Fipadoc 2020 International Pitches Catalogue PDF

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2020
BIARRITZ
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THURSDAY
23 JANUARY
09.30
> 13.00
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SESSION HOSTED BY
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PLACE (FIRST HAND FILMS)
BELLEVUE &
ESPACE ATLANTIQUE MARGJE DE KONING
(MOVIES THAT MATTER)
14.30
> 17.30
CLOSED SESSION
ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS FIPADOC’s international pitching session will feature
15 projects: 5 French and 10 international, pitched
PLACE
to a panel of Commissioning Editors and other
BELLEVUE industry professionals, with the goal of finding
SALLE VAGUE new partners. The projects presented are ambitious
and eclectic, and above all have high potential.
They cover a broad spectrum of storytellings
and subjects.
As part of the 2020 Focus, the pitching
session presents 3 Swedish projects.
Among the projects selected from the hundred
or so applications received, 4 projects have been
scouted in partnering forums or markets:
One french project and one international project

will receive an award of 5.000€ in post-production
services from our partner Saya.
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PITCHES PITCHES
THE PROJECTS ARE LISTED

IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
4 BIO 36 NATURAL
DISASTERS:
MEGA-
REGULATORS
8 CHANCELVIE 40 SAMUEL
AND
THE LIGHT
12 CITIZEN 44 THE SCARS

TRIBUNAL OF ALI BOULALA
16 DRAW 48 TO THE
FOR NORTH
CHANGE!
20 EXPEDITION 52 THE TRUE

49 STORY OF
D’ARTAGNAN
24 FATNA, 56 TRUMP
A WOMAN VS THE FBI
NAMED RACHID
28 THE 60 WILD WILD

GOUROUGOU LIFE
TRIAL
32 H2 – ONE
KILOMETER
OF CONFLICT
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PITCHES PITCHES
BIO SYNOPSIS ONE STORY, ONE is the seven years old daughter

DIRECTORS
MIKAEL VALLEY, THREE FAMILIES of beekeepers Zhang and Chen.
KRISTERSSON
& A NATURAL CRISIS Ten months per year the parents
FEATURE LENGTH ÅSA
Award-winning nature documentary are forced to leave Hanyuan to keep
ONE-OFF EKMAN
director Mikael Kristersson teams the bees from dying, leaving Yingling
SWEDEN AUTHOR up with Åsa Ekman and Oscar Hedin behind with the grandparents.
72 MIN OSCAR to depict the valley of Hanyuan As summer arrives, she travels thousands
HEDIN in the Sichuan Province of China. of kilometers to spend some time with
At the bottom of the valley, bees her mom and dad. High up on the top
LOGLINE
PRODUCTION
MARINA-EVELINA no longer exist due to widespread of the mountains amidst the clouds
CRACANA use of pesticides and monocultures. Ye, a single parent, bets his last money
IN A VALLEY IN CHINA THE OSCAR This place is extreme but not unique. on an organic cherry orchard.
POLLINATORS HAVE DISAPPEARED. HEDIN All over the world, pollinators But Ye’s father wants him to spray
THE LIVES AND FAMILIES OF THREE Film and Tell, are dying due to human influence. pesticides and Ye is prone to give
AGRICULTURAL WORKERS Sweden
Hanyuan is an image of a possible in as the orchard gets attacked by pests.
ARE AFFECTED BY AN ECOSYSTEM [email protected]
+46 855 803 830 future for mankind – but it
ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE. filmandtell.com is happening here and now. Cao, Yingling and Ye are shown
DELIVERY DATE in relation to nature – in an orchard
March 2021 In the film, we follow three characters without pollinating insects, among
and their families who mark the lifestyle the hives of the last domesticated
and geography of the valley. bees and in a mountainside forest
Cao, a thriving fruit cultivator, where wild bees still fly.
has made a good life for his family Human dramas, fascinating nature
by following the recommendations scenes and alarming environmental
of the authorities to spray pesticides problems form a fateful epic.
and pollinate by hand. Yingling
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PITCHES PITCHES
PROJECT Mankind is exhausting the resources

of the Earth at an increasing speed.
We will be employing modern camera
techniques and studio solutions
BIOGRAPHIES Mikael Kristersson directed three documentary Åsa Ekman has a Master in Documentary Film
DESCRIPTION Vertebrate populations have decreased to better understand the life inside
MIKAEL KRISTERSSON
ÅSA EKMAN
features, theatrically released, that received
the praise of the critics and reached large
from The Swedish National Film School.
Her Dragkingdom of Sweden (2002) is a cult
by 30 percent during the last 40 years. a beehive. We will be focusing DIRECTORS audiences worldwide. Pica Pica (1987), movie in the HBTQ-underground. It’s all about
Nature is under great pressure. on content and drama, not on about the magpies in Vällingby Centrum, won Edith (2006) got the jury’s honorary award
the perfect image (which is common the Cinéma du Réel in Paris. Kestrel’s Eye (1998), at Tempo Documentary Film Festival 2007.
One third of our food depends within modern nature film). We will about a couple of kestrels in the church tower Ekman’s A Mother’s Comeback (2011) premiered
on pollinators to grow. The pollinators be working also with interviews in Skanör, was nominated for a Guldbagge at the Gothenburg International Film Festival
award in the category Best Picture and won 2012. It was nominated for Best Documentary
– butterflies, hover flies, with the protagonists, possibly with first prize at the documentary festivals in Munich and won the prize for Best Swedish Feature.
wild and domestic bees, even bats – a few short facts to guide the viewer. and Marseilles and at Nordisk Panorama. Her documentary diptych on children
make a great but often forgotten Light Year (2009), about Kristersson’s garden, exposed to domestic violence produced
contribution for mankind. Now their Cinematic nature photography, was nominated as the Swedish contribution with Oscar Hedin, My life My Lesson (2014)
numbers are rapidly dwindling mainly authentic human activities, to the Nordic Council Film Prize and and Say Something (2015), won the Swedish
due to widespread use of pesticides, and Kristersson’s unique attention won firstprize at the science festival Mostra TV Prize Kristallen for best documentary
de Ciencia e Cinema in Spain. Kristersson two years in a row.
monocultural cultivation, to animal behaviors, will make
has an education as cinematographer from
invasive species or viral diseases. the viewers experience the tight, the Dramatic Institute and has produced over
but still fragile, networks of existence thirty films. This year, the Musem of Moving Image
We can capture this complex issue that is put at risk without pollinators. in New York, at the initiative of Martin Scorsese,
in one story. In one place with hosted an event dedicated to Kristersson’s work.
a limited but disturbed ecosystem,
through three compelling destinies, BIOGRAPHIES Oscar Hedin founded Film and Tell in 2010. Marina-Evelina Cracana is an alumna
each affected by a different kind OSCAR HEDIN Before that he made several films that reached of Scotland Screen Academy and Aristoteles
MARINA-EVELINA CRACANA large audiences, formed opinions, changed laws Workshop. She produced and directed
of pollination. On a small scale, PRODUCERS and won awards. His film about the soccer team two documentary shorts, among which,
Hanyuan valley is an image FILM AND TELL
Assyriska during their first year in the Swedish The Fuel Filter (2017) won the Best International
an ecosystem on the brink Premier League, A National Team Without Documentary award at AKIFF 2018.
of collapse, an omen a Nation (2005), won the Golden Palm She is currently working as a producer
for the entire global biosphere. at the Beverly Hills Films Festival. Aching Heart at Film and Tell.
(2007), focusing on the Jihadist movement
in Sweden was nominated for a Guldbagge,
We want to portray man as a species
Prix Europa and Ikaros, and won the Amulet.
of nature, a part of the local ecosystem.
The bustling city centre of Hanyuan,
for example, feels like another look
PROJECTED
inside a hive. The vendors, the workers BUDGET 553.000€
of the pear cultivation, everybody STILL
trying to make a living in their own way REQUIRED 247.250€
mimic the work dynamics of a bee CONFIRMED
SALES AGENT
colony and contribution to society,
CONFIRMED
while looking after their own BROADCASTER SVT
nutritional needs. FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL
SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET
Beekeepers, in turn, become just like PRE-SALE SVT CONFIRMED 77.000€ 14%
the wild bees, displaced, depopulated,
PUBLIC FUNDING DEV. THE SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE CONFIRMED 93.750€ 17%
forced to stay on the edge of society
PUBLIC FUNDING FILM I SKÅNE CONFIRMED 24.000€ 4%
to be able to feed themselves.
FOUNDATION GRANT POSTKODSTIFTELSEN CONFIRMED 59.000€ 11%
In this film, the strength of the portraying OWN INVESTMENT FILM AND TELL CONFIRMED 52.000€ 9%
social documentary is paired with PUBLIC FUNDING DEV. CREATIVE EUROPE PENDING 25.000€ 5%
the magic of the artistic nature film,
PUBLIC FUNDING PROD. THE SWEDISH ARTS PENDING 19.250€ 4%
Kristersson’s trademark. Scenes GRANTS COMMITEE
and images will carry the narrative. PUBLIC FUNDING PROD. THE SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE PENDING 96.000€ 17%
We will show life in the beehive
PRE-SALES/CO-PRODS BROADCASTERS PROJECTED 107.000€ 19%
and the pupation of butterfly larvae
WITH THE The Swedish Film Institute,
as well as Zhang’s tearful parting SUPPORT OF Film i Skåne, Postkodstiftelsen
from er daughter, Ye’s temptation ADVANCEMENT
to introduce chemicals into his farming STATE Development
routine and Cao setting out to give PREVIOUSLY Medimed 2019 – Speedy
his grandchildren an education. PITCHED AT... Pitches
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PITCHES PITCHES
CHANCELVIE SYNOPSIS Chancelvie, 16, has spent half of her life Since her early childhood, she has
DIRECTOR
MARC-HENRI living in the streets of Kinshasa, learned to fight and to be respected.
WAJNBERG
Democratic Republic of Congo. This portrait is not only that
FEATURE LENGTH AUTHOR Her daily life is a challenge to find of an adolescent living in Kinshasa,
ONE-OFF MARC-HENRI odd jobs, to eat, to remain clean, too young to face all these adult
BELGIUM WAJNBERG to sleep. Carpe diem is the motto issues, but also that of a teenager
52 & 85 MIN of the street life in Kinshasa. facing the injustice suffered by all
PRODUCTION
CATHERINE Now that she is pregnant, the violence street children who have to manage
BOES she suffered as a child is resurfacing. their destiny so early in life.
LOGLINE Wajnbrosse Where does she come from? Chancelvie is like Kinshasa, oppressed
Productions, Who is this mother who threw and overflowing with vitality,
CHANCELVIE, 16 YEARS OLD Belgium
heron the street, accompanied poor and generous, in love with life,
AND PREGNANT, HAS BEEN LIVING wajnbrosse@
wajnbrosse.com by her younger brother, then its perfumes and its music.
ON THE STREETS OF KINSHASA +32 477 673 416
wajnbrosse.com
5 years old? Why would a mother Chancelvie is very integrated
SINCE SHE WAS 8. take such a drastic action? in the artistic scene of Kinshasa.
WITH THE HELP OF HER ARTIST DELIVERY DATE
Who was her father? She dances with Strombo
June 2020
FRIENDS, WILL SHE MANAGE for 52 min version Although from a rival band, Shekina Kayumba’s band, helps Bebson
TO BUILD A BETTER FUTURE September 2020 accompanies her long days. They beg, De La Rue to make instruments,
FOR HER UNBORN BABY? for 85 min version sleep together and have the same shapes masks with Sambu,
artist friends. These street performers accompanies Nada in his costume
customize waste – plastic bottles made of phone scraps for street
and bags, rusty car parts, broken performances, which allows
mirrors, cans – to make costumes. her to earn a few pennies to get
During street parades, they hope through the day.
to alert about the decline of their city. Chancelvie has decided
Chancelvie plans to integrate to leave this life and to learn
a center for girl-mothers after the a trade as soon as she gives birth.
birth of her son in the hope of offering This involves moving away
him a better future than her own. from her street friends.
Nothing is less certain. She is rebellious Fate has put her in the streets,
to any authority. will her determination carry
her away from it?
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PITCHES PITCHES
PROJECT This film shows the difficulty of living

