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3DD
ENTERTAINMENT
LTD / IND DVD
3DD Entertainment Ltd / inD DVD, 190
Camden High Street, London, NW1 8QP,
United Kingdom. Tel: 44 20.7428.1800.
Fax: 44 20.7428.1818.
sales@3DDtv.co.uk / info@inDDVD.co.uk, www.3DDtv.co.uk /
www.inD-DVD.co.uk
Company Type: Distributor / DVD Label
At Cannes: Dominic Saville, Richard
Lorber
Office: Palais Miramar - Suite #112; 65
La Croisette, Cannes 06400, France, Tel:
33(0)4.93.94.2912
SAM PECKINPAH’S WEST LEGACY OF A HOLLYWOOD
RENEGADE
Documentary (60’ and 90’)
Language: English
Director: Tom Thurman
Producer: A Starz Encore Production in
association with Warner Brothers
Cast: Sam Peckinpah, Kris Kristofferson,
Billy Bob Thornton, Roger Ebert, Paul
Schrader and Harry Dean Stanton,
Benicio Del Toro.
Delivery Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004, Country of
Origin: USA
With 2004 marking the 10th
anniversary of his death, this first
ever documentary on Peckinpah’s
westerns looks at the life and
career of this controversial and
fascinating director.
AMERICAN FILM THEATRE:
BUTLEY
Film (130 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Harold Pinter
Producer: Ely Landau
Cast: Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Michael
Byrne, Georgina Hale
Year of Production: 1973 - Re-mastered
2003, Country of Origin: USA
“Alan Bates’ stage triumph in Simon
Gray’s Butley has been superbly
recreated on the screen with the
added excellence of Harold Pinter’s
topnotch film directorial debut.” –
Variety
AMERICAN FILM THEATRE: IN
CELEBRATION
Film (131 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Producer: Ely Landau
Cast: Alan Bates, James Bolam, Brian
Cox, Bill Owen, Constance Chapman
Year of Production: 1974 - Re-mastered
2002, Country of Origin: USA
“Anderson and a superb cast have made
a harrowing and satisfying suspense
drama.” New York Magazine
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THE
CANNES
2004
PRODUCT GUIDE
A HUEY P. NEWTON STORY
Feature (86’)
Language: English
Director: Spike Lee
Producer: Luna Ray Films for Starz
Encore
Cast: Roger Guenveur Smith
Origin: USA
Originally born in a small town in
Louisiana, Huey P. Newton rose to
become the co-founder and enigmatic
leader of the Black Panther movement.
A
ADRIANA CHIESA
ENTERPRISES SRL
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises Srl, Via
Barnaba Oriani, 24a, 00197 Rome, Italy.
Tel: 39.06.80.86.052. Fax:
39.06.80.68.78.55.
info@adrianachiesaenterprises.com
At Cannes: Adriana Chiesa Di Palma
(President), Rossella Gori (Sales
Manager), Celine Dalix (Assistant)
Office: Carlton Hotel, Salon du Bridge,
Tel: 33(0)4.9306.4100, mobile:
39.335.8265.984
LOST LOVE (PERDUTO AMOR)
Sentimental Comedy
Language: Italian With English Subtitles
Director: Franco Battiato
Cast: Corrado Fortuna, Donatella
Finocchiaro (Angela By Roberta Torre)
Production Company: Ottava - Sidercar
Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Italy
The directorial debut of Franco Battiato,
Italy’s most refined musician, singer and
composer.
AFTER MIDNIGHT (DOPO
MEZZANOTTE)
Sentimental Urban Love Story
Director: Davide Ferrario
Production Company: Rossofuoco
Cast: Giorgio Pasotti, Francesca Inaudi
Status: Market Screening
Country of origin: Italy
Martino is the night guardian of the Turin
Museum of Cinema. Angelo is a small
thief from the outskirts. Amanda works
in a fast food place. Their lives cross
unexpectedly.
VANILLA AND CHOCOLATE
Powerful Love Story
Director: Ciro Ippolito
Production Company: Eurolux
Produzione S.R.L.
Cast: Maria Grazia Cuccinotta, Joaquin
Cortez, Alessandro Preziosi
Status: First Market Screening
A powerful love story set in a
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breathtaking Naples. “I have only love
two men in my life: my husband and a
dream.”
THE CARD PLAYER
Psycho-Technological-Thriller
Language: English
Director: Dario Argento
Production Company: Medusa Film Opera Film
Cast: Stefania Rocca, Liam Cunningham,
Claudio Santamaria, Silvio Muccino,
Fiore Argento
A serial-killer challenges the police
through a videogame. Dario Argento’s
best film in years. A tight style, masterly
sequences continually builds up
suspense.
RUNAWAY (IL FUGGIASCO) - (THE
FUGITIVE)
Thriller
Director: Andrea Manni
Production Company: Feelmax, Rai
Cinema
Cast: Daniele Liotti, Roberto Citran,
Joaquim De Almeida
A man on the run unjustly accused of
murdering a woman. A true story, a fastpaced thriller. The life of a fugitive in
Paris, Barcelona and Mexico.
FOOLISH LOVE (AMORFU’)
Romantic Drama
Director: Emanuela Piovano
Production Company: Kitchen Film
Cast: Sonia Bergamasco, Ignazio Oliva
A story of heroism and passion. A doctorpatient relationship that develops
between two fragile lives leading to a
great love.
THE WEDDING DRESS (IL
VESTITO DA SPOSA)
Thriller
Director: Fiorella Infascelli
Production Company: Palomar Endemol
Cast: Maya Sansa (Buongiorno Notte By
Marco Bellocchio), Andrea Di Stefano
(Angela By Roberta Torre), Piera Degli
Esposti
Joyful, happy moments, brutally
shattered at sunset when a sudden and
disturbing event changes completely
Stella’s life: rape, the painful
transformation of a woman who wants to
live again. anguishing subterranean
suspense.
FOREVER (PER SEMPRE)
Passionate Love Story
Director: Alessandro Di Robilant
Production Company: Rodeo Drive
Cast: Giancarlo Giannini, Francesca
Neri, Emilio Solfrizzi
A love story “beyond all reason”.
Francesca Neri is perfect in the role of
the young impossible mistress.
“CHE” THE LAST HOURS
Documentary (60 minutes)
Language: Italian / Spanish With English
Subtitles
Director: Romano Scavolini
Production Company: Victoria Media
Status: Completed
The last 18 hours of Che Guevara
documented by important witnesses of
these hours of violence.
AGATA AND THE STORM
Elegant Sophisticated Comedy
Director: Silvio Soldini
Production Company: Albachiara - Amka
Film - Mercury In Association With
Lumiere & Co.
Cast: Licia Maglietta (Pane E Tulipani),
Giuseppe Battiston (Pane E Tulipani),
Emilio Solfrizzi, Marina Massironi
(Pane E Tulipani)
Status: First Market Screening
An elegant, colorful comedy filled with
love. An independent, impassioned, nonconformist bookseller who falls in love
with a man much younger than her.
ALLIED
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP, INC.
Allied Entertainment Group, Inc., 8899
Beverly Blvd. Suite 911, West Hollywood,
CA 90048, USA. Tel: 310.271.0703. Fax:
310.271.0706.
info@alliedentertainment.com
At Cannes: James Moder (Chairman),
Janet Y. Liu (VP - sales consultant, Asia),
David Newman (VP)
Office # F15, Tel: 310.271.0703. Fax:
310.271.0706
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CANNES PRODUCT GUIDE
WHOREHOUSE
Action / Psychological Thriller (94 min)
(new)
Director: Basil Schlegel, Producer:
Sandra Fragel,
Starring: George Tasudis (“White
Oleander”, “City of Angels”), Ilia Volok
(“ Airforce One” “Swordfish”), Olga
Vilner
Delivery Status: new/screening
A young and seemingly angelic girl,
Sady (Olga Vilner), comes to L.A.
following clues to the mysterious
disappearance of her father.
GANGSTERZ?!
Comedy (93 min)
Director: David Portlock, Producer:
Eugene “Geno” Taylor & Mychal
Wilson,
Starring: Michael Dorn (“Star Trek”,
“Killing Castro”), Barry Corbin (“Clover
Bend”, “Crossfire Trail”), Valente
Rodriguez (“Erin Brokovich”, “Deep
Blue Sea”), Orson Bean (“Being John
Malkovich”, “Frank McKluskly”, “CI”),
Richard Riehle (“Time Changer”, “Office
Space”), Michael McClafferty
(“Jawbreaker”, “Bombshell”), Carsten
Norgaard (“Gods and Generals”, “The
Ring”), and Adoni Maropis (“Bad
Company”, “The Scorpion King”)
Delivery Status: new/screening
Two struggling medical assistants think
they’ve hit pay dirt when they are hired
to deliver some black-market human
body parts to a wealthy and needy U.S.
Senator.
LAS VEGAS WARRIOR
Action (97 min) (new)
Director / Producer: Nastasha Baron
Starring: Laurie Hanley, Suk Woo Nam
When a martial arts fighter gets killed
during a bare fisted kick-boxing fight, an
investigative journalist (Laurie Hanley)
decides to pursue this story.
THROTTLE
Action-Thriller (92 min)
Director: Atul Sharma, Producer: Atul
Sharma & Cheryl Bedford
Starring: Liam Watson, Jody Booth
Delivery Status: new
Jon, a career criminal, gets out of prison
determined to live it up in Baja with
millions that he and his only friend,
George, stole from a Drug Cartel.
Detectives Cody Martin (Michael Pare)
and Ciprian Raines (Pilip Michael
Thomas) hunt a serial killer who uses his
victims as characters in a demented story.
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS
http://www.alphafilmgroup.com/sleepless
.html
Horror-Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: William Hopkins
Producer: Howard Nash
Key Cast: Jacqueline Anderson, Richard
Ryan, Matthew Thomas
Origin: United States
A hunter turned vampire teams up with a
member of a government vampire
hunting organization to go after a
vampire looking to take over the world
MENACE
http://www.alphafilmgroup.com/menace.
html
Thriller (88 min)
Director: English
Language: Amir Mann
Producer: Dana Janklowicz-Mann
Key Cast: Laura Rogers, Robert
Mammana, Patrick Belton, Najarra
Townsend
A mother and daughter have to work
together in order to survive when they
are held hostage by jewelry thieves
ON THE DOWN -N- LOW
http://www.alphafilmgroup.com/downlo
w.html
Action (85 min)
Language: English
Director: Andre Buckner
Producer: Andre Buckner
Key Cast: Andre Buckner, Vince Canlas,
Robert Gresham, Brian Wicker
Two cops attempt to uncover the mobs
drug game and corruption that lies deep
inside the police force.
ALPHA FILM GROUP
America Video Films S A, Virrey Loreto
2426, Capital Federal, 1426 Rep.
Argentina. Tel: 54.11.4787.9098 / 9101.
Fax: 5411.4787.9094.
america@americavideofilms.com
At Cannes: Enrique Maya (President),
Freddie Hancock (Senior V.P.
Acquisitions), Nicholas Bingham
(Adviser), Claudio Braslavsky
(Marketing Director), María Fernanda
Fernández Vila (Business Affairs)
Office: Carlton Hotel - Room # 225/6,
Tel: 334.93.06.42.25 / 334.93.06.82.25
Alpha Film Group, 216 South Main
Street, Alpharetta, GA 30004 United
States. Tel: 770.740.1962. Fax: 770-7401046. www.alphafilmgroup.com,
afg@alphafilmgroup.com
At Cannes: Ray Guthrie (President), Ace
Cruz (Director, Sales)
Office: Tel: 770-560-2277
FATE
http://www.alphafilmgroup.com/fate.html
Thriller (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Ace Cruz
Producer: Ray Guthrie
Key Cast: Michael Pare, Philip Michael
Thomas, Lee Majors
AMERICA VIDEO
FILMS S A
JESUS
Drama (120 min)
Language: English
Director: Kevin Connor
Principal Cast: Christian Bale
Production status: Completed
Country of origin: USA
The greatest story ever told seen through
different eyes.
BIRD FLU
Biological thriller (120 min)
Language: French
Director: Oliver Langlois
Principal Cast: Richard Bohringer
Country of origin: France
A deadly new virus is being spread with
lighting speed and threatens the world
population.
FALLING FOR A DANCER
Suspense (120 min)
Language: English
Director: Richard Standeven
Principal Cast: Colin Farrell and Liam
Cunningham
Country of origin: Ireland
A young man ignites the passion of an
older married woman setting off a string
of tragic events.
THE RANSOM OF THE RED CHIEF
Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Bob Clark
Principal cast: Haley Joel Osment &
Christopher Lloyd
Two small time crooks abduct the most
mischievous kid in town.
AMERICAN CINEMA
INTERNATIONAL
American Cinema International, 4640
Lankershim Blvd Suite 500 N.
Hollywood, CA 91602 USA. Tel:
818.985.8500. Fax: 818.985.4848.
At Cannes: George Shamieh (CEO),
Chevonne O’Shaughnessy (President)
Office: Riviera E-5, Tel: 334.92.99.32.39.
THE CLOWN
Action
Huge and incredible action stunts [
Action] from the producers of the
German TV series “Der Clown.”
Director: Sebastian Vigg
Producer: Hermann Joha
Cast: Sven Martinek (Star of “Der
Clown” in the role of Max, 60 episodes),
Eva Habermann (Lexx the dark Zone),
Xenia Seeberg, Gotz Otto (James Bond
Movies)
Delivery Status: 8-minute promo
screening at Cannes Film Festival
When mobster Zorbeck kills his long
time girl friend Claudia, The Clown
(Max Hecker) gets Zorbeck arrested and
then retires from crime fighting.
CHALLENGE
Action
Director: Johannes Jaeger
Producer: Hermann Joha
Cast: Mathis Landwehr, Christian Monz,
Vokram Zschesche, Zora Holt
From the producer of “The Clown” The
Best World Known Martial Artists fight it
out in a lawless world.
MARIA, 97
Drama (98 min)
Director: Peter Calin Netzer
Cast: Diana Dumbrava, Horatiu Malaiele,
Florin Calinescu, Luminita Gheorghiu,
Rona Hartner and Serban Ionescu
Producer: Cornelia Palos
A compelling depiction of the hardships
faced in a life of poverty in postCommunist Rumania.
OUT OF CONTROL
Action Disaster
Producer: Hermann Joha and George
Shamieh
Delivery Status: Pre-production
A vintage S-Class Mercedez Benz rushes
toward the airport. Inside the car: Pete,
Sally and Unhappily married young
couple.
AMERICAN WORLD
PICTURES
American World Pictures, 6355 Topanga
Canyon Boulevard, Suite 428, Woodland
Hills, CA 91367 USA. Tel: 818.715.1480.
Fax: 818.715.1081.
info@americanworldpictures.com,
www.americanworldpictures.com
At Cannes: Mark Lester (President),
Terese Linden Kohn (Executive Vice
President, Distribution)
Office: Riviera F-6, Tel:
33.04.92.99.88.41
SHUT UP AND KISS ME
Romantic Comedy
Director: Gary Brockette
Producer: Suzanne DeLaurentiis
Cast: Brad Row, Krista Allen, Christopher
Barnes, Burt Young
Origin: USA
Delivery Status: Completed and
Screening
Pete (Brad Rowe) and Ryan (Christopher
Barnes) are 27 year old best friends in
Miami, and each meets the woman of his
dreams on the same day.
THE 24TH DAY
Thriller (93 min)
Director: Tony Piccirillo
Producer: Nick Staggliano
Cast: Scott Speedman, James Marsden,
Sofia Vergara
Origin: USA
In a cat and mouse game of lies and
deceit, two men must uncover the deadly
secret that threatens to destroy them.
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INTOXICATING
Thriller
Director: Mark David
Producer: Kirk Harris, Mark David, Jack
Rubio, Tony Hewett
Cast: Kirk Harris, Eric Roberts, John
Savage
Delivery Status: Final Post
Origin: USA
Dorian Shanley (Kirk Harris, “My Sweet
Killer”) is a young talented surgeon with
an insatiable taste for sex, booze, and
drugs.
CRIME SCENE
Thriller
Director: Eric Delabarre
Producer: Mark Boot, Eric Delabarre
Cast: Amber Smith
Country of Origin: USA
Charlie (Amber Smith, “American
Beauty”, “Tomcats”) is a lethal detective
on the trail of a serial killer who is out to
punish young, beautiful girls.
AMSELL
ENTERTAINMENT
INC
AMSell Entertainment Inc, 12001 Ventura
Place, Suite #404, Studio City, CA 91602,
USA. Tel: 818.766.8500. Fax:
818.766.8737. amsellent@aol.com
At Cannes: Alan Solomon (President),
Joseph Beral (Director of International
Sales and Marketing)
Office: The Riviera, booth F9
CIRCUIT 3: STREET MONK
Action
Director: Jalal Merhi
Cast: Olivier Gruner
Living as a vagrant to try and forget about
the death of his fiancé, Dirk Longstreet
befriends an orphaned girl.
UNSEEN EVIL 2
Horror/Action
Director: Jeff Leroy
Cast: Lorenzo Lamas
Status: Post Production
Alien meets predator. The eagerly awaited
sequel to UNSEEN EVIL. An alien force
so deadly that it takes a military force to
contain it, returns to create havoc.
SKINNED DEEP
Special Effects Horror
Director: Gabe Bartalos
Cast: Karoline Brandt, Jay Dugre, Warwick
Davis (“Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s
Stone”, “Harry Potter & the Chamber of
Secrets”, “ Harry Potter & the Prisoner of
Azkaban”, “Leprechaun 1,2,3,4,5”,
“Willow” and “Starwars” Episode VI”)
A high energy “over the top” horror film
shot on film starring characters such as the
Surgeon General, The Brain and Plates
(Warwick Davis).
EXORCISM
Urban Horror
Director: William A. Baker
Cast: Jack Donner, Tony Burton, Brian
Patrick Clarke, Karen Knotts, Eileen Dietz
When three restless young thugs choose to
burgle the home of the Lansing family they
quickly realize they chose the wrong house
to mess with, and all hell brakes lose.
ANGEL FILMS
Angel Films, Stockholmsgade 43,
Copenhagen, 2100 Denmark. Tel:
45.35253600 / 45.26733725. Fax:
45.35253610. www.angelfilms.dk
At Cannes: Poul Erik Lindeborg
(Managing Director, Head of Acquisition
and Sales), Mogens Glad (President),
Sofie Wanting Hassing (Acquisition and
Sales), Sara Stockmann (Head of
distribution)
Office: Tel: (mobile) 45.26733725
TINTIN AND I (TINTIN ET MOI)
Documentary (52 Min & 75 Min)
Language: French/English
Director: Anders Østergaard
Co-Production Partners: Periscope,
DUNE, LEAFROG, RTBF, AVRO in
Asso. w. FRANCE 2, VRT, DR,
FRANCE 5, Suisse Romande, Svt, Nrk,
Yle-fs
Producer: Peter Bech, Angel Production
Budget:1,3 MIl. USD
Origin: Denmark
The year 2004 is the 75th anniversary of
the beloved Tintin. Join us in celebrating
Tintin with this extraordinary critically
acclaimed documentary about Hergé, the
creator of Tintin.
ANICA
ANICA, Viale Regina Margherita, 286 00198 Rome, Italy. Tel: 3.906.442.5961.
Fax: 39064404128. anica@anica.it,
www.anica.it
Company Type: Trade association for the
italian independent motion picture, video,
television and multimedia market
industry, Represents some 800 companies.
Associated: UNPF, UNEFA, UNIDIM,
UNITEC, UNICS-APP, ANEM.
Office: Riviera C7/D2-C9/D4-D1/E10D3/E12, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.33.21. Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.33.22
ARCLIGHT FILMS
Arclight Films, Bldg 22, Fox Studios
Australia. Driver Ave, Moore Park, NS,
2021 Australia. Tel: 61.2.9955.8825. Fax:
61(0)2.8353.2437.
www.arclightfilms.com,
info@arclightfilms.com
At Cannes: Gary Hamilton (Managing
Director), Nicolas Chartier (VP World
Wide Sales), Ian Gibbins (General
Manager), Lina Marrone (Sales
Consultant)
Office: C1 Riviera, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32
Fax: 33(0)4.92.99.32.44
LORD OF WAR
Action Thriller
Language: English
Director: Andrew Niccol
Producer: Philippe Rousselet, Jason
Piette, Michael Cowan
Key Cast: Nicolas Cage, Monica Belucci,
Ethan Hawke
Delivery Status: Pre-Production
Dodging bullets and betrayal, a willy
arms dealer schemes his way to the top of
his profession only to face an enemy he
never expected: his conscience.
THE MATADOR
Contemporary Thriller
Language: English
Director: Richard Shepard
Producer: Sean Furst, Pierce Brosnan,
Beau Saint Clair
Key Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear,
Hope Davis
Delivery Status: In Production
Following a chance encounter with an
ordinary family man, an assassin
discovers one last chance to redeem
himself.
COMING OUT
Musical Comedy
Director: English
Language: Joel Zwick
Producer: Catherine Zeta Jones, David
Jones
Key Cast: Catherine Zeta Jones, Alan
Cummings
A gay dancer uses his stage skills to
whip a beer swilling rugby team into
shape.
MERCHANT OF VENICE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Michael Radford
Producer: Cary Brokaw, Michael Cowan,
Jason Piette
Key Cast: Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons,
Joseph Fiennes
Delivery Status: Post Production
Origin: UK
For the first time on the big screen,
Shakepeare’s epic, infamous saga of love
and hate.
ARMADA PICTURES
INTERNATIONAL
Armada Pictures International, 9720
Wilshire Boulevard, 5th Floor, Beverly
Hills, CA 90212 USA. Tel: 310.205.9600.
Fax: 310.205.9610.
At Cannes: Chris Sievernich (CEO),
Yarek Danielak (VP, International
Distribution), Matt Milich (VP,
Production)
Office: 139 Carlton Inter-Continental
Hotel, 139, Tel: 04.93.06.41.39.
TAMARA
Horror
Director: David Sporn
Producer: Chris Sievernich, Danny
Fisher
Cast Sarah Thompson
Status: Pre-production
After a vicious prank results in the tragic
death of an awkward, unpopular high
school girl, she is reborn as a seductive,
mind-controlling teen vixen hell-bent on
revenge.
FAMILY OF THE YEAR
Comedy
Director: Dennis Dugan
Producer: Penny Marshall Chris
Sievernich, Matt Milich
Cast: Danny DeVito, Ray Liotta
After the Miller family moves to a new
town, they have more trouble getting
along with each other than their new
neighbors.
OVERNIGHT
Action-Thriller
Director: Austin Chick (XX/XY –
Nominated Grand Jury Prize, Sundance
2002)
Producers: Doug Liman, Dave Bartis,
Chris Sievernich, Matt Milich, Steven
Hein, Gary Bryman
Status: Casting
In the world of New York’s trendy, posh
nightclub and drug scene a case of
mistaken identity leads a young couple
on a blind date into the arms of
dangerous underworld figures.
DRUM
Thriller
Director: Zola Maseko
Executive Producer: Matt Milich,
Andreas Schmid, Andreas Grosch
Producer: Chris Sievernich, Rudolf
Wichmann
Cast: Taye Diggs, Jason Flemyng,
Gabriel Mann
Status: Post-production
Set against the backdrop of exhilarating
1950’s Sofiatown in South Africa,
DRUM magazine gives birth to a popular
movement against apartheid.
ARRI MEDIA
WORLDSALES
ARRI Media Worldsales, Türkenstr. 89,
80799 Munich, Germany. Tel:
0049.89.3809.1288. Fax:
0049.89.3809.1619.
AExacoustos@arri.de
SEdelmann@arri.de. www.arrimediaworldsales.de
Company Type: Sales Agent
At Cannes: Antonio Exacoustos
Office: c/o Export Union of German
Films, Int’l Village, German Pavilion,
Antonio Exacoustos is located at the
stand of Export Union Des Deutschen
Films GmbH German Pavilion Festival
de Cannes / Village Int’l, Explanade
Georges Pompidou, 06400 Cannes –
France. Tel: 33.4.93.94.02.43. Fax:
33.4.93.94.03.07
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ARTEDIS
Artedis, 12 Rue Raynouard, 75016 Paris,
France. Tel: 331.5392.2929. Fax:
331.5392.2920. artedisf@aol.com
At Cannes: Pierre-Richard Muller
(Director), Chantal Lam (President)
Acquisition Executives: Pierre-Richard
Muller, Chantal Lam
Office: Residence du Grand Hotel, Bldg.
Le Cormoran II, 45 La Croisette, 06400
Cannes. Tel/Fax: 04.93.99.56.67
THE MOON IS RED
Drama
Delivery Status: completed
Country of Origin: France
One evening, two policemen inform
Vincent that his wife has been killed in a
car accident. Ten days later, Vincent
receives an e-mail message coming from
his wife.
LULU
Drama
Director: Jean Henri Roger
Cast: Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Elli Medeiros,
Gerard Meylan, Bruno Putzulu.
Nothing would have ever disturbed
Lulu’s happiness had Fabio, an
ex-pimp on the run, not suddenly
turned up and tried to blackmail
his former protégée.
TRIGGERED (LES PERCUTES)
Thriller
Director: Gerard Cuq
Producer: Denis Karvil
Cast: Christophe Laubion, Bernard Farcy
A slightly drunk police detective ends up
robbing security guard escorting a large
amount of money.
THE SETTING SUN
Drama
Director: Tomono Ro
Cast: Kato Masaya, Diane Lane, Donald
Sutherland
Country of Origin: Japan
Set in the 1930’s during the opium wars
between China and Japan, an idealistic
Japanese soldier is forced to question
alliances when he meets and falls in love
with the leader of the rebel movement.
ARTIST VIEW
ENTERTAINMENT
Artist View Entertainment, 12500
Riverside Dr. Suite 201, N. Hollywood,
CA 91607 USA. Tel: 818.752.2480. Fax:
818.752.9339
At Cannes: Scott Jones (President), Jay
Joyce (Vice President)
Office: J8, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.88.23
TWO LOVERS AND A WEDDING
Romantic Adventure (90 min)
Cast: Esai Morales, A. Martinez, Valeria
Andrews, Charlotte Ayanna, Rosanna
DeSoto
Year of Production: 2004
A week before her marriage, a woman
injures a man in a car accident. As she
helps nurse him back to health, she
begins to doubt the course her life is
taking.
MOTO X KIDS
Family Adventure (90 min)
Cast: Lorenzo Lamas, Alana Austin, Dan
Haggerty and Gary Busey
Evan Hanson, a champion motocross
coach, sets his sites on a personal
challenge - saving his friends local dirt
track from a ruthless businessman.
THE KISS
Drama (90 min)
Cast: Eliza Dushku,Terence Stamp,
Francoise Surel, Billy Zane, Illeana
Douglas
A book editor stumbles across a gem of a
novel, a passionate love story set in
Paris. But there is one problem – the
final chapter is missing.
THE ELIMINATOR
Action (90 min)
Cast: Michael Rooker, Bas Rutten,
Marco Ruas
A former Navy Seal finds himself thrown
into a deadly game of survival with five
other players while being hunted for
sport.
THE ASYLUM
The Asylum, 6671 Sunset Blvd., Bldg.
1593, Hollywood, CA 90028 USA. Tel:
323.463.6575. Fax: 323.463.6299.
www.theasylum.cc, asylumthe@aol.com
At Cannes: Sherri Strain (International
Sales & Distribution), David Rimawi
(Acquisitions & Distribution)
Office: Palais 23.11, Tel: 04.92.99.81.31
EVIL EYES
Supernatural thriller
Language: English
Director: Mark Atkins
Producer: David Latt, David Rimawi,
Sherri Strain
Key Cast: Adam Baldwin (FULL
METAL JACKET, X Files), Udo Kier
(BLADE, DOGVILLE)
Budget $1 million
Origin: USA
A screenwriter, writing a horror film,
devises unique ways for his victim to die.
Unfortunately, the deaths begin
happening to his friends.
BLOODY BILL (DEATH VALLEY)
Horror
Language: English
Director: Byron Werner
Sherri Strain
Key Cast: Chelsea Jean, Gregory Bastien
Budget $750,000
Origin: USA
College students stranded in an
abandoned frontier town are at the mercy
of the ghost of ruthless gunslinger
Bloody Bill Anderson and his posse of
vicious zombies.
INTERMEDIO
Horror
Director: English
Language: Andy Lauer
Sherri Strain
Key Cast: TBD
Budget $750,000
Origin: USA
Teens trapped in a tunnel on the Mexican
border are attacked by bloodthirsty ghosts.
THE BOB CLUB
Action drama
Language: English
Director: David Michael Latt
Producer: David Rimawi, Sherri Strain,
David Latt
Key Cast: TBD
Budget $1 million
Origin: USA
Four friends, all named Bob, are wanted
by a mob boss for a heist gone wrong.
ATLAS
INTERNATIONAL
FILM GMBH
Atlas International Film GmbH, Rumford
Str.29-31, 80469 Munich / Germany. Tel:
49.89.210.075.0. Fax: 49.89.22.43.32.
mail@atlasfilm.com, www.atlasfilm.com
Company Type: Sales agent
At Cannes: Dieter Menz (President /
CEO), Stefan Menz (President), Christl
Blum (VP Foreign Sales
Office: Riviera M 11/ N 12
CRAZY RACE
Action Comedy (90’)
Language: English
Director: Michael Keusch
Cast: Kai Lenroth, Christian Tramnitz,
Ottfried Fischer, Julia Stinshoff
Origin: Germany
Marc is in trouble. Due to a stupid
coincidence, he owes the most ruthless
gangster in town a quarter of a million
Euro.
THE GARDEN OF LOVE
Horror (90’)
Language: English
Director: Olaf Ittenbach
Cast: Natacza S. Boon, Daryl Jackson,
Bela B. Felsenheimer, James Mathews Pyecka
Origin: Germany
On one idyllic Christmas evening,
all the members of the Verlaine Commune
are brutally massacred
by an unknown killer. The only
survivor is Verlaine`s young daughter,
who is severely wounded and falls
into a coma.
A2 RACER (AUTOBAHN RASER)
Action comedy (90’)
Language: English
Director: Michael Keusch
Producer: Oliver Berben, Robert Kulzer,
Herman Weigel
Cast: Luke J.Wilkins, Niels Bruno
Schmidt, Alexandra Neldel
Origin: Germany
The very last resort of freedom and
individualism - German AUTOBAHN the one and only HIGHWAY without a
speed limit.
IN SEARCH OF AN IMPOTENT
MAN
Romantic Comedy (90’)
Language: English
Director: John Henderson
Producer: Regina Ziegler
Cast: Katrin Weisser, Tim Williams,
Sandra Leonhard, Gabriel Walsh
Origin: Germany
Carmen and her best friend Laura, decide
to put an ad on the Internet asking to
meet a man with a good sense of humor.
but he must be impotent.
AURA
ENTERTAINMENT
Aura Entertainment, LLC. 9350 Wilshire
Blvd., Ste. 400, Beverly Hills, CA 90212
USA. Tel: 310.278.9991. Fax:
310.278.9992. mail@auraent.com,
www.auraent.com
At Cannes: Steve Bickel
(President/Partner), Brian Stearns (Sales
and Marketing Director)
Office: The Majestic Barriere Suite
108/109, Tel: 04.97.06.85.45. Fax:
04.97.06.85.46.
LOVE COMES TO THE
EXECUTIONER
Dark Comedy
Directed by: Kyle Bergersen
Produced by: Steve Bickel, Doug Draizin
Production Company: Aura
Entertainment
Starring: Jonathan Tucker, Jeremy
Renner and Ginnifer Goodwin
Status: Screening
An insightful comedy centered on a
recent college graduate who is offered
the position of executioner at the local
prison where his own brother is slated to
die.
THE BIG EMPTY
Dark Comedy
Directed by: Steve Anderson
Production Company: Aura
Entertainment, Echo Lake Productions
and Rainstorm Entertainment
Produced by: Gregg Daniel, Doug
Mankoff, Andrew Spaulding, Andy
Spaulding
Executive Producers: Steve Bickel, Steve
Kaplan, Keith Resnick, Peter Wetherell,
Jon Favreau
Starring: Jon Favreau, Rachael Leigh
Cook, Sean Bean, Adam Beach, Daryl
Hannah, Kelsey Grammer and Joey
Lauren Adams
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
Status: US distribution through Artisan
Entertainment
THE BIG EMPTY tells the story of John
Person, a budding actor who is faced
with a stalled career as well as a
mountain of debt.
SIEGFRIED & ROY: THE MAGIC
BOX
Live action/documentary
Directed by: Brett Leonard
Production Company: L-Squared
Entertainment, Lexington Road
Productions and Foundry Film Partners
Produced by: Michael Lewis
Narrated by: Anthony Hopkins, Starring:
Siegfried & Roy
Status: Complete
Takes you on an exotic adventure,
following the life story of the world’s
greatest illusionists.
AURORAMEDIA
FEATURES
Auroramedia Features, Suite 137, 56
Gloucester Road, London SW7 4UB UK.
Tel: 44.20.7732.8378. Fax:
44.1322.669186.
auroramediafeatures1@hotmail.com
At Cannes: Huck Melnick (President),
Jeremy Herman (Vice President), Ben
Trebilcook (Producer), Aubrey WanlissOrlebar (Producer), Leon Baroukh
(Producer)
Office: 11, rue du Vingt Quatre Août
06400 Cannes. Tel: 04.93.38.36.73, Fax:
04.92.99.28.41
DAISY SCARLETT
Action
Language: English
Director: Mike Hurst
Producer: Ben Trebilcook, Huck
Melnick
Key Cast: Nick Moran
Delivery Status: In Development
Country of Origin: UK
A spy investigating thefts of organs finds
a trail leading her to a dictator who
needs the transplants.
SAS
Action
Language: English
Producer: Robin Kershaw, Paul
Giordani, Huck Melnick. Paul Lowin,
Exec Prod
SILVERTOWN
Action
Director: English
Producer: Huck Melnick, Lizz Syme
An underachieving thief gets a very hot
laptop and the only person he can trust is
the police officer who most wants to put
him away.
THE QUARRYMEN
Romantic Comedy (86 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Toby White
Producer: Toby White
AURUM
PRODUCCIONES S.A.
Avda. de Burgos, #12, Floor 10 / 28036
Madrid, Spain. Tel: 34.91.768.48.07.
Fax. 34.91.768.48.33. www.aurum.es
Company Type: Sales agent, Producer,
Distributor
At Cannes: Ms. Mocha AGUILAR (Dir.
International Sales), Mr. Alberto
CAÑIZARES (Dir. of Acquisitions)
Office: Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.33.15
OUIJA
Horror Thriller
Language: Spanish
Director: Juan pedro Ortega
Producer: José María González
Cast: Ricard Sales, Montse, Carles
Olivella, Nuria Font
Year of Production: 2004 Country of
Production: Spain
They did not believe in the 5th
dimension, however after playing this
game just once, the door from hell was
opened...
TANGER
Thriller
Language: Spanish
Director: Juan Madrid
Producer: ISIDRO F. REQUENA
Cast: Jorge Perugorría, Ana Fernández,
Fele Martínez
Production: Spain
In an environment of Immigration
mafia, corrupt politicians and
underground prostitution, a man has to
fight for the love of a woman.
TORAPIA
Comedy
Language: Spanish
Director: Karra Elejalde
Producer: Mediapro
Cast: Karra Elejalde, Juan Diego, Gloria
Muñoz, Silvia Bel, Eduardo Antuña
Delivery Status: In postproduction
Production: Spain
Pickpocket Basilio makes his way into
an asylum to recover a stolen diamond
necklace he gave to one of the interns by
mistake.
SLAM
A Teen Comedy (96 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Miguel Martí
Producer: Pedro Uriol
Cast: Iván Hermes, Tomás Fonzi, Andreu
Castro
Production: Spain
They scheme, deceive, use espionage,
greed, just about any tactic in hopes of
getting an interview with the legendary
rock-n- roller SLAM.
AV PICTURES LTD
AV Pictures Ltd, Caparo House, 2nd
Floor, 103 Baker Street, London W1U
6LN UK. Tel: 44.20.7317.0140. Fax:
44.20.7224.5149.
info@avpictures.co.uk
At Cannes: Angad Paul (Chairman), Vic
Bateman (Managing Director), Gavin
Braxton(Head of Sales), Satesh
Mathura (Head of Operations), Jane
Carolan (Sales & Marketing
Coordinator)
Office: Residence du Grand Hotel, 2nd
Floor, Le Cormoran, 45 La Croisette,
Tel: 04.93.39.82.23
CHAIN OF FEAR (WORKING
TITLE)
Crime Thriller (approx. 110 min)
Director: Ray Burdis
Producers: Ray Burdis, Mark Burdis,
John Beckett
Principal Cast: Ray Winstone, Bob
Hoskins
Production Company: New Fugitive
Production Status: Development
Country of Origin: U.K.
Real-life story charting the rise and fall
of the notorious Kray twins, Ronnie &
Reggie, the most vicious and feared
crime Lords ever known in Britain.
DEAD RUN
Action / Adventure
Director: John Mahaffie
Producers: Allan Kassirer, Ronnie
Clemmer, Sharon Cicero, Marla White
Principal Cast: Chris Klein, William
Fichtner
Production Company: Dead Run
Productions
Country of Origin: U.K.
A hot Olympic track star awakens one
day to find that his next race is for his
life.
DEPARTURE LOUNGE, THE
Thriller / Black Comedy
Director: Ben Sedley
Producer: Richard Morris
Principal Cast: t.b.a.
Production Company: Juggernaut
Pictures
Country of Origin: UK / Canada
Seven disparate characters enter The
Departure Lounge to experience the
extreme risk that entails – one gun, one
bullet and the ultimate Russian Roulette
gamble.
EMR
Psychological Thriller (93 min)
Director: James Erskine & Danny
McCullough
Producers: James Erskine, Danny
McCullough, John Lentaigne & George
Calil
Principal Cast: Adam Leese, Tom
Hardy, George Calil
Production Company: Cottonopolis
Films
Production Status: Completed
Country of Origin: UK / US
When fantasies and realities merge, the
world turns darker than the wildest
delusions of the human mind can
conceive.
B
BAUER MARTINEZ
STUDIOS
Bauer Martinez Studios, 801 West Bay
Drive, Suite 800, Largo, FL 33770-USA.
Tel: 727.582.9939. Fax: 727.582.9709.
BMStudios1@aol.com
At Cannes: Philippe Martinez
(Chairman/Chief Executive Officer),
Karinne Martinez (Chief Operating
Officer/ CFO), Shirley Bester (V.P of
International Distribution)
Office: Noga Hilton, Suite 305, Tel:
334.92.99.70.00, extension 305
WAKE OF DEATH
Action
Director: Philippe Martinez
Producer: Philippe Martinez , Stephanie
Martinez and Alan Latham. Coproducers: Stefan Jonas, Luc Campeau,
Francois Cohen Seat, Executive
Producer: Antony Blakey, Juan Montilla
Eslava, Donald Barton, Production
Company: UKFS /Lucky 7 Productions
Cast: Jean Claude VAN DAMME
Status: Delivery July 2004
Budget: $20 Million
After his wife is brutally murdered, an
ex-mobster wages war against the
Chinese triad, and becomes the protector
of a very special little girl: the adopted
daughter of the triad kingpin.
MODIGLIANI
Drama
Director: Mick Davis
Producer: Philippe Martinez, Stephanie
Martinez, André Djaoui, Alan Latham,
Co-producers: Stefan Jonas, Andrei
Boncea, Antonio Guadalupi, Patrick
Godeau, Executive Producer: Antony
Blakey, Stephen Marsden, Paul Feetum,
Production Company: Lucky 7
Productions./ UKFS
Cast: Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein
Status: Delivery June 2004/Screening
Budget: $15million
A passionate account of the last days of
the great artist - and the untold story of
his bitter rivalry with Picasso.
SPEAK - ECHO BRIDGE
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
61
THE DEFENDER
Action
Director: Steven R. Monroe
Producer: Philippe Martinez Douglas W.
Miller Claudine Strasser, Exec
Producers: Alan Latham and Alastair
Burlingham, Co-Producers: Stefan Jonas,
Andrei Boncea, Production Company:
Defender Film Fund Production LTD/
Lucky7 Productions
Cast: Dolph Lundgren and Jerry Springer
Status: Delivery June 2004
The global war on terror rages on, the
United States will not give an inch
against terrorism, Lance a man of highest
integrity with an impressive service
record is called upon to defend his
country once again.
OUT OF SEASON
Suspense Thriller
Director: Jevon O’Neill
Producers: Kim Legatt, Executive
Producer: Philippe Martinez, Douglas W.
Miller, Alan Latham, Antony Blakey,
Martin Barab, Production Company:
Lucky 7 Productions/ UKFS/Electric
Dog and Bear
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Gina Gershon
Status: Completed/screening
In a run-down seaside town a would-be
thief, a religion-fixated handyman, a
scheming temptress and a former catburglar all become embroiled in one
woman’s scheme to murder her husband.
BAVARIA FILM
INTERNATIONAL
World Sales Bavaria Film International,
Dept. of Bavaria Media GmbH,
Bavariafilmplatz 8, 82031 Geiselgasteig,
Germany. Tel: 49.89.6499.2686. Fax:
49.89.6499.3720. www.bavaria-filminternational.de
At Cannes: Michael Weber (Managing
Director), Thorsten Schaumann (Head of
Sales), Stefanie Zeitler (Sales Manager),
Brigitte Suárez (Sales Manager),
Thorsten Ritter (Head of Marketing),
Martina Knabe
Office: Riviera Stand N9, E-mail:
Cannes04@bfint.de; Michael Weber, Sun
Riviera Hotel, 138, Rue d´Antibes, F06400 Cannes, Tel: 33(0)493067777.
Fax: 33(0)493383110); Thorsten
Schaumann, (49.172.8552403) Hotel
Cannes Gallia, 36 Bd. Montfleury, 06400
Cannes, Tel: 33.4.97.06.28.28. Fax:
33.4.97.06.28.29; Stefanie Zeitler,
(49.172.8587043) Hotel Cannes Gallia;
Brigitte Suárez, (49.172.3164256) Hotel
Cannes Gallia; Thorsten Ritter (49.172
8587014) Hotel Cannes Gallia; Martina
Knabe, Hotel Cannes Gallia
PETER SELLERS - HBO
GATE TO HEAVEN (TOR ZUM
HIMMEL)
Drama (90’)
Language: English
Director: Veit Helmer
Production Company: Veit Helmer
Filmproduktion
Producer: Veit Helmer
Cast: Masumi Makhija, Valera Nikolaev,
Miki Manojlovic, Udo Kier, Sotigui
Kouyaté
Production Year: 2003, Country:
Germany
Invisible to the outside world, a group
of immigrants thrives in the shadowy
realm beneath a large international
airport.
HEAD-ON (GEGEN DIE WAND)
Drama (123’)
Language: German, Subtitled in:
English
Director: Fatih Akin
Germany
Production Company: Wüste
Filmproduktion
Producer: Stefan Schubert, Ralph
Schwingel
Cast: Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli, Catrin
Striebeck, Meltem Cumbul, Güven
Kirac, Mehmet Kurtulus, Adam
Bousdoukos
A man ravaged by alcohol and selfhatred agrees to marry a young Muslim
woman seeking to escape from her
conservative family.
LOST EMBRACE (EL ABRAZO
PARTIDO)
Drama (100’)
Language: German, Subtitled in English
Director: Daniel Burman
Production Company: BD Cine Srl
Producer: Diego Dubcovsky, Daniel
Burman
Cast: Daniel Hendler, Adriana
Aizenberg, Jorge D’Elia, Sergio Boris,
Rosita Londner, Diego Korol
Argentina
On his journey toward the father he
never knew, a young man constructs his
own identity with fragments of his past,
with unanswered questions, with bits of
truth and lies.
NIGHTSONGS (DIE NACHT SINGT
IHRE LIEDER)
Drama (93’)
Language: German, Subtitled in English
Director: Romuald Karmakar
Production Company: Pantera Film
GmbH
Producer: Romuald Karmakar
Cast: Frank Giering, Anne Ratte-Polle,
Manfred Zapatka, Marthe Keller,
Sebastian Schipper
Germany
A young couple in Berlin’s “Mitte”
district. He, a writer, is lying on the
sofa, reading. She can’t stand it
anymore.
