Agora Market Manual 2010

Agora/Market Manual - 51st Thessaloniki IFF-2010Crossroads ProjectsMusic for StrangersArmenia / FranceProduced by:FRESCO FILMS, ARIZONA FILMSDirector: Eric NazarianScriptwriter: Eric NazarianProducer: Eric Nazarian,Guillaume de SeilleBudget: 830. 000 euroSecured Financing:LVT Award - Sofia MeetingsLocation: Yerevan - ArmeniaLooking for: Co-producers, FundsSofia Meetings Selected ProjectSYNOPSISSet in modern-day Armenia, Music for Strangers is a working-class drama about Zhora, an unemployed landscapepainter from a deserted factory town who travels to the capital city of Yerevan to sell his prize-winning paintings.He moves into a flat next to a bridge where he encounters Anna, a traumatized woman trying to commit suicide.Zhora intervenes before Anna jumps off the bridge, saving her life. Soon after the incident, a relationship beginsto unfold between Zhora and Anna whose identity remains a mystery. As they get to know each other, severalprotests against the presidential elections turn violent, resulting in the murder of eight civilians during a riot.DIRECTORS’ STATEMENTIn the wake of the violent and democratic changes sweeping through the Caucuses during the past twentyyears, a new generation has evolved out of the Soviet ashes; a generation of former doctors, engineers, artistsand professionals now reduced to the status of migrant day labourers searching for manual labour to survive.These one-time professionals from Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan are now illegally migrating in increasingnumbers all over the European Union, attempting to find work.Music for Strangers is part one in a series of films I am writing to direct about the immediate and long - termeffects of globalization in the Caucuses and its direct and indirect impact on the European Union and the UnitedStates.ARIZONA FILMSParis based Arizona Films, is lead by Guillaume de Seille, Bénédicte Thomas and Rémi Roy to mainly produceart-house feature films directed by non-French emerging talents. Bénédicte Thomas is handling domestictheatrical French distribution for most of the co - produced titles.PRODUCER’S CONTACT INFORMATIONARIZONA FILMST. +33 954525572M. +33 678180105guillaume@arizonafilms.netguillaume@deseille.infowww.arizonafilms.net54