as a young girl in a city where
is an everyday routine for her
and her young friends and the many
BIOGRAPHY Marc-Henri Wajnberg directed 3.000 very short Kinshasa Kids (8 awards, selected in 70 festivals:
DESCRIPTION the implicit codes of street life scars that mark her body are its
MARC-HENRI WAJNBERG films and his short film, Le Réveil (The Alarm Clock)
DIRECTOR was awarded in Cannes and received 22 awards
Venice, Toronto, Busan, New York...).
His VR interactive movie Kinshasa Now is currently
create a parallel society with equally sad reflection. around the world. He directed numerous in postproduction.
stringent and constraining rules. documentaries (Oscar Niemeyer,
As a young adolescent living But thanks to her permanent an architect committed to his century
in the streets of Kinshasa, Chancelvie contacts with the artists and musicians – 12 awards and Evgueni Khaldei,
faces various problems on a daily basis of Kinshasa, Chancelvie never photographer under Stalin – 3 awards)
and two long features; Just Friends (12 awards),
that are enhanced by her feminine considered her condition of street
condition. This theme of the genre child as a fatality. For her, there is still BIOGRAPHY After a master’s degree in Germanic literature, Up to now Wajnbrosse has produced
is present in all the sequences hope that one day she will build CATHERINE BOES Catherine Boes started working in the film more than 50 documentaries.
of the film. The situation of street girls, her own home. The birth of her child PRODUCER production industry. In 2018, she joined
WAJNBROSSE PRODUCTIONS Their productions have been sold
certainly fewer than boys, is probably the last boost the company Wajnbrosse Productions,
to more than 150 TV channels
is catastrophic. Often forced into that Chancelvie needed to realize founded in 1983 and well-known,
and awarded 70 international prizes.
among others, for the productions
prostitution, many are already mothers. this dream in the near future.
of the series CLAP (1.200 x 8 seconds,
When girls are thrown out of the familial Chancelvie shows a determination directed by Marc‑Henri Wajnberg and sold
shelter, often by their own parents that is both poignant and impressive in 50 countries), The Five Obstructions
and for various reasons, they have to make her dream come true, (directed by Lars von Trier and Joergen Leth).
to find a protector, a man with whom nourishing it with an energy that
they have a privileged relationship she draws particularly from artistic
and who protects them in case inventiveness. Her past and present
of aggression. This protection journey and the one she traces
has a price, a debt that drives for the future creates the narrative
them to accept rape and violence thread of this documentary.
and having to work for him. This film has no redemptive vocation
This documentary also looks at the place but it will already have achieved a goal PROJECTED
BUDGET 350.262€
of women in African society, and if it allows to raise more awareness
STILL
especially the place of a woman-child about the fate of these children, REQUIRED 115.200€
made vulnerable by her situation but also about their resilience CONFIRMED
as a street kid. It would be a positive and their self-rescuing potential. SALES AGENT
result if this perspective could The narrative force is centered CONFIRMED RTBF, Canvas, Canal +
BROADCASTER International, Be-One
stimulate reflection on women’s on Chancelvie, her pregnancy
FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL
rights in developing countries and Kinshasa’s artistic inventiveness. SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET
and the prejudices that condition The film reveals an intimate and deeply PUBLIC FUNDING FÉDÉRATION CONFIRMED 50.000€ 14,28%
and shape gender discrimination. human story, animated by edifying WALLONIE-BRUXELLES
PUBLIC FUNDING CENTRE AUDIOVISUEL CONFIRMED 14.000€ 4%
The first protective barrier for a child and moving protagonists. BRUXELLES
is its family. Without her family, Chancelvie, the film, is not just a portrait, BROADCASTER RTBF (COPRODUCTION) CONFIRMED 33.000€ 9,42%
Chancelvie can only try to rebuild it’s also a slice of life, an image of a life BROADCASTER CANVAS (COPRODUCTION) CONFIRMED 15.000€ 4,28%
a protective circle around herself, course, a life experience different TAX INCENTIVE BELGA FILMS FUND CONFIRMED 40.000€ 11,42%
even if that circle is embodied from the lives of young Westerners PRODUCER’S WAJNBROSSE CONFIRMED 10.612€ 3,03%
CONTRIBUTION PRODUCTIONS
by gangs of street children. and immersed in the animation
FOUNDATION RACHEL & GEORGE ARTHUR CONFIRMED 25.000€ 9,99%
But they suffer contempt and rejection of an African metropolis both plagued FORREST FOUNDATION
from outside, the adult world. by poverty and overflowing with vitality. BROADCASTER CANAL + INTERNATIONAL CONFIRMED 20.000€ 5,71%
These children are in permanent danger. (COPRODUCTION)
CO-PRODUCER’S EVA PRODUCTION CONFIRMED 6.000€ 1,71%
The church should offer them CONTRIBUTION (FR)
a shelter, yet the hundreds of Revival CO-PRODUCER’S RG & CRÉATIFS CONFIRMED 5.000€ 1,43%
Churches exploit the credulity, popular CONTRIBUTION (DRC) ASSOCIÉS
belief and urban myths that prevail BROADCASTER BE-ONE (DRC) CONFIRMED 10.000€ 2,86%
among the local population to blame FOUNDATION REEJER CONFIRMED 6.450€ 1,71%
children for witchcraft. As a result, PUBLIC FUNDING CNC PROJECTED 19.000€ 5,42%
they are rejected by their family INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT PROCIREP-ANGOA PROJECTED 6.200€ 1,77%
and end up in the streets. PRE-SALES, BROADCASTERS PROJECTED 90.000€ 25,70%
These children are attacked daily WITH THE Centre du Cinéma de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles,
SUPPORT OF Centre Audiovisuel de Bruxelles, Belga Films Fund Tax Shelter
by other street children
ADVANCEMENT
or police officers. STATE Production
The physical and psychological PREVIOUSLY
violence undergone by Chancelvie PITCHED AT...
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CITIZEN SYNOPSIS In 1966 protests against the war Consequently, the hearings
DIRECTOR
CLARA in Vietnam have gathered momentum of the Russell-Sartre tribunal are held
TRIBUNAL
OTT
in the US and Europe. The Nobel prize in Stockholm in Sweden and Roskilde
AUTHORS winner for literature and tireless in Denmark. The jury must weigh
CLARA militant pacifist Bertrand Russell the numerous testimonials
ONE-OFF OTT contacts the French philosopher and documents and qualify the facts
FRANCE ERIC Jean‑Paul Sartre and proposes in legal terms. Is the war in Vietnam
52 MIN PRUNIER the creation of an international a premeditated crime?
PRODUCTION tribunal to judge the US army Has the American government
ANNE and government for war crimes. authorized the bombing of civilian
LOGLINE MOUTOT Composed of intellectuals targets and the use of weapons
Calisto and personalities from all over the world, forbidden by the rules of war?
IN 1967 TWO PHILOSOPHERS, productions,
the mission of the citizen tribunal, As the hearings unfold, the public
BERTRAND RUSSELL IN BRITAIN France
a tribunal of conscience, is to enlighten is astounded by reports from
AND JEAN-PAUL SARTRE IN FRANCE, amoutot@
calisto-productions.com public opinion and judge crimes the commissions sent to Vietnam,
CREATE THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL +33 662 866 842
calisto-productions.com in accordance with international law. but also by the photos and film footage
CITIZEN TRIBUNAL OF CONSCIENCE From the opening of its constituent and the lengthy depositions made
TO INVESTIGATE US WAR CRIMES DELIVERY DATE
assembly in London, the tribunal by Vietnamese victims, by traumatized
December 2020
IN VIETNAM. meets with the opposition of European GIs, the detailed presentations
leaders who consider this alternative by weapons experts, doctors,
judicial procedure as a source legal experts and historians
of diplomatic problems. Preoccupied from all over the world.
by the potential impact of the initiative, The notions of “war crimes”
the American government organizes and “crimes against humanity”
a media propaganda campaign are evoked before the tribunal.
to discredit it and puts the members Inspired by principles inherited
of the jury under CIA surveillance. from the Nuremberg tribunal
The sessions, initially organized and post-war conventions,
to take place in Paris, are prohibited this unprecedented citizen tribunal
by the French President, General conducts a symbolic but carefully
de Gaulle and the British Prime Minister, argued trial and reaches a verdict.
Harold Wilson.
It is an unprecedented historical
event in which the people voice
their aspiration for universal justice.
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PROJECT AN HISTORICAL
DOCUMENTARY
and the role it played in building
an international state of law which
BIOGRAPHY Clara Ott graduates from IDHEC-FEMIS Her film, Children for sale, stories from
DESCRIPTION By telling the eventful story would prevent the “crime of silence”
CLARA OTT
DIRECTOR
as director and film editor in 1985.
She is the laureate of the Académie de France
Albania (France 5, 2004), won the prize
of best documentary for Children’s Rights
of the Russell-Sartre Tribunal from being perpetrated and ensure in Rome at the Villa Medicis, section cinéma (1985.) in the International Festival for Human Rights
for the first time, the film investigates that crimes against humanity would She devotes herself to the editing and direction (FIFDH) in Paris. Nicaragua, a confiscated
the work of this citizen initiative not go unpunished in future. of documentary films for international NGOs revolution (ARTE, ORF, 2013) won The Journalist’s
and its impact on the war in Vietnam. A principle that urgently needed for French and foreign channels. award IJBA at the international Festival
to be defended in 1967 as it still Most of her films directly or indirectly explore of History films at Pessac.
It also provides an account
questions concerning Human rights In her filmography, can also be noted,
of the dynamic links between does today. either in today’s world or in history. The long Road (France 3, 2014), Vagabond
the court and the anti-war movement Angels (Canal + International, 2017) and
of the late 1960s and the role it played AN INTERNATIONAL The Giacometti Affair (France 5, RTS, Rai, 2019).
in promoting universal justice. PROJECT
As a whistleblower, the tribunal sets This documentary recounts BIOGRAPHY After 7 years of collaboration In 2012 she becomes General Secretary
a precedent by denouncing the most ANNE MOUTOT with Jean‑Michel Carré and Jill Emery of the Association Science & Television
a significant event in world history PRODUCER at Les Films Grain de sable, Anne Moutot creates in charge of the scientific film festival Pariscience.
blatant crimes of the American which still has great resonance today. CALISTO PRODUCTIONS
the company Calisto Productions in 2008. She later joins the production company,
military intervention and the repeated It is intended for channels with history She develops and produces documentary films French Connection Films, where amongst
lies of its political leaders long and international social affairs slots. for French and Foreign television channels. others she produces: The Giacometti
before these were confirmed The film will rely on the participation Her fields of predilection are history, culture, Affair by Clara Ott (France 5, RTS, Rai).
and recognized internationally. of witnesses, historians and experts science and society. She notably produces: Since 2019 she has reassumed her activity
The Scar – Along the former Iron Curtain by as producer for Calisto Productions.
from countries such as the United
The film, through the trial archives, Dominique Maestrali (LCP-AN, Ria Storia, Viasat), Citizen Tribunal is the 4th film directed
Kingdom, France, the United States, Moustaki as Ulysses by Rémi Lainé (France 5, by Clara Ott and produced by Anne Moutot.
filmed in black and white 16mm film, Switzerland, Belgium, and Vietnam. AVRO) and Nicaragua, a confiscated It is also their 7th collaboration,
will immerse the audience It will be based on extensive archive revolution by Clara Ott (ARTE, ORF). with the same vision and editorial exigency.
in a dramatic atmosphere reminiscent materials which will provide a vivid
of a film noir of the 1960s. portrayal of the events and make it
We will follow the work of possible to re-enact scenes from
the prestigious jury composed the Russell-Sartre Tribunal proceedings.
of fifteen highly politically engaged We will use photographs and film
personalities of the period such as footage from several archive funds
the French writers Jean-Paul Sartre in Europe, and notably some remarkable
and Simone de Beauvoir; the great images from a Swedish film archive
Italian politician and founder that were shot during the first court
of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, session in Stockholm. The materials
Lelio Basso, and David Dellinger, will also include footage from PROJECTED
BUDGET 188.000€
one of the most influential nonviolent the United States that have fallen
peace activists in the United States. into the public domain.
STILL
158.000€
REQUIRED
CONFIRMED
The film footage and photos brought These archives will clearly illustrate SALES AGENT
back by the members how the investigations and court CONFIRMED
of the commissions of inquiry BROADCASTER
proceedings were conducted
in the field which were shown during with rigor and will show
the hearing will provide vivid the remarkable work done PRODUCER CALISTO CONFIRMED 20.000€ 10,64%
depictions of the effects of the war in documenting these events PRODUCTIONS
on the civilian population. thus providing a vivid and accurate PUBLIC FUNDING RÉGION GRAND EST CONFIRMED 10.000€ 5,32%
DÉVELOPPEMENT
Key witnesses who took part historical perspective on the war. PUBLIC FUNDING CNC PROJECTED 24.000€ 12,77%
in the courtroom proceedings will PRODUCTION
tell us what they felt. The British writer, To produce this documentary, PUBLIC FUNDING RÉGION GRAND EST PROJECTED 15.000€ 47,87%
Tariq Ali, who was the court reporter; we are seeking co-production
PRODUCTION
the French lawyer, Gisèle Halimi, partners, especially in Sweden.
BROADCASTER ARTE PENDING 90.000€ 2,66%
member of the commissions of inquiry; We are looking for the involvement
BROADCASTER FRENCH
BROADCASTER
PENDING 5.000€ 7,98%
American activists who were on the jury of producers and broadcasters CO-PRODUCER INTERNATIONAL PROJECTED 24.000€ 12,77%
and associated with peace movements at several levels: editorial, technical AND PRE-SALE
at the time; and Vietnamese and financial. In France, the project WITH THE
Région Grand-Est
SUPPORT OF
civilians who testified at the hearings. is supported by the Région Grand Est, ADVANCEMENT
Experts in international law and we are waiting for confirmation STATE Development
and historians will analyze the impact from one or more French broadcasters. PREVIOUSLY
of this first citizen tribunal on the war PITCHED AT...
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DRAW FOR SYNOPSIS In Draw For Change! each episode The Russian Victoria Lomasko makes
DIRECTORS
LAURA initially portrays a female cartoonist cartoons about how women
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somewhere in the world. are traded for the local sex industry.
ROKHSAREH
GHAEMMAGHAMI Then, zooming in on one of The cartoonists are often women
her cartoons, she takes us on a with a dramatic or unique story,
SERIES KAREN
VÁZQUEZ journey through her country in search such as that of the Iranian Firoozeh
BELGIUM GUADARAMMA of people who experience Mozafarri, a successful cartoonist
8 × 52 MIN MARIAM that cartoon in reality. in a country where you can be locked up
ABOU-OUF Thus, the drawings come to life. for the “wrong” drawing.
ARYA Cintia Bolia became pregnant
LOGLINE ROTHE
KSENIA
In order to capture these encounters, in Mexico at the age of 19.
we will use a mixture of classic Abortion is illegal there.
BURNING ISSUES WORLDWIDE, OKHAPKINA
documentary and animated film. Despite the fact that she was forced
SEEN THROUGH THE EYES AUTHORS The animation will be based to stop her studies, she managed,
AND IN THE DRAWINGS VINCENT on the drawings of the cartoonist. without any education, to become
OF FEMALE CARTOONISTS. COEN
Each episode will be co-written an influential cartoonist and raise
GUILLAUME
VANDENBERGHE and directed by an established her son as a single mother.
female director who has a direct link
PRODUCTION to the subject or country. In this series we will meet strong
HANNE women who each rebel in their own
PHLYPO
Through the eyes of female cartoonists way: they draw because it is unthinkable
Clin d’œil films,
Belgium the audience gets a unique perspective for them not to do so. The price
[email protected] on a number of important issues they pay for this gives these characters
+32 484 974 442 that woman face. Cartoonists a dramatic tension. They were fired,
clindoeilfilms.be
are good observers; after all, imprisoned or threatened with death.
DELIVERY DATE it is their profession. But that’s not all But none of them bends
October 2022 they do: every cartoonist we portray and they manage, even a little bit,
is politically and socially engaged to change their community.
in her own way and tries to bring
about change or increase awareness Draw For Change! is an ambitious,
about the problems. international project of universal
importance. We are convinced
Each episode has a specific that these female voices from all over
subject, depending on the country the world have the power to reach
and the cartoonist we are portraying. and move a wide audience.
In Egypt Dooa El-Adl fights
against female genital mutilation
with her drawings.
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PROJECT Why is there no human society