BETA CINEMA / EOS
DISTRIBUTION
Beta Cinema, Muenchener Str. 101z,
85737 Ismaning/Munich, Germany. Tel:
49.89.9956.2719. Fax: 49.89.9956.2703.
beta@betacinema.com,
www.betacinema.com
Company Type: World Sales Agent
At Cannes: Andreas Rothbauer
(Theatrical Sales/Int’lAcquisitions),
Isabelle Palluaud (Festival Coordinator)
Office: L12 Riviera, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.33.20. Fax: 33
(0)4.92.99.88.46
EOS Distribution, Gruenwalder Weg 28d,
82041 Oberhaching/Munich, Germany.
Tel: 49.89.67.34.69.0. Fax:
49.89.67.34.67.20. mail@eosentertainment.com
Company Type: World Sales Agent
At Cannes: Dirk Schürhoff (Managing
Director)
Office: L12 Riviera, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.33.20. Fax: 33
(0)4.92.99.88.46
LOVE IN THOUGHTS (WAS
NUETZT DIE LIEBE IN
GEDANKEN)
www.liebe-in-gedanken.de
Drama (88 min)
Language: German, subtitled in English
Director: Achim von Borrries
Producer: Stefan Arndt, Christophe
Mazodier, Manuela Stehr
Produced by: X Film Creative Pool
GmbH
Co-production partner: arte, ZDF
Cast: Daniel Bruehl, August Diehl, Anna
Maria Muehe, Jana Pallaske, Thure
Lindhardt
Delivery Status: completed / screening
Year of Production: 2003/4, Country of
origin: Germany
A suicide club in Berlin in the 1920s.
Four high school students who are out to
get the most happiness, the greatest love,
reach the pinnacle of life.
SOUNDLESS (LAUTLOS)
www.x-filme.de/html/lautlos.html
Thriller (96 min)
Director: Mennan Yapo
Producer: Stefan Arndt, Tom Tykwer
GmbH
Cast: Joachim Król, Nadja Uhl, Christian
Berkel, Rudolf Martin
origin: Germany
The hit-man Viktor makes the biggest
mistake possible in his line of work: he
falls in love.
LEARNING TO LIE (LIEGEN
LERNEN)
www.liegenlernen.de
Romantic comedy (94 min)
Director: Hendrik Handloegten
Producer: Maria Koepf
GmbH
Cast: Fabian Busch, Susanne Bormann,
Fritzi Haberlandt, Sophie Rois, Birgit
Minichmayr, Florian Lukas
origin: Germany
A disarmingly honest, humorous story
about a young man who cannot forget his
first great love.
KLEINRUPPIN FOREVER
www.akkordfilm.de/kleinruppin_forever.
htm
Comedy (100 min)
Director: Carsten Fiebeler
Producer: Dirk Beinhold
Produced by: Akkord Film Produktion
GmbH
Co-production partner: SevenPictures
Film
Cast: Tobias Schenke, Anna
Brueggemann, Michael Gwisdek, Uwe
Kokisch
Year of Production: 2003/2004, Country
of origin: Germany
Tim is well on his way to becoming a
professional tennis player. On a school
trip, he has a confrontation with his twin
brother Ronnie, whose existence has
been kept secret from him.
BEYOND FILMS
Beyond Films, 22 Newman Street,
London W1T 1PH UK. Tel:
44(0)20.7636.9613. Fax:
44(0)20.7636.9614. www.beyond.com.au
At Cannes: Mikael Borglund (Chief
Executive), Hilary Davis (Head Of Sales
& Acquisitions, Mobile:
+44(0)7711.782.278), Stephen Kelliher
(Senior Sales & Acquisitions Executive,
Mobile: 44(0)7957.605.915), Nick
Kilcoyne (Assistant Sales &
Acquisitions, Mobile: 44(0)7970824914)
Office: Riviera, stand number G5, Tel:
33(0)4.92993246
THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU’RE
30
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Simon Shore
Production Company: Samuelson
Productions
Backers: Momentum Pictures (UK), First
Choice Films (UK), Isle of Man Film
(UK)
Producers: Marc Samuelson, Peter
Samuelson
Cast: Dougray Scott, Jimi Mistry, Emilia
Fox, Shaun Parkes, Billie Piper,
Bruce Mackinnon, Roger Morlidge,
Danny Nussbaum
Status: Screening
A smart, sexy and poignantly accurate
comedy drama about a group of twentysomething friends desperately resisting
the inevitable – adulthood and
responsibility.
A GOOD WOMAN
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Mike Barker
Production companies: Meltemi
Entertainment [UK], International Arts
Entertainment [US], Lighthouse
Entertainment [US], Buskin Film SRL
[IT], Kanzaman S.A. [SP].
Backers: Thema Productions [LUX],
Magic Hour Film Finance [UK], Matrix
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
Film
Finance [UK]
Exec producers: John Evangelides,
Mikael Borglund, Hilary Davis, Jimmy
DeBrabant, Michael Dounaev, Liam
Badger, Duncan Hopper, Rupert Preston
Producers: Alan Greenspan, Jonathan
English, Steven Siebert, Howard
Himelstein
Cast: Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson,
Tom Wilkinson, Mark Umbers, Stephen
Campbell-Moore
Status: In Post Production, promo reel
available
Based on the Oscar Wilde play entitled
LADY WINDERMERE?S FAN, A
GOOD WOMAN is a scandalous yet
comic story set in New York and the
Amalfi Coast during the 1930s.
COLD & DARK
Horror
Language: English
Director: Andrew Goth
Production Company: Cold Films Ltd
Backers: Paradigm Hyde Films, Future
Film Group and the South West Film
Studios.
Writer/Producer: Joanne Reay
Executive Producer: Michael Gebauer
Cast: Luke Goss, Kevin Howarth, Carly
Turnbull, Matt Lucas
available
The loyalties of a young vice detective
are challenged when he discovers that
his much-respected partner is taking out
the city’s criminals by supernatural
means.
THE OYSTER FARMER
Contemporary romantic western
Language: English
Director/Writer: Anna Reeves
Production Company: Anthony Buckley
Films Pty Ltd & Oyster Farmer Films
(UK)
Ltd
Backers: Film Finance Corporation,
Showtime, Ocean/Dendy, Beyond Films,
Little Wing Films, Future Film Group,
New South Wales Film & Television
Office
Producers: Anthony Buckley & Piers
Tempest
Cast: Alex O’Lachlan, Jim Norton,
Diana Glenn, Jack Thompson, David
Field, Kerry Armstrong
available
This is a love story about an inept thief
who ends up a local hero.
BLUE STAR MOVIES
Blue Star Movies, 58, Baldry Gardens,
London SW16 3DJ UK. Tel:
44(0)208.7650.333. Fax:
44(0)208.7650.555.
www.bluestarmovies.com,
info@bluestarmovies.com
At Cannes: Pete Maggi (President and
CEO, buyer), Pietro Dioni (UK
Managing Director), Massimo Saidel
(Head of International Sales), Fabio
Furiani (International Sales Assistant),
Dario Furiani (Italian General Manager)
Office: 24.04, palais 01
HERMANO
Drama (94’)
Language: English
Director: Giovanni Robbiano
Co-Production Partners:
Producer: Gherardo Pagliei, Pete Maggi
Key Cast: Rade Serbedija, Paolo
Villagio, Emir Kusturica
Budget: 4 million euro
Antonio works for the Mafia, learns the
meaning of friendship, the hard way.
MOTHER TERESA
Drama (110’)
Language: English
Director: Fabrizio Costa
Producer: Luca Bernabei, Matilde
Bernabei, Pete Maggi
Key Cast: Olivia Hussey, Sebastiano
Somma, Neil Stuke
Budget: 15 million $
Origin: Italy
The story of the Life of Mother Teresa.
VAJONT
www.bluestarmovies.com
Drama (116’)
Director: English
Language: Renzo Martinelli
Producer: Renzo Martinelli
Key Cast: Laura Morante, Michel
Serrault, Leo Gullotta
The true story of a dam that breaks
killing over 2,000 people in Italy.
PONTORMO
Drama (93’)
Language: English
Director: Giovanni Fago
Producer: Angelo Bassi
Key Cast: Joe Mantegna, Galatea Ranzi
The dramatic final months of the life of
the Italian painter Pontormo.
BUSKIN FILM
Buskin Film, via P. Leonardi Cattolica,
3, Rome, 00195 Italy. Tel:
39.06.3903.0435. Fax: 39.06.3903.8231.
info@buskinfilm.com,
www.buskinfilm.com
At Cannes: Roberto Bessi (President),
Antonio Guadalupi (Ceo), Vanessa
Capurso (International Sales)
Office: Riviera - stand n. D1-E8 (c/o
Anica - Focus Italy), Tel:
33.06.242.33.759
MEMORY LANE (LE
INTERMITTENZE DEL CUORE)
Drama (107 min)
Language: Italian Subtitles English
Director: Fabio Carpi
Production company: BUSKIN FILM
Producers Roberto Bessi and Antonio
Guadalupi
Key cast: Hector Alterio, Assumpta
Serna, Clement Sibony
Status: Completed
Winner of Innovation awards at Montreal
world film festival. A film about Proust.
A great description of involuntary
memory in a series of free associations
of mind.
HIJOS (FIGLI)
Drama (95 min)
Language: Italian Subtitles English
Production company (companies) Storie
Director: Marco Bechis
Producer: Amedeo Pagani
Key cast: Carlos Echevarria , Julia
Sarano, Stefania Sandrelli
Status: Completed/Screening on video
cassette AT THE CANNES VIDEO
LIBRARY
The touching story of Javier and Rosa,
children of Desaparecidos.
C
CAPITOL FILMS
Capitol Films, 23 Queensdale Place,
London W11 4SQ UK. Tel:
44.20.7471.6000. Fax: 44.20.7471.6012.
films@capitolfilms.com,
www.capitolfilms.com.
At Cannes: Jane Barclay (Managing
Director), Sharon Harel (Managing
Director), Nicole Mackey (Head of
International Sales), Eve Schoukroun
(International Sales), Hannah Leader
(Head of Legal & Business Affairs),
Maya Amsellem (Legal & Business
Affairs)
Office: 4, La Croisette, 2nd Floor, 06400
Cannes. Tel: 33(0)4.93.68.1813. Fax:
33(0)4.93.68.1815
THE BIG WHITE
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Mark Mylod
Producers: Christopher Eberts, Chris
Roberts, Michael Birnbaum
Leading Cast: Robin Williams, Holly
Hunter, Alison Lohman, Giovanni Ribisi,
James Woods, Tim Blake Nelson
Status: In Production
Production Country: US
A struggling travel agent eking out a
living in Alaska thinks all his financial
troubles can be solved when he finds a
frozen body in a dumpster.
ASK THE DUST
Drama/Romance
Language: English
Director: Robert Towne
Producers: Paula Wagner & Tom Cruise,
Jonas McCord
Leading Cast: Colin Farrell, Salma
Hayek, Val Kilmer, Donald Sutherland
Passion and ambition drive two dreamers
in 1930s LA. Their love affair is
ferocious and hot-blooded as they fight
the city and themselves to make their
dreams come true.
PAINT (WORKING TITLE)
Murder Mystery
Language: English
Director: Robert Altman
Producer: Josh Astrachan
Leading Cast: Salma Hayek, James
Franco
Status: Pre Production
Robert Altman crafts a tense New York
murder mystery around rivalry and
intrigue in a world in which success,
jealousy, love and death have become
dangerously intertwined.
ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Joel Zwick
Producers: Tova Laiter, Sharon Harel
Leading Cast: Kim Basinger, John
Corbett, Denise Richards, Sean Astin,
Angie Dickinson, Billy Ray Cyrus
Status: Post Production (Promo Reel
Screening)
An outrageous and heart-warming
romantic-comedy fraught with hilarious
mishaps following the extraordinary
journey of cosmetics saleswoman
Harmony Jones, who finally meets the
man of her dreams on the rocky road to
Las Vegas.
CELESTIAL
PICTURES LTD
Celestial Pictures Ltd, Shaw
Administration Building, Lot 220, Clear
Water Bay Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Tel: 852. 2927.1111. Fax: 852.2243.0099.
DistributionEnquiry@celestialpictures.co
m, www.celestialpictures.com
Company Type: Sales agent, producer,
distributor
At Cannes: William Pfeiffer (CEO),
Gordon Cheung (Executive VP,
Distribution), Veronique Tan (VP,
Distribution), Alan Ng (VP, Distribution)
Office: Carlton Inter-Continental Hotel Room 118
NEW ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN
Martial arts (100 mins)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Chang Cheh
Producer: Run Run Shaw
Cast: David Chiang, Ti Lung, Li Ching
Origin: Hong Kong
David Chiang is director Chiang Cheh’s
all new one-armed hero, in a film that
deservedly won a prestigious Golden
Horse Award.
GINGER - LIONS GATE ENTERTAINMENT
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THE FLYING GUILLOTINE
Martial arts (101 min)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Ho Meng-hua
Producer: Runme Shaw
Cast: Chen Kuan-tai, Ku Feng, Liu Wuchi
Origin: Hong Kong
Chen Kuan-tai battles assassins that use
a deadly, beheading weapon to kill
dissidents.
EXECUTIONERS FROM SHAOLIN
Language: Mandarin
Director: Lau Kar Leung (aka Liu chialiang)
Producer: Runme Shaw
Cast: Gordon Liu, Chen Kuan-tai, Lo
Lieh
Origin: Hong Kong
Critics called this the pre-eminent kungfu director - Lau Kar Leung’s greatest
film on the themes of history, martial
arts and family.
THE EIGHT DIAGRAM POLE
FIGHTER
Language: Mandarin
Director: Mona Fong
Producer: Lau Kar Leung
Cast: Gordon Liu, Alexander Fu Sheng,
Yui Ying-hung
Origin: Hong Kong
Gordon Liu stars as the honorable Yang
Brother 5, who becomes a monk and
learns the almighty Shaolin Pole
Technique, to avenge the bloody
slaughter of his family.
TROPICAL MALADY
(120 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Producer: Charles de Meaux, Production
Companiy: Anna Sanders Films, Coproduction companies: Kick the Machine
/ ThokeMoebius Filmcompany /
Downtown Pictures
Year of Production: 2004, Production
Country: Thailand/France
MONDOVINO
Documentary (160 min)
Language:
English/French/Italian/Portugese/Spanish
Director: Jonathan Nossiter
Producer: Jonathan Nossiter &
Emmanuel Giraud, Production
Companies: Goatworks, Films & Les
Films de la Croisade
Country: France/USA
PRODUCING ADULTS (TITLE:
LAPSIA JA AIKUISIA)
(100 min)
Language: Finnish
Director: Aleksi Salmenperä
Producer: Jokiranta Petri, Production
Companies: Blind Spot
Cast: Haapkylä Minna, Mustakallio
Minttu, Toivonen Kar-pekka
Country: Finland/Sweden
Venla works at as a psychologist at a
fertility clinic. She dreams of having a
child with her long-term boyfriend
Antero. What she doesn’t know is that
he’s strictly against the idea.
CELLULOID
DREAMS
China Star Entertainment Group, Unit
503C, Miramar Tower, 132 Nathan Road,
TST, Kowloon, HK. Tel: 852.23131873.
Fax: 852.21919900.
movie@chinastar.com.hk
At Cannes: Charles Heung (Chairman),
Tiffany Chen (Vice Chairman), Ann
Hung (General Manager), Ada Lam
(Manager), Mell Ngai (Distribution
Executive)
Office: Hong Kong Pavillion
RUNNING ON KARMA
Action Comedy
Director: Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai
Producer: Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai
Casting: Andy Lau, Cecilia Cheung
Karma dictates all facets of life.
LOST IN TIME
Romantic
Director: Derek Yee
Producer: Derek Yee & Henry Fong
Casting: Lau Ching Wan, Cecilia
Cheung, Louis Koo
Can death be an ending of memory?
THROW DOWN
Action Comedy
Director: Johnnie To
Producer: Johnnie To
Castings: Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok,
Jordan Chan
Celluloid Dreams, 2 Rue Turgot, 75009
Paris, France. Tel: 33.1.4970.8320.
Fax: 33.1.4970.0371. Mob:
331.675.259.791. info@celluloiddreams.com, www.celluloid-dreams.com
At Cannes: Hengameh Panahi
(33.6.11.96.57.20), Charlotte Mickie,
Tanja Meissner (33.6.22.92.48.31),
Sebastien Chesneau (33.6.21.71.39.11),
Karina Korenblum (33.6.60.02.34.46),
Roman Paul (49.171.265.6362)
Office: Grand Hotel Dolphin entrance
7D 45 La Croisette 06400 Cannes, Tel:
04.93.39.50.20
EDUKATORS (DIE FETTEN
JAHRE SIND VORBEI)
(126 min)
Language: German
Director: Hans Weingartner
Producer: Hans Weingartner, Production
Companies: y3 film Hans Weingartner
Filmproduktion, Co-production
company: coop 99 filmproduktion
Country: Germany, Austria
CHINA STAR
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP
Production status: In-production
Pub manager/band-leader Sze-To was
once the greatest Judo fighter around
until he unexpectedly gave up the sport
for no apparent reason.
CINAMOUR
ENTERTAINMENT
Cinamour Entertainment, MGM Plaza
Building B, 2425 Colorado Ave., Suite
320; Santa Monica, CA 90404 USA. Tel:
310.828.4772. Fax: 310.828.3343.
www.cinamour.com
At Cannes: Glen Hartford (Chairman,
CEO), Cord Douglas (Pres.,
Distribution)
Office: Carlton Hotel, Suite 144, Tel:
33.4.93.06.40.06, Fax: 33.4.93.06.40.25
FORBIDDEN WARRIOR
Martial arts fantasy-adventure (90 min)
Starring: Marie Matiko (“The Art of
War”), Karl Yune (“Anaconda II:
Anacondas”), Tony Amendola (“Blow”),
Andrew Divoff (“Air Force One”),
James Hong (“Chinatown”)
Budget: $5 million
Follows the story of beautiful young
Seki, who discovers that she is the only
living person with the power to control
the Gaia Za, an all-powerful book of
spells.
HARROLD ROBBINS MOW’S
Feature Film (90 min)
Year of Production: 2004)
Cinamour Entertainment has entered a
co-production agreement with Harold
Robbins Media to develop and produce
MOW’s based on two of Harold
Robbins’ most recent releases NEVER
ENOUGH and AN INDECENT
AFFAIR.
SINNERS NEED COMPANY
Lifetime World Premiere Movie, drama
(91 min)
Starring: Gail O’Grady (“NYPD Blue”,
“American Dreams”) and Jennifer
Morrison (“Urban Legend II”, “Stir of
Echoes”)
Tells the story of Molly Bowser, a
widow with a salacious past, who
frantically tries to save her daughter
from following in her troubled footsteps.
U.S. BOUNTY HUNTERS
Reality (30 x 30 min)
In this exciting reality series,
government-licensed Fugitive Recovery
Agents (legal bounty hunters) track and
trap runaway fugitives.
CINE EXCEL
ENTERTAINMENT
Cine Excel Entertainment, 1102 N.
Screenland Drive, Burbank, CA 91505
USA. Tel: 818.848.4478. Fax:
818.848.1590. www.cineexcel.com,
cineexcel@msn.com
At Cannes: David Huey
(CEO/President), Ed Tillman (VP in
charge of Production), Dom Magwili
(VP in charge of Distribution and
Marketing)
Office: Riviera, Stand F15
ANUBIS
Horror (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: D.W. Kann
Co-Production Partners: D.W. Kann
Producer: David Huey
Key Cast: Christopher Kann, Victoria
Campbell, Noel Francomano
Origin: USA
Five friends must fight for their lives
after resurrecting Anubis, the Egyptian
God of the Dead.
INTERNETRIX
Sci Fi/Action (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jamil Nelson
Key Cast: Jason DeVan, Leila Nelson,
Paul Darrigo
Origin: U.S.A.
A serial killer in cyberspace prowls the
corridors of virtual reality and a
computer programmer must fight to
save cyber-space and stop the murders.
666: THE DEMON CHILD
Horror (90 minutes)
Director: English
Language: Cary Howe
Key Cast: Jennifer Jackson, Jose
Rosete, Jenny Ella Epstein
Origin: U.S.A.
In a remote desert, six archeologists
discover a demonic child.
MAGMA: EARTH’S MOLTEN
CORE
Action/Adventure (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Carribou Seto
Key Cast: J. Scott Johnson, TinaDesiree Berg and Mel Novak
Origin: U.S.A.
Nuclear weapons are used to seal the
deadliest volcano.
CINECLICK ASIA
Cineclick Asia (Interclick co., ltd), 3F.
Incline B/D, 891-37 Daechi-dong,
Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-280, Korea.
Tel: 822.538.0211. Fax: 822.538.0479.
www.cineclickasia.com,
cineinfo@cineclickasia.com
At Cannes: Youngjoo SUH (Managing
Director), Sang-eun CHI (Manager),
Yunjeong KIM (Assistant Manager),
Rachel KIM (Assistant Manager)
Office: Riviera K11
OLD BOY
Thriller (119 min)
Director: Chan-wook PARK
Producer: Dong-joo KIM
Principal Cast: Min-sik CHOI, Ji-tae
YOO, Hye-jung GANG
Production Status: completed
Country of Origin/co-production: Korea
Budget: USD 3 mil.
Dae-soo gets imprisoned for 15 years
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without knowing why. The person
who’s behind the imprisonment gives
Dae-soo only 5 days to find out the
reason.
SAMARITAN GIRL
Drama (95 min)
Director: Ki-duk KIM
Producer: Ki-duk KIM
Principal Cast: Uhl LEE, Ji-min KWAK,
Min-jung SEO
Budget: USD 1 mil.
Story about two girls who do the child
prostitution.
SWEET SIXTIES
Drama (99 min)
Director: Su-in LEE
Producer: Ki-min OH
Principal Cast: Jae-ho SONG, Hyun
JOO, Yong-rye SUNWOO
The most pleasant love triangle by the
most adorable romance grays.
THE WOLF RETURNS
Comedy (100 min)
Director: Ja-hong KOO
Producer: Tae sung JUNG, Dong-yeon
WON
Principal Cast: Dong-geun YANG, Jungmin HWANG
Budget: USD 2 mil.
A cop weary of a city and the other cop
eager for a city. Their first co-working
project is to save a police station in a
peaceful countryside.
CINEINTERNATIONAL
Cine-International, Leopoldstr. 18,
Munich, Bavaria, 80802, Germany. Tel:
49.89.39.10.25. Fax: 49.89.33.10.89.
email@cine-international.de, www.cineinternational.de
Company Type: distributor
At Cannes: Mrs. Lilli Tyc-Holm
(President), Mrs. Susanne Groh (Head of
Sales and Acquisitions)
Office: L13, Riviera, Tel:
33.4.92.99.32.01
KILLER BARBYS VS. DRACULA
Horror (85 min)
Language: English
Director: Jess Franco
Producer: Carsten Frank
Co-production partners: Impacto Films
Production
Cast: Silvia Superstar, Dan van Husen,
Lina Romay
Origin: Germany / Spain
A comedy driven horror about Silvia
Superstar who tries to get in contact with
Dracula.
THE PUPPET GRAVE DIGGER
Thriller (89 min)
Language: German, English subtitles
Director: Claudia Prietzel, Peter Henning
Producer: Katrin Kuhn
Co-production partners: Westdeutscher
Rundfunk Köln
Cast: Suzanne von Borsody, Sven Hönig,
Bernd Tauber
Origin: Germany
A mother tries to prove the innocence of
her 18-year old son.
WOMAN DRIVING, MAN
SLEEPING
Drama (122 min)
Director: Rudolf Thome
Producer: Rudolf Thome
Cast: Hannelore Elsner, Karl
Kranzkowski, Joya Thome
Origin: Germany
Her son’s sudden death leads a woman to
decide on her further life and to realize her
longing for love and for a stable partnership.
GONE
Drama (84 min)
Director: Zoltan Paul
Producer: Zoltan Paul
Cast: Adele Neuhauser, Christof
Gareisen, Robert Giggenbach
Origin: Germany
At the beginning, a man and a woman are
standing at the window and are watching a
stranger who is digging his own grave.
Law Offices
of
Greg S. Bernstein
A
Professional
Corporation
CINEMA ARTS
ENTERTAINMENT
Cinema Arts Entertainment, 6310 San
Vicente Blvd., Ste. 540, Los Angeles, Ca
90048 USA. Tel: 323.937.1085. Fax:
323.937.1186. cinemaarts@aol.com
At Cannes: Pierre-Richard Muller
(Chairman), Chantal Lam (Executive
Vice President)
Acquisition executives: Pierre-Richard
Muller, Chantal Lam
Office: Residence du Grand Hotel, Bldg.
Le Cormoran II, 45 La Croisette, 06400
Cannes. Tel/Fax: 04.93.99.56.67.
BURNING THE MAP
Surfing documentary (1 hr. 7 min)
Director: Dustin Humphrey
Producer: Brett C. Sporich
Starring: professional surfers Timmy
Turner and Travis Potter
Shot on location throughout the islands
of Indonesia. The film follows 19-yearold Timmy Turner from his high school
graduation in Southern California to the
far side of the world where he, simply,
goes native.
9601 Wilshire Boulevard,
Suite 240
Beverly Hills,
California 90210
Phone: (310) 247-2790
Fax: (310) 247-2791
www.thefilmlaw.com
email: greg@thefilmlaw.com
THE BUSINESS
OF FILM
London Head Office
41-42 Berners St.
London WIT 3NB
Los Angeles Office
5150 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles
California 90036
Available online at www.thebusinessoffilm.com
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LOVERBOY - NU IMAGE/MILLENIUM FILMS
THE 7TH DAY
Drama
Director: Carlos Saura
Co-produced with Lola Films (Andrès V.
Gomez)
Cast: Victoria Abril, Jose Garcia, Juan
Diego, Jose Luis Gomez, Yohana Cobo
Country of Origin: Spain
A love story that tore two families apart
leading them to hatred and horror for
over 30 years. Nine people were
murdered - a tragedy that Spain will
never forget.
ZAMAN THE MAN FROM THE
REEDS
Drama
Director: Amer Alwan
Cast: Shatha Salem, Sami Kaftan
Country of Origin: France, Iraq
Zaman and his wife have lived their
whole lives in a swamp region between
the Tiger and Euphrate river. One day,
Zaman learns his wife has taken ill
through results of the war.
LOOKING THROUGH LILLIAN
Drama
Director: Jake Torem
Cast: Jade Henham, Sam Bottoms,
Robert Glen Keith
An alluring but mixed-up L.A. girl flipflops between facing life’s uncertainty
under her own direction or “the good
life” provided by a wealthy, disturbing
middle-aged benefactor.
CINEMA SERVICE
Cinema Service, 5th Fl. Heung-kuk Bldg.
43-1, Joojadong, Joonggu, Seoul, 100240 Korea. Tel: 822.2192.8737. Fax:
822.2192.8790.
www.cinemaservice.com/eng,
davidpark@cinemaservice.com
At Cannes: Michael KIM (President /
CEO), Josh LEE (Deputy General
Manager / Sales), Sandy KANG (Senior
Manager / Marketing), Jenny CHUNG
(Manager / Sales), Kristin KIM
(Marketing / Festivals)
Office: J5
ARAHAN
Urban martial arts, action
Language: Korean
Director: RYOO Seung-wan
Key Cast: RYOO Seung-bum, YUN Soy
Origin: Korea
HA-RYU-IN-SAENG (WORKING
TITLE)
Action Drama
Language: Korean
Director: IM Kwon-taek
Key Cast: CHO Seung-woo, KIM Minsun
Origin: Korea
SPIN KICK (WORKING TITLE)
Action drama
Director: Korean
Language: NAM Kuk
Key Cast: KIM Dong-wan, HYUN bin
Origin: Korea
DANCE WITH THE WIND
Romantic drama
Language: Korean
Director: PARK Jung-woo
Origin: Korea
CINEMAVAULT
Cinemavault Releasing Inc., 175 Bloor
St East, Suite 1011 - South Tower,
Toronto ON, Canada, M4W 3R8. Tel:
416.363.6060. Fax: 416.363.2305.
sales@cinemavault.com,
www.cinemavault.com
At Cannes: Nick Stiliadis (CEO), Steve
Arroyave (VP General Manager),
Natalie Kampelmacher (International
Sales Director), Paco Alvarez (VP
Distribution)
Office: Riviera - Stand M7- N8, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.88.26.
THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
Drama (180 min)
Language: English
Director: Philip Saville
Producer: Garth H. Drabinsky, Chris
Chrisafis
Cast: Henry Ian Cusick, Scott Handy,
Tristan Gemmill
Origin: UK / Canada
A word-for-word film adaptation of the
Fourth Gospel, likely the best known
and most widely read of the Gospels.
TOM WHITE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Alkinos Tsilimidos
Producer: Daniel Scharf, Alkinos
Tsilimidos
Cast: Colin Friels, Rachael Blake
Origin: Australia / Italy
Tom just disappears from his wife and
family only to re-surface three years
later a different man.
THREE
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Stewart Raffill
Producer: Heinz Thym, Diane Kirman
Cast: Billy Zane, Kelly Brook, Juan
Pablo di Pace
Delivery Status: Production
Origin: UK / Luxembourg
Two men and one gorgeous woman are
shipwrecked on a tropical island, only
one will survive.
GRUESOME
Horror
Language: English
Director: Simon Hunter
Producer: Lewis B. Chesler, David M.
Perlmutter
Cast: TBA
Origin: Canada / UK
An ancient wizard must be stopped from
unleashing a horrendous creature to take
over the world.
CAFE TALES (SIPUREY BEIT
CAFE)
Comedy (90 min)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Amit Leor
Co-Production Partners: JCS Productions
/ Hot Vision
Key Cast: Moshe Ivgi, Elisheva
Michaeli, Arye Moskuna
Origin: Israel
A day in the life of Yutz, a frustrated poet
in his fifties and his aging bohemian
friends, have made the rickety `Café
Braun` their home and its elderly
proprietor Leah Braun their `mother`.
THE GLOW (Zimzum)
Drama (86 min)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Igal Bursztyn
Co-Production Partners: Cinema Post
Production / Hot Vision
Producer: Eyal Shiray
Key Cast: Assi Dayan,Tinkerbel
Origin: Israel
A tough veteran IDF General and his
young girl-friend are determined to enjoy
a weekend in the country. He is addicted
to TV and radio news, she is interested in
the medieval philosopher Maimonides.
CINEPHIL
CINEXPORT
Cinephil, 18 Levontin Street. Tel Aviv,
65112 Israel. Tel: 972.3.5664129. Fax:
972.3.5601436. www.cinephil.co.il,
info@cinephil.co.il
At Cannes: Ms. Philippa Kowarsky
(Managing Director)
Office:
TANYA 403
Drama (90 min)
Language: Hebrew / Russian
Director: Oded Ruskin
Co-Production Partners: Hot Vision
Key Cast: Yosi Polak
Origin: Israel
Hezy, a middle-aged man, never even
had a relationship with a woman. Tanya
is a young woman looking for a way out
for herself, and for her little boy whom
she leaves back in Russia.
PAPER SNOW (HAYA O LO HAYA)
Drama (104 min)
Language: Hebrew / Russian
Director: Lina & Slava Chaplin
Co-Production Partners: JCS
Productions / Hot Vision
Producer: Mosh Danon
Key Cast: Ievgenya Dodina, Zak
Berkman
Origin: Israel
This is the legendary tale of the fateful
love between a young rebel poet and a
middle aged theatre star – a story that
rocked the artistic community of Tel
Aviv in the 1930’s.
Cinexport, 78 avenue des ChampsElysées, 75008 Paris, France. Tel:
01.45.62.49.45. Fax: 01.45.63.85.26.
cinexport@wanadoo.fr, tvfrance-intl.com
At Cannes: Anne-Marie ROMBOURGCARACO (President)
Office: Media Pavillion, Tel:
06.07.54.33.33, Fax: 04.93.99.78.15
CELLE QUI N’EXISTAIT PAS (THE
GIRL WHO NEVER WAS)
Drama (105 min)
Language: French
Director: Alain CARVILLE
Producer: MEDIA FILMS
Cast: Paul BELMONDO, Xavier
DELUC, Laura WIESSBECKER
Year of Production:2004, Country of
Origin: France
A Russian girl is driven to prostitution
and drugs by the Mafia. She meets a
Senegalese and a Romanian man who
help her to get out of this hell.
GEORGE SAND UNE FEMME LIBRE
( GEORGE SAND A FREE WOMAN)
Biography (55 min)
Language: French
Director: Gérard POITOU WEBER
Producer: DORIANE FILMS
Cast: Serge AVEDIKIAN, Jean-Pierre
SENTIER, Christine CITTI
Origin: FRANCE
The story of George Sand life. She falls in
love with a young man and leaves her
husband.
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SAND. GEORGE EN MAL
D’AURORE ( SAND. GEORGE
CRAVING FOR AURORE)
Biography (55 min)
Language: French
Director: Laurent MAROCCO,
Françoise-Renée JAMET
Producer: CINE DIGITAL PRO
Cast: Voice of LAMBERT WILSON
Origin: FRANCE
The life of George SAND when her
name was Aurore.
NEVER DIE ALONE
Action thriller (98 mins)
Language: English
Director: Ernest Dickerson
Producer: Earl Simmons, Alessandro
Camon
Cast: DMX, David Arquette, Michael
Ealy
Origin: USA
A young reporter witnesses the murder of
a drug lord and is left with the victim’s
car and diary.
CONTENT
INTERNATIONAL
CORRINO FILMS BV
Content International, 14/15 D’Arblay
Street, W1F 8DZ London, UK. Tel:
44.20.7851.9170. Fax: 44.20.7851.9171.
www.contentinternational.com
At Cannes: Jamie Carmichael (Managing
Director), Harry White (Sales Executive),
Judith Baugin (Marketing Manager),
John Schmidt (President & COO),
Edward R. Pressman (Chairman),
Douglas Tulley (CFO)
Office: 3rd floor, no 2 La Croisette,
Cannes, Tel: 33.4.93.38.58.88. Fax:
33.4.93.99.46.55
DANNY DECKCHAIR
Romantic Comedy (100 mins)
Language: English
Director: Jeff Balsmeyer
Producer: Andrew Mason
Cast: Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto, Justine
Clarke, Rhys Muldoon
Origin: Australia
A hapless working class Aussie becomes
a national sensation when he takes off
into the big beyond after tying balloons
to his deckchair.
FAKERS
Art Hest Comedy (86 mins)
Language: English
Director: Richard Janes
Producer: Richard Janes, Claire Bee,
Todd Kleparski
Cast: Matthew Rhys, Kate Ashfield, Art
Malik
Origin: UK
With four days to find £50,000 to pay off
a crime lord, a young con artist
constructs a race-against-time scam.
HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG
Drama (126 mins)
Language: English
Director: Vadim Perelman
Producer: Michael London
Cast: Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley,
Ron Eldard
Origin: US
When a house is improperly seized and
sold at auction, the lives of three fragile
but determined people become
dangerously entangled.
Corrino Films BV, Korte Prinsengracht
50HS, 1013 GT Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. Tel: 31.20.423.30.02. Fax:
31.20.423.05.28. info@corrino.com,
www.corrino.com
Market Activities: Selling, Acquisitions,
Co-Production
At Cannes: Michael John Fedun
(President), Atilla Meijs (Vice President,
producers network), Jasper van Hecke
(Head of Development, producers
network), Marieke Oudejans (Producer,
Corrino L.A.)
Office: Villa La Buissoniere, 499 Chemin
des Petits Brusquets, 06220, Vallauris,
Tel: 33(0)4.93.64.10.66. General Mobile
Phone: 31.6.24.41.00.00
FLIRT
Romantic comedy (90 min)
Language: Dutch
Director: Jaap van Eyck
Producers: Jasper van Hecke, Atilla
Meijs, Michael John Fedun
Cast: Egbert Jan Weeber, Rifka
Lodeizen, Marcel Hensema
When Lex, a firm believer in polygamy,
finds himself surrounded by girlfriends,
he has to make decisions that will change
his life forever.
THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE
Thriller (100 min)
Language: English
Producers: Michael John Fedun, Jasper
van Hecke & Atilla Meijs, Corrino Films
/ Emjay Rechsteiner, Staccato Films /
Arjen Terpstra, Foreign Film Company
Status: Casting
The true story of the man forced to be
the body double of Saddam Hussein’s
cruel son. Based on the bestselling life
story of Latif Yahia (over one million
copies sold).
2000 TERRORISTS
Language: English
Directors: Hanro Smitsman, Peter
Speetjens
/ Co-producer: SenS Productions
Status: Completed
2000 Terrorists is a investigative
documentary film on the aftermath of the
infamous genocide that took place in
Sabra and Shatila, the Palestinian refugee
camps in Beirut, Lebanon.
THE HORSELESS PRINCE
Drama (10 min)
Language: Dutch
Writer & Director: Tim Oliehoek
Producers: Michael John Fedun, Atilla
Meijs, Corrino Films / San Fu Maltha,
Fu Works
Cast: Miryanna van Reeden, Victor
Reinier
Status: Completed
Drama about a boy who writes to the
Dutch crown prince for help to save his
dead mother. His mom is just one kiss
away.
CREATIVE LIGHT
WORLDWIDE
Creative Light Worldwide, 8383 Wilshire
Blvd. Suite #212, Beverly Hills CA 90211
USA. Tel: 323.658.9166. Fax:
323.658.9169. CLW@crlight.com,
www.creativelightworldwide.com
At Cannes: Ted Chalmers (Head of
Worldwide Distribution), Ray Haboush
(Head of International Sales)
Office: Riviera L3/M4, Tel:
33(0)6.79.36.64.49
JEKYLL
Horror
Language: English
Origin: US
Cast: Matt Keeslar (Last Days of Disco),
Jonathan Silverman (Weekend At
Bernie’s), John Rubenstein (21 Grams),
Abigail Spencer (All My Children)
An update of the classic horror story
where a doctor uses modern science to
unleash the darkest side of his own nature
in the form of the evil Mr. Edward Hyde.
AVATAR
Science-Fiction
Language: English
Cast: Joan Chen (Twin Peaks), David
Warner (Planet of the Apes), Genevieve
O’Reilly (Matrix Reloaded)
Origin: Singapore/USA
In the tradition of BLADE RUNNER
and THE MATRIX, in the year 2023, a
female bounty hunter must battle an evil
mega-corporation in virtual reality and in
the real world.
SLAMMED
Comedy
Language: English
Cast: Justin Whalin (Dungeons and
Dragons), Zachary Bryan (Home
Improvement), Josie Davis (Sonny),
Sasha Mitchell (Kickboxer 3), John
O’Hurly (Seinfeld)
Origin: USA
Two best friends dream of stardom on
the back bar wrestling circuit.
TIME QUEST
Science-Fiction
Language: English
Cast: Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead), Larry
Drake (Darkman), Caprice Benedetti
(Shaft) and Ralph Waite (The Waltons)
Origin: USA
A time traveler from the future attempts
to stop the assassination of JFK in the
hope of a better tomorrow.
CURB
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL
CORP.
Curb Entertainment International Corp.,
3907 West Alameda Ave., Burbank, CA
91505 USA. Tel: 818.843.8580. Fax:
818.566.1719.
info@curbentertainment.com,
www.curbentertainment.com
At Cannes: Carole Curb Nemoy
(President), Wendy Reeds (Executive
Director, Head of Sales)
Office Location: Riviera N2
DROP DEAD SEXY
Crime Comedy
Director: Michael Philip
Producer: Charles Acosta, Richard
Middleton, Duncan Montgomery,
Michael Philip
Cast: Crispin Glover, Jason Lee, Kevin
Anderson
Frank and Eddie take a quick and easy
job running a truckload of stolen
cigarettes to Mexico. On the way there,
the truck blows up.
SPIN
Romantic Adventure
Director: James Redford
Producers: Donald Everett Axinn, Elaine
Rogers
Cast: Stanley Tucci, Dana Delany, Ruben
Blades, Ryan Merriman
A rebellious teen struggles to follow his
father’s last wishes by learning to fly.
EASY
Romantic Comedy
Director: Jane Weinstock
Producer: Gloria Norris
Cast: Marguerite Moreau, Brian F.
O’Byrne, Naveen Andrews, Emily
Deschanel, D.B. Woodside, John
Rothman, and Caroline Goodall
A very funny, beautifully touching film
about a gorgeous young woman who
sleeps around, can’t find a relationship
and finally discovers herself.
THE HOLY GIRL - HBO FILMS LONDON
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
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PARTY BLUES
Comedy (93 minutes)
Language: English
Director: John J. Kelly
Producer: Danny Fendly
Key Cast: Johnny Knoxville, Monique
Parent
A group of guys go on a holiday to find
more beautiful girls and partying than
they could ever imagined when they try
to rescue a club from a loan shark.
DIMENSION FILMS
CASSHERN - SHOCHIKU CO., LTD.
FRANKIE AND JOHNNY ARE
MARRIED
Romantic Comedy
Director: Michael Pressman
Producers: Alice West, Michael Pressman
Cast: Lisa Chess, Michael Pressman,
Alan Rosenberg, Stephen Tobolowsky
How far would you go to save your
marriage? Michael Pressman found the
answer the hard way through giving up
his job, going into debt, and being totally
naked.
DARCLIGHT FILMS
Darclight Films, Building 22, Fox
Studios Australia. Driver Ave, Moore
Park, NS 2021 Australia. Tel:
61(0)2.9955.8825. Fax:
61(0)2.8353.2437.
www.arclightfilms.com,
info@arclightfilms.com
At Cannes: Gary Hamilton (Managing
Director), Nicolas Chartier (VP World
Wide Sales), Ian Gibbins (General
Manager), Lina Marrone (Sales
Consultant)
Office: Riviera C1,
Tel:33(0)4.92.99.32.43. Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.32.44
HILLSIDE STRANGLER
Murder Thriller
Language: English
Director: Chuck Parello
Producer: Michael Avery, Matt Compton,
Alexa Jago, Hamish McAlpine, Michael
Muscal, Carole Siller, Jason Farmer
Key Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Nicholas
Turturro, Allison Lange, Lin Shaye
Origin: USA
Two cousins embark on a killing spree
that grips California in a reign of terror.
ENTER THE PHOENIX
Comedy Action
Language: Chinese
Director: Stephen Fung
Producer: Jackie Chan, Willie Chan,
Solon So
Key Cast: Eason Chan, Daniel Wu,
Stephen Fung
Origin: Hong Kong
Gangsters are sent on a mission to
toughen up their boss’s gay son only to
get stuck with the wrong kid.
THE LAST SIGN
Supernatural Thriller
Director: English
Language: Douglas Law
Key Cast: Andie McDowell, Tim Roth
A widow is haunted by the ghost of her
abusive husband.
DECK DOGZ
Action
Language: English
Director: Steve Pasvolsky
Producer: Bill Bennett, Jennifer Cluff
Key Cast: Tony Hawk
Origin: Australia
Three suburban skate punks hit the road
to compete in a prestigious skate
competition.
DAVID HEAVENER
ENTERTAINMENT
David Heavener Entertainment, 11271
Ventura Blvd, Ste 326, Studio City, CA
91604 USA. Tel: 323.845.9495. Fax:
323.845.9491. www.davidheavener.com,
distribution@davidheavener.com
At Cannes: David Heavener (CEO),
Steven Bakos (Marketing and Sales)
Office: Tel: 33(0)67.367.7825
SMORGASBORD
Drama (55 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Diane Farnsworth
Producer: Diane Farnsworth
Key Cast: Alex Bruhanski, Jamie
Lomas, Jen Shirley
An impoverished, estranged family
reunite to bury their father as he lays on
the couch decomposing.
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO
ALICE?
