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LEFT FIELD VENTURES PRESENTS<br />
A VINCENT LANNOO FILM<br />
They’re...<br />
Not scary. Not sexy. Not<br />
.<br />
trendy.<br />
VAMP RES<br />
Just Belgian.<br />
LEFT FIELD VENTURES presents «VAMPIRES»<br />
CARLO FERRANTE, VERA VAN DOOREN, PIERRE LOGNAY, FLEUR LISE HEUET, PAUL AHMARANI, ALEXANDRA KAMP and JULIEN DORE<br />
director of photography VINCENT VAN GELDER - editor FREDERIQUE BROOS - associate producer FABRIZIO VERDIANI<br />
in coproduction with BELGACOM - with the support of Le Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Communauté française<br />
de Belgique et des télédistributeurs wallons - written by VINCENT LANNOO & FREDERIQUE BROOS<br />
produced by JOHN ENGEL - directed by VINCENT LANNOO
Production Company (Belgium)<br />
LEFT FIELD VENTURES<br />
97 Avenue Louis Lepoutre<br />
1050 Brussels<br />
Belgium<br />
phone +32 2345 45 05<br />
fax +32 2343 69 92<br />
marie@leftfield.be<br />
www.leftfieldventures.com<br />
International Sales<br />
HOUSE OF FILM<br />
Ava B.<br />
427 N.Canon Dr. Suite 107<br />
90210 Beverly Hills, CA<br />
US<br />
phone 310.777.0237<br />
distribution@houseoffilm.net<br />
www.houseoffilm.net<br />
Film publicity at film festivals<br />
THE PR FACTORY<br />
Barbara Van Lombeek, Marie-France Dupagne<br />
21 rue des Myosotis<br />
1180 Brussels<br />
Belgium<br />
info@theprfactory.be<br />
+32 477 62 67 70
VAMPIRES<br />
SYNOPSIS<br />
(ENGLISH)<br />
A TV crew is asked by a community of vampires to film their<br />
nightly life. After a few failed attempts (costing the lives of some<br />
crew members), a new crew finally manages to penetrate the<br />
home and un-lives of Bertha and George St.Germain’s family,<br />
with their good-for-nothing son Samson, and their daughter<br />
Grace, who’s in the throes of an existential teenage crisis. Your<br />
basic everyday family...
VAMPIRES<br />
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT<br />
It’s time we ask ourselves what vampires are really like… Time we go beyond the<br />
good old Bela Lugosi, but mostly, beyond today’s films that depict this pack of<br />
monsters as a bunch of subdued smurfs.<br />
How better to discover the truth than by making a documentary in which we’re<br />
immersed in the daily life (er, nightly un-life?) of a vampire family? I was naturally led<br />
to choose the vampire community that was “close to home”: the Belgian vampire<br />
community. I could never have imagined how closely these living dead resembled us<br />
in their daily lives. In fact, I must admit, their humanity is still quite sizeable.<br />
I quickly found myself amidst the struggles of a nearly typical family, with<br />
troublesome neighbors, issues of power and respecting rules. Ironically, though,<br />
night after night the documentary I was making was becoming increasingly political,<br />
and incorrect!<br />
Admittedly, VAMPIRES is a political comedy, a satire on humanity, in which<br />
appearance and reality are in constant opposition.<br />
Belgian, French, Canadian, we all know vampires, men and women with long teeth,<br />
capable of any type of rhetorical acrobatics if it means sucking our blood.<br />
I will not name names, or sides, but at the few public screenings I attended, the<br />
audience’s laughter showed that a vampire sleeps in each one of us.<br />
Humor is an enjoyable, almost subconscious, way to ask ourselves important<br />
questions. It certainly was for me on this sometimes puerile, burlesque and, I’ll admit,<br />
slightly cynical adventure.<br />
One of the advantages of genre cinema for a filmmaker is that he can show his<br />
demons and anxieties with no real conscious hope of sharing their teachings. In<br />
VAMPIRES, the three-genre mixture – documentary, B-series and comedy – offers<br />
us a playground but also a critical look at our own contradictory behaviors, our own<br />
infamies.<br />
Ever since my first short films, actors have been my work’s center of gravity; they<br />
exacerbate natural behaviors and fuel the film. The actors in VAMPIRES, with or<br />
without a “name that can be recognized anywhere,” became real vampires on the<br />
set. They are the true stars of this hilarious feature film.<br />
Meet them, meet us…<br />
Vincent Lannoo
Interview VINCENT LANNOO<br />
As a child, you dreamed of driving a tram or managing a chip shop.<br />
Now you’re a filmmaker. Why such a change of heart?<br />
Actually, as a child I dreamt of being a director. There. I think I’ve always wanted to<br />