that has achieved true gender equality?
We want to tell the stories with a mix
of documentary and animation.
BIOGRAPHIES Vincent Coen and Guillaume Vandenberghe, After studying Political and Social Sciences,
DESCRIPTION Why are women who speak out treated This mixture feeds the narrative
VINCENT COEN having developed the concept, will work Vincent went to the RITCS filmschool.
GUILLAUME as showrunners on this series. Their tasks will Guillaume studied photography at KASK
harder than their male counterparts? in many different ways: the dramatic VANDENBERGHE be assuring the coherence of the series and then cameraman at the INSAS. Their debut
Why is violence against women representation of memories AUTHORS as a whole, without compromising the artistic documentary Cinema Inch’Allah! (2012)
so omnipresent? and anecdotes, the integration vision of the individual directors. was co-produced by RTBF/ARTE, Canvas,
of animated figures into documentary 2M and SRF. Their second film Nothing
Vincent Coen (1975) and Guillaume
It is deeply unsettling for us as parents images to comment on them or to give Is Forgiven (2017) premiered at FIPADOC
Vandenberghe (1978) live and work in Brussels.
and was sold to numerous territories.
to see our children grow up in a world them humorous accent, the protection They got to know each other as teenagers
where they are not treated as equals. of the identity of the interviewees… in Ghent when they played together in a band.
Even in the so-called developed world
this injustice still exists. Just think Each episode will be directed BIOGRAPHY Hanne Phlypo is a Belgian producer and founder Samuel In The Clouds (Golden Hugo at Chicago
of #Metoo or the gender pay gap, by an internationally recognized local HANNE PHLYPO of Clin d’oeil films. The company focuses Film Fest), A Family Affair (Nominated for
to name just a few issues. But of course, female director. She knows the culture, PRODUCER on creative documentaries and author-driven European Films Awards), Houses With Small
CLIN D’OEIL FILMS
our intention for making this series habits and issues of local women film with a clear preference for films with a social Windows (Nominated for EFA), Manu (IDFA 2018
goes beyond our offspring: gender and will be able to create an authentic or political statement by innovative filmmakers. & SCAM Star Award 2019) and By The Name
Hanne has produced over 20 feature Of Tania (selected for Generation 14+ at Berlinale
equality simply is a basic human right. and intimate portrait of the cartoonists.
documentaries that have been screened 2019 and winner of Best International Feature
Each film will have its own identity and awarded at festivals around the world. at Raindance). Hanne is an alumna of Eurodoc,
Another important reason for making depending on the style of drawing, Among her prior films are Waiting For August member of Flanders Doc and is tutoring
this TV series now is the fact that the subject matter and the director’s (Nominated for EFA, Best International at the Belgian Film School INSAS.
the art of cartooning is increasingly artistic vision. Documentary Awards Hot Docs),
under pressure. Recently the New York
Times decided to stop publishing For six episodes the directors have
cartoon, after one of their cartoons confirmed their cooperation: Laura Nix PROJECTED BUDGET 3.008.000€
featuring Trump and Netanyahu (US), known from The Yes Men Are STILL REQUIRED 2.403.000€
created a huge controversy. Cartooning Revolting; Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami CONFIRMED SALES AGENT
is a crucial pillar of a free and democratic (Iran) known from Sonita, for which CONFIRMED BROADCASTER VRT / Canvas
press. If cartooning disappears, press she won the jury and audience FINANCING SOURCES TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL
freedom will follow soon. award at Sundance; Karen Vázquez OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET
Guadaramma (Mexico) PUBLIC FUNDING FLANDERS AUDIOVISUAL
FUND – SCRIPT SUPPORT
CONFIRMED 25.000€ 1%
Our previous film Nothing Is Forgiven is a Belgian‑Mexican filmmaker PUBLIC FUNDING FLANDERS PENDING 30.000€ 1%
shows how Zineb El Rahzoui, and her film When The Bull Cried AUDIOVISUAL FUND
DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT
a Moroccan women’s rights activist was shown at festivals all over PUBLIC FUNDING FLANDERS AUDIOVISUAL PROJECTED 445.000€ 15%
and journalist, becomes the most the world; Mariam Abou-Ouf (Egypt) FUND
PRODUCTION SUPPORT
protected woman in France who made a short film selected
BROADCASTER CANVAS CONFIRMED 180.000€ 6%
after the attack on Charlie Hebdo, for Cannes and also numerous PRODUCTION SUPPORT
the satirical magazine. During documentaries; Arya Rothe (India) BROADCASTER RTBF PROJECTED 50.000€ 2%
PRODUCTION SUPPORT
the recordings we got to know many made A Rifle and A Bag that will PUBLIC FUNDING CENTRE DU CINÉMA PROJECTED 60.000€ 2%
impressive women’s rights activists premiere on IFFR in 2020; DE LA FÉDÉRATION
WALLONIE-BRUXELLES
and cartoonists and the idea and Ksenia Okhapkina (Russia) PRODUCTION SUPPORT
for this project came about. known for Come Back Free PUBLIC FUNDING DGCD – PRODUCTION PROJECTED 118.000€ 4%
(Best medium-length film IDFA) SUPPORT TV SERIES
PUBLIC FUNDING CREATIVE EUROPE PROJECTED 60.000€ 2%
Liza Donnelly, award-winning cartoonist and Immortal (Best documentary SLATE FUNDING
for the New Yorker, took up the role Karlovy Vary, longlist for the Oscars). PUBLIC FUNDING TAXSHELTER BELGIUM AUTOMATIC 400.000€ 13%
of consultant very early on BROADCASTER FRANCE TBC PROJECTED 300.000€ 10%
and the concept was developed With this series we want to deliver PUBLIC FUNDING CNC PROJECTED 150.000€ 5%
in close collaboration with her. She will an ambitious high-end product PUBLIC FUNDING AIDE REGIONAL PROJECTED 50.000€ 2%
continue to accompany the series that can play a role on the international PUBLIC FUNDING NFF / TELEDOC PROJECTED 50.000€ 2%
during shooting and post-production. market in terms of artistic, PUBLIC FUNDING BROADCASTER THE PROJECTED 240.000€ 8%
NETHERLANDS
During her 30-year career she built cinematographic and technical
PUBLIC FUNDING DUTCH TAX REBATE FUND PROJECTED 150.000€ 5%
a global network of female cartoonists, qualities. Not only the choice
PUBLIC FUNDING CREATIVE EUROPE TV PROJECTED 400.000€ 13%
many of whom became personal of talented and committed directors, PROGRAMMING
friends. Also Cartooning for Peace, but also the collaboration with a top PRE-SALE & INTERNATIONAL PRE-SALES LOOKING FOR 300.000€ 10%
COPRODUCTIONS & COPRODUCTIONS
an organization founded by Kofi Annan animation studio will contribute to this.
WITH THE SUPPORT OF Flanders Audiovisual Fund, Canvas
and Plantu that supports cartoonists
who work under difficult conditions, ADVANCEMENT STATE Development
are a partner for this TV series. PREVIOUSLY PITCHED AT...
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EXPEDITION SYNOPSIS Expedition 49 will be a teenage Valentyn decides to launch

DIRECTOR
ALISA adventure documentary, a rehabilitation project helping
49
KOVALENKO
an observational apprenticeship film: children who have psychologically
AUTHORS the encounter between an aging man suffered the horrors of war.
ALISA who has never given up on For his 49th and last expedition
ЕКСПЕДИЦІЯ KOVALENKO
49 his childhood dreams, and five war to the Himalayas, he will train and bring
STÉPHANE trapped teenagers craving for new with him 5 teenagers from the war
SIOHAN horizons. The film will explore the fragile zone in Eastern Ukraine, offer them
ONE-OFF
and shiny world of adolescence: with their first eternal snow and bow out
FRANCE PRODUCTION
90 MIN STÉPHANE the war in Eastern Ukraine as a rumbling in style. The alpinist publishes
SIOHAN background, but above all with a call for teenagers aged 13 to 16.
East Roads Films, a fantastic expedition to the Himalayas
France / Ukraine
LOGLINE stephane@
east-roads.com
as a horizon, an open door
to the outside world.
The key word is: “Do you want to climb
your first Himalayas?” This message
AGED 73, VALENTYN, UKRAINE’S +380 50 832 18 51 spreads like a powder trail… Dozens
GREATEST ALPINIST, PREPARES DELIVERY DATE At the age of 73, Valentyn Scherbatchev respond with letters, phone messages,
HIS LAST EXPEDITION. Mid 2021 is a living legend of Ukrainian alpinism, smartphone videos… Five of them
TO LEAVE A LEGACY, a former football matches TV host emerge: Lera, Ruslan, Alexander,
and a famous sports commentator Lisa and Andriy, the “Adventurous
HE GOES TO THE WAR FIELDS
on the public radio in Kyiv. Five”, modern Ukrainian reincarnations
DONBASS TO FIND He has extreme adventure in his blood: of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
FIVE YOUNG APPRENTICES. he was parachuted in Antarctica,
DESTINATION: THE HIMALAYAS. sailed on the oceans and climbed During one year, the old man
48 times the Himalayas… Recently, and the kids will train hard under
he’s been working on the creation the sun or in the snow of Donbass,
of a sports television for children. to prepare for a long journey.
In the middle of this process, we will
But lately, Valentyn has been feeling discover each of the characters,
disturbed. Born just after WW2, their story, their family, the situations
he’s been profoundly shocked by in which they struggle, their personal
the return of war in Ukraine. And then, dramas. On the way, they will find
he feels that his energy is declining: themselves and find a new horizon:
he will not roam in the mountains to build a life which is not synonym
forever. Valentyn’s mind begins of being just a war victim.
to wander and he draws the outlines
of his next expedition. But the last one
has to be a first one for someone.
How to pass the baton?
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PITCHES PITCHES
PROJECT Eastern Ukraine, 2020. The largest enrolled by the pro-Russian militias,
BIOGRAPHY Alisa Kovalenko (1987) is an Ukrainian director, at Sheffield Doc/Fest and was selected
mining and metalworking area while her brother is a cadet
DESCRIPTION in Europe has been devastated at the Ukrainian army academy.
ALISA KOVALENKO
DIRECTOR
living in Kyiv. She graduated the Karpenko-Kary
University of Cinema of Kyiv and the Andrzej‑Wajda
in 70 festivals, including IDFA Amsterdam 2018,
winning 10 awards. Home Games was nominated
by a six-years war between Ukraine They could fight each other. cinema school of Warsaw. After a first for the best Ukrainian documentary act in 2019
and Russia, which has taken 13.500 She’s panicked by the situation. feature-length documentary, Sister Zo, directed at the the Ukrainian Film Academy and had
lives and forced 2 millions of people during the last year of university, Alisa directed its French premiere in the international
to leave their homes. 3.500 civilians Ilya, 15 years old, would like to become her real debut feature‑documentary Alisa in competition of FIPADOC 2019 in Biarritz.
Warland, about the early period of the war The same year, Alisa has become a member
were killed, among them 300 children. an actor. Ruslan, 16 years old,
in Eastern Ukraine, premiered at IDFA Amsterdam of The European Film Academy (EFA) and
700 schools have been destroyed lives in Zolote. From his bedroom, in 2015 in the First appearance competition. she’ll be the head of creative documentary
by artillery, one in five schools he can see the explosions. His father, Alisa’s second documentary, Home Games, teaching at the Karpenko-Kary Film School in Kyiv.
in the region. a miner digs coal with a hammer like an intimate family drama, had its World Premiere
a century ago and he wants his son
“The psychological trauma these kids to become a miner too. But while BIOGRAPHY Stephane Siohan (1978) is a French documentary Alisa Kovalenko’s award-winning Home Games.
suffered will forever remain in their his dad doesn’t receive his salary, STÉPHANE SIOHAN producer, based in Kyiv, Ukraine. A senior reporter East Roads Films also produces creative
PRODUCER specialized in foreign affairs, Stephane covers documentary and television content
lives”, according to the Unicef. Ruslan’s making money for the family EAST ROADS FILMS
Ukraine and Eastern Europe for the newspaper for commissioners such as The Guardian
In October 2019, the government commenting Counter Strike
Le Figaro, Radio France and televisions such as Documentary (UK), Current Time TV (USA),
of Ukraine granted the official status tournaments online. the Swiss public broadcaster RTS. He has also Canal+ (France), RTS television (Swiss)
of “war victim” to 33.000 children directed two interactive documentaries: and advocacy short docs for non-governmental
who lives on the immediate frontline Andriy, 16, is the local Elon Musk! Gol (2012), selected at the Doclab IDFA 2012 organizations. Stéphane will co-write
of Donbass. In 2020, Donbass new From his workshop, he invents in Amsterdam, and Kinshasa FM (2013). In 2016, and produce Expedition 49, the second
teens turning 13 will have spent half and repairs everything. Recently, after he has created East Roads Films, a French full-length doc of East Roads Films.
of their life in a war zone. a bombing cut off power, he provided production company supporting author-driven
creative documentaries from Ukraine
electricity for the whole neighborhood! and the region. Stephane produced
What kind of adults does a war rise? All of them are beautiful dreamers:
Does one have a chance to heal With the heroes of “Expedition 49”, we
his or her wounds and build himself found the krainian brothers and sisters PROJECTED
BUDGET 288.000€
as an adult. Are they doomed to pain, of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn! STILL
violence and self-identification REQUIRED 178.000€
as a victim? This is the question raised The main narrative conflict that CONFIRMED
SALES AGENT
by this film, with the background underlies “Expedition 49” is this vital
of Europe’s single raging war. force, this will, this incredible ability CONFIRMED
BROADCASTER
of our five teenage protagonists FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL
The war has transformed daily lives to build a world of adventure, while SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET
to a wild wild east, full of guns, the centrifugal forces of war are locking PUBLIC FUNDING UKRAINIAN STATE CONFIRMED 100.000€ 35%
FILM AGENCY
landmines and shell shrapnels. them within four walls and confining
OWN INVESTMENT OWN INVESTMENT CONFIRMED 10.000€ 3,5%
They discovered death and pain way them in a deadly narrow environment. PRIVATE FOUNDATION SUNDANCE INSTITUTE A&E PENDING 20.000€ 7%
too early. What strikes at most: here BRAVE STORYTELLER AWARD
kids are different. They’re not afraid The war locks up children, while PRIVATE FUNDING HOTDOCS CROSS CURRENTS PENDING 17.000€ 6%
DOC FUND
about the same things. They don’t they want to open up very wide PRIVATE FUNDING IDFA BERTHA FUND PENDING 17.500€ 6%
move an inch when a bomb falls, the windows of life. Preteens have CLASSIC (PRODUCTION)
but they’re terrified of the unknown, this need for transgression. To get PRIVATE FUNDING CATAPULT FILM FUND PENDING 15.000€ 5%
the outside world. out of the family cocoon, to see PUBLIC FUNDING CNC – AIDE AU PENDING AMOUNT NOT
DÉVELOPPEMENT RENFORCÉ SPECIFIED
if the grass is greener somewhere, PRIVATE FOUNDATION FORD FOUNDATION PENDING 16.300€ 5,5%
Our heroes live in small dusty cities, to confront the unknown. What JUSTFILMS INQUIRY
in the region of Luhansk, Ukrainian is adventure? It is freedom: freedom PRIVATE FOUNDATION CINEREACH PENDING AMOUNT NOT
SPECIFIED
side of the frontline. Lera, 14 years old, of movement and the freedom PRIVATE FUNDING IDFA BERTHA FUND – EUROPE PROJECTED 40.000€ 14%
is a refugee from Luhansk. Now to choose one’s own destiny. PUBLIC FUNDING SORFOND NORWAY PROJECTED 30.000€ 10,5%
she lives in the little frontline town PUBLIC FUNDING DOHA FILM INSTITUTE PROJECTED AMOUNT NOT
of Stanytsia Luhanska, in a foster Our heroes are being deprived of SPECIFIED
home settled in a former library that possibility. Suddenly, a deus ex PRIVATE FUNDING JIHLAVA FILM FUND AMOUNT NOT
SPECIFIED
with her seven siblings. She dreams machina appears: an old man BROADCASTERS AMOUNT NOT
of becoming a photographer. who proposes them to reach their inner SPECIFIED
Everest and maybe find what they really WITH THE
Ukrainian State Film Agency
SUPPORT OF
Lisa, 15, also lives in Stanytsia. want from their lives: social determinism
ADVANCEMENT
In the future, Lisa would like to create or freedom! The very conflict line which STATE Advanced development / Pre-production
animated films. Her boyfriend lives is crossing Ukraine as a society after PREVIOUSLY
on the separatist side and might get six years of revolution and changes… PITCHED AT...
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FATNA, SYNOPSIS In the National Archives of the Kingdom on her ideas in a profoundly shifting
DIRECTOR
HÉLÈNE of Morocco, a huge project is beginning: society that is still under close
A WOMAN
HARDER
a meticulous inventory of the files surveillance. Only the rare moments
AUTHOR of thousands of recognized victims she spends singing with her friends
NAMED RACHID HÉLÈNE

