C ANNES
111 PICTURES
111 Pictures, 1st Floor 111, Wardour
Street, London, W1F OUH United
Kingdom. Tel: 44.207.758.0690. Fax:
44.207.734.2819.
http://www.111pictures.com
At Cannes: Alki David (President), Tony
Lytle (Director of Sales), Eroulla
Constatine (Vice President of Sales)
Office: 45 la Croisette, Tel: 0493.68.7193
FISHTALES
Family Comedy (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Alki David
Key Cast: Billy Zane, Kelly Brook, Alki
David, Amber Savva
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget 15,000.000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
Oxford University Professor (Zane),
travels to Greece and with the help of his
daughter meets mermaid (Brook), who
helps him to unravel ancient love spells.
OPA!
Romantic Comedy (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Udayan Prasad
Key Cast: Matthew Modine, Agni Scott,
Richard Griffiths, Alki David
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget 5,000.000
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
Archeologist (Modine) arrives on Greek
island in search of an artifact. He falls in
love with a woman who owns the village
Taverna, under which the artifact may be
buried.
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,
email: info@3ddgroup.com
Distributor
During Cannes: Dominic Saville (CEO),
Adam Wakeling (Deputy Head of Sales),
James Anderson (Sales Manager)
Office: Tel: 44.207.428.1800
ROBBIE’S SHORTS
Short films, 30’ (6 films)
Language: English
Director: Various
Cast: A range of actors including Steve
Furst
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
Slick filming, original ideas and a wide
range of messages - all with the backdrop
of tracks from Robbie Williams’ latest
album Rudebox.
SUPERSTARS
Documentary, 26 x 30’
Also available: mobile/web package 130
2007
PRODUCT GUIDE
x 2.5’
Language: English
Producer: Marilyn Higgins
Cast: A range of celebrities including
Johnny Depp, Jodie Foster, Tom Hanks,
Will Smith and Jennifer Aniston.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Featuring Hollywood’s most talked about
film, music and television stars,
including Nicole Kidman, Orlando
Bloom, Halle Berry, Daniel Craig and
Scarlet Johansson; Superstars is the
must-see collection of celebrity profiles.
JAMES BLUNT LIVE IN KOSOVO
Documentary, 50’
Language: English
Cast: James Blunt
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
A unique documentary following Brit
Award winner James Blunt during his
emotional return to the place where he
served as a soldier.
8 STAR
ENTERTAINMENT
8 STAR Entertainment, 4647 Kingswell
Ave., Suite 129, Los Angeles, CA 90027,
USA. Tel: 323.665.4898. Fax:
323.665.4898.
www.8starentertainment.com, email:
info@8starentertainment.com
Distributor, Sales Agent
At Cannes: Cida Goncalves (President)
Acquisition Executive: Cida Goncalves
Office: 119.01, Tel: 323.992.7890
BLOOD & WINE (A BRAZILIAN
STORY)
Drama (100 min)
Language: Portuguese w/English
Subtitles
Director: Joao Batista de Andrade
Writer: Joao Batista de Andrade
Producer: Fernando Andrade
Cast: Leonardo Vieira, Simone
Spoladore, Ailton Graca, Jose Dumont,
Eva Wilma
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 1.1M
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Brazil
The tragedy of a simple family caught up
in the political life of Brazil of the 50s
and 60s, an unsolved murder, a terrifying
story.
GALLIPOLI (THE FRONTLINE
EXPERIENCE)
www.gallipoli-film.com
Documentary (110 min)
Language: English
Director: Tolga Ornek
Writer: Tolga Ornek
Producer: Tolga Ornek
Cast/Narrator: Jeremy Irons and Sam
Neil
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 1.3M
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Turkey
90 years ago the Gallipoli legend was
written in blood on the shores of Turkey.
Not all the blood was Australian. Tolga
Ornek attempts to explain Gallipoli from
all sides.
THE HITTITES (THE EMPIRE THAT
CHANGED THE ANCIENT WORLD)
Documentary (120 min)
Language: English
Director: Tolga Ornek
Writer: Tolga Ornek
Producer: Tolga Ornek
Co-production partners: Peter Hankwitz,
Rob Kirk and Rob Lihani
Cast: Haluk Bilginer, Sanem Celik,
Burak Sergen, Yesim Alic
Narrator: Jeremy Irons
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 1.2M
Year of Production: 2003, Country of
Origin: Turkey
The Hittites: the most powerful people in
the Near East of their time. Highlights
include the recreation of the controversial
battle of Kadesh that decimated the
armies of Pharaoh Ramesses II.
A
ADRIANA CHIESA
ENTERPRISES
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises s.r.l., Via
Barnaba Oriani 24/A 00197 Rome, Italy.
Tel: 39.0680.86052.
Fax: 39.0680.687855.
info@adrianachiesaenterprises.com
At Cannes: Adriana Chiesa Di Palma
(President), Rossella Gori (Head of
International Sales)
Office: Hotel Carlton, Salon du Bridge,
1st Floor, Tel: 33.4.9306.4100.
Fax: 33.4.9306.4101.
Mobile: 39.335.8265.984
LA CENA PER FARLI CONOSCERE
(A DINNER FOR THEM TO MEET)
Sentimental Comedy (99’)
Language: Italian With English Subtitles
Director: Pupi Avati
Production: DUEA FILM in
collaboration with MEDUSA FILM and
SKY
Cast: Diego Abatantuomo, Francesca
Neri, Inés sastre
Status: Screening
Country of Origin: Italy
A man, four women and a dinner, to
discover love, and rediscover the family.
LAST MINUTE MOROCCO
Teenager Comedy (90’)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Francesco Falaschi
Cast: Valerio Mastandrea, Maria Grazia
Cucinotta, Kesia Elwin
Co-Production: an Italian Dreams
Factory and Rai Cinema production, an
Italian-French co- production in
collaboration with SBS France
Status: Screening
Country of origin: Italy
There is no place nor age for the
discovery of tenderness, first kisses and
falling in love.
ROSSO MALPELO (LITTLE BOY
RED)
Drama (90’)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Pasquale Scimeca
Production: Arbash Film in collaboration
with European Union, P.O.R. Sicilia,
Ente Parco Minerario Di Floristella
Grottacalda and Regione Sicilia
Status: Screening
Country of origin: Italy
What is described here could have
happened today, anywhere in the world
where there are children abandoned,
exploited, mistreated.
CABIRIA
Director: Giovanni Pastrone
Production: Presented By Martin
Scorsese; a Restoration by the Museo
Nazionale Del Cinema – Turin, in
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Association with Prestech Film
Laboratories Ltd. - London
Year of production: 1914: Restored
Silent Version; 1931: Restored Version
With Music, Country of origin: Italy
An historical masterpiece. In the history
of Italian silent films, no movie can
equal Cabiria in importance and success.
MEMORIAS CUBANAS (CUBAN
MEMORIES)
Documentaries
Language: Spanish, English
Seven Documentaries:
A DAY WITH FIDEL
(90 minutes)
CUBA 30 YEARS AFTER
(90 minutes)
POPE JOHN PAUL II AND FIDEL
Part 1, part 2 (90 minutes each)
CHE 40 YEARS LATER
(90 minutes)
FIDEL REVEALS CHE
(90 minutes)
THE LONG MARCH OF THE MAYA
(90 minutes)
Director: Gianni Mina’
Production: G.M.E. Produzioni
Country of origin: Italy
An extraordinary unique collection of
seven documentaries, unreleased images,
impressive reportages, live interviews,
exclusive declarations tracing the
tormented destiny of Cuba.
LE ROSE DEL DESERTO (ROSES
FROM THE DESERT)
Satirical Comedy (102’)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Mario Monicelli
Production: Luna Rossa Cinematografica
Cast: Michele Placido, Alessandro Haber
Status: Screening
Country of origin: Italy
A satirical comedy about war and love.
DYING IN ATHENS
Musical Comedy (105’)
Language: Greek with English subtitles
Director: Nikos Panayotopoulos
Production: Accelere s.a., Greek Film
Center, ERT, P.C.V. s.a., Marianna Films,
Nova
Status: Screening
Country of origin: Greece
A musical comedy on life, death, sex and
love.
PER NON DIMENTICARTI
(FORGET YOU NOT)
Period Humour-Drama (94’)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Mariantonia Avati
Cast: Anita Caprioli – Ettore Bassi
Production: Matteo Cinematografica
Status: Screening
Country of origin: Italy
Nine women, nine lives, nine intimate
portraits that go straight to the heart with
humour and drama. Excellent debut by
the daughter of Pupi Avati.
LA SCONOSCIUTA (THE
UNKNOWN)
Noir - Thriller (118’)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Music: Ennio Morricone
Cast: Ksenia Rappoport, Michele
Placido, Claudia Gerini, Margherita Buy,
Alessandro Haber
Production: Medusa Film and Manigolda
Film
Status: Screening
Country of origin: Italy
A contemporary, emotional, vibrant,
refined thriller with Nordic lights and
southern passions, mysterious deaths, an
avalanche of ambiguities. Rhythms that
explode at every shock with lacerations
punctuated by Ennio Morricone’s music.
VIAGGIO SEGRETO (SECRET
JOURNEY)
Romantic Mystery (107’)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Based on the novel “The
Reconstructionist” by Josephine Hart
Director: Roberto Ando’
Production: Medusa Film, Rodeo Drive
and Manigolda
Cast: Emir Kusturica, Alessio Boni,
Donatella Finocchiaro
Status: Screening
Country of origin: Italy
A psychological mystery story, set in
sunny Sicily, intensely passionate,
erotically obsessive, sensual, a rare kind
of love that goes beyond the bonds of
flesh and blood…
MARE NERO (DARK SEA)
Thriller (83’)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Roberta Torre
Cast: Luigi Lo Cascio, Anna Mouglalis
Production: Rai Cinema and Cattleya
Country of origin: Italy
A murder, an investigation, a journey
through a male world of desire where
real figures fuse and superimpose with
fantasies.
ROSSO COME IL CIELO (RED
LIKE THE SKY)
Drama (96’)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Christian Bortone
Cast: Luca Capriotti, Paolo Sassanelli
Production: Orisa Produzioni
Country of origin: Italy
A moving, true story. The saga of a blind
child who fights to reach out for his
dreams and his freedom.
GHOST SON
Horror (100’)
Language: English
Director: Lamberto Bava
Cast: Laura Harring, John Hannah, Pete
Postlethwaite
Production: An Italian-British-Spanish
and South African co-production: Star
Edizioni Cinematografiche SRL in
association with C.R.C. Srl and A.E.
Media Corporation SRL, Ghost Son
(UK) Films Ltd, Camarote Films SL and
Moviworld (Pty) Ltd
Country of origin: Italy, Spain, UK and
South Africa
A breathless paranormal thriller on the
edge of suspense from beginning to end.
LA STRADA DI LEVI (PRIMO
LEVI’S JOURNEY)
Documentary (92’)
Language: Various Languages with
English subtitles
Director: Davide Ferrario
Production: Rossofuoco and Rai Cinema
Country of origin: Italy
On January 27th, 1945, Primo Levi,
author of the worldwide famous novel “if
this is a man”, was liberated from the
Auschwitz concentration camp. It took
him ten months to get back to his home
in Italy. The filmmaker travels the
itinerary today.
BACIAMI PICCINA (THREE ON
THE ROAD)
Comedy (111’)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Roberto Cimpanelli
Cast: Vincenzo Salemme, Neri Marcore’,
Elena Russo
Production: Rodeo Drive and Medusa
Film
Status: screening
Country of origin: Italy
On the road to Venice…Luisa is
dreaming of marriage…Umberto of his
big chance…the crook has no more
dreams…
JIMMY DELLA COLLINA (JIMMY
ON THE HILL)
Drama (90’)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Enrico Pau
Production: X Film s.r.l.
Cast: Nicola Adamo, Valentina
Carnelutti, Francesco Origo,
Massimiliano Medda
Status: Screening
Country of origin: Italy
Based on the Novel Jimmy Della Collina
by Massimo Carlotto. A modern parable
of a young man’s search for love and
life.
ADYTON
INTERNATIONAL
Adyton International, ul. Wittiga 5/16,
Warsaw, 03-188 Poland. Tel:
48.609.981.429. Fax: 48.22.614.90.32.
www.adyton.eu, email: office@adyton.eu
At Cannes: Dariusz Zawislak (CEO),
Sylwia Kochaniec (Sales Executive),
Monika Blachnio (Sales Executive)
Office: C/O Media Umbrella Stand H4. 35
GENERATION JOHN PAUL II.
CROSSROADS.
Documentary (1x94’ or 2x50’)
Language: English
Director: Jowita Gondek
Producer: Dariusz Zawislak
Key Cast: Biography of John Paul II.
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget 0,6 M Euro
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Poland, USA
This movie is based on the biography of
Karol Wojtyla, and tells the stories of
young people born when the popular
Polish priest become a pope for the world.
FROM SOLIDARITY TO LIBERTY
Documentary (1x90’ or 2x 50’)
Language: English
Director: Jowita Gondek
Producer: Dariusz Zawislak
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget 0,6 M Euro
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: Poland
More than twenty-five years ago
something remarkable happenen at the
Gdansk
Shipyard, now in different era we are still
trying to understand the meaning of
events that took place in 1980.
MAGIC STONE
www.magicstonethemovie.com
Family adventure (90’)
Director: English
Language: Jowita Gondek
Co-Production Partners: Oliver Shiflish
Producer: Dariusz Zawislak
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: end of 2007, Country
of Origin: PL, HU, USA
Based on the Maria Kruger novel
“Caroline and The Magic Pen” is the
amazing story, full of spectacular
adventures and surprising situations.
ALLIED
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
Allied Entertainment, Inc., 8899 Beverly
Blvd. Suite 911, West Hollywood, CA
90048 USA. Tel: 310.271.0703. Fax:
310.271.0706.
www.alliedentertainment.com, email:
info@alliedentertainment.com
At Cannes: James Moder (Chairman),
Janet Y. Liu (VP - Sales Consultant, Asia)
Office: Riviera, F17, Tel: 310.271.0703 /
33(0)4.9299.3305. Fax: 310.271.0706
SAW BLADE
Horror (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Dennis Devine
Co-Production Partners: Allied
Entertainment, Inc.
Producer: David Sterling
Key Cast: Reggie Bannister
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A vengeful and evil butcher killed in a
slaughterhouse returns from the dead ten
years later to systematically slice up
members of a Heavy Metal Band.
JOHNNY SLADE’S GREATEST
HITS
Comedy (94 minutes)
Language: English
Director: John Fiore
Producer: John Fiore
Key Cast: John Fiore, Vincent Curatola,
Richard Portnow
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
A struggling lounge singer who gets
hired to open a hot new nightclub,
singing a new song each night, soon
realizes that whenever he sings a song a
new crime is committed.
TOWER OF BLOOD (HIGH RISE)
Horror (90 minutes)
Director: English
Language: Corbin Timbrook
Producer: David Sterling & Corbin
Timbrook
Key Cast: Chris Todd, Desire Varona,
J.T. Thomas
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
Three couples attending a party in an
abandoned 30-story High Rise building
not knowing that an escaped mental
patient is on the loose who starts killing
them one by one, hacking up the victims.
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AMERICA VIDEO
FILMS SA
America Video Films SA, Virrey Loreto
2426–1426, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Tel: 5411.47879098.
Fax: 5411.47879094. Website:
www.americavideofilms.com, email:
america@americavideofilms.com
Distributor
At Cannes: Enrique Maya (President),
Maria Fernanda F. Vila (Business
Affairs), Utako Niimi (Japan Consultant).
Acquisition Executive: Claudio
Braslavsky
Office: Carlton 225 & 226,
Tel: 334.93064225
LUCID
Mystery (89 min.)
Director: Sean Garrity
Key Cast: Jonas Chernick, Callum Keith
Rennie
Delivery Status: Completed
When a young psychotherapist starts to
learn about his patient’s dark secrets he
begins to uncover the mystery of his own
existence.
SWEENY TODD
Horror (91 min.)
Director: Dave Moore
Key Cast: Ray Winstone, Tom Hardy
Delivery Status: Completed
The demon barber of Fleet street comes
to life in this new retelling of the classic
story
THE NEXT PREMONITION
Supernatural, Thriller (90 min.)
Director: Nicolas Cuche
Key Cast: Frederic Diefenthal
Delivery Status: Completed
After killing an old fortune-teller in a car
accident, a man’s premonitory visions
dictate his fate.
AMERICAN WORLD
PICTURES
American World Pictures, 16027 Ventura
Blvd, Suite 320, Encino, CA 91436 USA.
Tel: 818.380.9100. Fax: 818.380.0050.
http://www.americanworldpictures.com
At Cannes: Mark L. Lester (President)
(Buying/Selling), Dana Dubovsky
(President of Production), Martin K.
Marab (President of International
Production and Distribution), Terese
Linden Kohn (Executive Vice President
of Distribution) (Selling)
Office: Riviera F-6, Tel:001.323.363.9872
THE LAST SIN EATER
Family (118 min)
Director: Michael Landon Jr.
Producer: Brian Bird, Michael Landon
Jr., Robert Gros
Cast: Henry Thomas, Liana Liberato,
Peter Wingfield, Elizabeth Lackey,
Louise Fletcher
Country of Origin: USA
10-year-old Cadi Forbes is wracked with
guilt over the death of her sister. She
feels responsible for the loss and sets out
to find the only man, known as The Sin
Eater, who can take away her guilt.
BONE DRY
Thriller (100 min)
Director: Brett A. Hart
Producer: Brett A. Hart, Chad Stalcup,
Greg Hughs, Richard Saied
Cast: Luke Goss, Lance Henrikson, Dee
Wallace-Stone
Country of Origin: USA
Eddie finds himself forced at gunpoint by
Jimmy , an unseen assailant, on a dark
and brutal journey through the harsh
terrains of the Mojave desert.
DEVILS DOMINOS
Thriller (90 min)
Director: Scott Prestin
Producer: John Bosher, Scott Prestin,
William Maursky
Cast: Daniel Baldwin, Vincent Pastore
Country of Origin: USA
Sopranos meets Very Bad. A fatal car
accident with a mob bosses son turns a
weekend hunting trip into an everescalating whirlwind of deception,
backstabbing and murder for four longtime friends.
ARCLIGHT FILMS
Arclight Films, 9229 Sunset Boulevard,
Suite 705, Los Angeles, CA 90069 USA.
Tel: 1.310.777.8855. Fax:
1.310.777.8882. www.arclightfilms.com,
email: info@arclightfilms.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Gary Hamilton (Managing
Director), Ian Gibbins (General
Manager), Jonathan Deckter (President,
International Sales), Lina Marrone (VP,
International Sales), Harrison Kordestani
(Production & Financing), Nigel O’Dell
(Production & Acquisitions, Australia
Office: Lerins S3,
Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.29.
Fax: 33(0)4.92.99.32.30
THE BANK JOB
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Roger Donaldson
Writer: Dick Clements, Ian La Frenais, George
McIndoe (Story), Aaron Shuster (Story)
Producer: Charles Roven, Steve
Chasman
Cast: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows
Delivery Status: Production
Country of Origin: UK
The Bank Job tells how one of the
biggest robberies in British history took
place with no arrests ever made, nor
money ever recovered.
BROOKLYN RULES
Thriller/Drama (99 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Michael Corrente
Writer: Terence Winter
Producer: Terence Winter, Marisa
Polvino, Richard B. Lewis
Cast: Freddie Prinze Jr., Mena Suvari,
and Alec Baldwin
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Brooklyn, 1985. With the mob world as a
backdrop, three life-long friends struggle
with questions of love, loss and loyalty.
THE TEN
Comedy (93 minutes)
Language: English
Director: David Wain
Producer: Jonathan Stern, Ken Marino,
David Wain
Cast: Winona Ryder, Jessica Alba, Famke
Janssen
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Ten stories, each inspired by one of the
ten commandments.
ARRAMIS FILMS,
INC.
Arramis Films, Inc., 8619 - 17th Ave. NE,
Seattle, WA 98115-3203 USA. Tel:
323.654.4965. Fax: 206.782.8351.
www.arramisfilms.com, email:
rafael@arramisfilms.com
At Cannes: Rafael Primorac (President)
Office: Riviera Booth F11, Tel:
323.302.2710
ULTIMATE FORCE - DIRECTOR’S
CUT
Action/Fighting (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Mark Burson
Producer: Rafael Primorac; John S.
Hicks
Key Cast: Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic,
Ruza Madjarevic, Igor Galo
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
In the tradition of Bruce Lee’s “Enter the
Dragon” and Luc Besson’s “The
Professional”, “Ultimate Force” is a
spy/martial arts/action adventure
introducing the new dynamic actionhero, ultimate fighting champion Mirko
“Cro Cop” Filipovic.
GIALLO
Horror (92 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jim Agnew
Producer: Rafael Primorac, John S. Hicks
Key Cast: TBD
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: $1.2 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A beautiful American supermodel in
Milano teams up with a tough cop with a
mysterious past to rescue her visiting
sister from a deranged serial killer.
BRUTAL
Action/Fighting (92 minutes)
Director: English
Language: Mark Burson
Producer: Rafael Primorac, John S. Hicks
Key Cast: Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget: $1.5 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A down-and-out ex-mercenary stumbles
into the seedy world of underground
ultimate fighting, where he climbs the
ranks, loses his illusions, and in the
process redeems himself.
ARRI MEDIA
WORLDSALES
ARRI Media Worldsales (Worldsales
Company), Türkenstr. 89, 80799 Munich,
Germany. Tel: 49.89.38.09.1288. Fax:
49.89.38.09.1619. www.arrimediaworldsales.de
At Cannes: Antonio Exacoustos (Head of
Worldsales)
Office: Int’l Village, German Pavilion
HEIMAT – FRAGMENTE DIE
FRAUEN (HEIMAT-FRAGMENTS
THE WOMEN)
Feature (145 min)
Language: German
Director: Edgar Reitz
Producer: Edgar Reitz, Christian Reitz
Cast: Nicola Schoessler, Henry Arnold,
Salome Kammer, a.o.
Delivery Status: Completed;
Year of Production: 2006
HEIMAT-FRAGMENTS is the story of
Lulu, the 35-year-old daughter of the
musician Hermann Simon.
AUFTAUCHEN (AMOUR FOU)
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
A desperate fight between love and
passion begins into which Nadja dives
headfirst and which threatens to
overwhelm Darius…….
FILM: DER ROTE ELVIS (THE RED
ELVIS)
Documentary
Language: Original Version with English
subtitles
Director: Leopold Grün
Producer: Thomas Janze
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007
As a young man from a small town in
Colorado, he moved to Hollywood. His
songs conquered the South American charts.
LE GRAND CHEF – SHOW EAST
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ARSENAL PICTURES
Arsenal Pictures, 6363 Wilshire Blvd,
Suite 305, Los Angeles, CA, 90025, USA.
Tel: 323.852.0011. Fax: 323.852.0013.
www.arsenal-pictures.com, email:
info@arsenal-pictures.com
Sales agent, Distributor, Production
Company
At Cannes: Yarek Danielak (Managing
Director), Chuck Speed, William J.
MacDonald
Acquisition Executive: Yarek Danielak
Office: Riviera M3/N4, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.33.27
TIMBER FALLS
Thriller
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
A young couple camping in the
mountains is hunted down and kidnapped
by a deranged cult in need of a newborn
child.
TOXIC
Supernatural Thriller
Cast: Dominique Swain (Face/Off,
Lolita), Tom Sizemore (Black Hawk
Down, Saving Private Ryan), Ling Bai
(Sky Captain and the World of
Tomorrow), Master P, C. Thomas
Howell, Susan Ward
Status: Ready for delivery
Bounty hunters tracking a fugitive
through her seedy underworld uncover a
supernatural curse and a trail of dead
bodies.
LOADED
Action/Thriller
Cast: Jesse Metcalfe (John Tucker Must
Die, “Desperate Housewives”), Nicole
Eggert, Monica Keena, Corey Large,
Jimmy Jean-Louis
Status: Ready for delivery
A wealthy country club kid descends into
an out-of-control world of drugs, sex and
violence, only to discover he is the center
of a Machiavellian revenge plot.
ARTIST VIEW
ENTERTAINMENT
Artist View Entertainment, 4425 Irvine
Avenue, Studio City, CA 91602 USA. Tel:
818.752.2480. Fax: 818.752.9339
At Cannes: Scott J. Jones (President), Jay
E. Joyce (Vice President), Jennifer Dillon
(Director, Distribution Services)
Office: Stand J 10, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.08
ILLEGAL ALIENS
Comedy (90 min)
Cast: Anna Nicole Smith, Joanie Laurer,
Gladise Jimenez,
Year of Production: 2007
“Charlie’s Angels” goes sci-fi, with a
touch of “Men In Black”. Three aliens
morph into super-hot babes and arrive to
protect the earth from the intergalactic
forces of evil.
IMMORTALLY YOURS
Thriller (97 min)
Cast: Tony Daniel Goddard, Gary
Daniels, Costas Mandylor, Matthias
Hues, Katherine Hawkes
Year of Production: 2007
A sleepy town turns to a place of evil
unrest when a covenant of vampires
starts to feed there.
STRIKING RANGE
Action Thriller (95 min)
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Yancy
Butler, Jeff Speakman, Glenn
Morshower, Tom Wright
Year of Production: 2006
Eugene “Vash” Vasher (Lou Diamond
Phillips) and his mercenary team is
called in to protect an arms dealer after
he double crosses a terrorist group
purchasing a next generation weapon.
ASIA ANIMATION
LTD.
Asia Animation Ltd., Unit 816, Peninsula
Centre, 67 Mody Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
East, Kowloon Hong Kong. Tel:
852.2728.3738. Fax: 852.2311.3611.
www.asiaanimation.net, email:
info@asiaanimation.net
At Cannes: Charlie Wong (Distribution
Consultant), Leslie Chin (Distribution
Manager)
SPARKLING RED STAR
http://sparklingredstarmovie.com/
Animation (90 Min)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Dante Lam
Co-Production Partners: August First
Film Studio Ltd.
Producer: Chin Yiu Tong, Ming Zhen
Jiang
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget US 3 million
Country of Origin: China
It is the adventure story in 1937 of a
child, little Pan Dongzi and his friends to
fight againse the invader, Hu, of the
vlillage
STORM RIDER CLASH OF THE
EVILS
Animation (110 min)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Dante Lam
Co-Production Partners: ShangHai Media
Group
Producer: Chin Yiu Tong, Li Rui Gang
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget US 8 million
Country of Origin: China
A martial Arts animation adapted from
the famous Comic, “The Storm Rider” in
Hong Kong
THE ASYLUM
The Asylum, 1012 N. Sycamore Avenue,
Los Angeles, CA 90038, USA.
Tel: 323.850.1214. Fax: 323.850.1218.
www.theasylum.cc, email:
theasylum@theasylum.cc
Producer/Distributor
At Cannes: David Rimawi (CEO), Paul
Bales (COO)
Office: Riviera Stand D7, Tel:
323.633.8454
TRANSMORPHERS
(90 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Leigh Scott
Writer: Leigh Scott
Producer: David Rimawi, David Michael
Latt, Paul Bales
Key Cast: Matt Wolf, Amy Weber, Griff
Furst
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A race of alien robots invades the Earth.
THE APOCALYPSE
(90 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Justin Jones
Writer: David Michael Latt
Producer: David Rimawi, David Michael
Latt, Paul Bales
Key Cast: Rhett Giles, Jill Staple
, Kristen Quintrall
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A giant asteroid headed for Earth setsff a
series of apocalyptic events.
DRAGON
(85 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Leigh Scott
Writer: Leigh Scott
Producer: David Rimawi, David Michael
Latt, Paul Bales
Key Cast: Amelia Jackon-Gray, Matt
Wolf, Eliza Swenson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A princess must pass through a forest
guarded by a fire-breathing dragon.
ATLAS
INTERNATIONAL
FILM GMBH
Atlas International Film GmbH,
Candidplatz 11, Munich, 81543
Germany. Tel: 49(0)89.210.97.50. Fax:
49(0)89.22.43.32. www.atlasfilm.com,
email: mail@atlasfilm.com
At Cannes: Philipp MENZ (President
Sales & Acquisition)
Office: M11/N12, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.06. Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.32.07. Philipp Menz cell:
49(0)172.9606400
THE DEVIL’S GATEWAY
(MAITLAND)
www.atlasfilm.com
Horror
Language: English
Director: Alexander HERGET
Producer: Alexander HERGET & Anne
MASON
Key Cast: Holly Brisley, Michael
Piccirilli, Rob Flanagan, Paul Moxey,
Stephen Adamson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Australia
February 14th 1973, a prison warden
goes on a murderous rampage in one of
Australia’s most notorious of prisons.
THE VICTORY MEDIA LIBRARY
(THE PAUL NASCHY
COLLECTION)
Horror
Language: English
Director: Leon Klimovsky, Amando de
Ossorio, a.o.
Producer: various
Key Cast: Paul Naschy, o.a.
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Spain
A prestigious package of 18 timeless
Spanish Horror classics, of which 10 star
Spain’s genre icon Paul Naschy.
Available for the first time restored and
remastered on state of the art High
Definition.
HEAD TRAUMA
http://myspace.com/headtraumamovie
Horror
Director: English
Language: Lance Weiler
Key Cast: Vince Mola, Jamil A.C.
Mangan, Mary Monahan, Jim Sullivan,
Meryl Lynn Brown
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
After a 20 year absence, drifter, George
Walker, returns home to settle his
grandmother’s estate. As if awakening
from a long dream, he finds his
childhood home condemned and littered
with the remnants of squatters.
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, email: info@atrix-films.com
Sales Agent, Film Financing, Distributor
At Cannes: Beatrix Wesle (CEO),
Solveig Langeland (CEO), Thomas
Woodward (Sales)
Office: Riviera J 2, Palais de Festival),
Tel: 49.1704113766
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.
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK, Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Hungary
Bathory is based on the legends
surrounding the life and deeds of
Countess Elizabeth Bathory, known as
the greatest murderess in the history of
mankind.
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! Filmmaker Doris Doerrie turns her
attention to Buddhism and that age-old
saying, you are what you eat.
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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 Production
Budget: $ 5
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: UK, Austria, Finland
A feature length documentary that
follows the epic journey of a baby
loggerhead turtle. Directed by Emmyaward winning Nick Stringer.
AURORA
ENTERTAINMENT
CORPORATION
Aurora Entertainment Corporation, 9454
Wilshire Blvd, Suite M-11, Beverly Hills,
CA 90212 USA. Tel: 310.858.1005.
Fax: 310.858.1050.
www.returnofthelivingdead4and5.com
Producer/Production
At Cannes: Anatoly Fradis (President),
Michail Gugin (Vice President)
Office: DDA Business Center,
Tel: 04.97.06.8563, Fax: 04.97.06.8589
BABI YAR
Drama
Language: English
Director: Harold Becker
Writer: Greg Melott
Producer: Anatoly Fradis
Delivery Status: Preproduction, Presales
Budget: $25 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Story of a young Christian boy living in
the Ukraine during Nazi invasion and
witnessing the Holocaust.
OFF CENTER: THE PAUL LYNDE
STORY
Drama
Language: English
Director: William Butler
Writer: William Butler, Aaron Strongoni
Producer: Anatoly Fradis, James
Rosenthal, Michael Airington
Delivery Status: Preproduction, Presales
Budget: $6 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
An aging gay TV icon struggles with life
in the 70’s, spiraling downward into the
depths of alcoholism.
CHRONIC
Horror, Sci-Fi
Language: English
Director: John Vulich
Writer: William Butler, Aaron Strongoni
Producer: Anatoly Fradis, William
Butler, James Rosenthal
Delivery Status: Preproduction, Presales
Budget: $4 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Troubled teens transform into
killers after encountering a
plane-wreck full of chemically tainted
marijuana.
B
BANANA FILMS
Banana Films, 83-85 Rue Philomène,
1030 Brussels, Belgium. Tel:
322.219.9190. Fax: 322.219.9410.
www.bananafilms.be,
info@bananafilms.be
Company Type: Producer
At Cannes: Jean-Luc VAN DAMME
(President)
Office: Tel: 06.73.83.01.92
ANGELS’ CHOICE
www.angelschoice.net
Drama (110 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Maria RIPOLL
Writer: Marie-Laure Berthelin
(screenplay) – Greg LATTER (adaptation
& dialogue)
Producer: Jean-Luc VAN DAMME
Co-production partners: FUTURE
FILMS – ALQUIMIA CINEMA LIBRISFILMS
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Budget: 12 M $
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Belgium
Piled up in a raft of two square meters,
without any food and only 5 liters of
water, Kate, Sean and their little daughter
Emily hope for a rescue that does not
come.
BAUER MARTINEZ
INTERNATIONAL
Bauer Martinez International, 9701
Wilshire Blvd., 10th Floor, Beverly Hills,
CA 90212 USA. Tel: 310.860.6113. Fax:
310.860.6114. www.bauermartinez.com
At Cannes: Philippe Martinez, Karinne
Behr, Robin Cohen
Office: Noga Hilton, Suite 305, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.70.00
WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
Written and Directed by Jonathan
Hensleigh. Produced by Gale Anne Hurd
Delivery Status: Completed
Two young couples try to escape with
their lives when they venture into the
remote jungles of New Guinea in search
of Michael Rockefeller, the wealthy
scion of the famed Rockefeller family.
THE WAITING ROOM
Horror, Thriller
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
EX GAMES
Year of Production: 2007
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Comedy
Three recent divorcees scheme to marry
off their ex-wives to avoid paying
alimony
During Cannes Contact
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BAVARIA FILM
INTERNATIONAL
Bavaria Film International,
Bavariafilmplatz 8, 82031 Geiselgasteig,
Germany. Tel: 49.89.6499.2686.
Fax: 49.89.6499.3720. www.bavariafilm-international.com, email:
international@bavaria-film.de
At Cannes: Thorsten Schaumann
(Head of Bavaria Film International,
Sales & Acquisitions), Thorsten Ritter
(Head of Bavaria Film International,
Marketing & Acquisitions), Stefanie
Zeitler (Sales Manager), Klaus
Rasmussen (Sales Manager), Sebastian
Kiesmüller
(Sales & Marketing Manager), Anegret
Eckl (Sales Manager), Olaf Aichinger
(Acquisitions Manager), Christine Reitz
(Team Assistant)
Acquisition Executive: Olaf Aichinger,
cell: 49.172.8111.759
Office: Marché du Film, Booth Number 9,
Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.19.
Fax: 33(0)4.92.99.32.20.
email: Cannes07@bfint.de
AND ALONG COME TOURISTS
International Market Premiere
Drama (85 min)
Language: German, Polish, English
Producers: Britta Knöller, Hans-Christian
Schmid
Director: Robert Thalheim
Scriptwriter: Robert Thalheim
Production companies: 23|5
Filmproduktion GmbH in co-production
with ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel
Key cast: Alexander Fehling, Ryszard
Ronczewski, Barbara Wysocka
Delivery Status: completed/Screening
Country of Origin: Germany
Sven arrives in Auschwitz to fulfill his
civil service. One of his duties is to look
after the concentration camp survivor
Krzeminski, a stubborn and taciturn old
man.
WILD CHICKS IN LOVE
International Market Premiere
Family Entertainment (108 min)
Language: German
Director: Vivian Naefe
Scriptwriter: Marie Graf, Uschi Reich,
Vivian Naefe, based on the novel by
Cornelia Funke
Producers: Uschi Reich, Peter Zenk
Production companies: Bavaria
Filmverleih- und Produktions GmbH in
coproduction with Lunaris Film,
Constantin Film and ZDF
Cast: Michelle von Treuberg, Lucie
Hollmann, Paula Riemann
Status: Completed/screeing
Country of Origin: Germany
Love sure is a tough nut to crack,
and the girl gang ‘Wild Chicks’ can
tell you a thing or two about it.
BEAUFORT
Drama (124,5 min)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Joseph Cedar
Producers: David Silber, David
Mandil
Production: Metro Communications,
Movie plus productions, United
king Films
Cast: Oshri Cohen, Itay Tiran,
Eli Eltonyo, Ohad Knoller,
Itay Turgeman, Arthur Faradjev,
Itai Szor
Scriptwriter: Ron Leshem and
Joseph Cedar
Status: Completed. Screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country
of Origin: Israel
Liraz Liberti, a young Israeli
commander is defending the
Beaufort Castle in southern
Lebanon against invisible enemies.
BECKER
INTERNATIONAL
Becker International, Level 1, 11
Waltham Street, Artarmon, NSW 2064
Australia. Tel: 61.2.9438.3377 .
Fax: 61.2.9439.1827.
www.beckerinternational.com.au, email:
info@beckerinternational.com.au
Sales agent
At Cannes: Iain Canning (Head of Sales
& Acquisitions), Jonathan Page (Head
of Finance & Operations), Joyce Layton
(Sales Executive & Operations
Manager), Ali Yap (Sales & Event
Coordinator)
Acquisition Executive: Iain Canning
Office: Hotel Majestic, Suite 128,
Tel: 33.04.92.98.77.00, Fax:
33.04.93.38.97.90
CONTROL
Drama (120 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Anton Corbijn
Producer: Orian Williams, Todd Eckert,
Anton Corbijn
Cast: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton,
Alexandra Maria Lara
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
Real life drama about Ian Curtis, Joy
Division and his very personal and
troubled events that lead to his tragic
suicide.
NIGHT
Documentary (80 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Lawrence Johnston
Producer: Lawrence Johnston, Lizzette
Atkins
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Australia
NIGHT is a stunning and cinematic big
screen event documentary which
explores the universal nature of night and
how we experience it.
FORBIDDEN LIE$
Documentary (109 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Anna Broinowski
Producer: Sally Regan, Anna Broinowski
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Australia
Investigative documentary feature about
Norma Khouri (author of the
controversial novel FORBIDDEN
LOVE) about her alleged friend’s honour
killing.
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BETA CINEMA
Beta Cinema, Gruenwalder Weg 28 d,
82041 Oberhaching, Munich, Germany.
Tel: 49.89.67.34.69.80.
Fax: 49.89.67.34.69.888.
www.betacinema.com, email:
beta@betacinema.com
At Cannes: Dirk Schuerhoff (Managing
Director), Andreas Rothbauer (Head of
Theatrical Sales & Acquisitions),
Delphine Eon
(Assistant International Sales)
Office: R20, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32,
mobile phones: Dirk Schuerhoff
49.170.638.48.06. Andreas Rothbauer
49.160.906.64.35.7.
NOTHING BUT GHOSTS MARKET
Drama (100 minutes)
Language: German with English
subtitles
Director: Martin Gypkens
Cast: August Diehl, Maria Simon, Jessica
Schwarz
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Germany
Judith Herrmann sends her characters out
into the world in five episodes dealing
with her favorite themes: star-crossed
love and the general rootlessness of the
Generation X.
FATA MORGANA (WT) MARKET
Thriller (90 minutes)
Language: German with English subtitles
Director: Simon Groß
Cast: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Matthias
Schweighoefer, Marie Zielcke
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Germany
Laura and Daniel, a young European
couple, are traveling in the Moroccan
desert when their car suddenly breaks
down.
THE THREE INVESTIGATORS AND
THE SECRET OF SKELETON
ISLAND
Adventure (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Florian Baxmeyer
Cast: Chancellor Miller, Nick Price,
Cameron Monaghan, James Faulkner
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Germany
Based on the international bestseller,
published in more than 30 countries…
BLUE STAR MOVIES
Blue Star Movies, 175-185 Gray’s Inn
Road, London WC1X 8UE, UK.
Tel: 44.207.812.0700.
Fax: 44.207.812.0650.
www.bluestarmovies.com, email:
info@bluestarmovies.com
Sales agent, producer, distributor
At Cannes: Pete Maggi (Chairman),
Bernardo Fonseca (Sales and Distribution
Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Pete Maggi,
Bernardo Da Fonseca
Office: Agarttha Yacht, Jetee Albert
Edouard - Vieux Port – Cannes, Tel:
35.1913.465.447
MY FAVOURITE GAME
Thriller – Horror
Language: English
Director: Fabio Guaglione and Fabio
Resinaro
Producer: Pete Maggi (Blue Star Movies
Ltd.)
Delivery Status: Pre-production (early)
Budget: $ 4,000,000
Year of Production: 2007
When fun and friendship take an
unexpected turn and you don’t know who
the enemy is…the game is survival, it’s
deadly serious and exhilarating.
FROST FLOWERS
Super-natural love drama
Language: English
Director: Andrea Vecchiato
Producer: Pete Maggi (Blue Star Movies
Ltd.)
Cast: Holly Hunter
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget: $ 5,000,000
Year of Production: 2007
What happens when love crosses the
divide between the real and spirit worlds.
STAND BY LOVE
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Simon Wells
Producer: Pete Maggi, Blue Star Movies
Ltd.
Co-production partners: Wendy Winks
(A Wink and A Nod Productions), Mark
Kaplan and Harriet Greenspan (Atypical
Entertainment, LLC)
Cast: Eric McCormack, Sienna Miller
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Budget: $ 5,000,000
Year of Production: 2007
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.
C
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,
films@capitolfilms.com
At Cannes: Jane Barclay (Managing
Director), Nick Hill (Managing Director),
James Norrie (Head of Sales), Sofia
Neves (Sales Director)
Office: 63 La Croisette, 1st Floor, 06400
Cannes
THE BEST TIME OF OUR LIVES
(WORKING TITLE)
Romance / Drama
Language: English
Director: John Maybury
Producers: Rebekah Gilbertson, Sarah
Radclyffe
Writer: Sharman Macdonald
Leading Cast: Keira Knightley, Cillian
Murphy, Matthew Rhys
Status: Shooting
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.
INCENDIARY
Political Thriller
Language: English
Director: Sharon Maguire
Production Company: Archer Street
Producers: Andy Paterson, Anand
Tucker, Adrienne Maguire
Writer: Sharon Maguire
Leading Cast: Michelle Williams, Ewan
McGregor, Matthew Macfadyen
Status: Shooting (promo reel premiere)
Production Country: UK
From the director of Bridget Jones’s
Diary, and the producer of Girl With a
Pearl Earring comes Incendiary; part
thriller and part multi layered character
study set in the aftermath of a dramatic
terrorist attack.
BLACK WATER TRANSIT
Action Thriller
Language: English
Director: Tony Kaye
Production Company: Capitol Films
Producers: Robert Katz, Kia Jam
Writer: Matthew Chapman
Leading Cast: Samuel L. Jackson
Status: Shooting
Production Country: US
When Jack tries to set up a gun-runner in
order to protect his son, he finds that the
man he has chosen to betray is playing a
deadly game of his own.