direct, since the age of 9 anyway. I haven’t evolved since. I grew up in an<br />
environment where film was very prominent so it was a natural development.<br />
Your opinion on cinema: art or sleaze?<br />
Sleaze I think. I love sleaze, me.<br />
Do you make films for the money or to please Mom and Dad?<br />
That’s a funny question. I definitely make films for Mom. Or rather to make money<br />
‘cause that’s what pleases Mom the most. Either way, she has a lot to do with it.<br />
Do you have other, hidden talents?<br />
I have no other talents. Or maybe one talent…but very well hidden. I can’t show it to<br />
you. (Laughs).<br />
What do you do when you lack inspiration?<br />
I sleep. I nap and nap again. It works.<br />
If you hit a wall, take a nap, and when you wake up… Either it’ll be too late and time<br />
to pick the kids up from school, problem solved -- or you’ll have an idea.<br />
What is Belgian cinema in your eyes?<br />
Belgian cinema doesn’t exist. I think cinema exists. Belgian cinema is just cinema.<br />
What’s the worst film you’ve ever seen and tell us why?<br />
The problem is the bad films that come to mind are by people I know personally, so I<br />
can’t tell you.<br />
But the worst film I’ve ever seen is quite possibly a short film I did called “Xmas in<br />
Space”. Terrible.
Interview JOHN ENGEL<br />
What’s your opinion on cinema – art or sleaze?<br />
I like it when sleaze is part of art. Combining what’s attractive, what’s fascinating,<br />
with what’s thought-provoking and inspiring. I don’t think they must be separate; but<br />
that’s the greatest challenge of a good film: to combine the interesting, provocative<br />
aspect with the entertainment aspect.<br />
For Vampires, Leonardo do Caprio wasn’t free during the dates planned for the<br />
shoot. How did you transform that snag into an advantage?<br />
(Laughs). Thanks to Carlo, of course. Leonardo was taken, so we found another<br />
Italian. With Carlo, who needs Leo?<br />
If you were to redo it?<br />
If we were to redo it…We might start with a script! More money… and in English?!<br />
Nah… It’s fine as is.<br />
What have you learned recently from another artist?<br />
Damn, I don’t like that question! Oh boy… (Laughs).<br />
One of the first things I learned from Vincent (Lannoo), is that it’s important to<br />
communicate desire. Joy, as well. Also to stay in that improvisational aspect that’s so<br />
dear to him, which is the particularity of both STRASS and VAMPIRES. It’s<br />
communicative.<br />
Do you make films for the money or to please Mom?<br />
I make films to become very, very rich.<br />
The end of the world is nigh, you have two hours left, which film do you watch?<br />
APOCALYPSE NOW… Or CLOCKWORK ORANGE. But they’re both longer than<br />
two hours.<br />
What’s Belgian cinema in your eyes?<br />
To me, Belgian cinema is high-quality cinema. Having lived outside Belgium for so<br />
long, I feel a bit like a foreigner and I think I can say that without seeming<br />
chauvinistic. Belgian cinema, on average, is particularly good and it’s a shame the<br />
Belgian public doesn’t realize it or is not exposed to it enough.
Interview CARLO FERRANTE<br />
Did you have to sleep with anyone to be in the film?<br />
(Laughs) Yeah, I had to sleep with Vincent Lannoo a lot.<br />
The end of the world is nigh, you have two hours left, what film do you watch?<br />
Vampires! They’re eternal.<br />
If you were to redo it?<br />
Start existing, quite simply. The same thing but earlier. In which case I’d use my brain<br />
now, but slightly earlier, to gain a few steps…<br />
Do you have other hidden talents?<br />
Well, I can fall asleep in a blink. It’s called the gift of sleep. When I want to sleep, I<br />
sleep.<br />
What do you do when you lack inspiration?<br />
I breathe. Then I breathe in. Normally, it returns after that.<br />
What is Belgian cinema to you?<br />
Belgian cinema is like what we call “mitraillette”, or “spéciale” in the Region of<br />
Charleroi. A big bread baguette, you put Andalousian or American sauce in there,<br />
two “fricadelles” one beside the other, some chips, more sauce…and you eat it.<br />
Basically, you could say Belgian cinema is like a joke being told, with a punch line<br />
that’s still unknown.<br />
Who do you admire the most?<br />
Besides me?! (Laughs).<br />
Only joking.<br />
What would interest me is meeting someone who is beyond time, beyond feelings.<br />
Immobile strength. Something like that anyway.