HARDER
of human rights violations during
the “years of lead”. Among these files
is that of a former missing person
in the choir, or talking on the phone
with her two daughters living abroad,
allow her to relax.
FATNA UNE FEMME PRODUCTION
NOMMÉE RACHID ILHAM and political prisoner, Fatna El Bouih. As she travels around, Fatna shares
RAOUF Driving all over the labyrinthine city with us the intimate and sensitive story
FEATURE LENGTH ABEL AFLAM, of Casablanca, Fatna keeps dreaming of a life punctuated by the great events
Maroc of change after years of rebuilding. of our time, from country girl born
ONE-OFF ilham@ Today, with her NGO Relais-Prison- in the year of Moroccan independence
MOROCCO abelaflam.com
+212 661 46 06 80 Société, she is fighting to organize to revolutionary schoolgirl in 1970s
FRANCE +212 661 46 06 99
a film festival in the impenetrable Casablanca; from underground activist
80 MIN abelaflam.com
Oukacha prison. to former missing person. Today,
CO-PRODUCTION
Despite the many obstacles we see the strength and resilience
NADÈGE
the Moroccan authorities of a woman whose whole life
LOGLINE LABÉ
WENDIGO are putting in the way of her project, is dedicated to the traditionally
FORMER POLITICAL PRISONER, FILMS, Fatna has not given up her other male arena of political activism.
France commitments: helping the Through Fatna El Bouih’s story,
FATNA EL BOUIH IS KEEPING UP nadege@
reintegration of former prisoners, the film tells us how women must
HER FIGHT IN MOROCCO DESPITE wendigofilms.com
+33 148 304 961 taking a keen interest in the schooling transgress if they are to enter history,
THE OBSTACLES. SHE DREAMS +33 623 910 090
of little girls, and sharing her own questions the constant risk
OF OPENING THE IMPENETRABLE wendigofilms.com
story with newly released young of their erasure from the collective
CASABLANCA PRISON TO THE PUBLIC DELIVERY DATE
Syrian political prisoners. memory, and highlights the great
THROUGH A FILM FESTIVAL. 2021
Every day, Fatna struggles humbly changes of our time.
and discreetly to exist and pass
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PITCHES PITCHES
PROJECT On reading her file for recognition

as victim of human rights violations
anywhere else. All the rest is nonsense.
It’s not natural.” How did a little girl
BIOGRAPHY Her philosophy studies at École Normale Casamantes supported by CNC’s
DESCRIPTION during the “years of lead”, from the poor Moroccan countryside,
HÉLÈNE HARDER
DIRECTOR
Supérieure (Paris) disrupted by a serious
accident, Hélène Harder turns to cinema.
New Media fund.
She is more recently introduced by film
Fatna El Bouih, a feminist activist raised to lower her eyes, dare to get After training at UC Berkeley Film & Media producer Jean David Lefebvre to Moroccan
of the Moroccan left, describes involved into politics? This film tells us. School, she works as director’s assistant former political prisoner Fatna El Bouih
her frustration at seeing her past In a nod to the clandestine political in New York and Paris and directs her first and decides to make about her a second
as a political prisoner summarized activities of her youth, the film plays feature documentary Ladies’ Turn in Senegal feature documentary Fatna, a woman named
in a one-page administrative form. with and subtly subverts the codes in 2012 (65’) produced by Wendigo Films. Rachid. She gets a writing residency
Selected at festivals in 15 countries and awarded at Groupe Ouest for this project produced
This film attempts to tell us what of the spy movie genre. Here, the hero four times, the film is broadcast on ARTE, by Abel Aflam and Wendigo Films.
the form can’t reveal by portraying is a woman, transgressing all the roles TV5 Monde and US public broadcaster PBS. She works regularly as a filmmaker
a Moroccan activist whose story imposed on her gender by the society Since 2013, she works between France and photographer with dance
resonates with the contemporary she lives in. The cinematography and Morocco with theatre director Karima and heatre companies, contemporary
history of an entire generation well and the sound design will suggest El Kharraze on the transmedia project artists and independent media.
beyond Morocco’s borders. But how an ever-present underlying threat.
to tell a story that left behind Fatna is presented little by little, BIOGRAPHIES After completing her studies in English Literature Passionate by creative documentaries,
ILHAM RAOUF and Linguistics at Hassan II University Nadège develops international co-productions
no marks? As I delved into for Fatna’s in a fragmented way, often emerging PRODUCER in Casablanca, Ilham Raouf started working (Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Morocco, Switzerland)
past, it was her present activism from or disappearing behind closed ABEL AFLAM
in Moroccan production companies to make possible independant and innovative
that really caught my attention: doors, echoing her transgressions NADÈGE LABÉ as production coordinator. She worked on cinema, carried by a young generation of directors.
campaigning on multiple fronts, driving of the endless limits imposed on her. PRODUCER TV series such as Game of Thrones, Homeland, Since 2011, she has produced a dozen films,
WENDIGO FILMS
around Casablanca, and often traveling Through the film, Fatna: A Woman Tyrant and Bureau des Légendes and on feature including De que vuelan, vuelan, winner of
outside of Morocco (Lebanon, Spain, Named Rachid, I question the position films such as Paris by Cédric Klapisch, an “Etoiles de la Scam” in 2014; The third shore
A view of Love by Nicole Garcia, by Fabian Remy, coproduced with TremChic
Turkey, United States, Germany, etc.), and role of women in political action,
Of Gods and Men by Xavier Beauvois (Brazil), selected in international festivals
she has the beauty of an Egyptian the lack of recognition and Queen of the Desert by Werner Herzog. including Dok Leipzig, Forum Doc, Traces de vie
movie star and, at over 60 years of age, they face and the constant risk Since 2014, Ilham Raouf joined Abel Aflam (Best first film), It’s all true (Best Brazilian Film)
her energy remains undiminished. of their disappearance Company. She accompanies fiction and broadcasted on Tënk. This year, she finalizes
I knew then that I wanted to make from the collective memory. and documentary directors in their creative three films, co-produced with France 3,
a movie firmly rooted in the present, process, as an executive producer on Public Sénat and viàVosges and follows
in which the past shines through like Burn Country by Ian Old and Wakhan Front the post-production of the feature lenght
by Clément Cogitore. As producer she develops documentary, Mother Lode, co-produced
a light or tone in which all the facets documentaries that reflect the social, political with Italy and Switzerland, supported, among
of Fatna’s personality are refracted. and cultural situation in Morocco like Mothers others, by the CNC-Innovation and the Aide
Throughout the film, we follow Fatna’s by Myriam Bakir, Unbeloved by Amina Harar aux Cinémas du Monde. This film has just
struggle to organize a film festival and Mark Lautal, The Secret Garden of Tsunami received the Eurimages award during
in one of the most impenetrable by Anas Oueld Mhamed and now Fatna the Work in Progress of Thessaloniki Festival.
and remote places in Morocco, a woman named Rachid with Hélène Harder.
the huge Oukacha prison in Casablanca.
At the wheel of her car, she takes us PROJECTED BUDGET 275.833€
through the labyrinthine streets STILL REQUIRED 238.271€
of the city, the main theatre CONFIRMED SALES AGENT TBC
of her various militant operations, CONFIRMED BROADCASTER TBC
which are revealed as the film
FINANCING SOURCES TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL
progresses. During her various rides, OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET
we will hear Fatna’s inner voice reliving PRODUCER’S INVESTMENT ABEL AFLAM CONFIRMED 16.500€ 6%
the major events of her life journey PRE-SALE MOROCCAN BROADCASTER PROJECTED 15.000€ 5,4%
as if they were happening in front
PUBLIC FUNDING CCM PROJECTED 75.000€ 27,2%
of us, creating disturbing present-past
PRODUCER’S INVESTMENT WENDIGO FILMS CONFIRMED 15.522€ 6,5%
continuity effects. We will learn
that Fatna not only paid dearly PRE-SALE FRENCH BROADCASTER PROJECTED 40.000€ 14,5%
for her commitment to revolutionary PUBLIC FUNDING CNC PROJECTED 40.000€ 14,5%

Marxism, but was also punished PUBLIC FUNDING RÉGION IDF PROJECTED 12.500€ 4,5%
for getting involved in the male PRIVATE FUNDING PROCIREP ANGOA – CONFIRMED 5.590€ 2%
territory of political activism. DEVELOPMENT
As she recounts in her book Une femme PRIVATE FUNDING PROCIREP ANGOA – PROJECTED 10.500€ 3,8%
PRODUCTION
nommée Rachid, her torturers intended
FOUNDATION DOHA FILM INSTITUTE PROJECTED 45.271€ 16,4%
to restore the gender order: “For us,
WITH THE SUPPORT OF Procirep – société des producteurs et Angoa (development)
you are a man, we treat you as such.
(…) Women should stay at home ADVANCEMENT STATE Development
to raise the kids. They shouldn’t be PREVIOUSLY PITCHED AT... Sitges – October 2019
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THE SYNOPSIS N.D. and N.T., two young men for violating the European Convention
DIRECTOR
SIMÓN from Mali and Ivory Coast, leave in the treatment of the migrants using
GOUROUGOU
CASAL
DE MIGUEL their homes and undertake a long pushback. Heard before the Court
SANTI journey to Europe. They reach of Human Rights in Strasbourg,
TRIAL PALACIOS
AUTHOR
Morocco, where they remain
for two months in an illegal camp
on Gourougou Mountain, very close
we follow the trial as Spain protests
its right to use pushback under certain
circumstances. The final sentence
ONE-OFF SIMÓN to the Spanish border in Melilla. will be issued in December 2019.
SPAIN CASAL
DE MIGUEL We met them in this camp.
52 MIN & 70 MIN Ultimately, the fate of these two migrants
SANTI
PALACIOS Two weeks after meeting is a test for Europe. Are we prepared
our protagonists we follow them to face the great challenges
LOGLINE PRODUCTION
SIMÓN
in the dead of night as they descend of the modern world and the future
the mountain and scale a huge metal that lies ahead of us? And in so doing
TWO AFRICAN MIGRANTS HELPED CASAL DE MIGUEL
border fence and cross into adhere to the law and retain
BY TWO AMBITIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS FM, Spain
Spanish soil. However, as soon our core values?
LAWYERS TAKE ON THE SPANISH [email protected]
+34 629 505 844 they are across the border
AUTHORITIES, CLAIMING THEIR RIGHT simoncasal.es
they are arrested and immediately It is a judicial thriller where European
TO HAVE RIGHTS BEFORE THE EUROPEAN DELIVERY DATE
returned to Morocco under political power and two migrants
COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS. September 2020 a procedure known as “pushback”, are confronted, revealing a gulf between
A CASE THAT PUTS EUROPE’S CORE an instantaneous deportation. the institutions that determine Europe’s
VALUES AND THE FUTURE OF RIGHTS migration management strategy
THROUGHOUT THE CONTINENT Two lawyers with the German non-profit and the reality of those suffering
TO THE TEST. organisation European Center the consequences. A look through
for Constitutional and Human Rights the intimate stories of two migrants
(ECCHR) Hanaa and Carsten and two lawyers and the political
commence and fight an action and legal mechanisms they face.
against the Spanish state
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PROJECT There are some key narrative features

that are worth mentioning.
the evolution of the European Court
of Human Rights. We will be with them
BIOGRAPHY Santi Palacios is a renowned photojournalist Simón Casal de Miguel conducted studies
DESCRIPTION when they hear the ruling
SANTI PALACIOS born in Madrid in 1985. He currently lives in Madrid and Barcelona in sociology,
SIMÓN CASAL in Barcelona and works with news agencies film directing, photography and film script.
The driving force behind the story lies and accompany them to Madrid, DE MIGUEL from around the world, including Associated As a photographer, he has been recognized
in the characters of Hanaa and Carsten: where they will communicate it DIRECTORS Press, TIME, New York Times, El País, Sunday by the Government of Galicia, FNAC or El País.
we will follow them in their fight to the media. From there, we will follow Times and CNN. His work has been published Filmography as director:
throughout the process to bring them to Huelva, where they will in leading newspapers and magazines around 2011. TVMovie Eduardo Barreiros, the Spanish
this case before the International Court communicate the ruling to one the world and he is the recipient of a number Henry Ford (Jury Prize Houston Int. Film Festival
of awards, including the World Press Photo, 2012, Best TVMovie Galician Awards 2012,
of Human Rights, until the final ruling. of the claimants, and finally to Mali, Picture of the Year, Overseas Press Club broadcasted by 5 tv-channels in Spain)
home of the second claimant. of America and the Premio Nacional 2015. Feature-film Dirty Wolves Mill Valley 2015,
Together with them, we will reconstruct de Fotoperiodismo de España 2015 and 2016. +20 int. festivals, TOP10 Box Office Spain
the investigation of the judicial case The trial brings together the stories Santi was one of the six European talents 2017. TV-Series Serramoura 2019. Historical
through unreleased footage of two migrants and two lawyers, selected for the World Press Photo Documentary Serie Suevian Kingdom of Galicia
of the ‘before and after’ of the jump, providing a double narrative structure, 6×6 Talent Program. (writer and director)
testimonies of people who were there i.e. the trial vs personal stories, which,
BIOGRAPHY In addition to his career as a director, At present, he develops documentary projects
that night in Melilla and the unreleased in addition to moving us, also offer
SIMÓN CASAL Simón Casal has produced the four short and documentary series for the national
testimony of the two migrants – whom an interesting perspective which DE MIGUEL films he has made, most of them selected and international market with his own production
the Strasbourg judges did not even is based on contrast. This contrasts PRODUCER at international festivals worldwide. company. The Gourougou Trial will be his first
see in person. The narration of characters, motivations, situations, FM
These productions are made with the support documentary feature film as a producer,
of the Strasbourg trial also examines locations and environments, will provide of Galicia public funding and co-produced in co-production with Revista5W,
the arguments of the Spanish great contrast that will be key alongside other production companies. an international information magazine
Government’s defence team to the expressive nature of the film Recently, he has further produced considerable based in Barcelona.
online video content for brands and TV spots.
and explores the lawyers’ feelings and its ability to inspire us.
after the trial.
The idea is for the verdict – the final
We will recount the personal stories moral decision on whether the outcome
of the two migrants, where they came of this story is fair or not fair – to be
from, why they left and where in the audience’s hands.
they are now, as well as their opinion
of the entire process. So through the story of two migrants
and the struggle of two lawyers,
Throughout the documentary, we are ultimately looking at the attitude
and while we await the final ruling, of Europe towards human rights
we will get close to Hanaa and Carsten’s not just of migrants but potentially
everyday life, get to know their life everyone in Europe.
stories, the way they work on PROJECTED
BUDGET 185.000€
other international cases of Human STILL
Rights and their motivation. REQUIRED 146.000€
The guiding thread of this section CONFIRMED
SALES AGENT
is the concern that, as lawyers
specialising in Human Rights, CONFIRMED
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has haunted them for years: the risk FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL
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Rights will succumb to political BROADCASTER INTERNATIONAL TV TO REQUEST 70.000€ 38,3%
pressure, and that the so-called BROADCASTER TV3 REQUESTED 30.000€ 16,2%
Europe of Rights will be in danger FOUNDATION BERTHA FOUNDATION CONFIRMED 13.300€ 7%
at a key time for the continent. BROADCASTER AL JAZEERA ARAB CONFIRMED 8.000€ 4,3%
For this purpose, we will accompany BROADCASTER AL JAZEERA ENGLISH REQUESTED 20.000€ 10,8%
them in various conversations BROADCASTER RST REQUESTED 10.000€ 5,4%
with international justice experts. BROADCASTER TVG TO REQUEST 8.000€ 4,3%
BROADCASTER TVE TO REQUEST 8.000€ 4,3%
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We find out the result of the ruling
at the end of the film, which provides WITH THE
SUPPORT OF Bertha Foundation
closure to the story of the two lawyers ADVANCEMENT
and the two migrants, as well as STATE Development
a possible answer to Hanaa PREVIOUSLY Lau Haizetara San Sebastian 2019, LisbonDocs 2019,
and Carsten’s concerns about PITCHED AT... MEDIMED 2019
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H2 – ONE SYNOPSIS Hebron is the largest city in the West The story of this road is the story
DIRECTORS
IDIT Bank with 215.000 Palestinian residents. of the entire conflict. It shows how
KILOMETER
AVRAHAMI
Its center, known as “H2”, is home we got to this political impasse,
NOAM
SHEIZAF to 800 Jewish settlers and 17 IDF and where we are heading. Through
OF CONFLICT PRODUCTION
HILLA
companies (one soldier per settler).
At one end of the one-kilometer road
which crosses H2 lies the Cave
the story of H2 we witness the evolution
of the occupation, and the various
methods that were used over
FEATURE LENGTH MEDALIA of the Patriarchs, a holy site the years to control the lives
ISRAEL Medalia
for Muslims and Jews alike. of the local population.
90 MIN Productions,
Israel
hilla@ For hundreds of years, the cave The Israeli army captured Hebron
medaliaproductions.com
and its surrounding area were in 1967 and attempted to create
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medaliaproductions.com the town’s center, but today it is one a “benevolent occupation”
of the most segregated, and surveilled that legitimized Israel’s control.
LEGALLY SEGREGATED, HIGHLY DELIVERY DATE
areas in the Middle East where Jews But In 1968, a group of religious Jews
January 2021
SURVEILLED AND INTENSELY and Palestinians walk on separate paths, moved into Hebron, creating the first
GUARDED: THE FILM UNCOVERS divided by metal gates, fences settlement and turning H2 into
THE WAY A ONE-KILOMETER LONG and concrete walls. Cameras a religious and symbolic battleground.
STREET IN HEBRON FUELS THE ENTIRE are everywhere, filming is a form Since then, a series of mutual attacks
ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT: of a political struggle. have resulted in the army converting
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. Hebron into an “open air prison”
The film intercuts footage shot where every daily activity is regulated
from these multiple points of view and supervised.
with interviews of local decision-makers
portraying the story of H2, Attempts to bring peace, democracy
and how it has evolved into a “test lab” and coexistence have been replaced
for the entire Israeli-Palestinian by an ideology of ethnic segregation,
conflict and its future. implemented through military power
and technological control. This is also
The events that transpired in H2 where the universal message of the film
have set the tone for the entire region. lies: in a world where democratic
H2 is where the Jewish settlement norms and values are abandoned
movement was born, and where in favor of oppressive systems;
the mass murder which killed and where walls are built to separate
the peace process was committed. people and communities,
This is where the policy of ethnic H2 is a warning of the dystopian
separation, now enacted throughout future we are heading towards.
the West Bank, was tested
and implemented.
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PROJECT H2 is the name given in the Oslo