CARNABY
INTERNATIONAL
Carnaby International, New London
House, 172 Drury Lane, London, WC2B
5QR UK. Tel: 44(0)207.074.1273. Fax:
44(0)207.074.1203.
www.carnabyfilms.com
At Cannes: Will Machin (Head of Sales),
Ian Hall (Head of Distribution)
Office: The Grand Hotel, Cormorran II
DADDY’S GIRL
www.daddysgirlthemovie.com
Psychological horror (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: D. J. Evans
Co-Production Partners: Carnaby
Internation and Boda
Producer: Nerys Lloyd
Key Cast: Richard Harrington, Jaime
Winstone, louise delamere and Mark
Lewis Jones
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
A psychological horror film set within a
modern reconstructed family. A griefstricken Doctor makes a fatal error when
he diagnoses a troubled teenager’s
obsession for blood as a passing phase of
teenage angst.
DOLPHINS
www.dolphinsthemovie.com
Teenage action romance (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Mark Jay
Co-Production Partners: Carnaby Films
and Full on Films
Producer: Christopher Figg
Key Cast: Karl Davies, Lauren
Steventon, Layke Anderson, Frank
Harper and Roots Manuva
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
DOLPHINS is a teenage action romance
set in the high octane world of Brighton’s
custom-car cruisers and Indie Punks.
Quadrophenia meets West Side Story by
way of the Fast and the Furious!
RISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER
www.riseofthefootsoldier.com
Director: English
Language: Julian Gilbey
Co-Production Partners: Carnaby
International and Flakjacket Films
Producer: Michael Loveday
Key Cast: Ricci Harnett, Craig Fairbrass,
Billy Murray, Frank Harper, Terry Stone,
Ian Virgo, Roland Manookian, Neil
Maskell, Coralie Rose, Dave Legeno
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
Follows the inexorable rise of Carlton
Leach from one of the most feared
generals of the football terraces to
becoming a member of a notorious gang
of criminals who rampaged their way
through London and Essex.
CDI-CHRISDAVIS
INTERNATIONAL
CDI-chrisdavisinternational, 4612
Cartwright Ave., Toluca Lake, CA. 91602
USA. Tel: 818.753.8950.
Fax: 818.753.8960. chris@cjdavis.org
At Cannes: Chris Davis
Offices: Carlton Hotel,
Tel: 0493.64006,
Mobile: 323.899.5465
TEN INCH HERO
Romantic Comedy
Director: David McKay
Producer: Mark Witsken
Cast: Elisabeth Harnois, Clea Duvall,
Sean Patrick Flanery
Delivery Status: Screening
5 friends find love and sex in a funky
Santa Cruz Sandwich Shop.
LEFT FOR DEAD
Horror/Action
Director Albert Pyun
Producer Michael Najjar, Gary Schmoller
Cast: Victoria Maurette, Michelle Black,
Javier De La Vega
Delivery Status: Screening
“SAW“ meets the Spaghetti Western in
this heart pumping joy ride.
COMMANDO KIDS
Family
Director: Paul Lynch
Producer Martin Guinness, Rosanne
Milliken
Cast: Daryl Sabarra, Norm MacDonald,
Tom Green, Nick Mancuso
Delivery Status: In Pre-Production
(Production commences May)
A group of tweens go on a mission to
rescue three cheetah cubs from the owner
of a run-down zoo.
During Cannes Contact
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CELESTIAL
PICTURES LTD.
Celestial Pictures Ltd., Shaw
Administration Building, Lot 220, Clear
Water Bay Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Tel: 852.2927.1111. Fax: 852.2243.0099.
www.celestialpictures.com. email:
distributionenquiry@celestialpictures.com
At Cannes: William Pfeiffer (CEO),
Gordon Cheung (EVP Acquisitions &
Distribution), Soon En Wong (VP
Acquisition & Marketing), Yvonne
Chuang (VP Distribution)
Office: Room 118 (Carlton Hotel),
Tel: 04.93.06.41.18.
Fax: 04.93.06.81.18
FIVE DEADLY VENOMS
Martial Arts
Director: Kirk Wong
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Director: Kirk Wong’s (Jackie Chan’s
Crime Story) updated take on the classic
sees the return of the five characters so
beloved by martial arts fans.
FLYING GUILLOTINE
Martial Arts
Director: Teddy Chen
Delivery Status: In Development
Director: Teddy Chan(Jackie Chan’s The
Accidental Spy) injects new excitement
into this heart-pounding remake set against
a background of ruthless political intrigue.
CINE EXCEL
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC
Cine Excel Entertainment, Inc, 1219 W.
El Segundo Blvd., Gardena, CA 90247
USA. Tel: 323.754.5500. Fax:
818.848.1590. www.cineexcel.com,
email: cineexcel@msn.com
At Cannes: David Huey (President &
CEO), Ray Guthire (President Alpha
Film Group), Vada Ryerson (Marketing
Associate), Ed Tillman (VP Marketing),
Yoko Suenaga (VP International
Servicing)
Office: Riviera F17, Tel: 818.679.2994.
Fax: 818.848.1590
CARNEVIL
Horror Thriller (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: David Huey
Co-Production Partners: Alpha Film
Group
Producer: Ray Guthrie
Key Cast: Amanda Earl, Matt Felton,
“Barefoot” Bill Pacer
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A sadistic killer binds, tortures and kills
his captives in his secret Carnival
WILDCATS
Sci-fi (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Mark Polonia, John Polonia
Producer: Mark Polonia, John Polonia,
David Huey
Key Cast: Leslie Culton, Rebecca
Ferratti
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
In the tradition of Cat People and
Species, the half cat/humans must
reproduce before they become extinct.
THE ABOMINABLE
Sci-fi (90 min)
Director: English
Language: Patrick Donahue
Producer: David Huey
Key Cast: Heather DeVan, Jason DeVan,
Nick Orafice
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
The captive 60’ abominable snowman is
unleashed in San Francisco.
Producer: CHO Sung-kyu, CHO Eun-un,
MIN Jin-soo
Key Cast: LEE Se-young, CHU Sang-mi,
KIM Yuna
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget US$ 1million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Korea
A 13-year-old girl believes a popular
singer is her real mother. So she leaves
home to meet her mom but.
CINECLICK ASIA
(FANTOM., LTD.)
Cinema Arts Entertainment - Artedis
S.A., 6310 San Vicente Blvd., Suite 540,
Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA. Tel:
323.937.1085. Fax: 323.937.1186.
www.cinemaartsent.com,
www.artedisfilms.com, email:
cinemaarts@aol.com
At Cannes: Pierre-Richard Muller
(Chairman), Chantal Lam (President)
Office: Les Residences Du Grand Hotel,
Studio 3B - Le Cormoran II, Tel:
04.93.99.56.67
SHOOTING SILVIO
www.shootingsilvio.com
Drama (90 minutes)
Language: Italian
Director: Berardo Carboni
Key Cast: Federico Rosati,
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Italy
A young, rich, outlandish orphan decides
to assassinate Italian Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi.
CHARITON’S CHOIR
Comedy, Romance (100 minutes)
Language: Greek
Director: Grigoris Karantinakis
Co-Production Partners: CL Productions,
Safe Company
Producer: Elena Hatzialexandrou
Key Cast: Georges Corraface, Akilas
Karazisis, Maria Nafpliotou, Christos
Stergioglou, Stefanos Karadinakis, Fotini
Baxevani, Anthi Andreopoulou
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Greece
For Chariton, the school master in a
small town on the island of Corfu during
a time of Greek dictatorship, life is the -
Cineclick Asia (Fantom., Ltd.), 3F
Incline Bldg., 891-37, Daechi-dong,
Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-280 Korea. Tel:
822 538 0211. Fax: 822 538 0479,
www.cineclickasia.com, email:
ina@cineclickasia.com
At Cannes: Young-joo SUH (Managing
Director), Sang-eun CHI (Head of Int’l
Sales), Yun-jeong KIM (Senior Manager,
Sales & Marketing), Ina PARK
(Manager, Festival & Marketing), Jenny
J.Y. HAN (Sales & Marketing)
Office: Riviera K9/L12, Tel:
33(04).92.99.33.11
BREATH
Drama (84 min)
Language: Korean
Director: KIM Ki-duk
Co-Production Partners: KIM Ki-duk
Film, Cineclick Asia, Sponge
Producer: KIM Ki-duk(EP), SUH Youngjoo(Co-P), SONG Myung-chul(Co-P)
Key Cast: CHANG Chen, ZIA, HA Jungwoo
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget US$ 0.5million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Korea
Yeon, a wife who just found out her
husband’s infidelity, and Jin, a
condemned criminal, fall for each other
inevitably.
LUCKY MILES
Comedy (105 min)
Language: English, Khmer, Arabic and
Indonesian
Director: Michael James ROWLAND
Co-Production Partners: Short of Easy
Producer: Jo DYER, Lesley DYER,
Michael BOURCHIER(EP)
Key Cast: Kenneth MORALEDA,
Rodney AFIF, Srisacd
SACDPRASEUTH
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget US$ 2.64million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Australia
Three mismatched blokes, a Cambodian
man, iraqi refugee and an Indonesian
fisherman, are isolated in the Australian
desert and stranded to get out of the
black land.
THE WONDER YEARS
Children/Teen, Drama (95 min)
Director: Korean
Language: KIM Jee-jung
Co-Production Partners: Soo Film
CINEMA ARTS
ENTERTAINMENT ARTEDIS S.A.
ultimate love affair.
DRILLER
www.drillermovie.com
Sci-Fi, Horror (100 minutes)
Director: English
Language: Jason Kartalian
Producer: Jason Kartalian
Key Cast: Tanya Dempsey, Ivy
Gullickson, Matt Lewis
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!
CINEMA LIBRE
STUDIO
Cinema Libre Studio, 8328 De Soto
Avenue, Canoga Park, CA 91304 USA.
Tel: 818.349.8822. Fax: 818.349.9922.
www.cinemalibrestudio.com, email:
international@cinemalibrestudio.com
At Cannes: Philippe Diaz (Chairman),
Beth Portello (VP Production), Andrew
Schreiber (Head of Int’l Sales and Home
Entertainment), Cristian Bettler
(International Sales)
Office: Hotel Carlton, Suite 264, Tel:
33(0)4.93.06.42.64
NOW & LATER
www.nowandlaterthemovie.com
Drama (97 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Philippe Diaz
Co-Production Partners: Imago Creata
Productions - Producer: Beth Portello
Key Cast: Shari Solanis, Keller Wortham
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $750, 000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Angela, an illegal Latina, teaches Bill, a
disgraced banker how to embrace life
again through passionate sex, soulsearching conversations, and other
worldly pleasures.
RAISING FLAGG
www.raisingflagg
Comedy (102 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Neal Miller
Co-Production Partners: Rubicon
Productions, LTD and Oregon Creative,
LLC
Producer: Neal Miller
R UDY, T HE R ETURN O F T HE R ACING P IG – B AVARIA F ILM S ALES
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Key Cast: Alan Arkin, Lauren Holly,
Glenne Headly, Autin Pendleton, Barbara
Dana
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $ 2 million usd
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Academy Award winner ®Alan Arkin
stars as Flagg Purdy, a stubborn father of
six who’s dying to live a little.
CINEMA
MANAGEMENT
GROUP
Cinema Management Group, 9056 Santa
Monica Blvd. #204, West Hollywood, CA
90069 USA. Tel: 310.300.9959. Fax:
310.300.9960.
www.cinemamanagementgroup.com
At Cannes: Edward Noeltner (President),
Jacqui Barcos (V.P. Acquisitions)
Office: 25 rue des Etats-Unis, 3rd Floor,
Tel: 1.310.402.7110, Fax:
1.310.300.9960
LA MUJER DE MI HERMANO (MY
BROTHER’S WIFE)
Erotic/Adult (90 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: Ricardo de Montreuil
Producer: Stan Jakubowicz
Key Cast: Barbara Mori, Christian Meier,
Manolo Cardona
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Mexico
With simmering eroticism, this sensual
tale of love, seduction and betrayal
follows a beautiful woman whose
unraveling marriage lands her in the arms
of a sexy, roguish young painter: her
brother-in-law.
I HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN YOU:
THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF
SIMON WIESENTHAL
Documentary (105 minutes)
Language: English, German
Director: Richard Trank
Producer: Marvin Hier, Richard Trank
Key Cast: Narrated by Nicole Kidman
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
The definitive portrait of Simon
Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor, who
lost 89 family members, helped track
down more than 1100 Nazi war criminals
following World War II and spent six
decades fighting anti-Semitism and
prejudice against all people.
HEAVEN AND EARTH
Drama (90 minutes)
Director: English
Language: Marleen Gorris
Producer: David Pupkewitz
Key Cast: Rachel Weisz, Sean Bean
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: U.K.
This sweeping British epic set in S.
Africa in the early 1800’s tells the true
life story of Dr. James Miranda Barry, a
dashing and charismatic young army
doctor who only after death was
discovered to be a woman.
CINEMAVAULT
RELEASING
INTERNATIONAL
INC.
Cinemavault Releasing International
Inc., 175 Bloor Street East, South Tower,
Suite 1011, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3R8,
Canada. Tel: 416.363.6060. Fax:
416.363.2305. www.cinemavault.com,
sales@cinemavault.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Nick Stiliadis (CEO), Steve
Arroyave (VP, General Manager), Natalie
Kampelmacher (VP, International
Distribution), Paco Alvarez (VP, Sales &
Acquisitions), Ruby Rondina (Festivals
& Publicity Manager), Michael Paszt
(VP Acquisitions), Acquisition
Executive: Michael Paszt
Office: Riviera Booth # M7/N8, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.3238
BLIND DATE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Stanley Tucci
Writer: David Schechter, Stanley Tucci
Producer: Bruce Weiss, Gijs van de
Westelaken
Key Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Stanley
Tucci
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA/The Netherlands
A couple desperately trying to reconcile
after the tragic loss of their young
daughter.
SCAR 3D
Horror
Language: English
Director: Jed Weintrob
Writer: Zack Ford
Producer: Jamie Gordon, Courtney Potts,
Norman Twain
Key Cast: Angela Bettis, Kirby Bliss
Blanton, Devon Graye, Ben Cotton,
Christopher Titus
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Brace yourself for an entirely new
dimension in larger-than-life horror shot
entirely in 3D: Scar.
LITTLE BLACK SAMBO
Drama
Language: English
Director: Mark Brokaw
Writer: Rebecca Gilman, Doug Atchison
Producer: Norman Twain, Lou Pitt, Sarah
Jessica Parker
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during Cannes to:
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Key Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Mykelti
Williamson, Beau Bridges, Miranda
Richardson, James Rebhorn, Victor
Rasuk
Delivery Status: Completed, Screening
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.
CINEPHIL
Cinephil, 18 Levontin Street, Tel Aviv,
65112 Israel. Tel: 972.3.566.4129. Fax:
972.3.560.1436. www.cinephil.co.il,
email: info@cinephil.co.il
At Cannes; Philippa Kowarsky
(Managing Director)
Office: Philippa Kowarsky cell:
972.54.4961114
SOMEONE TO RUN WITH
(MISHEHU LARUTZ ITO)
www.someonetorunwith.com
Drama (118 min)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Oded Davidoff
Co-Production Partners: B&K
Productions, JCS Productions, HOT
Producer: Andrew Braunsberg, Philippa
Kowarsky
Key Cast: Bar Belfer, Yonatan Bar-Or,
Yuval Mendelson, Tzahi Grad, Rinat
Matatov, Dani Steg
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Israel
Based on the best selling novel by David
Grossman, the film captures the
original’s unrelenting pace, suspense and
heartfelt drama as it sends viewers on a
riveting ride through the streets of
Jerusalem at the end of a Labrador’s
leash.
A HEBREW LESSON (HA’ULPAN)
Documentary (122 min)
Language: English, Hebrew, Chinese,
Russian, Spanish, German
Director: David Ofek
Co-Production Partners: Channel 2
Israel, Yes Docu
Producer: Edna Kowarsky, Elinor
Kowarsky - Eden Productions
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Israel
A film following one year in the lives of
five immigrants to Israel, students in an
adult Language: school.
THE CEMETERY CLUB (MOADON
BEIT HAKVAROT)
Documentary (90 min)
Director: Hebrew, Polish
Language: Tali Shemesh
Producer: Assaf Amir, Guy Lavie Norma Productions
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Israel
For over two decades, a group of women
and men have been meeting weekly at
Israel’s National Cemetery, where they
debate philosophy, read poetry, eat lunch
and determine the fate of the Jewish
nation.
CINEXPORT
Cinexport, 78 av des Champs-Elysées,
75008 Paris, France. Tel:
33.1.45.62.49.45. Fax: 33.1.45.63.85.26.
tvfrance-intl.com / unifrance.org, email:
cinexport@wanadoo.fr
Sales agent
At Cannes: Anne-Marie ROMBOURGCARACO
Office: Market Place umbrella, Tel:
06.07.54.33.33
EDITH PIAF, L’HYMNE À
L’AMOUR
Documentary (52 minutes)
Language: French
Director: Armand Isnard
Producer: Cat Productions
Delivery status: completed
The life of the well know singer, a small
woman with a big heart.
L’OCCITANIENNE
TV fiction (90 minutes)
Language: French
Director: Jean Perisse
Producer: Clair Sud
Delivery status: completed
CHATEAUBRIAND is seduced by a
young woman who offers him a love
night.
LA BELLE ET LE SAUVAGE
TV fiction (90 minutes)
Language: French
Director: Bertrand Althuys
Producer: LM Les Films
Delivery status: completed
A fifty years old ethnologist, living a
solitary life in the South of France, meets
a strange woman who has a twin.
CJ ENTERTAINMENT
CJ Entertainment, 2nd Fl., 602,
Sinsa-dong, Kangnam-gu, Seoul, 135893, Korea. Tel: 82.2.2017.1192.
Fax: 82.2.2017.1240. www.cjent.co.kr
Sales agent/ distributor
At Cannes: David SHIN (Executive VP
of Int’l Business), Tom OH (Senior VP
of Int’l Sales), Kini KIM (VP of Int’l
Sales – Europe, USA), Josh LEE (VP of
Int’l Sales – Asia), Kwan LEE (Director:
of Int’l Sales), Michelle CHAE
(Director: of Int’l Sales)
Office: E17/F20
VOICE OF A MURDERER
Drama (122 min)
Language: Korean, Subtitles English
Director: PARK Jin-pyo
Scriptwriter: Park jin pyo
Production company: CJ Entertainment
Inc.
Producer: Eugene LEE, AHN Soo-hyun
Key cast: SOL Kyung-gu, KIM Nam-joo,
KANG Dong-won
Status: Completed/Screening
Country of origin: Korea
Based on the true story of a 1991
kidnapper who is still at large today.
SOO
Action/adventure (122 min)
Language: Korean, Subtitles English
Director: CHOI Yang-il (a.k.a. Yoichi
SAI)
Production company: CJ Entertainment Inc.
Producer: HWANG In-tae,
SHIN Bum-soo
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Scriptwriter: LEE Seung-Hwan, LEE
Jun-il
Key cast: JI Jin-hee, KANG Sung-yeon
Status: Completed/Screening
Country of origin: Korea
Soo is in the business of solving
problems and when his twin brother is
killed by a gang, he takes his brother’s
identity to seek revenge.
A DAY WITH MY SON
Drama (107 min)
Language: Korean, Subtitles English
Director: JANG Jin
Scriptwriter: JANG Jin
Production company: CJ Entertainment
Inc.
Producer: LEE Byung-hyuk
Key cast: CHA Seung-won, RYU Deokhwan
Status: Completed/Screening
Country of origin: Korea
A man who sentenced to life for
committing murder was granted one day
leave. And he went back home to see his
son for the first time in 15 years.
CONTENTFILM
INTERNATIONAL
ContentFilm International, 19 Heddon
Street, London, W1B 4BG UK.
Tel: 44.207.851.6500. Fax: 44.207
851.6506. www.contentfilm.com, email:
london@contentfilm.com
Sales agent
At Cannes: Jamie Carmichael
(President), Harry White (Senior Sales
Manager) Kristian Brodie (Sales
Executive), Judith Baugin (Head of
International Marketing), Beatrice
Neumann (Acquisitions Manager), John
Schmidt (CEO, ContentFilm)
Acquisitions Executive: Beatrice
Neumann – Acquisitions Manager
Office: 3rd Floor, 2 La Croisette, Tel:
33.4.93.38.58.88. Fax: 33.4.93.99.46.55
KEEP COMING BACK
Language: English
Director: William H. Macy
Producers: Rachel Rothman, Tucker
Tooley, Dan Keston
Cast: William H. Macy, Mos Def, Steve
Buscemi, Victor Rasuk
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
William H. Macy makes his directorial
debut with KEEP COMING BACK, a
highly original coming of age story with
comedy and heart in all the right places.
OUTPOST
Action Horror
Language: English
Director: Steve Barker
Producers: Arabella Croft, Kieran Parker,
EP: Nigel Thomas
Cat: Ray Stevenson, Julian Wadham,
Richard Brake, Michael Smiley, Enoch
Frost, Paul Blair, Julian Rivett, Brett
Fancy, Johnny Meres.
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
In a war-torn corner of Eastern Europe, a
world-weary group of mercenaries
discover a long-hidden secret in an
abandoned WWII bunker.
LAST MAN
War Epic
Language: English/ Vietnamese
Director: Fred Schepisi
Producers: Martin Brown, George
Mannix, Warwick Young
Cast: Guy Pearce, David Wenham,
Simon Baker, Martin Henderson, Joel
Edgerton, Sam Worthington, Aden
Young, Vince Colosimo
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Australia
Aussie SAS soldiers on a final desperate
mission in Vietnam become trapped.
Trained to survive they do whatever it
takes. 12 years on, they and those close
to them are still paying the price.
MIDEM • MIPTV • CANNES • MIPCOM
OPEN
ALL
YEAR
(Tented & Heated)
ROUND
Lunch on the beach
Whatever the weather
THE CORE STUDIO
CO., LTD.
The Core Studio Co., Ltd., 5F. Luxway
Bldg., Nonhyun-dong 99-7, Kangnam-gu,
Seoul 135-819, Korea. Tel:
82.2.545.6610. Fax: 82.2.545.8813.
www.thecorestudio.net, Email:
sales@thecorestudio.net
Financier, Producer, Sales, Acquisitions
At Cannes: E J Cho (Director-Int’l
Business), Jay Kim (VP-Int’l Business),
Jamie Lee (Manager-Int’l Business)
Acquisition Executive: E J Cho
(Director-Int’l Business)
Office: Riviera J 16, Tel:
33.4.92.99.33.06
UNTOLD BEAUTY
Horror
Language: Chinese
Director: Roy Lim
Writer: Roy Lim
Producer: Loh Eng Leong
Key Cast: TBC
Delivery Status: Pre production
Budget: US$1 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Singapore
An eerie and poignant film which
follows the life of an embalmer and his
encounter with hauntings of restless
spirits.
ZIG ZAG LOVE
Romantic Comedy
Language: Korean
Director: Han Seunglim
Writer: Kim Jungku
Producer: Kim Hyungjun, Lee
Kwangmin
Key Cast: Jae Hee, Park Siyeon, Shinee
Delivery Status: Post-production
Budget: US$3 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Korea
Twenty something self-confident
charming girl, Layoung, meets a man of
her dream on the day she’s got proposed
by her boyfriend. Cupid’s arrows at them
miss one another and take them into a
situation of zig zag love.
NO MERCY FOR THE RUDE
Black Comedy Action (113 min)
Language: Korean
Director: Park Chulhee
Writer: Park Chulhee
Producer: Hwang Woohyun
The Restaurant
on the beach
(Between Miramar & Martinez)
Contact Olivier
Tel. (33) 4 93 94 20 68 Fax. (33) 4 93 43 60 91
site address: http://www.rado-plage.fr
notre e-mail: info@rado-plage.fr
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Key Cast: Shin Hakyun, Yoon Jihye,
Kim Minjun
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$3.5 million
Year of Production: 2006
Country of Origin: Korea
He has his own rule to kill; only to kill
those with scary faces or bad manners!
CREAM VEST FILMS,
LLC
1412 Butler Avenue, Suite 6, Los
Angeles, CA 90025 USA. Tel:
323.697.8154. Fax: 310.496.0302.
http://www.sinnerthemovie.com
Producer & Sales Agent
At Cannes: Steven Sills (Producer), Marc
Benardout (Producer), George Rheault
(Producer)
Acquisition Executive: Steven Sills
Office: Tel: 001.323.697.8154. Fax:
001.310.496.0302
SINNER
Drama (94 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Marc Benardout
Producer: Steven Sills & Marc Benardout
Cast: Nick Chinlund, Georgina Cates,
Brad Dourif, Michael E. Rodgers, Tom
Wright
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
In a world of Catholic church closures,
bankrupt dioceses and scandalized clergy,
one priest attempts to redeem his
vocation and regain his integrity through
an inconvenient muse, a prostitute named
Lil.
CURB
ENTERTAINMENT
Curb Entertainment, 3907 West Alameda
Ave., Burbank, CA 91505 USA. Tel:
818.843.8580. Fax: 818.566.1719.
www.curbentertainment.com
At Cannes: Carole Curb (President),
Kimberly Healy (Head of Sales)
Office: Riviera N2, Tel: 44.7956.576.628
LOST SIGNAL
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Brian McNamara
Co-Production Partners: Lock it Up
Productions
Producer: Robert Egan, Graham Silver
Key Cast: Al Santos, Sandra Mc Coy
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Based on a true story, after leaving a
New Years Eve party, Kevin and Tiffany
find themselves lost deep in the forest
while losing their cell phone reception.
SUCCUBUS
Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Kim Bass
Co-Production Partners: V1 Cut
Productions
Producer: Deanna Shapiro
Key Cast: Gary Busey, David Keith,
Lorenzo Lamas
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Sometimes what happens at Spring Break
doesn’t stay at Spring Break.it follows
you home.
QUARTER LIFE CRISIS
Romantic Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Kiran Merchant
Co-Production Partners: Signs of Love
Productions
Producer: Kiran Merchant, Genevieve
Castelino
Key Cast: Maulik Pancholy, Lisa Ray
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Dumped on his 27th birthday by his
college sweetheart for being indecisive,
Neil makes a silly bet that takes him on a
wild ride through New York’s single
scene.
D
DARCLIGHT
Darclight, 9229 Sunset Boulevard, Suite
705, Los Angeles, CA 90069 USA. Tel:
1.310.777.8855. Fax: 1.310.777.8882.
www.arclightfilms.com, email:
info@arclightfilms.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Gary Hamilton (Managing
Director), Ian Gibbins (General
Manager), Jonathan Deckter (President,
International Sales), Lina Marrone (VP,
International Sales), Harrison Kordestani
(Production & Financing), Nigel O’Dell
(Production & Acquisitions, Australia
Office: Lerins S3, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.29. Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.32.30
THE OBJECTIVE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Daniel Myrick
Writer: Daniel Myrick, Mark A. Patton,
Wesley Clark
Producer: Jeremy Wall, Zev Guber
Delivery Status: In Production or
Completed
Country of Origin: USA
A group of soldiers on a mission in
Afghanistan find themselves lost in a
Middle Eastern ‘Bermuda Triangle’ of
evil.
SURVEILLANCE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Jennifer Lynch
Writer: Jennifer Lynch, Kent Harper
Producer: Marco Mehlitz with Kent
Harper and David Michaels
Cast: Julia Ormond, Jeremy Northam,
Ryan Simpkins
Delivery Status: In Production
Country of Origin: USA
Somewhere, deep inside the Santa Fe
dessert, there have been a number of
blood curdling murders… a real killing
spree.
STORM WARNING
Language: English
Director: Jamie Blanks
Writer: Everett De Roche
Producer: Gary Hamilton, Pete Ford
Cast: Nadia Fares, Robert Taylor
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Country of Origin: Australia
A yuppie couple lost in a swamp seek
refuge at an isolated farmhouse only to
discover they’ve jumped out of the frying
pan into the fire.
Baaitjies
Producers: Anant Singh, Helena Spring
Principal Cast: Clint Brink, Joey
Rasdien, Jonathan Pienaar, Kevin Smith
Status: Complete
Based on the true life story of Bernard
Baaitjies who grew up in the gangland
culture of the ghettoes of Cape Town.
DISTANT HORIZON
DORO
FILMPRODUKTIONS
GMBH
Distant Horizon, 8282 Sunset Boulevard,
Suite A, Los Angeles, Ca 90046 USA.
Tel: 323.848.4140. Fax: 323.848.4144.
la@distant-horizon.com
At Cannes: Anant Singh (Producer),
Sanjeev Singh (Director of Acquisitions),
Richard Jeffery (Acquisitions Executive,
Asia)
Office: Ascenseur A, Apartment 1A, First
Floor, Palais D’Orsay, 62 La Croissette,
Cannes. Tel: 04.93.43.80.24. Fax:
04.93.43.80.53
AMERICAN EAST
Drama
Director: Hesham Issawi (The
Interrogation, T For Terrorist)
Writers: Hesham Issawi, Sayed Badreya,
Brian Cox
Producers: Anant Singh, Brian Cox,
Ahmad Zahra
Principal Cast: Tony Shalhoub (Hit TV
series, Monk), Sayed Badreya (Three
Kings, The Insider, The West Wing),
Kais Nashif (Oscar Nominee, Paradise
Now), Alfre Woodard
Status: In Post-Production
AmericanEast is a timely, poignant
drama about Arab-Americans living in
post-9/11 Los Angeles.
SPOON
Sci-fi Thriller
Director: Sharlto Copley And Simon
Hansen
Writers: Sharlto Copley And Simon
Hansen
Producers: Sharlto Copley And Simon
Hansen
Executive Producers: Anant Singh,
Helena Spring, Hannelie Bekker
Principal Cast: Rutger Hauer, Darren
Boyd, Edwina Elek, Dale Jackson, Jason
Cope
Status: In Post- Production
Daniel Spoon suffers from a medical
condition which causes him to black out
during moments of extreme stress and
subsequently undergoes a journey to
discover his destiny while finding out the
cause of his medical condition.
MAMA JACK
Director: Gray Hofmeyr
Writers: Leon Schuster, Gray Hofmeyr,
Greg Latter
Producers: Anant Singh, Helena Spring
Principal Cast: Leon Schuster (Mr
Bones)
Status: Complete
Following Mr Bones, South Africa’s
most successful film ever, comes Mama
Jack, the story of Jack Theron, an
ordinary person, working on a film set,
however, his movie director boss hates
his guts.
DOLLARS AND WHITE PIPES
Director: Donovan Marsh
Writers: Donovan Marsh, Bernard
DoRo Filmproduktions GmbH,
Türkenschanzplatz 7 / 7, Wien, 1180,
Austria. Tel: 001.1.876.8888. Fax:
001.1.876.5500. www.doro.net, email:
doro@doro.net
Film- and TV production
At Cannes: Katharina Amport
DREAMACHINE
dreamachine, London Office: 24 Hanway
Street, London, W1T 1UH, UK. Tel:
44.207.290.0750. Fax: 44.207.290.0751.
Paris Office: 2 rue Turgot, 75009, Paris,
France. Tel: 33.1.49.70.03.70. Fax:
33.1.49.70.03.71. www.hanwayfilms.com/
www.celluloid-dreams.com, email:
info@hanwayfilms.com/ info@celluloiddreams.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Hengameh Panahi (CoChairman), Jeremy Thomas (CoChairman), Tim Haslam (CEO),
Charlotte Mickie (Director, North
American Operations), Thorsten
Schumacher (Manager, International
Sales), Delphyne Besse (Manager,
International Sales), Chinlin Hsieh
(Manager, International Sales),
Alessandro Raja (Director, Internatonal
Sales, Catalogue), Bérénice Vincent
(Manager, International Sales, Catalogue)
Office: 2 La Croisette, Cannes
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
Director: Julian Jarrold
Producer: Douglas Rae, Robert Bernstein
Cast: Emma Thompson, Michael
Gambon, Ben Whishaw, Matthew Goode,
Hayley Atwell
Delivery Status: Pre- Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
A gorgeously evocative story of
forbidden love and the loss of innocence
set in a pre-Second World War era when
privileged aristocracy fell into decline.
DIRT MUSIC
Director: Phillip Noyce
Producer: Phillip Noyce, Miranda Culley
Cast: Rachel Weisz, Colin Farrell
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Delivery Status: Pre- Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Australia
A Film of Simmering, brooding
intensity- an intimate romance that
escalates into an epic and thrilling quest.
EMOTIONAL ARITHMETIC
Director: Paolo Barzman
Producer: Anna Stratton
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Christopher
Plummer, Gabriel Byrne
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
A story of redemption healing and
reconciliation. Friends gather for a
celebratory dinner where memories and
long suppressed love are rekindled.
E
EALING STUDIOS
INTERNATIONAL
Ealing Studios International, Ealing
Studios, Ealing Green, London,
W5 5EP UK. Tel: 44.208.567.6655.
Fax: 44.208.758.8658.
www.ealingstudios.com
At Cannes: Barnaby Thompson (Head of
Studios, Ealing Studios), James Spring
(Managing Director, Ealing Studios),
Natalie Brenner (International Sales and
Distribution Consultant, Ealing Studios
International), Sophie Meyer (Head of
Development, Ealing Studios), Tabitha
Jenkins (Production Executive, Ealing
Studios)
Office: Relais de la Reine. 4th Floor,
Tel: 04.93.06.70.08. Fax: 04.93.06.70.28
ST TRINIANS
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Oliver Parker and Barnaby
Thompson
Producer: Barnaby Thompson
Key Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth,
Russel Brand
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget 15 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
St. Trinian’s school for ‘young ladies’
brings together a motley crew of
pranksters who plan a heist to save the
school from bankruptcy
I WANT CANDY
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Steve Surjik
Producer: Barnaby Thompson and Piers
Thompson
Key Cast: Carmen Electra, Tom Riley,
Tom Burke, McKenzie Crook, Jimmy
Carr
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget $6 million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
This saucy teen comedy follows the trials
and tribulations of two naive wannabe
filmmakers who stumble upon the
opportunity of a lifetime
EASTERNLIGHT
FILMS
Easternlight Films, 9229 Sunset
Boulevard, Suite 705, Los Angeles, CA
90069 USA. Tel: 1.310.777.8855. Fax:
1.310.777.8882. www.arclightfilms.com,
email: info@arclightfilms.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Gary Hamilton (Managing
Director), Ying Ye (Company Director),
Laura Wu (Sales and Acquisitions
consultant)
Office: Lerins S3,
Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.29.
Fax: 33(0)4.92.99.32.30
SHAMO
Action
Language: Chinese
Director: Soi Cheang
Writer: Izo Hashimoto, Szeto Kam yuen
Producer: Junichi Matsushita, Shin
Yoneyama, Sam Leong
Co-production partners:
Cast: Shawn Yue, Dylan Kuo, Masato
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
A psychotic ex-con’s rise through the
brutal world of underground no rules
fighting competition.
SASORI
Action
Language: Chinese
Director: Joe Ma
Writer: Joe Ma, Lee Fire
Producer: Junichi Matsushita, Shin
Yoneyama, Sam Leong
Cast: Miki Mizuno, Dylan Kuo, Emme
Wong
Country of Origin: Hong Kong/Japan
SHANGHAI BABY
Drama
Language: English, Chinese
Director: Berengar Pfahl
Writer: Wei Hui
Cast: Bai Long, Luke goss, Katja
Riemann
Country of Origin: Germany/China
In rain drenched Berlin, the passionate,
fun loving young writer Coco is caught
between Far Eastern traditions and
Western lifestyles, between romantic love
and unbridled lust.
DeAnna Joy Brooks
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Nothing bad could ever happen on quiet,
tree lined Wormwood Drive . at least
that’s what Bob and Wendi Petersen
thought, before they met their new
neighbor.
THE CELESTINE PROPHECY
Drama (1 hr 39 min)
Language: English
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Producer: James Redfield
Key Cast: Hector Elizondo, Joaquim
Almeida, Matthew Settle
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
Based on James Redfield’s worldwide
best-selling novel, The Celestine
Prophecy is a spiritual adventure film
chronicling the discovery of ancient
scrolls in the rainforests of Peru.
BROKEN GLASS (VIDRIO ROTO)
Pschological Thriller (85 min)
Director: English
Language: Gustavo Camelot
Producer: Gustavo Camelot
Key Cast: Mariela Santos, Jasper Wood,
Gustavo Camelont
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Uruguay
Through seven bottles of magical wine,
we follow the journey of Valentina, a
beautiful artist living in Berlin
ECHELON STUDIOS
Echelon Studios, 1725 Victory Blvd.,
Glendale, CA 91201 USA. Tel:
818.500.1640. Fax: 818.500.1644.
www.echelonent.com, email:
info@echelonent.com
At Cannes: Eric Louzil (President &
CEO/President of Distribution), Gloria
Morrison (Co-CEO/President of
Development & Acquisitions), Matthew
Mueller (Senior VP of Acquisitions),
Alfredo Correa (VP of International
Sales), Tim Kelly (VP of International
Sales)
Office: Riviera E 16
THE MINX
http://www.theminxthemovie.com/
Action/Thriller/Martial Arts (86 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael Smith
Producer: Michael Smith
Key Cast: Mia Park, Circus-Szalewski,
Duane Sharp, Manny Toro
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A modern-day Robin Hood, Linnea
Chiang disguises herself as “The Minx”
and robs major corporations by night.
THE LEGENDARY SCRIPT
Martial Arts/ Action (105 min)
Language: Hmong
Director: Wells Yengtha Her
Co-Production Partners: Imagination
Entertainment
Producer: Wells Yengtha Her
Key Cast: Wells Yengtha Her, Yingy Her,
Seng Vang, Tao Li, Ishia Her
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: China
The appearance of a script detailing
flawless fighting techniques triggers an
endless search and bloodshed. Unknown
to everyone is a curse that comes with
the script and the secret to break it.
ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
Horror/ Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Vinson Pike
Key Cast: David Watkins, Posy Bremer
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin:
Jakob Kelser is a man with a horrific,
troubled past. Finally, he’s pushed over
the edge, and he plans his revenge.
ECHO BRIDGE
ENTERTAINMENT
Echo Bridge Entertainment, 75 Second
Avenue, Suite 500, Needham, MA 02494
USA. Tel: 781.444.6767. Fax:
781.444.6472. www.ebellc.com, email:
info@ebellc.com
At Cannes: Mr. Daniel March (Head of
International Sales), Mr. Michael
EBS WORLD
ENTERTAINMENT
EBS World Entertainment, 3000 W.
Olympic Boulevard, Santa Monica,
90404 USA. Tel: 310.449.4065. Fax:
310.449.4061. www.ebsla.com, email:
acquisitions@ebsla.com
At Cannes: Richard Cooper (Chief
Executive Officer), Wayne Wong
(President), Rick Jordan (Vice President Production), Chad Dowdy (Assistant
Vice President – Acquisitions), Josh
Plaza (Acquisitions Assistant)
Office: Riviera E-14, Tel:
33.0.4.92.99.32.13
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
Horror (84 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Graeme Whifler
Producer: Jeff Kirshbaum
Key Cast: Terry Becker; Randall Bosley,
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Rosenblatt (Managing Partner,
Acquisitions), Mr. Lenny Shapiro
(Acquisitions)
Office: Lerins - R15, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.25
HATCHET
www.hatchetmovie.com
Horror (93 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Adam Green
Co-Production Partners: Will Barratt and
Adam Green
Producer: Scott Altomare, Sarah Elbert,
Cory Neal
Key Cast: Joel David Moore, Robert
Englund, Kane Hodder, Deon Richmond,
Mercedes McNab
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
In the swamps of the Louisiana bayou, a
terrifying legend is about to come to life,
and horror is about to be re-christened
Victor Crowley.
BEER LEAGUE
www.beerleaguethemovie.com
Comedy (86 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Frank Sebastiano
Co-Production Partners: Brian Bell
Producer: Artie Lange, Anthony
Mastromauro
Key Cast: Artie Lange, Ralph Macchio,
Laurie Metcalf
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Unemployed slacker Artie DeVanzo
inspires his team to improve their game
so they won’t get kicked out of the local
league.
MEMORY
www.ebellc.com/memory
Thriller (98 minutes)
Director: English
Language: Bennett Davlin
Producer: Anthony Badalucco, Bennett
Davlin, Jesse Newhouse
Key Cast: Billy Zane, Dennis Hopper,
Ann-Margret
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Imagine if you had the power to access
someone else’s memories and you
became haunted by visions of a shadowy
predator.a predator who abducts young
girls.
ELDORADO
INTERNACIONAL
Eldorado Internacional, Av. de Burgos 14
10º G, Madrid, Madrid, 28036, Spain.
Tel: 34.91.767.11.04. Fax:
34.91.767.11.04. email:
sales@eldorado.es
Sales agent and Finance Seeking for Coproduction projects
At Cannes: Mocha Aguilar (Sales
Director), Jesus Moreno (Sales
Executive)
Office: CINEMA FROM SPAIN, Tel:
34.625.15.95.05 / 34.615.537.207
SUSPICIOUS MINDS
Drama (90 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Carlos Martin Ferrera
Producer: Raul Suárez
Cast: Eduard Fernandez, Belen Rueda,
Delivery Status: In development
Budget: $ 2.5 M
Country of Origin: Spain
Marcel’s life changes when he finds out
his wife is cheating on him with one of
his best friends. He comes up with a
sordid plan to find out who it is… And
kill him
CLOSENESS (CERCANIA)
Drama (84 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Rolando Díaz
Producer: Rolando Díaz
Cast: Reinaldo Miravalles, Carlos Cruz,
Ana Viñas
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Spain/US
After over 10 years, a Cuban father and
son get back together in Miami. Aside
from their conflictive relationship lies the
father’s obsession to find the love of his
life, of whom he has not heard from in
40 years.
CHILDREN (NIÑ@S)
Drama (84 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Alfredo Montero
Producer: Alfredo Montero and Marcos
Ortiz
Cast: Adolfo Fernandez, Marcos Ortiz
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Spain
4 intertwined stories that denounce the
horror of children who suffer sexual
abuse
ELEMENT FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
Element Films International, 7966
Beverly Boulevard, Third Floor, Los
Angeles, CA 90048 USA. Tel:
323.330.8000. Fax: 323.330.8001.
www.elementfilmsintl.com
At Cannes: Marc Schaberg (COO), Jim
Harvey (Vice President)
Office: Riviera Stand N1, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.14. Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.32.17
SOMETHING BORROWED
Romantic Comedy
Director: Hank Nelken
Screenplay: Hank Nelken
Producers: Adam Rosenfelt, Dylan
Sellers
Exec. Producers: Sam Nazarian, Marc
Schaberg
Cast: Anna Faris
Status: Pre Production
Year of Prod: 2007
Days before their wedding, a family
curse causes the bride and groom to
switch bodies in order to test their true
love.
SHANGHAI
Action
Director: Jon Amiel
Screenplay: Karl Gajdusek
Producers: Nigel Sinclair, Guy East,
Adam Rosenfelt
Exec. Producers: Sam Nazarian, Marc
Schaberg, Tobin Armbrust, Alex Brunner
Status: Pre Production
Year of Prod: 2007
A con man, just out of prison, is drawn
back into the world of crime when his
older brother blackmails him into
stealing an artifact representing the “Soul
of China.”