VAMPIRES<br />
CAST LIST<br />
GEORGES ... CARLO FERRANTE<br />
BERTHA ... VERA VAN DOOREN<br />
SAMSON ... PIERRE LOGNAY<br />
GRACE ... FLEUR LISE HEUET<br />
CARLO FERRANTE<br />
2009 : VAMPIRES (VINCENT LANNOO)<br />
2008 : LA MONIQUE DE JOSEPH (DAMIEN CHEMIN)<br />
2004 : ORDINARY MAN (VINCENT LANNOO)<br />
2002 : STRASS (VINCENT LANNOO)
VERA VAN DOOREN<br />
2009 : VAMPIRES (VINCENT LANNOO)<br />
2008 : LA MONIQUE DE JOSEPH (DAMIEN CHEMIN)<br />
2006 : LE GENERALISTE (DAMIEN CHEMIN)<br />
2004 : ORDINARY MAN (VINCENT LANNOO)<br />
PIERRE LOGNAY<br />
2009 : VAMPIRES (VINCENT LANNOO)<br />
2008 : GET BORN (NICOLE PALO)<br />
2005 : COMME TOUT LE MONDE (PIERRE-PAUL RENDERS)
FLEUR-LISE HEUET<br />
2009 : MANON LESCAUT (GABRIEL AGHION)<br />
2009 : VAMPIRES (VINCENT LANNOO)<br />
2008 : GET BORN
VAMPIRES<br />
TECHNICAL SHEET<br />
A FILM BY VINCENT LANNOO<br />
WRITTEN BY VINCENT LANNOO & FREDERIQUE BROOS<br />
CINEMATOGRAPHY … VINCENT VAN GELDER<br />
EDITING … FREDERIQUE BROOS<br />
SOUND … GUILHEM DONZEL<br />
ART DIRECTOR … VALERIE ANDRE<br />
MAKE-UP ... FABIENNE ADAM<br />
PRODUCED BY JOHN ENGEL – LEFT FIELD VENTURES<br />
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER FABRIZIO VERDIANI<br />
IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH BELGACOM<br />
WITH THE SUPPORT OF LE CENTRE DU CINEMA ET DE<br />
L’AUDIOVISUEL DE LA COMMUNAUTE FRANÇAISE DE BELGIQUE<br />
ET DES TELEDISTRIBUTEURS WALLONS<br />
1H31min<br />
35mm, 1.85 :1, COLOR, Dolby Digital, BELGIUM, 2010
VAMPIRES<br />
FESTIVALS / AWARDS<br />
APRIL 2010<br />
BRUSSELS INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL<br />
AUDIENCE PRIZE<br />
MAY 2010<br />
SCI-FI LONDON FESTIVAL<br />
JULY 2010<br />
FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL (CANADA)<br />
AUGUST 2010<br />
ESPOO CINE FILM FESTIVAL (FINLAND)<br />
FANTASY FILMFESTIVAL (GERMANY)<br />
SEPTEMBER 2010<br />
LUND INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL (SWEDEN)<br />
OCTOBER 2010<br />
SITGES FILM FESTIVAL (SPAIN)<br />
KAOHSIUNG FILM FESTIVAL (TAÏWAN)<br />
RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL (UK)
NOVEMBER 2010<br />
TÜBINGEN-STUTTGARD FRENCH-SPEAKING INTERNATIONAL FILM<br />
FESTIVAL (GERMANY)<br />
SAN SEBASTIAN HORROR AND FANTASY FILM FESTIVAL (SPAIN)<br />
MALAGA FILM FESTIVAL - FANCINE (SPAIN)<br />
TORINO FILM FESTIVAL (ITALY)
Vincent Lannoo-Bourton<br />
C u r r i c u l u m V i t a e<br />
After graduating from a performing arts high school, this child of television and film<br />
professionals goes to the IAD (Broadcast Arts Institute),<br />
then takes over Daddyʼs shop (his father is film director Jacques Bourton), making<br />
his Mom very proud (Nicole Demeulder, makeup artist)…<br />
F i l m o g r a p h y<br />
1995 directs «Meilleurs vœux» («Best Wishes»), school short, experimenting<br />
with actorsʼ improvisation on the theme of hypocrisy.<br />
1996 directs «Nathan», IAD end-of-school short. Wins many prizes at<br />
festivals -- e.g., Munich, Tel Aviv, Tunis, etc.<br />
1997 directs «Xmas in Space», science-fiction short film.<br />
1998 directs «Jʼadore le cinéma» («I Love Movies»), short, starring Olivier<br />
Gourmet and Gaëtan Bevernaege.<br />
Selected at more than 40 festivals worldwide, this short film won the grand prize at<br />
the Villeurbanne Festival, the Gold Iris and the Christal Star at the Brussels Festival,<br />
among others.<br />
1999 directs three music videos tracing the history of motion pictures, for the<br />
«Bonjour mon chien» («Good Morning, Doggie») stage show, which<br />
won the prize at the Company Theater Festival, Brussels.<br />
2000 directs «Si jʼavais dix pauvres» («If I Had Ten Poor People»), a short<br />
film for the tenth anniversary of Canal-Plus Belgium.<br />
2001 directs «Strass», his first feature film, made according to the ʻDogma<br />
95ʼ rules.<br />
«Strass» won several competitions at international festivals, including the grand prize<br />
at the Angers Film Festival, presided by actress Nathalie Baye.<br />
2002 - directs a series of national commercials for Côte dʼOr chocolates.<br />
- writes a feature thriller, «Le Troisième étage» («The Third Story»).<br />
- takes part in several festival juries, including FIPA and Cabourg<br />
Romantic Film Festval.<br />
2004 directs and exec-produces his second feature film, «Ordinary Man», a<br />
Belgian thriller. Production co.: Hélicotronc.