Accords to the ancient center
to accept the agreement. A Jewish
settler from Kiryat Arba, guns down
BIOGRAPHY Director and co-creator of documentary Political journalist, head of research and content
DESCRIPTION of Hebron, where 800 Jewish settlers 29 Palestinians praying in the Cave
IDIT AVRAHAMI
NOAM SHEIZAF
series The Barnoar for Keshet and KI about
the murders at a gay youth bar in Israel;
for Dir. Dror Moreh’s The Corridors of Power,
The Human Factor; script writer for Lieberman
live among thousands of Palestinains of the Patriarchs. This is the terminal DIRECTORS Her previous works include Fabric Stories (2016, (Dir. Nurit Keidar), director of Meshulam
under a permanent military blow to the peace process. Series, yesDocu), Selfies (2014, Series- Channel (Channel 8, Kan and the Haifa FF).
occupation. Negotiations collapse and the Second 8- Israel), The Journalists (Series- yes Docu 2012) He was a Research Editor and Deputy Editor
At its heart is the Cave Intifada begins. Hebron transforms premiered at DocAviv Festival, The Boy Who for Maariv Magazine, writer for Ha’aretz,
of the Patriarchs: A 2.000-year old into a battleground, machine guns Died of Fear (doc feature, yes Docu 2008). Yedioth Ahronoth and others and Editor
Her short documentary Institutional Abduction in Chief of +972 Magazine – a news and opinion
building where Jews and Muslims and tanks dominate the streets. (2019) showed at the Venice Biennale 2019. webzine that allows for international debate
believe their common father, Idit graduated with honors from Sam Spiegel regarding Israel and Palestine.
Abraham, is buried. The new-old situation leads Jewish Film and Television School in Jerusalem
The film tells the story of this small yet settlers to surround themselves and teaches Documentary Direction there.
contested space, from the perspective with walls and watchtowers
of local decision makers and through and Palestinians to live BIOGRAPHY Peabody Award-winning filmmaker 2014 (Sundance Film Festival, POV, BBC),
vast amounts of footage captured there. under heavy restrictions. Hebron HILLA MEDALIA and producer Hilla Medalia has received The Go Go Boys 2014 (Cannes Film Festival),
PRODUCER four Emmy® nominations. Her projects Censored Voices 2015, (Sundance Film Festival
becomes a site of oppression have garnered critical acclaim and screened and Berlinale), Muhi - Generally Temporary 2017
In 1967 Israeli army units entered and segregation; the beginning internationally in theaters and on television (San Francisco FIlm Festival, Hot Docs),
Hebron expecting a major battle. of the “open-air prison” era. including HBO, MTV, BBC and ARTE. Her range The Oslo Diaries 2018 (Sundance, HBO),
Surprisingly, the city surrendered The once busy shops and markets, of titles include To Die in Jerusalem 2007 (HBO), Transkids 2019 (a 5 part series for yes Docu)
without a single shot fired. Legendary have been welded shut and wired Numbered 2012 (ARTE), Dancing in Jaffa 2013 and Leftover Women 2019 (Tribeca FF,
mayor, Sheik Ja’abari became with security cameras and barbed (Tribeca, IFC Sundance selects), Web Junkie HotDocs, ZDF, Independent Lens).
close to Defense Minister Dayan wire. At night, Israeli soldiers
who tried to implement an “invisible raid houses of Palestinians to create
occupation” with open borders a database of potential activists.
and a flourishing economy.
In Hebron religion has become a pretext
But in 1968 a group of religious Jews for politics and short term gains
came to spend Passover in Hebron. have led to long term consequences.
PROJECTED
When the holiday was over they refused The implementation of an intense BUDGET 767.834€
to leave, and were backed by Israeli security and surveillance apparatus STILL
694.834€
leadership. This “spontaneous” in Hebron is not just a microcosm REQUIRED
event marks the birth of the settlement of the conflict, but a ‘test lab’ CONFIRMED Vesna Cudic, MetFilm
SALES AGENT Sales
movement which sets the tone to what lies ahead for the entire region.
to this day. CONFIRMED BROADCASTER Channel 8 Israel
By investigating the history of a single FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL
To solve the problem, and out location, we explore the myriad forces BROADCASTER CHANNEL 8- ISRAELI CONFIRMED 80.000€ 10,42%
of friendship to Dayan, Mayor Ja’abari driving the conflict, and the way BROADCAST
offers to move the settlers they have shaped reality: past, present FUND NFCT DEVELOPMENT FUND CONFIRMED 5.000€ 0,65%
to his own family land on the outskirts and future. As our world veers FUND NFCT PRODUCTION FUND APPLIED 45.000€ 5,86%
of Hebron. Today, this land is Kiryat toward more segregation and ethnic CO-PRODUCTION CANADIAN CO-PRODUCTION IN PROCESS 44.000€ 5,73%
Arba, home to 8.000 of the most hatred, H2 serves as a warning FUND CATAPULT APPLIED 17.600€ 2,29%
extremist settlers. against the reality of military FUND IDFA BETHA FUND TO APPLY 22.000€ 2,87%
FUND SUNDANCE DEVELOPMENT APPLIED 13.200€ 1,72%
control, surveillance, and racism. FUND
More settlers move into Hebron, BROADCASTER ARTE/RBB IN DISCUSSION 150.000€ 19,54%
and with them, more soldiers patrolling At the heart of the film are thousands PRE SALE EO/VPRO IN DISCUSSION 15.000€ 1,95%
the streets, imposing curfews of hours of footage. This vast archive’s PRE SALE SVT IN DISCUSSION 10.000€ 1,30%
and clashing with residents. scenes and sequences accompanied PRE SALE RTS CONFIRMED 8.000€ 1,04%
The younger generation had enough, by interviews with decision-makers PRE SALE YLE IN DISCUSSION 8.000€ 1,04%
they oust Ja’abari, and launch the first who shaped the city’s life during various EQUITY BLUE ICE IN DISCUSSION 100.000€ 13,02%
Palestinian “intifada” (uprising). periods and saw the action firsthand, GRANTS/DONATIONS 50.000€ 6,51%
Israel responds with a heavy hand, will tell a larger story of social BROADCASTER CH 8 – ADDITIONAL SUPPORT APPLIED 125.000€ 16,28%
no longer “benevolent occupation” and political changes, ambitious plans, PRODUCER’S INVESTMENT 75.000€ 9,77%
but “separation”. and their collapse, all in one road. WITH THE
New Fund for Cinema and TV (Israel)
SUPPORT OF
We plan to put H2 in historical
ADVANCEMENT
After years of violence, a historic and political context, to understand how STATE Production
peace accord is negotiated in Oslo the choices of individuals led us here, PREVIOUSLY
CoPro 2019
in 1983. Jewish settlers refuse and where will they take us in the future. PITCHED AT...
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NATURAL SYNOPSIS Man has always feared natural Thanks to the latest technological
DIRECTOR
CHRISTINE disasters, and science is now looking advances and compiling of enormous
DISASTERS:
TOURNADRE
at them in a new light. More and more amounts of data, scientists reveal
AUTHOR researchers now consider our Earth that yet unsuspected connections
MEGA- CHRISTINE
TOURNADRE
as a complex organism with its various
elements constantly interacting.
exist between these phenomena.
They are able to draw links
REGULATORS
ESTELLE When a balance is offset, one or several between cyclones and earthquakes,
RAFFIN cataclysms intervene and bring between volcanic eruptions
BERNARD in a new balance. They are brutal, and marine currents, etc. They bring
CATACLYSMES, MATHIEU
LES GRANDS RÉGULATEURS ruthless, dangerous for living species, to light the secrets on a natural
PRODUCTION but they act as regulators and contribute world which is suffering from
JÉRÔME to ensure the workings of the planet. these upheavals but is also adapting,
FEATURE LENGTH DUC-MAUGÉ as they offer opportunities
ONE-OFF cocottesminute for development to evolving species.
FRANCE productions, France
90 & 52 MIN j.ducmauge@
cocottesminute.fr
+33 472 983 009
cocottesminute.fr
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N.C.
ON A GLOBAL SCALE, NATURAL
DISASTERS NEVER ARRIVE ALONE.
THEY ARE BRUTAL, RUTHLESS,
DANGEROUS FOR LIVING SPECIES,
BUT THEY ACT AS REGULATORS
AND CONTRIBUTE TO ENSURE
THE WORKINGS OF THE PLANET.
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PITCHES PITCHES
PROJECT Tsunamis. Earthquakes. Volcanic

eruptions. Floods. Cyclones.
access to their research, to archive
footage of many scientific missions,
BIOGRAPHY Christine Tournadre has been directing an expedition to the heart of a lost world
DESCRIPTION Our planet is racked by violent natural as well as to modeling and technical
CHRISTINE TOURNADRE
DIRECTOR
documentaries since 2008. A sociologist
and filmmaker, she has lived and worked
for the ARTE TV Human Adventure slot (recipient
of 5 awards at international festivals) and Serge,
events that seem to increase imagery that they developed. in Scotland, Russia, Columbia, New York condamné à mort (Serge on Death Row)
in frequency and power. In the last They have also opened the doors and Indonesia. Today she resides in Paris. for France 3 and Public Sénat, Grand Prix winner
thirty years, scientists have mobilized of rare film settings for us. For instance, She has made some ten documentaries
at FIGRA 2018.
across the continents to collect data we have been authorized to shoot which were broadcast on many networks.
from the Earth’s formation to this day. in he real Chauvet cave in France Her two latest films are Papouasie (Papua),
Our research now enable us to reveal and in the workshops of the European
a new paradigm. Space Agency where is taking place BIOGRAPHY Jérôme graduated from the IAE in Lyon with les lucioles films to produce feature films
the strictly confidential construction JÉRÔME DUC-MAUGÉ a Master in Management and Business Strategy and animations. The unit produced several
Cataclysms that cause destructions of the new observation satellite PRODUCTEUR after initial studies at ESRA (École Supérieure short films, such as Hélène Friren’s Au Poil (2011),
COCOTTESMINUTE
and disorders are the violent resolution Terre Sentinel6. PRODUCTIONS de Réalisation Audiovisuelle) and INA (Institut the animated series Juliette Génération 7.0
of imbalances inherent to the life National de l’Audiovisuel). In 2002, he founded (ARTE) and The Cannonwoman (Canal+).
and evolution of our planet. They play In the course of this investigation, cocottesminute productions who, so far, He is currently at work with Alain Gagnol
have produced some sixty documentary films on adapting his Power Club in a TV series.
as its great regulators. When they we worked with the support including recently The Interpol Case (ARTE),
happen, nature hurts. And the and advice of Claude Jaupart, former Homo Spatius (France 5), Marseille, ils ont tué
environmental upheavals open sites director of the Institut de Physique mon fils (France 2). Then he created Parmi
of change that make it possible du Globe in Paris, a member
for nature over time to regenerate, of the French Academy of sciences
to reinvent itself and become and co-author of the report
more complex. Are they tragedies “Quand la terre tremble”.
or opportunities? They are both.
By bringing an imbalance In contrast with fear-mongering
to a brutal resolution, nature and sensationalist documentaries
deals the cards again. that often deal with natural disasters
by playing on the fears of the audience,
At a time when mankind wonders our film is a celebration of the Earth.
about the consequences of climate More than being our main axis,
disturbance, our documentary the Earth is our main character.
proposes a never-seen before
scientific synthesis reaching beyond The acceleration of technological PROJECTED
BUDGET 669.766€
the history of humans to focus more progress since the turn of the century
STILL
on the history of the planet. Our film has considerably advanced research REQUIRED 160.000€
offers a lesson in humility by putting in Earth sciences. Ultra-deep coring, CONFIRMED
SALES AGENT Terranoa
humans back in their place within airborne probes filled with sensors,
a complex world unfolding along submarine robots, satellite imaging, CONFIRMED
BROADCASTER France 5
a much longer timeline than digital modeling, mega data collecting
their own – a world that will keep around the globe spanning hundreds SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET
developing with or without them. of years, supercomputing centers BROADCASTER FRANCE 5 CONFIRMED 10.000€ 1,5%
DEVELOPMENT
– a whole arsenal of tools is in the hands
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Over the last years, Earth sciences of experts today. Our film relates
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have progressed in leaps and bounds, the investigations, the discoveries PUBLIC FUNDING CNC COSIP CONFIRMED 15.000€ 2,2%
making discovery upon discovery. and the fresh look taken by scientists DEVELOPMENT
The most surprising ones point at cataclysms. PUBLIC FUNDING CNC COSIP PENDING 85.000€ 12,7%
to the previously unsuspected links PUBLIC FUNDING CITIA CRÉATION PENDING 50.000€ 7,5%
D’OEUVRES D’ANIMATION
connecting cataclysms with The narration is carried by a panel NUMÉRIQUE
each other. of American, Asian and European PUBLIC FUNDING RÉGION AUVERGNE PENDING 30.000€ 4,5%
RHÔNE-ALPES
experts whose works have been
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In order to tell about this new paradigm, recently published in journals. In a field DEVELOPMENT
we interviewed some 50 researchers where rumors and controversies are PRIVATE FUNDING PROCIREP ANGOA PENDING 15.000€ 2,2%
who have published reference papers rife today, they invite us to disentangle PRIVATE FUNDING PRODUCER PENDING 76.846€ 11,5%
between 2016 and today. So far true from false and to acquire a sense WITH THE
CNC, Procirep, Angoa
SUPPORT OF
in the script is featured a panel of perspective. And they reveal
ADVANCEMENT
of 15 passionate world-renowned the fascinating relations between STATE Production
experts whose works are captivating. the history of the planet, the history PREVIOUSLY
Sunnyside 2019
These scientists gave us privileged of cataclysms and the history of men. PITCHED AT...
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SAMUEL SYNOPSIS Samuel is the fourth child of a family They first take a boat, then a van
DIRECTOR
VINÍCIUS in Ponta Negra, a village to cross a highly secured luxurious
AND THE LIGHT