MR. BROOKS
Thriller
Director: Bruce A. Evans
Screenplay: Bruce A. Evans, Raynold
Gideon
Producers: Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner,
Raynold Gideon
Exec. Producers: Sam Nazarian, Adam
Rosenfelt, Marc Schaberg, Thomas
Augsberger
Cast: Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane
Cook, William Hurt
Status: Completed
Year of Prod: 2006
A compulsive killer about to retire is
urged to continue by his alter ego and a
blackmailing witness while being hunted
by a relentless detective.
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.
www.elevenarts.net, email:
contact@elevenarts.net
Sales agent
At Cannes: Kana Aida (Executive
Manager)
Office: Riviera H8/G3
THE VANISHED
Horror (95 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Makoto Tanaka
Producer: Tsuyoshi Matsuura
Key Cast: Soko Wada
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Japan
35 years ago, mysterious disappearance
of children, a dead body with missing
organ, a secret kept by a small village.
THE GENIUS CLUB
Drama, Thriller (104 min)
Language: English
Director: Tim Chey
Producer: Arch Bobbema
Key Cast: Tom Sizemore, Stephan
Bladwin, Paula Jai Parker
Delivery Status: complete
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Seven geniuses, with IQ’s over 200, are
plucked from their lives on Christmas
Eve to try to solve the world’s problems
in one night.
DELUSION
Drama, Horror (80 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Shugo Fujii
Producer: Tomoko Hagio, Aya Sasaki
Key Cast: Shunsuke Kubozuka, Kimika
Yoshino
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2005
Country of Origin: Japan
When his delusion hits the limit, he
becomes a monster.
ENTERTAINMENT 7
Entertainment 7, 15030 Ventura Blvd.,
Suite 762, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
USA. Tel: 818.709.9595. Fax:
818.709.9597. www.ent7.com, email:
ent7-sales@ent7.com
At Cannes: Emilio Ferrari (Consultant),
Bill Wilder (Sales Executive), Anastasia
Samorodskaya (Acquisition Executive)
Office: Palais 22.03
XTREME PLAYERS
www.xtremeplayersthemovie.com
Action/Thriller (90 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Emilio Ferrari
Co-Production Partners: Seven
Entertainment Ltd.
Producer: Emilio Ferrari
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $2 Million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Four friends enter the worlds biggest
extreme sports contest and find
themselves competing for more than just
the prize money.
DOWN BY LOVE
Drama (90 Minutes)
Language: Hungarian, English
Director: Tamas Sas
Co-Production Partners: RTL
Producer: Denes Szekeres
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $2 Million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Hungary, USA
An intriguing story of a young Hungarian
girl and her slow mental breakdown as
she reconsiders her long relationship with
her lover and foster father and how her
inner turmoil begins to unravel her
world.
DIAMOND ZERO
Action (90 minutes)
Director: English
Language: David Gaz
Producer: David Gaz
Key Cast: Bronson Pinchot, Leo Rossi,
Tippi Hedren
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $3 Million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
One of history’s greatest inventions is
discovered when the authorities unravel a
scheme where the remains of the world’s
greatest personalities are turned into
priceless diamonds and sold to the
highest bidder
ESSENTIAL
ENTERTAINMENT
Essential Entertainment, 9000 Sunset
Blvd., Suite 600, Los Angeles, CA 90069
USA. Tel: 310.550.9100. Fax:
310.550.9101. www.essential-ent.com
At Cannes: John Fremes (President), Jere
Hausfater (CEO), Mark Padilla (Director,
Sales & Distribution), Randy Hermann
(COO/CFO), Neil Kaplan (Cheif
Business Development Officer)
Office: Majestic Hotel Suite 110,
Tel: 33(0)4.97.06.85.01.
Fax: 33(0)4.97.06.85.03
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FIREFLIES IN THE GARDEN
Drama
Language: English
Director: Dennis Lee
Producer: Marco Weber, Vanessa
Coifman, Sukee Chew
Key Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Willem
Dafoe, Julia Roberts
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
An unexpected tragedy threatens to rip
an emotionally fragile family apart.”
SOLOMON KANE
Action-Adventure
Language: English
Director: Michael J. Bassett
Producer: Samuel Hadida
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A mercenary who owes his life to the
devil redeems himself by fighting evil
KILLING SUKI FLOOD
Action-Thriller
Director: English
Language: Louis-Pascal Couvelaire
Producer: Samuel Hadida
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin:
Frank’s life is turned upside down when
he picks up the sexy Suki Flood.
F
FANTASTIC FILMS
INTERNATIONAL,
LLC
Fantastic Films International, LLC, 3854
Clayton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027,
USA. Tel: 323.661.7088.
Fax: 323.661.7188.
www.fantasticfilmsinternational.com
Sales Agent / Producer
At Cannes: Roxane Barbat (President),
Fred deWysocki III (Partner), Claudiu
Dobre (sales)
Acquisition Executive: Fred de
Wysocki III
Office: Carlton Intercontinental Hotel,
Suite #134, Tel: 04.93.06.41 34 /
04.93.06.81 34
AGENT C.R.U.S.H.
Animation
Language: English
Director: Sean Robinson
Producer: Tony Ludwig, Fred
deWysocki, Sean Robinson
Cast: TBA
Delivery Status: Pre-Production, Winter
2006 delivery
Budget: $15M
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
From Oscar Winner PETER LAMONT
(“Titanic”, 20 “James Bond” movies,
“Aliens”, etc.) and Producer TONY
LUDWIG (“Starsky and Hutch”,
“Tomcats”, “The Family Man”, etc.)
comes the future of law enforcement:
AGENT C.R.U.S.H.
SPIRIT OF THE FOREST
Animation
Language: English
Director: David Rubin, Juan C. Pena
Producer: Manolo Gomez
Cast: voiceovers tba Delivery Status:
Post - Production
Budget: $25M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Spain
A new and scary adventure from the
creators of “The Living Forest” and
“Midsummer Dream”.
MEDIUM RAW
Horror
Language: English
Director: Andrew Cymek
Producer: Brigitte Kingsley, Fred
deWysocki
Cast: Mercedes McNabb, Andrew
Martin, Walter Alza
Delivery Status: Filming
Budget: $5M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
Rookie cop Johnny Morgan is declared a
local hero as he escorts the legendary
serial killer “The Wolf” into the care of
Parker’s Asylum for the Criminally
Insane. Triumph turns into terror when
Johnny realizes that he just helped this
monster orchestrate the ultimate
massacre…
THE SNOW PRINCE
Action / adventure, pre-production
Language: English
Director: John Henderson
Producer: Peter Watson-Wood
Co-production partners: Fred deWysocki
Cast: Adrian Paul, Sir Richard
Attenborough, Gabriel Byrne, Greta
Scacchi
Delivery Status: Spring 2007 delivery
Budget: $18M
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
An enchanted tale of sorcery, romance
and heroic swordplay, this is a beautiful
tale for the entire family – a timeless
“Evergreen” sure to be a Christmas
classic for years to come.
VIP PASSPORT (TV SERIES0
Reality
Language: English
Director: Julien Lecomte
Producer: Julien Lecomte
Cast: Rachel Sterling, Jacqlyn Paige,
Trishelle Cannatella
Delivery Status: Filming
Budget: $13M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United States
VIP Passport is a new television series
that takes viewers behind the velvet
ropes.
THRU THE MOEBIUS STRIP
Animation (87 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Glenn Chaika
Producer: Raymond Neoh, Anthony
Neoh, David Kirschner, Frank Foster
Cast: Mark Hamill, Michael Dorn, Jean
Simmons
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $25M
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Hong Kong
In the not too distant future, a young boy
travels to an alien world to find his faster
and fulfill his destiny.
TAKEN BY FORCE
Martial Arts
Language: English
Director: Ron Althoff
Producer: Ron Althoff
Co-production partners: Fred deWysocki
Cast: Jeff Osterhage, James Lew,
Branscombe Richmond, Frank Stallone,
James Russo
Delivery Status: Post- Production, Fall
2006 delivery
Budget: $2M
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
When a San Francisco detective goes
hunting for the cruel Asian crime figure
who killed his partner, he finds himself
thrown into the center of a violent plot to
steal a terrorist weapon.
BOOK OF SWORDS
Martial Arts (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Peter J. Allen
Producer: Richard Isaac, Jin Kyu Pak
Co-production partners: Helena Son
Cast: Ho-Sung Pak, Liesel Guinto,
Richard Divizio
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: USA
Budget: $ 2,000,000
Martial arts at its spectacular best - open
the “Book of Swords” and be prepared to
witness a spectacular fight for Earth’s
salvation! Starring Ho-Sung Pak (Mortal
Kombat).
Producer: Bob Hubar, Denis Wigman,
Executive Producer: Terry Glinwood
Co-Producer: Jimmy De Erabant
Cast: Sienna Guillory, Charlotte
Rampling, Alice Krige
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2000, Country of
Origin: Great Britain & Belgium
British nanny working in Italy is accused
of attempted murder.
TO KILL A KING
Drama (98 min)
Language: English
Director: Mike Barker
Writer: Jenny Mayhew
Cast: Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Olivia
Williams, Rupert Everett
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2002, Country of
Origin: Great Britain, Germany
A man is torn between loyalty to his wife
and his king.
BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS
Drama (102 min)
Language: English
Director: Stephen Fry
Writer: Stephen Fry
Producer: Gina Carter, Miranda Davis
Cast: James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent,
Emily Mortimer, Peter O’Toole
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2002, Country of
Origin: Great Britain, USA
A portrait of a fast, furious, and decadent
era that follows the exploits of a group of
young aristocrats, slavishly followed by
the tabloid press, who refer to them as
the “bright young things.”
FIERCE
ENTERTAINMENT
Film Messenger, 504, E-Starville 1,
1480-5, Kayang-dong Gangseo-gu Seoul
157-807, Korea. Tel: 82.2.3661.4429.
Fax: 82.2.2659.8676.
www.filmmessenger.com
Sales agent, Distributor, Acquisition
At Cannes: Yoonhee Choi (Managing
Director), Ahreum Jun (Marketing Team)
Acquisition Executive: Yoonhee Choi
(Managing Director)
Office: RIVIERA Stand H15, Tel:
82.11.381.3661
BEFORE THE SUMMER PASSES
AWAY
Romantic Drama (78min)
Language: Korean
Director: Sung Ji-hae
Writer: Sung Ji-hae
Producer: Cho Sung-woo
Fierce Entertainment, 8306 Wilshire
Blvd. #904 Los Angeles, CA 90211 USA.
Tel: 310.860.1174. Fax: 310.860.9446.
www.fierce-entertainment.com, email:
mp@fierce-entertainment.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Christopher Petzel (CEO)
Acquisition Executive: Steve Emmerson
Office: Tel: Christopher Petzel Cell:
33.6.68.61.21.68
SUPERSTITION
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Kenneth Hope
Writer: Paul Hoffman, Kate Dennis,
Stephen Volk
FILM MESSENGER
P UFFY C HAIR – C INEMAVAULT
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Cast: Lee Hyun-woo, Kim Bo-kyung,
Kwon Min
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: South Korea
I have TWO men. One who loves me and
one who I love Entangled desire everybody could
experience!
PRUNING THE GRAPEVINE
Drama (115min)
Language: Korean
Director: Min Boung-hun
Writer: Min Boung-hun
Producer: Sohn Hyun-wook
Cast: Seo Jang-won, Lee Min-jung, Key
Joo-bong
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: South Korea
This film is about a Catholic student who
is reluctant to cut the relationship with
his ex-love.
BOYS OF TOMORROW
Drama (93min)
Language: Korean
Director: Noh Dong-seok
Writer: Noh Dong-seok
Producer: Peter Kim
Cast: Kim Byeong-seok, Yu A-in, Choi
Jae-sung
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: South Korea
Two boys on the outskirts of town
believe that their life is elsewhere but
they have no means to pursue their
dreams. Can a gun be their hope?
FILMEXPORT
GROUP
Filmexport Group, Via Del Pianeta
Urano, 60 – Rome – Italy. Tel:
06.52207432. Fax: 06.52278416.
www.filmexport.com, email:
info@filmexport.com
Sales agent
At Cannes: Roberto Di Girolamo
(President), Laura Maurano (Sales
Manager), Elisa D’Amico (Sales
Manager)
Office: Hotel Hilton, I-Club, 1st Floor,
Tel: 04.92995278. Fax: 04.92995278
NOAH’S ARK (EL ARCA)
http://www.el-arca.com/
Animation (90’)
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.
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.
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….
FILMSHARKS
INTERNATIONAL
SRL
Filmsharks International Srl, Soler 4845,
Buenos Aires, BA 1425 Argentina. Tel:
54.11.4774.5044. Fax: 54.11.4774.5044.
www.filmsharks.com, email:
alpha@filmsharks.com
At Cannes: Guido Rud (Director)
Office: TBA
BEYZA’NIN KADINLARI
(SHATTERD SOUL)
Thriller (120 minutes)
Language: Turkish with inglish subtitles
Director: Mustafa Altioklar
Key Cast: Tamer Karadagli, Demet
Edgar & Levent Üzümcü
Delivery Status: Completed
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. Doruk, The Police
Lieutenant Faith investigates the
gruesome murders with his new expert
partner.
EL SEGUNDO
Thriller (90 minutes)
Language: Spanish / Inglish
Director: Hank Jacobs
Key Cast: Pedro Armendariz, Alana De
La Garza, Carlos Guzman & Hank
Jacobs
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United States of America
El Segundo is known as an ancient jewel
which brings eternal life to the possessor.
A wealthy Tejano rancher is seeking El
Segundo, and his quest threatens to tear
apart the community that depends on
him.
DESPUÉS DEL MAR (AFTER THE
SEA)
Drama (70 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: Israel Adrian Caetano
Key Cast: Victoria Carreras & Facundo
Ramirez
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Argentina
Something unexplainable has happened
at the end of the world.
FINANCIERS:
ICB
ENTERTAINMENT
FINANCE
ICB Entertainment Finance, 1840
Century Park East, Suite 1000, Los
Angeles, CA 90067, USA. Tel:
310.275.7171. Fax: 310.275.0855
Financier
At Cannes: David Hutkin (1st VP.
Deputy Managing Director)
Office: Cell: 310.985.1283
Director: Dito Montiel
Producer: Charlie Corwin, Clara
Markowicz, Trudie Styler
Key Cast: Robert Downey, Jr., Rosario
Dawson, Shia LaBeouf
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
This is the story of a pivotal summer on
the hot, sweaty violent streets of Astoria,
Queens.
FIRST LOOK
FIVE STAR
PRODUCTION CO.,
LTD. (THAILAND)
First Look, 2000 Avenue of the Stars, 4th
Floor, Century City, CA 90067 USA. Tel:
424.202.5000. Fax: 424.202.5001.
www.firstlookinternational.com, email:
info@firstlookinternational.com
At Cannes: Avi Lerner (Co-Chairman),
Danny Dimbort (Co-Chairman),
Christian Mercuri (VP), John Vista Neis
(Exec. Director)
Office: Hilton Cannes - Suite 302, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.70.00. Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.70.11
DEDICATION
Romantic Comedy (111 min)
Language: English
Director: Justin Theroux
Co-Production Partners: Plum Pictures
Producer: Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Galt
Niederhoffer, Celine Rattray
Key Cast: Billy Crudup, Mandy Moore,
Tom Wilkinson
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
An author of children’s books loses his
beloved illustrator and must team with an
anxious and untested replacement.
SMILEY FACE
Comedy (88 min)
Language: English
Director: Gregg Araki
Producer: Henry Winterstern and Steve
Golin
Key Cast: Anna Faris, John Krasinski,
Adam Brody
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
An actress/slacker’s day goes seriously
out-of-control when she tries to balance
competing agendas to get all the items in
her “to-do” list done.
AN AMERICAN CRIME
Drama (92 min)
Director: English
Language: Tommy O’Haver
Producer: Henry Winterstern, Christine
Vachon, Kevin Turen
Key Cast: Catherine Keener, Ellen Page,
James Franco
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A seemingly ordinary housewife
imprisons and tortures a beautiful
teenager in the basement of her house.
A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR
SAINTS
Drama (98 min)
Language: English
Five Star Production Co., Ltd. (Thailand),
61/1 Soi Thaweemitr2, Rama 9 Road,
Huaykwang Bangkok 10320 Thailand. Tel:
662.246.9029. Fax: 662.246.2105.
www.fivestarent.com, email:
info@fivestarent.com
Production and Distribution Company
At Cannes: Mr. Tian Ponvanit
(International Sales Director), Ms.
Aphiradee Iamphungphorn (International
Sales Executive), Ms. Arthita
Lertsethtakarn (Sales Coordinator), Mrs.
Somjai Lertsethtakarn (Senior Executive
Director), Mr. Kiattikul Iamphungporn
(Executive Director)
Office: 661.934.8190, Tel: 661.934.8190
HAUNTING ME
Horror
Language: Thai (with English Subtitle)
Director: Wisit Sasanatieng
Producer: Five Star Production Co., Ltd.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Thailand
The energetic life of young men, the
innocence of love, results in death and
vengeance that spread throughout the
dorm. A ghoulish female spirit begins her
haunting. A tale of fright unfolds.
THE UNSEEABLE
Ex-rotic Horror
Language: Thai (with English Subtitle)
Director: Wisit Sasanatieng
Producer: Five Star Production Co., Ltd.
Cast: Siraphan Wattanajinda / Suporntip
Choungrangsee
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Thailand
A tale of love and horror that brings
together two unsuspecting ladies.
BLACKNIGHT
Horror
Language: Thai (with English Subtitle)
Director: Patrick Leung/ Thanit Jitnukul/
takahiko Akiyama
Producer: Five Star Production Co., Ltd.
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.
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FOCUS FEATURES
INTERNATIONAL
Focus Features International, New York
Office: 65 Bleecker Street, 3rd Floor,
New York, NY 10012 USA. Tel:
1.212.539.4000. Fax: 1.212.539.4099.
UK Office: Fourth Floor, Oxford House,
76 Oxford Street, London W1D 1BS UK.
Tel: 44.207.307.1300. Fax:
44.207.307.1301.
At Cannes: Alison Thompson (President,
International Sales and Distribution),
Heta Paarte (SVP, International
Marketing and Distribution), Tim
Spencer (SVP, International Sales), Peter
Kujawski, (VP, International Sales)
Office: Focus Features International,
Résidence du Gray d’Albion, 12, la
Croisette, 2nd Floor, 06400 Cannes,
France. Tel: 04.93.99.07.61. Fax:
04.93.99.10.29
BURN AFTER READING
Written and Directed by: Joel Coen and
Ethan Coen
Produced by: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Executive Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric
Fellner
Cast: Frances McDormand, George
Clooney
Status: In Pre Production
A Working Title Production
A Focus Features Release
MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A
DAY
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Screenplay: David Magee and Simon
Beaufoy, based on the novel of the same
title by Winifred Watson
Producers: Nellie Bellflower, Stephen
Garrett
Cast: Frances McDormand, Amy Adams
Status: In Production
A Kudos Film/Keylight Entertainment
Production
A Focus Features Release
BLINDNESS
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Screenplay: Don McKellar adapted from
the novel by José Saragamo
Producers: Niv Fichman, Sonoko Sakai,
Andrea Barata Ribeiro
Co-Producer: Bel Berlinck
Executive Producers: Simon Channing
Williams, Gail Egan
Cast: Daniel Craig, Julianne Moore
Status: In Pre Production
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: FortuneFeatures@aol.com
Worldwide Sales, Production and
Financing of Motion Pictures.
At Cannes: Kourosh Esmailzadeh (CEO),
Anthony Pupatello (Associate)
Office: TBA, Tel: 1.310.601.8346, email:
FortuneFeatures@aol.com
VENUS IN FURS
Romantic Drama
Writer: Stephen Jeffreys (“The
Libertine”, “Lost Lands”)
Producers: Kourosh Esmailzadeh
(“Living Luminaries: on the Serious
Business of Happiness”, “Red Soil”,
“Succeed!”), Oleg Harencar
(“Bloodlines”)
Status: In Pre-Production. Credits not
Contractual
Based on a true story, VENUS IN FURS
is the twisted love story of famous
Austrian author, Leopold von SacherMasoch (who is known for having lent
his name to the term “masochism”), and
his beautiful wife, Wanda, a former
washerwoman.
LIVING LUMINARIES
ON THE SERIOUS BUSINESS OF
HAPPINESS
Docudrama / Self Help
Director: Larry Kurnarsky
Writers: Larry Kurnarsky and S. A.
Mulvihill
Producer: Michael J. Lasky
Exec. Producers: Kourosh Esmailzadeh
(“Venus in Furs” – from the writer of
“The Libertine”, “Red Soil”,
“Succeed!”), Dawn Olmstead, Gene
Sloan, Bo Linten
Cast: Best selling authors: Eckhart Tolle
(himself); Marianne Williamson
(herself); Gary R. Renard (himself); Don
Miguel Ruiz (himself); Matthew Kelly
(himself); Sean Mulvihill
Status: Recently Completed / Screeners
Available.
A powerful new motion picture featuring
the “Cultural Creative A-list”, NY
Times/multi-million best sellers.
RED SOIL: CHOCOLATE & CHILD
SLAVERY (Working Title)
Drama / Thriller / Philanthropic
Producer: Leila Djansi (“Grass Between
My Lips” - made for the African Women
Development Commission, “Together
Forever”, “The Sisterhood”, “Fespasco”),
Stratton Leopold (“Star Trek XI”,
“Mission: Impossible III”, “Red Thread”,
“Paycheck”, “The Sum of All Fears”,
“Bless the Child”, “The General’s
Daughter”, “Bound by Honor”, “Born
Yesterday”)
Exec. Producers: Kourosh Esmailzadeh
(“Venus in Furs” – from the writer of
“The Libertine”, “Living Luminaries: on
the Serious Business of Happiness”,
“Succeed!”)
Cast: Kimberly Elise (Lionsgate’s
“Pride”, “The Manchurian Candidate”,
“Diary of a Mad Black Woman”, “John
Q”, “Bait”)
Status: Principal Photography Scheduled
for July 2007.
Credits not Contractual
In a land of corruption and war, children
struggle to survive a life of forced labor
on an isolated cocoa farm nestled in the
small forgotten village of Abame, in
West Africa. Among them is OKAI, a 13
year old boy sold into slavery by his
father.
FRIES FILM GROUP,
INC.
Fries Film Group, Inc., 22817 Ventura
Blvd. #909, Woodland Hills, CA 91364
USA. Tel: 818.888.3052. Fax:
818.888.3042.
Distributor
At Cannes: Charles M. Fries (President),
Adam Welles (VP of Worldwide Sales)
Office: Riviera F.5, Tel:
3306.82.31.07.34
NUMB
Romantic Comedy (2007)
Director: Harris Goldberg
Cast: Mathew Perry, Lynn Collins, Mary
Steenburgen
Status: Post-Production. Scheduled to
screen at Cannes Film Festival and
Tribeca Film Festival.
When a writer falls in love with his soul
mate, her love cures him of his neurotic
personality.
ALIEN AGENT
Action (2007)
Cast: Mark Dacascos, Billy Zane, Amelia
Cooke
Status: Post Production. Ready for
delivery by May 2007. Scheduled to
screen at the Cannes Film Festival
A lawman from another Galaxy must
stop an invading force from building a
gateway to our world.
THE COVENANT
Thriller (2006)
Cast: Eddie Furlong, Michael Madsen,
Chandra West
Status: Completed and Ready for
delivery
David Faustian’s life spirals downward
and out of control after a mugger blinds
him. Six months later a mysterious
stranger offers David a bargain to restore
his sight.
FRONTAL LOBE
FILMS
Frontal Lobe Films, 1700 N. 7th Ave
Suite 240, Phoenix, AZ, 85007, United
States. Tel: 602.476.1630. Fax:
602.476.1631. www.frontallobefilms.com,
Email: sales@frontallobefilms.com
Sales Agent, Distributor, Producer
At Cannes: Thomas Henager (President),
Kevin Palmer (VP)
Office: Tel: 623.698.5925
SIXES AND THE ONE EYED KING
Thriller (95 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Ray Nomoto Robison
Writer: Ray Nomoto Robison and
Patricia Snyder
Producer: Ray Nomoto Robison
Key Cast: Grace Thorsen and Scott Ford
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Six suicidal “contestants” play a series of
Russian Roulette style games in an effort
to win one million dollars a year for life.
ROUGH CUT
Documentary (87 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Todd Klick
Writer: Sean Gaston and Todd Klick
Producer: Todd Shill, Todd Klick and
Sean Gaston
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Would you kill to make a movie? Rough
Cut explores the twisted tale of two
young filmmakers who had a dream of
making a horror movie – and the bizarre
events that followed.
G
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.fr
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 La Croisette, 5th Floor, Tel: 33
4 93 68 90 20
CHRYSALIS
Thriller / Science Fiction
Director: Julien Leclercq
Production: GAUMONT
Cast: Albert Dupontel, Marie Guillard,
Marthe Keller, Mélanie Thierry, Estelle
Lefébure
Status: Private screening
When truth is lodged in the heart of brain,
memories become a precious and highly
coveted commodity. And some of them
never fade away.
THE BRØKEN – ORIGINAL
ENGLISH VERSION
Psychological Thriller
Director: Sean Ellis
Production: GAUMONT / LEFT TURN
FILMS
Cast: Lena Headey
Status: Post-production
On a busy London street, Gina thinks she
sees herself drive past in her own car.
MR 73
Thriller
Director: Olivier Marchal
Production: GAUMONT / LGM Cinéma
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Olivia Bonamy
Status: Shooting
In Marseille, particularly savage and
vicious murders remain without
explanation, casting discredit on the police.
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GOALPOST FILM
Goalpost Film, 54 Lynette Avenue,
London SW4 9HD, United Kingdom. Tel:
44.20.8673.6114.
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Tristan Whalley (Managing
Director), Nicki Parfitt (Co-Managing
Director)
Office: Résidences Grand Hôtel,
Entrance Cormoran 2, Bell 53, 5th floor,
47 La Croisette, 06400 Cannes, Tel:
334.93.39.76.29
CLUBLAND
Dramatic Comedy (108 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Cherie Nowlan
Producer: Rosemary Blight
Co-production partners: Essential
Viewing Pictures
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Khan Chittenden,
Emma Booth, Richard Wilson and
Frankie. J. Holden
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Australia
Tim has a new girlfriend. It should be the
perfect romance but something is holding
him back. His parents are entertainers.!
There are never just two people in a
family love story.
THE ESCAPIST
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Producer: Adrian Sturges and Alan
Moloney
Co-production partners: A Picture
Farm/Parallel Films production
Cast: Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Damian
Lewis and Seu Jorge
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: U.K.
A prison escape thriller with a twist set in
the subterranean tunnels beneath London.
ELISE
Drama
Language: English
Director: James Bogle
Producer: Ben Grant
Co-production partners: Essential
Viewing Pictures
Cast: Natalie Imbruglia
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Country of Origin: Australia
At the beach one summer day a little girl
goes missing. Twenty years on her sister
finds the courage to rearrange the pieces
of her broken life . and invent a new
beginning.
GOLD VIEW CO. LTD.
Gold View Co. Ltd., Entopia Ogikubo #1201,
3-50-5 Asagaya-minami, Suginami-ku, Tokyo
166-0004 Japan. Tel: 81.3.5347.2501. Fax:
81.3.5347.2505. http://www.goldview.co.jp/
Sales agent
At Cannes: Kiyo JOO (Managing Dir.),
Alberto CORELO LUGO (Consultant)
Office:
ARIA
Drama (105 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Takushi TSUBOKAWA
Writer: Takushi TSUBOKAWA
Producer: Juichi SHIRAUCHI, Kimiko
ISHII
Cast: Masayuki SHIONOYA, Mariko
TAKAHASHI
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 2.3 M US$
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Japan
A road movie of a piano tuner who looks
for a beach that his deceased wife wanted
her ashes to be scattered.
BAKUSHI-THE INCREDIBLE
LIVES OF ROPE-MASTERS
(BAKUSHI)
Documentary (94 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Ryuichi HIROKI
Producer: Yoshiyasu IKEZAKI (At
Entertainment), Naoya NARITA (Archim
Boldo)
Cast: Chimuo NUREKI, Haruki
YUKIMURA, Go ARISUE
Delivery Status: Completed (Feature) Market Debut
Budget: 0.8 M US$
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Japan
The word “BAKUSHI” is in the western
term the rope master or rope artist for the
Japanese bondage. It is a documentary
about the lives of such peculiar
professional, known in Japanese
“KINBAKU”.
CRICKETS
Drama (102 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Shinji AOYAMA
Writer: Ryo IWAMATSU
Producer: Atsushi KATAYANAGI
Cast: Kyoka SUZUKI, Tsutomu
YAMAZAKI
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.0 M US$
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Japan
The story portrays a strange relationship
between an old blind and dumb man and
middle aged beautiful woman.
GOLDCREST FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
Goldcrest Films International, 65/66
Dean Street, London W1D 4PL, United
Kingdom. Tel: 44(0)20.7437.8696. Fax:
44(0)20.7437.4448.
info@goldcrestfilms.com
At Cannes: John Quested (Chairman),
Stephen Johnston (President, Goldcrest
Films Inc.), Nick Quested (Director),
Laura Murphy (Sales & Marketing),
Wayne Godfrey (Acquisitions &
Development)
Office: 25 La Croisette, Bagatelle, Tel:
04.93.99.01.84. Fax: 04.93.99.04.69.
ELVIS & ANABELLE
Drama/ Romance
Director: Will Geiger
Producer: Nick Quested
Cast: Max Minghella, Blake Lively,
Mary Steenburgen, Joe Mantegna, Keith
Carradine
Production Status: Completed. Market
Debut
A young mortician and a small-town
beauty queen become unlikely romantic
partners after the latter makes a
mysterious return from the grave.
IN A DAY
Romance/Comedy
Director: Evan Richards
Producer: Rowan Athale, Evan Richards
Cast: Lorraine Pilkington, Finlay
Robertson
Production Status: Completed. Screening
in Market
A disturbing encounter throws two
strangers together on the path of love,
but all is not what it seems. In A Day so
much can happen.
39 POUNDS OF LOVE
Documentary
Director & Producer: Dani Menkin
Cast: Ami Ankilewitz
Production Status: Completed. Screening
in Market
The uplifting true story of one man’s
courageous journey to show the world
that anything is possible.
LIBRARY
Goldcrest Films International’s library
also has over 80 titles available to license
world-wide for Television and DVD
rights, including many award winning
features. We are also buying All Rights
Worldwide.
GOLDEN NETWORK
ASIA LIMITED
Golden Network Asia Limited, Room
2003, Futura Plaza, 111-113 How Ming
St., Kwun Tong, Hong Kong. Tel:
852.2751.1886. Fax: 852.2750.4862.
info@goldnetasia.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Carrie Wong (Managing
Director), Clarence Tang (Head of Sales
& Acquisitions), Feron Lau (Project
Director), Lammy Li (Sales and
Marketing Manager), Elise Wong (Senior
Sales and Marketing Assistant)
Acquisition Executive: Clarence Tang
Office: LERINS – P1, Tel:
04.92.99.32.46
MID ROAD GANG
Family/Comedy (95 mins)
Language: Thai
Director: Pantham Thongsang, Somkiat
Vithuranich
Writer: Somkiat Vithuranich
Producer: Pantham Thongsang
Cast: Pitisak Yaowananont, Pavarisa
Phenjati, Chalermpol
Thikamporntheerawong
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: USD 1.5M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Thailand
An inspiring comedy about the
friendship, courage and the loyalty
between a pack of stray mutts.
FIRST FLIGHT
Drama (95 mins)
Language: Thai
Director: Thanit Jitnukul
Producer: Thanit Jitnukul, Saharat
Vilainet
Cast: Sornram Theppitak, Songporn
Thongmark, Tom Claytor
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Thailand
A dreamer and adventurer in Siam’s first
Air Force.
THE POSTMODERN LIFE OF MY
AUNT (YI MA DE HOU XIAN DAI
SHENG HUO)
Drama (110 mins)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Ann Hui
Writer: Li Qiang
Producer: Yuan Mei
Cast: Chow Yun Fat, Siqin Gaowa, Vicky
Zhao Wei
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: USD 5M
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: China
In the autumn of her life, a woman learns
the value of love.
GOLDEN SUN FILM
CO LTD
Golden Sun Film Co Ltd, 11/F Hong Lok
House, 477 Nathan Road, Yaumatei,
Kln., Hong Kong. Tel: 852.23855939.
Fax: 852.23683873. email:
goldensu@netvigator.com,
www.goldensunfilm.com
Sales agent, producer, distributor, agent
At Cannes: Ketsarinh Lan (Distribution
Director), William Lan(President),
Cherina Sze(Sales Manager)
Acquisition Executive: William Lan
(President)
DRAGON TREASURE
Action (approx 90 min)
Language: Chinese & Mardarin
Director: Tso Wing
Writer: Cheng Shing Mao
Producer: Lan Tien Hong, Lai Tsun Kei
Cast: Kwok Chun On, To Lai Man, Tam
On Yip, Lo Wai Kwong, Sze Lik Ka, Pak
Bin, Cheung Yim Bing, Cheung Chi Wai
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Budget: $1,000,000.00
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Hong Kong
There is a secret hidden in the national
treasure “the ancient cup”. The secret is
related to the wealth.
KUNG FU MONKEY
Action (approx 90 min)
Language: Chinese & Mardarin
Director: Tin Chun
Producer: Lan Tien Hong, Lai Tsun Kei
Cast: Liang Xio Long, Gordon Lau Kar
Fai, Micheal Tam
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1,000,000.00
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Hong Kong
Sap Yee Siu, the young owner of Chinese
medicine shop, is fond of Kung Fu. He
tries to ask Tin Kiu San one of the
Guangdong Ten Tigers to be his Kung Fu
master but is rejected by Tin.
SNAKE CURSE
Horror (approx 90 min)
Language: Chinese & Mardarin
Director: Chiang Kwok Kuen
Producer: Lan Tien Hong, Lai Tsun Kei
Cast: Steven Ma, Gordon Lau Kar Fai,
Tsui Man, Yip Wah
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1,000,000.00
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
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Origin: Hong Kong
A highly educated expert, a selfish and
money-oriented person, did a secret and
illegal experiment and created a snakeman by combining the DNA of a human
being and produced a miracle drug for
saving life.
GORILLA PICTURES
Gorilla Pictures, 2000 W. Olive Avenue,
Burbank, CA 91506 USA. Tel:
818.848.2198. Fax: 818.848.2232.
www.gorillapictures.net, email:
info@gorillapictures.net
At Cannes: Bill J. Gottlieb (President),
Don Wilson (Executive VP,
Development)
Office: Riviera, N16
THE LAST SENTINEL
Sci-Fi / Action (94 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jesse Johnson
Co-Production Partners: World Films,
Inc.
Producer: Bill J. Gottlieb
Key Cast: Don Wilson, Katee Sackhoff,
Bokeem Woodbine, Keith David, Steven
Bauer
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United States
In a not to distant future, those sworn to
serve and protect are driving the
population to extinction. Now humanity
must unite to survive the final battle for
mankind’s existence.
THE LEGEND OF SASQUATCH
Animation / Family (74 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Thomas Callicoat
Producer: Bill J. Gottlieb
Key Cast: William Hurt, John RhysDavies, Jewel and Blaire Restaneo
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United States
John Davis moves his family to the
mountains above Seattle - where they
discover a family of Bigfoot living
nearby who need their help.
SOFT TARGET (CROOKED)
Action (93 minutes)
Director: English
Language: Art Camacho
Co-Production Partners: World Films,
Inc.
Producer: Bill J. Gottlieb
Key Cast: Don Wilson, Gary Busey,
Olivier Gruner, Fred Williamson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: United States
A gorgeous call girl is the sole witness to
a brutal murder. Now two cops at odds
must become partners to take her
undercover if she is to survive.
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GREENESTREET
FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
GreeneStreet Films International, 275 S.
Beverly Drive, Suite 210, Beverly Hills,
CA 90212 USA. Tel: 310.860.1113. Fax:
310.860.1311.
www.greenestreetfilms.com
International Sales Arm for GreeneStreet
Films
At Cannes: John Penotti (President,
GreeneStreet Films), Ariel Veneziano
(President, GreeneStreet Films
International), Crystal Bourbeau
(Manager, GreeneStreet Films
International), Marlene Neubauer (Sales
Consultant)
Office: Palais des Arcades, 4ème étage,
32, rue du Commandant André 06400
Cannes, Tel: 04.86.68.70.80.
THE NINES
www.lookforthenines.com
Drama / Language: English
Director: John August
Writer: John August
Producer: Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen, Dan
Etheridge
Co-production partners: Jinks/Cohen Co.
Key Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Hope Davis,
Melissa McCarthy, Elle Fanning
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: U.S.A.
Mixing reality with mysterious sci-fi and
fantasy elements, THE NINES is the
directorial debut for the writer of GO,
BIG FISH and CORPSE BRIDE.
LAWS OF MOTION
Drama
Language: English
Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
Writer: Elyse Friedman
Producers: Daniela Taplin, Celine
Rattray, Jana Edelbaum, Hilary Swank,
Galt Niederhoffer, Eden Wurmfeld
Co-production partners: Plum Pictures
and Ideal Partners Film Fund
Key Cast: Matthew Perry, Ben Foster,
Hilary Swank
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: U.S.A.
Three sibling reunite and impact each
other’s lives in more than one way. A
satirical comedy in the vein of
SIDEWAYS and LITTLE MISS
SUNSHINE.
GARY THE TENNIS COACH
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Danny Leiner
Writers: Rick Stempson, Andy Stock
Producers: John Penotti, Michael G.
Nathanson, Seann William Scott
Key Cast: Seann William Scott, Randy
Quaid, Leonor Varela
Delivery Status: Post-production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: U.S.A.
An overzealous high school janitor who
has not recovered from his failed career
as a tennis pro, begins coaching his
beloved sport to a group of misfits and
somehow leads them to the Nebraska
state championship.
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. E-mail:
greg@thefilmlaw.com
Entertainment and Film Finance Law,
Producer Representative
At Cannes: Greg S. Bernstein
(Entertainment Attorney, Producer
Representative)
Office: Novotel Montfleury Cannes, Tel:
06.18.87.68.86
H
H2O MOTION
PICTURES
H2O Motion Pictures, Third Floor, 23
Denmark Street, London WC2H 8NH
UK. Tel: 44.207.240.5656.
Fax: 44.207.240.5647
At Cannes: Mark Horowitz, Andras
Hamori
Office: Apt. 2E, Albatros, Residence du
Grand Hotel, La Croisette
FEEL
Drama
Language: US
Directed by: Matt Mahurin
Produced by: Andrew Fierberg, Christina
Weiss Lurie, Tim Chambers
Cast: William Baldwin, Kevin Corrigan,
Clayne Crawford
Country of Origin: US
Over the course of a single day, four men
going through major life changes visit an
Asian massage parlor in New York
searching for some kind of human
connection.
OPIUM
Drama
Language: English/Hungarian
Directed by: János Szász
Written by: János Szász, András Szekér,
based on the diaries of Géza Csáth
Produced by: Andras Hamori and Pál
Sándor
Cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Kirsti Stubo
Status: Post-production
Country of Origin: Hungary/Germany
Psychiatrist Josef Brenne’s breakthrough
approach to working with the mentally ill
is overtaken by his morphine addiction
and his captivation with an asylum
patient leading to a destructive meeting
of mind and body.
PEOPLE WHO KNOCK
ON THE DOOR
Drama
Language: English
Directed by: Karl Golden
Written by: Doug Taylor, based on a
novel by Patricia Highsmith
Status: Pre-production
Country of Origin: Ireland/Germany
A troubled teen is pulled between with
his father’s religious hysteria a coma
brings his family into a local church
group..
HALCYON
INTERNATIONAL
PICTURES, LLC
Halcyon International Pictures, LLC,
1785 E. Sahara Drive, Suite 490, Las
Vegas, NV 89104 USA. Tel:
310.388.6087. Fax: 310.388.0481.
www.halcyonpix.com, email:
halcyon_cannes@yahhoo.com
At Cannes: Ray Haboush (Partner), Brian
Yuzna (Partner)
Office: Riviera L3/M4
AMPHIBIOUS
Creature (90 min)
Language: Indonesian / English
Producer: Brian Yuzna
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Indonesia
A prehistoric Sea Scorpion rises from the
depth of “THE RING OF FIRE”,
wreaking havoc on S.E. Asia
PRIMAL
Creature (88 min)
Language: English
Director: Steffen Schlachtenhaufen
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: US
Environmentalists on a survey mission
are led astray into the uncharted regions
of a secluded wilderness preserve where
they fall victim to a vicious predator.
HOOLIGAN
Thriller (90 min)
Director: English / Japanese
Language: Marc Freshman
Producer: Eric Sheretz
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: US
After a powerful Yakuza boss is killed,
his two disgraced bodyguards will stop at
nothing to get revenge.
HANNIBAL
PICTURES
Hannibal Pictures, 8265 Sunset
Boulevard, Suite 107,
West Hollywood, CA 90046 USA. Tel:
323.848.2945.
Fax: 323.848.2946.
www.hannibalpictures.com,
email: contactus@hannibalpictures.com
Producer, Distributor and Sales agent
Office: 001.323.848.2945
UNTITLED WESLEY SNIPES
PROJECT
(WORKING TITLE)
Action
Language: English
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro, W.
Peter Iliff, Wallis Nicita
Cast: Wesley Snipes
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: $20 million
Country of Origin: Thailand,
Los Angeles
“Untitled Wesley Snipes Project” is full
blast action-adventure about a heroic FBI
agent and his relentless pursuit of a
ruthless Asian drug lord.
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MESSAGES
Thriller
Language: English
Director: David Fairman
Producer: David Fairman, Jon Morrey
Cast: Jeff Fahey, Kim Thomson, Martin
Kove
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $4 million
Country of Origin: UK
A recently widowed forensic pathologist
(Jeff Fahey) believes the victims of a
brutal serial killer are sending him
messages that will lead to the killer. But
mounting evidence.leads to him.
CARMEN’S KISS
Action/Thriller
Language: English
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro,
David Fairman, Jon-Paul Gates
Budget: $7 Million
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: UK
Sexy, cool retelling of Bizet’s opera
“Carmen” updated to the criminal
underworld of modern London. Joe is a
disgraced London detective who finds
himself drawn to Carmen, a sexy,
scheming Eastern European with
dangerous underworld connections.
BAJA
Action
Language: English
Director: Terry Leonard
Producer: Richard Rionda and Tom
Elliott
Budget: $15 Million
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: USA
Seth and his brothers go to Baja
California, Mexico for a weekend of fun
and motorcycle racing, but the weekend
takes a nasty turn when Seth’s girlfriend
Eden is kidnapped.
NO TIME FOR HEROES
Action
Language: English
Director: James Fargo
Budget: $10 Million
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: USA
Three ex-Army buddies thwart the
hijacking of a commercial flight, but
instead of receiving a hero’s welcome,
their actions are met with derision and
hostility. Worse, the terrorist behind the
hijacking comes after them.
