Agora Market Manual 2010

Works in Progress51st Thessaloniki IFF-2010 - Agora/Market ManualJ.A.C.EGreece / Portugal / FYROM / Turkey / Netherlands, 2010SYNOPSISJace is a young boy of Greek origin, illegitimate son of a woman who is brutally murdered by her own family alittle after giving birth to him refusing to betray his father’s identity. The orphan boy grows up amidst violence.He’s barely seven when he witnesses the massacre of his foster family in Argyrokastron by the Albanian Mob.The villains spare the boy, but they turn him into a murderer, by forcing him to shoot –on the spot— his fosterfather. Now, in the hands of obscure gangsters who export homeless children, Jace, ends up in Athens, Greece.This is where an inverted Odyssey begins —one that turns paperless refugees into lawless fugitives.Production Company: Pausilypon FilmsDirector: Menelaos KaramaghiolisScreenwriter: Menelaos KaramaghiolisCast: Stefania Goulioti, Alban Ukaj,Kora Karvouni, Ieronymos KaletsanosProducer: Menelaos KaramaghiolisCo-producers:Pandora Da Cuhna Telles /UkBar Filmes - Portugal,Zoran Risteski / Geyzer Ltd. - FYROM,Ceyda Tufan / Pi Films - Turkey,Mete Gümürhan /Kaliber Films - NetherlandsProduction Stage: Post-productionDuration: 130 minBudget: 2.350.000 euroSecured Financing: 80%Looking For: Financing,Distribution, Sales AgentJ.A.C.E was presented in the Balkan Script Development Fund in 2005.Director’s filmography:Black Out, 1999Best Film, Greek State AwardsBest Newcomer Director, Greek State AwardsROM, documentary 1990Best Documentary, Greek State AwardsCinema du Reel Film FestivalSan Sebastian Intl Film FestivalContact Person:Menelaos Karamaghiolis,director/ producerPausilypon Films:T. +30 2108846101M. +30 6944524042menkar@ath.forthnet.grwww.jace.gr73