott Ziehl
Starring: Lea Thompson (Back to the Future, Caroline in the City), Fred Ward (Tremors, The Player, Sweet Home Alabama), Alice Greczyn
(Lincoln Heights, House of Fears), Desmond Harrington (Wrong Turn, We Were Soldiers)
Year of Production: 2008
Ten passengers aboard a bus must fight for their lives when attacked by a nomadic biker gang.
MAMA, I WANT TO SING!
Drama (90 minutes)
Directed By: Charles Randolph-Wright
Starring: Ciara (GRAMMY Award Winner), Billy Zane (Titanic), Patti LaBelle (GRAMMY Award Winner), and Lynn Whitfield (The
Josephine Baker Story, A Thin Red Line Between Love and Hate)
Year of Production: 2008
Music-sensation Ciara stars in the tale of a young girl pursuing her dreams and the faith that it takes to reach them.
WHAT WE DO IS SECRET
Bio-Pic (90 minutes)
Directed By: Rodger Grossman
Starring: Shane West (A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, ER), Bijou Phillips (Almost Famous), Rick Gonzales (War Of The Worlds), and
Noah Segan
Year of Production: 2007
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The extraordinary story that captures the explosive and tumultuous life of Darby Crash, the seminal singer and songwriter of The Germs.
NATIONAL LAMPOON’S TV: THE MOVIE
Comedy (86 minutes)
Director: Sam Maccarone
Starring: Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Preston Lucy, and Wee-man
Year of Production: 2006
‘Jackassian’ stunts spoof ‘Fear Factor’ to ‘Wife Swap’ to ‘The Apprentice’ to ‘Girls Gone Wild’. Nothing is off limits.
JACKIE CHAN & BRUCE LEE FILM PACKAGE
Martial Arts
From: The Dick Randall Collection
Year of Production: 1973-1983
Over 20 martial arts films from 1973-1983 including ‘Master With Cracked Fingers’, ‘Young Bruce Lee’, ‘The Little Dragon’, and ‘True
Game of Death.’
I.P.P. CULT MOVIE COLLECTION
Cult
Collection of films directed by Al Adamson and The Cult Movie Collection including ‘I Spit on Your Corpse’ and ‘Satan’s Sadists’.
IOWA
Thriller (104 minutes)
Directed And Produced By: Matt Farnsworth
Starring: Matt Farnsworth, Diane Foster, John Savage (The Deer Hunter, The New World), Rosanna Arquette (Desperately Seeking Susan,
Pulp Fiction), and Michael T. Weiss (Freeway)
Year of Production: 2006
An unflinching look into the lives of two addicts who become victims of greed, and the debilitating effects on the people around them.
SOMEBODY HELP ME
Horror/Thriller (90 minutes)
Year of Production: 2007
Starring: Omarion Grandberry (You Got Served, Feel The Noise) Marques Houston (Fat Albert, You Got Served), Alexis Fields (Jacked),
and Brooklyn Sudano (Rain)
A weekend stay in a remote cabin turns deadly for unsuspecting kids.
ANTIKILLER 2: ANTITERROR (4 PART MINI SERIES)
Drama (4 x 50 minutes)
Year of Production: 2003
Starring: Gosha Gucenko, Sergey Shakurov, Ivan Bortnik, and Lyubov Tolkalina
A militia officer must defeat the plans of terrorists before it is too late.
FASCINATION: THE HISTORY OF MERCEDES-BENZ
Documentary (5 x 1 hr)
Year of Production: 2006
The definitive story of Mercedes-Benz reveals its groundbreaking innovations and design secrets.
VISION MUSIC
Vision Music, 14945 Ventura Blvd., Suite 306, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA. Tel: 1.818.784.1702. Fax: 1.818.788.3715.
www.visionmusicinc.net, E-Mail: sales@visionmusicinc.com
At Cannes: Lise Romanoff (Managing Director), Andre Relis (VP of Int'l Sales), Brady Bowen (Sales Executive)
Office: R21.01
CLASH: THE JOE STRUMMER STORY
Documentary/Performance (62 minutes)
Year of Production: 2006
The life of one of the original members of The Clash, Joe Strummer, and his reasons behind the split of one of the most iconic punk rock
groups of the day.