2005-6 - writes «Alice en Voiture» («Alice By Car»), feature film project.<br />
Production co.: Hélicotronc.<br />
- writes «Les sept derniers jours de Lucy» («The Last Seven Days of<br />
Lucy»), feature film project. Production co.: Artémis Productions.<br />
- directs several commercials.<br />
2007-8 - directs «Vampires», a feature-length mockumentary. Production co.:<br />
<strong>Left</strong> <strong>Field</strong> <strong>Ventures</strong>.<br />
- directs several commercials.<br />
2008-10 - writes several feature film projects.<br />
- prep "The Tamed Ones", his fourth feature film<br />
- President of the Association of Film Directors (ARRF), 2005-2008<br />
- Co-founder of Cinéastes Associés (production company), 2007<br />
- Vice-President of the Belgian Committee at SACD, 2003-2007<br />
- Member of PROSPEREʼs Board and Audio-visual Consultation Committee<br />
- Member of the Selection Committee at the Film Center of the French-speaking<br />
Community, 2005-2008
J o h n E n g e l<br />
97 Avenue Louis Lepoutre ~ B 1050 Brussels<br />
tel 02 345-4505 fax 02 343-6992<br />
johnengel@mac.com mob 0476 698 412<br />
C u r r i c u l u m V i t a e ~ F I l m o g r a p h y<br />
President of two film production companies : Cinéastes Associés scrl (founded in October 2007)<br />
and <strong>Left</strong> <strong>Field</strong> <strong>Ventures</strong> sprl (founded in March 2002).<br />
{Projects in development not listed}<br />
P r o d u c e r<br />
The Tamed Ones Producer<br />
Feature film. Dir., Vincent Lannoo. Prod., <strong>Left</strong> <strong>Field</strong> <strong>Ventures</strong>. May ʻ11.<br />
With Cameron Bright, …<br />
Vampires Producer<br />
Feature film. Dir., Vincent Lannoo. Prod., <strong>Left</strong> <strong>Field</strong> <strong>Ventures</strong>. April ʼ10.<br />
With Carlo Ferrante, Vera Van Dooren, Fleur Lise Heuet, Paul Ahmarani, Alexandra Kamp and Julien Doré.<br />
Miss Mouche (Miss Fly) Producer<br />
Feature film. Dir., Bernard Halut. Prod., Cinéastes Associés. Jan. ʻ10. [exec prod <strong>Left</strong> <strong>Field</strong> V.]<br />
With Bernard Cogniaux, Valérie Bauchau, Thierry De Coster and Mona Jabé.<br />
Avec ma mère à la mer (A Son At Sea) Producer<br />
Feature film. Dir., Alexis Van Stratum. Prod., Cinéastes Associés. Oct.ʼ09. [exec prod <strong>Left</strong> <strong>Field</strong> V.]<br />
With Hervé Guerrisi, Nicole Colchat, Cachou Kirsch, Maaike Neuville.<br />
Furor Absurdüs Producer<br />
Feature Documentary. Dir., Maxime and Michel Pasque. Prod., <strong>Left</strong> <strong>Field</strong> <strong>Ventures</strong>. Jan. ʻ10.<br />
With Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Claude Botte, Johnny Cadillac.<br />
Get Born Producer<br />
Feature film. Dir., Nicole Palo. Prod., Cinéastes Associés. Sept.ʼ08. [exec prod <strong>Left</strong> <strong>Field</strong> V.]<br />
With Pierre Lognay, Fleur Lise Heuet, Eric Castex, Fabrice Murgia.<br />
Menteur (Liar) Producer<br />
Feature film. Dir., Tom Geens. Prod., Cinéastes Associés. Oct.ʼ08. [exec prod <strong>Left</strong> <strong>Field</strong> V.]<br />
With Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Christelle Cornil, …<br />
James and the Giant Peach Co-Producer<br />
Feature film. Dir., Henry Selick. Prod., Walt Disney Pictures / Tim Burton. 1996.<br />
With Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, …<br />
Maniac Cop 2 Co-Producer<br />
Feature film. Dir., William Lustig. Prod., Medusa / Vestron. 1990.<br />
