Cannes, May 18th, 2015
PRESS RELEASE
PARIS COPRODUCTION VILLAGE REVEALS ITS PROJECT SELECTION
Organized by Les Arcs European Film Festival and Champs-Elysées Film Festival, PARIS
COPRODUCTION VILLAGE is a development and financing platform for feature projects
selected worldwide.
For its second edition, which will take place June 10-12, 2015 in Paris, the 14 following projects
have been selected:
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« Across the Fields »** by Daniel Joseph Borgman (« The Weight of Elephants »
Berlinale Forum and Generation Selections 2013 ; short film « Berik » Grand Prix Critic’s
Week Cannes 2010) produced by Adomeit Film (Danemark)
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« Brotherhood » by Pepe Diokno (« Above the Clouds », Tokyo International Film Festival
2014 ; « Clash » Venice Film Festival 2009 Lion of the Futur and Orrizonti Award) produced
by Epicmedia (Philippines)
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« Fireflies » by Bani Khoshnoudi (« Ziba » International Film festival Rotterdam 2012 ;
short film « Transit » Grand Jury Prix Premiers Plans Angers 2005) produced by Zensky
Cine (Mexico) and Pensée Sauvage (USA)
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« Look Up »* by Fulvio Risuleo (short film « Varicella » Semaine de la Critique 2015 ;
short film « Lievito Madre » Cannes Cinéfondation 2014 ;) produced by Revok (Italy)
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« Lost Wolves » by Carlos Moreno (« All Your Dead Ones » Competition Sundance 2011 ;
« Dog Eat Dog » Competition Sundance 2008) prodced by 64-A Films (Colombia)
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« The Man from the Sea » by Koji Fukada (« Au revoir l’été » Gold Montgolfière Festival
des 3 Continents 2013 ; « Hospitalité » Best Picture Award Tokyo International Film Festival
2010) produced by Nikkatsu Corporation (Japan)
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« The Omission »* by Sebastián Schjaer (short film « The Broken Past », Director’s
Fortnight 2015 ; short film « Tomorrow All the Things » Cannes Cinéfondation 2013)
produced by Trapecio Cine (Argentina) et Titus Kreyenberg (Germany)
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« Opening Hours » by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul et
Wichanon Somumjarn (« Mother » Competition Torino Film Festival 2012 ; « In April the
Following Year, There Was a Fire » Competition International Film Festival Rotterdam
2011 ; « Mundane Story » Tiger Award International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009)
produced by Electric Eel Film (Thailand)
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« Pirate of Love »* by Sara Guðmundsdóttir & Árni Sveinsson (short film « The Pirate
of Love » Official Selection New Directors / New Films 2013 ; « Backyard » Special
Mention Sound&Vision Award CPH:DOX 2010) produced by Netop Films (Iceland)
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« Single Mother » by Hana Makhmalbaf (« Green Days » Venice Film Festival 2009 ;
« Le Cahier » Crystal Bear Berlinale 2008) produced by Makhmalbaf Film House (UK)
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« Zoology »** by Ivan I. Tverdosvsky (« Correction Class » Gold Star Marrakech Film
Festival 2014) produced by New People (Russia)
Projects selected as part of the Brazilian Focus:
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« Tinnitus »** by Gregorio Graziosi (« Obra » Toronto International Film Festival 2014 ;
short film « Mira » International Competition Locarno Film Festival 2009) produced by
Superfilmes (Brazil)
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« Revenge Therapy » by Marcos Bernstein (« My Sweet Orange Tree » Alice nella Citta
Award Rome Film Festival 2012 ; « The Other Side of the Street » C.I.C.E.A. Award for
Best Film - Berlinale Panorama 2004) produced by Passaro Films (Brazil) and Hungry Man
(Brazil)
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« A Yellow Animal » by Felipe Bragança (short film « Escape from my Eyes » Berlinale
Forum Expanded 2015 ; « A Alegria » Director’s Fortnight 2010) produced by Duas Mariola
Filmes (Brazil) Muiraquitã (Brazil) and Som e a Fúria (Portugal)
This selection aims at showing the diversity of world cinema, in terms of geography as well as a
balance between newcomers and experienced directors. It includes:
- 5 European projects, 3 projects from Asia and 6 projects from Latin America including 3
projects part of the Brazilian Focus
- 6 first and second feature films projects (marked with * / **)
Brazil will be the guest country of this second edition.