Thriller (93 Minutes)
Language: English
Director: Linda Larson
Producer: Linda Larson
Key Cast: Linda Larson, Nancy
Lincors, Carl Darchul
There once was a girl who lived in
Daddy’s house.
Dimension Films, 99 Hudson Street, 5th
Floor, New York, NY 10013 USA. Tel:
212.219.4100. Fax: 212.941.3836.
At Cannes: Rick Sands (COO, Miramax
Films), Michael Williams-Jones
(President, Miramax International), Jere
Hausfater (Executive Vice President,
Miramax International), Stuart Ford
(Executive Vice President, Miramax
International), Mark Lindsay (Sr. Vice
President, Sales and Distribution,
Miramax International), Colleen Seldin
(Sr. Vice President, Worldwide
Operations)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Salle Royan 14,
La Croisette, Cannes, France. Tel:
04.97.06.85.00. Fax: 04.97.06.85.04
CURSED
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Wes Craven
Producers: Wes Craven, Marianne
Maddelena
Cast: Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson,
Jesse Eisenberg, John McGinley, Scott
Baio, Robert Forster, and Omar Epps
Status: In Post-Production
County of Origin: USA
Horror master Wes Craven
and writer Kevin Williamson
polish up their silver bullets
for this frightening new take
on a classic horror legend.
YESTERDAY
Director: Darrell James Roodt
(Sarafina!, Cry, The Beloved Country)
Producer: Anant Singh, Helena Spring
Principal Cast: Leleti Khumalo
(Sarafina!, Cry, The Beloved Country)
Status: In Post Production
YESTERDAY the first ever Zulu
language feature film is the touching
story of a rural village woman,
Yesterday, who discovers that she is
inflicted with HIV/AIDS.
RED DUST
Director: Tom Hooper (East Enders,
Daniel Deronda)
Producers: Anant Singh, Ruth Caleb
Executive Producers: Helena Spring,
David Thompson
Principal Cast: Hilary Swank (Boys
Don’t Cry), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Dirty
Pretty Things, Love Actually)
Status: In Post Production
Red Dust is a courtroom drama that
explores the effects of South Africa’s
Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
MAQBOOL
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj
Producer: Bobby Bedi (Bandit Queen)
Principal Cast: Irrfan Khan (The
Warrior), Om Puri (East Is East),
Naseeruddin Shah (Monsoon Wedding),
Tabu (Chandni Bar)
Status: Complete
Maqbool is a modern day adaptation of
Shakespeare’s Macbeth and is set against
the backdrop of Bombay’s underworld.
DORO
FILMPRODUKTIONS
GMBH
DoRo Filmproduktions GmbH, Freyung
3 / 2 / 16, Wien, 1010, Austria. Tel:
0043.1.8768888. Fax: 0043.1.8765500.
doro@doro.net, www.doro.net
Company Type: Film- & TV Production
DISTANT HORIZON
DREAM
ENTERTAINMENT
Distant Horizon, 8282 Sunset
Boulevard, Suite A, Los Angeles, CA
90046 USA. Tel: 323.848.4140. Fax:
323.848.4144. la@distant-horizon.com.
London: 61 Villiers Avenue, Surbiton,
Surrey KT5 8BE London, United
Kingdom. Tel: 44020.8399.5126. Fax:
44020.8390.5341. london@distanthorizon.com
At Cannes: Anant Singh (Producer),
Sanjeev Singh (Acquisitions Director),
Brian Cox (Producer)
Office: First Floor, Palais D’Orsay, 62
La Croissette, Cannes. Tel:
04.93.43.16.76. Fax: 04.93.43.16.78
LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
Director: Shekhar Kapur (Four
Feathers, Elizabeth, Bandit Queen)
Producer: Anant Singh
Principal Cast: Morgan Freeman
Status: In Development
The autobiography of
Nelson Mandela, South
Africa’s first democratically
elected president.
Dream Entertainment, 8489 W. Third
Street, Suite 1038, Los Angeles, CA
90048 USA. Tel: 323.655.5501. Fax:
323.655.5603.
dream@dreamentertainment.net
Company Type: Producer, Sales Agent
At Cannes: Ehud Bleiberg (Chairman &
CEO), Yitzhak Ginsberg (President),
Silke Wolz (Manager, Contracts &
Servicing), Shannon Wilson
(Coordinator)
Office: Riviera J1/K2 & J2, Tel:
04.9299.8837
DISASTER!
Claymation /Action/Comedy
Language: English
Director: Roy Wood
Producers: Ehud Bleiberg, Yitzhak
Ginsberg, John Glenn, Travis Wright,
Evan Astrowsky
A hilarious spoof of big-budget
action films, “Disaster!” is the
ultimate disaster movie.
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
JOE KILLIONAIRE
Comedy/Horror
Language: English
Director: Sean Morton
Producers: Johnny Martin, Ted Melfi
“Scary Movie” meets the ultimate
reality show. In this film, the
contestants aren’t eliminated, they’re
exterminated.
PREY FOR ROCK AND ROLL
Drama
Language: English
Director: Alex Steyermark
Producers: Donovan Mannato, Gina
Resnick
Cast: Gina Gershon, Drea de Matteo,
Marc Blucas, Lori Petty
An all-girl rock band struggles to
make it despite obstacles and set
backs that threaten to tear them
apart.
MONSTER MAN
Horror/Thriller
Language: English-USA
Director: Michael Davis
Cast: Eric Jungmann, Justin Urich,
Aimee Brooks
Producers: Yitzhak Ginsberg, Ehud
Bleiberg, Larry Rattner
Cast: Eric Jungmann, Justin Urich,
Aimee Brooks
A monster man driving a monster truck
terrorize a couple of college kids
traveling cross-country.
E
ECHELON
ENTERTAINMENT
Echelon Entertainment, 400 South
Victory Blvd., Suite 203, Burbank, CA
91502 USA. Tel: 818.558.1820. Fax:
818.558.1877.
http://www.echelonent.com.
info@echelonent.com
At Cannes: Eric Louzil (President &
CEO), Stacey Parks (VP of International
Sales), Geoff Jarvis (VP Of International
Sales), Bruce Collier (Sales), Gloria
Morrison (President Of
Development/Acquisitions)
Office: 23.08, Tel: 33.04.97.06.37.37.
Fax: 33.04.93.94.38.78
COMMACK ROAD
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Chris DiMartino
Producer: Dr. Ted Binkley, Chris
DiMartino, Tony Panterra, Tommy
Savich, Nevin Warner
Key Cast: Chris DiMartino, Jim Akman,
Tommy Savich
Origin: USA
Based on a true story, two brothers
raised by a bank robber follow
different paths in life.
DAY OF THE SIRENS
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Ray Brady
Producer: Deba and Ray Brady
Key Cast: Tom Adams, Shivani Ghai,
Carmina Canuso
Origin: UK
One hot summer’s day an
ingenious and highly organized
gunman goes on a shooting
rampage.
DOG ME: POTLUCK
http://www.triplestickspro.com
Comedy (108 min)
Language: English
Director: M. David Lee III
Producer: M. David Lee III
Key Cast: Christa Crowe, Shaun Green,
Corie Mitchell
Origin: USA
What happens when you bring together a
handful of quirky, unique individuals that
make Jim Carrey seem normal?
DRAFT DODGING
http://www.filmshack.com
Comedy (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Wendall Adam
Producer: Hugh Eaton and Gavin Wiesen
Key Cast: Anson Scoville, Hugh Eaton,
Josh Gross
Origin: USA
Guys try to reconnect with their youth
while completely drunk most of the time.
ECHO BRIDGE
ENTERTAINMENT
Echo Bridge Entertainment, 75 Second
Avenue, Suite 500 , Needham, MA 02494
USA. Tel: 781.444.6767. Fax:
781.444.6472. www.ebellc.com
At Cannes: Michael Rosenblatt
(Managing Partner), Michael Alexander
(Managing Partner), Daniel March (Head
of International), Lenny Shapiro
(Acquisitions Consultant)
Office: Riviera M-12, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.88.57. Daniel March:
33(0)6.76.19.72.50
SEXUAL LIFE
Drama
Language: English
Producer/Writer/Dir: Ken Kwapis
Producers: Carol Baum, Ken Aguado
Cast: Anne Heche, Dule Hill, Steven
Weber
Status: Post-Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
In the tradition of “Love Actually,” a
group of people find comfort through sex
in the arms of near strangers.
BAADASSSSS!
Drama
Language: English
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Paul
Rodriguez, David Allen Grier
Award winning filmmaker, Mario Van
Peebles’ comedic send up of his father
Melvin’s 1971 film, “Sweet Sweetback’s
Baadasssss Song.” This tribute to indie
filmmaking premiered at Sundance 2004
to a standing ovation.
GARGOYLES
Sci-Fi/Action
Language: English
Director: Jay Andrews
Producer: Ion Ionescu and Michael Derbas
Cast: Michael Pare
Once thought banished forever, ancient
winged creatures are resurrected and
immediately begin wreaking havoc on
Bucharest, Romania.
SPEAK
Drama
Language: English
Writer/Director: Jessica Sharzer
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Michael Angarano,
Steve Zahn
Adolescence is not easy for an emotionally
fragile fourteen year old girl whose first
experience with sex is devastating. After
she navigates through her emotional
struggle, she emerges triumphant and her
voice is finally heard.
ENTERTAINMENT 7
Entertainment 7, 15030 Ventura Blvd,
Suite # 762, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
USA. Tel: 818.709.9595. Fax:
818.709.9597. ent-sales@ent7.com
Company Type: Sales Agent, Producer,
Distributor
At Cannes: Emilio Ferrari (Consultant),
Bill Wilder (Sales/Acquisitions)
Office: Carlton Hotel 133
LAST WINTER
Action (90 min)
Delivery Status: completed/theatrical
release Winter 2004
Five teenage friends enter the world’s
biggest snowboarding contest at Big Bear
Mountain.
INSIDE TAKE
(450 x 22 min)
Language: English
Entertaining and exciting coverage of
Hollywood’s biggest movies including
“The Last Samurai, Matrix 2, Lord of the
Rings – Return of the King, Big Fish,
Cold Mountain, and many others.
HOUSE OF HORROR
Psychological Thriller
Language: English
Director: Emilio Ferrari
Producer: Emilio Ferrari
Starring world famous R&B/Rap star
Lil’Kim. Fictitious modern day story
based on the famous Tales of Terror by
Edgar Alan Poe.
PARASITE - SHORELINE ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
MISS MANAGEMENT
Comedy
Cast: Caprice, Udo Kier
Super model Blanche is forced by her
father to take over the family business of
running one of the top modeling agencies
in the world in New York City. She has
everything but a clue.
EQUATOR FILMS
Equator Films, 6 Heddon Street, London
W1B 4BT United Kingdom. Tel:
44(0)20.7025.7400. Fax:
44(0)20.7025.7401.
www.equatorfilms.co.uk
At Cannes: Steve Turney (Sales Director)
Office: Le Grand Hotel, Albatros (Sea
Entrance), 4th Floor, 45 La Croisette,
06400, Cannes. Tel: 44(0)7713.642.653
CHARLIE
Gangster
Director: Malcolm Needs
Producer: Tim Ireland/Tim
Lewiston/Malcolm Needs
Cast: Luke Goss (Blade 2), Steven
Berkoff (Beverly Hills Cop), Leslie
Grantham
Production Status: Complete
A true story, set in the 60’s charting the
rise and fall of Charlie Richardson, a
notorious London gangster.
TIME BANDITS (HANDMADE
FILMS)
Action/Fantasy
Director: Terry Gilliam
Producer: Terry Gilliam
Cast: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelly
Duvall
All the dreams you’ve ever had and not
just the good ones.
THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY
(HANDMADE FILMS)
Gangster/Drama
Producer: Barry Hanson
Director: John Mackenzie
Cast Members: Bob Hoskins, Helen
Mirren, Pierce Brosnan
Just as gangster Harold Shand is on the
verge of his biggest deal ever, things
mysteriously start to go wrong. Who is
trying to destroy him?
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
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ESSE&BI
CINEMATOGRAFICA
S.R.L.
Esse&bi Cinematografica s.r.l., Largo
Della Gancia, 5 Rome, 00195 Italy. Tel:
39.06.375.112.74. / 39.06.373.585.33.
Fax: 39.06.375.112.78.
essebi@essebicinema.com,
www.essebicinema.com
Company Type: Production, Distribution,
Sales
At Cannes: Veronica Salvi (President),
Daniela Ciambelli (Co-productions &
International Sales), Rino Sciarretta (Coproductions & International Sales);
Acquisition Executive: Francesca Avalle
Office: Stand Focus Italy
L’APETTA GIULIA E LA SIGNORA
VITA (LITTLE BEE JULIE AND
LADY LIFE)
Animation (76 min)
Language: Italian, English subtitles
Director: Paolo Modugno
Producer: Veronica Salvi
Cast: voices of: Irene Grandi, Raf, Nino
Manfredi, Michele Mirabella
Origin: Italy
Budget: $ 6.200.000
A rebellious bee longs for a name like
humans have and chooses one for herself,
Julie. Mama Bee takes Julie aside and,
through the tales of Sarah and Simon,
reveals that life is not a destination, but a
journey as sweet as honey.
EUROCINE
Eurocine, 33, Av. Des Champs Elysees,
75008 Paris, France. Tel:
33.1.42.25.64.92. Fax: 33.1.42.25.73.38.
sales@eurocine.net
At Cannes: Daniel LESOEUR
(Chairman), Ilona KUNESOVA (Head of
acquisition/development), Michelle
MAGNAN (Sales)
Office: F3 at the Riviera, Tel:
33(O)4.92.99.88.52
EL REY, THE MAN WHO
CHANGED THE FATE OF A CITY
Drama
Language: Spanish
Director: Antonio Dorado
Producer: Daniel Lesoeur
Starring: Fernand Solorzano, Vanessa
Simon, Olivier Pagès, Cristina Umana
Status: completed
The life of Pedro Rey, the first narco
dealer who learned to kiss and kill in the
movies.
THE POETS NEVER LOSE HOPE
Black comedy
Director: Dusan Klein
Producer: M Smidmajer for Pluto Film
Starring: Pavel Kriz, Michaela
Badinkova, David Matasek
Status: Completed - screening in booth
A comedy about the troubles of middle
age, which can be overcome only by
humour or love.
NIGHTMARES COME AT NIGHT
Horror (90’)
Co-producers: Prodif - Eurocine
Starring: Soledad Miranda, Diana Lorrys,
Paul Muller
Music: Bruno Nicolaï
Status: completed - screening in booth
Obsessed with bloody nightly visions,
Anne lives in anguish of schizophrenia.
Is Anne gradually becoming mad, or is
she really the author of these murders ?
DE SADE’S DUET
A package of 2 of the most faithful
adaptations of The Marquis de Sade’s
work.
SADE’S EUGENIA
Horror / Erotic (90 min)
Language: English French Italian
Producers: EUROCINE / JK FILMS
Principal Cast: Soledad Miranda, Paul
Muller, André Montcall
Country of Origin: FRANCE
Videocassette
Eugenia and her father plan to commit
together a perfect crime.
EUROPEAN FILM
PROMOTION
European Film Promotion, Friedensallee
14 - 16; 22765 Hamburg, Germany. Tel:
0049.40.3906252. Fax:
0049.40.3906249. info@efp-online.com,
www.efp-online.com
Company Type: Marketing and
Promotion Agency
At Cannes: Renate Rose (Managing
Director), Jo Muehlberger (Projec
Manager), Anna Vilim (Public Relations)
Office: Hotel Resédial Cannes, Tel:
0033.4.93065000 Fax: 0033.4.93995429
FIJI AUDIO VISUAL
COMMISSION
Fiji Audio Visual Commission, Ground
Level Civic House Suva Fiji. Tel:
679.3306.662. Fax: 679.3314.662
favc@fijiaudiovisual.org.fj,
www.fijiaudiovisual.com
Company Type: Government Statutory
Authority - Film Commission
At Cannes: Joe Mar (Chairman of
Board), Taniela Bolea (Chief Executive
Officer), Wayne Covell (Legal &
Marketing Manager)
Office: Suite Carlton Hotel
F
FILMAX
INTERNATIONAL
FILM BRIDGE
INTERNATIONAL
Filmax International, Miguel Hernández
81-87, District Economic de L’Hospitalet,
08908 L’Hospitalet de Llobregat Barcelona-Spain. Tel: 34.93.336.85.55.
Fax: 34.93.263.08.24.
filmaxint@filmax.com,
www.filmaxinternational.com
At Cannes: Julio Fernández (Chairman),
Carlos Fernández (CEO), Antonia Nava
(Sr VP of Sales & Co-productions),
Vicente Canales (Sales Manager), Jorge
Tuca (Head of Acquisitions), Carlos
Rojano (Sr VP of Marketing)
Office: Hotel Carlton Intercontinental,
Room 138, Cell: 34.629.185.688
CAPTAIN THUNDER
Adventures
Director: Alejandro Toledo
Producer: Julio Fernández
Language: Spainish
Production Status: Pre-Production
Based on the internationally acclaimed
comic by Víctor Mora and Fuentes Man,
Captain Trueno is a medieval superhero
that has captivated readers for the last
three decades.
DONKEY XOTE
Animation – Adventure/Comedy
Language: English
Director: Josep Pozo
Production Status: In-Production
The donkey, Rucio, tells the “true” story
of Don Quixote and defends the idea that
he wasn’t mad, but in reality, Quixote was
a very intelligent, passionate and
enthusiastic fellow.
THE MACHINIST
Suspense Thriller (95´)
Language: English
Director: Brad Anderson
Cast: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh,
John Sharian, Michael Ironside, Aitana
Sánchez Gijón
Trevor Reznik, a machinist, has lost the
ability to sleep. But this is no ordinary
insomnia. Trevor has not slept in a year.
FRAGILE
Horror
Language: English
Director: Jaume Balagueró
Cast: TBC
Production Status: In Pre-Production
Isle of Mann. After nearly a hundred years
of service, the Mercy Falls Children’s
Hospital is closing its doors for good.
Film Bridge International, 1316 Third
Street Promenade, Suite 105, Santa
Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel:
310.656.8680. Fax: 310.656.8683.
filmbridgeinternational.com,
contact@filmbridgeinternational.com
At Cannes: Ellen Wander, Lori Mathison
Office: Ellen Wander, Cell: 310.526.3456
BEAST OF BATAAN
Directed by Paul Verhoeven (“Starship
Trooper,” Hollow Man” and “Basic
Instinct”)
Producer: Jonathan Sanger (“Mission
Impossible,” “Vanilla Sky”). Autumn
2004
Based on the true events of a military war
criminal trial.
DOLAN’S CADILLAC
Revenge thriller
Director: Stacey Title (“The Last Supper”)
Producer is Jonathan Sanger (“Vanilla
Sky” and “Mission Impossible 2”)
Starring Freddie Prinze, Jr and Gabriel
Byrne.
Delivery Status: new production, start
May 2004
Based on a novella by Stephen King. A
young man seeks revenge on the mobster
who killed his wife after she accidentally
witnesses a murder.
WHEN WE WERE MODERN
Directed/written by Philippe Mora
(“Thick and Thin”, “Snide and Prejudice”)
Producer: Sue Milliken (“Sirens,”
“Paradise Road”)
Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jason Isaacs
(“Harry Potter”), Rachel Ward and
Clayton Watson (“The Matrix”)
Delivery Status: New production, start
June 2004
Based on the tangled romantic life of
famed Australian artist, Sydney Nolan.
The film chronicles Sydney’s tumultuous
love triangle with his married benefactor
and her husband.
HAMLET UNZIPPED
Directed by Philippe Mora (“Thick and
Thin”, “Snide and Prejudice”)
Starring Vince Vaughn, Angus MacFadyen
and Penelope Ann Miller
A modern versus of a play by William
Shakespeare.
THE FOUR SAINTS
Director: Jean-Pierre Isbouts
Delivery Status: New production, start
Spring 2004
The story of four nurses who are brought
together during WWI as they heroically
defy military regulation and risk their
lives on the front line of battle. Inspired
by actual events.
TRAUMA - MYRIAD PICTURES
FILMEXPORT GROUP
FilmExport Group, Via Polonia, Urano 60
- 00144 Rome, Italy. Tel: 39.06.52207432.
Fax: 39.06.52278416.
info@filmexport.com
At Cannes: Roberto Di Girolamo
(President & CEO), Laura Maurano (Sales
Manager), Andrea Di Girolamo (Senior
Manager Acquisition & Productions)
Office: Focus Italy, Espace Riviera
D1/E10, Mobile: 39.335.7025.654, Tel:
0033(0)4.92993330
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
POST COITUM
Black Tragicomedy
Language: Czech - English
Director: Juraj Jakubisko
Production: Jakubisko Film S.R.O
Producer: Deana Jakubiskova
Cast: Franco Nero, Eva Elsnerova,
Richard Krajco, Lucie Vondrackova,
Mahulena Bocanova, Mira Nosek, Beata
Greneche, Jirí Langmajer, Sandra
Pogodová
Country of Origin: Czech and Slovac
Republic
Four men and five women, nine
different characters with their own
needs and desires unfold a game of
love, betrayal and hate on the big
screen that will send shivers down
your spine.
KILLED WITH A LAUGH (E
RIDENDO L’UCCISE)
Tragicomedy
Director: Florestano Vancini
Production: Italgest Video - I.P.E.
Cast: Manlio Dovi, Sabrina Colle, Ruben
Rigillo, Marianna De Micheli, Giorgio
Lupano, Carlo Caprioli, Vincenzo
Bocciarelli, Fausto Russo Alesi
Music: Ennio Morricone
This story is set in Ferrara, at
the beginning of 1500 at the court
of the Estes, one of the most
illustrious courts in the
Renaissance.
EDEN
Comedy
Director: Fabio Bonzi
Producer: Viva Cin.Ca Srl
Cast: Sonia Aquino, Marco Bonini, Guja
Jelo
Takes place in Sicily in 1958, the year of
the law that closed the prostitutes houses
forever, the year of the economic
miracle, between the end of the “legal”
prostitution and the start of the turbulent
welfare race.
STAR’N’STRIPES LIFESTYLE (LA
MIA VITA A STELLE E STRISCE)
Comedy
Language: Italian With English Subtitles.
Director: Massimo Ceccherini
Production: Italian International Film Srl
Producer: Fulvio Lucisano - Federica
Lucisano
Cast: Massimo Ceccherini, Victoria
Silvstedt, Novello Novelli, Manuela
Magherini, Cyrus Elias, James Holly,
David Corbett
Lando is a farmer who lives peacefully
in a country house in Tuscany, when
suddenly his quiet life is twisted by some
relatives coming from U.S.A.
THE BUSINESS OF FILM
London Head Office
41-42 Berners St.
London WIT 3NB
FILMS
DISTRIBUTION &
MERCURE
INTERNATIONAL
Films Distribution & Mercure
International, 20, rue Saint Augustin,
33.1.53.10.33.99. Fax: 33.1.53.10.33.98.
At Cannes: Mr. Nicolas Brigaud-Robert
(mobile 33.6.15.39.13.07), Mr. François
Yon (mobile 33.6.03.49.65.00), Ms.
Didar Domehri (mobile
33.6.82.25.27.83)
Office: K5/L8, Tel: 33.4.92.99.32.20.
Fax: 33.4.92.99.32.23
EARTH & ASHES
Drama
A film by Atiq Rahimi
Production: Les films du lendemain
It’s the unembellished word that gives
voice to the suffering, the solitude, the
fear of not being heard.
CQ2
Drama
A film by Carole Laure
Production: Cité-Amérique, Les
Productions Laure
Starring Clara Furey, Danielle Hubbard,
Mireille Thibault, Jean-Marc Barr
CQ2 (seek you too) is the story of an
teenager, with an uncertain future, who
canalises her lust for life in the study of
contemporary dance.
THEY CAME BACK
Drama
A film by Robin Campillo
Production: Haut & Court
Starring Géraldine Pailhas, Jonathan
Zaccaï, Frédéric Pierrot
The dead are coming back by the
thousands. In the world, millions of
deceased left their cemetery to the towns.
One central question is to be answered:
how can living and dead manage to live
together.
THREE DANCING SLAVES
Social Drama
A film by Gaël Morel
Production: Sepia Production
Starring Stéphane Rideau, Nicolas
Cazalé
Through the portrait of three brothers, the
story of a revenge that, benign at first,
takes on tragic proportions until it forces
each of the brothers to adopt a clear-cut
position in relation to each other.
FIRST LOOK
INTERNATIONAL
First Look International, 8000 Sunset
Blvd., East Penthouse, Los Angeles, CA
90046 USA. Tel: 323.337.1000. Fax:
323.337.1037. www.firstlookmedia.com,
info@firstlookmedia.com
At Cannes: Liz Mackiewicz (Sr. VP,
Worldwide Sales and Distribution), Gina
Nahum (VP, International Sales), JD
Beaufils (Director, Worldwide Sales and
Library Licensing), Amy Beecroft
(Director, International Distribution), Ildi
Toth Davy (Director, International Home
Entertainment)
Office: Riviera C3-E4, Tel:
04.93.39.18.72, Fax: 04.93.68.37.65
SEPTEMBER TAPES
www.septembertapes.com
Language: English
Director: Christian Johnston
Producer: Wali Razaqi, Matt Rhodes,
Judd Payne
Country of Origin: US
In this rare look behind the scenes of
war-torn Afghanistan, documentary
filmmaker Don Larson traveled to the
troubled country six months after 9/11
and followed a bounty hunter on the trail
of Osama bin Laden.
STATESIDE
Romantic Drama
Language: English
Director: Reverge Anselmo
Producer: Bob Greenhut
Key Cast: Rachael Leigh Cook, Jonathan
Tucker, Val Kilmer, Carrie Fischer, Joe
Mantegna
An outlaw rich kid reluctantly lands in
the Marine Corps, and while on leave
falls in love with a popular young singer
played by Rachael Leigh Cook.
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS 2
Action-Adventure
Director: English
Language: Gerry Lively
Producer: Wolfgang Esenwein, Steve
Richards
The sequel to DUNGEONS AND
DRAGONS - the successful film based
on the popular role-playing game.
THE EMPEROR’S WIFE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Julien Vrebos
Key Cast: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Max
Beesley, Rosanna Pastor
The Emperor searches for a new bride
after his current Empress fails to bear
him an heir, and he chooses a girl he’s
not allowed to meet, leading the Emperor
into a steamy love triangle.
FOCUS FEATURES
Focus Features, 417 Canal Street, 7th
Floor, New York, NY 10013 USA. Tel:
212.343.9230. Fax: 212.343.7412.
At Cannes: David Linde (Co-President),
Glen Basner (Executive Vice President,
International Sales and Distribution),
Heta Paarte (Vice President, International
Marketing and Publicity), Tim Spencer
(Vice President International Sales), Dee
Poku (Director, International Publicity),
Peter Kujawski (Director, International
Sales)
Office: Palais d’Orsay, Penthouse, 62
Boulevard de la Croisette, Cannes,
France 06400. Tel: 04.92.59.18.42. Fax:
04.93.43.28.77
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
Director: Jean-Francois Richet
Producers: Pascal Caucheteux, Stephane
Sperry, Jeffrey Silver
Exec Producers: Don Carmody,
Sebastian Lemercier, Joseph Kaufman
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne,
Busta Rhymes, Maria Bello, John
Leguizamo, Drea de Matteo, Gabriel
Byrne, and Brian Dennehy
Academy Award nominees Ethan Hawke
and Laurence Fishburne star as
dangerous men on opposite sides
of the law, in ASSAULT ON
PRECINCT 13.
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Director: Ang Lee
Producers: Diana Ossana, James
Schamus
Exec Producers: William Pohlad, Larry
McMurty, Michael Costigan
Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal,
Michelle Williams
Status: In Pre-Production
From Academy Award winning
director Ang Lee and based on a short
story by Pulitzer Prize winning author
Annie Proulx, comes an epic love story
set against the sweeping vistas of
Wyoming.
THE CONSTANT GARDENER
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Producers: Simon Channing Williams
Exec Producers: Gail Egan, Don
Ranvaud
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz
THE CONSTANT GARDENER is a
romantic thriller from director Fernando
Meirelles, who brought us the
astoundingly energetic City of God,
which earned four Academy Award
nominations including Best Director.
ICE HARVEST
Director: Harold Ramis
Producers: Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa
Exec Producers: Glenn Williamson
Cast: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton,
Connie Neilson
THE ICE HARVEST is a wickedly
funny thriller from director Harold
Ramis (Analyze This, Groundhog Day)
that stars John Cusack, Billy Bob
Thornton, and Connie Nielsen.
A MAN’S GOTTA DO - THE WORKS
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
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FORTISSIMO FILMS
Fortissimo Films, Veemarkt 77-79, 1019
DA Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel:
31.20.627.32.15. Fax: 31.20.626.11.55.
info@fortissimo.nl
At Cannes: Wouter Barendrecht (Cochairman), Michael J Werner (Cochairman), Winnie Lau (Director
International Distribution), Ashley Luke
(Director of Acquisitions &
Development), Esther Bannenberg
(Director Int. Sales, Servicing &
Acquisitions), Marnix Van Wijk (Director
Marketing & Festivals)
Office: Résidence du Grand Hotel,
Entrance Goeland, Apartment 5D, 5th
floor, 06400 Cannes,
market@fortissimo.nl
2046
Language: Chinese
Producers: Wong Kar-wai (Jet Tone
Productions)
Cast: Tony LEUNG Chiu-wai, Faye
WONG, Takuya KIMURA, ZHANG
Ziyi, CHANG Chen, Carina LAU Kaling, Gong LI with a special appearance
by Maggie CHEUNG
Man-yuk
Origin: Hong Kong
SOMERSAULT
(106 minutes)
Language: English
Producer: Anthony Anderson
Executive Producer: Jan Chapman (THE
PIANO)
Cast: Abbie Cornish (Heidi), Sam
Worthington (Joe), Lynette Curran
(Irene), Erik
Thompson (Richard), Nathaniel Dean
(Stuart), Hollie Andrew (Bianca), Leah
Purcell (Diane), Olivia Pigeot (Nicole)
Origin: Australia
A film by Cate Shortland.
SOMERSAULT is the story of 16-yearold Heidi who, after an incident at home,
runs away and ends up in a broken down
ski resort.
THE EYE II
Horror (94 minutes)
Language: Chinese/English/Thai
Producers: Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Lawrence
Cheng, Jojo Hui
Cast: Shu Qi (Joey), Eugenia Yuan
(Sam’s Wife), Jesdaporn Pholdee (Sam),
Philip
Kwok (Buddhist Master), Rayson Tan
(Gynecologist), Ren Yuan Yuan (Mrs.
Chow)
Origin: Hong Kong
A film by Danny & Oxide Pang. The
sequel to THE EYE, the worldwide
horror sensation; THE EYE 2 has opened
to massive business in Asia.
VIRTARY - STORIES OF LOST VIRGINITY TORONTO PICTURES
SUPER SIZE ME
(98 minutes)
Language: English
Producers: Morgan Spurlock
Cast: Morgan Spurlock (Himself), Ronald
McDonald (Himself), Dr. Daryl Isaacs
(Internal Medicine), Dr. Lisa Ganjhu
(Gastroenterologist), Dr. Stephen Siegel
(Cardiologist)
Origin: USA
A film by Morgan Spurlock. SUPER
SIZE ME, the sensation of Sundance and
the AFM 2004, is one man’s exploration
and journey into the world of fast food,
health, and well being.
FORTUNE STAR
ENTERTAINMENT
LIMITED
Fortune Star Entertainment Limited, 8th
Floor, One Harbourfront, 18 Tak Fung
Street, Hung Hom, Hong Kong. Tel:
852.2621.8888. Fax: 852.2621.7771.
fortunestar@startv.com
At Cannes: Mr Peter Poon (General
Manager), Ms May Yip (Head of
Distribution), Mr Romanus Ng (Assistant
Manager), Ms Elyse Leong (Marketing
Executive)
Office: Noga Hilton #311
LEAVING ME, LOVING YOU
Romantic Drama (95 minutes)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Yip Wai Shun
Producer: Chan Sinn Gi, Han Hong Fei,
Gao Feng Jun
Key Cast: Leon Lai, Faye Wong, Zhou Yu
Budget: USD3,000,000
CALIFORNIA MONKS
Action Comedy
Director: Andrew Lau
BLOOD BOND
Action Horror
Language: Kirk Wong
FREE SPIRITS FILM
PRODUCTIONS
Free Spirits Film Productions, 130
Muswell Hill Road, London N10 3JD UK.
Tel: temporarily: 00 31.343.4170.70
(Holland). Fax: 00 31.343.420170.
www.free-spirits-film.co.uk
Company Type: production
At Cannes: Jaap Mees
Office:
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
Language: English
Director: Jaap Mees
Producer: Jaap Mees
Co-producers: Billy Barton
Delivery status: all completed
Year of production: 2001, Country of
Origin: UK/ Holland
Independent doc. on Dublin banjo
legend Tommy Barton. His three
sons, all musicians, track down their
father’s music roots. Featuring: The
Dubliners and well-known piper
Finbar Furey.
THE PRIMROSE PLACE
Drama (10”)
Language: English
Director: Jaap Mees
Producer: Jaap Mees
Co-producers: Alan Thompson
Origin: UK/ Holland
About an unusual meeting between
a man and a woman in No Man’s
Orchard. Based on a short story by
H.E.Bates.
INSIDE THE CIRCLE
Documentary (53”)
Language: English
Director: Jaap Mees
Producer: Jaap Mees
Origin: UK/ Holland
On leading Irish traditional music
festival, Willy Clancy, in Ireland.
With Internationally acclaimed musicians
like: great fiddler Martin Hayes, pipes
legend Paddy Keenan, concertina
virtuoso Noel Hill and superb fiddle
talent Zoe Conway.
FRIES FILM GROUP,
INC.
Fries Film Group, Inc., 22817 Ventura
Blvd. #909, Woodland Hills, CA 91364
USA. Tel: 818.888.3052. Fax:
818.888.3042. Friesfilms@aol.com
Company Type: Distributor
At Cannes: Charles M. Fries (President),
Jon Fries (VP)
Office: Riviera - F5
THE HOLY LAND
Drama
Language: English
Director: Eitan Gorlin
Principle Cast: Oren Rehany, Tchelet
Semel, Saul Stein
Country of Origin/Co-Production: USA
A frustrated rabbinical student who
follows his Rabbi’s advice and
travels to Jerusalem in search of new
experiences. There he falls in love
with Sasha, a beautiful Russian
prostitute.
ALIEN AGENT
Sci-Fi
Language: English
Country of Origin/Co-Production:
UK/Canada
A lawman from another Galaxy
must stop an invading force from
building a gateway between the two
worlds.
CANES
Language: English
Principle Cast: Eddie Furlong
Country of Origin/Co-Production:
Canada
A New York Investment executive
makes a pact with a mysterious man to
gain power and riches. He is given a
rare wooden cane that possess evil
powers.
DR. LOPEZ
Drama
Language: English
Country of Origin/Co-Production: U.K.
Dr. Roderigo Lopez, an exiled Portuguese
Jew, is appointed to the highly prestigious
position of personal physician to Queen
Elizabeth I, seemingly by sheer chance
only to be implicated in a conspiracy to
poison the Queen.
FUSION
INTERNATIONAL
SALES CORP.
Fusion International Sales Corp., 3685
Motor Avenue Suite 240, Los Angeles,
CA 90034 USA. Tel: 310.287.0072. Fax:
310.287.0073. info@fusionsales.com
Company Type: Sales Agent, Producer
At Cannes: John Fremes, Brad Maeder
Office: Riviera L 4
CAUGHT IN THE HEADLIGHTS
Thriller
Director: Gavin Wilding
Producer: David Doerksen
Cast: Erika Eleniak, Kim Coates, Stacy
Keach
Status: Completed
An FBI Agent must overcome hit men
and rogue agents when trying to transport
a murder suspect back for trial.
ONE EYED KING
Drama
Director: Robert Moresco
Producer: Julius R. Nasso, Peter Crane,
Linda Curran Wexelblatt
Cast: Armand Assante, William Baldwin,
Chazz Palminteri, Bruno Kirby, Jason
Gedrick
Status: Completed
A young man’s dangerous struggle between
good and evil in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen.
THE MAID
Thriller
A woman poses as a maid for a wealthy
family with the intent of killing them in
order to avenge the death of her child.
THE WILD GUYS
Comedy
Director: William F. Gereghty
Producer: Robert Frederick
Cast: Lochlyn Munro, Kenneth Welsh,
Hrothgar Mathews, Jackson Davies
Status: completed
Four men take a hilarious, trip to the
wilderness finding adventure and
friendship along the way.
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
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GAUMONT
Gaumont, 30, avenue Charles de Gaulle,
92 200 Neuilly Sur Seine, France. Tel:
33.1.46.43.21.80. Fax: 33.1.46.43.20.33.
www.gaumont.com
At Cannes: Franck CHOROT (Executive
Vice-President), Philippe de
CHAISEMARTIN (Senior Vice-President
International Sales Feature Films), Loïc
TROCMÉ (Director International Sales
Feature Films), Anne BERNSTEIN
(French TV Sales), Virginie ROYER
(Teledis, Sales Executive), Ariane
TOSCAN DU PLANTIER (Junior VicePresident, International Marketing)
Office: 55 La Croisette, Phone:
33.4.93.68.90.20, Fax: 33.4.92.18.33.69
THE TRAIL (LA PISTE)
Adventure
Language: Original English Version
Director: Academy Award Nominated
Eric Valli
Production: GAUMONT / LGM Cinéma
Status: Shooting Summer 2004
The initiatory trip of Grace, 11 year-old
New Yorker, in search of her father in the
desert of Namibia.
L’EMPIRE DES LOUPS (AKA
EMPIRE OF THE WOLVES)
Action / Thriller
Director: Chris Nahon
Production: GAUMONT
Casting: Jean Reno, Jocelyn Quivrin
From Jean-Christophe Grangé (Crimson
Rivers)’s latest best-selling book.
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Thriller
Director: Olivier Marchal
Production: GAUMONT / LGM Cinéma
Casting: Daniel Auteuil, Gérard
Depardieu, André Dussollier, Valeria
Golino
Rise, Fall and Revenge of a top-cop of
the Paris Police Department.
QUI PERD GAGNE (AKA LOSER
TAKES ALL)
Romantic Comedy
Director: Laurent Bénégui
Production: GAUMONT / MAGOURIC
Casting: Thierry Lhermitte, Elsa
Zylberstein
Status: French Release: June 2004
A gambling shark, gifted with an
exceptional memory, and the head of the
Gambling Department Authorities, are
forced to collaborate, for better or for
worse, to expose a consistent winner in
the French National Lottery.
GAVIN FILM LTD
Gavin Film ltd, 65/66 Dean Street, W1D
4PL, London, UK. Tel: 44.8432.2327.
Fax: 44.7437.3903. info@gavinfilm.com,
www.gavinfilm.com
Company Type: Sales agent, producer
At Cannes: Bill Gavin (Manager
Director) Mike Tims (Director) Rosana
Coutinho (Sales Executive)
Office: Carlton - Suite 203, 2sd floor, Tel:
04.93.06.42.03. Fax: 04.93.06.82.03
MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS
Black Comedy (83 min)
Language: English
Director: Hannah Davis
Producer: Hannah Davis & David
Conolly
Cast: David Conolly, Jean Boht, Simone
Bowkett
Budget: $ 0.6 million
Origin: UK
A comedy exploring the relationship
between mothers & daughters. Drug
fuelled sex with a vicar and lustful
longings for other women are there some
things a girl shouldn’t share with her
mother?
OH MARBELLA!
Comedy (89 min)
Language: English
Director: Piers Ashworth
Producer: Darryn W. Welch, Piers
Ashworth, Nick Moorcroft
Cast: Rik Mayall, Tom Bell, Craig Kelly
Origin: UK
A hilarious sexy comedy about seven
holidaymakers in Marbella, Spain as they
get involved with swindlers, nudists and
an ageing assassin.
PARADISE GROVE
Comedy (91 min)
Language: English
Director: Charles Harris
Producer: David Castro
Cast: Ron Moody, Rula Lenska, Lee
Blakemore
Origin: UK
A coming-of-age comedy about a mixed
race teenager who mystifies his ageing
grandfather by seeking his Jewish roots
while ignoring the sexual possibilities of
his beautiful female workmate.
THE LAST HORROR MOVIE
Horror (80 min)
Language: English
Director: Julian Richards
Producer: Zorana Piggott
Cast: Kevin Howarth, Mark Stevenson,
Antonia Beamish
Origin: UK
A serial killer lures his victims through
horror movie rentals. A teen slasher
transforms into a disturbing journey
through the mind of a wedding
photographer with a taste for human
flesh.
GLOBAL CINEMA
GROUP
Global Cinema Group, 9229 Sunset
Blvd., #215, Los Angeles, CA 90069,
USA. Tel: 310.443.7788. Fax:
310.443.7739.
Business in Cannes: Buying and Selling
At Cannes: Peter Elson (President,
Global Cinema Group), Mark Huljich
(Senior Vice President, Global Cinema
Group), Natasha Shurdom (Director of
Operations, Global Cinema Group)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Suite 224, Tel:
33.04.97.06.85.64.
HEIGHTS
Dramatic Comedy
Director: Chris Terrio
Producers: Ismael Merchant and Richard
Hawley
Starring: Glenn Close, Elizabeth Banks,
Eric Bogosian, Jesse Bradford, James
Marsden, Isabella Rossellini, George
Segal, Rufus Wainwright
Status: Completed/Screening
Adapted by playwright Amy Fox from
her one-act Off Broadway hit, “Heights”
is a comedy of manners set in
contemporary New York chronicling five
lives intertwining and unraveling one
summer night.
HIGH ROLLER: THE STU UNGAR
STORY
http://www.stueymovie.com
Drama
Director: A.W. Vidmer
Producer: A.W. Vidmer
Starring: Michael Imperioli, Pat Morita,
Michael Nouri
With a bravura performance by
acclaimed actor Michael Imperioli,
“Stuey” explores the compelling
true-life story of a card gambler
who could never get it quite
right - and makes us question our
own desires.
TREASURE ISLAND KIDS: THE
BATTLE OF TREASURE ISLAND
Family Adventure
Director: Gavin Scott
Executive Producers: Mark Huljich,
Stephen Gilmour
Producers: Dale Bradley, Grant Bradley,
Jozsef Fityus
Starring: Randy Quaid, Niko Vella, Sasha
Tilley
Status: Post-production/Screening
footage
The first film in the “Treasure Island
Kids” trilogy: With treasure at stake, it’s
kids versus pirates when a crazed
descendant of the legendary pirate
Captain Flint invades Camp Treasure
Island.
TREASURE ISLAND KIDS 2: THE
MONSTER OF TREASURE ISLAND
Family Adventure
Director: Michael Hurst
Executive Producers: Mark Huljich,
Stephen Gilmour
Producers: Dale Bradley, Grant Bradley,
Jozsef Fityus
Starring: Nicko Vella, Sasha Tilley, John
Callen
Status: Post-production/Screening footage
The second film in the “Treasure Island
Kids” trilogy: Terrorized by a giant sea
monster, the kids at Camp
Treasure Island discover that the
horrific beast is only a loving mother
trying to protect its young.
GMG SRL
GMG SRL, Via Ripa di Porta Ticinese,
33, 20143, Milano, Italy. Tel:
39.02.894.037.21. Fax:
39.02.894.037.21.
garbelli@hotmail.com,
www.giannamariagarbelli.com
Company Type: Producer
At Cannes: Gianna Maria Garbelli
(Producer & filmmaker)
Office: Mediadesk Programme, Tel:
39.348.88.19.843
IL COMBATTENTE (THE ITALIAN
FIGHTER)
Boxing
Delivery Status: In pre-production
GOLDCREST FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
Goldcrest Films International, 65-66
Dean Street, London W1D 4PL, United
Kingdom. Tel: 44(0)20.7437.8696. Fax:
44(0)20.7437.4448
At Cannes: John Quested (Chairman,
N.Y. Office), Stephen Johnston
(President L.A. Office), Peter McRae
(SVP of Co-Productions), Abigail Walsh
(Sales Executive)
Office: 7th floor, Residence Bagatelle, 25
La Croisette, Tel: 04.92.59.30.06. Fax:
04.93.39.87.76
LIBRARY TITLE LISTINGS
Goldcrest Films International’s
library has over 80 titles available
to license worldwide for Television
and DVD rights, including many
award winning features:
THE KILLING FIELDS
John Malkovich, Sam Waterston, Haing
Hgor, Julian Sands
THE MISSION
Robert DeNiro, Jeremy Irons, Liam
Neeson
A ROOM WITH A VIEW
Helena Bonham Carter, Daniel Day
Lewis, Judi Dench
TO END ALL WARS
Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland,
Ciarán McMenamin
ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN
Burt Reynolds, Dom De Louise
PAAP - WEG INDIA
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GOLDEN SUN FILM
CO., LTD.