GIRNYS
of 170 inhabitants on the coast complex and finally a bus they wait
AUTHOR of Paraty, Brazil. The family lives for hours. In Paraty Eliseu buys
VINÍCIUS an idyllic daily life without electricity, a television and Samuel’s first
SAMUEL E A LUZ GIRNYS following the rhythm of nature, fishing cellphone with which he starts
and agriculture. Samuel’s father Eliseu to play immediately.
FEATURE LENGTH PRODUCTION
sees him as a promising fisherman.
BRAZIL FERNANDO
At night, the family gathers around Houses are finally connected
PEREIRA DOS
FRANCE SANTOS the flames of candles to have diner to the electric wires that go out
70 MIN Sendero in an intimate atmosphere. from the deep forest and cut across
Filmes,
Brazil the village. There’s euphoria the night
Samuel grows up and learns the ways the electricity is inaugurated.
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+55 11 953 757 916
SAMUEL GROWS UP IN A FISHING senderofilmes.com into fishing with his father. Eliseu’s bar is ready just before
He discovers the village, other children the touristic New Year’s season starts.
VILLAGE IN BRAZIL FOLLOWING CO-PRODUCTION
playing with his brothers and sisters. Colorful parasols and vacationers
NATURE’S RHYTHM. MAURANE
Piles of garbage accumulate bloom on the beach, observed
CUGNY
BUT THE EXTINCTION OF FISHES, on the beach. The community by the villagers with curiosity
Le-loKal
THE ARRIVAL OF ELECTRICITY Production, has difficulties to handle its waste. and sometimes suspicion. Samuel
AND TOURISM CRYSTALLIZE France
Rumors circulate about the arriving plays with them. Eliseu’s work
THE DECONSTRUCTION maurane.cugny@
gmail.com of electricity, but the government at the bar is stressful. New Year’s Eve
OF AN IDEALIZED PARADISE. +33 619 703 848 has been making promises for more marks the end of the season. Samuel
lelokalproduction.com
than ten years. watches the fireworks with wonder
DELIVERY DATE
but also fear: colors in the sky don’t
September 2020
When Samuel turns 3, electric poles match the sounds that remind him
get set up. He now knows all the fishes’ of shootings he heard on television
names, but half of them have already or in Counter Strike.
been declared endangered species.
Eliseu is worried, he considers opening Tourists leave the village, assuring
a bar on the beach: with the electricity that they will come back next year.
the number of tourists is going The beach is desert again, dominated
to grow. Cellphones start to be seen by kids and teenagers who seek
in the village. the phone network. The village
resumes its normal rhythm.
At age 5, Samuel goes outside Eliseu goes fishing; Samuel
of the village for the first time to join asks if he can come with him.
the closest city with his father.
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PITCHES PITCHES
PROJECT Samuel and the light is based

on a ten years observation
from decision centers. Samuel grows
up in a key moment of the village
BIOGRAPHY Vinícius Girnys has completed his master’s Film Festival in 2019. Samuel and the Light
DESCRIPTION in Ponta Negra and almost six years and represents a generation directly
VINÍCIUS GIRNYS
DIRECTOR
degree in Filmmaking at ENSAV (École Nationale
Supérieure d’Audiovisuel de Toulouse) in 2018.
is his first documentary feature film and was
selected to DocLab (DOCSP, Brazil, 2018),
of filming Samuel and his family. impacted. They will most probably His first short fiction film, Le T-Shirt, received to the Public Pitch and Speed Meetings
have two choices: leave the village the Special Jury Prize at the festival of Imouzzer in DocsBarcelona 2019 where it won
The village is located in the Ecological or live from a recent tourism Kandar (Morocco) in 2017. Benèze (France, the IPADOC Award and to the Lau Haizetara
Reserve of Joatinga, on the coast that is already saturated. With television fiction, 25 min.) is his study conclusion film Forum (San Sebastián IFF) where it won
of Paraty halfway between and cellphones, Samuel and his brothers and was selected in the Nest Film Student the IBAIA Award.
competition of the San Sebastián International
Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. discover images from worlds
People from Ponta Negra they don’t know, hear various accents BIOGRAPHY Fernando Pereira dos Santos is a Brazilian (France) and the feature-length documentary
belong to the caiçara culture; from the country, get to know FERNANDO PEREIRA producer and documentary filmmaker. Babylon, by Chico Bahia (DocLab/DocSP
they are descendants of indigenous other cultures, other ways of life, DOS SANTOS He has produced the feature film Fabiana, Guadalaraja Film Market).
people, escaped slaves and European other heroes and models. New desires PRODUCER by Bruna Laboissière (2018), presented
SENDERO FILMES Philippe Aussel created Le-loKal Production
shipwrecked pirates. It’s a highly mixed and dreams can awake or be invented. at the Brasilia International Film Festival,
in 2003 in Toulouse, France, after being editor
population. Because of its geographical the São Paulo International Film Festival
and special effects supervisor for 15 years.
and the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
isolation and difficult access, it is one The intention is not to impose With Cindy Cornic and Maurane Cugny
In 2015 he participated to the Ateliers Varan
of the last places where the caiçara a simplistic view on the arrival and was selected for the LABMIS residency
he produces documentaries for broadcast
way of life based on fishing, of electricity, rather to show and festivals, as well as fiction
the next year, where he directed the short film
and animation shorts.
hunting, harvest and craftsmanship a community facing radical changes Admiração de João Garganta (2016).
has been preserved. in a social and environmental disastrous PHILIPPE AUSSEL He currently produces the feature-length
context, on a human scale. PRODUCER documentary Samuel e la Luz by Vinícius Girnys
LE-LOKAL PRODUCTION in coproduction with Le-loKal Production
The arrival of electricity in 2017 We try to understand what changes
represented an unprecedented in the relationships between
change and is a key pivot in the film. the characters, not only on the material
But longer term changes were also level but also on the spiritual level.
occurring in the village and will Beyond the most obvious
progressively appear as many layers things we try to give a glimpse
in the story. The fish extinction started of these changes, make them
15 years ago with the intensification emerge in the gestures, the speeches,
of industrial fishing and pollution. the glances, the way people react
At the same time tourism started with their environment.
developing and offered the villagers
work alternatives. Today half of Ponta
PROJECTED
Negra’s houses belong to vacationers BUDGET 202.601€
and are inhabited only a few days STILL
REQUIRED 121.939€
during the high season. The luxurious
condominium of Laranjeiras built CONFIRMED
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in the 70s next to Ponta Negra hosts
CONFIRMED
houses of the richest families BROADCASTER
in the country and has reached 1.131 FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL
hectares of forest and four beaches. SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET
It limits the access of the region’s PRODUCER (BRAZIL) SENDERO FILMES CONFIRMED 11.919€ 6%
inhabitants to the road and the next PRODUCER (FRANCE) LE-LOKAL PRODUCTION CONFIRMED 11.000€ 5%
city, which creates social tension. FUNDING BRAZIL MORLAN (ANCINE) CONFIRMED 44.743€ 22%
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These elements interfere with AWARD IBAIA CONFIRMED 3.000€ 1%
the village’s traditions and create BROADCASTER PENDING 45.000€ 22%
new habits. The arrival of electricity PUBLIC FUNDING CNC PENDING 35.000€ 17%
will be used in the film as the most GRANTS SUNDANCE PENDING 26.954€ 13%
visible change but concentrates TRIBECA 8.985€ 4%
questions related with the extinction PRE-SALE YLE PENDING 6.000€ 3%
of fishes, the pressure WITH THE
Ancine, Proac, IBAIA
SUPPORT OF
of the condominium, the arrival
ADVANCEMENT
of tourism and the waste handling. STATE
Ponta Negra is a microcosm
Doc Lab – Doc São Paulo 2018
of the Brazilian society, a population PREVIOUSLY
PITCHED AT... DocsBarcelona Public Pitch 2019 – FIPADOC Award
historically marginalized and kept away San Sebastian Lau Haizetara Forum 2019 – IBAIA Award
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THE SCARS SYNOPSIS The Scars of Ali Boulala is the story and does some modelling jobs. Each
DIRECTOR
MAX of Swedish-Finnish-Algerian ex-pro day he attends AA meetings, carrying
OF ALI BOULALA
ERIKSSON
skateboarder Ali Boulala. Ali became the scars on his body and in his psyche
AUTHOR legendary in the skateboarding – daily reminders of his past
MAX community all over the world and the accident that still haunts him.
FEATURE LENGTH ERIKSSON in the late 1990s for being the most After a visit from one of his closest
SWEDEN fearless and eccentric skateboarder and most loyal friends from
72 MIN PRODUCTION
of his time. Defined by taking the skateboarding era, Ewan Bowman,
MARIO
ADAMSON everything to the extreme an opportunity opens up for Ali
Sisyfos Film – his skating, his clothing, and his to perhaps heal the biggest wound
LOGLINE Production, Sweden partying – he was one of the brightest- inside him, that of being responsible
[email protected] shining skateboarding personalities for his best friend’s death.
A WORLD-FAMOUS +46 706 202 443
sisyfosfilm.com the world has seen. He was perhaps
SKATEBOARDER TRIES TO HEAL most famous for his failed attempts Through extensive archive material
THE SCARS ON THE INSIDE. DELIVERY DATE
at “ollying” (jumping) a 25-step staircase ranging from Ali’s childhood in the early
2021
in Lyon, something that no one else 1990s to the end of his skateboarding
dared to even try for another decade. career in 2007, and interwoven
After a tragic motorcycle accident with newly shot scenes and interviews
in 2007 where Ali ended up in a coma with Ali, his closest friends
for 40 days, everything in his life from the skateboard community,
changed. Not only did he lose and his family today (2013-2019),
the ability that defined him as a person we aim to make a personal portrait
– to skate – but he also lost one of one of the most colourful
of his best friends, Shane Cross, skateboarders of our time – a person
who died in the accident. In addition who has experienced both life
to that, he was instantly torn away on “top” but also the deepest
from his extended family, of tragedies. After causing another
the skateboarding community. person’s death, getting lost in a long
period of drug abuse, and losing
Today Ali has been sober for over five almost all his old friends,
years, and he lives a tranquil life against all odds Ali manages to get
in Stockholm with his girlfriend back to a “normal” life where he fights
and little dog. He works part time to heal the wounds on the inside.
as a visitors’ host at arts exhibitions
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PROJECT The film starts when Ali Boulala

is 16 years old and just about to sign
The guilt of having killed Shane,
the loss of the ability to skate
BIOGRAPHY Max Eriksson was born in 1983 in Helsingborg He edited the feature documentary, Living.
DESCRIPTION a professional contract with Flip, and to be part of his skateboarding
MAX ERIKSSON
DIRECTOR
in the south of Sweden. Max is always looking
for new stories and new ways to tell them.
Loving directed by Mette Aakerholm Gardell,
produced by Mantaray, which had its cinematic
one of the biggest skateboarding family, and the lack of any reason Through the medium of film and storytelling release in 2018.
teams in the world at that time. to live pushes Ali into a new deeper he tries to change our perception of things
The contract will take him all around period of destructive living that reaches and open our eyes to see the world in a different
the world and make him become its peak in 2013. After having another light. Since completing his two short
the legendary person he is today accident with his car, he gives himself documentaries (Tivoliland, 2013 and Shut Eyes,
2011), Max has worked as a documentary editor.
in the skateboarding community. two choices: either to commit suicide
His mother let him fly off to the U.S. or quit drugs and go to therapy. BIOGRAPHY Mario Adamson has produced a number Mario is originally a sound designer/composer
without a second thought, Ali decided to choose the latter MARIO ADAMSON of internationally acclaimed films such as with a career spanning three decades
and there his new life as a professional of the two options. PRODUCER the multiple award-winning documentary in the film industry.
SISYFOS FILM PRODUCTION
skateboarder begins. He immediately Scheme Birds, (Best Documentary Feature,
becomes a loved and respected In 2019 we see Ali as a now-sober, Tribeca Film Festival 2019) the animated short
central character in the team. contemplative man approaching films Still Born (Swedish Academy Award
for Best Short 2015), and I am Round
Through the archive material we follow middle age. Wounded and unable (Premiered at Berlinale in 2011). Mario has been
Ali and his fellow skaters on long hours to skate, let alone to walk without selected and participated in EURODOC 2019
in cramped vans, nights in shared a limp, he has lost the skill that defined and is an alumnus of the Sundance Institute.
hotel rooms, and endless days in foreign him as a person. But he has also
cities that forge strong bonds between survived, not only the accident that
the teammates. With little to do almost killed him but also the substance
to pass the time but test their limits abuse that threatened to do the same.
on their boards and with alcohol Against all odds he managed break
and drugs, Ali and the rest live free from the drug and alcohol
in a rock ’n’ roll dream life removed addiction. His scars remain
from reality. as daily reminders of the good times
and the bad, as souvenirs
In 2006 a new talent is recruited from his earlier death-defying feats.
to the Flip team, an Australian named
Shane Cross. He and Ali immediately When Ali’s old friend Ewan comes
find each other, and Ali becomes like for a visit and to celebrate Ali’s fortieth
a big brother to Shane. On a journey birthday in early 2019, he reveals to Ali
with the Flip team in Australia a year the fact that directly after the accident
PROJECTED
later, in 2007, Ali is persuaded Shane’s father expressed a wish BUDGET 528.317€
by Shane to go for a motorcycle ride to meet with Ali should he ever wake STILL
REQUIRED 343.931€
despite the fact that they are both up from the coma. This is something
heavily drunk. After a drive around that was previously unknown to Ali, CONFIRMED
SALES AGENT
the block from the bar where they and it revives a secret dream that Ali
CONFIRMED
were hanging out, they go for another has been carrying since he was banned BROADCASTER SVT
one. Somehow Ali loses control of from Australia. Over the years, FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL
the motorcycle, and they crash into Ali has longed to visit Shane’s grave SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET
a wall at 30 km/h. Shane dies on and to reconcile with Shane’s family. DEFERMENT CONFIRMED 30.496€ 6%
PUBLIC FUNDING SWEDISH FILM INST. DEV. CONFIRMED 75.068€ 14%
the spot, and Ali ends up in a coma. He begins to realise that the time
PUBLIC FUNDING SWEDISH FILM INST. PROD. PROJECTED 112.602€ 21%
For a long period of time it is not has come to face the past and once
BROADCASTER SVT CO-PRO CONFIRMED 74.130€ 14%
certain if Ali will survive. Eventually Ali and for all deal with his inner trauma.
PUBLIC FUNDING FILMBASEN DEV. CONFIRMED 4.692€ 1%
wakes up from the coma and gradually
PUBLIC FUNDING FILMBASEN PROD. GRANT PROJECTED 9.384€ 2%
begins to understand the extent
PUBLIC FUNDING NORDISK FILM/TV FUND PROJECTED 65.685€ 13%
to which the accident will change
PUBLIC FUNDING SWEDISH ARTS COUNCIL PROJECTED 11.260€ 2%
his life. After his rehabilitation period GRANT
where he has to re-learn the most CO-PRODUCTION CO-PRO 1/SCANDINAVIA PENDING 60.000€ 11%
basic things – how to eat, read, walk CO-PRODUCTION CO-PRO 2 PROJECTED 55.000€ 10%
etc. – he is sentenced to four years PRE SALES PROJECTED 30.000€ 6%
in prison (of which he serves two years), WITH THE
Swedish Film Institute, Filmbasen, SVT
SUPPORT OF
followed by immediate deportation
ADVANCEMENT
back to Sweden. STATE Development
PREVIOUSLY
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TO THE SYNOPSIS When Samaa from Syria and Iris To the North is a coming of age story
DIRECTOR
JASMIJN from Albania (born 2008) are placed about finding your place in society.
NORTH
KOOIJMAN
in the same Swedish refugee camp Told and co-directed by the children
AUTHOR in 2015, they become best friends. themselves the film gives an intimate
JASMIJN Together they try to find their way view of what it really is like to grow up
TILL ETT KOOIJMAN
LAND I NORR in a new country full of questions. while being torn between different
PRODUCTION
Soon they learn that they are treated cultures. The film will be recorded over
FEATURE LENGTH MÓNICA differently because of their nationalities, six years. Together with the girls
HERNÁNDEZ and while Samaa longs for her father, we will capture big events such as
SWEDEN REJÓN
90 MIN still trying to get to Sweden, Iris moving, changing school and Samaa’s
Pråmfilm, worries about her parents finding jobs reunion with her father. But also show
Sweden
– the only way for her family to get their everyday life in today’s Sweden.
[email protected]
LOGLINE +46 760 976 164
pramfilm.se
a residence permit. At the same time
they play, dance and talk about
The film will explore themes such
as culture and religion but mostly
THE EIGHT YEAR OLD FRIENDS IRIS DELIVERY DATE their everyday life. They celebrate focus on what opportunities Sweden
AND SAMAA SHOW US THEIR DAILY 2025 their first Swedish Lucia and Christmas gives young girls like Samaa and Iris.
LIFE IN TODAY’S SWEDEN. WHAT IS IT and fill the cold winter landscape Who and what determines their future
LIKE TO GROW UP WHILE BEING TORN with the warmth of hopes and dreams. here? Voice-overs will be combined
But all of a sudden Samaa has to move with scenes from the Möllstorp
BETWEEN DIFFERENT CULTURES?
to the other side of the country refugee shelter, Frölunda’s recreation
and the girls have to continue center, Kalmar’s high school
their journey in separate ways. and everything in between. 
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PROJECT ON THE VISUAL

