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IN PRODUCTION Atina & Herakles Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Romantic Comedy Production Companies SLM/Waldkraiburg, Daniel Zuta Filmproduktion/Frankfurt With backing from MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern Producers Sebastian Harrer, Daniel Zuta Director Sebastian Harrer Screenplay Sebastian Harrer Director of Photography Martin von Creytz Editor Achim Bieler Music by C. Stoll Principal Cast Raphael Tschernuth, Nadine Konietzny, Julian Manuel, Denise Strey, Juraj Kukura Format 16 mm, color Shooting Language German Shooting in Kraiburg, Hamburg and Paris, September - November 2003 Contact: Daniel Zuta Filmproduktion Kleine Nelkenstrasse 17 60488 Frankfurt/Germany phone +49-69-25 37 35 · fax +49-69-23 90 58 email: zuta_film@gmx.de ”I came relatively late to the project as the shooting schedule was already set,“ says producer Daniel Zuta about Sebastian Harrer’s debut feature Atina & Herakles. ”But everything just came into place because they were so full of enthusiasm. In fact, the crew and actors said they would defer their payments for the sake of the project.“ Atina & Herakles is a comedy of mistaken identity in which a young man, based on the Herakles of Greek mythology, tries to gain the love of a distant beloved without noticing that his great love is, in actual fact, right in front of him. At first glance, Hermann is everything else but a hero. As a result of an intrigue he is forced by the despotic millionaire August (played by veteran Czech actor Juraj Kukura) to set off on an odyssey throughout half of Europe, during which he mistakenly comes to identify himself increasingly with the classical hero’s role. It is only when he loses the great love of his life, Atina, that he realizes how blind he was and then sets everything into motion to return to a normal life and win Atina back. The 16 mm production is also Harrer’s graduation film from the Athanor Academy for Performing Arts in Burghausen (Bavaria) after he had previously directed a number of DV shorts (Reingedrueckt, Hoffnungsfunke) and worked in the theater. ”He really knows his craft,“ observes Zuta about the Scene from ”Atina & Herakles“ talented young director who brought such fellow students as Achim Bieler, Julian Manuel, and Denise Strey onto the project. While Harrer was shooting on location in Kraiburg, Hamburg and Paris from the end of September to the beginning of November, Zuta had another production – the English-language feature Never Enough by Romanian-born Bogdan Dreyer – in front of the camera at locations in and around Bucharest. Co-produced by Romanian producer Titi Popescu’s Filmex with backing from the State of Hessen’s Investment Bank and BlockBusterMultimedia, Never Enough is a reality TV show hostage drama starring Rutger Hauer and up-and-coming actress Mariana Dinulescu who was voted Best Romanian Newcomer Actress of 2002 at the last CineMa Iubit Festival. Meanwhile, Zuta’s Frankfurt-based production house is presently near completion on the post-production of Nina Mimica’s €7 million Italian-German-UK-Spanish co-production Mathilde, about an impossible love story set in post-war Yugoslavia with Jeremy Irons and Stephane Audran in the leads. Die Blaue Grenze kino 1 in production 2004 24 MB English Title Blue Border Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Love Story, Tragicomedy Production Company Discofilm/Cologne, in cooperation with NDR/Hamburg, ARTE/Strasbourg With backing from BKM, Filmstiftung NRW, MSH Producers Arne Ludwig, Felix Blum Director Till Franzen Screenplay Till Franzen Director of Photography Michael Toette Editors Till Franzen, Sebastian Schultz Sound Design M.P. Jensen Music by Lambchop, various artists Principal Cast Antoine Monot Jr., Hanna Schygulla, Jens Muenchow Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Sound Technology Dolby Digital Shooting Language German/Danish Shooting in Flensburg, Schleswig Holstein, March - April 2004 Contact: Discofilm GmbH · Arne Ludwig Sudermanplatz 3 · 50670 Cologne/Germany phone +49-2 21-1 20 87 78 · fax +49-2 21-1 20 87 79 email: arne@discofilm.de · www.discofilm.de ”It’s not really fair to Blue Border to label it as belonging to any one or even two specific genres,“ says the film’s writerdirector Till Franzen. ”The thrill lies in mixing the various Beach from ”Blue Border“