GOLDEN NETWORK
ASIA LIMITED
GREENESTREET
FILMS
Golden Sun Film Co., Ltd., 4 Floor, 7B
Dragon House, 7-7B Cameron Road,
Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel:
852.2385.5939. Fax: 852.2368.3873.
goldensu@netvigator.com
Company Type: Sales agent, producer,
distributor
At Cannes: Lan Tien Hong (President),
Lan Ketsarinh (Vice President), Lin
Catherine (Sales Executive), Lai Michael
(Sales Executive)
Office: Riviera - Stand F4, Tel:
33.(0).4.92.99.32.06
DRUNKEN MASTER III
Action (92 min)
Language: Mandarin, Cantonese
Director: Lau Kar Leung
Producer: Chan Ping Ping
Cast: Andy Lau, Michelle Lee, Simon
Yam, Cheng Siu Chow
Origin: Hong Kong (China)
Yuen Sai Hoi was elected President but
he proclaimed himself as king. Yuen
believed that on his day of the Crown
Ceremony, a Jade ring would be a sign of
prosperity and stability to the throne.
THE HOLY VIRGIN VS THE EVIL
DEAD
Horror/Erotic (88 min)
Director: Wong Chun Yeung
Producer: Tsui Siu Hung
Cast: Donnie Yen, Lo Wai Kwong Ken,
Sibelle Wu, Pauline Yeung, Kathy Chau
During a picnic celebration, female
students of Professor Shiang are chewed
apart by the moon monster that appears
when the moon turns red.
SLEAZY DIZZY
Comedy (90 min)
Director: Chor Yuen
Producer: Lin Geng Mun
Cast: Stephen Chow, Chan Kwun Tai,
Sibelle Wu, Alex Fong
Lung was an Police informer in the triad
society. But his identity was exposed and
he lost all memory after being hurt.
SNAKE CURSE
Thriller
Language: Chinese
Director: Chiang Kwok Kuen
Producer: Lan Tien Hong
Cast: Steven Ma, Lau Kar Fai (Actor of
Kill Bill), Tsui Man, Yip Wah, Julaluck
Kittiyarat (Actress of Krai Thong and
Pra-A-Paimanee)
Delivery Status: pre-production
Budget: US$ 1 million
Year of Production: Principle shooting
date 2004-March-15, Country of Origin:
Hong Kong (China)
While working for a pharmaceutical
conglomerate, a highly educated expert
takes the venom of the world’s most
dangerous snakes to develop a miracle drug.
Golden Network Asia Limited, Unit 2205,
Futura Plaza, 111-113 How Ming Street,
Kwun Tong, Hong Kong. Tel:
852.2751.1886. Fax: 852.2750.4862.
goldnet@netvigator.com
At Cannes: Ms. Carrie Wong (Managing
Director), Mr. Clarence Tang (Head of
Sales and Acquisitions), Ms. Joanne Chan
(Assistant Sales Manager), Mr. Tony Chan
(Marketing and Distribution Executive)
Office: Riviera L11, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.33.32
THE BODYGUARD
Action Comedy (110 min)
Language: Thai
Director: Mum Jokmok
Producer: Prachya Pinkaew, CoProduction Partners: Sahamongkolfilm
International Co., Ltd
Key Cast: Mum Jokmok, Pumwaree
Yodkamol
Origin: Thailand
The Bodyguard… You’re in safe hands.
This action-comedy is the directorial debut
of Petchtai Wongkumlao, aka Mum
Jokmok, one of Thailand’s top comedians.
BORN TO FLIGHT
Action-Adventure
Language: Thai
Director: Panna Ritthikrai
Producer: Prachya Pinkaew, Sukanya
Wongsatapat, Co-Production Partners:
Sahamongkolfilm International Co., Ltd
Key Cast: Noppol Komarachoon, Santisuk
Promsiri
Origin: Thailand
A group of athletes travel to remote village
on a mission to bring aid to the poverty
stricken locals.
MCDULL, PRINCE DE LA BUN
Animation (75 min)
Director: Cantonese
Language: Toe Yuen
Producer: Brian Tse, Co-Production
Partners: Bliss Distribution Ltd
Key Cast: McDull, McMug
Origin: Hong Kong
The story of a useless little prince who
somehow grew up convinced that he had
become a common, humble and happy
man until one sad afternoon when the
former prince decided to go back to his
past.
BAOBER IN LOVE
Drama (100 min)
Language: Chinese
Director: Li Shaohong
Producer: Li Xiaowan, Co-Production
Partners: Beijing Rosat Film & TV
Production Co., Ltd
Key Cast: Zhou Xun
Origin: China
Liu is bored with modern, material life.
His sole relief is to confess his uneasiness
to his video camera. He dreams that one
day, he will discover passionate love.
GreeneStreet Films International, 9
Desbrosses Street, New York, NY 10013
USA. Tel: 212.609.9000. Fax:
212.609.909.
Company Description: GreeneStreet Films
is a New York-based film and television
production and finance company.
At Cannes: John Penotti (Partner/President
GreeneStreet Films), Cedric Jeanson
(Partner/President GreeneStreet Films
International), Ariel Veneziano (Vice
President), Michelle Jonas (Manager,
GSFI)
Office: Residence du Grand Hotel,
Goeland, 6th Floor, 45 Boulevard de la
Croisette, Tel: 04.93.68.06.25
SLOW BURN
Language: English
Director: Wayne Beach
Producers: John Penotti, Sidney Kimmel,
Bonnie Timmermann, Tim Williams
Cast: Ray Liotta, James Todd Smith aka
LL Cool J, Mekhi Phifer, Taye Diggs,
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jolene Blalock
County of Origin: U.S.A
After killing a man in her bed, Nora
Timmer (Jolene Blalock) an Assistant
District Attorney, claims self defense until
a stranger (LL Cool J), appears at police
headquarters with a Rashomon-like
version of how the man was killed.
YES
Romantic Drama
Language: English
Director: Sally Potter
Producers: Christopher Sheppard, Andrew
Fierberg
Cast: Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam
Neill, Shirley Henderson
County of Origin: United Kingdom
Suffocating in a failed marriage a woman
sparks an affair with a Lebanese surgeon
exiled in London.
2001 MANIACS
Horror
Language: English
Director: Tim Sullivan
Producers: Scott Spiegel, Christopher
Tuffin, Brett Nemeroff,
Executive Producers: Eli Roth, Boaz Yakin
Cast: Robert Englund
Country of Origin: U.S.A
Vacation will never be the same for a
group of travelers who unwittingly take a
detour to terror!
ONCE IN A LIFETIME (WORKING
TITLE)
Documentary
Language: English
Director: John Dower
Producers: John Battsek
Cast: TBA
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
During New York’s wild 70s, a group of
visionary, “larger than life” executives
brought together the world’s biggest soccer
stars (Pele, Franz Beckenbauer, Johan
Cruyff, Carlos Alberto among others) to
create the New York Cosmo.
GRUPO NOVO DE
CINEMA E TV /
BRAZILIAN CINEMA
PROMOTION
Grupo Novo De Cinema E Tv / Brazilian
Cinema Promotion, Rua Capitão
Salomão 42, Rio De Janeiro 22271-040,
Brazil. Tel: 5521.2539.1538. Fax:
5521.2266.3637.
international@gnctv.com.br
At Cannes: Alfredo Calvino (Sales
Manager), Alessandra Durso (Executive
Sales), Daniela Ribeiro (Executive Sales)
Office: Riviera C4, Tel: (mobile)
06.09123839, 06.10416859
LABYRINTH GLAUBER, THE
BRAZILIAN MOVIE (GLAUBER O
FILME, LABIRINTO DO BRASIL)
Language: Portuguese
Director: Silvio Tendler
Producer: Caliban Produções
Cinematográfica. Ltda.
Origin: Brazil
The life and death of Glauber Rocha, the
ground-breaking Brazilian cineaste,
critic, journalist, thinker and
controversialist who died at 42 years old
at 22 August 1981.
THE MERRY WIVES (AS ALEGRES
COMADRES)
Comedy (1:49)
Director: Leila Hipólito
Producer: Leila Hipólito, Julio Uchoa,
Isabelle Tanugi
Cast: Guilherme Karam, Zezé Polessa,
Elisa Lucinda, Milton Gonçalves
The arrival of bankrupt Portuguese exsoldier Joao Fausto in the middle of the
19th century turns the life of the small
provincial town of Tiradentes upside
down.
THE CHAMPION OF HAPPINESS
(APOLÔNIO BRASIL)
Comedy (1:57)
Country of Origin: Brazil, Year of
Production: 2003
Director: Hugo Carvana
Producer: Mac Comunicação e Produção
Ltda.
Cast: Marco Nanini, Louise Cardoso,
Alessandra Verney Caio Junqueira, José
Lewgoy.
The only stipulation of Apolônio Brasil’s
will was that, on his death, his brain be
removed and preserved for posterity.
GARRINCHA, LONELY STAR
(GARRINCHA, ESTRELA
SOLITÁRIA)
Drama (1:50)
Director: Milton Alencar
Producer: Jorge Moreno.
Cast: André Gonçalves, Taís
Araújo,Sandro Henrique Pires, Nilton
Santos, Alexandre Schumacher
The film explores the soccer-playing
triumphs, booze-related reverses of
Brazil’s great soccer player Mane
Garrincha.
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H
H3O FILMED
ENTERTAINMENT/N
ORTH AMERICAN
PRODUCTIONS
H3O Filmed Entertainment/North
American Productions, 1415 West
Georgia Street, Suite 1804, Vancouver,
Canada. V6G-3C8. Tel: 604.662.3345.
Fax: 604.662.7720. www.h3ofilm.com,
sales@h3ofilm.com &
production@h3ofilm.com
Company Type: Production, Distribution
At Cannes: John Curtis (Co-President
/CEO), Lloyd Simandl (Co-President),
Rod Akizuki (Managing Director), Patti
Rose (International Sales & Marketing):
Acquisition Executive: Rod Akizuki
Office: Residence LeBorgne - 6 La
Croisette - 7th Floor, Tel: 04.93.38.46.35.
Cell: 06.18.50.67.66.
RIPPER II: LETTER FROM
WITHIN
Horror
Language: English
Directors: Lloyd Simandl/Jonas Quastel
Producer: Lloyd Simandl
Principal Cast: Erin Karpluk, Nicholas
Irons, Richard Bremmer
Origin: UK / Czech
The monster inside her head lives!
Sequel to the hugely successful Ripper:
Letter from Hell.
ARIANA’S QUEST
Action/Adventure (93:00)
Language: English
Director: Lloyd A. Simandl
Producers: Lloyd A. Simandl, Danny
Virtue
Principal Cast: Rena Mero, Anthony
Delongis, Katerina Brozova
Origin: Czech Republic
This magical action adventure
tells the story of how Princess
Ariana must travel through time
to regain her lost Kingdom.
FROG-G-G!
Comedy/Horror (89:00)
Language: English
Director: Cody Jarrett
Producers: Cody Jarrett, Jennifer Saxon
Principal Cast: Kristi Russell, Mary
Woronov
Origin: USA
Chemical waste seeps into a small
town’s water supply, causing the
birth of a mutant FROGGG which is
instinctively driven to mate with its
genetic match - human women.
DISTANT SHADOW
Thriller (100:00)
Language: English
Director: Howard J. Ford
Producer: Mark Andrews
Principal Cast: Shane Richie, Rosie
Fellner, Stephen Tiller
Year of Production: 2003 , Country of
Origin: UK
A woman haunted by her own
tragic past is dragged into a world
of violence, conspiracy and revenge
where nothing is as it seems and no one
can be trusted.
HANNIBAL
PICTURES
Hannibal Pictures, 8265 Sunset
Boulevard, Suite 107, West Hollywood,
CA 90046 USA. Tel: 323.848.2945. Fax:
323.848.2946.
contactus@hannibalpictures.com,
www.hannibalpictures.com
Company Type: Producer, Distributor
and Sales agent
At Cannes: Richard Rionda Del Castro
(Chairman & CEO), Patricia Rionda Del
Castro (President), Mathilde Aupetit
(Sales & Marketing Executive)
Office: Carlton - Room 132, Tel:
33.4.9306.4132. Fax: 33.4.9306.8132,
Cell: 33.6.8770.9467
IRISH JAM
Comedy
Language: English
Director: John Eyres
Producer: Richard Rionda Del Castro
Co-production partners: Jamie Brown
Cast: Eddie Griffin, Robbie Coltrane
Origin: United Kingdom
Budget: $11 million
An urban con artist wins ownership of an
Irish pub - in Ireland. He arrives to find
the residents of the Irish town in
desperate need of a hero. Except, he isn’t
what they were expecting.
KUMITE
Action
Language: English
Director: Jean-Claude Van Damme
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme
Budget: $14 million
Victor Toussaint’s journey from a waking
hell to a new salvation. He must dig deep
to find a way out of the spiritual and
physical paralysis that has trapped him
for almost twenty years.
KNIGHTS OF MANHATTAN
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Sam Wiesman
Producer: Cindy Cowan, Richard Rionda
Del Castro, Todd J. Harris
Cast: Tim Allen
Budget: $28 million
Three friends of a certain age fall into the
“escort” business as a way out of their
career, financial and emotional woes only
to find that hilarious consequences lead
them to the solutions that have eluded
them for so long.
THE QUARTERBACK
Action
Language: English
Country of Origin: Germany/UK/Russia
Budget: $40 million
Marine Major, Jake Starnes is the
Quarterback. His special assignment is to
protect the “football”, an attaché case
that holds the US’s nuclear arsenal codes,
while on a trip to Russia with the US
President.
BALLAD TO THE END OF THE
WORLD
Action/Adventure
Language: English
Country of Origin:
SPAIN/UK/GERMANY/MEXICO
Budget: $40 million
A professional football player, in search
of his missing wife in South America, is
caught in a Conquistador world.
ESCOBAR
Action
Language: English
Director: Andrzej Sekula
Country of Origin:
UK/Spain/Mexico/Germany
Budget: $20 million
The corruption, scandals, billions, and
political career of infamous drug lord,
Pablo Escobar.
TWELVE TWISTED TRICKS
Action
Language: English
Director: Balaji K. Kumar
Budget: $8 million
Fast Dollars, Trouble Boys, Flying
Bullets, . Busted Balls. Twelve Twisted
Tricks is an underworld pulpy tale told in
twelve chapters with surprising twists.
CIRCLE OF EVIL
Action
Language: English
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Budget: $16 million
A CIA operative tries to silence the U.S.
Special Forces officer in order to cover
up a scandal involving weapon of mass
destruction in Iraq.
HANWAY FILMS
HanWay Films, 24 Hanway Street,
London, W1T 1UH UK. Tel:
44.207.290.0750. Fax: 44.207.290.0751.
info@hanwayfilms.com,
www.hanwayfilms.com
At Cannes: Tim Haslam (Chief
Executive), Alex Walton (Director of
Sales), Thorsten Schumacher (Sales
Manager), Jonathan Lynch Staunton
(Director of Marketing & Distribution),
Jemma Setterfield (Marketing &
Distribution Manager), Marina
Brackenbury (Executive Sales Coordinator)
Office: 4th Floor, Villa Royale, 41
Croisette
BACK TO GAYA
CGI Animation, Kids Adventure
Language: English
Director: Lenard Krawinkel
Producer: Holger Tappe
Anticipated Delivery: Spring 2004
Small heroes, big adventure - six mini
superheroes, trapped in the real world,
must find a way to return to the fantasy
world of Gaya before it’s destroyed.
DON’T COME KNOCKING
Family Drama / Road movie
Language: English
Director: Wim Wenders
Producer: Peter Schwartzkopff
Anticipated Delivery: Summer 2005
A movie star, whose life is in crisis, flees
from the set of his latest film on a
personal voyage to rediscover meaning
in his life and track down his family.
FESTIVAL EXPRESS
Rock and Roll Music Film
Language: English
Director: Bob Smeaton
Producer: Gavin Poolman / John
Trapman
Cast: Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The
Band, Buddy Guy
Status: Delivery
Festival Express was the biggest rolling
rock party in history.
LAND OF PLENTY
Drama
Language: English
Director: Wim Wenders
Producer: Peter Schwartzkopff
Cast: Michelle Williams, John Diehl
Anticipated Delivery: Summer 2004
A new arrival and stranger to LA tracks
down her last remaining family in a
journey of discovery in modern day
America; a place where paranoia and fear
are rampant and nothing is what it seems.
LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE - LIGHTNING ENTERTAINMENT
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HBO FILMS LONDON
HBO Films London, HBO Films London,
Warner House, 98 Theobald’s Road,
London, WC1X 8WB, United Kingdom.
Tel: 44.207.984.5051. Fax:
44.207.984.5052
Company Type: Theatrical Distributor
At Cannes: Penny Wolf (Managing
Director), Lissa Lebel (Sales Executive),
Michel Ruben (Sales Consultant),
Heather McVicar (Vice-President,
Marketing)
Office: Majestic Hotel Suite #134, Tel:
04.97.06.85.34. Fax: 04.97.06.85.36
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PETER
SELLERS
Drama (128 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Producer: Freddy DeMann, George Faber
and Simon Bosanquet
Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron,
John Lithgow, Miriam Margolyes,
Stephen Fry, Stanley Tucci, Emily
Watson
Origin: UK/USA
An intimate look into the professional
triumphs and personal defeats of one of
Britain’s most prolific and gifted
comedic actors.
THE HOLY GIRL
Drama
Language: Spanish
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Producer: Lita Stantic Producciones
(Argentina), El Deseo (Spain), R&C
Produzioni (Italy)
Cast: Mercedes Moran, Carlos Belloso,
Alejandro Urdapilleta
Origin: Argentina/Spain/Italy
A young girl, with a strong catholic
vocation, wants to become the spiritual
redeemer of the man that sexually
harasses her.
MRS. HARRIS
Drama
Language: English
Director: Phyllis Nagy
Producer: Pamela Koffler, Elizabeth
Karlsen, Christine Vachon, John Wells,
Chrisann Verges
Cast: Annette Bening, Sir Ben Kingsley
Origin: USA
A tale of love and obsession, MRS.
HARRIS explores the story of Jean
Harris who killed her lover, best-selling
diet book author Dr. Herman Tarnower,
and subsequently stood trial for his
murder in the early 1980s.
CLETIS - INITIAL ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
EMPIRE FALLS
Drama
Language: English
Director: Fred Schepisi
Producer: Paul Newman, Marc Platt,
Scott Steindorff
Cast: Ed Harris, Philip Seymour
Hoffman, Helen Hunt, Paul Newman,
Aidan Quinn, Joanne Woodward, Robin
Wright Penn.
Year of Production: 2003/2004, Country
of Origin: USA
The humorous and insightful story of a
New England town and its inhabitants,
whose lives are influenced by the river
that dominates the landscape, their class
differences, and ghosts of the past.
HERE! FILMS
here! Films, 10990 Wilshire Blvd.,
Penthouse, Los Angeles, California
90024 USA. Tel: 310.806.4288. Fax:
310.806.4268. www.heretv.com
Company type: Producer and Distributor
At Cannes: Mark Reinhart (Exec. VP,
here!Films), Rachel Huston (Director,
here! Films)
Office: Mobile: 323.791.8094
THE TRIP
Comedy/Drama (95 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Miles Swain
Producers: Thomas Blount , Miles Swain
Cast: Larry Sullivan, Steve Braun, Alexis
Arquette
Alan and Tommy meet for the first time
in 1973, a time when they couldn’t be
further apart: one a closeted, diehard
Republican, and the other a radical
homosexual activist.
BUSINESS OF FANCY DANCING
Drama (103 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Sherman Alexie
Producers: Larry Estes, Scott M.
Rosenfelt
Cast: Evan Adams, Michelle St. John,
Gen Tagaban
Sixteen years later, two Native American
friends are reunited, but mutual feelings
of hurt and resentment stand in the way
of their friendship.
SHOWBOY
Drama (93 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Lindy Heyman & Christian
Taylor
Producers: Jason Buchtel
Cast: Christian Taylor, Adrian Armas,
Whoopi Goldberg
From strip-mall dance studios to the
stages of Las Vegas’ top shows, from
Siegfried & Roy to Whoopi Goldberg,
Lindy’s crew observes Christian’s
bizarrely erratic passion-fueled journey
to become a Showboy.
FRIENDS AND FAMILY
Comedy (90 minutes)
Language: English
Producers: Linda Moran, Kristen Coury,
Joseph Triebwasser
Director: Kristen Coury
Cast: Tony Lo Bianco, Anna Maria
Alberghetti, Greg Lauren, Christopher
Gartin
Stephen and Danny are a gay couple in
Manhattan who have it all, until a
surprise visit from Stephen’s parents
threatens to blow the boys’ big secret.
HIGH POINT FILMS
High Point Films, 25 Elizabeth Mews,
London NW3 4UH, UK. Tel:
44.20.7586.3686. Fax: 44.20.7586.3117.
info@highpointfilms.co.uk,
www.highpointfilms.co.uk
Company Type: independent feature film
and TV movie sales company
At Cannes: Carey Fitzgerald (Managing
Director), Ronald de Neef (CEO), Julie
Murphy-Delaney (Director), Piers
Nightingale (Development Executive),
Elisar Cabrera (Sales & Marketing
Executive), Isabel Pascual (Sales
Executive)
Office: Residences du Grand Hotel,
Cormoran II Entrance, 3rd Floor, Ring
bell: no. 33, 47 Croisette, 06400 Cannes.
Tel: 04.93.38.05.87
DEAD BODIES
Thriller (85 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Robert Quinn
Producer: David McLoughlin & Clare
Scully
Exec. Producer: Kevin Menton
Starring: Andrew Scott, Kelly Reilly,
Katy Davis
Delivery Status: Complete
Country of Origin: Ireland
When Tommy seemingly kills his
girlfriend in an accident, a series of
twists and turns ensue when he discovers
a second dead body and more dark
secrets.
GODFORSAKEN (VAN GOD LOS)
Action thriller (83 minutes)
Language: Dutch (English Subtitles)
Director: Pieter Kuijpers
Producers: Anton Smit, Hanneke Niens,
Reinier Selen
Production companies: IdtV Film BV &
Rinkel Film Productions BV
Starring: Angela Schijf, Tygo Gernhandt,
Egbert Jan Weeber
Country of Origin: The Netherlands
The unconditional friendship between
two young criminals is put to the test
when petty theft degenerates into a
ruthless killing spree - based on a real
life case.
ADVANCED WARRIORS
Interactive Fantasy - DVD only (20
mins-60 mins depending)
Language: English
Director: Andrew Dymond
Producer: Andrew Dymond
Executive Producer: Jon Lomas, John
Wabe, Mark Strickson
Production Companies: Lightworx Media
Ltd.
Starring: John Carrigan, Rebecca
Nichols, Jeremy Bulloch, Chase
Masterson
Two ordinary citizens are transported to a
different world, where they must use
their skills to get out alive - but it is up to
the viewer whether they survive or not.
HOLLAND FILM
Holland Film, Jan Luykenstraat 2, 1071
CM, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Tel:
31.20.5707575. Fax: 31.20.5707570.
hf@hollandfilm.nl, www.hollandfilm.nl
Company Type: Marketing & Promotion
Agency
At Cannes: Claudia Landsberger
(managing director), Dorothea Kothe
(staff), Anne-Marie van der Meer (staff)
Office: Village International, Holland
Film Pavilion, Tel: 33.492.590208
SHOUF SHOUF HABIBI! / HUSH
HUSH BABY!
Comedy (89 min)
Language: Dutch/Arabic, Subtitles: English
Director: Albert Ter Heerdt
Producer: René Huybrechtse, Joram Willink,
Frank Bak
Cast: Mimoun Oaïssa, Najib Amhali,
Touriya Haoud
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening
Origin: The Netherlands
Tragi-comedy about Dutch-born Moroccans.
One tries to find his place in western society,
while the other does all he can to prevent
this.
PHILEINE SAYS SORRY
Drama (90 min)
Language: Dutch/English, Subtitles: English
Director: Robert Jan Westdijk
Producer: Jeroen Beker And Frans Van
Gestel For Motel Films, San Fu Maltha For
Fu Works
Cast: Kim Van Kooten, Michiel Huisman,
Hadewych Minis
At the point of losing max to her best friend,
Phileine learns the true meaning of love and
says ‘sorry’ for the first time in her life.
INTERVIEW
Drama (88 Min.)
Language: Dutch Subtitles: English
Director: Theo Van Gogh
Producer: Theo Van Gogh, Gijs Van De
Westelaken
Cast: Katja Schuurman, Pierre Bokma, Theo
Maassen
Delivery Status: Completed / Screening
Against his will, a famous reporter for a
quality newspaper has to interview the most
popular actress of the country.
THE LAST VICTORY
Language: Italian, Subtitles: English
Director: John Appel
Producer: Carmen Cobos
A film about the passionate struggle of a
small Italian community in Siena to win the
town’s annual event: Il Palio.
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HOLLYWOOD
WIZARD
HORIZON
ENTERTAINMENT
HYBRID PICTURES
INTERNATIONAL
Hollywood Wizard, 4629 Van Nuys Blvd.
Suite A. Sherman Oaks, Ca 91403 USA.
Tel: 818.461.9349. Fax: 818.461.9143.
info@hollywoodwizard.com,
www.hollywoodwizard.com
Company Type: Sales Agent, Producer,
Video Distributor
At Cannes: Tony Kandah (President);
Acquisition Executive: Tony Kandah
Office: Riviera booth H5, Tel:
33.0.4.92.99.32.33
THE HALFWAY HOUSE
Horror (84 min)
Language: English
Director: Kenneth J. Hall
Producer: Ed Polgardy
Cast: Mary Woronov . Janet Tracey
Keijser
Budget: $ 750,000
Origin: USA
Spankings, Sweaty catfights, girl on girl
action, hot showers and a huge monster
in the basement with tentacles, one eye
and a taste for female flesh.
REDEMPTION
Urban Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Sean Reid
Producer: Bonner Bellew. Jonathan
Schiff. Virtic Brown
Cast: Brian White. Tracey Stone.
Dwayne Chattman. TJ Storm
Budget: $ 500,000
Origin: USA
Redemption is the gripping story of a
middle-class, African-American actor’s
struggle with Hollywood’s temptations
and his own integrity.
STARFORCE
Sci-Fi. Action (91 min)
Language: English
Director: Tony Kandah
Producer: Tony Kandah
Cast: Michael Bergin. Amy Weber.
Vernon Wells
Budget: $ 1,250,000
Origin: USA
A warrior and beautiful ex-convict are to
fight the galaxy’s most fearsome
commandos in an alien wasteland.
WARPATH
Action (93 min)
Language: English
Director: Peter Maris
Producer: Kurt Swansick
Cast: Billy Parish. Amy Linsay. Michelle
Jones. Kathy Derry. Spence Decker
Budget: $ 600,000
Origin: USA
Accused of murder and wanted
by the law. While on the run he
meets with a newspaper reporter
that will do anything to get her
story.
Horizon Entertainment, 1040 Hamilton
St. Suite 207, Vancouver BC V6B 2R9,
Canada. Tel: 604.632.1707. Fax:
604.632.1607. www.filmhorizon.com
Company Description: Horizon
Entertainment is an independent film
entertainment company engaged in
producing, financing and licensing
feature films worldwide.
At Cannes: Rob Straight (President),
Michael Taverna (Sales and Acquisitions
Executive, Head of Production), Caroline
Stern (Director of Distribution and
Marketing)
Office: Riviera G4
PROTEUS
Drama (100 minutes)
Director: John Greyson & Jack Lewis
Producer: Steven Markovitz, Anita Lee,
Platon Trakoshis
Cast: Rouxnet Brown, Shawn Smyth,
Neil Sandilands
Country: South Africa / Canada
Based on a true story, a young man is
sentenced to hard labor on Robben
Island, Cape Town’s harsh penal colony,
and begins a love affair that transgresses
vast cultural taboos.
DETECTIVE PSYCHO
Drama (mini-series) (6 x 56 minutes)
Language: Japanese
Director: Takashi Miike
Producer: Yoshihisa Nakagawa,
Toshihiro Sato, Naoki Abe
Cast: Naoki Hosaka, Tomoko Nakajima,
Rieko Miura, Nae Yuki
SHENMUE
Animated (88 minutes)
Language: Japanese (dubbed English)
Director: Yu Suzuki
Producer: Shigeru Ueda, Koji Kobayashi,
Simon Tse
Cast: Corey Marshall, Robert Jefferson,
Ruth Hollyman
Based on the popular Sega videogame. Ryo
Hazuki sets out on a quest to find out why
his father was killed and to recover a magic
mirror that was stolen at his death.
FIREFLIES: RIVER OF LIGHT
Drama (128 minutes)
Language: Japanese
Director: Hiroshi Sugawara
Producer: Kiyoko Sakuma
Cast: Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Risako Sugaya,
Takuya Asada
School teacher Hajime Miwa inspires a
quiet student with a firefly project but finds
his job on the line when he realizes that her
goal is to meet her deceased mother.
Hybrid Pictures International, 8222
Melrose Avenue, Suite 302, Los Angeles,
CA 90046 USA. Tel: 323.658.5091. Fax:
323.658.5092. hybridpix@aol.com.
Office in Argentina: Etoile Filante
Productions, Santa Fe 1731, Piso 5, Of.
19, Capital Federal, 1060, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Tel: 5411.4811.0152.
etoilefilanteprod@hotmail.com
At Cannes: PJ Pettiette (President),
Claudie Viguerie (International Sales)
Office: Noga Hilton Hotel, Suite 209, 50
La Croisette, Cannes. Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.70.00. Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.70.11
JENNIFER’S SHADOW
Horror/Thriller (90 min)
Language: English speaking
Producers: PJ Pettiette and Claudie
Viguerie (Etoile Filante Productions)
Co-Producers: Eric Biedermann
Writer/Director: Pablo Parés and Daniel
de la Vega
Cast: Faye Dunaway, Gina Philips,
Duilio Marzio, Nicolas Pauls, Hilda
Bernard, Elvira Ornetto
Status: Completed
Jennifer Cassi travels to Buenos Aires to
claim inheritance of her recently
deceased twin sister’s house, only to find
herself in conflict against her
grandmother Mary Ellen.
I
ICON
ENTERTAINMENT
INTERNATIONAL
Icon Entertainment International, The
Quadrangle, 180 Wardour Street, London
W1F 8FX UK. Tel: 020.7494.8100. Fax:
020.7494.8101. www.iconmovies.net
At Cannes: Bruce Davey (Chairman),
Nick Hill (Chief Executive Officer UK
Icon Group), Simon Crowe (Head of
Sales), James Norrie (Sales Manager),
Caroline Johnson (Head of International
Marketing), Pandora Edmiston
(Marketing Assistant)
Office: 2nd Floor (LIFT B), 55, La
Croisette, 06400 Cannes, Tel:
33.4.93.99.83.70. Fax: 33.4.93.99.83.71
GOAL!
Drama
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Producers: Mike Jefferies, Matt Barrelle,
Andrew Eaton, Bruce Davey
Cast: Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgård,
James Nesbitt, Kieran O’Brien and
featuring well-known soccer and music
stars (TBA)
A trilogy of films about the greatest sport
in the world.
ON A CLEAR DAY
Comedy Drama
Director: Gaby Dellal
Producers: Sarah Curtis, Dorothy Berwin
Cast: Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn,
Jamie Sives, Benedict Wong
Frank (PETER MULLAN) determines to
salvage his self-esteem and to tackle his
demons by attempting the ultimate test of
endurance - to swim the English
Channel.
I HEART HUCKABEES
Comedy
Director: David O. Russell
Producers: Scott Rudin, Gregory
Goodman, David O. Russell
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Huppert ,
Jude Law, Jason Schwartzman, Lily
Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg, and Naomi Watts
Status: In Post Production, Delivery:
Summer 2004
An existential tale of love, philosophy
and Shania Twain that will leave you
pondering. what is the meaning of life,
the universe and everything?
STAGE BEAUTY
Comedy
Director: Richard Eyre
Producers: Robert de Niro, Jane
Rosenthal, Hardy Justice
Cast: Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Rupert
Everett, Tom Wilkinson, Ben Chaplin,
Hugh Bonneville, Richard Griffiths and
Edward Fox
Status: Completed, Delivery: Summer
2004
Directed by the acclaimed Richard Eyre,
STAGE BEAUTY is a hilarious period
romp about love, sex and everything inbetween. Featuring luminous
performances from Billy Crudup, Claire
Danes, Tom Wilkinson and the scenestealing Rupert Everett.
IFDC, INC.
IFDC, Inc. (International Film
Distribution Consultants), 1901 Avenue
of the Stars, Suite 930, Los Angeles, CA
90067 USA. Tel: 310.788.2803. Fax:
310.788.2823.
At Cannes: Jerome Bliah (President)
Office: Private Residence, Tel:
33.6.13.80.78.90 (Jerome Bliah’s
mobile), Fax: 04.93.99.45.34
SPEAK - ECHO BRIDGE ENTERTAINMENT
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
77
VOYAGE
Language: English
Producer: John Davis, Tarak Ben Ammar,
Peby Guisez, Merril Karpf
Director: John MacKenzie
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Eric Roberts, and
Karen Allen
Status: Completed
Country Origin: USA
A couple embarks on a high seas
adventure across the Mediterranean to
save their troubled marriage.
YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A
SANTA CLAUS
Family (90 Minutes)
Language: English
Producer: Duke Fenady
Director: Charles Jarrot
Cast: Charles Bronson
Status: Completed
Country Origin: USA
Virginia is a little girl who lives in New
York City at the turn of the century,
whose faith in Christmas rekindles the
faith and hope of those around her.
IFM WORLD
RELEASING INC.
IFM World Releasing Inc., 1328 East
Palmer Avenue, Glendale, California
91205,USA. Tel: 818.243.4976. Fax:
818.550.9728. ifmfilm@aol.com,
www.ifmfilm.com
At Cannes: Antony I. Ginnane
(President), Ann Lyons (Executive VP),
Anthony J. Lyons (VP International)
Office: Palais des Festival Riviera Stand
F.17, Fax: 818.550.9728
THE GHOULS
Horror / Thriller (81 min)
Language: English
Director: Chad Ferrin
Producer: John Santos, Nicholas
Lozidies, Chad Ferrin
Cast: Timothy Muskatell, Trent Haaga,
Stephen Blakehart, Tiffany Shepis
Delivery Status: Completed / Market
premiere
Eric is a down on his luck video
photographer – a journalist who gets
stories while roaming the streets
with his camera waiting to capture the
latest misery and sell it to the highest
bidder.
BLOOD REAPER
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Lory-Michael Ringvette
Producer: Michael J. Stewart
Cast: Brinkie Stevens, Bobby Mackey
Delivery Status: Completed / market
premiere
A weekend getaway to the mountains for
a group of friends turns deadly as the
legend of a mysterious killer proves all
too real.
DEADLY DECEIT
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Chris Philpott
Producer: Chris Philpott, Dan Woods
Cast: Kelly Harms, Waneta Storms, Chris
Owens, Gordon Currie
Premiere
Country of Origin: Canada
A husband bets a handsome stranger that
his wife will be faithful to him with
deadly results.
NO RETURN
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Tom Sylla
Producer: Rebecca Nelson Sylla
Cast: Stephanie Colet, Wendell Willat,
Tim Palcic, Corie Henninger, Francis Lee
McCain
Premiere
Puzzled but determined to get on with her
life, Alice starts to see subtle signs that her
husband may be trying to communicate
with her from beyond the grave.
MAID OF HONOR
Thriller
Language: English
Producer: Exec. Producers: Pierre David,
Tom Berry
Origin: Canada
Tania and her fiance invite Amy to be a
part of their wedding, little knowing that
she blames both of them for ruining her
life many years ago.
SAVING EMILY
Thriller
Director: English
Language: Douglas Jackson
Producer: Pierre David, Tom Berry, Stefan
Wodoslawsky
Key Cast: Alexandra Paul, Michael Riley,
Bruce Boxleitner
Origin: Canada
A family finds itself blackmailed by the
only man who can save their daughter’s
life.
STRANGER AT THE DOOR
Thriller (94 min)
Language: English
Director: Douglas Jackson
Producer: Pierre David, Tom Berry, Stefan
Wodoslawsky
Key Cast: Linda Purl, Andrew Kraulis,
Perry King
Origin: Canada
When her long lost son showed up at the
door, Katherine Norris never imagined the
terror that would be brought upon her
family.
IMAGINATION
WORLDWIDE, LLC
INITIAL
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP
Imagination Worldwide, LLC, 9107
Wilshire Blvd, Ste 625, Beverly Hills, CA
90210 USA. Tel: 310.888.3494. Fax:
310.859.7173. lgoebel@imaginationllc.com
At Cannes: Pierre David (Chairman &
CEO), Tom Berry (Co-Chairman),
Lawrence Goebel (President), Helene
Raynaud (Distribution Coordinator),
Kendall Nowlin (Distribution Associate)
Office: Carlton # 244/245, Tel:
04.93.06.40.06. Fax: 04.93.06.40.25
THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR
Thriller
Language: English
Producer: Exec. Producers: Pierre David,
Tom Berry
Origin: Canada
When Donna, a disturbed young woman,
moves into the neighborhood, she
quickly develops a fatal obsession on
William, the handsome married man who
lives a few houses away.
Initial Entertainment Group, 3000 W.
Olympic Blvd., Ste 1550 Santa Monica,
CA 90404 USA. Tel: 310 315 1722. Fax:
310 315 1723
At Cannes: Graham King (President),
Stephanie Denton (President, Sales &
Distribution), Schuyler Ha (Senior Vice
President, Marketing & Publicity)
Office: Carlton Hotel, Suite 238, Tel:
33.04.93.06 42 38
THE GOOD SHEPHERD
Directed By: Robert DeNiro
Produced By: Jane Rosenthal, Graham
King
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio
Status: Pre-Production
The story of a man’s rise through the CIA
from WW2 through the Bay of Pigs.
THE AVIATOR
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Produced By: Michael Mann, Sandy
Climan, Graham King, Charlie Evans Jr.
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett,
Kate Beckinsale, Alec Baldwin, John
C. Reilly, Jude Law, Gwen Stefani
Buoyed by vision, driven by imagination,
one man became an icon of the 20th
century: Howard Hughes. Visionary.
Daredevil. Mogul. Madman.
LAWS OF ATTRACTION
Directed By: Peter Howitt
Produced By: David T. Friendly, Marc
Turtletaub, Beau St. Clair, Julie Durk,
David Bergstein
Cast: Julianne Moore, Pierce Brosnan,
Frances Fisher, Parker Posey, Michael
Sheen, Nora Dunn
Status: Completed
Audrey Wells is a high-strung, highpowered divorce lawyer who has never
lost a case - until Daniel Rafferty moves
to town.
AN UNFINISHED LIFE
Directed By: Lasse Hallstrom
Executive Produced By: Su Armstrong,
Matthew A. Rhodes, Joe Roth, Mark
Rydell, Harvey Weinstein, Graham King
Cast: Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez,
Morgan Freeman, Josh Lucas, Camryn
Manheim
Produced By: Leslie Holleran, Alan
Ladd Jr., Kelliann Ladd
A woman, desperate to care for her
daughter, reconnects with her estranged
and emotionally wounded father-in-law.
Together, all three forge a renewed lease
on life.
INTERMEDIA
FILM/I.S. FILM
DISTRIBUTION
Intermedia Film/I.S. Film Distribution,
9350 Civic Center Drive, Suite 100,
Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA. Tel:
310.777.0007. Fax: 310.777.0008
At Cannes: Moritz Borman (Chairman
& CEO), Jon Gumpert (Vice Chairman
& Head of Motion Picture Operations),
Bahman Naraghi (Chief Operating
Officer), Dennis Higgins (Senior VP,
Corporate Communications &
Publicity), Katya Kleiner (VP,
Corporate Affairs & Development)
Office: 2, La Croisette, 4th Floor, Tel:
334.93.68.04.09. Fax: 334.93.39.69.05
ALEXANDER
Drama
Director/Writer: Oliver Stone
Producers: Thomas Schuehly, Moritz
Borman, Jon Kilik, Iain Smith
Cast: Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins,
Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Jared Leto,
Rosario Dawson
Delivery Status: Post-Production
The story is an epic that is as daring and
ambitious as its subject, a relentless
conqueror who by the age of 32 had
amassed the greatest empire the world
had ever seen.
IF ONLY
Drama
Director: Gil Junger
Producers: Bobby Newmyer, Jeffrey
Silver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jill
Gilbert
Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Paul
Nicholls, Tom Wilkinson
Delivery Status: Post-production
Samantha is an American music student
living in London, carefree, impulsive
and madly in love with her English
boyfriend, Ian. But Ian is wedded to his
high-pressure, high finance job.
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE
Horror
Director: Alexander Witt
Producers: Jeremy Bolt, Paul W.S.
Anderson, Don Carmody
Exec. Producers: Bernd Eichinger,
Samuel Hadida, Robert Kulzer, Victor
Hadida
Production Co.: Constantin Film (UK)
Ltd., Davis Films/Impact (Canada) Inc.
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory,
Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann with
Jared Harris and Mike Epps
A viral outbreak causes the quiet
middle American town of Raccoon City
to be overrun by an army of Undead.
SLEEPWALKER
Thriller
Director: TBD
Producers: Mark Johnson
Cast: TBD
When he wakes up covered in blood
with his family gone, Jack searches for
what is going on only to discover his
own actions when he sleep walks.
CREDITS NOT CONTRACTUAL
TAKE ME AWAY (PRENDIMI E
PORTAMI VIA)
Drama (90 min)
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Tonino Zangardi
Producer: Alessandro Verdecchi for
VERADIA FILM
Cast: Valeria Golino, Rodolfo Laganà
Delivery Status: Screening/Market
Premiere
One day in his class, thirteen year old
Gianpiero meets Romana, a Gypsy child
to whom he feels particularly attracted
and shares with her their common
capacity of day dreaming.
THE UNDESIRABLES
Drama (94 min )
Language: English
Director: Pasquale Scimeca
Producer: Galliano Juso, Marco
Poccioni, Marco Valsania
Cast: VINCENT GALLO, Antonio
Catania, Marcello Mazzarella, Vincent
Schiavelli, Peppe Lanzetta,Vincenzo
Albanese, Violante Placido
Delivery Status: Screening
One summer day in 1951, in a New York
court-room. A group of ItalianAmericans are on trial, accused of being
gangsters.
INTRAMOVIES
Intramovies, Via E. Manfredi 15, 00197
Rome, Italy. Tel: 39.06.8076157. Fax:
39.06.8076156.
mail@intramovies.com,
www.intramovies.com
At Cannes: Paola Corvino (C.E.O.,
39.348.540.13.97), Micaela Fusco (VPInt. Sales, 39.335.604.39.15), Jef Nuyts
(Dir. of Int. Sales, 39.335.84.101.49),
Federica Mei (Sales Manager,
39.333.75.44.926), Marco Valerio
Fusco (Marketing, 39.335.705.29.82)
Office: Riviera D1-E8 Intramovies
corner Space “Focus Italy”, Tel:
334.92.99.33.29
A SICILIAN MIRACLE
(MIRACOLO A PALERMO)
Drama (97 min)
Language: Italian with English
subtitles
Director: Beppe Cino
Producer: Maurizio Tedesco & Marco
Risi for SORPASSO FILM
Cast: MARIA GRAZIA CUCINOTTA,
Tony Sperandeo, Luigi Maria Burruano
Premiere
Palermo, a Court of Miracles populated
by little bosses and starving fools
intoxicated by life and fear.