BOB MARLEY: FREEDOM ROAD
Documentary/Performance DVD (55 minutes), CD (45 minutes)
Year of Production: 2007
The legendary singer’s life on the road, and his rise to fame with insight from Esther Anderson.
PUNK'S NOT DEAD
Documentary Feature (105 minutes)
Year of Production: 2007
Directed By: Susan Dynner
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A celebration of 30 years of punk rock featuring interviews and performances by Green Day, Offspring, Social Disorder, Rancid, NoFX, UK
Subs, and more.
JIMI HENDRIX: FEEDBACK
Documentary (DVD 52 minutes, CD 57 minutes)
Year of Production: 2005
Hendrix’s life through the eyes of his girlfriend and friends, including explosive performance footage.
LIMP BIZKIT: LIVE AT ROCKPALAST 2001
Performance (75 minutes)
Year of Production: 2001
Exclusive performance featuring the band's original line up and hits including ‘Faith’, ’My Generation’, and ‘Nookie’.
ROLLING STONES: CHARLIE IN MY DARLING
Documentary (80 minutes)
Year of Production: 1965
The Stones two-day Irish tour in 1965 with fantastic behind-the-scenes and interviews with the band.
JANIS JOPLIN: LIVE
Performance (37 minutes)
Year of Production: 1967
Intimate radio-session performances including short interviews between songs and hits like ‘Ball & Chain’, ‘Coo Coo’ and more.
BEATLES: THE JOURNEY
Documentary (83 minutes)
Year of Production: 2004
The rise and rise of the supergroup, including rare archive footage, newsreels, and unique interviews.
THE BEST OF ROD STEWART & THE FACES
Performance (70 minutes)
Year of Production: 1988
Live performances of Rod Stewart & The Faces, one of Britain’s biggest 70’s bands.
LEGENDS IN CONCERT
Performance (30 x 1 hr)
Live in concert with Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Louis Armstrong, Luciano Pavarotti, Whillie Nelson, Tom Jones and more.
VOLTAGE PICTURES
Voltage Pictures, 6360 Deep Dell Place, Los Angeles, CA 90068 USA. Tel: 1.323.464.8351. Fax: 1.323.464.8362.
http://www.voltagepictures.com, email: sales@voltagepictures.com
At Cannes: Nicolas Chartier (CEO), Nadine de Barros (VP Sales and Acquisitions), Jenn Lee (Head of Business Affairs), Mimi Steinbauer
(Sales Consultant)
Office: Relais de la Reine la Croisette, 42/43 La Croisette, #C-11, Tel: 33.0.4.93.06.70.01, Fax: 33.0.4.93.06.70.21
HYBRID
Action Thriller
Language: English
Director: Eric Valette
Writer: Neal Marshall Stevens (Thir13en Ghosts)
Co-Production Partners: Minds Eye Entertainment, Convergence Entertainment
Producer: Stallion Media
Key Cast: Oded Fehr (The Mummy, Mummy Returns), Shannon Beckner (American Pie Presents: Beta House)
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: US
An automotive mechanic with a tortured past encounters a challenge like no other when she reports to her job on the night shift at a Chicago
police garage
RUSLAN
Action
Language: English
Director: Jeff King (Killing Point)
Writer: Mark Damien James
Producer: Insight Film Studios (Tortured, Personal Effects)
Key Cast: Steven Seagal
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: US
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Reformed Russian Mafioso turned crime novelist, Ruslan, returns home to discover his estranged daughter is marrying the son of his lifelong
nemesis. After his loved ones are brutally attacked, vengeance brings his past to life.
BIG EYES
Drama
Language: English
Director: Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski (1408, Ed Wood, The People vs Larry Flynt)
Writer: Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski (1408, Ed Wood, The People vs Larry Flynt)
Co-Production Partners: Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa (Little Children, Little Miss Sunshine, Election)
Producer: Dan Halsted (Garden State, Any Given Sunday)
Key Cast: Kate Hudson (Fool's Gold, How to lose a guy in 10 days, Almost Famous), Thomas Haden Church (Sideways, Spiderman 3)
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: US
True story of Margaret Keane, the talented painter who married a mesmerizing con artist. For years, he took the credit she deserved until one
day Margaret finds the strength to claim her fame and fortune.