ESCOBAR
Action-Adventure
Language: English
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro,
Jose Ludlow
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: $35 million
Country of Origin: Spain - Mexico
Pablo Escobar’s political aspirations lead
him into a full-fledged war against his
own country and the United States.
MURDER 1
Action
Language: English
Director: Giorgio Serafini
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: $20 million
Country of Origin: Puerto Rico
The Fugitive meets Network when an
accused, deranged killer takes over the
live taping of the hit reality crime show
MURDER ONE.
THE QUARTERBACK
Action
Language: English
Director: TBD
Cast: TBD
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: Europe
The football is a leather case containing
the U.S. nuclear launch codes. It has
fallen into the hands of Kit, a Chinese
immigrant stuck in Moscow because of
bureaucratic red tape.
ADRIFT IN MANHATTAN
Drama
Language: English
Director: Alfredo De Villa
Producer: Steve Brown
Cast: Heather Graham, Billy Baldwin,
Victor Rasuk
Delivery Status: April 2007
Budget: $4 million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
The complicated and sometimes tragic
lives of four New Yorkers intersect in
miraculous ways in “Adrift in
Manhattan”, the daring new drama from
the makers of “Washington Heights”.
HBO ENTERPRISES
HBO Enterprises, 1100 Avenue of the
Americas, New York, NY 10036 USA.
Tel: 212.512.1000. Fax: 212.512.5698.
www.hbo.com
Theatrical Distributor
At Cannes: Charles Schreger (President,
Programming Sales), Amy Beecroft
(Director of International Theatrical
Distribution), Brian Roth (Director of
International Theatrical Distribution),
Heather McVicar (Vice President,
Marketing)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite #134, Tel:
04.97.06.85.34. Fax: 04.97.06.85.36
ROCKET SCIENCE
Comedy (101 min)
Language: English
Director: Jeffrey Blitz
Producers: Effie T. Brown, Sean Welch
Cast: Reece Daniel Thompson
Delivery Status: Completed (Screening)
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
origin: US
From Jeffrey Blitz, director of
Spellbound, a wry comedy of adolescent
angst set in the world of New Jersey high
school policy debate.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
ABOUT TIME TRAVEL
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Gareth Carrivick
Producers: Neil Peplow, Justin Smith
Cast: Chris O’Dowd, Marc Wootton,
Dean Lennox Kelly, Anna Faris
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
origin: UK
A clueless trio of friends in a British pub
accidentally time travel every time they
go to the bathroom and have to find ways
to get back to the bar to finish their
drinks and undo the mess their timetraveling creates.
HERE! FILMS
HDNET FILMS
HDNET Films, 122 Hudson Street, 5TH
Floor, New York, NY 10013 USA. Tel:
1.212.255.0626. Fax: 1.212.255.0602.
www.hdnetfilms.com
At Cannes: Laird Adamson (Head of
International Sales)
Office: Bagatelle, 25 La Croisette, 4th
Floor, Tel: 1.917.601.4771
REDACTED
War Drama
Language: English
Director: Brian De Palma
Co-Production Partners: The Film Farm
Producer: Simone Urdl, Jennifer Weiss,
Mark Cuban, Todd Wagner
Key Cast: Kel O’neil, Izzy Diaz, Patrick
Carroll, Ty Jones
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget $5M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Through a video collage of stories,
REDACTED examines the events
leading up to and the aftermath of an
horrific crime committed by a group of
US soldiers in Iraq.
NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Mark Hartley
Producer: Craig Griffin, Michael Lynch
Key Cast: Quentin Tarrantino
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Australia
The wild, untold story of “ozploitation;”
the first-ever detailed examination and
celebration of Australian genre cinema
and the undervalued auteurs who brought
it to life.
FAY GRIM
http://www.magpictures.com/profile.aspx
?id=f775cfc8-4d77-4be3-8bafe6377cd9d096
Drama (115 min)
Director: English
Language: Hal Hartley
Co-Production Partners: Zero Fiction,
This Is That
Producer: Ted Hope, Martin Hagemann,
Mike Ryan
Key Cast: Parker Posey, Jeff Goldblum,
Saffron Burrows
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA / Germany
Years after her husband’s apparent death,
Fay Grim discovers that several
intelligence agencies as well as a couple
of terrorist organizations are looking for
Henry Fool’s infamous Confessions.
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here! Films, 10990 Wilshire Blvd.,
Penthouse, Los Angeles, California
90024 USA. Tel: 310.806.4298.
Fax: 310.806.4268.
www.regententertainment.com/herefilms.
html
Producer and Distributor
At Cannes: Mark Reinhart (Executive
VP, Distribution & Acquisitions)
Office: Tel: Mark Reinhart’s Cell
323.791.8094
SHELTER
Drama Feature (94 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jonah Markowitz
Producer: Stephen P. Jarchow, Paul
Colichman, J.D. Disalvatore
Cast: Brad Rowe,Tina Holmes, Trevor
Wright
Delivery Status: Completed
Zach has always put the needs of others
above his own; but when he begins
falling for his best friend’s older brother,
he struggles to reconcile his own dreams
with the demands of his family.
KISS THE BRIDE
Comedy
Feature
Language: English
Director: C. Jay Cox
Producer: C. Jay Cox, Richard Santilena,
Bob Schuck
Cast: Tori Spelling, James O’Shea,
Philipp Karner, Amber Benson, Joanna
Cassidy
Delivery Status: Post-Production
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!
THE DL CHRONICLES
Drama (4 x ? hour)
Language: English
Director: Quincy LeNear, Deondray
Gossett
Producer: Quincy LeNear, Deondray
Gossett
Cast: Damian T. Raven
Delivery Status: Completed
The “DL Chronicles” tells the stories of
men of color who by consequence and by
choice, live sexually duplicitous and
secret lifestyles.
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, E-mail:
hf@hollandfilm.nl
Holland Film is the official marketing &
promotion agency for Dutch film abroad.
At Cannes: Claudia Landsberger
(managing director) cell: 31.6.5437.4077
Office: 106, Holland Film Pavilion,
Village International, Tel:
33(0)493.998.570
KICKS
Drama (90’)
Language, subtitles: Dutch/Arabic.
English subtitles.
Directors: Albert ter Heerdt (Shouf Shouf
Habibi!)
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Producers/sales: Parnassus Film
Key Cast: Mimoun Oaïssa (Schnitzel
Paradise), Roeland Fernhout (Phileine
Says Sorry), Hadewych Minis (Phileine
Says Sorry)
Delivery Status: completed
Country of origin/co-production: The
Netherlands
A heart-warming film that notes the
differences between people, but mostly
emphasises their similarities.
DENNIS P
Tragi-comedy (90’)
Language, subtitles: Dutch. English
subtitles
Director: Pieter Kuijpers (The Horror
Bus)
NL Producer: Pupkin Film
Key Cast: Edo Brunner, Nadja Hüpscher
(Simon)
Delivery Status: completed
Country of origin/co-production: NL/BE
True-crime biopic about Holland’s most
audacious diamond robber.
PAID
Thriller (91’)
Language, subtitles: English
Director: Laurence Lamers (debut
feature film)
Producer: Slavenburg Films
Key Cast: Murilo Benicio (Orfeu), Anne
Charrier, Tom Conti (Merry Christmas
Mr. Lawrence)
Delivery Status: completed
Country of origin/co-production: The
Netherlands
A gangster movie based on the French
‘film noir’ of the late sixties.
HOLLYWOOD
CLASSICS
Hollywood Classics, Linton House, 3951 Highgate Road, London NW5 1RS
UK. Tel: 44.20.7424.7280. Fax:
44.20.7428.8936.
www.hollywoodclassics.com, email:
info@hollywoodclassics.com
At Cannes: Joe Dreier (Director),
Melanie Tebb (Sales Coordinator), David
Llewellyn Jones (TV Sales), Petra
Sumser (German Representative)
Office: 63 la Croisette, Le Lerina, 4th
floor, Tel: 04.93.94.00.09
WISE BLOOD
Drama (108 min)
Language: English
Director: John Huston
Key Cast: Brad Dourif
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1979, Country of
Origin: USA
A young American southerner decides to
make his mark by inventing his own
church. Satire by Flannery O’Connor
TIME BANDITS
Fantasy (116 min)
Language: English
Director: Terry Gilliam
Key Cast: John Cleese, Sean Connery
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1981, Country of
Origin: UK
Key in the Handmade Films library, now
represented by Hollywood Classics.
LORD OF THE FLIES
Drama (92 mins)
Director: English
Language: Peter Brook
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 1963, Country of
Origin: UK
One of the films in the Janus Films
library now represented by Hollywood
Classics.
HOLLYWOOD
WIZARD
Hollywood Wizard, 8918 Amestoy Ave.,
Northridge, CA 91325 USA. Tel:
818.461.9349. Fax: 818.461.9143.
http://www.hollywoodwizard.com, email:
info@hollywoodwizard.com
At Cannes: Tony Kandah (President &
CEO), Mirna Kandah (Vice President),
Diana Scott (Sales Assistant), Brigitte
Rossbandt (Sales Assistant)
Office: E3 / F4, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.21
PIRANHA PARK
http://hollywoodwizard.com/movie.php?
mid=85&sc=2
Creature/Sci-Fi
Language: English
Director: Gary Jones
Producer: Tony Kandah, Gary Jones, Jeff
Miller
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: $2 million
Country of Origin: USA
“Piranha in a water park.” Teens
breaking into a water park for Senior
Skip Day are attacked by killer piranha
and must get out of the park before the
military’s F16 fighters blow it up.
KILLMELEON
http://hollywoodwizard.com/movie.php?
mid=88&sc=2
Creature/Sci-Fi
Language: English
Director: Gary Jones
Producer: Tony Kandah, Gary Jones, Jeff
Miller
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: $1.5 million
Country of Origin: USA
A giant 30-foot chameleon escapes from
a plane crash while being smuggled into
the United States.
SCARABAEUS
http://hollywoodwizard.com/movie.php?
mid=87&sc=2
Creature/Sci-Fi
Director: English
Language: Gary Jones
Producer: Tony Kandah, Gary Jones, Jeff
Miller
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: $1.5 million
Country of Origin: USA
A small band of Confederate soldiers
desert the battle in search of buried
treasure. Bitten by an ancient golden
beetle one of the men transforms into a
giant mythological insect-hellbent on
protecting the gold.
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HORIZON MOTION
PICTURES
Horizon Motion Pictures, Suite 237,
1271 Howe Street Vancouver BC Canada
V6Z 1R3. Tel: 604.632.1707. Fax:
604.632.1711.
www.horizonmotionpictures.com, email:
film@filmhorizon.com
Sales agent, Producer
At Cannes: Rob Straight (President)
Caroline Stern (VP, Sales, Acquisitions
and Development)
Acquisition Executive: Rob Straight
(President) Caroline Stern (VP, Sales,
Acquisitions and Development)
Office: Riviera H10, Tel:
33.04.92.99.88.19
SUPER AMIGOS (PREMIERE)
Feature Documentary (82 min)
Language: English/Spanish
(Canada/Mexico)
Directed by Arturo Perez Torres
Screenplay by Arturo Perez Torres
Produced by Heather Haynes and Arturo
Perez Torres
Starring Super Barrio, Fray Tormenta,
Super Gay, Super Animal, Ecologista
Universal
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada/Mexico
Five modern day super heroes, dressed as
“Lucha libre” wrestlers, fight for social
justice and human rights in Mexico City.
THE ENTRANCE
Supernatural Thriller (81 min)
Language: English (Canada)
Directed by Damon Vignale
Screenplay by Damon Vignale
Produced by Andrew Hamilton, Damon
Vignale
Starring Sarah Jane Redmond, Michael
Eklund, Ron Sauve, Jerry Wasserman
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget $US 1 Million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
A detective battles the occult when a
demon forces men to play games of
chance for their lives.
HYDE PARK
INTERNATIONAL
Hyde Park International, 14958 Ventura
Blvd, # 100, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
USA. Tel: 818.783.6060. Fax:
818.783.6319.
At Cannes: Ashok Amritraj, Lisa Wilson
Office: Carlton Hotel #140/141, Lisa
Wilson cell 1.818.516.4746
DEATH SENTENCE
Director: James Wan (writer/director
SAW, producer SAW 2)
Writer: Ian Mackenzie Jeffers
Based on the novel, Death Sentence, by
Brian Garfield (DEATH WISH).
Producer: Ashok Amritraj, Howard
Baldwin, Karen Baldwin
Cast: Kevin Bacon as Nick Hume,
Garrett Hedlund (FOUR BROTHERS,
ERAGON) as Billy, Kelly Preston as
Helen, Aisha Tyler (.45, GHOST
WHISPERER) as Detective Wallis,
Leigh Whannell (SAW) as Spink and
John Goodman as Bones
Nick Hume is a mild mannered executive
with a perfect life, until one gruesome
night he witnesses the brutal murder of
his oldest son in a gang initiation rite.
ASYLUM
Director: David R Ellis (FINAL
DESTINATION 2, SNAKES ON A
PLANE)
Writer: Ethan Lawrence
Producer: Ashok Amritraj.
Executive Producer: Jessika Borsiczky,
Patrick Aiello, George Parra
Cast: Mark Rolston (THE DEPARTED),
Sarah Roemer (GRUDGE 2,
DISTURBIA), Travis Van Winkle
(TRANSFORMERS), Carolina Garcia
(COACH CARTER), Jake Muxworthy (I
HEART HUCKABEES)
A group of teens are housed in the new
wing of their college, which was
formerly an asylum, and find it is
haunted by the spirit of the evil doctor
who performed barbaric experiments on
his patients there.
PENELOPE
Director: Mark Palansky (Second Unit
Director THE ISLAND, THE
AMITYVILLE HORROR)
Writer: Leslie Caveny (Emmy Award for
EVEYBODY LOVES RAYMOND)
Producer: Jennifer Simpson, Scott
Steindorff, Reese Witherspoon
Cast: Christina Ricci (MONSTER),
Reese Witherspoon, James McAvoy
A modern-day fairy tale about a woman
under a curse who tries to end a lifelong
string of bad luck.
TRADE (WELCOME TO AMERICA)
Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner
(SOMMERSTURM)
Story by: Roland Emmerich based on
New York Times Magazine cover story
by Peter Landesman
Screenplay by: Jose Rivera
(MOTORCYCLE DIARIES)
Executive Producer: Ashok Amritraj,
Lars Sylvest
Producer: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Kevin Kline, Alicia BachledaCurus
Status: Delivery
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.
STREET FIGHTER
Writer: Justin Marks (VOLTRON)
Producer: Ashok Amritraj
Hyde Park Entertainment and Capcom
bring you a major, live action motion
picture based on Capcom’s most popular
videogame franchise, “Street Fighter® .”
ON THE OTHER END OF THE
LINE
Director: Clare Kilner (THE WEDDING
DATE)
Writer: Tracey Jackson (THE GURU)
Producer: Ashok Amritraj
Cast: Jesse Metcalfe (JOHN TUCKER
MUST DIE, TOWN CREEK)
A beautiful young Indian woman and an
American businessman cross cultural
barriers in this uplifting romantic comedy
in the vein of PRETTY WOMAN.
THE CITY OF YOUR FINAL
DESTINATION
Director: James Ivory
Writer: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based on
the novel by Peter Cameron
Producer: Richard Hawley
Executive Producer: Ashok Amritraj
Cast: Anthony Hopkins as Adam, Laura
Linney as Caroline, Hiro Sanada as Pete,
Charlotte Gainsbourg as Arden, Omar
Metwally as Omar, Norma Aleandro as
Mrs Van Euwen, Kate Burton as Lucy
THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI
Director :Roger Spottiswoode
Writer: Jane Hawksley from the original
screenplay “The Bitter Sea” by James
Macmanus
Producer: Arthur Cohn, Wieland SchulzKeil
Cast: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Radha
Mitchell, Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh
George Hogg, a young Englishman, leads
sixty orphaned boys on an extraordinary
journey of almost a thousand perilous
miles through war ravaged China, across
snow bound mountains, to safety in
Mongolia.
BATTLE IN SEATTLE
Director: Stuart Townsend
Writer: Stuart Townsend
Producer: Kirk Shaw, Mary Alou
Executive Producer: Ashok Amritraj
Cast: Charlize Theron as ELLA, Woody
Harrelson as DALE, Martin Henderson
(THE RING, BRIDE & PREJUDICE,
FLYBOYS) as JAY, Michelle Rodriguez
(FAST AND THE FURIOUS,
RESIDENT EVIL) as LOU, Ray Liotta
as THE MAYOR, Channing Tatum
(STEP UP) as JOHNSON, Connie
Nielson (GLADIATOR) as Jean, Andre
Benjamin as DJANGO and Isaach de
Benkole (MIAMI VICE, CASINO
ROYALE) as Abasi.
Based on actual events which took place
during the World Trade Organisation
summit in Seattle in November 1999.
PREMONITION
Thriller
Director: Mennan Yapo (SOUNDLESS)
Writer: Bill Kelly (“Blast from the Past”,
“Enchanted”)
Producer: Ashok Amritraj, Jon Jashni,
Adam Shankman, Jennifer Gibgot, Sunil
Perkash
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon
Status: Delivery
A Midwestern housewife is told her
husband has died in a car crash — only
to discover him the next morning alive
and well.
CHAOS THEORY (WORKING
TITLE)
Director: Marcos Siega (PRETTY
PERSUASION)
Writer: Daniel Taplitz
Executive Producer: Michael Andreen,
Mark Gill, Liz Glotzer, Martin Shafer
Producer: Frederic Golchan, Erica
Westheimer
Cast: Emily Mortimer (MATCH POINT,
PINK PANTHER), Ryan Reynolds
(JUST FRIENDS), Stuart Townsend
(LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY
GENTLEMEN)
Status: post production – promo in office
A heartwarming comedy about two
friends, Frank and Buddy, who fall in
love with the same woman.
FLAWLESS
Director: Michael Radford (IL
POSTINO, MERCHANT OF VENICE)
Screenplay by: Edward Anderson
Producer: Michael Pierce/Mark Williams
Cast: Michael Caine, Demi Moore,
Lambert Wilson
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.
KETTLE OF FISH
Director: Claudia Meyers
Screenplay by : Claudia Meyers
Producer: Michael Mailer
Cast: Matthew Modine, Gina Gershon
A life long bachelor meets the woman of
his dreams when he is hired to play the
saxophone at her wedding. After the
marriage, he pursues her relentlessly,
despite the fact he is living with someone
else!
DREAMER
Director: John Gatins
Writer: John Gatins
Producer: Michael Tollin, Brian Robbins
Executive Producer: Ashok Amritraj, Jon
Jashni, Bill Johnson, Stacy Cohen,
Caitlin Scanlon
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Kurt Russell, Kris
Kristofferson, Elizabeth Shue
Freddy Rodriguez, Luis Guzman
A trainer and his daughter nurse an
injured horse back to health, with an eye
on racing him in the Breeders’ Cup.
I
ICON
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL
Icon Entertainment International, Solar
House, 1st Floor, 915 High Road,
London N12 8QJ UK. Tel:
44(0)20.8492.6300. Fax:
44(0)20.8492.6301. www.iconmovies.net
Sales and Distribution
At Cannes: Anthony Buckner (Senior
Sales Manager), Hannah Rothman (Sales
Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Mark Gooder
(President Acquisitions/Development,
IEI), Toby Hill – Acquisitions Manager
(Icon Film Distribution)
Office: 57 La Croisette, Rosemary
Entrance – rue F.Einesy, 1st Floor, 06400
Cannes
Tel: 33(0)4.97.06.56.70. Fax:
33(0)4.97.06.56.71
INFESTATION
Sci-fi Horror
Language: English
Director: Kyle Rankin
Producers: Jeff Balis, Rhoades Rader, TJ
Sakasegawa
Delivery Status: In Pre- Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A hideous, nail biting, comedic, all
action-adventure where our hero Cooper
must journey to a safe haven while
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constantly outwitting an infestation of
monstrous proportions!
THE BLACK BALLOON
Drama
Language: English
Director: Elissa Down
Producer: Tristram Miall
Screenplay: Elissa Down, Jimmy Jack
Cast: Toni Collette, Rhys Wakefield,
Gemma Ward, Luke Ford
Delivery Status: In post production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Australia
The Black Balloon is a coming of age
story about fitting in, discovering
teenage love and accepting your family.
FERRIS WHEEL
Drama
Language: English
Director: Bill Maher
Producers: Charlize Theron, AJ Dix,
Beth Kono, Justin Moore-Lewy, Charlie
Mason
Screenplay: Zac Stanford
Cast: Charlize Theron, Nick Stahl,
AnnaSophia Robb, Dennis Hopper,
Woody Harrelson
Delivery Status: In Post Production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A powerful drama about a young girl
struggling to deal with her mother’s
abandonment and the friendship she
develops with her uncle as they both
attempt to recover their lost childhoods.
IDREAM
INDEPENDENT
PICTURES
iDream Independent Pictures, 309
Gainsborough Business House, 81,
Oxford Street London W1D 2EU United
Kingdom. Tel: 44.207.903.5115. Fax:
44.207.903.5333.
www.idreamindependent.com
At Cannes: Rohit Sharma (President International Sales)
Office: 91.9820189556, 91.2266383333.
Fax: 91.22.22826615, 91.98.20189556
AMERICANIZING SHELLEY
www.AmericanizingShelleyTheMovie.com
Comedy/ Romance (90 min)
Language: English
Director: LORRAINE SENNA
Producer: Nayomi Cooper
Key Cast: Beau Bridges, Namrata Singh
Gujral, Shaheen Khan, Wil Wheaton,
Morgan Brittany.
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget 6.0 M US $
Year of Production: 2005-2006, Country
of Origin: USA
In the vein of “Bend It like
Beckham,“Americanizing Shelley” is a
contemporary ‘Pygmalion” like comedy,
set in LA, featuring an American country
boy and a Himalayan village belle,
thrown together in this “Middle
America” meets “Middle East” charmer.
BOMBIL AND BEATRICE
www.bombilandbeatrice.com
Romance (97 min)
Language:
Director: Kaizad Gustad
Producer: Manu Kumaran, Kaizad
Gustad, Ayesha Shroff
Key Cast: Katie McGuinness, Prroshant
Narayannan, Piyush Mishra
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget $8million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK/India
Bombil and Beatrice are star crossed
lovers who shared a love at the height of
British Raj that defied both their worlds.
IFM WORLD
RELEASING INC.
IFM World Releasing Inc., 1328 East
Palmer Avenue, Glendale, California
91205, USA. Tel: 818.243.4976. Fax:
818.550.9728. www.ifmfilm.com, E-mail:
contact@ifmfilm.com
At Cannes: Antony I. Ginnane
(President), Anthony J. Lyons (VP
International)
Office: Palais du festival - Riviera F19,
Tel: 61.412.982.770
10 DEAD MEN
Language: English
Action (1 x 90 min)
By: Phil Hobden
Stars: Brendan Carr, Terry Stone Written
By Chris Regan Produced
Delivery Status: In Post Production
Production: UK
No bad deed goes unpunished. Ten men
took his life away. Now Ten Men Will
Pay!
SLOW BURN
Thriller (1 x 90 min)
Language: English
Produced By: Kate Whitbread
(Caterpillar Wish)
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Production: Australian
Spencer threatens to kill his ex wife
Claire unless she watches a video that
explains the death of Claire’s daughter
Sally many years ago.
VOICES IN THE DEEP
Action / Thriller (1 x 90 min)
Language: English
Written & Produced By: Alkinos
Tsilimidos
Stars: Colin Friels
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Production: Australian
A Vietnam veteran selling poached
abalone is caught up in an urban hell of
violence, sex, drugs and lies until he
meets Gloria who gives him a way out.
IHQ, INC.
iHQ, Inc., 5F, Sambo B/D. 88, Samsungdong, Kangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-090,
Korea. Tel: 82.2.6005.6738. Fax:
82.2.6005.6001. www.sidushq.com
Sales agent, producer, Management agent.
At Cannes: Catherine Park (Head of
International), Shawn Choi (International
Sales), Yeon-jung Lim (International
Management)
Office: H19, Tel: 33.4.92.99.88.26
FOR ETERNAL HEARTS
Fantasy / Romance
Language: Korean
Director: Qu-Duk Hwang
Producer: Sung-kyu Cho
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service annually to over 185
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Co-production partners: Eun-un Cho,
Qu-duk Hwang
Cast: Kyung-Ho Choung, Soo-Yeon Cha,
Min-Sun Kim
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: $1.5 Mil
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Korean
Could You follow your love to death?
An ordinary college boy Su-young meets
an extraordinary girl named Pippi at the
campus. Ever since he witnessed pippi
commits a suicide, bizarre things begin
to happen…
MEET MR. DADDY
http://www.shinyday2007.co.kr/
Drama
Language: Korean
Director: Kwang-su Park
Producer: Hoon-tack Jung, Ki-Min Oh
Cast: Shin-yang Park, Ji-won Yea, Sin-ae
Seo
Delivery Status: Complete
Budget: $4 Mil
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Korea
A selfish health freak who only cares
about himself, that’s WOO Jong-dae. But
one day, out of nowhere, a young girl,
Joon, appears in front of him, claiming to
be his daughter.
AMERICAN ZOMBIE
www.americanzombiemovie.com
Dark Horror Comedy (91min)
Language: English
Director: Grace Lee
Producer: Teddy Hoon-tack Jung
Co-production partners: Lee-lee Films
Cast: Austin Basis, Suzy Nakamura, Al
Vicente, Jane Edith Wilson, John
Solomon, Grace Lee
Delivery Status: completed
Budget: $1 Mil
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Korea
Two filmmakers team up to document a
group of zombies in Los Angeles and
their struggle to gain acceptance in the
human community.
IMAGEWORKS
ENTERTAINMENT
INT’L INC.
Imageworks Entertainment Int’l Inc.,
6140 Variel Ave / Woodland Hills, CA
91367 USA. Tel: 818.716.1670. Fax:
818.716.8004.
www.imageworksentertainment.com,
Email:
info@imageworksentertainment.com
At Cannes: David Shoshan, Ingrid
Raines, Joanna Burish
Acquisition Executive: David Shoshan
Office: Booth: E11 / F12, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.35
A HOUSE DIVIDED
Action / Drama (90min)
Language: English
Director: Mitch Davis
Writer: Mitch Davis
Producer: Jim Abrams
Cast: Eion Bailey, Linda Hardy, F.
Murray Abraham
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Israel
An American Jewish businessman travels
to Israel for the funeral of his father.
While there, he is persuaded to do a brief
reconnaissance for the Israeli Secret
Service inside the city of Ramallah.
PLANE DEAD
www.imageworksentertainment.com/Plan
eDead.htm
Sci-Fi (90mins)
Language: English
Director: Scott Thomas
Producer: David Shoshan
Cast: Kevin J. O’connor, with Erick
Avari and Richard Tyson.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: United States of America
Ominous thunderstorms trigger the
release of an undead, flesh hungry
scientist who was secretly smuggled into
the cargo-hold of 747 Jetliner.
GUARDING EDDY
Family Drama (93min)
Language: English
Director: Scott MCKINSEY
Writer: Paul DAVIDSON
Producer: Brian PRESLEY
Cast: Brian PRESLEY, Kiko Ellsworth
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
An autistic young man gets kicked out of
his parents house and sent to Los
Angeles to survive. He is forced to find
shelter and covers his pain with dreams
of playing professional basketball.
BOSTON STRANGLER
Horror (92mins)
Language: English
Director: Keith Walley
Writer: Aaron Pope
Producer: Jason Van VLEET, Keith
WALLEY
Cast: Jason DAVID, Mauro LANNINI
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
Boston, Massachusetts, 1962. the dawn
of the serial killer was at hand.
ONE OF OUR OWN
Film
http://www.imageworksentertainment.co
m/ooo.html
Drama (90mins)
Language: English
Director: Abe Levy
Producer: Jack Robinson, Silver Tree,
Terry Chase Chenowith
Cast: Josh Randall, Claire Rankin,
Mathew Lillard, Kate Beahan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United States of America
Desperate to have a baby against all
odds, a thirty something couple engage a
young woman to bear their child.
THINGS YOU DON’T TELL
www.imageworksentertainment.com/tydt.
htm
Thriller (90mins)
Language: English
Director: Alex Melli
Producer: Bibi Ong-VanZandt, Alex
Melli
Cast: Ryan Reyes, Amanda Bauman,
Noel Thurman
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United States of America
Interweaving plots involving a psychotic
mother, a cheating husband and an insane
young man, end in a psychological
climax that will leave you breathless.
MOTHER GHOST
www.imageworksentertainment.com
Drama (90mins)
Language: English
Director: Rich THORNE
Writer: Mark Thompson
Producer: Fred CHANDLER, Rodney
MONTAGUE
Cast: James FRANCO, Charles
DURNING, Dana DELANY, Gary
MARSHALL, Jere BURNS, Joe
MANTEGNA, Kevin POLLAK, Mark
THOMPSON
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Keith Bennet’s mother passed away a
year ago, but one morning his mother’s
jewelry shows up on the bathroom sink,
the same jewelry she was buried in.
TRUCE
www.imageworksentertainment.com
Family Western (96mins)
Language: English
Director: Matthew MARCONI
Writer: Matthew MARCONI
Producer: Dennis TROMBLY, James R.
DOBBS, Matthew MARCONI
Cast: Buck TAYLOR, Samantha DROKE
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
This modern-day western revolves
around Harry Dobbs, who is raising his
granddaughter after her mother dies.
LYCANTHROPY
www.imageworksentertainment.com/lyca
nthropy.htm
Thriller (90mins)
Language: English
Director: Kevin McDonagh
Producer: Kevin McDonagh
Cast: George Calil, David Bradley, Freya
Archard
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
Investigating a murder, Detective Alex
Taylor infiltrates a club and discovers
that people are being slipped a drug that
makes them think they are werewolves.
NAILED
www.imageworksentertainment.com
Thriller (90mins)
Language: English
Director: Adrian O’Connell
Writer: Stephen MCANENA
Producer: Ben KATZ, Stephen
MCANENA, Wilson Jermaine
HEREDIA
Cast: Charles F. PORTER, Sam
SARPONG, Wilson Jermaine HEREDIA
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
Nailed is a psycho-thriller following two
street-smart hoodlums embarking on a
straightforward drug deal that turns bad.
FINAL MOVE
www.imageworksentertainment.com/final
move.htm
Thriller (92mins)
Language: English
Director: Joey Travolta
Producer: David Shoshan
Cast: Matt Schulze, Lochlyn Munro,
Rachel Hunter, Amanda Detmer with
Daniel Baldwin and David Carradin
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: United States of America
The “Chess Piece Murders” have started
again. Dan Marlowe, a clairvoyant
detective who thought he had captured
the right man, comes out of retirement to
put an end to the game that he thought
was already won.
DARK HEART
www.imageworksentertainment.com/Dar
kHeart.htm
Drama (103 min)
Language: English
Director: Kevin Lewis
Producer: Steven Nash
Cast: Greg Joelson, Darcy Halsey, R.D.
Call, Nick Cornish, Brian Howe, William
Dennis, Hurley Huntley
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: United States of America
Upon returning from the Iraq War, Matt
Taylor is unable to recognize the
hometown he left behind. Leaving one
war for another, he is forced to conquer
his own inner demons, as well as those
of his countrymen.
TOLLBOOTH
Drama (95mins)
Language: English
Director: Debra KIRSCHNER
Writer: Debra KIRSCHNER
Producer: Alex KOPIT, Lynn Ann
KLOTZ
Cast: Marla SOKOLOFF, Ronald
GUTTMAN, Idina MENZEL, Tovah
FELDSHUH
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: USA
Tollbooth comically explores a Jewish
family from Brooklyn through the eyes
of Sarabeth Cohen, a struggling painter
in her first year out of art school. In this
heart warming film, Sarabeth and her
older sisters come of age and question
the values of their traditional parents.
MIRACLE AT SAGE CREEK
Family/Western (90mins)
Language: English
Director: James INTVELD
Writer: Thadd TURNER
Producer: Thadd TURNER
Cast: David CARRADINE, Irene
BEDARD, Michael PARKS, Wes
STUDI, Buck TAYLOR
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
When disaster strikes, two families will
be forced to confront their many
differences as lives hang in the balance.
THE 7TH COIN
Family/Adventure (93mins)
Language: English
Director: Dror Soref
Writer: Dror SOREF, Michael LEWIS
Producer: Lee NELSON, Omri MARON
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Cast: Peter O’TOOLE, Alexandra
POWERS, John RHYS-DAVIES
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1993, Country of
Origin: Israel
Driven by his obsession to possess the
legendary Seventh Coing of King Herod
the Great, the manically powerful Emil
Saber (Peter O’Toole) has left a trail of
death across three continents.
IMAGI SERVICES
(USA) LIMITED
Imagi Services (USA) Limited, 15301
Ventura Blvd., Building D, Suite 210,
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA.
Tel: 818.986.3988. Fax: 818.986.3288.
www.imagi.com.hk
Sales, production
At Cannes: Thomas K. Gray (President
and CEO), Michael J. Arnold (Director
of Foreign Distribution), Kris Zhai (Sales
Manager), Asia Ireton (Director of
Marketing), Howard Ho (Marketing
Administrator)
Office: Hilton Cannes, Salon
Tramontane, Tel: 33.(0)4.9299.7000.
Fax: 33.(0)4.9299.7011
HIGHLANDER: THE SEARCH FOR
VENGEANCE
www.highlandersearchforvengeance.com
Action/Adventure (86 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Writer: David Abramowitz
Producer: Peter Davis, Bill Panzer,
Thomas K. Gray, H. Galen Walker
Co-production partners: Imagi Animation
Studios, Davis-Panzer Productions
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Japan/USA
In the first animated Highlander feature
film, Colin MacLeod hunts the immortal
who killed his lover through the ages and
discovers his enemy ruling over a virusinfested New York.
IMAGINATION
WORLDWIDE, LLC
Imagination Worldwide, LLC, 9107
Wilshire Blvd., Suite 625, Beverly Hills,
CA 90210 USA. Tel: 310.888.3494. Fax:
310.859.7173. www.imagination-llc.com
Sales Agent / Distributor
At Cannes: Pierre David (Chairman &
CEO), Tom Berry (Co-Chairman),
Lawrence Goebel (President), Kendall
Nowlin (Marketing Coordinator), Travis
Stevens (Acquisitions & Contracts
Coordinator)
Acquisition Executive: Travis Stevens
Office: Hotel Carlton, Tel:
33(0)4.93.06.42.21. Fax:
33(0)4.93.06.42.20
FIVE ACROSS THE EYES
Horror (91 min)
Language: English
Director: Greg Swinson, Ryan Thiessen
Writer: Marshall Hicks, Greg Swinson
Producer: Ryan Thiessen, Greg Swinson
Cast: Angela Brunda, Danielle Lilley,
Sandra Paduch
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Five innocent girls are trying to make
their way home. They’ll have to go
through hell to get there.
DEAD AT 17
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Douglas Jackson
Writer: Christine Conradt
Producer: Pierre David, Tom Berry,
Stefan Wodoslawsky
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: CANADA
Attempting to prove who is responsible
for the death of her sister 15 years ago, a
woman soon puts her life in danger.
MY DAUGHTER’S SECRET
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Douglas Jackson
Writer: Christine Conradt
Producer: Pierre David, Tom Berry,
Stefan Wodoslawsky
Cast: Jennifer Grant, Catherine Mary
Stewart, Steve Byers
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
When the jewelry store where Denise
works is robbed and her colleague shot,
she has no idea that one of the young
men behind it is the boyfriend of her
teenage daughter— and she’s an
accomplice to the crime.
IMPERIA
ENTERTAINMENT
Imperia Entertainment, 190 N. Canon
Dr., # 420, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA.
Tel: 1.310.275.0089. Fax:
1.310.275.3105.
keneade93101@yahoo.com
At Cannes: Patrick de Bokay
Office: Hotel Select, 16 rue Helene
Vagliano, Cannes, 06400. Tel:
04.93.99.51.00. Fax: 04.92.98.03.12.
Mobile: 06.19.58.54.13
SAY IT IN RUSSIAN
Drama / Romance / Thriller
Directed by: Jeff Celentano
During Cannes Contact
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Carlton Hotel Office 149
Tel 04 • 93 • 06 • 41 • 49
Written by: Jeff Celentano, Kenneth
Eade, Agata Gotova, Larry Gross
Produced by: Jefferson Richard, James
Hergott
Starring: Rade Serbedzija, Steven Brand,
Agata Gotova, Steven Berkoff, Faye
Dunaway Status: post-production,
available July 2006
Budget: 10 million $
Country: USA / France
Andrew meets a young Russian girl,
Daria, while on vacation in Europe and
falls in love. He goes to Moscow, where
he meets Daria’s father, a rich Russian
mafia oligarch, and becomes entwined
with his situation, which places them
both in grave danger.
INDEPENDENT
Independent, 32 Tavistock Street,
London, WC2E 7PB UK. Tel:
44.207.257.8734. Fax: 44.207.240.9029.
www.independentfilmcompany.com,
mail@independentfilmcompany.com
At Cannes: Luc Roeg (CEO), Michael
Robinson, Andrew Orr (Managing
Director of Film Sales), Abigail Walsh
(Head of Sales), Sarah Goodwin (Head
of Marketing)
Office: 54 La Croisette, 2nd Floor,
Cannes
IN THE HANDS OF THE GODS
(AKA IN SEARCH OF DIEGO)
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Benjamin Turner and Gabe
Turner
Production companies: A Green Wolf
Film and Fulwell 73 Production
Producer: Leo Pearlman, Ben Winston
and Rebecca Green
Key cast: Mike Fisher, Sami Hall
Bassam, Jeremy Lynch
Status: First market screening of
completed film
Country of origin: UK
The true story of five boys in pursuit of
their dreams, on a voyage of selfdiscovery that will change their lives
forever.
HALLAM FOE
Drama
Language: English
Director: David Mackenzie
Scriptwriter: Ed Whitmore and Davis
Mackenzie
Production company: Sigma
Producer: Gillian Berrie
Key cast: Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles,
Ciaran Hinds
Status: Completed and Screening in
Market
Country of origin: UK
Hallam’s talent for spying on people
reveals his darkest fears—and his most
peculiar desires.
MARK OF CAIN
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Marc Munden
Scriptwriter: Tony Marchant
Production companies: Red Production
Company and Film 4
Producer: Lynn Horsford
Key cast: Matthew McNulty, Gerard
Kearns and Shaun Dooley
Status: Completed and Screening in
Market
Country of origin: UK
Life-long friends Shane Gulliver and
Mark “Treacle” Tate are on their first
tour of duty in the British Army. Facing
the dangerous reality of soldiering, these
inexperienced young men play a part in a
terrible act.
INDIESTORY INC.
Indiestory Inc., 4FL., BaekAk B/D, 1354, TongIn-dong, JongRoh-gu, Seoul 110043 Korea. Tel: 82.2.722.6051. Fax:
82.2.722.6055. www.indiestory.com,
email: indiestory@indiestory.com
Production & distribution company
IF YOU WERE ME 3
http://www.indiestory.com/English/html/
main-e.asp
Drama, Human rights, Omnibus (106
min)
Language: Korean
Director: CHUNG Yoon-chul, KIM
Hyeon-phil, LEE Mi-yeon, NOH Dongseok, KIM Gok, KIM Sun, HONG Kiseon
Writer: CHUNG Yoon-chul, KIM
Hyeon-phil, LEE Mi-yeon, NOH Dongseok, KIM Gok, KIM Sun, HONG Kiseon
Producer: LEE Hyeon-seung, NAM Kyusun, PARK Mi-kyoung
Cast: JUNG Jin-young, KIM Tae-woo,
JEON Hye-jin
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: South Korea
This is the third omnibus project
describing the theme, human rights. The
third project is comprised of six short
films made by seven directors.
WHO’S THAT KNOCKING AT MY
DOOR?
http://www.indiestory.com/English/html/
main-e.asp
Drama, coming of age (84min)
Language: Korean
Director: YANG Hea-hoon
Writer: YANG Hea-hoon
Producer: CHOI Sang-mun
Cast: IM Ji-gyu, PYO Sang-u, YUN Sosi
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: South Korea
One day, a dead woman who took her
own life by jumping from an apartment
suddenly appears in front of them.
A SHARK
http://www.indiestory.com/English/html/
main-e.asp
Drama (109 min)
Language: Korean
Director: KIM Dong-hyun
Writer: KIM Dong-hyun
Cast: HONG Sueng-il, KIM Mi-ya, GU
Sung-hwan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: South Korea
Fisherman, Young-chul, who lives in on
the island, arrives at a city in the hot
summer to show a white shark to his
friend, Jun-gu.
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INDUSTRYWORKS
DISTRIBUTION INC.
Industryworks Distribution Inc., 325
West 7TH Ave., Vancouver,
State/Province: BC, V5Y 1M2 Canada.
Tel: 604.876.0547. Fax: 6048760541.
www.industry-works.com
At Cannes: Evan Tylor (President), Craig
Adlard (VP Sales), Jennifer Chow
(International Sales), John Curtis
(Production Executive)
Office: Riviera Booth #H10, Tel:
44.793.608.7921
WALK ALL OVER ME
www.industry-works.com
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Robert Cuffley
Producer: Carolyn McMaster, Colin
Neale, Kyle Irving
Key Cast: Lele Sobieski, Tricia Helfer,
Lothier Bluteau
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
A girl running from her past joins forces
with a dominatrix to recover millions of
stolen mob money.
WILD CHERRY
Comedy
Language: English
Director: TBD
Producer: Gavin Wilding
Key Cast: TBD
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
A group of female co-eds make a pledge
NOT to have sex for a summer…
THE CYCLE
Thriller
Director: English
Language: Michael Bafaro
Producer: Evan Tylor
Key Cast: TBD
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
A psychotic killer runs rampant
terrorizing a group of archeology
students who inadvertently uncover his
dark secret.
INFERNO
DISTRIBUTION
Inferno Distribution, 9595 Wilshire Blvd.,
Ste 900. Beverly Hills, CA 90212 USA.
Tel: 323.848.8973. Fax: 323.848.8963.
www.infernodistribution.com
Sales agent, producer, financier
At Cannes: Jim Seibel (Partner) Bill
Johnson (Partner) James MacLean (VP
Int’l Sales) Jana Toepfer (Int’l Sales and
Acquisitions Executive)
Acquisition Executive: Jana Toepfer
Office: The Majestic Suites 115, 116,
Tel: 334.92.98.77.00. Fax:
334.93.38.97.90
THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG
Action/Comedy/Crime
Language: English
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Writer: William Goldman, Christian
Forte
Producer: Edward Pressman, Gary
Burden, Bill Johnson
Delivery Status: Principal Photography
planned for summer 2007
Budget: > $30M
Year of Production: 2007
A group of 4 environmental activists
fight the over-development of the United
States.