KISS ME FIRST (PRIMA DAMMI
UN BACIO)
Romance (93 min)
Language: Italian with English
subtitles
Director: Ambrogio Lo Giudice
Producer: Valerio Morabito and Marco
Belardi for SUNFLOWER
PRODUCTION
Cast: Luca Zingaretti, Stefania Rocca,
Marco Cocci
Adele and Marcello: An epic, romantic
story made of sentiments and emotions,
a forty-year journey into their lives,
their breathless search for one another.
ITN DISTRIBUTION
ITN Distribution, 163 Third Ave., Suite
231, New York, NY 10003 USA. Tel:
212.228.4776. Fax: 212.387.0873.
www.itndistribution.com
At Cannes: Stuart Alson (President), Jack
Campbell (Director of Sales), Renata
Lorenc (Director of Market & Special
Events)
Office: Riviera F-11, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.50
MARILYN’S MAN
www.marilynsman.com
Language: English
Director: Schani Krug
Producer: Schani Krug
Key Cast: Jim Dougherty, Marilyn
Monroe (Archive Footage)
Budget: 500,000
Origin: USA
Finally the truth about Marilyn Monroe
is revealed through the eyes of her first
husband, lover and life-long friend, Jim
Dougherty
TRANS-AMERICAN KILLER
Horror (75 min)
Language: English
Director: Mack Hail
Producer: Dave Hawks, Jeremy Settles
Key Cast: Cara Jo Basso, Bishop Mann
Budget: 500,000
Year of Production: 2003-2004, Country
of Origin: USA
A battered Las Vegas showgirl leaves her
boyfriend for another female and is then
stalked by her ex, who has had a sex
change and will stop at nothing.
STILLWATER
Thriller (90 min)
Director: English
Language: Adrian Kays
Producer: Adrian Kays
Key Cast: Andrew Hulse, Leon Lamar
Budget: 500,000
Origin: USA
A man searching for his past finally finds
the truth, which makes for a disturbing
circle of events.
FIRST PERSON
Drama (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Richard D’Angelo
Producer: Jodi Glassman, Matt Morillo
Key Cast: Keenan Henson, Carey Macaleer
Origin: USA
A New York Woman is followed and
watched by voyer’s through the eye of a
video camera on the internet.
SWEET HIDEAWAY
Urban Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Patrick McKnight
Key Cast: Patrick McKnight, Burton
Gilliam, A.J. Johnson
Budget: 500,000
Origin: USA
A petty thief is in hiding from the law. He
moves into his cousin’s fraternity, posing as
a student, but not knowing the fraternity
members are all gay.
CAUGHT LIVE! JACKIE “THE
JOKEMAN” MARTLING’S
GREATEST JOKES
www.jokeland.com
Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Jackie Martling
Producer: Ian Karr, Jackie Martling
Principal Cast: Jackie “The Jokeman”
Martling (The Howard Stern Show)
Origin: USA
Culled from world-renowned joke teller
Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling’s
outrageous club performances over a tenyear span, this DVD contains hundreds of
rapid-fire raunchy jokes, told as only he
can tell them.
A HOLE IN THE EARTH
Language: English
Director: Paul A. Kaufman
Producers: Paul A. Kaufman, William H.
Macy
Executive Producers: Kirk Hallam, Bruce
Wisner, Michael Gallant, Stephen
Kennedy
Cast: William H. Macy, Annette Bening,
Erika Christensen
A HOLE IN THE EARTH is the
humorously touching tale of Henry
Porter, an instantly familiar everyman
who never really grew up.
THE ROCKET POST
Language: English
Director: Stephan Whittaker
Producer: Mark Shorrock
Executive Producers: Robert Bevan,
Keith Hayley, Charlie Savill, Tony
Caplin, Peter Fullerton, Guy Hands, Julia
Hands
Cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Shauna
MacDonald, Gary Lewis, Kevin McKidd
Production Status: Completed, Screening
The inhabitants of a remote Scottish
island are disturbed, amused and
eventually enchanted by a dashing
young scientist and his plans to link
them to the outside world via a rocket
postal service.
HEART OF SUMMER
Director: Sean McNamara
Language: English
Producers: Sara Risher, David
Brookwell, Sean McNamara, Anthony
Rhulen
Executive Producers: A.J. Dix, William
Shively, Avram Butch Kaplan
Cast: Hilary Duff, Rita Wilson, Oliver
James, with Rebecca De Mornay and
John Corbett
Production Status: Post Production
Teen sensation Hilary Duff stars as a
talented small town girl who travels to
Los Angeles against her father’s wishes
to pursue her dream of becoming a
singer.
K
KATHY MORGAN
INTERNATIONAL
Kathy Morgan International, 12250 Sky
Lane, Los Angeles CA 90049 USA. Tel:
310.472.6300. Fax: 310.472.6304.
At Cannes: Kathy Morgan (President),
Kimberly Fox (Director of International
Sales), Lori Nicholas (Director of Business
Affairs)
Office: Le Grand Hotel, 45 La Croisette,
Cormoran II 5th Floor, (entrance is next to
the Agence Croisette International), Tel:
04.92.59.00.50 and 04.93.68.96.93. Fax:
04.92.59.00.14
AYALA - SENATOR INTERNATIONAL
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
79
A LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY LONG
Language: English
Written and Directed by Shainee Gabel
Producers: Bob Yari, David Lancaster
and Paul Miller
Cast: John Travolta, Scarlett Johansson
and Gabriel Macht.
Production Status: Post Production
A LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY
LONG is a beautiful and poignant
story about the lies families tell to
each other and the truth that lies
in every family.
KEYSTONE
PICTURES INC.
Keystone Pictures Inc., 23410 Civic
Center Way, Suite E-9, Malibu, CA, USA
90265. Tel: 604.873.9739. Fax:
604.873.5919. films@keypics.com
At Cannes: Tim Brown (Director of
International Sales. cell: 604.351.1537);
Michael Strange (President, cell:
310.980.2019), Trevor Lesmeister
(Manager Sales & Distribution), Jhod
Cardinal (Sales & Distribution Associate)
Office: Riviera L5-M6
SPYMATE
Family Comedy (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Robert Vince
Producer: Robert Vince, Anna McRoberts
Cast: Chris Potter, Richard Kind, Emma
Roberts, Debra Jo Rupp, Pat Morita
Delivery status: Post-Production
Origin: Canada
Minkey, the highly trained super spy
chimp, must team up with his ex-partner
Mike Muggins in this high action
comedy to rescue Mike’s daughter from
the clutches of the evil Dr. Farley.
CHESTNUT
Family (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Robert Vince
Producers: Robert Vince & Anna
McRoberts
Cast: Barry Bostwick, Abigail Breslin,
Makenzie Vega
Origin: Canada
Two young orphan girls finally get
adopted only to find out that their newest
secret, a Great Dane puppy, is not
allowed in their new home.
AIR BUD 6
Family
Language: English
McRoberts
Origin: Canada
When Noah and Buddy arrive in
Australia things are not quite what Noah
expected. His hopes of the upcoming
football season are quickly replaced by
Aussie Rules Football.
SPYMATE 2
Family
Language: English
McRoberts
Delivery Status: Development
Country of Origin: Canada
When the safety of the world is
threatened, Minkey the highly trained spy
chimp is back in action on an
International mission that proves to be
just as explosive as his last adventure.
KWA
KWA, Galeón 32, bajo A Madrid 28042,
Spain. Tel: 34.91.747.3100. Fax:
34.91.747.7000. kwa@kevinwa.com,
www.kevinwa.com
At Cannes: Kevin Williams (President),
Nazaret García (administrator), Fatima
Urosa (administrator)
Office: Riviera F1, Tel (Cell):
0034.667.540.547
LA PROMESA (THE PROMISE)
Psychothriller
Director: H. Carré
Producer: Tesela
Starring: Carmen Maura, Co-stars Ana
Fernandez (“Solas”)
Delivery Status: screening
Carmen Maura does a top Betty Davis job
with this schizophrenic character, who after
killing her husband gets work as a
housemaid caring for a small boy.
SOY TU AVENTURA (I AM YOUR
ADVENTURE)
Comedy
Director: Néstor José Montalbano
Stars: Luis Aguile, Luis Luque
Two bankrupt cousins kidnap 70’s Cuban
crooner Luis Aguilé (“Cuando salí de
Cuba”!)
EXCUSAS! (EXCUSES!)
Comedy
Director: Joel Joan
Stars: Joel Joan, Jordi Sánchez and Clara
Segura
Origin: Spain
This is the story of four characters, about
their fears and contradictions. Fear of
compromise, of change and of following
their instincts. And it’s about how they
always find an excuse to hide and not
change.
LAS VOCES DE LA NOCHE (VOICES
IN THE NIGHT)
Drama
Director: Salvador García Ruiz
(“Mensaka”)
Producer: Esicma
Stars: Laia Marull (“Te doy mis ojos”),
Tristan Ulloa (Sex & Lucia)
Period drama of hit and miss romance in
northern Spain between the bourgeois son
of a factory owner and a working class girl.
L
LAKESHORE
INTERNATIONAL
Lakeshore International, 5555 Melrose
Avenue, Gloria Swanson Bldg. 4th Floor,
Hollywood, CA 90038, USA. Tel:
323.956.4222. Fax: 323.862.1456.
www.lakeshoreentertainment.com,
info@lakeshoreentertainment.com
At Cannes: Peter Rogers (President,
International), Eric Reid (COO), Virginia
Longmuir (Sr. Vice President, International
Business & Legal Affairs & Operations),
Julie McLaughlin (Vice President,
International Sales), Robert Burke (Vice
President, Worldwide Marketing), Elisabeth
Costa de Beauregard (Director, International
Sales), Bonnie X. Brocatto (Coordinator,
Int’l Business & Legal Affairs), Phillida
Lansley (Assistant, International)
Office: Residence du Grand Hotel,
Cormoran II, 7th Floor, 45 Boulevard de
la Croisette, 06400 Cannes, France. Tel:
04.93.38.1056. Fax: 04.93.68.2974
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Drama
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman,
Hillary Swank
A funny, heartbreaking account of
“Fighting” Maggie Fitzgerald, a young
woman boxer from the Ozarks.
AEON FLUX
Action
Director: Karyn Kusama
Producers: Tom Rosenberg, Gary
Lucchesi, Gale Ann Hurd, Gregory
Goodman, David Gale
Cast: Charlize Theron
In the year 2415, Aeon Flux, a seductive,
lethal femme fatale brings her own dark
form of justice and revenge in this
futuristic thriller as she battles a
totalitarian government to avenge the
wrongful death of her sister.
TRUTH ABOUT LOVE
Romantic Comedy
Director: John Hay
Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jimi Mistry,
Dougray Scott
Archie, Sam’s best friend, has a secret
crush on Sam’s wife, Alice. When
Alice receives an anonymous Valentines
gift (from Archie), she plays a prank
on Sam with the intent of proving his
love for her.
UNDERWORLD II
Action
Director: Len Wiseman
Lucchesi, Richard Wright
Cast: Kate Beckinsale
The eternal battle between
Vampires and Werewolves is back
in the sequel to the smash hit
Underworld.
CAVE HORROR
Director: Bruce Hunt
Producer: Andrew Mason, Tom
Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi
Cast: Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut,
Piper Perabo, Rick Ravanello
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
A group of hotshot cave divers get
trapped in an underground cave system
and is forced to battle demon creatures
when they attempt to escape.
LADIES IN LAVENDER
Period Drama
Director: Charles Dance
Producers: Nik Powell, Nicholas
Brown, Elizabeth Karlsen
Cast: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith,
Daniel Bruhl, Natasha McElhone,
Miriam Margolyes, David Warner
Two sisters have their lives turned
upside down when they discover a
handsome and charismatic Polish
castaway on the beach below their
house.
WICKER PARK
Suspense Thriller
Director: Paul McGuigan
Lucchesi, Andre Lamal
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Matthew Lillard,
Rose Byrne, Diane Kruger
Status: Completed
A young man is caught in an obsessive
search for a woman he fell deeply in
love with - a woman who then vanished
without a trace.
TOOTH FAMILY
Director: Edouard Nammour
Producers: Susie Brooks-Smith, Zygi
Kamasa, Simon Franks
Cast: Jim Broadbent (Voice), Stephen
Fry, Vinnie Jones, Tim Dutton, Sally
Phillips, Phyllida Law
Status: Screening
A young girl appeals to the Tooth Fairy
for a gazillion dollars to save her
parents from bankruptcy and her wish is
granted by a rebellious fairy who has
been assigned to collect the girl’s tooth.
SINGING BEHIND SCREENS
Period Drama
Director: Ermanno Olmi
Producers: Luigi Musini, Roberto
Cicutto
Cast: Bud Spencer, Jun Ichikawa
Status: Screening
Set in the 17th century, SINGING
BEHIND SCREENS is a complex
drama based on the legend of the
Widow Ching, the wife of Admiral
Ching, a notorious Chinese pirate.
MAYOR OF THE SUNSET STRIP
Documentary
Director: George Hickenlooper
Producers: Chris Carter, Greg S. Little,
Donald Zuckerman, Tommy Perna
Cast: Rodney Bingenheimer, Cher,
David Bowie, Coldplay, Oasis
Status: Screening
From nobody to somebody, Mayor of
the Sunset Strip explores the
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
remarkable life of Rodney
Bingenheimer, an LA radio host with an
obsession for celebrities, music and
how he has influenced popular culture.
LAW OFFICES OF
GREG S. BERNSTEIN
Law Offices of Greg S. Bernstein, 9601
Wilshire Blvd., Suite 240, Beverly Hills,
California, USA. Tel: 310.247.2790. Fax:
310.247.2791. www.thefilmlaw.com
Company Type: Entertainment and Film
Finance Law, Producer Representative
At Cannes: Greg S. Bernstein
(Entertainment Attorney, Producer
Representative)
Office: Novotel Montfleury Cannes, Tel:
33.4.93.68.86.86. Fax: 33.4.93.68.87.87
LIGHTNING
ENTERTAINMENT/MA
INLINE RELEASING
Lightning Entertainment, 301 Arizona
Avenue, 4th Floor, Santa Monica, CA
90401, USA. TEL: 310.255.7999. Fax:
310.255.7998. info@lightning-ent.com,
www.lightning-ent.com. Mainline
Releasing, 301 Arizona Avenue, 4th Floor,
Santa Monica, CA 90401, USA. Tel:
310.255.1200. Fax: 310.255.1201.
info@mainlinereleasing.com,
www.mainlinereleasing.com
At Cannes: Richard S. Guardian (President,
Lightning Entertainment), Tannaz Anisi
(Vice President, International Sales,
Mainline Releasing), Rich Goldberg
(President, Mainline Releasing), Eric
Bernstein (Vice President, International
Sales, Mainline Releasing)
Office: E6, Riviera
LIGHTNING ENTERTAINMENT:
THE LAST TUNNEL (LE DERNIER
TUNNEL)
Drama
Language: French
Director: Érik Canuel
Producers: Pierre Gendron, Christian
Larouche
Cast: Michel Côté, Jean Lapointe,
Christopher Heyerdahl, Nicolas Canuel
Delivery Status: Complete, Screening
Origin: Canada
A dramatic story inspired by the “heist of
the century” in Montreal.
LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE
Documentary
Language: English
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Producer: Jack Gulick, Alex Gibney,
Margaret Bodde Executive Producer:
Martin Scorsese
Appearances by: B.B. King, Robert Cray
& Bonnie Raitt, The Neville Brothers,
Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler & Joe Perry,
India.Arie, to name a few.
Delivery Status: Completed/screening
Origin: USA
In February of 2003, thousands of music
fans gathered at Radio City Music Hall for
a tribute concert to honor the enduring
legacy of blues music.
MOSCOW HEAT
Action
Language: English
Director: Jeff Celentano
Producer: Alexander Izotov, Alexander
Nevsky
Cast: Michael York, Richard Tyson, Adrian
Paul, Joanna Pacula, Alexander Nevsky,
Robert Madrid
Origin: USA/Russia
A retired Diplomat and an LAPD Detective
seek justice, by pursuing a psychotic
murderer to Moscow.
PERFECT OPPOSITES
www.perfectopposites.com
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Matt Cooper
Producer: Lori Miller, Matt Cooper
Cast: Piper Perabo, Martin Henderson,
Jennifer Tilly, Artie Lang, Joe Pantoliano
Origin: US
A Romantic comedy about a young couple
struggling with their relationship during the
transition from college to adult life, when
they start their life together in a new city.
THIS GIRL’S LIFE
Drama
Language: English
Director: Ash
Producer: Boro Vukadinovic, David
Hillary, Chris Hanley, Ash
Cast: James Woods, Juliette Marquis, Kip
Pardue, Michael Rapaport, Rosario
Dawson
Origin: US
A beautiful seductive adult film star named
Moon, balances her life in the “real world”
where she cares for her ailing father and
hides her profession from her true love.
LIONS GATE FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
Lions Gate Films International, 2700
Colorado Blvd, 2nd Floor, Santa Monica,
CA 90404 USA. Tel: 310.255.3700. Fax:
310.255.3860. www.lionsgatefilms.com
At Cannes: Nicolas Meyer (Co-President,
Lions Gate International), Sergei Yershov
(Co-President, Lions Gate International),
Peter Block President (Home
Entertainment, Acquisitions and New
Media), Tom Ortenberg (President,
Releasing), Steven Beeks (President Home
Entertainment), Steve Rothenberg (EVP,
Distribution)
Office: Riviera M1
FIERCE PEOPLE
Drama
Language: English
Directed by: Griffin Dunne
Producer: Nick Wechsler
Cast: Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland,
Elizabeth Perkins
Status: Production
When a massage therapist’s son has a close
brush with the law, she realizes it’s time to
make a life-altering change.
HAPPY ENDINGS
Drama
Language: English
Written & Directed by: Don Roos
Producers: Holly Wiersma, Michael
Paseornek
Cast: Lisa Kudrow, Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Jesse Bradford
Status: Production
An ensemble cast of 10 intertwining
characters telling 3 stories of
relationships, friendship and blackmail.
HOTEL RWANDA
Drama
Language: English
Director: Terry George
Producer: A. Kitman Ho and Terry
George
Cast: Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte, Sophie
Okonedo, Desmond Dube, Mothusi
Magano, Leleti Khumalo
“Hotel Rwanda” is the true story
of an ordinary man whose love for
his family inspired him to an
extraordinary act of courage that resulted
in saving the lives of over a thousand
helpless Rwandans during the 1994
genocide.
MR. RIPLEY’S RETURN
Thriller
Language: English
Directed by: Roger Spottiswoode
Producer: Michael Ohoven, William
Vince, Marco Mehlitz, Stephen Ujlaki,
Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre
Cast: Barry Pepper, Alan Cumming,
Jacinda Barrett, Claire Forlani, Tom
Wilkinson, Willem Dafoe
The third Ripley installment based on the
novels of Patricia Highsmith follows
Tom to Europe as they cover up the
death of an artist and cash in on his
legacy.
ASTERIX AND THE VIKINGS
Animated feature film (about 75’)
Director: Stefan Fjeldmark (“Help, I’m a
fish”)
Producer: M6 Studio with A-Film in
Denmark
Budget: 22 million Euros
Based on the work of René Goscinny and
Albert Uderzo. Asterix and Obelix’s
mission is to free Goudurix before it is too
late.
THE UGLY DUCKLING AND ME
Animated feature film
Director: Karsten Kiilerish
Producer: A FILM (“Asterix and the
Vikings” - “Help, I’m a fish”)
Budget: 8.5 million Euros
It is a modern version of Andersen’s “The
Ugly Duckling”, full of humour.
J’ME SENS PAS BELLE - TITRE
ANGLAIS NON ENCORE
DÉTERMINÉ
Love comedy (85 min)
Language: French
Director: Bernard Jeanjean
Producer: Delante Films / Kare
Productions
Casting: Marina Foïs, Julien Boisselier
Fanny, a 30 years old single woman, has
decided to change her love life: no love
affair, she just wants one night stand and
absolutely no commitment.
ANIMALS IN LOVE
Animal documentary (80 min)
Language: French
Director: Laurent Charbonnier
(“The last trapper”)
Producer: MC4 - Jean-Pierre Bailly
Budget: 7.5 million Euros Love life of
animals.
M
Media 8 Entertainment, 1875 Century
Park East, Suite 2000, Los Angeles CA
90067 USA. Tel: 310.226.8300. Fax:
310.226.8350.
Company Description: Media 8
Entertainment is a leading independent
film entertainment company engaged in
producing, financing and licensing feature
films worldwide.
At Cannes: Mark Damon (Chairman and
CEO), Sammy Lee (Vice Chairman of the
Board), Richard Kiratsoulis (President &
COO), Stewart Hall (Producer), Brian
O’Shea (Sr. V.P. Worldwide Distribution),
David Gaynes (Sr. V.P. Marketing &
Publicity)
Office: The Riviera - Office M14
M6 - DROITS
AUDIOVISUELS
M6 - Droits Audiovisuels, 89 avenue
Charles-de-Gaulle, 92575 Neuilly-surSeine Cedex, France. Tel:
331.41.92.68.66. Fax: 331.41.92.68.69.
www.m6da.com
At Cannes: Laetitia de la Gravière
(Deputy Manager), Isabelle Drouart
(Head of Feature Film sales)
Office: # K6, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.33.05.
Fax: 33(0)4.92.99.33.06
MEDIA 8
ENTERTAINMENT
THIS GIRL’S LIFE - LIGHTNING ENTERTAINMENT/MAINLINE RELEASING
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
81
RUNNING SCARED
Action
Director: Wayne Kramer
Producer: Michael Pierce
A gritty, tough, and action-packed film
following one night in the life of a father
and son.
THE UPSIDE OF ANGER
Drama
Director: Mike Binder
Producer: Alex Gartner, Jack Binder,
Mike Binder, Sammy Lee
Executive Producer: Stewart Hall,
Andreas Grosch, Andreas Schmid
Cast: Joan Allen, Kevin Costner, Erika
Christensen, Evan Rachel Wood, Keri
Russell, Alicia Witt, Mike Binder
When her husband leaves her one day
without so much as a goodbye, Terry (threetime Academy Award nominee Joan Allen)
and her four beautiful daughters find their
lives suddenly turned upside down.
SANTA’S SLAY
Horror/ comedy
Director: David Steiman
Producers: Brett Ratner, Stewart Hall,
Sammy Lee, Matthew Leonetti Jr.
Exec. Producer: JoAnn Perritano,
Andreas Grosch, Andreas Schmid,
Andrew Pfeffer
Cast: Bill Goldberg, Douglas Smith,
Emilie de Ravin, Robert Culp, Saul
Rubinek, Dave Thomas
Tells the real story of Santa Claus, who
instead of being a cuddly and harmless old
fellow, turns out to be a devil in disguise.
HAVOC
Youth Drama
Director: Barbara Kopple (two-time
Academy Award winner)
Producers: Jack F. Murphy, John
Morrissey, Stewart Hall
Exec. Producer: Sammy Lee, Andreas
Grosch, Andreas Schmid
Co-Producer: Lars Bjorck
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips,
Mike Vogel, Laura San Giacomo,
Michael Biehn, Joseph Gordon Levitt,
Matt O’Leary
HAVOC is Academy Award-winning writer
Stephen Gaghan’s (Traffic) searing vision
of teen culture as it clashes with the real
world of urban Latino gangstas.
GINGER - LIONS GATE FILMS INTERNATIONAL
MEDIA ASIA GROUP
Media Asia Group, 24/F Causeway Bay
Plaza II, 463-483 Lockhart Road,
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Tel:
852.2314.4288. Fax: 852.2314.4248.
wwdist@mediaasia.com,
www.mediaasia.com
At Cannes: Jeffrey Chan (Head of
Distribution, Distribution/Sales), Ricky
Tse (Assistant General Manager,
Distribution/Sales), Frederick Tsui (Coproduction & Distribution), Vanessa Lo
(Assistant Manager, Distribution/Sales),
Cora Yim (Senior Manager, Acquisition
& Marketing)
Office: Hotel Noga Hilton Cannes,
SALON LERINA at 1st Floor, Tel:
33.4.92.99.69.64. Fax: 33.4.92.99.69.66;
Jeffrey Chan Tel: 852.2302.3894,
Mobile: 852.9278.8888, Fax:
852.2314.4247; Ricky Tse Tel:
852.2302.3819, Mobile: 852.9018.6578,
Fax: 852.2314.4247; Frederick Tsui Tel:
852.2302.3810, Mobile: 852.9463.3446,
Fax: 852.2314.4248; Vanessa Lo Tel:
852.2302.3835, Mobile: 852.9488.1759,
Fax: 852.2314.4247; Cora Yim Tel:
852.2905.8141, Mobile: 852, 9192.6416,
Fax: 852.2581.2703
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MEDIA LUNA
ENTERTAINMENT
GMBH & CO. KG
Media Luna Entertainment GmbH & Co.
KG, Hochstadenstrasse 1-3 50674
Cologne Germany. Tel:
0049.221.139.222. Fax:
0049.221.139.2224. info@medialunaentertainment.de. www.medialunaentertainment.de
At Cannes: Ida Martins (Managing
director), Andrew Chang (Sales
Manager), Francesca Breccia (festival &
sales); Acquisition Executive: Ida
Martins
Office: j10, Tel/Fax: 33(0)4.92.99.32.04
BEAR CUB
Comedy/drama (99 min)
Language: Spanish
Director: Miguel Albaladejo
Producer: Juan Alexander
Cast: Jose Luis Garcia-Perez, David
Castillo, Diana Cerezo
Delivery Status: screening of completed
film
Origin: Spain
Pedro is an attractive, homosexual
dentist, completely uninhibited in his
relationships and with no feeling of
responsibility to anyone but himself.
COLD LIGHT
Drama (93 min)
Language: Icelandic
Director: HILMAR ODDSSON
Producer: Fridrik Thor
FridrikssonAnnaMaría Karlsdóttir
Cast: INGVARE. SIGURDSSON,
ÁSLÁKUR INGVARSSON
Delivery Status: screening of completed film
Origin: Iceland
A 40-year-old man hides in a self-made
prison of mundane life. The film opens as
he finally becomes resolved to dare gaze at
- and come to terms with - someone’s
totally different life. His unthinkable past.
YOU I LOVE
Drama (83 min)
Language: Russian
Director: Olga StolpOvskaya, Dmitry
Troitsky
Producer: Olga StolpOvskaya, Dmitry
Troitsky
Cast: LubovTolkalina, Yevgeniy
Koriakovsky, Damir Badmaev
film
Origin: Russia
Tim and Vera’s relationship seems to
have some healing power for them as
their love grows stronger, but on the day
of their first anniversary dinner, Vera
comes home to find Tim in bed with
Uloomji - a young Kalmyk male.
THE NOMI SONG
Language: English
Director: Andrew Horn
Producer: CV films and Cameo
film
Origin: Germany
The man-on-the-street has probably never
heard of Klaus Nomi, and possibly never
will. Nonetheless he provoked a minor
riot in Bordeaux and a sensation in Paris/
MEI AH FILM
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP
Mei Ah Film Entertainment Group, 5/F,
Mei Ah Centre, 28 Chun Choi Street,
Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate,
Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel:
852.2751.3388. Fax: 852.2754.2296.
meiah@meiah.com, www.meiah.com
Company Type: Production/ Distribution
At Cannes: Ms Sara Law (Distribution
Manager)
Office:
MEN SUDDENLY IN BLACK
Black Comedy (98.8 mins)
Language: Cantonese
Director: Pang Ho-Cheung
Producer: Eric Tsang, Co-production
partners: Anytime Pictures Co. Ltd.
Cast: Eric Tsang, Jordan Chan, Chapman To
Origin: Hong Kong
When men want to screw, they always
take a bet; When women come to the
business, they strike back.
THE FOLIAGE
Drama (99.3 mins)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Lu Yue
Producer: Chris Liu, Co-production
partners: Beijing 21 Century Bona Film
Co. Ltd.
Cast: Shu Qi, Liu Ye, Fang Bin, Qi Huan
Origin: China/Hong Kong
A painful love experience for two
revolutionists when China was undergoing
a life-changing revolutionary era.
MINERVA PICTURES
GROUP
Minerva Pictures Group, Via Domenico
Cimarosa, 18 -00198 Rome Italy. Tel:
39(0)6.854.3841/
06.8535.8648/06.842.42430. Fax.
39.06.855.8105.
minerva@minervapictures.com.
www.minervapictures.com,
www.rarovideo.com
At Cannes: Gianluca Curti (President and
CEO), Cristina Cassano (Vice President
Int. Dpt.), Sara Polese (Int. Dpt.
Executive)
Office: booth M3/N4 Riviera, Tel/Fax:
0033.4.9299.8817
MARIA SI
Drama-Romance
Language: Italian with Eng. Subtitles
Directed by Piero Livi Starring Anna
Galiena, Matteo Urzia, Kristina Novikova,
Francesca Reggiani, Jacques Perrin
Year of Production: Italy, Country of
Origin: 2004
The first love experience of a Teenageboy Marco who meets, during the
summer, a mysterious and lonely girl
named Maria.
LENA -THE BRIDE OF ICE
Sentimental
Language: English
Directed by Polly Steele Starring
Valentina Cervi, Ciaran McMenamin
Origin: Germany-UK
A contemporary take on the story of Alma
Mahler, the last muse of 20th Century.
MIRAMAX
INTERNATIONAL
Miramax International, 99 Hudson Street,
5th Floor, New York, NY 10013 USA. Tel:
212.219.4100. Fax: 212.941.3836.
At Cannes: Rick Sands (COO, Miramax
Films), Michael Williams-Jones
(President, Miramax International), Jere
Hausfater (Executive Vice President,
Miramax International), Stuart Ford
(Executive Vice President, Miramax
International), Mark Lindsay (Sr. Vice
President, Sales and Distribution,
Miramax International), Colleen Seldin
(Sr. Vice President, Worldwide
Operations)
Office: Majestic Hotel, Salle Royan 14,
La Croisette, Cannes, France. Tel:
04.97.06.85.00. Fax: 04.97.06.85.04
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
PROOF
Drama
Language: English
Director: John Madden
Producers: John Hart, Jeff Sharp, Allison
Owen and Robert Kessel
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony
Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, Hope Davis
Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow
stars as Catherine, a beautiful mathematics
prodigy who has put her own life on hold
to tend to her brilliant mathematician father
(Oscar-winner, Hopkins).
DEAR FRANKIE
Drama (110 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Shona Auerbach
Producers: Caroline Wood
Cast: Emily Mortimer, Gerard Butler,
Sharon Small, Jack McElhone, Mary
Riggins, Jayd Johnson, Sean Brown
Status: Completed
Country of Origin: Scotland
About Lizzie, a single mother that has
been on the move with her son, Frankie,
since as long as they both can remember.
UNDERCLASSMAN
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Marcos Siega
Producers: Peter Abrams, Robert L.
Levy, Andrew Panay
Cast: Nick Cannon, Cheech Marin,
Roselyn Sanchez, Shawn Ashmore,
Johnny Lewis
A hip, fast-talking street cop becomes the
perfect candidate to go undercover and
solve the crime after a rich senior at the
exclusive Westbury Prep school
mysteriously turns up dead.
MIROVISION INC.
Mirovision Inc., 1-151 Shinmuro 2Ga,
Chongro Gu, Seoul, Kr 110-062 Korea.
Tel: 82.2.737.1185. Fax: +82 2 737
1184. www.mirovision.com,
soojin@mirovision.com/
sales@mirovision.com
At Cannes: Jason CHAE (CEO), Cassie
YOO (V.P.), Mina SUH (Sales Manager),
Soojin JUNG (Assistant Sales Manager),
Jamie LEE (Assistant Sales Manager)
Office: G11, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.88.39
OUIJA BOARD
Horror
Language: Korean
Director: AHN Byung-ki
Producer: KIM Yong-dae
Key Cast: KIM Kyu-ri,LEE Yu-ri, LEE
Se-un
Budget: 3.5million (USD)
Origin: Korea
From the director of “PHONE,” another
shining horror film.
THE BIG SWINDLE
Thriller (116 min)
Language: Korean spoken/ English
subtitled
Director: CHOI Dong-hun
Producer: TCHA Sung-jai/ NOH Jong-yun
Key Cast: PARK Shin-yang
Origin: Korea
A perfect big swindle everyone dreams of.
HE WAS COOL
Comedy
Director: Korean spoken/ English subtitled
Language: LEE Hwan-kyung
Producer: LEE Hwang-rim
Key Cast: SONG Seung-heon, JUNG Dabin
Origin: Korea
The coolest guy in the school walks into
the life of an ordinary but lovely girl.
POSSIBLE CHANGES
www.emovienet.com
Drama
Language: Korean spoken/ English
subtitled
Director: MIN Byung-kuk
Producer: NA Chan-du
Key Cast: JUNG Chan,KIM Yu-seok
Origin: Korea
About dreams and reality of the two men
who are tired of their destined lives.
MOBIUS
INTERNATIONAL
Mobius International, 5890 West Jefferson
Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90016. Tel:
310.202.9500. Fax: 310.202.9505
At Cannes: David Bergstein (President),
Mimi Steinbauer (President, International
Distribution), Nolan Pielak (Director,
International Sales), Helen Lee Kim
(Director, International Distribution)
Office: Carlton Intercontinental Hotel,
Suite 223
CHAOS
Director/Writer: Tony Giglio
Starring: Jason Statham, Ryan Phillippe,
Wesley Snipes, Justine Waddell
Status: In-Production
Two detectives are partnered up and must
uncover how five bank robbers escaped
from a bank heist with over one billion
dollars.
DEAD FISH
Director: Charley Stadler
Starring: Gary Oldman, Robert Carlyle,
Andrew Potts, Elena Anaya
An average everyday Joe’s life takes an
unexpected turn when he accidentally
switches cell phones with a charismatic hit
man.
TRISTAN AND ISOLDE
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Producer: Ridley Scott
Starring: James Franco, Sophia Myles,
Rufus Sewell
The famous tale of a young English
knight who engages in a secret and
scandalous love affair with the daughter
of the Irish King, which ultimately
threatens the existing truce between their
two countries.
A SOUND OF THUNDER
Director: Peter Hyams
Starring: Ed Burns, Catherine
Mccormack, Sir Ben Kingsley
Based On A Short Story By Ray
Bradbury. A tourist on a time-travel
safari to hunt dinosaurs in the Jurassic
Age accidentally steps off the marked
path and changes the course of evolution.
MODERN
ENTERTAINMENT,
LTD.
Modern Entertainment, Ltd., 16255
Ventura Blvd., Suite 1100, Encino, CA
91436 USA. Tel: 818.386.0444. Fax:
818.728.8294.
Company type: Sales agent, distributor
At Cannes: Ken DuBow (President &
CEO), Allyson Hall (VP, International
Sales), Leah Durston (Director,
International Sales), Andy Schreiber
(Consultant), John Vista Neis (Sales &
Acquisition Planner); Acquisition
Executive: Ken DuBow
Office: Riviera - L7/M8
WARRIOR OR ASSASSIN
Action (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Michael Worth
Producers: Dustin Rikert & Michael
Worth
Cast: Lorenzo Lamas, Michael Worth,
and Jenya Lano
Status: Completed
Budget: $500,000
A band of ruthless assassins
hunts down a mysterious defector,
only to discover he always had
the upper hand.
THA EASTSIDAZ
Action (90 min)
Language: English
Status: Completed
Director: Michael Martin
Producer: Marlon Parry
Cast: Snoop Dogg, Tray Deee, and
Goldie Loc
A respected and powerful gang
kingpin looking to get out of the
game gets double crossed by his
lieutenant.
WELCOME TO DEATH ROW
Language: English
Status: Completed
Director: Leigh Savidge
Producers: Jeff Scheftel & Stephen A.
Housden
Cast: Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur, and
Marion “Suge” Knight
Death Row Records invented the
“Gangster Rap” sound, but soon
unraveled in a firestorm of rivalries,
greed, and violence.
LOVING ANGELIQUE
Erotic (90 min)
Language: English
Status: Completed
Director: Brad Sykes
Producer: Brad Jacques
Cast: Melanie Andrews Scanlan, Beverly
Lynn, and Jim Burns
Budget: $250,000
Angelique uses seduction to
manipulate her uncle and his
family, who are completely
unaware she murdered her mother
and father.
MOONSTONE
ENTERTAINMENT
Moonstone Entertainment, P.O. Box
7400, Studio City, CA 91614 USA. Tel:
818.985.3003. Fax: 818.985.3009
At Cannes: Mr. Ernst “Etchie” Stroh
(CEO), Mrs. Yael Stroh (President), Mr.
Shahar Stroh (Director of Development)
Office: The Carlton Intercontinental,
Suite 120/121, Tel: 04.93.06.41.21 or
04.93.06.68.21
WUJI - THE PROMISE
Director: Chen Kaige
Producers: Chen Hong, Chen Kaige, Han
San Ping, Etchie Stroh
Principal Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada, Jang
Dong-Gun, Cecilia Cheung, Nicholas Tse
Cntry of Origin: China
What is Destiny? Is it war, love or a
dream? A General, a Princess and a slave
entangled in a story about War, Love,
and Dream.
9
Thriller
Director: Strathford Hamilton
Producers: Marcy Hamilton, Martin
Wiley, Michael Cowan, Etchie Stroh
Principal Cast: Michael Clarke Duncan
Cntry of Origin: Australia/UK
When Felix Ivo, top emergency room
surgeon, saves one life too many, Death
challenges him to a deadly game where he
will loose nine lives to reach his destination.
THE AVIATOR INITIAL ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
83
MOVIEHOUSE
ENTERTAINMENT
MAYOR OF THE SUNSET STRIP LAKESHORE INTERNATIONAL
IN THE COMPANY OF HEROES
Action
Director: Allan A. Goldstein
Producers: Etchie Stroh, Edward
Feldman
Status: Pre-Produdction
Cntry of Origin:
UK/Germany/Ireland/Hong Kong
A double agent walks a tightrope
between villain and hero, set against
intrigue and espionage in Asia
VILLA DES ROSES
Drama
Director: Frank Van Passel
Producers: Dirk Impens, Rudy Verzyck
Principal Cast: Julie Delpy, Shaun
Dingwall, Shirley Henderson, Harriet
Walter, Timothy West
Status: Completed
Cntry of Origin:
Belgium/France/UK/Netherlands
As Paris prepares for the Great War, the
arrival of a beautiful housemaid at a
boarding house mesmerizes the eccentric
guests and sparks a turbulent love affair.
MORGAN CREEK
INTERNATIONAL
Morgan Creek International, 10351
Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite 200, Los
Angeles, California 90025 USA. Tel:
310.432.4848. Fax: 310.432.4844.
www.morgancreek.com
At Cannes: James G. Robinson
(Chairman/CEO), Howard Kaplan
(COO), Jonathan Deckter (VP
International Sales)
Office: Martinez Hotel, Tel:
334.92.98.73.00. Fax: 334.93.39.67.82
EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING
Horror
Language: English
Director: Renny Harlin
Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Izabella
Scorupco and James D’Arcy
Country of Origin: United States
This prequel to the original The Exorcist
traces the story of Father Merrin and his
first encounter with the Devil in post
WWII Africa.
Moviehouse Entertainment, 9 Grafton
Mews, London W1T 5HZ United Kingdom.
Tel: 44.20.7380.3999. Fax:
44.20.7380.3998. www.moviehouseent.com,
info@moviehouseent.com
At Cannes: Gary Phillips (Managing
Director/ Head Of Sales), Mark Vennis
(Managing Director/Head Of Acquisitions),
Claire Battersby (Director Of Marketing &
Publicity), Norman Siderow (US
Representative)
Office: 55 La Croisette, 4th Floor, Tel:
04.93.68.05.28
NINA’S TRAGEDIES
Comedy/Drama (110 mins)
Language: Hebrew
Director: Savi Gabizon
Producer: Anat Assoulin, Savi Gabizon
Key Cast: Ayelet July Zurer, Yoram, Hatav,
Alon Aboutboul
Origin: Israel
A very sad comedy.
OVERNIGHT
Documentary (81 mins)
Language: English
Director: Mark Brian Smith
Producer: Tony Montanta
Key Cast: Troy Duffy
Origin: USA
Fame means never having to say you’re
sorry.
BLIND FLIGHT
Drama (92 mins)
Director: English
Language: John Furse
Producer: Sally Hibbin
Key Cast: Ian Hart, Linus Roache
Origin: UK
From darkness to light. From despair to
hope. From solitude to the greatest
friendship of their lives. An epic true story.
I LOVE YOUR WORK
Drama/Comedy (111 mins)
Language: English
Director: Adam Goldberg
Producer: Chris Hanley, David Hillary,
Joshua Newman
Key Cast: Giovanni Ribisi, Franka Potente,
Christina Ricci, Joshus
Jackson, Jared Harris, Jason Lee
Origin: USA
In Hollywood some things just go together
- they may hate you but they’ll always say
I love your work.
MOVIEVENTURES
MovieVentures, Hill House, 1 Little New
Street, London EC4A 3TR UK. Tel:
44.20.7493.7920. Fax: 44.20.7493.8088.
movieventures.com,
admin@movieventures.com
At Cannes: Martin Katz, Karen Cuccaro,
Andrew Luff
Office: Riviera Stand K-1, Tel:
04.92.99.88.24
JUMPING GIRL
Drama
Director: Matt Dickinson
Jamie White always wanted to be a star,
but when her dream comes true her world
starts to fall apart. A bittersweet journey to
the dark side of fame.
WRECK OF THE EDMUND
FITZGERALD
Drama
Language: English
Producer: MovieVentures
Country of Origin: Canada/UK/Germany
Based on the actual events surrounding the
sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald and the
loss of her captain and crew.
ROCK ‘N ROLL SUSHI
Rockumentary
Director: English/Japanese
Producer: MovieVentures
Country of Origin: US/Japan
Rockumentary on the initial clash and
ultimate merging of cultures between the
US and Japan.
MR INTERNATIONAL
FILM SALES LTD.
MR International Film Sales Ltd., 1
Westland Square, Pearse Street, Dublin 2.
Ireland. Tel: 353.1.881.4010. Fax:
353.1.881.4011.
Company Type: Sales Agents
At Cannes: Mary Clare Curran (Sales
Executive), Gareth Jones(Sales
Consultant), Emma Scott (Producer)
Office: Booth F14, Palais des
Fetivals/Riviera, Tel: 353.87.924.8880
TIMBUKTU
Drama (94 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Alan Gilsenan
Producer: Martin Mahon, John McDonnell,
Emma Scott
Cast: Eva Birthistle, Karl Geary, George
Jackos
Budget: $1,000,000
Origin: Ireland
When Isobel’s brother is kidnapped by
Algerian rebels, she reunites with their
childhood friend Deecy and together they
embark on a dark journey of discovery
across the Sahara.
MULTIMEDIA
CORPORATION
INTERNATIONAL, INC
Multimedia Corporation International, Inc,
19360 Rinaldi St. #342, Porter Ranch, CA
91326 USA. Tel: 818.368.0817. Fax:
818.368.1817. multimedia@socal.rr.com,
mcmultimedia.de
At Cannes: Karin Thome (President),
Joseph G. Geissler (Director), Ricardo
Gaona (Vice President Acquisitions)
Office: Villa Olivaie Du Cap, Chemin De
La Garoupe, 06, Cap D’Antibes, Tel:
00491712739070
EMPIRE OF ASHES
Drama
Language: English
Director: Ricky Gaona
Producer: Karin Thome, MMC Inc.,
USA, Joseph Geissler, MCM Germany
Production Status: Preproduction
A Punk Rock love story for those
burning inside the margins.
MYRIAD PICTURES
Myriad Pictures, Head Office: Los
Angeles, 405 S. Beverly Drive, Beverly
Hills, CA 90212 USA. Tel: 310.279.4000.