SPREAD
Comedy
Language: English
Director: David Mackenzie (Hallam Foe, Young Adam)
Writer: Jason Dean Hall
Producer: Barbarian Films, Katalyst Films (Butterfly Effect, Punk'd)
Key Cast: Ashton Kutcher (What Happens in Vegas, Personal Effects, The Guardian), Anne Heche (6 Days, 7 Nights)
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: US
A freeloading womanizer finds the perfect setup with an attractive high-powered lawyer, yet gives it all up after falling in love with a waitress
who happens to be a freeloader herself.
WIDE MANAGEMENT
Wide Management, 40 rue Sainte Anne, Paris 75002 France. Tel: 00.33.1.53.95.04.64. Fax: 00.33.1.53.95.04.65.
http://www.widemanagement.com, email: wide@widemanagement.com
At Cannes: Loic Magneron (Manager), Anais Clanet (Head Of Sales), Camille Rousselet (Festivals Manager), Tessa Maia (International Sales)
Office: Riviera E6
EL CAMINO
http://www.widemanagement.com/fiche.php?id=697
Drama (91 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Ishtar Yasin
Writer: Ishtar Yasin
Co-Production Partners: Stéphane Millière (Gedeon programmes), Loic Magneron (Wide Management)
Producer: Ishtar Yasin (Astarte Producciones)
Key Cast: Sherlyn Paola Velasquez, Marcos Ulises Jiménez, Jean Francois Stevenin
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Costa Rica
In Nicaragua, Saslaya, a 12 year old girl, runs away with her brother, Darío, to look for their mother, who immigrated to neighbouring Costa
Rica 8 years before.
REDEMPTION SONG
http://www.widemanagement.com/fiche.php?id=689
Documentary (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Markus Hansen, Jean-Marie BOULET
Writer: Markus Hansen, Jean-Marie Boulet
Producer: Loic Magneron (WIDE Management)
Key Cast: Billy Bang
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
This film is about the desire to overcome and transcend the trauma of war through music and art.
I DREAMT UNDER THE WATER (J'AI REVÉ SOUS L'EAU)
http://www.widemanagement.com/fiche.php?id=690
Drama (73 min)
Language: French
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Director: Hormoz
Writer: Hormoz, Philippe Arrizabalaga
Co-Production Partners: Sébastien Burnet, Philippe Arrizabalaga, Hormoz (Triskel Film)
Key Cast: Hubert Benhamdine, Caroline Ducey,
Christine Boisson, HPG, Eva Ionesco
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France, USA
20-years-old Antonin is secretly in love with Alex his best friend. After Alex's brutal death, Antonin succumbs to an overwhelming sexuality
that leads him into prostitution.
UNFAILING
http://www.widemanagement.com/fiche.php?id=695
Thriller (90 min)
Language: French
Director: Davy Sihali
Writer: Davy Sihali
Producer: Loic Magneron (Wide Management)
Key Cast: Frank Truong,Emilie de la Perriere, Pier Gaudin, Laetitia Lopez, Olivier Ho Hio Hen
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
A secret criminal organization, headed by Mr. Tmura, arranges a tournament in order to find the perfect killer.
LA VIDA LOCA
http://www.widemanagement.com/fiche.php?id=688
Documentary (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Christian Poveda
Co-Production Partners: Carole Solive (La Femme Endormie), Luis Bellaba (Aquelarre), Emilio Maillé & Gustavo Angel (El Caima
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France, Spain, Mexico
In Centra America, they are called "Maras", these groups of youngsters who have modeled themselves on the Los Angeles youth gangs. They
are extremely violent and are propagating terror in El Salvador and elsewhere.