THE HEAVEN PROJECT
Psychological Thriller
Language: English
Director: John Glenn
Writer: John Glenn
Producer: David Hoberman, Todd
Lieberman, Matt Milich, Bill Johnson
Cast: Paul Walker
Delivery Status: Pre Production
Budget: $ 10M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A man who loses everything he’s ever
loved and is being held in an indefinable
place that might be Purgatory – or is it
reality?
HACHIKO
Family/Drama
Language: English
Writer: Stephen P. Lindsey
Producer: Paul Mason, Bill Johnson
Delivery Status: Pre Production
Budget: $ 10 Million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Hachiko is the riveting saga of a faithful
dog that loyally waits for his master’s
return at the same train station day by
day refusing to accept his sudden
passing.
INFRAME
InFrame, Linton House, 39/51 Highgate
Road, London NW5 1RS England. Tel:
44.207.424.7280. Fax: 44.207.428.8936.
www.inframe.net, email:
ildi@inframe.net
At Cannes: ildi Toth Davy (Sales and
Acquisitions), Steven Mackler
(Acquisitions), Emese Nemeth
(Marketing Coordinator)
Office: Lerins, R4, Tel: 33.6.78.53.79.75
THE RIDDLE
Thriller (118 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Brendan Foley
Producer: Brendan Foley, Lars Hermann,
Peter Burrell and Mark Moriarty
Key Cast: Vinnie Jones, Derek Jacobi,
Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Cox, Mel Smith,
Jason Flemyng, PH Moriarty, Vera Day,
Mark Asante
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: England
THE RIDDLE is a compelling mystery
thriller with a supernatural twist.
BLACK SHEEP (SCHWARZE
SCHAFE)
www.blacksheep.com
Black Comedy (94 minutes)
Language: German
Director: Oliver Rihs
Producer: Oliver Rihs & Olivier Kolb
Key Cast: Marc Hosemann, Bruno
Cathomas, Jule Böwe, Milan Peschel,
Robert Stadlober, Tom Schilling,
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Germany
A no-holds-barred assault on good taste
and bourgeois convention.
INITIAL
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP
Initial Entertainment Group, 3000 W.
Olympic Blvd., Suite 1550, Santa
Monica, CA 90404 USA. Tel:
310.315.1722. Fax: 310.315.1723.
Email: info@initial-ent.com
At Cannes: Eric Christenson (President
of Sales & Distribution), Maxine
Leonard (SVP Marketing and Publicity)
Office: 24, La Croisette 3rd floor, Tel:
334.93.39.89.87
BANGKOK DANGEROUS
Action-Adventure
Directors: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
Producers: Graham King, William
Sherak, Jason Shuman, Norm Golightly
Principal Cast: Nicolas Cage
Production Status: Post production
Country of Origin: USA
A cold blooded hitman goes to Bangkok
to pull four jobs; he ends up developing a
conscience as he falls for a local girl and
bonds with his errand boy.
INTANDEM FILMS
Intandem Films, 22 Soho Square, London
W1D 4NS UK. Tel: 44(0)207.851.3800.
Fax: +44 (0) 207.851.3830.
www.intandemfilms.com, email:
info@intandemfilms.com
At Cannes: Gary Smith (CEO), Andrew
Brown (Company Director), Billly
Hurman (Company Director)
Office: Majestic Hotel Suite 138, Tel:
33(0)4.92.98.77.00. Tel:
33(0)4.93.38.97.90
GALLOWWALKER
Supernatural Horror set in the Old-West
Language: English
Director: Andrew Goth
Producer: Joanne Reay, Michael Gebauer
Key Cast: Wesley Snipes, Riley Smith
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
Live by the gun, die by the gun, come
back for more.
WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR
FATHER?
Drama
Language: English
Director: Anand Tucker
Producer: Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen
Woolley
Key Cast: Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent,
Juliet Stevenson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
The adaptation of Blake Morrison’s best
selling and award-winning memoir; an
incredibly moving and candid story of
love and loss in a father-son relationship
HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND
ALIENATE PEOPLE
Comedy
Director: English
Language: Robert Weide
Producer: Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth
Karlsen
Key Cast: Simon Pegg
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
An adaptation of Toby Young’s hilarious
memoir charting his successes and
failures as an English journalist in New
York.
INTRAMOVIES
Intramovies, Via E. Manfredi 15, 00197
Rome, Italy. Tel: 39.06.8076157. Fax:
39.06.8076156. www.intramovies.com www.intramovies.org, mail@intramovies
.com
At Cannes: Paola Corvino (C.E.O)
mobile: 39.335.84.10.149, Jef Nuyts
(Director: of International Sales) mobile:
39.348.540.13.97, Micaela Fusco (VP
International Sales) mobile:
39.335.604.39.15, Federica Mei
(Director: of Tv Sales) mobile:
39.333.75.44.926, Marco Valerio Fusco
(Sales coordinator) mobile:
39.335.7052982
Office: “I-CLUB”– Hilton Hotel, First
Floor, 50 Boulevard De La Croisette
NIGHT BUS (NOTTURNO BUS)
Comedy/Action (120min)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Davide Marengo
Writer: Fabio Bonifacci and Giampiero
Rigosi
Producer: Maura Vespini & Sandro
Silvestri for EMME Produzione
Cast: Valerio Mastandrea, Giovanna
Mezzogiorno
An absurd twist of fate makes paths
meet, and from then on lives will never
be the same….
ON EVIL GROUNDS (AUF BÖSEM
BODEN)
Thriller (82 min)
Language: German with English subtitles
Director: Peter Koller
Writer: Peter Koller
Producer: Franz Novotny
Cast: Birgit Stauber, Aleksandar Petrovic
Too bad Romeo and Juliet are everything
but docile victims.
ALL THE INVISIBLE THINGS
(HEILE WELT)
Drama (90 min)
Language: German with English
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Director: Jakob M. Erwa
Writer: Jakob M. Erwa
Producer: Franz Novotny
Cast: Michael Sauseng, Simon Mostl,
Angelika Scheider
MAD WORLD shows a relentlessly and
honest insight in the tight enmeshed,
human destinies of 3 anchorless and
rebellious teenagers in the caught
between childhood and adolescence.
ISTITUTO LUCE SPA
Istituto Luce SpA, Via Tuscolana 1055,
00173 Rome, Italy. Tel: 39.06.72992213.
Fax: 39.06.7222493. www.luce.it,
commerciale2@luce.it
Documentary and Film
Producer/Distributor
At Cannes: Cristina Cassano
(International Sales Executive)
Office: Palais du Festival – Italian
Pavillon Anica at Riviera D1 – E10 – C5
– D2, Mobile: 39.320.7678.693
LETTERS FROM THE SAHARA
Drama (125 min)
Language: Italian/Italian with English
subtitles/Italian with French subtitles
Director: Vittorio De Seta
Writer: Vittorio De Seta
Producer: Donatella Palermo for A.S.P.
and Meta Film
Key Cast: Djibril Kebe, Paola Ajmone
Rondo, Stefano Saccottelli, Madawass
Kebe, Fifi Cisse, Tihierno Ndiaye, Luca
Barbeni
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Italy
It’s the story of Assane, a young
Senegalese Muslim, who interrupts his
studies and emigrates to Italy following
the death of his father.
COVER-BOY (THE LAST
REVOLUTION)
Drama (97 min)
Language: Italian/Italian with English
subtitles
Director: Carmine Amoroso
Writer: Carmine Amoroso and Filippo
Ascione
Producer: Filand S.r.l.
Key Cast: Eduard Gabia, Luca Lionello,
Chiara Caselli, Francesco Dominedo,
Gabriel Spahiou, Luciana Littizzetto
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Italy
It’s is the story of the friendship between
Ioan and Michele respectively Romanian
and Italian.
APNEA
Drama (93 min)
Language : Italian/Italian with English
subtitles/Italian with French subtitles
Director: Roberto Dordit
Writer: Roberto Dordit with the
collaboration of Serena Brugnolo
Producer: Indigo Film in collaboration
with RAI Cinema and Friuli Venezia
Giulia Film Commission
Key Cast: Claudio Santamaria, Fabrizia
Sacchi, Michela Noonan, Diego Ribon,
Emilio De Marchi, Giuseppe Battiston,
Elio De Capitani
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Italy
After a brilliant career as a fencer, Paolo
works as a sports journalist for a small
newspaper. A friend dies of a heart
attack. Unexpectedly, Paolo finds out that
his friend’s life wasn’t as straightforward as he thought.
ITN DISTRIBUTION
ITN Distribution, 505 E. Windmill Lane,
Suite 1B-102, Las Vegas, NV 89123 USA.
Tel: 702.361.1430. Fax: 702.361.6309.
www.itndistribution.com
Distributor
At Cannes: Stuart Alson (President),
Nicole Holland (Vice-President),
Annalisa San Juan (Director of
Programming), Rebecca Romero-Vega
(Director of Sales/Acquisitions)
Office: Riviera F-11, Tel: 917.690.1539,
Fax: 702.361.6309
THE LAST REQUEST
Comedy (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: John DeBellis
Producer: Buddy Mantia, Alexander
Murphy
Cast: Danny Aiello, Frank Vincent,
Vincent Pastore
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Pop’s last request is for his son to
continue the family name. When his
brother dies trying, Jeff leaves the
seminary and encounters crazy women
and odd ball characters.
ULTIMATE FORCE
Action (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Mark Burson
Producer: Mirko Cro-Cop Filipovic,
Rafael Primorac, Zvonimir Lucic
Cast: Bodizar Smilianic, Igor Gallo,
Mirko Cro-Cop Filipovic, Ruza
Madarevic
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA and Croatia
A plot is formulated to assassinate the
Director - the outcome of which will
decide who wields the ultimate force.
J
JINGA FILMS
Jinga Films, 22 Carnaby Street, London
W1F 7DB UK. Tel: 44.207.287.0050.
Fax: 44.207.287.0050.
www.jingafilms.com, email:
info@jingafilms.com
At Cannes: Rosana Coutinho (Head Of
Sales), Julian Richards (Sales Executive)
Office: c/o MEDIA - European Pavillion,
Tel: 44.7765.398742
SUMMER SCARS
Thriller (75 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Julian Richards
Co-Production Partners: Prolific Films
Producer: Sabina Sattar
Key Cast: Kevin Howarth, Ciaran Joyce,
Amy Harvey
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: £1,000,000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
Six kids held captive in the woods are
forced to confront the dark side of human
nature if they are going to survive the
ordeal.
ZERO
Thriller (83 Minutes)
Language: Lithuanian (English Subs)
Director: Emilis Welyvis
Co-Production Partners: Axx Films
Producer: Mindaugus Vosilius, Donatas
Zvalionis
Key Cast: Andrius Paulavicius, Adomas
Stancikas, Saulius Siparis
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1,000,000
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Lithuania
The misadventures of a gambling addict
struggling to prevent himself being
dismembered by gangsters.
39: EPITAPH FOR A SERIAL
KILLER
www.39themovie.com
Horror (90 Minutes)
Director: English
Language: Gary Sherman
Co-Production Partners: Real Films Inc
Producer: Gary Sherman, Matthew Loze,
Geoffrey Brandt
Key Cast: Martin Cummins, Lawrence
MacGowan, Nicole Weisner
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $1,000,000
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Carroll McKane’s DVcams have
recorded the deaths 38 victims but will
his biographer, a forensic psychiatrist, be
his 39th victim?
K
KATAPULT FILM
SALES
Katapult Film Sales, 228 Main St. Suite
C, Venice, CA 90291 United States. Tel:
1.310.399.2080. Fax: 1.310.399.2199.
www.katapultfilms.com
At Cannes: Joni Sighvatsson (partner),
David Jourdan (sales agent), Jenn Davis
(sales assistant), Monique R. Nayard
(sales consultant)
Office: Riviera K3, Tel:
33(0)6.27.67.56.46
THE LAST WINTER
Thriller (101’)
Language: English
Director: Larry Fessenden
Co-Production Partners: Zik Zak Film
Works
Producer: Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Larry
Fessenden
Key Cast: Ron Perlman, Connie Britton,
James Legros
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A group of oil researchers go to Alaska
to explore drilling possibilities where
they are confronted by an unknown
force.
PHANTOM LOVE
Art (87 min)
Language: English
Director: Nina Menkes
Producer: Kevin Ragsdale
Key Cast: Marina Shoif, Juliette
Marquis, Yelena Apartseva
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A woman trapped within an enmeshed
family struggles to release herself from
her own psychic prisons and descend into
herself.
KATHY MORGAN
INTERNATIONAL
Kathy Morgan International, 12250 Sky
Lane, Los Angeles CA 90049 USA. Tel:
310.472.6300. Fax: 310.472.6304. Kathy
Morgan Mobile: 310.593.3808. E-Mail:
kathy@kmifilms.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Kathy Morgan (President),
Veronica Hool (Sales), James McKenney
(Acquisitions)
Office: Le Grand Hotel Residences, 45
La Croisette, Cormoran II 5th Floor, Tel:
04.92.59.00.50. Tel: 04.93.38.94.49. Fax:
04.92.59.00.14
CAMILLE
Director: Gregory MacKenzie
Producer: Albert S. Ruddy
Cast: Sienna Miller, James Franco, David
Carradine and Scott Glenn
CAMILLE is a magical tale about two
lost souls, a wedding gone awry and a
love that was always meant to be.
KEYSTONE
ENTERTAINMENT
INC.
Keystone Entertainment Inc., 2339
Columbia Street - 3rd Floor, Vancouver,
B.C. V6H 3Y9 Canada. Tel:
604.873.9739. Fax: 604.873.5919.
www.keypics.com, Email:
films@keypics.com
At Cannes: Mr. Tim Brown (VP
Worldwide Sales & Distribution) Mobile:
1.604.351.1537, Mr. Nolan Pielak
(Executive Sales Consultant)
1.778.829.8424
Office: M6
PETER GREENAWAY'S NIGHTWATCHING CONTENT FILM
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AIR BUDDIES
Family (80 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Robert Vince
Writer: Robert Vince, Anna McRoberts
and Phil Hanley
Producer: Robert Vince, Anna
McRoberts
Cast: Patrick Cranshaw, Richard Karn
and Cynthia Stevenson
Delivery Status: Complete
Country of Origin: Canada, Year of
Production: 2006
They Shoot! They Score! They Talk!
This newest adventure finds Air Bud’s
puppies on a mission to save their mom
and dad from dognappers.
SPYMATE
Family (87 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Robert Vince
Writer: Anne Vince, Robert Vince, Anna
McRoberts
Producer: Robert Vince, Anna
McRoberts
Cast: Chris Potter, Emma Roberts,
Richard Kind, Pat Morita
Delivery status: Post-Production
Country of Origin: Canada, Year of
Production: 2003
Minkey, the highly trained super spy
chimp, must team up with his ex-partner
Mike in this high action comedy to
rescue Mike’s daughter from the clutches
of the evil Dr. Farley.
CHESTNUT
Family (87 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Robert Vince
Writer: Anne Vince, Anna McRoberts
Producer: Robert Vince, Anna
McRoberts
Cast: Christine Tucci, Justin Louis, Barry
Bostwick
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Country of Origin: Canada, Year of
Production 2003
Chestnut is arguably the most lovable
Great Dane in New York City – but
trying to hide him in a small high-rise
apartment proves to be a very BIG
problem for sisters Sal and Ray.
KIMMEL
INTERNATIONAL
Kimmel International, 250 Hudson
Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10013
USA. Tel: 212.431.5550. Fax:
212.431.5822
Croisette, Cannes, France 06400. Tel: 04
93 38 10 53. Fax: 04 93 38 00 91
At Cannes: Mark Lindsay (President,
Kimmel International), Stefan Zorich
(Vice President, Marketing & Servicing),
Marcello Paolillo (Vice President, Sales
and Acquisitions, Kimmel International),
Joann Andres (Manager, Sales and
Administration, Kimmel International)
Office: Residence du Grand Hotel, Le
Dauphin, 10th Floor, Apt 11D, 45
Boulevard de La
SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK
Comedy
Writer: Charlie Kaufman
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Producers: Anthony Bregman, Spike
Jonze, Sidney Kimmel, Charlie Kaufman
Executive Producers: William Horberg,
Bruce Toll
Status: Pre-Production
Synecdoche, New York concerns a New
York theater director who struggles with
his art, the women in his life and his own
mortality.
UNTHINKABLE
Thriller
Writer: Peter Woodward
Director: Tarsem Singh
Producers: Sidney Kimmel, Caldecot
Chubb, William Horberg
Executive Producer: Bruce Toll, Vince
Cirrincione
Status: Pre-Production
A contemporary political thriller set to
redefine your perceptions of good and
evil…victim and perpetrator. Get ready
to reconsider your moral values, and to
face the “unthinkable”.
MARRIED LIFE
Suspense Drama
Director: Ira Sachs
Screenplay: Ira Sachs & Oren Moverman
Based on the book “Five Roundabouts to
Heaven” by John Bingham
Producers: Sidney Kimmel, Ira Sachs,
Jawal Nga, Steve Golin
Executive Producers: William Horberg,
David Nicksay, Geoff Stier, Adam
Shulman, Matt Littin, Alix MadiganYorkin, Bruce Toll
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper,
Patricia Clarkson and Rachel McAdams
Status: Post-Production
A suspenseful and sultry study of love,
seduction and betrayal among the tangled
lives of four friends.
KINOWELT
INTERNATIONAL
GMBH
Kinowelt International GmbH, KarlTauchnitz-Str. 10, Leipzig, 04107
Germany. Tel: 49.341.355.960. Fax:
49.341.355.96419. www.kinoweltinternational.de, email:
filmverlag@kinowelt.de
At Cannes: Stelios Ziannis (Head of
World Sales), Anja Uecker (Directo TV
Sales GSE), Rainer Kölmel (Buyer),
Daniel Guckau (SVP Acquisition),
Michael Kölmel (Buyer)
Office: Rivièra L13
OBSESSION
Drama (100’)
Language: English
Director: Peter Sehr
Producer: Wolfgang Esterer
Key Cast: Daniel Craig, Heike Makatsch,
Charles Berling
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 1997, Country of
Origin: Germany, France
Daniel Craig and Heike Makatsch in a
thrilling combination of romance, drama
and obsessive love affairs.
ORBELLA’S PEOPLE
Documentary
Language: Swahili, English
Director: Percy Adlon
Producer: Leora Films & Stage
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget 1 Mio
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA, Germany
Documentary about a Maasai Village in
Tanzania by Percy Adlon who lived for
several weeks with the villagers.
THE ASTERIX TV & DVD
COLLECTION
Animation
Director: various
Language: René Goscinny, Albert
Uderzo
Producer: Georges Dargaud
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: various, Country of
Origin: France
The Gauls Asterix and Obelix fear
nothing and nobody and experience
many adventures together.
KWA – KEVIN
WILLIAMS
ASSOCIATES
KWA – Kevin Williams Associates, C/
Galeon nº32 Bajo A , 28042 Madrid,
Spain. Tel: 34 91.747.31.00. Fax: 34
91.747.70.00. www.kevinwa.com, Email:
kwa@kevinwa.com
Sales Agent
At Cannes: Kevin Williams (President)
Acquisition Executive: Kevin Williams
Office: Riviera F1, Tel: 34.667.540.547
PRESUMPTES IMPLICATS
Comedy (90 min)
Language: Catalan
Director: Enric Folch
Producer: ZIP FILMS
Cast: Xavi Mira, William Miller, Pau
Durá
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Spain
All of a sudden, Santi loses his job,
girlfriend and car. All is Victor and his
friends’ fault, but they don’t dare to face
the consequences of confessing it.
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 became 12 years old
and my breasts began to grow!
LA NIÑA EN LA PIEDRA (THE
GIRL IN THE STONE)
Drama (100 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Maryse Systach
Producer: Tragaluz Producciones
Cast: Sofía Espinosa, Arcelia Ramírez,
Gabino Rodríguez
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Mexico
In a small town near Mexico City,
Gabino, a backward junior high school
student, falls in love with Maty, his
charming schoolmate, who rejects him
because he comes on to her so clumsily.
L
LAKESHORE
ENTERTAINMENT
Lakeshore Entertainment, 9268 West
Third Street, Beverly Hills, CA 90210
USA. www.lakeshoreentertainment.com,
sales@lakeshoreentertainment.com
At Cannes: David Dinerstein (President,
Worldwide Marketing and Distribution),
Eric Reid (COO, Lakeshore
Entertainment), Virginia Longmuir
(Executive Vice President, International
Business and Legal Affairs and
Operations), Robert Burke (Sr. Vice
President, Worldwide Marketing),
Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard Rose
(Vice President, International Sales),
Acacia Matheson (Manager, Worldwide
Marketing), Rebecca Baker (Coordinator,
International Sales), Johnathan Deckter
(Sr. Vice President, International Sales)
Office: Residence du Grand Hotel,
Cormoran II, 7th Floor, 45 Boulevard de
la Croisette 06400 Cannes, FRANCE.
Tel: 33(0)4.93.99.01.06. Fax:
33(0)4.93.99.09.85
UNTITLED ADAPTATION OF
PHILIP ROTH NOVEL “DYING
ANIMAL”
Drama
Director: Isabel Coixet
Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary
Lucchesi
Cast: Penelope Cruz, Sir Ben Kingsley,
Peter Sarsgaard, Patricia Clarkson
Status: In Production
Country of Origin: USA
A sophisticated student gets tangled up in
an erotic affair with her hedonistic
professor, a cultural critic obsessed with
female beauty. Several years after their
heartbreaking end, she returns with a
shocking revelation that forever changes
his life.
PATHOLOGY
Thriller
Director: Marc Schoelermann
Producers: Skip Williamson, Brian
Taylor, Mark Neveldine, Tom Rosenberg,
Gary Lucchesi
Cast: Milo Ventimiglia, Lauren Lee
Smith, Alyssa Milano, Johnny Whitworth
Status: In Production
Country of Origin: USA
A group of medical students devise a
deadly game to see which one of them
can commit the perfect murder.
UNTRACEABLE
Thriller
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary
Lucchesi, Andy Cohen, Steven Pearl
Cast: Diane Lane, Colin Hanks, Billy
Burke, Joseph Cross, Mary Beth Hurt
Status: In Production
Country of Origin: USA
FBI agent Jennifer Marsh races against
time to track down a ruthless online
predator.
THE FEAST OF LOVE
Dramatic Comedy
Director: Robert Benton
Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary
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Lucchesi, Richard Wright
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear,
Radha Mitchell, Selma Blair, Alexa
Davalos, Toby Hemingway, Billy Burke
with Jane Alexander and Fred Ward
Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: USA
The Feast of Love is a story about
ordinary people and the extraordinary
transformations they experience as they
search for love.
LATIDO FILMS
Latido Films, c/ Veneras 9, 6, Madrid
28013 Spain. Tel: 34.91.548.8877. Fax:
34.91.548.8878. www.latidofilms.com,
email: latido@latidofilms.com
Sales agent
At Cannes: Massimo Saidel
(International Sales Director), David
Castellanos (International Sales), Silvia
Iturbe (Managing Director), Oscar
Alonso (Festival coordinator)
Office: Spanish Stand E3, Tel:
0034675526497
FADOS
Musical (90 min)
Language: portugese
Director: Carlos Saura
Co-Production Partners: Zebra, Fado
Filmes
Producer: Luis Galvao, Antonio Saura
Key Cast: Caetano Veloso, Mariza, Chico
Buarque
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Spain
A portrait of Fado, the Portuguese music.
CIUDAD EN CELO (CITY IN HEAT)
Comedy (104 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Hernán Gaffet
Co-Production Partners: Zona
audiovisual, Haddock Films, Tornasol
Films
Producer: Vanessa Ragone, Mariela
Besuievsky, Gerardo Herrero
Key Cast: Daniel Kuzniecka, Adrián
Navarro, Dolores Solá
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Spain, Argentina
A group of friends meet always in a bar
in Buenos Aires , where they speak about
changing the world and women.
RUNNING WITH ARNOLD
www.runningwitharnold.com
Documental (72 min)
Director: English
Language: Dan Cox
Co-Production Partners: Endless World
Entertainment
Producer: Mike Gabrawy, Jennifer
Hughes
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A documentary on Arnold
Schwarzenegger’s gubernatorial
campaign in California
LIGHTNING
ENTERTAINMENT
Lightning Entertainment, 301 Arizona
Avenue, Suite 400, Santa Monica, CA
90401 United States. Tel: 310.255.7999.
Fax: 310.255.7998. http://www.lightningent.com, email: info@lightning-ent.com
At Cannes: Richard S. Guardian
(President), Mathilde Aupetit (Director of
International Sales)
Office: S6R7, Tel: 001.310.770.7472
COUGAR CLUB
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Christopher Duddy
Key Cast: Joe Mantegna, Faye Dunaway,
Loretta Devine, Warren Cole, Jason
Jurman
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: United States
Two young college graduates start a club
for young men devoted to pleasuring
sexy, older women, known as “Cougars.”
The Cougar Club teaches the friends
life’s lessons of live, respect and
comradeship.
THE DARK HOUR (LA HORA FRIA)
Science-Fiction/ Horror (93 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: Elio Quiroga
Key Cast: Omar Munoz, Jorge
Casalduero, Julio Perillan, Nadia de
Santiago, Marco Gonzalez, Carola
Manzanares, Pepo Oliva, Pablo Scola,
Sergio Villanueva
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Spain
A group of eight people live isolated in
crumbling installations. They cannot
abandon the complex, living in a
constant state of vigilance. In order to get
food and medicines, they need to
abandon the secure area they inhabit.
KENNY
Comedy (103 minutes)
Director: English
Language: Clayton Jacobson
Key Cast: Shane Jacobson, Eve von
Bibra, Ronald Jacobson
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Australia From the biggest
festival to the smallest social church,
Kenny delivers porta-loos to them all.
LIONSGATE
Lionsgate, 2700 Colorado Blvd, 2nd
Floor, Santa Monica, CA 90404 USA.
Tel: 310.255.3700. Fax: 310.255.3770.
www.lionsgatefilms.com, Email:
aboysen@lionsgate.com
At Cannes: Stephanie Denton (President,
International), Shyama Friedenson
(Senior Vice President, International
Marketing), Elizabeth Kim (Senior Vice
President, International Sales), Adam
Bialow (Senior Vice President,
International Business & Legal Affairs),
Anne Marie Boysen (Vice President,
International Sales), Joey Monteiro
(Director, International Marketing)
Office: The Riviera M1
Tel: 33.(0)4.92.99.88.29
THE BURROWERS
Horror/Thriller
Language: English
Directed by: J.T. Petty
Written by: J.T. Petty
Produced by: William Sherak, Jason
Shuman
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: US
The Burrowers tells the story of a band
of courageous men who set out to find
and recover a family of settlers that has
mysteriously vanished from their home.
DAYBREAKERS
Horror/Thriller
Language: English
Directed by: Michael Spierig, Peter
Spierig
Written by: Michael Spierig, Peter
Spierig
Produced by: Bryan Furst, Sean Furst,
Chris Brown
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: US
It is 2017, and it has been 10 years since
the plague transformed ordinary people
into Vampires dependent on human blood
for survival.
REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA
Rock Opera
Language: English
Directed by: Darren Lynn Bousman
Written by: Darren Smith and Terrance
Zdunich
Produced by: Mark Burg, Oren Koules,
Carl Mazzocone
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: US
The not-so-distant future. An epidemic of
organ failures devastates the planet,
killing tens of millions. Panic erupts and
scientists feverishly make plans for a
massive organ harvest. Out of the
tragedy, a savior emerges.
SAW IV
Horror/Thriller
Language: English
Directed by: Darren Lynn Bousman
Written by: Patrick Melton and Marcus
Dunstan
Produced by: Oren Koules, Mark Burg,
Gregg Hoffman
Cast: Tobin Bell
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: US
The fourth installment of the box-office
franchise phenomenon SAW.
THE EYE
Horror/Thriller
Language: English
Directed by: David Moreau, Xavier
Palud
Screenplay by: Sebastian Gutierrez
Produced by: Tom Cruise and Paula
Wagner
Executive Producers: Michael Paseornek,
Peter Block, Tom Ortenberg, Mike
Elliott, Don Granger, Michelle Manning,
Peter Chan, Roy Lee and Doug Davison
Cast: Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola,
Parker Posey
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Country of Origin: US
Sydney, a young, blind violinist is given
the chance to see for the first time since
childhood through a miraculous corneal
transplant.
KAIDAN
Horror
Language: Japanese
Directed by: Hideo Nakata
Produced by: Taka Ichise
Original Story by: Encho Sanyutei
Screenplay by: Satoko Okudera
Cast: Kikunosuke Onoe, Hitomi Kuroki,
Mao Inoue, Kumiko Aso, Tae Kimura,
Asaka Seto
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Country of Origin: Japan
When Toyoshiga dies from a mysterious
disease, Shinkichi finds that he is unable
to avoid the mysterious fatality of the
past and Toyoshiga’s tenacious love for
him.
WAR
Action
Language: English
Directed by: Philip Atwell
Written by: Lee Anthony Smith &
Gregory J. Bradley
Produced by: Steven Chasman,
Christopher Petzel, Jim Thompson
Executive Producers: Mike Elliott,
Michael Paseornek, Peter Block, John
Sacchi
Cast: Jet Li, Jason Statham, John Lone,
Devon Aoki, Ryo Ishibashi
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Country of Origin: US
After his partner and family are killed
apparently by the infamous and elusive
assassin Rogue, FBI agent Jack Crawford
(Statham) becomes obsessed with
revenge as his world unravels into a
vortex of guilt and betrayal.
THE CONDEMNED
Action/Thriller
Language: English
Directed by: Scott Wiper
Screenplay by: Scott Wiper and Rob
Hedden
Story by: Rob Hedden & Andy Hedden
and Scott Wiper
Produced by: Joel Simon
Cast: Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: US
An adrenalin-charged action thriller,
“The Condemned” tells the story of Jack
Conrad, who is awaiting the death
penalty in a corrupt Central American
prison.
DELIVER US FROM EVIL
Documentary
Language: English
Directed by: Amy Berg
Written by: Amy Berg
Producers: Amy Berg, Frank Donner,
Hermas Lassalle, Matthew Cooke
Cast: Thomas Doyle, Oliver O’Grady
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: US
Juxtaposing an extended, deeply
unsettling interview with O’Grady
himself with the tragic stories of his
victims, filmmaker Amy Berg bravely
exposes the deep corruption of the
Catholic Church and the troubled mind
of the man they sheltered.
FUERA DEL CIELO
Drama
Language: Spanish
Directed by: Javier Patrón
Written by: Guillermo Ríos and Vicente
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Leñero
Produced by: Epigmenio Ibarra, Carlos
Payán, Inna Payán
Cast: Demián Bichir, Armando
Hernández, Damián Alcázar, Dolores
Heredia,
Martha Higareda, Rafael Inclán,
Elizabeth Cervantes, Ricardo Blume
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Mexico
FUERA DEL CIELO begins at 6am
when Marlboro gets out of prison.
RETRIBUTION
Horror
Language: Japanese
Written and Directed by: Kiyoshi
Kurosawa
Producer: Taka Ichise
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Manami Konishi,
Tsuyoshi Ihara, Hiroyuki Hirayama,
Joe Odagiri, Ryo Kase
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Japan
Detective Yoshioka is haunted by the
image of a woman in a red dress and
caught in a terror that he himself might
be a killer of the serial killer case he
chases after.
SKINWALKERS
Action-Horror
Language: English
Directed by: Jim Isaac
Written by: James DeMonaco & Todd
Harthan & James Roday
Produced by: Don Carmody, Dennis
Berardi
Executive Producers: Robert Kulzer,
Brian Gilbert
Cast: Jason Behr, Elias Koteas, Rhona
Mitra, Natassia Malthe, Sarah Carter,
Kim Coates, Matthew Knight
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Canada
A 12-year-old boy and his mother
become the center of an ancient war
between two warring werewolf tribes.
THE LITTLE FILM
COMPANY
The Little Film Company, 12930 Ventura
Blvd. #822, Studio City, CA 91604
United States. Tel: 818.762.6999. Fax:
818.301.2186.
http://www.thelittlefilmcompany.com,
email: info@thelittlefilmcompany.com
At Cannes: Robbie Little (President),
Clay Epstein (VP Sales and Acquisitions)
Office: N.R1 (Lerin Level in the
Riviera), Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.88.42 /
44.7730.396.260
THE LAST STATION
Drama
Language: English
Director: Michael Hoffman
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Tel: 04 93 06 41 49
Producer: Jens Meurer, Chris Curling
Key Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Meryl
Streep
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: Germany/ United
Kingdom
Leo Tolstoy has wealth and prestige. His
wife, Sofya, is determined to preserve his
wealth whereas Chertkov, his devoted
but underhanded disciple, is equally
determined that Tolstoy give his wealth
to the people.
SKIN
Drama
Language: English
Director: Anthony Fabian
Producer: Margaret Matheson
Key Cast: Sophie Okonedo, Tom
Wilkinson
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Apartheid South Africa - Sandra Laing
entered the world a beautiful baby but no
one, not the hospital staff, her mother,
father or neighbors would admit the
obvious.
PROTEGE
http://www.protegethemovie.com
Thriller
Director: Cantonese
Language: Derek Yee
Producer: Peter Chan
Key Cast: Andy Lau, Daniel Wu, Zhang
Jingchu, Louis Koo
Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Special Agent Nick is deep undercover in
the hear of Asia’s lucrative crime trade as
he plays protégé to one of the key
players in the game, Banker (Andy Lau.)
LONGTALE LLC
LongTale LLC, 3699 Wilshire Blvd., Suite
850, Los Angeles, CA 90010 U.S. Tel:
323.733.1000. Fax: 323.230.7408.
www.longtale.com, email:
sales@longtale.com
At Cannes Omar Kaczmarczyk
(Managing Director), Keith Selin
(Executive Vice President of Sales)
Office: Le Zoute, 23 allée du Parc St
Jean 06400 Cannes, Tel: Omar
Kaczmarczyk cell: 33.06.306.70663
SARKAR
Crime Drama (120’)
Language: Hindi with multiple sub
options
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Producer: Ram Gopal Varma
Key Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek
Bachchan, Kay Kay Menon, Supriya
Pathak
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: India
A wildly powerful patriarch struggles
with his two aspirant sons in India’s
annswer to THE GODFATHER,
featuring legendary superstar Amitabh
Bachchan.
DUS (TEN)
Action (146)
Language: Hindi with Ebglish subs
Director: Anubhav Sinha
Producer: Nitin Manmohan, Sohail
Maklai
Key Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Sanjay
Dutt,Suniel Shetty
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: India
A crack team of anti-terror specialists
have only ten days to stop an airstrike
over Canada that will claim thousands of
innocent lives.
RUNT
Drama (80’)
Director: English
Language: Michael Phillip Edwards
Producer: Michael Phillip Edwards
Key Cast: Michael Phillip Edwards, Carl
Bradshaw, Nadege Auguste
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: U.S.
When his helpless rage tears his family
apart, a father travels to his native
Jamaica to quite literally exorcise
generations of fear, wrath, and
resentment.
M
MANDARIN FILMS
DISTRIBUTION CO.
LTD.
Mandarin Films Distribution Co. Ltd.,
Room 1801-2 Westlands Centre, 20
Westlands Road, Quarry Bay,Hong Kong.
Tel: 852.25791718. Fax: 852.25791712.
www.mandarinfilms.com, email
mfdcl@netvigator.com
Producer/ distributor
At Cannes: Raymond Wong (Chairman),
Nansun Shi (Producer), Virginia Leung
(Head of Distribution), Christy Choi
(Senior Distribution Ex.), Tony Chan
(Distribution Ex.)
Office: Hong Kong Pavilion, Riviera
FLASH POINT
Language: Chinese
Director: Yip Wai-shun
Writer: Szeto Kam-yuen
Producer: Nansun Shi, Donnie Yen,
Shan Dong-bing
Cast: Donnie Yen, Louis Koo, Collin
Chou
Delivery Status: post-production
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”.
WONDER WOMAN
Language: Chinese
Director: Barbara Wong
Producer: Raymond Wong
Cast: Gigi Leung, Fiona Sit, George Lam
Delivery Status: In-production
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.
MISSING (WORKING TITLE)
Language: Chinese
Director: Tsui Hark
Producer: Tsui Hark
Cast: Lee Sin-je, Isabella Leong
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Budget: $8M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Hong Kong
MANDATE PICTURES
Mandate Pictures, Address: 8750
Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 300 East,
Beverly Hills, CA 90211 USA. Tel:
310.360.1441. Fax: 310.360.1447
At Cannes: Joe Drake (President), Brian
Goldsmith (CFO & EVP of Operations),
Mali Kinberg (EVP, Head of Int’l Sales
& Distribution), Helen Lee Kim (VP,
International Sales), Brent Jack (SVP,
Marketing), John Biondo (VP, Business
& Legal Affairs)
Office: The Penthouse, Villa d’Estelle, 12
- 14 Rue des Belges, 06400 Cannes. Tel:
33.4.92.98.33.35. Email:
info@mandatepictures.com
PASSENGERS
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Writer: Ronnie Christensen
Producers: Keri Selig, Judd Payne,
Matthew Rhodes, Julie Lynn
Exec Producers: Joe Drake, Nathan
Kahane
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson,
David Morse, Andre Braugher, Dianne
Wiest, Clea Duvall
Status: Post production
Country of Origin: USA
Following a plane crash, a grief
counselor is assigned to help the six
survivors and in the process, develops a
special connection with one of them.
HORSEMEN
Crime Thriller
Language: English
Director: Jonas Akerlund
Writer: David Callaham
Producers: Michael Bay, Brad Fuller,
Andrew Form
Exec Producers: Joe Drake, Nathan
Kahane
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Ziyi Zhang, Lou
Taylor Pucci, Clifton Collins, Jr., Barry
Shabaka Henley, Neil McDonough,
Patrick Fugit, Peter Stormare
Status: Post production
Country of Origin: USA
Seasoned detective and absent father
Aiden Breslin is thrust into an
investigation of perverse serial killings
rooted in the prophecy of the Four
Hosemen of the Apocalypse.
JUNO
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Jason Reitman
Writer: Diablo Cody
Producers: Mason Novick, John
Malkovich, Lianne Halfon, Russell Smith
Exec Producers: Joe Drake, Nathan
Kahane, Dan Dubieki
Cast: Ellen Page, Jennifer Garner, Jason
Bateman, Michael Cera, JK Simmons,
Allison Janney
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Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: USA
A sixteen year old girl is faced with an
unplanned pregnancy and makes the
unlikely decision to keep the baby and
find the “perfect” adoptive parents.
MAVERICK GLOBAL
Maverick Global, 1191 East Newport
Center Drive, Suite 210, Deerfield
Beach, Florida
33442 USA. Tel: 1.954.422.8811. Fax:
1.954.429.0565. Int’l Cell:
44.7738.843.066.
www.maverickglobal.com
Sales Agent for International DVD &
Television Rights
At Cannes: Jack Campbell (Director of
International Sales), Leandra Carter
(International Sales), Al Perez de la Mesa
(Director of Acquisitions)
Office: Riviera H-11, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.39, From the US dial:
011.44.7738.843.066. Within Cannes
dial: 44.7738.843.066.
BAD REPUTATION
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Jim Hemphill
Cast: Angelique Hennessy, Jerad
Anderson, Danielle Noble, Kristina
Lauren, Dakota Ferreiro, Mark Kunzman
and Chris Basler.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A pretty but quiet student, who is treated
as an outcast at her suburban high
school, seeks revenge on her classmates
after being sexually assaulted at a house
party.
DISTORTION
Thriller (83 min)
Language: English
Director: Kirk Fogg
Cast: Kirk Fogg, Sara Lahti, Jack Rubio
and Corbin Timbrook
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A stylish crime thriller that trails the
degenerate schemes of a drug-addicted
former undercover cop, who is willing to
trade away almost everything, including
his lover, for his chemical dependencies.
TWEEK CITY
Arthouse (Dark Comedy) (86 min)
Language: English
Director: Eric G. Johnson
Cast: Giuseppe Andrews, Keith
STRANGE CULTURE CINEMAVAULT INTERNATIONAL
Brunsmann, Eva Fisher, Demetruis
Navarro, Luis Saguar, Elizabeth Bogush
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Sleep-deprived and strung out on speed,
Bill plunges into an all-night adventure
through the streets of San Francisco
before making a desperate attempt to
reconnect with his lost love.
MAX FILMS INC.
Max Films Inc., 1751, rue Richardson,
Suite 2.102, Montréal, Québec H3K 1G6
Canada. Tel: 514.282.8444. Fax:
514.282.9222. www.maxfilms.ca, E-mail:
info@maxfilms.ca /
international@maxfilms.ca
At Cannes: Roger Frappier (President &
Producer), Luc Vandal (Producer ),
Alexandra Wermester (Director, Int’l
Sales & Marketing), Félize Frappier
(Coordinator, Int’l Sales & Festivals)
Office: Canada Pavilion, Stand # 124,
Tel: 33.04.93.99.85.55. Fax:
33.04.93.99.85.56
THE LITTLE BOOK OF REVENGE
(GUIDE DE LA PETITE
VENGEANCE)
Dark Comedy (105 min)
Director: Jean-François Pouliot
Writer: Ken Scott
Producers: Roger Frappier and Luc
Vandal
Cast: Marc Béland, Michel Muller,
Pascale Bussières, Gabriel Gascon
Status: Completed/screening
Origin: Canada
After years of cruel psychological
harassment by his boss, an accountant in
an upscale jewellery store will have the
surprise of his life when he tries to fight
back.
BORDERLINE
Erotic Drama
Director: Lyne Charlebois
Writer: Marie-Sissi Labrèche and Lyne
Charlebois
Producers: Roger Frappier and Luc
Vandal
Cast: Isabelle Blais, Jean-Hugues
Anglade, Angèle Coutu, Sylvie Drapeau
Status: In Post-Production/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.
THE SECRET LIFE OF HAPPY
PEOPLE (LA VIE SECRÈTE DES
GENS HEUREUX)
Romantic Comedy (102 min)
Director: Stéphane Lapointe
Writer: Stéphane Lapointe
Producers: Roger Frappier and Luc
Vandal
Cast: Gilbert Sicotte, Marc Paquet,
Catherine de Léan, Marie Gignac
Status: Completed
Origin: Canada
Thomas, a 24 year-old man, falls in love
with Audrey but Audrey is on a
mission…
MAX PICTURES
Max Pictures, 35 Piccadilly, London
W1J0DW United Kingdom. Tel:
44(0)20.7734.7282. Fax:
44(0)207.734.4561.
http://www.maxpictures.net, email:
info@maxpictures.net
At Cannes: Massimo Alvarez (CEO),
Una Conway
Office: Tel: Massimo: 44.778.595.5991
or 39.339.300.0854. Una:
44.7797.728.820
DOWNTOWN- A STREET TALE
Drama (103 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Rafal Zielinski
Producer: Joey Dedio, Helena Cynamon,
Samuel H. Frankel, T.J. Mancini
Key Cast: Joey Dedio, Genevieve
Bujold, John Savage, Burt Young, Lillo
Brancato, Michael Wright, Chad Allen,
Flora Martinez, James Ransone,
Domenica Cameron-Scorsese
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: United States
Every city has its downtown, and every
downtown has a group of young people
forgotten by their family; lost from the
world and has nowhere to hide from.