APPROACH
were taught Swedish and for the first
time we shared a language.
BIOGRAPHY Jasmijn Kooijman (1997) is raised in Amsterdam At the moment Jasmijn is attending
DESCRIPTION The film will consist of different type They started telling me about
JASMIJN KOOIJMAN
DIRECTOR
and moved to Sweden in 2015. She debuted
with her short documentary My New Home
the bachelors program in film composition
at HDK-Valand (Gothenburg).
of scenes: scenes where the camera their home countries and their is a Trailer (GIFF, 2018) that won the Tempo
is like a fly on the wall, scenes where journeys on small rubber boats. New Doc Award for the best up and coming
the girls are very aware of the camera But the campsite didn’t feel like director. Since then, she has been working
(where they’re dancing for example) a sad place. These children were full on a feature documentary as well as shorter
of humour and energy. I started projects – many of them about themes
and interviews. But also scenes they
such as human rights and migration.
film themselves. In January 2019 both dreaming of making a film together
girls got their own camera, which gives with them, on their own terms. BIOGRAPHY Mónica is a film producer and director born Mónica also works as a producer, program
them the freedom to film whatever Six months later I moved in to the MÓNICA in Mexico City in 1984. In 2014 she moved director and artistic director for Panoramica
they want. By that they can capture camp and after a few weeks I started HERNÁNDEZ REJÓN to Stockholm where she works as a producer – Stockholm Latin American Film Festival,
the times Jasmijn is not there, to feel more comfortable in my role PRODUCER
PRÅMFILM
and director at Pråmfilm. She is currently which she started in 2014.
as well as making us understand as a filmmaker. Together we made producing four feature documentary films,
the short film My New Home Is a Trailer among others Fly So Far, which got funding
what they experience as important
from the IDFA Bertha Fund. Her most recent
moments in their lives. (Nu bor jag på en camping) which production All We Own (Allt vi äger) premiered
With the self‑filmed material we hope premiered at Gothenburg International at Gothenburg International Film Festival
to be able to understand the girls even Film Festival 2018. But after finishing in January 2019 and was nominated
better and make their voice through the short, that focuses on a lot of for the Nordic:Dox Award at CPH:DOX 2019.
the movie stronger. different girls at the campsite; Samaa,
Iris and me decided to continue filming PROJECTED BUDGET 358.400€
since there is so much more to tell. STILL REQUIRED 307.282€
ON THE NARRATIVE They are two young girls, two muslims, CONFIRMED SALES AGENT
STRUCTURE two refugees: groups that we almost CONFIRMED BROADCASTER
As stated before, the film focuses mostly
never see represented in media from FINANCING SOURCES TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL
on the everyday life of the two girls.
their perspective. By making this film OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET
From the perspective of the girls
and especially focussing on a child/ PUBLIC FUNDING THE SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE CONFIRMED 9.709€ 2,7%
we see how they grow up under tough DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT
young adult audience when distributing PUBLIC FUNDING THE SWEDISH ARTS GRANTS CONFIRMED 11.650€ 3,2%
conditions. When the film starts
the movie, we hope to open up COMMITTÉE
they’re living at the same place under
for talking about themes as culture, PUBLIC FUNDING FILM REGION SOUTH EAST CONFIRMED 3.204€ 0,9%
similar conditions. How are their lives PUBLIC FUNDING TEMPO DOCUMENTARY CONFIRMED 3.883€ 1,1%
identity, politics and migration.
changing now, when the families get FESTIVAL
Sweden is home for a lot of children PUBLIC FUNDING THE SWEDISH ASSOCIATION CONFIRMED 97€
different chances and opportunities?
with diverse backgrounds. FOR FILM AND VIDEO
Can the girls make their own choices PUBLIC FUNDING SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE PROJECTED 37.383€ 10,8%
But there are almost no Swedish films DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT
in life? How are their surroundings
right now where the main characters PUBLIC FUNDING THE SWEDISH ARTS GRANTS PROJECTED 1.869€ 0,5%
influencing them? What happens
are young girls with a non-Swedish COMMITTÉE CULTURAL
if their new culture would start EXCHANGE
background. Screening the film PUBLIC FUNDING TEMPO PITCH PROJECTED 8.411€ 2,4%
clashing with their mother culture?
would not just be about “changing PUBLIC FUNDING FILM I ÖST PROJECTED 4.673€ 1,4%
To get an inside view in Samaa’s
perspectives” but also “sharing PUBLIC FUNDING FILMBASEN/FILM STOCKHOLMPROJECTED 9.346€ 2,8%
and Iris’ childhood can teach us
experiences” with the audience. PUBLIC FUNDING STOCKHOLM DEBUT PROJECTED 16.355€ 4,7%
a lot about the real meaning
I had a very different childhood PUBLIC FUNDING FILM I VÄST PROJECTED 9.346€ 2,7%
of ntegration and emancipation. 
– growing up as a white European PUBLIC FUNDING PROJECT SUPPORT THE CITY PROJECTED 17.802€ 5,2%
OF GOTHEMBURG
citizen I never faced the problems
PUBLIC FUNDING THE SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE PROJECTED 65.421€ 18,9%
DIRECTOR’S that Samaa and Iris already have PRODUCTION SUPPORT
NOTE faced. That’s why I’m constantly BROADCASTER SVT/DR/NRK/YLE PROJECTED 28.037€ 8,1%
In 2015 I got to know Samaa and Iris. searching for ways to not let my vision PUBLIC FUNDING NORDISK FILM & TV FUND PROJECTED 28.037€ 8,1%
They had just arrived in Sweden. I lived on their lives affect the film too much. OWN INVESTMENT PRÅMFILM CONFIRMED 22.575€ 6,5%
close to their refugee shelter and went Samaa and Iris are co-directing The Swedish Film Institute, The Swedish Arts
there out of curiosity, hoping to get the film: they make storyboards WITH THE SUPPORT OF
Grants Committée, Film Region South East, The
Swedish Association for Film and Video and Tempo
to know some of the people who lived and choose what scenes to film Documentary Festival.
there. The children touched me deeply. and not to film. Later in the process ADVANCEMENT STATE Development
What was it like to come to these small they will choose what material
Horizon North Talent Days, Icedocs festival / Akranes / Iceland / 2019,
trailers on the Swedish countryside represents their lives in the best way Real Young, The Financing Forum of Kids Content / Malmö / Sweden
and being forced to build up a life again and help with the editing.   PREVIOUSLY
/ 2019, Lofoten Docs, Screen Talent Europe / Kabelvåg / Norway /
2018, Fårö Talent Days, Bergmanveckan / Fårö / Sweden / 2018, Work
in this place? When knowing nothing PITCHED AT...
in Progress Industry Days, Stockholm International Film Festival /
about the culture, language Stockholm / Sweden / 2017, Uppsala Talent Days, Uppsala International
and climate? After a while the children Short Film Festival / Uppsala / Sweden / 2017
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THE TRUE SYNOPSIS 2020 marks the 150th anniversary Dumas biographers and enthusiasts,
DIRECTOR
AUGUSTIN of the death of Alexandre Dumas, we discover that the writer was partially
STORY OF
VIATTE
the internationally known author inspired by the adventures
AUTHORS of the The Three Musketeers – a work of Charles de Batz de Castelmore
D’ARTAGNAN CAROLINE
VERMALLE
AUGUSTIN
of complete fiction, right? Wrong!
Charles de Batz de Castelmore
d’Artagnan actually existed! Our film
d’Artagnan whose extraordinary life
story was just as exciting as
the heroes’ in The Three Musketeers.
LA VÉRITABLE VIATTE
HISTOIRE follows experts as they investigate
DE D’ARTAGNAN PRODUCTION and share never-before-seen archival The film tells how this young
CORINE discoveries, long‑lost clues and first- and impetuous show-off, an expert
ONE-OFF JANIN hand accounts of the adventures fencer with a nasty disposition
FRANCE Gedeon of the man who was the Sun King’s went to Paris to escape poverty
Programmes,
90 MIN & 52 MIN France lieutenant-captain, friend and become one of the King’s great
cjanin@ and confidante, Mazarin’s spy, Musketeers. Finding himself
gedeonprogrammes.com and who was involved in Europe’s in the middle of the Fronde plots
+33 155 255 959
LOGLINE gedeonprogrammes.com 17th century geopolitical intrigues. that threatened the crown, he became
Cardinal Mazarin’s secret agent
DELIVERY DATE
D’ARTAGNAN, DUMAS’ EPIC HERO, Late August 2020
Since its publication in 1844, the novel and then the right-hand man
WAS ACTUALLY BASED ON THE SUN French 90 min has been translated into 92 languages of Louis XIV for whom he would
KING’S REAL-LIFE MUSKETEER. Autumn 2020
English 52 min
and has inspired countless films fight all over Europe.
WATCH AS EXPERTS TRACK THIS MAN’S around the world, making the most
SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURES flamboyant of Musketeers a household The film follows the captain-
THROUGH THE 17TH CENTURY’S name around the world. D’Artagnan’s lieutenant’s path, from his family’s
fame as a literary swashbuckler house in the Gers region where
GREATEST EVENTS.
and captain-lieutenant in the King’s he was born around 1615, to the streets
Musketeers, overshadows the fact of Maastricht where he would finally
that this person actually existed. collapse one night in June of 1673.
Never-before-seen archives,
Who was the real captain-lieutenant his contemporaries’ stories, today’s
D’Artagnan? Were his adventures experts, period evocations and clips
and friends in the books real? from film adaptations of Alexandre
What inspired Dumas to tell his story? Dumas’ novels unveil the greatest
And how can we separate the truth moments in the life of the Musketeer
from fiction today? who became a historic hero
and whose real life story is just
By looking at the research of historians as thrilling as the legendary
like Odile Bordaz who has been swashbuckler Dumas described.
investigating d’Artagnan’s real life
for 10 years, of Musketeer specialists,
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PROJECT A MULTI-LAYERED STORY of Alexandre Dumas and the “real”

d’Artagnan will often appear in real
BIOGRAPHY After studying filmmaking at INSAS in Brussels, he has directed are: the series Tales of Nature
Behind the swashbuckling character
DESCRIPTION made famous in Alexandre Dumas’ locations. Either they’ll walk in the historic
AUGUSTIN VIATTE
DIRECTOR
Augustin made short programs for Canal +,
TF1 and M6 before moving on to films
(10x52’, ARTE, 2012), Quai Branly, The Other
Museum (52’, France 3, 2006), Picasso:
books, there was a “real” d’Artagnan. settings that played a role in d’Artagnan’s about art and then to documentaries. a Museum Reborn (52’, ARTE, 2014)
Our film recounts this real person’s life or in the creation of Dumas’ work, Passionate about graphic design, he also works and most recently, concerning the renovation
journey from several points of view. or they will show objects or archival as a director of photography filming the projects of the Albert Kahn Museum in Boulogne-
documents. Longer interviews of each that he directs on the subjects of nature Billancourt: Citizen Kahn (52’, ARTE, 2019).
participant will also be filmed against and culture for major French networks Augustin has also authored a screenplay
Firstly, from a biographical and historical
(France Télévisions, ARTE, Canal+). for a feature film called Selva currently
point of view, we’ll show the real the same background. We will also film Often working in collaboration with Gedeon in development with Nord-Ouest Films.
d’Artagnan whose life was as amazing the historic settings for illustration Programmes, some of the standout films
as his literary twin. From his childhood purposes.
to his final fight, every phase of his life BIOGRAPHY Corine Janin has been working in documentary She has been on the Procirep-Angoa board
was absolutely worthy of fiction. At the beginning of the documentary, CORINE JANIN film for over 20 years and has a special affinity since 2013. Her most recently produced films
PRODUCER for subjects featuring art and culture. Before for Gedeon and aired on ARTE or France
d’Artagnan’s fleeting figure will appear GEDEON PROGRAMMES
Secondly, we’ll go on a fun in the same historic locations where her collaboration with Gedeon began in 2012, Télévisions include: Citizen Kahn and Picasso:
she worked for a number of other film production a Museum Reborn by Augustin Viatte,
and fascinating treasure hunt our other participants have walked.
companies including Les Films d’Ici and MK2. Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Man-Sized
in both Dumas’ books and in reality. These almost ghostlike appearances She has produced a broad range of work: by Yann Coquart, Dracula Never Dies
The talented author sometimes played suggest the character’s multifaceted movies, series, magazines, multiplatform projects, and Sherlock Holmes Against Conan Doyle
fast and loose with the facts, and elusive personality animated series and museum installations, by Michel Le Bris and Emmanuelle Nobécourt,
but he also condensed a large amount that the narration is trying to decipher. all with different budgets and for both network Tarzan, the Call of the Jungle by Michel Le Bris
of information and used many actual The more the story advances, and cable television, often in conjunction and Priscilla Pizzato, Béjart, the Soul of Dance
with foreign partners. by Henri de Gerlache and Jean de Garrigues,
episodes from d’Artagnan’s life. the more the “real” d’Artagnan
Picasso, the legacy by Hugues Nancy.
He had many to choose from! takes the place of his fictional twin
and the more he appears
Finally, the Musketeer’s journey spans in the filmed period evocations.
an entire century of history and follows
not only the evolution of France The movie clips, chosen from the many
but Europe’s as well. It was a pivotal cinema and television adaptations
century during which the ever-changing of Dumas’ work, will show the fictional
borders of the French kingdom, D’Artagnan in all his swashbuckling glory.
under the reign of Louis XIV, PROJECTED
900.000€
BUDGET
moved from Feudalism to Absolutism. Many iconographic sources will illustrate
the situations and characters. Painted STILL 640.000€ (270.000€ if
REQUIRED ARTE confirms the amount)
These different points of view portraits of great 17th century figures,
CONFIRMED
will complement and overlap each war and battle scenes, engravings SALES AGENT
other in an ambitious tale that evoking the misery of the countryside ARTE France
CONFIRMED
will draw its energy from the power and the Parisian way of life at that BROADCASTER (developement), TV5,
time, maps of the French kingdom Toute l’Histoire
of d’Artagnan’s legend and from
and the neighboring countries… FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL
the wealth of historical events SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET
that occurred during his lifetime. BROADCASTER ARTE FRANCE PROJECTED 370.000€ 41%
The soundtrack will participate fully BROADCASTER TV5 CONFIRMED 15.000€ 1,7%
Our dramatic retelling, reinforced in the film’s drama, enriching BROADCASTER TOUTE L’HISTOIRE CONFIRMED 15.000€ 1,7%
with numerous quotes from the main the off-camera world and filmed PUBLIC FUNDING CNC CONFIRMED 117.000€ 13%
players of the time, aspires to reach period evocations. It will make PRIVATE FUNDING PROCIREP-AGOA DEV CONFIRMED 6.450€ 0,7%
the epic level of a swashbuckler movie the iconography more dynamic, PRIVATE FUNDING PROCIREP-AGOA PROD PROJECTED 13.200€ 1,5%
by showing the individual adventures fill the illustration shots and enhance PUBLIC FUNDING MEDIA DISTRIBUTION PROJECTED 90.000€ 10%
of the Musketeers against the world’s the conversation and transitions SOFICA CINEMAGE PROJECTED 75.000€ 8,3%
collective adventure in 17th century between the film’s different viewpoints. PUBLIC FUNDING SUBVENTIONS RÉGIONALES PROJECTED 25.000€ 2,8%
France. This epic dimension will shape Excerpts of Dumas’ text will be PRESALES RTBF CONFIRMED 6.000€ 0,7%
the film in both the way it looks superimposed on the portraits PRESALES CESKA TV CONFIRMED 1.000€ 1,1%
and the way it’s told. of historic figures or on the episodes PRESALES OTHER PRESALES PROJECTED 70.000€ 7,8%
illustrated in paintings and engravings PRODUCER GEDEON PROGRAMMES CONFIRMED 96.350€ 10,7%
from the period. Finally, both classical WITH THE
CNC, Procirep-Angoa
SUPPORT OF
THE TREATMENT music from the era and a more
ADVANCEMENT
Historians, both French and foreign, contemporary original score STATE Developement
specializing in 17th century or military will be used to enhance the story’s PREVIOUSLY
history, as well as biographers overall dynamic. PITCHED AT...
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TRUMP SYNOPSIS Since taking office, the US president as an independent special counsel
DIRECTOR
DAVID has called the FBI ‘a disgrace’ and caused the FBI to open a formal
VS THE FBI
CARR-BROWN
and portrayed himself as the victim investigation into the president himself.
AUTHORS of a conspiracy to force him
FABRIZIO out of office. Never had a president At stake in this epic battle is the rule
TRUMP EN GUERRE CALVI
CONTRE LE FBI so repeatedly and openly of law itself, the foundation of the U.S.
DAVID demonstrated his disrespect for the law, Constitution. We will go beyond
CARR-BROWN the constitution and the democratic the limits of the legally constrained
ONE-OFF
institutions of this country. Why? Mueller report, investigating
FRANCE PRODUCTIONS
90 MIN CHRISTOPH how the president’s obsession
70 MIN JÖRG In this feature length documentary, with the idea of a conspiracy against
52 MIN Pumpernickel we intend to unravel the complex him is still upending lives and sending
Films,
France relationship between two vital shockwaves through both the FBI
[email protected] institutions of the American and the Department of Justice.
LOGLINE MAXIMILIEN
democracy: the presidency We will show what’s real
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and what matters in this struggle
COLCY
IN THIS POLITICAL THRILLER, (FBI), and propose to lay out between Trump and the US-
Allumage,
INSIDERS DECIPHER THE ALL-OUT France the inside story of Trump’s potentially intelligence agencies, and examine
WAR DONALD TRUMP IS WAGING [email protected] compromised Presidency, examined what it means for the looming
ON AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. +33 182 094 601
allumageprod.com
by those who know him best. 2020 elections.
ON THE FRONTLINE, THE FBI TRIES
DELIVERY DATE The report by special counsel The stakes are high in this election
TO KEEP IN CHECK A PRESIDENT BENT
July 2020 Robert Mueller on President Trump year. The FBI cannot use all that it knows
ON DESTROYING WHOEVER DOESN’T
SHOW ABSOLUTE LOYALTY. and Russian involvement in the 2016 without being accused of complicity,
election left many unanswered incompetence or interference
questions, among them what was going in the political process. Trump under
on inside the FBI when, secretly, threat of impeachment cannot alienate
the agency was conducting criminal the GOP senators who still protect
investigations of both presidential him by pursuing his impulsive
candidates, Hillary Clinton and questionable dealings. The spring
and Donald Trump, just months board for this film will be the circus
before the presidential election. of the coming months in American
politics. As the situation unfolds,
Our film will weave together we will entwine the past and present
the strands of incidents that began of our dual protagonists.
with Clinton’s handling of State
Department emails, and will examine No one has ever analyzed Trump’s
the findings of Special counsel presidency under the proposed
Mueller’s inquiry, an investigation angle. In addition to that, the film
Trump has called part of a “deep state” will have a historic dimension
conspiracy against him. and uncovers Trumps dealings
with the organized crime (both Italian
We will show what exactly was set and Russian) in the past 40 years.
in motion when President Trump fired Trump’s real estate activities from
the FBI director James Comey New York to Atlantic City naturally
in March 2017. The eviction of the FBI led to him and his associates
director (and weeks later being under scrutiny by the Bureau,
of his successor) triggered but despite proven links Trump
the appointment of Robert Mueller was never charged.
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PITCHES PITCHES
PROJECT This is not intended to be a film