A POLICE ROMANCE (UN ROMAN POLICIER)
http://www.widemanagement.com/fiche.php?id=698
Drama (96 min)
Language: French
Director: Stéphanie DUVIVIER
Writer: Stéphanie Duvivier
Producer: Richard Magnien (MAT Films)
Key Cast: Marie-Laure Descoureaux, Abdelhafid Métalsi, Théo Trifard, Olivier Marchal,
Hiam Abbass
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: France
In a small police station, Lieutenant Emilie Carange finds herself sexually attracted to Jamil Messaouden, a young rookie officer.
ANOTHER LOVE STORY (MARÉ, NOSSA HISTORIA DE AMOR)
Musical drama (105 min)
Language: Portuguese
Director: Lucia Murat
Writer: Lucia Murat, Paulo Lins
Producer: Lucia Murat (Taiga Filmes)
Key Cast: Cristina Lago, Vinícius D´Black, Marisa Orth, Jefchander Lucas, Babu Santana
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Brazil
Openly inspired by Romeo and Juliet, the film is a review of our strong sense of music, our contemporary dance as well as the strange mix we
find in slum, where violence lives along side artistic possibility brought by social projects.
MAI 68 (MAI 68, LA BELLE OUVRAGE)
http://www.widemanagement.com/fiche.php?id=433
Documentary (52 min)
Director: Jean-Luc Magneron
Producer: Loic Magneron (Wide Management)
Delivery Status: Completed
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Year of Production: 1968, Country of Origin: France
A rare documentary about the manifestation of Mai 68 with many testimonies from unknown and celebrities.
VIVA
http://www.widemanagement.com/fiche.php?id=778
Erotic Drama
Language: English
Director: Anna Biller
Writer: Anna Biller
Producer: Anna Biller
Key Cast: Anna Biller, Jared Sanford, Bridget Brno,
Chad England, Marcus DeAnda
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
VIVA is about a bored housewife in 1972 who gets sucked into the sexual revolution.
SUMMER BOOK (TATIL KITABI)
Drama (92 min)
Language: Turkish
Director: Seyfi TEOMAN
Co-Production Partners: Yamaç Okur, Nadir Operli
Key Cast: Taner Birsel, Harun Ozuağ, Tayfun Munay,
Ayten Tokun, Osman İnan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Turkey
Mustafa is a hard-working and ambitious agricultural merchant who is cold and austere towards his family. One day he has a brain hemorrhage
and goes into a coma.
WILD BUNCH
Wild Bunch, 99 rue de la verrerie. 75004 Paris. France. Tel: 00.33.1.53.01.50.30. Fax: 00.33.1.53.01.50.49. www.wildbunch.eu
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Vincent Maraval (head of sales), Gaël Nouaille (sales agent), Silvia Simonutti (sales agent), Emmanuelle Castro (marketing)
Acquisition Executive: Rita Dagher, Agnes Mentré
Office: 4, la croisette, 2nd floor
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF MY SEXUAL FAILURES
Language: English
Director: Chris Waitt
Writer: Chris Waitt
Producer: Mary Burke & Henry Trotter for WARP X LTD
Key Cast: Chris Waitt
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: UK
Follows Chris Waitt, an independent filmmaker, as he interviews his ex-girlfriends to find out why he is such as loser in love.
DOWNLOADING NANCY
Drama
Language: English
Director: Johan Renck
Key Cast: Maria Bello, Jason Patric, Rufus Sewell, Amy Brenneman
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Driven by guilt, rage and erotic longing, a woman, her husband and another man are caught up in a twisted, tragic quest for belonging and
sexual fulfillment via the darkest pathways of the Internet.
MARADONA
Documentary
Language: English, Spanish,
Director: Emir Kusturica
Writer: Emir Kusturica
Producer: Jose Ibanez for Pentagrama Films
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: France, Spain
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A celebration of the extraordinary resurrection of Diego Maradona: sporting hero, people's champion, fallen idol and inspiration to millions.