In partnership with Cinema do Brasil, Paris Coproduction Village will present this year a
« Brazilian Focus », inviting 3 Brazilian projects in development. A conference, organised with
the support of the CNC, will take place during the event and will discuss the improvement of the
French-Brazilian co-production framework.
In addition, the 6 residents of the Cannes Film Festival Cinéfondation will join the selection:
- « Bad Poems » de Gabor Reisz (Hungary)
- « A Ciambra » de Jonas Carpignano (Italy)
- « The Grave Digger » de Khadar Ahmed (Finland)
- « Passed by Censor » de Serhat Karaaslan (Turkey)
- « El Hombre de la Mancha » de Neto Villalobos (Costa Rica)
- « Alfa » de Una Gunjak (Bosnia Herzegovina / Italy)
All these projects will benefit from one-to-one pre-scheduled meetings with producers, sales
agents, distributors, from networking events, as well as seminars taught by leading film industry
professionals.
This platform complements the 4th edition of the Champs-Elysées Film Festival's US-INPROGRESS programme which screens 6 independent US feature films in late stage of postproduction, seeking sales representatives:
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« Another Evil » by Carson Mell, produced by Riel Roch Decter et Sebastian Pardo
« AWOL » by Deb Shoval, produced by Jessica Caldwell, L.A. Teodosio et Michel Merkt
« Diverge » by James Morrison, produced by David Mandel et Noah Lang
« Live Cargo » by Logan Sandler, produced by Thymaya Payne
« Porto Mon Amour » by Gabe Klinger, produced by Rodrigo Areias, Nicolas R. de la
Mothe, Sonia Buchman et Gabe Klinger
« Queen of Glory » by Nana Mensah, produced by Jamund Washington, Baff Akoto et
Anya Migdal
Paris Coproduction Village is supported by the Ile-de-France Region and the CNC. It is
organized in collaboration with our partners Cannes Cinéfondation, Cofiloisirs, Ile de France
Film Commission, Producers Network, ACE, EAVE, Cinando, Europa International, Variety,
Écran Total, Screen International, CPH:DOX, Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF)
and Cineuropa. As part of the Brazilian Focus, Cinema Do Brasil is also partner of the event this
year.
The team behind Paris Coproduction Village is the team of Les Arcs European Film Festival, that
is to say:
Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin, CEO
Guillaume Calop, General Manager
Vanja Kaludjercic, Head of Industry
Alice Guilbaud, Industry Coordinator
Jérémy Zelnik, Co-founder and Consultant
Fabienne Silvestre-Bertoncini, Public and Institutional Relations Manager
Claire-Marine Piétriga, General Coordinator
Clémentine Larroudé, Head of Partnership
The 7th edition of Les Arcs European Film Festival will take place from December 12th to
December 19th. The call for projects for Les Arcs Coproduction Village will be launched in
June with a deadline for applications on September, 30th, 2015.
The know-how and the success of the Coproduction Villages can once again be observed
this year in Cannes, with five films « labelled » Les Arcs in the Official Selection:
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Laszlo Nemes for its selection in Official Competition with Son of Saul
(Les Arcs Coproduction Village 2010)
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Grimur Hakonarson, with The Rams, selected for Un Certain Regard
(Les Arcs Work-In-Progress 2014)
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Dalibor Matanic, with The High Sun, selected for Un Certain Regard
(Les Arcs Work-In-Progress 2014)
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Clément Cogitore, with Ni Le Ciel Ni la Terre, selected for the Critic’s Week
(Les Arcs Coproduction Village 2013)
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Sharunas Bartas with Peace to Us in Our Dreams selected for the Director’s Fortnight
(Les Arcs Coproduction Village 2013)