With Robert Davi, Claudia Christian, …<br />
Molly O Line Producer<br />
Feature film. Dir., Gino Bortoloni. Prod., Leo Pescarolo. (US)<br />
With Bonnie Bianco, Steve March, …<br />
Dozens of commercial films (US and UK) Producer / Line Producer
P r o d u c t i o n M a n a g e r<br />
Interview With the Vampire Production Manager<br />
Feature film. Dir., Neil Jordan. Prod., Warner Bros / Stephen Woolley, David Geffen. (SF)<br />
With Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, …<br />
Raising Cain Production Manager<br />
Feature film. Dir., Brian De Palma. Prod., Universal / Gale Anne Hurd. + Post-Production Supervisor<br />
With John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, …<br />
Cabin Boy Production Manager<br />
Feature film. Dir., Adam Resnick. Prod., Touchstone / Tim Burton.<br />
With Chris Elliott, Brion James, …<br />
Cast a Deadly Spell Production Manager<br />
Feature film. Dir., Martin Campbell. Prod., HBO / Gale Anne Hurd.<br />
With Fred Ward, Julianne Moore, …<br />
Sundown: The Vampire In Retreat Production Manager<br />
Feature film. Dir., Anthony Hickox. Prod., Vestron.<br />
With David Carradine, Bruce Campbell, …<br />
Tripwire Production Manager<br />
Feature film. Dir., James Lemmo. Prod., New Line.<br />
With Terence Knox, Viggo Mortensen, …<br />
Good Morning, Babylon Production Manager<br />
Feature film. Dir., Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. Prod., Edward R. <strong>Press</strong>man. (US)<br />
With Joaquim de Almeida, Greta Scacchi, …<br />
Dance To Win Production Manager<br />
Feature film. Dir., Ted Mather. Prod., MGM.<br />
With Daniel Quinn, Garrett Morris, …<br />
One Man Force Production Manager<br />
Feature film. Dir.,, Dale Trevillion. Prod., Shapiro-Glickenhaus.<br />
With John Matuszak, Ronny Cox, …<br />
Maniac Cop Production Manager<br />
Feature film. Dir., William Lustig. Prod., Shapiro-Glickenhaus / Larry Cohen. (NY)<br />
With Bruce Campbell, Richard Roundtree, …<br />
Also worked in various capacities on the following films:<br />
Wall Street by Oliver Stone 20 th Century Fox<br />
Crossroads by Walter Hill Columbia<br />
Insignificance by Nicolas Roeg RPC / Zenith<br />
Cat People by Paul Schrader RKO - Universal<br />
F/X by Robert Mandel Orion<br />
Ghost Busters by Ivan Reitman Columbia<br />
Legal Eagles by Ivan Reitman Universal<br />
Payoff by Stuart Cooper Showtime
Forced March by Rick King A-Pix<br />
Stone Pillow by George Schaffer CBS<br />
American Journeys by Jeff Blyth Disney<br />
The Joy That Kills by Tina Rathbone PBS<br />
And more…<br />
Has given classes and lectures on script writing, production and film history at the following<br />
universities: Boston University, University of New Orleans, University of Monaco, Université<br />
Libre de Bruxelles.<br />
Professional Affiliations, Honorary Titles, Degrees<br />
- Member, Union des Producteurs de Films Francophones (U.P.F.F.) (BE)<br />
- Founding Member, UniversCiné Belgium<br />
- Member (as director and u.p.m.), Directors Guild of America (US)<br />
- Member (as screenwriter), American Screenwriters Association (US)<br />
- Member, Association des scénaristes de lʼaudiovisuel (A.S.A.) (BE)<br />
- Fellow, Hoover Foundation<br />
- Fellow, Belgian American Educational Foundation<br />
- Bachelor of Arts, English and American literature , ULB, Magna cum Laude.<br />
- Master of Arts, Drama & Communications, University of New Orleans, National Deanʼs List.