CHE
Historical drama
Language: English
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Producer: Laura Bickford, Benicio Del Toro, Steven Soderbergh
Co-production partners: Wild Bunch, Estudios Picasso
Key Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Franka Potente, Julia, Roberto Santana
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
TOKYO
Language: French, Japanese
Director: Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-Ho
Producer: Comme des cinémas
Co-production partners: Bitters End, Sponge Ent
Key Cast: Denis Lavant, Fujitani Ayako, Kagawa Teruyuki
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Japan, France
Three visionary films about Tokyo from three of the most unique and extraordinary talents of contemporary cinema.
SANGUE PAZZO
Historical drama
Language: English
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana
Producer: Angelo Barbagallo for Bìbì Film Tv, Paradis Films, Orly Films
Key Cast: Monica Bellucci, Luca Zingaretti, Alessio Boni
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Italy
A powerful and controversial saga of corruption and desire run wild enacted beneath the dark shadow of fascism. From the acclaimed director
of THE BEST OF YOUTH.
AFTERWARDS
Drama
Language: English
Director: Gilles Bourdos
Producer: Fidélité Films
Key Cast: Romain Duris , John Malkovich, Evangeline Lilly
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: France
A mysterious doctor interrupts Nathan’s life, claiming that he can foresee imminent death for certain people. Will Nathan be able to escape his
own destiny?
MR NOBODY
Sci-Fic
Language: English
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
Producer: Philippe Godeau for Somebody Production
Co-production partners: Alfred Huermer for Integral Film, Marco Mehlitz for Lago Film, Jaco Van Dormael for Toto & Co Films, Christian
Larouche for Christal Films
Key Cast: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: France
OUTLANDER
Sci-Fi
Language: English
Director: Howard Mccain
Producer: Barrie Osborne & Chris Roberts
Key Cast: Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2007
A humanoid warrior from another galaxy crashlands on earth and finds himself face to face with his deadly foe - a monstrous alien predator
bent of bloody vengeance - in the time of the Vikings.
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A CHRISTMAS TALE
Language: French
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Producer: Why Not Productions
Key Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Mathieu Amalric, Chiara Mastroianni
Delivery Status: Postproduction
HOLLYWOOD, I’M SLEEPING OVER TONIGHT
Documentary
Language: English, French
Director: Antoine De Maximy
Producer: Yves Darondeau, Christophe Lioud & Emmanuel Priou for Bonne Pioche
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: France
MAGIC
Language: English
Director: Philippe Muyl
Producer: Nathalie Gastaldo & Philippe Godeau for Pan-Européenne, Andre Rouleau & Maxime Remillard for Remstar, Paramount France
Key Cast: Marie Gillain, Cali
Delivery Status: Postproduction
THE COUNTRY TEACHER
Language: English
Director: Bohdan Sláma
Producer: Pallas Films & Why Not Productions
Key Cast: Pavel Liška, Zuzana Bydžovská, Ladislav Šedivý
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: Czech republic
CHE ( 2 FILMS, 2 PARTS)
Drama
Language: English, Spanish
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Producer: Laura Bickford, Benicio Del Toro, Steven Soderbergh
Key Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Franka Potente, Julia Ormond
Delivery Status: Postproduction
CHE’S LIFE (TWO LEGGED HORSE)
Drama
Language:
Director: Samira Makhmalbaf
Producer: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Wild Bunch
Key Cast: Ziya Mirza Mohamad, Haroun Ahad, Gol Gotay Karimi
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: Iran
A man from the city visits a poor village and offers a peasant boy a chance to work. To get the job, the boy has to compete with other poor
children.
THE WORKS INTERNATIONAL
The Works International, Portland House, 4 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 8QJ, UK. Tel: 44(0)20.7612.1080. Fax: 44(0)20.7612.1081.
www.theworkslimited.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Joy Wong (Head of The Works International), Clare Crean (Sales Manager), Juliette Gill (Head of Marketing)
Office: Residences du Grand Hotel, 45 La Croisette, Cormoran, 7th Floor, Tel: 33(0)4.93.68.44.89
THE MARKET (PAZAR – BIR TICARET MASALI)
Drama (93 mins)
Director: Ben Hopkins
Writer: Ben Hopkins
Producer: Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
Cast: Tayanç Ayaydin, Genco Erkal
Delivery Status: Market Premiere
Set in Turkey, a market trader is given the chance of a lifetime to invest in an exciting business deal. There’s one problem – the cash isn’t his.
