Agora Market Manual 2010
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Crossroads Projects51st Thessaloniki IFF-2010 - Agora/Market ManualDIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHYSafe Haven, 2003, shortSugar and Cellular, 2001, shortSay Auschwitz, 2001, docDIRECTOR’S CVMori Li-Dar graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film and TelevisionSchool in 2003 and from the Amir Oran Actors Studioin 2007. He has directed 2 narrative shorts Sugar and Cellularin 2001 and Safe Haven in 2003 and a medium length documentarySay Auschwitz in 2001. His professional experienceincludes script supervision and first and second AD on differentproductions - feature films, TV series and dramas. Heis currently developing his first feature film Downpour thatwas granted a development grant from the Israeli FilmFund.Mori Li-Dar, Directorpresent at CrossroadsPRODUCER’S FILMOGRAPHYOff White Lies, post-production, 2011by Maya KeningLong Distance, 2009,docBest Cinematography, Docaviv Intl Documentary Film FestivalSilver Award, Audience Award, Fipa BiarritzLondon Intl Film FestivalMama, 2010, docDocaviv Intl Documentary Film FestivalPRODUCER’S PROFILEYoav Roeh graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film and TelevisionSchool in Jerusalem and has produced films withindifferent collaborations. Among them: Zion and His Brotherby Eran Merav (Sundance 2009), Noodle by Ayelet Menahemi(Special Grand Prize of the Jury, Montreal World Film Festival,2007), What a Wonderful Place by Eyal Halfon (Special Prizeof the Jury, Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Best Film, Israel AcademyAwards, 2005), Melting Siberia by Ido Haar (Official Selection,Silverdocs, 2005 ), Summer Story by ShmuelHaimovitz (Official Selection, Berlin Film Festival, 2005),Miss Entebbe by Omri Levi (Glass Bear- Special Mention,Berlin Film Festival, 2003).Aurit Zamir graduated with honors from the prestigiousSam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem afterwhich she established herself as a leading first AD in featurefilms and worked with the best directors in Israel. Since becominga producer she has trained at Mini-Eave and participatedin the Producers Lab at Rotterdam Film Festival.Aurit Zamir, Producerpresent at Crossroads43
Agora/Market Manual - 51st Thessaloniki IFF-2010Crossroads ProjectsEcho HotelItalyDirector: Menotti, Marco MarchionniScriptwriter: Menotti, Marco MarchionniBudget: 1.467.550 euroSecured Financing:Location: Emilia Romagna, ItalyLooking for:Producer, Co-producerMFI Selected ProjectSYNOPSIS1963. Enrico is a talented young engineer set for a brilliant career in the age of the Italian economic boom. Butdespite his wife’s expectations, he is happy enough to pursue his hobby as a ham radio operator.One night, on the radio after a big argument, Enrico catches the desperate distress call of Ludmila, a Sovietcosmonaut lost in space. As his marriage is collapsing, Enrico spends his nights communicating with Ludmila.He soon falls in love with her, alienating himself from the world. Bringing back Ludmila becomes Enrico’s reasonto live.While the police and the media blame him as an impostor, the secret services sabotage his efforts. Wheneven his wife loses her hope, falling in the arms of his best friend, Enrico is waiting on a beach for Ludmila to falldown from the sky. But what he finds is not what he expected.DIRECTORS’ STATEMENTThe Sixties. The discovery of oil in a village of the Po Valley shows the path to happiness to the new generations,opening the age of the Italian “economic miracle”. The new Italian dream is a simple mix of work, family andwealth. But what if the dream of an entire society is not yours? Enrico is young and smart; he has the right joband a beautiful wife. But while his middle-class life grows unbearable, his hobby as a radio ham carries himaway from Earth, to a cosmonaut lost in space.Eco Hotel is the story of an unlikely hero rebelling against a perfect world, whose values he does notunderstand. It is also a journey through two kinds of love. A real-life union of two individuals struggling togetherthrough compromises for a superior goal, and a romantic, supreme feeling, nourished by obstacles and impossibleto fulfill.PRODUCER’S CONTACT INFORMATIONT. +39 06 5818636M. +39 328 9587893menotti@menotti.comwww.menotti.com44
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<strong>Agora</strong>/<strong>Market</strong> <strong>Manual</strong> - 51st Thessaloniki IFF-<strong>2010</strong>Crossroads ProjectsEcho HotelItalyDirector: Menotti, Marco MarchionniScriptwriter: Menotti, Marco MarchionniBudget: 1.467.550 euroSecured Financing:Location: Emilia Romagna, ItalyLooking for:Producer, Co-producerMFI Selected ProjectSYNOPSIS1963. Enrico is a talented young engineer set for a brilliant career in the age of the Italian economic boom. Butdespite his wife’s expectations, he is happy enough to pursue his hobby as a ham radio operator.One night, on the radio after a big argument, Enrico catches the desperate distress call of Ludmila, a Sovietcosmonaut lost in space. As his marriage is collapsing, Enrico spends his nights communicating with Ludmila.He soon falls in love with her, alienating himself from the world. Bringing back Ludmila becomes Enrico’s reasonto live.While the police and the media blame him as an impostor, the secret services sabotage his efforts. Wheneven his wife loses her hope, falling in the arms of his best friend, Enrico is waiting on a beach for Ludmila to falldown from the sky. But what he finds is not what he expected.DIRECTORS’ STATEMENTThe Sixties. The discovery of oil in a village of the Po Valley shows the path to happiness to the new generations,opening the age of the Italian “economic miracle”. The new Italian dream is a simple mix of work, family andwealth. But what if the dream of an entire society is not yours? Enrico is young and smart; he has the right joband a beautiful wife. But while his middle-class life grows unbearable, his hobby as a radio ham carries himaway from Earth, to a cosmonaut lost in space.Eco Hotel is the story of an unlikely hero rebelling against a perfect world, whose values he does notunderstand. It is also a journey through two kinds of love. A real-life union of two individuals struggling togetherthrough compromises for a superior goal, and a romantic, supreme feeling, nourished by obstacles and impossibleto fulfill.PRODUCER’S CONTACT INFORMATIONT. +39 06 5818636M. +39 328 9587893menotti@menotti.comwww.menotti.com44