Fax: 310.279.4001. UK Office:
Cavendish House, 5th Floor 51-55
Mortimer Street, London W1W 8HJ UK.
Tel: 44.20.7580.9200. Fax:
44.20.7290.0844
At Cannes: Kirk D’Amico (President),
Samantha Horley (Senior Vice President,
International Distribution), Alice Weston
(Sales Executive), Marion Pilowsky
(Head of International Production),
Maxine Leonard (Executive Vice
President, Marketing & Publicity),
Christine Howard (Head of International
Business Affairs)
Office: Imperial Suite, Carlton Hotel, 58
La Croisette BP 155, 06400 Cannes
Cedex
SILVER CITY
Thriller
Writer/Director: John Sayles
Producer: Maggie Renzi
Cast: Maria Bello, Thora Birch, Chris
Cooper, Richard Dreyfuss,
Daryl Hannah, Danny Huston, Kris
Kristofferson, Mary Kay Place, Tim Roth
Status: Screening
A grammatically challenged, born-again
candidate for governor is fumbling his
way towards elected office when an
unexplained corpse emerges to threaten
his campaign, his family empire and the
special interest groups that pull his
strings.
THE DEAL
Thriller
Producer: Harvey Khan, Ruth Epstein,
Chris Dorr
Director: Harvey Khan
Cast: Christian Slater, Selma Blair
Government secrecy, illegal oil trading
and the Russian mafia collide in a spiral
of intimidation and blackmail in this
Grisham type thriller.
BEING JULIA
Comedy/Drama
Director: Istvan Szabo
Producer: Robert Lantos
Cast: Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons,
Michael Gambon, Bruce Greenwood,
Juliet Stevenson
A celebrated actress embarks on a secret
and passionate affair with a man half her
age, until she realizes he has an ulterior
motive.
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
PICCADILLY JIM
Romantic Comedy
Director: John McKay
Producer: Graham Broadbent, Peter
Czernin, Andrew Hauptman
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Frances O’Connor,
Tom Wilkinson, Brenda Blethyn, Hugh
Bonneville, Allison Janney
Status: Post production
Romantic misadventures ensue as a
dashing American ne’er-do-well, Jimmy
Crocker, desperate to shed his scandalous
reputation, goes out on a limb to impress
the girl of his dreams.
N
NATIONAL FILM
DEVELOPMENT
CORP. LTD. (INDIA)
National Film Development Corp. Ltd.
(India), “Discovery of India”, Nehru
Centre, 6th Floor, Dr. Annie Besant
Road, Worli, Mumbai 400 018, India.
Tel: 91.22.24973364/24960694. Fax:
91.22.24973364/24960694.
vpsmenon@nfdcnet.co.in
Company Type: Sales agent, Producer,
Distributor
At Cannes: D.Mukhopadhyay (Managing
Director), V.P.S. Menon (Dy General
Manager-Export); Acquisition Executive:
D. Mukhopadhyay (Managing Director )
Office Booth no B 6 RIVIERA, Hotel:
Hotel Corona, 55, Rue D’Antibes, 06400
Cannes. Tel: 04.93.39.69.85. Fax:
04.93.99.09.69
RAGHU ROMEO
Comedy (99 min)
Language: Hindi
Director: Rajat Kapoor
Producer: National Film Development
Corp. (India)
Cast: Vijay Raaz, Sadiya Siddiqui
Delivery status: Completed
origin: India
Raghu a night club waiter comes in
contact with various people including a
TV star and this transforms his life.
DANCE LIKE A MAN
Drama (100 min)
Language: English
Director: Pamela Rooks
Corp. Ltd (India)
Cast: Shobana, Anoushka Shankar, Arif
Zakaria
origin: India
A young dancer takes her parents’
profession though they had to undergo
suffering to pursue their passion.
Carlton Office
149
Direct Telephone:
0493064149
DEVI AHILYA BAI
Drama (145 Min)
Language: Hindi
Director: Nachiket & Jayoo
Corp. Ltd (India)
Cast: Shabana Azmi, Sadashiv
Amrapurkar
origin: India
In the early 18th century, Devi
Ahilya Bai becomes a widow in
her early childhood. Her father-in-law
does not want her to disappear from
life.
PARINAMAM (CHANGE OF
CIRCUMSTANCES)
Drama (130 min)
Language: Malayalam
Director: Venu
Corp. Ltd (India)
Cast: Nedumudi Venu, Matampu Kunju
Kuttan
origin: India
Balakrishna Marar retires from
service, faces problem of
adjustment with the rest of
the family.
1:1.6. AN ODE TO LOST LOVE
Drama (110 min)
Language: English
Director: Madhu Ambat
Corp. Ltd (India)
Cast: Atul Kulkarni, Gulshan Grover,
Mausami, Sonali
Kulkarni, Rati Agnihotri
Delivery status: Under production
origin: India
Set against a back drop of film shooting,
the film tries to analyze the eternal
question - is creation more important
than life.
SAPHALAM (A FRUITFUL
JOURNEY)
Drama (118 Min)
Language: Malayalam
Director: Ashok R. Nath
Producer: Anil Thomas
Cast: Balachandra Menon, Sumithra,
Manoj K. Jayan
Delivery status: Completed :
origin: India
‘Saphalam’ provides an insight into
familial relations - individuals still have
their lives to live.
PADAM ONNU: ORU VILPAM
(LESSON ONE: A WAIL)
Drama (110 min)
Language: Malayalam
Director: T.V.Chandran
Producer: Aryadan Shoukath
Cast: Meera Jasmin, Irshad, Mamu Koya,
Suja Karthika
origin: India
A poignant story of a young girl
caught in shackles of social system,
her valiant attempt to break free to pursue
her dream to continue her studies.
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OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND
(Tented & Heated)
Lunch on the beach
Whatever the weather
The Restaurant
on the beach
(Between Miramar & Martinez)
Contact Olivier
Tel. (33) 4 93 94 20 68 Fax. (33) 4 93 43 60 91
site address: http://www.rado-plage.fr
notre e-mail: info@rado-plage.fr
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
85
ORUTHTHI (A GIRL)
Drama (91 min)
Language: Tamil
Director: Amshan Kumar
Producer: S. Thara
Cast: Poorvaja, Ganesh Babu, Balasingh
origin: India
This story is about a lower-caste village girl
who challenges upper caste people.
TOK JHAL MISTI (LIFE IS SOUR,
LIFE IS SWEET)
Comedy (150 min)
Language: Bengali
Director: Basu Chatterji
Producer: NFDC
Cast: Ferdous, Priyanka Trivedi, Arjun
Chakraborty. Romaprasad Banik
origin: India
Two families that of Dilip and Mukund, do
not mix with each other because of their
difference in status.
FIVE BY FOUR
Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Roopa Swaminathan
Producer: NFDC
Cast: Carey Edwards, Divyadarshini,
Eashwar, Sapna, Usha, Hardeep Minhas,
Preetha, Sujatha Panju
origin: India
Five By Four is a story of five women and
three men. It is laid out like a novel. It has
a prologue - main story - epilogue.
NEW FILMS
INTERNATIONAL
New Films International, 8484 Wilshire
Blvd., Suite 510, Beverly Hills, Ca. 90211
USA. Tel. 323.655.1050. Fax:
323.655.1070. Newfilms@newfilmsint.com,
www.newfilmsint.com
At Cannes: Nesim Hason, Radu Nicolau,
Ron Gell, Izak Saul, Jeff Levine, David
Kim, Serap Acuner
Office: Carlton Hotel 58 La Croisette, Tel:
04.93.06.4233 & 04.93.06.8233. Fax:
33.4.93.06.40.25
BOOK OF LOVE
Drama (85 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Alan Brown
Producer: Robert Ahrens
Principal Cast: Frances O’Connor, Simon
Baker, Gregory Smith, Bryce Dallas Howard
Completion Year: 2003
A high School history teacher and his
restless wife’s marriage is disrupted by a
teenage boy. Keywords: Marriage, Teacher,
Teen, Relationship.
MARIE AND BRUCE
Comedy (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Tom Cairns
Producer: George Van Buskirk
Principal Cast: Julianne Moore, Matthew
Broderick, Griffin Dunne
A film that takes a satirical look at the
unwinding of a marriage.
OFF THE MAP
Drama (111 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Campbell Scott
Producer: George Van Buskirk
Principal Cast: Joan Allen, Sam Elliot,
Valentina De Angelis, Amy Brenneman
The sweeping vista of New Mexico creates
a dream-like quality to this drama about an
11 year old girl who learns to overcome
the challenges of her very unconventional
parents and extended family.
GRAND THEFT PARSONS
Comedy/Chase (87 minutes)
Language: English
Director: David Caffrey
Producer: Frank Manion
Principal Cast: Johnny Knoxville,
Christina Applegate, Michael Shannon,
Marley Shelton,Robert Forster, Gabriel
Macht
A true story of how legendary Musician
Gram Parsons’ Manager, Phil Kaufman,
honored his promise to Gram upon his
death by stealing his body in order to
cremate him in the desert.
EASY SIX
Comedy drama (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Chris Iovenko
Producer: Jason Blum
Principal Cast: Julian Sands, Jim Belushi,
Katherine Towne, John Savage
A well regarded college professor crosses
the line when he has an illicit affair with
one of his former students, triggering a
series of life changing events for everyone
involved.
UNDERMIND
Suspense/Thriller (1:48 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Nevil Dwek
Producer: Fred Bernstein & Mark Tarlov
Principal Cast: Sam Trammell, Ellen
Pompeo, Celia Weston, Susan May Pratt
A young wealthy New York Attorney finds
himself living in two polar opposite
worlds. His other reality as a criminal
begins to intertwine with his upscale life in
the most intriguing manner.
NEW LINE CINEMA
New Line Cinema, 116 N. Robertson Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA. Tel:
310.854.5811. Fax 310.659.4712. New
York Office: 888 7th Avenue, 20th Floor,
New York NY 10106. Tel: 212.649.4900.
Fax: 212.659.4966.
Corporate Profile: New Line Cinema is the
oldest and most successful fully integrated
independent film company in the world.
At Cannes: Rolf Mittweg (President and
Chief Operating Officer of Worldwide
Distribution and Marketing), Camela
Galano (President, New Line
International), Nestor Nieves (Executive
Vice President - New Line International),
Robert Remley (Senior Vice President,
International Marketing), Elena Cahalan
(Vice President, International Contracts)
Office: Residence Croisette Miramar, 67
rue la Croisette, 9th Floor, 06400 Cannes
MONSTER IN LAW
Comedy
Director: Robert Luketic
Producers: Chris Bender, JC Spink,
Paula Weinstein, Julio Caro
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Jane Fonda
An unlucky-in-love girl is set to marry
what appears to be the perfect guy until
she meets his mother.
THE NEW WORLD
Romantic Drama
Director: Terrence Malick
Producers: Sarah Green
Cast: Colin Farrell
The story of Pocahontas and Captain
James Smith
THE WEDDING CRASHERS
Comedy
Director: David Dobkin
Producers: Peter Abrams, Robert Levy,
Andrew Panay
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson,
Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams
Two guys crash weddings to meet
women but then one of them falls for a
bridesmaid.
SON OF THE MASK
Effects/Action Comedy
Director: Lawrence Guterman
Producers: Erica Huggins, Scott Kroopf
Cast: Jamie Kennedy, Alan Cumming,
Traylor Howard, Stephen Wright, Kal
Penn and Bob Hoskins
Production Status: Post-Production
THE MASK fathers a son who spins
like a Tasmanian devil, bounces like a
super ball and behaves like a real-life
cartoon but Loki, the Norse God of
Mischief, has returned to reclaim the
Mask at all costs.
NEW ZEALAND
FILM
New Zealand Film, The Film Centre,
119 Jervois Quay, Wellington, New
Zealand. Tel: 64.4.382.7680. Fax:
64.4.384.9719. marketing@nzfilm.co.nz
At Cannes: Barrie Everard (Chairman),
Ruth Harley (Chief Executive),
Kathleen Drumm (Sales & Marketing),
Michael Wrenn (Creative &
Marketing), Caroline Grose (Head of
Development), Lloyd Meiklejohn
(Business Affairs)
Office: 1st Floor, Residence Gray
D’Albion, 17 la Croisette/4 rue des
Serbes (Entrance: rue des Serbes), Tel:
04.93.39.24.27, Fax: 04.93.68.70.04
SPOOKED
Conspiracy Thriller
Director Geoff Murphy
Producer: Don Reynolds
Cast: Cliff Curtis, Christopher Hobbs
Premiere
The only thing more dangerous
than tracking a story – is becoming
part of it.
FRACTURE
Psychological Drama
Director: Larry Parr
Producer: Charlie McClellan
Cast: Kate Elliot, Jared Turner
A bungled burglary causes the lives of two
families to spiral out of control.
PERFECT STRANGERS
Chilling Romance
Director: Gaylene Preston
Producer: Robin Laing, Gaylene Preston
Cast: Sam Neill, Rachael Blake
A woman finds herself the subject of a
man’s romantic obsession on a deserted
island.
THE LOCALS
Horror
Director: Greg Page
Producer: Steve Sachs
Cast: John Barker, Dwayne Cameron, Kate
Elliott
Two boys take a detour into the heartland
of evil and meet the living dead.
WOODNEHEAD
Fantasy digital beta
Director/Producer: Florian Habicht
Cast: Tony Bishop, Warwick Broadhead
A surreal musical fairytale for adults. Gert
an ‘innocent’ dump-hand is given the task
of escorting a beautiful mute ‘princess’
Plum to her wedding.
NIKKATSU
CORPORATION
Nikkatsu Corporation, 3-28-12, Hongo,
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033 Japan. Tel:
81.3.5689.1026. Fax: 81.3.5689.1044.
www.nikkatsu.com
Company Type: Producer: , distributor,
exhibitor
At Cannes: Kiyoyuki Ishihara (Executive
Director); Acquisition Executive: Kiyohiko
Shoji (General Manager), Yasue Nobusawa
(Manager)
Office: Riviera K-7
LADY JOCKER (WORKING TILTE)
Suspence Drama
Language: Japanese
Director: Hideyuki HIRAYAMA
Cast: Tetsuya WATARI
Delivery Status: post-production
The president of a Japanese major beer
company is kidnaped by a group “LadyJoker.”
GINJI THE SLASHER
Action Drama (121 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Takeshi MIYASAKA
Producer: Kazutaka KATASHIMA
Cast: Riki TAKEUCHI, Isao NATSUYAGI
A guy goes against the darkness in the
Japanese society after the World War II.
THE BOAT TO HEAVEN
Drama (109 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Mitsutoshi TANAKA
Cast: Keiko MATSUZAKA, Reiko
TAKASHIMA, Asahi UCHIDA
Masahiko doesn’t know his aunt is his real
mother until she faces death.
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
TOKYO.SORA
Drama (127 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Hiroshi ISHIKAWA
Producer: Akira NAGAMATSU, Kazuo
KISHINO, Hiroshi ISHIKAWA
Cast: Yuka ITAYA, Manami HONJO
Under the sky of Tokyo, six girls live
and their stories unfold.
NONSTOP SALES AB
NonStop Sales AB, Döbelnsgatan 24,
SE-113 52 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel:
46(0)8.673.99.80. Fax:
46(0)8.673.99.88.
info@nonstopsales.net,
www.nonstopsales.net
Company Type: International Sales
Agent
At Cannes: CG Anderson (CEO),
Michael Werner (Sales Director,
Mobile: 46.70.733.28.55), Karin Thun
(Sales, Mobile: 46.704.16.99.89), Judith
Toth (Int’l Marketing Manager,
46.704.16.99.83)
Office: Scandinavian Terrace, 55 La
Croisette, Cannes
THE KETCHUP EFFECT (HIP HIP
HORA!)
Teenage drama/Comedy (91 Min)
Language: Swedish, English subtitles
Director: Teresa Fabik
Producer: Lars Blomgren, Genya
Kihlberg.
Prod. Comp: FilmLance International.
Cast: Amanda Renberg, Björn
Kjellman, Ellen Fjaestad, Linn Persson,
Filip Berg.
Country: Sweden, Year: 2004
A film about friendships put to test and
standing up for yourself.
THREE SUNS (TRE SOLAR)
Drama (100 min)
Director: Richard Hobert
Producer: Peter Possne
Prod. Comp: Sonet Film in association
with Film i Vast, Cimbria Film.
Cast: Lena Endre, Kjell Bergqvist,
Maria Bonnevie, Mikael Persbrandt and
Rolf Lassgard,
In a small 14th century town, Hanna
leaves her children and sets off on a
horseback journey, to greet her husband
the crusader, who’s been away for four
years.
GUNNAR GOES COMFORTABLE
Language: Norweigan, English subtitles
Director: Gunnar Hall Jensen
Producer: Elin Sander
Prod. Comp: Agitator AS
Cast: Gunnar Hall Jensen
Status: Completed
Country: Norway, Year: 2004
A man with $25 dollars, amateur
camera and nothing to lose, except
his family, his country, his pride,
his sexuality, himself and his life in order to understand why his
own personality makes life
uncomfortable.
AT POINT BLANK (RÅNARNA)
Thriller/Action (100 min)
Director: Peter Lindmark
Producer: Steve Aalam, Thomas
Allercrantz
Prod. Comp: Isis Categis Pictures, Röde
Orm Film
Cast: Sofia Helin, Mikael Persbrandt,
Stefan Sauk, Stina Ekblad, Peter Franzén
Status: Completed
Klara, a police detective, and her
conservative colleague Greger are
investigating a robbery that doesn’t
resemble any other crime in Swedish
history.
NORDISK FILM
INTERNATIONAL
SALES
Nordisk Film International Sales,
Halmtorvet 29 - DK 1700 Copehagen V,
Denmark. Tel: 45.33.26.68.80. Fax:
45.33.26.68.89.
contact@nordiskfilm.com,
www.sales.nordiskfilm.com
At Cannes: Sanne Arloe (Sales
Executive), Susan Wendt (Sales
Executive, Klaus Rasmussen - Sales
Executive)
Office: Sacndinavian Office - 55 La
Croisette, Cannes, Tel: 45.40.30.19.80
AFTERMATH
Drama (90 min)
Language: Danish
Director: Paprika Steen
Producer: Thomas Heinesen
Cast: Sofie Graaboel, Mikael Birkkjær ,
Karen Lise Münster
Origin: Denmark
How does one bear the unbearable? That
is the essential question for Claes and
Britt, a couple in their mid-thirties. They
lost their only child in a car accident, and
are now struggling in separate ways to
overcome their grief.
TERKEL IN TROUBLE
3D animation (78 min)
Language: Danish
Director: Stefan Fjeldmark
Producer: Thomas Heinesen & Trine
Heidegaard
Origin: Denmark
We follow Terkel, his family, friends and
not least his enemies in their humoristic and
weird way of handling everyday problems.
DROWNING GHOST
Thriller
Language: Swedish
Director: Mikael Håfström
Cast: Rebecka Hemse, Jesper Salén Kjel
ergqvist
Origin: Sweden
The idyllic world of a boarding school
crumbles into nightmare when a bestial
murder committed a hundred years ago
returns to haunt and terrorise the school.
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C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
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BORDER BLUES SHORELINE ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
NU IMAGE /
MILLENNIUM FILMS
Nu Image / Millennium Films, 6423
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles,
California 90048 USA. Tel:
310.388.6900 Fax: 310.388.6901.
nimage@msn.com
At Cannes: Danny Dimbort (Co-Chairman),
Avi Lerner (Co-Chairman), Dave Sobieraj
(President Domestic Sales), Carole
Delossantos (V.P. International Sales)
Office: Riviera Stand G9, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.32.24. Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.32.26
EDISON
Directed By: David J. Burke
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman,
Justin Timberlake, and L.L. Cool J
Status: Production
An elite unit of cops is caught in a
maelstrom of corruption by a young
journalist who quickly finds himself in
over his head.
CRAZY IN LOVE
Director: Petter Næss (Oscar-Nominated
Foreign-Film “Elling”)
Starring: Josh Hartnett (“Pearl Harbor,”
“Black Hawk Down”) Radha Mitchell
(“Phone Booth,” “Pitch Black”)
Status: Production
The story of a highly-functioning autistic
couple who fall in love and learn to cope
with the consequences.
LOVERBOY
Directed By: Kevin Bacon
Starring: Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon,
Matt Dillon, Sandra Bullock, Oliver
Platt, And Marisa Tomei
A single mother tries to raise an
exceptional child without considering the
trappings of the unexceptional world.
CONTROL
Director: Tim Hunter
Starring: Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe,
Michelle Rodriguez, And Stephen Rea
Status: Post - Production
A pharmaceutical researcher and his
company test a drug to make violent
offenders tame, but things do not go
according to plan with the death row
murderer they try to rehabilitate.
SUBMERGED
Director: Anthony Hickox
Starring: Steven Seagal
Status: Pre - Production
A submarine crew is trapped at the
bottom of the ocean, after cases of a
biological agent are broken.
MERCENARY
Starring: Steven Seagal
Status: Pre - Production
A mercenary is entangled in a mission that
threatens the lives of those close to him.
BLOODSUCKERS
Status: Pre – Production
A team of humans battle various species
of alien vampires in the nether regions of
outer space.
CAPOERIA
Status: Development
A young architect’s journey to Brazil
changes the course of his life after he
stumbles in to the intoxicating world of
Capoeria and its dangerous blend of
dance and marshal arts.
O
OASIS
INTERNATIONAL
Oasis International, 6 Pardee Ave, Suite
103, Toronto, Canada M6K 3H5.Tel:
416.588.6821. Fax: 416.588.7276,
info@oasisinternational.com,
www.oasisinternational.com
Company Type: International and
Domestic Distribution Company
At Cannes: Peter Emerson (President),
Valerie Cabrera (Executive VP), Steve
Murphy (VP, Sales), Prentiss Holman
(Sales Executive)
Office: c/o Telefilm, Valerie Cabrera
(Mondial)
GSM Number in Cannes: 310.463.1559
FAMILY VALUES
MOW (90 min)
Language: English
Producer: Blueprint Entertainment
For the first time, Michael Jackson’s life
story comes to the small screen.
CHASING FREEDOM
Language: English
Producer: Blueprint Entertainment
Cast: Juliette Lewis (Starsky & Hutch,
Natural Born Killers)
After escaping from the Taliban regime,
a young Afghan woman seeks refuge in
the United States only to confront the
greatest struggle of her life.
CORNERED
Mafia Drama (90 min)
Language: English
Producer: Film Arts
Cast: Lee Broker (FX/2), Domenic Cina
(Sex & Mrs. X)
As the family slowly drifts apart, the
three men are consumed by their
circumstances until tragedy unites them
for an underground boxing match where
Michael must face the most serious
moral choice of his young life.
BURN
Drama (92 minutes)
Language: English
Producer: Tapestry Pictures Ltd.
Cast: Jonathan Scarfe (Slap Shot 2:
Breaking the Ice), Alan Scarfe (AKA
Albert Walker) and Kristin Booth (Two
Against Time)
When justice fails a family whose land
has been contaminated they turn to a
local environmentalist with a reputation
of taking the law into his own hands.
ODYSSEY
ENTERTAINMENT
LIMITED
Odyssey Entertainment Limited, 12 St
James’s Square, London, SW1Y 4RB UK.
Tel: 44.207.153.3583. Fax:
44.207.153.3597. sales@odysseyentertainment.co.uk
At Cannes: Ralph Kamp (Chairman &
CEO), Louise Goodsill (President &
COO), Pascal Degove (Head of Sales),
Sarah Arnott (VP Acquisitions), Rachel
Woodeson (VP Business & Legal Affairs);
Acquisition Executive: Sarah Arnott
Office: Bateau Bayview, Place # 977, Quay
Albert-Edouard, Tel: 33(0)4.92.98.71.72.
Fax: 33(0)4.92.98.71.72
THE LIBERTINE
Period Drama
Language: English
Director: Laurence Dunmore
Producer: Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich,
Russell Smith
Cast: Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton,
John Malkovich, Rosamund Pike, Tom
Hollander, Johnny Vegas, Kelly Reilly,
Jack Davenport, Richard Coyle, Francesca
Annis, Claire Higgins
Delivery Status: In Production (October
2004)
Origin: UK
The true story of the Earl of Rochester,
friend and confidant of King Charles II.
SPACE CHIMPS
Animation
Language: English
Director: TBA
Producer: John H Williams
Cast: TBA
Comedy, adventure and romance ensue
when two NASA chimps are sent into the
furthest reaches of the galaxy.
HAPPILY N’EVER AFTER
Animation
Language: English
Director: Paul J Bolger
Cast: Freddie Prinze Jr, Sarah Michelle
Gellar, Sigourney Weaver
Country of Origin: Germany
Cinderella and kitchen boy Rick come to
the rescue of all our favourite fairy tale
characters.
VALIANT
Animation
Language: English
Director: Gary Chapman
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Jim Broadbent,
Ricky Gervais
A new animated hero from the Oscar
winning producer of box office hit “Shrek.”
OMNI
INTERNATIONAL
Omni International, Marli, St. Patricks,
Grenada, West Indies. Tel/Fax:
473.442.9255. hcomni@aol.com
At Cannes: Hugh F. Curry (President),
Kathleen Curry (Sr. Vice President)
Office: Splendide Hotel, Cannes
BETTIE PAIGE – DARK ANGEL
(73 min)
Language: English
Director: NICO B
Production company: Cult Epics
Producer: NICO B
Key cast: Paige Richards, Dukey
Flyswatter, Jamie Henkin
Delivery Status: First market screening
of completed film
Dramatised biography of ’50’s pin-up
queen, Bettie Paige.
SLEEPOVER NIGHTMARE
Horror (86 min)
Language: English
Delivery Status: First market screening
of completed film
Director: Boon Collins
Production company: 2003 MMX
Productions Ltd.
Producer: BOON COLLINS & ROBIN
WEBB
Key cast: Hayley Sales, Chad E. Rook,
Kristine Cofsky
When the party ends - the nightmare
begins!
LIBRARY:
SEX: THE ANNABEL CHONG
STORY
HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL
KILLER
HENRY 2: MASK OF SANITY
DAHMER: THE SECRET LIFE OF
JEFFREY DAHMER
ONOMA
Onoma, 4 rue de Miromesnil, Paris,
75008 France. Tel: 33(0)1.58.18.34.90.
Fax: 33(0)1.45.25.99.70.
onoma@onomainternational.com
At Cannes: Pascal DIOT (President)
Office: Riviera booth J7/K8
RI RI YE YE (DAY AND NIGHT)
Drama (100 min)
Language: Chinese
Director: Wang Chao
Co-Production Partners: Laurel Films
Co. Ltd. (China), Rosem Films (France)
Producer: Li Fang, Sylvain Burzstejn
Key Cast: Liu Lei, Wang Lan, Xiao Ming
Budget: 2 700 000 USD
Origin: China/France
Guangsheng, torn between the respect he
owes to others and his own desires, plays
out his destiny in a small Chinese mining
town, against the backdrop of the social
and economic upheavals of contemporary
China.
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
JE T’AIME MOI NON PLUS
Documentary (82 min/52 min)
Language: English, Spanish, Portugese,
French
Director: Maria de Medeiros
Co-Production Partners: Everybody on
deck (France), Onoma (France)
Producer: Bernard Rapp, Didier Creste
Budget: 200 000 USD
Origin: France
A film about the passionate and stormy
relationship between artists and critics…
INGUELEZI
Drama
Director: French
Language: François Dupeyron
Co-Production Partners: Les Films en
Hiver
Producer: Franck Landron
Key Cast: Eric Caravaca, Marie Payen
Origin: France
A woman, an immigrant in the booth of
her car…They are are going to sense a
particular vibration…
CHOK-DEE
Action/Adventure
Language: French/Thai/English
Director: Xavier Durringer
Co-Production Partners: Stephan Films
(France), France 2 Cinéma (France)
Producer: Vera Belmont
Key Cast: Dida Diafat, Bernard Giraudeau,
Vanessa Vanida Faivre, Lakshanta
Abenayake
Origin: France
The true story of a French Thai boxer
whose future could never have been
guessed from his birth and education.
OPEN SESAME CO.,
LTD.
Open Sesame Co., Ltd., 1-14-6 Ginza,
Chuo-ku To 104-0061 Japan. Tel:
81.3.5159.0871. Fax: 81.3.3561.6262.
At Cannes: Ritsuko Abe (President), Kaho
Nakane (Executive Vice President)
Office:
[IS A.]
Drama (109 minutes)
Language: Japanese w/English Subtitles
Director: Kenichi FUJIWARA
Producer: Kenjiro NISHI / Masami
TERANISHI
Key Cast: Kanji TSUDA, Takashi NAITO,
Shun OGURI
Origin: Japan
What if you would face with the crime
committed by a fourteen-year-old boy?
ANTENNA
Drama (117 minutes)
Language: Japanese w/English subtitles
Director: Kazuyoshi KUMAKIRI
Producer: Hiroko MATSUDA, Atsushi
WATANABE, Takumi OGAWA
Key Cast: Ryo KASE, Akemi
KOBAYASHI
Origin: Japan
Heart-wrenching drama about a family
pulled out of deep sorrow.
DRIVE
Black comedy (102 minutes)
Director: Japanese w/English subtitles
Language: SABU
Producer: Osamu KUBOTA / Takashi
HIRANO
Key Cast: Shinichi TSUTSUMI, Kou
SHIBASAKI, Masanobu ANDO, Susumi
TERAJIMA, Toshio KAKEI and Ren
OSUGI
Origin: Japan
About a hiper-square salesman who is
happened to run away with bank robbers.
HOTEL HIBISCUS
Coming-of-Age Drama (92 minutes)
Language: Japanese w/English subtitles
Director: Yuji NAKAE
Producer: Shiro SASAKI
Key Cast: Honami KURASHITA,
Kimiko YO, Tomi TAIRA
Origin: Japan
Growing-up story of a cuirous, 9-yearold tomboy, Mieko.
P
PARAGON FILM
GROUP
Paragon Film Group, 209 East Alameda
Avenue, Burbank, CA 91502 USA. Tel:
818.845.7148. Fax: 818-566-6639.
info@paragonfilmgroup.com
At Cannes: Scott Bedno (Vice President
Worldwide Sales), Matthew McCombs
(President)
Office: Riviera C9
BLOOM
Historical Drama (110)
Language: English
Director Sean Walsh
Producer: Sean Walsh
Cast: Stephen Rea, Angeline Ball, Hugh
Oconnor
Country of Origin: Ireland
A lyrical and sexy adaptation of James
Joyce’s epic masterpiece – Ulysses.
MAYHEM
Horror/Thriller (110 min)
Language: English
Director John Hancock
Producer: John Hancock
Cast: Alex McArthur, Laura Esterman
A man’s weekend snowmobiling
trip turns deadly when he stumbles
upon the home of two murderous sisters!
HELLBORN
Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Philip Jones
Producer: Philip Jones, Matthew
McCombs
Key Cast: Bruce Payne, Tiny Lister Jr.,
Tracy Scoggins
Origin: USA
A young doctor uncovers a demonic cult
and must escape before becoming the next
victim of “The Harvester,” a creature
called forth from Hell itself.
BACKFLASH
Thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Philip Jones
Producer: Philip Jones, Matthew
McCombsh
Key Cast: Robert Patrick, Jennifer
Esposito, Melissa Joan Hart, Colm Meaney
Origin: USA
There’s nothing real in this...but the money.
PARK
ENTERTAINMENT
LTD
Park Entertainment Ltd, 4th Floor, 50-51
Conduit Street, London W1S 2YT UK. Tel:
44(0)20.7434.4176. Fax.
44(0)207.434.4179.
sales@parkentertainment.com,
www.parkentertainment.com
At Cannes: Jim Howell (CEO), Simon
Barnes (Head Of Film Sales), Linda
Vezzoli (Marketing and Sales Executive)
Office: Palais Du Festival, Riviera Stand
L9/M10, Tel: 33(0)4.92.99.32.12
GOOSE
Family Comedy (85 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Nicholas Kendall
Producer: Wendy Hill-Tout, Alex Brown
Cast: Chevy Chase, Joan Plowright, James
Purefoy, Kari Matchett, Tom Arnold
Origin: Canada/UK
Budget: $9.5 million
A talking Goose brings the sparkle back to a
little boy’s life but it’s a race against time to
save the bird from the Christmas cooking pot.
THE PURIFIERS
Martial Arts/Action-Adventure (87 mins)
Language: English
Director: Richard Jobson
Producer: Chris Atkins, Bill Kenwright,
Richard Jobson
Cast: Kevin McKidd, Dominic Monaghan,
Rachel Grant, Amber Sainsbury, Gordon
Alexander
Budget: $1.8 million
A gang of young, highly skilled exponents
of Tae Kwon Do are forced to confront
their fears and loyalties as they defend
themselves against the armies of the night.
HEADRUSH
Comedy (85 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Shimmy Marcus
Producer: Edwina Forkin
Cast: Wuzza Conlon, Gavin Kelty, Laura
Pyper, Steven Berkoff, Huey Morgan
Origin: Ireland
Charlie is a classic no-hoper who cares
more about getting high than getting ahead.
When his long-suffering girlfriend Vicky
leaves him, he embarks on one of his getrich-quick schemes to win her back:
smuggling drugs from Amsterdam.
BOB THE BUTLER
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Bob Spiers
Producer: Gavin Wilding, Esther Randall
Cast: Tom Green, Brooke Shields
Delivery Status: pre-production
Country of Origin: UK/Canada
Budget: $6 million
Having failed at an endless stream of
entry-level jobs, a middle-aged accident
prone man finds a job as a butler.
PATHÉ
INTERNATIONAL
Pathé International, 10 rue Lincoln,
33.140.76.94.38. Fax: 33.140.76.91.23.
sales@patheinternational.com,
www.patheinternational.com
Company type: sales agent
At Cannes: Olivier Granier (Chairman),
Christine Hayet (Head of sales), Antoine
Cochet (Sales executive), Mayalen de
Croisoeuil (Sales executive), Nathalie
Villette (Head of international
marketing), Blandine Guignard (Sales
administrator)
Acquisition Executive: Olivier Granier
(Chairman), Christine Hayet (Head of
sales)
Office: stand number: N7, Tel:
04.92.99.32.14. Fax: 04.92.99.32.17
LES CHORISTES
Drama (95 min)
Language: French
Director: Christophe Barratier
Producer: Jacques Perrin, Nicolas
Mauvernay
Co-production partners:Galatée Films,
Pathé Renn Production, Arthur
Cohn/Vega Film, France 2 Cinéma, Novo
Arturo Films.
Cast: Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand,
Jacques Perrin.
Delivery status: March 2004
origin: France
Budget: 5,3 million euros
The oustanding debut of Christophe
Barratier produced by Jacques Perrin: the
French audience is under the spell of this
charming movie about childood and its
founding emotions.
CASSHERN SHOCHIKU CO., LTD.
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
89
SAN ANTONIO
Action comedy (95 min)
Language: French
Director: Frédéric Auburtin
Producer: Claude Berri, Co-production
partners: Pathé Renn Production
Cast: Gérard Lanvin, Gérard Depardieu,
Barbara Schulz
Delivery status: post-production
origin: France
Budget: 23.5 million euros
The fast-paced adventures of the famous
detective.
LES 11 COMMANDEMENTS
Comedy (93 min)
Language: French
Director: François Desagnat, Thomas
Sorriaux.
Producer: Abel Nahmias, Co-production
partners: SAJ, M6 Films.
Cast: Michaël Youn, Vincent Desagnat,
Benjamin Morgaine.
Delivery status: completed
origin: France
Budget: 4.4 million euros
The French “Jackass” 2004 hit: more than 3
million admissions!
LA PREMIÈRE FOIS QUE J’AI EU 20
ANS.
Comedy
Language: French
Director: Lorraine Levy
Producer: Bruno Pesery, Co-production
partners: Arena Films
Cast: Marie-Lou Balasko
Delivery status: post-production
origin: France
Her dream: to be part of a male jazz band.
So complicated when you’re a jewish
teenager in the 60’s!
PATHÉ PICTURES
INTERNATIONAL
Pathé Pictures International, 14-17 Kent
House, Market Place, London W1W 8AR
UK. Tel: 44.207.462.4427. Fax:
44.207.436.7891.
international.sales@pathe-uk.com
At Cannes: Alison Thompson (Head of
Pathé Pictures International), Riaya Aboul
Ela (Marketing and Publicity Manager),
Mike Runagall (Sales Manager), Marc
Allen (Contractual Delivery Coordinator),
Simon Osborn (Business and Legal Affairs
Manager)
Office: The Riviera - Stand N7, Marché du
Film, Palais des Festivals, 06400 Cannes.
Tel: 04.92.99.32.14. Fax: 04.92.99.32.17
BRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Producers: Gurinder Chadha, Deepak
Nayar, Editor Justin Krish
Delivery Status: in Post-Production
Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson,
Daniel Gillies
Status: In Post-Production/Promo Available
Origin: UK
Gurinder Chadha directs this Bollywoodinspired re-telling of Jane Austen’s classic
tale of marriage and manners.
CHURCHILL, THE HOLLYWOOD
YEARS
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Peter Richardson
Producers: Jonathan Cavendish, Ben
Swaffer
Cast: Christian Slater, Neve Campbell,
Harry Enfield
Origin: UK
Britain’s finest hour becomes Hollywood’s
greatest story in this
comic retelling of one of Britain’s
most historic moments - as seen
through the eyes of Hollywood!
ENDURING LOVE
Psychological Drama
Language: English
Director: Roger Michell
Producer: Kevin Loader
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rhys Ifans, Samantha
Morton
Origin: UK
Based on Ian McEwan’s best-selling novel,
ENDURING LOVE is a story of love, faith
and obsession, and how life can change in
an instant.
MILLIONS
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Danny Boyle
Producer: Graham Broadbent
Cast: Alex Etel, Daisy Donovan, James
Nesbitt
Origin: UK
When a railway heist goes wrong and an
enormous bag on money falls into the
hands of seven-year-old Damian, there’s
only one thing he and his nine-year-old
brother can do - spend it like there’s no
tomorrow!
BREAKING NEWS - MEDIA ASIA GROUP
PEACE ARCH FILMS
Peace Arch Films, 102 Dean Street,
London W1D 3TQ UK. Tel:
44(0)20.7439.8008. Fax:
44(0)20.7439.8228. www.peacearch.com,
films@peacearch.com
At Cannes: Charlie Bloye (MD/ Head of
Sales), James MacKenzie (Sales
Manager)
04.97.06.85.40, Fax: 04.97.06.85.41
THE KEEPER
www.peacearch.com
Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Paul Lynch
Co-Production Partners: GFT Redwood,
Studio Eight
Producer: Gary Howsam, Jamie Brown,
Juliet Jones
Key Cast: Dennis Hopper, Asia Argento,
Lochlyn Munro, Helen Shaver
Origin: Canada/UK
A battle of wills ensues when a
policeman abducts a beautiful dancer.
THE GOOD SHEPHERD
www.peacearch.com
Thriller (98 mins)
Language: English
Director: Lewin Webb
Co-Production Partners: GFT
Entertainment
Producer: Gary Howsam
Key Cast: Christian Slater, Molly Parker,
Stephen Rea
Origin: Canada
A priest doubts his calling when a
colleague is accused of murder.
BACK IN THE DAY
www.peacearch.com
Drama (97 mins)
Director: English
Language: James Hunter
Co-Production Partners: Smashing
Entertainment
Producer: Neil Davis, Peggy Fry
Key Cast: Ja Rule, Ving Rhames, Tia
Carrere
Origin: USA
A young man is torn between his
gangster friend and a preacher’s
daughter.
HOLLYWOOD FLIES
www.peacearch.com
Action-Adventure (92 mins)
Language: English
Director: Fabio Segatori
Co-Production Partners: Movieweb,GFT
Entertainment, Studio Eight, Imago
Films, Kingsborough Pictures
Producer: Massimo Pacilio, Gary
Howsam, Jamie Brown, Leo Pescarolo,
Pieter Kroonenburg
Key Cast: Brad Renfro, Vinnie Jones,
Caprice, Bianca Guaccero, Antonio
Cupo, Casper Van Dien
Origin: Canada, UK, Italy
A roadtrip from Vegas to LA turns into a
race against time.
PFG
ENTERTAINMENT
PFG Entertainment, 429 Santa Monica
Boulevard, Suite 600, Santa Monica,
310.393.5788. Fax: 310.393.0882.
www.pfgentertainment.com,
mail@pfgentertainment.com
At Cannes: Ted Rosenblatt, Daniel Gerst
Office: Carlton Intercontinental Hotel,
Suite 201
THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM
GORDON
Thriller
Cast: Dakota Fanning (Cat in the Hat, I
Am Sam, Man on Fire) and Laura Dern
(We Don’t Live Here Anymore, Jurassic
Park III, I am Sam).
Delivery Status: In Pre-Production
Adapted from Stephen King’s
bestselling novel and directed by
George Romero (Dawn of The Dead),
about a young girl’s confrontation
with panic and terror while lost in a
forest filled with her worst fears.
BIG STAN
Non-Stop Comedy
Cast: Rob Schneider (Deuce Bigalow I &
II, 50 First Dates)
When Stan learns his latest
swindle as a real estate salesman
is sending him to prison, only
an unorthodox martial arts master
can prepare him for his fear of
the other inmates
ATLANTIC MEDIA HOLDINGS
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A SLIPPING-DOWN LIFE
Romantic Drama
Director: Toni Kalem
Producer: Richard Raddon
Principle Cast: Guy Pearce (Memento,
The Count of Monte Cristo, Time
Machine)
Lili Taylor (Casa De Los Babys, High
Fidelity, The Haunting)
Status: Completed
Guy Pearce gives another amazing
performance, here as a seductive
musician whose newfound success
becomes dependent on the obsessive
infatuation of a devoted fan (Lili
Taylor).
PLATINUM SKY
PICTURES
Platinum Sky Pictures, 6381 Hollywood
Boulevard, Suite 610, Hollywood, CA
90028 USA. Tel: 323.960.2887. Fax:
323-960-2889. mlpro@pacbell.net
At Cannes: Andra-Nina Davis (President
/ CEO), Steven Ritchie (Executive in
Charge of Production), Anthony Day
(European Co-production Partner)
Office: Palais Office Suite 26.03
L.A. Office Phone
(323) 935-8228
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
SWEET UNDERGROUND
www.etm.com
Dark Drama (106 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Dorsay Alavi
Producer: Dorsay Alavi, Matthew Flint
Key Cast: Matthew Flint, Cindy Lou
Adkins, Kevin Patrick Walls, Alex
Demir, Tracy Grant, Melissa Lechner,
Seymour Cassel
Origin: USA
Budget $750,000
A surrealistic journey into the belly of
the underground.
THE RAIN MAKERS
www.therainmakersmovie.com
Action Adventure (93 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Ray Ellingsen
Producer: Jean Luc Martin, Louis
Herthum, Ray Ellingsen
Key Cast: Jake Busey, Richard Hatch,
David Andrews, Sara Laine, Ray Wise,
Billy J. Burke, Garland Whitt, Louis
Herthum, Greg Collins
Budget $900,000
Origin: USA
When a neighboring peaceful hippie
commune is threatened by a gang of
ruthless bikers, a reluctant rag-tag group
of heroes band together in a violent
struggle to save the commune.
GALAXY HUNTER
www.bodydouble.com
Sci-Fi Action (88 minutes)
Director: English
Language: Mark Borchetta
Producer: Mark Borchetta, Christopher
Peters
Key Cast: Stacy Keach, Shelley Michelle
Budget $500,000
Origin: USA
The story of a young woman’s struggle
to combat evil and in the process find
herself, her love and the father she never
knew.
BEYOND THE PALE
www.beyondthepalemovie.com
Drama (101 minutes)
Language: English
Director: George Balzala
Producer: Patrick Clarke, Jack Alvino
Key Cast: Malachy McCourt, Patrick
Clarke, Conn Horgan, Beverley Elder,
Roger Davis, Ruth Miller, Valentina
Olmos
Budget $750,000
Origin: Ireland
After entering the Unites States illegally,
two young Irishman struggle to realize
their dreams in New York in this award
winning drama of man’s extraordinary
search for an ordinary life.