Bill Handel from ”Frozen Angels“ genres such as crime, comedy, love and gentle horror so that the cinemagoer is constantly drawn along new paths. I would call the genre ’social surrealism’ but basically it will be entertaining meditation about a borderland.“Coming from the director who graduated from film school with a short film titled The Haunted Chicken (screened at Cannes in 1994) this can only mean the audience is in for a ”much richer and more impressive experience.“ In Blue Border, Franzen draws his influences from ”Boris Vian, Nicolas Roeg, Luis Bunuel or, in its humor, also from David Lynch“ to tell the story of twenty-year-old Momme Bief whose father has just died. Momme has to travel to the Danish border to tell his grandfather. Since Momme hasn’t come to terms with the death himself, he is soon entangled in a web of lies. Then his father’s ghost appears in several dreams, wanting to put the past to rights just as Momme has met the love of his life. Granddad still hasn’t gotten over the death of his wife and now his son is gone too. He moves to a tent on the beach. It’s not until he meets a young girl that he rediscovers life is for the living. And what of the half-Danish police officer, Poulsen? When full- Danish police officers arrive in town, on royal business no less, he is chomping at the bit to be assigned to the case. When it goes to his subordinate he decides to do some private detective work … and meets the love of his life. If only it wasn’t for a certain dark secret. In making what he calls ”a socially realistic story with spiritual pretension“, Franzen is aiming at the growing number of people who enjoy ”episodic and/or ensemble films, such as Fast Food Fast Women, Magnolia, Mullholland Drive or Lantana. Obviously the audience likes to have several characters to identify with. I like to see characters grounded in a magic reality. The melodramatic love story, which deals with the inner tension of its characters, is growing in popularity. The one-dimensional characters of the 80s and 90s belong quite rightly to the past.“ At the same time, Franzen is not seeking to reject or alienate the more traditional public. Indeed, he is convinced that Blue Border will appeal also to ”all fans of the classic, exciting, narrative style of cinema. And yet it will only be ’social surrealism’.“ SK Frozen Angels Type of Project Feature Film Cinema Genre Documentary Production Company Umbrella Films/Berlin, in cooperation with ITVS/San Francisco, YLE/Helsinki, ZDF/Mainz With backing from Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg Producer Frauke Sandig Directors Frauke Sandig, Eric Black Screenplay Frauke Sandig, Eric Black Director of Photography Eric Black Editor Markus Schmidt Music by Zoe Keating, and others Format Mini-DV, color, 3:4, blow-up to 35 mm Sound Technology Dolby SR Shooting Language English Shooting in Los Angeles, Chicago, Mexico, March 2003 - March 2004 World Sales: First Hand Films · Esther Van Hessel Schaffhauserstrasse 359 · 8050 Zurich/Switzerland phone +41-1-3 12 20 60 · fax +41-1-3 12 20 80 email: info@firsthandfilms.com www.firsthandfilms.com ”It’s easier to open a sperm-bank than a pizzeria,“ says Bill Handel, owner of the world’s biggest agency for surrogate mothers located in Los Angeles. No holds are barred in California’s reproduction dream world, the perfect child comes with the promise of college degree, manners, healthy genes, athletic body, correct gender and skin color, all chosen from a catalog. It’s a designer’s creation. Man plays God. There are eggbrokers always looking for attractive female co-eds, willing to sell their eggs. You can order sperm from Nobel Prize laureates, eggs from Mensa-Club-members and/or rent a womb from a young, healthy surrogate mother. This child could have as many as five ”parents“. One sperm donor could father hundreds of children in the same city: what if two were to fall in love? In California there are more procedures possible and allowed than anywhere else in the world: free market rules and little control. Lori Andrews, prominent lawyer and author of The Clone Age calls it the ”Wild West of medicine“. Following a cast of characters involved in the wonderland of human making, Frozen Angels examines the personal history of several Los Angelinos and their city’s role in this brave new world. ”As filmmakers we are concerned,“ says Frauke Sandig, ”because we see a minimally informed public, little critical media coverage and only a small window of time remaining for informed democratic discussion before it is slammed shut by the ever increasing weight and interest of the biotech industry who would like to have us believe the transition was inevitable.“ ”Everyone’s moral code is challenged,“ says Sandig’s filmmaking partner, Eric Black. ”Our purpose is to show the human and ethical implications of the biotech age. We propose to present these issues through a simple strategy: looking at the future already here – in the state of California.“ Frozen Angels is the second collaboration between Sandig and Black. Their first film, After the Fall, documented the mysterious, disturbing and almost complete disappearance of the Berlin Wall ten years after its fall. The film was broadcast on television worldwide including Germany, Brazil, Israel, Switzerland, Japan, Spain, Austria, Sweden and PBS in the United States. The 35 mm film version was released in Germany and selected for more than 40 international film festivals, including Berlin, Amsterdam, Karlovy Vary and Tel Aviv, and was awarded a German Camera Prize and a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival. SK kino 1 in production 2004 25
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