THE LIFE AND TRAGIC DEATH OF
DON ARONOW (KING OF
POWERBOATS)
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Andrew Wainrib
Producer: Donald Ranvaud, Silvio Sardi
Key Cast: Shareef Malnik, Fabio Buzzi,
Charlie McCarthy, Greg Smith, Jerry
Jacoby, Richie Power, Ken Kukec, Dohn
Williams, Philip Lipschultz, Bob
Gilmartin
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United States
An insight to Don Aronow - King of
Powerboats.
SPEED KILLS
Drama
Director: English
Producer: Donald Ranvaud, Silvio Sardi
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United States
The True story of Don Aronow based on
the best-seller Speed Kills written by
Arthur Jay Harris.
MAXIM MEDIA
INTERNATIONAL /
BRAINDAMAGE
FILMS
Maxim Media International /
Braindamage Films, 5025 South Ash Av.,
Building B2, Tempe, AZ 85282 USA.
Tel: 1.480.966.4070.
Fax: 1.480.966.4570.
http://www.eMaximMedia.com
At Cannes: Darrin Ramage (President),
Charity Glick (Vice President of
Business Affairs & International Sales)
Office: PALAIS 01 Stand 19.01, Tel:
1.480.734.9380, 1.480.980.6069, Fax:
1.480.966.4570
A BOTHERED CONSCIENCE
http://www.emaximmedia.com/inat/bigpi
cture.php?id=7198
Horror (87 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Dennis Smithers, JR.
Producer: Dennis Smithers, Sr. & Dennis
Smithers, Jr.
Key Cast: Dennis Smithers Sr, Stephen
Martin, MacFarland Martin, Tyler Mickle
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Have the rotted corpses of the McGavin
prey risen from the dead or are they
simply manifestations of… A Bothered
Conscience?
BLOOD LEGEND
http://www.emaximmedia.com/inat/bigpi
cture.php?id=7059
Horror (85 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Rusty Nelson
Producer: David Sterling
Key Cast: Randal Malone, Syn DeVil,
Heather Jacobsen
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
Innocence never tasted so sweet!
BRAINIAC
http://www.emaximmedia.com/inat/bigpi
cture.php?id=7068
Horror (92 Minutes)
Director: English
Language: Terry Michael King
Producer: Matthew J. Bayan, Greg Bayan
Key Cast: Greg Bayan, Lisa Nistri, Joe
Hansard
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
Brain chemistry research has produced a
drug - Nirvana
MEDIA 8
ENTERTAINMENT
Media 8 Entertainment, 1875 Century
Park East, Suite 2000, Los Angeles, CA
90067 USA. Tel: 310 226 8300.
Fax: 310.226.8350.
At Cannes: Stewart Hall (President),
Tannaz Anisi (Vice President,
International Distribution), Kristen
Figeroid (Vice President, International
Distribution), Audrey Delaney (Vice
President, Acquisitions)
Office: Lerins - Office S5, The Riviera,
Kristen Figeroid cell 323 551 8129
LOCAL COLOR
Drama (99 min)
Language: English
Director: George Gallo
Producer: David Permut, Mark Sennet,
Julie Lott Gallo, James Evangelatos
Key Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ray
Liotta, Trevor Morgan, Samantha Mathis,
Charles Durning, Diana Scarwid
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
The emotional and inspirational story of
a talented, but troubled 18-year-old art
student (Trevor Morgan) and his mentor
(Armin Mueller-Stahl), an elderly
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alcoholic “Russian Master” who has
turned his back on not only art, but on
life.
ONE NIGHT WITH THE KING
Epic/Drama (123 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael O. Sajbel
Producer: Richard J. Cook, Stephan
Blinn, Lawrence Mortorff, Matthew
Crouch
Key Cast: Tiffany Dupont, Luke Goss,
Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, John Noble,
John Rhys-Davies
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Gener8Xion Entertainment presents the
epic story of Hadassah, the Jewish
orphan who becomes the biblical Esther,
Queen of Persia.
AIR GUITAR NATION
Documentary/Comedy (81 min)
Director: English
Language: Alexandra Lipsitz
Producer: Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz,
Anna Barber
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Fueled by pure rock energy, this hilarious
documentary chronicles the year that air
guitar swept America and the world.
MEDIA ASIA
DISTRIBUTION LTD.
Media Asia Distribution Ltd., 24/F
Causeway Bay Plaza II, 463-483
Lockhart Road, Causeway Bay, Hong
Kong. Tel: 852.2302.3810. Fax:
852.2314.4248. www.mediaasia.com,
email: wwdist@mediaasia.com
At Cannes: Ricky Tse (Head of
Distribution/Sales), Frederick Tsui
(Senior Manager - Distribution &
Production), Vanessa Lo (Manager Distribution/Sales), Cora Yim (Senior
Manager – Acquisition & Marketing)
Office: Tel: 852 2314 4248. Fax:
852.2314.4288
TRIANGLE
Thriller
Language: Cantonese
Director: TSUI Hark, Ringo LAM,
Johnnie TO
Producer: TSUI Hark, Ringo LAM,
Johnnie TO
Key Cast: Louis KOO, Simon YAM,
SUN Honglei, Kelly LIN
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Hong Kong
Three desperate friends are given the
opportunity to find buried treasure by a
mysterious stranger.
HOOKED ON YOU
Drama
Language: Cantonese
Director: LAW Wing Cheong
Producer: Johnnie TO
Key Cast: Miriam YEUNG, Eason
CHAN
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Hong Kong
A decade of changes in Hong Kong since
the handover in 1997 is reflected through
the life of a fishmonger.
A CHEANG POU-SOI PROJECT
Language: CHEANG Pou-Soi
Producer: Johnnie TO
Key Cast: Richie JEN, Louis KOO
Delivery Status: In Development
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
MEDIA LUNA
ENTERTAINMENT
Media Luna Entertainment,
Hochstadenstrasse 1-3, 50676 Cologne,
Germany. Tel: 0049(0)221.801.4980.
Fax: 0049(0)221.801.498.21,
www.medialuna-entertainment.dem
email: info@medialuna-entertainment.
At Cannes: Ida Martins (Managing
Director), Andrew Chang (Senior Sales
& Acquisition Manager), Jan Kramer
(Sales & Acquisition Manager), Jürgen
Tobisch (Sales & Acquisition Manager),
Viviana Horalek (Festival & Marketing
Manager), Helena Maser (Office &
Production Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Andrew Chang
Office: J12, Tel: 33.614.688.028
BOG OF BEASTS
www.medialuna-entertainment.de
Feature Film (82 min)
Language: portuguese, with Engl.
subtitles
Director: Claudio Assis
Producer: Parabolica Brasil
Co-production partners: REC Produtores
Associados
Cast: Maria Teixeira, Fernando Teixeira,
Caio Blat - Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Brasil
Ruthless edge of the life of a young
Brazilian girl growing up in a society
shaped by violence and sexual abuse.
THE WORLD IN TWO
ROUNDTRIPS
www.medialuna-entertainment.de
Documentary (80 min)
Language: Portuguese with English
subtitles
Director: David Schürmann
Producer: David Schürmann
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Brazil
A documentary about the adventures of
the legendary Schürmann family on a
round world trip, in the wake of the
pioneering route used 500 years ago by
the Portuguese Admiral Fernao de
Magalhaes.
LOVE MADE EASY
www.medialuna-entertainment.de
Romantic Comedy (78 min)
Language: Original language English
Director: Peter Luisi
Producer: Kristin Holt, Peter Luisi
Cast: Melanie Winiger, Ralph Gassmann,
Martin Landau,
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Until now they have always chewed on
the short end of life. Pellini is too small,
Mobo a paraplegic, Bowman fat, Gilbert
a klutz and Gus a loser. But they are
about to put an end to this!
MEI AH
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP LIMITED
Mei Ah Entertainment Group Limited,
Mei Ah Centre, 28 Chun Choi Street,
Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate,
Kowloon, Hong Kong 852 China. Tel:
852.2751.3311. Fax: 852.2623.9880.
www.meiah.com, email:
meiah@meiah.com
At Cannes: Mr. Li Kuo Hsing
(President), Mr. Wellington Fung
(President - BIG Media Group Ltd.), Mr.
Patrick Tong (Managing Director), Mr.
Kenny Chau (Executive Director), Ms.
Sara Law (Vice President - Distribution)
Office: Tel: 852.9074.9887
BUTTERFLY LOVERS
Costumed Martial Arts
Language: Cantonese, Mandarin
Director: Jingle Ma, Ching Siu Tung
Producer: Catherine Hun
Key Cast: Louis Koo, Shawn Yuen, Liu
Yi Fei, Wu Jing
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: US$4.5m
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Hong Kong
Based on the classic lover story “Leung
Juk” but added with real fighting martial
arts scenes designed and directed by
Ching Siu Tung.
THE PYE-DOG
www.thepyedog.com
Drama (98 min)
Director: Cantonese
Language: Derek Kwok
Producer: Teddy Robin
Key Cast: Eason Chan, Gia Lin, Wen Jun
Hui, Eric Tsang, George Lam
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: US$1.5m
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Hong Kong
Three people – a mute boy, a killer and a
female bodyguard, without knowing each
other’s identity, develop a family-like
relationship.
MEXICAN FILM
INSTITUTE
Mexican Film Institute, Insurgentes Sur
674 Piso 2, Tel: 52.55.5448.5344. Fax:
52.55.5448.5380. http://.imcine.gob.mx,
email: mercaint@imcine.gob.mx
Production Company, Sales Agent
At Cannes: Marina Stavenhagen (General
Director), Cristina Prado (Director
Cultural Promotion), Maru Garzón
(Managing Director International
Promotion), Pablo Briseño (Head of
International Sales)
Office: Riviera, Stand B5 / C4, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.88.13
BLUE EYELIDS (PÁRPADOS
AZULES)
Drama (98 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Ernesto Contreras
Writer: Carlos Contreras & Ernesto
Contreras
Cast: Cecilia Suárez, Enrique Arreola,
Angélica Aragón.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Mexico
Marina wins a trip for two people to a
paradisiacal place. However, she doesn’t
have anyone to share her prize with. In
order not to waste it, she decides to
invite a perfect stranger to travel with
her.
ENLIGHTENED BLOOD (LA
SANGRE ILUMINADA)
www.lasangreiluminada.com
Drama
Language: Spanish
Director: Iván Ávila
Writer: Iván Ávila, José Ignacio
Valenzuela
Producer: Iván Ávila
Cast: Gustavo Sánchez, Jostein
Roustand, Enoc Leaño, Flor Payán, Jorge
Zárate, Joaquín Cosío, Leticia Gutiérrez.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Mexico
Six characters tell us of their strange
shared life.
USED PARTS (PARTES USADAS)
Drama (95 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Aarón Fernández
Writer: Aarón Fernández
Producer: Aarón Fernández
Cast: Eduardo Granados, Alan Chávez,
Carlos Ceja
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Mexico, France, Spain.
Ivan, a 14-year old boy, lives with his
uncle Jaime, a mediocre dealer of used
car parts. Both of them dream with a
better life and are stashing away their
money in order to emigrate illegally to
Chicago shortly.
MONO CO., LTD.
(THAILAND)
Mono Co., Ltd. (Thailand), 200 Jasmine
Int’l Tower, 31st Fl., Moo4,
Chaengwattana Road, Pakkred District,
Nonthaburi 11120 Thailand. Tel:
662.502.0731. Fax: 662.584.5314.
www.mono-film.com
At Cannes: Mr. Pete Bodharamik
(Chairman), Dr. Soraj Asavaprapha
(CEO), Mr. Jirun Ratthanaviriyachai
(Managing Director), Mr. Bannasit
Rakwong (Jack) (Deputy Managing
Director)
Office: Riviera H-1
THE TIGER BLADE (SUA KAAB
DAAB)
www.tigerblademovie.com
Action/ marital arts (88 minutes)
Language: Thai
Director: Theeratorn Siriphunvaraporn
Producer: Jirun Ratthanaviriyachai
Key Cast: Asadawut
Luangsuntorn,Pongpat Wachirabunjong,
Pimonrat Pisolyabut,
Sueangsuda Lawanprasert, Anan Bunnak,
Chalad Na Songkhla, Suthida
Harnviset,Amonrid Seephung, Thitima
Maliwan, Apipa Kitipongsaman
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.5 million USD
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
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Origin: Thailand
When a highly volatile case confronts the
police, a young maverick cop with
mystical powers is put on the case.
VENGEANCE
(PIREE PINAD)
www.vengeance-movie.com
Action/adventure (107 minutes)
Language: Thai
Director: Pleo Sirisuwan
Producer: Jirun Ratthanaviriyachai
Key Cast: Andy Tungkaprasert,Chalad
Na Songkhla, Chirapat Wongpaisanlux,
Surachai Sangagard,Chaiwat
Chirawattanakarn, Nuttanan
Juntarawet,Puchong Pompanao
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.5 Million USD
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Thailand
When the murder of his father brings
WUT back to his hometown, painful
memories and secrets come back to
haunt him.
THE GIG
www.thegig-movie.com
Romantic-comedy (100 min)
Director: Thai
Language: Theeratorn Siriphunvaraporn
Producer: Jirun Ratthanaviriyachai
Key Cast: Kittikun Sumritpunsuk,
Primrata Det-udom, Pajit
Thomya,Apitsada Kruakongka,
Nutthachart Chankan, Siripon
Sirininartkul, Shalaj Poonyarit,Apipa
Kittipongsaman, Thitinun
Suwannathawon,Baromvudh
Hiranyasthiti, Sarawadee Pirmsinthavee
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.0 million USD
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Thailand
This teenage romantic-comedy evolves
around the chaotic love lives of a clique
of university students.
MONTECRISTO
INTERNATIONAL
MonteCristo International, 459
Columbus Avenue, #334, NYC, NY 10024
USA. Tel: 1.917.647.7587.
Fax: 420.224.934.712.
www.MonteCristoEntertainment.com,
email:
Sales@MonteCristoEntertainment.com
At Cannes: Michael Taverna
(CEO/President),
Cindy Nelson-Mullen (Sales &
Acquisitions Executive), Jiri Holubec
(Head of Distribution),
Vanessa Reeder (Sales Assistant)
Office: Riviera, Booth c-3, Tel:
1.917.533.4162
PUNK LOVE
Drama (96’)
Language: English
Director: Nick Lyon
Producer: Blondie Productions
Key Cast: Chad Lindberg, Emma Bing,
Max Perlich
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA/Italy
A tale of two kids fighting for their
dreams against society.
KILTRO
Martial Arts (93’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Ernesto Diaz Espinoza
Producer: Mandrill Films
Key Cast: Marko Zaror, Caterina
Jadresic, Miquel Angel De Luca
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Chile
A gangster journeys to a legendary
martial arts master and learns the
honored path of a warrior. Stylized
imagery inspired by anima, chambara
and spaghetti westerns!
APARTMENT 1303
Horror (94’)
Director: Japanese
Language: Ataru Oikawa
Producer: Amuse Inc
Key Cast: Noriko Nakagoshi, Ataru
Furuta
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
A modern ghost story which turns a
love/hate relationship between mother
and daughter into a tale of horror.
MOONSTONE
ENTERTAINMENT
Moonstone Entertainment, P.O. Box
7400, Studio City, CA 91614 USA. Tel:
818.985.3003. Fax: 818.985.3009
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: 04.93.06.41.21 or
04.93.06.68.21
RECALL
Thriller
Writer: Paul Schrader
Director: Harold Becker
Producers: Robert Katz, Etchie Stroh
Status: Pre-Production
Cntry of Origin: USA
A bizarre encounter makes a man
question his sanity.
THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP
Thriller/Horror
Director: Stuart Gordon
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.
DIAMOND DOGS
Action
Director: Shimon Dotan
Writer: Leopold St-Pierre
Producers: Etchie Stroh, Shimon Dotan,
Louis Liu, Barry Glasser
Principal Cast: Dolph Lundgren
Status: Post-Production
Cntry of Origin: Canada, China
In this first installment of the franchise,
we meet Dolph Lundgren as Ronson, the
adventurer and world traveler who is
always short of money. A man of few
words, a gun for hire … the solution to
your problem!
MORGAN CREEK
INTERNATIONAL
Morgan Creek International, 10351
Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 200, Los
Angeles, CA 90025 USA. Tel:
310.432.4848. Fax: 310.432.4844.
www.morgancreek.com
At Cannes: James G. Robinson
(Chairman/CEO), Howard Kaplan (Chief
Financial Officer), Brian Robinson (SVP,
Worldwide Marketing), Greg Mielcarz
(VP, Worldwide Publicity), Kaisa
Akerlund (International Sales)
Office: Martinez Hotel, Suite 618, Tel:
04.92.98.73.00
GEORGIA RULE
www.georgiarulemovie.net
Drama
Language: English
Director: Garry Marshall
Producer: James G. Robinson, David
Robinson
Key Cast: Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan,
Felicity Huffman, Dermot Mulroney,
Cary Elwes, Garrett Hedlund, Christine
Lakin.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Three generations of top actresses unite
in a film about the power of redemption,
freedom in forgiveness and unbreakable
bonds of motherhood.
SYDNEY WHITE
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Joe Nussbaum
Producer: James G. Robinson, David
Robinson
Key Cast: Amanda Bynes, Sara Paxton,
Matt Long, Jack Carpenter, John
Schneider, Crystal Hunt, Jeremy Howard,
Samm Levine, Danny Strong, Adam
Hendershott
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
In a modern retelling of the classic Snow
White fairytale, a plumber’s daughter
and her merry band of misfits upset the
social order at their Greek dominated
college.
MOTION PICTURE
CORPORATION OF
AMERICA
Motion Picture Corporation of America,
1333 Second Street, Suite 210, Santa
Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel:
310.319.9500. Fax: 310.319.9501.
www.mpcafilm.com, email:
info@mpcafilm.com
At Cannes: Brad Krevoy
(CEO/Chairman), Francisco Gonzalez
(VP, International Sales and Marketing)
Office: Majestic Hotel Suite 109, Tel:
04.97.06.85.33. Fax: 04.97.06.85.89
MOONDANCE ALEXANDER
www.moondancealexander.com
Family/Adventure (93 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Michael Damian
Producer: Michael Damia, Janeen
Damian, Brad Krevoy
Key Cast: Kay Panabaker, Don Johnson,
Lori Loughlin, Sasha Cohen
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007
A young girl inspires her mother and a
down-and-out trainer with her passion
and determination to win a horse riding
competition.
HOT TAMALE
www.hottamalethemovie.com
Action/Comedy (95 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Michael Damian
Producer: Michael Damian, Janeen
Damian
Key Cast: Carmen Electra, Jason
Priestley, Diora Baird, Randy Spelling
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin:
A road trip leads a young man into a wild
maze of hit men, racy woman, jewel
thieves and a salsa band.
VENUS & VEGAS
Comedy (93 Minutes)
Director: English
Language: Demian Lichtenstein
Producer: Demian Lichtenstein, Eddie
Guerra
Key Cast: Jaime Pressly, Eddie Kaye
Thomas, Molly Sims, Donald Faison,
Roselyn Sanchez, Florence Henderson
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Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006
Three street-smart crooks struggle to
keep their professional and romantic
lives separate.
MOVIE AVENUE
INTERNATIONAL
Movie Avenue International, 1675
Broadway, 17N-34, New York, 10019.
Tel: 646.557.4320. Fax:
212.265.9371.www.movie-avenue.com,
email: contact@movie-avenue.com
Sales Representative, Producer
At Cannes: Lydia Y. Segundo (CEO,
Sales Rep. Producer)
Office: 61 la Croisette; Mobile: US
1.917.669.1870
THE SANDMAN (EL HOMBRE DE
ARENA)
Drama (103 min)
Language: Spanish with subtitles
Director: José Manuel González-Berbel
Producers: Iroko Films, Las Siete Sillas,
Adivina Producciones Harold Sánchez,
Fernando Ramos, Susana Meceiras.
Cast: Hugo Silva; María Valverde;
Samuel LeBihan, Alberto Jiménez.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of production 2006, Origin: SpainFrance
A daughter learns about the story of
friendship, love and hope behind her
birth in an asylum during 1960’s
repressive Spain.
BRO’S AND ARROWS
Urban comedy, feature
Language: English
Director: Kenny Snyder
Producers: Desiree Jellerette, Lydia
Segundo
Status: development
Budget: 4.5 million
Origin: USA
Hip Hop promoter Styles Pearson hides
G ARY - G REESTREET F ILM
from the mob in an isolated Indian
reservation where chilly chiefs, a
beautiful daughter and the ultimate
gambling await, the new “Nava-bros”.
THE UNDERTAKERS
Black Comedy, feature
Language: English
Director: Kenny Snyder
Producer: Desiree Jellerette
Status: Production Fall 2007
Budget: 4 million
Origin: USA
The “king of coffins” and his rival
brother compete in a funeral empire for
the love of the same fatal women.
(feature length, English).
MOVIEBANK QUANTUM
MovieBank – Quantum, 209 E. Alameda
Ave #203, Burbank, CA 91502 USA. Tel:
818.255.9900. Fax: 818.255.9903.
www.moviebankstudios.com
At Cannes: Jamie Thompson (VP, Sales
and Acquisitions)
Office: E16
EYE OF THE DOLPHIN
www.theeyeofthedolphin.com
Family (98:10)
Language: English
Director: Michael D. Sellers
Producer: Susan Johnson, Michael D.
Sellers
Key Cast: Carly Schroeder, Adrian
Dunbar, George Harris, Jane Lynch,
Katherine Ross
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
When troubled 15 year old Alyssa moves
in with her father, a dolphin researcher in
the Bahamas, she forms a unique
friendship with an orphaned wild
dolphin.
CRYPTID
www.cryptidthemovie.com
Science Fiction Thriller (90:00)
Language: English
Director: Darrell James Roodt
Producer: Michael D. Sellers, Donald
Barton, Anton Ernst
Key Cast: Lori Petty, Nicholas Irons,
Colin Moss, Sandra Teles, Petey Pablo
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Gruesome murders of South African
farmers spur reports of a possible
“cryptid” - a creature previously
undiscovered by science.
KARLA
www.karlathemovie.net
True Crime Thriller (98:00)
Director: English
Language: Joel Bender
Producer: Michael D. Sellers,
Marlon Parry
Key Cast: Laura Prepon, Patrick
Bauchau, Misha Collins, Tess Harper
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
KARLA follows the true story of one of
the most notorious crimes of Canada.
MULTIMEDIA
CORPORATION
INTERNATIONAL,
INC.
Multimedia Corporation International,
Inc., 101 Convention Center Dr., Suite
777, Las Vegas, NV 89109 USA.
Tel: 702.252.3863. Fax: 818.368.1817,
www.mmcgroupinc.com, email:
multimedia@socal.rr.com
At Cannes: Karin Thome (President),
Joseph Geissler (Senior Executive Vice
President)
Office: Villa Olivaie Du Cap,
Chemin De La Garoupe, 06, Cap
D’Antibes, Tel: 015116655484
GENGHIS KHAN: THE BOY
OF IRON
Epic
Language: English
Producer: Karin Thome
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget $150 Million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
The Epic adventure of the rise and fall of
Genghis Khan.
MULTIVISIONNAIRE
MEDIA
MultiVisionnaire Media, PO Box 1477,
Alhambra, CA 91802-1477 USA. Tel:
1.626.737.8357. Fax: 1.626.407.4197.
www.multivisionnaire.com, email:
distribution@multivisionnaire.com
At Cannes: Sean T. Haley (Managing
Partner), Erika Kao-Haley (Managing
Partner)
Office: Hotel Gray d’Albion, Tel:
372.53.17.23.16. Fax: 372.53.17.23.16
(SMS)
LADRONES Y MENTIROSOS
(THIEVES & LIARS)
http://www.ladronesymentirosos.com
Drama (112 minutes)
Language: Spanish
Director: Ricardo Mendez Matta
Co-Production Partners: Ricardo Mendez
Matta
Key Cast: Steve Bauer, Elpidia Carrillo,
Daniel Lugo, Lymari Nadal, Magda
Rivera, Cesar Farrait
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Puerto Rico (US Province)
Story of 3 Puerto Rican families
struggling to stay together in a society
overcome by the inescapable
corruption and drugs on the small island.
JUPITER LOVE
Psychological Thriller (80 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Michael André
Key Cast: Michael André, Nikka
Kalashnikova
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Australia
Part crazed road film, part acidic
commentary on the power struggle of the
sexes — Jupiter Love is a turbo-charged
film that grips the viewer with its twits of
sexual psychopathology.
THE PINK CONSPIRACY
www.odysseymotionpictures.com
Comedy (97 minutes)
Director: English
Language: Brian Scott Miller
Producer: Marc Clebanoff
Key Cast: Mercedes McNab, Sarah
Thompson, Bradley Snedeker, James
Russo, Chad Everett, Tommy ‘Tiny’
Lister, Dayton Callie, Mackenzie
Firgens, Frank Krueger, Tricia O’Kelley
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Unlucky in love, Dave uncovers a plot in
which all women in his life are
conspiring together to dive him to
insanity.
MYRIAD PICTURES
Myriad Pictures, 3015 Main Street, Suite
400, Santa Monica, CA 90405 USA. Tel:
310.279.4000. Fax: 310.279.4001.
www.myriadpictures.com, email:
info@myriadpictures.com
At Cannes: Kirk D’amico (President and
CEO), Trevor Wright (Executive
Director, Distribution), Pamela Rodi
(EVP, Marketing), Elias Axume (VP
Distribution And Operations), Lisa
Gutberlet (Director, Sales
Administration)
Office: Gray D’Albion - 1H2, Tel:
33(0)4.93.38.51.95. Fax:
33(0)4.93.38.48.40
DARK MATTER
Language: English
Director: Chen Shi-Zheng
Producer: Janet Yang, Mary Salter,
Andrea Miller
Key Cast: Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn,
Liu Ye
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A brilliant Chinese physics student
comes to odds with his American mentor
with tragic results.
JACK AND JILL VS THE WORLD
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Vanessa Parise
Producer: Vanessa Parise, Nicholas
Tabarrock, Roger Spottiswoode
Key Cast: Freddie Prinze, Jr., Taryn
Manning
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A buttoned-up advertising executive and
a free spirited actress fall in love - until
he realizes she has some secrets.
10 ITEMS OR LESS
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Brad Silberling
Producer: Lori Mccreary, Hulie Lynn,
Brad Silberling
Key Cast: Morgan Freeman, Paz Vega
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A famous actor gets abandoned in a
small town and an unlikely friendship
develops with a grocery store sales clerk.
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NEW LINE CINEMA
New Line Cinema, 116 North Robertson
Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90048 USA. Tel:
310.854.5811. Fax: 310.659.4712.
www.newline.com
Producer/Sales Agent
At Cannes: Rolf Mittwig (President &
COO, New Line Cinema), Camela
Galano (President, International
Marketing), Nestor Nieves (EVP,
International Marketing), Rob Remley
(SVP, International Marketing), Craig
Alexander (SVP, Business and Legal
Affairs), Elena Cahalan (VP,
International Contracts)
Office: Residence Croisette Miramar, 67
rue la Croisette, 9th Floor, 06400
Cannes, Tel: 33.0.4.92.59.10.39. Fax:
33.0.492.18.03.77
INKHEART
Action-adventure
Language: English
Director: Iain Softley
Producer: Cornelia Funke, Barry Mendel
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany,
Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent
Delivery Status: Post production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
INKHEART, a fantasy family film, tells
the tale of Meggie and her magical father
Mo (who can bring book characters to
life by reading aloud), as they search for
her missing mother and fight the evil
scoundrel Capricorn for her mother’s
return.
RENDITION
Drama
Language: English
Director: Gavin Hood
Producer: Steve Golin
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep,
Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard
Delivery Status: Post production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Rendition shows there is a fine line
between interrogation and torture,
between working for the greater good in
a post 9/11 world and violating basic
codes of decency and between fighting
terrorism and becoming a terrorist.
JOURNEY 3-D
3-D Effects adventure
Language: English
Director: Erik Brevig
Producer: Walden Media, Charlotte
Higgins, Beau Flynn
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson,
Anita Briem
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Tells the story of a troubled young boy
and his uncle as they head off to explore
a fantastic world where they will find
mystery, excitement, danger and perhaps
most importantly, each other.
NEW ZEALAND FILM
New Zealand Film, Level 2, The Film
Centre, 119 Jervois Quay, Wellington,
New Zealand. Tel: 64.4.382.7680. Fax:
64.4.384.9719. marketing@nzfilm.co.nz
At Cannes: Ruth Harley (CEO, New
Zealand Film Commission) French
Mobile 06.26.38.27.94, Kathleen Drumm
(Head of Sales and Marketing) French
Mobile 06.11.93.14.22, Caroline Grose
(Head of Development) French Mobile
06.10.57.12.36, Sarah Cull (Head of
Business Affairs) French Mobile
06.20.75.76.14
Office: 1st Floor, Residence Gray
d’Albion, 17 La Croisette/4 Rue des
Serbes (entrance Rue des Serbes)
BLACK SHEEP
Horror Comedy
Directed by: Jonathan King
Producer: Philippa Campbell
Status: Screening
There are 40 million sheep in New
Zealand… and they’re pissed off! On a
vast sheep station a reckless genetic
engineering experiment goes horribly
wrong, turning sheep into blood thirsty
killers.
EAGLE VS SHARK
Comedy Drama
Directed by: Taika Waititi
Producer: Ainsley Gardiner, Cliff Curtis
Cast: Loren Horsley, Jemaine Clement
Status: Screening
A wry and comic tale about two misfits
searching for acceptance… and finding it
in each other.
OUT OF THE BLUE
Drama
Directed by: Robert Sarkies
Producer: Tim White, Steven O’Meagher
Cast: Karl Urban, Matthew Sunderland,
Lois Lawn
Status: Screening
The peaceful innocence of a tiny seaside
village is shattered by the actions of one
man.
NONSTOP SALES AB
NonStop Sales AB, Döbelnsgatan 24,
Stockholm, 113 52 Sweden. Tel:
46(0)8.673.99.80. Fax:
46(0)8.673.99.88. www.nonstopsales.net,
email: info@nonstopsales.net
At Cannes: CG Anderson (CEO),
Michael Werner (Sales Manager), Judith
Toth (Sales Executive), Karin Thun
(Sales Executive)
Office: The Scandinavian Film Stand (55
La Croisette), Tel: 46.707.33.28.55
GHOSTWOOD
www.ghostwoodmovie.com
Supernatural thriller (85 min)
Language: English
Director: Justin O’Brien
Producer: Maxim Pictures
Key Cast: Alan Devine, Patrick Bergin,
Louise Osbourne
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Ireland
Driven to investigate the mysterious
disappearance of his father, New York
psychologist Ed Hunter travels to a
remote village in the West of Ireland and
finds a community that has been living in
fear for centuries.
DARLING
Dark drama comedy (90 min)
Language: Swedish
Director: Johan Kling
Producer: Spader Knekt Film
Key Cast: Michelle Meadows, Michael
Segerström, Richard Ulfsäter, Jenny
Cassel
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Sweden
A tragic and comic tale of beautiful and
self-absorbed Eva, who cheats on her
boyfriend which becomes the starting
point of a slow descent down to the life
of ordinary people and a surprising, but
doomed friendship.
SPEED DATING
www.speeddatingthemovie.com
Romantic Comedy (85 min)
Director: English
Language: Tony Herbert
Producer: System 48 Limited
Key Cast: Hugh O’Conor, Don
Wycherley, Flora Montgomery, David
Hayman
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Ireland
After a break–up with the love of his life,
James Van Der Bexton has taken up
speed dating without much success.
Hopeless he turns his attention towards a
mysterious young woman who frequents
his local pub.
NORDISK
INTERNATIONAL
SALES
Nordisk International Sales, Mosedalvej
14, Valby, DK – 2500 Denmark. Tel:
45.3618.8200. Fax: 45.3618.9550.
www.nordiskfilmsales.com, email:
contact@nordiskfilm.com
At Cannes: Tine Klint (Head of
International Sales), Susan Wendt (Sales
Manager, International Sales), Sanne
Arloe (Sales Executive) Nicolai
Korsgaard (PR & Marketing Manager)
Office: Scandinavian Terrace first floor
La croisette 55
JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY
(KÆRLIGHED PÅ FILM)
Thriller
Language: Danish
Director: Ole Bornedal
Producer: Michael Obel
Key Cast: Bent Mejding, Dejan Cukic,
Ewa Fröling, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Rebecka
Hemse,
Anders W. Berthelsen, Charlotte Fich,
Karsten Jansfort
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: 3,2 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Denmark
Ole Bornedal (Nightwatch, The
Substitute) directs an intense thriller,
where a stolen identity takes an
unexpected twist. Promo screening in
Cannes.
3000 MILES (GUMBALL)
Documentary (105 min)
Language: English
Director: Maximillion Cooper
Producer: Patrick Fischer
Key Cast: Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn and
Tony Hawk
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 250.000
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: United Kingdom
3 Continents, 8 Days, 120 Cars and 3000
miles of mayhem with Tony Hawk and
Bam Margera.
THE SUBSTITUTE (VIKAREN)
Family/Thriller (93 min)
Director: Danish
Language: Ole Bornedal
Producer: Michael Obel
Key Cast: Henrik Prip, Paprika Steen,
Sonja Richter, Ulrich Thomsen, Jonas
Wandschneider
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 3,2 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Denmark
What would you do if your new
substitute teacher was an alien? Get
ready for this years Family Thriller!
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NOTRO FILMS
Notro Films, Lincoln 11, Barcelona
08006 Spain. Tel: 34.93.567.0505. Fax:
34.93.567.0504. www.notrofilms.com
At Cannes: Adolfo Blanco (CEO),
Eduardo Escudero (Operations Manager),
Manuel Monzon (Production Manager),
Raquel Luque (Acquisitions & Sales)
Office: Riviera E3, Tel: 34.655.44.21.95
BAJO LAS ESTRELLAS (UNDER
THE STARS)
Drama (110’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Felix Viscarret
Producer: Fernando Trueba
Key Cast: Alberto San Juan, Emma
Suarez- Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Spain
When Benito Lacunza, a loser jazz
musician, returns to his hometown to
attend his father’s funeral, he is surprised
to learn that his beloved brother is about
to marry Nines, a single mother.
FERMAT’S ROOM (LA
HABITACION DE FERMAT)
Thriller
Language: Spanish
Director: Luis Piedrahita & Rodrigo
Sopeña
Co-Production Partners: Notro Films &
Bocaboca
Key Cast: Federico Luppi, Luis Homar,
Santi Millan
Delivery Status: In Production
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 a great
enigma.
LOCO FIGHTERS (TRES CAIDAS)
Documentary (84’)
Director: Spanish, Language: Nacho
Cabana, Co-Production Partners: Notro
Films, Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Spain
Mexican lucha libre is a mix of sport,
acrobatics, and comedy that is
tremendously popular in this Aztec
country.
NU IMAGE /
MILLENNIUM FILMS
Nu Image / Millennium Films, 6423
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
90048 USA. Tel: 310.388.6900. Fax:
310.388.6901. www.nuimage.net, email:
sales@nuimage.net
At Cannes: Avi Lerner (Co-Chairman),
Danny Dimbort (Co-Chairman),
Christian Mercuri (Vice President),
Carole DeLosSantos (Executive VP, Int’l
Sales and Distribution)
Office: Hilton Cannes, Suite 302, Tel:
33.4.92.99.70.00, Fax: 33.4.92.99.70.11
MAD MONEY
Director: Callie Khouri
Writers: Glenn Gers
Starring: Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah &
Katie Holmes
Status: In Production
Three women who work at a federal
reserve bank join together and devise a
plan to steal the millions of dollars that
are being shredded every day.
CLEANER
Director: Renny Harlin
Writer: Matthew Aldrich
Starring: Samuel Jackson, Ed Harris, Eva
Mendes
Status: Post Production
A man who specializes in cleaning up
crime scenes is drawn into a mystery
when he cleans the evidence of a murder
before it’s been reported.
BLONDE AMBITION
Starring: Jessica Simpson and Luke
Wilson
Director: Scott Marshall (Keeping Up
With the Steins)
Producer: Garry Marshall
Status: Post Production
A small town girl climbs the corporate
ladder in the big city
HOMELAND SECURITY
Director: George Gallo
Screenplay: George Gallo
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Meg Ryan,
Colin Hanks and Selma Blair
Status: Post Production
A young FBI agent discovers that his
mother has fallen in love with a
notorious art thief.
HERO WANTED
Director: Brian Smrz
Writers: Chad Law and Evan Law
Starring: Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Ray
Liotta
Status: Pre Production
A small town trash collector stages a
robbery so he can impress a girl by can
being the hero and stopping it.
WAR, INC.
Director: Josh Seftel
Screenplay: Mark Keyner, Jeremy Pikser
& John Cusack
Starring: John Cusack, Hilary Duff,
Marisa Tomei, Ben Kingsley and Joan
Cusack
Status: Post Production
A government assassin is sent to a
Middle-Eastern warzone where he is
assigned to kill a rogue leader while
posing as a chaperone for an Arab pop
star.
JOHN RAMBO
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Screenplay: Sylvester Stallone
Starring: Sylvester Stallone
Status: In Production
John Rambo is back in the latest action
packed installment of the popular film
series.
BRILLIANT
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Scarlett Johansson
Status: Pre Production
Master thief and rich playboy Charlie
Beaumont recruits a beautiful young cat
burglar to help him steal $1 billion
dollars worth of diamonds in a daring
heist.
O
ODD LOT
INTERNATIONAL
Odd Lot International, 9601 Jefferson
Bl., Ste. A, Culver City, CA 90232 United
States of America. Tel: 310.652.0999.
Fax: 310 650 0718. www.oddlotent.com,
email: info@oddlotent.com
At Cannes: Gigi Pritzker (Co-CEO),
Deborah Del Prete (Co-CEO), William
Lischak (COO), Brian O’Shea (EVP
Worldwide Sales and Distribution),
Delphine Perrier (Director Legal Affairs
Contracts and Collections)
Office: Majestic 759/760, Tel:
33.0.49.70.68.493
ARMAGEDDAGAIN: THE DAY
BEFORE TOMORROW
Spoof Comedy
Language: English
Director: Robert Moniot
Producer: Noah Emmerich
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Following in the footsteps of Airplane
and Scary Movie, Armagedddagain is a
hilarious spoof of the disaster films of
Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay
GOOD
Drama / War
Language: English
Director: Vicente Amorim
Producer: Miriam Segal, Dan Lupovitz,
Sarah Boote, Billy Dietrich, Kevin
Loader
Key Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Jason
Issacs, Mark Strong, Jodie Whittaker,
Gemma Jones
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
An ordinary man is thrust into the Nazi
propaganda machine during WWII and
sees the boundaries of his conscience
challenged and ultimately crossed.
ODYSSEY
ENTERTAINMENT
LTD
Odyssey Entertainment Ltd, 10A James
Street, London WC2E8BT UK. Tel:
44.207.520.5610. Fax: 44.207.520.5611.
email: sales@odysseyentertainment.co.uk
At Cannes: Ralph Kamp (Chairman &
CEO), Louise Goodsill (President &
COO), Pascal Degove (Head of Sales),
James Scott (Sales & Contracts
Executive), Libby D’Arcy (Contracts
Manager)
Office: Motor Yacht ‘Bayview’,
Tel: 492.98.71.72. Fax: 492.98.71.72
LETHE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Dario Piana
Co-Production Partners: Stan Winston
Studios
Producer: Stan Winston, Brian J. Gilbert,
Ralph Kamp
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
Will Blake returns home to find his wife
and two children brutally murdered.
THE DEATHS OF IAN STONE
Horror (92 min)
Language: English
Director: Dario Piana
Co-Production Partners: Stan Winston
Studios
Producer: Stan Winston, Brian J, Gilbert,
Ralph Kamp
Key Cast: Mike Vogel, Christina Cole,
Jamie Murray
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
From the creator of academy award
winning special effects ‘the terminator’
and ‘Jurassic Park’ comes the story of an
all-American kid who is murdered each
day by his horrifying pursuers.
AUGUST RUSH
Drama (107 min)
Director: English
Language: Kirsten Sheridan
Producer: Richard Barton Lewis
Key Cast: Freddie Highmore, Robin
Williams, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Keri
Russell
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
This uplifting and magical modern
fairytale tells the story of a ten-year-old
orphan whose amazing musical gifts
serve to reunite him with his long-lost
parents.
ONOMA
Onoma, 4 rue de Miromesnil, 75008
Paris, France. Tel: 33.1.58.18.34.90.
Fax: 33.1.45.25.99.70.
www.onomainternational.com, email:
onoma@onomainternational.com
Sales agent and co-producer
At Cannes: Pascal Diot (President),
Fabien Westerhoff (sales executive),
Marie Wintenberger (Production and
Sales), Carole Maddalena
(Festivals)
Office: Riviera J7/K8
LA FINE DEL MARE
Drama (108’)
Language: Italian
Director: Nora Hoppe
Producer: Helge Albers
Co-production partners: Philippe Avril,
Paolo Spina
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Cast: Miki Manojlovic, Diana Dobreva
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Germany
Todor is a small-time
smuggler of cigarettes; one day he
reluctantly accepts a commission to
transport an unusually lar
ge crate and discovers that it contains the
body of a young woman.
P
PANGEA WORLD
Pangea World, 21 Rue Dautancourt
75017 Paris, France.
Tel: 33.1.42.29.60.40. Fax:
33.1.42.29.15.52. www.pangeaworld.com, email: pangeaworld@gmail.com
Worldwide Sales and Acquisitions
At Cannes: Charles Ganem (head of
sales), Eric Leray (sales and acquisitions)
Office: Tel: 33.6.20.09.21.99
MONKEYS IN WINTER
Drama (111 min)
Language: Bulgarian
Director: Milena Andonova
Producer: Proventus Film House and
Tatfilm
Cast: Bonka Ilieva-Boni, Diana Dobreva,
Angelina Slavova
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Bulgaria
A film who examines the lives of three
women of different origins and
destinies, whose stories unfold at
different times: the desire for children
and the difficulties of relationships
between men and women.
SLEEPIN DOGS
www.sleepingdogsfilm.ca
Drama (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Terrance Odette
Producer: 1270844 Ontario
Cast: Brian Stillar, Tony Adah,
Alan Sapp
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
A story about the
unlikely acquaintance of
two men.
A CITY IS BEAUTIFUL
AT NIGHT
Road movie (90 min)
Language: French
Director: Richard Bohringer
Producer: Les Films Christy’s
Cast: Richard Bohringer, Romane
Bohringer, Robinson Stévenin
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006,
Country of Origin: France
Adapted from the best seller, the
film is a journey of freedom from
downtown Paris to
New York,
Montreal and Dakar.