PORTMAN FILM
Portman Film, 21-25 St Anne’s Court,
London, W1F OBJ UK. Tel:
44.20.7494.8024. Fax: 44.20.7494.8046.
sales@portmanfilm.com,
www.portmanfilm.com
At Cannes: Tristan Whalley, Tim Buxton,
Jane Baker, Jenifer Landor, Louise
Matthews
Office: Grand Hotel Residences,
Entrance Flamant, 6th Floor, Bell 60CH,
Tel: 04.93.99.81.41. Fax: 04.93.99.81.60
OMAGH
Drama (99 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Pete Travis
Producer: Ed Guiney and Paul
Greengrass
Co-production partners: Hell’s Kitchen
and Tiger Aspect
Cast: Gerard McSorley, Michelle Forbes
screening
Origin: Republic of Ireland/ United
Kingdom
From the team behind Bloody Sunday
comes Omagh, the story of the families
of the victims of the Omagh bomb and
their courageous and inspirational pursuit
of justice.
BULLET BOY
Drama (89 minutes )
Language: English
Director: Saul Dibb
Producer: Ruth Caleb and Marc Boothe
Co-production partners: Shine Ltd in
association with BBC Films and U.K
film Council
Cast: Ashley Walters, Luke Frazer, Claire
Perkins, Leon Black.
screening
An uncompromising, intelligent,
narrative driven deconstruction of British
youth gun crime.
A WAY OF LIFE
Drama (91 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Amma Asante
Producer: Patrick Cassavetti, Peter
Edwards and Charlie Hanson
Co-production partners: AWOL Films in
association with U.K Film Council, HTV
and Arts Council of Wales
Cast: Stephanie James, Oliver Haden,
Nathan Jones, Gary Sheppeard, Dean
Wong, Sara Gregory and Brenda
Blethyn,
screening
A powerful story bringing together a
young, talented cast in a tale of passion,
beauty, and hatred.
THE HONEYMOONERS
Romantic Comedy (88 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Karl Golden
Producer: Martin Brinkler and Martina
Niland
Co-production partners: Samson Films
and Utah Films
Cast: Alex Reid, Jonathan Byrne, Justine
Mitchell, Conor Mullen and Eamonn Hunt
Delivery Status: Completed and screening
Origin: Republic of Ireland
A jilted groom and a highly strung waitress
make an unlikely alliance and find
themselves in the depths of rural Ireland.
Together they begin a hilarious and chaotic
adventure that will change both their lives.
PROMARK
ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP
Promark Entertainment Group, 3599
Cahuenga Blvd. West, 3rd Floor, Los
Angeles, CA 90068 U.S.A. Tel:
323.878.0404. Fax: 323.878.0486.
sales@promarkgroup.com
At Cannes: Jonathan Kramer (President),
Suzanne Barron (Vice President of
International Sales)
Office: Riviera N10
GHOST MONKEY
Action
Director: Paul Andresen
Fear sweeps the back streets of a teeming
third world city: the “ghost monkey” killer
has struck again.
BLACK TIE NIGHTS
Erotic Series (13 x 28:30)
Director: Julie Jordan
Producer: Steve Beswick
Production Company: Black Tie Films, Inc.
Executive Producer: Jon Kramer
Cast: Amy Lindsay, Tiffany Bolton, Glenn
Meadows
Status: Full delivery in May 2004
Two friends in Southern California set up a
high-class dating service.
P
RAI TRADE
RAI Trade, (Sales) Via Umberto Novaro
18, 00195 Rome, Italy. Tel:
39.06.374.98469. Fax: 39.06.375.16222.
info@raitrade.it www.raitrade.it
At Cannes: Roberto Di Russo (President
and CEO), Andrea Portante (Sales and
Marketing Director), Sesto Cifola (Head
of Cinema and Fiction International
Sales), Catia Rossi (Cinema and Fiction
International Sales Executive), Susanna
Gianandrea (Promotion, Corporate Image
and International Festivals), Margherita
Zocaro (Promotion, Corporate Image and
International Festivals)
Office: Riviera -Palais Des Festival Italian Pavilion stand D3, Tel:
33.492993321. Fax: 33.4.929933222
CHRISTMAS REMATCH (LA
RIVINCITA DI NATALE)
Feature Film (124’)
Language: Italian version with English
subtitles
Director: Pupi Avati
Producers: A DueA Production in
association with Medusa Film
Cast: Diego Abatantuono, Gianni Cavina,
Carlo Delle Piane, George Eastman and
Alessandro Haber
Delivery Status: Premiere Market
Screening
Twenty years ago Pupi Avati made his
first popular film Christmas Present
about a poker game. Now he has brought
the same cast back together again.
ROUND TRIP
subtitles
Director: Marco Ponti
Producer: A Rai Cinema, Harold &
Motion Pictures, Mikado Production
Cast: Libero De Rienzo, Vanessa
Incontrada, Kabir Bedi
Delivery Status: Premiere market
screening
Dante is at a crossroads in his life. His
choice suicide or a trip round the world!
THE AVIATOR - INITIAL ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
91
THE DESTINATION (LA
DESTINAZIONE)
subtitles
Director: Piero Sanna
Producer: An Ipotesi Cinema S.I.R.E
production in collaboration with Rai
Cinema
Cast: Roberto Magnani, Elisabetta Balia,
Salvatore Mele, Mara Mele,
Delivery Status: Premiere market
screening
When Emilio finishes his training with
the Carabinieri, the Italian Police
Force, he is sent to Sardinia. Here he
is in a world set apart from the rest of
Italy.
THE BEST OF YOUTH (LA
MEGLIO GIOVENTÙ)
Feature Film
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana A Rai
Fiction Production and BiBi Film Tv
production
Produced by Angelo Barbagallo
Cast: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni,
Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco, Maya
Sansa, Andrea Tidona,Fabrizio Gifuni
A strong and emotive epic covering more
than 40 years of human drama and social
history in Italy.
REGENT
WORLDWIDE SALES
Regent Worldwide Sales, 10990 Wilshire
Blvd., 18th Floor , Los Angeles,
310.806.4288. Fax: 310.806.4268.
www.regententertainment.com
Company type: Producer and Distributor
At Cannes: Gene George (President), Jeff
Schenck (COO)
Office:
Tel: Gene George Mobile: 310.804.9360
THE BURIAL SOCIETY
Thriller (95 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Nicholas Racz
Producers: Richard Baumgartel,
Howard Dancyger
Cast: Rob LaBelle, Allan Rich,
Seymour Cassel, David Paymer, Jan
Rubes
A gripping suspenseful thriller about
the world’s most unlikely criminal, as
he infiltrates the mysterious world of
the Jewish burial society, in order to
execute a most ingenious and unlikely
of crimes.
PIT FIGHTER
Action (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jesse Johnson
Producers: Stephen P. Jarchow, Paul
Colichman, Jeffrey Schenck
Cast: Steven Bauer, Stephen Graham,
Dominique Vandenberg
A bare-knuckled fighter gets involved
with the Mexican Mafia while coming
to terms with his past.
WITCHES OF THE CARIBBEAN
Horror (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: David DeCoteau
Producers: Stephen P. Jarchow, Paul
Colichman, Jeffrey Schenck
Cast: Joanna Cassidy, Nicole Cavazos,
Nicole Marie Monica, Kyle Jordan
A teenage girl uncovers the reality of
her recurring nightmare when she faces
off against a rival witch from a previous
life.
MONSTER ISLAND
Creature-Feature (90 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Jack Perez
Producers: Donald L. West
Cast: Carmen Electra, Nick Carter,
Adam West
Produced in association with MTV, this
high-profile creature film takes place on
an island where a high school senior
class has won a contest and is treated to
a private rock concert.
RENAISSANCE
FILMS
GODSEND LIONS GATE INTERNATIONAL FILMS
Renaissance Films, 34-35 Berwick
Street, London W1F 8RP, UK. Tel:
44.20.7287.5190. Fax:
44.20.7478.5100. info@renaissancefilms.com, www.renaissance-films.com
At Cannes: Angus Finney (Managing
Director), Claire Taylor (Head of
International Sales), Michaela Piper
(Head of Marketing & Publicity),
Georgina Jackson (Marketing &
Publicity Executive), Fiona Cheyne (Jnr
Sales Executive), Iain Canning
(Acquisitions Executive)
Office: Villa Antoine, 3 rue Jean
Baptiste Dumas, Cannes 06400. Tel:
04.93.68.92.67 or 04.93.68.84.23
POBBY AND DINGAN
Drama
Language: English
Director: Peter Cattaneo
Producer: Lizie Gower, Nick Morris
Seeing isn’t always believing.
BIG PLANS
Comedy
Language: Danish
Director: Jesper W Nielsen
Producer: Peter Bech
Cast: Thomas Bo Larsen, Lena Maria
Origin: Denmark
Big Plans - This time it’s in the bag.
WE DON’T LIVE HERE
ANYMORE
Drama (103 mins)
Language: English
Director: John Curran
Producer: Harvey Kahn, Naomi Watts,
Jonas Goodman
Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Peter Kraus, Laura
Dern and Naomi Watts
Origin: US
A season of infidelity.
STORY TELLER
Horror
Language: English
Director: Andrew Getty
Producer: Christopher Lawrence
Cast: Sean Patrick Flannery, Dina Meyer
Budget: $8m
Origin: USA
You’ve known him all your life. When
you’re sleeping at night, he whispers in
your ear. About the stories he tells – it’s
just a little bit darker over here.
DEAD DOLL
Horror
Language: English
Director: Adam Sherman
Producer: Adam Sherman
Status: Complete
Origin: USA
When a frustrated sculptor strangles his
girlfriend and crafts her body into a
lifelike doll, from beyond the grave she
plays upon the fantasies of others
seducing everyone that crosses her path.
RENEGADE SALES
Riki Shelach Productions Ltd., 45
Amishav Street, Givatyim 53488 Israel.
Tel: 972.3.7324822. Fax: 972.3.5739808.
shel@zahav.net.il
Company Type: Producing Company
At Cannes: Riki Shelach
Office:
2 MINUTES FROM FARADIS
Comedy (50 min)
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles
Director: Danny Sirkin
Producer: Riki Shelach
Cast: Hishman Sliman, Efrat Boinwald,
Shmuel Viloz’ni, Nuly Omer
Delivery Status :Completed
Origin: Israel
Budget: 200,000
A very funny love story between a
seventeen year old girl from ZichronYaakov and an Arab young boy from the
Arab village Faradis (2 minutes from
Zichron-Yaakov).
A BODY IN THE SAND
T.V. Drama (45 min)
Language: Hebrew With English
Subtitles
Director: Riki Shelach
Cast: Ezra Dagan, Sassi Saad, Israel
Poliakov
Delivery Status :Completed
Year of production:1999, Country of
Origin: Israel
Budget:$140,000
Political thriller depicting a true story
which took place in Israel six years
before the state was inaugurated .An
execution of an underground leader by
another leader.
Renegade Sales, 1901 Avenue of the
Stars, Suite 605, Los Angeles, CA
90067 USA. Tel: 310.843.0223. Fax:
310.553.9895. Sales@Crystal-Sky.com
At Cannes: Patrick Ewald (Exec. Vice
President, Development & Production),
Nadine DeBarros (Vice President, Sales
& Acquisitions )
Office: The Majestic Hotel, Suite 636,
Tel: 33.497.06.8020. Fax:
33.493.38.9790. Sales@CrystalSky.com
SOLO
Language: English
Director: Josef Rusnak (The Thirteenth
Floor)
Executive Producers: Steven Paul,
Patrick Ewald
Producer: David Marlow, Jan Fantl
Cast: Jon Voight, Cary Elwes, Saffron
Burrows
Budget: $11m
Origin: UK
When their young daughter goes
missing, a couple become the prime
suspects in a state-wide manhunt for
their child.
DEADLY COURSE
Language: English
Director: Stuart Paul
Cast: Jon Voight, Danielle Kremeniuk
Budget: $8.5m
Status: Complete
Origin: UK
College professor, Simon Conjuerer
uses wizardry talents to enlighten his
self-improvement class of misfits made
up of compulsive gamblers, drug
addicts and alcoholics.
RIKI SHELACH
PRODUCTIONS LTD
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
A TRUMPET IN THE WADI
Drama (97 min)
Language: Hebrew/Arabic With English
Subtitles
Director: Lina & Slava Chaplin
Cast: Khawlah Hag -Debsy, Alexander
Sanerovich
Year of production:2001, Country of
origin: Israel
Budget: 510,000
An impossible love story between two
outsiders in Israeli society; Alex is a new
immigrant from Russia, and Huda is an
Arab young woman from Haifa.
THE SILENCE OF THE SIRENS
Movie made for T.V. (72 min)
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles
Director: Ori Inbar
Cast: Assi Dayan ,Yoram Hatav, Nathan
Datner, Ruth Geler
Origin: Israel
Budget:$260,000
A drama, based on the real story, depicting
the process of decision making which led
to one of the biggest fiascos in Israel’s
“The Yom Kipur War.”
S
SCREEN MEDIA
VENTURES, LLC
Screen Media Ventures, 757 Third Avenue,
New York, NY 10017 USA. Tel:
212.308.1790. Fax: 212.308.1791.
www.screenmedia.net
At Cannes: Joseph Kovacs (President),
Steve Nurkin (Executive VP), Almira
Malyshev (VP, International Sales), Robert
Baruc (President - Screen Media Films),
Suzanne Blech (VP Marketing - Screen
Media Films)
Office: Riviera, Stand F21, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.88.04
AUSTIN POWERS:
INTERNATIONAL MAN OF
MYSTERY
Comedy (90 mins)
Directed by Jay Roach
Starring: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley
Austin Powers is a hip, secret agent who is
revived from a cryogenic deep freeze to
oppose his archenemy Dr. Evil.
THE REAL MCCOY
Action (105 minutes)
(Directed by Russell Mulcahy)
Starring: Kim Basinger, Val Kilmer,
Terence Stamp
In this Kim Basinger vehicle, a woman is
released from prison with nothing but the
clothes on her back. She was a
professional bank robber, but now she just
wants to settle down and go straight.
MY LIFE
Drama (105 minutes)
Directed by Bruce Joel Rubin
Starring: Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman
A terminally ill man prepares for his death.
JUDGEMENT IN BERLIN
Drama (92 minutes)
Directed by Leo Penn
Starring: Martin Sheen, Sean Penn
When a hijacker forces an East Berlinbound plane to land on an American
airbase in West Berlin, an American
court is convened to decide his fate.
Based on a true story.
SENATOR
INTERNATIONAL
Senator International, 8666 Wilshire
Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
USA. Tel: 310.360.1441. Fax:
310.360.1447
At Cannes: Joe Drake (President),
Brian Goldsmith (CFO and EVP of
Operations), Pierre Weisbein (EVP,
Sales & Distribution), Brent Jack (VP
International Marketing), Mali Kinberg
(Director, International Sales),
Delphine Perrier (Manager, Business
and Legal Affairs, Contract
Administration)
33(0)4.97.06.86.00. Fax:
33(0)4.97.06.86.03.
info@senatorinternational.com
THE ASSASSINATION OF
RICHARD NIXON
Drama
Language: English
Director: Niels Mueller
Producers: Alfonso Cuarón, Jorge
Vergara
Cast: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don
Cheadle, Michael Wincott
Status: Screening
Based on a real story, a struggling
salesman who loses his family becomes
obsessed with putting an end to the
dishonesty that is corrupting society,
starting at the top.
THRU THE MOEBIUS STRIP
CGI Sci-Fi Adventure
Language: English
Director: Glen Chaika
Producers: David Kirschner, Frank
Foster, Anthony Neoh
Cast: Mark Hamill, Peri Gilpin, Chris
Marquette, Michael Dorn, Kellie
Martin, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jean
Simmons
Status: Screening
Country of Origin: China
A boy must travel to a magical, alien
world of giants to find his long lost
father and realize his own destiny.
THE LONG WEEKEND
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Pat Holden
Producers: Paul Brooks, Shawn
Williamson
Cast: Chris Klein, Brendan Fehr
Country of Origin: UK/Canada
A high concept comedy about two
brothers, playboy Cooper and uptight
Ed. Ed has one weekend to save his
career, but Cooper has other plans for
the weekend.
HOOLIGANS
Drama
Language: English
Producers: Gigi Pritzker, Deborah Del
Prete, Donald Zuckerman
Director: Lexi Alexander
Cast: Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam,
Claire Forlani, Leo Gregory, Marc
Warren, Terence Jay, Henry Goodman,
Ross McCall, Rafe Spall, Kieran Bew
A young American gets caught up in
the violent subculture of English
Football gangs.
SHOCHIKU CO.,
LTD.
Shochiku Co., Ltd., 4-1-1 Tukiji, Togeki
Blg. 12th floor, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 1048422 Japan. Tel: 81.3.5550.1623. Fax:
81.3.5550.1654. ibd@shochiku.co.jp,
http://www.shochiku.com/film(English),
http://www.shochiku.co.jp(Japanese)
Company Type: sales, acquisition,
producer, distributor, exhibitor
At Cannes: Takeo HISAMATSU
(Managing Director of Production and
Theatrical Distribution), Masahiko
SEKI (Managing Director of Video
Distribution and Contents Business),
Teruki MATSUMOTO (General
Manager of Film Programming),
Junichi KITAGAWA (General Manager
of Theatrical Distribution), Yukihiro
MATSUMOTO (General Manager of
Rights Management Division), Masaki
KOGA (Head, International Business
Division)
Office: Res. Grand Hotel - Albatros 1C
CASSHERN
Sci-Fi / Action (142 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Kazuaki KIRIYA
Producer: Hideshi MIYAJIMA /
Toshiharu OZAWA / Toshiaki
WAKABAYASHI
Cast: Yusuke ISEYA / Kumiko ASO /
Toshiaki KARASAWA
at Cannes
Origin: Japan
Budget: US$8,000,000
Live action feature based on a 70s
animation. A young man reborn as a
“bio-engineered being” is involved in a
bitter struggle between humankind and
androids
OUT OF THIS WORLD
Drama (123 min)
Language: Japanese / English
Director: Junji SAKAMOTO
Producer: Yukiko SHII
Cast: Masato HAGIWARA / Joe
ODAGIRI / Peter Mullan
at Cannes
Origin: Japan
After WW2, young musicians
employed to play at the US
occupation army bases find
relationship they had never
dreamed of during the war.
CAFÉ LUMIERE
Drama
Language: Japanese
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Producer: Hideshi MIYAJIMA / LiaoChing-sung / Fumiko OSAKA / Ichiro
YAMAMOTO
Cast: Tadanobu ASANO / Yo HITOTO /
Masato HAGIWARA
Origin: Japan
Inspired by Japanese master Yasujiro
Ozu’s films, Hou Hsiao-hsien depict a
girl’s everyday life and the changes that
are born inside her.
HEAVEN’S BOOKSTORE
(TENTATIVE TITLE)
Romantic Drama (111 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Tetsuo SHINOHARA
Producer: Hideshi MIYAJIMA / Nozomu
ENOKI / Nobuyuki TOYA
Cast: Yuko TAKEUCHI / Tetsuji
TAMAYAMA / Teruyuki KAGAWA
at Cannes
Origin: Japan
Romantic fantasy of inter-twining life of
four man and woman, taking place on
heaven and earth.
SHORELINE
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
Shoreline Entertainment, Inc., 1875
Century Park East, Ste. 600, Los
Angeles, 90067 CA USA. Tel:
301.551.2060. Fax 310.201.0729.
www.shorelineentertainment.com
At Cannes: Morris Ruskin (CEO), Sam
Eigen (Director World-Wide
Distribution), Brian Sweet (Sales
Manager)
Office: Inter-Continental Carlton Cannes,
Ste. 143, 58 La Croisette, Tel:
33.4.93.06.41.43. Tel 2: 33.4.93.06.81.43
GANGS OF NEW YORK INITIAL ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
93
(“Passato Prossimo,”,”El Alamein”), Diego
Serrano (“24 Hour Woman,” TV’s “Time
of Your Life,” “Another World”)
When an Italian woman and her children
go to New York to join her husband who
went there in pursuit of the American
dream, she is shocked to find him with
his very pregnant American wife.
SIGNATURE
PICTURES
EMPORERS WIFE - STACCATO FILMS
THE DRONE VIRUS
Language: English
Director: Damon O’Steen
Production Company: Little Studio Films
Producers: Alexia Melocchi, Ryan
Johnson
Key Cast: Billy Wirth, Maeve Quinlan,
Adrian Zmed
Status: RFD
Country: USA
An edgy, high-tech thriller about a father,
who discovers the very medical
technology that can save lives, will also
take lives.
IRISH EYES
Language: English
Director: Daniel McCarthy
Production Company: Shooting Spree
Films
Producers: Daniel McCarthy, Julian Valdes
Key Cast: Daniel Baldwin, John Novak
Status: RFD
Country: USA
An action-packed crime drama about two
Irish-American brothers who rise to
power on opposite sides of the law.
THE BAY OF LOVE AND
SORROWS
Thriller (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Tim Southam
Production Company: Triptych Media
Inc., Second Wave Productions Inc.
Producers: Gilles Bélanger, Anna
Stratton
Key Cast: Peter Outerbridge, Elaine
Cassidy, Zachary Bennett
Status: RFD
Country: Canada
A tragic suspense story about a good boy
trapped on the wrong side of the tracks
when a drug deal goes bad and a young
woman is senselessly murdered.
MOSCOW DAYS, L.A. NIGHTS
Action (89 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Rodion Nahapetov
Production Company: RGI Productions, in
association with ORT
Producers: Natasha Shliapnikoff
Key Cast: Sean Young, Rodion Nahapetov
Status: RFD
Country: Russia
An action-packed detective thriller that
follows a beautiful tango dancer with a
secret, who married a Russian investigator.
SHOWCASE
ENTERTAINMENT
Showcase Entertainment, Warner Center,
21800 Oxnard Street, Suite 150, Woodland
Hills, California 91367 USA. Tel:
818.715.7005. Fax: 818.715.7009.
www.showcaseentertainment.com
At Cannes: David A. Jackson (President),
Shauna Shapiro Jackson (Executive Vice
President), Marti Boone (Sr. Vice President
Distribution and Marketing), Bruce
Livingston (Chief Financial Officer),
Teresa Dokey (Sr. Vice President), Cara
Shapiro (Vice President, Acquisitions),
Leslee Jones-Allmon (Director Worldwide
Distribution Services), Linda Paolucci
(Executive Assistant)
Office: Carlton Hotel - Suites 241 & 242
A KILLER WITHIN
Thriller/Drama
Directed by Brad Keller
Produced by Joey Stewart
Stars C. Thomas Howell ( “The Hitcher,”
“The Outsiders,” “Gods and Generals”),
Sean Young (“No Way Out,” “A Kiss
Before Dying,” “1st to Die”), Ben Browder
(“Farscape”), Giancarlo Esposito (“School
Daze,” TV’s “NYPD Blue”), Dedee
Pfeiffer(“Up Close & Personal,” “For Your
Love,” TV’s “Cybil”)
Addison Terrill (C. Thomas Howell), a
Dallas attorney, comes home one night
to find his wife brutally murdered with the
words “We’re even now” scrawled across
the bedroom wall.
PUERTO VALLARTA SQUEEZE
Romantic Thriller
Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman
Produced by Carolyn Chambers
Stars Academy Award nominee
Harvey Keitel (“Mean Streets,”
“Pulp Fiction,” “The Piano,”
“Reservoir Dogs,” “Sister Act,”
“Bugsy,” “Thelma & Louise,”),
Scott Glenn (“Training Day,” “Backdraft,”
“Silence of the Lambs,” “The Hunt for Red
October,” “The Right Stuff”), Craig
Wasson (“Body Double,” “Four Friends”),
Jonathan Brandis (the late star of TV’s
“Seaquest: DSV,” “Hart’s War”)
Passion, danger and action unfold
when a ruthless American government
hit man steps over the line and assassinates
a man unsanctioned by
his CIA contact.
NATIONAL LAMPOON PRESENTS
DORM DAZE
Comedy of Errors
Produced and Directed by David
Hillenbrand and Scott Hillenbrand
Stars Patrick Renna (“Poor White Trash,”
“Son in Law,” “Boys Klub,” “The
Sandlot”), Danielle Fishel (star of TV’s
“Boy Meets World”), Boti Bliss (“TV’s
“CSI: Miami,” “Ted Bundy,” “Dumped”),
Chris Owen (“American Pie 1 &2,” “It
Runs in the Family,” “Major Payne”)
Tatyana Ali (TV’s “The Fresh Prince of Bel
Air”), JAMES Debellow (“American Pie,”
“Scary Movie 2,” “Pledge of Allegiance”)
A co-ed dormitory at Billingsley University
is turned upside down
when one of the students hires a prostitute
named Dominique for
his unwitting brother to lose his virginity.
OUR ITALIAN HUSBAND
Romantic Comedy
Written and Directed by Ilaria Borrelli
Produced by Massimo Cristaldi and Brandi
Savitt
Stars Brooke Shields (TV’s “Suddenly
Susan,” “Endless Love,” “The Bachelor,”
“The Blue Lagoon”), Chevy Chase (“Snow
Day,” “Fletch,” “Vacation’,”
“Caddyshack”), Maria Grazia Cucinotta
(star of “Il Postino”), Pierfrancesco Favino
Signature Pictures, Suite 4, 23/25 Mortimer
Street, London, W1T 3JE UK. Tel:
44.207.580.0088. Fax: 44.207.580.3468.
sales@spipix.com
Company Type: Sales agent and Production
Company
At Cannes: David Lamping (President),
Edo Cohen (Sales Representative), Moshe
Diamant (Producer), Rudy Cohen
(Producer), Ilana Diamant (Producer)
Office: Motor Yacht: Sunny Dream; Port
Albert Edouard, Tel: 44.7775.862.842, Fax:
44.207.900.6666
IMAGINARY HEROES
Drama
Language: English
Director: Dan Harris
Producer: Art Linson, Ilana Diamant
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Daniels,
Emile Hirsch, Michelle Williams, Kip
Pardue.
Budget: $12,500
Origin: USA
A seemingly perfect Middle American
family is torn apart by a sudden tragedy but
discovers unexpected strengths that allow
them to grow up and learn that the truth
can set us free.
THE BLACK DAHLIA
Crime Thriller/Drama/Nior
Language: English
Director: Brian De Palma
Producer: Art Linson, Moshe Diamant,
Rudy Cohen
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Mark Wahlberg,
Scarlett Johansson
Budget: $60,000
Origin: USA
Based on the notorious 1947 murder, from
the James Ellroy best-selling novel. Two
LAPD cops who are partners on the force
and rivals in love - become obsessed with
solving the grisly crime.
SPI INTERNATIONAL
POLAND
SPI International Poland, ul.Tyniecka 38a,
02-621 Warsaw, Poland. Tel:
48.22.854.03.37. Fax: 48.22.848.45.70.
spi@spi.pl, www.spi.pl
Company Type: distributor/producer
At Cannes: Piotr Reisch (General
Manager), Ewa Lipinska (PR & Marekting
Manager), Joanna Hanusiak (PR
Manager), Rafal Adasiak (PR & Marketing
Manager); Acquisition Executive: Piotr
Reisch
Office: Stand 26.01, Palais 01(Film Polski),
Tel: 48.603.193.820
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
SYMMETRY
Drama (99’)
Language: Polish/English subtitles
Director: Konrad Niewolski
Producer: EM Studio
Co-production partners: SPI Intrnational
Poland
Cast: Arek Detmer, Andrzej Chyra,
Kinga Preis
Budget: 700.000 $
Origin: Poland
A young, educated man gets arrested and
is placed in a cell with real criminals.
The more time he spends with them, the
more his personality and behaviour are
being influenced by the specific prison
code of ethics.
UBU REX
Drama (90’)
Director: Piotr Szulkin
Producer: Euro Film
Co-production partners: SPI Intrnational
Poland
Cast: Jan Peszek, Kasia Figura
Budget: 800.000 $
Origin: Poland
Ubu, luring the mob with vision of
democracy and freedom, violently takes
over the power in the country. His cruel
and stupid reign are submitted only to
one cause – filling up his pouch.
THE BODY
Drama (98’)
Director: Tomasz Konecki, Andrzej
Saramonowicz
Producer: Look Film Studio
Co-production partners: SPI International
Poland
Cast: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Edyta
Olszowka, Rafal Krolikowski
Budget: 800.000 $
Origin: Poland
Goldi, a petty thief, is travelling by train.
He carries a trunk filled with precious
jewellery stolen from a church. In the
train compartment, he sits together with
Wolter, but it turns out that Wolter
is….dead.
SFORA: NO MERCY
Action (116’)
Director: Wojciech Wojcik
Producer: SPI International Poland , TVP
Cast: Pawel Wilczak, Radoslaw Pazura,
Olaf Lubaszenko
Budget: 1.500.000 $
Origin: Poland
When a police general is assassinated in
Warsaw, the mafia is trying to control the
top political powers. The law, weak as it
is, is often used to serve the lawlessness.
SPICE FACTORY UK
LTD
Spice Factory UK Ltd, 81 The
Promenade, Peacehaven, Brighton, East
Sussex BN10 8LS UK. Tel:
44.1273.585275. Fax: 44.1273.585304.
info@spicefactory.co.uk
Company Type: Producer
At Cannes: Michael Cowan (Joint
Managing Director), Jason Piette (Joint
Managing Director), Alex Marshall
(Head of Business Affairs), Lucy
Shuttleworth (Head of Development),
Emily Kyriakides (Films Co-ordinator),
Mel Hider (Producers Assistant)
Office: c/o Arclight Films
BAILEYS BILLION$
Family (94 mins)
Language: English
Director: David Devine
Producer: Michael Cowan, Jason Piette,
Richard Mozer, David Devine, Coproduction partners: Spice Factory,
Devine Entertainment, Movision
Entertainment Ltd.
Cast: Dean Cain, Tim Curry, Jennifer
Tilly
Origin: UK/Canada
Bailey’s no ordinary dog, he can talk and
he’s just inherited a fortune from his
eccentric billionaire owner.
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY
Period drama
Language: English
Director: Mary McGuckian
Producer: Michael Cowan, Denise
O’Dell, Samuel Hadida, Garrett
McGuckian, Mary McGuckian, Coproduction partners: Spice Factory,
Kanzaman Productions, Davis Films,
Pembridge Pictures, Movision
Entertainment Ltd
Cast: Robert De Niro, Kathy Bates,
Harvey Keitel
Origin: UK/France/Spain
When a famous bridge mysteriously
collapses, plunging five people to their
deaths, one man discovers his mission.
As the only eyewitness, nothing will stop
him from unearthing the truth: was this
fate or something more sinister?
A DIFFERENT LOYALTY
Thriller (102 mins)
Language: English
Director: Marek Kanievska
Richard Lalonde, Jan Vocke, Coproduction partners: Spice Factory, Fresh
Media, Forum Films, Movision
Entertainment Ltd
Cast: Sharon Stone, Rupert Everett
Origin: UK/Canada
When a British journalist suddenly
disappears, his American wife discovers
that he is a KGB spy.
HEAD IN THE CLOUDS
Romantic drama (132 mins)
Language: English
Director: John Duigan
Bertil Ohlsson, Maximé Remillard,
Johnathan Olsberg, André Rouleau, Coproduction partners: Spice Factory, Tusk
Films, Dakota Films, Movision
Entertainment Ltd
Cast: Charlize Theron, Penelope Cruz,
Stuart Townsend
Origin: UK/Canada
An epic story that follows an unlikely
couple across Europe.
STACCATO FILMS
Staccato Films, Sumatrakade 611, 1019
PS Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel:
31.20.419.04.04. Fax: 31.20.419.05.05.
Mobile Emjay Rechsteiner:
31.6.53.29.33.82.
info@staccatofilms.com
Company Type: production, Market
Activities: Selling, Co-Production
At Cannes: Emjay Rechsteiner
(Company President/Producer), Rinske
Ross (Executive Assistant)
Office: 32 Avenue des Mimosas, 06110
Le Cannet, Tel: 493.694.618, mobile
31.6.532.933.82.
THE EMPEROR’S WIFE
Fairy tale for grown-ups (95 min)
Language: English
Director: Julien Vrebos
Producers: Emjay Rechsteiner, Staccato
Films & San Fu Maltha, Fu Works. UK
Co-Producers: Michael Lionello Cowan
& Jason Piette, Spice Factory. Lux CoProducer: Jimmy de Brabant, Delux
Productions
Cast: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Max
Beesley, Leticia Dolera, Rosana Pastor
Status: Completed
In the land of 1001 nights, after six
happy years of marriage, the beloved
Empress hasn’t given birth to an heir.
Now, in a secret wing of the Imperial
Palace, an innocent virgin is being
prepared to replace… The Emperor’s
Wife.
MOONLIGHT
Romantic, provocative thriller (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Oscar-nominated Paula van der
Oest
Producer: Emjay Rechsteiner, Staccato
Films. UK Co-Producers: Michael
Lionello Cowan & Jason Piette, Spice
Factory. Lux Co-Producer: Jimmy de
Brabant, Delux Productions.
Cast: Jemma Redgrave, Andrew Howard,
Laurien Van den Broeck, Hunter
Bussemaker
Status: Completed
Claire leads an idyllic suburban life. One
day a mysterious young man enters her
world. She’s looking for adventure. He’s
looking for an escape.
THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE
Psychological thriller (100 min)
Language: English
& Emjay Rechsteiner, Staccato Films
Status: Casting
The true story of the man forced to be
the double of Saddam Hussein’s cruel
son. Based on the bestselling lifestory
(over a million copies sold) of Latif
Yahia.
SPORTSMAN OF THE CENTURY
Epic comedy (95 min)
Language: Frisian (related to Old
English)
Writer / director: Mischa Alexander
Production: PV Pictures
Producers: Emjay Rechsteiner & Paul
Voorthuysen, PV Pictures. D CoProducers: Bettina Brokemper &
Michael Eckelt, Neue Impuls
Cast: Ricky Koole, Bastiaan Ragas
The son of an oppressed Frisian farm
hand tries to win the heart of a girl and
beat the tyrannical landowner in the only
possible way: to go pole sitting.
STORM
ENTERTAINMENT
Storm Entertainment, 127 Broadway,
Suite 200, Santa Monica, CA. 90401
USA. Tel: 310.656.2500. Fax:
310.656.2510. Storment95@aol.com,
www.stormentertainment.com
Company Description: independent film
finance, production and Worldwide
distribution company, Business at
Cannes: Selling, Buying, Production,
Finance
At Cannes: H. Michael Heuser (President
& CEO), Kourosh Esmailzadeh
(Associate, International Distribution)
Office: Carlton Hotel, Tel:
33(0)4.93.06.40.06
THE GOOD COP
Action
Director: Lasse Spang Olsen
Producers: Kim Bodnia, Lasse Spang
Olsen, Nina Lyng, M.J. Waugh
Executive Producer: Henrik Moeler
Sorensen
Starring: Kim Bodnia, Iben Hjele , Jens
Okking, Rene Diff
Jens is a middle -aged police officer
working the streets of Copenhagen, his
own way.
BREAKING NEWS - MEDIA ASIA GROUP
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
95
REAL TIME SHORELINE ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
CRUSADE IN JEANS
Action/Adventure (based on the
Worldwide best selling novel)
Director: Ben Sombogaart
Producer: Kees Kasander
Executive Producers: H. Michael Heuser,
Bill Haney, Carlo Dusi
Cast: To be announced
Brilliant scientist Mary Vega has invented
the Displacement Chamber: a time machine.
When her 16-year old son Dolf secretly
experiments with the time machine in his
mother’s lab, he is “shot” back in time.
PREACHER
Action
Director: Rachel Talalay
Producer: Rupert Harvey
Executive Producers: H. Michael Heuser,
Tom Astor, Jim Reeve, Steve Robbins
When a rupture in Heaven unleashes the
full power of God on a hapless
congregation, a small town minister with
a troubled past and an epic destiny finds
himself facing Demons, Angels, rednecks
and the Saint of Killers himself. Credits
not contractual.
SWEET TALK
Romance
Director: Paul Boyington
Producers: Paul Boyington, Jim Uhls
Executive Producer: H. Michael Heuser
A modern phone sex and Internet love
story.
STUDIOCANAL
Studiocanal, 1, place du spectacle, 92863
Issy Les Moulineaux Cedex 9, France.
Tel: 33.1.71.35.35.35. Fax:
33.1.71.35.11.89
At Cannes: Muriel Sauzay, John
Kochman, Saya Huddleston, Marie
Boudier Mylene, Cayol-Cythere;
International Press - Christine
Yordamian, Marketing - Frederick
Gautier
Office: Palais des festivals, Pavillon
Riviera, Stand N5, Esplanade George
Pompidou, 06400 CANNES. Tel:
04.92.59.01.86. Fax: 04.92.59.02.00
LA DEMOISELLE D’HONNEUR
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Laura Smet, Benoît Magimel,
Aurore Clément, Michel Duchaussoy,
Bernard Le Coq
At his sister’s wedding, Philippe is
transfixed by her stunning bridesmaid,
Senta. It is love at first sight. But Senta
doesn’t love like anybody else.
JE PRÉFÈRE QU’ON RESTE AMIS
(JUST FRIENDS)
Directors: Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Paul
Rouve, Annie Girardot
Claude and Serge meet at a wedding. At
first sight, they have nothing in common,
but Serge becomes Claude’s spiritual
guide in his quest for a woman to love,
other than his loopy mother, Judith.
MARIAGES!
Director: and Screenwriter Valérie
Guignabodet
Cast: Mathilde Seigner, Jean Dujardin,
Miou-Miou, Didier Bezace, Lio, Antoine
Duléry
They are 25 and are getting married
today. They are 35, got married 10 years
ago, and are tearing each other apart.
They are 45, tore each other apart 10
years ago, and are trying to get back
together.
SŒURS FÂCHÉES
Director: and Screenwriter Alexandra
Leclere
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Frot,
François Berléand, Brigitte Catillon,
Michel Vuillermoz
Bright and bubbly Louise is up from the
provinces to stay with her swanky sister,
Martine, in Paris. Both sisters’ lives seem
mapped out: a humdrum existence for
Louise with a man she’s crazy about.
CASABLANCA DRIVER
Director: Maurice Barthélemy
Cast: Maurice Barthélemy, Dieudonné,
Isabelle Nanty, Jim Carter, Chantal
Lauby, Sam Karmann, Patrick Chesnais,
Marina Foïs
Delivery Status: Completed/Screening
Filmed as a fake documentary (think
“Zelig” or “Spinal Tap”), this highvoltage comedy tracks the world’s worst
boxer and his meteoric rise to fame.
SUMMIT
ENTERTAINMENT/I.S.
FILM DISTRIBUTION
Summit Entertainment/I.S. Film
Distribution, 1630 Stewart Street, Suite
120, Santa Monica, CA 90404 USA. Tel:
310.309.8400. Fax: 310.828.4132
At Cannes: Patrick Wachsberger
(President & CEO), Bob Hayward
(COO), David Garrett (Executive Vice
President), Harold Van Lier (Vice
President, International Sales), Trellis
Huahn (Sr. Vice President, Contracts and
Business Affairs), Paula Endara (Sr. Vice
President, Marketing and Publicity),
Jonathan Evans (Vice President,
Theatrical Distribution)
Office: 2, La Croisette, 4th Floor, Tel:
334.93.68.04.09. Fax: 334.93.39.69.05
A LOT LIKE LOVE
Romantic Comedy
Director: Nigel Cole
Producers: Armyan Bernstein, Kevin
Messick,
Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Amanda Peet, Ali
Larter
Oliver and Emily are polar opposites, but
when they meet on a plane to New York,
sparks fly.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Action-Adventure
Director: Frank Coraci
Producers: Hal Lieberman, Bill Badalato
Executive Producer: Phyllis Alia
Cast: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Cécile de
France, Kathy Bates, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Owen Wilson, Luke
Wilson, Rob Schneider, Jim Broadbent,
John Cleese
An epic retelling of this extravagant
adventure tale, based on the Jules Verne
classic.
DOWN IN THE VALLEY
Drama
Director: David Jacobson
Producers: Holly Wiersma, Edward Norton,
Adam Rosenfelt, Stavros Merjos
Executive Producer: Sam Nazarian
Cast: Edward Norton, Evan Rachel Wood,
David Morse, Rory Culkin, Ellen Burstyn
Delivery Status: Post-production
A darkly compelling thriller about a
malevolent, charismatic stranger who
insinuates himself into an already troubled
family.
INSIDE DEEP THROAT
Documentary
Directors: Fenton Bailey and Randy
Barbato
Producers: Brian Grazer, Fenton Bailey and
Randy Barbato
A feature-length documentary that follows
the making of DEEP THROAT, explores
the mysteries of its phenomenal success,
and charts the sexual education of a nation.
SYNDICATE FILMS
Syndicate Films, 10850 Wilshire Blvd, 6th
floor, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA. Tel:
310.234.0909. Fax: 310.234.0902.
At Cannes: David C. Glasser, Lisa Wilson
(President, Distribution), Ruzanna Kegeyan
(Director, International Distribution)
Office: Carlton Hotel, Suite 141
TANDEM
COMMUNICATIONS
GMBH
Tandem Communications GmbH,
Josephspitalstr. 15, Munich, 80331
Germany. Tel: 49.89.96.22.83.00. Fax:
49.89.96.22.83.10. www.tandemcom.de,
info@tandemcom.de
At Cannes: Rola Bauer (Managing
Director), Tim Halkin (Managing Director),
Irina Ignatiew (Head of International Sales),
Saevar Lemke (Production Coordinator),
Christian Mohr (International Sales)
Office: 32 La Croisette, App. No 4R, Tel:
33.4.93.38.98.22. Fax: 33.4.93.38.86.56
KINGDOM IN TWILIGHT
www.kingdomintwilight.com
Fantasy Adventure
Language: English
Director: Uli Edel
Producer: Rola Bauer, Tim Halkin,
Andreas Schmid, Co-Production Partners:
Tandem Productions, Film +
Entertainment VIP Media Funds 2+3
Key Cast: Benno Fuermann, Kristanna
Loken, Alicia Witt, Julian Sands, Samuel
West, Max von Sydow
Budget 20 Million Euro
Origin: Germany, U.K., Italy, South
Africa
The saga of Siegfried the dragon slayer,
his quest for the glory of the gods and the
women he is torn between.
A LIGHT IN DARK PLACES
Drama (2 x 95 Minutes / 1 x 120
Minutes)
Language: German
Director: Kaspar Heidelbach
Producer: Michael Souvignier, Sam
Davis, Co-Production Partners:
Zeitsprung Film + TV
Key Cast: Heino Ferch, Heike Makatsch,
Jan Josef Liefers
Origin: Germany
The true story of a horrific mining
disaster: 20 miners are trapped alive 60
meters underground.
P.I. POST IMPACT
Action Adventure (90 Minutes)
Director: English
Language: Christoph Schrewe
Producer: Phillip Roth, Rola Bauer, Tim
Halkin, Co-Production Partners: Tandem
Communications, UFO (IPS, Co.)
Key Cast: Dean Cain, Bettina
Zimmermann, Nigel Bennett
Origin: Germany, U.K., Bulgaria, Spain
In 2012, a meteor crashes into Siberia. A
few survivors could give mankind new
hope.
DRAGONS’ WORLD
Docu Drama (120 Minutes)
Language: Englsih
Director: Justin Hardy
Budget 4,2 Million US $
A two-hour special that
imagines what the world
would have been like if dragons
actually did exist.