wrapped in history but a contemplation
As they will deliver the back story
of the film and reveal the forces
BIOGRAPHY Since directing his first broadcast documentary
DESCRIPTION on how America defaulted in defending at play, our characters will comment
DAVID CARR-BROWN
DIRECTOR
for Antenne 2 in 1982, David Carr-Brown
has directed and produced over
its vaunted democracy. A window on its contemporary significance. 100 documentaries for European and American
into the past, the present Our documentary will focus both networks. Awarded the prestigious Critic’s Prize
and the future, with retired FBI agents on the president’s current brushes by the French Syndicate in 2005, he is noted
and former officials in the intelligence with the law and the candidate’s for his critically-acclaimed, in-depth investigations
community being interviewed campaign. But this very contemporary into household names such as the mega-
corporations of Silicon Valley and the FBI.
both as highly informative sources reflection will be linked constantly
and as regular American citizens. to Trump’s past, bringing into play BIOGRAPHY Christoph Jörg is a documentary producer After graduating from Paris’s Louis Lumière film
A film using pure Americana calmly protagonists with various cultural, CHRISTOPH JÖRG based in Paris and New York. From 1994 to 2008 school, Alexandra Carr-Brown and Maximilien
layering brushstrokes that enable economical and political backgrounds. PUMPERNICKEL he was Senior Commissioning Editor for Colcy started their career in Manchester, UK
the world to understand what came Some of them are sympathetic MAXIMILIEN COLCY Documentaries at ARTE, before founding in the mid 2000’s. They met Julie Pouillon-
to be and what may well be coming. to Trump’s style and will give us insights ALLUMAGE Pumpernickel Films in 2009. Christoph recently Terranova at oscar-winning company Maha
PRODUCERS produced the critically-acclaimed documentary productions in 2009 while working on 5x52’
Delivered – metaphorically – into the psyche of a large portion
One Child Nation (Nanfu Wang and Jialing series on the History of the FBI for France 5.
in a long tracking shot constantly of Americans who refuse the domination
Zhang), which was awarded Best Documentary In 2014, the three of them founded Allumage
revealing with very incisive flash of the Status quo. Others are ardent at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019. to work on projects they liked with people
backs what the landscape defenders of the intricate system He also produced Winnie (Pascale Lamche) they liked. Specialized in ambitious sound
of the American Dream has buried of checks and balances that maintain which won the prize for Best Director post-production projects (Back To The Moon,
in its unconscious. U.S. diversity and freedoms. at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017. Juger Pétain), they went on to produce heartfelt
A system albeit accused by Trump documentary films like Troisième Nage, 2017
Our main characters will be shown of abusing its powers. and Les Débatteurs, 2018.
evolving against the backdrop of Trump’s
America. The particular light Trump We intend to seek the opinion of retired
sheds on their land is crucial agents from the Behavioral Science
in understanding their current situation. Unit of The FBI on the psychopathology
Every morning, President Trump of the President. Appearing frequently
is a fact of life, and the film will show on television and cinema, the BSU
where our protagonists live, has conducted the first studies
their families, their pastimes; golf on the behavior of criminals.
courses, clubs, evenings with friends, These specialists will dissect some
bars, adult children, grand-children... reactions, past and present,
Sifting souvenirs, press clippings, of the president. They will deliver
photographs or home movies, both their first-hand information
transmitting experience, and disagreeing on Trump’s past and their heartfelt
about the current political situation opinion on its importance.
in general and specific events
as they are delivered on tv channels The time scale of the film will be that
and in the press or posted of developing events as we approach
on social media. the forthcoming presidential elections PROJECTED
BUDGET 425.572€
in November 2020. Each time we will
STILL
New York, Atlantic City, Atlanta, visit – or revisit – one of our characters, REQUIRED 93.572€
Washington, Miami, Las Vegas... the moment will be linked CONFIRMED
these iconic U.S. cities will all be present to the unfolding political tsituation. SALES AGENT
with their buildings, malls and suburbs. By revealing to us their role CONFIRMED
BROADCASTER France 5, ARD
We will also attend political rallies in the FBI and their engagements,
organized across the country. they will confront the world that SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTNER IN € BUDGET
These events will show the particularities evolved under their watch. A world PRE-SALE FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS CONFIRMED 130.000€ 30,5%
of the different States visited during some amongst them ashamedly PRE-SALE ARD CONFIRMED 150.000€ 35,3%
our journey, adding depth admit is part of their infected legacy. DEVELOPMENT GRANT CNC CONFIRMED 6.000€ 1,4%
to our characters and bolstering PRODUCTION GRANT CNC PROJECTED 46.000€ 10,8%
the narrative. That of a reality PRE-SALES TBC PROJECTED 93.572€ 22%
observed with the spotlight WITH THE
CNC
SUPPORT OF
of their accumulated experience
ADVANCEMENT
and knowledge of the conscious STATE Pre-production
and unconscious life of the U.S. PREVIOUSLY
PITCHED AT...
60 61
PITCHES PITCHES
WILD WILD SYNOPSIS An all-female anti-poaching unit risks and to be accepted as emancipated

DIRECTOR
LENA their lives saving animals in the context black women in South Africa, Nkateko,
LIFE
KARBE
of growing violence against women Qolile and Naledi will have to join
AUTHORS that rage across Africa. Three black forces. After all, they will discover
LENA female rangers have to fight together that they have the same aim: to build
FEATURE LENGTH KARBE for a cause that is bigger a fair society for black and white
GERMANY TRISTAN than their initial motivations. people, female and male,
90 & 52 MIN COLOMA Black Mambas Nkateko (28), Qolile (27) and all without neglecting the animal
PRODUCTION and Naledi (19) could not be more life roaming South Africa.
LENA different. Nkateko uses the Black
LOGLINE KARBE Mambas initiative as a platform Wild Wild Life will reveal
Karbe Film GmbH to achieve grander career goals a journey of empowered women
A SOUTH AFRICAN, ALL-FEMALE Germany
in conservation. Qolile faces backlash through a dramatic and highly
PARAMILITARY UNIT CALLED [email protected]
in her family for doing “the man’s job.” charged world where they are fighting
THE BLACK MAMBAS FIGHTS TO STOP +49 176 985 869 27
karbefilm.de She has to provide for her child, violence against themselves
POACHING, CHALLENGING THE ROLE DELIVERY DATE and feels uncomfortable assuming and their animal wards.
OF WOMEN IN THEIR COUNTRY. 2021 the breadwinner role in the family.
Naledi wants South African women Wild Wild Life intertwines
to stand up for their rights and sees two narrative lines: a war
the Black Mambas as the epitome on poachers to save animals,
of female empowerment. running simultaneously alongside
To succeed in their individual goals a war on women.
62 63
PITCHES PITCHES
PROJECT The conservation scene

in South Africa is a “Wild Wild West.”
they have become role models
in their communities and spread
BIOGRAPHY Having studied film internationally (École normale KARBE FILM GmbH, based in Munich,
DESCRIPTION That’s the context in which a positive image of conservation
LENA KARBE
DIRECTOR
supérieure, University of Oxford and University
of Television and Film, Munich), Lena Karbe
Germany specializes on high-end international
documentaries, having produced such projects
our protagonists will struggle to prove among local people. & PRODUCER
KARBE FILM produces and directs international documentaries as Black China/Chinese Dream about African
their worth as animal protection that usually deal with the topics of immigration, immigrants in China for ZDF/arte or a feature
champions and as citizens. At the same time, the current spike integration and identity. She is also a curator documentary Chaddr shot in the Himalayas.
in violence against women in South of Chinese Film Festival in Munich. Her series Starting from 2018 the company also produces
The earth is losing species at a highly Africa was proclaimed “a war against Chinese Dream successfully continues fictional content with a particular focus on
its festival career. international drama series. Along her production
accelerated rate, and the results women” by the country’s President. activity, Lena Karbe is a curator of Chinese Film
are apparent all around us: According to a recent UN report, Festival in Munich, she writes and directs.
around 55 elephants are killed every gender-based violence is increasing
day on African continent. On average, and remains one of the most significant
a rhino dies every 11 hours in the world. In most cases, women
in South Africa. War has now become don’t get justice and must continue
a model and metaphor for biodiversity living alongside their aggressors.
protection in Africa. But it’s primarily Post-apartheid society of South Africa
a lucrative activity for all stakeholders: maintains a toxic, masculine order.
the criminals and the wildlife protection Women protests are a regular feature
NGOs. Supported by international of life in the country’s major cities.
syndicates and sometimes
by the corrupt local governments, The Black Mambas’ activities
the poachers are better equipped undermine an established
than ever. Also, on the other side male‑dominated society, confronting
of this “war,” every conservation them with a backlash from their
program becomes a business model own communities. These women
and a new money raising opportunity. often become the only breadwinner
in the family, which puts
With the rise of commercial poaching them under enormous pressure
around ten years ago, South African in their homes. For some of them,
national parks administrations have they unwillingly challenge the reality
started to adapt a paramilitary style South African women face today.
of organization in order to match
the strategies the poachers deploy. Violence is a leitmotif of Wild Wild Life
Inviting former commandos from and takes place on several levels:
abroad to give military training to local It is the excessive violence
rangers, and the distribution of heavy in the context of green militarization, PROJECTED
589.756,81€
weapons to the rangers was a part alongside the violence in the lives BUDGET
of new conservation strategies. of the protagonists, who have to assert STILL

300.000€
REQUIRED
The rise of “green militarization” themselves as women and fight
CONFIRMED
has split South African society: for their rights inside their homes SALES AGENT Autlook Filmsales (LOI)
Does militarization help to deal and communities on a daily basis. CONFIRMED
ZDF/ARTE
with poachers or does it normalize BROADCASTER
deadly violence in areas historically FINANCING TYPE NAME STATUS AMOUNT % OF TOTAL
traumatized by it? PUBLIC FUNDING BAVARIAN FILM FUND CONFIRMED 20.000€ 3,4%
(DEVELOPMENT)
In this environment, an all-female PRIVATE FUNDING KARBE FILM CONFIRMED 44.757€ 7,6%
anti-poaching initiative, the Black PUBLIC FUNDING BAVARIAN FILM FUND PROJECTED 145.000€ 24,6%
Mambas, was created in 2013 BROADCASTER ZDF/ARTE CONFIRMED 80.000€ 13,6%
as a counterpoint to paramilitary BROADCASTER 2 PROJECTED 80.000€ 13,6%
conservation measures. Functioning BROADCASTER 3 PROJECTED 50.000€ 8,4%
as a highly visible policeforce, WORLD SALES MG PROJECTED 20.000€ 3,4%

PRIVATE FUNDING COPRODUCER CANADA PROJECTED 150.000€ 25,4%
they wear military uniforms, but carry
out their patrols in the bush WITH THE Bavarian Film Fund
SUPPORT OF (Development)
while unarmed. The Black Mambas
ADVANCEMENT
members are strategically selected STATE Development, Financing
out of the townships neigh- bouring PREVIOUSLY
Kruger National Park: PITCHED AT...
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PITCHS

One french project and one international project

THE PROJECTS ARE LISTED

12 CITIZEN 44 THE SCARS

20 EXPEDITION 52 THE TRUE

28 THE 60 WILD WILD

BIO SYNOPSIS ONE STORY, ONE is the seven years old daughter

PROJECT Mankind is exhausting the resources

PROJECT This film shows the difficulty of living

PROJECT Why is there no human society

EXPEDITION SYNOPSIS Expedition 49 will be a teenage Valentyn decides to launch

NAMED RACHID HÉLÈNE

PROJECT On reading her file for recognition

for her commitment to revolutionary PUBLIC FUNDING CNC PROJECTED 40.000€ 14,5%

PROJECT There are some key narrative features

PROJECT H2 is the name given in the Oslo

LOGLINE DATE DE LIVRAISON

PROJECT Tsunamis. Earthquakes. Volcanic

AND THE LIGHT

PROJECT Samuel and the light is based

PROJECT The film starts when Ali Boulala

PROJECT ON THE VISUAL

PROJECT A MULTI-LAYERED STORY of Alexandre Dumas and the “real”

PROJECT This is not intended to be a film

WILD WILD SYNOPSIS An all-female anti-poaching unit risks and to be accepted as emancipated

PROJECT The conservation scene

of new conservation strategies. of the protagonists, who have to assert STILL

as a highly visible policeforce, WORLD SALES MG PROJECTED 20.000€ 3,4%

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