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SUMMER
Drama
Director: Kenny Glenaan
Writer: Hugh Ellis
Producers: Camilla Bray
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Steve Evets, Rachael Blake
Delivery Status: Market Premiere
Shaun has had twelve years to reflect on an intense summer of love, sex and loyalty, but his best friend’s imminent death forces him on a
journey to confront his past.
SOMERS TOWN
Drama (71mins)
Director: Shane Meadows
Writer: Paul Fraser
Producer: Barnaby Spurrier
Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello, Kate Dickie, Ireneusz Czop, Perry Benson, Elisa Lasowski
Delivery Status: Screening
Tommo is a runaway from the Midlands while Marek is simply lonely. A chance meeting in Somers Town, London, leads to an unexpected
partnership and an unlikely friendship.
MAN ON WIRE
Feature Documentary (87mins)
Director: James Marsh
Producer: Simon Chinn
Cast: Philippe Petit
Delivery Status: Screening
MAN ON WIRE is the dramatic retelling of Philippe Petit's daring, and illegal, scheme to walk the high-wire between New York's twin towers
- the artistic crime of the 20th century.
FRENCH FILM
Romantic Comedy (7 mins)
Director: Jackie Oudney
Writer: Aschlin Ditta
Producers: Arvind Ethan David, Rachel Connors, Jonny Persey, Stewart Le Marechal
Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Anne-Marie Duff, Douglas Henshall, Victoria Hamilton, Eric Cantona
Delivery Status: Screening
French Film is a bittersweet romantic comedy which playfully pits the French against the British in the art of relationships.
BRICK LANE
Drama (101 mins)
Director: Sarah Gavron
Writers: Abi Morgan, Laura Jones
Producers: Chris Collins, Alison Owen
Cast: Tannishta Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Christopher Simpson, Harvey Virdi
Delivery Status: Completed
Set against the changing backdrop of multicultural Britain, Brick Lane is a truly contemporary story of love, cultural difference, and,
ultimately, the strength of the human spirit. Adapted from the international bestselling novel by Monica Ali.
CHOP SHOP
Drama (84 mins)
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Writers: Bahareh Azimi & Ramin Bahrani
Producers: Lisa Muskat, Marc Turtletaub, Jeb Brody
Principal Cast: Alejandro Polanco, Isamar Gonzales, Rob Sowulski,
Carlos Zapata, Ahmad Razvi
Delivery Status: Completed
In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his 16-year-old sister, Isamar.
GARBAGE WARRIOR
Feature documentary (84 mins)
Director: Oliver Hodge
Producer: Rachel Wexler
Delivery Status: Completed
Shot over three years in the USA, India and Mexico, Garbage Warrior is a feature-length documentary film telling the epic story of maverick
architect Michael Reynolds and his fight to introduce radically sustainable housing.
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THE KILLING OF JOHN LENNON
Drama (112 mins)
Director: Andrew Piddington
Writer: Andrew Piddington
Producer: Rakha Singh
Cast: Jonas Ball
Delivery Status: Completed
A chilling insight into the mind of Mark David Chapman, the 25 year old narcissist who gunned down John Lennon in 1980. Screened at the
Edinburgh Film Festival and the Rotterdam Film Festival.
WORLDWIDE FILM ENTERTAINMENT, LLC
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Distributor
At Cannes: Barbara Mudge, Richard DeLong
Office: Lerins P2, Hotel: Private Apartment, Tel: 1.310.849.1001
THE GRIND
Thriller
Language: English
Director: John Millea
Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Michael Walsh, Tome Sizemore
Delivery Status: Complete - Screening
A slimebag and a tech geek join forces to raise money on-line through a reality peep show and identity theft but the competition gets out of
hand.
ADRIFT IN MANHATTAN
Drama
Language: English
Director: Alfredo de Villa
Cast: Heather Graham, Victor Rasuk, William Baldwin, Dominic Chianese
Delivery Status: Complete - Screening
In NYC, a chance encounter on the subway brings together the loneliness, desperation, and tragedy of strangers whose lives intersect.