TELEPOOL GMBH
Telepool GmbH, Sonnenstrasse 21,
Munich, 80331 Germany. Tel:
49.89.55876-0. Fax: 49.89.55876.188.
www.telepool.de, telepool@telepool.de
At Cannes: Dr. Thomas Weymar (General
Managing Director), Marc Gabizon
(Deputy Managing Director), Wolfram
Skowronnek (Sales Executive), Silke
Wilfinger (Acquisition Executive), Carlos
Hertel (Assistant to Managing Director)
Office: L1/M2, Tel: 04.92.99.32.09
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
BALLS (LATTENKNALLER)
Comedy (101 min)
Language: German
Director: Sherry Hormann
Producer: Kirsten Hager, Eric Moss,
Andreas Schneppe
Key Cast: Maximilian Brueckner, Lisa
Maria Potthoff, Dietmar Baer, David
Rott
Origin: Germany
“Be yourself and be true to
yourself” is the motto of this
charming comedy about personal
dignity, self-appreciation and the
opportunity to see things from a
new perspective.
THE WILDE SOCCER BUNCH (DIE
WILDEN KERLE)
www.diewildenkerle.de
Family Entertainment (94 min)
Language: German
Director: Joachim Masannek
Producer: Ewa Karlstroem, Andreas
Ulmke-Smeaton
Key Cast: Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht,
Raban Bieling, Rufus Beck, Uwe
Ochsenknecht, Cornelia Froboess
Origin: Germany
School’s out and, for a motley crew of
carefree six-to-ten-year olds, soccer
‘rules’!
BLUEPRINT
www.blueprint-derfilm.de
Drama (110 min)
Director: German
Language: Rolf Schuebel
Producer: Heike Wiehle-Timm
Key Cast: Franke Potente, Ulrich
Thomsen, Justus von Dohnányi, Hilmir
Snear Gudnason, Wanja Mues, Katja
Studt
Origin: Germany
A concert pianist decides to clone herself
after discovering that she has a fatal
illness.
I LOVE YOU ALL (AUS LIEBE ZUM
VOLK)
Language: German
Director: Eyal Sivan, Audrey Maurion
Co-Production Partners: Acapix,
Telepool, rbb
Producer: Gilles-Marie Tiné, Thomas
Kufus
Origin: Germany - France
Documentary based on the unusual life
account of a former stasi-major and an
impressive body of archive pictures
taken in Eastern Germany during the last
50 years.
TF1
INTERNATIONAL
TF1 International, Immeuble Central
Park - 9, rue Maurice Mallet , 92130
Issy-les- Moulineaux, France. Tel:
33(0)1.41.41.17.63. Fax:
33(0)1.41.41.17.69.
www.tf1international.fr
Company Profile: TF1 International is
the worldwide distribution arm of the
TF1 group which also acquires programs
and films for international distribution.
At Cannes: Patrick BINET (CEO),
Nicolas ESCHBACH (Senior VP
International Sales), Sabine CHEMALY
(VP International Sales), Adeline
FONTAN TESSAUR (International Sales
Manager), Cecile GAGET (International
Sales Manager), Dimitri STEPHANIDES
(International Sales Manager), Romain
Bremond (Deputy Director of TF1
CINEMA)
Office: Riviera - N3, Tel:
33(0)4.92.99.88.44. Fax:
33(0)4.92.99.88.45
IZNOGOUD
Director: Patrick Braoudé
Language: French
Producers: Vertigo Films
Cast: Jacques Villeret (Malabar Princess,
Strange Gardens, A Crime in Paradise),
Michaël Youn (The Daltons, La Beuze,
Chouchou) , Elsa Pataky (No News from
God)
Delivery: Shooting, delivery end of 2005
Grand Vizir Iznogoud hatches yet
another plot to dethrone the chubby
Caliph Haroun El-Poussah, with farcical
results. Adapted from the best-selling
comic book by the creator of Asterix.
THE LAST TRAPPER NEW (LE
DERNIER TRAPPEUR)
Language: English
Director: Nicolas Vanier
Producers: Jean Pierre Bailly / MC4
Delivery Status: In Post Production,
delivery December 2004
“Real” trappers of our early years, like
Davy Crockett, Jack London or Jeremiah
Johnson, do not exist any more. There
remains, however, one irreducible last
soul who still abides by the old trapper
philosophy of man living at one with
nature.
ATOMIK CIRCUS (ATOMIK
CIRCUS - LE RETOUR DE JAMES
BATAILLE)
Language: French
Director: Didier Poiraud and Thierry
Poiraud
Producers: Nicolas Leclercq ,
Emmanuelle Lepers / ENTROPIE
FILMS
Cast: Vanessa Paradis (The Girl on the
Bridge, Half a Chance, Witch Way
Love), Benoît Poelvoorde (Podium, Dead
Weight, Man Bites Dog), Jason Flemyng
(The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen, Snatch)
delivery Summer 2004
Skotlett is not another small, peaceful
town, as we would imagine one to be.
The huge, catastrophic party held in
celebration of Cow Pie always
traumatizes it.
CHEAP SHOT (NOS AMIS LES
FLICS)
Language: French
Director: Bob Swaim
Producers: Patrick Godeau / ALICELEO
Cast: Daniel Auteuil (The Closet, The
Adversary, The Widow of Saint Pierre) ,
Frédéric Diefenthal (Taxi; Belphegor,
Phantom of the Louvre), Lorant Deutsch
(At Home with the Rozes, Jet Set)
delivery Summer 2004
This is the story of a band of small time
crooks who go for the big job but quickly
get in way over their heads.
THE WORKS
The Works, 4 Great Portland Street, London
W1W 8QJ UK. Tel: 44.20.7612.1080. Fax:
44.20.7612.1081. www.theworkslimited.com
At Cannes: Aline Perry (CEO), Joy Wong
(Head of International Sales), Rebecca
Kearey (Head of Marketing and
Distribution), Andrew Orr (Sales
Executive), Juliette Gill (Marketing
Manager)
Office: 4th Floor, Residence du Grand
Hotel (entrance Flamant), 45 La Croisette
Tel: 04.93.39.49.41
A MAN’S GOTTA DO
Comedy
Director Chris Kennedy
Producers: John Winter & Chris Kennedy
Cast: John Howard, Rebecca Frith, Alyssa
McClelland & Gyton Grantley
Delivery Status: Premiere Marketing
screening
An hilarious Australian comedy from the
director of Doing Time for Patsy Cline.
AE FOND KISS
Drama
Director Ken Loach
Producer: Rebecca O’Brien
Cast: Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle, Ahmad
Riaz, Shabana Bakhsh, Shamshad Akhtar,
Ghizala Avan, Gary Lewis, David McKay
& Raymond Mearns
Delivery Status: Market Screening
A romantic drama set in Glasgow’s south
side.
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
97
COUNTRY OF MY SKULL
Drama
Director: John Boorman
Producers Robert Chartoff, Mike
Medavoy, John Boorman, Lynn Hendee
& Kieran Corrigan; South African
Producer: David Wicht
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette
Binoche & Brendan Gleeson & Menzi
“Ngubs” Ngubane
Country Of My Skull charts the
unfathomable depths of human cruelty
and the redeeming power of forgiveness
and love.
PRIMO AMORE (FIRST LOVE)
Drama
Director: Matteo Garrone
Producer: Domenico Procacci
Cast: Vitaliano Trevisan & Michela
Cescon
Based on true events, Primo Amore is the
story of a man who is victim to his own
instincts and forces his partner into a
dangerous and destructive game.
T
THOMPSON/STARR
ORGANIZATION
Thompson/Starr Organization, 270 N.
Canon Drive Ste. . l705, Beverly Hills, CA
902l0 USA. Tel: 8l8.998.8l26. Fax:
8l8.773.8962. tsorg@/webtv.net
Company Type: Distributors and Agents
At Cannes: Joey Thompson (President),
Jen Starr (Marketing), Chaya Finton
(Sales), George Thompson (Acquisition)
Office: Hotel Bleu Rivage, 6l La Croisette,
06400, Cannes. Tel: 4.93.39.24.25. Fax:
4.93.43.74.92. Convention: 34.93.39.0l.0l
GREAT PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE
Dramas
Cast: Timothy DAlton, Lynn Redgrave,
John Carradine
Status: completed (Macbeth & 8 plays)
All of Shakespeare’s famous plays.
LIGHTS OUT
Horror (83 mins)
Cast: Many Stars Synopsis:Arch
Status: Completed
Oboler’s terror classic.
RAGE OF CHILDREN
Action/Drama (99 min)
Cast: Helmut Griem, Richard Alfieri
Status: Completed
Gritty realism and hatreds in eternal
Arab, Israeli combat.
SHONIBI NINJAS
Action/ Drama (l03 mins)
Cast: Tadashi Yamashita, Eric Lee
Status: Completed
Ancient feudal warriors and modern
assassins in mortal combat.
TOHO
INTERNATIONAL
CO., LTD.
Toho International Co., Ltd., 1-7-1
Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 1000006 Japan. Tel: 81.3.3213.6821. Fax:
81.3.3213.6825. www.toho.co.jp,
tohointl@toho.co.jp
At Cannes: Masaharu Ina (Director),
Yukio Kotaki (Sales Manager)
Office: Riviera D 6, Tel:
334.92.99.32.39
CRYING OUT LOVE, IN THE
CENTER OF THE WORLD (SEKAI
NO CHUSHIN DE, AI WO
SAKEBU)
Drama/Romance (138 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Isao Yukisada
Partners/Shogakukan/S.D.P./MBS, CoProduction Partners:
Toho/TBS/Hakuhodo DY Media
Producer: Hideyuki Honma, Kei
Haruna, Minami Ichikawa
Key Cast: Takao Osawa, Kou
Shibasaki, Masami Nagasawa, Mirai
Moriyama, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Origin: Japan
Sakutaro travels to Shikoku in search
of his fiancée, to a town where he
experienced his first love, Aki, and lost
her. Aki suffered from leukemia.
KILLERS
Action (115 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Mamoru Oshii, Kazuhiro
Kiuchi, Shundo Ohkawa
Producer: Nobuhiko Ishii, Yu
SINGIN - LAKESHORE INTERNATIONAL
Kurogane, Hideki Kama, CoProduction Partners: Toho Co., Ltd.
Key Cast: Yui Jinno, Nobuyasu Sakai,
Maki Yamashita, Maya Hoshino, Asuka
Shimizu, Hiroo Otaka, Shuji Kawata,
Mizutama Reppu Gang
Origin: Japan
Japan’s five top movie directors,
including Mamoru Oshii, the Director:
of “GHOST IN THE SHELL”, have
gathered to make an action-packed
omnibus movie, “KILLERS”.
RED MOON (AKAI TSUKI)
Drama (111 min)
Director: Japanese
Language: Yasuo Furuhata
Producer: Shogo Tomiyama, Shi Jie
Co-Production Partners:
Toho/NTV/Dentsu/YTV/Yomiuri
Shinbun/Nippan/S.D.P.
Key Cast: Takako Tokiwa, Yusuke
Iseya, Teruyuki Kagawa, Tomoyasu
Hotei
Origin: Japan
Japan sent thousands of colonists to
Manchuria, some of whom, like
Namiko’s husband, made a fortune, but
Japan’s defeat toppled their success.
Namiko survived days of hardship in
postwar Harbin.
MILK WHITE (GEGE)
www.gege.jp
Drama (114 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Itsumichi Isomura
Producer: Daisuke Sekiguchi, Neri
Segawa, Yoshino Sasaki, CoProduction Partners: Fuji
TV/Gentosha/Toho/Dentsu/Altamira
Pictures
Key Cast: Takao Osawa, Yuriko Ishida,
Sumiko Fuji, Tatsuo Matsumura, Ryuzo
Hayashi, Akira Emoto
Origin: Japan
One day, Takayuki learns that he will
lose his sight sooner or later. He
resigns his job and returns to his
hometown, without telling the truth to
his fiancee, Yoko.
TOHOKUSHINSHA
FILM CORPORATION
Tohokushinsha Film Corporation, 4-8-10
Akasaka Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8460
Japan. Tel: 81.3.5414.0297. Fax:
81.3.5414.0430. www.tfc.co.jp,
kokusai@tfc.co.jp
At Cannes: Reiko Takano (General
Manager), Kentaro Yoshida
Office: Riviera G2 & 3 (Japan Booth)
RED LINE
Feature Animation
Language: Japanese
Directors: Katsuhito Ishii (“The Taste of
Tea”)
Production Status: In Production
Country of Origin/co-production: Japan
Daredevil racers compete each other on
the planet “Roboworld” in very fastpaced animation with exciting unique
characters.
AKAME 48 WATERFALLSSHINJYU
Drama (159 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Genjiro Arato
Producer: Shinichiro Muraoka
Principal Cast: Takijiro Onishi/ Shinobu
Terajima, Michiyo Okusu
Two lovers find each other in the city
close to Osaka and attempt to escape
from the reality world, but only way out
is to commit suicide together.
THE YIN-YANG MASTER II
(ONMYOJI II)
Action (115 min )
Language: Japanese
Director: Yojiro Takita
Producers: Tetsuji Hayashi, Kazuya
Hamana, Nobuyuki Tohya
Principal Cast: Mansai Nomura, Hideaki
Ito, Kiichi Nakai
Yin-Yang Master, Abe no Seimei, is
back again with more powerful demon
and solving mysteries behind the ancient
land of Izumo.
TOKYO
BROADCASTING
SYSTEM, INC.
Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc., 5-3-6
Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 107-8006
Japan. Tel: 813.5571.3085. Fax:
813.3505.1584. www.tbs.co.jp,
prosales@tbs.co.jp
At Cannes: Kunikatsu Kondo, Norihiko
Tani, Daisuke Ooka, Yuki Yamato, Aya
Takano
Office: c/o Jetro Booth
KAMIKAZE GIRLS (SHIMOTSUMA
STORY)
Drama (103 min)
Language: Japanese
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Key Cast: Kyoko Fukada, Anna
Tsuchiya
Budget 3M$
Origin: Japan
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
KISARAZU CAT’S EYE-GO
MAJOR! (123)
Language: Japanese
Director: Fuminori Kaneko
Producer: Aki Isoyama
Origin: Japan
CLOSER TO HOME (HOME
SWEET HOME 2)
Director: Japanese
Language: Tomio Kuriyama
Country of Origin: Japan
TORONTO PICTURES
INC.
Toronto Pictures Inc., 120 Eglinton Ave.
East, Suite 1100, Toronto ON M4P 1E2
Canada. Tel: 416.230.9612. Fax:
416.322.5075. www.torontopictures.com,
corporate@filmail.com
At Cannes: Bruno Pischiutta (President
& C.E.O.), Daria Trifu (Vice President),
Alicia Russell (Exec. in Charge of
Production)
Office: Carlton - Suite #146, Tel:
33(0)4.93.06.41.46 / Cell: 1.416.230.9612
“...?”
“..MAYBE…”
www.maybethemovie.com
Drama (97 min.)
Language: English
Director: Bruno Pischiutta
Producer: Bruno Pischiutta
Key Cast: Christina Macris, Adam
Garynes, Nelida Nin
Budget US $2.8M
Origin: Canada
For the first time a feature deals with the
bulimia eating disorder.
VIRTARY - STORIES OF LOST
VIRGINITY
www.virtary.com
Drama (97 min)
Language: English
Director: Bruno Pischiutta
Producer: Bruno Pischiutta
Key Cast: Daria Trifu, Samanta Wings,
Melanie Giliati, Andrew Priestman, Irina
Funtikova, Mina Mahmud, Sandy Abreu,
Brock Pollard, Anthony Morizio
Budget US $3.8
Origin: Canada
Several stories of lost virginity, written
by three young female writers, under the
supervision of Bruno Pischiutta and
incorporated in a unique screenplay to
give the viewers different possible sides
of the subject.
THE BUSINESS OF
FILM
Los Angeles Office
5150 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles
California 90036
TRANS-PACIFIC
MEDIA
Trans-Pacific Media, 8491 Sunset
Boulevard, Suite 800, Los Angeles, CA
90069 United States. Tel: 323.654.4933.
Fax: 323.654.4921.
Mail@transpacificmedia.com
At Cannes: Laurie Woodrow (President),
Dan Griffiths (Senior Vice President)
Office: 45 La Croisette, Entrance
Albatros 4th Floor, Tel:
44(0)7795.010.573
TRANSIT FILM
GMBH
Transit Film GmbH, Dachauer Str. 35,
80335 Munich, Germany. Tel:
49.89.5998850. Fax: 49.89.59988520.
www.transitfilm.de
Company Type: Sales Agent, Production
Company, Theatrical Distribution, Video
Distribution
At Cannes: Loy W. ARNOLD (Managing
Director); Acquisition Executive:
Susanne SCHUMANN (Sales Manager)
Office: Tel: 49.171.85.36.377
LONGING FOR GERMANY –
WILHELM FURTWAENGLER
Documentary/Historical (60 min)
Language: German, English, French
Director: Oliver BECKER
Producer: Elke PETERS, Neue Mira
Filmproduktion/Bremen, Co-production
partners: Transit Film GmbH, ZDF, in
cooperation with ARTE, supported by
Nordmmedia Fonds GmbH
Origin: Germany
When Wilhelm Furtwaengler died nearly
50 years ago, he presumably knew that
something had gone wrong in his life but what exactly was it?
SHINING LOVE - LAUGHING
DEATH (THE STORY OF THE
WAGNER FAMILY)
Language: German, French
Director: Oliver BECKER
Producer: Elke PETERS, Neue Mira
Filmproduktion, Bremen, Co-production
partners: Transit Film GmbH, ZDF, in
cooperation with ARTE, supported by
Nordmedia Fonds GmbH
Origin: Germany
The Bayreuth Festival is the most
renowned festival in the world and has
been ever since it was created by Richard
Wagner.
ZEPPELIN!
Drama (90 min)
Language: German
Director: Gordian MAUGG
Producer: Gordian MAUGG Film- und
Fernsehproduktion GmbH, Coproduction partners: Transit Film GmbH,
Arte
Cast: Bruno CATHOMAS, Alexander
MAY, Olaf RAUSCHENBERG, Hendrik
MASSUK, Christoph BACH, Bruno
APITZ, Daniel JEROMA
Origin: Germany
The shadow of the airship overlaps three
generations of a German family and
conceals a morbid secret of the catastrophe
of the Hindenburg near Lakehurst in New
Jersey on May 7th, 1937.
TROMA
ENTERTAINMENT,
INC.
Troma Entertainment, Inc., The Troma
Building, 733 Ninth Avenue, New York,
NY 10019, USA. Tel: 212.757.4555.
Fax: 212.399.9885.
internationalsales@troma.com,
http://international.tromamovies.com
Company Type: Producers, Distributors
At Cannes: Lloyd Kaufman (President),
Lisa Borhoum (Director of International
Sales)
Office: Riviera Booth F-13, Tel:
04.92.99.33.16
TALES FROM THE CRAPPER
Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Directors: The Troma Team
Producer Michael Herz and Lloyd
Kaufman
Key cast: Lloyd Kaufman, Debbie
Rochon and Julie Strain
Status: Completed
The first “Dogpile 95” movie!
TRAILER TOWN
Absurdist Docudrama
Language: English
Director: Giuseppe Andrews
Producer: Giuseppe Andrews
Key cast: Bill Nowlin, Stan Patrick and
Walt Dongo
Status: Completed
How far would you go to defend your
trailer. Would you go to war?
THE RUINING
Horror (90 min)
Language: English
Director: Chris Burgard
Status: Completed
Key cast: Wings Hauser, Robert
Silverman, Patrick Warburton and Joni
Justice.
Becky’s not a bad girl. She’s a dog girl.
and it’s breeding time!
PARTS OF THE FAMILY
Horror
Language: English
Director: Leon Paul de Bruyn
Producer: James Desert
Key cast: Cecilia Bergquist, Bob
Dougherty and Leo Franquet
Status: Completed
She brought the family together then cut
them to pieces!
U
UBU PRODUCTIONS
UBU Productions, PO Box 40 19 65, D80719 Muenchen, Germany. Tel:
49.160.92815021. ubu@makes.to
Company Type: producer, distributor
At Cannes: Mr. Jean Uliczay (President),
Ms. Alice Kanterian (Manager), Mr.
Nikolaus von Halem (Manager);
Acquisition Executive: Mr. Jean Uliczay
Office: On Media Umrella
AMERICA’S FIGHTING AGAINST
ISLAMIC TERRORISM
Docu drama (90 min)
Language: English
Director: J. Kail
Producer: UBU Productions
Delivery Status: pre production
Budget: 800,000 $
Origin: USA / GB
Going undercover to check out danger of
islamic terrorism.
VACADI VACADU
Teen / children (90 min and serial)
Language: English/French
Director: J. Uliczay
Budget: 500,000 $
Origin: D / F
Funny game show for children.
NAZI NAZI
Language: English
Director: J. Kail
Budget: 500,000 $
Origin: H / E
Docu about history and rebirthing neo-nazi
tendencies in European countries.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT - CINEMAVAULT
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
99
THE DRONE VIRUS - SHORELINE ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
UGC
INTERNATIONAL
UGC International, 24, avenue Charles
de Gaulle, 92200 Neuilly sur Seine,
France. Tel: 33.1.46.40.44.00. Fax:
33.1.46.37.73.21.
At Cannes: Said BEN SAID (President),
Eva DIEDERIX (VP Sales), Christophe
PECOT (Sales Executive)
Office: 4, La Croisette - 1st Floor, 06400
Cannes. Tel: 33.4.93.68.07.43. Fax:
33.4.93.68.08.34
THE GREAT CHALLENGE (LES
FILS DU VENT)
Action comedy (100 min)
Language: French
Director: Julien Seri
Producer: Yves Marmion (UGC Images)
Cast: The Yamakasi group
Production country: France (2003)
Highly skilled acrobats find themselves
inextricably mixed-up with the Bangkok
underworld.
THE DALTONS (LES DALTON)
Action comedy
Language: French
Director: Philippe Haim
Producers: UGC Images / Said Ben
Said & Yves Marmion (France)
Cast: Eric Judor, Ramzy Bedia, Til
Schweiger
Delivery Status: Shooting now,
Delivery Christmas 2004
In order to pull off a bank robbery and
make their mother proud, two
unsuccessful outlaw brothers steal a
magic sombrero that makes them
invincible. An action-packed, kneeslappingly funny look at the Wild West.
DEATH INSTINC (WORKING
TITLE)
Drama
Language: French & English
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Producer: La Petite Reine/Thomas
Langmann (France), Coproducer: UGC
Images
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Sandrine
Bonnaire
Delivery Status: In pre-production,
shooting dates: Early 2005, delivery
early 2006
THE PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1
(WORKING TITLE)
Drama
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier,
Sandrine Bonnaire
Language: French & English
Producer: La Petite Reine/Thomas
Langmann (France), Coproducer: UGC
Images
Delivery Status: In pre-production
UNITED ARTISTS
United Artists, 1350 Avenue of the
Americas, 24th Fl., New York, NY
10019 USA. 10250 Constellation Blvd.,
Century City, CA 90067. Tel:
212.708.0306. Fax: 212.708.0465.
unitedartists.com
Company Type: Production/Acquisition
At Cannes: Danny Rosett (Executive
VP), Sara Rose (Senior VP, Acq. +
Prod.), Jack Turner (VP, Acq. + Prod.),
Lindsay Crain (Manager, Acq. + Prod.
), Mary Ann Hult (VP, Publicity),
Michael Sarner (Manager, Marketing)
Office:
UNITEL PICTURES
INTERNATIONAL
Unitel Pictures International, Los
Angeles: Tel: 310.869.5370.
unitel@comcast.net. New York: 115 E.
57th Street, Suite 1110, New York, NY
10022 Tel: 646.435.9431. Fax:
646.435.9432. Manila: 1196 Vito Cruz
Extension, Corner Zapote Street, Makati,
Metro Manila 1200 Philippines. Tel:
63.2.896.2049
At Cannes: Cindy Sison (Executive Sales
Consultant), Vincent Nebrida (Vice
President - Acquisitions, Marketing, &
Development)
Office: Palais 01, 23.03, Tel:
04.9299.8030, unitel@comcast.net
MAGNIFICO
Drama
Directed by: Maryo J. Delos Reyes
Exec. Producer: Ms. Violeta C. Sevilla
Cast: Jiro Manio, Albert Martinez, Gloria
Romero, Lorna Tolentino, Cherry Pie
Picache, Girlie Sevilla, Tonton Gutierrez,
Amy Austria , and Danilo Barrios.
Status: Completed / Screening (Market
Premiere)
A young boy from a modest family
raises money to pay for the burial of his
sickly grandmother in this awardwinning drama. He becomes a shining
example of hope and perseverance in the
face of struggle and adversity to his
community.
IMELDA
Documentary
Produced and Directed by: Ramona Diaz
Status: Completed / Screening (Market
Premiere)
This award-winning documentary
explores the complex persona of former
Philippine First Lady, Imelda R. Marcos,
from her rise to power and her fall from
grace.
CRYING LADIES
www.cryingladies.com
Comedy
Directed by: Mark Meily
Produced by: Tony Gloria
Cast: Sharon Cuneta, Hilda Koronel,
Angel Aquino, Ricky Davao, Eric Quizon
Status: Completed / Screening
Meet the last of the professional
mourners of Manila’s Chinatown in this
heartwarming comedy. Some women cry
out of sorrow. Some women cry out of
joy. These women cry for money.
SANTA SANTITA
Drama
Directed by: Laurice Guillen (Director,
AMERICAN ADOBO)
Produced by: Tony Gloria
Cast: TBA
A young woman continues the work of
her mother upon her death, who prays for
people with petitions to the Black
Nazarene in one of the oldest churches in
Manila established by the Spaniards.
OUT ON A LIMB
Comedy
Language: English
Director: Robert Heath
Producer: Joy Mellins & Dave Shanks
Cast: Henry Goodman, Neil Stuke,
Julianne White, Costa Milton
Origin: UK
Comedy set around a chef who’s TV
ratings are plummeting, and a night in
which he hosts a dinner party for his
influential guests. A comedy siege, where
the captors become the captives.
A HEADFUL OF SNAKES
Thriller
Language: English
Director: Paul Marcus
Producer: Leopold St-Pierre
Origin: UK/Canada
Two working-class buddies succumb to a
little temptation, and wind up being
sucked deeper and deeper into a dark
intrigue with pure evil. herself.
MANEATER
Horror
Language: English
Producer: Chad Oakes & Mike Frislev
Origin: UK/Canada
A group of buddies on a hunting trip get
caught up in a ghastly, ghostly intrigue in
an Alaskan town by creatures who are
half man - half beast, fattening them up
for the kill.
V
Vision Films, 4626 Lemona Avenue,
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA. Tel:
818.784.1702. Fax: 818.788.3715.
visionfilms@earthlink.net,
www.visionfilms.net
At Cannes: Lise Romanoff (Managing
Director Worldwide Sales), Andre Relis
(Vice President of International Sales)
Office: Riviera Pavilion #E16
I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE
Horror (113 minutes)
Language: English
Director: Meir Zarchi
Cast: Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor,
Richard Pace
Original Uncut Special DVD version.
This women has just chopped, crippled
and mutilated 4 men beyond recognition.
But no jury would ever convict her.
SHOCK-O-RAMA CATALOG
Horror (90 minutes)
Language: English
Producers: Ei Independent Cinema
A collection of sexy and cutting edge
horror in films such as The Screaming
Dead from Director Brett Piper, Vamps,
Dracula, Bite Me!, Surburban Nightmare,
Psycho Sisters, Demoness and more.
VINE
INTERNATIONAL
PICTURES
Vine International Pictures, VIP House,
Greenacres, New Road Hill, Downe,
Orpington, Kent, BR6 7JA U.K. Tel:
44.1689.854123. Fax: 44.1689.850990.
info@vine-international.co.uk, www.vineinternational.co.uk
At Cannes: Marie Vine (CEO), Barry Gill
(Managing Director), Sarah Goodwin
(Sales & Marketing Executive)
Office: 6 la Croisette, 5th Floor (opposite
Palais), Tel: 04.93.39.86.81
THE STORY OF AN AFRICAN FARM
Drama
Language: English
Director: David Lister
Producer: Bonnie Rodini
Cast: Richard E Grant, Kasha Kropinski,
Karin van der Laag, Armin Mueller Stahl
Origin: South Africa
Three children discover the cruelty and
foolishness of adults when a sinister man
arrives at their farm claiming to be related
to the Duke of Wellington and Queen
Victoria.
VISION FILMS
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
EI SEDUCTION CINEMA
Erotica (90 minutes)
Language: English
Producers: Mike Raso
A collection of over 50 soft erotic feature
films combining erotica and humor with
such sexy Hollywood parodies.
HARRY NOVAK COLLECTION
Erotic/Horror (90 minutes)
Language: English
Producers: Harry Novak
A collection of over 50 box office hits
from the King of Camp, the Sultan of
Sexploitation: Dirty Mind of Young
Sally, Teenage Bride, Kiss Me Quick,
Mantis in Lace, Toys are not for
Children, and more.
VITAGRAPH
Vitagraph, Via Schiavonia 1 I-40121
Bologna, Italy. Tel: 39.051.267150. Fax:
39.051.267150. vitagraph@libero.it,
www.vitagraph.it
Company Type: Sales agent, distributor
At Cannes: Filippo D’Angelo (Managing
Director); Acquisition Executive: Filippo
D’Angelo (Managing Director)
Office: Village Int’l - Pavillion n°11
(Media Programme), Tel: mobile: 39.348
6930 917
THE WIND, IN THE EVENING
Drama (92 min)
Language: Italian (English subtitled)
Director: Andrea Adriatico
Producer: Teatri di Vita
Cast: Corso Salani, Francesca Mazza,
Ivano Marescotti
Budget: $500,000
Origin: Italy
Nightfall. Marco slowly cycles home.
Paolo is waiting for his boyfriend Luca
to arrive for dinner. As Marco gets home,
two shots kill him. Luca accidentally gets
in the killer’s way.
HK TALE
Language: English
Director: Filippo Lilloni
Producer: Filippo Lilloni
Budget: $100,000
Origin: Italy
Young lives struggling for independence
from religion, capitalism, solitude and
desperation in Hong Kong nowadays.
RED PAUSE
Comedy (8 min)
Language: Italian (English subtitled)
Director: Italo Pesce Delfino
Producer: Sidecar Films & Tv
Co-production partners:
Cast: Marco Messeri
Origin: Italy
A city. A traffic light. An immigrant who
wants to squeegee a driver’s windshield.
A fragment of daily reality that
represents the tensions of a larger
political reality.
W
WEG INDIA
WEG India, Valecha Chambers, 4th Floor,
New Link Road, Andheri West, Mumbai
400-053 India. Tel: 9122.56796000. Fax:
9122.56796060. Mobile: 91.9820286888.
At Cannes: Ranchor Jumani (CEO),
Avinaash Jumani (International Sales &
Acquisitions), Amit Jumani (International
Sales & Acquisitions)
Office: Riviera - Booth # J6, Tel:
334.92.99.88.38, Mobile: 06.75710630
PAAP
www.paapthefilm.com
Thriller / Romance (120 min)
Producer/Director: Pooja Bhatt
Key Cast: John Abraham, Udita Goswami,
Gulshan Grover
Delivery Status: completed – market
screenings
Origin: India
A story of a young girl’s pure love pitted
against the age-old concept of sacrifice
being a path to higher rebirth.
BOOM
www.boomthefilm.com
Black Comedy (110 min)
Language: English
Director: Kaizad Gustad
Producer: Ayesha Shroff
Key Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Jackie
Shroff, Gulshan Grover, Padma Lakshmi,
Katrina Kaif, Madhu Sapre & Bo Derek
Delivery Status: completed – market
screenings
Origin: India
Hell breaks loose when three Indian
Supermodels Anu Gaekwad, Sheila Bardez
and Rina Kaif uncover the secret of Dubai
based Gangster Bade Miya’s diamond
smuggling operations. The fashion world
meets the underworld.
CHARAS – A JOINT EFFORT
Action Adventure (135 min)
Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia
Producer: Anjum Rizvi
Key Cast: Uday Chopra, Jimmy Shergill,
Namrata Shirodkar, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Irfan
Khan
Origin: India
Set in Kulu Manali, India where 26,000
foreigners visit every year for holidays.
The hunt begins when a British National
Sam Higgins disappears without a trace.
LEELA
www.leela-themovie.com
Drama (97 min)
Language; English
Director: Somnath Sen
Producer: Kavita Munjal
Key Cast: Dimple Kapadia, Amol, Vinod
Khanna, Deepti Naval & Gulshan Grover
Origin: India
Nothing touched by fire remains the same.
Leela is a heartwarming story of two
strangers whose paths in life cross and they
walk together for a while.
WORLDWIDE FILM
ENTERTAINMENT
Worldwide Film Entertainment, 280 So.
Beverly Drive, Suite 208, Beverly Hills,
Ca., 90212 USA. Tel: 310.641.5360. Fax:
310.641.5693.
info@worldwidentertainment.com,
http://home.comcast.net/~worldwidentert
ainment/index.html
Company Type: Distributor
At Cannes: Barbara Mudge, Trevor
Wright
Office: Riviera G7, Tel: 310.849.1001
THE WHISTLE
Supernatural Drama Feature Film
Language: Thai
Director: Alongkot Auephaibui
Producer: Visute Poolvoralaks
Cast: Jessadaporn Pholdee, Natthaw
Thaweeranuch Thongmee
Delivery Status: Complete - Screening
At the blow of a toy whistle, a young
woman is rescued time and again by a
childhood friend only to discover that the
young man lies comatose in a hospital bed.
PRIDE & PREJUDICE
Romantic Comedy Feature Film
Language: English
Director: Andrew Black
Producer: Jason Faller
Cast: Kam Heskin, Orlando Seale, Lucila
Sola, Ben Gourley, Kelly Stables, Henry
Maguire, Hubbel Palmer, Kara Holden,
Nicole Hamilton, Rainy Kerwin, Honor
Bliss and Carmen Rasmusen.
Delivery Status: Complete - Screening
When Elizabeth Bennet meets Wickham,
a charming rascal, and Darcy, a sensible
businessman, her carefully constructed
world flies to pieces.
MEGALODON
Sci Fi Thriller
Language: English
Director: Pat Corbitt
Producer: Pat Corbitt and Stanley Isaacs
Cast: Robin Sachs, Al Sapienza,
Leighanne Littrell, Mark Sheppard
A deep-sea drilling operation goes
horribly wrong releasing a giant shark, the
deadliest ocean predator that has ever
roamed the seas.
RETURNING MICKEY STERN
Romantic Comedy TV Movie
Language: English
Director: Michael Prywes
Producer: Michael Prywes, Jason Akel,
Joseph Bologna
Cast: Joseph Bologna, Tom Bosley,
Renee Taylor, Joshua Fishbein, Kylie
Delre
Delivery Status: Complete/Screening
Newly widowed Mickey Stern is about
to live his past in someone else’s future.
Y
YORK
INTERNATIONAL
INC.
York International Inc., 4565 Sherman
Oaks, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 USA.
Tel: 818.788.4050. Fax: 818.788.4011.
www.yorkinternationalinc.com,
internationalsales@yorkinternationalin
c.com
At Cannes: Tanya York (CEO), Jennifer
Dillon (Director of International Sales)
Office: Palais 22.01
CORPSES
Horror
Director: Rolfe Kanefsky
Producer: Tanya York, Scott Pfeiffer
Principal Cast: Jeff Fahey, Tiffany
Shepis
A mortician at a funeral home finds a
way to bring back the dead for an hour
at a time to do his dirty work.
SCARECROW GONE WILD
Horror
Director: Brian Katkin
Principal Cast: Ken Shamrock (WWF)
Production Status: Ready for Delivery
College mischief spirals out of
control unleashing a horrifying
Scarecrow who terrorizes a resort
town during Spring Break. He’s the
death of the party!
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
101
THE GREAT CHALLENGE - UGC INTERNATIONAL
ALIEN 51
Horror
Director: Paul Wynne/Brennon Jones
Principal Cast: Heide Fleiss
Production Status: Ready for Delivery
An alien creature escapes from a
research lab at the famous “Area 51”,
determined to hunt down its former
tormentors. When you make a monster
- make sure it can’t escape.
LEXIE
Urban Action/Drama
Director: Fred Williamson
Principal Cast: Richard Brooks (Law &
Order, The Crow: City of Angels),
Cindy Herron Braggs (En Vogue), Ice
T, Gary Busey, David Allen Grier,
Glenn Plummer and Fred Williamson
A former music producer turned
stockbroker tries to make his musical
comeback with a beautiful
singer/dancer from a nightclub. The
pair fall in love despite the treachery of
the players and gangsters that surround
the music business.
EVICTED
Director: Michael Tierney
Principal Cast: Shannon Elizabeth
“American Pie”, “Tomcats”, “Scary
Movie”, “Thir13een Ghosts”, “Love
Actually”; Lawrence Tierney:
“Resevoir Dogs”, “Slver Bullet”,
“Prizzi’s Honor”
Production Status: completed
Two 20-something slackers are getting
evicted from their apartment so they
decide to hold a last night blowout
party inviting all their punk, slacker
and stripper friends.
ZENPIX
Z
Zenpix, 506 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite
210, Santa Monica, CA 90401 USA. Tel:
310.395.3500. Fax: 310.395.3322.
info@zenpix.net
At Cannes: Susan Jackson (o-President),
Todd Olsson (Vice President Acquisitions
& Distribution), Suzanne Barron (Vice
President of International Sales), Jonathan
Kramer (Co-President)
Office: Riviera N10
THE PEARL
Drama (107 minutes)
Director: Alfred Zacharias
Production Company: Zach Motion
Pictures, Inc./Panorama Films, S.A. De
C.V
Producers: Alfredo Zacharias
Cast: Lukas Haas, Richard Harris, Tere
Tarin
John Steinbeck’s THE PEARL is about a
poor Mexican pearl diver who finds a
priceless pearl that promises a better life for
his impoverished family bringing him
wealth, respect, and fame.
DOPAMINE
Romantic Comedy/Drama (85 minutes)
Director: Mark Decena
Production Company: Kontent Films
Producers: Eric Koivisto, Tad Fettig,
Debbie Brubaker
Cast: John Livingston, Sabrina Lloyd,
Bruno Campos, Reuben Grundy
Status: Completed/Ready for immediate
delivery
DOPAMINE, the natural amphetamine our
bodies produce when we’re falling in love,
is at the center of the question is love
chemical or chemistry?
THE PLAYMATE & THE PITCHER
Romantic Drama (105 minutes)
Director: Drew Johnson
Production Company: Affinity Films
Producers: Joseph M. Palmari, Drew
Johnson, Corinna Jones
Cast: Bo Hopkins, Drew Johnson,
Corinna Harney-Jones, Donald Turner,
John Saxon, Steven Bishop, Corey Page
delivery
Danny and Melissa grow up in Las
Vegas. As kids they were inseparable, but
as teens their lives begin to diverge from
one another.
REESEVILLE
Dark Thriller (98 minutes)
Director: Christian J. Otjen
Production Company: Pied Piper
Production LLC presents a Doomed
Productions Ltd.
Producers: Holly Mosher
Cast: Majandra Delfino, Brad Hunt,
Missy Crider, Mark Hamill
delivery
David returns to his hometown, when he
learns that his father’s suicide might not
have been suicide at all.
Carlton Office
149
Direct Telephone:
0493064149
LATE LISTINGS
CANNES 2004
REZO FILMS
Rezo Films, 29, rue du Faubourg
Poissonnière, 75009 Paris, France.
Tel: 33.1.42.46.46.30. Fax:
33.1.42.46.40.82.
laurent.danielou@rezofilms.com,
www.rezofilms.com
At Cannes: Laurent Daniélou (cell
33.6.64.20.91.60)
Office:
LAST CHANCE SALOON (AU
SECOURS, J’AI 30 ANS)
(1h35)
Language: French
Director: Marie-Anne Chazel
Coproducer: France 2 Cinéma
Cast: Pierre Palmade, Giovanna
Mezzogiorno, Nathalie Corré, Franck
Dubosc
Producers: Christian Clavier (Ouille
Productions), Yannick Bernard (Acacia
Films Productions)
Delivery Status: Screening / completed
(world premiere)
Based on the best-seller by Marian
Keyes, this comedy is not afraid to mix
real laughter with true emotion.
THE CAR KEYS (LES CLEFS DE
BAGNOLE)
(1h34)
Language: French
Director: Laurent Baffie
Producer: Laurent Baffie (Laurent
Baffie Productions)
Cast: Laurent Baffie, Daniel Russo,
Alain Chabat, Gérard Depardieu
Delivery Status: Screening / completed
It’s the story of a guy trying to find his
car keys.
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
POURQUOI LE BRÉSIL ?
Director: Laetitia Masson
Cast: Elsa Zylberstein, Marc Barbé
Delivery Status: In Post-Production
LA REINE SOLEIL
Princess of the Sun
Director: Philippe Leclerc
Animation, adapted from the novel by
Christian Jacq
ZAÏNA, CAVALIÈRE DE L’ATLAS
(Zaïna, Rider of the Atlas)
Director: Bourlem Guerdjou
Cast: Roschdy Zem, Gilbert Melki
WILD BUNCH
Wild Bunch, 99 Rue De La Verrerie 75004
Paris, France. Tel: 331.53.01.50.24. Fax:
331.53.01.50.49. www.wildbunch.biz
At Cannes: Vincent Maraval (Sales, mob:
33.6.11.91.23.93), Carole Baraton (Sales,
mob 33.6.20.36.77.72), Gaël Nouaille
(Sales, mob 33.6.21.23.04.72), Juliette
Renaud (Co-productions, mob
33.6.11.91.24.40), Alain De La Mata
(Acquisitions)
Office: 3 La Croisette - 2nd floor, 06400,
Cannes, France. Tel: 33.4.93.68.03.32. Fax:
33.4.93.68.03.92; Wild Bunch Marketing
Office: 6 La Croisette - 4th floor, 06400,
Cannes, France. Tel: 33.4.93.38.86.20. Fax:
33.4.93.68.35.75
LIFE IS A MIRACLE (HUNGRY
HEART)
A love story by Emir Kusturica (Time Of
The Gipsies, White Cat - Black Cat,
Arizona Dream, Underground)
Cast: Savko Stimac, Natasa Solak, Vesna
Trivalic
Production: Les Films Alain Sarde
(Straight Story, Mullholland Drive, The
Pianist, All Or Nothing), Cabiria Films
Luka is fulfiling his life’s dream: building a
railway through the beautiful wilds of his
birthplace, a remote village in Bosnia.
FAHRENHEIT 911
Documentary
Directed/written by Michael Moore
(Bowling For Columbine, The Big One,
Roger And Me)
Follows prize-winning filmmaker and bestselling author Michael Moore’s reflections
on the current state of America, including
the powerful role oil and greed may have
played after the 9-11 attacks.
NOTRE MUSIQUE
A film by Jean-Luc Godard: (L’Eloge de
L’Amour, A Bout De Soufle, Le Mepris,
Pierrot Le Fou)
Production: Avventura Films - Peripheria France 3 Cinéma - Vega Film - Canal+ TSR
Cast: Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Rony
Kramer, Georges Aguilar
A film in three parts by Jean-Luc Godard.
Hell. Heaven. Paradise.
AWAITING THE FLOOD / EN
ATTENDANT LE DELUGE
A burlesque tragedy by Damien Odoul
(Errance, Le Souffle)
Production: D.O Films
Cast: Pierre Richard, Anna Mouglalis,
Damien Odoul
A dying aristocrat hires a theatre group to
perform a Dionysian entertainment to
enliven his final days.
THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE
ALL THINGS
A feature film by ASIA ARGENTO
Production: Chris Hanley, Alain de la
Mata, Brian Young, Tricia Van Klaveren,
Ryan R. Jonhson, Damon Martin
Cast: Asia Argento (XXX, New Rose
Hotel), Jimmy Bennett, Cole and Dylan
Sprouse, Winona Ryder (Celebrity, Edward
Scissorhands, Age Of Innocence), Peter
Fonda (Easy Rider), Marilyn Manson,
Jeremy Renner
A childhood turned inside-out, seen
through the eyes of a young boy and his
mother, a prostitute in the Deep South.
The Team At Cannes
Elspeth Tavares
Frank Salvietti
Frida De Penanster
Elizabeth Maslard
Carlton Office
149
Direct Telephone:
04 93 06 41 49
C A N N E S M AY 2 0 0 4
103
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