PATHÉ LONDON
OFFICE
Pathé London Office, Kent House, 14-17
Market Place, London W1W 8AR UK.
Tel: 44.207.462.4427. Fax:
44.207.436.7891. Email:
international.sales@pathe-uk.com
At Cannes: Mike Runagall (Head of
Pathé Pictures International) Cell:
44.7949.074.552, Claire Taylor
(Consultant) Cell: 44.7880.790.069,
Riaya Aboul Ela (Marketing and
Publicity Manager) Cell:
44.7977.197.411, Sarah Lucas (Sales
Assistant) Cell: 44.7917.528.741,
Gursharn Khaira (Legal Assistant)
Office: Résidences du Grand Hotel, 45
La Croisette, Apt. 4A/E Ibis, 06400
Cannes, France. Tel: 33.4.93.38.49.58.
Fax: 33.4.93.38.46.43
THE COTTAGE
Comedy Horror
Language: English
Director: Paul Andrew Williams
Screenplay: Paul Andrew Williams
Producer: Ken Marshall
Cast: Andy Serkis, Reece Shearsmith,
Jennifer Ellison
Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, 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.
THE DIVING BELL AND THE
BUTTERFLY
Drama
Language: French
Director: Julian Schnabel
Screenplay: Ronald Harwood
Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kilik
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Marie-Josée
Croze, Max Von Sydow
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France
Based on the Jean-Dominique Bauby’s
best-selling memoir, THE DIVING
BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY is a
moving and inspiring story of the power
of the human spirit.
OUTLAW
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Nick Love
Writer: Nick Love
Producers: James Richardson, Allan
Niblo
Cast: Sean Bean, Danny Dyer, Rupert
Friend
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
Betrayed by their government and let
down by their local police—a group of
modern-day renegades band together to
right the wrongs of their world in Nick
Love’s OUTLAW.
PEACE ARCH
ENTERTAINMENT
Peace Arch Entertainment, 4640
Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA
90292, USA. Tel: 310.776.7200. Fax:
310.823.7147. www.peacearch.com
Sales agent
At Cannes: John Flock, (President, Peace
Arch Entertainment Group), Berry
Meyerowitz (President, Peace Arch
Home Entertainment), Mary Herne
(Executive VP, International TV & Home
Entertainment), Suzanne Barron (Senior
VP, International TV & Home
Entertainment), Caroline Dubourg
(Senior VP, Business Affairs), Paul
(Bateman) Davis-Miller (Senior VP,
Acquisitions & Domestic Licensing)
Office: Riviera, Lerins Hall, S7
THE DEAL
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Steven Schachter
Writer: Steven Schachter
Producer: Irene Litinsky, Keri Nakamoto,
Michael Prupas
Key Cast: William H. Macy, Meg Ryan,
LL Cool J, Elliott Gould
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A down-and-out film producer agrees to
make his nephew’s film about 19th
century English statesman Benjamin
Disraeli, but the lead actor is kidnapped
from the European film set.
WATCHING THE DETECTIVES
Comedy (91’)
Language: English
Director: Paul Soter
Writer: Paul Soter
Producer: Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Galt
Niederhoffer, Celine Rattray
Key Cast: Lucy Liu, Cillian Murphy
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A film noir buff has his life turned on
end by a femme fatale with a big
adventure in mind.
IN TRANZIT
Drama (100’)
Language: English
Director: Tom Roberts
Writer: Natalia Portnova, Simon van der
Borgh
Producer: Jimmy de Brabant, Michael
Dounaev, Kami Naghdi
Key Cast: John Malkovich, Vera
Farmiga, Thomas Kretschmann
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
In the chaotic aftermath of WWII, a
group of German POWs are accidentally
sent to a female-run Soviet prison camp.
PFG
ENTERTAINMENT
PFG Entertainment, 429 Santa Monica
Blvd., Suite 600, Santa Monica CA
90401 USA. Tel: 310.393.5788. Fax:
310.393.0882,
www.pfgentertainment.com, email:
mail@pfgentertainment.com
At Cannes: Ted Rosenblatt (President)
Office: Carlton InterContinental Hotel,
Suite 201, Tel: 04.93.06.42.01, Fax:
04.93.38.31.10
TOOLBOX MURDERS. THE
RETURN
Horror
Language: English
Director: To be directed by Mike Mendez
(The Gravedancers)
Producer: Tony DiDio
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: USA
It seems that the Toolbox Murders are
beginning. again.
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DEEPAK CHOPRA’S HOW TO
KNOW GOD
Drama (67 min)
Language: English
Director: Ron Frank
Producer: Mallika Chopra, Gotham
Chopra, Ron Frank
Key Cast: Deepak Chopra
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: USA
Based on his best-selling book, author
Deepak Chopra embarks on an exciting,
insightful journey towards a better
understanding of one of life’s great
mysteries.
DEEPAK CHOPRA’S
THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL L
AWS OF SUCCESS
Drama (64 min)
Country of Origin: USA
Director: English
Language: Ron Frank
Producer: Mallika Chopra, Gotham
Chopra, Ron Frank
Key Cast: Deepak Chopra, Olivia
Newton-John, Bill Duke
Delivery Status: Completed
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.
PORCHLIGHT
ENTERTAINMENT
PorchLight Entertainment, 11777
Mississippi Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90025
USA. Tel: 310.477.8400. Fax:
310.477.5555. www.porchlight.com,
email: info@porchlight.com
At Cannes: J.D. Beaufils (Vice President,
Worldwide Sales)
Office: Riviera J8
THE ULTIMATE GIFT
www.theultimategift.com
Family (114 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael O. Sajbel
Producer: Rick Eldridge, John Shepherd
Key Cast: James Garner, Drew Fuller,
Brian Dennehy, Abigail Breslin
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006,
Country of Origin: USA
When his wealthy grandfather passes
away, a young man is given 12 “gifts,”
tasks he must accomplish that challenge
him in every way and change him
forever.
MONSTER WARRIORS
Action-Adventure (52 x 30’)
Language: English
Director: Wilson Coneybeare
Co-Production Partners: Coneybeare
Stories Inc.
Producer: Wilson Coneybeare, Barbara
Patten
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
In this comic book come to life, four
clever and dynamic teenagers battle bmovie monsters.
A live-action/CGI comedy adventure
series.
HOLIDAZE: THE CHRISTMAS
THAT ALMOST DIDN’T HAPPEN
Animated (6 x 60’)
Director: English
Language: David H. Brooks
Co-Production Partners: Madison Road
Entertainment, Bix Pix Entertainment
Producer: Kelli Bixler, Jak Severson,
Jonathan Prince
Key Cast: Fred Savage, Dylan Sprouse,
Cole Sprouse, Emily Osment, Fred
Willard, John O’Hurley, Gladys Knight,
Harland Williams, Paul Rodriguez
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
‘Holidaze’ is a series of seasonal DVD
and television specials designed to be
presented during select holidays,
featuring a newly-created set of iconic
holiday characters in classic stop-motion
animation.
Q
QED
INTERNATIONAL
QED International, 9595 Wilshire Blvd.,
Suite 800, Beverly Hills, CA 90212
United States. Tel: 310.273.3004. Fax:
310.273.3006. http://www.qedintl.com
At Cannes: Bill Block (CEO), Paul
Hanson (COO), Kimberly Fox (SVP
Worldwide Distribution), Tatyana Joffe
(VP International Distribution),
Elliot Ferwerda (VP of Production)
Office: 67 la Croisette, 7th Floor,
Tel: 04.93.45.65.88
THE RETURN
Drama
Language: English
Director: Neil Burger
Producer: Neil Burger,
Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Rick
Schwartz
Key Cast: Rachel McAdams, Tim
Robbins, Michael Pena
Delivery Status: In Production
Country of Origin: United States
Upon returning from Iraq, three soldiers
taken an unexpected cross-country road
trip to Las Vegas. They make the long
journey together, as three very different
Americans find their way home.
SMART PEOPLE
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Noam Murro
Producer: Bridget Johnston, Michael
Costigan, Michael London, Bruna
Papandrea
Key Cast: Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica
Parker, Thomas Haden Church, Ellen
Page
Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: United States
An uptight, pompous professor Lawrence
Wetherhold, 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.
MAGICIANS
Comedy (90 minutes)
Director: English
Language: Andrew O’Connor
Producer: Scott Kroopf, Lizzie Francke,
Ollie Madden
Key Cast: David Mitchell, Robert Webb,
Jessica Stevenson
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
A magic double act falls out when one
accidentally chops his assistant’s head off
in the guillotine trick. The story follows
the rivalry between the magicians years
later as they enter a major international
competition.
R
RAI TRADE
Rai Trade (International Sales), Via
Umberto Novaro 18, 00195 Rome, Italy.
Tel: 39.06. 374.98244. Fax:
39.06.375.16222. www.raitrade.it
At Cannes: Sesto Cifola (Head of
Cinema and Fiction International Sales)
Office: Italia Pavilion, Riviera C7-C9/ D
2-D4
CARAVAGGIO
Drama (2 x 100’ Miniseries and
theatrical version)
Version: Italian with English subtitles
/HD
Director: Angelo Longoni
Production: Rai Fiction, Titania
Produzioni, Institut del Cinema Català,
Eos Entertainment, GMT Productions
At the age of six, Caravaggio pledges
eternal love to Costanza Colonna,
daughter of the powerful family for
which his own father works.
THE KREUTZER SONATA – WHAT
IS LOVE? (QUALE AMORE?)
Feature film (100’)
Version: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Maurizio Sciarra
Production: Rai Cinema and Lumiere &
CO. in association with AMKA FILMS
and TSI-Swiss Television
The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo
Tostoy, published in 1889 and promptly
censored by the Russian authorities. The
work is an argument for the ideal sexual
abstinence and an in-depth first-person
description of jealous rage.
THE TRUE LEGEND OF TONY
VILAR (LA VERA LEGGENDA DI
TONY VILAR)
Feature film (93’)
Version: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Giuseppe Gagliardi
Production: T.I.C.O. Film Company,
Avocado Pictures
The film travels from Buenos Aires to
New York, on the trail of Tony Vilar. One
of the main characters is an Italian singer
for whom the Italian-Argentine star has
always been a myth.
REGENT
ENTERTAINMENT
Regent Entertainment, 10990 Wilshire
Blvd., Penthouse, Los Angeles,
California 90024 USA. Tel:
310.806.4288. Fax: 310.806.4271.
www.regententertainment.com
Producer and Distributor
At Cannes: Gene George (President),
Meggan Kimberley (SVP Sales)
Office:Tel: (Gene George) 310.804.9360
KISS THE BRIDE
Comedy
Language: English
Director: C. Jay Cox
Cast: Tori Spelling, James O’Shea,
Philipp Karner, Amber Benson, Joanna
Cassidy
Delivery Status: Post-Production
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!
SHOW BUSINESS: THE ROAD TO
BROADWAY
Documentary (102 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Dori Borinstein
Cast: Harrison Chad, Kristin Chenoweth,
Alan Cumming, Boy George, Susan
Haskins, Jeff Marx, Idina Menzel, Rosie
O’Donnell
Delivery Status: Completed
Follows the four high-profile productions
that would eventually become Tony
nominees for Best Musical.
NUCLEAR HURRICANE
Disaster (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Fred Olen Ray
Cast: Jamie Luner, Jack Scalia, David
Millbern, Meredith McGeachie
Delivery Status: Post-Production
At a nuclear power plant, the cooling
system becomes a problem when the
“mother of all storms” is headed straight
towards it.
HOME BY CHRISTMAS
Family (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Gail Harvey
Cast: Linda Hamilton, 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.
STOLEN LIFE
Thriller (95 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Donald Wrye
Cast: Antonio Sabato Jr., Odette
Yustman, Delivery Status: PostProduction 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.
LONG LOST SON
Thriller (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
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Cast: Gabrielle Anwar, Craig Sheffer
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: Lifetime
Many years ago, Kristen lost her son when
her estranged husband took him sailing in a
dangerous storm. Today, Kristen has made
peace with her loss and moved on. But,
while watching a friend’s vacation video,
she sees a glimpse of two familiar faces.
THE WIVES HE FORGOT
Thriller (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Mario Azzopardi
Cast: Molly Ringwald, Mark Humphrey,
Shannon Sturges
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: Lifetime
When a man stumbles into Charlotte’s
law office, she discovers that he has
contracted amnesia.
CHRISTMAS DO-OVER
Family/Holiday (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Catherine Cyran
Cast: Jay Mohr, Daphne Zuniga, Ruta
Lee, Adrienne Barbeau
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: ABC Family
Feeling obligated to spend Christmas
visiting his ex-wife, young son, and
former in- laws, a shallow jingle writer
finds himself living Christmas day over
and over again.
MY SILENT PARTNER
Thriller (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Ron Oliver
Cast: Joanna Going, Greg Evigan, Tim
Conlon, Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: Lifetime
A San Francisco police inspector’s
comfortable life falls apart when she
discovers her husband wants a divorce.
ICE SPIDERS
Sci-Fi (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Tibor Takács
Cast: Patrick Muldoon, Vanessa
Williams, Thomas Calabro
Delivery Status: Completed
US Broadcaster: Sci-Fi
A young ski team’s plans to train for the
Olympics at a remote Ski Resort are
halted when a scientist working at a
nearby government lab arrives with an
emergency: giant spiders bred at the lab
have escaped.
RELIANT PICTURES
INTERNATIONAL
Reliant Pictures International, 5-11
Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JB
United Kingdom. Tel: 44.207.299.3727.
Fax: 44.207.299.3728.
At Cannes: Penny Wolf (Managing
Director), Lissa Lebel (VP International
Sales), Thom Mount (CEO), Morna
Ciraki (Production Executive)
Office: The Majestic 140, Tel:
33.4.97.06.85.40. Fax: 33.4.97.06.85.41
HAVE DREAMS, WILL TRAVEL
Writer /Director: Brad Isaacs (Writing
credits include: The Larry Sanders Show,
Roseanne and Newsradio)
Producer: Reliant Pictures International
and WolfGang Productions
Cast: Cayden Boyd (X-Men: The Last
Stand, Mystic River), AnnaSophia Robb
(Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
Because of Winn Dixie), Val Kilmer
(Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Saint), Lara
Flynn Boyle (The Practice, Huff),
Matthew Modine (Short Cuts, Pacific
Heights), Dylan McDermott (‘Til There
Was You, The Practice), Heather Graham
(Bobby, Hope Springs)
Delivery Status: Completed
When Cassie’s parents are killed in a
mysterious car accident, she has no
choice but to be taken in by Ben’s distant
and uncaring parents.
HOW TO CHANGE IN NINE
WEEKS
Writer / Director: Simone North
Producer: Liberty Films and Reliant
Pictures International
Cast: Guy Pearce (Factory Girl,
Memento, LA Confidential), Miranda
Otto (The War of the Worlds, The Lord
of the Rings trilogy), Sam Neill
(Wimbledon, Jurassic Park, The Piano)
Delivery Status: Pre Production
Based on the true story of an Australian
teenager who takes her obsession with
her own imperfections to a shocking
conclusion.
MAIN STREET
Director: Bruce Beresford (Double
Jeopardy, Driving Miss Daisy, Breaker
Morant)
Writer: Horton Foote (Of Mice and Men,
To Kill a Mockingbird)
Producer: Reliant Pictures International
and Fixed Point Films
Delivery Status: In Development
The story of a decaying small town and
its desperate hope for renewal.
RENEGADE
WORLDWIDE, LLC
Renegade Worldwide, LLC, 10203 Santa
Monica Blvd., Fifth Floor, Los Angeles,
CA 90067 USA. Tel: 1.310.843.0223.
Fax: 1.310.553.9895. www.renegadepictures.com, email: sales@renegadepictures.com
At Cannes: Patrick Ewald (President),
Shaked Berenson (Sales and
Acquisitions)
Office: Inter-Continental Carlton, Suite:
222, 223 & 224, Tel: 33.4.93.06.42.23.
Fax: 33.4.93.06.40.25
THE DEVIL’S CHAIR
Horror
Language: English
Director: Adam Mason
Producer: Nadya Brand, Steven Paul
Key Cast: Andrew Howard, Elize du
Toit, Matt Berry, David Gant
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
URBAN ASSAULT
http://www.urbanassaultmovie.com/
Action
Language: English
Director: Declan Mulvey
Producer: Taylor Phillips
Key Cast: Daz Crawford, Anthony Ray
Parker, Christian Boeving, Jasper Col,
Dianna Agron, Andre McCoy, Edwin
Villa
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
In the city where image is everything, the
criminal underworld holds a fight tournt
where legends are born, and the men
who own them rule the streets.
LENEXA, 1 MILE
Drama
Director: English
Language: Jason Wiles
Producer: Mark Koetting
Key Cast: Chris Klein, William Baldwin,
Josh Stewart , Austin Nichols, Michael
Rooker, Jason Ritter
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A conflict between five teenage friends
and a corrupt sheriff in the small town of
Lenexa.
REXMEDIA
Rexmedia, 1617 Broadway, Suite C,
Santa Monica, CA 90404 U.S.A. Tel:
310.828.5060. Fax: 310.828.5160.
www.rexfilms.com, email:
info@rexfilms.com
At Cannes: George Lascu (President),
Cyndy Kuipers (V.P. Marketing), Silvio
Sardi (Producer), Liana Lascu (V.P.
Acquisitions)
Office: Noga Hilton 304, Tel:
33.4.92.99.75.33
DOWNTOWN
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Rafal Zielinsky
Producer: Joey Dedio/Silvio Sardi
Key Cast: Genevieve Bujold, John
Savage, Domenica Scorsese and Joey
Dedio
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget 2.5 Millions
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: U.S.A.
The streets of New York become home to
a group of young lost souls.
EL HUBRIS
Western (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Peter Antonijevic
Producer: George Lascu/Anthony
Tomaska
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget: 10 Million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: U.S.A.
A retired U.S army captain pursues
Pancho Villa bandits south of the border
to rescue his kidnapped wife.
ORDER OF ONE
Martial Arts/Action (90 min)
Director: English
Language: Kevin Woodhouse
Producer: David Findlay
Key Cast: Jason Cavalier, Hyung Chul
Kim and Melantha Black Thorne
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1.5 Million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
An escaped convict fights the mob to
protect the secret of an ancient sword.
REZO
REZO, 29, rue du Faubourg
Poissonnière, Paris, 75013 France. Tel:
33.1.42.46.46.30. Fax: 33.1.42.46.40.82.
www.infosrezo.com, email:
infosrezo@rezofilms.com
At Cannes: Jean-Michel REY (CEO),
Philippe LIEGEOIS (Producer), Laurent
DANIELOU (Head of Acquisitions and
Co-Productions), Sébastien CHESNEAU
(Head of Int’l Sales), Nicholas KAISER
(Head of Marketing and Festivals)
Office: 45, la Croisette, 7th Floor, Tel:
33.4.93.39.30.70, Fax: 33.4.93.39.30.70
C LEANER - N U I MAGE
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ALEXANDRA
Drama (92’)
Language: Russian
Director: Alexander Sokourov
Co-Production Partners: Laurent
Danielou
Producer: Andrey Sigle
Key Cast: Galina Vishnevskaya
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Russia
A grandmother ventures out of her
homeland in search of her grandson,
posted on the war front.
ULZHAN
www.ulzhan.com
Drama (95’)
Language: Fench/Kazakh
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Producer: Régis Ghezelbash, Volker
Schlöndorff
Key Cast: Philippe Torreton, David
Bennent, Ayanat Ksenbai
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Germany, France, Kazakhstan
Why did Charles Simon leave France for
the Far East? What force drove him to
this beautiful and hostile land?
13M2
www.13m2-lefilm.com
Thriller (84’)
Director: French
Language: Barthélemy Grossman
Producer: Barthélemy Grossman,
Murielle Thierrin
Key Cast: Barthélemy Grossman,
Bérénice Béjo, Thierry Lhermitte
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France
A nervous urban thriller, in the like of
Kassovitz’s early films, with upcoming
and confirmed French actors.
RIGEL
ENTERTAINMENT
Rigel Entertainment, 4201 Wilshire Blvd.,
Suite 555, Los Angeles, CA 90010 USA.
Tel: 323.954.8555. Fax: 323.954.8592.
www.rigel.tv, email: info@rigel.tv
At Cannes: John Laing (CEO), Anja
Bosch (Director, Marketing and Creative
Services), David Macaione (President),
Sherrie Guerrero (VP Sales), Kristie
Smith (VP Administration and World
Wide Distribution) Office: J8
BLONDE AND BLONDER
Comedy (90’)
Language: English
Director: Dean Hamilton
Key Cast: Pamela Anderson, Denise
Richards, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Meghan
Ory, Kevin and John Farley
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
Dawn and Dee are two blondes who are
mistaken as two professional assassins
assigned to “take out” the head of the
Chinese Mafia.
WHEN A MAN FALLS IN THE
FOREST
Drama (90’)
Language: English
Director: Ryan Eslinger
Key Cast: Sharon Stone, Timothy
Hutton, Dylan Baker, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
A Powerful Drama that brings together
four unlikely characters who manage to
create meaning in their lives through
difficult situations.
NOTHING EVER HAPPENS IN SAN
SABA
Drama (90’)
Director: English
Language: Mike Greene
Key Cast: Angus MacFadyen, Elisabeth
Rohm, Sunny Mabrey, Vivica A. Fox
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Bud wakes out of a coma and is charged
for a murder he doesn’t remember he
committed. Using his detective skills, he
uncovers the truth and a vicious
conspiracy.
RIVE GAUCHE
FILMS
Rive Gauche Films, 15442 Ventura Blvd.
Suite 101, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
USA. Tel: 818.386.1035. Fax:
818.784.9916. www.rivegauchefilms.net,
email: sales@rivegauchefilms.net
At Cannes: Jon Kramer (President)
Office: G10
EL BENNY
www.elbennymorethefilm.com
Drama (130’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Jorge Luis Sanchez
Producer: Iohamil navarro
Key Cast: Renny Arozarena, Enrique
Molina, Isabel Santos
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Cuba
An inspired biopic based upon the life of
one of the 20th Century’s most dynamic
entertainers, Benny More.
PAPER DOLLS
Documentary (85’)
Language: Hebrew/English
Director: Tomer Heyman
Producer: Cladia Levin, Stanley
Buchthal, Tomer Heyman
Delivery Status: In Development
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Israel/USA
In Paper Dolls Filipino transvestites
living in Israel spend their daytime hours
as compassionate care-givers to the
elderly only to change each night into the
engaging and flamboyant drag
performers “The Paper Dolls.”
BLING: A PLANET ROCK
Documentary (87’)
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Language: English
Director: Raquel Cepeda
Producer: Filippo Bozotti, Rebecca
Chaiklin
Delivery Status: Completed
A musically charged hard hitting
documentary linking the glittery Bling of
the Hip Hop culture to the thriving trade
in blood diamonds in war-ravaged Sierra
Leone.
S
SAHAMONKOLFILM
INTERNATIONAL
CO., LTD.
Sahamonkolfilm 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.
email: gillim@gmail.com
Film Production and Distribution
At Cannes: Mr. Gilbert Lim (Executive
Vice President), Mr. Pitaya Sithi-Amnuai
(Director of International Sales), Ms.
Petchladda Sinarpa (Sales Executive),
Mr. Gerald Lim (Director of
Acquisitions), Mr. Panu Aree (Director of
Acquisitions)
Office: Palais 23.02/25.01, Tel:
6681.822.6652
TABUNFIRE
Action (100 mins)
Language: Thai with English Sub.
Director: Mr. Chalerm Wongpim
Producer: Mr. Somsak
Techaratanaprasert
Cast: Mr. Dan Chupong, Mr. Putthipong
Sriwat, Mr. Panna Rittikrai, Mr. Samart
Payakarun and Ms. Kanyaphak
Suwannakud.
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Thailand
Action abounds in this action-packed
comedy starring Dan Chupong (Born to
Fight) as a modern day Robin Hood with
an evil warlock as his nemeses.
ONG BAK2
Martial Art Action
Language: Thai with English Sub.
Director: Tony Jaa, Panna Rittikrai
Producer: Mr. Somsak
Techaratanaprasert
Cast: Tony Jaa
Delivery Status: Inproduction
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Thailand
Ong Bak2, the long awaited next project
of action-super star, Tony Jaa with his
master Panna Rittkrai. Ong Bak2
promises to push the boundaries of
martial arts with fast paced action and
superb fight sequences.
13- Thriller (100 mins)
Language: Thai with English Sub.
Director: Chookiat Sakveerakul.
Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Cast: Krissada Sukosol Clapp, Saranyoo
Wongkrachang, and Achita Sikamana.
Delivery Status: completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Thailand
A new and very secret competition offers
a grand prize of 100 million Baht. The
lucky contestants are chosen from those
most afflicted with problems involving
work, money, family and love.
SCALA
PRODUCTIONS LTD
Scala Productions Ltd, 2nd Floor, 37
Foley Street, London W1W 7TN United
Kingdom. Tel: 44(0)207.637.5720. Fax:
44(0)207.637.5734. email:
scalaprods@aol.com
At Cannes: Nik Powell (Chairman), Ian
Prior (Head of Production)
Office: Tel: 0044.0.207.637.5720
THE COAT
Drama (90-120 min)
Language: English/Cypriot Turkish
Director: Kutlug Atarman
Co-Production Partners: Oan Films/ZeroFiction
Producer: Julie Baines/Martin Hageman
Key Cast: Zuhal Olcay
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget US$ 2 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK/Turkey/Germany
The Story of an unexpected friendship
between young Turkish and Greek girls
set just after the ethnic partitioning of
Cyprus in 1975.
JOHNNY BOLLYWOOD
Comedy (90-120 min)
Language: English
Director: Gary Sinyor
Co-Production Partners: Daniel
Zuta/Bobby Bedi
Producer: Deepak Verma
Key Cast: Deepak Verma, Claire Forlani,
Paul Barber, Vijay Raaz
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget US$ 6 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK
Banished to London after refusing to
marry a movie mogul’s daughter, and in
love with English princess Charile,
Bollywood star Johnny’s life gets
increasingly complicated.
KICKBACK (DU CANE’S BOYS)
Drama (90-120 min)
Director: English
Language: Kenny Glenaan
Producer: Julie Baines
Key Cast: Pete Postlethwaite, Zenzo
Ngqobe, Wellie Nzunza
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget US $ 2 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
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Origin: UK
The friendship between two young
African footballers is tested to the limit
after they are promised success in Europe
and instead find a tough reality.
SCREEN MEDIA
VENTURES, LLC
Screen Media Ventures, LLC, 757 Third
Avenue, New York, NY 10017 USA. Tel:
212.308.1790. Fax: 212.308.1791.
www.screenmedia.net
Distributor
At Cannes: Almira Malyshev (Senior VP,
International Sales), Michael Dwyer
(Director of International Sales),
Robert Baruc (President, Screen Media
Films), Suzanne Blech (Senior VP,
Sales and Acquisitions,
Screen Media Films)
Acquisition Executives: Robert Baruc
(President, Screen Media Films),
Suzanne Blech (Senior VP, Sales and
Acquisitions, Screen Media Films)
Office: Riviera - Stand G11,
Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.18
MURDER PARTY
http://www.murderpartymovie.com/
Horror/ Comedy (90 Minutes)
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: Complete
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, sparking a bloodbath
of mishap, mayhem and hilarity.
DISAPPEARENCES
http://www.disappearancesmovie.com/
Action / Adventure (118 Minutes)
Director: Jay Craven
Writer: Jay Craven
Producer: Jay Craven and Mark Donadio
Key Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Gary
Farmer, Genevieve Buiold, Luis Guzman
and William Sanderson
Delivery Status: Complete
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Forced to smuggle whiskey in an attempt
to save his family, Quebec Bill (Kris
Kristofferson) and his son embark on an
unforgettable trip.
WALKER PAYNE
Drama (117 min)
Language: English
Director: Matt Williams
Writer: Matt Williams and Alex
Paraskevas
Producer: Judd Payne
Key Cast: Jason Patric, Drea de Matteo
Delivery Status: Complete
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.
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Over 400 Feature Films of all Genres
SEVEN ARTS
PICTURES
Seven Arts Pictures, 6310 San Vicente
Blvd. Suite 510, Los Angeles, CA 90048
USA. Tel: 323.692.5003. Fax: 323-6341061. www.7artspictures.com
At Cannes: Peter Hoffman (Chairman),
Kate Hoffman (Executive Vice
President), Chris Bialek (Sales
Consultant), Sandra Staggs (Sales &
Marketing Executive), Justin Kelly
(Business Affairs Executive)
Office: M.Y. HEMILEA (Jette Albert
Edouard), Tel: 44.7917.186.853. Fax:
1.323.372.3790
THE WINTER QUEEN (AZAZEL)
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Producer: Thomas Hedman and Alan
Marshall
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: UK/Russia
Based on the best-selling novel by Boris
Akunin.
AMERICAN SUMMER (POOLBOY)
Comedy
Language: English
Director: JB Rogers
Producer: Warren Zide
Key Cast: Matthew Lillard, Efren
Ramirez, Brett Davern, Tom Arnold,
Rachelle Lefevre, George Takei
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A funny, colorful and surprisingly smart
comedy that tells the story of Alex
Sperling, Harvard-bound valedictorian,
who loses his summer internship and
heads to Los Angeles to work for his
charming and seemingly successful
cousin, Roger.
MERCY (AUTOPSY)
Thriller
Director: English
Language: Adam Gierasch
Producer: Warren Zide
Key Cast: Robert Patrick, Jessica
Lowndes, Ashley Schneider, Jenette
Goldstein, Robert LaSardo, Michael
Bowen
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Five friends on their spring break are left
on the side of the road in a hit-and-run
and end up at Charity Hospital where
they realize their lives are not about to be
saved.
Development)
Office: 129 - Quebec Pavilion, Tel:
334.9259.0180
MY DAUGHTER MY ANGEL
Drama (86 minutes)
Language: French
Director: Alexis Durand-Brault
Producer: Macime Remillard, Richard
Lalonde
Key Cast: Michel Cote, Karine Vanasse,
Dominique Leduc
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
Germain Dagenais’s world is turned
upside down when pornographic images
of his perfect daughter are found in a
murder victim’s home.
POOR BOY’S GAME
Drama (105 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Clement Virgo
Producer: Damon D’Oliveira, Clement
Virgo, Chaz Thorne
Key Cast: Danny Glover, Rossif
Sutherland, Flex Alexander
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
On his release from prison for the brutal
beating of a black man, a young white
boxer is coached by his victim’s father
for an upcoming fight against a vengeful
opponent.
KING OF SORROW
Thriller (94 min)
Director: English
Language: Damian Lee
Producer: Lowell Conn, Damian Lee,
Terence Robinson
Key Cast: Kim Coates, Lara Daans,
Angela Asher
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Canada
Redemption and damnation share a bed
of hope in a love story between a suicidal
psychiatrist and a drug addicted
homicidal cop.
SHOCHIKU CO., LTD.
Shochiku Co., Ltd., 4-1-1 Tsukiji, Togeki
Bldg. 12th Floor, Chuo-ku, Tokyo,1048422, Japan. Tel: 81.3.5550.1623. Fax:
81.3.5550.1654.
http://www.shochikufilms.com, e-mail
ibd@shochiku.co.jp
Sales agent, producer, distributor
At Cannes: Teruki Matsumoto
(Managing Director, Motion Picture
Operations), Masaki Koga (General
Manager, Licensing Business Division),
Kiwamu Sato (Manager, International
Sales and Licensing), Satoko Ishida
(Sales Executive), Junko Kawaguchi
(Sales Executive), Shion Komatsu (Sales
Executive)
Acquisition Executive: Kazunori
Moriguchi, Meri Koyama, Miki
Matsumoto
Office: Albatros 1C, Residence Grand
Hotel
VEXILLE
http://www.shochikufilms.com/film/detail
.php?product_code=681
Animation/Sci-Fi (109min)
Language: Japanese
Director: SORI
Writer: Haruka Handa, SORI
Producer: Toshiaki Nakazawa, Yumiko
Yoshihara, Ichiro Takase
Co-production partners: OXYBOT
Cast: (voice) Meisa Kuroki, Shosuke
Tanihara, Yasuko Matsuyuki
Delivery Status: Post Production /
Screening in Cannes
Budget: $10.00 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
From the creators of APPLESEED,
comes a full CG animated Sci-Fi action.
2077 - Ten years pass since Japan had
left United Nations to go into isolation.
Japan’s technology becomes a threat to
the world…
GENGHIS KHAN –TO THE ENDS
OF THE EARTH AND SEA (AOKI
OOKAMI – CHI HATE UMI
TSUKIRU MADE)
http://www.shochikufilms.com/film/detail
.php?product_code=676
Historical, Drama (136min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Shinichiro Sawai
Writer: Seiichi Morimura
Producer: Haruki Kadokawa
Production partners: Kadokawa Haruki
Corporation
Cast: Takashi Sorimachi, Rei Kikukawa,
Mayumi Wakamura, Yoshihiko
Hakamada, Kenichi Matsuyama
Delivery Status: Completed / Screening
in Cannes
SEVILLE PICTURES
Seville Pictures, 147 St Paul Street West,
#200, Montreal, QC H2Y1Z5 Canada.
Tel: 1.514.841.1910. Fax:
1.514.841.8030,
www.sevillepictures.com, email:
internationalsales@sevillepictures.com
At Cannes: David Reckziegel (Co
President), John Hamilton (Co
President), Pierre Brousseau (Exc VP
Marketing, Acquisitions & Distribution),
Anick Poirier (VP International Sales),
Caroline Habib (Director Acquisitions &
BLINDSIGHT - THE LITTLE FILM COMPANY
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Budget: $30million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan, Mongolia
Genghis Khan - the man who built
history’s greatest Empire. With a budget
of US$30million, four months on
location in Mongolia, this JapanMongolia co-production reveals the
mystery behind his life.
KITARO (GEGEGE NO KITARO)
http://www.shochikufilms.com/film/detail
.php?product_code=573
Action/Fantasy (103min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Katsuhide Motoki
Writer: Daisuke Habara
Producer: Teruki Matsumoto, Chihiro
Kameyama
Co-production partners: Shochiku Co.,
Ltd.
Cast: Eiji Wentz, Mao Inoue, Rena
Tanaka, Yo Oizumi
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $8million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Japan
A popular animation adapted into liveaction using Centro Digital Pictures
(“Kill Bill”). Kitaro is a half human, half
yokai trying to save human from the evil
attacks from another world.
SHORELINE
ENTERTAINMENT
Shoreline Entertainment, 1875 Century
Park East, Suite 600, Los Angeles, CA
90067 USA. Tel: 1.310.551.2060. Fax:
1.310.201.0729. www.slefilms.com,
email: sales@slefilms.com
Sales agent, Production
At Cannes: Morris Ruskin (CEO), Sam
Eigen (Director of World Wide
Distribution), Brian Sweet (Director of
Sales)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite 135, Tel:
33.04.92.98.77.00 x 135. Fax:
1.702.974.0707
THE SIGNAL
Horror (95 min)
Language: English
Directors: David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry,
and Dan Bush
Producers: Alexander Motlagh and Jacob
Gentry
Co-Producer: Shoreline Entertainment
Cast: AJ Bowen, Anessa Ramsey, and
Chadrian McKnight as Jim Parsons
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A mysterious signal, transmitted from all
media devices in the town of Terminus,
drives everyone to madness and murder,
but one man, who must fight the violence
within himself to save the woman he
loves.
WEIRDSVILLE
Comedy (96 min)
Language: English
Director: Alan Moyle
Producer: Nicholas Tabarrok
Co-Producer: Shoreline Entertainment
Cast: Scott Speedman, Wes Bently, and
Taryn Manning
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Canada
Screwball comedy of two junkies on the
run from a satanic cult, a cabal of midget
knights, a vengeful drug dealer, and a
mouse.
MAN IN THE CHAIR
Drama (107 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael Schroeder
Producer: Michael Schroeder
Cast: Christopher Plummer, Michael
Angarano, and Robert Wagner
Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007
Country of Origin: USA
Surrounding the relationship between
Cameron, a rebellious 17 year old who
aspires to be a film director, and Flash, a
cantankerous old man, who also happens
to be the last living crew member from
the acclaimed film “Citizen Kane.”
SHOWCASE
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
Showcase Entertainment, Inc., 21800
Oxnard Street, Suite 150, Woodland
Hills, CA 91467 USA. Tel: 818.715.7006.
Fax: 818.715.7009.
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), Leslee JonesAllmon (VP-Worldwide Distribtuion
Services)
Office: Lerins - Booth #S-1, Tel:
33.(0)4.92.99.32.40
MY SUICIDAL SWEETHEART
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Michael Parness
Producer: G. Mac Brown, Elana Pianko,
Ron Brown
Key Cast: David Krumholtz, Natasha
Lyonne, Tim Blake Nelson, Lorraine
Bracco, David Paymer, Roisanna
Arquette, Karen Black
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: USA
A young man vows to end his life until
he finds something worthwhile to live
for.a girl who is more messed up than he
is! A romantic comedy about life, death
and the redeeming power of love.
BOXBOARDERS
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Rob Hedden
Producer: Jay Smith, George Elder, Rob
Hedden
Key Cast: James Immekus, Austin Basis,
Michelle Alexis, Michelle Pierce, Mitch
Easkins, Stephen Tobolowsky, Melora
Hardin, Erik ‘Lizardman’ Sprague, Dale
Midkiff
Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: USA
This hilarious comedy follows two
unpopular high school surfers who
inadvertently invent a new sport –
boxboarding! But when someone wants
to steal their idea, they must race to save
their reputation.
BACK IN BUSINESS
Comedy
Director: English
Language: Chris Munro
Producer: Neil J. Gardiner
Key Cast: Martin Kemp, Chris Barrie,
Joanna Taylor
Delivery Status: Post Production
Country of Origin: England
A British comedy in the tradition of “The
Pink Panther,” finds Britain’s most
dashing conman about to pull off his
biggest caper yet, while avoiding
Scotland Yard’s worst detective.
SHOW EAST
Show East, 10F New Seoul B/D 618-3
Shinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu Seoul 135894 Korea (South). Tel: 82.2.3446.9688.
Fax: 82.2.3446.9620.
www.showeast.co.kr/eng
Distributor, Sales agent, Producer
At Cannes: DJ KIM (President),
Michelle SON (Head of Int’l Business),
Luna CHOO (Assistant Manager of Int’l
Business)
Acquisition Executive: DJ KIM
(President), Michelle SON (Head of Int’l
Business)
Office: Riviera G5 / G7, Tel:
33.04.92.99.33.38
LE GRAND CHEF
Drama
Language: KOREAN
Director: JEON Yun-su
Writer: SHIN Dong-ick, JEON Yun-su
Producer: DJ KIM, LEE Sung-hun
Cast: KIM Gang-woo, LIM Won-hee,
LEE Ha-na
Delivery Status: Post production
Budget: US$ 4M
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
A DESTINY (WORKING TITLE)
Action Noir
Language: KOREAN
Director: KIM Hae-gon
Writer: KIM Hae-gon
Producer: KANG Min
Cast: SONG Seung-heon, KWON Sangwoo
Delivery Status: In production
Budget: US$ 5M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: KOREA
“I’ll not submit to the decision of
fate!”… Action Noir film about 4
friends’ faith, betrayal, love and revenge
YACHA
Horror Zombie / Martial arts
Language: KOREAN
Director: RYOO Seung-wan
Writer: RYOO Seung-wan
Producer: Syd LIM
Delivery Status: Pre production
Budget: US$ 8M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: KOREA
Yacha, the name of Korean Zombie. The
night of horror and chaos has begun!
SND - M6 D.A.
SND - M6 D.A., 89 Avenue Charles de
Gaulle, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 92200,
France. Tel: 33.(0)1.41.92.68.66. Fax:
33.(0)1.41.92.68.69. www.m6da.com,
Email: infom6da@m6.fr
Sales agent
At Cannes: Laetitia de la Gravière
(Deputy Manager), Caroline Mougey
(Head of Sales), Gregory Chambet (Int’l
Sales & Marketing), Isabelle Drouart
(Sales France)
Office: Riviera K 6, Tel:
33.(0)4.92.99.32.27. Fax:
33.(0)4.92.99.32.28
THE KEY
Thriller (90 min)
Language: French
Director: Guillaume Nicloux
Writer: Pierre Trividic
Producer: Philippe Rousselet, Frédéric
Bourboulon
Key Cast: Guillaume Canet, Vanessa
Paradis, Marie Gillain, Thierry
Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko, Jean
Rochefort
Delivery Status: Postproduction
Budget: 8 M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France
Drugs. A murder. A disappearing. Three
stories. One key.
INTIMATE ENEMIES
War (100 min)
Language: French
Director: Florent Siri
Writer: Patrick Rotman
Producer: Les Films du Kiosque
Key Cast: Benoît Magimel, Albert
Dupontel, Aurélien Recoing
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 10 M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France
A young lieutenant takes command of an
outpost in Algeria, only to see his moral
values put to the test. Based on historical
facts, a war movie in the vein of Platoon.
TRIVIAL
Thriller (90 min)
Language: French
Director: Sophie Marceau
Writer: Sophie Marceau, Gianguido
Spinelli, Jacques Deschamps
Producer: Iliade & Films
Key Cast: Sophie Marceau, Christopher
Lambert, Robert Hossein
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 10 M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France
The father of an important palace owner
disappears in Deauville. A troubled cop
investigates and uncovers a web of
secrets involving a deceased actress …
looking like the mysterious woman who
tries to help him.
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SOONER
WORLDWIDE LLC
Sooner Worldwide LLC, 9229 Sunset
Blvd. Suite 215 Los Angeles, CA 90069
USA. Tel: 310.443.7788. Fax:
310.443.7739.
Distributor
At Cannes: Peter Elson (President), Lars
Bjorck (Consultant), Nora Shields
(Executive Assistant)
Office: Hotel Majestic Suite # 224, Tel:
33.04.9298.7700, Fax: 33.04.9338.9790
SEPTEMBER DAWN
Drama (120 mins)
Language: English
Director: Chris Cain
Writer: Carole Whang Schutter, Chris
Cain
Producer: Scott Duthie, Chris Cain,
Kevin Matossian
Cast: Jon Voight, Terrence Stamp, Trent
Ford, Tamara Hope
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
On September 11, 1857, in an unspoiled
Utah valley, 120 men, women and
children were savagely murdered – in the
name of God. Who was responsible?
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, Country of
Origin: USA
In the supermarket at night when the
lights go out, the grocery store
transforms into a city.
DRONE
Thriller/Horror
Language: English
Director: Aaron Woodley
Writer: Jon Felson, Rusty Gorman (short
story by T.C. Boyle)
Producer: Joel B. Michaels, Garth H.
Drabinsky
Delivery Status: Pre-production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: CANADA
A childless couple who have adopted a
young boy gradually realize that his evil
obsession with “bees” is a deadly threat
to their lives.