WEDDING WEEKEND
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Bruce Leddy
Cast: Molly Shannon, David Alan Basche, Elizabeth Reaser
Delivery Status: Complete
College buddies and their wives gather 10 years later to sing at a wedding and the trip down the aisle takes some rakish detours.
THE 7
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Adam Schlachter
Cast: Henry Czerny, Sandra Echeverria
Delivery Status: Complete
HIDING VICTORIA
Drama
Language: English
Director: Dan Chinander
Cast: Margo Harshman, Anita Gillette
Delivery Status: Complete
A young woman hides from her past until she is drawn from behind her mask by the kindness of a stranger.
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At Cannes: Bob Yari (CEO), David Glasser (CCO & President, International Distribution), Dennis Brown (CFO), Bill Immerman (COO),
Ennis Hensley (Vice President, International Distribution)
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KILLING PABLO
Action
Language: English
Director: Joe Carnahan
Writer: Mark Bowden (novel) & Joe Carnahan (Screenplay)
Producer: Bob Yari, Mark Gordon, Jason Zelin
Key Cast: Christian Bale, Joaquin Phoenix
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
From his rise as a drug cartel leader in Medellin, Colombia in the 1970s, to his death in a bloody shootout in Medellin in 1993, the legend of
Pablo Escobar has captivated millions the world over.
THE GOVERNESS
Romantic comedy
Language: english
Writer: Wendy Braff revisions by David Parker, C.Jay Cox, Susan V. Hoffman and
Producer: Sidney Ganis, Bob Yari, Simon Fields, Alex Siskin and Jennifer Lopez
Key Cast: Jennifer Lopez
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
A nanny who robs families of their riches, finds herself falling in love with the single father and the rambunctious children she works for.
THE LONELY MAIDEN
Comedy
Language: english
Director: Peter Hewitt
Writer: Mike LeSieur
Producer: Bob Yari, Lori McCreary, Rob Paris, Morgan Freeman
Key Cast: Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, William H. Macy, Marcia Gary Harden, Breckin Meyer
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
Three security guards at a museum find that their beloved art pieces are being moved to another museum. They concoct a scheme to steal their
artworks back.
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
Drama
Language: english
Director: Rod Lurie
Writer: Rod Lurie
Producer: Bob Yari, Marc Frydman, Rod Lurie
Key Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillion, Angela Bassett Alan Alda, Vera Farmiga, Harry Lennix, David Schwimmer, Noah Wyle
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A Washington-based female newspaper reporter outs a CIA agent and is imprisoned for refusing to reveal her source.
REAL MEN CRY
Drama
Language: english
Director: Brian Goodman
Writer: Brian Goodman, Donnie Wahlberg, Paul T. Murray and a true story by Brian Goodman
Producer: Bob Yari, Marc Frydman, and Rod Lurie
Key Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, Amanda Peet
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A true story, Real Men Cry is the thrilling crime and redemption saga of Brian and Paulie, two best friends born on the Irish streets of South
Boston and raised on a life of crime.
THE SOPHOMORE
Comedy/Drama
Language: english
Director: Brett Simon
Writer: Tim Caplin & Kevin Jakubowski
Producer: Bob Yari, Roy Lee, and Doug Davison
Key Cast: Reece Thompson, Mischa Barton, Bruce Willis
Delivery Status: Post Production
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Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
A mystery noir that takes a darkly comedic look at the politics of high school, drugs, sex and stolen SAT scores, will aspiring journalist Bobby
Funke find the answers before it’s too late?
50 MICE
Thriller
Language: english
Director: Daniel Pyne
Writer: Daniel Pyne
Producer: Susan Ruskin, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dan Pyne, Bob Yari
Key Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Delivery Status: In Development
A man is placed under protection for witnessing a crime he does not remember.
ONE TRAIN LATER
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Lauren Lazin
Writer: Lauren Lazin
Producer: Norm Golightly and Bob Yari
Key Cast: Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007-2008, Country of Origin: USA
Based on the Andy summers novel “One Train Later” about the formation and history of The Police, culminating with their 2007 world tour.