SPOTLIGHT
PICTURES
Spotlight Pictures, 6671 W. Sunset Blvd.,
#1591, Hollywood, CA 90028 USA. Tel:
323.871.2551. Fax: 323.871.2554,
www.spotlight-pictures.com, email:
info@spotlight-pictures.com
At Cannes: Matthew McCombs
(President)
Office: C11
DEATH TOLL
Action (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Phenomenon
Producer: Dan Garcia
Key Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, DMX,
Keshia Knight Pulliam, Leila Arcieri
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $2,000,000.
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
FBI officers try to take back the streets
from gangs.
THE LAST
http://www.thelastmovie.net
Horror (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Andy Hill
Producer: Tomas Puig
Key Cast: Bob Sáenz, Bruno Kanter,
Darren Bridgett
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1,000,000.
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A scientist discovers an ancient object of
mysterious origins, and hidden within is
a powerful secret
LYCAN
http://www.lycanmovie.com
Creature feature (90 Minutes)
Director: English
Language: Gregory C. Parker
Producer: Andrew Gernhard
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: 1,100,000.
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A creature escapes a scientific lab.
STACCATO FILMS
Staccato Films, Sumatrakade 611, 1019
PS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel:
31.20.419.04.04. Fax: 31.20.419.05.05.
www.staccatofilms.com, Email:
info@staccatofilms.com
Producer
At Cannes: Emjay Rechsteiner
(Producer), Alexandra Lodewijkx
(Assistant Producer)]
Office: 32 Avenue des Mimosas, 06110
Le Cannet, Tel: 493.694.618
THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE
www.thedevilsdouble.com
Psychological thriller (100 min)
Language: English
Writer: Michael Thomas
Producer: Emjay Rechsteiner
Co-production partners: Michael John
Fedun Attila Meijs
Delivery Status: In Development
The true story of the man forced to be
the double of Saddam Hussein’s cruel
son. Based on the bestselling lifestory of
Latif Yahia.
SPACE COLLECTIVE (FUBAR)
Mockumentary (90 min)
Language: English
Director: René Daalder
Writer: René Daalder
Producer: Emjay Rechsteiner
Co-production partners: American Scenes
Delivery Status: Preproduction
The future of everything!
DOVER (CARGO)
Political thriller (90 min)
Language: English, Dutch, Chinese
Director: Jaap van Eyck
Writer: Jaap van Eyck
Producer: Emjay Rechsteiner
Delivery Status: In Development
Due to a combination of mistaken
assessments and unwise decisions, 58
Chinese illegal immigrants suffocate in a
container boarded for Dover. Based on
“the Dover affair”
STORM
ENTERTAINMENT
Storm Entertainment, 127 Broadway,
Suite #222, Santa Monica, CA 90401
U.S.A. Tel: 310.656.2500. Fax:
310.656.2510.
www.stormentertainment.com, email:
storment95@aol.com
At Cannes: H. Michael Heuser (President
& CEO), Francesco Juilland (Producer),
Tony Pupatello (Administrative
Assistant)
Office: Majestic Hotel #107, Tel: (direct)
04.97.06.85.17 or 33.04.92.98.77.00
OUTLANDERS
Action/Thriller
Language: English
Director: Dominic Lees
Co-Production Partners: Storm
Entertainment & Sterling Pictures
Producer: Michael Riley
Key Cast: Jakub Tolak, Przemek
Sadowski, Alex Raben, Shaun Dingwall,
Joe Tucker
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: U.K.
The story of a young man’s journey into
the dangerous and seductive life of New
Europe’s criminal underworld,
OUTLANDERS is a film about fast
money, easy women and desperate lives.
LADY GODIVA, BACK IN THE
SADDLE
http://www.ladygodivabackinthesaddle.co
m - Comedy
Language: English
Director: Baz Taylor
Co-Production Partners: Quantum Films
Limited, Media One Global Limited,
Koralis Pictures, Storm Entertainment
Producer: Frank Sacks, Mohan Chopra,
Heath Jones
Key Cast: Phil Cornwell, Caroline
Harker, James Fleet, Nick Holder, Tony
Slattery, Faye Tozer
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: U.K.
Trouble brews in Coventry. Mayor
Osbourne is in debt to mobster Ray
Carlton, who wants permission to push
through plans for a casino on one of
Coventry’s ancient municipal parks.
KU
Action/Thriller
Director: English
Language: Robert Golden
Co-Production Partners: Storm
Entertainment and Midsummer Films
Producer: Robert Golden, Chris Milburn,
Matthew Kuipers, H. Michael Heuser
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: U.K.
A state assassin seeks revenge for his
lover’s murder as he pursues his own
transcendence. The story of a flawed man
who sought to do good by unknowingly
doing evil.
STUDIO 18
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.
www.studio18india.com, Email:
overseas@studio18india.com
At Cannes: Ashoka Holla (Senior Vice
President – Intl Business and Home
Ent.), Tanuj Garg (Country Head – Intl
Business, UK and Ireland), Gayathiri
Batra (Senior Business Manager – Rest
of the World)
Office: Booth No. 25.05 / Palais
LEZIONI - MIF TF1
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LITTLE ZIZOU
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Sooni Taraporevala
Producers: Studio 18, Jigri Dost
Cast: Boman Irani, Mahabanoo Kotwal
Production Status: In Production
Country: India
A Mira Nair presentation, “Little Zizou”
is a comedy about faith and hope, pain
and loss, framed around a gentle yet
powerful parable of tolerance.
HALLA BOL
Drama
Language: Hindi
Director: Rajkumar Santoshi
Producers: Studio 18, Sunrise Pictures
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Vidya Balan,
Kareena Kapoor
Production Status: In Production
Country: India
“Halla Bol” is powerful and compelling
cinema from Rajkumar Santoshi – the
master-maker of the biggest and most
successful Indian dramas.
KYA LOVE STORY HAI
Musical (125 minutes)
Language: Hindi
Director: Lovely Singh
Producers: N.R. Pachisia
Cast: Tusshar Kapoor, Ayesha Takia,
Kareena Kapoor
Production Status: Completed
Country: India
“Kya Love Story Hai” is a musical
romantic comedy about a carefree and
wayward youth who experiences love-atfirst-sight.
SUMMIT
ENTERTAINMENT
Summit Entertainment, 77 Dean Street,
London W1D 3SH UK. Tel:
44(0)207.494.1724. Fax:
44(0)207.494.1725. Los Angeles: 1630
Stewart Street, Suite 120, Santa Monica
CA . Tel: 1.310.309.8400. Fax:
1.310.828.4132
At Cannes: Patrick Wachsberger
(President & CEO), Bob Hayward
(COO), David Garrett (Executive Vice
President), Ralpho Borgos (Senior Vice
President, International Sales), Erik Feig
(President, Production & Acquisitions),
Andrew Matosich (Executive Vice
President & General Counsel)
Office: 2 la Croisette, 4th Floor, Tel:
33(0)4.86.68.80.75. Fax:
33(0)4.86.68.80.54
POMPEII
Epic Thriller
Director: Roman Polanski
Writers: Robert Harris, Roman Polanski
Producers: Robert Benmussa, Alain
Sarde, Roman Polanski
Cast: TBA
Production Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: Europe
At the young age of twenty-seven,
engineer Marcus Attilus Primus has just
been appointed aquarius of the 60-mile
aqueduct that provides water to all the
cities in the Bay of Naples.
I KNOW WHO KILLED ME
Thriller
Director: Chris Sivertson
Writer: Jeff Hammond
Producer: Frank Mancuso, Jr.
Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Julia Ormond,
Spencer Garrett
Production Status: Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
Is Aubrey suffering from Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder, or is this a case of
mistaken identity?
RED CLIFF
Historical Epic
Director: John Woo
Producers: John Woo, Terence Chang
Writer: John Woo
Cast: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung, Chang
Chen, Lin Chi-ling
Production Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: China/U.S.
Red Cliff is one of the most famous
battles in Chinese history.
SURF FILM
Surf Film, Via Padre G. A. Filippini, 130,
00144 Rome, Italy. Tel:
0039.06.5262101. Fax:
0039.06.5293816. www.surffilm.com, email: surf@surffilm.com
Producer, Distributor
At Cannes: Massimo Vigliar (President),
Stefania Carnevale (Head of International
Sales),
Elena Francot (Domestic Sales
Manager), Menna De Villamor (Sales
Assistant)
Office: Palais Des Festivals – Riviera Cannes
MARCO FERRERI – THE MAN
WHO CAME FROM THE FUTURE
Documentary (about 90’)
Language: Italian (with English and
French subtitles)
by Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri
Co-Production Partners: In collaboration
with Le Orme, La 7.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Italy
Marco Ferreri, bearded prophet, leading
filmmaker, forgotten poet.
MARCELLO
Documentary (about 90’)
Language: Italian, English, French
by Mario Canale, Annarosa Morri
Co-Production Partners: In collaboration
with Le Orme, Acab, LA 7.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Italy
Ten years after his death, the name
Mastroianni still evokes memories of an
era: a world composed of talent, good
looks, charm, gentleness and seduction.
AFRICAN GAME
Action Movie
Language: English
by Michael E. Lemick
Co-Production Partners: In collaboration
with Dania Film.
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Italy
In Kenya, a killer is involved in weapons
trafficking. He will die trying to save a
girl.
T
TANDEM
COMMUNICATIONS
GMBH
Tandem Communications GmbH,
Sonnenstrasse 14, Munich 80331
Germany. Tel: 49.89.96.22.83.00. Fax:
49.89.96.22.83.10. www.tandemcom.de,
email: info@tandemcom.de
At Cannes: Bernhard Schwab
(International Sales Executive)
Office:
PAINKILLER JANE
Action Series (22 x 60 min)
Language: English
Director: various
Co-Production Partners: Starz Media
Productions, Insight Filmstudios
Producer: Kirk Shaw, Gil Grant, Rob
Word, Kristanna LØken, Rola Bauer
Key Cast: Kristanna LØken
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget: $33m US
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Jane is a new kind of hero; her ability to
overcome pain and her keen mind make
her perfect for a secret mission.
THE COMPANY
Action Thriller (3 x 90 min)
Language: English
Director: Mikael Salomon
Co-Production Partners: Sony Pictures
Television, Scott Free Production, John
Calley Production
Producer: Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, John
Calley
Key Cast: Chris O’Donnell, Alfred
Molina, Michael Keaton, Alessandro
Nivola, Rory Cochrane, Tom Hollander,
Alexandra Maria Lara, Natascha
McElhone, Raoul Bova, Erika Marozsán,
Misel Maticevic
Delivery Status: Post Production
Budget: $35m US
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
An action-packed thriller that traces the
activities of the CIA’s underground fight
with the KGB, spanning the globe from
Moscow to Berlin, from Budapest to
London, from Washington to Cuba.
NORA ROBERTS COLLECTION:
ANGELS FALL/MONTANA
SKY/BLUE SMOKE/CAROLINA
MOON
Romantic Thrillers (4 x 90 min)
Director: English
Language: Ralph Hemecker, Mike Robe,
David Carson, Stephen Tolkien
Co-Production Partners: Mandalay
Pictures, Stephanie Germain Productions
in association with Tandem
Communications
Producer: Peter Guber, Stephanie
Germain, Peter Strauss
Key Cast: Heather Locklear, John
Corbett, Claire Forlani, Jacqueline
Bisset, Oliver Hudson, Alicia Witt
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget: $20m US
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A built-in Franchise with the four
compelling, fast-paced thrillers ANGELS
FALL, MONTANA SKY, CAROLINA
MOON and BLUE SMOKE based on
novels by Nora Roberts.
TELEPOOL GMBH
Telepool GmbH, Sonnenstrasse 21,
Munich, 80331, Germany. Tel:
49.89.558.760. Fax: 49.89.558.76.188.
www.telepool.de, email:
cinepool@telepool.de
Distribution and Acquisition
At Cannes: Dr. Thomas Weymar (CEO),
Marc Gabizon (Deputy Managing
Director), Philippe van Doornick
(Deputy Managing Director), Wolfram
Skowronnek (Sales Manager), Justyna
Muesch (Assistant to Managing
Director/Sales & Acquisition Manager),
Irina Ignateiw, (VP International Sales),
Acquisition Executives: Thomas Sierk
(Acquisitions), Julia Müntefehring
(Acquisitions), Silke Wilfinger
(Acquisitions)
Office: Palais Riviera L1/M2, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.32. Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.32.32
THE WILD SOCCER BUNCH 4
(DWK 4 - DIE WILDEN KERLE)
www.dwk4.de
Family entertainment (104 min)
Language: German with English subtitles
Director: Joachim Masannek
Producer: Ewa Karlström & Andreas
Ulmke-Smeaton
Cast: Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht, Sarah
Kim Gries, Constantin Gastmann, Raban
Bieling, Claudia Michelsen, Uwe
Ochsenknecht
Delivery Status: (pre, post, in production
or completed)
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Germany
This time they must prove their mettle in
the free-style soccer contest against “The
Ragnarök Wolves”!
TO THE LIMIT (AM LIMIT)
www.amlimit.kinowelt.de
Docu-Feature (95 min)
Language: German and English with
English subtitles
Director: Pepe Danquart
Producer: Kirsten Hager, Erich Lackner,
Mirjam Quinte
With: Alexander Huber, Thomas Huber
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: German
Features the Huber brothers in a
spectacular documentary on their attempt
to break the speed climbing record at the
“Wall of Walls,” the El Capitan in the
Yosemite Valley.
BREAKOUT
www.breakout-film.ch
Drama
Language: Swiss German with English
subtitles
Director: Reto Schaerli & Lukas Hobi
Cast: Nils Althaus, Melanie Winiger ,
Max Rüdlinger, Roeland Wiesnekker
Delivery Status: (pre, post, in production
or completed)
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Switzerland
Honor is to get even without squealing
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on others. Break-dancer Nia (Swiss
shooting Star 2007 Nils Althaus) has
honour. How will he take revenge for his
best friend’s death and the term he’s
innocently serving in a youth detention
centre?
TF1
INTERNATIONAL
TF1 International, Immeuble Central
Park - 9, rue Maurice Mallet , 92130
Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. Tel:
33(0)1.41.41.21.68. Fax:
33(0)1.41.41.21. 33.
www.tf1international.com
At Cannes: Mr. Patrick Bidet
(Chairman), Mrs. Sara May (Executive
VP Acquisitions), Mr. Nicolas Eschbach
(Executive VP International
Distribution), Miss Adeline Fontant
Tessaur (Senior VP International Sales &
Acquisitions), Mr. Dimitri Stephanides
(International Sales Manager), Mrs. Anna
Marsh (International Sales Manager),
Mrs. Coralie Chave (International Sales
Manager)
Office: Riviera N3
CASH
Version: French
Director: Eric BESNARD
Cast: Jean DUJARDIN, Jean RENO,
Valeria GOLINO
Producers: Patrice LEDOUX - Pulsar
Status: shooting
LEZIONI DI VOLO (FLYING
LESSONS)
By: Francesca Archibugi
Version: Italian
Produced by: Cattleya in collaboration
with Rai Cinema in coproduction with
Aquarius Films (UK), Khussro Films
(India) and Babe Films (France) in
collaboration with Cinemello
With: Giovanna Mezzogiorno (La Bestia
Nel Cuore / Don’t Tell – Volpi Cup at the
Venice Film Festival 2005, L’Ultimo
Bacio / The Last Kiss, La Finestra di
Fronte), Andrea Miglio Risi, Tom
Karumathy, Anna Galiena, Flavio Bucci,
Angela Finocchiaro (La Bestia Nel Cuore
/ Don’t Tell, Non ti muovere / Don’t
Move), Roberto Citran
Delivery Status: Completed
Two young Italians discover life and love
on the roads of India.
SHALL WE KISS? (UN BAISER,
S’IL VOUS PLAÎT!)
By: Emmanuel MOURET (Change of
Address)
Produced by: Frédéric NIEDERMAYER
- MOBY DICK Films
With: Virginie LEDOYEN , Stefano
ACCORSI (Romanzo Criminale,
L’Ultimo Bacio), Emmanuel MOURET,
Julie GAYET (Mon Meilleur Ami)
Status: In post production
A delicious romantic comedy about
desire. And that dangerous, treacherous
first kiss.
puzzling series of ‘mathematically
linked’ murders.
THE LAST WORD
Comedy
Writer/Director: Geoffrey Haley
Principal Cast: Winona Ryder, Wes
Bentley, Ray Romano
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Country of Origin: 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.
THINKFILM
THOMPSON/STARR
ORGANIZATION
THINKFilm, 23 East 22nd Street, 5th
Floor, New York, NY 10010 USA. Tel:
212.444.7900. Fax: 212.444.7901.
At Cannes: Jeff Sackman (Pres. & CEO),
Randy Manis (Sr. VP, Acquisitions &
Business Affairs), Mark Urman (Head of
US Theatrical), Eve Schoukroun (Head
of Sales), David Fenkel (VP,
International), Jessica Malik (Sales
Executive)
Office: 4, La Croisette. 2nd Floor,
Cannes. Tel: 33(0)4.93.38.17.88. Fax:
33(0)4.93.38.19.06
MIO FRATELLO E UN FIGLIO
UNICO (MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY
CHILD)
Comedy
Director: Daniele Luchetti
Producers: Marco Chimenz,
Principal Cast: Elio Germano, Riccardo
Scamarcio, Anna Bonaiuto
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: 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.
THE OXFORD MURDERS
Mystery
Director: Alex de la Iglesias
Writer: Guillermo Martinez
Producers: Mariela Besuievsky, Kevin
Loader
Principal Cast: John Hurt, Elijah Wood,
Leonor Watling
Delivery Status: Post-Production
Country of Origin: UK
A new student and esteemed professor at
Oxford University team up to solve a
ON EVIL GROUNDS
Thompson/Starr Organization, PO Box
ll236, Beverly Hills. CA 90213Tel: Tel:
8l8.998.8126 USA. Fax: 818.773.8962.
tsorg@webtv.net
Company Type: Distributors and Agents
At Cannes: Joey Thompson (President),
Jen Starr (Sales), Chaya Finton
(Marketing)
Office: Hotel Mexicana, Tel: 3334 3901
JOHNNY CASH AT NASHVILLE
CONCERT
Music
The late Johnny Cash performs with all
star music greats.
THE WACKY WORLD OF DOCTOR
MORGUS
Comedy
Dr. Morgus and comatose Zelda in evil
plot to take over USA.
NORTH OF THE SUN
Documentary
Last great hunters in Arctic that can
never be filmed again.
TRICOAST
INTERNATIONAL
TriCoast International, 1547 10th Street,
Santa Monica, California, 90401, USA.
Tel: 310.458.7707. Fax: 310.458.7701.
http://www.tricoastinternational.com
Independent film, production, and
distribution company
At Cannes: Ami Artzi (President),
Strathford Hamilton (CEO), Marcy
Levitas Hamilton (CEO)
Office: Riviera, Booth E4, Tel: cell:
423.663.128715 (Ami Artzi);
423.663.128713 (Strath Hamilton);
423.663.128714 (Marcy Levitas
Hamilton)
MOVING MCALLISTER
www.movingmcallisterthemovie.com
Romantic Comedy (133 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Andrew Black
Writer: Ben Gourley
Producer: Ben Gourley, Jason Faller,
Kynan Griffin
Co-production partners: Revel
Entertainment, Camera 40 Productions
Key Cast: Ben Gourley, Jon Heder, Mila
Kunis, Rutger Hauer
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Hilarious comedy about law intern who
moves boss’s gorgeous niece crosscountry. They team up with oddball
hitchhiker (Jon Heder, star of blockbuster
“Blades of Glory”), and uproarious
adventures ensue.
MY BROTHER
www.mybrotherthemovie.com
Crime Drama (106 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Anthony Lover
Writer: Anthony Lover
Producer: Gregory Segal, Leslieann
Fouche, Gingi Rochelle
Co-production partners: Angel Baby
Entertainment, Liberty Artists, My
Brother Productions, LLC
Key Cast: Vanessa Williams, Nashawn
Kearse, Tatum O’Neal
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
A mother’s (Vanessa Williams) time is
running short. Despite enormous
obstacles her two sons prevail above a
life of crime because they are guided by
their mother’s principles.
THE CELLAR DOOR
www.cellardoormovie.com
Thriller, Horror
Language: English
Director: Matt Zettell
Writer: Christopher Nelson
Producer: Hilary Six
Co-production partners: Six Sense
Productions
Key Cast: James DuMont, Michelle
Tomlinson, Heather Sconyers
Delivery Status: Completed
- INTRA MOVIES
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Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Young woman finds herself imprisoned
in wooden cell in the basement of a serial
killer. She must survive with only her
wits against his insanity.
TROMA
ENTERTAINMENT
Troma Entertainment, 733 Ninth Ave.,
New York, NY 10019 USA. Tel:
1.212.757.4555. Fax: 1.212.399.9885,
http://www.troma.com, email:
internationalsales@troma.com
At Cannes: Lloyd Kaufman (President),
Lisa Borhoum (Director of International
Sales)
Office: Palais 22.14, Tel: 0492998030
POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE
CHICKEN DEAD
http://www.poultrygeistmovie.com/
Horror/Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Lloyd Kaufman
Co-Production Partners: Lloyd Kaufman,
Michael Herz
Producer: Kiel Walker, Andy Deemer,
Gabriel Friedman
Key Cast: Jason Yachanin, Kate Graham,
Allyson Sereboff, Robin L. Watkins,
Joshua Olatunde, Caleb Emerson, Rose
Ghavami, Khalid Rivera, Lloyd
Kaufman, Ron Jeremy.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: U.S.A.
Mass-exterminated chickens possessed
by the souls of massacred Native
Americans, who then take revenge on
unsuspecting fast-food patrons and
workers.
SPECIAL NEEDS
http://www.specialneedsthemovie.com
Documentary/Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Isaak James
Co-Production Partners: Lloyd Kaufman,
Michael Herz
Producer: Isaak James, Michael C.
Kricfalusi, Eva James
Key Cast: Isaak James, Eva James,
Michael C. Kricfalusi
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: U.S.A.
A flamboyant Producer: creates
“Handicaps”, a startling new reality show
about the physically and mentally
disabled.
COONS! NIGHT OF THE BANDITS
OF THE NIGHT
Horror (82 min)
Director: English
Language: Travis Irvine
Co-Production Partners: Lloyd Kaufman,
Michael Herz
Producer: Travis Irvine
Key Cast: Brian Kamerer, Lauren
Bowman, Dan Velez
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: U.S.A.
The blood flows and the fur flies as a
Christian Youth Camp finds itself under
attack by a pack of ravenous raccoons!
TVE
TVE, Joaquín Costa 43, Madrid, 28002
Spain. Tel: 34.91.581.7992. www.rtve.es
At Cannes: Milagros García (Head of
Sales), Laura García (Executive Sales)
Office: Stand Espagne
THE CONTESTANT
(CONCURSANTE)
Black Comedy (90’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Rodrigo Cortés
Key Cast: Leonardo Sbaraglia,Chuté
Lera, Miryam Gallego
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2005, Country of
Origin: Spain
“The Contestant” recounts the roller
coaster ride of Martín Circo Martín, the
fortunate winner of the most lucrative
game show in the history of television to
the tune of three million Euros.
LIFE ON THE EDGE (LA VIDA
ABISMAL)
Tragicomedy (90’)
Language: Spanish
Director: Ventura Pons
Key Cast: OSCAR JAENADA, JOSE
SOSPEDRA, ANTONIO VALERO
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Spain
1980. In a luxurious mansion in some
Central European principality, a number
of guests, are celebrating the New Year.
NOBODY´S PERFECT
(VA A SER QUE NADIE ES
PERFECTO)
Comedy (102’)
Director: Spanish
Language: Joaquín Oristrell
Key Cast: Fernando Tejero, Santi Millán,
José Luis García Pérez
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Spain
U
UBU PRODUCTIONS
UBU Productions, P. O. Box 40 19 65 ,
Munich D-80719, Germany. Tel:
49.160.928.150.21. e-mail:
UBU.Productions@web.de
Production, distribution
At Cannes: Mr. Jean Uliczay (President,
Prod., Exec. Producer), Ms. Alice
Kanterian (Acquisitions), Mr. Jean Kail
(Director)
Office:
HANG HIM HIGHER
Road movie (100 min)
Language: english
Director: Jean Kail
Producer: Jean Uliczay
Co-production partners: UBU
Productions
Delivery Status: pre-production
Budget: 3 mill. US $
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA / F / D
The Hang Man needs the hanging men to
be satisfied.
DRACULA ON THE ROAD
Horror comedy (90 min)
Language: english, romanian
Director: Jean Uliczay
Producer: Jean Uliczay
Co-production partners: UBU
Productions, Tansylvania Productions
Delivery Status: post-production
Budget: 3mill. US $
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Germany / Romania
Dr. Franckenstein as Dracula on the road
in Europe.
ISLAMIC ATTACK
Reality-based (120 min)
Language: english, french, german
Director: Jean Kail
Producer: Jean Uliczay
Co-production partners: UBU
Productions
Delivery Status: post production
Budget: 3 mill. US $
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Germany, GB, F
The Islamic conquest in Europe.
V
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
Sales agent, producer, distributor
At Cannes: Ngo Bich Hanh (Vice
President), Nguyen Bao Mai (Manager)
Acquisition Executive: Ngo Bich Hanh
(Vice President), Nguyen Bao Mai
(Manager)
Office: Riviera Stand H2
THE WHITE SILK DRESS
www.thewhitesilkdress.com
Drama (135 min)
Language: Vietnamese
Director: LUU Huynh Luu
Writer: LUU Huynh Luu
Producer: Phuoc Sang Entertainment,
Co-production partners: Vietnam Studio,
AVA Production
Key Cast: TRUONG Ngoc Anh, QUOC
Khanh
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Vietnam
This story is about a very poor family in
Hoi An during 1960s – a beautiful
ancient town near the Marble Mountains
of Da Nang.
SAIGON ECLIPSE
Drama (98 min)
Language: Vietnamese - English
Director: Othello Khanh
Writer: Othello Khanh, John Board &
Bernard Leroy Deval
Producer: Othello Khanh, John Board
Key Cast: TRUONG Ngoc Anh, Dustin
Nguyen, Johny Nguyen, Marjolaine Bui
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Vietnam
This epic poem chronicles the fate of
Kieu, a beautiful young girl, who soon
after her secret engagement, returns
home to find her father is about to be
imprisoned on trumped up charges.
PAO’S STORY
Drama (90 min)
Language: Vietnamese
Director: NGO Quang Hai
Producer: Dang Tat Binh
Key Cast: Do Thi Hai Yen, Ly Thanh
Kha
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: Vietnam
After a family incident, Pao leaves home
to track down her real mother.
VISION FILMS
Vision Films, 14945 Ventura Blvd. Ste.
306, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA. Tel:
818.784.1702. Fax: 818.788.3715.
www.visionfilms.net, email:
sales@visionfilms.net
At Cannes: Lise Romanoff (Managing
Director, Worldwide Distribution), Andre
Relis (Vice President Intl. Sales &
Acquisitions), Brady Bowen (Intl. Sales
and Marketing Executive)
Office: 21.01 Palais
7EVENTY 5IVE
Horror (90 min)
Directed by: Deon Taylor, Brian Hooks,
Gwendoline Yeo
Starring Rutger Hauer and Brian Hooks.
Country of Origin: 2007
College students are engaged in a
harmless prank-calling contest called
“75” which ultimately becomes lethal.
CHAOS
Horror (75 min)
Directed by: David DeFalco
Starring Kevin Gage, Chantal Degroat,
Maya Barovich
Year of Production: 2006
Nihilistic and cruel, Roger Ebert urges
viewers to avoid this most brutal shocker.
A gang of felons capture and torment 2
girls drawing them into an inescapable
nightmare of carnage.
SNOOP DOGG’S HOOD OF
HORROR
Horror (96 min)
Starring Snoop Dogg, Billy Dee
Williams, Danny Trejo
Year of Production: 2006
If you play with the Devil in the hood.
You will end up paying with your life!
VISION MUSIC
Vision Music, 14945 Ventura Blvd. Ste.
306, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA. Tel:
818.784.1702. Fax: 818.788.3715.
www.visionmusicinc.net, email:
sales@visionmusicinc.net
At Cannes: Lise Romanoff (Managing
Director, Worldwide Distribution), Andre
Relis (Vice President Intl. Sales &
Acquisitions), Brady Bowen (Intl. Sales
and Marketing Executive)
Office: 21.01 Palais
ROCK THE BELLS
Documentary (90 min)
Directed by Denis Henry Hennelly,
Casey Suchan
Year of Production: 2007
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An inside look at what it took to bring
the Wu-Tang Clan together for their final
performance with all the Clan members
including ODB.
TUPAC: REVELATION
Documentary (115 min)
Directed by RJ Bond
Year of Production: 2007
10 Years after the assassination of Tupac
Shakur, this amazing new film offers
“insider” evidence that the police have
ignored.
PUNK’S NOT DEAD
Documentary (104 min)
Directed by Susan Dynner
Year of Production: 2007
A celebration of 30 years of Punk Rock,
featuring Green Day, Offspring, Social
Distortion, Sum 41, My Chemical
Romance, and more!
VISUAL FACTORY
Visual Factory, Forest Lodge, Forest
Road, Pyford GU 22 8NA UK. Tel:
44.207.499.75. www.visualfactory.co.uk,
email: info@visualfactory.co.uk
At Cannes: Igor Sekulic (Head of Sales),
Jerome Plattner (Sales), Nina
Stoltzenberg (VP Sales), George Edde
(Producer)
Office: k7
VAMPIRE DIARY
Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Mark James, Phil O’Shea
Producer: Margaret Matheson, Michael
Riley
Key Cast: Anna Walton
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: England
A real Vampire in hiding among the
London Goths.
PREDATORS (VAMPYRES)
www.vampyres-themovie.com
Documentary (90)
Language: English
Director: Laurent Courau
Producer: Emmanuel Prevost
Key Cast: Don Henrie, Fatrher
Sebastiaan
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: France USA
A journalist spends 4 years investigating
the American underground of real
vampires, some of them consume human
blood for real.
A BULLET FOR PRETTY BABY
Action Comedy
Director: English
Language:
Producer: George Edde
Key Cast: jackie Chan, Don Johnson
Delivery Status: In Development
Budget: 45 million US $
Year of Production: 2008, Country of
Origin: USA
Despite a feud over the most beautiful
girl of San Francisco A small time crook
and an old style pimp team up to fight an
ultra violent gang lord.
VOLTAGE PICTURES
Voltage Pictures, 6422 Deep Dell Place,
Los Angeles, CA 90068 USA. Tel:
323.464.8351. Fax: 323.464.8362.
www.voltagepictures.com, email:
sales@voltagepictures.com
At Cannes: Nicolas Chartier
(CEO/President), Nadine de Barros (VP,
Sales & Acquisitions), Mimi Steinbauer
(Consultant), Jenn Lee (International
Coordinator)
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
THE HURT LOCKER
Action-adventure
Language: English
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Producer: Greg Shapiro
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget $15M
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Forced to play a dangerous game of catand-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite
Army bomb squad unit must come
together in a city where everyone is a
potential enemy and every object could
be a deadly bomb.
100 FEET
Supernatural thriller
Language: English
Director: Eric Red
Producer: Jonathan Sanger, Ed Elbert and
Sarah Black
Key Cast: Famke Janssen and Bobby
Cannavale
Delivery Status: In Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: US
After Marnie Watson kills her abusive
husband in self-defense, she is
condemned to house arrest, only to
discover that the house is possessed by
the enraged and violent spirit of her dead
husband.
WHILE SHE WAS OUT
Thriller
Director: English
Language: Susan Montford
Producer: Don Murphy, Mary Aloe &
Kirk Shaw
Key Cast: Kim Basinger, Lukas Haas
Delivery Status: Post Production
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: US
A typical suburban housewife is forced to
fend for herself when she becomes
stranded in a desolate forest with four
murderous thugs.
W
THE WEINSTEIN
COMPANY
The Weinstein Company, 345 Hudson
Street, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10014
USA. Tel: 646.862.3400. Fax:
646.368.7000
At Cannes: Glen Basner (President,
International), Michael Rothstein (SVP,
International Sales & Distribution),
Richard Baker (VP, International
Marketing), Jonathan Kier (VP,
International Distribution & Sales),
Michal Podell (VP, International
Business & Legal Affairs)
Office: Residence du Gray d’Albion, 4
rue des Serbes, Penthouse 7G2, 06400
Cannes, France. Tel: 04.93.38.08.27. Fax:
04.93.38.08.81
THE BROTHERS BLOOM
Director: Rian Johnson
Writer: Rian Johnson
Executive Producer: Wendy Japhet
Producers: Ram Bergman, Jim Stern
Cast: Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark
Ruffalo, Rinko Kikuchi, Robbie
Coltrane, Maximilian Schell
Status: In post production
The tale of the Bloom brothers, two
young con men whose lives change
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forever upon meeting an attractive young
heiress named Penelope (Weisz).
HALLOWEEN
Director: Rob Zombie
Writer: Rob Zombie
Producers: Malek Akkad, Rob Zombie,
Andy Gould
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, William
Forsythe, Daeg Faerch, Sheri Moon
Zombie
Status: In post-production
The killer beginning to one of the most
successful horror franchises of all time.
THE NANNY DIARIES
Directors: Robert Pulcini,
Shari Springer Berman
Writers: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer
Berman, based on the novel by Emma
McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
Producers: Richard N. Gladstein, Dany
Wolf
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney,
Alicia Keys, Chris Evans, Paul Giamatti
Status: In post production
Spoiled, pampered, and demanding. and
that’s just the parents.
WIDE
MANAGEMENT
Wide Management, 40 rue sainte Anne,
Paris, 75002 France.
Tel: 33.1.53.95.04.64.
Fax: 33.1.53.95.04.65.
www.widemanagement.com,
email: wide@widemanagement.com
At Cannes: Loic Magneron (General
Manager), Anais Clanet (International
Sales), Gilles Sousa (International Sales
and Business Affairs), Camille Rousselet
(Festival Manager), Jean Marie Chabran
(Business Affairs Consultant)
Office: Riviera F 18, Tel: 06.60.43.96.86
EZRA
Drama (110 min)
Language: English
Director: Newton I. ADUAKA
Producer: Michel LORO & Gorune
APRIKINIAN (CINEFACTO)
Delivery Status: Completed
Country of Origin: –
France/Nigeria/Austria
In the year 2000, it was alleged that
some 300,000 children were serving as
soldiers in armed conflicts in more than
thirty countries around the world.
SHELTER (RIPARO)
Drama (100 min)
Language: Italian
Director: Marco Simon PUCCIONI
Producer: Mario Mazzarotto (Intelfilm),
Francesca Van Der Staay (Adesif)
Key Cast: Maria De Medeiros, Antonia
Liskova, Mounir Ouadi
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Italy/France
A couple return from a holiday abroad,
and realize that a young Moroccan
immigrant managed to hide
in their car in order to cross
the border to Italy.
EX DRUMMER
Drama (104 min)
Language: Flemich
Director: Koen MORTIER
Producer: Eurydice Gysel (CCCP)
Key Cast: Dries Vanhegen, Sam
Louwyck, Norman Baert, Gunter Lamoot
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Belgium/The
Netherlands/Italy/France
Three handicapped musicians from a
provincial rock band find their missing
drummer in the form of the arrogant and
manipulative well-known writer Dries.
WONDERPHIL
PRODUCTIONS
Wonderphil Productions, 4712 Admiralty
Way, #324, Marina del Rey, CA 90292
USA. Tel: 310.482.1324,26.06. Fax:
925.755.0131. http//www.Wonderphil.biz
At Cannes: Phil Gorn (President),
Sanders Robinson (Acquisitions
Manager/Sales)
Office: 26.06 (Palais), Tel: 06.0852.8632
JANUARY 2ND
Comedy (95 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Matt Winn
Co-Production Partners: January Films
Producer: Ivan Francis Clements
Key Cast: Josephine Butler, Andrew
Clover, Rachel Fielding
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget $1.75 million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: UK
A thirty something couple gives a New
Year’s weekend bash for their sorted
friends - jealousies, tensions, battles,
unexpected bonding ensue.
THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS
HOPED FOR
Drama (99 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Greg Morgan
Co-Production Partners: Film Punk Films
Producer: Greg Morgan, Jeanne FlynnMorgan, Jessica Gallant
Key Cast: Ray Wise, Vanessa Lengies
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget $1.5 million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Confronted with a diagnosis of
schizophrenia and a pregnancy she
neither planned nor is able to explain,
Daphne’s desperately searches for the
past she cannot recall, the father she
never had, and the child she may never
know.
RETALIATION
Drama (53 minutes)
Director: English
Language: Carl Miller
Co-Production Partners: Future Films
Producer: Carl Miller
Key Cast: Michael Otis, Yasmine
Delawari
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget 300k
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
Origin: USA
Awaiting beheading, terrorist captured
news reporter learns of the true reason
behind the Coalition Forces infiltration
into Iraq. Can he survive long enough to
reveal the truth?
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.theworksmediagroup.com
At Cannes: Joy Wong (Head of The
Works International), Clare Crean (Sales
Manager), Juliette Gill (Head of
Marketing), Charlotte Brotherton (Head
of Business Affairs), Dhivya-Kate Chetty
(Sales Assistant)
Office: 8th Floor, IBIS Entrance, Res. du
Grand Hotel, 45 La Croisette
CHOP SHOP - IN DIRECTORS’
FORTNIGHT
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: Market Premiere
In this chaotic world of adults, young
Alejandro struggles to make a better life
for himself and his 16-year-old sister,
Isamar. Premiering in Directors’
Fortnight.
GARBAGE WARRIOR
Feature documentary (84 mins)
Director: Oliver Hodge
Producer: Rachel Wexler
Delivery Status: Market Premiere
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.
PARENTS
Drama (85 mins)
Director: Ragnar Bragason
Writers: Ragnar Bragason, Nanna Krístin
Magnúsdóttir, Ingvar E.Sigur∂sson,
Víkingur Kristjánsson
Producers: Ragnar Bragason, Nanna
Krístin Magnúsdóttir, Ingvar
E.Sigur∂sson, Víkingur Kristjánsson,
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Gísli Örn
Gar∂arsson, Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir
Principal Cast: Ingvar E.Sigur∂sson,
Nanna Krístin Magnúsdóttir, Víkingur
Kristjánsson
Delivery Status: Market Premiere
Set in suburban modern day Reykjavik,
dark secrets are slowly revealed when a
desperate dentist, a successful
businessman and a young mother running
away from her past meet by chance.
WORLDWIDE FILM
ENTERTAINMENT,
LLC
Worldwide Film Entertainment, LLC, 280
So. Beverly Drive, Suite 306, Beverly
Hills
T UYA S IEMPRE - KWA
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LISTINGS
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. www.birchtreefilms.com,
email: cannes2007@birchtreefilms.com
At Cannes: Art Birzneck (President &
CEO)
Office: Carlton Hotel Suite #163,
Tel: 04.93.06.41.63. Fax: 04.93.06.40.25.
THE PORTAL
Supernatural Horror
Language: English
Director: Serge Rodnunsky
Co-Production Partners: Big Bad Wolff
Entertainment, Rogue Entertainment,
Birch Tree Entertainment
Producer: Gerald I. Wolff, Serge
Rodnunsky
Delivery Status: In Production
Budget $2.8 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
Investigators pursuing a bizarre
hemorrhagic illness are lead to a strange
black painting that they discover is a
portal to another dimension
NO MAN
Action / Drama / Martial Arts
Language: English / Cantonese
Director: Mtano Loewi
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Producer: Art Birzneck
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget US$3.2 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: USA
A man with no identity has 48 hours to
find $100 million dollars the mob thinks
he stole. He must move like lightening
through the crime underworld to recover
it or lose everything.
ANDROMEDA
www.andromedathemovie.com
Psychological Thriller
Director: English
Language: Stephan Brenninkmeijer
Co-Production Partners: Birch Tree
Entertainment, Big Bad Wolff, Brenn Film
Producer: Art Birzneck, Gerald I. Wolff,
Alan McLeod
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Budget US$3.0 million
Year of Production: 2007, Country of
Origin: Netherlands / UK
A cartoonist hiding in his fantasy world
is forced to enter the world he only
imagined, and face the bitter truth.
HONOR
www.honorthemovie.com
Martial Arts Action (88 minutes)
Language: English
Director: David Worth
Co-Production Partners: Hologram
Entertainment, Birch Tree Entertainment
Producer: Patrick Kligel, Austin Moody
Key Cast: Russell Wong, Roddy Piper,
Jason Barry, Remy Bonjasky, Linda
Park, Joanna Pacula, Don Frye, Nishi
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget US$1.6 million
Year of Production: 2006, Country of
M AD
WORLD
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.
SWINGERS
www.brennfilim.com
Erotic Thriller (93 minutes)
Language: Dutch with English subtitles
Director: Stephan Brenninkmeijer
Co-Production Partners: Brenn Film,
Rebel Film
Producer: Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Roel
Reine
Key Cast: Ellen van der Koogh, Danny
de Kok, Nienke Brinkhuis, Joep Sertons
Delivery Status: Completed
Budget US$1.0 million
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: Holland
Despite Diana’s insecure nature, she and
her husband Julian agree with the idea to
sexually experiment with another couple.
ASP- ALAIN
SIRITZKY
PRODUCTIONS
ASP- Alain Siritzky Productions, 6399
Wilshire Bl. Suite 1007, Los Angeles, CA
90048 USA. Tel: 1.323.655.6845.
www.asproductions.net,
email: asproductions@usa.net
At Cannes: Mr. Alain Siritzky
(president), Tel: 04.93.43.97.48. Mobile:
06.08.58.16.01; Mr. George Pilzer (head
of sales) Tel: 04.93.68.44.15.
Mobile: 06.08.78.35.98
Office: Riviera, Booth F 13
EXIT
Based on the comic book
by Bernard Werber.
A thriller in the Hitchcock tradition,
which can be described as the Fugitive
meets Run, Lola Run.
The story of a girl who has just lost her
job and discovered that her boyfriend is
cheating on her. Distraught, she decides
to commit suicide. Every time she makes
an attempt, there is someone to save her.
TOMORROW BY MIDNIGHT
Drama/Thriller
Director: Rolfe Kanefsky
Cast: Alexis Arquette, Tamara Craig
Thomas, Jennifer Lambert
Status: Completed
Four college kids come to a video store
near midnight, and through an unusual
twist become embroiled in a hostage
situation.
PRETTY COOL
Fantasy
Director: Rolfe Kanefsky
Cast: Will Burke, Alexis Thorpe
Status: Completed
A high school senior is able to read
people’s minds and control their
thoughts.
PRETTY COOL 2: POCKET GIRL
Comedy
Director: Rolfe Kanefsky
Cast: Angela Dodson, Robert Donovan
Status: Ready for delivery
Has also just wrapped production. A new
sexy teen comedy about a high school
senior, WALTER BUKELL, who
receives the latest cell phone equipped
with his own personal female Genie.
- I NTRAMOVIES
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