FELLINI BLACK AND WHITE
Language: english
Director: Henry Bromell
Writer: Henry Bromell
Producer: Andrew Lazar, Bob Yari
Key Cast: Antonio Banderas, Emily Watson, Liv Tyler, Laurence Fishburne, Peter Dinklage
Delivery Status: In Development
The story of Federico Fellini's bizarre yet heartfelt romp in Los Angeles before the 1957 Academy Awards. Through his run-ins with surfers,
druggies, and a sexy veterinarian, does Fellini finally find true love and faithfulness?
THE ACCIDENTAL HUSBAND
Romantic Comedy
Language: english
Director: Griffin Dunne
Writer: Mimi Hare and Clare Naylor
Producer: Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd, Jason Blum, Uma Thurman, Bob Yari
Key Cast: Uma Thurman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Colin Firth
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of Origin: USA
On the day she registers for her marriage license, a news talk relationship therapist is shocked to discover she is already married.
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At Cannes: Tanya York (CEO/President), Lee Ettinger (VP Business Development), Marty Poole (Director of Acquisitions), Jim Walker (VP
Marketing & Technology), Steve Bulzoni (President Home Video)
Office: 20.01
CIRCADIAN RHYTHM
Sci-Fi Action (81min)
Language: English
Director: Rene Besson
Writer: James Portolese
Co-Production Partners: Rene Besson,James Portolese
Key Cast: Rachel Miner, Seymour Cassel, David Anders, Sarah Wynter
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
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A young woman (Rachel Miner) finds herself caught in a mind-bending web of high-tech murder and espionage, but has no idea why she’s
there.
FISTS OF RIGHTEOUS HARMONY, THE
Action (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Joe Saldana, Aaron Huisenfeldt, Metin Gungor
Writer: Aaron Huisenfeldt
Co-Production Partners: Joe Saldana, Aaron Huisenfeldt, Metin Gungor
Key Cast: Elbert Traister, Svilen Kamburov, Joe Saldana
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A group of centuries-old crime fighters patrol the modern day inner-city streets as a group of masked motorcycle riding ninja vigilantes.
WELCOME TO SEPTEMBER
Drama (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Phillip Scarpaci
Writer: Colin Mitchell
Producer: Pattie Kelly
Key Cast: Victor Burke, Salli Saffioti, David Leisure
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A lonely man finds love in the image of a woman in a painting, and so begins a bizarre search for her, eventually blurring the line between
sanity and obsession on his quest for happiness.
WILLOWS WAY
Supernatural Thriller (82 min)
Language: English
Director: Kevin DiBacco
Writer: Raffaele DiBacco
Co-Production Partners: Raffaele DiBacco, Timothy B. Francis
Key Cast: Casey McDougal, C. James Roberts
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
An alien messenger becomes stranded on Earth while on a mission to witness the arrival of a ‘promised one.’
RUNNING FROM THE SHADOWS
Thriller (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Steven Rush
Writer: Steven Rush
Co-Production Partners: Steven Rush & Michael Edwards
Key Cast: Adrian Zmed, Kristin Nicole
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: USA
A young woman succumbs to years of abuse and kills her cheating fiancé in a fit of rage.
RED CELL, THE
Horror (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Chris Schwartz
Writer: Chris Schwartz
Producer: Chris Schwartz
Key Cast: Donovan Schwartz, Brett Wilson, Chris Schwartz
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008
Country of Origin: USA
A trapped and tortured terminally ill patient struggles to understand where he is and why before he succumbs to his illness or the twisted mind
of the drill wielding psychopath holding him captive. whichever kills him first.
SOUL SEARCHER
Action (98 min)
Language: English
Director: Neil Oseman
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Writer: Neil Oseman
Producer: Neil Oseman
Key Cast: Ray Bullock, Jr., Richard Blake, Katrina Cooke
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2008, Country of Origin: UK
A “normal” Joe gets tapped to replace the ailing Grim Reaper, but can he leave his mundane life (and love) behind and save us from a true Hell
on Earth?